The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933, September 09, 1923, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextTHE P*NNERHBRALD. ATHENS. CEORGIA SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 9. Km SOUTHERN FOOTBALL TEAMS BEGIN PRACTICE — | Georgia bulldogs Begin Practice Grind on Sanford Field Monday; poaches And [Many PlayerrHwe~R^d^^ a ’ • " * I Tinth nf Mi otto nbiv AU-Southren Fullback Murray Soule and Harris Jones. | two of Athens’ young crack golf playing a twosome, turned In cards j Thursday Afternoon. Th®«« two. I . playing a twosome, turne din cards jof 70 for Jones and 72 for Soule between them 1ST HIE BUI THREE WEEKS OFF Bulldog Leader Mentors Face Titanic Task in Developing Strong Team. Unusually Heavy Schedule For Uni- . versity. , They're off! Monday morning they start, not •to let up until the afternoon ot De cember first. It la the '‘DuIldoKS.'* After tear ing* at the leash for several day? now wuiting for the tenth of the month to roll around in order tha' gridiron practice "tight be taken up, the dny has arrived, or will or* rivo tomorrow. Monday morning pretty soon af* * ter breakfast a husky bunch oJ collegiate athletes will assemble at Alumni hall down near Sanford n._i 0 Field and after being fixed up vf 6SI CjTIQ DculS with uniforms, mostly union suite for the first few hot dnys, the work of runnig out a team to re present the University of Georgi* In the football classics of the coun try this season will be under way* CAPTAIN JOE BENNETT Sturdy and popular captain of the Georgia football team that begin* practice tomorrow morning. With the arrival today of Frank Local Golfers In League Play The Clovcrhurst polf team went to West End Saturday for the rcpilar (tame in the North Georgia golf league and lost by the score Thomas from Chicago (he coach- o{ 1B to 3, Those playing were, log alaff will be complete. "Kid . T |bbctts, Jone*, Porter, Lawler, M. has arrived from CaUfomta g. Hodgson arid Phinizy. has rartved from California. Captain Bachman has reported and B1U White Is on hand. Already the coaches here have been In confer ences and the greatest co-operation oh .their part Is assured. Just now they do, not know whal they, will have to work with. In a way they know who 111 b« . .but a football player sln’l , ted until he Is in uniform l registered In college. Of course Captain Bennett 1* h-re and tomorrow big John Fletch er, all-Southorn fullbnck, Teany Randall, fleet back, Ike Joselove. linesman. Jim Taylor, tackle, Shad Frier, centor, Sam Richardson, e i “lluster" Kilpatrick, recruit from the Freshles, Jake Butler, back, P! mo wits and a host of others whose names are familiar to the public will be on hnnd. But—Pus Whelchel will bo miss tng. Nemo Vandiver will bo un accounted for. Smack Thompson will be among those not present I)li*k Mulvlhlll, triple threat man ol last year. Is no longer ft Bulldog the black, bareheaded form of Dan rest will be missed, along with niitpy more, Including Dave lings with bis trusty toe. The team members were also guests at the annual barbecue given by the West End club. BASEBALL RESULTS Georgia team this yeat be about duo for some luck the score of Injuries. For the t two years or more old man has been following the outfit like a leach, putting such men ae Paige Bennett, Sheldon Fitts an^ Mark Anthony out of commlslson and keeping any number of others off from time to time. The first game Is but three weeks off, scheduled for the 29th when the Mercer Baptists coroe here to pry tho season open. Thl. year of nrw couches in the Smith and prnrtlraUy ever/ team wit! have the opportunity -f npr'na- w a cw system on the oppon ent*. Auburn, Oglethorpe. Mercer A! ibatna and other team, have tn-en (shaken up completely by i rw ay,tenia while at Georgia many new additulna have been mode Tech remain, with Alexnriler r.t the helm but a lot of new football atyiea can lie expected