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Show ' Mhgazfo Featore Seethe I Like Lord Byron, John Harland Rush, hereinafter known as "Speedy,'' awoke ono morning to find himself famous. This transition transi-tion from one practically unknown outside of the state of Ohio to one j of th immortals in the world of A snorts occurred ono night ast Jan-1 Jan-1 ,.' rv Whea the telegraph wires throughout the highways and b-u b-u av" of this country carried a small Announcement to the eject that J. f ,,,.,1, prinreton. had been those!! "coach of the Tiger football Uam '"iS&TSSit hue and cry lmTrom ti e follow-oith.. grid-irosc grid-irosc from U u iu country. Iron game through h?. if each oiher as they congre-sked congre-sked of cacli o rs an(J Tgated on the r,.POIllK th.u M tht' lr?h? hl!to-y 01 th, autumn A covered the lii.-io , but they found it not, for the new tutor of the Princeton team never played on the varsity eleven at tho New Jersey school. The cases of Bob Zuppke, th't preat Illinois coath and of "Speedy" ltush are almost identically alike. Zuppfr attended Illinois, but was considered too light for the eleven by the coaches although they admitted ad-mitted at the time, that "he haj more football brains and iutuitlon than tho rest of the squad put together." to-gether." After bis graduation, Zuppko Zup-pko coached Weat Park higli school in Chicago, and after a few highly successful sermons, lie was called to the post of tutor o the Illinl, suc- idlng those BSme coaches who had turned him down, as tho saying goes. Last year, Bob tutored the mini squad to the championship of th Western conference, that body which is the "Bix six" of the middle and western states. bb hmmj .abbbi 'SPEEDY" RUSH, WHO I has won me in I COLLEGE SPORTS I "Speedy" Has the If I Brains and Should lap" , M F fil I Pull the Tigers Thro' "f JT,. I - JJ" J. I Their Next Football S iP' I Campaign With the 'l . . lfjfe?sl A: Most Creditable m.Z?7&!f: CS I Record They Have .v'ri " mSS' tf'-Z Ever Attained. .Ps " ' ".f: '".-., At present, "Speedy" is rorty-on years of nge and for the past thirteen thir-teen years has been athletic director direc-tor at tho University school ol Cleveland, a preparatory Institution His first three years of college lif w ere sp -nt at Grlnuell an educational education-al university tit Iowa. There hi played on the fuotball team In his junior and sophomore years, being considered, on account of his extraordinary extra-ordinary speed, one of the greatest offensive ends and halfbacks thai ever performed in the West HIk senior year was spent al Prlnci ton, from which he graduated graduat-ed In 1898 In the fall of hi yeai ' at tlx New Jersey university, ho re-ported re-ported iit tho first call for footbal candidates, but to his surprise tin coaches refused him a suit. Tin Tiger squad that year was praetl allj composed of veterans from th great eleven of 18'7 and the track squad waa woefully weak. SOs- . pa', . " Wherefore, the track coaches, seeing see-ing a chance for many points in the Intercollcgiates. formed a deal with th, football tutors whereby the latter lat-ter were not to use "Speedy." Although Al-though he was refused a suit, thr was nothing to hinder Rush from attending practice every day and matching the maneuvers and it was III this way that he picked up a large portion of his gridiron knowledge. During his career at Princeton, "Speedy" earned his cognomen by doing the 100-yard dash In 1 4-5 seconds, sec-onds, equalling the world's record for that distance. But It was not entirely on account of his physical speed that his associates dubbed him "Speedy," it was partly duo to his rapid-lire thinking which would lead to quick decisions and this latter lat-ter quality is one of his greatest as a football and track coach. Following his graduation from Princeton, "Speedy" worked at newspaper work around New York and other eastern cltia until ho came In 1902 to the University school of Cleveland as athletic director, di-rector, remaining at that post until the present year. At Jniversitj school, from worse than medlocro material, this "wizard." "wiz-ard." as they call him in Cleveland, has developed some of the strongest strong-est scholastic football and track teams in the middle west. Under his guidance the University athletes have won eight football championships champion-ships of Cleveland, which Is considered consid-ered by