Dickson, and Rock Island learned of the prowess of the Clintonians, they
backed out of their scheduled games, and Clinton was left without any
opponents. The Cornell team ranks third among the colleges of Iowa, and
averages 170 pounds.
The average weight of the Clinton H.-S. eleven is 157, with 160 pounds
average for the backs. Keister, left half-back, is probably the best
player on the eleven; he is a sure tackler and a strong ground-gainer.
Holmes, at right guard, weighs 181 pounds, and knows his position
thoroughly. He tackles well, and has great skill in breaking through the
opposing line. He proved himself capable, also, running with the ball,
and made frequent gains around the ends in practice. Verrien, at
full-back, is a new man, but he punts well, and should develop into a
good line-bucker. It is to be hoped that next year Clinton will be more
successful in securing opponents who care to play football for the sake
of the game rather than for the satisfaction of victory.
Although athletics have not yet reached that stage of development in
Cleveland to which they have attained in many other cities of equal
size, yet there is a lively interest in schoolboys' sport there, and for
the past two years a football league has been in operation. In 1895 it
was composed of the Central High-School, the University School, the West
High-School, the South High-School, and the Freshman teams of the
Western Reserve University and of the Case School of Applied Science.
This year, however, some wise sportsman must have informed the
schoolboys of the absurdity and inadvisability of having such a mongrel
combination of schools and colleges, for during the football season the
association consisted only of the Central High and University Schools.
The former has the advantage in numbers, there being about eight hundred
scholars enrolled; but the University School, with about two hundred
boys, has the advantage of being a private school with greater resources
at its command.
The championship game of football was played this year on a very muddy
field, but both teams had had good coaching and put up good sport. A
feature of the game was a goal from the field by Ammon of the University
School, the first performance of the kind ever witnessed in the City of
Cleveland. The final score was 12-9 in favor of the Central High-School,
but it is said that this score does not show how close the game actually
was, the University School having missed winning by the failure of a
foot for a second goal from the field. Most of C.H.-S.'s gains were made
through right tackle, and the High-School players resorted almost
entirely to a rushing game. The University School players, on the other
hand, kicked a great deal, and as Ammon is probably one of the cleverest
punters and drop-kickers of any of the schools of the West, this style
of play proved most effective for that side.
The senior interscholastic football season in Boston was brought to a
close last week in a manner that was somewhat unlooked for. The
unexpected was due to the action of the Executive Committee of the
Association at its last meeting. At the opening of the football season,
early in the fall, it was announced that all the teams must strictly
obey not only the letter, but the spirit of the Constitution, and they
were warned that they must take the consequences if the rules were not
thoroughly lived up to.
As a result, however, of the game played on November 14, between
Hopkinsons and Cambridge Manual-Training School, a protest was entered
against C.M.-T.S., and charges were made that their team had violated
one of the Articles of the Constitution. When the protest came up for
decision before the committee, to which all such matters are referred,
the committee decided that while the intention of C.M.-T.S. was not of a
malicious nature, the situation, nevertheless, was too grave to admit of
any alternative but that of depriving Cambridge of the game and of
awarding it to Hopkinsons.
This decision would give the championship, then, to Hopkinsons. But the
captain of the Hopkinson football team refused to accept an honor gained
on a technicality of the Constitution, and declined to take advantage of
the committee's decision. The committee, therefore, voted that no
championship should be awarded for the season of 1896.
In the past few years the rules of the Constitution have not always been
rigidly enforced or stringently lived up to, and the sudden change of
affairs has rather surprised the League members who supposed the lines
would not be drawn so closely. At the present time, when some of the
teams seem to be not satisfied to settle disputes on the gridiron, but
seek rather to fall back on the Executive Committee, it has become
necessary to strictly enforce the most insignificant clause of the
Constitution.
The Cambridge Manual episode has attracted considerable attention in the
Boston Interscholastic League, and while the result is a most severe
lesson to that school, and possibly out of proportion to the offence
alleged to have been committed, the result will be that in future years
there will be less unnecessary action for the Executive Board, and the
schools will learn to adhere to the clauses as set down in their
Constitution.
