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Show THE MIDVALE .JOURNAl, Pennsylvania Hockey Team Pilot Francis Gogg~. captain of the U n I v e r s l ty of Penn s y I v a n I a hockey team whicb is rapidly shaping up as n real Inter-collegiate champlon~hlp contender. Interest In the game Is rapidly increasIng. ... • Ethel Lackie Retires From Swimming World Miss Ethel Lackie, veteran of tbe nation's ranking girl swimmers, has retired from amateur competition. Following the example of Johnnie Welssmuller, l'lllss Lackie has decided to forsake the amateurs for more lucrative occupations. Together with Welssmuller, Miss Lackie, who holds six world's sprint swimming recordl:l, made her final amatC'ur appParunce ut lnterscholastic the Cook County Swimming championship meet. Lll'e Welssmuller. l\IIss Lackie felt that she bad been In competition a long time and swinllning for "glory only" was beginning to lose some of its thrill. She bcgnn ber series of sensatlonnl swimming performancrs five years ngo as a member of the Illinois Athletic club. When that organization d!sbanued its women's teams she continued her record-i.Jrcaldng performances und('r the <·olors of the [llinois Women's Athletic club. She holds the United Stat~<; indoor championl<hip at 100 yards, and in 192·1 won the lOO·meter thampionshlrl at the Olympic gamns, returning to this country to win tbe 100-yan:J outdoor title. Horton Smith Is Newest • Sensati<ln in Golfdom ., . Helen \\'ills has made tentative plans for a trip abroad in Aprll. Reading bas been in bn!'ebal! ten sca!'lons und has had elgbt managers In that time. • • • Tile Bowie course Is sale! to be thl! hest cushioned and fastest track In the country now. 5:~o Pushing the Arlington Bridge to Completion HOPPE RETURNS TO BALK LINE Asserts He Is Not Through With Billiards. Willie Hoppe, the boy "ontll'r of other dnys, Is ready to forsake Ids dream of winning a three-cus!.ion hilliard title anu wlll once again take up balk line-the game at which he won International fame as 15 tlmell national champion in 1i years. lloppP, whose name Is synonJ·nruns with bllliurd!<, deserted the 18.2 ranks a year ago in quest of a championshliJ at the angle game. llis plr.ying was the senf<ation of the Amerkan ThreeCushion nilllard league, but on each of two nttempts to acquire a national or world title be found Johr.ny Layton, the :\Iissourl fisherman und car· p('nter, burring his path. Although he has ~een his suprem acy In till!' balk-line game pa!'ls to another, and falleu in his que:>t of 8 three-cushion crown, Uoppe declares he is not through . "I am only forty-ove yeara old and h:ne plPnty of good billards left In my ss·stem," snitl Boppe after Lnytou crushed all hopes Hoppe h:rd of ac~ui~ng the 01nliu ~aj~rf b~l.liar~l tit:e 01 n Y .e ea mg re as never •e the tournament at Clucago. "The game is a lot tougher than when I won my first 18.2 dmrnpion· shill In 1910," said Hoppe. "Especially Is this true in the three-cushion game, where any one of the four players competing in the world tourna· mcnt I;; of championship caliber." noppe helll the 18.2 ball{·line title continuously from 1910 to 1!)20, but the next year young Jake Schaefer brol•e the reign of the master of the 1 I , The .\.rlington :\iemoriul bridge over the Potomac at Washington is bein~ rapidly brought to romplctl<'n during the unusually open winter weather. All tire archE"s are In place a111l the ('!lginP('rs lu charge state that the structure is about T;l per eent comltlete<l. When !lnhhed it will eonnect the beautiful Lincoln m(.morial with the Y!rginitl shore ncar the Arlington t·enwtery. I --------------------------------------------------Fire Ruins the Lawrenceville School j ' 1 1 • • • trallic cops to keep foot· ball fans straightened out at tbe Navy·:llichlgan game. Jt took . • • • Col urn bus llas acquired Infielder Dcehle I<'oss from St. l'aul In exchange for Emory Zumbro, pitcher. • • • For the first time In years no title was at stake when Pitt and Washington and Jeff met this year. • • • The E'rofesslonnl Golfers ussoclatlon of the United ::>tates now has a membership of more than 2,000 players. • • • Basl;et hall plays to bigger crowds in the llliddle \\'est than It does In any other !:'ection of the country. • • • The well-known Lawr·euce1·ilfe sc-hool nt Lawrenceville, • •..T., wns wrecked h~· an early morning tlt·e a few da. ago. 