Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 18, 1924, Page 5

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1924 OWNERSHIP OF OAKLAND CLUB Griffith and Harris Ready to Waive Claims to Veteran Hurler and Expect All Others To Do Likewise. * WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—Word that Walter Johnson had practically completed a deal for part ownership of the Oakland club of the Pacific Coast league was received by Washington fandom with regret that he would not pitch the Senators to victory again, mingled with sincere good wishes for him in his enterprise, President Griffith and Manager Harris agreed that Johnson's de- parture means a great loss to the Washington team, but for the vet- eran star's sake, they were glad he was about to realize his hopes, FOUR ELEVENS STILL IN RACE CHICAGO, Noy. 18.—(By thé As- sociated Press.)}—The western con- ference football championship race, now in the home stretch is still within the grasp of each of the four elevens leading the season totals. Chicago has the best chance, with ! an undisputed championship certain | in chse of a victory or tie over Wisconsin next Saturday but Mich- igan, Ilinois and Iowa could finish on top if the Badgers should defeat Coach St squad. Ill'nols, despite the Minnesota up- set Saturd } ‘ns a chance to go Int » while elther ould have a ampionship denen on the outcome of Satur- "s games. Since many big ten elevens play different ‘numbers of conference championshiy games the seagon standings ®enerally are based on the games_lost and tied, and on these tie games, of which there have been four in the conference this season. may depend the conference title for 1924, A. defeat, far; either Michigan, Illinois or Iowa, puts them entirely outside the championship race, =. SPORT BRIFFS CULVER CITY, Calif.— Tony Fuente, Mexican heavyweight, knocked out Fred Fulton, Minnesota heavyweight, in less than half a minute of fighting. MIAMI, Fla.—Barney Adair, New York, outpointed Jimmy Murry, At- lantic City, in ten rounds. SPRINGFIELD, Mo.—Jim Finley, Louisville, Ky,, welterweight, out- pointed Cowboy Padgett of Colorado, in ten rounds. DETROIT. — Howard Mayberry, bantamweight champion of Canada, won the judges’ decision over Joc Lucas, Detroit, in ten rounds. NEWARK, N. J.—Jack Rapaporte, of Newark, outpointed Jack Zivic of Pittsburgh in 12 rounds. worlds of Griffith, when informed of the de- velopments, reiterated that he would not stand in Johnson's way, but would give him his release from the Washington team if he received as- surance that the pitcher “had nego- tiated a successful deal in Oakland.” He explained that before Joh: mn could be a free agent, all other major league clubs would have to waiver their claim to him, but as his club will be the one suffering, the “real loss," he did “not suppose that any of the other owners will stand in his way.” Harris, who piloted the Senators to their first championship, admitted he couldn't “smille much when I think of losing a pitcher who won 23 games for us last year,” although he was “glad for Walter's sake.” eins ESE FOOTBALL QUESTIONS ADDRESS: Lawrence Perry, Special Football Correspondent of the Casper Tribune, 814 World Buiding, New York, If you have some question to isk about footbu'l— if you want a rule interpreted— If you want to know anything about a play— ‘Write to Lawrence Perry, for (jfteen years an authority on the game as writer and official. If you want a personal reply en- close a stamped, . self.addressed envelope. Otherwise your ques- tion will be answered in referee blew the whistle when the tackle was made. But while he was blowing his whistle. All the other menibers of both teams stood still. Team B runner crossed the goal line. Was this a touchdown? A.—No, it was not: Referee’s whistle ended the play. Q:—Team A launches a play which gains 40 yards—a long run. There has been holding. Is the play called back to the original line of scrim- mage and the penalty inicted from there? A.—It depends upon where the foul occurred. The penalty is always applied from the spot of the foul. So if the holding occurred in the line the penalty would be inflicted from the line of scrimmage. If farther down the field then from that spot. Come out and enjoy life. It will do you good just to walk down San Francisco's Market Street and see the ruddy cheeks and sparkling eyes of the Californians you pass. “Here the call of the open is perennial. Autumn, winter, spring alike —all allur- ing, healthful, restful. “Every day affords full enjoyment of the great outdoors. « Overland Lim ; Kanwee Cher eaet 005 Fier bebe eiabs eed aoe Pacific Limited Leaves Cheyenne at 2:20 p.m. daily. Standard observation ‘and tourist sleepers, chair care and diner, Side trip to Salt Lake City, en route to Sen FE renciacey witbout additional cost. For reservations, information, end descriptive ©. B. Stapleton, Ticket Agent wi inion Pacific Station Cheyenne, Wyo. ES be Casvet Daily Cridune Jack Keefe 4 WAIT TiLt WEVE PAID our SILL First in News EARLY SEASQN |EAST-WEST COLLEGE RESULTS FAIL] “AMES TO IVE ‘DOPE Defeat of Princeton and Illinois Hold Great Lesson. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. (Copyright 1924, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Noy. 18.