become so large as to make it necessary to divide it into two sections,
the winners of each to play off to decide the championship; and then, of
course, the champion of the Juniors must play the tail-ender in the
Senior League to determine whether or not they exchange places. Newton,
Somerville, Chelsea, and Medford form one division of the Junior League;
Roxbury Latin, Dedham, Hyde Park, and Dorchester the other. Dorchester
and Medford are new-comers, and thus, to a certain extent, unknown
quantities. Somerville High, having won the championship of the Junior
League last year, will now move up into the Senior ranks, and from
present appearances the team ought to make a good showing. In the game
with Tufts College, Somerville held the collegians down to one
touch-down in a twenty-minute half. They developed good team-work in
their aggressive play, but when on the defence they were not so strong.
This is the natural result of practice work against a weaker team, such
as a second eleven usually is. The only way to develop a strong defence
is to practise against stronger opponents, hence the advisability of as
many matches with outsiders as possible.
The weak spots in the Somerville team are the guards. They are somewhat
light, but with training and careful coaching should develop well,
Almeida, the captain, is a good man, and is playing an unusually strong
game at quarter for a captain. If he can manage his men as well as they
were managed last season, Somerville need have no fears of losing its
position in the Senior League. The backs, Pipe and Cuddy, are doing as
well as can be expected so early in the season, and if Hanlon, at
full-back, can keep on improving in his kicking, the team will be well
taken care of back of the line.
From present appearances it looks as if English High would have fully as
good a team as last year, and the eleven is certainly as strong as any
other in the League to-day. Five of the old champions are back, and they
form an excellent nucleus for an exceptionally good lot of new material.
Kimball, who will probably hold centre, is pretty green, but will
improve. He will doubtless be guarded by Walker, who is a new man, and
by Carroll, who was last year's substitute centre. If these three men
are finally selected, they will make as heavy a centre as there is on
any team in the association. The position of quarter-back is still open,
as it is not known yet definitely whether Sherlock will return to
school. If he does not, however, Mansfield and Mann will make good
substitutes, and can be trained into excellent players. Mann is a fast
runner, and will make a good running quarter if he takes the place.
The Boston Latin School loses a good many of last year's team, but is
fortunate in having an unusually large number of men anxious for
positions on the eleven. The practice work so far has been of the first
order, and the number of candidates has made it possible for the old men
to get good practice. Those who are trying are not all by any means new
to the game. Some were substitutes to the team which won the
championship in 1895.
The men of last tear's team who are left to represent Boston Latin this
year are Lowe, who played left guard; Teevens, who was substitute tackle
in 1894, but who played back of the line last year; Daly, last year's
right half-back, who, however, will doubtless make a try for full-back
this fall; and Brayton, who is a candidate for guard. The new men,
besides being a promising lot, are all pretty heavy, and so we may
expect to see the Latin School represented by a heavy team in the coming
championship.
The schedule for the championship series in the Senior League was made
up at a recent meeting of the football committee as follows:
Boston Latin.--Oct. 30, Brookline High at South End; Nov. 6,
Hopkinson at South End; Nov. 13, Cambridge High and Latin at South
End; Nov. 26, English High at South End.
Cambridge Manual.--Oct. 30, Boston Latin or Cambridge High and
Latin, Soldiers' Field; Nov. 6, Brookline High at Soldiers' Field;
Nov. 13, Hopkinson at Soldiers' Field; Nov. 20, English High at
Soldiers' Field.
English High.--Nov. 6, Cambridge High and Latin at South End; Nov.
12, Brookline High at South End; Nov. 17, Hopkinson at South End;
Nov. 20, Cambridge Manual at Soldiers' Field; Nov. 26, Boston Latin
at South End.
Cambridge High and Latin.--Oct. 31, Hopkinson (undecided); Nov. 6,
English High at South End; Nov. 13, Boston Latin at South End; Nov.
18, Brookline (undecided).
Brookline High.--Oct. 30, Boston Latin at South End; Nov. 6,
Cambridge Manual at Soldiers' Field; Nov. 12, English High at South
End; Nov. 18, Cambridge High and Latin at Soldiers' Field or South
End; Nov. 24, Hopkinson at Soldiers' Field.
Hopkinson.--Oct. 31, Cambridge High and Latin at South End (?);
Nov. 6, Boston Latin at South End; Nov. 13, Cambridge Manual at
Soldiers' Field; Nov. 17, English High at South End; Nov. 24,
Brookline High at Soldiers' Field.
