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THIS ATLANTA GEORGUN AND NEWS: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1911.
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THE SPORTING EXCITEMENT THESE DAYS IS AWFUL
EDITED BY
PERCY H. WHITING
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Ilave they stopped growing gentlemen over in Alabama.!
That seems to be the' only real basic reason why Auburn and
Alabama can not renew athletic relations.
Here is the explanation given:
The athletic authorities have no criticism to make of any team, but they aa*
nert that it haa been found true In every state that certain games produce so
«rrw»t a desire for victory that all sense of true sport that should mark student
James is entirely lost sight of, and that for the sake of winning there invariably
result questionable practices on all sides with the consequent criminations and
^ — which c* w 4 -‘—’ r* * j
otherwise deatroy instead of promote good feeling and fel-
In other words, if Auburn and Alabama play, the students
stop behaving like gentlemen, hire athletes; squabble verbally and
raise sand generally. _
It seems as tho the young men of Alabama would rather
resent the insinuation that they could not behaves, like human
beings, even if the state title at football were involved. May
be tfyey haven’t stopped to think of it that way, but that’s
what it amounts, to.
Before long normnl athletic relations ought to be restored
among Southern colleges. The colleges which are naturally the
greatest rivals should meet each other at the cIoro of each sea
son. This can be done without visible friction if the college
and athletic authorities, the alumni and the students combine
to conduct these big games on the’ right plane.
Atlanta men point with no small pride to the fhet that it
has at last become possible for Tech and Georgia to play with
out any demonstrations of ill feeling, in spite of a rivalry that
is as intense as gentlemanly rivalry can be. The college authori
ties have combined with the alumni to impress on the college
men the necessity of gentlemanly behavior. The result this
fall was as pleasant an exhibition as college men would care to
see. ’ '
Canditioris in Alabama coujd be handled the siime way and
Auburn and Alabama could play 7 without any outbreaks what
ever. It would just take a little preliminary working up of
the right sort of feeling. ♦ •
One thing that ought to he said in defense of college stu
dents in general is, they aren’t responsible for half the trou
ble that' is started before, during and after big games.
Back in the old days Yale and Princeton used to play
their football game in New York. It was a tremendously big
event.. And 'after it was over there Was a rough-house that
tore the town wide open. Then the college authorities called
off the New York game. They did it because a lot of men who
had never been in college always put on gobs of college col
ors 'and raised sand that night, /it was demonstrated that not
one-tenth of the trouble was caused by college men. But the
colleges had to take all the blame. So the Yale-Princeton
game was transferred to alternate dates at New Haven and
Princeton and. trouble censed.
Southern colleges have had the same experience. Lots of
the men who make a display of college colors and cause most
of the disturbance haven’t been nearer to either college con
cerned than the sixth grade. And over such as these no college
authorities can have any control. However, if the students are
going at. things the- right' way .they will begin taking pride in
the decbht behavior'of nil men wearing the colors of their col
lege and can do a lot toward preserving good order at and after
college games.
If college men were put on their honor, to behave in gen
tlemanly fashion at all games, big and little, and impressed
; a bit with the right spirit in. such matters, there would be little
further trouble. This would seem a better way than td give
the proposition of interstate games up as a total loss.
A FEMININE MOGUL BACK TO THE HORSES
EDWARD G. BARROW.
Who has been re-elected president
of the International league.
George Simmons, who comes to the
Highlanders from the Rochester club,
may not go back this time. Simmons
will get a chance to prove hit worth at
Second base. For Rochester last season
Simmons batted .324, besides fielding
brilliantly.
MRS. HELEN BRI+TON.
The<only woman owner of a big bast-
ball league. She Is the owner of the S'.
Louis National league club and Is san
guine that! her team will win the pen
nant next year.
SENATOR J08EPH W. BAILEY,
of Texas, who has re-entered the trot
ting horse game, and Has bought a
string of light harness horses,. antici
pating his retirement from the senate
on March 4 next. Senator Bailey will
campaign extensively with his new
horses next season. He sold his farm
and string of racers at Lexington, Ky„
last year, saying he would not race
again, but the trotting horse fever
seems Just now to-have film complete
ly within lta grip.
