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MAJOR SPORTS ARE DEAD--
MiNOR ONES FLOURISH
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EDITED BY
P. H. WHITING
NO ANSWER
FOR AWHILE
Clark Griffith Can’t Even!
Tell How Yanks Will
Line Up.
New York. Poo. 5.—If you mo tell bow
the Yankee* will line tip next spring In
the opening game of the aeaaon you hnre
Mr. Clark Griffith bent a long waya.
He doean't pretend to kuow. He baa
Nile* and Ktahl, both lofleldera that were
not wltb the Tanka laat year. Then again.
It la not at all certain that Elberfcld will
l»e with the Yanka next year. Oti top of
thin come* many rumora from the Went
about flradley and Periiog, the Cleveland
Infleldera.
Although Griffith hna aald that Ktahl will
be with the Yanka when the bell rlnga next
apring, It muat not be taken for granted
that everything will be Jnat na Griff aaya.
Lajole la very aweet on Ktahl, and Cftahl,
we might truthfully any. la very aweet on
Cleveland. Now, that being tho mao, what
1* going to prevent a dealt LajolA mgkea
SAVANNAH
Lotta Crabtree’s String Will
Soon Be Shipped to
the South.
W. A. JAMES.
Here \ia an ex-Washington and
Jefferson twirler who has been
picked up by McQraw for a trial
with the Giants.
desire to land Ktahl
■KM
land
no use fe
Then comes the’question of where will
Bradley play If he becomes a Yankee? At
Jblrd base, of course. If not there, he could
be uned at short; this provided, of course,
that Klberfeld leaves ua.
»"!fe It the other way. With Conroy
flradley at ahort, Nile* at aecoud
", j **■•? jo gnard flr*t appeara like a
mixed up Infleld, Imt no one will deny th*t,
playing together, this would make a mighty
strong combination.
G. W. Leavitt recently aecured the breed
Ing qualities of four blgb-clnaa mares from
O. & C. P. Cecil, of Danville. Ky. They
Jeanette Cedi, 2:14^4. by Gamtiettn
Wilkes, dam Jeannle C.'2:22; her full sister,
Julia C{ Credetta. 2:2GV4, by Goiubetta
Wilkes, dam Crcdltlon, 2:22U. the dam of
five, and May Bret. 2:l’CV4i, a full slater of
llyoletj, 2:06«4. All will Im bred to Cochato,
_.»rry Cahill, a famous athlete, wjll quit
Harvard to anter 1'ennaylvanla next spring.
[not NEWS, BUT VIEWS
By PERCY H. WHITING.
Tf the owners of Georgia preparatory achools are satisfied
with the condition of prep school athletics in the state we sup
pose the public ought to be.
Hut is anybody satisfied with it t
Here is what looks wrong:
Gordon was forced to play colleges because no prep schools
would tackle her.
Stone Mountain would not\play Gordon and could not get
games with local schools.
Donald Fraser and G. M. A. played so few games that it was
hardly worth calling it n football season.
And in several teams in the state men were played who ought
not to be eligible under such rules ns should be in force.
A month or more ago there was talk of a meeting between
representatives of Gordon, Stone Mountuin nnd G. M. A. to see if
it wns not possible to get together on sotne basis and play games
in the future. This meeting is now about line and should not be
overlooked. (
Each team will have to give up some cherished notions in
order to accomplish a compromise that will be satisfactory to all.
Gordon mny have to accept some rulo that will out, out men
in her senior class or accept some rule she does not like cutting
down the length of time she shall be allowed to play her men.
Stone Mountain may have to swallow some hitter pills,
though wc forget right liow what kick the U. S, B. has coming.
G. M. A. will have to dispense with her pet rules that her
teams shall not play off the street ear lines.
If the representatives get together with a determination not
to recede from a single point then there will be only another Bplit.
But they can come together nnd stay together if they
want to. '
►
It is not miy of our business, especially; and probably we
shall continue to get out the sporting jingo ns usual whether the
preps play according to our notions or not.
But prep school athletics in Gcorgin euu l>e made, nnd should
be made, a big thing. And to do it the tennis wilj have to get to
gether and piny games.
The tiest you can say of .the past prep senson whs that it was
n fnroo,
Now what Hre you going to do about itf
Our old friend (’apt. E. .1. Williams, he whom Grant Rice al
leges is a “calamity howler” (the which the captain denies), is
with us again by mail if not in person.
