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Pfnn State and Harvard Lead in Race for Mythical Eastern Football Championship
Syracuse Team
Out of Running
For Top Honors
No One Can Tell From
Which Quarter Next Foot?
ball Shock Will Conic
By Ray McCarthy
You tar'! tell from which quarter
t tue next shock will come in this mod
? rr| era of football, Syracuse jour?
neyed to Worcester, confident and un?
co rt.ee rn cd about its encounter with
Holy Cros---. and received a staggering
Hlow Bush on the end of its Orange
headlight. This wallop sent the Salt
City eleven reeling out of the cham
t .onshin spotlight for the time being
at least. To-day, instead of figuring
n how ?{ is going to beat Washington
and Jefferson on Saturday, the Syra
.i ?ans are pondering on their setback
?I How it all happened.
"Chick" Meehan, the snappy little
?* ?? ? oi . -;.?7,it.j claven, ?-a?1'>o to
town yesterday and told us it was all
n the game, that the past was for?
gotten and that he would concent rate
on future games. He said Holy Cross
played a whale of a game, fighting like
?iemons to the final whistle, and' thai
he had no excuses whatever to offer.
Median's only regret was that twe
of his stars, Fall?n and Hoople, wil
probably be out for the rest of the
season with injuries sustained in the
contest. Meehan, besides being t
?lever mentor, is a philosopher an?
knows how to take a beating.
Six Undefeated Teams
Syracuse's exit leaves Penn State
Pittsburgh, Harvard, 1'rinceton
Georgetown, if you wish, Washingtoi
and Jefferson and Cornell in contro
of the title situation at the presi'n
time. One and possibly three of thes?
-".-??1 be eliminated this week, and th?
oflowing weeks will probably see th?
Iownfall of some of the others. 'Th
- great league, this football whirl.
The University of Pennsylvania wai
engulfed by the Penn State cyclone
which is rapidly sweeping toward t!v
Coal of the Eastern championship
Hugo Bezdek certainly knows a tiiinj
or two, and the way he is rating th
pace of his charges is a caution. II
eems to be conserving his team'
power all along the route, which ma;
or may not be the case. But in an;
event we know that with the exceptioi
of the Dartmouth struggle the "Lions,
as the Penn State warriors are knowr
haven't been extended as yet.
Princeton had a busy as well as
hectic afternoon getting the decisio
over West Virginia. The Timers ma
look powerful on paper but they haven
shown any super-ability to date, nc
enough, at least, to warrant favorin
'hem over Harvard and Yale. Stil
'hey are going forward, and as long a
they are nobody can say what the lim
o? their accomplishments will be.
Harvard's second string men trippe
Virginia by the tidy count of 24 to ?
enough to show that the Crimson r?
serves have plenty of power. Whcthc
the Harvard string of victories ha
been due wholly to the ability ?
th? Cambridge students or h;?
been made possible by the weakness?:
of their various opponents will uot b
'. nown until the Tigers invade the Sti
dium on Saturday. Harvard has n?
had the toughest row to hoe this fa
;.; any means.
Yale, with a wholesale batch of sul
stitutes, trimmed Colgate, giving tl:
impression il is still very much in tl:
running. We also note C< Igate offere
sturdy opposition all the way. The Mi
roon is improving, there i ? no doubt ?
that, and may show something yet )x
fore the curtain is rung down.
A Treat at Wei t Point
Those who made the journey to We
Point as was expected certainly trot
treat. That Notre Dame-Army ?ran
mus? have be ?n a wonder, and fr in :?
reports was the best cxh dtion on t!
gridiron this season. The cadets, i
pite of t in ?r def? at, demonsti at?
? lite conclu : y ly thai they will in
. tor in the navy clash the way tin
did last year. And as ior.g as th?
have French on the job they needi
'.'err;,- about their attack.
The Westerners also proved in th
m lee they are ?me of the best tcan
in the country. We were .[iiite su
prised by their strength.
