News-Journal from Mansfield, Ohio • 10

the that this followers saw, be successful a of that may have The the es- re-: as with fifty will 2. in will -J the of -B 'THE MANSFIELD NEWS. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1920. OHIO COLLEGES PLAN FOR BIG GRIDIRON SEASON CONFERENCE TEAMS WILL ALL BE STRONG Cleveland, Sept. the opening of Ohio's many colleges, and schools going in full blast, the minds of lovers of athletic sports are turn- log from the diamond to the Iron Lovers of the sport as played by colleges are promised as good teams generally as ever in history by the majority colleges in the, Ohio conterence, The first game of the season in most instances will be played next Saturday, Scrimmage is already under way on most of the fields and the coaches are getting their better men into shape, looking over the material and preparing for the hard struggle to defeat deadly rivals before the approach of winter ends the great college sport.

Reports received from the coaches of various colleges throughout the state by the International News Serviceare given below: Obertin- -Oberlin cottege has six veterans from last year's championsutp football team practice now. They are Captain Met bee, Halfback Wheeler, Quarterback Maylor, Fullback Barden, Center Metcalf, as well 84 number of members of last year's varsity squad. Last year's freshmen class furnished less promtelng material than usual, but backMel4 material is plentiful, the development of ends being the biggest problem. Ohio With a foundation of, 12 letter men and more than 25 other eligibles now at work, Coaches have football at Ohio university well in band. The 1920 green and white team will perhaps be the best to wear the colors in several years.

Judging from the experienced men now at work, and there are half a dozen seasoned men yet to report, the tear will not be bulky, but there is indi-, cation of unusual balance of weight la, beth line and backfield and there undoubtedly more speed all: the way through than usual. Wooster -Wooster college footinali squad has completed a week of practice. men have reported. While the material is not as good as in some previous Coach Boles expects his eleven to make a good record. The backfeld lacludes a few veterans with several sophomores.

Promising candidates are White, Dunbar, Masie, Snyder, Bringle, Seuff, Miller, Reed and Hetfer. The line will depend for strength on Walker, Billingsley and Wittiams, with Captain Stie er and Heidman on the ends. Many candidates are trying out for the forward positions. Ven Nest, Clay, Hopkins, Mitebell and Franks are among the promising contenders. Denison -Practice started Monday, with 35 men reporting.

Among tAro letter men on hand are Captain Mollinger, Quarterback Owens, end. Nest punter in Obio last season; Kidder, all-Ohio tackle; Laver, guard, Stone, halfback: Weider, fullback. Akron- With only five letter men reporting back, Coach Setton, of Akrom university, is having considerable dificulty in whipping Into ebape team which will be a very serious contender for the Ohio conference championship. There are approx- CANTON BULLDOGS GET WILBUR HENRY Former Washington Jeffer. son Star Tackle Signs Pro Football Contract.

Wilbur Henry, perhaps the best football player ever turned out in Mansfield and for several years star among college players, has signed to play with the Canton Bulldogs for the coming season. Henry is the most notable addition to Jim Thorpe's crew of professionals. He command a fancy salary but will be worth it in playing ability and drawing power. Henry will go to Canton shortly for the season and practice with the champions. Ever since the big war Henry has been an undisputed All-American tackle down at Washington-Jefferson college at Washington, a college which turns out some of the best footballers in the country and annually takes several falls out of the big eastern schools.

Walter Camp termed him the best tackle in the country after the close of the 1919 season, his last as a college man, which is a compliment seldom won from Camp by a player not hailing from Harvard or Yale. Henry put In four seasons at as a varsity man, after graduating from Mansfield high, and in those four seasons earned the distinction of never being outplayed by his opponent. Although only 22 years of age, Henry tips the scales at 235 pounds. He stands 5 feet and 11 inches and is' built on the same style of architecture as Spears, the All-American, guard from Dartmouth who put In several seasons with the Bulldogs. and la now head coach at his alma mater.

In spite of his weight, Henry is considered a fast man, able to do the bundred in close to 11 seconds. In addition to winning fame. on the football field, he played a guard on the -J basketball team. and won his letter as a member of the track and field team. Four other teams were bidding, for Henry- -(leveland, Akron, Hammond and Rock Island, all of which hold positions on the Canton schedule.

