Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 8, 1923, Page 13

ak mE te THREE SETS OF RELAY GAMES SCHEDULED ATHLETES FROM COAST TO COAST TRAIN FOREVENTS Opens with Kanscs Neet on 20th. BY WALTER ECKERSALL. ith three sets of relay es scheduled for the latter part of the month, athletes representing untvers!- tles from coast to coast have settled down to the training grind which will not terminate until the national col- legiate outdoor championships are held in Chicago on June 15 and 16, The outdoor season will be officially opened with the staging of the Uni- Versity of Kansas games at Lawrence on April 20 and 21. It will be the first time the Jayhawker institution has held such an event and Athletic Di- rector Fogg Allen is bending every effort to make the games successful #0 they may be held every year, ‘The east will be represented in these games by Pennsylvania in one of the relays. Presence of the Quakers is sure to lend interest as it is the first time an eastern team has competed in that section, although some have gone straight through to the coast in the past. The Penn relays were among the first to be held in this country and other universities have followed the aoe set by the Philadelphia insti- ution, Pennsylvania Liberal. In recent years, Pennsylvania has been extremely liberal in sending relay teams to various events modeled after its set of games. It shows true sports- manship and creates a friendly feeling between the various sections of the country. As a reward for this action, other universities and colleges usually support the Penn relays, In addition to the east being repre- sented in the Kansas games, the west- ern conference will send teams and representatives. Iowa, which boasts of about the best mile team in the mid- dle west, will be a contestant, while i*'nois \rill send its one mile quintet. *leceusya, Chicago and Michigan have £'gnifie(! ‘ctretr intentions to enter either teams ¢¥tndividuals, The ““fissourl valley conference of which -Cansas is a member, will sup- port tae games almost toa team. The valley tndogg conference showed be- yond all question of doubt, teams and athletes in the section will make her- culean efforts to defeat invaders from other sections. ‘The valley has always supported the Illinolg indoor relay carnival and western conference out- door meets and it is no more than just that the Big Ten be represented in the Kansas event. Strong Entry for Southwest. Director Allen will also enlist a atrong entry from institutions in the southwestern part of the country. In fact, the games will open the way for & greater development in athletics in that section as teams and athletes will not be compelled to travel great dis- tances for competition of a national ealiber. ‘The Kansas games will be followed by the Drake relays at Des Moines, Ia., on April 27 and 28, while the Penn games are scheduled for the same days. Although the east cannot be expected to send teams to the Drake event, their absence will be offset by the presence of University of Southern California athletes including Charley Paddock, world’s fastest sprinter. If reports from the coast are true—and there is every reason to believe they are—Pad- dock's presence in Des Moines will as- gure success of the games. With the exception of 1920 when Charley ran in the National A. A. U, outdoor cham- pionships or final Olympic tryouts at Boston,,the coast flier has never been east. Outside Attractions Popular. Because of his successful assault on records in the last two years, his pres- ence in any set of games would be a magnet for athletic fans in the vicin- ity of the place where he makes his appearance. Last year K. L. Wilson, athletic director at Drake, hit upon the idea of an outside attraction. He matched Joie Ray of the I. A. C, and Ray Watson, formerly of Kansas Aggies, for a special mile race, The event created no end of interest in the Missouri valley conference with the re- sult the largest crowd in the history of the event was present. Liké the Kansas event, the Drake relays will draw the cream of the mid- le west college world. The Missouri valley will support the Des Moines meet to a unit, while the large ma- jority of Big Ten institutions will be represented. The event has grown in quality and quantity in recent years and {s looked upon as one of the early outdoor classics of the country. Penn Games Same Day. ‘The Penn games on the same days will attract their usual large entry from the Atlantic seaboard institu- tions. This event is an established in- stitution and is looked forward to from the time the athletes start indoor training immediately after the holl- days. Owing to the large entry which always features this event, contests will be held on Friday so that the en- tire program can be completed on the wing day. TO plowing these three sets of relay games, athletes will remain in condl- tion for the many dual meets listed in May and for the sectional intercollegi- ates, some of which are held on the last Saturday of next month and on the first Saturday in June. The best will then be pointed for the national meet in Chicago in June, Former