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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-07

CAREFUL study Of the games
~ plaved during the past season
l. n by eastern football teams reveals
the fact that West Point, next to Har-
ward. was the strongest eleven and
ranks close to the champions. The sol
dfers rlaved remarkable tootbau an
season and outranked Aale IN sLdnu-
ing The blue team was the IhlTu pest
team during the past season anu to5
the first time in many years Ilhlsheu
in third. place. Yale and Harvard, as a
ru1c have always been the strongest
teams. hut the soldiers came along this
season and took the laurels from the
Princeton ranks next to Yale. Tho
Tiger outfit was not as fast team as
has represented the school IN FORMER
Gears but the orange and black played
,-ood roofbaU 1t was defeated both by
Yale and Harvard, but defeated Dart
mouth and other fast elevens. Next 10
Princeton comes the Navy me mlu-
dies had a clever fighting machine this
season, but it was one far inferior TO
the team the Army had. Cornell, Dart
mouth and Pennsylvania come IN the
order named. The Penn team was eN-
rremelv weak this season, and was not
fbe Old fighting machine that has rep
resented the college on the grlulroh 1oI
Dartmouth had one Of the most pow
erful Of all eastern college teams, yet
the standing. The trouble with Dart
mouth this season was lack of proper
head work and coaching. The team
should have won about every game
played The big game Of the season
was with Princeton and this was lost
because of lack of head work. After
that Dartmouth played only weaker
elevens.
Lee Magee of the st. Louis Nationals
IS soon to jump to the Federals, ac-
cording to a report from St. Louis
President Ward Of the Brooklyn FEEDER
ais announces that Magee is going to
pIay with his team. President Gilmore
Of the Feds announces that within q
few days the Federal league will pub
fish the names of the players they have
signed, and he promises to spring some
of the game have signed Federal
league contracts, Mr.. Gilmore an
nOunces.
Just what the trouble was between
Mack and his trio Of great tWlrlers Is
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-07

athletic authorities VINO were against
giving Zuppke the job. He'd never
played on a big college eleven. so they
didn't think he knew much about
coaching a college eleven But the
majority ruled on that committee. And
the majority favored Zuppke's appoints
ment. It was a mighty lucky thing
for Illinois that it did.
Zuppke went to Illinois when Illinois
looked to have just as much chance
to win the western conference cham
pionship as the Cincinnati Reds have
of winning the 1915 world series But
Zuppke turned the trick.
Zuppke's Motto Given to Team.
In his first speech to his new
charges. Zuppke said;
Boys we viii have q motto, and
that motto shall be; We don't get
hurt And. in the second place. we
will play along the theory that there
isn't a football eleven in the world that
can beat us. In the third place, boys,
when you 20 against a team that out
weighs you. don't worry Use your
brains Where Drawn and bulk are
lacking, brains will turn the trick
The Illinois crowd got the spirit OF
the thing. They played with never
say die" manner. They fought and
fought and kept right on fighting,
whether they were miles ahead or miles
behind And the result was that they
won every game they played, against
the strongest teams in the west
Few Were Hurt.
Whether that I'VE don't get hurt"
motto had anything to do with the
fact that rarely. during the past sea-
son was an Illinois man on the in
jured list. is a question But one thing
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-07

ONE ON EDDIE.
Eddie Plank has not quit the
Athletics, Connie Mack beat him
to IL.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-07
ILLINOIS COACH NEVER PLAYED;
LEARNED FOOTBALL BY THINKING
Zuppke Was Thought Too Little to Play When in Col
lege, but Has Developed Other Teams Into Whirl-
winds; Spirit Injected Into Illinois Eleven
Helped It to Win Every Game.
BY FRANK G. MENKE.

