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THURSDAY, OCTOBER, 31, 1907.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
SPORTING
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KAVANAUGH ROASTS ATLANTA CLUB AT N. Y. MEETING
! EDITED BY
IP.H. WHITING
j NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
By PERCY H . WHITING.
It i* a trifle to be regretted that tho Tech and Georgia fol
lowers can not get together and put their rivalry on a slightly
better baais.
The big game of the year is coming on—is almost here m
fact—and,it is being ushered in by an era of charges, counter
charges, jealousy, hatred and general ill-feelings.
Ever}' Tech man seems honestly to believe that Georgia has
hired a lot of athletics, gathered from Schenectady, N. Y.,
Savannah, Ga., and a few other remote and n.t qiporiant places.
They also believe that the Georgia men are b*_ i ing trained to use
every known dirty method of playing football und they strongly
snspect that any man in the outfit would commit murder if he
thought he could “get away with it.”
Among Georgia men the feeling is, if possible, a trifle harder.
They swear that Davis, of the Tech team, is a hired man and
that he is a professional'ball player; they believe that Sims was
induced to come to Tech by devious means, after he had gone to
Athens to matriculate in the University of Georgia; they believe
that Clyde Brown is being paid to go through college, and they
believe a few other things that a lack of space only forbids us
to mention.
Those of us whose sympathies are with other colleges nnd
who try to preserve neutrality in Georgia-Tech wrangles don’t
know exactly what we do think, but we are all quite certain
that both the Tech and Georgia followers are off the track and
badly misled by appearances and false rumors.
Both teams are made up of human beings (which fact some
of the worst of the partisans of both teams seem to overlook)
and most of the human beings are from Georgia. Likewise the
bulk of them, if not all, are on the square.
We have believed for some time that the athletics in some
of the colleges of the state need a bit of looking into and heed
to be put on a *better basis. Wo also believe that sevcrnl colleges
would do well to understand that professional athletes ruin a
team in the long run and that the way to fight “ringers” in an
other college is with spirit in your own.
But we can’t believe that either Tech or Georgia is as bad
as its rivals make out and we should welcome the arrival of a
better feeling between the supporters of the two colleges.
It is possible to have a warm rivalry without having feeling
of the kind that now exists.
Representatives of Gordon Institute, Georgia Military
Academy and Stone Mountain met at the local Y. M. C. A. Tues
day night and held a long conference, in an effort to get together
on some eligibility rules that will make it possible for those
three, and all other, prep school teams in Georgia to meet in
athletic contests.
Just at present Stone Mountain will not play Gordon, and
G. M. A. will play neither one of them. As a result the best
teams in the section are never seen in action against each other.
Sometime when there aro not so many big things on tap we
shall have a bit more to say about it, but just noV the thing is
not properly at a head.
It may be mentioned that the eommittoe which met Tuesday
decided that, as nothing could possibly bo done this year, it was
unwise to prooecd in a hurry and a convention of the schools
interested will be called between Thanksgiving and Christmas,
at which time an effort will be made to agree upon eligibility
rnles and to accept a constitution which will bo satisfactory
to all.
It is sincerely to be hoped that a working prep, school
athletic association will be formed, and that eligibility rules will
be adopted and lived up to.
It is from the Georgia prep schools that most of the Tech
and Georgia athletes of the future are to be drawn and it is de
sirable that they get two forms of experience—the experience
of playing against good teams and the experience of working
nnder an athletic association which makes purity of athletics a
reality instead of an idle dream.
The writer’s article about the jaundiced views of Coach
Kienholz on Southern athletics, which appeared yesterdny in this
column, was also URed in the Nashville Tennessean and in com
menting on it Grantland Rice wrote:
Mr. Whiting Is a clearheaded, capable sporting writer, for
whom we entertain a high regard, bnt on this point we must
differ with him. Conditions In the South are not near so bad
as a few calamity howlers like Dr. Williams offDahlonega and
Coach Kienhol: of Auburn would lead' the public to bellevo.
It the Auburn coach has, as he states, proof that certain
men are Ineligible, all he has to do la to furnish the association
with this proof, and If It Is based upon facts he can rest assured
that every man so tainted will be promptly rjtled out.
