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Every football season the question'
of conipnrativc scores is exhumed
and brought forward and made to
prove almost anything.
Under the system Podunk College
m(iy have a better team than the rec­
ognized champions when the season
is over, regardless of the fact that
Podunk has only played one team of
aiiy strength and that early in the sea­
son.
There is a striking example this
year.
Xo critic would claim that Dart­
mouth could win from Pittsburgh, yet
comparative scores would have it that
the Green is fully as strong as Cilenn
Warner's Panthers.
Yet, according to comparative
scores, the dope would be something
ljke this.
W!. & J. gave Pittsburgh the hard­
est game of the season, holding them
to a 13 to 10 score and almost tying
the score by a field goal which failed
by inches. The week before W. & J.
The r«ed of a manager for the St.
Louis Cardinals brings up the old
question of why Bill Clymer, manager
of the Louisville Colonels has not
been considered for the berth.
Clymer is perhaps the most success­
ful or minor league managers. For
years he has piloted teams into the
first division of the merican Associa­
tion and the International League.
Never has he fallen below third
place. number of times his teams
have won.
Louisville last year he took an
apparently hopeless club and brought
It through a winner. Before that he
had piloted a Toronto team to the top
A showdown was looked for be­
tween John Tener and Garry Herr
nian. With both of them dealing from
cold decks it couldn't have been very
(interesting. There's only four aces
even in a cold deck.
iFreezing to death is said to be an easy
^eath. That may be one reason some
,peoplc take up ice yachting.
Star was an also ran in a Havana
race. Someone probably hitched their
wagon to him.
Ban Johnson hasn't talked, much
about exempting ballplayers lately.
Wazza matter, Han? Cold feet?
The six-day bike race in New York
is finished but suckers won't have to.
wait a whole year to get a chance to
bite on something almost as bad. A
rassling tournament is scheduled.
Sport Gos9tp
East aT.nsing, Mich., Dec. 13.—Coach
IiYewer of the Michigan Aggies' foot
ball eleven is looking forward to 191S
with two happy realizations. His
team can't do any worse than it did
this year when it failed not only to
.win a game but did not earn a touch­
down until the closing game with
.Syracuse. Rrewer also is cheered by
the fact that he had a pretty fair
freshman eleven this year and that
it was strong where the 'varsity was
weak, i. e., in the backfield. Graves,
Mueller and Noblet proved fine ground
.fcainers and they are expected to try
for the team next autumn.
Ann Arbor, 'Mich., Dec. 13.—Michi­
gan's track team has started its
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was defeated by West Virginia-7 to. 0,
and a week or so before that Dart-1
mouth defeated West Virginia to 2.
Another way of looking at the same
situation is that while Dartmouth did
not permit West Virginia a touch-1
down, Pittsburgh had nine points
scored against her by the mountain
boys. I
There are two main reasons whyj
comparative scores are worthless.
In the firsf. place some football
teams improve faster than others.
Some gain theip full strength early in
the season while others do not.
The other reason, which is most
important is that most coaches be­
gin the season by pointing their
teams toward one or two important
games, usually late in the season. In
their efforts to reach the maximum
power at that time they often play
early games with substitutes and «lo
not uncover plays and formation with
Avliich they might win or pile up big
scores.
TOO INDEPENDENT TO MANAGE CLUB SO
GLYRIER STAYS IN
of the heap. And that particular Tor­
onto team looked the poorest in the
league.
Clymer's independence probably, has
a great deal to do with his failure to
cet in the majors.
Bill would not ask for a job and if
one were offered him, conditions
would have to be just so before he
would consent to sign a contract.
Bill would expect to dictate the pol­
icies fhis club rather than turn this
responsibility over to the magnate.
Magnates, as a general rule, are in­
clined to be jealous of their preroga­
tives, and this may be the reason
Clymer has never landed higher than
the bushes.
seek game in the sprints. Cuthbert, a
middle distance runner, has a fine
high school record. In the field events
prospects seem almost hopeless.
Waterloo, la., Miner league baseball
is "sick" and needs a long rest in the
opinion of Frank lJoyle, a veteran
manager, who has served several sea­
sons in the Central association. Boylo
can see no relief for the game until
the end of the war.
