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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1907.-
sp PAck NG l BIG INTERNATIONAL FIGHT IN LONDON ON MONDAY
: EDITED BY
IP. H. WHITING
M’GRAW REFUSES TO QUIT ROBERT
THEY FIGHT MONDAY NIGHT
i 1 Will Be Elected to Lead the
Tech Team in
1908.
"Chip” Robert will be the tlext cap
tain of the Georgia School of Tech
nology football team.
He Is not elected yet, but you can
put a railroad spike In that statement,
and collect from us If It Is Incorrect.
The election takes place In about a
week, but the thing la as good as set
tied.
■That Robert will make a desirable
captain Is certain. He has a cool head,
more knowledge of foot ball than any
man on the team, and In certain to be a
brilliant player neat year.
The election of Robert will be well
received by the students of Tech and
by the friends of the team generally.
NOT NEWS,
BUT VIEWS
New, lUm—John MoQraw will agein manage the Giant,.
T. BURNS AND GUNNER MOIR MEET
FOR INTERNATIONAL HONORS
By TAD.
New York, Dec. 2.—Tommy Burns
and Gunner Molr meet at the National
Sporting Club In London In a 20-round
bout tonight. The purse Is ftl.000.
This Includes the $5,000 side bet which
Is up on the go, each man having bet
$1,500 on himself. Five-ounce gloves
arc to be used and each man Is allow
ed but two handlers or seconds In his
corner. Eugene Corey, who has been
selected rpferee, will sit upon a little
platform erected outside the ring.
Price for the fight are; First, choice.
952.10; second choice, $29.26; third
tholce, $15.50.
The winner of the battle will claim
the championship of England and Aus
tralia. He will be the English con
tender for the heavy-weight champion
ship of the world with either Jack
Johnson or Jim Jeffries.
Tommy Burns claims the champion
ship of America, but he Is not the
American champion. He has not de
fended his title and therefore can not
claim a championship.
Molr Is the English artilleryman who
Jumped Into prominence by defeating
Jim Casey and Jack Painter, two very
choice quinces. Later he took on Tigh
Smith and fed him the sleepy pill In
the first round. Sam Langford, a col
ored welter-weight, put the same Smith
away n few months or so after Molr
did the trick. Smith has a hard name
but a soft Jaw.
Molr Is a heavy fellow, built on the
lines of John Wlile and Tom Sharkey.
He stands 6 feet 10 Inches tall and
| weighs close to 218 pounds. Hums Is
three Inches shorter and Is lighter by
25 pounds. When introduced with
Molr at the National Club. Burns was,
laughed ut. but from later reports, the
giggling Britons have changed their
minds and now are offering 10 to 8
that Tommy beats their man.
Owen Moran, the crack feather
weight who wuh sent over here to
show us a few things and did So suc
cessfully, sent buck the first few bun
dled he made over here to bet on Molr.
He considers Molr the best man ho has
seen In years and Isn't u bit afraid to
say so either.
Charley Mitchell, who at present Is In
England, picks Burns to win and says
there will be no trouble In the Job. Ho
Las seen both men In action and told
Tommy he hud landed a good thing.
IF MIKE DONUN WILL KEEP STRAIGHT
HE WILL HELP THE GIANTS WIN GAMES
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
New York. Dec. 2.—"With the bases
full and two men out, Donlln leaned
into a fast shoot and sent it through
the center field ropes, breaking up the
game."—A Memory.
The papers tell us that Mr. Michael
Donlln, mighty swatter and great out
fielder, has come back Into the fold.
Michael, so the reports allege, has seen
the error of his ways (about the only
error, by the way, that he ever makes
on or off the ball field) and has signed
to play with the 1908 Giants.
Donlln Is a picturesque figure in
baseball—one of the men always re
membered, whose name will live In the
annals of the game long after he has
crossed the home plate. Not because
of hi* ability, though few have shown
more on the diamond, but because he
has the traita that go to make a man
popular In sporting and other circles.
