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TUB ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1911.
OF LIVE SPORTING NEWS
Big Automobile Races in Savannah Will
Soon Attract Interest of All the World
ECH PUVS
AUBURNITES
3 of Best Games of Season
Be Staged at Poncey
on Saturday.
SOME SAVANNAH RACE PICTURES
AUTOMOBILE NEWS
y. I. e
ws, I. t
1.1
er, Capt, I. g..
,e ot the keenest struggles likely to
Jged In Atlanta this year Is the one
tor Saturday afternoon at Ponce
The stragglers will be the
jail teams of the Georgia School of
inology of Atlanta and the Alabama
lute of Technology, of Auburn, Ala.
lun atarta at 2:30,
oroe struggle this,” Is the verdict
experts. Of course somo of’ ’em
that Auburn should win with
ratlvo ease, but this isn’t an as-
thlng, by a long ways.
Auburn team has arrived In At-
in charge of Tdlke Donahue,
and Is reported In passably good
Of course several or the men
at In top-notch condition—notably
—but most of the cripples will be
start against Tech and will play
ig as they can last,
burn always has a large delega-
f rooters for this game and will
hand with the ueual bunch this'
uess at the line-up 1s here pre-
Auburn.
. .. Sanches, 1. e.
.... Stabler, 1. t.
.... Elmer, I. t.
.. Leuhrman, I. g.
.Hutton, Loeb, c.
Means, r. g.
r. t Colley, Sinclair, r. t.
n, r. e Black, Thomason, r. e.
q Coleman, Cox, q.
h Goroo, 1. h.
r. h ..Cook, r. h.
fb.. ... .. Patterson, Fielder, fb.
tree, George Butler: umpire, In-
■rmvn; field Judge, Watlioo. Time
rters, 15 mlnutee.
Tech Takes It Easy,
football doings on Tech flat Frl-
i re few.
varsity worked hard on signals,
tilt early in order to run no risk
vertaxlng nerves before the Au-
same. This week has truly been
tirdest one the team has yet gone
There has been scrimmage every
except Friday, and hard scrlm-
at that.
der the regular practice program,
ten get about ten mlnutee elgnal
and then they start In, hammer
tongs, to annihilate the scrubs,
week they have dohe admirably in
efforts In that direction. The
Is in fairly good shape and will
ubt make a good show.
Big Mass Meeting Held,
mass meeting was held Friday
jt. and nt that time a campaign was
ifd out for the “Student Rooters
lation” for the remainder of the
n. "Smoke” Potter officiated In
oiling department, and there was
pretty fair spirit shown,
ort talks were made by Captain
'rson, "Red” Hill, "Alo" Alchel.and
e students will form on the campus
o'clock Saturday, anti, headed by
land, will march to the park and
cheer the wearers of the gold and
to the full limit of their vocal
ty.
lERCER CANT
DOPE JT OUT
:sn’t Know What to Expect
om Mississippi, But Fears
the Worst.
con, Ga., Nov. 4,—Mercer meets the
• iMeeiiMmietHeteeeetieeeeeeMMHMMeeeMi**
One hiUllon dollars of accident In
surance was the amount placed on
the lives of six officials of tno Willys-
OVerland company during a recent
three days trip from Toledo, Ohio, to
Llmira, N. Y., and return, when
President John N. Wlllye was the
truest of honor at a banquet tendered
him by the Klmlra Busineea Men's
association.
This Is by far the heaviest amount
of accident Insurance ever taken out
fof a like purpose by ah automobile
concern, say the insu
idea, and never bus tha
placed ph six men in or __
dustry for sUCh a short
time. .
President WlUyi. made the state*
ment that If the six men should lose
their lives It would probably
mean the end of the Wiiiys-Overland
anco coir
»mpa-
nmount been
it of the in
duration of
America
closely the precedent set by Europe
in approving the KnIght motor, for
the dealers of the F. U. Stearns com
pany—the first American concern to
adopt this engine—aro reporting that
rerhape one of the men 1
ested In the resul
tour aha in the „ J
clals, was Claude Nolan, who sold
eleven Cadillac cars at Jacksonville
to men of high standing In Jackson
ville and various parts of the coun
try and who Induced the buyers to
—“■ i Glldden tour. These
»d and received dellv-
i at New York direct
from the factory, knowing little or
ilnlona of the offl*
t* *
at Jac
Ing In
ts of tl
... ■ ■■i r
participate in the Glldde
gentlemen entered and i
ery of their cars at Ne
nothing of the mechanism or the new
electric solf-starter. Yet every one
of the cars finished the.trlp and all
who were behind the schedule in
points lost because of tire trouble and
not because of mechanical trouble.
uiiiiui , :i iuui ui im, aim iticau were m-
fred Coniacho and F. Ed. Spooner (“On
the Spot)*’* who started touring In 1901
and has been touring over since. Mf.
