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We do not advertise ridiculously, but make a
very liberal cut from an honest and fair regular
price. Customers who trade here are never afraid
of trickerythey, know it is never tolerated in
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It's near inventory
small lots than we wish to carry
gone through the different departments and cut the
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Overcoats, Suits, Boys' and Children's.Suits
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one who thinks at ail of public affairs, and votes perhaps with
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FOOTBALL
BANKING OF TEAMS
Caspar Whitney Does Not Think
Western Football Equal to
Eastern in Finish.
Banks Michigan Fourth and Minne
sota FifteenthThe Fate of
the Mass Flay.* - . ,
Casper Whitney, in Outing for Janu
ary, takes up the old question of the rela
tive strength of eastern and western foot
ball teams, holding that none of tho
western elevens equals the eastern aggre
gation of the same rank. He grades the
teams of 1902 as follows:
1Vnlc. 15Minnesota,
2Harvard. 1Syracuse.
3West Point. 17Columbia.
lftChicago. 1HWisconsin.
20Illinois. 21Nebraska. 22Virginia. 23Clemson.
24North Carolina.
25Georgetown. 26Sewanee. 27Vanderbilt.
28Tennessee.
In regard to the comparative strength of
east and west, Mr. Whlney says:
"Next to West Point, the team of thev
season is unquestionably Michigan.
"Western men, and especially Michigan
men, honestly believe their team would
give Yale a close argument. Apropos of
which, 1 quote from a letter to the Michi
gan Inlander, by some Michigan man who
made a trip east in mid-season. 'How
ever, it is my belief, based upon games
that J saw, that Michigan could have de
feated either Tale or Harvard this year,
by at least two touchdowns, and that
against Pennsylvania, West Poiqt or An
napolis, the score would be considerably
larger. None of the teams I have men
tioned has team work that compares with
that of Michigan, and as for speed, it
would be a revelation to have them see
the Minnesota team play.'
Thinks East Is Stronger
4Michigan. 5Princeton. 6Dartmouth. 7Brown. 8Pennsylvania. 0Cornell.
10Ainberst. 11Carlisle.
12Annapolis. 15Lehigh.
14Lafayette.
"I quote this merely by way of showing
the prevailing opinion among western col
lege men as to the comparative strength
of eastern and western football teams.
With no idea of questioning the sincerity
of this writer, yet I must say that his con
clusion is quite unwarranted.
"The cause for this underestimation of
eastern teams by Western men is due
first to commendable loyalty to the home
product, and to the fact that western men
invariably base their conclusions on the
eastern play they see in mid-season, a
period when none of the big teams of the
east is within 50 per cent of its final form.
"There is no question of the great ad
vance western football has made, and
none is quicker than I to accord credit
and praise nor is there any question of
the high quality of material, with which
the west is abundantly provided. . In
deed, a large percentage of the best men
we have on the eastern teams are west
ern men. I am not so sure that a review
of the last ten years of football would
not result in finding that, of the most
prominent players, a majority hailed from
the West. Coming to the last season, by
way of example, five of Yale's team are
western men. Shevlin, the star end
rusher, is from Minneapolis Kitiney, one
ot the best tackles of the day, Is from
Cleveland Rockwell, the little general of
a quarterback, is from Portland, Ore.
Bowman, one of the .most useful full
backs of' the year, is from Union town,
Pa., and Rafferty, the other end rusher,
is from Pittsburg, Pa. It has long been
my opinion, indeed, that one of the rea
sons for Yale's athletic successes, is to
be attributed to the infusion of -western
blood in her teams.
: No Second Line of Defense.
"Comparing Michigan of this year with
Yale or Harvard, the western team is in
ferior in interference for the runner, pro
tection on catching punts, second line of
defense, and in the general finesse of the
game. Perhaps the western weakness,
which either of the eastern teams under
consideration would find soonest, and to
the disaster of the western, is the almost
entire absence of a second line of defense.
An attack such as that exhibited by Yale
and Harvard would rip through the Michi
gan single line ot defense almost Inva
riably.
"In respect to a second line of defense,
curiously enough, Michigan and Prince
ton were both alike and both deficient.
Michigan stands in relation to the other
western teams as does Yale in the east,
for it is above comparison with its rivals.
"In the matter of individual -western
players, although there is abundant ma
terial, as I have shown, yet players of the
west never get the individual coaching
given members of eastern teams, there
fore the nmber of western individuals
who show prominently are few lrr a sea
son and when they do shine, it is be
cause of exceptional brilliancy.
"There are as good men in the west this
year as every year, but only one is good
enough to secure a place on the AU-Amer
ican and substitute team."
Mr. Whitney here refers to Weeks of
Michigan, whom he places at quarter on
the substitute Ail-American eleven. Qther
western"men whom he classes. as worthy
of mention are Heston and Sweeley of
Michigan.
Football Popularity Threatened.
Taking up the question of mass plays,
Mr. Whitney says:
"Nineteen hundred an two closed an
other, football season of devoted pursuit, of
the battering ram principle no development
of note marked the year's play no new
skill was revealed in formatiqhs-r-nor. ex
pertness in their .execution beyond,that of
the previous season, The game was the
same as that of 1901the premium on
brute force placed, still higher.
"Those of us who have Outlived our
prejudices, and-ar-e: sincere friends of col
lege sport, feel the present situation' in
football-.-to be a serious- one, not because.
of its -brutal play,' but solely because the
hamrher-and-tongs style of game now in
vogue is taking the .fun out of it for the
players and eventually that means foot
ball will lose-.its popularjity.' . - -
"Football is a vigorous game,' and as
such is to be commended, but. the batter
ing ram principle of play has beehJ
Credit Due to Yost.
