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— — — — : =■ ® Art Has Its Demand s. but Love Is the Lure n iat 1 rici kl es the Box Office Man @ □> ini LET ALL GLUBS BRINGING UP FATHER By GEORGE M’MANUS what are Wf TO '5EE TO DA""* - mO / 1 VHT I THINK WELL TAKE 'H T HE ART <ALLERlEE>.' Owner of Reds Plans to Dispose of Former Manager at League Meeting To-morrow, By Janies Clarkson. C > HICAGO, ILL., Dec. 8.—It now begins to look as though the National League meeting to be held in New York to-morrow will be a pretty lively affair after all. Prac tically every club in the circuit will go after the services of Tinker, who will be placed on the market by Garry Herrmann. The Pittsburg Pirates want Joe badly Tinker admitted yesterday that «Tarke was going to land him. al though he did not intimate what the conditions of the trade may be. How ever. Joe says there is nothing of a sure thing" nature connected with •he possibility of him going to the Pirates. He would be willing to play for < 'larke, although he seems to pre fer leturning to his first love—the Cubs. Tinker to Bring High Price. The meeting to-morrow night may bring on more trades than we are ex pecting. Practically every manager in ’he National League, with the excep tion of Mc-Graw, will be in attendance. There will also be several American League magnates there. Clark Griffith, who comes out in an interview and says he will not run lower than second next season, will make a bid for Outfielder Bates, of the < incinnati Reds. Griff says he hasn’t an idea that he will succeed in making the deal, but nevertheless he’s going to tackle Herrmann. Just who Clarke, of the Pirates, will offer for Tinker is not known. It is reasonable to believe that Herrmann will ask a whole lot when he says to the National League moguls: "Gen tlemen, make your offers." Tinker cost Herrmann in the neighborhood of $25,000 in money and players. Five players came to the Cubs via the Reds when Tinker was assigned to thh management of the Herrmann tribe. So you can gamble that Herrmann will hold Tinker at a high price. How ever, Joe is worth a high price, and the Reds will no doubt be able to get considerable talent In exchange for him. Evers Leaves for East. Johnny Evers stated when he left here for Troy last Thursday that he didn't think hie would attend the meet ing. But you can bet that Peppery John will be among those present at the i onfab. And it would not be sur prising to learn that John was armed ith a lot of papers from Charles \V. Murphy authorizing him to go the j in it to secure the services of Tinker. The American League, despite the fact that it is willing to go the limit with the kale, has no chance of get ting Tinker. The National League magnates have all stated that Tinker h too good a ball plaver to let get out of the league. That means that he will shortstop for one of the National League clubs next season. Packey Rules 2 to 1 Choice Over Britton In To-night’s Bout CHICAGO. Dec. 8.—Packey McFar land, the popular South Side boxer, and Jack Britton, the pride of the North Side, both Chicago fighters of Irish par entage, will meet tu-niglit in a ten- round bout before Tom Andrews' Queensberry Athletic Club, of Milwau kee. Jn contrast to most fights which have been held in the Badger State since the boxing bill became a law, to-night’s bat- tle should be one worth going miles to see. The principals have trained hard ir.fi faithfully and are in condition to nep ten rounds at a lively clip. McFarland is in better shape than he has been for any fight in the last six months. He has’done considerable road work and has not missed a day In the gym. Realizing he must meet one of the best men of his weight in the world, Britton Is in the best of shape. Three Weeks of conscientious training has put Jack in tip-top condition. Welsh Would Take Joe Rivers' Place In Go With Dundee NEW ORLEANS, Dec. S —Promoter Tortorich will have no trouble finding a suitable opponent for Johnny Dundee <’hr;stmas Day. according to a message received yesterday from Freddie Welsh, English lightweight, who telegraphs , f hat he is anxious to meet the Italian • 'ghtweight here in a ten-round bout in the event. Joe Rivers is unable to keep the engagement. The Dundee-Rivers bout, according to Jr. Tortorich, has not been declared ’»ff as yet. Rivers was signed to a set f, f articles with the understanding he would release in the event he coulo not * p t a match with Willie Ritchie on the coast Christmas Day. Tortorich says he has not heard from Joe f*evv. Rivers’ manager, requesting » release from the contract he entered l!1, o here recently, but expects to know definitely within the next day or two. Athletic Club Five Plays Chattanooga Quintet Saturday ' h e Chattanooga Tigers, champion Pa^etball plavers of East Tennessee. JJJ'l Play the Atlanta Athletic Club in he second game of the season Saturday bight. The Tigers defeated every team in fcasr Tennessee last year, and went ^trough the entire season without a de- •eae They have b*»en at work for quite ® while this pcason and are now in ex- •♦^ent condition. ah: pam«, A <r and OURc,: %‘4\\ \ inI 1/ hon k .’ hone, / PA - - oh: i SURPO-.E 'fou ARE APOLOGIZING! Cochon:: f ^ T —A NAC.CIE - V/HAT Cochon' mean ? V/fN FATHER i I'll GLAD TO I SEE. TOU WANT TO £ UNDERSTAND I J L ? \ $ 4t $ 4 \\ oh: it DCTS- OOE«. it:: C PS POLLY AND HER PALS That Makes Quite a Difference---Quite a Difference it^ SutTiiJcy ~fou6n on a Voung Teller Like. 'For To BE OoiV/Al W//TM THE Chickem ft)/. But ris better HIM TMM A ole M/4M — —) LIKE ME f Put That Book] Dowm / THi? m/wute T T w/hom are Vou SPEAW I 6Otss ico F£R6n yiRSELF j VcoNti LADV[ Vou An~ TALKIU' ~T'HCHL of Ver, 0?owie5 Vou Aim') VoURE ADDRESSlMtr VfcR ] E4JMER . Vou * re! ALL RiaHT PA, IT5 •/CUR LOOKOUT Mo7 J WHAPDVE MfdW it's ny 1 Lookout z ON HoTHiiu'j MuCH _ my A&ws M4o “TH/T Book iai Bed \y/i7N Him hoR -Towo 04yy! */tcrr??Y. Famous Yellow Jacket Coach Looks tor Very Few Changes HEISMAN TALKS ABOUT HU FOOTBALL ROLES An O VERCOAT E2 Bv J. W. Heismau. B ABKBAL.L. has become so well crystallized that we hardly ex pect any changes in the playing rules from year to year. But foot ball is a game which in ils nature Is .bound to go through a deal more of experimenting before we can say positively that rim very best and most satisfactory rules have at last been evolved. It must be admitted that the ele ment of danger has not been entirely eliminated from the game, nor, for that matter, do I ever expect to see it so. Football is undoubtedly a rough game, and it always will be, else it will not be football. But it can no longer be said to be anything like as dangerous a pastime as it was some seven or eight years ago. A number of unfortunate casu alties do still occur each season, but they do not number one-quarter what they formerly ran to. And we also observe that the very serious acci dents do not occur on high-grade col lege teams or elevens that have been handled by skilled coaches and train ers. It Is the young boys who go pell^ mell into the thing without competent supervision and coaching, or who play against teams very greatly their su periors in weight and strength, that get badly hurt or worse. But the American people have come to realize that many more persons lose their lives each year in hunting, in skating, in swimming, in boating and other sports than succumb in football, and the mad outcry against the game has entirely hushed. We can not hope to make the game much safer, so it is probable we shall see no changes in the rules having for their object the mere elimination of alleged danger. * * * YVJ HEN the requirement to gain 10 vv yards in four downs first came into existence, it seemed doubtful whether that was not asking too much of the offense; and, indeed, for the first year of experience under the rule, it did look that way, for there were a heap of games played in which abso lutely no scoring was done, and a lot of tie games were the result. But as the game opened up, and the possibilities that lay in open work unfolded themselves, it became ap parent in the course of another year that teams could force the ball across, and as the players also became more expert In the manipulation of the for ward pass, they forgot to kick about the 10 yards. In the South and the West, where offense long ago took on a mere open and venturesome style, there has been no inability to score touchdowns, hence in these sections it 19 difficult for players and coaches to understand why the Eastern colleges should see any need for reducing the distance to be gained In fouF trials. In all fairness, though, it must he admitted that the results of the big games in the East seem to indicate that they have here a real problem to worry ov*r It will be recalled that iu (heir games with each other, neither Harvard, Yale nor Princeton scored a single touchdown; all tlie points that were scored in the three games came either bv way of field goals or a safety. And that has been the story for other years than this between these Eastern teams. It may. also be recalled that the Navy has beaten the Army for the three years preceding this one by field goals only. This year, however, the Army not only won tlie game, hut