The evening world. Newspaper, November 26, 1921, Page 6

‘a Gridiron Game Has Advanced, Style and Is More Exciting Day By Robert Edgren. BALL as a game of skill has advanced rapidly during the past year or two. Football as a game ot brute strength, bulk, weight “and hammering force disappeared © years ago. The “good old game” was — for a long time by those who 7 played it, but there 1s no denying | the fact that the new game is more for both spectators and play- ers, just as hot a competition, and less dangerous.than the old style of play. ‘Twenty-five years ago the football that bad to be played by giants was ‘at its height. Yale had such men as "Heffelfinger, Cross and Hickok. “Heft" ‘Was a bigger and stronger man than Jese Willard. As tall as Joss, he was half a foot wider across the shoulders, Perfectly proportioned, and in spite of “bis great Oulk and weight was wiry and lean-muscled, carrying no fat at all I think he was the biggest and et man 1 ever saw in any ath- sport. Hickok was about six feet two and ; rimreighed 220 pounds, but he could run P'@ hundred yards in 102-58, which §) made him: one of the fastest big men " Lfemember on a football field. Harry ‘was about @ix feet four and “Weighed 230 pounds, being a smailer > Heft r ‘in strength and propor- ‘These three men, besides being bly skilful and speedy, were ut as husky a centre and guard bination as any college could 48 “Michigan had the Hooper brothers centre and guard, 240 and 230 inds of lean muscle. Princeton had, many big men, Bucky Hall, a -six giant, built like a Her- and “Big Bill" Edwards, since ous in New York's political his- n the high school teams in days were often made up of phe- nally dig men. the men I have mentioned many also track and field athletes, Hickok being intercollegiate champion ior years with hammer and shot, a close second, Heffelfinger a rower, Bucky Hall a great putter; Wilbur, of Oakland High ol, better than forty-seven feet the sixteen-pound shot, and so @ boxer that if he had taken ‘up profeasionaly he could haye Jim Jeffires a run for the cham- hip. THE FLYING WEDGE. tte, Mont., had a football team a 220-pound average line. These or most of them, played in the of the “flying wedge"—a football tion which has been prohibited its crushing force caused ty injuries and deaths on the grid- The abolition of the flying Pia, Started the ruling out of mass plays, piling up and roughing gene- pally, and brought about the modern of football, with and open play. he flying wi the attacking fell into a ige formation all was put into play, the man the ball slipping into a pro- d position within the entering it of the wedge. The whole wedge locked together, crushing down trampling over all opposition. myself, I'll never: forget the of power in attacking at guard tion in the flying wedge, the mo- iti check as the opposing line Heelf at the point and sides of ‘wedge, and the surging forward the from behind drove the of the wedge on and over the oy Mlgrti ga grinding it down ul foot. Won't forget, either, sensation of being ground down the flying wedge. It cost me Gislocated shoulders and a dis- knee—mere incidents in the old game. © was also, following the a'bo- ‘of the flying wedg-, some ma: that was hardly less effective. @ object of the play, in those “good days,” frequently was to cripple Binable as mgny of. the opposing "s best men as possible. I played or centre occasionally on a famous Western team. The in- fictions of our captain just before ‘went i its forward out on the fleld against an ing championship combination characteristic. oys,” he said, “of course’ you ‘we don't want any rough stuff, ar want any of you to begin ere hear that certain men of to be laid out (naming i). If that starts, you know what that game eight men from each ‘wee carried from the field, two each team taken to the city with broken pones. Yea, Bo ‘Were rough old days! To show geriously the game as taken by Players, the invaders, who had ped everything in moleskins from » to the Pacitic, losing by a ‘went before a notary public the @ and took oath that woulin’t cut their hair until their defeat. And they me down to play us next year