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Citadel Team Is “An Unknown” Here in Atlanta
Tech’s ' First Opponent May Be Troublesome
By Percy 11. Whiting.
UtHEN tin- schedule of the
/ Georgia Institute of Tech
nology football team was
published this year it led tight off
with a game against the Citadel
team at Charleston.
Whereupon Tech rooters a ose
and inquired, "What is this cita
del. anyhow ?"
We couldn’t really say for sure
Most of us in Atlanta presumed
that it was sort of a glorified prep
school, w ith an odd name A giant e
at the Southern Intercollegiate
Athletic association year book for
1911, however, demonstrates that
the Citadel Is a member of that
organization—and the S. I A A.
as its name indicates, is supposed/
to be a college organization.
The annual enrollment of the
Citadel Is from 250 to 800. From
this number of men a squad of 35
to 40 usually turns out and from
this number the team must bly se
lected.
• * •
QF last year's citadel team the
following men will return:
Antley, fullback; Boykin, Fol
ger, Gibson, Sease and Martin,
backs; Ruso, Holmes and Wallace,
ends; Knapp. Stanton. McWhotter,
Brunner and Woods, in the line.
They are all veteran players, and
Antley, Folger, Gibson and Martin
are stars All four are fast and
strong, with good records
How these men will class with
Tech's best we shall know later.
The opinion in Charleston is that
they will stack right up alongside
the best the Yellow Jackets can
offer.
♦ ♦ •
epHE Citadel should pick up some
good men In this year's fresh
man class Some of the players
who are being counted on from
that organization are: Whitestone,
of St. Matthews High school; Bol
•t'm, of Greenwood High school,
both with "reps" as backs. ScalTt
and Strohecker, of the t'hn’leston
High school: Mlgood, of Liberty;
Willis, of Rock Hill, and Carroll,
of Bennettsville Walsh and Duck
ett. of the line, and Shuler and
Robinson, backs, of last year’s
team, were graduated in June, but
the team this year should be
stronger than eve . despite tills
loss. The Citadel second team will
provide good men for the gaps
* * *
cpHE Clta.d< squad has been
practicing all this we< k Tw. n
ty-five men turned out at the first
call, fifteen of whom hung over
from last year.
The team this year is under the
coaching of Captain I.< Ti lli< ■. of
the faculty. He is a I’nhirc. i of
Virginia man and had had th< ti im
in his care for tw< yea’s
The schedule of the Clta • ; this
year embraces game- with To '■ on
October 5. at Chari, -ton; i’nlvt-r
--sity of Georgia, at Athens, on Oc
tober 12; Clemson, at Clemson, on
October 26. College of Charicston
here, on November 16, and I nive -
sity of South Carolina, at Colum
bia. on November 2 s .
• • ♦
THE Citade. has been g
working its way up in S-mth
en athletic.- Thre. rears . r ■ it
■was hardly known in an ath . tic
way outside the state Sit • that
time it has gone in for all forms f
collegi sport j n , arnrst
Citadel < even.- are usually light.
Le-t year's are .g. perh.if
pounds. This year’s mar b< som.--
what heavier, but not matt'.., iy
Coach LeT< lller teaches fnlv.-r
--sily of Viginia football -tri. t r.
develops »p,,.dy and gritty teams
and trains them < ar< ful x
The games at Charleston are
played in the park used formerly by
the South Atlantic league teams.
Os course, the early games there
are generally warm weather affairs
and the local team usually takes it
easy, but this year an especial ef
fort will be made to get the team
in trim for the Tech’game. Charleß
ton is eager to see the Tech team
play and will turn out a good
crowd. The burg is a good football
town ven if It didn't amount to
much at baseball. There is organ
ized looting at all games, a mili
tary brass band and considerable
society fol-de-rol.
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COME idea of what may be ex
pected of the general run of
Citadel teams may be judged by
FODDER FOR FANS
Nobody has been able to find out
whether It was a coromr’s jury or a Car
negic medal commission which was con
ducting the investigation to find out who
killed Bugs Raymond.
Some time the hig leagues will wake
up to themselves and refuse to allow anj
of their teams to pluv exhibition games
• luring the season The other day Wash
ington and the Reds plaxed one in Cin
cinnati that whs a disgrace to civilization
Thirteen men reached first base on er
rors Games like that mean a thousand
dollars In gate receipts ami ten thousand
dollars damage to the game.
