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Football, Under Fire for Eight
Years, Finally Proves Itself
Real Leader of College Sports
By J. W. Heisman.
(■ T was after the season of 190 u
that tilings came to a head in
football. f‘\>r years matters had
been steadily getting worse until
at last, the pimple having enlarged
to a boil and tl>*> boll swollen to a
carbuncle, finally burst, and all the
football surgeons In the country
had to be called into hasty consul
tation to keep the grand old game
from dying a violent death.
No doubt about it, too many men
were getting seriously hurt, and too
many getting killed outright in the
game to make it at all defensible
Whole Thing Wrong.
And then there were other things
amiss. Colleges were going out aft
er materia! with their pockets bulg
ing with coin of the realm; more
attention was being paid to the at
tainment of tiptop grades on the
athletic field than tn the class room,
and all the activities and business
of college work and life seemed
aptdly centering around college
football
Then came the cloudburst, and
along with it the reforms There
is no need to recount them here
by in most cases they ware whole
some and beneficial—certainly they
were needed. Not alone did college
faculties take drastic action in va
rious ways and along various lines,
but the footballers themselves,
through their rules committees and
coaches, worked quite as hard and
accomplished quite as much In the
right direction as had the college
mentors. Tear after year, the rules
were changed wholesale, the game
reramped safer elements of play
introduced. dangerous features
eliminated, the spectators* viewpoint
always borne in mind, and the
proper balance between offense and
defense struggled for.
And finally the, reward of this
indefatigable labor has come.
"On Approval" Eight Year*.
How long has it taken'.' Just
eight years
No one can deny that through this
long period of probation the game
has been on trial only. It has been
on trial with the public, the pat
ents, the faculties and the players
themselves Alt of these had to be
satisfied, else the game could not
live.
During these eight years the game
has passed through more and great
er changes than th oil the 86 pie
ceding years of it« American hi*
tori’- At times it has beep almost
anything but FOOT ball, and at
times it has been almost basket
ball. At times most any players
and teams could play it succors- .
fully, and again it .has been almost
impossible for anybody to play it.
But it has finally won out in every
way.
it Suits Everybody Now.
The public likes the present game
more than it ever did before. This
is shown by the tremendous crowds
that go in ever-increasing numbers
to witness even the ordinary games.
Parents have become reconciled
to it because it is not nearly as
dangerous as of yore, and because
it is no longer so wearing and ex
hausting to the system
Faculties like It because less
frenzied attention to the profession
al features and tendencies of the
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old game are in evidence; because
it is no longer so exhausting to par
ticipants that they can not stu<’\
after practice, and because the
whole uproar has resulted in a bet
ter understanding between profes
sors and students, with more co
operation, a wider viewpoint for
both, and a more sane and health
ful life and living for both.
And, finally, the players like It
because there is more science and
skill in the game than ever; be
cause the little man has abetted
relative chance than formerly, and
because the work Is not so grind-
Ingly unendurable as It used to be.
Evidence* of the Reaction.
But what 1 really started out to
do was to call attention to the clear
and undeniable evidences that foot
ball had "come back." So, without
more ado, let me recall to your
minds that eight years ago every
last college and athletic club on the
Pacific slope followed the lead of
Beland Stanford and the University
of California, abolished Ameri
can Rugby altogether, aufistituting
therefor the English soccer. And
thus has it been out there for the
past eight years. But just the
other day we read that all the col
leges but the two named have de
cided to give up soccer and go back
to American Rugby again. For this
purpose they have formed an inter
collegiate league, which includes all
the prominent colleges of the coast
except California and Stanford. But
these two can not liy themselves
keep soccer alive out there, and it
is easy to guess what they will be
holding mass meetings for in the
course of a couple of years, at most.
Everybody's Doing It.
We also read the other day that
the Canadian colleges had decided
to organize an Intercollegiate
league modeled after the leagues
of the States, and that their main
object was to Introduce our col
lege football Into their own lialls.
