SPORTS. THE EVENING STAE, WASHINGTON, I). 0., MONDAY, JANUARY 5. -1925. SPORTS. 23 Nurmi's Speed to Be Tested Tomorrow: Navy Crew Determined to Regain Title GREAT FINN IS FAVORITE BELIEVE IT OK NOT. —By RIPLEY CORBY QUINT VICTOR MIDSHIPMEN TO COMPETE IN ONE OF TWO RACES AFTER EARLY LOSS IN TWO OF BIG REGATTAS 0 Corby Bakery courtmen yesterday Figured lo be took defeat, 25 to 16. from Stanton Will Have Victor in 5,000-Meter Contest, But Athletic Club In the first half of a Its in Henley and Poughkeepsie double bill, but after a few shifts Unlikely to Score at Mile—Latter to Offer in their line-up completed the after- Events—Also Will Contest in Other Races. • noon's program with a 39-to-27 win over the Yosemite five. Visitor Difficult Problems. Early in the second half Tripp, a Has a W ealth of Material. Stanton replacement, three scored —______goals from scrimmage in rapid suc- cession. givingl Ills team an imposing BY LAWRENCE PERRY. A NN'APOLIS, January s.—The Naval Academy will make a deter- lead. Tlie Corby men staged a conn - YORK, January s.—Predictions as to the outcome of track back in tho second game. Goetz, mined effort to win back this Spring the first place on the water Catlln and Ward scored five court which its crews held in 1920, 1921 and but which were taken events are less liable to go wrong than prognastications concern- goals each. 1922, Nl£\Ying results of foot ball games. This is because you are dealing from it by the University of Washington in 1923 and by Yale last year. individually, a unit Yes, Mlncorn anil Wonders, teams of the The outlook is an extremely encouraging one, for the Navy crew 10-t with men not of men. track prophesies arc a bit Aloyslus Club League, Basket Ball one simpler, even granting there is plenty of latitude for erroneous calcu- oppose each other tonight in the regular by graduation, and will have available, besides the members l street gymnasium at 8:30. of its varsity and second crews, the members of the strong plebc. or lation. first-year of last season. Now Paavo Nurmi, the distance runner, is going to make eight Finnish I’etworth tonserw will be enter- Shanklin, was graduated, not row of races his first appearance in this country the Athletic Capt. who did in all the la-t at Finnish-American tained by the Aloysius Big Five on year, so that the will have the services of the of Club meet at the Madison Square Garden tomorrow night. It be a Navy practically whole will the latter’s court tomorrow night. last year’s varsity. of reached highest physical staml- momentous event, the greatest event, in fact, that has ever occurred in The .Stantons oppose tho Yose- Most these have the will ard for oarsmen. our indoor track annals. He will run in the 5,000-meter race and in the mltes in a preliminary which be- I The squad will start work, unth r mile. A lot of persons expect him to clean up in both events. But the gins at 7 o'clock. j writer docs not think that he will. Coach Richard J. Glendon. about Feb- Fort Humphreys hnsketers opened He is in every to the ruary 1, using the machines ami tunic way likely win season by defeating Petwortli, event—a of near- their lirst getting on 5.000-meter distance 49 to 19. Fort Humphreys at and the water as ly Reserves Basket Ball three miles just as likely —and is NOTRE DAME TIRED scored a 31-to-20 victory over the soon as. conditions permit. The worlc to lose the mile. Noxton Club. in the 5,000-meter liis best opponent during the Fall and early AVintor has will Ritola, and have been much more extensive and bene- bo Xurini should Iloj-n who wish to 100- dropped some 2uo yards astern OF“FOUR HORSEMEN” Join the Ace Willie pound team may report to Manager ficial than usual. when the is tape broken. Ivan Munch at tlie Boys’ Y. M. C. A. Itut the mile event will offer some In Two Hit; Regattas. SAN FRANCISCO, January s.