TEW YORK, Dec. Bob Zuppke,
M who coached the Illinois football
i eleven so well that the team
climbed to the crest of western foot
ball never played with a regular team.
Zuppke attended Wisconsin univer-
sity. He had football ambitions, but
the coaches there looked him over, pro-
nounced him too small for varsity pur-
poses, and showed him off to the side
lines. Unable to help une varsity team
with Drawn, Zuppke decided to help IL
with his brain. From his position on
the sidelines, or on the scrub eleven,
he discovered errors in the coaching
system and he discovered ways in
which the teams efficiency might be
increased.
Bolstering up courage one day,
Zuppke told the head coach of his find
ings. The head coach happened to be
a human being. He didn't spool at
Zuppke's suggestions. He accepted
them because he saw at once that they
had weight-lOts of weight.
Acted as Adviser.
All during the rest of his college
career Zuppke continued to act as ad-
wiser for the team. His advance was
good-mighty good. Many of Zuppke' S
suggestions helped the Wisconsin team
greatly. Zuppke, in due course of time,
graduated, but he left college without
a w" He had helped the team with
his brain, but not with Drawn. And the
Drawn assistants were the ones who
got the sweaters and the coveted let
tiers.
Coached Chicago High School.
After graduation, Zuppke went to
Muskegon and coached the team there
into the championship. His work was
so good that Oak Park high school, in
Chicago, offered him a job as coach
The salary was a sizeable one-and
Zuppke accepted. Zuppke took charge
of Oak Park high and developed a joke
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-07

looking team into a world beater
among high school elevens. Not only
that, but he developed a flock of me
diocre players into stars Of the first
magnitude. Zuppke taught Chez, the
great Dartmouth quarterback the rudi-
ments of football He taught Pete
Russell the Chicago quarterback He
turned out MacOmber, one Of the best
halfbacks in the west, and he turned
out a score of others who since have
made their marks in college football
Then Illinois Got Him.
The success Zuppke scored at Oak
Park high influenced the University OF
illinois people to offer him job there.
There were some among the Illinois
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-07
PHOENIX TOO FAR
FOR EASTERN TEAMS

Phoenix, Ariz, Dec. Just because
Phoenix is TOO far away" the India
napolis and Denver baseball teams, Of
the Central and Western leagues, re-
spectively, will not be brought here
for spring training James c. McGill,
owner of both teams, spent two days
here, in the course Of an auto tour of
the west He said that Phoenix has
everything desirable in the way of eli
mate, but that it is so far west he
cannot afford to bring his ball players
here. They will probably be sent once
more TO Hot Springs, Ark, next spring.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-07
U. S. WILL BUILD MANY
SUBMARINES. is BELIEF

Washington, D. C., Dec. 7-Congress
will appropriate for the construction Of
at least eight submarines and possibly
Is, it is believed. As a result, American
ship builders are now displaying eager
]. Powell. president of the Fore River
Shipbuilding company. allied with the
Bethlehem steel corporation, told sec
rotary of the navy Daniels Saturday
his company was not seeking European
business.
I'VE are too busy just now building
submarines for the United states" he
said.
Build Up the market for your own
goods by patrOniZing your neighbor.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-07
Believe Jack johnson Must Need Cash
81 il il -:I:- IL
Kilbane Follows Example of Welsh

has defended the fair name Of Philadel-
phia against invaders on many occa-
sions.
White In DisfayOr.
Charley White is in disfavor with
the boxing powers in Milwaukee, as
result of his bout with champion
Welsh. White has been virtually
blacklisted for his part in holding up
the bout on account Of the referee
question. White was offered a boat
with Kilbane in the Brew City. but
when the Milwaukee promoters were
asked to stage the mill, they raised
their hands aloft, and emitted loud
shrieks peculiar to their species. They
will have absolutely nothing to do with
any bout in which White is involved,
they say.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-07
ARTILLERY BEATS
CAVALRY TEAM, 800

Battery B, sixth field artillery, de-
feated the 18th cavalry eleven Sunday
afternoon at Washington park by a
the troopers in every department of the
game and the backs circled the ends for
long runs. Big gains were made by the
victOrs in bucking the line The win
ners claim the championship of the
border and are anxious to arrange a
game with the Y. NJ. c. A. or School Of
Mines team
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-07
DOUBTFUL,

Plank will be "A Chifed next
season, that is, II there's "A Chifed
team.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-07

lust what the trouble was between
Mack and his trio Of great twirlers Is
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-07

Why should you, intelligent sick man or
woman, employ a doctor about whom you
know nothing; or worse travelling men who
have nothing at stake, no reputation and moth
ing to back up or guarantee their promises?
Ell Paso has recently had more than her share
of the riff raft of the country jumping from
pillar to post and getting what they can and
fading leaving the sufferer sadder but wiser,
II is IN he hODed
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-07