with ‘over their shoulders, like a lot Pwild Indians. And lost again, In- ly. As I never saw them I don't know whether or not cut their hair to this day. © MOST ANYTHING WENT. ‘the good old days it was cu swhen an opposing runner w: with the i! to pile on him crush him much as ible the yaar. whistle blew. If toward the spot efter man hurling mass on top of the ym 2 to end come tear- SPEED AND SKIL FAST AND TRICKY ATTACKS leap through | wou! feet. BETTER THAN OLD MASS PLAYS With Open and Less Dangerous to Both Spectators and Play- ers Than Smashing, Crashing Line Bucking of “Good Old arts. Wherever the referce'n eye could not apy st was considered pe: fvotly legitimate to wallop a crouch- ing opposing lineman under the chin with elbow or fist. A good counter Puncher was an asset in any line, and more good uppercuts have been struck on the old-time gridirons than ever were landed ‘n the ring. Mike Murphy, the great old-time trainer of Yale, and later Pennsyl- vania, told me about a wild man from the West, one “Buek" Wi?bur, who appeared at Yale and tried out for the team. “He could put the shot forty-five feet, high jump over aix feet and lick any man I ever saw, said Mik “He wae the greatest all- round athlete I ever knew and would have been the greatest fullback Yale ever had if I could have taken the fight out of him and made him play football. “But he would slug. He ant on the Junior fence once and whipped ten men who came to put him off. He lad out so many of my mén on the foot- ball fleld that I thought I'd either have to tame him or drop him, “Talking to him did no good. He’ been playing up in the Northwe where slugging went, and he couldn't help using his fists w! r he got excited and at close quarters, 1 had a man then I thought could tame any- thing on legs, one of the greatest guards Yale ever had. I went to him and explainad the thing. “Tis fellow wilbur will be a val- uate man If I can cure him of rough- ing,’ I said. ‘I want you to do it, Teach him a lesson. I'll put him op- posite you to-day and I want you to slug him and knock his head off, Never mind the elbows; use your fis “He agreed. I put Wilbur out on the end, where there'd be plenty of room, and my man opposite him. Play started. My man walloped Wiibur and Wilbur walloped my man—once. My man dropped, knocked out cold. He was on the hospital list and couldn't play for two weeks. I had to drop the other fellow. He'd have crippled my whole team.” And as Mike finished his story he shook his head- regretfully. “If 1 could have cured that fellow of slugging he would have been a great man for Yale,” he sald. FOUGHT DOWN OPPOSITION. Open play and the apirit of modern football have changed all that, When the rules committees first met to cut the mass plays out of football and make it faster and more open game, they met with strenuous opposition and criticism from the old players. They were accused of trying to kill American football and make jt as mild and ladylike as English Rugby, But they went ahead. They had to. Leg- islatures would have prohibited foot- ball play in another year because of the number of fatalities and serious accidenta, ‘ But the new football Is a better game. Old football, with its endless mass play, endless hammering at the Ine, end piling on, heavy, crubh- ing, pushing slowly up and down the field, was far less interesting than to- day's game. ‘ Moreover, the open game makes It possible for a college with few stu- denta to develop a team able to com- pete against the big colleges, Centre, this year, with ite 275 etu- dents, beat Harvard. Centre had de- veloped the forward pass beyond Har- vard's imagination, Harvard being still slightly bound by recollections of u old days where mass and grit determined everything. Centre had followed the example of colleges farther West, which were not hampered by old traditions and old Hone like the big Eastern univers|- lea. Curiously, the West is always hunt- ing for new and advanced methods; the Hast is always conservative, That is why Chicago walked all over the Princeton team that shortly after- ward showed its class among Kastern colleges by trimming Harvard for the first time