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1 ( THE ATLANTA GEORGLAN, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER, 24, 1906. GREAT DOINGS AT LAKEWOOD TERRY M’GOVERN HAS SIGNED TO FIGHT WITH YOUNG CORBETT New York, Oct. 21.—Terry McGovern and Young Corbett, together with their managire. met yeslirday afternoon In The Evening Jour nal office and elgned articles h r a match. Offers for the match will be received from fight clubs until November 15, on which day the two law- era will meet again and decide where the match Is to be held. The num ber of rounds will also be decided c.n at that time. The contest la to take place not later than January 5, 11107. The contest Is to be fought under strict Queensberry rules, referee to part the men In clinches. Contest for a number of rounds, to be agreed upon when a bid la accepted for the mutch. The refer(e for the con test to be mutually agreeable to both McGovern and Corbett. They arc to box at catrh-wetghts. Ho ft bandages ''an be used by the contestants. Regulation Sparrow Robertson gloves to be used in the contest. Eighteen games will be played by the prominent Southern college teams be. tween now and the night of Saturday • after next, November 3. Not over one or two of these games 1 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 Vanderbilt-Texas game might possibly change the complexion of the , race quite a bit, but Vanderbilt seems • to have been enameled on and it Is j doubtful if the Long Horns can do any t damage to either the complexion or the reputation of the Commodores. If ' Coach Dan McGugan's team had to go 1 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 Auburn-Sewanee game next > Saturday might upset several large bundles of prepared dope, but we think not. Sewanee should win the game. According to tho time card, via the Maryville route. Sewanee Is about three touchdowns better than Auburn (thus: Maryville tied Tech, Sewanee beat Tech three touchdowns and Maryvtlle 1 tied Auburn). Wouldn't this dope stufT make you dlasy? In fart, those who wait around to i ace championship battles In the South will presumably wait until Vanderbilt and Sewanee meet on Thanksgiving day—and there la no real need of wait ing that long, fur we’ll pipe It off right i here and now that—barring the ap- 1 pearance of plague of yellow fever In I the Vanderbilt squad—the town of Nashville will he painted a bright gold, with a few touches of black on the night of November 29. • This may be a bum steer, hut we’ll risk our reputation as a dopeater on It. I on It. Thursday's game at Columhln he- 1 tween North Carolina A. & M. and I Clemaon ought to be n ripping contest. | Poor old Olemson Is pretty well stove up, and according to Coach Williams ' the team looks like a gulf coast hnr- . bor after a hurricane. Rut for all that the plucky 8outh Carolina Tigers ran : be counted on to put up a good game. ATLANTA'8 BfO GAME. The Tech-Davldgon game promises to rank right along with any of the Saturday affairs. The fact that Da- ' vldson could tie North Carolina nnd j beat Georgia 15 lo 0 seems pretty good ] evidence that ahe la there with the i football team, nnd 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 Athena Institution of learnllng and ■ football ought to come away with the | long end. The Georgia team Is Im- I proving elowly but surely, and will no 00O00000000O0000O000000000 O 0 O 80UTHERN FOOTBALL. 0 0 O 0 October 25. 0 0 Clemson vs. North Carolina A. O 0 & M.. at Columbia. 0 0 October 27. 0 O Tech vs. Davidson, In Atlanta. O 0 Georgia vs. North Carolina A. O 0 & M., In Athena. 0 0 Tenneaaee vs. Mississippi, at O 0 Memphis. 0 0 Vanderbilt vs. Texas, at Nash- O 0 vllic. 0 O Auburn va. Sewanee, at Blrm- O 0 Ingham. 0 0 Maryville va. Dahlonega, at O 0 Knoxville. O 0 Virginia vs. Georgetown, at 0 0 Washington. O 0 October 30. 0 O Arkansas vs. Texas, at Fayette- O O vllle, Ark. 0 0 November 3. 0 0 Tech va. Auburn, In Atlanta. O 0 Georgia vs. Mercer, at Macon. O O North Carolina vs. Georgetown, O 0 at Norfolk. O O Tennessee va. Sewanee, at O O Knoxville. 0 O Davidson va. Clemson, at Char- O 0 lotto, • O Vanderbilt va. Michigan, at Ann 0 0 Arbor. O 0 Alabama va. Mississippi A. & 0 0 M.. at Starksvllle. 