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J THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1907.- sp PAck NG l BIG INTERNATIONAL FIGHT IN LONDON ON MONDAY : EDITED BY IP. H. WHITING M’GRAW REFUSES TO QUIT ROBERT THEY FIGHT MONDAY NIGHT i 1 Will Be Elected to Lead the Tech Team in 1908. "Chip” Robert will be the tlext cap tain of the Georgia School of Tech nology football team. He Is not elected yet, but you can put a railroad spike In that statement, and collect from us If It Is Incorrect. The election takes place In about a week, but the thing la as good as set tied. ■That Robert will make a desirable captain Is certain. He has a cool head, more knowledge of foot ball than any man on the team, and In certain to be a brilliant player neat year. The election of Robert will be well received by the students of Tech and by the friends of the team generally. NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS New, lUm—John MoQraw will agein manage the Giant,. T. BURNS AND GUNNER MOIR MEET FOR INTERNATIONAL HONORS By TAD. New York, Dec. 2.—Tommy Burns and Gunner Molr meet at the National Sporting Club In London In a 20-round bout tonight. The purse Is ftl.000. This Includes the $5,000 side bet which Is up on the go, each man having bet $1,500 on himself. Five-ounce gloves arc to be used and each man Is allow ed but two handlers or seconds In his corner. Eugene Corey, who has been selected rpferee, will sit upon a little platform erected outside the ring. Price for the fight are; First, choice. 952.10; second choice, $29.26; third tholce, $15.50. The winner of the battle will claim the championship of England and Aus tralia. He will be the English con tender for the heavy-weight champion ship of the world with either Jack Johnson or Jim Jeffries. Tommy Burns claims the champion ship of America, but he Is not the American champion. He has not de fended his title and therefore can not claim a championship. Molr Is the English artilleryman who Jumped Into prominence by defeating Jim Casey and Jack Painter, two very choice quinces. Later he took on Tigh Smith and fed him the sleepy pill In the first round. Sam Langford, a col ored welter-weight, put the same Smith away n few months or so after Molr did the trick. Smith has a hard name but a soft Jaw. Molr Is a heavy fellow, built on the lines of John Wlile and Tom Sharkey. He stands 6 feet 10 Inches tall and | weighs close to 218 pounds. Hums Is three Inches shorter and Is lighter by 25 pounds. When introduced with Molr at the National Club. Burns was, laughed ut. but from later reports, the giggling Britons have changed their minds and now are offering 10 to 8 that Tommy beats their man. Owen Moran, the crack feather weight who wuh sent over here to show us a few things and did So suc cessfully, sent buck the first few bun dled he made over here to bet on Molr. He considers Molr the best man ho has seen In years and Isn't u bit afraid to say so either. Charley Mitchell, who at present Is In England, picks Burns to win and says there will be no trouble In the Job. Ho Las seen both men In action and told Tommy he hud landed a good thing. IF MIKE DONUN WILL KEEP STRAIGHT HE WILL HELP THE GIANTS WIN GAMES By WILLIAM F. KIRK. New York. Dec. 2.—"With the bases full and two men out, Donlln leaned into a fast shoot and sent it through the center field ropes, breaking up the game."—A Memory. The papers tell us that Mr. Michael Donlln, mighty swatter and great out fielder, has come back Into the fold. Michael, so the reports allege, has seen the error of his ways (about the only error, by the way, that he ever makes on or off the ball field) and has signed to play with the 1908 Giants. Donlln Is a picturesque figure in baseball—one of the men always re membered, whose name will live In the annals of the game long after he has crossed the home plate. Not because of hi* ability, though few have shown more on the diamond, but because he has the traita that go to make a man popular In sporting and other