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Evening star., 1924-12-16

Investigating further, found that
an upstate coach had him set with a
sch olarship, board, room. books, etc,
and that a small Pennsylvania COL
lege thought they had the inside
track, as the Pennington coach was
one of their alumni, and II was re-
ported that they had offered him
everything on the campus but the
presidents house.
Attending the post-season game, I
talked with scouts OF five other col
, leges, all there to get Fraser.
1t was a brilliant game, and was
won by Fraser in the closing few
minutes of play. On some pretext or
other, we all wandered into the lock-
er room after the game, each man in
tent on prying Fraser loose from the
other. He drove off with one of my
rivals.
Message to Garcia.
Things didn't look very promising
for me. In watching the game /
| made minute notes of Fraser's. man
ner Of running, kicking, lodging and
passing. also got every possible
bit of information about him which
I could CLEAN in the town. That night
I transferred all this inform alton. in
| Guiding the most minute details, to
my card index and other records.
Then I wrote our head coach COM
plete report, in which I expressed the
| opinion that we ought to get this
player If 1t was humanity possible. ]
got reply by telegraph. 1t said:
| Get Fraser" You will remember
| that I was a paid empioye, and this
| telegram was a command.
My first operations were the usual
oses-inviting the boy to all sorts OF
college functions, all the time re-
framing from a direct selling talk
and always being ready to make gen.
erous concessions to the advantages
Of other colleges. But kept some
reminder of our college constantly
before him. or course, the others
did that also, and during his senior
year this lad was fairly beset with
invitations to college basket ball
games, hockey games and social func-
| tions
In the Spring he was taken by al
tomobiie to two commencements and
one junior prom" and was given q
royal reception everywhere. / mar.
vel that he managed to do his school
work. But to my establishment he
passed all his examinations brilliant
| ly and was graduated with honors.
! Copyright; 1924)
Evening star., 1924-12-16

AS / have said, FOOT bali now is
big business, and the coach follows
the type of any driving young busi-
ness man in a highly competitive
business. He must be resourceful,
energetic man of the world, knowing
many people, having good social and
business connections and having DIFF
ferent means of accomplishing a de-
sired result.
His graduate manager gives him the
necessary liaison with the alumni,
always useful in accomplishing the
impossible. His scouts make UP his
field organization. The faculty keeps
decorous by public-and, / am sure,
sincere-pronouncem and fulmi-
nations against professionalism.
Know Their Way About.
So 1t is inevitable that graduate
managers and scouts-in fact, all Of
the really effective, functioning per-
! sonnel-should be of the same type as
the coach, thoroughly sophisticated
young men who know how to get
what they go after. The scouts, more
than any others, get into the fast
breaks of this game, and that's how
| got most ofGny inside foot ball edu-
Here's an experience of mine which
shows what scouts do and how they
DO it:
Among the press clippings, supplied
| by the bureau to which I subscribe,
was the following:
| Fraser of Pennington High School
is the most versatile school boy, half
back in New Jersey. He can punt,
drop-kick, forward pass, run, tackle
| in fact, do anything any backfieid
man was ever required to do and do
| 1t well nigh perfectly. He could make
any college backfield in the country
and there will be many coaches
watching him in action in the post
season game with Nutley for State
championship honors next Saturday
Started the Machine.
| Consulting my card index--I am Civ
| ing this in some detail, as 1t traces
| in miniature the entire scouting
game-I found we had two active
alumni living near Pennington.
| telephoned them for report on Fra
SER They watched him in action, and
declared him fully up to reports, but
said we would have a hard battle to
| land him, as he was sewed up tight
| for Penn State.
was considerably chagrined &c
think Penn State had got the jumr
on me, and raked over and, reor-
ganized my. sources OF. Information
! But ! determined to so after Fraser
Evening star., 1924-12-16

