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The Washington times., 1923-03-15

How Old Fighters Trained.
."IM McGRATH, the old train
er, says the schedule for
training days was like this
in the long ago.:
Up at 6 o'clock in the morning.
A sherry and egg. Then a road
work.
A flannel bandage around the
stomach and a sheet rubber jacket
over that, which extended from
the shoulders to the hips. A
heavy sweater on top of that.
A heavy hood to take the fat
off the face. Thick mittens to
take the fat off the hands.
With all that stuff on him he
was ready to go on the road
Is miles.
And no walking, mind you; run
all the way.
Then, back at camp, a brisk
rundown and lunch. Rest then
until 3 o'clock.
At 3 sharp a half hour of
heavy hitting on the sandbag-a
bag weighing 200 pounds. Then
another half hour with the
"quick" bag.
Now fifteen or twenty rounds
of boxing, with quick changes of
sparring partners so that there
be no slowing up.
| almost forgot about the rope
skipping. That was usually sand
wiched in between the bag punch
ing and the boxing-ten or fifteen
minutes of it, and not just ordl-
nary rope jumping like you see
now at the various training quar-
tiers, but fast and snappy.
In the cool of the evening a
little limbering up stuff, like run
ming few 10O-yard races. Then
to bed at o'clock.
And this was not just one day,
mind you, but every day, some
times for three or four months
at stretch.
Yes, / know, I can hear some
of the younger trainers saying,
"Why, they left all their mans
fight on the road and in the gym
nasium."
Get out! We trained men for
finish fights, not for these little
four and six and ten-round skip
ping matches you see now.
The program l outlined was for
a big man, of course, but the
smaller ones trained pretty nearly
as long and as hard.
Men don't really train for fights
now, they just exercise, and that's
why I think that Willard wouldn't
stand for what one of our old
trainers would want him to do.
He'd think we were crazy.
The Washington times., 1923-03-15

At Reno he cut the SOL, 900
purse with Johnson, and if we re-
member correctly, jeff drew down
$40, 900. He sold his moving pic
ture rights for a trifle and gath
lered a bit more on the vaudeville
stage.
He was never in the millionaire
class, although he put up some
rnillion-dollar fights.
Most of the big fellows battles
were thrilleEs and will long be re-
n1embered by those who saw
them.
Here's hoping that the big fell
low isn't as badly off as the papers
state.
He was a real champion. He
fought to win.
The Washington times., 1923-03-15


Ty is the inventor of the plan
of having a pitcher always carry
with him a tennis ball. When his
hands are not otherwise engaged
Ty has the boys hold the tennis
balls in their pitching hands and
keep squeezing the ball This is to
strengthen the fingers. He in.
structs them to keep closing ard
opening the fingers around the
ball and when the pellet is tightly
clenched in the hand to twist the
wrist. This exercise strengthens
the fingers, the wrist and the wlsoie
forearm.
Every one Of his young pitch
ers and the old ones as well car.
rieS a tennis ball with him and
exercises ON it constantly. The
boys admit that it does them q
great deal Of good.
But while Tyrus believes in hay
ing arms, legs, eyes and fingers
well trained, he gives much atCen.
ton to the headWork. The Peach
does not admit that pitching is
entirely physical task. On the
contrary he thinks it requires good
mental equipment to be q success
full HEAVIER and SO he puts his
charges through many sessions Of
skull practice. Ty Classics sue.
cessful pitching causes something
like this:
PC.
Arm ability and strength 800. %
Leg power, speed and durability. 25
Smooth working head or bean" so
Since TyFus appraises pitch.
ing genius in this way it may
be understood that he gives the
pitchers ''beanS' plenty Ut exer-
else.
This year Manager Cobb believes
| he has one OF the most intelligent
crews of young talent he has ever
worked with and expects to have
II staff OF men who will be able to
handle the intellectual end of the
| pitching game in good shane.
The Washington times., 1923-03-15

The Griffs' star secondsaclxer came
down here on January 10. Having
made many friends by his gentle.
manly behavior the year previous,
he did not lack for company and
entertainment. He became golf
fiend, palIing around with the Palma
Celia pro, Al Watrous. Canadian and
Michigan State champion.
When President Griffith and Nam
ager Bush arrived here on the even
ing OF February %, they were greeted
by regular Indian, who was none
other than Buck Harris Drowned
from his two rounds Of golf daily.
No sooner did the pitchers look
capable Of throwing than Harris
DOTTED his golf tOgs for his baseball
uniform. He was the first Of the
regulars 20 swing bat in his
4 hand. enficing WatrOus from the
golf links to field grOunders for
him.
.I've had enough Of golf. said
Harris. The moment ! heard the
crack OF the bat against the old
baseball, that minute ! was done
with golf. There is no need of rules
for me. I'D rather play one ball
game than ten rounds Of golf.
Harris is enjoying perfect health.
He is but twenty-six years old and
should have ten more years ahead
OF him in the big league. He is one
Of the youngest big league captains
in the history Of the game.
The Washington times., 1923-03-15

