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——————— — OPPE SAYS IT’S “NATURAL GIFT” DARTMOUTH IS FAVORITE ~—— IN BATTLE WITH INDIANS ° Odds of 10 to 7 Offered That Hanover Team Downs Redskins at Polo Grounds To-Day— 25,000 Enthusiasts Will See First Big Foot- ball Struggle New Yorkers Have Witnessed in Six Years. Curtis (4) ... Murdock (5)9.. Dartmouth's big Green team @even husky redmen from Carlisle {WHI battle on the Polo Grounds this the firet big football game New York has had for aix yearn, dé Prominence of the two teams and fine fecords this season mako « local atruggic od counter at- for the Tiger-Bulldog miz up U8 New Haven. These who intend passing up the Wiinceton-Yaie affair for the Indian- Dartmouth tussie won't have cause to ‘regret thelr action. Dartmouth, wi Vigteries over the Tigers and Penn, fest be considered with the strongest teams of the year, and the Indians, al- Ware Cangerous, are ikely to go on @ ysampage any minute and scalp the best in the land. The prospect of ‘ it battle between the Green ¥ jain boye and the redskins, with @uaramteed every minute, will drew a crowd of 3,000 to the Polo @a form Dartmouth rules a 10 to 7 te for the scrap. The Hanover after @ etart that wasn't en- 1B. Geveloped quickly and first @mewed their clase against Princeton a © victory. They followed two weeke afterward ® cruskiog rubbing Gyeeaived om the gridiron since 18 y @ single tle or defeat Dart- hap earned the honor to be ith Harvard and the Navy,, Green team ie going to bat- ly to-day that the Indians tMelr wonderful recoré in game of the season. Dlayere and substi. Tumbered this the first timo a i? tl ! & without being in is- different plays made. i wear @ figure one, & back, and other play- if j 4 up to thirty, If He Taureday afternoon with the the entire student body, Been excused from recita- is in their ears until a spe- was boarded for New York. afternoon the Dartmouth fan through @ long signal practice @ Polo Grounds, its las workout the game. ch Cavanaugh etrees on the new formn- ‘break up tbe Indians’ forward th H if ; t ' ‘Warner has taught hie charges pussling passes this year and the ave made better use of these aerial plays than any other Fearing that the crafty redmen spring some new fangied pass, Dartmouth coach had his team go tong drills every day this week form.:tions to stop the passes e sure 40 Use. atiofied jon made. here the Hanover instructor that while Dartmouth had Greatest respect for the Indians, he *: CE TEAM WINS IN SWIMMING, MEET. The swimming ¢ m of the High Bohoo} f Commerce defeated the Commercial igh Sobool team in a dual meet yes- tepday afternoon fest Bixtieth it baths by a score of 46 to ¥. Yorkers captured every first place. f0-yard event resulted in the finish of the day. It was won Cann by lees than 4 yard. with Harry Goodstein of Com- third. relay race was captured by the in easy fashion. Its team, of A. Basin, J. Hamilton, 8. and J. Fulton, led throughout tire 160 yards and won by several —>-. LEADING HIGH SCHOOL IN X-COUNTRY RACE TO-DAY. | hundred and thirty schoolboy ting seventeen high and pr Schools, will compete in the Col- Interscholastic cross-country run the Riverside Drive course this qiterneon. Practically all of the high @ehesls in the metropolitan district hi teams, and Schenectady Hi te sending down a squad with it hopes to repeat ite victory of ago, when it carried off the How Teams Will Line Up. enn Dartmouth. Position. Carlisle. Mogsett (1) ..................-Loft End... « Wallette Pedrith (6) . Left Tackle. ee . Welmas Beer (8) » Hill Garlow Colby (10) secs Buseh Mealiffe (2) . Lookaround Leudon (2) . «Right End.... Vedernack @hee (11) .... - Quarterback ven seve Weich Whitney (3) . Lett Halfbac! +» Guyon soe Braklin +» Calac believed that his team would eme: viotortous. About 300 Darimouth students followed thelr team on to New York. The re- sentation would have been much it. but Dartmouth pockets, sadly depleted by the expenses of two long trips to Princeton and Philadelphia, couldn't stand the strain of another journey. Consequentiy many mudents were forced to remain home, but they'll receive re- ports of the game by epeoial wire. The Indiana, while admitting Dart- mouth’s strength, firmly believe that an- other scalp will be dangling from their rounded up one of the strongest aggre- wations