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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-15
Tech Sets Pace In Scholastic
Foot Ball Over 5-Year Period

o'clock The game was moved up
from tomorrow night.
Three tits all in the nature OF
practice affairs, were scheduled for
the scholastics this afternoon. Bust
ness was to engage an all-star team Of
former.schoolboy players in the Stenog
gym, Sioux A. c. and Eastern were
to mix on the Lincoln Parkers' floor
and Tech was to take on combina-
ton of Manual Trainers who just now
are ineligible for the team because of
scholastic difficulties.
ScI1oolEoy basketers are to figure in
two games tomorrow. Tech and st.
Johns are to clash at the Boys Cub
and Dewitt and Georgetown Fresh
men are to try conclusions.
Eaton ChaIkey, promising center for
the Eastern High basket ball team, Is
lost to the squad for three weeks as
the result of having suffered torn lig-
aments to his shoulder in the recent
Winton- Renroc foot ball game Sun
day.
This 1887 alI-high foot ball team has
been picked by the Central High Bull
letin. student publication: Edelblut
Tech; Revelle Jones, Business, ends;
Nally. Eastern. Dinkin. Central.
tackles: Oehmann. Tech, Montague,
Eastern, guards; Munro, Eastern, CEN
ter; Simmons, Central. quarterback;
May. Business, and Millar, Eastern,
halfbacks and Holland, Eastern, fun
back.
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By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
N YEW YORK. December ID
IN Army's refusal to accept the
VI three year eligibility rule IN =
1 Y voked by the Navy threatened
trouble in the foot ball rela .
tons of the service forces of the
country today.
Although the Naval Academy had
requested the Army athletic authori-
ties to draw the three-year line on
PLAYERS in future competition, Mai.
Cen. Edwin b Winans. superintend-
ent Of the military academy, APP
proved the West Point advisory
councils recommendation to tine Ell
feet that the rules governing eliGi-
bility would not be subjected to tur-
Their changes.
Lacking any official statement from
West Point on the matter, Rear Adj
miral Louis n. Mutton, superlntend-
emf Of the Naval Academy. declined
to comment upon the subject, Ad-
miraI Mutton said he could not take
any definite stand until he received
a reply from Gen. Winans, in which
he asked the Nays requirement
which prohibits team competition by
athletes who have participated IN
their respective sports for more than
three years, be followed,
Gen. Winans pointed out that the
athletic rules enforced at West Point
are mainly for the development of
sports in the Army. He explained
that half of the cadet force is from
all the States of the Union who have
had previous college training ana
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-15
HOLDS BLIND MEETS
TO UNCOVER TALENT
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BRUNSWICK, Me, December 10
The fertile brain of Jack Magee, Bow
doin College track coach, is respon'
sible for the latest method of uncover
ing hidden collegiate track talent.
He calls it a blind track meet, and
it is scheduled TO run every other aft
ernoon at Bowdoin for the rest or the
indoor season, with some 1000 Seniors
juniors and sophomores competing.
Each competitor draws from a hat
a slip of cardboard on which are writ.
ten the three events in which he Is to
compete during the afternoon A
sliding scale of restrictions prevents
any stripping from being called on to
toss the 35-pound hammer or any one
weighing more than 200 pounds to run
more than 440.
Magee described the first day as a
"riot," with Dick Brown, 235-pound
foot bali guard, essaying the high
hurdles, pole vault and 40 and Ber-
nard Lucas, varsity hurdler, drawing
the 44O, 16-pound shot and pole vault.
The Bowdoin mentor is convinced,
however, that his plan should uncover
some hidden talent and to that end
has made the meet attractive by al
lowing six places to score and arrang-
ing for prize awards at the end of the
season based on total points scored.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-15