In n communication to a local paper lie asks for the reforma
tion of the “iniquitous” curd syateni and takes a gentle jab at
the recent investigation of the S. I. A. A.
We ean’t quite agree with him that the card system is alto
gether baci We believe that it has its good points. We do
think, however, that the S.'I. A. A. at its coming meeting ought
to provide for close faculty supervision nnd entire facility respon
sibility for all “card system” arrangements.
In fact, “faculty responsibility” in all things athletic is the
tendency now.
Make the responsible men responsible.
It will do a lot of these pedagogical gents good to get their
noses out of books and into the fresh air aud by the same token
it may do a lot toward keeping the athletic nir fresh.
We said yesterday that wc had not heard from Walter
Camp on the forward pass. And we hadn’t. But we did a few
hours after we wrote the dope-in question aud here is .what he
said:
(From The New York Sun.)
"When the new rules were first Introduced two years ago
there were mauy who contended that It was too much to require
of any team that they should gain ten yards In three downs, and
the prediction was that ‘no score' games would put 'ap end to
the ten-yard rnle In short order. The contrary has proved true,
and already there are those who would like to see the forward
paaa more restricted, relying upon It as It was a year ago. or even
ellmlnstlng It altogether and keeping the onslde kick and ten-yard ,
rule. '
■ "What was needed In the game was primarily to. lessen the
value of possession of the ball, aud this tho ten-yard rule
achieved. With Its Introduction there went out all the close
. hammering mass plays, which were good for two or three yards
on a down, but no more. The American collegian, whether player
or spectator, does not care for a game In which the element of
chance Is paramount. He likes to see or play a game where
bard work counts and a game where deflnltc planning secures a
well appreciated result. For this reason he does not care for the
unlimited forward pass, which can now be tried without severe
penalty on first and second downs.
"Throwing the ball around Indiscriminately may be the last
resort of a weak or Inferior team and as such la unsatisfactory.
In other respects like the separation of the line of scrimmage nnd
the Improvement in the general conduct and spirit of tho play,
the rules have fu.'Jy justified themselves and have rendered the
game more popular than ever."
SarsiiMb, Os., Dec. S.—Lotta Cr»btrei-'»
famous string of grand clrcatt campaigner*
will winter In tbla city as nnunl. Jack
Crabtree Ultra It here very much, tho weatb.
or la no generally pleasant, lln bellerr*
that neat spring the stable will be shipped
from Savannah to tha Poughkeepsie travlt
for the flnlahlng tenches. He says that no
place In the country equals Poughkeepsie
for getting horses ready for the grand cir
cuit.
"There Is little use In owning race horse*
now with any Idea of their paylr
themselves In the bettlug." declared I
"As this laat season, ror crumple,
liettlng there was In the grand cirri
not amount to anything. It waa pretty
■rood liettlng at Detroit, nothing at Clrvr
land, hat the boye got a rhnnre at nulfulo
and Poughkeepsie, and still they didn't turn
Ide orer themselves In buying inn,la. Ol
course there waa no betting nt lli-adrllle,
Providence or Hartford, nnd there might
no welt not have been at Syrnetne, as II la
outside the grounds, and few will I,other
with It. What money a trotter or rarer con
net now, to be prolltable, must come from
the Ida stake races."
Frank Smith, imimiger of thn Crabtree
Ntrlug. deelnres that after the Columbus
nnd 1-exlngtnn meetings Hoiioina Ulrl wns
In such gin*! condition thut no trotter lit
the world would hnre had n rhnnre ngulust
her In a race. She waa on her bail liehuvlor
In the Jllue Hill, MnasaeUnsetts nnd Charter
Oak atakrs. Had ahe captured them the
amount of her winnings, with wlint she
earned Inter, would nearly huve made up
the 128,000 she cost Miss Ultra CrnhtVee.
Assoelstlon of Trotting l
old liosrd of flfty dlreetors
with the Addition of H, Walton, of Vlrglhla,
null J. C. Kirkpatrick, of California.
Melra J, by Peter the Orest, out of nn
Arlott mare, goes Into Walter (.'ox's itnlile.
She waa ronnied the best 3.year-old at
Johnson farm nnd nugh Milan la certain he
could hnre driven her In 2:10 hud she been
kept In trnlulD#
W. E. Slekes has offered to Count Varon-
aoo Dnakow, minister of state to the exar,
nny of Hie get of Peter the llreat. 2:07 1 i,
for the use of the liusslnn guv'eminent. In
return for courtesies extended to him dur
ing his trip to St. Petersburg.
Bnrncy Demurest has the smallest horse
III the world. It Is a t-yenr old stallion,
standing 27(4 Inches nnd weighs 47 jhiuiuIm.
This freak waa lired In Oregon nnd was
sired by n lSOO-poiiml horse out of n 1260-
pound mure. It weighed seven iiounds when
foaled.
BILL DONOVAN.
“Wild Bill" led the American
League pitchers and made a new-
record by winning 25 and tlelng
one'game out of SO.
GEORGIA
JUNIORS
DEFEATED
“College” Team Polishes
Them in First Game,
10 to 0.
Special to Tho Georgian.
Athena, Gn., Dec. 5.—The Juniors
were defeated yesterday afternoon by
the College team, the score being 10
to 0.- The College team \Vas composed
of players selected from all the classes
LEAGUE DIRECTORS
TO MEET DEC. 13
The annual meeting of the directors
of the Southern League will be held
Friday, December 1.1, at the Piedmont
hotel.
At thla meeting will be considered all
protested games coming over from lu*t
year. Aa usuul, It will be an executive
session.
Hilly Smith believes that our <ilil friend,
the Cleveland t*11111, will not piny the game*
in Atlanta thia year.
They wanted March 28 and 39, hut Smith
had already closed with the world'* chain-
pinna for tho«e date*. He yffered them
other*, Imt they did net Sftm t<* veet with
the upprovhl of Secretary “ilsmey" H«»r-
iiard, nnd Atlanta ho* evidently been punned
Ju«t when the New York team will report
In Atlnnta for practice will not lie known
for the prevent. Probably It will lie about
March I. The Yankee* (lid not get all the
game* they wanted In Atlanta hint year,
and proliably they will n*k for at least ten
next apring.
it la>g|n* to look na though Clark Griffith
would carry Rd Sweeney a* a regular next
year. In him lie would have a mail who
lind worked with C'antletou aud Zeller mid
a man who promises to be a wonderful
catcher.
Kveeiiey will hardly be any phenomenon
next year, but a nci'.von In the big league*
ought to make him a* good a* any of them
—an good an any 21-year-old man, nnyhow.
Hilly Xiulth In
Ilobert Spade,
net likely to s*
limiting
, good with Cincinnati,
er Smith hopes to
fold.
. . any Clan* A club.
He In a grent pitcher after the weather
warm* up, a good batter at all tinicn. and
he can come nearer making lilmm If getter-
the oiittleld, beenune he
fly or ground Imlls—and
ho can hit.
a« fa’
FORTOLEDO
Manager Armour Will Carry
That Many to Chatta
nooga Next Spring.
Toledo, Ohio. Dec. 5.—Manager Ar-
moyr ha* announced that he will take
thirty-seven players to Chattanooga to
train, and that the list will include a
couple of crack major league Inflelders.
Armour also gave out that he had
drafted Bob Coyle, catcher, and Lloyd,
pitcher, from the Virginia League, and
purchased M. II. Vance, twirler, from
Houston, in the Texas circuit, and
drafted Less I a. an outfielder from Mad.
son, of the Wisconsin State League.
other than “naughty nine.'*
The game was hotly contested. En
thusiasm ran high. A great deal of fun
wa* had at the expense of the proud
and ooaatful Juniors, who, by their
challenge, had lined themselves up
against the rest of the college, and who,
after tho game, were a very disgrun
tled lot. With seven out of the eleven
’varsity regulars, they had been confi
dent of victory.
Kyle Smith, for the College, starred
with a DO-yard run. Boat wick and
Newsome did well for the Juniors.
Hugh Gordon acted aa referee and
John Welch as umpire. Twenty-min
ute halves were played.
This waa the first of a unique series
of football games, three In number, in
which a team chosen from the Junior
class will line up against nn eleven
selected .from all the other classes of
the college. The second game will be
played on Monday next, and the third
cn the following Wednesday.
The Idea originated with an Ingenious
Junior, who, on looking over the list
of ’varsity names, noticed that seven
bf the eleven regular.) are members of
his class. A challenge was then issued
In which the gage of battle was flung
down to “any football team composed
of Georgia ‘students not belonging to
tho class of ’09.’*
This attitude of overweening self-
confidence aroused the Ire and pride
of those who, despite the possession
of football souls, are outside the Junior
pale. Kyle Smith, ’varsity captain, ac
cepted the challenge, after having got*
ten together a powerful aggregation.