that ever represented Cariiale, and for reference ask Cornell, Lehigh or it of Penn, the ‘ne ed and Blue had] e | haan't overcome a Manger of Commerce finished | ™ several other big that have crum- bled before the redrhen's attack this year. Kicking Game by Yale and Tigers | Likely on Dry and Fast Gridiron delte after the battle Warner has} THE | | KETCHAM | In Thia. Department the Princeton Team Will Excel, as Buzzy” Law Is the Best Punter in the East—--Pumpelly May Be Pressed Into Service to Save Day for Elis. As Yale and Princeton Line Up in To-Day’s Game, Man Against Man PRINCETON, Wt. osersers (Continued from Firat Page.) ence of every kind of a machine from 8 Packard limousine to Fort runabout. To wid to the confusion, there were the special trains rolling in from every Girection, The raitroad siation and yards were jammed with people and the streets leading uptown held @ marching throng from the early morning hours to game time. ‘The Princeton equad was mado up of ty-wix varsity men, the scrub, twenty-one coaches, Trainer Fitspatric two managers, a mascot and @ rubber. It has not deen fully decided and will not be until the teams are about to go upon the field just who will play in In the Harvard game. place of honor on the aide lines, where he can at least eee the game. Lamber- ton will In all probability start at left end. The Princeton coaches say that {f the field turna out to be hard and dry the Tigers will show a brand of football Quite superior to that in the lamented Harvard game, where mud discounted speed and spoiled Baker's attempts to kick goals with a waterlogged ball. BOTH TEAMS WAVE BEEN SCORED AGAINST THIS VEAR. {e no leas enthusiastic than on, although the enthusiasm tain conservatism in betting, The team has been Practically made over during the past hing defeat by Colgate je thie necessary. Yet, comparing the performances of both Yale and Harvard during the sea- fon, there inn't such @ starting advan- tage for the Tig Yale has scored 106 potnta in eight games and has had 16 scored against her. These 16 points were all scored in one game—by Colgate. No other rival of Yale has scored against her ut all. Princeton has scored seven games. She against to the tune of 18 There has not been any heavy acoring against the Tigers, Bucknell made 6 to Princeton's 2%. Dartmouth made 64, Rutgers and Harvard each scored 3 Princeton has been beaten by Dartmouth and Harvard, Princeton's strength ts judged more by her ahowing against the powerful Harvard team than by anything e! Harvard was tipped to win by a 20-0 score, The best she could do was to wet a rather fluky 3-0. The Tigers 178 points Crown trophy with an almost ecore, played a remarkably aggressive gam io fact, outplayed Harvard YALE, + Braun Warren Pendleton Marting . Ketcham ‘Talbot Avery Wilson » Knowles + Ainsworth + Dunn goecse-ece three of the four quarters, In the Colgate gume Yale wan thor- Oughly outplayed and defeated in spite of the best rally her team could make. After that the hurry call for coaches Went out, and Yale has just gone through one of the “pull together” stunts for which she ts famou Last night the Yale Club of New York sent Capt. Ketcham a telegram of en- couragement signed by 40 members ‘Then there was Capt. Pa" Corbin'a din- ner to the Yale championship team of 1988 attended by every man in the line- vp. All of these things have helped to work Yale's fighting spirit up to the right notch, The Hue will fight to win, and Princeton wi!l have to play a des- erate game. There is one ominous thing connected with thin Princeton Invasion. Princeton fs unusually confident of winning. And old-timers point out the fact that It han always been the confident Princeton teams that went down to defeat op Yale Field, and the doubtful ones that turned the trick on Yale. This game to- by the way, will be the last played in the old stadium. Be- fore the season of 1914 begins the new stone and concrete stadium, seating 0,000 spectators, will be built, NEW HAVEN, Nov, 15.