Candidates Report at
San Antonio Academy
FAST FOOTHILLTEAM WILL
REPRESENT MN YNTONID
ACADEMY BN FIELD IN 1910
Nineteen Candidates Report to Coach
Culver and Outlook for Coming Season
is Promising—Finck Will Play.
With six veterans back in the school ।
and trying for positions on the football ।
teain, the San Antonio academy eleven ;
has the brightest prospects and should
develop into one of the best of the local j
teams. Not for many years has this |
school had such a nucleus as at present,;
and while they have been factors at all;
times in the Academic Football league,
their chances were never so bright as atj
the present time.
Under the coaching of J. W. Culver ;
the candidates for the team and the j
other students are confident that they [
will head the list at the end of the sea
son, but it is too early to make any pre
dictions as to the success of the team,
but if hard work and a thorough knowl
edge of the game will win games, then
the San Antonio academy will be win-1
ners this fall.
At the present time there are only]
nineteen men out for the team, but:
what the school lacks in quantity it
makes up in quality, for the squad is .
one of the heftiest that Coach Culver,
has ever started a season with. There '
is weight and speed and all that is ।
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। necessary is the development, and the
I academy’ eleven will have a fine season, j
From now on the men will hold daily |
j sessions on the gridiron, but it is not
i likely that there will be any scrim
mage practices until the latter part of;
j next week, when a number of other
| candidates report for the team. At the ;
’ present time there are a few players
I missing from the squad, but they are |
! expected to be on hand in a few days
I and then a batter line can be had on
1 the possibilities of the team.
Coach Culver will give the squad
j plenty <vf rudimentary work at each [
practice session, for he is determined I
that his men shall know all of the finer ■
points of the game, as well as the fun- (
damental details of play. At yester- i
day’s session nineteen men were out in [
.uniform and they were put through a I
long drill. This included falling on the I
i ball, tackling, punting and a signal '
I drill. Although the players have been ;
I practicing but three days, they show j
I plenty of proficiency in all departments i
jof the game. The material is this
| fall, but this will be no drawback, for,
iunder the new rules weight is not al
’ requisite. But the speed is there, and]
. it will be the work of Coach Culver to
develop the boys with this as the es
sential. and during the past few days
I all of the candidates have shown that
they possess this requisite.
One of the most prominent, candidates
for a place on the team this year is
Meerscheidt, a new man, who is being
; played in the backfield. He has weight
and speed, and should be a gerat ground
; gainer for the team in all of its con-
I tests. Then there is Finck, center on
] the San Antonio high school team last
year. He is one of the best line men
in the local scholastic ranks and is sure
of a place on the eleven.
There was a long drill yesterday af
ternoon under the direction of Coach
Culver, and before the boys were sent,
to the chib house they were given a drill
in signals. A first team was selected
from the most likely candidates and
these were run through a number of the
plays and formations that will form the
foundation of all of the plays this fall.
This team lined up as follows: Knit
tell, center; Smiley, right guard; Cap
tain Corter, right tackle; Crim, right
end: Weiner, left guard; Kunkel, left
tackle; Morris, left end; Scott, quarter
back; Baggett, right half back; Hines.
। left half back, and Meerscheidt. full
I back.
This will he the line up in all of the
practices until the other new men re
port. when there will be a number of
changes.
NEW MEN REPORT
FOR H. S. ELEVEN
San Antonio High School's football
squad was augmented yesterday by the
addition of two new candidates for the
team. These players arc Manichean ami
•lones and their appearance on the field
was welcomed by both Coach Pfeiffer
and < aptain Elmendorf. Both of them
have had plenty of experience in foot
ball and they are valuable additions to
•bo squad. The latter this season is one
<>f the best that has ever reported for
| football at the local high school and it.
now looks as though they would have a
great, team.
Hie practice yesterday afternoon
fEDINCK DOUBLE CROSSES BUNK AND GETS HIS—By Tad
JOHNSON AGREES TO
MEET SB LANGFORD
Heavyweights Will Meet Today
and Complete Details for
Ring Contest.
Boston, Mass., Sept. 21. —As a result
of a wordy battle at the Armory A. A.
last night it is more than likely that
Jack Johnson and Sain Langford will
be matched to meet in the ring. The
two men will meet this afternoon and
Agree upon terms for the match.
Both of the heavies attended the
weekly show of the A. A. A., and while
there engaged in an argument. The
outcome of the affair was the promise
of the champion to meet Sam at a news
paper office here and complete all de
tails for the meeting. Johnson, it was
announced, agreed to meet Langford for
a purse of $20,000 and a side bet. the
amount of the latter not being an
nounced.
consisted chiefly of punting and tack
ling and in the hitter departments of
the game the players were given a long
drill, under the personal direction of
Coach Pfeiffer. All of the candidates
had to participate in the tackling, for
this will be one of the features of the
work of the high school this year..
There will be no scrimmage wo'k
until next week and from that time on
the candidates will be forced to play
hard football during the remainder of
the season.
