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1 Vanderbilt Suffers by Loss
Os Three Star Gridiron Men
TENN, Aug 17
Although the bitseba.il sea
son is not yet over, Interest
here is already turntng to football
•nd there is much speculation as
to whether the Commodores will be
as strong thia season a* they were
In 1912, when they won the undis
puted championship of the South
Coach McGugin 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 1 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 tram of Branham
and Hughes school, Springhill,
Tenn., Metzger will conch either In
■Louisiana or Ohio, having had of
fers from universities In both
states, and Freeland will also fol
low th; occupation of coaching this
fall.
Morrison May Not Return.
It will be 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, on* of last
season's linemen, will not return
Should these not come, McGugin
will be forced to practically remodel
hie machine
Hardage, Collins and Sikes the
y.three backfield memos last year, are
certain to return The three most
promising candidates for Morri
son's position at quarter are Zach
Curlln, whose drop kicking was the
sensation of Southern football Inst
year and who scored on Michigan
fcl ■ ———_- _____
r fodder for fans"]
U ,* Armour, of the Cardinals,
• "*r looking over sixty teams, has se
lected five players All are from the
V'Outn
• ♦ •
The Cards’ new men from the South
are whit
una from Greenwoo<l, Galloway ol t
burg Perrin of Greenw od. and R.-I.fng
of Columbus. Miss
* * •
Rill Armour likes Georgia «.> writ as
a training ramp that he i.us advis.h
Bresnahan to pick out i place in <;e..r
<ia for spring ’raining
• • •
Tlte Reign of the I; >k • - has begun
With the New York Americans The
regular players don’t tat' u re tig
We with Wolvt rton’s ea
In early spring Harry’s working t .
■ward 1913 with a long «.n to g,
• • a
Al Bridwell seems absolutely rot • .\t red
from the injury that kept in . j ,>•
the game so long, and - pla.v mg . ..p
per-riveted ball f>r the Hr • •
• • *
Bill Dahlen's failure w th the Br •'■
lyn team ma' be traced ■
Interest In the ponies McGraw
sered front that dis. ..s, ..p... h us. • ■ ■
recovered.
• ♦ *
Clark Griffith’s great .'bib Is m. 01,. :•
largely of cast-offs I'.o on, • • n. •
Walter Johnson, Tom Hughes .ml
has been on the hi ol- tn. ■. than . .
Gandll has worn the tinwar. ( th.
White Sox tired him It,.- M- ■ v -
tried by Baltimore and s. ■ : ba. ■ .
Virginia league hid.l.. w.,
by the Yanks ami sent I .s.-b ■ t! .
ern. George M. Bri.l. ■■ k • •
gree as far back a> inOl. .* *
for ft t wice since Dan M wa *
canned at least once, and ■ • •
coaching team. Schaefer and Mt>.
has had the iron ball pinned ti set, ■
times.
The most popular music xx -b
Giants now is that famous 1.a11.i :
Club Ever Elew So High It Didn’t H. .
to Eight.”
• • •
Says Sid .Mercer. ' .Murray is as tc
neratnental as an automobile i .
never tell whether he is g«cng to trav<
a mile a minute or stand still "
A fan in Pittsburg named Robert \
Boyle has brought suit against ti <
rates for $25,000 He claims be wa t
lured September 3. 1911, m the x '.st
crowd that attended the plrates-Giant
that day.
via this route; Hord Roenseh. quar
ter of the scrubs last year, and
Robins, sub-quarter for two Rea
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 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 * Hughes; Cleve
land Shipp, lineman, Mooney
school; Herman Daves, Morgan
school, lineman; Jere Porter, line
man, Castle Heights, and Jnsh
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 u«od in the back
field, oi', if K. Morrtson doos not
return, may be used at end.
Shipp a Good Lineman.
Cleveland Shipp, a 200-pounder,
who has placed 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 is 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 Mo-
Gugln, since ft 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 back, and
there are several good subs of last
year who showed promise of de
veloping Into stars this season.
1 .on < astro 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
tecent Eastern trip
* * *
Ping Body and Manager Callahan bad
a verbal run-in the other day, and "Cal"
Sent Ping home and told him to go tn
bed Ping of course quit the team «»n
the spot, but rejoined it again the fol
- »wtng day. about game time
« • •
Ina recent double header at Savannah,
sam Mayer. ex Cracker. made a single,
a double and a homer in the first game
and started a triple pla.v in the second.