—The Bull Dog, always strong on tho dofense this season, has finally developed the “punch,” way the coaches and the townsfolk here are happy, Represen- tatives coming out of the field after secret practice every day thin week told encouragingly of the big !mprovement of Wileon at quarterback @nad in the attacking power of the team in gen- eral. The Yale backfleld ~ Wilson, Knowles, Ainawort and Dunn—while not up to the regular Blue standard, perhaps, is a pretty nifty combination, The Ine composed of veterans, which slightly outweighs the Princeton for wards, has wonderful defensive strength and is powerful on the attack If thor- oughly aroused ‘The big Blue linesmen haven't played nearly up to their last year mark | Games so far, but the and black etripes always ts a spur for the local warriors and it {9 extremely likely that the Yale forwards will rise up in thelr wrath and give the Tigers A hand-to-hand battle BOTH TEAMS WILL PLAY KICK- ING GAME, With @ dry fleld both teams undouot- edly will play the kicking game for all it {8 worth. Princeton, in “Duzs" Law, bee e puoter with few superiors im the EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1918. BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YO ‘TWILL BE A FIGHT.TO A FINISH ee een Copyright, 1913, by The Presse Publishing Co. (The New York World). East. Against Harvard be outkicked | both Hardwick and Mehan handily, al-’ though slow in getting his drives off. | Knowles, because of his strong kick- ing, will give the Tiger backs a busy afternoon, There is very little to pick between the rival punters, H It it narrows down to winning the) game by means of a field goal, the Tigers have “Hobey" Baker to rely on and the Nassau man is fairly ac- curate from within the S-yard It ‘The Bull Dog can press into service at least four dependable toe shooters, in- cluding the omnipotent Pumpelly, who eaved the game last year against the Tigers with @ monster klok from the 4i-yard line that hit the bare going over. On paper, Princeton appears to have 4n advantage in the majority of posi-! tions, but football form ts apt io go! sadly astray in the midst of big game. TIGERS HAVE STRONGEST PAIR OF ENDS. The Nassua ends, Hammond and Lamberton, have the edge on Avery and Both Tigers did well agaist in atopping the ind ‘poth got do! under kicks with the speed of @ r horse. Hammond also is expert at handling forward passes. Avery, a vet- eran, has been the most consistent of the Yale wing men this season, although pped by lujuries at the start. ve a good account of him- seit Brann, a newcomer, is tout- dM & second Tom Bhevitn, which, it true, ineans that he ts going to be ons Carla Pittsburgh ve. Swarthmore v: FOOTBALL GAMES TO-DAY. BAST. Yale ve. Princeton Harvard vs. Brown.. New Haven Cambridge (Gane called 2 o'clock) Indians (Game call Penn va, Michigai Cornell v Williams va. Amherat.. Williamstown N. ¥, University va, Wesleyan, Colgate vs. Syracuse.. Penn State vs, Annapolis. Army vs. Villanov: Springfleld T. 8. vi rh ve. Hi Jefferson . Rutgers vs, Trinity. ‘Tufts va, Bowdoin Hamilton vs. Union.. Hobart va. Boston Club Insists Latayet ertord, Ww Dickinson, vs. Dartmouth, ‘olo Grounds jed 2 o'clock.) Ann Arbor Athaca Ohio Field -Byracuse -Annapois West Point Aggies, Springfleld Haverford hington and Pittaburgh Swarthmore Fordham vs, Holy Cross, Worcester Brunswick Rochester. WEST. 8, Minnesvta. Purdue.. a va, Kansas ame vs. Wabash, Crawfordsville Indiana vs. Northwestern..Evanston Care Ohio State.........Columoan Oberlin vs. Ohio Wesleyan..Delaware SCHOOL GAMEN. De Witt Clinton va. Moi Minneapolis -Champatsn -Lawrence Chicago Illinois Nebri Notr Manhattan Fieid Commerce vs, Manual Training, Ebbets Field Erasmus Hall va. Boys’ High, Ebbets Field 8. Brooklyn Prep., Commercial Fi Flushing va. New Rochelle. . Plus! St. Paul's vs. Montclair Academ: Garden City St. Franc!s College va. Seton Hall, South Orange St. John's Prep. va. Paterson High, Paterson Diekingon High vs. Rahway High, Jersey City Bast Orange High vs. Peddi Hightstown Commercial td r That Herzog Figure in Marqua Manager Stalling Will Not Turn! of the busiest yourg men on the ted.