The schools of Maine are beginning to practise for their championship
season, and several minor games have already been played. Portland High
ought to have a fairly strong team, although it is perhaps too early yet
to form any idea of what the new material will develop into. Bangor High
is practising hard, and of last year's team there are again in school
Connors, McCann, Snow, Hall, Hunt, Knaide, and Crowley. The Cony
High-School, of Augusta, is looking forward confidently to winning the
championship, and the eleven is practising hard every day. Several of
last year's team are back, notably Savage and Sawyer, the guard and
tackle. The regular League schedule, however, has not yet been arranged.
The Cook County High-School League, of Chicago, had a little trouble
over its elections recently, but it is to be hoped that if any ill
feeling resulted, it has all been smoothed over by this time. It seems
to be a natural desire among a great many of us to go ahead regardless
of rules sometimes, and this always results in trouble afterwards. When
it comes to an election, nothing should ever be attempted that is not
strictly in conformity with the regulations of the association. The
desire for office or the enthusiasm of supporters should not be allowed
to influence any candidate. A man elected under any circumstances except
those of absolute regularity can never feel satisfied with his position,
and will always suffer the loss of a certain amount of self-respect.
At the last meeting of the League's committee this trouble over the
election was satisfactorily arranged, and a schedule for the
championship series was laid out as follows:
Oct. 10.--West Division at North Division, Lake View at Oak Park,
English High at Hyde Park, Northwest at Englewood, Chicago Manual
at Evanston.
Oct. 17.--Hyde Park at West Division, Englewood at Lake View, North
Division at English High, Evanston at Northwest, Oak Park at
Chicago Manual.
Oct. 21.--West Division at Englewood, Chicago Manual at Hyde Park,
Northwest at North Division, Lake View at Evanston, English High at
Oak Park.
Oct. 24.--Evanston at West Division, Chicago Manual at Lake View,
Oak Park at Englewood, Hyde Park at North Division, Northwest at
English High.
Oct. 31.--Northwest at Oak Park, North Division at Chicago Manual,
Englewood at Evanston, West Division at Oak Park, English High at
Lake View.
Nov. 4.--North Division at Lake View, Evanston at English High,
Hyde Park at Oak Park, West Division at Northwest, Englewood at
Chicago Manual.
Nov. 7.--Lake View at Hyde Park, Oak Park at Evanston, Englewood at
North Division, Northwest at Chicago Manual, English High at West
Division.
Nov. 14.--Hyde Park at Evanston, English High at Englewood, Chicago
Manual at West Division, North Division at Oak Park, Lake View at
Northwest.
Nov. 21.--Hyde Park at Englewood, Northwest at Oak Park, Evanston
at North Division, Chicago Manual at English High, West Division at
Lake View.
The home grounds of the different teams are: Englewood, Hyde Park, and
Chicago Manual, Washington Park; Lake View and North Division, Lincoln
Park; English High and West Division, Douglas Park; Northwest Division,
Humboldt Park; Evanston, Evanston; and Oak Park on the Oak Park Club
baseball-grounds.
The New Jersey Interscholastic A.A. has arranged its football schedule,
and the games will be played in the following order:
Oct. 10.--Newark Academy _vs._ Pingry, at Newark.
Oct. 15.--Stevens Prep. _vs._ Montclair H.-S. at Montclair.
Oct. 24.--Pingry _vs._ Stevens Prep. at Elizabeth.
Oct. 24.--Newark _vs._ Montclair at Montclair.
Oct. 31.--Stevens _vs._ Newark at Hoboken.
Nov. 7.--Pingry _vs._ Montclair at Elizabeth.
It is probable that the Wisconsin Interscholastic League will soon fall
to pieces, inasmuch as three of the strongest members have withdrawn
from it. The reason given for this action on their part is that the
high-schools in the State are so widely separated, that the time and
expense incurred in travelling to and from games are so great, that
these contests must be abandoned. The Milwaukee schools, however, have
decided to keep up interscholastic sport so far as they are themselves
concerned, and have adopted a constitution and drawn up a set of rules
to govern their own games, which shall take the place of the old League
regulations. These rules were made by delegates representing three
schools. They debar all undesirable persons from taking part in any of
the contests, and a committee has been appointed to see that athletics
are kept pure not only in Milwaukee, but to enforce the Milwaukee
standard against all out-of-town teams that desire to hold contests with
members of this new association.
