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The Washington herald., 1912-10-27

tCspyrieht. 1912. by tho New York Herald Co, Al
rights reservedD
n every spare hour they can snatch
from classroom work or drills Uncle
Sans young warriors at West Point
ssare learning to unlimber plays that
should strike terror to the hearts of
Navy partisans and which the Army
confidently expects will batter holes
through the Annapolis line and sweep the
field for a winning touchdown.
The West Pointers have hard road
to travel before they meet the Navy at
Philadelphia on November so. The Yale
game was hard contest and somewhat of
strain on the Army's strength. and the
cadets have still to play Holy Cross, the
Carlisle Indians, Tufts and Syracuse.
All these games will be played to win,
but the one big game, the test for which
both teams will reserve their strength
and utmost skill, is the Army-Navy game.
Past defeats will not be thought of by the
winner of that one game.
So the football problem at West Point
resolves itself into the question. will the
cadets defeat the midshipmenT' From
now until the last day of November Lieu
tenant Greares. who is head coach. and
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how much that means to the players
Officers stationed in the Philippine ISL
ands await the result of the Navy game
as anxiously as do those in New York and
Philadelphia. They tell a story about an
officer in an interior province in the Phil
ippines who rode fifty miles through coun-
try infested with head hunting Moros, all
to learn the score Of the Army-Navy game
and carry it back to his fellow officers.
1t is this spirit which prevails also in
the Navy team and which makes the
Army-Navy game the hardest fought,
most spirited gridiron contest of the year.
There is superstition in the Army
that Is supposed to indicate which way
the tide will turn on November 80. The
day befone the big game the "Runts' play
the "Flankers." The "Runts" are
team picked from the plebes who have
played on the Cullom Hall Squad, which
is another name for the second SQUAD.
and who belong TO companies B, C, d or
+. The "Flankers' are plebes picked
from A company and + company. and il
the 'Runts" win it is taken for granted
has failed only once, and that was in
1910.
The last Army victory over the Navy
was in 1905, and it furnished the in
spiration for one of the most stirring of
the West Point songs The cadets have
not had an opportunity TO sing it since,
but they are practising it now, and every
Army man has feeling that next Novem.
ber he will march off Franklin Field sing
ne. to the strains of the Military Academy
band:-
Tense is the strain in the stands to-day:
Six to Four and the Army leads.
And charging in vain 'gainst the line of
gray
The shattered Nav attack recedes.
For the thought that nerves every Army's
Is not the renown of an athletes might.
But the call of the Corps that swells in
one
Reverberant chorus. Eight! Fishti
TixAtrs
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| ties in the race for favor. So rapidly die
they develop that by the beginning of this
year they had cut down the sale OF the
imported cars from about $4,000, 600 worth
in 1907 to hardly 100000 worth for
this fiscal year. Only 963 automobiles
were brought into this country from abroad
this year. From France came 4O1; from
the United Kingdom, 1SS; from Italy, 1S1
from Germany, 116, and from all the other
countries combined 127, representing a
vAlue Of about 100000.
With the invasion from abroad blocked
the American builders did the next nat
ural thing and invaded the foreign field,
and within the last two years the develop
ment has been beyond the fondest hopes
of the most enthusiastic. Car after car
has gone abroad and has been the best ad-
vertisement for itself, for it has given good
performances on all sides and under every
condition. 1t has shown consistent run
ming and admirable speed on the fine
stretches of the European roads, and it
has done fine work in the mountain passes,
where a car Is called to account for its
best. Soon the car had forced a market
for itself and foreign agents struggled to
get the agencies abroad.
From a few hundred cars the e1porta-
ton of the American automobile leaped
BY the Thousands within six years, and
the fiscal year of 1912 showed that 21, 757
American cars were sent to countries all
over the world, a number that never had
been eQualled by all the other foreign auto
mobile exports to this country combined.
OF these 6,2SS were sent to Canada, 5,716|
to the United Kingdom, which has started
the war against the American machine,
and 3,625 to Australia and New Zealand.
South America took 1.611, while European
other than the United Kingdom
bought 2296.
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builders. Some of them have boasted
rightly that they never have had q wheel
collapse on one of their cars, and that
known fact has been one Of the best ad.
vertisements for the product.
In racing as well as private work
the foreign car ruled the world for years.
They were swifter, stronger and stood the
terrific pace. American cars did not
merely because they had not been devel-
oped to the proper competing point.
With all thse fine points in their favor
it was no wonder that the foreign cars
made q successful invasion of America
in spite of the high duty placed upon
them. Approximately $5,0eO,OO0 worth
were imported yearly from the United
Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy
FIVE and six years ago, while the exports
were comparatively nothing. The Ameri-
can cars could not down the other in their
home markets.
