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that part of the field where the ball is to
drop.
Roome of Yale could kick beautifully for
this play. He lifted the ball at an angle
over the heads of both elevens and drop
ped it repeatedly in games almost within a
yard of the end who was running to pro-
tect him. So often was this done that
there could be no accident about it, and
the feat showed great proficiency on the
part of the Yale kicker
The Ellis used the play when they were
on the lest down and about to lose the
ball, If they failed to gain through the
line. ITS good risk said Foster Rock
we'll IF YOU lose the ball you have got
TO take the defensive. whether you are in
the middle of the field or near the goal of
the opposing players. If you make your
onside kick come off successfully you have
gained your minimum distance and per
hans twenty or thirty yards more. The
ball is once more yours on first down
and you have inspired your team with en-
ergy because they are that much nearer
the goal of the opposing players
Part of the Open Game.
The onside kick comes in the category
Of open work. which Is believed to become
the fashion in the game this year. 1t is a
dangerous play to try with team which
has had little experience in it and any
coach should give his men plenty of in
} StEutIIOl III III d'lItC, anu i'i+C" - up
with plenty of work against the scrubs,
if he expects to use it in d game of I'M
Dortance. On the other hand. as play
of last resort. it is as likely to work well
for the team which ressts 1t. In other
words where the attacking team is max
ing the last stand. in the words of the
old farmer. it may as well die for an
old sheep as a lamb
AS a ground gamer when the onside kick
does come off successfully, 1t is likely to
be wonderfully successful. If the ball
happe ms to roll free and the end Of the
side making the kick is in any way able
to elude his opponents, pick up the ball
and run. il is by no means impossible that
he can gain half the length Of the field if
h'a remains within bounds.
| On the other hand. there is possibility
that in trying the onside kick the ball
/ will be missed by the attacking side. in
which case the defense, with good work
on the part of its ends and tackles is
/ trying to force the ball and carry the
spherOid a long distance back and within
/ the lines of the attack.
| 1t seems to have been the experience of
majority of the coaches that it is often
advisable to employ the onside kick when
least expected If a team makes a prac-
tice of attempting the play as a final re-
sort, before the possibility of losing the
! ball on downs. it will not be long before
the defending side will perceive the regu-
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tiOnal Association of Amateur Oarsmen
would lend its aid toward securing the re-
moval of the obstruction.
But last week a surprise was given the
promoters of the scheme by the filing in
the District courts by John Moore by
his attorneys. Messrs. D. w. O Donoghue
& Co, a, petition asking that he be given
a quitclaim in order that ne might sell
the property, which he claims is three
acres in area, as his patent shows and
which is also shown on the plat book of
the District of Columbia.
The place has never been used until last
summer, when a storage house boat was
anchored between the Sisters and the
District shore, on which, it is stated,
John Moore, the owner. resides the pur-
pose evidently being to establish a title
right by possession.
This uprising of a claimant to the Sis
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greatly nv il and if is NOT q NAV which
cannot he rene fcd for tho VIEW reason
thar Won can sniff In. course Of the hall
as often as Vol, wish
Az Htion mas alfeady heen called to th4
must have cn.,e win snccd This viii be
emphasized all this year, as it becomes
more and more evident that there IS to be
II -ItIsi,S 81 PiaHS Hrouhu tHe Hahhas o,
T1,rsf - g ,,-,t,r-fr1 49, III ,1i,s+ Iat
be deceived hv A fefnt to throw the bail
toward the end opposite him. for with
AShi and fast team that Is capable OF
go, Ni.'te .-4 j. nndoe up "I quIsk
~ IN r,Iav- Ia r,r1 tha u-inqs
More than one eleven suffered in 1906
because Of the weakness Of its ends.
!-\eh II lIe< Were abe 70 lol."W the pan
49, u ~ 80. ~, "a ~
deIfberatrly v.aIkad into evarv tran aid
against them by the attacking side
Princeton and Yale were blessed with fair
y sooa eHas -ast ian Ihey We're nearer
90, ~ +r. w. irs., ,,..i -
Pom The ARMY aud NAVY were fortIIrate
in having excellent ends. The play of the
ends ON Tn" part ~ the Navy III the Army
Navy game at Phllad ptlla was one OF the
most 'Nhl.araung exhibitions That the
sport Witnessed all the year.
II seemed almost Impossible to turn them
ana II seemed quite out OF the question TO
box them up. IAtE We're goon doaSers
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in spite of bad steering by their coXswafn
Seven days later they defeated the George
town prep. crew.
After the close of school six of this
crew came out to try for a seat in the Po-
tomac junior eight. All six were able to
make the boat, some of them beating out
men who were forty or fifty pounds heav-
Ter. July 4 they won the distinction of
being the only Washington eight-oared
crew to win an event at the peoples re-
gatta in Philadelphia. This success was
followed up five weeks later, when the
crew returned to Philadelphia. this time to
enter the intermediate class at the regatta
held by the n. A. A. o. Winning this
event with ease, they were entered the
next day in the senior class where they
were pitted against the best senior crews
in this country and Canada-New York
Athletic Club West Philadelphia Boat
Club the Riversdes of Boston and the
Argonauts of Toronto. BY rowing second
to the winning Canadian crew, they
proved to be the best oarsmen in this
country, though they were mere school
boys with less than six months expe-
ricnrp
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CLAIM TO THE THREE SISTERS
Movement to Clear the River Ap
parently Blocked.

