The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 1, 1914, Page 7

STAR—TUESDAY, D EC, 1, 1914. PAGE 7. OLD STYLE FOOTBALL DEAD FOREVER, SAYS FULLERTON STAR'S EXPERT HEARS OLD-TIME GRIDIRON STARS DEPLORE MODERN RULES BUT INSISTS THEIR STYLE OF GAME IS NOW GONE By HUGH 8. FULLERTON There were a dozen old foot ball men gathered with me in & box at the me between Minnesota and Chicago. Two men had won “Y's,” there were two Dartmouth men, one Princeton veteran, a couple of exIiint and one of Michigan, Not one had played football in the last seven years, and most of us date back to the time when we formed flying CHAMPION TO DEFEND TITLE AGAINST A KID NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—Freddie ‘Welsh, lightweight champton of the World, will be seen in action here tomorrow night against Young Shu @rue, at Madison Square garden. Both were reported in splendid shape for the affair Weish has announced his inten- tion of fighting Shugrue breast to Dreast. w York fans,” m there with! well as the “I want to show } ch, Shugrue ts a boy of much prom-| fee. While he does not hope to beat the champion, he is confident he will make the Englishman extend Rimself to the utmost to win the dout. Little betting ts reported on the outcome, What betting has been| done favors the title holder. A heavy advance ticket sale {s re- ported. | CALLAGHAN GUILTY VANCOUVER, Dec. 1.—Owen Callaghan, driver of the auto, tn which Struthers Gunn, Alexander Burnett, Mathew Niven and Hor. ace Skuse, prominent athietes, ‘Were carried to desth when the machine plunged into the Pitt river, was found guilty of reckless by the coroner's jury. Niven'’s body ts still missing. One of the most successful hunt-| ing seasons yet experienced by Se-/ attle nimrods came to a close at According to Harry Rief, nearly 500 deer were siain. The killing of ducks, brant and snipe is middie of January. “The Cincinnati National league eind has dispensed with the serv- Wedges and trampled each other's countenances From the first kickoff I heard nothing but quarreling and complaining and eritictam of football as it ts now played. Only two tn the gang defend ed the new style of football. The others took the ground that It has been tamed down; rutned. They did not get warmed up at all until Minnesota started upon WwW" ARE glad to see that Char- ley Smith, the unassum. ing little fellow who has handled the wheel of the Dobie ma. chine for two years past with a markable degree of success, is noc entirely overlooked tn the tnnuner able allstar selections, Charley it act a “Wee” Coyle, but he ts the closest approach to the famous Washingtonian it has been for Doble to develop. Quite a num- ber of folks, who don't claim te be “experts,” figure that Smith is just @ little bit better than any quarter: backs produced at the other coater- ence institutions, since the cessa. tien of the Coyle regime, Coach Johnny Bender, whos) Pullman team was slaughtered mercilessly tere Turkey day, 18 one of those who maintains that Smith Is en titled to an all-star berth. We are Bled to agree with hiv. cee Hoover, Whitman quarterback, is the unanimous choice for all-star George Sutton has been bumped from first place in the Champion Billard Players’ league by Ira Morningstar. Morningstar has 13 points on Sutton in the percentage column. Demarest, Cline, Cutler, Yamada, Cochran and Schaefer fol- low fn order. eee Last week's matches ended with the following results: Sutton 6, Demarest 2; Cline 6, Cochran 1; its straight Hne plunging tn the final quarter and tore up Cht- cago's crippled defense. Ah,” sald one, gloatingly. “That is more like the oid tUmes.” It ts only under such cond! tions that we realize how much the game has changed, Personally I think itis a much better game than It ever was, and that it is only tn its infancy, That fs, there «till remain some bad defects In the game, —# and these seomingly not hard to remedy. a It certainly {s a much better Db game for the spectators and the public Nas discovered this © without being told. Also, {t fs a better game from the standpoint of general P ship. 1 There ts much more chance t for brilllant strategy and less | WE'LL BET DOBIE CAN BEAT ’EM | AT THIS, TOO) A Stanford dispatch In the San Francisco Chronicle reads: “Northwest conference may adopt Rugby. Professor writes for information on game played en go! in which a from a na lengthy article, quoted excerpts letter from Professor Frankling of Albany college, written to Graduate Manager Wilcox of Stanford, “The Northw: conference will vote on the matter about November 28," explains the story. This is our idea of a real |] “scoop.” Folk up here didn’t even know that Albany college In the conferenc | if proportigns than the usual quar-| terbacks M@rned out ta the co! Jence, ena his size ha’ carried him s| Jeng way on line em iehes. But to} o far as consistency goes, Hoover no more than a standoff to mith Dobie’s team will he the hi loser } “y by graduations next year leave schoo! at the ent te-m. They are Charley Smith, the quarter; Hi and Tony! 4 ATTENTION, GEO. Neither" Louls de Ponthieu, the French regu-| middieweight, has answered his lar, If Dobie worried over the) country’s call and is now on the jteam’s prospects this year, his a a gioom next season will hours of dark over the | all of next season, The varsity football players will) be called together shortly, to decide upon a leader for the 1915 season This gathering will be held just as| soon as “Tony” Savage, vice presl-| | dent of the Student association, re-| turns. To whom the captaincy will) fall ts a matter of pure guess work at the present time. “Hap” Miller, | the best all-around gladiator in the conference, finishes school next! year, so may be thus honored by his teammates. 