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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22,1007.
SPORTING
AGE
CLIMAX NEAR IN THOSE COLLEGE SUSPENSION CASES
I EDITED BY
I P.H. WHITING
I NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
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By PERCY H . WHITING. ,
TVell, by the time the evidence is all in against the,Tech and
Georgia football teams and the verdict rendered by the execu
tive committee of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Associa
tion we shall know “where we are at,” athletically speaking.
College athletics in Georgia have not received any too savory
advertising as a result of this present deplorable state of affairs
and all well-wishers of honest sport will welcome the calm which
must follow the storm. ,
With the present squabble settled the people who
vor of athletic reform will have to get together and see
be done.
Georgia is in for an athletic house-cleaning, from the prep
schools right up to the best colleges. And the job ought to be a
thorough one.
The prep school row has been lost in the shuffle lately, but the
trouble has never been eliminated and is likely to break out at
any time. - .
Until the prep schools of Georgia get together, purify ath
letics, arrange reasonable schedules and stop their everlasting
squabbling there is no hope of turning Into the colleges young
men who have the right ideas of amateur sport.
The need of reforms among the colleges is so obvious that
any further comment would be worse than wearisome.
But pooplo who want to see intercollegiate football continued
in Georgia had better get together and DO SOMETHING! It is
getting past the time when talk counts.
Those who are interested in decent athletics would do well to
get together and put intercollegiate football and baseball on tho
right plane.
Tho time has passed when colleges can either brenk the laws
with impunity or try to see how near they can come to breaking
them without getting caught.
It is time for the people of Georgia to recognize the differ,
ence between enterprise and corruption in the securing of foot
ball players.
In fact it is time to GET BUSY.
And it is up to the football and baseball fans of the state.
t — ■■ —.
Right now the interest centers in the executive committee of
the S. I. A. A.
Everybody concerned in athletics can safely have all confi
dence that the rulings of this body will be fair and impartial.
The chairman of the committee, Dr. W. L. Dudley of Vander
bilt. is tho man who has made the 8. I. A. A. a vita] force in tho
purification of college athletics and tho man who has done more
than any other to stamp out professionalism among Southern
college teams. The other members likewiso are men of the very
highest caliber and whatever action the committee takes will be
accepted as final by all those interested in the caso.
With all this row kicked up among S. I. A. A. colleges it is
with a desire for companionship inmisery that we' turn to poor old
. Tulane. Tho New Orleans college could not stand for any pro
tracted spell of decent athletics and last year kicked over the
8. I. A. A. traces and went it alone.
After a half-season of near-activity with a team recruited any
old way—which team won three games and lost two—the Tulane
football organization has disbanded.
The comment of The Daily States of New Orleans on tho
reasons for their disbanding follows:
It Is admitted, oven by the elevens who defeated Tulane,
that tho local university put a squad on the gridiron this year as
formidable as any Southern college put Into football togs for i
years, with the exception of Vanderbilt. Hut there are more rea
sons than one why Tulane did not win every game' this year, *
which she should have done.
In the first place the dally practice games lasted no longer
than one hour. Then many of the regular men would remain
away from these practice games for days. Green, ono of tho
most reliable of tho Tulane players, seldom appeared for prac
tice, and the result was that ho waa wonting In tho knowledge
of signals.
While the Tulane squad wns having Its stingy one-hour prac
tice dally, the hardy Texans and Arkansans were bolng put
through hours and hours of the hardest practice overy day, rough
ing It in all the essentials of the game. Arkansas, which eleven
beat L. 8. U„ won from Tulane by a mero fluke, and had the game
' listed a little longer the tale would have been a very different
one. Texas, with only one minute to play, also scored on a fluke,
the ball at tho time being closer to their goal when tho sixty or
more yard run was mado for a touchdown.
And there yon are. According to The States tho squad was
as formidable as any, except Vanderbilt’s, but someway the team
oonld not do much business.
Probably they never will learn down in New OrleanB that de
cency and amateurism pay in college athlot'cs. But what can
you expect from a town thnt encourages wrestling and tolerates a
Sunday whirligig race track! •’
WHERE DEMPSEY SLEEPS.
