The evening world., 1905-11-09

QtrvoLUMBIA Is right In denying that
cclumbia's team used rough
CS tactics in the recent game with
Yale. Columbia had just about as much
chance 20 rough those Yale IRON men
sAsJack Munroe had to rough Jenfries,
-srsHERE Is some small talk OF start
NJ Ing an annual championship foot
ball game between the Champions
OF the East and che Champions OF pae
Bsvsst.
Michigan Is considered the best West
-s1n team. 1t has walked away Win all
et;vals ever since Coach Hurry Up"
ror took charge Of football AFFAIRS at
Yam Arbor.
Football has seen many changes dur
ing the past few years. At first the
teams were light and fast Gradually
captains and managers took up the idea
thst big men were necessary In the
l~linsJbucking plays. End running almost
dropped out OF existence, for the great
defensive science developed made It
next thing 70 impossible for any runner
70 get clear,
The Zine Of giants" notion was car
risd to excess, and the game became
slower ana less spectacular. One great
Western team boosted a line averaging
B 20 pounds In weight. Think OF thatl
Seven men, each as big as Jeffries, on
ape team
% Michigan was the first college 10
break away from the voutlne hunt for
s1human elephants. Yost looked for fast
men Of average size. such as would class
as light heavy-welghts in the ring. The
result was that last year he forced the
big men TO take up the same lightning
fast style Of play put up by the light
lf xelght candidates, and he developed tho
" fastest team IN America. II was a team
OF big men, 400. This year Michigan's
team Is lighter, but sim fast as a
streak.
yyALE seems to have taken up the
FY Michigan theory. Her team this
season Is the fastest seen Cor
many years There are no Heffelhngers
ber Glasses or Hlckoks. 1t Is a team of
the asmail-giant variety. and It would
10 through one Of the old-fashloned ag-
~gregatlons OF fat men like a knife
through butter.
In California as well the heavy heavy
weight has gone out OF style. There are
mo ~2So-pounders on the University OF
California team now Speed and snap
have taken the place Of ponderosity. Tho
rife bullet instead of the battering RAM
II win be a great thing for football II the
crack Eastern and Western teams ever
fight out the national championship, ms
+ the New York Giants and the Philadel-
q bhia Athletics recently contested FOR tho
professional baseball honors. The only
nedlficulty lies In the fact shat college
men are not, as a rule, encouraged In
entering competitions that Will carry
e4then far from home.
o<TvHAT rafting OF bones in the pugi-
llstic graveyard still continues.
Now Elbows McFadden. who
once knocked out Joe Cans. wants TO
uNt'come back" The kid" Became a
back number years ago. 1t wasn't the
wine list, however as In the Dal Hlw-
kins case, He simply foughe himself
out, and taught too much boxing in his
gymnasium-a thing that has turned
many a good fighter into a Clever
hasbeel.
no0R Joe Gansl
Deserted By HE people who grew
- rich on the purses he won, and
through betting on The fights he TAXED
htto suit their purposes, he is down and
out To use his own expression, he
Ysin't got a hard thin dime TO his
Z name"
'srJce Cans can SIN hglt as a weller
Doweight. He Is probably the best weller
uin America, Without a n ne may
PEI haps develop a reputation for ring
sqhoneR.y, In which case h would not be
al all surprising " Joe Cans cane back
10 Baltlmo' wearing glad rags and q
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