The Alaska citizen., 1916-05-22
JOHNNY KANE GETS
CREDIT FOR pI(

CREDIT FOR BIG PLAY.
 Del Howard says that the hardest argument he ever had in his life was one day when he was d member Of the Chicago Cubs and Johnny Kane formerly of the Seattle club. was on the same team.
 Here IS how it happened Eyefs did not want 10 play that day so Kane started al second Tinker was put out of the game and Kanc was showed over to short and F. erS had to go in at second base
 Kane was galloping all over the infeld He started toward second base 10 drive back the runner. who had a big lead Reulbach did not notice that Kane had left his posi- ton and sent fast one over the plate. Jack Miller caught it on the and Kane who was standing on second base simply stuck cut his glove and robbed Miller O hlt
 + was Taft Day at Chicago and after the game Howard had an argument with hundreds of fans when he told them that Kane had figured in the play
 YALE's COACH GREAT ATHLETE
 At the close of the last football season, probably the most disas trous in the history or Yale. it was deecidcd that something had to be done about football. Something has been done. Tad Jones. one Of Yale's best athletes in the days when Yale was holding the first place in al sorts of athletics, has been sign ed for three years as coach of the Eli eleven.
 Jones has had plenty Of experience as a scholastic athlete, a college star and a coach.
 In his school days at Philips Exc ter he was in class by himself as a football general. Many of the vic tories of his team were due more to the wonderful headwork of Tad Jones than to the playing strength of his teammates
 He was selected by many experts a the greates, schoolboy quarter Of all time. The gridiron sport wa not the only pastime that this sen. sational athlete excelled in
 He attracted sufficient attention on the diamond to have many big league managers offered him attIact- i've contracts long before he com pIeted his sci plastic work
 The spirit of the sport was strong CT in the heart Of Jones than the desire for worldly goods with the result that he entered Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University in the fall of 1904
 His first year was sufficient to form that he was d star of the first magnitude. He was given the p'ac" at quarterback over all other can didates.
 His handling of the Eli eleven in 1905 was one of the noteworthy feats Of his athletic career. Their win of 55 to 0 over the husky Co lumbia University squad was the greatest exhibition of systematic team play ever witnessed on 8 Sridiron.
 Jones was the star of the aggrega ton, and it was due to the manne: in which he varied his offense tha1 enabled his teammates to gain such tremendous power.
 Yale's victory over Princeton b. the score of II to 10, in the final minute of play. was another example of the remarkable ability possessed by Jones to work his teammates to determined drive, even in the face of apparent defeat.
 On the baseball field his prowes9 as player was even more pro nounced than it was on the gridiron, His sensational catching, throwing to bases, hitting and base running were important factors in all of the Blue teams games.
 After completing his college course Jones refused to enter the folds of profes sionalism by signing con tract to play big league baseball, John McGraw of the Giants. Con nie" Mack of the Athletics, Hugh Jennings of the Tigers, and many other big league managers held out tempting offers 10 him.
 To all he made the same reply:
 T do not intend to play protes- sional baseball so no offer can pos. sibly tempt me"
 After graduating he returned to his Alma Mater to help coach the candidates for the quarterback posi- tion His ineXperience at instruct ing was a handicap to him. The