El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-17

TTHERE have been many writers in
the east, particularly. who have
- attempted to grade the football
teams in the east this year. In the Sc
lection of first and second places the
writers are almost unanimous in Sc
lectIng Harvard and W. & j. respec-
lively, and most Of them say there is
very little to choose between the two
teams. a careful summary of the seleC-
tons Tor the other places shows that
the majority pick the first team as
1oIloWs; Army, Pittsburg, Dartmouth,
[ y ale, Lehigh, Cornell Princeton and
Syracuse. Harvard is really entitled to
lrst place, a notch ahead of W. q D.,
as the former team was not defeated
throughout the year. ". & ]. is select
ed Tor second place well ahead of the
army team, owing to the fact that the
latter team had by far the easier sehed-
ule- Despite the fact that Dartmouth
scored 1856 points to their opponents %,
it is placed behind both West Point and
Pittsburg, owing to the fact that the
Dartmouth team suffered a Is to II de-
4eat at the hands Of the only Ialr
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College men state most emphatically
that football is not played for any mer-
cenary reason. Yet the football season
Just pact netted Harvard profit of
$4,000. The Yale game alone brought
Harvard $685. 900. The Princeton game
meant $4,000 more, the Michigan affair
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struggle between Harvard substitutes
and Penn State $4,000 and the other
four games with Brown, TUFTS, Bates
and the Springfield Y. N. c. A. were
good for $4,000 more. This brings the
gross receipts up to $4,000. The es-
timated expenditures for the season, IN
GLIDING coach Perry Haughtons salary
of $4,000, are $4,000. This leaves
yes Football is played merely. for the
love of thegame and to amuse the spec
tators.
Just prior to the opening Of the 1914
football season, coach Bob Zuppkhe
called his charges together and laid
down for them three rules. The first
was that they firmly bear in mind the
fact that it was impossible Tor them
to be hurt in game. The second, that
regardless of whom their opponents
might be, the Illinois team must con-
stantly remember the fact that 1t was
the best team on earth, and the third,
that in case it met a team that out
weighed it, not to waste any time Wor-
rying but to use their brains and win
through head work instead Of attempt
ing to use Drawn and bulk. These
three rules he kept drilling into them
throughout the season. Did they bring
results? Well, at the beginning of the
season Illinois appeared to be so weak
that it was not thought 1t would be
able to even give the big teams a good
game Yet it swept through the middle
west like a cyclone, moving down all
opposition with the greatest ease and
anneXing the conference championship
with greater ease than any team has
ever been able to gain it since the old
Big Nine was first combined. Many fol-
lowers of football in that section of the
country now claim that at no time dur
ing the season was Illinois compelled to
fully extend itself.
Much has been written Of the men
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minors as unfit for fast company and
who later made good on other teams IN
the big show. For some reason one has
been almost completely overlooked
This is Shore, the most sensational re-
cruit pitcher of the year, who was with
the Boston Red Sox- McGraW had
Shore in 1912. In June Of that year he
gave Shore tryout in the ninth inning
Of a game aga3lnst me braves. men on
Shore went in the score stood q
to 2 in favor of the Giants. But when
the last man had been retired in that
awful inning the score stood Il to Il,
the Braves having clOuted him for no
less than nine hits, one a home run, in
that one inning. Several bases on balls
and one or two errors sandWiched in
gave the Braves 10 large, juicy runs.
There is no record of McGraw having
ever given him another trial The rec
ords do show that shortly after that he
was returned to the minors. His show
ing with Baltimore in 1913 so impressed
manager AdiIlBdl VI the LNGu D@@A LLAtNN
he purchased Shores release. The
showing which Shore made during the
past season certainly justified the pur-
chase price paid for him.
When $4,000 was paid for the great
King" Kelly 20 years ago it was
thought to be a tremendous price In
later years, however, this price was
shaded a number of times and finally
Barney Dreyfuss paid S22,50O for one
lemon, Marty O'TOOle. That stood as
the highest price ever paid for ball
player. or rather in this case an al
legged ball player, for number Of years
and until only a short time ago. when
The Old Roman" Comiskey, Of the
Chicago White Sox, paid $4,000 Tor Ed
die Collins, the greatest second baseman
in the game and, one Of the greatest
ball players of all time. In one way,
at least, this sale may help Pittsburg.
That $22,5oO was an awful load for for
that the burden of being the man Tor
whom the record price was paid , has
70 business and show some of the Twill
ing which some few still claim he has