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OmaEWoinnkeloShow the Cornhuskers How Popular They Are in Nebraska's Metropolis
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C0ACI1ING TYPES IN BASEBALL
FOOT BALL CAME FOR OMAHA
Representative Shotgun Experts of Central Nebraska
Branch of the Game Not Greatlj
Nebraska Manager Plans Either Amei
of Wabash College.
Developed.
NOISE AND M0NKEYSHTNES ASSETS
THANKSGIVING DAY IS THE DATE
Indiana College Wllllnsj to Com or
' Iowa A gales Mar Be Secnred
'for Window of the
Heal Wits Are Scare en Who mm
Qnlet, Effective Methods- Jen-
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LINCOLN. Neb.. Fob. 1. (Special. )-lf the
I resent plan of Athletic Manager Eager of
th University of Nebraska work u'
Omaha's foot .ball enthusiasts will be
favored by having a big gridiron contest
pulled off In their city on nest Thanksgiv
ing day between Nebraska and a strong
western eleven. Manager Eager la now
communicating with the Ames athletic au
thorities In an erfort to get the Iowa Aggie
scheduled to play the Cornhuskers In
Otr.aba on that day and be says It Is prob
able that th game will be arranged. In
ease, however, that Ames decides not to
Ily, Wabash, the stfong Indiana collng
that defeated Bt. Louie university last fall,
will be taken on Instead. Wabash baa
asked the Cornhuskers for a game nnd Is
willing to play In Omaha Thanksgiving.
For several months Manager Eager had
J), en considering the advisability of giving
Omaha a foot ball contest and a few days
ago. when the Wisconsin athletic author
ities asked for a game with Nebraska at
Lincoln for the Saturday before Thanks
giving, he consented to give them that date
and at the am time Welded to piny the
Turkey day game In Omaha, believing tt
would bo a good business proposition.
,. Baser 'Will Come to Arrange.
. "To have two big foot ball contests in
Lincoln within a week." reasoned Manager
Eager, "would not pay from a financial
standpoint. Not enoush students and rltl
ins would go to both games to make them
pay. With Wisconsin here on November 21
the game will be a money-maker, but will
urely cut down the attendance-and reduce
th gale receipts of a. Thanksgiving game
If we play one here. The Nebraska ath
letic treaisury needs money for a new ath
letic field, and for other things as well,
and rather than run tho risk cf making
only a small sum on a Thanksgiving day
game and of not putting many dollars
Into the athlotic coffern, 1 decided to take
the Cornhuskers away from home for the
Turkey day contest. But when I came
to survey the field for games I found that
the best thing to do would be to piny in.
Omaha. I could .schedulo--llo games with
the conference teams, for they will not
play on Thanksgiving day. Kansas, Mis
souri, ana Colorado already nan game?
scheduled for that date. I would have
turned to St. - Louis University, but the
students would not stand for another
gme with the eleven that defeated us
,1 to 0 last fall. So I have decided1 to play
Ames or Wabash at Omaha.
' shall make a trip to the metropolis
next week to see what arrangements I can
ntake about grounds on which to play the
taine and to see whether the Commercial
club will agree to advertise and promote
tlis' contest If It Is played In their city. The
press and foot ball fans of Omaha for sev
eral years have' been deploring the fact that
v.e would give them no foot ball, game.
Now that they have a chance to get a big
i ontest I am going to see what they w ill
do. If they treat us right they will get
the game."
Either Can l.oail Due.
Either Ames or Wabash against Nebraska
would be a big attraction next full. Tho
Iowa school had one of the strongest elev
ens In the. Missouri valley lust season and
met the Cornhuskers in the greatest strug
gle ever seen on Nebraska field. Wabash
defeated St. Louis university, conquerors
of Nebraska, by the score of 11 to 10. This
was the first defeat the Mound City team
had suffered In two years.
The Base ball men at the university are
making preparations for a successful sea
son and will begin practice In the armory
next week. .They have a hard schedule for
this spring and Intend to get to work early
so that they will be In good shape at the
opening of the season. A coach will be
secured for the squad and he will begin
Ms work some time In March. The athletic
board is trying to get Eddie Zinrun of the
Lincoln league team to fill the position. An
offer has, been made Zinran, who ,1s in
Erie, Pa., and It Is expected that he will
be. heard from soon.
