The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-05
GOSSIP OF THE GRTDTRON.
By FRED IOWENTHAI

Gee exclaimed an old profess
slonal baseball player the other day. Il
thought that Steffens broke his contract
with Chicago, bat I guess that Stagg
must have raised the salary limit, cause L
see he's back at Chicago"
One OF the hardest working center rushes
that I ever saw never played on a varsity
football eleven. | refer TO Bell. the COL
ored boy, who captained the Morgan Park
academy team in 90. At that time cen
ters were Of little value TO a team after
swapping back the ball remember play
ing against Bell, as a member OF the
Calumet High school bunch. and every
time his woOlly bristles rubbed against
me the sensation reminded me OF the
time I jumped of &. freight train and
slid along a rails length or two on my
ear.
Bell was an embryonic theoiogian, and
Of course. very devout. This. though. did
not prevent him from playing as rough
a game as the rules allow. In A stlH
contest with the team from Englewood
High school. the colored lad was pitted
against Flocken, who at that time had
some reputation as q weight tosser. For
awhile there was a terrific duel going
on between the two, but finally Bell put
lis cpponen; hors de combat with neck
hold which was cross between Evan
Lewis favorite and 3 straight choke
o.! my neck is broke" cried Flock
IN. writing in pain, The -- broke my
Ecck.'
Get up" said The dusky giant, with
on: raising his voice, get up; 20 neck
amt broke. o you couldn't swea' Ike
that
T.
Tobin, my most intimate friend and the
oscar Fisher OF Urbana, maintains that
he deserves the credit for making me all
western center one year. According 10
Tobin, / had the team made and that's
all, when along came the Michigan game.
4 Chicago paper sent down a special cor
respondent 10 cover ID. The special man
/ think his name was Riley-got mixed
up with local booze and arrived on the
held with 4 = beaut.
As resident college correspondent. Il was
Tobins duty to point out the local players
10 the Chicago man. We kicked of, and
the Michigan man was downed almost be-
fore he could advance a foot.
" Who made that tackle? asked Riley.
" Lowenthal." replied Tobin.
Michigan then sent Mclean around the
end and he was stopped for a loss.
" Who stopped that2" put in Riley.
Lowenthal," from Tobin.
Sweeley then attempted TO punt and the
bail was blocked.
" And who did that?" asked Riley.
q" I.owenthal," said Tobin.
When the paper came out the next
morning. the sendoff that got turned nay
head until got TO the passage which read
something Ike This, and knew that Tohin
had been stringing someone:
Lowenthal booted the leather high for
GO yards, and Sweeley caught It, but
was downed in his tracks by Lowenthal.
who went down the field like lightning
from ends position"
OF course anybody could have seen that
II was all joke. but. according 10 Tobin,
II made my reputation. a
Two old timers are lighting It out for a
guard position on the Illinois team
Dad . 1Tairchild and Dad Wiley.
They come from the same Town. room to-
gether ard for Eve years both have tried
for the team. THE former Just missed
making his letter last year. while the
latter barely made bis the year before
It's toss Up as 20 which enc OF he Two
makes the team