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J that VOvvNANbi <> ' <- ’ (V’A V FREE LOT / v “ -< SSF ’fM J) LOT Al<> fe r' r- . /// A \ v - \ \ ’ On long ',- ) _w' I |SJ H / 'A . - \ Av X-» V js&to tn w 'Q L-Jr' i '1 ' A»A-| Bfc ' - —A ” _ — r T • Hl 1 I '\ A " s '“ r ' ^ t ’^S^s : ' * ~ V. —I ,^ tt a L_ -i ... ccrvßiqHT 'Six t3X Stan co. Vanderbilt Suffers by Loss Os Three Star Gridiron Men Nashville, tenn., Aug 17. Although the baseball sea son is not yet over, interest here is already turning to football and there is much speculation as to whethe: the Commodores will be as strong this season as they were In 1912, when they won the undis puted championship of the South Conch McGugin faces > 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 font years in the S. I. A A. They are Ray Morrison, 1912 captain and all-American choice of Ted Coy; Frog Metzger, all-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 be impossible to ade quately fin the shoes of these men In one sea-on, 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 season's linemen, will not return. Should these not come, McGugin will he forced to practically remodel his machine. Haidage, Collins and Sikes the three hackfield men of last year, aie certain to return. The three most promising candidates for Morri son's position at quarter are Zach < urlln. whose drop kicking was the sensation of Southern football last year and who scored on Michigan FODDER FOR FANS A,mour - *' f thp Cardinals. Lou .’astro has signed "Horseshoe" feVrii .?vl g . , r 81x ’. r ,, *" a "’ s - bas " Jpss Reynolds to pitch for his Port a- South ' ,iasers »" are front the mouth team. Jess was formerly an ttm arl h wmt\ed\ro*n The V ubs gained six games In their lins from Greenwood Galloway of Vicks- recen ' '•- as >*' r '> tr 'l> Iturg. Perritt of Greenwood, and Rodding • • • of Columbus. Miss Ping Hody and Manager Callahan had • • • a verbal run-in the other day. and "Cal" Hill Xrmotir likes Georgia so well as sent •’■>>£ home and told him to go to a training camp that he has advised bp '' >’ ln K " f course quit the team on Bresnahan to pick out a place In tleor ,I,p s l’ ot - hut rejoined It again the fol gia for spring training lowing day. about game time • « • • • • The Reign of the Bookies has begun ln a re< ‘ ent double header at Savannah, the New York \tnericans The Sain Mayer. ex-Cracker. made a single, regular players don't rut an\ more tig- a »n<i a homer In the first game tire with Wolverton's team than they do an<i started a triple play in the second, in earl' spring Harr.' s working to- ■ • • • vat • '■ wt\ • The s.iiix league record for long games • ; is said to be held bx the Columbia anti Ai Hrtdwpll seems absolutely recovered Charleston clubs, which, on April 22. from the injur.x that k< pt him out of 1 1905, went nineteen innings to a score the game so long, and is play Ing cop- 1 less tie per-riveted ball for the Braves ... • • ♦ There’s a shortstop named Pa übert Bill I tahlen s failure w ith the Bronk- ; i'hixmg in the Ohio State league who lyn team max be traced to a ton-deep a cousin of Ja-fce I'aubert. of the interest in the ponies. McGraw suf- Superbas The Ohio man will get a trial sered fr m that disease once iiimself. but i* n fast company somewhere next spring recovered ... • • • Stahl says he's not afraid of the Atb- Ciark Griffith s great club is made up ietics, and that his team is going ahead large. f -a-’-offs Tacoma fired ",th preparations for the world series Walter Johnson Tom H :g. ♦ head O that there's nothing like a stiff upper has been on the block more than once ’ip Gandil ras worn the tinware for the ... V hit« Sox fired him Ray Morgan was lake Paubert say s with loud emphasis tried by Baltimore and sent I.■ t ’he hat he is not fishing for Hill Dahlen’s irginia league ’ Eddi» 1- • >»oer u - *r <1 1 > and states that he has not seen by tht ranks uid sent I i ■ ■ ... ’harlej Ebbeta except casually on the ern George Me Brich ir field since the season started Jake will gree as far ba< kas If“M. a* J v is>t od probably manage the Superbas next for it twice since ban M iller was year, despite his remarks. canned at least once, and th* demon ... coaching team. Schaefer and Aitm< k. They sax the reason Jud Palex didn’t has had the iron ball pinned -n several last in the big show was that the lights were so bright up there they dazzled his • • • hatting eye The most popular music wit; the • * - Giants now Is that famous ballad. No | The reason Vicksburg gave for drop, f bh'" F * W B ° H,Kh H ”‘ dn ' : ;nc "’ p ''"”on States league was to L,ignt * that they couldn't make receipts of $25 ’ * * a <lax meet expenses of SIOO a day Says Sid Mercer. "Murray is as tern- I which is reason enough, surely per,*’ ... never tell whether he is going to travel <’x Young hAs "struck oil ' on his a mile a minute or stand still " Paoli farm and will soon be selfing the • • • t Iff t John n A fan in Pittsburg named Robert \ • • • bas brought suit against the pj. \V» . n Maxw.ll let Newark down with for >25 000 lb- •-a m- he wio it w<» the other .1 ’ International crowd ■•!.»* a'tend* I the piratt-,-Giant » • twirlers the organization ever game that day 1 saw via this route; Hord Boensch, quar ter of the scrubs last year, and Robins, sub-quarter for two sea sons. Curlin 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 ball. 