—The tomorrow night at 7:15. difficult problems for the gifted Finn. The Navy will have its In the first place lie is up against a practice of defining the backfield of crew in the the Notre as Joe llyan, manager of Trinity Ath- Henley, Philadelphia on field of extremely wise birds. They Dame foot ball team American at “the four horsemen” Club, at 1664, is on the are men who know the art of spurting has drawn con- letic West May 30, and Poughkeepsie Re- demnation from Leo look-out for games with 135-pound the an holding hack and what they do on I Sutliffe. manager. gatta on Tn a teams. June 20, its oarsmen aft> r the pitched turns small track statement to a newspaper, he of that the race traveling by rail to the Pa- —laps lo a said: the mile —is whole lot. you want something for American Itallway Express quint Should Nurmi start out to make a “If to do cific coast to join their ships of the us and for Notre we will be host, to the Argyles tonight sprint of way field Dame that J Summer practice squadron. it all the the would would appreciate more than anything ! In R. Y. M. C. A. use him as nothing less than a tow tho Terminal It. There is besides an excellent sched- else, please forget Infernal gymnasium a game starting at boat in the end him. about this I in ule of dual and three-cornered races. and distance ¦four horsemen’ 8:30 o’clock. is the way looks, at business. The season will open on April 25, with That it least. The "We're all winner? Joie Ray. Time? Well, it is sick and tired of It. Massachusetts Tech at Annapolis On Notre Dame is a team, not a col- May fairly certain that no records will be 'RECOIL" 2, the Navy crew will row at lection of four horsemen and seven Princeton, arid on May 23, Harvard, broken and if the winner turns in 4.18 - mules.” Ip) and Syracuse oppose the Acad- he will have done very well, indeed. Qj GONZAGA COURTMEN will Crowley, one the of the Finns, Jim of the famous V emy at Annapolis. Nurmi is like rest Notre stars, is in the only a hit more so. is to say Dame backfield Races may also be scheduled for That he St. Francis Hospital here recovering is in company. He is not a IN PAIR OF CLASHES May 9 and 16. The 'University of reticent from a nervous collapse which he Pennsylvania is a possibility for one big man. but with his broad waist suffered on the train bringing the ¦psgg/ dates, but as it meets and tine legs looks the runner even /pN of these the he squad from Pasadena. BY MAURICE KENT. in ordinary street clothes, if he loses cowrd Gonzaga courtmen, who have fallen Navy both in the Henley and the Crowley got through the New Year &mY syyyz ¦n r Poughkeepsie regattas its usual visit tomorrow night lie probably willstay \ before the quints of Eastern and Busi- How can players be taught to handle game apparently In good shape. He Annap.olis may place on to himself; if lie lie TEEIED 28 LBS ness; but have taken the measure of a swiftly thrown ballt to not take this redeem wins was taken from the train to the &E A '/?L (If feu V ) year. may return to Finland shortly, as ob- Tech, are furnishing the opposition llaMket Hall Conch, \ortliHPNtprn U. hospital, where It was his * • ' Navy's great period rowing said that Potatoes. high ** * * The in viously he is not too stuck on our condition, ] for the other two school teams though improved, prob- j.p. mcou)N ' ! was by the year 1920 when, indoor track this week before tho start of the The l»e»t way to teach player* covered conditions. ably would not permit him to leave NAILCLIPPER- ‘ under the elder it won the ~ \ I Daylop, o. has WALKED HHS same I championship series on Saturday. till* important lia.*kef hall point i* 1 Glendon. for South Bend with the team today. . | Olympic championship, and years for Years. fierce, Id.no. Western plays in the I street gym- j to ha\c tli«'in practice under the His breakdown was to Miles. 26 1921 and 1922 when, same attributed r.astum this afternoon, and Central j condition*. In preliminary prac- i under the overstrain. J Wednesday, ’ | coach, it took firsts at* Poughkeepsie. PENN QUINT STARTS j entertains on tice teach them to relieve tlie *hock Charlie Stuhldreher, another of the a game Charge stars, and Walter Camp's all-Aineri- j Business has soheduled of a Mniftly thrown hall, hy letting Took in 1923. j with the St. John's College quint on | can quarterback, arrived on crutches, | tl:r arm.*, hand* and body “rue with ! The junior Glendon, Richard J., took CAMPAIGN WITH WIN j Wednesday, and Western plays the j the If you find player* 1 j with liis leg in a cast, but was able BIG TEN BASKETERS hall.” that are ' | hold in 1923. His crew had a good j Catholic University Frosli five on Sat- j not handling tlie hall well during ! to accompany the squad on the tour ’ • year, winning all of its preliminary urday, while other scholastic pc nee*, of entertainment. MY GREATEST THRUI Jn SPORT the rim ni tell them to keep their ' i races and rowing second to AVasli- A bone in liis I clashing in opening By the Associated Press. teams are the j eye* on it a little more closely. Soon, ankle was broken early in game TO OPEN TITLE PLAY > j ington at Poughkeepsie. Hast year. YORK, January s.