Evening star., 1932-11-09

While Washington customers are in
dulging in only occasional cutbursts OF
disapproval, coaches and clients OF many
other sections of this now happy and
contented country are yodeling many
and varied complaints about the lack
CT Judgment being used by the gentle
men who are footing the tin whistles
and taking 5-yard canters.
IN the Western Conference the coaches
i and players do not take to the new
rules at all, particularly the dead
ball rule, when ball-carrier goes down.
| In the North the quick Shrek OF too
much whistle is annoying the coaches
And listen to the Squawk from some
other sections and you will believe that
/ the game ought to be given over to the
officials and the players cali the pen
altieS.
In Philadelphia. for instance it is
charged that the players have advanced
farther than the officials in the under
standing of the new rules. that the
arbiters' instructions from Walter Oke-
son of the officials national board to
snap up the whistle to prevent injury
has broken up good running plays,
ting backs and spoiled the game for the
customer.
DERT BELL, at Temple, says "the
- game is overofflciated: Harry
Stuhl6reher of Villanova says "the
game is both overoffciated and over
ruled: Harvey Harman of Pennsylvania
says "the players have caught on to the
new rules quicker than the officials, +"
and Heine Miller of Temple says that
too many penalties are being called" "
And so the comments go, broken by a
boost for the officials here and there,
with most of the critics stressing the
feeling that the game is being marred
by the overcautiousness of the officials,
due. they contend, to desire on the
part Of the arbiterS to protect them
selves at the expense of the coaches.
THERE have been recent instances In
i grid contests in this section where
the believing from the cash Gus
toners in the stands sounded as if ii
were at Portner's Arena, down there In
Alexandria, on one of those nights
home bringing in close decision. Or
one of those evenings at Jose Turner's
bone-bending benefits where Jimmy
| Londos gets a stranglehold.
This vocal disapproval of what the
| portly gentlemen in the cycle trousers
were doing down on the short-grass
| griddle was very marked in the Wander
bilt-Maryland game Saturday. There
were times when it appeared the Gus
toners thought Mr.. A. r. HutchinS OF
| Florida, who was refereening, was going
to carry the ball. Others, they tell me,
were afraid that when he stood in
meditation, probably debating whether
to make it or Is yards, he would
suddenly decide to run home with the
| ball.
Maybe 1t was not Mr.. Hutchins at
whom the open sneering was directed
It might have been some one else. But
the paying clients growled, nevertheless
And they growled bit at the G. w.
North Dakota game the night before
| So much that even Mr. Pat Miller
coach of the Wake Forest team, which
| played c. U. the next day, growled along
| with them, sourly complaining OF the
poor physical condition in which the
officials are keeping themselves these
days. "They are going to get run over
and hurt" moaned Pat.
DUT I'm going to let you in on what
ID the coaches in this neck Of the
hemisphere have to say about what
the shooting Is over. And a few fans
have something to say, too. While, fo1
myself, think the boys in the knickers
are trying too hard to please, with the
result that they look foolish out there
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