Pittsburgh also is still moving ahen
From present indications it is qui
?kely the Panthers and Penn Sta
will come together each unbente
Therefore, all of you football fans, w
would like to enjoy a real treat >
thanksgiving Day can make no m
take in making the trip to Pittsbur
to see this contest. It should be
knockout.
Pitt had its troubles winning frc
Lafayette, but the Easton students a
not weaklings in any way. We ventu
to say Penn State will have just
much trouble defeating Laflayetti
chief rival, Lehigh. on November 13.
Mr. Dobie is sure to give his proteg
?i call for not scoring '2.:> points agaii
Rutgers. They only got 24. The Ithl
since the second week of the seas
have been running wild on all of th?
opponents, and when they come lit
Saturday to play Dartmouth, a capaci
erowd is certain to attend the gan
VW? shall also lee.ru then whether t
Big P.fd i'i really everything that
seems to be at the present time. Ho
ever, there isn't any doubt whate\
that the former Navy tutorhasinst.il
sp ed into his charges upstate.
Rutgers with a heavy and -w
coached lino made the going he
against the upstaters and showed i
provement in turn ov?>r its play
previous weeks. Nebraska is not goi
to find any set-up when it opposes 1
Scarlet eleven to-morrow.
A Meritorious Victory
Boston College managed to carry
the honors in its game with the Sprii
field College, a meritorious vict?
whether or not it looks that way
paper. The fact is many critics ov
look the strength of this Springfi
team every year where:,- each sea.'
it has one of the best forward pass
elevens in the East as well a ? ?i I
line.
Brown swamped Vermont and \
i rely < xte.id the Elis next Saturd
The Province eleven in truth is cc
ng along at a speedy clip. Geor
town remained in the running for
honors by vanquishing Johns Hopk
^ in decisive manner and Washington ;
n fefferson also is still in the se!
V .'ass, having trounced Westmins
W without any trouble.
An idea of just how good Pittsbu
9 .-an be garnered from Georgia Tei
triumph over the far-famed Cer
Col loge. The Atlanta students ?
'oped all over the gridiron, e;ctt
three touchdowns and a field goal wl
.voiding their ? nponents a* bay
while. The week previous Pitt i\o\v
n:s same eleven by 10 to S. Yet
more the returns come in the m?>ro
>*?? think Pitt and Penn State will
ngMlnp- it out for top honors at
<nd of the season.
The local colleges made out v
nicely Saturday, that is. with the
c-eption of Fordham, which receivei
ba?l beating from Detroit, a very :
?earn if anybody would like to know.
But Columbia came back with a l
wallop and downed Benny Boynton ;
his Williams mates. Eradication o
?( w more slight weaknesses will m
th? Blue and Whfca a very formide
^'^?.-?'-Y rV""" "?undid abi
un's defeat, it po??ea
j * won h\
I -
When a Feller Needs a Friend - ?y briggs
larger margin. That finnlity will un?
doubtedly be developed this week.
Stevens maintained a clean slate,
at the expense of Rensselaer. The
Iloboken students have every right to
be proud of their team as it has per
formed in the last three years.
The chatige in rules enabling a team
to kick a roa! from touchdown hasn't
eliminated defeats by failure in this
respect. There have been a dingen or
more to date this year and in one of
the biggest and most important con?
tests in the Western Conference Ohio
State was able to keen in the running
tor the title because of the failure of
Jackson of ("luengo to kicS the goal.
Illinois also remains a contender in
the conference by its victory over Min?
nesota.
Yale (.loaches May
Shift Cal I ah an
To New Position
From a Special Correspondent
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 31. Ex?
amination of till the Yale players, who
managed to outscore little Colgate yes?
terday, to-day showed that none was
injured enough to keep him from prac- ;
tice. Frank Kelly, who was knocked !
unconscious, was pronounced in good ,
condition and will rejoin the squad to- j
morrow. Of the formerly injured |
flayers Captain Callahan and Thome j
Murphy will be in the line-up for
light practice this week, but Mack
Aldrich, John Acosta and Tom Pickens
will not attempt to play before the
Princeton match next week Saturday.
