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6 WOMAN SMOO OOTI® HMKRTI EDITED iy W S FARNSWORTH "■' ' ~ ' """ " 11 1 ■——■■■ 1 111 I ■" ■■■ ■ l»l I I 111 I , M A Baseball Fable * * Copyright, 1912, by National News Association. * * • • By Hal Coffman ,•■■■< "TYX'. T~~ C“C <x II w— wW— A~» '- r ~2£lK& ; • VflK .” —7‘ Wg - > -'■’*W T^' i yece oFoo, A T«-»e Tutret * Tuewtsx Thinking he can so bo That 1/fJjmßr | XJ, d k _ vVAS A Be** WHO HAP CaPTuMcB AftN'i FAFRIiS HJE— GORGEIH MIPISELF MUCHLY WHICH Htx PoCTh BEFORE / I ' *ll ■■■ fS M ' ?S rSSri yE h’rß, 4 «s.*' ‘- x ' rfVr’ "* ■/U ’’ \ ve B»* ' lane That M -.• y ; a ii « *■/■•' BL ' «v£s I ■'' fill n ( ( t CC m y ) f. - \ [ I ///. .WtiiHh - W xf|r <k A C ' J ', GIANTS I *- "BvT he cRoweTM OLt> ANt> FiMbtTH H»S VHNO viHeREuPON Ya RIBBBIT MAKSTh SUNBP.Y P>uT rvwPeTh UNexPEfltDly into Yt Traw 'y\ VJltt NOT HOLb OUT AS op YOR.E UNCOUTH FACES AT te' BfcAF®— OF X£ VIiLY HON TER-. L -._ -... -J ... ■ "The Georgia Team Must Be Rebuilt,” Says Coach Cunningham ATHENS PROSPECTS FAIR, BUT NOT BEST EVER By Percy 11. Whiting. 7 THE chh f difficulties about Riv ing a pre-season estimate of a football team are these, ac cording to the views of Coach W A Cunningham. head coach of the University of Georgia teams 1, College men are prone to say they will not return and then to show up in good order on opening day. 2 New men are so uncertain that nobody in the world can tell about them. 3. The men von count on most strongly often fool you. • • ♦ « ATI'RALI.V in th* face of these dlffl tilth nobo<l> n«»t a prophet »»i * lunatk would try to gay what the • xact outlook is for the rniv* r.sit> of Georgia team this fall. \ I Kill I tl ' ••'O ■‘,- couid l»< 'Had.- woul'! i" summed Up aft* ’ tin fashion A lot of corking good men of last year’s team will not be back, a lot of aw fully good ones remain, and a lot who are tremendously promising, but equally uncertain, are coming in. ♦ • ♦ '] HE OIRI.I team w ill report at Athens Sepiembei 11. Afte’ that real estimates > an be made The candidate- will all be hous.d unde the same roofzthi* year. A lerg< normitorj near the gymna sium is ready for them Tiny will have the exclusive use of it It will be. fm the fall month-. Foot - ball hall. The house is removed from the imise of the city, and is away from the rest of the slu den.s. In it x ill he the mess hall, w hei e the men w ilt eat. This f"ot""ll bu'ldmg located nen th' gymnasium, where the tram men w ill I’iivi two large 10. k er looms with rubbing looms md drying rooms right at hand. Show ri baths and th> swimming pool arc in th' same building. These build ings ar, beautifully located on i high hill, overlooking the athletic field lio the-e seem Immaterial points tn the estimate of the Georgia team for 1912 ' Perlees Put the: how just how carefully tin- Red and Biack is manning and what onus ual prepar itions are being made f-. the coming season. 'THE head - oach of the Geo gia tean thb ■ ' 1 Max” Cunningham , Wind, btl' gradu ate and it man vho b lined his football und'-r Dan MiGiigin Hi w is too hell’ t" I' football -tar in his \ .imle- inlt days but he has boon tremendously suvc< ssful as a coa, h As Cunninghams assistant will be Harole Ketron. who captained the TH team. He will he on hand for the entire -eas.m, and will be Used esieeially in coaching tl" fin. material. Howell Peacock, of bus ket ball faun . will hue. charge of the freshtm.n team Hu va -ity feeder for n-x' yegr 'THE !■' I ' - w 1,, w. l < "11 •* the (hoieii t'am last y ar. but who have definitely left college, mostly by graduation, a < 1. COVINGTON- Cental lor tine, years, and a strong man. 2. MADDOX— Tackh for font y.’ais and a corker. w< >< >1)111' IT' Ijist year- <a|.- I 'in. quarter tor four year-. 4. POWELL -End last yai win. ROUND TRIP RATES TO WASHINGTON. D. C.. SEABOARD Wi'l st" ■ ■k. i« s ot. Bth and 9 n. limit IMh. and max he extended to <>et. 7th Rai, f, m \t anta. $19.35 Athens. Six. J... c,-.!;,: town. s2''.<».'>. |.; bertim. $17.1' Law rtnvevillc. 819.30, Rockmart Wiru'.ei. $18.8" did the punting. 