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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, MONDAL, NOVEMBER 26, 1906.
Football Season Fast Drawing to a Close
rEdited By PERCY H. WHITING.
| NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS |
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By PERCY H. WHITINO.
Football fans in Atlanta and the Atlanta territory need not
fade away from a laek of something to keep them interested
during the next few days.
(!. M. A. and Donald Fraser are slated to meet Monday aft
ernoon. though there is a possibility that the game may fall
through at the eritieal moment, owing to a hitch in the nego
tiations.
Tuesday promises to be reasonably quiet, but Wednesday
afternoon the High School team plays Donald Fraser.
The High School boys are making a desperate effort to win
over the Donald Fraser bunch and have secured Jesse Sibley,
the old Vanderbilt player, now teaching at Stone Mountain, to
give them some final pointers before the game. Mr. Sibley will
have charge of the team Monday nnd Tuesday nftemoons and
during the game Wednesday.
On Thursday, in addition to the Tech-Clemson game in At
lanta and the Georgia-Auburn game in Macon, R. E. Lee nnd
Stone Mountain will meet at Piedmont Park Thursday morning
and Gordon and the Georgia Scrubbs will play in Macon Thurs
day afternoqn.
Mercer Game Artistic Success,
But Awful Financial Frost
THANKSGIVING DAY WILL
PRODUCE NEW CHAMPIONS
New York, Nov. 26.—Thanksgiving day
will Im* tin important one In pugilist!*? cir
cles, ns there nro six I tattles curded to lie
i fmight lietwecn prominent lighters. Wlint
makes this day more Important than any
other In the fact that two of the content!*
lire championship buttles, in which new
champions inn.v I** produced. The lighters
, who will battle for these titles are "Phlln”
{Jack O’Brien nnd Tommy Burns, who will
clash in n twenty-round bout tieforo the
^Faelrtf Athletic flub of I*»* Angeles, 4’nl.,
f for the world's heavyweight championship
| iionors. and Billy •‘Honey” .Melody nnd
Joe M'ab-olt. who will struggle In a tlfteen-
• round Isnit before the Lincoln Athletic
Club of rhclsen, Mass., for the welter
weight title.
Ham Langford and George tjunther fight
at Haverhill, Mass.. Jack O'Leary and Andy
Beznnti fight at Milwaukee, Wl*., Johnny
Thompson and f*ew Powell fight at C'olmn,
<’al„ nnd Willie Hehumnker and Benny
Frnuklln tight at Baltimore, Md., before
the Broadway Athletic t’lnh. All of the six
fights should l*e Interesting, ns the princi
pals are evenly matched.
Tommy Murphy and Matty Baldwin hnvo
been matched again. This Is the sixth tluio
they have been signed up to meet In a bat
tie.
Georgia’s Football Actors
Rehearsing For Last Stunt
ftpeeinl to The G***«t*glnn.
University of Georgia, Athens, G;i., Nov.
, 2*.—Thursday the eurinlii will Is* rung
.down on the dual net of the Georgia
football season In Macon, at t'entral t'lty
• park, when Georgia lines tip against lor
'old foe, Auburn
Sin
the
of inn
the-
toaiur hute ninteticd their strength against
each other In the Thanksgiving game, and
nil the natives for miles around have eon
tfreguted (o see the battle.
A sperlal train over the Central will
'carry a large Insly of students from hero
to Macon early Thursday morning, and
many of the town people will go along.
From the look* of things, Georgia is
going to perform some mighty stunts.
The Georgia team was slow In developing,
but Is now developing a fierce and devil-
may-con* spirit which point* to u victory
over Auburn. The way the team went
.after Tennessee has put a lot of eonfhteiiee
: In the student IhnI.v and other local fob
•lowers, although overconfidence will eertaiu-
] y. not 1m* In evidence.
Auburn will tiring down a host of root-
1 ei's and a team which. Judging from dope,
I Is rboiit evenly matcjied with Georgia. Him
Is training hard for this game, of course,
and will make every effort to dowu the
*T**d and Idaek."
No matter who wins, there's going to
be a great tight, one that will surely de
light the foothill! tlend. •
In tin* Inst four games played between
the two. teams, Georgia has won two and
Auburn two, so tills year's will ho the
rubber, so to spenk.
