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23 THE BOSTON GLOBE THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1923 1 Professional Exhibition onuinoes loston Fans That football Os a ollege and STAR WHO PLAYED QUARTERBACK FOR ROLLERS, MAKING ONE OF HIS FLASHING RUNS RED GRANGE MAKING ONE OF HIS FEW ADVANCES, GOING THROUGH STEAM ROLLER DEFENSE FOR FIVE-YARD GAIN FINE STAND BY BEARS AS THEY TOOK BALL FROM STEAM ROLLERS ON DOWNS ON 0NE-F00T LINE CROWD OF ADMIRERS AROUND GRANGE START OF STEAM ROLLERS EXPERTS DISAPPOINTED IN BRAVES FIELD GAME Proves Sport Is One For College and School Players, Coaches and Officials Say After Watching Professionals 5 i Hi on the Wigwam football field. Most of them did things, too, and Miller and Crowley of Notre Dame, and several of the others -were worth seeing in action even at the -price. But Grange never did get away. From the start the Steam Rollers had him marked. He fought and fought hard for a time, but could make no headway.

Perhaps he gained 2 yards by rushing, a fourth of It on a runbaek in whirh he got in one swift etraight-arm. Grange passed, instead of ran with the bail, when he knew it was of no use to run. He kept out of the close-up ccrlm-maging. but made several tackles In the open. It was apparent that be was playing saving football by the way he handled hlmse.f when in the baekfield as a protector for his own punter.

In this department be was of no value at all. Cheers for Red at Start At first the crowd was with Red With him 100 percent. When he started with the ball the cheering would start also. But always he was stopped, boon It was apparent that he was a marked foot bail player and was going to stay marked. And then the temper vf the crowd changed.

It was a kiddlag applause that Grange received aftv that. If ho made an easy tackle or forced a man outside the crowds cheers were just joke cheers. Once Grange chased a ball that had been kicked outside the playing field. He was all aloge, but when he picked up the leather there was a burst of cheers but they were not on the level. Then there came boos for Grange just as they sometimes come at the Wigwam for a star baseball player who Is having an off day.

And finally yesterday. when Grange left the playing field after doing his unsatistactory bit. there were as many Jeers aj there were cheers and Grange had to take out his appreciation In the day3 addition to his Wank account. Grange's mates seemed tired, too. They played like a team far off edge inev laved a THE ARROW POINTS TO FULLBACK LAIRD OF STEAM ROLLERS "WHO CARRIED THE BALL ODEN, EX-BROWN STEAM All-American backs could have accomplished much more against such a fine collection of football players as the Steam Rollers had in their lineup.

Of course there was not the interference for the carrier that is offered in the college game nor was there the hard and sure tackling that predominates in the college football battles. There was much individual effort by those carrying in yesterdays battle, but the Steam Rollers gave all that was within them, while the Chicago Bears failed to make much of an impression. College football is far superior to professional football and probably always will be, but I personally believe that professional football can and will be encouraged though it may be a matter of time before it will prove satisfactory to the dyed-in-the-wool football fans. IR CHARLES WHELAN Ex-Boston University Coach "Professional football will never be a success because football is a school and college sport and nothing else. Yesterday's game between the Chicago Bears and the Steam Rollers proved that fact to the letter.

There is more interference, more dash and more fight in an ordinary small college football contest than was evidenced In the Chicago Bear and Steam Roller game. It was very noticeable that the professional football pfay- era save themselves as much as possible because they realize that they are not playing for the same Ideals that the college player seeks for the college which he represents. "The tackling is not hard and sure In professional football as it is in college football and if yesterdays contest Is any criterion of professional football it was more or less of a failure and a big disappointment to football coaches and experts. The first half occupied So minutes elapsed time which goes to prove that the play system after all Is, in my estimation, the best possible solution to make the college game superior to anything else. "The Steam Roller team won because It was.

