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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04

It was Inauguration night for the
Big Ten cagers, the only issue being
whether Wisconsin is to be the undis-
puted titleholder or whether it shall
share the high office with Michigan.
If the Badgers win, they will be the
unchallenged champions. even should
they drop their final game against Chi
cago Saturday night. A Michigan
triumph would insure the Wolverines of
at least tie for the crown.
Three other contests. Ohio State at
Purdue, Iowa at Indiana and Mime
sofa at Illinois, were on tonight's cur
tain lowering program but they had no
bearing on the championship and were
dwarfed into comparative ir1signiflcanee
by the Michigan. wisconsin battle. After
these games, only the Wisconsin, Chi
cago skirmish remains.
Murphy Faces Task.
Purdue's Big Bertha Charles
Stretch" Murphy faces the nlonurnen-
tai task of scoring IS points against
Ohio State tonight to shatter the all
time Big Ten scoring record.
Murphy slumped badly against Wis
coasin and Illinois last week and with
only the Ohio State game left, he has
scored 121 points. The record, estab-
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MISSISSIPPI FAVORITE
IN DIXIE BASKET PLAY

ATLANTA. Ga, March 4.-Mississippi
is the fayorite to retain the Southern
Conference basket ball championship,
following its victory Saturday over
Washington and Lee.
Besides Ole Miss, the semif1nals to-
night will see three other survivors bat
thing for the right to contest for the
title in the final game Tuesday. North
Carolina State will meet the MISSISSIPPI
plans. and Georgia and Duke will clash
in the other bracket.
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PRINCETON MAY WRECK
TITLE HOPES OF PENN

NEW YORK, March tP).-A much
battered Princeton Tiger now holds the
key to the championship situation In the
Eastern intercollegiate Basket Ball
League.
After seven straight victories, Penn
sylvanias defending titleholders were
checked twice during the past week and
now must conquer Princeton in their
final game to gain undisputed possess
sion of their second championship in
as many years.
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FLOOR GAME USES
( FIVE STYLES NOW
0ffensives Are Scattered
Among Different Parts
of Country.
By FORREST c. tpHOGl ALLEN,
President National Association of Basket
Ball Coaches.

Ball Coaches.
~ UE to the development and in
terest in the two major games,
base ball and foot bali offensive
~ plays have long been standard
ICED.
New style basket ball is leaning, more
than ever before. toward a standardized
offensive. In order to make the game
more attractive, as well as to make
goal shooting more effective. many styles
OF offenSeS are in use today.
The three-man hard driving, the
four-man quick breaking. the five-man
shuttle guard. the delayed, and the
straight-stall offenses. with their many
variations. are the sum total of basket
ball offenses in use at present.
Three-Man Hard Driving.
The three-man hard driving is the
general type of offense now in use in
the State of Indiana. the mecca of
basket ball. This applies to the high
school, the independent and the college
teams of that section.
In this type of offense the rear or
back guard seldom takes a shot for
goal The running or floor guard Is
the feeder only unless he happens to
be a crack long-shot artist and finds
none Of the three offensive men open for
q pass. Generally this guard shoots a
pass to one of the trio on offense and
they In turn take up a hard, rapid
drive for goal.
Four-Man Quick Breaking.
The four-man quick breaking is the
general type of offense that finds favor
In the West-along the Pacific Coast.
In this offense the floor guard figures
prominently in the play. He sometimes
drives within 25 feet of the goal for a
shot. This is a stronger offense than
the three-man style, but it materially
weakens the defense.
Man Shuttle Guard.
The five-man shuttle guard offense
employs either of the two guards in
conjunction with the three front wall
men. The guards work on a shuttle
plan. The rear guard and the running
guard change places as the occasions
demand Always the guards work in
the middle, not In the center, of the
court.
This style obtains in the Big Six con-
ference and in the Missouri Valley
region.
In both the three-man and the four
man offenses the guards work fiat or
laterally across the court. In the five
man shuttle guard offense they work
longitudinally -. one In front OF the
other, but back of the three front wall
men, In all, forming Y.
Delayed and Flat Stall.
The fiat stall offense made itself so
unpopular with the spectators that 1t
evolved into a more polite form OF
stalling-the delayed offensive. Now,
wien team procures small LEAD,
late in the game. this style of offense
is most popular in all sections Of the
country. with the possible exception CT
the far West.
The fiat stall is utterly devoid of
action 1t is purely defensive
mechanism. The delayed offensive re-
serbles the fiat-stall. But 1t only
turks for an opportunity to put the
play on by means. of a quick thrust
brought about by floor bounce, pass
or dribble for goal.
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FORT DEFIANCE. Va, March A.
Augusta Military Academy quint druhbed
Massanutten Military Academy, So to
SO. in the new gym here. Bach, Malone
and Welsh were high scorers for the
winners. with Morrison and George do
ing best for the losers.
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PROFESSIONAL HOCKEY.

