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Although the baseball sea son Is not yet over, interest here Is already turning to football and there is much speculation as to whether the Commodores will be as strong this season as they were tn 1912, when they won the undis puted championship of the South Coach McQugln faces a severe handicap this year because of the fact three of the greatest gridiron warriors In ths history of the South have departed, having played their four years in the S. I A. A. They are Kay Morrison. 1912 captain and all-American choice of Ted Coy; Frog Metzger, nil-South ern guard, and Ewing Freeland, who is conceded to be one of the greatest linemen this team ever produced. Morrison recently married at Mc- Kenzie and Is teaching and coach ing the football team of Branham and Hughes school, Springhill, Tenn : Metzger will coach either in Louisiana or Ohio, having had of fers from universities In both states, and Freeland will also fol low the occupation of coaching this fall. Morrison May Not Return. It will he Impossible to ade quately All the shoes of these men In one season, notwithstanding the fact that there are several good men coming to Vanderbilt from neighboring prep schools It is also a possibility that Kent Morrison, right end of the team last season, and Charles Brown, one of last Beason’s linemen, will not return. Should these not come, McGugln will be forced to practically remodel his machine Hardage, Collins and Sikes, the .three backfield men of lust year, are certain to return The three most promising candidates for Morri son's position at quarter are Zach Curltn, whose drop kicking was the sensation of Southern football last year and who scored on Michigan r~— FODDER FOR FANS | Scout Bill Armour, of the Cardinals, after looking over Sixt) teams, has se- .1 lected five players All are from the n South I • • The Cards' new men front the South are Whilteii from .laeksont ille, Rat Col- .. Uns from Greenwood, Gallowav of t icks burg. Perritt of Greenwood, ami Redding of Columbus. Miss • • • a Bill Armour likes Georgia so well as ? a training camp that he has advised Bresnahan to pick out a place In Geor- J gta for spring training • • • The Reign of the Rookies has begun with the New York Americans, The ■ regular players don't <ut ant more fig ure with Wolverton's team than thev do •' In early spring Harry's working to ward I*l3 with a long wax to go • . . Al Bridwell seems absolutely recovered! 1 front the injur.' that kept him out of ' 1 the game so long and ,s playing cop- I per-rlveted hall for the Brat.- • • • Bill Dahlen « fa : lure w *h 11 Brook- > lyn team may be traced i to -deep 1 interest in the p >niet- M draw dif fered from that disease r. • i u -If. I recovered. • • • Clark Griffith s great club ■ m;ol. ;. 1 largely of cast-offs Tai n a one. nt. . Walter Johnson Tom Hughes head ■ has been on the block more that once Gandil has worn the tinwar. for the White Sox fired him Hat M ■ga ■ w..s tried bv Baltimore and '.it ba. k Virginia league. Eddie I stei w... <r .1 by the Yanks anil sent !•■.■ k • the I ern George Mcßride i"k th>- ar gree as far back as l!>01. and ! .i. -• i for it twice since Pan M flirt w - canned at least once, ami u. mi coaching team. Schaefer and has had the iron ball pinned 5e..,.d times. . • » The most popular music w Giants now is that famom- ba.la- Club Ever Flew So High It I'idn't 11. • to Light.” ... Says SM Mercer. ‘Murray is a< tem neramental as an automobile Xon ~n never tell whether he is going to tint, a mile a minute or stand still \ fan In Pittsburg named ' ! A Bovle has brought suit against tin rates for »1!5.000 He < alms he wa. u. lured September 3. I’ll, in th* y crowd that attended the l’«rates-Giant game that day via this route; Hord Boensch, quar ter of the scrubs last year, and Robins, sub-quarter for two sea sons. Curlln seems the logical man. being fast and a good punter In addition to a drop kicker. He is also a sure tackler and very effect ive in advancing the hall. He has yet to miss a field goal in a regula tion game. Among the promising men who will come to Vanderbilt from prep schools are McWilliams, backfield, from Branham & Hughes; Cleve land Shipp, lineman, Mooney school. Herman Daves, Morgan school, lineman; Jere Porter, line man, Castle Heights, and Josh Cody, lineman. Bethel college Mc- Williams Is considered one of the fastest and most promising back field men In the South and will he given every opportunity to make good. He may be used In the back field, or, If K Morrison does not return, may be used at end. Shipp a Good Lineman. Cleveland Shipp, a 200-pounder, who has played four years on the Mooney school team. Harriman, Tenn., Is a wonderful young line man and is expected to be one of the mainstays of the line at Van derbilt this year. He 1s no kin to the famous "Sklnney” Shipp, of Sewanee, although coming from the same prep school. Morton Adams, star halfback of the Commodores in 1909, will re