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ATLANTA, GA„ SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1914.
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Menke Names James, Rudolph
and MaranviIle on Nine Picked
From Big Leagues.
SCHALK IS NAMED CATCHER
White Sox Backstop Rated Over
‘Hank’ Gowdy as Best Receiver
in Game by Expert.
By Frank G. Menke.
N OW, as the curtain has fallen on
the 1914 baseball season, we
submit the result of a task we
have attempted—the selection of an
all-star National League team, an
all-star American League team, and
an all-star team made up of the
greatest players in both big leagues.
The selection of the outfield trio
does not leave any room for argu
ment. Speaker, Cobb and Jackson
rank as the greatest outfield stars the
game ever has know r n. There never
was a brainier ball player than Cobb.
His hitting ability is known from one
end of the world to the other. He is
as fast as chain lightning on the
paths, a fine fielder and a good
thrower.
Speaker, without doubt, is the
surest and best outfielder In baseball.
His throwing arm is second to none.
Time and again he has killed men at
the plate when they tried to score on
long flies into his garden. Speaker
hit .337 for the season, stole 42 bases
and scored 100 runs.
Jackson is a slugger of the old-
school type. When he hits the ball it
travels like a bullet. Jackson is a fast
man on the bases, a reliable fielder
and a fine thrower.
This outflelding trio hit for a grand
average of .348 for the season and
fielded for an average of .957.
Daubert for First Base.
At first base Daubert, of the Dodg
ers, is given the preference over Me-
Innis, of the Athletics. No other first
baseman in the game approaches the
batting and fielding marks set by this
pair for 1914, but Daubert outhit Me-
Innis by 10 points, outfielded him,
stole three more bases and scored
fourteen more runs than did the
Mackman, although he played in thir
teen fewer games than did the Ath
letics' first sacker.
At second base the honor goes to
Collins over Johnny Evers, his near
est rival. Evers outplayed Collins in
the world’s series, but for the year’s
showing Collins outplayed Evers in
every department but fielding. Col
lins stole sixteen more bases than did
Evers, outbatted him by 66 points and
scored 43 runs more than did Evers.
Maranvllle, not merely because of
the miraculous work he did in the
world’s series, but because of his
marvelous work throughout the 1914
season, draws the shortstopping job
for the all-stars. Maranvllle is In a
class by himself. Barry, of the Ath
letics, ruled as king until Maranville
flashed along the horizon. But now
Barry has been dethroned and Ma
ranville rules supreme.
Baker draws the job at third fot
the all-stars because of the big slug
ging edge he has on every other man
who plays that position. Baker may
not be a graceful fielder, but he man
ages to get the drives aimed in his
direction and he gets the ball away
with considerable speed for a man
who is supposed to be extremely
clumsy.
Schalk Superior to Gowdy.
Schalk, of the Chicago White Sox,
Is the best catcher in the game. In
our opinion. He is a timely hitter, a
grand thrower, a fine receiver and,
be9t of all, as brainy as they make
them. Gowdy is a fine catcher, but
the season’s records show' that Schalk
outhit him. Gowdy in another year
may overshadow Schalk, because he
is coming along at whirlwind clip,
but right now Schalk has the edge
and is entitled to the honor of first
catcher.
Getting down to pitchers, the selec
tion of six men out of fifteen candi
dates was the hardest task of all.
James and Rudolph, of the Braves,
deserve jobs on the all-star team, not
only because of the work they did in
the world’s series, but because of
what they did during the 1914 sea
son. The pair pitched greater ball
over a stretch of three months than
did any pair of nitchers in the history
of the game.
Alexander, of the Phillies, took rank
this year as one of the grandest pitch
ers that ever stood on the firing line.
Last year was a great year for him.
but this year he eclipsed all his other
records. With a .481 team behind
him he pitched for a .643 average.
The only way that Alexander could
win this year, with a weak team be
hind him, was to pitch air-tight ball.
And that’s just the kind of ball he
pitched.
Johnson Still Supreme.
Walter Johnson didn't have a good
year as far as games won are con
cerned. but he still ranks as one of
the pitching wonders of the age and
he deserves a job on the all-star
team. The Washington club didn’t
hit behind Johnson and it didn’t field.