Saating Champion Gets Trial with St. Paul ‘The St. Paul club is giving a trial, as an outfielder, to Everett McGowan, former national professional skating champion. His home is in St. Paul and he has played some independent base- ball around there, GUY LOHMAN. “BIG TEN” BASEBALL COACHES RAY FISHER. CARL LUNDGREN. WARD LAMBERT. Baseball coaches in the Big Ten conference are busy preparing their charges for the 1923 season. Illinois, under the guidance of Carl Lund- gren, former Cub hurler and also a star at Illinois years ago, is out for another championship. Since taking up coaching he has been very suc- cessful at Michigan and Illinois. Several of the conference squads are doing their preliminary training in the south. FOR PLAYERS OF WHIST A.R.METCALFE TAKING CHANCES SOMCTIMES IS SAFE LINE OF PLAY. sometimes the safest line of play. How north escaped from an im- possible situation the following amusing deal will illustrate: HANDS, 7.5.8 Tee extraordinary chances 1s K D—10, 8, 7, 3. Score, 0—0. Rubber gante: North dealt and bid one no- trump. East doubled. South bid two hearts. West passed. North bid three clubs. East doubled. South passed. West bid three spades. North doubled. East redoubled, and fie, bidding closed. “North had the iltial THE PLAY. 95 5 Q 6S 108 ‘ht tricks only. South advertised a strong hand by bidding two hearts on the opening round. Since east had doubled the no trump bid the bid of two hearts ‘was overbidding an opponent instead of taking his partner out on account of weakness, Therefore north was horrified when he led the ace of hearts and saw the frightful display in dummy. At this stage of the game it seemed that the Geclarer would probably make his con- tract and one trick over, making a very expensive deal for north and south; there was no possible way for north to throw the lead to his part- ner unless south held the king of clubs solace, and north therefore led a small club, although there were eleven clubs in sight in his hand and dummy. It was reasonably certain that west could not hold both the missing clubs, as in that case he would allow his partner’s double of three clubs to stand. The scheme worked all right and north secured his ruff and took the ace of diamonds to complete his book. There remained one slight chance that south might secure a trick in the trump suit end this also turned out favorably, giving north and south a gain of 200 on the deal instead of an enormous loss. The bidding of south and west, par- ticularly the former, was very poor. The next denl belongs to the highest class, the play by the declarer being flawless while one of the opponents missed a play which might have been one of the greatest ever made, |, THE HANDS, s—2. HJ, 10, 5, 3. C8 DQ, J. 10, 9.8, 4. S—A, Q. H—-8, 7, 0, 4. C—K, 9. 7,4, D—A, 3, S—K, J. 10, 9, 8 7, 5, 3. H—K, 'G. Score: North and south, 18. East and west, 0. Rubber game— Round. Dealer. South. West. North. -1no-trump 3 spades 4 clul ‘pass pass AS 4c 9c D2 m4 H7 West secured eleven tricks. Tee lead of the deuce of spades showed an original holding of eight spades in the south hand, and the next two tricks marked south for three red cards only. It seemed to the de- clarer that these red cards would prob: ably gll be hearts as he knew south must have some high card strength out- side the spade suit, but the declarer took one round of diamonds in order to play safe, and when the queen of hearts fell on his ace at trick five he knew he was on the right track. Having the lead forced upon him at trick six north had nothing but spades in hie hand and made the obvious play of leading the king and another. From this time the declarer had a eure thing, the remainder of the deal being @ regular dummy problem. By playing out all his remaining trumps he forced north to either throw away all his remaining hearts or to unguard the queen of diamonds ®0 that the declarer could win the last two tricks either with two dia- monds or the deuce of hearts and one diamond. For the benefit of players who find it dificult to keep track of the cards it might be stated that in a case like this the declarer made a mental note that north held the jack and ten of hearts only, the rest of his cards being diamonds after the sixth trick. During the rest of the deal, there- fore, the declarer merely watched for the jack and ten of hearts and did not . concern himself at all about the num- ber of diamonds discarded by north. This play by the declarer was first class, but south had an opportunity at trick 7 for a really wonderful play but failed to arise to the occasion. He should have led a small spade at trick 7 and allowed dummy to win with a singleton queen, thereby, of course, losing his king of spades, Had he done this north would inevitably have won a trick in hearts and one in diamonds, and saved the game. South could really not have lost by making this play as the trick mado by the king of spades must certainly be lost, allowing the declarer to dis- card from one hand and trump in the other. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. Dear Sir; Will you. pleaso tell me the proper bid for the following bridge hand: N. dealt. bid 1 heart. HB. passed. 