In arriving at this determination,
they were greatly aided by what
they saw of the game Us played by
the < arllsle Indian team on the oc
casion of their visit this fall to To
ronto, where they played the uni
versity of that city a match game,
one-half under the Canadian rugby
rules and the other half under our
rules. The contrast and points of
superiority In our game amazed the
Canadian s.
I hen. again. I nion college, which
cut out the old game entirely eight
years ago, has recently come bach
Into the fold and is again playing
American football. Columbia la
again battling with the question,
with bright prospects of having It
restored.
And down in Cuba they have had
at least two g»od teams for the
past three years-the University of
Havana and the Havana Athletic
club teams. These teams defeat
ed Tulane tbe first year they wore
organized. Last year they were
barelj defeated In Mississippi, and
this year, I understand, the Uni
versity of Alabama is going down
the country is nearly double that
to Havana during the holidays to
try conclusions with them.
Also it is a fact that the num
ber of organized football teams in
the country is nearly double what
it was eight years ago: and along
with this comes the statement that
the output and sale of football
goods and paraphernalia In sport
ing goods manufacturers is quite
double what It was in 1905.
BAY GETS RELEASE
Bl.<m>MlN<;T<iN. ILL.. l>ee. 18. In
compliance wit' the decision of the
national commission ordt ring the t’e
lurti of 8300 paid t» Nashville for Ills
release or to b< deela ej a free agent.
Harry Bay. of Peoria, former manager
of Bloomington, was given his uncon
ditional release in that Th re Eve
club
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1912.
BRAINSCINCHJOB
Os CATCHER FOR
M’ALUSTER
B\ Percy 11. Whiting.
BRAIN —The whitish mass of
soft matter (the center of the
nervous system and the seat
of consciousness and volition)
which is inclosed in the cartilagon
ous or bony cranium of vertebrate
animals.—Webster.
The above definition is set forth
In the precise language of the saint
ed Noah Webster, because it is the
possession of the thing defined that
is to make McAllister the regular
catcher of the Cracker team next
year.
They were talking catchers yes
terday at baseball headquarters.
Bill Smith, as usual, was listening.
“We ought never to have iet
Charley .Miller go," said one direc
tor.
“Yes. we had.” said another: “for
two reasons—he had a thirst and
he had no great brain.”
Whereupon a baseball writer, out
of the vastness of his ignorance,
lectured as follows on catchers and
brains:
"If a catcher isn't a quick think
er, he is as useless as a punctured
balloon. A good quarter of the
thinking of the team is done by the
catcher. A bone-headed catcher can
tie up a team so It can't beat eggs."
And then spoke Bill Smith:
“That’s why McAllister is going
to be our regular catcher, and a
mighty good one. He may not be
the most natural perform
er in the world, though at the me
chanical part of the game he is a
crackerjack. The main thing is
that he’s an old and experienced
catcher, and he has one of the best
brains possessed by any catcher I
ever saw or heard of He can al
ways make the right play. He can
always remember batters and their
weaknesses. He can work pitch
ers to perfection. He gets the con
fidence of the twlrlers and the in
fielders. And that does more than
anything else toward making good
team play possible."
There isn’t any denying but that
baseball headquarters, quite unof
ficially. is worrying over the catch
er situation. But not so Bill Smith.
He has confidence in McAllister. He
believes that the old lad will warm
up under the Southern sun into a
wonder He has managed McAllis
ter before. He knows him and
vouches for him.
• « •
-p HE tate of the other two Atlan-
ta catchers. Graham and Rey
nolds. is uncertain. When Bill
Smith was at the Southern league
meeting Mike Finn said to him:
"Bill. I don’t sec why you are try
ing to got rid of Graham. He caught
some mighty good ball against us.
1 think he was one of the beat
catchers In the league last season."
Smith is open to conviction. If
he sees a chance to trade Graham
atid get a man he knows about, he
will do it. If not, in preference to
letting him go for .some stranger, hu
will bring him here and try him out
in the spring.
