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The nun Von count on most strongly often fool you. _-ATURALLY. in the face of ; these ilitiie i' - nohcd.y not a prophet or 1 iumitii would try to say what Vie exact outlook Is for the Inivt it' of Georgia team this fall. » as ■ 1 iso an estimate as could b. made v. o.ild be summed , up after ; • ’. •:. * -n• A lot of l corking - men of last year’s team .vi" rot be beck, a lot of aw fully goo o rs remain, and a lot o ■> .-n - cnciously promising, but e - ,'-: iv . c< -.am. are coming in. 'T’HE Geo) rut t- tm will report at . * eii - pti iber 11 After that real estimates can be made. 'l'lie anilidu'.e: will till be housed un b r the same roof this year. A large 'iormitotv near the gymna sium is ready for them. They will have the < x lusive use of it. It will be, for the fall months. Foot ball ball Tht house is removed from the noise of tin city, and 1s away from the rest of the stu dents. in it will be the moss hall, where the mon will eat. This football building is located near the gymnasium where the team men will hnve two large lock er rooms, with rubbing rooms and drying rooms right at hand Show - er baths and the swimming pool are in the sano building These build ings are beautifully located on a high hill, overlooking the athletic field Do these seem Immaterial points in the estimate of the Georgia team for 1912? Perhaps But they’ show just how cart fully the Red and j Black is planning and what untie- | ual preparations are being made i for the coming ; i«on • • • 'THE head coach of the Georgia teams ti is year will be "Alex” Cunningham a Vanderbilt gradu ate and a man who learned his football under Dan McGugln. Up was too light to be a football star In his Vanderbilt days, but lie has j been tremendously successful as a | coach As Cunningham's assistant will be Harold l<etron. who captained the 'O4 tv. m He will ho on hand fop the entire -eason. and will be used esi*-eially in coaching the line material Howel! Peacock, of bas ket ball fame, will have charge of the freshman team -the varsity feeder for next year. • • * 'T'HE list of plovers w Ito wore on ‘ the Georg 1 i team last y ear, but who have definitely left college, mostly by gt.'tritiation. tin-: 1. t’OV 1\ i IT’ >N—< "i titer tor three years, and a strong man. 2. MADDOX Tackle for four years ami a corker 3. WOODRUFF la.si year's cap tain. quarter for four year-. 4 POWELL Eno :,st y r. who ROUND TRIP RATES TO WASHINGTON, D. C„ SEABOARD Will sell tickets Sept Bth and 9th, limit 16:h. .nd nitty be ex:>-ntied ini Oct. 7th Rate font A<lan..< 519.':5 i Athens. SOI.. l ed. -town. s2*t.os E berton. #17.15. l.awri-neevllii . $19.30,1 Kot ku.at , Ji.*.'.. Wintiet. $lB 80. did the punting 6. MALONE—FuII back last year, a first-year man. 6 MLNNEHAN—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 w’as one of the South’s best play ers, and not a man ip the lot fail ed trf make his mark in Southern football. Os those sewn there la no ques tion Not one will return unless miracles are worked. • • • ■ N addition to the seven, several * men are tn doubt. They are: 1. DELA PERRI ERE—Last year's *■ nti-r, who was playing his first year. He will probably go into busi ness and give up college. 2. LUCAS Three years on the t*am as a guard. He will possi bly eturn to lake post-graduate work in engineering. 3. YORKE -Tackle for the past two years. His ease is uncertain, but there is no certainty that he w ill be back. • ♦ • JJ AYING dwelt on the sad part of the story. It is time to turn to the brighter side and to consider the material from which <'oach Cunningham must build his team. Here is the list: 1. Peacock—f’nptaln and guard of last year's team. He led a crew of Geoigia men down Into smith Georgia on a peach-picking trip this summer and has turned up In good condition. 2. McWhorter—Halfback. Enough said. He Is the best in the South Ip his position. 8 Bowden—Halfback, 4. Harrell —Tackle. 6 Parrish—End, 6 Sancken—He alternated with Woodruff at quarter last year. Those are all the regular varsity men who are counted on to return. In other words, Georgia loses seven regulars and returns six. • • • NATURALLY there are some other men who were in col lege last year, but who did not play but who are counted on for this year. Such a list is always an un certain thing, but here's the best possible guess, as made by Coach Cunningham himself: 1 Morris—He was In Georgia last year, but Ineligible as he had played at Dahlonega He plays at half or full. 2. Miso —He was ineligible last year on account of the one-year-ln collego rule. 3. Conyers—3os jround guard of last year's scrub team. 4 Arnette—Sub tackle last year, a. Wood—Sub tackle last year. 5. Crump—Sub half last year. ~ Broyles—Sub half last year. 8. White 200 pound guard of last year's freshman team. 9. Sheffield—a tackle who was ineligible last year because of the one-year-in-college rule. 10. Price —A guard on the fresh man team last year A good man • • • A Nl> finally there are some new “ ‘ men expected, who will doubt less turn up with all their work In such shape that they can play this year. Here is this list: I Smith—Captain of Riverside last year He was one of the all- Georgia prep ends last season Powell—Left halftrack on Riv erside team last year. 3 J. T. Woods Played end for Uh list Grove prep team last year 4 John Wheatley—End of the Stone Mountain team. Hauser—Tackle last year of the Stone Mountain team. » ♦ • 'THIS is the full list without reservations and exceptions nd subject such changes us will normal.y i op out in any ante-sea son predi* tions <>f c.uii-st- a . w ~f th# "certain tl* “ may p>p at th last minute and a few now ngart.