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Modern Football Penalties Are Marvelous Things
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Takes a “Philadelphia Lawyer” to Dope 'Em Out
By Percy H. Whiting.
were coining back from
I the Georgia-Vanderbilt foot
ball game, ‘ How can you tell,'
asked she, “what the penalties are
for?"
"Why, that’s very simple," said
he, sagely. "A five-yard penalty
is for off-side, fifteen yards is for
holding, half the distance to the
goal line is for roughness."
"How said she.
And It was.
♦ • •
THE man who can tell the pen
alty that has been inflicted in a
football game by the distance as
sessed is a wonder indeed. At that,
however, it is entirely possible to
get a slight line on it in that way
Eor instance, three penalties are
absolutely conclusive. If a team is
soaked two yards it must inevitably
before taking out time more than
three times during a half. If a
team is set back ten yards you
may know that the defensive side
has interfered with an opponent in
the case of a forward pass before
the ball has been touched. A 26-
yard penalty is passed out because
a team is not ready to start play at
the beginning of the second half.
There is only one two-yard pen
alty, only one ten-yard penalty and
only one 26-yard penalty, and the
offenses mentioned are those which
they punish.
* « •
THERE are nineteen offenses for
which the penalty is five yards,
fourteen offenses for which the
penalty is fifteen yards, two for
■which the penalty is loss of half
the distance to the goal line, four
for which a “down" is lost, ten for
which the ball is lost, three rules
which, if broken, lead to suspension,
two that result In disqualification,
and three that are punished by for
feiture of the game.
So it isn’t so awfully simple after
all.
• * •
op HE offense that most often calls
* for a penalty of five yards in the
average game is that for off-side
play. Six varieties of this offense
are specified. Tricks intended to
draw opponents off-side get the
same penalty—likewise interfer
ence with opponents before ball is
put in play. So does unreasonable
delay—though you seldom see this
rule enforced. Holding by the de
fensive side is tn the same class, as
far as the penalty is concerned. It
will be recalled that after the ball
has been put in play, players on the
side not in possession of the ball
may use their hands or arms to
get at the ball or the player, but
must not tackle or hold their oppo
nents. If they do, they are soaked
five yards. Another five-yard pen
alty is given for a flying tackle or
for tackling below the knees —with
certain exceptions. The rule says:
“There shall be no tackling below
the knees, except by the men on
the line of scrimmage on the de
fense, and of these, the two men
occupying the positions on the ends
of the line of scrimmage may not
tackle below the knees " A foolish
ly complicated rule it seems to us.
• » •
COI'PLE of fifteen-yard pen
alties are important The rest
are seldom assessed. The most
farqiliar is the penalty for holding
This is an important penalty The
rule reads: "After the ball has
been put in play the player carry
ing the ball may ward off oppo
nents with his hands and arms, hut
no other player of the side in pos
session of the ball shall hold or use
his hands or arms (except with the
arms close to the body) to ob
struct an opponent."
The other important rule which
has a fifteen-yard penalty is that
for pushing, pulling and interlocked
interference. This is one of the
newer rules and was passed to do
aawy with what wag regarded as a
dangerous feature of the. game.
Last year a lot of penalties were
plied up because of this rule. This
year the players are getting more
used to it. Other comparatively
important causes for a fifteen-yard
penalty are failure of a substitute
to report, illegal return of a player
to the game, interference with a
fair catch, piling up, hurdling, trip
ping and side line coaching. There
are others, but you don’t often hear
of them.
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Fa team is soaked half the dis
-1 tance to its goal line It is after
a player has been disqualified for
striking, kneeing or kicking an op
ponent or else for a foul within the
one-yard line. This latter rule is
made to cover a foul committed
within the one-yard line in case
the distance penalty, if enforced,
would carry the ball across the
goal line. In'this case the penalty
is one-half the distance to the goal
line.
• • •
"pHE four breaches of the rules
that result in a penalty of the
loss of a "down” are interference
by the side making the forward
pass, illegal forward pass, forward
pass striking the ground a a kick
from a point less than five yards
FODDER FOR FANS
Jimmy McAleer has issued an humble,
albeit somewhat tardy apology to the
"royal rooters* of Boston for the fact that
they were frizen out of their seats one
day If that apology had been sprung
earlier it would have meant money to Jim.
