Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 15, 1923, Page 5

COLLEGES AND A.A.U.WANT TO NAME ATHLETES Understanding Needed Between Them, BY WALTER ECKERSALL. Although the American team which will compete in the Olympic games in France next summer can be selected at the present time with a degree of certainty, there is bound to be friction between officials of the A. A. U. and the National Collegiate A. A. when the time arrives to name the squad. The annual track and field games of the National Collegiate A. A. are now a fixture, This was emphasized last month when the event was held in Chicago and attracted a banner en- try and the largest crowd which ever saw a set of colloge games tn Chicago, Athletes were on hand from all sec- tions of the country, and the meet Properly styles the American college Olympics, A. A. U. Officials Unfriendly. ‘When the games are held next year winners of the various events may go to France without further trials if ofMcials of the National Collegiate A. A. have their way. The A. A. U. and college bodies are not on any teo friendly terms, and: the breach was broadened by the recent edict of the A. A. U, to prevent Charley Paddock from running in France earlier in the year. Maj. John L. Grimth, commissioner of athletics in the Big Ten and a mem- ber of the committee in charge of the National Collegiate games, stated eariter in the season that next year's meet will be @ final tryout for all university and college athletes for the American Olympic team. He intends to secure the support of the entire body when the annual convention of ‘the association is held this winter. Seck an Agreement, - If an agreement can be reached whereby the National Collegiate will determine the university and college performers to go abroad, then the Na- tonal A. A. U. games held annually can serve the purpose of selecting non- college men for the games. This would result in a harmonious working agree- ment and the team would receive sup- port from all athletic bodies. Such an agreement would result tn & more liberal contribution to the fund necessary to defray expenses of the team. In the past it has been spérts loving Individuals who have contrib- uted liberally to the fund, but under ‘thé proposed new arrangement moneys derived from the various meets could be put into the fund and the drive for expenses could be eliminated. Plenty of College Stars. During the last year some sterling performers were developed in the ‘col- legés, and most of them have still an- other year of intercollegiate compe tition, Those who have graduated have cast their lots with athletic clubs and will try for places on the Yan- kee team, Most of these, however, should “even better with another year's § and coaching. The annual junior and senior track ané field championship games of the National A. A. U. to be held on Stagg field, Chicago, on Aug. 31, Sept. 1, and Sept. 3, will go a long way toward de- termining some members of the Ameri- can Olympic team. Athletic clubs throughout the country have made a concentrated drive for college and university athletes, but the great ma- jority have placed aside the spiked shoes and will wait until the National Collegiate games are held next summer before making their bids for places on ‘the Yankee team, However, the A. A. U. champion- ships of this year, which will be held under the auspices of the Illinois A: C., bid fair to be one of the most suc- cessful ever held for the reason every athletic club of importance will be rep- resented. This representation is due to the central location of Chicago and the many facilities for housing the athletes near the field, Prep Stars Entered. One of the features of the meet will be the bringing together of two great Prep school sprinters, Eugene Good. willie of the University High school of Chicago and Frank Hussey of Stuy- vesant High of New York City. Fach has stepped the «century in - :094-5, while Hussey was timed by some clockers in :093-5 at the Yale inter- scholastic. Charleg A. Dean, chairman of the championship committee of the Na- ‘tional A. A. U., who ig also of the athletic committee of the I, A. C., intends to turn over all profits to the American Olympic fund, and tickets will be disposed of among the big business firms of Chicago. En- tries for this meet close on Aug. 20 with Chairman Dean at 112 South Michigan avenu SCULLINGMARVEL, 73 YEARS OLD, OUT WITH CHALLENGE Fred H. Plaisted, the 73 year old sculling marvel, is ready to engage in a professional race with Reilly, Ten Eyck, or any other exponent. Reilly is 75 years of age, and Plaisted will Permit him ten second start, while he Wants to meet Ten Eyck on equal terms. The race would be a good thing for boating, Plaisted contends, and also demonstrate that rowing does not hurt the heart. Plaisted has been row- ing since he was 18 years of age. Chinese Ball Team May Tour U. S. Next Summer Al Yap may bring an All-Chinese baseball team from Honolulu to tour this country next summer. Yap gained prominence with the Chinese team which toured the United States half a Gonen years ago. He has just been graduaied from Lehigh university. NOTES OF THE OUTDOORS. JHE other day while drifting along over a trout