The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-11-21

Joe Guyon. brilliant Georgia Tech
haltback, Is ranked by many as the
greatest all-round collegiate backfield
man in America.
There is nothing Guyon can not do
and do just a little better than his
rivals insist the admirers of the great
Indian gridiron athlete.
A year ago GuyOn was picked by
many for an American honors. Some
who followed his performances through
the fan season insisted he was even a
greater player than his teammate, EN-
erett S%trupper. GuyOn, with %Strupper,
constituted the greatest scoring pair In
football toys a year ago and tho two
of them ripped to shreds every line
which they faced.
But this year Guyon. the only re-
naming member of Georgia Techs
great 1917 backfield, surely has come
into his own, With %Strupper, Hin and
Harlan gone, the hrunt of the 1918
Georgia Tech attack has fallen to Guy
on. And the way the Indian has re-
sponded is a revelation.
Guyon, as swift as tho wind. a fear
less player and possessed of prodlgious
strength, has been an irresistible force
against every line he has charged
against. No eleven has been able to
halt him lie has puntCured one line
after another with his plunges, ran ends
in n bewildering way and handled the
forward pass like a master.
Guyon Is in almost every play Georgia
Tech makeS-a ~tireless worker. When
not carrying the ball he usually is
heading interference, and when on the
defensive, It is his daring tackles that
frequently halt attempts of the enemy
to race down the field toward Georgia
Techs goal line.
GuYon, who Is "a, began his football
career at the Carlisle indian school,
taking a prep course for engineering
work. He is five feet II inches tall and
weighs 1874 pounds.
Fred Tenney, greatest Of first base.
men in his time, can not see why base
runners, when a catcher tries to pinch
them off first with a snap throw, do
not Immediately light out for second
base. like Charley Hollocher, Of the
Cubs, did in the second worlds series
game in Boston. That contest was the
first title game Tenney ever had seen.
The play on Hollocher turned the com.
nleXiOn Of the tuSsle and brought from
Tennes the information that there isn't
a chance in 100 for a first baseman to
get the ball to second in time to stop
the runner II the runner goes ahead,
Players used to null that play a
lot" says Tenney. ''Why, one OF the
men who pulled it on me was Jim Nc
CURE, who was able, | guess, to navi-
gate the circuit in some 40 or 80 sec
ondS, 1 got a perfect throw from the
catcher to nip Jim off the bag, and
made a slap for him, and bit the dirt
like Mclnnis did when he CROPPED around
for HOlloCher. Mcclure was on second
by the time it dawned on me he wasn't
on first,
TT Is hard for a first baseman to stop
this play, as he has to reverse himself
just as a base runner does who Ia set
to go n way and then has to go tho
other. 1t Is not only hard. it Is almost
impossible. Strikes me that the players
ought to go on instead Of back oftener. -
Fred now liz living in Winthrop, Mass.
He's a grandparent at the age of 46.
since managing the Newark Interna-
tionals In 1916, Tenney hasn't had any
baseball connection, nor has he desired
any. He's a success In the business
Johnny Evers was a tllvver in-boots
and shoes.
1t is the general belief that boxing
Will be revived on a large scale after
the war. The fact that millions OF our
soldiers are receiving boxing lessons
as part Of their physical training and
then. bayonet work gives rise to this
belief.
And there Is another great change
which undoubtedly will accompany khis
boom. hat Is the elimination of'the
petty grating, the four-flushlng, the
faking and the presence of undesirable
characters from the game.
The outstanding feature OF every
form OF athletics conducted in the SER