SIXTY RUNNERS ENTER
FOR CHICAGO MARATHON
< hicago. Sept. 21.—A1l Chicago Mari
thon entry records were smashed last
night when sixty nominations had nc-
World’s Series Stars—No. 8
Eddie Plank! What a name to con [
jure with! It spells terror for the!
American leaguer who, better than his:
National league brother, realizes and
ap-reviates the ability of the phenome-j
nal southpaw on Mack's pay roll.
Plonk is destined to take part in the
World’s series. He ought to prove a
winner, for the Cubs do not like a left-
SAN ANTONIO LIGHT AND GAZETTE
RECORD SMASHING
IN HARNESS WORLD
WITHOUT PARALLEL
New York, Sept. 21. —The rec
ords kept, by the Jockey club
show that trotters have done an
unusual amount of record smash
ing this year, while among the
pacers the breaking of records
has been confined to the per
formances of Minor Heir, son of
Heir at Law. Minor Heir first
lowered Star Pointer's mark of
2:011-2 to 2:00, at Galesburg,
111., and at Indianapolis a week
later he paced the mile in 1:59.
Yesterday at Indianapolis he
brought his record mark down
to 1:58 1-2.
The new world's records of
the trotters are:
Uhlan, 1:58 3-4.
Fastest stallion—The Harves
ter, from 2:02 1-2 to 2:02.
Fastest gliding—Uhlan, from
1:59 3-4 to 1:581-4,
Fastest three-year-old colt—
Colorado E., from 2:06 3 4 to
2:06 12.
Fastest mile to wagon —Uhlan,
from 2:03 3-4 to 2:01.
Fastest mile in a race by a
, stallion—The Harvester, from
’2:03 14 to 2:02.
Fastest two miles in a race by
a stallion —The Harvester, from
2:03 14 and 2:061-4 to 2:0114
and 2:03 1-4.
Fastest three heats—The Har
vester. from 2:04 3-4 to 2:02.
Fastest green stallion —Colo-
rado E., from 2:071-2 to
2:06 12.
I cumulated for the Illinois Athletic
Club's 10-mile race that will be staged
at Gant Park Saturday. It is expected
that the list will be swelled to seventy
names or more by tonight.
[hinder, and Plank is effective against
!al ball clubs. Left-hauded hitters are
! especially easy.
A veteran of many years, Plank is
[ this season as good as ever he was, and
I if he enters the post season games in
[good condition, it's dollars to dough
■ nuts he has the Cubs eating out of his
I hands when he occupies the butte.
nil WINS INO;
NOW 111 a HAGE
Tigers Move Up in Champion
ship Race By Handing Jolt
to Washington.
Detroit, Mich., Sept. 21. —Detroit took
two games from Washington yesterday.
■ Detroit got but three hits, two of them
bunts, in the first game. Cobb got back
lin the game after an absence of two
weeks.
First game— R. H. E.
Detroit . 000 001 30*—4 3 3
Washington 100 000 200—3 9 2
Batteries: Donovan and Schmidt;
Moyer and Ainsmith.
Second game— R. H. B.
Washington 010 000 o—l 5 4
Detroit 000 042 *—6 11 4
Batteries: Otey and Henry; Mullin
and Stanage.
Chicago, 3; New York, 0.
Chicago, Sept. 21. — By making it two
in a row from New York yesterday the
Chicago Americans set a new season's
recird for themselves of six straight vic
tories. Lange gave two hits and struck
out thirteen of the visitors.
Score— R. H. E.
Chicago 100 000 02*—3 5 1
New York 000 000 000—0 2 3
Batteries: Lange and Payne; Vaughan
jand Mitchell and Criger.
Philadelphia, 6; Cleveland. 3.
Cleveland, 0., Sept, 21. —Philadelphia
defeated Cleveland easily yesterday,
knocking Harkness from the box in the
sixth inning.
Score — R. H. E.
(Cleveland 000 no 100—3 12 3
; Philadelphia 101 013 000—6 14 3
Batteries: Demott, Harkness and
I Land; Plank and Livingston.
Boston. 9; St. Louis, 5.
St. Louis, Sept. 21. —Boston defeated
,St. Louis yesterday, 9 to 5.
Score— R. H. E.
Boston 000 261 000—9 11 3
St. Louis 11l 000 110—5 7 4
Batteries: Cicotte and Madden; Lake,
Rav and Stephens and Killifer.
SIANDING OF TEAMS
IK fHE BIG LEAGUES
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AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Standing of the Clubs.
Played. Won. Lost. P.C.
Philadelphia ....137 93 42 .694
Detroit 140 60 .571
New York 137 1 s 39 .569
Boston 137 ,s 59 .369
Cleveland 137 62 73 .452
Washington 139 .>9 ,80 .425
Chicago 136 -*6 so .412
St Louis 139 43 96 .309
Today’s Games.
Philadelphia nt Cleveland.
New York at Chicago.
Boston at St. Louis.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Standing of the Clubs.
Played. Won. Lost. P C.
(Chicago 132 I*l 41 .690
New York 135 79 36 .585
I Pittsburg St ’ 37 .584
Philadelphia 137 70 67 .s)'
(Cincinnati 138 us 70 .493
St. Louis 133 31 79 .406
Brooklyn 135 33 82 .393
Boston 137 4 7 90 .343
Today’s Games.
