4 = ^ i The < imaha Sunday Bee i l 4 VOL. 52—NO. 38. PART TWO OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1923. 1—B FIVE CENTS No Radical Changes to Be Made in Football Rules for 1923 Few Problems to Be Solved by Committee Governing Body to Attempt to Clarify Points Which Have Confused Spec tators at Meeting. BY WALTER ECKERSALL. When the football rales committee meets In New York thl* week it win have a few knotty problems to solve in addition to placing a cleaner and more uniform interpretation on some of the rules. Although no radical charges arc. expected, efforts will be made to clar ify some points over which there has been a vast difference of opinion be tween coaches, officials, and players. On the face those points appear unim irtant, but should they come up in ■enly fought struggles may decide the issue one way or the other. As a whole the present rules have met with popular approval. Players and spectators now have a good idea of the code and its possibilities. In fact, the great college game enjoyed its most successful season last year from points of attendance and close ness of the struggles. The average spectator seemed to know what it was all about and as a result took a keener interest in the struggles, %' which are always decided on their merits. One Troublesome Rule. The one rule which has given offi cials most trouble is the one govern ; ing clipping or taking off a player ob viously out of the play. The rules provide for a 15 yard penalty from the point where the ball was put In play. In practically every other case \_ the penalty is Inflicted from the spot ' of the foul. In the Michigati-Minnesota game last fall a most peculiar plSV happened which had coaches and officials guess ing. It happened that Minnesota at tempted a forward pass. The ball was intercepted by a Michigan player and as the Wolverine was straightened away to make a run one of his team mates clipped a Oopher from behind. The point immediately came up that the penalty should have been in flicted from tbe point where the ball was put In play. If the strict letter of the rule had been followed, Minnesota would have en given 15 yards, despite the fact lost possession of the ball in a fair manner. The official In that game, however, did the proper thing. lie exacted the penalty as close as pos sible from that point where the Mlclp igan player intercepted the Oopher forward pass. This is only one of the many cases which could he cited to show that a more definite rule should be adopted. Anotner llroerenee nr Opinion. Another point over which there is a difference of opinion is in regard to the ball being dead. In the Iowa Ohio State game last fall, which was played on a wet field, players carry ing the ball skidded a few yards after being tackled. The rule states the ball is dead when any portion of the player’s person except his hands and feet touches the ground while he Is in the grasp of an opponent, or is so held that his forward progress is stopped. In this particular game A players were tackled and then slid along for a couple of yards. This is another delicate point which the com rnittee will be asked to decide. To Increase Time Out. It Is the consensus of opinion of leading coaches that the penalty of taking out time more than three times during each half should be Increased to at least five yards. The present J penalty is two yards and teams are beginning to take advantage of the small loss and thereby slowing up tlie games. If a jrmre stringent penalty is inflicted, captains will not call for so frequently, anil especially so W they approach an opponent's goal line. The committee will be asked for a clearer interpretation of the offside and onside clause. Rule 18, Sec. 1, states a player is put offside if the ball in play has been touched by one of his own side behind him. If auch is the case then many argue why should not the reverse be true which would give players behind the ball a chance to recover when the, oval has been touched by one of their own side in front after it has been put in play. The rules committee will be asked to place a positive Interpretation on Heetlon 4 of Rule 4 regarding the kick after a fair catch when time Is called for the end Of a period. Many believe that the defending team