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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER. HYRUM. UTAH AWhiskers &me-bac- k ? Pop Warner to Aid Coach Hanley Seeing Big League N By BILLY EVANS Sportswritsr, Big League Umpire and General Manager of the Cleveland Indians be I wanted, or thought I wanted, to a lawyer, when I was a boy. With that in mind I entered Cornell university in 1900, and it was there that I met t':e late Hughie Jennings, then coaching the Cornell baseball team after a glorious career as a ball player. He later was pianager of the Detroit American league club. Jennings won successive pennants in 1907 (his first year with Detroit), 1908 and 1909. I went out for baseball at Cornell and Jennings was my tutor. It seems ironical that L one of his pupils, was to be the first umpire to banish him from an American league, baseball, game. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON RE whiskers about to stage a come-bacon the face of American manhood? Walt, now, before yon give scornful reply to that question! For there are certain signs to indicate that the idea Is not so fanciful as It may appear to be at the first superficial thought Do our newspapers accurately reluct contemporary American life? Consider, then, two newspaper Items. Ono reads as follows: Apropos ths rumor that whiskers are ooout to do a come-bac- k as a companion piece to bustles, also reported to be come-baca staring this should bring about a revival of the pottery industry trade in mustache cups. Auzvasse (Mo.) Review. The other goes Into the subject more exhaustively and says: Taffeta and ruffles have been worn before, and still there was no wide outbreak of whiskers. We had the long: skirt for a while, too, and few whiskers returned. But it will be a and an unhistorlc surprising vre can have black mitts for thing if evening and billowy skirts that sweep the ground and these coy puff sleeves and lace bonnets and now bathing suits, even and never a burn-sid- e to go with them. The wax models in the windows of shop and shoppe alike cry out for bearded company. A woman in such apparel not only needs an escort to the soiree; she needs a doughty blade with whiskers. Therefore, he will appear, and the motion picture doctor will no longer be alone In his Van Dyke. There are portents, political and musical. A Paris dispatch Informs us that "the present French cabinet, which consists of 22 ministers and shows not a single shaven member, and in addition, four chief representatives Rt the London parley brought mustaches, while the fifth has a beard. Locally, every one is aware of Chief Justice- Hughes, Mr. J. Ham Lewis, Louis Graveure, Doctor Britton of the New York botanical garden and Ernest Boyd, critic incarnadine, and finally several tenors have appeared in those mustaches which we associate With barytones. Inevitably we must return to ' our mutton chops if the spring fashions continue back toward 1830. The short bodice, the sprigged frock, the chignon and the genteel black glove look timid with no protective whiskers above them, yet here they are. And when whiskers come back, mark your grandfather's words, so will chaperons. New York Herald Tribune. There you have it from both the rural and the metropolitan press, rep-- , resenting both the country and the city! However true it may be that k k, long-skirt- rs, the safety-razor-usin- smooth-face- d American appears to be in the majority today, is it beyond belief that he may choose to return to the glory of the past? nistory shows that the facial adornment of the ruler of a nation usually sets the hirsute styles of the citizens of that nation. Now, of coyrse, in a democracy such as ours the citizens are not likely to imitate the example of their President as are the subjects of a monarchy to follow the mode set by their king or emperor. But the fact remains that during most of our history Americans have In general followed the style in regard to whiskers or no whiskers as set by our Presidents, although that may have been only a coincidence. Our early Presidents from Washington down to and including Buchanan were and most Americans all smooth-face- d of their times were, too. Abraham Lincoln was the first President with a full beard and during his administration the golden age of whiskers began. Not the least of the elements which made the Civil war so picturesque were the magnificent mustaches, beards and sideburns which adorned the generals and statesmen, both Union and Confederate, during that period. A Civil war general, or even a colonel, a major or a captain without whiskers well, the picture simply Isnt complete, thats alii Lincolns successor, Andrew Johnit is true, son, was smooth-shavebut his successors more than made up for his deficiency in carrying on the tradition. With the inauguration of Grant, whiskers came definitely into their own and for the next thirty years they were much in evidence in both the White House and the Capitol. Grant, Hayes, Garfield and Harrison ell wore full benrds. Arthur wore a mustache and sideburns and Cleveland wore a mustache. McKinleys smooth-shaveface marked the end of the beared era, but Roosevelt and Taft symbolized a sort of a hangover with their mustaches. The present smooth-shave- n era began with