Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1909, Page 27

PART F.VE SPORTING PAGES 1 TO 4 ‘THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. VOL. XXXIX-NO. 28. OMAHA, SUNDAY* MORNING, DECEMBER 1Cole to Stay With Nebraska; Moffat of Princeton Defends Present Style of Game of Foot Ball COLE WILL STAY WITH NEBRASKA University Athletic Board Favors Present Foot Ball Coach for Another Year. BLAMELESS FOR BAD SEASON Lack of Good Material and Bad Luck Held Responsible. BENDER IN BAD WITH STUDENTS Conduct at Haskell Game Turns Friends Against Him. JIOWA WANTS OMAHA GAME Hawkeye Manager Would Play Here, but Lincoln is Shy Big Contests and Eager Demura—Nebraska for Conservative Revisfon. LINCOLN, Dee. %.—(Special)—Wiltam King") Cole will be continued as-coach of the Nebraska foot ball team. The mem- bers of the Cornhusker Athletic board are in favor of his retention for another year, and at a meeting to be held soon afier the close of the Christmas recess they will elect him coach for the season of 1910. This atatement is besad upon information obtained through Interviews with all the members of the Nebraska Board of Con- trol. Only one of the eleven men compos- ing the board fs not yet decided how he shall vote; the other ten members will elect Col The election of “King” Cole will be made 1n the face of some opposition from certain alumni of the university who would like to see Johnny Bender, former Cornhusker gridiron star, or J. C. Longman, coach of Notre Dame, put in charge of the Ne- braska foot ball squad. The election also will not meet with the approval of many men in the local sporting fraternity. Yet, among many of the alumni and with & majority of the undergraduaies “King" Cple s very popular and his retention as conch will be generally approved by these people. Many of the alumni, Indeed, have written letters to members of the ath- letle board urging that vole be elected, while there have been no expressions of discontent from other alumpi arising over the failure of Cole to turn out a cham- plonship eleven last fall. In coming to a decision to bring Cole back to Nebraska next fall, the Corn- husker Board of Control has weighed well the different polnts of criticism made against him and has given fair conlderl: jto t her applicamts for the. pos! ) -n..:u:nog-d. afier looking at th or from all sides, it has appeared as theugh Cole 1 Just @a well fitted to coach Nebraska uext fall” as an§ ‘of' the men who have applied for his place. In fact, the maabers of the board have discounted the disaster of the last season—laid it to the lack of gocd material and hard luck— and have concluded that Cole, with a knowledge of the eapabilities of the vast amount of freshmen material of last :sea- won, will be in a position to give the Corn- Yuskers a winning team in 191, Record of King Cole. " Cole has been at Nebraska for three seasons as head cvach, and his record ‘with the Cornhuskers has been satisfac tory. In 1907, his first season, he gave Ne- braska a championship eleven. In 1908 his team tied Minnesota, defeated Ames and Jowa, but lost to Kansas when his players bhad gone stale. Last fall he had poor ma- terial and the Cornhuskers went through the season with three defeats. Next fall there will be a fine bunch of material to work with, and the Cornhusker mentors Jook to Cole to give them a champlonship eleven. The board of regents has been consider- ing the question of hiring a foot ball coach for the entire year, so that he could coach the gridiron candidates In the spring and winter. The year-tound coach would be a man who also could take charge of the base ball nine and coach it in the spring. At their last meeting, in Omaha, the re- gents had this matter before them, but were in doubt whether they would have the ! funds necessary to pay the salary of a , comch for the entire year, They referred ¢ the question of funds to a committes, which was instructd to report to the ath- ! jetie board within & month, so the board will know what the regents have decided | by the time school closes after the first of " the year. In case the regents find that they can engage & coaeh for both foot ball and base ball “King” Cole will be the man solocted, and the new arrangement will not affect the board’s attitude toward him for the present year. It is belleved, though, that the regents will find themselves un- able to finance the year-round