—Pennsyl- the title games. to NEW but, Spartan-like, he played until the however, they mu*t learn handle ' j for some reason, things did not move vania, winner of four successive final gun. | tlie hall without eonMeiou*ly looking ! smoothly, though the midshipmen championships in the Eastern BY RALPH DePALMA, Accurate goal toaalng by it, player f* Inter- Asked about report that he | CHICAGO, January s.—With eight Werberj at berau*e a who eon- • [ rowed a good race in the Olympic collegiate League the auto-racing and Zalin carried Tech High to a Basket Ball from had been invited to coach for New One of the world's greatest drivers. teams taking the floor this week, the j j ! Ktnntly watch ins: the hall forjee-ta | j tryouts, being beaten only by Tale 1918 to leadership ! 36-to-2S victory over Hagerstown ! al out other thing:*. 1922, attained in this University, Intercollegiate ; the A good pair of ’ | and the Navy graduates. race York Stuhldreher admit- Western Basket Ball High quint Eastern year's by winning the first con- ted that been approached officially open today j School In the j ha~*kct hall hand* is a great asset younger Glendon’s work with he had on Conference will I High School gymnasium Saturday, The test of the schedule from Yale at the subject but said there had oldest and greatest rival gave me the most with Minnesota meeting the lowa j j to a player who wishes to handle the crew of 1923, his first varsity been ! Councillor, Koons and McCormick Philadelphia Saturday night, 29 to 17. no negotiations He indicated five lowa City. days later lowa ! | | the hall well. aggregation, was particularly credit- yet. stirring my life, for he at Four were the other members of the Inc.) Last year the Quakers and the Elis that not be averse moments of came as will entertain Purdue, Saturday will ; Man- | I (Copyright. 1925. Associated Editors, as he had to build almost an he would to and ual Trainer able. were last in the final standing, each coaching MY himself any team. entirely new eight, all of regulars after his graduation in the near murdering as racing driver see Illinois, Wisconsin, Northwestern the winning three games and losing seven, Spring. did, to a of the previous year except one hav- ever escape without scratch. 1 refer to and Indiana meeting Chicago, Minne- After n long holiday lay-off the i INVITED. while the Cornell five fought through sota, U. S. SKATERS ing graduated. Several members of the Rockne Barney Oldfield, great Michigan and Ohio State, respec- Alexandria High School five gets into to the title. the first of the American CHICAGO, January s.—The United Glendon, jr., will have this year a team bore marks of the Pasadena tively, on foreign floors. today against the courtmen This week three more of the league riders and one the strongest favorites, I action 1 ! States has been Invited to send a team number of the midshipmen who row- fray as they were lionized by of public's On the basis of pre-conference j \ from Leesburg High. The Alexan- j quintets will go into action, with alumni j of five ice skaters to Oslo. Norway, ed in his plebe crew of 1922, the first and loot ball enthusiasts. Os course, I have many wonderful games, four teams, Purdue, Ohio j drians make a trip to Manassas on j Columbia facing Pennsylvania at plw had thrills j next month to participate in a world crew which he coached. There will * | State, Michigan Minnesota, j Philadelphia n my life of racing—from accidents which crippled ! and loom ! Saturdya to meet the high school j championship tourney. The following number of tomorrow, while Satur- jas the strongest contenders for the; i be a others with two or 'MgL rne to losing more than $150,000 in purses through ] there. | American Olympic skaters are being day finds Princeton and Columbia title held jointly by Illinois, Chicago! one years' experience. In fact, he '>* , jinxed at times when it seemed had considered for