—-Princeton beaten by Yale afier the Tigers had swamped Harvard with an exhibition of flawless defensive and offensive ‘ootball; Minnescta victor over Ill- aois with nothing at all to show, so ar as preceding games were con- cerned, that the Gophers had the ability to cause such an upset; Co- ‘umbia holding the strong Army seam to a tie; Auburn ho ding Georgia to a single score, Centre defeating Alabama! The present season is showing con- vincingly what other seasons since modern tball was played have showe' tt the outcome of no game may be predicted upon games that have been played. The whole vhing is sheer guesswork “and coaches and others close to fuotball outfits have to guess as much as anyone else. _ Minnesota answered the question “who can stop Grange? and’in ad- swering it affirmatively not only won over Illini but justified the splendid material which ralied to -he Crimson and Gold standard thir fall as well as the untiring effort ex- pended in developing it to the reights of its possibilities, Bill Spauiding, the coach, has needed Just such a game as this to place iim where he belongs. For the Gophers met Illinois in- structed in the various probleme vhey would encounter and versed superby in methods designed to take advantage of the shortcomings of the Urbana combination. So with the Yae team at Prince- ton. Here was a triumph of skilled coaching based upon the shrewdest sort of scouting. Yale's line had the strength and ability to stop Prince- ton’s rushes, just as the Tiger for- wards were able to hold the Eli line sufficiently in check to prevent scores being made. Yale won because she had learned how to check Princeton's overhead system and be cause Princeton had not learned how to stop Yale's overhead game. Prince- ton had not learned this because, in preceding games, Yale had not shown her hand in forward passing. What problems Yale submitted to the Tigers in this respect had to be sotved out on the field in the course of the game. And this is always a terrific handicap to a team. | Again, Yale had the advantage of @ vast punting superiority. When you have to face high booming punts deep in your territory and in turn can answer this artillery assault only with guns of smaller caliber and less power the handicap is very material, Yet Princeton played good foot- ball. It was a team that had given its all against Harvardand the ef- fects of that contest were seen in the comparatively stow down field play of Princeton against Yale and the sluggish manner in which the attack was started. A complete con- trast. After a bottle of champagne has been opened and the cork again inserted, no zest will be apparent in that bottle when once more it is un- corked. As the late Tom Shevlin remarked after the Yale 1915 team had de- feated Princeton and then been snowed under by Harvard, ‘you can not make two glasses of lemonade gut of one lemon,” so with Prince- ton. Her men tried hard and played well, put the lethargy of the play and the trouping of regulars off the field as the game went on told of the absence of the vital spark. The Yale team impressed the writer as approaching the form of the 123 eleven, better in fact, in the department of overhead play. It has but to defeat Harvard by a larger score than Dartmouth made against the Crimson to stand out as the leading team of the east. Notre Dame crushed Nebraska and upheld her reputation as the great- est football outfit this side of the Sierra Nevadas and since it is un- derstood the South Benders will go to the Pacific slope this winter, the Indiana eleven has such opportu- nity as no eleven has had to stand out as the nation’s greatest. Dartmouth @howed her versatility BY HENRY L. F. (United Press Sports Editor) NEW YORK, Novy. 14.—duuy new intersectional features are being Planned for next year’s football schedule, Some of the longest es- tablished rivairies may be abolished to make room. for games between Eastern and Middlewestern teams, while the Southern invasion of the Northern and Eastern terrains may be more comprehensive than ever. The intersectional idea of com- petition, as has been pointed out be- fore, not only was respensible for the great growth of public interest in football, but it resulted in groat good for football by spreading smart football all over the country from the East where once it was almost @ local game. * Southern teams and Middlewest- ern teams learned the rudiments of football by watching and playing against Eastern teams and they went home and so improved on the lessons acquired that the East is almost in back water now. Notre Dame is the greatest draw- ing card in the country and for that reason. Notre Dame would be wel- comed on most any Eastern sched- ule. The idea of a ‘‘drawing card” auggests commercialism, but the serm in this case cannot be applied with its ordinary association. Fooct- | call managers want big gates not’ for personal profit but to raise the} funds for the promotion and en- couragement of many other sports of which football has to carry the financial load and furnish the money. ) 2 It seems quite certain that Notre Dame be on the Pennsylvania schedule next year, because Penn- sylvania is willing to play in South Bend tn 1926 and Knute Rockne, the guiding genius of Notre Dame football, wants home-and-home ar- rangements in the future. Princeton may not be able to take a Notre Dame game next year and it doubtful if Rockne could find a place on the schedule for Prince- ton if the Pennsylvania game is schedulel. Princeton would like to arrange for a game with Dartmouth and that would make it necessary for Princeton to*take Notre Dame too early in the season for Prince- ton’s comfort or too close to the Princeton to end the season aweek