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pose of nts are players ubs the ND pos! son ts than a lot of ve new > much season. DNS ST } pam Strong ind Star t versatile ‘Coast con. 4s building v3 for use it he has the Farm. ‘Tesreau, herman he men, and Vilson and threat men d run from Sherman, hort place tility in at triple hh in Fred kK and run } has been his place 0 : son ts also ple threat tep in the Washing- of speed. line plays, hd kicking. o open up still have i his men for the tes have ming, but force the rat squad In all sorts thru a full B the first replacing d up the ‘ight with Pe- Bellman Walters at n't scrim: me. They ut tonight, py chances irsday and Oregon. ING KER e singing t, drop ork is ex: ure for th shown Jub in its his first @ the oval It is ex e will pull put of the ies fall er in the ¥ OF NED e panning a mis- , a light a superb y times tho there hronicler Monohan East dur- nis inabil- nia four- patch. ITICS the early It’s Fine Bowman Speed Demon; In play L sational per formances beckfield sta r work of the forwards ts often re BOWMAN 1s FAST spr on Syra championship past two years and is certain to be yin a place as one of the outstanding figures in the football world, a back: | field player must te a “triple-threat’’ 5 eee tee el ee! THE Year for hree Great Backfield Stars Halfbacks Miller and Wilson Also Star Nore, a Koodly number from the backfield men rig god c line must eat team well be of the Bowman ma U, spri inter relay teams for the selected as a member of the Ameri, can Olympic team to go to Paris. Rowman has already shown his heels to several Syracuse rivals. In the game with Hobart he twice ran 65 yards for a touchdown. On the very first play of the William and Mary game he grabbed the kickoff lie standing directly under the Syracuse goal and in the length of the field te a touchdown, Not an opposing player came even close to touching him. | RAN LENGTH OF FIELD | The report is that a football fan who is ® great admirer of Bowman. held a stopwatch on him as he made the length of the field run against the Wiliam and Mary eleven. He covered the distance in 11 seconds fiat, which is remarkable when you take into consideration that he wore heavy football togs and cleated shoes. Bowman can do other things than merely run, He excels at tossing for ward passes and is a fine punter When Zimmerman, the star Syra cuse punter, is on the sidélines, Bow man Is called upon to do the toe work. bd Tn the open game of football, more /EFT TO RIGH KIPKE, BOWMAN, is demanded of a backfield star. To Johnston Not Thru-Tilden PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 31-—Bill Johnston, the diminutive tennis star who faltered badly in the na tional sin, champlonahip this year, is not “thru.” ‘This Ix the opinion of hie greatest rival and conqueror, Bill Tilden, “Johnaton was merely overtennised,” mys Tilden. “Ele wasn't in condition to play his real game in the cham pionship, If expect him to come back stronger than ever next year.” Johnston's campaign in England and France jast summer undoubtedly took something out of him. man, able to, run, /kick and pass. WILSON REAL STAR Notre Dame boasts two remarkable halfbacks in Don Miller and Crowley: Michigan fas Kipke; Harvard has Cheek and Hammond; Penn State has | Wilson, and so on down the line, Practically every big eleven has one or more backfield stars. ‘This chap, Wilson, of Penn State, | sure made history in the game with the Navy. It is not unusual for a Player to make one long run for a touchdown. playing against a major team, but when he comes thru with three such performanets he is mak- ing gridiron history. Against tho Navy, Wilson ran 95, 70 and 40 yards | stars, ar tor FROM YEAGER B ly on the way to high places in pug IS BILLED |night. In a 10-round bout the old] L the sporting world are giued on | ‘#cision. will be stabed with Zev, My Own, | ‘ound semifinal. champion Papyrus, i# expected to for a touchdown, Penn State winning Year for backfield PORTLAND, Oct. 31.—"“Nig” Yen-| dom, was sent back to the starting} FOR TODA | Kapowain logger held Yeager xafely | Latonia race track where the Amer-|_ Otto Robinson took the nod over In Memoriam and Rialto entered. | OACH i\COA STAGG arrife Thursday and My Own, rival) Byes, iY) ‘This sure tooks like a big FARMER WINS BIG RACE ger, Portland heavyweight, apparent. | post by old Frank Farmer Tuesday | ATONIA, Ky. Oct. 31.