I ho Sally league record for long games
s ‘“'* f " he hold bv ti c Columbia and
. < harleston clubs, which, on \pril 22.
’ •0... went nineteen innings to a score- !
I less tie
. • •
. There's a shortstop named Paubert
i plaving in the < »hlo State league who i
t ,s a ’ ’"isin ( >f Jake Paubert. of the i
, .Superbas lie <»»>.<.> man will get a trial!
ring
. Stahl \’•' s not afraid of the \tb
ictiis, atia at his team is going aloud
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THE ATI.AXTA 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 BRI Smith takes over
the Atlanta ball club he’ll
be a happy man. But he'll
have hls 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 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 D per
formers.
• • •
i r < »\V many men on th* present
* squad will Bill Smith bp able
to count on for next season? It
begins to look as though It would
bp 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
Ami 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 1n a boarding
house comb.
• • a
j E'I“S figure the team from Rill
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 1n Atlanta and
he doesn't object to them at all.
It'S a cinch bet right now that If
Rill Smith could get Sid Smith for
$2,500 he would snap him up tn a
minute And it would boa good
Investment at that. Rut Sid will
hardly be on the market next year.
Rill will be well suited with Pat
Graham and Reynolds Rut It Is a
fine bet that he will get another
man
* * *
'T' 1,111 nr 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
Nl’.W OHK. Aug. 17. Denver has» a
white hope* who is more massive,
magniflt < nt and stupendous than our
Woolworth building or Pennsylvania
station. rhe Colorado conqueror is
vclept Oscar W ithers and ate his first
’ueal in Middlesboro, Ky.
' •> ar if» old ♦Hough to vote next No
ix- nibor, towers 6 feet 10 inches in his
gaiters and displaces 260 pounds of
- 'id shot. He has a reach of SO 1-2
inches and is severely handicapped in
l \oy\ boarding house in which he lives.
Dick Gilbert, a Denver middleweight,
who has been lighting in the South, is
| r.indlmg Os ar. and Dick says that his
s Jim > orbett and Jack (i’Brien
pad ,\d< ..no G<-nee all brat for bring
past and r ! <\<r ind quit k and light on
!’ls fee! < >f < ourse, he has the Stock
IS.'-’-inch balk ii. wallop in eithet
' hand ;md ran al o assimilate punish*
im» nt" .‘.nd i av ,i phonograph.
<‘s ar >' -o big that even his pic
j’un can’t b reduced small enough to
: ~rt m the paper, GdbrH threatens
i to bring him to Xew York next month.
JONES MEETS CANNON
FOR MISSOURI TITLE
KA NSAS <Tn MO . Aug. 17 II V.
Jones of Kam I < 'tty. def; at» d Heath
I Moore, Kans <"itx in the semi-finals |
”f th; Mi- ..,u: ’ Valley championship
!<nm- totnnnm.'iil Jones will meet
Jack t'.innmi. of K in-.is City, in the
In tlotlbb - Jon. s mil John T Ballex
of \T nt ■ »k .1 it. <1 I' . \| a l
■ ' Hid 11 .\\ I■ . i f Kuns; Citv |
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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 show's 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. BUI
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.
• * «
T 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 he seen. If Harbi
son escapes the draft he. of course,
will have a place Rut he is pretty
likely to be grabbed.
''Humpty" McElveen is a prob
lem. Last year he hatted .276. This
year he hoverj around the .230
mark He Is a fair fielder, hut 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
I
The 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 failed to connect. Collins kept up
his timely clouting by banging forth
two hits in four trips to the p'ats. La
joie did likewise.
WELSH MAKES PUNCHING
BAG OUT OF PHIL KNIGHT
WIN MPEG. MAN.. Aug. 17. -Fred
die W> is:) .showed championship class
;n his twelve-round battle here with
I’hi! Knight and won handilj He hit
I tlten lie willed and had no trouble to
knock his rival otT his feet Knight
got in only one solid blow.
EDDIE O’KEEFE IS SIGNED
TO MINGLE WITH KILBANE
CLEVEI \ND, OHIO, Aug 17
Johnnv Kiliiatu . featherw eight inani
tion md Eddie ft'Keife were signed
'oda\ f'"' .1 ten-round go at Madison
Sqll.ih '.1.1 den. New York, on Septem
ber I'.' > l K< ' f; ,s> to make 122 pounds.
