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TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1906.
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In the selection of a suitable gift for a relative or very
close friend, bear in mind that it is the practical, useful arti
cle that touches the heart chords and make them vibrate with
appreciation
Every day it is worn will causethe wearer to think c
the donor and a stronger tie of friendship is sure to follow.
FRED S. STEWART & CO
6 PEACHTREE STREET.
Billy Smith Signs Beeker and Infielder Dyer
• •EDITED BY
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II PERCY H. WHITING. Il
OFFICIAL picture of tech football team
(CAPTAIN FOR NEXT
Photo by Motes A Clark. •
BACK ROW—SWEET, LUCK, M’CARTY, PITTARD, MUNROE, SNYDER, HENDERSON, "LOBSTER" BROWN
YEAR).
MIDDLE ROW—OOODIER, ASSISTANT MANAGER; MACDONELL, ROBERT, HE|8MAN, COACH; ADAM30N, EMER80N, CHAPMAN
MANAGER. . •
BOTTOM ROW—BUCHANAN'BELL, DAVIE8, CAPTAIN; HIGHTOWER.
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
BY PERCY H. WHITING.
Our old blonde friend “Nig” Clark, burst into the lime
light again, by tying with Stone, of St. Louis, for first batting
honors in the American League.
Guess that’s pretty fair for the ex-Crackcr, who now ranks
right with the best catchers in the country.
Atlanta bike fans ought to turn out in a bunch to give
Bobby Walthour a welcome when lie appears on the local track
Christmas afternoon.
Atlantans wore never more proud of "Our Bob” than
right now. For pluck and persistence through a gruelling six-
day grind his record was a marvelous one and although beaten
at the very start by a technicality and'held back in the race by
what looked like unjust rulings, ho *tuok it ont until by the
rules of the race ho was forced to quit the track.
Bobby Walthour, though ho* did -not even get in the last•
sprint, was the hero of the six-day race and when he makes his
first appearance in Atlanta, people ore going to turn out to
show that they appreciate what he did.
Report hns it that Bobby Gilks will manage the Gulfport
team next season. Certainly the Mississippi town could hardly
get a better manager. Bobby has always kept his Shreveport
team right at the top in the Southern Lengue ami has done
it'without any, great financial outlay.
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If'it weren’t for professional football, bnsketball and base
ball dope on next year’s lean,s the sporting department would ■
pretty soon be out of a job. ‘ >
Come what may there is always our old friend baseball dope
though, and fifty or sixty thousand loyal baseball fans who are
ready to rend it, be it ever so “ dopy. ”
University of Georgia Has
Very Ambitious Schedule
For Baseball Next Season
Athenians Will Make a Long, Hard .Trip and
Expect to Do Even Better Than
' This Year.
DYER BOUGHTBY SMITH
TO PLAY THIRD BASE
The l&flt,Kai> In the Atlanta IqJUtld
bis been Ailed. Bill Dyer, of AVor*©*-
ter.’Mass., has been bought b>’ Atlanta
from , Cincinnati, waivers have been
secured for him and he will sign an
Atlanta contract when one Ih §ent to
him.
I4wt »eason Dyer played with Har-
rlsburg In the Outlaw League.
* He la recommended Harney Drey-
fuss, Tim Mullarie and a bunch of
others.,
Billy * Smith ha* also closed for
Beeker, the outfielder that Cincinnati
bought from Lake Linden.
lie’made M2 bit? in 109 game* last >
season and fielded with only two error*.;
.Ted Sullivan picked him out a« the best 1
man In the league and Larry Hoffman
touted him no strong that-BIHy Smith
junLbad to buy him, though he came
high.
NOTES OF SPORT.
The Boston National! win look very
much like the champion White So*
next *ca*on, that la, an far a* uniforms
go.
It I* *aid Clark Griffith la after
••Sandow” Mertea. Mertea played *ac-
ond base for "Griff** during the firat two
year* of the Chicago American League
team, and the club won the pennant
both seasonp. . ,
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Special to The Georgian.
University of Georgia, Athena. Gn„ Dec.