Auburn lias a brass band, too. I*ast year
her band perched Itself on n tally-ho and
figuratively and literally put If all over
Georgia's hand. But not so this year, for
Georgln has a band of her own, which
lias all competitors skluued many fur
longs. This same hand has dispensed
sweet music several times for the Atlanta
football nnd baseball public. Anyhow, It
Is certain that there will lie n battle royal
oil between the disciples of l’an, which
will be enough to make that old fellow
stop his ears and flee iu disorder and dis
may.
By B. 8. BROWN.
Tech beat Mercer Saturday afternoon Iu
Macon by a score of 66 to 0.
When the Tech athletic authorities
planned a game with Mercer for the Satur
day before Thanksgiving day they had two
reasons for doing no. The first was that, In
general with other colleges, they did not
want a bard game just before they tackle
t'lemson, and again they figured that ns
Helsman’s Yellow Jackets bad never played
In Macon they would prove a good druwlng
Well, they had their easy game nil right;
but they got n frost for a crowd. Just 305
tickets showed up In the ticket taker’s box,
which showed the exact number of persons
there were In Macou who felt like spending
the necessary fraction of one slmoleon to
see Mercer defeated. From n financial
standpoint, the game was a dlsapopintmeut
to the Tech officials.
A play of a very peculiar nature happened
when Tech made her first score. With the
Iml! on Mercer's one-yard line, Htout took
it nnd easily went through the Mercer line
for what looked good for n touchdown.
Just as he passed the line, however, either
his Interference or some Mercer plsyer
knocked the half from bis hauds nnd It
rolled several yards back of the line. Mal
lory of Mercer was the first road to get to
It, and Jie made a dash to try to get around
the astounded Tech tneu. but was thrown
Just back of the line, giving Tech a safety
nnd two points.
The second 'varsity was sent In by Hels-
man at the beginning of the game, ami
played through the first half and a part of
the second, when the full 'varsity went in
to relieve thefn.
The Mercer boy* showed grit, nnd for a
team that had never played football until
this season they did excellent work, nnd
should he heard from next year. Their
tackling was the best feature of their play.
During the second half Fullback Hliaw
sprained his ankle, but grittlly played the
game out.
A pretty feature was the entire absence of
that viudlctlve spirit of college rivalry
sometimes seen at college games. Professor
Holmes of Slercer was pleased with this.
He stated besides that, comparatively
speaking, the season had been a financial
success and that next year they would
have as good or a better team.
The line-up and summary follow:
TECH. MEUCEK.
Plttnrd nnd Luck, c... Adams, c.
Bell and . Wood and
Henderson, Y. g Knight, r. g.
Means and
McCarty, r. t Westberry, r. t.
Illll and Sweet, r. e Melton, r. e.
Snyder and Henderson, 1. g Haras, I. g.
Mice and Monroe, 1. t Scoggins, I. t.
Jarvis nnd Brown, 1. e...,..,.Mallory, h o.
Emerson nnd Davies, 1. h........Loftin, I. h.
rwmiM HIM* iHHUiunn, i. i. 11.
Htout and Adamson, f. h Hbnw, f. b.
Touchdowns, Jarvis. MncDonelt. Stout' i2i,
HH1. McCarty, W. Smith (2), Monroe t2),
Davies. Goals from touchdowns. Smith,
Brown (2), McCarty. Safety, Malloiy. Ref
eree, O'Donnell, Pennsylvania. Umpire,
Simmons. Head linesman. Mason. Lines
men, Amorous of Tech and Abel of Mercer.
Timers, Wltman of Tech and Tapper of
Mercer. Time of halves, 20 minutes.
BASKET BALL
NEXT IN LINE
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA WILL
HAVE FIRST-CLASS TEAM
THIS YEAR.
Nov.
Public School Athletics
A Success in New York
Owing to the Interest which Is begin
ning to Im* felt In Atlanta in public
• school • athletics, the following article
by Dr. Luther Hulsey Gullek, one of
the founders of the New York Piddle
School Alhleth* League, may bo of lu-
forest:
When I became director of physical
training lu the New York city public
schools there wus no relation between the
department of physical training and nth-
letles In the city, nor was there any or
ganisation among those school* that had
athletics. There was some Individual foot
ball and other leagues In the elementary
schools.
