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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6,1907.
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HERE'S A RECORD OF THE DAY’S DOINGS IN SPORTLAND Ip.™™
ATLANTA
LOSTTWO
Got All Men She
Except Wagner and
Hollenback. ;
Secretary Ferrell, of the National As-
aoclatlon, haa notified the Atlanta baee-
ball association that ite drafts have
been put through all right with two
exceptions—Wagner and Hollenback.
Of this pair the former was gobbled
up by the Philadelphia Nationala be
fore Billy Smith got to him and the lat-
ter was given by lot to Omaha.
Aa ia the custom when two or more
clubs draft the same man, the question
of the ownership ia decided by lot.
And in this case Omaha had the luck.
Probably this man will turn out to
be a wonder.
Last year Billy 8mith drafted a third
passman and loat him beoauae some
other club drafted him also and had
luck in the gamble for him.
SUTTON BEAT
J. SCHAEFER
Chicago. Nov. *.—George Sutton last
night defeated Jake Schaefer at 18-
i Inch balk line, two shots In, by the
acoro of 600 to 241, and by the victory
j retained the world’s championship em-
, blem for that stylo of billiards. The
winner averaged 88 1-8, running nut In
fifteen Innings, hla good record being
due to a brilliant run of 232 In the ninth
Inning. Schaefer averaged 181-5, rune
of 93 and 90 saving the veteran master
of the cue from being totally out
classed.
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS |
Poor old Tulane.
Last year the New Orleans team did not score a point. Not
having the moral courage to build lip a team by legitimate meth
ods the college withdrew from the S. I. A. A. and proceeded to get
together a team of men drawn from other colleges.
But now comes the rub. Tulane wants to play L. S. U. for the
state championship.
“All right.” says L. S. U., “but we can not play you unless
all your men are eligible under S. I. A. A. rules.”
Whereupon Tulane throws up her hands and shouts “bloody
murder.”
For the S. I. A. A.’s “one year rule” provides that no man
who has participated in intercollegiate athletics in one institution
shall participate in athletics in any other S. I. A. A. institution
until lie has been a student there for one collegiate yeur. (New
Orleans sporting editors, note this. Some of 'em arc way off on
their interpretation of this rule.) And it knocks out about ull of
the Tulane stars.
So there will be no game this year for the Louisiana cham
pionship. nor is there likely to be until Tulane gets back in the
S- A. A.
New York turf writers are bewailing the fact that a 110-
pound jockey is too honvy to ride races at tracks in this country;
and are marvelling at the fact that one horse of unusual stam
ina and ability has been able to appear in two races in one day.
day.
And yet racing, with all of its gambling side-lines, is al
lowed in some states on the plea that racing is conducted for the
improvement of the breed or horses.
And yet the horses that they have produced after a couple
of hundred years of careful breeding have been those that can’t
carry a boy weighing over 110 at any high speed and that can’t,
aa a usual thing, run more than one race in an afternoon.
If the race track owners and the race track gamblers arc to
get away with this “improvement of the breed"
have to work a change in the style of races they run.
The present tendency is all toward short races, from a half-
mile up to a mile; and toward n light scale of weights. And the
breeders are turning out horses that can carry a feather mighty
fast for a few hundred yards.
But what good can such a horse be off a race track! Abso
lutely none. When his days of racing usefulness arc over the
glue factory for him.
Some day the people of this country will wake up to the
fact that the “improvement of the breed” fairy tale is only a
blind and that the gamblers and track owners arc the men who
are getting the money.
out of voguo when tho gridiron gamo underwent a revision at the hands of the rules committoe. Captain
Parker is at the extreme left and Quarterback Newhall, who ia punting, is at the extreme right. The large
portrait is of Burr, the all-American guard of last year, who is now playing tackle. Lakewood, halfback, is
shown in the smaller photo at the left and Kennard, an end, ie at the right.
ERWIN TO SEND SEWANEE'S BEST
AGAINST THE HERMAN MACHINE
Bruises Virginia Inflicted
Will All Be Well By
Saturday.
