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■ 1 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, lDOti. TECH STUDENTS HOLD GREAT MASS MEETING , Thursday afternoon the Inst hard ,* work will done lit Tech Held and , the finishing touches put on the nr- ’ intnlsAtloii In preparation for the game with eGorgla. Wednesday afternoon the Varsity ' 4 lined up against the scrubs In a rattling . game. The scrubs, under the leader ship of Assistant Touch Beene, put up t*a grand light, but they wer run over In , terrible style by the regulars and u ‘ high score run Up. At this the squud Is far from lis best. Luck und llrowii are Improving, hut slowly, and there Is considerable doubt * whether or not they will be able to play—and If they do start, whether or ' not they will last to the end. Coach Helsrnan and the older heads on the Tech team and among the Tech alumni have been doing everything possible to overcome the feeling that Georgia Is going to be an easy proisi- atllon and u reallatlon that the battle ; of Saturday Is likely to be the hardest of the season has been brought Home to (lie team und the Tech followers. Am! ll Is “About time.” for If the Teel* team had gone into the gfttne with anything like over-confidence their de feat would undoubtedly have been overwhelming. A mass meeting of the students w held Thursday and the rooters organ ised for Baturduy’s gume. Coach Hels- man wus present and hume an address, urging (he men to come out and root for the team. Vndoubtedly (lie crowd Saturday will be the Inrgest of the season. Grlui, the huinitn punching hag. Is going to show them out In Frisco how to stuy the limit. Pittsfield, Mass., tins the balloon bug for fair. A leading hotel of that city nontieos that It will have a “gas bng" for the nac of guests next summer. BILLY SMITH DRAFTS ANOTHER RIGHT-HANDER Billy Smith lias . drafted another pitcher. The man Is McCarthy, lead ing light of the Keluinaxoo team, of the South Michigan Association. Ho Is a right-hander and a wonder. Here Is what Morris Myer. his manager during the pust season, says about him in a letter to Billy Smith: "Sny, Bill, there la a pitcher In this league, McCarthy by name, who Is the best I have ever seen. He worked for Mt. Clements. As the league was not boosted much, no one bus drafted him as yet. "If he doesn’t make good with you, will give you $200 for him uny time before May 1.” Smith’s attention was first called to the man by an article In The Sporting Life, which said: "At that, the organization (the South Michigan Association) did not receive the scrutiny it deserved by any means. There were several players overlooked who would- have been good stuff for any Class A league team. "Notable among them was Pitcher McCarthy, of the Mt. Clements team, which won the pennant. This fellow won 36 games out of 45, an astonish ing record In any company,, but more than that, he went for 25 years for a defect. / "McCarthy was having his first year In fast company and he never played j league ball before, although he (s well : known in the semi-professional circles ! in Ohio, where his home Is. He started j out pitching the spit ball freely, but ; dropped that as the season progressed, using It only In emergencies. While j not exactly of the rangy type, he reaches In the neighborhood of 185 pounds. He fields so well and helps 1 his Aide so much at the bat that he ! was used through the season as an j outfielder when not In the box, making .! good In the outer gardens with a ven geance, in addition to his sensational i success in the box." Harmon, Haoul and Howard Ketron are three of the men who are ex pected to be big stuns against Tecii In the game Saturday. Harmon and Haoul are Atlanta men. Ketron is one of the oldest and most experienced players on the Georgia team and has been playing brilliant bull at center. McDougall Kitchen Cabinets. We want all the tidy houuewlvea to net our tliapiav of theee beautiful and ueefut articles. The most dealrubli' piece of Furniture we show. Made of Satin Walrntl with solid old bruss hardware; convenient, smooth, easy, working, at once the housekeeper's pride and her great- cat labor and step saver. The full AM pi line Is shown on our llrst floor. tl.OO \ V1% down, tl.oo n week. Price of Me- Dougull Cabinets ...'