~ COMPILATION of statistics
covering the last five public
high school foot bali series,
~ from 1928 to 1927. inclusive.
shows Tech heading the parade
bv a decisive margin. The Manual
Trainers have won IA games. lost :,
and tied in 20 starts, for a per-
centage of .S75.
Next in line is Central, which mas
bagged 10 victories. suffered defeats
and played ! tie in 10 games to gain
a $50 average.
Weste is barely on the right SIDE
of the ledger, the boys in red having
rung up wins against defeats ana
ties for an average of .5S3.
Despite its fine showing during the
1927 series, Eastern is still unable to
boast of an even break. OF 20 games
the Lincoln Parkers have won 8, lost
10 and tied to register a percentage
of .444.
Business stands at the bottom OF
the heap with but wins in 10 starts
The Stenoys have not been in an
official tie game throughout the five
years.
incidentally. the 1927 series was the
first since 1923 that has not been
marked by a single tie game.
Figures covering the series from
1928 to 1927 follow:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-15

game is clearly established. First
there is the pressure game, the en-
ployment of sheer physical power
which brushes and disintegrates.
When tactics of the sort are going
forward the crowd, which most evil
IDENTIFY has come to see blood and
murder, has no cause for dissatisfac-
ton.
Bodies rocket together with the
crash of meteors colliding in the night
skies You hear the lustful roar as
a man winging down the ice like Ariel
is neatly body checked and goes to
the ice like a gyrating projectile. Or
there win be a collective impact which
results in general scatteration, While
shrieks of delight raise the roof.
Then there is the finesse game, con-
slant passing and no opening up. No
long Shots instead shrewd shots sent
to one point, shot after shot, until the
goal tender is lured to the precise po-
sition in which the offense desires him
to be, whereupon comes the final shot
and the goal, to which all the pre-
liminary drives have led.
Watch Cook of the Rangers stall and
build up his shots; he is an artist.
All the players are block built men;
this is no game for rangy athletics
powerful men and fast as lightning.
One lives three to the minute watch
ing big league d1ockey match.
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Four of Fort Wayne Tossers
Are Former College Players

THAT college players are max
ing good in professional bas-
ket ball is strfkingly Illus
l. trated in the personnel of the
Fort Wayne quint, when
comes here Sunday and Monday
nights to engage Washington IN
American Basket Ball League con-
tests at the Arcadia. Four products
of we'll known institutions of higher
learning will be seen in Hoosier uni
forms.
"Shang" Chadwick. center; Pip"
Koehler, forward: Frank Shimek.
guard, and "Slim" Shoun. substitute
center comprise the quartet. Chad
wick, who last year was considered
by many sports writer's as the most
valuable center in the league, gained
his basket ball experience at Wabash
College, Charlottesville, Ind. the
same school which turned out the
famous Stonebreaker. In his first
year out of college Chadwick was
signed by the New York Celtics, but
after playing about half the season
with the New York quint his desire
to get located near his home town
caused him to join the Fort Wayne
club.
Koehler captained the Penn State
College tossers in 1924 and thereafter
quickly became recognized as a great
court prospect by the professionals.
Last year he starred for the Pitts
burgh team of the Central League
and so far this season has been
rendering fine substitute duty for the
Hoosiers, having been inserted in the
heat of many battles.
Shimek was captain of the Iowa
University five in 1922, winning the
selection of all-State guard. He broke
into professional basket ball with the
Muscatine, Iowa, team a year later,
and he now is rated as one of the
best scoring guards in the American
circuit.
Shoun, who is Z feet inches
tall, which ranks him as the tallest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-15
GRID STARS GATHER
FOR GAME ON COAST

CHICAGO, December 15-Stars of
the sridiron armament of the Eastern
mart of the United States pooled their
talents with those of two coaches
whom many OF them had never seen
before and prepared for their Western
invasion today.
The players, Is in all. will leave to-
night for San Francisco where they
will meet the cream of the Vests foot
hall talent in a charity game, Decem-
her %. Two Nebraska stars, Glen
presnell. halfback. and Ray Randells
tackle, viii join the invaders at Ohaha.
THE two coaches, Richard Hanley Of
Northwestern and Andy Kerr of Wash
;ncton and jefferson, plan to use the
Warner style of foot ball in the game
,nsarnuch as both are pupils of Pop"
xvarner They expect the Easter
.o,,ad TO assimilate the style readily
THE all.Eastern squad represents u
.oams Minnesota, Yale and Wash
;ngfon and Jefferson each placed
Ice Notre Dame and Nebraska
,,iaced two each and the rest are from
Ether schools in the East, Middlewest,
Mnrth and South. The squad is com.
Tosed OF the following;
Backs-Joesting and Almquist,
n.i.resota; wynne. Notre Dame:
YJNAanHII. N6UidShds A%AaACs Coh LiAiOhbiA
raISweII. Yale; Connors, New York
University. and Amos, Washington
and Jefferson. w.
Ends-scott and Fishwick' Yale and
walsh, Notre Dame. -
TscIsies-Adkinson, Lafayette; Vein
..ock Western Maryland Douds
washington and Jefferson; Hansen
Minnesota, and Randells, NenrasNa.
Guards-Pawley, WASHINGTON ana
1eaters-Reitsch, Illinois. and Haw
TSrhe team will travel in specia
-.r ro,,ted through Omaha and Ogden
ITtah n is due to arrive in San Fran
cisco sunday morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-15
TRAYL0R WILL HEAD
GOLF ASSOCIATION