stream in the heart of a virgin forest, we heard a Srouse drumming away as if his “lady love” were nearby. This is & woodland sound that every outdoors man likes to hear and somehow or other it always makes us think of big timber, Indian trails, birch bark ca- noes and country untouched by clvil- ization. As it happened, we were in a region of just about that description. Along this beautiful little stream with its deep holes where the trout love to hang out, there wasn't a road or the sign of a human habitation. Only an Indian trail came in here and there, and on the bank of the stream Doc Peinted out the Indian rafts which the jes use to cross the stream. Another place that he pointed out Was one freq ted by the squaws gwho each year come to this place in the forest to make birch bark bas- kets. Imagine; if you can, this wind- ing trout stream with its patches of lly pads, its deep holes, its clear water and on both sides deep, dense forest from which the drumming of the grouse sounded. The setting was ideal for Mr, Grouse, and he sure did broad- cast at the right time. — But, as you can imagine, the mos- quitoes were terrible. A shower had not helped any and we smeared on the dope with great gusto and good results, In fighting the mosquitoes we had some) allies. Coming down the stream in the dusk I noticed a number of bats darting back and forth and it was evident that they were waging a war on the tiny insects. Interesting creatures, these bats. ‘We have handled the big fruit eaters of South America, that measure twen- ty-four inches fro) tip to tip, the vampire or bloodsucking bats, and many varieties both down there and in this country, and we are always intrigued by their marvel- ous flight and their unusual habits, Sitting there in the front of the canoe, the little fellows dipped, side dipped, darted and twisted around us, but ever once got too close. Many a mos- quito must have passed away that evening, as the bats certainly do get away with a jot of them during an evening's hunting. Coming down that wilderness stream with trout in the canoe [you ought to see the Doctor in action; he wields a “mean” rod) I suppose we were doing what the Indians have been doing for centuries, as this place has long been a favorite of the Red men, abounding in deer, fur, birds and fish. ~ Speaking of rods, it seems as If every fisherman up here uses a steel rod for bait casting. We haven't seen a bam- boo at any of the lakes we have touched so far. However, most of the anglers we have run into are intent upon getting muskies and for trolling the steel rod is ideal. Of course, there is nothing like a steel “weapon” for hard use, You can bang one around as much as you please without having to worry about varnish, windings and such items. So it is easy to see why the steel bait casting rod is very pop- ular, CUPID PLAYS HAVOC WITH NAVY ELEVEN; OHIO BOY MARRIES The Naval academy lost one of its most promising backfield men through the discovery by the authorities that Edwin A. Norris of Alliance, ©., who has just passed into the second class, has been married since the early spring. The bride is understood to have been Miss Elizabeth Chappell of Washington, and the ceremony is said to have taken place at Alex- andria, Va. Tho rule against marriago of midshipmen Is absolute. 18 TITLE BIKE RACES. Righteen races will decide the bieycle cham- pionship of America. They will be held prin- cipally in New York City and Newark trac and will Dring ticwther the best * American and Buropean stars, Miss Sybil Bauer, Illinois Ath- etic club's swimming marvel, and the start of one of the races which she won. Miss Bauer is the world’s champion back stroke swimmer and the only woman who ever broke a world’s record held by a man. Last week Miss Bauer, in the east, broke the world’s mark for the 100 yard back stroke for women, The photo shows her taking the water in ope of her recent races, (TRIBUNE Photo.) BROOKINS REAL CHAMP, FAMOUS HURDLER SAYS Charles R. Brookins, the world’s rec- ord breaking low hurdler on the Iowa track squad, has received a letter hatl- ing hfm as a “real champion" from Alvin C. Kraenzlein of Philadelphia, Pa., whose record of 23 6-10 for the 220 lows, made in 1898, stood for twenty-five years as a world's reeord in that event until broken by Brook- ins. Brookins smashed the mark in dual * meets with Chicago and Northwestern this spring and later in the Big Ten conference track meet at Ann Arbor June 2, when Brookins was timed in the finals of that event in 23 2-10 sec- onds, Kraenzlein’s record of 23 6-10 was tied twice, once in 1913 by J. I. Wen- dell and again in 1916 by R. Simpson, but it took twenty-five long years be- fore a man came along who could top the timbers so much as a tenth of a second faster. “ My hat Is off to you,” was Kraenz- Jein's comment, and he expressed as his one regret that Brookins waited _ until he was a middle aged man and couldn't come back and have a go with him, Florida Horsemen Plan Winter Harness Racing Florida horsemen are at work on a plan to hold light harness racing there during the winter months. Tracks are available at Jacksonyille, Orlando, and Tampa, and it is the in- tention to build others at