to bioaeom forth in the South tbia af (iron, nf of which will make the game, the Interesting. FRIDAY’S RESULTS SOUTHERN LEAGUE Chattanooga 12, Atlanta 10. Nashville 5, Birmingham 8. Mobile 12, Little Rock 2. New Orleans-Memphis, rain. AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 4, Philadelphia 0. Detroit 11, Cleveland 9. St. Loula 2, Chicago 7. Only three: games scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn 3, Boston 11. Chicago 6, Pittsburg 4. Cincinnati 1-8, St. Louis 6 5. Phialdelphla 10, New York 6. SALLY LEAGUE Macon 9, Augusta 2. Charlotte 2, Spartanburg 1, Gastonia 3, Grocnvile 2. SATURDAY’S RESULTS NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn 7-6, Boston 4-4. Pittsburg 4, Chicago 0. Now York 0. Philadelphia 6. Cincinnati 4-4, St. Louis 6-18. AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 0, Washington 4. St. Louis 7-1, Chicago 3-0. Detroit 3, Cleveland 4. SOUTHERN LEAGUE Atlanta 13-0, Chattanooga 2-5. ■Mobile 1. Littlfe Itoek 3. Now Orleans 0-2, Memphis 4-5. Nnahville 1, Birmingham 6. SALLY LEAGUE Spartanburg 2-0, Charlotte 8-3. Augusta 7-2, Macon 13-1. Greenville 12-8, Gastonia 0-9. Epting Sees Biggrer Real Estato Demand Alabama Football Teams Get Off in Season’s Practice (By Ataoclated Prees) MONTGOMERY, —One month awny—Montgomery's football aon. The Auburn Plainsmen and the steadily rising Birmingham^ Southern College Panthers will pipxa open the kettle in Cramton bowl. Coach Charlie Brown, Blrming- ham-8outhern’s heroic raontor who ,' sacrificed his leg on the battle 11 field of Franco — •« nerved {.as captain In the Amorican army IJ Is again at the head of the Panther |, destlbtesi assisted by roach Doug las WJngo, of Washington and Lee backfleld fame. Auburn, under the tutelage of Conch Pitt will soon begin prac tice with the pigskin and are pre paring to come to tho Alabama capital with a well-finished' ma chine for the Birmingham gvldders. Practice at Alabama will get un derway next week wh^n Coach Wallace Wade, now mentor sends the men through preliminary drills with but lithe more than a month separating the Crimson from their battle with Syracuao University in New York 8tato. Both of these players have 'bet- I ter scores than these but It Is un- I usual that b6tb should have played •such good games tho same after noon and against each other. Murray came back from the “o! \ country” with a brand new set ot sticks and a swing that Pat Lam- kin describes ns being like an elevator, straight up and down..but the lanky hoy gets ’em down the fairway—straight and far, and that’s tho game. Showing their contempt for the “grand old game* ’pit golf the ten nis players offered as. a booby prize In the tennis tournament a golf stick. No. the “link” shark*- didn’t raise a “racket* ’about It. Astronomers Are . Watching For Two Vagrant Speeders (By Associated Press.) CAMBRIDGE.—Astronomers are t the watch for two coments, both discovered many decades ago, which speeding over their rather uncertain courses through the skies ere about due for reapperanc*. , One of these interesting visitors GEORGIA’S ‘BIG FOUR’ GET DOWN TO WORK ON GRIDIRONS MONDAY AUBURN USERS ARE JOHN FLETCHER All-Southern choice at fullback last year, bcltift counted on os a great brickfield man for the Bulldog eleven again thin year. of mr;«,„iarfy 'known TZ Georgia’s Best Crops Unworthy Cases Mexican War comet because just on the outbreak of that conflict, it was observed by Professor W. C. Bond, of tho Harvard observa tory, on Feb. 2fi. 1846. Professor F. Di Vico, of Rome, also found tho comet independently with bin telescope two days later, and be cause he officially recorded Its coming, his fellow astronomers have given It his name. Professor DI yico observed hi* comet godson for two months, when It passed from view. It was reckoned that it would reappear in75.71 yea«rs, with a “period of uncertainty" of three years. In 1919 It was within 300.000,000 