Since Tyrus appraises pitch
ing genius in this way it may
be understood that he gives the
pitchers beans" plenty Of eXer-
else.
The Washington times., 1923-03-15

The Minneapolis infieIder seemed
. welI-pOised young man who
knows something about playing
ball, but he viii have to be tried
out more fully before much will
be known as to his ability to
make good in this company.
The Washington times., 1923-03-15

He was al tiglltcned sup and
Evening star., 1923-10-20
Great Memorial Stadium Rises
For Illinois u. Athletic Euents

ia feet above the field, and, il the
weather be cold or stormy, can watch
it through plate glass.
Instead of sitting on the concrete
itself. as in some other stadfa. all
spectators will sit on comfortable,
springy seats of durable cypress, per
manently bolted into place.
The playing field. drained, tiled and
sodded with bluegrass only as long
ago as midsummer, and equipped
with a network of automatic sprink-
lers, is already In splendid shape.
Base ball will still be played on the
old Illinois fed. where Jake StahI
Lundgren, Pfiester, Pfeffer and other
stars got their start, but track
athletics will find accommodations in
the stadium, which is large enough
to contain two straightaway 220-
The whole vast undertaking, which
will cost over s1.600, 900, has been
made possible by comparatively small
subscriptions and pledges from the
alumni and the student body. Col
!ege enthusiasm has been fired there
by, each contributor feeling that he
or she has proprietary interest in
the work of honoring fallen heroes
and at the same time, supplying ade-
quate athletic equipment to the uni
versity.
A view Of this great achievement in
the building line is calculated to
make any Washingtonian hope that
the day may be hastened when the
National Capital shall possess a
in may be held the big annual SER
vice games as well as other contests
and spectacles peculiar to the seat of
government.
Evening star., 1923-10-20
MANY BIG CONTESTS
ON GRID LIST TODAY

NEW YORK, October 20.-Contests
of rare promise and crowds such as
never before have witnessed early
season foot ball games seemed as
sured today when the great college
pastime, it's preliminary season COM
pleted, offered it's program of en-
gagements involving teams of major
Importance.
Preparations were made at Prince
ton to handle throng of upward of
80, 900, which early began assembling
for the great intersectional battle be-
tween Coach Roper's Tigers and
Knute Rochne's brilliant Notre Dame
eleven. and gatherings of equal pro-
portions were expected at the Syra-
cuse- Pittsburgh game at the Yankee
stadium, the Pennsylvania-Co Columbia
game at Franklin Field. the Harvard
Holy Cross game at Cambridge and
the Yale -Bucknell game at New
Haven. while crowds of $4,000 or more
were looked for at the Cornell Col
gate game at Ithaca, the Penn State
Navy game at State College, the
acknowledgements game at Burling-
ton and the Army Alabama Poly game
at West Point.
Close students of the game are
naming Notre Dame as the favorite
over Princeton, Syracuse the favorite
over Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania the
favorite over Columbia and Harvard
Yale, Cornell, Navy, Dartmouth and
Army the respective favorites in their
games.
Evening star., 1923-10-20
ALL D. C. COLLEGE
ELEVENS ARE BUSY

Two home contests and three on
foreign fields are keeping foot ball
teams of the District varsity group
busy this afternoon. At Clark Grif-
fifth Stadium, University of Maryland
and Virginia Polytechnic Institute are
renewing their annual struggle. while
George Washington University is host
to Drexel Institute at Wilson Stadium.
Both games were to begin at 2:3O
o'clock.
Georgetown is at Atlanta to tackle
Georgia Tech for the fifth season in
succession. The Hilltoppers have yet
to score a victory over the Golden
Tornado.
Catholic University travelled to En-
mitsburg for an encounter with Mount
st. Mary's. Gallaudet went to GUAM
tico to keep an engagement with the
second team Of the Marines.
Evening star., 1923-10-20
CONFERENCE TEAMS
IN FIRST BIG TESTS