By the Associated Press,
CHICAGO, December 15,-Selection
of Melvin A. Traylor of Chicago to he
president of the United States Con
Association next year makes him the
third Westerner named for the office
in the 33 years the organization has
ruled golf in America. Traylor today
said he would accept the Office at the
formal January election.
The Chicago banker Will replace
Charles Q. Pfeil of Memphis, who died
recently.
The only other Western presidents
since the association formed in 1894
were Sias Strawn of Chicago, 19ll-l2,
and Frank Woodward of Denver
1915-16.
The naming of Mel Traylor, as
he * Familiarity known, also carries
out a close relationship in golfdom
that existed for several years be-
tween him and Pfeil. The Memphis
architect was president of the West.
ern Golf Association from 1923 TO l929
with Traylor as first Vice.presldent
for the first two years
Traylor was then nominated to sue
coed Pfeil, but withdrew at the last
moment, owing to extra business cares
incident to his election at the age of
46 to the presidency of the First Ma
tional Bank. one of the largest in the
country.
SO. Pfeil took the Office for third
sine while Traylor accepted a station
on the executive committee of the
II. S. G. A. where he has since served
with Pfeil who later became vice-pres-
ident of that body and was slated for
the presidency which death denied
him.
Traylor has been an earnest worker
in golf for many years. He learned
the stroke by swinging an ak on the
Kentucky farm where he was born,
took up golf seriously in st. Louis,
worked in the administration of the
Chicago District Association later and
then performed his hardest golfing by
switching from left hand to a right
hand swing.
A presidency is no novelty to Tray.
Tor, for he has had that tikfe in half
a dozen banks and has been head of
the American Bankers Association
and other bodies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-15
National Plan Wapdin BASKET Ball
WOMEN In SPORT

George Washington University girls
are busy with basket ball Drills are
being held each Tuesday, Thursday
and Friday afternoon from , until 4
o'clock.
All nlavers have started on an even
basis and beginners will have an equal
chance with more experienced tossers.
Later the squad will be divided INTO
prouns and beginners and class teams
will be formed. There will be as many
class teams this Winter as are needed
to accommodate those wishing to play.
Glass championship contests VIII be
played January 10. IL and IL.
Varsity practice will begin at the
close of the class games. The varsity
souad will be picked from the best
class material. Six members of last
seasons varsity squad are again being
counted on. They are Julia Dennlng.
Naomi Crumley. Betty zimmerman,
Jeanne Sine, Betty Brandenburg and
Louise Omwake
Princess Athletic Clubs fair has,
keters in their first practice game OF
the season in the Columbia Heights
Community Center gym (Wlison Nor
NAL school defeated st. PauFs lar
tossers. so to 26 In the Princess line
IN we're Jewell Douglas, Edith Mahon,
cantain and manager; Dorothy Baum
garten. Dorothy Reid, Mary McGet'
trick Eileen Dowd and Agnes Shana-
han. substitute. st. Pauls used Lii
liam Lindquist, Maybelle Waldman,
Mildred Waldman, Mildred Goodliei,
Edna Byng. Marion Leech, manager,
and Eleanor Leech, substitute. IDA T.
Keller is director of the Columbia
Heights center.
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GOOD FIVE Boosted
BY ALEXANDRIA HIGH