the better eleven of the two and played more like a unit than-Jie Chicago eleven. Of course the Bears are playing many games on the present trip, but it impressed me that the brand of football which the Chicago eleven uncovered yesterday was not nearly as hard as the scrimmages which the college have to go through. COACH BODGER CARROLL St 'James High Football Team 1 After watching the Bears and the Steam Rollers yesterday I am more firmly convinced that school and college football Is arid always will be where the greatest good will continue to predominate. The schoolboys and the collegians have a real ideal ahead of them on the field and they give all that is In them in order to win. The professional player does not enter into professional football with the same ideals that he carried into school or college football.

The professional player is thinking of the money remuneration which he receives for participating in games similar to the one of yesterday, whereas the schoolboy or college player gives all for his school or college for the sake of sport and not for any glory that may result due to his efforts. The school or college player plays for the love of the sport and that is i not true of the professional player, i The lack of teamwork was most notice-j able In the professional game, and it was more individual effort of the halfbacks than anything else that characterized the professional game in which Red Grange was stopped almost repeatedly whenever he attempted to gain. Grange did make, a couple of nice tackles on plays which might have resulted in touchdowns for the Steam Rollers, but outside of that he was a dismal failure. Professional football Is not nearly as hard as school or college football when it 1s taken into consideration that all of the members of the former teams have completed four years of college football. Football was organized primarily for the school and collages and after the exhibition yesterday professional football does not offer the same spirit and fight.

CARL FLANDERS Formerly a Yale Star After having witnessed several professional football games, ln which the New Y'ork Giants have played this Fall ln New York, and the game between the Chicago Bears and the Steam Rollers yesterday afternoon. I would say that the contest yesterday was not a fair chance to Judge professional football at Its best. It mturt be taken into consideration that the Chicago Bears have been playing almost daily since Grange has joined the club gnrt how many football teams can participate In three or four games each week and still be in top form? Thousands were no doubt disappointed in Red Granges inability to electrify the 18,000 who witnessed the game, but be did not have many chances to show his real worth because his team seldom had the ball in the Steam Rollers' territory. Team for team the Steam Rollers were the better of the two yesterday, but the result Tplkht have been vastly had -the Bears been as fresh as the Providence outfit. Professional football has a bright future, providing the players offer better Interference for the carriers arid tackle low and harder.

It was quite conspicuous among the Bears that they were inclined to tackle by the shoulders, by grapplng belts or by jerseys. Whatever interference was uncovered during the game was displayed by the Steam Rollers, who played harder and better football throughout. Professional football can develop Into a splendid game now that more College men are joining the teams, but aside from that, fact It can never replace the college game of football, be- a In a RED GRANGE FAR FROM TOP FORM Acted as If He Has Been Playing Too Much BEFORE CLASH WITH BEARS through and smother the plays. When a back did get through. It was mainly because of some behind-the-llne strategy that caught the opposing rushers charging the wrong way and opening holes in their own ranks.

Chicago had no attack worth the name. Grange could not gain, and soon most of the rushing was done by Wal-quist and K. Sternman, both from Illinois. llanny, and later Britton, both did some fine kicking, but not to outmatch. that of Maloney, former Dartmouth player, whose punts were dandies and who, time and time again, sent the leather oft the side line and near the goal.

Boston's football fans have seen too many good games, games played by fighting and spirited teams to be carried away by the professional exhibition yesterday at Braves Field. Football without every man doing his best to get into the play is a very different thing from a game In which there is a rallying about the ball the players taking chances and1 giving all they have to give. This feature lacking, even the fine In of "such payers as Miller and Crowley of Notre Dame, 'den of Brown, Wentworth of New Hampshire, McMUlen of Illinois, Koz-lowsky of Boston College, Gulian and Eckstein of Brown, did not bring a real thrill over the match and yet the Individual playing of these men at times was brilliant. I-teally, the game was one that was left to the work of the Individual performer. There was interference formed, but it did little in the way of clearing the path.