GAME OLD THOROUGHBRED WAS
IN MONEY
By COLIN M'DOUGAL.
New York. Nov. 8.—It Is rare there
daya (or a horae to be In the money in
two racea the same day. At Jamaica,
October 29. Eugene Wylancl started J.
F. Donohue twice. In the second race,
at a mile and a sixteenth, and again In
the fifth, where the route was a mile
and a half. The Onondaga colt took
second place In the first effort and third
In the fifth race, but hie manner of
finishing out In the second race was
almost conclusive evidence that had he
been reserved for the fifth alone he
would have earned brackets.
J. F. Donohue Is the first runner to
try In t*o races on the same day this
fall, but such Instances are not rare.
The cases of Ogden and Sydney Lucaa
are notable In recent turf history. The
former, after two years In retirement,
came back a good horse, and won twice
In an afternoon, once at six furlongs
and later at a mils and a sixteenth.
The moat remarkable Instance of
stamina In the history uf ths American
turf was that of John C. Stevens' Black
Marta, a long lifetime ago. In October,
1882, Black Marla won a race of four-
mile heals over the Union course on
Long Island, In which five heats were
necessary to achieve victory. Over a
heavy track, this wonderful mare won
the first heat, dead-heated tie second.
Famous Athlete
Dies at Savannah
Savannah. Ga., Nov. 6.—Joseph Black,
aged 31. one of the be*t-knowtt and
most popular athletes in the South, died
yesterday at hfa home on St. Julian
street, after an Illness of hut a few
weeks. The cause of his death was
consumption.
TULANE WIN8.
Special to The Georgian.
New Orleans, La., Nov. 6.—Central
of Kentucky succeeded In scoring on
the Tulane football team here yester
day. something that no team has done
before this year, and which no team
failed to do last year. The local bunch
won, however, by a score of 38 to 8.
Left guard of Sowanee
star.
8|»eHal to The Georirlnii.
Sewanee, Tenn., Nov. 6.—The game
last .Saturday In which Sew’nnee de
feated the University of Virginia 12 to
0, has been recorded h6re on the Moun
tain ah the greatest victory»fn Sowanee
football annals.
The team arrlyed Tuesday from Nor
folk. after a Ion*, hhrd’trlp. Bumps
and bruises have crippled the team
boinewhat. but the men will have a few
|.days* rest before Invading the nest of
the Yellow Jackets on November 9.
Conch Erwin Is not worrying, as
I there are no serious Injuries among his
, men, ami when the schedule time ar
rives he will have a bunch of stout pur-
I pie Tigers ready to battle with Coach
| Helsmnn'g squad.
The Virginia game marked many Im-
j provtMiicnts on the Sewanee team. The
i back field Is as Rood ns any In the
i H'»uth. Although Barrett was early In
the Km no substituted at quarter by
Lyne, yet during the time In which the
team was under his charge the oval
was steadily advanced. For aocuifcey
ami length of his forward passes ho I
can hardly be surpassed. Markley's ‘
interference Is always gilt edge and he
Is an Invaluable mat! on the defense.
Shipp, of course, starred, and once;
i to the despair uf the Virginia Support-
‘crs. sailed away on a 70-yard voyuge
I and came to anchor between the goal
| posts. Lanier, the new man at full,
j distinguished himself at the very start
j when he returned the kick-off 85 yards.
! Sewanee’s defense Is Improving. Dur.
; ing the Virginia game three tithes the
I purple goal lli)e was within five yards
i of beltfg crossed, but beneath the
i shadow of those posts the fighting
Tigers curled their hacks and the ball
went over.
FauklInberry, the new right guard, in
whom much hope has been placed, filled
his purple uniform with his good 215
pounds of mountain sinew, with as
much credit as anyone from Sewanee
could demand.
1 Williams at left end has a sore
' shoulder, but will be ready by Saturday
for tiny Tech back who tries to steal
; around his end. There will lie a serlm r
• tnnge tomorrow and steady work till
Friday, when the team leaves for At
lanta. *
About the time our petted baseball
heroes make up their minds to fall
from the trapeze another session will
be on. It takes a whole lot of summer
glory to last through the winter.