proposition | until 1951, in which event separate coaches | will be engaged for both foot ball and base bail for the year 1Si0-191L Hawkeyes Want Omaba Date. lowa university, which is scheduled for & foot ball game with the Cornhuskers in Lineoln on N wyumber 15, wants to have the game played in Omaha on that date, and its athletic menager is now trying w induce Manager Eager of the Cornhuskers to make the transfer. Manager Rourke of the Omaha Western league base ball team, at whose park that game would be played in case it were booked for Omaha, has been working in co-operation with the lowa management to effect the change. In nearly any other year the Nebraska management would favor a proposition to | play the game in Omaha, but next fall the home schedule of the Cornhuskers will de- mand that they meet lowa in this city Nebraska will be forced to play Minnesota, | Kansas and Illinols away from Lineoln, and the only home games of importance for this town will be those with Ames and lowa. Haakell. or any other team that fllls the Thanksgiving date on the Cornhuskers' schedule, will be met in Omaha. Without Jowa at home the Cornhuskers would have the single big game with Ames as their only attractive offering for Lincoln. Towa. however, will have a big voice in .saying where the game will be played, as the Hawkeyes came to Lincoln last fall, and next autumn it will be Nebraska's turn to go to lowa City. The proposition which Manager Eager in up aguinst in ! i wuskers to play in Omaha against the will )t Manager Bager. Missourt is Afted Game. Missourl, the team that won the Mis- sourl Valley championship last fall, wants game with Nebraska next season and is villing to come to Lincoln to play it. There s ne room on the Cornhusker schedule, though, for the Tigers unless Towa and Nebraska should fail to agree an the place for thelr game. In that event Missouri would be taken on to fill the place of the Hawkeyes. e The Commercial club of St. Joseph has made Missouri and Nebraska an attractive ffer for a game between their foot ball elevens, to be played in that city, and is trying to induce the Cernhusker manage- ment to schedule a game with the “Show Me" aggregation. The St. Joseph people have offered to furnish the fleld and ad- vertise the game at their own expense If the two teams will book a game for the Miseourt Clty. The St. Joseph merchants would like to make the Nebraska-Missouri game an annual event for their city to rival the Kansas-Missouri game which is now played in Kansas City every Thanks- giving day. This cannot be arranged, how- ever, for the Cornhuskers will not consent to play Missouri away from Lincoln every year. Dr. Clapp started for New York City to- day to be present at the annual meeting of the National Intercollegiate conference, where he will represent the University of Nabraska. The conference session opens December 2. Dr. Clapp is under instruc- tions from the Cornhusker athletie board to co-operate with other representstives to draft new rules for foot ball that shail be calculated to lessen the dangers of the game. Favor Conservative Revision. The Instructions of the Nebrasks 'board specified that the Cornhusker representa- tive was not to work with the radical wing of the revisionists, who wish to have the American game supplanted by the Rugby type, but that he should support such men as Walter Camp of Yale and Coach Alonzo Stagg of Chicago in their endeavor to change the rules, so that the dangers will be removed, but at the same time keeping the Yankee game Intact. In the announcement gent to the Ne- braska board of the New York meeting it was stated that foot ball revision would be the all-important business that Wwould come | betore the conference and that there would be a big fight made against foot ball by the men who wish to see the game erased from the list of American sports. Dr. Clapp went, consequently, prepared to place Ne- braska in line with those universities and colleges that will demand that foot ball be preserved in its present form with some oditications in the rules by which it is played. Cornhusker foot ball rooters received some glad tidings today In a letter from Harry Minor to one of his college chums saying that he would come back to school at the beginning of the next semester and become eligible for foot ball next fall. ‘Minor piayed halfback and end on the /Corphusker eleven a year ago, and was one of the star men of the team. His return to the.uyilversify “will increase the large quantity of good foot ball material for next season. He can be used at either halfback or end, the positions at which {the Cornhuskers will need pienty of men {'in order to develop a set of regulars and | substitutes that can support a strong line, {such as Nebraska had last fall Two Mep Have the Same Name Each Has a Wife, and Neither Tw Wives, as Alleged in War- raut. ST. LOUIS, Dee. %.