Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-25

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the up try for goal after touchdown will step
picture today and put the first performance
Of weeks engagement No doubt the opening chorus
will be successful Everybody and that makes
unsnimous
Raising the curtain a gridiron drama always
a. interesting lot of honest goodness athletes will
NAV honest to goodness football and at the end of the
season is grand jury investigation to deter
mine whether not the star players are entitled to their
Rolls -Royces.
This afternoon several games will be played in the
East but they nothing to get excited about. Penn
lines up against Delaware. aud for the first time the
famous Hesman Glide will be exposed for public view
This takes the place Of the old jump shift and the players
execute acobatc steps to put across However, Della
is not very strong and will be among those present.
but not voting.
Harvard opens with Holy Cross at Cambridge. and
ffty or sixty candidates will be given n chance show
what they do-if anything be done against Holy
Cross 1t will be nice practice game, with the accent
on the practice Yale and Princeton idle but will
open up Saturday.
The only game which promises be really interesting
Is between West Virginia and West Virginia Wesleyan
at Fairmont w. Va The Mountaineers supposed to
have whale of team and will endeavor to prove it in
the first contest Wesleyan used to be the final battle on
the schedule but times have changed or the University
Of West Virginia is getting modern
All of the debutting eevens will have chance to try
the goal after touchdown rule. Some of them
will practice and any kicks missed the
kicker will get himself talked about. Today and here
after the ball will be taken out in front of the goal posts
after the touchdown has been scored the kicker will
select spot from which he desires kick and the
rest is easy.
..lE MO LONGER HW the spectators SIT bredthteSSIV
~ tchiie a goal IS being kicked at a difficult angle.
That feature toiu be just ercn1 as changing
sides betneen the first and second aud third and
fourth periods.
Lest We Forget
DUT cannot forget baseball. All and far be it
- from that. Football is a grand old and have
chance have eighth place club but it be
remembered that the Phs busy engaged in staging
three straight game winning streak and As have
in a This is strange and unusual that
baseball
Our Phs have been hanging the ropes for a week,
taking much punishment and winning battles
Joe Grim in his pamiest days. They took
straight waops the chin and when the dear old public
about to toss the sponge what did they do but
turn right around beat Boston in double header Thurs
day and cop another yesterday. Baseball like that
worthy of special mention, and this is it..
Cleveland and Chicago fighting it out for first
place the American League but should worry about
that. Right here have championship battle where
neither side wants the championship. The Phs want
Boston accept last place and Boston anxious
the Phils there. You can't win unless you lose
Today the Cravathans have 81 and lost so games.
The Boston total is 80 and Si Therefore by close fig
gering will discover that the home folks
streak continues might out Of the cellar which is
Just important in this town winning world series
- TWO more games ,oiH be played today. Nobody
knotos phat oiH happen, but after the sterling
rork of the last tpo days the fans are ready for
anything.
Last Game of Season on Home Lot
DEFoRE introducing hero it might be we'll tc
- state that today will be the last appearance of the
Phls before the local fish. Sunday Monday and Tues