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Evening star., 1932-12-29
BASKET BALL NOTES

Delaware & Hudson tossers, who hung
up their thirteenth consecutive victory
last night over the Chevy Chase Grays,
will meet one of their dearest foes next
Wednesday, when the Sholl's Cafe quint
is opposed jp the Central High gym.
Last nights score was AZ to IL.
Terminal dropped a heated struggle
to the Brookland five, 80 to 26.
Shade Shop tossers were too much
for Kenilworth, which lost a 29-to-l2
decision.
Sholl's Cafe and Bureau of Investi-
cation quints will scrimmage tonight at
$50 O'Clock on the Central High floor.
Brooks Club will practice tonight at
Gonzaga at $3.50 O'Clock.
Anacostia Business Mems team is
seeking games with 145-pound teams.
Call Lincoln 1913.
Marion A. c. had little to offer in
the way Of defense as the Boys Club
five waltzed to a 80-to-22 victory. Only
four of the 80 points were the result Of
fouls.
Paramount A. c. has a gymnasium,
but no games for Tuesday and chal-
lenges are issued to all 145-pound
quints. Manager Wagner may be
reached at National 1861 after O'Clock.
Northern 145-pounders, who are set
ting fast pace, are seeking games.
Call Gilbert Ehrlich at Adams 6423.
Thompson Furniture Co. basketers
added two more wins to their length
ening string, defeating Mohawks, 80 to
IA, and walloping Spartans, 80 to s.
Farrie Rabenhorst scored IS points for
the winners against the Hawks. May
hew counted five Of Spartan's six points.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
YALE NAMES ROOT
FOOT BALL. COACH
Adheres to AIumnus Policy.
Walsh, Comerford, 0'Con-
nor Remain on Staff.
YEW HAVEN, Conn, December 20.

n YEW HAVEN, Conn, December 29.
nj appointment of Reginald d.
Root as head foot ball coach
for 1888 to succeed DR.. Marvin
A. Stevens has been announced by the
Yale Athletic Association. At the same
time the Yale A. A. made public its
selections for the remainder Of the
coaching staff.
Eli athletic authorities, in selecting
Root for the position of head coach,
adhered to the time-honored policy OF
placing an alumnus in charge OF Yale
foo ben eaacn for the me0 pass Sear %
years old.
Adam Walsh, who has been line
mentor for four years, and Charles A.
Comerford, end coach since the World
War, were reappointed. Comerford
has been mentioned as head coach at
HOLY Gross, where there is vacancy.
He was a member of the Yale class OF
1918. Walsh is former Notre Dame
captain.
DAUL (Bucky) OConnor, also for
I mer Notre Dame star, was pro-
NOTED from junior varsity back
field coach to the same position on the
varsity staff.
The junior varsity coaches were an
nounced as Raymond w. Ducky) Pond,
Yale, '25, head coach; Arthur E. Pal
mer. jr., 80, line coach, and Stewart P.
Scott, '28, end coach, all of whom were
on the Yale staff the last year. The
seven men were chosen for one year.
The announcement failed to make
any mention OF Albie Booth, captain of
the 1881 team, who was named an as
sistant coach of the 1882 staff after his
graduation. However, the freshman
staff is still to be selected.
u DOT played in the line for Yale,
II and in 1924 and 1925 was named
freshman line coach. He was a
member of the Yale College class of
1926, and coached the Roxbury School
eleven in Cheshire in 1926. and the Taft
School team in WatertoWn in 1928. In
1929 and 1880 he was head coach of the
National University of Mexico in Mex
;co City, and introduced the American
style of foot ball into that country. In
1881 he was appointed junior varsity
coach at Yale.
Root has also been prominent in la
crosse at Yale. He played on the team
three years, and was captain in 1925.
He was head freshman lacrosse coach
in 1928, and since then head coach
of varsity lacrosse.
Root had been appointed coach OF
the lacrosse team for next Spring, but
it is not known whether his foot ball
duties will force him to give up that
position.
Evening star., 1932-12-29