turn next year, studying law, and will play football again. He is a heavy man and especially good at line plunging This is making him a favorite in the eyes of Dan Mc- Gugin.' since it seems that the old plunging game will be the main thing this year. Adams is also an aggressing defensive man. iif the old linemen. Buddy Mor gan. Joe Covington, Tom Brown, of the regulars, will be back, and there are several good subs of last year who showed promise of de veloping Into stars this season. Lou Castro has signed “Horseshoe” Jess Reynolds to pitch for his Ports mouth team. Jess was formerly an um pire • • ♦ The Cubs gained six games in their recent Eastern trip • • • Ping Body and Manager Callahan 1 .id a verbal run-in the other day. and ''Cal' sent Ping home and told him to go to bed Ping of course quit the team on the spot, but rejoined it again the fol lowing day. about game time • • • In a recent double bender at Savannah, Sam Mayor ex Cracker. made a single, a double and a homer In the first game and started a triple play in the second. ♦ « • The Sally league record for long games is said t<» be held b\ the Columbia and Charleston clubs, which, on April 22. 1905, went nineteen innings to a score less tie • • • There s a shortstop named Daubert playing in the Ohio State league who is a cousin of Jake Daubert. of the Superba< The Ohio man will get a trial m fast company somewhere next spring Stahl says he's not afraid of the Ath h tit-i and that his team is going ahead with, preparation; f •.:* the world series \t that there’s nothing like a stiff upper lip • ♦ • Jake Daubert says with loud emphasis ’bat he is not fishing for Bill Dahlen’s job and <tates that he has not seen c a’b‘\ Ebbrts ■ x *-pt casually on the : since th* se.»<. n started. lake will l t 'babls manage the Superbas next • a’\ despite his remarks They sax the reason Jud Daley didn’t . last In tl e big show was that the lights were so bright up there thev dazzled his : balllng ex • The reason Vicksburg gave tor drop ling ■ :t .1 the Catton States league was that the.' couldn’t make receipts of <25 a dax meet expenses of s]oo a day I which is reason enough, surely Cx Young has struck oil - <>n Vis Paoli farm ami will soon b» selling the stuff John D \\ he' M.r.ttol • \*-xx »r . wi with lUo hits the other dax International league 'Hi .cs haiir-* Icm .• one >f t.» greatest (wirier- t organization ever ad w. fTTF ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATI’RDAY. AUGUST 17. 1912. Smith Has His Work Cut Out in Rebuilding a Cracker Team for 1913 NEEDS A SLATHER OF MEN; ORIFFITH MAY HELP ______________________________________ By Percy 11. Whiting. WHEN Bill Smith takes over the Atlanta ball club he’ll be a happy man. But he'll have his work cut out for him. Never In his history, unless possi bly When he grabbed the reins and the discords and the discourage ments at Buffalo, has he faced a problem like the one he must solve if he is to put the fair city of At lanta. Georgia, back on the base ball map In letters large enough to he road by the naked eye. After a team has been a tall ender for two years it Is in bad. And that goes' for Atlanta. The line-up Is Just peppered with cork ing good players, but they are all to pieces and look like Class D per formers. « • • ir GW many mon on the present squad will Bill Smith be able to count on for next season? It begins to look as though it would be very few. Gs all the new men recently tried out it appears that only "Dug" Harbison and Catcher Reynolds are going to be worth a hang. And Harbison is so blamed good that some big league team will probably grab him by draft—bad cess to ’em. Whether Harbison goes or stays, there will be as many gaps on the team as there are in a boarding house comb. • • • | ET'S figure the team from Bill 1 - Smith's viewpoint, for we all know Bill, know the kind of ball players he likes and the kind he will not have. It's an even money bet that Smith will pick up about one more catcher for a try-out. Bill is a glutton for good catchers. Good backstopping staffs helped to win him two pennants in Atlanta and he doesn't object to them at all. it's a cinch bet right now, that If Bill Smith could get Sid Smith for $2,500 he would snap him up In a minute. And it would be a good investment at that. But Sid will hardly be on the market next year. Bill will be well suited with Pat Graham and Reynolds. But It Is a tine bet that he will get another man. • • • for some real pitchers on the Atlanta team next sea son. Rill is soft on good catchers, but he’s positively mushy on good DICK GILBERT UNEARTHS A MONSTER WHITE HOPE NEW YORK. Aug. 17. Denver has a "white hope” who is more massive, magnificent and stupendous than our Woolworth building or Pennsylvania station. The Colorado conqueror is yclept Oscar Withers and ate his first ■ meal In Middlesboro. Ky. Oscar Isold enough to vote next No vember. towers ti feet 10 inches in his gaiters and displaces 260 pounds of lead shot. He has