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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 " !> I' 1 ”■ir.it 'ii< f. : th.' wm-ld r ios I ’herc s I . tb : g like a stiff upper '"h: i c • r Bj|| | »ahl» n’< ; that he has not s. on 1 ’ ■ ■ ■ : i« 1 g c ■• • • Sii nc r 1 1 ; i s n♦■ x• ' | x . a ’ i j • ' dmw was that th. lights ' .■' ■ ■ • ng 'U t > • 11 . - . y V _ ■ ' ’■ ' • ' ' ’ ■ of •’ ■ ■ " stuff ■ • I )| 1 . I When «w. IM -. ,-w , wt. w•> I t w.. bii: i :ci ... , ...... i 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 | ■■ ■ ‘‘"l 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. 1 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.