ERNEST J. LANIGAN
JOHN E. WRAY
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-07
WEST POINT. NEXT TO HARVARD.
HAS STRONGEST FOOTBALL TEAM

Soldiers Played Splendid Game and Went Through Sea-
son Without Defeat ale Is Ranked Third, ana
Princeton Fourth; "H ONE Rum Baker Is Elk
pected to Be the Mex to Jump to Federals.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-04
1914 County Fair
Plans Under WaV

The directors of the Jackson Coun-
ty Fair Association have commenced
work on the fair for this fall. 1t is
the intention TO make it the best fair
ever held in the county and the asso-
citation solicits the assistance of every
business man, fruit grower, rancher
and everybody else in the county.
1t was decided to hold good speed
program on three days. during the
week of September to IL, exact
days to be announced later.
S. |. Brown, Or. j. l.. Helms, John
Sheridan, TIL. Taylor and S. Woolf
we're appointed a committee to ar
range speed program. The idea is
to cut out one day of racing and
increase the purses to attract more
horses.
The program committee wis in
structed to commence work on the
premium list at once and it will be
issued early in June.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-04
Editor Views Work on
The Pacific Highway

w, K. Brewer made trip over the
Pacific Highway last week and tells
in his Rogue River Argus observa-
tions as follows:
About 1890 we started on our
way, going over the Kanes creek road
as we had side trip straight up, to
make before we reached Central
Point, but when we got out Of the
hills into the beautiful Bear Creek
Valley we found that we had plenty
of room in which to change our mind,
so We went on to Jacksonville, and
while the road was smooth enough,
the whole thing was uphill all the
way.
After a visit around the court
house for a while we went on to Med
ford, reaching that city about 4:30,
having travelled some 80 miles over
hill and dale, but we were real glad
to have that bicycle tucked away out
of sight for several hours.
About $50 we started out on the
road home. the Pacific Highway, if
you please. A few hundred feet
from the end of the Medford city
pavement we came upon the first
crew Of men working on the road.
These men were digging up the old
macadam. We did some looking be-
fore we asked any questions, and in
looking we discovered that long
stretch of road had not been dug mp.
We asked the foreman why, and he
stated that it was a low place and
that the highest knobs were below
grade and a little filling needed
And say, it is caution the stories
that are being told about that road.
Its dago labor" when in fact the
nearest to a foreigner we say was
John ePterson, and he owns an 80
; up Evans creek and home in Med
! ford. Then they're wasting time
and money digging up what the coun-
ty spent good money to put down" "
That is true, in part. This crew is
going along with pick and shovel cut
ting down all knobs and ridges and
/ filling up the low places. and the sur
plus will all be used again within a
few rods of where it was dug out.
And as a matter of fact it would cost
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-04
Jennings Enthuses
Over the Springs

The following letter from the head
of one OF the largest wholesale and
retail furniture establishments on the
Pacific coast and from one who had
faith enough in our climate and fu-
ture without the springs development
to purchase and forward for develop
ment one of our best urban orchards,
MIR. Jenning having purchased the
old Johnson place last year, will but
tend to show the interest and faith
had and expressed by persons away
from Ashland as to the beneficent ef-
fects the springs development will
have on the future of Ashland. Mr..
Jenning is a large taxpayer and will
contribute his part in the taxes neces-
sary to forward the enterprise of a
bond issue. His letter to Mr.. Mink
Ter follows:
Portland. Ore. April 80, 1914.
Minkler's Cloak and Suit House, Ash
ldUu, Olts
Gentlemen: this minute received
+ the Ashland Tidings, which certainly
looks good to US about the mineral
springs such as we have there. We
are all very much enthusiastic over
same and will certainly give my sup
port of what can be done. | may be
down now very soon and improve the
Gold Medal fruit farm so as not to
have alone an elegant fruit farm but
also an elegant home.
Hoping to heard from you later on
same, we remain,
Respectfully yours,
HENRY JENNING e. SONS,
Per Henry Jenning, Sr
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-04
Notice to Private
Spring Owners

