Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-08
SPORTS OF ALL SORTS
Latest Reports From the Foot
Ball World.
BIG TEAMS RESTING
YALE MUST SCORE QUICK IF AT
ALL AGAINST PRINCETON.
Gossip of the Racetrack-Many Bowl
ing Battles - Demand for Army
Navy Boxes-Basket Ball.
BIG TEAMS RESTIN g

In the Princeton-Annapolis foot ball
game, when the score was 10 to o In favor
OF the middies. the contest nearing it's end
and the spectators holding their breath lest
Princeton score again, watches were con-
suited nervousy and often by the Navy
sympathizers. The linesman was seen to
go out and notify the teams that time was
nearly up, and somehow or other the mis-
taken impression got about that there were
only two minutes more to play. Then the
watches came out from many pockets one
eye on the minute hand, the other on the
teams. One, two, three, four minutes went
by, and the anxious ones could not under
stand why the game did not end In reality
there were seven minutes to play when the
linesman informed the captains, and the
time following his announcement was the
longest two minutes on record. Familiar
ity. with the rules would have saved the
onlookerS some worry. Not more than ten
minutes and not less than five minutes be-
fore the half ends is the rule regarding
notification.
Douglass, the crack Navy full back,
whose leg was broken in the Princeton
game, Is not only a fine punter but can
kick from close to the line, after the man.
ner which Sharpe and Mitchell of Yale had
down so fine. This kick puzzled the Tigers
not a little, and was factor in the Nays
victory. When Douglass was injured he re-
fused to be carried off the field He had
not come on the field that way and was not
going off that way. So, broken leg and
all. he crawled over the chalk marks and
beyond the side lines, and not until then
would he consent to the use of the stretcher
in taking him to the hospital.
Use Many Foot Balls.
A big college team uses as many as a
hundred foot balls in one season. This is
good many considering the shortness of
the season and the durab ility of the balls.
But there is morning and afternoon prac-
tice with numerous members of the squad
kicking, falling on the ball, passing it
around and otherwise buffeting it. so that
foot ball is good for the hide and leather
business. Foot balls are made of cowhide
and the cowhide comes from England. One
big concern has an agent in England to
select the best grade of hides. The hides
are tanned and pebbled-that is, given the
slightly. roughened surface-in England.
then shipped here The making of the balls
is all done here. Julian Curtiss went to
England and studied foot ball making
Now" he says, I'VE can beat them all to
pieces
Great pains have to be used in making
foot balls, in order that they go true when
kicked. When De Witt kicked his winning
goal from placement at New Haven last
year the ball went true as bullet, although
1t had gone through long, hard game. The
home team furnishes three or four new
balls for it's big games, and the referee and
suggestions that the lacing on the balls be
lowered beneath the surface, but players
object to this, for the reason that the lacing
gives a better grip on the ball. There are
times. after fumbles, when they wish for
handles.