tona, Deland, Palm Beach, and Miama, Promoters Expect 75,000 to Attend Bennie-Lew Fight The promoters of the Leonard-Tend- ler lightweight boxing bout to be held at the Yankees’ stadium, New York City, the evening of July 23 expect to dispose of 75,000 tickets and draw a $1,000,000 gate. THIS GOLF-FISH STORY IS GOOD ONE WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT OR NOT OLF stories, like fish stories, ( are to be taken with a grain of salt, but it certainly stretches the imagination to believe the latest one, a golf and fish story combined. It is sup- posed to have happened on the banks of Lake Erie as follows: A golfer stood on a high bank overlooking the lake and drove a ball far out into the water. There was nothing unusual in that, but wait. A large fish jumped out of water, grabbed the ball in its mouth and disappeared. And that isn’t all. A short time Iater a large fish was found on the banks of the lake gasping for breath, It was taken to the club house kitchen and while the chef was preparing it for the frying pan he discovered a golf ball lodged in its throat. The golfer who drove the ball into the lake presided at the feast. KID M’COY-WAS NASTY OPPONENT IN ROPED ARENA Kid MoCoy was one of the trickiest of the larger fighting men. ‘Wasn't anything in the art of get- ting the other fellow’s nerve that McCoy failed to employ when a fight Was on. Those who remember his “oomeback”—the night he met Jim Stewart in Philadelphia—will never forget how that bout began. In the first place, McCoy made cer tain that he would be the first to enter the ring. Once in there he went into the first corner that came to hand and sat huddled up in his bathrobe talking to imaginary friends around the ring. When Stewart entered he noticed that McCoy had not turned to greet him, so he stalked across the canvas and held out his hand. McCoy kept on talking to the mythical cronies. Finally, Stewart reached down and touched McCoy on the shoulder with the meek remark: “Here I am, Mister McCoy.” Mister McCoy looked over one shoulder, ignored the hand and said: “O, hello, boy!" and then turned away. He figured that the action would either enrage or intimidate. Stewart. While waiting in the center for in- structions, McCoy deliberately stepped on Stewart's corns. The referee gave his version of one-hand free hitting, McCoy reached up like a flash and, Jerking Stewart's head down with a grip about the neck, remarked: “ Does this constitute one-hand holding?” By this time poor Stewart's nerves were so badly shattered that McCoy had no difficulty in whipping him in a limited bout. USES SHOVEL IN TRAINING FOR OLYMPIC GAMES Alan B. Helfrich, Penn State track captain, national, intercollegiate and collegiate half mile champion, and the leading American candidate for the 1924 Olympic games, has produced a new idea in summer training for the national meet at Chicago this year. Forsaking the cinder path entirely, Al is now wielding a pick and shovel in the construction of nine additional holes to the Penn State golf course. The Blue and White star attends summer session classes each morning and works on the golf course each afternoon. Hw is thus becoming as hard as nails and {s in wonderful con- dition. He says that later in the month he will begin track work once more in Preparation for the national meet. His system of conditioning this summer has the approval of Coach Nate Cart- mell, 8 Chess Masters to Play in Ninth American Tourney Chess masters entered in the ninth American tourney to be held at Lake Hopatoong, N. J. Aug. 6 to 20, include: David Janowski, Albert B, Hodges, Ja- cob Bernstein, Morris A. Schapiro, M. D. Hugo, Oscar Tenner, A. B. San- tasiere and Viadimir Sournin. NEW GENERATIO OF BALL PLAYERS NOT UP ON RULES Depends on Managers and Coaches. BY I. E. SANBORN. Perhaps one reason why the major- ity of major league ball players scorn to read the rule book is because they have been brought up that way éince their infancy on the diamond. The Kids have been taught to leave the study of the playing code to the man- agers or coaches just as the starg do, as a general thing. Of course the big league player has become accustomed to the modern sys tem of letting his manager keep post- ed on the rule changes and attend to thelr enforcement by the umpires. That leaves the player free to coficen- trate on his batting average and his pay check. But only recently did I discover that this “ leave it to George * idea had spread to the amateurs of the school commons and the sandlots, Grammar Schools Have Coaghes, Even the grammar school nines now must have their coaches, usually one of thelr classroom teachers, while no high school or academy is up to date unless it has {ts paid coach. And the coaches are supposed to know all about the rules, leaving the would-be dia mond stars free to concentrate on de veloping their individuality and “ selft- expression,” Curious to see tn action a young prep school pitcher about whom nearly every one was talking and predicting his development into a secona Mathew- son-Johnson, I went to a game between rival school teams a while ago. Be- sides finding out that the kid finger was a pretty good prospect, I learnea a thing or two