Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-10-04
UIIllLLEW NTAK
 OF LOCAL A|CH' Pine Bluff High School Eleven Proved Good
 "Mudders.' BEAT CLARY 3 TO 0 New Football Rules Used on Local GridirOn for the First Time
 Game Spectacular.
BEAT CLARY 3 TO 0

Whitelaw, captain of the Pine Bluff
 High School football team made a
 place kick from the thirty yard line, scoring field goal which won the
 initial game of the season in this city
 from the Clary Training School elev-
 en of Fordyce, by score of 3 to 0. The game was one of the stubborne5t
 ever fought in this city. During the
 entire forty minutes of play the rail
 drizzled until it began to fall in I
 downpour near the end of the game. 1 The new rules of this season were
 first tried out yesterday afternoon by
 tn local boys, and several 'o!l
 scouts" of the gridiron pronounced
 the strict observance of the new rules i Bloom of the High School team, has
 been working with his men for the past three weeks and was very much pleased with the showing although he
 expected a greater victory. Several of his new plays worked we'll in the
 game, but several difficult ones were
 not worked with much effect. The
 forward pass play, which has been
 greatly changed by the new rules,
 was not used with much success, as
 both teams seemed backward in us- Pine Bluff team disqualified on the pass, when Captain Whitelaw thrsy the ball more than forty yards down the field, where it was caught by AL len. The result of the play was a gain of about thirty yards, but was on account of the ball be- ing passed over twenty yards, which is the limit on the pass. Out of six trials by Clary on the forward pass only one was successful. The Pine Bluff team was successful in two pas- ses out of three efforts.
 In general, the Fordyce boys played the game more on simple plan and introduced very fe wnew plays un- der the changes in the rules. The Pine Bluff boys had several classy plays, but out of the entire number only a few were worked successful ly. Both teams showed up we'll and the game was good considering the heavy rain in which most of the game was played.
 The game opened by the High School kicking off. In several ends runs' played mostly by Captain Wood, of the Clary School team, the Fordyce eleven worked the ball up the field until within fifteen yards of the High School goal, and the first intermission was called. The second quarter op- ened after three minute intermis- sion, with the ball in the hands of the High School, and only a few yards from their goal. They worked the ball up the field past the center and into the Clary School territory, when it went over to Clary. After several plays the ball was again within a few yards of the Pine Bluff soal and the first half of the, game was over.
 The fighting spirit of the Pine Bluff team came out in the first quarter of the second half and the team held heir ground stub bbornly before the terrible end runs of Captain Wood, of Jlary. The third intermission ended md it was not until within the last i've minutes of play that a real fea- ,ure of the game occurred. Simpson, he heavy fullback for High School 'loughed deep in the line of the Clary School, for gains of several yards at each run. On the thirty yard line turing the hardest part of the rain, ! he High School boldly took a kick 1t the slippery pigskin, which re- 'ulted in the winning score of three 'n field goal. During the remain ng few minutes of play the Fordyce cam could rot score. Water stood i everal inches on the field and at ev- ny scrimmage mud and water splash l
 Claud Sparks, referee; Umpire, 1 ,aptain Whitelaw was one of the | most spectacular ever seen on the To- al grounds.
 Although the game was practically | until the winning score | vas made, the individual playing of everal members on each team was loticed. Wood, captain and right | lalf back of the Clary team was error. His runs around the end 7ere very spectacular and he made ,reat gains for his team. Simpson. ullback -for=the High School team howed to be one of the heaviest and erviest men in the game :, His |lunges into the line for heavy gains made him a star. Toney at center: