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4 i TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16,1907. SPORTING PAGE FIGHT ON ORGANIZED BASEBALL MAY BEGIN VERY SOON ! EDITED BY I P. H. WHITING 1 NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS i The question propounded by our contemporary across the street as to "when is a prep school and when is a collegeJ” is soon to be answered. ‘ Professor W. M. Biggs, of Clemson, and Professor E. T. Holmes, of Mercer, members of the executive committee of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association, met in Atlanta last Saturday to formulate an answer to just that question. At this meeting a list was drawn up and agreed to and in this list the colleges were separated from the prep schools. How ever, it could not be published at once because it was necessary to put it to a mail vote. Before very long the list will be pub lished and Southern athletes who hnve gone to the near-colleges will know where they stand. This decision is going to affect not only Davis, of the Tech team, but Sims as well. The former came from the American « (Temperance) University, of Ilarriman, Tcnn., tho latter from Dahlonega, Qa. Previous to thg last meeting of the S. I. A. A. officials Dahlonega was ranked as It prep school. If it happens to be a college now, Sims can not play without putting in a year at Tech. We can't recall that the American University ever had a ranking, and we can’t say whether—if it is given a ranking now —-it will knock Davis off the Tech team. Anyway, the decision of tho ranking committee will be awaited with interest. The tout is with us again—the same old tout with the same old game—only he hns a new variation. Just at present the tout is working the dentists of Atlanta. Here is his method: He goes to a dentist, ostensibly for a consultation over a mouth that needs a hundred dollars worth of work or so. The dentist gives him an appointment for tho next day, but later the same day the tout comes back to put off the engagement for awhile. During the conversation the tout mentions that he owns n string of horses out at the track and before he has finished pumping he knows whether or not tho dentist ever bets and whether he could be interested in a bet. If the dentist shows any interest it is easy sailing after that and the game degenerates into tho old "tout” game. If ho can string along five or six different dentists and get them all down on tho same race—on different horses—then he is pretty suro to clean up on one of them. He tells the conventional story of the fixed race and comes around'for his "split” to the man who has won. It is a fine old game and wo guess that those who haven’t any better sense than to bet on a race that a stranger tells them is “fixed” deserve t^pockot their losses nnd make the best of it. But if those touts would put the same amount of intelligence and effort into some legitimate scheme think how well they would do. It is understood thnt a number of local dentists have fallen for the game and the horse laugh is being passed irround among the “wise” ones of the local dental profession. Probably the same bunch of cheap touts have burst forth at other points, but among the dentists is tho only place where we have crossed their trail. DID PREP PLAYERS "DO UP” TEDDY JR.? A DROP KICK Exeter, Mass., Oct. IS.—Because they had decided. It la asserted, that Theo dore BooievcJt, Jr., had a “swelled head" on account of too much news paper notoriety, a deliberate conspira cy was entered Into by the students of the Phllllps-Exeter Academy to "do him up" when he played here with Harvard's second eleven lost Satur day. That conspiracy, If circumstantial rumor be true, was entered Into days before the Harvard eleven came here to play. • Efforts were made by persons Inter ested in Phllllps-Exeter and Its good name In the Held of sport to prevent the consummation of the conspiracy. They were unsuccessful. Young Roosevelt was handled so mercilessly that shdrtly after he had E ons on the gridiron In the second half e was assisted to the side lines. It was discovered his right knee was bruised and strained badly and that one of his arms was wrenched. In fact hlB condition was such It was realixed Immediately he would be unable to play effectively again for three or four weeks. The treatment which young Roose velt received hns caused much Indig nation here and also concern because It Is feared Harvard may demand an Investigation. Under such conditions It Is feared there will be revelations which may Injure Phllllps-Exeter seriously In the eyes of those who believe In fair play In football and Held sports. Special to The Georgian. Birmingham, Ala, Oct. 18.