• • •
Fame is a great thing. Tris Speaker
was selected to start the automobile race
at Salem, N H. He didn't get a cent
for It.
« * •
Andy Soxalexis. who would have been
the greatest ball player in the world if it
hadn't been for a certain suggestive tick
ling of the throat, was arrested the other
day in Pittsburg os a vagrant.
• • *
When Soxalexis was arrested he claimed
that he had been umpiring in the South
ern league. Rudderham, maybe?
• ♦ •
John McGraw and Hugh Jennings are
on the same vaudeville team. They re
ceive more money for their act than
Germany Schaeffer and Nick Altrock.
Personal}- we would rather see the real
comedians.
• • •
Horace Fogel must answer the charges
of President Lynch on November 26.
Wonder what he’ll say?
• « •
The reason why the club owners get the
major portion of the world's series money
is that they make the world's series rules
It seems as though a child could answer
that one.
• • •
George Simmons has been turned over
by the Highlanders to Rochester
• * •
After a bit the Rochester team will have
as many ex-Highlanders as the Rochester
team has ex Tigers—which constitutes a
calamity in itself, either way.
« • •
It was often stated before and during
tile world's series that in the series of
1903 the Boston team won from the Pir
ates after losing three straight What
hapeneri was that Pittsburg won the first
game. Boston the second. Pittsburg the
next two and then the Bostonians romped.
• • •
Four players are still in the major
leagues who took part in that 1903 series.
The only one who Is making much noise
is a certain bow-legged shortstop named
John Wagner
• • •
Rube Oldring announces that he re
ceived $82.75 as his share of the gate re
ceipts of the Philadelphia city series.
« « •
Neal Ball did nothing In the world's se
r.es but go to bat once—and strike out.
He received $4,025.68 —or a mere matter
of better than SI,OOO a minute This must
make Rockefeller sore *
• • •
On the other hand there is the case of
Stovall He was Jim McAleer's second
choice as manager and as lake Stahl re
fused at first to take the job Stovall came
within a hair's width of getting it. In
stead he got the Browns.
Berlin didn t make a cent of money out
of baseball this t ear. Neither did Guelph
They are both In the Canadian league
■ « •
Bransfield has signed to manage the
Montreal tent next season.
• • •
In a game in the California State league
recently a triple play occurred In which
every man o one team got an asist or a
put-out before the play ended.
• • •
The} make so few managers of Frank
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 22, 1912.
behind scrimmage. This penalty is
only exacted prior to the fourth
down. It will be recalled that this
year an incompletd forward pass
counts only as a "down.’’
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epHE ball is lost, as a penalty in
these cases: If it is kicked out
of bounds, unless touched; for in
terference by the side making the
forward pass on a fourth down, for
a backward pass out of bounds on
the fourth down, for an illegal or
incompleted forward pass on the
fourth down. If the forward pass Is
illegally recovered or touched by
the passer's side, if a forward pass
goes out of bounds "on the fly." if
the ball is batted, if an off-side
player touches the ball, if the kick
er recovers the ball, and if the kick
is made from a point less than five
yards behind the line of scrimmage
on the fourth down.
* • •
x rERILY the penalties are plenti
* ful enough and unwise is the
man who thinks he can tell what
a team has been penalized for by
the amount of the penalty.
To those who wish to, enjoy foot
ball understanding!}’ it is recom
mended that they buy a rule book
and glance over the rules. They
are fearful and wonderful things,
but they repay a lot of study.
Chance's caliber that it would be a shame
if he retired. On, viewing it from an
other slant, so many teams need real
mangers that F. C. ought to linger.
• • •
It is stated that Snodgrass will appear
in vaudeville this winter in a sketch en
titled "The Littlest Giant in the World.”
If he only would, if he ONIA WOULD. It
would certainly help the demand for stale
eggs immensely.
« * «
Horace Fogel says that President Lynch
has attacked him for campaign purposes
only. But then nobody ever pays any
attention to what Horace says, anyhow.
• • •
Oh, by the way, Charley Murphy didn't
sell his Cubs after all.
• « «
Chance has lost out at Chicago. Bres
nahan is to share the same fate at St.
