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Vanderbilt Students Confident McGugin Will Give ’EmWinner >; ASHVILLE, TENN., Sept. 23. is no special air of confidence ~, , lt the Vanderbilt camp this early the season, except the general con i, n ce of the Commodores that, Mc llgin will fix ft all up ail right. They ,vc seen him in decidedly worse sit- Aions and seen successful teams 1 t. and they expect to see another , but are not too sure about it. The problems are hard to meet, he e must be a new quarter, two or r, linemen and an end. The end ■ r ,position is not so very difficult, but , other two are causing much con rr Stein Stone has been retained eially to work on Vanderbilt’s t h, r light line material and put it in thting shape. It is probable that in the early scrub ones the coach will use Dale Mor ?on. younger brother to the departed as quarter, and also have urlin, of drop kick fame, and Rob n? a substitute for the past three •ars, tried in the place. The back 1,1 will remain unchanged, with Coi ns, Hardage and Sikes. In the line. Buddy Morgan, who is iw down to 200 pounds even, will be renter, and Tom Brown and Joe ovington, of last year's squad, will be i. Alexander and Reyer, freshmen, Huffman, a sophomore, will be tried ft. In the end positions. Nuck Brown will nr his old place back, while Martin hester and Peck Tuiner, last year's ar scrubs, will be tried at the other id. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Games Today. Minneapolis in Milwaukee. St Paul in Kansas City, only games scheduled. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. PC. W. L. PC. I polls 104 59 .639 M’kee. 78 84 .4,6 idc.lo ,98 66 .570 S. Paul 77 90 .410 '9B 68 .560 L'ville. 66 101 .361 City 84 82 .512 I’apolis 56 111 .289 Yesterday's Results. I.rjisville 3. Indianapolis 2 (first gamg. ) Indianapolis 2, Louisville 0 (second Kansas City 7. St. Paul 0 (first game.) St Paul 6. Kansas City 5 (second game) Milwaukee 5. Minneapolis 0 (first game) Milwaukee 4. Minneapolis 2 (second CHAMBERS OUTLINES HIS VIEWS ON MUNICIPAL PROBLEMS CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR ISSUES STRONG STATEMENT TO THE PEOPLE OF ATLANTA: Several days since I made a statement which referred to some of the things which the Government of Atlanta had recently undertaken, partly completed and part still under construction. I now feel that it is proper to go a little more extensively into what ought to be done within the next two years. TAXATION. lam opposed 4o any increase in the tax rate. The worst strain on the city treasury occasioned by the exten sion of the limits, providing sinking fund and interest on new bond issue, etc., has been met and overcome. A read justment of the tax system, so that Atlanta pays only its just proportion of the state ad valorem taxes, will give us ample money without increasing the amount paid by any one. HEALTH. Every encouragement ought to be given to our health, sanitary and hospital officials in their efforts to eradicate and prevent disease. The crematory will be completed so that by another summer no garbage dumps will be left in any part of the city. The sewers should be built with in creasing rapidity so that no earth closets can be found with in the city. The best facilities obtainable should be added to the equipment of the Sanitary Department, such as ad ditional automobile trucks, so that the garbage and trash can be gathered with increasing efficiency and dispatch. The Grady, Detention, Contagious Disease and Tuberculo sis hospitals ought all to be supplied with every needed im provement in the way of equipment so that every sick per son can receive immediate and adequate attention. New methods of prevention should be installed as rapidly as pos sible and every facility afforded the people to ascertain what can be done to prevent infection and contagion. SCHOOLS. Additional grammar schools are already needed in sev eral sections of the city—attesting the rapid growth of our population. They should be built without unnecessary de lay. The Girls’ High School and Boys’ High School build ings are out of date, and there is no Technological High School building. We must and will have as early as possible, modern buildings, spacious grounds, ample light and air for these institutions. STREETS. There is nothing of more importance to the conven ience of the people as a whole than broad, well-paved thor oughfares. Many of our leading streets are too narrow, and every encouragement should be given to the ideal of widening wherever economically possible. Grades should be changed on many streets, and then permanent pave ments put down. There should be special attention given to the plan already under way to build boulevards from Clemson Has No Kick Over Material; Plenty Os Heavy Men Report CLEMSON COLLEGE. Sept. 23 There is something doing on the Clem son gridiron these fine fall afternoons. Much of the added enthusiasm is due to the presence of the new assistant coach. Pat Murphy,' who looks every inch his name. The jolly good Irish man. if such he be, hails from the Uni. versity of Pennsylvania, where he was plunging lineman of no small