Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1923, Page 21

UNUSUAL EARLY SEASON - 'FRAYS LISTED SATURDAY Clemson., uburn and Virginia-Furman Clashes Are Likely to Be Real Battles—Two Contests Will Be Decided Here. BY H. C. the foot ball season, the dat: » BYRD. v WHILE next Saturday is practically the first rea] playing date of out the nation begin their s may develop close, hard struggles, ju ¢ on which teams generally through- chedules, several of the games listed st as did the opening contest in the South' Atlantic section between Marines and Virginia Military Institute. At least some of the games are between schools which are always promi- nent in foot ball and others are listed in which the apparently stronger team may have its troubles. Most important of all games in the south will be that between Clem- son and Auburn at Clemson, coming contest for alumni, which the former is playing as its home- It is rather remarkable that a school picks the opening date of the year for a home-coming game, but that was tried last year at Centre College and foun . A game in the South Atlan for one of the elevens as may have uled is that at Charlottesville between Virginia the latter of Greenville, S. C. If Fi which represented it during eithe have more work cut out for it than ing game. Chicago gets into action with the Michigan Aggies as its opponent. Of | late vears the Lansing eleven has not shown the strength that character- ized its play some seasons back, but at any time it may come through with & stronger combination than some of | its heftier opponents look for. A little’ farther west state institu- tions meet one another in two games, At Fort Collins, Col., the Colorado Aggles ore to entertain the Univer- sity of Wyoming, and at lowa City the University of Iowa will have as its guests the foot ball players of Oklahoma A. and M., and ordinarily | the game should be good, but if the| Oklahoma ~gridiron situation {s as| disorganized as the state seems to be it “'lll be a sad time for the teams. With two or three possible excep- tions, where a big team may have un- knowingly “picked on” a better | eleven than it expected to face, all the other games are likely to be little | mose than a question of the number | of points by which one team will win. ur} | One often hears remarks by old foot ‘ball players, players of two dec- | ades ago. about the good old days of ! the & vards in three downs and! the big men who held positions on! teams at that time. Many times ha the impression been given In that| way that the foot ball teams of to day are much lighter than those of - fifteen or twenty years ago, and there seems to be abroad an impres- sion that such actually is true, As a matter of fact, the foot ball | teams of (oday are fully as heavy as those of fifteen or twenty vears ago. There are more foot the countr: v weighing more than 185 pound there were weighing more than 1905. .True it is that today one very seldom secs one of | the great human juggernauts who tip the scales around 2250 pounds, for | the simple reason that such plavers | are not worth much to a present-day | foot ball team. The offense of today is 50 much broader and more com- prehensive that five times the physi- | eal skill and dexterity s demanded of the average lineman than was de- | manded of him in the days when | backs had only 5 yards to go in three | attempts { Take one or two contrasts. John- | son, at center for Swarthmore 1907, when Swarthmore defgated Cor- | nell. if memory is not at fault, was | hailed as one of the great players of the year and named as the great- | eat of centers by probably the ma- | jority of critics. Johnson was Elant, weighing about 260 pounds, but if he were to report for a Swarth- | more foot ball team today he prob- | ably could not make his position. | Qver at Camp Meade the 34 Army Corps has a giant of & man as a line- | man, that lineman sending the scales | up with a bump when they are placed | at 250 pounds, but that iineman has | not yet won a place on the team, and { probably will not, despite years of | experience in the game. it The foot ball lineman of today has | to do something more than charge straight #head and hurl himseif | under the opposing mass of forwards on_every play | Day, who played center for Central | High School last year, is out on the | Johns Hopkins squad 'with about an | even chance to win the regular berth 4t the pivot pesition. Day has car- ried to the Baltimore school the same kind of fighting spirit which made | him valuable to the Blue and White. | Georgetown and Gceorge ton -will eettle down this ta do four days of hard . practice in getting ready for their' game Saturday. The Blue and Gray realizes that the advantage is with it, but s very