» • •
Garnett Bush has been released by
President Lynch as a National league
umpire. Over in the western half of the
circuit thev say it Is because he did not
make a lilt with the Giants
The New York State league race is
oyer, but nobody knows for sure whether
I’tlca won the pennant or merely got a
tie with Wilkesbarrc Manager Bill t’lv
mer claims that I dea played and got
credit for <>ne mor< game than the
schedule called for. lie has referred this
protest to Secretary Karrell, of the na
tional commission.
• • •
the (cams in the Appalachian
league haxe planked down their protec
tion tee and are set for another season.
• • •
They say the reason I'iVe Altizer can
not make it a go in major league com
pany is that he is too temperamental
Ask an umpire and he will tell you Dave
is a crab. Ask the big leaguers and they
agree that Altizer lacks only the nerve
♦ • ♦
Lovely time in Denver the other day
Pitcher Hicks, of Omaha, hit Third Base
man Quillen, of Denver, twice In the
same gam. on the bean with a pitched
ball Quillen thm threw his bat at Hicks
Th»’ pitcher picked up Hie weapon and
started on the run for Quillen, bans and
poli.’G poured on the grounds, ami a large
time whs had by dll
• • w
Kitty Bransfield will not manage Mon
treal next y ear, ami President Sam
Liehtenhcin, of the Canadian club, would
like to get Harry Smith, of Newark, as
n Ogul H’am-fl< fd \\ ill pr- babh pop up
somewhere as manager or mogul,
Montgomery will play two games at
MANY GEORGIA VETERANS
ON HAND FOR PRACTICE
A I HI- XS GA.. Sept 12 The first
■ ' ill ' ■ th • for G< orgia was held
y<’ste>xla> afternoon on a rather wet
field on Sanfo .1 Flats, light work,
charging punting being the
I order The box - xxerc in nexx uniforms
land looked good
Tin <dd men, regulars and it’strws of
last year who were pr-sent, are Pap
tain ' IFri" Peaco. k, Bob McWhmte
Tlnnm Bowden, .1 B Conyers. El
Broyles of Atlanta. Bill Arneti Erwin
Wood. E McWhorter and Joe Parrish
I De.aporriere has not shewn up.
Hene.er-on, the big Gordon man,
I how • x■ r, was in uniform »and took a
liveij interest in the proc< edit gs
C veland Norton, a m< r Bing
I star quieter, was also out, as a new
Iman Wheatley, from stone Mountain;
IM Dors, x- of \thens. Albert Peacock.
I. is i pound felloxx from Columbus
■ r to Howell Peacock, a , among
i tb< new men
FINN TO WEAR OLD GLORV.
Ni " T< >RK .-■■ • 18 Hans K
" ’ ii-r. t' • great Finnish runner, who
I m.• xt. x snatched victory from
I an t c cis: H,e runners In the
•• ' ii’.• _ l' ii. ■ w ill proliablx compete
•' " r ’’ the . .dors at the next Dlvm-
■ -ei Tin Int as been grante.l ar. g
-ttati. i: care !:■ m ttie \mateur Athletic
I r at w ". i. th, Irish American
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1912.
the scores made against strong
teams in recent years:
1909.
University of Georgia 0, Cita
del (l.
Clemson 17, Citadel 0.
Vnlverslty of South Carolina 11,
Citadel a.
1910.
Clemson 32, Citadel 0.
Wake Forest 5, Citadel It.
University of Florida 6. Cita
del 2,
1911.
Mercer 0. Citadel 5.
Clemson 18, Citadel 0.
University of South Carolina 0,
Citadel (l.
Pensacola this week.
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Lincoln has bought Mears, of Kansas
City, and Taylor, of the White Sox.
Murphy states that he has
been offered $30,000 for his new pitcher,
I’ierce, of Scranton, lb doesn’t say who
offered It to him, but doubth ss it was
bis I’hllly ulub. Bully financing, that.
* « a
M hen ’Matix Mclntx're xx.us informed
that lie must go to San Francisco from
t ’hlcago to finish out tin season, and w hen
he realized that after the season edded
he had to return to Staten Island again,
he said he xvas glad there was no league
in Siberia.
