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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1911.
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SPORTS! TECH AND AUBURN SEND OUT BIG BEAR STORIES
EDITED BY
PERCY H. WHITING
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good-night,
FOND HOPES
Tech Team Blows Up With
Loud Bang—Patterson’s In
jury Hurts Prospects.
CHRISTY MATHEWSON.
•,Yih-s h‘»pes for victory In Saturday i
, . t , e with Auburn went glimmering
Wednesday afternoon when Captain
p.neraon wrenched his ankle and fell
lt — ' Even with Patterson In
-v but If he la forced to stay 'fit the
Hwmw of a Tech victor Y are slim In-
^Report from Auburn has it that Da-
rif ilielr great line bucket-, will also be
jut ,,f the game. If this Is true the
strength of the two teams will be
,dualized somewhat, but Patterson Is
nrubably "f more value to the lech
{earn (han Davis Is to Auburn.
Patterson, besides being the life and
s„ul of the team, Is also the only con-,
Listem lire bucket- and punter on th»
sound. Everything is being done to get
his ankle in. shape and tile whole co -
lr, K .. waits anxiously for a report on Ills
condition. _ .
Scrubs Are Too Good.
Th<* scrimmage Wednesday was tiara
nnd long drawn out. White Patterson
\tas in the game the attack of the
perubs was checked in a measure, but
-ifier his injury the scrubs tore thru the
varsity line as they did Tuesday.
Sonet practice will be held the re
mainder of this week. The coaches
icaUse that the team is at the turning
nnint right now. For the last two days
their play has fallen off instead of Im
proved.
Auburn' Is Better.
Looking at the two teams, It will be
sew that dopT* favors Auburn Saturday,
bv at least 50 per cent. From end to
«nd the Auburn line will outclass Tech
completely. At quarter Newell of Au
burn, is probably a better man thnn
roleman, while at full Auburn has r
second Street in Davis. He Is the peer
of the best in the South when It comes
to line bucking. Only in the halfback
position has Tech the advantage. Cook
nnd Goree are two of the best halfs in
the South and work together in fine
shape. . . . — :
Will Clean Up Side Lines.
Next Saturday Tech is going tojidr,;
here strictly to the rules when it comes
to,,having spectators on the immediate i
side lines. Each team will be allowed
tQihave five men besides their substi
tutes on their side of the field. Only
three men on each side can walk up and
down following the play. It Is hoped
that this will give the spectators a much
better view of the game.
'The game Saturday will start
promptly at 2:30 p. m.
Scrimmages Are Punk.
From a varsity standpoint, the worst
scrimmage of the year was held at Tech
-hats Tuesday afternoon. The trouble
You have to put on your glasses, grip
your, hands and hold your breath til! the
stars come to find FactoryvJJIe, Pennsyl
vania, on the map. When a freight train
backs on the siding you could drive along
the right-of-way.without knowing a town
was there until you got down to the
crossroads and saw the grocery signs.
But somehow there may be a monument
there that will tickle heaven’s blue, eter
nal dome, for it is the birthplace of
Christopher Mathewson. There—that
puts it on the map.
for pure wonder and amazement Joshuas
who made the sun stand still, was Just
cutting his milk teeth compared to Chris
ty Mathewson.
For the first professional game he
played he received one dollar; now he
wouldn't crobk his finger for less than
forty cpnts—three crooks for a dollar—
getting $300 for each game he pitches,
went to college, but lacked one year
Not News,
But Views
If t he luitional commission
succeeds in keeping baseball
players out of vaudeville and
out of world series newspaper
work, ns it threatens to do, it
will do a kindly act.
In vaudevitig and on the stage
baseball players have been sad.
pitiful jokes—gust as have pu
gilists, wrestlers and other ath
letes. Probably the worst theat
rical outrage of the Christian era
was James J. .Jeffries as Davy
Crockett. Some baseball play
ers have not been far behind it.
It is sickening, somehow, to
see a famous player on the stage.
You have .learned to associate
him with a finished performance
on the diamond—to consider
him an expert among experts.
But you see him on the stage,
where he is entirely out of his
sphere. He is awkward, ill at
ease—a joke as an actor. And
right here the ball player and
the game that he so poorly rep
resents are lowered in your esti
mation.