CHICAGO. October 20.-Champion-
ship hopes of eight western confer
ence foot ball teams will be boosted
or blasted in today's games, with
some of the most important conflicts
bearing on the western conference
title scheduled.
The showing made by Michigan and
Iowa. tied for honors last year against
Ohio State and Illinois. respectively
will be the gage oy which their
chances for the title will be meas
ured. Indiana, with one big ten vic
tory to it's credit. meets Wisconsin,
playing its first conference game Of
the season.
The Michigan Ohio State fray at
Ann Arbor may develop into an aerial
conflict. both teams having devoted
much time to passing and punting
Inc buckeyes owe their showing last
week against Colgate to their aerial
tactics. while Coach Yost has been
stressing forward passing.
Illinois pins it's hopes largely on
the work of Grange, halfback, who
scored all the touchdownS made by
the Illini in the Nebraska game.
The Nebraska triumph and the show
ing of Iowa against Purdue last week
is conceded to give Illinois an ad-
vantage over the Hawkeyes Iowa
City is the scene of the conflict
Chicago is expected to win it's first
conference game from Northwestern.
its neighbor rival, which is anxious
for victory after defeat last week
by Indiana.
The Wisconsin Badgers are expect
ed to reveal their strength against
Indiana at Bloomington after a slow
start this season.
Purdue. meeting Wabash, and Min
nesota. clashing with North Dakota
University, are conceded to have the
edge on their non-c conference op-
ponentS.
Evening star., 1923-10-20
Totals 37s
LEAGUE.
Totals. 44s 425 43o
YES, WE ADMIT THIS
is QUEER GOLF YARN

PARIS, October 20.-One of the
queerest golf stories of the season
is told by Col. Robert NJ. Thompson,
president of the American Olympic
committee, who has just sailed for
home after attending to some of the
details of the forthcoming interna-
tional games here.
The colonel and his Sudanese
bodyguard were sailing down the
Nile from khartum at time when
the river was very low ana thelr
paddle wheeler was forced to stop
many times awaiting rise In the
water. on these occasions the
colonel, who never travels without
his golf clubs, would aight on the
shore. accompanied by his Sudanese
setting up poles surmounted by req
handkerchiefs at varying distances
to mark the improvised holes. Ine
colonel and the black boy then would
drive over the natural sand bunkers'
and the man from Timbuctoo devel-
oped his game until he could give
the white man a very good fight in
deed.
The other natives soon caught on
to the game and after a rev DAYS
gambling on every hole. After
particularly brilliant drive over lit
tie wooded oasis the colonel was an
noyed at not being able to find his
ball The search was long ana
arduous until he saw one of the
natives, who he knew had been bet
ting heavily against him-at about
10 cents hole-slinking away, limp
ing Like a flash the colonel was
upon him, shaking him violently untll
the little pellet dropped to the sand
The gambler had quietly stepped on
the ball and "palmed' it under his
big toe.
During the last days of the trip
any prospective member of the gal
lerv Intending to follow the game
was requested to wear shoes.
Evening star., 1923-10-20
BUSINESS TO FORFEIT
GRID GAME TO TECH

Business Highs gridironers will be
compelled to forfeit their initial high
school championship contest with
Tech Tuesday because of their in
ability to place eleven eligible players
on the field
This is the first time in the history
of high school athletics that such a
case has arisen. Tech could have
shifted the date to several days hence
allowing Business to regain the serv-
ices of its ineligibles under the sec
ond advisory. but it made no effort in
this direction.
Coach Hardell of the Manual Train
ers declared that "he would place
eleven players on the field Tuesday
regardless of whether Business ap-
peared or not"
Central and Eastern have agreed to
meet Tuesday in the place of Tech
and Business. The series was due to
caused the coaches of Central and
Eastern to postpone the contest.
Greenwood. Watt. Calker. Moser.
Haas. McLain, Mallery. Nichol. Cam
merer: Newman and Enright are the
Ineligible youngsters on the Business
team. They will be permitted to play
In the three remaining games If they
remove their deficient marks by Fri
day.
Gonzaga High school was to en-
counter Alexandria High this after
noon at 2:30 o'clock on the latters
field. Both elevens have scored vic
tories over local high school teams,
and a lively battle is expected.
Georgetown Unfversity's freshman
eleven is at Emmitsburg, Md, where
they are booked to oppose the Mount
st. Mary's yearlings as a preliminary
to the Catholic University Mount ST
Mary clash.
Evening star., 1923-10-20

