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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 24, 1922)
Up-to-Date News and Gossip of Interest to Sport Fans Gridiron Stars After Cage Jobs at Nebraska Lewellop and Dewitz Among Squad uf 50 Working Out for Dusker Basket Ball Team. Lincoln. Neb., Dec. 23.—a con tender for basket ball honors in the Missouri Valley conference, Nebras Ua university undoubtedly will have to be seriously reckoned with this year. The Cornhusker squad is being de veloped from a squad of 50 men. Of tills number, six are letter men from the 1922 squad, and the rest last year's varsity aspirants or members of the 1922 freshman team. Letter men reporting daily for practice include Capt. Glen Warren, center; C. Tipton and P. Tipton, for wards, and Kohl, Russell and Riddles herger, guards. While these men aie considered topnotch performers and calculated to make a strong bid for regular positions on the team this season, some of them will find compe tition strong among the other uspir ants. Lewellen a t ager. Among the outstanding new men are Lewellen, captain elect of the Cornhqsker football team, who plays a guard position In husket ball, and Holland, former captain and forward of thi^ Lincoln High school team which won the Nebrasku-Colorado championship In 1920. They were out ctf the game the major part of last season wllh injuries, but promise to make a lively bid for positions this season. Freshmen players of last year who also promise competition are Bixby. Ooodson, Cozier, K. De witz. H. Dewitz, Klepsor, Usher, Pet ty, Voltz, M. Tipton and Lunner. The Dewitz brothers are members of the footbull squad. Usher and Klepser, the smallest j men o4 the squad, both forwards. j show plenty of speed und basket throwing ability. These dlniinlutive ; cagesters played together for a num ber of years with amateur teams in Omaha. Dewitz a Guard Prospect. Goodson is a promising center. He ! Is a former Lincoln High school cen ter and captain. Cozier, H. Dewitz, Bixby. Petty, Voltz and M. Tipt6n are prospects for guard positions. The lust named was a member of the Tabor (la.) High school team of two years ago, runnerup for the state championship of Iowa. He is a guard of exceptional ability, playing that position almost on a pur with his brother, Paul, a Cornhusker letter man. a forward. Iowa Drilling for Cage Opener Iowa City, la , Dec. 23.—Cutting his squad to Ifi men In order that ho may have more time for Individual work, Coach Bam Barry uf the University of Ipwa is fast rounding his varsity in to condition for the opening of (lie “Big Ten" basket hall race early in January. Coach Barry had 35 men on the squad at the beginning of prac tice. With Captain Wayland Hicks.' Brooklyn, la., and Boh Burgitt, Spen cer, la., regulars on last year's quin tet as the foundation upon which to build his first team. Coach Barry has selected two teams which appear even ly matched. The final selection of the varsity will nut he made until af ter the holidays. On the two teams picked thus far are Captain Hicks and Jack Funk, Fort Dodge, at guards; 1 lector Janse, LuVfrne. la., and James Latlde Mon tlcello. at forwards, and Bob Burgitt af center, forming the so-called var sity. Dick MeUovney, Iowa City, and Paul Barton, Fort Dodge, at forwards. Clarence Duhm, Sterling, 111., and Kd ward Voltnier, Sigourney, at guards, ami Ted Swanson, Cedar Rapids, la., at center, moke up the other team. Prpspocts appear bright for a good team this year. While Couch Barry s basket hall methods have yet to be tested here. University of Iowa bas ket hall funs believe the record by made while at Knox college indicated his ability as a coach. The games will be played again this season In the new armory, where 5,900 spectators can be accomodated. Waco Wins State Title. Fort Worth, Te;:.. Deo. 23.—Abilene High school yesterday lost the state high school football championship to Waco in a hard-fought game that ended with the score. 13 to 10. in fa vor of the*Waco team. Boody Johnson was unquestionably the star of the game for Waco. He scored all of the points made by his tsain—one touchdown, one goal from touchdown, and two droplocks that snatched victory from defeat in the last period. One was from the 17 ygrd line and the other from the 37 ygrd line. Hit in Eye by Golf Hull, He Asks $5,000 Syracuse, N. Y.. Dec. 33.—Is a municipal gulf course a nuisance? VYUliam Kelly of this city, hit in the right eye by a flying gulf hall while he was crossing Burnet park on his way home from work, avers that it is. tin this basis lie depiands $5,000 damages from the city of Kycarusc. Duffy Lewis Busy Trader at Ball Meet Salt Cake City Mauager Swaps (Intck Shortstop to Phillies for Four Men. New York, Dec. 23.