Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, November 8, 1912, Page 6

S & & fiub for many years and is a well- if‘g' $ Xnown lawyer af Washington. W0 TACKLES MUST BEAR BRUNT Survey of Football Rules Leads to Be lief Game Will Be Close Cousin to That of 1909. ‘Walter Camp’s latest variety of foot ball rules has been accused of being everything from a return to the old eat 'em alive mass play rules to being a slight modification, which will have little effect on the style of play. Act ually, a survey of the new football laws leads to the belief that the game that will develop under them will be a close cousin to that played in 1909, an invitation to the tackles to stand up and be killed. Last year’s rules favored the defense to such an extent that scoring was almost impossible| and fluky in the extreme. It appears that in their effort to sfrengthen the offense, the rulemakers have gone to the other boundary and that scoring this year is likely to be enormous. The mass play died when pulling and pushing a man through the line Walter Camp. was abolished. But the tackle now will have to stand the shock of his opponent forward, and then of a heavy man bent on making two or three yards. He will not, in all probability, get much help from the secondary de- fense. To weaken the defensive back- line unduly will be simply an invita- tion to the offense to work the now unrestricted forward pass to its heart’s content. The situation will be much the same as Yost faced when Notre Dame beat Michigan and which, later in the same year, he compelled Pennsylvania to meet. The threat of the forward pass was always there, but the play itself was no great factor in the scoring. Instead, the first defemse was simply battered down by “straight football,” while the backs waited helplessly for the forward pass that didn’t come. f Bat Made of Concrete. { Some genius is trying to put a con« crete bat on the market. He claims that it is no heavier than a hardwood bat, and drives the ball much farther. According to the laws of the game, the bat must be made of wood, so that the statutes would have to be al- tered before the stone stick could be . utilized. The game, right now, doesn’t need a bat that will drive the ball any farther, but more batsmen who can drive the ball with the bats in current mse. It they ever get bats that will hit ’em farther, the games at Boston, Chicago and New York National League parks will be nothing but pa- rades of home runs. Not a Stranger. 'y Ben Minor, the new preeident of the hington club, will be no stranger the American league circles thia when he attends the annual meet-~ . He has been the secretary of the RLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP AVERAGES Px?zZF2¢zz25F f 3 g3 &8 398 2338 E- 2 8 o 7 B o392 592 £ .8 e T 32 s T, a 3 st B Ee 7 i3 . 9 Name=s t ;g gz;: g 5 3 P20 528 F 3 3 R S ? e & Stahl, 1b, Red Sox.. 8 32 3 11 13 2 1 8 3 1 0 .344 .9289 Merkle, 1b,.Giants... 8 23 5 9 11 1 1 8 1 3 0 .273 .966 Yerkes, 2b, Red Sox. 8 33 3 8 12 0 0 18 22 0 2 .242 1.000 Doyle, 2b, Giants... 8 33 5 8 11 2 0 15 27 4 5 .242 .913 Wagner, ss, Red Sox 8 30 1 5 6 1 0 22 24 3 3 .167 .942 Fletcher, 8s, Giants. 8 28 1 5 6 0 0 16 23 3 1 179 929 8Shafer, 88, Giants... 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 O .000 1.000 Gardner, 3b, Red S8ox 8 28 4 6 14 0 3 6 12 3 2 .214 .857 Herzog, 3b, Glants.. 8 30 5 12 17 2 2 11 16 0 1 .400 1.000 Lewis, If, Red Sox.. 8 31 4 5 8 0 1 5 10 1 1 .161 .934 Devore, If, Giants... 8 22 4 6 5 5 0 10 2 0 7 .227 1.000 Speaker, cf, Red Sox 8 30 4 9 14 1 0 21 0 3 4 .300 .875 Hooper, rf, Red Sox 8 31 3 9 14 0 2 11 17 0 0 .290 1.000 Murray, rf, Giants.. 8 31 5 10 14 0 1 23 1 0 2 .323 1.000 Snodgrass, cf, Giants 8 33 1 8 9 1 0 17 10 1 2 .242 .947 Becker, cf, Giants...1 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 O0 0 2 .000 1,000 Cady, c, Red Sox.... 8 22 1 3 3 0 1 3 3 0 0 .136 1.000 Carrigan, ¢, Red Sox3 7 0 0 0 0 0 9 5 0 0 .000 1.000 Meyers, ¢, Glants .. 8 28 2 10 12 0 1 32 4 1 2 357 .973 Wilson, ¢, Giants... 