—Eyes of |4!l the way and earned a popular) jean champlonship thorobred Lona Wolf McDonald in the mix: Zev, conqueror of the English) NEEDS ENDS ot Zev, and Rialto are scheduled) gyieAGo, Oct, 31.-Coach Stage’s to reach Latonia tomorrow prdplamh of developiig two endé to In. Memoriam, owned by Carl) replace Dickson and Lampe, hurt In Weldemann of Newport, Ky., bas|jast week's erash with Purdue, is been here ail season, Rialto 1s | worrying the Maroons Harry Payne Whitney's entry. - The race will be run over a mile inl threeauarters route for a pure TREMAINE TO $50,000, Other money will make MEET VILLA the race a $60,000 affair, Som turf fans believe the ais-| NEW YORK, Oct. $1.—Pancho Vil- tance wii be advantageous to M eight champion, will Own, but others point to the fact | box veland here that Earle Sande pushed Zev to a| on Nov. 29. Temarkably strong finish in the| mile and a half match with Papy INAVY TACKLES Weidemann fondly believes his} thorobred is’ a greater horse than i ARE SET BACK | BME glow ay Oak ahd: ha | Aan det, Be—Clyde and Walker, regular ckles on the navy fe can show the racine world jumt | {2am have been demoted to the x60 ow the racing world Just) ong team and Bryant and Shewell how great his In Memoriam in. Shave taken their places MacGarner will have the mount on hs Weidernann colt, IMARTIN LOSES TO SALVADORE Gwaits the coming of the day when NOT NECESSARILY | While Mah Jongg i# played with | Ivory pieces, jt does not follow that | LOB ANGELES, Cal. Oct. a1— tt is played by ivory heads, |Phil Salvadore, local lightweight, — - pummeled “Pepper Martin, New MIL L -ER ‘GIANTS NEED PLAYER LIKE HORNSBY AS |bidding for the star man was removed. The Cubs could not offer pitch ers, and Branch Rickey figures that to benefit the Carda by getting rid W YORK, Oct. 31-—Rogers Hornby, the Natienal leegue’s higheatrated ball player, will work in the uniform of the New York Giants next summer, if he i not reMiued by the Bt, Louls Cardinals Demanding players on » offers for the ampion batsman, the Cards have eliminated from the running ¢ club in. the but the Giants, No other but McGraw is prepared the Card ow what th think Hornsby is worth without wrecking hin lab. When the Cubs failed to interest the Cards in an offer for Horns by, t rival of the Glants tn » only Cy’s a Star CY WENTWORTH New Hampshire's football hopes rest heavily on ihe shoulders of Cy Wentworth. Cy happens to be cap. tain of the state university, as rel ana neat and nifty halfback, | York, here last night at the Vernon ‘arena and was easily awarded the de cision, Martin was floored four times, College profeswor objects to paying coaches. Next he will object to pay: ing the uthletes. DRAWING CARD second base. of Hornsby he needs a couple of good pitchers While Giants will not even admit that they want Hornaby, It is would be a valuable certain that TAR Link Star Discussing Golf Shots Marston and Fownes Talk of Difficult Shots toned above led the field. wit) “note that none of th three is related or similar in ch ter, The long brassie la a power shot a full swing in which distance rans a dead heat with direction, The short piteh tx 9 fore arm and wrist maneuver, involving an entirely di technique. The ap h putt is almply a putt that den » hit" rather tha the hardest to pla | Max Marvton, new amateur cham pion. says the approaoh putt ke the hardest APPROACH PUTT HARDES’ | “It in no eaxy matter to roll a 60 d to the hole, aud . iit consistently,” says Marston. |think it is the most delicate of ‘an | strokes in golf, for there must be per- | fect control, pettent timing, and per. | leat Judgment of distance. Otherwise the ball will not get up to the hole, lor hold the line. Under any cireum-| stances the long approach putt is be- leet with unusual difficulties, and where the green dips and swells it is positively terrifying.” | foot putt up ¢ Bill Fownes, veteran Pittsburger and former national champion, did not agree with Maraton. Fownes voted the short pitch the hardest shot in golf. “This type of shot ix more difficult | addition to the team, not #0 Much |than the longer iron approach, or any because the lealing batter In the]other shot, { think, because it calls feague would help any club, but | for great delicacy in atroking, a keen fo the reason that the Giants are | touch and Mawiess control. It is, in sorely in need of a drawing card to fact, the approach putt carried out to ompete with the