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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. FRIDAY OCTOBER, 26, 190b.
EDITED BY
PERCY H. WHITING
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DAVIDSON TEAM TO DE
TECH’S NEXT OPPONENT
Saturday afternoon the Tech football team will line up for Ita fifth
lame this season. The strong Davldaon team will be the opponents of the
local players, and It will be a hard game for the Georgia Smithies. That
they can win It seems 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 It to 0 against them.
"Davidson has a great team," said Coach Helaman Thursday. "I saw
them play Georgia, and they will be i^iard 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.
j AT DAVIDSON
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Special to The Georgian.
Davidson. N. C.. Oct. 26,-Wlth the "big
four'’ In line again, the practice here as
sumed Its old "Davldaon spirit" again yes
terday afternoon, and Coach Graham ex-
preased himself as being very much grati
fied with the practice, aud said that the
tram, on the whole, wan In "good condi
tion” for the Tech game Saturdny.
Not only Is Coach Graham pleased with
tho outlook for their game, hut every
member of the atudent-liody has absolute
confidence In the ability of every single
man on the team.
It la generally conceded that Tech will
strike n different quality of "red and
black” from what abe la accustomed to
find from the University of Georgia—she
may eipect It to be "nil wool and a yard
wide."
Davidson's goal line has not been crossed
this year, sod but of the three games she
baa played, two were won by a score of
li to 0, and the other one, the game with
the University of North Carolina, David
son kept the hall la North Carolina's ter
ritory all the time. Hence, It seems rea
sonable to suppose that the -Tar Heels
will give the fiery yellow Jackets a good
bottle.
The players and weights follow:
Tlayer. Position.
Kdgerlon,. ..center.. ,,
Lmu left guard.. _
Whitaker right guard 217
Walker. . . .left tackle 1«4
Pcymour. • . .right tackle 155
S;oiler left end 1*4
Curry right end 1M
Klllott quarterback 100
Denney right half ir.n
Miller.. left half 156
Captain UcKay.„.full back. . . . 1*4
Total weight. 1.901 pounds: average
weight, in i ll pounds; average back field,
H?<4 pounds: Average weight, tackle to
tackle, 10*44 pounds.
Substitutes, Celey, Allen and Danlells.
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TECH BUSY
The annual fall golf tournament of tho
Chevy chase Clubs opens at Washington to
day, and will continue until the end ef
the week. The tournament la open to all
members of clubs In the United States
Golf Association.
The last real atrenuoualty on Tech
field,before the Davldeon game wae
displayed Thursday afternoon, when
Coach .Helsman had the whole equad
out and put them through their pacee
at high speed.
All the men on the team Are In fairly
good condition, with the exception of
Sweet, whoae knee Is still troubling
him. On account of this fact Sweet
will be awltched 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
la 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 and speed.
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 playe and tactics fairly
well and Coach Helsman has turned his
attention, as he expresses It, "to putting
backbone Into them.” The coach wnnts
them to charge' more flreely, to tackle
harder, to'etart quicker and to work
harder and faster. With this end in
view the hardest work of ths year has
been done during the paat week. The
scrimmages have been battles of the
fiercest nature. The varsity has been
running nil over the scrubs and bat
tering the line to pieces. As fast as one
scrub man has been tired out In
practice game another fresh one has
gone In In hla place and In oonssqusncs
the varsity mtn 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 sdge and bar
ring some unexpected accidents every
man will go Into the game In aa good
or better condition than he was last
Baturday.
v C. M. LENTZ.
This - Is Davidson's big guard
who has done such sensational
work In all the games this season.
DAHLONEGA
GETS BUSY
COACH CRAWFORD’S MEN OFF TO
PLAY ELLIJAY AND MARY
VILLE TEAMS.
Bpactal to The GeorfUn,
Dablouega. Qa., Oct. 26.~NotwlthstandIug
tome bruises as a result of bard knocks In
the game at Barnearllle, Coach Craw-
ford's men left last night for Killjoy,
where they will play a local team, and
then take the train for Knoxville, to meet
the Maryville team on Saturday.
