The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-12-08
Many Returns Prom Minors

Many Returns Prom Minors
Tho crop of players is extremely
SnalI-and the Major Leagues have
themselves to blame. Their short sight
cd rplicy in dealing with the Minors cut
off the source Of supply to large en-
tent. .
! Take the American Association-the
leader of the big Minors What material
has been developed there? The Official
records show that Rapp and Bubbles
with Wilbur Good next. Others eatted
higher, but played in comparatively Few
games.
The lis, runs: Gamer. O'Mara, Brazil
Hartley, Russell; Rapp hargreavs,, 1000, Good
K,rke, Brief, Mostil. Hyatt. Lamar
Rehg.. Haas. in the first score or MT
ters, only three are not cX-malor !cas-
uers who have been sent buck: Brief;
Bruno Haas arc 70 be tried again.
Ii looks poor prospecting to select
players who have been tried again ana
Il gain as Major Leagucrs.and sent pach.
or the mall only Mostll and Hargreaye
Seem worth spending time OH. The
White Sox get Mostil and Haas and the
Reds get HarSreaVe.
Pitched After sixty
Oscar Godfrey was drowned not long
ago at Seaside. Oregon. while hsh!ng and
his death recalls the early days OF base
H..
professional nine A. &. Spaldins had IN
Chicago and one OF the tirSt' eAponentS
Of the curve ball, pitching an old fash,
ioned undcrhanded barrel hoop mixed
with fast underhand ball that was cN-
tremely speedy and effective.
He was seventy years old WHOM he
was drowned When he was past nNty
he pitched four innings against Il team
fashioned assortment he puzzled them
completely until his arm tired.
Ohio Prinod for California.
Jack Wilcc, tho University of Ohio
coach, Is determined upon heating Cal
lfornia In his final battle Of the foot
ball season ut Pasadena on New Years
The test Of teams will be Il bit moro
than sectional. as WilcC, AS soon ~ his
team won the Conference Championship
over Illinois. JUMPED E&tSt and studied
Pitt and Penn Safe and then witnessed
che Army-Nary game from the SIDE
lines.
W'llce has made Il remarkable record
as coach He learned his football at
Wisconsin, then largely dominated by
the Yale system OF training and play.
He quickly adapted this style 10 the
open game when he took charge or ohio
and brought that team from nothing u
conference championship IN jig time. In
the last three years he has won tw"
Championships and lost the other i'll the
final minutes of the final gam" be-
cause Chick Harley, the star OF the
team. was battered out OF condition
and staying on the field through sent
ment because It WAS the final gamc OF
his career.
Wncc has been 4 close student Of the
game. East and West, and his team
combined Il fast. accurate overhead
game with fierce driving attack.
Further. he knows teams and conditions
on the Coast. rs he attended the Har-
4
winter.
The Coasts hopes are based upon
Andy Smiths knowledge Of the game.
plus the effect of climate upon the
Orleans Smith learned football It
Pennsylvania as player and assis AM
coach. and chen went to Purdue as
coach then TO the Coast. So he knows
East. West and Middle West football.
The game should he one of the finest
combinations Of the best OF all styles of
play Ohio will not make the blunder
some Eastern teams have made in un-
der-rating the CalifornianS, and the cf-
feet Of 4 Suddc'. change OF climate upon
men who have been long In training.
Wilcc plans to take his team 10 PnSa-
dcna far enough ahead 10 get them
partially aCClimatcd. At least. He
knows that the Californians in their
own climate. are not easy 10 peat.
Football Needs Trained Officials.
Now thai the season is ended. the
football sharps are talking reform in
their game. and many are urging nor"
tinkering with the rules. The reaction
aries are demanding abolition of the
forward pass. The big reform in foot
ball-the thing more needed than any
thing clSc--is some system of selecting
and distributing officials. Further.
there must be some way Of developing
officials The fact is that football has
made such remarkable forward str. de-
in the last three years especially. that
there are not enough cnmpcica; end
trained officials TO handle half the big
games.
This condition has led to increasing /
dissatisfaction and has stirred coaches
TO open protest against the work of
some umpirrS and referees. In thrC"
big" games this fall coaches have ar
gucd with and rebukcd officials. If this
continues foot ball Will sink TO the level
OF baseball in this respect. Yet, If Of
ficialS are not competent, 1t is hard
TO blame the coaches.
approval" is Il bad one. The colleges
competing select tn" officials for each
game thus placing the officials largely
in the debt or the power OF IN" colleges
which. if not satisfied, dismiss the off
cial.
lincsmen. should nc selected by III"
governing intercollegiate bodies and as
signed to work in games without COLI
sulting tho competing teams.
inlagins letting New YORK ana chi
carn baseball teams pick the umptrss!
The majority OF football ofncials' both
cas-, and west, are veteran players WIZ
love the game and who offciate NOR"
for th, SAX" Of keeping in touch with
m. snort than for tho cmOlumtnts. In