Yankees, whola higher dimension. If you get pe w con the world’s champion. | fect resulta you may be in position Ruth, ‘NO WESTERN SCRAP FOR NOTRE DAME iS TH BEND, Ind, Oct, 31—The ruling of the Notre Dame col- lege board against playing © Pacific const team is final, unless the tourna ment of roaes game iy offered, Coach | Knute Rockne of the “Fighting | | Micka,” declared today. Personally Rockne is willinit have his team play on the Coast, al tho he is somewhat fearful of the ef foct of Coast climate on his men, P, In addition to Babs | Rockne also denies he has entered | Into a contract. for n game with| Princeton next year, At the request Jof Bill Roper, Princeton cow | Rockne is holding open October jand November 1. |NIGHT WORK FOR CADETS POINT, Oct. Ww " ball field to enable the cadets to put in night work for the Yale game Sat- urday. Farwick and Wood are being held out of the heavy work, but they | wilt be ablo to start WOLVERINES TAKE IT EASY | ARC Mich. Oot, 91 Yost hay banned all serim mage before the Hawkeye games Bat urday. ‘The yearlings demonstrated Towa plays to the varsity, but no rough stutt was allowed. ANN Coach NO SU! RPRISKE HERB We are not surprised to hear that Coach Rockne js a theorint. We imagine he works on the theor; ithat it takes touchdowns to wi football_games, NEW YORK, Oct. 91.—No one §4 Inflelder Bottomley of St, Louls, [in hotter position to Judge the reli-rfigt tase; Hornsby of St, Louts, |tive merits of a ball player than Vie toe ba Yaw ieee A f lithe umpire: ‘The arbitrators for| second: Banerott” of New York, t the first twinge 1164 games weo the suthletes labo hortatop, and ‘Traynor of Pittabure, |under ail kinds of conditions, there: | of rheumatism by getting a different angle than Relieve the pain with Stoan'e, | {20 sorlbe who roe, only a limited pales the pale ith Sloan's [number of games by rival tonmn LRA dia f During a recent fanning bee int brings glowing warmth, then fr dom {rom insistentaches, Geta |New York, in which a number of bottle from your druggist today | (¢ National Teague staff took and have it on hand—35 certs, | part, It waa agreed that the follows ing allstar team from the Nae Sloan’ $ Liniment—kills pain! | tions tongue would ve hard to nmmreeas | Neat third base, Home of the umpires figured Frisch too great a player to be loft out and thought it might be wine to use Frisch second | and play Horneby at first, a poste he is familiar, In the outfield Roush waa firet choice and then Max Carey, ee waa i difference of opinion on third fielder, but Wheat of Brook: ton with whieh UMPIRES PICK BEST NATIONAL MEN who Ja playing a great yen, to game out, Other out favorable mon. "Gy" Williams of the Phillies, because of his homerun hitting, and Young+ind Meusel of the Giants for — thelr lyn, this fielders tion we won rocelve of the Cube was xe the mont valuable eateher in the leaguo because of hia youth, promive and ability, ‘There was a wide difference of opinion ov the pitching question, eneh official Nav: Aling a certain pital w est Qa him wi Se hee i gi! { lected ¢ to | dependadle | jto get down in one putt, If you don’t jou may teed three.” HUG AT LAST | IS RECOGNIZED NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—For the first time since he took charge of the management of the York Anier. ew | perionaie who has piloted hin tem- permental xtars into three successive league pennants and world’s fhampionship, has not been greeted | with rumors that he is to be replaced | ween seanons, Huggins, who has | consistently kept out of the limelight ibecause he lacks color, {noen recognized for the clever dia- |mond leader that he ts. one |\OREGON OFF _ FOR PULLMAN WH, Ore. Oct. 31.-Strength- by, strennou tice during |the last three di ons Lemon: | Yellow grid team, goes tomorrow to n, Wash. where, on Saturday, plays Washington State, whic held California's Bears to only nine points laat: week. STAGG WORKS HIS DEFENSE) CHICAGO, Oct, My jopen-field running of Grange, and other Tint backs, the Ma have turned thoir attention to de- veloping a strong defe The two teams, Jenaders in the Big Ten race, meet at Urbana Saturday | NORTHWESTERN HARD AT WORK. EVANSTON, Til, Oct North: western struggled hard today to im prove its attack and secondary de- fense for the coming game with Minnesota, The front wall is satis. jfactory, coaches believe, HELEN WILLS jit 31.