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. H i FORWARD PASS IS NOT LIKELY TO BE GREATLY DEVELOPED B FT - : .-..- - - . - Kirf'H M If" A m f'Wi ; -v" "i;.. -'rt.a: V-:-; 11 Yaf v- life-' - . ! .71 , Photo b" American Press Association. Prichard of Army, on Left, Attempting to Make Forward Pass In Game With Yale. It Was Uncompleted I By TOMMY CLARK. I PHE forward pass is being developed to no greater extent than last year. I There is little doubt that after the end ' of tho present season the play will como In for Just as much censure as it has in tho years that have passed since its adoption. Thero is no reason to assume that tho play will bo any moro succceef ul as a ground gainer than I was the case last fall or the ono before. The big olevons havo so far failed to develop tho play to tho extent that was I expected, or. rather, to tho extent which i they led the general followers of tho gamo to believe it would be. They have depended more on the running ' style of game, and there la every rea son to think that that method of play will bo the predominating feature of i the work of the larger teams. Of j DIRECT PASS I if' SLOWS UP GAME' j I TN one particular -he new football Sfjp rules point to a reversion to tho old FChool theory of attack The addition y " of one more down makes Ifhlghly prob-1 y i "" ' able that the offensive team, as soon , j !"' as it gains possession of the ball. will. ' attempt for two downs at least to B jf" rush. A premium has been placed upon continued possession f the ball S. - and luck, which played such a large m fl. . Part In the games last joar. has been Yfi'k materlallv abolished. M f Straight football .will bo more In I evlSlence this vear. consequently more ffl) ' attention than ever will be raid to J i the development of a swift attack. 1 Now that pushl ig and pulling have T been abolished It becomes lncreaslng- " ,y JmPrtnnt that tne backs get to the Ir opening before tlip defense has time to jfj I size up thf play. Jg i f There are many devices for speed 's Ing up the attackt One is the starting is :B signal, another not much practiced Is I- Jh having tho back field watch tho ccn Lj kt tcr's wrists before the ball is put In rjj 1 play. It Is possible by doing so to f IP tell, by the snap of the wrists before LL th. ball Is passed Just when it la com KL lng so that the backs can start with Wjia- the ball and not a shade of a second ))lf J after it. as so many back fields do to JW day. utl- Tho direct pass from center to half- 3?' back, ug'ed considerably at Yale, Is an- Sf other device for Increasing the speed l of a play. The sreed of a play depends !Wnt- upon the amount of time the runner S i takes to get to hit the line. Anything ! which prevents tho runner from con- ccntratlng his wholo attention upon ig this essential Is bad. The direct pass B f ' is bad In this respect because. Instead lb of removing all responsibility from the fl runner by permitting the quarterback to feed tho ball to him. the runner 55 , I must think of getting the ball before he gels to his hole and If tho direct pass is In the slightest degree untrue . I hesitation on the part of the runner ' results and ll-e speed of tho play ls . I negatived I The only sound, sure and swift man- i ner of feeding the ball to the back Is t" ugh the medium of tho quarter. , With the return fo straight .ootball will come tho sustained attack II Is likely that wo shall see more "goal line marches" this jear. Wh n the offen sive team starts on Its march down the field It will be good policy to wear down the defense bv tho use of a high ly diversified attack. The defenso must not bo given time to guesi the psychology of the attack and In proportion as tho distance of the goal llnc diminishes speed of the' attack should Increase I courso the smaller Institutions must depend more or less on chance plus when they meet the elevens represent ing the big schools. Tho running style of game under the new rules Is certain to prove effective When two teams arc fairly evenly matched there Is little doubt that It will be the most productive method of gaining gtound. Thero is hardly an likelihood that tho forward pass will W NEW CROP OF HEAVYWESOHTS SEEKJWG LAURELS AMD