Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1916 — Page 2

INDIANA GETS HANNY

Athlete Was Sought by Many Leading Universities.

Aurora Youth Ha* Played High-School Football for Three Yaara—Futuro All-American End, Saya New York Papers.

There Is perhaps no young man tn the United States of greater promise as an athlete than Frank H. Hanny of Aurora, HI., who has entered Indiana university. Many of the leading universities of the country sought Hanny, and for a long time he was undecided ns to where he would attend, but finally decided to go to Indiana. Hanny has played high-school football for three years, the first year at fullback and the last two at end, where he was a wonder. He is very fast on his feet, a splendid kicker and a wizard at diagnosing and breaking up plays. The Aurora high school played the Hamilton institute of Brooklyn, N. Yat Brooklyn, nnd Hanny’s wonderful playing brought forth great praise from the sporting writers of all the New York city newspapers. Many, of the sport critics predict that he would make the All-American team, should he go to college, while all of them stated that his playing was the feature of the game. The New fork Times said: “One of the features of the game was the kicking of Hanny, Aurora right end, whose punts average more than 50 yards.

Frank Hanny.

The high-school youngster punted as cleverly as any one of the college players who have been seen on the eastern gridiron this season. Hanny is a future All-American end.” The New York Tribune had this to say: “Hanny, the Aurora end, is a possible All-American man of the future. He can tackle, is clever at diagnosing plays and one of the greatest players ever seen on an eastern gridiron.” Hanny is only eighteen years old, weighs 190 pounds and is six feet tall. |He graduated from the Aurora high school last June and is an excellent student.

FOOTBALL IS ACADEMIC GAME

Schools and Colleges Relied on to Maintain High Standards of Sportsmanship in Its Play.

According to the football rules hook, 'football, both in play and by traditioiv is distinctively an academic game —the game of schools and colleges. The friends of the game must accordingly rely on the schools and colleges for .'the preservation of its past traditions land the maintenance of the high standards of sportsmanship in its play which are to be expected in a distinctively ■academic game.

In some sports, it is possible to attain reasonable high standards simply jby the adoption and enforcement of rules, but this is not true in football. jThere are so many players engaged iin action, and the action is so rapid and constantly shifting that it is im. possible for any official to discover ev« ■ery possible infraction of the rules. Because of this fact and with the intension of upholding the standards of the tgame, the committee on rules has jadopted the following: “The football player who intentionlally violates a rule is guilty of unfair play and unsportsmanlike tactics, and whether or not he escapes being penalized, he brings discredit to the good name of the game which it is his duty to uphold.”

PROFITS OF COLLEGE SPORTS

[Trifle Over $240,000 Made in Four Big Football Games of Last Season—--1 In First Place.

1 According to an authority who keeps close tabs npon the receipts ard expenses of major college athletics there-* its also some money In college baseball and football. The net profits of the Harvard, Yale, Princeton and ivanla elevens last season is set at a' trifle over $240,000, while the nines showed a profit of something over $30,*OOO. The fact that the football teams, iplaying less than a third as many igames as the baseball nines, were able to pile up about eight times the profits of the diamond combinations shows that the gridiron game still holds first place p* a money-maker in college sports.

BRIGHT PROSPECTS OF PRINCETON TEAM

Coach Rush, Captain Hogg and Trainer Fitzpatrick.

