Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 25, 1923, Page 9

ig = Sco pppemeeieeenepeapeaeenee ee COLLEGE COACHES MUST BE UP TO DATE TO SUCCEED a QUARTET OF TWIRLING VETERANS | — SPORTS REACHING HIGHEST PLANE OF DEVELOPMENT Must Be on the Alert for New Ideas. BY WALTER ECKERSALL. Intercollegiate athletics having feached its highest point of develop- ment in history, it is interesting to note the changes in the coaching depart- ments at some of the institutions. Hardly a year goes by but some coaches go Into the discard and others ©f more up to date ideas are put im charge of the different teams. College sports are ast reaching a Plane of scientific development Re- Bardless of the fact it takes material to build a team, the coaches must know something of the sport they teach and they must keep abreast of the times. In many instances it is a case of win or move, and the mentor who is not continually on the alert for new ideas will sooner or later be asked to change bis place of employment. It {s the coach who believes and makes others believe his sport is the ace of the intercollegiate athletic world who succeeds. If he is a good organ- fzer, can make the students believe in him, and also the alumni, he {s in a fair to success. But the mentor who sits back and lets things take their course will eventually sce material turning out for other teams. Moakley Ideal Coach. Jack Moakley, coach at Cornell, is ne of the type who makes students at Ithaca believe track and field ath- letics are the major sports. He sells his ideas continually, with the result Cornell is generally represented by track teams which make creditable showings. Moakley believes everything he says and he makes others believe it, with the result more material turns out for his teams at Cornel! than reports for other lines of athletic activity, Moakley is at Cornell the year round and fs in close touch with the situation at al! times. Steve Farrell, whose Michigan team recently won the indoor track and field games of the western conference, is another of the Moakley type, although he {s not as bold as the Cornell mentor. Bteve works in a quiet way, but gener- ally manages to get results. Harry Gill of Ulinois is along the same type. Yale and Harvard were among the first of big season universities to real- ize the necessity of having track and field coaches who would fight for ma- terial. Johnny Mack. who formerly was in charge at New Haven, and “Pooch” Donovan, who acted in the same capacity at Cambridge, were ex- cellent coaches, but according to re- ports were too retired. Merriam Knows Game. As a result of being abreast the times, Ned Merriam, who broke into the athletic spotlight at the University of Chicago and afterward coached at Ames and DePauw, has been engaged to look after the Blue track and field team. Merriam knows his stuff and is of the type who will mingle with the students and fight for a man whom he thinks should be on his squad. Martin, who was a sprinter at the University of Notre Dame a decade ago, will be in charge at Harvard. He coached at Penn State last year, where he had a lot of success. Martin has made a study of track and field ath- letics and like Moakley is of the type who believes in organization and sell- ing his wares to the students and alumni. Keene Fitzpatrick Getting Old. Keene Fitzpatrick of Princeton, one of the oldest and most respected track, and field coaches in the country, real- izes ho {s outgrowing his usefulnese and is fortifying Princeton with a suc- cessor. Keene has decided on Archie Hahn to act as his assistant, which means that in a few years Michigan's sprinter of the early nineteen hun- dreds will be in sole charge of track and field work at the Orange and Black institution. Hahn has coached the freshman teams at Michigan for the last two years and was trainer of the football elevens. Practically the same is true of foot- ball. Jack Ryan, who learned his foot- bal] at Dartmouth and who has been a coach, scout, and official for nearly twenty years, will be in charge of foot- ball at Wisconsin. Ryan will come ‘west with the most up to date eastern methods and his presence will lend more interest to the football season in the middle west, the conference par- ticularly. Percy Haughton, who did so much for football at Harvard. is sure to add more interest to the football situation in the east by taking charge at Colum- bia. Time was when the New York state university was among the leaders in Atlantic seaboard football, and Haughton is expected to bring it back to the point where it will be a worthy opponent for the best elevens in tho cast. Exendine at Washington Stato. Presence of Exendine, formerly of the Carlisle Indian eleven, who fe still considered one of the greatest ends in football, at Washington State will entiven things in the Pacific coast con- ference, while Inghram is expected to do Ukewise at the University of Indi- ena. Similar changes have been made in the minor colleges, which are organiz- ing conferences and adopting