a reach of 86 1-2 inches and is severely handicapped in evei \ boarding house In w hich he Ilves. Dick Gilbert, a Denver middleweight, who has been fighting in the South, is handling Oscar, and Dick says that his man has Jim Corbett and Jack O'Brien and Adeline Gettee all beat for being fast and clever and quick and light on his feet. Os course, he has the stock 18.2-inch balk line wallop in elthei hand and can also "assimilate punish ment" and play a phonograph, Oscar is so big that even his pic ture can't be reduced small enough to get in the paper. Gilbert threatens to bring him to New York next month. JONES MEETS CANNON FOR MISSOURI TITLE KANSAS CITY. MiAug 17 H V. ■ Jones, of Kansas t'ily. defeated Heath Moore, Kansas City, in the semi-finals of the Missouri Vallex championship tennis tournament Jones will meet Jack Cannon, of Kansas City, in the An us todav In doubles Jon. s and John T. Bailey. of Xlblon okla., d tied Proctor Mas. Iti r- iml II W Dura 1. of Kansas Clt) | Tie winners will meet Moore and t’att- I non todux tin finals pitchers. Ixiok at those he had in Atlanta Russell Ford, Roy Castle ton, Bob Spade, Rube Zeller and the rest. It is questionable if Bill and Vedder Sitton would hook up with smooth results. And still they might. Sitton is sure to be. held over for a trial. Brady will be kept, of course, and should be a better pitcher next year than he has been this year. Bill Smith is just the sort of a man to keep Brady in line and make him pitch ball. The methods of Atlanta's next manager are peculiar, but no body will deny that they are highly successful. Johnson will doubtless go back to Hopkinsville or some other place pretty soon unless he shows some thing This chap is a clever look ing pitcher, but he doesn’t get re sults. At that, they may decide to hold him over for a trial next year. Waldorf will be held if the Cubs don’t recall him. This big German is just the sort of pitching mate rial that Smith likes to work with. Give Bill a man with plenty of size and a sweeping curve and he will make a pitcher out of him. Bill doesn’t mind a little wildness. If he takes over Waldorf next spring he will make a pitcher of him. Becker needn’t be counted, for he is going back to Washington. Os course. Smith will round up some new pitchers. He is a good one at digging them out of the brush. He yanked Russ Ford. Bob Spade, Tom Hughes and a lot of other good ones out of the brush and he always has hie eyes peeled. • * • J F Bill Smith can get Otto Jordan back, as seems certain, he will get an infield, all right. He will put Alperman at third or short. What he will do with third and first remains to be seen. If Harbi son escapes the draft he, of course, will have a place. But he is pretty likely to be grabbed. ■'Humpty’’ McElveen is a prob lem. Last year he batted .276. This year he hovers around the .230 mark. He is a fair fielder, but not fast. There was talk of sending him to the outfield. There might be a possibility of playing him at first base. He will hardly do at third. About what will happen is: Smith will try out McElveen at various positions next spring If "Humpty" begins hitting he will The Big Race Here's how the “Big Five” of the American league are hitting the ball, the averages including yesterday's games: PLAYER. AB. H. P.C. COBB 415 173 .417 SPEAKER ... 439 173 .394 JACKSON 419 159 .379 COLLINS 395 134 .339 LAJOIE 282 88 .312 Cobb gained two points yesterday by securing two hits in three times up. And. all the better for the "Georgia Peach," both Speaker and Jackson fell off two notches. Both were up twice and failed to connect. Collins kept up his timely clouting by banging forth two hits in four trips to the plate. La joie did likewise. WELSH MAKES PUNCHING BAG OUT OF PHIL KNIGHT WINNIPEG, MAN Aug. 17—Fred di** \\ “Isb showed championship class in his tw i lve-round battle here with | Phil Knight and won handily. He hit i Win n willed and had no trouble to knock his rival of! his feet Knight got in only one solid blow. EDDIE O'KEEFE IS SIGNED TO MINGLE WITH KILBANE CLEVELAND. OHIO. Aug 17. Johnny Kilbane. featherweight cham pion and llddb <' Keefe w ere signed hxlaj for a ten-round go at Madison Squari Garden. New York, on Septern bei 19 O'Keefe is to make I_'2 pounds I find a place for him. If he doesn't, he will find a place also —but not on the Atlanta team. t* • • T T appears that Smith will have to develop an entirely new out field next spring. Bailey will be recalled. Callahan has been un able to hit this year. Unless he gets going next year he will by let out early in the season. Cyons hasn't shown even a faint flash of Class A hitting ability and will doubtless go unless he can spring something Impressive in the way of base hits next spring. • * • JUST as a rough guess, Bill Smith will have one more catcher, five to eight new pitchers, three to five recruit infielders and four to seven new outfielders report next spring. He will need to try out that number if he is going