Show I PUNTING WILL SHOW GREAT IMPROVEMENT SAYS EXPERT Walter Camp Discusses New Rule on Forward Pass and Its Result on American Game NE E of the chief alterations in the rules O ONE playing of f football for the season of 1915 is the one which puts an end t to t the trick of throwing a forward pass out of bounds instead of using a punt for the same purpose Teams have hac long known that this method of using the pass was more certain and hence generally more serviceable than the employment of a kick under the same circumstances and while up to last season it W was s no not generally employed employed em em- the year ear 1914 saw it in constant use when the occasion offered Hence HelIce it seemed wise to legislate against it No such aIt alteration lation in the rules would have been called for under ordinary ordinary nary con condition but when teams admittedly confessed that their punters were not sufficiently accurate to send a kic kick down the field that should drop out of bounds at the proper point they confessed a weakness in that department that ought not to be he er co covered d up by using using- a forward pass instead Almost any proficient forward passer can an place the ball thirty o or en e ever even forty yards ards with sufficient accuracy to make it a practical certainty that the ball will strike outside the side line within a radius sa say of 6 or 7 yards arda j but it takes a really first class punter to do the same thing especially if the opposing forwards can harry him a It little So the th rules committee Jias ba practically said If It wish to make this you play you must have a good punter and not depend upon a n forward passer rules now make any an- forward THE JL 1 pass that goes out of ot boun bounds s an pass paM and amI thus the ball ban comes back to the point where It was put pUl In play with the los loss of ot a a. down 1 If the pass goes goe out of bounds bounes on the fourth down It Belongs elonA's to tc the opponents opponents at al the tho spot where It was put In play pla This will effectually put pUl an end to deliberately pushing the ball ban out across the sl side e line There Is one compensation however for tor the side In possession of ot the tho ball or on the tho at attack attack at- at tack lack and that Is that the rule will admit admit ad ad- mit mil of ot t taking closer chances on passIng passing pass pass- Ing to a a. man going down do tho the side line for fol as the old rules stood Blood It was dangerous dangerous dan dane to take a chance ban on this thin at times because a pass over hi hla hili head across that side line means loss of ot ball to the opponents ITH the Pacific coast athletes WITH Y making such Inroads Into the field of all aU athletic sports there Is cropping up again the demand that the two to bl big universities located near San Francisco Stanford and California follow tollow the lead of ot the University of Southern California and that thal of Columbia Colum Colum- bia bla and return to the th ranks of AmerIcan American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean football In tennis and In track athletics the tho coast coal has hul established a premier position when tested In tho the national field not field not nol alone good men but winners are sent out from that section The country countr that can cnn send senet Into competition competition competition compe compe- the and the Misses Sutton Button and Hotchkiss and follow follow follow fol fol- fol- fol low these with others should by right have an opportunity to make Its players play play- ers era known In a sport short so nationally recognized as American football To one who ho like the writer has seen the stalwart young oung slants giants of ot Berkeley and Palo Alto contending In English Rugby on American soil soU there must arise visions of ot what l these magnificent cent specimens of speed strength and cleverness could do In our present gridiron sport And this Is not mere presumption Many a time In earlier years did the writer see the tho representatives representatives tives of ot thee thoa two up a L type typo of ot American football that would do credit to any team and the institutions that In those days produced produced produced pro pro- the Ransoms and the Shermans Sherman the Cochran Cochrans Reynolds Renolds am and Cottons can and man many believe will again turn out true tru American gridiron teams 1 last out there the writer WHEN V V saw numbers of ot these types play In Rugby and ani asking one day a the name of ot a young oun giant playing at I Palo Alto was told lold Dole This blonde I Hercules was only a larger edition of ol another Dole whom hom I remembered well vell wellIn wellIn vellin In the tho earlier days das of Stanford's ath ath- And It was out on this same Pacific coast that the Athletic Clubs Olympic and Reliance turned out such good elevens It was there that thal our now well known n and a admired Leonard Wood played the American game with r the and and Felton Taylor 1 is it all so 80 forgotten The I ev ld e evidence that comes cornea says pays No and ard the thel belief bellet Is that the country will once l more see star teams