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The Washington herald., 1912-10-20


Where the advantage will accrue to Cor
nell is in the stinging of her players into
action. If the wretched showing of the
team in the opening contest failed to bring
the Ithacans to their senses the drastic
action taken by DR.. Sharpe did not. On
the Monday afternoon following the Col
gate game he gathered the squad in the
dressing rooms and told them quietly but
plainly that the team had not done its
best work
I'D rather have a new team with q
heap of scrap in it," he said, than a
the field and 'sojer,' and that in losing
game"
Then he proceeded to turn things topsy-
turvy in the personnel of the squad. Men
who were regarded as fixtures on the
varsity were relegated to the scrubs and
cut from the training table list. Prac-
tcally every senior was dropped from the
trimming table, and the squad as a whole
was reduced from sixty to forty men.
It was like dropping a bomb into the
Ithaca football camp. Rumor ran riot
about the campus and the widest specula-
tion was INDUCED in. But the head coach
went ahead just as though nothing had
happened. Tuesdays practice showed
that he had gained his end. Men who
had been playing listlessly fought around
the field like demons The new varsity
battered the scrubs like SO many cata-
pults, but the scrubs, erstwhile varsity
men, were stung into fury, and they held
and jambed through the varsity line In
return. There was an hour and q half
of scrimmaging that afternoon, and at
the end Of it every man on the football
SQUAD knew what kind of football was ex-
psctsd of him thereafter.
That was only IN instance in the sea-
sons training for the big games, but 1t
explains why Cornell should come OF with
flying colors in big football this year. 1t
shows that Dr.. Sharpe Is q man who is
going to keep every one Of his players
mp to tie fighting pitch or relesats them
to oblivion. A football hero here at Cor
nen must earn his laureh this year. Last
years record win 90 for nothing.
All over the campus you hear folk say
ing. Nobody knows where he stands
now. This eesch kegs syeubedy guns-
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ITO sea at the age of fourteen, shippin:
as cabin boy on 4 Danish schooner a
the port Of Newry, in county Down. Dur
ing the three years he served on her sh,
was frozen up in the Baltic Sea for thre,
months. Later he went around the worlC
and on his return home married Mary
Morgan, a schoolmatc, one of the hvt
daughters of Carlingford ship owner
whose dowry was a full rigged ship, tn,
Mary Evans, and 1000 golden Euineas
He took command of the vessel. carried
his bride to the Spanish main and made
a fortune. but through the carelessnes.
of his chief officer lost the vessel in Ban
try Bay, just inside of Cape Clear.
The loss of his sailing ship resulted in
the cancelling of his masters certificate
and for the next seventeen years he acted
as boatswain during the Abyssinian wal
on the cable steamer International
which was used also as a water condens
ing vessel for the British forces aboard
the ships of Suakin, on the Red Sea.
Climatic conditions killed and broke the
health of soldiers and sailors and many
crews deserted their vessels, consequent
ly sailors wages became the highest ever
known, and Bosw'n Finesan, who stuck
by the International, was assigned to the
additional duties of cable foreman and
Joiner of the seven copper wire strands
which comprised the cables, three
cornered job, which paid him seventy
FIVE pounds sterling. or 1878 a month,
and everything found.
1t was while acting in these capacities
that Finegan one afternoon observed
Lord Wolseley ride his magnificent charger
across the sands and into the cooling
waves of the Red Sea, after which the
General dismounted, took a parcel from
his orderly, and deliberately changed his
riding breeches on the sands, discarding
the old ones, which were well worn with
hard riding.
When Lord Wolseley and his entour-
age galloped off the sands Finegan, de-
string the abandoned doeskins as a SOU
venir Of the redoubtable soldier, sprans
overheard, swan ashore and saved them.
From them he made mail bad, letter
pouch and three tobacco pouches, all of
which he has reverently kept, although
frequently offered big sums for any one
Of the articles. But" says he 'Ofd
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HOW THE BIG RED TEAM

ing. xou may De on tne v3<SiV Ouo 0Ay
and find yourself OF the training table
the next"
That Is . healthy condition, and it d
easy to see that every man In red
jersey il going to fight for an there b
in him to make the team. incidentally,
/ it may be remembered that Charles Court
ney, the man who coaches Cornell's an
but invincible crews, employs the same
methods. An oarsman never knows
where he stands under Courtney, and
Cornell 10 recognized a. supreme on the
water. Then, too, students and graduates
Of Cornell are thoroughly aroused at last,
and will tolerate no more loose methods.
