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Show CARRIER'S FAME MOST ENDURING That Style of Offense Brings Red Grange to Front. More grid players have gained fame through ability to carry the ball off tackle and around end than any other form of attack. Once In a while a kicker, a pass receiver, a passer will be a team's great star, but the car-rier's car-rier's fame is the most enduring. This style of offense brought Red Grange Into the limelight. The wide end sweeps and the cut back plays with excellent blocking by linesmen and leading backs made Grange famous. The same was true of I'addy Driscoll when he wore the purple colors of Northwestern. 011-phant, 011-phant, of Purdue, who afterward went to the Army, was given excellent support sup-port by his line, and thus made his reputation. However, there must be a variation of attack. A pass, especially If used from the running formation, makes the ground gaining easier off tackle and around end. The line plunge, with a fake thrust off tackle, Is the more effective If tackle plays have been gaining. Quarterbacks seek to find the weak spot In opponents' defense. A game may be won by the use of five plays instead of the fifty or sixty which may compose the offensive repertoire. As the modern game is played any hack may be shifted to a ball carrying position. In this manner ball carriers may be rested. Ends may be brought back If they are adept at running. Congress may be asked to Intervene In the squabble between the Army and Navy departments over the resumption resump-tion of athletic relations. Congressman Congress-man Hamilton Fish, New York, called on President Hoover and suggested that the games be resumed. The famous fa-mous one-time Harvard varsity grid playe., talking after the Interview, said : "I suggested that the secretaries of war and navy, the superintendents of the two academies and the athletic directors di-rectors should call a conference In an effort to remove the differences that caused a break in relations." Miller Huggins, famed manager of the New York Yankees, who passed on the other day, was at one time the leader of the St. Louis Cardinals and as such had a long and serious debate with Boh Connery, St. Louis scout, over giving $500 for the purchase pur-chase of a rookie. Connery finally won and Rogers Hornsby became the property of the St. Louis team. Ohio State's passing for the coming season will be handled by McConnell and Holman, practice at Stadium field Indicated. Arden McConnell, a third-year third-year man, has come up from the ranks In the last two weeks of pre-season work and has what seems to be a regular reg-ular halfback position. Mickey Walker, middleweight boxing box-ing champion, will meet Ace Hudkins, of Nebraska, in a ten-round title bout at Los Angeles on October 20. Chuck Wiggins, Indianapolis heavyweight heavy-weight boxer, was sentenced to serve 00 days in jail and was fined $500 and costs upon his plea of guilty on nine charges growing out of a recent automobile accident. One of the great races In which the late Sam Hildredth trained the win-ner, win-ner, was the International, in which Zev defeated the English Derby winner. win-ner. Papyrus. Hildredth showed a fine spirit In this race by entertaining entertain-ing Ben Jarvis, trainer of the English Eng-lish horse in his box. Bobby Jones' recent exhibition at the San Francisco Golf club netted the Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children close to $6,000. Jones says Doctor Willing of Portland, Ore., wants him to go fishiug in Oregon next year and also that the Japanese government has Invited him to play exhibition matches in Japan. Ralph Hewitt, a sophomore at Columbia, Co-lumbia, is looked upon as the best backfield prospect since the days of Walter Koppisch. j |