"HE recent complaint among
several college leaders that too
much heavy proselyting was
going on-that too many foot
ball scholarships were being used. and
that too many other ways were employ
ed to build up winning teams-brings
up a problem which can be approached
in only one way.
That way is to arrange schedules
among universities which have about
the same entrance requirements, the
same scholarship basis and the same
athletic codes. This method will be at
least a big help in the right direction.
And for that matter the trend has been
this way for the last year or two.
1t is hardly fair competition where
university to compete against Scnle rival
where the players referred to would
have no chance of admittance.
This happens frequently. For ex-
ample, A, B and C try to enter some
college and fail by wide margin. Later,
they may turn up at rival institution
and proceed to mop up with deftness
and dispatch.
A year or two of depression hasn't
helped matters in any way. Colleges
now need bigger gate receipts to handle
their athletic programs. And the Surest
way to get bigger gate receipts is to
have winning team. And the best
way to get winning team is to get
Universities with high scholarship
standards are at disadvantage when
competing against those with lower
mi, - fot w
be handled only through the correct
ARRANGEMENT of schedules.
EVEN the greatest can know days
IL of staleness when the killing slump
steps in. There was time when
Ty Cobb went to bat "a consecutive
times without getting a base hit, the
longest hitlesS span the Georgian ever
knew. And this came in the midst OF
one of his greatest years
Two years ago the same dreaded at
tack struck Lefty O'Doul. the Dodger
slugger who led the National League
this season.
Lefty started at a fast pace and
then suddenly the base-hit harvest went
to seed. Day after day passed as the
famous slugger swung in vain, with only
q scratch hit here and there.
This began to get Lefty's goat. Final
ly, cne afternoon, he came to the plate
and the umpire began calling strikes
Strike one-strike two-and finally
strike three. As the third strike was
sauarely over the plate there could be
no kick on the decision, but Lefty had
to get some sort of squawk out OF his
system.
SAY" he growled to the umpire as
he walked from the plate, don't call
those strikes so loud"
r EFTY ODOUL'S yearly batting aver
IL age is another answer to the charge
that the golf swing Is bad for base
ball
O'Dcul Is one Of the star golfers Of
t..s diamond clan He frequently
Evening star., 1932-12-29
THE SPORTLICHT
BY GRANTLAND RICE

under go He plays golf all through
the Winter under California skies and
then returns in the Spring to lead the
league at bat or give some one else
hard battle for this honor.
Ruth is another who plays got at
every chance, and even facing his tWen-
tieth season no pitcher ever starts
cheering when the Babe walks up with
a chunk of ash in his hands.
This may be a good time to report
that Lou Gehrig'S turn to golf is COM
ing along neatly.
The Yankee slugger has been working
hard at the game this Winter and is
now reported under 100-which isn't SO
lad for a player who never swung
driver or brassia up to last October.
It will be interesting to see how the
golf swing affects Gehrig's batting
average. It ought to help in the mat
ter Of timing, which Is one Of the
foundations of both swings.
A SOMEWHAT baffled golfer writes
II in to say his game hasn't improved
a lick in the last few years and he
is keen to improve the situation in 1888.
His game ranges from 80 to 95, and
he can't understand why he should not
be able to crack 80 at almost every
start.
The answer is that he has solidified
his faults-has hammered them into set
habits, which operate day by day and
rarely change. A bad fault or a bad
habit can 60 cn1y from bad to worse.
Offering a correction in limited space
is none too simple. What this golfer
needs is closer study of his main
faults and a clearer idea of the main
fundamentals.
He must get better picture of swing
ing with less tension, which usually
means standing straighter, lighter grip
ping and better use Of the left hand
and left arm.
Too much right hand" is nearly
always one of the basic faults. This
can be corrected by swinging club 10
or Is minutes day, using only the left
hand and left arm, with the right kept
completely out of play.
Practice of this sort at least helps one
to build up the swinging power Of the
left and to develop the idea Of its in
stinctive use.
Few will have the patience to try
cut this exercise, but those who do will
be almost certain to receive a direct
reward
Copyright, 1882. by North American News
paper Alliance, 1nc.l
Evening star., 1932-12-29
newman AND Three
OTHER STARS AILING
Injuries Reduce Eastern Team to
Even Choice With Vests
Grid Outfit.

