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THURSDAY, OCTOBER, 31, 1907. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SPORTING PAGE KAVANAUGH ROASTS ATLANTA CLUB AT N. Y. MEETING ! EDITED BY IP.H. WHITING j NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS By PERCY H . WHITING. It i* a trifle to be regretted that tho Tech and Georgia fol lowers can not get together and put their rivalry on a slightly better baais. The big game of the year is coming on—is almost here m fact—and,it is being ushered in by an era of charges, counter charges, jealousy, hatred and general ill-feelings. Ever}' Tech man seems honestly to believe that Georgia has hired a lot of athletics, gathered from Schenectady, N. Y., Savannah, Ga., and a few other remote and n.t qiporiant places. They also believe that the Georgia men are b*_ i ing trained to use every known dirty method of playing football und they strongly snspect that any man in the outfit would commit murder if he thought he could “get away with it.” Among Georgia men the feeling is, if possible, a trifle harder. They swear that Davis, of the Tech team, is a hired man and that he is a professional'ball player; they believe that Sims was induced to come to Tech by devious means, after he had gone to Athens to matriculate in the University of Georgia; they believe that Clyde Brown is being paid to go through college, and they believe a few other things that a lack of space only forbids us to mention. Those of us whose sympathies are with other colleges nnd who try to preserve neutrality in Georgia-Tech wrangles don’t know exactly what we do think, but we are all quite certain that both the Tech and Georgia followers are off the track and badly misled by appearances and false rumors. Both teams are made up of human beings (which fact some of the worst of the partisans of both teams seem to overlook) and most of the human beings are from Georgia. Likewise the bulk of them, if not all, are on the square. We have believed for some time that the athletics in some of the colleges of the state need a bit of looking into and heed to be put on a *better basis. Wo also believe that sevcrnl colleges would do well to understand that professional athletes ruin a team in the long run and that the way to fight “ringers” in an other college is with spirit in your own. But we can’t believe that either Tech or Georgia is as bad as its rivals make out and we should welcome the arrival of a better feeling between the supporters of the two colleges. It is possible to have a warm rivalry without having feeling of the kind that now exists. Representatives of Gordon Institute, Georgia Military Academy and Stone Mountain met at the local Y. M. C. A. Tues day night and held a long conference, in an effort to get together on some eligibility rules that will make it possible for those three, and all other, prep school teams in Georgia to meet in athletic contests. Just at present Stone Mountain will not play Gordon, and G. M. A. will play neither one of them. As a result the best teams in the section are never seen in action against each other. Sometime when there aro not so many big things on tap we shall have a bit more to say about it, but just noV the thing is not properly at a head. It may be mentioned that the eommittoe which met Tuesday decided that, as nothing could possibly bo done this year, it was unwise to prooecd in a hurry and a convention of the schools interested will be called between Thanksgiving and Christmas, at which time an effort will be made to agree upon eligibility rnles and to accept a constitution which will bo satisfactory to all. It is sincerely to be hoped that a working prep, school athletic association will be formed, and that eligibility rules will be adopted and lived up to. It is from the Georgia prep schools that most of the Tech and Georgia athletes of the future are to be drawn and it is de sirable that they get two forms of experience—the experience of playing against good teams and the experience of working nnder an athletic association which makes purity of athletics a reality instead of an idle dream. The writer’s article about the jaundiced views of Coach Kienholz on Southern athletics, which appeared yesterdny in this column, was also URed in the Nashville Tennessean and in com menting on it Grantland Rice wrote: Mr. Whiting Is a clearheaded, capable sporting writer, for whom we entertain a high regard, bnt on this point we must differ with him. Conditions In the South are not near so bad as a few calamity howlers like Dr. Williams offDahlonega and Coach Kienhol: of Auburn would lead' the public to bellevo. It the Auburn coach has, as he states, proof that certain men are Ineligible, all he has to do la to furnish the association with this proof, and If It Is based upon facts he can rest assured that every man so tainted will be promptly rjtled out. His claim that a college which doesn't