Evening star., 1914-04-05
Prominent sewanee Captains.

! Prominent Sewanee Captains.
! A recent article in this column com
mented upon some Of the future develop
| lnents of men who played foot ball in
| the north. The following list will prove
of great interest. showing something of
| the development Of men who were foot
ball captains. even in the short time
since graduation. who have come out
Of one Of the universities Of the south,
| SeWanee:
sEWiANEE
| II. &. Seibles, captain 1879 team -
| large real estate and insurance man,
| Birmingham. Ala.
W. Wilson, captain 1900 team-Lawyer.
Rock Hill, 8. c.
| Harris g. Cope. captain 19ol-Mining
| business. Cartersville, Ga.
Rev. II. D. Phillips. captain 1907
Doing great work in his profession at
La Grange Ga.
r. L. Kirby Smith, captain 1903 team
Prominent physician and specialist,
Jacksonville, Fla.
| r. P. Colmore: captain 1904 team
Prominent physician, Chattanooga,
| Tenn.
William scarboro. capainf 1905 team
Well-to-do merchant, Austin. Tex.
George Watkins. captain 1905 team
Lawyer. Birmingham. Ala.
| ]. s. Barrett. captain 1867 team--Real
estate, Murfreesboro, Tenn.
William Marley: captain 1908 team
silas Williams, captain 1909 team
Lawyer, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Aubrey Lanier. captain 1910 team-Oil
business Shreveport, La.
J. D. Myers, captain 1911 team
Brokerage business, Memphis Tenn.
| ]. r. Gillian, captain 1912 team
| Studying to get an appointment in the
| army.
| Robert McKellum. captain 1913 team
| Studying for the ministry.
| Forty per cent of the men who have
| played OH the Sewanee foot ball teams
| have been theological students.
Auto Road Test.
| The Automobile Club of America is
making an official road test Of the merits
| Of wooden and wire wheels upon the
wear of tires. The Rudge. Woodwork
| type of wire wheel is being
| used. and they will be tried out
on four-cylinder cars to be driven on an
| average of 125 miles day for several
| weeks, under the observation Of an Of
| fetal acting under the direction Of the
| be reported at the club each night and
| locked up. after being properly cleaned,
until the next days trip. Cars will make
exactly the same journeys under the
and another the next. the drivers alter
mating. They will ibe tested with various
numbers Of passengers, or ballasts, the
rear cars being interchanged with the
front after half the mileage has been
run. A test i'll England some time ago
showed a considerably greater mileage
with the wire wheels, but it is intended
| to make this test as thorough as pos
sible.
Cornell outruns Michigan.
| There was an interesting race at the
| P. A. A. games in the two-r1ile relay be-
tween Michigan and Cornell Half. the
! first man for Michigan, got to the front
| and handed over some yards to Griest
Irish Of Cornell. however, pulled Griest
| down close to level at the mile, and
from Murphy of Michigan. SO that he
turned over to his final man, Colwell, a
lead Of 30 yards. which Jansen. the
Michigan man, could only bring down to
90
New Coaching Rule.
| A year ago Ketcham, then newly
| elected captain of Yale's foot ball team,
made the proposition to Harvard and
Princeton Of RELOCATING the coach to the
side lines. A meeting was held. repre-
| SCHsdSAScS VI Lie LII &c COIleEeS D6lnR
present, and the matter was discussed,
but was not acceptable to Harvard and
| Princeton. The question then arose as to
| whether it could be put into effect in
base ball. and the Yale athletic COM
] rnittee, at their own meeting, voted
favorably upon the project. 1t was not,
| however, until the spring that the three
decided to adopt 1t, and the matter of
detail has not yet been worked out, but
undoubtedly will be in short time
Japan University Cancels Games.
Whether it is a war sign or not, Keto
University has Cancelled all games that
demand the presence of its nine away
from Japan after June 49, This rubs
off the slate all the eastern and middle
| western games
New Process for Ice Skating Kinks.
a new problem Will be offered to the
manufacturers of artificial ice, for 1t
is stated on good authority that a skat-
ing rink is now being operated in Berlin
in which the surface Is made of salt in
stead Of ice. The process was invented
and patented by DR.. Edward Arnold and
is applied directly over wood, asphalt or
cement in successive layers. The abra-
sion; of the skates In the form Of so-callcd
snow can be collected and melted into
fresh material. and layer applied twice
] a week sufdces to keep the surface In
Lgood repair.
copyrighted, 1914, by Otis F. wood.)