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Success Seldom Comes to a Man Who Is Too Lazy to Go After It
SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
Just a Little' Surprise for the Judge
Hank O’Day Comes to the Bat
With a New Plan, Hard to
Understand
By 0. B. Keeler.
H ERE rr>mM Hank O’Day, some
umpire, who once managed ‘he
Cincinnati Reds, with a brand-
new idea for a rule to prevent th*
intentional passing of a heavy bat
ter at a critical juncture
Candidly, we don’t get Hank.
Take a slant at the report, exactly
a* published in the daily prints, ani
see what you think about it.
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“IV/TAKINO the pitching box narrow-
er would accomplish the de
sired object," la Mr. O’Day's reported
opinion.
As previously stated, we don't get
him.
in the first place, there hasn’t been
any "pitcher’s box’’ for quite a while
There used to he, 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 the
process of delivery.
If Mr. O’Day meant "make the slab
narrower." we still would fail to se*
what effect that would be toward re
straining a pitcher from lobbing over
four w ide ones.
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M R. O'DAY isn’t the first one to
tackle the problem of making a
pitcher put it over—and it seems to
us that nobody will succeed in that
undertaking without the aid of hyp
notism Certainly some managers
owning wild hurlers with lots of stuff
would be ver> r 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, can compel a pitcher
to keep his product Just over the cor
ners of the pan. Mr. O'Dj^ would bet
ter give up umpiring ai^working on
the rules committee, ann start man
aging another hall club. ,
He would have some valuable
pitching service what?
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S O far as our research extends, only
one rule ever has been proposed
that seemed at all likely to prevent
the intentional passing of a heavy
hitter in a pinch We forget who
suggested it. but it had an sir of
plausibility entirely lacking from Mr.
O’Day'a hunch, so far as understood.
The idea was that the hatter re
ceiving four wide pitches had the op
tion either of taking his base or of
remaining at bat and allowing the
next batsman in order to take the
base for him.
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S UPPOSE, foe example, that Har
ry Welchonc® was up, with
Tommy Long on second or third and
a right-hand pitcher on the slab. Sup
pose the r h. pitcher had been pun- |
ished severely by Harry, but had been
"getting" Wally Smith and Bisland
without difficulty.
Then It might not he out of order
to suppose that, with two out, the
pitcher would rather see Harry on
first than waving his big stick at t’le
plate.
All right. Four balls But Harry
declines the offer, at a signal from
his boss Wally Smith trots on down
to first. Harry remains at bat. Four
more halls" Maybe. Then Billet!4
walks and the bases are full—and
Welchonc© still at bat.
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VTOC see the idea
* But even that wouldn’t be alto
gether a fair rule
Becoming candid again, we don’t
see how any rule is to be made that I
will do justice between pitcher and
hatter in this respect In our opinion. j
the strategic move of passing a heavy
hitter is sufficiently penalized by the
additional runner on the bases—anij
you may easily recall Instance after j
instance when the supposed "weak j
sister" has come along a d cleaned !
up.
/ Anyway, when it comes right down !
to the point, how is any umpire going
to know for sure (if the pitcher ap
parent!' tries to get the ball over) ;
whether the base on balli » inten
tional?
We await r. O’Day’s further elu
cidation of this "problem vexed."
WILL MEET IN LONG WALK.
STROt’OHTON. WI8.. Dee. 30
Sever (juijJu. of Stoughton, has accepted
the challenge of Vugust Raddatz. of!
t’hirago. former champion walker of!
Germany, to a 26-mile hike on a six-
foot hardwood or sawdust track In some;
large eit> Raddatc w ill have the ad- I
vantage In a*e Quale recently nosed
bun out in a ten-mile walk in this city t
Chick Evans Leaves Atlanta
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Expert Praises Our Golfers
By Chick Evans.
I T WILL Ik* hard for me to not buck to Chicago for work after living in
tlie warm hearted hospitality of Atlanta. My games of golf over the
Atlanta courses will mark a most enjoyable occasion, and big, dirty,
noisy Chicago will seem almost unbearable because my mind will be full
of the happy events In your clean, delightful little city. I can not ever
adequately express how much I owe to the generous hearts of Mr. and Mrs.