That’s why Johnson’s record for vic
tories this year is smaller than in
other years. But when the fact is
taken into consideration that Johnson
allowed an average of only five hits
per game, Rtruck out an average, of
four men per game and gave only
about one base on balls per game, the
pitching prowess of the Idaho won
der asserts itself.
Eddie Plank, old and grizzled, still
ranks as the best southpaw in the
game. He w’orked in 34 games, won
16 and lost only 6. His base on balls
average per game was a trifle over
one, his strike-out average was three
and he allowed less than five hits per
game
Sporting Food
1—— By GEORGE E. PHAIR '
THE BASEBALL SCRIBE’S REVE.IGE
An expert who had picked the Braves
was chortling in his glee.
He gazed upon the football scores
and laughed Kight merrily.
Said he: “Those football experts had
the nerve to laugh at me.”
Michigan is our expert choice In the
Michigan-Harvard game, not because
we like Michigan, but because we have
placed a bet on Harvard.
However, there is one line of football
dope that never goes wrong. Always
pick Northwestern to lose.
There will be great surprise In the ■
football world next Saturday If there 1
are no surprises.
In fact, football this year Is just one
goidarn surprise after another.
Bobby Fisher Is not a wise ball play
er. He la so foolish that he expects a
baseball magnate to keep a promise.
WINTER.
(BY HEINE ZIM.)
Soon will the winds of winter blow
Across the snowy lea.
1 can't get back those fines and Oh!
The difference to me!
Two Promising Young
Georgia Gridiron Stars
make a great
Heine Zim.
3,
eal of difference—to
No, Oswald, the interview between
Mr. Zim and Mr. Thomas will not be
found in the Sunday School Companion.
FAMOUS, MISTAKES OF HISTORY.
NO. 1.
Gunboat Smith.
Since the late lamented Smlth-Lang-
ford comedy It is said that Georges
Carpentler has quit throwing bouquets
at himself.
HE UNDERSTANDS NOW.
O. Gunboat Smith, O, Gunboat Smith.
I hope you understand
You couldn't whip Sam Langrord
with
A picka-x in your hand.
We’d like to see a battle between Sam
Langford and Jess Willard. We haven’t
had a good laugh since the last time the
Bills were here.
Christy Mathewson has gone into pol
itics in New Jersey, but, aside from
that there is not a blot on his escutch
eon.
One Important Item in the Increased
cost of baseball seems generally to be
overlooked. Have you ever stopped to
realize that the price of wine has gone
up?
Some day. perchance, in the dim and
distant future, cartoonists will awaken
to the fact that football players do not
necessarily wear long hair.
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Reports from the Federal League front
indicate that the Dove of Peace is still
a refugee.
William Vandercammen has signed
with the Browns. It must have taken
him a long time to sign.
Some day we are going to take a week
off and try to figure out what one of
those football diagrams is all about.
RESPITE.
The six-day race will soon arrive and
honest men will fall,
And pay their coin to see a lot of
riders fake and stall,
And yet I'd rather watch that rare,
though it be awfully punk
Than hear a lot of magnates as they
shoot their baseball bunk.
SPEAKING OF PEACE.
The shades gfi night were falling fast.
Ban Johnson through the village
passed.
He was a stern and angry bloke
And thusly to the scribes he spoke:
(Deleted by censor.)
THE ANCIENT REFUGEE.
It is an ancient refugee;
He boldly stoppeth me.
"The war." hr cries with tearful eyes,
“Hath wade a bum of me!"
"Ah! poor, unhappy man,” quoth I,
“You come from ravaged France,
Or Belgian vales or Prussian dales,
Or Austria, perchanceV'
“Nay, nay." the refugee replies
With grimy outstretched hand.
“1 did not dwell where shot and
shell
Are ravaging the land."
“Then why," quoth I, with kindling
eye,
“Dost pull that stuff on met
The only scrap upon the map
Is there across the sea."
“Nay! nay," quoth he. "hath ruined
me.
I now am but a dub.
I rolled in dough a while ago—
I owned a baseball club.”
THE LAST RESORT.
Two managers of pugilists were lay
ing out their plans
To get some, advertising and to lure
the fickle fans.
Scfld they, "We've fought about the
purse. th<‘ referee and date.
And it is plainly up to us to fight
about the weight.”
