Practical English Composition: Book II by Edwin L. Miller (best books to read fiction .txt) 📕

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MICHIGAN, 9; VANDERBILT, 8

Michigan was played to a standstill in the game with McGugin’s Vanderbilt eleven on Ferry Field Saturday, Oct. 28, and it was by the closest of margins that the Wolverines won out by a 9 to 8 score. A field goal was scored by each team and each team made a touchdown, but Michigan was more fortunate than her southern rivals in that McMillan made a perfect punt-out and Conklin kicked goal, while Captain Roy Morrison of Vanderbilt fell down on the same play and lost his team the chance to try for a goal from touchdown when he overkicked on the punt-out. Yost was far from satisfied by the showing of the Michigan team.

  The summary:

Michigan, 9 Position Vanderbilt, 8 Conklin (Capt.) L.E. K. Morrison Bogle L.T. { Freeland Covington Quinn L.G. Metzger Paterson C. Morgan Garrels R.G. C. Brown Pontius R.T. T. Brown Wells R.E. E. Brown McMillan Q. R. Morrison (Capt.) Craig L.H. Hardage Carpel R.H. { Collins Curlin Thomson F.B. Sikes

Officials—Referee, Bradley Walker, Virginia; Umpire, Eckersall, Chicago; Field Judge, Lieut. Nelly, West Point; Head Linesman, Heston, Michigan.

G. E. Elderidge.
Michigan Alumnus, November, 1911.

V. Queries and Topics for Oral Composition What knowledge is necessary in order to report a football game? How old is the game of football? Wherein do Rugby, soccer, Canadian, and American football differ? Describe the field on which American football is played. Describe the shoes, costumes, headgear, and ball used in the game. What is a stadium? Describe the functions of each player on a team. Explain the following terms: “kickoff,” “tackling,” “end run,” “line buck,” “interference,” “blocking,” “holding,” “off side,” “punt,” “drop kick,” “forward pass,” “fair catch,” “downs,” “scrimmage,” “touchdown,” “touchback,” “safety,” “goal from touchdown,” and “goal from field.” How many yards must a team carry the ball in four downs in order to keep it? How much does a touchdown count? A safety? A field goal? A goal from touchdown?  How would you go to work to find out the past history of a team and the character of its personnel? What method of taking notes is recommended? How long should the report of a game be? In what style should it be written? How many words does each model contain? Observe how the writer seizes on the one or two salient points of each game, omitting what is unessential. This requires judgment and the effort to do it is a good training in judgment. Tell whether each sentence is simple, complex, or compound. Explain why each mark of punctuation is used. Find a metaphor in the models. VI. Exercise

Write a report of Saturday’s game.

VII. Suggested Time Schedule Week I Week II Monday— (a) Review past errors.
(b) Assign work on Sections II
and III of this chapter. Queries. Tuesday— Program on Section II. Queries. Wednesday— Program on Section III. Oral Composition Thursday— Dictation of Models. Written Composition and Reviews. Friday— Dictation of Models. Public Speaking. VIII. Suggested Reading

Thomas Hughes’s Tom Brown at Rugby; Homer’s Iliad, Book XXIII; Virgil’s Æneid, Book V.

IX. Model II.

New York, October 9, 1913.—Cornelius McGillicuddy’s Murder Association, incorporated, convened at the Polo grounds this afternoon, transacted routine business, and adjourned.

On motion of Brother Edward Collins, supported by  Brother J. Franklin Baker, and carried by acclamation, it was voted to resume the task of tearing the hide off the Giants. Messrs. Collins and Baker were appointed a special committee of two to carry out the work and seven others were assigned to assist them.

After the meeting refreshments consisting of singles, doubles, triples, and home runs were served; and a good time was had by all, excepting John J. McGraw and his employes and friends numbering upward of 25,000. The latter class was unanimous in declaring the Mackmen a bunch of vulgar, common persons who play professional baseball for a living and thus are not entitled to associate with amateurs, such as some of the New York players.

To get to the point of things, Philadelphia had what some of the fans called “one of them afternoons.” There is no use trying to describe all the details of this so-called contest, for it is demoralizing to the young to see such things in print. Many criminals have confessed on the scaffold that they got their start watching the Athletics assault some honest young pitcher who was trying to support his aged mother. They say that, if the Macks can get away with their rough work, anything ought to go.

