New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-31
TIMELY BITS OF SPORT
Dudley Dean Says Harvard Is
Ahead of Natural Form.
BRUsH's LETTER APPROVED
Billy Evans Tells Feelings of I'm
pire When Somebody Else
Is Doing Work.

DlTe Wucu 0OhiOpooJ
Is Doing Work.
Dudley s. Dean. great player III NO
dav. says that the Harvard footDall eieFe"
,s ahead OF it's natural form for TINS ufne
Of the season. In commenting on the VIZ
tory over Brown on Saturday III the Dos
ton Globe" he added:
when the game started back In 1872 all
Spain expected General Weyler 70 lshd
,uontv thousand regulars in New YORK
CIV and march them triumphantly through
% Florida A good Sc. ne commences
n Yankee unless the Jersey city ponce
nut a stop 10 it,
IAN Brown had about this same IDEA
last Saturday as regards Harvard. Spra'h-
ling. Crowther. Adams and Ashbaugh were
90 .dczso hack and forth between the
roal lines with all manner Of unexpected
open play II was good schene' anu '.o'
only trouble was that Harvard stopped It,
Her manner Of stopping IT was oy CONSIST
entl:. playinC widc-awake, heady anu ds
gressive football.
PAIRING the lapse which possibly cost
six points. but more probably three polhtS'
the Crimson made hardly one MISTAKE III
following the ball, clinginS TO 1t ana pe'"s
Iobnpv-or-tba-spot: and these character
istlcs plus aggressiveness ana reasonaoio
power will go a long way toward fhdNii.e
victory to-day just as twenty years pach'
.It was a positive relief 10 see Har-
yard eIeven play inteligcntly 10 the eN-
tent that whatever the other Fellow gained
no gained be his own efforts. In other
words Harvard errors, like fumbes ana
murred punts and losing the ball "hen
tackled. thus constantly giving her oppoh-
mont undeserved scoring opportunities ana
incidentally exercising depressing ihhu-
ence in her own ranks, were conspicuous'y
absent"
OF the leading college football eIe'ehS
the United States Military Academy d.
Vest Point alone boasts OF clean sid'e
| in the scoring line. Yale, HarVaiu anu
! Princeton have six points each "sai"'t
| them. The Army scored against fsle anu
won. Iehigh scored against princeton anu
came off with tie game; Brown scoleu
against Harvard in being baby oed'ei.'
| princeton leads all others in points scoreu'
! with twenty six touchdowns, eighteen goalS
from, touchdowns and four goals from the
field for total of 162 points. Brown
comes nert with lS9 points on twenty-five
tcuchdowns, twenty goals from toucnoo"nS
and three goals from the field. Inc az
gragate scores of the more prominent
teams follows: Yale 115. opponents b; Har-
ward 70. opponents S; Princeton 49, OPP
Moments s. pennsylvania IS, opponents Al
/ Cornell Il. opponents II; Dartmouth Al'
opponents S; Brown lS9, opponents D.
CORNELL leads other Eastern elevens in
GOALS from the field with ten in six games
! Rutler can be thanked FOR this. The clever
! little quarterback dropped two IN each Vi
the first three games.
lack Coombs, who has been suferlhg
! from a slight rupture, sustained "Hlle
pitching in that exciting fifth game IN the
worlds series when the Giants won IN the
tantb was enough better yesterday 10 get
out Of he'd to begin training as he put H.
for a baseball vaudeville sketch
= The announcement from Chicago lste
Sunday evening that John T. Brush chler
owner Of the New York Giants, courteu an
Investigation OF the much talked or ticket
scandal aroused much favorable comment
here Yesterday. The letter, addressed to
BYRON Bancroft johnson. president OF the
American League. follows:
MY attention has been called to re-
cent newspaper article attributed to you
J 10 the effect that eight or nine Thousand
tickets for the recent worlds series were
given to SPECTATORS by the New YORK
/ club at an advance of 81 the ticket thtL
while Won exonerate me personally, the
article states that you know the essential
( facts and would Investigate the scandal
IL Won had the sanction Of August Herr
mann and IT. J. Lynch
"As the public had heard great deal
Of late concerning spectators, ticket
scandals Investigations and the expulsion
of the New York club from the National
League. I wish to say to YOU that you
need not wait on moment for the consent
Of Messrs Hermann and Lynch In be-
ginning an investigation so far as the New
York club Is concerned.
! "You have my consent and may have
the full cooperation of the employees OF the
/ New York club during the investigation.
"Tf what is charged in the article IS true,
they wish 10 know It, II IT is found not
true. then that fact should he made pub
lie
johnson has been quoted as saying that
he will be able TO confront the National
! Commission with the names Of persons
who obtained 1900 seats at single haul
At "A dinner I'm honor OF J. Franklin
C'Home Rum Baker at Philadelphia last
night at which Governor Crothers Of
| MARYLAND was a guest, Connie Mack, man
ager of the Athletics. said that Jimmy
| Collins. formerly of Boston. was the great
est third baseman in the history Of base
ball Mack is not the first who has said it,
| Maybe Baker comes second
Billy Evans the American League UNI
pire. watched the worlds baseball series
from the press box, and this is how The
Cleveland Leader" tells of his experience
Now / know how 1t feels to see de-
cision 60 against ones favorite Now I
know why the baseball fan acts like n
wild man. ! never understood until now
the sensations endured by the spectators
at a ball game. l don't believe | have
| had a headache for ten years until this
series. It's funny wi difference there
| Is between the view OF an umpire and a
| spectator On the ball field / feel no
| thrills. IL is a cod-bo oded mechanical
| affair from that poi OF view. | have no
preference. 1t is no trouble being Impair
tlal In the worlds series in which / was
an umpire / felt no different than during
any game Of the regular American League