in ten years, Perfect forward passing let Call- fornia beat the University of Southern California by 88-7, although U. & C. made many yards more than U. C. in line plays. Anay Smith's cnief scoring strategy Was a forward pass on a fake end run play, which brought the bail down to within scoring distance repeatedly. Nichols and two other men would start as if for an end run, fake a block of the opposing end and tear down the field. Toomey then threw the ball to Nichols, who was invariably clear for a run, Princeton's ylctory over Harvant came with a forward pass from Sniv- ely to Gilroy, who made a dodging run of about eixty-five yards for a touchdown. Notre Dame, playing Western foot- ball, crushed the Army team 28-0 by playing an overhead game that com- pletely bewildered the powerful West Potnt combination, Ohio beat the great Chicago team by a combination of brilliant forward paas and fake passing plays. Tafayette's 88-6 cleanup of Penn- sylvania came through the air. Syracuse forward-passed a victory over McGill, Game after game this season has brought football upsets, and always it is the victory of speed and skill over brawn, of modern methods up to the minute over methods not quite so new. Of course our modern college teams have as good men and as strong men in the Iine and hehind the line, but weight and bulk are no longer major requirement: In my opinion the great old steam rollers, the crushing, smashing, line bucking teams of years ago—even the best and greatest of them—would have heen whipped to a standatill if pitted against any one of our lighter, faster, trickier teams of to-day with the open style of play and the effective, puzzling, bewilder- ing aerial attack why, the behemoths of former times be left standing flat on their Baty ets F > i. THE EVENING WORLD, 8 ee ” ATU RDAY, Nov EMBER 26, 1981, L HAVE DISPLACED BRAWN IN MODERN FOOTBALL ~ SOME OLD-FASHIONED FOOTBALL TRICKS (Copyright, by Robert Sagres) 1921 FOOTBALL SEASON CLAIMED TEN VICTIMS. CHICAGO, Nov. 26. — Football claimed ten victims during the 1921 season, which closed with Thanks- giving Day games, according to re- ports to the Associated Press to-day. The death list was three less than 1920 and three above the toll of two years ago, Ten lives were lost as the result of games in 1918, twelve in 1917, eighteen in 1916 and fifteen in 1915, As in former years, the majority of youths killed were members of high school teams. The figures apparently uphold the contention of football ex- perts that proper training and physi- cal condition greatly minimize the danger of the game, for only one of the players killed was a member of a college eleven, One was a semi-pro player, one a member of a naval team and the remainder were high school or sand jot players, who did not re- celve the intensified training and physical inspections given in colleges. With one exception, none of the victims were more than twenty years old. DEMPSEY OFFERED RETURN BOUT WITH BILL BRENNAN SEATTLE, Nov. 26.—Jack Dempsey has had two new offers, one from Bill Brennan, the other from Jack Car- penter of St. Paul, Dempsey’s mani- r, Jack Kearns, annuunced to-day. earns sald neither proposal would be decided until Dempsey complete: the vaudeville tour, Kearns added that the Brennan of- fer was wired by Tex Rickard to-day and held out a “satisfactory purse’ for a bout in Madison Square Garden, New York — ONLY FOUR GAMES ON TO-DAY’S FOOTBALL CARD In place of a long list of games scheduled, as has been the caso on pro- yious Saturday mornings this fall, only four widely scattered contests are down for decision to-day on the Atlantic Const. ‘The Army-Navy game, of course, takes high rank. Tho others are Holy Cross vs, Boston College at Boston, Niagara at Canisius and Dartmouth at Georgia University, tbyanko- Promoter Tex Rickard will present the winner of the world's title match he- tween Stanislaus Zbyszko and Ed Lewis Monday night at the Garden with a 45,000 diamond belt. The belt ts being made by Lambert Brothers and ts twice the size of the belta that have by sented to the oh different class Monday's match will mM training to-day, and both fe confident of winning