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Vanderbilt Suffers by Loss
Os Three Star Gridiron Men
NASHVHA.E, TENN., Aug 17.
Although the baseball sea
son is not yet over. Interest
here is already turning to football
•nd there is much speculation as
to whether the Commodoree will be
as strong this season as they were
In 1912. when they won the undis
puted championship of the South.
Coach McGugln faces a severe
handicap this year because of the
fact three of the greatest gridiron
warriors In the history of the South
have departed, having played their
four years 1n the S. I. A, A.
They are Ray Morrison, 1912
captain and all-American choice of
Ted Coy; Frog Metzger, all-Sonth
ern guard, and Ewing Freeland,
who is conceded tn 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
Imuislana or Ohio, having had of
fers from universities in both
states, and Freeland will also fol
low the occupation of coaching thf
fall.
Morrison May Not Return.
It will he impossible to ade
quately fill 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
•eason's linemen, will not return
Should these not come, McGugln
will be forced to practically remodel
hi* machine
Hardage, Collins and Sikes, the
y.three backfield men of last year, are
certain to return The three most
promising candidates for Morri
son’s position at quarter are Zach
Curlin, whose drop kicking was the
sensation of Southern football last
year and who scored on Michigan
fodder for fans
Scout Bill Armour, of the Cardinals,
after looking over sixty teams, has se
lected five players All are from the
South.
• • •
Th* Cards* new men from the South
are Whit ted from Jacksonville. Rax <’ol
31ns from Greenwood, Galh»wav ot Vicks
burg. Perri tt of Greenwood. and Redding
of Columbus, Miss
• • •
BUI Armour likes Georgia so well as
a training camp that he has adv.sed
Bresnahan to pick out a place in iteor
gia for spring training
• » *
The Reign of the sooki» s has begun
with the New v ork Americans Tl .
regular players don't cut any more 1 g
lire with Wolverton’s team than they do!
in early spring Harry’s working t
ward 1913 with a long way to go
• • •
Al Bridwell seems absolutely re. .ycre.i
from the injury that kept him nt t of
the game so long, and .s play ing .
per-rfveted ball for the Braves
Bill Pahlen’s failure wth th. Brook
lyn team may be traced t a t •
Interest in the ponies McGraw syit
fered from that disease once himself, I
recovered.
• • *
Clark Griffith’s greaf club is mad.- ;
largely of cast-offs. Tacoma .no-
Walter Johnson. Tom Hughes 1t..,,
has been on the block mm. than on..
Gandll has worn the tinwar. fm th..
White Sox fired him Ku Morgan v
tried by Baltimore and sent back >. t> ,
Virginia league. Eddie Foster w.i
by the Yanks and sent back to the I
ern George Mcßride took t’i< < .in i
gree as far back as 11'01. and ha
for it twice since I'an Moeller v.-i-■
canned at least once, and th, d.
coaching team, Schaefer and Altroi
has had the iron ball pinned on several
times. ...
The most popular music with 11 .
Giants now is that famous ha lad.
Club Ever Flew So High It Pidn l Hat.
to Light."
Sava Sid Mercer. "Murray Is as tem
peramental as an automobile lou in
never tel! whether lie is going to travel
a mile a minute or stand still
A fan In Pittsburg named Robert A
h, H"e w « m h;
PirJie Gian!
r--—• that day.
via this route; Hord Boensch, quar
ter of the scrubs last year, and
Robins, sub-quarter for two sea
sons. Purlin 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
win 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 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 200-pounder,
who has played four years on the
Moones 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 "Skijiney” Shipp, of
Senaneft, although coming from the
same prep school.
Morton Adams, star halfback of
the Commodores 1n 1909, will re
turn next year, studying law, and
will play football again. He Is a
heavy man aaid especially good at
line plunging This Is making him
a favorite in the eyes of Dan Mc-
Gugln, since It seems that the old
plunging game will be the main
thing this year. Adams is also an
aggressing defensive man.
Os the old linemen. Buddy Mor
gan. Joe Covington. Tom Brown,
of the regulars, will be hack, and
there are several good subs of last
year who showed promise of de
veloping Into stars this season.