From all accounts it would seem that athletics in Wisconsin must have
been about as impure and un-amateur and shamefacedly semi-professional
as could possibly be. The trouble all came about, as it usually does,
gradually. One school committed some small offence, and then another
school committed a larger one, excusing itself on the ground that its
neighbor was the first sinner. Madison High-School, so far as I am able
to learn, seems to have been the worst transgressor. It is a great
boaster of championships, and it is true that the Madison High-School
football team has never been defeated. It has seemed to many, however,
that the authorities of that school ought to take some steps to prevent
men who are students at the University of Wisconsin from playing on the
High-School team. Such men actually did play on the school teams while
members of the university, by taking some single subject in the
High-School. With university men on the school teams, victory naturally
came to Madison very frequently when it met other schools, and this
afforded a bad example.
The contagion reached Milwaukee, and the High-Schools there did a great
many things which are doubtless now regretted by the better element. To
such a point have they come in Wisconsin that the _Mercury_, which is
the paper of the Milwaukee East-Side High-School, says, in a leading
editorial: "There must be an entire revolution in the High-School
athletics of this State. Otherwise Wisconsin will have a league
professing purity in athletics, but really composed of professionals and
'ringers' and some unquestioned amateurs.... Numerous charges have been
wafted to our ears, but we will deal only with those which we can
substantiate." So long as the _Mercury_ can substantiate the charges, it
may be interesting to the readers of this Department to hear what those
charges are.
It would seem that the first case of irregularity occurred in last
year's football season, when, according to the _Mercury_, the Madison
eleven had two players who were regular members of the University of
Wisconsin. The next case was in the Milwaukee East Side High-School
itself. Members of that institution had the rules of the League
suspended until after the date of the field meeting in order to allow
one of their men, who had not been regularly enrolled since December, as
the rules required, to enter and compete. "The next irregularity," says
the _Mercury_, "was the entrance of a professional from the interior of
the State, but that resulted satisfactorily. He was ruled out." The
editorial then goes on to tell another story of professionalism in which
two schools, holding a majority vote, refused to obey the rules of the
Association, and legislated so as to allow certain individuals to
represent their schools in a track-athletic meeting who had no more
right to do so than any professional performers that they might have
called on for similar work. It is to be hoped that the new spirit which
seems to be awakening in Milwaukee will have sufficient influence and
power to root out these evils in the future, or the sports of that State
will get into a sad condition, where the young are so crafty and bold in
their adoption of unfair methods.
With the awakening spirit of purity in athletics the prospects for
football in Wisconsin seem to be brighter than ever before. The Madison
High and the East Side and South Side high-schools at Milwaukee will
undoubtedly be the strongest three high-school teams in the State.
Madison has more old players back than the others, and thus has a slight
advantage to start with; and it has the additional advantage of good
coachers from the neighboring university. The Milwaukee schools,
however, will put heavier men into the field.
The St. John's Military Academy will be stronger on the gridiron this
year than it has been for some time, and ought to come out pretty well
in interscholastic contests. The amateur spirit has had some pretty hard
rubs at St. John's, as has been told of before in this Department, but I
understand that this year no instructors will be permitted to play on
the team, and none but students of the institution will be allowed to
wear the school colors. It has not always been possible to say this of
St. John's teams.
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All the schools of the Long Island League are working hard at football
this year, much harder than they have worked for the past few seasons,
and we may therefore expect to see a better general average across the
river. St. Paul's School always has had a strong team, and expects to
have the best that ever represented the school this year. The Boys'
High-School of Brooklyn has an energetic captain, Dickson, and promises
to put a strong eleven into the field.
[Illustration: THE BERKELEY OVAL FOOTBALL FIELD.]
The trouble with last year's High-School team was that the men were too
light, and became discouraged early in the season, and did not work with
that determination which alone can insure success on the football field.
A number of the old men are back, however, this fall, and the new
material seems to be heavier than any which has before been available.
The unusually large number of students at the Buffalo High-School this
year seems to have bred a lively interest in football. The first team
the High-School ever put into the field was in 1892, but so little
interest was taken in its work by the students at large and the players
themselves, that they were able to accomplish but little. This year,
however, a change seems to have come over the spirit of B.H.-S., and
large crowds watch the practice every afternoon. The eleven is light
when compared with some of the teams which it will meet during the
season, but the men play well together, and the new rules are so
arranged that a light eleven is not under such a disadvantage as it used
to be in years past. Vayers, the captain, knows the game thoroughly, and
has the ability of imparting knowledge to those under him.
