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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23,1907.
SPORTING
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CLIMAX NEAR IN THOSE COLLEGE SUSPENSION CASES '
IP. H. WHITING
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
MEMBERS OF GORDON AND DAHLONEGA TEAMS
By PERCY H. WHITING.
The knocker is the most despised man in the country. .Every
body has it in for him. He has not any friends. lie does not ever
get credit for a disinterested motive. . Nobody ever says a good
word for him—excepj. now and then when he says a good word
for himself.
Myron Townsend, the Sportographs man, came out awhile
ago in bis own defense as follows: l
Every boost Is a knock.
A boost makes' a bad man worse and does a good man no
good.
A boost Is an Invitation of the devil to give crooks and shys
ters a'chance to blind the people about their.true selves.
Boosting fills our jails and overflows our prisons.
Boosting makes many a fairly decent man unendurable.
Boosting bolsters up a man’s egoism and egotism.
A knock brings him back to earth.
People who are on the level do not need any boosting.
Wrong-doers and hypocrites mnst have It to keep np appear
ances.
Boosting fattens the pocketbook o fthe faker, while the hon
est sport starves. Boosting gratifies the greed of the grafter.
Boosting destroys homes and breaks up families.
There Is no greater curse In the world today than Indiscrimi
nate and universal boosting. •
How many times would a sharp reprimand, a knock, save a
man from ruin? He may be drinking himself to death; he may
be speculating with other people’s money; he may be grafting
In politics or business or tapping the till, but he Is surrounded
to the end with flatterers who send him rejoicing on the way to
perdition.
If he is a public man. If he Is a sporting man, If he Is a busi
ness man, what a world of good a knock would do when he be
gins to leave the path of honor and rectitude!
How the devil mutt laugh when bin scea a man begin to go
wrong and the flatterers and boosters which surround him to push
him along! • -
Knockers are man’s best friends; the boosters are fair
weather birds who desert you when you are down and out.
Perhaps In your own town the banker In whom everybody
reposed confidence absconded and ruined hundreds. Would It
have been possible of the vtllago editor had early published a
truthful Item like this: "President Jones of the bank Is tpecu-.
latlng In the bucketshops.”
President Jones wouldn’t have been able to get away with
his pious bluff much longer. The editor would have saved his
fellow townsmen hundreds of thousands of dollars and the bank
would have gotten rid of an dishonest official.
8o It la In sport If every sporting editor In the United
States was a knocker, the fakers and the crooks would not pull
off so many jobs on the public. The knocker Is the hope of
square sport In this country.
What have the knockers done to the Equitable Insurance
Company? What have the knockers done to the beef trust to
the private
private car trust? What has the knocker done to the graft:
era In Philadelphia and St Louis?
Wall street thieves, business thieves, government thieves,
municipal thieves, sporting fakers and grafters, wine and dlno
the boosters. With this class of criminals you are a bully good
fellow If you are a booster.
The knocker Is the hope and salvation of this country—the
booster blocks all betterments either through downright Igno
rance or selfishness.
The crook hates the knocker worse than he does poison. If
every man was a booster he could fleeco his victims with Im
punity.
The operator of every skin game In the country loathes
above all things—the knocker. ,
In theso stormy days, when knocks arc peculiarly plentiful,
a word in their defense is an encouraging sign.
Knocks have put on their ways a number of big reform
movements in athletics.
In days gone by a little sincere ust of the hammer rendered
unpopular tho famous fake footrace game.
The jndicious use of a few well-planted blows hnvo put tho
gambling end of the racing game out of business in several states.
Eight here in Atlanta a series of body blows has kept the
fake racing game at a distance for a long time.
ENGLISHMAN
BEAT NIEL
DAVIS.
DORMINY. COCHRAN. MERCER.
Hers ere four men whs will fake part in the Dehlonega-Gordon battle at Barnesville Saturday.
Davis, whole picture is shown, is captain of tha Dahlonega team. Dorminy plays halfback: -
In the picture of Mercer his nose Is decorated with a piece of plaster, which he wore in the game against Tech, He played through this
struggle with a broken nose. Mercer is a hard, steady playar, good on offense and defense.
Cochran plays right half for Gordon and is one of the faateat men on the team. Ho it a good man in defenee and has been a star in
don’s games against the big colleges. »
hard
Gor-
Y. M, C. A. Teams
Play Basket Ball
Tho Y. M. C. A. basket ball team for
the season of 1907-08 has been organ
ised and a doubleheader la scheduled
for Saturday night Immediately fol
lowing the regular clues work, which
closes at 8:80.