His claim that a college which doesn't furnish a degree Is
not a college, Is foolish. A university Is ranked by what It hap
pens to be—not what It happens to call Itaelf.
In regard to that "One Year In College" role—conditions In
the 8outh will hardly Justify Its advent.
The regulations of the S. I. A. A., as they non- stand, It fol
lowed out, Insure high-grade sport. And any collegiate athletic
, association that deliberately breaks these regulations In order to
strengthen Its football eleven would hardly be balked by the one-
year role.
Of oouuse, It conditions In the South were wholly bad. the
situation might then warrant such action. But as we view it,
the situation Is not only not wholly bad, but Improving from
year to year. The most efficient remedy, and the one that un
doubtedly should do most good, would be a high standard of
scholarship for all athletes, this standard to be strictly main
tained and enforced by all faculties, not only through the foot
ball season, but through the entire scholastic year. So that If
a man should fall in his work one year, he would then be elimi
nated the next, until he had made up his work. Few “rlngerR"
are willing to face any such task—and It they are, they will get
what they had probably never gotten before—nor would ever
get—a good college education.
PRESIDENT KAVANAUGH ROASTS THE LOCAL CLUB
YALE GETS COACHES.
New Haven, Oct. 31.—The hurry-up
call for veteran coaches to report at
Tale brought a squad of ten yesterday.
The scrubs won their dally battle
with the 'varsity on Yale fleld yester-
d«v by scoring the only touchdown dur
ing the encounter.
CORNELL’S LAURELS WON.
Ithaca. Oct. 31.—Cornell's football
team can now lay back on her Prince
ton laurels. Captain Cook and Lynch
took turns playing tackle on the scrub
team. The scrubs and the freshmen
played a close scrimmage here vester-
day.
BASEBALL RECORDS
MADE THIS SEASON
Wilhelm, Birmingham club. Southern League, pitched S3 consecutive
Innings without allowing a run.
Brooklyn A. C. and East End teams at Cleveland. Ohio, played a 30-
Innlng game—the longest on record.
Pf.-rfi l- ll.aton, and .Maddox. Pittsburg, respectively, shut out Cin
cinnati and Brooklyn without a hit.
Total attendance In major leagues was 6.136,557, of which the Ameri
can drew 3.398.761. and National 2,73f,793.
Tommy Leach circled the bases In 14 seconds flat. With slides to sec
ond and third bsse* his time was I* I-S seconds.
Phelan of Providence, beat a bunt to first In 3 seconds Hat.
Michael Mitchell. Cincinnati, made a fungo hit of 413 feet 8 1-2 Inches.
Sheldon La Jeune. Springfield, Central League, made a throw of 333
feet 10 3-4 Inch
T-
FINN GATHERS
GOOD PLAYERS
Little Rock, Oct. 31.—It Is beginning
to be possible to get a pretty good line
on the Little Rock team for next year.
Manager Finn has drafted Pitcher
Kane, of Utica; Inflelders East, of
Akron, and Marlon, of Norfolk, and
Outfielder McCormack, of Duluth. With
Hart, Eyler, Walters and possibly
Hughes, the Travelers have the foun
dation for one of the best pitching
staffs In the league. Taylor, of Vicks
burg, and Kane will be tried out.
Behind the bat Woods Is a certainty
and whether Stark or Krebs from
Vicksburg will be retained to help out
remains to be seen.
PENNSY’S BUCKING MACHINE
In Address Calls Atlanta
Association “Money
Grabber.”
ORGANIZED BALL
IN GRAVE DANGER
No Peace in Sight—Ameri
can Association on
Warpath.
Here it a picture of the Pennsylvania bucking machine, a device eupposed to improve the charging of the players. Heavy-weights stand on
the platform and at the word the other players dash against it, the way they are eupposed to charge against their opponents in a game. Such a
device it regularly used at Tech.
TAKE YOUR CHOICE-
TECH OR GEORGIA
GOLFERS PROGRESS
TO THE SEMI-FINALS
Game Saturday Looks Like
Very Even Thing All
Around.