furnish a degree Is not a college, Is foolish. A university Is ranked by what It hap pens to be—not what It happens to call Itaelf. In regard to that "One Year In College" role—conditions In the 8outh will hardly Justify Its advent. The regulations of the S. I. A. A., as they non- stand, It fol lowed out, Insure high-grade sport. And any collegiate athletic , association that deliberately breaks these regulations In order to strengthen Its football eleven would hardly be balked by the one- year role. Of oouuse, It conditions In the South were wholly bad. the situation might then warrant such action. But as we view it, the situation Is not only not wholly bad, but Improving from year to year. The most efficient remedy, and the one that un doubtedly should do most good, would be a high standard of scholarship for all athletes, this standard to be strictly main tained and enforced by all faculties, not only through the foot ball season, but through the entire scholastic year. So that If a man should fall in his work one year, he would then be elimi nated the next, until he had made up his work. Few “rlngerR" are willing to face any such task—and It they are, they will get what they had probably never gotten before—nor would ever get—a good college education. PRESIDENT KAVANAUGH ROASTS THE LOCAL CLUB YALE GETS COACHES. New Haven, Oct. 31.—The hurry-up call for veteran coaches to report at Tale brought a squad of ten yesterday. The scrubs won their dally battle with the 'varsity on Yale fleld yester- d«v by scoring the only touchdown dur ing the encounter. CORNELL’S LAURELS WON. Ithaca. Oct. 31.—Cornell's football team can now lay back on her Prince ton laurels. Captain Cook and Lynch took turns playing tackle on the scrub team. The scrubs and the freshmen played a close scrimmage here vester- day. BASEBALL RECORDS MADE THIS SEASON Wilhelm, Birmingham club. Southern League, pitched S3 consecutive Innings without allowing a run. Brooklyn A. C. and East End teams at Cleveland. Ohio, played a 30- Innlng game—the longest on record. Pf.-rfi l- ll.aton, and .Maddox. Pittsburg, respectively, shut out Cin cinnati and Brooklyn without a hit. Total attendance In major leagues was 6.136,557, of which the Ameri can drew 3.398.761. and National 2,73f,793. Tommy Leach circled the bases In 14 seconds flat. With slides to sec ond and third bsse* his time was I* I-S seconds. Phelan of Providence, beat a bunt to first In 3 seconds Hat. Michael Mitchell. Cincinnati, made a fungo hit of 413 feet 8 1-2 Inches. Sheldon La Jeune. Springfield, Central League, made a throw of 333 feet 10 3-4 Inch T- FINN GATHERS GOOD PLAYERS Little Rock, Oct. 31.—It Is beginning to be possible to get a pretty good line on the Little Rock team for next year. Manager Finn has drafted Pitcher Kane, of Utica; Inflelders East, of Akron, and Marlon, of Norfolk, and Outfielder McCormack, of Duluth. With Hart, Eyler, Walters and possibly Hughes, the Travelers have the foun dation for one of the best pitching staffs In the league. Taylor, of Vicks burg, and Kane will be tried out. Behind the bat Woods Is a certainty and whether Stark or Krebs from Vicksburg will be retained to help out remains to be seen. PENNSY’S BUCKING MACHINE In Address Calls Atlanta Association “Money Grabber.” ORGANIZED BALL IN GRAVE DANGER No Peace in Sight—Ameri can Association on Warpath. Here it a picture of the Pennsylvania bucking machine, a device eupposed to improve the charging of the players. Heavy-weights stand on the platform and at the word the other players dash against it, the way they are eupposed to charge against their opponents in a game. Such a device it regularly used at Tech. TAKE YOUR CHOICE- TECH OR GEORGIA GOLFERS PROGRESS TO THE SEMI-FINALS Game Saturday Looks Like Very Even Thing All Around. The Intereat In the Georgia-Tech football game Saturday now has the fever heat mark backed clear off the thermometer. There Is no love lost between the two teams nor their backers, nnd the whole bunch will be out at Ponce DeLeon Saturday looking for a ruction. But all the excitement will, of course, be furnished by the two football teame. That excitement, however, will be n plenty. Right now It looks like a toss-up be tween the two teams. The Tech team la a very doubtful quantity, when all her men are in good ehape, as they were last Saturday. But with Luck, Davis and Sweet In bad condition physically. It Is hard to tell what the team will show. On dope It has a shade over Georgia. Georgia seems to have strengthened steadily and there la no earthly tell ing what the Athens bunch will spring on the watting public Saturday. The deepest secrecy has been main tained about the University or Geor gia team, and It Is doubtful If anybody but the coach and his closest advisers will know whui the line-up will be until the game starts. Georgia has one ndvantage over Tech. The Athens people consider this game the one BIG affair of the