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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS,
SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
Just a Little Surprise for the Judge
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Hank O’Day Comes to the Bat
With a New Plan, Hard to
Understand
By 0. B. Koelor.
H ERE comp* Hank O’Day. somo
umpire, who once managed ‘lu* j
Cincinnati Reds, with a brand-
new idea for a rule to prevent th°
intentions’ passing of a heavy bat- |
ter at a critical juncture.
Candidly, we don’t get Hank.
Take a slant at the report, exactly 1
as published in the daily prints, anti :
see what you think about it.
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A KING the pitching box narrow
er would accomplish the de-
Chick Evans Leaves Atlanta
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Expert Praises Our Golfers
By < ’hick Evans.
sired object," is Mr. O’Day’s reported
opinion.
As previously stated, we don't get
him
In the flrst^lace. there hasn't been
any ‘‘pitcher's box’’ for quite a while.
There used to be. and a guy could
wander around as far as its limits
would let him. Rut these days it’s a
slab, and all the slabman has to do in
pitching is to start with his hind foot
in contact with said slab and not take
more than one step from it in t! e
process of delivery. ; T T WILL be hard for me to get back to Chicago for work after living in
If Mr. O’Day meant make the slao I the warm-hearted hospitality of Atlanta. Mv games of golf over the
ctT.fatwouTbetoil.fS”: 1 . Wi “ r rk " T St occasion and big dirty
n her from lobbirur over I no,s - v Chicago will seem almost unbearable* because mv mind tVill 1m* full
fourTfdc onc. * of the happy .'vmln in ,-our -loan, delightful littlo city. I oan not evor
adequately express how much I owe to the generous hearts of Mr. and Mrs.
George Adair.
Interest Jn golf has grown very rapidly in the last few years in the
Southern States, and nowhere in the South do I think that golf enthusiasm
is greater than in Atlanta. The natural result of so much enthusiasm has
been the development of some very good Southern players, yet it is always
a matter of surprise that these players do not go farther in the National
Amateur, whose very efficient vice president, Mr. Milton Dargan. lives here,
or In the Western, which has a deep interest in Southern Jplayers. One
would think that the Southern player had eertahi natural advantages in
the opportunity to play the year around, of course the game is young in
the South, but the time is rapidly approaching when Southern golfers should
reach a higher championship standard.
At the present moment the very U*st Southern players are many shots
behind the best players of the West and North, of course the Southern
player must travel far to the big tourneys' and eonsequently comparatively
few go. The Southern showing in tin* lbl.’l National was better than usual,
and Nelson Whitney, your champion, qualified well up. but no Southern
player yet has gone far in either Western or National. Many times 1 have
heard tin* reason asked.
In tne upbuilding of~ehampions, there are, 1 think, the followi/ig essen
tials: First, enthusiasm and the type of enthusiasm that is the essence of
patience. Golf looks so easy, and is in reality so hard, that it Is the most
discouraging game at times in the world for the player. Then comes exam
ple and instruction, and instruction should be either verbal or by example,
for young players imitate readily. 1 think the best sort of instruction is
playing with a lM*ttcr player. The next essential is a good golf course re
quiring championship play. You can learn the shots on any course, provided
Its condition allows the ball to fall and run the same every time. One
must lx* able to judge tbe roll of a ball, and know' just what ground-behavior
can Ik' expected of it. One can learn to hit the ball in the air, but unless
the ground is right, he loses power to judge results. A good course aids
good plaj -Mid penali7.es bad. I learned ray golf on a fiat 9-hole Wretch of
ground, anl then I improved it l»y playing a groat deal at Chicago golf—a
championship course.
M R. O’DAY isn't the first one to
tackle the problem of making a
pitcher put it over -and it seems tr>
ns that nobody will succeed In that
undertaking without the aid of hyp
notism. Certainly some manager-;
owning wild hurlers with lots of stuff
would be very grateful to Mr. O’Day
if he would devise a plan to keep the
ball over the plate. Also, if Mr,
O’Day, by a juggling^ of the slag
measurements, ran compel a pitcher
to keep his product just over the cor
ners of the pan. Mr. O'Day would bet
ter give up umpiring and working *>n
the rules committee, and start man
aging another ball club.
He would have some valuable
pitching service—what?
