The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-09
SEASON REMARKABLE FOR
WIDENING OF COMPETITION
Smaller Teams Breaking Athletic Monopoly of the Big Four
Efforts of the Rules Committee to Make the Play More
Open Bearing Fruit-Pennsy Eleven Strengthened
BY the Return of Their Vets
BY WALTER MARCHAND

New York, November S-The wind up
of the football season soon will be with
us. The game yesterday between Har-
ward and Princeton and the meeting of
Yale and Princeton marks the beginning
of the end
The season will be remarkable for the
splendid showing of the smaller teams
and the widening of the competition for
high honors so as to break the monopoly
of the Big Four.
When Princeton can be beaten, Yale
and Pennsylvania held to tie in one
day. this Big Four talk soon will have
to go into the discard. am frank to
say the playing of teams like Dartmouth,
Carlisle, and Washington and Jefferson.
has surprised me- 1t indicates that the
efforts of the rules committee to make
the play more open and to give the light
fast men chance are bearing fruit.
In old days beef and Drawn were near
ly supreme. Now quickness counts nearly
if not QuAe as much as poundage and
this is a good thing for the game.
It is pity that Pumpelly of Yale and
Mahan OF Harvard are out of the game
by reason of injuries. These men were
both counted on as consistent ground
gamers and their elimination means a
weakening of the teams.
C. c. FELTON,, a brother of the famous
Sam FELTON,, has reported for practice
with the Harvard football squad The
coaches will start right In making q
kicker out of him In the hope that he
will i,ta v,a,r f~1%
man as his brother was
The Pennsylvania varsity has beer
strengthened by the return of Avery al
halfback and Kelly at end, both Of whom
have been out of the game for several
weeks. Avery seems to have lost nothing
by his enforced lay-off. II Is probable
that he will displace Bolgar in the back
field, though the latter has been doing
excellent work. Avery possesses more
speed and will fit better with the othel
fast backs. 4a
| A report from the west says thai
Hurry-up Yost, while watching football
practice at Michigan the other Cay, grew
impatient at the rather gentle method.
of some of the scrimmages and, withou,
waiting to change to a uniform, tore int
the midst of the milling. When he came
out few minutes later, $3.50 watch. q $6t
suit of clothes and half a dozen muci
priced stogies had been ruined. Unfort.
unately the dispatch does not stat,
whether he succeeded in driving home hi.
point. The chances are, however that h.
did. s
1t is hard to see any reason for the OBJ
lection of the national baseball commits
sion to dealing with Dave Fultz on behalf
of the players except the ancient objec
ton put up by employers when their mer
ask for improved conditions or higher
wages. I'VE will deal with none bu
| our own employees" and this is q danger
Gus talk for the nnagnates to take. Il
| union labor should take 1t into its head
| to boycot baseball, 1t would cut mighty
hole in the box receipts. F,Htz is an idea
man to represent the players in an,
negotiations. 1t has not been many year,
since he was a star of pretty nearly tn,
first magnitude. He knows all angie
Of the game, Is a man of unblemishe<
character, fair minded and diplomats