THESE GUYS TALKED ABC'JT NOW
AN ENGLISH VIEW OF AMERICAN FOOTBALL j
A Britisher takes in the Ilaryard-Dnrtihcmth game and is aghast .at the cheering, the ap- j
parent bloodthirstiness of the spectators, the excitement among the feminine spectators and,the j
celebration after the game. j
Invited to Join them, and a merry time
we had of It. It will be many a: month,
I fancy, before the little leading lady
forgets the twelve encores for her
dance or tho gift of'the football that
was thrown to her across the footlights.
Immediately In front of mo sat the
young hero who had lost two teeth
during the afternoon. What mattered
a tooth or ao? I warrant you ttjat hs
was the merriest and maddest there.
The Devonshire Msn.
In conclusion, I should liko to re
count a rather pretty little Incident. It
so happened that 1 had to catch thek
midnight train to New York, amt a
good, many of the boya were on tho
platform. One of them, to whom I was
Introduced us coming from Oxford, told
me that hln home was In Devonshire. I
Immediately began to hum that famous
old song:
Tam Pearce. Taih Pearce, lend me thy
gray mare—
All along, out'along, down along lay!—
Vur I wants vur to go to Wlddlcombe
. valr
Wl' Bill Brewer, Jan Btour, Pater
Ourney, Peter Wlnnel,
Philadelphia ball tossers, who are in tho limelight. On the left it Char-
'ey Dooin, red-haired leader of the Philadelphia National*, who scrap
ping with the club president, Horace Fogsl, over his demand for an In-
cease of salary, and on tho right is Topsy Hartsel, eotton-toppsd outfielder
°f the Athletics, who has been railroadsd to Toisdo. Topsy is in lina for
•he managership of tho big minor league club.
Here is what an Ehgllshman on a
visit to the UnltetJ States calls his
“Important and honorable itopres-
slons of an American foqtball
match:”
I must tell you that the scene was
the great stadium at Harvard and the
opposing teams Harvard and Dart
mouth universities. Very well. then,
immediately facing me was an enor
mous placard bearing the word, “Dart
mouth." Beneath this were assembled
In close formation the Dartmouth’
"cheering sections and the Dartmouth
brass band.
On the other side of the stadium
were the Harvard "cheering section’
and the Harvard brass band. The Dart
mouth cheering section waa under the
control of two gentlemen who kept
their backs to the game the greater
part of the afternoon—thelre not .to
reason why; theirs .But to keep the sup
porters of Dartmouth in' a constant
state of mental and tracheal Inflamma
tion. One of-these gentlemen was short
and stout; the other was taller and very
wiry. The stout gentleman was content
to atand In front , of the cheerers and
beat time for tho cheers by throwing
hi* arms spasmodically from right to
left Tho thin and wiry man went much
further than that. He danced to and
fro all the afternoon from one end of
the cheering section fo the other. Even
to tho Harvardlana and th* Bostonians
ho came rather In the nature of a sur
prise, so you may Imagine how he as
tonished and fascinated an Innocent
Britisher.
I must tell you some more about that
dancer. He did not danc* as King Da.
vld danced; neither did he cakewalk. It
was a sort of sideways Jump and un
doubtedly hart a maddening efTect on
the cheerers. If the Dartmouth team
had only been able to watch him It'
might have won the match Instead of,
S ‘‘Get More,” th* Cry.
Still the fact that the game was ao
one-sided did not seam to spoil ths sport
for the onlookers. On the contrary,.the
higher the Harvard score climbed the
more they were urged to get at their
opponents and Inflict upon them a de
feat from the shame of which they
should never recover. "Get more! Get
more!” was tho cry- "Make It a hun
dred, Harvard! You've got 'em beat to
a fraxxle, the dogs! Get more! Get
more!”
This encouragement, of course. WSs
unofficial and unorganised. Tha moth
ers. cousins, aunts and sisters of the
undergraduates were resnonslble for a
very fair share of It. The excitement
and enthuflaam of the women, indeed,
struck me as most extraordinary. In
England If a woman goes to a football
match she spende half the time In erit-
Iclslng the colors of the Jerseys and ths
other In lamenting the fact that her
feet are so cold. There la nothing of
that sort about the American woman.