With all his natural and acquired
ability, he has at times been a sore
trial to Manager McGraw. who doe*
not expect his men to be too abstem
ious and who Is, for thut reason, not
a very hard taskmaster. Time anti
again I have heard McGraw talking to
his big center fielder like a Dutch un
de urging him to stick to the straight
and narrow base line, reminding him
that a ball player's life on the diamond
Is short and strenuous. Mike ulways
listened, too, but somehow he kept on
taking his punishment and coming back
for more.
There la no question about Donlln'a
popularity, in the days when the
Giants were the confectionery children
the great left-handed slugger saunter
ed up to the bat with his own peculiar
walk, a walk that suggested one part
of conceit and three parts of confi
dence In his admitted ability, while the
stands and bleachers rang with the
almost college yell of "Mike, Mike,
Mike!” And most of us remember how
he used to ating that ball until it
soared beyond the wildest dreams of
the outfielders. Those were happy
days.
If Donlln can keep his promise to
shun the primrose paths he will be a
very useful cltlsen. And even If he
can not, he will still be a great help
to th$ Giants. What If he does make
an occasional eJJp? Burns and Byron
fell off now and then, and they were
certainly big leaguers.
Here’s a fine letter:
Dear Sir—Why Is it that so many
people pass over the sporting page of
a newspaper In cold disdain? I can't
understand it. not for the life of me.
When President Riwaevelt spends hap
py hours In the east room watching a
big. fat Jap man handling a few op
poncntN as an insnne asylum keeper
mauls Johnny the horse, and then
switch*? to the south room for a Jolly
dice game, first flop out of the box und
low man stuck, why should the spirit
of lesser mortals like us be proud and
haughty ?
Every man with red blood In his
veins Is more or less of n sport. It Is
true thnt Mr. Taft doesn’t go in much
for athletics, hut he Is very fat and.
besides, the vast amount of road work
that he is culled on to do keeps him
down to weight. 1 maintain that no
man who claims to he a true American
citizen can follow the daily doings of
our beloved president without feeling
In his heart the longing to be a sport,
whether he be a mild amateur or one
of the tin-oared variety.
The sporting pago of a newspaper Is
ci l tulnly worth reading, especially In
the subway, when one gets on at
Brooklyn bridge nnd bus to ride out to
some sequestered spot In West Farms.
When a man Is worrying over the lit
tle cares that crop up In connection
with Ills dally business and domestic
life, how refreshing tt Is to reud that
Kid Wallace, the hard-hitting welter
weight of Flatbush, Jabbed Young
Quincy Into a state of coma In the
fourth round, before the police came.
When a resident of Harlem is fretting
over the fact that his butcher has pot
been squared, how soothing It Is to
note, In the racing columns, that Fath
er Hill Daly put over another good
thing that was backed from hundreds
to tens nnd then to units, tow-roping
the field all the way.
Yes, brother, the sporting page Is the
solace of many a man who can not af
ford to he a true sport himself. On the
first page we read how some poor !ady,
who ha.idled a gun carelessly, must
spend her Thanksgiving In a gloomy
cell, atul how some mad young Pltts-
burger must chew his turkey near the
turnkey—behind the bars instead of
before them. On the women’s page
learn how to live on,$25 a week nnd
have something left over for the dear
little wife ut home. But on the sport
ing page we read of Joe Grim and
Philadelphia Jack O’Brien, and the
knowledge that wo are not In the same
boat makes us cheerful like. 1 know
not whnt course others may take, but
a*, for me, give nie the sporting page.
I trust thnt you will see fit to print this
letter. Inasmuch us you wrote It your
self.
Y. M. C. A. TEAMS AGAIN
PLAY GOOD BASKET BALL
Basket ball was again on tap Satur
day night at the Young Men's Chr|stlan
Association, and the lovers of that
form of sport were given the sccc.nd
opportunity of the season to see four
picked teams made up of the best ma
terial available fight to u finish for a
standing In the longue. The Ys, cap
tained by Daniels, won from the Cs,
captained by Jones, and the Ms, who
depend for their leadership on Farga-
son, bested Dickey’s team, with the A
on their shirt front.
The games were at all stages excit
ing, and the scores not so bad for the
second games of the season. Several
men showed evidences of becoming
blight stars In the world of bosket ball,
among them Farga.syn and Daniels, for
their respective teams. The work of
tfcmtelM at forward was especially go.wl
Dickey and Jones also played great
basket ball.
