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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1907.
sporting!
PAGE I
HOW BURNS
GOTJN BAD
Tried to Talk When English
men Were Paying
Him to Fight.
LEAGUE MEETINGS WILL ENLIVEN COMING WEEK
HERE’S A BUNCH OF SAVAGES THEY DON’T LIKE
New York, Dm. 7.—Tommy Bum.
tot In wrong in the National Sporting
Club the other night when he walked
to the ropee and tried to make a epeech
before the battle with Molr. Report,
elate thnt Tommy tried to tell the .port,
that he wee an Engllehman and not
an American, and waa roundly hleaed
before he aaid a word and went to hu
corner dlaguated.
"It I. not tbe cuatom of fightera to
addreaa the aporta In London," aaid ar.
Kngllah aport who la hero on a vielt.
"Over In the National Club, you know.
I here la a rule agalnat thla aort of
thing. They look upon puglllata no en
tertainer.. They have their little atunt
and are brought on to box—nothing
more. There I. a rule agalnat fighter,
making apeechee, and, of courae, when
Burna ralaed hi* hand for alienee he
was hisaed down.
U I ........ ., , , , , . , THE CARLISLE TEAM.
.. ’V*. bu ? ch w " lc ' 1 made aueh a brilliant ehowing thie year. Owing to their extremely aggreaaive playing and because of chargee of profesaionaliam
other things being brought against them several colleges are outting the aborignee from their echedule for next year. Chicago doea not want them again and several other* an
tne time boat.
[not news, but views
By PERCY H. WHITING.
When the Board of Trotting Review last Tuesday decided to
drop the case against Millard Sanders, charged with doping Lou
Dillon, they evidently wrote the final “finis” on a case which has
appeared to be ended several times before.
Most of us who saw that last race for the Memphis Trotting
Association’s famous gold cup will never be jollied out of the be
lief that it.was something more serious than “horse hiccoughs”
that gave the race to Major Delmar.
But, anyway, it is a relief to hear the last of it. If Lou Dil
lon was doped thero is now no chanco of proving it and the less
Raid about it the better. It was the nastiest case that ever
cropped up in a gentleman’s race and it did the game more harm
than anything that has happened to it in years.
“Who won the Southern League pennant in 19071”
“Why Atlanta, of course.”
Yes, but it had slipped your mind. And next year you will
'hesitate a second or two over the answer. And the year after you
will have to say, “Well, let mo see, 1907. Oh, yes—” nnd then
you’ll reel it off. The year after you will have to count it back
on your fingers. The year after that you will have forgotten and
not be ashamed of it.
Such is fame and such are pennant races. Managers come
and go, and pennants, and sporting writers, and leagues, and gov
erning bodies. But baseball goes on endlessly.
And the game’s the thing.
We Baid that a year ago and they made cutting remarks
about sour grapes.
So wo say it again, jnst to show that it stands, whether wo
win tho pennant or not.
And anyway here’s hoping we win.
For it’s awfully dull writing about a chronic loser.
Wonder if football will ever be a finished product, like base
ball.
This year the baseball moguls aro figuring deeply over threo
propositions, one to take a few inches off one part of the field, an
other to enforce a certain rule now on tho books, another to pro
vide a new way of setting the dates for playing off postponed
games.
There has not been a change of any importance in the base
ball world since the foul strike rule was adopted. And there is
not likely to be another of equal importance in ten years.
While the baseball moguls aro doping out three subtle, in
finitesimal changes the football rule-makers are planning on an
other remodelling of the game.
Baseball sooms to hove arrived. Football is only on the way.
We haven’t any kick coming, though. It is a great game os
it stands, but we liked equally well back in the days of “guards
back” nnd “five-yards-to-gain” nnd we were equally enthusiastic
when they had turtle wedges nnd similar death-dealing devices,
long since abolished.
Denatured football suits just ns well ns the “wild, free”
game of a few years ago and next year’s will probably do equally
well.
The delightful uncertainty about what tho rules committee
is going to do next must be wearing on the coaches nnd players,
though.
