The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-01-27

N'''NS ~ WIN VIC h'''NNE $50 N'i'' -
against the regulars.
In this lies the hope OF the future
oc baseball. McGraw had Twenty-Five
youngsters on his lists and has cut
, down to half n dozen. No utnCr> team.
so far as l can discover. Is trying 10
! develop kids to take tho place OF the
regulars.
Modern Teams Lack Glass.
! It is a fact that in the last decade. or
| even farther back. managers Of major
! league teams have been strangely blind
! 10 the fact that the quality Of ball being
| served 10 the public had dcgenCrHted
! There Is not today one team in either
/ major league that would have had more
! than fighting chance To break into the
! first division ten years ago.
! That is strong Language. but as wise
i judge as Clark Griffith, OF the Srua-
tors, AYERS that there is not a major
3 league team today that could have fin
; iShcd better than seventh Fifteen years
ago. The fault is with the managers OF
major league teams. They have been
short sighted. 1; IS natural for any man
aver 10 desire experienced men in each
. position. Also Il is natural for players
and managers 10 stick TO veterans. 1t
. Is not all prejudice against the kids. but
! "t 49, SAlt tl'N ~ tN llt ldNS Ia
an old friend who has served well and
! faithfully is slipping. 1t is quito as nat
uv;,l TO overlook tina fact that some kid
! is coming along fast and is really bet
/ ter as regular diet than tho Vet Is.
Frank Chance was. perhaps. the most
! outstanding example OF this. He never
gave younEStCr chance lie had
enough Kids Of promise 10 patch up his
team and keep II in the first division
forever. but insisted upon expeI fenced
. mcu.
J McG-aw has the right idea. Tho es-
i Enlistment Of kindergarten team Is
/ great. and il means the birth OF 4 new
/ generation OF stars.
Tad Jones Hope OF Yale
! Yale at last appears TO have settled
| It's athletic policy. The triumph o.
! the Tad Jones element IN the New
! Haven school IS Of less Importance than
! is the fact that the school at last has
decided upon an athletic policy. The
| chief trouble in Yale seems to have
been a lack Of a definite policy. The
old sporty" element. which has insist
Cd upon winning team regardless OF
amenities. is now triumphant. Whether
! the conservatives are satisfied or not.
! they must fall into line.
! Or. Sharpe did not succeed in produc-
: ing = winning team IN one year OF re-
construction. Jones was called uTnn TO
make 4 winner, and the effort to create
2 winning team in one fail resulted in
even worse disaster than b"f"ll Sharpe.
There IS hardly doubt That the sad
! showing OF Yale last fall was due more
{ to ovcranx!Cty 10 develop winner than
I TO anything Csc.
Now Jones has fair field and plenty
Of time To work. II may be that he Will
not pr1iuce a winning team next fail.
/ but it IS safe to predict that Yale i
back in the fight. The school is united
upon definite policy OF athletics. and
/ Jones will have free rein.
| Yale IS learning the finest lesson pos
, slb,e in athletic competition. And that
1 is that Ii takes time To produce winners.
! | mad hoped that the Sharpe contingent
would dominate, but any policy IS bet
ter than 4 divided camp and sharpe
! VIII not oppose any Of the Jones poll
! C!eS.
Lesson In Death Of Gipp.
have just received from knute
! Rockn". who, has led the famous teams
Of Notrc Dame to victory. the inward
story OF the sad case OF George Gipr.
! whose death Clouded the glorious sea-
son of the Indian!ans
II Was reported during Gipp's illness
that he went into the Northwest game
| suffering from throat trouble. Som"
! correspondents, admirers Of Gipp and
DESTROYS Of making him 4 hero (Which
he waS), wrote that he was i'll. but for
! the honor of the school insisted upon
/ playing. and during the game contracted
! the ma!ady which caused his death.
Gipp WAS all "f that. He placed the
honor OF his school above his own We
! fare. | have no doubt that. had lie
been suffering from Illness he would
have concealed the fact from coach and
| trainers and insisted upon playing. The
correspondents said he did.
Gipp played. \ few days later he was
| III. and after 4 brave hight against the
disease he died. and We lost perhaps
the greatest individual star Of the foot
bail Year.
Naturally tho death Of Gipp resulted
| in criticism Of trainers who permitted
Il player TO enter game out of condi-
ton. The fact is that Gipp was not ~
Mt the time of tho Northwestern game.
Early in the fall he had tonsll trouble.
but there was nothing serious. He hail
Il lame shoulder prior to. the Northwest
ern game. and Mr.. Rockne forbade his
playing. fearing he would damage the
shoulder. Gipp insisted that he was al
right and agreed to take It easy until
the game WAS safe and not to risk his
shoulder. lie played part Of the game,
took no chances. and retired.
1t was several days after the game
that the tonsil trouble became acute.
Flo had left Notrc Dame and gone to
Chicago to help coach his prep team
and shortly after returning developed
into the disease which caused his death.
1t is evident that the criticism OF tn"
trainers for allowing a man To play
when out OF condition was unjust. and
| due 10 the fervcnt hero worship Of tie
| college correspondents. II is good 10
know that Mr.. Rockne refused to Jet
Gipp play even when the only symptom
was a bruised shoulder. At the same
time, George Gipp'S death is warning
| to all trainers to guard against permit
| ting players to 80 into games when
| physically unit. 1t will be Il ahri
thing TO do. and We can glory in III"
| fact that these boys, inspired with de-
sire to win honor for their schools.
will lie cheat, or do anything else 10
deceive their trainers into thinking they
are Mt
Kids willing to Die for School.
know of one case which happened
last fall There was kid on the subs
who had been told he had chance 1"
got into the big game. the game which
meant his letetr. re morning of the
game he had fever. His temperature
was around 1913. lie got out Of bed de-
fled his doctor. went TO the field. He
got into the game in the second half
adm he kicked the goal that won the
game. That night he was dcltrious-
and | sat by his bedside all might whilo