This was true even on run-backs and on end sweeps. Grange had no Interference whatever and was powerless against an avalanche of Providence linemen. Backs Go It Atone Miller and Laird, and later Crowley were fresher than the Chicago backs, and they, with Oden and Wentworth-did some spectacular running. But these men pretty much had to fight their Fine Players, No Team Work Out in the open. Oden.

Miller and, toward the finish. Crowley, made hair-raising gallops through the line only to have no offensive strategy save a valueless drive inside of tackle when came the opportunities to score. Boston probably never ha3 been so many fine exponents of football in action on' the same field and on the same dav before. Still almost every play seemed to bring an anticlimax. It was lack of cooperation, of cohesion, of drive, of getting into the game for all it was worth, really, that made the teams appear to be made up of units and as often Impotent as effective.

The Bears were crabby all through the game. They were unduly rough too, held a lot and got- away with it. koeed and piled up. On the other hand the Rollers played a strong clear, g.nne one calculated to do the cauw of professional football a lot of good. Of course the Bears were not going well.

They crossed the middie of the field not at all by rushing. and only once by passing then to luso the bail and the game when Hanny dropped a fine pass back for a kick, and then was i 'Jf fo.V -4 -ii GRANGE IS STOPPED AS BEARS LOSE, 9-6 Cnllnol Frm the First Face. RJ. and so was Grange yesterday, tost of the time; and it was Charley Steam Roller football out- from Providence that did the flattering. The Rollers also flattened the leirs, 3 to fi.

There were 18,000, about, out at Raves Field yesterday. Some of them paid J3J0 to see Grange; tome cf them did not pay so much aome did not pay at all, but had to stay notwithstanding that they wanted to to home. Hundreds' felt that Barnum was r'-sht and that One is born every tbute. Also there was a big agreement with Georgie Cohan that Two are born a minute to take em. Yet It was football circus day Bevertheless, and one doesnt expect to get more than seven glasses of lemonade out of one lemon at a ilrcxs.

And It was like that, in a big measure, out at the Wigwam foot-UII field yesterday afternoon. Easy Money for Grange official statement was made about te returns except that the scoreboard thawed that the Rollers won the game, Mel It may have been that there ws 1 10.0(0 In the "house. Perhaps not to much. Maybe Grange got 114.000. If did.

It was easy picking. It is hard to be a hero all the time. Orange has played wonderful football his year. At Illinois he was regarded Bo fash by scores of football men ttd writers who know their business. He showed the goods at college, and 'hen he went out into the world of rseionalism was because his -re of the profits, large as it was exacted to be.

was no larger than the harvest that the promoters expected that they themselves could reap. Orange was the beadliner. Orange had simply to go through the motions and show himself. If he played triuiant football, so much the better If not. the golder dollars were In hs tag Just tho same.

Yesterday Bos-simply was another contributor tor no bewildering amount. It doubtless would have been more bankable had Grange performed bril-hlly than that he did not. The boy en under a tremendous strain, 'ithstanding that he has been so aderfuliy well paid. tas been barnstorming at Amer-' most rugged game, has had no nce to rest from the matches In he has been picked out as the i J8 stop, and in consequence has i J4 mor than one man share of the wifering. fred Hard, cut in Vain iklere no question about Grange's Jfng He gave Boston all had-but it could not have been the tball which he is capable of playing Just right.

Grange yesterday not been con-Jedla shape to start a game for eolg by the coach at Illinois. he had to start and had to play. At the Wigwam about all there was t-t Grange yesterday was his Jersey with ita famous '77. He rv.y e'- not do a thing the Steam to that. The crowd went the Held expectant.