The springs development commit
tee have decided that il will be worth
much to Ashland If every privately
owned spring at tho head OF the val
ley is developed so it can be utilized
by the public and offers this proposi
ton to all persons owning mineral
springs OF value:
If you will properly develop your
spring, put II in good sanitary condi-
tion, beautify the grounds so it will
appear attractive, and furnish this
committee with a complete analysis
OF the waters, We will print your
analysis and an advertisement of
your waters in all the literature that
will 20 out advertising Ashland as Il
watering resort.
Mr.. Greer would be glad to meet
all mineral springs owners and talk
the plans over with them at any time
they find IL convenient to call at the
Tidings office. If
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-04
TOu Velle Forced
To Salute Flag

County Judge +. l.. Tou Velle and
County Clerk Gardner were in Ash
land on official business. says the
Mail Tribune, and the former ran into
an experience with Ordinance No.
G06 that exercised all the diplomatic
skill at his command Leaving his
high-power machine in the fodbidden
section of the Holy City, when he
returned a polite note that might
have been written by John Bassett
Moore or Nelson O'Shaughnessey sa-
luted the head of the county govern
ment with an invitation to call at the
office of the chief OF police.
THE dignity of the city" declared
Chief Porter, had been disturbed and
"the official forms of salutation, rev.
erence and decency usual among the
most sober people must now be con
formed with by striking the colors. -
Colonel Tou Velle met the diplo-
matte situation with a parley boo that
his Partisan great grandfather would
have viewed with gusto and delight,
entering the suggestion of official
business, being In the city officially,
promising to leave town and never
come back" and as n last resort Of
fered as a hostage his charge DAT
fairs.
The chief declined to parley boo
with anything less than his highness
himself. The diplomatic interchanges
continued for some time and visitors
in the city park across the way from
the spick and span city hall looked
on smilingly and tried to read the
result of the moving picture perform
ance going on in front OF them. Just
before the car took the track for the
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-04
Ashland, Ore, May 2, 1914.

ASnland, Ore, May z, 1914.
Mr.. Bert Greer: see by your pa
per that the springs committee is
getting ready to turn over the COM
pletion of the springs project to the
city council to finish. 1t was my un-
derstanding that you were going to
handle the thing clear through.
do not object to the city council on
general principles. They are all good
men. | think they are honest and
straight, but this is by far the big
gest thing Ashland ever undertook,
and it is no small job to carry it out
successfully. Unless it Is carried out
right our money will be gone and we
will get little good from it. You
have managed the whole thing so far
and have done the work successfully
as far as it has gone, and you must
finish it. With all respect to every
body, feel that you are the only man
in Ashland who can make it the big
success il must be if we are to have
resort here and the town is TO grow
and get the big crowds. / am sure
the handling Of these springs is the
big thing for Ashland. 1t will make
a wonderful resort if properly carried
out.
We viii! have to have an election
anyhow to vote the bonds, and | am
in favor OF electiong you commits
sioner OF the city to finish the work.
l do not want IL turned over to any
body who has not given the matter
thorough study. 1t is too important
to be turned into political football
or turned over 70 these who have
other things to tend to and have not
/ thoroughly studied the question. Mr..
Greer, if you 90 through with this
thing to finish and make it the sue
cess it should be, you will be the
biggest man in Oregon, but if you
! turn it over to some one else and
! they spoil II, the people Will say you
got them into it and will charge the
| failure to you.
You have simply got to stand for
commissioner to finish this job. If
you refuse TO go through with it, |
am against the bonds.
If you get up the election so that
We can elect you commissioner at the
same time we vote the bonds, am
the bonds carried, but If it is to be
put into inexperienced hands | am
not willing to take the chance.
Yours truly,
O. L. YOUNG.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-04