can run back I he kick tlie Mint as the kicking team has a right to either kick for the goal or execute an onside kick for a touch down. / Section 5 or Rule 9 should be chang ed a trifle. Instead of reading “toward his own goal line" It should be "own end line," and the word "out" should be Inserted before the phrase "from the line of scrimmage.” At the start of last season this rule caused some con fusion, but at the close of the year coaches and officials agreed upon Its interpretation. The committee will be asked to elim inate tha five yard penalty for an off side player touching a ball, auch as ► on kicks. No man appears to know even some members of the ruins com mittee, how this clause of Rule 18, Pec. J, was injected into the rules. Undoubtedly many other points will be brought to the attention of the rules committee, which Is not expect ed to make any drastic changes in the code, hut it will be asked by coaches officials to piano a dearer Inter pretation on some points over which there have linen a, vast, dlt/ercncs of opinion in recent years. Boatoa. Mu*., Mwrli I.—President of tbs Boston Braves taMd 100 newsboya breathless hers last night ss he recounted how he had brohen Into organised baseball as a bov of lit bv pitching for the team of a small Pen/tsyl-, vanla town, K Lorena Marcellia, 3-year-old chestnut filly by Seth Cutaneous and owned by the Updike-Jones stable of Parnell, Mo., is one of the fastest 3-year-olds at Havana this season. The daughter of Seth recently won a five and one-half furlong event at the Cuban plant in 1:06 3-5. As A 2-year-old Lorena Marcellia was unbeateif. She has been started over the long route but likes the short distances. THE OMAHA BOXEK. • • • The boxing tourney started well With 50 entries tough and strong. When to the place. Came /eke Mctase, Who feaid he liked to hear the gong. • • • His poor old fare was battle scarred. A shaggy dog his only pard. His back was bent. His strength was spent. He'd labored long and hard. * • • A [>uMilling bag for days he'd pound, And when at last bis turn came round, His back got straight. He changed his gait. And put them in a swound. • • • He knocked them cold, both fat and thin. With jabs to face and hooks to chin. Until at last Prelims were past And he was picked to win. • * • He climbed within the hempen row, He now was In the final go. He took a swing. And now was king, His man was cold as snow! * • • And now he falks his fare clear blue, Bjr telling all the boys and you, ‘It Ain't no use. There's no excuse. It's all the fault of this man tnue." Danny Murphy Finds Pitcher So Dumb He < Didn’t Know His Ross THE dumbest pitcher that the Athletics ever roped Into their bailiwick was a young left hander, who. for obvious reasons, shall go namlees here, i He was taken on the training trip ■ to Jacksonville. One morning, while coming out of the hotel, lie met 1 Dan Murphy. "Say. what's the name of tills here town'.'" he asked, so innocent ly that Dan thought he was kidding. They had been there for a week. P nally Murphy saw that the rookie really was a dumb David. For heaven's sake," said Dan. "don’t let Connie bear that you don’t know the name of the town you're living In." "Who's Connie?" asked the rookie. Greenville Sally Team Sipns Brother Battery Manager /inn Beck of ttie Oreen \ vide Sally team has signed a brother battery, Homer and Cromer Kdgens. The former Is the pitcher and Cromer is the catcher. The pitching mem ber of the brotherhood is a southpaw. Homer Sheridan Wins. St. Paul, Minn.. March 2—(ppeclal.) —Homer Sheridan of Sioux City, la., won the referee’s decision from Ai Augustine here tonight in a 10-round bout. The Iowa middleweight won all the way. “Rusty” Evans, York, Neb., featherweight, added anoth er victory to his list Thursday night at Central City when he knocked out Nick Bright of Grand Island in the third round of a scheduled six round event. Evans’ next fight is with Ace Budkins of Omaha. This bout will be staged at York next Wednesday. Coach “Snap-it-Up” Dawson to Start Spring Grid Practice Soon University of Nebraska Gridsters to Take Daily Workouts in Preparation for Coming Foot ball Season—Graduation and Ineligibility Injured Prospects for 1923 Eleven—Only Two Regular Linemen Will Return to Squad, Berquist