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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14

Larry Gilbert, star outfielder of the
New Orleans Pelicans. was victim OF
the fallacy that, once tried and found
wanting in the big time, minor leag-
uer cannot come back until Manager
Gilbert away from the Peiicans for tbs
Indians in 1920.
For three years Gilbert starred in
the New Orleans outfield, while he was
regularly passed up by the various
major league scouts simply because he
had been UP" once. Gilbert was easily
the best player in the Southern assc :
citation the past two seasons. During
1919 he stood out head and shoulders
above all others. his class being more
noticeable because there were 30 many
fresh from Class b" players In the
Southern and because Larry walloped
the hall a little harder than he had in
former years. Larry didn't hit beyond
his speed as a result Of mediocre pitch :
ing. for as a general proposition the
pitchine was as good az usual in Dixie's
..bir league" Gilbert simply hai the
very best year Of his baseball career
and he would have had q profitable
! season even in the American or Ma
tional.
Al sothoron, Dayton, Ohio. boy and
star uitcher OF the st. Louis Browns.
Ess nre 81 the main reasons Why the
cleveland Indians didn't win the PEN
rsrt IN the American league this sea-
son. Sothoron faced the tribe ct
Sraaler on seven occasions, winning
.ir ~ hjs games and losing the other
hsca,,.e his mates were shut out. Here
ara the victories Al won over the Ire
dians: $50 49,
xssy s--Won in IL innings over MOT :
IN q "a Q. after relieving Lowdevnilk.
Juns s2-Won over Uhle. 3 to .. going
the route.
going the route:
July won in 10 INNINGS oyer Cos.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14
BECKETT is NOT JUST
WHAT YOU'D CALL AN
UNTRIED TYR0 IN RING

Joe Beckett, late idol of England, is
said to have opened up like novice
when Carpenter put him to sleep in
their recent bout. But he is by no
means a newcomer in the boxing game
He began boxing at IL years Of age
and at that time was known as Joe
Beckett, the boy boxer"
He was one of the numerous Eng
lish boxers who performed in the
booths at county fairs, meeting all
corners. In detailing his experiences
Beckett said:
I'm busy fair times l have fought in
one day as many as twenty contests OF
three rounds each, though of course
they did not all last three rounds. MY
! orders were to see that no challenger
remained on his feet when time war
called at the end of the third round
though many tried frightfully to get
the SIS guaranteed to any who should
do this"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14
gle or position also must be acknowl-
edged as scientific accomplishments.
LONG PASSES AT FIRST

gle or position also must be acknowl-
edged as scientific accomplishments.
LONG PASSES AT FIRST
In order to comply with the rules
which prohibit bodily contact the first
style of play used was the long pass
ing game. Guards at that time acted
as defensive men only. They remained
in their own half of the floor and upon
gaining possession Of the ball they i'm
mediately made long passes to their
forwards, who wers in the other end
OF the court. This style of game, the
employment of long passes from one
part of the floor to the other did not
permit the science now attached to the
game.
In the first place long passes are
mere easily intercepted than shorter
ones One can very easily see that a
series of long heaves from opposite
| ends of the floor would not bring about
very spectacular play nor permit the
scientific methods now used in advanc-
ing the ball. 1t also follows that when
the guards practically remained at ali
times In the vicinity Of the goals they
were defending, 1t necessitated the or
posing forwards making long shots n
the basket. Long shots are not A.
readily made as shorter ones and with
long passes easily intercepted 1t can
be clearly seen that the old style OF
basketball. as old fashioned football.
was not as scientific as at present.
PEOPLE OVERLOOK SCIENCE
Most people consider basketball
merely hit-and miss affair. They
seem to think that when a team gains
possession of the hall that they pass
II only In helter-s SHELTER manner. This
10 a very wrong idea.
Certainly every American sportsman
realizes that football has underrone 4
complete change since 1910 when what
II known as the open style OF eame ~
initiated. However, even though the
American sporting public knows All
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14
SPORT SNAPSHOTS