There is still much doubt of Dickens
scrimmaging again this year, The ab?
sence of guard material gave the
coaches a topic for anxiety at their
daily session, and it is likely that ( ap
tain (allah.au will this week go to guard
instead of center, where he has played
two years. Cross and Calvin are
handling the center problem cleverly,
although Cross's two bad passes
marred an afternoon of remarkably ef?
fective tackling ?nd field play. Cross
will hold the center position at present.
There are only two satisfactory'
guard candidates on the squad Hers
and Acosta, who is crippled. Callahan's
shift to lAcostaSs position may stiffen
the Eli defense. It was through
Mackay that the Colgate knife play was
repeated airain yesterday, bat the
coa,-lies said to-night that they would
continue Mackay at right tack'.-.
No line-up changes whatever a*'e con?
templated immediately. Yale regards
the Brown game as likely to prove r.
genuine test. The Brownonians are
believed to bo practically as strong as
Boston College, while Yale will lack five :
first-string men who ate stil crippled.
Brown backers here are offering even
terms on the game.
Warner Praises Lafayette
EASTON, Pa., Oct. 31. Glen War?
ner, coach of the University of Pitts?
burgh football team, had nothing but
praise for the great work of the vot-j
cran Lafayette College line in Sat?
urday's contest with Pitt? which the
Panthers won, I-1 to 0. Warner came
to Coach "Jock" Sutherland in the
Lafayette dressing room and said: "La?
fayette has a wonderful line. It is .
the best I have seen."
Aviator ?Shines With Auto
LE MAN'S, France. Oct. 31.?Sadi |
Lecolnte, the aviator who recently won
the Cordon Bennett Cup, to-day estab?
lished what is declared to bo ?an auto?
mobile record for 200 meters.J From a
standing statt Lecointe negotiated the
distance in 13% seconds. It was his
first attempt at automobile racing. ?
Disston A. A. in Tie
The ^.jverful soccer team re
even
?n
Unbeaten on the Gridiron
ISov?iton, of Williams, Re?
tains Leadership as in?
di vidual Point Scorer;
Kaw, of Cornell, Second
Syracuse and West Point were the I
two teams that yielded their places
among the unbeaten elevens as a re?
sult of Saturday's games on Eastern
gridirons. ? Eleven college tennis have
yet to suffer defeat this season, and of
these three have scored six consecu?
tive victories, four of them have won
five games in succession, two have
taken four straight and two have >e >n
triumphant in three contests in a row.
Three of the latter four teams have
also played one tie game each.
Penn State, winch heads the list vith
Harvard and Brown at six straight,!
tops them all in the matter of points:
scored, with a total of 232. George?
town, in the second group of unbeaten;
teams, still holds second place, with
20:.'. Cornell is next with 194 in five
games. Columbia leads the Manhattan]
elevens with four victories and one de- j
feat, and a total of seventy-five points,,
while Fordham and New York Univer?
sity are near the tail-end.
Benny Boynton, the Williams wizard,
maintained his place at the head of the I
individual scorers, with a grand total ]
of ninety points, his fourteen touch-,
downs being the most scored by any i
player. Kaw, the Cornell halfback,.
gained six points on Boynton, having;
a total of seventy-two. Third place is
still held jointly by Kellogg, Syracuse,!
and Way, Penn State, neither having
j added to his fifty points Saturday. The
greatest gain was made by Oden, of?
! Brown, who jumped from twenty
fourth place in the standing into
| eighth place.
Following is the teams' records and
individual scoring to date:
College. W. T.. Pts. O.P. T. F T. G.
Penn State. ? 0 232 7? St 28 0
Harvard . ? 0 1 r.S 14 20 so (i
: Drown . it n 133 7 20 13 0
Oi iriretown .... 7. 0 202 30 29 22 2
i -.?: n a!. 5 h 194 19 28 23 3
Wash ,?' Th-rr.... 5 ?i ITS 7 25 22 2
!'? a . ton . 5 il l m 9 1 ? II 2
?Put I urgh . 4 n 112 23 15 j ; 0
?Stevens Te? il. .. 4 0 50 20 ? 5 3
Boston College. ..3 0 ! 13 7 ? !