The game was well played. The
teams were composed of men who know
the gridiron sport, and who pluyed It
for all there was In It,
Following was the line-up;
Juniors. College.
Lucas, c Johnson, «\
Harman, rg Collier, rg.
Arrendaie, Ig Rower, Ig.
McWhorter, rt McDonald, rt.
DeLaperrlcre, It Grace, It.
Napier, re. Hatcher, C„ re.
Thurman, 1c Hatcher. 8., le.
Scott, q ' Woodruff, q,
Newsome, rh Smith, rh.
Hodgson, Ih Cox, 111.
Bostwlck, fb Fleming, fb.
TO ATLANTA
Montgomery’s Manager To
Be Here For League
Meeting.
! Special to The QiidMin.
( Montgomery, Ala., Dee. 6.—President
R. J. Chambers announces that Jimmy
Ryan. Montgomery's new baseball
manager, will arrive In the city Just
after the league meeting In Atlanta on
December 14. Ryan will go to Atlanta
direct frdm Chicago and then come
litre. It le expected he will have much
valuable information to give out.
~aiiaii7*io*N>*>i mmi~
“KID” SUMMERS.
Here la a youngster who has been
doing eoi.:c good fighting whenever
the chance offered. He la a fulr
second rater.
At the,Few York horie xhow In clew*
for horses not exceeding 152 hand, the
I hackney* won nine blue ribbon* ua ngiilutt
‘ ten for the trotting bred high stepperx. In
the elaxies for larger horse* the trotting
bred goer* carried off fourteen first prims
to four for the hackneys.
Tommy Ryan say* he will re-enter
the ring and \vould like to "hitch up”
with either Billy Papke of Hugo Kelly.
PRESIDENT’S SALARY EQUALED
BY FOUR CROOKED JOCKEYS
By J. S. A. MACDONALD.
San Francisco, Cal.,'Dec. G.-—A man
who bet big mon6y and played a strong
hand In the betting ring game of the
past summer around' New York arrived
on the sco^ne jecenjly. TWs man ought
to know whereof ( he, speaks. He says’
he knows’four of the leading riders of
the year who each took a rake-off of
over 950,006;
In salary and riding fees from extra
outside mounts, any one of this quar
tet could not have earned 'legitimate!)
more than $20,000.
Arises. naturally. the question,
“Where did they get It?”
What a revelation of graft and In
trigue would result from an uncover
ing of the story of metropolitan racing
during the past season? The above
reference to the Jockey graft Is only a
straw showing the way the wind blows.
Some day a real big scandal will’crop
up and then the great face track ar
my will know how It has been cheated
and victimised by a few manipulators
among tho bookmakers and their jockey
connections, for In no other way than
through a frame-up with the betting
ring could a Jockey earn $30,000 In a
single season.
“I would rather have a good ‘mana
ger’ than an ability to ride best,” Is the
way an old-time race-riding pirate put
It recently. There were four riders at
least who quit riding nt Aqueduct way
i far better winner In actual money than
JIttle Miller. According to the afore
mentioned big man of the turf the
/prbper way for a race-rider breaking
into the New York game Is to get a
“manager’* familiar with the lay of the
ground- Some.day a heavy player may
need a. horse “held off” In a race, or
stllj an extensively operating bookma
ker mav care for .some particular horse
being “dead." A smart “manager” may
serve as the “go-between,” a bargain
meaning as much money to ttje'Vlder
as he would earn In half a season'*
work*
To pull a horse for a bookmaker 1*
the crudest of all tricks, In fact It I*
rarely resorted to In order to bring
home the coin. For three seasonspas; 4
the Jockey “managers” have made most
of their graft from having their Jock
eys “lay up" horses one day to come
back later and win with a long price
In the market and strong betting con
nections aboard the medium. To pull
a horse for a bookmaker Is extremely
dangerous because of the direct reflex
of the trick in the ring, and It Is a
coarse play savoring of the bushwh.'tck-
Ing days of *66.
Itellemont. flic daughter of Zonihro Bolt
Smith, raced nt Colunilm* and Lexington,
won nt Phoenix, trotting to a record of
2:0914 in the third beat.