Basket ball has taken a hold on the
people and there was a good crowd I
out to see the games. I
Professor Weems is delighted with
the showing made by the men ami has
high hope** of getting the best big team
In the city from the smaller teums.
The teams will meet next Saturday
night at 8 :15 o'clock* ami. all lovers of
the sport are cordially Invited to be
present.
FLETCHER A CENTURY RIDER.
Horace Fletcher, the apostle of long
and* steady food chewing, and whose
disciples In this country are numbered
by thousands, has demonstrated by his
prowess on the bicycle that his claim
of renewed youth ami endimince Is no
myth. Mr. Fletcher a few years ago
was much too heavy for comfort, but
now has a trim figure and the muscles
of an uthlete half his age. He has
lately taken up the wheel to work oflf
some of his surplus energy. He -has a
number of centuries to his credit, and
advises the use of the bicycle as the
beet all 'round exerciser ever produced.
America, with all her motorcycle
manufacturer*, still furnishes a field
for foreign makers. One importer ex
pects to bring over a thousand of one
well known model for 1908.
By PERCY H. WHITING.
This argument ns to which
team of the S. I. A. A. is enti
tled to the ranking of third
is too complicated for us and
we pass.
Klsewhcre on the pnge is
given the letter of a Univer
sity of Georgia alumnus, in
which a better ranking for
Georgia is asked for.
We have only one comment
to make on that letter and
thnt is in regard to the Geor-
gia-Clemson game which Air.
Colquitt counts in his figures.
This game is the one played
in Augusta and it was admit
ted to be between the scrub
teams of the two institutions.
The exact conditions were, ns
told us, anyhow, that only ono
nmn beside the captain who
played in the previous game
was to be allowed in the Au
gusta game. Also it was tac
itly understood that the game
in Atlanta November 16—the
one that the S. I. A. A. kibosh-
ed—was the one that was to
count.
What gives Georgia her
star claim to third or fourth
honors is the fact that she
heat Auburn. Up to the time
that happened we had all
handed third place to the
Alabama team.
Because Georgia beat Au
burn she has a claim on third
place. The fact thnt the Ath
ens team tied with Alabama
and lost to Tech nnd Tennes
see, however, made it impos
sible to give Georgia third
place.
And, anyhow, that position
is a mess.
Bet us argue about it,
though. It fills space and
keeps iip the interest.
And right now the sport
ing pages arc long on space
ami short on interest.
It is rather surprising to
hear thut Augusta wishes to
sell her South Atlantic
League franchise. That town
should be a good place for a
baseball team. Why the game
has not paid there is a matter
of considerable doubt.
Here’s hoping that Augus
ta changes her mind.
And the . Navy heat the
Army.
That was not especially
surprising, even though the
odds were against the Mid
dies.
This victory was pleasing to
Southerners for two reasons.
In the first place it strength
ened Vanderbilt's claims to
distinction in the football
world—because the Commo
dores tied the Navy and
would have beaten them with
fair officials: and bienuse
Hugh Douglass, captain of the
Navy team and the man who
made the only touchdown of
the da*-, is a Southern man
and on ex-Tennessee football
player.
The death of Will Norwood
in Annistou, Ala.. Sunday was
notable because it was one of
the few 'deaths traceable to
football which has ever oc
curred in this section of the
country.
Denths and serious injuries
to football players have been
remarkably infrequent in the
South, and it is to be hoped
thnt they will continue so.
GUNNER MOIR AND TOMMY BURNS WHO FIGHT MONDAY NIGHT.
WALTH0UR TEAMS WITH DOWNEY;
IS IN TRAINING NOW AT NEWARK
New York, Dec. 2.—Bobby Walthour,
the American motor-paced champion,
signed up yesterday to ride In this
year’s six-day bicycle race at Madison
Square Garden, December 8 to 14, with
Matt Downey, the sturdy little Boston
racer. Although there are going to be
some crack teams In the coming strug-
gle It I* doubtful If there will be a
stronger combination than Walthour
and Downey. Downey’s riding In the
six-day race during the past two sea
sons was of the most brilliant descrip
tion. He has been training hard for
the contest on the saucer track In the
Park Hquare Rink at Boston, and will
be able to more than hold up his end
of the team. Walthour has entirely
recovered from the bad falls which he
had In Germany during the season Just
closed abroad.