By the Associated Press.
GAN FRANCISCO, December 29.-An
- epidemic of injuries has reduced
the East team from the favored
spot Of even terms with the West
eleven for their Shrine charity foot ball
contest here next Monday
Chief among Eastern casualties was
Harry Newman, brilliant Michigan quar-
terback, who watched practice from the
sidelines yesterday and said a weakened
ankle would keep him on the bench
during today's scrimmage with an eleven
headed by Ernie Nevers, former Stanford
fullback
Bruised shoulders bothered Gil Berry,
Illinois halfback; Roy Horstman, Purdue
fullback, and Joe Hill, Colgate guard.
The Westerners, confident and un-
scathed injuries, face hard scrimmage
today.
Replying to statements of the East
erners that they we're outweighed. Coach
Orin Hollingbery of Washington State,
one Of the Vests mentors, said:
MY guess is that these boys from. the
East are just as big as our fellows. The
point is, when we win this game Mon
day I don't want any one to minimize
the Vests victory by saying we had q
big weight advantage"
Evening star., 1932-12-29

that No. 2 will at least partially
screen him from the opposing defen-
sive center. Right guard cuts down
on the opposite side. No. 2. receiv-
ing the ball from S. makes hook
pass to 3, near the basket, shooting
the ball above his guard. If the lat
ter has not followed him, and Is help
ing to tie up 3, 2 can turn and shoot
himself. Or he can pass to 4. Other
wise will wheel back into deep de-
fensive position.
No. 2 keeps on around for re-
bound, whether he passes to 3 or
himself tries for the basket. No. 1,
having first tented toward the side
line, also drives In for q rebound.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
NOW SEEMS SURE
TO LAND POSITION
Langford, Mentioned for Job;
Not Receptive-Coaches
Select McGugin.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
n IEW YORK, December %
VI Closer cooperation by the
4 Y rule makers of foot ball
and the coaches, whose
business is to see how the rules
operate and who sometimes OBJ
Ject to them, was in sight today
as the National Collegiate Ath-
letic Association convened with
the selection of a chairman of
the Foot Ball Rules Committee as
its principal task.
Walter R. Okeson of Lehigh. commits
sioner of the Eastern Intercollegiate
Association, appeared today as the
probable successor to the late Edward
K. Hall of Dartmouth as chairman with
William S. Langford of New York, sec
retary and acting chairman, as the
only other candidate.
OkeSon, whose duties call for the
selecting of officials for nearly all the
important Eastern games, was con-
sidered in most quarters to be the
logical choice because of his active as
sociations with the game.
A THOUGH his name was brought
"A up because of his post as secretary
OF the committee and his close
association with Hall, Langford was
not expected to accept the position
even if it were offered to him because
Of his health end his business. demands,
1t seems certain. however. that either
Okeson or Langford will find the
coaches ready to lend hand in smooth
ing out any kinks in the rules. They
decided yesterday to withdraw any
previous demands for voting represen-
tation on the National Rules Committee
and to form instead an Advisory Rules
Committee of their own.
This new body, formed at the closing
session of the coaches convention yes
terday with Lou Little of Columbia as
chairman, has as its purpose the
crystallizing of their views and senti-
ments and forwarding them through
their member advisers" to the Ma
tional Committee
THE coaches seek to exert more in
i fluence, Little explained, but plan
no drastic changes in the rules.
''ThiS committee" he continued, will
give us clearing house for suggestion
and things we desire to accomplish"
After electing Dan McGugin, Wander
bilt'S veteran coach, as president of the
association to succeed Dr. Marvin A.
Stevens of Yale, the coaches ended their
two-day convention last night with
their annual dinner. minus the famous
feature, the brown derby" story telling
contest.
4 MOS ALONlO STAGG, ending his
"A long tenure at the University of
Chicago this year, took the center
of interest from such speakers as Prof.
William Lyon Phelps of Yale and Brig.
Gen. Palmer E. Pierce at the dinner as
he related his keen desire to continue
an active association with the game
to which he has devoted the greater
part of his life.
I hope to be active as a coach or
athletic director next year. Stasg said,
even if have to 60 back to the minor
leagues or coach a high school team.
I don't want to accept the money offer
ed me to do nothing but stand on
pedestal.
Speaking from his long experience,
the "old man" urged the younger
coaches to spend less time on mere
winning and developing star players and
keeping them eligible and more on the
broader aspects of the game.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
Varied Sports
COLLEGE BASKET BALL.

