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SPORTING PAGE MAJOR SPORTS ARE DEAD-- MiNOR ONES FLOURISH I 1 EDITED BY P. H. WHITING NO ANSWER FOR AWHILE Clark Griffith Can’t Even! Tell How Yanks Will Line Up. New York. Poo. 5.—If you mo tell bow the Yankee* will line tip next spring In the opening game of the aeaaon you hnre Mr. Clark Griffith bent a long waya. He doean't pretend to kuow. He baa Nile* and Ktahl, both lofleldera that were not wltb the Tanka laat year. Then again. It la not at all certain that Elberfcld will l»e with the Yanka next year. Oti top of thin come* many rumora from the Went about flradley and Periiog, the Cleveland Infleldera. Although Griffith hna aald that Ktahl will be with the Yanka when the bell rlnga next apring, It muat not be taken for granted that everything will be Jnat na Griff aaya. Lajole la very aweet on Ktahl, and Cftahl, we might truthfully any. la very aweet on Cleveland. Now, that being tho mao, what 1* going to prevent a dealt LajolA mgkea SAVANNAH Lotta Crabtree’s String Will Soon Be Shipped to the South. W. A. JAMES. Here \ia an ex-Washington and Jefferson twirler who has been picked up by McQraw for a trial with the Giants. desire to land Ktahl ■KM land no use fe Then comes the’question of where will Bradley play If he becomes a Yankee? At Jblrd base, of course. If not there, he could be uned at short; this provided, of course, that Klberfeld leaves ua. »"!fe It the other way. With Conroy flradley at ahort, Nile* at aecoud ", j **■•? jo gnard flr*t appeara like a mixed up Infleld, Imt no one will deny th*t, playing together, this would make a mighty strong combination. G. W. Leavitt recently aecured the breed Ing qualities of four blgb-clnaa mares from O. & C. P. Cecil, of Danville. Ky. They Jeanette Cedi, 2:14^4. by Gamtiettn Wilkes, dam Jeannle C.'2:22; her full sister, Julia C{ Credetta. 2:2GV4, by Goiubetta Wilkes, dam Crcdltlon, 2:22U. the dam of five, and May Bret. 2:l’CV4i, a full slater of llyoletj, 2:06«4. All will Im bred to Cochato, _.»rry Cahill, a famous athlete, wjll quit Harvard to anter 1'ennaylvanla next spring. [not NEWS, BUT VIEWS By PERCY H. WHITING. Tf the owners of Georgia preparatory achools are satisfied with the condition of prep school athletics in the state we sup pose the public ought to be. Hut is anybody satisfied with it t Here is what looks wrong: Gordon was forced to play colleges because no prep schools would tackle her. Stone Mountain would not\play Gordon and could not get games with local schools. Donald Fraser and G. M. A. played so few games that it was hardly worth calling it n football season. And in several teams in the state men were played who ought not to be eligible under such rules ns should be in force. A month or more ago there was talk of a meeting between representatives of Gordon, Stone Mountuin nnd G. M. A. to see if it wns not possible to get together on sotne basis and play games in the future. This meeting is now about line and should not be overlooked. ( Each team will have to give up some cherished notions in order to accomplish a compromise that will be satisfactory to all. Gordon mny have to accept some rulo that will out, out men in her senior class or accept some rule she does not like cutting down the length of time she shall be allowed to play her men. Stone Mountain may have to swallow some hitter pills, though wc forget right liow what kick the U. S, B. has coming. G. M. A. will have to dispense with her pet rules that her teams shall not play off the street ear lines. If the representatives get together with a determination not to recede from a single point then there will be only another Bplit. But they can come together nnd stay together if they want to. ' ► It is not miy of our business, especially; and probably we shall continue to get out the sporting jingo ns usual whether the preps play according to our notions or not. But prep school athletics in Gcorgin euu l>e made, nnd should be made, a big thing. And to do it the