0 O Bucknell vs. Virginia, at Hlch- 0 O mond. O Mississippi vs. Tulane, at New 0 0 Orleans. O O 0 O000000000000I300000000000O doubt do well during the 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 inen 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 Tennessee-Sewanee game will be the big doings In Tennessee. MICHIGAN INVASION. The Vanderbilt team makes Its aec^ ond debut In Ann Arbor that day, when It tackles the University of Michigan team. Last year McQugln's men ehowed well'agalnst the sturdy Michi ganders, and were defeated by the com paratively narrow margin of 18 to 0. This showing la the best any S. 1. A. A. team ever made against any Northern team. This year Vanderbilt seems to, be nearly as strong ns Inst year, while Michigan Is apparently much weaker. All Southorn football enthusiasts will watch tills game with the deepest Interest. November 3, 10 and 17 will be the big Saturdays of the football year. Aft. er the 17th the teams will mostly be gin to rest up for the final struggles on Thanksgiving day. Thomas Lawson 9 s Horses Will Be Sold at Auction After spending much moro than $1,000,000 In hla meteoric career nil n breeder of fine ! harness horses, Thomas W. Lawson has ! consigned nil his trotters to the Fsslg- Tipton ssle, which follows the horse show «t r Madlsou Hqunro garden, nnd will. It Is Mid, wind up his nmatsur breeding Interests j at Drenmwold. Not only Ills trotters, but his select stud of carriage horses, hls prise- winning dogs, nnd. In fact, nil live stock j at the splendidly Improved country estate | In Massachusetts will go under the ham mer. As breeder, turfman nnd esblldtor, Mr. Lswsoii wns for several years one of the most conspicuous figures ever seen In the horse world. Ills spectacular entrance Into I the limelight whs made In 1K99, when he [ paid a sensational price for the 3-yen r- . old trotter, Roraltna, on the eve of the | Kentucky Futurity, and \voti him out by backing him to win that classic colt rsco at Lexington. Encouraged by hls success. Mr. Lawson set out to assemble n select stable of harness horses, nnd for n time he wns the most liberal buyer of trotters ■ In the country. lie wns said to have paid C. J. Hamlin $60,000 for Ihtredevil, 2.09**- j Rsgwa, 2:13Hi one of “Doc" Tanner's •'highly polished gold bricks,” ns the llnston | plunger aptly described him, was hntided ; to him nt a long price, and he added 1 many other fast homes to hls string. Rut be never obtained another Uorslutn. In 1900, Mr. tawson locked horns with E. E. Smothers, of whom the late Frank Her- . die said, "He would Iwt more money on nu even t*h!ng than any other mnu that ‘ ever followed the trotters.” It wns nt ; Lexington, on the eve of the race for ; the Trsnsylvnula stakes. In which Mr. Law- ton's Boralnm and Mr. Hmathers' Lord | Derby were starters. The pool selling wax- ad warm nt the l'hoenlx hotel, and the climax was reached when the owner of Lord Derby bid $20,000 for "the field and sell Boralma.” ".luck” Roach, who was then Mr. Lawson's betting commissioner, did uot rcstHind ou behalf of the Boston trotter. Boralma won the race. It was In the following year that Mr. Lawson set the horse world nstlr by offer ing to match Bornlms against The Abbot. I*>rd Derby or t’rescens for $100,000 n side. The match was not made, but In 1908 the owner of Boralma backed him lo beat Lord Derby in the largest match race on record. The stakes were $30,000 a side. Boon lifter the money was posted, Mr. Bmath- ers offered to uinke It *20,000 more, but the offer was not accepted. At Hartford, on August 2. 1902, the rue.* was trotted. Bo ra I in a met hla Waterloo and ended bis turf career. Boon afterward hls owner's turf career ended. Mr. Lawson then turned his attention to breeding trotters and trottlug bred car riage boraes. He established Drestnwobl, on the bleak bill* overlooking Massachu- sands of dollars Tu transforming n barren wilderness Into a model stock farm, unri valed lu all the world In Its appoint- inents. Hla selections of breeding stock were made with far better judgment than had characterised hls purchases for turf purposes. What the late Marcus Daly's select stud was dispersed, he bought the nick of the brood mares and some of the best stnlllous aud young things. Before he became prominent ns an owner of trotters. Mr. Lawson achieved unusual succeat as an exhibitor nt the horse shows. In 1899, he won prises nt Madison Bonn re garden with (Hortons, Glorlauu, Gorgeous, aud some other tlue hnruess and saddle horses. Throe yenrs Inter, he had the strongest stable of rnrrbtge horses