Sees Two Holes Instead of One,
but Plays His Head Off and
Saves a Wager.
MAKES 18 HOLES IN
Some Players Do Best When Not
Feeling Well, Says ‘Chick’
Evans.
David Fultz Files
$50,000 Libel Suit
NEW YORK, Oct. 31 —David Fultz,
president of the Baseball Players’ Fra
ternity, has started suit in the Supreme
Court against the Sporting Life Pub
lishing Company, Inc., for $50,000 dam
ages for alleged libel.
The plaintiff states that in Sporting
Life, on August 29. it was the intent of
the defendant by the article in question
to represent the plaintiff as acting dis
honestly in dealings with organized
baseball. This Fultz denies to be the
case, stating that all the allegations
against him are without just founda
tion.
By “Chick” Evans.
(Three Times Western Amateur Golf
Champion.)
T HIS is a Story of a golfer who
cut sixteen strokes from his
score in twenty-four hours, and
it may be that the tale is without a
moral.
The golfer who achieved this ex
traordinary feat was a man whose
best previous 90. He had a match
scheduled for a certain Sunday
morning, and on the Saturday night
previous the two players and an out-
of-town friend went down town to
oelebrate. Much was said about the
match In the morning, and each play
er bet the other that no earthly hap
pening could keep him from the tee
at 9 a. m. The little party became a
big one and lasted far into the night/
One of the players was a married
man and went home early, but our
hero saw the party through, and in
consequence dl l not sleep at all.
Our Hero on Job.
At 9 o’clock Sunday morning the
early-to-bed player was at the first
tee looking a synonym for energy and
well-being. Our hero, remembering
his bets, was there, too, but he ap
peared as a startling illustration of
the “morning after.”
The match started, and our man
began at once to putt in a most
amazing fashion. Fifteen and twen
ty-footers were dropping regularly
into the pv- from almost an'* •'art of
the green. His other shots were not
particularly good, but his tv*tty*were
miracles, and what his surprised op
ponent said was a caution. When the
eighteenth hole was played it was
discovered that our hero, who had
modestly hoped that some time he
might break 80, had made the round
in 74!
The news flew all over the club
and a number of the fortunate golf
ers incredulous friends asked him
how he did it. “Well,” he said, “I saw
two holes on the putting green, and 1
just putted at them and the ball went
in! ”
This little story is not a ibt of fic
tion, gentle reader, but an .actual
fact. Whether it is proper to say so
or not, I myself have seen some aw
fully good golf played by fellows who
felt as bad as they looked, and 1 have
seen some pretty bad golf played by
good golfers who felt absolutely fit.
This Golfer Carries Flask.
I was beaten when playing well in
one of my most important matches
by a golfer who carried a flask in
his caddy bag. and sipped from it
whenever he could do so unseen by
the gallery, which was rather fre
quent. as he had grown clever from
long practice. Furthermore, he had
hardly been to bed the night before
and his luncheon had been chiefly
whisky. Thought I to myself, “Well,
wouldn’t that drive a fellow to
drink ?’’
I have won some important matches
myself when ill. But with tj*esc facts
before me I prefer to be the fellow
who gets out to the tee with a strong
stroke and a springy stride. The man
who is ill or has been out the night
before may not be so “tight’’ with
his shots, but usually he lasts only a
round or so. The whole thing is a
gamble for him; he may hit it off
marvelously; he may take a hundred
strokes. Believe me, it is better to
feel good every day on a golf course
than to make a marvelous score once
in a dozen games.
Federal Chief Says
It Is Necessary to
Tell Baseball Lies
CHICAGO, Oct. 31.—James A. Gil
more, president of the Federal
League, when asked for confirmation
of rumors regarding the latest al
leged moves for peace between the
Federals and organized baseball, said
that “he would tell many lies’’ In the
course of the next few months.
“I’d rather tell the truth,” he ex
plained, “but there are times when
the truth is not. always practicable.
If 1 could avoid It, 1 would. But there
are many things that must be kept
quiet, and in order to insure secrecy
it is very often necessary to stretch
the truth.”
The Federal League president said
he thought the time was not far dis
tant when he would be able to tell
the truth regarding questions as to
the 1915 make-up of his organization.