5. MALONE Full back last year, a first-year man. fi. MINNEIJAN—FuII back who alternated with Malone 7 TUCK—End. Had played four years on team. That means a pretty heavy loss, as anybody will admit. Woodruff was one of the South's best play ers. and not a man in the lot fail ed to make his mark in Southern football. .. Os those seven there is no ques tion. Not one will return unless miracles are worked • • « i N addition to the seven, several 1 men are in doubt. They are: 1. DELAPERRIERE—Last years center, who was playing his first* year. He will probably go into busi ness and give up college. 2. LUCAS —Three years on the team ns a guard. He will possi bly return to take post-graduate work in engineering. 3. YORKE- Tackle for the past two years His ease is uncertain, but there is no certainty that he will bi back. » ♦ • J-JAVING dwelt mi the sad part of the sto v. it is time to turn to the blighter side and to < 'iisldei the material from which Coach Cunningham must build his ieam H> e Is the list 1 Peacock—Captain and guard of hist year's team He led a crew of Geo gia men down into south Georgia mi a peach-picking trip ihis suinmei and has turned up In good condition McWhorter —Halfbui k. Enough said He is the best in the Routh in his position 3. Bowden Halfback I Harrell—Tackle Parrish—End. k. Sancken—He alternate i w ith Woodruff at quarter last yeai. These are all the reguia varsity men who are counted on to return. In othei weds, Georgia loses seven regulars and returns six. • » • \ T A lI'RAI.I.Y there a c ,»om< other men who were in <ol 'ege last year, but who did not play hut who a e counted on for this yeac Such a list Is always an un x certain thing, but here s tile host possible guess, as made by Coach Cunningham himself l. Morris —H. was in Georgia last year, but ineligible as he had played at Dahlonega. He plays at half or full. Mise —He was ineligible last year on account of the one-year-ln college rule. : Conyers—3os pound guard of las', year's scrub team I. Arnette Sub tackle lust year Wood—Sub tackle last year. '• Crump—Sub half last year Broyles—Sub half last year. s White 200 pound guard of ast y.-.n's freshman team ■' Sheffield A tackle who was ineligible last year because of the one -year - in - college rule. I" Price—\ gun don the fresh man team last year A good man • • • \a I' fina y th, , - some n< w ■ ‘ 'ii expected, who will doubt - ■ ss turn up with all their work in su h shape that they can play this y e.ll Heie is this list 1 Smith—Captain ot Riverside last yeat He was one of the all- Geo’,Kia p ep ends last season Powell —Left halfback on Riv et side team last year. J. T. Woods—Played end fm laicusi Grove pi ep team last yeai 4 John Wheatley—End of tile S "ti" Mountain team Hauser—Tack last year of the Stmi, Mountain team. • • • 'J'tlls is th' full list without "s. rvations and . xception’ nd -uhjo l to such changes as w ill norn-a.'y crop "Ut In any ante-sea j -on predictions I >f vour<e as, w of the "ceitain tii'S may isyp at th, ast minute I and a few now segarded as unee - THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1912. tain may come around. But there will be few changes from this list. it couldn’t be said that the pros pects of the Georgia team, on the strength of the showing indicated, are the best in the world. A team that loses seven men and returns six will virtually have to be rebuilt. Also the losS of Woodruff will be more severe than the average spec tator at tiie average game realizes. It is largely up to Coach Cun ningham. And as he has demon strated that he is a wizard at the coaching game there is little doubt but that lie will turn out a team that will give a wonderfully gaud account of itself in its big games with Tech, Vanderbilt and Auburn. u Man Behind the Bat” Has Put Red Sox on Top Bill Carrigan Brains of Boston’s Pennant Winner B\ W. J. Mcßeth. The Man Behind the Bat" has won the American league pennant for Boston. Just as the "Man Be hind the Gun" won the Spanish war so: Uncle Sam Os course it I’ assumed that the pennant IS won —it Is beyond a reasonable doubt. When the war was over and the admirals and gene al received the plaudits, a certain distinguished citizen said It was not the admirals or the generals who deserved them, but the "Man Behind the Gun." And the "Man Behind the Gun" be came the hero So neither the leaders nor the sta’s, but the "Man Behind the Bat” ha's won the pen nant for the Red Sox The "Man Behind the Bat" is "Fighting Rill” Carrigan Why Carrigan Is a Hero. These arc the reasons why "Fighting Bill" Carrigan is the greatest he o of them all: 1. He has trained and is the boss of the most efficient pitching corps I in tl>e world. 