The orospiicts for a winning team are tx-t-eed'.irgly
good. Nearly all of last year's
nlpe are in school again and will be out
fox practice. Bellamy, captain of the nine,
was not at the university last fall, but he
returned to his studies this week and will
he ready to lead the men. The only men
Inst Teethe team are Shortstop Rine and
Catcher Carroll, two star players, who were
graduated last June. There Is much new
material on hand, however, to fill the
places of these men 'and any others that
iray become vacant.
Chief competition wifl center at catcher,
for which position there are several as
pirants. Among the men who will suck to
bold down the place behind the bat are
"Bubble" Hyde, who was catcher on the
1 nine, and Hoy Greenslit and Eddie
Patterson, two new reciii on the squad.
Iljde was not In scnool last year, but the
season ' before vtt on the team and did
njnie excellent work. Oreenslit and Pat
terson sr from out In the slate, where
i'wy have reputltlons of being good catch
er. Old lMtrklaar stiff Back.
The old pitching staff Is back this Hemes
tr and probably will be strengthened by
the addition of on or two men. Sliubutky.
Blake and Ward are the pitchers of last
season's nine. Ward did some good throw
ing last spring and rose Into prominence
through his excellent pitching In the game
with the University of Missouri nine on
Nebraska fluid, Hrubeaky probably was
the strongest bf the three. He won most
of the games that ha pitched on the east
ern tiip. which the 'varsity made iu May.
C; K. Decauter, a new student from South
Dakota, will bo out for practice. He Is
saM to have soma pulliig curves. W.
Iteming, a pitcher who showed up Well
last season, will try-out again.
Helttt-r, Dudgeon,- 1 Oreenslit, Watson
and IkmiiIow w.ll enter Into competition
far place In the liifU-M. On last year's
team Watson played at first, Dudgeon, at
second and Belt sex at third be mi. Dens
low ami Ureensllt will try out at siiorl
stop. In the outfield Bleuter. Captain Kvll-
smy and Frcc'land will be on hand for their
rid places.
The Com. makers will opu the season
April 4 and ft In two games with tho IJn-
colu Western leagua team. The 151 li of
A ti ll t icy will journey Into Kauaas and
lYuiitiiifed uii lag Three.)
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BIG SEX BASE BALL H0N0S SUKE
Srhedale Will Avoid Dispute liaised
Last Season.
PRINCETON. N. J.. Feb. 1. With the
publication of tho Princeton base ball
schedule for the coming season it la made
apparent that the question of tho intercol
legiate championship bo far as the Big Six
nine are concerned will be solvable on the
diamond In 19. The announcement that
tho Tigers are to play Cornell will In all
likelihood provide a schedule which wilt
bring' all the teams together during the
coming spring. There-is no reason to doubt
that Tale, llarvurd, Cornell, Princeton,
Columbia and Pennsylvania will play their,
usual two or three-game series, each
against the other, and with thla as a basis
the selection of a championship team will
not prove as difficult as a year ago, when
both Tigers and Ithacans claimed the pre
mier place. i ' '
At thp end of that season tho adherents
of Princeton and Cornell each thought that
their respective favorites were entitled to
rank us Uie intercollegiate base ball cham
pions, but as the teams of those colleges
had not met even- In a post-season game
the discussion amounted to. nothing but
words. Princeton argued hat they had
beaten Yale twice by scores of 9 to 7 and
4 to 3,-whereas) the Ithacans had wonrom
Yale onlV once by a score of 2 to 1. Ihe
games with Harvard were also In favor of
the Tigers, as the victories were won by
them by scores of 1 to 0 and 8 to 3, while
Cosnell split even In two games with the
Crimson, a 1 to 0 score being the result
of each game. The Cornelllans, based their
claims for the. Informal title on their de
feat of Lafayette, which collego had In
turn won from Princeton, but this Is prac
tically the only support those claims had
and the credits on the Tigers' side of the
ledger were far In tho majority.
Princeton's first game with Cornell this
spring will not be ployed until May 2. and
before that time the Orange and Black
will have played nineteen games, which
should go far toward getting them in fine
.trim for Ihe ganTb with Cornell. The sec
ond game will be held at Princeton on
May 13 and the undergraduates of both
colleges are wondering If a third game will
bo arranged If the team should break
even.