They are backing The new head coach to
the limit.
These are all generalities, but they are
all making for Cornell victories. In the
last analysis it will be man against man,
team against team, and when the climax
of the season is reached the hopes of
Cornell will rest on the shoulders of
the men who make up The Big Red
Team" After the coaches have done
their all it will be up to the players.
Take them as Q whole, the Cornell foot
ball squad looks equal to any aggregation
II have seen this season in respect to
weight. apparent power, speed and az
gressiveness-this last Characteristic be-
ing a recent development after the drastic
measures of DR.. Sharpe. On the other
hand, they do not seem to be grounded in
the fundamentals Of the game 80 thor
|oughly as Is Princeton, but this is mat
ter which the kind Of training they are re-
ceivinx now should soon remedy. They
are not so strong on the defence as is
Yale, but DR.. Sharpe is teaching them
new style Of play in this department Of the
game. At the present time the Cornell
players lack that smoothness of team play
which is so apparent at Princeton. Har-
ward and Yale. This does not mean that
Cornelrs play should be more ragged than
that Of any Of these colleges after the
COACHES are through with them. 1t simply
means that Cornell has a somewhat longer
road to travel than the others before her
team is a piece of true mechanism. The
other teams need improving. but Cornell
needs a little more.
There is plenty of beef in the Cornell
line. Not only is the varsity line heavy,
but the scrubs are their equal in this re-
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hard to throw from his feet. He seems
to be one Of the cleanest, hardest tacklers
at Cornell and is . giant in the defence,
which is what the Cornell line needs
Owing to little trouble over scholarship
the faculty has put q ban on his play
ing in football games until after Novem-
Der l. He Is keeping in strict training,
however, and it is possible that the
faculty will allow him to practise If he
keeps out of the games. He stands =
fair chance to make the team for the big
games of next month.
McCutcheon, Whyte and Williams are
good, steady centres, passing the ball with
surety and charging forward after pass
ing it On the whole it looks as if
any team would have a hard time pierc-
ing the Cornell line inside of tackle and
the greatest difhculty inside of guard.
Outside of tackle the defence is not 50
strong until It comes to wide end runs, and
there almost any of the men Cornell has
in the field for the position are pretty
capable of preventing much gain. The
backs are fast and if the ends miss their
man they force an opponent trying an
end run to 60 50 far to the side that it is
seldom he gains much territory. Some of
the men are weak in tackling. but again
that is point on which DR.. Sharpe is
an enthusiast, and by the end of October
or before it is pretty safe to say that the
Cornell team will know all there is to
know about tacking.
Eddie" Butler, captain and quarter
back of the team, has been out Of the
game for a part Of the season because of
an injury to his foot and ankle, but he
probably will be in fine fettIe for the big
games. He shows marked improvement
in generalship this year and plays with q
snap and visor that for . time was ab-
sent from the team. He is Q good kicker,
getting some of his punts of for sixty
yards early in the season before his Lee
was hurt.
Cornell needs another good kicker, and
she probably viii find one in Tabor or
Trimmer, who are bidding for the quarter
back position. They both kick fairly we'll
now, with Tabor the better, but their
punts have not the height and distance
that Buffers have. II b certain that DR..
sharpe win dsyslep noEs than oas god!
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spect. DR.. Sharpe will not venture to say
what will be the ultimate personnel of his
team, but he has selected certain men for
certain positions and from them he *
poets to pick his VARSITY players.
The men who are making a big fight
for the end positions are Bame, Guyer,
Eyrich, O'Hearn, Nash, Mehaffey and
Reese. Butch Eyrich is a veteran and
scored Cornell's single touchdown in the
Pennsylvania game last year on a long
run through a broken field, somewhat
after the manner of Sam" White, the
great Princeton player. He was generally
regarded as fixture at Cornell before
DR.. Sharpe took him from the training
table after the Colgate game. He may
make a varsity end this year, but he has
the fight of his life ahead of him for it.
