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Show OPPDRTUPaiTY REEDED .TO BRIf.6 OUT STARS Great Athletes Have Suf-fured Suf-fured by Being Attached to Mediocre Teams. By Tribune Special Sport Servlee. XK'.V YORK, Dec. 1. Fame und op-, op-, portunity do a lot of teaming: in tho realm of sports. "Where opportunity lingers, rVime hangrs around, and there aro Instances of It too numerous to mention. There are a few vivid examples, however how-ever and the caso of Howard Berry, tho great Penn alar, stands out In bold relief. One of the k rea test playera v.-ho ever donned moleskins. Berry has won many laurels a nd much pralsa, but during his football career, which will come to an end with the closing of t he present season. Berry has never been a member of what could be. considered a roaily reat foot-tall foot-tall team. He has never been on a team which galloped off with the eastern championship, cham-pionship, alii.ou-i: Lena niadc a jjreat showing this H'-a.-.on, Had Howard Berry entered C"!rrat, Harvard or Pittsbni his foot J.ail c areer might have b"en tnriro ns brililant as it has been. But because he entered Penn. which lias not until this year hav an eleven which ranked with th" greatest teams In the country during his term at the Quaker school, opportunity passed him up and football In me that might have been his has ben denle( idm. lieiry is a. great all around grid man. He L speeL , a treat openfb ld r unner, a wonderful line srna.nhfr, an ad?r't In handling hand-ling the forward pnr.a and n reat kicker. He was considered the rank Ing fullback Of the east by n gfiorl ninny i ritl' s in.st season, and tlie majority has favored him In every season he has played. Yet the fortunes of his team we to Against his cha rices. And thus It Is that Howard Berry rvlll pass out. of colieiriate football without, having hav-ing known the glory of phiving on a reallv men t ten m. Fa te ban not the slichtost debt against him. He owes her nothing. What glory he hn won he baa fought for agaliat adverf-e roruil tionn. Case of Lajoie. f!nhetall lias a nlndlnr ca"", anil, it range as It inay y-"tn, the j,;icr In oui-hIIoii wound un his majir league career In Philadelphia. That player vum .Van Indole. There waH never a greater Herond buseinnn than 'Ivijoln. Ho was one of the Kteateat fielders field-ers the gam hax ever produced and his wonderful ha t' lug, record Is known to every follower of the tame. Yet after more than twenty year hi the pastime, liirrr -aolo wan forced to pass out of the mn for leagues as an active plaver without having plavrd on a rharn-plori'dilp rharn-plori'dilp club; without, bavlnj; shaied In the ylni v of winning a pennant or playing In a world's Relief. Fame ban n'Jt a."M-d Iiole up, for he 1h one of the rnovt famom of vlrrun rnn,or lengue rtar-. yet lie. like Berry, oA-es nothing to fate. IjCH Darcy Another. In the fistic realm there was a recent r;iHO where a Kn:"t battler panned out. cbup fi Uu otipoi I null y that rightly ahould lia ve tK-en hlw. When Lester fitrcy died fif pneumonia. In Memphis, fate irmrk'-d finli to u ra-re..)- that van In the hud. Lurry wan ra-fm:ed ra-fm:ed the chance lo ehow A mericn wh.H lie einiiu uiid there are mfiny wlio MtHl contend he He,i ,,f n broken heart iih much nr. anvlblnM el-.e. ;,, .nrw stayed In Amdr;illa till Hi- e,,. ,,f ihe war; had be enlisted; had he taken nny olh.-r i-oui'.-tfilin Ihe one Whirl) ,-. hllll lo lilt of Ihe Hall, all might haw he , 1 ! p.j f , . I fe y oUld pi -.ha hlv be a 1 1 V e Mtld ha ppv to-lay h id t'ii In been JuM a r )( kllid-d to Jiim. |