lu the country, hls string Including the matchless stallion Red Cloud, for which, after that horse won the Wnlfdorf--Astoria cup. he paid W. L. Klklus $10,000; the iuvituiblo pony stallion (Hortons Ronnie; u park four- Iti-hnnd, costing $32,000, nnd mnuy other equine stnrs. Thunder Cloud, ouo of Mr. Lawson's carriage horses, wns selected nnd purchased by the I’nlted States govern inent to head the experimental breeding stud established lu Colorado it few years ago by the department of agriculture. Red Cloud nnd othr - “ few years __ .fture. lied loud nnd other tine stallions nnd mares in the string were relegated to the stud of Dream wold when Mr. Lawson retired from the show* ring nnd gnve Ids attention to breeding horses. About ouo hundred aud seventy-five trotters will be included lu TEXAS TEAM PROMISES TO GIVE VANDERBILT A RUB Special to Tho GCorel,id. Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 24.—The heavy team of the Unlveralty of Texas, which met defeat at the hande of Vanderbilt Iaet fall by a score of 34 to 0, le com ing up this year to mop up with the Commodores, so they say. The follow, tng message has been received In Nashville from Manager F. E. Lump kin, of tho Texas team: ’’Texas leaves Wednesday. Will have eighteen men. Reach 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. Six ‘‘ten-sec ond men," nine strong backs, fast. Texas expects'to win." Vanderbilt meets Texas next Satur day on Dudley field. In the game last season Texas brought eighteen men and had to play them all, as they were considerably battered up when the gamo had finished. Vanderbilt is counting this as one of her hardest games, as the Texas team Is always an unknown quantity. REVIEWS OF A WOLVERINE I wandered to Ann Arbor, Tom; I went the other clay; I strolled out to tho football field to see the squad at play. But fewr were there to greet tne, Tom, nnd few were left to know, That played with us upon the team Just two short years ago. I saw Yost coaching as of old, tho same old Yost, ’tls true: But not the same old llne-tip, Tom, that wore the malxe and blue, And like some wild tornado turned nloose upon the foe. They rolled up 60 points a game, u few short years ago. I saw the scrub team hold 'em. Tom. nnd then my thoughts turned back; I saw*the shade of Heston,* ns ho led the old attack. With Weeks and Umgmnn at hls side—*twas forty yards or so— Each time this old buucb lyid tho ball, some few short years ago. utly thro* bygone days Bweeley. Whl iTugs were very different, Tom, a few short yenrs ugo. Jd tei And ouly “* T n _ __ _ _ he'd drawn a crack at them, Just two short years ago. —Gruntland Illco In Cleveland News. i DISCLAIMER FROM j ; GRANT’S MANAGER | The morning following the Tech- Grant Unlveralty game there appeared an account of tho game In The Chatta nooga' Times, In which the writer criti cised'aeverely 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 the manager of the Grant team he dis claim* responsibility for the attack. The letter to Beene is as follows: "Chattanooga, Tenn., Oct. 18, 1906. "Mr. Jodie Beene, Atlanta, Ga.: "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 and Grant. "No one from our school authorized them to publish such a statement, advance copy of schedule, announces that he has "got fhe worst of it." (S. B.—You can't go wrong on this story. There has been no variation In It for five years.) February 16.—Birmingham papers re-es tablish sporting pages, appoint the office boy to write baseball, nnd remember that they won a pennant track In 1906. February 18— Good time for general story about team, with prediction thnt It will win the pennant. (This Is sufficiently fnr enough distant from the following Septem ber 15 so that the prophecy will be forgot ten.) LOCAL MEN ARE GETTING READY FOR BIG EXHIBITION NEXT MONTH. In preparation for the bln exhibiting ahoot which will take place November 11 at Lakewood, when the Winchester team will rlalt Atlanta, local shooters are vn 7 tlelng almost every afternoon. Tuesday •even men ahot during the afternoon am some good scores were made. Poole aud lljrlcr were the heat men of the afternoon. The former hit them off 23. 22, 22. 