It was mentioned in The Star recently
that a movement was on foot among the
rowing organizations, IS well as others
who are interested in the Improvement of
the river, looking to The removal of the
Three Sisters" from the channel of the
river, the idea of course being to i'm
prove that portion of the river for re-
gatta purposes.
1t was announced that at the coming
session Of Congress an appropriation
would be sought for the blasting and
dredging of the spot, and that the Ma
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Bv John B. Foster.


EXPRESSIONS Of opinion. which have
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prominent .'es .'1''' ''''' as
States. are niue. allE' IN '-Al tt'1 I' --
Sirr more open play this year than took
,r,.- o., rolG
- ,.- 1870 .t,- Is 70 he
LNa'I.1 I'" ''.'' ''
worked out IS something. NJ COURSE iI'aI
1ha coaches are not uveTwillug To dis
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some ...lHS "--..- F'iN''N mus
+.r-. but the coaches WI h'Sh carry 10
teach running plays. which wer" only
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discovered .ha' there mus 3r some .lAE
more t.an ",o-faSl'"Hr0 mass pay IL 4
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dark as to what the Ellis were doing. they
practced the play and sprung their sensa-
ton in the Princeton game. Well, they
gained by it and they gained also with the
same play in the Harvard game.
1t is true that il is a very risky per-
Torrance, unless you have the material to
accomplish it successfully and general
in charge of the eleven to know when it is
the right time to use it.
Popular With Lighter Teams.
Among the preparatory schools and in
the smaller colleges and very possibly in
the universities there will be more use of
the forward pass than was the case last
season because the coaches and the play
ers know more about the play.
Edwards, the referee of last season and
the old Princeton guard says it is a play
that has not been fully perfected and,
furthermore, he anticipates that it VIII be
worked out even more intricately than it
has been up to date. In other words,
there will be stratagems in connection with
1t which will give the attacking side a
splendid gain if they are able to carry
through their formations without blunder-
ing.
a team that is composed of fast men
and which has in its back field a sure
catch and a long thrower and also has
sure catch at both ends or at tackles
may try the long forward pass almost
any time and be sure of gaining distance,
providing the other team is caught off its
guard.
1t is evident that there is very little
hope to advance the ball If a forward
pass so open is attempted when the backs
of the defense are well behind their line
and able to get up to the ball with little
or no troublt. Every coach this year
who devotes his time to perfecting the
work of his players in the use of the
forward pass will find himself in posses
sion of splendid weapon of attack when
his charges can find the other team nap
ping.
On top of the good work that the Yale
eleven did with the long pass it was i'm
mediately taught to the Navy, and IN the
game against the Army it was evident
from the start that the adoption of Yale
methods-which last year happened to-
ward the close of the season to be the
more advanced methods-had done much
for the sailors within the few days that
Yale men We're handling them.
Concerning Mass Play.
1t is not going to do much good to waste
much time in mass play this year. That
was proved in 1906. but there were few of
the coaches who were willing to admit it.
and there were some of the old guard
who did not want to admit it,
1t seems if Harvard devoted a lot of
time in the endeavor to perfect the men
" against Yale. that breaking the line
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that it is Impossible to see the ball when
1t is placed on the ground. Under the old
rules that is what they were expected to
Go. Everybody concentrated a the center
to shove the ball through the line by force
of weight and whatever physical strength
the team possessed. The necessity for
that has passed away. What line player
must now remember. however, is that ii is
up to him to take care of the particu-
lar man against whom he is playing and
he must be ready to block him, or to in
tercept him. if he finds that he is on the
direct line Of the man with the ball.
One of the most important results OF
the new rules is that it has made foot ball
stars of men who were known to be good
but who were held back for fear that they
were too light for the game as played UNI
der the old rules.
Developed Under New Rules.
For instance, Veeder became famous last
year because of the fine passing which he
showed to the public Roome, who had
been a valuable player for Yale. was even
more valuable in the early part of the
season on account of the skill with which
he could direct a punt for an outside kick.
Forbes, because of his great activity
and the fact that he is naturally an all
around athlete, was one Of the grand
players Of the season. and hc was not 4
Heffelfnger in weight or a Glass in stat
ure.
The quarterba cks-those who were ca
pable-shOne like arc lamps of intense
briliancy. In fact, the quarterback is
position of even more importance than it
was under the old rules. The quarterback