CHARGES OF PROFESSIONALISM
MADE AGAINST CARLISLE TEAM
New York, Dec. 7.—Charges of pro
fessionalism which come from Dr.
Charles Montezuma, of Chicago, have
been made against the Carlisle foot
ball eleven, but the faefs furnished by
Dr. Montezuma, a resident physician
at Carlisle, are strongly denied by Head
Coach Warner. The physician, how
ever, confesses that during the two
years he assisted in handling the elev
en he personally aided In bribing some
of the players who represented the In
dian school on the gridiron.
The exposure Is made In a Minneap
olis paper and must make entertaining
reading for Minnesota students, whose
eleven waa soundly walloped by War-<
ner’s men.
Tho charges state that professional
ism governs the make-up of the eleven,
that no discipline Is permitted to be
Imposed on members of the team; that
Metoxen, the famous fullback, got
1200 for his services; that every mem
ber of the 1900 team was on salary^
that last yei^r every member of the
team was a graduate of two to four
years’ standing; that Dubose, Hunt,
Porter, Archlquette, Emil Houser and
Gardner played four years at Haskell
and were brought to Carlisle under
pay; that Emil Houser Is still play
ing on the team under, the name of
Wauseka; that Fullback Pete Houser,
the great man of lost year’s eleven,
was at Haskell in 1904 and was ex-
E oiled from that Institution for his bad
ablts and that a number of men are
playing on the team under assumed
names.
Here Is what Coach Warner has to
say about the charges:
"There is not an Item of truth In the
charges. There Is no man on the team
this year who has played eight years
and there are only two who had played
three years prior to this season. Fur
thermore, the average years of expe
rience on the Carlisle team will not fig
ure up as much as the average of a
number of the big college teams.
“The records show that Houser, who
is accused of being 32 years old, mar
ried and having children. Is really 22
years old, unmarried and a bona fldo
student, The average age of the Car
lisle players Is less, for example, than
the average age of the Pennsylvania
team.
“It has been said that Carlisle played
men under assumed * names. Such
statements are entirely false. A great
many students at the school have two
numes, one being their tribal or Indian
name and the other an English name.
“The only real criticism that can be
made of Carlisle football methods Is
the fact that men have played on the
team in rome Instances more than four
years. The time for which students
enter Carlisle Is five years unless they
graduate sooner and they are encour
aged to stay even more than five years,
If it Is necessary to graduate.”
GREAT
BUNCH
University of Georgia Ball
Team Should Be Strong
Aggregation.
NASHVILLE MAY HAVE
BALL CLUB NEXT YEAR
Naahvlfie might aurprta* tia with a
baseball team next season.
Here la the proapeet now:
Hardy and Seabaugh. catchers—a
'combination as strong as Atlanta's last
year.
Perdue, Yerkes, Sorrell, John and
Elmer Duggan, of the old pitching
staff, and tbe following new men:
Briggs, purchased from Indianapolis,
American Association.
Sltton, drafted from Jacksonville,
Fla., South Atlantic League.
Hunter, drafted from Wtlkesbarre,
New York State League.
Hees. drafted from Springfield, Maes.,
New England League.
Dannaher, non-reserve, a Nashville
boy who has been playing In the Phil
ippines.
First base, doubtful. Hardy, maybe.
Second base. "tyhttey” Morse.
Third bate, McEleveen, Carr or Jan-
stng.
Short atop, probably on* of the men
who does not land at third.
‘ Wise ms n. left field; Dobbs, center,
and the other doubtful.
"Daddy" Nichole, utility man.
Just how Birmingham figured It out
to trade "Ginger" Clark and "Horse-
thoe" Smith for Houts and Walsh we
don't see, but anyhow Montgomery
ought to have no kick coming. Clark,
though a chronic grouch, waa undoubt,
edly—next to Wl'.nelm—the beet of the
Baron pitcher* last year.
Two yrar* ago Smith was one of the
best outfields re In the league. Last
year he was drawn Into the row that
made a second-rate r of the Birming
ham team. With congenial surround-
trga Smith ought to be as good an out
fielder as ever played In the South.