The Intereat In the Georgia-Tech
football game Saturday now has the
fever heat mark backed clear off the
thermometer.
There Is no love lost between the two
teams nor their backers, nnd the whole
bunch will be out at Ponce DeLeon
Saturday looking for a ruction. But
all the excitement will, of course, be
furnished by the two football teame.
That excitement, however, will be n
plenty.
Right now It looks like a toss-up be
tween the two teams.
The Tech team la a very doubtful
quantity, when all her men are in good
ehape, as they were last Saturday. But
with Luck, Davis and Sweet In bad
condition physically. It Is hard to tell
what the team will show. On dope
It has a shade over Georgia.
Georgia seems to have strengthened
steadily and there la no earthly tell
ing what the Athens bunch will spring
on the watting public Saturday.
The deepest secrecy has been main
tained about the University or Geor
gia team, and It Is doubtful If anybody
but the coach and his closest advisers
will know whui the line-up will be until
the game starts.
Georgia has one ndvantage over
Tech. The Athens people consider this
game the one BIG affair of the year,
and If they win It they are satisfied.
Tech Is more ambitious and wants to
beat Liemson as well ns Georgia. Also
the Techltvs hope to show well against
Vunderbilt ami Hcwanee. So the
Georgia men have been brought to a
razor edge for thus one contest, while
the Tech men will hardly reach their
very best form befoie Thanksgiving.
Between the halves of the game, and
before the contest, the Tech Scrubs will
play the Stone Mountain team. The
U. S. B. aggregation Is exceptionally
strong this year, despite the fact that
It la mode up almost entirely of new
men, and will doubtless give the Scrubs
a fancy run for their money.
BASKETBALL RULES OUT.
The latest Issue of Spalding's Ath
letic Library Is the "Odlclal Basketball
Guide for 1908," edited by George T.
llepbron. Tho Guide contains, among
other Interesting Information, reports
from all over the country. New York.
New Jersey, the South, the New Eng
land district, Chicago, Cleveland, Mir
peseta and South Dnkotn, ns -well as
New Orleans. Los Angeles, Southern
'ulffornln and Cuba, ore all separately
treated In n series of good articles
showing the condition of the Indoor
sport In esch section.
A new departure Is the complete re
The Sewanee Dope Sheet
After Tech and the University of Georgia get through with each
other, what Is left of each team will shake Itself together for a battle
with Sewanee. The Tennessee Tigers and Tech meet Saturday after next
and Sewanee and Georgia the following Monday.
Here la the full dope sheet of the Sewanee team;
Name. Home Town. Position. Ago. Wgt. Hgt.
Guy Lewis Dallas, Tex Right End.... 23 165 5-11 1-2
William Evans Purral, Mexloo Right Tackle.. 19 180 5-11 1-2
Frank Faulkenberry. .Fayetteville, Tenn.. ..Right Guard.. 19 19* 6-4 1-2
Thomaa Evans, Parral. Mexico Center ....... 20 160 6-1
Erlo Clieape ....Avon Park. Fin Left Guard.... 21 170 6-1 1-2
Lex Stone •..Fayetteville, Tenn.. ..Left Tackle... 22 172 6-2 t-2
Silas Williams .Greenville, S. C Left End .... 19 150 5-9 1-3
Capt. Walter Barret. .Covington, Tenn Quarterback . 22 155 5-10
Frank Shipp Chattanooga, Tenn.. .Right Half .. 25 170 5-11
Lawrence Markley... Chlcngo. In Left Half .... 22 165 5-10 1-2
Aubrey Lanier Covington, Tenn Fullback 19 160 5-10 1-2
SUBSTITUTES.
Logan Illsele Denver. Colo ...Sub Back .... 19 160 6
Kenneth Lyne Henderson. Ky Sub Back.... 19 146 5-10
William Wilson Rock Hill. S. C Sub End 22 144 5-10 1-2
Heber Wadley '.Shreveport, La .Sub Lineman. 21 170 6-2
Paul Sheppard Texnrkann, Tex Sub Lineman. 23 170 5-11
Games played so far and scores;
Sewanee 22, Mooney 0, at Sewanee, on September 27.
