The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-12-14
WESLEYAN STAR
GIVEN CREDIT
DECLARED TO BE oHE or TN
BEST DRoP-K1CKERs or Z"
1921 GRID SEASON "
Dropping Ball Over West Virginia Goal
At Fairmont Prem 81 Yard Line
Great Feat
By BUGS TEET1

Special to the Intelligencer.
Buckhannon, w. Va, Dec. 13.-Wes-
leyan does not exactly desire any ar.
gument with the far west drop kickers'
but that there is a misunderstanding
somewhere is very much In evidence
Judging from larkc H. Davis foot ball
review under the heading Of Football
Season Marked by Notable Achieve I
achievements" in Baltimore American
sport section Tor Sunday December .
llth.
The article which has caused this
| comment appears in the third column
of Davis review. The article folloWs' ,
Three players share first place as
! the premier drop kick mon OF the.
United states all having kicked goals
from the 4S-yard mark. These three /,
men are Malcolm =. Aldrich Of Yale ,
VINO scored his drop against Brown;
! | kul Cashier, of Notre Dame, who
made his record against Rutgers; and I
! Robert Fiske OF Wyoming, who covered
this distance against Idaho. Tnus
! happily the cast. the middle west and
| the west share equally in the honors
| achieved by these three great 1ootoan
| men"
With all due respect to the above
|
! records, it would seem that the feat
/ performed by Lester w. Radman on
September 24th. at Fairmont. w. Va,
| when West Virginia Wesleyan met
| West Virginia University has been for.
| gotten. Radman in the second quarter
| Of that game standing on his own 6lr
| ward line drop-kicked the ball over
! West Vrginias cross bar for the lone
| thee point tally scored by West Viz
| sinia Wesleyan for the entire season.
The Lucky Kick
! The drop-kICk came as complete
/ surprise and was easily the outstand-
Ing feature of the game. The ball was
| Wesleyan's on the 81 yard mark, and
! fourth down. Wesleyan had been punt
! Ing right along. and Vest Virginia play
crs set themselves for another punt
when the Wesleyan backteld lined up
in kick formation. Radman received
the ball glanced toward the goal posts
and kicked. The ball sailed through
the air landed on the cross bar ana
bounced on over for Wesleyans lons
counter Of the game. West VtrginA
papers for the next week commented
unon this kick and said that 1t was
doubtful II II would be equalled during
the year. Accordin gto above article
il has not.
IL Speed Demon =
Inside inforna ton discloses that
Radman had only reported back to the
Wesleyan squad two days before the
West Virginia University game. Thft
adds more luSter 10 the feat, and IT isr
only fair and right that the little speed
demon with the lucky toe be given the
place he has earned, that Of being the
premier Drop-kicker of the United
States for the season OF 1921. Radmatr
is called a speed demon for the simpre
reason that he has a long record or
track performances behind him. the
little fellow modestly admits that the
Elgin watch he carries around Is q
prize he won in 1916 when he ran the
100 yard handicap in nine and three
fifth seconds. So far as Is known at
this time Radman holds the record for
the 80 yard indoor dash. In 1913 In
Pittsburgh lie ran the 80 yards in five
and tw0-ttfths seconds, and established
record for the Allegheny Mountain
Association OF the A. a. U.