places on the meeting in New York and Yale play-j CHICAGO SWIMMERS being events and Wisconsin. j team: will have plenty of the strongest and ing I ('harles Jewtraw, Lake Placid. N. Y.; most experienced of college oars- Dartmouth at Hanover, N. H. j been won. For instance, many might think the Pre-conference games have also kind Navy, j Richard Donovan, St. Paul; men, and big chance put The which is not a member j greatest thrill of my life was when 1 had only shown a merry scrap for the j Valentine has his to a. one that GREAT YALE ELEVEN Bialis. N. Y., Moore, crew position flinally of the intercollegiate circuit, will AFTER FIVE RECORDS lap to go for the $50,000 prize at Indianapolis in championship is probable among all j Utica. and Joe in the achieved tackle SjjßtßjA gpp j New York city. by his father. two of the league teams during 1916 and yet lost the race because of a frozen teams, for none has thus far revealed the week, playing Yale today and weaknesses. No one quint WITHOUT REAL STAR Penn on Saturday, Annapolis being DePALMA. m°tOr. serious has By the Associated Press. RALPH won all of its early games, and three, the scene of both contests. Five world records will be sought outer part the track Minnesota, But nothin* like the Oldfield af- of and then j Michigan, Chicago and \ by Illinois Athletic Club swimmers in thought sure I was winner. have each dropped one game to the tho pool fair ever Happened, and I am quite BY WALTER CAMP. INVALIDTO GOLF CHAMP | trl-color at Chicago Thurs- Navy. to the life One of interesting points j day night. Johnny Weissmuller will hure that he thrilled me So, imagine iny- surprise. all of a Intersectional opponents of five Big the most MEEHAN'S RESIGNATION go after the 50-yard and lout a sudden, to see Oldfield snmip down which has been raised in discussion i 100-meter moat. Incidentally, hl» art ! Ten teams romped away Avith four free-style records. Sybil Bauer will from the inside, cross the truck j six played. of the writer's all-American team for BY gave Him a lead _ j victories out of games Cyril ACCEPTED SYRACUSE try for a new 220-yard backstroke. race for me and like a holt of lightning and shoot | 1924, is the fact that Yale, although alker's Own Story of His Rise. five matches which SYRACUSE, N. Y., January s.—Ath- Ethel Lackie will att.tnpt a new In a series of by me on the rail to get a lead of j going through the season, tied for letic officials at Syracuse University mark in the 100-yard free style and we drove. life yards. Instantly I shot the | leadership with two other Eastern have F. Conrad S. Mila will seek the 880-yard juice to my car, but Barney heat ! teams and all season, did CHAPTER 2.—FIGHTING SICKNESS. announced that Charles It happened at Providence, R. 1., in M’LEOD AND BARNES undefeated (Chick) Meehan, for five years head backstroke. me by the width of a tire in a ! not win a place on the first all- 1917, when I was driving the Packard is of more than passing interest that the two most important golf foot ball coach, had presented his cars in spectacular finish. American eleven. twin six—one of the fastest in this at present be held men resignation to the foot ball committee Kneass, captain of the University Barney TO PAIR IN FLORIDA Any one who studies the history of titles countrj- should by who have had world at that time, and never a crazy, and that the committee had decided of Pennsylvania basket ball team, the egg- I have seen such Yale foot ball will realize that this IT overcome physical was handling his Miller-made, to shortcomings before they could succeed —the to accept with regret. leads the scorers of the Eastern In- foolhardy stunt in my life, for Bar- very fact demonstrates the greatness shaped Golden Submarine, built to ney had come down that banked amateur by Bobby and the open by myself. Coach Meehan’s release from Syra- tercollegiate League, In which only by to McLeod, professional golfer at of the work dono by Tad Jones and national Jones national protect him in case of accident track world-record speed and then Fred were cuse, his friends asserted, opens one contest played. He made at succumbed the lure his assistant coaches. Having lost In the case of Jones his weaknesses conquered while he was the has been being completely inclosed. straighten by me. Columbia, has