????? ? : yan . ... 7: 0 : f! 20 l ;: 3
Al mj . ? 1 172 4>) 25 1? 1 ,
" -;? ? ic isa . 4 t 1GG ! 1 23 22 2
Vale . 4 1 123 2k 17 15 2
"I- h ut h . 4 1 na' V7 H ; j
libia . 4 1 .". 38 11 9 0
N illlama . 4 2 17 1 (74 77 24 0
Penn . 4 2 si 7.5 12 12 0
Dartmouth . 3 2 ?r' 45 14 12 1 i
'. nihi rsl . 3 2 86 40 12 10 1 i
Navy . 3 2 7 3 7 7 1 ; 7 0 I
Holy Cross. 2 2 34 30 i 4 2
?Wi st Virginia. ..2 P. 118 77, 17 13 l
1 ata . , lie . 2 3 111 33 l? 15 0
Forilham . 2 :: 99 105 ; ; >< il
Rutgera . 2 4 32 60 -i 3 1
?Swarthmoro". ... I 3 54. 72 S 6 0
?N'. Y U. 0 2 3 3 4 1 ? o
tColgato . 0 3 20 S4 3 2 ?
?Kacli of these teams ha.? also pluvial ore
tie garni Kyracus? -Pitt, 7 7. W, ,<7- .1 -
\'7,-i Virginia Wesleyan. 7 7 x v r
W esleyan, 13 . ; l,ehigh-\Vi st Virgin! i,
7 -7; Stev. i. i Tech-Mi Id ebur 0 0;
Swartrni.ore-l-'ranklln Marsha
ite haa ; layed two tie gi : n s, w Ith
Allegh ..;-. 7 7. .u. ! with Susiju? hanna
0
lMUVllHAI, SCORING
Play?r,
pc?h ion, collet
Boynton, nb, Wll'lams.. .1 I 6 0 ' ?n
Kaw, !: a. Cornell .12 0 n 7?
- a fi,, Syracuse. . . 3 2 0 B0 .
w fi I.e. I '.nu State-, . . S J " 60 ,
' Ightner, hb, IVnn State . (i 0 t<
l-'r nch, i'b. army. 7 0 ' 45
Mayer, fb, Cornell . : 9 0 4 .
1 kl, a. ,??>. Brown. 7 2 0 44
iloi ween, fb, i [arvard .. 6 1 I 4 ,
v ? bott, hb, s . : icuse ... i : ?
: ?? ? milt, a. fb Harvard. . 4 ! 2 S !
re, ?Veal Va.... 7> 0 u 30
K . v fb Yal ?. 5 n 0 30
hb. I lartmouth. . 5 0 0 SO
Peck, v,l>. Weaiayan. 1 R ? ''7
a a r, hb, N. T. U. 4 3 0 27
^: raus, fia Penn. 3 s 0 2r,
*la:;or?n, fb, Fordham,. 4 2 ?> 20
iu?er, hi>, Army. , 4 0 0 H
:_x:_-v : ."
,ourie, qb, Princeton, ... 4 0 " 24 |
(, cli hi), Wi at \'.i. 4 ? 0 24
'hurchill, hb, Harvard.. 4 0 P 34 !
,!( :.- an. hb, Williams.. . -I ? o 24 ?
11, tl., Penn Stat.'
; - I], lb, I'.im State.
. -.-. lie, it. Williams
. :.--.:, hi,. \\ - St Vil. 3 f? " 2.4
t, ? le, .il?. 1-3,r ill-, in. 3 ii P 23 ,
.,:-? ) , qb, Cornell. 2 8 1 23
?oodali . fb, SI 'Vi ns. ... 3 ii : 2:< I
? , ,.i-.-. hb, ? 'olumbia. - '.' 0 2\ ;
lullan, it. Brown. 3 3! n 2P i
: : : ;, It, Syi acuse. 2 3' 3" 20
ivfurphy, qb, i'ale. 2 3 1'. 2P
. Wray, i'', renn. 3 1 0 lit
C? mpton, n.l). Vale. 3 1 0 19 !