Purple Players Showing
Much Better On the
Defensive.
ATLANTA
GOTFIVE
Drafted Enough Men to
Help Out'a Lot in
1908.
With Wagner and Hollenback knock
ed out of the liet of men drafted by
Bill Smith, there are ftve.remaining and
this number, added to the outfit left
over from this year's pennant winner,
will help out a lot next spring.
Here are ths men drafted:
Cummings, pitcher, Duluth, Northern
Copper Country-League.
Atkins, pitcher, Bay City, Mich.
Collins, outfielder, Springfield, Ohio,
Central League.
Wilkes, Infielder, Waterloo club, Iowa
State League.
Moran, utility man, Jacksonville, III,
Iowa State League.
MERCER GOES
TO ALABAMA
Macon. Ga„ Nov. 8.—Arrangement,
have Juet been completed for Mercer
football team to go to Auburn, Ala.
on Saturday for the game with the big
college Instead of having the Auburn
team come to Macon.
Coach Schencker and the member,
of the Mercer Athletic committee de
cided that Auburn would not prove a
drawing card In the Central City, and
aa Mercer only has three game, away
from home, the trip to Alabama will
give the football boys a chance to vl.lt
one of the largest Southern college..
BOBBY ON FOOTBALL
BY WILLIAM F. KIRK.
Football time Is here.
The gratest time of tho year.
Sum. I suppose.
Will lose a nose
& sum will lose a ear.
T HIS essay about football Is begun with a poem, I doant begin vary much
of my stuff with a poem bcekauk maost peepul Is vary shy about pit.
dry & poet., my leecher sed. If you must rite stuff. Robbie, my
teechei- sed, rite slmpol things that come strate from the heart ,’lke grate
arteries & wlch, like grate arteries. Increeses the circulation, my teechrr
sed.
Football Is a grate galni, perhaps the greatest galm that Is played on a
gridiron In the United States, tliarc Is eleven men on eech side when the
galm begins about a hundred young men wlch Is called substltoots setting
on the side lines, the substltoots crawls along In the gras & prays for a
chance to salv thare Alma Mater with along run down the feeld but thay
doant git the chance only In the November mrgaxenes. if they do git a
chance to play sum big feller on the other side kicks them In the shins,
brakes thare leg & then thdre I. a chance for another xubatltoot.
Among the grate football players I can think of now Is ypung Teddy
Rnusevclt & my Pa. Young Teddy plays a grate galm aa a end on the
Second team, he- Is feerless like his father. I know I am only on the Second
team. Teddy Junyur says, .but yonder shines my star of destiny, he says.
Wait till sum man above mo glu hilled In this awful struggle, he says. A
I will be rite up on the top, I am sure to be a grate credit to Alma Mater,
he says, like Alma Father.
My Pa doesn't play football any moar, but he used to be even a grater
player than President Rousevelt's son. he toald me so. When I was a young
man. Bobble, my Pa sed. I was a wonder at college, when I used to git
the ball A hit the line. Pa sed, the players skattered like the leeves of
the Autumn, nothing cud stay my course. I was a feend Inkarnat, sed
Pa, wlch swept across the feeld like a desert storm, leevlng deth & ruin
In my tracks. Pa sed.
Yes. sed Ma, you used to tuck a ball under yure arm A dash madly
whore Duty called, Ma sed. Now, in yure old age, Ma sed. you tuck n
hall under yure belt & daah madly after another, Mu sed. Backward turn
backward. O time In they lllte!
Robbie, my Pa sed, listen well to what yure mother'is saying, she t«'
wishing the days was I>«rk when I won her gurllsh luv. the days whan I was
u plunging hnir-back wlch scorned all thoughts of feer. If you ever play
football. Bobbie, try to play so hard A so braivly that you can win ns sweet
a wife as I won. Heres to yure mother. Bobble, I will now drain a flaggon
as a toast to her. •
Nothing of the kind, my Ma sed. I will beleeve all you say, but as for
the flaggons you wish to drain, Nix. You have drained ffaggons enuff to
day, sed Ma.
