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IRST GAMES OF FOOTBALL SEASON COME THIS WEEK
EDITED BY
P.H. WHITING
I NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
We like to give every man a square deal. In fact we are gen.
erally ready to stretch a point and give every man a shade the
best of it.
So we give A1 Christensen some more of our space.
According to Sir. Christensen the people are making remarks
about our “cra7.y talk” and possibly a temporary change in au
thorship may enliven the columns. Anyway, this from Christen
sen:
• Sporting Editor Georgian
, Dear Sir
Why ti It you always nock the game of wrestling. If you
dont come right out and nock one or the other of us you pick up
a good honest mntch Just becaus It was called off becaus of me
being badely hurt. Now If you knew what I think of you. you.
would cut It out It Is the best advertising we could git It really
helps the game but remember I wrote you before I am as hon
est Ir. my wrestling as you are In life, you think people think
you are the real thing but I have heard remarks of your crasey
talk, all over so take an honest mans Advice and hunt up some
of your own work. It Is bettor for Your health than swearing
becaus A1 Christensen or some other wrestler Is making more
money In one night than you do in a month so closelng I cant
say as befor I would be pleased to meet you.
As ever yours.
At Christensen
A. wrestler
* First of all, The Georgian did not criticise Christensen's
match in Greenville. It was undoubtedly on the- square—or, as
people who saw it, say. In the second place we never questioned
the honesty of Christensen’s wrestling.
But we do question the honesty of the bulk of professional
wrestling. We feel practically certain that Atlanta has been
bilked by fake matches within the last two years, and we know
that fake matches have been pulled ofT in the South within six
months—matches where asinine bettors had nbout ns much
chance as they would against the shell game or a gold brick
scheme.
We propose to do all that is in our power to protect Atlanta
trom any more of these fakes—even if in so doing we injure a few
honest wrestlers.
And we might mention in closing that threats are in-no way
likely tp turn us from this purpose.
PHILADELPHIA IS STILL
LEADING IN AMERICAN
The race for (he bunting In the
American League rematna unchanged.
Philadelphia la Hill leading the league,
although In a week ahe may drop down
to aecond or third place.
The Athletlra are badly crippled,
while the Detroit Tiger* are going good
and ao are the Chicago White Sox.
The pitching aloft of the Philadel
phians la badly crippled. Rube Wad
dell la In no condition to work. Dygert,
the former Southern Leaguer, I* the
only man on Mack's atafT who la In fair
condition. Plank, Render, Coomb* and
Waddell are all In to far oa pitching la
concerned.
"Ruga" Raymond, the former Atlanta
twlrler and late of Charleston, the pen
nant winner* In the Bally League, hut
now of 8t. Lou!*, won hi* game for
that club Sunday afternoon by the score
of 7 to 4.
I
B. AND 0. STABLE WILL CUT
BIG FIGURE IN NEW ORLEANS
New York, Sept. IS.—The Fred Bur
ls V-Frank O'Neil combination, known
as the R. A O. stable, which cut such
a prominent figure at the New Orleans
tracks last winter, promise to operate
on a much larger scale In the Crescent
City this coming season. They Intend
taktnr thirty horaca, all told. South,
Just aa soon a* the season ends here
abouts.
The majority of this lot will be year
lings, but there will be enough older
horses In the string to send after the
rich purses and stakes which will he of.
fered this winter by the merged as
sociation*.
With auch a large stable the Arm la
anxious to secure a good rider and ne
gotiations nre now going on to secure
Millar's services.
Miller has Just renewed his contract
with the Newcastle stable, which has
had (lrat call on hla service* the past
three yenra, hut there la nothing In the
contract which would prevent him from
going to Nc\y Orleans.
Miller's mother conducts all hi* busi
ness transactions. She Is absent from
the bay at present, but Just as soon aa
she returns It Is believed that the Ii. A
O. deal will be closed.
E. Dugan will return to San Fran
cisco with "Boots” Burnell, but Moun
tain, Nlcol, Oarner, Beckman and In
(act all the prominent riders here. In
cluding Sumter. Jimmy McCormick's
recent find, wilt ride at the New Or
leans tracks this winter. Mountain la
now a freo lance, Ida contract with
August Belmont hnvln ; been severed at
the Jockey's request.