After tnlklug over the matter with the
superintendent of schools. Dr. William 11.
Maxwell, with General George W. Wingate
and James K. Sullivan, It was decided to
form a league for the propagation of ath
letics among the school boys of New
York city. A committee on organization
was created, which was composed of these
[gentlemen, together with President Finley,
iof the College of the City of New York.
[It was at once decided to hold an athletic
[meet In Madison Square Garden. This was
m great success: over 1,000 boys entered.
The direct object «>f the league was not
merely or mainly to promote athletics
among those Imy* already athletically train
ed, but to develop n largo number of boys
who knew nothing ai>out the various
| sports. To do this It was necessary to
l f get as close as possible to the Individual
schools. Accordingly, It was decided to or
ganize the city into districts, following
the same lines ns the district divisions of
tho board of education, nnd to create ns
fur as possible a league within each dis
trict, which should look after all local
Interests. This was done always with the
co-opcratlnii of the district superintendent.
It took us two years to accomplish this,
>but It was finally done, and these leagues
are now operating successfully. They run
district meets of all kinds, raise money,
and help the individual schools.
There are about 5,000 boys ohl enough
to come Into athletics In each district
league. There Is a meeting of one repre
sentative from each district league once
per month, to discuss matters of geueral
Interest. This Is the Elementary Schools
Games Committee. The high schools are
similarly formed Into groups, and u meet-
lug of one representative from each of the
twenty-three high schools of the city is
held once a month, for the consideration
of high school matters. This I* the High
School Gaines Committee.
One typo of work done Is class athletics.
This engages a larger number of boys
than any other sport that we have. The
object of the class athletics Is to get every
member of a class to compete, securing the
average performance of the class. Then
the best class of the city in an event gets
a trophy, to !>o hung up In Ita room
until the next competition. It Is the best
scheme yet devised to get hold of the great
masses.
The button test Is to get a l»oy to com
pete against himself. That Is, we have
Special to The Georgian.
University of Georgia. Alliens. Ga
I.—The regular basket ball practb
parotory to selecting the team which Is to
represent the university In the coming
games this winter has begun, and from now
regular dally practice will In* held lu
the Young Men's Christian Association gym
nasium.
The basket ball squad Is composed of a
large number of candidates, and Is tin-
*r th^ direction of Captain Itoltsendorff.
Later on, when the men have rounded
Into letter shape, dully matches will be
ployed.
Secretary Forbes, of Hie Young Men’s
Christian Assmdatloii, has kindly consented
to net as conch ngaln this year, ami he
will co-operate with Captain HoltstmdorfY
developing the new material and round-
lug the whole team Into shape.
Basket ball Is a very popular and prom
inent s|M>rt In nearly nil of the large North-
rn colleges, but heretofore It lias never
taken n very firm hold In Southern col
lege ranks.
However, last year Georgia organized a
team, nnd so did Tech, Tulnue and several
other Southern colleges. Vanderbilt and
Cumberbii.d have long had good teams.
This year more tenuis are Itelng organ
ised, ami everything points to Its banner
year lu the South.
For the first time In several years
Indiana la without a roller polo league.
Oklahoma has a league this year und
the former Hooaler players make up
four teams.
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FOOTBALL SCORES.
Local:
Tech Scrubs 0; Gordon 12.
Southern:
Tech 6G; Mercer 0.
0
0 Richmond College 17; Randolph O
O Macon College 0. O
O Arkansas 22; Tulune 0. O
O Kaateni: 0
O Yale 6; Harvard 0. 0
0 Pennsylvania 22; Villa Nova 12. 0
0 St. John* College 2; Johns Hop- 0
0 kins University 0.
0 Drown 23; Dartmouth 0.
Hwarthmore 21: Amherst 0.
Syracuse 4; West Point 0.
Gettysburg 10; Bucknell 0.
Western:
Chicago 38; Nebraska 6.
Illinois f»; Purdue 0.
Minnesota 8; Indiana 6.
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JUNIORS WIN GAME.
The College Park Juniors played n very
good game of football Friday afternoon
with the College Park Scrubs.