CASH UK i fS TT'S a new and strange crop of heavy- i1- weights that flits past the review ing stand these days. Palzer. Well3. McCarty. McMahon. Wlllard. "Gun boat" Smith and Charley Miller belong k to a new generation. The majority of ' big men who drew' the headlines a fow & years ago havo passed on to the minor Jd ' leagues. t Only one of tho old line fighters rc- , mains to ruflle the temper of the rcign Sl ing squad of present times He Is Jim s Flynn. who recently on tho coast dent J ed a rib or two for "Truck Horse" 'U Charley Miller, upon whom Flynn had I tied tho first glove a few reasons back. 1 Flynn Is about the ono veteran who I debutted a decade ago that is still able lj- to stand up and whack with the young at r ' bloods successfully. uj! i Flynn has outlived Barry. Kaufman, '55 t Savage, Ross. Kublak. Willie. Jim b Smith, Tommy Burns. Miko Sheck, Ttfl .J Marvin Hart and Sandy Ferguson. It Ql wasn't such a great while ago that Al S t " Kaufman was being boomed for tho 2 ' gonfalon of tho ponderous class. Ho ffi j was going along, ripping In tho good f!5. night blast on all who thought they UJ ' stacked with him. His meas of K. O.'s m t Included tho name of Jim Flynn, set- Ung that gentleman back a mllo In his H ! fistic adventuring. As a strange coln J2 cldenco Flynn parleyed with big Al at J .t Kansas City in May. 1011. aid turn ,fffl Cd the world upside down for tho Cali ."Si L fornLin. Kaufman was given a bc.it- f Ing that his memory will recall forever. 6J2 is not longer. 3P ' The drubbing drove Kaufman to the TjJ ti, rocks, and ho has not had a good fight jS i In him since. Luther McCarty rccent- ' ly unocki-d out Al In two rounds. It's Ijft back to the butchor shop for AL H Jim Barrj", who knocked out "Gun- - boat" Smith In 1910, Is on his last logs. .V r It get.s beat' upon each appearance in IP fr fighting logs. In days gono by Jim Q, could rattle his fists some. Once bo Wf whipped Langford. Tony Ross re XI, cently was barred by tho New York M ! boxing commission. He doesn't seem SM able to got in Mhapo any more. Once tfl , Tony was a fine looking hexivywelght igj l nnd "a trulv great scrappor. but his 2 stomacb bulges now with fat ho can't 1 get off. Ho is as tough as ever, but slow. Tommy Burns retired after his championship battle with Johnson was stopped by tho Australian police, but age didn't take away his vim as in tho case of Barry and Ross. Miko Shreck and Marvin Hart arc through- Two years ago thlH pair helped boost Carl Morris record. "Philadelphia J.ick" O'Brien lastod tor the considerable period of fourteen years. Ho retired in 1910. but lias bocd occasionally since then. John Willie had a surpris ing winning streak last w Inter, but It 1 was about tho last chapter. Jim Smith was put out of the game by Tom Mc Mahon's terrlblo wallops a year since Ferguson and Kublak have drawn their obituaries as far as real purses aro concerned. Savage is a quitter who will never amount to anything. It AL KAUFMAN. la doubtful if Joe Jeannetto Is as good as formerly. Tho successors of theso men aro battling today. Most of them aro com paratively inexperienced yet. Wells has been boxing thieo years, McMa hon four. "Gunboat" Smlthfour, Mc Carty two. Miller fle. Palzer two. Wll lard one. be used for anything moro than to i cover the running plays. Tho defense must bo kept well scat tered If it is not. then it will bo al most as difficult to mako the ten yards in four downs as It was to mako It In three. If tho defense of the teams this j oar was such that the backs could all be brought up behind tho line of scrim mage there would be llt,tle doubt that. It would bo so much stronger than tho J Ed Walsh Greatest of "Iron" Pitchers rPHAT peculiar niche In baseball af fairs which Is filled by what aro known as "Iron men Is ono that has had few occupants. The "Iron men" of note, real "Iron men." have been few and far between. The term Is applied only to pitchers and means thoso pitch ers whose constitutions are sufficiently strong to permit them to do more work In the box than most twlrlers could stand Unusual capacity for work and exceptional pitching ability arc at tributes of tho "Iron men" of the mound. The first pitcher to whom tho term was applied