SUN PROOFS AND C. & G.
TO DECIDE CHAMPIONSHIP
An amateur game, which Is looked
forward to be one of the warmest seen
In Atlanta In many moons, will be
played Saturday. September 28, be
tween the Pittsburg Sun Proof team,
winners of the pennant in The Geor
gian Commercial League, and tho Car
ter A Gillespie team, winners of the
City League pennant, at Ponce DeLeon.
The proceed* will go to the benefit of
the Old Women'* Home.
The game will not only be played
from charity atandpolnt, but also to
decide the city championship.
Harry Harmon, tho Sun Proofs'
standby, will be pitted ngnlnat Ed La-
fltte, who practically cinched the pen
nant for Carter A Gillespie. The In
terest will he at a high pitch, especial
ly ns Hannon is n University of Geor
gia man while Lalltte works for the
Interest of Georgia Tech, and every
one knowa the rivalry between the two
Institutions.
Roth teams played magnlAcent ball
during the races (or the rags. The
Sun Proofs boys Anlshed the season
with n percentage of .800, and Carter
A Gillespie closed their playing sea'
son with a percentage of .888.
Tickets tor the contest will be placed
on sale about the middle ot the week
nnd as u special Inducement nil school
boys will be admitted to the bleachers
for 10 cents. It ta anticipated that
these seats will be covered by the
youngsters.
BROXTON WINS AGAIN.
Special to The Georgian.
Broxton. Oa.. Sept 28.—Broxton de
feated Gully Iiranch In a double-header
Friday. Scores: First game, 9 to 2;
second game, 5 to 0. The line-up:
Broxton—Woolsey, as.; I. W. Dike*,
c.; Huggins, p.; Ncwbern. lb; Pinkston,
2b; Clemens, 3b; F. Newbern, cf.; J.
Tralnan, If.; McGovern, rf.
Gully Branch—Whatley, p.; Day, c.;
Hall, lb; Foxworth, 2b; Smith, lb; W.
A. Dikes, es.; Carver, cf.; R. A. Dikes,
If.; Corbitt, rf.
Batteries: Huggins and Dikes, What
ley and Day: second game, Newbern
and Dikes, Hall and Day. Umpire, F.
Preston.
CORNELIA WINS.
Special to The Georgian.
Cornelia, Ga., Sept. 28.—The Cornelia
High School nine won the second game
by the score of 11 to 6 from the Pied
mont College boys of Dcmorest Satur
day afternoon.
NAPOLEON M’GRAW’S RETREAT FROM MOSCOW-CHICAGO
1 CBlSI*'"
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WHAT THE CHICAGO CUBS HAVE DONE TO THE NEW YORK TEAM EVERY TIME THE GIANTS HAVE VENTURED TO THE WINDY CITY HAS BEEN SOMETHING
PLENTIFUL. IN THE OPINION OF CARTOONIST TAD, NAPOLEON’S RETREAT FROM MOSCOW WAS NOT A MARKER TO M'CRAW’8 LA8T RETREAT FROM CHICAGO.
1907 FOOTBALL WILL
BE A SPEEDY ARTICLE
Manager Finn, of Little Rock, has
gone scouting through the Western As
sociation and hopes to round up some
thing there that Is fit to draft. If the
big leagues left anything worth grab
bing It is a surprise, but Finn te the
foxy man that Is likely to run them
down.
Wise Remarks by Mr. Mack
The American League flag atlll floats In Chicago.
A wild pitch once lost a championship. Anything Is likely to happen
In baseball.
With Jones In the outfield, Davis on the infield and Comlskey under
the gramlsttnd, look out.
Good baseball will win In the American and In the National League.
If we don't win with It somebody else will.
I'm sure rf beating Comlskey's gang only when I have a pitcher they
can't hit at al.
Never flguir the White Sox beaten until figures prove It.
If I knew low ttb beat the Cubs I’d be a fool to tell It.
Many manager* tell how they are going to do things, but the dope
don t work out. \
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“ONE SHORT YEAR AGO”
By GRANTLAND RIOE.
I wandered out to Dudley Field—I went out yesterday,
To see MeGuifin’s husky hunch of Commodores at play-—
Hut few were there to meet me, Tom—oh, few ..ere left to know,
Who pluyed upon that stalwart team of one short year ago.
I saw McGugin coaching, Tom—the same old “Cheerful Dan,”
Though not so cheerful ns he was when last year’s work began,
For then his smiling, happy face was lit up with a glow—
His smile is not as healthy now as one short year ago.
Though many dashed about the field—alas, and then alack—
I somehow missed the stalwart crew that wore the gold and
blnck—
Thnt stalwart crew of nineteen-six, for when they met the foe,
They averaged 60 points per game just one brief year ago.
And ns I gazed upon the field—my fancy wandered back—
I snw Manier dash through the line and lead the old attack—
Dan Blake and Chorn and Pritchard, Tom, line up in festive
row—
Oh, what a lead pfpe cinch it was just one short year ago.
I saw them lift the Indinn’s scalp nnd hang it out to dry—
I saw them twist the Tiger's tail and gouge him in .the eye—
We may not trim the Navy, Tom, in this year’s game—but oh—
I wish we’d had a crack at them just one short year ago.
(From “The Revery of an old Commodore.”)
Standing of the Clubs.
Detroit . . ,
Chicago. . .
Cleveland. . ,
Now York .
Holton . . .
St. I ^ Mil a . .
Washington .
CLUBS-
Chicago . .
rittnburf . ,
Npw York .
riillntlolphla
Brooklyn
American.
Played. Won. Loat. P. C.
. . . . 131 81 83 .605
. . . 130 83 56 .597
68 .689
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Look out for "football nt high speed"
this season.
The go-fast erase haa hit football
and this season the speed developed
promises to beat anything you ever
saw.
The famou* ten-yard rule—the rule
that required a team to make ten yards
Instead of five In three down*—was
designed to make football faster, and
to do away with grinding line-bucks
by ponderous mountains of beef and
bone.
The rule makers Judged that If you
required n team to go twice os far In
three downs as It had ever gone before
It would have to go faster or get left.
Strange to say their dope was right.
And the ten-yard rule tlmt was the
sensation of last season Is acknowl
edged now as a regular part of the
game.
Last year the coaches and tho play
ers did not know exactly what to make
of the ten-yard rule. Some of them
thought maybe their teams could make
the distance through the line by buck
ing a little harder than ever before. But
In actual practice this did not work
out. The teams that played what they
called "straight football"—which when
Interpreted meant football a year old—
went through with all their plays In
flying style, but did not get anywhere.
This waked up the coaches that
needed waking and this year the thing
they called "straight football" Is as ob.
solete as flying wedges.
Th# Forward Pare?
Just how the forward pass Is going
to work Itself out this season Is an
open question. Last year the rules
provided that If a forward pass were
not caught or touched It went over to
the opposition. Aa possession of the
I ball Is nine-tenths of football, teams
(were loath, except In an extremity, to
|ry a play that might cost them pos-
sston of the leather.
This year the rules say that If the
til hits the ground without touching'
tybody on a forward pas. th* penalty
Id fifteen yards. To those who do not
J that the old rules were good
enough to go down to eternity this
penalty seems a bit stiff. Still, when
a team has a chance to pick up twenty
or thirty ynrds and iierhaps put Itself
within striking distance of the oppo
nents' goal, It Is likely to risk the ploy
often, certainly more often than last
year, when a fluked forward pass was
fatal.
The people who went to see football
games last year liked the forward pgsa.
There was something so delightfully
unexpected about the way It generally
came off.
How it Worked.