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 .500 .750 Wood, p, Red Sox... 4 7 0 2 2 0 0 1 6 0 1 .28 1.000 Collins, p, Red Sox.. 2 50 0 0 0 0O 0 3 0 0 .00 1.000 Bedient, p, Red Sox. 4 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 i 0 O .000 1.000 O'Brien, p, Red Sox. 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 0 0 .00 1.000 Hall, p, Red Sox....2 3 0 3 4 0 0 O0 B8 1 1 1000 .834 Mathewson, p, Giants 3 12 0 2 2 0 0 1 13 0 0 .167 1.000 Tesreau, p, Giants .. 3 8 6 3 3 0 0 0 9 0 0 .376 1.000 Crandall, p, Glants .. 1 1 6 0 0 0 0 1 0 O O .000 1.000 Marquard, p, Glants. 2 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 0 7 .00 1.000 Ames, p, Glants..... 1 00 0 000 O 1 0 O .00 1.000 Engle, ut, Red Sox.. 3 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 O0 0 0 .50 .000 Ball, ut, Red 8ox....1 0 0 0 0 0 0O O 0 O O .300 .000 McCormick, ut,Glants 4 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 O .250 .000 Henrickeen, ut, R. &1 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1000 .00 RULES FOR WORLD’S Sthics Manager McGraw of Champion Glants Makes Two Suggestions for Reg- ulation’ of Games, The world's series rules will most likely be amended before next year as a result of suggestions made by Manager McGraw of the Gilants to Garry Herrman, chairman of the Na- tional league, The little Napoleon and. the czar of the younger major league buried the hatchet after several years of enmity. McGraw made two suggestions, which the two members of the na- tional commissfon thought well of, and which they said would Ifkely be adopted before many months have flown. During the recent world's series in Boston, when the Giants lit upon Joe ‘Wood's delivery in the first inning and scored six runs, the entire New York team was on the anxious seat for fea~ that their great lead would count for naught, as the clouds were gathering thick and fast at the time, and it looked doubtful if the teams cou play more than three or four innings In this case unless they played the full five innings, the Giants would have done all their cannonading for nothing. The clever little manager suggested that a rule be made for future world’s series games that if rain stopped a game, no matter at what stage, play be resumed the following day where the two teams left off, rain checks be- ing provided the fans so that they could see both sections of the game. | The other rule that McGraw sug-’ gested was to let all the fans who at- tend a tie game see the play-off free of charge, their seat checks being suf- ficlent credential to get them into the park. In MoGraw’s opinion a fan is enti- itled to see the play-off for nothing | as when he goes to the box office and | puts up his money he does it with the | expectation of seeing the teams bat- i tle to a decision. When they play a i tle he is disappointed. i | i Army Makes Good Showing. . Despite the fact that Yale beat the ' Army, students of the game figure that West Point made a good enough showing to make it look pretty blue for the Navy in the annual game, Kramer New World’s Champion. |} Frank L. Kramer has for twelve consecutive years won the American bicycle championship, and has in ad- dition this year annexed the world’s championship. i | MORE OUT-DOOR LIVING |And Death Rafe Will be Lowered. ! Statistics prove that the death rate is very much greater in the winter months than in summer, and that the lack of fresh air is largely responsible for this condition. If the system becomes rundown, blood thin and watery, ecirculation poor, no appetite, don’t dose with drugs, but take our delicious cod liv- er and iron tonic Vinol, net a patent medicine, as everything in it is named on every package and if it does not give you a hearty appetite, enrich the blood and create strength, we will return your money; that shows our faith in Vinol. A case has just some to our atten- tion from Albany, N. Y. Mrs. H.|j Hartman says: “I .was in a run- down condition for about five years|: until this spring, when I Iearned |3 what a good tonic and strengthener Vinol is. 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