and Bassett. INCOLN, Neb., March 3. — (Special.) —This week, weather permitting, Head Coach Dawson will start spring football practice when he as sembles the candidates for the 1923 team out door workouts. All Cornhusker followers are familiar with the devastating effect which graduation and ineligibility had on the team of 1922. To top this off, Nebraska field will not be avail able for practice on account of the construc tion of the new stadium. , Candidates for next year’s team have not been permitted to get out of' condition. Farley Young, freshman coach, has been working with them indoors for several weeks. Two Regular* Back. The only two legulnr linemen who will he hack are Joy P.< rqulat and Helnle Itassett. Moth of theae men have been working with the weight* l In track work. Ced Hartman, logical successor for1 ' Chick Hartley's position at fullback, ' likew ise hurls a nasty discus. Dave Moble, who Is billed for his 'biggest I football year, Is one of the fastest men Coach Schulte has oti his squad, Sam Weir, Superior, a first year man, ■ looked good with the freshman tea.n | last fall and is getting better day by day with the track team. Doug Mey ers. Beatrice high school star, is an other track artist of promise. "Choppy" Khodcs. who is going t > make a great football player for Ne braska, is another valuable adjunct to the track team. He is a pole vault er and high jumper. Clarence Mackey, who may take over the pivot posi tion made vacant by Peterson's In eligibility, Is trv.ng to divide his time between track and grid practice. Eugene McAllister, distance man on the track team, and an end on the foot ball team, is another example of the versatility of Hunker athletes. Byron Nixon, lineman In the fall and cinder crusher In the spring, puts another name on this list. Captain Verne Eewellen Is not only an all around track man but a goo] bull player. How he is going to ar range to split his time equally pre sents a problem nub h harder than the solution of the mystery of the laughing hyena laughs. T«tdd Ilubks, briber of Ernie, and a promising end, has been working diligently on the cinders. Stanley Davies, Field Club “Pro ” to Write for Bee IN A wiles of articles written ex- j In view of the fact that Hagen 1s clualveiy for The Kvenln* Ilee. recognized ns the longest driving pro Stanley Itavlea, golf Instructor nt . , . , , . , .... . In the world, the feat speak* for It the Held club, will give a comprehen sive treatise on golf that will be s B,,‘" revelation to every player. Article* Start Monday. The fundamentals of golf, the cor- Davies' Introductory article follows, rert grip and stance, balance, and and succeeding ones will he published golf faults are nil tnkrn up and die- 1,1 Th" Kv<,»'lng Mee. starting Mondavi __ , ... . , "In the series of articles I nm writ cussed In a practical and simple man •r- lug l will attempt to show up golf ner that will delight every reader. faults, their causes and their . ITects Davlpn flood not lnunrh upon an «‘X* on dhoti. fend?»l and elaborate discourse on un correct jfoinna fttiokc in n> Important details to show the fallacy "ulr®d °"ly by »PP"™<'0" <»>'' " of methods advocated hv some 'vork' ,,m’ l" not " r'n "* '» "UPP’"M'“ authorities, but "hews to the line," by «'ll,y"B' K,,r and tells you, Mr Golfer, what you °n" fr*,J"*n"y b,Mr" ^ r,'"’Mrk should know. :l r'rtBl" P|By'r naturally gifted .. „ with a good golfing stroke and can \ ersesl in Golf I-me. make * golf ball obey bis command A conacfentloua study of llie articles Now, If one goes buck to the b.->- n will give tho player an Insight to the nlng of that player's rnreer. th.' Intricate and essential points of the chances are I hat he did ills best to ancient Scottish pastime that could Imitate first clnss players by nnalyz only he obtained through an extend- lug their swing, etc . and by practle ed course of Instruction*. Ing hard, made their method* hts No one is better versed In golf lore owrfc than Davies and therefore no one la "Gene Hsrnzen. In e reeent article, better equipped to write these articles, stated that h« never lost the nppor Davie* learned t.te gnme In Ki% tunlty to watch n good player In land, but I19 did not make a study of action when he was moulding hi* own It until coming