The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-10-31
REFORM DESIRE
IN GRID LOOPS
is DYING DOWN
Popular Trend Back 10 Nor
Notwithstanding Pacts
viewed. Unfavorably
FEW CHANGES NEEDED
Dundee to Meet Formidable
Foe in Ace Hudkins This
Week at Los Angeles
BY ALAN j. GOULD


New York, Oct. 31.--lHy-Football
isn't likely to feel the wear and tear
of another reform wave this fall OF
after the season is over.
There are, as previously, some
scattered murmurs about CONNER
cialism; some protests against So
called win-at-any-cost policies here
and there, but the hue and cry isn't
expected to be pronounced.
Trend Back to Normally
If anything, the popular trend
not to mention the opinion Of those
who handled the game, seems to be
on a back to normally scale.
Non-scouting pacts, for instance
were formed to a fairly wide extent
in the east after last season and
hailed as big step toward retain.
ing the amateur spirit of the game
But these agreements are being re.
garded in the cold light of expert.
ence with considerably less enthusi.
asm than before. The feeling
seems to be that. the information
about rival teams, formerly gained
by open-and- above now is
available Indirectly, anyway.
Many coaches and critics who in
dorsed, tentatively at least, the non
scouting principle year ago are
satisfied now it is not worth while
There were anv number of pan
aceas for so-called ovcr-emphisis ir
the college gridiron sport yeal
ago. They included schedules, stu.
dent coaching, abolition of training
camps and reduction Of schedules
So far there isn't muck talk of re.
viving them.
Hope to Laid Big Classic
This years football program has
no spectacle in prospect to match
he brilliancc of the Navy
affair in Chicago last season, but
Philadelphia already anticipates
providing a record-breaking scene
for next years service classic.
The Quaker City is hopeful OF
landing the Army-Navy battle ir
1923, for the first time in six years
with Franklin field, the University
of Penn stadium, equipped to take
care of 10000 spectators. Thi.
would be from 10000 to $4,000 ir
excess Of the record-smashinp
throng that damned Soldier field
Chicago, to witness the first serv-
ice battle in the midwest.
New York can accommodate nc
more than 10000 for this years
Army Navy tilt t .hc Pole
Grounds. The nations biggest city
is in the position Of standing by
while Philadelphia and Chicago rival
each other in entertaining the big
gest sports crowd in boxing, as well
as football.
Dundee Meets Strong Foe
Joe Dundee can hardly be accused
of picking soft spots sin, his rise
to the welterweight heights.
The stocky Baltimore Italian,
product Of the same school that
turned out Babe Ruth, meets a for
midable foe when he defend his
title against Ace Hudkins, Nebraska
wildcat, at Los Angeles this week
Hudkins has had his ups and
downs, but the blonde wildcat is
the Battling Nelson Of his day, a
two-fisted, aggressive slugger, ca
pable of enduring lot of punish
ment. In fact it takes one or two
stiff pokes on he chin as rule. to
arouse Aces fighting fury. He will
be meeting Dundee on more or less
familiar ground, for it was in Los
Angeles that the Nebraskan started
out to ring fame.
Dundee was somewhat rudcly
treated on the Pacific coast more
than a year ago by Eddie Roberts
the Tacoma terro-,. Eddie knocked
out Dundee in one round at San
Francisco. A few weeks later he
came close to repeating in a return
match at Madison Square Garden.
But Dundee rallied after busting
the resin from his trunks, and won
the decision over Roberts. Suisse
quently the Baltimore scrapper lift
ed the championship from Pete
Latzo in May, SO that he is battling
Hudk.ns after less than six months
of title holding.