miles of the earth, somewhere between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and the scientists of the skies decided that It might appear to them any time between 1921 and 1925) When It does come. It will not bo risible Are Around Athens Mr. M. N. Jones of the Guarantee Tru-t Corporation, has just return ed from a trip through Georgia to tho Florida lino. ,Ho went with o party through tho country y au tomobile. They went one road and returned another, thus being able to form a most accurate ostfmato of crop conditions. Mr. Jones says tho counties tributary to Athens are sure fortunate for thoy have the most promising crops seen dur ing their entire Journey. After oi»o crosses the Georgia railroad the crop outlook Is not very encourag Consume Time of Supreme Court Georgia Tech, University of Georgia, Mercer and Oglethorpe Begin Foot, hall Practice. Each Faces HardSchedule. ATLANTA.—Gridiron fans j n Georgia next week will see football practice begin In earnest at each of the big four Institutions in the state—Georgia Tech, University 0 f Qcorgia, Mercer University and Oglethorpe. A hard schedule faces each of the teams and coache? realize unsteady grind now must be maintained to round their co hort# into shape in time for the opening clashes. Ou^ on Grant Field, where the Techmen turn out strong teams year after year, Alexander Is ex pected to have all his principal varsity men when practice begin* under his Instructions Monday aft ernoon. Claire °Frye, nll-Southeru center In 1922, made bis appear ance this week, along with Wy- coff, Godwin. Captain McIntyre, John Staton, Reeves, Harris. Hunt and others. Carter is scheduled tc report Monday. Penn State and Notre Dame are the shining stars on the Tech schedule this season, and as indic ative of tho determination of the (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON—Tho Supreme Court Is making no mnterial pro* gross in clearing Its docket. When it meets October 1 to begin its next term it will find substantial ly as many cases awaiting consid eration an a year ago, This condition Is not duo to lack of effort, for no matter how fast ----- caused a great deal of tho land to to “the man In the street,” Harvard But a great bulk of the counties Is (College observatory officials say. * unfilled, and' oven whore under comets, they explain may at any -■*■—**— — time bo thrown completely out of their accustclneiT courso by get ting too near the sun or a planet, these bodle sactlng so as to give tho stranger a sort of "kick” to one sldo or the other. RI8E IN BANK RATE ..LONDON.—Tho Bank of Eng land has stimulated saving by al lowing a rrUe I nmlnimum rates of discount from 8 to 4 i>er cent This permitted the clearing banks to Increase Interest allowed on de- posits f^om 1 to 2 per cent. of cases the accumulation upon its docket keeps pace. Tho real trouble, In the opinion of attar* neys practicing before the court is that tho applcntc jurisdiction oi the highest tribunal Is sought by many litigants whoso controversies do not present questions worthy . . of Its consideration, and who should cultivation crops are poor and un- • t bo IJerml(teil to consume it? promising. | timo. 8umter was formerly of tbo_ best j congress has from tlmo to time •*ttempted .to solve the problem by remain unbilled, and every where aro signs of boll weevil destruc tion. Occasionally thoro Is a field of peanuts, and around Waycross some farmers arc planting fobacco. cotton producing counties In Geor gia, but tho weevil has this year taken the crop, says Mr. Jones. Ho talked with one of the laregst cot ton planters In Sumter and be told him lie had beo nmaklng fine cot ton crops, but this year he would not make a bale to thirty acres. In fact, farmers did' not think there would be enough; bells to bother with picking, ami they would lot thoir negroes get out tho cotton If they had tho energy. legislation, but laws are slow