17.—Tbs outlook for a winning bnsobnll
team at Georgia next spring seems to In?
very bright, and, barring accidents, the
team this year tltotihl he 50 per cent
stronger than that of last year. Light of
last year's anulHl have returned, nnd there
la some excellent material muoiig the new
men. Then Inst year was Tommy Htauch's
first year, and tie had all* the difficulties
that a new coach alwuys has to contend
with. Tills year lie. can start right off
from the Jump with a strong nucleus and
save all the time wasted usually In prelim*
lunrles.
If a suitable cage can be secured, In-
wr practice will begin about January IS;
Knrwlse, a little later.
Mauager Homer Carmichael hns been
working hard on a schedule, nml hns nr-
ranged the best one Georgia lias ever hod
—in fact, probably t more ambitious one
than any other college In the state Of
Georgia hns ever had.
List year' the team took a northern trip,
nhtyh.* Virginia, Georgetown, George
Washington and several other of the
larger college*. The trip was n rery suc
cessful one, Georgia defeating George
town, which Is right up at the top of the
heap when It cornea to baseball, and break
lug even on the other games.
On account of the success of this trip,
another one has been arranged for this
year, which will take In some of the
largest colleges In the country, and will
bo the hardest schedule ever played by a
tenm In this section of the country.
The northern trip will consist of the fol
lowing games:
Clemson, at Cleinson, Saturdiiy. April 20.
Washington nud Lee university, at Lex
ington, Vii„ Monday, April 22.
Virginia Military Institute, at Islington,
Tuesday, April 23.
Naval oendemy, at Annapolis, Wednes
day, April 24.
George Washington university, at Wash
ington, Thursdny, April 25.
University of Virginia, at Charlottesville,
Friday and Saturday, April 26 and 27.
Besides these games, Manager Carmichael
Is arranging a splendid schedule with the
other Southern Intercollegiate Athletic As
sociation tefrms, mid for' the first time lu
many years Georgia will play both Vander
bilt nud Mewnnee.
It has been arranged so that the annual
debate between Georgia and Washington
and Lee will take place In Lexington on
the night of tin? Georgla-Waslilngton and
Loo game.
Larry Hoffman Tells Some
New Ones on Tommy Hughes
There I. more new. and baseball dope In a page of one of Larry Hoff,
man's letter.'than there 1. In a volume of the usual ball player’s efforts In an
epistolary direction. <
A letter i.o Larry recently asking for the latest news brought forth the
following line of talk:
sortment of curves that can't be beat.
His high fast ball has us good a Jump
on It as any major league star. Tom
Sever resorts to the spit ball, as he
doesn’t have to.
He haa a aoft spot In hi* heart for
Atlanta and saya If "Griff" doesn’t want
to use him he wants to come back to
Atlanta again.
Tom tells a gooq one on himself
about when he arrived In Chicago. It
was on a Wednesday afternoon while
his brothers were playing at the mati
nee. When he came out of the depot he
ordered a cab and told the man on the
box to take him to the Colonial thea
ter.
He arrived there about an hour be
fore the cloee of the performance, so he
thought he would go around the corner
to State street and take a look at the
shop windows. When he. turned - back
Into Randolph street he said some one
had moved the theater acrose the street.
After a short while - he went back
around on State - street, and when he
came back agtan he was aurprlsed to
see the theatcr on the side of the street
where he sawlt In the tint place. After
that he took no more chances; but con
fined his walks to Randolph street
alone, where he could keep his eye on
the electric sign all the time. He was
afraid If he went back on State atreet
again some one would move It away
altogether during hla absence.
While Tom waa In New York this
fall he went Into a genu' furnishing
store on Fifth avenue one day to pur
chase a little scenery for himself.
When Tom buys anything he never
asks the price, but Juat says. Til take
tWs“ and "III take that." He bought
some socks, shirts, handkerchiefs and
a pair of suspenders. ’ V)ien his eyes
.. coo.... . fell o" a couple o* net ktles that he
on the rubber, besidee having an as- fancied while the first cjfcrk «* wrau-
ONLY Y.M.C A. GOLF COURSE IN COUNTRY
WILL BE OPENED IN ATLANTA THURSDAY
Atlanta haa the first and only Y. M.