The team in the field lines up back
of the pitcher. somewhat after the
manner of a foot ball team recetv-
ing a kick. The batter faces the
pitcher and the defensive team has a
catcher. The pitcher snaps the ball
as a center does in starting a play
on a foot ball eleven. Thef batter
must catch the ball as IL is snapped
from the pitcher, and the ball is got
ten away on q dropkick, though
when tennis shoes are used a punt is
allowed instead OF a dropkick.
Backs Charge Batter.
Four backheld men. standing about
80 feet from the batter and behind tn e
pitcher. rush in on the snap or pitch
Of the ball. The effort Is to block the
batter in his effort to kick. or to make
him kick quickly. After the ball is
batted, or kicked, the regular indoor
base ball rules apply. excepting that
the bases are longer, the longer runs
adding to the interest of the game.
A tumble or failure to kick the ball
is counted q strike against the bat
ter. Two strikes puts the batter out.
A ball pitched not within reason
able reach of the batter is a ball, and
two balls give the batter his base.
II the backfield men are offside
before the ball is snapped, the um-
pire declares the ball pitched ball.
II the batter, after fumbling and
allowing the ball to touch the floor,
picks up the ball and kicks 1t, 1t is
declared a foul, and II caught the
batter is out. II not caught it Is a
strike against the batter.
A base runner cannot score a run
on a ball or strike, but can ad-
vance other bases in either event.
Touchdowns Are Picked.
Goal posts are painted on the wall
behind the field. and drop-kick
going over the goal without having
touched the ceiling is a touchdown
and counts six runs. It is also a
home run and scores all base run
ners ahead Of the batter. A touch
down cannot be caught out on its
rebound. In all other cases a fly
Evening star., 1924-12-16


Notre Dame is regarded as one Of
the greatest pieces of gridiron archi-
lecture ever assembled. 1t bowled
over a field of opponents representa-
tive Of every section of the country
except the Far West, and the game
New Year day provides a means of
comparison between the foot ball as
played on the Atlantic seaboard and
the game as developed on the Pacific
Coast.
NOtre Dame Well Balanced.
Notre Dame has defeated such teams
as Army, Princeton, Nebraska,
Georgia Tech. Northwestern, Wiscon-
sin, Carnegie Tech, Lombard and
Wabash. The Hoosiers are excep-
tionally well balanced, light, but ex-
tremely fast: they are equipped with
n rare assortment of plays, passes and
kicks, executed by men all adept in
their respective positions. The eleven
was hard pressed only twice-against
Northwestern and against the Army
both of which were beaten by only
ona touchdown.
Rockne has started his second team
In practically every game and then
shifted to his f1rst-string backfield-
Stuldreher, Miller, Layden and Crow
ley. This combination has swept
through all opposition and has not
been held to less than two touch
downs. On the coast, where condition
is big factor, this alternate ar
rangement may prove of marked aid
to Rockne.
Stanford with the greatest foot
ball eleven in it's history. has come
through with only a 1920 tie with
California to mar its season. The
Stanford team is strong and we'll
rounded, but has lacked throughout
the season an ability to solve a
the Stanford team for the first year,
fully realized this lack of a passing
defense when Idaho passed Stanford
off its feet and only lost the game
when it fumbled on Stanford's one
foot line. the Cardinals recovering.
Stanford Has Passing Game.
To Offset this weakness, Warner
built up the best defense possible
and then perfected a passing game to
rival that of his opponents. With
the score 20 to against them and
but eight minutes to play, the Car
dinals launched an air drive against
California that was halted only by
the final whistle after they had
scored two touchdowns and knotted
the game.
II Stanford throws the fury of it's
air attack at Notre Dame it will be
interesting to watch. The forward
passing of Murray Cuddeback, STAN
fords great back, was responsible
for Stanford's tie with California In
Hey Hevers and Solomon Warner has
two other star backs. while in Jim
Lawson he has one of the best ends
in the game.
Evening star., 1924-12-16
LONDON TENNIS PROS
RETIRE ON A PENSION

