The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-12-16
BASEBALL GETS
BACK TO ITS on
MURPHY HAS NARROW Eu
AT MEETING OF NATION A1
LEAGUE
FOOTBALL COSH
LEFTY FLYNN WOULD PLAX
END NEXT YEAR--sAD OvM
DEFEAT OF YALE
FOOTBALL COSS
sy w. j. MACBETH.

BY w. J. MACBETH.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.--Bm1
comes into its own again! The
ball season went out with a claaha
a bang--a season of many surpg5
While Harvard smothered Yale
the Navy annihilated the Army, e.
by proving the gridiron game IT.
as uncertain as the great na13
aStime the struggle of the PHI
warriors were not in vain. FoA
as now practiced by our manly
eye athletes Is sport that y
TO survive, with little additfonal r.
! alton for many. many years. III
The annual meeting of the NA
! ii league proved but "squib" t0
pecial meeting called on NovA6
9th. for the suppression OF ne
ogel, former president OF the
les Horace was pretty well sQue
| ed 1t will be remembered. when
conference passed into history.
| passing OF Fogel caused no VAN
| ,rets in any quarter. Charlie MN
even. deserted him in the anal
| hour, as well as Charlie II. EDu
| ARTS OF the usual trinity of disturb
| The discipline administered TO
! !oubtles will prove a great gooN
| rational league affairs In e91
| hough the house cleaning did uQa
far enough into the estimattcns
most people interested in 0rx
| ,asebali.
| Murphy is a. very lucky fnotv
| be among those present just
| lie gave utterances to more
| criticism of the league and the
| nc. 81 its affairs than did the
| 'ortunate Fogel. But Murphy
| wise enough to do nothing more -
! aging than idle chatter. He put
| ng In black and white Ana
| the big trial came he calmly
| everything. and got away with ~
Lacked Backbone.
| Had the National league poeM
a bit more backbone 1t might
made things very uncomforta04esss]
| Mr.. Murphy. II might even
1 slowed hffYr away On the shall
his friend Horace. 1t had the
on him. But evidently 1t hguroo
at a time very good fishing. a
.ng editor from Chicago came tel
meeting with proof of Murphye
plicity in the form OF letter
missive was a. private ccmmunIc
a ..confiientiai billet"--and hGSa
fused To turn 1t over to the autl
ties on that ground. The NA41M
| iearue had a copy of the letter.
might with some pressure or 81
macy have secured the original IL
enough to admit II as evidenc9t
thus implicate the boss OF the
But ii stalled too long, and lekM
opportunity slip. Thus escapes
real offender.
1t is believed. however, III
great good has been done c. NJ
ply. and that hereafter ne viii
his peace--if such a thing -
BILE. For MIR. Murphy was No
by his close shave that he readIE1
dorsed a clause empowering thu
tional league to expel from IT.
clave all undesirable club presto
those who by questioning the he
of baseball forfeit the right to ~
with honorable promoters. HAa
a power been possessed by rtx13#
constitution previous to this Tins
Murphy could easily have bcoM
tracked on a dozen different occa
since he took command or the "a
Football Chatter.
t A hundred different AII-Au34N
and ALI Eastern football combtnm
have been selected and scarCaty
two tally in every respect =
which signifies an unusual EA1a1
stars In the various positions.
most without exception. hOw9N
number of candidates appear u
lineup. Jim Thorpe, the wonk
Carlisle Indian captain. is miaDe
everyone and indeed with good ~
for he is perhaps the greatest
of decade. Ketcham Is the 9o
choice for center, while FeltOn
Bomeisler are the most ApQ
! rl..s. AAn -
call for the other back positions
Is a vast division of opinion M
matter of quarterback. guard M
tackle positions.
I was talking to Lefty" F1lM
husky Yale fullback. very recen4A
he seems determined next year f(Es
out any possible SHORTCOMINGS
cropped Cat for him In the Ya1
ward game. Flynn did not shtnG
best on that occasion, but lO01o
the circumstance very phlloe0py
| Il felt all broken up about
more than q week." declared
"put it strikes me differently M0
be- out for the team again next a
II / don't make it 1t will b u&s
Of my own. I'm willing 70 ~
the mandates OF fate, but
surprised IL I am seen In IL
held again. II I'll have my TN
play In the line. An end positi0n
suit me to "A TT"
In the opinion Of most a.
sharps Flynn should never haN1
| played in the backfield. HIM
strength and endurance quAIt
for an end position. Tom
thought SO, too. The mOgnG
advisory coach reached NeN
this fall he advised the 11tG
unoer the prevailing co~chiM9
the advice was scerned- HG1l
was just as well. Yale seem1
ed anyhow at that late sta9A
horrible showing OF the Blu4
rhe Crimson results In pruuoE
ing reform Lefty. Flynn Ma1
Sarded as a gridiron martyrs