COLLEGE BASKET BALL.
Georgia, Al; Tulane. 80 (two extra
periods.
Ohio State. 80; Notre Dame, "A.
Westminster At; Youngstown Col
lege, Is.
De Paul. AZ: Beloit, %.
Colorado University, 20; Stanford, a.
Idaho. 40: Southern Branch. IS.
Hutchinson, 80; Cedar Rapids, 80.
Davis Elkins, 81; California Chris
tian, 80.
Oregon, 19; st. Mary's, Is.
Ohio University, ~; Western Re-
serve, 80.
COLLEGE HOCKEY.
McGill, 8; Dartmouth, 2.
PRO HOCKEY.
International League.
Windsor, 8; Syracuse, Overtime
tie).
Canadian League,
Philadelphia, 8; Quebec, 4.
American Association.
Duluth, 4; S.. Paul. g.
st. Louis, 3; Kansas City, !.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
Alumni (3S).
20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR.

IOHN EIKER and Rider won a
two-man duckpin tourney at the
Palace alleys. Goodman and
Moore were second.
Fred Spindler, John Nelson, A. S.
Mattingly, John Davidson, Dick
Saunders and H. K. Bliss are among
those mentioned in the hunting
columns.
Luther McCarty and Al Palzer
will meet New Year day in Vernon,
Calf, in a boxing battle that may
develop real white hope. The win
ner will be presented the champion
ship belt, despite that neither could.
in the opinion of experts, offer Jack
johnson formidable opposition.
Leading boy athletes of the Y. M.
C. A. include John Goetz, Roger
Baldwin, John Eisman, Carroll
Fleming, Raymond Harrison, Charles
Amazeen, r. Trimble, John Barnes,
Paul Robbins, Donald Woolf. Writ
Borland, H. Gates, Samuel Robin,
Charles Lyons, Gwynne Proctor.
Samuel Warter, Joe Baldwin, Philip
Catlin, Paul Demonet, Simon Levi
tan, Frederick Robertson, Gerald
Whitaker and Alfred Whitaker.
Chief Greene, crack Catholic Uni
versity pitcher, has been offered a
contract by the Philadelphia Ma
tional League club.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
HAWKEYES INVESTIGATED
Blackmer and Break Protested for
Playing With A. A. q. Quint.

IOWA CITY, December 20 @.-Eli-
gibility of Ivan Blackmer, forward, and
Edward Break, guard. of the Iowa bas-
ket ball team, is under investigation.
The inquiry was prompted by local
complainant, who questioned the right
of the men to play with the Albert
Cleaners of Cedar Rapids. an inde-
pendent team and a member of the Mis-
souri, Valley A. A. U. League.
The two HaWkeyes played with the
Albert team last season. At the time
Blackmer was not enrolled at Iowa and
Break was under Big Ten suspension
for violating conference eligibility rules
while attending Illinois.
Lauer and Ro1lie Williams, basket ball
coach. admitted that the two played
with the Cedar Rapids quintet. They
said. however, that the team was an
amateur one and so certified by the
A. A. u,
Evening star., 1932-12-29
ME final meeting Of the newly
formed District of Columbia
Amateur Basket Ball League