anxious to be ready for the Marines when they come here Washing- | afternoon foot ball - | How Foot Ball Is Played By SOL METZGE 'HE mere point of saving a frac- tion of time in_getting off a punt caused coaches to first employ the spiral pass from the center to the backs. The first time we saw it used was by the Navy against the Army some twelve years ago. The principle of this pass was that it traveled slightly faster than the end-over-end pass and always gave the ball to the kicker in the position he wanted it when kicking. Punters! . receiving the ball via the end-over-e in_their hands before preparing to . this extra move. As foot ball is a sci punts that were blocked every season because of the loss of time inl making this extra move could now be gotten off. Other coaches caught the point at once, and they began using the spiral piss on all formations In which the center passéd the ball direct to: back who was to carry it. The: formations—the unbalanced line apd the backs arranged without.a quar- terback handling the ball—were d velopments in the game conineident with the arrival of the forward pass. These cotches found that the spiral pass, when gently lobbed by the cen- ter to the backs, always brought the ball to them in the same position, and it cut down, in a measure, t percéntage of fumibling that times resulted from the end-over-end pas: This latter pass sometim caused the ball to hit one of the hand: of the back trying to take it, because a larger area was presented to him. All teams do not use the spiral pass today. Those teams which do not employ the quarterback to take the ball from center and hand it to the back, who is to run with or pass it, employ it almost all the tim It {s more éasily mastered by cent: than the end-over-end pass, becau: a spiral pass lnvlrublty follows the line of the long axis of a féot ball. In viewins a game where it is not used, note delay the end-over-end causes the player recélving it take when the bail does not come him with the point first. ~These Jittle principles sark the difference between & well coached team and one which is slipping up on a point or two. 'The percentage always Is in favor of the eleven which uses the most care In preventing fumbles When all else is‘equal. % (Copyright, 1923.) (8ol Metsger, our foat ball export, and «ans of the foremost foot. dall coaches in the oountry, will apawer eny fiw aboud puw"‘n? ball sent him, oare of our_ Spor iment, i o raburn, siomped ‘phvelcss 1o, U 2 S [weak on tackles, so Baker is filling in d to be very,successful. tic section which may not prove as easy been expected when it was sched- and Furman University, man has an eleven as strong as that r of the last threc years Virginia will it should care to 1ave for an open- & week from Saturday. George Wash- ington is making Teady to put up a game fight against a heavier eleven. but nothing short of a miracle would enable it to win. To hold the Hill- toppers to three fouchdowns should be considered a creditable perform- ance. University of Maryland, like George- town, is looking more to its game a week from Saturday than it {s to the ope with Randoiph-Macon this week. Of course, the Marylanders may hit more of ‘a snag than they expeet, but it does not take any prophet to inform them that they must be in considerably better shape when they play Pennsylvania October 6 than they have to be against the Ashland eleven. Penn admits that it has the best material that has worn its colors in all the years it has been playing foot ball, and when a school admits that, it must have an impressive squad. . SANDLOT GRIDMEN SWARM 8 Some Big Grid Games Boo WESTERN MARYLAND HAS FINE GRID SQUAD WESTMINSTER, September 24.— hirteen foot ball letter men re- turned to Western Maryland this fall. Five probably will be holding down positions on the 1923 eleven by the time the Green and Gold feam reaches the more important games on tho schedule. y 3 This fact will serve to indicate the quantity ‘and quality of new timbe that this season i3 at the command o Coaches Shroyer and Root When such veterans of ene, two and three yeary' experience as Douglas, Kinsey, Long, Stanley, Willlams, Duncan and in grave danger of louing their jobs, one may rest as- sured that tlierc 'are several among the recruits who are showing their mextors somethin, Sillen and Pelfer, a comers, nerformed’ in game Saturday in manner th: would denote that ther are just was needed to give welgh! wer to a back 2 t. Groton ar PAIF of new- the opening lant youngsters of 180 and 166 pounds, re- zpoctively, lcoked like the real thing Saturday.” Both are “triple-threat” men. Cortain 1t is that neither Sillen nor Peifer will be displaced by any man that got nto the opening game. This moars that Hi tanlay, Long