Recently the sporting paces havt
reeked with verse, most of It bearing
•n baseball. From one of these fane
who object to the sport of the diamond
monopolising attenUon, tbs following
lines have been received. The verse
waa written by a Portland (Ore.) writer
several years ago. at which time Jack
Dempsey's grave, subject of the Ilnee.
was neglected and unmarked. Since
that time a fund has been raised by
subscription, enough of the money to
pay for a headstone and care of the
grave being set aside for that purpose,
and the balance going to the family of
the dead pugilist. The verse follows:
Far. out In the wilds of Oregon
On a lonely mountain aide.
Where Columbia's mighty waters
Roll down to the ocean tide;
Where the giant flr and cedar
Are Imaged In the wave,
O'ergrtjwn with firs and lichens.
I found poor Dempsey's grave.
I found no marble monolith.
No broken shaft nor stone.
Recording sixty victories
‘ This vanquished victor won;
No rose, no shamrock could I find.
No mortal here to tell
Where sleeps In this forsaken spot
The immortal Nonpareil.
A winding wooded canyon road
That mortals seldom tread,
Deads up this lonely mountain
To thl* desert of the dead.
And the western sun was sinking
In Pacific’s golden wave;
And these solemn pines kept watching
Over poor Jack Dempsey's grave.
Forgotten by ten thousand throats.
That thundered hla acclaim—
Forgotten by his friends and foes.
Who cheered his very name.
Oblivion wraps his faded form.
But ages bene* shall save
The memory of that Irish lad
That fills poor Dempsey's grave.
FAMOU8 ATHLETE.
“SKINNY” SHIPP.
Here Is the great broken-field
runner of the Sewanee football
team. In the picture he Is shown
just after kicking a drop-kick.
S. I. A. A. IS
CONSIDERING
SUSPENSIONS
Executive Committee Gets Down to Busi
ness and Will Hear Charges of Athletic
Impurity Against Tech and Georgia.
Here la Martin Sheridan, the greatest all-round athlete the world
has ever known. Recently he injured himself in some athletio games
and will be out of the running for awhile.
In wilds, In woods. In weeds;
Ami shall he ever thus sleep on
Interred his valiant deeds? .
TIs strange New York should thus for
get
Its “bravest of the brave."
And In the wilds of Oregon
Unmarked, leave Dempsey's grave.
The Coehocton team In the Ohio
State League, has signed Williams,
rusher on the Akron tram In the In
terstate League.
It la thought that Coy, Yale’s full,
will be elected captain of next year’s
eleven, because of hla good game
Oh. lame, why sleeps thy favorad son against Princeton.
Donald Fraser to
Play the G. M. A.
The game to be played Saturday be
tween Donald Fraser and O. M. A. will
be the only one that Atlanta football
fans will have tho opportunity of see
ing, as It seems that the S. I. A. A. has
eut out the gamo between Tech and
Merctr.
The game will be played at Pied
mont park nnd will begin promptly at
3 p, m. Much local Interest is felt In
this game, ns there has always been a
strong rivalry between the two schools
and both have fast teams.
A good crowd Is expected, as both
teams have mhny supporters In and
around Atlanta.
The Donald Frnser squad will likely
line up os follows:
McCaekell, center; Watson, left
guard; Brime, right guard; Helfner,
left tackle; Wyly, right tackle; My-
stak, left end; Hackney, right end;
Tolleraon, quarter; McDonald, left
halt; Powell, right half; Jenkins (cap
tain). full. •
Fight in Iowa
Despite Governor
Davenport, la., Nov. 22.—Packy Mc
Farland last night defeated Kid Her
man, his Chicago townsman, Ir
lifteen-rnund battle before the biggest
crowds that ever saw a ring battle In
Iowa, In the Coliseum. This, too, de
spite the order of Govern Cummins
that no exhibit of any sort be allowed
to take place. But there was no de
cision given by Referee Hogg, the
wishes of the chief executive of the
Corn State being observed to this ex
tent.
Only gameness of a marked degree
and good condition saved Herman from
a complete knock-out.
Travelers May
Keep Franchise
Spools! to The Georgina.
Chattanooga, Tonn., Nov. 2Z.—Chat
tanooga baseball fans evidently do not
care enough about Southern League
baseball to pay 313,000 for the Little
Rock franchise.
All talk of buying the franchise Is
over, and It Is now practically certain
thnt the Little Rofk people will get no
offers from this city.
The men who backed former profes
sional teams here say they had a
Southern League franchise taken away
from them without a cent of remu
neration, and thoy are not going to pay
313,000 or any other amount for an
other one now.
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Here's a joke on Harry Bay from a
St. Louis paper: “And have you heard
Harry bay on the comet? You ought
to hear Harry’s dog bay on the Bay's
fiddle.”
