The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-07
Roueher Than Fighting.


crippled Hogan.
Roueher Than Fighting.
Football Is about ten times as rough
a sport as fighting. I've seen thousands
of ring scraps. but I fail to reco'lect
any single one In which a fighter re-
ceived such a battering s Captain
Smith. OF the Columb team, got few
years ago in ii game with Yale at the
Polo Grounds. The weight Of the Yale
attack was thrown straight at Smith
time and time again. The big fellow
was a team in himself and the most
dangerous man Columbia could boast
in her lineup. But at last he began
going down under the hammering. He
must have been knocked senseless
dozen times before ne was taken out.
And no little ten-secoud count-out
such as fighter knows. He was
senseless two or three times right up
TO the two-mlnute limit. Then, lifted
30 his feet, ne reeled into the next
play.
Hers Was Rough Game.
The game now. however. is improved
to certain extent. and injuries are
less frequent. | remember one game
twelve years ago. in which eight men
frOi-. each team were carried from the
field and two from each team gent 10
the city hospital with broken bones. rms
was IN Western game between the
famous team from Marcus Days mines
. the Butte CMont.) team-nnd the Re-
lance team of California, for the West
ern championship.
Everything went in that game. one
by one the best men on each side were
picked out and battered to pieces.
Then there We're the days of the old
flying wedge" That was fine kill
ing device. Being caught by 1t was
very much like being hit by racing
automobile. II used to lay them out all
over the field-the toughest of them.
There's great difference between
n. in Ile matter OF taking Cruel
ling on the football field. 1t Isn't
always t.r iggest and strongest that
can endure the most. / have only
known one man outside Hogan, OF
Yale, who could never be put out of 4
game or even downed for the two
minute count. This was a gentleman
with a big club team and couldn't
break away from football even when
his practice needed all of his time.
Only Weighed 14o Pounds.
Frck weighed about 1iO pounds. He
was skinny and angular and bony ant
tald-headed. He had a high, SHARP
nose. But nothing on earth could hurr
him. In every contact Tricks bonS
elbows or knees found his opponents
vital spots and the big fellows Wen
down before him In rows. lie coulC
enoot through a hole In the line as BIZ
as a mans hat, and once through h'
could toss off the tacklers like a Span
ISL bull scattering the banderilla mer
In the bull ring. Prick was the on
man that the whole Butte team Iallet
10 make a dent in, and lie was thu
frailest and scrawniest man IN th'
game.
You can't always tell The heat
counts, and good, wiry condition, au'
the kind Of gemcness that makes a MAJ
take whatever comes 10 him withou
saying a word.
Is Maintaining Sport.
Football is man-lnaklng sport. An.
fellow who gees through four years o
college football is fit 10 laugh at tn
bufets he'll get IN the wide world attic
glraduaIion. a good Football playe
las eliminated such things ~ fear an
timidity from his constitution.
You cant play football and be a mol
lycoddle And # There is any molly
coddle spirit I'm you when you begil
itn soon take 1t out OF YOU.
And that's why football is aud Away
will be the great American sport.