.-. L>l or, hb, Colgate_ 3 t 0 I'? !
V. whall, fb, \, - -1 yan. .3 0 0 IS
'Unirte, qb, Army. 3 0 0 18
Holbrook, hb, ! lartmouth 3 U ? 18
. ives tb, ! 3 is ton 3 0 0 18 I
Killlnger, qb, Pi nil State 3^0 0 11
[laines, hb, 13 tin State.. 3^0 0 IS
i.-.u-r nee, 'ii'. Army. ... 3 ? o 18
?aVaria, hb, I.- high. 3 0 U 1l
?an ii ?.', fb, Princeton.. .3 0 ? is
Walters, hb, Navy. 3 0 0 18
Noonnn. qb, Fordham.. .2 I 1 10
Ma rlnnes, rg, I.ehlgh. . . P 1.1 ! Ifi
L'iban, re, Boston Col. ..2 3 1) 14
Post? r, lib, Syracuse....'_' I (1 13
Gardner, ?it?. Rutgers. . . 2 l P 13
Keck. it. Princeton. 0 13 0 13
Brcidsti :-. Ig, Army. 0 13 o 13
Murray, qb, Prlnc? ton. . . 1 I 2 13
Armstrong, n'.>. Brown.. 1 7 o 1 '?'.
W. Burgi r, hb, Wiuiams 2 P o 12
Bu lusz, lit?. Stevens. 3 P ?? 12
Rugh, fb, I'l-nn State. ... 2 0 0 12
Redlnger, hb. Penn Stato 2 0 0 12
Kr.abb, qb, Pi un State. .3 0 o 12
II. im- iistal!, le, Penn S.. 3 0 0 12
Owen, hb, Harvard. 2 P ? 12
Brooks, hb. Brown. 2 P P 12
Anderson, fb, Syracuse.. 3 i? P 12
Pail?n, i.-. Syracuse. 2 0 0 12
Mos?czlenski, hb, ' '..!. ..2 o o IC
Aldi-Ich, hb, Yale. 2 U 0 12
Harrington, hb, I?ehlgh. 2 0 o 12
II? Ii .:? Im?n, hb, i.- high. 3 0 0 12
Goldman, c, Behlgh. 2 0 0 12
Sehe? rer, qb, 1 'rlnceton, .2 0 0 12
Simondinger, hb, Holy C. 2 0 n 12
Simon, hb, Wi st Ya. 2 ? 0 12
Baugher, fb, Cornell. ... 2 0 P 12
Harvey, hb, Penn. 2 0 ? 12
Guilt k. re, Lehlgh. 2 P P 12
Rawlings. hb. Navy. 2 0 0 12
Pulleyn, le, Columbia.... 2 0 0 12
Mallorj, re, Brown. 2 0 0 12
Gagnon, hb, Ilulv cross.. 1 3 l 12
Peck, ?t, P? im Stute_ 0 12 I? 12
Faxon, It. Harvard. .... 0 1 ! ?> 11
Martin, fb, West Va..l 1 4 p 10
Pendieton, Ig, Cornell... 1 4 0 10
Smith, qb, Holj Cross-. .1 1 1 IP
Kennedy, qb. Boston Col. I 1 1 IP
Buell, qb, Harvard. P 1 3 10
Penn Eleven \yorried
Over Coming Games
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 31- With the
Penn team more seriously crippled than
it was during the last week as a re?
sult of the clash with the Penn State
eleven, the Quakers face the coming
week of preparation for Pitt on Sat?
urday with little real hope. Penn was
forced to stijjt some of its injured stars
on Saturday, especially Joe Straus and
Mike Whitehall, yet the team has Pitt,
Columbia, Dartmouth and Cornell to
meet in order.
