Show FOOTBALL TOPPING BASEBALL DENIED grid sport Is of but few days in each season sporting news newa Is indignant over the frequent references to footballs overshadowing baseball as a popular sport report it says football ta Is a sport of 0 a few games pi played ayed weekly before crowds which are mostly wade made up of cf college men and former college men take the tradition away from it and its attendance would decrease BO 50 per cent tn in two seasons the technique of football to Is not understood by one man in twenty and never will be baseball 1 Is the most democratic game in the united states and inter est in its contests extends into every c cross ro ss road and hamlet in this country a and rid spills over into canada cuba and mexico the game la Is known and understood der stood and tile cowboy of arizona has it out with the he malue maine lumberman when argument arises regarding the hol worth of contemporaneous ball players the interest tn in baseball begins on january andary I 1 and ends on december 81 31 that of football begins when preliminary practice Is over and ends on thanksgiving day if the climate Is 1 rigorous purdue and butier butler will resume football relations in 1839 1030 after a lapse of 38 88 years the game which completes pursues Pur dues schedule for or next season be will be played at lafayette november 15 they last met in 1892 george trafton did what he could to rid the public of a blatant boaster when he socked art the great shires to the resin twice in their give five round bout but it seems that there Is 1 a wide margin of difference between knocking mr shires down and knocking the comical conversation out of him the more one sees bees or hears bears of this art the great shires tho the more one comes to a full sympathy of what lena blackburne had to put up with last summer the oldest team in the national professional hockey league Is the new york americans their average age being slightly above thirty the rangers are the youngest with BU an average of years the new york yankees announce anno unco the signing of ea S V painter as trainer for or the american league club painter last season was the trainer of the boston brayes of the national league the new yankee trainer believes there Is much more to baseball than the pounding out of base hits and fielding elding fl of balls on the ground and in the air ile he Is a birin firm advocate of systematic calisthenics and bob shawkey and his players will be doing setting up exercises at st petersburg in the spring the university of 0 texas athletic council has authorized acceptance of a four year home and home football agreement with the university of missouri starting in 1031 1931 druce brace caldwell former yale football and baseball star Is coming back to the cleveland club this time as a first baseman bruce brace played first fast fa st base for now new haven last season and burned tip the eastern league lie hit for the season and compiled a total of 28 doubles 10 triples and 41 home runs IS S barnard president of the tha american league la Is convinced that the new plan of placing the selection of official scorers in the hands bands of the league presidents Is one of merit b but ut the system will place then in a somewhat embarrassing position the question of who shall be the scorers to Is going to cause the if t any the baseball writers however aria are earnest in their desire to provide the records with competent scores henry bruder broder who suffered buffered a broken leg in the wisconsin game on october 12 was unanimously elected captain of the northwestern football eleven for 1030 the purple warriors warr iora dissatisfied with their showing against one of the strongest elevens in the tha country agreed to make bruders choice unanimous it bruder a junior had not been injured he would wo ul d have been a candidate for all amer ica honors ile fie to Is a halfback university 0 Cali fornias bears will play a post benson football game gama either e ther on new years day 1031 or during the tast lust week in december 1930 with one oae of the outstanding eastern teams W W monohan graduate manager made ad this announcement recently at the annual pual meeting of the pacific coast conference he indicated that either yale or navy would be the tha eastern opponent for the game which will be placed in the memorial stadium at berkeley officials als of the big six and massoud Mis soud valley athletic conference at their recent annual meeting in kansas city mo recommended recommend Bd that it if financially possible each big six school should furnish a covering for its football field missouri to Is one of the few schools of the organization which has baa I 1 such a tarpaulin and its wo ure has made the gridiron lit fit for play shortly after a i bard rain or snow storm |