—~There are two Charles Seiters in St. Louls and each has a wife. Neither has two wives, as alleged in a warrant issued in Belleville, IIL, yes- terday, and the Charles Seiter gwho was arrested on a charge of bigamy will spend Christmas with his wife. Charles Seiter of 420 Evans avenue spent last night in the police holdover, and at noon today an officer from Ilinois ar- rived to take him to the Belleville jail. He was charged Wwith having married Miss Clara Kirston when he had a wife and two children at O'Fallon, 1L Charles Seiter of 135 Lynch street ar- rived ahead of the Illinois officer, He was excited and wanted to know who had mar- ried Miss Kirston, who had been his wife since November 3. Seiter was brought from the holdover and introduced to Seiter, whom he thanked for coming to his rescue. The warrant s to be withdrawn. The arrest was brought about by women who knew the Evans avenue Seiter telling the Belleville authorities of a marriage license { being 1ssued in the name of Charles Seiter. JUDGE AND SHERIFF HONORED Lenlie Brailey Receive Tokems | from Admiring Friends—Clyde Sunblad Remembered. | The staff of the sheriff's office gave |Sheriff Edwin Bralley a handsome gift | yesterday afterncon, It took the form of | |a #old badge bearing the words, “Sheriff | Douglas County,” in cireular form, sur- |rounding the name “Brailey.” An eagle, {carved in gold, surmounts the lower part of the badge. The reverse of the shield will be suitably Inscribed. County Judge Leslie was the reciplent yesterday afternoon of a handsome ham- mered brass jardiniere, intended to hald a wonderful plant, which s the pride of the Leslie home. Chief Clerk Clyde Sunblad was given a cigar jar by the same donators Who are the employes of the county judge’s | office. ———r— Career of J. W. Sheppard. UIERRE, 8. D., Dee. 3.—(Special)—J. W. Sheppard, who dled at St. Mary’s hospital in this city last evening, had a varied newspaper career in this state. His first| work in that line In South Dakota was at Bureka, going from there to Wessington | Springs and later to Howard. From How- | ard he came to this eity as deputy insur- ance commissioner under H. C. Shober and remained in that position for some time. He went from here to Clark, where he agalu ook up newspaper work, and from there to Vebien, in Marshall county. He came from Veblen to this city and started the New Era, which he published up to the time of his death. His newspaper experi- ence had not only been varied as to loca- tion, but as a tr-xnm politically he often found himself ht varlance with the powers that were and had laken a part in A number of bitter vontroversies In his work. NORFOLK HIGH SCHOOL FOOT BALL TEAM FOR 1900, NELSON TO VISIT JOHN BULL Will Meet Freddie Welsh in February for English Championship. NO WAY TO COMPARE THE MEN Each Will Meet the Other at His Own Style and Some Fast Work is Looked For by Follow- ers of the Sport. NEW YORK, Dec. %.—Battling Nelson will sall for England, about January 1, where, between February 12 and 2, he will meet Freddy Welsh, champlon of Great Britain, In a twenty-round bout at 133 pounds for a purse of §20,00. John Robin- son will probably accompany Nelson, who has been forwarded two round trip tickets and 3600 expense money. On his return Nel- son probably will meet Ad Wolgast. Welsh should be Nelson's next opponent. The little Weishman Is a lightweight and can make the weight without any trouble. On that account his right to fight Nelson is more logical than Packy McFarland's for McFarland acknowledges that he can’t make 188 pounds ringside and be strong enough to fight. That puts McFarland among the welter weights. The welter welght class includes everything over 132 pounds and up to 142 pounds ringside. Freddy Welsh's recent victory over Johnny Summers made him champion of Englinad, 50 that If he fights Nelson the scrap will be & genuine international cham- plonship