Unless the team can be pulled to?
gether by herculean labors on the part
of Coach lleisman and his assistants
Penn's chances are rather slim. P?ut
much ia expected of the lleisman shift,
v. iich has been little in evidence with
Penn. This, together with some for?
ward passes, will be Penn's surviving
hone.
Lyneh to Meet Sharkey
Joe Lynch and Jack Sharkey will
meet in Madison Square Garden next
Friday night. Three other bouts will
precede the main event?two teus and
one e?x. Two champions will meet in
the semi-final ?Barney Adair, the Irish
welterweight, and George Ward, of
New Jersey. K. O. George Cheney, of
Baltimore, will clash with George
Brown, of the West Side.
Saes^kili Golf Club Win*
MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., Oct. 31.?The
Saepskil! Golf Club, of Yonkers, played
off a tie with?j?he Dutchess Club, of
Poughkeepsie, on the link.-? of the
Orange County Golf Club here this
afternoon, the victory being won by the
Yonkers club. The contest was for the
1C20 banner of the Hudson River Golf
Association. *
I
IN ALL FAIRNESS
By W. O. M'GEEHAN
FREQUENTLY other teams show better football, but the popular
interest always rcmains^in the pames involving Yale, Harvard and
Princeton. Early season games indicate that these three universi?
ties have teams that are very evenly matched this year, and there should
bo three games worth seeing. The first battle will be between Princeton
and Harvard at ?Soldiers' Field Saturday.
The close of a sport-mad year finds a bigger popular interest in inter?
collegiate football than ever was shown before. It is not due to the growth
of the alumni societies, either, and it is not altogether due to the fact
that the college football game is a spectacle worth seeing. The general
public is taking to football for the game's sake. ' At West Point they told
me that they had something like seventy thousand applications for thg
twenty thousand tickets available for the Army-Navy game. At New
Haven they are enlarging the Yale Howl so that it will seat something like
eighty-five thousand for the Yale-Harvard game.
Professional promoters are watching these developments with hungry
eyes. There is much talk of a professional football league. There are
one or two in the West, and they are making a little money. But Ameri?
can football professionalized never would go on a big scale. The game is
what its name implies?intercollegiate football. The amateur tradition is
its foundation. A game between two professional teams hardly would
draw a corporal's guard in the East, where the intercollegiate games are
so plentiful.
Too Much Coaching
T STRIKES me that football teams should run themselves once they
take to the field. This business of having the professional coaches on
the sidelines, where they practically can direct the plays of their teams
through the medium of substitutes shot in with orders, blocks one of the
objects of the game, which is to teach the young men to do their own
thinking in emergency.
It is a great game for the development of character and initiative
according to the theory, but when the coaches are interfering constantly
it makes it a game of amateurs directed by professionals. The rules com- i
mittee would make it a much better game it' at the next session they would
legislate the coaches from the sidelines during the playing of the game, i
That would make it a real test of brain and brawn between the elevens j
instead of a test of strategy between professional coaches.
The rules committee did recognize the evil of the coaches sending in
orders for plays through substitutes. But they checked it only to a lim- ?
ited extent. They passed a rule forbidding a substitute to talk before one
play had been made. Why not go the whole route and absolutely prevent ,
the coaches from suggesting or interfering during the progress of a game? :
Not a Good Compromise
npHE reorganization of professional baseball is proceeding at a snail's
pace. To the Lasker plan, backed by all the club owners of the Na?
tional League and three club owners of the American League, Ban John
son, supported by five club owners of the American League, has offered !
the compromise of a new National Commission, compost?* of three club !
owners of each of the big leagues and three club owners of the minor j
leagues.
The backers of the compromise plan maintain that "practical baseball ;
men" only can control the game. There is a certain vagueness about the ?
term "practical baseball men." It seems to me that the game has been
handled by what the five club owners and Ban Johnson might can "practi?
cal baseball men" long enough. "Practical baseball men" permitted Hal
Chase to stay in the game, despite what was known about him, until his j
success as a fixer moved the weak-minded crooks on the Chicago team to
follow his example. "Practical baseball men" failed to see the Chicago ?
scandal developing. "Practical baseball men" are responsible for the
condition of organized baseball to-day. Idealists in the place of "practical
men" might bring about a wholesome change.