George Adair.
Interest In golf lias grown very rapidly in the last few years in the
Southern States, and nowhere In the Soutli 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 Ilargan, lives here,
or in the Western, which has a deep Interest In Southern players. One
would think that the Southern player had certain natural advantages in
tlie opportunity to play the year around. Of course the game is young in
the South, hut the time is rapidly approaching when Southern golfers should
reach a higher championship standard.
At the present moment the very best Southern players are many shots
behind the liest players of tlie West and North. Of course the Southern
player must travel far to the big tourneys, and consequently comparatively
few go. The Southern showing in the litl.’t National was better than usual,
and Nelson Whitney, your champion, qualified well up. but no Southern
player yet lias gone far in either Western or Nutioual. Many times I have
heard the reason asked.
In tlie upbuilding of champions, there are. I think, the following essen
tials: First, enthusiasm aud the type -of enthusiasm that is the essence of
patience. Oolf 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 cither verbal or by example,
for young players imitate readily. I think the best sort of instruction is
playing with it better player. The next essential is a good golf course re
quiring championship play. You can learn tlie shots on any course, provided
its condition allows the ball to fall and run the same every time. One
must be able to judge the roll of a ball, and know just what ground-behavior
can he expected of it. One ran learn to hit the hall in the air, hut unless
the ground Is rigid, he loses power to judge results. A good course aids
good play and penalizes had. I learned my golf on a flat h-liolc stretch of
ground, and then 1 Improved It by pluying a great deal at Chicago golf—a
championship course.
BASEBALL
Diamond Nows and Gossip
A
T THE present
Stewart Maldt
and a course-to-be
champion course of
part of America.
Some of you play v
putt extremely well
erally well, hut I w
methodical attempt
moment Atlanta lias good Instructors, among whom is
•n, one of tlie best in the country—oceans of enthusiasm
at East Lake that will doubly merit the title of the
tlie South; indeed, it would be called a good link in any
And there are already some very good players here,
cry good wooden shots, some very good irons, and some
in fact, the more successful Atlanta golfer plays gen-
ould suggest more practice of individual shots, a steady
to round out one’s game.
A MONO the best players at East Take Is the champion of the club, Mr.
Oeorgc W. Adair, lie is truly a good, accurate, thoughtful player. His
| chief trouble is with his wooden dubs, and Is because the ascent and descent
of his club describe two different lines, and he does not throw the club head
through the hall crisply enough. Mr. Tlrhenor plays well, and his shots all
have a suggestion of a hook. lVrry Adair shows much promise, and Mr. W.
li. Rowan is another good player with a future. I noticed several younger
men who take a deep interest in the game, and tt is very Important that
they lx- encouraged to play. It Is good for them physically and morally,
and it Insures future champions.
Wouldnt’ it lie flue to have the big National or Western cups in Atlanta?
Good luck!
Heydler Leaves to
Confer With Tener
Over 1914 Schedule
NEW YORK. Dec 30 Secretary
John Heydler. of the National League,
went to Harrisburg to-day to confer
with Governor Tener. recently elected
president of the National League, in
regard to the 19)4 playing schedule
which soon to n*» made up. Mr.
Heydler expects to leave llarriaburg to
day and meet Barney Drsyfuss at Pitta-
burg These two have the task of ar
ranging the National League schedule.
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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
JcfT Gaffney at Savanah In 15 round#
wii an error. Gaffney really stopped
Bilker in five rounds, and, according to
reports. Baker was outclassed all the
way.
It was Baker who brought the re
port here that he defeated Gaffney, but
the latter aifived in Atlanta thia morn
ing with newspaper clippings proving
that he stopped Baker. 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 gei on with some 122-
pounder here
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KERSES. KERSES. KERSES.
Chrintmas hag pone.
New Year noon will;
But the Tinker story
/8 with uh still.
The Federal League is now an estab
lished fact. Charley Murphy has begun
to issue long statements proving that it
doesn’t exist.
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"What's this baseball game coming
to?" inquired Fred Clarke, anxiously.
Without accurate statistics we should
say about $4,000,000 net per annum.
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"1 am opposed to the intentional pass
ing of a batter," says Mr. Johnson, "hut
what are you going to do about it?"
