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N V .‘3 fa \ GIANTS i J <_ . ... -._ N ■ .A ■■&r 'ftwT HF OLfc AHO FIMVeTh M» S IHIMD Ye RaPBiT MAKGTh SuNORY E>uT BOMPeIh UNEXPeci into YE Trap y' / ' * — _ Wltt Wota °° T AS 011 OR6 UNCOUTH FACE.S AV re RLAF»— OF YE IHtuY HJNT6.R " ,? "The Georgia Team Must Be Rebuilt," Says Coach Cunningham ATHENS PROSPECTS EAIR, BEIT NOT BEST EVER By Percy 11. Whiting. THE chief difficulties about giv ing a pre>-«eason 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. men are so uncertain that nobody in the world can tell about them 3. The men you count on most strongly often fool you. • ♦ • ATI’KALLY. in the face of N tbw-e ditth ultie- nobody not a prophet or a lunatic would try to * say what the exact outlook Is for the University of Georgia team this fall. About as close an estimate as could- be made would be summed up after thi« fashion A lot of corking good men of last year's foam 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. • • • 'I HE Georgia team will report at ■* Athens September 11 After that real estimates can be mad- The candidates will all be housed under the same roof this year A large dormitory near the gymna sium is ready for them. They will have the exclusive use of It. It will tie, for the fall months. Foot ball hall. The house is removed from the noise of the city, and is away from the rest of the stu dents. In It will be the mess hall, where the men will eat. This footbell building is located near the gynin.isium, where the team men will have two large lock er rooms, with rubbing rooms and drying rooms right at hand Show- ' er baths and tire swimming pool are in the same building. These build ings an 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 Hut they show Just how carefully the Red and Flack is planning and what unus ual preparations are being made for the coming season. ft ft ft THE head co -h of the Georgia team- this year will bo "Alex” Cunningham, a Vanderbilt gradu ate and a man who learned his football under Pan MeGugin Hr was too light to be a football star in his Vanderbilt days but he has been tremendously successful as a coach. b«- HarUc K iron, who i.iptamod the ’"4 team. He will be on hand for the entire seas-m, and will be used e«pe< ally in coaching t:>e line material. H >welh Peacock, of bas ket ball fame, will have charge of the freshman team the varsity feeder for next year * * * cpHE list of players wlm were on the Georgia team last yeai, but «ho have definitely left college, mostly by graduation, ar-. I. Ct >VI ,\’GT< < 'enter for thr. . • -.ears, and a strong man. 2. MADDOX Tackle for font years, and a corker. :( \V< luDHITF la.ist year's cap tain. quartet for foui years. 4 POWELL-Enil last year who BOUND TRIP RATES TO WASHINGTON. D. C, SEABOARD Will sell tickets Sept. Sth and 9th, I limit 16th, and may be extended to I <>. t 7th Rate f'oin Atlanta. $19:15 ■ Athens. $1X1.,. Cedartown $-'<>.os. El- i berton. $17.15: Lav. i’no i ill*. $19.31), Rockmart, $19.35; Winder. $13,110. did the punting. 5. MALONE—FuII back last year a first-year man. 6. MINNEHAN—FuII hack 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. • • ft i N addition to the seven, several 1 men are In doubt. They are: t. DEI.A PERRI ERE Last year's 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 as a guard. He will possi bly return to take post-graduate work in engineering. 3. Y< >IIKE Tackle for the [Mist two years. His ease is uncertain, hut there is no certainty that he will be back. • ft ft J-J AVING dwelt on the sad part of the story. It is time to turn to the brighter side and it) consider the material from which Coach Cunningham must build his team Here Is the list. 1. Peaoock—Captain and guard of last year’s team He led a crew of Geo gla men down into south 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 In his position 3. Bowden—Halfback 4. Harrell—Tackle 5. Parrish—End. 6 Sancken—He alternated with Woodruff at quarter last year These are all the regular varsity men who are counted on to return ' In other words, Georgia loses seven regulars and returns six. • • • MATI'RALLV there n < some other men who wet, in col lege hist year, but who did not plat 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. Mise —He was ineligible last year on account of the one-year-in coiicge rule. 3. Conyers—3os pound guard of last year’s scrub team 4 Arnette Sub tackle last year 5. Wood Sub tackle last year f>. Crump—Suh half last year. 1 Broyles— Sub half last year 8. White 200 pound guard of • last year's freshman team. '.i. 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 ft ft ft \ND finally there ar, some new "*■ men expect* ■>. who w ill doubt less turn up with all their work In such shape that they can play this 'ear Here is this list: I Smith—Captain of Riverside >st year. He was one of the all- Georgia prep ends last season. Powell —I,eft halfback on Riv- < side team last year. J. T. Woods Played end for Lo ust Grove prep team last yeai. I John Wheatley—End of the , Stun Mountain team. Hauser—Tackle last year of in Stone Mountain team * * • 'pHIS is ih. fui! list without '• 'irvationß and exceptions < ii" ' ibject t • such changes as will ri" ri'.alh >ut In any ante-sea- |x *n pi« dictions <»t a few of (]),. t r tain- ti«'s ma\ pup at the las! minute I and a few nuw r<ga riled as uncer- Tire ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 7. 