—(Special.)— Duffy Lewis, former Yankee left fielder, was one of the biggest traders at tlie annual sessions of the major leagues. Lewis is now manager of the Salt Lake City club of the Pacific coast league, and as the result of his activities in the baseball marts of trade, two budding young stars will get their chances in the majors. Lewis traded his crack shortstop, Henry Sand, to the Phillies for four players and cash, while he sold Hollis Thurston, a right-handed pitcher, to Bob Quinn of the St. Louis Browns for $15,000. (atelier I’eters Traded. ' In exchange for Sand the Phillies gave up Catcher John Peters, First Baseman Roy Leslie. Utility Infielder Jimmy Smith and 1’itctoer Johnny Singleton. Having acquired Holke from the Boston club, Leslie'no long er was needed as a first baseman. The other playors involved are a more or less mediocre lot, though Peters can thump a baseball. The acquisition of Sand means that Fletcher will be a bench manager next season. Now that Arthur intends to try his hand as a manager, he wants lobe relieved of the burdens of playing every day. Sand comes well recom mended, and was one of the • beat shortstops in the Coast league last season. He hit only .280 last season, bu the year before he whacked the ball for .320 average. His 1922 crop of hits included 22 home runs. The acquisition of Sand by the l’hiliies was a keen disappointment to the new Bed Sox manager, Frank Chance, as be began negotations for Sand as soon as he became manager of the Red Sox. Gave I'p Four Players. Pittsburgh gave up ftntr players and $7,500 for K. D. Kunz, a pitcher who won 18 "games for the tallend Sacra mento club of the Pacific feast league. The players to go to Sacramento for Kunz are Chief Moses Yellowhorse, an Indian pitcher who has been up for several years; Infielder Claude Rohwer, Hughes, a pitcher recalled from Rochester, and Harry Brown, an outfielder, recalled from Flint, In the Michigan Ontario league. The Sacramento club then sold Holmes to George Stallings of Roches ter tn an other transaction. Bambino Declares He IT ill Hit Fences W herever They Are New York, Hoe. 23.—Babe Rulli is coming from bis farm in Sudbury, Mass., in a week or I wo to visit the Yankees’ new stadium and hat a few drives over tile fences just to prove that zoning rules for home runs would mean nothing to him. In a letter to Col. 'C. L. Huston, who is soon to retire as part owner of the Yankees, made public today, tlie Bambino says: *'l don't care whore the fences are. I can hit ’em anywhere. Put the marks anywhere you like." Babe added that lie was working hard every day, was down to 210 pounds and .still dropping. Leading Bowlers in ©maJha’s Premier League i i ■ 1 ■ —■ - •J r -_i j Geatv? pay j he , i I .*.. i*«* I McGraw Suggests Benefit Fund New York, Dec. 23.—Manager John J. McGraw of the New York Giants, who is opposed to the proposed base-1 hall players' union, suggested today that it the union! wants to do some thing worth while it raise a fund for impoverished play ers. "Some very pa thetic cases have been brought to' tny attention,” he said. "Many old ■■■> ••. ... J oTrJiruj.^PGra^ time stars have been discovered with out a penny to their names. Let the union take its dues and devote the money for this cause instead of spend ing It for high salaries for the organ izers and delegates. "The major leagues will help and many thousands of dollars could be raised by an old-timers’ benefit game once a year.” McGraw said he soon would under- j go an operation to have a section of ligament removed from his nose. Sur geons have told him that the nasal passage Is blocked, preventing free breathing. The trouble is the result of an accident 15 years ago when Dummy Taylor, the Giants' mute pit cher, threw a ball which hit McGraw on the nose. The bone was- broken an artery in the throat also burst. For several days McGraw's life was despaired of, but surgeons ^n Phila delphia finally stopped the flow of blood. His nose was patched up, but it has given him trouble ever since. As soon as his operation is over McGraw, will make his annual trip to Havana. Allegheny College Favors Credits for Athletic Work Allegheny college of Meadvllle, Pa., beginning this year, is one of 150 col leges and universities which recognize the importance of physical education by permitting credits for this instruc tion to count towards graduation. Northwestern Gridster Valuable . Although He Played With Scrubs "He played four years on the scrubs —he never quit.” This epitaph appears on a 10-ton granite bowlder unveiled at North western university in honor of the memory of David Thomas Hanson, graduate of the medical school. Hanson, while in the medical serv ice in the United States army, was killed