The Alaska citizen., 1914-11-23
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crosses. but 1t has been pushed to a point where in animals. except in regard to color. probably too much reliance is based upon it. Burbank. | Buffum and others have shown how much more rapid Is the improve ment worked by breaking up char acteristics than by selection with plants. and how the work can be successively carried out in a season or two that by selection or acclima- tion might take centuries or would never come about.
 With the larger animals super excellence still remains a matter of environment and especially of food, although horses either of the draft or racing running type are now of normal activity at much greater weights and heights than formerly. Plenty of highly nutritious food is. however, necessity If the frame and muscles are to develop suffi- eiently for increased size and weight, otherwise We have gradual rever- sion with disastrous inefficacy until | the horse gets back to the sire which will be supported in full life and ac- tivity by ordinary feeding such as grass and hay with moderate grain rations. We get practically to the same limitations or greater ones that produce the one perfect bloom on a large plant instead of the many of smaller size and perfection with the same plant area and root system to provide for them.
 ! F. ze correct term to use in regard to live stock than improvement, for what we gain in one direction we lose in another Small trotting horses are on the whole speedier than big ones, while the reverse Is true of the thor oughbred, though moderate sized horse often stays the longest and may be much the better weight car rier. Still, on the whole, with run ming horse the dictum that a good big one will beat a good little one | is correct.
 Football Outlook
 St. Louis Post-Dispatch: There Is every prospect of an unusually interesting football season in the l East because of the fact that both Yale and Princeton will throw against Harvard's brand of football that has stood the test of the last few years new coaching systems that funda mentally. must be heartily approv- ed by the Blue and the Orange and Black
 It is perhaps hardly necessary to state that since the advent of Haugh- ton. Harvard football has achieved not only distinctiveness, but distinc tion. In other words, it has been something not to match, but to beat We shall see whether the new sys- tenn at Nassau and at New Haven are designed primarily to account for whatever may be turned out at Cambridge, In itself a laudable ef fort, or for a revival of sound foot ball at the two institutions in ques- tion-a revival that goes deeper than mere victory in the annual game | There can be no gainsaying the fact that at Cambridge in recent years the type of football on view even so early as the October games has been impressive. To win in the East coaches must beat Haughton and Harvard. Can 1t be done? Un- til the season draws into the more important games it Is sufficient to study the type of play; whether 1t be built around Brickley or a Mahan l cannot believe that with the stopping of Brickley and a Mahan, Haughton and Harvard are exhausted in the matter of resources
 In tfe matter of material this year Princeton doubtless will be close to Harvard, and the Yale squad undoubtedly will provide all that the right sort of coaches need It is upon the handling of this rich material and the planning of the game that the outcome of the East ern season depends. The steady quantity is Harvard with a system of play that is always a challenge The uncertain quantities are Yale and Princeton.
 Both in recent years have been in the doldrums. Both have been in the throes of adjusting the best thought, of the old-timer. with all that his prestige means, with that of the newcomer, perhaps just trifle too sure of himself. Neither man, the youngster with the new idea. nor the old-timer with the fairly sure foundation. has been worth throwing overheard. Old-timers in football are apt to believe that they know all that there is to be known about the game. The same is true of the average youngster. The problem 'eems to be to combine the view points of the two.
 Harvard seems to have been able to combine them in the person of Percy Haughton. The task has not been so easy for Yale and Prince ton. Both have experimented wide ly. If not always wisely. The Blue will be handled this year by Frank Hinkey. with all that Hinkey is able to gather around him. while the Tigers will be under the immediate command of Penfield. the Rhodes scholar, who seems to he the field" nucleus of a group of all that is worth while in Princeton football, past and present.
 In the East, then. one finds Har- yard we'll entrenched under the coaching of Percy Haughton and such aids as that remarkable head coach gathers around him; Yale with Hin- key at the helm and every prospect that he will be the rallying point If coaches SO widely different pc Ray Tompkins and Shevlin; Prince ton under the titular leadership of Penfield and the support of such.