23 and 24 nt the ntnrt. and had a high average. Iljrler put two 2s to hi. credit. The aeores follow: -Targets NAMKH— I'ojf IIyer.. . . McNael.. . Poole Hnnnlc’iitt. , Mitchell. . . Porter "ai | 28 | 25 is W The photo on tho loft ahowi George Sutton, who recently defeated George Sloston in an oxeitlng billiard match, Tho photograph on the left ia of Sloteon. . ' Sad Wail of “J. Johnsing, 99 The Pug Without a Fight Arthur Johnson has written the following letter to Tad; "Philadelphia, October 22, 1906.—Dear Tad: Just a few lines to let you know that 1 am wandering around Philadelphia without anything to do but draw my breath. Like that man, Mr. Barkis, that Dickens wrote about, 'I’m wlllln,' ’ -but no ono seems to want me. "Can you tell me wbnt Is the matter with these home-made champions? "I'm very tired of seeing these so-called champions posing around saloons. You walk In some Joint and there Is n big strap ping fellow making bis arm swell so that the rummy with him can feel It. "Tho 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.' " 'IVell,' toys the guy, 'how about Ar thur Johnson?' "Then the fighters say, 'Johnson? He never licked any one. The only thing be can beat Is carpets.' "Now, Tad, you know I'd give most of tho money to sny 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 hls little son Arthur down In Galveston, Tex. I have Sailor Burke with me now, and be looks to b|« a good boy. "I am doing light training, and expect to fight up tho state soon, but they haven't found any one for me yet. Remember me kindly to O’Brien nnd Berger. Your little friend, J. ARTHUR JOHNSON.” KNOCK-DOWNS AND DRAG-OUTS New York, Oct. 23.—Big Jack Johnson seems to be held In high esteem by the different heavyweights. Sam Fitzpatrick, who has taken hold of Johnson, has sent challenges to all the heavies, but they refuse to fight. The ouly mail who did accept was Joe Jeanette, nnd he Is still awaiting n reply. The National Athletic Club, of Philadelphia, Is willing to hang up n good purse for a bout hetweeu John son and some other good man. Honey Mellody, of Boston, declares he Is through with Joe Walcott, and will not meet him again. Mlah Murray, matchmaker of the Llucolu club, of Chelsea, tried to re-match the men, hut Mellody was not agreeable. He says the next bout he would like to take part ft* would lie with either Mike (Twin) Sullivan or Sailor Burke, of Brooklyn. Gilbert Whltely, tho Philadelphia sport ing msn, has unearthed a new "champion," whom he expects will clean up nil the wel terweights. Hls man Is "Sailor” Bryan, aud Whltely claims hls man has been go ing grandly In private. He would like to match the "Saflor" against Joe Walcott be fore any dub that will offer a suitable purse. • Mike Ward, the • Canadian fighter, has ONCE-GREATS SIGN AGAIN Great interest Is being manifested throughout the state In the coming exhibb tlon shoot. Undoubtedly the Crosby Topper. welus-Hnwklns-Taylor-Boa combination li the warmest thing lu the shooting line which has ever hit Atlanta, and shooters will come from long distances to see the<e men perform. Each of them is or has been recently a champion, and all are holders of world's records. ETHRIDGE HAS HIS OLD JOB Newton Ethridge will be the seer*, tary of the Atlanta baseball club next year. He closed with the baseball as. aoclatlon Tuesday afternoon and went to Macon Tuesday night with the con tract In hls pocket. Ethridge mad* many friends among players and fan* all around the circuit last year and it Is welcome news tnat he will be back again in hls old capacity. WALKER LOST BY ATLANTA Pitcher Walker lx not for Atlanta. He was drafted by Smith nnd the claim was 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 was traded by the Jackson vllle club to Montgomery for Mullaney This deal was recorded September 52 which Is drafting season for the ma. Jor leagues. For this reason Manager Smith supposed that the Montgomery deal would not be nllowed. It seemi, however, that It does. And Montgomery gets Walker. MAT BALDWIN BEAT O’BRIEN dm dosing out sale. Boralnm alone is to | being unkind both to Tech nnd Grant, lie retained.—The New York Herald. | There was nothing whatsoever * to ] ! FIGHTS IN PHILLY Philadelphia, Oct. 24.