ALEXANDRIA, Va. December Is.
Scholastic basket ball will be played
here tonight for the first time this
season. with Alexander High opposing
Central of Washington in the Armory
Hall at $50.
A flashy contest is expected for AL
exandria, with the same team which
went to the state finale last Winter
before being eliminated. and Central is
rated with the best in the Capital CITY.
Old Dominion Boat Club defeated 30
to % Saturday by 4 last-minute rally,
will try to come back tomorrow night
when they again meet Bonds Whlrl-
winds of Washington, in the Armory
Hall at $50.
st. Mary's Celtics held a strenuous
workout in the Armory here last night
in preparation for Saturday night
battle with Calvert Hail of Baltimore
in the Armory Hall at $50.
st. Mary's Celtic Midgets are anxious
to book games to be played both in
the Lyceum Hall in this city and in
Washington. Phone "Sinker" Sinclair,
Alexandria 1885. between and pm.
Alexandria Fire Department Props
and the No. Juniors, will battle
here Sunday for the 135-pound grid
title of the city, both have scheduled
practices for every night this week at
o'clock.
Virginia A. C. foot bali team has
carded the Marine Aircraft Squadrons,
East Coast Expeditionary Force of
Quantico, Va. for a game in Dread
naught Park Sunday at $50
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URGES A RUNNING PLAY
FOR EXTRA GRID POINT

By the Associated Press.
CORVALLIS, Greg, December
ia change in intercollegiate
foot ball rules whereby I'm making
a try for the extra point after
touchdown a scoring eleven would
be given one play, but not a kick,
in which to push the ball across
goal from the 21a-yard line is rec
commended by Paul j. Schissler,
coach of the Oregon Aggies.
The present rule permits team
to try for the point from the 3.yard
line, either by any scoring play or
by pIace-kick or drOp-kick. SchisS-
Ter would eliminate the kick.
"The present means of try for
point after touchdown Is compare
bic to the old basket ball ruling
which allowed one man to throw all
the free throws from FOULS" said
Schissler, who left today for New
York to attend the meeting of the
National Foot Ball Coaches AssO-
citation.
"Then the team with a well de-
veIoped free tfrOwer had the best
of it, and the other team was out
of luck. no matter how much better
it might be as whole"
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center in the game. graduated from
Carson-Newman College of Jefferson,
Tenn, last Spring after having led his
team to the State championship. He
averaged 29i5 points per game last
season. Under the basket Shoun is
virtually sure score. for his great
height enables him to reach the rim
of the hoop with his hands.
Fort Wayne at present is running
second to Cleveland in the Western
division Of the league and will strive
tons expense.
In last nights league games, Cleve-
land stopped the rush of the Roches-
ter Centrals by winning 1925, while
the New York Celtics defeated the
Chicago Bruins, 25-16.
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GENERALS TO BRING
STRONG QUINT HERE

LEXINGTON. Va, December ID
WASHINGTON and Lee cagemen have
been going through stiff and strenuous
drills since the close of the foot baL
season and have been whipped into
condition for their pre-holiday games
with Maryland, Catholic [. and Navy,
which will be played in a short trip
northWard.
Coach Dick Smiths eight monogram
men. reserves and eX-frosh have been
taking the work seriously.
Maryland will be played at College
Park Monday, Catholic u. will be en-
gagged at Brookland the next night
and Navy will be battled at Annapolls
Wednesday afternoon.
Relieving that with the quantity and
quality of material on hand the Gen
erals will be able to place on the
court a machine capable of making a
record for the Blue and White, all
candidates have been working hard
and pushing the regulars of last year
hard for their positions.
Lowdon, Gordon, Jones, Nance,
Wood and Hawkins have been going
well and making the running hard for
the varsity In fact the only man
certain of his position is SPOTS, cap
tain and center.
White, Eigelbach, Ebert and Lowry,
the monogram forwards of last sea
son, have been alternating on the first
team since practice started Coach
Smith is not certain which pair he will
use in the starting lineup. At the
guards there are Joynes, Groop and
Howe. All three are fast, aggressive
players. and it is certainty that all
three will see plenty service this year
Capt. SPOTS will take care of the
center position, with Jim Nance, his
understudy for the past two years, in
ready reserve. Nance can also be
called upon to take over forward or
guard post.
Coach Smith has not selected his
SQUAD that he will take on the North
ern invasion, but it is thought that he
will take two full teams, the eight
monogram men and two others.
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WESTERN.
Eleven of the nineteen PLAYERS VIII