If you saw the tenm with the ball
mass Its men right behind center and
at tho signal, “12-38-18-2-3, 141 oxxlb,"
hurl a fullback two halfbacks and an
end at the center of the opposing line,
and If the opposing center fell In glo
rious sacrifice under the fullback and
messed up the play, and If ten men
titled up In a heap—and then all of a
sudden tho qunrterbuek passed the bail
forward to a couple of men standing
quietly about thirty yards from the
seething mass and then these two men
took the ball and went over for a
touchdown, didn't It put a kink In your
spinal column? That was the way the
well played forward passes generally
came off, and they were great business.
Before we get away from this,
though, let It be stated that even under
this year's rules on the third down the
forward pass has to be caught or the
ball goes over.
Few Other Chsngee.
No other changes In the rules this
year threaten to Interest the spectators
much—and It la for the spectators we
are writing, because the players—
strange as It may seem—know more
about it than we do.
One thing the football fans will no
tice, though—and that la that cham
pionship games will be SB minutes long
Instead ot 30 as heretofore.
On the whole football fans are pleased
with the rules as they stand. They
seem to have opened up the game, add.
ed to Its speed and made It less brutal
and more pleasing to watch.
t'lnrlnustl
Boston .
Hf. I.'Oils
TYPEWRITER SKETCH
OF CHAS. C0MISKEY
WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY.
American.
Chicago nt Washington.
Detroit nt New Yora.
Cleveland nt Bouton.
8t. Louis nt Philadelphia.
New York nt rittaburg.
Brooklyn nt fit. Loula.
Boston at Cincinnati.
SUNDAY’S RE8ULT8.
National.
Chicago 8, Bouton 7 (llrat game).
Bouton 4, Chicago 2 (second gnine).
St. Louie 7. Philadelphia 4 (first game).
Philadelphia 0, 8t. Loula 0 (Hecnnd game).
Cincinnati 1, New York 0 (flrat game).
Cincinnati 2, New York 1 (second game).
8ATURDAY’8 RE8ULT8.
"Drafted by* New York from Cedar
Raplda—Phyla."—Farrell** Bulletin.
Billjr, wo wonder?
American.
Philadelphia 6, fit. touts 0.
New York 8. Detroit 1 (flrat game).
Detroit 7, New York 2 (flrat game).
Cleveland 6, Boston 1.
Chicago 6. Washington 3.
National.
New York 8, Cincinnati 2.
fit. Loula 4, Philadelphia 2.
rittaburg 1, Brooklyn 0.
Chicago 8, Boston 6.
Virginia State.
4. Danville 1 (flrat i
5. Danville 0 (sect
i 3. Norfolk 2.
Bob Spade Beat
New York Giants
Bob Spade, late ot the Crackers and
who by the way helped the Atlanta
team to win the Southern League hunt.
Ing, defeated the New York Giants
8unday afternoon by the score of 1 to
0 for Cincinnati.
Spade pitched a masterful game. The
Giants simply could do nothing with
his delivery. Bob was cool under tire
and his showing In the big lengue was
gratifying to his many Atlanta friends.
He allowed only four hits.
Opposing Spade was the great Iron
Man Joe McGInnlty. Sunday was
Spade's first big league game In a good
while and he was more or loss nerv
ous. Spade has been In the big league
before, and he Is not a stranger In fast
company by any means.
It must have been a trying circum
stance for Spade to go up against a
man who has been pitching In the big
league for years and a man who Is
considered the best In the business.
And then, too, It was on Sunday, and
It Is very probable that a large crowd
was out to witness the contest. But
8pade handled hlmselt like a veteran
and got away with the contest In fine
style.
The following are the scores of the two
games Sunday afternoon between the
New York Giants and the Cincinnati
Reds;
First game: R. H. E.
Cincinnati 000 000 lOx—1 8 0
New York 000 000 000—0 4 0
Battriea—Spade and Schlel; Mc
GInnlty and Breanahan and Bowerman.
Time, 1:30. Umpire, Emslle.
Second game: R.H.E.
Cincinnati 001 010 0—2 8 0
New York 000 001 0—1 8 1
By JIM HACKETT.