1 Is doubtful If any attempt will! | be made to stage a post-season “all |star™ football game in Ses | Christmas day or on New | The majority of these games previ-| ously held here have left bad tastes) in the mouths of those who paid! |real money to get in. The game last New Year's day, betwoon Jerry | | vage, substitute end. | Oregon nor the Aggies loses Louts de Ponthies ‘Stars and the so-called) {26 Ine, as are Georges Carpen- “Washington Alumnt was a terrt-| tier and the rest. Reports that ble fizsle, and drew a measly crowd, | Lous has been wounded have been prevalent, but none have been vert 1f Dug gete as many new players! fied. Like Georges, Louis in los- as be hopes to, the Tilikum bench|ing a lot of money since fighting may have to uadergo alterations be-| with bayonets replaced fighting fore the spring training season ar-| with five-ounce mitts in Europe. of a will with a swarm of accurately premium trength and weight The veterans may complain II they please and criticise the ew Kame; but thelr criticisms at atop the evolution of ollege football A few days on brute th ago I got out youngsters laying football, or practicing. ‘Oo my astonishment they were hrowing @ football rapldly and 20, 80, sometimes TEX VERNON KNOCKED OUT BY RED DOLAN wi “Tex” Vernon NEW ORLEANS, Dec, 1—"Tex Vernon, Aberdeen, Wash., feather weight, was knocked out in the eighth round of a eduled 10 round bout with “Red” Dolan in this elty Monday night. Dolan outclassed Vernon from the outset. In the earlier periods Ver non was thrice swept from his feet He arose quickly each time. see Vernon claims the Pacific North wont featherweight championship He had come to the front in pugil istic activities hereabouts § with sreat strides, and was heralded by ny writers as a coming champion “Tex” left for New Orleans a short time ago, after parting com pany with his manager, Monte At tell. EW HAVEN, Conn., Dec. 1.— Twenty-three Yale players who won “Y's” thin year, Monday elected Al exander Dickson Wilson of Bing- hamton, N. ¥,, their captain for kind of gar catching the ball ply means game bi even 50 feet, and throwing and catehing while running. I asked them about it They admitted they Uke that better, and that ere is more action and more ekill in tt. By the time these boys make high school teams they i} be adepts at throwing and and it sim. that the passing come to stay CHESTER NEFF AWAITING GONG indications point to a packed house when the two crack local lightweightsa, Chet Neff and Pat S&S t, engage in a four-round boxing fracas before the Elks’ club tonight. Both battlers are shape and the blue ribbon boxing event of the season Is promised One of Neff's eyes has been giv jing him a little trout but his doo tor has given consent to let Chet fulfill bis engagement The Neff-Seott bo neatly balanced card, lows Ed Pinkman vs. Harry Anderson. Ike Cohen vs. Art Wilson. Leo Crevier vs. Walt Granger. Billy Vetro vs, Billy Farrell, Cohen and Wilson are heavy- welghts, They are willing mixers and should enliven the program with some furtous slugging. Cohen ought to win Leo Crevier ts the same boy to whom Ed Pinkman gave a boxing lenson at a recent Elks’ show HH ever, he should be able to hold his own against Granger. The show starts at 8:30, Charley Hulen will first four events, the which will be ren¢ judges. The Nefts arly in excellent tops off a which fol decistons in red by two ott go will be verdict will decide the match. The Ravensdale Athletic club is arranging a smoker to be held Sat urday, December 29, in the cl gymnasium. Morgan and Chambers have been signed for the matin event. Four other bouts round out the card. Jack McDevitt of Seattle will referee. The United States is planning kidnap Jack Johnson and bring him AND PAT SCOTT. referee the referred by Adolph Schact, whose! 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Dimmer, then all bunched together and cov-| 20d he had just read that he hed BOULOGNE, Dec. 1.—A British officer dining in Boulogne and read< | ered to resemble a giant haystack. | been awarded the Victoria Cross. ices of its scouts. | As the monster emerged from the 1915. He is the quarterback. Morningstar 4, Yamada 1; Cutler|rives. The first word Dug tmpart- ey This means that John McCloskey and Thomas O'Hara, who usually managed to get out here every year or two, must look elsewhere for em- ployment. McCloskey is the scout who put over the Pete Schneider deal, a year 4, Schaefer 3. eee Ora Morningstar defeated Koji Yamada, 300 to 293, and Albert Cut- ler trimmed “Young Jake” Schaefer, 300 to 212, Monday night. quarterback. There is no gainsay- ing Hoover's ability. He ts of larg: Continued From Page J certincet rom Fase tf him from running away from dinner, though {t will be some one else's meal, not his own. 8:35 a. m—We pass the outer line of fortifications. are lined and floored with willow or straw matting. As far as we can see, to the right and left, stretch small “forests” of posts, with barbed wire hung and tangled between them. 9:10 am —Our wagon {s springless. Now I know why all the wounded have such strained faces. 