SPORTING WORLD

Frank Ivanaly, the famous Boston middle-disttyice runner, has retired. Fielder Jones has hooked a pitcher named Trout, who is said to possess a fishball delivery. * * * Eight Harvard field goal kickers are being coached by Charles E. Brickley, the former Crimson star. Coach C. J. McCoy begins his third year as coach of the University of Florida eleven this season. * * * Charles Brickley, the famous Harvard football player, Is coaching Boston college gridiron aspirants. * * See where Mike Gibbons is thinking about battling Jack Dillon. One can’t be pinched for just thinking. * * * Reports have it that Dana B. Jenkins, the New Orleans sprinter, will enroll with the University of Maine. * * • The score of 99 has been an unusually important tally in trap shooting in the past and especially this year. * * “Tad” Jones, the new Yale head coach, has determined that his players shall rigidly observe training rules. * * * Hal Wright, captain of the Williams ’varsity football team, has been declared ineligible to play this season. * * * Jess Willard is a great disappointment as a champion pugilist. Apparently he has no desire to own a saloon. * * * University of California will have twin brothers, Harry and Warren Lamport of Los Angeles, on the athletic team. * * * “Hack” Spencer is the only catcher I in the big leagues who doesn’t wear i shin guards. No wonder he came back so fasti * * * Dispatches from Atlantic City indicate that Fred Plum is a demon trapshot. It’s been said that Plum is a Peach on the range. * * * Having the best pitchers, batters and fielders in the International league, it is said Buffalo couldn’t do otherwise than win the pennant. * * * Eddie Driggs, who has been elected to lead the Princeton baseball team next spring, has been welcomed into the Princeton football camp. * * * Shaw is a pitcher on the Washington team, but he isn’t the Shaw that wrote “Arms and the Man,” which is ! recommended to all big league twirlers. * * One of the latest women to become converted to trap shooting and become an ardent devotee is Mrs. A. L. Brown of Cleveland, 0., the wife of a former , Ohio state champion. * * * The Allegheny Sportsmen’s association has reintroduced elk into West Virginia. The organization owns a preserve of about 25,000 acres near Minnehaha Springs, W. Va. * * * James Thompson, the professional ’ jgolfer at the Philadelphia Country club, broke the course record, turning jin a card of 67 for the 18 holes. The previous record was 68. „ v-# * •* Detroit will soon boast a six-story structure devoted exclusively to bowling and billiards. It will contain 88 bowling alleys and 12 English, 39 pocket and 54 carom billiard tables. * * * . John N. Overton of Yale, the intercollegiate cross-cOuntry champion, was declared ineligible to represent the iNew York A. C. in open competition by the registration committee of the Metropolitan association,

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HARVARD BIG MARGIN

As we recall the figures, In the last four years Harvard has score 112 points to Yale’s 5 the scores being 20 to 0, 15 to 5, 30 to 0, and 41 to 0. In the same four years Harvard has scored less than 50 against Princeton, yet Yale has had all the better of Princeton in the four Tiger-Bulldog contests. Yale has played her poorest games against Harvard, and Princeton has done her worst playing against Yale. Part of this has undoubtedly been due to - the —fact " that' ■Prineeten—hadto meet Yale immediately after the Harvard game, while Yale had to meet Harvard immediately after the Princeton game. That one Saturday rest for Harvard has been quite a factor; but not enough to take anything away from Harvard’s undoubted superior power.—Boston Herald.

FOOTBALL IS COSTLY SPORT

Average Spectator Has No Idea of Equipment Necessary for Big Squad of Varsity Men.

The average football spectator has little idea of the equipment necessary for a big varsity football squad of 40 men. Manager Lovett of the Penn eleven has figured out that it costs approximately $52.55 per player before the kickoff occurs in the first game of theFootball is more expensive than a private yacht or a polo string, and it would stagger the ’average man to learn that 700 pairs of shoes and stockings of the most expensive sort, sweaters, jerseys, moleskins, to say nothing of several hundred footballs, are required in equipping a big team. Add to that the fact that several men have been busy all summer rolling the gridiron, raking it for small stones, rebedding It with fresh sod, and getting the field in general into first-class condition for the opening. The upkeep continues throughout the entire football season, and if football players drew the salaries that the diamond stars in the big leagues receive, there would be no football.

BOOST FOR SHOOTING SPORT

Placing of Women on Even Terms With Men Has Helped Game— Sousa Expresses Opinion.

John Philip Sousa, the band leader, is an enthusiastic trap shooter. When asked his opinion on women taking up the sport, he said: -*< “Women are finding trap shooting even more enjoyable than golf, tennis and the other games they now play. In the shotgun game she is not classified as a woman. She is not segregated from the men. She meetSv men shooters on an equal footing, and there is nothing that pleases her more than to beat her lord and master at his own game. Indeed, women have so far advanced in trap shooting that they will be permitted to enter the Grand Amer-_ ican handicap this year. “Shooting mak J es r a woman agile and alert. I have shot at the traps with many women, and never have I seen an ungraceful one who used a shotgun well.”

BASKETBALL RULES TO HOLD

No Radical Changes in Code for Present Season, According to Announcement of Committee. ■> . There will be no radical changes in the basketball rules for the present season, as a result of the Joint committee meeting of the Amateur Athletic union. Young Men’s Christian association, and National Collegiate Athletic association, which decided that the regulations need no important changes.

ROMANCES OF RAIL

Men Who Rose to Head Great American Railroads.

Bome Went Up From Rank* and Soma by Way of Learning—More Wonderful Than Some Arabian - Nights Tales.