But in q year or two the American en-
gineer's wit began to come forward in
great strides and in 1908 and 1909 was
pushing the foreign car on all the roads
in the United States. They went into
races, won many of them against the
higher powered cars from abroad; then
entered in the hill climbs to show that
the American baby was beginning to grow
and feel its strength. Capturing hill
climb after hill climb against foreign com
petitors, it soon established its faith, with
the result that the public got confidence
in the home built machine and bought
here.
The popularity of the home built car in
creased the demand and automobile fac
tories sprang up everywhere until they
were turning out cars by the Thousands.
They wefs good can and gradually sotI
batter. diving tAs fereiyn car IA sxtreni-I
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where the play is going they are on the
spot. They make a strong secondary de-
fence, and it will be a powerful eleven
that makes any headway through the
Army line.
You can never size up an Army team
without taking into account the spirit OF
the players. 1t is spirit not surpassed by
that of any other institution. The whole
Army is behind that team, and the team
knows it. All the fighting traditions Of
the Army have to be lived up to and the
men could not fight harder on a battlefield.
No one who has witnessed an Army Navy
football game and heard the cadet corps
chant over and over again the one word.
Fight. Fight, .s.t..' can doubt that.
That Army Spirit.
Those who follow the game closely are
agreed that this spirit of the Army is an
actual ground gaining asset to the West
Point team. 1t makes up for the differ
ence in weight between the cadets and
their opponents, and i: makes them play
their hardest when the game looks lost
The men of the Army team totally disre-
gard self and they stick it out in a game
after they have received injuries which
would send even brave men to the side
lines.
Even more than in a college team per-
.onal glory is subordinated to the glory Of
West Point and of the Army. The honor
Of the corps is at stake; the honor Of the
enfire hranch nf the sarrica IL q = Sfaea
and it is hard for the civilian to realize
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mE wAsHneroN HERALD SUNDAY, OCTOBER a, 1912
For Honor Of the Service, West
Points Football Warriors Battle

Ithy cAanes thsir eIotheA hsys . showsr
I'D, and afs obliged to hustle to ct 10
dinner On Hms. II they sfs late Il Dsaas
. dsnszit
College teams have regular tfaines, who
watch the condition Of the men closely
and advise the coaches In the matter Of
conditioning The men. but at the Army
thers ID only one profssssoaal trainer, and
men Of ths. Army Hospital Corps attend
b the multitudinous injuries received IN
he eourss Of . season.
Yet the Army player are always IN
6ne fettle and are able to stsnd sruelling
contests and hard knocks - well - II not
better than the men Of most Of the teams
'tbey play.
A. scoring machine the West Point
team looks good. The forwards open upI
holes in the defence with fair consistency
and the backs show excellent head work
and alertness in the way they pick their
holes. The Army d working the forward
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Army Hackers Stopping Opponent On End Rm.

Army Hackers Stopping Opponent On End Run
"a veteran.
Taking the line from tackle to tackle, It
is not very heavy, but the men are power
full. They are . wall Of bone and muscle
and they have grit enough for a regiment
The charging Of the West Point line is .
spectacle in itself. The men are sinewy
nd agile and they lose none of their power
or speed by crouching as low as they do in
the attack. So low do they charge that it
under them without falling prone. Once
the West Point line gets under their op-
'onents they straighten up, get their shoul-
ders into play and bowl them over and
aside.
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these foreign built machines, because he
simply did not have the facts to back
him.
In those days the foreign engine gave
Tar less trouble than the American motor,
the chassis was stronger and well bal
anced, the springs were easy riding, the
wheels were put together of hickory in
stead of oak and had spokes large enough
to stand any strain; the steering gear and
reach rods were things to boast Of; the
ignition system gave little cause for lack
of confidence and the body was built for
long service.
The American car was in the expert
mental stage. The engine was crude,
roared, ratified and clanked like freight
train and generally was big, clumsy and
Uttered with parts that made the work of
looking after it three times as arduous a
it should have been. The steering gear
was defective and usually after two
months use would have Eve or six inches
play.
In accessories, such as lamps, search
lights. horns, tires and tubes, the foreign
market surpassed the home article. High
duties did not stop the importation of
foreign cars and accessories, because the
persons able to pay were going to have
The best, no matter what the cost. In
those days all the fine cars were foreign.
nor did the number Of importations dimin-
ish for several years.
The superiority of the foreign car was
the best thing in the world for American
development. for every engineer and de-
isner at once began to dig into the
causes. he took the best type of foreign
engine and b improving upon It. just a.
1e d doing with carburetor. magnetic,
1ody and accsssoriss, until to-day he can]
isAtfuliy Dispute ths previous superi-
siH.