'l1te photograph shol\·>' the ruins of the Dawes hou~e. a dormitory from which fifty pupils (':::eapE'll by l"ap;ng from windows. Among them was Dana Dawel:l, son of the viee president of the t:nited States. Not a single r•layer in the National Hockey lengue bears the number 1~. \Yhieh Is supposed to be a token of Ill luck. • • • • Frank Gilhooley, veteran outfielder, has been re-engaged as manager of the .Jersey City team of the International league. • • • Fielding 11. Yost, Jr., son of the famous !\lichigan coach, will be a candl dnte for the varsity at North Cat·olina in Hl:!!>. • • • Billy Knox, Phllndelphia bowler. was the tir::.t to roll a perfect "300" game In an American Bowling con· · gress tournament. • • • Robert W. Levis of lloclwster, N. r., 1\!lS elected captain of the Amherst college soccer eleven at the annual squad banquet. • Llorton Smith of Joplin, lllo., twenty years old, the newest sensation in go!t circles, won the Cata!lna open title by defeating Walter Hagen, Brltlsb open champ, one up In 72 hole tlnat. Smith's four rounds totnled 245, the 18 hole scores bPI n;; 6.1·;'\S· 61-63. Smith will compete in many of the southern tournaments uuring ·the present season. Ban Johnson Is Opposed to Heydler's Ten-Man Plan Ban Johnson, retired president ,of the Amerkan league. Is opposed to .Tohn Heyrller's pian for ten-man baseball teams. "The ten-man team Idea does not appeal to me at all,'' he said "[t destroys the original thought In base· ball ot a team cf nine men, and of each man being an athlete and 8 ball player who bats and runs and throws. "I would suggest that lnsteud or a ten-mnn team a rule be provlde-tl limIting the manager In the numbl'r of substitutes he may use," he said. Johnson expressed opposition to the "chain store" o:- "farm'' system. whereby major league clubs own and operate minor league team"~. dedur ing that the system "is dPirlmental to tbe best Interests or the game.'' Tia Juana's Futurity Is Attracting Youngsters The cream or the nntlnn's two-year· old crop, present yearlings, will vie In the $7,fl00 ad1led Tin .Joann futurity, to be run Murch :n. according to the list ot nominations mnde rmbll<' by •Jockey club ofllchtls. One hundred and eight of the be::;t bred yPurlln~:s In the country have bPen named. The Tin Juana futur·lty I!; the WE>st's greatest stake for twu·~·eur· olrls. H Is at ft1·e furlnn::-!1, 11 true test for 1 hE' youn;;sters In the e<priog of the year. Owners of the era<·k young~<ters h11ve been ext>t>ediugl.l' llhentl In their: nnrnlmttlons. It wns part:,·ularly l! ..tttlfy!ug to wPsterners to see so 1111111~ 4'alifurnl:t unrl :\Pvu!la llr!.'erllng f~tuhllshmPnt!l nnme their he;:t get tor thIs rkh llflll•e. . • • What we usually wonder ahont, when the "floating university" Is mentioned ngnln, Is where the football eleven plays Its home games. • • • Knute ltockne of Notre Dame and Coach Meanwell ot Wisconsin wi:l conduct a coaching school at Wash· lngton and Lee university July 1 to 15. • • • Evar Swanson, fast outfielder ot the San Francisco Missions, has been sold to Cincinnati of the National league. Fri-sco will receive two pitchers and 11 catcher. • • • lllore than half a million people saw the Notre Dame toothall team play during the 1!)28 season. And at least 73,000,000 saw them pass through. • • • Jack Ogden, Browns• pitcher, keeps busy In the off season by acting as director of athletics and physical training at the Swarthmore Preparatory srhool. • • • A well·known New York sports 11uthorlty recently wrote 1,4()(, words on "What Is an Amateur?" and his closing remark was, "Franldy, I do not know." • • • With the exception ot Koleltm!llnen•s ~lctory at Antwerp, the winners in al· most every Olympic mnrnthon have been runners wllo were not conceded much of a chance. • • • Benjamin r.Joek Is the owner or 11 yearling son of lllorovich that has enrs measuring onl.l' an lnt•h. Ills hearing Is not impnlred and otherwise be Is normal and finely built. • • • Thirteen ot the totnl of 8G homP run~ mnde In world series competition sin<'P lt began In wo;, ure credited to Bahe Ruth. fur and aho1·e the record of any other player In the history of the gnme. • • • In ten :::ume~ Oeruld Sn~·der, ~lary lnnd hack. galriPd l,:lOO yards. He made l:{j u;:aln,.:t Yule. In one ot t.l1t~ tPn ~alllP!' he (llayed only a !'ln::-le perlorl. ln a not her he carried the hall htll I hre(' tlmt>s. New Treasurer Signs His Bond ACCUSED JUDGE • Willie Hoppe. masse shot. Hoppe regained his lo!';t lnurels in 1()~3, atH1 this time helrl the title for three ye1u·s before droppin~ it to \Vell<er Cocht·un In l!)