Eyrich is fast. a hard tackler and a
clever dodger. He is q heavy man and
carries his weight with plenty of speed
and there is no reason in the world why
he should not come back" He seemed
to lack dander at the beginning of the
season, which is doubtless the reason
that DR.. Sharpe took him from the
varsity.
O'Hearn looks good. He is not a tall
man, but he is stocky and fast. He
seems to have knack of not getting
hurt, though he is in almost every play.
He is a good man in a broken field and
is likely to make some long ms. DR..
Sharpe is making much of the forward
pass, and O'Hearn is the man who most
frequently receives the ball from this
play. I have seen him several times
take the ball on a forward pass and run
twenty or thirty yards to touchdown.
Right here it may Re said that Cornell
started the season weak in tackling. Al
though O'Hean il one Of the best tackIers
at Ithaca, he has . tendency to tackle
high and the man with the ball frequently
ducks under him and escapes. He seems
to be overcoming this fault, and, in fact,
with DR.. Sharpe hammering con.
|dnuaIy every man on the Ithaca team
shosM Be hard, sure tackler By the close
Of the season. Yale taekIins is notorious
and Dr.. Sharpe learned to play football at
that institution. One reason for his re-
ducing the squad was 10 have more op-
pertu.i1 to DIN ths regulars IN ths rudi-
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jist as sune part wild me brogue."
Finegan was boatswain on the Ciy
of Washington, of the old Inman line,
when she was requisitioned by the Brit
ish government TO transport troops and
stores from Portsmouth to Balaclava,
Sevastapol and Inkerman. When the
Alabama was fitting out and being dis
Guised at Laird's shipyard at Birken-
head, near Liverpool, during the civil war.
Finesan had charge of the risgers.
Finegan came to New York from Liv-
erpool on the old sailing ship John Bright.
Captain Powell, with five hundred pas
sengers in the steerage, the voyage oc-
cupyins fifteen weeks and three days.
Now the voyage is made in a couple
or four days." said he with a grin, while
the parrot remarked with a rich brogue-
- --! -! Shut up, Finesan, ye
talk like a - .:?:? -?!:?::??::???
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IT II Cornell. with Powerful Squad,
~ Is Fighting Out Of a Slump. and
Will Be a Factor in Big Football

lnaa for painting, because ne believes that
lkieking win be more than ever important
this year. and be was . great man for
lpunting when he played st Yale.
/ The extra down." he said, gives the
quarter back . little more lesway. and
b win not BE- forced to kick 70 fire.
tquently. He will have . better chance
to use his head and his knowledge At
football The threat Of the forward pass
for . touchdown probably win force the
defending team to play in comparatively
open formation near the goal line, and 1
believe more 'touchdowns will be scored
this year than last.
This will be an inducement to kick
when . team gets possession Of the ball
near its own goal line, and when We do
kick We viii want to be sure about It.
Then. too. the greater distance to sain
and the rule against helping the runner
with the ball BY dragging him win make
kicking important"
Butler Is . good ground gamer and
runs his men well. He probably viii be
. regular in the big games, but Tabor
and Trainer, both short, stocky men and
fast will push him hard for the position.
Tabor is exceptionally good in a broken
field, and you never know when they have
stopped him. He is slippery as an eel, and
just when it seems as il he was COM
pletely blocked he wriggles through and
ziszass down the field again. He is q
master Of straight arm defence, too, and
the man who tackles him has got to have
his eyes open to about q dozen different
things or he is likely to find himself
sprawlins on the ground. with Tabor still
going.
Bates. Bennett, McElvane, Fritz, O'Con-
nor, Shuler, White and Insersoll furnish
q pretty good field from which to pick
the backs They are big men and charge
nightly. They are better at carrying
the ball than in defence, but DR.. Sharpe
is again alert and is hammering his team
into about as good a defensive machine
as could be wanted. The men from whom
will be selected a full back are Hill, Mil
Ter, Phillippi, Traeger and Underhill. Mil
Ter probably will be one Of the strongest
bidders for the position. He is full of
fight and picks hole as though by in
stinct. He is good at keeping his feet.