The teams chosen have selected the
four leters Y. M. C. A., as names for
the teams. Tonight the Y’a will play
the M's, while the O’s will try con
clusions with the A’e.
FOOTBALL TODAY.
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Yalo-Harvard, at Cambridge. O
Indlans-Chlcago, at Chicago. O
Brown-Amherst, at Providence. 0
LaFayette-Lehlgh, at South 0
ory a
helped a football team to win a big game.
That was several years ago when Vanderbilt had undergone
a long series of defeats and ties at the hands of Sewaneo. Al
most every time the Vanderbilt team hnd tho better aggregation
but the Commodores always got filled up with confidence over
their ability to liok the Tigers and were bumped in consequence.
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The limit camo when Sewaneo, with absolutely nothing in
tho way of a team, threw the harpoon into Vanderbilt after a
game in which the Commodores seemed to have their tiny oppo
nents outclassed. That was the famons day when the Vanderbilt
men were so sure of victory that they paraded around the field
before the game with a Sewanee coffin. After the gamo these
same men hid their heads in shame and so did mnny a Vanderbilt
man who had not been mixed up in that affair.
The following year things went along as usual and it looked
like another cinch for Vanderbilt. 4 In fact it looked so cinch-like
that the Commodores began loafing ngain. About this time there
was a meeting of some of the alumni of Vanderbilt with the
sporting editors of Nashville, of which the writer was then one.
It was decided that a campaign for the reduction of Vander
bilt’a awful over-confidence was needed.
This campaign was conducted in n most scientific manner.
For two weeks or more the papers picked flaws in the Vander
bilt team. They got articles on the subject from prominent
alumni. They knocked every bad point in the team, every bad
day of practice,
nd
And the day of the Sewanee game they had the Vanderbilt
players thinking that they were the rottenest that ever played
under the Gold and Black, but that if they went out and worked
to the limit-they had a chance to down Sewanee.
The result was an' easy victory for the Commodores. And
they have been winning them ever since. And will again this
year, for Dan McGugin is a man who doea not let his teams get
puffed up. He has been known to administer a judicious knock
now and then himself.
The most recent big sporting page knock was that handed
do<
Georgia athletics by a man who does not uncork one once a year
—to-wit: Grantland Rice of The Nashville Tennessean.
It was n hard one and the echoes have not died away yet
But which one among us will say that that knock will not
do lasting good to the college athletics of Georgia?
Fitzsimmons and Robert Talk
Of Starting Legal Doings
If tha responsibility can ba Axsd In
retard to tha men who brought Chip
Robert’* and Foater Fltsstmmons’
names Into the Tech suspension case
on the chart* that they war* paid to
play with tha Tech there are likely to
be letal proceedings.
Captain Robert and Foster Fltxatm-
mona spent considerable time Friday
trytnt to run down the names of the
mtn who mad* the chart** and tbey
threaten letal trouble.
LOS ANGELE8 TRACK
POSTPONES OPENING.
Lob Antelee, Nov. ft.—Santa Anita
Park will not be open for ractnt on
Tbankstlvlnt Day. it will open In-
stead on December 1, It la said. In
better condition than had the members
day announced In the
0 Bethlehem. 0
0 Army-Syracuse, at West Point. 0
O Navy-Virglnla Poly, at Annap- O
O oils. O
0 Villa Nova-Cleorte Washington, 0
0 at Washington. 0
0 Johns Hopklns-St. Johns, at 0
O Baltimore. O
0 Mlnnesota-Wlsconsln, at Mad- 0
0 Ison. 0
U Illinols-Indlnna, at Bloomington. 0
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HUGE CROWD TURNS OUT TO SEE
HARVARD AND YALE DO BATTLE
President Will Not Attend
But His Daughter and
Sister Will.
Boston, Nov. 28.—With flogs flying
and banners fluttering, Boston and
Cambridge arc alive today with football
enthusiasts from oil over the country.
Yale and Harvard partisans arc on
hand to cheer their favorites on to vic
tory when these two great rivals meet
In tho annual battle on the gridiron at
the Stadium today.
Outside of the great crowd already
beginning to arrive this raornjng the
gamo Is proving a great attraction for
society, and .leaders from all the big
cities will be present.