Spooner id probably’ the only motorist in
the country who has been ^
tlonal tour. Being a Mud
11 eves that he stands ttldti.
an, for tho Mud Larks, were the real
pioneers of tl
Lark? Well,
competed in t .... __
York to Pittsburg. going thru weather
that actually stopped the railroads and
ntopped communication with the outside
world, weather that Hooded the roads
with water and made traveling even by
drawback Impossible. Yet the automo-
_llei went thru from New York to Pitts
burg via Buffnlo, Cleveland and Youngs
town. when railroads were washed out of
business.
Tho trip was the hardest ever under
taken on a tour and will probably never
be repeated, for conditions will never bo
tho same. For a time on the recent
Glldden tour, conditions promised to be
as bad. That was going Into Roanoke
when rain fell In torrents for hours.
Then the tourists took drinks from the
atmosphere, but continued their mad
pace. On tho Mud Larks trip those con
ditions prevailed for eight solid days
without a lot-up and yet automobiles got
thru.
In an Interview J. W. Bate, designer
of the Mitchell cor, stated, “I am proud
of the record of Mitchell cars In tho Glld
den tour. One six-cylinder machine,
owned and drlvon by an amateur, L. C.
Brown, of Athens, Ga., went thru ono of
the hardest Glldden grinds. The Mitch
ell finished the fearful run to Roanoke
and did not require the 20 minutes addi
tional time allowance granted by the offf-
clals. whereby 31 cars were permitted to
qualify at Roanoke Instead of three, one
of which was a $1,100 Mitchell. Had it
not been for this allowance the trophies
would have been otherwise awarded, an
subsequent days' runs eliminated two of
the three that finished at Roanoke on the
vJ 11 ® *?nedule, thus leaving tho
Mitchell the only car that had a prrtect
score on tha time schedule as originally
laid out.”
Just a few days ago^The San Francisco
*e<T what was probably
to determlno how economically motor
trucking could be done, consequently the
route laid out covered nearly 100 miles
of average country foad, supplying nearly
every ordinary condition that would be
encountered In every-day running.
Of the 21 entrants, ten finished With
erfect scores. Of these, four were
Vhltes, made In Cleveland, ahd of the
five Whites entered, each one was re*
ported as a winner of first or second place
In its class. The two White five-ton
trucks were tied for the grand prise for
economy of operation.
uTt^ I
nate In having at Its head a man who
has not only been familiar from the be
ginning with Its sales and manufactur
ing plans, nut who also has been Iden*
tilled with the automobile business al
most from Its Infancy.
Company.” MrT Hastings was wit{ , ft;
Oldemobile In Its original plant on Jelfer-
M>]|-avt\. I'ctmll, Jltlrl Jjltrr liol.l a posi
tion of responsibility In tha larger plant
at Lansing.
At the top are shown tha tw6 Grand Prize winners. On the left le David Bruce-Brown, who won with a
Benz last yaar. On the right I, Louis Wegner, who won tha firit Grand Prize race with a Fiat. In the middle
row (on the left) le a view of a newly built turn near Bonna Bella on the 8avannah course. On the right is the
Vanderbilt cup. At the left (on the bottom row) la tha Grand Prize. On the right Ig a picture of the oil wag
ons at work on the course. ,
BARNEY OLDFIELD WRITES OF AUTOS
(Copyright, 1911, by Barney Oldfield.)
Three miles a minute Is the latest
promise of “Bob” Burman, speed king.
Two weeks ago Burman sailed for Ger-
nany to arrange for the purchase of the
'Greater Blltzen” model of European
Tew days ago he cabled me that
am thoroughly familiar with the new
from tho University of Mississippi; car. haying been Inetrumental In having
[The local men have been working the factory plan the constractlon of ‘ho
■MMSS«UKbXrfh^t W Bu^n e w , iri n mak; 0r go<ld d hls 1 |
■this week to Increase theirapSJ
also In trying to perfect new pfayil
| orange and Black came out of the
pa game In pretty good condition,
lesiley end Thursday Coach Btroud
hard scrimmages, and
about as strong as Auburn. They
team by about twelve or fifteen
»rs on the MIs-
In the game
ppt teem have ...
