The New York herald., 1921-12-01
YANKS ARE LIKELY
TO BUY 0'CONNELL
Connery Recommends Him,
Besides Suggesting Los An
geles as Training Place.
By WILLIAM b. HANNA.


Bob Connery, who explores the sticks
for the Yankees, had the honor to re-
port at headquarters yesterday that he
favored Los Angeles as the training
place for the Yanks next spring. What
Connery says goes a long ways with
his employers. and he was quite en-
thused over the community named.
Some new spot crops up every day.
One Yankee official favors one place,
another another. and yesterday the
S. c.. to Los Angeles. including Ell Paso
and Amarillo en- route.
Connery's trip to the coast also was
to look over ball players. Kamm. the
San Francisco third baseman was one
OF these. but the San Francisco club
won't sell him before 1923, and Caveny,
another infielder, is to go to Cincinnati.
IL Is understood. Dr. Strub OF the Seals
will sell O'Connell. the left handed first
baseman. however. and Connery has
recommended that he be bought. The
scout thinks well of O'Connell. and the
chances are he will be on the New
York roster.
Manager Higgins also listened TO
favorable words from his scout regard
ing Frank O'Doul. the southpaw
pitcher. who stayed West last season
and played with San Francisco. Since
he was with the Yankees in 1920 O'Doul
Is a much better pitcher. according to
Connery. He always did have a first
class curve, and now has the fast ball
that Higgins wanted him to add to his
repertoire.
What's become of the Marl1le de-
cision? Markle is the player whose
services were claimed by the Yankees
and Reds Pending decision on the
dispute. Judge Lands told the Cincin-
natl people they could use the pitcher,
but the Yankee club doesn't know yet
what the final decision is.
Rain or no rain, seats wet or dry
lumbago or not, the attendance at the
ArmyNavy football game this year
was the largest that classic ever drew
There were 5000 persons seated and
enough others standing to bring the
total up to $1,000. And all but minute
few stayed until the end OF the game.
There were many, many football
players in the country this fall. but.
fortunately. enough all-America elevens
will be named to include them all
The Harvard system--it gives its
quarterback as little work as possible
so that he may keep his head clear for
running the team-no doubt is an ex-
cellent one; but the system which has
quarterbac cks that can do this and do a
lot of physical hustling as we'll will
strike many persons az still better
one. Memory recalls n long list of
quarterbacks who could run a team with
shrewd generalship and in addition
catch punts, run them back. carry the
ball. make fierce tackles and cut up
generally to beat the band.
The list includes Foster Rockwell,
Charles Daily. Vincent Stevenson,
Vernon Prichard. Tad Jones. Guy
Hutchinson, Eddie Dillon. Phil King,
Vance Mccormick. Walter Eckersall.
Weeks Of Michigan. Hughitt. Killinger.
Mount Pleasant and Hudson of Carlisle,
Devine. Arthur DeSaulles. Milton Ghee,
Sprackling. Conroy, Curry Morrison.
McMillin, Kroner. Huntington, Ander-
son, Steffen, McGovern, Barrett, Ffncke.
Wyckoff, Poe and Lourie. A list suf-
ficiently long and brilliant to support
o system which puts no particular re-
striction on a quarterbacks activities.
A spectacular kicking duel is ex-
pected at the Polo Grounds next Satur-
day when Charles Brickley, former Har-
ward captain and famous drop kicker,
will meet Jim Thorpe the Indian star.
in contest of drop kicking and place
kicking. In the drop kicking contest the
two are to start at the ten yard line
and work back TO as far as they can
go. The contest will be judged by the
officials OF the game and decision VIII
be made as to which man is the better.
Brickley in his junior year at Hsr-
ward kicked five field goals in the
Harvard-Yale game. Thorpe has kicked
as many as four in one game.