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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER, 24, 1DGC.
EOITED BY
PERCY H. WHITING
FOOTBALL FLOURISHES
TWO OF WORLD’S GREATEST BILLIARD PLAYERS
The scores follow:
EIGHTEEN BIG GAMES IN
NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS
Eighteen games will be played by the
. prominent Southern college teams be
tween now and the night of Saturday
after next, November 3.
JCot over one or two of these games
• are likely to have any bearing on the
championship race In the Middle South,
but a number of them are slated to
furnish lots of fine excitement.
The Vanderbllt-Texas game might
possibly change the complexion of the
- race quite a bit, but Vanderbilt seems
J to have been enameled on and It Is
I doubtful If the Long Homs cnn do any
I damage to either the complexion or
the reputation of the Commodores. Jr
Coach Dan McGugan's team had to go
to Austin for the game things might
; be different, but it takes a stretch of
imagination to believe that the Lone
Star aggregation can travel to Nash
ville, meet Vanderbilt on Dudley field
and get away with It.
The Aubum-8ewanee game next
) Saturday might upset several large
bundles of prepared dope, but we think
not. Sewanee should win the game.
According to the time card, via the
Maryville route. Sewanee is about three
touchdowns better than Auburn (thus:
Maryville tied Tech, Sewanee beat
; Tech three touchdowns and Maryville
f tied Auburn). Wouldn't this dope stuff
make you dizzy?
In fact, those who wait around to
see championship battles In the South
will presumably wait until Vanderbilt
and Sewanee meet on Thanksgiving
i day —and there Is no real need bf wait
ing that long, for we’ll pipe It off right
; here and now that-barring the ap
pearance of plague of yellow fever In
the Vanderbilt squad—the town of
Nashville will he pA|nted a bright gold,
with a few touches of black on the
night of November 29.
This may be a bum steer, but we’ll
risk our repututlon as a dopester on It.
on It.
Thursday's game at Columbia be
tween North Carolina A. & M. and
i Clemson ought to be a ripping contest.
1 Poor old Clemson Is pretty well stove
j up, and according to Coach Williams
, the team looks like a gulf coast har-
, bor after a hurricane. Hut for all that
the plucky South Carolina Tigers can
be counted on to put up a good game.
ATLANTA’S BIG GAME.
The Tech-Davidson game promises
to rank right along with any of the
, Saturday affairs. The fact that Da-
‘ vldson could tie North Carolina and
; beat Georgia 15 to 0 seems pretty good
j evidence that she is there with the
: football team, and the game ought to
’ be a hustler. Tech should win, but It
, will be a battle worth seeing.
North Carolina A. & M. will no doubt
furnish Georgia a good contest, but
{the Athens Institution of learnllng and
• football ought to come away with tho
| long end. The Georgia team Is 1m-
. proving slowly but surely, and will no
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0 Tennessee vs. Mississippi, at 0
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0 Knoxville. 0
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doubt do well during tho remainder of
the season.
The Maryville-Dahlonega game Is an
other which will be fast and fierce.
The Tennesseeans seem to have a
shade the better of It, but Coach Craw
ford’s men can be counted on to. do
some playing.
Of the games November 3 the Tech-
Auburn game is easily the headliner in
the South. The Georgia-Mercer game
will attract plenty of attention locally
and the Tenncssee-Sewanee game will
be the big doings in Tennessee.
MICHIGAN INVA8ION.
The Vanderbilt team makes Its sec
ond debut in Ann Arbor that day, when
it tackles the University of Michigan
team. Last year McGugln’s men
showed well against the sturdy Michi
ganders. and were defeated by the com
paratively narrow margin of 18 to 0.
This showing Is the best any S. I. A. A.
team ever made against any Northern
team. This year Vanderbilt seems to
be nearly as strong as last year, while
Michigan Is apparently much weaker.
All Southorn football enthusiasts
will watch this game with tho deepest
Interest.
November 3, 10 and 17 will he the
big Saturdays of the football year. Aft
er the 17th tho teams will mostly be
gin to rpst up for tho final struggles
on Thanksgiving day.
TEXAS TEAM PROMISES TO
GIVE VANDERBILT A RUB
Hporlal to The Georgian.
Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 24.—The heavy
team of the Unlveralty of Texaa, which
met defeat at the hands of Vanderbilt
last fall by a score of 34 to 0, is com
ing up this year to mop up with the
Commodores, so they say. The follow
ing message has been received In
Nashville from .Manager F. E. Lump
kin. of the Texas team:
"Texas leaves Wednesday. Will have
eighteen men. Beach Nashville Friday
morning. Average weight 170 pounds.