There -were star players, many of them, out There were so many men prominent 1 ln football as coaches and officials at the game at Braves Field yesterday drawitf by the reputation of "Red Grange and a desire to see what football as played by professional- league teams was like that Globe reporters sought their Impressions and reactions. These are given below: DR E. J. (JURIES Noted football Official If yesterday is any criterion of the success of professional football it was a dismal failure. It lacked the effort that is so noticeable and conspicuous in the school or college game, especially the brand of football uncovered by the much heralded Chicago Bears with Red Grange as its headliner.

Hanny of the Chicago Bears proved that he lacked effort when he started after a bad pass with a don't care attitude and permitted Garvey, the ex-Holy Cross star who was with th9 Steam Rollers, to scoop up 'the bail and race 40 yards for the first touchdown of the contest. lHanny not only loafed but he also failed to make the tackle which the ordinary college player would have accomplished after Garvey picked up the fumble. The Steam Rollers, however, played heads-up football which accounts for their ability finally to win the game. The Providence players as a whole played much superior football in all departments of the game but it was noticed throughout the game that neither team offered the interference which always is so evident in both school and college football. The tackling was not nearly as hard and fierce as the tackling in big college football contests.

The professional players have no Ideal to work for ln football games like the college player and as long as football is played it is and probably always will be a college sport and nothing more. COACII FRANK CAVANAUGH Boston College Football as displayed by the Chicago Bears and the Steam Rollers is no different than it was 20 or 25 years ago when played professionally, like the game of yesterday. Grange is a hard worker, but be was more of a handicap than a help to his team. He was completely smoothered almost every time when he was elected to carry, In fact Grange or any other heralded star would have had difficulty in gaining consistently for the Chicago Bears because the team lacked the interference for the carrier that usually is so conspicuous in the school or college game. The professional player remembers tomorrow, or ln other words does not give the same brand of football that is expected of him in the collegiate ranks.

The professional football players of the type of ths Chicago Bears or teams that are barnstorming throughout the country composed of college otars dont give thejr all like regular varsity players and it only goes to prove after the exhibition of yesterday that football Is and always will be a collogo game. The tackling was not hard and clean cut like that which always mark3 the foremost college battles ever Fall. "The Steam Rollers weie a far better machine in every respect and they played the game for all that was within them and deserved to win. Curley Oden, Cy Wentworth and Kozlowaky were the members of the Steam Rollers who Individually did work and were far superior to the Grange of yesterday. Grange was a big disappointment to the thousands of football lovers who attended the contest but.

unaided by interference. it is rather doubtful whether any other player reputed to be such a brilliant performer could have accomplished any more than the Illinois captain of the past Fall did in the yesterday. HERBERT TREAT Ex-Princeton Star Tackle Professional football has improved wonderfully of late years and offers wonderful possibilities, provided the game Is played as cleanly and as hard as that between the Chicago Bears and the Steam Rollers yesterday afternoon. True, the players dont give their all. similar to the college player, but it appeared to me to be a wonderful spectacle and has wonderful possibilities of being developed into a good sport professionally If the players are so well drilled as the Steam Roller eleven.

Grange was a disappointment to all who saw him play, but nevertheless It is ratiher doubtful if any of the other sound asleep while Garrey got the hall arid scored. The summary: STEAM ROLLERS Garvey le REARS re HaUa re Mnllen Murry rt Scott Fleckenstein Anderson Trafton If 1 AIcMillen Kozlowsky Spellman It Share lx SluirtlefT le 1 Eckstein Oolembeskl Braney rr Gulian rt. It Healey Maloney re. 1 Hanny le Knnp Oden qb. J.

Sternamen Wentworth rhb Walqutit Crowley Ihb Miller rhh. iIIk 0 Pollard rtb. Bryan Laird fb. Vfi to be and when he was called upon to carry the ball the Interference given him was ragged. It -Jacked cohesion, and the men did not clear the way for him as they do In college football, so It was up to him to do the little ground gaining he was asked to do, on his own.