But be leaned teward the Bulldogs from the start, declaring that he wished to play with Jim Thorpe and the other stars he knew to be on, the Canton roster. stakes with an added money value totaling $100,000 will feature the annual winter race meeting of the -American club which is to open at the Havana. track next Thanksgiving day. Harvard -will not on the Dartmouth football schedule this season, but the Green will not lack formidable opponents, having scheduled games with Syracuse, Cornell, Pennsylvania and Brown. Louis Bogash is steadily forging his way toward the top of the lightweight division.

So far this year the crack Bridgeport boxer has fought twenty-seven fights, getting the decision twenty-three times. mately eligible men thain Ing, but, with the exception of very few, they are totally unacquainted collegiate football. The team a whole be light, but fast, avcraging around 155 pounds. The men are fighting hard for the open- positions as the first team will not be picked very long before the opening with Defance on October Judge Rogers, well-known Akron university tackle of several years ago, has been secured as assistant coach. Ohio Wesleyan- men are reporting nightly al Edwards: field, Ohio Wesleyan university, for football practice.

Eight letter men were out for first practice this week, they being Brubaker, Colton, Havighurst, Parker, Long. Mahon, Craig and Meredith. Wright, starend of last year's eleven. is in she navy and has not reported. Twelve of last year's freshmen have reported.

The terial generally offered for the open positions is mediocre. Finkbone and Richards may make the two' end pol' sitions with guard to be filled later. Coaches Ewing, Watkins and Van Al styne are working the squad hard on Ime bucking. The outlook on the whole is fair, but stiff training will be needed to work ap a strong team. Hiram- Hiram college closed its first week of football practice Saturday and Coach Roy Tillotson 19 very hopeful as to the outcome of the first game of the season with Case Sept.

45, at Hiram. A squad of forty men, including seven letter men, has been out every evening for practice. The first scrimmage of the season was held Thursday, wheu Coach. Tillotson lined up those eligible for the varsity against a freshman eleven. After twenty minutes of sharp work, neither had scored.

Peterman, halfback: Chapmas, and Monroe, quarter, have been doing exceptionally good work. Western Reserve -Western Reserve university will open up their season on Sept. 25, with a game with Toledo university. Many of last year's team will be missing. berg.

Oberlin, Torrence, Michalski, Breckenridge, Sampitner, Vokoum, Palmer are the letter men that will not be back. Men left are Branson, Thornton. Thorpe and Hecker of last year's team. From the freshmen squad are several good looking play- era. namely, Nichols, Mapes, Bar lough, Fetterman, Eartie, Parker, and Kirtz, and Teech, from the law school.

Great interests being shown by the students and the largest squad in the history of the college is expected. Ohio State- -Although secret practice has been inaugurated, sufficient action on the part of candidates tor Ohio State university's eleven has been witnessed to enable local gridiron experts to reach the that this year's football team will be a fast one. Following the annual cane rush, Coach Wilce has started the vigorous service of getting the team into shape. From now on, until the winner of the 1920 western conference championship is known, only members and officials connected with the varsity team will be allowed Ohio field during practice bows. Rare Gridiron Sport Coming Carefully Arranged Schedule of Games Start Next Saturday and Indicate 1920 Season Will be Most Successful- First of "Big Three" Games Does Not Come Until November.

Football will delectable morsel for of great college sport fall and indications point to most the game ever notwithstanding fact records high into the thousands already been -tablished at classic games. enormous crowds which have witnessed baseball battles during the summer only foretell what happen when Yale and Harvard, Ohio State and I1- linole, Princeton and Harvard, bia and Pennsylvania, Pittsburg and West Virginia and Center College and Harvard meet this year. Chances are that the great crowd which saw the Tale-Harvard contest three years ago in the Yale bowl will be pressed to. the limit by enthusiasts this fall. Schedule makers have outdone themselves in arranging games for the public benefit.

Of course, that was farthest from their minds when they agreed to contest, for the public has been told time almost without number that football is played, not for pecuntary gain, but for the beneft of college athletics. However, when the first blows September 25 we will have IMPORTANT FOOTBALL DATES FOR 1920. October 9-Pittaburg in. West Virginia at Pittsburg. SCHOLASTIC ELEVEN OPENS WITH LORAIN With thirty men in uniform at the daily practice at the fairgrounds during the past week, the Mansfield high school football squad is getting in condition for the opening game of the season next Saturday, Coach Poster's squad will go to Lorain for a game with the strong Lorain eleven.