That's Just the way a lot of us feel
about the White Hopes.
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W© don’t know how the Tinker deal
will eventually pan out, but we will bet
that Tinker gets the worst of it.
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"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
anise of the same thing in ancient
Greece.
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ONLY HERZOG.
Breathes there a man with heart so
stout
He has not felt his nerve ooze out
Anti his strong mind go batty,
Whose spirits have not turned fa lead,
Whose inmost feelings have not bled
When he received the sentence dread:
“You manage Cincinnati”
Whenever a ball player tries to tell
you he Is not superstitious and does not
believe in signs, show him an S with
two lines drawn through it, thusly, $,
and watch results.
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When one of'these scandal monger
pessimists tackles you with a tale to
the efTeot of money is tight simply re
mind him that Joe Tinker has been of
fered $36,000 or thereabouts by 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.
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HANS STILL A KID.
Said Tinker (Joe) to » a oner
(IIonus)
"Hotv do you get n ten thou
sand honusf”
Said Wagner (Honus) to Tinker
(Joe)
“Im just a youngster, I don’t
know."
Willard Stops Rodel
In Nine Rounds
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 30 —
Jess Willard, the Kansas City
heavyweight, who knocked out
George Rodel, a fellow "hope,” in the
ninth round last night, turned two
longin. anxious, hopeful eyes to-day
toward the Gunboat mith-Arthur Fel-
ky row in California on New Year's
Day.
Willard said he would try to get a
match with the winner of the Smlth-
Felky affair, and there Is no doubt
that a victory over the winner of the
Western fight would put Jess in the
very forefront of the "white hopes."
end would earn for him the title of
white heavyweight champion
It was considerable of a task for
Mr. Rodel to eat anything to-day ex
cept spoon victuals as a result of the
right-hand uppercuts which spoiled
his evening last night.
This was the first twenty-round
tight held in the Nutmeg State since
Young Corbett knocked out Terry
McGovern more than a decade ago.
and has aroused the hope that at
last a permanent home has been
found for long distance tlght3 in the
East There was no interference of
any kind from the officials.
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 to 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
on edge Dundee has been here for five
days, but claims he is ready for the
fray.
Welsh will enter the ring a pronounced
favorite. He will have a few pounds
advantage in weight and his long ex
perience is expected to offset the speed
of his young rital. The battle is ex
pected to bring out a monster crowd,
as the two rivals are well known.
Hersig Insists He Is Still Presi
dent, While Schwartz Re
fuses To Be “Fired.”
N ashvili.e, tenn., Dec. 30.—
Tho bitter factional feeling
which has existed in the Nash
ville baseball w'ar 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 best leader the Vols could
get for 1914." Schwartz Is charged by
Hirsig of having approved of the
Welchonce-Oallahan 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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I_JTRSIG insists that he is still presl-
“ uent of the Nashville club, char
acterizing the'midnight meeting of a
majority of the Nashville club’s
stockholders, at which he 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-Welehonce deai
by stating that the failure of the
Nashville 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 Welehonce re
turned. Schwartz published a tele
gram dated two days before Nashville
released its claim to Atlanta, in w hich
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 this time, and
offers this message as proof that the
deal was made without his knowl
edge.
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S CHWARTZ also denies responsi
bility for the Perry-Berger trade,
claiming that he had requested Hir-
sig not to make any deals 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.
Wallach Calls Halt
In Cross Training
LOS ANGELES. CAL.. Dec. 30 —
Leach Cross, the New York tighter who
is scheduled to box Bud Anderson at
Vernon on New Year's Day. is doing so
nicely in his training that to day Mana
ger Sam Wallach advised a let-up.
Cross is looking good, and his claim
that lie is in the best condition he ever
attained for a Los Angeles fight is borne
out by his general appearance and work
in training bouts.
"I am w orking out every day with Kid
Dalton and Babe Piccato. the best train
ers 1 have had on the coast," said Cross
to-day "Both are fast and swap
punches with me. 1 have not the least
doubt that I will best Anderson in our
second meeting Then l am going after
Joe Rivers again "
Bud Anderson is plugging away on
the same old strenuous schedule at his
training quarters.
