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DAVIDSON TEAM TO BE
TECH’S NEXT OPPONENT
Saturday afternoon the Tech football team will line up for lta fifth
game thla aeaaon. The strong Davidson team will be the opponenta of the
local players, and It will be a hard game for the Georgia Smithies. That
they can win It aeems likely, but they have their work cut out for them
and It Is only by efforts which will make Hercules’ labors look puerile that
they will be able to accomplish the task set.
Davidson has an uncrossed goal line to brag about. No team has scored
this year against the North Carollnans. The University of North Caro
lina team, one of the strongest It appears that the South.has turned out In
years, could only tie Davidson, and the greatly Improved Georgia team suc
cumbed with the score 15 Ho 0 against them.
"Davidson has a great team," said Coach Helsman Thursday. "I saw
them play Georgia, and they will be hard to beat."
And this feeling Is noticeable among the members of the team and the
Tech supporters.
However, the local players are not discouraged. They feel that though
they were fairly beaten last Saturday and by a better team, that the score
does not represent the respective merits of the two teams and that Sewanee
"outlucked” them. In consequence of the fact that their showing against
the strong Sewanee team was good and because they have Improved mate
rially during the last week of practice the Tech players think that they
have a good chance of victory Saturday afternoon.
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Special to The Georgian.
DiivMaon. X. Oc*t. 26.~Wlth the “big
four” In line again, the practice here tui'
•timed lta old “Darhlmm aplrlt” again yes
terday afternoon, nnd Coach Graham es-
preiaed himself aa Itolug very much grati
fied with the practice, nnd snld that the
team, on the whole, traa In “good eondi-
tlon“ for the Tech game 8aturday.
Not only la Coach Graham pleased with
the outlook for their gome, hut every
member of the student-body ha a absolute
confidence In the ability of every single
ntnn on the team.
It la generally conceded that Tech will
■trike n different quality of “red nnd
Mack” from what abe la accuatomed to
find from the Unlveralty of Georgia—abe
may expect It to be “all wool and n yard
wide."
Uavldfon'a goal line hna not been crossed
this year, and out of the three games she
has played, two were won by a score of
IS to 0. and the other one, the game with
the University of North Carolina, David
son kept the ball In North Carolina's ter
ritory all the time. Hence, It seems rea
sonable to suppose that the Tar Ileela
will fire the fiery Yellow Jackets a good
battle.
The players and weights follow:
Weight.
.left tackle..
.right tackle ir»
.left end 184
[ Curry right end 154
.* Elliott.. .. ..quarterback 150
f Denney right half 153
* Miller left half 156
! Captain McKay....full back. ... 164
Total weight, 1.901 pounds; average
weight, 172 8-11 pontiHs; overage back field,
1ITI4 pounds: average weight, tnek.’e to
tackle, 186 4-5 pounds.
Substitutes, Celey, Allen nnd Danlella.
The annual fail golf tournament of the
Chevy Chase Clubs opens at Washington to
day, and will eontlane until the end of
the week. The tournament la open to all
members of cluba In the United State*
Golf Association.
TECH BUSY
The last real atrenuouslty on Tech
field before the Davldaon game wae
displayed Thursday afternoon, when
Coach Helsman had the whole squad
out and put them through their paces
at high speed.
AM the men on the team are In fairly
good condition, with the exception of
Sweet, whose knee le still troubling
him. On account of thla fact Sweet
will be switched from full back to end,
and Adamson will be sent to full back.
Adamson has been playing on the
scrub team for two or three years and
Is a good man.
The switch of Sweet to end will give
the Tech team two large, powerful, fast
ends. Outside of Vanderbilt, no two
end men In the South are likely to
compare with Brown and Sweet In
weight nnd spied.
Aside from the two changes men
tioned the team will line up the same
against Davidson that It did agalnat
Sewanee. ■
The practice this week has been most
encouraging. The teams have now
learned the plays and tactics fairly
well nnd Coach Heleman has turned his
attention, as he expresses it, "to putting
backbone into them.” The coach wants
them to charge more flrcely, to tackle
harder, to start quicker and to work
harder and faster. With this end In
view the hardest work of the year has
been done during the past week. The
scrimmages have been battles of the
fiercest nature. The varsity has been
running all over the scrubs and bat
tering the line to piece*. As fast as one
scrub man has been tired out In a
practice game another fresh one has
gone In in his place and In consequence
the varsity men have been worked to
the very limit. In Wednesday's struggle
the scrubs were particularly vicious In
their rushes, charges and tackles and
laid out five varsity men. However,
none of the Injuries were serious.
The Tech team will do only enough
work Friday to keep on edge and bar
ring some unexpected accidents every
man will go Into the game In as good
or better condition than he was last
Saturday.