. WALTER J. WOOD CO., 103-5-7-9-11 Whitehall Street. OUR WINNING POLICY, One Price and That the LOWEST. Our busiip sH is conducted in a mnnner which we believe will make us man\ friends, und which we know has already given , ls the largest trade of any Southern House. We buy in the largest (fuantities. We handle only standard goods. Every piece of goods in our store is marked in plain United States figures, so o V o rv . body gets the same price. We deliver goods promptly in perfect condition, and we use no collectors to annoy our customers. Add to above our low prices and you have the combination that n„„| p ns grow. AT ATHENS I GEORGIA MEN HURRYING TO THE LIMIT TO PREPARE FOR SATURDAY’S GAME. HpeHzl to Tin* Georgian. I’nltwlly of Georgia. Athens. Gn., N<»\. M.—The Georgia »«*•»! I" putting in some good practice during tin* wrrk, preparing for tb* Yellow Jnckots, whom limy in**# t .Saturday in Atlanta. Th»* *>dd* are very Mightiy lu favor of Tarh. hut Georghi will go Into th* gum*- * with thnt grit and spirit which Inis at way* characterlz#*! her team a In tin* past, and which hns palled her out of many a , (tad hole. There will be no lack of citlhtishisfii on Georgia'* part Saturday, for a number.of - rooters will go over with the team Friday I afternoon, and -200 more will coin* over on ’. a apodal train Saturday morning, bringing * the band along. From all indications, this will Ik*. Iq ! all odds, fh** beat game of the season in Atlanta. All dope is liable* to h« upset when Georgia and Tech lie up. Front the Mlmwlug made so far, it look.- i as though the t'nrllsic foot I Ml 11 team Is out f to make trouble for some of the tig fel- * lows. Carpets and Rugs ON EASY TERMS Our Bug stock Is easily th© largest In Atlanta. Axmin- ster. Kasimir, Sblrvana, Tapestry and Empire Art Bquarett, full size. 9x12 feet, priced at $8.00, $10.00, $12.50, $18.00, $22.50* and $25.00. Remember these goods are sold on our easy terms. Carpets and Mattings laid on your floor within 24 hours of purchase. We are the promptest house in this de partment. WORK Tech-Georgia Game Will Be the Best Ever Edited By PERCY H. WHITING. T~ - TTTOBEMQrON WHOM GEORGIA DEPENDS HARD HARMON. H. KETRON. RAOUL. Come and Inves tigate. . We want you to vlxlt uh. Hoc our More and Mni-k We arc NOT the cJrdlnary easy payment houiw. \\> arc not similar In uny mpect except terms. Our Roods ure flrst-elass. prices lowest, ami our customers from every walk In life. It will be a pleasure to us and a benefit to you for you to walk through our place. RANGES. $1.00 a Week. STOVES. Baseball Rule Makers May Change Pitching Distance When the Nntloual league directors most here December 12, tin* old questkm ' of a change In the pitching distance In on J the program, bnt you take It n* a one s best bet that there will 1m* iio change lu the rules. Tbs pitching distance question, however, - has been a disturbing element lu baseball ^powwow* for the psst twenty years, but nt yet no one ha* solved the problem. In fact, tnnny experts deny that It Is a prob lem. They believe that the present din lance of 60 feet and a fraction Is the Ideal dlatauee. and the writer Is Inclined to agree with them. i • The sole object la fixing the pitching »distance la to increase hatting ns much ns Impossible, but every ‘change has worked the * *Kb*r way. Batting has steadily declined, vdeeplto the numerous efforts to rearrange V the hgMball rules. About eighteen years ngo. there*was » .great hullaballoo over the subject ml bat- 7«1ng, and the pitcher, who then pitched at j - distance of W feet from the homo plate, ywaa moved back. , A few yeara later ho was again moved si.mk, but all the time the batting kept tdaeUnlng. while tho pitcher steadily gained it be upper hand. * Joe MrOInnity. who probably has given ,»« much thought to the urt of pitching ns way man living, nmlntatus that rule-makers ■bare been worklug on the wrong theory Wince