circles. With all his natural and acquired ability, he has at times been a sore trial to Manager McGraw. who doe* not expect his men to be too abstem ious and who Is, for thut reason, not a very hard taskmaster. Time anti again I have heard McGraw talking to his big center fielder like a Dutch un de urging him to stick to the straight and narrow base line, reminding him that a ball player's life on the diamond Is short and strenuous. Mike ulways listened, too, but somehow he kept on taking his punishment and coming back for more. There la no question about Donlln'a popularity, in the days when the Giants were the confectionery children the great left-handed slugger saunter ed up to the bat with his own peculiar walk, a walk that suggested one part of conceit and three parts of confi dence In his admitted ability, while the stands and bleachers rang with the almost college yell of "Mike, Mike, Mike!” And most of us remember how he used to ating that ball until it soared beyond the wildest dreams of the outfielders. Those were happy days. If Donlln can keep his promise to shun the primrose paths he will be a very useful cltlsen. And even If he can not, he will still be a great help to th$ Giants. What If he does make an occasional eJJp? Burns and Byron fell off now and then, and they were certainly big leaguers. Here’s a fine letter: Dear Sir—Why Is it that so many people pass over the sporting page of a newspaper In cold disdain? I can't understand it. not for the life of me. When President Riwaevelt spends hap py hours In the east room watching a big. fat Jap man handling a few op poncntN as an insnne asylum keeper mauls Johnny the horse, and then switch*? to the south room for a Jolly dice game, first flop out of the box und low man stuck, why should the spirit of lesser mortals like us be proud and haughty ? Every man with red blood In his veins Is more or less of n sport. It Is true thnt Mr. Taft doesn’t go in much for athletics, hut he Is very fat and. besides, the vast amount of road work that he is culled on to do keeps him down to weight. 1 maintain that no man who claims to he a true American citizen can follow the daily doings of our beloved president without feeling In his heart the longing to be a sport, whether he be a mild amateur or one of the tin-oared variety. The sporting pago of a newspaper Is ci l tulnly worth reading, especially In the subway, when one gets on at Brooklyn bridge nnd bus to ride out to some sequestered spot In West Farms. When a man Is worrying over the lit tle cares that crop up In connection with Ills dally business and domestic life, how refreshing tt Is to reud that Kid Wallace, the hard-hitting welter weight of Flatbush, Jabbed Young Quincy Into a state of coma In the fourth round, before the police came. When a resident of Harlem is fretting over the fact that his butcher has pot been squared, how soothing It Is to note, In the racing columns, that Fath er Hill Daly put over another good thing that was backed from hundreds to tens nnd then to units, tow-roping the field all the way. Yes, brother, the sporting page Is the solace of many a man who can not af ford to he a true sport himself. On the first page we read how some poor !ady, who ha.idled a gun carelessly, must spend her Thanksgiving In a gloomy cell, atul how some mad young Pltts- burger must chew his turkey near the turnkey—behind the bars instead of before them. On the women’s page learn how to live on,$25 a week nnd have something left over for the dear little wife ut home. But on the sport ing page we read of Joe Grim and Philadelphia Jack O’Brien, and the knowledge that wo are not In the same boat makes us cheerful like. 1 know not whnt course others may take, but a*, for me, give nie the sporting page. I trust thnt you will see fit to print this letter. Inasmuch us you wrote It your self. Y. M. C. A. TEAMS AGAIN PLAY GOOD BASKET BALL Basket ball was again on tap Satur day night at the Young Men's Chr|stlan Association, and the lovers of that form of sport were