of the present time must be a general in
every way. He must be observant. must
he on the alert to catch the defending
team mapping, and has every opportunity
10 change his plays until his opponents are
bewdered by the diversity Of his attack.
Eddie Dillon, the Princeton quarter was
a star last year: so We're Tad" Jones of
Yale and E,rkersall Of Chicago and tla two
quarters at Cornell who ran their team
with fire and vigor Two years ago a
quarterback knew just about how much
avorcyIpois he could hurl against a GER
tain point in a defending line, and he con-
tinued to throw the avoirdupois into 1t I'M
til the line weakened. That was about all
there was to the game, but 1t is not so
now.
Players who can run low to the ground
and VINO are sturdy and thick set, hard 10
handle. wrigglers as it were, are splendid
ly adapted for the new game. and there
are many such among the Younger gener-
ton one may expect to sec the finest lot
e foot bail players on the American grid
iron within the next two years ever en-
gagged in the sport and they will run the
game at such speed that. from the stand
point of the spectators there will be more
attra ction TO il than there has been since
American foot ball began TO be considered
the grandest autumn sport in the country.
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ters'' will block the move of the rowing
men and may prevent the removal of the
bed of rocks and mud from the course
used by the rowing clubs, when holding
large regattas.
Another phase of the matter is brought
out by this request of the courts on the
part of John Moore. and that is that the
move is made in the interest of the Wa
bash Railroad Company which is de-
sirOus of entering Washington at this
point, using the Three Sisters" for pier
of a large steel bridge that would span
yards on the District side of the river.
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was not going to win the game for them.
and when they had exhausted their re-
pertoire in line plays they had nothing left
like the dashing work of the Ellis.
1t is true, of course, thIt n team must
have as good forwards as it can get, but
1t is not absolutely necessary that the
| forwards shall be picked because they
are possessed of more brute force than
others of their colleagues.
There will be mass plays and there will
be attempts to slip through tackle and
end and between guard and tackle, as
| there have been in the past. There are
! times when ii is absolutely necessary to
try for plays of this kind. but there will
always be the lurking danger to the de-
Tense that the attack shall spring some
open play which shall find them unpre
pared al the moment TO meet it. and there
Will he an effort on the part Of teachers
Of foot bail to impress upon the coming
players the necessity Of being ready to
take quick advantage of such openings
With the experience that a man like
BislOW of Yale had in the game last year
or player of the caliber of FOlWel Of
Pennsylvania. or man like Thompson
of Cornell and a dozen oh, RS who can he
named. it is safe to say that -here Will be
smarter runs and Craftier formations thai
there have been since nc rules wee
changed.
Coaches will make every effort to find
Aast men for their teams. IS well as men
who can stand the stress Of two halves Of
a fast game. Weight Will not count 50
much as ability 10 get around nimbIy and.
with that qualification. endurance. II u
man is heavy and has both speed and en-
durance. so much the better. Under the
new rules he becomes an ideal player.
Tendency to Become Open.
Walter Camp says foot ball will con-
stantly tend to become more open. "Bill''
Reid of Harvard is of the same opinion.
Both seem to think that ere long some
body viii devise a play by which a run
and a forward pass will be worked in uni
son, and this, it is thought, will be one of
the most spectacular plays of the new
game.
DR.. Carl Williams. the Pennsylvania
foot ball chairman. says it is absolutely es-
sential that the players under the new
rules keep their eyes open all the time
"A man must learn to follow the ball, "
said he. IF he fails to do so. with the
chances that are now offered to run with
it over the field, he cannot hope to make
an eleven as a regular.
A. the neutral zone now separates the
elevens and has been found to work ad-
mirably. it is perhaps only question of
time before the tackles and the ends viii
begin to drop further and further away
from the center. They must not be per
mitted to scatter too far as that prevents
co-opera ton with the other members of
the eleven. but it is no longer essential
that they shall hug the center so closely
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The law school boat numbers many we'll
known oarsnien in its eight. There is
Capt. Bill Rice of the varsity, Sid Mudd
and his brother Griff, who have been
prominent in handling the sweeps of the
Blue and Gray; Al Tighe, who last season
str0ked the Georgetown junior crew;
Horace Barber. whom Caspar Whitney
declared TO be the most perfect stroke at
Pouehkeepsie in 1903, and others well
known. Although not a Woodworking
crew. these men expect to make it,inter-
esting for any crew which may meet
them on the afternoon of October 80,
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Good Form of the Sophs.