the Match, Lowts ts pleased over the amended rule of the boxing commission in that he use his fa ck ‘hold for a certain perlod never pin me to the mat twice the same night.” —— ‘Three Am Jockeys Head Nov. 26 (Associated Press) ~Thi American Jockeys led th riders of the French turf at the close of the flat meing season. They Frank O'Neill with 120 winning fatt h 99 and MacGee with Guy Garner with 91 O'Neill came to Purope in 1906 ride for the late W. K. Vanderbilt. Sa aeeeaeeininetne Roy Moore Wins De: FALL RIVER, Mass, Noy. At the Casino A. C. here last night Roy Moore, the hard hitting bantamweight of Bt Pe won the referee's decision over Chick ‘Suggs, featherweleht cham- fon of New England, in a ten-round IScscthartaes ts out. Moore had the colored boy shaky it continual holding Umit, Om tere teed c | O'Dowd. te promising bantamwelght of Columbus, from the 1922 echedule. a good football team first. his picture in the paper. ee many prominent coal dealers. eo. altbis. Took less time fof Landis to fine to fine Babe Ruth. But betting 1 to take less time to collect Babe’ eo. Only one change announced for Champion Johnny Buff of Jersey City, holder of two champtonship titles, the flywelght and bantam- weight honors, will receive a guar- antee of $6,000 with an dption of ac- cepting 85 per cent. of the grose re- ceipts for meeting Pal Moore of Memphis in a ten round no decision bout at a show to be held by Tom Andrews, the fight promoter of Mil- waukee, in the big auditorium at Milwaukee on the night of Dec. 16. Rocky Kansas, the Buffalo ehtwelght, who has bom suspended by the Wisconsin Boxing Commis ston for sixty days, has been matched to meet Jobnny Ras, the Pittébureh lightwelght, to @ ten round bout at @ show to be held by the Motor Square Boxing Club of Pittsburg, on the might of Deo, 5, ‘Midget Smith, who fought Joe Tanch. the for- mer bantamweight champion, at the Gardeo last bight, may meet Pete HermMh, the former cham- pion. in ® fifteen round bout at Pillsbury Gardens at New Orleans either on Dea 5 or 8 John Welsmantel will offer the fight fans of Brooklyn three twelve round bouts for the weekly show of the Ridgewood Grove Gporting Club of Brookisn (o-nigut, Sallor Jos Kelly meets Ray West of Brooklyn, Tommy Rowan hooky up with Jack Redmond of the Bronx, and Johnny Dohan. the veteran lightweight, meets Wille Thompson of Greenpoint in the feature bouts, Alike Gibbons, who is matched to fight Augte Ratner of Harlem tn @ twelve round bout at the big Collseum at St. Louls on Den 5, will leave for the battleground next week, As the Coliseum accommodates 12.000 persone ft In expected @ record crowd for a bout tu that city will turn out to one the contests, Although several clubs up Gene Tunnes of Greenwich Vil ® bout, the men will not meet just now. Burke's manager bas refused to ain him up for the go deaplte the fact that the Now Star A. C., Pioneer Sporting Club and the Commoowealte Sporting Club of Harlem want the bout. . Joe Burman, the Chicago bantamwelght, and Phil | Oblo, who made good in the boule be has so far } fought in New York, will meet in the feature bout of eight rounds at the Olympla A A. of Philadel | pata, Monday night. ‘This pair takes the place of the proposed bout between Mike Gibbons ang Freak Carbo} Jeff Smith and bis manager, Al Lippe, returned to town last night from Montreal. where the Jersey star knovked out Joe White of Howton in two | ronunds, Smith's next bout wMl be with Mile Me- ‘igue at the National Dec. 13. Smith would Ike te box Hérry Greb tn the Garden, ‘The Young Fitedmmons whem Freak Carbone to meet in 6 fiftecn round bout te t New Oricans en LIVE WIRE BY NEAL R. O'HARA. ; will be shifted from third to first for grass-picking exercise. Reduction of the Navy has already started. Princeton drops Annapolis If U. of P. is going to start a stadium of 60,000, it had better build up The full in sport is so pronounced right now that a wrestler can get Football teams finishing the season with clean slate have nothing on would be a quiet weason In sport if it wasn't for listening to Washington and Jefferson is named after Presidents. But Lehigh and Pennsylvania aren't