veleskie, to 2. after relieving Shocker.
September ! (second game) Won in
IL innings over Bagby, 4 to 8, after
relieving Leifield.
i September 3-Won in IA innings 6
to 5, over Coveleskie.
Hugh Miller. one Of the heroes OF
the war who will play no more ball
because of his wounds, will not give
VI the game.
! He Is going to land a job in some
minor faeue as an umpire and worS
his way UP to the big show in that
line. Miller has entirely recovered his
health anc except for I sEkht limp is
as good as ever. but man can't count
himself as an active pisyer whel hs
carries few German bu.tats a. ,.lnd
Ia his body
At present Miller is employed en- a
ST Louis newspaper and maai.ly good
as chaser Of the elusive news Item,
but the call of the game III strong
with the former first baseman and he
prefers the diamond to a career az a
scribe.
Larry Sutton. one OF the best scouts
In baseball. has been signed by 1fa
Brooklyn club. Sutton secuted 'esu.
larry for the Robins UP to four years
ago, when he secured q similar posi-s
ton with the Cincinnati Reds Last
season he was the Phillies' chief ivory
hunter, but inasmuch a. he had been
greatly missed In Brooklyn Presidents
Ebbets decided to re-engage him. SiIt--
ton when serving a. the Robins scent,
discovered many famous players. IN
GLIDING jeff Pfeffer, Sherrod Smith.
Leon Galore, Jake Daubert, Ollie
O'MAra. George Cutshsw. Red smith.
HI Myers and Casey Stengel He dug
up Morris Rath and Hube Bresster for
the Reds and recommended vse Beur-
veau to the Phillies. Brooklyn fans
will hail Sutton's return with 4 elinEa
|of fntcnse sAtisfaction The relefA1
stands at the hsad Of his claxA
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14
CENTRE COLLECE|s
/ GR|D|RON SEASONS
BIGGEST SENSATION
Danville, Kentucky, Put on Map
by Sensational Work of It's
College Football Team -
Some Remarkable Feats.
By n. Z. BROWN.

When the 1919 football season start
ed about the only person outside the
college who knew that Center College
was going to have a football team was
the man who sold the squad it's uni
forms.
But right now Centre college is the
center of interest in griddom.
This little institution of learning IL
in Danville, Ky. 1t boasts of a total
enrolment of 225-or perhaps $50
persons. Seventeen or eighteen of
these played football this fall and piled
up total of 4S5 points. They played
nine games-tackling the big ones and
the little ones, too, and in those nine
games scored an average of S. points
to game-which is pretty close to
Hurry up Yost's ideal of point a
minute.
One of their men, Center Red Wea-
yer. did a little startling on the side by
kicking 46 consecutive field goals. This
alone is believed to be a worlds rec
ord in any branch of football.
Centre broke quietly into the grid
limelight early last fall with a 81 to
victory over Hanover. Indiana rooters
laughed the next day-for Indiana was
| booked to play Centre college the fol-
lowing week and the western contin-
gent said, wen run UP a bigger score
than that on little Centre"
| The Kentucky squad beat Indiana
| 10 to 3.
| st. Xavier suffered IS to defeat
and Pennsylvania was trounced 81 to
0. The University of Virginia set out
/ to stop the Centre teams mad drive
! and got licked 40 to q Then bobbed
up West Virginia, which said. Bring
on this young upstart of a team
The team was brought on and West
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14
HEADL|NER ATHLETES
NOW IN MOVIE G. me
]. Dempsey Now Star of Silver
Screen-J. Corbett Is a n Old
Regular-Babe Ruth Starts
in After Big Coin.