Ny Dear Mr.. Young: Replying to
your letter printed above, allow me
to thank you for your generous ex-
pressions of confidence. 1t is trle
that up to this time the development
committee have contemplated the
springs bond election so that after
the vote the matter would be turned
over to the council to complete.
While appreciate your confidence
in me, am quite sure you fail to
view the personnel of the develop
ment committee with fairness. Let
me assure you that have never be-
fore been privileged to labor with
fellow committeeman who were so
jealous, conscientious and hard work
ing as Mr.. Minkler and Mr.. Dodge.
The springs development, as far as it
has proceeded, would never have been
the success it has had been working
without their help. Should it be
found desirable by the citizens to
continue me in the work, know OF
no men ! would rather have as asso-
ciates.
Since the meeting authorizing the
committee to call for $4,000 in
bonds for the project many persons
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-04
High School Field Day
Proved a Great Success

Peters (A) second, Bob Zene &C. P.)
third.
Half-Mile Run-Burdic (A.) first,
Spencer (A) second, Bestul &C. PJ
third.
44-Yard Dash--Gumaer (A.) first,
Burdic ca second, Pelouse (M.)
third.
One-Miie Run-Freeman (A)
first, Abbott (A) second, Cortell
(A) third.
100-Yard Dash-Pelouse (M) }
first, Peters ca second, Gumaer
(AD third.
Shot-put-Gates (MD first, SO
feet; Garrett ca second, 81 feet 10
inches; Merrill (A) third. 35 feet 9
inches.
Pole Vault-Gates (MD first, Cou-
gill (M) second, Van Dyke (A.)
third.
220-Yard Dash--Peters (A) first,
Pelouse (MD second, Cougill (M)
third.
Relay Race-Ashland (Gumaer,
Lily, Fraley and Peters) first, Med
ford (Pelouse, Gates, Cowgirl and
Brandon) second, Grants Pass third.
Broad Jump-Pelouse (M.) first,
16 feet ten inches; Seeley (M) sec
ond, 16 feet 91a inches; Freeman
(A.) third, 16 feet 2 inches.
High Jump-McFarland &c. PD
and Baker (ND tied, feet 2A
inches; Gates third.
DR.. Jarvis of Ashland, assisted by
G. f. Miner, formerly of Chicago
University, and Prof. A. C. Joy, prin-
cipal OF the Belleview schools, and
Mr.. Colvig of Medford officiated as
referees and gave perfect satisfac-
ton.
The baseball game was cinch for
Ashland from start to finish. Har-
ris for the locals had Grants Pass at
his mercy during the entire game,
while our boys batted the Grants
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-04

: about twice as much to build the road
If II were not leveled up ahead of the
machine
From here we rode along until We
met F, A. Kittredge, resident en-
sineer, who is attending to the en-
gineering part of the work. He told
us of an experience he had been hay
ing with some farmers, why they
couldn't drive on the gol darn thing
with load of hay without upset.
! ting" Well, there are some slants
TO the curves, especially on the square
corners. And even these are not COM
parison with most any place on the
old roadbed for two loads of hay to-
pass. But why the slant, and why
not level around the corners? Well.
four letters give the answer, Fool,
and the slant is not to save his neck.
oh no, but the innocent victim he has
with him. A number of machines
have gone into the fence on this piece
of road because the fool" was driv-
/ ing so fast he could not make tho
turn.
When we asked Engineer Kit
redge If he thought that a crew would
be started on this end of the county
he said not if the Ashland scrap can
be settled. SO far all over the United
States when road work was on il was
a patch here and a patch there and
a good road nowhere, so in this case
1t is the intent to complete the road
from the California line as far north
as the money on hand will permit.
As to the width of the paved road
bed it is IL feet, never an inch less.
but on the cruves il runs up to "a
feet, according to the sharpness of
the curve. Thus far but one curve
has reached the 2I-fOot mark. On
either side of the paved bed will be
a roadbed of dirt eight feet wide.
making the completed road 32 feet.
except for a short distance where the
drainage ditch is quite deep.
Over the mountains the paved bed
will be eight feet, with eight-foot
dirt bed on either side, thus making
the complete road - feet, except on
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-05-04
Splendid Concert
Drealnland Tonight

The musical concert to be given
tonight at the Dreamland by the Pa
cific University quartet is attracting
the attention of all music lovers,
This organization is recognized as one
OF the best in the state and their rep
utation is growing in bounds.
They appeared at the high school
this afternoon and we're the guests
OF the students. In addition to the
program of music there will be shown
three splendid reels on the curtain,
The prices have been made only 10
and 20 cents 30 that all may attend.