The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-16


The hacker often cut CT pure JOY Of living
would give Reubach hundred dollar notes
for pulling particularly tight game S out Of q
team says Hart, were like himself and Reul-
bach, college players who dropped out
Of sight for the summer and made enough
to pay their expenses for the next year at
college Many minor eague tenn was
with The colegians, and all prsof,ted when a
game was won. There was strong feeling
between towns In sort Of league through
Vermont and New Hampshire, and there
was a lot Of betting when the teams met
used to back himself with as much money
as he could get down in bets. He made
no much money out Of independent ball
while In college that he didn't want to go
into league baseball. But he was per-
suaded against his own better judgment.
seho onno a. and a'asR Rember Of Yaes Base
ball team, is going the way which Ia likely
to make him extremely unpopular with
persons ruling in the field Of sport. For
some reason or another II Is the. popular
and elite thing out West to get In a rap
at the East in any possible connection.
Stage Is now treading in the high paths
Of popularity because he has on three &C.
casions managed to work in rap at the
Fast The first occasion , was o, when he he
was not picked fer first in the Pennsylvania
relay games, and when Garrells Of Michi-
gan was not allowed the discus record at
the same meet. Then little later he made
a kick when Garrells again threw the dis
Gus for worlds record at the Conference
intercollegiate meet, but the performance
was not accepted in the Fast by the A. A. y.
for the simple reason that Garrells again
had failed to provide himself with proper
discus. Then Stage came East to the
recent meeting of the football rules com,
mittee, and on his return to the West placed
before the people out there the idea that
the rules committee would not let anything
about their meeting become public but that
he was not that kind and would tell all
Thereupon he proceeded to tell how
Walter Camp was turned down by the
committee.
The whole situation ia founded on the
resentment to the quieter wal in which thin gs
are done in the East. If a football player
out West punts seventy yards with the
wind once In game he Is at once rated as
the greatest kicker in the world. If some
college runs up 100 points gainst an infants
preparatory school, the fast scoring West
erners' are at once declared to be far SUI
perior to Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Penn
seylvania or any other team you may mem
ton in the East. It counts for nothing that
Chicago sent fast scoring, lightning
attack" team to meet West Point some time
ago, and that West Point crumpled this
team all up. No. Stage has been to Yale,
and he tells Chica go and the West that
any dub" Western team can hold Yale, and
| that good team can beat the Ellis and they
believe 1t implicitly. Yost comes. Fast
hungering for game, because, as he an
| nounces, he wants to show the East. He
doesn't get it, owing to certai in prejudice
here, and he goes back remarking that the
Fasteners are afraid.
Here, is something on the line OF the stuff
that is printed out West, inspired, 1t Ia
presumed from the context. by an inter-
view with the great Stage:
the so-called football rules committee,
originally constituted in 1895 by the Uni
versity Athletic Club, which itself went
out OF existence some years ago. The
committee, which is self-perpetuating, is
limited to associations of colleges. 1t holds
its sessions in private and gives to the public
| only so much of its proceedings as 1t deems
wise. 1t met this year to deal with some
extremely important questions bearing on
the future OF the game, which. in haphazard
manner, is intrusted TO its care. 1t adj
| journed without accomplishing any reforms
save minor alterations OF the rules made
necessary by the attempts of coaches and
| captains to cheat or to take unfair adj
vantages. That there was even discus
| sion of the vital changes demanded was
representative of the Western colleges,
let out some information. Fortunately for
| the reputation of the committee, Mr. Stagg
is able to report that there was some dis
| clission Of the grave football evils which
| stirred the press and the public last fall
into universal demand that the roughness
of the present game should be lessened
| and the whole style of play he opened up,
lest it should lose all interest and became
merely a question of beef.
an the West antagonism TO- the brutality
of the game grew so that bills forblddng
the sport were introduced into four Legis-
latures, a potent stimulus being the twenty
or more deaths of players during the brief
season of two months. On the side OF the
colleges. Prof. Weatherly Of Indiana called
view to their ultimate abandonment on
the present forms"
Then follows reference to Prof. Eliot
we'll known report against football and
something about the abuses or, profes,,
to to- the work of a football rules committee.
obviously it was impossible con-
tinues the article, "for the committee to
sit down to the deliberations without a
knowledge of all this criticism OF and hos
tility to the game. It's members did actually
vote that a more open game would be
desirable. In other words that the popu !,
lar demand for reform should be listened
to. But when 1t came to the method OF
opening the play the committee promptly
showed its inca aoity by, failing to agree
Camp. perhaps the greatest football expert,
offered resolution that the distance to be
gained by a team before losing. the ball
should be ten yards instead Of five.
=As Mr. Stage puts it, Mr.. Walter Camps
plan was turned down cold similar rate
befell Mr.. Stages own su question that to-
open the game the defense be weakened
and the ofrenso strengthened. Instead.
the committee threw some interesting side
lights on the morale Of the game by first
preventing unfair coaching from the eide
ball; third, guarding against a, twelfth
player snealsing on the field without the
cognizance Of the referee, and fourth, pre-
venting unfair communication with players
bv persons pretending to aid the injured.
This in game supposed to be played only
by gentlemen and amateurs"
DOG Was Paid For.
From the Boston Herald,