Whether It Is assumed or not I can not
say. but she appears ready tb swoon
with excitement at any given point lr.
the game. Dlrectlv the teams appear
on the field she begins to call out, Jump
up and down In her seat and clap her
hands. When the ball Is kicked off, she
laughs low. long end shlveringly. When
somebody picks It up, she leaps to her
feet, crying: "He'a got It! Oh. you
would, would you! No. you don't, my
boy!" If a player runs ten yards with
the ball, which !■ a considerable run In
American football, she beats her
clenched flats on the shoulders of the
person In front of her, ejaculating: "Oh,
oh, mv land! There he goes! Oh, my
land, my land!"
Ono of this boy's most Intimate
friends had two teeth knocked out dur
ing the course of ttie Kamo 1 witnessed
and at least.ten men retired before the
end of the match.
"What a fuss uhout a couple of
broken toes!" said n woman next tu mo
as one poor fellow hobbled I till.
I took a good look at her. She was
young and not lll-fnvorcd. You would
never have supposed her capable of
such ferocity. It was the excitement
of the gnnie, of course, bringing the
primitive barbarism to the surface; but,
after nmklng every allowance for this
extraordinary passion, I was aston
ished.
The American game, as you know. Is
divided Into four, parts. At the conclu.
slon of each part a man dashes on to
dhe ground with water In a huge bottle
and more water In a bucket. The pluy-
ers drink out or the bottle and wiuh
their hands In the bucket. In the mean
time the bunds play patriotic tunes and
the cheering sections cheer like mad.
Really, It Is all vert wonderful—very
wonderful and Interesting Indeed.
ThSn After the'Game!
At !as{ tjie game is over. In Eng
land *hen thVAame Is over we melt
silently away. Not s'd" In America.
There Is a grrqj deni more to come.
Everybody rushes on to the ground apd
there takes place a sort of procession of
glory, headefl'by'Ihe.'bKnda Thousands
of caps are tnr9Kn>oVoi':rt*:Wo*i bar,
the members brltno vtctOTleus team are
escorted In triumph and with full mu
sical honors to tjie 'pavilion And thence
to their own rpoms.
For my part, I had the. privilege of
. HENRY O’DAY, MANAGER j
Something? intimate 'of the man tvho will tackle the stu- j
pendous task of managing the Cincinnati team of the National :
league—Who he is apd what he has done. j
*• By W. A. PHELON.
Henry (Hank) O'Day Is 45 years old and .was a classy right-hand
pitcher back In 1SS8. About 1800 his arm failed and he turned umpire after
a few years retirement. As an umpire he has enjoyed an unusual amount
at respect and admiration. Ills de
cisions have been criticised leas than
thoso of any man on the National
league staff, and one of them made
baseball history. Ho gave the fa
mous decision of September 23, 1908.
When he called Merkle out for falling
to touch second, thereby knocking the
Giants out of a game, and, as It
finally proved, out of tho National
league flag. That decision Stirred up
one of the biggest row* In the annals
of the diamond, but It wedt; the
• Cub* won out when the game was
played off, and ell basatiallriotn has
since acknowledged that O'Day was
right.
Mr. O'Day Is a large man, some
what lumpy in construction, and, In
general, muchly reminiscent of some
grand old hill where blasting opera
tions have been golnr on. lie has a HENRY O'DAY
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ginus scrambling for rugs, hot boll
and all th* other paraphernalia with
which she comes nrovlded. As most of
these comfort* have slipped to the
ground between the seats, th* gentle
man In attendance has to squeeze Ms
body thru a twelve-inch soace, hang by
his toes to the scat and be hauled up.
by and by, on the verge of apoplexy.
He knows *ery well that the next time
any ono runa a few yards with the hf>"
It will hapen over again, but that does
not matter. Hl* wife U out for an
afternoon's football, and the life of a
husband more or less U a trivial thing
on so momentous an occasion.
What Matter* a Neck?