President Roosevelt will not attend
the game, but the executive will be
represented by Mrs. Nicholas Long-
worth, who, accompanied by her hus
band, the congressman from Ohio, will
bo the guest of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Robinson, the
Tatter a sister of President Roosevelt,
are also expected to be on hand, and It
Is probable that the youngeY Roosevelt
boys at Groton School will come down.
The duchess of Marlborough will also
grace the occasion with her presence,
as she Is now here to see her brother,
who is 111. Mr. and Mrs. O. H. P. Bel
mont will accompany her son to the
game.
Some bets are being made, but thoso
recorded make the Ella almost prohibi
tive favorites with the odds running
from 6 to 1 up as high as 10 to I. A
number of wagers have been placed
against Harvard scoring, while numer
ous freak bets of every possible sort
arc being made.
Tho Yale team leaves Aubumdalo on
tho 12:02 train for Boston. From there
Long Odds Offered That the
Yale Team Takes the
Game.
they will be driven to the Stadium,
tvhere^they will prepare for the battle
In a locker building:,
the llno-up:
Harvard. Yale.
Starr, le ...H. Jonen, le.
Burr, It Paige, It.
Parker, Ig. Cooney, lg.
Grant, o Kingdrtn, c.
Pierce, rg. .. ... ... ... Goebel, rg.
Fish, rt Bigelow, rt.
McDonald, re Alcott, re.
Newhull, qb T. Jonen, qb.
Wendell, Ihb Brides; lhb.
Rand, rhb Bomar, rhb.
Apolonlo, fb Coy, fb.
Orcn Moran Knocked Out
Californian in the
i Sixteenth.
By W. W. HAUGHTON.
, San Francisco, Nov. 23.—Frankie C.
Nlel. one of the greatest little fighters
California has produced, met his Wa
terloo Ita Dreamland rink Hast night at
the hands of Oren Moran, the English
featherweight. It was from start to
flnlBh one of the cleanest contests ever
waged within a prize ring.
. The affair reached, to the sixteenth
round and In the closing spells of that
fierce battle It was Nlel’s courage alone
that kept him going. A sharp crack on
the Jaw from Moran's right sent Nlel
to the boards. He availed himself of
the full time, and when he arose Moran
sailed Into him again. Roche then
appealed to the men in Niel’s corner
but they were loath to interfere'
Frankie braced himself for a second
while being forced back and made a
wild swoop with his left for Moran's
midriff. It was a blow aimed In des-
peratlon. It carried no force and went
wide of the mark.
Then Moran fell upon hla adversary
again and ns Frankie's head went Jerk
ing from side to side from the effects
of the double-handed battering Cap
tain of Police Duke hopped up on the
fighting platform ond ordered a halt. 1
As he did so Nlel’s friends attempted to
take credit for the stopping by tossing
a towel through the. ropes.
They were roundly rated for not pro.
tectlng their principal from unnecessa.
ry punishment when first appealed to.
it was Moran's light from start to fin
ish.
HARVARD AT HOME.
Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 22.—The
Harvard team Is here today attending
lectures. The players are in tip-top
condition and high eplrited. They re
turn today to the Norfolk Hunt Club
at Medfleld, where there will bo sig
nal practlcb. A retinue of coaches ac
companies tho 'eleven and there Is a
"buiy-neea" during every minute of
the day.
YALE AT AUBURNDALE.
Aubumdalo, Mass., Nov. 22.—The
Yale football team and substitutes with
a retinue of coaches are here for tho
purpose of doing signal practice. To
morrow the great annual game with
Harvard takes place at Cambridge.
Congdon, whore ankle was hurt In the
Yale-Prlnccton game, Is limping some
what and It Is not known definitely
whether he will play tomorrow. It also
Is quite evident * that Paige, the big
tackle, Is not In the best of condition.
CLEARING HOUSE NOTES
MAY SOON BE CALLED IN.
COACH WILLIAMS DOES WELL AT V. P. I.
Special to Tho Georgian.
Savannah, Ga., Nov' 23.—It fa proba
ble that tho clearing house certificate*
here will be called In within the next
fortnight.
SEEKING TO 0U8T
LUMBER ASSOCIATION.
Special to The Georgian.