before Harvard and Yale. The Army-Notre Dame game, how. ever, may go West next fall, as Chi. cago is making great efforts to land the battle for the new Grant memor. ial stadium which, is located on the banks right in the heart of the city. ;Chicago also would to book the Army-Navy game, but that is hardly a possibility as the Army- Navy games are the big events in the lives of all the cadets and the midshipmen and it {s hardly possible that the superintendents of the two service academies would consent to spend either the time or the money to send the corps from the two academies clear out to Chicago. to see their heroes play, ‘The Navy, however, ts gding to Ann Arbor to:play the University of Michigan under an arrangement by which Michigan will visit Ann- apolis in 1926. A game of this sort is possible, however, as the corps of midshipmen would not ex- pect to make the trip any more than to Penn State where the Navy played last year. The Army, for the same reasons, might find no objec. tions to sending the Cadet team to Chicago to play Notre Dame. Any number of Eastern teams would like to book games with the big weatern conference elevens, but by accepting a type of Cornell game which had defeated the Green three years running and demonstrating that when the forward pass is well worked it will score more frequent- ly than the best brand of running attack. One Piece windshield —Making it clear vi- sion—is on all Hud- son Coaches. ARE PLANNED there is almost a hopeless obstacle in the way of drranging any “Big Three-Big Ten” games because Yale and Harvard will not go west and the “Big Ten” teams are strong enough and sufficiently independent to refuse to consider anything. but a home-and-home arrangement. Princeton went to Chicago recently to repay a Chicago invasion of the East, but it is doubtful that any more games of the kind will be ar- ranged by Princeton for a couple of years at least. There was no misunderstanding of any kind nor any unpleasantness in the two games, but Princeton wants to be fairly certain of having a representa- tive team before going out of her own territory again. There has been some talk of an Tilinois game in the East next year, possibly against Syracuse, but there has been a suspicion that the game was suggested by some one other than a representatice of either uni- ve: y: illinois is rather conserva- tive along the {dea of intersectional competition but a champlonship team in the conference this year and a “Red” Grange to show the East might overcome some of the objections: Dartmouth might have been a pos- sibility for a good intersectional game as Dartmouth is not too proud to refuse to visit the West, but since she is back in the graces of the “Big Thrée,” it is not likely that she will wish to break her back with a schedule that only a Notre Dame would be willing to assume. Marquette and Detroit, two of the rising Western schools, no doubt will be back in the East next season at the athletic directors of both univer- sities know the value of the publi- city possible by getting their elevens before the national public. ec owthaheta ‘When roaring, a lon always has its head near the ground, not up in the air, Of All Events W DON'T WORRY~ WE'LL BOTH LLU tes Bote GRID MENACED BY MONEY EVIL BY JOHN B. FOSTER (Copyright 1924, Casper Tribune) NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—The grow- ing trend of commercialism in foot- ball, which manifests itself in the playing of games by outside teams in great cities like New York and Chicago, is meeting with a growing opposition among the conservative supporters of the game. One of the greatest opponents of these “exhibition” games has, un- fortunately, been called from the fray. In one of the last talks the wri- ter had with the late Percy D. ‘Houghton, that great coach said: “The moment money enters into football contests as the objective, nstead of the friendly and spirited rivalry of college against college, There’s no stopping ’em! we are going to have engendered in play the idea that such contests after all, are not worth while. “It 1s extremely bad policy to make college men belfeve that they are playing in a big “show.” They may g0 along for awhile but ulti- mately the heart will be taken out of the game and there will be noth. ing left but husks. “Home and home games, I firmly believe in—whether the ‘home’ be & large city or a small college tow: Any college which plays on t ground of a rival should jendered the courtesy of a return engage- ment. But I am adverse to seeing a team travel 1,000 miles to meet a team which also has traveled 1,000 miles, in a city where gate receipts alone attract them. “Football is the only distinctively college sport we have left, unless it is rowing. I do not mean to sey that colleges have an exclusive right to football or to rowing. But un- less colleges keep the upper hand in these sports—and unless in keep- ing it, they show themselves abov; mere monetary gain—we soon Tr a clear field with nothing in front but the goal posts! Football or merchandising—it’s the same story—you can’t stop a man or a product that has the stuff to come through. Chesterfield is making gainafter Copyright 1924, Liccerr. & Mrrrs Towaccd Co.! Chesterfield CIGARETTES “Thos gain—like a swift, smashing drive toa touchdown, Everywhere men are changing by thousands to Chesterfield. Why? For the best of all reasons —taste!. That’s what convinced smokers the country over. 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