uniform gets of rules. It is these up to date methods and desire to keep abreast of the times which | making Intercolle giate athletics so popular Canadian Henley Regatta Winners Will Go to Paris Winning crews in this year’s Cana- dian Henley regatta, to be rowed over the St. Catherine’s course in July, will Dominion af Caneda in next represent the ‘ the Olympic regatta in Zaris year. CHARLES “BABE” ADAMS. URBAN “RED” FABER. GROVER ALEXANDER. WALTER JOHNSON, With the opening of the baseball season not far distant the chatter of the fans is not so much about the youngsters that are liable to make good, but about the veterans who continue to perform in big league style. Johnson of Washington make up a quartet of real old time twirlers. have to step down, but when will that time come? From the way each is working in training just now you would think that they were youngsters trying to break in instead of the seasoned veterans that they are. FOR PLAYERS OF WHIST by A.R.METCALFE DUKE OF CUMBERLAND DEAL. OTED deals should be published at least once for each genera tion. From Ml-“tgan comes a strenuous plea for the Duke of Cumberland whist dea! which I think was played 100 years since. Many metropolitan papers were unable to furnish the information and the deal is therefore given below. Readers should understand that this is whist with no bidding and no exposed cards. THE HANDS. S—Nons. B—Q. J, 10, 9, SSaeR8GRSER84 o & ‘There was no special feature to the play except by west, who read the sit- uation and handled it beautifully, A companion deal in auction is the fol- lowing: THE HANDS. SA. x H-yA. K, pZa x. CA, xo. 3. 9, 4. 3. , S—E. 0, J. 10. SS, 5. 4. BEA H—-None. H—Q. J, 10, 9. D—QJ, 10,9, 8. D—Nose. C-10, 8, 64.8. C—None. S—None. HS. 7, 6, 5. <3. '. D—7, 6, 5, 4, 3. 2. CN North dealt. What would be the out come? This deal, of course, unlike the Duke of Cumberland deal, was made up, the whist deal being used as a basis. The next fs 4& real deal, showing once more the importance of the card of exit. THE HANDS. S-A 862. H-E 5 3. cs. DEoOT64 Score, 0-0. West dealt and bid one no-tromp, which closed the bidding. North had the opening lead. THE PLAT. Tricks. N. 8) We 1 D7 my DQ 5c ac 30 H7 «ORS HO BB BQ RA ae fo abe 58 3360 48 mio pio ES DA After the first trick it was easy for north to mark the ace and ten of dia- monds still in the declarer’s hand Therefore during this deal the chief duty of north to society, in general, and to bis partner, in particular, was never to lead another diamond. Rue ognition of this fact would impose upon north the necessity of keeping the card of exit instead of an entry card besides his diamonds Grover Alexander of the Cubs and Babe Adams of Pittsburgh, in the National league, Urban “Red” Faber of the White Sox, and Walter They have been in the “big show” for years delivering the goods, and it is only a matter of time until they will DIRECTOR LUEHRING IS FAN FOR OUTDOOR LIFE Fred W. Luehring, director of ath- letics at the University of Minnesota, is developing into one of the leading boosters for Minnesota as the great outdoor country. He ts taking advantage of the oppor- tunities offered by the cold season to push winter sports and is drawing up @ program of outdoor sports for the summer time as well. Following his service on the gen- eral committee in charge of the na- tonal ski tournament early last month, Mr. Luehring has been devoting him- self to the development of an outing club at the university, now named the Gopher Outing club. Its first outdoor tournament, with events at Glenwood park, on the university campus and in the hippodrome at the state fair Grounds, was conducted recently. Events included snowshoe and sk! races, dog derby, tug of war on skates, skating races, stunt skating, women's hockey championship match, inter-fraternity hockey matches, and several fancy skating competitions. In response to a questionnaire that asked which winter sport the students tock an interest in, Mr. Luebring has learned that the men students are in- terested as participants in an average of three or four outdoor sports aplece. The first 500 answers contained des- ignations of 1,868 sports in which stu- dents were interested, as follow: Hiking . Canoeing Fancy ekatini Snowshoeing . bosganing Mr, Luehring express satisfaction that canoeing and rowing, sports exactly sulted to outdoor Min- nesota, for which also there are fine facilities near the University of Min- nesota, should have been specified by so many. JOE JEANNETTE GETS LICENSE AS BOXING REFEREE Joe Jeannette, one of the great col- ored heavyweights of twelve or fifteen years ago, has been licensed to serve as a referee in New York. He is the first colored man to be thus honored, and, it is understood, will officiate at “colored ™ clubs. The old time fight fans who knew Jeannette when he was fighting the Jack Johnsons and the Sam Langfords would hardly know him now. In those days Joe was a bushy haired individual, trimly built, and with mus- cles that stuck out on him Like knobs