The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-30

tellingly of his fence-busting pinch hit
 ting.
 But" spoke up one Of the members,
 carefully scrutinizing "Fats' broad ex-
 panse. But could you run after you
 hit 'em' Fat?'
 | Could I run" came back "Fat," with
 ready repartee, why man, I had to
 turn sideways to keep from flying"
 This column has recently been gull ty of rank camouflage. About three
 weeks ago it ran story about fight
 ing spirit in football and in this con-
 nection had an interview with Hum bo' Stiehm, the Indiana university
 coach, in which it gave Indiana and Stiehm credit for beating the Tufts
 team last fall. Stiehm did give the in- | terview but Stiehm never said his team beat Tufts I am the rank culprit who
 did that and I have no excuse to of-
 fer the public except to say that to
 err is human. Tufts won the game from
 Indiana 12-10 and was well satisfied with the result in view of the circum- | stances.
 UNREASONABLE SPIRIT Tn this game Tufts was without the l services of it's regular quarterback whose great work against Dartmouth this past fall enabled Tufts to win 27-0 Tufts was not at all pleased with the Indiana affair last year." writes a Tufts man to me, land the trip will
 not be repeated. Every time we rushed the ball the Indiana rooters kept up such a din that Tufts could not get her signals Indiana's roofing was more dan gerous than her football team" Therefore, I hereby take off my hat to the winning team-Tufts-and take this opportunity to apologize for my grevious error Tufts deserved far bet
 ter at my hands than she got and the mistake was entirely my own. Let me add that I shall never deal with unn- on the intended variety 14 years ago to the day. And now-unintentional camou- flage-never again.
 About the finest kind of camouflage pulled annually in football is the all- American team. It was invented when Hinkey, as a player, was putting the ale in Yale and long before Percy Haughton became the guy who put the in Harvard. It once was pro- nounced "Havard," you know. Since the Crimson began playing football they
 have rolled in a long for rough and ready. It sounds real and American when so worded
 A GOOD PROBLEM I can't figure out this all-American stuff either during or after war; and never could before. Right now, as l write these lines, after about three months with a squad of 27 football play i CTS I am unable to pick the best eleven offhand. I have to study for long | time. Jesse Harper, of Notre Dame, is right this instant working over the same 1 local problem. Yet others can go right 1 out and without seeing teams play or individuals perform say right off who's who in football. All of which goes to show that some of us coaches are cer- tainly camouflaging on the job. And our friend Grantland Rice is go- ing even farther. He's picking the best eleven of all time. I haven't much money and I have very poor football Judgment because I never bet but when Grantland gets his job finished and Walter picks his team, informal or oth- erwise, if he does pick one this year, I'll bet them $100 each, winner to pay ali to the Red Cross, that Pitt or Geor- gia Tech can lick Camps all-American team on one Saturday and Rice's all-all- American team the next Am right, reader? I am
 Copyright, 1917. by Sol Metzger.) Despite her 70 years, Mrs. Samuel Coffin, mother of Howard S. Coffin of the national defense council, recently took an aeroplane trip with an Italian aviator.