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Citadel Team Is “An Unknown” Here in Atlanta
Tech’s First Opponent May Be Troublesome
By Percy H. Whiting.
UTHEN the schedule of the
I Georgia Institute or Tech
nology football team was
published this year it led right off
with a game against the Citadel
team at Charleston.
Whereupon Tech rooters arose
•nd 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, with an odd name A glance
at the Southern Intercollegiate
Athletic association year book for
1911, however, demonstrates that
the Citadel is a member of that
organization—and the 8. I. A. A,
as its name Indicates, is supposed
to be a college organization.
The annual enrollment of the
Citadel Is from 250 to 300. From
this number of men a squad of 35
to 40 usually turns out ami from
this number the team must be se
lected.
♦ • •
last year’s Citadel team the
following men will return:
Antley. fullback; Boykin, Fol
ger, Gibson, Rease and Martin,
backs; Buse, Holmes and Wallace,
ends: Knapp. Stanton. McWhorter,
Brunner and Woods, in the line.
They {tre all veteran players, and
Antley, Folger, Gibson and Martin
are stars. Al! 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.
• • •
cpHi: 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
ton, of Greenwood Higfi school,
boih with "reps" as backs. Scaffe
and Stroheeker, of the Charleston
Higa st hool; Allgood, of Liberty;
Willis, of Rock Hl'l, 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 ev. . despite this
loss. The Cltad'l second team w ill
provide good men for the gaps
e * •
THE Citadel -q i.id ha-- been
A practicing all this week. Twen
ty-five men turned out at the first
eall, fifteen of whom hung over
from last year
The team this year is under the
Coaching of Captain LeTellier. of
the faculty. He is a University of
Virginia man and had bad the team
tn his care for two years.
The schedule of the Citadel this
yea embraces games with Tech, on
October 5. at Charleston. Univer
sity of Georgia, at Athens, on Oc
tober 12; Clemson, at Clemson, on
October 26. College of <’harleston.
here, on November 16. and Univer
sity of South Carolina, at Colum
bia. on November 25.
• • •
THE Citadel has been gradually
working its way up in South
ern athletic- Three years ago it
was hardly known in an athletfb
way outside the state. Since that
time it has gone in for all forms of
college sport in earnest
Citadel elevens are usually light.
Last year's averaged perhaps 160
pounds This year's may be some
what heavier, but not mate: ally
Coach LeTellier teaches Univer
sity of Vi ginla football strictly,
develops sj>eedy and gritty teams
•nd trams then: carefully
game# 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. Charles
ton is eager to see the Tech team
play and will turn out a good
crowd. Tlie burg is a good football
town ven if it didn't amount to
much at baseball. There is organ
ized rooting at all games, a mili
tary brass band and considerable
society fol-de-rol.
• • •
COME idea of what may be ex
pected of the general run of
Citadel learns may be judged by
FODDER FOR FANS ’
Nobody has been able to find out
whether it was a coroner’s jury or a Car
negie medal commission which was con
ducting the investigation to find out who
hilled Bugs Raymond.
• • •
Some time the big leagues will wake
up to themselves and iclu.-v to allow any
of their teams to play exhibition games
during the season. The other day Wash
ington and the Reds played one in Cln
cinnati that was a disgrace to civilization
Thirteen mon reached first base on er
rors. Games like that mean a thousand
dollars in gate receipts and ten thousand
dollars damage to the game.
• c •
Garnett Bush has been released by
President Lynch as a National league
umpire. Over in the western half of the
circuit* they say it is IA-au <■ he did not
make a hit with the Giants
The New York State league race is
oyer, but nobody knows for sure whether
Utica won the pennant or merely got a
tie with Wilkesharre Manager Hill Ulv
mor claims that Utica played and got
credit for one more game than the
schedule called for. He has referred this
protest to Secretary Farrell, of the na
tional commission
• • ■
All the teams in the Appalachian
league have planked down their protec
tion fee and are set for another season.