tennis wilj have to get to gether and piny games. The tiest you can say of .the past prep senson whs that it was n fnroo, Now what Hre you going to do about itf Our old friend (’apt. E. .1. Williams, he whom Grant Rice al leges is a “calamity howler” (the which the captain denies), is with us again by mail if not in person. In n communication to a local paper lie asks for the reforma tion of the “iniquitous” curd syateni and takes a gentle jab at the recent investigation of the S. I. A. A. We ean’t quite agree with him that the card system is alto gether baci We believe that it has its good points. We do think, however, that the S.'I. A. A. at its coming meeting ought to provide for close faculty supervision nnd entire facility respon sibility for all “card system” arrangements. In fact, “faculty responsibility” in all things athletic is the tendency now. Make the responsible men responsible. It will do a lot of these pedagogical gents good to get their noses out of books and into the fresh air aud by the same token it may do a lot toward keeping the athletic nir fresh. We said yesterday that wc had not heard from Walter Camp on the forward pass. And we hadn’t. But we did a few hours after we wrote the dope-in question aud here is .what he said: (From The New York Sun.) "When the new rules were first Introduced two years ago there were mauy who contended that It was too much to require of any team that they should gain ten yards In three downs, and the prediction was that ‘no score' games would put 'ap end to the ten-yard rnle In short order. The contrary has proved true, and already there are those who would like to see the forward paaa more restricted, relying upon It as It was a year ago. or even ellmlnstlng It altogether and keeping the onslde kick and ten-yard , rule. ' ■ "What was needed In the game was primarily to. lessen the value of possession of the ball, aud this tho ten-yard rule achieved. With Its Introduction there went out all the close . hammering mass plays, which were good for two or three yards on a down, but no more. The American collegian, whether player or spectator, does not care for a game In which the element of chance Is paramount. He likes to see or play a game where bard work counts and a game where deflnltc planning secures a well appreciated result. For this reason he does not care for the unlimited forward pass, which can now be tried without severe penalty on first and second downs. "Throwing the ball around Indiscriminately may be the last resort of a weak or Inferior team and as such la unsatisfactory. In other respects like the separation of the line of scrimmage nnd the Improvement in the general conduct and spirit of tho play, the rules have fu.'Jy justified themselves and have rendered the game more popular than ever." SarsiiMb, Os., Dec. S.—Lotta Cr»btrei-'» famous string of grand clrcatt campaigner* will winter In tbla city as nnunl. Jack Crabtree Ultra It here very much, tho weatb. or la no generally pleasant, lln bellerr* that neat spring the stable will be shipped from Savannah to tha Poughkeepsie travlt for the flnlahlng tenches. He says that no place In the country equals Poughkeepsie for getting horses ready for the grand cir cuit. "There Is little use In owning race horse* now with any Idea of their paylr themselves In the bettlug." declared I "As this laat season, ror crumple, liettlng there was In the grand cirri not amount to anything. It waa pretty ■rood liettlng at Detroit, nothing at Clrvr land, hat the boye got a rhnnre at nulfulo and Poughkeepsie, and still they didn't turn Ide orer themselves In buying inn,la. Ol course there waa no betting nt lli-adrllle, Providence or Hartford, nnd there might no welt not have been at Syrnetne, as II la outside the grounds, and few will I,other with It. What money a trotter or rarer con net now, to be prolltable, must come from the Ida stake races." Frank Smith, imimiger of thn Crabtree Ntrlug. deelnres that after the Columbus nnd 1-exlngtnn meetings Hoiioina