Montgomery has lost Walsh by the
Birmingham trade—If It was made—
and Malarkey and Ross Helm will not
b< with the Legislators next year. That
leaves only Weems of the old staff.
Ryan, It Is said, will bring a couple of
pitchers down from the city league of
Chicago for a trial In the spring.
In Vaughn's defense let It* be said
(hat Birmingham papers deny that
the Smlth-Clark-for-Houta-Wnlsh deal
waa ever made. On the face of it this
seems likely. Vaughn has Ills faults,
among them the denying uf Interviews,
but nobody ever accused him of being
a foci.
Special to The Georgian.
Athena, Ga,, Dec. 7.—Now that tho
football season has come to a close,
the student body has atrendy directed
Its attention to the other national
game, baseball, and, Just at present,
the-prospects In this line are exceed
ingly bright.
Every member of the 1907 team has
returned to college with tho exception
of J. Brown, captain and catcher.
Quite an array of new prep mala
rial Is on hand, anxious to displace
Cobb. Herrick, Martin (captain), Wil
liams, M. Hodgson, M. McWhorter,
Watson, Graves, Redfeurn, Foley and
Harmon. Finally, Professor Sanford Is
In correspondence with a coach of na
tional reputation, with the end In view
of placing him in churge of Georgia
athletics. Surely Georglu men have a
right to feel Jubilant over what the
future seems to hold In store for them.
Manager F. C. Newton Is hard at
work arranging his schedule. Con
tracts have ulready been closed for n
series of three games with tho Uni
versity of Alabama, to be played In
Tuscaloosa, and a similar series with
Clentson, at Clemson.
The annual Northern trip In late
April promises to be an unusually at
tractive feature of the season. Seven
games wilt be played In all. the Uni
versity of North Carolina and the navy
being among Georgia’s assured rlvula
while on this tour.
WARMING
UPF0RTHE
6-DAYRACE
Walthour and Other Stars
Take Part in Prelimi
naries.
a«h York, Poo. 7.—When American
Champion Frank A. Criunur nnd former
world** champion Kduumd Jnequelln. of
France, come together In the first battle
for the world’s sprint ebntnploiiNUip In the
preliminary to the six-day meetl at Madison
Square Carden tonight. New Yorkers will
witness n coldest thnt It hue not Iteeu the
privilege of nny other people to nee.
Although each man has won the hIghent
honor* thnt can come to a bicycle rider. It
has been n tnneb-mooted question who was
the fastest sprinter In the world.
Cramer ha* l>eei) the American champion
>r several year*, having held the amateur
title for two yeura and the profeaalonal belt
for live Hueeeealve years.
of tbe moat famous rider*
GREAT
DOINGS
Three Big Meetings Sched
uled For Next
Week.
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} EDITED By
| P.H. WHITING
HARVARD VS.
PRINCETON
This Game On Schedule
Completes Triple Al
liance.
New York. Dec. 7.—A triple football
alliance between Yale. Harvard and
Princeton Is the latest thing in the
making of the schedule of gamse for
next season.
Yale already plays Harvard and
Princeton, so It only remains for
Princeton and Harvard to schedule a
game and then the arrangment is com
pleted. According to one who Is on the
Inside, formal papers will be signed
soon, when the dates of the game will
be fixed. Princeton and Harvard have
not played each other since 1899.
"Nick” Altrock got mixed np In a cutting
•crepe over In Cincinnati last week. We
always knew his beanty wontd get him
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BOOST NO. 17,461
FOR TYRUS R. COBB
That those of us who live in Georgia,know Ty Cobb and like
him should write about him now and then is small wonder.
But the way one story about him has followed another all
through the fall and promises to keep on all through the winter
in Northern and Eastern papers shows pretty clearly what a gen
uine hit the Georgia boy has made. Here is a fair samplo of tlie
kinds which are now going the rounds:
By JAMES ORUSINBERRY.
Because Ty Cobb didn’t set the world on fire in the scries of
games between Chicago and Detroit for the championship of the
world, many fans in the country looked upon him ns a failure.