Eight to two was the score to-day, if anybody cares. We can’t just figure out where New York got the two, but it was there on the score board and must have happened. Also there is a well-grounded belief that McGraw has subsidized the scoreboard boy so that he cheats the visitors somewhat. But, anyhow, it is reasonably certain that the Mackmen had plenty, while New York was several shy of the total that would have cheered the heart of Gotham, if indeed Gotham has a heart.

Connie Mack and John J. McGraw each had to do some guessing to-day in the matter of picking a pitcher. Lean Connie picked up the right answer and Fat John did not. There’s the whole story. The Philadelphia boss shook up the names of his young pitchers in a hat, shut his eyes, and drew out the name of Joe Bush. McGraw, by and with the consent and advice of his entire club, picked Jeff Tesreau. At least it was popularly believed, during and before the game started, that John had given his mound corps a careful slant and chosen Jeff as the best bet. Afterward some of the  experts believed that the New York manager, by way of showing a delicate bit of courtesy to a guest, had accorded Connie the privilege of naming New York’s gunner. Certainly Tesreau was the best player Philadelphia had and the Athletics were seriously crippled when he retired in the seventh, just after Baker had knocked Doyle’s right leg out into the field.

About all that Tesreau had was a fine physique and a mouthful of slippery elm. Almost before the umpires and managers had ceased to chat over the rules, the Macks had lumped three hits, and with a wild heave by Artie Fletcher had scored three runs, which was one more than the Giants got all day. In the next inning some more hammering gave another pair of markers. Then Tesreau settled down and went along fairly well until the seventh. The Athletics had another rush of hits to the outfield in this inning and Otis Crandall came in to finish up the contest, or scandal, whichever you choose to term it. By this time Connie’s men were getting hungry for supper, so they made only one tally off Crandall, this coming when Wallie Schang bakered one into the right field stand.

Of course, under such conditions, Joe Bush didn’t have a real test. Connie Mack himself, or his crippled batboy, could have pitched the game and won it from the second inning on. Joe just kept slamming them over and, though he had a couple of wild spells that gave the Giants a chance to figure in the game, he always was able to pull himself together before there was any real danger.

Nobody here had heard much about this Joe Bush previous to to-day. Even the experts, who see all things that are and a lot that aren’t, didn’t have the dope on him. They had heard of Donie Bush and Anheuser Busch and Bush leaguers, but Joseph was a new one. For the information and guidance of those who may be interested, we furnish the data that he came From the Missoula Club of the Union—or is it Onion—Association last fall, and is a right hander.

Bush has the reputation of being almost as speedy as Walter Johnson on his good days and this was one of them. In the early stages of the game he depended almost entirely on his fast ball but later began to unbelt a few curves which had the right sort of a fold to them. Although in a hole with  many batters, he passed only four and hit one. Great fielding helped him at times, the Macks pulling off a double play in each of three innings in which New York appeared to have something started.

Any child wonder who can come all the way from Missoula to Broadway in one year and win a world’s series game is of course entitled to much credit, but this boy certainly fell into a particularly soft spot. With the Macks’ billion dollar infield killing base hits for him and the attack getting him eight runs, he would have had a hard time slipping the game to McGraw if he had sold out before hostilities started. Bush permitted the Giants, who were commonly reported to be moaning for the gore of Mack’s youngsters, just five hits. Two of these were bunched in one inning and resulted in one of the runs. The others straggled through.5

The Score PHILADELPHIA AB   R   H TB BB SH SB PO   A   E E. Murphy, r.f. 5 1 2 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 Oldring, l.f. 5 3 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 Collins, 2b. 5 2 3 5 0 0 1 5 4 0 Baker, 3b. 4 1 2 2 0 0 1 3 1 0 McInnis, 1b. 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 Strunk, c.f. 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Barry, s.s. 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 3 0 Schang, c. 4 1 1 4 0 0 0 5 2 1 Bush, p. 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 Total 39 8 12 17 0 0 3 27 11 1 NEW YORK AB   R   H TB BB SH SB PO   A   E Herzog, 3b. 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Doyle, 2b. 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 1 0 Fletcher, s.s. 2 0 1 1 1 0 1 2 2 1 Burns, l.f. 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 Shafer, c.f. 3 1 1 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 Murray, r.f. 3 1 1 1 1 0 1 4 0 0 McLean, c. 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 Wilson, c. 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 Merkle, 1b. 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 Wiltse, 1b. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 Tesreau, p. 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Crandall, p. 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 *Cooper 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Total 29 2 5 6 4 0 3 27 6 1 Philadelphia 3 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 0—8 New York 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0—2