Woodrow Wilson and has continued through the administrations n Wilhelm. "Ev-Kaise- p of Harding and Coolidge down to the election of Hoover. Now that we have had nearly twenty years of smooth-shave- n Presidents Is the pendulum about to swing back again, and give us another bearded President to set the style for his And if whiskers are to stage a comeback, what are to be the most popular styles? Look at the portraits of the notables shown above and pick out your own style. The full, beard worn flowing by Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war in Lincolns cabinet, is not only typical of the style most popular in the American golden age of whiskers but it is one of the oldest styles. As will be seen by data presented later in this article, it goes back to very ancient times. If, however. It would overtax the patience of the average American to wait for the growth of such a luxuriant crop, the hairy collar style, with the ostrich plume effect, as exemplified by Horace Greeley, the great editor, might be less trouble to cultivate. Many Americans may not remember the services of the gallant Gen. Ambrose Everett Burnside during the Civil war, but they are not likely to forget what he contributed to American facial adornment They are sometimes referred to as "mutton chop whiskers, thereby depriving the general of credit which properly belongs to him. For, as everybody knows, the right name for them Is obtained by reversing the name of the man who made them popular and calling them sideburns." Similarly, his imperial and majesty, Napoleon III, made popular in France the combination of mustache and lower-li- p whiskers, or goatee," which It goes by the name of imperial. is doubtful If the average American would care for this foreign invention preferring one of the brands any more than he would care for the sharply upturned mustache of the of Germany. One fault of the latter type at least, there Is a tradition to this effect is that it requires too much attention, such as putting it in a cloth framework at night so that It will not sag, droop or otherwise lose its perky uprightness. The United States, however, Is not the only country in which there are From signs of a whiskers come-bacn France comes word that a arbiter of styles on the Parisian boulevards has starled a campaign for the return of the beard which he regards as the outward sign of a mature mind." Thus is another historical cycle completed, for In early times the beard was considered by all nations as a sign of strength and manhood, carefully cherished and almost regarded as sacred. More than that, its removal wns considered a particularly degrading form of punishment In the second book of Samuel in the Old Testament is related the story of, the servants which King David sent to Hanun, ruler of the Ammonites, to comfort him for the death of his father. Their reception is described as follows: And tha princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath. sent comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee, to search the city, and to spy it out and to overthrow it? Wherefore Hanun took Davids servof ants and shaved off the one-ha- lf their beards, and cut oft their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away. When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said. Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return. fellow-American- "chest-protect- sharp-pointe- d well-know- Among the Moslems the beard wa also held in great respect and the strongest oath that a Mohammedan could utter was, By the beard of the Prophet!" People of this religious belief took great care of their beards, habitually carrying combs to comb It and keep it in order. It was their custom to do this after prayers, while still on their knees, and If any hairs fell out they immediately picked them up and preserved them for burial with their owners. They also dyed their beards, usually red, not only because dye of that color was easily obtainable, but because it was nearly like the golden , yellow, the color recommended by Mohammed, who hated black, the color which the Persians dyed their beards In France and Spain the wearing of beards followed the styles set by the monarchs of those countries. The beard was commonly worn In France until the time of Louis XII, who, being young and beardless, set a new style and the fashion changed. In Spain the loyal Spanish courtiers removed their beards when Philip V, who was unable to grow a beard, came to the throne. In Russia Peter the Great issued a royal edict compelling his subjects to shave or pay a tax pn their beards in proportion to the rank of the wearer. Henry VIII of England attempted a similar tax in England, but found it difficult to enforce the law and later gave it up. As a result the reigns of Elizabeth and James I were characterized by the wildest extravagance in beard growing with some men clipping their beards Into as many formal shapes as the box hedges. Under the reign oi Charles I the Van Dyke beard, named for the famous painter, became popular, only to be followed by a smoothfaced era during the Eighteenth century and down to the days of our dear queen, Victoria, whose royal consort and whose son. later Edward VH, brought back the pointed beard as one of the