1912. tain may come around But thert 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 hat e to be rebuilt. Also tile loss of Woodruff will be more severe than the average .spec tator At the average game realizes. It Is largely up to Coach t’u»- nlngliam. And as he has demon strated that he is a wizard at the coaching game there is little doubr but that lie will turn out a team that will give a wonderfully good account of itself in Its big games v. itli T’ech, Vanderbilt and Aubirn. “Man Behind the Bat” Has Put Red Sox on Top -I-*-;- ’$•••«• +•-»- <•••{• Bill Carrigan Brains of Boston’s Pennant Winner lb W. J. Mcßeth. The Man Behind Hie Bat'' has won the American league pennant foi Boston, .lust as the "Man Be hind the Gun" won the Spanish war for Uncle Sam. Os course it is as-umed that the pennant IS won —it is beyond a reasonable doubt. When lhe 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 stirs, but the "Man Behind the Bat" lias won the pen nant for ilic Red Sox. Till "Man Behind the Bat" is "I igiiting Bil:" Carrigan Why Carrigan Is a Hero. These arv the reasons why "Fighting Bill" Carrigan is the greatest heto of them nil 1. Hs 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 plav. 4. His a'e the “inside baseball” brains of the coining pennant win ners. NEWS FROM RINGSIDE Promoters of the Southern A C . of M'inphis. are going to make all boxers who sign to appear at their club post a forfeit that thc\ will be in the city at least dve da vs before the fight and to give a public workout at some time during each of the fixe days preceding the show. The club’s action was brought about by many <-f the lighters who would reach rhe 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 Met’ey seems to be in earnest about I taking up evangelistic work ’Che former boxer says he had time to think things ov• ; while he was imprisoned in London, and that his 39 years of life have been misspent • • ♦ Charle.' Millet. accompanied by his n ’ --t' i. will leave for New York si ortl}’, twn bouts scheduled. Mil i ler is not dowiH'.ist because he xvas de- I featoil by Jim Flynn. Labor Day. but is howling for a return match with the jPu bio man Says Miller: “What Is a couple of broken ribs when I have got. twent > more" Eddie McGoortx and t’\<lone lohnnx ' Thompson are going r<» fight in Cincinnati ' b» fore manx weeks. a * • Mi’.e Farrell and Terrx Mitchell are s< ben tiled to box ten rounds jn Brooklyn i tonight • • • H >xtng contests of unlimited duration I nil, Pc staged in Salt Lake City. \n | ordinance was parsed Wednesday wherein promoters may stage contests provided i is a boxing match and not a prize light • • • Jim Barry. heavyweight, is no; longer considered a “White Hope" The big fellow was all but knocked out by Tom M« Mahon a'. Youngstown Ohio, recentlv. | • • • | ’b«<rge K *' Brown went ovei to Terrel I Ha ne last M >nda\ and knocked out some* Here's How Crackers Are Hitting the Ball Right Up to Date I’hi;- it- the way the I'laekcrs are hit ting th< bail, through yesterday’s game: Player— g. ab. r. h. p. c. Price, p 3 7 0 3 .429 Harbison, ss. . . 70 266 34 77 .289 Hailey. If. . 130 453 85 129 .285 Alperm in, 2b. . . 125 172 62 134 .284 Aglcr. 1b 66 224 37 62 .277 Callahan, if. . . 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 Beck. r. 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 yon 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. 'lris Speaker, the great sta of them all, candidly and emphatical ly. says "Bill Carrigan.” Besides bi Ing modest. Speaker is frank. Joe Wood, tlie champion pitcher of both the leagues, has said, time and again, "Why, Carrigan's lhe man.” • Hiinie Wagner, the captain of the team, say-: "Why. go see Bill Carrigan: he's the man." All of them, big and little, are unanimous. They know more than th, fans know, because they are on the ground and see and hear every thing. Almost man for man. rhe Red Sox are the same basebail team that finished fifth last year. Why, then, are the Red Sox of 1912 first. unknowm pug b> 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 ton rounds with Skelly, and as he only boxed one he has In 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. W hite Hopes" have been with out number. The Japanese tried to put forth a “Brown Hope’’ and the Chinese a 'Yellow Hope." but until the last f w days tlie Indian has shown no interest in the fight game. The other day George Near, a husky redman, weight 185 pounds, blew into Los Angeles and informed the manager of one of the clubs there he had come to learn how to tight. • « ■ <»won Moran, lhe Englishman, who kick ed about the American referees so much when 1 e was I x ing < . ds sfdt, Is st 11 knocking the American decision makers. Moran says ho fought seven contests in America. Four of these he won an*l twice Ihe was disqualified for clinching. Moran denies the rumor that he is going to re | tire ami further says ho will come back | to the States when the fall boxing season ! starts • • • Johnny Kling, a promising lightweight hailing from Chicago, is still challenging. ;TTt little pug says he is willing to meet McFarland, Ritchie or any 133-pounder in i the business. CHURCH MEETS NELSON. PHILADELPHIA. S pt. 7. G. M. , Church, of Princeton, and J. G. Nelson, iof Dartmouth, will tight it out today i for the singles championship as a re i suit of yesterday’s p’a\ in the intercol ilegiato tennis tournament at she Me i rion Ci cket Cub. In the doubles, Yale. [Harvard ami Princeton are still in the 1 running. Crackers Mingle With Billy Smith’s Lookouts on Monday VOLS 818 FAREWELL TO ATLANTA FANS TODAY r | SHE last Saturday game of the j Southern league season is on this afternoon at Ponce DeLeon. In this game the cohorts of Manager Schwarts, of Nash ville, wiil 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. 