Friday morning at 10 o'clock there
legan In the assembly room of the
'ledmont Hotel quite the most remark-
ible session of the.'executive commlt-
ee of the Southern Intercollegiate
Ithletlc Association that was ever held.
The meeting was called at the re-
luest' of Professor Holmes, urged on
by the athletic authorities of the Geor
gia School of Technology.
Its purpose Is to consider the suspen
sion of the Georgia School of Technol
ogy nnd the University of Georgia foot
ball teams.
Four of the five members of the com
mittee are on hand for the session.
They ore Dr. W. L. Dudley, Vander
bilt University; Vice Chancellor B. L.
Wiggins, of Sewanee; Professor E. T.
Holmes, of Mercer, and Professor W. M.
Riggs, of Clemsqn. Colonel Thomas B.
Boyd, ot Louisiana State University, Is
the only absentee.
The University of Georgia Is repre
sented by Chancellor D. C. Barrow,
Professor Sanford and J. S. Melt, of
Athens, who will be the legal adylser.
Tech had a large number ot delegates
at the Piedmont Friday morning, but
their official representatives will be Ath
letic Director Randle, Coach Heisman
and Charles T. Hopkins, legal repre
sentative. It Is the Intention to run oft
the meeting promptly and with the use
of the usual legal forms.
Tech declares that she Is ready for
the healing and will answer all the
charges which she knows of.
Professor Sanford, of Georgia, says:
"Our condition Is a peculiar one. We
do not know whether we are charged
with murder or arson. I have failed In
my best efforts to find out the charges
against us. In consequence we are In
a peculiar position."
Both of these football organizations
were recently suspended by Professor
Edward T. Holmes, vice president of
the second district of the S. I. A. A. on
tl> > charge that both had played "ring
ers” (or paid players) on their football
teams.
These suspensions came about after
a painful period, filled to the brim with
unexampled charges and counter
charges and at a time when the ath
letic stench In Georgia became unbear
ably strong.
The rivalry between Tech and Geor-
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Just
Rube Vickers Is to get one more
chance by the Phillies.
A Mlehlgan-Penn game for next year
Is extremely doubtful.
According to the dope Chicago should
scalp the Indians next Saturday.
President Murphy will take his Cubs
t» West Baden on March 4 to etart
training.
Critics say there is more holding In
the opening game than In the old close
formation.
Jimmy Caaey of the Brooklyn Na
tionals has been signed to manage To
ronto next year. •
Captain Pryor, of Brown, predicts 22
to 0 as the Yale-Harvard score. Let's
hope It’s that close.
Bill Edwards and “Pa" Corbin have
been selected as the officials for the
Army-Navy game.
It now seems llketv that Gotch and
Hackenscmldt will meet In Chicago
during March or Afiril.
The Boston Nationals are going to
give Joy, the Sandwich Islander, a
thorough try-but In- the spring.
Burch and Logan will be given
chance to play against Harvard, ao that
they may earn their "Ys.”
Yale's backfleld la the
her history. Tad Jones
Brides 187, 'Bomar 186 nnt
To keep the practice absolutely se
cret, not even the second Harvard team
was allowed In the stadium Monday.
Zbysca, the Galician wrestler, has
the largest blcepa In the world. His
chest measures 54 Inches and his neck
22 1-2.
McAleer has sent a bid to the PH
grims for Bob Unglaub. The number
ot shekels Involved is not made pub-
In the three games the Indiana played
agulnst "Big Five" teams, they scored
4.) points to 37 for Its adversaries.
Coach Warner, who failed to moke
good at Ithaca, regreta that his Car
lisle team does not play Cornell this
year.
Because of their rough tactics In the
game Saturday, Swarthmore Is likely
tc be dropped from the Cornell sched
ule.
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gin In football has long been keen The
University was the first on the spot
and Its students and friends have long
looked upon Tech as something of an
athletic upstart. ,
With the advent of Coach Heisman
Tech began to turn out some winning
football teams. And this hurt Geor
gia's feelings.
Last fall Tech defeated Georgia
though the Athens team had an aggre
gation that appeared to be of almost
equal strength, and which did play a*
well as Tech except in one thing, the
Important matter of handling punts
'Weakness of the men who were sent
back for the 'long files" cost Georgia
the game.