C. A. golf course In America.
Through the courtesy of the park
board the local Y. Mi C. A. has secured
the use of the course at Piedmont park
used for many years by the Atlanta
Golf Club, and on Thursday morning
will open the course with Chris Crosby
In charge ns professional.
'As far as can be learned this Is the
only Y. M. C. A. jourse In the country
and will be a big feather in the cap et
the locat association.
Thg good fortune of securing a
course ready made fell to the lot of
the local association.
The course at Piedmont park had
been given the best of care by the At
lanta Golf Club and when they left It,
to move In a body to the Atlanta Ath
letic Club's new course at East Lake,
they abandoned one of the neatest lit
tle nine-holes courses In the South.
This course will be put bock In Its
old first-class condition by the Y. M.
C. A. and under Crosby's care will be
as good as ever. The only change In
the course will be In moving the first
tee down beside the Georgia building.
Otherwise the course will be Just where
and what It has always been.
In the Georgia building a full set of
lockers will be Installed and showlr
baths will be placed. A comparatively
small number of lockers will be put In
at the atart and mofe will be added
as the game Is taken up by the mem
bers of the club.
The Y, M. C. A. has about twenty to
thirty flrst-claas golfers, most of them
men of very considerable prominence
In Atlanta, who will form the nucleus
of the club's players.
That there will fast be more until
the number of aotual players will run
over 100 Is practically certain. With a
membership of some 1.600 men, mostly
young, It may safely be said that there
will, before long, be more players than
the course can hold.
It Is likely, too, that many local golf
ers will Join the Y. M. C. A„ Just to'
get the privilege of the course. While,
as a golf course, It is not In the same
class with the East Lake plant, still It
Is convenient and will be desirable for
men who have time only for nine holea .
In an afternoon. Of course no golfers
will be permanently drawn away from
the East Lake course by the Y. M. C. A.
course, for the shorter round ts not
good enough to offer that attraction to
a good player, but It will be a great
stamping ground on mid-week after
noons, especially during the winter, for
those <men who hare time only for *
short round.
“Lobster” Brown Will Make
- Fine Leader For Tech Team
I would’be only too glad to accom
modate you If 1 were able, but os there
1s no world’s series or other big attrac
tions to speak* of, 1 am unable to do
anything for you.
My father Is still laid up with hU
sprained knee, which makes me practl-
-prtsoner.
very seldom I get out to see any
of the boys, so’ I hear very little news.
'Tom Hughes ts visiting his two
brothers here now, who are musicians,
both playfng In the orchestra at the
Colonial theater (formerly Iroquois).
ttHe has been here two weeks now, but
will leave for his home at Halida, Colo.,
next Tuesday. He has been out to'see
me several times, but I can't get away
only on Sundays, to go around with
him.
Umpire Tim Ryan, who finished In
the Southern League; Frank Roth, of
the Sox, and myself, tookshlm around
the last two Sundays and showed him
the hole in the lake and other things of
interest, besides selling him the Mason
ic Temple for S9.60.'
Tom's a great boy and Is always
willing to take advantage of a bargain.
He baa Just returned from Newark.
N. J.. where he haa been visiting
friends since the close-of the American
League season. -
Hughes looks to be In grand shape
and soy* that he Is as m as a fiddle and
la anxious tor the season of 1*07 to'roll
around.
For Atlanta's sake. It Is a shame that
we have to lose him. but then every
body wishes him' the best of tuck with
I New York. He ought to moke good In
a walk there, as he haa everything a
good pitcher should have—good control,
ateadlness and he U re(lableot all times
■ in a pinch; usee good .Judgment and la
. ai cook ha an Iceberg while performing
No election of captain by any football
team thta year has received more fa
vorable comment than that of "Lob
ster" Brown as captain of the Tech
team, which election, It may be men
tioned In passing, wss narrated exclu
sively in The Georgian.
