The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-02

A. etin ~ q 0tonoWall. OuvAl play.
ed . great gams and Benton was
Surprisingly good At guard. George
will have all he can do 70 Dust Har-
critic2 and Decker promises to be
one Of the stars Of the team. An.
carrow and Jones are likely candi.
dates. and Justis. Carson. Brown and
Throckmorton made o very favor
able impression. The boys have not
rounded into form yet. They have
had only week OF coaching and
under the circumstances they did
wonders.
=. The team has . real coach In sam
Honaker.
Poor old William and Mary was
taken up. smashed down and rolled
In the dirt. trAmpled upon and other
wise most ignominuously treated by
tho University Of Virginia eleven. The
score reminded one OF days gone by
when the big fellows overwhelmed
the little fellows by sheer weight and
to run UP forty points was a mediocre
performance. Once or twice ninety
was reached and there is = record
OF some games in which tho score
was lie to 0.
But 81 to 0 II bad enough.
However. William and Mary boys
really did not have q team. They
sent eleven players into the game and
that WAS all. When the eleven gss
together and show som ething OF team
Play there viii be another story. But
team. Kemper Yancsy will develop
. speedy eleven, and II the boys play
the string out the Orange and Blue
Will have q season to which they can
point with pride.
OF tho big college teams Yale made
tho best allowing. beating Holy Cross
2s to o. Those Irish boys from the
Worcester. Mas, college are . bunch
Of gritty Aghters who take q lot OF
beating. Yale showed fine form on
the offensive and 1t 10 quite evtten,
that Head Coach Fields intends to de-
velop Tbs offensive game before tax
Ing UP the defensive Questioa. This In
just the opposite to the Yale policy
OF last year. but II u quite in keep
Ing with Yale football traditions and
Yale methods are the last word in
football.
Harvard demonstrated that the
Crimson will have a strong eleven this
year in spite Of the fact that the team
has lost a number Of the stars OF last
year. Percy AAughton has built up a
football training school At Cambridge.
and when regular goes there 10 a
substitute quite ~ good-in many cases
better than the fellow he suppianss.
Harvard loses Lewis ut end. but comes
back with FELTON, and Kilihofland. the
latter tho crack drop-kicker. who won
the game from the Pripceton freshmen
with goal from the field. last season.
Princeton had an easy time with
Stevens. but Pennsylvania had a fight
with Gettysburg. and the big red team
from Cornell had all 1t could DO 70
win from Colgate.
The Indiana ran up Is poYnss on
Dickinson, Thorpe starring In the
back field. Glen Warner says that he
10 going to have one Of the best teams
and Thorpe bids fair to make . name
equal to that q Hudson and Mt Pleas
ant.
Only one game Of bali was played in
the big leaxues yesterday. and that was
won by the Giants. They split even
with the Cubs, after losing the nrst
two OF the series which II some pase.
ball Tho. victory made the season
series between the two teams q tie
both winning eleven games.
deiphia In the Worlds series and pick
ing the winner In advance IL sbou
40 easy picking cherries with a pair OF
nutts. Last year the wise ones de-
clAred that the Cub machine would
20 over the Athletics like . steam roll
ler 1t was the Athletics who proved
to DO the steam-rollsr.
| This year the wise ones declare tina,
Matty and MarQuard will make the
worlds champions look like = second
division team.
That may be true. blu, second diva.
sion teams have not been easy for the
Giants this year. !.
speaking OF the speedy Giants II may
be well to quote Mr.. Tyrus Cobb OF the
Detroit team. who - regarded ~ some:
thing OF an authority:
"BAss-running will not ba the i'm.
portAnt factor In the worlds series tina,
many OF those who dope the Giants C
win games on speed seem to think. In
fact II win not surprise me IL the base.
stealing ability Of Mc0raw's team
proves no material element in the win
ming or losing Of the contests. and 1,
It no time notably in evidence"
This IL why I say that the record
should not be considered 100 Kyeafis
In figuring the post-ssason games.
said Cobb. "Base-running does no,
count In short series. It never has
ana never can. Each single game 10 {
matter Of too much Importance. ANY
time you try to steal 4 base you give
the opposing team . chance to put yot
out. Those chances, unless your team
10 In front and hitting the pitchers
~ the Athletics were last fall, you can.
not afford to take.