Walter Camp as ono of Lho best cities in tho country for tJCnoiaswi.; Luviuaii. But It was as a developer of athletes ath-letes who later made their marks on college gridirons that forms ono i of "Speedy's" shining attributes During the thirteen years at Uui- ) versity School, three football players play-ers developed by Rush have been , placed unanimously on the mythical i All-American teams. Clarence Al-cott. Al-cott. the Vale end of 1907 was tho first to break Into the charmed circle, he arriving in that year Bob- t by Hogsett, the sterling Dartmouth eaptaln made the mythical eleven t in 1913 at ont and lrlst season '. (.barley Barrett, who was considered consid-ered as practically the entire offensive offen-sive and defensive strength of tho I Cornell team was selected at quart- erhack. i Speedy has placed more men on college teams m their lirst eligible ) year than any other scholastic i coach, not even excepting thoe 0r UhllllPB Aiidover, Philips Exeter and Lawrenceville. Speedy's Is the universal style of coaching. His proteges go out Into the larger world of collegiate athletes and immediately im-mediately make good. Speaking of Rush the other day a well-known coach who has been actively Interested Inter-ested in the Ohio Conference for many years, told the writer: "There has not been a member of Rush's football teams entering a member of the Ohio Conference in the past ten years who has not made his college team. I think this is practically a world's record. Another thing, my style of coaching coach-ing is perhaps one of the most difficult diffi-cult and intricate in the world. It usually takes an average candidate at least a year before they catch on to it and yet I have had many of Speedy's boys come to me and in their 8rst year fit right into the system I can think of no other high school coach to whom as high a tribute can bo given." And Speedy has done all these things while contending agalnBt tremendous handicaps. When he came to University School in 1902, athletics there were practically a Joke, the boys who attended were of the pampered class who considered consider-ed it better to know how to dress faultlessly than to know how to get out and batter and ram and tear a path to a touchdown. But this Is all changed now. University School is the leader in scholastic athletics In the city of Cleveland and bas been ever since Speedy came Me is stern and exacting to the highest degree and yet the wonderful wonder-ful personality of the man has made the students respect and even love him. From material which other coaches would spurn and look upon derfnl disdain, he has created wonderful won-derful athletes Take the case of Paul Kassulker as a specific Instance In-stance When Kassulker entered University, his health was broken and doctors despaired of his case. et Speedy took Paul Kassulker and made him a great football player, one of the most marvelous ends that tho middle west has ever Been. Kassulker ended up as end at Chicago Chi-cago university in his senior year and In the same year he was chosen chos-en on tho All-Western team. As he did in this instance, so has Speedy done In many other cases, re-created, as It wore, athletes from that class of American boys universally uni-versally known as mollycoddles. In addition to Barrett, Alcott, Hogsett and Kassulker, Speedy has also developed many other athletes who left their footprints on the gridirons of the East and West Maleom Scovill, present Yale back-field back-field man, Al Weatherhead, varsity end at Harvard laet year and Harry Eels, Williams' guard and kicker, are but three notable instances in the long list that would cover several sev-eral pages if printed in full. And yet, you will probably ask, "How is this man, a more schoolboy school-boy teacher in the middle west, going go-ing to succeed at Princeton?" The answer to that query will be found in tbe fact that during his year at University School, 8peedy has always al-ways slipped away to see at least one of the big games in the East, and boys who have trained under him, when on college teams, send back to him the newest plays and formations which are tried out in tho East and West In this manner he has been able to keep ubreast of the times aa exemplified In the football foot-ball world. Concerning Speedy's success, the same coach quoted above said: "There can be no doubt that Speedy will be a success at Princeton, Prince-ton, for he would prove successful anywhere, if he has anywhere near decent material. 