2. He is the schemer, the dic tator and the master of the Red Sox defensive play. 3. He is one of the schemers and the dictators and the mas ters of the Red Sox offensive play. 4. His are the "inside baseball” brains of the coming pennant win ners. i|news from ringside] Promoters of the Southern A. C . of Memphis, are going to make till boxers who sign to appear at their club post a forfeit that they will be In the city at least five da? a before the tight and to give a public workout at some time during each of the five days preceding the show. The club’s action was brought about by many of the fighters who would reach the city a day before tjie date they were booked to appear, claim they were in per fet t condition, go into the ring and stall through the match. • • • Kid McCvy seems to be in earnest about taking up evangelistic work The former boxer saya he had time tv think things ••ver while he was imprisoned in London. I and that his 39 yearn of life have been ’ misspent • • • ’ l arle* \| Htr. Hcvompanied b* his manager, will leave for New York shortly, where he has two bouts scheduled. Mil !e. is not downcast because he was de- J ivated by Jim i’lynn, Labor Day. but is .howling for :» return match with the I'ueblo man Says Miller. ’What is a ■•. pie of broken ribs when I have got I twenty more i He M■ l • • •■ y and Cyclone <ohnny I’hompson are going to tight in Cincinnati before many weeks • * ♦ Mike Farrell and Terr* Mitchell are i scheduled to box ten rounds m Brookly n 1 tonight Boxing contests of unlimited duration . may bn staged in Salt Lake City \n I ordinance was passed Wednesday v* hereby ! promoters may stage contests provided t ‘ a boxing match and not a prize fight • • • lint Rarry. Chicago heavyweight, s no onge? considered a “White Hopp” The big fellow was all but knocked out by Tom M« Mahon at Youngstown Ohio recently *“ * ’ • ;<wgp l\ <» Brown wen: over <v Terre • Haute last Monday and knocked out some Here's How Crackers Are’ Hitting the Ball Right Up to Date This is the way the Crackers are hit ting the ball, through yesterday’s game: Player— g. ab. r. h. p. c. Price, p 3 T 0 3 429 Harbison, ss. . . 76 260 34 77 .289 Bailey, if 130 453 85 129 .285 Alperntan, 2b. . . 125 472 62 134 .284 Agler. Ib. ... 66 224 37 62 .277 Callahan. <f. . . 89 335 33 89 265 Graham. < . . . 63 194 20 48 248 McElveen. 3b.. . 135 489 52 117 .239 Reynolds, c. . . . 25 79 12 15 .190 Becker, p. ... 16 38 2 7 .184 Wolfe, utility . . 21 58 6 10 .172 Brady, p 23 71 3 12 .168 Sitton, p 29 67 11 10 .149 Johnson, p. ... 8 18 o 1 .056 Waldorf, p. . . . 11 28 0 1 .036 5. Besides being the "Man Behind the Bat.” he*is the “Power Behind the Boss.” And— 6. He is the most successful backstop in baseball. Ask any Red Sox player who is the most valuable and impo’tant in the Red Sox camp, and he will answer, without hesitation—sur prised. in fact, that you asked such a question—“ Why . Bill Carrigan, of course." Jake Stahl, being the manager, might not care to an swer such a question for publica tion, for tactful reasons, but he thinks so. Tris Speaker, the great sta of them all. candidly and emphatical ly. says "Bill Carrigan." Besides being modest. Speaker is frank. Joe Wood, the chamfTlon pitcher of both the leagues, has said, time and again, "Why, Carrigan's the man." Heinie Wagner, the captain of the team, says: Why. go see Bill Carrigan, he’s the man." All of them, big and little, at’ unanimous They know mote than the fans know, because they are on the ground and see and hear every - thing Almost man for man. the Red Sox arc the same baseball team that finished fifth last year. Why. then, are the Red Sox of 1912 first. unknown pug by the name of Skelly in