and Kinsey of the “oid guard” must fight it out for the other two berths in the ball-carrying quartet. The first- named pair are battling for the quar- terback’s begth, while Kinsey and Lorg are struggling for the assign- ment at fuliback. Of the seven men who started on the line in. the game against the Guilford elub, Byham, Cuneo and Clayton gave the best account of themgelve.. Byham unquestionably will be a [fixture at one tackle. His bufld re- minds one of McMahon of Penn State fame. He i rangy and sports a proundage of 220. Cuneo, who weizhs 265 and is built ¢n the order of Keenan of Washing- ton College, started at left tackle for the Methodists. He is valuable as a kicker and as a line smasher when- uver a vard or two is absolutely re- quired, in addition to the asset he is as ‘a_linesman proper. However, his place I¥ at guard. Flanagan, 1923 guard on the all-Maryland second team, who is expected to renort to- day. ‘can be used with profit at that tackle. ON FIELDS FOR PRACTICE UN-BAKED fields and a swelte: ball squads vesterday. Many holding “their initial workouts. debut of several new combinations, | independent foot ball title of the Dist V. P.l. HAS WEALTH _ OF GRID MATERIAL| BLACKSBURG, Va., September 24 —Virginia Poly's grid squad began its second week of practice on Miles | Field today. One hundred and fifty In | men were on hand for the freshman |halfback at Catholic and varsity teams. Coach Henry Redd hasn't énough equipment to outfit his treshmen, but the management has ordered additional togs. The varsity squad is composed of about fifty. The team has been greatly strengthened by the arrival of Glaze, | the sensational halfback of two sea- | sons ago, and de la Barre, an end from Norfolk, but a candidate thig year for backfield honors. Cubbage has been working Sutton at quarter, but Roberts of Radford and Ebert of Roanoke are shoving the warsity cap- tain for the position. If either of these men make good, Sutton will go back to half. Sutton {s showing ad- vanced form at the present and the “half pint” player should be a wonder on the offense this year. Cubbage has relieved big Baker at center and run in Moran, wio was a second-string man last season. Moran is a heady center and Cubbage Is at the spot left vacant by “Tex" Til- son. The other tackle will be taken care of by Greene, Graham or Ham- mock. ¥ Tech will be busy this wedk mend- ing its fences for the Death Valley erowd from ‘Hampden-Sidney, which open the season here Saturday. THE QUESTION. Why do- some centers pass the ball with a spiral and oth- ers in the old-fashioned way— end over end? B U 4 nd method usually had to adjust it kick. The spiral’ pass saved them ientific game, this meant that a few PENN STATE BOASTS OF LINE OF GIANTS; STATE COLLEGE, Pa., September 24.—Unless Coach Hugo- Bezdek makes » dhdden shift in the line-up of the Penn State team this week, the Nittany cleven that takes the fleld | for the operiing game of the season with Lebanon Valley, next Saturday, will boast of & line of giants. From end to end the Blue and White for- wards average better than six feet in_height. Capt. Bedenk, veteran right guard, {s the only man who does mot come up to the six-foét.mark, and he misses it by only a single inch. This is more than made up for by Ted Ar- telt's towering flgure of six feet four | ARMY AND NOTRE DAME ring sun failed to stop sandlot foot staged brisk scrimmages and Sthers . From the businesslike manner in | which the squads worked -out it is evident that numerous battles are | players in [ in store for local followers of the fall game. This year will mark the which have joined the hunt for the rict. Mercury Athletic Club, Southerns, Mohawks, Georgetown Athletic Club and the Kniekerbockers apparently do nct intend to be caught napping this fall. Each of these elevens had an array of capdidates out. With several days of preliminary practice behird them, these olubs are well advanced in’ practicé and probably { will be ready to oven the fall cam- “’Vaign two weeks hence. Coach Joe Chaney of the Mercury Athleti Club has prospects for a formidable eleven. Brennan, former Univergity, and { Horkle, formerly of Wisconsin, are Inew candidates whom Coach Chaney is counting upon. Thirty-six candidatex reported to Coach Charley Guyon of the South- ern Athletic ‘Club. The Southerns will be light this vear, but they are pinning their hoves on rpeed. r the tutelags of ‘Josh Lica- nd Paul Cohill the Mohawks| are making a great effort to condl- {tion themselves for their coming! | struggles. Moulton, formerly of| Louiiana 6tate; Denny Southern,! Eggloson and Cox were among those | in uniforms yesterday. ! Knickerbockers are advaneing rapidly under the direction of Coach McCarthy. The Georgetown eleven | this probably will boast one of the heaviest teams it has had in years. L i Georgctown Athldtic Club and the St Stephen's foot ball squads held St practices. Numerous husky can-| didates were on hand. H Washington independent foot ball toams are offered a chance to hook up with ‘the Parkwood Athletic Club of Baltimore. F. E. Ahbott, 1530 Lin- den avenue, Baltimore, Md,, has sen a challenge to this city for games with' clubs averaging 160 pounds. tex of the Navajo Athletic will hold practice tomorrow at 5:30 o'clock. A meeting will, be held. by the club tonight at 7:30 o'clock at 525 5th street southeast. Henderson Midgets intend to place two stronge elevens on the field this fall. Candidates are requested to get Inr; m:;-h with the captain at Colum- a 562. Here are wome of the gridironers out for the Mount Rainier ecleven King, Gibson, Hancock, Farron, Rab- bitt, Burns, Burke, Dulin, Brancato, Steele, Gaines, Shellas, Booth Rich- ardson, Bahiman, P. Booth, Welljng- ton, Seabode, Reds. Jack Coontz, former #tar of the Haly Cross eleven, will' coach the Havoc squad this fall. M: ger Har- | rington of the Havoc Athletic Club would like to arrange games with teams in the 13j-pound cle: Donnelly, Golden and Wakhington Orange Athletic Club is plsnn(nfi to organize foot ball and basket ball teams, + TO PLAY IN BROOKLYN WEST POINT, N, Y., September 24—Capt.'M. B. Ridgway, graduate Mmanager of athletios at the United States Mllitary Academy, has offi- clally announced that the Army- Notre Dame foot ball xame would be played Saturday, October 13, at Eb- bty fleld, Brooklyn. s ITALIAN HEAVYWEIGHT SERVES A SPEEDY K, 0. bares!, the Itallan heavyweight pugi- 1ist, yesterday defeated the French heavyweight, Marcel Nilles, scoring a technical knockout in the first round of what was to have been a fift round battle. The end came after two minutes of fighting. Barbaresi at the sound of the gong arov. a number of rights into Nilles' y, twice forcing the Frenchman to his knees. Then he landed a left to the jaw which toppled over Nill, and the referee stopped the fight to inches. ‘Helghts of the linemen are as follows: Frank, left end, six feet; Schuster, left tackle, six feet one inch; Michalskl, left guard, six feet; Gray, center, six Bedenk, right guard, five feet e n inches; Pre- vost, right tackle, six feet; Artelt, right end, six feet four inches. A number of mecond team linemen also scale six feet or more, including McCann, six feet; Onyx, slx feet. five inches; Flock, six feet; House, six 1 and Fellows, six feet two inches. 1inem :;u:u' ;:f“-um um €ach measures five inches, - von | the Amerl save the Frenchman from further pupishment. POLO DOUBLE-HEADER IS SET FOR TOMORROW ! WESTBURY, N. Y., September 24. Due to heavy rains the Interpational polo matche: ea"'é'“" Great Britain and the Unit: tates for the Monty Waterbury cup, which were to have been played today, have been pened 11 “tomorrow. ‘A double-header will be st to- morrow, t:a American KR eaf Faming & ’ M Sportland Heights boxing arena, Berwyn, Md., Thursday, night. Chicago scrapper is reported to carry a wallop in both. hands. fanother six-rounder. This Week MIKE MeTIGUE. Through the enterprise of Héinie Miller, promoter, matchmaker ghts Arena, this king of the lightheavyweights will in-chi f of Sportland H | show his wares to Washingtén fans aga at the newly enlarged club near Berwyn, Md., Thursday ock yard: nd boss- st Jack Dufty, pride of the Chicago t. McTIGUE FACES TROUBLE . IN HIS BOUT WITY DUFFY IKE McTIGUE, the Irish-born. light heavyweight champion of the world, may find himself in difficulty when he exchanges swats | with Jack Duffy of*Chicago in the twelve-round feature bout at The His re- cent battles with Harry Greb, Jeff Smith and Bob Roper indicate that he’ll make the champion sit up and take notice. . Both mitt artiats are reported to be in the pink of condition. Duffy is to finish his training at the Mohawk Athlete Club, where Patsy Donovan's battlers wlill exfend him several warm-ups. The Chicagoan was to arrive here thig afternoon and imme- distely take up hig training. The champion prebably will get here Wednesday, One af the greatest crowds ever seen at Sportland or any otimer local fight areng is expected Thursday night. Promoter Heinie Miller plans to increase the seating ‘capacity at Sportland. Five rows of seats now are under construction, Extra street car service has been provided for. The doors at Sportland will be thrown open at 6:45. Some bSxing of the slam-bang va- riety is bobked in the preliminaries.. Terry O'Day of Belfast, Ireland, will meet Georgle Gardner of Bridgeport, Conn., former sparring partner of Johnny Kilbane, in six rounds, O'Day, by the way, watched the Siki-M Tigue bout in Dublin last St. Pat- rick’s