Not yet are the days of romancing passed. They* are making more wonderful romances under your very eyes than they used to make in the days of Bagdad nnd the Arabian Nights. What son of Mustafa by rubbing a lamp could be elevated more wonderfully than a grimy locomotive fireman, who opens a book, and presently finds himself head of a great railroad? Take Daniel Willard, for instance. He is president of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad now. Mr. Willard is a great executive. He is an art connoisseur, a musician and a scholar besides. His collection of portraits of Napoleon is one of the best in the world. His interest in men of affairs is world-wide. Some time ago, when he was in the midst of negotiating a $110,000,000 expenditure for improvements of the Baltimore & Ohio, he began to study French. It Is only a few years ago that Willard, was fireman on an old Vermont road that is now part of the Boston & Maine. Willard was a locomotive fireman, that’s all. But one day he found a book that interested him, in spite of its forbidding title. It is “Wellington’s Economics of Railroad Locations.’’ Willard bought it. He tucked it beneath the cushion of his seat in the engine cab, and when he wasn’t keeping up steam in the boiler head he was reading about railroad economics. It gave him a wholly new view of railroading. The rest you can read. “Fred” Underwood, now president of the Erie, the most jovial railroad president of all, was the conductor of Willard’s train. Underwood was coming along fast then—so fast that pretty soon he was Willard’s boss —“Mr. Underwood” to Willard. But they became close friends, and each recognized the-Other’s worth—Some years later Mr. Underwood was in line for the presidency of the Erie. Then the chance came, and almost the first man he called to the road was Willard as vice president. The two men Mi closer chums than ever now.

With the exception of a few everyone has climbed the ladder from the lower rung. One could almost count the college-bred men on the fingers of his two hands. And Louis W. Hill, head of the Great Northern, is practically the only one who inherited a big railroading job to start with. That was as vice president under his father, the late James J. Hill. C. P. Markham, president of the Illinois Central, prominent socially as well as financially In Chicago, began his career as a section hand —a common laborer —on the Santa Fe, In Kansas City, then one of the toughest railroad yards in the country. He is remarked today as one of the most dap-per-looking of these powerful railroad men. No one looking at him or studying him closely would say he was other than the son of a rich man who had all the frills of a course at a* leading university. There’s E. P. Ripley, president of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Years ago a young man named Ripley went to work as a clerk in the traffic office of the Boston & Maine. But his stay there was not long. Pretty soon someone higher up spotted him as a coming railroad chief and gave him a job as general manager of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. And when the Santa Fe was reorganized E. P. Ripley Assumed the presidency. His friends celebrated his seventieth birthday last year in Chicago, and the gathering was one of the most distinguished ever brought together. A man is a man to Mr. Ripley, whether he is a section hand or a general manager.

Then there is Fairfax Harrison, bearer of the proud name of Fairfax of Virginia, president of the Southern railway, one of the few college men In the executives’ group. He is an eminent lawyer and a Greek scholar, besides a leading railway executive. Some time ago he translated Cuto’s “Farm Management,” considered by many scholars as a literary gem. But then, he isn’t altogether to blame for that It has been traditional among the first families of Virginia that their sons must go to college. It only goes to show that it Is the caliber of the man which counts, in railroading as in everything else.

Chinese Advancement.

Forty years ago China’s first locomotive killed a man who was trespassing on the track. Promptly the people executed judgment on the little sevenmile road. The rails were torn up. The locomotive was sold. The road was no more. Now there are 6,000 miles of railroad In China; it is in prosperous condition and additions are being made to the mileage every_jear. Chinu will yet rival the foremost countries of Europe in the extent of. her railrQads and the profits from them. The new China gives promise of becoming a nation.

Wise Precautions.

“Why are you staying here at your uncle’s?” “The doctor said pa had aphasia, ard ma was afraid it might be kotcfein’.”

PUT MOTOR TRUCKS ON RAILS

An Engineering Journal Buggeot* the Feasibility of ‘‘Automobilizfng" the Railroad*.