8. passed, west had D—A, K, Q, J, 8, 7, 4; S—K. Q. 8, 7, 6, 4. West vid 3'D and made sinail slam, but Was told afterwards S, was correct bid. A. LG. Answer—The proper method of bidding two suit hands is to name the higher suit first and switch to the lower, As game at dia. monds seems a certainty ‘at ‘which is a freak, west would seem to have been warranted in dispensing with ordinary rules and bidding five diamonds, securing the hon- ‘or count ag weil as the game. The Old Copyreader “Many a story is hopelessly written, but the story of life is hopelessly rotten.” OLD CAP SQUIRL. 014 Cap Squirl, my bootlesger frie Who is very heavy with kale, Rerently went on a lovely bend And the first I knew was in jail. Thinking mebbe that he'd be blue 1 took him some hooch sniff, But 1 found him happily “ smilin’ through’; “I'm away,” he explained, “ from my will,” Old Cap Sauirl said he had no peace Vrom the day that he got married; Each move of his mate only seemed to Increase Wiis woe; he was hounded and harried. “She kicked wen I cussed or smoked In bed, And she hung my clo’es on = hanger; She was always fixin’ me up," Cap sald; “She was too dang fussy, gol dang ber.” Old Cap Squirt sald “she changed her mind A dozen times every hour; “One minute,” Cap sald, she'd be mushily kind And the next she'd be snarly and sours ‘Wen we had ehieken she'd gimme the wites She sald she could do without it; She'd eat the dark—which was sure all right If she hadn't kept braggin’ about it.” wirl for a year Is in"; im how he got his'n: 1 give myself w sald, with a grin, some things that’s touzher th GUY LEE, GOPHERS ST ART MEMORIAL DRIVE FOR NEW STADIUM ‘The week April 23-30 has been chosen as the time for the Twin City drive for the University of Minnesota's stadinm and memorial auditorium, according to E. B. Pierce, secretary of the general alumni association. The campaign is expected to complete the $2,000,000 stadium and auditorium fund. “ Plans for the drive are being made, Uterature is being printed, and commit: tees are being chosen for the state-wide alumni drive," Mr. Pierce said, “The rive will open with a week's intensive campaign in Minneapolis and St. Paul, when all the graduates of the univer- sity in the two cities will be asked to contribute their share toward the fund. “A campaign in Duluth will follow, after which the drive will be’ made statewide,” Mr. Pierce said, “I feel cer- tain that the alumni will subscribe their quota, just as the faculty and students in the drive on the campus last fall subscribed $665,000. HARVARD'S POOL READY SOON, Harvard's $100,000 swimming pool is to bein shape for ‘racing next fall, Tt will have seuting accommodations for 3,00u, MEMORIAL COLUMNS AT ILLINOIS STADIUM Franklin county, IMl., alumni of the University of Illinois recently char- tered a special train of nine cars to bring them to the opening of the Unt- versity of Illinois Memorial stadium. That's a symptom of the interest which Illini old timers are taking in the great structure which their loyalty has helped to make possible. Similar plans are being made elsewhere. The big job is to get the seats ready to take care of the throng that will come to watch the fighting Illini and their tra- ditional foemen, Coach Stagg’s Ma- Toons, open the stadium. There is no talk at all of completing the stadium by fall. It won't be ready in its definite glory until the summer of 1924. But unless there are a lot of setbacks there will be seats for 40,000 to 50,000 enthusiasts this year. Spring’s Late Arrival Hurts. Given good fortune, the contractors expect to make up for the,delay~ The late arrival of spring was a heavy blow. Another was the failure of some much needed pieces of steel to come in. The weather deferred the pouring of concrete for the seats and far less steel Was erected than was hoped. April finds the workmen busy, how- ever. Girders and columns for the balcontes are being put in place. These balconies, by the way, start at the tidy height of 67 feet 3% inches and rise to 110 feet 9 inches, Drainage tiles are being laid to complete the system that will drain the field. Nearly all of the excavating for the playing field has been done and the steam shovel will make short work of the remaining cut. 200 Memorial Columns. ‘The committee on the memorial fea- tures is to meet in April. and make the final dispositions. There will be 200 stone columns each dedicated to the memory of an Illinois man who died in the war, These columns will be ar- ranged in two colonnades on both stands and are expected to be impres- sive tributes to those who died, Atlhough nearly $2,000,000 has been pledged by 18,825 subscribers, it is esti- mated that $100,000 more is required to insure the safety of the project and a@ campaign is to be conducted on the campus to raise a portion of this amount. The rest is expected to come from alumni who have been overlooked in the past campaigns. BOSTON ONCE BANNED GOLF AS DANGEROUS George Wright, the former baseball star, who spends part of each winter at Pine Forest inn, Summerville, 8. C., claims the distinction of being the