Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1907 — The SPORTING WORLD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The SPORTING WORLD

Chioago Vanity Football Captain. Leo De Trey, captain of the Chicago ymlverslty football team, gave early promise In high school play of the ability he now shows on Coach Stagg’s ball banging troupe. De Tray is a cool, heady player, a reliable ground gainer jtnd a master of

gridiron strategy. He is left halfback of the team. He recently scored three touchdowns against the team of the fJnlverslty of Illinois. ✓ Football Hints. The best way to throw a football is to grasp it firmly In the hand with the thumb on the laces and toss it with the point toward tbs person who is to receive it. This will give It the spiral effect which makes it easy to handle. Kicking has been and always will be one of the most important departments of the game. It glees a team great confidence to have a reliable kicker, and a team cannot be considered a first class aggregation without Ten yards is a long distance to be gained in three downs, and when two teams are matched the punt signal invariably will be given on the third down. The kicking game ie an excellent one with a good kicker and a fast pair of ends. Practice will make one an expert kicker. Drop kicking and place kicking also have come to the front, and many a game last year was won by a field goal.

Maine’s Moose Season. \ The open season on moose in Maine began with reports from the woods that moose are more plentiful and scattered over a wider area than for Several years, but with fewer bulls and animals with fine heads. Many of thgse forest monarchs have been seen as far south as Hancock and Washington counties'. To the west and southwest of Mount Katabdln is the popular hunting ground with moose reported as plentiful. During the sommer tourists and guides saw scores of the big animals. Rainy weather has handicapped the deer hunters, rain having fallen almost continuously since the opening of the deer season, and few hunters went early into the woods. Receipts of game at Bangor up to Oct. 15 were 137 deer and three bears, compared with 226 deer and six bears at the same date last year.

• Psnn and Michigan. The University of Pennsylvania is unfortunate In not being able to get any adequate line on Michigan’s football team. The names of the eleven who are playing Tost’s men, Case, Wabash, etc., sound very much bush league, and it is impossible to form any conception of what the eleven may be. But Yost Is confident—a condition that lacked last year. He knows that to Buffer another decisive defeat will be the end of his reputation. Penn may win and probably will, but Michigan will make a do or die effort In the big game.

Unfortunate Horsewoman. It Is unfortunate that Miss Katherine L. Wilks of Galt, Ont., is seemingly unable to experience the pleasure of seeing her horses win. Kentucky Todd appeared drawn and stale and was apparently far from being himself at Lexington. Sadie Mack, 2:06*4, owned by Miss Wilks, was queen of the grand circuit two years ago and was unbeaten when she reached Hartford. The handsome mare fell dead in the home stretch before her owner’s eyes whllg racing for one of the Charter Oak classics for which she was a very pronounced favorite. Baseball Analogy. This year, as Just twenty years ago, the Detroit team captured the baseball championship from Philadelphia and Chicago. That’s as far as analogy went, however, as the present day American league champions could not emulate the feat of their predecessors by capturing the world’s championship. Oh the contrary, they lost It as easily as the old guard won It In their day. Possibly the charm was broken because Detroit’s opponent this time was Chicago instead of St. Louis.

CAPTAIN DE TRAY OF CHICAGO.