Amateur Basket Ball League
will be held tonight at o'clock
at the Central Y. M. c. A. Ralph
Foster, physical training director, will
preside, as temporary chairman, over
the confab, which will feature the elec-
tion of officers. drafting of schedule
and adoption of rules.
Play probably will begin the first
week in January.
Representatives of the following
teams are requested to be present:
Colcnials, Red Sox, Hyattsville National
Guard. Saranac A. G., Boys Club, Y.
M. C. A., Shade Shop, Takoma Business
Men, Rockville A. c., Kensington A. c.,
Delaware g. Hudson and Jewish Com
munity Center.
A game for Friday or Saturday with
an unlimited team having gymnasium
is wanted by the Griffith Blue Goals.
Call Bob Lyles at Atlantic 4267-W. d.
United Typewriter Grays and Tskoma
Business Men will clash at $50 o'clock
tonight at Central High School.
Peck Memorial 1l5-pounders seek
game for New Year day or night. Call
Potomac, 4270.
In a thrilling struggle. Hyattsville
Juniors, came from behind to down the
st. Martins, 26 to "a. st. Martins
lead at half time, IA to 8.
Grifi1th Blue Goals won their tenth
straight last night, defeating the Cres-
cent A. c., % to IA. Crescents led at
the half, 10 to 8.
A well balanced Mount Vernon COM
b.ne turned back Richards Cc3onialS
last night, 26 to Is.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
ZONES NOW WORKS
. ON TEAMS MORALE.
Panthers, in Physical Trim,
See Psychological Edge
in Clash Monday.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
7 OS ANGELES, December 29.-
Southern California's foot
IL ball team started the taper
tng-of process today for its
second consecutive Rose Tourna-
ment game at Pasadena.
Satisfied with the physical con-
dition Of his players, Coach
Howard Jones decided to concen-
trate more on psychology and less
on heavy work until Mondays
contest with Pittsburgh.
He intends to take no more chances
of possible injury to the team which
braved nine-game schedule without
defeat this year ard ran the total OF
consecutive victories to 19. DR.. Walter
Fieseler, team physician, also voiced the
opinion the players were ready for the
intersectioral test.
Coach Jones is pleased with the
showing of the squad in practice ses-
Sions this week.
..THEY haven't been missing any of
1 the Pittsburgh plays We have
sent against them and they hau
snapped through our own formatioIl
as well as any coach could expect" hi
said
What Troy's head man isn't sure of
Is their mental attitude, problem
which he already has tackled in some
degree and one which he hopes to
thoroughly cope with before 2:l5 pm.
Monday, when the game is called.
There will be very little dummy
scrimmage this afternoon and none at
all Friday and Saturday. The team
will 60 to Pasadena Saturday and will
take its final workout in the Rose Bowl
in the afternoon.
Under present plans Pitts team viy
not get the feel of the field until befo1
the game, arriving at Pasadena Sunda
morning.
TUCSON, Ariz., December 20 R.-
L Tapering off exercises were sched-
uled for the three days remaining
IN which the University of Pittsburgh
foot ball squad will be here before head
ing for Pasadena and the Rose Bowl
game next Monday with the University
Of Southern California.
Coach Jock Sutherland said he be-
heved he will have the squad in perfect
physical condition by the time the
train pulls out of Tucson. There was
much optimism in the Pitt camp today,
principally because the squad came
through nearly q week OF hard scrim-
mage without serious injury to any Of
its members.
Paul Cuba. left tackle. was the only
one remaining on the injured list. Team
physicians said 1t was very likely he
would be in condition at game time.
Cuba hurt his leg Tuesday.
Sutherland believes his team has the
psychological advantage. Pitt rates as
the underdog, principally because OF
fered at the hands of the Trojans in
the Rose Bowl in 1880.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
BOOKS TERP TRACKMEN
Washington and Lee to Take Part
in Five 1888 Meets.

