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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. FRIDAY OCTOBER, 26, 190b. EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING UP-TO-DATE NEWS OF SPORTING WORLD 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 ••••*.*•< 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. (NNMNNIHMIIMMHMHMHHIHHIMNMIHI 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. a o O BIQ PURSE FOR 0 LITTLE FIGHTER8. 0 o — 0 D Los Angelos, Cal., Oct. 2*.— O 0 Manager McCarey, of the Pacific O O Athletic Club, wired to Joe Gana 0 0 at Milwaukee and Battling -Net- O 0 son at Hegeswlch, offering them a 0 0 purse of 130,000 to fight before his O 0 club on the May date during the O 0 Fiesta, when the city will be O O crowded with Shrlners from all 0 O parts of the country. O 000000000000000000O0000000 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 NAT KAISER & CO. Bargains in unredeemed Dia monds. Confidential loans on val uables. 15 Decatur St. Kimball Home. TAKE YOUR STIFF or soft (elt hat to Bussey to be clean ed and reshaped like bow. 28 1-2 Whitehall. 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. n 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. 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