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S O far as our research extends, only
one rule aver has been proposed
ihat seemed at nil likely to prevent
the intentional passing of a heavy
hitter in a pinch. We forget wh >
suggested it but it had an air of
plausibility entirely lacking from Mr.
O Day's hunch, so far as understood.
The idea was that the batter re
ceiving four wide pitches had the op
tion either of taking his base or of
remaining at bat and allowing ‘he
next batsman in order to take the
base for him
S
UPPOSE. for example, that Har
Welchonce was up, with
Tommy Long on second or third and
a right-hand pitcher on the slab. Sup- l
pose the r. h pitcher had been pun
shed severely by Harry, but bad been
getting Wall} Smith and Bisland
without difficulty.
Then It might not be out of order
to suppose that, with two out, the
pitcher would rather see Harry on
first than waving his Mg stick at tbe
plate.
AH right Four balls. Rut Harry j
declines the offer, at a signal from
s boas Wglly Smith trots on down
to first Harr) remains si hnt Four
more balls? Maybe. Then RI slam
walks and the bases are full—and ,
Welchonce still at bat.
• • •
\r >r see the idea
* Rut even that wouldn't be alto
gether a fair rule
Becoming candid again > wo don’t
iff how nn\ rule is to be made that
will do justice between Pitcher ami
hatter in this respect In our opinion,
he stVategic move of passing a heav >
hitler is sufficiently penalized by the
additional runner on the bases an 1
you may easily recall instance after
instance when the supposed "weak
stater" has come along a d cleaned
up. ,
Any wav. when it comes right down
lo tbe point, bow is any umpire going
to know for sure (if the pitcher ap
parently tries to get tbe ball overi
wt 1 .ether the ba#e on ball.? s inten
tional?
We await ?Ir. p Day's further elu-
•idation of this "problem vexed."
WILL MEET IN LONG WALK.
STROHOHTON, WIS., Dec 30
Sever Quale, of Stoughton, has accepted
the challenge of August Raddatx. of
Chicago. former champion walker of
Germany, to a 26 mile hike on a six
foot hardwood or sawdust track In some
'Rrg« city R&ddatr will have the ad
vantage in age Quale recently nosed
him out in a ten-mile walk In this city
A T THE present moment Atlanta hits good instructors, among whom is
Stewart Maiden, one of the best in the country—oceans of enthusiasm
and a course to-be at Fast Lake that will doubly merit the title of the
champion course of the South: indeed, it would lie called a good link in any
part of America. And there are already some very good players hero.
Some of you play very good wooden shots, some very good irons, and some
putt extremely well: lu fact, the njore successful Atlanta golfer plays gen
erally well, but I would suggest more practice of individual shots, a steady
methodical attempt to round out one's game.
• * *
A MONG the best players at Fast Lake is the champion of the club, Mr.
George \Y. Adair. He is truly a good, accurate, thoughtful player. 11 is
chief trouble is with bis wooden clubs, and’is because the ascent and descent
of bis club describe two different lines, and be does not throw the club head
through the ball crisply enough. Mr. Tichenor plays well, and his shots all
have a suggestion of a hook. Ferry Adair shows much promise, and Mr. \V.
H. Rowan is another good player with a future. 1 noticed several younger
men who take a deep Interest in the game, and it is very important that
they In* encouraged to play. It is good for them* physically and morally,
and it insures future champions.
Wouldnt* it be tine to have the big National or Western cups in Atlanta?
Good luck I
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Heydler Leaves to
Confer With Tener
Over 1914 Schedule
NEW YORK. Dec. 36 Secretary
John Heydler, of tbe National League,
went to Harrisburg to-day to confer
with Governor Tener. recently elected
president of tbe National League, in
regard to tbe 1914 playing schedule
which Is soon to he made up. Mr
Heydler expects to leave Harrisburg to
day and meet Rarne> Drey fuss at Pitts
burg These two have tbe task of ar
ranging the National League schedule.
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TROUBLE. PILES. VARICOSE VEINS,
FISTULA. NERVOUSNESS. WEAKNESS.
RUPTURE. ULCERS AND SKIN DISEASES.