Walthour, who In addition to riding
In the six-day race, is also billed to
meet Darragon In a motor-paced cham.
plonship event next Saturday night,
took his motors yesterday and went
over to Newark to finish training.
Downey went back to Boston for the
same purpose.
A meeting of all the riders who will
compete in tho six-day grind will bn
called the latter part of next week by
the management of the race for the
purpose of having the new rules thor
oughly explained to the contestants.
The officials of the National Cycling
Association will also be present, an<l
every rider will thus be thoroughly
conversant with them, and therefore
have absolutely no excuse for foul ris
ing. These rules will be enforced In
their strictest sense, and any offender
Is to be vigorously -dealt with.
"WHAT ABOUT GEORGIA’S RANKING?"
ASKS AN EX-UNIVERSITY PLAYER
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 1, 1907.
Mr. Percy Whiting, Sporting Editor
The Georgian:
Dear Sir—I awaited with much Inter,
est your Issue of last Friday, as I want
ed to see how you doped out third place
In the S. I. A. A. football champion
ship. I must say I was surprised to
find thut you said Auburn, Clemson
and Tech,were hopelessly tied for third
place. What about Georgia?
Third place Is In a tangle (and yon
can’t pick the winner If you argue
yourself wrong side out), but certainly
Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee have
as much of a look In as Auburn, Clem
son and Tech.
Didn't Georgia beat beth Auburn and
Clemson?
Didn't both Auburn und Clemson beat
Tech? And certainly Alabama and
Tennessee have as much right in third
place as any other teams.
Why give Clemson third place? As
far as my knowledge goes, the only
team in the 8. I. A. A. which Clemson
beat was Tech, and Clemson.- lost to
Georgia, Auburn and Tennessee. But
In your list of Southern footbalk scores
you omit the Georgla-CIemson game
and you do not mention the defeat of
Tech In Clemson’s list.
Let’s take the thing on a percentage
basis. Just as we figure out baseball
averages. The teams concerned are
Vanderbilt. Sewanee,. Alabama, Au
burn. Tenenssee, Georgia, Tech and
Clemson nnd the percentage of each
Is:
Vanderbilt.
17 SeWanee 12.
54 Tech 0.
Rewnnee
12 Vanderbilt 17.
.16 Georgia 0.
18 Tech ft.
12 Auburn 6.
54 Alubama 4.
Alabama
5 Tennessee ft.
0 Sewanee 54.
0 Georgia ft
6 Auburn 0.
Auburn . »
12 Tech 6.
12 Clemson ft.
6 Alabama 6.
0 Georgia 6.
6 Rewanee 12.
Tennessee
4 Clemson 0.
15 Georgia 0.
. Lost. Tied. Pc.
0 0 1.0Q0
F. G. Byrd Wins
Trawick Tourney
F. G. Byrd, golf champion of At
lama, annexed another cup Saturday
afternoon when he defeated P. Thorn
ton Marye In the finals of the Trawick
cup tournamint and captured the hand
some Trawick cup. The score was 5
up and 4 to go.
The tournament was a cinch for
Byrd from the start. His only close
match was furnished by Fulton Col
ville. who made the champion extend
himself considerably.
In addition to .the Trawick tourna
ment and the club championship, Byrd
won the championship junior cup In
the Southern Golf championship, held
In Atlanta In the spring.
CENTURY ROAD "cLUB~C*OMPETI
TION.
This has been a busy year for the
Century Club of America, as the rec
ords of that organization show that
364 centuries have been ridden by Its
members, who had, up to November
1, 59,920 miles to their credit. Ernest
G. Krupe and his brother, Harold,
stand first and second, respectively, on
this year's roll, and the others line up
In the national competition as follows:
3, J. W. Hedden, Brooklyn; 4, Joe Noe,
Jersey City; 5. F. I. Perreault. Malden,
Mass.; 6, W. L. Cummings, Brooklyn;
7, Fred E. Mortimer, New York city; 8,
A. D. Rh*e, Winthrop, Mass-.; 9, An
drew Clausen. Chicago; 10, A. K. See
ley, New York city; li, Fred H. Peter
son, Newark, N. J.; 12, F. 8. Floyd,
jNASHVILLE BANNER’S;
lALL-SOUTHERN TEAM.;
Various people have various Ideas
about various things.
