- *•-••• . N - v ¦ V ' ' ... ' -> r t - I » -¦ | SPORTS | ffyc Sunday Pkf | SPORTS | Part 4—4 Pages WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH- 9, 1924. Joint Coaches for U. S. Olympic Athletes Cubans Tie National Yannigans ROBERTSON AND CHRISTIE QUARTET OF PLAYERS WHO ARE BATTLING FOR RIGHT HELD ASSIGNMENT 'WITH NATIONALS THIS YEAR TO HAVE CHARGE OF MEN TEAMS QUIT 4ALL Special Committee WillBe Appointed to Act as Final AFTERTHNNINGS Authority—Assistant Track Tutors jmd ' Other Mentors Named. Mike Martin, Pilot for Day, YORK, March B.—Appointment of a staff of eight track and field Decides Trainer’s Job Is coaches, designation of nine official sectional tryouts in various Not NEWparts of the country and action barring player-writers from the So Bad. Olympic team were prtncipal steps taken today at a meeting of the ' executive Olympic committee which put into definite shape the organi- BV DENMAN THOMPSO.V. zation and plans for America’s participation in the 1924 international Fla., March B.—As a games at Paris. TAMPA,manager Mike Martin still is For the first time in American Olympic history, no single head coach in the maiden class. He made will direct the destinies of the track and field squad, this gear’s task his bow in this role today when'he being put jointly in the hands of Lawson Robertson of the University directed the Washington of Pennsylvania, as head track coach, and Walter Christie of the Uni- Rookies versity of California, as head field coach. against the Cuban All-Stars, bat a While Robertson and Christie, whose California teams have captured score tied at 4-all and a lot of the I. C. A. A. A. A. championship for the past three years, will share splinters in his pants was the best authority, a special committee will be appointed by the Olympic body to be had to show for two and a half act as a final court of authority in track matters. This committee will include one member of the coaching staff. hours of sliding up and down the In addition work among the coaches bench. will be so apportioned that each will Miguel to chiefly worked hard earn his have to do with the specialty spurs as a pilot, after or specialties but eleven with which he Is most BROCCO AND BUYSSE innings of alternate pleading, cuss- familiar. Thus. Robertson will have ing, praising and threatening, in charge of the men in the 100 and 200 which he used thirteen athletes, in- meter sprints and re- cluding pitchers and a pinch lay, the 400-meter WIN 6-DAY BIKE RACE four while Christie will handle the hitter, he concluded that being merely Yankee competitors in the shotput, a trainer is not such a bad proposi- hammer throw, discus and javelin. NEW YORK. March B.—Maurice tion after all and resolved hereafter The sis assistant coaches to to his and their Brocco Buysse, stick chosen vocation until assignments as outlined today fol- and Marcel the Ital- next spring, at least low ; ian-Belgian team, won the thirty-sixth A. A. Hiumi Short of Material. Stagg, University of Chicago, six-day bicycle race at Madison Square, 400 and SOO meter 1,600- only one to be runs and which There was fault meter relay. ended at 11 o'clock tonight. found vtjth the way Mike ran hi* Harry L. Hillman. Dartmouth, 110 They were one lap ahead of the team. Having decided beforehand and 400 meter hurdles and running field at finish. that none of his hurlers would work high jump. the more than innings Oscar Egg and Anthony three and having Thomas F. Keane. Syracuse, and Beckman, designated them In advance, it can John J. MaGee, Bowdoin, 1,500, 5,000 Swiss-American team, finished be stated that he handles his pitchers , in and 10,000 meter runs, 3,000-meter second through the of fine style. His wigwagging of number stratagems was ap- team race. 3,000-meter steeplechase points they in regu- done In the most (cross-country) and 10,000-meter accumulated the proved big league and his lar manner walk. sprints during the race. They, anticipation of situations indicated Farrell, Harvard, with four other teams, were one lap study of game, but in Edward L. run- the keen the his ning behind winners at the to crown his direc- broad jump, hop, step and jump place finish. determination and pole In third were Eddie Madden torial debut he vault. and Harry Horan, with success drafted Lieut. Eugene Vidal, Point, the Irish team, too heavily on his meager L. West and behind came reserve • decathlon and pentathlon. them the combina- strength and at about the time the tion of Alfred Goullet and Frank tossers usually are filing Lieut. Vidal, an