glories of the days. If, indeed, there Is a whiskers comeback and beards once more become popular, they will bring with them vexing problems. One of them is: what to do with the beard when it Is not in use taking it for granted that a beard can be put to use, such as stroking it as an aid to cautious thought and tweaking It, either ones own or anothers, to suggest violence, determination or aggresiveness. How serious this problem may be is indicated by the following incident related recently by a writer in the Boston Herald: But that belongs to a later chapter, Jennings, who was a Cornell alumnus himself, probably considered it rank treason when I gave him the gate. Hughie was a great baseball coach as great a coach as he was a manager. I remember distinctly his first comment on my owq baseball ability, which at the time I thought was rather fair. Now I am a pretty big fellow physically, and I was even in those days. I had played baseball ever since I was a little kid and by the time I entered Cornell I had developed into a pretty fair player. With my weight, which was around 170 pounds, I could drive a ball as far as the next one. I thought I was quite a hitter until Hughie Jennings told me a few things. The first time he ever saw me bat knocked the ball out of the lot for a home run. I bat right handed and, oddly enough, I hit that ball over the right field fence. Although I didnt know it, I was pulling away from the plate and swinging late. Thats how Coach Hanley (Left) and Pop Warner. Teacher and pupil will collaborate when Pop Warner, veteran coach university, assists Coach Dick Hanley in offering the football eoursj at the annual Northwestern university summer school, August 11 to 2i. Hanley uses the Warner system in his football coaching. Warner will give hla course during the first week of the school. Coach Hanley invited the famous west coast grid leader to give his r ball course when he went west with the East team and trained ai Palo Alto: Last summer the school attracted 185 coaches. This year the enrollment is expected to exceed 250. Besides football the school offers courses in basketball and track. Coadi Dutch Lonborg has charge of the basketball class and Coach Hill conducts track. all-sta- CALL INTRAMURAL SPORTS CURE-AL- L Does as Much Harm as Inter- collegiate Battles. A lot of these cock-eye- d theorists seem to think that Intramural sports is the one sure cure for all the evils that they see swarming all over col- like a phalanx of ants. They excuse the big money collected by the colleges from football by pointing out that the profits often are turned over to the intramural and athletics for all" programs, writes Ray Cannon In the Chicago Daily lege athletics News. y In theory, no doubt the Intramural program is sound, but in practice it probably does as much or more harm to the student body than the great Intercollegiate battles do. Hang around some of these Intramural contests some time where the boys are boxing or wrestling or playing basketball or running the half mile, and see what happens to men who overdo competition when out of condition. But you say, why not make the boys get Into condition before competing? The answer Is that they wouldnt go for the stuff if they had to get into condition first Intramural sports, organized better than they are in their present pioneer state, may become In time of considerable value to the student body at large, but they can never replace the white heat of the big game as a crucible of what a taan is going to be up against later on in the bigger game of life. College football coaches often come Hugh Jennings. had happened to send the ball to right field. I felt pretty proud of that hit, but my pride suffered a jolt at Jennings caustic comment Pretty rotten," he observed. Pretty rotten I I gasped; Didnt knock It out of the lot? Sure and It was all luck. You bat with one foot in the water bucket. Any good pitcher can make a bum out of you. Do It this way," and he Illustrated his meaning. The next time I came to bat I followed Jennings Instructions to the letter. I stood with the approved stance, waited for one to my liking and then took a healthy cut at it. The ball went hopping weakly to the shortstop who had the easiest kind of play at first. I was disgusted.' But Jennings said, Finel Thats the way to bit em. And, in justice to Hughie, 1 admit that I did improve greatly under his coaching. Perhaps I might have become a big leaguer myself if circumstances hadnt ruled otherwise. But, at any rate it wasn't to be. Some years ago a certain eminent The death of my father cut short my man of New England wrote a letter to another eminent New Englander whose career at Cornell after two years of title to eminence is substantial and study. Back to Youngstown I went whose beard is celebrated throughout after my1 fathers death, to a job as the land. It is a beard in the fullest dimensions of old New England. In sports writer on the Youngstown Vindicator. the letter to this bearded New Englander the friend asked this question: I was an ardent baseball fan andl "When you retire at night, do you tuck the beard under the sheet, or do you naturally, relished the opportunity of leave it free outside and above the being a baseball writer. I would have sheet? laughed