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Navy game last year and can be counted
on as feet, hard tackling man. The
two other men are light but they cover
the ground fast and get down under
Hobbs punts in manner that means
the ball IL not going to be returned for
any great distances when the Army kicks.
Benedict, Hobbs and Keyes are the
most likely candidates for the backfeld.
Here again the lightness of the Army
team is in evidence, but the back field is
shifty, fast and hard charging. They
execute some very neat trick plays and
are able to start from q number of be-
wildering formations. 1t is safe to say
that they are keeping several more tricks
and formations for the Navy game. The
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Only in one feature has the American
automobile builder been slow Of develop
ment, and that il in wheels. Just As the
biggest chain is no stronger than its
weakest link, so the finest bit of automo-
bile machinery goes for naught IL the
wheels are too weak to support it through
the stress of all conditions of road work.
American cars have every reason to
possess the stoutest wheels put on an
automobile, because the roads are rough
er and subject the car to terrific wrenches.
An automobile running forty or fifty
miles an hour travels about fifty feet a
second and subjects its wheels to harder
blows than q man could give them with
an axe. In spite of this many cars have
been put on the market with mar wheels
in which the spokes are hardly bigger
than a mans thumb. This Is true not
only Of the little cars but of some of the
higher priced machines, and the heavy
limousines or touring bodies carried are
out of all proportion to the weak spokes
that are called upon to support them.
Collapsing wheels have caused more fatal
accidents than any other defect in con-
strnction.
Signs Of the times are promising in
this regard, however, for the ten-spoke
rear wheel is seen seldom nowadays.
Some makes of cars are now carrying
a fourteen-spoke rear wheel to which the
brake drum is attached % firmly ~ to-
make it an almost integral part Almost
universally the American car has adopted
the twslvespoke pattern, and here and
there the spokes are big and strong and
capable Of lasting through any ordinary
crash.
Ihis feeturs has always bssn one ef|
The best arguments oe IN tacsleA earl
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fence will have 10 play their backs fairly
well behind the line, because of the pos
sibiliy of . forward pass for q touch.
down. This means a better chance to gain
BY line plunges, and the West Pointers
are good At this. Once within striking
distance of the goal line the Army is go
ing to be hard to stop, and because Of
their proficiency in the forward pass it
i likely the defence will have to play
wide.
Lieutenant Douglas Howard, head
coach of the Navy team, told me that
last year Annapolis beat West Point by
first scoring and then playing a defensive
game and preventing the Army from
scoring. That will not work this year.
The Army is too powerful an offensive
team. Last year they were better on the
defence than in attack.
So much for the threat Of the forward
pass. It must not be thought that the
Army will only threaten to use this play.
From the very beginning of the season
when the coaches were drilling the rudi-
ments of the game into the men they were
practising and practising the forward
pass. Day after day they have been ham,
mering away at it and I have seen no
team this year employ the forward pass
to such advantage as do the West Point
ers. Hobbs and Pritchard are accurate
at passing the ball.
They are not easily ratified and they are
80 quick at getting the ball away that it
will be hard for the offence to block it.
There is no spiral twist to the ball when
they pass il, and the man who receives
it is always well protected by another.
In fact it il hard to tell which man is
going to receive the forward pass, for the
Army never fails to have interference
for the man who receives the ball. If
there il one fanlt to be found with the
Army forward pass it is that Hobbs and
Pritchard have . tendency to pass rather
low.
This is more apparent in signal prae-
dee than when the varsity and scrubs
are in scrimmage. In actual play the fact
that opponents are between them and
the recipient of the ball makes the backs
pass high enough. 1t il minor detail in
signal practice, but if this tendency to
pass the ball too low should crop out in
. game it would be a very serious matter.
The Army has strong defensive team.
They almost always have. A heavy
cam may be able to gain through their
inc, but even though the men are light
hey break through and spill plays be-
lore they ever reach the line. Devore is
/ young giant and can stem almost any
play that may BE- tried through his posi-
ion. He is good at carrying the ball too.
The backs play fairly well behind the line
o guard against that ever present threat
If a forward pass, but when they see
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than the college season, and In the face
of all this they line up against such teams
as Yale, Holy Gross and Syracuse. and
must either beat them or hold them to
low scores.
Some idea Of the difficulties under
which the cadets labor may be realized
! when 1t ID known that much Of their
practice is done with football painted
white % that It can bs seen In the dark.
That Is one big factor with which Lieu
tenant Greaves and his assistants have
got to contend in developing . team to
beat the Navy.
