KICKING THE PIGSKIN

Pennsylvania vs. Cornell at Franklin Field in 1907. Score: Penn. 12, Cornell 4.

Cortland Evening Standard, Friday, November 29, 1895.

KICKING THE PIGSKIN.

Thanksgiving Day Football on Many Gridirons.

QUAKERS' DEFEAT OF CORNELL.

The Pennsylvania Eleven Winds Up the Season With a Clean Score of Victories—Cornell Outplayed at Every Stage of the Game.

   PHILADELPHIA, NOV. 29.—The university of Pennsylvania football team defeated Cornell by the score of 46 to 2, thus winding up the football season with a clean record of victories to her credit.

   Two touchdowns and a goal from the field in the first half and four touchdowns and a goal from the field in the second half, was the record of the red and blue, while the Ithaca boys were able to make but two points during the entire game, and this was due to Brooke's inexcusable fumble.

   Devoid of roughness, replete with brilliant plays, it was just such a game as the football enthusiast thoroughly enjoys. Strategic play, scientific punts and brilliant all-round interference, were the features of Pennsylvania's game.

   Cornell's defeat can be summed up in very few words—weak defense and still weaker interference. That the team with the exception of Captain Wyckoff were in the pink of condition there can be no doubt, but they were simply outclassed. Their fullback, Ritchie, was lamentably weak and an exchange of kicks between him and Brooke was always good for from 10 to 20 yards gain for the Pennsylvania team.

   There was considerable fumbling, which can be partly accounted for by the slippery condition of the ball. Woodruff's fumble, when he had carried the ball over the Pennsylvania goal line, cost Pennsylvania the loss of a touchdown, and Brookes' fumble of Williams' pass gave the Ithaca boys their only points.

   At no time during the entire game was Pennsylvania's goal in danger, the play being in Cornell's territory nearly all the time.

   Cornell's eleven were weak, but there were individual players on the team who covered themselves with glory. Beacham at left half back, Fitch at left tackle and Sweetland at right tackle played brilliantly, as did also Captain Wyckoff, considering his condition.

   During the first half Beacham was used at every opportunity and generally managed to gain from two to five yards without being thrown. But the strain was too much for him, and he was intrusted with the ball but comparatively little in the second half.

   Cornell's gains were made through left tackle and an occasional advance through the center, while Pennsylvania made her gains at almost any point which the team would strike. Every man on the red and blue eleven played as though his life depended upon the game, and all acquitted themselves nobly.

   Brooke made one 45-yard run and also a 75-yard run, but in the latter the ball was brought back and given to Cornell for holding. Minds also made one run of 65 yards, and Gelbert carried the ball 40 yards through the entire Cornell team before being caught from behind by Taussig. Farras at right tackle played his best game of the season. Time and again did he break through and throw the Cornell men, frequently for a loss. Woodruff, Minds, Gelbert, Williams and Brooke also played brilliantly.

   It was 2:02 when the Pennsylvania players, headed by Captain Williams, came on the field from the west end. They were given a tremendous welcome by their admirers.

   A moment later the Cornell team made their appearance from the east end of the field. They were also received by about 2,000 Cornell shouters, who occupied a section of the north stand.

   After passing and dropping on the ball for a few minutes, the two teams were called together and the coin was flipped. Cornell won the toss and took the ball, Pennsylvania taking the west goal.

   When the teams lined up at 2:20 there were 13,000 people on Franklin field, but before the first half had been played 17,000 persons had passed within the gates.

   The teams lined up as follows:

Pennsylvania.                Positions.               Cornell.

Gelbert                            Left end                Lyle

Wagonhurst                   Left tackle             Fitch

Woodruff                        Left guard             Freeborn

Bull                                 Center                   Schoch

Wharton                        Right guard           Rogers

Farras                            Right tackle          Sweetland

Dickson                         Right end             Taussig

Williams                       Quarter back         Wyckoff

Blair                              Left half back       Beacham

Minds                           Right half back     Cool, Starbuck

Brooke                          Full back               Ritchie, Young

   Touchdowns—Minds 4, Dickson 2.

   Goals—Brooke 6.

   Goals from field—Brooke 2.

   Referee—Laurie Bliss of Yale.