about the way young players acquire their ignorance of the playing rules. A Fair Foul. Early in the game a bateman Rit a ball which struck the home plata gad bounded high in the air. The cats fielded the ball and threw his than out at first base, although {t lookéd to me as if the ball was foul by a couple of feet when the catcher got it on the third base side of the plite. No body said a word, so I concluded the angle at which I was looking at the play deceived me. Later on it devel- oped that the hit really was a foul. Just before the game was over @ batsman scratched a little rollet along the third base line and outside of it. The third baseman, the catcher and the pitcher, who had instinctively started for the ball, stopped when they saw where it was and let it roll down toward third. The umpire yelled “foul,” but before it stopped the ball hit a pebble and rolled into the diamond where it settled a foot on fair ground. The third baseman leisurely picked it up and tossed it to the pitcher and the batsman came back to the plate to bat over again. No one questioned the decision that it was a foul ball. Sy Meets the Star, After the game the coach of the home a young slabman and several! other play- ers to introduce me to them. I asked about that roller whieh had started foul which robbed one of their mem- bers ofascratch hit. At first the coach could not recall the play at all, and when he did get it located he looked rather surprised at my ignoranee of the rules after all the years I had been mixed up with baseball. My attempt to tell him politely that he was wrong resulted in his flashing a rule book on me from his hip pocket, Promptly he turned to the rule defining a fair hit and pointed to the phrase “that first falls on fatr territary.” Then turning to the rule defining a foul he showed me and hig admiring pro teges the similar phrase in that rule, He took no notice of the words “ be- yond first or third base” immediately following those phrases and maintained that they had no connection with the t of the rule which was perfectly simple. Ignorance Is Bliss. In other words he believed and had taught his players that ff a batted first strikes fair ground it is fair and if it first hits foul ground it is foul without regard to any of the rest of the rules defining fair and foul hits. Moreover that was the interpretation of the rules which this coach had con- vinced the rest of the coaches and the umpires in that school league was the Proper and correct official ruling be- cause he once had spent @ week in @ major league city and attended a ball game there. Is it any wonder the new generation of players doesn’t know the rules? Harvard-Yale Track Team Invades England July 21 Cambridge has won the mile race in each of the previous dual international athletic meets, combined with Oxford Against Yale and Harvard.’ The Eng- Ush athletes have three victories to two by the Americans. This year's test will be held at Wembley stadium near London July 21. Only two Amer- jeans will be permitted to start In each of the twelve events. Foreign Professionals Enter for Yank Billiard Tourney A novelty in balkline billiard play next fall will be a professional short- stop tourney in which Peterson, Cutler, Ary Box of Amsterdam, Jean Bruno, champion of Czecho-Slovakia; Tadeo, Suganuma, and Matsuyama of Japan, as well as Crookston of Pittsburgh and McAndless, former amateur champion, may compete. RITCHIE AFTER LEONARD. Wille Ritchie. extightw it bones obas FOR PLAYERS .OF WHIST by A.R.METCALFE RE-ENTRY CARDS. VERY pretty deal ts reported from the Indian Hill club. When “a hand contains two cards of re- entry, it ig often of vitz! tm portance to properly determ the order In which they should 1 4 Will be shown in the play a follows: Bok, ts o3,'3 DA 10. 9. 6.5.3 10, i Byer a B—None C10, 7, 6, 6, emall slam certain by trumping his own ace in dummy and establishing the heart suit. Had he put dummy in with the ace of clubs at trick four, the adversaries would have made one or tWo tricks in clubs as well as the king of hearts. It was possible in this deal for the declarer to make as many tricks by discarding a club in dummy on hig ace of diamonds, and then pro- ceeding to establish the club suit. This Would have been, however, very bad play if bis succéss depended upon an even distribution of the adverse clubs. ‘This was not true of the heart stilt; and what was more impértant the de- ¢larer would have south hand instead of the north. ~— ‘The next deal is far more dificult, and merits very 1 study. ae Saat Seahangas: feature of the deal, however, was maining entry, the ate of hearts. ‘There was no miepiay on the part of the advereari¢s, nor would it have helped them for north to play a small It was made about fifteen years ago while Billiar@ was with the Richmond When he stepped into the bor in this particular game he walked the first three men who faced him, filling the bases. Then, regaining control, he fanned the next three, retiring the side. He duplicated this performance in both the second and third innings, so that at the end of the third inning he had walked nine men, struck out ni save no hits, and permitted no scores. Billiard started his baseball career