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Chicago, oct 3. vviiai is the national pastime we hear so much about'.’ To the wild ass of the bleachers and the cornl'ed boob in the boxes it is a game of science, skill and saliva between two tennis of profusely illustrated young men with red necks and freckles. To the insider the whole Institution, from top to bottom, Is founded on bull ton. booze, bone heads and alibis; and tin greatest of these is the alibi After listening to the almost ante mortem outcroppings of Mr. Fogel. Mr. Murphy, Mr. Herrmann, Mr. Hedges and other game sports, we have reached the foregoing painful conclusion. Because the Phillies did not win the pennant Pinch Presi dent Fogel of Pint powerful organl z.atlon bursts Into print with the statement that President Lynch of the National league sold three um pires to McGraw, and that the trio handed the Giants 21 games they did not win. Whether this be bull con, booze, bonehead or alibi, or an aggravated attack of all four, we ar< unable to state, one thing is cei tain Hull. Fogel should be pos ing a.s the star model in a sausage factory instead of besmirching tin national p isllme in til its beauty anti purity Likewise Innocence “Herrmann's Case Pathetic." The ea.se of Mr Herrmann Is pa thetic He too, Is In the alibi class, having complained to President Lynch that Empire I'inneran cussed Play r Egan instead of Player Egan cussing the umpire Becitmi of this discrepancy in the dope developed in the last week of the season, the unhappy Reds failed to cop th<> pennant Curses' The I> .tint <>f Mr. Herrmann should car ry great weight He is chairman of the national commission, an Elk of international renown and a gentle man of high literary attainments. It i« said Mr Herrmann can rend the label on any bottle in any Eng lish speaking buffet in the i'nlted States What is more to the point, Larry M< Lean, the brilliant young Red backstop, has been known to Inhale tin gasoline night and day for weeks and weeks ami still keep from skidding The alibi In this case is ci'in>>>< :e Poor Mr 1> dges is to be pitied. He is th< m tint of a wicked con spiracy. Every year he purchases forty or fifty bush league artists al *3 per head, though other clubs In the same league sometimes go as high as $4.50 per promising young athlet' on the hoof. At the start of each season the Browns plunge to the bottom and stay there. Tin reason for this Is that the American league umpires hay. Instructions to give the Browns the short end of all decisions The idea is to drive Mr. Hedges out of the baseball bm Im ss and compel him to peddle Salvation Army song hits for a bare subsistence Say. can you beat ft’ “Rum-Ciazed Cubs Win Flags." We now touch on the melancholy sorrows of Mr Murphy His rum crazed ruins won four pennants and two big tlag- while tin milk-fe. Sox. full of che' s. tumors landed one pennant and one world s flag The last woid in alibi is due to the faer the Cuba were unable to gr ib all the pennants what is. Again, curses! Never has tin alcoholic alibi pestered Mr. t'omiskey and causi d him to squirm and welch, in the eyes of Mr. Murphy a plat ter of sarsaparilla is greater than a bonded warehouse within the broader vision of the convivial Mi •■"iniskey. V hat are I few b irrels »of booze to the old Roman lb Is tin modern Mo.-e- who smites the bung instead of the rock and refreshments gush forth Mr 1 omiskey i- a title sport. The annex to n,. ~Hn, , t ~r l ~t thron room, fitted with buttons that exude liquids when pushed. When the burden and heat of the pastime are elided the faithful creep into the throne room, sit at the feet of Mr. Cumiskey, sip his strong waters and tell him what a wonder he is. Does the demon rum lose pennants in the South Side? No. gentle reader; it wins them next season. Hope and high balls seethe eternal in the human chest down where the White Sox slump. “Murphy Broods Alone.” Let ns take a peek at the of Mr. Murphy. In the loop dis trict, surrounded with sink holes of Iniquity and gilded rum palaces. There is a live-gallon bottle of pure spring water inverted on a fil ter of cracked Ice, hut the Cubs do not cure for that beastly stuff. They shriek aloud for rum, and now in this, the hour of his bitter disappointment. Mr. Murphy sits and broods alone He might have wnii hosts of friends had he strag gled around the loop with a quart of booze In each hand. but. alas, he kept his hands in his pants pock ets and thus forestalled the bar keepers. Pity the sorrows of a prohibi tionist. 'baseball] Diamond News and Gossip U The thirst renovators of Chicago's south side have a new drink called the “Cub cocktail.