to wiiy for his formal acceptance of an 10 points against at Philadelphia up his car to shoot Thursday practically all their stars, they de- still but a lad, and in his early teens he had reached a condition of good Yale We were matched at Providence for of the South. He will leave offer to coach the foot teams at night. veloped In a period of great stress a health that has remained permanent. hall Saturday three events, at 5, 15 and 25 miles. It was a stunt requiring super- for Temple Terrace, Fla., there to be Now York University. M. Barnes of real team that finished a very shaky, In my case, however, although a Practicing The track was partly concrete, but i human strength, eyesight and skill associated with James bliss for me. in the open Meehan, however, to dis- Eif (Heck) of Holyoke, desperate season with a united, ef- succeeded by refused Garvey not enough to stand anything —a stunt I w'ottld no more think New York in a professional combina- feeble childhood was a space at the schoolhouse and caddy- cuss his future plans. Mass., banked fective organization, and defeated period of former foot ball lineman at like our maximum speed. However. of trying than of committing sui- tion to represent the giant enterprise comparative robustness, this ing of evenings and on Saturdays at Dame, appears in pro- both Harvard and Princeton. latter did not last. The time came Notre his third 1 was so faster than Barney cide, for a variation of six inches near Tampa. He will be away three the Clayton Club gave me the exer- NEW YORK, January s.—New York fessional pugilistic contest in New much Even these coaches were decidedly when fresh developed that I though I could him with would mean n terrible accident months. ailments that cise I needed—exercise, too. exactly University officials say tliat nothing York tonight, facing of beat "up against it” when they saw their my Ben Smith • Already McLeod is hooked up in a made earlier misfortunes seem suited to me. Gradually I further had developed in the admitted ease In every match. and almost certain death. team barely squeak through the became New Jersey, heavyweight. professional match, for he and Barnes .trivial. These persisted until a short more and more vigorous. effort to obtain the of Georgia game, 7 to 6. heaved a sigh services Yet to beat me In that race Oldfield will play CruicUshank and John time before I won the championship. Nature and my had ''harles F. (Chick) Meehan, Syracuse But I had figured without my Bob of relief at a tie with Dartmouth, earlier accident An offer of 0.800 a day to ride In tho took that inillion-to-ono chance and, Farrell next Sunday over a course As a baby I was undersized and lack- decreed' that I never should be more University coach, as director of foot host, as the saying goes, for Bar- when the latter had the hall on Yale's ing in vigor. Then was February six-day bicycle race at Chi- incidentally, gave me the greatest near Tampa. McLeod and Barnes will when 1 2 years than a little man. At 13 I a ball to Thorp. ney won the first heat, and 1 had 2-foot line four downs to get it old I had reached succeed Tom cago has been cabled Maurice Brocco, thrill of my life. form fine of the combinations in the with an accident that threatened to weight of pounds. That was to go my limit to get the second. over, and again went through another end life. 128 Italian crack. Brocco refused to Florida Winter Golf League, an or- my for me. In year We broke the track record In each, Tomorrow—Clark Griffith. tie game with West Point. heaviness recent I perform In the last New York and ganization of professionals play Foils Into Boiling- Starch. been considerably- so you may see what chances we Public Ledger Company.) who Certainly that team missed Mallory. have lighter than Chicago races. (Copyright by matches. Most of the that. I am fact INTERSECTIONAL GRID were taking. home-and-bomo Rlcheson, four Riding my hobby horse in my parents’ in the smallest man leading pros of the country are in- Milstead. Stevens and that ‘ great men of 1923. they the , home in a suburb of Eng- ever held a national champion- Steve Donoghue, English jockey, in the circuit. But had .Manchester. PLAY cluded fighting spirit, ajid seven weeks land, I backed against a big stone basin ship in this country or Great Britain. OPPOSED BY YOST who came to America and rode Pa- the last heat I went out deter- Leo Diegel, a former Washing- after In PALACE FIVE BREAKS of agonizing effort, developed In which my mother was mixing boiling But if I was small, my health finally By the Associated Press. pyrus to defeat by Zev, under Earl mined not to let Barney get me iuid j tonian, is already in the South, paired co-or- dination and came through a finely hot starch, while her attention was had come to he good. It continued so CHICAGO. January s.