With Davies and Ptttard, the only
men on the squad to graduate this
ptng up his previous order. Clerk No. 3
took the two ties that he had selected
out of the case and wrapped them up
In pink tissue paper and tied a little
baby ribbon around them and says
"16.00 please.” It almost took Tom’s
breath away, but he saya he didn't
want to be a piker so he planked down
his S6 hard (7) earned dollara and tried
to look like W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr, ns
much as possible and remarked, ‘You
must be having a aale on these ties to
day."
He saya he didn’t mind It because la
didn't feel the second shock so much
when clerk No. 1 came back with his
bill.
He says he Is thankful that ha didn't
look at any suits of clothes, hats and
gloves, for If he had he would have had
to look up Grtnith and get some ad
vance money.
In the future he Is always going to
ask the price of anything be Intends to
buy.
Tom wants to be remembered to all
the boya and Joins ms In wishing al) of
you a merry Christmas and a happy
New Year. 1 am.
Sincerely your friend.
LARRY HOFFMAN,
1(01 Dearborn Street.
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15 Decatur St. Kimball House,
Bsrcains in Unredeemed Diamonds.
year, and with lota of good substltutei
to draw from, there should be no trou
ble In getting out a crackerjack team.
The trouble with the team thla year
was that It was too young and light,
and with a youhg team a year makes
lots of difference In weight and expe
rience. The average age fiext.year wilt
be at least a year more than the 1906
team, and the men will have the addi
tional advantage of having played to
gether a year.
One thing that added lots to the
greatness of the magnificent Vander
bilt team this year was the fact that
Its members had. played together
long that to do the right thing at the
right moment came almost as a matter
of second nature. It Is said that Craig,
Manler and Dan Blake have played the
Vanderbilt back field for three years.
Practically the whole Tech team this
year waa composed of new men. and of
the back field not a man was on last
season's eleven, though Davies had
played In 1904, Hightower and Adam
son had never been In im Intercol
legiate football contest before this year.
Brown's strong point Is his punting.
Tech men believe that there Isn’t a
man In tbe South today who can touch
him. and think that he Is as good as
Scarborough was in his palmiest days.
A man who can coolly boot the ball
forty or fifty yards after he haa been
tackled by a man as big aa he la not to
be despised In this time when kick
ing constitutes such a large portion of
the game. It waa Brown’s trusty toe
that kicked the goal from' placement
and won the game from the Davidson
giants, and It waa that game treaty toe
which ao many times punted (he bait
out of danger during the Thanksgiving
game, when It looked so often as
though Clemson were going to make
the score something like 10 to 0. When
ever the Tech goal line was In danger
the "Lobster” would be called on for a
punt, and away the ball would sail
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Any time you think ball players don’t
know their business. It was reported
167 times last, season that George Mul-
tin, of Detroit, would retire. Now he
has signed at an Increase In salary.
down the Held, only to be brought back
by the most laborious efforts on the
part of the Clemson men. It was also
a kick by Brown which put the ball In u
position which enabled Roberta to score
against Vanderbilt.
The highest honor that can come ta
a football player In thla section ts to he
Placed on the nll-Southem, and thla
honor hns been bestowed upon the new
Tech captain for three years now, a
record that hns been mad) by few
players. On defense he Is equally good,
and few teams that have sent a runner
arouqd hfs end this season for - any
substantial gains. Off the field he Is os
modest about his exploit* as*he Is con
spicuous In a game. •
Besides, football Isn't his only stunt.
He I* a fine second baseman, and was
one of the stars of the Tech team In
1906. Last jlear he waa ktpt out of th«
game on account of scholastic duties
and never got In real good trim, though
he played excellent ball In the few
games he did get IIL It Is probable
that he wilt not-try for the baseball
team next season In order to save him
self for the trying gridiron campaign
that will face him In the fall.
Tech already haa games scheduled
with VanderbllL Sewanee, Auburn and
Clemson. for next year, so that even If
they do not take on another sin*!*
gam* the 1967 team will have Its work
well cut out, and than "Brownie.” as
he le familiarly knowrv they could
have no more efficient leader.