first man in New England, if not in the whole country, to play golf. While looking through some cata- logues of English made sporting goods Mr. Wright saw «advertised golf clubs and golf balls. He ordered a dozen clubs and a dozen balls, but after they arrived knew nothing about how to Play the game, and the clubs were put away on the shelves for six months. One day they were put in the win- dow on exhibition, and while there a Scotchman saw them and immediately inquired for the locality of the golf course. When Mr. Wright explained to him that he did not know how the game was played, the Scdtchman, whose name Mr. Wright does not re- member, sent him a book named bee 5 ngton” when he returned to New York, and in the book were all the rules necessary to. play the game. Permission was obtained from the Boston park commissioners to lay out the golf course, although they once refused permissibn, on account of the game “being too dangerous.” Mr. Wright invited six of his old cricket friends to play with him, and that was the accepted beginning of the ancient Scottish game in this country. Mr. Wright is a member of the firm of Wright & Ditson, the, oldest sport- ing goods house in America, having been established in 1871 by Mr. Wright. 32 Observation Cars for Yale, Penn, Columbia Race An observation train of thirty-two be available for the triangu- atta over the Housatonic course above Derby, Conn., May 5 en/Yale, Bs n., and Columbia crews will con- tost in varsity elgh MARTINS AND SPARROWS. EARLY every bird fan that gets interested in this fascinating game of attracting birds to nesting houses is keen to land a colony of martins, And you can’t blame anyone for wanting martins, as they certainly are sociable, good look- ing residents for any plot of ground. * OF But bagging a colony of these birds 4s not so easy. Many efforts have been made to establish colonies, some en- thusiasts even raising young birds by hand and then liberating them on the ground where the colony is desired. However, there is nothing like trying, and here is the dope on the martin PURPLE MARTIN'S NEST. house. It can have apy number of rooms. The dimensions of these rooms should be about 6x7 inches, height about 6 inches. The entrance hole should be 2 inches in diameter and about 1 inch above the floor. The com- pleted house (which should be painted white) must be placed on a pole 15 or 20 feet above the ground in an open place—at least not closer than 20 feet to any building. * * Unless you are mighty handy with tools better not try to build a martin house, as with their many compart- ments they are rather difficult to make. But if you want to try it you can get a helpful pamphlet from the government which will give you all the dope, including designs for the houses. * * This pamphlet is called “Bird Houses and How to Build Them,” by Ned Dearborn, and is listed as Farm- er’s Bulletin No. 609. Address the Bureau of Biological Survey, Depart- ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., for this bulletin. Well made mar- tin houses can be purchased if you do not want to take the trouble to make one. They are not so expensive, either, * English sparrows are the enemies of martins and if you put up a house you want to be prepared to wage war against the former, and let it be a war to the death. The sparrow is nothing less than a curse and the evidence against it as a harmful pest 1s over- whelming. If you expect to get mar- tins on your ground, go after the spar- rows mercilessly. They'll have to be banished. Until the martins arrive you can keep the nesting house closed, but after that it will be up to you. - & Practically every device known for waging & war on sparrows is given in a little government publication issued by the Bureau of Biological Sur- vey, Washington, D.C. It is free for the asking and is called Farmer's Bul- letin No. 493, “ The English Sparrow as a Pest.” Better send for it and then get busy on the sparrows if you expect to have much success with the bluebirds, martins or other worth- while birds. HARVARD GRID STAR SUCCEEDS BY HARD WORK Charles J. Hubbard Jr., captain-elect of the Harvard varsity football eleven for 1923 and holder of four A. 8. and A. B. in the engineering course, de- clares that such success he has at- tained in his studies and on the grid- fron and the varsity crew has been the result of hard work. “T put in thirteen hours a day at study at this time of the year,” eays the all-American football star. “While the football season is on I put in as many hours as possible and I always am in bed at 10:30 o'clock.’ ITALY GETS AUTO RACE. ‘The International Grand Prize automobt race will be held in Italy in Septemb« Jt ia the first time it has becn echeduled mut of Irauce, BASEBALL NEEDS NEW SYSTEM ON STATISTICS BY I. E. SANBORN. Begins to look like another baseball geason without any improvement in the brand of statistics by which to record deeds and misdeeds of the per- formers. Last summer some of the dope handed out concerning pitchers and their winning and losing records ‘was so ridiculous that even the fans protested and a “ movement ” was start- ed to infuse some sort of system in that department of the statistics. R It got about as far as “ movements usually do. The club owners—who un- fortunately are the rule makers—spent all winter jockeying over the draft res- ulations in an attempt to see who should control the market for playing talent, and forgot all about the dear public and its demands. That is al- ways the way when things are pros: perous. Only when the attendance dope begins to*fall off and red ink be- gins to appear on the ledgers of the club owners do they take much thought in the winter of the things the fans want remedied. The chief trouble ts in leaving the playing rules in the keeping of the club owners. They don’t belong there, anyway, for few modern :nagnates are experienced in the actual playing of the game, and some of them couldn't, tell an infleld fly from a triple play without having a diagram made. Umpires Know Rules. The umpires today are really the last word in interpreting the playing rules—I mean the major league um- pires. Of course, if a brand new play involving a technical application of ap- parently conflicting rules comes up, the umpires involved consult the presi- dent of their league before making a ruling that will serve as a precedent. But in ninety-nine cases out of a hun- dred the umpire’s interpretation of the rules is not only correct because based on precedent, but it {s final. If you don’t believe it, protest it. But the umpires are not arbiters of the scoring rules, and the dope that shows the records of the pitchers de- pends entirely on the scorers, under the lax system now in vogue. By that I mean that old fashioned stuff of games won and lost, by which the ma- fority of fans still rate the ability of slabmen. It is continued only as a sop to the public, for it means nothing fn actuality, and the official ranking of pitchers now is according to ef- fectiveness, irrespective of the results of the games in which they work. The baseball writers, acting with the umpires through a joint committee appointed for the purpose, could handle all revisions and improvements of the playing and scoring rules much better than the club owners can. They are a lot closer to the game and have more real knowledge of it. Rescue Pitcher Gets No Credit. Take the case of a pitcher who goes into the fifth or sixth inning with a good lead of four or five runs, then blows up completely. Hits, bases on balls, or errors wipe out all but one run of the lead, and a new pitcher is rushed to the rescue with the bases full, one out and only one run to spare. The new slabman works out of that pinch, all right, then completes the game without letting an opponent score, so that his team finally wins by the one run margin left when he went in, Many scorers insist such a game be- longs in the “won” column of tho pitcher who blew up in the fifth be- cause his team was ahead when ho left the game. Many others Insist it is ridiculous to credit the victory to him instead of to the pitcher who went in and saved the game, although his team was ahead when he tackled the fob. One official scorer will credit such & game to the first pitcher, and the Very next day another scorer in a different city will credit the same kind of a game to the pitcher who finished it, That makes a joke out of the offi- clal records, of course, Must Apply New System. Some hard and fast system must bo applied by all scorers alike to every doubtful case in order to make the “won" and “lost” columns worth anything at all. They are not worth much at best, but have been worthless in recent years. About the only sane way to treat the matter under the present method of letting Tom, Dick and Harry do the official scoring is to include in the won and lost columns only games in which a pitcher goes the full route, ‘Then there can be no argument or injustice about it, Ex- ceptions could be made to cover cases where a pitcher was taken out to save him after practically having won a game. or where a slabman was hope- lessly beaten before he was relieved. But when three or four pitchers are used on one side in a wild and woolly battle it offen is impossible to give the credit or blame with justice, and it 4s absurd at best. There i¢ no known reason why every game played should be credited to or charged against some one pitcher who took part in it. Every inning a slab- man works is shown in hi: arned run average, so why not leave out of the Won and lost records all except com- plete, or nearly complete games, just the same as when Pitching averages originally were devised years and years ago? MIKE O’DOWD PULLS ORIGINAL ALIBI FOR DEFEAT BY MALONE IKE O'DOWD, former mid- dleweight champion of the world, has fought his last ring fight. The “fighting harp,” it was learned, has declared he is through for all time after suffering the first knockout of a long career at the hands of Jock Malone in St. Paul recently. O'Dowd suffered an injury to his kneo in a baseball game twelve years ago und this proved a se « vere handicap. I'd like to make one more fight against Malone, but-I guess I'll never be able to do so,” suid O'Dowd in telling his friends of his decision