The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-28

ball registered anger and resentment
today when he popped in for brief
visit.
THE cause, please" we asked.
well, who wouldn't get peevish, I'd
like to know he growled. Here's
me ready to do my act and 1 can't
get on because that ham actor. Base
ball, holds the stage. It's about time
that guy got the curtain. His act amt
no good anyway. He thinks it's a
thriller. Ugh. He's a mess as an en-
tertainer. AS for Newell, 1 got
lotta new tricks and improved on some
of my old ones. I'm there, 1 tell
you
When do you exhibit?''
Me! You mean on the big stage,
hey? Well, I'll be on somewhere
along about October IA. That base
ball bloke has got some sort of option
on the boards until after he does his
world seriesing skit. And then 1 be-
gin putting on my big act. And it's
a bird, believe your uncle. I'm ex-
hibiting a little now; doing a bit of
side show work to just sort of tune up
for the grand, glorious big time stuff
Pretty good act this year, eh %
Good No Name.
Good? Why, that amt no name
for it. Magnificent, majestic, marvel
ous-that'S the way to talk about it.
I'm going to bust some entirely new
tricks in the passing line: something
far better than the lateral pass, the
short and the long forward pass and
all the old stuff. 1 gotta act, 1 tell
you. Don't miss seeing me when 1
come OUT
And with I'll see you later" or
King Football went on his way.
flock of football enthusiasts gath
cred the other day and of course the
subject shifted to the gridiron and its
past and present status
Walter Eckersall was the greatest
quarterback that ever donned the ar
NOR" advanced western rooter. And
altho the gathering included men
from Yale, Harvard, Cornell, PennsyI-
Vanla and Princeton, no one disputed
the assertion.
In all around play Eckersa1 never
had a peer" continued the westerner
He was punter and a drop kicker
whose deeds still are fresh in memory
He was one of the headiest field gen
erals the game ever produced. He
was a wonder in playing defensive
back and could make greater gains
thru broken field than any other
runner of the past or present
THE glory of Eckersall becomes
even more apparent when one remem-
bers the fact that during the four
years he starred for the University of
Chicago team he never was put out of
game Only once was time taken
out for him. Yet, in every game
that Chicago played, Eckersan was
the center of attack: every foe was
intent upon disposing of him because
it feared him more than any other
man on the team-or any three men,
for that matter.
Weighed Only 143
.'Eckersall, all during the time he
played, never weighed more than 143
i. -
beef and Drawn were requisites for a
varsity football job. They laid for
Eckersall and they tried to put him
out-but they never succeeded.
The only time that Eckersall ever
was hurt badly that he forced a
delay in the pastime was during that
memorable Chicago Michigan game in
1905 when Chicago beat the great
Wolverine team, to 0. They were
big bruisers, those Ann Arbor boys.
and they rammed and battered thru
line like a locomotive They singled
out Eckersal as the main point of at
/ tack but the plucky kid took their
mauling and came on for more. Cur
tbs the Michigan giant ripped thru
the line once and crashed into Ecker
sail with such force that he knocked
the wind out of the little quarter
But after a few minutes, the kid got
back into the game again. and played
with renewed fury.
"A football player is judged not
only by what he does but also by his
power to assimilate punishment. No
matter how brilliant player he may
be, he is valueleSs to his team If he
cannot stand up under the battering
; and stay in the game. A star on the
sidelines is of as much value to
team as a toothpick is to a pig The
man who is in the game week after
week and plays it with amazing skill
/ is the one who writes his name in
IndeIigible letters in the football Hall
/ of Fame"
Rivers to Meet Sherman.
Chicago. Sept. 2S.-Joe Rivers of
California has closed contract with
Joe Sherman, fast Chicago light
weight, for a ten-round go at Cincin-