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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 000$)0000000 000000000000000 0 80UTHERN FOOTBALL. 0 O 0 October 25. 0 0 Clemson vs. North Carolina A. O O & M., at Columbia. 0 O October 27. 0 0 Tech vs. Davidson, In Atlanta. O O Georgia vs. North Carolina A. O 0 & M., In Athens. 0 0 Tennessee vs. Mississippi, at 0 0 Memphis. 0 0 Vanderbilt vs. Texas, at Nash- 0 0 vllle. O O Auburn vs. Sewanee, at Birm- O 0 Ingham. 0 O Maryville vs. Dahlonego, at 0 O Knoxville. O 0 Virginia vs. Georgetown, at O 0 Washington. 0 O October 30. 0 0 Arkansas vs. Texas, at Fayette- 0 0 vllle. Ark. 0 0 November 3. 0 0 Tech vs. Auburn, In Atlanta. 0 0 Georgia vs. Mercer, at Macon. 0 0 North Carolina vs. Georgetown, 0 0 at Norfolk. 0 0 Tennessee vs. Sewanee, at 0 0 Knoxville. 0 0 Davidson vs. Clemson, at Char- 0 O lotte. 0 0 Vanderbilt vs. Michigan, at Ann O O Arbor. 0 0 Alabama vs. Mississippi A. & O 0 M., at Starksville. 0 0 Bucknell vs. Virginia, at Rich- 0 0 mond. O 0 Mississippi vs. Tulane, at New 0 O Orleans. O 0 0 O0O00000000000000000000000 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 • IIIHHMMMIHHIHimMHHHIHIHIMIHIMMMlMMHIHIIHMIHMHHIHHIHHHMHMMMI 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. tHIlHHtlHHIMHIIMHMMIMtHHMHMIHHI ! DISCLAIMER FROM GRANT’S MANAGER •IMIMHHOMHHIHtllHHItlHMIHHHIHtlHi 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 iMIMtllltfr .LY [ 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. ' NAT KAISER & CO. Bargains in unredeemed D*’ nionds. Confidential loans on val uables. 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