The appointment of the nine-man commission would not be any guar- ?
anty of stability. The nine men would be tangled up in baseball politics !
right from the start. Their sessions would be very much along the lines:
of the discredited National Commission. There must be over the commis?
sion of three or nine men a higher tribunal with absolute authority, and it,
must be made up of men whom the lover,-, of baseball will trust.
John A. Heydler told the truth when he said that the old National!
Commission was so concerned about petty baseball politics that it could
see nothing else. The nine-mian commission would be merely another [
National Commission blinded by the same conflict of interests.
Jennings and the Giants
JTUGHEY JENNINGS, old Oriole, is with the Giants as assistant to;
John J. McGraw. There are many who wonder why Jennings did not
do better with the Detroit Tigers this year. It seemed to have all the'
potentialities of a first division team, yet it finished nowhere. Naturally
there are many who will try to put till the blame on the manager.
It seemed to me that the matter with the Detroit team was too much j
Ty Cobb. There is no gainsaying the fact that Cobb is one of the greatest i
baseball players that ever lived, but he is an individual player and not a I
team player. One of Cobb's prerogatives, given by himself to himself, is
to skip spring training. This naturally makes the other players peevish
and causes discontent on the team. Moreover, Cobb has demonstrated I
that he needs spring training just as much as a human baseball player, i
He starts the season slowly and is not at his best until late in the year.
There is one thing about the Giants. Never since McGraw took ;
charge of the team have stars been given any special privileges. The team
always has been well disciplined, and that counts. It helps to win base?
ball games. Jennings will find a different spirit on the Giants.
Uncle Robbie and Brooklyn
IN SIGNING Wilbert Robinson for a long-time contract Charles H.
Ebbets showed good sense and foresight. There were at least three
clubs who were willing to give Robbie the salary due a manager of his
ability. There is no doubt that Robinson, with his happy faculty of
making friends and his instinct for handling men, would have begun to
make good in any new city, especially if he went to one of the wealthier
baseball clubs.
But Robinson has been closely identified with the Brooklyn Dodgers
and he was not eager to change. Twice he piloted the Dodgers to a pen?
nant, but he missed winning a world's series. His ambition is to win a
series with the same team. The Brooklyn fans are certain that he will,
and he has so won over the Brooklyn fans that it would be a shock to the
box office at Ebbets Field if he were to go somewhere else.
The Case of Marquard
[T SEEMS certain that Rube Marquard, who was dismissed from organ?
ized baseball, will be given another hearing. Rube is said to have done
some ticket scalping on a small -scale during the world's series at Cleveland
; and was fined $1 for the offense. Whereupon organized baseball virtuously
: kicked him downstairs and declared that he never could play again.
Organized baseball always has been very firm and virtuous about
' disciplining a young ball player or an old ball player who is about
| through. But the punishment of Rube Marquard is all out of proportion.
'. It is the same punishment that was meted out to the. Chicago players who
sold themselves to the gamblers. Moreover, the scalpers around New York
j had plenty of tickets to the Brooklyn game, which would indicate that
1 others besides the Rube were engaged in the ticket business during the
? series.
Organized baseball casting out Marquard presents a companion pic?
ture to Mr. Pecksniff, wrapped in virtuous hypocrisy, saying to Tom
Pinch: "Young man, go forth."
The Big Bi?ut
AT THE current writing the Dempsey-Carpentier bout is slated for
Cuba. To those who know anything about the promotion of big boxing
bouts this look like a ruse. Havana, which failed to draw enough to pay
for the purse of the Willard-Johnson bout, hardly could draw enough to
make the $800,000 gate receipts counted on for the Dempsey-Carpentier
bout?even with the added attraction of rum in all varieties.