day. Eddie Mahone, the Memphis Ten- nessee slugger, will oppose Bob Yeo- man, the Navy lightweight boxer, in From the past s of these two boxers. a in prospec Patsy Mo. with Bat Woodman performan: real fight i zler will el for six_rounds. Tex Stovall, the welterweight from the Marine Corps, who downed Joe Fontaine in two rounds at the last show, Is_booked to mix it up with Johnny Sorico, They wiii step four Tounds. The four-round opener, which will get under way af 8 o'clock, will involve Joe Perone prosed tg Mickey Moletto of the Marine Corp Charley Short will handle the pr liminaries, while Harry Ertle of Jer- sey City will referee the maid boyt. | | ! rives. Radiators and Fenders R Rl Rion, 10 ATORY. ¥, WO, l"l'“'l" .&.-l'l‘ RIS Match Your 0dd Coats With Our Special TROUSERS $4.65 Save the of entire mew suit. U colors, alzes, patterss. A FINGERSON COACHING TANK CORPS ELEVEN CAMP MEADE, Md., September 24. —Capt. George E. Fingerson, who coached the Tank Corps foot ball eleven through a successful season last year, is back on the job again. Fingerson has had his squad through the.paces at a hot stride, and looks to the boys to mop up in great style, The Tankers will have three of la: year's backfield men and three sea oned linemen to build around, while several of the new men bear ear- marks of real material. The early practice sessions have shown the Tankers to have an aggregation worthy of their colors. . The game South Is Coming Up in Foot Ball Realm ARGENTINIANS WANT 'WORLD POLO EVENT By the Assoclated Press. BUENOS AIRES, September 24.— Refusal of the American Polo Asso- clation and the Hurlingham Club of England to widen the terms of com- petition for the international cup so as to admit the Argentine Federation team to play for it, is likely to result in a proposal being made by the Ar- gentihe Polo Association that an in- ternational contest be held to deter- mine, the polo. champlonship of the world. The question of making such a pro- posal now is under consideration by the executive copmittee of the Ar- gentine associati®n, the Associated Press has learned. This committee favors having a cup offered by A gentina and it will submit its recom- mefidations at the annual meeting of the association next week, The feeling here is that In view of | both the Argentine and Indian polo players establishing themselves in the first rank in the game the title “International cup” given to the trophy which the American and Brit- ish teams play for is a misnomer when the play is restricted. | ‘While th tradition which these Anglo-American contests have crea is well understood and respected here, it is pointed out that unless some sort of world trophy is offered the other pylo nations will lack the stimulus’ necessary to International competition such as has been created by ghe Davis cup im tennis. PAPYRUS, IT PROVES, IS ON WATER WAGON NEW YORK, September 24— Papyrus, English derby winner, does not drink beer as a stimulant, and, therefore, will be under no handicap because of prohibition in coming to this country to race the best American three-year-old in an international race at Belmont Park on October 20. So de- | clared Christophet J. Fitzgerald upon his return from England, where, as representative of Maj. August Belmont, he conciuded negotiations with Ben Irish, owner of Papyrus. for the race. . Fi{zgerald asserted that the beer- drinking habit attributed to Papyrus probably had become confused with the | fondness of* Parth, another crack Eng- lish thoroughbred, for a bucket of ale | before going to the barrier. i Papyrus is in excellent condition, | according to Fitzgerald. He said that | the few cuts on the horse's hind legs. sustained In running in the St. Leger stakes recently, ‘proved to be merely superficial and healed quickly. AUTO DRIVER TO WED. CHICAGO, Séptember 24.—Louis A. Disbrow, veteran dirt-track automo- bile racer, %estterday obtained a li- cense to wed Miss Vaughan R. Nickles of Chicago. "He was divorcell from his first wifé in November, 1922. oot Ball Fact i | ] ] EXAMPLE (SECOND NUMBER ISTHE PLAY) 721 #2 = RIGHT HALF AROUND RIGHT END i What are the cssentials of a good system of signals? « Answered by i KNUTE ROCKNE Conch of foot ball, Notre Dame Uni- versity. Famous for hix - fighting tesms, benten only twice in last four years, : * ok ok x A good system of signals should be simple, compact, expressive and easy to call. The quarterback should be careful not to accent play numbers or snap signals, but should call numbers with the same accent even while the ball is being passed. In this system eagh play should have a distinct number, which number in- dicates a definite assignment to each of the eleven men. Dead pumbers should be changed all the time and givey the