New York Rangers, s; Detroit Cou-
scrs, 2.
New Haven, 2; Springfield, /.
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Eagles.Crays Clash Expected
To Be Basket Ball Highlight

want a 13o-pound class opponent. to
be met THURSDAY night in the prelim-
mary to the j. c. C.-Skinker Eagles
game In the Center gym. Call Manager
Goddard at Decatur 1911.
A game for tonight with 145-pound
class quint having gym Is sought by
Miller Furniture Co. basketers. Call
Lincoln 3324-J.
Niardfeldfs, 1870 -nounders. seek match
for tonight. Challenges are being han
died at North 1860 between 5 and $50
pm.
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ske Ball Attack After Much Experimenting Is Fairly Well Standardized

pointed the way to Maryland Schoias-
tics. % to II. in a preliminary.
Company F. Regulars, who will par
ticipate in the South Atlantic tourna-
ment in Washington. will meet Univer-
sity A. C. here, Thursday night and
the Reserves will meet a team to be
announced in preliminary.
Coliseum Old Boys of Washington will
visit the Arcade bowling alleys here
Saturday night to meet Hyattsville Old
Boys in the final block of a six-ganie,
home and-home series.
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C. U. BOXERS TO APPEAR
AGAINST N. Y. U. TEAM

Just one engagement and that away
is on the books for athletes of the, Dis
trict college group this week. In the
lone event Catholic Universitys boxing
team is to meet New York University
gloyemen Saturday in New York.
Preparations for Spring sports will,
however, go forward with vigor at the
various schools during the week.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04
Standing.
Leading Scorers.
BELMhR SHEPLEY SCORES.

Belmar Shepley Of the Capitol Attn
letic Club was the only local swimmer
to place in the South Atlantic A. A. U.
swimming meet held in Baltimore Sat-
urday night. She won second place in
the lOo-yard free style event, which
was captured By Grace Warner Of the
Bay Shore Swimming Club.
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BADGERS NEED WIN
TO C[|NCH HONORS
Triumph Over Michigan Five
Tonight viii Give Big
Ten Championship.
BY PAUL n. NICHOLSON,
Associated Press Sports Writer

HICAGo, March 4.--seeking I'M
disputed possession of The Big
u Ten basket ball championship
~ for the first time since 1928
Wlsconsin's cardinal clad giants
tangle with Michigan at Ann Arbor
tonight in the classic combat of four
game card that virtually terminates
the long campaign.
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lisl1ed by Johnny Miner of Ohio State
in 1925 is 1873.
Bud Foster, Wisconsin's speedy for
ward, appears to have clinched runner
up honors to Murphy in the Big Ten in
dividual scoring race for 1929. He has
scored 88 points. ~
Purdue has long since taken team
scoring honors. pihng up 396 points in
ii games. while Michigan looks like the
best defensive team with only 24i
points scored against it in ii contests
Score.
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EVANSVILLE QUINT
PLAYS HAGERST0WN
r YATTsvILLE, Md. March "A

v YATTSvILLE, Md. March "A
wire was received yesterday by
l. 4 Hyattsville High School basket
ball team, advising that the
local quint has been matched with
Hagerstown High Tuesday in second
round match of the State high school
basket ball championship tournament.
The game will be played either in the
State Armory in Frederick at night or
in Hollins' Hall, Baltimore, in the
afternoon.
IIyattsvilIe High School girls basket
ball team will end its regular schedule
against Mclean. Va. High here We'd
nesday afternoon, But will compete in
the South Atlantic tournament, starting
next week In Washington.
Company F basketers won two games
on the arnory floor here yesterday. The
Regulars defeated Hartman g. Co. of
Washington, 80 to 81, and the Reserves
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-04

