The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-30
Ohio Now "Cry-Baby"
 State Of All Sports World

fletcher with an assortment of slightly antique fruit and vegetables until the Yankee manager threat ened to take the team of the field. This was the beginning of what grew into a rowdy tradition. When the Detroit Tigers came into Cleveland later, with the pennant at stake, the ruffians broke out in redoubled fury. One of them dropped basket of fruit and queensware on the head of an unguarded ano. unsuspecting Detroit catcher as he sat in the bull pen. It could conceivably have broken his neck. All this summed up to an indictment against Cleveland journalism and Cleveland fans; they couldn't take it.
 Football Angle
 Now comes a somewhat similar manifestation from another Ohio in- stitution-the football team, meaning Ohio State. This was to be States big year in the national football scene, just as it was to have been the Indians big year in the major league hurly burly, something hap pened to the Indians and something is happening to State.
 The footballers won their first Conference game of the season from Purdue. It developed this was all a mistake. The coach, Francis Schmidt, was acused of making illegal use of drop kicker whose three points in the colsing minutes of play decided the ball game.
 Northwestern came next. An in- tercepted pass in the fourth quarter cost State this one, and at a stage where they led by three points. Then came Minnesota. Everybody says State should have won. Four differ ent times they had the ball inside the enemy's ten, once on the one yard line, another time on the two, but something happened again.
 By this time the schedule called for State to face Cornell. This wasn't just another game. It involved loftier and more subtle qualities than block ing and tackling. Cornell had un- expectedly beaten State the year be- fore. and after trailing by IA points at the half. This was a grudge game, as well as a technical test of eastern and mid-western football and how it is taught.
 You know what happened. Cornell spotted State a touchdown and then took complete charge of the game. After the first quarter it was scarce ly 8 contest. As usually is the case in such circumstances, logically or not, all the praise went to the win ming players and all the master minding accolades to the victorious coach, in this instance, Carl G.-for Gloom, Snavely.
 Sour Grapes"
 Then came the bombShell. l.. w.. St. John, the athletic director, and MT. Schmidt, the beaten coach, re- sorted to the squawk which seems to flourish with sucA extraordinary vitality on Ohio States sport fields. The Cornell coach had done a little cheating: he had called signals from the bench, using a mysteroiusly magic instrument described loosely as a white cylinder" By a series of wig-wags MT. Snavely. it is charged, pulled the strings which led to victory.
 What, juvenile charge to make, and in what bad taste Proclamation point). It wouldn't surprise us at all if MT. Snavely flashed signals to his quarterback. We know very few coaches who don't do this in one way or another. Surely, MT. Schmidt, the old razzle-dazzle man from down Texas way, isn't going to tell us he never did; because if he ever does we are going to walk right out on him holding our ribs in loud laugh ter.