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The Washington times., 1931-12-28
IS AIM
Of FOOTBALL
MINDS

NEW YORK, Dec. 28.-Strict in.
depreciation Of present football
rules rather than rules changes
was recorded today as the atti'
tude of Eastern football officials
At a meeting here Sunday OF
the Eastern Association Of Foot.
ball Officials, opening a week OF
conferences of gridiron coaches
and officials. members expressed
confidence in the present code OF
rules and regulations.
There was no discussion OF rules
changes that might make the
game more safe and eliminate
accidents which caused the death
Of more than 40 players in 1884,
but a committee Of three was
named to confer on the rules and
report back to the football rules
committee at its. meeting in Feb
ruary Members of the assoc1a-
ton were directed to submit any
ideas for rules changes to the
committee.
$500 For Fund
Walter Okeson, former presi'
dent of the association, urged the
rs officials attending the meet
ing to unite in a national organi-
zation of officials, combining Sec
tional associations. He said his
would give a more uniform inter,
probation of rules. The asSocia-
ton voted $500 for the Knute
Rockne memorial fund.
Hugh c. McGrath, Boston, was
named president. Other officers
selected were w. r. Crowley, New
York, vice president; g. C.. Tag
CART, Steelton, Pa, treasurer, and
John P. Egan, Pittsburgh, secre-
tary.
The officials believe that many
accidents occur after the play
should have stopped. The pres
ent rule permits a legal piling on
to stop the runner, and it is also
felt that many players are struck
and hurt as they are attempt
ing to regain their feet and are
in no position to protect them
selves against tacklers.
The Sportsmanship Brotherhood
will hold it's annual luncheon to-
day and the real discussion Of
footballs ailments will open to-
morrow when the American Foot
ball Coaches Association holds Its
annual session.
It was limited that the report OF
the committee on rules, headed by
Coach Bert Ingwersen, former Uni
versity Of Iowa mentor, will recon-
mend changes in the rules de-
signed to make football less
dangerous. The recommendations
may call for elimination Of the
kickoff or for a modified kickoff
Sessions of the National Col
legiate Athletic Association will
be held Wednesday and Thursday
with prominent coaches and col
lege officials attending.
The Washington times., 1931-12-28
Plan Two Fights for Schn1eling In 1882
BOUT
IN FEB. At
miami

NEW YORK, Dec. 28.-Mickey
Walkers fight to a draw against
Jack Sharkey, Of Boston, in
Brooklyn last summer has Won
the former middleweight title
holder a chance for the heavy
weight crown Of Max Schmeling.
Joe Jacobs, manager Of the
German, announced today he ex-
pected to sign articles tomorrow
or wednesday for a 15-round
title hout between the heavy
weight king and Walker at
Miami, Fla, late in February.
Madison Square Garden will pro-
mote the fight.
Jacobs revealed he had sent q
check for $4,000 to the National
boxing Association to guarantee
that Schemling would be signed
for a title defense before January
3. The association threatened to
vacate the title unless the cham
pion was on the dotted line oy
that date.
Reinstatement Certain
If Schmeling fights in New York
the match will be held in June or
in one of the ball parks.
The German is banned in New
vork hIt Johnston would have
little trouble pulling the strings
for his reinstatement.
81 want Schmeling to fight
twice next year," said Jacobs.
'If the Garden is willing TO
have the milk fund sponsor the
second show we will sign to
meet either Dempsey or Shar-
KEY. We prefer Dempsey, be-
cause we think he would draw
much better than Sharkeyo
Dempsey should know along
about May whether he Is going
to try a comeback in q big
fight and we will take him on
in June OF September, as Demp-
sey prefers.
'Tf Jack does not want to
fight, we will give it to shar'
key"
The heavyweight champion is
scheduled to sail from Germany
tomorrow. He will arrive IN New
York on January 4 and go into
training in Florida after a brief
exhibition, tour.
What the principals for the
Miami bout are to be paid has
not been disclosed.
The Washington times., 1931-12-28
ALEXANDR|ANS 8
AWAIT B|-FETE

Charles w. King, chief of staff
in charge of the George Wash
ington Birthday parade in Alex
andria, February %, has already
started to map out parade plans.
Over 10000 regular soldiers,
sailors and marines are expected
to participate in addition to the
entire Virginia National Guard
and invited companies from the
District Of Columbia and neigh
boring States.
Also over a hundred fraternal
order units will march.
At night in addition there will
be the annual birthday dinner of
Alexandria Washington Lodge Of
MaSons and the Alexandria Lodge
of Elks will initiate the 1882
prosperity class upon request Of
the grand lodge.
The Washington times., 1931-12-28
HEIGHT K|CKERS
BEAT BRITISH