—Local enthusiasts ard all agog over the foot ball game to be played here Saturday between Sewanee and Auburn. The talent Is selecting Sewanee to win, and the odds average 2 to 1. In spite of this fact, however, there Is a certainty that the game will be an exceedingly hard-fought one. Every footballlst In the country realizes Auburn’s spirit, and what a potent factor It Is In win- LOCAL MOGULS WILL NOT ATTEND MEETING OF NATL ASSOCIATION The alleged conspiracy to get the American Association and maybe the Eastern League In a special class In the National Association of Baseball Leagues Is not causing much worry In local circles. According to ths dope the American Association wants to get In a special class where It will be Immune from drafts by the major leagues or at least where It will be able to draft from ths other class A leagues—like the South ern Leegue. In order to make good the demand the American Association Is loudly threatening to withdraw from organized baseball and to carry the war Into the enemy's country by put ting an outlaw team In Chicago. This matter will all come up at an nual meeting of the National Associa tion. which takes place October 29 In New York. The local club will proba bly not be represented at this meet- ‘"‘The unofficial view of the situation by the local association la "'Vo are willing to leave It with Knvanaugh." That the league president Is onto his job Is evident from the following bul letin that he has recently sent out: To the Members of the Southern Association of Baseball Clubs: 1 desire to call the attention of the clubs to the fact that there wilt be a meeting of the National As sociation In New York on the 21th Inst. I will be In attendance and will be registered at the Hotel Bruslln, where I will be glad to re ceive communications from any of our clubs. I deem It a matter of great Im portance that as many of our clubs as can possibly do so send a rep resentative to this meeting. I do not know that there Is any plan on foot which will result In Injury to us, but It Is wise to be forewarned and to be prepared for whatever may happen. I would he glad to hear from each club advis ing me that they will have a rep resentative present. I, of course, will use my best endekvora to watch the Interest of our association, but I would ap preciate the advice and counsel of as many of our members as can conveniently get away. Respect fully W. M. KAVANAUOH, President. Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 18.—Howard College meets the Louisiana State Uni versity Saturday week. Coach Coun- selman Is sure of landing this game. On the following Saturday Howard plays Tulane In New Orleans. No vember 2 Howard meets Mercer Uni versity In Macon. On the 9th Howard tackles Orant University. Coach Coun- selman believes that he will win every BILL KIRK’S COLUMN By WILCIAM F. KIRK.. THE REQUIEM OF THE WHITE SOX. A member of the White Sox lay dying In South Bend, Without the price to buy a stamp or telegraph a friend. A comrade knelt beside him as his life blood ebbed away. And bent with pitying glances to hear what he might say. The dying fielder faltered as he took Ills comrade's mitt. Said he, “We are the champs today, tomorrow we are nit. I barked the Sox to win this race—don't tell me I'm a fish, I was born In old Chicago, old Chicago on Lake Mich. "Tell the rooters of the South Side park they must not mourn for us; We like to win, but when we Jose we do not care a cuss. I say, we do not care a cuss, and yet I think we do— Think how that extra money would help me and Donahue. And Fielder Jones and Big Ed Walsh and all the other skates Who watched the crowds a year ago come surging through the gates Three thousand bones apiece, methlnks, would be a dainty dish— That was what we copped last season In Chicago on Lake Mich." The dying fielder’s face turned pale, his voice grew low and thick He spumed his comrade's flask of booze, proving that he was sick! "Send me back home," he babbled, "where the men who boast for Chance May pity us who wiggle In the clutch of Circumstance.” SEWANEE PLAYS IN ALABAMA ON SATURDAY AND MONDAY nlng games. On the Monday following this game, Sewanee meets the University of Ala bama In Tuscaloosa. When the result