1 look forward to the Princeton team of next fall as the champions of the East, if not of the country." Speeay, nimseir, is rainer joyiui at the proBpect of helping his alma mater on the gridiron. His sensational sensa-tional work at University bas brought many offers from colleges in the middle west and throughout Uhio, but not until now, has he heeded the call. As he puts it: "Although I regret h aving Cleveland Cleve-land and U S.. for botli have proven more than kind to me, nevertheless there is a slight feeling of joy and elation in my 6ystem when I think that maybo next year, 1 will be able to make amends to Princeton for the many things it has done for me." Football is not tho only line of sport at which Spcody is a master, however, he being able to coach a team, and coach it well, in practically practi-cally every line of sporting uctlvi-ties uctlvi-ties now prevalent among high Schools end ollegea. with the possible pos-sible exception of lho roughest of intercollegiate sports, checkers and chess, to which he has paid but slight attention. However, if an emergency arose, he might even try h!a hand al the latter two. Times without number have the University School baseball, basketball basket-ball and track teams won all the championships in the vicinity of tho Cleveland. Speedj was the prime mover in bringing the annual Princeton interscholastic field and track games to Cleveland and thts meet has come (o be recognized as perhaps tbe best interscholastic competitions of the middle wcet Three times since this meet was first held, five years ago, have Speedy's boys won the championship, champion-ship, competing against athletes from Ohio and near-by states. Although Al-though he Is only to occupy the position of football coach at Princeton, Prince-ton, it is more than likely that he will also help out with the track candidates. Baseball Hub Onners. Clark Griffith is fond of opposing the Feds with the argument that baseball belongs to baseball players, to men who have been in the game. The logic Is not half bad, though it would be better if Charley Somers. whose money made the American League; John I. Taylor, Frank Far-rell, Far-rell, Robert Lee Hedges. Tom Noyes. Ben Minor, Frank Navln, William Yawkey, tbe men who made the American League and who own six of its eight clubs, were not anything and everything but baseball men. Some of them never even saw a professional pro-fessional baseball game until they saw their own teams play It. Two clubs In the American League, Chicago and Philadelphia, are owned by baseball men. What will Mr. Griffith say of ths KPE Giants, owned by Mr. Hempstead? Bfc-jy Mr. Hempstead's connection with Brafcl baseball lies in that he married a BPR?! daughter of the late John T. Brush, a clothing dealer, who got into base- iBtr? ball about 1889. Now. Mr. Hemp- stead alone may make or break the M'ufl third league In organized baseball. 'k&P The other club owners in ths Na- Egfe tional League bought into baseball. Vfj So of the sixteen major league teams, Two Chicago and the Atb-letlcs Atb-letlcs are owned by baseball men. When it comes to baseball men owning clubs, we find more of them Wfi? t In the injured International than in KM? the great majors. Jack Dunn, who El&i was broken and chased out of Bal- tlmore by the Federals, is a real P'; baseball man, the realest of the fc"'"" real; a chap who. when he was a Ff semi-pro, would bet his own money wpK on his own skill as a pitcher; a clev- 'E- er fellow while a professional play-er play-er and a clever manager, who In- vested every dollar he made by the Bp'"- sweat of his arm (he lost that arm m j doing it) in the Baltimore club. m'X" Plenty of manngers in the Interna- rational ra-tional League have money invested in their clubs. IKV Of course the men who have made I the money they have invested in m-' baseball are the least selfish and B least afraid When a man makes ft, money once, you can't make him be- KL , lieve that he can't make it again. Such a man is always game. When K a man marries or is left money, IT though, well, if he loses that, he may L never be left or marry mone-ncs- B- Therefore, you cannot blame a man K- ' w ho has never made money when he T is anxious to preserve what he gets ft'. But in this case, it is bard on the Id ft ternational League. ft ' |