The Columbia Heights kickers
are just beginning to get their
foot into the pigskin, and the
British United, one Of the city's
leading soccer aggregation, are
realizing it today as they reflect
over a SO drubbing the Mt.
Pleasanters scored over them in
a Capital City Soccer League
game yesterday.
The youngsters exhibited a
beautiful brand Of team work
which completely flabbergasted
the grisly British veterans. Their
attack was surprisingly brilliant
and sustained, featured by many
tricky plays.
Concord brushed Brandywine
aside by a 7 to / margin, and
Marlboro outclassed Ft. Myer 3
to 0. Gaithersburg took a forfeit
from RoSedale.
The Washington times., 1931-12-28
Spent 1t to Get 1t

On the other hand, he has
made his millions by spending
plenty. Were he a different
type of business man than he
is he might use the depreS-
sion, Ruth'S advancing years
and the decline Of the popu-
larity of the home run as
arguments to whack Ruth's
stupendous salary. It is more
like the New York magnate,
however, to bear in mind what
Ruth has made him in the
past and to refrain from less
ening Ruth'S effectiveness dur
ing an era when a happy, ef-
fective Ruth can do much to
keep baseball prosperous. It
would be like killing the Ruth
who laid the golden egg.
Aside from the question as
to whether Ruth would be
willing to take a drastic cut
or even a minor cut IL income,
it seems to us that the game
would be losing one of its
greatest items of propaganda
when it finds it necessary to
humiliate its head figure by
mincing money with him.
That salary Of Ruth's has
been one of the greatest sell
ing factors of the game. You
hear fans talk about Ruth's
glamorouS salary more than
you hear them talk Of his
glamorous hitting feats.
OF all the rumor and gossip
one hears about the amount
Of money ball players receive
and most of it indeed is rumor
the actual salary Of but a
single player is household
knowledge, and that player is
Ruth. We all guess as to
what the rest are receiving,
but Ruth's $4,000 salary fol
three years and his $3.50, 900 for
two years have been capt.
talized by baseball and it has
seemed to US it was darned
good advertising.
The Washington times., 1931-12-28
"What I Wanted"
Says SchM1eLing of
Bout With Walker

BERLIN, Dec. 28.-That'S Just
what 1 wanted"
Thus commented Max Schme-
ling, heavyweight boxing cham
pion, when interviewed today re-
garding a title bout with Mickey
Walker, at Miami, Fla.
Max said he thought the bout
was to be held on February 9th,
although Manager Joe Jacobs,
in New York, had simply said the
fight would be staged in the last
week of the month.
'T wired Jacobs my approval"
Max said. 81 am glad the bout
has been arranged for an early
date. was afraid it would be
postponed until summer, when
it is too hot.
'T am sailing for New York
tomorrow on the Europa. I am
feeling fine and am planning a
series of exhibition bouts to
keep fit for my fight with
walker"
The Washington times., 1931-12-28
Cutting the Stars

We are inclined to think the
stars will continue to get their
demands, and that the mediocre
players are the ones who will
suffer by the economies planned
by the magnates.
Fairly good ball clubs can be
built around a few outstanding
performers such as Grove, Sim
mons and Cochrane, or Ruth
and Gehrig for instance. You
can bet the wages Of the likes
Of them will receive more gen.
erouS consideration than the
wages of the supporting casts
thereto.
Already the ballyhoo has
started as to the probable wage
agreement under which Ruth
will function next year, and
you can set all this down as
Just that-ballyhoo. Those who
would make you believe that
when Ruth and Colonel Rup-
pert go into a huddle over
Babes 1892 contract each will
enter the conference chamber
with scowlS, and perhaps axes
in hand concealed behind their
backs.
Ruth and Rupert have been
doing business for a long time
and on no occasion has there
been any fireworks, harsh
words, petty bickeri-.g or qulb-
bling. Rupert has not made his
millions in baseball, real estate
or the brewery business by hag-
Cling over expenditures.
The Washington times., 1931-12-28