This is looked upon as a rather hard game for so early in this season, but such a game will go far towards determining the reall ability of some of the candidates. Three cripples have resulted from the strenuous practice of the week. Mumert, a likely line candidate, had his foot injured fu such a manner that he is on crutches. He may not be able to get back into the game again this season. Gibson, who nad his knee hurt while working during the sum mer, suffered an injury to the same knee during practice and is unable to continue on the squad.

Hahn had his ankle sprained and is also on rutches. During the week, Coach Foster had been worked out in practicing falling on the ball, and this should prove valuable if there is any bling during games. A tacking dummy has been rigged up by coach. The defense is being developed as much a8 possible, but there baa been no real test of its strength as yet. Ford, Oster, Morirson and Knarr are working in the backfield, with Hancock as the fifth man.

Of the veicrans, Sotherland is at center. Underwood at tackle and Padg4 at guare Neer'1s a likely line candidate, while Beard and Charles Ford are also coming good. Ditwiler and Sowash are at present holding down the end tions, but both are Inexperienced: Greider is also looked upon 8.8 prospective end. While several scrimmage practices have been held, a scrimmage has been erranged with the Libertys for Tues. day evening at the fairgrounds.

This practice will give Coach Foster an opportunity to see just how strong his proteges will be in lining up against almost equal opponents. Feels Elated at Prospects. With enough candidates coming out for football practice to make three squads Coach Harry Barnhart feels elated over the chances of Ashland in central Ohio conference this season. This squad has, not dwindled down, as is generally the custom, since the first practice. The same men are coming out to the athletic field every night and trying hard to land a berth on the eleven.

The team will be lighter but will have much more pep and fight than last year's team in the opinion of the coach. The big game of Ashland's schedule will be the Thanksgiving day game with Mansfeld. Whipping Team Into Shape. stiff Marion's squad is being given the first game to be played at Upper workout daily in preparation for Sandusky Sept. 25.

Coach Burdette has four letter men around whom the team is built. They are Capt. Moore, Knachel, Widemann and Brashares. Minard, Mewhorter, Monette and M. Hinklin, of last year's second squad are showing the stunt that may land them positions on the varsity.

Coach Burdette also has an abundance lot new material, including Burdette, MeCombs, Durr, Parcher, Willia dis and Martin. The first home game will be played Oct. 2 with Carey. HARD SCHEDULES FOR WESTERN ELEVENS Perusal of the college football schedules for the coming fall indicate that even more than in the past eastern elevens have picked easy preliminary schedules, winding up with about two bard games. In the west, especially among the Big Ten conference institutions, the procedure seems to be to take on all comers, and hard fought battlesi are on the program every Saturday throughout the Central states.

Ohio State plays Wesleyan, Oberlin, Purdue, Wisconsin, Chicago, Michigan and Illinois in the order named. Not much chance here for, taking it easy, save for the fact that two wecks intervene between the Michigan and Illinois game. Illinois, conference champions, has even a harder route to travel. Commencing October 9 with Drake, the Illini meet Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Chicago, Wisconsin and Ohio on suecessive Saturdays. This team won the conference championship in mainly by virtue of its heavy schedule, for, although the race was the Champaign bunch gained undisputed honors by tackling and beating almost every contender Michigan has about the same sort of going as Ohio State, with games against Case, Michigan Aggies, Illinois, Tulane, Ohio Chicago and Minnesota.

The Tulane game may or may not be breathing spell. The Southerners have developed some fierce teame in the last few years. Imagine some conference team scheduling, Georgia Tech two or three years ago for a practice game. In the east almost every big college has made its practice games as light as possible. Harvard has scheduled Center college, which game "takes rank as one of the most interesting in the country, but aside from that the Crimson will take it easy until the -last-three weeks of the season, when the traditional Princeton-Brown-Yale campaign will be fought.

Cornell has an exceptionally easy schedule, unless some dark horse like Columbia, Colgate or Rutgers should again spring a highclass team. The usual comparison between the eastern and western college teams has been that the west may perhaps develop as many outstanding stars, or even as good first string men, but that their substitutes are fewer and of poorer class than in the east, where so many boys leara the college game in prep schools. It this be correct, it is difficult to understand why eastern elevens do not give these many stars a chance to show, by playing more real games during the season. THREE GREATEST AMATEUR GOLFERS IN UNITED STATES. Chick Evans.