| Loose His Star Pitcher Unless Brann Big Mer yer paring. a irited race w farter, ard Tom Shevi! : conalere ‘the a nena vite who! He Gets Good Third Baseman: roteme, advives him in action against the Tigers, "| Dasher Thoy’s Son Doing Well. Phillips and in form probably thi test pair of lea in the count in'a work all eon nas sensation at Princeton. Any ono doubt about the ability of these ¢ jante need only apply to Brickley and Hardwick couidn’! through thelr positions, and that's the best recommendation we know of. Warren and Talbott, if they perform up to last year’s standard, should give their opponents a tough argument, but the Yale tackles, while strong defen- sively, have lacked the Aght and ag- gressiveness that has marked the wo:k of Phillipa and Ballin, HAS SEEN been ‘a in he YALE LEADER SHIFTED MANY TIMES. ‘The Princeton guards, Swart and Semmons, are not a bit flashy, but thoy posness a lot of football knowledge and know how to use It to the best adva: tage. Capt. Ketcham ta really a made ard, The Yale leader was taken tre, made into a guard, and then ehifted out to end, and on the eve of the cham- plonsbip games was moved back to guard. Just what he will do in his new job is unknown, but if he plays any- thing like his old style of game at centre he'll be one of the hardest men on the team to hendle, Pendleton, on the other side of the line, is a big, strong player, who has succeeded in’ stopping nearly every- thing that came at him thie year, but he has failed to show muoh aggresslve- news at opening holes for his backs when attacking, Eddie Trenkman, one of the strongest centres in the East, appears to have edge on Marting, although the Yale pivot is strong at jacking up his line xo id hasn't displayed the speed and power of the Tiger backs. & ened ry Wins Close Game. billlard room last night John Montgomery won the second half before Geort will trades until February. HERZOG DOESN'T WANT TO SIT Shafer ; By Bozeman Bulger. }URDING to @ rumor which comes from what ought to be a stiiabte source, the much discussed ado between the Giauts and Braves is not to rtop with the mere exebange of Tyler and Rube Marquar. Among baseball people it 1s said that Stallings turns loose Tyler will have to hat be no affirm: ON THE under the team gets back the McGraw's aseur- ance that Charley Herzog will go to the Braves as @ third baseman. player is to come to the Giants to make up the difference, but just who that ia cannot be ascertained or even gucsacd at, Stallings and Gaftney simply emilo when asked for information. At the office of the New York club Secretary Foster and President Hemp- stead are #0 deep in thelr work of get- ting ready for the Army football game that, for a Week or mo’ they haven't had ball so much asa thought. Those things loft to MoGraw, Another and Navy chance to give dase- Until he what he nyway. mind just fon or denials of in BENCH. ‘Though the report about Charley Her- zo is persiatent and comes from sources more important tl it is doubtful if M any consideration, is so uncertain in his about whether to play ball or not that MeGraw cannot afford to rely on him as his only third baseman | remembered that he ran out for a day ‘lor two last season and was on his way \to the coast when friends persuaded him to talk it over with McGraw. The resul was that he stuok all # mere fan gossip. Graw would let hin Tillie notions It will be kept in @ regular pi of his Engiish billlard match against | Herron it is known that Hamuel Spicer by (0 to 40, This made | nia retirement to the bench was a bitter grand total 1,000 against | pill. A great ma: rd-Tyler Deal Shafer. Whether he is or not it is the general belief that he is too valuable a man to be allowed to go to another club. If the Maryland canteloupe grower should @o back to Roston he'll have the unique distinction of having bean traded Vetween the Giants and Braves three times. In 1910 McGraw traded Herzog to Boston. After a couple of yeurs at other trade was made by which he came back, and now they are talking of send- ing him up th again, Arthur Deviln ‘nd Al Bridwell both went out by way of the Braves, Pop Anson, the venerabie pl: formor manager of the Chica: was the greatest hitter that rand who bal! he will m the national old Cap {8 not s0 prosperous t one time, but is just as ful as ever. He says that baseball y than it wi Moreover, he Insists good hitters, If the ro to be relied upon the Cap TRYING TO KEEP UP WITH THE OLD-TIMERS, And, speaking of oldtimers, I listened to quite @ chinning match the other day between Ariie Latham and Dasher Troy, You have to be pretty well along in years to remember the days when elther the Dasher or Arlie were in their prime, but they are just as young as ever in spirit. Dashtr has a son who helped to win the pennant in the O. & P. League last season. The