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SOUTHERN MOGULS WHO GATHER FOR MEETING MANAGER FRANK, NEW ORLEANS. "That Dutchman" is likely to be the storm center of the coming meeting. He claims that the Memphis crowd fixed a batter's box in Mcm- phis to keep his players from batting. In consequence of this allegec plot he took his team from the field and was fined $300 by the leagu< for so doing. TTIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1907. SPORTING PAGE SOUTHERN MOGULS COME FOR ANNUAL POW-WOW NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS] By PERCY H. WHITING. Gee, but they’re worried over that one-year rule. The Nashville Banner was the first paper which came out strong against it. From a recent issue we cop this: Way down In Georgia our esteemed friend, Percy Whiting, sporting scribe for The Georgian of Atlanta. Is still hammering away In advocacy of the passage of the rule that will eliminate the freshmen from athletics In the Bouth. In a recent Issue of his paper It was stated that The Georgian was the firat paper to advocate the step. Percy Is still advocating It In all hls writings on the subject Percy has failed to point out wherein the South can afford to pass such a rule. In our humble Judgment our friend Whiting has missed the point a mile. The rule exists In the East and West to stop the practice of "scouting” after prep material. It waa not Introduced by the big colloges to stop the playing pi ringers. No one-year or fresh men rule that ever existed could stop the Importation of ringers if a team wanted to play ringers. Below is ft fair sample of the letters the writer has been re ceiving since he first advocated the rule. This one is from Nor man Farrell, Jr., well known in Atlanta as a tennis player, who is among the most prominent of Vanderbilt alumni. Mr. Farrell writes : Dear Percy: I Inclose clipping from this nfternoon's Ban ner. Percy, Join hands with us to kill this freshman rule. Every Vanderbilt man, whether student or graduate, hero Is dead against It You know wo are for clean athletics, and If wo thought conditions here called for this rule we should unhesi tatingly say pass It. But we can't see It. The small Eastern and Western colleges have never adopted It because the proselyting of crack prep men was done only among the big five. The S. I. A. A. has, goodness knows, "laws” enough now to, keep things clean as a pin. This "law" won’t help. A college that will run In ringers will not hesitate to call them sophomores also. Vig orous enforcement of their present laws and condign punish ment to offenders will check what Irregularities now exist Furthermore the colleges In the S. I. A. A. may drive Se- wnneo and Vanderbilt out of the association If they force this rule down their throats. Nearly all their Interesta now are to tho North and East. This lost Is purely, however, ray personal opinion, although I hear many Vanderbilt men so express them selves. Think U over, Percy, and throw the weight of your In fluence with us. Yours, Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 11, 1907. NORMAN FAnRELL, JR. From another quarter, to-wit, from Hugh Roberta of Tho Birmingham Age-IIcrald comes this: The S. I. A. A., which has shown a greator propensity to leave undone things which It should do than to do those things which It should do than to do those things which It shouldn't, which caught tho University of Georgia playing’four "ringers" on Its football team, and cried,“Naughty, naughty!"and stopped at that, Is preparing to tackle football In the South from bohtnd —Is .preparing to deal the great game a fatal blow. The S. I. A. A. Is endeavoring to make It a law that no man can play football or baseball In Southern colleges until ho has served a period of one year: In other words. Is ‘ preparing to frame a law whereby no freshman can participate lb Inter collegiate games.. Tho harm that such a law can and will do Is apparent. It so happens that tho attendance on Southern colleges, In a com parative aonso, Is small. It will so happen that tho athlotlo teams will not ho able to make up the defldt, duo to graduation, from the new crop. It will result In the Southern game deteri orating. It will undo tho efforts of some ton years." EDITED BY P.H. WHITING ANNUAL SESSION S. I. A. A. Moguls Gathering For Big Meeting in Clemson. MANAGER VAUGHN. vas fined $300 by the league He has appealed from the decision and at least two meetings of the board of directors were called to look Into the matter. But both of them fizzled. The final decision will be made by the executive committee on Friday. MANAGER FISHER, Of Shreveport. Tom will probably manage the Mobile club next year. No deal has been closed, but he will doubtless be on hand to pro tect hls interects. Special to The Georgian. Clemson College, 8. C., Dec. 13.