   Umpire—Paul Dashiel of Lehigh.

   Linesmen—Marshall Newell of Havard, Dr. Charles Schoff of Pennsylvania.

   Time—Two 35-minute halves.

First place finisher J. Frank Duryea and race umpire Arthur W. White (seated right) in 1895 Chicago Times-Herald race.

HORSELESS CARRIAGES.

Duryea Motocycle Wins the Chicago Contest.

NOVEL RACE OVER MUDDY ROADS.

Only Two of the Vehicles Finished, but Others Made Remarkable Showings

For Various Distances—The Winning Machine Runs by Gasoline.

   CHICAGO, Nov. 29.—The motocycle contest was won by the Duryea machine, which is operated by gasoline. The Macey machine is still on the road, trying to finish.

   The contest was that of The Times-Herald for prizes amounting to $5,000. The contest was in every respect the most novel and the performance of the winning vehicle the most remarkable in the history of the motor vehicle contests.

   Six motocycles made the start, the Duryea of Springfield, Mass.; the Morris & Salom electrobat of Philadelphia; the H. Mueller motocycle of Decatur, Ills.; the R. H. Macy of New York; the De La Vergne of New York, and the Sturges electric motocycle of Chicago.

   Thousands witnessed the flight of these vehicles against the 54 miles of snow, slush and mud which constituted the course from Jackson park to Evanston and return. It was considered impossible that any of the motocycles would complete the course, and the prediction was freely made that no one of the contestants would make five miles.

   Five of the contestants passed through Lincoln, the De la Vergne quitting at Sixteenth street. Duryea started at 8:55 and passed the Auditorium, a distance of eight miles, an hour later. He made the finish at 7:18, completing the course in 10h. 35m.

   The Morris & Salom electrobat did not complete the course, but made a creditable run of 15 miles and returned to the testing headquarters in good condition. The Sturges electric motocycle abandoned the fight after a run of 12 miles. Both of these electric motors made a surprising show under the circumstances.

   The fight for speed honors was between Duryea, Mueller and Macy. Duryea is an American inventor, and his motor is a radical departure from the foreign type used on the wagons of his two competitors.

   The carriage with which he made the race was manufactured two years ago. Since that time Mr. Duryea has made many improvements on his motor, but was unable to complete the work on the new vehicle which he had entered for the contest. He accordingly made the run with the old motocycle.

   The prizes will be awarded on the showings made in the road race and in the scientific tests which have been made under the supervision of the best experts in the country.

   The H. Mueller machine finished at 8:53 o'clock, taking second prize.

The President's Thanksgiving.

   WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—President and Mrs. Cleveland came into town and after spending an hour at the White House they attended services at the First Presbyterian church and listened to a sermon by Dr. Talmage, following the reading of the president's Thanksgiving proclamation. From church the president and Mrs. Cleveland drove directly to Woodley where they enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner in the privacy of the family.

PRAYERS FOR INGERSOLL.

Cleveland Church Folk Unite In Praying For His Conversion.

   CLEVELAND, NOV. 29.—Many fervent prayers were doubtless offered in this city yesterday for the conversion of Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, the noted agnostic.

   Last week at the quarterly meeting of the Christian Endeavor unions of Cleveland it was suggested that such prayers be offered, and the president appointed noon yesterday and requested that the 3,000 members of the society here engage in prayer at that time. The president of the Epworth league, who was present, said he would make a similar request of the members of his organization.

   The prayers were to be delivered in private, and how many persons complied with the request will probably never be known.

   Public prayers for Colonel Ingersoll were also offered at a massmeeting of the Salvation Army.

PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.

Endowed Humbug.

   Professor H. W. Jenks of Cornell university is of opinion that it would be a tremendous service to "the public" for some great rich man to endow a newspaper. He should set aside for it so much money that it would live, if living it could be called, whether anybody subscribed for it or not. Its management should be in the hands of "trustees of integrity," who would run it in the interest of all the pure, elevated and unselfish sentiments of the day. "It would be expected to give carefully written, moderate opinions on both sides." The professor thinks such an endowed newspaper might have a stronger tendency toward elevating the political tone than a dozen new universities.