In good trim, well coached, fast. Would
put up strong winning games. Prac
tically all of last year's team, with
some fine new material. Hlx "ten-sec
ond men,” nine strong backs, fast.
Texas expects to win."
Vanderbilt meets Texas next Satur
day on Dudley held. In the game last
season Texas brought eighteen men
and had to play them all, as they were
considerably battered up when the
game had finished. Vanderbilt
counting this as one of her hardest
games, as the Texas team Is always
an unknown quantity.
Thomas Lawson 9 s Horses
Will Be Sold at Auction
After •ponding much more than $1,000,000
Id his meteoric caNicr as a breeder of tine
' harness horses, Thomas W. Ijiwson has
consigned sJJ Ms trotters to tho FsaJjp
Tipton sale, which follow* the horse show
at Madison Kquaro garden, and will. It la
•aid. wind np his amateur breeding Interests
I at Drenmwold. Not only his trotters, but
! his select stud of carriage horses. hU prize-
winning dogs, and. In fact, all live stock
j at the splendidly Improved country sstatu
I Id Massachusetts will go under the bam
mer.
As breeder, turfman and exhibitor. Mr.
Lawson wan -for several years otye of the
moat conspicuous figures ever seen In the
' horse world. Ills spwrtacuinr entrance lulo
l the limelight was made Itt 1&99, when he
1 paid « sensational price for the 3-year-
old trotter, Doralina, on the eve of the
\ Kentucky Futurity, and won him out by
backing him to win that 'classic colt race
at Islington. Encouraged by hfs success.
Mr. ImwNon set out to assemble n select
■table of harness horses, and for n time
he was the most liberal buyer of trotters
, In the country. He was said to have paid
j C. J. Ilmnllu $50,000 for Daredevil, 2.09 1 *.
i Cagwn, 2:13*4, one of •’Doc’’ Tanner's
• “highly polished gold bricks,'* ns tho Itoston
. plunger aptly described him, was hsndud
. to him at a long price, and he added
' many other fust horses to his String. Ilut
he never obtained another Boralttut.
Iu 1900. Mr. litwson locked horns with E.
E. 8mathcrs, of whom the late Frank Her-
dlc said, ’'lb* would bet more money on
an even thing thnu any other man that
j ever followed the trottera." It was at
! Lexlngtou. on the V eve of the race for
the Transylvania stakes. In which Mr. Law-
•on’s, Boralma and Mr. Sinnthers’ Lord
| Derby were starters. The pool selling wax
ed warm at the Phoenix hotel, oud the
climax was reached when the owner of
Lord Derby bid $20,000 for “the field and
sell Boralma." “Jock" Roach, who was
tbeu Mr. Lawson's betting commissioner,
; did not respond on behalf of the Boston
trotter. Dora linn won the race.
It was In the following year that Mr.
Lawson set the horse world astir by offer-
log to match Boralma agalurn The Abbot.
Lord Derby or Creaeeas for $100,000 s side.
The match was not made, but In 19v_* the
owuer of Boralma backed him to beat
Lord Derby In the largest match nice on
record. The stakes were $20,000 n able. Soon
>,000 more, but the
At Hartford, on
August 2, 1902, the'race was trotted. Bo
ralma met his Waterloo uml ended his
turf career. Boon afterward his owner’s
turf career ended.
Mr. Lawson then turned Itls attention to
breeding trotters and trotting bred car
riage horses. He established DrenmwoM,
on the bleak hills overlooking Massachu-
uinds
_ .. dollars
ernes* Into a model stock ......
raleil In all the world In Its appoint-
utetttt. Ills select tou* at breeding stock
were made with far better Judgment thnn
had characterised his purchases tor turf
purposes. Whnt the fate Marcus Daly's
select stud was dispersed, ho bought the
pick of the brood mares and some of tho
best stnllluns aud young things.
Before be became prominent ns an owner
of trotters, Mr. laiwsou achieved unusual
success us an exhibitor at the horse shows.
In 1898. he wou prises at Madison Hutinre
garden with Glorious, Glorluua, Gorgeous,
aud some other tine hurnesa aud sadillu
horses. Three years later, he had the
strongest stable of cnrrlage horses In the
country. Ills string Including the matchless
stallion Hod Cloud, for which, after that
horse won the Wnlfdorf-Astorla cup. he
paid W. I* Klklua $10,000; the Invincible
pony stallion Glorious flouufe; a park four-
In hand, coating $32,000, nml tunny other
equine stars. Thunder Cloud, one of Mr.