The only way to get him down is to pin
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table early b tha ssaGon. He has beez
playing tackls for the varsiy and tn
scrubs alternately and has . good chanc,
to regain his positien. He Il fast and
heavy and knows many Of the tziclD q
the game. Both hs and Davidson cafry
the ball at times to good effect Cham
paign bueked the line at The bssinsing ol
the season with more vim than Davidson,
but the big tackle IL gaining pepper
every day.
Z. NUNS. Wilson and zeller are pronidns
men, and at this tims Il looks q Il
Zeller was one Of Cornsll's best tackles
Hs 10 good At getting through and spilliaa
plays In their early stassA which ID
something the Cornell tackles are not par
ticulariy strong in.
The guards who win represent Cornell
in the big games win b chosen from
Collyer. Lahr. Larrowe. Munsick and
SimralL Unsettled conditions at Cor.
nell make It hard to say just what men
will Be the regular va.sity guards. Lahr
and Larrowe are new men In the varsity
game. Lahr coming from last years fresh
man team and LArrows being an oarsman
whose training under Courtney has given
him plenty Of nerve and endurance. he
Is used to taking punishment, and when
he gets . little more accustomed to the
new game he ought to make q powerful
guard.
Simran weighs in the neighborhood Of
200 poundh He is ksenly aggressive and
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men4s Of the game, such - tackling. fol
lowing the bah, falling on 1t and handling
punts.
NotabH in the Pennsylvania game lasi
year the Cornell tackling was ragged. Re.
peatedly two or three Cornell player
failed to stop the man with the bail when
any one of them should have downed ths
runner. They have . tendency to taekle
too high and allow the runner to duck, OF
do not properly calculate distances and
miss their man altogether. or they tackle
., listlessly that they fail to throw their
man. All this il being remedied. You
may zee some mighty clean and vigorous
tackling ON Alumni Field any afternoon
now. From the very beginning the head
coach began hammering at the Cornell
men to tackle hard. tackle low and hold on.
He realized that this was one Of Cornelfa
weak points and he has set out to remedy
it. He ID succeeding. Loose taekling cost
Cornell many yards in the Pennsylvania
game last Thanksgiving Day, but it il safe
to say that such will not be the case this
year. That alone should 20 far toward
winning . victory for the boys from
ithaca.
Guyer and Bame look Ike pretty likely
candidates for the end positions. Guyer
Is man who breaks through and spills
many q play in its incipiency. He has
the kind of fighting spirit that DR.. Sharpe
likes. He, too, is a good tackler and q
clever runner. Guyer, Bame and O'Hearn
are fast At getting down under punts and
are generally ready to nail their man, but
with the exception Of O'Hearn the Cor
nell ends are not 20 good At receiving the
ball from forward pass or . punt.
Nash is rather ragged in his work
and does not seem to grasp DR.. Sharpe's
style of play. But the coaches are work
ing him hard and evidently think he has
the material in him if he can only develop.
All the Cornell ends, with the exception
Of O'Hearn, seem to have q tendency to
play pretty far out on the defence, which
gives them a considerably greater distance
to run before they can get into . play
through the line. That il not Dr.. Sharpe's
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his legs together and throw him. He sci.
dom trips, lodges clererly and when
there is no hole to 20 through he batter
one and can carry the weight of several
men for good distances. Phillippi is good,
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is not permissible to hold with the hands
or to strike, but swinging the arms con-
fuses the opposing forwards and gives the
charging linemen a chance to bring their
shoulders and arms into play in blocking
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1912-09-25
Personal Mention

Miss jessie Mary Besselievre, daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney ]. Besse-
lievre, will be married to Harry Lee
Hamilton this evening ats o'clock. The
wedding ceremony. which will be per-
formed In the home of. the brides
parents. 315 e street northeast, by the
Rev. DIR. Clark. rector OF st. James
Episcopal Church. will be attended by
the members OF the immediate families
and a few intimate friends.
Miss Nellie T.. Besselievre, will be her
sisters only attendant and William II.
Jordan will be best man for Mr.. Ham,
ilton.
A reception will follow the wedding
ceremony, and later In the evening Mr..
