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EVENING . PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1919
WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAINEERS' DEW TO DISCOVER MORE THAN BLIND TIGER AT PRINCETON
SOMEBODY IS ALWAYS TAKING THE JOY OUT OF LIFE
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PENN SHOULD SHOW
AS ONE OF GREATEST
TEAMS OF ALL TIME
More Than a Few Observers Believe Red and Blue Has
Best Eleven in America J. Predominates Among
Heavyiveight Champions
IN THE SPOltTUGHT Br QBANTIAND IUCI5
(CopvrlaM. 1019, alt riahta reserved.)
Confessions of a Tackling Dummy
When ou think that Fata has croaked you
Or that Destiny has soaked you,
And that Life is full of indigo and iroullfj
When you're jolted hard or jaded
few
't I.
BEATING GREEN ON
HOME LOT BIG JOB
EVEN FOR COLGA TE
Larry Banchart' s Boys Have Real Task Tomorrow, as
Dartmouth Has Lost Only Two Games at Hanover
in Last 19 Years Undefeated Since 1905
IIj KOKHUT W. 1IAXWEM.
port llltor JJ ritliirr IMililto IdsTr
Copyriohl. 191J, by Public Ledger Co.
TTP IX that little town or llnmnrr, situuted In the New Hampshire hills,
will bo played tomorrow nfteruoon the most important football game in
the countrj Colgate, conqueror of Cornell, ltronu and Princeton, will meet
Dartmouth, another undefeated team, and the lesult will go u long n toward
deciding the championship of the V.w-t. Theic are other "big" buttles on the
card, like Triuccton and West Virginia, Ponu and l'enn State, Lehigh and
Pittsburgh and Lafajctto and Cornell, but this tilt staged up in that one
horse town has it ou them like a tent.
At this time of the year all of the football tiams nie far advanced, they
have completed their prcllmlna.' trniniug, the varsities have been selected
and ever thing is In readiness tot nome prctt btilT games. Tor that reason
wc must pause fer an instant and note in passing tint Vale is diking ceiy
thing In a game with Jlarjlaud State and Harvard is taking a big chance with
Springfield Training School. It takis a lot of n"ne to stage games like that
so late in the season.
However, colleges outside of the cilusie set are occupying the spotlight
these days, and Colgate and Dartmouth have the center of the stage. Accord
ing to the dope, Colgate should win; but when the old tradition is dragged out,
Dartmouth has the edge bj a wide margin.
Here is the low-down ou the conflict: Dartmouth is playing ou its own
home lot and the. Green eleven is might hard to beat up m Hanover. This is
not hcursaj, but can be proved by hc must old dope. In nineteen cars
Dartmouth has lost exactly two games. That's a pictt good record for any
team. Back in 1001 Amherst put.ovcr an uuexpicted wcloi and in 1!)05
Colgate turned the trick. If the Hamiltonlans win it will be the first defeat
suffered by the men of Hunovcr in fourteen seasons.
'VJIIS wonderful iceord is due, of course, to the fact that Dartmouth
plays most of its big names aicay fiom home. Just the same, it u
very unusual and no one would be gnatly surpnud if Colgate bit
the dust.
Colgate Was Prepared Early ill Season
'AS WAS said before, Colgate is the favorito in the conflict, but such
should not be the case. Dartmouth has an exceptional! strong team and
, cannot be counted out until the liual whistle blows. The line is considered
the best in the country, and the backlield, with Robertson on the job to boot
drop-kicks any place inside the .w-jurd line, w'll cause trouble for any eleven.
Colgate has had considerable luck this season. Not that the team is not
a good one or nn thing like that, but the "big" opponents have been woefully
weak. Cornell is not up to her usual standard, Urowu was plaed early in
the season and Princeton has not yet hit her stride. Larry Bankart had his
eleven ready three weeks ago and just walked over the others.
That game with Princeton, however, gives one food for thought. The
Maroon team won by one touchdown, but those who saw the battle say it
should have been a tic score. Perhaps Princeton was stronger than was ex
pected or Colgate was ovcirated, but whatever it was, the Hamiltonians did
not appear so formidable as was expected.
Dartmouth, on the other hand, played a very impressive game against
Smell in New York and proved beyond question of doubt that the team
must be seriously considered. Colgate will not have nn easy time of it, and if
It plays like it did last Satuiday it is our guess that Dartmouth will win.