given the sccc.nd opportunity of the season to see four picked teams made up of the best ma terial available fight to u finish for a standing In the longue. The Ys, cap tained by Daniels, won from the Cs, captained by Jones, and the Ms, who depend for their leadership on Farga- son, bested Dickey’s team, with the A on their shirt front. The games were at all stages excit ing, and the scores not so bad for the second games of the season. Several men showed evidences of becoming blight stars In the world of bosket ball, among them Farga.syn and Daniels, for their respective teams. The work of tfcmtelM at forward was especially go.wl Dickey and Jones also played great basket ball. Basket ball has taken a hold on the people and there was a good crowd I out to see the games. I Professor Weems is delighted with the showing made by the men ami has high hope** of getting the best big team In the city from the smaller teums. The teams will meet next Saturday night at 8 :15 o'clock* ami. all lovers of the sport are cordially Invited to be present. FLETCHER A CENTURY RIDER. Horace Fletcher, the apostle of long and* steady food chewing, and whose disciples In this country are numbered by thousands, has demonstrated by his prowess on the bicycle that his claim of renewed youth ami endimince Is no myth. Mr. Fletcher a few years ago was much too heavy for comfort, but now has a trim figure and the muscles of an uthlete half his age. He has lately taken up the wheel to work oflf some of his surplus energy. He -has a number of centuries to his credit, and advises the use of the bicycle as the beet all 'round exerciser ever produced. America, with all her motorcycle manufacturer*, still furnishes a field for foreign makers. One importer ex pects to bring over a thousand of one well known model for 1908. By PERCY H. WHITING. This argument ns to which team of the S. I. A. A. is enti tled to the ranking of third is too complicated for us and we pass. Klsewhcre on the pnge is given the letter of a Univer sity of Georgia alumnus, in which a better ranking for Georgia is asked for. We have only one comment to make on that letter and thnt is in regard to the Geor- gia-Clemson game which Air. Colquitt counts in his figures. This game is the one played in Augusta and it was admit ted to be between the scrub teams of the two institutions. The exact conditions were, ns told us, anyhow, that only ono nmn beside the captain who played in the previous game was to be allowed in the Au gusta game. Also it was tac itly understood that the game in Atlanta November 16—the one that the S. I. A. A. kibosh- ed—was the one that was to count. What gives Georgia her star claim to third or fourth honors is the fact that she heat Auburn. Up to the time that happened we had all handed third place to the Alabama team. Because Georgia beat Au burn she has a claim on third place. The fact thnt the Ath ens team tied with Alabama and lost to Tech nnd Tennes see, however, made it impos sible to give Georgia third place. And, anyhow, that position is a mess. Bet us argue about it, though. It fills space and keeps iip the interest. And right now the sport ing pages arc long on space ami short on interest. It is rather surprising to hear thut Augusta wishes to sell her South Atlantic League franchise. That town should be a good place for a baseball team. Why the game has not paid there is a matter of considerable doubt. Here’s hoping that Augus ta changes her mind. And the . Navy heat the Army. That was not especially surprising, even though the odds were against the Mid dies. This victory was pleasing to Southerners for two reasons. In the first place it strength ened Vanderbilt's claims to distinction in the football world—because the Commo dores tied the Navy and would have beaten them with fair officials: and bienuse Hugh Douglass, captain of the Navy team and the man who made the only touchdown of the da*-, is a Southern man and on ex-Tennessee football player. The death of Will Norwood in Annistou, Ala.. Sunday was notable because it was one of the few 'deaths traceable to football which has ever oc curred in this section of the country. Denths and serious injuries to football players have been remarkably infrequent in the South, and it is to be hoped thnt they will continue so. GUNNER MOIR AND TOMMY BURNS WHO FIGHT MONDAY NIGHT. WALTH0UR TEAMS WITH DOWNEY; IS IN TRAINING NOW AT NEWARK New York, Dec. 2.