—Fielding H. Sande, finished third in victories on a slight lead early. By with Gene Sarazen at Hollywood, established working organization in spite directed elsewhere, and T fell into the until I left England to come to the Yost, for 24 years gridiron coach at tho British tracks this season. E. C. experiment I saw I could outrun him near Miami. of the EVEN IN SUNDAY BILL lack of outstanding stars. mixture. The scalds which I received United States. Michigan, taking inventory of the Elliott was the leader among the lit- stretches, so did not try to get on the left marks which arc still on my body. 1 As to the strange way in w-hich [ national intercollegiate athletic sit- tle fellows. Archibald, the American him early. Then, when I far from was long in the most critical condition, happened to come uation, sounded a warning against who has been riding European horses in front for a safe mar- GRID STARS ON QUINT. to this country, tried to get it being doubtful whether I would live more later. present post-season intersectional games, for several years, is tenth in the list track would Palace Laundry tossers broke even For the let me gin I found the not per- DUBUQUE, lowa, January —A PENN ELECTS WILLSON. or For years I was, so say his objections to professional- for 1924. yesterday, winning 31 to 17 in the 5. die. two to that the change soon produced a voiced mit me to use enough of my speed Dame basket team com- January s.—Joseph speak, my ism and that more night tilt with the Hagerstown Elks, Notre ball PHILADELPHIA. "on back." unable to take bad turn in my physical condition. declared not than and Oldfield always caught me on posed of Harry Elmer P. of Corning, N. has been in childish games With ten-round bouts legally pos- but taking a 33-to-32 defeat earlier Stuhldreher. Willson Y„ part pastimes. The climate had an unfavorable ef- four foot hall a season should the turns, though I got a little lead Layden, Don Miller and Jim Crowley, coptain of University sible now in California, boxing pro- in the day from the 104th Medical elected the 1925 Inclined to ho small in stature, I was, fect upon me. But, in addition. I was be scheduled that would require the In the straightaways. We rocked the famous backfield of the Notre of Pennsylvania foot players moters are making a scramble to ob- Regiment in ball squad. I believe, additionally handicapped In temperamentally unfitted and by habit to be keyed up to the highest along in record time to the very last Baltimore. Dame foot ball team, and Capt. Adam squad Is on tain the services of high class fight- preliminary to The its homeward Journey my growth by this accident. So when opposed to the conditions I soon en- pitch. lap, when, on the back stretch, In the the Palace- Walsh, will play the ers to top opening 1 let Aloysfu.s of Columbia Col- from the Pacific coast. Willson, who has 1 finally began to take part in the countered as professional at Amer- sets forth in an arti- their cards. What I thought Elks game, t|ie Club lege quintet an Yost his views appears be the out and established what here February 7. in a has been nursing a broken on neighborhood games I was not so ican country cle on the of inter- to most attractive lead. 1 held around Washington proved no match for the ankle club. “administration to be a safe this game dedicating the local school’s the transcontinental trip, is 22 years robust as my playmates. 1 had always collegiate and games." headliner to date is the announcement fast Newark five of Baltimore, losing Punches Handicap. interscholastic the turn and started down the home $200,000 gymnasium. old and a junior. He plays right with me my mother’s injunction to "be
Nurmi's Speed to Be Tested Tomorrow: Navy Crew Determined to Regain Title GREAT FINN IS FAVORITE BELIEVE IT OK NOT