same stress apparently. pyright, 1923, Assoelated Editors.) with the Bolling Field team, sched- | uled Saturday, agreement, Hilllard, Stanford and Isham are the backfleld men to return ta the fray, while Roush, Smith and Si nargio are the experienced linemen around whom the squad is centered. The other menswho have shown real promise and probbaly will be used in the game with the Reina Mercedes eleven on September 28 are Watkins, Wiley, Danaditch, Worden, Hodsen, Savage and Haa The short schedule through which was postponed by {the smoke wagon drivers hope to plow their way includes September 28, Reina Mercedes, at Ci Meade; October 13, Fort Humphreys, at Wash ington; October 20, Washington M st Camn Meade; November Gallaudet College, at Washington. witn S lege and S& John's Coll 4“fi i i Havre de Grace SEVEN RACES: DAILY Speeial Penna. R. R. train leavos Union Station 13 o'clock moon—direct to course. |27. SPORTS. DIXIE TEAMS SOON TO BE AMONG BEST IN COUNTRY Rivalry With Northern and Western Elevens Has Become Keen—Many Intersectional Games ‘of Note Are Scheduled. BY LAWRENCE PERRY. far away when many southern I N line with the writer's oft-repeated statement that the time is not foot ball elevens will be competing for national honors lies the fact that the northern and western in- vasion of southern teams this season will be unprecedented. Almosf at the start, next Saturday, the University of Tenngssee will appear on the plains at West Point, with what prospects the writer cannot say other than that reports from Camp Kalamoochee, where Thlg s e et et optimistic. Striegel, Lane, Wilson, Hurley and Clayton have left holes, without doubt, but twelve letter men are back, and there is an abundance of experienced substitute material, with some thirty men from last year’s freshman outfit. But whatever the Volunteers show at West Polint, a word of warning is lLereby wafted Harvardward—watch ut for Florida. The 'Gators are not aying much, but they had a strong eleven last vear and this season, the writer understands, the team is foad- ed for bear. The idea s that the game at Cambridge will not be at all one-sided. Georgla Tech will return the cour- tesy of Notre Dame’s 1 visit by journeyigg to South Bend on October And two weeks later Alexander's men will go to Penn State to inaugu- rate the first of an attractive home- and-home serfes. Georgia May Extend Yale, University of Georgia .will leave Athens for a game at the Yale bowl on October 13. The Bulldogs have excellent prospects and the Elis will face real opposition—opposition as hard, it would seem, as Harvard re- ceived from the men of Athens two years ago. On this day Vanderbilt, which, in 1906, set the fashion of ‘northern migration, will appear on Ferry Fleld against the University of Michigan outfit. Last year when the Wolverines visited Nashville they were held to a scoreless tie by M; Gugin's men. October 13 will see the famous Cen- tre College outfit in action against the Unliversity of Pennsylvania eleven at Philadelphia. Another in- teresting_ intersectional contest will | be waged between the University of Alabama and Syracuse. It will be interesting to sees what Mike Donohue, the former Auburn coach, will do at Tulane. It would be too much to ask of him to place a really formidable eleven upon the gridiron in one season. But Michael, like the mills of the gods, grinds surely if slowly, and nothing would be more surprising than to see the Louisiana institution tralling in_the ruck of Dixle institutions in a year or two. G. U. te Visit Princeton. Georgetown will visit Princeton with some reason for confidence fn the abllity of the team to make the Tigers hustle. An interesting sign of the times is the home and home agreement which Georgia Tech and Penn State have signed and the two-year series which Tech and Notre Dame began last season. In ever-increasing de- gree northern and western outfits are going to find their way south. But the time is coming when so many southern elevens will have at- tained such high standing that Dixie | in the main will be pretty much en- gmlsed over her own sectional af- | fairs. (Copyright, 1023.) TEMPERAMENT IN TENNIS IS ASSET, IF CONTROLLED BY SAMUEL HARDY. O player. NE frequently heats tennis players discuss the question whether temperament is an advantage or a disadvantage to a tournament Those who believe a phlegmatic nature to be an asset always refer to Billy Johnston as an example of who apparently has no nerves, whil be essential to great play point to reactions as typical of what can be what can be accomplished by a man e those who believe temperament to Tilden and his well known nervous done by a highly strung player. As 2 matter of fact, temperament, which merely means highly-strung nerves, is