’ fh®", Jh« Baptists and their expe-
ahould bo in their (avor.
. who developed a ’’Charley horse”
. . l ,h* Georgia game, will not bo
to ne In the game. Conger has a
nip. Jameson will not be seen at his I -
»> end In this game or for the list of ft
llcvo
The Florida beach. Scientific men
laughted at tho prediction a few years
ago of two miles a minute. In 1908
Demeogot covered the distance In .68 4-6;
In 1910 I clipped the two miles In .86 4-6,
and last AnriT Burman turned the trick in
a little better than. .61. And now the
Intrepid Michigan lad Is going for a three
miles a minute record with all the ear-i
neatness In hts make-up, and detennlna-
tlon has been a dominant factor In the
success of Burman as a racing driver.
There le no such thing as a limit to speed.
That ts, not until a mile Is covered In
"nothing or
In the early days of automobile racing
Ij 1 ] »s he has not fully re
ft" from an attack of malaria fever.
K; r *’ t °f the men are In tho best
itlon that they hava been In this
Orlce Is in good form and Is going
the opposing line at a fast clip and
'king up many plays. Norman Is In
prim and should make some good ad-
fi„„ ,hru "2* lln «- While Mississippi’s
Renee and weight should stand them
r 1 , stead, Mercer should hold them
P touchdowns, and the Baptists, by
**25!’ o^ipbe able to score. Tho
L**JI doubtless be bard-fought
eath with the display of a long
Igures which
the
_ ... they told ntu
■ented the solution of the problem ot
"centrifugal force” as applied to tires
•’centrifugal force" as apptieu to tires
and wheels and that when I atta ned a
speed of a mile a minute on a circular
track, there would be work for the under-
taker. But tires properly made and ap
plied to the proper rim with plenty of
lugs are Just as safe at 110 miles an hour
as at a mile a minute gait. I hardly be
lieve that Burman can etand tho strain
for three tnllee at euch a terrtfle speed,
but l am positive that he can bring his
■ .25 2-6 for the mile down to 20
mark of
seconds.
When he left for Eurdpe It was “Wild
PACKERS’ AGREEMENT
WITH DODGERS SMASHED
he Atlanta Baseball association's
U J ’ rlth Brooklyn baseball club, by
cn the local squad was to get first
r n th ’ Dodgers’ cast-offs. Is gone
mash
® gre o™ent was a personal mat-
'■^barley F.hbetts and J. W.
rm * r President, nnd when
r i-,, ® an retired from the baseball
d »K. n . ths Brooklyn president
now ,1 ,al 0(f - The Brooklyn club
Ich m. up WIU > ‘he Nashville club,
mean that If Red Smith can
escape from the Superba team he will
be back at the old stand In Nashville.
It le evident that Atlanta’s agree-
ment with the New York Americans
will continue In force, despite the
change In presidents, and that Hal
Chase will send his spare playere to
Atlanta. It Is suspected that President
Callaway will talk this matter over
with Frank Farrell and Hal Chase
while he Is In New York, and will con
sider the matter of getting n manager
that will be satisfactory to the High-
landers.
Famous race driver ex
pects Burman will accomplish
mile in 20 seconds (or a rate
of three miles a minute) with
his new car—He doubts If
world’s speed record will be
beaten at Savannah, and ex
plains his reasons—Is now
touring over Glidden route,
and marvels at the perfect
scores.
.•••••••••■•••••••Mil
February or March.
waa talking, to a famous motorcycle
the poiriblfitles *oT”a
... jg a mile faster than a
S am automc tin. It will be recalled that
-V. — - .. . w - - -
fr-
ho number of events which have been
run within the last few weeks. Thsre
was a time when a manufacturer could
enter a race in a modest manner, and.
If he lost, the coet would not be heavy
enough to count. But now It Is differ
ent. Racing must either be done on an
expensive and elaborate scale, or not at
all. With a big road race being run every
MORE ENTRIES
FOR SAVANNAH
Cobe Will Drive a Jackson.