named after railroads. Experts will begin picking 1922 football scores as soon as the schedules are announced. It's as easy to pick ‘em now as later, at that. * 8 John D. Rockefeller than i taking slightly better than even that it's going fine. . next years Giant team., Jennings 7» N. J. Dut ® young battler who bas been showing well in bouts in the South, eo Fiynn, who ls mow the manager of Carbone, an- nounced to-day thet it te not Young Rob whom Carbone mete, Carbone has fought many fights in New Orleans wite much bout betwen Micky Donley of Newark and Eddlo Shevlin of Boston, ‘They'll clash at Providence for the American Legion one week from Tuesday night. ‘Matty Crom, the welterweight of New York, and Paul Doyle, the Italian fighter, will olaah in the main 0 of twelve rounds at the Rink Sporting Club of Brooklyn to-night. Paul already hes» decinion over Crom, but the latter expects to tum the tables on bim tn this go. Harry Martin will meet Joo Hyder of Brooklyn tn the smi-final of twelve rounds. ‘There will be three other bouts. Frankie Jerome, the Harlem festherwalght. who bes won many fights w far thie year and is still fighting under the management of Filly Gideon, will meet Frankie Ray, another good lad, in the main 9 of twelve rounds at the Commonwealth Sporting Club of Harlem to-night, Mixe MoCabe, the sturdy Harlem figtger, will book up with Willie Morris tn the other twelve round battle. Hobby Barrett. the Mghtwetzat of Philadelphia who bas been fighting In such great form at the clubs in that city for some time, bas been signed up for another contest tn that ety. He will swap Dunches with Jimmy Hanlon, the game lightweight of Denver, In the main bout of eight rounds at the National A. C. on Saturday evening, Deo. 3. ‘Wt Barrett can beat Hanlon he will get many other offers for fights, For the second boxing ahow of the International Sporting Club, at its new club house In the Central Opera House, tn Bast 67th Gtreet, tt ts almost o wure thing thet Midget Smith will go against Roy Moore, the Western fighter, in the feature bout. As the present Mayor of Cleveland lost tn the recent election there will be no boxing shows in that city until the pow Mayor tales ofice on Jan. 1. Tom MoGinty, the fight promoter, notified Dan Morgan ins letter of the present state of affairs im that city. MoGtnty expects to arrange © bout for bie opening show in the big auditorium there in ® few days. ‘There will be two boxing shows staged in Ma/tison Square Garden next week. The first will be held on ‘Treeday night, which will be for the Bronx Jewish Hospital, and the second will be the regular weekly boxing show conducted by Tex Rickard on Wednes- ‘day night. This entertainment will comprise tem-round contests between evenly matched men Matchmaher Kile McMahon bas added another twelve round out to Monday night's programme of tHe Siar 8. C. of Harlem Eddie Palmer meets K. ©. Kaplan of Jersey City on the same card with ‘Abe Goldstein and Harry London. ‘Thirty-seven rounds of boxing, headed by & ] Three Decisions Different, So Smith Gets Only Draw After Beating Joe Lync Outclassed at Start, Midget Has West Sider Near Knock- out in Ten-Round Bout. By Vincent Treanor. UTCLASSHD for the first two rounds, Midget Smith got Joe Lynoh’s measure in the fourth round at the Garden last night and from then om gave Joe.a neat and gaudy beating. All he got for it was @ draw. ,No two of the three deci- sions of the judges and the refcree agreed. One evidently said Smith, the other Lynch and the third took the happy medium—a draw. Under the Athletic Board’s rules, the indl- vidual opimions ef the irio aren't known. Anyhow it was a real good fight. It pleased the crowd. Lynch ‘had the first two rounds by a wide margin, the third, fifth and tenth were even, in our opinion, and the other five be- longed to the Midget in sheer ag- gressiveness and persistency. Sev- eral times he had Lynch staggering on the verge of decisive defeat, par- ticularly in the fourth, seventh, and ninth rounds. In the seventh Lynch was very wabbly going to his corner and in the ninth everything thot Smith landed seemed to distress Jos. Lynch made the