LEXINGTON. Va, December 20 up.
which last season ran third among Vir-
ginia'S Big Four" has scheduled four
dual meets in addition to the State
affair to be run May and the South
ern Conference games, May 10.
The season will be evenly divided, two
meets at home and two away.
The season will open April 10, when
the Generals will be host to the Uni
versity of Maryland. On April Is the
Generals will meet the Indians of Will
liam and Mary in Williamsburg and on
April % the Blue Devils Of Duke in
Durham
The dual meet season will close April
%. when the Generals will be host to
the Spiders from the University Of
Richmond
Evening star., 1932-12-29

Totals. 10 81 Totals. Is 30
Referee-Mr. Sebastian.
4 MOTHER alumni team, that OF
IA Hyattsville High, returned to ia
miliar stamping grounds yesterday
to teach the youngsters few of the
finer points. A well balanced alumni
team more than Offset the brilliant
shooting of Cogar of the present Hyatts-
vile High team and won, 80 to 30.
Summary:
Evening star., 1932-12-29
HOCKEY ACE INJURED
Conacher Of Toronto Out Five
Weeks With Broken Clavicle.

CHICAGO, December 20 OFY.-Charlie
Conacher, scoring ace Of professional
hockey, will be lost to the Toronto
due to q broken left collarbone suffered
in the game with the Chicago Black
hawks Tuesday night,
Evening star., 1932-12-29
LA SALE QUINT VICTOR.

CUMBERLAND, Md. December o.
La Sale Institute celebrated the OPEN
ing of its home basket ball campaign
by registering a 19-to-15 victory over
Keyser, w. Va, High.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
WESTERN IS RICH
IN ALUMNI STARS
Has SO Many on Hand 1t May
Stage Two Basket Ball
TiItS Tomorrow.

40 many Western High alumni
basket ball players are at hand
that instead of just one game
being played tomorrow between
the grads and the undergraduate
team of the Georgetown school dou-
ble-header likely will be in order. One
of the gares would bring together an
alumni combination and the school
team and the other alumni quints.
Coach Cliff Moore plans to get the first
game under way at II am.
Among the former Westerners in town
are Herbie and Jimmy Thompson of
Duke, Bob Freeman of Penn, Roy
Yowell and Buckley Buscher of the
Maryland varsity, Bernie Buscher of
the Maryland freshmen, Ike Rabbit,
who also is at the Old Line School: Bob
Wilson, former Maryland player. and
Don CARRIER. who attended Duke.
The old boys are working out daily
with the school squad and Coach Moore
says the latter is showing improvement
as a result. With only Mcpherson and
Swanson at hand from last seasons
team. Moore figures his lone hope of
developing creditable quint for the
title series opening January lies In
giving his proteges all the work possible.
Gonzaga's tossers open their season
tomorrow night. engaging the Gallau-
det Junior Varsity quint on the Tech
High court at Z o'clock in the prelimi-
nary to the Gallaudet Varsity-Colun1bus
University tilt. Dick Hall, forward. and
Jack Carr, guard, are the lone Gonzaga
regulars of last season on the job.
WITH a lineup of big-time college
w caliber. Tech Alumni defeated the
Mckinley varsity yesterday, 80
to 27.
DAILY and Billings comprised nearly
all, of the varsitys attack. but the pass
ing of Bozie Berger. Shalky Councillor,
Carl McCartee. Joe Croson, Everett
Russell and Bill Werber was too much
for the 1928 toSSers.
Summary:
Evening star., 1932-12-29
BOY BOXERS TO BATTLE,

Northeast Boys Club and Alexandria
Boys Club fighters vii clash tomorrow
at $3.50 o'clock in the formers ring, at
1868 Kramer street northeast.
Evening star., 1932-12-29

This is one of a series. OF articles
in ,Uhich the Michigan U, quarter
back tells how it feels to be an ALL
American foot ball star.
Evening star., 1932-12-29
FRIEL LEAVES BROWNS
Business Manager Had Been With
St. Louis Club Since 1928.

ST. LOUIS, December 20 R.-The
resignation of william E. Friel as busi-
ness manager Of the st. Louis Browns
has been announced.
Friel, who had held the position since
1923. did not make known the reason
for his resignation.
In 1902 and 1903 Friel played with
the Browns as infielder and outdelder.