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Show Eckersall's Prop Kicking Record Chicago Quarterback Hakes Twenty-Six Twenty-Six Goals From Field Out of Thirty Trials. Twenty-six goals from the field out of thirty trials is the record which, lt is said, Walker Eckorsnll set ln practice recently. All of them were made from past the thlrty-llvo-yard mark from nearly every angle and some wore even boosted from behind the fifty-yard line. Fitted out with his newly devised BQuare toe, fiat footed shoes his own Invention for accurate and long-distance drop klcklng-tho little Maroon quarter spent an hour In practicing sending the oval over the goal posts from The fields For a long time ho worked bv himself on form and then with Center Burt Gale passing them to him he commenced his record-breaking work Ho was successful ln five-sixths of his attempts and the four ho missed were not far wide of their mark In order to give his speedy little quarter quar-ter as much practice as possible btagg lined up hLs squad in the ueual formations forma-tions for drop kicking and sent his regulars reg-ulars to block the kicks. Not a ono was stopped and "ISckle" did not appear bothered ln tho least by the dashes of the big fellows toward him. Since. Eckersall has used his new shoes marked improvement has been noticed In His accuracy. He has alwa8 shown a tendency to be a little erratic at times in practice, but now this element, ele-ment, he believes, hna beon removed. The shoes aro so constructed that tne toe hits the bnll lower than ln the case of a common shoe and the oval consequently conse-quently salla higher and thus escapes chances of being blocked by linemen. |