Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-29

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There are hundreds of other backs
whose great deeds in the broken fields
of years ago are remembered only by
some gray-haired old grads. You can
not draw comparisons in this game any
more than you can draw them in the
manly art of modified murder. How
would Dempsey compare with Jedrlesi
How would Gene Tunney compare WITH
John L. Sullivan" they ask. And al
that you can get out of bordering ovel
these questions is an afternoon OF heat
ed but futile argument.
While he was still with the University
of Illinois, Red Grange held a seasons
record for scoring. That Is something
to 90 by-but it is not always the player
who carries the ball across the line thai
is the most valuable player to the team
This game Is a team essentially, and III
another setting Red Grange might not
have attained this record.
Again I say that am not min
imizing the achievements Of Mr.. Red
(HarolO Grange, but it must be re-
membered that when he ran for
Illinois he had with him a team
trained by Zuppke, one Of the great
est of the coaches OF modern foot
ball He was part Of one Of the best
geared foot ball machines that ever
was turned loose on gridiron. This
one had a lone horseman instead Of
the four horsemen of the Rockne-
trained machine which preceded 1t.
The horsemen, lone or in quartets,
get nowhere without good strong
fast line and the coordination OF
the other men on the team.
Red Grange played to bigger CALLER!
than any Of them. In his senior yea.
he entered the professional field undeI
the MANAGEMENT of G. c. Pyle, a maste,
of the sporting ballyhoo. Then, yer.
frankly, he sought ballyhoo rather thar
touchdowns for the sake of the gat,
receipts-all Of which Is natural enough
in professional.
Professionalism intercollegiate foo
ball was launched with loud noise, blu
somehow 1t did not take very effectively
OF course, those who could not see Ret
Grange when he was running wild 70
Illinois wanted to see astonishing feet
ness. Every five yards meant so mucl
! in dollars, and Mr.. Grange was running
| himself into q fairly good bank account
And they let him run. In profes
sional foot ball Red Grange was tn
box office attraction-the goose tina
laid the golden eggs. If Grange wer
| injured so that he would not be able u
play there would be falling off in tn
| gate receipts and a deficit in the pa,
roll Consequently, Mr.. Grange was no
hurt seriously while he was playing pro
fessional foot ball. That vogue died on
and the professional leagues started +
60 bankrupt.
The Famous Iceman.
IMR. PYLE, the most precocious o
IL the promoters of professional sport
had Red Grange furnished with
motion picture hero background eve
before he had him turn frankly pro
fessional and ready to collect his shar
Of the gate receipts-which certainly
no crime. There is no blame to any on
for cashing on his lone talent.
Red Grange became the iceman c
Wheaton, I'll. The inhabitants of tina
town must have been kept waiting fo
their ice all Summer, for it seems tina
Grange the iceman was CONSTANT
being interrupted on his rounds of tn
back doors to pose for motion and sti
J pictures and to submit to interview
from sport writer's, who bought ittl
! or no ice, for the reason that they use
this commodity only spartngly-an
then only in high balls.
Some insist that the delivery Of th