At any rate, the game will be a hurd one and a victory for either side will not
cause much surprise.
J
T COLGATE goes up there with an idea that it will have an easy
game, look out for one of those well-known hut suite common upsets.
fWeu. VJBBBY rVWHAT. DtP) y s. TSTBN . ? K " jDow'T Go 'RoOrsD
f-imM.lv Bought ) You M6v ) - You DoMT MGArO N Tbu-img PeoPLe THAT
rKeu IS T'CAPPE'TA Tl5TeM WiKA 42r,lid2? pHBY'Pe SoirJ&Tb "
Fot Tmat PL ACS- jaJ j-os-r rjfl'Py START, A SCHOOL
Venn and Pitt Face Strong Teams
FTTHE University of Pennsylvania has a very good team this year and will
have a hard tryeut t gainst Penu State. The latter eleven is coached by
Hugo Bezdck, manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Hugo is a big league
coach. Ho has a husky gaig of athletes on his eleven and will give Pcnn a
tough battle. State was defeated by Dartmouth two weeks ago, bU has im
proved considerably sine! then.
Penn, however, has the best eleven in years and will not be tuken by
surprise. Bob Folwell has the plaers working together and is not worrying
over the outcome.
Pitt will not have an easy time of it against Lehigh. The Panthers,
after going through four seasons without being defeated by a college team,
were smeared by Syracuse, but came back strong against Georgia Tech last
Saturday. Lehigh, however, will be a different proposition. Tom Keady has
a well-coached team and, playing on the home grounds and before a homo
crowd, there will be plenty of action.
Pittsburgh is not so strong as in previous years. The players arc not
there and the only thing that gets them by is the coaching of Glenn Warner.
Here is one case where the coach virtually makes the tcr.m. Warner has
worked hard with his men, learned the things they can do and coached them
along the lines of least resistance. Ilis backfield is not in the best of shape,
and that is the strongest part of bis team.
LEEIGJI teat Rutgers early in the season and is confident of hand
ing the same treatment to l'ittsburgh. Still, you never can tell,
in football.
No Soft Game for Princeton
NO MATTER what happens, you must hand it to Princeton thin year. Bill
Itopcr started the season with only one letter man on his squad, developed
an entirely new team and played the hardest schedule of any of the so-called
"Big Three." Tomorrow he mingles with the powerful aggregation from
West Virginia, and there will be something doing.
The Mountaineers arc strong this year, despite the 26-to-0 defeat handed
out by Pitt. They arc every bit as good as Princeton, the players have been
together longer and are more advanced in team play. This is the big game"
on West Virginia's schedule, while Princeton must be careful and take no
chances with tho Harvard game only one week away.
JTor that reason the Southerners will have a big advantage. They can
try everything they have, use up all of the players if necessary and take
fchances, while Princeton must be careful for the game on November 8.
Rogers is one of the best backfield men in the country and will surprise
the crowd at Princeton. He docs everything punt, run the ends, buck the
line, throw the forward pass and back up the line on the defense, and will be
Tery much in evidence.
IF PRJNOETON wins this game she need have no fear of the re-
maining batths.
Harvard Already Preparing for the Tiger
"IT71TH only tomorrow's Springfield gamo between them and the Princeton
? battle, the Crimson players are already hard at work for their annual tilt
-frith the Tiger, The Harvard coaches who saw Princeton play Colgate are ot
jtha opinion that the Tiger offense is very weak as far as straight football is
poacerned, and with this idea in their minds, they have been giving the-Crim-on
Ions and thorough drills in the art of breaking up the Princeton forward
WEST VIRGINIA TEAM HERE
TO POLISH UP ROUGH EDGES
Team WorJcs Out on Frank
lin Field Preparing for
Old Nassau Battle Tomor
row at Princeton
PL A YERS ARE IN SHAPE
By SPICK HALL
"VTEST VIRGINIA'S Tiger-hungry
squad of footballers arrived in
Philadelphia this morning. They were
scheduled to take their final workout
for tomorrow's tilt with Princeton on
Franklin Field this afternoon by special
invitation of the Pcnn team, which was
booked to do its finishing for Penu
State at naverford.
The West Virginians hnd their last
hard tussel yesterday afternoon on the
.home turf at Morgantown. Tho team
is not in the best of shape, according to
rumor, but. of course, this h old stuff.