Ulrl wns In such gin*! condition thut no trotter lit the world would hnre had n rhnnre ngulust her In a race. She waa on her bail liehuvlor In the Jllue Hill, MnasaeUnsetts nnd Charter Oak atakrs. Had ahe captured them the amount of her winnings, with wlint she earned Inter, would nearly huve made up the 128,000 she cost Miss Ultra CrnhtVee. Assoelstlon of Trotting l old liosrd of flfty dlreetors with the Addition of H, Walton, of Vlrglhla, null J. C. Kirkpatrick, of California. Melra J, by Peter the Orest, out of nn Arlott mare, goes Into Walter (.'ox's itnlile. She waa ronnied the best 3.year-old at Johnson farm nnd nugh Milan la certain he could hnre driven her In 2:10 hud she been kept In trnlulD# W. E. Slekes has offered to Count Varon- aoo Dnakow, minister of state to the exar, nny of Hie get of Peter the llreat. 2:07 1 i, for the use of the liusslnn guv'eminent. In return for courtesies extended to him dur ing his trip to St. Petersburg. Bnrncy Demurest has the smallest horse III the world. It Is a t-yenr old stallion, standing 27(4 Inches nnd weighs 47 jhiuiuIm. This freak waa lired In Oregon nnd was sired by n lSOO-poiiml horse out of n 1260- pound mure. It weighed seven iiounds when foaled. BILL DONOVAN. “Wild Bill" led the American League pitchers and made a new- record by winning 25 and tlelng one'game out of SO. GEORGIA JUNIORS DEFEATED “College” Team Polishes Them in First Game, 10 to 0. Special to Tho Georgian. Athena, Gn., Dec. 5.—The Juniors were defeated yesterday afternoon by the College team, the score being 10 to 0.- The College team \Vas composed of players selected from all the classes LEAGUE DIRECTORS TO MEET DEC. 13 The annual meeting of the directors of the Southern League will be held Friday, December 1.1, at the Piedmont hotel. At thla meeting will be considered all protested games coming over from lu*t year. Aa usuul, It will be an executive session. Hilly Smith believes that our <ilil friend, the Cleveland t*11111, will not piny the game* in Atlanta thia year. They wanted March 28 and 39, hut Smith had already closed with the world'* chain- pinna for tho«e date*. He yffered them other*, Imt they did net Sftm t<* veet with the upprovhl of Secretary “ilsmey" H«»r- iiard, nnd Atlanta ho* evidently been punned Ju«t when the New York team will report In Atlnnta for practice will not lie known for the prevent. Probably It will lie about March I. The Yankee* (lid not get all the game* they wanted In Atlanta hint year, and proliably they will n*k for at least ten next apring. it la>g|n* to look na though Clark Griffith would carry Rd Sweeney a* a regular next year. In him lie would have a mail who lind worked with C'antletou aud Zeller mid a man who promises to be a wonderful catcher. Kveeiiey will hardly be any phenomenon next year, but a nci'.von In the big league* ought to make him a* good a* any of them —an good an any 21-year-old man, nnyhow. Hilly Xiulth In Ilobert Spade, net likely to s* limiting , good with Cincinnati, er Smith hopes to fold. . . any Clan* A club. He In a grent pitcher after the weather warm* up, a good batter at all tinicn. and he can come nearer making lilmm If getter- the oiittleld, beenune he fly or ground Imlls—and ho can hit. a« fa’ FORTOLEDO Manager Armour Will Carry That Many to Chatta nooga Next Spring. Toledo, Ohio. Dec. 5.—Manager Ar- moyr ha* announced that he will take thirty-seven players to Chattanooga to train, and that the list will include a couple of crack major league Inflelders. Armour also gave out that he had drafted Bob Coyle, catcher, and Lloyd, pitcher, from the Virginia League, and purchased M. II. Vance, twirler, from Houston, in the Texas circuit, and drafted Less I a. an outfielder from Mad. son, of the Wisconsin State League. other than “naughty nine.'