Los Angeles, Dec 13.-Time wa,
when, having won some sort Of a
championship, the proper thing to do
was to go into vaudeville or buy
circus.
But it's different now It's the movies
that attract.
And for that reason Los ANGELES is
infested by champions, OK and present.
Jack Dempsey has arrived to put on
three movie firms. lie has until the
middle of February to finish it up. He
says he's going to write much of his
own scenario. Jack Kearns, his man
ager, admits that movie making has
vaudeville skinned ten thousand miles
from the income standpoint.
Then there's Jim Corbett. He's a
regular" out at one of the studios.
actin all the time"
Representing baseball there's Babe
Ruth. He's in the movies for tho win
ter and just to show that he knd W the
rudiments of the game he demanded
$4,000 as a starter before he signed
his contract. Babe, tits said, likes act
ing and may do quite d bit of it.. Airs.
Ruth probably will appear with him in
the same production.
Au-round athletes must not be ig-
nored, either. Fred Thompson, Oiymp-
lad winner, has just returned from
overseas, where he was a chaplain
and with his bride, Frances Marion
writer, is being pursued by movie con-
tracts. He hasn't fallen-yet.
About once week most of these
champs and ex-champs meet on a COM
mon ground out at the Vernon boxing
arena and with Jim Jeffries. Frans
Chance and casual or two thrown in
1 for good measure, form a celebrities
box party .. za
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14
SPEED ALL ESSENTIAL IN BASKET BALL;
HOWMODERNSHORT PASSGAME CAME
NVOGUE AND ITS EFFECT ON TACTICS
Skill and Science of Court Patme Equal Superior That
of Other American sporDootor Angel Introduces Short
Pass at Wisconsin in 1905, Putting AL Men Both
Into Play at AL Times.

An Irishman just over from old Erin,
while witnessing his first American
football game, was asked what he
thought of IL. "Begob." said he, cit
would be great if they all used clubs y
How much more he would think of
basketball If players were permitted to
use clubs. Because basketball is an
indoor game, played within a limited
space where ten players are rapidly
moving at all times bodily contact ia
naturally unavoidable.
Realizing this and the dangers that
would result should bodily contact be
permitted the basketball rule organic
ers and revisors have ever striven to
eliminate unnecessary rough play. Now
basketball is a mans game, Just as
much as football or baseball. 1t re-
quires all the physical endurance of
football and possibly more, because
it is played indoors
COMPARING OTHER SPORTS
In mentioning skill and science one
must admit that 1t is more scientific
and requires more skill on the part
of the players than does football
Dodging. slde-stepping. pivoting and
other footwork all form part Of good
football. but constitute an even greater
part Of basketball. Brute strength al
ways was an invaluable aid and an in :
dispensable factor In our American
Football. This cannot be denied. Size
and brute force are big assets to any
football team. In basketball, however
this force IL rather a hindrance than
an asset. 1t 10 speed and speed re :
CARELESS OF all else, that makes good
play.
To compare the science and skill of
basketball with baseball one must con-
cede that the indoor game 10 Just al
scientific AZ our national pastime.
Fielding and batting are without I
doubt an art and science. But rauid.
accurate basket shooting from any an
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14
VANITY OR RESOLUTE
TO BE CUP DEFENDER

1t is thought that the defender of the
Americas cup against Shamrock ".
will be either Vanity or the Resolute
The former yacht is owned by Alex
ander Cochran of Yonkers, N. Y, and
the latter by the New York Yacht
club. If the races are sailed next year
II years will have passed since the
cup was last competed for. 1t was in
1908 that Sir Thomas Upton last raced
for the cup On August 20, 25 and
September of that year his Shamrock
III. was beaten in three straight races
by the Reliance.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14
PAYS $4,000 FOR
MARE DARK FLIGHT

Any impression that the sport Of
kings is a sport of ancient history and
that good money is no longer going
into the breeding of good thorough
breds is entirely erroneous. The report
comes now from London that John
Sanford of Amsterdam. N. Y, turfman
and steward of the Jockey club. has
paid $4,000 for the 7yearold brood
mare Dark Flight at the Newmarket
sales of thoroughbreds. She was bred
by Lord Roseberry. The contending
bidder was Thomas Welsh. represent
ing Joseph E. Widener of Philadelphia.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14
JIMMY WAS WILDE


Oh, Jimmy Wilde,
You are self -styled
Great Britain's flyweight champ.
But Sharkeys pose.
And Sharkey's blows
Made you look like a tramp.
1t seems almost too good to be true.
The coal strike and six-day bike race
both ended within the past week.
OUR IDEA OF JOY
There's no more grief in our dear land !;
Ais well from shore to shore;
Griefs gone and Joy does reign because
The six-day race is Ger.
The preliminaries at the Pinney
"wednesday night included a four
round bout between Kid Coal and One
Round Midnight
WILL THEY COME TO rHis7
They put great heaps of money,
And piled the doughbags high.
TO get the champion pug to fight.
KS But he wouldn't bat an eye.
They kept on piling up the scads,
hut he just said, 'Oh, shucls!
I wouldn't fight the Flu for less
Than ~ million bucks"
we used to think It crime when
the heavyweight champs wanted 30,-
900 iron men, win, lose or draw. Now
~ ahamp wants $4,000 or nvs
y
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14