Motor trucks are already “stealing , much of the short-haui freight traffic. Why not automobllize the railroads? Because Carranza would not permit American troops to use Mexican railway equipment, some genius in oor army temporarily transformed motor trucks Into railroad rolling stock by fastening steel flanges to the motor-truck wheels. Thus the trucks were driven over the railroads, where there were railroads available, nnd over dirt roads when no railroads were available. The change from a rail vehicle to a dirt-road Vehicle Is quickly made, and thus the problem of automoblllzing one railroad system was speedily effected in part. Innumerable rnll lines carry only a few trains daily, and the train’oads are not great at best. There is every reason to believe that much of the freight traffic over such lines could be more cheaply handled by motor trucks adapted to run on rails as well as on roads. . . . May not the pressing and perplexing problems of furnishing adequate terminal facilities In large cities be solved by automobilizing the terminals? Why will It not be economic to transfer nearly all freight from cars to motor trucks outside the limits of large cities, run the trucks into the cities on rails, remove their temporary wheel flanges, and thus enable them to run over paved streets to their destination? Railway managers, wake up! Come out ot your narrow path, nnd beyond Its extremities, into all the highways of transportation. View transportation in its entirety as your field of action, and you will add more to human wealth than you have already added—which is a vast deal.— Engineering and Contracting.

UNUSUAL USE FOR CULVERT

Structure Near Lake Superior Has Been Utilized as a Most Effective Boathouse.

A large culvert through which Water passes under a railroad track that skirts the shore of Lake Superior is used by the owner of a fair-sized motorboat as a boathouse. The level of the culvert’s floor is a few inches above the lake and rollers have been laid at intervals from the edge of the

A Railway Culvert on the Shore of Lake Superior That Is Used as a Shelter for a Motorboat.

water back into the passageway along which the boat is drawn. This unusual shelter furnishes ample protection in the severest storms. Ordinarily the amount of water which flows through the culvert is of very little inconvenience. The roof is composed of old iron rails to which the boat U chained when it is brought in from the lake, so that it will not be svept away in case the .flow is greatly increased by a storm.—Popular Mechanics Magazine.

Building Hard to Wreck.

Dynamite, oxy-acetylene torches, fire and wrecking cranes were employed successively in razing five tall, thin walled, reinforced concrete, cement storage bins, built 15 years ago at South Chicago, says the Engineering Record. Heavy charges of dynamite in the supporting columns produced no effect. Oxy-acetylene torches were then employed to cut the steel rails that reinforced them, the weight being shifted to wood shores. Even the effect of the heat and flumes of burning kero-sene-soaked supports, roaring up through the barrels of the tanks, apparently had no disintegrating effect, ns the structure was not wrecked when it dropped on edge. Wrecking cranes finished the work, starting at the top and pulling the tanks apart In chunks.

Discoverer OF Corn Oil.

Lucius Elmer Sayre, discoverer*of a process for making corn oil, which is calculated to take the place of lard and similar articles to some extent, Is dean of the school of pharmacy of the University of Kansas. He has devoted himself to the study of chemistry, and for a number of years was in business as a manufacturing chemist. He Is the author of a number of works, including “Chart of Materia Medica,” “Pharmacal Botany,” and “Essentials of Pharmacy.” “The fat can be produced at a lower cost than any pf the other vegetable fats now so generally used throughout the .country,” says Professor Sayre. “It is just as efficient as other fats for the same purposes.”

Railroads Earn $545 a Mile

Sixty-seven of the largest s;eam railroads earned a net revenue of per mile during-lnst July, of $43 a mile over July. 1915. A summary made public by the interstate commerce commission shows net revenues totaled $41,355,921, compared with $36,328,588 in July, 1915. The largest gains were made in the East.

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They Misinfor the Measles.

In Japan the nursery is still protected from the Inroads of measles and other Infections by means'of an inscription over the nursery door saying with exquisite urbanity “this child is not at home.” In the Wellcome Historical Medical museum, says the London Lancet, a most fascinating exhibition Is on view, illustrative of “Japanese charms, amulets, votive offerings and objects of medical Interest,” among which these nursery notices occupy an Important place. Akin to these notices are the charms embodied as toys. A yellow tiger with a wagging head Is now said to be a toy, but anciently it was a form of exorcism against palsy and numbness of the limbs.

Raw Recruits.

Rex Beach believes, that the endurance of our militia on the Mexican border was strained too far. “A prize fighter takes six weeks to get in shape,” he said, recently. “What of the fellows who yesterday were at the desks; who have done less than one hundred hours of drill In the last year. England gave her men a year of hard work before sending them to the Flanders front. Do you think she would send them Into the Sahara or Arabian desert with less?”

Real Estate Note.

Knicker —Isn’t your land rather wet? Subbubs—lt is swamped by its own efficiency. ,•

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