The EJJUflv men are husky fellow*, and
will give I)abloneg(t good practice for the
struggle with the Tennessee school.
Coach Crawford and Professor Davis,
who has been coaching the scrubs, will
lie In their old stamping ground at Knox,
vllle, and they have been whooping up the
boys for the effort of their lives In
gome with Maryville.
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Cornell Men Confident of
Walloping Princeton Team
AS TO THREE-FINGERED PLAYERS
"Mortecal Brown made the National
League batters look like bush leaguers.
And he 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 flngere Is
what many followers of the game are
wondering. Bron-n, himself, however,
makes the atartllng statement that he
could not pitch aa welt.
The loss of one finger gives him
a wider stretch for his other flngere,
and thereby permits him to grip the
ball more firmly than the average hand
la able to grasp It.
Brown Is the sensation of baseball
thla year. He Is to 190* what Christy
Matthewson was to 1906.
Brown's work has aroused other In
teresting comment on the hands of
ball players.
It Is not generally known, but there
Is a man on the Detroit team crippled
In the same way. He Is Captain Bill
Coughlin. The forefinger of Coughlin's
left hand le gone, and yet It la with
that hand that he makes those sen
sational stops that have won him a
position this year by the side of Bill
Bradley and Jimmy Collins aa a third
baseman.
Bill Bradley la probably the better
all-round third baseman. He can hit
better and Is smoother In getting In af
ter bunts. Jimmy Collins In his best
days was probably a flashier and more
spectacular player. But on real hard
work no one ftt third haa It on t ouffh-
lin. No man knocks down the line
drives that look good when they start
for extra bases the way he does.
And yet he haa but three fingers.
Baseball pleyera* hands afford an in
teresting study. Bojne , ar, t j'“S er ' l J5 n
the molder’a or farmers hands. Oth
ers are soft as a woman s.
Coughlin s hands are as hard as
wood and be haa a grip like iron.
It Is all In the way the player takes
the ball. The reason some players are
invariably hurt or have la me hands Is
because they fight the ball. They do
not know how to handle a hot ground
er, or, rather, cannot acquire the knack
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of handling H so that It will not hurt
them.
Charley Carr, whose disposition pre
vented him from being one of the beat
flret basemen of the American League,
probably has the knack of handling a
hard thrown ball or a drive from the
hat clown to a finer point than any oth-
er player.
To shake Ills hand one would think
him a ribbon-counter clerk. When an
intlelder threw a man out at first Carr
would reach for the ball. As soon as
the ball touched hla handa he drew hla
arms bark, so that the ball stopped
grad uully.
Kid Klberfcld fights the ball and
gels away with It Just about as well
us any other player.
He comes In after every Infield hit
and snatches It up. You never see
the "Kid" walling for a ball to como
to him. He goes right after It. spears
It and throws hla man out. Ofttlmes,
If he waited for It. the runner would
be safe. If Charlie O'Leary, of De
troit would come In faster he would
be a greater ahortatop.
lCIhcrfcld. however, haa the trick
of fighting the ball, and yet giving
Just so much with It that It does not
hurt himself greatly. His hands, from
Ills long years at play.rare scarred and
calloused.
The outfielders' hands are usually
soft, and a pitcher's hand does not
need to be hard. George Mullln, In
good form, has probably the best
curved ball In the game, and yet hts
bands are comparatively soft.
The catchers are the real men to
Buffer. Jack Warner's fingers are as
gnarled nnd twisted from fast shoots
as those of Charlie Bennett, whq
played In the days when there were
no mitts to protect a man.
The third baseman, catcher and
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. 2*.—Cornell will
come down from Ithlca with the firm
Idea that she Is going to wallop the
Tigers. That 70 to 0 score the other
day haa aroused 4he 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?
T.iere Is never a time that those boys
quit. They don't know what that la.
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 on up
hill fight than when things art going
all their way.
The betting, as Is natural, favors 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 tp the
time of the playing.