to America. game. Home of the greatest golf teachers "The fundamental* of the rolflnv have been unable to put Into exeru stroke are observed and obeyed by tlon fibeir own method. Hut Davies all who play good golf, onn may have can go onto the links and demonstrate a different stance or a different gup their practicability. hut the principle of sinking the hall When Wnlter Hagen was In Omaha la governed by technique of the swing, with .Ton Kirkwood Inst fall 1m aWdc "In tho article* following Ibis from voter* brill the pleasure of seeing day to day 1 will take up In turn tho Davies outdrive the British optn essential elements of good golf from champion. j the grip lo tho finish of the swing." I - .- - i t ILLY" N E SSL E H A U S, Omaha sportsman and own er at Adonis and John S. Reardon, stout hearted distance run ners now campaigning at the Tia juana (Mex.) track, tdls a good one on his trainer, J. G. feyssey. Bussey is the one lo claim John S. Iteardon out of a‘race down In Kentucky and brought the route goer north to fly the Nessiehau colors. When John S. Reardon was rac ing in Kentucky he was known as a man-eater, simply because they fought and battled the liorse all the time. “John” Injured several grooms- and therefore got a bad j name. But this didn't worry Train | er Bussey. Hussey knew (lip horse could travel when he claimed him out of a race. Then came the task or working on the animal’s disposi tion. According lo Npsslehaus, Hussey started to work on “John's” dis position by handing him a lump of sugar each time he passed the horse's stall. Pretty soon John S. Reardon and Bussey got to be real good friends. Bussey treated the animal just like he would his son and got wonderful results. Through curbing "John's" temper, Bussey discovered It made a lot of difference on the race track. The horse quit his sulking and in a few days "John" was doing his level best in the morning workout*. Tlie result of Hussey's treatment came to light February 23, when John S. Reardon went onto the Tia juana track and won a five-length victory over the speedy Irwin mare. Ten Huttons, witli such fast horses as Spanish Maize, Tailor Maid and Fairw ay fail her back of him. If the cure Bussey lias worked on the horse Is a permanent one, well I John S. Reardon Is going to be j heard from before the Tlajuana meeting is over. DUE FOR BIG ROOM. AMATEUR boxing in Omaha Is due for a great growth. The i recent Omaha Athletic club first annual fistic tournament is the cause. | • • • Itouls staged by the O. A. C. proved that amateur contests can he held iu Omaha with great success. \ction. plenty of it. and the kind tile fans like to see, was dished out lit each fight. It will not he long before tlic Omaha Athletic club tournament pill crop- to In- one of the big athletic events of the year in Omaha and the state of Nebraska. With fair-minded business men, such aa are behind the Athletie club tourney, there is no reason not to believe thaf the amateur boxer will come into hia own in Omaha. Morn povv.-r to amateur boxing. May it grow, grow and glow. • • • WHY NOT t XI I. ON Of/ •TI T." TIEY are talking of bringing poor ol’ Joe Rockett over to the United States to get knocked out. Must he that they have run out of heavyweight fighters In Eng land. I’erhaps Beckett wants to kiss the canvas and can't find any one in England who ia capable of making him come in contact with the floor within the hempen strands. Beckett, let It be known, lias stopped more gloves with his face tli'ii Kenny Iconard lias pith his arms and that's sa.ving quite a lot. I'lie English heavy is n menace to llie American pork and liean in dustry. Why should American promo ters bring this English punch- j absorber to the United States to j provide more competition in the ; Knock-out-class when we already have Jim Flynn, Fred Fulton, •etc." "IIXRE” HERMAN X COMER? OF the many Veteran and rookie baxt-lian players who have signed irp to try out with the Roston American league cluli, ‘‘Babe'’ Herman, the "Baba Ruth" of the Western league, is not only the youngest but has the fastest hatting average. On the roster of the Red Sox. Herman's age Is given as 19 yeafs old. The ‘"Babe" was 19 when he played with Omaha, lint what's a year more or less to a hall player? Herman's