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 A- Hughes; Cleve land Shipp, lineman, Mooney school, Herman Paves. Morgan school, lineman; .lore 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 be 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 2WI-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 yetir. He is no kin to the famous "Skinney” 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 Pan Mc- Gugin. since it seems that the old plunging game will b<A the main thing this v<;i|- Adams is also an aggressing defensive man. Os 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. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1912. Smith Has His Work Cut Out in Rebuilding a Cracker Team for 1915 NEEDS A SLATHER OF MEN; GRIFFITH MAY HELP By Percy 11. Whiting. Ur HEN 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 w hen 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 be read by the naked eye. After a team has been a tail 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 P per formers. * * • I T I >W many men on the present squad will Bill Smith be able to cqunt on for next season? It begins to look as though It would be very few. Os 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. hether Harbison goes or stays, there will be as many gaps on the team as there are in a boarding house comb. • * * 1 ET’S figure the team from Bill Smith’s viewpoint, for we atl know Bill, know the kind of bill 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 sot good catchers. Good backstopping staffs helped to win him two pennants in Atlanta and he doesn't object to them at all. H's a (inch 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. • • ♦ out for some real pitchers on the Atlanta team next sea son. Rill is soft on good catchers, but he’s positively mushy on Rood DICK GILBERT UNEARTHS A MONSTER WHITE HOPE I _ NEW loRK, 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 s meal in Mlddlesboro. Kx 1 Oscar is old enough to vote next No vember. towers 6 feet lit inches in his gaiters ami displaces 260 pounds ot l lead shot. He has a reach of 86 1-2 > inches and is severely handicapped in ’ every boarding house In xx hich he lives. Dick Gilbert, a Denver middleweight, who has been fighting In the South, is handling Oscar, and Dick says that his I man has Jim Corbett and J»**v O'Brien and Adeline Genee all b at for being ' fast and clever and quick and light on his feet. Os course, he has the stock 18.2-inch balk line xvallop in eithet ' hand and can also "assimilate punlsh- J ment" and play a phonograph. > Oscar is so big that even his pic- I ture can't be reduced small enough to j<et in the paper Gilbert threatens to bring him to New York next month. ; JONES MEETS CANNON FOR MISSOURI TITLE ( KANSAS CITY. Mo Aug 17—H V. ' Jones, of Kansas City, defeated Heath Moore, Kansas City, tn the semi-finals of the Missouri Valley championship i tennis tournament. Jones will meet ■ Jack Cannon, of Kansas City, in the finais today In doubles Jones and John T Bullex i of Albion t'kla defeated Proctor Mas , t< r- and H W Dural!. of Kansas City The winners will meet Moore and Can non today in the finals. EDITW 4>v W S FARNSWORTH pitchers. Look 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 ciuve and he will make a pitcher out ot 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 alxvays has his eyes peeled. ♦ ♦ ♦ | 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 Ho 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 xvill I he Big Race Here's how the "Big Five” of the American league are hitting the ball, the averages including yesterday's games: PLAYER. A.B. H. P.C. COBB 415 173 417 SPEAKER 439 173 .394 JACKSON 419 159 .379 COLLINS 395 134 .339 LA JOIE 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 joio did likewise. WELSH MAKES PUNCHING BAG OUT OF PHIL KNIGHT WINNIPEG. MAN., Aug 17.—Fred die Welsh showed cnamphmship class in his txx elve-round battle here with Phil Knight and won handily. He hit when he willed and had no trouble to knock his rival off his feet Knight got in only one solid bloxx. EDDIE O'KEEFE IS SIGNED TO MINGLE WITH KILBANE CLEVELAND, OHIO, Aug 17 Johnny Kilbane, featherweight cham pion xnd Eddie O’Keefe were signed todax for a ten-round go at Madtaon Square Garden, Nexx York, on Septem ber 19 O'Keefe is to make 122 pound* find a place for him. If he doesn’t, he will find a place also —but not on the Atlanta team. • • • J 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 be let out early in the season. Lyons 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 • • • lUHERE win 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 fr'ends 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 xvho xvill be good enough for Atlanta and yet poor enough to be waived this far. Smith will certainly draft a lot of men. He has alxvays 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. • • • QNE 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 xvill alxvays have a few old heads for the purpose of steady ing and teaching the youngsters. But he will 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 will be 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 xvho will be seen in the front rank are Harry Fredericks, one of the ear liest American invaders of England's athletic fields; "Cinders" Murray, who showed the foreigners how to walk in the earlx 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 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 Billy Tierney, of Louisville, before the Fourth Avenue club in an eight-round bout Eddie Walsh, of Chicago, was knocked out by Jack Morgan, of Nash ville, In the second round. JACK DENNY KNOCKED OUT BYJACK McCARRON PHILADELPHIA, Aug 17.