DePalma Selected to Handle
One of the Mercedes.
8avSnnah. Ga., Nov. 4.—Th* official
entry of U Jackson car In tho Vander
bilt race, to bo ran In Savannah No
vember 27, hat been received. The
car will be driven by Harry H. Cobe.
At the eatne time advices were received
that the two Mercer entries In the Van
derbilt and one In the Interactional
Grand Prize to bo ran on Thanks
giving day, had been signed and mail
ed. and that a second -Mercedes, which
will be driven by Ralph DePalma, was
alio oh the way. This runs the total of
entries for the four races up to 39.
The Jackson car entered In the Van
derbilt Is of 60-horsepower typo, 6-lnch
boro and 5 1-2-Inch Stroke. Harry
Cobe. the driver, Is well known from
Ids fiorformances with Jackson and
Loslor cars. His first raco woe at
Brighton Beach In 1007, when ho
teamed with Bob Burman In the 24
hour race. In which they set the pace
for 23 1-2 hours, Cobe drove next In
the Brlarcllffc road race of 1808, and
broko thu world's record twice In 24-
hour races that year. Ho continued
driving the Lozier at Lowell, and In
other recce, until the spring of 1010,
when he drove the Allon-Kingston and
Palmer-Singer racing cars. He went
back to the Jackson, with which ho
started, In Fairmont Park race In 1010,
and finished second In his class.
Ralph DePalma, who will drive the
second Mercedes entry In the Grand
Prlzo on Thanksgiving day, will also
drlvo one of the Morcer cars In the
Savannah Challenge Trophy race on
November 27, DePalma Is looked on
ns one of tho greatest drivers ot the
day and he shoul be a hard contender
In’ the Grand Prize with his German
mount. DePalma has probably more
world's records to his credit than any
other living driver. He was leading
the Grand Prise race In a Flat las.t
year when a stone smashed his radiator
during tho lap before the laat and gave
DePalma the championship hard luclt
happening of that great contest.
P. LI8TER 18 MANAGER?
Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 4.—"There
not be much sentiment In baseball,”
' sterday, "but
Intend to see
Entries Are Pouring In For
A. A. C.’s Cross-Country Run
Quite the biggest running event ever,
held In Atlanta le what the Atlanta
Sandy Beaver, head of the Unlver-
ilty School for Boys nt Stone Moun-
Thiuikflglvlng morning promlsesto'be.” j p “' 1 '“A™, 1 ’?’
Entries Of teams are pouring In from h )f at {*‘
ill sldea Of course the a A C it-11©*® 1 * W *H bo *n tho game that aay, ho
self will work mighty hard to get up; i Wll iiv t Plt t0 « , l Crai>0 Up a team t0 com P® tfl
a team, tho It has few men In training!
and Coach Bean may havo to dig deep! ?“*.•* out-of-town colleges and prep
to set five runnent ' schools are yet to be heard from, but
Tech lias already announced that it j doubtless there will bo more entries,
will be represented by a team nnd tho
Yellow Jackets can safely bs regarded
as dangerous. Jos Bean, as coach of
Marist college, will enter a team of prop
school lads. Last year his team wol
all the prises In the prep league run
and they will bear watching In the
coming event. •
New and unexpected entrlea are
likely to come from the Atlanta Boys
club and the Y. M. <?. A. The latter
Institution hasq’t been heard from in
an athletic way In years, but may come
out of retirement for tho forthcoming
event.
CINCH FOR ARMY, MAYBE.
West Point, N. Y., Nov. 4.—Wildly
enthusiastic over tho fact that the
Army elc -cn was the only big team in
the East that had not been scored up
on, the cadets were brim full of con
fidence when their team lined up for
today’s contest with the husky George
town university boys.
Indians Get Alcock.