~ ERNIE PEACOCkS Sklnhei
Eagles and United Typewriter
Grays will clash tomorrow
Il night In Congress Helgnss,
Auditorium in what is expected
to prove one of the best paskee Dan
games of the season IN Dlstrlce VA
limited class ranks. The Eagles nave
lost only one game this season, that TO
fhe United Grays, and the latter mas
clean record SO far as home teams are
Both the Eagles and Grays won
matches Yesterday over outstanding
teams The Birds downed Jewish Com
,nunitv Center. 80 to 81, in Congress
Heights Auditorium, and the Grays
mopped up with Silver Spring service
Co, 81 to II, in the Maryland town;
Jewish Community tossers gave 1ne
Eagles a keen battle all the way. JACK
Fsber and Joe Sweeney Leo the winners
attack with Jake Goldblatt doing most
of 7 G. C.'s counting. The teams will
meet in a return match Thursday night
in the Center gym.
Silver Spring was outclassed an tnr
way by the Grays. with buscnet'
peck and Forney scoring often, the
Gravs gained an early lead and at the
half were in the van. SO to s..
French A. C. toSsers took the measure
of Renroc scholastics, % to Is. In the
preliminary to the Eagles-J. C. T. matcn
and in the curtain-raiser to the main
game at Silver Spring, Stewart tossers
scored over Brentwood Hawks. 81 10 20,
and Kennedy A. C. routed Silver Spring
All-Stars, 40 to 6.
There will be much activity among
Bows Club Basket Ball League teams
This week, is games in all, being carded
Following is the schedule and team
standings:
TODAY.
Ts5rs,s s vs. f64 f6e iopound champion
shipl. Celtics Us. Outside Game.
TOMORROW.
Fort Myer vs. Frenchy Ii5 poundss)'
MertSe;sas vS So,o opfm alis ooundsj.
WEDNESDAY.
,c5t g35ors scrIes, Good shephsTd vs. Co
rint1ians 1870 pounds. CptiniiS1s vs. w.
lonials (i3G pornos2
THURSDAY.
Fort Myer " Aresdissinss n n1S pooooa as
miss VS.. Speakers tii5 pounosi'
brentwood Hawks VS.. B. c. cel'ics' lie
Luxe vs. Gonzaga
SATURDAY.
n c. Standards vs.. outside Team BOYS
club FIVE VS. Outside Team
1Is POUND LEAGUE.
STANDING or THE TEAMS,
z;s;s' s sss S:sls':s. II 4;
fso-POUND LEAGUE.
CLAIMING or THE TEAMS.
W.B,Pct WL.P.c-n..
op.imists.. I o 1000 Corinthians. 3 .315
CclonislS a29 1liheS d S''"A '"-
Good Shep. .57l
Led by the Galotta Brothers, Henry
and Dan. vino showed keen eye for
the basket, Tremonts drubbed ST.
Martins, 81 to lS, yesterday N st.
Visiting Cumberland, Md, yesterday
Washington Knights OF Columbus bas-
keters bowed to Cumberland <. G.
CUNT in 1926 match.
Axtecs earned 21-l8 decision over
Phantom basketers yesterday.
House Of Representative tossers
squeezed out 1897 victory yesterday
over Peck Seniors.
aewish Community Center Flashes
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Proposal Provides for Rate Ranging
Between 1 and 3 Cents Per Pound.

Proposal Provides for Rate Ranging
Between 1 End 3 Cents Per Pound.
BY ti,c Associated Press
A sliding scale sugar tariff plan.
ranging from l cent pound at the
time market prices are high to cents
pound when the market is depressed,
was made public today by Chairman
Smoot of the Senate finance committee.
Smoot will offer the proposal as a
substitute for the fiat rate of 3 cents a
pound placed on sugar in the House
tariff bill
Hearings will be held next week, at
which time the substitute will be con-
sidered by the committee.
Under the sliding scale, the present
rate of 1920 on sugar would apply when
sugar is selling in New York at cents
pound, which is about the present
price.
Cuba would receive the same 20 per
cent preferential under the sliding scale
as it now enjoys when the fiat rates ON
sugar are applied.
The sliding scale plan promises to be
the subject of considerable controversy.
1t is figured on the basis of the aver
age prices in New York over three
months Should the prices go up the
tariff would go down. Should the
price drop, the tariff would increase.
The maximum rate of cents a
pound would apply at any time the New
York selling price for sugar was $500
or less hundredweight. The mini
| mum rate of / cent pound would be-
come operative whenever the New York
price reached $7.20 hundredweight or
| higher.
Even before Senator smoot made
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Continued From First Page.)