Jimmy Collins Announces
That He Is Still in Game
Those friends of Jimmy Collins, erst-
while the floston American captnlu-mana-
ger, who expected that the Buffalo player
would return home roaring against tho
fate which separated him from his club to*
ward the close of the season, were disap
pointed, the insjorlty agreeably. In the at*
tltude assumed by Collins.
Jimmy bos little to say about the un
fortunate lioston situation. He declares
that he thinks it will be some weeks be
fore the question of his baseball future
Is settled, and evidently Is not yet roe
onclled to a belief tlmt he will be seen In
other than a Boston uniform next year.
"The controlling Interests of the Bos
ton club and myself understand each
other," mid Collins recently. "I had a
talk with General Taylor, owner of the
club, and 1 think that before long I will
know definitely what my position Is."
Collins looked good nnd Is evidently far
from satisfied with tho Impression which
went forth toward tbe lost of the season
to the effect that he deserted hi* club.
It wa* unfortunate that I hurt my
leg a* I did," sold Jimmy. "I know a
lot of people thought that I ought to
be playing when It was a phyalcal Impos
sibility, iiapl that ninde matter* worse.
certainly wnuted to get In the game
bad enough. There ha* been a lot of
talk alrout the absence of condition atnoug
boy*. That Is not true. The team was
ns well conditioned a club as any In the
lengue, but we suffered In the catchers'
department. You can not Imagine how It
hurt us to he deprived of the services of
f'rlger, who was s host In himself and
who, I sin happy to any, give* every
Indication of being himself next year."
LIPTON READY
TO CHALLENGE
WANTS TO RACE UNDER NEW
MEASUREMENT RULES
THIS TRIP,
New York, Oct. 26.'—"I wish to tell you
that I have not given up hope of having
nuother chance to take hack that old
trophy," said Hlr Thomas I.lpton, at a ban
quet by the Brooklyn Athletic Club, last
ulght, "and J hope soon to lie aide to huve
the way for another challenge. I shall
never rest satisfied until the ifeip takes a
trip back to Kngland. The new measure
ment rule of the New York Yacht Club
provide* for a more wholesome type of
iroat, aud I hope that the next race will
In* suited tinder those rules."
At au luforniul luncheon In the Midday
It appears tjiat no matter what
talk may he to the effect that Collins will
be seen outside of Boston next year, tho
Buffalo hoy has not abandoned hope of
remaining with bis Boston associates, and
nothing definite has be*n don* toward
transplanting him.
"I have made and have many friends In
the Boston public," said Collins, "I have
enjoyed playing, there a* never before In
my baseba'J career, and I do not believe
that those friend* hare left me. If, how-
ever, the noaton public demand* a change
and the club 1* with It, I will accept the
decision, and go elsswbers, no matter what
my regret may h*."
Collin* say* that be ha* not consid
ered the proposition that he buy some
stock In the Buffalo pennant winning
Eastern Lengue club and play on nnd
muuage It next year, nor has he done any
thing about a transfer to other of the big
lengue clubs, nor does be believe any
thing bos been settled between the Boston
club and Chick Stahl, bis staunch friend,
which w’ould result In Htahl taking over
permanently the reins of tho Boston cham
plons.
Collins expects that a meeting will be
held, at which General Taylor, of the Bos
ton club, aud President Ban Johnson, of
the American League, will settle hfs fate,
and he scarcely expects that they will
get together uutll the American League
meeting this winter.
There has been s rumor In some quar
ters to the effect that an entire change
In the Itoatou club control may transpire,
but Collins, If be knows of anything of
the sort, does not adroit It.—Buffalo dis
patch to The Boston Journal.
MAY DRAFT MULLANEV
IN PLACE DF WALKER
“If I can't get Pitcher Walker, then I
gueaa I can get First Baseman Mul-
loney," says Billy Smith, "the which"
ho will forthwith ■ do.
Billy does not want Mullaney on hla
baseball team. He haa 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. Ahy minor
league mogul would be glad to have
him. So Billy thinks he will draft him
on suspicion.
“It's this way." said Billy. “If
Walker was traded for Mullaney and
the deal Is allowed, then my draft for
Walker la 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," an .
