Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-26

Football is the disturbing element in
the brain of many of the rah-rahs at
present and rumors of what the new
rules are to be have cast a cloud of
gloom over the college circles. If
there is anything a rah-rah diSlikes 1t
is to be hemmed in with lot of rules
which have been created by the over
Jealous followers of every whim of
public opinion, and when it comes to
the real game of the American college
man, football, and American football,
it becomes raw indeed. From the
standpoint of the local football cap
tains and trainers for next year. the
new rules are not going to be very
popular, and from the general trend
of letter sent from the Walter Camp
headquarters the plan outlined for the
1910 style of play is anything but foot
ball, and even Rugby becomes by COM
parison a game of fearful character
and one which the mollycoddles will be
after next. One of the points that To-
cal captains are in the air about Is the
prohibition of the flying tackle, and
they are wondering what football will
look like from the bleachers without
this spectacular feature of the game.
Mass play is forever banished. In
reference has been done away with
and about the only difference the dis
interested spectator will be able to
discern is the fact that the game is
played on a gridiron rather than
diamond and that the object of general
desire is of larger size and manufac-
tured of pigskin rather than horsehide.
Are we to have two national games
and eliminate the ancestral American
Indian game? That is what is now per-
picking the rah-rahs.
"Restringing is an art" said
young fellow in a local sporting goods
house the other day, and nearly every
the sentiment. Many of the local play
ers are amateur racquet stringers, but
they do not realize the difference be-
tween amateur and professional work
until they start to play with the latter
after having experienced tournament
match with the former lily Myer,
racquet stringer to the crowned heads
of lawn tennis, a favorlte at Newport
and among the eastern court artists,
has come west with a great reputation
for fine racquet stringing, and expects
to remain among the local camps for
some time to come. Myer has had ten
years experience in the tennis manu-
featuring line, having served an ap-
prenticeship under the most skilled
hands in the business and finally bested
them all at their own game He can
build a racquet from the frame up to
the shellac and take it down again. He
knows the stringing game from start
to finish, and expects to be on hand
during the coming Journeys to show his
skill. He is with the Spalding people,
coming directly from their factory for
the aid of the local sporting store:
The Spalding people have announced
that they will keep their expert on the
grounds at the Virginia tournaments
and will restring all Spalding racquets
free of charge for the players.
Now that the collegians have given
up the local fields for the summer, the
college forces are on the lookout for
new timber for the teams of 1910-1911.
All the Southern California schools are
losing heavily in the athletic line by
the graduation of many of the athletic
buwarks of their baseball. football
and track squads, and the cry is to go