He is a quiet unassuming player, and one hardly knew he was ln the game, considering all the talking that his team mates did. Grange was unaided by any such team play as one might look for-wlth such an array of stars allied with him. When a back does not get any aid he Is helpless. But, I Judge by his mannerisms that, were he given the necessary aid, might be all that he has been said to -be. The game showed that 11 players playing as Individual units, no matter how great they may have been, or how well they may have played as college meu cannot set very fur ln the professional game.

Thats to my tnJnd the handicap that Grange suffered yesterday. Ills mate, Earl Britton. the man who Is said to have been responsible for the wonderful feats that Grange turned In during his college career did not get Into the game until the third period and then only for a short time wjiile Grange was ln. Britton, however, played the entire last period. Granges play was a disappointment, but he.

like every other man who plays fopthall is only human after all. I also have been asked how does professional football compare with that played by the colleges? I went to I'rovldenee a few weeks ago and saw the Steam Hollers against lJii Cleveland Bulldogs. That game was slow compared with that of yesterday, but the same style of play was followed. Ilayers do not get into the play or knock down opponents as do the college players. They tackle high and around the waist; also seem to be satisfied to stop the attack rather than bang into it fiercely as the same players haie1 dune as collegians.

This undoubtedly is done to save the players. They do not block so well as-the college men, anu while the hobs were opened for the hacks yesterday, the runners were unable to get up to them and go through. This may hit been due to the frozen ground which d.d not permit cleats catching hold. Fail to Pile Into Piay As was the case at Frovldencs, there were many players standing up. and out of the piny.

The gelicnil style of piay Is-no different from that used by fie colleges, as the men are all ex-cohs-gians. There was very little taking out of players; generally the man who might bo considered the man to clear the wav. ran high and Just bumped the opposl. tlon. The linemen did vrrv Utile pushing, aside of offensive players; they gen.

erally reached over and tried to grab the players by the bead. This was very prominent yesterday, yet there was little left to be desired In the way of defensive play. The st.fnd made by the Bears was a real defensive atop, although lb might oe said that the offensive tactics used by the Hollers were not of the best. Nothing better could be wished than the punting of Hanny, and Britton of the Bears and Red Alnlonev, the old Itartmouth end, kicking for the Steam Rollers. The latter kicked well and out.

of bounds, often placing the hall within the shadow of the Bears goal. When the ball did not go out of loiinds, on of his players, who was offside, would rush down and get the full benefit of the kicks by touching the ball down. When two evenly matched profea-' slonal teams get together It narrows down to which gets the benefit of th. breaks, or the puillnr off of a long forward pass, so powerfully do they play defensively. The Steam Rollers, a team that has ben playing together all seoaon, played more as a unit and bad as stars Jin Laird, Cy Wentworth, Curley Oden, Jim Crowley and Don Miller, while ln the line, Ecksteins passing was remarkable, although he made two poor passes agfijnst the wind that did not carry.

Mike Gulan and Joe Kozlowsky of Brown and Boston College, respectively, were a sturdy pair of tackles. The end play of Garvey and Maloney, too, wm good. The departed at 6 yesterday afternoon for Pittsburg where they play today. They go to Detroit for a game Saturday and will play In Chicago Sunday; with four games follow- ing next Wednesday, FVlday, and Saturday- of next week and the Sunday, No players coa stand suoh a paoe. GHANGES SHARE OF RECEIPTS $14,000 After the expenses of conducting yesterdays Chicago Bear-Steam Roller game for officials, police, fishers, ticket takers and ticket sellers there was still total of $40,000 left to be split up.

Red Grange received $14,000 as his share of the receipts, which was a pretty good afternoons pay for the Illinois star. Seven thousand dollars went to the Braves Field management and $7000 more to the Steam Rollers, which left $12,000 to be divided up among the other members of the Chicago Bears, who receive anywhere from $150 to $250 per game. cause professional and college football are entirely different. One thing very noticeable is that there la not the piling on after the referees whistle sounds that crops out ln bitterly contested school and college games. By CHARLES LINEHAN Ex-Suburban League Coach and Harvard Scout There were many things lacking In the professional game of yesterday which predominate in school and college football.