JSV
J/ojvej? C/poy
/MppESS/owsr/c PawM/rs BrCesAne
EDDIE COLLINS.
When he wan a boy In short trousers
and Jam he wanted to be a lumber deal
His Idea of the highest, most dellrl
•aptured a forwarded pass, which per-
fnrmancc he backed up by making a
nice run of 35 yards for a touchdown.
From then on- till darkness ended the
slaughter the scrub backs romped thru
the varsity line and tore around tho
The cause of this lack of strength
■fig pocket rule.
out each evening he would hurry
lumber yard and stand around in open
mouthed wonder, watching the dealer
"ft
on the part of the vnrslty Is attributed j walking around
to weak tackling. This feature of play be with
was especially noted hist Saturday in
the Alabama game. Time after time a
Tech player came within striking dis
tance of an Alabama runner, only to
miss nn easy tackle. Unless this defect
• an be remedied Tech will bd pie for
the hard-running Auburn backs.
Can Tech Hold Auburn?
Teeh has not been scored on this
year anrl the team will “die happy" If
they can only keep Auburn from scor
ing. Tech will use about the same
line-n— ns last Saturday unless Patter-
>-• n is kept out.
Poor Scrubs Got Trip.
Tite scrub team plays Gordon at
BirnesviUe next Saturday. This should
ht » good game. The cadets tied the
>crubs at Tech fiats on October 7, but
the scrubs have Improved wonderfully
v ir.co that time and should wlp the
game. * l . ,
only a limited number of scrubs
•an bo taken on a trip, the competition
bn positions is terrific. A trip away
home is as near to heaven as a
scrub is allowed to get, nnd the way
they are working for that trip shows
up the varsity in a bad light.
After the Ball
check off the ends with bfue chalk and
ound as unenneernod as could
wonderful flat-sided lead pen
cil sticking behind his ear. Christy’s life
has been a bitter disappointment, for
now, altho 33 years old, he has never
realized his ideal, never once having
worked In a lumber yard, now being only
a hired pitcher for a basebull team!
The first curve he learned to throw
was the "roundhouse,’’ one of the old-
fnshioned Ilk. so slow that the catcher
always tied on his nilt aftor it started;
but it was the first curve ever seen In
Faetoryville and the people flocked in
swearing and byhecklng up and down
<» •••»<• .nr’In tho hi tv nf Xnttir for
he smokes. He is a regular devil at that,
sometimes smoking a cigar in the morn
ing*'uml a cigarette before 'company In
the evening as cool as you please. <
The day he landed In New York he had
two telescope bags and had to ask his
way to the. Polo grounds, and now every
time he wants to cross the street or go
around the corner to get shaved he calls
a taxicab.
Jn the winter time he lives in St. Nich
olas Place. New York city, sells insur
ance and . plays checkers. If the vice
president of the Consolidated Air, Ozone
and Oxygen company was Just ready to
sign for a life insurance policy for a
quarter million, and somebody would
como along and sing out, "Say, Christy.
I’ll bet I can beat you a game," he would
Jump up from the vice president and hus
tie away after a boat, ,* muttering hli.
awfullest oath: "By George, I'll bet you
can’t." Ho would rather play checkers
than be turned loose In the kitchen of
The efforts of baseball players
as newspaper writers have been
about equally pitiful. It is one
thing to know all about baseball.
It is quite another to be able to
write about the game. It is
some trick to be a real baseball
writer. There aren’t but a few
in the country—and never will
be. When a man utterly unac
customed to writing attempts to
stack his stuff up against real
baseball stuff it sickens one. Of
course in most cases the baseball
stories “by” the famous players
were really written by some
| newspaper man, who was paid
for bis service in order that the
baseball star might grab % the
money. Of course this sort of
stuff is virtually obtaining mon
ey under false pretenses.
