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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-08
School Elves i'm Four Clashes
Tomorrow, but Only One Here

over the Manassas, Va, schoolboys this
season.
1t was real battle all the way, with
Business leading, Is to 10, at the half.
Jones, with 10 points, led the Stenogs'
attack, while Wilson, who counted a
trio of goals from the floor, was most
consistent on attack for the losers.
Georgetown Prep triumphed over
smart two-pointer in the last seconds
by Ed Rehkopf The Garrett Parkers
were trailing at the half, IL to II, but
with Rehkopf and Watkins doing most
of their scoring came through to win
in the final half.
Neither the Strayers boy or girl teams
offered Shepherd College combinations
much opposition. The visiting boys were
behind all the way and the Strayer las
sizes were hopelessly outclassed.
Ability Of Dewitt tossers to find the
scoring range in the final half gave
them their win over the House Pages.
Dewitt was behind at the half at to
10. Way and Hunter, guards, played
well for the winners.
Castell, former Central High player,
was the scoring ace for George WASH
ington Freshmen in their win over
Episcopal. He registered 10 points.
Conner and Shepherd each counted flve
points to lead Episcopal's attack.
Led by Harmon, who scored IA points,
Second B quint scored over First A toss
ers, % to 8, yesterday in st. John s
College interclass game In the school
gym.
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Speedy Club Elves Will Clash
In Trio Of Big Tits Tonight

racks tonight. Harmon and Briese leo
the winning attack last night.
Iambeth. MoeIler and Marstella al.
yided the scoring honors as Nationai
Circles defeated Boiling Field courtmen
last night, 80 to ~.
Lewis and Nader fattened their scor-.
ing averages last night as Knights Of
Columbus fioormen took 45-to:27 de-
cision over Tremonts in Casey gym.
Calvary M. E. basketers continued
their winning stride last night by stop
ping Army Headquarters tossers, 50
to 20.
Boys Club League games last night
resulted as follows: Times B. G.. 20
st. Martins, 6; Tigers, 10; Colonlais
II; Speakers. Is; Meridans, 10, ano
Arcadians, 27; Fort Myer, is.
Pullman A. c. quint was unable t1
stop the scoring machine OF Boys CluE
Celtics last night and took q 5-to-3;
drubbing.
Cardinal A. C. was also an easy VIC
tim for Peck Insects In 62-to-5 night.
mare in Peck gym.
Forsyth's sc points enabled Five Jacks
uuint to win over Lightning A. G. eager!
last night, II to 4.
Stanley A. G. courtmen are tied fol
| first place in the Community Cente'
! League as the result Of a l9-to-l6 wiz
over Tivon Whirlwinds last night.
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FINE WINS SCORED
|. BY WIDE, WILLIAMS
Make Fast Time in Newark
Meet-Pair and Nurmi
in MiIIr0Se Games.
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