The score was 35 to 7.
The Juniors lined up ns follows:
B. D. Gray, center; Johu Jackson, right
guard; Iru Smith, left guard; Chester
Forbes, half back: Jim Luck, full bnck;
Atllngswortli, half bnck; Luck, right end;
Curtis, left end; Brewster, quarterback,
ami Griffin, right tackle.
FIGHT MAY BE OFF.
New York, Nov. 26.—There may be no
figlituftcr all between the two famous boys
—Terry McGovern uud Young Corbett.
These two fighters, with their managers,
Joe Humphreys nnd Harry Follnk, are to
meet nt the Metropolltnu nt 3 o’clock today
to sign articles of agreement. The former
agreement to fight was cancelled because
of nn Injured baud which prevented Mc
Govern from training, nnd since then Mc
Govern lias been nettled by the many
*“ gs which have been said about hr
nguess to face Corbett.
MERCER TEAM GOING INTO ACTION
This snapshot was taken during the Georgia-Mercer game, just ns the
Mercer team was about to put the ball Into play by a punt, after a touch
down.
different standards for the different grades,
but each boy who can pull hliuself up n
certain numlier of times, run a certain dis
tance In a certain length of time, and can
Jung n certain distance, gets a bronze but
ton as a certificate of bis attainment. Over
30,000 boyz competed last year for differ
ent buttons.
In addition to these, we have the rogu
lar track and field aports, basket lull tour-
nameuta of two classes, socker football, a
baseball league with over 100 teams, and
so on.
The business men of the city have been
exceedingly generous. Trophies aggregat
ing In value to several thousands of dol
lar* have been given to us by such men
as A. G. Spalding. Cleveland It. Dodge,
the Pratt Bros., of Pratt Institute; Glare nee
Mackay, Alfred O. Vanderbilt, William
II. Maxwell and others. We speut last
year In this work 115,000. This money was
contributed by men of the city, at the solic
itation bf a mau whom we employ for that
purpose.
The various athletic organisations, the
athletic club*, regiment* and other bodies
h*ve been good to u* In the matter of
helping u* with officials and grounds.
I regard the essentia! elements In the
successful carrying on of each a scheme
as this:
1. The active and Intelligent support of
the school men themselves.
2. The support of the newspapers.
3. The support of the business men.
But none of these things will succeed
without there Iteing somebody In the'city
who knows the schools and the school
situation thoroughly, who also knows ath
letics, who see* the difference Itetween
iifbooi athletics and athletics of the ath
leile club, and who understand* how to
avoid In itfklctk-* lielng run sway with
by the Inteuse competition spirit.
LITTLE WORK
FOR FIGHTERS
Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 26.—Both
O'Brien and Tommy Burna have cut
out ft lot of heavy work for their big
battle of Thanksgiving eve, nnd untlf
tho men are called together in the ring
by Heferee James J. Jeffrie* neither
will run the risk of injuring his
chances of victory by boxing.
Saturday was the la.it day of boxing
and the twenty men Manager Mct'arey
took down to sec Burna work were only
allowed to watch the big fellow skip
the rope, punch the bag and engage in
ehudnw .-purring. Tommy look* the
part of the trained fighter, for ht.i akin
la In perfect condition. He perapl^s
easlly and his muscles are In the finest
condition.
O’Brien Is doing nothing but light
road work and will do only a one-
mile run on Wednesday.
GORDON BEAT
TECH SECOND
Tim fast Gordon eleven won from the
Tech second team Hnturdny afternoon In it
fluo game to the tune of 12 to 0. Several
pretty plays were pulled off, but the. 100-
ynrd dash for a touchdown by Williams of
the Gordon team wus the main feature.
The Gordon boys Just outplayed the Tech
second team; that was all there was to It.
The ball was nearly always in the Yellow
Jackets*' territory, nnd while the visitors
did not handle punts as well ns they should
they put up n swell article of ball.
MUCH SADNESS
AT CAMBRIDGE
Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 2G.—The
spirit of depression bunging over Cam
bridge was the most Intense in the
memory of any bne here. Long faces
and sad smiles were everywhere.