big leather backed Bible resting
squarely in the middle of the parlor table
close up beside "ParudlHe Lost” and "The
Life and' Deeds of Davy Crockett" at
Tarrytown, N. Y.. where he was horn,
you can find the rooly trcally name of
Eddie Collln«—Edward Trowbridge Col
lins* All that. Just as if lt was being
called out by the president of the board
of education—who la also proprietor of
the Elite Feed store and the Bon Ton
Coal yard—on graduation day at the high
In 1910 he .came -to bat. with Cupid in
the box and- made, the home run of his
life, and now the two have a home of
their own in Clifton Heights, a suburb of
Philadelphia, with a pianola In the par
lor and honest-to-goodness chickens In
the back yard. He neve* grows tired of
talking about- his-pianola and his chick
ens. and to -him the sweetest music In
the, world Is- a duet between a pianola
and a pullet, with his wife putting the
silverware on In the-dining room
WHOLE TEAM
BADWRECK
You’d Think the Auburn Squad
Ail But Dead to Read Stories
They Send Out.
by W. O. Chapman.)
'ifl.l’nfiitntnIiiVV
$ BUTLER’S SUCCESSOR NAMED $
* Naw York, Nov. 2.—The succes- $
sor of the late SamOel M. Butler 4*
+ us chairman of the contest board 4
-5- of-the Aiuericnn Automobile asso- +
+ elation has been named In tho +
4- person of William Schlmpf, a 4-
4" member of the contest board thla +
4- year. He will finish out the term. 4-
REST GLASSES
Tired, weak eyes may need only the
help of a pair of redt glasses. Come
in and our optician*Will make a thor
ough test of your eye#. A. K. Hawkes
Co., optician*,: .14 ; Whltehall-sL •••
informed.
From Life. *,'•
.Small Brother—Are you going to marry
Sister Kuth?, • •
Caller—Why—er—I really don’t know,
you know!
GETTING AWAY A NICE PUNT
"Tell
"Tell
An
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- - ... the talc of the series!”
I hey asked of the bob! McGraw;
the whys and the wherefores, I
; the inside law!”
raw looked up and he answered, j t
I™- >n the tones of yore,
,hr Icrrlble Turks are at war," he
."aid;
"And according to something I lately ■
read
The iinwers that bloomed in the spring {
... .. are dead—
'HI somebody close the door?"
>peak of the peerless pitchers!"
.J ’tFrly then they cried;
1 V' '•* of Marnuard's methods,
Jr 1 ;,’:* "hat Matty tried!"
raw looked up and he answered,
• ii ,hat they thought sincere, .
11 . f ’ aff i» off on a trip," said he,
i.an nette-has gone on a radical spree,.
x,» , . ,s China to you or me?— i
• dun i let me keep you here."
Ten us 0 f how they batted,
T„ii,, ’!, s of how they ran.
,’hey asked, "the Htory
\n?\. aml the Chilly clan!"
s/aLt . mw looked up and he answered,
■soft and low:
rights are off on another tack,
, "■'yan admits that he can’t come
hark;
A I* all that the Young Turks
“°rry that you must go!”
1 A e iV , r"^. bu * ,lcr e he stopped them,
AlU lustily „ wu .„ a cha |r.
." ent OU1 ’h™ ,he Window,
,, inhere preferred the stair.
I» L,! 1 ;-raw Saw red aa he bellowed,
‘"...■'"able* fiery and frank,
- nothing to say; do you hear?"
he,
Ahout the delectable vlctoree.
the only words that you’ll get from
Arp bhnkcty, blankety,'blank!”
1 rotn The New York Kvenh
ening Tost.
PRACTICE FOR BOYS HIGH.
**Jne Southern Denial college
o'OH High school will have ita first
■ Practice Altho five men of t
team are back. Slier, the cap- .
‘-'he.iiu'L" le ? n >, ta arranging a splendid |
Sw 1 ' .«•>* season, deluding a mim-
to nearby towns. •
Let the ba.sebfill players stick
to the diamond. There is ‘money
aplenty for them there, and easy
work. There will never come a I b ii 1 ®eagu*e tl ,tars
time when they can compete ”
with aetors at acting or with
newspaper men at writing base
ball (fames. Any time, they try
to do the work of sopiehpd.v else
they make themselves ridiculous
and lower the (fame in the eyes of
the public.
3T0NE MOUNTAIN TEAM Af i oA- . iC^.
This picture shows Coach Graham’a U- S. B. cloven praeticns soma
kick formations.