He said:
“I am tired and somewhat disgust
ed with the ‘side-stepping’ that has
been necessary ever since we broke
into baseball. No one will welcome a
return to sane conditions more than
myself.”
EXPECTS BRAVES TO REPEAT.
George Stallings is not contented
with his present triumphs. He de
clares that his team will win the flag
next year and he expects his pitchers
to win it for him.
At the top is
Garroway, the
former River
side star, who
is expected to
develop into a
great player
next year. He
entered
Georgia this
fall.
Vainly and Tennessee and Michigan Will Fur
nish Big Games in the South—New Hunch
Introduced in Official Tactics.
By WALTER CAMP.
N EXT Saturday will come the Cambridge big game for the
season, when Princeton comes there to meet Harvard. Time
was when a Princeton-llarvard game almost invariably re
sulted in favor of Princeton, no matter what the previous odds
had been, but Harvard has lately changed that, and last year in
a desperate struggle in the mud (thanks to a beautiful kick of
Brickley with a wet ball) Harvard came out the winner. On the
______________________________________ occasion of Princeton’s last visit to
JOHN J. M'GRAW AS
BASEBALL PROPHET;
JUST QUOTATIONS
Lisps from one John J. McGraw,
noted for his failure to make the
New York Giants four-time pen
nant winners in the National
League;
June 1—"The big disappoint
ment of the year has been the
Boston Braves. I had expected
Stallings to get his team in the
first division right at the start and
keep them there.”
July 1—“Those poor old Bos
tonians They still are at the bot
tom of the pile, where they ap
pear to be anchored. They surely
are the season’s big surprise.”
August 1—“The Braves hftve
made a great showing during the
past two weeks. They are now in (
fourth place and should not drop
back again to last place.”
August 15—“The Braves are j
now second, but we aren’t wor- )
ried. Their spurt is just a flash,
and they'll soon he headed the >
other way.”
August 23—“Yes, the Braves are )
tied with the Giants now'. We
now will start to work and sweep )
away from the crowd at our best «
gait.”
September 1—“As 1 predicted, '
the Braves did not stay with us. >
They have dropped back to second j
place, .and they probably have shot )
their bolt. They will decline from
this on. Mark my words.”
October 8—“The Braves?
Dash, blankety-blankety-blank
Confound it. Don’t annoy me.
Can’t you see I’m trying to buy a
ticket to see the World Series?”
Cicotte Has Way of
Covering Up Balk
Eddie Cicotte is one of the charter
members of the Order of the Kerchoo.
past master of the Hay Fever. Far
from permitting a little thing like that
to trouble him. lie makes use of it.
He was pitching a game for the Chi
cago White Sox in PhtladeJphia and he
perpetrated a frightful balk. The um
pire was just liftinc his hand to call the
balk when Eddie cut loose a ker-choo
that started the flags flapping on the
stands.
“Balk nothing,” etled Cicotte, as he
recovered. “I was sneezing.”
A few minutes later a runner reached
first. Eddie commenced to make faces,
distort his features, and. right in the
midst of a terrific sneeze he shot the
ball to first and nipped the runner.
NO CHANGE IN W.-l. CIRCUIT.
OSHKOSH, WIS., Oct. 31.—Tne
circuit of the Wisconsin-Illinois
League for the season of 1915 will
be the same as this year, according
to a decision made at the annual
meeting. While the attendance was
poor, it was decided that this was
an off year, and considerable opti
mism was felt for next season.
Wolgast to Manage
Middleweight Boxer
Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 31.—Eddie
DeLosh, the local middleweight boxer
who has a number of times shown ex
ceptional form in the ring, has signed to
box under the management of Ad Wol
gast ami expects to go to California with
Wolgast some time next month. Wol
gast has been offered a Thanksgiving
day bout with Joe Rivers in Los A r. gel eg
and will probably accept if he emerges
from next week’s bout in New York with
Freddie Welsh with his hands unhurt.
MAX FLACK TO STICK.
BELLEVILLE, ILL., Oct. 31.—Max
Flack, whose real name is Flach. has
returned home from a barn-storming
trip with the Chifeds. Flack said that
he would make his home in Helleviil *
the balance of the winter and would
again be in a Chicago uniform next
Pittsburg Club
Loses $10,000 on
Big Ed Konetchy
PITTSBURG, Oct. 31.—“What
will people say?”
