The Washington times., 1930-11-13
Today's
Sportorial
BY KIRK MILLER.

football game Of the collegiate
variety Saturday, there viii be
a great outpouring of local
football enthusiasts toward Bal
timore where Navy will be en-
tertaining the Southern Metho-
dist University in what viii be
a colorful, intersectional battle.
The MidshipmeT1 win be there
in force with their bands and
guidons. Neither team has an
unsullied record to keep clean,
but each will be fighting hard
to keep its slate from becoming
more besmirched than at the
present moment.
Southern Methodist Is bring
ing several trainloadS Of rooterS
and Texas dignitaries North for
this meeting with the Annap-
oils eleven and the team itself
is expected to make a short
stop over here tomorrow morn
ing en- route from Dallas to
Baltimore.
If any single star Of that en-
gagement will command the at
tention of WaShingtonians, it
will be j. w. yves" Bing, the
160-pound end who prepared
for Navy here in Washington.
He attended Dewitt Prep and
for three seasons has shown
handily on Navy teams. He
is one of the best pass receivers
at Navy in recent years. Then,
too, the work of Lou Kirn,
Navy's 154-pound back, has
come in for much cenmenda.
ton by those who have watched
his work this year. 49,
Almost overnight last season
as the schedule was getting
down toward its end, Kirn
made his abilities recognized
and he went like a rocket from
the "B" squad straight to the
varsity where he has stuck
ever since. After seeing Kirn's
work in the Princeton game,
one of the New York writers
estimated Lou would receive
some mention from the ALI
America selectors this year.
Up in New York they are
ballyhooing Johnny Scalzi as
a modern Frank Merriwell, in
view of Johnny's having been
in the middle of several last
minute victories, not only in
football but in basketball and
baseball. Only last Saturday
he pulled a ''Merriwell' when
he scored a touchdown in the
final minutes Of the Boston
College game.
Many football fans do not
know that while at Stamford
(Conn0 High School, Scal2i was
State rival of Yale's Albte
Booth, when Little Albie was
attending New Haven High.
New York University is TAX
ing the Georgetown game more
seriously this year than during
the past three seasons. Chick
Meehan is afraid his teams
have underestimated the HoyaS
in previous meetings and that
perhaps that had something to
do with the VioletS losing twice
in q row.
The VioletS are said to be re-
hearSing defense against the
Hilltop plays, particularly the
forward pass. With Ernie
Vavra, star sophomore tackle,
back in the game for the New
Yorkers, every regular Of the
team will be available against
Georgetown. Georgetown, too,
will have some of the most.
needed regulars back in the
game, as both Charlie Brick.
man and Emile sBozek are ex'
pected to be in shape for the
fray.
Much comment has been
made in football circles over
the improved use of the shift
to which teams like Notre
Dame, Georgia and Southern
California have put it this year
since legislation against j.. was
instituted. Aimed to G4-cour-
age the shift by lengthening
the pause, the legislation has
really worked the other way
and made the gesture more val
liable than ever.
Notre Dame and the others
make their stop after the shift
even longer than the new legiS'
lation demands, and are more
successful than formerly lth
it. The whispering cam 4ign
against the shift last fall was
not because the coaches didn't
know 1t was effective, but more
because it was so intricate to
teach many of them thought
the easiest way around the evil
was to abandon it altogether.
The pause now varies from 2
to 5 seconds and confuses the
defense more than ever as to
what is coming. One Of the
hardest plays of football to
master, the shift is the acme
of effectiveness when perfectly
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