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Baker Poor Press
Agent: Jeff Gaffney
Stopped Him in 5th
The report published last Sunday in
Atlanta that Frank Baker won over
Jeff Gaffney at Savanah in 15 rounds
was an error. Gaffney really stopped
Raker in five rounds, and. according to
reports, Baker was outclassed all the
way.
It was Raker who brought tbe re
port here that he defeated Gaffney, but
the latter aifived in Atlanta this morn
ing with newspaper clippings proving
that he stopped Raker Tactics followed
by Baker will not gain him anything
in the long run. Gaffney has fought
some of the best boys In the game and
is anxious to get on with some 122-
pounder here.
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
KERSES, KERSES, KERSES.
Christmas h(i8 gone.
A etc Year 80on will;
Hut the Tinker story
18 with U8 still.
The Federal League Is now an estab
lished fact. Charley Murphy has begun
to issue lofrig statements proving that it
doesn't exist
* ♦ •
"What's this baseball game coming
to?" Inquired Fred Clarke, anxiously.
Without accurate statistics we should
say about $4,000,000 net per annum^
"1 afn opposed to the intentional pass- ,
ing of a batter,” says Mr. Johnson, “but
what are you going to do about it?"
That’s Just the way a lot of us feel
about the White Hopes.
* * m
We don’t know how tbe Tinker deal
will eventually pan out, but we will bet
that Tinker gels the worst of it
• * *
"Baseball.” observes a leading base-'
ball manufacturer, “Is one of the fun
damental causes for the athletic su
premacy of America.” It was also the
cause of the same thing iff ancient
Greece.
* * *
ONLY HERZOG.
Breathes there a man with heart so
stout
Ife has not felt his nerve ooze out
And his strong mind go batty,
Whose spirits hare not turned to lead.
Whose inmost feelings have not bled
When he received the sentence dread:
“ You manage Cincinnati ”
Whenever a ball player tries to tell
you be is not superstitious and does not
believe in signs, show him an S with
two lines drawn through it, thusly, $,
and watch results.
* * •
When one of these scandal monger
pessimists tackles you with a tale to
the effect of money is tight simply re
mind him that Joe Tinker has been of
fered $36,000 or thereabouts h> the Fed
eral League, some of which is said to
be real money.
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There will be much joy water con
sumed on New Year's evening, but every
dav the National Commission meets it’s
New Year Kve for the members of said
august body.
* • •
HANS STILL A KID.
Said Tinker (Joe) to IT agner
(Bonus)
“How do you get a ten thou
sand bonus?"
Said Wagner (Bonus) to Tinker
(Joe)
"Im just a youngster, I don't
know."
Mordecai Brown Is
At Work on Million
Dollar Pitching Arm
CHICAGO. Dec. 30.— In the hog»e of
playing on the Princeton baseball team
several years hence, Fowler McCormick,
grandson of John D. Rockefeller and son
of Harold F McCormick, of this city,
is studying tbe art of throwing curves.
Mordecai Brown, major league baseball
pitcher, is his instructor.
Young McCormick attends school at
Groton. Mass , and expects to enter
Princeton. Ho^bcgan bis training last
winter, and, according to Brown, is mak
ing fast strides in metering curves.
BOXING
News of the Ring Game
Hersig Insists He Is Still Presi
dent, While Schwartz Re
fuses To Be “Fired.”
Welsh and Dundee
On Edge for Battle
NEW ORLEANS. LA.. Dec. 30 — Fred
die Welsh, the English lightweight
champion, and Johnny Dundee, the Goth
am star, are hustling 4o get into shape
for their coming encounter on New
Year's Day. Welsh has a big advan
tage over his rival In that he has been
here for nearly two weeks and is already i
on edge Dundee has been here for five !
days, but claims he is ready for the j
fray.
Welsh will enter the ring a pronounced j
favorite He will have a few pounds 1
advantage in weight and bis long ex
perience is expected to offset the speed
of his young rival The battle is ex
pected to bring out a monster crowd,
as the two rivals are well known.
BigG
Cur«B in 1 to 3 riar*
'timatora' >
Pont Bins no vMao** snd
may be usod full
• i r • n f.h absolutely
without tft r duaran-
Im*i not to iV.etur* Proront* contagion
WHY NOT CURE YOURSELF?
At Druggists or by par.'el poai $1 or
$ bottles $2 ~b Fart‘cilia r* with each
bottle or mailed or. request.