* The game was hotly contested. En thusiasm ran high. A great deal of fun wa* had at the expense of the proud and ooaatful Juniors, who, by their challenge, had lined themselves up against the rest of the college, and who, after tho game, were a very disgrun tled lot. With seven out of the eleven ’varsity regulars, they had been confi dent of victory. Kyle Smith, for the College, starred with a DO-yard run. Boat wick and Newsome did well for the Juniors. Hugh Gordon acted aa referee and John Welch as umpire. Twenty-min ute halves were played. This waa the first of a unique series of football games, three In number, in which a team chosen from the Junior class will line up against nn eleven selected .from all the other classes of the college. The second game will be played on Monday next, and the third cn the following Wednesday. The Idea originated with an Ingenious Junior, who, on looking over the list of ’varsity names, noticed that seven bf the eleven regular.) are members of his class. A challenge was then issued In which the gage of battle was flung down to “any football team composed of Georgia ‘students not belonging to tho class of ’09.’* This attitude of overweening self- confidence aroused the Ire and pride of those who, despite the possession of football souls, are outside the Junior pale. Kyle Smith, ’varsity captain, ac cepted the challenge, after having got* ten together a powerful aggregation. The game was well played. The teams were composed of men who know the gridiron sport, and who pluyed It for all there was In It, Following was the line-up; Juniors. College. Lucas, c Johnson, «\ Harman, rg Collier, rg. Arrendaie, Ig Rower, Ig. McWhorter, rt McDonald, rt. DeLaperrlcre, It Grace, It. Napier, re. Hatcher, C„ re. Thurman, 1c Hatcher. 8., le. Scott, q ' Woodruff, q, Newsome, rh Smith, rh. Hodgson, Ih Cox, 111. Bostwlck, fb Fleming, fb. TO ATLANTA Montgomery’s Manager To Be Here For League Meeting. ! Special to The QiidMin. ( Montgomery, Ala., Dee. 6.—President R. J. Chambers announces that Jimmy Ryan. Montgomery's new baseball manager, will arrive In the city Just after the league meeting In Atlanta on December 14. Ryan will go to Atlanta direct frdm Chicago and then come litre. It le expected he will have much valuable information to give out. ~aiiaii7*io*N>*>i mmi~ “KID” SUMMERS. Here la a youngster who has been doing eoi.:c good fighting whenever the chance offered. He la a fulr second rater. At the,Few York horie xhow In clew* for horses not exceeding 152 hand, the I hackney* won nine blue ribbon* ua ngiilutt ‘ ten for the trotting bred high stepperx. In the elaxies for larger horse* the trotting bred goer* carried off fourteen first prims to four for the hackneys. Tommy Ryan say* he will re-enter the ring and \vould like to "hitch up” with either Billy Papke of Hugo Kelly. PRESIDENT’S SALARY EQUALED BY FOUR CROOKED JOCKEYS By J. S. A. MACDONALD. San Francisco, Cal.,'Dec. G.-—A man who bet big mon6y and played a strong hand In the betting ring game of the past summer around' New York arrived on the sco^ne jecenjly. TWs man ought to know whereof ( he, speaks. He says’ he knows’four of the leading riders of the year who each took a rake-off of over 950,006; In salary and riding fees from extra outside mounts, any one of this quar tet could not have earned 'legitimate!) more than $20,000. Arises. naturally. the question, “Where did they get It?” What a revelation of graft and In trigue would result from an uncover ing of the story of metropolitan racing during the past season? The above reference to the Jockey graft Is only a straw showing the way the wind blows. Some day a real big scandal will’crop up and then the great face track ar my will know how It has been cheated and victimised by a few manipulators among tho bookmakers and their jockey connections, for In no other way than through a frame-up with the betting ring could a Jockey earn $30,000 In a single season. “I would rather have a good ‘mana ger’ than an ability to ride best,” Is the way an old-time race-riding pirate put It recently. There were four riders at least who quit riding nt Aqueduct way i far better winner In actual money than JIttle Miller. According to the afore mentioned