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NeVEMBER ae,' idu ll football Season of Nineteen- Eleven Will Live Long in The Memoiy of Its Followeis (BY MONTY.) along upon Its way Historx. Football’s Heaven; p"= innR may It live in memory- --•,0 season of 1911. V, tor . York. Nov. 25.—The footbail of 1911 is now a thlnf of hli- far a» the so^alled champlon- ^ Tiips are concerned. In many ‘ it has been a moat aucceaa- . g.a^on. and there are many mat- L'- of 'congratulaUon; likewlae tner® a fe^' ^0*" regret. Summarlxlng— !r« have been few seasons produc- " of many interesUng features. ^ ^robablv none in the annals ot ■ , " that has held the Interest ot ,ug Mio in general as has the one rosed. Fv»»ry big gam® turned up % rf. v,i n many lnstano«a rrowd—and games than a record- ther« were ever before. te- pr be reason or reaaone tor this'fa- t. It is plainly indicative of a .7m(1 growth of the gridiron game fnw poular favor. Football la mora =tinitively an American game than ' ptiipr that we have, despite the nn’-lnpnce of baseball. The trouble ' football—and the regret—is that layed during the wit It ctn only bep rolu months of the year, and then onl'' abou; once a week by each team. strictly as a spectacle, it is •uch a game as would draw forth cspuclty crowds, but never waa cause for this is the practice of smothering" the star player of a team, the entire defense of the op position concentrating its efforts to- warus stopping him. A singularly striking instance of thia was seen in the Harvard-Princeton game. Ip that contest, the dashing, smashing, un stoppable ground-gainer, Wendell, of Harvard, showed no more consplca- lously than his running mates, Hunt ington and Campbell. Yet, who will deny that Wendell is a more valu able carrier of the ball than these two put together, good men as they are? The reason Wendell failed to cut loose his usual dazzling runs was because the Princetonians had their eye on him. They “laid for him’ and hardly ever did he get a chance to go far on a play. Yet, this “smothering” process did not by any means lessen Wendell’s value to hla team in the game. Most decidedly it did not. The very concentration ot Princeton’s defense on their objec tive, Wendell, distracted their atten tion from the other Harvard backs, and as a result they were able to ac> complish much more than if Wendell had been unknown to the Tigers through fame. Occasionally there will appear a man who can be subjected to “smoth ering” and prove a star anyway. Such a man was Earl Sprackling, the great quarterback of the Brown team. Without douot he was half the Brown team and he was watched even xnore closely than was Wen- graduate body of the Tiger UnlTersi- ty, in the issue immediately after the Prlnceton-Dartmouth game. It will be recalled that Princeton won the game on a drop-kick that struck ths ground and then bounded over the goal. It says: “With all due credit to the Prtac^ ton team, we cannot aay that we de served to win. Althou^ Dartmouth was not better enough to warrant their winning, they qertainly did not deserve to havd the game go against them. And when defeat was adminis tered by means of a play that was lit tie short of weird, it seema almost the height of injuatice. Any one who witnessed the game could not tail to have been impressed by the sports manlike attitude with whicli Dart* mouth accepted the ruling of the officials and with it a defeat which they had no reason to expect." The Princeton student who wrote that exhibits just such sportsmanship as did the Dartmouth team. More power to him and we wish there were more like him. / No More Need for Pido. The late Mrs. Sue Langdon Vaugh an, who originated Memorial Day, had always a great love for humanity and a great contempt for such things as obstructed the free play of humanitar- ianism. “Mrs. Vaughan,” said a Washington veteran, “regarded lapdogs as obstruc tions to humAnitarianism, and she m 1 Agitation Agamst Arisen In Australia (By W. W. NAUQHTON.) San Ftvicisco, Cal., Nov. 25.