affair. Summers was a great pub- lic favorite In England, and the Welsh boy's victory made him a tremendous drawing card on the other side of the sea. Had Welsh beaten Summers here we would have thought very little of the perform- ance, for Summers never showed much class in-any~of his American fights after the first battle with Tommy Murphy. There's a pecullar thing about the Welsh- Nelson fight. Welsh is probably the only man Nelson could fight in England and use his own style. Welsh has made a close study of Battling Nelson's methods and has copled them. The English referce might allow Nelson to fight in his usual roughing, head-boring way just because that would suit Welsh. Freddy uses the head-to-the-chest style of milling himself. It looks like butting, and the dividing line is very slight. The trick s to put your head so close to the other man's body that he can't strike an effective plow. Nelson originated this trick and has used it in all of his fights. Nelson also uses the “wire hair” thing. He washes his hall-in alkall water. He uses a “whiskers punch,” wearing a stub- ble on his chin and rubbing it into his rival's eyes in the clinches. In other things Weish has made a study of Nelson's methods. Nelson has always | | won more by wearing his man down than by hitting hard. Weilsh is & tapper, but in a very long fight he shows endurance that may be equal to Nelson's. He Is per- | petual motion in the ring and pretty rapid motion, at that. He can’t hit hard, but he can tire out any ordinary lightweight by continually setting the pace. He has a sort of cleverness—nothing to be compared to Driscoll’s marvelous selence, but rather a | speed that makes him hard to hit. And, bis American fights. As for thelr comparative ability to liate punishment, there is no It is tme for the Battler to climb into & ring agaln. Nelson has lasted & long Ume, has fought & score of desperate bat- tles, and he can’t afford to stay away from the game very long. He fights best when he fights often. Jimmy Britt gave him & desperate beating in twenty rounds when Nelson had taken a long rest. Yet Nelson came back: with that fight under his belt and beat Gans for the title. NELSON-WOLGAST BOUT OFF? Effort to Take it Away from Me- . Carrey Causes Row. LOS ANGELES, Dec. %.—Although it was announced yesterday that Battling Nelson had definitely accepted a forty-round championship match with Ad Wolgast, and February 22 as the date of the battle here, developments today may result in the fight | being declarea off. Tom McCarrey, pres |dent of the Pacific Athletie club, made it |known today that he had received a tele- |gram from Nelson saying that instead of |the $10000 guarantee previously agreea upon, that he gust have at least $13000 or there would be no battle. Nelson added in his message that San Francisco promoters had offered the latter figure for the fight and that McCarrey must meet it or loge the match. Tom Jones, manager of Wolgast, countered with the announcement that if the champion ifisisted on taking the fight from McCarrey, the Milwaukeean would demand. twice the guarantee he asked from the Los Angeles club. | NORFOLK PROUD OF ITS RECORD Scored Om but Onee and Then in Opening Game. The Norfolk High' school team has made an enviable record for the year, having been scored upon but once and that was in the opening game of the season, when the team was beaten by Neligh. -Norfolk claims the champlonship of northwestern Nebraska. Following is the record “Tex” Rickard Expects $300,000 Gate Rece! and No Interferemce. SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. %.—“It can be positively said that the Jeffries-Johnson contest will be held In Salt Lake.” This statement was made by “Tex" Rickard today when he arrived here. Continuing Rickard said: “I have been assured by the leading busi- ness men of the city that there will be no official interference with the fight and | on that assurance I am going ahead with | the preliminary arrangements." ! Rickard said that the contest will |held in the Salt palace “saucer track,” the capacity of which will be enlarged. | He_expected that the contest wouid draw a $200, Wwith prices ranging from % to $50. |MomAN wWILL BAcKk JomNson English Lightwelght Says Jeff Has Been Out Too Long. NEW YORK, Dec. %5.