mistake, after the second round, of fighting Smith's way instead of sticking to his own long range stuff. In the third round he began to mix it with the Midget at close quarters, when they exchanged hook like grips with lefts around the neck and began working the free rights to each others face and body. The sturdy Smith could stand the ex- change of hard chugs better than the less rugged Joe and from there on he went into a lead. In the fourth, the Midget reached Joe's jaw with two long rights and he began crowding Lynch. It was at this stage that the Midget made Joe fight at his come-on-in style, He ro- fused to be kept at a respectable tis- tance by Lynch's long left. He foreed Joe back and got a right across to the Jaw. He followed with to the same spot and Joe went down, He bounced up and the Midget swarmed on him, causing hii to slip to one knee again. After this Lynch cut loose two hard rights to Smith's jaw but the bell sounded be- fore he could do any more damage. After the fifth round, Joe's long left, which in the second round had landed twenty-four times on Smith's face, wasn’t #0 much in evidence. Smith had less trouble landing with his left and his solid right. He cut Joe's eve and scraped his nose and generally had him bady smeared up. The Midget too was gery from a cut lip, and neither made a pretty plc- ture, Lynch was gonig along all right enough in the sixth, when Smith caught him, half turned, with a right to the jaw, and then slammed another over on top of it, This punch drove Lynch against the ropes with such to keep his bearings. The Midget paid less attention to Joe's flashes of long-range boxing «s the bout went on, and in the seventh had Lynch running backward from eight clean punches, mostly rights to the head. Again the Midget bounced him off the ropes with a solid right to the jaw. Overanxious, Smith fell short with the same hand at the next try, but hit the mark again as the bell somded. Joe came out for the eighth giving the impression that he had laid up a heat in the seventh, and began work- ing his old one-two punch, the long left to the face, followed by a wicked right to the Jaw. He soon had Smith bleeding and looking bad. He rocked the Midget with a hard right, but Smith refused to be awed. He took whatever Joe had and piled right in. He drove Joe across the ring with a right to the jaw, silencing the Lynch rooters. Joe came back with three lefts to the mouth, but Smith crowded him back with left and right swings. Every one of these reaching Lynch knocked him off balance, at least, if not reeling. Joe started the ninth tn business!ike fashion. He landed four times fush on Amith's face with his left and ctr- cled the right In twice to the jaw. He had the Midget missing and floundering. Smith refused to be dis- and kept boring in. With it cross to the jaw he sent Joe in: a righ! i the ropes, tak- ‘Ths force that he rebounded, dancing high | ff. ing away all the lead that Lynch had gained in the round, Joe looked about ready for a finisher, but he managed to stave his way to the bell with his fender-like left. The Midget was trying hard for a knockout every step of the tenth, but Joe successfully weathered the storm to the final bell. Bert Colima of California was thor- oughly whipped in the semi-final by Dave Rosenberg of Brooklyn, It was hard to picture this Colima as the same chap who only two weeks ago appeared so classy against Billy Shade in the same ring. Last night he was nothing. Rosenberg, awk- wardly clever, beat him down with body blows which Colima regarded as a joke at the beginning. Toward the end Dave was doing anything he wanted with the Westerner. Colima started off as if Rosenberg didn’t belong in the same company with him, but when Dave refused to be battered down and instead began some battering himself, Colima sim- mered down, In the seventh he was nearly out. Once he slipped to the floor, another time itosenberg threw him down. Colima then pulled what looked like “yellow” stuff when he began striking low with both hands, At least six times he fouled Roson- berg enough to be disqualified, but Referee Dan Hickey let him egntinue. At the end Colima was