Lawson's carriage horses, was selected end
purchased by the I 'lilted Htntes govern
ment to head tho experimental breeding
stud established In Colorado a few years
ago by the depsrtiueiit of agriculture. Bed
Cloud mid other flue stallions and mnres
In the string were relegated to the stud of
Dreamwold when Mr. Lawson retired from
the show ring and gave his attention to
REVIEWS OF A WOLVERINE •
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I wandered to Ann Arbor, Tom; I went the other day;
1 strolled out to the football held to see the squad at play.
But few were there to greet me. Tom, and few were left to know,
That played with us upon the team Just two ahort years ago.
I saw Yost coaching ns of old, the same old Yost, ’tla true:
But not the same old line-up, Tom, that wore the ninlac and blue,
And like some wild tornado turned nlooso upon the foe.
They rolled up 60 points u game, a few short years ago.
I saw the scrub team hold 'em, Tom. and then ray thoughts turned back;
I_snw ^th© shade of Heston, ns he led the old nttiu-Ji.
. saw tho Wolverine
McGiilgiu, Ilnuiinoiid,
Ah, things were very different, Tom,
a vision looming faintly through the
.- machine of happy, bygone days—
d, Itelnschlld. with Sweeley, White
left to lift on high tho innlxe aud blue.
y not win bis battle when he tackles I’eiiu—but, oh,
ne'd drawn a crack at them, Just two short years ago.
—Gruntlund Hire In Cleveland News.
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! DISCLAIMER FROM
GRANT’S MANAGER
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The morning following the Tech-
Grant University game there appeared
on account of the game In The Chatta
nooga Times, In which the writer criti
cised neverely the officials, and espe
cially Joe Beene, assistant coach at
Tech, who acted as one of the officials
In this game.
In an unsolicited letter written by
tho manager of the Grant team he dis
claims responsibility for the attack.
The letter to Beene-is na follows:
“Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 18, 1906.
"Mr. Jodie Beene, Atlanta, Oa.:
“Dear Sir—I suppose you and your
men saw the publication In The Chat
tanooga Times Sunday morning con
cerning the football game between
Tech und Grant.
"No one from our school authorized
... them to publish such a statement, It
the closing oiri sale. BornJum alone is to (being unkind both to Tech and Grant.
*' * * j There was nothing whatsoever
prompt them to publish that.
"Tech's boys played a fair game from
start to finish. They were especially
kind to us when we asked for time.
"Please show this to the manager
and also the members of the team.
"I sincerely hope you will have
successful season In football.
"Fraternally yours,
"WAYNE T. ROBINSON,
"Manager/
advance copy of schedule, announces thnt
he has "got the worst of It." (N. B.—You
can't go wrong on this story. There has
beeu no variation lu it for five years.)
February 15.—Birmingham papers re-es
tablish sporting pages, appoint the office
boy to write baseball, it ml remember that
they wou a peunant back in 1206.
February 18—Good time for general story
about team, with prediction that It will
win the pennant. (This Is sufficiently far
enough distant from the following Septem
ber 15 so that tho prophecy will be forgot
ten.)
The photo on the left shows George Sutton, who recently defeated
George Slosson in an exciting billiard match. The photograph on the left
is of 8loston. *
Sad Wail of “J. Joknsing, 99
The Pug Without a Fight
Arthur Johuson has written the following
letter to Tad;
"Philadelphia, October 22, 1906.—Dear Tad:
Just a few Hues to let you know that 1
nm wandering around Philadelphia without
anything to do hut draw my breath. Like
that man. Mr. Barkis, that Dickens wrote
about, 'I’m wlllln,* * but no one seems to
want me.
"Can you tell me whnt Is the matter with
these home-uinde champions?
"I’m very tired of seeing these so-called
champions posing around saloons. You wnlk
In some Joint and there Is n big strap
ping fellow making his arm swell so that
the rummy with him cnn feel It.
"The fighters say, ‘No one will fight me.
O’Brien Is afraid of me. Burns? I knock
ed him out In private. He won’t fight,
either. The day I knocked him cold, they
had to get a doctor to bring him to.’
" 'Well/ says the guy, ’bow. about Ar
thur Johusou?’
“Then the fighters say, 'Johnson? lie
never licked any one. The ouly tlitug he
can beat is carpets/
"Now, Tad, yon know I’d give most of
the money to aDy of these fellows to get
them Into a ring. I'm hungry to grab one.
I’d rather fight one of these heavies than
eat one of them old meals that Henry
Johnson used to feed his little son Arthur
down in Galveston, Tex. 1 have SnlloV
Burke with me uow, and he looks to bs
a good boy.
“I am doing light training, and expect to
fight up the state soon, but they haven't
found any one for me yet. Remember me
kindly to O'Brien and Berger. Your little
friend, J. ARTHUR JOHNSON."