Changes in the tennis and racquets
staff at Lords in London has been an
nounced. James Fenne1l, who has
served the club for more than SO years
in the tennis court, and his brother
Jack, who has been connected chiefly
with racQuets, are retiring on a PEN
sion.
James Fennell will be succeeded as
head professional by w. (Jack)
Groom, one of the most promising of
the rising generation. who won the
professional handicap two years ago.
Groom learned the game from Charles
Lambert at Hatfield, and afterward
became professional to Lord Sails
bury, post he has occupied UP to the
present time.
"JiJumy Fennell is one OF the best
knowE and best liked figures in pro-
fessionai tennis, and as a teacher,
player and marker he has done much
for the game" said the London Morn
ing Post in commenting on the
change. He was born in 1858 and
learned tennis in his youth in the
days when the Thompkinses were
still a power In the land and when
George Lambert was in the heydey
of his career"
Evening star., 1924-12-16
SPEEDY COURT PASTIME
is VIRGINIAN'S INVENTION
Combines Essentials of Outdoor Cridiron Game and
Indoor Base Ball-Oval Booted, Then Men
Endeavor to Get Around Bases.

YNCHBURG Va, December 16C
the physical of the Lynchbug public system
and about 20 physical director Y
athletic game, of
foot
Warthen indoor foot ball.
the rules game improved players
to
of players
The ball
chside
Evening star., 1924-12-16
FOUR NEW GRID RIVALS
ON LAFAYETTE SCHEDU.

EASTON, Pa, December 16.-Fo,
newcon1ers are on the Lafayette fc
ball schedule of nine games for 1872
Outstanding among the new oppt
nents is Colgate. which will be playe
at Franklin Field. Philadelphia, OctC
ber II. The others are St. Bonaven
ture, Susquehanna and Washingtoa
College.
The schedule:
September 26 Muhlsnberg
October 8. Pittsburgh. at Pittsburgh: 10
Washington College; II, Colgate, at Phiadst
phia; "a, Washington and Jefferson, at New
York; 81, st. Bonaventure.
November Z. Rutgers: IA, Susquehanna: y
Lehigh. at Bethlehem, Pa.
Evening star., 1924-12-16

ball may be caught out after it has
hit any object, wall or ceiling,
excepting the floor.
The position Of the batter Is on
the home plate.
Warthen has found the game an
excellent vehicle for physical work
because of its quick and almost con
tinuous action and he believes It
will come into popularity for its ac-
ton. but primarily in foot ball train
ing camps for the training there is
in the game in handling the foot ball
No effort will be made TO secure a
copyright Rather the inventor will
be glad to have it tried out in schools,
for he Is confident that it will prove
just as popular for indoor work in
colleges and universities as IL has al
ready proved among high school stu
dents here.
The plan of the game is to be sent
by Warthen to some of the leading
physical training periodicals and he
will invite any suggestions which
may occur to coaches and trainers
looking to an Improvement Of the
game.
Evening star., 1924-12-16
HAHN rs ON WAY EAST.

FALLS CITY, Neb.. December 1s.-
Lloyd Hahn, Nebraska's sprinter rep
resentative in the 1924 Olympic
games, left last night for the east.
where he said he expected to meet
Paavo Nurmi. middle distance cham
pion. and other premier runners in
q series OF races. Hahn has been in
retirement all, fall, but says he has
kept In condition.
Evening star., 1924-12-16
rs YALE GRID PLAYERS
GIVEN GOLD FOOT BALLS

NEW HAVEN. Conn, December Is.
Gold foot balls were given to the
25 Yale men who played in the
Princeton and Harvard games. A
similar charm was given ]. F. Burns,
jr., manager.
The players were Capt Lovejoy,
Allen Bench, Bunnell Burt, Cottle,
Eckart, Gill, Joss, Kline, Luman,
Pond, Richards, Ross, Scott, Stur-
ham, Bingham, Burt, Failing, Hart,
Osborne, Wadsworth, Workman, Ben
ton and Cutler.
Evening star., 1924-12-16
SWIMMING RECORD
BEATEN BY FILIPINO