the foundation of our national game. «d 0000000000000000000000000 *^^TEAM DIRECTORY. O The Idea of moving the pitcher back to pfctfa the hotter an advantage was **r- roneoua In the tli-st place," says the Iron Man. "As an evidence of this, the minute they moved us back the more effective we became. If they should move the pitcher back It* second base lie would be harder to hit than ever, provided Ills nnn lichl out long enough to get the ball over the plate. "A logical answer to this Is that the pitcher should have lieeii Kept close, .lust why this fnct should maintain Is hard to explain, but. In my opinion, the long distance give* the pitcher a 1 letter chance to break curves where he wants to. The natural fall of a ball toward the center of gravity Is also very deceptive to the eye. When pitchers threw the ball at 50 feet It kept more on a straight line, and wide curves were almost Impossllde, as they didn’t break aoou enough. In other words, the batter’s eye could follow a ball at it distance of 50 feet better thau It could at «n. "A g«*»d lustauce of this inability to lilt a ball throw'll from u long dlatauee." contin ued McGlunlty, "la shown when you see a batter try to lilt one back that Is thrown from the ibid in practice. Home day you watch that, ami s**e Iiotv many they can bit , line "I don’t know exactly uluit ought to be done, hut If they are thinking of putting the pitcher farther back they are worklug on the wrong theory." Seeing that they have been unable to Im prove tmiting In the Inst 1*1x1111*011 years, the rule-makers would do well to let well enough alone. -Ilogemaii Bulger, lu Tho i SEASON OF 1907 PROMISES TO BE GOOD ONE FOR MAJOR LEAGUES j IM..I I, New York F.\etdug World. Ktlron. center—Clarkesvllli-. O Harman. Ruard—Atlanta. Arrandale, guard—Grove. DaLaperrlere. tackle—llaaelit.ay O Nichols, tackle—Savannah. Graves, end—Sparta. Hatcher, end—Columbus Fleming, half back—Sparta. Ransom, half back—Columbus. Hodgson, half back—Athena. Smith, Imff back—Greensboro Raoul, full back (captain)—At- O O back— O half 0 lanta. O G. f. Ketron, O Clarkesvlllo. O O Farris, quarter bark—At hen*. O 000OOOOOOOOOO0OOOOOOOOOOOO Hpeels 1 to The Georgian. ITnlveralty of Georgia, Nov- s. The Georgia football team, which meet* Tech in Atlanta on Haturday, lm* men on It from almost every auction of the atate. The name "Georgia" Lmtbull team la well applied, for there l*n’t a man on the team who doesn't call the Empire Rtate hi* home. Atlanta ha* two representative* +t fuil- th»* team — Raoul, captain and back, and Horry Hurmon, guard Raoul pi a yet I »*n the Peacock Hchool team of Atlanta and later on u Virginia prep Hchool team. Hannon played lust year on a prep .school team in Florida. * Both of the*© men are playing a star game and well reptx**ent the Gate City. Sparta ha* two men on the team— Fleming, halfback, and Grave*, end. Thl* year I* the first for both -Flem ing und Grave* on the team. Fleming played clu** football for several year* at Emory, while Grave* wa* the star of the Stone Mountain eleven last year. Graves’ punting ha* been nothing short of marvelous this year. tiarkesvtlle show* up on the grid iron limp In fine style, having the Ket ron brother* ,.n the team. Harold Ketron is probably the strong e*t man at center in the S. .I. A. A. H« wn* captain of the I903 team, which wan one «*f tin* best over turned out by Ge.ogla. G. C. Ketron. the younger brother, i* playing a strong game in the hack field and promise* to follow his broth- Although th© season of 1906 wa* tho best the game ever knew, next season Is expected to better still, say* The Boston Herald. Every* club Is making efforts to Improve and the 'puce will be hotter than ever before. Detroit Intend* to make a strong bid for a leading place nnd In Hugh Jen- nlnga will hnve a first-class manager, who ought* to give a very satisfactory account of hla stewardship. He Is ac tive and energetic, a very' popular play er, and men will do good work under him or he will know th© reason why. Napoleon Lajole will do his prettiest to give the laugh to those who think he as not