halting average In the XX'eslem league last season was lid. Ills fielding average was 9H9 and Is the fourth highest among the Red Sox players, who will try out for places. Ill a letter received by llie writer from I,. I!. Graves, secretary of Ilie If'-d Sox, we are informed that the Boston moguls think very highly of Herman and believe in the former Buffalo firsl-saeker they have a second ‘‘Babe” Ruth. Herman, in his game in Omaha, showed that he can hit the hall. Hut running bases is his weakness. Herman can field when he wants to .He'll have to hit, run bases and field like a demon if he expects to rout George Burns and Joseph Harrris out of the first base berth. Herman can play the field an^ it may be that if he falls to produce at first. Chance will take a chance and put the ''Bali*” out among the dandelions. SEVERAL days ago the Asso ciated Press wires flashed a short Item over Its wires. It read something like this: "Irish Patsy Cline, lightweight Iwjxer, dies of pneumonia.” That item did not mean a whole lot to the sporting public, lint to those who follow the careers of boxers it did. Irish Patsy Cline, when lie was “right,” wa« one of the most prom ising lightweight fighters in the country. It was Cline who heat Ever Hammer and caused Hammer to re tire for a time from the boxing game. At the time of this fight, both Cline and Hammer were at the height of their careers and going strong. Then Cline met ^itli great mi* fortune. He was injured In a bout and his vision impaired. He was un able to fight for months. Finally, after doctor after doctor had worked on this Injured memlier, Irish Patsy returned to tlie ring. But he was not the fighter of days gone by. Pneumonia finally got in a knock out blow and finished (line. This lightweight w-as one of the most pop ular boxers a few years ago, and a great crowd of mourners turned out to pay him their last respects. One of Cline’s mourners had the following to say of this lightweight: "Patsy may hate died penniless, but it's a cinch he didn't die friendless.” It was a pretty tribute paid by one boxer to another who had taken the final count. HOW A BO IT KKNNKI, CM B? □MAHA is the home of several of the best Airedale and Ger man Police dogs in the United States, still Omaha is not a member of the circuit of Kennel club shows. Wonder why ? Minneapolis, Detroit, St. lxiuis, Chicago. Denver, Kansas City and other cities some not as large as Omaha, are members of this rirrnit and stage dog and rat shows each year. Omaha Is located in the middle west and ha*v good railroad advan tages Still it i-aniwt bc-ast of be ing a memlier of this circuit of kennel clubs. True, there ar- not many do/ fanciers in Omaha, but those who do reside here arr the breeders of some of the best dogs in the Unit ed .States, These dog fanciers take thrir dogs tp other eities and win priws. Htnaliu could become a member of this kennel (lull rirruit without much trouble. \ little (-(wipe rat ion between the Chamber of Commerce and dog fanciers of Omaha and soon this city would be admitted to the dog league. Dr. .1. .1, M arta. John Welch and Janies Allen are three Omaha dog fanciers who welcome a kennel club. Karli year these men take their dogs to other kennel shows. The dogs arc bred in Omaha, trained here, hut an' sltipiied out to other cities to win prises. An Omaha^Kenmi club show ad mitted to the circuit of kennel clubs of the country would help Omaha in more way* than one, IKS I. IK MANN, former M enter n . leaguer of Lincoln, and basket hall winch at the University of Indiana during the off reason, has instituted the system of teaching baseball by the pictorial method In the ' Big Ten? Mann is a member of the St louis Cardinals, and during his tiasebsll career has collected views of big leaguers In pictorial roles, showing all the elements of mechanical base ball. For Instance, Mann teaches the method of sliding by showing ac tual views of base runner* going Into the bag. Several colleges have purchased the system of Instruc tion. Illinois, where the best base ball coaching in the middle-west for the last ?5 years has been done, has purchased this system of base ball instrucilon. Genaro Offered Bout With Wilde New York, March 1—Often to meet Jimmy w tide of llngland, world'* champion