KNOCK-DOWNS AND DRAG-OUTS
New York, Oct. 23.—Illg Jack Johnson
seems to he held In high esteem by the
different heavyweights. Sam Fitzpatrick,
who has taken holj} of Johnson, has sent
challenges to all the heavies, but they
refuse to fight. The ouly man who did
accept was Joe Jeanette, and he Is still
awaiting a reply. The Nqtlonnl Athletic
Club, of Philadelphia, Is wllllug to hang
up n good purse for n bout between John
son aud some other good mun.
Iloney Mellody, of Boston, declares ho Is
through with Joe Walcott, and will not
meet him ngnlu. Mlah Murray, luutehumker
of the Lincoln club, of Chelsea, tried to
rematch the men, but Mellody wss not
agreeable. Ho says the next bout he would
like to take part In would bo with either
Mike (Twin) Sullivan or Sailor Burke, of
Brooklyn.
Gilbert Whltely, the Philadelphia sport
ing man, has unearthed n new "champion,"
whom he exacts will clean up nil the wel
terweights. Ills man Is "Sullor" Brynn,
and Whltely claims his mau has been go
ing grandly In private. He would like to
match the "Haflor" against Joe Walcott be
fore any club that will offer' u suitable
purse. *
Mike Wnrd, the Canadian fighter, has
GREAT DOINGS
AT LAKEWOOD
LOCAL MEN ARE GETTING READY
FOR BIG EXHIBITION NEXT
MONTH.
In preparation for the bl B exhibition
•hoot which will take piece November 10
et Lakewood, when the WInehMter tcn ra
will vl.lt Atlanta, local ahooters are |>r,c.
tlclng almost every afternoon. Tuejii.iv
•even men .hot during the afternoon, amt
Rome good score, were made.
Toole nud Hyler were the best men tit
the afternoon. The former hit them na
27. 22, 22, 23 and 24 at the atart, and had
n high average. Hyler put two 23s to hi.
NAMtfSur
Hyer.. . .
McNeel.. .
Poole
Ilunnlcutt. ,
Mitchell. . .
Porter.. ..
Great luterest Is l»elng manifested
throughout the state In the coming exhibi
tion shoot. Undoubtedly the Crosby-Topper-
welns-Hawhlns-Taylor-Bon combination is
the warmest thlug lu the shooting line
which has ever hit Atlanta, ana shooters
will come.from long distances to sec these
men perform. Each'of them Is or hns l.*.e n
recently a champion, and all are holders
of wor’td’s records.
ETHRIDGE HAS
HIS OLD JOB
Newton Ethridge will be the secre
tary of the Atlanta hnaeball club next
year. He closed with the baseball as
sociation Tuesday afternoon and went
to Macon Tuesday night with the con
tract In his pocket. Ethridge made
many friends among players and fans
all around the circuit last year and It li
welcome news tnat he will be back
again In bis old capacity.
ONCE-GREATS SIGN AGAIN
lie retained.—Tho Now York Heruld.
FIGHTS IN PHILLY
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Philadelphia, Oct. 24.— 1 Tho new Nonpa
reil Athletic Club, of Philadelphia, whose
last two shows have been much appre
ciated by the sporting meu of **Hlo*v
Town," promises another good card for Fri
day night. For the wind-up, the match
maker is trying to secure Eddie Kelly, of
Buffalo, nud Tommy O'Toole, the crack lit
tle fighter of Richmond.
The Broadway Athletic'Club, of Phila
delphia* ha* hilled auother all star show
for tomorrow night. In which the fight
fans yf the Quaker City are very much
Interested. 8lx bouts will be put on, and
the wind up will bring together Kid (ilea
son, of Connecticut, and Kid Stein, of
Philadelphia. The boys have met twice,
aud each hat won a battle. The bout to
morrow night will be the deciding one.
Minnesota's big football games this fall
will be against Chicago and Carlisle.
Yale is to take up socket footfall in
the near future, but will not attempt to
piny any big games this fall.
TERRY M'GOVERN HAS SIGNED
TO FIGHT WITH YOUNG CORBETT
New York, Oct. 24.—Terry McGovern and Young Corbett, together
with their manng-sm, met yesterday afternoon In The Evening jour
nal office and signed articles for a match. Offers for the match will he
received from fight clubs until November 15. on which day the two box
ers will meet again rnd decide where the match Is to be held. The num
ber of rounds wifi also be decided «.n at that time. The contest Is to
take place not later than January 5 1*»07.