youngster has been doing so well that there {s likell- hood of McGraw taking him to Marlin in the spring for a tryout, Arthur Irwin, scout of the igh: Janders, has gone back to his old love temporarily and will run his electric football board at the game between the Indiana and Dartmouth this afternoon. After retiring a8 a manager, and before he hooked up with the Hirhianders, Arthur spent several years penfecting & foothall scoredoard which he operated at all the big games. Reports from California say that the Native Sons have now forgiven Fred Snodgrass for muffing that fy bali in the big game with the Red Sox. They saw exactly how it was done when Jim Thorpe muffed one in the San Diego againat the White Sox and let In Incidentally Jim's error e for the CHants, At that the t was pot @ $90,000 muff, SPEEDWAY STARS RACE TO-MORROW Harvard Coach Over Yi ale’s to Look Formations | Percy Haughton Goes to New) sem fclutog wn at | Haven, Taking Two of the! tie Vaieitciny act wien deterint | Varsity Squad With Him—| fs" ae vac to- t Crimson Figures Brown Easy. | | | (Special to The Evening Worlt u CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. HMar-| Th | Yard's football teddies will be without | *" \thetr daddy when they play with thoir boy rivals from Brown in the stadium) | this afternoon, Percy D. Hauenien. | who has fathered the fast Crimson foot-| no: ball families of the past half dozen) ett | years, Is taking @ day off to-day to| i | visit the City of Bima, where the Prince. | ** ton Tiger ard the Yale Bulldos are|*"\! | | being egged on by thetr respective fol-) lowing into @ fight to @ football finish. | Haughton has taken with him varsity | wi, quarter back Mal. Logan and Walter Schoolboy Gridiron Teams In Important Games To-Da; | —— ) games Brat | DeWitt Clinton and Morris)S:stert vs" wii Will Battle for Title at [oh ene ve nee Manhattan Field. ont fame is ( and Morri ing Commerce, it | Bronx team wil on ‘The interachotastic football fight has | reacied an Interesting stage. The games | to-day will have an !mportant bearing | on the championship situation. ‘The that the ‘tle trouple double-header at Bodet’s Field ls about (fp the feed ani. Ma» Pate the best on eard. High School of Com- Of upsetting ‘the: sor 4 way merce meete Manual Training in the first struggle. A will be Very disastrous frattan’s ‘nopes for the champion- ship, for Manual has been beaten by De Witt Clinton and even Bay Ridge. | However, the contingency of defeat for Commeree ie very slight, as the Orange s mi + reoord 4nd Blue classes much higher than the aul will endeavor to keep its Blue and Gold. friends and guides with an exhibition of AUSTRIAN COMMISSIONER his fencing skill against Profs. Knox WILL SEE TO-DAY’S GAME, |and sarc, the New York Athiatc Club Instructors. He then took a swim, Dr. Otto Herschmann, the athletic) In the evening Dr. Herschmann and commissioner of the Aust! Govern-| Mr, Sullivan made a tour of several of ment who |e here to investigate Amer-|the evening recreation centres, under tca's successful method of athletic train-| the guidance of Dr. Stitt, thelr presi ing, put busy day yesterday, The| dent visitor went to ee oof the high} The Austrian visitor will leave this schools and elementary achools to at-| morning for New Haven, tend the boys’ exercise periods, and was | lc tho pues greatly impressed by the exhiditions. | ciation at Accompanied by James E. sullivan and Dr. C. Ward Crampton, director of the Public Schools Athletic League, Dr. Herechmann first went to Public School No, 83 of Manhatta: here during as- val " and Yale algo visit thi ! Princ Herschmann exe houses, H. Mackey, a senio: jin the third run was the winner the Van Amriny sembly the sev trophies, | ! Imeludiy that emblematic of the greater | ‘eres country tre hy over the Rivers elty champlonship, were awarded to the | side Drive course at Columbia Unt team. sity yesterday. Publle Sehoo! No, 42 of the Bronx was| ‘The run was a blind handicap affair, next on the programme, and Dr. Herach-| and Mackey won by reason of his big mann arrived just in time to witness | five-m! » handlea hough he was the hundreds of boys go through their] actually the seventh man to finish, His twenty minutes of exercise period. Dr. Herschmann later entertained his time for the five-and-a-half-mile route ils. Rae art SA