BOXING
News of the Ring Game
Bob 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.
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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.
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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.
Garpentier may get Langford if the
latter accepts a weight limit of 178
pounds.
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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.”
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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?
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"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 12. A match is pending between
"Snapper” O’Neil and Jack Britton for
the same night.
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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.
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Charlie White will make his next
scrap against Harry Donahue at Peo
ria. Ill., on January 5. White and Don
ahue will w r eigh 133 pounds at 6 o’clock.
Donahue is the boy who recently handed
Mickey Sheridan a neat lacing lor ten
rounds.
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The Ad Wolgast-K O. Brown scrap
scheduled to take 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.
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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 no\t
being managed by Larney Lichtenstein.
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Joe Superior, the local bantam, would
like to get on in one of the preliminary
bouts to the Welsh-Whitney set-to on
January fi Joe is particularly wild to
fight "Kid’’ Brooks.
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Local fans arc turning their atten
tion to New Orleans, where Freddie
Welsh anil Johnny 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.
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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 middleweight championship.
How about George Chip? Dillon will al
so swing the padded mitts with Gun-
Christie in Indianapolis on New Year's
afternoon.
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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 has been
matched to meet a British lad named
Kid Lewis, for 20 rounds in London
late In February. "
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Kid Williams, of Baltimore who has
been signed to fight Eddie Campi on
the coast for 20 rounds on February 12.
i will leave for California on January 12
After the fight with Campi Williams w r ill
demand a fight with Champion Johnny
Coulon for the bantamweight title
Auburn Willing
To Play Indians
Here Next Season
GOLF PLAY POSTPONED.
PINEHl'RST. N C.. Dec 30 Play in
the holiday golf tournament was post
poned yesterday on account of rain.
Auburn has accepted the offer to meet
Carlisle on an Atlanta gridiron next fall,
asking that the game be staged two
weeks after Thanksgiving Day. It is
probable that the contest will be held at
either Grand Field or Poncy Park.
Cicotte Returns His
Contract Unsigned
Famous Plays—By Heisman
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No. 2—The Old Flying Wedge
By J. W. Heisman.
I N THE fall of LS92, after the “V” from a standing start had been In use
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 rule 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
years 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 w T ay.
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 20 feet to his left and somewhat hack of him was stationed the right
half, and to the rear of this latter and also hack further was stationed the
other half. And then there w T as 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 have nothing
whatever to do with tlie 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; the 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 l>e toady, but each time Captain
Dudley Dean, of Harvard, calmly insisted that lie was quite ready for the
dogs of war to Ik* unleashed, and so at length the whistle sounded its
shrill blast.
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AT 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, hut the quarter and the banes srooil
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 ball 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 bail to the right half,
sprang forward anil tumbled under Yale’s right guard.
After the ball had been scraped over Dean’s toe, in fake conformity to the
kick-off requirement, it took but an iifstant for the two defiles of Harvard
players to effect a junction with the right half back at their apex, and with
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 stop 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 soil.
* » • •
iX l HIS particular instance the play owed some of its effectiveness to
the 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, and
aH teams knew what to expect. Nevertheless, when well performed the
thing had such a terrific momentum whooped up by the time it came hit"
collision with the defensive players that there was no stopping it short
of a substantial gain.
But if you think it must have taken nerve to fire into one of the old
’s” that operated from a standing start what would vou sa v to the nerve
it took to wade into the flying wedge?
The fact is it was a very dangerous play for evervbodv concerned, and
that was tlie reason why the rule makers decided to eliminate it by insisting
on an actual kick for the opening of a game.
Much was expected of Deland in the w*ay of new plays after this initial
success, but, so far as I have ever heard, he never invented anything of
great importance in the game after that.
CHICAGO, Deo. 30 -Eddie Cicotte. «T||1 ai f i Tn& „
who ranked next to Walter Johnson as ■ B —— ■twf Vill
a pitcher in the American League last :
season, is said to be the first hold- ’
out of the 1914 crop. Cicotte is re- j
ported from his Detroit home to have
said that although the figure named in j
the contract was not satisfactory lie |
would have refused to sign at present !
under any circumstances because tie |
had not been given permission by the
players fraternity.
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