The s0phomores this fan present the best
form Of any crew on the river This boat
ras Chapman and Murray Of last season $
Pougakeepsie boat. and stuart Of the sec
oud crew Stuart and Murray are botR
playing foot ball along with their rowing.
bur VIII probahly drop one or the other
snort in a short dime With these three
mon IN the boat and some more husky
.aea who have caught the stroke Very
resd;-y. the soras expect 20 W'n in q
Va T.
T.a freshman boat presents almost as
heavy p crew as The seniors. With the
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AQUATIC ACTIVITY
At GEORGETOWN


u 10 date ~ me annual ''''e CLASS re-
catta Al G=crEs town University has Just
been announced. r. viii take place on
49,. rr..-.r.,.... ,y-7..--,7,,- October % a.
r,-lr- ,-, ir-o,-,.-o-s f-+r75yra5 and
.-a local sarerest displayed the fall r.
eta n III, 1srar. rowing university prom
ISIS -, c.ltr-a ANYTHING like il ever held.
Tho interest Will. Of course. center in
.., .-,1s-fa-s rae, fin which all four
classes save entered crews this year. any
o., 90 ,,if--- would IN credit =, \ arofes-
si.-7r coach. These crews. as are all the
-e-.-s -,4...,-. ar, entered I'm the regatta
t. ..-..4f-4 -.,-r- - ,t-.. 900
'@.7. '...' one mas ps..'i" VARSITY
!ra1 IN '-- boats and few men from
second and ir-rfar gr-eyz ar GeorcetaUu
7s-..,r.-. 49, 1870 -- 49,.
7"' >'.'I~ "afH-l.'N arc WORKING ONT ih"''
oUr systems and their own IDEAS in re-
GRO u, rr-- no I'm q, -,.a.- that will oman
49,, e.,-. - .,
90 u - -, -, I7
" 7''.'' 49, -
a IN -,
-- .:.,. 1i
PSI 81, '-N' - ''"''. -'. ~ ,''',
N-''~' '.'' ".''"E '' .'..'l'.~
'-'.' As,''" -.
I.4nl ', qua Wv, .'.-
ms is me E'Ht experiment.
G..4;-,,, 0,,+ +l,s Nov Nov
fi"retofor" az Georgetown local lntHeN'e
has been s,fght.I. the fall regatta being
q ,r.r. rg--, o. ,--au.jr~. r,,. +IIe eight ar
'''. mon " '.' ""'' Z" ''-'S''..''' '''' va
s'fy crew the follow. 1E season. ther"
v-re no Incentive IN new men to go out on
-, .s-.,. .5,.r,- s-, r,,.. .5,.. ,7f-.e,rsa,,,rs
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The Proposed Association.

The success of the technical boys re-
awakened the movement for interhigh-
school rowing. and during the summer a
body Of Washington's business men and
lovers of the sport organized the Inter
scholastic Rowing Association. Under the
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Meet of Irish-American A. C.