Because Barney Dreyfus consid
ered this question he is out just
$18,000. It happened this way:
The New York Giants wanted
Edward Konetchy last summer.
They wanted him so badly that
they were willing to pay $18,000 for
the big first sacker and Marty
O’Toole, pitcher, to the Pittsburq
club.
“What will people say?” Barney
asked himself, and then answered
thusly: “They will say that I am
trying to help the Giants win their
fourth straight pennat.” Which
possibly was true. At any rate,
Dreyfus turned down the offer
from the New York club.
Now Konetchy has been signed
by the Federai League. Barney
sacrificed a young fortune to pub
lic opinion and the welfare of
baseball.
Jockey Butwell to
Rest Up for Winter
LAUREL, MD., Oct. 31.—“.Timmy”
Butwell, the well-known jockey who
is riding at this meeting, will rest up
for the winter at Jacksonville. He will
leave for Florida at the conclusion of
the Havre de Grace meeting, which will
finish the latter part of November.
Butwell will probably ride for Andrew
Miller and the Oneck Stable next sea
son.
Baseball Lure Too
Strong for Stahl
CHICAGO. Oct. 31.—Jake Stahl, for
mer manager of the 1912 World’s Cham
pion Boston Red Sox and now resi
dent of Chicago, has been elected presi
dent of the South Side Business Men’s
Baseball League. All the clubs will put
teams In the field with the opening of
the spring season.
No Changes Made in
New England League
BOSTON. Oct. 31. The New England
League held Its annual meeting the
other day, President Timothy H. Mur-
nane presided. Arthur D. Cooper, after
being re-elected as secretary-treasurer,
tendered his resignation. It was re
fused.
TO WINTER IN CHICAGO.
Barry McCormick, of the Federal
League umpire staff, and Harry How
ell, a Texas League arbiter, will
spend the off season in Chicago. Both
men had unusually good years in
1914, and are looking for more suc
cess m*xt t1m** out.
World’s Cycle Stars
To Race for Title in
New York on Nov. 14
NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—Sprint cham
pions from all parts of the globe will
be represented in the Indoor bicycle
championships to be run Saturday
night, November 14, preceding the six-
day race. Frank Kramer, who has held
the championship for thirteen years, is
In. grave danger of losing his title'this
year on account of the great number
of stars who have cropped up In the
past year In America and abroad.
In addition to the sprint races there
will be motor paced events, the entrants
being picked from the cream of the
talent, including Walthour, Carmen,
Wiley, Madonna, Bedell, Moran and
Lawrence. Over one hundred amateurs
will be centered in the half-dozen events
the future greats will decide.
Smith’s Broken Leg
Will Not Deter Him
BOSTON, Oct. 31.—X-ray photos of
Red Smith's broken right leg showed
that the original diagnosis of Drs. Ca
sey and Kennedy was correct. 'I he
fibula was found fractured and the tibia
broken and split. The laceration of the
tendons over the ankle may prove even
more serious than the broken bones.
Dr. Casey expects Smith, who is the
regular third lxiHeman of the World’s
Champion Braves, to recover the full
use of his leg. He is basing his hopes
largely on the case of Harry Lumley,
the Brooklyn player who broke his ankle
eight or nine years ago, and experienced
no permanent ill effects. Lumley is still
playing baseball.
McConnell
should be at his
best next year.
He is a corking
line man, and
has developed
a lot since last
season. He is
a strong, fast
lad.
$20,000 Addition to
The Polo Grounds
NEW YORK. Oct. 31. A new . n>
trance and exit will be part of a tw<>
storv office building for the New York
National League club to be erected ai
the Polo Grounds.
The building, which will be of con
crete, will be located at the northwest
corner of Eighth avenue and one Hun
dred and Fifty-seventh street. It will
have a frontage of eighty-two feet and
will be fireproof. The cost of the build
ing will be about $20,000.
