Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-04

for Railway The latter had offered
| October l., October 81 and election
/ day. November :. rutherford had
/ given October l. and November 10
/ out-uf-S State teams, yet intended to
/ compete fer State honors. Railway
/ then completed her 1914 schedule.
/ After we had played about one-half
/ of our schedule Rutherford offered
/ to plav Railway, provided Railway
/ defeated Trenton. and couldn't un-
| derstand why Railway was unwill-
( iug to cancel with other teams, mere
! ly Ia accommodate Rutherford.
When our last game ended in q
history. giving Us a "clean slate for
/ 1914. there were still some doubters
/ of our good faith. At the urgent re-
/ quest OF some supporters of Railway,
( both in and out of town, and in or
] der to convince tie most obstinate
/ Cf orr desire to prove eur sportsman
ship. We accepted Rutherford's
sweeping challenge 10 play Railway
ant any time and place. On Monday,
Immediately after the holiday we
'phoned our offer of a game through
n Newark gentleman who Is in close
touch with scholastic football. Our
conditions for the game were that
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Newark on Saturday, December 6,
and that a neutral man should
choose the officials. But for a third
time Rutherford refused to have any
athletic relations with Railway.
Rutherford has had these opportuni-
ties 10 meet Railway, but she has
Cancelled outright twice and has re-
fused to meet Railway in a post
season game. for which they howled
so long
This is a statement Of facts hith-
erto met with only by weak -kneed
excuses. Very truly yours,
w. p. SHORT.
o
When high school football coaches
fall out discussion sometimes be-
comes rather heated. The following
letter Is likely to stir up more
trouble:
J. P. N:
Two weeks ago Coach Principal
Van Alta, of Rutherford High School,
was issuing all sorts Of sweeping
challenges to Coach Short, OF Rah-
way High School, and now he has
dug a hole, crawled in and has pulled
the hole in after him. Two weeks
ago he held what he thought was a
club flush, and he was busy swinging
the clubs at Coach Short and Rah-
way High School. Today he holds
four flush, composed of four spades,
with a red card coming to him in the
draw. He will probably use the
spades to dig the hole. l sincerely
hope he does, for it seems to me he
has always appeared out Of place on
10 a
buffer he is in a class by himself;
but in Mr.. Short he met man who
held in Railway High School football
team a royal flush and who was bet
ter acquainted with the open, above
board rules of the game, who be-
lleved in playing the game according
to the rules, and who had the nerve
to call his monumental blur. All the
catcalls and mock challenges emanat-
ing from Rutherford will now be
silenced, and the real hand held by
Coach Principal Van Alta lies open,
barred to every scholastic football fol-
lower in Jersey, and they, like the
true, red-blooded, sport-loving people
they are, will now unite In taking off
their hats to Coach Short and the
Railway High School football team,
undisputed champions of the State of
New Jersey. l am quite sure now
that Rutherford was never the least
bit oYeranXiouS to get crack at
Coach Shorts championship aggre-
cation.
In a way, Coach Short paid the
Rutherford team big compliment by
condescending to play them; but he
is being well repaid for it, as now
everyone knows Just what Van Alta
is Railways willingness to play
hiay eYTy4Y ri ica
but Van Atlas refusal to play was
even a bigger surprise, for 1t was not
imagined ne had the nerve to show
the white feather while the eyes of
all scholastic football followers were
upon him.
When Coach Short notified him last
Monday that he was willing to allow
Railway to play Rutherford In New
ark Saturday December g. 1t must
have been a knockout blow for Van
Alta, from the weakened reply he
made.
Van Atlas reply to the Railway
challenge is characteristic. Imagine a
football team being out Of condition
simply because some of the members
Of the team were playing basketball,
Like Railway, Rutherford played
Thanksgiving Day, and a team that
played last THURSDAY certainly ought
to be able to play this week, unless
its coach rules otherwise. All the
newspaper discussion concerning the
two teams meeting will now come to
an end, and the Railway High School
win be the undisputed champs of the
state. MICHAEL STEWARD.
Bond street, Railway, N. j.
@
The bike fan who suggested 6 SIX
day race for Newark predicts It's sue
cess. He says;
J. p. NJ:
It is with great pleasure that
note in The Star that the proposed
local six-day race Is to be an actual
occurrence. If you will recall, pro-
posed, through your columns, New
ark six-day race a year ago, also this
fall, at the close Of the outdoor sea-
son. You held out hopes that Man.
ager MacFarland would give US the
race, and l am gratified, and am
sure that the vast number of cycling
fans in this city feel the same, inas-
much as it came to be a real fact,
thanks to Manager MacFarland.
No doubt Manager MacFarland will
give US good talent and reasonable
number of teams, and II only the
number of fans that journeyed to the
New York race support this, our own
race, I have no doubt that 1t will be