At the present day there are some
brilliant examples OF control ami its
progress is written on the pages Of
practice. No golfer has eser lived who
thinks he has played n round in which
he had control OF all mis- clubs, but
there is Travis with his putter, IraN-
ers with his run-up iron, Ouimet with
his midiron, and others who have ac-
quired big regulations because they
really are able to control some partic-
ular club. At the critical moment,
nine times out of ten, they can send
their thought from the club to the ball
and land the little rubber core in the
spot selected; but each and all of them
have reached this degree of skill by
hard practice
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14
BROUSSEAU WANTS TO
TACKLE FRENCH BOXER

Montreal, Que, Dec. lathe Cana
dian Hockey club has cabled chal-
lenge to Georges Carpenters manager
in London for the French boxer to meet
Eugene Brousseau, dominion middle
weight champion, here July l, Domin-
ion day, at one Of the race tracks.
Brousseau has recovered from a slight
attack Of paralysis which followed his
bout with Chip in Portland.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14
MOONDOG HOWLS

times as much as the figure that
used to shock us. But o. course we
must not forget that the h. C. l. Is her
can't find good material to meet in the
ring frequently.
WHO'S FALL GUYS?
The people of the east believe
That we are goofs who live out west.
They seem to think our ways are
strange,
And at something we do they lest.
We're unsophisticated, yes;
That much we do not doubt at all.
But how about the birds who for
Six-day bicycle races fall?
SPEAKING or WILD TINES
There's lots Of noise in Mexico;
Russia, too, s gone fighting wild;
But compare them with Ban Johnson's
And they seem quite tame and mild.
Looks Is pEcElviN
oh, Ad 6antel, you look so mild;
I'd take you for a preachers son;
But on the mat with that scissors hold
You're Q fightin' son-of-a-gun
IT MIGHT De WORSE
IT'S . cold and cruel winter,
without q warming sun.
But fuel In the hot-stove league
I Costs vary little Der ton.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14

basket shooting real science. Shots
may be caromed off the blackboard
made clean, made with, one or both
hands, made while on the floor or in
the air and made straight or with a
twist to give it English" all neces-
stating educated" hands and eyes.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14
MARKS FOR HEAT WINNERS

An advocate Of light harness racing
says racing officials would be saved a
lot of trouble il records were given to
all horses that win second money or
better by winning heats. Classes
would fill better and racing improve
he claims.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14
BIG OFFER FOR CLUB

An offer of 100000 for the famous
Belmont Driving club property, com
prising 72 acres, was considered too
low by the directors, The property is
located short distance outside OF
Philadelphia.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14

A golfer has control of his club when
by long use his directing thought trav-
els through his arm and hand to the
club as IL 1t were part of 1t and from
the club to the ball as IL 1t, too, were
but a continuation of the arm.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14

There's an old proverb that says
practice makes a master and it is
come from intelligent practice; it
means hard work and years of expert
ence. No man can jump into cham
pionship rank in one or two years, or
even three, and II Is at least six or
seven years before he can hope to win
a big event. Tournament experience
also counts, but not so much as prac-
tice.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14

For golfers practice a canvas cur
tain has been invented that stops with
out permitting to rebound a ball driven
against il.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14

'If man We're a perfect machine and
a golf course a billiard table, then we
might have a fairly interesting mathe-
NAUTICAL problem said we'll known
golfer recently, "but the human equa-
tion--the element of uncertainty-7is al
ways present in the good old game of
golf"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14