cut out for a pennant winner. Cleveland will have a strong team and it will take good ball tossing to head thl* team off. Cleveland I* to be stronger In two ino*t eesentlnl points— In the pitching and catching depart ment*. Berger, the pitcher secured from Columbus, und Liebhardt, the crack pitcher ot Memphis, will help the club a lot. Then Catcher Howard Wuketlehl, who has been recalled from Washington, will strengthen the club be hind tho bat. While Cleveland has been able to present a strong front in sea sons gone by the club will open next season stronger than ever before. St. Louis Is the club that Comlskey think* is to cause a whole lot of trou ble. It will be very strong in all points and will be a good all-round aggrega tion. Few clubs in the country are better balanced or capable of putting up a bettor buttle. No club looks any bettor for the 1907 strugglo than the New York Highland er*. All thl* club ha* lacked to make a pennant* winner for several seasons past has been pitchers, and the club has gone In wholesale.since the close of last season to remedy tho deficiency In this particular. Griffith xvJII have a • • ifc decided adjunct to his pltchiAr force in Pitcher Loulu Brockett, with the Buf falos the past season. The White Sox, therefore, bid fair to have as difficult a task to win the pennant In 1907 as they did last season. National League Changes. According to the present outlook, the only change In the management of a National League club next season Will be In Philadelphia, where William J. Murray supersedes Hugh Duffy. The Illness of Mathewson. the Injur ies to Donlln and the Inability of Ames to pitch his usual game prevented the New York team from making the con test with Chicago they would surely have inode had the club not been crip pled. The ability to finish second was certainly a good showing under the cir cumstances, and the outlook Is, that, strong as are the Chlcagos, they will have their hands full to keep ahead of the New York team next season. dent Barney Dreyfuss would allow Fred Clarke to go, under any condi tions. and that reliable manager and player will doubtless be at the head of the club next season aa usual. Clarke will quit the game when he quits Drey fuss, and he is scarcely # ready to do that yet, even If he has a lucrative farm In Kunsas. The Pittsburg club has been Twdly but up the past two seasons, and seldom has had Its strength in the field. Still the club has been well up in the race. club that must be watched very closely next season Is the Brooklyn iub. Judged by the showing that was made last season, Patsy Donovan will make a good showing and will present a front superior to that of last season. He will have a pitching corps that will ompare well with most of them. A line trio of pitching talent was secured in Rucker, of Augusta; Whiting, of Lawrence, and Henley, of Rochester. The latter was theGdayer released by Connie Mack. He did splendid work for Rochester. No player attracted any more atten tion toward the close of the season than the light-haired Alperman, of the Brooklyn team, who lilt the ball so hard ‘in this city. He was certainly a grand prize In the baseball lottery. He Is a splendid fielder and a grand hitter and base runner, nnd ought to be fine card in Brooklyn. With such team Brooklyn ought to make a better snowing financially than hns been made for years. Cincinnati will again try to moke a good showing, but will have to do sonic tall hustling to maintain the pace that will be set by the other teams. Deal at first and Corcoran are booked for removal, John Ganzei coming buok to major league company to replace’ the former. Joe Kelley will also go else where If he plays ball at all. Boston Will bo 8trongor. The conditions In Boston In the Na tional League will be decidedly chang ed. All talk to the contrary notwith standing, George B. Dovey will act us president and treasurer, and his broth er, Joseph Dovey, as secretary and business manager, and there will be no other official, utiles* 'business should boom to such nn extent that more as sistance will be necessury, but at