possessed by every great player to a greater or lesser degree, +nd those who, like Johnston, present to the spectators a picture of cool \ervelessness fave simply learnied to mask their true feelings under an fssumed calm. ' There never has been a great play er who_was not tempermental. The very character of the game, which demands a quick thinker, one who is koenly alive to his opponent's mental processes, requires quicker reactions than are possessed by a man of the phlegmatic type. 4 Norman Brookes, despite his sphinx- like exprossion when playing a match, is ome of the most nervous men I know, a man of quick likes and dis- likes. one who is easily affected by his surroundings. So, 0o, are Ander- son and Patterson, though to a much less degree. No Star Is Nerveleow.: In our own country, we have not a single great player wio is not high- y strung and nervous before a match, no matter what his outward appea ance on the court may be. Take Wal- lace Johnson, for example, a man who has twice had the American cham- plonship almost within his grasp. Johnson always is considered to be 2 nerveless machine. The stony ex- pression on his face ‘never alters for a moment during the most exciting match, but his calm is wholly super- ficial, the result of rare self-control Underneath he is a bundle of nervous onergy. So too, is Williams, who is as Senditive as & race horse. Helen Wills is generaily supposed to be as phelgmatic as she looks. She, too. is noted for the utter calmness of her facial expression, but under- neath she is one of the most highly strung of all players, and while at times this suppressed neryousness has caused her to make errors and lose matches, it also is one factor in the brilliant game she has developed. In a great many players a neryous perament is plainly in evidence, especially during their eary matur- ity, before they have learned to con- erve their energy. Alonso, Gobert, Norton, Suzanne Lenglen, Froitzheim and many other continentals are all of this type. They are as mervous before and ‘during & match as any prima donna. Without this nervous fire they would never have become the great players they un- doubtedly are, but there is no doubt | that a better nervous control would, by saving their energy, materially help their games at certain times. Poise Has Alded 'Piide; Any one watching Tilden closely can see how much improvement there WONDER WHAT MERTZ WILL SAY TODAY? H H At the Sign of the Moom i Established 1533 Cutting out the high cost without touching the high quality is a feature of this special. We tailor for men who want the best for a small cost. 'HORSESHOE PITCHING 'TITLE GOES TO OHIOAN LEVELAND, Ohio, September 24.—~ George May of Akron, former na tional title holder, won the men's horseshoe-pitching championship of the United States by defeating Charles C. Davis of Columbus, another former champfon, in the tournament of the National Horeshoe Pitchers’ Associa- tion. May went through the tourna- mont, which ended yesterday, with only one defeat. Although nosed out of the title, Davis did something no othét horses shoe pitcher ever did—threw 61 ring= ers out of every 100 shoes pitched Loren May of Akron finished third; Frank Jackson, Kellerton, Iowa, fourth, and Oklahoma's champion, R P. Spencer of Pitcher next. Sixteen players participated in the finals. Several world records were brokes during the tournament. William Yochum of Zanesville, Ohio, continued the history making vester- day by pitching 78 ringers out of 100 shoes pitched, but stood aside a few minutes later when Frank Jackson made it 80. Jackson threw a ringer every inning against Blair Nuna maker, seventeen-year-old Clevelan choolbo; has been in his game since he has learned better polse. He is now usually complete master of his emo- tions during a match, but when he allows something to upset'him his game always suffers in consequence. 1 know one player abroad who used to beat Tony Wilding frequently in practice when the Australian the height of his career, but whoi inability to control his temperament in match play so affected his game that he finally abandoned all idea of ever accomplishing anvthing in tournaments. While temperament’ undoubtedly is necessary to great play, it is a two- edged swrod—essential for fighting great battles, but dangerous fo its Dpossessor when not under complete control. (Copyright, 1823.), 1 CLOSE DAILY AT 6 P. M. Our Inauguml Special for Our 30th Annual - Fall Opening Suit or Your'opportunity to buy High-class Tailoring at Small Cost Owvercoat To Measure *25 Can’t Duplicate Under $35 Our fall style booklet illys- trates what the men will wear. We duplicate any model. Choice of a wonderful stock of fabries. 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