The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-22
University of Missouri is First
to Adopt Methods.
RULES FOR FOOTBALL
On Mach 20 the intercollegiate Rules
Committee VIII Decide Fate of
FOotbaII-Bugs Raymond Is
on the Water Wagon.
BY MANHATTAN.

school in the land Of Uncle Sam teach
ing jiu-jitsu to its students. Six Tex
perts" recently graduated and understand
that they are getting ready TO make a
sort of educational tour to show the adj
vantages of the Japanese form of wrest-
ling. The athletic instructor at Mis-
souri, claims two advantages in jiu-jitsu.
The first of these Is the health giving
properties of the sport; the second is the
use of self-defense to which 1t can be put.
Two Japanese instructors, T. Yoshida and
G. Mizoguchi, are in charge of the Mis-
souri, classes. Yoshda says that Ameri-
cans are just as apt In learning the
tricks of the game as the Japs. In
deed. among the members of the jiu-titsu
class there are at present some husky
young westerners who can throw the Japs
every time.
Positively the last call for football
comes on March % when the intercoi-
leg1ate rules committee will hold their
adjourned meeting to decide the fate
of college rugby" There are three sets OF
rules before the committee. one of which
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necessary for me to say what rules will
be chosen but to epitomize the thing the
following changes will be made
Forward pass to be changed
Flying tackle and piling up plays to be
abolished.
Heavy mass plays with wedge forma-
ton to be prohibited.
Onside kick to be modified or done away
with.
Exhausted players to be protected.
More rigid examinations of aspirants es-
tablished
Crashing tandem plays to go.
1t is evident that something must be
done to save the game from the inroads
of soccer and l am sure that all will agree
that the changes l have noted will not
kill rugby They merely make 1t safer
and more open. Some very able sus>
gestions have come from DR.. W. L. Dud-
ley OF Vanderbilt university at Nash
vile; DR. Harry d. Williams of the Uni
versity of Minnesota and Coach Stage OF
Chicago.
President Jordan of Leland Stanford
university OF California is perhaps The
most severe critic of last years style of
rugby. but even DR.. Jordan may be won
over by the new rules. once they are
formulated.
Extral Extra, Extra.!! Bugs Raymond
Is on the water wagon. Yes. our old
friends Buggy is to get another trial
this year the Giants. In recent months
Bugs has been operating a gin mill up
town, but the lure of baseball led him TO
seek another trial from Manager Nc
Gray. Bugs Will be taken south with
the Giants in the spring.
England has been raving over Amer
lean invasions'' for SO long that 1t IS
our turn to do a little raving and 1t ia
being done now by the stewards of the
American Rowing association. The stew
ards are uttering naughty words over The
persistence OF the American rowing public
in referring to the regatta on the Schuyl-
kill as the American Henley" copying
the phrase from the English Henley regat-
ta- Plans are now being hustled for the
coming scholastic race with representation
from Boston, New York, Philadelphia.
Washington and Baltimore. but they are
working even harder to stamp out all ref
erence to the American regatta as the
Henley regatta.
When Edward Payson Weston reaches
city hall with his message from the
mayor of Los Angeles he will be p years
old On March Is, somewhere along the
line between the Pacific coast and this
city. Mr.. Weston will celebrate his 72d
birthday peripateticaly. so to speak. The
aged pedestrian Is now probably on
his last continental jaunt He is hav
ing harder going this time than ever be-
fore and after the present trip he can go
in for vaudeville or lecturing or advertis-
ing some new fashioned kind of rubber
heels
Hal Chase the Highlander's marvel
Gus finger, is training the athletic squad
of the University of Georgia at Athens.
Hal started on his new job this week,
but coaching is nothing new for him.
There are tricks in every profession
but the athletic instructions of the Uni
versity of Minnesota are putting over
a brand new one There is particu-
larly clever track team at Minnesota
this year but the boys are a little
bashful In public. Upon the Mime
sofa field or in the gym they go through
stunts of really marvellous performance
but with a crowd of spectators look
ing on they fall down miserably. Now
it happens that the track men are
social butterflies and are great favor
ties in the ball room so the coachcs
have evolved a means to solve the prob
lem. Between dances the coaches call
forth the aspiring athletes and put
them through gymnastics while the
fair one looks on And thus many
things are being accomplished at once
the athletes are keeping in condi-
ton: they are getting accustomed to
spectators, and they are cementing
their friendship with the girls for the
latter look upon the boys as real glad
iators
Neal Ball, the only big guer ever
to make triple play unasslsted will
play with Buffalo this year.
Bobby Byrne, the Pirate third base
| man. who broke his angle in Detroit
during the worlds championship series
| is so anxious to make good in the
Pittsburg uniform this year. that he
has already started In training at ST.
Louis. Bobby has rugged up a gym
nasium and goes through light exercise
every day. He dons his uniform and
plays ball indoors so that his eye will
not lose any of it's cunning. Byrne will
report with the Pirates at Hot Springs
on March 10.
| 1t is only a matter of time until
baseball is combined so closely with
theatrcals that they touch. The prop
| osition to use baseball parks for vaud-
eville when not used for the national
game, originated in Philadelphia some
years ago. Harry Davis, the Pittsburg
theatrical magnate, took IT up AT
Forbes Field last year and made money.
| Davis has already leasad the Cinoin