A feature of the recent big trottlnu ■*!*•*
wns the absence of John II, obnlt* from the
ranks of buyer*. For u dozen yeur* he has
been nearly always the hfiivleitt buyer. Imt,
strange to any, he bn* not been ml**ed.
fUNEQUALED RANGE OFFff
Invaluable In |
l* a safe man on
especially bccuunc
Manager Smith will noon open up com
munication* with Cincinnati to see If he
enn not get the lied* for gnme* on other
date* in nddltiou to March 23 and 26. He
figure* ih.'it they should prove a good draw
ing card, especially :ig t'askert and Spade
i CAN LICK BURNS”
SAYS TOM SHARKEY
By TAD.
New York, Dee. 5.—A bunch of sports
dropped Into Tom Sharkey'* benzine em
porium Inst night on the Hue de Fourteenth,
an{l started to Utd the ex-tar on Tommy
Hum* and hi* claim to the heavyweight
championship. Tom listened for a while,
chewed up about foui* black pill* nnd when
he got steam up. let fly with both barrels.
“No, he couldn’t lick me right % uow."
yelled Tom. with fire In hi* light blue eye*.
“He** u fourth-rater, na I said four month*
ago. What'* a win over Sou I re* and Molr
mean? Why. I licked fellow* like that
every week when 1 waa In the navy. These
Kngflidiiueii don't know anything atmut
fighting than an Eskimo doe* about bridge
igbttl
•rblst.
“Didn't Kid McCoy go over there a %-w
nennon* ago and knock everything they had
there silly In a few puuche*? Didn’t Jack i
o'Hrlcn do the *aiue? Didn't Johusou clean
up the Australian In fifteen minute*? What
did Molr or. Squlr#?* ever, do? lln* Burn*
beaten a good man yet? Twice he' went
the limit wild O’Uileu. Jack lllvau beat
him: he went the limit with Schreek, Hugo
Kelly. Marvin Hart aiul Dave Harry. These j
two Kngil*h dub* arc the only one* he ever
Beat.
"lil bet him $10,009 tbnt I cau liont him.
ami If he think* be can lick me, 1**1 him
put up. All 1 want I* four mouth* train
ing. with Tom O'lbairke to handle me and •
Tim McGrath to help out, and I'll give that.
Canadian a trinnnfn* such a* he never'
drottmod of,
“I me«n It.'*' piped the sailor, throwing ,
out that terrible chest and flashing lit* eye*
around the bntuii. . j
“Why. iiu? bleu bf till* fourth-rater lelng!
the champion of the world!
“Do t think Johnson will beat htiu? Oh, i
yea; he'll cut hlin to ilblmti*. That's a bud 1
fellow, that Johnson. He .will beat any of
them, but then I don’t think It’s much to
beat Burn*.”
WILL JOLT RECORDS AT
COMING ORMOND BEACH RACES
We’ll take your old
stove, or range, or gas
stovo as part pay
ment on one of our
fine “New Eagle”
Steel Ranges, at a fair
valuation, say $5 or
$10, or even more, ac
cording to worth.
This saves throwing
away, or giving away
your old stove, and
enables you to save $5
or $10, and get an
“Eagle” without in
vesting a cent at time
of purchase. Phono
744 and we will send
a man out to see your
stove.
The New “Eagle” Steel Range.
New York, Dec. 6.—-It la the opinion
of all Florida people that the coming
Ormond auto meet will be the greatest
of all great meet! and the Siting of
three great long ruc-ex, one for stock
cars, one for amateur* and the other
for the Vanderbilt cup ears, opens up
a new era in Florida Beach racing.
All records for the world from one to
100 miles are held by the famous sand
course, nnd It la now freely predicted
that after the Starch meets alt records
up to 300 miles for track and road will
be held by the Florida Reach course.
The F. E. C. A. A. Wit undertake to
build with planks tile southern land
loop for the race similar to the turns
instructed by the Automobile Club of
France for their grand prix race this I previous rare in any part of the world.
year, when sotne of the turns were
built of wood and were taken up after
the race was over.
The Ormond end of the course will
he built by the Automobile Club of
America, but what material they will 11
uk has not ua yet been decided. It Is,
quite possible that they will construct!
the Ormond turns with sand and oil, 1
as the oil and sand road now being |
built at Jacksonville seems to be a
success.
This will give a thlrty-mllo fasti,
course nnd fifteen miles straightaway, I
as straight as the crow files, and It Is |
fully expected that the speed of too
miles per hour will be attained and I
maintained for most of the Journey. I
This will be the highest velocity ac-j|
-ompllslied by any drivers In any other 1
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