was Joe McGInnlty. and ho came into It not so much because of the frequency with which ho pitch ed as his capacity for double hcadors To this day ho goes Into the box often, and few pitchers havo worn so well There arc two other leading expo nents of the "Iron man" business. Ono is Ed Walsh of tho Chicago White Sox. tho most noted of the three, and tho other Is Jack Coombs Coombs did not pitch as frequently the past season as he did last year, but his capacity for work, coupled with his skill as a box man, tldd Connie Mack and the Ath letics over many a rough spot and pull ed out many a game In which some other pitcher had wabbled. Coombs, like Walsh, could stand be ing hurled into the breach many a time beyond tho ordinary, and then his cxpertness on tho peak "did the rest. Walsh probably has pitched in more games a year for the length of time he has been in the game than any other pitcher baseball has known It was predicted half a dozen yeajs, ago that tho inordinate wear and 'tear would get him. but he Is still at it, and as effective, if not as strong, as over He is a spltball pitcher, too another thing supposed to be very trying, but ho contends that with him that form of delivery Is no more exacting on the arm than any other way of pitching Trinity Has Football Plsyer Who Smashes Everything Ahead, Bst Doesn't Know Why rptlE most famous fictitious footballer. George Fitch's Olo Skjarsen of Siwash college. Is outdone by a tow headed freshman who Is now playing on the Trinity football squad. The freshman is Clarence A. Meyer of Wal polc, Mass.. and within a few years Professor Raymond G. Gcttoll. coach of tho Trinity team, predicts he will bo ono of the great stars of tho gridiron, although at present he's almost as worthless as a wax doll. Meyer Is only seventeen old. but ho's built on a large foundation and has I plenty of room to expand. Ho's grow ing fast a3 weeds in an onion patch, I and ho has speed to burn, having a 1 good high school record as a 100 yard dash man. He has more than the pro verbial awkwardness of the freshman, but because of his great strength Coach Gettell gave him a chance In the second half of the Trlnity-MIddlebury game in Boston recently when Trin ity was far ahead. Meyer was given the ball, and with a snort and a sprint ho throw hlm:olf at the opposing line, which scattered like the crowd after a world's scries game. He was tackled after he had made about twenty yards, however, and Immediately dropped the pigskin. Ho fumbled every time he got the ball in that game, and he has been doing It since. Tho second team coaches and the varsity players havo been working on him, however, and they expect to mako an All American back out of him one of theso da j s Meer now weighs 17C pounds but ho Is wonderfully strong and has no such thing as fear In his mako up. He Is never hurt. In spite of tho fact that the coaches havo been using him as a human catapult In their efforts to rid him of his awkwardness and leach him tho points of tho game. Meyer's follow football warriors used to call him "Walpole" at first, in tho same tone that thoy would call a play er "bonchcad," but his rcscmblanco to tho Siwash hero who could plow through any team but didn't know why he was doing It was early seen, and Clarenco Is now Olo Meer. Walter Johnson Respects Tris Speaker TN speaking of the best batter In tho American loaguc and alBO tho most dangerous sticker to face Pltchor Wal ter Johnson of Washington picks no other than Tris Speaker, tho sensa tional outfielder of tho Boston Red Sox. Tho Senators' slabster has much ro spect for tho Bcantown batter when the latter appears In tho batter's box with Johnson on tho hill, and, al though tho big National tries his best In outwitting the stalwart slammor. ho states that it Is a ary dlfllcult prob lem to do "Speaker has absolutely no weakness at tho bat." says Johnson. "You might Just as well pass him ns to try to coax him to offer at bad balls. When Tris comes up all I do Is to put everything I havo on tho ball and pray that he dr-s not hit It on tho nose." Wells Is Fast Sprinter THAT Bombardier Wells Is an ath lete of remarkable versatility was demonstrated recently when the Eng lish heavyweight champion