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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-05

arf guaranteed only an efficient ad-
ministration.
Darlington Williams is member
Of several popular social organiza-
tions and of the Raven henary So
agership Of the baseball team this
year, because of pressure in his med
ical studies.
Wylie Cooke. Of Norfolk, Va. Is the
star of the track team In rhe half
mile. He holds the South Atlantic
record, and was a member OF this
years relay team that won the mile
championship at the Pennsylvania
meet
On the advisory board. Ed. Findlay
IS end on the football and catcher on
the baseball team He is Tram catta-
nooga, Tenn. and before coming to
Virginia, wehere he has been picked
as .atk ~Ssush Atlantic end on the foot
ball team, he held the same position
on the all Southern team at Sewanee,
Tenn. Roy c. Moyston, of Memphis.
Ten. was editor In chief Of College
Topics part of this year. He was
formerly secretary of the New Or
leans Board of Commerce.
Automobiles were all this afternoo,
carrying the voters to the poles and
there was great excitement. The vote
was az follows:
For president. william, as: Wood,
$50, for vice. president. Cooke, SGT;
Todd 2s2ss for advisory board, Ffntay.
42s Moyston, 37A: Pott, ESQ: Chris
tian, 266.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-05
SEABOARO LINE
EXTENDS TRACKS
rFIIEvFD THAT ROAD rs TO EN-
TER NORFOLK SOUTHERN
TERRITORY.
STARTS CONSTRUCTION
RALEIGH AROUSED OVER PRonA-.
HE ENTRANCE OF ATTAIN.
TIC COAST LINE AT AN
EARLY DATE
STARTS CONSTRUCTION

Especial to The Richmond Virginian.l
RALEIGH. n. c.. May 4.--That the
Seahoard Air Line intends to cut
across into territory occupied by the
atlantic Coast Line and the Norfolk
Southern rs inferred from the TACT 'rhaf
force was today set to work on the
extension of the Atlantic and Western,
believed to be controlled by the Sea-
board. from Broadway to Liilingfon.
q distance OF eighteen miles.
Fifty hands, q steam shovel and a
number of mules were set to work
Nine miles OF this road from Sanford
20 Broadway is already IN operation,
and the completion OF the other eign-
teen miles will enable the Seabosrd to
enter Norfolk Southern territory.
Those who are conversant with the
railroad situation think they see in
this extension a plan whereby the
Seaboard will eventually land in
Goldshoro. The only thing that IL
Keeping the Atlantic Coast Line from
entering Raleigh. according to y we'll
posted speaker at the recent railroa :
celebration in Raleigh. Is the require
nent that all roads entering the city
must fetch up at the union station.
The Atlantic Coast Line - now with
In fifty miles Of Raleigh, and Ia ready.
It II believed, to como here, provided
1t Is net compelled to buy exorhitant
rights Of way into the uniol. station.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-05
ORGAN RECITAL AT
MONUMENTAL CHURCH

Tho regular monthly organ recital
viii be given at Monumental church
after the Ave o'clock service this after
noon. Tho program includes Allegro
61clmann, and "Handefs Celebrated
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-05
The Weather
Fereca.. TO sunday and Monday.

Forecast 70 Sunday and Monday.
North Carolina. Local showers sun
day and probably Monday.
Virginia Generally fair In northern.
local showers In southern portion sun
day. Monday fair.
Special Local Data for Yesterday.
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Minimum Temperature up 10 = +. II. *
Mean temperature. %
Normal temperature. 1880. 81
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EXCESS In temperature since March
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fuse since January l........... Az
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-05-05
ELECT RICHMOND
NAN PRESIDENT
WILLIAMS NAMED, AFTER HOT
RATTLE, BY VIRGINIA ATH.
LETTC ASSOCIATION.