~Agit^ tion against the boxing game has aris en in Australia. Parenthetically, it might be explained, ther^ is always a demonstration 6t some sort'from the opponents of pugilism when anything pretentious in the way of a ring event looms up at the Antipodes. The trouble blowj^ away, as a rule, like t^e emoke of a wood fire, and it may be tu.at the present disturbance la merely a casual whiff of remon strance at what someone has dubbed, “the aport of men.” In the present case the affected area is wider than usual. The opening gim was fired in the city of Melbourne when Rev. F. C. Spurr, pastor of a ^ptist church, approached Dr. Wright, primate of Australian, “with a view of instituting a movement for the sup pression of prize fighting in Sydney. In defining his position, the Rev. Spurr said: “My prime object Is to bring pres sure to bear on the government with a view to preventing the fight between Johnson and McVea, which Is to take place at the Stadium, Rushcutter’s Bay and in fact, to place an embargo on all boxing contests B^R MONEY.” While at first glance it looks ae though the gentleman of the cloth is discriminating, it is evident just the same that he intends the movement to be a thorough one. Such litoxing con tests as are not FOR MONEY are not much of a menace to the public mor als. Members of the Evangelical and Bap tion of brut^ity and, I may add, the chief secretary is in acord with that instruction. It is also within the pow er of a contestant or his seco'hd to bring the event to a close at any mom ent.’ The Inspector general was told that one of the church' representatives claimed the government had the i>ower to prohibit the charge made for the entradce to boxing exhibitions. “That is not so,’’ he said. “So long as a limited number of rounds is stip' ulated, the authorities can not inter* fere.” This is particularly Interesting: as it shows the way glove contests are view ed by the men in authority in Austral- ia. In addition it is quite refreshii^ to hear of an official who has the cour age of his convictions and who ex pounds his views candidly and wifti* out fear of consequencee. If there were such a thing as an inspector- general of police in, Milwaukee, say, and he was asked the ' question thf Sydney reporter asked Day, the chanc' es are he would reply : “I refuse to answer for fear of jeopardizing my political future.* Of course, Hugh* D.* McIntosh, thf Australian promoter, wae heard from. Said he: “I can* only say that the clerical gentlemen a^e laboring under a misapprehension. There Is no such thing as prize fighting in any part of the world today.” -. McIntosh explained that the conteeti held in the Stadium are simply in line with the glove displays at “Oxford, Cambridge, Eton and Harrow and oth er English public “schoole where boxing tist councils of New South Wales have included In the KNOCKOU T BROWN ‘‘Knockout” Brown, the well kn own New York lightweight, who has had an exceptional ring carneer, an d has proved a formidable antagonist, haa been matched to fight Ad. Wol gast, the lightweight champion, for the lightweight championahlp at San Francisco on Chrlatmaa or New Year’s day. Brown has been after W olgaat for a go a long time, and now that they have been matched fight f ana all over the country will be eager a« to the outcome of thia long aoug ht for bout. Yale A nd Princeton Had Best Backfteld The Big Foul (By W, 8. FARNSWORTH.),' |wondfeirfuli form in all^departnjents. New York, i^ov. ^.-^Yale %nd ‘ He N^hs about 195 poui^s, is over „ . ■ , . X,. I. X 1 SIX feet tall and has a whirl of speed Prmcetou have shown the best back- j^ g^^ting down the gridiron under fields of the Big Four this year. One hoists. Avery, his running mate, is a great defensive set and the other'while not equal. |o Bomeisler, is above a powerful ground-gaining team. ; He^ hM one fault that „ . u 1Tj • '.needs correcting badly; he doesnt fol- Pennsy’s backfield is a one-man affair, Mercer alone being a first-class player, on the defense at timSs, he has allow and Harvard’s has been forced to rely ed the man with the ball to get outside a man who cotild play football p^erj- day and Ifve. The game this year was more e^.ctly ‘football for the spectator” than ever before. The limitations placed on the forward pass and on mterferenre, as well as the cutting up or the game Into four periods proved f’l gieat benefit to the game as a 'hole this season, as the coaches and ®en had been given a full year to s-iHpt themselves to the new con- Qitiona. It is likely that next sea- «on ^111 Witness a further advance Mong thp line of scientific footbail. •ne f*'ing is to be noted with pipas'ire is the rise of the smaller oiiegef In the football world. Brown, > virtue of its victory over Yale p* PrevioiiR year and its defeat ol pnni^vlvania In the early season, P o\i»ii one of the greatest drawing ,.