Arizona republican., 1913-06-06

NfAiCiN-"''NAN
organization of Phoenix high school
athletics have been taken within the
last few days and already the new di-
rector and his board are busy laying a
course that promises to lead the old
school to victory. Prof Claude d.
Jones has been appointed director of
athletics and he, together with Princi-
pal Stabler and B. r. McFan of the
school board will form an athletic
council vested with almost dictatoriaI
powers.
Mr.. Jones Will have general super
vision of athletics and physical train
ing and in each Of the sports he viii
have the assistance of one or more
coaches or trainers. F. S. Geary, Ford
ham University 1910, will coach the
football team.
And Mr.. Geary knows the gentle
sport of football from start to finish.
Right through four years of high
school and four more Of college he fol-
lowed the bounding pig skin with such
good results that in 1909 he was men
toned by Walter Camp and r. Edgren
for a place on the All Eastern team
Big Biz Edwards, one of the greatest
football men that ever wore the tiger
Colors for Princeton, said in 1909, 4
should say the quarter back honors lie
between Geary Of Fordham and
Sprackling of Brown" When such au-
thorities as Camp and Edgren and Ed
wards gave Geary a place above the
quarters who generated the Harvard.
Yale and Princeton teams, right there
they gave him a patent OF football no
blity and fame.
The new coach is as familiar vita
the cfndor path as he is with the barred
field. He was on the varsity track
team in 1909 and 1910 and at that time
one Of the New York papers said OF
him. He is one Of the fastest sprin-
ters in the East The maroon flyer has
to his credit victories over Forrest |
Smithson. Lawson Robertson, Billy |
Heating. Jimmy Archer and Dan KeI-
ley" In another story which tells of
the annual athletic carnival of Column |
bia University. Geary and three 9th |
ers are mentioned as the pick of New |
York's short distance flyers"
Mr. Geary, newly became Coach !
Geary, wants to get back in the game
All his college enthusiasm is still with |
him and in talking the situation over |
in The Republican office last night he |
showed himself to be just the big, |
hearty fellow to make a hit with the |
boys. He pledged himself to come out |
in his mole skins the first night of |
practice and to keep on coming just |
that way. The days Of the gridiron |
grind may be past for him but the old |
Fordham spirit will soon be all Phoe |
nix spirit.
The securing of a new football coach /
is the first achievement of Mr.. Jones |
and the new board. but it will be by no
means the last. Director Jones is the !
choice of the student body. Just before |
the close Of school a petition was cir
cuIated in the high school and when it
finally reached the board of trustees |
it bore the names of PIG boys who be-
lieved that Prof Jones knew just the |
kind of a kick that was necessary to !
set athletics going on the right path |
again. After long consideration Mr.. |
Jones decided to take up the boys and |
the board who backed them.
AS generalissimo of the Red and |
Black forces, the new director will |
have charge of all sports. He already |
has his nets drawn about several strong |
athletes who will coach the various
teams and the first haul is man who |
promises to make the best football |
coach the high school ever had.
When he first came to the school |
six years ago, Mr.. Jones took charge
of athletics and the fame of the teams |
he turned out has within the last few
weeks brought him great reward in the
shape of a chance to turn out such a
team again.
Besides bagginE a coach Mr.. Jones
has already arranged for a football
tournament It the next state fair. It
is expected that schools from all over
the state will take advantage of the low
rates to come to Phoenix, the capital
city, for the alI-state football carnival.
When the season opens this fall
goodly number of the 1912 players will
start tearing up the grid again. Cap
tain Ed Brooks who played half last
year will lead the squad. Wl1ey was
picked for center on the alI-Arizona |
team last fall and he'll soon be snapn- |
ing the ball again when he hears the
"seven come eleven. Hamilton and
McLemore at guard and tackle have a
chance of placing on the all-state lineH
again this season. Teel and Speakman /
may take their old places on the line |
again Speakman is some tackle for I
his weight Teel may be shifted back
of the line as backs seem pretty scarce.