Especial to The Richmond virginian.l
CHARLOTTESVILLE. VA, May 4.
Darlington williams. Of Richmond
Va. was elected president OF the gen.
eral athletic association today by n
majority Of seventy-nve vores over Joe
Wood. captain OF last years football
team. Harry Todd. another football
star and captain OF last years team,
was defeated by Wylie Cooke for vice.
president. Each ticket elected a man
on the advisory board in Ed. Finlay
and r. C. Moyston.
The election came at the end OF
the most strenuous week Of politics
recently seen At Virginia and the cam
paigning OF the last two days has been
marked by fireworks. lparades and
speechmAking.
r. c. Moyston was the only success
full member Of the red ticket managed
by Speed Elliott. head football coach
for next year. These candidates adj
vocated foremost among their planks
n professional baseball coach, q more
pretentious football schedule includ-
ing an annua. gamS = Princeton.
and the establishmenkS blIego Top
~ 81 tina Competitive ayytem that
Wo0A mAka h : daily neWopApes. The
r. fef asss a.
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- ;a+sa ..ses s<~s<.-r-ees.~- ~t~-~ injured,
amber oe them seriorsfs. II IL De-
.ievsd that come of tho NJ re seriraiiy
Injured may die.
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half realize the amount of hard work
that goes into the preparation of one of
these teams. For month the boys have
been out on the nearest field, driving
through practice, working to correct the
plumbers that occur before the forward
pass shall have been reduced to perfec-
ton, learning to tackle hard without
using the old and deadly flying tackle,
and generally shaving in a manner that
must arouse envy from the ghosts of
such Spartans as hang around foot ball
alumni have returned to their own. The
star halfback of % sneaks from his law
office and gets out to give the boys a
few pointers in the Sanguine art of line
plunging. The man who won a name
for himself at center is found on the
fields during the afternoon minus coat
and vest, as he explains hoarsely to a
youngster the art Of maintaining his
balance while passing the ball.
One days afternoon in practice is
enough to give a middle-aged business
man heart failure. If he could see his
son-who only a week ago protested like
an abused martyr against putting in the
coal-diving after a fellow player. drop
breaking the interference and generally
moiling like a galley slave. he would
probably call for a hack and drive home
in a state bordering on collapse.
The crowd gets out early in the after
noon Hardly has school been dismissed
than the players make a rush for the
lockers, paw through the outfits and
emerge In a miraculously short span OF
time to take in the practice.
Once out they are lined up in ring.
The han is snapped rapidly from one to
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swatlled in bandages from a desperate
battle only shortly before with the heav-
Ter tam from Gallaudet. 1t was the same
when one Central player played until the
halt came. and then was carried from the
field with some of his ribs broken
Whether that old-time spirit was for bet
ter or worse is a matter that the gradu-
ates and foot ball experts will argue until
the crack of doom.
School spirit as it exists in the different
high schools today takes the place of the
training table in college. The players
toll as hard for the sake of the school
harder. perhaps-than the great college
stars whose names fame into print about
Thanksgiving time. Day after day they
are out on the fields. the older boys help
ing the younger ones. the green fresh
man getting encouragement from the cap
tain, to whom he looks with the rever-
ence of the neophyte for the archbishop,
and everybody pulling together.
There is the story of one man who
came out for Central about ten years
ago. He was as big house and about
as awkward as a house would be if it
tried to play foot ball. More than that
he knew he was awkward. His tremen-
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that the championship is coming back
here"
And your" he was asked.
II never make predictions he smiled
Its better to wait
One of the strange things about the
high school series is the championship
within a championship game between
Central and Tech. 1t is like the Yale
Harvard feud. Tracing back through his
tory you find its beginning In the open
ing of the younger technical high school.
Numerous Central boys went to the new
school and vowed they would make old
Central look pale. Those who remained
took the oath to uphold the tradition of
the older school and thrash Tech though
they failed in all else.
Hence, each year you find these two
schools getting ready for each other. Not
that either Central or Tech wants to get
whipped by another school. They are
out for the championship. But their con-
versation is what lis going TO happen"
to Central or Tech, as the case may be.
Even now the Tech and Central men are
figuring out man for man how they stand
with Central. and the Central pupil can
prove to YOU with the aid Of pencil and
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The VandaI.