—The new Nonpa reil Athletic Club, of Philadelphia, whose laat two shows have been much appro elated by the sporting men of "tilotv Town,” promises another good card for Frl day night. For the wlud-up, the match maker Is trying to secure Eddie Kelly, of Buffalo, and Tommy O'Toole, the crack lit tie fighter of Richmond. The Broadway Athletic Club, of PUUn delphtn. has hilled another nll-stnr show for tomorrow ulght, lu which the fight fans of the Quaker City are very much Interested. Six bouts will he put ou, and the wind up will bring together Kid Glea son, of Connecticut, aud Khl Stein, «>l Philadelphia. The boys have mci twice, aud each has won n battle. The bout to morrow night will be the deciding one. Minnesota's big football games this fall will be against Chicago aud Carlisle. Yale is to take up aocker footfall In the near* future, but will not attempt to play auy big games this fall. 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 a successful season In footb&U. "Fraternally yours, "WAYNE T. ROBINSON, "Manager.” I !••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••] FIRST AID TO THE BASEBALL WRITERS j • M*MM*MIM4I*IIIHIMIII4IMMMMIM4MIIHIM Chicago papers have been Inflicting on the public schedule* of winter pipe dreams for the tired sportiug editors. Not to be outdoue. we herewith sub mit the following tliue-tnble, nnd base ball writers are requested to observe it rigidly: November 15 to February 15. open season on "repeal-of-foul-strike-rule,'* "seuson-ts- too-long,'' '*Chnttnnooga-I»■ to-replace-Shreve- port-ln-the-Southerii-League" stories. (It is considered bad form to write more than one story along each line.) November 15—Billy Smith and Charley Frank meet accidentally, kiss and make up. (This Is the champion pipe of the season.) November 39—Rumor that James Fuller, of Nashville. Is to succeed William Kar*. tratigh as president of the Southern League. (Would avoid using this otherwise than as u rumor. That will eliminate the merry ha-ha when Knvauaugh Is re-elected.) January 2—Well Informed Nashville fan says that Nashville Is to have a good team In 1907. (This Is an awful old yarn, but times nre hard, and wo must earn our bread some way.* January 3—Write story that Nashville, be ing unable to get anybody to mnuage team, will let It ruu Itself In 1907. (Good story thfs. If wrltteu right.) January (.-Charley Frank, after aeetug' Terry McGovern on loft and “Young Corbett" on right, haye long been regarded «s charter members of th* down and out club, but ths othsr day in Philadelphia they “came back” and fought a fast fight That is it was fast judged by Philedelphia standards.. Anyway ths msn have been matched to fight again, ‘ ' Boston, Oct. 24.—Matty Baldwin, of Charlestown, bdht Rouse O'Brien, of South Boston, forty ways at Chelse* last night, and at the end of the ached’ uled 16 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 16 rounds when the Charlestown boy did not have * safe lead. In five rounds—the third, seventh, eighth, thirteenth and fourteenth- O’Brlen showed Hashes that gave him the advantage In those particular rounds, but the other ten were Bald* win’s by substantial margins and thert was not a really even round In the 15. PLACE 18 SELECTED BY JIMMY COFFROTH, San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 24.—TM Berger-Kaufman contest will tak* place at Pavilion rink, the place se lected by Jimmy Coffroth as the K*n* of battle. This much Is ma<le cl f * f by a xtatsment issued by Eddie ora- ney last night. Qraney says that w still questions Coffroth’s right to h>' cur large expenses,” without authort xation from the fight trust; hut th* 1 ! while he does not Intend to let tn* matter drop, he will not Interfere the progress the heavy weights make, Iteen secured to meet Harry l-ewl*. tit* ersek Philadelphia welterweight, who ““ added aeyeral wnlps to hla bolt wlthla «• past few weeks. The men will tight t™ r,;mda at Grand fiapld*. Mich., thtte tier 31. Stung by the atrong letter »ont ooit W Jack Blackburn regarding a match w him; Harry Lewis has come b;ick w on early reply. Lewi* states that signed up fur several matches In the » • future, hut If Blackburn can ■‘h ,,w where he eon do better by meeting be will do so. The private tight tietween Tint of Philadelphia, aud Freddie Wel»h. land, which wns scheduled to tnk** P near Cincinnati Saturday night, wns i ^ poned until tonight, ns Calls nan < • » ^ reach the battle ground It* time. TD ^ nre to meet for twenty rounaj ■ ^ pounds, aud have been guaranteed a i of $1,000. NAT KAISER & CO- Bargains in unredeemed monds. Confidential loans on VIJ uables. 15 Decatur St Kimball Bo"«* TAKE YOUR STIFF or soft felt hat to Bussey to he « , ed and reshaped like new- - s Whitehall. EIGHTEEN BIG GAMES IN NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS