The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-09-21

between E1LL AQu W. @ d = "
those institutions the game Seluf-
day is to the contrasting teams. you
can't tell q Pitt man or WASN'T ell
man that the football season has
been a SUCCESS II his team lost out
in the western Pennsylvania cham.
pionslIip contest, no matter what
the team has done in other games
during the year. ~
When we make these statements
we are not merely banging away
on the typewriter to till space.
Various people prominent in West
Virginia football circles have adj
mitLed to US that the Wesleyan
game is the vital one on the schsd-
ule, as regards the SUCCESS or fail
ure OF the football season:
So much for West Virginia. The
same things hold for Wesleyan. To
peat West Virginia would be the
GROWING event Of the gridiron sea-
son for Buckhannon outfit.
West Virginia will go into the
game to beat Wesleyan II possible.
Wesleyan will go into the game
to beat West Virginia II possible.
That's why South Side park will
be jammed to the guards.
Referee you may whistle when
YOU alS ISdOyI aALu Lie ooOASh HA4S
quicker.
The work OF marking off South
Side park for the big game on Sat
urday will be started today. Harry
Stansbury is in town today looking
after the matter, and also puttinS
a few more tickets on sale Tor the
big game.
Quite a bunch of local fans went
to Morgantown Yesterday to SEQ
the Varsity in the first workout on
the home lot, and were much pleas
ed with the showing of the Varsity
squad. A large number OF under,
graduates and MorgantOwn football
rams weer at the lieid yesterday.
There was no scrimmage, and it Is
very unlikely that much OF this
line of work will be done this week
as tho coaches do not want to TAKE
any chances on banging up a few
stars before the crucial game.
Wear and tear on a ball player
finally cuts him down. But his
playing anatomy disintegrates in
parts. His combined baseball Gun.
ming doesn't forsake him all at
once.
BUTTS VI the OlhlLlOnh AL 81 bS64A
shade off from the apex of their
powers by slowing down. Their
legs weaken under the strain Of be
ing driven at top speed day after
day, year after year. Next comes
the loss of elasticity of the throw.
ing arm. Time saps the arm or
its snap its accuracy and Its
speed.
But the old batting eye once
developed fingers on long after the
legs and the arms have consigned
them to the scrap heap Of the has
Hans Wagner, Larry Lajoie and
others might be able to break up
ball games with their batting eyes
today IL their legs ana arms would
stand the gait,
Iris Speaker, Joe Jackson and
Ty Cobb were all sluggers doz:
en- years ago and they are stu
have shown the first symptoms OF
weakening this year, following an
accident with a fellow player wnen
his legs were hurt. But Ty has
still got his lockers on the apple
when at the bat. He'd be up there
with iris and Joe now II this had
been normal year for MIN.
When these stars finally pass
out OF the game it will be due &c
a slump in their legs and not then
batting eyes. 4,
flies time to dim It.
Babe Ruth's orbs are Junction
ing on high speed now while the
strength in his legs, arms anG
shoulders bounces, the balls Off the
FAR walls. But Babe Will be a good
hitter long after his long distance
strength has left him, for he, ike
the stars of yesterday and those
OF today, possesses that peacly
something which times the Ds Sa
perfectly with the grain OIL Tue
hardwood bludgeon.