CENATOR DEPEW was deprecatins
- certain contemplated changes in the
Constitution.
TO break up the venerable Constitu-
ton like that" he said with a smile.
''smacks of vandalism, and recalls Tom
Tunkin to my mind.
Tom. travelling in Italy with friend,
said one day i'm Naples:
We'll, we've done Naples thoroughly
Aquarium and Arcade, Pompeii and We
suvius- Let's get on to Florence
- oh, the deuce with Florence his
friend growled. There's no cafe lie
there, nor nothin''
Look here, said Tom Tunkin sternlv
"a man tours Europe for something a lit
tie bit more elevating than cafe life I'm
going on to Florence. if go alone. I've
got TO get chunk off Michael Angeles
famous statue OF David for my sonvenir
collection -
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from getting a clear field. The former
when his opportunity came. found his
clear field and won two games
Thus the first art is falling on the ball.
To the uninitiated this sounds compare
lively easy All You have to do is to run
after the ball as it rolls along. leap upon
it and clutch it madly TO you. But a foot
ball is the worst shaped of anything
known to geometry for purposes of cap
ture.
The coach shoots the ball down the
field and the inexperienced young man
springs madly after it. Just as he pre-
pares to dive, the ball gives little hop
on one end. bounds into the air and
eludes the chaser. He tries again. This
time the dive is made just as the ball is
standing on end. and one of its leather
tips is damned into the side of the diver.
Have You got it, calls the coach
anxiOusly.
No gasps the diver. reaching fran
tically for air. its got me-"
A third young man sprints for the ba II
and catches it-mOstly with his face
So it goes for weeks and weeks. until tile
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dous strength was combined with self
consciousness, and the combination SEEM
ed fatal to any ambitions he might hold
of becoming a foot ball player On the
back lots during his school days he had
been ridiculed off the field. More agile
lads dumped him heavily. while every
body laughed. The secret of the thing
was that in foot ball parlance he ''dfdn t
know how to use his beef
the coach spotted him the first thing.
There was no laughing when he came
out nervously and diffidently. The coach
made clear to him that playing foot ball
was business to be learned as thorough
ly as any other business. The coach got
him in a corner and showed him the mys-
terry Of Judging the ball as it rolled along
the ground. He taught him to catch
swirling punts-and hold them. He
showed him how to tackle. That man
went through high school, Won one cham
plonsh1p for his team and then became
the star half of q great university. A lit
tie less school spirit and tolerance from
the coach. who was a Central graduate
himself, and that foot ball player would
have been listed with the many failures
y.
At Western they have great belief in
the theory that a graduate of the school
can aid the team more than an outsider
That explains why Bryan Morse was
chosen. Morse was in his day one of
the fastest quarterbacks the high schools
ever knew. Morse has ideas of his own
with regard to coaching of teams. He
gets the captain into his confidence and
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isted or that political campaigns are
among things mundane. With two of the
events already settled, the enthusiasm
among the different schools wakes great
as each scheduled date approaches
The young trained to the last mo-
rnent. are prepared TO fight to desperate
finish that the school colors may lead
n-. II not lead. at least avoid the ignominy
o. cellar championship.
Few people realize the amount of he
roism--real. epic courage-that goes into
the preparation of one of these series.
Boys but shortly out OF short trousers
develop their school patriotism until
broken leg would be gladly welcomed if it
meant the game Only the revised rules
that govern the high school games pre-
vent the games from taking the aspect OF
Srueling punishment
Even little Eastern. outweighed ny
every team with the possible exception
OF Western. is ready to tight for honors
this year. Eastern hasn't won a cham
rfonship since-well, since the memory OF
man runneth not to the contrary. That
doesn't prevent the courageous youngsters
of Eastern from working like Trojans this
year in the development of team
which, If light. will also be lightning
fast. Technical. with its veteran coach
g w Hecox. is ready TO wrest the
championship from Central. which Cen
trail. under the guidance of John Thomas
"math' professor. who but recently
removed the foot ball arnor of Lafayette
College. Is read yto debate the matter
with Tech to the ultimate degree. Over
at Business the double-entry bookkeep-
ing has gone by the boards the bright
Young stars consider the efficacy of the
forward pass. and Western. under the
guidance of one of its old time stars,
Bryan Morse. is prepared to place another
championship record alongside the one
OF several years ago.
The Grass outsider doesn't more than
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tackle formations were much in vogue
On these tackle plays the team would get
under way slowly and irTesistibly-much
like a steam roller. A tumble seemed
impossible The backs would pillow through
the line soidly and like a single unit. Be-
hind would come the man with the ball.