Louis. Pretty lucky for the teams that
get these two men. Huggins seems slated
to succeed Bresnahan.
• »* •
Let's see. now. when was it the Giants
were to start on that tour around the
world ?
• • »
Mordecai Brown is tickled to death that
he is to be manager of the Louisville
team The only trouble is that nobody
has told him about it.
• • •
Connie Mack has stated in an interview
that Jake Stahl really won the world's
series. To us that seems a rank injustice
to Snodgrass.
“GUNBOAT” SMITH GETS
STEP NEARER THE TITLE
NEW YORK. Oct. 22.—" Gunboat”
Smith’s heavy guns may yet batter a
way for him to the leadership of the
white hope brigade. As a result of
Smith's showing over Jim Stewart, of
Brooklyn, last night at the Madison
Square Garden, when their bout was
stopped in the seventh round, after the
California heavyweight had floored
Stewart four times, the Westerner had
made a lot of new followers.
Followers of boxing believe that
Jack Johnson is rapidly nearing the
land of oblivion, and it will not be
long until a white man may success
fully lay claim to the tile
This was the first bout which has
been stopped by the authorities since
the state boxing law went into effect.
Sheriff Harburger called ft a "brutal
exhibition.' although Stewart claimed
he was not hurt.
EBBETTS WANTS CHANCE
TO MANAGE BROOKLYN
-NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—Frank Chance,
of the Cubs, may manage the Dodgers
next season. It is said that President
Ebbets seriously is considering the
matter and that before he gives his an
nual banquet to the newspaper base
ball reporters he will have secured the
peerless leader's" signature to a con
tract.
TECH LOOKS FOR
TROUBLE FROM
FLORIDA
THE easy games of the Tech foot
ball season have been played
and the Yellow Jackets are now
buckling down to real hard work pre
paratory for the big cold weather con
tests. The October games, as a rule,
have little bearing on the relative
standing of the teams, and nothing of
real football value is turned loose, but
the next time Atlanta fans see the
Tech bunch in action they will have
the opportunity of seeing some real
football of the deep-water variety.
Next Saturday Tech plays the Uni
versity of Florida in Jacksonville. The
Florida boys have a good team this
year, away above the average in play
ing ability and extra heavy. This
eleven outweighs Tech at least ten
pounds to the man. This is consid
ered the hardest of the October games
and Coach Heisman ts putting forth
every effort in order to make a credit
able showing.
Men All in Fair Trim.
The team came through the Mercer
game in pretty good condition and the
men are all in good shape for a hard
week's work.
A heavy signal practice was held
Monday, lasting until after dark, and
the men were then run a mile at a good
pace. If hard work and willingness
count for anything the Yellow Jacket
squad will make a creditable showing.
Elmer is out of school for good on ac
count of failing on a conditional ex
amination. and the team will miss this
linesman.
Moore has a bum ankle and is on
crutches, but a few days' rest will put
him back in the-game as good as ever.
Loeb’s Ankle Sprained.
Loeb is still worried with a sprained
ankle and was not able to be out in
uniform Monday, but a short rest will
likewise put him in better condition.
The squad has been exceedingly fortu
nate in regard to injuries this year and
no one has really had a bad break, with
the exception of Tyler Montague, two
of w hose bones wore broken in his left
leg in a scrimmage last Week.
As a whole, the Tech team is tn good
shape physically and the players are
anxious for hard work. This week
comes the real test of whether they can
stand the grind, and next Saturday's
game will determine in a great meas
ure the possibilities of the team.
MURPHY TO KEEP CHANCE
AS CUBS’ UTILITY MAN
t HICAGO. Oct. 22.—Reiterating his
statement that he would announce the
new manager of the Cubs within a few
days, President Charles Murphy also
declared he would not release Man
ager Frank L. Chance and would keep
him as a utility infielder.
it was said that Chance would quit
the game before standing for such hu
miliation.
K'ers still appears to be the most
llkel\ candidate for manager, but Mur
phy today refused to withdraw from his
stand of keeping the name of the new
leader secret until November 1.