I Very few would talk of Saturday’s
game. Those who did expressed the
sadness of all the university over the
defeat of what was considered the best
game the team had played for many
years. It Is said thb defeat marks the
last of Harvard football. As the mat-
[ ter now stands there can be no more
j contests until the corporation author-
I izes them. For this reason there will
j probably be no election _ of a captain
I for some time or until some definite
’ Idea Is gained as to the future of the
j sport When the election comes it will
\ in all likelihood go to Jack Wendel.
ARMY-NAVY GAME.
j Annapolis, Md.. Nov. 26.—The navy
! team will leave for Philadelphia Frl-
i day morning, prepared to meet the
{ army on Franklin field the next day.
* The last practice will, therefore, be held
] on Thursday. x
| The line-up against Virginla-Poly-
: technic on Saturday will be the one
| which will start In the army game, as
j no players were Injured. It will be as
j follows:
j Bernard, left end; Nortlieroft, left
tackle; Meyers. left guard; SlingtulY.
center; Wright, right guard: Piersal.
; right tackle; Hague, right end; Norton,
: quarterback; Douglass. left halfback;
i Captain Spencer, right halfback; In-
| gram, fullback.
Columbia Students Want
Restoration of Football I
New York, Nov. 26.—Shouting "We
want football!” 1,500 Columbia stu
dents paraded around the campus yes
terday, through the college library,
held a meeting on the steps of Uni
versity Hall, and wound up the demon
stration by demanding a speech from
Dean Van Amringe. The dean spoke
briefly to the students, telling them If
they kept on they might get what they
wanted. The students adopted a
tlon culling for the appointment «>f a I
committee of nine to get right to work I
In un effort to have football restored »•» |
Columbia. President Butler abolished |
tho sport last year.
A new baseball league In Wlscondz I
embracing some good little cities on th-1
lake shore, has been organized.
AUBURN KICKS AGAINST SIMS,
AND PROTEST IS SUSTAINED
Special to The Georgian.
Auburn, Ala., Nov. 26.—Professor E. P. Holmes, of Mercer t'niver-
sity, vice president of the Southern Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association,
lms notified the officials of the Auburn football team that he upholds the
protest in regard to the playing of Sims with the Alabama team.
»lms wus declared ineligible before the game November 17 with Au
burn. but Coach Pollard insisted on playing him.
The facts in the ease have been sent to Dr. W. L. Dudley, president
of the association, for further action.
GETTING READY TO LINE UP
Merco* players, just bafore they lined up to play against the L*niwr>i>>
9. eo r**® t ? a, T' T , he on ’he left shown with another man s W'
2" , h ' S . ba £ k ’.i H "*J, tberr y, one of .Mercer's tackles. The most I""-. ". 1 ,
figure Is Halfbuck Hogg. Moseley, a tackle, and Mallory^one of th>
hacks, ure the two other prominent figures in the group.
DONALD FRASER MEETS G. M. A.
Bali players chase after the dollar In I
the winter time as well as In the sum- :
m*r. ''Bunk'’ Congalton and '.’Ruby''!
Hulswltt were pinched In a poker game
at Columbus the other day.
NAT KAISER & CO.
Bargains in unredeemed Dia
monds. Confidential loans on val
uables.
15 Decatur SL Kimball Hou*e.
Holiday afternoon the Donald Fraser team
will meet the O. M. A. team from College
Park at Piedmont park. The Donald Fraser
boys wen* defeated the last time the two
met, but lM>th tenuis have made such prog
ress that the outlook fdoubtful. The game
will Im* called at 3 o'clock.
FELTOLOGY.
Take your old felt hats to Bussey to
bo cleaned. ?s t-t Whitehall street.
DIAMONDS.
In ••'iiiiicction with our business we have added a stuck < ,!
DIAMONDS, bought direct from the IMPORTERS I" 1 ' <'*>?'
\Ne propose selling them on a verv close margin of ) ,r "* lt .'
cheaper, perhaps, than thev can he bought elsewhere, :iu<J
IF desired,' they may be paid FOR IN
MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS.
Yonn R Man or Woman there is n- ’: ,,r
INVESTMENT or SAVINGS BANK than the purchase ..i ■
”«Ku ATLANTA DISCOUNT CO.,
Century Bldg. jqs. N. MOODY, President
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