The combined weight crushed everything
before it. 1t wasn't speed It was per-
feet unity Of action and absolute accuracy
in handling the ball.
"A fast team said one coach recently.
isn't good unless it is accurate. Two
fumbles may ruin a whole afternoon Of
brilliant play. Get the ball first. play to-
gether and We'll get the speed afterward.'
At the present time the foot ball season
does not represent the terrible grind for the
boy players that it did in years gone by.
There are lots of grads who will re-
member the famous game won by Tech
meal High School by a score Of 10 to o.
game which started out to be of two
thirty-five- minute halves and which was
played until both teams, exhausted and
barely able to stand, stopped the game in
the second half. with eleven minutes to
play. That was the historic game waen
the Central fullback entered the game
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Who Thre
We'll grant the that you're really Malicious
AS folks you're kindly and gentle and sympathetic and
charitable as the next
Tucked odd of your heart there all
of sentimental impulses Chances your .uho lifetime
you down and deliberately schemed codboodd
of Islander against vorsf And it's because
you that you're such a to the community
irresponsible fools trouble the world all
the organized forces of malice and disorder and
There don't begin sputte and protest. We expected
you to grow excited when were indicted
You quite honestly believe that undeserued arraign
ment you're quite sincere belief that you're harmless
And when Brown down the slope of then
didn't realize the ultimate of toughtess
assault upon his reputation
happened in this vise: One morning Jones and you
riding down town. and having better subject for conversation
INDUCED in the usual banaes the Market police the
weather and then quite accidentally Browns and
suddenly remembered without recalling hen where
from Who had heard that Brown laundering from
the straight and pah You didn't pause
of information. You reached down casually
and for lack of something better do picked up handful
of mud and seaed it all his then forgot
about and went without qua of
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with the captain he works on the rest of
the team much as if he were a candi-
date for some position himself The idea
of picking a team and sticking to tide
veloping stars it is called-dosen't appeal
to him either. He believes in shifts,
in making the boys all fight for their po-
sitions, SO that the best man can go in
when the series is finally begun. He Is
ably assisted in the work by having
Howard. the teams captain.
Tech-otherWise known as the Mckinley
Manual Training Schools developing
one of those solid fighting machines for
which it is famous. G. w. Hecox, the
oldest coach in point of service now con-
nected with any Washington high school,
has come to know his men so we'll that
he has handicap-or. at least. it would
appear to be a handicap-on his rivals.
The team will not be as heavy, probably,
as some of the other teams in days gone
by The average weight is estimated
at $50 pounds. But the old "Hecox sys-
tenn Of training will make up for any
deficiency in weight, the school believes
The boys are enthusiastic this year.
said Coach Hecox; they have confidence
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paper, just how the Central backs are
going to tear the Tech line into shreds.
Just now Techs captain. Carl Ecken-
dorf. is firmly convinced that nothing
short of an epidemic of disease among
the players can prevent Tech from land
ing the championship. Those who have
seen the team in action declare his ex-
ample OF untiring energy and his willing
ness to get out and help the feeblest
member Of the squad has inspired the
whole team to work like Trojans
Central this year will probably average
more than 10 pounds. according to pres
ent figures. Heading the squad is Capt
Sylvan King, the possessor of a name
that is famous in the annals Of Centrars
foot ball history. He was one of the
stars OF last years wonderful team and
is supported by crowd of veterans. last
years list of second-string men being
particularly good. Coach Thomas is one
or those men who gets out with the
team and shows them how 1t isn't ad-
vice with, him, it's practical demon stra-
ton. And II his college record means
anything he should be able to pull the
team through in grand shape.
i, x
Eastern's team is going to fight for
speed and pray for cool. dry days during
the series. 1t averages less than 40
pounds. Nevertheless. Capt. Paul Cohfll
one of the bright stars of last year. and
Coach w. o. Mccartney are living ia
hopes that fast field will enable the
boys from southeast to show the rest OF
the team few things in the way OF
speed. Much of Eastern's hope is in the
efficiency Of the forward pass and those
allied movements that go with il.
Business. guided by 'Cuppy" Far
mer. will also have a fast but light team.
Coach Farmer has had the boys of this
school on the jump since early Septem-
Der, and they have rounded out into a
well balanced, fast moving aggregation.
Capt. Charles Schafer, with the aid OF
the new coach. is living happily in that
continued dream of Businessa foot ball
championship TO go with its famous base
bail trophy.
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HIGH SCHOOL FOOT BALL SCHEDULE