"The Michigan eleven of 1902, although
not, I think, quite so good as that of 1901,
Is yet one of the best in the country. It
has weight and speed, and was well
grounded Jn the fundamentals of the
game. Considering it to be the work of a
single coach, its finish and power were
remarkable. In these days of football no
man on. earth can bring an eleven up to
the standard necessary to win a Yale or
a Harvard game, where, it must be ac
knowledged, the highest football skill is
4 annually revealed. At Harvard and at Yale
there Is a coach for every man in the line
and back, of it, all under the direction of
one head coach. At Michigan, Mr. Yost
was the sole coaching sponser for the
eleven That he brought his team to' a
point worthy of rank among the leaders
of the country reflects great credit on
the members Of the team, and must be
considered as a very notable performance
on the part of the coach.
ried too far in recent years it has gone
to the point where premium is placed-on
mere brute strength where he chief de
sideratum is weight, and where advanc
ing the ball is by a crude proeess of ham
mering the tackle, or some other man. in
the opposing line, into helplessness.-.--
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- "The rules committee is not in sym-.:
pathy with these objections and its. chair
man publicly upholds the killing style of
gam* permitted by existingr rules but it
is hardly to .be expected that men re-
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sponsible for the ^present conditions will
admit of anything to criticize except In
the opinions jit those who view the situa
tion from a perspective apparently impos
sible to the rules committee in general
and to its chairman in particular.
"Something must he done to lighten
the hammering to which men in the line
from tackle to tackle are subjected. I
would hot do away with the battering ram
principle, but I should make it less crush
ing and'more nearly within the capabili
ties of human bone and muscle to with
stand for the limit of human endurance
has been just about reached. We must
put a premium on skill and speed, as
against mere brute, strength and weight,
and there are several ways of doing It
most of them already discussed and fa
miliar to football men. It is to be hoped
the rules committee will view the situa
tion frankly, for it has come to the point
where the need of the game is impera
tive ot more importance, Indeed, then
even the committee itself.
Vituperation and Mud Slinging..
"Even more seriously disturbing to the
normal relation of football and of sport
general to university life is the attitude
of colleges one to the other, when aues
tlons arise, concerning the eligibility of a
player. A band of card-sharpers could
not view the acts of one another more
suspiciously than do some college athletic
authorities. It is the question of an
athlete's bona fides" raised through the
newspapers by an unknown and, as likely
as not, partizan and half-informed corre
spondent, forthwith a newspaper war of
recrimination is let loose, into which fac
ulty, alumni and undergraduates fling
themselves Jiot haste, slanging and ruf
fiianly. No thought is taken of the indi
vidual whose name is made the target for
all manner of insinuations of wrong-doing,
if not of open accusation.
"And then the threats of ppotest! the
bitterness of reproach with which the cal
low youth inveigh against the offending
college and all its members! Talk about
hysteria! Why. the French are Teutonic
compared with our faculties and. alumni
during a football season!
"Play the gamethe same spirit on the
gridiron as in your. house the same for
your opponents in the rush line as for
your guest at dinner or over the billiard
tabl6. I saw a Yale man throttleliter
ally throttleKernan, sfc that he dropped
the ball the,I two hands reached up in
plain view of every oneand all saw them
but the umpireand choked and choked.
Such a man would cheat at your card
table if he thought he could do so with
out detection. The dirty players in foot
ball are the thugs of society, and the dis
grace of the university that tolerates their
presence on a team.
"I you find a player for a team or a
college has cheated you, don't set up an
infantile wail through the press or bury
your hands in vituperative mud-slinging'
drop them. If you cannot depend, on the
word of a university and the hpnor-of
its athletic representatives, do as you
would do in private lifehave nothing
further to do with them.
"Play like a gentleman or do not play
at all.
"There was more uncalled for rough
play in two of the big eastern games
Harvard-Yale, Yale-Princetonthan has
been seen for some time. Not before in
a number of years have I seen so much
foul play as I saw at Princeton and New
Haven and Yale the offender. . The pity
of it is that such a good team should, in
dividually stoop to work so contemptible!
Arid this was directly due to incompetent
umpiring."
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lowest altitude and a most genial tem
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I would feel bloated after eating the plain-
est meal. I would suffer with headache
that nearly drove me crazy and would be so
nervous-that if any one spoke a little quick
to me f would cry. I could not help it. I
was not fit for any kind of . work. Since I
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IF YOU DID NOT BUY
last week you made money, as we have some surprises left for you in the
shape of furniture that arrived too late for last week's sale* We do not
want to carry it over, so we have marked the price where you can afford to
purchase. In addition to the FANCY FURNITURE on sale, we offer the
following bargains in every-day staple furniture. ,
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CAPT. FRANCIS 6, BEACH'S SUICIDE.
New Haven, Conn., Dec. 80.Captain Francis
G. Beach, one of the prominent citizens of New
Haven, died to-day from a pistol shot wound
self-iutficfed, Dec. 4, during a fit of temporary
aberration resulting from illness. During the
second administration of President Cleveland
fie was postmaster here. He was well known in
military circles.
BOUTELL BROS.
DECEMBER 30, 1902.
JUDGE KoNALLY HEXTONS.
San Francisco, Dec. 30.J. C. McNally, United
States consul general to Guatemala, has ar
rived here from Central America en route to his
former home at Pittsburg, Pa. He Ma been as
signed to Liesre, Belgium. Prior to bis ap
pointment as consul general he was a federal
judge in Utah. . -
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New York, Dec. 30.Imogene Tracy, one of
the best known of soubrettes of a generation ago,
is dead as the result of a fall downstairs at her
home in this city. Miss Tracy took up-the part
Of Topsy -in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," after the
role had haen created by Marie Bates, and played
it for meuy years. She was tlie one chosen to
play the part in Europe at the time a fund
was raised to have the play produced there.
with all
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