the drst round of a scheduled ten-round engagement, but will get little remunera tion for his deed The promoters claim Brown agreed to box ten rounds with Skelly, and as he only boxed one he has no coin coming to him. And on top of the whole d®al they had the nerve to ask Brown to return there and tight Jack Dil lon at a later date. • • • Since the defeat of .Jim Jeffries by Jack Johnson. ‘ White Hopes” have been with out number The Japartese tried to put forth a ‘Brown Hope” and the Chinese a Yellow Hope,” but until the last few daws the Indian has shown no Interest in the fight game The other day George Nevr. h husky redman. weight 185 pounds, blew into Lok Angeles and Informed the manager us one of the clubs there he had coni' 1 to learn how io tight. • • ■ <>«.-n Moran. th.' Englishman. «u<> kill - <•<l about the American referees so much when lie was boxing on ibis side, is still knocking the Amer can decision makers Moran says he fought seven contests in America Four of these he won and twice ■he was diayualified for clinching Moran I denies t'le rumor that lie is going to re i tire and further =a> s lie will come back ; to the States when the fall boxing season 1 starts. •lohnn.t Kling a promising lightweight ,] hailing from Chicago. 's still challenging. The little pug says lie is v. .Hing to meet I McFarland. Ritchie or anv 133-pounder in I the business. CHURCH MEETS NELSON. PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 7—G. M. : Church, of Princeton and .1. G Ne’son. of Dartfnouth. will tight it out today 1 i for the singles championship as ate- ■ suit of yesterday's p ay in the intcrco'- I legiate tenni» tournament al the Me- I l ion Cricket Hub. In the doubles. Yale. I H.i ' ard and Princeton an still in the running. Crackers Mingle With Billy Smith’s Lookouts on Monday VOLS BID FAREWELL TO ATLANTA FANS TODAV 1 - rpHE last Saturday game of the Southern league season is on this afternoon at Ponce DeLeon. In this game the cohorts of Manager Schwartz, of Nash ville, will hook up with the luck less Crackers. Owing to the fact that the Volunteers have a slight bickering set for Sunday afternoon at Memphis, the game will be blessed (or cursed, as you happen to view it) with an early start. Then, after a day of rest. Bill Smith will lead his Lookout club here for the final series of the year in Atlanta. It may not be so much of a se ries in a baseball way. since it will while the Red Sox of 1911 fifth? There are several reasons', such as the return to form of Heinie Wagner, the appointment of Jake Stahl as manager, and the SUC CESS OF THE PITCHERS. But the principal reason is Carrigan, and Carrigan is deeply associated with all the other reasons, partic ularly the success of the pitchers. T|ve improvement this year is in a better regulated offense, but more than that in a superb defense. The greatest factor of the defense is the pitching staff. To repeat— me Red Sox have the most efficient pitching staff in the world. Who di j it ? Bill Carrigan A dozen would-be pitchers re ported to the Red Sox this spring, including those who were on last season's roster Carrigan took them in hand. He taught them now to make the best use of their abilities and schooled them in all the fine arts of baseball —for Carri gan is a master of the game. There were no Walter Johnsons, Ed Walshes and Christy Mathew sons or any other stars to start, with. Rut today Wood, Collins. Bedient and Hall are winning a greater percentage of their games than any of the famous stars. Wood, in fact, has become a star. He ha« won a greater percentage of games than any other pitcher of 191’2. Ami the others will be stars. So much so- the pitchers. But Carrigan, with Wagner, signals the defensive tactics of the team. Concerted action is necessary, and the concerted action has to be dic tated by a man on the field. Car rigan has a survey of all the field and all the bases in front of him and he knows what to do. The others watch Carrigan. A Master of “Inside” Ball. No team can win a pennant with out what is known as “inside” baseball. Cariigan is the chief "in side" baseball man of the Red Sox ! He has educated every