Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-09
PRACTICE OF THE
B| GFOUR TEAMS
Bartholomew of Pennsylvania
Has His Leg
Broken.

PHILADELPHIA. October 9.-The first
serious foot ball accident of the season on
Franklin field occurred yesterday when
Bartholomew, candidate for half back,
received compound fracture Of the left
leg. He was Immediately carried to the
| university hospital where the bone was
set. The break was almost Identical with
that sustained by Weede last fall
Barthoiomew was in the squad of backs
catching kicks. The linemen, including
ends, run down under the kicks and tackle
the runner. Neither the running nor
tacklfng is of the fierce sort that is seen
In the regular games
bartholomew did not catch the ball, but
was interfering for the runner The for
wards plunged into him and half a dozen
players in all went down together Bar
tholomew,s legs got tangled with those Of
another player and he fell on his back.
The others fell on top of him and the bones
| snapped just above the ankle.
The little back displayed remarkable
nerve and none of the other players real
| him trying to straighten his broken leg.
bartholomew came from Gettysburg Col
lege and is student in the architectural
department.
day that Draper had passed off all of his
| conditions and was now eligible for the
team. This means that the big tackle will
| be in the lineup against Franklin and Mar
| shall tomorrow. AS to the other tackle DO
/ s1tlon the coaches are on the anxious
bench Whether Folwell will be placed in
| the line or brought back depends very
| largely upon how the other tackle candi-
| dates improve. Roberts, Debow and y. A.
| Laverey are the men fighting it out now
for the vacancy. None of the three has
yet shown varsity caliber
Fast Work at Princeton.
PRINCETON, October ct was ideal
weather for fast work yesterday. but the
Tigers omitted the usual scrimmage The
varsity kept running through signals for
over two hours, for the coaches are de-
When he ought to be be in a play and
where. Bill O'Brien. one of last years
ends, came out for the first time. He will
this year on account of scholarship difficult
ties Harlin, Wister and Hoagland were
called to the training table last night Be-
fore many days there will be several other
new faces at the Osborne field house dur
ing meal time. Harlan and Tibbot got off
some long punts yesterday afternoon and
both practiced hard at kicking from a
close formation. Harlan was pretty sue
! cessful in his attempts at drop kicking,
too.
BUNNY Booth has returned to Princeton
! TO assist in the coaching. At present his
colleagues are Head Coach Roper. Jack
Mann, Eddie Holt and Gresham Poe
Strengthening Yales Defense.
A>i<N liza OCTOBER S.-When the
coaches yesterday took the Yale squad in
hand 1t was with the purpose of infusing
life into the defense and two long periods
OF scrimmage were gone through with this
idea in mind. Particular stress was laid on
the line men from tackle to tackle to get
away quickly when the opposing side has
the Dali The center trio was taught to
take chances and not to hug the scrimmage
line, but to get away and break up the for
nation on the opposing sides. The var
Sity showed not a little Improvement over
the last practice in this respect and often
smashed up the trick plays ATTEMPTED by the
second eleven. Both the varsity and the
second eleven tried forward passes that
went better than they had previously and
other tricks got off in slcker style than
usual. Kicking is being used more and more
by the Yale squad. Paige, big guard who
made good as substitute year ago, is
now free from scholarship dimculties and
has Joined the avrsity squad.
Light Work for Harvard
CAMBRIDGE. October 9.-Harvard S foot
ball squad had only light work yesterday.
as the hot weather on Saturday took it out
of the men. Starr. who got bad leg bruise
on Saturday, was not out in toys. Newhall,
who has been laid up for few Gays, was
out, doing light work with Wendell and
Inches, who are also nursing slight in
juries.
F. H. Nesmith. 'Os, substitute half back
for two years, has been appointed coach OF
the second team and he took charge of the
work. John Dunlop, coach of the half backs
last year. was out assisting in the coaching
and Joe Upton, '93, and Josh Crane 90
were out to see the work. The varsity had
its second crack at the dummy. In a ten
minute scrimmage between the varsity,
which was more than half made up Of SUBJ
stitutes. and the second the regulars scored
on drop kick by Nate Hall from the If
teen-yard line. The varsity played fast
foot ball, showing the same powerful Of
tense and at times the team work which
was noticeable in Saturdays game with
Maine University. kennard was played at
right and on the varsity. 1t was the first
scrimmage for more than week. and be-
fore getting an injury he was at left end.
Burnham, who took his place, has been do
ing so well that the coaches have decided to
keep him in the game.