MANILA. December 16. - Teofilo
YldefonEo. soldier in the 57th In
fantry OF the Philippine Scouts. swan
back stroke 220 yards in minutes
SO 2-5 seconds. according to timers at
the Philippine department athletic
tournament held at Fort Mckinley.
If the mark is permitted to stand IT
will constitute a new world record.
The present accepted record is 2-5
of a second over minutes.
Evening star., 1924-12-16

tons are due to battle the Anacostia
Eagles tomorrow night, starting play
at o'clock in Hitchcock Hall.
Petworth Athletic Club, nosed out
by the Company F team of the Hy-
attsville National Guard in a 2S-to-25
engagement, hopes to dispose of the
Capitol Prep quint tonight in the
gymnasium located at Seventh and
Randolph streets. With Chase, Shank
er and Carr blazing the way the
Company F Reserves lowered the col
ors of the Petworth string
team. So to 13, in preliminary game
last night.
Minnick of the Petworth Boys Club
displayed his wares to good effect
when the Capital Athletic Club FIVE
was downed, u to IS.
with Cohen tossing six court goals
the Kanawha Midgets took the meas
ure Of the Monroe Midgets, % to 10.
Mount Vernon tosserx added an
other victim to their list by pointing
the way to the junior team of the
Petworth Boys Club, 90 to 10. Mac
Farland and Dalglish played well for
the victors>
StEhAGy SubS DSIOTc IlIS 81
Patrick Midgets, IS to IL. Harding,
Atchison and O'Keefe of the winners
were in the limelight.
TfIIy, Clayton, Perry, weckerly,
Eckloff, Murphy, Smith, Walcott,
Reith and Mcdowell are in the
Sherwood Midget squad this season.
A game is wanted Thursday night in
the Sherwood gymnasium with some
toarn averaging 110 pounds. Manager
Mcdowell may be telephoned at North
100S3 between 8 and 6 o'clock.
st. Mgry's Juniors of Alexandria
are anxious to arrange games with
the Trinity Juniors, Argyles, Takoma
Athletic Club. Chevy Chase Park
Athletic Club. the Olympias and the
Peck Reserves. Challenges are being
received by Manager Latham at
Alexandria 1103 after $50 o'clock.
Manager Chris Hutchinson of the
Corby five is seeking an unlimited op-
ponent for Friday night in the Con-
gress Heights Gymnasium. He can be
telephoned at Lincoln 5000.
Evening star., 1924-12-16

Argyle Athletic Club of Mount
Pleasant will question the supremacy
of the Epiphanys Thursday night in
the Epiphany gymnasium. Play will
start at 1880 o'clock. The Epiphany
players will tackle the Friends team
Saturday night at the Y. NJ. c. A. IN
league game.
Peck Athletic Club and the TruXton
five~wili be opponents tonight in a
game starting at s:45 o'clock on the
formers court. The Peck Reserves
will face the Fairmont five in pre-
liminary, starting at 7:45. The Trux-
Evening star., 1924-12-16
TULANE eleven TO PLAY
INTERSECTIONAL GAMES

NEW ORLEANS December 16.-
Two intersectional games are in the
1925 foot ball schedule Of Tulane Uni
versity, which follows:
September 26, Louisiana College.
October 3. Missouri; 10, open games pend
sippi A. and NJ; 24. Northwestern, In Chicago:
81, Auburn, in Montgomery.
November z, Louisiana Tech; II. Sewanee;
II, Louisiana State
Tulane has a two-year contract with
Missouri, playing in Columbia, Mo-, in
1925.
Evening star., 1924-12-16
ANNAPOLIS FIVE LIKELY
TO MAKE GREAT RECORD

NNAPOL1S December 6Navy folks enthusiastic the fine
~ made by the Mdshpmen basket ball this
its brilliant prospects for the rest of its schedule.
feel
college this
Maryland which had defeated Columbia
the Navys
wheming defeat 30 0 19
Evening star., 1924-12-16
SnCCERISTs CHALLENGE,