Chicago at Brooklyn,
Pittsburg at New 1 ork.
Cincinnati at Philadelphia.
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Thad Adams has returned and re
sumed practice, room 209 Alamo Bank
building, x
JANIES ROWE, GREATEST OF
TRAINERS, WILL QUIT THE
AMERICAN TURF FOREVER
Some fine afternoon this fall an
ocean greyhound is going to bear away
Janies Rowe, a man that has made
turf history.
Rowe has decided to throw down the
gauntlet in Merrie England and train
the horses of Herman B. Duryea. It’s
not for gold that Rowe is going across
the briny deep. He can count fir for
tune in six figures. It’s the love of the
thoroughbred that forces him to take
this journey. Take any human who has
spent 40 years of his life where the
whinny of a weanling and the neigh of
a thoroughbred is his sweetest music
and try to keep him away from a
horse. It is impossible, of course. That's
why Jimmy Rowe is going to England.
Trainers may flash across the recing
scene, sweeping everything before
them. When they are forgotten there
still remains Jimmy Rowe. He has been
iu harness ever since 1870. To see him
stroll through the paddock no one, out
side of his friends, would think that
he had ever seen forty summers.
Has Won $3,000,000 in Purses.
Rowe was always a strict disciplina
rian. He was just. In his career many
owners tried to give him the worst of
it. But they reckoned without their host.
For Rowe “started something’’ so sua
denly that no man ever repeated. One
would think that winning $3,000,000
in purses on the turf was an impossible
feat. But that is what Rowe has done.
And that record will probably never be
equaled.
The present generation will never
forget Jimmy Rowe.
His phenomenal success with the
horses that belonged to Janies K.
Keene will keep him in the public eye
for many years. It was Rowe who es
tablished the world's record of winning
$420,000 in one year. That was three
seasons ago. For nearly a decade the
Duke of Portland was the leading win
ning figure on the turf, with a record
of $376,000. The famous victories of
Colin and Sysonby will never be men
tioned without bringing Rowe into the
conversation. The undefeated champion.
Colin, was never out of sight of his
trainer. Down at the beautiful Sheeps
head Bay course, where the stars of the
turf were stabled, Rowe had a small
oottage erected. And from his room he
could see his charges. When a man
forgets his own comforts to provide
for the welfare of his horses, he is like
ly to he successful. And that is what
made Jimmy Rowe what he is.
Rowe Was “Just a Jack.’’
Rowe has tasted the sweets and
sours of racing. Before the echoes of the
[Civil war had died away, Rowe was a
■ rider. He was no fashionable jockey,
I but, as he puts it, “just a jack.” For
। ty years ago he won his first race,
[ and that event is stamped in memory
; His employe*. Colonel McDaniels, did
not, hand him a bunch of crisp yellow
backs, pat him on the baek and tell
him what a great rider he was. On the
contrary, the old colonel said, “Jim-
SEPTEMBER 21, 1910.
Edited By FRANCIS
C. RICHTER, JR.
। my, my son, 1 ’ll give you a pair of
< nice red-topped boots.”
[ Jimmy got so many pairs of boots
i and so little change that he dissolved
I partnership with the colonel as soon as
; he could. Before he could use a ballot
Rowe found au opportunity to baek in
, the glitter and lights of Barnum’s cir
cus. As an acrobat and equestrian, he
spent a few years and then passed that
game up. His love for the horse took
him baek to the running game.
His next real employment was train
ing for Phil and Mike Dwyer. That he
was a rousing success will be remem
bered by the veterans, for Mike Dwyer
had no equal when it came to placing a
tremendous wager. Rowe xeil out with
the Dwyers through the great mare,
Miss Woodford. They told Rowe to
: race the mare, but he said she was un
; fit. They insisted. She start-’d and lost.
I But before she returned to the baru,
; Rowe had resigned his position.
Rowe Was a Starter, Too.
Rowe, then moved to the stable of
August Belmont, the father of the
chairman of the Jockey elub, and re
mained until Mr. Belmont died. There
was no other big stable in sight to
haudle, so Rowe was appointed starter
by- the board of control. There were no
barriers in those days; nothing but the
flag. But there was seldom a complaint
over Rowe’s starting. From the posi
j tion of starter he drifted to that of
judge at the Old Bay District course,
I iu California. After that he handled the
’ horses of Colonel Thompson and they
। were so successful that he was on the
; right road to fame and fortune.
In 1899 he was engaged by James
; R. Keene. His salary was known only
Ito the two men. But it is said that
j $50,000 per annum would not be far
1 wrong. This amount included a retain
' er and a percentage of the winnings,
i As master of the Keene barn, Rowe
‘ proved to be a wizard. When one
'thinks of Commando, Caps and Bells,
J Sysonby, Delhi, Colin. Sweep and oth
' er stars, and then realizes that they
were all under Ihe care of Jimmy
I Rowe, we will get an idea of what a
clever trainer the man is.
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