amateur coach, also Georgetti, was into the compete which made up at the dining room found himself without a ¦will in the all-around events eleventh hour, when of he have charge. No the Alfred Grenda. second baseman with which to carry which will Tasmanian who rode on. marathon coach was named, but from with Goul- let the” start, was forced out as a of one Michael J. Ryan of Colby College with a broken This came about result collarbone received in > of the crafty coups sought to was selected to serve as trainer of a triple collision. :^Sn| Mike the men in classic distance fea- engineer in the course of the battle. the Brocco and Buysse traveled 2,454 inning, with ture. miles and It wa? in the eleventh nine laps, which was far a prospect and one out, Five of these men—Robertson, below record stalemate In Ryan, — the for the grind. The that Mickey bethought himself of Vidal. Hillman and Farrell next five teams, whose are wearers of in standings utilizing superior swatting former the shield were by points NATIONALS the service determined the they TO GET DOWN Olympic competition. won of Lance Richbourg, who was view- in the sprints, covered one lap ing proceedings a comfort- less, the from Keakley Not a Candidate. and the last two teams two laps a fewer ' able chair because of lame foot. than the winners. was at bat as Moakley, point TO INTENSIVE WORK NOW Ed Bean due and, the Jack veteran Cornell The leaders score: Egg-Bech- Washington and head coach of sandlotter had been unable track mentor the man. 973; Madden-Horan, 874: a 1920 Olympic team, was Georgetti, Goullet- K|H| ygp^^.^jpKfc to get ball out of the infield in five t victorious 548. previous appearances, the Southern understood not to have been a can- position again BY DENMAN THOMPSON. | League slugger was summoned. didate for that be- easy cause was | He contrived only to .loft an of his health. It also Fla., the tomorrow of Manager fly. Smith softly known that he was not inclined to BROWNS SIGN McMANUS, March B.—With arrival and when rolled out accept a subordinate position offered Stanley Harris and the eight regulars who have been working out j after Fisher and Goslin had drawn him. LAST OF THE HOLDOUTS TAMPA, , passes Mike discovered he had no one Charles A. Dean of the Illinois under his direction at Hot Springs for the past fortnight, the i available to play second base, all the ST. LOUIS, March B.—Marty Athletic Club. Chicago, was appointed Mc- will brass tacks in j extra men who had not seek box duty Manus, last hold-out of the lo<xll Nationals get right down to the matter of prepping being dolled up in the ready manager of the Hack and field team, Americans, ( civies Halpin signed a contract today for the - League race. date conditioning, and to a dash for the At this replacing Matt of the New and depart Am£, ican To the both here make chow. the position in will tomorrow for the juncture an appealing look from York A. C., who held training camp at the epa, has been largely of a preliminary nature, starting Monday the four Olympics. Halpin'a sup- at Mobile. but Miguel to Umpire Bill McGowan was last Gerber, shortstop, porters. it was understood, lost a Waiter on leave intensive training will be inaugurated and continued for a solid month correctly interpreted and that official fight him because of his wife’s illness, will ac- promptly prevented an embarrassing to have reappointed, al- company camp April 6, go though he had said he not a the aeoond-sacker. until is broken and the athletes on the road with the situation by obligingly calling the ‘was This Manager candidate again. leaves Staler with Braves for a week of barnstorming that will land them at Washington game. only third base to look out for. George V. Brown of Boston Uni- in time for a pair of tilts before the curtain is raised on th£ champion- Content In Colorful. versity and Samuel Goodman of San There was plenty color to the appointed assistant of "Francisco were ship campaign. contest, though was. Most track managers. slow it Harris and his squad, which in- of this was furnished by the uniforms Coaching staffs for boxing, wrest- of the Cubans, which included all ling, gymnastics swimming RECORDS TIED IN PHILLY; cludes Pitchers Walter Johnson. and also A NEAR VICTORY well known shades and a few diffi- were named on the recommendations George Mogridge, Paul Zahniser and cult to classify. There were some gov- of the Amateur Athletic Union, Jezebel Zachary, First Baseman Joe high spots, too. Bill Hargrave has erning body in these sports. They CTTBAN STARS AB.