NOkupd1 dG4NC4y POOI CAOWNo WCAC
the rule throughout the South
Atlantic section during the season
of 1881.
The financial side of football
is important, naturally. Some
cynical opservers have been un-
kind enough to say that it is the
ONLY important side since the
era Of artificial rivalrieS began.
Small Crowds Hurt
There appears to be founda-
tion in fact for the statement
that an intrasectional schedule
would have proved more profitable
to all schools in the section.
It is difficult for financiers to
condone long distance football
journeys and small crowds with
sound business principles.
It is also difficult to discover
any particular merit in a system
that will send four gridiron Off
cials from distant points to Off
ciate a football game at a cost
of $1,000 when four men just
as capable and just as honest
were available from a nearby city
at q maximum cost Of $3.50.
cater counting the crowd at
the Maryland-V.M.I. game in
Richmond" says one sports re-
porter, 81 am prompted to ask
If it would not have been much
more advisable to have played
the game either in Lexington,
Va. or in College Park, Md"
An official of Georgetown Uni
versity said to this writer:
"After obtaining information
as to the number of persons
who paid to see 9 Of our 10
games this year / am wondering
If Georgetown would not have
Jared much better financially
had the team played any nine
teams in any nine cities Of the
South Atlantic section"
If it is true that one of the
many purposes of football is to
obtain funds for other athletics
it is certainly not easy to under
stand athletic policies now in
vogue.
"The Virginia. North Carolina
and the v. M. I.-V. p. /. games
this year were financially sue
cessfuI, as usual" writes q cor
respondent. "ThOse two games,
however, involved natural and
historical rivals. Washington
and Lee, an historical school,
also had several fine crowds
when opposed to natural rivals.
The same may be said of those
schools who met natural rivals
on the gridiron. However, the
games which fit into your Classi-
ficatiOn Of developed games
were all financial failures"
''It is fair and honest to
state" writes another core
spOndent, "that 70 per cent Of
all games played in what you
term the South Atlantic section
were financial failures, while it
is my opinion that 80 per cent Of
the football games played in
the DistricU Of Columbia were
financial disappOintmentS, If not
total flOps."
"There is no doubt in my
The Washington times., 1931-12-28
PENZO|L PLAYS
EAGLE FIVE

Penzoil Athletic Club, Of Cleve-
land, Ohio, will be next in line
for Skinker Brothers Eagles. Fol
lowing yesterdays gratifying de-
feat of Philadelphia Y. M. H. A.
basketballers at Boys Club gym
naSium, Manager Bernie Peacock
definitely agreed to entertain the
visiting professionals on Boys
Club court next Sunday at 2:3O
o'clock.
By way of tuning up for a
strenuous campaign the revamped
Skinker tossers yesterday avenged
1930-1931 defeat by turning
back the national Hebrew cham
pionS in impressive fashion be-
fore a crowd of 200, 1926.
Although Ralph Benn1e, Eagle
sharpshooter Of many campaigns,
led the attack with IA points he
was ably assisted by no fewer
than four former University OF
Maryland performers, namely:
Bill Evans, AL Heagy, Duke"
Allen and Julie Radice.
Dissatisfied with the ragged
passing and spotty play Of his
Vic Sport Shop five in yesterdays
opening game at Silver Spring
against the Philadelphia Pros,
Coach Dave Keppel, of the locals,
has announced the lineup which
will start all games in the near
future.
Joe Sweeney, jake Goldblatt,
Lester McNenamin. Dick StreekS
and Bill Banta were the boys
WHO showed best while trimming
the visitors, 81 to 20, before a
crowd estimated at between $50
and 400. This five, with "Tubba"
Farrell, Walter Morris and doc"
Hessler as reserves, will compose
the Vic squad hereafter.
The Washington times., 1931-12-28

mind" says a Washington
banker, "that had Georgetown
played Virginia, Maryland,
Washington and Lee, v. M. l.,
v. p. l., Catholic University and
George Washington, the HOya
school would have had a net
profit Of at least 10 times the
amount drawn from all George
town games in 1881, excluding
the N. Y. u. contest in New
York city"
Competent financial authorities
do not hesitate to express the
opinion that the whole South At
lantic section would improve Its
financial position immeasurably
by arranging an intra1sectional
schedule among old friends and
rivals.
The tenth inStaIlment of Mr..
COStelIO's "RatiOnalized Football
will be published Tuesday,
The Washington times., 1931-12-28
Union Printers BOW
To Census FiDe