—Hure | searcltighta used during the war to pick planes out of the skies have been set up around the Army foot- SAN JOSH, Cal, Oct, 31--Helen Wills, notianal women's tennis champion, was defeated by Phil *, former intereollegiate chum: pion, In an exhibition mateh here yeatorday, 10-8, 6a. MINNESOTA AT WORK AGAIN MINNEAPOLIS, Oct, tL-<tavery |“whole Minnesota player was on the grid today after a layoff yoator day to allow regulars to recover from injuries, TRAMBITAS VS. BERCOT Johnny ‘Trambitay, the dally WentWolmht, will maghen Sit Pavomu in aboutiiwo get i fcans, Miller Mugging, the undersined | has at last) Fearing the 1 IS DEFEATED} CHET BOWMAN, SYRACUSE HALF, IS BEST BACK OF 1923 SEASON Gilmour Dobie at Washington How He Tamed the ’08 Frosh BY “WEE” COYLE on Fairway and Green | Former Washington Football Star CHAPTER I BY JOE WILLIAMS NH firet few nights’ practic W" T is the hardest shot in golf under the terrorizing tactics of To many this is equivalent to| Gilmour Dot pain with asking what is the most delightful] me until the grim reaper cuts me known (o chemistry | down, verage golfer finds that @] During my four years of foott either hard or harder instruction at Brondw f | with the irons i popularly | i¢ had been my lot to serve under muppowed to involve fewer complex! | threg very succennful high scho¢ ties than play with the we TH! coaches, Perry Shorts, brother of irons instead of woods are numerous,|'%® Wolverine Bch Pietcher Umually, too, they are deficient. How; | 141s, a former Mich er ever, Jerry Travers frequently used |#nd Gordon B. Frost a an iron off the tee and Traver n | Dartmouth end tho national amateur ehampionship| As fo ¢ four time the national open] were ve 1 As & general proporition, however plays and me At few players have trouble with their| that was the imy ‘a gained by tes shots. Where the main consid celica Polameare og ération ia heer distance there te not iss“ phaved-ecatee much to excite your nerven | ‘Tournament golfers list these aa|‘ PO AER RE ha Ty 1 Norns } Lag ear ear it, nO raw recruit or t i direction and distance to a| 04 heads could do as he demanded, ed veal We couldn't pasa, we couldn't run, | short pitch shot from 60 tol» couldn't kick, we couldn't }80 yards with a trap or bunker to} Klein fact, quoting his own | carry words wa’ ware’ “the tmibent, 3—The long approach putt 40 to 60) clumalest. riinkest collection of # feet from the cup, that must be left] called football excuses I have ever dead to the hole | meen,” | THE EXPERTS I'll never fc runia Doble | DEBATE It \nad with Pete ‘fegtmeier, that |. At amoor, where the national! vary captain, Who was recognized Jamateur wae decided thia year, the} respected because of his in | matter of the “hardest shot” was sub: | ‘ | fected to debate. A iddy diversity of | domitable cox Bet seureedive Jopinion resulted and when the last |" \faint murmur of the conversational) The entire squad was nervous {tumult had died the three shots men-| “nd upset due to the dally verbal VERDICT IS WINNER OF BIG CLASH. EWMARKET, England, Oct. 31 Lord Coventry's Verdict won the Cambridgeshire stakes here to: day, venting the famous French Epinard, whieh Iked of for a tace with the British derby win ner, Papyrus Epinard in second, with George Hardy's Dumas third, ‘Twen ty-thiree ran RUTH’S TEAM IS DEFEATED WILKESBARRE, Pa., Oct. 31.— ‘The Larksville team defeated “Babe Ruth and his barnstormers here yes: | terday, to Ruth seored two ahead of him on a home run. SCHLAIFFER WINS CHICAGO, Oct. 31.-—Morrie Schlalf- fer, of Omaha, won from Patsy Roo co, of Chicago, by a knockout In the ) found here last night, Papyrus and Tommy Lipton should get together and race off a consola- tion aweepstakes GANGWAY! 1 bb fm Oh, what a panning the old ma ter gaye hin Wh t | | f > B | , | 4 h the se former hi at W ™ ' | Dobie was a student h tek ae and under 1 sen. plight Another time, great big bane bi hearted, beardike Penny We r { be in signal practice i ou're a fine chief of po 7 nd th @ halfback, | lice, but & cateher of forward immed of words| passes you were the bunk.” were heaped on which he could| Don’t think for minute that no longer endure. Ho started to| that long-armed, loone-limbed Scotch voice his repugnan to such ti man didn't have nerve Any tim treatment when he was met w & man can stand un” = bet a shrill halves of a foottall gam , the score “Get out of here, you poor num-| standing 24 to 0 in his favor, and skull, go tum in your suit