Billy emitted a fiendish chuckle which
boded 111 for Jacksonville's desires i,,
have Mullaney as their manager next
year.
LIVE BASEBALL DOPE.
Bernle McCay haa been reserved i>.
Little Rock, according to Secrotar.
Farrell's most recent bulletin. Ths
local player may. have some trouble in
getting away from the Travelers to ac-
cept some of his many offers to act u
manager of Class B teams.
Jack Evers has opened a billiard si.
loon In Troy, N. Y.
Nig Clark was In trouble the other
day. He was arrested when he landed
In Windsor, Can., on the charge that he
had assaulted Ell Charette, the hus-
band of one of his cousins. It seemi
that N|g mixed up In .a family tow and
got all the beat of It. He was let ait
with A fine of 311.50.
Veteran Baseball Manager
Boosts Man Smith Drafted
OSCAR BLANTON.
Oscar Blanton, the youngster
whose plctre Is shown above, la
out with a challenge to meet any
man In Georgia at 126 pounds
ringside. Any man of Blanton's
weight who are Interested can
learn further particulars - by ad
dressing him at Arlington, Ga.
A YARN BY CROSS.
Billy Smith Is much elated over the
opinion expressed by Belden Hill,- Man
ager of the Cedar Rapids team, about
Ford, the new pitcher drafted from
Cedar Rapids by Smith.
“I regard Belden Hill 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."
Here Is what Hill writes Smith about
Ford:
"You have got a crackerjaek man In
Ford. He Is ua steady aa a clock and
always In condition and the stronger
the team against him the better he i,
"He has all kinds of nerve nnd fine
control and Is a good clean fellow ■
"He will win .700 per cent of hli
games with you with half a break la
luck. He fields hla position well, but
Isn't much of a hitter. He la just In
hla prime, aa last season was only his
second.”
Lave Cross waa telling about the
Cleveland Misfits of 1899. “One after
noon In St. Louis,” said the popular
pigeon fancier, “I 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 treek.
‘"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
said.
‘Sure enough,’ he said, turning back
up the stairs. 'It’s been so long since
won (tame that I had forgotten I
was a ban 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 waa aroused out of
bed In my home by the glare of flames
and the yell of fire. I thought sure the
house waa In flames, and hurried down
Into the yard In my night clothes
big bonfire was biasing In the street
and about seventy-five men anil boy*
were prancing around It.
"'Here!' I shouted, 'what's all thli
fuss about?'
'"Why, didn't you hear?’ the leader
of the gang asked.
“ 'No,' I aald, 'what has happened
“ 'Why, the Clevelands won a gome
today,’ he said, 'and we are just sere,
nadlng the captain.' ”—Exchange.
Club In the Broad exchange. !6 Broad
street. Sir Thomas also Intimated that be
would Issue another challenge.
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SHIVERED SPORTS.
Benny Yanger and Steve Kinney arc oii
the cards for a fifteen-round trout tonight
before the Osark Athletic Club, of Daven
port, lows. Both are reported In good
shape for the contest.
Beginning today the Beuulng race track
at Washington Is to be the scene of three
days of cross-country sport. The occasion
la the nnuual meeting of the United Hunts
Racing Association, an organisation which
alms to promote steeple-chasing among
hunting men.
TAD POKES FUN AT O'BRIEN
BY TAD.
New York. Oct. 26.—Manager Tom McCarey. of the Los Angeles Club
which Is to run the O'Brlen-Burns fight, says he will hold that go In the
afternoon and have moving pictures taken.
Maybe Philadelphia Jawn won't be there In the ring halt 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
faces the camera, and maybe Jawn won’t smile his sweetest, whether
losing or winning. ,
Maybe he won’t be fixed up to the queen's taste, eh?
What a treat those pictures will be:
Burns will keep his back to the camera from the time the bell
clangs until the enih What chance will he hare to peek at the picture-
men?
Jawn will enter the ring with his plug hat, his lavender gloves, his
Vvalklng-stlck and valet.
What a marvelous man. to be sure.
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