Rumor has It that the “frame-up" to
beat Tech In 1907 waa made as long
ago os the day last year when Van
derbilt beat the Indians. It Is said
that Coach Whitney and some Georgia
men cooked It up on that trip. But this
Is mere rumor.
The feeling between Tech and Geor
gia became especially strong last spring
during the series between Tech and
Georgia for the baseball championship
of the state. It will be remembered
that Tech won the first of the deciding
pair of games, a decision at first bass
made by Umpire .Larry Hoffman having
a considerable bearing on the outcome.
Georgia men claimed that this decision
showed strong evidence of a aupicloui
unfairness on Hoffman's part and re
fused to play the next day, except un
der conditions that Tech could not
agree to.
The feeling at that time between the
supporters of the two colleges was ab
solutely torrid.
When the football season rolled
around and the opening games were
played It looked as though- the annual
game between Tech and Georgia were
going to be a farce.
Tech had a world of good material.
Almost all the members of the team
of 1906 had returned and In addition
there was- Cofer, the army player;
Sima, the ex-Dahlonega star; Johnson,
tho "Big Swede,” who played with the
University of Michigan scrubs; Foster
Fitzsimmons, the Atlanta Athletic
Club's star athlete; Davis, the ex-
American University player, and a
host of other big men.
Down at Georgia there was plenty
of good prep, material. Gordon sent
n lot of men who had played star foot
ball and so did Stone Mountain, two
rattling good prep, teams.
But all the material was light The
team that appeared In the .opening
games was lightning fast, hut not heavy
enough to hold Its own, even under the
new rules.
Before the season was well under
way rumors began to float around,
which, If proven true, made It look bad
for the amateur standing of Tech play
er*.
Cofcr's name was the first that got
before the public and the charges that
guaranteed hla retirement from S. I.
A. A. activity were made by Georgia
men. Ho waa turned down by the
Tech* examiners and a couple of daya
after turned up at Georgia. He was In
uniform the day of tho Tech-Genrgla
game, but Professor Sanford stated
ufterwards that ho was not to be al
lowed to play.
We may be mixed on the chronologi
cal order, but Johnson waa probably tha
next man In the limelight.
It was charged that Johnson had
made slatementa when he gave up hla
Job In Macon that he could make more
money playing with Teth. On the
strength of this he was not allowed to
play In a game or two, but afterwards
the chargee were disproved and he
was declared eligible by Professor
Holmes.
Then Davis burst Into the center of
the stage. It wns admitted that ho
had played football last year with the
American University team, and when
the ranking committee called Ameri
can University a college Davis was put
on.the bench. Later the ranking com
mittee changed Its decision, on evi
dence furnished by the authorities at
American University, and Davis was
allowed to play.
The above charges were the ones
made before the Tech-Georgla game-
Since then It has been charged thsi
Slins was paid money to go to Tech,
and that there was an arrangement <m
regard to paying commissions) between
Daniel Brothers and Tech athletic
backers, which was not allowable un
der S. I. A. A. rules. This charge hss
since been disproved, except In too
case of 81ms, who ,was student repre
sentative of Daniel Brothers at Tech
on a 10 per cent commission basis.
Tech claims thnt such an arrangement
Is no violation of the rules.
It has also been charged that John
son nnd Fitzsimmons were receiving
pay to play for Tech, that Hfil was J
ringer from Gloversvllle, N. Y„ and a
few such. .
To get back awayt, though. The
Georgia students and the Georgia
alumni undoubtedly believed that Teen
had professional players on the team,
and decided that the only way to ngm
fire was with fire. .
All the details of the frame-up W
which an almost -all-ringer team pa
used against Tech are not known. *
la knoiyn, however, that somebody se
cured for the Georgia team four play
ers—McNamee, of Schenectady. >■ »»
who played under the name of aic
Ghee; Edmundson, who played uno
the name of McDuffie; Martel, who ng
ured os Martin, and Neal, who use"
the alios Neese. The three last named
were ex-Georgetown stars.
These men reached Athens In t m
to register on the last day allowed un
der the S. I. A. A. rules, and were «
once hurried Into the Ilne-np. [” r,
dlllon to them, Georgia bad secureo
Joe Rosslter, an ex-Georgia man, * '
had won fame through his connect
with the Savannah semi-profession*
football team. ...
The most Intense secrecy w«» P”
served about these men and aboutm.
whole team. The team did not regu
lar on Its arrival In Atlanta, and •
coach refused to give out the names
his players before the game.