year, and If they win It they are satisfied. Tech Is more ambitious and wants to beat Liemson as well ns Georgia. Also the Techltvs hope to show well against Vunderbilt ami Hcwanee. So the Georgia men have been brought to a razor edge for thus one contest, while the Tech men will hardly reach their very best form befoie Thanksgiving. Between the halves of the game, and before the contest, the Tech Scrubs will play the Stone Mountain team. The U. S. B. aggregation Is exceptionally strong this year, despite the fact that It la mode up almost entirely of new men, and will doubtless give the Scrubs a fancy run for their money. BASKETBALL RULES OUT. The latest Issue of Spalding's Ath letic Library Is the "Odlclal Basketball Guide for 1908," edited by George T. llepbron. Tho Guide contains, among other Interesting Information, reports from all over the country. New York. New Jersey, the South, the New Eng land district, Chicago, Cleveland, Mir peseta and South Dnkotn, ns -well as New Orleans. Los Angeles, Southern 'ulffornln and Cuba, ore all separately treated In n series of good articles showing the condition of the Indoor sport In esch section. A new departure Is the complete re The Sewanee Dope Sheet After Tech and the University of Georgia get through with each other, what Is left of each team will shake Itself together for a battle with Sewanee. The Tennessee Tigers and Tech meet Saturday after next and Sewanee and Georgia the following Monday. Here la the full dope sheet of the Sewanee team; Name. Home Town. Position. Ago. Wgt. Hgt. Guy Lewis Dallas, Tex Right End.... 23 165 5-11 1-2 William Evans Purral, Mexloo Right Tackle.. 19 180 5-11 1-2 Frank Faulkenberry. .Fayetteville, Tenn.. ..Right Guard.. 19 19* 6-4 1-2 Thomaa Evans, Parral. Mexico Center ....... 20 160 6-1 Erlo Clieape ....Avon Park. Fin Left Guard.... 21 170 6-1 1-2 Lex Stone •..Fayetteville, Tenn.. ..Left Tackle... 22 172 6-2 t-2 Silas Williams .Greenville, S. C Left End .... 19 150 5-9 1-3 Capt. Walter Barret. .Covington, Tenn Quarterback . 22 155 5-10 Frank Shipp Chattanooga, Tenn.. .Right Half .. 25 170 5-11 Lawrence Markley... Chlcngo. In Left Half .... 22 165 5-10 1-2 Aubrey Lanier Covington, Tenn Fullback 19 160 5-10 1-2 SUBSTITUTES. Logan Illsele Denver. Colo ...Sub Back .... 19 160 6 Kenneth Lyne Henderson. Ky Sub Back.... 19 146 5-10 William Wilson Rock Hill. S. C Sub End 22 144 5-10 1-2 Heber Wadley '.Shreveport, La .Sub Lineman. 21 170 6-2 Paul Sheppard Texnrkann, Tex Sub Lineman. 23 170 5-11 Games played so far and scores; Sewanee 22, Mooney 0, at Sewanee, on September 27. Sewanee 38, Mississippi A. & 51. 0. at Sewanee, on October 10. Sewanee 12. Auburn College 0. at Birmingham, on October 19. Sewanee 54. University of Alabama 5. at Tuscaloosa, on October 21. Sewanee 65, Mississippi 0, at Memphis, on October 26. Byrd, Tilson, Moore and Phillips Still in Cham pionship. STARTING A PLAY GEORGIA MILITARY ACADEMY TEAM. Hare is a snapshot of tho G. M. A. team at signal praetica. quarter is just passing tha ball for an end run. Nashville Will Entertain Michigan’s Husky Players Hpetinl to The OtKirKian. Nashville, Teen.. Oct. 31.-Everybody Id Nashville la awaiting with Interest the big straggle with Michigan, which cornea nest Saturday. Stands lire being erected at the port of the roller skating basketball „[,j„ , lf i )m IU-y geld, which will ae tournament held recently In Madison iwiuwl|tl thonaaud stnmllng spec. Square Garden, New York. College, , , platform Is almost basketball, and tn# record* or all the I completed, mid It to no eoiwtronw! that colleges nnd universities, are all fully I tho*> in the roar enu see as well covered. The Guide contains the new official playing rules for the season of 1907*03. and .'ll! amateur games must be played th<» A A 1\ role#. San Francisco, Oct. 31.—Real bet ting on the Johnaon-Flynn light has opened with the colored fighter a 1 to 2 favorite. At this price a few com missions were placed. While It to true that the negro has been a disappoint ment because of his lack of aggres siveness, his unusual caution might stand him in hand In a forty-five round euncounier, the route over which the two are slated to travel. the Wolverines, yet. after the gnuie. It It expected that such a program will lie rleil out ns will leave the most plett memories to the Northern I nils. Mrttiigln Insists thnt i( will lie necessary lirnhnm nnd UiifusebiMs room In which to cat the ••pigeon whig.” Mciluglu insist* thnt (iminger’s nine** In Ann Arbor, at which tin* Michigan stmlents gather to dnnee. bits barred Sehultx liecnime some time tluring bis freshman year bis euornioti* weight and vigor on the floor eaused It to sink down upon the furnnee. t*<Nieh Mctiugln Instituted n novelty last ill Hum. The knocking of the hamniers null the musle of tile saws ore tu* nl along I he side line*, where uu additions! sent eupnclty Is being provided, and new Ih»vch nre being put In. The Michigan leas! will r^rniw ia% . room or me ijSSSatuiu. i>i> In Nashville, and many plans are being nut ,.