This Is all I can think of to rite a bout football.
SCALE OF JOCKEY WEIGHTS
SADLY IN NEED OF A RAISE
"SKINNY” SHIPP.
All-Southern halfback who plays
with Sewanee team.
CLEMS0N AND GEORGIA CLASH THURSDAY;
TECH GETTING READY FOR SEWANEE TEAM
The Clenisnn-Georgla game at Au
gusta Thursday morning promises to
be a nice affair.
t.'lemson will not put In her best
team, but at that can probably worry
Georgia some. The Ilne-up of the
Athens team Is the Usual mystery, but
if the same bunch that played Tech
plays Clemson they ought to make a
marvelously good showing. For that
team has seldom If ever been beaten
In Georgia for Individual ability.
Practice at Tech continues briskly.
If not merrily.
There seems no chance that Robert
and Buchanan will be back In the game
for the present, and the still-hunt for
the second quarterback continues stead
ily. Hightower Is the first choice all
right, but Coach Helsman Is doing a
regular Sherlock Holmea for the other
man.
The Yellow Jackets are determined
to make a good showing against the
Sewanee team. The playere recall that
Sewanee could beat Auburn only 12 to
8 and every man at Techvllle bellevee
that the home team has It all over
the Alabama Polys.
And If the Jackets can't beat the
Tigers at leaat they can make a big
try. And If they play the game against
Sewanee they did against Georgia they
will make the Tennessee team hump
»«»• to roll up a score.
By COLIN M’DOUGAL.
New York, Nov. 6.—The old question
of raising the scale of Jockey weights
Is again to the fore. It Is given added
Interest Just notv by the number of fine
riders who have been driven from the
American turf by the low scale.
During the past decade' America haa
lust some of her most brilliant Jockeya
through the fact that the weight scale
here would not allow them to have
more than an occasional mount, and
the consequence has been that the
riders were forced to seek thetr occu
pations and fortunes In foreign climes.
Among this number are Danny Ma
her, the greatest rt<)er England has
known since Fred Archer's day; Fred
Tarek Henry Spencer, "the Iceman;”
Nut Turner, Harry Lewis, Tony Ham
ilton, now dead; Tommy Burns, Win
nie O’Connor, and a host of other bril
liant knights of the pigskin.
It was not that these boys hod out
lived their usefulness by any means,
for they went right over to England
and Europe, and all made successes.
Another brilliant rider whose stays In
the saddle are numbered Is Walter Mil
ter. Within the past two years Miller
lias taken on considerable weight until
now he finds It impossible to ride light
er than 102 pounds. A year or so ago
he could do 90 pounds. Jack Martin,
who Is as good a horseman In the sad
dle as one can find throughout tho
country* because of hla weight—about
110 pounds—now only gets a mount
perhaps once or twice a week, scarcely
enough to keep him In practice—Dave
Nlcol I* another of our good ridere
whose riding career Is very limited, and
the earne may be said of Radtke and
Knapp.
0 GATHERING PLAYERS. 0
O 0
O Manager Harry Vaughn, of the O
O Birmingham club, was out looking O
O over the youngatere. Harry I* J
0 very busy trying to get good, new 0
0 material for the Coal Barons. He o
O put In drafts for two well-known 0
0 Tri-State League playere yester- “
O day, and he hae decided to give »
O Pitcher Cal Louden, of this city, jj
0 a trial Is the spring. Among the 0
0 many applications he has received o
O lately le one from C. J. Mfnzlrr. 0
O of Germantown, a young ehortetop o
0 who played on the Ohio Military 0
O Institute team when Buck Ewing 0
0 wae coaching there three years o
O ago. Buck said that the lad could 0
O make good on any minor league o
0 team, but Harry thinks he needs a 0
0 little more experience before o
O tackling Claes A.—Cincinnati En- “
O qulier. °
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