n YEW YORK, February Sit
seems to be an open question
~ whether American runners are
l enjoying the present indoor
track season as much as they
have some in past years.
It was bad enough four years ago
when Paavo Nurmi came, saw and con-
quered in what turned out to be the
greatest individual invasion track his
tory has seen. Nurmi's back again,
bit slower perhaps. but still good enough
to run rings around anything that has
been sent against him so far.
Perhaps the home breds wouldn't
mind so much If Paavo were alone
in this current invasion, but he has
decided help from his Swedish rival,
Edwin Wide, and from the sprint mar
vel. Percy Williams of Vancouver, Bri-
fish Columbia.
While Nurmi was resting up for the
first mile race of his campaign at the
Millrose games tomorrow night. VIDE
and Williams were treating American
runners and track fans to another ex-
hibition of their proves at the Newark
A. G. games last night.
Running without spiked shoes for the
| first time. Williams won a 60-yard
handicap sprint in the fast time Of
62-5 seconds. within fifth Of a sec
/. ond of the world indoor record. Bob
Wiese of the New York A. c., and
Charley Haguenin of New York Uni
versity. each with a yard start on the
Olympic sprint champion, were sec
ond and third respectively.
Fast Race by Wide.
Wide distanced the field in a two
mile handicap run, winning by half a
lap from Irving Totten, Millrose A. A.,
in 9 minutes II is seconds Running on
the same track a week ago. and under
almost exactly similar conditions, MUIR
mi, impressed. covered the distance in
9:193s. Wide's time. incidentally, set
new record for the 18th Regiment
unbanked track.
These we'll earned victories thus will
enable Williams and Wide both to enter
the Millrose games with record of two
victories in as many starts in their
American invasions. Wide is entered in
the two-mile miss-and-out race at the
Millrose and Williams in the sprint
series.
Indications now are that Nurmi may
not get as much opposition in the Mill
rose mile as he expected from Ray
Conger. the national 1,000-yard cham
pion. A favorite at that distance in the
Newark A. G. games, Conger was
soundly beaten by Sam Martin Of the
Boston A. A.. and Jimmy Kennedy.
Georgetown freshman. The time, 2
minutes 1915 seconds. was exceedingly
last under the conditions.
Johnny Gibson. former 440-yard hur-
dies champion, OUTRAGED crack field in
the special 500-yard invitation run.
passing Oliver Proudlock of the Newark
A. G. and Herbert Robinson. University
1T Virginia, to win in the fast time Of
81 seconds.
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~ CHOoI.BOY basketers of the Cap
ital area will take part in f1ve
games tomorrow, only one Of
~ which will be played at home.
In the lone match here Cath
Ollie University Freshmen will entertain
the crack Calvert Hall School team OF
Baltimore in the c. U. gym:
Contests on alien floors viii find Cen
trail meeting Navy Plebes at Annapolis
Dewitt clashing with Mount st. Marys
Prep at Emmitsburg, Md; Emerson
stacking up against Tome at Port De.
post, Md, and Bliss and Leonard Hal
meeting at Leonardtown.
In games Yesterday Business defeated
Swavely School tossers, Is to Is, in the
Stenog gym; Georgetown Prep squeezed
out a $3.50 triumph over Mount st
Marys Prep at Garrett Park, Md;
Strayers boys and girls lost to Shepherd
College boys and girls, "a to 43 and IA
to IS, respectively, at Shepherdstown,
w. Va; Dewitt Lightweights took II
II decision from House of Representa-
tive Pages in the Eastern High gym and
Episcopal High dropped a 27-22 en-
counter to George Washington Fresh
men on the latter's floor.
It IN likely that the Catholic Uni.
versity-C Calvert Hall match will attract
quite a crowd, in view of the strength
of the teams. The Cardinal Cubs have
been beaten only once and Calvert Hal
has yet to lose.
f; Centrars much-improved team Is ex-
pected to give Navy Plebes a lively bat:
| tie. and the other three matches ir
which the District teams will figure
likely also will produce spirited COM
petition.
Eight games were listed for scholastic
basketerS hereabout today, making II
the biggest day of the season so far for
the scioolboys. Aside from the match
between Central and Portsmouth High
at Portsmouth, Va, all the contests
| were set for home floors.
Gonzaga was to entertain Eastern
| on the formers floor, Western was 70
play host to Georgetown Prep IN the
Western gym, st. Adams was to have
| Forest Park High of Baltimore as It's
guest in the st. Adams stronghold ano
Tech was to meet University OF Mary
| land Freshmen at College PARK, In thts
| this afternoon.
Stanton Military Academy OF Staun-
ton. Va, one of whose players IS Cal
| win Griffith, adopted son OF Clark Cru
! fifth, president Of the Washington paSe
ball team, will meet Emerson tonigns
| in the st. Johns College gym, wniie
Bliss School will entertain Cresap
| Rifles In the armory at Silver Spring
Ma Roth Of these encounters will start
at $3.50 o'clock.
R;rgv Jones' basket from scrimmAge
in the diving moments carried Business
| Ia its win over Swavely yesterday. II
was the second victory for the Stenogs
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Women in Sport : ss:sss

Major letter winners were Elizabeth
Breckinbridge, Margine Musser, Marian
Wells. Betty Peelle, Frances Carter,
Mildred English, Patsy Joyes, Eleanor
O'Donohue, Jane Wallis, Kitty Hall,
Mary Macarthur, Christine Ekengren
and Betty Dyer.
Minor letter winners included the fol-
lowing: For hockey-Cassie johnson.
Clara Smith. Helen Davis. Frederick
Billiard, Louise Breckenridge. Betty
Campbell, Ruth Brown, Jane McHarg,
Margaretta Rowland and Mary Crane
Gambell, Ruth Brown, Jane McHarg,
Christine Ekengren. Margaretta Row
land, Lillian Schuman, Alice Bacon.
Mary White, Olga Bayne and Helen
Davis.
For basket ball: Blue team-Marian
Wells, Helen Davis, Christine Ekengren,
Jane Wallis, Frances Carter, Betty Dy-
err, Patsy Joyes, Betty Peelle. White
team-Elizabeth Breckinbridge. Betty
Gambell, Kitty Hall, Margaretta Row.
land and Mary Macarthur.
Company r Auxiliary tossers are to
meet Strayer's Business College six at
8 o'clock on the Hyattsville Armory
floor in an intermediate section WASH
ington Recreation League game.
Eagles requested a postponement OF
their game with the Jewish Community
Center six which was to have been
played last night on the Center floor.
No new date has been set, but 1t is ex-
pected that the contest will be staged
within the next fortnight.
Jewish Community Center tossers
will meet the Washington A. G. as their
next scheduled opponents next Thurs
day. February IA, at 8 o'clock, at East
ern High School.
Eagles are slated to play Aloysians
Monday, February II, at 1880, at st.
Martins gymnasium.
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G. u. TEAM TO MEET
NAVY BOXERS PICKED