of this game Is known the talent can get a line on the relative Strength of Alabama and Auburn, which two col leges play their annual game In Birm ingham November 16. This is the prin cipal game as far as this state Is con cerned, and the Sewanee games against Auburn and Alabama are given addi tional importance on account of this fact. O THE BASEBALL BUGLE. O a a <h»O0)>OOO<h>O0i><h><h>i>Oi»CKhW The editor of The Bugle, always willing to welcome genius, has discov ered a new poet. Mr. Pegasus Piffle, of the Bronx, never sold a line to a New York maga zine until the .editor of The Bugle dis covered him and made his name a household word. . Jtlv. Piffle, it Is true has fallen off In his work of late weeks, as all geniuses must when affluence comes to them! but, on the whole, he has written splen didly. Now comes Mr. Arthur V. Baker, evi dently a resident of Detroit, with a poem entitled "Tyrus Cobb." The Bugle takes pleasure In giving his poem below, and hopes to hear from Mr. Baker again. Mr. Baker will un derstand. of course, that The Bugle pays nothing for poetry, which Is a drug on the market. Mr. Piffle, our staff poet, and Miss Mayonalse, our so. clety reporter, are the only mortals who have ever received one penny from Ths Bugle, and neither of these talent pen- aielders has cashed heavily. Following Is Mr. Baker's poem: TYRU8 COBB. Within a country school house, when the history class arose. The teacher started In. a questions to propose. bunch of Now, tell us who the Father of his Country was," she said. The kid reciting stammered and then he hung his head. And silence reigned until at last .,ne boy got on the Job,- And In a patriotic voice he answered "Tyrus Cobb.” Oh, great is Theodore Roosevelt and great Is Fairbanks, too; And gr,at Is Secretary Taft and Chaun- cey M. Depew. All honor to the soldier, the man behind the gun; All honor to the Ancient, the man be- hind the bun. All honor to Hugh Jennings, and then take oft your hat And give three cheers for Tyrus Cobb, the man behind the bat. Horatlus Is a has-been, and Julius Caesar, too; Napoleon was a piker, and Marlbnr- ough was a stew; And Wellington won on the frits, and Bismarck on the ham; That tribe compared to Jennings' bunch ain't worth a tinker’s dam. Come, give three cheers for old De troit, and then get bn the Job And give a tiger and three more fur Mr. Tyrus Cobb. HOWARD’S SCHEDULE "SOFT" AND TEAM IS DOING WELL WITH JAMESON OUT OF IT, SCHENCKER HUNTS A QUARTER one of these games. Howard has played three games this season, winning the first from the Southwestern Presbyterian University of Clarksville, Tenn., by a score of & to 0, losing to Auburn by a' score of 24 to 0, and losing to the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College 12 to 0. In the last game Howard played In exceeding hard luck, and should have won. WOODRUFF. Here Is Georgia's speedy quarter back, pulling oft a drop kick—at which stunt he Is very "keen." AMERICAN ASSOCIATION MAY BECOME AN OUTLAW LEAGUE U. of Ga. Medicals May Organize a Football Team Spec 1st to The Georgian. Augusta, Ga, Oct. 18.—For the first time In its history, the local Medical collage, a branch of the State Univer sity, Is to have a football team. John A. Brown, a former captain of the University of Georgia's baseball team, Is behind the movement and Is gathering In the most likely looking recruits on the college register. Brown himself Is husky enough to make good on any gridiron, and he has In his line, up several others that will scare oppos ing teams. Among the available players at the local college are the two Browns, both of whom tip the scale at about IIS pounds; Gantt, a former Clemson star whose weight Is 180: Grttrge Smith, a former Georgia player who boasts as many pounds as Gantt, and D. N. Thompson, who played with Georgia at over 190 pounds. Morton, a former Virginia player. Is also on the list. With these men as a starter a good strong team, can easily be organized here nnd It goes without saying that It will have good support from the pub lic. Just Notes The New York Globe has the follow ing nice things to say about two ball players well known In the South who are with the Brooklyn club: What made the club look good to all hands was the pitching staff Donovan secured. There is many a team in the big leagues who would like to pick out a few pitchers from Brooklyn, and there would be a clean-ur sure for the team which got them. There's “Nap" Bucker. the big left-hander