suited in a delay of hours while re-
pairs we're. made.
AnotheF'radio message from the Graf
told something of life aboard the ship.
I'VE had champagne as soon as We
were under way" the message said,
(which resulted in a late breakfast.
Gus when We encountered strong head
winds shortly before lunch and were
buffeted for an hour in the Rhone VAL
ley. Our progress was retarded.
The route has been out of our way,
but necessary to miss bad weather in
Northeastern Spain. Large tank of
drinking water up in the bag sprang
a leak and saturated the ceiling of
the saloon during lunch. There was
much excitement, but nothing to worry
about. We had an excellent game of
bridge in the afternoon.
THE new motors are performing per-
fectly at high speed"
Weather Cleared.
Other messages from the dirigible said
that the weather cleared after seven
hours of steadily fighting opposing
winds, and that the speed increased
than So. Passengers who we're on the
unsuccessful attempt in May enjoyed
greatly pointing out landmarks below
them of that historic struggle of the
Zeppelin to regain its hangar.
The Zeppelin's route since its de-
parture from Friedrichshafen has been
an extreme southerly one, westward
across Lake Constance to Constance
and Basic. Switzerland, thence west
ward and osuthwestward toward Lyon,
France: down the Rhone River over
Valence and Montpelimar, passing out
over the Mediterranean Sea beyond
Mines.
At 3 pm. yesterday, Greenwich
Meridian Time, the Zeppelin was about
so miles off Barcelona, Spain, with 700
miles of the American cruise behind. 1t
was not sighted in Barcelona. It ap-
parently, although fighting headwinds,
escaped violent storms set up in north
ern and northwestern Europe by the
low pressure area moving eastward from
ireland.
Weather reports said that the Yep
pelin was navigating in region of
diminishing headwinds and improving
conditions, with local storms between
Gibraltar and the Azores, and north
east winds from the Azores.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-02

and do as little as possible
Others, too, there were Of whom
have written. Those courageous and
fearless ones, some of whom were fired
for daring to buck the politicians.
Stories of Higher Ups"
"I have told the stories Of some Of
the higher ups who have so mis-
handled prohibition enforcement that
it will take many years for the coun-
try to recover from the harm that they
did.
Some will not like to hear that a
good deal of the source of supply OF
LIQUOR today is coming from an avoid
able looseness in handling permits, and
from to strange hold on enforcement
machinery by certain alcohol lobbyists.
There are illustrations, too. which
may be diSpleasing-here and there, OF
how prohibition enforcement has SUI
fered at the hands of its friends.
But these facts cannot be left out
of a fair picture of the national stu
alton.
"They explain some of the reasons
why prohibition has not succeeded, but
in outlining them I we'll know I shall
probably displeaSe an even greater
number of people than I seem to have
displeased already.
Eyes, have told the facts about my
speeches during the last presidential
campaign. I have even told the things
that amused me most and hurt me
most in that curious and hectic time.
But what I have especially tried to
do is to present clearly the facts in
regard to prohibition enforcement, Its
comedies and tragedies, for they must
be seen clearly. and understood. as an
essential precedent to any intelligent
appraisal of the present situation"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-02
FACTS. SHOCK AS THEY MAY.
PROMISED BY MRS. WILLEBRANDT
Will Reveal Truth on Dry
Enforcement, With Names
and Dates.
Series of Articles to Give
Light on "Higher-ups"
Who Hurt Cause.