Then the Army has lost many Of last
years best men. Seibert who was IN
exceptionally good centre. has gone. Ar
mold, q guard who played havoc with the
Yale offence last year when the West
Pointers defeated the men from New
Haven, has been graduated, but he - doing
what he can this year BY helping ont Lieu
tenant Greaves. Walmsley, the other
guard, is gone.
Lttlejohn, whose play at tackle was q
sensation in 1911, is now . lieutenant,
with his football days behind him. Hyatt,
a versatile, heady quarter back, has gradu-
ated, and Brown and Mcdonald, who were
in the half back positions, are not at the
Academy.
The Navy, on the other hand, has lost
but very few Of her good men. With %
little time to practise. West Point is going
to have an uphill fight to develop what
win be practically a new team. Purnell
seems to be the most likely candidate for
centre, and although he is light compared
with the men playing the same position
on most college teams, his passing is |
snappy and sure and he is firm on his feet.
He should more than make up for his dis !,
crepancy in weight BY his spirit and asil
ity.
Jones, Englehardt, Herrick and O'Hare
are fighting it out for guard, and probably
al of them will play in the majority Of
the games and perhaps they will each get
/ chance in the Navy game. Larabee and
Devore, captain of the team, seem to be
pretty much fixtures at tackle. Devore
mas had experience and played in the
Navy game last year, but he is about the
only man on the team who may be called
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. from their markets, have served
to bring out not only the fact that
the European markets never can stop the
Invasion of the American made car, but
the remarkable confidence with which it Is
regarded in the automobile trade of the
world.
In France, England, Germany and Italy,
the only countries mentioned a few years
ago when high class cans were talked of,
the American car has built up almost
unsought a reputation that is increasing
every day.
From those countries its popularity has
spread to Russia, Siberia, Norway and
Sweden, India, China. Japan, Burmah,
Siam, Australia, South Africa and to
South America, completing q chain of
popularity that Is worldwide. The strang-
est part Of the situation is that the de-
mands in the faraway countries have
come almost unsolicited and unadvertised.
In some way the American product has
established its value and worth as against
the one time supremacy of the foreign
car, and now ths inquiries leap entirely
over the European markets and land in
the United States. This IL true not alone
Of the low priced car, but of the higher
cost cars.
Ten years ago when q wealthy man
bought an automobile he had to 60
abroad to get the best. It was generally
one Of the f6ur prominent makes which
practically stood At the top of the auto
mobile world and whose dependabiliy,I
strength Al smoothnen had been proved
in many years service. The man with
the homs pcoduct could not arsus kisI
point asainst ~ naa who owasd a. 81
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United States HRtaY Aeadem Footbal sqad. T

United States 0attaiy Academy Football Squad
be times when a good drop kicker may
via a game just as in former days. The
fact that the Army does not start practice
until late in the season accounts for this
tardiness in developing . drop kicker, and
you may depend on it by The end of
the season Lieutenant Greaves will have .
man who will be able to put the ball over
the bar and between the posts from any
reasonable angle. II any one stands out
above the Others as q drop kicker DOW it is
Captain Devore.
Pritchard will doubtless be the Army
quarter back. He 10 Of good weight and
capable of carrying the ball either around
the ends or bucking the line. Pritchard's
head work is gratifying. He is cool,
and distributes the heavy
work among his men so as not to wear
out any one player. This Is something
many otherwise good quarterbacks fail to
do.
As a whole the personnel Of the team is
up to the usual Army standard. The men
are chuck full Of fight, and, as always, the
entire corps Is behind them, cheering them
on to win, not only in games, but In prac-
tice. These men put up with more in the
interest Of their team than do the players
at any college.
There is no elaborate training table for
them, where special cooks prepare special
food in q certain way. The football squad
lives on the same fare as does the whole
corps, except that at their table toast is
substituted for bread. There are no pro-
fessional rubben to massage and knead |
tired and sore muscles after the daily prac-
tice, d thing which is always done in COL
lese training camps. The men run from
the football field to the gymnasium, where
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Army always keeps some powder dry for
the midshipmen.
Hobbs II punting sixty yards and ct.
tng de ball % high that his ends have
no troubls setting down under it. He u
not - good at drop hekinG and, in fact
the Army has been q little backward IN
dsvelopins drop kicker. This play may
not be quite % important scoring factor
this year a. It was last, but thefs will
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Training Under Difficulties, and Light in
Weight, the Military Academy Team
|Gamely Fights Big College Elevens
and Keeps Powder Dry for Navy.

The line men also have . manner Of
iccking each his hands together, making
a barrier bsfors them. Az they ehargs
and lift, this rusysd arm barrier u raised
and has . tendency to throw opponents
backward. At hnt 1t hindered them
slightly in running. and 1t tends to make
them les supple in twisting their bodies,
built constant practice ID overcoming this.
When the forwards charge in . solid mas