Evening star., 1922-01-06

what a wonderful man he is.
Time does fly. 1t certainly does not
seem so long ago as 1896 that Hurry
Up" Yost was playing hob with Buck
Wharton in the Lafaye cite -Pennsyl-
vania game of that year. Lafayette
none SO formidable as her great for
ward. Yost. Lafayette beat the Quak-
ers, to 4, and the victory was a
seven-day wonder. For it was only
vania had crowded up elbow to elbow
with Yale. Harvard and Princeton.
converting the big three into the big
four.
Goes West In 1900.
Yost. soon after graduation. fol-
lowed that suggestion which young
men Of the eighties and golden nine
ties heard SO frequently and went
west In 1899 he turned out a great
kansas. where he developed the best
team the Jayhawkers ever had. In
the Nebraska game Of that year the
Cornhuskers were odds-on favorites.
to q championship in 1898. evidently
knew how to undo his work. for his
Kansas eleven soundly trounced the
overconf1dent Nebraskans. People be-
gan to say that western champion
ships followed Yost.
coast was pretty much the same as
It Is today-California first. Leland
Stanford q poor second. The preceding
season the Bears had won the annual
to Palo Alto and developed an eleven
that beat California, to 0. after one
OF tho most thrilling contests in foot
ball history. So absorbing 1t was, In
deed, that when section of the
grandstand collapsed, killing twenty
nd mi, ri ~ nth
a majority of the 10000 throng knew
nothing Of the disaster. and the play
erS were ignorant of the accident un-
til next morning.
The following year Yost went to
Michigan. In his first four seasons at
Ann Arbor the Maize and Blue did
rot lose a single foot ball game. He
las always made the most of what
ever material he had. and his teams.
win or lose. are always colorful. game
and dangerous.
In the early season schedules of
league and college mines one notes no
change in the modern tendency to
keep organized base ball representa-
tives and college outfits apart. Har-
ward, Yale and Princeton play one
game each against major league
teams. but these contests are eXcep-
tions to the prevailing rule. Harvard
surprised the country and gratified
all proponents of amateur sport two
or three years ago by downing the
Red Sox.
Looking back over Princeton's base
ball history, we find that the Tigers
have won nine games from the Ath-
1etics of Philadelphia and lost 18:
two from Brooklyn and lost six: lost
eight to the Boston Nationals and no
victories: one victory over the Giants
and seventeen defeats; no victories
over the Yankees and two defeats.
But all the Tiger victories ove:- big
league teams lie back in the years.
Either the pros have improved or
college ball has retrogressed. Which
is it?
Georgia Techs base ball schedule
reveals a jamming together of the
two high light features of her season
Navy on October 21, at Annapolis,
and Notre Dame October %, at At
lanta This is a tall order for an out
At that loses by graduation such stars
as A. Station, Ferst, Amis. Lebay
Granger and Harlan. :
Talk about an all-Americn team, the
Infantry School at Camp Benning,
Ga, comes about as near to the foot
ball clearing house idea as could pos
sbly be. On the squad last fall We're
represented Clemson. Indiana. V. NJ.
l.. West Point. Auburn. South Dakota,
Harvard. Colby. West Virginia Pur-
due. Color'.do. MiSSou"j. tn ttaoi u,
Northwestern. California. Trinity. Chi
cagO and George Washington. B.