thoroughly beaten, The Billy Defoe-Andy Chaney bout was uninteresting. These boys know too much about each other. ‘They boxed prettily in nip and tuck fashion and nobody had any objec- tion .when they were through and the bout was declared a draw. ‘The first bout of the evening, bringing together Jimmy Darcy of Portland, Ore, and Al, Nelson of Manchester, N. H., was one of the | worst seen at the Garden. Nelson couldn't fight a bit. He just proved a setup for Darcy. Dan Hickey stopped the uneven thing in the jfourth round and the crowd ap- |plauded. No one seemed to know jwhere Nelaon was dug up. TACK’S GOSSIP AND BOWLING NEWS Ferdle Meier, proprietor of the Pas- time Bowling Academy, has an- nounced the names of ten players that are to compete in his six-hour endurance contest which is to be staged at the Pastime alleys, Third Avenue and 84th Street, to-morrow evening. The entries are: A. John- son, B. Young, F. Hollins, J. Scbarts, B. Gallagher, J. Harries, J, Scherber, E. Eshenlohr, J. Bruns, F. Meier jr. J. Stofka and A. Meringer, ‘The Dollar Savings Benk towling team insues & challenge for a home and home match with any team in the Savings Bank League. Gamew ‘range! ty communicating with W. A, Gahake SF ths Dollar Sarmgs Bank The. mace ight John frewnam, & meniber of’ the" Hurricane CU de age New" York while bowling. Bia open. gone, tooled over the’ ping (weire times in Stow for 8 3 which ‘means Brooklyn bowling in for & good contest, Leo Take and Artie Peter have been mgie: tering bia totale in te workouts for the match fer are to roll with Jack Tetfen and til morrow evening at Bille n to. ng ‘Condos'e Grand Central alleys, Brooklyn. ‘Twyford Poste Forfeit. Jimmy Twyford, manager‘ of Jimmy O'Gatty, posted a forfeit yesterday with Joseph A. McGuinness in Jersey City for the appearance of O'Gatty on Dec. 6 in the ring against K. 0, Pail Kaplan in the Fourth Regiment City, Kaplan a O'Gatty are se to box the ten-round semi-final Johnny Imundee-Sallor Friedman twelve: Found bout which will feature the card at the reopening of the Fourth Regl- ment Armory. —_——>——_—_ Pitts Outpoints Herman, In one of the most sensational bout ever seen in Paterson, Charite Pitt: the clever Australian lightweight, out. pointed Willie Herman of Paterson over the twelve-round royte. The men stood toe to toe and battled most of the way, but It was Pitts's ring generalship that won for him. The bout, was such an te! affair that the boys were dimmediately rematched, BAN JOHNSON ATTACKS PRESET DRAFT SYSTEM American League / President to Start Fight Against the Minors Here Dec. 14. CHICAGO, il, Nov, 26, — War againat the minor leagues In the form of an attack on the present system of drafting players is to be started by Ban Johnson, President of the American League, at the meeting of his organization on Dec. 14 in New York. He belleves the draft 1s all wrong as it Is now constituted, that it {a a hindrance to the progress of the young athletes, and that it will have to be remedied In somo way Im- Mediately to, advance the prosent ry ndard of ‘The Class AA Tagnates asked $7,500 for tha unrestricted privileg of drafting, but that le far too much,” sald Johnson, “There should be titude in advancing the Bl and the only way it can be done is by modifying the present system of Reset ‘The standard of baseball {# not as ‘ood at present as It was four or ve , and I believe it Is due to the efforts of the minors to pre- vent the young athletes from coming up by the draft. ‘The minors did not make money last summer. They will be in New York hoping to unload at fancy price: I hope they will be dis- appointed.” a ees Coast League Opposing Draft. The Pacific Coast thinks It's big enough to support a third major league and is golms to fight any effort In organ- ized baseball that will compel it to sub- mit to the drafting or selling of players to the American and National Leagues, This is tho proposition set forth by Dr. Charles H. Strub, a tall, clean-cut son of the Golden State, President of the San Francisco Club of the Paeitic Coast League, who is here for the big minor league conclave at Buffalo on 4 Dr. Strub says, contrary to 1 