HIGH SCHOOL FOOT BALL SCEEDUL
-1912-
Date. Teams.
Oct. 22-Western VS.. Business.
Oct. 2J-Central VS.. Eastern.
Oct. 29-Technical VS.. Western.
Nov. 1-Business VS.. Eastern
Nov. 5-Technical VS.. Central.
Nov. S-Western vs.. Eastern.
Nov. 12-Business VS.. Central.
Nov. 1j-Eastern VS.. Technical.
Nov. 19--Central W.. Western.
Nov. 22-Technical VS. Business.
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Within hour after Jones left you he'd passed the Islander
Wilson, and week after eek and month after monthe
aggerated by the seeming confederation of this and that
gossip grew into murder.
You talk too nuch You accept many bits
of hearsay You hold
far too lightly
Every day knowing 1uink a Suggestive srug
uang smile from fools of your brings disaster honest
and shame upon decent Uonanhood.
We're all occasional busybodies.
It's far cry back the days of the Roman Coliseum but
a Dhe the of
orbears and check ourselves goes thumb
and along with it somebody's reputation
The world half black painted Thered be far
less suffering and pessisn1 earth we'd the
best in folks half as hard search for the
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A Barometer.

A RETIRED army officer tells a story
concerning captain in a South
American war.
This captain. said he. was con-
unually getting sick and being reported
unfit for duty whenever there was a big
battle in sight
After he had shirked about seven bat
ties by means of sick leave. he became
notorious. and ii is said that he once
overheard from the hospital tent two
newsboys talking about himself.
juan said the first boy. we'd bet
ter order an extra supply of papers.
There's going to be some tall lighting to-
morrow.
How do you know that? Pepe, the
second boy. asked.
Capt. Blanc was the reply. is sick
again"
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youngsters have gotten to the point where
they can tell intuitively what a rolling
ball is going to do. Then the face Of
the coach calmly lights up and he be-
gins to give his exclusive attention to
the finer points of the game. Examples
are never wanting when it comes to
teaching the youngsters the game.
There is, for instance, the matter of in
reference. Several years ago Technical
High School developed a team which.
though very heavy, was slow. The coach
at once gave up ideas of speed and devel-
oped the team into one of the most per-
feet offensive machines that the school
has ever seen. 1t was in the days when
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THE Trials of High
y School Bow Who Tries

THE Trials of High
1 School Boy Who Tries
for the Team-Few Realize
the Amount of Courage That
Goes Into the Preparation of
a Championship Series-The
Work of the Various Coaches
How the High School
Teams Compare-The "Old
Grads" Often Take a Hand
in the Coaching-The First
Training of the High School
Foot Ball Player and How
He Develops - Differences
Between Modern High School
Foot Ball and the Old STYLE
of Play.
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' cry high school
pupil in the city is
now keyed to the
top-notch for the
big foor ball Sc
rieS-the inter-
h & h s c h DOL
{ h a m p ION s hip
e V g n [ " n i c IA
each year makes
thousands of old
grads forget that
bd So ball ever eX-