“ It is said to consist of u glass of water with a bear's hair in it • * * Sewroid L ah hing poorly for the Reds and Me Loan is greatly missed « * • McGraw hit it right on the beak when he .lid tl.ut Fogel and Murphy ought to l’ l ' "muffled It would bo murder, though, for to muffle Horace and Charles would be to kill them. • « « The R< »L‘. will barnstorm a bit as usual, but not for long. Their schedule calls tor three <hi\s of play after the season ends. • « • !<d Konetchy's three-year contract is out this year and he will natural!' make a play for a big raise I’ndoubtedlv. he's worth it * ♦ I'mplrt Ffnneran. suspended for using foul language on the field, will probably i week n the Eastern league next year lb has brim in hot water most of tlv -ason but he hung on largely because of the sympathy felt for him because of the Magee incident • ♦ i There's one sure thing about the World's series It will not turn out the way folks think it's going to Another stm. thing Is that nobody will admit it either. • ♦ • What t lie Crackers need is not a higher -alary limit, hut more players who will • am their salaries • • • Tilings haye broken miserably for Neal ,! 'ti <le was canned by Cleveland and i grabbed by the Red Sox Then lie snu l.ed a finger and got a nice rest ibi' t'.'ibit g lias happened that Win keep Lit; i'urn getting his slice of the w orld's I series cash. • • • lake Stahl s Fh d Sox I.ad a hard race | this year But think of the battle that I th.' Übieties. the White Sox. the Naps and tin Senators are llkelv to give them I next y ear. Joe Tinker is voted too crabbed for the ■ 101. of managing the Cubs Same for .1 Even But then. Husk Chance was con ic, table of a Sour face himself and he , got la mighty well. St Louts experts consider that it is |itdieulous to run the anti-booze clause n ■ Browns contracts They say the IS' Louis players could do as well drunk | as sober. • « • I •<• • l’ >gcl -a scheme for paying '■ ■ •i- n’xih for each game thv\ a-!' which wt'iiid be all right, except I that it is against the laws of baseball 'l ‘• Giants I av» slumped and are due | t<» come :«• lif« The Red Sox are due - ump If anybody can foresee the ♦-xa< • c«'nditit'i' of th* two teams when »ntor th* ring thv\ can dope out jil« w » >rI< I's series • • • I (>nc \» w S «»rk ba-»‘ba!l writer has al pi. i. • the Piral' s to win th» peii nar.i io v \- dI in t| iP National hngu< It ' a fan guess, too hut win the pre cipitation? The national commission Is bolding out !<•» ♦ -O't hii tiu t- \-ng pm inn- privi 1' K' •' ' w eb: sei if - .ipd nobod' i< llkvb to give it. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) NEWS.THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1912. Athenians Have Best Chance of Career to Beat Vanderbilt This Year VANDV WEAKER THAN USUAL, fiEOßfi IA STRONGER By Percy 11. Whiting. —A AN Georgia beat Vandei - I blit?” That question has been fired at me unnum bered times in the last three weeks. Naturally, even a sporting writer would hesitate before an swering a query like that. We are especially inclined to hesitate be cause we haven't seen G< orgia yet this year. II has been the good fortune of the writer, however, to see the Vanderbilt team in practice and in scrimmage several times this fall. And we say this, right off the reel, If Georgia w ins over the Com modores they will play better foot ball than ever they have played in our day and time. • • • i) I'T here’s the intersting point: Georgia has a team this year that is well calculated to play the* greatest game ever put on tap by a Red and Black eleven. The team that Alex Cuningham is working with now Is one that, ought to be able to spot the best of past Georgia teams a dozen points and beat them in a 60- minute game. If. as seems probable, Georgia has this fall tile greatest of its football teams. then it surely has a look-in with Vanderbilt and may win. • • • J ASKED Dan MeGugin point blank what he thought of the Georgia-\anderbilt gaum. “Well." said Dan, “it's a hard game to fig ure. You have tn consider condi tion an awful lot in an early game like tiiat one. Now. we can't yvell dine to work into any sort of con dition for the Georgia game. With contests against Virginia. Harvard. Auburn and Sewanee looming up behind that Georgia game, yve have to round the team into condition slowly Georgia, on the other hand, with a lather less difficult sched ule. is bound to figure that Van derbilt game a big thing and to strain every nerve to be ready for it. I think that Alex makes a mis take In getting his men too lit for the Vanderbilt game. It may cost him other games. But then, of course, I understand how keen he is to heat us. "So It works ou this yvay,” con tinued Dan: “We have a fair team with a good back field, no line to s|«'ak of. a neyu quarterback, no punter, no man experienced 'n kicking off and nothing spectacular about it. and this team yve shall have to take, half condition, to At lanta for a game with Georgia. The Georgia team has marvelous pos sibilities and will give any team in the country an awful argument. It will he in tine condition for the game with us. It Is always within the possi hiliti's that Georgia will beat Van derbilt. If the Georgia men do not become overconfident through early successes and if they play their level In st against us it is likely enough that they can get the best of It. "But, of eours. added MeGu gin at th' finish of the talk. “I think Vanderbilt will win." • * ♦ -T- HERE are :i lot of reason why * Vanderbilt has thi advantage. In tile first place, it has the , xpe rlenee. MeGugin gets most of his material from first-class prep schools. But at that he .