Pitcher Cottrell
Back on Old Job
WATERLOO, N. Y.. Oct. 31.—Ensign
Cottrell, one of the second-string pitch
ers of the Boston National pennant win
ners. has arrived here to spend the
winter in this village, and will prob
ably accept a position with one of the
Incnl h'lTEx r*nnnl r*r>ntrpf*or<*
Officials Named for
Big Football Games
haven, CONN., Oct. 31.—
•ale. Harvard and Princeton have de-
chlivl up"n the full sf t of officials for
tne i ale-rr ineeton game at Tigertown
and the i ale-Harvard engagement In
the i ale howl. Several changes have
been made from the former list, one of
the most noteworthy being the omission
of the selection of William J. Langford
the former Trinity College captain, as
referee. lie has held this important
position at both these important games
for several years, but has Important
business interests which prevent his de
voting as much time to football as
usual.
A brand new referee has been chosen
for both games In the person of Nathan
A. Tufts, of Brown University. He
has officiated at Yale In several minor
contests.
I >avid Fultz, another former Brown
University captain, better known in re
cent athletics as the American league
baseball r-Iayer and president of the
Baseball Players’ J'Yaternitv. has again
been selected umpire of the Yale-Har
vard game. He has officiated in this
game for several years and will um
pire either at Yale or Harvard in nearly
all the games.
Pappas Meets Pries
In Athens Tuesday
ATHENS, Ga , Oct. 31.—Jimmy Pap
pas, the busiest little boxer around these
parts, will meet Meyer Pries, of Atlanta,
in a scheduled ten-round bout at the Co
lonial Theater here Tuesday night.
Two other bouts are also on the card.
Battling Smith meets Kid Pierce for
eight rounds, ami Kid Cotton tackles
Kid Frggle over the eight-round route
a battle royal will open the show.
Ross to Furbish
Up Cranford Links
NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—The Cranford
(N. J.) Golf Club, whose eighteen-hole
course was opened two years ago, is
now arranging with Donald Ross, the
famous golf architect, to “trap” the fair
greens, which when completed will make
the course among the best in this part
rtf tb*» fmmtrv
Rodgers to Replace
Lajoie
CLEVELAND. Oct. 31.—The of
ficials of the Cleveland American
League club this week received a tele
gram from Walter McCredie, manager
of the Portland club of the Coast
League, saying that Bill Rodgers had
signed his Cleveland contract and that
he would forward It at once.
For several weeks Federal League
agents have been Importuning Rodgers
to sign with the outlaws, but Rodgers
hesitated, and finally decided to listen
to the persuasive powers of McCredie
and cast his lot with the Naps.
Having counted on Rodgers being
the regular second sacker of the Naps
In 1915, Somers and Birmingham would
have been forced to mak*- other plans
for next season had he jumped.
English Mat Champ
Challenges Billiter
BATTLE CREEK, MICH., Oct. 31
On the grounds that he was* unfa
miliar with the toe hold, which he
brands as an "American idea to break
a man’s leg,” Herbert Hertley. of Eng
land, European champion lightweight
wrestler, to-day challenged Johnny
Billiter. of Toledo, American cham
pion. for another match. Billiter
threw Hartley in 26 and 19 minutes,
respectively, for the second and third
falls the othpr night after Hartley lmd
won the first fall in 47 minutes Hart
ley's diamond belt and his title were
at stake in the match, with a side bet
of $500
Coffey May Supplant
Great Honus Wagner
DENVER. Oct. 31.—Jack Coffey, the
former Fordharn player, who pastimed
with the Boston Braves several years
ago. may supplant Honus Wagner as
shortstop for the Pirates next season.
Coffey, who is manager and short-
fielder of th*- local Western League club,
left here for Pittsburg to confer with
(iwner Barney Dreyfuss. Coffey said if
Dreyfuss can assure him that he will be
the. regular shortstop for the Pirates
next season he will resign his position
with the Denver club.
Forward Pass Will
Be Effective
Play
NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J., Oct 31.—
One of the first to acknowledge the ef
fectiveness and superiority of the for
ward pass as used by Princeton in its
attack on the Rutgers eleven was George
Foster Sanford, the Scarlet’s head
coach. He said:
“It’s going to spoil football. It means
the old virile man-to-man battle down
the field Is gone. I am sorry about it.
but I am going to admit the effective
ness of the new game.”
EVERS PRAISES BRAVES.
Johnny Evers says he has played
with some game clubs in his time as
a major leaguer, but the Braves are
the gamest players he ever saw in
uniform, not even excepting the Cubs,
3»-bn wora n fl«rhtipp' PTnwd
< ambridge. Harvard also won and on
that occasion much more decisively,
although Princeton had then badly
frightened with a forward pass just
before the intermission.
