The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-11-30
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TOD MANY
IR|SHMEN
Barrett and Paddy
Driscoll, Aided by Myers
T. Blocker, Halstrom and
scrappy Line, Go Over
the Top on Turkey Day.
tay HAROLD CROSSE

NOEL CHILD JOHNNY BAR
II RETT'S irresistible face and
4 force and Captain Frank Block
er's inrnovable line yesterday cater
psulted the Chicago Cornell-Hamburgs
and shrouded the stock yard district in
gloom with a Is TO 0 defeat that gave
natives of Hammond an inkling OF
what to expect when the great Fort
Wayne game Is played Sunday on Par
duhn's celebrated lot.
All the elements of football and a few
Of another game in which q referees
services are needed were visible TO a
holiday audience Of $500 fans. The
bite 'um. kick 'um. slug UNI. kill UNI"
tactics for which the cornells are not
ed were used with little affect although
spectators We're nervous in the fear
that Dago Ross. the Black Hand end.
might slip a stilletto from under his
jersey and stick It in Driscoll's back.
The two teams weren't exactly playing
post office. The south side ward heelers
are all hard-boiled and Hammond is the
first team to beat them this year.
Dr4scolps Great Catch.
Johnny Barrett. shaking OF MS
tacklars and ~lunging through stacks OF
Cornell-Hamburgers made Hammond's
two OECn0OWnS one IN the lHtf0 anu
the other in the fourth period while
Driscoll negotiated a drop kick from
the thirty yard line in the first quarter.
The first touchdown came after sensa-
tional plays by Hammond. IN Cor
nelIs had the ball on the eighty yard
line and Rube johnson kicked to Dris-
coll who ran the ball back past the
center of the field. Ted Blocker gained
eight yards on a line plunge and after
an incomplete PASS Driscoll advanced
ten Yards off tackle. Barrett made a
gain Trough the line and on the next
play threw tho pigskin for a twenty
yard pass to Driscoll who picked il out
Of the air With four Cornell men around
him. The bali was on tbe four yard
line and Barrett carried it over. Dris-
coll failed to kick goal, The second
quarter ended soon after.
Barrett a British Tank.
In the last period Barrett made a
thirtv-hve yard run which brought the
crowd bowling TO its feet. Like a Brit
ish tank he advaneed slowly but surely.
throwing Off the Hamburgs one and
Two at a time. HaIstrom. Driscoil and
Barrett hammered the Cornell line and
Johnny tucking the ball under his arm
plodded carefully across the line.
Hammond used its entire squad or
seventeen men IN the game and Coach
Greene shifted them about ia the line
while Ralph Young. end for the Forr
Wayne Friars. must have been sorely
puzzled. He was sent by the Friars to
scout for that club but Young can't
go back and say whether McCurdy is a
tackle or -scorekeeper or where any one
linemsn plays.
Hammond Line Charges.
The old-time pep and IRE that was
sadly missed last Sunday fsred up
with the start of the game. The Ham
mond line charged. overwhelmed the
Cornelis. and opened up holes for Ted
Blocker and Barrett. At the half op-
posite Barrett in the Hammond back
field. Clinks Myers was playing that
wonderful aggressive defensive game
that distinguishes him. HIS wounde
leg in good shnpe Myers was making
the runners who fell under his hard
tackles wish for home and mother. Ted
Blocker and Swede Halstrom at full
back were consistent gamers of terri
tory. Paddy Driscoll ran back punts
true 10 form. kicked in splendid style
and carried the baIl under excess speed.
Frank Blocker Was ia on every play
iu tho line. He covered center the way
they sing about at Purdue and was re-
lieyed in The last period by Plum who
wasn't any swinging door for the