—Jack McCarron, of Allentown. Pa., knocked out Jack Denning, a New York welter weight. tn 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 xvould 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 tall-enders, who xvould 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 Gubs xvon the National title, it would have been the Giants versus the Tigers. In 1909 it xvould have been Cubs again for the National and the Athletics from the American. Pittsburg and the Tigers- tvinning • the flags that year. Any one of these scraps xvould have been in teresting. [news from ringside! 1 *“■ Al Wambsgans. the New Orleans light weight who won the national A. A V title at Boston last May, will leave the Crescent City for New York sHortlv. where he plans to make his debut as a professional. The amateur champion was offered a match with Rav Temple bv a New Orleans club, but declined the bout as he wants to start at the bottom bv meeting some of the third raters and building up. • • • Johnny Dundee's heart will pine no more. The little fighter has been match ed with Champion Johnny Kilbane for a ten-round fight in New York Septem ber 4 Kilbane will receive $3,500 for his services. • • • if Joe Mandot is defeated by Joe Rivers on the coast Labor day it will not be .because he did not have proper trainers. Hobo Dougherty. Ad W.Jgast's famous sparring partner. Abdul the Turk and Harry Thomas, the classv little English scrapper, have been added to the South ern champ’s training camp • • • Tom Jones. Ad Wolgast’s manager, has picked Mandot to defeat Rivers • * • Johnny Coulon. bantamweight, has gone to his farm in High Lake, Wis . for a six weeks vacation The little scrapper will live In the open, hunting and fishing for several weeks before he returns to the East to defend his title On his re turn he will go to Kenosha. Wis and meet Frankie Hurns He will then jump over to New York and meet Charlev Le doux. the French champion Philadelphia Jack tt’Brten was arrested In Philadelphia a few days ago on two warrants charging him with assault and battery and larceny Billy Payne, sev eral years ago a lightweight boxer, is the complainant • • « Johnny Kilbane will be seen xvorking the road? near Cleveland next Monday The little champion has accepted an ad tnirer'R dare that he could tu t stand the w ork and hired out Johnnj u ill re ceive $2 for hie 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 xvould be the ease. Because of its affording opportuni ty foi additional comparisons, which always are the delight of the fans, the nexv series should en hance interest in the old and es tablished one for the big croxvn. 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 pen nant winner might have the run ners-up in the rival league-, and accordingly' the games might con flict. 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 th«-re 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 tie employed di rectly by the commission to su pervise the series, and they could work directly under its authority. There are plenty of com, etent 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 xvould harvest more money*, and the fans would be provided with something of additional inti r 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 probablv would I Manager Tortorich, of the Orleans A A < . N< v Orleans, is looking for sonic goo<i * lightweight to box Harrv Thomas at the weekly show Monday night. The club ' ,|anncd ~1 ,1 give that late to Jack yxhite with Thomas as his opponent, but the defeat of the Chicago boxer by r rankle Russell has caused the manage ment. to decide this would not be a drawing card. Johnny Kilbane has expressed his wil lingness to box Abe At tell a return bout Labor <la.\, provided the promoters make him a .-atisfactnr.y offer. The champion / will start training Monday "to be ready for any emergency," as he terms it. JOHNSON AND NILES WIN IN FINAL ROUND , SOUTHAMPTON. L L. Aug. 17.—N. W. Niles, of Boston, and N \V John son. of Philadelphia, won their plays in the final round of the Meadow club cup singles here .yesterday, Johnson de feat* d R I. Williams. Niles beat E. P / Larned, youngi r brother of the national champion. In the semi-finals of the doubles W. J I lothier and G. P Gardner beat <t. Biddle and R. N. Williai ts M E. Mc- Loughlin and T. C. Bundy in the third round beat Niles and Dabney, former Harvard stars, ami in the semi-final the* heat Johns-m and C. F Wptson. Jr. WALTER JOHNSON WINS FOURTEENTH STRAIGHT M ASHINGTON. Aug 17. Walter Johnson bold Chicago to one scratch hit \<• t< amj v -hine'on wnea - A f> Fohnsot n ague record held bj i.'hesbro while pitching fur N« - v o -u ,