In spite of Cambridge Manual's misfortune at the close of the season,
her record of play has been rather exceptional during the playing weeks.
One noticeable feature has been that C.M.-T.S. has scored the first goal
from the field since 1891, when Moore, C.M.-T.S., kicked one, as he did
also the previous year. Considerable attention has been given by the
Cambridge team this fall to the development of a kicking game, and good
results have followed. It is asserted that they have never had a kick
blocked, and there seems to be little doubt that Sawin, the captain of
the eleven, is the best kicker in the League.
Another feature of Manual-Training's game has been their system of
interference, which proved particularly effective, and the backs have
been drilled to hurdle the pile after the interference had been broken,
and thus frequently to gain an extra couple of yards. The C.M.-T.S.
manner of defence was likewise a strong one, and although outweighed man
for man by a number of the teams against which they played, the
Cambridge eleven proved themselves capable of forcing their opponents to
kick or to surrender the ball time and time again.
RECORDS OF THE N. E. FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION.
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1888.
Cambridge H. and L. 20 .. 4 .. 136 .. 6 0
Boston Latin 12 .. 17 .. 140 15 5 1
Roxbury Latin 10 .. 1 1 66 56 4 2
English High 2 .. 2 .. 20 78 2 3
Stone, Nichols, and Hales 4 .. 5 1 46 52 1 3
Hopkinson's 1 .. 3 .. 18 126 1 5
Nobles .. 1 1 .. 9 108 0 3
1889.
Cambridge H. and L. 11 3 6 .. 105 16 3 0
English High 3 .. 7 .. 46 32 2 1
Boston Latin 7 .. 4 .. 58 20 2 2
Roxbury Latin 4 .. .. .. 24 68 2 2
Hopkinson's 1 .. .. .. 6 103 0 4
1890.
Cambridge H. and L. 10 .. 8 .. 91 35 5 1
English High 10 .. 7 .. 88 26 4 1
Hopkinson's 7 .. 8 .. 74 52 3 2
Manual-Training 6 1 4 .. 57 48 (1)1 3
Roxbury Latin 5 .. 5 1 52 80 1 4
Boston Latin .. .. .. .. .. 122 0 (1)4
1891.
Hopkinson's 17 .. 7 .. 130 4 4 0
Manual-Training 9 1 5 .. 79 56 2 2
English High 2 .. 12 .. 60 48 2 2
Boston Latin 4 .. 2 .. 32 58 2 2
Cambridge H. and L. .. .. .. .. .. 135 0 4
1892.
Hopkinson's 12 .. 4 .. 88 8 4 0
Manual-Training 2 .. 3 .. 24 34 1 (2)1
English High 5 .. 4 .. 46 52 2 (1)1
Cambridge H. and L. 1 .. 1 .. 10 34 1 (1)2
Boston Latin 2 .. 1 .. 16 56 0 4
1893.
English High 11 .. 3 .. 78 56 (3)4 (2)0
Manual-Training 19 .. 5 .. 134 28 (3)4 1
Boston Latin 3 .. 3 .. 30 68 2 3
Newton High 10 .. 3 .. 72 88 2 3
Cambridge H. and L. 5 .. 1 .. 34 78 1 (2)2
Hopkinson's 5 .. 6 .. 54 84 0 (2)4
1894.
Manual-Training 9 .. 5 .. 74 .. 4 0
English High 11 .. 2 .. 68 26 3 2
Cambridge H. and L. 2 .. 1 .. 16 98 2 3
Hopkinson's 5 .. 3 .. 42 16 2 3
Boston Latin 3 .. 1 .. 22 32 2 3
Newton High 1 .. 2 .. 14 58 1 3
1895.