Albany, Ga., Nov. 4.—Forbes Atcock.
third baseman fgr the Albany ball club,
has been sold to Indianapolis,
ay L-- , _
Id President Andrews jester
Swnwa havo*Yar I In Tmi St.nge^LwTT '"''ISr
exessded the appropriation for racing t, h, f^merit and faithfulness are Tewarded,
made early Tn the season. That Is why; } *? W!
the Indianapolis promoters art anxious to 1 Ulster »■ * J.IJJ* ,f'“o- 1 “ 11
run their ivent at ths real opening of tha c0 ?. u ,i n .“ ^•aSt l, {S!ien ot,
season. The manufacturers are ready to . '» JSE.ES??, c .hi ld n£k
season’s racing funds.
route to" England, Fre
for the.purpoee of visit
bars of the Society or Auto-
ineers are on the ocean en
igland, France and Germany
purpose of visiting tho European
automobile shows and going thru tho for-
■ mechanical “high
elgn factories. The
browe” will be guests of honor at many
bamuotH and gatherings and will prob
ably Impart few of the Yankee secrets of
Island
not consider the club any too slrom
financially and Is determined to plsct
Pete where ho will have greater oppor
too elrong
ned to place
greater ,
(unities for success. Ths local msgnL
expects to settlo the question of Pete's
future at the meeting of the national as
sociation In Ban Antonio.
If you didn’t begin reading "The
ably Impart few of the Yankee secrets of i Prodigal Judge” when It was begun,
manufacturing while absorbing from the , take It up now. Tho synopsis, published
Europeans much thnt will be useful to pach day, tells In detail all that has
their employers and of great benefit to the. gone before.
purchasers of cars. .
i “hit It up” on good stretches.
aviator has often told ms that a motor
cycle fitted with an ell" ' *
could negotiate the ml
Florida sands “ “
ion seems to _____ _ 1
motorcycle cbuld get sufficient traction
at high speed with so tittle weight. One
thing Is certain, however. The next year
will witness some remarkable bursts of
speed.
otlate the mile journey on the
inds In 22 or 24 seconds. Opln-
to be divided as to whether a
•mii ii miiium bo changed 1
L* «I? nt ^.o f r r l?*!. 1 .HSrfflitJSilS: I I am touring this week
•rukhieaa' • mimnirf milV i tour trail on my way to Atlanta and
•J,*y** * Savannah. The excessive rainfalls has
MONDAY
AT THE
ALAMO THEATRE
GUY HARRIS
Positively the Best Character Singer in
the- Moving Picture Business.
JIMMY FLYNN
Atlanta’s Favorite Ballad Singer.
JOHN VERDI
Pianist and Musical Specialist—One of a
Long Line of Famous Musicians,
THE BATTLE—A Thrilling Biograph
Picture of the Trying Days of ’61.
THE COQUETTE—A Selig Picture of
Great Heart Interest.
Don’t Fail to Come Monday
Savannah. automobile enthusiasts pro-
ict that tha course for the grand prize
_nd Vanderbilt cup races will Be a revela
tion to the racing drivers. The hustling
Southerners hare spent thousands of dol
lars on ths course In an effort to hare _ _ . ,,
ths world’s record broken during the big i speed enthuslaet. I have talked with half
race. The course Is much longer than 1 a dozen motorists who drove tho preel-
- ehloh thaldentlal car during portions of Mr. Taft’s
ik three tour of the country. All of them told
me that the president never objected to
fast riding and often requested them to
mum weight restriction on the entrants.
As It now stands a car to bs eligible for
the raco must weigh at least 2,000 pounds,, ■
If a manufacturer can produce a car of' Jiff,
of little tf
permitted
Compel an
practical, but after he has done this there
should be nothing to discourage the build
ing of light cars.
Presldsnt Taft Is a dyed-in-the-wool
Savannah,
BUI
many places.
it over the° routs with any perfect
In the lot Is a mystery to ms.
Herrick t
this le an
Monica course Is absolutely smooth and Is
so nearly like asphalt that It was not even
necessary to use oil to lay the duet.
From wfcat I can learn, the cars for the
grand prise will be much less powerful
and heavy than previously, tho ths en-
gtnes will develop more speed than any
of the former nomlnatlens. Of course
this will help a lot toward preventing
ths course being cut to ribbons In some
of the soft soots which slwsys are found
on a road course.
Again, ths distance of approximately
490 miles Is against the chances of lower
ing the Hants Monica mark, which was
made at S distance of 192 miles. Many
wagers srw - * *
termed In i
-a prise
the great distance.
Bo far there
vised
MATINEE TODAY.
TONIGHT.
EVA TANGUAY
U7
on of
“LITTLE MISS FIX-IT.*
DONT MISS HER!
Mits.Tanguay will also give her full
vaudeville specialty.
twelve car* the ouUWe will so to the Matinee, 25c to $1.50; night, 25c to $2.00,
and the only
life insurance lear
ned was to use
firestone
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