Tho Tiger schedule as a whole contains
thirty-two games, eighteen of which are
to bo played here.
LYMAN WILLING TO SKATE AGAIN
X. V.-A.
C I'rncW Proposes to Try for
tho Championship.
NEW YORK. Feb. L Ouy Lyman, the
New Y;rk Athletic club crack will com
pato again this winter for lHo skating
championship. A couple, of years ago Ly
man achieved some notable victories in
tho indoor skating races, and he is looked
upon as ' a factor In contending for the
championship honors recently vacated by
Morris Wood. ' At any rate. Lyman will
make a strenuous effort to carry the
Winged Foot to victory ns ha uned to a
couple of years ago.
When Lyman retired it was his intention
to stay out of tiio game for good, but, like
many auother old-time performer, the "call
of tho game" has been more tbsn he can
resist. Lyman, along with Swan, Sarony
and Smith, will be the nucleus of the relay
team that will represent the New York
Athletic club on the ice thla winter.
ROLLER TO BE A PRO. HEREAFTER
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Doctor Derides lie Ian Beat the
Wrestlers Kasily.
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 1. Dr. Benjamin
Franklin Roller of this city has decided
that it is filling, that he shotftd go after
the heavyweight wrestling championship
of the I'nitcd States. The- doctor hss been
contemplating this step for some tinu,
but hd has Just made t he positive an
nouncement of ids entry Into the ranks of
the prufesuioual mat artists. It 1s his Inten
tion to get lnti the best .condition ani then
go after Fred Beall arid Tom Jenkins. In
order to get status upon 'which to chal
lenge Frank Qotch for the title. He also
says 'thut he will take on only men of ac
cepted class. Dr. Roller stipulates that
each and every chullenge sent him must be
accompanied by a forfeit of
HASKELL INDIANS
WARPATH
Med Men Takr I p Trail for the Bas
ket Ball Si-tl;..
TOPEKA. Kan.. Fek, l.-The Indians of
the Haskell Indian school at I-awrcuee arc
planking a trip fur their basket ball team
to begin on February II and end on March
10, and Includes a game witli their brethren
of tha Carll8l school. A lengthy card haa
been prepared, as the Haskell , Indians
have arranged for games with tho Kansas
City Athletic club, llliHinilnslun. (Jul'.icy,
the University of Chicago. Wubasli, Ih
Pnuw. Indiana faiid Rom Polytechnic, Ban
dusky, i'Tfei. Ada aud Allegheny college,
Carlisle at 1'Ulabuig and Louisville, bt.
IaiiiIs and Mlsauurl universities. The team
begun practice cm D-u!ntMr 20 und-r 1 he
dlrtt-tie.il of Coach Forrest C. Allen and
bus given promise of successful p!u).
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lloldrcge. Winner of tho Match, is the Man Below the Cross. Charley Thorpe, tho Famous Jockey and Ehotgun Expert, Stands Under Olson's Left Arm.
UROL' I' OK SHOOTERS WHO TOOK PART IN THE HASTINGS TOURNAMENT. JANUARY 22 AND 23, 1308.
PROGRAM TOR THE OLYMPIC
First Draft- of Arrangements for the
London Competition.
JULY 18. TO SEE THE OPENING
Golf Begins In Jane and (he Stadlnm
Kvents Will Dt Started Six
Weeks Later, A cord In g
4o Plans.
NEW YORK. Feb. 1. The first draft
program of the British Olympic games .has
boen Issued and though, the opening Is yet
far away only a few of the minor fix
tures remain to b arranged. The original
idea was to have fooot ball and other
games decided In the springs of this year,
but insuperable obstacles arose, and It Is
now officially announced that so far at
any rate as the stadium events 'are con
cerned there will 'not be any competitions
during the spring. It Is unofficially stated
that King Edward will open the games.
The opening of the track and field events
In the Btadium has been set for July IS,
but It Is Just possible It may get a shift
to a couple of days earlier. So far as the
dates are fixed they are as follows:
Golf June 1, 2 and. 3.
Polo During week ending Jirhe"Jn. with
finals on a later date at Hurlingham..
Athletics July lb tn stadium.
