The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-24
Army Back Has Done Some Re-
markable Running on Grid
iron This Season.
TRAINING CAMP TALK
Big League Baseball Players
Are Already Migrating to
Warmer Chimes.
nv WILLIAM II. HANNA.


Cruise of the Navy is consigned to the
second string there must be a good deal
of talent lying around loose on the
shores of the Severn. Cruise played a
irst class game against the Army last
year, although all of the Navy backs
appeared TO good advantage in that en-
gagement because of the smoothness and
harmony between line and backs seldom
attained by football teams. Dobie had
developed cooperation far beyond the
ordinary. Most teams have heir line
End their backheld two separate bodies
but they were one with the Navy.
The Army's fleet back Walter French,
will be watched zealously by the mid
shipmen and isn't going to have 1t any
eesier for having been heralded as one
OF the backs of the year. Right often
an such cases the man thus exploited
and this sort of advance notice business
is really unfair to him--doesn't come up
70 expectations.
The Army. however. had a noted ex-
eeption not long ago in Elmer Oliphant.
Oliphant lived up to all the glowing
things said about him. Two others
doomed to the skies in advance and who
made good every word OF it were Ned
Mahan and Ted Coy.
AS to French, he has done some of
the most remarkable running this year
ever seen on a gridiron. Against Bowdoin
he did work little short of phenom-
email. One run was for a touchdown
Chnging to the side line for over forty
yards. Runs of that length are common,
but not straight along a narrow path.
in the same game French made a run
of eighty yards, and right after it one
of sixty-five. Within a play or two fol-
lowing he footed fifty yards. but the ball
was called back for Army holding.
BingoI 1t was Tipped to French once
more, and he streaked sixty-five yards
after which he was taken out Of the
game. These flights were punched (came
m quick succession), and even if Bow
dom was soft were feats unparalleled
this season.
Ed Barrow of the Yankees will leave
here next Sunday for the South. He
will visit cities, towns, communities.
pueblos water tanks and whistling
stations looking for training place The
Yanks have had many invitations for
next spring, and all along the South
Atlantic and Gulf coasts. as well as
many miles inland, the fans all want TO
shake the hand of the behemoth who
shook fifty-four home runs out of the
wood as easily as you or l would break
a toothpick. Barrow's first stop will be
Shreveport. he also will visit Jackson
Vile. as wan as pretty nearly every
point in Texas except Point Isabel. The
President-alect was there recently but
thus far - king of the ash has not
expressed ooy ambition to hook tarpon.
The New York club has received word
from Gov, Richie of Maryland that he
Wi hn ON
Saturday.
TlD equatorial region and country adj
Jac9nt offers more and more opportunity
fer ball players in winter. A number OF
Dig leaguers will play in the Florida
Winter League and day before yesterday
a group OF semi-pros from western Penn
sylvania sailed from New York to play
with the Balboa team of the Panama
Canal Zone League. They were Pitts
burgers--Bretch. Voter. Wicklng and
Northumberland they are due in Colon
on December 3. The season is long
one. It begins December 10 and lasts
until April %.
December 10 has been agreed upon as
the day for joint meeting OF the major
and minor league committees to start the
machinery for new national agreement.
The meeting will be held here and will
precede by four days the annual pow
WOW of the National League. There will
be lot of trade talk at these gatherings.
and now that all is peaceful and serene
and unselfish in the ranks again it is
expected the magnates will talk deals
with not more than one axe in the hand
behind them and that in the phjanthropic
rush to help one another will offer to
trade not more than nine lemons for ten
aces in one day