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Show CIlSilG ALL-STAilS II EXACT SCIENCE So-called Experts Invariably Invari-ably Overlook Great , Players. ! i By "VIC" KENNARD, Frtinous Harvard Football Player. j It is raiinii:ili r;u-h ypjir, ;it thr. i'lnt ti' fht fnitl;ill srasnii, I'm- rcrtninj IH'oii.intMtt mil Imril irs to pnt buny ;i ii -I uri a 1 1n i r lir:iils in n 11 ef- ! fnrt tn infill 111 1 lie plll'i'ic US to I just who nr.- thf ricvt-n ix-t foutl)iill (ilriycrs iti tlit- cDiintry. This year lias1 iuM'ii no (litVrrcnt. t'nim any other in j t h is I't'sj h1!' t . 1 1 ;is, liowcx nr. a nioro tliMiciill jtroMt'iii ti wnlvo in a manner! wIikIi was ut nil t-on im-iiii:. 'litis srlcrlion ojt U en r i known, hs, tin1 "All Ainoiii-!!. ' ' ;mh wlmn any man in t lin count ry sits down ami j oil ins himsnlf into tfiinkinrf he is qualified to maltn this ;;nlort inn lin is fa-t jtasstng into the t)lns where he shnnld be in- h 1 11 ;i hlo in uidin Ir. Osier expound his famous theory. I ,ot us take a little closer look :ind see just what a job Midi an authority has wished nn himsolf. In the Otlicial Footbnll r.nidn for l!Hi there appears a rni-ord of the srores of the most proniiimnt university univer-sity and sehool teams of last season. Listed, von will tind l"ii universities 1 ami L'iMl schools. Hear in mind that1 there are many university teams whose records do not appear listed, to say nothing of the manv hundreds of schools. Observation Limited. The average playing sihedule con-- con-- sist s of nine paines. I s it not a tact that a man can only be in one place n t one time It is simple ari t lime tie. The most, any one expert can see in one season is eighteen team? pbiy, and that, providing that eai-h week he visits a tield vhere teams that he has not already observed are matched. He must nece.-sarily see some of the teams playing their first games, some playing in mid-season form, and the ba lance in their tin a I struggles. 1 u manv of these contests the most representative rep-resentative players are sitting on the. side lines, owing to injuries, overwork or other practical reasons. Must not an expert, to qualify in making mak-ing t his selection, have seen the men he assumes the right to pick play Should he judge any man by any one performance 1 Where would Mahnn stand a? a player if he had been rated by his playing against Cornell last year ? Have the bigger uuiversit ies any more right to claim for one of their heroes a posi-t posi-t ion on t his mythical team ? Ha en t t he smaller colleges a perfect rig lit to be represented on the gridiron bv the same individual shining of one star? Roll of Honor Rest. Ilow great a game wouhl the wonderful wonder-ful Pollard have played behind the Amherst Am-herst line? How many gonW from the field would shivcrii-k nave kicked if he depended on the William? rush line to pave the way f Why was it t aspv senmed to have fallen short of expectations expec-tations in the recent eon test against Yale? The strong attack of the Brown team cave Pevitalis to date thirty-one opportunities oppor-tunities to kick goals after touchdowns. He d;d not miss one. Had t'oach Kob-ins.'ii Kob-ins.'ii 's aggregation been Joe formidable formid-able a'td thi same gentleman have had but thien opportunities, would he have been Ies- of a siar .' Logically speaking, the "All America Amer-ica is a v:-:st i represent:! t inn. It i.ivs tn e!een sicMing pl;;ers a verv tin;' compliment, but it -Iocs a groat in-;"stb'" in-;"stb'" to many, many men who have at least an equal right to the ame claim. It would be fairer tn r-.';h;i.-h an linger roll, ami 10 have men's names placed upon thw roll whose playing during dur-ing the season had been conNte-.i:. and up to a certain high standard. so and couldn't hear me call it, so he ran all the way around. ' 1 When it dawned on the crowd that I bad called the ball a foul and cut off two runs there was an awful demonstration. dem-onstration. A stranger would have thought the inmates of some insane asylum asy-lum had been turned loose. The fans threw everything at me but the grandstand, grand-stand, and' sections of that. The Buffalo Buf-falo team made a strenuous protest, which made my position all the more uncomfortable. Before I was able to restore order T found it necessary to tag seven of the Buffalo players with tickets to the clubhouse. Archer on his second time did the usual thing to get the umpire into more trouble, struck out. The next batter hit for three bases, scoring the runner, but the next batter fanned. The score was now a tie. " In th first of the ninth the first man up for Toronto hit for thrpp ba-es. The next batter fanned. Tiie following 'batsman grounded to the shortstop, the runner on third dashing for the plate. The bail beat the runner, but Archer failed to touch him. There was another bir kick, and this time I was compelled to remove the Buffalo battery, McCon-nell McCon-nell and Archer. Thus in onp gan:e T ejected the entire nine, which, I believe, be-lieve, is a world's record. Toronto won the game -1 to 2. Someone sen: in a riot call. " for after the same it see mod as if a;l the police in the world had assembled as-sembled to rescue me. Believe me. I needed them all to escape from that an-grv an-grv mob. Tf the governor had been present t believe he would have called oui the -tate militia. ' ' |