participat ed In a race against the best profes sional sprinters In England Postlc, Donaldson and Reggie Walker, the South African crack, were among his competitors Wells was so well thought of that he was' mado favorlto In the betting for his hcaL Ho fin ished a closo second, although he would havo been a sure winner if he had not stumbled at the stnrt. The distance was 130 yards and was run In twolve and two-fifths seconds, which was onc-llfth of a second fuster than the heat won by Walker. Wells has a remarkably clean pair of legs, well suited to sprinting. Ills work in the ring showed him to bo capable of a burst of great speed, but no sustained effort. Wells was mar ried recently and decided to postpone hlB return to this country for several months. Ho Is most anxious to havo another try at Al IMIer In order to wipe out tho stain of his defeat. offenso it would be a dlfllcult matter i to gain tho required distance. As it is, j provided the secondary defense Is kpt I back. It will not bo easy to prevent a team from gaining what Is desired. It Is for this purpose that the for ward pass will bo used moro than for any other Instead of depending on the play to make touchdowns and gain ground In general it will be used Just enough to cover the other plays. GOODWIN HAS RECORD ASJSWIMMER JEO BUD GOODWIN of New York, known the world over as Bud, con tracted the habit of winning cham pionships away back in 1901 Cham pions have como and gono since then, but time has not diminished the speed or staying powers of this remarkable athlete, who topped off his list of championships this year by winning two nntional tltlos and two metropoli tan. In overy form of aquatic sport Goodwin Is there like a duck Distance has no terrors for him. and at tho same time he whips his arms through the water so fast that ho is ablo to hold I tjfj . , BUD GOODWIN READY FOR START OF A RACE. his own with the best men In tho coun try at all distances, from twenty-live yards to thirteen and ono-half miles. As a water polo player Goodwin has few equals, and ho has played center forward on nd less than ten champion teams at this sport. It took Goodwin a couplo or years before he reached the stago where he was able to begin winning champion ships, so that altogether he has been In competition for fourteon years and in that time has won over COO medals and over 100 cups., enough to stock a Jewelry storo If ho should elect to go in that business. Harry and Don Rcedor were tho leading swimmers when Goodwin first determined to snatch Mime of their laurels away from them. Then came Fred Wunck to dis pute his supremacy at the longer dis tances, and latnr llio champion of champions. C. M. Daniels. Both men roignod In Ills turn. 'but all havo tired of tho tjtrenuous pastime of plowing rthrough'the water, and none of iho newcomers Is ablo to cope with tho sturdy veteran. i And. even at that, there Is going to be a great deal of adverse criticism regarding the forward pass at tho end of tho .season Of courso It will al ways be the contention of Its advo cates that It lessens the danger in the gamo and also provides thrills for the spectators when a long pass Is got away with successfully, but, at that. It is a hjbrld play and lias little part In the real game of football. THE "clean break" rule Is hero to stay, and. according to W J C. Kelly, an Australian now In this coun try. It is going to stay wherever tried ouL Mr. Kelly Is the representative of Hugh Mcintosh, the Sydney flght pro moter. "Clean breaks arc demanded In ev ry glove fight In my country." said Mr Kelly, "and referees arc required to give this rulo a strict enforcement" There is a fast growing demand for the application of this rule in boxing contests wherever given, and In the United States It is observed in nearly all sections where bouts of Importance arc held except on the Pacific coast. In California It won't bo very long be fore It will bo found necessary to adopt the rule In protection of the pro moters' Interests and for the preserva tion of the sport. This modification of the Qucensberry code, simple as It may seem, is doing more to brurh aside long standing prejudice against ring contests than any change which has been noted since tho code was written. Gliance Found a Horseshoe "PRANK CHANCE'S wealth needs no explanation other than the an nouncement that he bought Into the Chicago Cubs' game in 1905 with 510. 