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find a place for him. If he doesn’t,
he will find a place also—but not
on the Atlanta team.
• • •
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 be let
out early 1n 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
W HERE "ill Smith get his play
ers? Take this as a tip: He
"111 get a batch of them from the
Washington club. Clark Griffith
manager of the Senators, is one of
Rill 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. hut it probably will be.
it is. Griffith will surely leave
one man here for "ground rent,”
and probably more.
Os course, the new waiver rules
make ft 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 w ill 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
who will be seen in the front rank
are Harry Fredericks, one of the ear
liest American invaders of England's i
athletic fields: "Cinders" Murray, who
showed the foreigners how to walk in
th. f .111'. .Iglitie-. w E. Purdv. Mur
ray's riv il in heel and toe walk; Tom- .
my Burke anil other members of the
Boston Athleth association team that
won the fust Olympic honors for Amer- '
na at Athens in 1K96, and Martin Sher- ,
. idan, winner at three Olympic meets ,
SCHWARTZ BEATS TIERNEY
AND MORGAN STOPS WALSH
NASHVILLE, TENN Aug 17- •
Young Schwartz" easilv outpointed
Hilly Tierney, of Louisville, before the '
Fourth Avenue club in an 1 ight-round
bout Eddie Walsh, of Chicago, was '
knocked out b< Jack Morgan, of Nash
vibe, in the second round.
JACK DENNING KNOCKED
out by jack McCarron
FHILAPELPHIA. Aug 17.-Jack
M; C.trron. of Allentown. Pa . knocked J
la k Denning, a New York ewelter
welgh'. iii the second round at the '
Olympic \thatlc 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 i’
title at Boston last .Mav, 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 h\ a
New Orleans club, hut declined the bout
as he wants to start at the bottom bv
meeting some of the third raters and
building up.
• • •
Johnny Pundee’s heart will pine no
more The little tighter has been match
ed with Champion Johnny Kilbane for
a ten-round tight in New York Septem
ber 4. Kilbane will receive Ti.aOO for hi
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 Pougherty. Ad Wolgast's famous
sparring partner. Abdul the Turk and
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
picked Mandot to defeat Rivers
• • *
Johnny Coulon. bantamweight, has gone
to his farm in High Igtke. 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. < >ri his re
turn he will go to Konosha. Wis and
meet Frankie Burns. He will then lum,,
over to New York and meet I’harle. Le
doux. the Front h champion
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien was arrested
in Philadelphia a few days ago on two
warrants charging him with assault and
battery and larceny Billy Payne, sex
oral years ago a lightweight boxer, is
the complainant
• • «
J 'hnrix Kdbanc will be working
tbe r«»a<ls near «’lc\r-lan<l next M<m<la\
The Hille champion luk accept*.] an ad
mirer s <lare that 1m < <.ul.| not stand the
unrk ami h!rc<] out lohnnv will re
ceive 12 lor bis <lay’s labor.
I 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 ths
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 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 Orleans A.
! •, - sevv ‘ 'cleans, 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
bije with Thomas as his opponent, hut
the defeat of the Chicago 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
Eabor day. provided the promoters make
hmi a sat .sfa< ’ <»ry offer. The champion
xv, o ’’ ■’ rail ing Monda.v "tn be ready
tor an> emergency.” as he terms it.
JOHNSON AND NILES
WIN IN FINAL ROUND
SI H'TH A MPTGN. I. 1.. Aug 17 —N.
\V. Niles, i.f Boston, and N. W. John
son. of Philadelphia, won their plays in
the final round of the Meadow club dup
singles here yesterday’. Johnson de
feated R I 'Villiams Nib-s beat E. P.
Larned, younger brother of tie national
champion.
In the semi-finals of the doubles. W.
■I t’lothi." and G. P Gardner beat'G.
Biddle and R. N. Williams. M E. Mc-
Loughlin and T. Bundy in the third
round beat Niles and Dabney, former
Harx ird stars, and in the s. mi-final
they b.-at Johnson and (’. F. Watson, Jr.
WALTER JOHNSON WINS
FOURTEENTH STRAIGHT
WASHINGTON, Aug 17 -Walter
Ji'hnsoti held Chicago t<» one scratch
>' s t'‘id<i\ and \\ ishing’ori won ea
ily. Ito o 'l’his made fourteen straight
wins sot Johnson, equaling the Atncri-
• igm ''ud I’d b\ ’.'hesbro while
pit< aing for N-w York.