The slashing, vicious attack of
Tuck Dalglish and his mates
availed them nothing yesterday as
the, Union Printers bowed to the
Census Enumerators in the open
ing game of the Government
Basketball League, "a to 20.
Playing in the Silver Spring
Armory as twin feature with the
Vic Sport Shop Philadelphia pro
clash. Dalglish and his aides were
held without o point during the
second quarter and a rally in the
final 10 minutes failed to reduce
the Census margin.
The Washington times., 1931-12-28
NORTHERNS IN ACTION

The Northern Prep A. G. has
booked two games for tonight at
the Takoma-Silver Spring High
School gym. The 145-pound team
opposes the Fairlawn A. c. at 1880
and at an hour later the I'm.
limiteds will play the Sport Mart
five,
The Washington times., 1931-12-28
COAST CREW READY

The University of Washington
crew will start training January
on Lake Washington in prepa-
ration for the regatta with the
University Of California eightS
In April.
The Washington times., 1931-12-28

In most business enterprises
those who have something very
much in demand to deliver,
usually get their price, particu-
lar when such a commodity
can't be picked UP everywhere.
Good ball players are not lurk-
ing around every corner.
The Washington times., 1931-12-28
RATIONALIZED
FOOTBALL
By Harry Costello
Georgetown Backfield Star 191O-1s13'
CHAPTER TX,

CHAPTER TX.
Competent observers hazard the opinion that had the COL
lege football of Maryland North Carolina, Virginia
the District of Columbia adhered to intersection
schedule Of football games during the of 1881 all would
have Jared much better financially.
The Washington times., 1931-12-28

City and Suburban homes for saIk
- all sections all prices
are advertised for sale in today's CIas
sified SectiCn.
The Washington times., 1931-12-28
BALLSTON SCORES

Ballston A. c. scored an i'm
pressive victory over the Troop E
basketball team yesterday, AZ to "a.
The Washington times., 1931-12-28
lands FEARS ATTEMPT TO BUY OFF Bennett API
, 'Ruppert and Ruth
No Harsh Feelings
SpLendid Advertising
What Price StGrdOm?
Gehrig, GrOUe, Simmons
ReGDinQ The Sports

One that Robert Grove the leading pitcher Of
the American League during 1884, that Lou Gehrg batted
in the most runs and that Al Simmons the top notch
hitter of the season. all of which generally understood
months ago but is because official
O. K have it that way but the thought has struck us
as to what this leadership will cost them when they come
the business Of signing their future contracts
May they expect to reap the spols Of their featsY
It has been declared by Of the manates that only the
extra well paid ball players will suffer from salary cuts
as decided upon at the meetings Grove Simmons
Gehrg yes and Babe Ruth certainly coma under the
grouping Of well paid athletes It be poor pre-
MUM to put on their outstanding performances to offer
them an1 less than their recent contracts provide
The Washington times., 1931-05-11

somehow, would not visualize.
She could imagine that, to a
young man like Ramon, whose
masculinity was not mere male
ness, there must be something
chapped and a little funny
about the unkissed hands of
American women.
Precious little Jenny had de-
manded or received. a stab of
self-pity, the immemorial self
pity of woman feeling de-
MED, cut Jenny. Rarick as a
husband and lover! It was in
conceivable that he could be
missing in his turn any Of
those things he denied her.
Ramon regarded her with
gentle reproach.
why are you like that?"
Like what?"
"Shy, like alike one of those
beautiful wild puma, that used
to live on. the edge of one of
my fathers estates in the in
terror of Peru"
Puma! She did not know
whether to laugh down what
she regarded as his absurdity
or incinerate him with the re-
buff of which she was so capa-
BILE.
You don't understand the
strange wild beauty of these
graceful creatures. You must
not think the comparison odious,
Mrs. Rarick."
What were you to do with a
boy like that, whose sweetness
was indomitable?
They sat on the coping of
the fountain, against a back
rest formed by a Malaga grape
vine the thickness of an arm.
You're a silly boy for max
ing me indulge your whim for
a cocktail in this ridiculous con-
servatory of my husbands,
where nothing ever really
blooms but unpronounceable,
unwearable species and expen-
Sive botanical things are always
about to happen and somehow
don't. Except by the time
orchids are ridiculously cheap
at every corner florists"
The impersonal portion went
sailing over his head.
Il know it is only a little
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
The Marry-GO-R Round
BY Helen Rowland