Hamilton and his bride will leave
Washington for a wedding trip. Upon
their return to Washington they will be
at home. after November l. at the
Arden. 149o street:
f.
Miss Laura T. Schneider, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs August Schneider. was
married to Raymond westhorpe Smith,
OF New York. last evening at o'clock
at the home OF her parents at 453 Park
road. The wedding ceremony. which
was performed by the Rev. George g.
| Dudley. Of st. Stephens Episcopal
| Church, was attended by a party OF
relatives and intimate friends.
Palms, ferns. clematis vines, and clus.
tiers OF pink and white dahlias formed
| the decorations OF the house fol-
the occas sion, and the wedding music
was played by Mrs. Edward johnson.
| The bride who was escorted to the
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District D. of c. Branch
Prepares for Convention

Preparations are being made by local
members OF the Daughters of the Con-
federacy for the entertainment OF dele
gates to the National Daughters OF the
Confederacv convention. which will be
held In this city during the week be-
ginning November II.
The coming session OF the Daughters
will be Of special interest. mainly be-
cause, for the first time in the history
OF the organization, It Ia to meet north
OF the Mason Dixon line.
The Maryland Daughters will give a
luncheon to the delegates on November
Is at Annapolis. The governor OF the
State will be present and make a short
talk.
President Taft will receive the dele
gates at the White House on Thursday
during their stay.
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DON'T PULL OUT The GRAY HAIRS :,
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This preparation is offered to the
public at so cents a bottle. and Is
recommended and sold by all druggists.
Agent. James o'Donnell.
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LOCAL MENTION.

A Splendid 3-Reel Feature: Between
Two Hearts" Today Virginia rheater,
9th. F & G.
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For The Times Children
Just Before It's Bedtime
TABBY AND FLoRETT.

- ABBY was q Tiger cat, ana could
catch a great many mice. She
was not afraid to hunt for them.
and prided herself on the fact
that where she was there were no mice
to bother anyone.
But one day Tabby found large yell
low-and-white Angora cat had come to
live in the house. The name OF the
new cat was. Fiorett, and her eyes were
blue, while Tabby's eyes were green.
II was bad enough. Tabby thought. to
have such handsome cat around. but
when she was made to stay downstairs
and not allowed to roam around the
house as she always had. poor Tabby
felt she had been wronged.
Your nose 10 broken" cried the cook
when Tabby came crying into the kitch-
en- when she had been driven down.
stairs. THAT new cat 10 the pet now.
and you will have to stay with U.S."
Tabby ate her supper In silence ana
knew that the cook spoke the truth, but
she hunted mice and slept In the corner
as though nothing had happened.
One night while she was watching
for mice In the pantry she thought of
a way to bring herself into favor again.
"Ill Just stop catching mice" she
said. II don't believe that proud
Fiorett could catch mousse; mos
likely she would be afraid Of one &
she saw It. or too lasy to exert her
self" she added.
I'll 60 out to the barn to live awhile
and let the mice have a rum"
80 OF to the barn went Tabby. ant
the mice and rats soon knew she wa
| therA - fvI~ -,
any more than the little mice.
| She made herself a nice he'd besid
the horse, and they became grea
friends. r.
II am glad you came out here" h,
told her one day. THE rats ran aroun,
here at night so could not sleeI
some times. and as for my feed, IL
left a bit OF corn to have a lunch OF 4
the night those fellows would wall
In as bold as could be and take
right from under my nose" s.
They won't while I am here" sal
Tabby. you should be glad I am nc
proud Angora cat: they never d
anything but sleep. eat. and dress u
and sit In the window" And then Tai
by told him her troubles.
But they will find / am the one ths
takes care Of the house." she told tn
horse: land II I am not mistaken the
will send for me soon and give me tn
best place to sleep and treat me In
very different manner from what the
have lately"
1t was as Tabby had predicted. Tn
mice found out that she had gone, an
they could run right in front of Floi
cite without danger. ~ ....
Il believe that Is stuffed cat the
have here now" said a mouse one "a
after he had run past Florett and Oh
had not moved.
Yes" said another; that is no.
real cat. because ! ran UP on h,
I basket one night and looked at he
i and she did not move. Isn't this
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