teama from these thes two universities ties on American gridirons s. BILE HILE there ha has been evidence referred referred re re- re- re W WHILE to lo In this column that the national sport of baseball h. h has shown signs of ot waning ng in 1 Its popularIty popular popular- Ity ly as Indicated by the attendance the real truth I 13 15 that Young and old America Amer- Amer lea ica ca Is 13 still just as ns fond of this great pastime as ever It will wUl inevitably come corns back to even greater strength If st Int Interested rested will only stop for a moment and sanely check over the conditions con con- and search for tor the the- causes causell or ot otdis- otdis dJs dis affection In Iu the first place It should be borne In mind that there Is la now a rival to baseball and that rival has grown tremendously In the last Jast few tow 5 years That i. rival rhal Is ls the tho automobile And that rival will Inevitably draw some small proportion of ot former fanner fans tans away from tho the old allegiance On the other hand haud the growth of popularIty popularity pop pop- of motor cars earr will In some cases make It easier ensler- to go to ball games cames and h hence th the tho rival will make some return Again the present U h war must show some somo Iw u uyun upun QUI our own sports as well as upon those of ot torel foreign n countries Not only Is la Interest diverted but a aa long Jong as general business outside business outside ot the tho manufacture manufacture manu manu- facture of ot war materials ln in In the United States is quiet and th there r. r Is la some foreboding fore fore- bo boding about aboul the future the rot returns urns at the game gamo will suffer some diminution which is only an Indication of oC tho the really eally thrifty caution of our avera average e citizen These two factors the automobile automo automo- bile and general conditions must bo be reckoned with but not nol attacked After Atter this however we wo come to the tho features for which baseball Itself Is responsible and which must be In some someway wn way ay corrected before the great returnIng return return- ing lag wave of popularity can reach Its 1121 height X c HE first of ot these Is Js the undue and THE 1 I extremely objectionable forcing upon the tho public mind of ot the money features The fan understands that thal the prof professional ball player makes hi his living at the game s-ame but when h he feels that the pla player er does not care whether his side wins or not so BO long as 8 the play play- or er himself draws a fat salary salar tho the fan tan begins begins be be- gins to lo lose his Interest and no wonder If It all he reads reade In the papers i Is the bid ding for tor players he ho loses confidence e Fre Frequent shifts shUts of players from one team to another adds further unsettling 1 thoughts Newspaper statements an and wordy accusations of ot rival go far tar to complete the iz IUd d condition of ot the spectator It is no wonder that many lose Jose Inter Inter- est And finally the conduct of or the game itself deserves much tion Uon True It would never neve- do for players players play play- la ers and managers to exhibit such utter carelessness as to lo the decision of or the umpire as to make malo the spectator feel feci that It made absolutely no difference to tu them as aM to which side aide won he the game but Lut on the other hand It Is a very verT small percentage of ot spectators that go o to a ball game Just to see soe a a. fight tight TORE 1 and more do our golf tournaments lourna- lourna MORE MonE 1 VI ments convince us of ot the old saing sayIng sa say Ing You never can toll tell when nen applied to this sport And more and more Is one Impressed with wonder at atthe atthe atthe the consistency of ot men like Ball Ban HIllon Hilton Hilton Hil HIl- ton lon and Graham among the British amateurs and Vardon Braid and Taylor Talor amon among their professionals It is la not that they always win but that they consistently go 10 so far tar and so 80 many years t near If It not at the front And Just a word sord more about the late lamented la Ia- Graham Here is a tribute to him from another pen His record of failure In the amateur championship is spoken of or only by comparison with the results In other events e Ho no had an an almost unbroken run of ot successes in the tho Internationals He won On the St. St Georges George's cup In 1904 and in jn 1914 and always alwa's finished high up lip In the open he ho was first amateur amateur amateur ama ama- for four successive lv years ean 1904 1907 1007 and again in 1913 and In 1906 fin fin- fourth to tho the big three three Taylor Taylor Braid and Vardon and was bronze med med- alist In 1900 1901 1905 and 1908 Copyrighted 1915 Otis F. F Wood SERIES July 31 Tooele U.-Tooele Tooele will stage stag a championship series of ot Its own this week weel starting tomorrow Three games meS will ill be played with the Harmon A. A C. C Tooele fans and the Harmon l team claim It will be for tor the semiprofessional championship of or the state Harmon latho Is la th the tho only team to beat bent Tooele this season sea son The game will sili start at 45 o |