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Show GrantlandA (Copyright, 1922, New York Tribune, Inc.. Trade .Mark Registered, U. S Patent Office.) UPSETTING MENTAL BALANCE. There Is one Important feature of any attack, whether it bo baseball, tennis or football, that has been often overlooked. This Is the problem of upsetting the mental balance of the hostile defense, a problem, for example, that has had a largo bearing upon Yale football. We recall some years ago asking Ty Cobb one night why it was ho took such a base-running chance that day where he was nailed by ten- feot. "I know It looked brainless." he said, "but I like to do some wild running run-ning now and then to keep them guessing. It's a good way of keeping the pitcher, catcher and tho infield always worried, wondering tv hat eray turn you may try next. It's a bad idea to let them know you only work in a groove." TILDEVs CASE. That's one side of it. On another occasion wc asked one of Tllden's opponents op-ponents why it was that the champion was so hard to beat. "You can never get sot for him," he said. "Tildcn will feed yob speed ono time, a slow ono the next. a new-change new-change of pace a moment later. Inside of a few minutes your mental balance Im wrecked. You don't know what is coming and so you are never well set ifor any stroke. In addition to this, he also increasea the mental strain. Whenever you have a man's mental balance upset where unc rtalnty ullps I in you have him started down hill. Tilden is a wonder at this." DKMI'Shl S WW. Dempsey is another tidy upsetter of 'mental as well as physical balance. Dempsey's opponents, knowing th it he ican hit with speed and power from lanv position, aro never set They know if they lead and miss tho affair may ,end at precisely that moment. So wheu they lead In most cases It is usually In hair-hearied effort. Carpentler got set and took his chance, but Wiilurd never did The time is coming when some strong, confident youngster like I loyd Johnnon will forget all this and take this chance. It may end in serious 'trouble or it may bring on a new-crown new-crown wearer. FOOTBALL HALANCE. I Knute Rockne. of Notre Dame. Is jone of tho best coaches we have ever 1 known when it came to breaking up ;iiie nien'al balance of a rivul defensive defen-sive team Rockne has always had a pu.-ising game of such excellence that the de-ifenso de-ifenso never know at Just wliat moment mo-ment the blow was coming, and so it is rarelA well s-t against his running game. This is why tho Yale attack could !galn so much ground between the two twenty-yard lines and never get anywhere any-where near the goal. Around mldfleld tho Blue parsing game was good enough this year to keep either Harvard or Princeton from being set or fixed in a defensive : w ay. ! But nearer the goal they had little to worry about except the power of a Yale plunge the form of attack that even a modern defense can check when it is pretty sure that nothing elso is under way. "To decide an argument,' writes A ish rugby the rougher gafflfl V.- used to thin.-. AmeridB slight dge BH "i.-.v lug .i count ot'H i .-..in -Tl.. 1 ...n.i.'.n Times" .J uncertain, viz.: Lad day foiH iv M-nse but that of tfl "1 . 1 .-a: urdayjj ib... k ...lis .'.ml a try 1 twj j points) to nothing was .4 1 ...i. b-ji v n 'bat scemeB minor Importance toward H 1 th.- match when, first. AJ I hen I. JH ..ii ol hia legs m : -en In u , and, : . 1 the forfl I talned concussion and hadB si.-t'.d int.. the lressing 100BJ . ' s1""! d. it should be stsfl u rn beforSM dvnts was opeoiH plighl L" ' aine s ' QpgljM consuUaib.n '.vi'ii the JMM tlcials. decided to stop.the-SI unusual decision was minutes before time and BM !l't,-.n tliousaml spectatflfj ,:r.jund acutely anxious ISM . s had end"'l in tran Appa ' ak-'-'y is not . hi! I, ..t ar.y rataf Lii t -ape ' a IM business man to be a gen hi ex.-h'int-e And sssj comes u good golfer he long, r a good, steady DUfJ It has been said that TTJ win th. p.' nnunt for PeJ meanwhile Ty would be misi for any sue - -d 1 r.-jt:s. m or six other manaffersrj |