The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-04

oWHeI Murphy. Wnat MT. Murphy
should get is a cam. personally APP
for waiting until next year, either.
1t will be west VS.. the east in a GER
tain sense when Michigan and Penn
sylvania clash, but both teams have
been going south too swiftly of late to
have the intersectional angle display
ed IN any glaring type. Judging from
early scores. the result can only show
which section is capable of developing
the weakest eleven.
Since a blokc by the name Of Baker
has started running amuck. Messrs.
Mathewson and Marquard are said to
be framing a letter of sympathy for
Professor Haughton, who holds down
the chair of buckology at Harvard.
Whether 1t comes to hitting a baseball
or hitting a line, these Bakers are all
alike at the psychological moment.
of the stands and hide the ball.
Football is undoubtedly a wonderful
sport. But we are just as glad that
our humble participation in it took
place ten years ago; that DOMINIC the
moleskin and diving headlong beneath
a cluster of flying hoofs is not one Of
our present systems of an afternoons
entertainment and pleasure.
Slabmen like Walsh. johnson and
Rucker working for the Giants. Ath-
letics or Red Sox would lose about
three games per season. A statement
which has been set up in print at least
once before. If not twice.
The new leader of the Reds has
probably requested Owner Hermann
to block his name from publication as
long as possible, and thereby save that
much panning from the eager and
alert Redland horde.
Any football player pushed out Of
the game for roughing it. with the
sport still in a test condition, carries
more personal selfishness-or imper-
sonal selfishness-than he does sports.
m%anship. The main weakness in foot.
ball nov is the old idea that each op-
ponent must be sweared into the sod
and rumpled into a shapeless mass be-
fore the play is thoroughly and per-
fectly completed.
Probably no member Of the pitching
profession ever achieved such a dizzy
of ups and downs as that now
exclusively possessed by Russ Ford,
the Highland premier.
In 1910 Ford led his league in vic.
tories with 26 wins against 6 defeats.
In 1911 with his club in sixth place
he was still around the top with %
wins against II defeats-tying Joe
Woods mark.
In 1912 Boston finished first and
New York last. And while Wood led
his league in wins with 33 victories,
Ford led in defeats with 81 upsets.
The general statistics often forecast
the turn and about as often double
cross the dope.
At first glance If one picked the five
slabmen who had won the greatest
number of games and jammed them in
against the five who had lost the larg-
number. there could only be one
nswer
In theory this would be a double
coppered pipe. In fact. there might
be an argument.
From the two leagues the five slab
who led the list of winners in
clude Wood. from the American. with
and johnson. from the American.
with SO wins: Cheney. from the Ma
tional. with 81. Marquard with 26 and
Mathewson with "a.
The array of greatest losers would
Benton and Tyler with %.
Ruckcr with 20. Ford with 81 and
Walsh with II.
Wood. Johnson. Marquard. Cheney
and M%athewson carry the class. but
with no great edge above Rucker,
Walsh, Ford. Benton and Tyler-a
fair pitching stan taken here.
there and II