Sewanee 38, Mississippi A. & 51. 0. at Sewanee, on October 10.
Sewanee 12. Auburn College 0. at Birmingham, on October 19.
Sewanee 54. University of Alabama 5. at Tuscaloosa, on October 21.
Sewanee 65, Mississippi 0, at Memphis, on October 26.
Byrd, Tilson, Moore and
Phillips Still in Cham
pionship.
STARTING A PLAY
GEORGIA MILITARY ACADEMY TEAM.
Hare is a snapshot of tho G. M. A. team at signal praetica.
quarter is just passing tha ball for an end run.
Nashville Will Entertain
Michigan’s Husky Players
Hpetinl to The OtKirKian.
Nashville, Teen.. Oct. 31.-Everybody Id
Nashville la awaiting with Interest the big
straggle with Michigan, which cornea nest
Saturday. Stands lire being erected at the
port of the roller skating basketball „[,j„ , lf i )m IU-y geld, which will ae
tournament held recently In Madison iwiuwl|tl thonaaud stnmllng spec.
Square Garden, New York. College, , , platform Is almost
basketball, and tn# record* or all the I completed, mid It to no eoiwtronw! that
colleges nnd universities, are all fully I tho*> in the roar enu see as well
covered.
The Guide contains the new official
playing rules for the season of 1907*03.
and .'ll! amateur games must be played
th<» A A 1\ role#.
San Francisco, Oct. 31.—Real bet
ting on the Johnaon-Flynn light has
opened with the colored fighter a 1 to
2 favorite. At this price a few com
missions were placed. While It to true
that the negro has been a disappoint
ment because of his lack of aggres
siveness, his unusual caution might
stand him in hand In a forty-five round
euncounier, the route over which the
two are slated to travel.
the Wolverines, yet. after the gnuie. It It
expected that such a program will lie
rleil out ns will leave the most plett
memories to the Northern I nils.
Mrttiigln Insists thnt i( will lie necessary
lirnhnm nnd UiifusebiMs room In which to
cat the ••pigeon whig.” Mciluglu insist*
thnt (iminger’s nine** In Ann Arbor, at
which tin* Michigan stmlents gather to
dnnee. bits barred Sehultx liecnime some
time tluring bis freshman year bis euornioti*
weight and vigor on the floor eaused It to
sink down upon the furnnee.
t*<Nieh Mctiugln Instituted n novelty last
ill Hum. The knocking of the hamniers
null the musle of tile saws ore tu* nl along
I he side line*, where uu additions! sent
eupnclty Is being provided, and new Ih»vch
nre being put In.
The Michigan leas! will r^rniw ia% . room or me ijSSSatuiu. i>i>
In Nashville, and many plans are being nut ,.„ t mrini.cr* of the team were then .»»•
tinder way for Its entertnlument. A Idg k * r ii«*ted to nib each other vigorously with
iiuins meet lug will probably bc filrcn op rn- hsndfnls **f the salt. The purpose of this
— ' Is to bring the elrcnlatlon to the suffnee.
mu! thereby secure a letter pliy*leal i ouiII-
fton. -Many shrieks nnd groans from the
shower room greeted the debut of the salt
barrel.
Sf™
iMitiimohl!,*. to. stqgowo »|U.1‘| ™
iloiibtlcM lie taki'U to the llermllnge. where
Awlrew Jackson lived land died, and nut
to Mime of I he tdiiurewioe pike, which
bud from Nashville lu oil directions. Then
sfter the smite, n Mg IwU Is lieln* id«uued
st the Watauga t lufi, where the Michigan
heart lee nil) put nwuy the rails thought ef
fnntlmU inutest aud ellmw I heir wny aleiut
upon the Iwll room floor. .... .
Vanderbilt |ienple are not unmindful of
the reception her team was given dining
these two sojourns at Ana Arlnr.
During the contest ou Dudley held, there
w01 be no 1*1 up ■“ **■* *" “
LET UP AT "PENN8Y.”