^r^- nf the year in the games Har- “ro nnrl Yale, although the Provl- n>»i aggregation proved the under g 11! both these contests. Penn. » rushed into the limelight by hoth (’omell and Pennsyl- (jporgetown sprung its big sur- v.*i' ^*P>ng the Army, conquerors I-ehigh entered the “dark - dasR by tielng Princeton. * iir. Y in the spotlight, \pa ^ wonderful eleven' this r ■probably the .most ■ ■'•khuIp career of any Indian ' II history. Crop of Heroes. ^• :r has itB crop ot heroea hHvp its predecessors, but it lamented that some of those ‘ 'p the most credit do not prominently as more dell. However, Sprackling itill the lion’s share In advancing the ball for his team. Thorpe, of the Car lisle Indians, is another who had an experience akin to Sprackling’s, when he ran all over, through and around Harvard’s second team, al though the latter had him “spotted." Young Camp and Baker. The season presented one of the season most remarkable coincidences ever known when the sons of old time gridiron rivals. Camp and Baker, played in opposing backfields in the Yaie-Princeton game. Walter Camp, Jr., lined up at halfback for Yale, and young Baker held down a similar Job for Princeton. It was thirty years before, on November 24, 1881, when the fathers of these* youths fought for the Tiger and Bulldog respeeUve- ly in one of the mose memorable bat tles of all. It wound up with honor* even neither side being able to score, which was due in large measure to the work of Camp and Baker for their respective teams. Bach of the younger generation a week ago show ed himself to be “a chip of the old block” and the jolly thing about it was that their venerable “daddies” were up there in the stands, with the rooting contingents of their aln» ma ters, "howling their heads ofr at the valiant efforts of their progeny. True Sportamanahlp. What we regard aa the moit mendable exhibition of true manship that haa ever come our observatVon it tftfin in an that appeared in the “Daily Prince- WORTHY SONS OF FAMOUd GRIDIRON HEROES. Two gridiron heroes of 1911, whoae fathers were great before them. The upper picture ahowa young Baker, the speedy Princeton halfback, who starred against Yale, and the lower one is of Walter Camp, jr., of the Ells. The odd part of the coincidence la that the fathera of these youths played at the same time. In 1881, thirty years ago, they were the atara of the tlsy for' Yale and Princeton respectively and the great’defensive work of each prevented a acore by the other’s team, the conteat wind Ing up In a nothing-nothing tie. The Camp and Baker of the past aeaaon were great, even aa were their fath era Both were good puntera, and beth atarred equally as much on de fense aa on offenss. Both also wsrs halfbaeks, just as wsre their peers. did she had no belief in the sincerity of the average society woman s affection for her lap dog. There’s a lap dog story she often used to tell. “A man—so the story runs ■ ■ came down to breakfast one morning to find his wife in tears. „ , ^ • “ ‘Oh,’ slie sobbed, ‘what shall I do? Poor little Fido is ill and the dog doc tor says his case is serious. Oh, what will become of me if anything hap pens to my pr^ioiis * little Pomera nian Fido’ ' “The man comforted his wife as well as he could^ a,nd that evening he came home early in order to adminis ter more, comfort toller. “To hia amazemen^r however, he found her on his return seated at me piEHo one of th6 g^yBst sin from ‘The Count of Luxembourg.’ “ ‘Why,’ he stammered, *why, when I left home this md#ning Fido was ill and you were heiartbrolt^, while now now"’— , . . Strumming gayly, she giaaoed at him over her shoulder, _ “‘You see dear,* she eaid, Mrs. VanAstorbilt called this aftwmoon, a^ she told jne that PomerMiaas are fashionable aby longer. Bvsirytiiin* is Pekingese spaniels now. So I dried my tears and kicked Fido out. — Washington Star. entirely on Wendell. T Yale’s backfield in the big games showed marked improvement in every line. When Uie season first started every critic roasted the men behind of him, too. Avery has another fault, also, and that is his eagerness to get in and smash the play before it has fairly started. This has proven very costly the line at New Haven to a turn, but times this faU. But it ®bows that they developed fast and todays arei^® the fighting spirit and he can much better than the combinations atjbe schooled. _ Cambridge and Philadelphia. It rls a I • Dunlap, the Tigers wing man, also toss-up whether the Tigers are any stronger. But, as I said before, Yale’s back- field is so different from Princeton’s that it is hard to compare them. The Tigers possess the ground-galners, while the Bulldog has a secondary de fense that is the equal if not superior of any eleven that ever wore the mole skins. ^ In Pendleton, Sawyer, Baker, Pen- field, Vaughan and DeWltt the Jungle- town college has the most powerful backfield in either the east or west. They have adapted themselves more for fast end running than line plung ing. The open field tuning of all of these proved a big factor in the Har vard, Dartmouth and Yale games. In the matter of defense, the Prince ton backs lack the strength displayed by the New Havenites. Reilly, An derson, Freeman, Camp and Spalding are all corking defensive backs. Reilly pertiaps is the greatest' defen- sivi^ back in the country. Vaughan’s work in the Harvard and has the same fault. He is a hard man to circle, but he is over anxiotis at times. Opposite Dunlap, , Princeton has White,) whose great woi^k in' thfe Har vard and Dartmouth contests has prac tlcally assured him of a position on Walter Camp’s ' All-Amierican team This player follows the ball at all times, as an end should, and has beeh boxed but few times this season. He is an eleven-second man Sind Covers his kicker’s hoists p^i^ectly. Best Forwai^i While comparing the Yale and Princeton men behind the line it might be well to speak of their best forwards Captain Hart, of the Tigers, has de veloped into the' beat tackle in the country. Coach Roper shduld have placed him in the line long before this season. While he was a good back, he was not playing his proper i>osltion. Tackle is his right wrth. Harvard, Dartmouth a.nd Yale all found him the iiardest playing tackle they face all year. He is a fast, sur ones. Probably ths great tonian,” official organ of the undsr- Dartmouth games in backing up his , and hard charger line called much praise from the with the opposition in the thiw big Princeton coaches, but DeWitt, Sajpir- battles. The big capt^ns ability to yer and Pendleton all showed a ten dency to b« ‘Smcked in” by the oppps- ing backs, especially on the delayed passis as worked on them by the big Dartmouth team. In the matter of kicking both back- flelds have displayed more than ordi nary ability. DeWltt, the Tigers’ best booter, under the ooachihg of his great brother, is th« best man in the coun try today with his toe. He gets more distance than any in the east and his spirals sre hard to clutch. Early in the season Princeton didn’t give this young man much of a tumble, but once he was put in as a regular, his hoists •av^ th« Tigers 4n both the Harvard and Dartmouth games. Baker, Pendleton and Chrystie have proven corking good field goal kickers. For Yale, Captain Howe and Walter Camp, Jr., have been called on to up hold^ this department of the game and have made good. Howe is a very con sistent kicker, who is good for forty or forty-five yards at any time. He can also hold his own with any man in .the east at drop kicking. Camp can get better distance than his captai®: but is not anywhere ,^ear as accurate or so fasr'in getting tlvf ball off. If he could only overconie his fiult to rush matters he would be even better than DeWltt and Howe. Both Tale and Princeton have shown erack ends. It is a toss up whicl^i has the better winir nien. In Bomeisler Tale has an end that has displayed check his man on punts and then get down the field is remarkable In Scully, Yale has a bear tackle also, Paul was the star of the New Haven combination last fall, but he has not come up to the same form this season. Scully, however, has shown big improvement. He