There was no running out to the secondary, no fierce tackling. In fact the tackling was more or less of wrestling etyle, and naturally, those with the most strength and power in their hands downed the player carrying. The interference was sadly lacking. my opinion the professional game will never take the Place of college football because the Ideals of the college player and the professional player are vastly different. The college players have an ideal to work for in participating in footbal, while the professional player does not play with the fierceness of the collegian and is looking ahead at t'he receipts as his goal rather than anything else.

Tne professional plajer will not risk being Injured, which is untrue of the conege player which, after all. shows that the pro is only paid workman. It was noticeable the number of v.aTer? on both teams still standing on their feet while plava were under way which one seldom sees on any first class college team. They also enter the games with poor spirit and fall to extend themselves. Red Grange proved that he would be dangerous once he was in an open field, but the Chicago Bear did everything to protect him, realizing that If anything happened to him the remainder of the barnstorming trip would be a complete failure without the much-heralded Illinois University baekfield player In the lineup.

The Steam Rollers played good hard football and were easily the better machine. AH of its playerjj tried and worked hard to win. Curley Oden, the old Brown University star, gave a wonderful exhibition of running back kicks and off-tackle smashes which enabled the Steam Rollers to have the ball ln the visitors'terrltory most of the time. Cy Wentworth, the old Salem High and New Hampshire University baekfield star, proved himself a star of the contest and was a hard man to check once he wasin action. Neither eleven offered any interference to the man- with the ball, and.

many times the Chicago Bears obtained the ball by knowing it out of their opponents hands, which Is onlv a part of the game. The Chicago Bears did not really extend -themselves, except the early part of the game, when the Steam Rollers had the ball on the former's one-yard line. The visitors presented a beautiful goal line defense, and finally took the ball away from the Steam Rollers on downs less than one yard from the goal line. TUFTS HILL AND DALERS ARE AWARDED LETTERS The following men on the Tufts cross-country team were awarded letters yesterday: Capt H. Walsh, A.

H. Lester, V. J. Almone. P.

EL Johnson and Manager L. S. Kidd. own way. and did it skilfully.

The SCl.drlvlns ended usually when the car- and with no great amount of heart Just I ocra si JiT an1 like an outfit that had agreed to put in him-elf trl rUnr Bn annearance and was thinking of the free and was on his an appearance, ana was tninaing 01 me way ag so often happens ln a conege game, in which the punch Is maintained until it is a punch no longer. There was some pretty passing. Both teams used both defenses against the overhead game. There were interceptions and good run backs following the passes. The Bears touchdown gain by Bryan was the longest and the cleanest.

Sometimes t'be passes were forced fast, sometimes not. For offense the Rollers had it all over their opponents from the Middle West. Many were the approaches trade, and it was with no great difficulty that the Providence eleven gained ground between the two 20-yard lines. It was near the goal line that the Rollers attack failed to go. Then it was that the Bears pulled themselves to gether, made the most of their height and weight and strength, got the better of the charge, took full advantage of the middle-line-plug tactics to which the Rollers resorted when within counting distance and the result was that the better team was smothered completely.

This happened on four plays after a first down on the Bears three-yard line, following a penalty for roughing. It happened again after Laird had made a dazzling run following a forward pass completion, the Bears taking the ball on downs on their 14-yard line. And later the Rollers' were stopped dead with their rushing game after a poor kick had been forced, and a fair catch made within 9 yards of the Chicago goal posts. Fumble Helps Bears The Bears also were aided in making their only score by a mistake of their opponents. I-ate in the game Anderson, a Notre Dame product, scooped up the ball on the Rollers 35-yard line, where I.aird, from Colgate, had fumbled, one Chicago pass failed, but on the next J.