—Owen Moran, the | English " \ightweight ~looking for a fight, | with Battling Nelson, lightwelght cham | plon, arrived today ~on the Lusitania oran sald: “It has been suggested that a fight be- |tween Neison snd myselt might afford a | good preliminary for the Jeffries-Johnson battle.” Asked his opinion of the coming match for the heavyweight ehampioaship, Moran “My money will go on Johnson. Jeffries has been out of the and the chances and when a man loaes that he generaily Creston Wine Easily. 5—(Special.)—Tn the tween the teams from the Osceola and the Creston High schools, the local five won score of 22 te 13 - B ' Dwight Fortner, night tn jail, fol his ‘-r-tm-ry was 4 mm fixed S 0% and ¢ mas Norfolk. Neligh High school ' [ Wayne Normal college. 0 E Columbus High school 0 1 Wisner High school. 0 b3 Neligh High school. .0 16 Totals s £ FIGHT 1IN SALT LAKE SURE| be | BOLD, -BAD PUP ON SHOW Most Ferocious and Ugly Dog in the World at Annual Exhibit. FAMOUS ‘cunms ARE TO COME Entries Pouring In Will Make Com- ing Display Greatest Ever Held Here—Prom Omaha Pets to Be Show: The homeliest dog in the world will be on exhibition at the show of the Nebraska Kennel club this week at the Auditorfum when the show is given in connection with the annual show of the Transmississippi Poultry association. This dog s most curious. He is the terror of the South Omaha stock yards. He will be muzsled and placed In a huge steel cage so that he cannot possib’y Injure visitors. Indications are that the entry list for the dog show will be twice as large as last year, when the club surprised even ltselt by the large number of dogs which were housed there Quring the week of the show. W. T. Hood, secretary of the assocation, who has his office at 848 New York Life bullding, will be at the Audlitorfum today and Monday to receive entries. W. A. Pixley of Omaha, owner of some of the best known setters in the county, has arranged to exhibit Captain White stone, a many time winner, who has secured ribbons both on the bench and for fleld work. The captatn 4 a beautiful dog, we!l marked ard will add interest to the show. Entries are coming in from all sides and | the list is most varied, assuring the visitor a sight at almost any kind of a dog he wishes. The stage of the Auditorfum has not been replaced since the corn show and the dogs will be placed on the same level WIth the birds and water fowls. | W. R Harris of South Omaha, who last year had the best Collies at tho show, will | show his kennel again this year. Earl H Grau has entored his Boston Terrier and | Adolph Stors has sent an entry blank for | his famous Boston Terrier. | A dog which will attract a large amount of attention at the exhibition is that of |John Buek of the Stors Brewing | pany. Mr. Buck has imported a magnifi- | cent Great Dane, whieh will be shown. He 18 registered under the name of Froh von Frichtenberg, A. K. C. No. 130198, Mr. Buck has also entered three Aire- | dale terriers, which will vie with the prizse homely dog as the homeliest dogs at the | show. S. B. Stewart has entered two Alredale terriers and R. O. Smith of Sloux City will show two Boston terriers, one greyhound and four Collies. 8. 8. Neble of the Danish Ploneer Press "hu entered some large dogs which are | sure to attract considerable attention. He will show two Great Danes and one St. Bernard. E. B. Day of Fremont, owner of the big | kennel which has always attracted such | favorable notice, ‘will be on hand with | several of his big St Bernards. H. H. Harvey of Clay Center, Neb., will have four beautiful Collles, two tri-colored and | two sable. BIG JUDGMENT FOR BOY Harry Denman, Jr., of Chicago, Aged Four, Given $35,000 for Loss of Leg. CHICAGO, Dee. %.—A 4-year-old-boy re- oeived & Christmas present of $35000 from & Jury in the superior court here today. One year ago tonight Harry Denman, jr., was mangled under a street car and it was found necessary to amputate a leg Jury decided that the accident was o the careiessness of the motorman ordered the big damages given to the buy The due and com- | Police Officers Will Get Raise, Captains Lose Letter from Chief Informs Officers They Have Nice Gift in Store from City. Everybody, but the three captains, happy. The patrolmen, sergeants and detectives had the finest kind of a Christmas present handed them yesterday afternoon when Chief of Police Donahue announced that their December salary would be based on the raise fixed by the legislature at its l!ast session. This means that every