-jd as uncer- VRE 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 : eturns six will virtually have to be rebuilt. Mao the loss of Woodruff will be more severe than the average spec tator at the 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 he will turn out a team that will give a wonderfully good account of itself in Its big games with Tech, Vanderbilt and Auburn. “Man Behind the Bat” Has Put Red Sox on Top Bill Carrigan Brains of Boston’s Pennant Winner By \V. .1. Mt-Beth. The "Mau Behind the Bat” has won the American league pennant for Boston, just as the “Man Be hind the Gun" won the Spanish war for Uncle Sam. Os course it is assumed that the pennant IS won —it is beyond a reasonable doubt. When the war was over and the admirals ami general 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 stars, but the "Man Behind the Bat" has won the pen nant for the Red Sox. The "Man Behind the Bat" Is "Fighting Bill" Carrigan. Why Carrigan Is a Haro. These are 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 in the 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. NEWS FROiM RINGSIDE! Promoters of the Southern A. C., of Memphis, are going to make all boxers who sign to appear at their club post a forfeit thal the) will be in the city at least five days before the fight 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 the date they were booked to appear, claim they were in per fect condition, go into the ring and stall through the match. * « • Kid McCoy seems to be in earnest about talung up evangelistic work The former boxer says be bad Hine to think things over while he was Imprisoned in London, and that bls 39 years of life have been misspent « • • Charley Miller, accompanied by his manager, wilt leave for New York shortly, wfo re he lias two bouts scheduled. Mil ler is not downeast because he was de feated by Jim Flynn, l abor Day, but is howling for a return match vvith the Pueblo man. Says Millet "What is a couple of broken ribs when I have got twenty more." at • * l-.dtlic McGoorty ami Cyclone .lohnnv Thompson are going to fight in Cincinnati before many weeks Mike Farrell and Terry Mitchell are scheduled to box ton rounds in Brooklyn tonight. • • • Boxing contests ot unlimited duration may be staged in Salt Lake City An ordinance yvas passed Wednesda.y whereby promoters may stage < ontests provided A is a boxing match ami not a prize fight. ■ • • lim l’a»Ts . Chicago heavyweight, is no longer considere<l a "White Hope" The big fellow was all but knocked oat by ’Lorn McMahon at Youngstown. Ohio, recently. George K ») Brown uem nxeq- to 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 7 0 3 429 Harbison, ss. . . 7t 266 34 77 .289 Bailey, If. . . . 130 453 85 129 .285 Atperman, 2b. . . 125 472 62 134 .284 Agler. lb 66 224 37 62 .277 Callahan, cf. . . 89 335 33 89 265 Graham, c. . . . 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 0 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 important 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 star of them all. candidly and emphatical ly. says "Bill Carrigan.” Besides being modest, Speaker is frank. Joe Wood, the champion pitcher of both the leagues, has said, time and again, "Why, Carrigan's the man." H-inie Wagner, the captain of tlie team, says: "Why. go see Bill Carrigan; he's the man.” Al! of them, big and little, are unanimous They know more than the fans know, because they’ are on the ground and see and hear every thing. Almost man for man. the Red Sox are 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 first 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 onl> boxed one he has no coin coming to him. And on top of the whole deal they had the nerve to ask Brown to return there and fight Jack Dil lon at a later date. • • • Since the defeat of Jim Jeffries by Jack Johnson, "White Hopes" have been with out number. The Jaj»anese tried to put forth a "Brown Hope" and the Chinese a ’’Yellow Hope," but until the last few days the Indian has shown no interest in the tight game The other day George Near, a huskv re iman. weight 185 pounds, blew into Los Angeles and Informed the n ai agei of one of the clubs there he had come to learn how to fight. « » • Owen Moran, the Englishman, who kiel - e* 1 about the American referees so much when be was bi-xing on this side, is still knocking the American decision makers. Moran says he fought seven contests in America Four *>f ’hose he won and twice he was disqualified for clinching. Moran denies the rumor that be is going to re t re and further says he will come back to the States when the fall boxing season starts. • « « Johnny Kling, a promising lightweight hailing from Chicago, is still challenging. The_ little pug says he Is w.lling to meet McFarland, Ritchie or anv 133-pounder in the business. CHURCH MEETS NELSON. PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 7.—G. M. Uhtireh. of Princeton, and I. G. Nelson, of Dartmouth, wilt fight it out today for the singles championship as a re sult of yesterday's play in the intereo - It gia’t tennis fournament at the Me rlon Crt. ket *-.ub. In the doubles, Yale, Harvard and Print eton are still in the running. Crackers Mingle With Billy Smith's Lookouts on Monday VOLS BID FAREWELL TO ATLANTA FANS TODAY THE 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 Lockout 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 SUCj 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. The 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— the Red Sox have the most efficient pitching staff in the world. Who diti 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 • how 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. But today Wood, Collins, Bedtent and Hall are winning a greater percentage of their games than any of the famous stars. Wood, in fact, has become a star. He has won a greater percentage of games than any other pitcher of 1912. And the others will be stars. So much for the pitchers. But Carrigan, with AVagner, signals I the defensive tactics of the teatn. 