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SPORTING PAGE F 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*'" {/ JAlBTlfO* 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. \ ~7f\ “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 A 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, L THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23,1907.