The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-07

| clubs chance to enforce dfscfp1ina. Tn other words. if a player begins to ask for more money or gets stubborn in othr CT ways he can be brought to his senses by application Of the waiver rule. A threat to send him to the nni- nors may stimulate his work all around.
 This has worked successfully in the cases of several players and the mag mates do not want the rule changed. | At the same time the players think 1t unjust to them because it permits the club owners to keep them in the big l league or send them to the minors at l will This. the players say. absolutely kills the original intent of the rule,
 which was to give players a chance 10 stay in the league as long as possible. The players want the rule, with slight variations. put back in its origi- nal form. They are of the opinion that the waiver clause should not be used I in the nature Of a punishment to be held over the heads of members Of the teams.
 The national commission is disposed I to be very generous with the Players fraternity in most of it's demands, and 1t is practically certain that all of them will be granted with the possible ex- ception of the waiver rule Everybody seems to be unanimous in agreeing that a player who has been in the league for ten years shall be given bis uncon- ditionaI release when his big league days are about ended. This is nothing more than a fair reward for long and faithful services.
 The New York club did this for Joe l McGinnity, and players have been sirn-
 larly honored by other clubs
 1 Football Comment. | Two features have stood out in the present football campaign-the forward pass and the great utility of effective kicking.
 l Kicking has won a really striking number of games this year. and there lseems no question but that the coaches will insist on having men specialize on their feature more than ever before. It was noticed in several big contests played in bad weather that longer gains than usual were made from pJnts
 because the ball, being wet and soggys was difficult to catch. owing to it's slip ] periness, and running the kick back was hindered by muddy ground
 l In the Princeton Harvard game both sides prevented touchdowns by kick ing, and it was a drop kick by the sxillfuI Brickiey that sent the ball over
 the cross bars and won the game for the Crimson.
 That drop kicking is a neglected art
 the games this year plainly show.
 Think of Princeton having several chances for goals from the twenty-five and thirty yard lines and being unable l to score against Harvardl There ia no
 sensible reason why Brickley should stand head and shoulders above all other players in drop kicking. There ought to be dozen men as accurate sn booting the pigslin as he, for dili-s gent practice would perfect any aver age player. s5s
 The forward pass has shown its value, particularly as developed by the Dartmouth team, which has proved the unexpected sensation of the east, just as the Michigan State Agricultural college team broke into the linelight l in the middle west. Ghee quarter back, and Captain Hogsett work the forward pass as we'll as 1t has ever
 been done and by means of it they de- feated the powerful Aggregation repre- senting the University of Pennsylvania 1 There seems no doubt but that the forward pass and all round kicking will lbe specially developed for next year by 1 the big teams. for their coaches are not l slow to learn lessons from experience. Gianninii May Coach Yale. It is reported that Eugene J. Clan mini, the rowing mentor of the New York Athletic club. has been offered