I have said nothing at yet about thB
players. The players are hemes to %
man. "I hear," said a Harvard under
graduate to me as we were walking
back to Ms rooms after tha match.
“that one of our freshmen had his neck
broken In the game against the Tale
freshmen."
"Dear, dear!"" I replied. 'Tm awfully
sorr>- to hear that!"
"Yes." mv friend continued, “so wav
l. It Its correct, we shall have to post-
pope the Important Harvard-Tale tremendou
~ / ron. of N
Coblcy and
Old .Undo Tom Cobley and all!
"You’ll make me cry," he said, "If you
alng that."
"Why don't you help me?” I retorted
Ho he did. After the second time
over the other boya. caught on to tho
tune and the station nt Boston ■ was
presently ringing with the fine old Dev.
. onshlrc air. My young Devonshire
keeping It up” with certain members; friend was so delighted that he Insisted
of the Harvard team until nearly mid
night. A comic opera was being per
formed In Boston for the last tlmo and
the management had placed tho stage
boxes at the disposal of the young he
roes of the hour. I was courteously
on putting my bag Into the train for
me. As we rolled « ‘ - **"
last thing I heard '
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all/
Old Uncle Tom Cobley and all!
SEATS WILL BE REARRANGED
IN HARRY STATEN’S CLUB
Many Changes Are Being Made
and Place Will Be in Fine
. Shape for Friday Night. ,
Before the door* of Harry Htaten's
club In the Stelner-Emery building are
throw/i open Friday night for ttie Abel-
Nelson bout the seats In the house will
have been entirely rearranged, with an
especial view of giving better accom
modation* to those who buy reserved
seats. The preliminary arrangement In
this respect Jid not prove satlsfactor
last Friday and a new deal resultei
Manager Staten has also provided for
the heating of the new hall and will
have It comfortable, no matter what
th*'weather Is.
, the clever young Greek
Jake Abel, Is expected
In the city Wednesday. Manager Sta
ten has wired transportation for him
and Ills manager and Is looking for
them at once.
The Nelson-Abcl bout Friday night ls
scheduled as a massacre, but nobody
seems to know which of .the lads la to
be the honoree. These boys have gone
to It once before, with almost an even
break, after one of the bitterest en
counters ever seen inside the ropes In
Chattanooga. Neither man was quite
at hit best then and the route was only
eight rounds. This time the men will
go ten rounds and both of them will
be trained down to the fineness of a
razor’* edge. A decision may be record
ed. At any rate, there will be 30 min
ute* of the liveliest qprt of Qoeensber-
ry encounter*.
While the Eddie Barron-Red Rnxzen
affray of the same bill Is only down for
the seml-wimlup. It Is likely to attract
almost as many people as the main
bout—and this'despite the fact that the
mail! bout Is abt^lutely certain to be a
corker. This Red Rozzen will surely
win a big place in local esteem. The
quietest and moat unassuming of citi
zens as a rule, he Is transformed when
he steps thru the ropes into a smiling,
hard-hitting. fler»-ton|)Cd demon, who
slams out tight gnd left with the calm
precision and the unruffled demeanor of
a piled river, and the effectiveness of a
Krupp gun. This man 1* built like a
brick wall iffid his kick I* something
He meets In Eddie Bar-
Ynrk, a scrapper of re
nown. But tho New Yorker will need
all of his croft and cleverness to stave
off a troublesome six rounds.
MERIDIAN SIGN8 UNDERWOOD.
Meridian, Miss., Dsc. 20.—Pitcher
Underwood, a husky youth from Mem
phis, Tenn., has been signed to play
with Meridian In the Cotton States
league next year. Callahan, a first
baseman from Memphis, has been
signed by Greenwood. It Is understood
that "Scoops” Cary will manage the
Greenwood team next season.
MOTORCYCLE RACES WILL BE
HELD IN_AUGUSTA DEC. 23
Augusts, Ga„ Dec. 20.—Motorcycle
races will be held In Augusta on Christ
mas day at the aeorgta-Carollna fair
ground*.