"Even if it is necessary to drop the
sport for two or three years, it would
come back all the stronger," Boyle
said. "Deprive red blooded Americans
of the game for a couple of years and
they would be wild to support it.
"I may be wrong, but I do not think
many minor leagues will attempt to
start next spring. It will be a good
thing for the sport."
Minneapolis, Dec. 14.—Paul Flinn,
the speedy end on the University of
Minnesota football eleven, is going to
join the nation's fighting force. Be­
fore leaving the university. Flinn told
friends that he planned to enlist in
the artillery at Duluth. his home.
Flinn was drafted, but his name was
so far down in the list that he was not
called. He was picked by some critics
for a place on the All-Western eleven
this season and was regarded as tho
logical choice as captain on the 11)1 S
Minnesota team.
SEATTLE CI1Y GOUNCiL
llETUSES TO PASS ORWRll
TO MM Ml (ILL
Seattle, Wash., Dec. 1-Y—The Seat­
tle city council by vote of five to
three today declined to adopt a reso­
lution containing impeachment
charges against Mayor Hiram C. Gill.
The resolution charged that Mayor
Gill
permitted
ments
to remain open, permitted gam-
bling, failed to close dance halls, al-
leged to be nuisances, and allowed the
use 0j
j,jg
name
the
Scofield. Butler, Huntington, Hard-'
move
By PAUL PURMAN.
Tho old axiom of sport "They can't
ccme back" is faced with a new theor­
em in 1918 baseball. "They must
ome hack."
It is on the chances of the old stars
comint Hack tuat baseball magnates
rue baling their hopes now.
Of those men who have reached
the end of the roail in ordinary times
a great many will hear the call to fill
the ranks deleted by war.
The following men who have been
out of baseball for a few seasons, or
who have beon retained as coaches
probably wjll have a chance to show
whether or not thev can coine back.
Infielders—Larry Lajoie, Hans Wag­
ner, Hans l.obert, Joe Tinker, .limmie
Viox, Jay Kirke, Clyde Kngle, Lcary,
Steve Yerkes, Harry Lord, John Hum
mell, Jacsiiues Fournicr, Von Kolnitz,
Art Phelan and George Stovall.
Outfielders Sam Crawford, 'Birdie
Crce, Olaf Hendrickson, Wiade Kitlifer,
Ham Hyatt, Fred Snodgrass and oth­
ers.
Catchers—Tom Clarke, George Gib­
son, Jimmie Archer, Sweeney aad
Dooin.
It is a usual rule that when a pitch­
er is through he cannot make good
on another trial. Yet these aro a few
pitchers back in the big minors who
might come in niighty handy this
year. V'ean Gregg led the Interna­
tional League last year and might be
ready for a comeback Fred Falken
burg probably has a few good gams*
in his head if he hasn't in nis ancient
arm Nap Rucker might be coaxed
back to the big show for another tiy
out.
It is likely two bench managers ot
Inst year will be coaxed into he game.
Matthewson declares he v/ill get into
shape and pitch if he finds it neces­
sary, and Miller Hugging probably
will be found on the field if the Yan­
kees run short of infielders.
It is bound to be a dull winter for
writing obituaries of old-timers. Few
of the veterans will »be released this
year. John Evers may retire on ac­
count of poor health, but the others
who probably would have been side­
tracked this year had the year been
normal, undoubtedly will be found
back in fast company again.
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By K. W. Payne*
With the British Armies in the Field
Dec. 14.—Tommy's habits of life in the
front line trenches—what are they?
You
jn connection with
Merchants'
Protective Corpora-
°f
clt,zens who have been 1
working for Gill's impeachment as a
means of having military authorities
remove the order barring Camp Lewis
soldiers from visiting Seattle.
college.
Farrell has only about a dozen men.
.Three of these are stars—Moeller.
.the hurdler, Donnelly, the dis?ance
runner and Captain Sedgwick, of the
cross-country team, who established a
rew local record for the five milej Cures Colds in South Africa
jaunt. Froemke, a football player, will' LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tab
try out in the dashes. Johnson, who lets remove the cause. E. W. GROVE'S
was on the freshman team, also will signature on box. 30c.
Wanted—Gunnysacks at Gussner's.
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spending three days in various parts
of the trenches and at times under
fire.