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. Carrigan 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 have con fidence in him. As a backstop on the field, 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. Their rigid posture takes the limberness out of their mus es Ml of the veterans are slow , compared with the other play ers. But Carrigan blocks off the lirme plate like a stone wall. He is tenacious When a runner dives into the plate, Carrigan stands like | a rock. He is usually bowled ove'. but he does not drop the ball, and the runner is out He is absolutely without feat. The runner must beat the ball to b’at Carrigan. SCHOOLBOOKS. MIL LERS 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 lie has closed to manage the Crack er club for the next two years. You all know tvhat that means. It means so much that it will not be 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 Volunteers, which was August 28 FODDER FOR FANS Hank O'Day, 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. There might be something to it. too. r • • They're having a voting contest at the "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: Daubert first, Rucker second, Wheat third. Red Smith fourth. Oh, you former Southern leaguers. 9 • • 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 Hofmamhas 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. • • V When McAleer and Mcßoy took over the Boston Americans this 'spring they took over a pennant winner. The full strength of their present team tliev 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 has been sent to Providence by Detroit. M • « Works makes about the steenth man the Tigers have sent to Providence this year. And the International league opin ion is that the only good thing that came to Rhode Island this year out of Michi gan was Wild Bill Donovan. • • ♦ • I >olly Stark's suspension has been lifted but Manager Stallings hasn't put him back in the game as yet * • « Manager Freil, of Columbus, is said to have been offered the managerial iob at Cleveland. If he's wise he'll stay off. Doc White, cf the Sox. says that he would like to see Walter Johnson let hint self clear out in just one game. He doesnt' believe that the Washington star ever went his best all the wav through one full game. And probably 'he hasn't That lad is wise. * * • George I’askert has been dropped from the lead-off position to third place in the Phillies' batting order. • « « More leagues l ave d'shanded and more I clubs have'dropped out of leagues this year than ever before in the history of baseball It's too bad that the matter of eh cimg a prescient should interfere thus with the national sport VI Brennan, the Phillies' diphtheri t I paiien:. .s out of uuarantine, but will not play ant 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 Volunteers. It may also be recalled that Flehartysfurnished the opposition that day. Yesterday’s game was an exact duplicate. Fleharty and WaJdorf were the opposing pitchers. In the first inning the A'olunteers scored a tally. Considered in the light As 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: l n 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 deciding 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, reallv 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/heed any more. Fleharty also pitched masterly ball. He got in a 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 bleach er fan. As lie went, somebody yellei "Each of them bluecoats will be credited with an assist and the man who is up in the pinch will get a put-out.” • ft * Garry Herrmann has put the kibosh on the scheme of having two ball clubs in Cincinnati. ‘’Think what it woulH mean if both of thorn were going bad said Garry. « • • When Charley Dooin signed a new se ond baseman named Savage, a Cincinnati fan in<iu rod. Otto Knabe savage enough ?” ♦ • • “Roger Bresnahan has a wlfole arn of athletes with him,’’ wrote a Chicago newspaper man. “There were fifty--* varieties squirming around on the bench And the next day, so they say. Mr- ton. owner of the club, wired Roger. I see in a Chicago paper that you ha\* fifty-seven players with you. Why such extravagance for a short trip?" Ray Pendleton, star football and base ball player at Princeton, may become a Yankee at the end of the coming college ♦ • • Again there is talk that Olsen will g<> to the Yankees, ft is said that th® deal will be closed at the end of this season we* Since Tommy McMillan and Leiive’t left the Rochester team, it has been wabbling and the fans are yelling at Gai zel for turning these men over to H’u Yankees. VANDERBILT COURSE IS EXCEEDINGLY FAST MILWAUKEE. Sept. 7.—Pi'epai i tions for the A’anderbllt cup race arri the other races to be iun here Sep tember 17. 29 and 21 are practical ' complete. Save for a few finishing touches to be put on the roads th) cight-miic W auwatosa course has 1:* • put in shape for the events. Racing drivers who are already here pronoun* 9 it one of the fastest ever offered. Tiie committee in charge of the ra* n has spent about $3,000 a mile on ti 4 course—a total of $24,000 —in makir : it fast and safe. Entries for the grand prise race close September 10 and for the other events September-14 SCHOOLBOOKS? MIL LER’S BOOK STORE, 39 MARIETTA STREET.