You Atlanta folk can talk as much as
you like of your Bill Smiths and other
fans can speak of "Pop" Ansona and
Mike Kellys and John Wards, and
Clarksons, and other noted players, but
no one can persuade a follower of the
White Sox In the American League
race that Charles A. Comlskey, the No
blest Roman of Them AH, Isn't the
greatest manager ever.
I had heard of him, of course, before
the present American League invnded
Chicago, but I never knew him person
ally until that time, nnd os he had
played with the St. Louis Browns, when
they were champions ot the world, sev
eral year* before, I wn* surprised to
find a man who showed no other sign
of age than gray hair, which 1, learned
Inter had grown white prematurely. Not
only that, but In 1901, when he was
cnrrylng only twelve men and one of
them became III, he played In right
Held himself nnd In the last Inning
covered flrat base.
Yet It Isn't because he gave the
world’s champions of 1906 all his share
of the gate receipts In the series, or
added his personal check of 315.000 to
the sum, that Comlskey Is so popular
among his players. It Is because he
treats them fair and square. There Is
one hall player In Chicago who should
be ashamed of himself. Comlskey not
only lent him money to fit up his home
and advanced him money for his hon
eymoon, but he told him that he would
buy a certain piece of property for
him. When he finally had to let the
player go—he had paid a big price to
get him from the Chicago Nntlona!
League team—he did It only beenuse It
wns necessary to the discipline of the
club, and he gave the player a receipt
In full for every cent that he evor ad
vanced him.
Comlskey Is red ot face, a slender
man for a magnate, and vigorous. He
o:.d Byron Bancroft Johnson, president
of the league, and Charley Snmera,
when he was backing the Boston team,
were busy with the finances of the
league. That was In 190! or 1803, soon
after Sir. Somers had purchased the
Huntington avenue grounds In Boston,
and money was not as plentiful as It Is
now In the league treasury. These
three were pretty busy during th* day
arranging money matters, but every
afternoon they adjourned to a bowling
alley. Mr. Somers doesn't go to Chi
cago today as often as he did then, but
President Johnson and the only man
who ever led two world championship
teams to victory still make dally visits.
Cotnlskey Is married and haa one boy,
who attondx La Salle College, and who
Is oa much of an enthuslaat over foot
ball 0* hla father I* over baaeball. Mrs.
Comlskey likes both games, but she
also likes to go over to the Lake Front
and dangle bait for perch.
Whether It Is true or not, Mr. Comte-
key say* that the real reason why
"Ban” Johnson broke Into professional
baaeball la that he was a reporter In
Cincinnati and went out to a game on*
day without a pnes and was turned
down personally by John T. Brush. He
then decided to get even, nnd It will be
remembered that the Indianapolis club
was crowded out of the American
League the year after It was founded,
the franchise being awarded to Wash
ington. Mr. Bruah was the pnrlncr of
Mr. Watkins, the holder of the fran
chise for Indianapolis, In a clothing
store In that city. It la generally con
ceded. I believe, that If Mr. Brush Is
not out of baseball he Is taklni the
count.”
The meeting of the National Associa
tion of Minor Baseball Leagues has
been postponed from October 15 to Oc
tober 29.
Among the releases recorded by the
last National Association bulletin
Charles Babb, Perry Llpe and J. Ihcn-
ard Crosier.
COTTON STATES CHAMPS
MOBILE TEAM.
Fritz, catcher; McCay,
mer, first base; Tucker, pif-
shortstop; Thornton, center field: .
Boyd, right field; Nolly, pitchor, O’Brien, catcher; Ray, pitcher.
MueiLC i teni.
ftcCay, second baso and manager: K em
ir, pitchor; 'Fitzsimmons, umpire; Breyetwi
field; Hoffman, third bate; Gear, left H* 1 " 1
If you want the cheapest
good coffee in the world buy
Arbuckles’ Ariosa Coffee.
There is no other.
ARBUCKLIS BROa, New York City,
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,1907.