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"The Georgia Team Must Be Rebuilt,” Says Coach Cunningham
ATHENS PROSPECTS FAIR, BEIT NOT BEST EVER
By Perry H. Whiting.
THE chief dlfflmiltles about giv
ing a pra-eeaison estimate of
a football team are these, ac
cording to the views of Coach W.
A. Cunningham, head coach of the
Uiifvorplty of Georgia teams:
1. College men are prone to say
they will not return and then to
show up 1n good order on opening
day.
2 New men are so uncertain
that nobody in the world can tell
about them
3 The men yon count on most
strongly often fool you
• • •
ATI'RALI.Y, In the face of
these difficulties nobody not a
prophet or a lunatic would try to
say what the exact outlook Is for
the Cniverslty of Georgia team
this fall.
About as close an estimate as
could be made would be summed
up after this 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.
• • •
'T'HE Georgia team will report at
1 Athens September 11 After that
real estimates can ba made.
The candidates will all be housed
under the same roof thia year. A
large dormitory near the gymna
sium is ready for them. They will
have the exclusive use of It. It
will be, for the fall months, Foot
ball hall. The house is removed
from the peine 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.
Thia football building is located
near the gymnasium, where the
team men will have two large lock
er rooms. with rubbing rooms and
drying rooms right at hand. Show
er baths and the swimming pool are
tn the same building. These build
ings am 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. Put they show
Just how carefully the Red and
Bieck la planning and wtiat unus
ual preparations are being made
for the coming season
• • •
r T' HE head conch of the Georgia
teams this year nd 11 ba "Alex"
Cunningham, a Vanderbilt gradu
ate and a man who learned his
football under Pan MeGugin Ho
was too light to be a football star
In his Vanderbilt days but he has
beep tremendous!} successful as a
Coach.
As Cunningham's assistant will
be Harold Ketron, who captained
the 'O4 team He will be on hand
for the entire season, and will be
used especially in coaching the line
material How.ll Peacock, of bas
k. • ball fame, w ill have charge of
th.- fr-shman team —the varsity
fc< .. r for next year
• * •
'T'HE list of players who were on
* the Georgia team last year, but
who have definitely left college,
mostly by graduation, are:
1. << (V IX. ;T< >X < ’enter for three
years, and a strong man.
MAUIIfiX Tackle for four
y. tn and a corker.
3. W< a>l >lll ’FF Lust year' cap
tain. quarter for four years.
4 POIVEI.I. End last year, who
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did the punting.
5. MALONE- —Full back last
year, a first-year man.
6. MINNEHAN—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.
• • •
T N addition to the seven, several
1 men are in doubt. They are:
1. DELAPERRIERE—Last year’s
center, who was playing his first
year. Ho w ill 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.
8. YORKE —Tackle for the past
two years. His case is uncertain,
but there Is no certainty that he
will be back.
• • •
J J AVTNG dwelt on the sad part
of the story, it is time to
turn to the brighter side and to
consider the material from which
Coach Cunningham must build his
team. Here is the list:
1 Peacock—Captain and guard
of last year’s team. He led a crew
of Georgia 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 1s the best in the South
In his position.
8. Bowden—Halfback.
4 Harrell—Tackle
5 Parrish—End.
• 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.
• • •
AWRALLY there a e some
other men who were in col
lege last year, but who did not play
but who are counted on for this
year Ruch a list 1a 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-j ear-in
college rule
3 Conyers—3os pound guard of
last year's scrub team
4 Arnette -Sub tackle last year
5. Wood Sub tackle last year.
6 Crump—Sub half Inst year.
7 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-ln-college rule.
10. Price —A guard on the fresh
man team last year A good man
• • •
\ A D 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:
1 Smith—Captain of Riverside
last year. He was one of the all-
Georgia prep ends last season.
Powell—Left halfback on Riv
erside team last year
8 J. T. Woods Hayed end for
Locust Grove prep team last year.
4 John Wheatley—End of the
St<>n- Mountain team
» Hauser—Tackle last year of
the Stone Mountain team
'pHIS is the full list without
reservations and exceptions
nd subject to such changes as will
normally crop ut in any ante-sea
son predictions
'if court" > few of the "certain
ties may pop at the last minute
and a few now regarded as uncer-
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1912.
tain may come around. But there
will be few changes from thjs 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 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 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 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 and 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 Hero,
These are the reasons why
"Fighting Bill" Carrigan is the
greatest hero 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 a>e the “inside baseball"
brains of the coming pennant win
ners.