English High 4 .. 12 .. 56 14 5 0
Boston Latin 2 .. 2 1 14 10 (3)3 2
Hopkinson's 6 .. 7 .. 40 36 3 2
Cambridge H. and L. 1 .. 1 1 8 40 (4)1 3
Brookline High 3 .. 4 .. 22 16 (5)1 3
Manual-Training 1 .. 3 .. 14 36 (6)0 3
1896.
Manual-Training 12 1 3 1 91 6 4 1
Hopkinson's 8 .. 4 .. 64 21 (1)3 1
Brookline High 5 .. 1 .. 34 30 (1)3 1
English High 4 .. 2 .. 22 12 (2)2 1
Boston Latin 6 .. 1 .. 40 64 1 4
Cambridge H. and L. .. .. .. .. .. 128 0 5
Note: (1) One tied. (2) Two tied. (3) Forfeited. (4) One tied and
protested. (5) Protested.
An interesting table of records is printed with this issue of the
Department because it must prove valuable as statistics for reference; a
few points of further statistical information may likewise prove of
value: since the Interscholastic League was first started, in 1888, the
greatest number of points piled up by any single team is 140. This total
score was made by the Boston Latin School in 1888. In the same year
Cambridge High and Latin made a total of 136 points, and was not scored
against in any of the championship games.
The record also shows that only six safeties have been made in the
League games since they were first started--two in 1888, one in 1890,
two in 1895, and one this fall. Only seven goals from the field have
been kicked during these nine years; this includes those mentioned
above.
The standing of the teams in the Senior League and those in both
divisions of the Junior League follow:
SENIOR LEAGUE.
Games Games Games Points Points
won. lost. tied. won. lost.
Hopkinson's 4 0 1 64 21
Brookline High 3 1 1 34 30
Cambridge Manual 3 2 0 91 2
English High 2 1 2 32 12
Boston Latin 1 4 0 40 64
Cambridge High and Latin 0 5 0 0 128
JUNIOR LEAGUE.
Division A.
Hyde Park High 3 0 1 52 22
Roxbury Latin 2 1 1 44 30
Dedham High 0 2 0 4 22
Dorchester High 0 2 0 4 30
Division B.
Somerville High 4 0 0 90 6
Medford High 3 1 0 60 28
Newton High 1 2 0 30 46
Chelsea High 0 2 0 2 46
Nobles and Greenoughs 0 3 0 0 56
FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.
Somerville High 12--Hyde Park High 6
SCORE OF GAMES PLAYED.
Hopkinson's 34--Cambridge High and Latin 0
(1)Hopkinson's 0--Cambridge Manual 15
Hopkinson's 14--Boston Latin 6
Hopkinson's 0--English High 0
Hopkinson's 16--Brookline High 0
Brookline High 6--Cambridge Manual 2
Brookline High 12--Cambridge High and Latin 0
Brookline High 10--Boston Latin 6
Brookline High 6--English High 6
Cambridge Manual 6--English High 0
Cambridge Manual 34--Boston Latin 0
Cambridge Manual 34--Cambridge High and Latin 0
English High 20--Cambridge High and Latin 0
English High 6--Boston Latin 0
Boston Latin 28--Cambridge High and Latin 0
Note: (1) Game given to Hopkinson's by action of the Executive
Committee.
Unless something unforeseen occurs to prevent, the All-Connecticut
Interscholastic Football Team, and in all probability the All-New-York
Interscholastic Football Team, will be announced in the next number of
the ROUND TABLE.
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professional men. He is a shrewd fellow, and earns many a dollar by his
wit. One of the new arrivals, noticing him one day, inquired who he was,
and upon being informed of his wit, opened a conversation which went
somewhat as follows:
"Find much to do here in summer?"
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"Are you, indeed? What's it about?"
The wit shifted over to his other foot, and looking mysteriously at the
veranda full of people, said, "It's about the faults of celebrated men."
"Ah! And I dare say you have us all in it. Now, for instance, myself?"
"Yaas, you're there." And here he opened a greasy little leather blank
book, and thumbed over the pages until he came to the entry he wanted,
and then read: "'Mr. B----, the celebrated author. Fault committed
yesterday, the 3d. Gave ten dollars to a messenger going to town, and
instructed said messenger to buy sundry things for him.'"