Reynolds joined the Crackers last
year when they were at their worst
and did not get a fair chance. When
he departed he aired the 'conven
tional Recruit's Threat. "The feller
that beaks me out next spring will
have to go like -.” And he
undeniably meant It
Reynolds has the size and
strength to make a catcher. He is
willing. Maybe he will tit tn as
second catcher this year.
TINKER WANTS KLING.
Xblii YoItK. I iec. 18 Manager Tin
ker. of the Rods, will try to sign .lohnnj
Kling, the former t’tih catcher, who man
aged tbe Boston Nationals last season.
Cubs.WillNumber More
‘Crabs* Next Year Than
Any Chib in the World
Evers Is the Prince of Growlers,
and He Has Gathered To
gether a Lot Like Him.
CHICAGO, Dec. I«.—Critics
have already dubbed the
1913 Cubs as the “Crabs.”
President Charles Webb Murphy
admits that he fears for the safety
of umpires next year.
Johnny Evers, the Cubs’ new
manager, years ago was styled the
biggest "crab" in baseball. The
Trojan does not deny this; in fact,
lie has often boasted of it and
laughed when he named himself the
■Jhuman crab.”
Otis Clymer, the veteran Minne
apolis outfielder, whom Evers con
siders using In the outer garden,
has for years been recognized as a
champion crab. They say his
growls have won many a game for
the Minneapolis team.
Eddie McDonald, the new utility
player, secured from Sacramento, is
also an umpire baiter. Crabs make
wise players, Evers argues. Some
say that was one reason why Evers
traded Downey for McDonald.
Miller, outfielder, is also known
as an ill-tempered player, and the
famous Heinle Zimmerman by his
threats to bite off umpires’ ears
won his title as a crab.
True. Evers has promised to con
trol his temper as much as possible,
but Murphy is afraid Johnny will
forget this promise in the heat of
close diamond battles.
MILLER' HUGGINSWILL
PLAY SECOND FOR CARDS
ST. LOL IS. Dee. 18.—-During a confer
ence between Manager Miller Huggins,
President J. C. Jones and Mrs. Hrttton
plans for the local Cardinals for next
year were discussed and trades with rival
clubs were mentioned which are expected
to strengthen the weak spots
One Important position already decided
upon Is second base. Miller Huggins will
be the guardian of the center cushion all
season unless he Is Injured When Hug
gins was appointed manager it was re
ported that he would lead the club from
the bench and shift Lee Magee back to
the infield.
Not until he sees that he Is going back
and to such an extent that he believes
his presence is weakening the Infield will
Huggins step out.
”1 am going to play second base,” said
Huggins today, “and Magee probably will
be In left."
Classed as a veteran. Huggins has been
In the big league eight years, and he
playt-d one of the most remarkable sea
sons of his entire career in 1912. He batted
304 and up to the last four or six weeks
of the campaign he was biffing around
320.
As a run-getter, ability to work the
opposing Hurler for a walk and to know
Just what to do in the pinch Hug has
few superiors.
CASSIDY ROASTED FOR
SEVERITY WITH JOCKEYS
EL PASO, TEX.. Dec. 18.—Starter Cas
sidy is corning in for a lot of criticism
by horsemen and racegoers at Juarez due
to what is termed his harsh treatment
of the jockeys under him. ami there is a
growing demand that the power of dis
ciplining the riders be taken awav from
the starter and placed in the hands of
the stewards. There is har.lly a day
passes that a rider is not set down tor
some slight infraction of the rules Ten
days' suspension was for a time the pun
ishment inflicted, but this has been re
duced to five days, due largely to the
criticism leveled at the starter.
Fred G Hopper, an Oklahoma owner,
disposed of his string in the pa<ldock yes
tetday and. announced his retirement from
the game The horses sold were Hake
Balronia. Chanticler and Harlem Maid
OTIS JOHNSON OFFERED
BACK TO PORTLAND CLUB
PORTLAND. OREG, Dee. 18.—Otis
Johnson, the third baseman who was
with the local Pacific Coast team two
years ago and went to the New York
Americans, has been offered back to
Portland. He played with Rochester hi
the Intel-national league last season.
Otis was a heavy hitter when with the
Beavers.