have had so much brains"
but they had plenty of intui-
ton and a practically fool
proof code.
Girls knew THREE things.
First, that to let a man know
that you loved him, before he
asked you to. was fatal (and
it still Isl. Second, that the
woman who openly pursued
man. never got anything out
of it except the exercise. And
third, that to give your kisses
away promiscuously as souve-
Mrs, meant that no man would
consider them worth the price
of a wedding ring. Oh, life
was easy!
But, now all that is out-as
quaint as a tin bathtub or a
pair of corset strings! Now,
girl doesn't know WHAT to do!
She doesn't know whether to
wear a backless gown and ap-
peal to a mans senses or to go
modestly draped and appeal to
his imagination. She doesn't
know whether to refuse his
casual petting and run the risk
of losing his attentions. Or to
respond to his kisses and run
the risk of destroying his illu-
sions-and possibly his INten-
tiOnS.
She doesn't know whether to
be a good sport and a gay
whoopee girl or to be sweet and
feminine and old-fashioned. Or
whether to be frank and friend
ly or subtle and vampish.
And men are even more at
sea about women. They suspect
ALL women, and trust no
woman. But they are never
clear as to what they suspect.
A man never knows whether
to suspect a girl of having matri-
monial designs on him, or to
suspect her of being a man
tanner, just playing him for a
good thing.
He doesn't know whether she
is going to be insulted If he
makes love to her-or insulted
if he doesn't, He doesn't know
whether she is after a wedding
ring-or just out for a little
amusement. Whether she is
bent on taking him for better or
for worse-or just on taking
him for a ride" He can't tell
by her manner or her ways, or
her makeup, or her clothes, or
her language, whether she is a
"lady" or a "husSy."
With no traffic rules to guide
them, no wonder SO many young
lovers make such tragic and
foolish selections, and plunge
into matrimony right off the
deep end!
Copyright, 1881. King Features
Syndicate Inc.l
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
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The Washington times., 1931-05-11

dinner on couch. holding her
hand while she sat beside him
and read aloud. Twenty years,
or was it ever?
Passing Her BY
Life was passing her by.
And for what? For nothing
more than a dumb-animal re-
Spouse to the instinct to abide
by her sense of wifely duty.
For what? For 2arick, to
whom even her fidelity might
be a matter of indifference?
Thank God, thank God, it was
still left in her to feel that
cut of thrill at the left-off
I'd"
Ramon was in the conserva-
tory. poking about among
goldfish which darted about
beautiful wall-fountain of Pull
hamite stone that Rarick had
brought over with it's lichen
still clinging to it, from rock
garden he had admired in
Taormina.
He kissed her hand, lifting
back some lace first, and then
regarded her in long silence,
a Slight film of moisture across
his eyes making them deeper.
Demands Little
The quick picture of half a
dozen men she knew, including
Rarick, flashed across her
minds eye. How clumsily they
would have paid this simple
tribute. Mark House, an Ameri-
can who had been fabulously
rich all his life and lived much
abroad, always employed this
Continental greeting. But how
clumsily, creaking where his
shirt bent, and leaving the dis
agreeable feeling of smear
across the knuckles.
A Count Luckow, whom
Jenny suspected of casting
amorous eyes at Jenifer, who
had only ridicule for him, had
this habit gracefully. Rarick,
The Washington times., 1931-05-11
DIET AND HEALTH
BY DIR. Logan Clendening

the available methods to pre-
vent disease.
Arnold Bennett acquired his
typhoid fever while visiting in
France. When you go travelling
abroad or at home-you think
"Oh, we'll. l have had a typhoid
incubation. I guess I'm all
right. I haven't heard of any
body having a case of typhoid
fever now for a long time. Pass
it up this time"
They're Growing Scarcer
The second lesson is that al
though diseases like typhoid
are getting scarcer and scarcer
they never disappear. Smallpox
breaks out every once in a
while, lying dormant somewhere
until favorable conditions arise
the most favorable condition
in the case of both typhoid and
smallpox being an unvaccinated
population.
Knute Rockne met his death
on the contrary. not by any
archaic means, but in a thor
oughly modern manner. It is
worth pointing out that IN this
small census of the most notable
deaths in the last few weeks,
one-third of them was caused by
transportation accidents. The
rate of death from such causes
is rising more rapidly than the
death rate from heart disease
and cancer combined. For their
prevention we have the means
and we have the knowledge and
we have the facilities. Ap-
parently life is so cheap that
rather than enforce suCn pre-
ventive measures we are content
to leave the chances to faEe