• • •
They say the reason Dave 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 vou Dave
Is a crab. Ask the big leaguers and they
agree that Altizer lacks onlv the nerve
• - *
Lovely time in Denver the other dav
Pitcher Hicks, of Omaha, hit Third Base
man Quillen, of Denver, twice in the
same game on the bean with a pitched
ball. Quillen then threw his bat at Hicks
The pitcher picked up the weapon and
Started on the run for Quillen Fans and
police poured on the grounds, ami a large
time was had hj all
• • *
Kitty Bransfield will not manage Mon
treal next year, and President Sam
Liehtenheln. of the Canadian chib, would
like to get Harry Smith, of Newark, as
mogul Bransfield will probably pop up
I somewhere as manager or mogul.
• » •
Montgomery will play two games at
MANY GEORGIA VETERANS
ON HAND FOR PRACTICE
ATHENS GA. Sent. 12 The first
football practice for Georgia was held
yesterday afternoon on a ■ allier wet
th id on Sanford Flats, light work,
charging and some punting being the
order The boys were in new uniforms
and looked Rood
The old men. regulars and reserves of
last year who were present, are Cap-
Mtn “Bmp” Peacock, Bob McWhorter
Timon Bowden, J B Conyers. El
Broyle* of Atlanta. Bill Arnett Erwin
Wood. E McWhorter and Joe Parrish
Delaperriere has not shown up
Henderson, the big Gordon man.
howeve . was in uniform and took a
lively lnt< test in the procet dings
Cleveland Norton, a former Bingham
star quarter, was also out. as a new
man. Wheatley’, from Stone Mountain:
Ed Dorsey, of Athens. Albert Peacock,
a 180-isiund f .low from Columbus,
b'other to Howell Beams k. a e among
the new men
FINN TO WEAR OLD GLORY.
NEW YORK, Sept 12 Hana Kohl
mainen. the great Finnish runner who
unexpectedly snatched victory from
\merlcan l< t .: da-tar.a» runners in the
Olympic gam. > will pr.lublv compete
under Y> nkee C. lot- at the next u|vm-
I mad The Finn has been granted a reg
I stratmn .ar., ft..tn th.- Amateur \thletic
lunt.'t at will ~. t tl:.- Irish Ameri> an
Athletic club, he -aid today
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN >INP NEWS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1912.
the scores made against strong
teams in recent years:
1909.
University of Georgia 0, Cita
del 0.
Clemson 17, Citadel fl.
University of South Carolina 11,
Citadel 5.
1910.
Clemton 32, Citadel n
Wake Fore'st 5, Citadel 11.
University of Florida 6. Cita
del 2.
1911.
Mercer 0. Citadel 5.
Clemson 18, Citadel 0.
University of South Carolina 0,
Citadel 0.
Pensacola this week
• •
Lincoln has bought Mears, nf Kansas
City, and Taylor, of the White Sox.
* • •
Charles Murphy states that he has
be--u offered S.’»O,OQO for his new pitcher,
Pierce, of Scranton. He doesn't say who
offered it to him. but doubtless it was
his I‘hilb club. Bully financing, that.
When Matty Mclntyre was informed
tliat lie must go to San Francisco from
Chicago to finish out the season, ami when
lie realized that after the season ended
he had to return so Staten Island again.
li<\ said lie was glad there was no league
in Siberia.
...
Ihe Cincinnati team doesn't get any
monopoly mi Cuban players The Braves
have signed Senor Angelo Gonzales, a
catcher, who is a full blooded (but not full
Colored I Unban He is a catcher and has
worked against major league teams this
year in games at Long Branch
« * •
Tlie Nashville and Birmingham teams
hud planned to play a postponed game
al Birmingham Wednesday, but the at
tendance lias been so bad' there of late
that the game was called off.
• • •
In New York they figure it out that
tlie Giants have a swell chance to win
tlie w..lid's championship. I town here
nobody can see any tbit g except tlie Sox
and we ail see them distinctly.
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Umpire Dineen 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 Hie games they
have left and still not touch the Cubs'
leeord so - games won tn a single season.