—Bobby Walthour, the American motor-paced champion, signed up yesterday to ride In this year’s six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden, December 8 to 14, with Matt Downey, the sturdy little Boston racer. Although there are going to be some crack teams In the coming strug- gle It I* doubtful If there will be a stronger combination than Walthour and Downey. Downey’s riding In the six-day race during the past two sea sons was of the most brilliant descrip tion. He has been training hard for the contest on the saucer track In the Park Hquare Rink at Boston, and will be able to more than hold up his end of the team. Walthour has entirely recovered from the bad falls which he had In Germany during the season Just closed abroad. Walthour, who In addition to riding In the six-day race, is also billed to meet Darragon In a motor-paced cham. plonship event next Saturday night, took his motors yesterday and went over to Newark to finish training. Downey went back to Boston for the same purpose. A meeting of all the riders who will compete in tho six-day grind will bn called the latter part of next week by the management of the race for the purpose of having the new rules thor oughly explained to the contestants. The officials of the National Cycling Association will also be present, an<l every rider will thus be thoroughly conversant with them, and therefore have absolutely no excuse for foul ris ing. These rules will be enforced In their strictest sense, and any offender Is to be vigorously -dealt with. "WHAT ABOUT GEORGIA’S RANKING?" ASKS AN EX-UNIVERSITY PLAYER Savannah, Ga., Dec. 1, 1907. Mr. Percy Whiting, Sporting Editor The Georgian: Dear Sir—I awaited with much Inter, est your Issue of last Friday, as I want ed to see how you doped out third place In the S. I. A. A. football champion ship. I must say I was surprised to find thut you said Auburn, Clemson and Tech,were hopelessly tied for third place. What about Georgia? Third place Is In a tangle (and yon can’t pick the winner If you argue yourself wrong side out), but certainly Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee have as much of a look In as Auburn, Clem son and Tech. Didn't Georgia beat beth Auburn and Clemson? Didn't both Auburn und Clemson beat Tech? And certainly Alabama and Tennessee have as much right in third place as any other teams. Why give Clemson third place? As far as my knowledge goes, the only team in the 8. I. A. A. which Clemson beat was Tech, and Clemson.- lost to Georgia, Auburn and Tennessee. But In your list of Southern footbalk scores you omit the Georgla-CIemson game and you do not mention the defeat of Tech In Clemson’s list. Let’s take the thing on a percentage basis. Just as we figure out baseball averages. The teams concerned are Vanderbilt. Sewanee,. Alabama, Au burn. Tenenssee, Georgia, Tech and Clemson nnd the percentage of each Is: Vanderbilt. 17 SeWanee 12. 54 Tech 0. Rewnnee 12 Vanderbilt 17. .16 Georgia 0. 18 Tech ft. 12 Auburn 6. 54 Alubama 4. Alabama 5 Tennessee ft. 0 Sewanee 54. 0 Georgia ft 6 Auburn 0. Auburn . » 12 Tech 6. 12 Clemson ft. 6 Alabama 6. 0 Georgia 6. 6 Rewanee 12. Tennessee 4 Clemson 0. 