to plug the holes in the present Cracker club. • • « \\ HERE will Smith get his play ers? Take this as a tip: He will get a batch of them from the Washington club. Clark Griffith, manager of the Senators, Is one of Bill Smith's closest friends in base ball. Even before Smith was secured as manager, Clark Griffith decided he wanted to train next spring in Atlanta. The deal hasn’t been closed yet. but it probably will be. If It is. Griffith will surely leave one man here for "ground rent,” and probably more. Os course, the new waiver rules make It peculiarly difficult to waive a man out of the big leagues and to get them to the Southern, but Washington will doubtless have some men who will be good enough for Atlanta and yet poor enough to be waived this far. Smith will certainly draft a lot of men. He has always had a lot of good information about desir able talent and he can always be counted on to pick up a few good performers from the bush. • • • |"jNE thing about Smith—he will never again fall Into the error of getting a team of old-timers. He tangled up with one his first year In Chattanooga and that satisfied him. He will always have a few old heads for the purpose of steady ing and teaching the youngsters. But be w ill never run one of these Old Soldiers homes, such as Hemp hill conducted here this season. BIG PARADE IN HONOR OF OLYMPIC ATHLETES NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—One of the features of the parade in honor of the American Olympic team here on Au gust 24 w ill b<' a guard of honor made up of former champions and heroes of the cinder path and field. ■ Harry E. Buermeyer, founder of the New York Athletic club, will marshal the veterans’ brigade, and among those 1 who will be seen in the front rank 1 are Harry Fredericks, one of the ear -1 liest American invaders of England’s athletic fields; "Cinders" Murray, who showed the foreigners how to walk in ' the early eighties; W. E. Purdy, Mur ray's rival in heel and toe walk; Tom , my Burke and other members of the , Boston Athletic association team that i won the first Olympic honors for Amer ica at Athens in 1896, and Martin Sher idan. winner at three Olympic meets. SCHWARTZ BEATS TIERNEY AND MORGAN STOPS WALSH NASHVILLE, TENN.. Aug 17 "Young Schwartz" easily outpointed ' Billx Tierney, of Louisville, before the ’ Fourth Avenue club in an eight-round 1 bout. Eddie Walsh, of Chicago, was 1 knocked out by Jack Morgan, of Nash ville. in the second round. - JACK DENNING KNOCKED out by jack McCarron PHILADELPHIA, bis. 17. Jacli I McCarron. of Allentown. Pa knocked 1 out Jack Denning, a New York welter - weight. In the second round at the Olympic Athletic club last night. Series Between Major League Runners-Up Sure Listens Good By Monty. NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—Frank Chance is brave and bold. The other day the Peerless Lead er told us that his Chicago Cubs would beat out the Giants for the National league pennant, beyond the shadow of a doubt, and also that he was equally certain the Washington Senators would over haul the Boston Red Sox for the American league banner, likewise that the Cubs would lick the Sena tors. We are glad he made the re mark, not that we share his cer tainty in the matter, but because it gave us an idea. A second world’s series between the runners-up in the two leagues —that is the idea. In event that the present order In the two leagues remains un changed at the end of the season and the Giants and Red Sox come to grips for the banner of suprem acy, wouldn't it make a good little sideshow if the Chance selections —Senators and Cubs—-could meet In a series of like nature? And wouldn't it be a good stunt to es tablish the runner-up series for every year, under conduct of the National Commission? And there are those who would carry the idea even farther and have the clubs all along the line meet, clear down to the tail-enders, who would be scrapping for the cellar champion ship of the world. Even a cellar championship might draw big crowds, because of the fact that the contenders never before would have met. Tigers and Cubs Last Year. But the main slice of this inspi ration is that concerning the run ners-up series. In the past some good battles would have been pro vided by such an event. Last year it would have brought together the Detroit Tigers and the Cubs, and the year before, when the Cubs won the National title, it would have been the Giants versus the Tigers. In 1909 it would have been Cubs again for the National and the Athletics from the American, Pittsburg and the Tigers winning the flags that year. Any one of these scraps would have been in teresting |NEWS FROM RINGSIDEI ' 1 Al Wambsgans, the New Orleans light e weight who won the national A. A. C title at Boston last May, will leave the e Crescent City for New York shortly, _ where he plans to make his debut as a professional. The amateur champion was *’ offered a match with Ray Temple by a f New Orleans club, but declined the bout as he wants to start at the bottom by meeting some of the third raters and e building up. I.