days when nothing goes wrong, when
/ everything goes right and every man
gives to the extreme limit of his
ability.
Michigan coaches do not regard
that contest as having expressed the
actual relative merits of the two out
| fits. And so far as that goes Ohio
| state in later games just fell short of
spectacular exploits through a turn
of hair
And so, what with better material
than the Buckeyes had last year.
Michigan coaches are looking for
ward to Saturdays tussle in a pray
erful mood.
Upon it's varsity eleven the Scarlet
and Gray has eight men who were
/ regulars in 1922, and, as an indication
of the way things have been going
at Columbus, it should be pointed out
that two of the 1922 regulars have
been unable to make this years COM
bination. Glancing over the varsity
squad one finds the names of sixteen
players in various positions who won
their letters last autumn. This GER
/ tainly must have made the task of Dr.
Wilce and his assistant coaches an
easier one than they faced last fall.
Ohio State Backs Good.
Judy, at quarterback; Hoge, Work
man and Snyder or Dobeleit at the
halves, and Devoe, at full, comprise a
Z
be more powerful, more resourceful.
more dangerous in every way than
the 1922 backfield. Gorrill, at left
end. is accounted far better wing
man than the man whose place he
I took. And so II goes
DR.. WilCe characteristically, is say
/ ing nothing about the prospects, but
! the manner in which the team came
/ from behind last Saturday and tied
/ up 17-to-3 score made by Colgate
/ in the first half. pleased him i'm
! mensely. and he would be justified in
reposing all sorts of confidence in a
/ fighting outfit of that sort
! Michigan generally throughout the
west Ls regarded as having the better
chance of winning this game. but a
! close study of the situation does not
seem to warrant any opinion other
, than that on form the outcome is a
toSS-up.
Copyright. 1928
Evening star., 1923-10-20

Guess I'll have to play another Is
holes" he said. I'm taking a new
stance anyhow" and as he spoke
there appeared d ghost of the old con-
fident smile for which he is famous.
He admitted defeat and said he would
face it as he occasionally had to face
il on the links.
81 will tee off again." Evans said,
but not at speculation"
This financial trouble has been
preying on me for a long, long time,
he said. "and will answer many of
the questions my friends have been
asking as to why my game seemed
to fall so suddenly. Difficulties in
creased each day until the strain
seemed beyond human endurance and
| guess | funked a little"
Evans started as caddie at the
Old EdGewater Country Club and soon
acquired masterful ability at golf and
a faculty for making friends. His
friendliness, his friends said, had
much to do with his financial failure.
"All 1 have left are my friends and
my golf clubs and with the help of
both I'm coming back Chick said.
Evening star., 1923-10-20
special pisnatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL.,. October 20
Rising above the rich, fiat farming
country southwest of the twin cities of
Urbana and Champaign. and dominating
the landscape for miles around, the
great memorial stadium of the Univer-
sity of Illinois is rapidly taking shape.
BY November 3, date of the "homecom-
ing game" this year with Chicago, 1t
will be occupied by $1,000 people. Soon
thereafter it can be described as a
"superstadium," for a crowd of over
double this size can find seats when the
structure has been fully completed.
Claims that from the standpoint both
of great capacity and of a high degree
of ornamentation it will surpass all pre-
vious stadia in this country seem to be
we'll founded. A correspondent of The
Star recently was personally conducted
throughout its vast spaces by George
Huff director of athletics at the Uni
versity of Illinois, and Clarence j. Rose
berry, secretary of the stadium COM
mittee.
VIII Seat Over 100000.
The two sides, each double -decked.
will be finished first. The completion of
the curve at the south end Will bring
the capacity up to 100000 and the north
end can be filled in later when needed,
with a consequent increase to well over
100000.
The stadium is Of steel and concrete.
sheathed with red brick and ornamented
with elaborate stone trim, conforming
generally to the adaptation of Georgian
architecture seen in the newer univer-
sity buildings.
Other similar buildings approach this
one in capacity. notably. the Ohio State
stadium, the Yale bowl and the great
tn Tali l.
linois structure will possess a number
of features not found elsewhere. For
example, the portions of most, II not
all, such buildings that are behind and
below the seats are filled with pillars,
arches and buttresses. Here, however.
the rearmost steel supporting columns
never reach the ground, but at height
of about thirty feet are interrupted and
replaced by horizontal bridge trusses.
This gives, under both east and west
stands, great covered halls, 400 feet
long by fifty wide, for practice space,
student assemblies, basket ball courts,
etc.
To enable spectators to reach the up
per decks without confusion and with
little effort four tremendous ramp tow
ers at each corner will contain the
necessary complicated network OF in
clined planes, together with offices,
dressing rooms, heating plant, and even
a cozy apartment for the custodian.
At the point where the truss work
intervenes a wide promenade gallery
is to run completely around the outer
wall anad will be ornamented with a
double row of double Doric columns
each dedicated to a University of IL
lois man who sacrificed his life in the
great war.
Provisions for Press.
The greatest care will he taken Of the
newspaper men assigned to the import
ant conference games. High on the
upper western side is the inclosed and
rooted press stand, with a capacity of
one hundred and twenty observers.
There the experts, comforted with steam
heat can see the play from a point
Evening star., 1923-10-20
How Foot Ball Is PLAYED
MOST teams go stale from over )
BY SOL METZGER-

