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I 14 TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1906. ■ 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 ij 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. %. . * v : * ■ — 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. . , Of Course //fan ^Qt)(0U\TWBONBON} /fn/prr/f war *CHE STANDARD OF PURITY. 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. NAT KAISER & CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. 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 00000000000000009000000000 0 ‘ ROOT AND FOGLER WIN. ' 0 o -— 0 O Newifork, Dec.17.—The six-day O O bike race was won by Root and 0 0 Fogler. Downing and Hopper O 0 were second. Butt and MteFurland O O third. o O Walthour waa a lap behind O 0 when tho grind began and was 0 0 not allowed In the Anal sprint for 0 0 positions. O 0 0' 00000000000000000000000000 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.