note. Coach Murphy will give his entire at tention to the coaching of the line, while Coach Dobson will handle the back field. It is customary in some quarters to send out a wail at the beginning of the season of the poor prospects, no matter whether the grounds are sufficient or not. There is no need to complain at Clemson this year on the score of lack of material. There is plenty of it here of excellent caliber. The only ques tion Is getting the men out. Sixty or seventy men have been out on the grounds, and now that things are look ing more hopeful, it is likely that many more will come out. Logan and Doc Ezell, both six-foot ers, are trying for places in the back field. They both look good. Parker is making a try for center, and Turbe ville is showing good form at right guard. The Big Race Here is the up-to-the-minute dope on how the "Big Five” batters of the American league are hitting: PLAYERS— A. B. H. P. C. COBB 527 215 .408 SPEAKER 538 210 .390 JACKSON 536 205 .382 LAJOIE 404 140 .347 COLLINS 498 163 .337 Collins was the only "Big Five" hit ter to play yesterday. The Athletics’ second baseman got five bingles out of seven trips to the plate. axuS ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. SEETEMBKK 23. 1912 Tech Coach Tells of Football Practice Under New Rules HEISMAN’S WEEKLY REVIEW OF GRIDIRON GAME By J. W. Heisman. Tech's Football Coach. IT is interesting to note what va rying possibilities of play, under the new rules for 1912, are pre senting themselves to the minds of the various coaches, as manifested by the different kinds of practice they appear to be putting in. At Harvard, for instance, they are putting in a tremendous amount of time daily on punting and study ing the kicking game generally. But the on-side kick being elimi nated this year—at least, the usual one of the last five years—there ap pears little left in the rules to make it worth while putting in extra practice on punting of any kind, so long as a team has a man of rea sonable proficiency in putting them high and far. Goals from the field are also relatively on the decline, so there is not likely to be nearly so much time spent by any of the teams on this sort of work. And no matter how high and far a punter puts them, his own side has no right to even touch the ball until it has first been touched and fumbled by the other team, and in the classy circle that Harvard moves In they don't fumble punts after touching them. Then. too. as Harvard will be permitted four trials tn which to advance the ball ten yards by rushing, the same as is permitted every other team, it is difficult to see what they can have up their sleeve in going through so much punting practice. Well, well; no doubt we shall see what we shall see. * ♦ ♦ Princeton Tigers’ Pick-Up Game. p EPORT has it that at "Old Nas *' sau" they are putting in a mo ment or two each day on picking up a loose ball on the roll, on the run. on the bound and every other way, instead of falling on it as we used always to do in the good old days. Well, that sort of game paid well for Princeton last year, as, it won the parks to the various sections of the city, and from the center to all sections, especially the parks. Bridges and underpasses ought also to be built wherever needed so that as far as possible grade crossings can be eliminated. Not enough attention has been given in the past to repair work. When a street is paved or graded, it should be kept in re pair. This general scheme of public improvements should be projected on large lines, and we should build not only for the present, but for the future. In doing this, it is of course necessary that we should be subjected to’some tem porary inconvenience, but the spirit of broad citizenship, which builds the city, and maintains it, will patiently and cheerfully give it full co-operation. PARKS. No municipal property can be of more real value to our people than our parks. In various sections of the city and adjacent territory Atlanta owns nearly two thousand acres of land. It ought all to be improved. Not only is this important as an advertising asset, but the neople find in the parks rest and recreation. As the population be comes denser, the importance of parks becomes greater and more apparent. A well devised general plan of improve ment should be agreed upon, and work to this end begun at once. The driveways in our parks which have already been laid out should be constructed with permanent mate rials so that repairs are not so often necessary, and then the energies of the department be devoted to other lines of development. The Lakewood improvements need no comment here, as this matter is in the hands of the people themselves, and can be voted on by them in December. WATERWORKS. Atlanta draws her water supply from the Chattahoo chee watershed. On this watershed are many thousands of people, and this population is rapidly increasing. It is therefore of supreme importance that a plan should be inaugurated whereby the city may acquire a watershed of her own, which for all time will preserve our water supply from contamination. ECONOMY. In the conduct of the affairs of the city the same rules