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The Cincinnati team doesn't get any
monopolx . n Cuban players The Braves
have signed Setter Angeio Gonzales, a
catcher, who is a full blooded (but not full
colored) Cuban. He is a catcher and has
Worked against major league teams this
year in games at Long Branch.
• » •
The Nashville and Birmingham teams
ha»l planned to play a postponed game
at Birmingham Wednesday*, but the at
tendance has been so bad there of late
that the game was called off
In New York they figure it out that,
the Giants have a swell chance tn win
the world’s championship. Down here
n<»hn<iy can see anything except the Sox
and we all see them distinctly.
• • ♦
I'tnpire Dineun states as his official
opinion that the Highlanders will go some
next year He believes that the team as
it stands today is not greatly Inferior to
the Red Sox
« * *
The Giants can win all the games they
have lett and still not touch the Cults’
record for games won in a single season.
The record mark Is 116
• » •
Whitts' the national commission waiting
for'.’ It might as well go ahead ami set
tle thi details about the world's series If
thev are afraid of any upsets they can
easily get insurance to protect them The
national commission Is the onlv baseball
organization In the world which does not
know- for sure xxhat teams have xvon the
pennants In the two big leagues.
« • *
Cincinnati has sent James Esmond to
Montreal.
McFARLAND-WOLGAST
BATTLE IS CALLED OFF
NEW YORK. Sept. 12 Threatened le
gal acti-m to prevent the proposed stag
ing of a bout between \d Wolgast, the
lightweight champion, and P&ckey Sic
Earland, in this city, on the ground that
it was in the nature of a prize fight,
was made unneuosary toda\ b\ the call
ing -tY ..f the bout, sulie.lule-’. to take pla. c
at Madist-n Square Garden, tin Scptvrn
her 27 (
Manager Hilly Gibson, < f the Garden
\thb tiu « lub. madu the announcement of
its abandonment He claimed that Wol
gas: i-.a.l i ♦ fusvd to live up to the terms
contract he signed when clibson
x\ns ir Catiillau. Mich, three we, ks ago.
Governor D x t< <<k initial action in the
- • mmunicatn ns t. Sheriff Marburger,
1 • >tri« t \tt"ii . y Whitman and the N- w
' ’ i rk state athletic commission, instruct
ing them to take such steps ns. lax* In
their power to piuvent what he consid
ered to be virtually a prize fight
STRONG NEGRO TEAMS TO
PLAY AT PONCEY PARK
The Atlanta Deppcns and the Athens
.nine. tw. strong negr.. teams, will plav
• I for the ehunipionship of the South at
I I'onee DeLeon park tomorrow and Satur
-1 Jay The Deppens have placed in At-
• I lanta for some tfm, and are known to be
I on. f the strong, st negro baseball teams
in the South How, ver. the Athens tenm
; .us -.one "ret ' and as strong rtvalrx ex-
I 'Sts Uetwein the two clubs it ls l.Kilx to
ARTHUR RAYMOND
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By William F. Kirk.
His frame was once a frame of steel
’ That turned into a frame of clay.
The hours he whiled as might a child
Living and laughing in today.
As babies chase bright butterfiles
He chased the phantom known as
Joy.
Pray pity him, you critics grim—
Remember, he was juST I a boy.
Who knows, in all the world of cant,
In all this world of right and wrong.
If those who preach and those who rant
Will hear a sweeter welcome song?
He was a wastrel, nothing more,
With strength Fate told him to de
stroy,
Rut you, still strong, who called him
wrong,
Remember, he was just a’boy.
Eddie Collins Steals
6 Bases in One Game
DETROIT, Sept. 12. —Second Base
man Collins, of the Philadelphia Ath
letics, established a season’s record for
stolen bases in one game when he pil
fered six sacks off Catcher Kocher In
i yesterday’s game with the Tigers.
When Umpire Connelly called Ty
Cobb out for stepping out of the bat
ter’s box in the third inning a rabid fan
in the stands hurled a pop bottle that
Struck the indicator handler in the
1 mouth. However, he was not badly
hurt, as the buttle struck the ground
■ and then bounded into his face.
SWELL GOLF EXPECTED
IN CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP
1 When the golfers play off from the
first tee at the East Lake course on
Saturday in the qualifying round for
’ the championship of the Atlanta Ath
letic club, some mighty good golf can
■. be expected. This tournament is the
biggest one of the year locally arid the
local golfers t v .their best to make a
, good showing a this tournament more
. than in any other.