It looks very much as though the promoters raised the talk of Cuba
to forestall a lot of criticism that might come. The fact that Dempsey
is to receive $."00,000 for one bout started a lot of tongues to wagging
and has caused the Boxing Commission to wonder w hat effect a Dempsey
Carpentier bout might have on the boxing game here. There seems no
good reason why the bout should not be permitted, though. Carpentier
is certain that he has more than a good chance of beating the champion.
Somebody has said that it would be a national calamity if Dempsey
were knocked out. Hardly that bad. The nation might survive the loss
of the heavyweight ??ka?i^ionship.
1
George Gipp
Whole Team
In Himself
Notre Dame University
Springs Sensation of Year
on Gridiron at West Point
By Grantland Rice
George Cipp, of Notre Dame, a long
legged, spraddle-legged, kanearoo half?
back, .steps into the picture as the lend?
ing 1920 star.
Gipp is'the best back we've seen in a
long time-another Eddie Mahan an?!
every whit as gofftt
He may not he quite as artful a
'lodger as Mahan was?although Gipp
is an eel but he is a harder runner
and a harder man to drag down.
This is about all that Gipp could do
in his work against the Army eleven?
1. Hit a line with crushing force.
2. Weave his way througn a broker,
field.
3. Hold his feet after being tackled
fiercely.
4. Do some long distance punting.
5. Shoot a forward pass w;t^ speed
and accuracy. |F
6. And in addition he is a drop
kicker of no mean ni"rit.
Gipp is the ideal triple threat, since
he ran kick, pass and tarry the ball
in briiliant fashion. He runs with both
knees flying high and far apar?. He
starts quickly and his stride is unu-u
ally long. He is extremely elusive, but
the main test is that when tackled with
battering force in place of crumpling
up he would merely stagger a moment
and then fight his way forward fur
several additional yards. He was a.
hard to bring down as a bull moose.
Notre Dame's Strength
The Army eleven fought well and
took advantage of every break. It:
French the cadets presented a star who
has few equals on attack.
But the Army was up? against the
most powerful offense shown in the
East this season a fast, alert, rugged
attack that was not to be stopped.
No team in the East has the same
combination of speed, power and ver?
satility in moving a football foriit?rd.
And part of this is due to the fact that
no team in the East has any sue'' i ?
ing mass of destruction as Gipp aro m
to undermine a defense.
Notre Dame cam?.? to West Point with
a big, strong line that knew footbal
with a tina backfield to carry the ball
->nd with a kicking and a passing game
of note.
While West Point scored seventeen
point., the Army nttaek, headed by the
fleet French, could earn oply four first
downs and the Army had far ' '^. a
weak team?a much stronger machine
than it had last year. Don't make the
mistake of figuring the Army on the
weak B'de. It i-n't. The team :s w 11
coached?it knows how to block ami
tackle?and it knows how to fight. This
is shown by the fact that for two pe?
riods it outscored a much stronger
machine.
But the Army was up against more i
than it could handle?-possibly more
than Harvard, Yale, Princeton or Pitt
could have handled- another Penn
State plus George Gipp. The. Army's
attack was limited to few plays. Ton
limited toward the finish, when, with
only two minutes ?eft, it remained
content to plug for a yard or two
through Notre Dame's line in place of
at least trying some long distance
scoring play?the only gamble left un?
der the circumstances.
1 In spile of this the Army did re?
markably well in scoring sevei
points against this Western team, wh ch
as it played on Saturday wiuld
ably have won from any team in the
country.
No Zone Play
Notre Dams is another elever. tl
discarded zone play in so far as gen?
eralship gees. At one period, standing
back of his own goal line. Gipp ?i?
back as if to punt?the supposedly i g
ical move?and then tossed a lor:.: :' r
ward pass to one of his onds, w io
muffed an easy chance thirty yards
down the field. The pass struck '
his arms and bounded out. ba*. that
was no fault of the play itself.
Although beaten, this game will
Daley's men a lot of good. It /as
their first stiff test, and they met ?1
well. About three weeks fren; n '"?'
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