The contest Is to be fought under strict Queensberry rules, referee to
part the men in clinches. f?onte»t for a number of rounds, to be agreed
up-m when a bid is accepted for the nintch. The refetee for the con
test to be mutually agreeable to both McGovern and Corbett. They are
to box at catch-weights. Soft bandages can be used by the contestants.
Regulation Sparrow Robertson gloves to be used in the contest.
FIRST AID TO THE
BASEBALL WRITERS
Chicago papers have been Inflicting on
the public schedules of winter pipe
dreams for the tired sporting editors.
Not to be outdone, we herewith sub
mit the following time table, nnd base
ball writers are requested to observe
It rigidly:
November 15 to February 15, open season
on “repeal-of-foul-strike-rnle,” “senson-ts-
too-long.” “Chattaiu*ogu-U to-replace-8breve-
port-ln-the Soutbern-Lesgue" stories, tit is
considered l*ad form to write more thau
oue story along each line.)
November 15—Billy Smith aud Charley
Frank meet accidentally, kiss and make
up. tThis is the champion pipe of tho
season.)
Novetnlier 20—Rumor that James Fuller,
of Nashville. Is to succeed William Kava-
naugb as president of the Southern League.
(Would avoid using this otherwise than
rumor. That will eliminate the merry
Un-ha when Kavanaugb Is re-elected.)
January 2—Well Informed Nashville fan
says that Nashville Is to have a good team
lu 2907. {This I* an anrtul old yarn, hut
times are hard, aud we must earn our
bread some way.)
January'S—Write atory that Nashville, be
ing unable to get any laxly to utnuage team,
wilt let It ruu itself iu 1907. (Uuod story
this, if writteu right.)
Jauua.'j 5.—Charley Frank, after seeing
WALKER LOST
BY ATLANTA
Pitcher Walker la not for Atlanta.
He waa drafted by Smith and the
claim waa allowed by Secretary Far
rell, of the National Association.
Now comes Mr. Farrell again with
the notification that the deal for Walk
er does not stand.
Walker waa traded by the Jackson
ville club to Montgomery for Mullaney.
This deal was recorded September 22,
which Is drafting season for the ma
jor Jeaguea. For this reason Manager
Smith supposed that the Montgomery
deal would not be allowed. It seems,
however, that It does.
And Montgomery gets Walker.
MAT BALDWIN
BEAT O’BRIEN
Boston. Oct. 24.—Matty Baldwin, of
Charlestown, beat Rouse O’Brien, of
South Boston, forty ways at Chelsea
last night, and at the end of tho sched
uled 15 rounds the referee, Hector Me-
Innls, of South Boston, called the con
test a draw.
Beginning with the very first round,
when Baldwin sent O’Brien to the mat
with a clean right to the chin, as they
were coming out of a clinch, there was
never a time during the 15 rounds when
the Charlestown boy did not have a
safe lead.
In five rounds—the third, seventh,
eighth, thirteenth and fourteenth—
O’Brien show’ed Hashes that gave him
the advantage In those particular
rounds, but the other ten were Bald
win’s by substantial margins and there
was not a really even round In the 15.
PLACE IS SELECTED
BY JIMMY COFFROTH.
San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 24.—Ths
Berger-Kaufman contest will take
place at Pavilion rink, the place re
jected by Jimmy Coffroth as the scene
of battle. This much Is made clear
by a statement Issued by Eddie Gra-
ney last night. Graney says that ns
still questions Coffroth’a right to 'In*
cur large expenses," without authori
zation from the fight trust: but that
while he does not Intend to let the
matter drop, he will not Interfere wit
the progress the heavy weights make.
t>een secured to meet Harry Lewis, ta»
crack Philadelphia welterweight, who
added several scalp* to hi* belt within the
past few weeks. The raoa will fi?hf t* 0
r-finds at Graud Rapids, Mich., Goto*
ber 31.
Rtung by the strong letter sent out If
Jack Blackburn regarding a match w ‘‘“
him, Harry Lewis has come back
an early reply. Lewis state* that be »
signed up for several matches in the n«j«
future, but If Blackburn can slm* nn*
whore he cnn do better by meeilug hits,
he will do so.
The private light between Tim Coilatu*
of Philadelphia, and Freddie Welsh. of tnr
land, which was scheduled to take
near Cincinnati Saturday night, wa«
poned until tonight, ns. Callahan coni
reach the battle ground In time. The »*
ore to ui*>t for twenty rounds «* ^
pounds, nud have been guaranteed a P
Terry McGovern on left and “Young Corbett* 9 on right, have long been regarded as charter members of
the down end out club, but the other day in Philadelphia they “cams back* 9 and fought a fast fight,. That is it
was fast, judged by Philadelphia standards.. Anyway the men have been matched to fight again. '
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