000. That represented one-tenth of the Cubs' t.tock Flipping back the .lies, we find that the entire Cubs' property was pur chased by Charles P. Taft. Murphy and company for 5105.000 the greatest bargain ever turned In baseball. For this sum ou could, two years later, not havo bought three selected plaers from this samo club In the .'even ears Chunce has been connected with the team It Is doubtful If thero has been a single season which did not not him at least 100 per cent on the Investment. Ho has approached nearer to J00 per cent In several pen nant seasons. With bonuses made. In vestments and his salary savings there Is no reason why Chanco should not figure his total wealth nearer $176,000 than a smaller sum If ho has lived economically Clarke and Dreyfuss FRED CLARKE, manager of tho Pittsburgh team, signed his twen tieth contract with Barney Dreyfuss recc-tly. covering tho next season For nineteen years this pair have been as sociated, and thus there Is undoubtedly a record established. There is not an other Instance where a manager has worked lor one club owner for so long a period. It speaks well for both Clarko and Dreyfuss. This year the 'Pirates finished second, and good (judges predict that the team will win I the flag next ycur because of the fact that It Is blessed -lth a decidedly I strong staff of young pitchers. Football Players Being Coached M to Pick Up Ball and Run ; H ( JOACH YOST believes that Sammy i K White, tho Princeton playor who t K won both tho Yale and Harvard games f i i E by picking up a fumbled ball and run- r 1 jH nlng with it, did tho only logical thing Sp ho could under tho circumstances. Tho t HFv recent talk of the question as to nKi whether White's two sensational plays Mm will revolutions that part of tho B game or not brought tho subject Into f BE the conversation as the coach was di- j1 ifcj rcctlng his squad on Ferry field ra- j cently it-jtB It has always been noticed that Yost IBM! Is particular about having -his men J&rM learn to fall on the ball, and this fact , 1- nas been remarked on by several ox- f il perts In the game who have seen Mich- i bl Igan play. However. It seems to have flHfryrkJ escaped their notice that tho coach is yKFfM equally anxious to have his players K - W learn to handle the ball on tho bounco Ky " and In an open field, BE A iM "White did what I would want o rB player to do." said the coach "Both 4Kr f I the fumbles came way back of the Hr.a K of scrimmage, and there were no op- W ponents near White. It was his game iM to pick up the ball and run with it j- If fl That, you know, is a part of the game- ffLfH j "A player ought not to try to pIcK rjiB 1 up a ball that fumbles near tho line of hRH scrimmage or where there are oppo- I fflfl nenLs trying to get It too. Suppose a . ! man tried to grab the ball while the & other side is after it. Ho can't reach " jfl up in the air for it, you know. He has to stretch out his amis and fcol alfcag j- H tho ground. Nino times out of ten jst ' H as lie gets his hands on the ball alng , JH comes some big player on tho ollr J ji sldo and smashes down his arms. ( M "I tell my men to fall on tho ball H and hug It. Why? Because that keeps H your side in possession of the ball, but H I that instruction doesn't apply to a frco H ' ball where there is a good chance to H get away for a run. If the center H passes the ball badly and It goes by the 1 quarter and hits the ground pick It up fH and run with it that Is. unlos your (jH lino doesn't hold and tho other sldo jH arc on top of you. Then fall on tho ," H ball and hug." H jH "Clean Break" Rule Has Helped Boxing r H The possibilities of boxing as a , 1 I source of entertainment and recreation IH I are recognized by a lot of peoplo now IH who formerly opposed It because of IH the many objectionable features. Not IH the least of these was the spectaclo of H a rough and ready, burly fighter of lit- ; jl tic science but great muscular Btrcngtb jl taking advantage of the protect your- H self at all limes spirit of "straight" j H Qucensberry