The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-16
/ / ALKING
1T OVER
WITH JOE WILLIAMS
New York, Oct. IS.

New IOTk. OCb. 10.
THE boys are using airplanes to
scout football rivals these days
Pennsylvania sent one of her scouts,
Pat Duncan by name, out to Cali
fornia TO watch the Golden Bears
in action last Saturday and after
the game was over he hoped into
ulane and few back to Philadelphia,
with graphs of the westerners' pet
PLAYS. As a result the Penn var
sity went into action Immediately
Monday against scrub team
equipped with many Of Nibs Prices
formations, and the time inter
yening before the weekend strug-
gle at Franklin field is to be devoted
to devising a suitable defense.
This may not be the FIRST time the air,
plane has been used for this purpose, but
so far as / know the practice Is not a
common one. In due time. Of course. II
he American version Of football and it
is also played spOradically in Canada.
ONE OF THESE DAYS THE DEADLY
VIRUS MAY EXTEND ACROSS THE
OCEAN AND YOU WILL BE READING
ABOUT TRANSATLANTIC BIRDMEN
SCOUTING THE OXFORD ELEVEN FOR
HARVARD'S NEXT GAME AT CAM
BRIDGE ON THE FOLLOWING sATUR-
DAY. THIS AT LEAST WOULD GIVE
THE OCEAN HOPPERS A PRACTICAL
BASIS FOR THEIR OPERATIONS.
WHICH WOULD BE SOMETHING.
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CCOUTING is frowned on at Yale
- and few other intellectual
centers where the principles OF
craftsmanship and ethical conduct
are carried to harsh extremes. The
academic indictment against scout
ing is that it tends to overempha-
size the sport. This strikes me as
rather futile gesture, because there
is scarcely anything that can be
done that seriously will underem-
phasize football the way the game
has grown in popularity among I'M
dergraduates and graduates.
Besides no one has yet prepared CON
yineng treatise on the subject ' IT, showing aS%ra
mind, II anv. Until that moment arrives
masters would be content to adopt a
philosophical attitude toward what is OBJ
viousIy a theoretical situation.
Up tin now no university has suffered
any great defamation OF character Pc
cause OF the extraordinary talents OF It's
half backs. And what is Just as I'M
portant. II not much more So Is ! the h ta9if{
backs upon leaving college manage TO
prosper notably in their various profess
over emphasized sport to which they were
exposed on the campus.
CCOUTING Is probably the most
- innocuous of all the imaginary
ailments with which collegiate foot
ball is afflicted, it is even ques-
ton whether the practice can be
turned to profitable results by a
coach or team. 1t is an old story
that Pop Warner, perhaps the great
est of all coaches, once offered
visiting scout a list of all his plays
in diagram in order to save the Wis
itor the ordeal of sitting in the
stands and composing the charts
himself.
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A similar story with a Big Ten locale is
told of Knute ROckne. of NOtre Dame, like
wise a coach of more than average stand
ing. 1 imagine generally speaking. most
coaches would rather OutDlay team than
outScout 1t.
Scouting is not device restricted Who'll
in the recent world series went in for
IL on an expansive scale, and with inter-
esting results. Indeed. the pious Cornelius
McGillicuddy has been charged with en-
ployng Certain n, ta ofi tS r 1ds ~ man
agerial honorablenesS.
THE accusation against the
i gentleman who has just led his
Athletics to a fourth world cham
p.onship is not one that may be
laughed of lightly either. 1t seems
that he deliberately and with evil
aforethought tricked. deluded and
otherwise bamboozeled Joe Tinker,
the Cubs scout. into believing that
young Jimmy Foxx could not hit
high ball thrown close to his head
or shoulders.
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The story Is that when McGillicuddy
learned that Tinker was failing his club
he changed the batting STYLES of several
and sent them out to swing at everything
except the kinds of pitches they were
strongest against.
The natural upshot Of this was that the
information Tinker turned over TO the
Chicago board of strategy was not worth
the frayed cuff 1t was scrubbed on; ana
Fox proceeded to massacre the National
Teaeue Dftchiuc in the first two games. or