The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-24

a winning team in fast company and
/ he won't be happy till he gets one.
/ But Boss McGill at Indianapolis has
| been foxy enough to sign Hendricks
up pretty well ahead and 1t will likely
| be a few seasons yet before there Is
| big league winner managed by Jack
Hendricks.
| mysterious" Fred Walker was all
ways more or less Of joke in base
ball, even though he was q pitcher or
more than ordinary ability. But ne
| had so many ideas of his own that no
| one cared to take him seriously.
| Walker is going a good clip now as
| college coach and at football at that
The success he has had with footbalI
| at williams college has brought him
| quite a lot of flattering notice and IL
! he continues the stride he may de-
velop into one of footbalfs leading
| coaches.
Jim Scott was working under a big
contract when he left the White Sox
| to enter the officers training camp at
Presidio, Cal. owner Comiskey sent
| him his salary in full for the season
and Jim also got a winners share of
| the worlds series, so his early start
to join the colors did not cost him
anything.
| 1t is reported unlikely that Walter
Camp will pick an All-American team
| this season. But someone has sug-I
| gested that il would not be necessary
| anyway as the thing has already been
| done Cupid Black has not only pick
| ed an All-American team, but he mas
| assembled il on the gridiron and eV-
| eryone can see just how strong an
| All-American team is in real practice.
1 Rlaclx's Newport naval reserve team
/ is certainly the headliner OF the sea-
son and quite a number have SAID
4 that IL is the greatest collection or
| football stars the world has ever seen.
The YaIe-Harvard game didn't get
1 mite the notice this season that IL
| has before. In fact quite q few per
haps have not known own , that frs sgSa e
| teams of the two big schools met the
| other day and Ii was the nearest
/ thing to a Yale-Haryard game 70
Ehappen this year. SO Tar aS h2s n' eea
up over 1t.
When the major league club own
ers get together shortly TO CONSIDER
| the future of baseball they viii not
| only vote for the 140-game schedule
] but also for a new form OF player
| contract. 1t is the plan to reduce
| the term of the contract 70 nVe
months, covering the period from May
| to oct. 1. This means that player
| who received $4,000 for six months
work this year will be asked 70 sign q
new contract calling for S4.l6!. ny
1
manner each club will Top on from
| $4,000 to $50, 900 from its salary hst.
and the major leagues combined VIII
save more than 100000.
The Northwestern league has de-
yeIoped at least twenty prominent
major leaguers, and is proud OF the
| fact Clarence Rowland, manager OF
| the worlds champion White SoX, Is
/ a graduate Of the Northwestern, also
pitchers MAYS of the Red Sox, Cove
| leslxie of the Clevelands, Noyes or
the Athletics, Reuther and Schneider
Of the Reds and Steele OF the FL
rates; Catchers Eddie Burns or the
Phiries, Chief Meyers OF the fuop-
ms and Braves and Lynn OF me
White Sox; Infielders Holke OF the
| Giants. Rawlings of the Braves
bancroft of the Phillies, McMullin
81 the White Sox, Boekel and Chuck
Ward of the Pirates, Grover OF the
Athletics and Risberg OF the White
Soy: Outfelders Jack Smith of the
Cardinals. Heilman of the Detroits,
Mann Of the Cubs, Without or the
Giants and Bigbee and Jackson or
the Pirates. quite ball club!
The football coach at university
situated not a thousand miles from
1 Harvard recently inspected the para
phernalia sent to his team by To-
cal sporting goods house, and then
| remarked to the trainer, sto1d
| Swede: SAY, ole, they sent us all
round head guards. Wish you'd see
those people and get some squars
| ones. because Wen need them. The
next morning the trainer Journeyeo
down town to the sporting goods
| emporium and reported that Coach
l-- was dissatisfied with the
| equipment sent him, and wanted
some Square head guards" You
| tell him." said the manager, that
we sent all our square head guards
to Yale"
! The never ending argument as TO
whether the old time ring stars We're
better fighting men than those OF to-
/ day is being waged more fiercely
than ever as result of the recent
death OF Bob Fitzsimmons and the
great boxing of Lightweight Cham
/ MON Benny Leonard. Many of the
| veteran fight fans are willing to adj
/ NIT that Leonard had few superiors
even in those good old days." but
when Bob Fitzsimmons. who held
the middleweight as well as the
heavyweight title at one time, Is COM
4 trasted with the present middle
weight champion, AL Mccoy, there Is
little more to be said. When IL is
remembered that the man who de-
feated Jim Corbett and knocked out
such great fighters as Tom Sharkey
and Gus Rubin and cut the mighty
Jeffries to ribbons actually weighed
| several pounds lighter than the
/ slovenly dub who now holds his old
title it must be admitted that there
were giants in those days"
The student officers Of Fort Me
agara have also organized a football
! team composed of former college |
stars. In the lineup are several men
who were chosen for the so called |
All-American team. The lineup fol-
lows: Ends, Burns OF Syracuse;
Reap, Villa Nova; tackles. Horning,
Colgate; Probst. Syracuse; guards,
| Cruikshank, Penn State; O'Brien, |
Bucknell; center, Cool, Cornell; quar-
i terbacks, Lieut. Heavey and Capt. |
| Richards, West Point; halfbacks,
Mount Pleasant, Carlisle; Van
Brocklin, Exeter; fullback, Shelton,
Cornell.
Now that Glenn Warmers Pitts
\ burgh boys have defeated Washing
ton and Jefferson they are reason /
ably certain of finishing their third
successive season without d defeat.
| Pittsburgh thus has paved the way
TO a fair claim on the unoflclal foot
ball championship OF the season /
though quite q few declare that Pitt
should defeat Michigan before make
4 ing such claim. A Pittsburgh
Michigan game has been proposed
and AZ AZ should ocn11r AZ vwa4l1a 4rv4