Bobby Jones and Francis Ouonet Chick Evans, of Chicago, Francis of Atlanta, are the three greatest the world. These three players battled Evans being the winner over Ouimet The last of the national golf championship tournaments of the season will be staged at Cleveland during the first week October, when the feminine experts of the game will contest for premier title. John Harvard is the distinguished cognomen borne by the new catcher signed by the St. Louls Browns. October 16-- Peinceton va.

Washington and Lee at Princeton: cuse vs. Pittaburg at Syracuse, October 28--Chicago as. lowa at Chicago; Harvard vs. Center at Cambridge; Piusburg vs, Georgia Tech at Pittsburg: Yale vs. West Virginia at Sew Haven; Princeton vs.

Navy at Princeton. October 80-Chicago vs. Ohio State at Chicago; Georgia Tech vs, Center at Atlanta; Illinois vs. Minnesota at Urbana; Pennsylvania vs. Penn State at Philadelphia; Princeton vs.

West Virginia at Princeton; Vale vs. Colgate at New Haven; Army Va. Notre Dame at West Point. November 2-Rutgers vs. Nebraska at New York.

November 6-Chicago vs. Illinois at Chicago; Harvard vs. Prince. ton at Cambridge; Pennsylvania vs. Pittsburg at Philadelphia; Penn State vs.

Nebraska at State C'ollege; Yale vs. Brown at New Haven. November 13-Harvard vs. Brown at Cambridge; Kentucky VA. Center at Lexington; Pennsylvania vs, Dartmouth at Philadelphia; Pittsburg vs.

Washington and Jefferson at Pittsburg; Princeton Yale at Princeton. November 20-Yale vs. Harvard at New Haven; Syracuse vs. Colgate at Syracuse; Illinois vs. Ohio State at Urbana.

November 27-Army vs. Navy at New York. STEEL MILL GIVES WESTINGHOUSE SCARE, Twice Go in Front by Having Big Innings, But Fail to Hold This Lead. (lass A Standing. W.

Eclipse .833 Westinghouse 5 .714 Ohio' Brass .600 Steel Mill 2 .286 Aultman-Taylor 2 .6, .260 Steel Mill gave Westinghouse somewhat of a scare when these two Industrial league clubs clasbed in a game at the fairgrounds yesterday afternoon. Steel Mill twice assumed the lead by bunching hits and scoring frequently, but they were unable. to bold this lead and were nosed out at the finish 11-10. The game bad no particular bearing on the standing. as the final game between Westinghouse and Eclipse for the pennant 1 is to be staged next Saturday, Emmer was batted hard by Steel Mill, the latter club making, 23 hits for a total of 30 bases.

Hepry, held Westinghouse in check, but his support was ragged and accounted for many of the Westinghouse runs. H. Henry led in the slugging. getting five bits in six times 'at' bat. Score: Westinghouse A.B.

R. H. P.O. A. E.

Rae, 2b A. Fisher, 1b. 3b 2 Yarman, 99 5 2 Mace, rf E. Fisher, ef 6 2 Connelly, It 6. 2.3 Mull, Emmer, 3 2 Totals 11 13 27 14 Steel MUI A.B.

R. H. P.O..A. E. E.

Troll, 6 2. 0 3 Darling, 3b 2. H. Henry, 6 1 W. Henry, 10 Miller, It Knapp, 1b 5 2 10 Mumaur, ct Resse, rt Moore, 2b 5 1 3 2 2 Totals 47 10 23 27 14 9 Westinghouse 006 110 120--11 Steel MIll 300 250 000--10 Three base hits--H.

Henry, Two bast -Connelly, Knapp, Reese, Darling, H. Henry, W. Henry. Stolen bases--Rae, Miller, Double playaRae to Yarman; Yarman- to Rae 1,0 Fisher. Bases on balls--off Emmer 3.

Of H. Henry 2. Struck out--by Emmer 4, H. Henry 8. Hit by pitcher -Mumaux.

Passed balls -W. Henry 2. Wild pitches -H. Heary-2. Umpire -Schamer.