’DAHLONEGA
GETS BUSY
COACH CRAWFORD’S MEN OFF TO
PLAY ELLIJAY AND MARY«
VILLE TEAMS*
C. M. LENTZ.
This Is Davidson’s bis guard
who has done such sensational
work In all the games this season.
Special to The Georgian.
Dablonega, Ga.. Oct. 26i—Notwithstanding
some bruises as a result of bard knocks In
the game at Barnesvllle, Coach Craw
ford's men left last night for EUIJoy,
where they will play a local team, nnd
Ihen take the train for Knoxville, to meet
Conch Crawford and Professor Da via.
who hna been coaching the scrubs, will
be In their old stamping ground at Knox
ville, nnd they hove been whooping up the
l»oya for the effort of their Uvea In the
gnrne with Maryville.
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Cornell Men Confident of
Walloping Princeton Team
"Mordecal Brown made the National
League batters look like bush leaguers.
And ha did It with only three fingers;
what would he do If he had four?”
Just what the great Chicago National
pitcher could do with four fingers Is
■what many followers of the game are
wondering. Brown, himself, however,
makes the startling statement that he
could not pitch as well.
The loss of one finger gives him
a wider stretch for hi* other fingers,
and thereby permits him to grip the
ball more firmly than the average hand
Is able to grasp It.
Brown Is the sensation of baseball
this year. He Is to 1906 what Christy
Matthewson was to 1905.
Brown's work has aroused other In
teresting comment on the hands of
bad players.
It Is not generally known, but there
Is a man on the Detroit team crippled
In the same way. He ts Captain Bill
Coughlin. The forefinger of Coughlin'*
left hand I* gone, and yet It Is with
that hand that he makes those sen
sational stops that have won hint a
position this year by the eld* of Bill
Bradley and Jimmy Collins as a third
baseman.
Bill Bradley I* probably the better
all-round third baseman. He can lilt
better and Is smoother in getting In af
ter bunts. Jimmy Collin* In hi* best
dav* was probably a flashier anil more
spectacular player. Hut on real hard
work no one at third ha* It on Cough
lin. No man knocks down the line
drive* that look good when they start
for extra bases the way he does.
And yet he ha* but three fleers.
Baseball players’ hands afford an In
teresting study. Borne are harder than
the molder’s or farmers hands. Oth
er* are soft as a woman's.
Coughlin'a hand* are a* hard as
wood and he has a grip like Iron.
It Is all In the way the player takes
the ball. The reason some player* are
invariably hurt or have lame hands Is
becausethey fight the halt They do
not know how to handle a hot ground
er, or, rather, cannot acquire the knack
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of handling It so that It will not hurt
them.
Charley Carr, whose dlsnoslllon pre
vented him from being one of the best
first basemen of the American League,
probably has the knack of handling a
hard thrown ball or a drive from the
bat down to a finer point than any oth
er player.
To shake his hand one would think
him n ribbon-counter clerk. When an
Inttelder threw a man out at first Carr
would reach for the hall. As soon as
the ball touched his hands he drew his
arms back, so that the ball stopped
gradually, >
Kid Klberfeld fights tha ball and
get* sway with It Ju»t about a* well
a* any other player.
He cornea In after every Infield hit
nnd snatches it up. You never eee
the "Kid” waiting for a ball to come
to him. He goes right after tt. spear*
it and throw* his man out. ofttlmes,
If he walled for It, the runner would
be safe. If Charlie O'Leary, of De
troit would come In faster'he would
be n greater shortstop.
Klberfeld, however, has the trick
of fighting the bull, and yet giving
Just ho much with It that It doe* not
hurt himself greatly. His hands, from
his long year* at play, are scarred and
calloused.
The outfielder*' hand* are usually
soft, nnd a pitcher’s hand doe* not
need to be hard. George Mullin, In
good form, has probably the best
curved hall in the game, and yet hts
hand* are comparatively soft.
The catcher* are the real men to
suffer. Jack Warner'B finger* are as
gnarled and twisted from fast shoots
a* those of Charlie Bennett, who
played In the days when there were
no mitt* to protect a man.
The third baseman, catcher nnd
shortstop really have the most work
to do with their fingers. And as a
general rule their hands show It.—St.
Louis Post Dispatch.
By SAM CRANE.
New York, Oct. 26.—Cornell will
come down from Ithlea with the firm
Idea that she Is going to wallop the
Tigers. That 70 to 0 score the other
day has aroused the* student body of
that Institution to the conviction that
the "Cornell yell" boys are little short
of being Invincible.
But when was ever there a time that
a college football player did not think
his team was going to win?
1 ..ere Is never a time that those boys
quit. They don't know what that Is.
The old fellows can be a mile ahead
at any stage of the game, but the old
college never-say-dle spirit Is always
there and they strive harder In an up
hill fight than when things are going
all their way.