JOHNSON'S AUSTRALIAN
MATCHES ARE CANCELLED
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. Oct ’2—
Jack Johnson will not fight in Austra
lia Hugh Mclntosh, who had offered
Johnson 150,000 for fights with Sam
l>angford and Sam MacVey or Joe
Jeannette, cabled today to W. W Kellv
his representative in Chicago, to cancel
all negotiations.
Mclntosh explained that Johnson's
part in the alleged abduction at Chica
go had so angered the sportsmen and
public of Australia that th* matches
were no longer desirable.
NEW PILFERING RECORD.
PORTLAND. OREG.. Oct. 22-The
Northwestern league official averages for
the season, which have just been an
nounced. show Ralph Myers, of the Spo
kane club, possessing 116 stolen bases.
This is believed to be a world's record
for any league, large or small
Boston Is Greatest Baseball City in the Country
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Recent World's Series Proves This Assertion
By L. R. Murdoch.
(Sporting Editor of Hearst's Boston
American.)
BOSTON is the greatest base
ball city in the world. The
following review of the world's
series attendance will prove that
assertion—so frequently made—be
yond all doubt, forever and ever,
amen.
Boston and New York wonder
why the crowd that saw the de
ciding game of the world’s cham
pionship was only about one-half
the size of those that saw the first
four games in Boston and the three
in New Ybrk. The Red Sox man
agement wonders why. The New
York management plumes itself
with the belief that had the decid
ing game been played in New York,
the Polo grbund fences would have
burst with the mass of humanity
which whuid have assembled there
in.
This is the answer;
First —Boston was baseball
"broke.”
Second—Bostdn had to re
sume business and quit talking
baseball, or Boston trade might
have gone stagnant.
Third—Boston had begun to
lose confidence in the team of
which it had expected such
miracles.
Fourth The management
made Boston suspicious and
dampened the spirits and the
ardor that brought the earlier
baseball-mad crowds to the
game.
What the Figures Show.
Had the conditions been re
versed—the two last games being
played in New York, the Giants
falling down as the Red Sox had
fallen, and had the management of
the Polo grounds followed the pol
icy of the Boston management,
there would have been no larger
crowd at the Polo grounds Wed
nesday than there was at Fenway
park, notwithstanding New York
has a 5,000,000 population to draw
from, while Boston has 1,000,000.
To say nothing of visitors.
Boston did more for the baseball
magnates and players than any
other city in the country outside of
New York, with its 5,000.000 popu
lation. has ever done. In this case
Boston's 1,000,000,000 did even more
than New York's 5,000.000.
The games in the world’s series
were seen by 252,037. They paid
$490,833 for the privilege,
Boston contributed 149,183 at
tendance, while New York sent
102,854 to the ball games.
Boston paid $272,403, while New
York paid $218,425.
Here are the figures;
At New York.
Attend- Re
ance. ceipts.
First game 35,730 $ 75,127
Fourth game 36,502 76,644
Sixth game 30,622 66,654
Totals 102354 $218,425
At Boston.
Second game 30,148 $ 58,369
Third game 34,624 63,142
Fifth game 34,683 63,201
Seventh game 32,694 57,196
Eighth game 17,034 30,500
Totals 149,183 $272,408
Boston, therefore, sent nearly 50
per cent more "fans" to the game
than New York did. Boston paid
about 2o per cent more real money
to see the world’s series than Nev.-
York did.
Game For Game, Boston Better.
New' York may claim that it is
unfair to do the figuring on the
whole series because five games
were played in Boston and three in
New York. But the first three
games In the Hub were attended by
99.455, who paid $184,712. These
figures are nearly as large as those
of the 102,854. who paid $218,425 to
see the three games in New York.
The "fans” of Boston were mis
led on the opening day by the ad
vance stories that there was not
enough room at Fenway park to
accommodate the crowds. There
fore, the first day’s attendance was
smaller than that on the second,
third and fourth' days in this city.
The first day’s attendance would
certainly have been as large as the
second day’s had Boston known
that there was room enough for the
"fans.” This is amply proved by
the fact that on the second day in
the Hub, when Boston knew that
there had been vacant' space in
Fenway park the day before, "fans"
literally mobbed the place for the
third and fifth games of the world’s
series, and thousands were turned
away.