Philadelphia, Oct. 31.—Acting on the
theory thot the University of Pennsyl
vania football, candidates have been
overworked, the coaches are going to
The golf tournament at the Atlanta
Athletic Slub for ’the championship,
Adair and Arnold cups has progressed
to the semi-finals.
In the championship Tilson meets
Byrd and Phillips plays Moore. The
former match Is practically the final
event, for the winner of It should hava
little trouble In taking the winner of
the Phllllps-Moore match Into camp.
Byrd Is the choice, but Just at pres
ent Tilson is playing a phenomenal up
hill game. In Wednesday's mitch he
met Dr. Frank Holland. The doctor
played the first nine holes In 38 strokes
(equullng bogey) nnd had his opponent
five down at the turn. Tilson wus able
to gain only a slight advantage until
after the thirteenth hole was played.
He was then four down and five to go.
He thereupon won five holes in- a row
and took the match.
In the presidents cup the race Is
equally good. Clarence Angler has gone
to the finals In the lower frame, while
In the upper the semi-finals have yet
to be played between Paine and Wil
liams. These three men still In the
second flight are nil first-class players
and all "on their gumes." On dope
Clarence Angler hits It a shade over
his adversaries, but dope Is no better
In golf than elsewhere, and seems to
be especially astray In the present tour
nament.
The results Wednesday In the three
flights follow; ,
Championship—Tilson defeated Hol
land, 1 up; Byrd defeated Stovall by
default; Phillips defeated Street, 5-4;
Moore defeated Arnold. 4-3. The semi
finals In this dnss will be played on
Thursday afternoon. The flnnls are at
36 holes, 18 of which wilt be played
Friday and 18 on Saturday,
President’s Cup—Paine defeated
Luxlon. 6-5; Williams defeated Tlche-
nor, 2-1: Scott defeated Glddlngs by
default; Angler defeated F. W. Stone,
5-3. Semi-finals will be played Thurs.
day afternoon, and the finals either Fri
day or Saturday.
Arnold Cup—Connally won by de
fault; Jllges defeated R. B. Hall. 6-4;
Mlkoll defeated Barnett, 2 up; Dlnktna
defeated Holleyman, 1 up on 20 holes.
Semi-finals will be played Thursday
afternoon and finals either Friday or
Saturday.
Qualifying cards are being poured In
fast In the Trawlck tournament, though
only few low ones have shown as yet.
It seems evident that to get In tha
tournament a net score of between 90
and 100 will be needed, but as handi
caps are llberaf so many high handicap
men are likely to get in that It will
force the highest qualifying score down
to pretty low figures.
The bulk of the qualifying will he
done at the end of the week, and all
players have until Monday to get In
their scores. Each player may tijrn in
as many cards as he wants, and handi
caps count In the qualifying round.
OH FUDGE! OH FUDGE!
Mr. Percy Whiting, Sporting Editor of
The Georgian;
Dear Mr. Whiting—In your Issue
of the 29th Inst, you state that you do
not like “the present condition of
thlnes."
This Is to Inform you that you do
not like the "present condition of
things" because you see that Georgia
about to wallop your much-loved
pet, Tech. Yours truly,
VAN WILHITE.
Jackson. Gn.
Wrong again, bo. We want to tee
tlie best team win and If Georgia la
"It" we hope she wallops the very tar
out of Tech. If she Isn't, we don't.
By SAM CRANE.
New York,' Oct. 31.—Fr6m the ap
pearance of things last night, when tha
national association adjourned until to
day. the prospects of another baseball
war were not lessened much from tho
dark outlook they had before the meet
ing began.
The rebelllously Inclined American
Association threw a bomb Into the irtt-
nor league camp that cause a terrible
disturbance.
It was anticipated by all those who
know Tebeau that he would claim for
his American Association everything In
sight, but the demands he made through
President J. D. O’Brien, of the organi
sation, fairly out-Tebeaued Tebeau and
as one dazed nnd dumbfounded dele
gate remarked, "Why. the gall of the
man ts something appalling.”
The demands follow:
No. 1—Thnt the Pacific Coast Lengue,
Southern League and Western League
be reduced to Class B.