patrolman will receive a $ ralse in his December salary, and each detective and sergeant will receive a $10 raise, beginning this month. ‘When the legislature passed the bill pro- viding_for increased salaries for patrolmen, sergeahts and detectives, but eliminating the police and detective captains, it was to have become effective on July 1 A perusal of the city budget showed that, in order to make the increased salarfes, it would be necessary to materially reduce the force, so a blanket agreement was made and signed by all whom the new law affected, by which it was agreed to walve the increase unti! the city finances per- mitted all of the patroimen, detectives and 'sergeants being treated alike. The result has been that for five months the guardians of the peace have gone along on their old salaries. It was not thought the raise would come before January, but Chief Donahue's com- munication puts a new light on the matter and there is now cause for general re- jolcing, except as above stated, for the captains, who do not figure In the raise. 1 is Fifty Passengers | Injured in Wreck |Express Train on Canadian Pacific Ditched Near Chapteau by Spreading Rails. WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Dee. B~ A spreading rall caused a Canadian Paecific them Pullmans, to plunge into a ditch near Chapteau, east of Fort William, Ont., early this morning. Of the 700 passengers, fifty were injurcd. It is believed that none of the injured will die. Most of the passengers were Western Canadlans, bound to spend the holldays at Ontario points. The train was running at thirty miles an hour when the wreck occurred. Four of the cars were overturned, cutting down telegraph poles and wires and interrupting | communication. There was no adequate accommodation for the injured within 100 miles and many suffered groat hard- ships until a relief train with physictans and nurses arrived in the afternoon. WOULD ~ DISBAR _ ROBINSON Complaint Filed Against Attormey Convieted of Advising Copper Man to Hide Books. NEW YORK, Dec. .—The Bar Associa- tion of New York filed charges with the appellate division of the supreme court to- day against Sanford Robinson, ehéef coun- sgl for F. Augustus Heinze, alleging that he is guilty of “deceit, malpractice and gross unprofessional conduct. Robinson was fined §250 last summer for alleged connection with the. disappearance of the books of the United Copper com- pany, sought by the federal grand jury. It is with reference to this case that the bar association now seeks his disbarment. passenger train of twelve coaches, four of | FOOT BALL MADE SAFE AND SANE Expert Shows Few Conservative Re- strictions Would Greatly Reduce Cases of Sericus Injury. OF KILLED Majority Are Small Boys or Men of Weak Physique. : CHANGES IN RULES PROPOSED Injured Players Should Be Removod Once and Exsmined—Tackling at Knees and Flying Tackles Dangerous. BY J. H. MOFFATT. Editor of ‘‘History of Princeton Afh- letios:” assistant coach of Princeon foot ball team in 1908; authorized foot bail offi- clal and former coach of Central High school eleven. How can our game of foot ball be modi- fled to protect the players and at the same time retain the interest of the spectators® The spectators demand an open game; the players, their parents and the publfc at large .domand a safe game. What ought to be done dependse on the answars to the following questions: Why were so many players killed or seriously injured this season? Has the new, open style of play increased the danger? Can the rules be changed to prevent fatal and almost fatal accidents? The daily papers of New York, Philadel- phia and Chicago have stated that this season thirty-two players were killed and more ‘than 200 setlously Injured. Thess numbers are appalling. Led by a love.iof the game from his experience as player, comch and official, th_ writer has investi- gated In detall the reported deaths snd serious injurfes, with the hope of discover- ing their cauges and-the means of provét ing future disasters. ot First, about the Injuries. These ha: been enormously exaggerated. With one or two exceptions they wers merely tem- porary. Many bomes have been broken, but, despite the Inconvenience, thess are not serious injuries. In one Institutiom, at least, more bones were broken In the gym than on the gridiron. Many players were reported in- dangerous condition from In- juries to the