MOST teams go stale from over
4'A work Coaches pound players
SO hard during some seasons in an
effort to smooth out wrinkles and
correct mistakes that the men get
sick and tired of the game and are
unable to play it with any pep. Teams
are more likely to- go stale today
from overwork than they were befc
This is due to the fact that speed
day, whereas power used to be.
Pop Warner once told US of going
out west to coach when he first be-.
gan his career. He was with the
"Cornhuskers" of Iowa. He took the
team somewhat after the season had
started and found a lemon on his
hands. The previous coach had over
worked his men. Pop got licking
right off, He wisely decided to rest
the men, rather than to work them
in the hope of correcting faults. After
this rest they played a harder oppo-
nent and the vim they put into their
play more than offset their faults.
AS a result they won.
Probably more judgment is required
of the coach in the matter of keeping
a team in condition than in any other
part of his job. Players have to be
keen mentally as well as physically
Evening star., 1923-10-20

Analyzing the two elevens in the
hight of losses sustained through
appears that Michigan has been hard
er hit than the Buckeyes. This is TO
say that, whereas Ohio State has
been able to fill the gaps with play
ers who are superior to it's missing
men, Michigan's requirements are in
ferior
Michigan Stars Cone.
To be specific, the Maize and Blue
has no such ends as Goebel and Kirk
were last year. And 1t has no back
to fill the shoes of the mighty Cap
pom: Rosatti. at tackle, also has left
behlnd him the regrets of the coaches.
As TO the other missing man. Roby,
a back, the chances are that Steger
Will be found to have filled his place
adequately.
The team. however, has been fa-
vored by men qualified for important
positions, viz: Blot, at center;
cteritz, at quarter; Slaughter and
steele, at the guards; Muirhead and
Eandervoort, at the tackles, and
place at fullback Miller has been
named. He may come through and
be very valuable, but he has not as
yet shown strongly. Such as he is,
he is the best obtainable.
AT the ends there is no such pair
teams in 1922. Curran was substi-
tute last season and Marion comes
up from the freshman eleven. Their
great opportunity awaits them on
Saturday and the attitude of the
coaches toward them is best set forth
when it is said they are in a hopeful
mood. All in all, it is a fairly light
team. with only two men among the
regulars who weigh 1870 pounds 1t
is hoped by Fielding Yost and the
coaches that Ii will prove itself fast
and reSourceful.
Al Top Form in 1922.
1t is recognized that last year.
when Michigan won over Ohio State
by substantial score, the Wolverines
had one of those rare days when. as
fost puts it. the Blue was flash
ing" That is TO say, one of those
good days that come to d team or to
an athlete infrequently-one of thos,
Evening star., 1923-10-20
Answered. Dy
GLEN "POP" WARNER

Foot ball coach, University of Pitts
burgh for past eight years. Teams un-
defeated five of eight years. Former
athletic director Carlisle Indians. Sue
cessful coach for twenty-eight years.
x X X x
The proper way to shift the ball
is to push the ball across the body
while grasping one end of it with
the hand which originally held the
ball and grasp it with the free arm
as the shift is being made. The shift
should never be made when in a
mass of players because one arm is
likely to be jerked away during the
shift and result in a tumble. When
the runner is in the open field, shift
ing the ball quickly is advantageous
in order to use the occupied arm to
ward off tackler, because a tackler
will usually dart from the side on
which the back carries the ball in
order to avoid the stiff-arm.
Evening star., 1923-10-20
BANCROFT QUALITIES
TO BE A POLICEMAN

NEW YORK, October 20.-In bat
tling and capturing three alleged
thieves single handed. Dave Bancroft,
captain of the Giants. has qualified
to become one of New York's finest
If he should lose his base ball job.
Four men were pilfering a spare
tire from his automobile in front of
his Riverside drive home. Dave said,
when he rushed them. One man es-
capped because the base ball player
could not pursue him and hold three.
The Giants captain was holding
the three men when two detectives
drove up.