The feature event will b* the SO-mlte
race, Which 1* a free-for-all. Secretary
Chester Story of tha Augusta Motor
cycle club Is receiving many entries:
The latest Is a machine of Belgian man
ufacture known ns the "F. N. ’ On* of.
the soldiers at the army aviation school
will use this machine.
The American make machines en
tered so far are Harley-Davldson, Mer
kel. Excelsior, Thor and M. & M.
The St. Louis Time* Insists that
President Hedges Intends to depose
Lloyd Rlckart. who haa been hi* faith
ful and efficient secretary for many
year*.
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WALTHOUR WAS PLACED.
Frankfort, Germany, Dec. 20.—
'.Walter Rptt and Johann Stoll won '
'the six-day bike race held here 1
Combes were second and 1
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’ and Stabe third.
+ MERCER PLAY8 FRIDAY.
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+ The Mercer university basket +
hull team will make He Atlanta +
+ debut Friday night at 8 o'clock 4*
+ When It meate the Grant Athletic +
•i- club team In Taft hall of the +
-I- Auditorium-Armory. +
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and a positive way. While umpiring he is tolerant and lenient with the
players, but enforce^ his authority when It Is necessary. Ills Judgment on
bulls and strikes hu* always been wonderfully keen, and his base decision*
almost faultless. The crowds always liked Mr. O'Duy all around tho cir
cuit and clamored to have hint assigned to the most Important games.
, which. In Itself, Is evidence of htx superiority.
Henry—now that he Is to be a manager he mustn't be called Hank ojiy
more—lives on tho West Side In Chicago. He 'wag/brought up In that re
gion and pitched prairie ball around the West Side Tfll the Washington club
got him. In those days, even ns now, It was considered a moral outrage for
th* Washington club to bo anywhere except In seWnth or eighth position,
and Anthony Comstock would have had any papeiWtarrad from the malls
which showed Washington-with an increased percentage. Hence, despite
the earnest pitching of Mr. O'Day. who had no fesdfl bird than Connie Muck ■
to catch him, the Sonators did their unnual Broille. Nevertheless, Mr.
O'Day and Ed Crane pitched cleverly whenever they got the chance, and
helped carry the club to the flags of 1888 anil'1889. Soon after this. Hank's
—beg pardon, Henry’s—wing begun to wabble weakly and he returned to
that dear Chicago.
If you are an Irishman and live on the West Hide In Chicago, you are
also a politician, and Mr. O'Dny mixed considerably in West Side politics for
some years, showing marked ability In getting out tho full vote and In see
ing that the Italians didn't get too many offices. But the call of the dia
mond was strong upon him. He pitched a little In suburban leagues, bu:
found that the arm wouldn't stand the strain. It I* said that he gave It up
when Jaak Hendricks, one of the unsuccessful bidders for the Boston club,
lammed two homo runa off him onC afternoon. Mr. O'Dny gazed reproach
fully at Mr. Hendrick*, walked from the box and passed up personal par
ticipation In the game forever..
Soon after this It occurred to Mr. O'Day that umpiring offered a lleld
for hi* talents and a chance to keep In touch with the Only Game. He de-
hutted as an umpire and was an Immediate success. He has been a suc
res* evar since, and liaq ranked us one of the greuteat arbiters that ever
Judged tho hall. As a manager, he ought to be a winner—but what on earth
VIII the umpiring staff do without him? • t
The writer wa* police reporting In Hnrrlson-st. station, Chicago, several
years ago when u certain American league umpire—never mind the nhme.
for he Is onp of the best In the world—was gathered by thfe "harness bull?"
on the charge of miscellaneous Insurrection, conspiring to wreck tbe lake
•front, or something of the sort. Enter, briskly, Mr. Henry O'Duy, with
money. Mr. O'Day offered his family plate and life's savings as boll for
the ransom of the caged umpire.
"Do you know him. Honk?” asked the scribes.
"Only as an umpire," answered Mr. O’Day.
"Then why thl* anxiety to ball him out?" I
"Well,” explained Mr. O'Day, "I read that he was In. And It’s a rlnrh
that, being an umpire, he hasn't a friend on earth, and his only chance to get
out Is to have another umpire rescue him. Wu umpires have got to stick
together. What's the- bond, sergeant?"
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