But this young Southern scrapper went through a season
such as has seldom been equaled by any ballplayer in past years.
One writer predicted before the world’s series that Cobb would
be the lemon of the series, and it came nearly being true, for lit
tle was accomplished by the great American League star and so
much had been expected.
Two notable baseball meetings and
one important athletic association
meeting are scheduled for next week.
The first session Is the National
League meeUng which Is held In New
York on Tuesday. Three Southern
Leaguers will be there for the excite
ment—President Kavanaugh, President
Helsmon and' Billy Smith.
Nothing of any great Interest to the
South will come up at that meeting.
The local people will try to buy a
catcher, but otherwise they are not
looking for any excitement, beyond
such as Billy Smith Is calculated to
stir up as he amble* up and down the
Great White Way.
On Friday two sessions ore uncork-
jnequelln 1* out* or me um»i ismuus nuer* *-»•**«»* ocboiuhb uiu uncurit-
In the cycling world tmlny. He orlglnsted ed that will Interest local people, the
tin- so culled French style of racing, with a Southern League meeting In Atlanta
loaf until the last lap nnd then a Jump Into am! the Southern Intercollegiate Ath-
wlth Bobby Weltbonr for • ten-mile pai
race for the world’e ehnmplnnshlp.
There will also be an International ....
mile rare. In which nil the six-day riders
will Mart. Two amateur event,, the N. C.
A., a quarter-mile enamplnunblp. and a mile
tmndlcnp will make np the card.
Owing to Judge Gorman ■ ruling In re
gard to Sunday nlibt ahowa, the race will
he slurred at 1 o'clock tomorrow night In
stead of one minute after 12.
The new trnek was llnlshed last night nnd
Is the scene of raueh action today, aa all the
stars lire trying It, ...
The changes In the six-day rules to do
away with foul riding and Intentional falla
have met with approval of both the public
and tbe riders.
F. Gotch Throws
‘Heap Big Injun ’
Chicago, Dec. 7.—Frank Oolrb. of Ham-
bolt, Iowa, champion heavyweight catch-
aa-cateh can wrestler of America, defeated
War Eagle, the SO-ponnd nisrkfoot Indian,
In straight falla at Brooke's casino last
night.
Tbe Indian proved worthy of the cbniu-
ploa'a steel and gave him one at tbe hardest
garnet of bis career.
The drat fall was gained by means of a
reverse Nelson and English erase l.» k In
fifteen minutes and twenty-one seconds.
USUAL BASKET BALL GAMES
SATURDAY NIGHT AT Y. MX A.
Th* Y. M. r, A. basket Iwll league will
play tho ii»uhI double-bender at the nssocln-
tloti gymnasium Saturday night, and a
lively time la expected.
The game* will finish the first series of
the first series of the schedule, the Y. team
playing the An. while tbe M. team will lock
horns with the t’s.
The standing of the teams at present is
Team. Played. Won. Lost. Per <\
v 2 2 0 1.000
M 2 1 1 .800
A 2 1 1 .50t)
C. 2 » 2 .000
The C. team Is expected to turn loose a
few stunts when it goes up against tbe
Ms., nnd the As. are preparing to pull
down the Y». percentage. At any rate,
something la going to happen, nnd those
who uttend are likely to iee a bit of ex-
c|feni«*of,
Kents are prepared for nil who desire to
nt rent!. Indies especially welcome.
Visitors arc requested to come early
enough to witness tbe shnr+> class session
whlfh takes place Immediately preceding
the games, and closing-nt 8 JO o’clock.
"Xo tin can for me.” chirped Johnny Me-
Griiw when In tMndnnntl the other day.
Fr**«| Knowles waa with him and couflrmed
Metiraw’s crack.
and the Southern Intercollegiate Ath
letlc Association meeting In Clemson,
S. C,
The Southern League has nothing
but a meeting of the executive com
mittee scheduled for Friday. Unless
Charley Frank sees fit to press his
charges that the Memphis club "doped"
a batter's box with slippery mud for
th* especial benefit of hla players there
Is no excitement promised at this ses
sion. None of the other protests are
of Importance.