An eleven these days is always on tho
verge of physical collapse just before
the big game. The star performers are
crippled and general depression radiates
from the gridirons camps.
Strong Kiev en
But when the whistle blows for the
opening kick-off-in Palmer Stadium up
at Princeton tomorrow, West Virginia
will have a powerful aggregation in the
field against the Orange and Black.
Princeton again hns been working all
week behind barred gates, but it is
known that there has been a lot of im
provement even over the good form they
displayed against .Colgate last Sat
urday. All that the Tigers want to
morrow is to get the decision over West
Virginia. They are not attempting to
rivul Pennsvlvania In piling up a record
count. Their object is to beat Harvard
and Yale. Other things don't count.
With this end In view it is likely that
Coach Roper will use a lot of second
string material against West Virginia
to save his big offensivo and defensive
cogs for the Crimson and the Blue.
Roper gave the Tiger varsity n heavy
daj's work, but the usual Bcrimmags
was lac&ing irom mc untiuuuu a 4..
cedure. After a long signal drill the varsity
and the scrubs lined up for kicking
practice. WIttmer punted for the var
sity and Joe Scheerer handled ' the
lea"ther for the scrubs. Scheerer's punt
ing was an agreeable surprise to the
coaches. He displayed the best spirals
seen at Princeton this fall and out
punted Wittmer on cverv exchange, al
though the varsity fullback was not
below his usual form.
; Trevor Hogg, captain and star of the
1016 team, arrived and instructed the
guards and tackles in the practice.
Inside Stuff
Here is what a man in close touch
with West Virginia has to say of to
morrow's game:
"What will West Virginia do against
Princeton? This is the query on cverv
tongue at Morgantown, but nobody, not
even Coach Mclntiie, has a satisfactory
answer. The result of the Pitt game,
when everybody felt so cockbure that at
least a great showiug would be made, is
the thing that deters ever body from
answering, Pitt beat a mountaineer
team that had been in training almost
Hard to Dope" Out Eleven's
Strength After Crushing
Defeat by Pitt Early in
Season
BACKFIELD IS STRONG
Photo by -While
Captain C. W. McGraw, of the
Tigers, will lead his toam against
West Virginia tomorrow afternoon In
tho stadium at Princeton. He be
gan the season at tackle, but has been
shifted to guard.
a month. The mountaineers on the
eve of the Pitt gamo were in the best
shape, phvsicallv and mentally, that
mi West Virginia eleven has ever been
for a big game. Yet Pitt won lill to 0
in a game in which Pitt, of course,
plaed great football, but in which the
big feature was the poor playing of
the mountaineers.
Coach Saw Tigers
"Every follower of the West Virginia
I team believes it is n great eleven. TheyJ
i believe that fact is going to bo demon -,
Btrated at some time during the present
season, and many tnlnK tnnt tne I'nnce
ton game will be the occasion for the
demonstiation. But tho majority of
people, including Coach Mclntire, be
lieve that Princeton has a decided edge
for Saturday. West Virginia has had
two easy games, while Princeton, just
emerging from the Colgate encounter,
will be a real Tiger.
"West Virginia's special prepara
tion for the Princeton game has been
satisfactory. Coach Shclton, who
wntched Princeton play Colgate, did
not get back till Tuesday.
"Rodgers, who is plaviug the greatest
football of his career and who is leading
placrs of the whole countr.v nt scoring,
is going like a house n fire in practice
and in the comparatively easy games
that the varsity has had both before
and after the Pitt struggle. Harrick,
Bailey, Ice, Archer and the other line
men and ends are likewise in as good
shape ns any tiainer could ask of a
team at mjdseason. In tho backfield
Ilitc at quarter and Hill nt halfback,
the two new men injected after the
Pitt game to speed up the offense, have
shown excellent form and with King
and Rodgers make u combination of
icki that has never been excelled at
West Virginia for allround brillianc.v."
The men who made the trip were
Captain Rodgers, fullback; King, Hill,
Lentz and Dawson, halfbacks; Hite,
Neale and Lewis, quarterbacks ; linger,
Mills, Martiji and Brooks, ends ; Har
rick, Archer and Setron, tackles; Ice,
Ka und McCue, guards, and Bailey and
Umswcller, centers.
English Champ Beats "Gunboat"
San Francisco, Oct 31 May McCormick,
light beav) u eight champion of England, was
given a decision over "Qunboat" Umlth hi
a four-round twut hero last night.