in France attempting to carry a comrade to safety. "Hanson played on the scrubs three years that I coached the Northwestern team," said Wallie McCornack. "Two of the men who were on my squad were killed in France. One was Jimmy Turner, the end, who could ! have made any football team in the I country. The other was Dave Han son, who could never have made any eleven. "But Hanson was a wonderful lead er. He had a great disposition. To nte he was a lot like Bob Zuppke, now coach at Illinois. Zuppke couldn't make a regular eleven. He was on the scrubs when in college. But he was. and is today, a remarkable lead er of men. And such a type was Han son. “He didn't play any particular posi tion on the scrubs. He filled in any where. His Judgment was wonderful. He had superb spirit. "Often when I had to call a certain player for something and he got angry about it I would send Hanson to jolly him up and get him back in the right spirit, A most splendid type of manhood.” • ) These seven bowlers arp at the top, of the standing column in the Greater Omaha league. Al Wart chow Is set ting the pace with an average of 195 for 42 games. In which he has col lected 8,161 pins. €. Wesley is sec ond with 8,137 pitts in 42 games, an average of 194. Henry Fritscher has' 1 toppled 8,090 pins in 42 games for an ! average of 193; Gill Ham, 7,473 pins in 39 games, an average of 192; Torn Hcftou, 8,005 pins in 42 games, an average of 191; George Kennedy, 7.432 pins in 39 games, an average of 191, and Frank I*epinski, 6,243 pins in 33 games, an averagp of 190. It will be noted that there are only five points difference in the game of these bowlers. Coyotes to Make Hilltops Hustle Although Creighton is conceded an edge on the North Central conference basket ball chnnipicnship, South Da kota State college, with a nucleus of all-state stars, is expected to give the Hill toppers a close race. Last year State college had what was probably the best cage team In its history, winning the intercollegiate and South Dakota: and losing only to Creighton. Frank Welch and Carey, at for wards, Lars Terhune at. center, and Schutte and George Thompson at guards, last year were the men se lected for the all-state basketball team. All were State college players and all will be on the Brookings squad again this winter. All of these men, excepting Thompsop, are on the 'var sity football squad and they are ex pected to be in excellent form for the opening of the hoop season. Tlnmo at rented and Carey at for ward are seniors and have been on the State team since they were fresh men. They are relied upon to give the team speed and strength to win the titles. Capt. Thompson is a JunlQr engineer and has been a big factor both in offense and defense during the past two seasons, and should be an even belter man this season. Schutte at standing guard is a bearcat at getting the ball off the opponents’ back and is a hard man for oppos ing forwards to get behind. He will be out again for his old Job thia year. Frank Welch at forward is a sopho more agricultural student and first gained basket hall fame when he cap tained the Madison High school team ■which won the championship of South Dakota In 1921. All of State’s second team of last yegr are back In college this year: Frank Coffey, Bob Coffey, George Pat terson, Larry Seaman, Bruns, Jtoss Owens, John Lee, Clobes and Kreuger. In addition to these men several high school stars may be found in the freshman class: Russ Osborne of last year's Cresbard team. Early Welch of Madison High school, Stewart, Schmitz, Popowski, Maimer, Britzman, Clark and several other men who have not been playing football. Sets Trap Record. Fred Tomlin of Glassboro, N. J., established a new world record for i four days' target shooting in the Pennsylvania state championship tour nament at Lancaster by breaking 596 targets out of 600. Tomlin broke 159 out of 100 the first day. 157 out of 160 the second, 200 straight the third, and 79 out of 80 the fourth. That's | what vve call real shooting. ») 1 Managers of ‘Strangler’ Lewis and John Pesek Admit They’re Brothers, But Deny a ‘Combine’ By JIMMIE BAl'GII. Brothers can be competitors in the business world without meriting sus picion. But let brothers be rivals in the pro motional end ot sports and suspici ous sportdom im mediately rolls its eyes in an "owlish" way and carols: "There’s some thing crooked." And no one knows this better than Maxwell Bau mann, manager oi John Pesek, the cX<V&S* Nebraska grappler, and Billy Sandow, manager of Strangler Lewis. They're brothers and Just now are coming In for an unwarranted publici ty of a serious nature that only works an Injustice upon the efforts of Bau man to force Lewis Into giving Pesek a title match. Wrestled