The Washington herald., 1921-11-17
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early going and then skidded
Barnes took the middle of the cam
paign and Hagen the closing stages.
None of the three could stand the
dizziness OF the. far heights for any
extended stretch.
Call for Space.
Dear Grant-Gimme space, gimme
space! 1 require it after digestin' an
epistle to a certain paper which
says: Some football enthusiasts out
West harbor the mistaken impress
sion that just because Chicago beat
Princeton when Princeton was not
at her best, they can produce better
teams than we can"
Correct. absolutely; but the har-
boring is not restricted, necessarily,
to enthusiasts out West. Bing Just
a nomad I hold no brief-a new and
snappy line. eh, what?-for any
section. Having watched football
for some years in this. my native
land, 1 have come to the following
dispassionate conclusion: High
class Western teams carry more
punch, versatility and speed. when
attacking, than is shown by the
best teams the East produces. Again
incredible as 1t may seem. with all
the talk about fundamental football,
in the -East-one observes more
crisp and deadly tackling. fiercer
line charging. better covering of
| opposing players, in and around the
corn belt than is visible to the
naked eye in the lair of the Goldfish
and the Ia M Mt cd ha
when 1t comes to modern football,
the rough tribe of the cherished r.
has 1t over cultured broad-A-ers
like tent.
Why always peer through a fog,
One writer added this: In beating
the Army, Notre Dame looked like
a finished machine while the cadets
played very rasgedly"
The cadets weren't So darned
ragged against Yale. Several foot
ball hounds who saw the game told
me the latter was lucky to win.
Let me whisper in your ear: the
EMS work would look, just as
tattered and torn against the slash
ing western attack which the Army
met last Saturday. Please to re-
member also that Notre Dame has
been beaten this season by another
western team. The leading con-
ference eleven" Ray calls it Mebbe
so, and mebbe not. At any rate.
chicago. didn't show half her stun
while she toyed with Princeton,
and everything she had wasn't
enough against Ohio State.
JOHN FAINTER FOOTE.
| Gut on the coast Ty Cobb is still
leading such talent as Hornsby and
Sfsier. The Tiger mandarin glides
along in the immediate neiehbor.
hood of .4l0, even at his advanced
baseball age. A few rivals can an
preciate what the Old Man must
nave been as a kid around twenty
nVe or twenty-six. Next spring will
start him out upon his eighteenth
major league campaign, with youth
struggling to hold his eternal pace
The Navy will manage to struggle
along. whatever the disarmament
program. as long as the disarmers
don't take, away those seven hack
neld stars. plus King and Bodies.
until after the Army game.
we were taught in our early
youth that one must learn to saw
NO. This habit has become fixed
lately as the multitude at large de-
sires to know whether We can't dig
up TWO or three Army Navy game
tickets Why are most of our
stadiums. amphitheaters, coliseums
and arenas only large enough to ac-
commodate one-fourth of the seat
| seekers?
-
Brickley. Hardwick, Mahan and
Casey are gone. But Yale isn't TAX
ing From Buell. to Fits" anv too
lightly as meaningless phrase.