German Soccer Club players OF
this city have been challenged by the
Liberty Soccer Club of Baltimore, ac-
cording to Roland Fink Of the Oriole
City team, who can be reached at
1886 Washington Boulevard, Balti-
more, Nd.
Evening star., 1924-12-16

The incident in which Taylor fig
ured occurred in 1900 at the Ekwanok
Club, Manchester VT. ] was the pro-
fessional there, having. in fact,
opened the present championship D
course, which then was in its first
year. He being an active member
and much interested IN the develop
tment of the links, 1 naturally saw
much of him.
He had an idea that he could get
better results with very long clubs
and had me make him some which
measured 81 inches in length. He
got really wonderful results, although
he had peculiar address which 1
never could get him to change. I
gave him lessons galore, hoping all
the time he would adopt orthodox
clubs and begin to address the ball
in the regular way.
His brother, DR.. Taylor, entertained
the same hope, which we frequently
discussed.
What can we do to get him to
changer" he would ask me.
One day thought saw a way out.
Hide his clubs" I suggested
That very day a club tournament
from scratch was to be started. Tay-
lor was to play in 1t, but could find
his clubs nowhere. Finally, he ap-
pealed to me for advice as to what
he should do.
Take my clubs" 7 told him. II
believe you can win with them"
Strangely enough. this was exactly
what he did. He finished at the head
Evening star., 1924-12-16
NOTRE DAME OFFENSIVE
EMULATED BY STANFORD
Cardinals Though Have Yet to Show Good Defense
Against Overhead Play-Rival Elevens Have
Similar Basic Coaching Principles.
By the Associated Press.


YORK, 16-When the Horsemen of Nore
Dame ride the Golden West for poseson with the
Cardinals Pasadena Calf,
clash of coaching
the school
Glenn CPop)
Warner of the foot ball coaching Both
teachers both disciples
Evening star., 1924-12-16

ball are on the same level. often
the tee Is uneven or perhaps the
player feels one heel in a depression
and goes ahead with his stroke just
the same. Such n depression or un
cvenness may spoil q shot.
Copyright, 1924D
Evening star., 1924-12-16

The performances and prospects OF
the court players have, in fact, done
much to remove the gloom caused by
a thoroughly unsuccessful foot ball
season. topped by decisive defeat
by the Military Academy.
Two Games This Week.
The Navy, team has two games this
week, against Loyola tomorrow and
Davis Elkins Saturday, both good
teams, but hardly up to the standard
Of those defeated, and will start next
week on it's midwest, tour, during
which 1t will meet the fives of four
Evening star., 1924-12-16

- m n IL margins
that even the
slightest things
car upset the ef-
fort. One of
these highly i'm
pOrtant details,
one which would
seem to be of
small c o N y e =
Quence, is hAv-
ir= both feet on
n true level with
the ball w h e N =
ever 1T is pos
sible TO have
them So On RIi
tee shots care
should be given
TO see to II that
tie feet and the
Evening star., 1924-12-16
ROPER rs CONSIDERING.

PHILADELPHIA, December 16.
william w. Roper, Princeton foot ball
coach, says he is giving careful con-
Sideration to the offer of Washington
University Of St. Louis to tutor its
grid team and teach law in the In,
stitution.
Evening star., 1924-12-16
CLARK BILLIARD LOSER.

r. w. Clark lessened his chance to
figure in the District championship
1872 balkline tourp ament by losing to
Wolfe, 200 to 50, and Turton, 200
to lis.
Evening star., 1924-12-16
EPIPHANY QUINT TO MEET
THREE FORMIDABLE FOES

%PIPHANY ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION hopes
this week the three
Live Wire basketers who took the of the Monour IS
will face the Epiphany tonight the laters
at
watching They had their peeled for basket shooting last night
the Montou
Evening star., 1924-12-16
GRIDMAN WINS AT BOWLING

NEW HAVEN. Conn, December 16.
Louis G. Wienecke of Tulsa, Okla,
substitute quarterback on the Yale
foot ball team, has won the tenpin
bowling championship Of the univer-
sity. Wienecke finished with an aver
age of 1868 for 81 games.
Evening star., 1924-12-16
vIII.-HoW THE SCOUT WORKS.

foregoing successful raid
Yale that coachs required capacity by limited know
how teach others play foot bali AS of fact his
teaching capacity often secondary his ability
highly
standardized technique will Get man.
Evening star., 1924-12-16

Tosserrew. The = -Levimthnn Proves
Useful.
Evening star., 1924-12-16
InSiideGOlf
BY Chester Horton.