of mahogany. Now he's baidheaded and fat, a kind- ly man, and very popular even among the white fans. His last public appearance as a boxer was when he served as a sparring partner for Carpentier in the Dempsey match. ‘Two days before the fight Jeannette created a mild sensation by saying for publication tha, old as~he was, he wished that he, and not Dempsey, were going to fight Carpentier. Special Race for High Schools on Schuylkill River Central High school of Scranton ts about to take up rowing. As a prelim- inary to the annual renewal of the Childs cup race on the Schuylkill river, Philadelphia scholastic elght cared shel} crews from the Quaker city, New York and Asheville, N. C, as well as other cities, will compete in a special race promoted by the recently organized National Interscholastic Rowing association. ed particular HOW TO ATTRACT BIRDS. And now it’s bird time again. The northward march of the feather army ts under way. Meadowlarks are broad- casting cheerily from the fields, dlue- birds greet the bird lover with their plaintive wwarbles, whito-cyed grackles and robtns are features of the epring lendscape—tnelcome sights for the outdoor fans. ITH the coming of the birds from the gouthland many a bird lover begins to think about plans for keeping some of them as regular residents about his place. The farmer or country'dweller, if he has a goodly number of trees about the house or tn the garden, does not have to do much to lure his feath- ered friends to take up housekeeping on his place. They will find natural nesting sites in there trees. But the more shrubs and trees there are, the more birds will come, and 80 every bird lover can help the game along by planting all kinds of shrubbery from time to time which, not only make any place attractive, but in providing nest- ing places for birds serve a double purpose. * % After all is sald and done the means of increasing the number of birds about the home are few and simple. Summed up in a few words, the stunt is to provide adequate protection and give the birds suitable nesting sites, food, and water. As for protection, the birds have to have some defense from cats, squirrels, owls, and hawks. There is not much chance of doing much in the bird home business if prowling cats are on the job. A few summers ago when we were in soyth- ern Michigan we saw a cat wipe out two families of wrens. It is almost impossible to have bird neighbors and cat neighbors at the same time, even if tree guards, which are just tin “fun- nels” placed around the tree trunks, ised. Hawks, owls, or crows can be taken care of in just about one way. A little .22 rifle is the answer. * ¢ As for breeding places, this genera) fact should be kept in mind. Although a considerable of our native birds build their homes on the ground, the majority place them in shrubbery or trees. Some utilize holes, others place their nests on the limbs of trees or in the crotches. So in order to keep birds on your land, it is essential to make the place attractive by planting fruit bearing shrubs if possible. It is surprising how modern tree surgery is affecting the birds these days. You know in the old days nearly every or- chard had a bunch of old trees with all kinds of cavities in them that were great etuff for nesting sites. With the advent of modern tree surgery these old trees are getting scarcer and scarcer an@ as a result the natural homes of many birds are fewer. s Fortunately, most of these birds will take to bird houses, and here is where the bird lover can do a great work by putting up these artificial nesting places. The styles of these can be varied in most any way you wish. They are simple to make and the erduest ones will often attract as many birds as the more ornate and fancy ones will You can spend a lot of time making them or they may be pur- e * @¢ In another article we are going to take the bird bouse business more in Getail, but here are a few general rules to follow tn putting them out. Watch your locations and don’t put out too many houses. We remember the case of one chap who invested in a num- ber of handsome bird houses an@ put up enough to house all the birds in a © county. And then he wondered why he didn’t get any tenants. The potnt is that, as a rule, birds do not like to be crowded. If a place is studded with bird houses very Ukely only @ few will be occupied. BASEBALL CRITICS FAIL TO MENTION CY YOUNG Jobn J. McGraw and other histor- fans, experts and critics of baseball, in discussing the great pitchers of the game, all overlook Denton (Cy) Young. Never is the name mentioned, although the discussions include Radbourne and Rusie, Mathewson and Johnson, Wad- dell and Brown, Joss and Alexander, Bender and McGinnity, Meekin and Chesbro, Clarkson, Baldwin, Keefe, and others. But no reference to Young. Still, Young pitched in the major leagues for twenty-one years and only Johnson struck out more batsmen. He was a winning pitcher in the big leagues after he passed the 40 year mark. Honus Wagner and Napoleon Lajoie each