flyweight boxer, were under consideration today by Frankie He nuro of N» w N oi l who won the Amcr lean title Inst night from Pit nr ho Villa of tlie Philippine island* nt Madi son Square Hardc \ After receiving an offer from an un named Knglish promoter to meet Wilde for the world title in a London ring, Oonaro received overture* from two American Impresario* Tex Kick* •ml. who* staged Inst night s match, suggested holding a Wilde Oenaro bout nt the new Yankee stadium and Tom o'Kourke of the Kepuhllcan Ath letic Huh proffered the Polo’ground*. I'rw-k W ini*. J’ulH'l.a — John IVitik, Neluaska hrnvj Wright wrratler. won In atraiglit falls hero last night from Jack Holler, of Chicago. The first fall rams In la tnlnnli s anil alt sroon.ls with an arm look anil thr aeemut In right min utea with a body allng, I Phones on (»olf Course The s.'lf course twins laid out for the New York Aihlctle club members at Marmaraneck, N. Y, will be equipped >vith telephones over Its 36 hole*. Korheeler. V 1 , March ! —lrt(n| M ,| helm, in4it4«cr of the l'h;i«.tel|.h!« ,N» t Inna I lea sue In.cl.a.I . tul> Inet >car, la n Khl .lanM 4 mnin • «nh the Ho,-better r twrimt >n tl l<-aguw >’««m a* a roach ani ■« out \V«lh*tm will Irate h^rc tutnor f' for tl.» Ki iff training . amp m Sphna Aii. Wii'Hlm llehctl for Koch • *t#r in iflO. S* 11 «ml l»|] when It won threw pennant*. Bright Lights Did It YOUNG GRIFFO. Fremont Reported Free of Influenza Epidemic Fremont, Neb, March 3.—(Special.) U'hiie other sections »f the state are stricken with light flue epidemics, Fremont is practi% T 4'-h .'. v- hr v,rs par T.'f of Harry W; * "'h** Ar*r‘-»tinS*n Doond th* color- 4 boy h?. ? * dosea times in two round*. Star Jay Trackster EKE S EMERSON NORTON. 103 pound trnsk star of the UnU —' Varsity of Karens who is get ting better nnd better every dnv. East years ns n freshman. Norton broke two school records, the tvle vault and the high. He cleared the bamboo pole In the pole vault at a helghth of 12 feel and the hurled h.s 203 pounds over the pole at a helghth of six feet two Inches at’.I one half inches in the high Jump Ten and one fifth seconds catches him In the hundred, and he travels the 220 in 33 flat. He hurls the shot at 43 feet; discus. feet and can do 22 feet, six inches in lhe running broad Jump, lie holds the school record in these events. Coach Sohndeman of Kansas is go ing lo enter Norton In the pentathlon at the l’en relay games In May. He predicts that Norton will be * the world s best all -aroint dathlrte. This is Norton * first je.\i in \ tlhy com petition. Morvich May Be Seen Under Block Silks Again This Season New York. March 3- Morvloh. the champion juvenile of 1921 and win tier of the Kentucky I'rrby la«t spring, may lm seen under silk again this »*n.nm. The renowned thorough hred Is now standing beside Mann War at Miss Katherine 1 lungcrflelds stud farm In I.exlngtnn. Kv., hut It la the Intention of Benjamin Ttlork hl» owner, to put him m naming nl'imt May If, |f |lr ntna n* mm nil h<' will rare all * nnmri. if m>t. hr Will In' «hi)i|>r,l Ivirk lo thr mock farm Itrprria from the U!ur gras-e are to thr effort that the colt ha» ini proved to per cent in api>earance. He ha* epren.l out ami grown ui< ha* ink. n on more than too | ton ml a. Fre.1 tlurle*-. the ertrran trainer, who pre pannl him for tlie ilrrhv, again will have charge of him. Misconduct of “Young Griffo” ' Cost Him Title Ma iter Boxer of Antipodes Followed Twinkling Bright Lights to Defeat—Now a Derelict in New York. Thl» la the eleventh article about gr*af box*r« who failed to win the title and the regions why. R.v SIDNEY MTHKRLWO. To acknowledge a p>eer, fond and meaningless keystone word of democ racy, is to admit a degree of medioc rity, since there is scant distinction in equality. Those who know no peers need no epitaphs—their superiority Stves them life after (Bath. There are few such — Shakespeare, Napoleon, Newton. Michael Angelo—and in the realms of their endeavor they were no more kingly in their day and way than the subject of these paragraphs Better to be the best street sweep er in all the world than the second greatest statesman who ever lived. With which preparatory words, meet now the greatest boxer of all history —Albert Griffiths, known to ring Im mortality