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    Out of the East today came a whirlwind arrayed in the Maroon of the
warriors of Pottsville, Pa. to swirl down upon the Cardinals, bury them
21-7, and take back eastward an unclouded title to the national professional
football championship.
     This feud, in which Eas was pitted against West, Cardinal against Maroon,
was determined upon in order that there might be no taint resting upon the
crown of the champion. The Cardinals had claimed the honors as leaders of
the pro-leaguers, but because of three tie games were a trifle war of their
unquestioned right to the championship.
     So West challenged East, and East replied today with producing in the
Windy City the best football champion that ever wore the professional togs
of a champion. Pottsville was invincible in her attack, stalwart in her defense.
No eleven, East or West, has ripped asunder the Cardinals as did the Maroons
today. No team has ever gone into the air in such a triumphant manner as did
the Pennsylvanians.
     Indeed at the very game in wich the West is said to excel, the aerial attack,
Pottsville proved herself superior to foes in Illinois. Chicago fully expected
to win, hence the disappointment of her cohorts at the upset which she felt a
defeat would be can easily be imagined. And to this belief that she was
safeguarding a crown that could not be knocked off her clammy brown, and
one can see now terribly disappointed and aggreived Chicago is today.
     Thus Chicago, and more especially the Cardinals' football team, discovered
today that all the brawn and brains of the football game are not located in the
West. The huskies from Pottsville gave a most entertaining exhibition of
mopping up a muddy field with the limp forms of the Cardinals.
     Comiskey Park was the scene of the battle and it was well filled with fans.
The Pottsville aggregation started right off to make trouble for the Cardinals.
The miners went into the fray, bearing the ominous warning: "If you want to
know who's a boss around here, just start something."
     The Easterners put forth their most earnest efforts in the second and fourth
periods and their work was so effective that the Cardinals narrowly escaped
being ground into component parts of the playing field.
     Pottsville flashed the most versatile attack shown by an pro eleven on a
local gridiron this season. The hwole show was centered around a slippery,
cagey fellow named French, who gained quite a reputation as a back with the
West Point eleven a few years ago. French also is known in the professional
baseball world.
     He's an outfielder and pinch-hitter of parts, operating during the summer months
with Connie Mack's Athletics down in Philadelphia.
     It was this fellow French, more than any one else on the Pottsville team,
who wrecked the Chicago hopes of a national title. He bobbed up in play
after play, and the yardage he gained would even make Red Grange sit up
to check back his notebook. The ex-Army gridder bucked the line. He hurled
passes. He caught passes. He ran the ends. He punted. In each of these
departments he showed skilll; so much skill that even the work of the brilliant
Paddy Driscoll was overshadowed.
     The Pottsville boys evidently feared Driscoll. On every play he started there
were at least two hustky Eastern boys right on his heels or his neck. The
dashing Paddy broke lose only three times during the afternoon's show for runs
that brought the shivering crowd of some 6000 fans to their feet.
     Those runs didn't help much in the way of scoring. For each of the three
times Driscoll was way down in his own territory, but they held Pottsville
from piling up an even bigger score than it owned at the finale.
     All of the big kick in the battle came in the second quarter. The first period
was spent in fiddling around in the snow, both of the teams punting on third
downs and feeling out the other fellow's strength. Then the Eastern team got
a break and drove right through the Cardinal line for a touchdown.
     That break came in the form of a long punt which hopped over Red
Dunn's head and rolled to the Cardinal 5 yard-line, where a Pottsville man
downed the ball. Driscoll immediately punted out from behind his own
goal. Quarterback Ernst, of the Pennsylvania team, took the ball on the 50-yard
line and raced back through a broken field to the Cardinal 5-yard mark again.