The beating, as Is natural, favora the
Tigers. I heard of one bet of 2 to 1 be
ing made on the Tigers, and about that
odds will doubtless prevail up to the
time of the playing.
Jimmy Collins Announces
That He Is Still in Game
Those friend* of Jimmy Collins, erst
while the Boston American captain-mana
ger, who expected that the Buffalo player
would return home roaring against the
fate which separated him from his club to
ward the close of the Reason, were disap
pointed, the majority pgreeably, In the at
titude assumed by ColllDf.
Jimmy has little to say about the un
fortunate lioeton Bltuatlon. Jfe declares
that he thinks It will bo some weeks tie-
fore the question of hla baseball future
Is settled, nnd evidently Is not yet rec
onciled to a belief that he will be seen in
other than a Boston uniform next year.
“The controlling Interests of the Bos
ton club nnd myself understand each
other,” said Collins recently. “I had a
talk with General Taylor, owner of the
club, and I think that before long I will
know definitely wbat my position la.”
Collins looked good nnd la evidently far
from satisfied with the Impression which
went forth toward the last of the season
to the effect that he deserted his club.
“It woi unfortunate that I hurt my
leg as I did,” said Jimmy. ”1 know a
lot of people thought that I ought to
l»e playing when It was a physical Impos
sibility, nnd that made matters worse.
I certainly wanted to get In the game
bad enough. There lias been si lot of
talk about the nbaence of condition among
our boys. That Is not true. The team was
ns well conditioned a Flub ns any In the
league, but we suffered In the catchers'
department. You can not Imagine how It
hurt us to be deprived of the services of
Crlger, who was a host lu himself nnd
who, l am happy to say, gives every
Indication of being himself next year.”
UPTON READY
TO CHALLENGE
WANTS TO RACE UNDER NEW
MEASUREMENT RULES
THIS TRIP.
New York, Get. 26.—'*! wish to tell you
that I have not given up hope of having
another chance to take back that old
trophy,'* said Hlr Thomas Upton, at a bou
quet by the Brooklyn Athletic Club, Inst
night, **and I ho|n* soon to be able to have
the way for another challenge. I shall
never rest autlsticd until the <|ip take* a
trip back to England. The new measure
ment rule of the New York Yacht Club
provides for a man* wholesome typo of
iMsit, and I hope that the next race will
be sailed under those rules.''
At an Informal luncheon In the Midday
It appears that no matter wbat
talk may be to the effect that Collins will
be seen outside of Boston next year, the
Buffalo boy has not abandoned hope of
remaining with his Boston associates, and
nothing definite has been done toward
transplanting him.
“I have made and have many frlenda In
the Boston public,” aald Collins. *T have
enjoyed playing there as never before In
my Irasebay career, and I do not believe
that those frleuds have left me. If, how
ever, the Boston public demands, a change
nnd the club Is with It, I will accept the
decision, and go elsewhere, no matter wbat
my regret may be.”
Collins says that he has not consld
ered the proposition that he buy some
stock In the Buffalo pennant winning
Eastern League club and play on- and
manage It next year, nor has he done any
thing about a transfer to other of the big
league clubs, nor docs he believe any
thing has been settled between the Boston
club and Chick t Stahl, his staunch friend,
which would insult In Stahl taking over
permanently the reins of the Boston cham
pions.
Collins expects that a* meeting will he
held, nt which General Taylor, of the Bos<
ton club, and President Ban Johnson, of
the American League, will settle bis fate,
and he scarcely expects thnt they will
get together until the American League
meeting'this wluter.
There has beeu a rumor In some quar
ters to the effect thnt an entire change
In the Boston club control may transpire,
but Collins, If he knows of anything of
the sort, docs not admit !t.~BuffaIo dis
patch to The Boston Journal.
MAY DRAFT MULLANEY
IN PLACE OF WALKER
"It I can't get Pitcher Walker, then I
guess I can get First Baseman Mul-
laney," says Billy Smith, "the which"
he will forthwith do.
Billy does not want Mullahey on his
baseball team. He has a first base-
man In Jim Fox who Is as good as any
man's first baseman, but he will take a
shot at Mullaney "on speck." Mullaney
Is a good first baseman. Any minor
league mogul would be glad to have
him. So Blllji thinks he will draft him
on suspicion.
“It’s this way.” said ’ Billy, "tt
Walker was traded for Mullaney and
the deal Is allowed, then my draft for
Walker Is no good and I lose a pitcher.
But If Mullaney was traded to Jack
sonville before the drafting, season,
then he Is subject to draft by Class A
teams, and I guess I'll take a shot at
him. I am going to have a talk with
the president about It, and then we'll
do business. If we can't have Walker
we'll compromise on Mullaney" and
Billy emitted a fiendish chuckle’ which
boded III for Jacksonville's desires ta
have Mullaney as their manager next
year. ■ ‘
LIVE BASEBALL DOPE.