Jackson, MIm., Nov. 23.—Attorney
General Fletcher ho* prepared an In
junction bill seeking to oust the Mis
sissippi-Louisiana Retail Lumber Deal
ers' Association from doing business In
this state on the ground that It has
violated the anti-trust laws by formlnx
a combination In restraint of trade, and
to control the prices for lumber.
The Injunction bill will be filed In the
chancery court of Hinds county ond
an early hearing Is expected. The
proceeding does not seek to collect the
statutory penalty of $6,000 per day for
violation of the anti-trust statutes, be
ing, as the attorney general states, a
test proceeding to determine whether
the form of organization Is an actual
violation of the law.
WANT BIG INCREA8E
IN RIVER APPROPRIATION.
Special to The Georgian.
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 23.—At a meeting
of the delegates appointed by the city
and the Chamber of Comemrce to rep
resent Augusta at the convention of
the National Rivers and Harbors Con
gress a thorough organization of the
whole delegation wus effected, and
plans formulated for the work of ade
quately setting forth the needs of this
section. An effort will be made to have
the appropriation for the Savannah in
creased from 380.000 to $100,000 an
nually.
Ex-Clemson Coach Making
Good Showing at
Blacksburg.
Fair Make, Good Showing.
Special to The Ueuridnu.
Augusta. Ga., Nov. 23.—It Is stated
unofficially here that the report of the
Georgla-Caroltna Fair Association,
when It Is read at the coming meeting
of the directors, will make the best
■bowing of any fair held this season
In Georgia or neighboring states.
250 Arrested on Raid.
Havana, Nov. 23.—A strong force of
detectives and police, under the com
mand of Jorez Varona, chief of the se
cret police, last night raided a meeting
of the federated committee of labor In
a hall and arrested 250 persona, Includ
ing Emilio Ranches nnd Feliciano Prie
to, president and secretary of the com
mittee.
8hock Felt Two Hours.
Lalbaich, Austria, Nov. 23.—The sole,
mograph in the observatory here regis
tered an earthquake at a great dis
tance, probably In the Island of Savall
In the Samoan group, Thursday. The
disturbance lasted two hours.
Pstition in Bankruptdy. '
H&wklnsvllle. Ga., Nov. 23.—J. J.
Toole, proprietor of the Toole Furniture
Company of linwklnsvllle, has filed pe
tition In voluntary bankruptcy. His
creditors are notified to meet In Macon
for a hearing on November 29. His
liabilities amount to <8,080, with as
sets 12,000.
DEFFENDAL, LT.
Special to The Georgian.
Blacksburg, Va., Nov. 23.—Coach C.
R. Williams, the old Clemson coach of
last year, has worked out a very suc
cessful season so far wth the V. P. L
team here. His work has veen even
better than at Clemson, ns prospects
looked anything but bright at the be
ginning of the season.
Following Is their record to date:
V. P. I. 33. Roanoke College 0: V. P.
I. 18, Hampden-Sydney 0; V. P. L 5,
Washington and Lee University 0; V.
P. I. 5, Davidson College 12; V. P. I. 20.
Georgetown University 0; V. P. I. 22.
Virginia Military Institute 0: V. P. I.
34, George Washington University 0.
Two games remain on their schedule,
one with the Navy at Annapolis tomor
row and tho Thanksgiving'game with
North Carolina In Richmond.
Mr. Williams started the season at
V. P. I. with gloomy prospects. At the
first call for practlco, only one of the
old players was on the field, Captain
DtfTendal, who, by hla great work this
season at tackle and fullback, should,
have some consideration in the pick
ing of an All-Southern.
Jones, one of the most promising
men, had his ankle bruken in the first
game and had to retire 4or tbe rest of
the year.
In spite of all this, out of the seven
games played V. P. I. has lost one
game, that with Dnvtdsnn College by
a score of 12 to 5. During the season
they have once more defeated their
ancient rivals, V. M. I. by n surpris
ingly large score, have beaten Wash-,
tngton nnd Lee, who afterwards took
the University of Virginia Into camp,
and given Georgetown a third succes
sive drubbing, besides winning the
games with the smaller colleges by sat
isfactory scores. All things considered,
this Is a fine record for the year, nnd
coach, captain and men have every
reuson to feel proud. There bus been
no question raised as to the eligibility
of any player, which Is something to be
noted In these days of strenuous ath
letic contests.
V. P. X’s hardest game occurs today
with the Navy at Annapolis. They feel
confident of giving a good account of
themselves, and being tjre only South
ern team on the Navy’s schedule out
side of Vanderbilt, will work their hard
est to hold the score down. They hard
ly expect to win, as their team only
averages 183 pounds.