and| say never sh yourself again.” “You du! ar ing to get licked Penny left, and that night in our| You're just lucky. You played the quarters, between gobs of tears that| worst football I have ever seen.” flowed down his cheeks, he splut And what's more, be made you tered out |believe it. I'll say that's nerve. “Oh, if I had only hit him. Ob,| At the end of four weeks of the : if I had only hit him.” hardest kind of practice, wo were j Next night Penny was the first) eating out of his hand, The pre- out to practice, His name was| liminary games were quickly out called for first-team signal practice|of the way and then came our and he worked os he had nevet | first intercollegiate games. f worked before. Dobie had his goat co He Dax and Doble knew ft. Penny never In the next chapter “Wee” f did know where he stood. Coyle will tell of. the famous ' Again I say, Doble knew and) split between Oregon and Wash understood men. He worked on) ington caused by the sawdust F them &lmost to the breaking point i field, TWO PLAYERS ABLE TO THROW. FORWARD PASS GREAT AID TO COACH | i BY ROBERT C. ZUPPKE Football Couch, University of Mlinois, | Author of “Football Technique and Tactics.” coach is fortunate enough to have two men who ean throw, he jthe purpose of employing | tration on the one individunl, | For example, one | up somewhere six yards back of the ju to 12 yards directly | center, } | or the other for the purpose of thro ing a pass, the defense, altho know jing a forward pass is contemplated, | wures the thrower more time in exe. cuting the pass. No. 1 back may throw a pass from point A or may bluff and make a backward or lateral pass to No, 2 back, Who may throw or run as op- portunity permits. The diagram | shows only the run, but passes may be executed from points A and B. Several touchdowns were scored in | the Western conference during the using the latter! season of 1922 by | part of this play. Let me add this caution: Special emphasis should” be placed on the TROJAN STAR IS RECOVERING LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31,-—-Gordon Campbell, star halfback for the Uni- versity of Southern California, who HARRY WILSON ‘They gave him the ball and he ran yards for a touchdown, They gave him the ball again and |he aprinted 70 yards for another | touchdown | They wave him the ball a third time and he hiked 40° yards for o touohdown They are Penn State, He iy Harry Wilson, oll of foothall | Awuinst the jereat’ Pennsylvania, tree thrilling tor downs, al that P Navy reeently halfhae rune f | day. noiatop spe- | was injured in the Stanford game, | will probably be able to play against California here Nov, 10, according to fan announcement made here yester- ASBUM PUN ‘The reformers say gambling on | the diamond must stop, and yet we like to see the boys gambol on the diamond, imay devise a scheme of attack for One or two fleet linemen should ba both in coached to run back and deep from jsuch a way as to deceive the defense | |the scrimmage line after they have jand to destroy their intended concen. | blocked an opponent's lineman a suf- |filcent length of time, rather than thrower can line |follow the ball down the field. | these men follow instructions, an op- | center, while the other lines up from | Ponent intercepting the pass will find back of the {lt difficult to get very far, Since the center can pass to one | Plays. wv. | been able to be of even slight assist- | United States. [cannot concentrate on one man, and | |this produces hesitation, which as- | | | | | protection of the play. The men pro- tecting the thrower should immedi- ately be alert to the possibilities’ of |interception of the throw, and the thrower should immediately free him- self from the opponent about him, ae f. This concludes the _ series of 10 I shall be very glad if T have jance to the young players of the RAMSEY IS GOING GOOD IN TRIALS MING im the three-mile cros: country runs at the univers! was only begun this week and al- ready “Red” Ramsey of the Chi Upsi- lon Chi fraternity is within one see- ond of his best time of last year, He clippe off the three miles in minutes 16 seconds, which is mighty rapid traveling for that dis- tance. There are still 3% weeks of official Uming to be done, tho, and in that time some of the several other men who are right on his heels, may clip several seconds off their present marks. 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