from Geor gia, better known as the Georgia crack- erjack. He has pitched wonderful ball for his club this season. He Is a big fellow, has all kinds of speed and a great assortment of curves. Harry McIntyre is a good pitcher, but things did not break right for him this season. He Is about the champion hard- luck pitcher of the league. He has gonp along and pitched greut ball until the final Inning, and then the boot or the kick would come, and away would go the game. There are Just a few points, says Jot Vila, of weakness in McGraw’s team that need his attention. First—Tha team can not bat Second—The pitching department Is below par as Taylor, Ames, Ferguson and Wlltse are all In. Third—The infield Is a minor league affair, barring Devlin. Fourth—The race tracka will be run. nlng next year aa usual. Nick Maddox made a great record after Joining Pittsburg. Of the five games pitched he won four, allowing 26 hits, giving 10 bases on balls and with 32 strljce-outs to his credit Chicago, Oct. 16.—The national base ball family Is likely to have a big quar rel on Its hands this winter, as the American Association, the biggest of the minor leagues. Is up in arms and threatening to withdraw from the na tional agreement. The club owners of that league say they are deriving no benefits from the alliance, and. In fact are tied hand and foot by being con nected with organised baseball. Chi cago will be most vitally Interested In the scrap If It comes off, for It Is the plan of the association to put a ball team Into Chicago with grounds on the north side. M. E. Canttllon, owner of the Mlnne. apolis franchise of the association, was outspoken In his denunciation of the conditions, which, he claims, pin his league down to mere serfdom. "We are under protection now which doesn't protect," said Mr. Cantlllon. "With the present conditions it is abso lutely impossible for, a club In our league to know where It stands in re gard to the make-up of a team until the major league magnates aro ready to hand us their discarded plAyers. I, for one, think we would be a lot better off If we cut away from the national agreement and went out and( hustled for ourselves. Then we could get to gether some ball clubs Independent of Other leagues and other owners. "Half the players In our league are really owned by major league clubs, and nobody knows when the string will be pulled and a team broken up by the recall of those players. Men are farmed out to our clubs and Immedi ately want the same salaries In the minor league that they received In the big league. It Is Impossible to meet these demands, of course, nnd when we are compelled to .reduce their pay to minor league proportions the men natu rally become dissatisfied and very often don’t give the teams their best efforts. "Then, again, the patrons of the American Association cities don’t like the Idea of getting discard players all the time. TENNESSEE IS GRINDING OUT A' HUSKY TEAM TO TACKLE TECH Hiwrlsl to The Georgian. Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 18.—Work! >Vork! Work! le the program thle week at Knoxville with the University of Tenneuee football gladiators. Since Georgia went down laet Saturday, the men are playing with renewed vigor | and are (training every point to give | Teeh the battle of the aeazon. Coach George Levene ha* been devot ing inozt of hie time to perfecting drop and place kick formatlonz, realizing that It will be a more dltlleutt matter to rush Tech’s line* than it wax to wade through Georgia'!. Tennessee'* line-up for the Tech- Tenneesee contest will be practically the time aa the one uaed at Athene. The only probable changes are Cottrell for Cody at center and Dempeter at end. Dempeter is a new man on the squad, but a fast and heady player. With sev eral years of high school football to hlz credit he I* making the four other con testants hustle In their endeavor to land end seat* at the 'varsity fireside. The schedule of classes has prevented him from coming out sooner, but a suit able arrangement has been made and be will be seen on the field from now on. Tennessee showed up in better form Tuesday than any day so far during ths season. Ths 'varsity ran all over the seconds and scored three touchdowns In less than ten minutes. And In another minute had put a drop kick squarely between the goal posts. Lsvene's bunch of new men learned a lot of football down at Athens and are putting It Into practice. With two lec. tures on rules so far this