opinion, that the Pacific folk don't want the draft and will opposa even Judge Landis at Buffalo if ine tri to bring all of the baseball organiz: tions of the country under the operation of the drafting rule. More than that, Dr. Strub says his people object to selling their stars to the Eastern major league teams, a prac- tice that has been going on and¢on {or years until, as he pointed out yesterday in a talk at the Yankee offices in West 42d Street, at least 60 per cent. of the stars of the big circuits were developed \n California, The Coast magnate had a long talk with Col. T. L, Huston on the proposed training trip of the Yankees to tho Pa- cifle Slope. He thinks that would be & good thing. He also took occasion to deny that Jim O'Cennell, first baseman; Jimmy Caveney, shortstop; and Willie |Kamm, ‘third “baseman, stars of the San Franci » hays been sold to the Detroit Tigers, Something after the fnmous saying of Jeff Davis regarding the Confederate States—all the Coast baseball mon want is to be let alone. They feel they can work out their own salvation §f allowed to develop their own players and keep them. “We have no sal Pacifle Coast Leagu “We have a player limit, om smaller than the big leagues here, otherwise the business js the same manner, We think pretty good brand of biaepnll, of course we are all eager Eastern atars like Ty Cobb, § mann and Hornsby when the they are now in our Winter League “There ls a strong feellig against the draft rule on the Coast this year, now that we have profited by the past year'a experience. We are going to oppose a Nation-wide draft that would bind. all leagues, {f such a proposition should be made at the Buffalo meeting. As far as ‘y limit said Dr, In th I personally am ¢ |, and speaking: only for the San F 6 Club, If such a rule went into effect I would favor withdrawing from 1 ball and going It alone. We hat we have the making of a real ‘major’ league in our organization. “We have three or four of the fastest growing cities in the United States in the Pacific Coast League. Los Angel which supports the Vernon and. | Angeles clubs, has 650,000 population. San Francisco, supporting San Fran- cisco and Oakland, has 579,000, and Onk- land. ha: 09 more, Portland with 258,000, Seattle with 316,000 and Salt Lake with 118,000 are growing fast and the fans give the clubs, wonderful help. “We don't depend én astern minor or major leagues for We develop our own. 7 mavce we feel that we should be allowed to keep." eee elineinincaee Willie Hoppe Challenges Young Jake Schaefer. CHICAGO, Noy. Wilile Hoppe, recently lost tho world’s 18.2 who t ard championship to Schaefer after holding it for sixteen years, challenged the new champion to a return match A sted a $250 guarantee for appearal Under the conditions of the recent tournament in which Schaefer was vic- tor, he does not have to defend nis tile until March 15, 1922, and it is be- Heved that he will do nothing but exhibition work until that date, Schaefer has been quoted as saying that the next time he met Hoppe he wanted at least a 3,000 point contest and Hoppo also is said to favor the Marathon route as Metropolitan Stars ‘on Thannaway Game Justice Robert F. Wagner of the Su- preme Court has donated the polnt trophy which will be contested for the annual games of the Thannaway Club‘ in the 7th Regiment Armory. on Saturday evening, Dec. 3. All the 3 ropolitan stars will compete for handsome trophy. The Athletic Com mittee has extended Invitations to Sti Leslie, Jack Sellers, Dick Remer, Will- fam Plant, Jimmy O'Brien. ‘Bernie Wefers jr., Eddie Farrell, Joseph Brbal and other’ cracks, and practically all have signified thetr intentions of taking . pentrion close with Robert Ken- 15 John Street, next Satur- ————_— Tom Gibbons Stops Dan ODowd. NBW ORLEANS, Nov. 26,—To Gibbons of St. Paul knocked out Deg O'Dowd of Boston he six! & scheduled fifteen-round last night. O'Dowd was. kno. six times before he finally a terrific right cross to the jaw. Ie was sent down twice In the first poun | once in the second and three times iif the fifth, ——— PROFESS! cs BHARMIE SRICKLEY: MILADELPHIA A, ra qoNpAay, Noy Adm. $1.10, Box Beate