The regular meeting comes next
Saturday.
WILL MOBILE GET IN?
The Mobile matter will be thrashed
out at that time and probably the Mo
bile club will be admitted into the
league. If tt la necessary for the
league to pay the 17,600 to get the Ala
bama club out of the Cotton States cir
cuit the amount will presumably be
paid. It win .not take long to earn It
bock, on reduced railroad' fares
Just how Little Rock la going to
talk Is not known. Chattanooga Is ach
ing-for the Travellers' franchise and
can undoubtedly raise the money to
bay it. With baseball clubs paying
full railroad rates these day* and with
Little Rock located about "steenty"
thousand miles west of every other
club In the league there will be no ob
jection lo passing the Travellers out.
But, of course, If they Insist on stick
ing. L- e., putting a higher price on
Beyond the election of officers and
Cobb had led the American League
In batting with a mark better than ,369,
and yet he made but four hits In the
world's series out of twenty times at
bat. He had led the American League
In stolen bases, and yet he couldn't
steal more than once during the five
games played In the big series.
Record Worth Remembering.
But forgetting the five games played
for the world's championship and look
ing at the regular season. Cobb has a
record that is to be envied by-every
player In the league, nnd he has not
yet begun to shave, while many of the
stars of the American League are vet
erans of the game.
Altogether he played In 160 games In
the regular season, went to bat 606
times and made 312 hits, giving him an
average 'of better than .360. For a boy
that Is a mark that Is truly wonderful.
In this number of hits, 29 were for two
bases, 16 for three bases and five wero
home runs.
As a riin-getter he waa unsurpassed
and scored 97 times during the season.
He was considered tbe most dangerous
man In the league after once getting to
first base, and If the next batters didn't
drive him home he would set about to
steal his way around the bags.
Cyolcne on the Bases.
As a result of such methods, Cobb led
the league In stolen bases with 99 to hts
credit, which shows that he must have
gotten away with a steal about one-
sixth of the times that he got to first
base. Many of his steals were of third
base, too, and he had the catchers of
the league badly up In the air much of
the time. '
In fielding he was a whirlwind and
made more catches In right field than
any other right fielder In the league.
Only a few outfielders In center and
left had him beaten and still they must
have had many more chances In those
gardens.
Cobb had 238 put out* to hla credit,
practically all of which were fly balls,
and such a mark shows that a man
must have been covering a lot of
ground. Only’ one outfielder In the
league had more assists than Cobb, and
that was Birmingham, of the Cleveland
club, who helped put out 33 men, while
Cobb had only 30 to his oredlL Cobb
has a powerful arm, and was accurate
In throwing, nabbing many a runner by
a throw to the plat?.
Davis Beats 'Him Htre.
Only one man In the league beat him
In the number of home runs, and that
was Harry Davis, the slugging batsman
of the Philadelphia Athletics, who
banged out seven of them. Seybold
nnd Hoffman were tied with Cobb, each
having five' homers.
Cobb Is a fierce player. Many of his
hits resulted from beating out Infield
hits. He can tear down to first base
about as fast as any ball player living,
and he goes about It In such a des
perate manner that It doubtless dis
courages the opposing fielders In at
tempting to nail him.
Ty'a hits, too. go In every direction,
and the fielders are at a loss to know
where to play for him. He baa banged
ground balls to alt quarters of the dia
mond, from Juat Inside first base to
Just Inside third. He has rapped sin
gles, doubles and three-baggers to all
parts of the outfield, and outfielders
usually divide the dlatance between the
foul lines when he comes to bat and
take a chance on being In the right spot
to get the ball.
Always In ths Game.
He stands at the bat with the ease
of Lajole, but swings harder and with
more determination. No matter where
the ball goes when he raps It, ho makes
the fielders play It out, for he ti al
ways tearing oft the distance to first
base at full speed.
Cobb Is naturally a fighter, and at
first had trouble with the other mem
bers of the Detroit Club, but Hughey
Jennings knew Just how to handle him.
and before the season was over had
him rooming with the man he was
fighting with on the spring trip.