The players will qualify from scratch
ami match play in the first Hight will
also be at scratch, the club handicaps
I applying in all the other Hights. As
’ main Hights as fill will be played.
i The first and second rounds of match
play must be played by September 20,
the semi-finals by September 21 and
the finals by September 22.
Hamilton G. Scott is the present club
champion and he xx ill be on hand to de
fend his title But he must play through
, the tournament to do so.
CHICK EVANS TURNS IN
LOW QUALIFYING SCORE
CHICAGO, Sept. 12 Cleverly played
rounds of 75 and 73 gave Charles Evans,
Jr., of the Edgewater Golf club, the best
’ qualifying score cup in the 36-hole medal
piny roun I of the eighteenth annual tour
nament of the Onwentsia dub, at Lake
Forest.
The Western champion led a field of
fift\-seven starters, with a total of 148
’ Pairings for the first round for the
Mnyflower cup:
Charles Evans. Jr., Edgewater, and
\\* E Clow. Jr., Onwentsia
Frazer Hale, Shokie, and C. B. Devol,
> Riverside
A Seckcl. Riverside, and Leo Maxwell,
i Exmo<-r. s
\\ . E Esan, ITxmoor, and Kenneth
Smith. Skokie.
Paul Hunter, Midlothian, and J. T.
Ling. Evanston.
<’ G Waldo. Jr. Brooklawn, and R.
11 Mclv »■< . - unisia.
W J Travis. Garden City, and J. M.
Tait, South Shore.
\ M Reed, Riverside, and Douglas
Smith. Skokie.
ANDERSON WINS FIRST
GAME AT PETERSBURG
PETERSBURG, VA Sept. 12.
Bunchitig fiiuc singles with a sacrifice
I tlx tn th- ninth Inning. Anderson.
I ch.impions of tin i.'arolina Association.
<lefc itcd Petersburg (Virginia league).
'I 3 to •' In the first us a scries of five
IGttcrx held the locals to three scratch
I . cits Though he was wild, fast field
' Ing behind him left runners on the
■bases. Hedgepeth xvas strong till the
■ I ninth
\ Batting of Mct’oy and Milllman, of
; : Andv! S’ in. I aeli of xx bom gut three hits
■out of f’iur times up, and base run
, filng ”f Simmons, of Petersburg,
Figures Show Giants To Be Equal of Red Sox
New Yorkers Harder Hitters and- Better Runners
By W. S. Farnsworth.
DOWN in this part of thb good
old U. S. nine fans out of
ten pick the Red Sox to
beat the Giant's in the world’s se
ries. The writer will also wager his
car fare on the Boston team, but,
getting right down to cold facts
and figures, the Giants seem to
have an even break.
Those who will back the Hub
team are banking on the pitching
of Joe Wood, Buck O'Brien and
young Bedient. And in doing so
they have overlooked the fact that
not one of the trio has had the ex
perience of participating in a
world’s series. But let's get right
doxvn to facts concerning the teams.
The Giants are heavier hitters
than the Red Sox and have shown
themselves better run-getters. For
instance, the Giant:, according to
the last figures published, which
was less than a week back, have
made 713 runs, while the Red Sox
have made but 674. At the time of
the figures the Red Sox had won
91 games against 87 for the Giants
and lost only one more game.
Giants Better on Bases.
On the bases the Giants are far
superior to any club in either
league. They have stolen 244 bases
against 162 for the Red Sox. In the
last world’s series the Giants’ base
running ability did not cut much
figure, for the simple reason that
they did not get on the paths.
Still, with their swatting ability,
the Giants ought to get a great
many more on the bags this time
than they did against Connie
Mack’s tribe.
Ther4 is only one department
that the Red Sox have it on the
Giants, according to the official
records, and that is in fielding. The
Giants defense has been very
shaky at times this season, and
they are tied with the lowly Bqp
ton Nationals in this department.
On the other hand, the Red Sox
are rated as second best fielders in
the American league. This may ac
count for the fact that the Red
Sox have won more games with a
xveaker hitting aggregation.
Don’t for a second get the im
pression by this statement that the
Boston outfit are not hart! and
timely hitters. They are only one
point behind the Giants in team
sxvatting. But the New Yorkers
are far ahead of them in extra base
clouts. The Giants have banged
forth wallops for 461 extra bases
against 431 for the McAleer clan.