Lou i'astro lias signed "Horseshoe"
.'ess Reynolds to pitch for his Ports
mouth team. Jess was formerly an um
pire
• * «
The Cubs gained six games in their
recent Eastern trip
* « *
PiTiR Body and Manager Callahan had
a verbal run-in the other day, and "Cal"
sent ring home and told him to go to
bed I' ng ot course quit the team on
the N|>«»t. hut rejoined it again the fol
lowing day, about game time.
Ina recent double header at Savannah,
>.tii) Mayer. « \ Cracker, made a single,
a double and a homer in ihe first game
land started a triple pla\ in the second.
I he Sally league record for long games
>is san] to bi> held b\ the Columbia and
|< harhston clubs, which, on April
1190.,. went nineteen innings to a score
|less tie
i there s a shortstop named Daubert
playing m the i>l.io State league who
;is a cousin ,of Jake Daubert, of the
Superbas TI e < »hio man will get a trial
in fast company somewhere next spring
» • •
Siam savs la's not afraid of the Ath-
1 an.i t'at ills team is going ah<ad
w'tl- preparations fu the world series
| -U that tl ere s nothing like a stiff upper
L la's. Daubert -axs with loud emphasis
'■tine be IS not fishing ’"r Bin Dahlen's
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I 1 '• I.blio's exeepi easoallv on the
' »• ■ ■ the seamon starti d Jake win
: in.'g" lb,. Saperbas next
• • •
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(last II ' ' g -l ax xx s ti.-it io,, pgla
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J The reason Vicksburg gave f..r drop-
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that th» \ i n t IP ;j v p lv .
which is r< is- n enough, s rely
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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.
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
be read by the. naked eye.
After a team has been a tall
ende.r for two years It is Fn 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.
* • •
I I OW many men 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. •>f 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
J 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
fine bet that he will get another
man.
• * •
YY ' 0,11 f°r some real pitchers
on the Atlanta team next sea
son. Bill is soft on good catchers,
but he s positively mushy on good
DICK GILBERT UNEARTHS
A MONSTER WHITE HOPE
NKW YORK, Aug*. 17.—Denver has a
white hope" who is more massive,
magnified nt and stupendous than our
Woolworth building or Pennsylvania
station. The Colorado conqueror is
yclept Os< ar Wit hers and ate his first
meal in Middh-sboro, Ky.
Oscar ia obi enough to vote next No
vember. towers 6 feet 10 inches in his
gaiters and displac-s I'6o pounds of
lead shot. He has a reach of 86 1-2
inches and is severely handicapped in
c\t i\ boarding house in which he lives.
Pick Hilbert, a Denver middleweight,
who ha?* been lighting in the South, is
Handling (Ist ar. and Dick says that his
man has Jim Corbett and Jack O’Brien
and Adeline Genre all beat for being
List and < le\» r and quick and light on
his feet. Os course, he has the stock
is.L’-inch balk line wallop in eithei
han.; . nd can a’.<o ".issimi'.ale punish
ment" and play a phonograph.
< »s< ar is so big that even his pic
ture can’t b • reduced small enough to
cet in th< paper. Gilbert threatens
to bring him to New York next month.
JONES MEETS CANNON
FOR MISSOURI TITLE
K LNSAS CI i'Y. MO., Aug 17 H V.
lones. • ■ K.i'i-i <'lty, defeated Heath
Mo<u<-. 1< ti- s Citv. lu the semi-finals
■1 the Miss’Uiri Valiev championship
tenni- ti>ui'uam<ni. .1 ui.-s will m.-et
J.i'k Cant' m. "f Kam- <s <Tty. in the
lu <!.iul>l. Join s .iiv! John T Bailey,
■■f \i -'t ■ >l.l . ■ it. ,1 !To.Ma--
i f- .ml H \\ Data 1. of K.utsi-- < 'ity
■ c. i - v. .11 mot . I."i:. aiul i '.m-
i- 1. .u ;lte fill.ib.
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 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 his eyes peeled.
• ♦ •
I F Bill Smith can get Otto Jordan
back, as seems certain, he will
get an infield, all right. He will
put Aiperman 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
- .
1 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
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 tailed 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. MAX.. Aug. 17. I'r.-.l-
Yic Welsh showed championship class
in hi- twelve-round battle here with
. Pili! Knight ami won handily. He lift
.1 i hen i e willed ami had no trouble to
knock liis rival off his feet. Knight
got in only one solid blow.