ST. LOUIS NOW LEADS LEAGUE IN BATTING Sisler Also Seven Points Ahead of Speaker in Individual Batting Averages. Cleveland this week is playing second 6ddle to the Browns in both team and individual batting as tte71 Browns now top the American league with .302, two points better then the Indians, while George Sisler is batting .397, or seven points better than Speaker. The White Sox are hitting .291, the Nationals .290 and the Yankees .282. Cleveland is first in fielding.

doubles, triples, sacrifice hits and bases On balls. Although Speaker is second. he has twelve points the better on Joe Jackson who is ensconsed in third place. Ruth being fourth with .372, and Eddie Collins fifth with .366. Babe Ruth is showing the way as run getter, with 147 runs.

Sister 18 second with 119, Speaker third with 117 and Collins fourth with 102. Others who have a chance to pass the century mark in runs are Judge, Weaver and Jackson. Ruth, with his 49 home runs, has made more than twice as many foursackers as the entire Boston team. He also has made more than any other team in the league, except his own. Jim Bagby continues to lead the pitchers with' 28 victories and 10 defeats, with Shocker his leading rival.

Walter Mails is the nominal leader, with tour victories and no defeats. Nicholson is the nominal batting leader in the National league, with Hornsby the actual leader. Grimes tops the pitchers, while, Bancroft, with 91 tallies, is the leading run getter. Rutgers is to figure in two notable intersectional games on the gridiron this fall. On November 2 the New Brunswick eleven will meet the versity of Nebraska at the Polo Grounds and on Thanksgiving day the team will journey west to play the University of Detroit.

Arrangements are about concluded for a post-season series between the fag winners in the Central league and the Michigan-Ontario league, following the close of the season on Sept. 12. with us a carefully arranged bunch, of games, designed to lead elevens which command respect into certain victories that will only blaze the trail into harder ground. Harvard takes on Holy Cross at Cambridge on that day, while West Virginia will go into training for her heavier games through a battle a at Morgantown with West Virginia Wesleyan. Neither Yale nor Princeton will send their elevens on the field on the opening day unless some changes are made in the schedules of those universities.

October 2 will see the real opening for the more important schools. Yale will have a rather hard argument in taking on Carnegie Tech at New Haven, if present indications point to the strength of the Pittsburg outfit. Penn state meets Gettysburg, Princeton battles Swarthmore, Pennsylvania tackles Bucknell, Army is scheduled with Union and the Navy with North Carolina. Harvard will gO into its second struggle with Maine, its opponent at Cambridge. Those games are merely feeling out affairs, for the most part and probably will amount to just that, but football has proven itself to be so uncertain in the past that it will behoove the public to refrain from crowning any team a champion until these earlIter games have been disposed of.

Center College, the dynamite stick of the last season, will have things tougher this year, without doubt, for there will be plenty of preparations for the eleven that was unbeatable a year ago. Likewise there will be more digging of a mountainous kind. at Center itself, for the little college will send its famous team east this year to play the haughty Harvard combination at Cambridge. That game falls on October 23, far enough along fm the schedule of each school to make certain that regular football will be the result. Eyes of the nation will be turned on Cambridge that day, for there are many followers of Charley Moran's boys who believe the little school will take the measure of what has come to be regarded as the nation's foremost exponent of football.

Center is regarded highly because of the fart that most of its very fine eleven will return to school this fall. On the same day that Harvard- is struggling with the little school's representatives Yale will be entertaining a Western visitor at New Haven. West Virginia, another miracle team of the west, found a place on the Yale schedule this year and will make the most of it. West Virginia's team does not figure so strong as it did a year ago, but the eleven is, nevertheless, a powerful one and destined to worry the Yale men. The following Saturday Princeton will entertain the Mountaineers at Princeton, where they were unceremoniously drubbed by the West Vir-1 ginians last fall.

The first of the ever sting struggles between the so-called "Big -Harvard, Yale and ton--comes on November 6 when Harvard takes on Princeton at Combridge. The fololwing Saturday Princeton and Yale will lock horns at Princeton. As usual Harvard and Yale are scheduled for the Saturday preceding Thanksgiving Day, and this year the scene will be set in the Yale bowlthe largest athletic amphitheater on this side of the Atlantic, That all recorda for attendance will be smashed is practically a foregone Army and Navy, as in former years, wind up the season's important contests with their annual struggle at the Polo grounds, New York, on November 27, Fresh from his victorious invasion of Europe, Keene Fitzpatrick has returned to Princeton to put the Tiger football candidates through their paces. season reaching TO YOUR ORDER Suitsand Overcoats THAT SATISFY COMPLETELY. That's what every man wants -that's what he gets here.

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