   Yes, yes! Very fine this. But if such a paper were endowed and started, in three months time it would be as stupid through and through as an essay by a college professor. It would be deader than the Dead sea. Nobody would read it any more than he now reads The Congressional Record or a patent office publication. Does not the professor know that a state church is the most stupid and nearest lifeless of any?

   A paper that cannot support itself and make a good living for its editor and the other people who work on it has no reason for being. Moreover, there are today a number of privately owned newspapers that do almost exactly what the professor suggests in the way of being perfectly truthful and reliable as to news and likewise in giving moderately expressed views on both sides of a question. Moreover, some of these papers are among the richest and most widely read journals in America.

   The poor quality of the books published in these days can hardly be compensated by their vast quantity. It has been calculated that in the various countries of civilization not lets than 1,000 volumes a week are published altogether. Yet, looking back to the beginning of 1895, there is scarcely one that will be remembered. In fiction Marion Crawford's "Casa Bracchio" was probably the strongest novel of 1895. Du Maurier gave us nothing. When in any line of thought will a book come that will make a strong, rousing impression?

  

Factory Force Reduced.

   Another unfortunate reaction from the wave of returning prosperity comes in the news that the American Wire Nail company of Anderson, Ind., operating the largest plant in the United States, has been compelled to reduce its force by 1,000 men. The American manufacturer and the foreign manufacture cannot both supply the same market at the same time.—Buffalo Express.

THERE IS A CONTRACT.

But a Team Should be on Hand For the Steamer Every Time.

   We are informed by President Higgins that a contract was last summer made by the village trustees with Mr. John Garrity to draw the steamer to fires, that the contract for the steamer is the same as that for the Hook and Ladder truck and that the delay occasioned on the morning of the Cooper [Brothers] fire was due to a misunderstanding or a misapprehension of the needs in the case.

   The difficulty was that the steamer team did not appear at the engine house until sent for as did the Hook and Ladder team. The trouble is that there is so little need for a steamer at ordinary fires on account of the water works that the team [of horses] does not come unless sent for. The STANDARD would make the suggestion that a contract be made with someone to furnish a team at the engine house for the steamer at every alarm of fire. If needed, the steamer can then start promptly and the owner of the team will receive the whole $5 for the service allowed by the trustees. If not needed, a smaller sum which would be satisfactory to the owner can be paid for the time spent and for the exertion of hitching up the team.

   There are probably not over thirty alarms of fire in a year and the sum required to insure the presence of a team would be a trifling addition to the village expenses, even if the team was not used, while if it was needed the saving in time would be invaluable. The fire at the Cooper foundry is an instance of this, also the time that Frank Hodges' house on Rickard-st. burned about two years ago, the same night of the fire at the Hitchcock Mfg. Co.'s blacksmith shop. In that case the house which stood on the banks of the river was beyond the reach of the hose from a hydrant. The house burned nearly down while a team was being found to draw the steamer.

Police Court.

   The case of The People against Michael Nix charged with violating the excise laws was yesterday adjourned to Dec. 12.

   Civil actions have been brought against Hugh Corcoran and Erving Stevens in behalf of the Village of Cortland to recover a penalty of $100 on the charge of violating the excise laws. Both cases are returnable Dec. 4.

The Bates Appeal.

   To the Editor of the Standard:

   SIR: Is there any reason to question the justice of Frank Bates' conviction for violation of the excise law, or of Judge Eggleston's refusal to allow an appeal?

   The Cortland Democrat of Nov. 29 contained an article evidently intended to reflect upon Judge Eggleston for refusing to allow Mr. Bates appeal. For reasons satisfactory to the legislature, jurisdiction to try cases for violation of the excise law was vested in the court of special sessions, and in that court Mr. Bates was tried and convicted.

   That the verdict was fully justified by the evidence even The Democrat does not deny—but the assumption is that some technical error crept into the case on the trial that should be reviewed upon appeal. Impressed with the idea that there was some possible force in the questions he had raised, Mr. Crombie applied to Judge Eggleston for an allowance of his appeal. Judge Eggleston with a desire to do exact justice in the premises, required that notice be served upon Mr. Palmer, the counsel for the People, so that the errors complained of might be fully considered and a proper determination reached. In pursuance of such notice Mr. Palmer and Mr. Crombie appeared before Judge Eggleston, and all the rulings complained of by Crombie were fully discussed and presented by him, and carefully considered by Judge Eggleston. After a lengthy argument had been had, and all of the questions had been reviewed, the court came to the conclusion that substantial justice had been done, and that no errors had been committed upon the trial harmful or prejudicial to Mr. Bates. There was but one duty that remained to be performed and that was to allow the appeal.