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 diij it? Bill Carrigan. A dozen would-be pitchers re ported to the Red Sox this spring, ineluding 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 Ts 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, E -client 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 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 whjt 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 rite strenuous big league campaigns. Their rigid posture takes the limberness out of their muscles. All of the veterans are slow , compared w ith the other play -1 ers. But Carrigan blocks off the home plate like a stone wall. He is tenacious When a runner dives into the plate. Carrigan stands like a rock. He is usually bowled ovei. but he does not drop the ball, and the runner is out. He is absolutely without fear. The runner must beat lhe ball to beat Carrigan. 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 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 tlie 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. Rut 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, lie claims that Garry Herrmann had plenty of chances to strengthen the team, but that be wouldn't give up the money. There might be something to it. too. • ft ft 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. llere is how they stand now: Daubert first, Rucker second, Wheat third. Red Smith fourth. Oh. you former Southern leaguers. • • • When Mike Dunlin 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 Me Roy 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 us McAleer. • • • Pitcher Ralph Works has been sent to Providence by Detroit. • • 4 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 eanie to Rhode Island this year out of Michi gan was Wild Bill Donovan. ft ft ft Dolly 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 job at Cleveland. If he’s wise he'll stay off. i * ♦ * Doc White, of the Sox. says that he would like to see Walter Johnson let him 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 ft ft ft George Paskert has been dropped from the lead-off position to third place in the Phillies' batting order • • • Mure leagues have disbanded and more clubs have dropped out of leagues this year than ever before in the history of baseball It’s 100 bad that the matter of electing a president should interfere thus with the national sport • * • \d Brennan, the Phillies' diphtheria 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 7 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 in 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 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, 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 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 he went, somebody yelled, "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 ft a Garry Herrmann lias put the kibosh on the scheme of having two ball clubs in Cincinnati. "Think what It would mean if both of them were going bad'." said Garry. ft ft • When Charley Dooin signed a new sec ond baseman named Savage, a Cincinnati fan inquired, "Wasn't Otto Knabe savage enough ♦ • • "Roger Bresnahan has a whole army of athletes with him,” wrote a Chicago newspaper man "There were fifty-seven varieties squirming around on the bench " And tlie next day, so they say. Mrs. Brit ton, owner of the club, wired Roger, ”1 see in a Chicago paper that you have fifty-seven players with you. Why such extravagance for a short trip?" » • ft Ra> Pendleton, star football and base ball player at Princeton, may become a Yankee at the end of the coming college year. • • • Again there is talk that Olsen will go to the Yankees It is <a.d that the deal will be closed at the end of this season. * • • Since Tommy McMillan and Lellvelt left the Rochester team, it has been wabbling and the fans are yelling at Can cel lor turning these men over to the Yankees*. VANDERBILT COURSE IS EXCEEDINGLY FAST MILWAUKEE, Sept. 7. —Prepara- tions for the Vanderbilt cup race and the other races to be run here Sep tember 17, 20 and 21 are practically complete. Save for a few finishing touches to be put on the roads tho eight-mile Wauwatosa course ha-- been put in shape for tlie events. Racing drivers who are already here pronounce it one of the fastest ever offered. The committee in charge of the race has spent about $3,000 a mile on the course —a total of s24.ooo—in makin it fast and safe. Entries for the grand prize ace close September 10 and for the oilier events September 14. SCHOOL BOOKS.’ MIL LER’S BOOK STORE, 39 MARIETTA STREET.