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Show HEROES BUSY ON GRIDIRON I First Week of September Septem-ber Will Be a Busy One at Universities When Material For the Varsity Teams Will Be Selected Now York. Migust 2 Although tho intercollegiate football season is still two months away the shadow of the prldiron panic is alread edging Into the realms of sport. The schedule makers have completed their tasks Und the coaches are issuing calls for ' the gathering of eandldntc-s The first week of September will witness initial practice at a number of eastern and I western colleges and before October is reached games will hae been u on and lost on many a 'arstty football field Judged from present Indica-! Hons, the coming season should pro- I duce football In both quality and i quantity such as no previous autumn has witnessed. Few changes have been made in the playing rules and both coaches and player will require but little time In which to famlliarUf themselveb with the code alterations Moy than one thousand games aro scheduled among the college elevens and If the high school and preparatory prepara-tory academy contests aro Included j the 1913 games will total in excess ol three thousand The college piny opens with a Tew scattering games ou September 2u and the contests multiply rapidly on succeeding suc-ceeding Saturdays until the cllmax Is reached on November '12 Thanksgiving Thanks-giving day games are still popular in certain sections of the country, but with the exception of the Army-Navy game gridiron activity will cease with the holiday contests A number of ln-ttrsccllonal ln-ttrsccllonal games will add interest to the shori football season for Michigan. Mich-igan. Syracuse, Cornell, Notre Dam.'. Carlisle, Vauderbilt and Peunsvlvania are all scheduled for long trlpB and games In hostile 'varsity territory Onc new game of Importance the Harvard Cornell match st Cambridge Is show n amonp the leading contests of tne fall, but the u6ual clashes between the leading elevens of tho countr y have lost none of their charm and there is certain to bo capacity attendance attend-ance at B number of the games The llrat real test games will conic early in October for on Saturday, October Oc-tober 4. Pennsylvania meets Lafayette which defeated ihe Quakers last autumn au-tumn A eek later the Carlisle Indians In-dians will trv the mettle of Dr Sharpe s Cornell team, while Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania will try to wipp out th? memory of Swarthmore's victory In 1912. Harvard meets Williams and Yale faces Lafayette on the same day. Saturday. October 18, w fI1( (iir, following elevens lined up: Amhursi vs Trinity, Colgate is. Army, Dartmouth Dart-mouth vs Williams, Lafaiete vs. Swnrthmore, Syracuse vs. Princeton and Pennsylvania vs. Brown. On October Oc-tober 25 Princeton plays Dartmouth. Michigan meets Vanderbilt. Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania tackles Carlisle, and Minnesota has Iowa as opponents. - The month of November brings the real dashers of the gridiron year On the first day of the month Notre Dame will play at West Point. Cornell Cor-nell at Harvard, Syracuse ar Michigan, Michi-gan, Pennsylvania state at Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, Virginia at Vanderbilt. Wisconsin Wiscon-sin at Minnesota and Colgate at Yale. Saturday, November 8, will see the following big games: Cornell vs Michigan, Dartmouth vs. Pennsylvania Harvard vs Princeton, Pennsylvania State vs. Notre Dame, Tennessee vs. Vanderbilt Yal vs Brown and Chicago Chi-cago vs Northwestern. A week later la-ter Yale plas Princeton. Dartmouth fi'cc Carlisle, Cornell opposes Lafayette. La-fayette. Brown is at Harvard Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania at Michigan, Chicago at Minnesota Min-nesota and Pennsylvania State will try out the Navy eleven The big game of Saturday, November Novem-ber 22 Is the Harvard -Yale match at Cambridge. Other contests of importance impor-tance include Syracuse vs Carlisle. Lehigh xk Lafayett, Minnesota vs. Illinois Il-linois Wisconsin vs. Chicago, Missouri Mis-souri s. Kansas. Wesleyan vs Trinity, Trin-ity, Nebraska s Iowa, and Tulane vs Louisiana. Thanksgiving day games include the annual Pennsylvania-Cornell clash, with Carlisle vs. Brown, Vanderbilt vs Southern University, Texas s. Noatre Dame, Washington State s. WaSlngton and Oregon vs Mutanomah affording football thrills in other parts of the country On Saturday, November 29, the U. S. Naval and Military Academy teams will meet and with this game taps v. il sound for the gridiron warriors oi 1$H. The agreement entered into by a number of Engl'sh sporting publications publica-tions to cease printing the advertisement! advertise-ment! of racing tipsters recalls some interesting memories of the origin and d eiopment of this phase of the turf. Although racing ms well established in England late in the eighteenth century cen-tury it was not until some years later that the tipster made his appearance. So far as turf history can be relied on, Daniel Dawson was the originator of tipping He first came Into prominence prom-inence In and about the course at Newmarket during 1S07. lth0Ugh absolute!) illiterate he was a shrewd judge of a race horses ability and soon became known as a remarkable forecaster of winners. His tame spread rapidly and his tips were In great demand by those who desired to wager on the results of the various meet. He profited exceedingly at his novel vocation until he fell in with several educated and clever rogues, j His new companions hit upon the! plan of using Dawson s tame as a j means of executing sensational bet-I ting coupe6. He was influenced to I name probable winners ol big stakes' a week- or more in advance of thej races, inus causing neavy piay on mc taorite while other entries were neglected. Then Dawson was furnished fur-nished with poison by which he elim-j elim-j Inated the public choice, leaving the field clear for a clean-up by hi6 backers back-ers The scheme was expoted when j Lord Foley lost ihree of his best racers rac-ers at Newmarket In 1S11. Dawson and a confederate named Bishop were 1 arrested and the latter turned king evidence Dawson was convicted of this and similar charges under an act which made it a capital offense to maliciously destroy horses and cattle cat-tle Dawson was hanged at the top of Cambridge castle In thp autumn of 1812 before more than 10.000 spectators, spec-tators, many of whom had purchased his tips when he was a "Toulter" at New market. Ernie Hjertberg, Sweden's national athletic director and trainer of the 'team which recently defeated the English athletes In an International dual meet nine events to foar. describes de-scribes his methods and preparations for the Olvmplc games at Berlin In 1916 as follows: "I hae four assistants to help mo in my work now. For the earl part of this ear my men were at the unl-Varslty unl-Varslty towns. Gothenburg. Lund Up- sala and. of course. Stockholm Their work was to see that the universltj men were taught what to do and how to do it. and to report to me. while! I made trips round to see how the men were going on. to ghe advice and ' instruction 1 have planned to visit forty-four cities in Sweden this fall spending one to three days ai each,! glviirg instructions to the local people, peo-ple, getting Into touch with likely young runners, and arrnnging to be kept informed of their progress; 1 shall attend all the big athletic meets so that I can note Improvement and the development of style, correct any little faults, and so on Then next year, as soon as the season opens. 1 shall make flying trips around again to find out ohw.the athletes and also1 how sport In the districts is progressing. progress-ing. .An- |