member of the team individually, as well as collectively, too. and they l;ave con fidence in him. As a backstop on tile held. Car rigan is a marvel He is far from fast. No catchers are speedy after a few years of service behind the bat In the strenuous big league campaigns Theii : igid posture takes the limberness out of theii muse 's. ah o f the veterans are slow, compared with the other play ers. Hut Carrigan blocks off the home plate like a stone wall. He is tenacious When a runner dives into the plate, Carrigan stands like a lock. He is usually bowled over, but he does not drop th, ball, and' the runner Is out. He is absolutely without fear The runner must beat the ba I. to beat Cariigan. SCHOOL BOOKS. MIL LER’S BOOK STORE, 39 MARIETTA STREET. mark the clashing of the two worst teams (or the "worst two,” if that lets them down any more gently) in the league. But it means the return of Billy Smith to Atlanta for the first time since it has been announced that he has closed to manage the Crack er club for the next two years. You all know what that means. It means 90 much that it will not ' he surprising if the largest Mon day crowd of the season turns out to' welcome back to Atlanta the man who gave the Gate City the only pennants they have won in the history of the present league. Swell Performance Yesterday. Sometimes diamond artists play ball to win pennants, sometimes to earn their salaries and sometimes, though rarely, for the sheer joy of the playing. It was in the last named classi fication that the performance pulled off by the Nashville and At lanta players yesterday belongs. The players went into the game as happy as a bunch of school boys and they put a performance to their credit that wouldn’t have looked bad in a world’s series. Probably because nothing mat tered —winning, losing, tying or postponing—they played their best. There was a slap and dash to the whole thing that was as refreshing as a drink of water. It happened that Nashville won. But that wasn't the main point. Neither team has more to lose or less to win than a hobo. How the thing ultimately turned out didn't cut any figure. They were out to play ball and what came of it was immaterial. They did play ball, too—and Nashville won, 1 to 0. It may be recalled that the last time Rudolph Waldorf faced the A'olunteers. which was August 28 | FODDER FOR FANS Hank. OT'.ay . sore and realizing his fin ish. is out with the charge that a cheese paring policy is keeping the Reds down. He claims that Garry Herrmann had plenty of chances to strengthen the team, but that he wouldn't give up the money. I There might be something to it, too. / • * • They're having a voting contest at ihe "999 Clothing Store." in Brooklyn. N. Y., a quiet and sequestered little village Just across the river from New York Here is how they stand now: Paubert first. Rucker second. Wheat third. Red Smith fourth. Ob. you former Southern leaguers e « « • When Mike Donlin fumbled in a game at Brooklyn September 3 he made his first error in fourteen games and in eighty-six chances. » * * Artie Hofman has quit the Pirates. He and Fred Clarke couldn't come to terms in the matter of salary and Hofman quit, the club In a huff. » » • When McAleer and McKoy took over the Boston Americans this spring they took over a pennant winner. The full strength of their present team they In herited from John I. Taylor. Their suc cess has been due to the management of Stahl and the good advice of McAleer. » * • Pitcher Ralph Works lias been sent to Providence by Detroit. • • » Works makes about the steenth man the Tigers have sent to Providence this year. \nd the International league opin ion is that the <;nl\ good thing that <ame to Rhode Island this year out of Michi gan was Wild Bill Donovan. • * • I lolly Stark's suspension has been lifted but Manager Stallings hasn't put him back In tiie game as yet. * « « Manager Freil. of Columbus, is said 10 have been offered the managerial job at Cleveland If he's wise lie'll stay off. Di" White, of the Sox. says that he would like to see Walter Johnson let him self clear out m Just one game. He doesnt’ believe that the Washington