is player of the same style as Hart. He is a charger who is playing just as hard at the final whistle as he is at the opening of the first period. He posses one asset that no other tackle in the east can boast of. That is abil ity to charge an opponent and, going through, pick out a man in the sc^n- dary defense. * At guards and centre Yale has about the most finished trio in the country in McDevitt, Francis and Ketchum Francis Js a charger who never faHs to get into the opponent’s territory. He is quick to spot the play and is a stone wall to hit. McDevitt, the other guard, *although only a trifie over five feet, is a scrapper who has developed wonderfully this year. As for Ketch um, all I can say is that he is the best pivot man of the season in this sec tion of the football world. Wilson, Dulf and Bluenth^nthal- are a corking goOd com’binatiOn, and Princeton has been well taken care of in the middle of the line. Duff is the star of the trio. His work In the Har vard game was Bensationi^l. Coach Haughton, of Harvard, w|ui sm>ng in hia t>HU»e^‘tito -arounMrter^L * ^ ranged themselves •behind Rev. Spurr in his work of reform and the war between the “Pros” and “Antis” is on. It is freely intimated that, if Syd ney had not been converted into a stamping ground for the world’s most notorious negro bruisers, and if a Johnaon-McVea fight had not been talk ed of as a climax to the Ethiopian in vasion, these who dislike boxing might have been content to suffer in sil ence. The agitators think that the name White Australia,” which was conferr ed upon the county on account of its aversicm to all men of color, irrespec tive of race, should be lived up to, but the threatened Johnson-McVea fight is the last straw. The vehemence of . the oppo^tipn is such that an .ir* reverent Australian scribe has dubbed the reformers “the society for the ab>tem«ht of the smoke nuisance.’ So far the partles ^who favor box ing have scored better than 13ieir ad versaries. In S^neiy a reporte^ inter viewed ho less a " personage than F. Day, inspector general of poUc^, ^d ^icited the gentleman’s views on the subject. Here is what the inspector general of police said: I do not profess to be able to give an exposition of the law, but I always view glove contests this way: If there he a fixed number of rounds and the con^^t' is'; to be decldt^ on points, it is not a prize fight. This, I believe, is the accepted law.. I am not saying that contests: si;tch as we have in Sydney are, or are'not, prize .fights. I jam ,sim ply giving the generally accept^ idea. The police always attend these con tests and they have Instructions to stop a fight at the slightest exhibi- At the scholastic* institutions names, accor«>ing to Me Intosh, the public are Invited to pay fw admission and the events are arranged and carried out on exactly the same lines as the stadium events. He maizes the plea, that, if boating were degrading and brutal, it would not liave such champions— meaning, of course, outside champions, as Lord Roberts, Sir Harry Rawson, Sir Malcolm Fox, Sir Claude Crespig- ny. Lord Lonsdale* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and many others of prominence in the world of art, literature and mus ic. This som^ow seems to take in Jimmy Britt. With a grand flourish of confidence in his posiUon, McIntosh invites the agitators to attend his stadium some night and witneaa a modem boxing contest, ^ cepted, hilt it the sear6hefs after truth b^me. the guests of the promoter, it i8V*to b^^ hoped, for the sake of the cause Mac represents, that It will not be a Cart Morris—Jim Flynn fight VACUUM CLEANING. the old order of things, houM cleaning was woman’s greatest burden, but the Sianto Vacuum cleaner has made it the lightest of her duties. . We wIft^4o'ycmr cleaniirg or take your order for a machine. Call phone 1292. ItHE iGtA^^ilNA VACUUM > CLBi^NING CO. 315 Realty Building. Stats Agents. No Skidding No RiiB"Cutti^g Tires 10% Ove^’^ize Note these facts—you men who buy l^es. Of all the tires made, the one in largest demand is the Goodyear No:Rim-Cut tire. Over 700,have been sold to date. In two years the demand has increased 500%. These tires can’t be rim-cut. They are 10% oversize. 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