about the complete change of football,
still this same American sporting pub
lie at large fails to understand the
change which has come about in bas-
kctball. Apd the ridiculous and phoney
part Of 1t all Is that the change in bas-
ketball came about five years before
open football revised the grid game.
ANGELES SHORT PASS
In 1905 DIR. Emmett d. Angel, then
coach Of the University of Wisconsin.
devised a short pass in which the en-
tire team participated as it gained
possession of the sphere. This was
something new and unlocked for at the
time, and because the style swept the
Badgers to victory over all their oppo-
nents 1t was soon adopted by all the
big schools OF course. long passes are
used even now occasionally as neces-
sity arises. just as line plunging is
still employed in football.
Since 1905. when DIR. Angel first in
stituted the short pass game at the
Wisconsin school. that institution has
had some of the best teams In the
western conference. The Badger quin-
tet has always been champ or runner
up in each conference raceesince that
time.
DEFENSE CHANGES.
Because the game of basketball
changed and all five men participated
in the short passing as they took the
ball down the floor It necessitated an
alteration of defensive tactics also. II
all five men constitute an offense all
five men also must establish defense
to meet it. Long passes can be de-
Tended against by two or three men,
but in short passing, where intercept
ton is practically impossible, EACH Of
fensive man must be covered, SO the
style of defense also was altered when
the short pass game was invented in
1905:
From the foregoing it will be gath
cred that basketball is not, as is often
supposed, hit-and- miss affair, but In
scientifically played game. Upon
gaining possession of the ball all five
men participate in short snappy passes
as they rush down the floor. Then
when the other side gains possession
of the pill they Immediately establish
themselves as a ffve-man DEFENSE TO
recover the BALL
NEW FORMATION
Another feature Of present day pass
ing 10 the way in which the men are
taught to move. Instead of spreading
out fanlike and moving straight down
the floor the men move along lines
diagonally across the floor and always
come in toward the man who holds the
ball, thus making only short passes
possible.
When five men are moving rapidly
down the floor and when opponents
are moving Just AZ rapidly to defend,
all opportunities offered must be taken
advantage Of. 1t means that shots At
the basket must be made quickly from
any angle and from Whatsoever posi-
ton one may be In At the time. II -
Impossible to receive pass then as
sumo q comfortable ana well-oalanced
pose before shooting, This makes
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14

still this same American sporting pub
lie at large fails to understand the
change which has come about in bas-
ketball. Apd the ridiculous and phoney
part of 1t all Is that the change in bas-
ketball came about five years before
l,au tbc urid
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-14

Tt1 C0Iu Hnu CrueI WInCeI,
without warming sun.
But fuel In the hot-stove league
Coats vary little Der ton.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1919-05-05
Historia de Ia Huelga de los
Tabaqueros de Ia Porto'Rican
American I obacco CO.

do casi Sc habia llegado a un
acuerdo en- la question de los jor-
males que Sc pagarian durante ell
presente afio, recibi6 instruccio-
mes ell Sr. Miranda, de las ofici-
mas de New York, de posponer
la aperture de todas las fabri-
cas-, con exception de la fabrica
de la Marina, hasta ell 10. de Fe-
brero de 1919. Estas instruc-
clones lie fueron dadas al Sr. Mi
randa debido a haberse acumula-
do grandes existencias de ciga-
rros manufacturados en- los alma
Genes q. en- New York y Brooklyn
tiene la Compa1fa, y de haber
disminuido la venta notablemen-
te con motive del nuevo impues-
to de guerra que ell Congreso de
los Estados Unidos estaba por
pasar, asi como de haberse can
celado por ell Gobierno Federal
todas las ordenes de cigarros
manufacturados que hasta esa
fecha habia estado exportando
la Compaiiia para las tropas en-
Europa.
Ademas de posponer la aper-
tura de las fabricas hasta el 10.
de Febrero, Sc di6 instrucciones
al Sr. Miranda de cerrar defni-
tivamente las siguientes fabri-
cas-: una fabrica pequefla en- Pc
fluelas que trabajaba con 125 ta-
baqueros, una fabrica pequena
en- Juana Diaz que trabajaba con
IS tabaqueros y la fabrica Chin
chal" de Ponce, de la cual la ma
yor parte de sus trabajadores
eran appendices. En- estas fa-
bricas Sc trabajaba en- SUI ma
yoria tabacos de vitolas inferio-
res, los cuales durante los ulti-
mos seis meses del aflo 1918 ha-
bian sido manufacturados exclu-
sivamente para las tropas. La
cancellation por ell Gobierno Fe-
deral de las 6rdenes que de es-
tos tabacos teniamos, hacia alb
solutamente indispensable para
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