Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-11-16
Absence Vicious
Tackling of Stars
In the Backfeld

NoNSAhbSA SPoAI iran lOulSuC leu
through an impending war on the
high cost of boxing talent to its final
contest of collegiate football.
A sharpening of pencils for the
all-American bombardment and re-
newed discussion on the training adj
vantages of the ice business, as con-
Quoted by Red Grange, echoes from
the wings of the stage, with Sec
tional supremacy apparently al
ready established. Dartmouth in
east, Tulane in the south, Washing
ton on the Pacific coast and Missouri
in the midwest stood out in their
fields. There remained to be de-
rivalry, bringing together such old
foes in the east as Yale Harvard,
Army-Navy. Lehigh-Lafayette, and
Cornell Pennsylvania
AS fandom took up the absorbing
question of individual prowess- pit
ting the powerful wing Of big
Swede" Oberlander against the fly
ing feet of the phantom Grange and
the charge of the Weirs against the
thrust of the Josses-critics digress-
ed for a brief period to pay tribute
to the term of 1925 for cleaner foot
ball.
It is not so far back on the COL
lege grioiron that the great back
field player was the target for par
ucularly aggressive treatment from
opposing teams. Officials have COM
mented on the marked absence of
such play in many important games
this year. Grange, expected to be
subjected to a severe. test at Penn
sylvania, owed measure of his sue
cess to sportsmanlike tactics on the
part of Young's men.
"Pennsylvania's one slogan was to
get Grange but the getting tao
tics were a distinct departure from
the methods used by too many teams
In the past" commented one critic.
when Grange was tackled, he was
SIMPLY downed; he was not mauled
or abused"
when Davis Elkins players learned
that the crippled Harding was the
Army's only available quarterback,
The cadet star was treated with ex-
ceptional consideration by the West
virginia eleven, while Rutgers, per-
ceivlng the ne wtrend of the game,
mas gone so far as to call into play
drop kicker whose accuracy is de-
pendent on his taking the range
through pair of spectacles.
The passing of this ancient danger
on the gridiron touched no respon-
siveN chord in the pugilistic realm as
the tight of promoters against pay
Ing exprbitant purses to star boxers
gained official recognition and as
sistance from the New York boxing
commission. The efforts of this board
were directed toward aiding Tex Ri
Richard to put something besides
gloves and water buckets in the ring
of his new 100000 Madison Square
Garden for a Christmas benefit, but
signs of a dearth of good champion
ship cards still confronted the ia
nous matchmaker tonight.
Mickey Walker indicated that he
may be coaxed into defense of his
title against the new English favor
lite, Tommy Milligan. but Young
Stribling balanced the favorable turn
by declining to engage in heavy
weight combat with Gene Tunney.
Richard finally threatened to lock
out the nations pugilistic royalty.
His outlook was somewhat dimmed,
however, as the steadily increasing
army of foreign talent failed to get
past the first lines of American re-
sistance. Defeat of the French cham
pion, Lucien VincenZ, being the blow
dealt last week.
In contrast to the turmoil with
pugilism, doomed the prospect of a
TRANQUIL season Of indoor baseball,
with the windows of approaching ma
jor league meetings here flung wide
open to admit the dove of peace
which once fled wildly before the
verbal thunderclaps of Commissioner
Lands and Ban Johnson. There was
every Indication that the magnates
would carry to the session only chips
that could be knocked off in con-
structiye actfon--consideratio of an
earlier closing date, the question of
worlds series player-reporter. and
prevention of ever troublesome draft
questions.
The indoor athletic season like
wise neared the finish line with no
outward Indications of strife. Fin
nish supremacy over the long dis
tances remains unbroken. For four
wears American clubs of the Metro
politan section have endeavored 10
dispIace Willie Ritola and his COM
patriots, but the Films continue SUI
preme over the long distances.
American thus facing another long
grind place their hopes on Whitley
Nicholson of Portchester. N. T.,
possible Olympic marathon cham
year. By. his triumph in the fifteen
mile A. A. u. title grind and the
Portchester marathon Nicholson es-
tablished remarkable time records.
If is seventeen years since this
country produced an Olympic mara
thon champion, and while Nicholson
may not succeed to the title once held
by Johnny Hayes, he has at least
partially covered the tracks OF a oe-
cada left ON American running his
torv by Hans Kohlemainen, Willie
Kyronen and Ritola.