Daily British Whig (1850), 24 Oct 1924, p. 12

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"SPORTIN G Keady"s Vermont Forward Pass. ~ t This unique forward pass by Tom Keady of Vermont splits the defense wide open and possess- €s unusual possibilities. As the accompanying diagram shows this forward pass puts five 2 . men in position to receive the ball, two ends and three backs. The passers, No. 1, stands about {ten yards from centre. The ends Nos. 4 6 go out about ten yards in the lineup. Two Backs, Nos. 3 and 5 go out about eleven yards and stay about THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG one yard back of each end. No. 2 Back protects the passer, and then crosses over and goes down for a short pass. As the ends and backs go down the field the ends should be outside the backs, with the pass going to the outside man. . This off-tackle play Elmer Olip- _phant used with great success when star at West Pointiand later as 3 coach At Union College. . 8 _1t ie not a freak formation, but based om very sound principles. Left end No. 6 hurries to the de- fenefve backfield: Right end No. 5 and No. 4 Back block the defensive laft tackle: No. 1 Back. also crashés the de- fensive left tackle, who "must be completely put out of the play. No. 2 Back goes out and screens off defensive left end. No.! 3 Back receives direct pass from ¢entre and runs straight to de- fensive "left "tackie's - position. - Be- fore reaching the scrimmage line he reverses his field as shown in the accompanying diagram. a OBAA. Oakville vs. 4th Hussars FAIR SROUNDS * 'TIMARY RUGBY GAMES BILLED TO-MORROW Queen's a WoT, Loyola Here, Montreal at. rs and and .H.R.C. at " -- Important «football games are on he cards for tomorrow in Old On- tario and each 'will have a distinct iy on the final results. In the intercollegiate Queen's will meet Shaughnessy's crew in Montieal, It is the last chance for McGill to make 'a showing in 'the series and the Red '| and White have been throwing every- thing lato their practise and using every possible means of building up a defence against the Queen's play. In football; as in war, the best de- tence is a good offence and Saturday will tell whether or not "Shag" has given any thought to that matter, The Queen's team should be in good | | shape and on its past performances should win by at least fifteen points. 'If it does not--well then it should be taken to pieces and built. oyer '| 'again for there will be something lacking. i i } Major Gr sod's winged wheel- | = era wii aval the Ii of the | at Hamilton. It willbe a good: but the Bengals rule favorites so far, They have not 'walked through any| of thelr avn have won in} Saturday, HUSSARS ALL SET FOR GREAT FIGHT Will Give Oakville Plenty of Opposition in To-morrow's Game at Fair Grounds. ~ id The 4th Hussars are all set for the big game here tomorrow when they go into battle with Oakville for the championship of Ontario in the intermediate series. At Oakville on Wednesday the locals lost out 13-4. Moore, star twirlers for the Hussars, had a sore arm and his team-mates, although they gathered twelve safe- ties, did not bunch them, while the Oakville hits came in squadrons all | close together. Captain Sammy Hall and other members of the team have expressed the opinion that they can defeat the western winners in the gamé hére on Indeed; they say that Oakville is not so well balanced a nine as either Brockville or Peter- boro C.G.E. and that only a poor day for Hussars and bad hitting in the pinches left the final score as it was, The Hussars have come through a Writer Claims Queen's Only | two features which now make the 1 but would get a veal thrill from such GENERAL and bring the Limestone City fits first Ontario title in baseball. Every Kingston fan should make an effort to be present with his support for this game team. WANTS FORWARD PASS INTRODUCED TO GAME Team in Canadian Game With Offensive. Writing to the Sporting Editor of the Toronto Star, W. C. Gilchrist says: Allow the feeble protests of an- other long-suffering football fan a little breathing space in your col- lums. You've asked how the Canadian Game can be improved, so without commenting on the uninteresting ex- hibition put up by Toronto and Mc- ill one week ago--Ilet's go. The only way our game can be made inteyesting from the spectator's viewpoint is by the adoption of the American style of football the most spectacular and satisfying game played, nemely, (1) the . forward pass, (2) running interference. Needless to say this recommenda- tion will meet with shocked and agonized protests from those patri- archal reactionaries who abhor everything "American," whether it is for their own good or not. Nevertheless, the forward pass, plus running interference would open up our game and banish forever the old "two bucks and a kick" and give football fans the sight of an occa- sional "offensive' in a football game, rather than the dull spectacle of two teams playing a defensive gam@. Really this is the whole root of all that is wrong to-day in Canadian football. Our teams continually punt on the first and second down, and it is common to see a team kick on the third down rather than take a chance on a one-yard