FEMININE FOOTBALLERS
CAN’T PLAY IN CHICAGO
i Hlt'AGO. Dev. 18. A football game
between the "Vassar champions,”
though none of them ever saw Vassar,
and a man team, advertised to be
placed in Chicago, was stopped just
before the ball was kicked off by the
mayor and a delegation of ministers.
FRENCH TURF ALL
STEWED OP OVER
DOPINGEVIL
By E. G. B. Fitzhamon.
LONDON, Dec. 18.—Sam Hil
dreth’s famous prescription
seems to have fallen under
the ban of the French turf author
ities who are committed, body and
•oul, to sworn reports made to them
by Professor Kaufman, of the gov
ernment veterinary college at Al
fort. After the horse Camyre won
the Prix DeMont Blanc at Saint
Quen recently, Its saliva was col
lected in a sterilized receptacle im
mediately for analysis by Professor
Kaufman. He reported to the stew
ards that he found therein certain
alkaloids denoting that some im
proper drug had been administered
to the animal before its race.
Camyre is trained by Hildreth,
who prepared it for that race and
saddled it. On the strength of Pro
fessor Kaufman’s report, the stew
ards have disqualified Hildreth’s
horse and awarded the race and the
purse to the horse that ran second.
Crusade on Against De; g.
The turf authorities in Austria
and France are carrying on an un
ceasing but almost hopeless cam
paign against this world-wide
practice of doping race horses.
With amusing gravity European
newspapers inveigh against Amer
icans for introducing over here the
various surreptitious means of
stimulating horses to exceed their
usual speed and stamina.
This new celebrity, Professor
Kaufman, is admitted to be mar
velously skillful In detecting dope
by means of analysis of horses’
saliva. But doping has become so
generally practiced It can not be
stamped out merely by exposure
and the subsequent disqualifica
tion of the horse. There is the bet
ting angle to be considered. The
Parimutuel is organized under gov
ernment control by different rac
ing associations. Its ready money
business bets are settled at once,
whereas the result of Professor
Kaufman's scientific tests of saliva
can not be made known until three
or four days later. Therefore, it is
possible to win a large sum and
get away with it in plenty of time
before the Illicit use of dope can
be determined, after which the dis
' qualification of the horse and the
loss of an ordinary’ purse would not
matter.
Suggestion to Stop Trifling.
Hence the only way to deal thor
oughly with the doping of" horses
would be to engage competent as
sistants for Professor Kaufman and
to institute the practice of not pay
ing off Parimutuels until five or
six days after each race. It would
be neeessarj for assistants to col
lect from every horse sufficient
saliva for scientific tests to deter
mine by disqualifications which
horse had won the race, after which I
the bets would be paid. Unless
some such sweeping system is in
augurated, doping of race horses
may as well be accepted as having
come to stay.
Doping is practiced quite com
monly in England and Ireland, but
the Jockey club stewards dare not
start a campaign against it. They
are busy sitting on the lid while the
thankful sycophantic sporting press
dare not expose the rottenness of
the British turf and the non-sport
ing press will not do so because
almost every publisher cherishes
the secret hope of being created a
lord of baronet or fears being
called a spoilsport.
CRIGER WILL BLOSSOM
OUT AS MANAGER SOON.
1«A PORTE, IND.. Dee. 18 U>u Cri
g-r former backstop, who is making his
winter home In Elkhurt. Ind., has an
nounced that lie will make a trip to
Maeo. Tex., to work out with the Bos
ton pitchers, and later accept one of the
several offers which he has received to
take the management of a minor league
Buck O’Brien’s World’s Series
Balk, That Almost Cost Title,
Not Balk At All, Thinks Evans
By Riley.
BILL EVANS, who umpired on
the bases October 14 at the
Polo grounds, has admitted
that maybe the famous balk made
that day by “Buck” O’Brien was not
a balk at all.
Since the alleged misdeed prob
ably cost O’Brien and the Red Sox
the game, which, if won by Bos
ton, would have ended the series
then and there, Evans’ long de
ferred admission is important. Had
Snodgrass caught that fly out in
center field two days later, “Buck”
O'Brien’s balk would very likely
have lost the world’s championship.