From material and evidence thus
far this season the odds should cer
tainly be in Harvard's favor once
more, but the Princeton Tiger 19 al
ways a fighting tiger and will take
desperate chances, <*o that the game
should be of exciting interest.
Army vs. Notre Dame.
The game of especial interest here
in New York is the attempt of the
Army eleven to square matters with
Notre Dame at West Point for the de
feat of last year. Whether they can
come out or not is another matter,
but there is this to be said, and that
is that the Army will not by any
means be caught so much by surprise
as In 1913. If Notre Dame can out
play them both in the rushing game
and the forward pass game they will
accept their medicine but they will
have to be shown.
Another East and West game will
be played this year at Ann Arbor,
the University of Pennsylvania go
ing ou there to meet Michigan. Mich
igan was somewhat knocked out by
the contest with Harvard but has of
late years been rather too strong for
Penn and the contest ought to be a
good one with the odd9 slightly favor
ing the hame team.
Pittsburg enthusiasts will have an
opportunity to see the rivalry be
tween Pittsburg and Washington-
Jefferson settled, with the odds some
what fa von- the latter.
Southern Games.
Tennessee meets Vanderbilt at
Nashville, which should be a good
game. Out in the Middle West Wis-
consin-.Minnesota, at Minenapolis, ia
going to furnish firework9 of a pro
nounced character. The University
of Alabama vs. the University of the
South, at Birmingham, should be a
nf Sppnnn contest. New Orleans people
C\j\j KJC/VjUIIU. will hav° a chance to see the Univer
sity of Michigan meet Tulane: North
Carolina meets the Virginia Military
Institute at Charlottesville. Southern
California, the home of those won
derful trackmen, Drew and Kelly,
lines up against Occidental at Los
Angeles. Washington has a good con
test in Georgetown vs. North Caro
lina A. M. Louisiana State meets
1 he University of Arkansas at Shreve
port.
Pendleton Has a New Feature.
“Joe" Pendleton; who reformed the
Yale-Notre Dame ff ame, received a
popular vote of thanks for introduc
ing a new feature into officiating.
Every time a penalty was called,
Pendleton would announce to the
spectators the distance given and
what the nature of the foul for which
the penalty was Inflicted. It cer
tainly made a great hit with the peo
ple and suggests that an excellent
plan in the big games when the
cheering and other noise might make
it impossible for Pendleton or any
referee to be heard that he should re
peat to the ''beer leaders who then
would announce It through their
megaphones down the line. It would
help a great deal in the understand
ing and appreciating of the points.
Another lesson that is likely to be
driven home hard by the results of
another week's progress is that the
modern style of play takes a lot of
generalship and that first-class quar
terbacks are Just as rare as ever; in
fact, the real combination of player
and general has not been successful
ly proved by any of them 110 to this
point of the season.
Messed It Up.
Ghee, of Dartmouth. !«■ a wonderful
player, but butchered Ills team in
the first period at Princeton. Ames,
of Princeton, used good Judgment,
but made an almost fatal muff at *
critical time. Ills physique is frail to
stand quarterback plunging.
On the whole. If one is to by
the scores only and the character of
the contests, Princeton is emerging
from the October haze a~ a strong ag
gregation.
Driggs’ putting was distinctly good
and the line work of Ballln and
Shenk on defense admirable. In fact,
the Princeton line, until It was tired,
showed the fastest charge thus far
exhibited this season, but they tired
much toward the end and the back-
field was a sieve for forward passes.
Of their attack it is still difficult
to speak* decisively, for it was not
necessary to use it, as they had the
game won through Dartmouth’s poor
generalship before they were obliged
to face anything critical. H80 we
must wait for the best.
Yale Line Must Hold.
It is safe to 9ay that unless the
Yale line can stop the Princeton for
wards their lateral passing cannot
work successfully. Yet Princeton
looked a very weak team for a time
during the fourth period against
Dartmouth.
Thus we are seeing the passing out
of the supremacy of the old holders
and the coming to their own of many
of the presumed, or assumed, lesser
lights of the gridiron, as the first of
November will find the most com-