9:35 a. m—The road dips into a valley. On both sides stretches an immense camp of tents and covered wagons. The smoke from thou- sands of fir hangs over it all. Mud, men, flags, smoke, hors Wagons, piles of bread, harness, rifles, form a weird and Indescribable picture that covers hundreds of acres in the valley. This is a reserve cam, 8: 45 a. m—We make a trip on foot through the camp. “Heiio, there, you American,” | hear a man calling from a covered “prairie schooner.” He shows me a letter he has just written. ©. 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Now Dug says he has lines} PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1.-—"Kid out for half a dozen more. There| Williams, bantam champion, defeat will be 12 new faces on deck when! ed Young Diggins of this clty in the Boas Tealey gets ready to give his) third round of a scheduled six-round boys the “once-over,” according to! bout Monday night. The referee the hefty mogul stopped the bout “Your wife?” I asked. “No, but I wish she would be,” he replied is Lieut. Carl Hoffman, of @ie Eleventh army corps ndsome fellow, who has lived in America | 0 a. m.—A spherical balloon, a dirigible balloon and two aero-! Planes are soaring or darting above the hills. 10 a, m.—A soldier is leaning against a wall at the gateway of a convent, but the convent is only a hq@ap of broken brick and stone. The Austrian soldiers have razed ft, bec: it obstructed the view from the forts. The soldier only a Russian prisoner to guard, and he evidently considers his task a bore. 10:20 a. m.—We cross a narrow-cauge railroad track, laid over plowed farms. It ts an artillery railroad. The cars are very small, but horses pull them more rapidly than wagons. There is a string of cars across the horizon. They are feeding the aftillery in the hills, two miles away, with shrapnel and shells, The railroad to Sanok runs through this farm, and when we pass the depot of Hermanowice, we see wounded and sick men lying all about the platforms. They are waiting for trains which will carry them to the hospitals, Russians Fire A network of field telegraph ; wires, the nerves of the army, BET oo yng open of firing] fetch out from the hillock and off the trees tn th - is incessant and huge in volume. | ture hie oe tn ap Cle | Austrian batteries fire one gun at! a) te oorary bridges cross the |a time. fans are firing | stream | Salvos, »| This fs an infinitely busy spot. “One, two, three, four, five, 81%") Over theso two bridges pat all} go the Austrian howitzers |the men, food and ammunition that Berner go the Russian} teed the battle in hills, pleces, all firing at one time. wile te” eceik cae | Before us are hills covering| piyer of Death for thousand | miles of territory. From hill top we og A regiment of fresh soldiers, pay eS ie waler: to val-| pick and span, Is Just march- oe Ing across. At the same time, How can a man paint a battle! gcroge the other bridge, wound |like this?” asks Adams, who has ed and sick men bein |just finished a picture of the em-| brought from |peror of Austria-Hungary 1!n seven The contrast. defies. descrip: | sittings, and who ts not easily Days ago in some city | stalled ‘on important assignments. fresh men marched Cholera Victim Dying through the streets singing In |Before Their Eyes their enthusiasm. 10:35 a, m.—Many wounded have The journey to thie bridge | passed in wagons | edge of the battlefield “I'll never paint a war picture| in long and slow, But | again of men going into battle sing-| 't’8 almost | ended, ing and waving their swords,” said pvt gd Mane, eta nh | Adams. “That man with the green, Gon't 4 plying all ave ey |twisted face on that wagon, suffer-| °°) sng naw. jing from cholera, is a more tre-| 9. ))elr mendous picture of war than all) 9/oUP. © i. ; the exploding cannon I can paint.”| Cheering ¥: Ir cap. | In the midst of all the life and tain hi made a Iittle lactivity the man was dying before| speech telling them they are to uur eyes. There was no one to go Into battle soon and that he |care for him, His wagon was held expects them to do their best. | in the endless stream and must| On a hillside a mile away are | continue. thousands of men In gray. 10:45 a. m—Three small deer} They form a gray carpet over ran across the road ahead of us. the great slope. | There are thousands of soldiers, all| I can see a white horse among | with rifles, and good meat is not|them as I look through my glasses. | common, but the laws against The carpet moves and forms | | poaching are imbued in the peas itself into patterns of straight lines lantry of Europe and these deer on on @ green background, lthe battlefield are probably the| There thousands of men are to |wafest of all living