OPEN STILE
Of FOOTBALL •
NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—Just as bril
liant as some of their most famous
predecessors, with records that show
even more for a season’s performance,
and with whole bones and necks, sev
eral of our country’s best young men
are basking in the calcium glimmer of
football’s most powerful searchlights.
And, for the most part, they owe their
prominence to the fact that modern
football, involving open formations
and fast forward passing, has made it
possible for the small man to match
his prowess with that of the slow
moving but powerful behemoth so es
sential in the old style of play.
Just one instance of this sort of
glory is apparent in the work of Ed
die Casey, Harvard’s brilliant young
backfield general. He is a slight man,
yet he is able to drive through trained
forward center rush lines or skirt
ends with the best of the heavy line
smachers. His lack of weight is but |
little handicap because the open for- .
mations make it possible for him to j
push his wriggling, twisting body
through the holes opened for him b>
the interference.
Every slight football player may not
be a Casey. More often than not it
works the other way, but—if Casey
were playing the old-style game he
would not be a star because his pound
age handicap would not let him. He
H would be unequal to the task of with
t standing the crushing pounds that
would be flung at him in heavy mass
plays.
Elmer Oliphant is another player
who has been helped to prominence by
the new rules. Persons who never
saw Oliphant heave a football through
the air cannot understand how re
markable is the accuracy and force of
his passing. Most of his great efforts
this year would have gone for naught
had it not been possible for him to en
gineer big gains by the use of the
aerial movement. He is a heavy line
plunger and a fast running, heady
back. But he has failed at times just
the same as the others. His forward
passing, helpful by the great work of
Vidal, however, has pulled the Army
over many a rough spot in the road.
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AFTER DARK
LONDON, Nov. 10.—(By Mail.)—
If you are afraid to go home in the
dark these days you’d better not ven
ture out after tea time in London these |
days or rather nights. You feel as if i
you had been transported back into
the medieval or more fittingly the
dark ages when you step blinking like
an owl into the murky dimly lighted
thoroughfares.
I for one am glad that most of the
theatres give daily matinees and but
two night performances a week. It
is far from a cozy thing after the play
to be all alone in London in the dark
and on the outside of a taxi looking in
with absolutely no hope of being on j
the inside looking out.
The price of perol is so high and '
the chauffeurs are so scarce that taxis !
at nightfall becomes as fleeting and
elusive as bats awing. They whizz by
you deaf to your shouts and blind to
your tears.
Taxi drivers are now known as
“haughties” so fastidious and particu-'
lar have they become about their
fares. If they size you up and like
your looks even then you musn’t be
too optimistic. They may not like
your destination and refuse to take
you after all. Indeed so near perfec
tion do you have to be in appearance i
and address that it is really simpler ;
and safer to begin your walking right1
away. I
There are not many women driving
taxis yet but they are running ele
vators, acting as conductors on busses,
cleaning streets, working in railway
yards, running delivery wagons and
working in munitions factories. It is j
a curious thing that in all the manual
strenuous and more virile work here-1
tofore done by the men, the women
now excel, but those trying to replace
the men in the finer semmingly more
feminine arts of cooking, tailoring
and hairdressing are but sorry substi
tutes for the sterner sex.
As a leveller of sexes and classes
the war is doing wonders that vie
with its horrors for a balancing result.
Women are coming into their own as
independent wage earners and the
“Colonial lady and Judy O’Grady” are
rubbing elbows in the hospitals and
munitions factories. The rich and
titled are working side by side with
the poor and lowly. The pampered
pets have given up their motors so
the poor wounded Tommies may ride
and after the theatre they too are
forced often to hotfoot it home to the i
ancestral manse since the haughties t
are no respecters of either birth or
breeding.
Yes, times are dark and streets are'
dark in London, but there are bright
spots. For though it’s Zepps that
make London dark London makes
light of Zepps. Some times they
make the alight and sometimes they
make alight of them. When word ar
rives that Zepps are on the way there
is some zest and thrill in staying up
all night and up on a roof to glimpse
a huge flaming mass,pointed out by the
silver fingers of the searchlights, that
falls from the sky like a Gargantuan
skyrocket set off by an intrepid young
British airman.
But bringing airships blazing out of
the clouds and women filling bombs
instead of nursing bottles and pedes
trians blundering around like moles in
the Stygian streets are but common
place.
When it comes to turning all the
clocks up an hour for summer and
now back again an hour for the win
ter season then it does seem going a
bit too far. It’s so really unsettling
for one’s social engagements, don’t
you know, and for the life of her Lady
Diana can’t remember whether her
date with Lord Percy is at 5 o’clock
winter time or summer time. Verily
tempting fate is as nothing to jug
gling time.
The two men whom it took to per
sonally adjust Big Ben’s hands across
his startled face undoubtedly felt the
truth of this original aphorism the
like of which I always have on tap on
time.
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lease. 4th St. Apply Johnston’s!
Ferry.
Fiue Job Printing at Times Office.
A WAR ANGULARITY.
LEEDS, England, Nov. 25.—A local
circus went on tour with a grand
mother over 60 years of age wearing
the spangles of lion tamer. After
many years retirement she abandoned
the knitting needles for the pistol and j
whip when her three sons were forced
to enlist.
New Furnished Rooms at Peter
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H. SEIDENVERG
527 FOURTH^AVENUE_
THE BAUNCE OF OUR $30,000 STOCK MUST BE SOLD AT
Cost between Now and Dec. 15. Building Sold. Must Vacate.
A FEW OF OUR PRICES:
FLANNEL WOOL SHIRTS.
Regular $5.50, Sale Price .$4.00
Regular $4.50, Sale Price .$3.00
Regular $3.50, Sale Price .$1.75
Regular $‘2.50, Sale Price.$1.10
Regular $5.50 Filson Stag Shirt, Sale Price.. $4.00
Mammoth Mittens, Reg. $1.50, Sale Price .90c
Lined Mittens, Regular $1.50, Sale Price.75c
Canvas Gloves, two pair for.15c
Sox, All Wool, Regular 75c, Sale Price......50c
Sox, All Wool, Regular 25c, Sale Price .15c
COMFORTERS.
Regular $5.00, Sale Price.$2.75 .
Regular $8.00, Sale Price...$4.75
Regular $2.00, Sale Price .$1.25
LINED FUR CAPS.
Regular $1.50, Sale Price.90c
Regular $1.25 Toques . 65c
$4.00 Filson Parkas, Sale Price.,.$2.75
Ties, Regular 75c, Sale Price .35c
500 Pair Sliupacs, Eureka Red Sole, Sizes 11,
12, Sale Price. $1.75
Regular $5.50 Pacs, Sale Price.$4.50
Regular $1.50 Rubbers.$1.00
Regular $3.75 Arctics .$2.75
MACKINAW COATS.
Regular $12.50, Sale Price.?. $7.50
Regular $9.00, Sale Price.$0.00
Regular $7.50, Sale Price.$5.00
Double Sheet Blankets. Reg. $2.00, Sale Price $1.25
All Wool Blankets, Regular $8.00, Sale Price $5.50
Double Heavy Weight Blankets, Reg. $3. . $1.90
ALL WOOL UNDERWEAR
Regular $5.00 a Suit, Sale Price . $2.75
Regular $4.50 a Suit, Sale Price .$2.50
Regular $.'5.50 a Suit, Sale Price.$2.25
Regular $.‘>.00 a Suit, Sale Price .$1.75
Cotton, Regular $1.50 Suit, Sale Price ..90c
A Thousand Other Things Too Numerous to Mention.
Fixtures For Sale
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