In reforming human natqro. As Ion# as the court is open to those whl would use it to delay the execution nf sentences or takes a- alst desper ate chance to havo a n adverse decision reversed, its dockets will bo crowded with cases In which an appeal is nsked merely to postpone •the lnovltoble day when the prison doors must close on the petitioner or when a judgment must bep aid. South Pulling For Bobby Jones to Duplicate Evans Stunt of 1916; Atlanta Star Is Said to Have Improved Putting and Going Good Can Bobby Jones accomplish the supreme In golfdom bv winning both the nations! open ami th* amateur titles In the san»o yearV When he gpes Into the national amateur tournament, at Flossraooi this month, he will have tho op portunity to turn a trick traten In? been done by only one other golfer In the history of the game. ‘Chick” Evans was the wizard bf the magic mnshte In 1916. not only won the amateur and tional titles In the sume golfing season but also carried the glow of the westerd amateur crowr through each match. One of our leading real estate dealers stated to us Saturday that thqre t£ an Increasing demand for city property as well an farming land?, is the observation ol Mr. Harry Eptfng, prominent Athens I took ovt.r realtor. Within tin past fourteen * "pros.” Va days be has closed 14'deals—two farms, one stare building, * two dwellings and Beven vacant lots In mautv^contitstJ Athetl8 * ht ' fctated Saturday, He Is ATLANTIC ?ITY N J -Mi«i receiving a number of In- Ca^hif„rcLp.J.I' or doiumbis, q»lri« tor city OWO. "Mins .merica" of Atlantic i <»* ““'H’"T 1522 pageant, Friday nlgh.-JWd* *,2? ..fully repulsed an BMxult of, (arm near (he city «d the twner t from MV.nty.flv. American refused toco! at till price. Among t ... rrcrowned n„ queen tie recent .alee made by Me. Bpt- Closest contenders were |ng s firm wag Brooklyn," "Miss Coney !*• “Mir# I St,. Louis” and "Mist riphla,” who were runnersup * order named. The decision by a board of Judges ot leading artist* of the rowned queen Is only * year* old and is She swims, .shoot* takes a healthy interest r activities. She gradual semi-final? To date no other goiter has been able to duplicate the feat of the Chicago veteran. The nearest ap proach was the winning of the pro fessional title by an amateur, Fran- els Ouimet, back 1r 1913, when hi famous English Vardon and Ray In the play-off of the tic. Ouimet also won the amateur event In 1*>14 and finished second to Evans In 1920. Jones has been playing a mas terly game during the past sea son. lie demonstrated this at In- wood, not alone through hi* play In the qualifying rounds but In hi* consistency In the flnala and hi*' real test In the play-off with the 1 sm:i«iy Scot, CruivkaUuk. Klnee the .Inwood affair he ha* . , __ tn played par golf through the south n n ‘ ' "nri uluny* ho»hmvn hi, Mr. George B. ^ Bennett, of Max-. ch ., mllton , h lp couflilence-thv «iufl ey« who plans to move to Athene. thnl win lmik , hlra t h. favorite out CHAMP WHEN HE TOOK THE OPEM AND^MATEOR TITLES 'Qss cam »eas sohes THE OPEN CHAHPtOO- oupuCAfte the ebat OF EVAMS B4 winning -me PSOPE97IOWAL AND AMATEUR TrTVES the same wear f FRANCIS OUIMET .COPPED THE HABOHALOPEHTtTlE IN iqi3 ANO THE AMATEUR IM 1914 In the near future. I at Flossmoor. 9 Convicts Mutiny Set Fire to Prison; Inmates Suffering I Evans is still playing to hl» ui<J| j time tdne. Ho reglrier; s d again (this year In capturing the werterr York Penn.—Nine convicts, sent’amateur title for the eighth sue- to the York county Jail recently cesslve time when he eliminated from the staff* penitentiary have'*he present national amateur eb.tmr mutinied and set fire to the prison . j t . M M fewt-cUet, over the tough The fire was extinguished before Mayfield course at Cleveland. lamage was caused to thr, Evans twice has held the «ma- but a number o. prison-1 teur title, once In 1916 and again by the smoke in 1926. He was the runner up to * — -- — * - - *m — ■ • Sri*V», GOT OOtfT HJCGET 3E65 SvUfsCTSgR 1*5 THE 'PSB9BMT AHATCUR/CHAMP Season Opens With Clem son on the 29th; Hard Schedule Ahead For the “Plainsmen.” AUBURN, Ala.