-Th**rt l| much Interest here In the comlug ineetlc* of the 8. I. A. A. Friday night, l’repara- tlons are being made to Insure the comfort nnd pleasure of the delegates during their stay. Indications point to a very larr# attendance. The delegates will he met at i Calhoun by a committee, whose members ■ will conduct them to assigned homes. ! A dinner will he served In the big rollers dining hall Saturday. Saturday evening &t the home of Dr. I*. II. Mell, the president of the college, the delegates will he. enter tained at n smoker. The Impression prevails that thp meeting of the association will he n lively one. Ter. trtinly there will he.some vltnl questions up for dlscusslou, and, it Is hoped, for Anil settlement. New Haven promises to he one of the boxing centers In the east. Five permit* for I touts have been issued from now until January 15. Indianapolis howlers ore opposed to Garry ' Jock Blackburn knocked out George Gun- ther, the Australian, in Philadelphia In th« fifth round of tvhnt was to have been a six-round bout Friday ulght. 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Large Number of Delegates Reach Atlanta About Noon. The director, of the Southern League wilt go Into aee.lon Friday afternoon at 4 o'clock. At the meeting all prote.ta will be heard and other business trans acted. A large number of delegates to the Southern League meeting arrived' In Atlanta about noon. Those who reached the city were W. M. Kavanaugh, presi dent of the league; Clark Miller, hls secretary: H. C. Rather, president of the Little Rock club: M. J. Finn, man- S rer of the Little Rock team; F. P. oleman. president of the Memphis club; Charles Babb,. manager of tiio Memphis club: T. F. McCullough, sec retary of the Memphis club; Robert Baugh, president of the Birmingham club; Charles Frank, manager of tho New Orleans club, and two delegates from Mobile, Harry T. Hartman and C. Z. Colsson. Numerous protests, none of them of any great Importance, will come up at the meeting of the directors. It Is un derstood that the "batters' box’” protest of Memphis and New Orleans has been settled out of court and will not come up. .There seeme to be some uncertainty about the elate for vice president. Cap tain Crawford, of Shreveport, and F. P. Coleman, of Memphis, ure the prom inent candidates. Mobile will put her case up to the meeting Suturday. To get nut of the Cotton Statee League, she or the Southern League must pay 12,600. As the Mobile delegates decline to say positively that they have bought the Shreveport franchise, there Is a chance that the deal Is contingent on the abil ity of Mobile to get Into the league. It Is not thought that Tom Fisher will manage Mobile If the Alabama town gets In. Bemle McCay may be the choice. President Rather, of Little Rock, an nounces that there le not a chance that Chattanooga can buy the Travelers' franchise. The league meeting will be called to gether Saturday morning at 10 o’clock. In the assembly room at the Piedmont. If the coming meeting of tho exec utlve committee takes up no more time than tho usual one, It will be soon out of the way. But that le not certain. It all hinges on Chariey Frank. If he brings along hls affidavits and wit nesses to prove hls charge that the Memphis people doctored a batters’ box, then the directors will have thetr hands full. What Charley will do about tills le uncertain. Ho Is not much given to talking In advance. There are other proteets still unset tled which may possible come up 7 be fore the directors. However. It le un likely that they will. There le a cer tain dry humor at this stage of the season In taking a game away from Nashville and giving It to Montgomery, or doing some act of that character. The season Is settled, and unless the protested games Involve a fine that some club wants remitted, they are likely to be passed over. Beyond annual repbrts, election of officers, and the matter of admitting Mobile to the league, there seems to be nothing stirring on the carpet. The session, for a change, promises to bo peaceful. The season of 1907 ended with very little hard feeling. Tho Memphis association was slightly miff ed at Charley Frank for calling It names, but the hard feeling which arose nt that time Is considerably softened right now. ! ONE-YEAR RULE AS MERCER SEES IT Sporting Editor Atlanta Georgian: A few morning* ago, after the chapel exercises, a free discussion of the one- year rule In athletics *was. Indulged In. Professor Holmes stated briefly the proposed amendment to the S. I. A. A. constitution and reviewed the ex isting conditions before the discussion was thrown open. Almost all the mem bers of the faculty and a good many of the students expressed themselves free ly on the matter, and material for plenty of thinking was set forth. All were of the opinion that something was to be done, but none was willing to take harsh measures. In the mind of the writer the best plan set forth was to Invest absolute authority in the hands of the executive committee without repeal and to force every college In the 8. I. A. A. to abide by the decision of that body. It seems to us that an honor system with this one plain and simple rule would fix things. As long, however, os a college Is allowed, when brought be fore the committee, to fling the retort. M’DONALD CRACKS SKULL IN BIG SPILL New York, Dec.'13.