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' ’' S' • 113 —XT.— THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23,1907. SPORTING PAGE 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. 000OO0000000O000000OOO00OO S a 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. “ ‘ ..... t hir 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 O O 00000000000000000000000000 ••HIHMMINHMIHHI IIMMIIHIMHII 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.