Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-24

1t takes from two hours to two hours
and a half to play the average game
of football. The teams are usually on
the field that long. but strangely
enough the players are in actual mo-
ton only about fifteen minutes. This
statement has been proved.
Last fall a Harvard man tried 4
most interesting experiment during the
Harvard-Y Yale football game to ascer-
tain how much time was used in ac-
tual playing, and his figures are as
tonishing. He confined his experiment
to one period, but that was extremely
painstaking, and he had a man to as
s.st him.
He used a stop watch, starting il
with each play with the swapping OF
the ball by the centres and stopping it
at the blowing of the referees whistle.
He repeated the process through every
play of the ocial fifteen-minute period
and found that the players were in
actual motion, struggling and fighting
in offense and defense, only three min
utes and twenty econds. If the time
of actual playing in his period was q
fair average, the duration of physical
exertion in the four periods approxi-
mated HIteen minute
This Is much less time than it takes
to win and lose a Harvard Yale boat
race. Moreover, besides the partial
letup between plays, there are three
breathing periods of actual rest of q
minutes. No doubt the personal con-
tact of man against man account for
the using up" of players in football,
hut the sustained supreme effort of the
oarsman is of longer duration. There
is no letup for him until he has ex-
erted himself to his utmost for 20 or
more minutes.
Eddie McGoorty. Wisconsin middle
weight, has an offer to fight Jim Sui
Ivan in London in January.
AID Wolgast, Abe Attell and the other
fighters could get a lot more fights If
they didn't demand a fortune for their
bit, win, lose or draw. In the old days
the champions used to say, "I'll fight
him for charity" Now they say. II
want $4,000 for my bit or there IL be
no fight
They're all alike. Tommy Burns
claimed Jack O'Brlen was hogging all
the limelight and money, too. When
IolHlly Bol 10 the TOP ne nelu out
until he got $4,000 for a fight with
Jack Johnson.
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Members of McAleer's team that
tuned up Athletics for the worlds
series received $500 each.
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There were almost as many major
league couts as ball players on the
Pacific coast last season after Vean
Gregg had showed his calibre with
Cleveland, and Joe Tinker says there
will be twice as many scouts on the
coast next eason
1.-THE West develops better ball-play-
ers than any other section of the
try" says the Cub shortstop. THE
men out there are bigger, stronger and
have more nerve than in any other
section of the country. The big league
clubs will soon be buying men just
because they were born in the West.
waiting for them TO develop into play
ers, n most of them will become
stars
coo
Fielder Jones's nam is again dragged
out of obscurity and oblivion by New
York scribes today, who boost him for
the managerial position vacated by Hal
Chase. That there is anything in the
yarn is very unlikely, for Jones has a
big business in far-off Oregon. and has
been mentioned at least twenty times
for managerial vacancies since his re-
tirement. after winning the worlds
championship for Chicago. Harry VOL
yerton looks like a good bet, straight
across the boards.