with the Wooster team in the old Trol- ley league, composed of Wooster, Me- dina, Berea, Norwalk, and Elyria. Later he pitched for O, & P. league teama before going sauth, where he twirled for Meridian, Miss., and Bir- mingham. He was purchased from Newark in the league by the Light Harness Racing Is a Nice, Gentle Sport Edward [" Pop’) Geers in his sev- enty-third year is the daddy and dean of all light harness rivers. During his career he has had both ankles, HAWAIIAN ENTERS COACHES’ SCHOOL AT MIGHIGAN Over 160 Gnroll for the Summer Course. The school for coaches, in !ts second summer at the University of Michigan, has an enrollment of over 160 men, coming from practically every state in the union and from Hawall. RO. Humphrey of Puunene, Hawali, hav- ing traveled the greatest distance to take advantage of the eight weeks’ course, which is given in the summer session at Michigan, under the direction of Fielding H. Yost, intercollegiate ath- letic direétor of the university. Mr. Humphrey is athletic director in one of the largest high schools in Ha- wall, and has but recently coached his school's football team to a champion- ship without being scored on. He has traveled more than 5,000 miles to get the courses offered at Michigan in physical training and athletic coach- ing. Athletes Take Course. California, Morida, Texas, Minne- sota, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Alabama are some of the states whieh have representatives at the school. Three high school students from Ashland, Ky., are here, as is algo thelr high school coach. They are stars, each in his own field, and they figure that after taking advan- tage of a season of training up here under Yost and his staff, they will have little dificulty next fall in beat- ing out any competitors for regular Positions on the school’s gridiron equad. Aside from these three ambitious high schepl boys, practically every man taking the course is a coach of high school, prep school, or small col- lege teams, Ohio and Michigan lead all other states in numbers repre- ‘ sented. Sixteen Courses Offered. courses are offered this eum. | Stxteen mér, in this particular department. The courses in athletic coaching, phys- inistration ital education, and adm! have been arranged especially for in- mructor4 already engaged in teaching and coaching during the regular echool year and for others who may wish to supplement the preparation they may have received in colléges and pro- febsiona! schools. “Léaders in education now reeog- nisé the indamental need for ath- “"Kow, dideusting the need for such caurses 4s are being given under his direction at Michigan this year. “The | demand for competent teachers, super- visors, and directors in high schools . and colleges far exceeds the supply. ‘This ts particularly true of men quali- fied in the coaching and conduct of athletics and gymnastics. Our schools are seeking college trained men to take charge of their athletics who are thoroughly versed in all the phases of athletic coaching and administra- tion.” ‘Yost Heads Staff. Director Yost heads the staff of men | giving instruction in football coach- ing. Assisting him are Coach George Little and A. G. “Germany” Schultz, newly elected coach of football at the University of Detroit. Coach Little is in charge of the courses in organtzation and adminis tration of intercollegiate and inter- scholastic athleties. Dr. George A. May has charge of the course in gym- nastics and allied courses. The vet- brig ape. Steve Farrell, has of the course in track coaching, and Elmer Mitchell ts in charge of the courses in administration and organ ization of intramural athletics, the courses in organized play and recrea- tion, and the course in graded plays and games, Coach Edwin Mitchell is giving the course in coaching for basketball, and Archie Hahn, who leaves Michigan of Prinoston. has charts of tne sorace of the by and athletic training. Ray L. jer is coaching coaches in base- ball, while Billie Fallon is an assistant ft in athletic training. The colitse in Boy Scout work and camp- ing and the course in first aid are given by Dr. Clyde Reynolds. Renowned as Coach. In the fall Mr, Yost will begin his twenty-third year as head ceach in football at the University of Michigan, For the twenty-two years he has been at Michigan his teams have become famous from coast to coast, and have brought him renown and recognition as one of the foremost football coaches in America. Ss The Old Copyreader pele ead ahd 2A Led od “Many a story is hope written, but the story of life is hopelessly rotten.” ITS NEVER DONE. Lar Eagtnion wrote » story mannikin beaut who was proffered A Utle and all ite glory— Mee amorous lordling offered His manor and cawstle Tudor, Ite foresia, farms, and flowers; And he took her out there and wooed her In that wordertand for hours, But beeanse she rose from the gutter And © fightin’ gamin WAS she . Fer her, and po what done she Bat beet Teo soft: no strogsie im it; And she ied \ustend ® Beemer Who bad lost his job that minute, May Tdginton knows ber knittin’, me trimmed all hollow; Bot this fairy tale she's written ‘The Indies are moody Of coo, the whole eabsodle, But there's mary a THAT crasy a