"Humph! Why do you call that a fault?"
"Waal, it's this way. I reckon that messenger will steal your money and
won't return."
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QUESTIONS FOR YOUNG MEN.
ON GOING TO COLLEGE.
One of the professors of Harvard University once said, in a lecture,
that many young men made a great mistake in going to college; that a
university was for students, and for students only; and that if a boy
were not of a studious turn of mind it was more than likely that he
would waste his time for four years that could be put to better
advantage in some mercantile business.
The time for such ideas has gone into history with other ideas of a
similar nature, such as the buying and selling of slaves, and the pride
noblemen used to feel in not being able to read or write. A college
education is quite different from acquiring knowledge at a college. For
instance, you may be attending a preparatory school at this moment, and
are considering what courses of study you will pursue in order to obtain
a "college education." What do you find at Harvard? There are some two
hundred different courses to choose from, and by choosing sixteen or
seventeen, and taking four or four and a half a year, at the end of four
years you will, if the examinations are passed satisfactorily, obtain a
degree of A. B., which in the common phrase signifies that you have
obtained an education. And yet you have studied only sixteen or
seventeen out of the two hundred preliminary courses that lead up to a
real education. In fact, when these four years are done you have only
just begun! And therefore the actual study covered amounts to little.
What has been accomplished, however, is the study and practice of how to
learn, and how to go to work to get an education. You have learned how
to start on any subject, whether it be the selling and buying of leather
and tin goods, or the teaching of boys' schools, or the science of
biology. Little information has been acquired, but you have at least
learned how to attack any subject.
Furthermore, you have come from your home, wherever that may be, have
met other fellows, have joined them in studies, in sports, in clubs, and
in societies; and under the guidance of a carefully selected body of
instructors and authorities you have learned how to take care of
yourself in emergencies of all kinds, how to read, how and what to
study, how to treat men and women--even how to fight when that becomes
necessary; and whether you decide to take up further study or mercantile
business, the result is the same. You know men, and the ways of dealing
with them; you know books, and the ways of dealing with them. And
incidentally you have acquired a great respect for both these valuable
companions.
Let no young boy say to himself that, being dull in school, he will
waste time in college. Time is never wasted that is spent in manly
existence, in seeing and working with other men on a high plane, in
reading any good books upon good themes or good ideas. If you have
little money for any such purpose, remember that any sincere man can
either win scholarships or work his way through college by doing
janitor-work or a thousand other things. Remember, too, that not only
have some of the greatest men America has ever known worked their way
through college, but that money does not count for so much at the
university as it does anywhere else in life. Many a poor fellow has led
his class, and not in studies alone, but in sports and in societies and
in respect. But--and this is a big "but"--he must be a man, a
gentleman, and a hard worker.
If you are going into mercantile business, if you are going into
professional work, or if you are going to do anything that comes first
to hand, you will be the better for the three or four years, and no one
who can study nights, while he works days, can be prevented from passing
the entrance examinations in time. The only person who can really
prevent him is himself, for if he has not the force of character to
stick to it till the end, he can never do much of anything, to say
nothing of entering or working his way through college.
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Any questions in regard to photograph matters will be willingly
answered by the Editor of this column, and we should be glad to
hear from any of our club who can make helpful suggestions.
TRANSPARENCIES FOR ORNAMENTAL LANTERN.
An ornamental lantern fitted with transparencies is a pretty and
inexpensive Christmas gift, and may be quickly and easily made by any
member of our club who owns a scroll-saw. For the sides of the lantern
make a pretty open-work design, and in the centre of each panel cut a
square large enough to admit a glass the size of a lantern slide (3-1/2
by 4). Select negatives which have plenty of detail and are of good
printing quality. Make four transparencies, using either the sensitive
plates which come for that purpose, or making tinted transparencies
according to directions given in Nos. 857 and 863. The tinted
transparencies are more ornamental, but the black and white are pretty.