The Andover football team this year seems to be rich in candidates for
positions behind the line, whereas very few good men can be found for
the rush-line itself. Nevertheless, Captain Barker is working hard with
such material as he has, and no doubt by the close of the season he will
have developed an eleven of the usual Andover calibre. It seems very
improbable that a game with Exeter will be arranged this year, although
there has been a renewal of interest in the subject lately, and
considerable thought and some activity among the graduates of the two
schools.
The papers on the "Science of Football" which have been appearing in
this Department during the past few weeks, written by Mr. W. H. Lewis,
of the Harvard football team of 1893, are published now in book form,
with much additional material, and many more illustrations and diagrams
than were given originally in the ROUND TABLE. The book will be found
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There are several well-known rules in bicycling to-day which have
established themselves by custom, and yet many of which, perhaps, will
not be found in any book. They are, none the less, rules to be followed,
because they are founded on experience. Riding in the city is very
different from riding in the country, and there are certain differences
in riding in small towns from either the country or the city. In the
country there is no reason why one should not ride on side-paths or
sidewalks if the road is better there. There is much less traffic, not
so many pedestrians, and no one has any objection to this side-path
riding there.
It is very different in towns, however. There, whether the law forbids
sidewalk riding or not, no bicyclist should leave the street. In towns
and in cities bicycles become in every way subject to the laws of
carriages; a wheelman should keep always on the right-hand side of the
road on principle. When a horse and carriage or another wheel is
approaching, he should turn to the right, although both the driver of
the horse and carriage and the rider of the wheel must give him room to
pass on the right. In overtaking and passing either carriages or
bicycles, you should pass to the left, turning, in other words, from the
right-hand side of the road in towards the centre. In turning a corner,
there are several rules to be observed, and in practice they ought all
to be observed invariably. If you are turning into a street to the left
a wide circle should be made, keeping well to the right, leaving room
always at the corner for any vehicle, whether bicycle or carriage, to
easily pass.
In fact, a good principle is to keep straight on until the cross-road is
nearly passed, then turn to the left, and running into the cross-road
close to the curb at the right. Where there is a road with a walk, or a
car track, or anything of the sort in the centre that divides the avenue
into two roadways, always keep on the right hand of the two, and when it
is necessary to cross in order to get into a side road, do the crossing
as quickly as possible. If this one rule alone were followed, many
accidents would be avoided.
The use of bells and brakes constitutes an important part of city
riding. Every man or woman who rides in a city should have a brake.
There are times when nothing can save a fall except a very powerful
brake. You may be riding close behind a horse-car, a cable-car, or
carriage, when either the cars are obliged to stop suddenly, or perhaps
a horse falls down. The sharp turn required to avoid running into the
cars or carriage on a slippery pavement would throw the rider.
Back-pedalling is of no use in the emergency, and a brake is the only
thing that will save a collision. In like manner, in riding at night,
and turning a corner, some one may come upon you suddenly when only a
brake will save a collision. Bells are of just as much use. It is always
safe, and therefore advisable, to ring your bell as you cross a
cross-street. One should never overtake and pass another bicyclist,
especially a woman, without giving a distinct notice by ringing a bell.
The rider may be new to the wheel, or a hundred different things might
happen to change the direction of the leading rider, and the notice
given by ringing the bell will often save a catastrophe. No corner
should be turned without notice being given by ringing the bell. No
carriage should be overtaken and passed without the same notice.
Of course this looks as if one would be kept ringing the bicycle bell
continually in the city, which is indeed the case; but after a moment's
thought it will appear that any vehicle which moves without noise is
obliged to give notice by ringing bells just as frequently. Cable-cars,
trolley-cars, horse-cars, etc., are all ringing bells continually, and
yet the newspapers each day contain notices of accidents from one or the
other. Hence one should make up his mind that if he is to ride in the
city he must be continually on the watch, and must continually be giving
notice of his presence by the only noise-making method at his
command--the bell.
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some Western views, a list of which he enclosed in his letter. By a
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fine negatives of the government buildings, and asking suggestions in
regard to the printing and mounting. The address of the young lady was
sent to our Western correspondent, and the exchange of prints made to
their mutual satisfaction.
This incident has suggested to the editor the idea of forming a
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who wish to form a collection of views from different localities.
Suppose some member of the club wished photographs of the State Houses.
He could state his wish, and say what pictures he had to offer in
exchange. Members residing in the capitals of the different States, who
cared to make the exchange, could correspond with the member wishing the
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