Bernle McCay has been reserved h.
Little Rock, according to Secretary
Farrell's most recent bulletin. Th*
local player may have some trouble in
getting away from the Travelers to ac .
cept some of his many offers to act a.
mapager Of Class B tetyns.
Jack Evers has opened a billiard sa
loon In Troy, N. Y.
Nig Clark was in trouble the other
day. He was arrested when he landed
In Windsor. Can., bn the charge that ha
had assaulted Ell Charette, the hua.
band of one of his cousins, it seem,
that Nig mixed up In a family tow and
got all the best of It. He was let off
-ith a fine of *11.50. “
Veteran Baseball Manager
Boosts Man Smith Drafted
OSCAR BLANTON.
Oscar Blanton, the youngster
whose blctre Is shown above, Is
out with a challenge to meet any
man In Georgia at 126 pounds
ringside. Any man of Blanton's
weight who are Interested can
leqrn further particulars by ad
dressing him at Arlington, Ga.
| A YARN BY CROSS.
HHHHHHHHUMIHtilllHItHHMHMHIHHHli
Lave Cross was telling about the
Cleveland Misfits of'1699. “One after
noon In St. Louis,” said the popular
pigeon fancier, "1 was rushing up to my
room to get on my uniform, when I met
Dick Harley, Tommy Dowd, Harry
Lockhead and Jack Stlvetts, all In
street clothes, starting for the car to
go to the- Klnlock park race track.
“ 'Hurry up, fellows,' I yelled, ‘the
game starts In a little over an hour.'
"'What game?' asked Pink Tommy
Dowd, In astonishment.
' 'Why, our. game with St. Louis,' I
Billy Smith Is much elated over the
opinion expressed by Belden Hill, man
ager of the Cedar Rapids teant, about
Ford, the new pitcher drafted from
Cedar Rapids by Smith.
"I regard Belden Hilt as one of the
best Judges of baseball players In
America today,” said Smith, "and what
he says about a player goes with me.
He can Judge players with any of
them.”
"You have got a crackerjnck man In
Ford. He Is us steady us a clock and
always in condition and the stronger
the team against him the better lie 1,
"He has all kinds of nerve and fine
control nnd Is r good clean fellow.
"He will win .700 per cent of hli
games with you with half a break In
luck. He fields his position well, hut
Isn't much of a hitter. He is just in
his prime, as last season was only hi*
second."
said.
'Sure enough,' he said, turning back
up the stairs. ‘It's been so long since
we won a game that I had forgotten I
was a ball player at all.' •
"And Tommy spoke the truth. We
were beaten and buffeted about so that
year that we lost about all the base
ball knowledge we ever knew.
"One night about 12 or 1 o’clock,”
Lave went on, "I wa* aroused out of
bed In my home by the glare of flames
and the yell of fire. I thought sure the
house was In flames, and hurried down
into the yard In my night clothes,
big bonfire was biasing In the street
and about seventy-five men and boyi
were prancing around It.
"'Here!' I shouted, ‘what's all this
fuss about?'
‘"Why, didn't you hear?' the leader
of the gang asked.
“'Nc,' I sold, 'what has happened?’
."'Why, the Clevelands won a gamt
today,’ he said, 'and we are Just sere
nading the captain.”’—Exchange.
Club In the Broad exchange, X Broad
street. Mr Thomas also Intimated that he
would Issue unotber challenge.
I SHIVERED SPORTS.
Beany Yanger am! Steve Kinney are on
Hip rard* for a fifteen round bout tonight
before the Ozark Athletic Club, of Dnveu-
port, Iowa. Both are reported iu good
shape for the couteat. *
Beginning today the Henning race track
at Wnnblngton Is to be the acenc of three
day* of ero**-ootintry *port. The occanlou
la the mutual meeting of the United Hunts
lUiclug A**oclatlon, nti organization which
aim* to promote steeple-chasing among
hunting men.
TAD POKES FUN AT O'BRIEN
BY TAD.
New York, Oot. 26.—Manager Tom McCarey, of the Do* Angele* Club
which in to run the O'Brien-Burna light, nays he will hold that go in the
afternoon nnd have moving picture* taken.
Maybe Philadelphia Jawn won’t be there In the ring half an hour
ahead of time. Maybe Jawn won’t be there with the fancy robe, the big
face massage and hair cut. And maybe Jawn won't grab the corner that
face.* the camera, and maybe Jawn won’t umlle hi* aweetest, whether
losing or winning.
.Maybe he won’t be fixed up to the queen’* taste, eh?
What n treat those pictures will be!
Burn* will keep hi* back to the camera from the time the bell
clang* until the end. What chance will he have to peek at the picture-
men?
Jawn will, enter the ring with his plug hat, his lavender glovea, his
walking-stick and valet.
What a mafrveloue man, to be sure.
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