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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-07
SOCCER FOOTBALL
TO Be INTRODUCED
Plans Well Under Way for
Launching League-Many
Experts Here.

The Richmond Soccer Football club
93rsaiiI%ation Of which was reported in
ago, is making good progress towards
giving the lovers OF all outdoor sport s
III hichmond an opportunity to wit
ball.
lest convenient date between two
teams composed Of the best amateurs.
who know the game, i'm Richmond
tcnsive popularity in tho North and
West: and tho same is sure TO be the
the South have witnessed IL i'm proper
form.
For clean, .cxhilcrating sport I'm the
football world. there is no game to
patrons OF the game will soon see tho
hest article Of football for speed. en-
DURANGO. combination playing and gen
ular and brilliant features. The great
est advantage to tho spectator is that
IN INC soccer game the ball can be
The bah is played with the feet, and
not allowed to be handled under any
consideration while. in play. TO wit
ness q well-trained team combine in
Il perfect passing game--that means a
player passing the ball to his partner
at the right time. when about to be
tackled by an opponents Il pretty
sight indeed.
-, Eleven players comprise a team
The various positions on tho field arc:
9. goalkeeper. and two full backs form
the defense, three half backs, who as
sist In defense and attack, and five
forwards. who do the attacking OF the
opponents goal. The laws governing
soccer arc strictly enforced by capa-
bic referee. who, like all officials In
various branches OF sport, Is master
of the occasion.
There should be no reason why this
game. which Is played all winter. from
the going out of baseball to its COM
Ing In at. springtimc. cannot be the
medium OF outdoor entertainment for
that soccer will be given a rousinE
welcome the first occasion 1t Ia offered.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-07
RICHMOND WILL
BECOME FOOTBALL
CENTRE IN 1914
All Of Larger Colleges
in State Looking
This Way.
Y. M. I. MAY PLAY
VIRGINIA HERE
v. ?. I. and Carolina Trying to
Arrange Satisfactory Date.
Washington and Lee to Be
Welcome Visitor-Rules
Committee May Force
Numbering Players.
ny Gus NIALHER,r.

1t hasn't been such a very long
while since we remarked that Rich
Inond WAS getting TO be som cthing Of n
football centre. Now we can very com
fortably repeat that Richmond has ar
rived. Just glance over the follow
ing list of prospective games for next
fall:
V.P l. W.. University OF North Caro-
lima.
V NJ 7. Va University OF Virginia.
Washington aud Lee VS..
V. NJ /. w. North Carolina A & NJ
University OF Virginia VS.. Univcr
ulty OF North Carolina.
All OF these games have not been
definitely determined upon. but all OF
them are being considered. Only yes
tcrday We received n telegram from
Graduate Manager llama. Of Wash
ington and Lee. asking whether Broad
Street Park could be obtained for It
football game with an unknown oppo-
ncnt on October II nc&t An option on
tho park has been obtained from Sec
rotary w. 3. Bradley
&. =. Miles. graduate manager of tho
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. writes
for our opinion rs TO a game bct"een,
the University OF North Carolina and
y - J.. on October -. and likewise
REQUESTS that AN option on the park for
that date he obtained. His request WAS
complied with and AN option obtained.
Anxious 10 support Gnmcs.
There is but one opinion regarding
.,y football game played III Richmond
). y, ;liat is tlat the people here are
anxious at all times TO support good
football. Further. tic people of Rich
iDond are particularly Interested III the
colleges OF the state. and because OF
that interest, aside from the fact thac
there IS hardly college In the state
but boasts OF many local alumni Will
turn out to witness the games. The
very excellent article OF football play
Cd by tho teams ia the Eastern Nr-
c!nia Association has served TO educate
The fans. People here now like foot
ball They go TO the games because
they want TO see the sport and not. as
was formerly tho case. 10 witness "A
spectacle.
1t is particularly pleasing to note
The manner iii which the colleges OF
The state arc beginning to turn 10
Richmond There has always been
deep down in our hearts tho feeling
that Richmond WAS being sighted.
For some reason or other, Richmond
has never been the athletic centre for
the larger institutions of learning, and
yet by every rule in the book, Rich
mond should be that city. As the cap
ital of the state. this city feels go
great. an interest in the colleges and
universities that IL would house them
all.
We understand that at present there
's move on foot TO bring the V. NJ.
I--Nirginia game here { the uni
Nersity Will consent TO play that game
away from Charlottesville Richmond
is the logical place for II TO be staged.
We are not offering advice, nor are we
suggesting that the game be removed
from Charlottesville. we arc simply
inviting both the University OF Nir-
Continued on Fourth PageD
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-07
BARTON HEIGHTS
WINS LAST GAME
In Close Game, Youngsters From
Northside Defeat Highland
Park Eleven.

Barton Heights won from Highland Park
Yesterday afternoon at Broad street Park
tho close score OF & To . \ touchdown in
tho last three minutes OF play won tho
game for the Barton Heights eleven. a
large crowd WAS on hand STE the bat
tlc aud was not disappointed, for the game
was declared by many to hc the fastest they
lad ever seen played hy independent teams
Every inch of ground gained by the Two
ccvcns holly contested. aud il was
through no luck that the Barton delights
boys Won
The first quarter was nothing but n tug
of-war aud when tho quarter ended the bail
i'll the middle Of the field. In the Sec
end quarter the Highland Park boys scored
u safety. counting two points. The third
quarter was also u hard fought one neither
s;de seemed 10 have the better OF IL, and II
would suffer u defeat. but In t,o last three
minutes OF play tho only touchdown OF the
game was made by W. Watson after kick
had bccu blocked. and that touchdown won
tho game for tho Barton Heights lads. BY
winning from She Highland Park team the
barton Heights boys climbed into second
tcifns OF Richmond. ami also made II two
out OF three games with Highland Park.
The features OF the games were the play
irs OF J: Watson NJ. Watson. Beck and Cos
by for BARTON Heights. and that OF Carter
ana Cuarles for Highland Park. Line-up:
Highland Park--P. Ouarles. right end: TT.
Garter. right tackle; Christian. right guard !;
Williams centre; NJ. Carter. left guard; W.
Goodail. quarter back: Rennie, right half:
Perkins. left half; Iirouse. full hack.
leach. right tackle: Devereaux. right guard !;
Martonstein. centre: Cosby. felt guard; w.
Watson and Stringer. left tackle: Poasclcy.
and Rose right half: J. watson. left half:
Strfnger, full back. y
Officials: Referee. Simpson. John Marshall
TnlYarsity School.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-07
K|V|AT DEFEATS
DISTANCE MEN
First Race Over Long Route Is
Won by Irish A. c.
Runner.

Wat signaiized his entrance into the
ranks OF the long distance runners to-
day by capturing the cross country
senior championship ut NanCourtlandt
Park. Despite the fact that this was
Kiviats first try at any distance over
mile. he romped home easily ahead
of the field. lie is n member of the
Irish American a. c. Sidney L.. Les
lie. OF tho Long Island a. c., was sec
ond, nearly nifty yards behind IIiviat.
Willie Kramer. a four-tim winner
OF tho individual medal, started hut
appeared to lack his old form, and soon
gave up. l<ohlcmaincm, the great Fin
nish long distancer. did not go TO the
kohlcmaincn, the great Finnish long
distancer. did not go 10 tho post.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-07
FINAL BOWLING
SERIES TUESDAY
Scene OF Whitman-McFarland
Battle Shifts To Petersburg
for Conclusion.
is PINS SEPARATE PLAYERS
Large Crowd of Local Rootcrs
VIII Make Trip-Flard
Fight Expected.
is PINS SEPARATE PLAYERS

The final series Of eight games to
lie howied on the academy alleys in
Petersburg Tuesday night, between
Whit Whitman and lIermos McFarla nd
to decide the bowling championship of
fichmond and Petersburg will attract
= large number OF the followers of the
sport from this city. There will be
several automobile parties, among
which VIII be one ear which will carry
Whitman and several newspaper mon.
Mcfarland Will make the trip In an
other auto. and Chief Frank Blilcy will
head the rootcrs. who will go over on
the excursion leaving the South Rich
mond terminal station at 6 o'clock
The games will start at 1880 o'clock
and as soon as finished the players,
officials and newspaper men will be
rendered a banquet by the members of
tho Petersburg bowling Association.
The close score in the match has
aroused the greatest interest. Whit
man came out OF the first eight games
rolled on Newport alleys, 1856 pins
ahead OF Mcfarland, but last Tues
day night on the Palace alleys Nc
Farland lcapcd forward by bounds and
when the final count was made It
showed that he had reduced Whitmans
lead III pins. leaving Whitman but
ID pins to the good.
Total Pins to Count.
Whitnan's score for sixteen games
Continued ON Second PaGe)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-07
CAROLINA QU|NT
BEGINS PRACTICE
Schedule Arranged and Expert
cnced Men Answer Call
Sent Out by Coach.

Chapel Hill. y. C., December with the
passing az the football season the sport of
basketball cnllvcns the athletic interests OF
the University OF North Carolina during the
winter months. Manager Cy Long. or
Charlotte. announces that fifteen games
have been scheduled for Cardinals quintet.
subject to tho approval of the faculty COM
mittee athletics. or that number only
four games have been scheduled On tho
"fiili." Two OF tho contests for Bynum sym
nasium are to be played before the Christ
mas holdays--a game with Eon College and
ono with Durhnm Y. NJ. c. 4.
OF the abundance Of experienced men who
Will or have already reported for practice
are: Wright. of Eion College; HomewOod. OF
yenr'e Jvnchburr " NJ e. 4 Quintet. "T,oh.'
Edwards. OF Guilford College: Cary Dowd.
OF Charlotte, former member OF Wake
lege: "Rat;y' Ransom. Of IIuntervilIe; Pres
ton Andrews. Of Charlotte Y. n. G. A.; Ten
nent. of Asheville. y ~. G.. A.: Fleming, OF
Wilmington; Cy Long, OF Charlotte man
ager OF the team and a "N. c." man OF 1911.
aud j. H. Pou. lr., OF Raleigh, IL member OF
Woodberry Forest quintet.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-07
K|LON|S IS AFTER
TURNER'S TITLE
Greek Will Try to Wrest Middle
weight Wrestling Champion
ship From Holder.

The gold and diamond belt. representing
the worlds middlewcieht wrestling cham
pionship Will be contested tor Monday
night OF next week Ut the Academy OF
Music. Joe Turner. who lost the belt TO Con
Albright and then won it back again. will
defend the title to tho belt against John
Eilonia. the Greek champion. and from the
reputation that the Grcel; has won for him
self since coming to Richmond. the indi-
cations are that he will give Turner ono OF
the hardest fought battles of his career
kilonis made his first appearance In Rich
mond during the State Fair in October lie
came unllcralded but soon got into tho lime
light 10y tho several bouts he had with Con
Albright. Then lie hIcd to the city by tho
scasea and gave a very good account OF hIn-
self. and returns to Richmond with several
Victories 20 his credit. and these over men
who had heretofore been practically unbcut-
able. 8
Turner is wei known here. where he has
fought the greater portion OF his bouts dur
ing the past summer and fail. His method
OF wrestling. being clean cut and free from
rough tactics and his excellent work have
won him Il warm Dlace In the hearts OF the
Richmond followers of the sport.
The match next week will he of the high
est class. and rs the worlds championship
Is n. stake ii will take on more than "a local
Importance. Fred Wcstcrvelt will referee
the bout. and the usual police protection VIII
be on hand SO that the best OF order VIII I've
maintained. and the mon may feel perfectly
at ease in taking their wives or daughters
to witness the bout.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-07
ORANGE AND BLUE
TRACK SCHEDULE.
Regular Team Will Compete in
Five Indoor Meets Dur
ing Season.

ChRrlottesViiie. Va. December quite 4
prctcntious schedule has been arranged for
the Virginia track team the coming season,
including meets with many OF tho Northern
colleges. Besides tho regular team ono
and two-miic relay will be organized.
There are Ave indoor meets, in which both
the regular team and he relays will com
pete. and Trainer -J.annigan will bend all
energy towards turning out winning team
The relays both tho and two-mile
teams. Viii compete ut the Penn relays in
the open championship. The two-nlile team,
viii run the Carlisle Indians and Pennsylva-
MIA al the Hopkins indoor moet in February
and they Will also probably enter in tho
three -cornercd relay with Yala and Prince
ton on the first Saturday in March at tn
annual meet at Georgetown.
The one-inilc team will run Hopkins In this
Hopkins meet, and probably Cornell ut the
George Washington meet. They VIII alsn
run Georgetown at the Georgetown meet Tor
tho Southern championship.
There will BE- a dual meet on Lambeth
Field with FcnnayivAnia during Easter week.
aud there is now 4 meet pending with
Princeton for the previous week. which Will
also he hold on Lambeth FHcld.
y regular full team Will DO sent to the
Penn relays the last Saturday In April, In
addition tbs two relay teams.
There viii also he a team In tho Southern
intercollcg intcs the irst Friday and SAtur-
day in May. which was Won last ylcdr by
Virginia.
\ dual meet will he held In Baitblore vita
Hopkins on May Is. aud application has
boon forwarded !or membership In the
Northern intarColegiates. which will be held
the last Friday and Saturday IN May.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-07
bOBB|E GOOCH
WILL CAPTAIN
VIRGINIA TEAM
Quarter Back Honorcd by Men
Who Win Their VS. at
Meeting Yesterday.
LANDES is ALSO MENTIONED
Rumor Says That Many Rcgu-
lars Are to &c Lost
Next Season.

Charlottesville, Va, December e.
Robert Kent Gooch has been chosen to
lead the Virginia football team of 1914.
The brilliant little quarter back was
cletccd captain OF the eleven this af-
ternoon. when the letter men met at
the Fayerweather Gymnasium to have
their picture taken. lie was chosen on
the second ballot. The other candidnt t
WAS Warwick e. Landes, tho big plung-
ing full back, who figured prominently
in the big games of the schedule the
past season.
Gooch was tho logical choice for tn o
captaincy. and his election gives en-
tire satisfaction. lie WAS not present
when the vote was taken to-day but
IL Is hoped that he will accept the
honor bestowed upon him by his fell
low players, and remain i'll college an
other year. He is an undergraduate
CONTINUED on Third rageD
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-07
FEAT
SETS NO RECORD
Bernie 'l'rafford, OF Harvard. in
1890, Actually Surpasscs
Star Of 1918.
ECKERSALL RUNS 1O6 YARDS
Dodgcs Entire Wisconsin Team,
Scoring Touchdown-Othcr
Amateur Athletic Gossip.

New York. December 6.--The specta
cular manner In which Harvard de-
fcatcd Yale in their annual football
game. due 10 five field goals kicked by
Charles T. Brickley, the Crimson full
back, has led to much dclv!nG into
Gridiron records TO ascertain whether
tho feat was a record one. as claimed
by many Immediately after the game.
careful research has proved that
brickley did not make Il new field goal
record. but merely tied the one made
by Bernie TraNord. of the Harvard
eleven OF 1880 in the game with Cor
nell on November Of that year. In
some respects Trafford's record was
better than Bricklcy's, since all OF his
kicks were drop-kick field goals. while
Bricklcy scored four in tAis manner
ard one from placement.
The Cornell team OF 1890 was very
weak compared 10 the Yale eleven
that faced Harvard on November 90 Of
this year. Tho Crimson combination de-
feated tho Ithaca team of 1890. "a to
Continued On Second Page
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-07
To Play Practically All
Of Teams in Major
Leagues.
BRADLEY WILL
ATTEND MEETING
Local Secretary Expects to Com.
plete Exhibition Dates While
in New York-Ryan Work
ing, but Is Silent-Pitcher
Henderson Is Holdout.
Not to Move Park. !
BY GUS oIALBERT.

March 27-Athletics. (
March 2S-New York Americana
March SO-New York Americans
March 31-.Newark.
April 11-Ncw York Nationals. !
April 13-Rochester easter Mona
day).
April 14-Toronto.
April 15-Torontoi
That's the list OF exhibition dates sd
far arranged by Secretary w. 3. Brad
ley for the Colts. There arc other
games to iii In tho lapse between
March 81 when Newark is seen here,
and April 4. when John McCiraw and
his Giants are scheduled to appear,
but nothing definite has boon donu.
For instance. brooklyn, Boston, both
National and American Leagues, Bal
timoro and Washington, all want
games and, in addition, V. NJ. J. would
play a. game with the North Carolina
Aggies. Altogether 1t looks as if the
antescason games will provo vastly
more interesting than for many sea-
sons.
Should tho final arrangement bring
tho Superbas and the hustlinE young
stcrs headed by George sstallings, two
of tho teams expected To upset the
dope in the race for the flag, over
which John McGraw seems to have
formed Il close corporation, will be
seen in action I'm Broad Street Park.
llkcwise the team that Jake Stahl lcd
to an American League championship,
and afterwards to n world champions
ship. will be put on parade. Willie
the Brooklyn outfit hit the creased
trail early in the season of 1913, and
failed TO stop until almost in last place.
there is enough material on hand to
weld together winning combination,
Willis the wonderful record made by
Stallings is still too fresh n memory
to require comment.
Ray Ryan will he here carly IN Feb
ruary and while lie Is keeping himself
we'll under cover these winter months
Secretary Bradley is satisfied that he in
working every day. and that he is
gathering together bunch of likely
youngsters. who will put Richmond out
in front when tho game begins in ear.
nest in the Virginia League. We would
tell something definite about the men
he has signed or the terms that he has
accepted from other men. but, frankly.
We do not know. Letters and tele-
grams to tho new leader OF the Colts
have regularly been sent forward, but
to date no replies have been received.
Secretary Bradley will leave to-mor-
row night for New York. where he Will
offend the meeting OF the maSnates Of
the National League He hopes whiie
in the big city TO compiere his sched-
ule OF exhibition games Also he has
an appointment with Pitcher Hender-
son. who was bought from the Lowell
club. Of the New England League
While the purchase of Henderson has
been approved by the National Board.
there is difference between tho
youngster and the local owners that
must be settled. 1t is expressed in dol
lars. Henderson thinks he Is worth a
certain amount oC money in the way
of salary. and the conference between
him and Secretary Bradley is expected
Continued on Fourth Page.)
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-07
TO ORGANIZE, BOWL ,ERs


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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-07
Iy,,h III, IJtiIc AtbIciIc.

The Little V. f.. |. football team. " hIca
won the championship OF the city. desirss a
o clock. Any team in tho city whose rnsnt-
pcrH under fourteen yearS OF ase ~ chal-S
lenEed Tho team desiring TO play will un9sa
tina Little V. =. l. toaIn ut the R!ennooa6
College campus Saturday morning. b
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-08
ARREST WOMAN'S ASSAH4ANT.
BloodhoundS Trace Frank Howe tC
Home-Woman Identifies Him.

Lincoln Center, Kan, Aug. S.-Frank
Howe, 25 years old, was arrested
Thursday charged with attacking Mrs.
Laura Lamar, wife of a farmer near
here Wednesday. Bloodhounds went to
Howe's house. two miles away, and
when Sheriff Wolford took Howe before
Mrs. Lamar she identified him as the
man who attacked her.
Howe, who is farmer and married,
insists the woman is mistaken in ac-
cusfng him.
The LeMarrs came here a few days
and the husband got work with
threshing crew. He was at work on
the Newton farm a half mile away,
yesterday. while the wife and three
babies staid in the wagon on the school
ground.
The railroad runs few hundred
yards south of the school house, and
about noon Mrs. LeMarr noticed that a
fire had been started in the stubble
field between, by sparks from an en-
gine. She went out to get a team of
mules which were picketed near the
fire. and a the same time man came
from the woods across the track. He
at once attacked the woman
After she had been thrown to the
ground several times she fought him
oft and he ran away In a few minutes
the husband. who had seen the fire,
arrived and gave the alarm.
The woman, besides suffering from
fright and nervous shock, was badly
burned and cut as she ran through the
fire.
The Topeka state journal., 1913-08-08
NIECE OF RAIDER
Act of QuantreI's Relatives
Credited to Barbara Frietchie.
Mrs. QuantreII and Not Whit
tiers Heroine Held Flag.

I Lawrence. Aug SIT is not generally
known that the heroine of Whittier 8
Barbara Frietchie'' was not Barbara
Frietchie at all, but a relative of Will
liam Clark QuantreIl, but this fact is
especially interesting to Kansas people
at this time, when the incidents con-
cerning those who were prominent here
then are being looked up and recorded.
The incident as described in WHIT
tiers poem was based on information
given to the poet by Mrs. E. d. E. N
Southworth, the novelist but investi-
cation has brought out the ia It that
Mrs. Frietchle was probably not the
principal character in the story, her
house, which is still standing, being
some distance from the line of march
of Jackson's army. 1t has, however,
been stated that she would have waved
the flag in the face of General jack
son himself, if she had had an oppor-
tunity. On the other hand, some of her
relatives informed Prof E. Haworth of
Kansas University that she was
staunch supporter of the confederacy.
The real heroines of the incident have
been found to be a SiSter-fn-laW and
niece of William Clark Quantren, the
wife and daughter of his brother Archi-
bald. At the time JackSOnS army
passed through Frederick, Mrs. Guam
trell and her daughter Virginia were
waving the Stars and Stripes in front
of their home The soldiers ordered
them to throw down the flags, but when
they refused, a lieutena t struck the
staff of the flag which Virginia Guam
trell held. cutting it in two. She again
raised the flag ard again it was cut
from her hands. Mrs. Quantren then
secured a large flag of the Union and
kept it aloft until the army had passed
from town. The soldiers Impressed by
her bravery, applauded md left her un-
mOleSted.