15 Georgia 0. . Lost. Tied. Pc. 0 0 1.0Q0 F. G. Byrd Wins Trawick Tourney F. G. Byrd, golf champion of At lama, annexed another cup Saturday afternoon when he defeated P. Thorn ton Marye In the finals of the Trawick cup tournamint and captured the hand some Trawick cup. The score was 5 up and 4 to go. The tournament was a cinch for Byrd from the start. His only close match was furnished by Fulton Col ville. who made the champion extend himself considerably. In addition to .the Trawick tourna ment and the club championship, Byrd won the championship junior cup In the Southern Golf championship, held In Atlanta In the spring. CENTURY ROAD "cLUB~C*OMPETI TION. This has been a busy year for the Century Club of America, as the rec ords of that organization show that 364 centuries have been ridden by Its members, who had, up to November 1, 59,920 miles to their credit. Ernest G. Krupe and his brother, Harold, stand first and second, respectively, on this year's roll, and the others line up In the national competition as follows: 3, J. W. Hedden, Brooklyn; 4, Joe Noe, Jersey City; 5. F. I. Perreault. Malden, Mass.; 6, W. L. Cummings, Brooklyn; 7, Fred E. Mortimer, New York city; 8, A. D. Rh*e, Winthrop, Mass-.; 9, An drew Clausen. Chicago; 10, A. K. See ley, New York city; li, Fred H. Peter son, Newark, N. J.; 12, F. 8. Floyd, jNASHVILLE BANNER’S; lALL-SOUTHERN TEAM.; Various people have various Ideas about various things. In proof of this The Georgian here presents the All-Southern teams as picked by The Nashville Banner: First Team. Player. College. “Stein" Stone, c Vanderbilt SherriU. rg Vanderbilt Faulklnberry, ig Sewanee W. Evans, rt Sewanee "Lex” Stone, it Sewanee Bob Blake (capt.), re Vanderbilt Lewis, le Sewanee Costen. q. .: .. . Vanderbilt Craig, rh Vanderbilt Lanier, 111 Sewanee Mnrkeley, f. Sewanee 8econd Team. Player. College. T. Evans, c .. Sewanee Dougherty, rg Tennessee Burks, lg ., Alabama Davis, rt Tech Word, it Tennessee Williams, re Sewanee V. Blake (capt.), le Vanderbilt Barrett, q. .. Sewanee Campbell. Ih Vanderbilt Shipp, rh Sewanee Hughes, f Auburn 4 Tech 6. o Alabama 5. Georgia 2 3 0 .400 G Auburn 0. 8 Clemson 0. 0 Tennessee 13. 6 Tech 10. 0 Sewanee 16. Tech 2 4 0 .333 6 Tennessee 4. 10 Georgia 6. 0 Vanderbilt 54. 5 Clemson 6. 6 Auburn 12. 0 Sewanee 18. Clemson 1 3 0 -250 6 Tech 5. 0 Georgia 8. 0 Auburn 12. 0 Tennessee 4. 1 do not claim third place for Geor gia, but surely Georgia has more of a look in than Clemson, whom she defeat- ed, and Clemson beat Tech; Auburn beat Tech and Georgia beat both Clem son nnd Auburn. On Thanksgiving morning I was ready to concede Au burn third place In the 8. I. A. A., but the next day-*-oh, what a difference in the morning! Yours truly, NEYLE COLQUITT. Georgia, ’98. H. Douglas Wins .For Navy Bunch Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 2.—When Cap tain Hugh Douglas, by a supreme ef fort on his part and that of his team mates, sent the ball across the Army * goal line here Saturday afternoon, he won a spectacular and bitterly contest ed game for the Navy team. The battle was one of the best ever played between the two teams, and throughout the Navy team had a shad« the best of It. The score was 6 to 0. ONE PERFECT DAY IN SPITE OF COLD Winthrop, Mass.: 13. Henry Kent, New- York city; 14, Harry B. Hall, Brook lyn; 16, F. J. Blecho, Brooklyn. The leader in the mileage contest is J. W. Hedden, of Brooklyn, with Ernest Grupe, of the same city. The other riders, in artier, follow: Joe Noe, H. B. Grupe, F. L Perreault, T. W. Davis, Peoria. III.; A. H. Seeley, F. IL Peter- Dccembcr marked Its arrival Sunday with a perfect day. From a portent of rain or mayhap anon, ic clouds iwtssed. bringing the dear sun .shine to make perfect the crispness of the * air. And It brought Atfuntnns out In fore** j to enjoy the flay. The ehnrchet were ah i filled to capacity nt the morning services. So gusty winds blew during the afternoon I to mar the pleasure of a stroll, and to** principal tlion ugbfnres were crowded with (people out to take the brae* of the pure air. Along the shopping streets hundreds ttrolleu ■lowly to see the holiday decked window*. Many went out ot» mihurlmn Hues to enjoy the woods. Autos and carriages were out In force. Altogether It waa a day for rsrs enjoyment. •on, F. E. Mommer, Henry Kest. Nob- ell O. Parboil, Lake Geneva, Wla; Hen ry H. Wheeler, Pomona, Cal.; A. Mon- xoltllo. Hlcksvllle, N. Y., and C. E. M- lander, New York city.