Evening star., 1914-08-16

in Stallings, and you mark my words,
| ming an express train on schedule time:
He left Birmingham each time, going ana
returning. just half an hour a1ter ms
| arrival Thirty minutes was the com-
pulsory stop allotted. The allowance was
| an hour at Manchester and he took ex-
actly sixty seconds there. ms nying
time over :,22 miles was 4.42:2o he ne"
early distance in the fog. but even when
| the fog cleared he stated he was unapie
| to recognize any landmarks. he seiecteo
| good field to alight in, counting upon
as he reached the ground. They gave 1t
to him. telling him that Birmingham was
fifteen miles on. He got somebody 10
| turn his propeller and kept along a rail-
road track to the proper ground. Two
men had already arrived there before
him. Strange and Carr, and Carr had
already left. Hence his chances did, not
seem particularly good. Nevertheless, ne
kept steadily on his schedule and landed
| in Trafford Park all right. where he
| heard of Strange's accident and found
| that he himself was the second man
there. On the home stretch he did not
push matters, but kept on exactly as ne
had calculated and won the prize.
| Meantime men like Farman. with his
hundred-horsepower Sunbeam motor. had
taken to wandering about and Carr got
mixed up between Birmingham and Man
| chester, both going and coming back.
Carr finished in 5.o6:12 and Eicock IN
7.56:17.
The conclusion of the whole matter was
well summed up by Mr.. Salmet, the Daily
Mail airman, who says that the man
who can fly by compass and who knows
exactly what he is doing gains an i'm
mense advantage; that the best man In
| the contest won. although Ire had not by
any means the fastest machine. Even
/ yI~oyr f~ an
don was little better than Brooks and
yet Brock won.
| Apropos of this columns comment on
the playing Of Doust in doubles. an IN
teresting feature developed in the prac-
| he and Dunlop took on Brookes and
| Wilding and defeated them. much to the
disgust of the supposedly invincible Aus
| tralian doubles team.
! Miss Mary Browne kept up the reputa-
ton of California for tennis champion
ships coming through the western wom-
| ans contest at Chicago and easily defeat
ing her sister. Mrs. Williams of Chicago.
| in straight sets. Miss Rees. who won
| the title last year, did not appear to de-
fend, so that Miss Browne adds to her
| laurels the new title of western cham
pion.'
| In spite of the protests Of one or two
/
| in foot ball, namely, the head coach. has
come to the end Of his rope and has
been banished from his position of dis
tinction Of being the only man who
He must now take his position on the
benches along with the substitutes. and
\ his last privilege is gone. This PROPOSE
| ton has been brought up for the last two
or three years and offers were made OF
| private agreements to bar the coach in
this manner. but nothing came Of 1t until
the foot ball rules committee. itself, this
| spring took hand in it and relegated
the coach to the bench. There Is no
doubt that 1t Is In accord with the pr1n-
ciples of the rules in the game that there
(, shall be no sideline coaching. and while.
i of course, instructions will go out with
substitutes "a matter which cannot be
prevented). the new rule will do much to
Convince the people that the team. under
its captain and quarter. is playing its
own game 1t may be hard upon teams
which have relied upon getting aoviee
of this kind, but IL teams were as de-
pendent upon this kind of coaching as
would be indicated it is time that some
such radical action were taken.
Another very important change IN tne
rules is that forbidding the grounding OF
ball by a man who has oeen prgveneeu !,
from making his forward pass rms II
will be remembered. provided such
blocked player with an exit last year
The play may be described as follows:
A man in the backfield receives m .he
hall and runs backward and toward the
side line waiting for his opportunity &c
get in a forward pass. but he Is hurried
by the opponents SO that ne is so,sse
hack still farther and finds himself una
Bile to throw the ball to the end or any :.
bndv that he wished to reach with IL
, Under the rules last year ne wouio .he. -
! throw the ball quickly to the GROUND i, ~
front of him, thus making a technicahs ~
. incompleted forward pass, ana py ~. ~.
, | Mace where the scrimmage had starteu
, wb;ch might be ten or even fifteen yards
, IN advance Of where the player was Iorc
: ed by his opponents to throw the Dali y
a the Ground Backs became very eNpeI
IN do;ne, this SO that it was practicale
: ;n,nossible to prevent it, and II MAJ
, found himself unable to get on ms pas
. he would always throw the Dali 10 .h'
/. ground. and. by the loss nieisS 6ftee,
s down, avoid the ioss VI &c"
h This is now prevented by the infiictiof
l. 81 a ten-yard penalty for such an eva
sion This ten-yard penalty n,,. Is IS mIaSu nIaS "
e amother exceedingly important aitera
s .,o,, IN the rules has been the abolish
$ want Of the kick-out. 1t should be stat
cd that a kick-out is the means py "nic'
hall which has crossed the goai I'm
n | without scoring a soai IS onee o IT.
u turned to play in the field OF play. n
:. s;da which has touched the ball down II
- | thair own goal making either toucn
}. hacL or safety. in the old days coul
bring the ball out anywhere withln IN
q o5lward line and there kick 1t down tn
o feld. either by drop kick. place kick Q
e ! ne, nnnt. Later it was permitted them I
g npt the ball in play by a scrirnmage. Tn
s kick-out has stood in Rugby foot pa.
J. ever since the game was introduceo !ht
e .,,ts country. and wherever Rugby foe
e hall is played the kick-out is part
a the the game. but in our american game
: had somewhat lost it's distinctive charac
IS teristics because side was allowed I
n put the ball in play by scrimmage
H. thev preferred. The distance ailowe
y thsm has been altered from time to time
u Originally it was the 25-yard line; the
is the 15-yard line. but this was found