Coach Jim Mcnamara has selected
Henry Murphy to replace Charley Fish
in the welterweight division for George
town when the Hoya boxers stack up
against the Navy battlers tomorrow
night at $3.50 o'clock at Annapolis.
Fish has suffered broken bone in
his left hand. His absence Is certain to
be keenly felt, as he has been showing
impressively, having won both of the
bouts in which he has taken part this
season. Fish will be incapacitated for a
week or 10 days at least
Those representing the Blue and Gray
against the Middies In addition to Muir
ply win include Bob Saur, l18-pounder;
Emmett Hagerty, 1875; Joe Madden, 1875:
Jimes GreeveS, 100; Jack Tierney, ITS,
and Schafiley, unlimited.
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EVANSVILLE TOSSERS
WILL MEET TOMORROW

EVANSVILLE, Md, February g.
Pierce A. c. and Comets, both OF
Hyattsville, will meet in basket ball
game tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in the
Hyattsville High gym. It will be the
only floor attraction of the evening here
Regular basketers Of Company F viii
journey to Alexandria to meet st
Mary's Celtics.
Company F regular basketers bowed
to Hartman & Co. quint, 90 to 81, last
night In a Washington City League
game in the arrnory here. A scoring
spree by Dick Keefer, who counted four
goals from scrimnage In the last five
minutes, paved the way for the visit
ors' win.
Company F Reserves No. defeated
Mount Rainier A. c., % to 90, in a
Prince Georges County League game
played as preliminary.
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ALEXANDRIA CUNTS
IN SERIES CONTEST

ALEXANDRIA, Va, February g.
With an opportunity to gain an even
footing with Alexandria High in the
race for the third athletic district of
Virginia championship, George Mason
High cagers are expected to give the
locals a strenuous battle tonight when
the two teams clash in Armory Hall
at 7:30
An Alexandria triumph would give
the Maroon and White the title.
Girls teams of Alexandria and George
Mason will play tonight at $50.
Episcopal High will entertain a
strong contender for the preparatory
school championship of the State to-
morrow in Stanton Military Academy.
The game will be played at $3.50 i'll
Stewart Memorial Gymnasium.
Hoffman ClOthiers have scheduled a
game with the Y. NJ c. A. Independ-
ents to be played in the "" gymnasium
at Washington March 7.
The ClothierS are after game for
Sunday with an unlimited team having
the use Of a gymnasium. and also are
anxious to list games for any night next
week. Phone Manager Allen, Alexan-
dria 2198, between and pm.
The third athletic district games
scheduled February Is between Alexan-
dria and Fredericksburg High boys and
girls teams will be played in the State
Normal School gymnasium at Fred
ericksburg.
George Mason High has completed
negotiations with ST. Johns College for
game in the Saints" gymnasium at
Washington February 18.
George Mason girls have scheduled a
contest with Hyattsville High, at
Hyattsville, Md, February 81.
Company F Regulars of Hyattsville,
Nd, will play the ST. Mary's Celtics to-
The Hyattsville Guardsmen toppled the
Hoffman Clothiers in game here.
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OLD DOMINION CLUB
BACKS SCHOOL CREW

ALEXANDRIA, Va, February g.
Old Dominion Boat Club. at its meeting
last night, authorized w. H. Edmund,
Alexandria High athletic director. to
proceed with plans for the organization
Of a rowing crew at the school, and
promised him the clubs whole hearted
cooperation.
The club has agreed to extend the
use of its shells and clubhouse to the
schoolboys.
Old Dominion will make its own
plans for aquatic sports at its annual
meeting March 6, when rowing coach
will be named. Practice probably will
start April /.
A report of the mooring committee
which has been ordered to suggest plans
for improving the wharf and dredging
the river bottom just off the clubs float
is expected at the annual meeting.
A committee composed OF E. E.
Carver, j. M. Reed and Harry F. Ken
needy was named to make arrangements
for a smoker.
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BIC TEN ATHLETES
ACTIVE TOMORROW
Basket Ball, Track, Hockey.
Wrestling, Swimming on
Week End Program.