Shooting July 8, 9 and 10 at Bisiey.
Rowing July 28 at Henley.
Yachting July 27, 28 and 29 at Ryde.
Association Foot Ball, Hockey and La
crosseOctober. Tho dates for lawn tennis, racquets and
other minor pastimes will be 'announced
soon. The speed skating contents have
been' abandoned, but there will be a coin
petition of figure skating at Prince's In
October. Previous to the big meet in the
Htadlum the track will bo used by Xhe
different clubs "for their various sports.
Early in May the Ffnchley- Harriers will
hold a big carnival In which tho different
branches of athletics will be liberally
catered to, apd the Polytechnic Harriers
have announced two meets, one for June
8 and tho other for July 11, tho latter the
Saturday prior to the opening of the Olym
pic program.
First Day's Kvents In Stadlnm.
As at present arranged. It Is proposed that
on July 18 the program shall -Include luo
and 8S0-yard open handicaps, 2-Tnlle walk
ing handicap, 3 miles, scratch, 440-yard
scratch, half mile cycle and mile handi
caps, and 5-mile cycle scratch, swimming,
fancy diving and water polo, the day to
wind up with a gymnastic exhibition and
drill. The Polytechnics will occupy the
July date, tn a dual meet with l-e Stade
Francaise, and the regular list of events
will be supplemented by a series of .handi
cap coptests open to all.
For the match, events will bo 100 and 440
yards, one and three-mile runs, lao-yard
hurdles, high and broad Jumps. The handi-1
caps will be VM and 880-yard rims, 120-yard
herdles, three-mile run and two-mile walk
ing race; cycling, one-quarter-mile and
one-mile handicaps, half-mile and five
mile scratch, and open handicap swimming
rjee for women, a team swimming race
and a water polo tourney for teams in tlje
south of England. There will be a boxing
contest at 13S pounds. Another tneet Is
thought of for September, as well as a
London to Brighton walk.
An Idea of the Importance of the Poly
technics in the Olympiad can be gathered
from the fact that they have been asked
by the Amateur Athletic association to ar
range for the Marhon trial. On-April 25
next the club has laid the plans for a
twenty-mile race and the request came
from the governing body that tiiis consti
tute the Marathon trial. Of course the
Polytechnics were glad to give consent.
This race will be over the same course
practically as the real Marathon event.
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NEW CLASSES MADE FOR THE DOGS
Bench Show of the Westminster Club
Promises Much.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1. New clashes have
been made and many new specials offerpd
for the thirty-second annual bench show
of the Westminster Kennel club, which will
be held In the Madison Square . Garden,
February 11 to 14, and from the number of
entries received the show should be even ,
more successful than those of the past.
One of the new classifications will be that
of Esquimau dogs, entries for the classes
being guaranteed by Robert Guggenheim,
who haa a large kennel of tho breed se
cured In Alaska, and he has decided to
give an exhibition of tho way the dogs are
used on the last day of the show, when
be will drive them around the ring with a
Klondike rig. Another new class is that
for Irish wolf hounds, a dog somewhat
larger than the Scottish deorhound.
The usual largo number of specials at this
show has been greatly augmented this
year. The Ladles' Kennel Association . of
Massachusetts has gieatly Increased the
number of prizes for its members, and
the many challenge cups and other prises
of the Ladies' Kennel Association of
America will be up' for competition. In
addition there' will be a long list of new
specials offered y the Pet Dog Club of
America, and specials offered by the Great
Dane Club of Austria. -w
Husky Cornhusker
PAUL T. BELL,
Captain Nebraska Basket Ball Team.
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UNITY LACKING AT HARVARD
t'nrest In Its Athletics and Its Effect
Upon Consistent S access 1st
the Various "ports
Managerial Elections.
The cross currents run so strong In Har
vard athletics that it Is not hard If one 1b
In the least ambitious to trace a reason
for the lack of success of tha teams there.
Taking It all In all, a survey 'of Harvard
sport seems to show that the successful
teams there are chiefly In the minor sports.
Foot ball at Harvard, measured by the line
of victory, has been successful only once
In seven seasons, the most recent victory
having been In 1901. The crew won at
New London In 1908, before that In 1899, be
fore that In 1891, and before that In 1S85,
thus four times In twenty-three races. Not
since 1902 has the Harvard track team,
once the most Important of them all, won
tho Intercollegiate championship. The dual
meets with Yale have been about the best
of Harvard's performances on the track.