week. Levene | Is developing football brains os well as ' brawn. And os he fully believes that I the man who knows the rules Is a bet- I ter player than the man who doesn't, Is • drilling Pennsylvania theory In deep. And It is showing on the Held. too. No "dumb” mistakes are seen with punt- outs and nnslde kicks like the frequent ones earlier In the season. West Is showing up stronger each afternoon In Bcrimmnge, and will hold up the honor of the Tech "T” he wears when he meets his former team mates on Tech Flats Saturday. He Is smash ing like a battering ram and jamming Interference like a fleml. Word Is showing up In better form than ever and Is likely to give DavU at tackle all he can take care of. Rpeclst to The Georgian. Macon, Ga., Oct. 16.—During the game Saturday Sam Jameson, the plucky little quarterback for the Bap tists, hod the misfortune to get his collar bone broken. This Is a severe blow to football at Mercer, for Jameson was one of the fastest and best men on the team. In nil probability he will be out of the game the balance of the season. Since the game last Saturday with Florida Coach Schencker has made a considerable change In the line-up at Mercer. At present Shaw* Is at center and Mallory Is at quarter. Farmer has been | shifted back of the line to right half and Nicholson Is at full. How long this change will lost no one knows, for Mr. Schencker Is trying his men In different places. Since Farmer has been placed In the back field there has been a hot con test at right end between Hicks nnd Spurlln. Both cover ground well and are good tacklers. Since Jameson'was put out on ac count of a broken collar bone, a num ber of the men are being tried at quar ter In order to get the best man. So far Mallory's work Is good. The work of Poole and Scogln at tackles Is a feature of almost every afternoon's practice. Davis, of the law- class, Is also doing some spectacular work at guard. He never falls to get his man. BARRY FIGHT8 WELL. Boston, Oct. 18.—Jim Barry, of Chi cago, Is ths gamest middle-weight ever seen In the Hub. was the conclusion of the 900 members of the Wlnnlsl met Athletic Club last night at the end of the ten-round bout with Sam Lani ford, who Is the toughest fighter of h weight In the country. Barry Is the only white man who ever came here anti made Langford really light. Though beaten he made hts dusky foe travel as he has not done before In long time. It is said that Dick Podden and Ed Ashenback, of St. Paul, will buy the Dayton club. In the Central League. Both the tail-end teams, Washington and St. Louis, played ball like cliam ptons the last two weeks of the season. For the flr»t time In six years. Pitt* burg won the season's series from New York. The series stands twelve games for the Pirates and ten for the Giants. "BIG” DOULHERTY, With the llret four pitchers In the league on Its staff. It Is not surprising that the Chicago Nationals can win pennants. , Or maybe It was because they work ed for world's champions that they led the league. Aa Parent Carrlgan, Lord and Chad- bourne are all native sons, the whole slate of Maine may be expected to take a personal Interest In the Boston Amer icans next season. * That Waddell, Bender and Plank are great pitchers Is not to be denied/ but • ... i-t|„ v.iintv who k*nt the Athletics In the running was Djrgert, the ex- uJttMvn* *.ta*<iel ■ To Discuts Wage Scale. New York, Oct. 18.—A Joint conven tion of the Orders of Railroad Con ductors and Railway Trainmen Is be ing held at the Broadway Central Ho tel today. The delegates will repre sent more than 100,009 railroad em ployees. The purpose Is to discuss a uniform wage scale. I Arbuckles’ is a tremendous organization that results in economy, and gives' coffee drinkers in the United States the cheapest good coffee in the world. We have our own offices in Brazil, charter our own vessels that bring the coffee to our own docks in Brooklyn, own our own stores where the green coffee matures and improves. Arbuckles 1 Ariosa Coffee is not touched by human hands —it is cleaned, sorted, roasted, packaged and weighed by in genious machinery, mostly constructed by our own machin ists in our own shops. The package is for your protection, that you may be positive that you re ceive the genuine Arbuckles' Ariosa Coffee every time—no matter where you buy it or what price you pay. We will tell you where you can buy Arbuckles’ Ariosa Coffee if you have trouble in finding it. AXBUU3J BB0&. New York CJtji