THE EVANS CHEMICAL COMPANY,
N ashville, tenn., Dec. 30 —
The bitter factional feeling
which has existed in the Nash
ville baseball 1 war for the past two
weeks reached a climax yesterday in
an exchange of torrid statements be
tween William Hirsig, majority
stockholder in the Nashville club, and
William C. Schwartz, last season’s
manager of the local team. Hirsig
emphatically declares in his state
ment that under no circumstances
will Schwartz manage the Nashville
club next season since "he has been
convinced that the ‘boy manager’ was
not the bast leader the Vols could
get for 1914.” Schwartz is charged by
Hirsig of having approved of the
Welchonce-! 'allahan deal, repeatedly
denied by Schwartz previously, and
published a letter from Schwartz in
support of that contention.
Hirsig Also attempts to saddle the
responsibility for the Perry-Berger
deal on Schwartz, offering to produce
numerous witnesses in order to sub
stantiate his accusations.
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UIRSIG insists that he is still presi-
* *■ dent of the Nashville club, char
acterizing the midnight meeting of a
majority of the Nashville club’s
stockholders, at which lie was de
posed and Vice President Clyde
Shropshire elected to succeed him. as
a "rump” gathering, illegal and con
trary to the by-laws of the Nashville
club. Numerous legal decisions are
offered to support the assertion that
this meeting was illegal.
Schwartz In his answer to Hirsig
explains the Callahan-Welchonce deal
by stating that the failure of the
iNashville club to have him returned,
after being drafted in 1912 by Wash
ington. was due to the inability of
the Nashville club to raise the nec
essary $1,500 draft price to secure his
return to the club from which he was
drafted and to no lack of effort on
his own part to have Welchonce re
turned. Schwartz published a tele
gram dated two days before Nashville
released its claim to Atlanta, in which
he asks Hirsig to meet him in Cin
cinnati, In order that they might con
fer with Garry Herrmann, of the Na
tional Commission, relative to pre
venting Washington turning the
player over to Atlanta. Schwartz was
in Cleveland, Ohio, at t*his time, and
offers this message as proof that the
deal was made without his knowl
edge.
• « *
CQHWARTZ also denies responsl-
bility for the Perry-Berger trade,
claiming that lie had requested Hir
sig not to make any de;*ls while in
Atlanta.
Schwartz charges Hirsig with
being niggardly in supplying him with
players of ability around which to
build up a winning club, and charges
that when he approached Hirsig last
season he begged for new material to
bolster up his faltering machine, he
was denied any assistance by Hir
sig. who refused to heed Schwartz’s
warning that the club was "skating
on thin ice," although later the Vols
took a slump from which they were
never able to recover.
Murphy Plans Big
Trade With Pirates
CHICAGO. Dec. 30 —Charles W. Mur
phy's recent threat that eight Cub play
ers would be out of a Job by spring is
beginning to carry some weight, if the
many negotiations of the Cub owner are
to be takf*n Into consideration.
• Murphy’s latest move toward getting
■’new blood” for his machine is shown
in a U tter to Barney Dreyfuss. of Pitts
burg. in which the West Side boss
named every player on his reserve list
and asked Dreyfus* if there were not
J some presentable material in the. list
| > -*x would be tradeable to the Pi-
Wallach Calls Halt
Iu Cross Training
LOS ANGEI.ES. CAL.. Dec. 30 —
Leach Cross, the New York fighter who
Is scheduled to box Bud Anderson at
Vernon on New Year's Day. is doing so
nicely in hiF training that to-day Mana
ger Sam Wallach advised a let-up.
Cross Is looking good, and his claim
that he is in the best condition he ever i
attained for a Ix>s Angeles fight is borne
out by his general appearance and work I
in training bouts
"I am working out every day with Kid (
Dalton and Eta be Plccato. the best train- j
ers I have had on the coast,” said Cross
to-day "Both are fast and swap j
punches with me. I have not the least J
doubt that I will best Anderson in our
second meeting Then I am going after
Joe Rivers again.'
Bud Anderson is plugging away on
the same old strenuous schedule at his
training quarters.
Boh Fitzsimmons’ ambition to shine
again in the pugilistic limelight has re
ceived a decided setback at the hands
of the New York State Boxing Commis
sion. The commission has issued an
edict prohibiting the former world’s
champion from engaging in any bouts
in New York because of his age.