It has beeome so much the
fashion to la.tid the Philadelphia
Americans as the greatest of all
great teams that it is refreshing
to read something by a man who
thinks otherwise. Here is a
knock for the Mackmen, written
by W. A. Phelon of The Cincin
nati Times-Star:
All over, bo fur as the playing is
concerned—t herefore, post-mortems
are In order. The Athletics, accord
ing to 92 2-B.per cent of all critics,
won out because they had the better
ball club. The New Yorks lost be
cause they didn’t play a game that
wrould have beaten a team of China
men.
Are the Athletics Buch a wonderful
ball club? Yes? No? Well, figure It
out along these lines.
The clients played wretched ball,
with rank Inferiority In batting, field
ing and pitching. And yet these ter
rible Athletics, opposed to a team
that was playing miserable ball,
scratched out two of their four vic
tories simply thru home runs falling
The whole truth, summarized and
boiled down, is this: Both teams
played second-class ball, and the
luckier of these two fumbling, stum
bling clubs won out—and. also, the
garner team. The Athletics showed
ability -to roi
win a fighi
Giants showed
dlscoum gement
Perhaps there
New Yorks—certain It Is that they
never showed a trace of It In the long
and hard ca .....
league—and
Sunday school room.
The man at the half-way house of the
Philadelphia Athletics began being called
a phenom so early In life that every night
"before he went to bed he spent half an
hour greasing his down with cold cream,
and every time he found a hair on his
upper lip he would turn three complete
somersaults In the hotel bedroom and
jump up and bump his head against the
celling until the feeble old lady on the
floor above had to telephone for another
bottle of smelling salts.
of the youngest of tho
his manager never lets
him go out on the street alone at night
after 9 o’clock, and when the team Is out
on a tour the rest of the boys have to
wash his hands and tie on his night cap.
He entered Columbia as a student, but
graduated ss a baseball player, giving
up his time between baseball, football,
basket ball, handball, water polo, tennts
and track to an earnest study of Black-
stone. Laying aside his quarter cover
buckram for a full cover horsehlde he
took up baseball for good at a salary so
comfortable that In stepping on a penny
weighing machine as a friend was get-
off he didn’t care If the thing went
cackle tell which one of his hens has laid
an egg and which one Is up.
He never smokes and never got a lar
ruping in his life for sneaking out be
hind tne millet stack with the rest of the
gang and smoking a grapevine until It
turned him so far Inside out that he had
to hold his epiglottis In with his thumb.
He thinks that the man who uses the
vile weed Is going to fhat region where
war Is one continuous program from 11
a. m. till It p. in., children in arms not
admitted; but he himself is wild about
chocolate Ire cream, believing that the
other place In the skies Is a magnificent
ly fitted up drug store, where the seats
at the soda fountain are upholstered, —“
where a chorus of angels play gol
harps while pages In short trousers flap
up on their golden wings bearing straws
with cork tips, urging you in silvery
tones to have another.
The ambition of his Ilfs Is to write a
book—a real book with his name on the
cover—and he says the one supreme
blissful moment of his existence would
be to lay his book on the center table,
turn on the pianola, and then have one
of his Plymouth Hocks walk up on the
K irch and crow while his own private
cker Inside rattled off the baseball score.
(Copyright, 1911, by W. G. Chapmun.)
Auburn, Ala., Nov. 2.—Practice thus
far this week has been light because
most of the players have been bus>
with examinations. The practice work
has consisted chiefly of working up a
defense against forward passes.
There Is still a large hospital squad.
Burns has malarial fever and is out
of the game for the year. His . place
at center will be taken by Pitts, a new
man. Lamb’s knee will hardly allow
him to go into the Tech game. Mea
dows is the most likely candidate for
his place. Meadows and Pitts are both
seniors, but this is their first year In
varaity. football. They have been faith
ful scrubs, and are reaping their re
ward. Manning is also laid up, but
very probably will be able to start in
the game Saturday at end. The other
ends are Robinson, Kearley and Makin
—all new men.
