The New York herald., 1920-12-04
MANY TEAMS WANT
GAME IN GOTHAM
Polo Grounds i'm Demand for
Football in the Fall of
Next Year.
CALL TO BASEBALL MEN
Navy Play Used by Tigers
Thirty-four Years Ago,
Says Old Timer.
CALL TO BASEBALL MEN
BY WILLIAM B. HANNA.

BY WILLIAM B. HANNA.
Baseball at the Polo Grounds would
have to take back seat if all the foot
ball teams that want 10 play there next
year were provided for. Baseball would
have to shorten its season. The Army
Navy game is a football fixture at the
Polo Grounds, and so are several others,
such as Cornell Dartmouth. The list of
possibilities among the elevens for 1921
includes besides those named Columbia,
Syracuse. Penn State Boston College,
Fordham, Colgate, Holy Cross Rutgers,
Lafayette. Pennsylvania and Notre
Dame Fordham wants 10 have shy
at Boston College at the historic field.
and home and home arrangement
would bring the Cornell-Columbia game
10 New York next time. 1t was played
In Ithaca this year Some very attrac-
tive contests can be arranged from the
list. and some very attractive games
there will be-enough for every Satur-
day If the New York club wants to fill
In all that time.
John Heydler. president sent out his
call yesterday for the annual meeting
here of the National League on Decem-
ber IA. He also called meeting of the
directors for the same day. This is to
save time, and as there is a great deal
to do at that meeting, with reorganiza-
tion under the Lasker plan under way,
time will be valuable The present
board of directors is made UP of Drey-
fuss of Pittsburg, Veeck of Chicago.
Stoneham of New York and Grant of
Boston. 1t was provided last year that
that four should give way to the other
four this year. which, If lived up to,
will bring Ebbets of Brooklyn, Baker
OF Philadelphia, Hermann of Cincinnati
and Breadon of st. Louis to the new
directorate
The football lteam picked in this col
umn yesterday, limited to men who
played on Eastern teams seen in action
by the writer. was incomplete in one de-
tail. 1t was minus a centre Have
meyer Of Harvard was the player in
mind for that position and is hereby
placed there. Having thus equipped
our team with man to put the ball in
play. a more or less important cere-
mony under the present rules. we send
IL to the forty yard mark ready TO die
for dear old Whoyouwill and made up as
follows: Ends, Legendre. Princeton, and
Even, Navy; tackles, Keck. Princeton.
and Dickens, Yale; guards, Woods Har-
ward. and Willllie, Navy; centre, Have
meyer, Harvard; quarterback, Lourie,
Princeton; halfbacl<s Garrity, Princeton,
and Boynton. Williams; fulback. J.
Straus Penn. There's this to be said
about a ten man team such as yester-
days oversight lined up, IL is a novelty,
and moreover could whip anybody else's
eleven man team. It's such good team
It doesn't need a centre.
The committee named by Ban Johnson
TO represent the American League in the
drafting of a new national agreement is
composed Of Dunn Of Cleveland. Navin
OF Detroit and Shibe of Philadelphia. II
viii be noticed that Johnson's great af-
fecton and deep regard for the Messrs.
Rupert. ComislSey and Frazee since the
peace of Chicago are not so much so
that he has appointed any of them on
this important body.
Now that Buck Weaver has decided TO
tell his side of the worlds series scan
dal from the foot lights the question is.
who will the major leagues send there
for the rebuttal? But maybe the lea que
people will think the most effective place
for Weaver to present his case will be
a court room.
The Tiger football prospect for next
year is brighter than elsewhere. but IL
icn't eoclIsure that Harvard and Yale
Will be beaten. NO game IS won until
played The Tiger outlook for 1921 is
no better possibly than in 1896. The
Jerseymen cleaned UP Yale that fall
and had almost tho same seemingly in
vincible array at New Haven the fol-
lowing fall. but were painfully surprised
by q 6 to Yale victory
James Fitzpatrick. the capable Boston
College back, will not play against Holy
Cross in to-day's game. This was TO
lege.'but II was found this week that he
had dislocated shoulder blade and the
shoulder was set Thursday. Fitspat-
rick Is an all around back of unusual
skill and with hardly an equal as a
thrower of the forward pass.
The foreshortened kick formation
play of which the Navy made deadly
use in the Army-Navy game is not new.
according to an old Princeton halfback.
Luther Price says a smilad device was
used by the Tigers thirty-four years ago.
which is going back "A bit. The direct
pass was not permissible i'm those days
unless the ball was kicked. and did not
become permissible until comparatively
recent legislation by the rules commit
tee
However. the way the Tigers of the
musty past used the play. the quarter
back handed it to the halfback. who was
coming up on the dead run. and the play
In order 10 be effective had TO be per-
fcctly timed In effect II was the same
as the Navy play The runner started
from n position ordinarily occupied for
a close TO the line kick and came up