things be taken to the front after dark | Battles have raged on this) tonight. | ground for weeks, and thousands} They are waiting, and, to keep} |of men and horses have died. fut |them from growing nervous, thelr here are the three baby deer, safe | officers put them through’ drills }and sound now and then Two Bridges Span It is 11:30 now, but in this north ern land at this tlme of the year, River of Death 11 a. m--We come to a wide, it will be pitch dark at 4:45 this shallow creek. In tents on a afternoon, so they have not many hours to swarm idly on the safe hillock beside the road 1s the corps commander and his staff. H vig, He is & are grave, other soldiers hillside. | 11:46 a m—We desert the BASKETBALL NOW With the football season now a matter of history, the high schools haze, the Germans were bewildered, | but charged, which caused the horses to separate, While the Ger-| mans were slashing at the hay effi-) CAN'T MAKE MATCHES BERLIN, Dec, 1.—Germany fs fac- ing a shortage of matches, because are turning thelr attention to bas-|/out of Mexico; yet some Mexicans gies on the horses, the real French |it is impossible to get some of thé ketball turned out at activities wagon to go the rest of the way on foot. I see my first shrapnel burst It makes a tiny, lazily floating cloud of white smoke over the hills. Through my glasses I see an Austrian aeroplane near the white cloud. Another cloud and another break Into view. The Russians are trying for the aeroplane, Th aviator knows There's no use of his trying to climb above the danger, for the shrapnel bas an upward range of over two miles, so the machine turns tall o back toward the Austri Puff! Puff! More white around it. There are deadly cubic miles of air up there, and ff the aviator hap- pens Into one of them there will be a burst of splintered wood and tat- tered canvas, and his task will be done, But it’s all in the day's work for the man In the sky. He has been sent up to draw a Russian fire so that the where- abouts of a certain Russian bat- tery may be disclosed. He has succeeded, too, for soon you hear the Austrian shrapnel screeching through the air toward the spots {n the heavens where the smoke files. The Austrians are feeling over the forests, hills and valleys for it, too. te Puff! clouds break out Amid all these exciting scenes we see hungry soldiers, with their backs bent earthward, digging with sticks tn a field for potatoes. 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We're not hearing these, for the Russians’ and Austria artillery lines are abgut five miles apart, and the smaller shells do little damage at that distance. 12:20 p, m.—Adams, who has spent nearly his life in Austria, though he was born tn Boston, and who has been in the Austrian army, explains what is going on. five miles apart, but way up ahead of the artillery, with their own shells coming up behind them and over their heads, are regiments of Austrian infantry, hiding in valleys, trenches or forests, waiting for the order to advance, They’re Welcomed by Commandant of Battery 12:80 p. m-—We leave the road and take ta a grove. In a clearing we see a big house. Officers come and go. In response to our question as to the nearest battery, they point out & pathway {n the garden. We follow it. In every battle I've ever read or heard about, there was an apple orchard, and this is no exception. At the edge of the orchard we come upon a vast piece of plowed jfarm land sloping away from us and a quarter of a mile before us. in the field, we counted six copper colored howitzers, with thetr noses tilted high. We struggle along over the plowing to reach the bat tery. The commandant looks at the press brassards we wear and wel comes us. “Maybe we'll be ordered to fire soon,” he says. He leads us to a hole in the ground, Looking through the entrance, we see that the cave is straw lined, Inside sits a man wearing a tele phone headpiece. He fs talking into the phone, He lyells a series of numbers to the | commandant, who stands beside us A hundred feet ahead of us are situated the six howitzers. We're standing beside the battery fire control, which is the handle of thia death-dealing fan. The commandant yells the num It is true the artillery lines are) Fifteen men| «till believe Uncle Sam is not their troops got a position in the rear and|necessary materials for | defeated them. size of a traveling man's grip. Each|trom the hole in which the gun bers to the men at gun number one. With big poles the men move the cannon on its wheels into a new direction. Then other men with in- struments for measuring elevation lt the howitzer to the proper angle. Suddenly all the men rush away stands. Ear Drums Pierced by Tremendous Screech One man picks up a rope from the ground; {t's the trigger rope. He stands 20 feet behind the piece and waits. Every man stands with his hands over his ears. “Fire!” orders the commandant. Above the tremendous explosion there is a screech that pierces your ear drums. This fades away into a tremen dous swish, which echoes and re peats Itself more and more faintly for about 20 seconds, The sound comes from a mile in the air. 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