as Young Griffo. One goes to patriarchs of the tribe to learn its record, and one stands amazed while listening to old fans grope for adjec tives to portray this marvel from the Antipodes. Marvel From the Start. Griffo was born “down under” In IS-!. As fishes need no natatorial , tutor, so this featherweight had but to don the gloves to make the gym nasium wiseacres in Sydney biink their eyes in realization that this buli nccked, bullet-beaded, thick armed, slender legged little lad was poten t-ally the most clever boxer the world ever was to behold. He started his recorded career In 1S58. That record, for reasons pre sently to be outlined, is clouded w-ith confusion. For five‘years be never lost a battle and travelers and cables carried to sporting circles throughout the world the tidings that in the lard of Fitzsimmons and Creedon and Peter Jackson and Slavin there was a boxer whose abilities made even their abilities seem like the pawing, fumbling efforts of awkward, fright ened an a'.eurs. American Debut In Chicago. Chicago was the scene of his Arne'-, can d»but, when he met "Young Sootty” on November 33, I*93. Chi cago never forgot that six round en co«feter. Standing in the center of the life,-, bis hands hanging at his Vdfl petrified the letting h,s opponent use everything he had for three full minutes in vain endeavor to hit that bobbing h*ad. "Strike me ruddy, but the blighter cawnt 'it me!" said Griffo, leaning over the ropes and spoofing the rlng s:ders. “H.f this Is your best boxer, you blooming Yankees are habout to see something new. 1 They did: and so did the crack col ored boy: for never in the annals of boxing did gloves travel with such in credible speed: never d.d piston rod move as fast or true as Griffo'* fists Hefts and rights from every angle footwork that made the onlookers crosseyed: ducking and blocking and jabbing and hitting without parallel— and all without a return from the Chi cagoan whose graduation In prize ring lore was but a kindergarten course for the Kangaroo. Only One Defeat R«s ortled. The master's career continued four years more with only one defeat, and that by a 10-round hairline decision to Jack McAuliffe. Outweighed IS pounds in nearly every match, he twisted ir.to helpless tyros such as Solly Smith. Ike Weir. "Kid'' Lav me. George Dixon. "Kentucky Rosebud. ' Billy Murphy and Jo* Cans. And in the jears of his ascendancy he became as famous for his incom parable ability as he became notori ous for his misconduct. That tells why he never won a title, and why it was difficult to keep track of his contests. He followed the •w.nkling lights down the path whose 'Inevitable terminus Is defeat. S*o one who bought a ticket ever had any as suranee that the Australian would appear to perform. For many of h.s battles the promoter hsd to send out i scouts for him. 1 And they often ft'und him propped I against a bar. singing h!s Cocknev songs, or with hands In his pockets i standing on a ffclded newspaper uni ' betting the drinks ' that no mar. present could knock him off the paper or hit his face. Made Clowns of Opponent*. Once lifted into the ring, regardless . of his condition, he was as eccentric land sensational as he was aide. Often he would lean on the top rope, cross his legs, exchange jibe* with the spectators, and by merely moving his head and one arm. prevent h.s foe i from landing a blow Today Grtffo is a memory—and a derelict. V.tnv a dollar has been d • vied toward his need* by admirer* c? former day*: he lias been put away In asylums, the consequence of his folly, and numerous benefits have helped him survive his tvoerty. few vear^ l ago, friends collected tt.MO to send him Iwok to Australia, hut rtriffo refused to go and he is hanging around somewhere In New York City ■J years old. very fat and very forlorn. •The final article will tell the story of I’ackey McFarland I Bolt Zupjikt' Hhs l^rcat l.ritl Hooorrl al Illinois Despite two Ivad aeaaons in a row. Holi Zuppke. Illinois' dynamic little football coach. still has a marg.n of j v ictory over all of the conference j team* which hd lias met in his >ear* of coaching. except Michigan and 1 Ohio, which are tied wuh him H* ' ,11 has at leas: on* same to the g "d on ail of th* other B% Ten ( universities. —»»». _»