„ t mrini.cr* of the team were then .»»• tinder way for Its entertnlument. A Idg k * r ii«*ted to nib each other vigorously with iiuins meet lug will probably bc filrcn op rn- hsndfnls **f the salt. The purpose of this — ' Is to bring the elrcnlatlon to the suffnee. mu! thereby secure a letter pliy*leal i ouiII- fton. -Many shrieks nnd groans from the shower room greeted the debut of the salt barrel. Sf™ iMitiimohl!,*. to. stqgowo »|U.1‘| ™ iloiibtlcM lie taki'U to the llermllnge. where Awlrew Jackson lived land died, and nut to Mime of I he tdiiurewioe pike, which bud from Nashville lu oil directions. Then sfter the smite, n Mg IwU Is lieln* id«uued st the Watauga t lufi, where the Michigan heart lee nil) put nwuy the rails thought ef fnntlmU inutest aud ellmw I heir wny aleiut upon the Iwll room floor. .... . Vanderbilt |ienple are not unmindful of the reception her team was given dining these two sojourns at Ana Arlnr. During the contest ou Dudley held, there w01 be no 1*1 up ■“ **■* *" “ LET UP AT "PENN8Y.” Philadelphia, Oct. 31.—Acting on the theory thot the University of Pennsyl vania football, candidates have been overworked, the coaches are going to The golf tournament at the Atlanta Athletic Slub for ’the championship, Adair and Arnold cups has progressed to the semi-finals. In the championship Tilson meets Byrd and Phillips plays Moore. The former match Is practically the final event, for the winner of It should hava little trouble In taking the winner of the Phllllps-Moore match Into camp. Byrd Is the choice, but Just at pres ent Tilson is playing a phenomenal up hill game. In Wednesday's mitch he met Dr. Frank Holland. The doctor played the first nine holes In 38 strokes (equullng bogey) nnd had his opponent five down at the turn. Tilson wus able to gain only a slight advantage until after the thirteenth hole was played. He was then four down and five to go. He thereupon won five holes in- a row and took the match. In the presidents cup the race Is equally good. Clarence Angler has gone to the finals In the lower frame, while In the upper the semi-finals have yet to be played between Paine and Wil liams. These three men still In the second flight are nil first-class players and all "on their gumes." On dope Clarence Angler hits It a shade over his adversaries, but dope Is no better In golf than elsewhere, and seems to be especially astray In the present tour nament. The results Wednesday In the three flights follow; , Championship—Tilson defeated Hol land, 1 up; Byrd defeated Stovall by default; Phillips defeated Street, 5-4; Moore defeated Arnold. 4-3. The semi finals In this dnss will be played on Thursday afternoon. The flnnls are at 36 holes, 18 of which wilt be played Friday and 18 on Saturday, President’s Cup—Paine defeated Luxlon. 6-5; Williams defeated Tlche- nor, 2-1: Scott defeated Glddlngs by default; Angler defeated F. W. Stone, 5-3. Semi-finals will be played Thurs. day afternoon, and the finals either Fri day or Saturday. Arnold Cup—Connally won by de fault; Jllges defeated R. B. Hall. 6-4; Mlkoll defeated Barnett, 2 up; Dlnktna defeated Holleyman, 1 up on 20 holes. Semi-finals will be played Thursday afternoon and finals either Friday or Saturday. Qualifying cards are being poured In fast In the Trawlck tournament, though only few low ones have shown as yet. It seems evident that to get In tha tournament a net score of between 90 and 100 will be needed, but as handi caps are llberaf so many high handicap men are likely to get in that It will force the highest qualifying score down to pretty low figures. The bulk of the qualifying will he done at the end of the week, and all players have until Monday to get In their scores. Each player may tijrn in as many cards as he wants, and handi caps count In the qualifying round. OH FUDGE! OH FUDGE! Mr. Percy Whiting, Sporting Editor of The Georgian; Dear Mr. Whiting—In your Issue of the 29th Inst, you state that you do not like “the present condition of thlnes." This Is to Inform you that you do not like the "present condition of things" because you see that Georgia about to wallop your much-loved pet, Tech. Yours truly, VAN WILHITE. Jackson. Gn. Wrong again, bo. We want to tee tlie best team win and If Georgia la "It" we hope she wallops the very tar out of Tech. If she Isn't, we don't. By SAM CRANE. New York,' Oct. 31.