served the same number of years in the majors; Ty Cobb must Play three years more before he will equal that number. How many piteh- ers in the last fifty years could equal Young for finish, technique, general mastery, and length of service? Speaking of pitchers that have been overlooked, one rarely ever hears the name of Babe Ruth included in the list of great moundsmen. There is some excuse for this because Ruth's subse- quent work as a slugger was so much more spectacular that his feats on the pitching hill readily passed from memory. However, Ruth not alone was a splendid pitcher for the Boston Amer- feans, but he {s the leading pitcher of the league according to the lifetime averages of pitchers. Ruth served as @ pitcher through eight seasons, won ninety-one gases, lost forty-five, and carries a pitching average of 669. He opposed the Tigers in twenty-two games that went to a decision, win- ning eleven and losing the same num- ber. He beat St. Louls twenty-one times and the Browns were his pet prey; they beat Ruth but three times. The Babe's pitching record is many points better than that of Walter John- son, while he is quite a distance ahead of Shocker, Faber, Bagby, Leonard, and other stars of recent years. Had Ruth not developed slugging powers, he probably would be the one great pitcher of his league today. JIMMY AUSTIN A MODEL FOR YOUNG PLAYERS As the 42 years young Jimmy Austin begins another season with the St. Louls Browns, Business Manager Bob Quinn of that club pays him striking tribute. Austin, though he will become indignant if he hears It said, won't be of much use to the Browns in a playing sense; his legs are breaking down and his batting eye is dimmed, but the why of his presence on the team is thus ex- plained by Quinn: “The spirit of Austin makes him a valuable man to the Browns. A player Uke Austin means much to a team. In victory he fights, in defeats he fights even harder, “The spirit of Austin becomes the spirit of the Browns. Austin is carried because ho is an optimist who believes only in victory. His cheery words on the coaching lines are often far’ more valuable to the morale of a ball club than a cluster of base hits.”” ‘There you have the reason for Jimmy Austin’s presence in the lineup of the St. Louls Browns, his fighting spirit ‘The case of Jimmy Austin should serve as a model for every ambitious youngster breaking into the majors. Never a great ball player, Austin made himself a most valuable man because bs was always trying, giving his best. Alfred Goullet Has Won Eight Victories in New York Alfred Goullet added to his fame by his victory in the recent siz day bicy- cle race in Madison Square Garden. He has scored eight victories in New York since his first with Joo Fogler in 3913, as well as other triumphs tn Paris and Chicago. The Old Copyreader “Many a story is hopelessly written, but the story of life is hopelessly rotten.” SMOKE UP! [Can’te 1.) While workward I dircet my paces 1 see no store at any place Whose windows have not cn display A most bewildering array Of cigarets. Pedestrians alone the street Seem with the world at peace complete And pot a ane of them will fail As I pass by him to inhale A ctgaret. While at my denk I get the haneb ‘That maybe I should grab some tanck, Rut at the restaurant I discera ‘No eats—the Innchers’ main copesrn ‘Throughout the day, throughout the ntzkt, All individuals in sight, At home, abroad, at'play, st werk Are true and loyal as = Tork To cigarets. I never realized the ate Of everrone who has s name Is just to smoke, until the dee Had up and sentenced me te kneck Of ctgarets. GUy Lem BYRD HODGE’S BASEBALL CAREER STARTS IN ARMY Byrd Hodges, big southpaw twirler of the Cubs, was 21 years of age before he had a baseball in his hands. And his introduction to the national game was interesting. “I went overseas with the evacuation hospital unit No. % and for more than five monthe was stationed at Coblenz after tho war ended,” says Hodges. “Our athletic captain decided to get up a ball team for the untt and asked those who wanted to try out for the squad to fall out of line. I fell out with the others because the idea sort of appealed to me. “We had exactly one baseball, one bat, and one glove. The captain took us out to a level space for our first practice and had us all out in the field while he batted up files. First one fellow would use the glove and then another, each having {t for one trial.” “I was way back of the rest and be- fore I had @ crack at the glove the captain knocked a fly that rolled to my feet. I picked {t up and threw ft in. I honestly didn’t know I had such an arm, but the ball eailed high over the captain's bead. “‘Who threw that ball?” he or dered. I didn’t answer because I thought I would be tn for a calldewn. “One of the fellows pointed me out to the captain and he motioned me in. ‘Have you ever played baseball?’ he esked me. “*No, etr,’ I replied, inwardly quak- “*But you threw that ball over my bead?’ “* Yes, sir,’ still shaking. “*Well, you are going to be our pitcher. I'm going to make e pitcher out of you.” “And so he did. I worked tn af seventeen games for our unit, winning all but two, one of which was a tie And I've been pitching ever since.” SENATORS HAVE LEAN PITCHER Dad Hankins, the new Washingtos pitching tryout trom the Florida State, ts sald to to the slimmest thing that evar ascended = mound. He: stands over 6 foot, yet waists Yeas than 150 pounds. DUNN MOANING BECAUSE HE SOLD RUTH FOR $10,000 Baltimore Boss Can’t Get Over Measly Price. BY L. E. SANBORN. Jack Dunn, the Baltimore tasebell mr, answers the critics who roast measly $10,000 and probably never ‘will get over it. In Dunn's own words, “I sold the Very fine propaganda. But what Dunn overlooks, among other things, is the fact the American league made Babe Ruth and did fairty well last season while the “greatest drawing card” was doing his best to destroy bis enviable reputation, thereby undo ing all that had been dono for him. When Dunn sold Ruth to the Boe ton Red Sox he disposed of a good Pitcher at a figure which tn those days was considered a fair price for a promising recruit. Ruth developed into a good major league hurler, but not a great one able to command a place alongside Young, Mathewson, ‘Walsh, Brown, Johnson, or Alexan- der. His name never would have be come a household word in fandam if the Red Sox had not been so well stocked with equalty goed pitchers that they tried to convert Ruth tate an outfielder so as to utilize his bat- ting strengtb. Polio Grounds Helped Rath. That didn’t make a good outfielder out of Ruth, but it gave him a chance to ehine as a slugger. In that depart- ment he never would have become a nation’s idol if he had been kept by the Red Sox, for he never could have piled up fifty-nine home runs tn a year on the Hoston park with its deep right and center fields. The transfer of Ruth to the Yankees and the short boundaries of the Polo grounds com- pleted the making of the “ greatest drawing card on record.” For none of these steps in the de velopment of Ruth can Dunn take any credit. He cannot even claim credit for not keeping Ruth in the migor leagues, because that player probably would have been drafted if Dunn had net sold him, as the International league was not exempt from the ma Jor league draft then. If Ruth bad been born ten years later the world probably would have heard of him only Incidentally. He would have started in with the Ortales eta time when Dunn would have been privileged to keep all his players up- less he could get a blue sky price for them, and nobody would have paid $100,000, even in Mexican money, for the kind of a pitcher Ruth was when he went to the Red Sox. Dunn probably would have kept Ruth at the pitching job all bis career, but even if he had transformed him into an outfielder and slugger the Sal- tan of Swat never would have become a national figure. Ruth might have made 159 home runs with the Balti- more team in one season without creating more than a ripple tn the baseball ocean. He wookd still have been a minor leaguer, and his fame would have been largey « loem! matter. A hupdreé or #o of experts tn Judging baseball talent might have recogu in him the world’s greatest ewatte:, but the vast public would still have been skeptical about his prowess against real pitching. Dunn Can See Nothing but S3% Dunn sees only the fact that be once had Ruth, sold hiro for what now would be considered smal! change, and saw his former pitcher carn « fortune for the New York Yankees. When the Balttmore promoter looks at the thing all he can see ls $$$$—« whole flock of which got away from him. He forgets that Ruth never could have earned more than a tithe of what he bas tf he bad remained in Balti- more, even if he had become a great slugger. His fleld would have been too small and so would the Interna- tional league plants have been too small to help him earn the coin he has brought the Yankee owners. He forgets the player's tnterests, for Ruth never could have been paid anything Uke the salary he has been drawing lately. Even Baltimore, the best pey- ing city in its league, could not afford to pay half of it. Ruth did not make the American league. That league made Ruth, and is trying to keep him on his pedestal another year or two—in spite of him welt. Joe Fogarty Gives Yale a Basketball Championship Joe Fogarty, coached Yale to its first tntercollegiate basketball victory since 1917. He ts one of the greatest expo nents of the game, having participated in various leagues in profesisonal cir cults for a score of years. Ho was as- sistant coach at Penn until this spring, when Yale picked him to try and put some life in the game. A champion ship is the result. West Point Cadets Have Great Basketball Record The West Point cadets have won thirty consecutive basketball victories eince Dec. 17, 1821. They were coached by Harry Fisher, former Columbia university star player and coach of the New York college quintet which un- der bis direction were alwayo well ug in the race for honors, wee