In proof of this The Georgian here
presents the All-Southern teams as
picked by The Nashville Banner:
First Team.
Player. College.
“Stein" Stone, c Vanderbilt
SherriU. rg Vanderbilt
Faulklnberry, ig Sewanee
W. Evans, rt Sewanee
"Lex” Stone, it Sewanee
Bob Blake (capt.), re Vanderbilt
Lewis, le Sewanee
Costen. q. .: .. . Vanderbilt
Craig, rh Vanderbilt
Lanier, 111 Sewanee
Mnrkeley, f. Sewanee
8econd Team.
Player. College.
T. Evans, c .. Sewanee
Dougherty, rg Tennessee
Burks, lg ., Alabama
Davis, rt Tech
Word, it Tennessee
Williams, re Sewanee
V. Blake (capt.), le Vanderbilt
Barrett, q. .. Sewanee
Campbell. Ih Vanderbilt
Shipp, rh Sewanee
Hughes, f Auburn
4 Tech 6.
o Alabama 5.
Georgia 2 3 0 .400
G Auburn 0.
8 Clemson 0.
0 Tennessee 13.
6 Tech 10.
0 Sewanee 16.
Tech 2 4 0 .333
6 Tennessee 4.
10 Georgia 6.
0 Vanderbilt 54.
5 Clemson 6.
6 Auburn 12.
0 Sewanee 18.
Clemson 1 3 0 -250
6 Tech 5.
0 Georgia 8.
0 Auburn 12.
0 Tennessee 4.
1 do not claim third place for Geor
gia, but surely Georgia has more of a
look in than Clemson, whom she defeat-
ed, and Clemson beat Tech; Auburn
beat Tech and Georgia beat both Clem
son nnd Auburn. On Thanksgiving
morning I was ready to concede Au
burn third place In the 8. I. A. A., but
the next day-*-oh, what a difference in
the morning! Yours truly,
NEYLE COLQUITT.
Georgia, ’98.
H. Douglas Wins
.For Navy Bunch
Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 2.—When Cap
tain Hugh Douglas, by a supreme ef
fort on his part and that of his team
mates, sent the ball across the Army *
goal line here Saturday afternoon, he
won a spectacular and bitterly contest
ed game for the Navy team.
The battle was one of the best ever
played between the two teams, and
throughout the Navy team had a shad«
the best of It. The score was 6 to 0.
ONE PERFECT DAY
IN SPITE OF COLD
Winthrop, Mass.: 13. Henry Kent, New-
York city; 14, Harry B. Hall, Brook
lyn; 16, F. J. Blecho, Brooklyn. The
leader in the mileage contest is J. W.
Hedden, of Brooklyn, with Ernest
Grupe, of the same city. The other
riders, in artier, follow: Joe Noe, H.
B. Grupe, F. L Perreault, T. W. Davis,
Peoria. III.; A. H. Seeley, F. IL Peter-
Dccembcr marked Its arrival Sunday with
a perfect day.
From a portent of rain or mayhap anon,
ic clouds iwtssed. bringing the dear sun
.shine to make perfect the crispness of the
* air. And It brought Atfuntnns out In fore**
j to enjoy the flay. The ehnrchet were ah
i filled to capacity nt the morning services.
So gusty winds blew during the afternoon
I to mar the pleasure of a stroll, and to**
principal tlion ugbfnres were crowded with
(people out to take the brae* of the pure air.
Along the shopping streets hundreds ttrolleu
■lowly to see the holiday decked window*.
Many went out ot» mihurlmn Hues to enjoy
the woods. Autos and carriages were out
In force. Altogether It waa a day for rsrs
enjoyment.
•on, F. E. Mommer, Henry Kest. Nob-
ell O. Parboil, Lake Geneva, Wla; Hen
ry H. Wheeler, Pomona, Cal.; A. Mon-
xoltllo. Hlcksvllle, N. Y., and C. E. M-
lander, New York city.