The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1929-12-04

NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-only
selection and that claim offers
It merely contends that, while
the II men named for the first
team may or may not be the II
best in the land, nobody is going
to drive up in a hearse and tell
me where and how and why it
can be beaten. For it can't.
You simply don't win from ball
team that has Montgomery, Tick
nor, Cannon, Sleight and Don
chess in the forward line and
Cariedeo and eagle in the back
field.
These men are the "naturals"
of the football year in then
various positions and the selec-
ton that does not start with
them as the foundations for a
first team might do equally well
if it began all over again by
pulling its names out Of a hat.
In fact, / venture TO say
that one could take the seven
named, summon four cheer
leaders from a nearby sOrOr.
ity house and win all the
football games of any given
campaign.
ANYHOW, the team is mine. I
haven't been aided in my de-
alterations by 634 coaches and
correspondents and I must con.
fess that the statesmen OF
plumbers supplies have been
virtually no help to me at all.
Thus, the modern dodge OF anon
imity-everybody seems to be
skulking behind line OF scrlm-
mage, largely fictitious, IN ar
irving at their conClusions-has
been denied me. and glory IN
the fact. ~
Therefore, be it known to all
men by these presents. Inc
writer is not ashamed OF this
team. He thinks it is a good one.
r., of course, needs a little ex-
PLANTATION and it is my plan TO
ohlige everybody by giving as
little as possible. l feel that the
Montgomery T icknor. Cannon
Sleight Donchess 'Cardleo eagle
combination needs none, for one
thing. Passing on to the others,
thev tell me that Alderman IS the
hest tackle on the Coast, and. IN
a wear of indifferent tackle play
that's good enough for me, Out
side of Sleight and, perhaps
Twomey, the rest of the tackles
are lust a lot of country foot
ball players-some good, many
bad and none great.
They also tell me that Tanner
Is a better end than Fesler ana
YOU simply pay off without tur.
fher parley when they get that
good, Fesler was on the writer's
first team last year, but is declared
to have gone a little to the tal-
getto during the last three weeks
of the 1929 season. This man
Schoonover, from Arkansas, has
ridden into overnight fame on
hand-wagon. Nobody knows him.
Everybody is picking him. got
the same touting on him and, IN
view of the fact that Arkansas
didn't play more than three first
class opponents all year. I'm CIV
ing him a break. He goes on the
third team.
Tappan was the second
hest end at U. S. C. before
the California game. / doubt
II he can have become one of
the two best in the country
in the meantime.
PomerOy is both a champion
sprinter ard a combination pun
ter.passer.runner.blocker at Utah,
He has been all of these things
for several years without recog
milton. He gets it from me this
time.
Banker is overdue. too. after
his years of stardom. 1t isn't
very pleasant, at that, to call
these shot; over Nagurski, Park
inson, WEIGH and Brazil and I
don't mind admitting that my
margin Of error in at least two
of these cases is far from slight,
Meantime : stick with eagle. AS
great as EVER he was, he simply
spent the season proving what a
great back can't do without an
attacking line.
Marster, ? 1t was all-or-nothing
with this candidate, so far as l
was conre' ned. and after rec
ollecting that he hadn't played
much me- than half hour
against tho tough opponents Of
November, I made it nothing. His
Iniury simply meant that his