Had the attendance of the first
day been as large as on the sec
ond day in Boston, as it surely
would have been but for the ad
vance cry of insufficient room, the
crowds of the first three days
would have totaled 103.021, which
would have been an aggregate of
1,000 more than saw the first three
games at the Polo grounds.
Beat Philadelphia "to a Frazzle.”
Here is another comparison:
According to the geographies and
the almanacs. Philadelphia is sup
posed to have a much greater pop
ulation than Boston. But Philadel
phia sent only 71,146 to the three
games of the world’s series played
there last year, as against 99.455
who saw the first three games in
Boston.
Philadelphia paid $120,528.50 to
see the three world's series games,
while Boston paid $184,712 for the
first three games played in their
city.
The Athletics won. as the Red
Sox did, tnd the advance "dope"
on the Athletics last year was fully
as alluring as the advance drawing
power of the Red Sox and Giants
this year.
You can't dodge the figures. Bos
ton has proved that it is the great
est baseball city in the world.
Study the figures, you of the whole
U. S. A., and be convinced.
The following will explain the
first four propositions made in this
story, explaining the falling off of
Wednesday’s crowd:
Boston was baseball "broke” —
the "fans" paid nearly a quarter
million dollars seeing the games
of the first week and taking a final
shy at the game Tuesday, when
they thought the championship
ought to be won. That is a lot of
money for any city to spend upon
a week of baseball. "Fans" who
had seen four games had spent
from $2 to S2O per capita. They
had taken four half days away
from their work. They could spare
no more money—and particularly
they could spare no more time from
business. A week of half holidays
is enough to cripple the business
of any hustling American city.
A Matter of Business.
Boston had to resume business
the greater city has a population
of about a million. About a quar
ter million of them arc productive
men of ages between 18 and 50. Os
the quarter million at least 150,000
can not afford to see world's cham
pionship games, and wouldn't be In
terested if they did. That leaves
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100.000 men who- do nearly all of
the productive and profitable work
of the city. Os these one-third
were going daily to the ball games
and the other two-thirds spent
their afternoons with their ears
glued to the telephones, waiting for
the results. Business suffered a
long continuous "wallop"—to use
the language of the ball field. Bus -
ness could stand it for a few days,
but when every enterprise in Bos
ton became afflicted day after day,
the city's trade threatened to go
stagnant.
Boston began to lose confidence.
The crushing defeats suffered by
the American league champions on
Monday and Tuesday could not be
understood by the "fans." who
imagined that their team had hern
thoroughly and decisively beaten
and would never "come back" on
the final day. Boston generally
gave up the battle Tuesday night,
notwithstanding the warning of the
baseball writers that the Red Sox
were likely to win, even then.
Made the Boys Wary.
The management made Boston
suspicious. The Red, Sox going into
the game overwhelming favorites,
the "fans” were unprepared for the
close games at the beginning of
tin series. When the Sox- had th®
“edge," 3 to 1, and then stumbled
the "fans" grew wary. After five
runs were scored by the Giants in
the first inning of Monday's game,
the management began to advertise
Tuesday's game, forgetting that the
"fans” had a right to believe that,
under all the rules of baseball, the
Sox might be expected to win at
any time until the last man was
out. After the Giants scored six
runs off Wood in the first inning
Tuesday and the management be
gan forthwith to sell tickets for
Wednesday's game, you could not
convince them that there was not
something wrong. The "fans" could
not understand why the manage
ment had quit "rooting” for six or
seven Boston runs in the last in
nings to offset the six New York
runs in the first.
Iri'conclusion, it is wel,l-nigh im
possible to ’'frame'up" a basebn,',
game. The players were eager to
settle the difference of $1,500 apiece
between themselves. But the man
agement's blunder in conceding
the Giants Monday’s and Tuesday's
games after the first inning of each
made it difficult ever to convince
the ’fans" that it was all "on the
level."
Ergo, the 17.000 on Wednesday.
SIMMONS LET OUT WHEN
DERRICK BECOMES YANK
NEW YORK. Oct. 22.— Secretary Davis,
of the Yankees, has announced that >e--
ond Baseman Hack Simmons has '
sold to the Rochester chib, from which “
was purchased a year ago. Simmons
some good batting for the Hillmen
year, but his second base play lacM •
steadiness.
Claude Derrick, formerly with the y
letics, will cover second base next year
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