did it by touchdowns, not by field goals. And how came it that the Army did at last succeed in scoring touch downs, whereas t lie Navy and the other three crack Eastern teams could only execute field goals? We’ll an swer that question * n i UHt a m i nute - Coming back to the contention of Yale, Harvard, et al.. it is claimed that when a team gets the ball down within an opponent’s 20-yard line and that opponent brings up into action its secondary defense, the distance of 10 yards is too great to be : ned with consistency in four tri ’ and there fore it ought to be shortened. W ill it be? I don’t think so. These three may vote that way, out they will be outvoted by the repre sentatives of the smaller colleges, who outnumber them Why not make it five trials at tins stage of the game? someone asks. Well, that could be done, but It im poses too severe a mental and physi cal strain on the defensive team to be thrown oil the defensive for so long a time w ithout any chance of relief. How comes it that Yale and the other two can’t score when, seeming- ingly, no other teams seem to expe rience this great difficulty? Two points explain the situation. In the first place, these teams are simply crazy on the subject of defense and they always have been. While I cheerfully gra.nt that the Western teams, as a rule, know’ more about offense than do the Easterners, I must say that they are still far behind the Orientals in* the matter of repelling attack. This being the case, the Eastern teams are better able to stop all manner of things than are those in the South and West, hence fewer touchdowns. On the other hand, they have been too conservative in handling their of fense. with the result that they have not yet even found out the possibili ties of the open game; hence they think they need a change in the rules. But the open work of the Army team jgainst Navy (in large part taught the former by Notre Dame) shows clearly that even the Navy or Eastern defense does not avail against a mod ern system of attack So what the Eastern teams need is not a change in the rules, but a change in their of fensive playing systems This fact will, I think, be borne In on them be- nrj=j:irra Opium Wktakey Dru . tid Hona« »r «tS*otur1am. Book oo tmbjecf Pee. OR. M. M. WOOLLEY. VMM tMhwtMk AHUM. OhiR» fore the committee meets, and the Bias tern rapreflent&tlvee will find themselves too weak, numerically, to bring about any change in the dis- tance to be gained or the number of downs in which to gain it. • • * A ND' now field goals have become more common than three-■baggers. When one man can tally five of these in one game the thing is getting to a stage where it cuts altogether too much of a figure. While a very pretty play, it must yet be said that a field goal is not strictly of Hie real essence of our American game of football, as is a touchdown. And even the non-plac ing public have come to see and be lieve this way about it, for did they not hiss each time the Harvard team lined up for a. try at another one aft er tile first two, and call for a touch down instead? Well, what are you going to do about it? I don’t know. I doubt if the committee will do anything about It this year. But before long we’ll find the value of the field goal going down still another point. But when 1t does they will also have to reduce the value of the goal following touchdowns, for if the field goal Is worth only two, certain it is that the goal following touchdown is not worth half as much. So 1t might very well be that we shall see changes in both these respects even this win ter. I look for some of the old dead let ter rules to be completely excised from the book, and possibly some rule forbidding teams to go beyond their own scrimmage line in the execution of shifts before the ball is put into play. Outside the above points, I see no chance for heavy changes of any char acter, nor aer any heavy changes needed. The way the public all over the land patronized the games this fall indicates very clearly that they think football a pretty good game now. Neither have there been any very loud complaints from the coaches or players: and so we may look for a game in 1914 very similar to what we have been seeing for the two seasons past. TOBACCO habit " 1 prove your health, prolong your life. Vo more atom arh trouble, no foul breath, no heart wcaknrew Re gain manly vigor, calm nerve*, clear eyes and au- perlor mental-ntrength. Whether you chew or amokc pip**, elfarettea, cigars, get rny interesting Tobacco Rook. Worth Its weight In gold. Mailed free. F. 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