The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-11
TAD JONES IN BOSTON.
His Interesting Talk to Big Bible
 Class There.

 His Interesting Talk to T Big Bible
 Class There,
 Vale has scored once in Boston this year, anyway. That was when, yes terday noon, one TT, A. n" Jones, fa nous New Haven coach and quarter back. gave straight talk" to about 500 of the fellows" that make up the Page Bible class at the Dudley Street Baptist church Roxbury llo said athletics cant succeed without the aid uf good, honest. sincere prayer
 Tall and slim and very much in earnest was Mr. Jones even if his gray eyes did have a tired look and his voice refused to get exuberant. He coaches no more at Yale, for tho 10th of next December he is to marry Miss Morris Bettie Shearn of Little ton, Col, at the New Amsterdam ho- tel. New York He will live for the future in Middletown O., and super intend a large paper mill at Hamil- ton,
 So he's leaving Yale now and lhav- ing it defeated, and it doesn't make him feel exactly happy As he him self put it to his audience yesterday "l came ur from New Haven Satur- day night You know what happened there, and you know it doesn't happen very often. anyway, and and I guess to-day you'll have to take me lust as l am.
 Then standing straight and quiet un- der the tiny Yale banners displayed for his honor in the Sunday school room, he talked very briefly and sim. ply about athletics and some other things. Like the coach talking to the squad again, he told his audience frankly that 1t was "up 10 them and like loyal team they listened eagerly,
 "l can't make a speech, you know. he began T never did An 1 can do is just talk And since you know what's tho ono thing with me just at present let's straightcn ont the real position of athletics with regard 10 other things
 ~ believe that athletics Is one of tho finest things 2 man. especially a young man. can get into Of course. man may he just as good a chap if he's never been on the field But you know and I know that tho ath- lctic man nowadays carries a certain amount of influence in the world. m not talking Of the fellow who enters at, 1ts t,.. for himself-l have never yet seen that man really succeed on the grid iron, baseball field. trnck or water. He ought not to. He stands for mere sclfshness
 It's the man who goes into ath- lctics for the influence they can give him, and then wants to usc that in huencc for the good that s tho one who succeeds Just plain. simple athletics for their own sake is only an incident Played with plain. manly spirit there's nothing liner in the | world And that's the way they arc 1 played nowadays The athletes of to-day differ from those of 20 or 30 1 years ago. They havo to keep them selves finer and cleaner, and they ! know it..
 Why yesterday at tho banquet af- ] ter tho game. Captain Rurch said 10 1 me: It's the clcauest game l ever 1 saw played on any fold Think of l lt 2 fight like that between Harvard and Yale, on which the championship l of tho whole world depends and not ! a man pulled out Of the game for i slucging or cursine.
 "Then-well can't of course. toll ! you what happened at tho Harvard ! banquet but ] can assure you that i at ours. when tho mon broke training, ] there was no drowning of sorrows in l q lot of wine and that sort of thing. | The fellows felt the defeat kecnly. 1 bat when I got up 10 como away af ] N;@0 there wasn't 2 man that didn't rise AZ sober as he was when he sat l down, And ton years ago not ton 1 out of the 90 would have been in that ] condition.
 ''The athletes of to-day don't drink | to excess they can't They arc good. clean, strong manly men. They must 1 he, they couldn't succeed otherwise. . Nor can any man succeed either. without good. honest, sincere prayer. 1 The finest mon to-day arc those that work hard and pray hard.
 ''They take care of thctr influence. too. Every single one of you fellows here has certain amount of lnfiu- enco and because of that you ought to be mighty careful Boston Her | aid.