at the suggestion of becoming This, we are told, caused the wearer an umpire. I had never umpired a of the beard much distress. Until ball game in my life, aud thought I the matter had thus been called to his attention, he is reported to have told never would. But evidently it was in his friends afterward, he had never the cards, although my opportunity given this problem any thought He was created by sheer accident and I had retired at night as other men do, and had fallen gracefully into sleep, tried my best to get out of It. untroubled and unperplexed. It never The league I was covering at the had occurred to him that there was time for the Vindicator was called the anything complicated or puzzling about Protective association. It was the the performance. Since that letter and its question, however, he had hardly nucleus from which later .was formed had a comfortable nights sleep, for the the O. & P. league. Youngstown, of moment he put out the light and was the home team for me, popped into bed he had begun to de- course, bate which disposal of his beard he and on the eventful day, toward the finish of the 1903 season, on which I might the more comfortably make above the sheet or beneath it. By this made my debut as an umpire, Yeungs-town- s we learn that the beard, like many opponent was Homestead. another luxury in life, carries with it (ft, 130, Bell Syndicate.) responsibilities and perplexities. closer to vicious professionalism than anyone else In the higher range of sports. James Rowland Angell, Yale Men who play president, has said: for motives other than the love of the game, men to whom victory, however, won, is the controlling end. are men already on the road to professionalism, men who have sacrificed their amateurism. When a football coach ducks out of a contract to capitalize on a championship with a new job at a big Increase in pay he is a professional of the strictest order. Though Babe Ruth will receive a salary of $80,000 this year and next, he actually will receive less than $70,-00- 0 himself each time, because $10,246 must go to pay the annual income tax. The Cubs have few outfield with Wilson, Stephenson and in harness. worriei Cuylei Mel Ott of the Giants waited the pitcher and walked 113 times ring the 1929 season. out du- The Cardinals have six southpaws Sherdel, Hallahan, Hill, Fowler and Grabowskl. in Mitchell. Pablo Dano, Filipino flyweight, rated the greatest boxer of his since Paneho Villa. li Henry L. Johnson, Jr., of Wabaa, was elected captain of the Dartmouth varsity hockey team. Mass., Rowing is enjoying a new popcrews at Harvard. Twenty-twhave been working out this winter. ularity o Brooklyn has a Southern league bastart the 1930 baseball season in Blothon, pitcher, and Lopez, catcher. ttery to e Buck Ewing, player, battel over .300 for 11 straight years. HU high mark was .371 with Cleveland la old-tim- 1893. Dr. Walter E. Meanwell has coached Wisconsin basketball 18 years. In five seasons bis teams lost a total of three games. . Tod Sllngsby, British Columbia Ions distance swimmer, plans to swim across the Straits of Juan de Fuca ia the summer. It is 18 miles across with conflicting tides and fast cu- rrent. San Francisco sold a complete oufor $175,000. Smead Jolley went to the White Sox recently for $30,000. tfield A year ago Detroit paid $75,000 Johnson and Cleveland got Averill for for $50,000. the United Electing States Military academy basketball squad selected Cadets Dean C. Strother, Vinfield. Kans., and Orrin C Krueger, Buffalo, N. Y., to lead tin Army 1931 team. Street No Gabbler In 40 years the Brooklyn club of the National league has had only 11 managers. This is due largely to the long tenure of Wilbert Robinson, who is going on his seventeenth year as leader of the Flatbush team. Ned Hanlon had seven seasons with the Bill Dahlen officiated for Dodgers. four years, preceding Uncle Robbie. In his annual report. Dr. David Kin-le- president of the University of Illinois. voices the opinion that the eight-gam- e football season is too great a strain on members of the varsity team and favors the elimination of the last week In the season. Doctor Kinley declares the institutions In the intercollegiate conference would gain if the last week were eliminated. comment A digest of on the Miami affair Indicates the most Important result was a huge loss of prestige by Sharkey. Nothing was expected of Scott; but of the man who Is to carry this countrys banner in after-the-fig- the next international match for a title, it was at least expected that he would bear himself like a great fighter. Sharkey looked like anything but that as reflected in stories of the bout He punched wildly and he lacked ring poise. He lost his head and beA haved like an excited schoolboy. level bead and a good disposition are absolute requisites in a great fighter. Most folks think Manager Gabby St. Louis Cardinals got his name from his flow of language. The ol sergeant can turn on a fountain of verbosity that would make Dan Webster call in his shorthand but he didnt get his name fro that accomplishment. Ala Gabby hails from Huntsville, where baked possum is the' principal dish and all the negro boys are call Gabby. The Card manager packed that to the big leagues with him Street of the |