EDDIE O'KEEFE IS SIGNED
TO MINGLE WITH KILBANE
CLEVEI \XI'. OHIO, Aug, 17.
Johnnx Kilb.ine. featherweight enam-
I'ion, and Eddie O'Keefe aare signed
todm for a ten-rouF'l go at Madison
S'lmire Gi'ii/n. .Xe« York, on S< ptem-
Int 19 <• Ke< fe sto make 122 pounds.
And 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 win 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.
• • *
T UST as a rough guess, Bill Smith
J 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.
» » •
will Smith get his play
ers? Take this as a tip: He
"11! 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.
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 will always 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
wlio will be seen in the front rank
I are Harry Fredericks, one of the eat
-1 liest American invaders of England’s
, athletic fields; "Cinders'* Murray, who
showed Hie foreigners how to walk in
i the earlv eighties: \V. E. Purdy. Mur
ray's rival in heel and toe walk: Tom-
i my Burke ami other members of the
, Boston Athletic association team that
i won the first Olympic honors for Amer
ica at Athens in 1596, and Martin Sher
idan, winner at three Olympic meets.
SCHWARTZ BEATS TIERNEY
AND MORGAN STOPS WALSH
NASHVILLE, TENN.. Aug, 17.
"Young Schwartz" easily outpointed
1 Billy Tierney, of Louisville, before tile
Fourth Avenue club in an eight-round
bout. Eddie Walsh. of Chicago, was
knocked <mt b\ Jack Morgan, of Nash
ville, in the second round.
'JACK DENNING KNOCKED
out by jack McCarron
Pilll.Al'Kl.Pill A. Aug 17.—Jack
I McCarron, of Hlentown. Pa., knocked
i out Jack Henning, a New York welter
weight. in th< second round at the
Olympic Ythietic 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 RINGSIDE
Al Wambsgans, the New Orleans light
weight who won the national A. A. 1’
title at Boston last May, will leave the
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
New Orleans club, but declined the bout
as he wants to start at the bottom by
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 Wolgast’s famous
sparring partner. Abdul the Turk and
Harry Thomas, the classy little Eng
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 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 Burns. He will then jump
over to New York and meet Charley Le
doux. the French champion
• • •
Philadelphia Jack O’Brien was arrested
in Philadelphia a few days ago on tw<»
warrants charging him with assault and
battery and larceny Billy Payne, sev
eral years ago a lightweight boxer, is
the complainant
• • «
■ lohnr.v Kilbane will be seen working
the roads near Cleveland next Monday
The little champion has accepted an ad
mlrer’s dare that he could not stand the
work and hired out Johnny will re
ceive $2 sot 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 he 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. YVhile 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 he shown that the fans
want such a series, they ought to
arrange one, and probably would.
w Manager Tortorich, of the Orleans A. f
c.. New Orleans, is looking fpr some good
lightweight to box Harry Thomas at the
weekly show' Monday night. The club
had planned to give that late to Jack
White with Thomas as his opponent, but
the defeat of the Chiqago boxer by
Frankie 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 Attell a return bout
Labor day. provided the promoters make
him a satisfactory offer. The champion
will start training Monday "to be ready (
for any emergency.” as he terms it.
JOHNSON AND NILES
WIN IN FINAL ROUND
SorTHAMPTON, I. I. Aug. 17.—N.
W. Niles. of Boston, and N. W. John
son. of Philadelphia, nun their plays in
the final round of the Meadow club cup
singles here yesterday. Johnson de
feated R I. Williams. Niles beat E. P.
Latned. young' r biotin i of tin national i
champion.
In the semi-finals of the doubles. W. \
J. t'lothiei and G. P Gardner beat G.
Biddle and R. N. Williams. M E. Mc-
Loughlin gnd T. C. Bundy in the third
round beat Niles and Dabney, former
Hart ird stars, and in the seini-final
they beat Johnson and C. F. Watson, Jr.
WALTER JOHNSON WINS
FOURTEENTH STRAIGHT
WASHINGTON. Aug 17. —Walter <
Johnson held Chicago to one scratch
hit y < st<*rd;iy and Washington won cas-
4to o This made fourteen straight * I
Ains for Johnson. equaling the Ameri
>an !• ague record held by Chesbro while
pitching fur New York.