pres ent no one Is contemplated In addition the two gentlemen named. There Is no doubt that the dub will take the field considerably stronger than the team of last season, nnd unless there is an unusual crippling of the forces, at no time will It be -necessary to go out and pick up Independent players. The present array of players will be strengthened, and there will be an ample utility force. Manager Tenney already has several changes In view, but feel* It would be unwise to say anything until all details are com pleted. The new owners will he in this ity at the end of the month, when the final papers will be passed which will give them control of the property. Southern League Managers Change Quite Frequently The signing of Johnny Dobb<* to msange Nnshi file—the news of which comes quite unexpectedly, by tho way—calls to mind the fact that they change managers now ami then In the Houthern League. Out of the eight mauugers who started off with the lengue hack In 1901 only one hns seeu continuous service—our foxy old friend, Charles Frnuk, he of the cherubic smile aud the rusty record. » The rest of thnt merry bunch which put the league on Its feet have pusesd out of the cun. NEW MANAGER at Nashville NAT KAISER & CO. Bargtini in unredeemed DU- The two Athens boy* on the team are Morton Hodgson and Farris. Hodgson plays in the hack field and Farris is the man who run the team as iiuurter- back in th** Mercer game. dumbo** has Hat* h* r at end olid mondr. Confidential loans on val- j R»n.-in> at halfbac k uablet. .16 Decatur 8t. Kimball Bon**. It will bv *#*©n from the following •"director)" of the team how the men u*. portiotifd ,,ut over th<* slutc: Hpcelnl to The Georgian. Nashville, Teuu., Nov. .V—Official ail- Dunccment Is made that Johnny l>obba wifi manage the Nashville team for 19>7 and the t'battanoogtt boy will assume control at once. He will be given full control of the team and will sign or release men as OOO«OIWH>OOOOO0OOOOOOOOOOO O O O “HERE’S HOPING,” O O SAYS S. LOUCKS. O O 0 O Sylvester Loucks, the * pitcher O fit. I Mbits I* one of the best known celebrities lu the professional baseball world. He Is a star outfit Ider and haa held down •■enter field with the Brooklyn Nat I* mala, Kansas CUy. tatttlarllle nnd other Important tennis. ('hattnpoogn Nought to organlz** a team for next year with him nt Its bend, out the movement failed and Nn»hvlle secured him. Pnsddent Kahn had uboiit fifty nppllea* Hons from w*mhl-be manager*. HAT0L0GY. Have your old soft or stiff felt hat '■leaned and reshaped. Hussey, 28 i-2 Whitehall. O "Ves" Is looking forward to a 0 O good season In 1907. O O "I think that l shall be better O 0 than ever." said Loucks. "I was O Q In pretty bad shape all of last sea- O O son on account of on injured fin- 0 0 ger. It was In no shape during the O 0 season and I found it Impossible O 0 to retain any control over the Dali. O 0 It Is as sound a* a new dollar 0 O now. though, and t hope to be O 0 there with control, us well as 0 0 curves and speed, next year." O O Loucks has been reserved by O 0 Memphis and expect* to sign a 0 0 contract during the winter and to O 0 report in the Bluff City In tho 0 0 spring. O O O O0000O00000O0QO000O0O0000O MORE PRIZES FOR GOLFERS A Saturday afternoon handicap will be held at th*» usual time over the Ka*r Lake course of tin* Atlanta Athletic Flub. The iiftuai admission fee will l*e charged, and the prizes will be nicrch’tinfi* *. The handicap committee will go over the handh'ap* of the players o ho » ere out side tju* money last Kntttrdny, nnd wifi ghe handicap* «f suffl*T'nt libM-ulity p» make it possible for nodi* of Mie |Miorer players, to come in for the pi in * This series of Saturday afternoon hall- dfeap* I* proving the most popular ever at tempted in Atlnatn. The field« tr v*» been large, the plnylug good aud the l*tadf.