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Quality
Dalsimer
The Talk of the Town
The Crackerjack
All -Star Show
Saturday Night
National A. A.
Battling Leonard-Bobby Doyle
Al.Thompson-Allentown Dundee
Harry Carlson-Stanley Hinckle
Max Williamson-Battling Murray
Joey Fox - Artie Root
Reservations at Donaghy'n, 33 S lltti et,
No rservatlons held after 8 P. U.
Princeton has a bunch of fine tossing plays, and it is not impossible that
MMt flW M VtM a pie nucleus 01 i-nncecon s oueno ngamu ooia naryara
dna l At inv rate Harvard fears nothing, anoarentlr. from Princeton ex-
IgfRj tiiWVlJ, Mrf.UiesecendarefenwJhas been tll drilled In blocking!
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r ' t I I HL A t I I 1 W fclsW -B
Johnny Reisler vs. Jimmy Glacken
?Jdie O'Keefe vi. Willie Harmon
. Jack Eile vs. Little Bear
K. O.O'Donnell vs. Joknav Rich!.
Johfoy MwrV'Al Shbet
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Ban Would Ban Shine Ball,
Spitter and Freak Pitching
Chicago, Oct. 31. President Ban
Johnson, of the American League,
last night requested August Herr
mann, chairman of tho National
Commission, and John A. Heydler,
president of tho National League,
to call a joint meeting of tho rules
committee of the two leagues to
tako action In regard to tho aboli
tion of the "spit ball," tho "shino
bull" and other freak pitching de
liveries. President Johnson said these deliv
eries should bo legislated out of tho
major leagues. He also has Bevcral
suggestions to make on tho scoring
rules.
And the outlook's tcorse than faded '
And tho luck that goes against you scant to double
Ere you start in yelping vainly
Or to clamoring profanely
With a wail of woe across the dreary dunes.
Pause a moment, I beseech you
And permit this point to reach you
Only think of hoio I spend my afternoon.
When your labor finds you weary .
With the future dim and dreary
And you cniy some one else'a occupation,
When your brain begins to throb
And you're dead sore on your job, "
As a list of others comes in contemplation;
Era you think how soft the lis ,
Of the other fellow is '
Herein note a healthy tip that I am giving
I'ou should take your work up gladly
And begin to cheering madly
Only think of how I have to earn a living t
WHY does the J predominate in tho fight game? There was o? U J, Mace,
J. Kilrain, J. Sullivan, J. Corbett, J. Jeffries, J. Johnson, J. WHlard and
J, Dcmpsey. Every heavyweight champion for the last thlrty-flva or forty
years has had J. for his leading Initial with tho exception of FitzslmmonB. In
digging up n suitable opponent for Dcmpsey tho first move should be to locate
the letter J.
DEMPSEY was keen enough to interpolate the winning letter be
fore he struck a blow in his first fight.
Penn's Test
THERE aie more than a few wise observers who belicvo that Pennsylvania
has tho best eleven In America.
Pcnn now has a great chanco to carry this proof well forward In her next
three games when she tackles Penn State, Dartmouth and Pittsburgh in order.
Coach Folwell undoubtedly has a brilliant backfield nnd fine ends. He haa an
attack of unusual speed nnd power. In fact, unless all Indications slip a num
ber of cogs, ho has tho best Penn eleven of many years, ono of those old-tlma
Red and Bluo machines that -were not to bo beaten.
LEHIQH has held up notably this season, and if it can slip by Pitts
burgh on Saturday it must be given serious consideration as one of
the star teams of the East.
UXXTUXT'S the matter with W'. and J."? writes a W. and J. student,
V V cording to Syracuse, there is virtually nothing tho matter with W.
J. that the naked eye can detect upon short notice.
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SHOOTERS TO SPEAK UP
Annual American Trapshootlng Body
to Meet In Open Session
New York, Oct. 31. Tho annual
meeting of the American Trapshootlng
Association will be held nt the Hotel
Astor on November 0 and 7.
The trap?hooter will for the first
time have a chance of airing his views
on the sport that be makes possible.
Some of the topics that will come up
for discussion are:
The sending of a representative
American trapshootlng team to the
Olympic games in 1020.
The 1020 Grand American handicap
tropshooting tournament.
A standard load for trapshootlng.
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