These transparencies are fitted in the panels, and the lantern is then
put together.
If one does not know how to make transparencies, almost the same effect
may be produced by applying a print to plain glass, using the cover
glasses made for lantern slides, and then removing the paper, leaving
the film only on the glass. Directions for this process may be found in
No. 878. If one has used landscape negatives, a piece of pale blue paper
placed over the sky part, and a piece of green back of the landscape,
will have the effect of a colored transparency when the tiny lantern
inside is lighted. A small alcohol-lamp serves for the lighting, and
will burn for several hours. If one has a sunset view showing fine
clouds, place a faint rose-color or violet-tinted paper back of the sky,
and when the lantern is lighted the colors are like those of a real
sunset, the shadows and high lights in the clouds, making the different
tones and shades of color. Of course if viewed in a strong light this
way of coloring would be too crude, but in the faint light of the lamp
it is not noticed.
In selecting pictures for the lantern, choose those which will be
familiar to the one for whom the gift is designed, as half the value of
a photograph is in its being a picture of some well-known place or
object.
Blue transparencies show off well in a lantern of this description.
Directions for making them were given some time ago, but we print
another formula for the benefit of those who have not a copy of the
number containing the first, and who might wish to make a lantern with
blue transparencies.
No. 1.
Red prussiate of potassium 1/4 oz.
Water 4 oz.
No. 2.
Hyposulphite of soda 1/4 oz.
Water 4 oz.
Take old or fogged plates, and soak them in a solution made up of equal
parts of No. 1 and No. 2 until the gelatine is perfectly clear. Wash
thoroughly, and while wet place the plate, gelatine side up, in a clean
tray, and flow over it a solution made of
Citrate of iron and ammonia 1/2 oz.
Water 2 oz.
Allow it to remain in this solution one minute, drain, and stand away to
dry in a dark room. Print in the sun till shadows are slightly bronzed,
about as they appear in a blue print. Remove from the frame, place in a
developing-tray, and flow with a solution made of
Red prussiate of potassium 1 oz.
Water 4 oz.
When the development has been carried far enough, remove from the tray,
and wash in running water till the high lights are clear. Dry and use in
any way in which transparencies are used.
SIR KNIGHT J. PAUL JONES, 214 N. Third St., Harrisburg, Pa., says
that he has a 4-by-5 Daylight kodak, with plate attachment, which
he will sell at a bargain, if any of the members of the club wish
to purchase a camera of this kind.
SIR KNIGHT WARREN H. MUNK, 14 Waldron Street, West Lafayette, Ind.,
wishes to obtain a prize picture from one of the members of the
club who has won a prize in any of the Camera Club contests. He
says he will be glad to pay for it if he can have it. Will one of
our members who has won a prize write to Sir Warren? Sir Warren may
see half-tone reproductions (much reduced in size) of the pictures
that won prizes last year, in No. 848, January 28, 1896.
GEORGE COLEMAN, Dayton, O., asks how he may become a member of the
Camera Club; what makes the films of negatives crack off round the
edges, making it necessary to trim the picture considerably, thus
reducing it very much in size. Any Knight or Lady of the Round
Table may become a member of the Camera Club by sending name and
address to the editor of this Department, and it will be published
in the ROUND TABLE, and duly enrolled in the Camera Club book. To
become a Knight or Lady of the Round Table send name and address to
the ROUND TABLE, and patent will be sent to you. In order to enter
contests one must belong to the Order of the Round Table. The
softening of the film is because the water in which the negative is
washed is of too high a temperature. Neither the water nor the
solution should rise above 85° or fall below 60° F.; 70° is a safe
temperature. If the solutions or fixing-bath is too warm, set the
dishes in a pan of ice-water for a few moments to lower the
temperature.
_The Camera Club Competitions will close February 15, 1897, as announced
in the October 27, 1896, issue. The statement in the December 8 issue
that they closed on December 15, 1896, was an error._
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