advance which would give them yards. . Every time this happens--and one sees it scores of times in every game--it bears out my contention that our game is purely .a defensive proposition, with the victory an empty thing gained usually by the slow process of ex- changing punts until some one is tackled behind his own touch line. Compare this, it you will, with the soul-satisfying 40 or 50-yard dashes for touchdowns, where speed, dodg- ing ability, ruggedness and grit help to carry over the ball. What s! or but would revel in the sight, #nd; what, football player action, 's the Only Team. Toiday only one team in Canada can break away from a touchdown more than once in three games--that | team is Queen's, And, believe it or not, that little band of Presbyterian whirlwinds are the nearest {hing to an American style team that we have in this big dominion. The wiseacres who have hever wit- nessed American football and who sagely tell us it consists of massed plays, etc., and that a good Canadian halfback would run wild with inter- ference in front of him, are still with us, however, and it seems hardly possible that we will ever climb out of the rut, it would, however, be a wondertal tonic to our game if even only one} of the above additighs were made to our style of play, and running inter- ference made legitimate. 1 know there are many who claim that running Interference gives the ball cartier too much protection and that every time one of our good half- backs got the ball an uninteresting parade to the goal-line would follow. Conacher, for Instance. Well, there is just one convineing answer to that sort of an argument Lionel Conacher. "Still The Most For The Money TIMELY | Sometime ago Interest was stirred up by a statement supposed to have! been made by a prominent Toronto business man that golf was respon- sible for a great expenditure of time on the part of the business men of Canada. There are no statistics on! the subject, so the controversy can lead to no accurate conclusion. It is an indisputable fact, however, that a huge expenditure of money is being made upon the game of golf. A recent advertisement {in the Golfers' Magazine contains some as- tonishing figures regarding money spent on golf in the United States, It is calculated that the principal items of expenditure on golf in 1924 wi be as follows: $100,000,000 for dues. 100,000,000 for tires. 50,000,000 for goif apparel. 40,000,000 for caddies. 30,000,000 for golf balls. 25,000,000 for golf property. 25,000,000 for construction. 265,000,000 for club salaries. 25,000,000 for golf resort hotels. 20,000,000 for club house, 20,000,000 for travel, In addition, there is a further | $28,000,000 in half a dozen other di- rections all directly concerned with the game, making a total of nearly $500,000,000. The statement is made that .$1,000,000,000 will be spent by. golfers "on or because of golf alone" this year, The game of golf, it will be seen, ! has become a billion dollar industry. There are those, of course, who are! "yiewing with alarm" this vast ex- penditure of time and money on play, sometimes at the cost of busi- ness. But any Industry which in- volves so huge an expenditure and which brings such good physical re-, sults must be both good for trade 'and good for the nation. SOLD FOR FIFTY. Now MoGraw Says He'd Give $100,- .. 000 for Vance. New York, Oct. 23.---Manager John McGraw of the New York Giants says he would willingly part with $100,000 for Dagzy Vance: Charley Kbbetts, owner of the Brooklyn club; says twice that amount wouldn't tempt him for his star pitcher, the sensation of the ma- jors in the season just closed, These seemingly fabulous amounts béing offered for a ball player makes, the original sales of the now famous Vance loom up as the one best laugh of the day. i Ten years ago Vance was playing Detracting not one whit from the "Big Train's" ability, let. me point out that the fire departments in Pittsburg are still resting easy---no conflagrations down in Smokers yet because of Conny's playing, Indeed, playing for Duquesné tn. University foes fr Mon g with the Superior club in the Ne- braska State League. He was just a 80-80 pitcher. At that time Hastings, the home of Vance, was in the same league. : He decided it would be nicer to play in the old home town. When he asked the manager of the Hastings club what he was Worth the reply was: "If some one offered me $50 in ; real money they could have you. Vance peeled five tens from his bank roll and Joined the Hastings clab. Originally sold tor $50, his pres- ent employer isn't Interested In an offer of $100,000 for his services. ¥ nt in Batting. Outflelders Wingo and Manush of Detroit have disappointed with their hitting, It is said Manager Cobb tried to change the natural style of both men with disastrous results. Tygers Fortifii at First. In case Lu Blue's injured knee gives him trouble; Detroit. is well fortified for 1925, with Neun of St. Paul, star first sacker of fhe Ameri- can Association, | F ootball Special English Leather $3.00 for 1 99 . Just 25 at this price. Let your Boy have a Ball. 1, Treadgold Sporting Goods Co 88 Princess St., Kingston. 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