Eleven of the nineteen players who
won Dewitt School foot bah letters
during the recent season were MATED
into the Monogram Club of the
Georgetown school last night at the
home of DR.. Lawn Thompson. 1910
Iowa avenue. Those who. were not in
Quoted earned their ID" prior to 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-15

Games Tonight.
Fort Wayne at Philadelphia.
New York at Chicago.
Rochester at Cleveland.
Game Tomorrow.
Chicago at Rochester.
Results Last Night.
Cleveland, 80; Rochester, 20.
New York, IS; Chicago. 16.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-15

Engagements with 115-pound quints
having the use of gyms are sought
by Northeast Bulldogs. Call Lincoln
9G21
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Greens Were Ruined.

Five days before the championship
opened, the deadly brown patch ttheh
an unknown quantity and still some
what a mystery struck the putting
greens, and the velvet putting sur
faces that were Columbia's pride Wit
ed as fog before sun and wind. When
the championship opened, the greens
were marred by great brown patches
without grass, on which putting was
most uncertain factor.
1t was the fault of no individual,
and scores OF members of Columbia
Country Club moved heaven ana
earth to repair the damage. NO one
could have done more than these men
of ample club spirit to get the course
in apple-pie order for the open. but
the damage had been done and the
time for repair was too short. Inc
open was played on golf course tnat
fell far short of the Columbia OF two
weeks before the championship. Ana
Columbia was stunned. heart-bfokeh
by the tragedy of it all.
1t left a bad taste in the minds OF
the II. S. G.. A. officials. even tnough
they knew Columbia had gone the
limit to repair the damage and they
were perfect1y aware that the brown
match was something new and means
to combat it had not then been ex.
ploited. But that is past history ana
IL won't be repeated, locally at least.
Science has found a way to stop the
brown patch at its source. and to stop
it, develonnoent on the hot. still
,nt~l,ts n vets in its deadly work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-15

Centraps basketers will invade Alex
andria tonight to battle Alexandria
High on the Armory floor there at s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-15

Emerson Institute tossers led by Al
vim Buscher scored over St. James
School quint yesterday at Hagers-
town. % 10 II. The locals staged an
uphill fight to triumph.
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IN
interesting outgrowth of the
VI two-team idea for foot bali
4 which, as it now seems, six
out of the 10 Western Con-
ference colleges intend to adopts
the desire of the basket ball authOri-
ties to have two strong basket ball
teams in every university.
Coaches seem to be strong for this
and the conference now is being
sounded as to it's sentiments. Through
out the big ten institutions the two
team plan for basket ball seems to
have taken a stronger hold than the
foot ball project. AS in foot ball, one
basket ball team would play an inter
collegiate opponent on the home court
while the main varsity five is away
and vice versa.
It is felt that with the immense
field houses in the West 1t is an
economic disadvantage to have them
dark on evenings when the varsity
is away, and interest in the game is
so great that second varsity intercol-
legiate contsts would be certain to at
tract an attendance appreciably large
The outlook for basket ball in all
sections of the country save the New
England States, reveals amazing
prospects. The game has qualities in
the way of skill and competitive fire
which enable it to stand very definite
ly on it's own feet in the way Of popu-
larity. But it has an added appeal in
the fact that the partisan enthusiasm
engendered throughout the short foot
ball season does not Wane with the
end of the gridiron game, but seeks
further stimulus.
Basket ball provides this in goodly
measure. And so interest in the game
and popular support have grown year
by year until now the largest inclosed
arenas i'm the West are not too COM
modious for the throngs who follow
the sport throughout the season. Fl
nanciallv basket ball ranks next to
foot ball in its returns, and only
limited space keeps it from rivaling
tho preat Autumn snort.
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Cantaininr naritt,s tracL tnan, y

Captatning DeVittS track team this
season will be Kirk Hopper one of
the cleverest all-around athletes to he
produced at the Georgetown School in
recent years.
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PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY.

laramie Mapleleafs, 4; Chicag"
Blarkfawks. :.
Minneapolis, 5; st. Paul, 1. six