Auburn’s chances for success In Sat
urday’s game will depend largely on
the condition of Davis, Without him
Auburn is sadly handicapped. The
other backfleld men ore Newell, Hart
and Major. Of these Hart Is playing
his first year In varsity football, and
is showing consistent improvement
There will be a* least five men In tho
Tech game who are playing their first
year on the team. The others are vet
erans of considerable experience. In
fact, Cogdell, Bonner, Allen and Davis
are playing their last year in college
football. During that time they have
taken part In only two losing S. I. A. A,
games, and are hoping to keep that
record.
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DAVIS ONCE
COST NICKEL
THEY'RE AFTER HIM Peacock Puts Up
First-Class Fight
a trace of It in the long
npulgn of the National
•ague—ami we will suppose, assume
_nd take It for granted that they are
the plucky fellowH whom we cheered
as they came thru In September. But
they haven’t the resilience or the
sturdy backbone of the Athletics, and
they can’t come back strong after a
beating. They are. In fact, extreme
ly like the soldiers of Napoleon, of
whom It was #ald that “in victory
they were greater than men, but In
defeat they were less than women.”
Both teams, then, played poor ball.
Their strength can he thus summed
up. The Cincinnati Beds, Injected
into that series, would have whipped
them both without getting their hair
mussed. That's no salve for good
fans of Cincinnati. It’s the solid
truth. The Reds would have had un
limited fun with both of them.
These clubs, of course, were the
Wednesday, at Piedmont park. Boys
High School played Peacock their first
league game. >yitho the affair was rather
ragged, yet on account of the absence
of touchdowns until the last quarter, the
interest of the large crowd of specta
tors was held. The only touchdown of
the game was made by Thompson, of High
School. The ball had been carried to the
i 8-yard JJne of Peacock, but High School
I was penalized and given the pigskin on
1 the 13-yard line on third down. The High
schol boys then got together, and In a
■ splendid rush Thompson carried the ball
for a touchdown. The High school line
up was somewhat disarranged on account
of the absence of MaeDouga! and Slier.
Peacock put a strong team In the field.
The line was unusually strong ami their
hacks played star ball. Blount, their cap
tain and quarterback, played u brilliant
game.
The teams lined up an follows:
B. H. S.
Ingram
■ Reynolds
Holtsendorff
Rosser
Folsom
LeConte
; Wright
Thompson, Capt.
Snider
Position.
Peacock.
... Ilupkins
.. Etheridge
Redding
Willett
11 Inman
Venable
Blount, Capt.
class of thefr . ...
They won their laurel
ctfve leag
routs of t54 games, and they were the
real stuff, brothers, the genuine ma
terial. But they left their fight along
the dusty road; they came into the
great series all done up. all exhaust
ed—and both of them played In a way
to prove It. It was a badly played
series, and the club which played the
less poorly, and had the luck, won out.
When the Athletics beat the Cubs,
Chance's men died fighting. They hit
the ball; they did not stand like
wooden statues at the plate and ac
cept third strike, and they did
it cad. They were beaten.
The National league moguls afe mak
ing their annual stabs at him. He
I wriggled thru last year, but wlH he be
equally elusive this year? It will take
some tall squirming to get by.
Betting Is Lively
On Saturday's dame
Knox q —
Touchdown—Thompson. Referee—Har
, en. Umpire—Bell. Timekeeper—Gold-
j smith. Time of quarters—10 minutes.
•f- MATTY FOR JACKSONVILLE?
4* — +
■2• Harry Matthews, the former *
4* Southern league player who Is
4* wintering as usual in Atlanta, may 4*
4* be selected to manage tin* Jack- 4»
sonvllle team next season In the 4*
4* South Atlantic league. 4*
Matty feels that he was slightly 4*
4* double-crossed by Albany, but 4*
4* hasn’t any "holler” coming. It Is 4*
4* more than likely that he will tie 4*
4 # up with the Scout teum. 4*
4-M-W-W
and eager for the battle.