NEW YORK. October 12-The fall meet
of the Irish-American a. c. will be held
at Celtic Park tomorrow. In feature
events the program will be rich.
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y
daring captain who would take a chance
with the onside kick tn moment that he
got the ball in his possession, and yet
there are times on a foot ball field when
daring accomplishes more than delibera-
ton.
The Forward Pass.
To what extent the forward pass will
be used this year Is a question that no
one can answer. Rather to put the matter
more accurately, it is probable that the
forward pass will be used almost 100 per
cent oftenerl than it was in the season of
1906
Roper of Princeton was a great be-
lever in 1t last year. and he worked his
team with ii from the start. but under
the very eyes of everybody Yale perfected
system of forward passing which was
brilliant, spectacular, flashy and nerve
racking in its first exhibit, as no one
seemed to think it possible of success.
do not believe that any foot ball crowd
of the tremendous size of those which wit
messed the eastern university games ever
sat in more breathless establishment than
that which witnessed Yale and Princeton
play last year when Veeder, the Yale
back, made the first of those giant for
ward passes which were the sensation of
the year.
Nor was there more of demonstration
over a play than there was when Yale
succeeded with the long pass, which
shows that the American public, for one
thing, is very apt in gathering the finer
points of all the pastimes which 1t favors
and takes notion to commend.
The pass by Veeder was not Of the ma
ture of the low, driving pass which is char
acteristic of English Rugby. 1t was a
high arching throw. Veeder, at the ex-
treme end of his line. paused after a feint
run, turned about and threw the ball far
over the heads of those who We're trying to
block him. and far beyond the line of de-
Tense of the Harvard team-where Alcott
the Yale end. was waiting to catch it,
When the forward pass was first ex-
perime nted with in the early part of the
season most of the coaches had in mind
that about all there was in it a pos
sible handing of the ball forward by one
member of a team to another at a psyche
logical moment in the game, or a quick
toss around the ends.
Both Princeton and West Point worked
largely with the fast passing at the ends,
and both made profitable gains with the
play. Nobody had thought of throwing
the ball half the length of the field, as one
might toss the ball in basket ball.
1t is said that Joe" Quill, far down in
the south, worked out the play and that
he wrote to Yale and advised that it be
attempted. The Yale men We're hestant
about taking it up, but Yale seldom lets
anything get away without giving 1t a
trial, and while others were wholly in the
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Tech HIGH SCHOOL CRgW. of %@Z&&51RX
( )NALL. I )RFWTE.PI JPRAN5W.
WLJ0NMGR) ALrEnU1 DECAPRE
FHRALL. BULLoUqH. HECoX(coAcH
HOWELL. CARLTON MCKINNEY
AUERBAC1. ELLIS.
1TEpI PRANO


Now mat 'He i'a"S 81 .I'' ~
tHe new i7''''l-S''I ho""is
toh nave rea'i'e" SUN d" 7u''.'1e' S'aee
tnat the students OF several OF tle hlsH
schools ana preparatory se'-"o'S ol ,he
blSt'i't are searching men rams ip' '"7
most promising ere" ma eI'a'' 1t - inter-
esuhE ~ -o"h DICK zen Years /" '"e l''ile
"Aeh the H'St NdS'l''SI"h hiSh Scno"l
ere" was "lEah'~'" anu tooh the "dlei
under me 'o!ofs "t 'he Ola 'oiui'hld Atm
I''l' 'lbh. II was IN ola ''hlr@l f1ish
mat the rowing spirit HTst hateTlailZed IN
a crew, and II was hoped AT the tlne that
Ike interest could ne INSPIRED IN the other
hiGh SCHOOLS hut the movement ialled'
ana II was mol uhui last year "heh the
le'hhicai S't""l put OUT us me eIEht'
that high school interest IN rowing again
manifested Itself.
The Firs+ uioh School Crew
nv li's' I's' s'i''o' o'e" ie'ei !"" 81
'+'er 'pe "Il'e ana "iii'e OF OeH 'rai pul
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Techs Crew of Last Year
The Law School Crew.

10 other props, who have the heavier
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Open Play Will Dominate Foot Ball.

larty of the effort and be prepared to
meet it.
on the other hand. he would be a very
daring captain who would take a chance
with the onside kick tn moment that he
got the ball in his possession, and yet
there are times on a foot ball field when
daring accomplishes more than delibera-