Making the head of the golf club
meet the ball with a square impact iS
an exertion that operates on such
Evening star., 1924-12-16
GEORGE Low TELLS:
Fred TayIor's 54-Inch Clubs

NE OF the unusual incidents
Fred Taylor of Philadelphia the finest
dressed ball. and, incidentally, benefacor of the
although he was the fories think when he took
He the first American really
should be soft underneath,
the provide
golfers when he
and the finest kind of
Evening star., 1924-12-16

Manager Chris Hutchinson OF the
Corby five is seeking an unlimited op-
ponent for Friday night in the Con-
gress Heights Gymnasium. He can be
telephoned at Lincoln 5000.
Evening star., 1924-12-16
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ship reasons)
Evening star., 1924-12-16

tons are due to battle the Anacostia
Eagles tomorrow night, starting play
at o'clock in Hitchcock Hall
The daily worker., 1924-11-07
In Minneapolis

According to unofficial returns Emil Youngdahl,
Communist candidate for the state legislature on
the farmer-labor ticket is elected despite the op-
position of fake progressives and labor leaders.
While the so-called progressives found nothing
contradictory in supporting republicans and dem
ocrats as the case may be, they achieved notable
unanimity in their opposition to the Communists
everywhere.
But for the Communists of Minnesota, the
farmerlabor party would be as dead as the shin
bone of Saint Anne by this time. The vacillating
policy of William Mahoney of st. Paul and the
weather cock gyratons of Robly D. Cramer, the
alleged "red" of Minneapolis would long since have
made the party a cog in the republican machine
But there was nothing redsabout Cramer except
his hair.
The "progressives' had lot of fun charging
the Communists with being visionaries while the
former were practical politicians. But in that
kind of a game the older political prostitutes can
give their pupils cards and spades. The Com
munists stuck to their principles, and while they
did not win many victories in the parliamentary
sense, they gained a greater victory in winning
the respect and confidence of the masses which
was lost by men like Mahoney and Cramer who
supported republican politicians against the Com
munists running on the farmerlabor ticket
But the immediate success which these spurious
progressives hankered for did not materialize and
they are left without either virtue of the re-
ward of their treachery They have allowed La
Toilette to infict dangerous wound on the
farmerlabor party of Minnesota. The Workers
Party kept the banner of independent working
class political action flying, and is the only party
in the United States today that is a farmerlabor
party in the real sense
The daily worker., 1924-11-07
The Fat Boys Cheerful

The New York stock market reacted splendidly
to the unexpected news that Foster had not won
the election. The reports ran follows
''An enthusiastic and vigorous forward move
ment in the principal railroad stocks the stock
markets response today to the results of the pres
Dental election. New York Central and Atchison
were leaders in this movement In the first two
hours the twenty railroad stocks in the Interna
tional News Service compilation gained PIP points
Industrial leaders taken in hand later and
boosted to the highest prices of the year and in
some cases to the highest point in their history
American Smelling hung up new high record
American Sugar made good response. Oil stocks
were not weak and Mexican Seaboard advanced
Call money advanced " cent"
If the workers will take this news and ponder
over it, remembering that if anything helps the
bosses as a class, it hurts the workers in proper
ton, they will what they voted for. Also they
WILL if they follow that line of reasoning far
enough, understand why the Workers Party's
struggle is just beginning and why it is the first
political party in America which is organizing by
basing its lowest and most powerful units on the
job, in the shops and factories.