Since it may’ not have been a balk
after all, tjiink how much excite
ment and afisfument Evans escaped
when Snodgrass muffed Engle's
long fly ball. And if it had not
been called a balk, the magnates
would have missed more than SIOO,-
000 that flowed into the box offices
the next two days at Fenway park.
And that Wood-O’Brien "light”
would never have come off. for that
“balk” paralyzed and beat the Red
Sox.
» ♦ •
made the admission the
other day- in relating the story
of a "fanfest” at the Copley Square
hotel the day after the game in
which O’Brien was charged with a
balk. At that gathering a baseball
player said he believed O’Brien
really thought he was off the rub
ber when he made the alleged balk.
Evans then made the surprising
statement that both he and Umpire
Klein, who called the balk, actually
doubted at the time whether it was
a balk. And now the story- becomes
public.
* * •
you will remember the world se
ries stood: Boston, 3; New
York, 1, and one game tied, before
the game of October 14. In the
first inning that day, with a man on
first, a man on third, two out and
no runs scored, O’Brien made a mo
tion to throw to first base, but
stopped suddenly In his delivery.
Evans, who stood directly behind
O’Brien, says that he Immediately
glanced at O’Brien’s feet to see if
one of them was on the rubber. He
admits now that he doubted wheth
er O’Brien was “on” or “off” the
rubber. He says that Umpire Klem,
who was officiating behind tbe
plate, was in charge of the arbi
trators that day. and it was his
duty- to call balks. But he seemed
also to be in doubt, for he hesitated
before motioning to the man on
third to score and the man on first
to advance to second.
KleYn has explained this—by the
way—by saying that he wanted to
see If the Giants would claim a
balk, although such a claim was
unnecessary.
WHEN Klem finally made his
ruling Evans and O'Brien
exchanged glances. Evans consid
ered O’Brien a wise old owl on the
mound, and it surprised him to see
"Buck" rattled enough to make a
false move to throw to first if he
was actually- ready to pitch from
the rubber. So he asked O'Brien
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what was the matter.
“Bill, L thought I was a foot oft
the rubber,” O’Brien replied.
Evans believes that O’Brien had
actually planned that false move in
advance, deliberately intending to
“fake” a throw to first, in order to
catch the other man off third, but
that he had a. sudden obsession and
failed to carry out his intention.
He believes that O’Brien thought
his foot was not on the rubber.
If O’Brien thought right, then it
was not a balk. And both Evans
and Klem were in doubt. Klein
saw O’Brien on the mound, in
pitching position, before the bluff
was made, and naturally- supposed
that “Buck’s” foot was on the rub
ber.
• • «
pOR the benefit of those who do
1 not know the rules, a move to
throw a ball to first base—when
occupied—by the pitcher, standing
on the rubber, without actually
throwing it, is as much of a balk
as a move to throw to the batter
without delivering the ball. Wheth
er or not O’Brien was rattled be
fore the alleged balk. the decision
took the steam out of “Buen ami
immediately four runs chased the
one Klem had waved across the
plate. Pitching almost "air
tight" ball up to that time, O'Brien
lost the ball game, 5 to 2. then and
there, and fell into disfavor ir
Boston. The "balk" led to the sto:.
of the Wood-O’Brien tight, upset
Wood and the Red Sox so much
that they were whaled the next
day at Fenway park, and then only
pulled the series out of the fire bj
the desperate extra inning battle
they fought cn the next and final
day.
» « «
g ESIDES opening a big field for
winter speculation, Evans' ad
mission and explanation may help
to set "Buck" O’Brien right before
the Boston “fans." "Buck” hims< f
always refused to comment <>n
either the balk or the “fight" that
hi- was alleged to have had with
Joe Wood as a consequence. "Buck"
is an old hand at the game and
very cautious about public conver
sation. It was left for Bill Evans,
at this late day, to let in a bit of
light on the most critical episodi
of the world series.
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