To find out just what life in the the ones where our soldiers may take
front line trenches under fire is going up their residence.
to be like I was given the privilege of, On a quiet day in the line the dan-
Outbursts of Everett True
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ger is greater a mile or more behind
than it is in the trenches themselves.
No matter how great a lull there may
be at the front, Fritz is pretty certain
to shell with heavy stuff t^e cross­
roads and fields "through which our
men must approach the communica­
tion trenches.
Kipling's "Law of the Jungle," is
oiie rule of trench life. "Remember
that night is for hunting and forget
not that day is for sleep."
As one plods endlessly through the
communication trenches, he stumbles
over the feet of men sleeping behind
curtains in their dugouts. At night'
these men may go out into No Man's
Land to hunt the Boche.
We pass groups of plodding men
bent, sweating, but cheery, under,
loads of supplies for the front line.
Some bear on their backs great iron
arches and girders to help in dug-out
construction. I
Others are carrying boxes of ammu­
niti pa of at an
ties of stew. Peeping over the trench
parapet one sees all around merely a
broad grayish-green slope which is ab­
solutely deserted and is dusted here
and there with the black clouds of ex­
ploding shells. But here underground
the whole hillside is olive with subter­
ranean activity. It is as though one
had penterated into a titanic anthill.
On the way to the front trench we
pass a certain headquarters. Snugly,
ensconed in a big dugout entered
through a door in the trench wall, a
group of officers are dining. There is
a clean white tablecloth spread, and aj
variety of good food is offered the
guests. One officer leads the way, to a
much deeper dugout down many s'teps,
where he sleeps. It has white ceilings
and walls, the latter covered half-way,
up with burlap.
A bed and a Morris chair a phono­
graph and records on one table, books
and papers on another, a typewriter,
telephone, maps, and a rough carpet:
on the floor make it seem more like a I
comfortable bungalow than a dugout.
And all outside is a waste of mud and
rambling ditches where these officers
and their men are hourly on the verge
of death.
The trenches are occasionally nam-|
ed after some of the world's best
known streets and avenues. One sign
points the way to a sniper's post and
another to the stretcher bearers.
At the entrance to the front line
trench a sign reads, "Keep your head
down and your heart up."
All about us in the trenches were
groups of men engaged in various du­
ties. Some were bathing. Others were
sewing on buttons or cleaning boots,
of the -trench was serving as bar
An up-ended box square in the mid­
dle of one trench was serving as bar­
ber's chair, and a facetious group was
.mi
Toby changes his xmas plans
IDEA Or*
•U PATSY Cltt LOOKS LIKE 1ESI MIT
I fOR LEOWD'S CROHN
Down east they are grooming Irish
Patsy Clinc lor a try at Benny Leo­
nard's lightweight title.
While it is admitted that Leonard
has a toe hold on the championship
which he is not likely to le loose of
for some time, it is not believed that
Leonard would have such a cinch
with Cline as he has had with the
other boys he has been matched with.
It took Chine a trifle over a minute
to knock out Jimmiet Paul in Rhode
watching thd victim under the ama­
teur barber's hand3.
Amusements are scarce and time for
them scarcer. Here, however, a game
of cards is going on, and near it in
their dougout doors men are writing
letters or reading. A few of them have
pet birds and many a dog wanders
about.
"The police chase the dogs out of
the villages," said our offificer-guide,
"so they wander out here to us and
MR. BUSINESSMAN
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Island not long ago, and while Paul
is not a world beater, he has been
considered a mighty tough boy to
dispose of and knocking him out in
less than a round is not to be sneered
at.
In the meantime Leonard has gone
along at top speed usually ending his
bouts with the referee counting 10
over his adversaries and making the
knockout records of other recent
lightweight champs look like 189C egg
prices.
strike up firm friendships."
Work takes most of the men's
waking hours. Guns and equipment
must' be cleaned. New trenches are
being dug, old ones repaired. Duck
boards are being laid and drainage
systems dug.
On our way out through the maze
of trenches we suddenly turn a corner
and come on the postman making his
rounds, with his hands full of letters
for delivery.
he. Bank with the Cloct
You may be debating in your mind tho question
as to what is the best means for you to employ in
attaining Success.
Unless you already possess a large sum of money
there is only one answer, and that is save and be
ready for opportunities that are sure to come.
What you save will be the factor which will fin­
ally end the debate in your favor.
TheFilst National Bank
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