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Patent Office By Grantland Rice ON TRAIL OF A MILLION The meeting between Sharkey and Heeney of Boston Bosron and Australia has been postponed and may have ha a a. lot to do with the dis dis- distribution of a million dollars later on Tex Rickard knows that he could match Tunney and Dempsey with with- without without out any outside flourishes but he insists that Dempsey will meet the winner of his elimination In addition to Sharkey and Heeney these will also Involve Paulino and Delaney and unless there is 13 a big beg change In the situation as It looks now Sharkey should be the sur- sur At least he has shown more so tar far than any of the other pros pros- poets If Sharkey paddles paddies his way through the semi final flurry will willbe willbe be another Dempsey Sharkey scram scram- ram ram- ble but Dut In spite or of Rickard's state state- statement statement ment there are still swarming mul- mul multitudes multitudes I who believe lieve that Tunney and Dempsey will be matched again and I that no risk will be taken by offer olter- offering Ing Dempsey In a pre championshIp start Yet Rickard may figure that a Sharkey or a Dempsey Dempsey- Paulino scrap can draw In a mil mil- million million lion and a half and that he will then have the Championship left for another big crash later on He would have ha to take some risk wIth Dempsey but wIth two bouts he can draw In In place ot of a paltry BREAK K OF TIlE TIIE GAME GAIE In one of the earlier and easier battles Cotton Wilcox of Purdue had hada a bone chipped fron an ankle This lone accident made a ter- ter rifle rUIc difference In purdue's 1027 play A backfield carryIng Wilcox Welch and Y Kotansky would have been al- al almost almost most unbeatable Harvard would have suffered an even heavier set set- setback back Chicago and Wisconsin would both probably have fallen As It was Wilcox arrived at his old post In time to trim northwester and he will be ready again for Indiana Except for that chipped ankle anklebone bone In the Wilcox anatomy George GeorCe Ade the famous sage of Brooks would have ha been In the throes or of his greatest season It 13 almost a I certainty that he would have missed the pangs suffered at Chicago and Madison But being a philosopher he gathered In n his share or of cheer at Cambridge and Lafayette where Harvard and Northwestern fell be- be before tore fore the Purdue charge 1 Innis AND RECORDS Injuries have base raised the well known dickens with more than one great back this fall all Cotton Wilcox and Paul Scull are two of the best bestIn bestIn In the game forced from a number of Important engagements through the casualty list It Is doubtful Is either has a su su- perlor for round all worth The same rate fate overtook TIny Lew- Lew Lewis w- w Is of Northwestern Schober end Drill Brill of Penn The Red and Blue has suffered the heaviest losses of the year for Important nt games ames LI LINES ES RETURN TO GLORY There never has been a football year ear before not since the pass came In where line play has shown iu Its value to such a wide extent The lines have made the tame fame or of backfield stars this year and they have broken the fame of others Strong lines at various times have stopped the marches Quite abruptly of such carrying ball lumInaries as Joesting Flanagan Amos Welch Welch Eb Eby Merck Wilson and a neck flock or of others Ohio State was the shining ex- ex ample The Tho Buckeyes have hae had a brilliant backfield and a rather weak line As a result they have ha suffered a disastrous year due In part to a killing schedule But they were enough to lo prove the best backfield In the game Is or of little use back of a spongy line NOT OT SO SOD BAD D Dear Sir If you ou were a football coach how would you OU like to ro have on your our t team team- teamA am- am amA A plunger like Jim Thorpe c cAn cAn An end runner like Mahan A tackle like Heston An o ran field star like Grange An Interferer like Hardwick A tackling star like A passer like A pass receiver like A punter like A field goal kicker like Brickley A field general like FrIedman S. S S J. J I K But Dut It might be remembered also that could use a center like German Germany or Larry Betten- Betten Bettencourt court or Peck or Pitt a brace ot of guards like or Hare Glass Glau a pair ot of tackles such as Henry W. W and J. J and Hart of Princeton They might help to annoy some of the talent mentioned above YS Y'S LESSON W When en the golfer goiter Is ready to start his back swIng there Ls is only one detail he should think about and this concerns the smoothness of the take oft the even pace of the swIng It Ls is too late at this spot to con con- consider consider sider anything else which must either work through instinct or not at nIl all Trying to remember two or three other details Is one ot of the surest ways was to ro tie up the action or of orthe the swing sInce It asters concen- concen concentration |