~C•. lie regained it nguin for a short time In 1!)26, but finished far down the list at the \Vashln!;ton (D. C.) tourna· mcnt the year following. "Three-cushion has not ruined my stroke for balk line," said Hoppe. "W!th a few weel,s' practice I will be back again fighting as hard as ever to win In the game which I know best." Hoppe has always contended balk line Is the most difficult type of hll· liards, and points to the fact that. few younger players are takin~: up the game. "It Is too difficult for m0st ot the players," said Hoppe. "The United States will ha1·e to begin to look to Its laurels in a few years when the present crop of cue artis~s rlrop out.·• Knute Rockne Scores 92 Victories During Career Since Knute llockne became foot- I ball coach in 1917, Notre Dame has! played 111 games, winning 92, and losIng IS and tying six, the athletic rleibtmrnmll y football the In revealed has partment • annual just rekused. l\Iaj. W. 0. \\'oods of Knn~a~. who wn!'i recently made treasurer or the The rec<•rd shows that 1!)28, when United State!', signin~ the S1 GO 000 bond required for his new. position ut the Ramblers lost four games out of his office at the capital. nine, was the poorest durin~ Hm·kne·s coachship. Yet, Rockne clnsserl the team as one of the gamest he ever coached. Of all the teams Notre Dame has met, in the Rockne regitne, Nehrnsk:l has bet~n the hardest to d~fent, the records show. Of nine gnmes with the Cornhuskers, Notre Dame has won four, lost three and tied two; against the army the Hamblers have won eight, lost two and tied one. Despite this great record, Notre Dame has had but three seasons In thut period In which It carne through Its hurd campaign without being defeated or tied. In Hll!) and 1!l20. the HamhiE"rs won nine without a defeat or tie and In 1!l24, they hung up ten stralgh t vlctnrles. ~..liN. , Steps toward lmpeachm('nt proceed· ings against Superior Judge Carlps Hardy of Los Angeles, in connection with the Aimee Semple McPherson case, were launched In the California state assembly. Judge Hardy Is alleged to have received a $2,500 cheek from Aimee McPherson, evangelist. He was recently ll!.'prlved ot member· ship in the American Bar a ociat!Ofi. NEW JOB FOR WOMAN Modem Noah Completes His Ark I ThreePflo:~e?r~~pi~eo~~~~~h Amos I Alon7.o Stag:; will bring teams to ( Stagg field next fnl! in an nttetll[Jt to t('aeh their old teacher a football Je~ son. flelnit college, coached by <'amp hell ntekson; hulinna State collt'ge cr.nched hy Wallie Mark!! and lntl!nrtn This Is the ".\rl•" wkich \Yilllurn Gre<>nwooll of Olympia, \Vu~h., (:;hown unii'Pri>ity, coarhed h.v Pat Pnge. an• hns huilt fnt· his own per~<oual u~c In the tlpod whie 11 he say~ Inset) in on Chi1•ago's hnnre sf'lrPdnle All nn· tlPI·astatP the entire Pacific coast heeause of the wickP!lnes!l Jll'l'· soon formH Chkal!o J.tars and pnplls of '.-ill Sta!!;:. Tire Hl:!S scht>rlnle eall!' fm vnilin;: there. It will rarry no animal.-. The ,\ rk ls SO fe!.'t I m", ~0 fppf witll• gun•Ps with Pnr.Jue, Prlnreton . \\'Is ~Tid ~:; fl't-l tleep. lt fJ:lS nr stP.,erllj~ gear for (j-1 ~'IV'"'"I SII.\'S "till' :!'lor) consln. lflinnis n:rd the (•nh·er.hy o• Lord will ste1•r lJ." '.Va~<lrlngtnn. One hundred do!larH n week and he' own nlrplane, to say nothing of automobiles, restrooms, etc., Is what Ituth ll:n·iland, prett_y twent.v-"ear-ol<l nvl· ntrix, get~ for belng aerial hostes.o; at Fairfax airport. Knnsas l'ity, !\Io. All ltuth tiC'('(] do is rnN't incoming nvi•Jtnrs, rn:rkP them feel "nt home." etr., iu~t ::"< wnuhl the lro. tr s ,,f you• la\ot·lt, Fi.1:1:1llc1· re:ert. |