to ret “I leave the ring foll of fight, but you can’t def yourself on one leg. IN APRIL MAJOR LEAGUE COACHING VITAL PART OF SUCCESS Strategy Board Necessary for Winning Nine. BY HUGH FULLERTON. Baseball, in the major leagues, is becoming more and more complicated. ‘The brain department of the big league teams has developed to an extent the public does not realize. The days when any sub who was loafing took the job of coaching on the base lines have passed and now coaching, espe clally at third base, has become one of the vital parts of team work. ‘The experts figure that a bad third base coach will jose more games for a team in a season than a bad third- baseman would do, and in this era of complicated signaling, quickness of eye, quickness of decision and perfect knowledge of the game and the stages are necessary. Some of the teame carry an entire board of strategy, and perhaps none has gone so far as the St. Louis Car dinals, with Rickey’s daily blackboard drills, and brain tests, analysis of plays and such work. Browns Have Smart Coaches. The St. Louis Browns, with Bobby Quinn, Lee Fohl, Lefty Leifield, the famous old pitcher, and Bob Connory acting as sort of G Ii Q for the players, and analyzing every play and the work of every player, are only a short dis- tance behind the Cards in the work of strategy. Branch Rickey is largely his own board of control, but in Pfeffer, his lieutenant and Suni manager as well as pitcher, he has an able as- sistant. The Chicago Cubs have gone in- tensively into the coaching of players and having the youngest team in major league history to handle, Kil- lefer has surrounded himself with a strong staff of assistants. Jack Doyle, the famous old timer, is a big aid, but after the training season Doyle has Uttle to do with the actual playing of me, his duties being to scout, Bobby Wallace, one of the great- est infielders the game has ever known, and Oscar Dugey handle the coach- ing. The New York Giants, needing one of the quickest eyed and fastest think ing coaching staffs to handle the Mc- ‘aw system of signal transmitting, have Hughie Jennings, former mana- ger of Detroit and Cozy Dolan, as coaches. “Chick” Fraser with Pirates, The Pirates are wonderfully well fixed with “ Chick" Fraser, than whom few pitchers were ever smarter, and Bill Hinchman to aid McKechnie. The Phils have Pat Ragon, former pitcher and a clever fellow, and Boston relies upon Dick Rudolph, hero of one world’s series and one of the smartest pitchers in baseball history. Robinson has a great aid at Brook- lyn in Nap Rucker, who, according to President Ebbetts, was the greatest left hander of them all and who, Eb- betts says, always will be with Brook- lyn. Cincinnat!, alone of the National league clubs, lacks a coach. Pat Moran believes in one head and wants no assistance, although he gets plenty of it from the owners and fans. In the American league all the teams have gone in for the coach idea, Wash- ington, for instance, has George Gib- son, the great old catcher and former manager of the Pirates, Nick Altrock and Al Schacht. Frank Roth at Cleveland. Cleveland has annexed Frank Roth, former catcher, a magnificent influ- ence in a team and a great aid to Speaker, Chicago this season is try- ing Big Ed Walsh as Gleason's as- sistant. The Athletics cling to Harry Davis, Mack's old reliable, and the Yankees have Charlie O'Leary as act- ive coach to ald Huggins, with a com- petent brain department aided by Hd Barrow. Detroit has placed George Cutshew, one of the greatest of all brainy in- fielders, on the semt-active list, using him as coach but able to fill in at second when needed. Bill Carisch, the old Cleveland catcher, ts also assistant. Frank Chance has one of the smartest staffs of assistants, with Jinimy Burke, former manager, and Jack Ryan, the famous old time catcher. The managers turn largely to vet- eran catchers for their assistants, six of them being catchers while the ma- Jority of the others are pitchers. Some Dispute Value. While the value of assistant mana- gers has been disputed by some of the owners there is no doubt but they are of immense use in the spring training season, With the huge squads of recruits that are taken south it is practically impossible for the manager to study each one closely and by as- signing the coaches to watch and to teach the recruits the managers get everything possible out of the squad and avoid turning loose vuluable, if undeveloped, prospects. The scientific part of the game ts improving—and at the same time the coaching system provides employment for many deserving veteran players and acts as a school for training new manager Canadians Reject American Football Form of Play Canadian Intercollegiate Football association decided at its recent mevt- ing to retain the present style of play, rejecting a proposal to add the Amer- ican forward pass play advocated by Coach Shaughnessy of McGill univer- sity. JACK BENTLEY HANDY MAN, Jack Bentley drew $4,500 in 1921 with Bal timore. International league champi He hit 414 and pitehed twelve games, winning eleven. He also established @ record ef twenty-five home runs,