head—‘fractured skull” or *‘concussion of the brain.” In almost every case that it has been possible to investi- gate the player has not been permanently injured and has almost always played, in later games. A few instances will sutfiee: Armstrong, University of Oklahom “head terribly cut, cowcussion of the brain.” But he himself writes that neither he for any of his teammates were seriously Hurt this season or any other season. Berry, Drake university, “concussion of the brain.” He was in the hospital for six days and had occasional headaches for two | Weeks, but has entirely recovered. . His accident ocourred so late in the season Ifl-l he could not get in condition again for the re maining games. Boyd, Dayton (O.) High school, “‘cencus- slon of the brain He played a week ater. Forbes, Linton, Ind., “fractured an ear drum in a foot ball game, resulting: in abscesses and total deafness.” But the local papers say he was merely a spectator At a practice gam When the ball was kicked out of bounds he secursd it and wes running to give it to the players, but ho stumbled, feil and ran the stubble of a weed into his ear. Hunli Radnor (Pa.) Higs school, “condus- sion of the brai But he played in:all the rm(nm’, games. ‘Webster, irginia Military institute, owing to a confusion of signals, was thrown under & mass play and fataily in- t“"i either concussion of the brain - roken neck.” But the manager tes: “The injury was nothing Hke it was plo- tured in the papers. It lasted only a short while, and though it caused considerable auxlety as to the outcome, the player is fiv'"(m. week later) in'his former cone by | The unavoidable conclusion is that the newspaper reports of injuries have been sensational. In fact the only cases the writer has found to be really serious are those of Wilson o0f Annapolis, and Plck- ering of Utles, but both are still alive and improving, with-the hope of ultimate recovery. What of Players Killea? But_what of the piayers kflled? Thers can be mo doubht that these men died. Are the newspapers justiffed in blaming the foot bafl of this for their deaths? Here is a list, more complete than. any newspaper has given, of all the players who, it is said, lost their lives in foot ball this year. Following each name s the true account of the cause of death, taken from the testimony of reputable officials or eye-witnesses in personal statements to the writer or from the de- talled repoft of the local newspaper, ‘Where, after dfligent Investigation, such testimony has not bee nsecured, the re- ported cause Is accepted as true; these cases are marked with an *: Collapsed Before Accident. 1. Albert Arendt, aged 13, was kiccked n the head on November 6, at Mar! tia, ©O., while playing foot ball in the street with other boys of the same age. His Barents knew nothing of his injury unell November 7, when he complain, Htllfll— nes: his skull proved to be fractured and he dled on November 9. [2. Langdon Babcock, aged/ 25, of Cornell university, died this year from injuries recolved 1n 1907. His lungs were injured and he dled of pneumonin. There is no evidence that he played later than 1907, 3. Charles Becker, aged 11, was kicking and passing a foot ball at recess in the school yard at Findlay, O., with bis class- mates, when one of them accidentally kicked him. on the ankle, Becker im- mediately struck the other boy, and In the fight that followed Becker was kicked in the stomach and injured internally. He died a week later on September 29. 4. Michael Burk od 22, & junior of Medico-Chi, Philadeliph! fractured his hull in & minor game by striking his head against & runner's knee while mak- ing an open fleld tackle. He never re- ined consciousness, dying elght hours ater. Collupwed Before Accident. 5. B. A _Byrne, aged 21, a fourth-year cadet at West Point, broke his neck on Ogtober 30 in the Harvard rm- tryi to stop a mass play on tackl He h been injured earil and was in & sta 6 Rrcites, Cnristian aged 1" - fran 3 3 [ rann at ihe UMversity ot Sirginia. attempted to make 2 lins plunge througn George- town’ tackle, was thrown ward, the. back of his head hitting the ground so hard that a biood clot formed op his brain. E-u' ‘Qll'cd twelve hours later, on Novem- 7. Dominick Define, aged 15 a student of Navarre (Oblo) High achool, @iea of tuber- culosis on Mareh He had played foot ball last fall, but was not or over- exposed, and he was st Ume euffer-