No. 2—That the board of arbitration
of the National Aasoclatlon be reduced
from seven members, as now constitut
ed, to five, and that the American As
sociation and Eastern League be repre r
sented on the board; that two repre
sentatives be appointed from the lower
class leagues nnd that the fifth member
shall be chosen by representatives of
the American Association and Eastern
League.
No. 3—That all future meetings of
the association be held in Chicago.
Judge Kavanaugh, president of the
Southern League, made the most forci
ble attack against the demands and
brought out the fact that the American
Association was basing Its claim of
population on the' coming census of
1910 Instead of 1900, and If the ten-year
agreement which places the Class A
leagues In their present classification
was lived up to It would be found that
In 1910 the Southern League would
have n population of over a million to
draw from.
Mr. Kavanaugh also remarked Inci
dentally that he thought the Class A
clubs were getting off lucky to have
only one player drawn from each club.
He also threw a harpoon Into
the Atlanta olub, a member of hla
own league, because, after having
ono player drafted, it sold six moro
players to the highest bidder, pock
eted the money and then made a
howl for moro protection, with the
complaint that it can not hold its
P 'ST ! Kavanaugh closed hit re
marks by saying that tho National
and Amorjcan leagues would not
be so gr'eeoy for players unless thay
wore tempted by the money grab
bers of tho minor leagueo.
There were many other speeches
made against the'demands, and when
the vote was taken to table the reso
lution offered by the American Asso
ciation the vote was overwhelmingly
In favor of It. Nineteen to three was
the way the vote atood after each poll
for each of the three decisions. The
leagues voting for the demands were
the American Association, Eastern
League and New York Central League.
As a little sop to the American As
sociation, It was voted to hold the next
annual meeting In Chicago. The "Log
Cabin" will be designated aa tha meet
ing place.
Notwithstanding the great disfavor
the American Association demand*
were received, there Is a dlsposltl/i
on the part of, many of the delegates
to give the Eastern League and the
disgruntled Westerner* same few ex
tra concessions, and so It was decided
that the representatives of both these
organizations meet the committee on
revision of the constitution and confer
with them on some plan which will be
satisfactory to all concerned. Whether
the American Association will listen to
any compromise la a question. let
ters are bound to come to a crista to
day, and then the Western representa
tives' will be forced to show their
hands. *
KLING FIXED COBB.
Frank Schulte, of the Cubs, is taking
up gentlemen'* driving a* a winter
uierworacu me cuwcuei are going to „asttme. He purchased Billy Jeffrey.
let UP on their hard work for a fewla pacer with a 2:13 mark, with part of
the tumiuertag of day*.- hla championship divvy.
The science of constructing blinds for
duck shooting, while It may be brought
to a great stage of perfection. Is not al
ways an exact science. For Instance, a
willow blind, with tall willow stumps
about, may be a fine place to shoot pin
tails from on some cold days, and that,
suddenly the weather may turn bright
and warm, and the birds will not decoy
there, but will come In to a grass blind,
strong about a squat ducking boat,
built to be as Inconspicuous as possible,
with the hunter lying down almost
totally concealed from the ducks by the
grass which meets above him aa he Ilea
In the boat.
On blight days the birds are more
suspicious apparently, and are less apt
to be traveling about. On dark and
stormy days they are less alert, and
more constantly on the move. Blinds
for the greater and lessor scaup ducks,
the big and little bluebllls, may be con.
strutted from, almost anything. These
birds will sometimes come In to where a
man is throwing out decoys, and they
are, together with the rtngbllls, the
easiest of all ducks to decoy.
Early In the season an old log may
serve aa a blind, and a half dozen de
coy* will aerve to bring the bluebllls In.
Where the bird* have bsen more or less
shot at. and have become warier, a
brush blind, with some grass or even
hay tucked In will make a good blind,
and a large (lock of decoys will be
found advantageous. One of tile very
first requisites for the occupants of a
duck blind Is Immovability.—November
Recreation.
Bobby Wa*ice'a salary will be drop-
K d from 16,500 per to 33,600. The Scot
■feta that he will no longer cavort on
McAleer’s “edges" for anything short
of (.600 bones.