The record mark is 116
♦ ♦ *
Whats' the national commission waiting
for? It might as well go ahead and set
tle the details about the world’s series. If
thex are afraid of any upsets they can
easilx get insurance to protect them. The
national commission is the onlv baseball
organization in the world which dies not
know for sure what teams have won the
pennants in the two big leagues
• * •
Cincinnati has sent James Esmond to
Mont real.
McFARLAND-WOLGAST
BATTLE IS CALLED OFF
NEW YORK, Sept 12 Threatened le
gal action to prevent the proposed stag
ing of a bout between Ad Wolgast. the
lightweight champion, and Packex Me
Earland. in this city, on the ground that
11 was • the ’ "tiuie I i .<■ tighl,
was made unneuessarv today bx the call
ing off of the bout, scheduled to take place
at Madison Square Garden, on Septem
be:* 27
Mai.Mger Bills Gibson, of the Garden
Athletic club, mailt* the announcement of
Its abandonment He claimed that Wol
gasi - ad retused to live up to the terms
"l the contract hr signed when Gibson
m ca.'i’iai, Muh.. three weeks ago
<.overnor Dix 'ook initial action in the
yommunk ations to Sheriff Harbinger
I trict Vtto’ m \ Whitman and the New
Vuk state athletic commission. instrum-
Ing them to !ak< :u» 1. tens as lax in
their power to pn v<mt what hr consid
ered to br virtuallx a prize tight
STRONG NEGRO TEAMS TO
PLAY AT PONCEY PARK
The Atlanta Deppenx ami the Athens
nine, two strung negro teams, will play
for the championship of tlie South at
Ponce Del,eon park tomorrow and Satur
day Tile Deppetis have plal' <1 ill At
lanta for some time and are known to be
one of tile strongest negro has,-I,all teams
in the South However, the Athens (cum
I.as some "rep.' and as strong main ex
ist.- between tlie tw., Hubs it in likely to
b< a hutlj contested series.
ARTHUR KAYMONII
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 butterflies
He chased the phantom known as
Joy.
Pray pity him, you ‘critics grim—
Remember, he was just 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 w elcome song?
He was a wastrel, nothing more,
With strength Fate told him to de
stroy,
But 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
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 tlie stands hurled a pop bottle that
strut k the indicator handler in the
mouth. However, he was not badly
hurt, as the bottle struck the ground
and then bounded into his face.
SWELL GOLF EXPECTED
IN CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP
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 and the
local golfers try their best to make a
good showing in this tournament more
than in any other.
The players will qualify from scratch
and match play in the first flight will
also be at scratch, the club handicaps
applying in all the other flights. As
many Hights as fill will be played.
The first and second rounds of match
play must be played -by September 20.
the semi-finals by September 21 and
the finals by Septentm-r 22.
Hamilton G. Scott is the present club
champion anithe will be on hand to de
fend hi- title But he must play through
the tournament to do so,
CHICK EVANS TURNS IN
LOW QUALIFYING SCORE
CHICAGO, Sept 12. -Cleverly played
rounds <>( 75 and 73 gave Charles Evans.
It . of the Edge water Golf club, the best
qualifying score cup in the 36-hole medal
plax roun 1 of the eighteenth annual tour
nament of the Onwentsia club, at Lake
Forest.
The Western champion led a field of
fiftx -seven starters, with a total of 148.
Pairings for the first round for the
Max flow< r cup:
Charles Evans. Jr. Edge water, and
W E. Clow. Jr., onwentsia
Frazer Hale. Shokie. and C. R. Devol,
Riverside.
A Seckel, Riverside, and Leo Maxwell.
Exmoor.
W E. Egan. Exmoor, ami Kenneth
Smith. Skokit.
I’aul Hunter. Midlothian, and J. T.
Ling Evanston
C G. Waldo. Jr.. Brooklawn, and R
H Mu El wee. Onwentsia.
W*. J. ’Travis. tJarden City, ami J M
'Tait. South Shore
A M Reed. Riverside, and Douglas
Smith, Skokie.
ANDERSON WINS FIRST
GAME AT PETERSBURG
PETERSBURG. MA. Sept 12. -
B nehiiig foul singles with ti sacrifice
li> ui Hie ninth Inning. Andetvon
champions of tile Uaroiin i Association
■ i. it. <1 Petersburg (Virginia league).