of rigid economy which apply to every business ought to be enforced. Public improvements must go on, but there must be neither waste of the city’s money or the citizens’ time. Every improvement that is started ought to be finish ed within a reasonable time, and all contingencies ought to be foreseen and provided against so that the several de partments of the government and the public service cor porations do not get in each other’s way. CO OPERATION. Inasmuch as the county taxes are largely raised in the city, and the great majority of the population of the county both her Yale and Harvard games for her and, incidentally, the cham pionship. So it's not to be wondered at that they deem it worth a fur ther trial this year. But Princeton should observe that by the new rules possession of the ball counts for a deal more again than it did last year; and. that being the case, every effort and care should be made and taken to get possess-on whenever oppor tunity present.-. There Is a big risk of not getting the ball at all every time a player tries to pick it up from the ground instead of fall ing upon it, and a sure falling on it by Yale or Harvard this year may mean that in the four or more trials that will follow the securing of the ball, it may be shot across Princeton's goal line for a touch down and the game. But if Princeton has another Sam White who can always pick it up without fail, and get away for an unassisted touchdown, of course she may win more Yale and Har vard games by this method than she. will lose in falling on the ball. It’s a two-edged sword, and you simply take your choice of which edge you prefer to risk. . ♦ ♦ ♦ Commodores Throwing The Pigskin Some. itrH learn that Vanderbilt put in * ’ almost her entire second day on the field this fall by making mile long forward passes and sprinting the players down under them, to see if they couldn’t get there by the time the ball had arrived. Well, all that is permissible enough under the new rules, and, provided you have the long, sure passer, the fleet, sure catcher, and the line that can hold while the ball Is being de layed in the back field a sufficient length of time to permit the eligi ble catchers to get away down the field, why, then, it's fine business. If you figure that you have a bunch of men who can do all these things, it will certainly be well worth while to put in some time on extra long forward passes; but unless your material is adapted to every phase of this work you will find the play a real and perfect boomerang—the ball coming right back to where it started from, either returned with much polite ness by the referee or with rude ness by opponents’ full back. * « • Concerning Weight of Players This Year. -p HAT all coaches are agreed as to the extreme utility of avoir dupois is clearly indicated by the efforts all are making to crowd on every last ounce of the stuff that they can get hoffi of. and by the wall that Is going up from those who have none to put on. That's about the only fault 1 have to find with the new rules. They make the game largely a matter of man to man superiority, instead of team superiority. The First Game Os the Season. tN Atlanta the first gatne of the season comes next Saturday. This will be between Tech and the Eleventh cavalry team from Fort Oglethorpe, and if you don't know where that Is we will stop for a moment to impart that It is near to that dear old rival-—Chattanooga. But, thank the Federal government, if Tech is beaten by the soldier boys it will be by a team from our own state, for the fort, you must know, is at Dodge, Ga„ not Chat tanooga. Already the reader is asking him self: "Does he really mean to in timate that there is a chance for the cavalrymen to ride rough shod over the Yellowjackets?” Yes. my dear sir; it Is not merely the inti mation of a chance, but the plain statement, of a probability; for you must know that this Eleventh cav alry team is picked from I don't know how many hundreds of ma tured men —not boys; that the very nature of their work and vocation keeps them in tiptop condition; Heisman to Write for The Georgian Here is the first of “Heisman’s Weekly Review of Gridiron Game.” It contains many interesting facts about how the big colleges are forming their plans under the new rules. The Georgian will print every Monday a story by Coach Heisman, who. as instructor of tootball at Tech, is recognized in the South as Yost is in the West and Haughton in the East. that a •preliminary training season for the college boys will have been on but a couple of weeks, and that they can't have acquired much real conditioning as yet; that on ac count of the game coming so early in the season the college boys will not have had time or opportunity to imbibe much more theory, or team play, or strategy, than have the soldiers, and so what advan tage a college team is generally supposed to have in this respect will not as yet have had a chance to develop. When you add to these facts a statement that only about four of Tech's team this year are regulars from last year, and that no first elass new men have yet put in an appearance, and that the team as it stands today will average about 155 pounds, whereas It is highly probable that the cavalrymen will average something like 175 —and you can judge for yourself which way the main chance of the game lies. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Today. No games scheduled Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P C W L. p.c Boston .98 44 .690 Detroit .68 76 472 Wash. . .87 58 .600 C'land. .68 76 .172 I’hila . 85 59 .590 N. York 48 9.1 .340 Chicago .70 72 .493 8. Louis 48 94 .338 Yesterday's Results. Washington 6, Chicago 3 (first game.) Washington I. Chicago 1 (second game.) I’htlr.Olphia 8. St. Loots 2 (first game.) Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 1 (second game.) Other games postponed: rain. READ FDR PROFIT USE FO3 RESULTS. GEORGIAN WANT ADS is located in the city, it has always seemed to me proper and right that the county authorities should do a great deal of permanent improvement work inside the city limits. This being true, I have advocated such a system of co-op eration as would not interfere with the county authorities determining the best method and order of doing work, but that they should do such improvement work in the city as was agreed upon between the two bodies. This plan has resulted in much sewer work, and in doing these things without friction. I think this ought to be continued, and if elected mayor shall see to it that the city does its part to get the desired results from this source, and in this way the city’s forces can be kept largely on repair work. There should be the closest co-operation between the several de- Sartments of the city government in all matters, and there y much lost motion and money can be saved. POLICE DEPARTMENT. Our police authorities should be encouraged in their efforts to break up crime. At the same time, we should institute methods for increasing the facilities of this de partment, whereby discriminations between the criminal and the merely unfortunate may be made, to the end that our efforts will result in prevention and correction, rather than making criminals. FIRE PROTECTION. There should be an increase of modern equipment in the Department of Fire, which is both more economical and efficient than the present use of horses. New signals should be installed, and new houses established, in those sections now without adequate protection. PUBLICITY. The public should know everything their officials are doing. To this end, I will have published regularly a mu nicipal record which will contain all the expenditures of money, and other improvements. This record to be dis tributed to the citizens, free. There should be given to every citizen of this city the same degree of attention that he would receive in any well regulated business concern. There must be at the city hall such officials as will be able to give the proper direction to every one having business with any department, so that there will be no delays, and no lost motion. I submit these propositions as being matters of very great importance to our people at this xime, and ask you to carefully consider them. If elected mayor, I will give the office all of my time, and the best efforts of which I am capable. An active par ticipation in the city government for four years has famil iarized me with the details of the departments, and their needs. I believe that I can be of service to the taxpayers of the city in the administration of their affairs. ALDINE CHAMBERS. Tech's losses this year have been something to marvel over. Not only have nine out of thirteen "T" men gone, but twenty out of the whole varsity squad of 28 men of last year have made their get-away. Out of a total of 109 men who re ported for practice at some time or other last year 82 of them have, thus far at least, failed to put in an appearance on the athletic field this season. Add to this the fact that no new material of worth has presented itself, and you are bound to have some idea of what Tech is up against in a football wav this fall. But the boys have the spunk; they are no< much for either weight, speed or experience, but they are long on spirit. I wouldn't ask for grittier men than the ’five "T' men we hold over, and their united example is going to give the youngsters the right Idea—of that I am satisfied. You may not see Tech win many football games this fall, but you are going to see some awfully hard and mighty game fights in Atlanta. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. Cincinnati in Boston, St. Louis in Brooklyn. Pittsburg in New York. Chicago in Philadelphia Standing of tha Clubs. W. L. P.C w l. P.C N. York 97 45 .683 Phila. .67 74 .47$ Chicago .87 54 .617 S. Louis 59 84 .413 P'burg. .87 56 .608 Br'klyn 52 88 .871 C'natl. . .73 70 .511 Boston .46 97 .325 Yesterday's Results, No games scheduled. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUfe. Standing of the Clubs. W. 1,. P C. W L. P C. Toronto 91 62 .595 Buffalo. .70 77 .476 Roch. .86 66 .566 M’treal. 69 80 .463 N'wark. 79 71 .527 .1. Cftv .70 82 461 B'more. .74 74 .500 P'dence. 61 88 .402 Yesterday’s Results. Newark 1. Jersey City 0 (first game.) Jersey City 5, Newark 2 (second game.) 7