-Urlmn McDonald, tho popular New York l>oy who wa* paired with Lawson, of Chicago, In the six-day bicycle race nt Madison Square Garden, Is seriously Injured nnd I* In the New York Ho received hls Injuries by riding off the oval nnd was taken to the hospital with a fractured skull. L A McDonald had been on the track for some time. Ills riding had been erratic since leaving bis dressing room—In fact, he acted like a man In a trnnee. For no nppnrent reason McDonnld snot up the embankment nt the southwest side or the garden Into and over the barrier sur- ‘I’ll sue you for damages In the courts/’ nothing for clean athletics can be accomplished. Has .honesty ceased to be a virtue in this Southland of ours? Why set over against our most sacred trust stringent rules that sug- rounding it. Ills wheel wns also throwa over by tho tremendous force of the con tact. Just nt the time two men were imunin*. The failing rider landed on them. sending them sprnwllnir. He himself struck thi floor with terrific force, his wheel falling on top of him. He was picked up uncon scious and carried to hls. dressing room. For more than mi hour hls physician worked over the unconscious man, but was tumble to restore hint to consciousness. Then he was sent to the hospital. Lawson. McDonald’s partner, was hustled up to take hta partner’s place ami nnlc un til told thnj the Injured man’s condition was hopeless, when the team was withdrawn. gest dishonesty and intimate that col leges are composed of voluntary and deliberate law-breakers. Let the fac* ultles see. to It that the men are above question. A MERCER STUDENT. DELEGATIONS OFF TO S. I. A. A. MEETING Thomas Bragg and B, B. Ross, members rather not.” of tho Auburn faculty; Professor Edward T. Holmes, of Mercer, and ex-Csptaln Bar rett, of Rewanee, stopped Friday In Atlanta on their way to Clemson for the annual meeting of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. The Tech representatives will bo Profes sor K. G.'Mntheson nnd Professor W. N. Bundle. Just whnt the nttltude of the local repre sentatives will be on the one-year rule has not been definitely settled. aiv In favor of anything that will sahl Dr. Mutheson ’But w* are not abso lutely certain of the effectiveness of the proposed rule. We shall vote for what seems best nt the meeting.” The Auburn delegates arc strong for the one-yenr rule. Wo want It passed In Its strictest form,” said Professor Bragg. ”We think It will elesn up athletics, and that Is whnt we waut. Of course If we have to compromise we can do It, but we should Some sixteen changes are proposed In the nlch shows the ig To reduce the number of district vice- presidents to three. To require every college to have one re sponsible representatlvi district vice-president. To gusrd against the payment of athletes by the card or agency systems. To put the one«yenr rule in force. . - ... committee Is re quired to suspeud any student from athlet ics "against whom they have a strong sus picion.” To provide that any college playing bus pended or debarred player shall be suspend ed until the uext annual convention. To provide for the suspension of auy captain who is a party to any violation of the Inws of the constitution. 39 and 41 Whitehall Street. GEORGIA MAY POSSIBLY WITHDRAW FROM S LA.A. Special to The Georgian. Athuts, Oa., Dec. 13.—A large *tn- dent moil meeting nr held In the chapel Wednesday afternoon. ’ The athletic attuatlon wa> thoroughly dls- rusaed and the occaelon waa marked by sanity of thought ahd‘conservatism of statement. The card system wax opposed and the one-year rule declared to be a moat desirable neceaalty. Rut the moat Intereating subject ar gued before the meeting waa Georgta'a attitude toward the 8. L A. A. The queatlon which abaorbed the attention of alt waa should Georgia withdraw from the aaeoclathm? There were argumenta pro and con, and the ad- vantagea and dtoadvantagea of such a course were carefully weighed. Great dlaaatlafacljon seemed to be felt by all who spoke with certain condition* In the 8. I.' A. A., and with the treat ment which has been accorded Georgia. 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