BY the Associated Press.
~H1cAGO, February Big Ten
athletes, who have been fight
ing semester examinations for
~ the past three weeks, come
back into their own again to-
morrow with the liveliest sports pro-
gram since the moleskins were tucked
away last Autumn.
More than score of important at
fractions are on the days program,
bringing into action basket ball play
ers, cinder path artists, swimmers,
wrestlers and hockey stars.
With the basket ball championship
race frightened up, three cage contests
held the greatest interest. Michigan
which is leading the chase with four
victories and no defeats, clashes with
Ohio States cratic tossers in the
Indiana invades Iowa and Illinois
clashes with Chicago here.
Ohio State may upset Michigan, as
the Wolverines have been idle since
January II when they had hard time
defeating Illinois, a second division
team. Indiana and Iowa are both bad
ly crippled and a close battle Is antlcl-
pated. Chicago hasn't won Confer
ence game yet and isn't expected 10
begin by defeating Illinois.
Three track meets, which are expect
ed to show which way the 1929 indoor
bunting is flying will be held. Wis
consin's team meets Iowa at Iowa Clty'
Chicago, which appears to have It's
strongest team in years, tackles Purdue
at LAFAYETTE, while Indiana meets Its
old foe, Notre Dame, at South Bend.
Records Threatened.
Several indoor records may be shat
tered. Weaver, Chicago's shotput ace,
broke a Bartlett gymnasium mark OF
Is years standing with the 16-pound
shot as he and his mates trounced
Minnesota in dual meet last Satur-
day here and may crack some PURDUE
marks, at least, tomorrow.
An intersectional tinge is given the
wrestling card as Illinois invades the
University of West Virginia for a dual
meet. Iowa clashes with Minnesota,
Wisconsin meets Northwestern today
and Chicago tomorrow. while Purdue
tangles with Ohio States grapplers at
Columbus.
Three dual swimming meets also are
on the program. They are Michigan
at Minnesota Purdue at Illinois and
Iowa at Wisconsin. Northwestern
great team, meanwhile, Is on the first
| leg of its Pacific Coast invasion, dur
| ing which it will meet eight college
and athletic club teams.
Wisconsin's Winter sports athletes
were seeking honors at the frolic and
sports festival at Wausau, Wis, while
most of those of other Big Ten schools
had nom Conference events slated.
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ON THE SIDE LINES
With the Sports Editor
BY DENMAN THOMPSON=

value. $4,000 900. Value of stakes
and purses annually, $4,000 900.
Value of breeding farms, SIS 900 900.
Value of stations. foalS not ready
to raea, brood mares, etc, more than
$100 100000. Total valuation, $240,-
100000.
IF these figures disclose anything,
racing is nearly 10 times more i'm
portant than base ball, financially.
To this must be added the enormous
annual turnover of money in betting
on horse races-a sum which prob
ably would eclipse completely the
total capitalization of the industry
itself.
But, to add it all up, there Is less
real craftsmanship connected with
the racing industry than there is
with even the most modest of the
bush leagues. Base ball exists be-
cause people love the pastime. Horse
racing exists because people love to
speculate.
land if you think horse racing
survives and prospers as sport
and because people just naturally
like to see the horses come ding
donging down the stretch, without
a wager on the result, study the
story of the racing game during the
dull period, when no betting was
permitted.
Horse racing ceased the moment
betting was stopped"
NoW they are saying that all the
smoke indicating the fire of inten-
ton on the part OF the New York
club to pare G. Herman Ruth's
$4,000 a gear stipend ,Dhen it er-
pires 1oith the close OF the coming
season has so peeued the Babe that
he has Serred an uItimdtunt for q
100000 salary for this year. This
is merely q ,rHmor, but If it should
prOUe true there are many Uho be-
HeUe the Bdmbino could enact
hike in his emolument, contract or
no contract.
X X X
Why Barney Dreyfuss should have
been hOnOred by election as the first
vice president the National League
ever had may puzzle some, but at
least part of the answer may be
found in the fact that the Pirate
owner for many years has relieved
his fellow magnates Of preparing the
season schedule, date juggling task
all are glad to side-step.
X X X II
Boston note e Jimmy Connolly
still believes he can race with the
best of them. He writes from
Washington: Did three-quarters
yesterday In 3:16. Really coming
back He certainly has the spirit"
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FORMER DEWITT STAR
GRADUATES AS AVIATOR