   The application for an allowance of the appeal brought up all of the questions that arose upon the trial as fully as would a formal appeal. Indeed the application is in the nature of an appeal, and Mr. Bates' case has received full consideration, and Judge Eggleston has simply done what his oath and his sense of duty compelled him to do.

   An appeal should not be allowed nor the sentence of a court of special sessions stayed unless there is probable cause to believe that such error has been committed as would, upon appeal, call for a reversal or the judgment of conviction. The Democrat says—that good lawyers say there were questions in the Bates case worthy of being reviewed. However that may be, the more general opinion among lawyers is that the grounds upon which Mr. Crombie asked for an allowance of the appeal in the Bates case were utterly insufficient to call for a reversal of the conviction, and that Mr. Crombie's application was properly denied. Those who know Judge Eggleston would expect him to do his duty according to his best judgment. That he has done his duty in the Bates case conscientiously and fearlessly, no one can deny. He has met the questions in the case at the proper time and passed upon them. He should be given credit for duty well performed and should not be censured.

   OBSERVER.

THANKSGIVING DAY.

Union Service in Baptist Church, Sermon by Mr. Chapman.

   Yesterday morning at the union Thanksgiving service, the audience room of the Baptist church was filled with representatives of the five churches.

   The musical program, as given in Wednesday's STANDARD, was rendered in the usual good style of the Baptist choir. Special mention should be made of Mr. Brown's solo.

   Each pastor of the churches represented took part in the services, Mr. Chapman of the Baptist church preaching the sermon. His text was, "Then said he unto them, go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord; neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the Lord is your strength." Neh. viii:10.

   Mr. Chapman had the close attention of the whole congregation throughout; to say that it was a most excellent sermon, does it small justice. It must be that our Thanksgiving day had lost none of its best significance, possibly it may have gained a higher meaning, to those who listened to that sermon.

BREVITIES.

   —New advertisements, A. S. Burgess, page 8.

   —The Alpha C. L. S. C. meets at Mrs. W. A. Stevens', 8 Water-st., Monday evening, Dec. 2.

   —Mrs. L. M. Beebe will on Monday move from 8 Monroe Heights to Dr. Angel's, 6 Monroe Heights.

   —There will be a meeting of the board of hospital managers at the hospital on Monday, Dec. 2, at 3 o'clock.

   —The Dryden academy and Central school teams are contesting at football at the fair grounds this afternoon.

   —It is said that New York state raised over 400,000,000 bushels of potatoes this year, against 28,900,000 last year. This is the largest crop on record.

   —There will be a fall rehearsal for the "Mikado" to-night—gentlemen at 7:30 and ladies at 8 o'clock. This will be an important rehearsal and all are requested to attend.

   —The examination before Justice T. H. Dowd in the case of The People against Patrick Tobin charged with grand larceny was this morning adjourned to Dec. 9, at 9 o'clock A. M.

   —Stetson's Uncle Tom's Cabin Co. which appears at the Opera House to-night, made quite a display in the street parade this noon with two bands, three bloodhounds, and a number of ponies.

   —The Cortland Rifle Club was represented at the turkey shoot held in Preble Thanksgiving day, by G. G. Morse, E. C. Rindge, Wm. Elster and W. G. Mead, who captured forty-five turkeys collectively.

   —Mr. John Boynton, brother of Mr. Fitz Boynton, formerly of Cortland, died at the home of Mr. D. W. Rowley of McLean this morning at the age of 71 years of heart failure. The burial will be in Chicago, Ill., and the remains will be started for that city tonight.

   —Proprietor A. D. Wallace of the Brunswick hotel has this morning put up a handsome sign in yellow and black over the door of the restaurant. The sign projects over the walk in the form of a triangle and bears the inscription "The Brunswick Hotel."