• • • Johnny Dundee’s heart will pine no k more. The little tighter has been match . ed with Champion Johnny Kilbane for s a ten-round tight in New York Septem ‘ ber 4 Kilbane will receive $3,500 for his 0 services. n • • • If Joe Mandot is defeated by .Joe Rivers - on the coast Labor day it will not be e because he did not have proper trainers. I Hobo Dougherty, Ad Wolgast’s famous sparring partner, Abdul the Turk ami Harry Thomas, the classy little English ■ scrapper, have been added to the South ern champ’s training camp. ♦ • • Tom Jones, Ad Wolgast’s manager, has r p eked Mandot to defeat Rivers -I Johnny Coulon. bantamweight, has gom 1 to his farm in High Lake, W s fol a six weeks vacation. The little scrapper - will live in Xhe open, hunting and fishing d for several weeks before he returns to p the East to defend his title On his re • turn he will go to Kenosha. Wis . an<l ' meet Frankie Hurns. He will then jump 9 over to New York and meet Charho L* ‘ doux, the French champion • • • Philadelphia Jack O’Brien was arrested in l*hila<lelphia a few days ago on two warrants charging him with assault ami battery ami larceny Hlllv Payne, sev ki eral years ago a lightweight boxer, is 'he complainant • • • Johnny Kilbane will be sc«*n working the roads neat Cleveland next Mondfix Th* liitle champion ha« a« < epted an ad miter’s dare that h# could not stand the p work ami hired out lohnny will re reive $2 for his day s labor. There are several possible objec tions that might be raised to such a suggestion, chief among them the fact that the runners-up series might detract from interest in the ' • • world's series proper. But this we do not believe would be the case. Because of its affording opportuni ty for additional comparisons, which always are the delight of the fans, the new series should en hance interest in the old and es tablished one for the big crown. Everybody who could go to the world's series otherwise would go anyway, in spite of the runners-up series. • One more apparent objection to the founding of such a series as a regular thing might be that in some years a city possessing one pbn | nant winner might have the run ners-up in the rival league, and accordingly the games might con- f filet. This objection could be wiped out merely by arranging the schedules of the two series in the same way as the annual league schedules are framed. While one team is playing in the city, let the other be playing away from It. Keep them alternating in that par ticular town and there would be no conflict. Commission Could Run Series. Another possible objection is that the National Commission could not handle two series and attend both properly. It could. Prominent men of baseball could be employed di rectly by the commission to su pervise the series, and they could work directly under its authority. There are plenty of competent ones, and the thing could go through just as well as under the present regime of only one series. From the standpoints of both fans and the powers that be. the project should be a good one. The moguls would harvest more money, * • and the fans would be provided with something of additional inter- , est to them. Since the fans are in disputably the ones who keep the game alive by spending their dol lars during the season, their side of it is entitled to consideration by the commission. If the commis sion could be shown that the fans want such a series, they ought to arrange one, and probably would. Manager Tortorich, of the Orfeans A. # <’., New Orleans, is looking for some good lightweight to box Harry Thomas at th© weekly show Monday night. The club had planned to give that late to Jack. White witli Thomas as his opponent, hut the defeat of the Chicago boxer by Frankie Russell has caused the manage ment to deckle this would not be 4 <1 raw ing card • • • Johnny Kilbane has expressed his wil lingness to box A lie At tell a return bout Labor day. provided the promoters make him a satisfactoi. offer The champion will start training Monday “to lie ready / for any emergency .’’ as he terms it. JOHNSON AND NILES WIN IN FINAL ROUND SorTHAMPTON. L I Aug 17.—N. W. Nibs, <>f Boston, and N W. John son, of i’hilad' Iphhi won their plays in the final round of the Meadow club cup singhs here Johnson de feated It I Williams Niles beat E. P. Larned, voimg. i luothei of the national * < hainphin. In the send fln.ib of the doubles. W. J t'lothler and <; P Gardner beat G. * Biddle and It N Williams M E. Mc- Loughlin ami 'l' <• Bundy in the third round beat Nib’s nnd Dabney, former Haivird t.ns, and in the srmi-fina! rhe\ beat Johnson and t F. Watson, Jr. WALTER JOHNSON WINS FOURTEENTH STRAIGHT W ASHING’I’ON. Aug 17.—Walter , Johnson lu-id i ‘hicago to one scratch hit y< t< nnd ishington won wins sot Johnson. e<iualing the Aineti an :• agip- i * <111(1 held by < ’hesbro w hilt* pitching sot New York