Sterna man. formerly of Illinois, ebot off a long pass to Bryan, formerly of Chicago, who a little earlier had entered the game as Granges substitute, and who caught the ball uncovered, isnd then proo-ded to race across the Lack of Interference Made Gaining Impossible Hallahan 's Size-Up of Illinois Star By JOHN J. HALLAHAN Tihe great Red Grange, the most talked of athlete the world today, i was In Boston yesterday. He and the other members of the Chicago Bears, profeslonal foobtall team, were on trial before a critical erowd of about 18.000 at Braves Field. And ln Boston I believe that they know more football than in any other city ln the country.

So Grange, 77, came under close inspection of real students of the game. I have seen some of the best, acting In the 'capacity as an official, i and because of this I am to tell something aibout this wonder man of the game. Many In the JIff throng had expected to see a superman, a man who could do things that no other player has ever done. But he, like such great players as Jim Thorpe, Ned Mahan, Willie Heston and George Glpp. Is only human after all.

He had wonderfully against college teams a year ago, but was not so successful this year outside his romp through the Pennsylvania eleven at Philadelphia. However, he Is credited with being the best player who has ever played in the Middle West. That Is by some, he Is so judged, but his work against the Steam Rollers, is all I have by which to Judge him. Little Running by Grange Grange was expected to run wild. But he didnt, an! in that the crowd was disappointed.

He not only did not run wild, but he ran very little with tb ball in the three periods, the longest time he has played since he joined the professionals in the East. Orange looked as if be might be a good hurdler, has a good pair of legs, and stands tip when taking the ball on a direct pass from center. He acted like a man who had been playing, loo much, had little pep, and he never was able to get clear or get away the forward passes that one might expect to see after hearing so much about him. The Galloping Ghost, who did not gallop at any time during the game and did not compare with what we have seen Oberlander of Dartmouth do ln throwing the forward passes. He never got the ball away well, always being hurried and I dont recall that he side stepped or turned away in making his passes.

He Is the type of player who must be gotten past the line of sertm-makp to be good, but the strong defensive play of the Steam Hollers never permitted him to get away. It may have been the long ride from Washington to Boston on the sleepers and the fact that his sleep was broken en routfl that made him appear only as an ordinary player. Grange played left wing defense, and defensively he did no-t get into the tackles. In fact the tackling of the professionals was not that hard tierce kind, that one sees among the college players, so he was no different from 'the other players in this respect. Interference Ragged The first appearance of.

Grange ln Boston, I hardly feel, was what one might have. expected. He was not favored with any kind of plays to make him the sensation, that he le reported Rollers goal line without even being jV.pou by an t.t'-Vl-r. T1.0 crowd vouli hive enjoyed the game a little more had it not gone out expecting greit tfchai uf Ped Grange and then been disappointed. The atiriete on the noi were ret nlsy-iny any great shucks as teams, nor was either outfit displaying an at all exceptional brand of foot-rdl.

There was little interf-rence for the men carrying the ball. The gains were largely Individual. Even the carriers seldom had the appearance of fighting for ground when tackled or partially tackled. It may have been that the ground was hard, and of course, by agreement, the referee blew his whistle to stop the piay when a down- seemed anywhere near at hand. The tackling was high, usually well above the waist, and it wan seldom Indeed that more than one player had hold of an opposing back at one time.

At least -O times during the progress of the match the carrier was not on the ground when the play stopped. Plays Often Smothered The lack of Interference made It easy for the linemen of both teams to slice .0 Score tT period. Steam Chicago Rears. Touchdowns, made by Garvey. Bryan Point hr goal after touchdown, made by Maloney.

Safety blocked kick, ground rnle; against Bears- Referee. J. 3. Hallahan. Boston, empire.

T. McCabe. Holy Cross. Linesman. W.

Mooney, Boston. Field Judge, W. HaUaran,.

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