big man of the turf the /prbper way for a race-rider breaking into the New York game Is to get a “manager’* familiar with the lay of the ground- Some.day a heavy player may need a. horse “held off” In a race, or stllj an extensively operating bookma ker mav care for .some particular horse being “dead." A smart “manager” may serve as the “go-between,” a bargain meaning as much money to ttje'Vlder as he would earn In half a season'* work* To pull a horse for a bookmaker 1* the crudest of all tricks, In fact It I* rarely resorted to In order to bring home the coin. For three seasonspas; 4 the Jockey “managers” have made most of their graft from having their Jock eys “lay up" horses one day to come back later and win with a long price In the market and strong betting con nections aboard the medium. To pull a horse for a bookmaker Is extremely dangerous because of the direct reflex of the trick in the ring, and It Is a coarse play savoring of the bushwh.'tck- Ing days of *66. Itellemont. flic daughter of Zonihro Bolt Smith, raced nt Colunilm* and Lexington, won nt Phoenix, trotting to a record of 2:0914 in the third beat. A feature of the recent big trottlnu ■*!*•* wns the absence of John II, obnlt* from the ranks of buyer*. For u dozen yeur* he has been nearly always the hfiivleitt buyer. Imt, strange to any, he bn* not been ml**ed. fUNEQUALED RANGE OFFff Invaluable In | l* a safe man on especially bccuunc Manager Smith will noon open up com munication* with Cincinnati to see If he enn not get the lied* for gnme* on other date* in nddltiou to March 23 and 26. He figure* ih.'it they should prove a good draw ing card, especially :ig t'askert and Spade i CAN LICK BURNS” SAYS TOM SHARKEY By TAD. New York, Dee. 5.—A bunch of sports dropped Into Tom Sharkey'* benzine em porium Inst night on the Hue de Fourteenth, an{l started to Utd the ex-tar on Tommy Hum* and hi* claim to the heavyweight championship. Tom listened for a while, chewed up about foui* black pill* nnd when he got steam up. let fly with both barrels. “No, he couldn’t lick me right % uow." yelled Tom. with fire In hi* light blue eye*. “He** u fourth-rater, na I said four month* ago. What'* a win over Sou I re* and Molr mean? Why. I licked fellow* like that every week when 1 waa In the navy. These Kngflidiiueii don't know anything atmut fighting than an Eskimo doe* about bridge igbttl •rblst. “Didn't Kid McCoy go over there a %-w nennon* ago and knock everything they had there silly In a few puuche*? Didn’t Jack i o'Hrlcn do the *aiue? Didn't Johusou clean up the Australian In fifteen minute*? What did Molr or. Squlr#?* ever, do? lln* Burn* beaten a good man yet? Twice he' went the limit wild O’Uileu. Jack lllvau beat him: he went the limit with Schreek, Hugo Kelly. Marvin Hart aiul Dave Harry. These j two Kngil*h dub* arc the only one* he ever Beat. "lil bet him $10,009 tbnt I cau liont him. ami If he think* be can lick me, 1**1 him put up. All 1 want I* four mouth* train ing. with Tom O'lbairke to handle me and • Tim McGrath to help out, and I'll give that. Canadian a trinnnfn* such a* he never' drottmod of, “I me«n It.'*' piped the sailor, throwing , out that terrible chest and flashing lit* eye* around the bntuii. . j “Why. iiu? bleu bf till* fourth-rater lelng! the champion of the world! “Do t think Johnson will beat htiu? Oh, i yea; he'll cut hlin to ilblmti*. That's a bud 1 fellow, that Johnson. He .will beat any of them, but then I don’t think It’s much to beat Burn*.” WILL JOLT RECORDS AT COMING ORMOND BEACH RACES We’ll take your old stove, or range, or gas stovo as part pay ment on one of our fine “New Eagle” Steel Ranges, at a fair valuation, say $5 or $10, or even more, ac cording to worth. This saves throwing away, or giving away your old stove, and enables you to save $5 or $10, and get an “Eagle” without in vesting a cent at time of purchase. Phono 744 and we will send a man out to see your stove. The New “Eagle” Steel Range. 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