as “Sandow.’' Neither Billy Sandow nor Maxwell Bauman deny being brothers, but they do unite in denying the reports pecu lated from various sources that they are cousins and that they are “steam ing up” a title match between Pqeek and Lewis merely for the purposes of pulling down some big coin and handing the public a dead package. In fact. Maxwell Baumann has been nagging at bis brother for over a year to let I^wis meet Pesek but Billy Sandow always evades the proposition by saying It would look bad to have the two matches In a ti tle bout in that it would be two brothers managing the title holder fend contender. In the beginning, his real name was Billy Baumann. Years ago he was a corking good wrestler himself and wus dubbed "Chicago Billy San dow” by his then manager and on strength of this, Lewis’ present man ager transacted all his business un der the name of Sandow. • Retained Mat Name. When he retired front the wrestling game as a wrestler, he had his name changed from Billy Baumann to Billy Sandow in court, and has car ried the name ever since. After pick ing tip Lewis and developing him in to the greatest drawing card the mat game ever had, Sandow retained his name and could see no reason for shifting back to his original. Later, Maxwell Baumann, his younger brother, became interested In the mat Bport and together with Larry Litchenstein, they obtained the contract that gave them managing privileges of John Pesek, the Ne braska wonder. Several months ago Maxwell Baumann bought out Larry's interest in the contract and is now sole manager of the Nebraska wizard. Notwithstanding the fact • that Pesek has thrown the most notice able men standing between himself nnd a crack at Strangler Lewis’ throne, Maxwell Baumann has not yet proved successful in getting his brother, Billy Sandow, to give his Pesek a match for the title. To show how Sandow has evaded Pesek, perhaps the best and most convincing way to bring it put is to say that the Theodore Roosevelt American Legion post of Chicago re cently offered Lewis $25,000 win, lose or draw for a bout against John Pes ek. But Billy Sandow flatly refused the offer on account of Maxwell Bau mann’s connection with the Nebraska Tiger. True, Pesek and Lewis met back in 1918, but at that time Pesek was a youngster. Since, he has developed wonderfully, mastered the art of the mat game from A to Z and back again, invented three new holds that are strictly his own and has proved to those who have witnessed both himself and Lewis in action that he is deserving of a crack at the champion ship now. ^ Bring on Paddock. But the combination of two broth ers managing the two of tho greatest wrestlers arises again. As a result, they have come In for disagreeable publicity from different sources. However, it must he remembered that had it not been for Billy Sandow and Strangler Lewis, ‘wrestling today' would be in a very sad state indeed. For it was Lewis and Ills headloek who revived the sport buck in New York, by throwing over 50 aspirants with his headloek that pulled the mat sport out of the depths of oblivion and re-established the game with the sport public of America. Maxwell Baumann is willing to let Pesek vWcstle Karl Caddock, Joe Steelier or Zbyszko, or any other chal lenger to Lewis' title, and then, if lie is successful in disposing of those men, Pesek and Baumann can see nothing ahead, but forcing Billy Son doiy and Strangler Lewis into giving them a shot at the world’s heavy weight championship. But front tire publicity scattered of late, it looks as though what few title contenders there are, are trying to get to Lewis without first disposing of John Pesek, the man who will even tually prove to the whole world that he is the one deserving of a title bout. Women In Japan can now become students of medicine and engineering at the Imperial university. Iliiskers and lllini in Unique Agreement Comb usher fuolball folks will watch with Interest the result of t|in game between Nebraska and liynois on October <* next year This game will be (he first of the >ear for both teams. But the novel imr< of this voidest is going to lie ill the fart that eaeli coaeli, Fred Dawson of the ('urnhiiskers and /uppke of the Illinois, will ex change a complete diagram of plays that will be used iu the contest. Tilden "Building Up New Style of Tennis Play • Loss of Middle Finger of Playing Hand Cause of Action of Champ New York, Dec. 23.—(Special.)