: t" <> in the first of >i ries of five
Fitteri held the locals to three scratch
• nts Though lie was wild, fast field
ing behind him left runners on the
bases. Hedgepeth was strong till tin
ninth.
Batting of Mci'oi ami Milliman, of
Anderson, each of w liom got three hits
out of four times u|i, and baa. run
nit’k of Simmons, of Peteiaburg.
featui. d.
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 the good
old U. S. nine fans out of
ten pick the Red Sox to
beat the Giants 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
down to facts concerning the teams.
The Giants are heavier hitters
than the Red Sox and have shown
themselves better run-getters. For
instance, the Giants, according to
the last figures published, which •
was less than a week back, have
made 713 runs, while the Red Sox
have 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.
There 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 Bos
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
weaker hitting aggregation.
Don’t for a second get the im
pression by this statement that the
Boston outfit are not hard and
timely hitters. They are only one
point behind the Giants in team
swatting. 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 MeAleer 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 l.yncli
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.
('•'Brien and Bedient as they have
against the National league’s best
hurlers? That’s a questlan only
time alone will solve.
And will the Red Sox be able to
beat Mathewson. Marquard and
Tesreau as they haxe Walsh. Ford.
Gregg. Johnson and Plank May
be so and maybe not
Boston has other pitchers besides
Wood. O'Brien and Bi dient who
are wonders Collins and Hall are
both bearcats when going light
1 >n th< other hand, the Giants lia\<
no one they can rely on 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
’’destroyer of white hopes,” owing to the
easy manner in which he has been pol
ishing off all the crack men he has been
meeting iluring the past year, has been
matched to tight ten rounds with Fred
Fritts, the champion of the navy, in New
York, next Monday night. Wille fought
a ten-round draw with Al Kubiak here
last winter.
« « •
Eddie MeGoorty has been matched to
try out Jack Harrison, middleweight
champion of England, in a ten-round bout
at the Garden Athletic club, in New
York, September 23. This battle will
mark Harrison's American ring debut.
Billy Papke, of Kewanee, is to get back
into action soon. He is going East in
a few days for a six-round mill with Leo
Houck, the Lancaster star, at Philadel
phia. on September 27. On October 1 Biilv
will sail with his manager, Al Llppe, for
Paris, to get ready for a twentv-round
contest with George Carpentier for the
championship of Europe on October 24
♦ * •
If many more fake bouts are allowed
The Telegraph Operator B
says his nerves are |jj
always steady as J? H
a clock when he
has Drummond
DRUMMOND]
WATJRAL LEAF
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ton team in 1908, when the inter
city series took place and which the
Red Sox won in a canter.
If Tesreau “stays on the ground"
he is likely to prove a hard nut for
the Red Sox to crack. He has a
corking spitter and the wet fling is
not to the liking of the Beantown
batsmen. But O’Brien has a peach
erino spitter and the Giants have
never been able to do much against
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, Monday,
the boxing game will go dead in that city.
Willie Gibbs and Frankie Russell wera
allowed to stall through ten rounds, when
I both officials and fans new it was a
croked match. Both pugs were hissed
l from the ring and the fight declared no
contest. Russell’s manager had a bet
placed on Gibbs, according to reports from
the ringside.
• « *
It isn’t difficult to figure which of the
lightweights, Joe Mandot or Willie Ritch
’ ie, is the most anxious to get Ad Wol
; gast in the ring at Los Angeles on
I 1 hanksgiving day.
1 Mandot's manager, Harry Coleman, asktf
$6,500 tor allowing the New Orleans boy to
fill this engagement, while Billy Nolan,
looking after the interests of Ritchie,
who is credited with a victory over Man
dot, says that his boy will be so over
i joyed at the prospect of battling for the
I lightweight championship that he will
| work for $2,500.
• • ♦
Jack Britton shaded Willie Beecher in
a ten-round bout and Johnny Marte waj
outpointed by Phil Cross recently.