* * *
According to reports, Nevada is plan
ning another heavyweight fight to a
finish. Bill Dailey, the San Francisco
theatrical man. is trying to arrange a
bout to be held during the first week
in July. He may match the winner of
next Thursday’s bout between Smith
and Pelky with some suitable opponent.
Negotiations regarding the appearance
of Gunboat Smith in Paris to take on
Sam Langford are not expected to suc
ceed, as Smith is demanding his travel
ing expenses and a purse of $25,000.
Carpentler may get Langford if the
latter accepts a weight linTit of 178
pounds.
* * *
A coast critic says: "Put old Bat Nel
son’s heart inside of Joe Rivers and he
would be the lightweight champion of
the world for the next five years.”
* * * •
Weighing 146 pounds Packey McFar
land insists that he is a lightweight.
Why not admit it and let him light Gun
boat Smith for the title?
"Battling” Levinsky will box ten
rounds with Bob McAllister, the clever
middleweight of San Francisco, at Mad
ison Square Garden. New' York, on Jan
uary 1L\ A match' is pending between
“Snapper” O’Neil and Jack Britton for
the same night.
* * *
The receipts for the fight between
Jack Johnson and Jim Johnson
amounted to $5,179. Langford and Jean
nette drew $11,370 for their fight. Both
bouts were staged in Paris.
* * *
Charlie White will make his next
scran against Harry Donahue at Peo
ria. 111., on January 5. White and Don
ahue will weigh 133 pounds at 6 o’clock.
Donahue is the boy who recently handed
Mickey Sheridan a neat lacing for ten
rounds.
• * *
The Ad Wolgast-K O. Brown scrap
scheduled to lake place in Milwaukee
Thursday night has been called off. The
New York lightweight has taken sick
and will not be able to fill the engage
ment.
> • •
George “Knock ’Em Dead” Brown,
the Greek middleweight from Chicago,
has landed a match with George Chip
in Pittsburg on New' Year’s Day. Brown,
formerly handled by Nate Lewis, is now
being managed by Larney Lichtenstein.
* * *
Joe Superior, the local bantam, would
like to get on in one of the preliminary
bouts to the Welsh-Whitney set-to on
January 6. Joe Is particularly wild to
fight "Kid’’ Brooks.
+ * *
Ijrcal fans hre turning their atten
tion to New' Orleans, where Freddie
Welsh and Johnn\ # Dundee will mingle
for ten rounds Thursday afternoon. The
fact that Welsh will leave immediately
after the bout for Atlanta to box Whit
ney has added much Interest to the fray.
Welsh rules a 10-to-8 favorite.
* * *
Jack Dillon, the Indianapolis middle
weight, has been matched to fight Jim
my Clabby in a 20-round bout in San
Francisco on January 10 for what is
styled the rrtlddleweight championship.
How about George Chip? Dillon will al
so swing the padded mitts with Gun-
Christie in Indianapolis on New l'ear’s
afternoon.
* * •
Owen Moran, the English lightweight,
who was disqualified in his bout with
Joe Azvedo on the coast recently, is now
on his way East. He may take part
in a few fights in New York before he
sails for home. Moran ha8 been
matched to meet a British lad named
Kid Lewis, for 20 rounds in London
late in February.
• a *
Kid Williams, of Baltimore who has
been signed to fight Eddie Cainpi on
the coast tor 20 rounds on February 12.
will leave for California on January 12.
After the fight with Campi Williams will
demand a fight with Champion Johnny
Coulon for the bantamweight title.
Auburn Willing
To Play Indians
Here Next Season
Famous Plays—By Heisman
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No. 2—The Old Flying Wedge
By J. W. Heisman.*
I N THE fall of 1S92, after tbe “V” from a standing start had been In iis
for over half a dozen years Harvard came forward with something
distinctly new-—the “Flying Wedge.”
This play was invented by a Cambridge man by name of Deland, and
was copied far and wide until legislated out of existence by the rale re
quiring that on the kick off the ball would have to be kicked an actual dis
tance of at least ten yards.
Deland had never played football himself, but had been watching it for
rears on Soliders’ Field, and had often wondered why teams did not get
more variety into their attack.