star ever went his best all the wav through ■me lull game. Ami probably he hasn't. That lad Is wise. * * ♦ George Paskert has been dropped frpm the lead-off position to third place in the Phillies' hatting order. « « • .More leagues have disbanded and more clubs have dropped out of leagues this year than e\er before in the history of basebuH. It's 100 bad that the matter of vie'ting a president should interfere thus with the national sport. * " * \'l Brennan, the Phillies' diphtheria i (patient, is out of quarantine, but will not play any more this year. in Nashville, he let one run get over in the first inning. And then he lost the game 1 to 0, despite the fact that Atlanta made more hits than the A’olunteers. It may also be recalled that Fleharty furnished the opposition that day. Yesterday’s game was an exact duplicate. Fleharty and Waldorf were the opposing pitchers. ' In the first inning the Volunteers scored a tally. Considered tn the light of recent games, that one run didn't look any bigger than a gnat at an elephant show. But gradually, as inning after inning passed and there was no more scoring. It grew in relative size until in the ninth it was as big as the moon. How Only Run Was Scored. The way this one run was made was thusly: In the first inning the irrepressible Jud Daley bit off a single, right off the bat as it were. Lattimore died in a good cause and J. Daley went forward a peg. Welchonce hit one to Wal dorf and was retired at first, but on the putout Daley advanced once more. Then came that decrepit veteran. Colonel Clayton Perry, who delivered a single and pushed across the (leciding tally. All the rest of the afternoon ■ there was rip-roaring baseball, but neither side could score. Waldorf, the most profusely ex ecrated of Atlanta's pitchers, really hurled great ball. The gusty young right-hander made no mistakes after the first inning. The Vols were in the hollow of his hand. But they had with them their one run and they didn't need any mote. Fleharty also pitched masterly ball. He got in ;■ few tolerably tight holes, but he didn’t stay there. Somehow he always managed to wriggle out, due in several cases to useful fielding by his supporting cast. At Pittsburg the other day it took four lops to throw out an obstreperous bleat 1 er fan. As he went, somebody yellea. Each of them bluecoats will be credited with an assist and the man who is up in the pinch will get a put-out." • « e Garry Herrmann has put the kibosh on the scheme of having two ball club in Cincinnati. "Think what it wotilo mean if both of them were going badl said Garry. % • • • When Charley Dooin signed a new sec ond baseman named Savage, a Cincinna’ fan inquired, “Wasn't Otto Knabe savage enough 7" * * • “Roger Bresnahan has a whole arm: of athletes with him," wrote a Chicag'’ newspaper man. “There were fifty-sevc varieties squirming around on the bencli And the next day. so they say. Mr. Brit ton, owner of the club. Wired Roger, "f see in a Chicago paper that y< u have fifty-seven players with you. Why such extravagance for a short trip?" Ray Pendleton, star football and base bail player at Princeton, may become a- Yankee at the end of tiie coming college year. * « • Again there is talk that Olsen will K" to tne Yankees, it is said that the will be closed at the end of this season • • w Since Tommy McMillan and Lelivel’ left the Rochester team, it has been wabbling and the fans are yelling at Gar zp! for turning these men over to the Yankee?. VANDERBILT COURSE IS EXCEEDINGLY FAST MILW.A L'KEE, Sept. 7.—Prepara tions for the Vanderbilt cup race arr the other races to be lun here Sep tember 17, 20 and 21 are practical y complete. Save for a few finishing touches to be put on the roads tl: eight-mile Wauwatosa course has be put In shape for the events. Ra' iu drivers who are already here pronoun' it one of the fastest ever offered. The committee In charge of the ric 1 has spent about $3,1)00 a mile on n ■ course —a total of $24,000 —in making it fast and safe. Entlies foi the giai. prize "ace close September 10 and for the "tiler events Septembei 14. SCHOOLBOOKS MIL LER’S BOOK STORE, 39 MARIETTA STREET.