rules by dragging, maul- 1 ing and hauling his more scientific but H lighter and weaker opponent all over E?J the ring while waiting to "sneak over KR1 a punch" at the breakaway. This jB smacked too much of the rough and mr m tumble fight and conveyed the Imprcs- ( HJ I sion of anger and a desire to Injure K9 I instead of a contest to demonstrate the il ' science of boxing and perfection of JHH phvslcal attainment, with no mailco fH I and willful Intent to Injure. To offset lH ! this the "clean break" rule washltt fH upon as the proper antldotSTvrttbgocd piJ results. . I There arc somo yet who sneer at j what they term tho "ladylike" rules, H but they will havo to give way to popu- f I Iar opinion if the sport Is to remain. jjl Defense at Goal Line Is Difficult Problem : 'piIE greatest problem which Is con fronting the football coaches at present is the building of a defense capable of meeting two kinds of at tack aftor the ball has been rushed down to within a few feet of the goal line. The development of a defense adequate to the attack under such con ditions Is presenting a dilllculty which Is by no means easy to overcome. Under present rules, which allow tho ball to be passed across the line, tho defense must of a necessity keep two men playing for that variety of attack. Of course It Is probable that the of fense will nearly always attempt to rush the ball when It gets within reach of tho goal, but there is always the chanco of the forward pass, which must bo guarded against. It might bo that an eleven would rush the ball re peatedly all during a game, and as soon ns it got down within scoring dlstanco would attempt just tho opposite style of play And It would not be poor gen eralship by a long way to do Just that. B In years past, since the Introduction ;i JH of thf forward pass. It has not proved i- i H a dlfllcult matter for the several teams I M to mako ground on straight plays in I H the middle of tho field wh!'- tho de- M fenso was kept open because of tho H Imminent danger of the forward pass. 6 1 It was not, however, hard to prevent M an advance after the ball had been , H worked down Into the territory In j f- M which tho danger of a forward pass j ( ' H was eliminated and tho secondary dc- ; , ; M fenso could como close In behind tho ! V forwards. ij ' M The secondary defense will not ba 4 lH able to close up under present condl- lM tions. and tho forward defense will be i' L Just as weak now right under tho goal J lll as it formerly was In tho center of tho j if field. This being the case, coaches aro , l racking their brains to And some means 'ftfjl whereby the line plunge down under ';'jaH tho goal line will be less effective and ' fH the danger of a touchdown rendered v H less Imminent. H KILBAME IS NOT A GREAT 1H CHAfVlPiOJ..iB Y FIGHTER who can't rush and H deliver the knockout wallop at ll the same time will never become a Hl great champion This seems to be tho WH failing that Kllbane ha Immediately fRH after he defeated Abe Attell In l.os 3JH Angeles he was considered a novelty. iH Since then l.c has made three appear- ances In New York, and his popularity H diminishes after each set-to Ho has met Burns. Dundee and O'Kcefe. and I all three of these bos went the limit H with him. There wasn't even the sem- H I bianco of a knockout about It This H I surely Is a sorr spectacle for a cham- B plon Had the men opposed 'ofcim H been champions no one would t"vo I thought badly of his work. but&fc'n ' jH 1 .second and third raters can gollle iioute well, then there Is somuthtoo jH lacking In the championship llne-jlU IH I Kllbane secured his prestige f'i" H ! time when Attcll wis on the tdfn ' H I grade, at a period when Abe luidiPf i H ! t.ic pace and was nothing but ajslj81' of his form or iclf Kllbane was forTo- j H t nato in being1 the first man to mecM H former champion in that condition,! H thai takes away no credit fromJ In this battle, for the Utile Clovclawr jk didn't know Just how "soft" AtteUt5 ,H going u prove to be Then, too,?' M member that Kllbane knocked ouf lM I Rivers, and that's some feat In ltjf! So that on his Los Angeles pcrf'i jl once ho had all tho earmarks of? H champion. 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