Princeton, N. J„ Nov. 2.—Betting on
the outcome of the Princeton-Harvard Felton Is Out.
football game has become lively. AH { Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 2.—This was
tho Harvard monev i*« being covered i Harvard’s last day for strenuous prac-
the Harvard money is nemg lovereai ^ Morft ^ |d , ron bfttl , wlth
I’rlncf ton a supporton. t.-klns wn*.r», ,. rin( ,,. lon .saturrfnv.
nt 10 !» 7. Pendleton anti Turn Wilson | Felton will not he In the (ante Sat-
were ordered to keep on the side lines! urday, so the brunt of the kicking will
tills afternoon in ordert «> get a much fall on I’C!‘fr. <)acka!i will go at full,
needed rest for the big game. All the back If happens iC Hunting-
men are now’ In good physical shape ion.
Connie Mack spent that :
sum to get his famous first |
baseman—Davis has now in- :
herited the worst job in ma- :
jor league baseball, the man- ;
agement of the Naps—His ef- s
forts will * be watched with j
t interest. •
Harry Davis, Nap manager for 1912,
quit baseball In 1900, after he had been
booted from one team to another for
six years, and it cost Connie Mack a
nickel to get him to leave a railroad
Job and return to the game. The nickel
was spent by Connie to reach Davis by
telephone.
Davis started his professional career
in 1894 at Providence. He played at
Pawtucket In 1895 and was bought by
the New’ York Nationals. He was used
for a time in 1896 as first baseman and
outfielder and shifted to Pittsburg.
Mack managed Pittsburg that year
and didn’t think much of Davis.
He sent him to Louisville. Davis went
to Washington from Louisville, and In
1899 was with Minneapolis In the new
American league. He tired of the game
and decided not to play again. He
worked for a railroad in Providence,
then for another road In Philadelphia.
Mack took charge of the Athletics In
1901 ‘and needed a first baseman. A
friend told him that Davis might be In
duced to play. Mack remembered Davis
youngster who could hit a ball
mighty hard, reached Harry by tele
phone and coaxed him to Join the Ath
letics, and Davis has been with Mack
ever since.
Davis was a home-run hitter In his
early days with the Athletics. Neither
Bocks Seybold nor Danny Murphy could
hit the ball over the fence as often as
Harry.
Davis came near winning a pennant
for the Athletics in 1907, when the Ath
letics and Tigers played a seventeen-
inning tie, Early In the game Davis hit
a home run over the right field fence.
Two runners were on at the time. Tho
hit put the Athletics ahead until the
ninth Inning, when Ty Cobb, a kid then,
duplicated Harry’s drive and tied up
the game.
Harry came along In the fourteenth
with a two-base hit Into the center field
crowd, but Bilk O’Loughlln called him
out when Sam Crawford claimed a po
liceman interfered with him when he
tried to catch the ball.
Davis was made captain of the Ath
letics In 1906, succeeding Lave Cross,
und showed from the start that ho was
a field leader. When Mack rebuilt his
Infield Davfs was the only veteran who
stayed. Connie said he ne^led Harry
to hold down his youngsters—Collins,
Barry and Baker.
Davis Is married, has a daughter who
i# eighteen and a son who sometimes
act# as maacot tor the Athletics. The
parlor of the Davis home In Philadel
phia (Contains portraits of every player
who ever wore an Athletic uniform.
Davis likes hunting, boating and fish
ing And has a sloop In which he sails
around favorite nooks In the Delaware
and Chesapeake livers.
Florida Team Is
Getting in Shape
— i
Gainetvllle, Fla., Nov. 2.—The Univer
sity of Florida football team I* showing
fine form In the scrimmage this week
All the "Charley horses" have
worked out In the Intervening days, an-1
every man is "there" with the "pen."
Coach Pyle has worked out several ne
ays w’Jch are proving
ainers against the "scrub
* ih-c. Vlir ... iiiv »cv"iiu I
Is playing tight tackle during liancc
absence. "Handy" was called home \
his return from Carolina by the III
of his mother, but he will be back In
ness for the Columbia game. He is
mainstay of the line, always there
the ginger and fight. Is In «
ainer,
He
chosen "all-FlorU
last season, and w’ould make a vali
addition to any team In the South.
A "scrub" who seems slated for a
judging from his excellent work, Is
ton, a young lad of husky buit-l who
been trying out but a few days,
eral times (hiring recent scrim mag-
has come thru the line, which l>v
way is some stunt, nnd he hus bee
the bottom of every play.