Now it can be told, and Mrs. Mabel
Walker Willebrandt is telling it.
In series of articles to be published
In Washington in The Evening Star and
The Sunday Star exclusively she has
written the story of eight years of pro-
hibition enforcement from the inside, as
she saw it, In her capacity of Assistant
Attorney General charged with the
duty, among others of the general con-
duct of cases under the national pro-
hibition act. Mrs. Withdrawals ar
ticles will start in The Star on Au-
gust S.
Some of the reasons why she wrote
the articles, and what, in part, they
will reveal she told briefly today in
the intervals of moving into her new
suite of Offices in which she is resum-
ing in Washington the private practice
interrupted by eight years of Govern
ment service.
Giving Only the Facts.
IT wrote them," she said, because so
many stories have been told of and
about me that it seemed to me more
| satisfactory, more dignified, to tell the
story of the last eight years once and
| for all, and close the book on those
pages of my life and work.
What specifically are some of the
things I am telling? Well, first and
last and all the time. facts. and facts,
and again facts. With names. And
dates.
! Some of these facts will surprise a
great many people. shock others, and
seriously displease, I suspect. con-
siderable number of friends, as we'll as
| foes. of prohibition.
THAT is because I have told the
plain unvarnished truth. hewing to the
| line and letting the chips fall where
they must in dealing frankly with this
difficult national problem. 1t is my
hope that those who are sufficiently in
terested to read what 1 have written,
may at least be enabled thereby to get
clearer and less emotional view Of
the actual task and obligations in
volved.
II have written only the truth as I
see it, as in fact saw it through eight
/ years of personal dealing with great
! number of officials, the courage of some
of whom had been Slapped to the van
ishing point by political ambition, and
with certain spineless others who we're
suffering from that Washington malady.
'governmentitis. Which is another
way of saying, never displease any one,
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SEE GRAF LANDING
ON SUNDAY EVENING
Naval Air Officers Predict
Comfortable Crossing
for Zeppelin.

Believing the Graf Zeppelin would
reach Lakehurst, N. j., Sunday follow
ing what they were convinced would be
a comfortable crossing so far as weather
conditions are concerned, Navy Depart
ment aerial navigation officers were of
the opinion last night that unless the
giant aircraft reaches the New Jersey
hangar by sunrise, she would spend the
day cruising over the cities of the East
ern seaboard, awaiting evening before
attempting to land.
The officers pointed out that daytime
hours generally are unfavorable for
landing lighter-than-ai craft and that
in their belief only a rush to tie up in
advance of bad weather would cause
the commander to land the great ship
in the middle of the day.
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MACKALL CLEARED
BY PROBE REPORT
ForMsr Maryland Road Com
missioner Free to Accept
Another Honor.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE, Nd, August 2.-Com-
pletely indicated by the report of the
Michigan commission dealing with the
$376,138 theft from the funds of the
State Roads Commission, John N. Mack
all, former chairman and chief en-
gineer Of the body, indicated today
that he might accept another State
appointment If 1t were offered him.
While declining to state exactly what
his plans for the future are, Mr.. Mack
all declared that the Nelligan report
leaves him free to do as he pleases,
and that he will make definite an
nouncement of his future plans after
comforting with his friends.
Freedom of Action Felt.
II was forced to resign before the
commission completed the investigation,
and naturally my friends felt this keen
ly." he said. II now feel that the re-
port leaves me free to do what I wish
in the future. This case should interest
every community. and every citizen
should be interested to see that such
thing does not happen again.
The Michigan committee, appointed
more than year ago as a result of
discovery of the $4,000 roads short
age, in brief found:
That no grounds exist for challeng-
ing the integrity of higher road Of
ficials, particularly Mackall.
The main construction and MAIN
tenance fund, from which $4,000, 900
was spent for roads construction and
maintenance from 1920 to 1923, was
found unimpaired and Maryland re-
ceived high value for the money ex-
pended
Fourteen in Theft Ring.
That theft of $376138.77 from the
revolving fund was accomplished by
ring of at least IA employees, including
three members of the Office staff, whose
duty 1t was to check upon each other,
but who dishonesty colluded to VIC
timize Mackall and the State.
Much surplus war material, NOM
inally valued at $4,000, 900 by the Gov
eminent. was outworn. OF the larger
pieces. inventoried at $1,623 1863. SO per
cent was accounted for, including ATS
OF 488 trucks and 80 of 81 tractors, "as
full an accounting as could be reason
ably expected" from an eight-year- old
record. The balance of $1,2o0,000 was
in charge of dishonest employees and it
is probable some was improperly dis
posed of.
The report also completely clears
State Senator Walter j. Mitchell of
st. Marys County, Of charges brought
against him by j. Allison Wilmer.