In base ball Harvard's success has been
about as uncertain. However, In hockey
and lawn tennis and 1n golf Harvard has
been something of a leader.
Harvard men-themselves are the first to
resent statements that their lack of con
sistent success In athletics is because they
do not attract the schoolboy stars or that
there is not enough men who take an in
terest in sport. They believe and they
know that Harvard is served with Its
fair poportion of good mn in the schools,
and It is perhaps a matter of almost uni
versal knowledge that Harvard regularly
attracts more candidates for any one oi us
teams than any other Institution of learn
ing. The physical quality of the men en
gaged in sports at Harvard certainly Is
not inferior to that of the men In the other
universities. The spirit is as willing and
the men aro Just as game and courageous.
Harvard Lacks Unity,
"hat is the matter with Harvard, then?
' Persons' who have watched the develop
ments of the last two or three seasons are
Inclined to believe that the trouble is a
disunlwn of thought between the students
and the faculty. When the agitation arose
against foot ball Harvard wos as willing
as any other that It should be reformed.
By Harvard here is mea.nt the Harvard
foot ball contingent. The suggestion of
the neutral aone came from Harvard.
However, when all the persons who real
ised that foot ball must be reformed were
at work Harvard was forced to stay idly
by, because the faculty was reported to be
considering not the question of what re
forms should be urged, but whether It
would not be best o abolish foot ball at
Harvard; not only that, but moreover,
whether It would not be better for the In
stitution to drop competition of all kinds
in Intercollegiate sports. ,
That .naturally created'a spirit of -unrest.
The college world was perturbed, because
Harvard is Important to collegiate . ath
letics, although often beaten. Eventually
the matter was decided for the time being
at least and the Harvard foot ball authoil
tles were permitted to take their part in the
reformation of the game.
Not so long ago reports began to be cir
culated that Harvard aud Princeton were
approchlng an agreement, such that a foot
ball game between these two might be
expected next fair. In the meantime the
athletic management, never weary of tin
kering with wliut little the faculty leaves
of the same management of athletics, had
advised a foot ball advisory committee to
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YOUNG TURKS PLAY BALL
Foot Ball and Other Games Work
Chances In I.and of "nltan.
"Oriental peoplo aro averse to physi
cal exercise of any kind. Their Ideas of
enjoyment Is to sit under an awning and
play backgammon," said Edward O. Don-
aldsort of Constantinople, Turkey, the dl
rector of an. American and English whole
sale Importing house In the capital of the
sultan. "That a man should go out and
run around a track In shamelesa naked
ness, and this with no hope of gain, only
confirms them In the belief that all Amer
icans are mad. But they are imitative peo
pie, and some years ago tho Influence and
example of the younger teachers got a
few of tho preparatory boys out for foot
races.
That day, for Bou-Belrut, at least, the
deathblow was struck to the picturesque
dress of the orient. You can't run a' 100-
yard dash with long, baggy trousers and
a silk gumbes that flops around your an
kles. Even if you tuck your skirts Into
the sash the effect is mere startling than
speedy. So one by one the students ordered
European trousers from their city tailors.
"At first they were poorly cut and viewed
w,jth suspicion, but today there are not
three men in the collegiate department who
wear the old costume, and many of the
students dress wi.th taste and an elegance
that their professors cannot afford to emu
late. Tennis and. basket ball soon won
their place in the students' favor, and now
we have gymnastic apparatus and a regu
larly graduated athletic director, who has
learned physical culture and boy nature
through a long experience In the gymna
siums of America. x
"But it was foot ball that did the most
toward unification. The value of team
work is a new , idea to eastern college .mon.
The old Idea was that of 'every man for
himself.' It has been so slncS the time of
Alclbiades and Absalom. If it . had not
been so the histoj-y of the world might have
been different. It was comparatively easy
to see the joy of winning, a foot ractf or a
tennis match, but to play an untheatrlcal
part In a football game, obeying a cap
tain and working for the good of the side,
that was a different thing. Washington
Post.