A. ATTELL AND MORAN
SIGN FOR BIG FIGHT
« anything much stirring,
ways the possibility of deals
r about one a year Is pulled
brought
held la
tight minutes sad seven seconds.
Memphis Commercial Appeal’s All-Southern
Player.
College.
Position.
Wgt.
Lewi*
.. .Hew&nee
....Left end
....1*5
22
Stone .
.. .8e wane*
. ...Left tackle
....198
22
Word
,.. .Tennessee....
Led guard
190
26
Stone
Vanderbilt....
... .t'enter
....198
Sherrill
.. .Vanderbilt
Right guard
....210
21
Faulkcnberry ..
... Sewn nee
....Right tackle....
.. ..198
19
H. Hlake
.. .Vanderbilt....
Itlght end
....174
22
Markley
. .Hewanee
... .Quarter
.... 165
22
.Shipp
.. .Sewanee
.. .Left half
23
Craig
... .Vanderbilt
....Right half
16u
24
Lanier
.. .Sewanee.
... .Fullback . .A...
....160
19
Average
1st
22
Ht. Home Town.
5.11 Dallas. Texas.
«. 2H Fayetteville. Tennessee.
5.11 Jackson, Tennessee.
9. 2 Nashville, Tennessee.
5. 7 Lewisburg, Tennessee.
5.11 Fayetteville, Tennessee.
6 Nashville, Tennessee.
6.10 Chicago, nitnols.
*.11 Chattanooga, Tennessee.
5. 9 Culleoka, Tennessee.
5.10 Covington, Tennessee.
Los Angeles, Dec. 7.—Abe Attell last
night accepted Jimmy Cofforth’s prop,
osltlon to fight Owen Moran, at Col-
ma on New Year's afternoon for the
featherweight championship of the
world, and will leave Sunday for San
Francisco, where articles wll be signed
Monday afternoon.
The agreement calls for a purse of
26,000 or 60 per cent of the gross re
ceipts to be divided 65 to the winner
and 35 per cent to the loaer, the inen
to receive 20 per cent of the receipts
from the moving pictures; JatneB J.
Jeffries to be referee; the men to fight
twenty-five rounds, and the question
of welgh-in to be decided later.
Moran, .to show his willingness to
make the match, said he would make
120 pounds two hours before the match,
but refuses to make 122 pounds, the
limit, at tho ring side. Attell expressed
his willingness to concede the weight
question If Jeffries was agreed on iv<
referee. Cofforth wanted Roche, but
off at the annual meeting. Last year,
for example, BUI Smith put through the
Castro deal. But, as a rule, there Is
no great trading at thla time of the
year.
S. 1. A. A. PROGRAM.
The 8. I. A. A. meeting, like the
Southern League meeting, will not get
well under way until Saturday. In ad
dition to the election of officers, which
will mean the returning of the old out
fit complete, some action will be taken
to guard agalnat any such disgraceful
athletic happenings aa have marred the
past year.
This action will undoubtedly be the
passing of the one-year-rule, though
much opposition to It has developed.
this was finally settled, Attell agree
ing to pay the referee If Jeffries wae
to be the man.
‘Royals” to Play
Tech Sophomores
The "Royals’’ and the Tech Sopho
mores will battle Saturday afternoon
on Tech flats. The excitement begins
at 3 o'clock. The Royals have won six
out of the seven games they have play
ed this season. The Sophs will fight 11
out next Saturday for the class cham
pionship at Tech. .
Both teama are winners and th*
game ought to be a pippin.
. of the Brown*' J";
field: Unglsah, first fxise; Ferrle, *■<«»'■•
William*. third; Wallace, short.
The srersge Washington fan think* the
Nation*!* were itronger before Joe f antu-
Ion took bold then they are right now
Ira I'lnok. Eddie's brother. Is * <
Drift rapture. Eddie s»Te his brother IS
tha I'nttilt’ kid attrl la Iwitmrf to itlf* • —
THE LAW OF LOVE.
Hon. W. P. Hill,
Y. M. 0. A. Sunday
3:30 P. M.