—Fr6m the ap pearance of things last night, when tha national association adjourned until to day. the prospects of another baseball war were not lessened much from tho dark outlook they had before the meet ing began. The rebelllously Inclined American Association threw a bomb Into the irtt- nor league camp that cause a terrible disturbance. It was anticipated by all those who know Tebeau that he would claim for his American Association everything In sight, but the demands he made through President J. D. O’Brien, of the organi sation, fairly out-Tebeaued Tebeau and as one dazed nnd dumbfounded dele gate remarked, "Why. the gall of the man ts something appalling.” The demands follow: No. 1—Thnt the Pacific Coast Lengue, Southern League and Western League be reduced to Class B. No. 2—That the board of arbitration of the National Aasoclatlon be reduced from seven members, as now constitut ed, to five, and that the American As sociation and Eastern League be repre r sented on the board; that two repre sentatives be appointed from the lower class leagues nnd that the fifth member shall be chosen by representatives of the American Association and Eastern League. No. 3—That all future meetings of the association be held in Chicago. Judge Kavanaugh, president of the Southern League, made the most forci ble attack against the demands and brought out the fact that the American Association was basing Its claim of population on the' coming census of 1910 Instead of 1900, and If the ten-year agreement which places the Class A leagues In their present classification was lived up to It would be found that In 1910 the Southern League would have n population of over a million to draw from. Mr. Kavanaugh also remarked Inci dentally that he thought the Class A clubs were getting off lucky to have only one player drawn from each club. He also threw a harpoon Into the Atlanta olub, a member of hla own league, because, after having ono player drafted, it sold six moro players to the highest bidder, pock eted the money and then made a howl for moro protection, with the complaint that it can not hold its P 'ST ! Kavanaugh closed hit re marks by saying that tho National and Amorjcan leagues would not be so gr'eeoy for players unless thay wore tempted by the money grab bers of tho minor leagueo. There were many other speeches made against the'demands, and when the vote was taken to table the reso lution offered by the American Asso ciation the vote was overwhelmingly In favor of It. Nineteen to three was the way the vote atood after each poll for each of the three decisions. The leagues voting for the demands were the American Association, Eastern League and New York Central League. As a little sop to the American As sociation, It was voted to hold the next annual meeting In Chicago. The "Log Cabin" will be designated aa tha meet ing place. Notwithstanding the great disfavor the American Association demand* were received, there Is a dlsposltl/i on the part of, many of the delegates to give the Eastern League and the disgruntled Westerner* same few ex tra concessions, and so It was decided that the representatives of both these organizations meet the committee on revision of the constitution and confer with them on some plan which will be satisfactory to all concerned. Whether the American Association will listen to any compromise la a question. let ters are bound to come to a crista to day, and then the Western representa tives' will be forced to show their hands. * KLING FIXED COBB. Frank Schulte, of the Cubs, is taking up gentlemen'* driving a* a winter uierworacu me cuwcuei are going to „asttme. He purchased Billy Jeffrey. let UP on their hard work for a fewla pacer with a 2:13 mark, with part of the tumiuertag of day*.- hla championship divvy. The science of constructing blinds for duck shooting, while It may be brought to a great stage of perfection. Is not al ways an exact science. For Instance, a willow blind, with tall willow stumps about, may be a fine place to shoot pin tails from on some cold days, and that, suddenly the weather may turn bright and warm, and the birds will not decoy there, but will come In to a grass blind, strong about a squat ducking boat, built to be as Inconspicuous as possible, with the hunter lying down almost totally concealed from the ducks by the grass which meets above him aa he Ilea In the boat. On blight days the birds are more suspicious apparently, and are less apt to be traveling about. On dark and stormy days they are less alert, and more constantly on the move. Blinds for the greater and lessor scaup ducks, the big and little bluebllls, may be con. strutted from, almost anything. These birds will sometimes come In to where a man is throwing out decoys, and they are, together with the rtngbllls, the easiest of all ducks to decoy. Early In the season an old log may serve aa a blind, and a half dozen de coy* will aerve to bring the bluebllls In. Where the bird* have bsen more or less shot at. and have become warier, a brush blind, with some grass or even hay tucked In will make a good blind, and a large (lock of decoys will be found advantageous. One of tile very first requisites for the occupants of a duck blind Is Immovability.—November Recreation. Bobby Wa*ice'a salary will be drop- K d from 16,500 per to 33,600. The Scot ■feta that he will no longer cavort on McAleer’s “edges" for anything short of (.600 bones.