NEWS FROM RINGSIDEI
Promoters of the Southern A. C.. of
Memphis, are going to make all boxers
who sign to appear at their club post a
forfeit that they will be tn the city at
least five days before the tight anil 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 lighters 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
taking up evangelistic work. The former
boxer says he had time to think things
over while he was imprisoned in London,
and that his 39 years of life have been
misspent
’ ’harlex Miller, accompanied by his
manager, will leavy for New York short lx*
über, lie has two bouts scheduled Mil
ler is not downcast because he was <|e
teated bx Jim Flynn, Labor Day. but Is
for a ’‘‘•turn match xvith the
1 ueblo man Says Miller: “W bat is a
couple of bfoken ribs when I have got.
twenty more" |
•• • •
1 .ddic M< »>oortx and Cyclone Johnnyi
I hompsun are going to tight in Cincinnati !
before many weeks
. . .
Mike Farrell and Terry Mitchell are :
scheduled to box ten rounds in Brooklyn I
tonight ’ :
• • •
Boxing contests of unlimited duration
may be staged in Salt Lake Citv \n
ordinance was passed Wednesday whereby
promoters may stage contests provided t
Is a boxing match and not a prize tight.
Jim Barry. Chicago heavy weight, is no
longer considered a "White Hope " The
big fellow was all but knocked out by Tom :
■McMahon at Youngstown. Ohio, recently I
George K. (>. Brown went over to Terrel
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. «•. h. p. c.
Price, p 3 7 0 3 429
Harbison, ss. . . 76 266 34 77 .289
Bailey, If 130 453 85 129 .285
Alperman, 2b. . . 125 472 62 134 .284
Agler, lb 66 224 37 62 .277
Callahan, es. . . 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 ia the most successful
backstop in baseball.
Ask any Red Sox player who is
the most valuable and important in
the Red Sox eamp, 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 “Rill Carrigan.” Besides
being modest, Speaker Is frank.
Joe Wood, the champion pitcher
of both the leagues, has said, time
am! 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, 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 RM
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 only boxed one lie has
no coin coming to him. And on top of
the whole deal they bad 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 Japanese 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 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
• • ■
Owen Moran, the Englishman, who kick
ed about the American referees so much
when he was boxing on this side, is still
knocking the American decision makers.
Moran says he fought seven contests in
America. Four of these he won and twice
he was disqualified for clinching. Moran
denies the runior that be is going to re
tire and further says he will come back
tn the States when the fall boxing season
starts
• • •
Johnny Kling, a promising lightweight
hailing from Chicago, is still challenging.
V p he is willing to meet
M< i arland. Ritchie or anx 133-pounder in
the business.
CHURCH MEETS NELSON.
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 7—G. M.
Church, of Princeton. ai\d J. G Nelson
of Dartmouth, will tight it out today
for the singles championship as a re
sult of ypsterdax s play in the intercol
legiate tennis tournament at the Me
rion Cricket club, in the doubles. Yah .
Harvard and Princeton are still in the
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 Schwartu, 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 w ay, 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 ail 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
did it? Bill Carrigan.
A dozen wmuld-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.
Bsdient and Hall are winning a
greater percentage of their games
than any of the famous stars,
y'ood, 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, apd
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
fa t. 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
muscles. All of the veterans are
slow, compared with the other play
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 over,
but he does not drop the ball, and
the runner is out. He is absolutely
without fear. The runner must
beat the ball to beat Carrigan.
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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 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.
• • •
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.
• • •
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
club in a huff.
When McAleer and Mcßoy 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 'has been sent to
Providence by Detroit.
• • •
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.
• • •
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
• ♦ *
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.
• * •
George Paskert has been dropped from
the lead-off position to third place in the
Phillies’ batting order.
• * •
More leagues have disbanded and more
clubs have dropped out of leagues this
rear than ever before in the history. of
baseball. It s too bad Hutt the matter
of electing a president should interfere
thus with the national sport
» » •
Ad Brennan, the Phillies’ diphtherial
patient, is out of quarantine, but will
not play any more this year. I
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 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 put'out 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.”
• * *
Garry Herrmann has. put the kibosh
on the scheme of having two hall clubs
in Cincinnati. “Think what It would
mean if both of them were going bad!”
said Garry.
• • •
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 the next day, so they sav. 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?”
• • •
Ray Pendleton, star football and base
ball player at Princeton, ntav become a
vear e *** the ® nd the comin 8 college
Again there is talk that Olsen will go
~m th ', ank ees. It is said that the deal
will be closed at the end of this season.
i T . r "" my McMillan and Lellvelt
est the Rochester team, it has been
wabbling and the fans are yelling at Gan
zel for turning these men over to the
! i ankees.
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 has been
put in shape for the events. Racing
drivers who are already here pronounce
it one of the fastest ever offered.
I he committee in charge of the race
has spent about $3,000 a mile on the
eoutse a total of $24,000 —in making
it fast and safe. Entries for Hie grand
prize race close September 10 and for
the other events September 14
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