*»;ps satisfactory. Hlx manager* have been named for uext •usou. They art* Smith in Atlanta, liohh* In Nashville, Vaughan In Birmingham. Babb itt Memphis, Frank lu New* Orleaus, nnd nm Fisher In bhreveport. Out of this huuch two arc rank "come- lately*." Them* two are Dobbs and Tout Fisher. Fisher has been with the league off ou for "quite n spell," but Uot ns u mogul. In the new rale he mnde his delmt few* days ago—nud hi* is still picking up the bouquets, for Torn Is n popoliir player nnd n gentleman. He should he n credit to Hhreveport nnd the lengue. Hohhs Is a new ne. though, und, like Fisher,U» making his first stagger ns a manager. Three More New Ones. Billy ftutiib. i barley Huhh nnd Harry Vnttghuu eneh have u year of managerial service iu the Houthern League to their credit. Billy Is a chronic uiuiing?r nud luis been nt It for years. Also he Is n chronic |h*ii- limit winner—which fact lie l* going to demonstrate in the very near future— though that’s another story. But, niiywny, he made Ids debut lust sen son nnd he i*ertululy made the league hum right from the Jump. He put u ten iu lu the field that tusde nil of them hustle and which would hnve won the hunch of hunting* with any lurk, ('barley Huhh made his firNt stagger at the man- ngerlal stunt Inst year nnd did well. He turuUUed Memphis with a first vlns.i hall elnh mid played the game hiuiself lu n style which was a revelation. It Is still a won der that some of the big league teams did hot draft Huhh, hut they did not and he will he at the Memphis helm next sen sou. Just what Montgomery nml Little Rook are going to do nlmut manager* Is i< matter of considerable uueertuility lit thl* stnga of the doings. How About Little Rock7 Nashville papers hnve It thnt Mike Flan hns boon iip|„>liitod nisiingor of the Tmw*l- ers, nnd timt the club I* going to Is* put mi u good linn mini busts nnd "run right.” This seems too good to In* true, but It Is possible of course. With Mike Finn settled on ns tin* leader °f Little ltock forces. It leaves only tb** Montgomery aggregation to lie accounted for. Over hi the Alnhntmi hurglet they nr.* talking of giving up hnschnfi and railing the whole deni off. Jf they are In earnest In this, f'hnttuitooga mny get the Montgom ery. Franchise mid |f H does hammy Htrang will he the Chattanooga manager. Thli might be a desirable change, nud, anyway, It I* worth considering. Taking It from wiy |*int of view. It N evident thnt the Houthern Is*ngue Is going to have a fine lot of umiittgera for 1!*»7 nnd thnt hnsehnil Is ou the Ihkiui. PLAYED BALL ‘ AT PIEDMONT To the Spotting Editor of The Geor gian: , Once again was the crack of the Lit nnd the whiz of the ball heard ut th* old scene, of battle at -Piedmont Park yesterday ufternoon. Tech Department met nnd defeated the classical bn**- ball team of the Boys* High School by a score of 6 to «. Iu i Chicago. ••Jlgg** Now that Pat^l'oi Tb* two northern trams. Portland and j ^ president of tin Health*, finished •*<:. »»o lir the I’arifb *wfil dispose I’oast l-engne, with Is** Angeles third. deuce tint*. rs has been ree Kastern league, f bis Inteint In the Pi HOW JAWN O'BRIEN TOOK A FALL OUT OF THESE EASY "COME-ONS” By TAD. Now Yot k, Nov. 8.—-Sav. that O’Brien ru.v front Philadelphia Is a won der. When it comes to tossing the bull Jack he Is so fur ahead of other* that you would think they had not started at nil. out In ’Frisco, after the Berger-Kaufman go. Jack said that Al Knut- inuti wus the toughest boy In the world nnd that lie would hate to in©** him again. It makes me think of the time O’Brien went West and In* aud Kauf mun were matched for 20 rounds. Juek w as met at the ferry depot by Foley. "Hardy,” said Jaw it, km that fin nil in and that I'm up against a tough lad In Kaufman. I n’t hit om I used to. hut don't say a word. I’ll get a good short-end nf this fight und then retire.' Foley fell like a wooden duck. If any one In Frisco did not hear on the quiet that O'Brien te lose, they have not been seen so far. Well, that’s how It was that Kauftnan wus almost an even IkjI • night of the fight, oilrlen was down w*tth his wad, hi* Jewell high hats and even Ills fancy socks. Wlmt a clean-ii|> that fellow them. he’s out, peddling the soft stuff again. II#* #I*n*s not care y think of hint. All lie^wuut* Is th** match, .lawn will xpccted vhat th< tea: . - ; - . -