—September and football have again proved to bo synauymous torms tn tho “Village of the Plains.’ ’When September 10 t-howa up on thd calender tho growl of the Tiger will again be heard t? ho in the vicinity of Drake field and upwards of a hundred ambi tious gridders will answer tho call of the Auburn couches to malra ready for the stronous campaign ahead. Monday is designated a* tie opening day for organized practices: for colleges having membership In the Southern Intercollegiate Con ference. Drako field has been all dressed up to receive tho 1923 footballers In their initial workout. Goal posts havo already been' erected' and aro imtiently awaiting tho toe artist to ■- „ _ , ... . , try for tho extra point within Its \ ^ c . .? w »PtHt to win the** bars. The tackling dummy offers ! > I att yl 8 ' . d ol n silent invitation to tho sprint-! team and a brilliant play- or during his four years at the I school; Chip Robert, of the 19121 eleven, and “Pup” Phillips, All- Southern centor of two pe»s->n» ago, are among these assisting In | the coaching. Other games on Tech’s schedule I aro V. M. I., October 6; Florid*, I October 13; Georgetown, October I 30; Alabama. November 3, and] Auburn, Thanksgiving Day. The I Notre Dan.e clash "will occur Oc- ] tobr<r 27, at Notre Dame, and the] battle grounds of iPenn State will] bo invated November 10. GEORGIA NEEDS RE8ERVE STRENGTH One of the problems confronting I Georgia Is tho building of a good | reserve strength, acordlng to ob- servers. Yale is the principal op ponent the Bulldogs will meet this I fall, but tbo game with. Centre, Ini Athens, Is oxpected' to attract I equal Interest 'Mercer, Oglethorpe K [ Tennessee, Auburn, Virginia, Van-1 derbilt and Alabama are the other | schools which will demand an un usual amount of strength of tbo | Georgians to wage battle success fully. New Haven will bo the scene of I tho Yale contest on October 13, J while the Centro game will be [ staged December 1. The Virginia I game Is scheduled In Athens, Nor- j ember 10. Excellent backfleld material al- ready Is on hand but, remembering I the withering attack Chicago 41- J rocted at tho Bulldog line last year. I coach Woodruff Is attempting to I construct breastworks which will I withstand assaults this tall Cap-1 tain Joe Bennett and Blf Jim Tay-1 lor arc tho most likely candidate* for tha tackle positions. “Shad P Frier, center; Iko Joselove, guard; Sam Richardson, an end, and oth ers aro among tho returned play* ors Woodruff Is expecting to lorn I a nucleus In his line. [ Johnny Fletcher, All-Southern fullback and one of the fastest men l In the south, will be on tho f Beside him Nowton, Thomason, Day Randall, a versatile veteran of two seasons; Butler, Phllpot, Cleckley. Kilpatrick, Hccriot, BImowItz, Car- roll and Brumby aro among the moat promising players on the pro gram for Monday’s practice. Jim Robertson, former Dart mouth star, Is guiding the destiny of Oglethorpe. Most of tw i candidates for tbo squad are in fino physical condition having spent the summer In camjui or tho baseball diamond, according v* reports. . „ n » \ Backfleld wearers of the u, who aro appearing on Herman Flold are Maurer, Gordy, Stephen*. Ivey, Wallace and Kilgore. Morri Is expected Monday. Captain Bra is guarding the right flank and j Nix, a reserve end of j has recorded a distinct lmpr ment Davis Is scheduled to be on of the ends. Candler, Ca %X’ Miller. Hamrick,. Barterfield. ^ orta. Crowe, and Corley, 1Uncmeu ot 1922, arc working hard to l t crease the strength of Ogletho pe - line this fail. Psrris Is »t centtM where be meets attacks with ppund, ot weight Georgia, Tech, Mercer, and 8« wanco ore ornong the major . , tie. ou OgJothorpc’s gridiron cal | rn afercor follower, ore pjnnjj* I their faith to (Coach Rohbie jtoh " ,oo. who come, to the from Ml..l«lppl College. « ” log Jo«» Cody, who h*‘ « to Vanderbilt to eralit Don » (login. Ooonrta. Formoh, noH'h; Oglethorpe. Cbottonoog*, MlwW J Pi and cVixon-Newman are .mow the tnatitiition, appearing oa ing back or tho sturdy lineman to administer fclio “knockout” to its dangling moleskin image, while the shoulder of tho charging lino on tho side lines ready to receive the shoulder of tho charming lino aspirant. Drako field, now a his toric spot on the Auburn campus in Its well-groomed coat of green fa in tho finest shape for tho fall’s work that It has boon in years. “While there are rumors afloat of a pro-season game with ono of tho smaller schools, as has boon the custom for several seasons past, the first game on tho regular sche dule is with an ancient Tiger rival, a full-fledged S. I. C. team—Clem- son college. Tho Auburn Tiger wi* journey to the Carolina mountains to give battlo to the Clemson Tigc.r. Tho clemson teams will be under new tutelage daring the coming season. Coach Saunders, tanner Missouri star, will train Us charges to take the measure of ‘he invad ing jPlalnsmcn. Tactically tho same schedule has been arranged as. for tho 1928 season. Clemson and Birmingham- Southern appear cn tho schedule instead ot Mercer and Springhlll of last year. iBennlng, and' Mercor were played on the campus last season whtlo Howard college and Fort Henning will come to Auburn for games this year. Tho game with tho II. S. Military Academy will again be played at West Point and has been moved Up ono week this year from the last season’s date. The game this sea son will be played October 20. Tho Plainsmen will again taco tho “Big 4” in November—University of Georgia, centre and Georgia Tech. 1 Tho schedule as arranged in clude games as follows;, September 29, Clemson college, Clemson. October 10, Birmingham-South ern, Montgomery. October ii, Howard college, campus. , \ October 20, Army, West Point. October 27, Fort Bcnnlng. cam pus. November 3, University ot Geor gia.. Columbus. November 10, Tulane, Montgom cry. _ November 17, Centre, Birming ham. Thanksgiving, Georgia Terl lanta. Son of President Of Armour & Co. Killed By Rifle CHICAGO .. F.. Edson White. Jr.. 16, only son of the president of Ar mour and Company died FviJay night as the resu't of Injuries sus* U»Ir.^"whsn a gart he we* ‘'«in< cn ctfb to ward o'f the attacic at o idt, "at •'.(.ci.vally dischargeI. The bu I ntLukci him at'hla rath ’s) estate gt Latffeforent, a raV t.r*>. A fifteen year old Annuur boy, vlco president of the company, who saw him, shot the bul* and drove it of! when the animal tried to gore Eh i body. •r crown In oxiln ssb yct to w!n amotnir event. He nlwny, hn» been Herron, LMt re»r tn the amateui the near beer In port tournament event at Brookline he went through Ph2. the semi-finals onl yto Io,e to . HI. closet call was In 1M9 when Jess Sweet,er, the ultimate winner, ,8 and f, Thla, year aeems to be Bobby’s •n. Anq he’ll smack the white awMrries tor a tinkle In .the »fl- r urn It he lives up to past per. School Men Start Movement to Teach Boys Mechanic Art AMERICUS—A movement has been started by the Sumter county school authoritiese to ■ ecu re the services of a- technical expert to teach the boys “how to put to* gether a steam engine, run a trac tor, weld iron, shoo a horse, and build a plow stack,” acordlng to J. E. I>. Shipp, chairman of / tli« county eehool board. Such an ex pert, It secured, would devote bis attentions to the six largest con solidated schools tn the ' county, vl,Ulna one each day ot the week and conducting classes. i Mercer .chedule. , . Returning to th* fold this r are noser,. Folder. Fooro. mon. Ellison. Captain-elect l« I Rico. Maddox. PoPO.'WoinwM came., smith. Lyuch. imnoy, ^ cum. Simmons and a numbfr l.vt vehr freshmen, o«tstnn’l'»f ‘ 'X nt £s&&i ~ (Mt Donald.