MANY CREWS LOOK FOR COACHES
Professional Oarsmen It Great De
mand by Colleges and Clubs.
NEW YORK. Feb. l.'-There never were
so many demands for professional rowing
coaches to train colleges, school and club
crews as now: Tills Is due to several
causes,' one of Which-is that rowing or
ganizations, other than university, are fast
beginning; to realize the necessity of a paid
mentor to tutor candidates for aquatic
honors. Also, to the fact that college boat
clubs (are extending their ambitions with
an idea of entering open regattas more fre
quently than In the past.
A well known authority on rowing has
fully a dozen Jetters from out-of-town or
ganisations seeking his advice and as
sistance in securing desirable coaches for
them. As all ho applications ard genuine
and breafhe fOiispositlim to pay good sal
aries to the selected ones, the lesson Is that
rowing Is on the boom. It Is fast going
back , to the old days when tUe value of
the medal at stroke was not mado any
consideration In a boat race.
SIX CLUBS TOO MANY TO CARRY
lien Berry Drops Plan to Expand Pa
cific Coast l.eauae.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. l.-Hen ' Berry
Jias abandoned his scheme of having six
clubs I nthe Pacific Coast Base Ball league.
The Iosy Angeles manager was sanguine
that his city could support continuous bass
ball in fine shape; in other, words. It could
take care,' of two clubs; . b'ut the sixth
club was Die stumbling block. After giv
ing the subject studious thought, Berry
figured that it would cost J:0,C0 to -put a
sixth club in the field and maintain it,
which would eat up the profits of the other
clubs. Therefore, he notified President
Cal Ewing that he would vote in favor of
four clubs. ,
DARTMOUTH AND MICHIGAN GAME
Chance for Foot Ball Event Is Xor?
Very Bright.
DETROIT. Mich., Feb. l.-Tlfie students
at the University of Michigan anticipate
a game with Dartmouth's foot ball team
next fall, fyr reports from Graduate Ath
letic Director Balrd Indicate that every
thing except the date and location of the
game has been arranged. Dartmouth, ac
cording to report. Is willing to have th
first game played either in the east or the
west, and then alternate every year in the
future, but no definite plan will be made
until it has been decided whether or not
MUhlgan is to go east to meet Pennsyl
vania. ,
American Jockeys In Hnssla.
American Jockeys have things their own
way on the Russian tracks. YViuftcld. an
American negro, leads the list with loo wins
out of &00 mounts. Richards, also an
AnuMlean,-Is second with seventy-four out
of 400, and Dlgby, Gannon and Pickett, all
Americans, are well up In the list.
Considering the large number of profes
sional baseball players, he number ot
really good conchers Is exceedingly small.
Much of tho good coaching to be -found)
does not come under the Immediate notice,
of the general run of base ball patrons,'
The latter take note of the results ot c,oatin
ing mora than of the work Itself; but evrs)
then this department of the game does
not Impress Itself on the onlooker as does
the actual plays. A noisy cnacher. a witty
coacher or a coacher of monkeyshlnes will
of course attract attention, the. noisy
coacher and the comedian coacher some
times attracting more attention than tiiejf
deserve. As to the witty concher. lie la
scarce. There aro few coechora of real,
bright wit. There wss only one Arlla
Latham a man who was genuinely funny,
whose wit amused and never offended, ami
who in addition was a wideawake coacher.
Yet there are compotntent coachcrs wln
are neither loud nor facetious, good In tho
sense that they get good results on tha
base paths, quick to size up situations ami
of sound Judgment. There aren't as many
of these as there might to bo, thfitgh. In
Dronortlon to the 'number of nlavers. Aa
a fine art coaching in base ball has noC
progressed nearly as much as head work lit
playing or as mechanical skill.
Latham Never Tiresome.
Latham was tho most striking figure on
tho coaching lines the game has produced.
He was a born entertainer. He neveT be
came tiresome and never was coarse. No
matter how dull a game might be he put
life in it when he was on the lines. Thera
was a freshness and crlspness and Joyous
ness about him that stirred things up. Yet
while one object of coaching Is to keep
things lively, its prime object Is to direct
runners in getting around the bases.
