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Show YEP! IT PAYS TO BE Quarterback Carer of Cornell has Ian educated too. He Is one of the few punter Of i lie east who has been ' I able Uj r i (llstauoe tlial i-, wlien the pnicr tine riehlnd wlilch h hJL8 been ; playing foulil hold nn k tbe onrush of Hi"-- upponente. By LOREI A. JACOBS. v Staff Coiiecpondent, NET YORK. Nov. 26. Puuttn. puntin', who's sot the puntln": That a the question of the hour on eastern grldiroaa. And i he answer Is. "Nobody." ihe puntln' apparently Kot lost in lh- shuffle. There has been a remarkable dearth of good booting on eastern fields this year more remarkabk because then-; were, some really greui kickers lustj year and Hom of these hold oer. TWO HOL1DOVER6. 'hlf among the holdovers and prob-j ably posseisslnsr the greatest kicking! ability ln the east, although they haoj not shown It consistently, nri' Joe goheerei f Princeton and Carey of Cornell Both of them are aide-wheel vri n'l can kick Ions:, twjstlng spiral. Igettiep distance, direction and every -1 thing eNe that Is needed If they havoi th chance DOBIE'S KICK KR. ''rtrey has been almost a total dls-( appointment, although It s ver probata prob-ata not bis fnult. ln the Cornell-' Dartmouth gaine althoujch he kicked on- of the prettiest drop kicks seen this season. aout flv of Careys pums were blocked, and one of these b1o id punts resulted in aeven polnta for lurtmouth. Tho Cornell Una seemed to be made I of paper and the best kicker In the I world couldn't have Kotten away with 'anything with from two to five Dartmouth Dart-mouth huskies airr.ost on him before he got the ball Into his hands. But 'at that It appeared os though Oaroy was somewhat slow and decrepit In his kicking- vi in EM R l M'.l 1 As for Bcheerer. he occujdes one of the mofll uniquo positions ln football. H appears In th- lineup as fullback j hut therr, is hardly a play on the Trlnceton repertoire that calls for Hiss Nita Wbitmore v"i tell '! world that It pas t" lx n kicker !shi and her mo sister- wii have been showing Broadwaj how to kick, ii:i gone to Europe to kuoh th- old world kickers up. Miss fitt c;ui ki k oer her head .ir st. p .. -r the highest wave that ever e.c.l without the II rbtest bit or trouil him to carry the ball Mis frail frame will not stanrl much pumnv-ltng about If Joe bcheerer of Princeton coul'ln ' kick he wouldn't be In the Tiger line up. for be Is beldom calleil upon t" carrj the ball, The save bint for kl klni; p:irpos-s cntlrel. ,loe puis so much Into bis spirals thai i- la often carried clear off the ground. and he often has to be taken out 'when the going becomes too rough But It certainly Isn't because Joe; has a single daub of yellow in Mis, makeup, for he has been known 101 stand up under some of Die heaviest punishment that a football player is, 1 compelled to take And there arc a lot of coaches who agree with Bill Roper that n real punt-er punt-er like Scheerer, even with a slight frame, is worth a dozen big huskies who haven't many other qualifications besides avoirdupois. O'Nl-.ll.l, SAYS. Says Buck O'Neill: "I'd rather have good punter on my team than any 'other single thing. Being able to make! lit hard for the other team to get on your territory Is what good punting 'does, and It counts as much no carrying carry-ing the ball or more. I have experienced experi-enced great difficulty In getting foot-'bnll foot-'bnll players who are nble to put their whole bodies In a punt. Scheerur certainly cer-tainly docs It, and so does Carey of Cornell." mom s Kit h 1 k Of oourso. punting has a value that not many people reullzo Just think of the Jobs the boys could get with musical mu-sical comedies after they get out of college! Says Colonel Savage. "The hardest thing In th theatrical game Is to find either chorus girls or chorus men who ran kick well. Yes. It pays to be a kicker." 00 Italian soldiers who died fljrhtlng on the mountain front will he burled together to-gether "n one of the highest peaks o' Italy, probably Michalt |