The Giants are far better base
runners. According to the figures,
the best pilfer worker on the Bos
ton team is Tris Speaker. He is
third in the American league. No
other Hubite is listed among the
first ten. On the other hand, the
Giants have a monopoly on the
base stealing averages in the Lynch
organization. Among the first ten
are Doyle, Snodgrass. Devore. Mur
ray. Herzog and Becker.
Pitchers Are a Problem.
Right down to here the Giants
surely appear to have a shade on
the Red Sox. So now it is up to
the pitchers. Will the Giants be
able to hit as hard against Wood.
O’Brien and Bedient as they have
against the National league's best
hurlers? That's a question only
time alone xxill solve.
And will the Red Sox he able to
beat Mathewson. Marquard and
Tesreau as they have Walsh, Ford,
Gregg, Johnson and Plank? May
be so and maybe not.
Boston has other pitchers besides
Wood. O'Brien and Bedient who
are wonders Collins and Hall are
both bearcats when going right,
on the other hand, the Giants have
no one they can rely un outside of
Matty, Rube and Big Jeff. And I
doubt if they will be able to bank
on any pitcher but Mathewson.
Marquard verily has blown. That
record voyage about busted him up
for the season, at least. Tesreau’s
case is a problem. He may be the
hero of the series and he may blow'
up entirely.
Matty Is Giants' Mainstay.
So it looks from this angle as
though McGraw will have to stake
his stack on- Mathewson practical
ly all by his lonesome. And Mat
ty sure was a cinch for the Bos-
NEWS FROM RINGSIDE
John Wille, who the sporting scribes •
throughout the West have christened the I
"destroyer of white hopes,” owing to the I
easy manner in which he has been pol- r
ishing off all the (‘rack men he has been 1
meeting during the past year, has been
matched to fight ten rounds with Fred
Fritts, the champion of the naw, in New I
York, next Monday night. Wiile fought
a ten-round draw with Al Kubiak here
last winter.
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Eddie McGoortx has been matched to
try out .Jack Harrison, middleweight ■
champion of England, in a. ten-round bout ■
the Garden Athletic club, in New I
lork, September 23. This battle will l
mark Harrison's American ring debut.
Billy Papke, of Kewaneei Is to get back ;
into action soon. lie is going East in
a fexv days for a six-round mill with Leo)
Houck, the Lancaster star, at I'hila.li I i
phia, on September 27. On October 1 Hilly j
will sail with his manager. Al Lippe, for;
I’aris. to get ready for a t wenty-round i
contest with George Carpentier fur the
championship of Europe on October 24.
• * •
If many more fake bouts are allowed
The Telegraph Operator B
says his nerves are B
always steady as B
a dock when he
has Drummond
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NATURAL LEAF
CHEWING TOBACCO I
Gl&ao Cc-; P
ton team in 1908, when the int -
city series took place and which
Red Sox won in a canter.
If Tesreau "stays on the ground'’
he is likely to prove a hard nut fnr
the Red Sox to crack. He hn- t
corking spitter and the wet fling i>
not to the liking of the Beant-.v n
batsmen. But O’Brien has a peai h
erino spitter and the Giants hnve
never been able tn do much agai:i.-t
such delivery, either.
It may just be that these spit
ball artists will decide the cham
pionship.
•
such as the one staged at the Orleans
Athletic club, in New Orleans, Moi.
the boxing game will go dead in that
\\ illie Gibbs and Frankie Russell
allowed to stall through ten rounds, u: •
both officials and fans new it wa
croked match. Both pugs were i -
contest. Russell's manager had a
placed on Gibbs, according to reports i: ;
the ringside.
♦ ♦ ♦
It isn’t difficult to figure which . ’'
lightweights, Joe Mandot or Willie 1
iv, is the most anxious to get Ad W
trast in the ring at Los Angele;. ■■.
Thanksgiving day.
Mandot’s manager, Harry Coleman. . s
$6,500 for allowing the New Orb ans 1
till this engagement, while Billy N ’.
looking after the interests of Rib ■
wim is credited with a victory over N
dot* says that wijl be s<
joyed at the prospect of battling t
lightweight championship that he v
work tor $2,500.
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Jack Britton shaded Willie PeecN r in
a ten-round bout and Johnny Marte was
outpointed by Phil Cross recently.