Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-09
Sporting Gossip

After every football coach. great and
small, has lauded and undergraduates
are patting each other on the back, cnortllng, g
We're going to have championship team
next year, old man." one simply has 70 re-
turn to Fielding II. Yost. Again the hurry
Up person proved that he is the shrewdest
and best coach in the country. Out Of a
rabble Of Indifferent material he welded the
Michigan machine which swept the west ana
STAYED off Pennsylvania, the second best
eleven of the east.
gathering of rah-rahs the other night. After
q group of former football men had dis
cussed the teams of the east and west, end
ing where they began, western graduate
strolled in lie planted his big form on the
edge of the group and puffed serenely at a
rather weedy appearing cigar The Yale
Princeton game was rehashed.
IT tell you Tom Shevlin's a wonder cried
one. He developed the shift that beat
Princeton"
''Your minds vacuum" rejoined another.
WILLIAMS, The Minnesota coach. invented the
play way back "
well cease the combative chatter" in
terrupted a mild-looking individual. Let's
settle this once for all. Shevlin says it's
Williams shift and the latter pats Shevlin
on the back and gurgles, No. Thomas be
not over modest; take the credit of your
genius So iers divide the honors between
Williams and Shevlin."
mot so that you can notice it, believed
a hitherto silent one. ERNEST skeel, coach
of Worcester university. introduced the play
in Ohio conference football three years ago."
The others gasped but renewed the debate
with Increased relish. williams, )" "Shev-
Inns" and "Skeels" were murmured and
howled.
The big Worcester man looked more and
more bored. Finally the cigar shifted and he
drawled:
''Vhy. Hurry Up Yost used that shift fif-
teen years ago. He's forgotten more about
football than your Shevlins, etc, will ever
know Just before 1 came west | saw Field
ing. He was reading of 'Shevlins shift in
newspaper. He looked up, smiled and said:
1T is so long ago since 1 introduced that
play that l forget the name of the team
remember thing, though, l didn't run
INV players into exhaustion before getting
them into position Tor the play sheVlin's
shift?-Huh!
away
The Philadelphia Rialto is agog over the
rumor that Moran and Wolgast will meet in
a six-round bout in that city Moran has
already declared himself willing, and VOL
CASTS consent would clinch the match.
Unless the Navy can be allotted more seats
the football game with the Army will not be
played on Franklin field, Philadelphia, next
autumn Lieut.. Commander Harris Lanning,
head of athletics at Naval academy, has just
issued this statement. Lanning said that no
fault was found with the University of
Pennsylvania authorities and spoke In the
warmest terms of the friendly feeling between
the institutions An attempt will be made
to stage the Army-Navy football game in
Washington, d. c., on the White House
ellipse Stands to accommodate $4,000 spec
tators could quickly be built and razed, it is
said.
Secretary William A. Hazard of the Amer
Jean Polo association has received a chal-
lenge from the English association for Sc
ries of matches for the international cup.
This trophy was won by the Meadow Brook
club at birmingham in 1903. Last spring
England challenged for the cup but later
Withdrew the challenge.
The English Lawn Tennis association has
announced ITS intention to propose an annual
match hereafter with the United States.
This contest will be independent of the Da-
Wis cup competition. The match will be
played in England and the United States al
iernateIy. If the proposal is accepted by
the United States Lawn Tennis association
representatives. English teams for the COM
petition are assured.
Fred Coleman Of Pottsville, Pa, who
claims the live bird and target shooting
championship, has been matched with How
ard Bates, champion wing shot of Canada,
Tor a series of live bird shooting matches
for $4,000 a side. The place and date have
not been determined They are TO shoot at
100 birds each. Coleman is credited with a
record of 100 straight kills,