Cooper, the light weight quarterback
for V. P. I„ probably has the distinc
tion of being the youngest and tightest
quarter on any big college team In the
country. This Is his first year In foot
ball with the exception of a little ex
perience as a sub on a small high
school team last season. He weighs
only 124 pounds and Is 17 years of age.
His strongest point fa In handling
punts, tackling In backfleld and drop
kicking. Out of six attempts In the
last three games he has scored 16
points with drop kicks—kicking four
out of six trials. Last Saturday he
ENGLISHMAN WINS.
Philadelphia, Nor. 23.—Freddls
Welsh, of England, proved too clever
and too speedy for Boxer Kelly In the
wind-up at the Broadway Athletic
Club last night. Kelly was cut around
the eyes and nose nnd bled freely In
even’ round, while his nimble oppo
nent bore few marks of the affray.
Chicago now has a clear title on tho
western championship. If she beats
Carlisle, her ranking would be high In
the all-colleglate race.
There will be lota of color In the
American League next year. The Sox
will have White and Green, while the
Browns will have Blue.
The supreme court of Indiana hss
held that motorists must stop their
machines when requested to do so by
drivers of frightened horses.
Any coach who will not reprimand
his. players for holding can have no
excuse to offer It n game Is lost be
cause of a violation of the rule.
A newly organised basketball team
of 18-year-old playeis In Sandusky, un
der the management of Emil Braen-
rlng. wants games with Cleveland
teams.
MONEY SCARCE STIMULATES
UNION ORGANIZATION.
dropped one over from the 38-yard line
In the game with George Washington.
CARLISLE AND CHICAGO
PLAY BIG GAME SATURDAY
Chicago, Nor. 28.—Twenty-seven
thousand people who wtll be Inside the
gates and many thousands who can
not get in are keyed up for the clash
between the University of Chicago and
the Carlisle aborigines today.
A close score will show nothing In
particular.
Victory for the Indians will be taken
as meaning that tbe new football game
le better played In the East than In
the West. Perfect physical condition
will be on the side of the Maroons In to
day’s Inter-sectional battle. The Chi
cago team will go Into the fray with
the red skins in shape for the most
gruelling of games. The Indians, on
the other hand, battered by their sea
son's schedule, will be hampered by
Injuries to two of their best men.
•Special to The Georgian.
Jackaon, MIS*., Nov. 28.—State Secre
tary Q. W. Russell, of the Farmers'
Union, states that both the low pries
of cotton and the money scarcity Just
now are stimulating factors In the or
ganization work of the union. Some
thing like half a dozen local unions are
being organized dally by the large
corps of organisers scattered over the
state, and that work has proven emi
nently satisfactory to the officers or
the state organization.
Bunged Up on the Spine
By GRANTLAND RICE.
(Being a forecast of the coming Yale-Harvard game with a few re
vised extracts from that sad, soulful and soothing melody so well known
in every household.)
A ptaycr from old Harvard lay weeping tears of gore—
HU head and neck were twisted anil his blooming back was sore—
But a young sub stood beside him as his hot breath ebbed away.
And bent with pitying glance* to hear what he might say.
“Tell my pals In dear old Cambridge when they meet and crowd around
To discuss the plays and players of the Crimson Polo ground—
They made us look like thirty cents and had us on the run.
"And some hnd prayed the game before against old EH Yale—
Had seen the Crimson banner droop, the Crimson onslaught fall—
But one too soft and tender was to buck that bulldog line—
And he upon the gory field lies ‘Bunged up on the spine.”
"Tel! my mother that her other sons may some day make the team
And give old Yale a beating, though It seems a foolish dream—
For my father played right tackle or. the team of ’eighty-four.
And even twenty seasons back the Crimson couldn't score.
”1 saw the Yale backs sweep along—I beard or seemed to hear—
Some hobo calling signals out, sonorous, sharp and clear—
And when the avalanche arrived—It met me on the line—
And that’s why 1 am lying here—all 'bunged up on the spine.’"
The player’s voice grew feebler—his pulse waa very weak—
His eyes took on a sickly lock—he sighed and ceased to speak—
The young sub bent to lift him. but he answered with a whine—
"Don't put your arms around me, for Pm 'bunged up on the'spine.'
- —Nashville Tennessean.