The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-16
TOCSIN CALL TO
YANKEE OFFICIALS
Barrow, Higgins, Scouts and
ColOnels to Powwow-
Football Gossip.
by WILLIAM u. HANNA.

Ed Barrow, business manager of the
Yankees, sounded the tocsin--or some
thing like Enthusiastically for a gather
ing Of the clans next Thursday in his
office In West Forty-second street The
trumpet call was sent to Miller Higgins,
manager. and to the Messrs. Robert
Connery, Joseph Kelly and Robert Gilks.
scouts In ordinary and otherwise to the
Yankee club. So. with the Messrs and
co.'s. Rupert and Huston attending, the
brains and pulchritude of the Yankee
forces and pretty much everything else
except tie slugging of Babe Ruth viii be
assembled in one room, and II from that
unprecedented galaxy of talent plots
cannot be concocted by which next years
pennant is won, then what's the use of
anything? Col Huston will attend If
wounds made by recent incisions of the
surgeons knife have healed sufficiently
for him TO leave his house II not. the re-
mainder of the aforementioned unprece-
dented galaxy will proceed with the busi-
ness Of preparing plans to clean 'em up
next summer.
This seems to be something new In
baseball, this early gathering of scouts
and associate appurtenances. but New
York leads and never follows. The idea
is to discuss ways and means for scour-
ing the minor league and other fields
next summer, even to the most remote
vacant lot, In the quest for talent; to
discuss deals, of which one or two at
tractive ones are said to be pending, and
to get ready generally for next spring
and summer Watch US go!
The Yale freshmen knocked 'em all
4 49, L. sN.- 80
The freshman eleven toppled all OPPOSE
ton and won its six games In the follow
ing sequence Beat Hotchkiss. "A to O;
beat Exeter. 81 to o; beat Andover. IA
to 10; beat Princeton freshmen, IT to 3;
beat Dean Academy, Al to 0 (: beat Har-
ward freshmen. 2S to 3. Much of the
success of the Eli youngsters was due to
the admirable coaching of Chester La
Roche. who year ago as varsity quar-
terback showed his grit by refusing to
wilt under a fire of criticism.
Under La Roche the freshmen played
keen. intelligent football. and the squad
will send to Tad Jones next fall---if Tad
decides to return another year-players
who know more football than did some
he found at the outset this fall. That
means a good deal to a coach, and to-
gether with the fact that Jones will
have picked up threads which were loose
after three years absence from the
coaching arena. will give him better
start than he had this fall.
Jones was out of touch, at least i'm
mediate touch with football from 1916
to 1920 ard by next fall will be much
better prepared to deal with such prob
lens as come his way, for to lift Yale
to its onetime topmost plane In football
was good deal more than a one season
job.
Charles Stoneham. president. and John
McGraw. vice-rresident and manager OF
the Giants will deraN for Cuba to-mor-
row. This time they EXPECT to get away.
Grips and trunks have been packed for
some time. but several false starts were
made. the result of brief baseball wars.
Now that the dove seems to have It's
feet firmly gripped to the root. they viii
try il once more, to be back in Deem
Der for the annual meeting of the Ma
tional League.
That was neat kick of Aldrich's last
Saturday out from behind his own goal
line, with the Tiger team rushing down
on him and with the crossbar directly In
front of him.
On the strength of their tie game with
Penn State the Lehigh men ought to be
favorites over Lafayette for next Sat
urday's grand grapple between bitter
rivals but what's gone before doesn't
count in this fixture. Each Is out to
win and doesn't care n picayune what
the other has done. However, LehiSh
has left its mark on the 1920 season. aSd
a deep mark. No other team has been
able to tie Penn State, and Penn state
beat Dartmouth, who has beaten all
Corners except Syracuse. II there's one
thing Tom Ready. Lehigh coach. can do
little better than others II Is TO put
fight in a team.
JACKSON Is CUE VICTOR.