James Herbert (Tweedy) Wallace of
1922 Monroe street, this city. who is one
of four washington men to be gradu-
ated from the advanced flying school
of the Army at Kelly Field, Tex, for
nerly was crack athlete at Dewitt
School here.
Basket ball was his best sport. He
played forward and was an unusually
clever performer. wallace also played
guard on the Dewitt foot ball team and
was dependable gridman. Following
his graduation from Dewitt, in 1924,
Wallace attended Georgia Tech and
then took up aviation.
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w. & L. TEAMS TO KEEP
BUSY NEXT TWO DAYS

LEXINGTON. Va, February g.
Washington and Lees sports teams face
one of the most strenuous week ends
Of the Winter tonight and tomorrow,
seven events being carded.
Varsity basketers left last night for
Lexington, KY. where they take on the
Kentucky qtlint tonight.
Heading back, the Generals will stop
in Huntington tomorrow night to bat
tie West Virginia.
Four events against Virginia rivals
tomorrow include varsity and fresh
man boxing with Virginia Tech at
Blacksburg and varsity and frosh SWIM
ming with the Virginia Cavaliers In the
DoremuS gymnasium here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-08

w YITH racing in Mary
M land under fire of or
Wv ganized labor in addi-
ton to the church
bodies, which always have OPP
posed it, and with patrons of
the nearby tracks muttering
disgruntedly about strong
armed" jockeys and crooked
owners" it would seem the turf
industry, by far the greatest
financially listed under the
head of sports, is facing a
period of anxiety.
That any action which might
be taken by the legislators at
Annapolis to outlaw pari-mu-
tuel betting and thereby curtail
if not actually kill racing in
Maryland would have a decid-
edly adverse effect on the game
throughout the United States
may be judged from the fact
that the way it is conducted in
the neighboring State gener-
ally is regarded as a model for
the country.
A bit of testimony on that
subject is found in the recent
comment of a Midwestern OBJ
server in these words:
"The Maryland meetings repre-
sent about the best and most inter-
esting racing known to the country
today. They start early in the
Spring, when interest is keen in
the and 2-year-old divisions and
revive late in the Fall, when there
is renewed interest in the rapidly
maturing 2-year-olds and in the
handicap horses.
1.-THE best quality of horses in the
country run at Maryland tracks and
the races are managed better than
in almost any other district In addi-
ton, the pari-mutuels are under
State inspection"
If the foregoing is a fair esti-
mate of racing in Maryland,
where opposition to it seems to
be gaining strength, one is led
to wonder what the circum-
stances must be in States less
fortunately situated.
It is a we'll known fact that
running the horses in New Or
leans this Winter has proved
such a losing proposition that
the Louisiana Jockey Club has
been busy with schemes to in
crease attendance and has
sought to boost receipts by hik-
ing the take out" percentage
from the machines, while the
meeting at Tia Juana has
proved considerable of a dud.
The extent to which racing
overshadows base ball in the
matter of dollars and cents,
coupled with the fact that ex-
istence of the former, which
lives only because of betting. is
threatened, while the thriv-
ing so-called national pastime
could not carry on If domi-
mated by gambling, is thus
strikingly presented by Ed
Wray in the column he con-
ducts for the st. Louis POST
Dispatch:
Major league base ball has multi
piled itself from 10000 to 100000
In grandstand seating maximum and
from $4,000 to $4,000, 900 in invest
ed capital per club. But, even so,
it is doubtful If the total involved
in organized base ball enterprises
today could show valuation of
more than $35 100000. That in
cludes minor leagues.
Compared to the money invested
in racing, purely gambling enter
prise and therefore one entirely
hostile to base ball theories, the
diamond game is just minor
proposition. Here are some figures
based on recently published statis-
tics, regarding racing in the United
States:
Number of tracks (major circuit),
so. Horses in training, $4,000;
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CUP IS PRESENTED
TO SOCCER LEAGUE

Richard S. (Dick) Tennyson of the
Post sports staff last night presented
to the Washington Soccer League the
cup offered by the Post to the winner
in that circuit. The presentation was
made at the home of Albert B. Buehler
at Silver Spring, Md. 1t was accepted
by Robert Bruce. president of the loop
1t is the second cup offered the league
winner by the Post. Walford won the
first permanently after capturing three
league titles.
British Uniteds, Concords and Clan
MacLennan are tied for first place in
the current Washington League race