— William T. Tllden, tennis champion, is building up an entirely new style of play for next season to conform with the limitations of |iis maimed hand. For the first time since he suffered the loss of the middle finger of his playing hand, which lias been ampu tated down to the first joint, the tenniq champion discussed his Injury and the effect in detail that it would have on his play. “I will have a nice, orthodox game next year," lamented the champion, "a game of the N'at Niles style; noth ing flashy and few forcing strokes. "1 am certain now that what Is left of my middle finger will be stiff and virtually useless in gripping a racket. That means all my strokes in which this finger plays a part will have to be changed or modified. The other day I saw that some "expert” stated the stroke of mine which would be affected was my back hand drive. I had to laugh. "My backhand drive and my alleged forehand drive are the only strokes that will no% be affected." If this works out as Tilden ex pects, and "Big Bill" is a remarkable diagnostician of his own game, he will still retain that great offensive weapon that virtually carried him through his match with Bill Johnston to the championship last summer. Siki in Court to Regain Title Paris, Dec. 23.—Battling Siki, for mer European heavyweight champion, has started legal ■ proceedings against (the French boxing federation, which Recently deprived him of the title he won from Georges Carpentier, and suspended him for nine months upon charges of various escapades brought !> ijjjainsrt him by ? French sportsmen. % A summons has if been served on V' y Paul Rosseau, v~' president of t li e SjK[ c] federation, direct ing him to produce within lliree days the records upon which Wiki was disqualified. The ‘ document maintains that the federa tion is without jurisdiction in ai}>' ex cept purely boxing matters, and that the disqualification was based upon alleged conduct not relating to boxing. Would Add Ice Skating to Official Olympic Games The Intel national Skating union has asked the American Olympic commit tee to request the French Olympic committee, in charge of the Olympic games to be held in Paris in 1924, to add speed and tigure skating events, bdt not as official events, because their being held so long in advance of the other sports. Jack Curley Will Sic German Wrestlers on American Grapplers *_. New York, Dec. 23.—(Special.)— The German boxers gnd wrestlers imported by Jack Curley have begun their training here. The wrestlers will work at George Bothner's Gym, where Cyclone Bees and Bothner himftelf are ready to assist the two giants, Ernest Siegfried, the unde feated German Oak, and Seppel Lob inayer, the Austrian Bavarian cham pion. The boxers are going to Billy Grupp's ftym and Gus Sprenger will arrange some special hours with Grupp for them. The most popular of the boxers Is Urban Grass, the bantam king of Germany. Austria upd Switzerland, whom the Ameri cans on the Hhine named “the little heart.” Willie Antunowltz, the Bremen middleweight, and Max Dahling, the Hamburg heavyweight, should make a good impression. Grass conies from Koln on the Hhine. He is 21 years of age and three years and six months in the* boxing game. ‘ Jack Curley intends to match these wrestlers with some of the hlg Amor ican wrestlers. Near (Jiampion Misses Chance to Win Crown Mexican Vi ho Kapped at 1 itlc Door Drew Copiously From Whisky liotth; anil Whiffed Cigars Between Gongs. On any one of the sun-scorched streets of Bakersfield. Cal , you are quite likely to encounter today be neath the striped awnings shading the sidewalks, a swarthy, compactly built Mexican, whose graying hair contra dicts the message of his boyish gait. Ids steady, complacent eye, and the 47 years he must, perforce, confess to, if you might ask hts age. Introduced to him. you will observe that his nose bears numerous cicatrices where meat and rartilege have been torn away from the nasal bone, that his ears are thick and twist ed lubs resembling singll segments of cauliflower, that his eyebrows find In hospitable soil In the scarred and bat tered flesh beneath them; and the hand you grasp is rough and knotted as a huge pretzel and aa hard as horn. You arc talking to Aureiio Herrera, well-to-do business man and erstwhile prize fighter, whose exploits to this hour will agitate the memories of fans fortunate to tiave watched his aston ishing career, say, during the eight year period of 1898-1960. Herrera is one whose finger tips on several oc casions reached out to touch, but never clutch, the pedestal on whose cup successively have Etood the light weight champions, from Jack Mc Aullffe to Bennie Leonard. He Was a Knockout King. If you will glance down Herrera's record, as set forth in any complla tion of ring statistics, you will find many a ''K” separated by a dotted line from the names of men he has fought. Perhaps the proportion Is greater than that of afiy fighter who ever lived, with the possible excep tion of Jack Deyipsey. present white heavyweight champion and a monarch of