Noise pure 8"nd simple Is not necessary
to accomplish this. When It Is noiso and
nothing else It Is a hindrance more than
anything else and is not relished by fair
minded spectators. Still less Is relished
that essentially unsportsmanlike, coaching
which consists of persona remarks di
rected at opponents intended to rattle them.
Better the noisy coacher who simply- roan
blatantly without Indulging In personalitfea
thanjhe coacher who arouses an opponent
to anger by remarks of an offensive nattrre
Intended for the latter's ears alone. Tha
former Is at least aboveboard.'
Unsportsmanlike coaching Is not confined
to professionals by any means: In one ot
tho amateur organisations about this city
Hast summer' unfair and unsportsmanlike
coacning was an every-gama occurrence.
The coacher would rattle off disagreeable
personal remarks with rapidity and loudly,
too sarcastic and alleged humorous com
ments which had no part In legltlmata
coaching methods and which could serve)
no good purpose In helping a base rnn
ner. 1
One trouble with this stylo of coaching
Is that a little of It has the effect of ap
pearing to be a good deal. There Is a
four-flush staglness about it, too, which tho
professional, would not resort to. There's
this to be nald about the professional, he
rarely Is actuated by a desire to sliow up
an opponent, to make him look cheap.
Motives Are Honest.
The professional's coaching metiods may
sometimes bo questionable, but his mo
tives are at least honest the same being to
win the game. He doesn't Indulse In tactics
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for the sake of disconcerting Mm.
The most conspicuous man on the coach
ing lines In tho big leagues at present Is
Hugh Jennings, manager of lttt-uU
American league champions. Jennings keeps
his men on their toes all the time.. His
"yec-ah" became a famous war cry In a
season. Tn hn nt. t n.. ni,i,.B ........i...
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made of his coaching, but a great majority
of patj'ons, even when rooting for the other
team, enjoyed It and regarded It as fair
and Inoffensive. With all Jenning tom
foolery there was a great deal of sense.
He had a knack of keeping the batter on
the qui vlve with pentinent, snappy, en
couraging remarks, which were a big de
parture from the cut and dried vocabulary
common to most coachers.
"That old boy's up there for a .purpose."
"Mako up your mind you can hit and yon
will," and dozens of other words of ad
vice, .all original, were sung out by Jen
nings to make his men do their best. Ha
was full of fuA and energy.
. Joe Cantlllon. manager of the Washing
tons, Is an extremely noisy person on tha
coaching lines. He keeps It up and doesn't
allow his men to forget what they're there
for, but he lacks the spontaneity of Jen
nings. Ills strident voice becomes mo
notonous, and as far as the unafflllater
spectator is concerned he arouses antag
onism and not .sympathy. He , Is ener
getic, but frequently a nuisance and his
methods are not calculated to uplift tha
game to any noticeable extent. .
Wltii Cantllllon upon one side of the dia
mond and Charlie Hickman on the other.
tas was often the cast last summer when
,ie. wiin me vvasningtons, the vocal
clamor often becama a Niagara of racket.
There is nolhlng offensive about Hickman's
coaching, however. Hick is tUe soul of
good nature, a man whom everybody likes.
He has a deep, reverberating voice which
carries a mile and shakes grand stands and
his resonant "Hit "er out, old boy." Is as
the roar of cannon. He is tho bellowing
type of coacher whose repertoire of crlea
Is limited, but whose voice is agreeable to
the aurals.
Mck Allroc-k a t'atau.
Nick Allrock of the Chicago White Sox Is
the chief representative of the buffoon
typo bf coacher. The southpaw twirler Is
a funny card on the lines with his cracks
and capers. He Is a cutup, is Nick, with"
considerable sense cf rough audi tumbin
humor. Germany Sshacfer of tha Del rolls
Is something of a clown also, but a bit
more sjibtle and artistic about It than Alt
rock. As both of these mer are si nt up
to coach a good deal they must be good
coaches as well as amusing, ones. Mont
Crom is a character on the coaching llntst
in a quiet way. He is original al wltjy
when be wants tq, be. lias all hWcan do to
keep still for a Seovud st a time, but 'holds
hln-kelf In restraint well and attend
strictly to business most of the time.. H
Is one of the few first clabs coachcrs. .
CTurk Griffith carries tpout of the coach
ing loaf of the New York Americans on lila
shoulders. Griff Is hustler on tha coach.
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