Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-25
BROWN HAS POWERFUL ELEVEN,
BUT SEASON is NOT YET OVER;
GOLF COURSES NOW NUMEROUS
Colgate Has Smoot h
Machine and Is Likely
to Make Things Inter
esting for Strong Foe

THIS being a free country. II you have
i the price, each entry is entitled &c
| launch his opinion.
One. for example, can figure Brown the
| eastern champion II Brown beats Colgate
Another can award the main plum to
| Pittsburgh.
But where rival elevens play entirely
different schedules and do not meet, one
| fact only remains
That any such championship award is
not championship but an opinion.
Browns Battle
Brown has great football team. But
| Brown Is not yet safely over the marsh.
| The Providence eleven came to its height
against Yale and Harvard. 1t must hold
this height another week to beat Colgate
| on Thursday
Colgate for this game has two leading
| assets--a powerful machine and the feeling
that her team has everything to gain and
| little to lose. Colgate might well have
| beaten Yale by a safe margin II her offense
| had been conducted properly. The stun is
| there to beat almost any team in the coun-
| try. If Brown slumps after her Yale-Har-
ward contests. which may happen, Colgate is
very likely to win.
Brown has a great team. But her vic
| torlous season isn't completed yet.
The Old Reign Over
There was a day some ten or fifteen
years ago when the Big Four-Yale, Har-
| ward Princeton and Observation-Disclosures
| the only Major League in football and gave
the winner the crown.
But this ancient regime has been sadly
scattered. Those once listed as Minor
Leaguers have come too far forward to be
overlooked.
Harvard might play her second eleven
against Brown but not even Harvard be-
ieves her first team could have done much
better, The Crimson regulars might have
held the score down a trife. but they could
have done little more.
The so-called New Game has ripped the
old dynasty apart. Its rulershiD is over
The Winter League
Thanks 10 football fires in the Old Stove
League Of baseball have been banked since
early October.
Football does that much good, II it did
nothing else.
But within another fortnight the mag
mates resume session, for which we see no
reason TO call for any series OF lusty cheers.
The magnate Is all very we'll He has his
part in baseball. and II is an important
part. But for all that, his ways are never
interesting TO the Fan Colony, that looks
only TO the player for its thrill.
ITO settle an argument" writes L. L. T.,
who was the best all-around inhelder in
zog, OF Cincinnati and New York HerEog
gave a brilliant exhibition at second, short
and third. We know OF no other infelder
who was a star at so many infield jobs.
George Sfsler was an all-around luminary,
but his extra power was put to use in the
outfield and the box.
Ball players may strike this winter"
This winter? Yes But not after April rs,
when the fragrant odoT OF kale is in the air
again.
Winter Golf
Winter golf. carried into the South, Is a
Pleasing institution. But so far as develop
ing championship form 1t is entirely use
less
Jerome Travers believed in resting up on
the game from October to April He found
that he came back TO play with greater
keenness and greater effect
Oswald Kirby plays virtually no golf
between September and April. Yet Travers
and. Kirby have been next 70 unbeatable
between April and September. on the
other side Phil Carter, who won i've oon-
secutiye tournaments at Pinehurst last
winter. failed to win start after April
A few weeks of winter golf might be or
service. But the man who tries 70 put in
twelve months O. eleven months play soon
VIII come upon stalls game. alth ~
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