an epoch when only second-raters were to be met. From 1898 to the autumn of 1906, the Bakersfield Mexican met 79 men In combat. The list includes the best lightweights of a time when splendid fighters in that division were far moro plentiful than a^ present. Why He Didn't Reach Summit. Knockout after knockout was writ ten in his record, and victory followed victory on his score. And, suddenly, the sporting world began to question: "Why isn't the Greaser the light weight champion of the world?" I’ll tell you why. Down the center of his heart, mighty when the tide was running' his way, ran a tiny strain of saffron. Everything else in the boxer’s reper toire was his. No entry In the index of a champion's qualities did he lack save the fighting heart. Three times he fuced genuine heroes of pugilism and three times did he falter when * and where a fighter of potential championship caliber would have summoned his last fading ounce of courage aifil consciousness and bat-, tied all the more desperately. Dynamic Jewish Featherweight. Abe Attell, San Francisco Hebrew, whose heart was of the red and fear less fiber that scorns the hardships and anguish of the losing fight, weighed 15 pounds less thau the mar velous Mexican—and whipped him to a whimpering frazzle in Oakland in 15 rounds on October 15, J902. But Herrera was too great a natural fighter to be permanently dis couraged by these two defeats. Once again he commenced to chalk up his victories, sweeping all before him. unt)l September 0, 1904. That date was the turning point In his life. And the man who started Herrera down the hill to “draws" and "no decisions" and "knocked out by" was the garnest man who ever reached up with blood-soggy gloves to pry open his blackened, blinded eyes until lie found tiis enemy, that he might tight him still more fiercely and never give an inch — Battling Nelson! Freak As Well As Fighter. The celebrated mannerisms of Her rera might be dwelt upon—how he smoked a big black cigar and drew copiously from a whisky bottle instead of sniffing smelling salts between gopgs; how liq taunted the/men he beat insensible—but it would serve little to the purpose of this narrative except perhaps to show that liis body could not forever withstand that abuse. .mA The point of this story Is that had his Latin forebears, the type of human that gloats over disembow eled horses in the bullring, been able to transmit to Aureiio gameness com mensurate with his other remarkable abilities, he would have become a champion with whose tributes the lit erature'of prize fighting never had been surfeited. New Jersey national guardsmen will promote indoor sports in the armories this winter, ltasket ball will be played and an effort made to have the winners clash with other state champions. « Nebraska Football Teams of Present and Past, Compared by Former Captain --- Editor'* Note—Suppose you so* Brs* | chance to ploy on » university football team In the tint gome of your first sea son. Amt suppose It was one of the big games. You played a dismal game and "he nest time you reported Jor practice tile coarhes did not seem to be owure of ?*iir piiittfnrp. „ , .. Suppose this is kept UP for weeks. Would ,a'.1 ••Buck” Beltier didn’t. And as a result he won a regular berth In the fcaakflelds of Nehrasku's team of IBO.-im ni' nnd was captain nf both football and baseball teams his last year. Buck Is now Mil-owner and manager of the Lincoln MBfa laauge hall club. At the request of The Bee. Buck bag written the following article, In which hb relates some gridiron ex|»erleiiecs, edl tarts!lies a hit and makes a highly In IStealing ysrn. _ By O. A. “BUCK” BEI-TZER. BEING asked as an "old-timer” to write somethin* of Nebras ka's early football, comes to Ete as a distinct shock- Unless I count th« yaara U geemg but a short time Eure I was on the team Ur lint year, 1907, was tha last aea son in which the football field was ; located where the physical building now stands. My second year we play- \ ed at the old Western league ball j park, Twentieth and M streets, where the municipal pool is now located, and my last year, 1909, was tlie first year for the present playing field, which is now being torn down to give way for the big memorial stadium. 