The first time it was ever exhibited “on any stage” was in the game
between Harvard and Yale that year at Springfield. It fell to the lot of
the Crimson to kick off. and the Blue lined up ten yards away from the ball,
and prepared to attack the expected “V” in the usual way.
What was their amazement to see the Harvard team line up in a crazy,
new-fangled way to which there seemed to be no sense whatever. Instead of
the center getting over the ball the Crimson quarterback was guarding it.
About -0 feet to his left and-somewhat back of him was stationed the right
half, and to the rear of this latter and also back further was stationed the
other half. And then there was an Indian file of five, and another of three,
widely separated from each other. But the queerest thing about it all was
the fact that the eight men in these two files did not come up to the middle
of the field and toe the scratch there, but seemed content to take station
some 20 yards back of midfield, as though they intended to luce nothing
whatever to do with the ceremonies incident to the opening of hostilities.
The Yale players stared blankly, and the Yale coaches looked their college
color: no one of them could form a guess as to what might be coming off
or what should be done: tbe stands were awed with dumb, suppressed
excitement. The officials themselves stared and procrastinated, and asked
the Harvard and Yale captains twice each if they were ready. It appeared
impossible that the Harvard team could be ready, but each time Captain
Dudley Dean, of Harvard, calmly insisted that lie was quite ready for the
dogs of vvat; to be unleashed, and so at length the whistle sounded its
shrill blast.
Auburn has accepted the offer to meet
Carlisle on an Atlanta gridiron next fall,
asking that.the game be staged two
weeks after Thanksgiving Pay. It is
probable that the contest will be held at
either Grand Field or Poncy Park.
GOLF PLAV POSTPONED.
PIXEHUR8T, N. C., Dee M k!a> in
the holiday golf tournament was por
tioned iosurviay oil account of ram.
Cicotte Returns His
Contract Unsigned
CHICAGO, Dec. 30 —Eddie Cicotte
who ranked next to Walter Johnson as
a pitcher In the American League last
season, is said to be the first hold
out of the 1914 crop. Cicotte is re
ported from his Detroit home to have
said that although the figure named in
the contract was not satisfactory he
would have refused'to sign at present
under any circumstances because he
had not been given permission by the
players' fraternity. f
A T ONCE the two lines of Harvard men started forward, seemingly aim-
n ing to come together at the point M. On they came, faster and faster,
gathering momentum with each stride, but the quarter and the halves stood
stock still, while the ball had not yet moved a hair’s breadth. And until it
did move the Yale players could not charge forward;.they could do nothing
but wait in anxious doubt and indecision.
But just before the right-hand column reached the point “P,” Dean, at
quarter, picked up the hail and passed it rapidly to the right half. The
latter at once shied it over to the left half, then turned and also made for
| the point M. Meanwhile Dean, after passing the ball to the right half,
j sprang forward and tumbled under Yale’s right guard.
After the ball had bcmi scraped over Dean’s toe. in fake conformity to the
! kick-off requirement, it took but an instant for the two defiles of Harvard
! players to effect a junction with the right half back at their apex, and wjth
j all steam up the way they hit the Yale right tackle was something to remind
: everybody of what a playful thunderbolt is like. With all that aroused
! momentum it was out of the question for the defensive team to Rnp things
| in their track, and a good 25 yards gain had been chalked off in favor of the
Crimson cohorts before Halfback Lake was finally brought to the sod.
* * *
i.N THIS particular instance the play owed some of its effectiveness i”
1 (ho fact that to Yale it was a. new stunt, and they could form no guess
as to what was coming. But the next year everybody was playing it. an ’
all teams knew what to expect. Nevertheless, when well performed the
tiling had such a terrific momentum whooped up by the time it came Into
collision with the defensive players that there was no stopping il short
of a substantial gain. ” /
But if you think it must have taken nerve to fire into one of the o"l
“Vs” that operated from a standing start what would you say to the nerve
it took to wade into the flying wedge?
The fact is it was a very dangerous play for everybody concerned, an”
that was the 7'eason why the rule makers decided to eliminate it by insist!! -
on an actual kick for the opening of a game.
Much was expected of Deland in the way of new plays after this ini!!
sueoess. but. so far as I have ever heard, lie never invented anything
great importance in the game after that.
“THE VICTOR ’
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