1 came to the university from Arapahoe, where I had played three years on a high school team. As X was quite good in that class of foot ball, X was told and believed, that if I was lucky and worked hard that I might place on the scrubs. X was therefore much surprised to be placed as a regular at end of my first year. A Battle of Fists. Xu those days our big game each season was with Minnesota, and as we were considered a practice game for them, we always played early in the season, usually at Minneapolis. This game in 1907 was my first with Nebraska and came nearly being my last. When Minnesota had the ball, their ends spread and played on each sideline boundary. Of course I did not dare let my man get outside me, for fear a forward pass would be flipped to him. So 1 fol lowed him out each time. He was not used in many plays so when tlie ball was spapped he would step across rhe line and start slugging. After 1 re covered from my surprise I came back at him the best I could. There we fought, from the time the ball was snapped until the final whistle blew. And I think almost any referee in the world would have given him the decision. A rule hdd bet n made that year against slugging, but l suppose it was a little too new to be enforced at that time. faille More Refined. When we hail the hall, my duty was to help block the tackle on my side of the line. Having never before played a line position my idea of the way to block was to dig in ,and stop him, instead of charging and hitting. Tile tackle against me was Young, an ail American man weighing well over 200 pounds. Every time ho hit pie I went sprawling back into our back field men and broke up the play they were starting. When that game ended tjie expression, “beaten to a pulp,” fitted me perfectly. However, it was a good game, the final score being !i to 5 ip tlieir favor, Minnesota ,count ing *<n two dropkiiks and Nebraska making a touchdown. In those days a dfopkick counted four points and u touchdown five. Af ter my dismal showing in that first ! game, the ueJct time 1 appeared at i practice the coaches did not seem to know who I was nor that I had ever played on the team Another man was placed at end and it looked like my football c&reer had ended at Ne braska. A lucky happening in con nection with the forward puss gave men another chance. i’asging llis Forte. As 1 recall it, the first year for tlie forward pass was 1906 and In 1907 It was still in its infancy, a crude affair at best, Ohalk lines were drawn lengthwise on the field, five yards apart amj called five-yard zones. A ball could not be passed over the line of scrimmage unless it crossed five yards from the center. It was legal tor ths man who was to receive the hall to be protected by his teammates. Our best forward pass play was a for mation where all members of the team excepting the passer rushed down the field and surrounded the man who was to taka it, forming his interfer ence after he received it. The manner of passing the hall In those days was entirely different from the method in use now. The passer, for short distances, clutched the hall in both hands like a basket hall, while for the long passes lie would let the ball rest on the palm of his band, using an underhand de livery. Some of the fellows could pass the ball a long distance in this manner, but they were not accurate. As I was not used on.the team in practice any more, 1 had nothing to do during the workouts except throw the ball around. While doing this 1 happened to hit on the plan of grip ping the hall in one hand and pass ing it overhand. This proved a great improvement over the old way, as [ it was much more accurate and the j hall could be shot with gerater speed. | « My ability to pass got nie back on the team. I was used In the back field in our last gume of the season and was a regular halfback for tb« remainder of my career. Taains Stronger. Football in general does not seem to have changed a great deal since my time, although the teams h*ivc grown much stronger from year to year. It seems that the gamo hag grown cleaner and less dangerous. It would seem strange now to see a game where slugging was not barred A player receiving a punt had no chance to make a fair catch in my time, and while his arms and bead were raised It was very easy to knock him down in such a manner that he didn't know what happened until he 'came to.’ In those days a punt was anybody's ball as soon as it struck the ground. As to the relative strength of the older tennis with those of today. It seems to me that the present teams are much stronger. In my time we were glad to win the Missouri valley Conference title, but now we are not satisfied unless we have one of ths best teams In the United States. In my opinion ths teams at Nebraska the last two years ara the best that have ever represented the university, unless the teams during Quy Cham herlain's career ate considered. And the latter teams were great principal ly because of Chamberlain himself and as a whole did not compare witlr-JV the present elevens. It is a pleasure to see Nebraska so strong In football and to feel that at one time I played on a team repre senting a university which ranks so high in American football as Nebras ka now does.