*'ldom uses a man the first year he is in college. Generally Dan draws his new varsity men from subs and scrubs <>f the previous season. Th freshmen are put on the scrub team and learn Vanderbilt football under a Vanderbilt coach, playing against the Vanderbilt varsity. Aft er a year or two of that sort of yrork. they are pi yard on the regu lar team And by that time they are ripe. • When 1 watched the Commodores I »!’;< • f I<‘i ng t w •'«'!< i’ w«i>' .iihhz mg to .• ■■'••• t?r nun’ll o' ;;rtai, big. strapping ehaps, with good «»•••••••••••••••••••••••« : Vandy Team Has Been • •Terror From the Start* • —— A • In tackling the Commodores • • Georgia takes a hack at one of • • the strongest teams, year in and • • year out, that the country has • • ever known —a team that almost • • always ranks near the top. • • Vandy has been playing foot- • • ball for 22 years and in that time • • has scored 3,878 points to its op- • • ponents’ 800. Os the games played • • Vanderbilt has won 774, lost 34 • • and tied 10, One noticeable fact • • is that Vanderbilt has neve,- been • • beaten by an Eastern team. The • • Commodores played Yale, the • • Navy and the Indians. Vanderbilt • • has defeated its anoient rivals, the • • Sewanee Tigers, fifteen times. Se • • wanee was returned the winner six • • times, while twice the score was • • tied. a • An idea of what the Commo- • • dores have done under the Me- • • Gugin regime can be gathered by • • the scores of the years since he • • has been coaching: a • Year. Vanderbilt. Oppon. • • 19C4 452 4 a • 1905 372 22 • • 1906 278 . .16 • • 1307 . . . • • 1908 207 61 a • 1909 250 24 a • 1910 147 2 a • 1911 259 9 a i a—— a • Totals 1,965 138 • • Feature events of the various • • seasons were: • • 1904, Missouri School of Mines • • was the only team to score against • • the Commodores; 1905, Sewanee • • was defeated 63 to 4, but Michi- • • gan won 18 to 0: 1906, Carlisle In- • • dians were defeated 4 to 0, but • • Michigan won 10 to 4; 1907, An- a • napolis was tied at 0 to 0, Michi- • ® gan von 8 to 0, Sewanee was de- • • seated 17 to 12: 1908. Michigan • • and Ohio State were the only ones • • to conquer the Commodores, the • • so mer 24 to 6 and the latter 17 • • to 6: 1909. Sewanee won the • • Thanksgiving game 16 to 5, and • • Ohio State again won 5 to 0: 1910, a • Mississippi’s safety was the only • • sccre against the Commodores, • • Yale was played to a 0 to 0 tie; • » 1911, Michigan was the only team a • to. score against the locals, the • • Wolverines winning 9 to 8. a ••••••••oaaeaaeaaaaeaaeeoe prep school records, who were herded along with the general run of freshmen and yvere running sig nals with the third or fourth team. 1 If these men had turned up at Tech or at Mercer, they would have been yvelcomed with a brass band and given a place on the varsity. At Vanderbilt they ger another year <>f scrub team seasoning, maybe two. before they are placed on the varsity. Then they know football. It is unlikely that any Southern team ever know* as much football as the Commodores. it yvas this very knowledge of football that enabled the Commo dores to tie with Yale last year. , Said a man who saw the game: 'll yvas amusing to see the way ' the Yale men yvere 'sucked in ' When Yale had the ball the quar terback would observe a nice gap in A’anderbilt’s line. 'Here's where ' we’ll drive through for a touch down,’ he would tell himself. And then, just as the play got to the ' line it yyas sat doyvn upon by about i ten men at once. It yvasn't until the game was nearly over that the Yale men realized they were being played for suckers by yyhat they considered a ‘raw country team.’" It is likely that Var.le'bilt will hay e the advant.igi in age It isn't ’ improbable that Georgia will have > the advantage in weight. In the matter of speed non* can tell, to a ' certainty , offensively the two team.- are ’ marvelously brilliant, McWhorter, i of Georgia, and Hardage. of Van derbilt, are as wonderful runners as the game has developed in many a day. Each man is the offensive mainstay of his club. McWhorter is the better man of the two, though he has not the vast amount of superiority over Hardage that many of his supporters credit him with. * ♦ ♦ t N the matter of strength of line 1 it is hard to say where the ad vantage will lie. \ r anderbilt’s line is not up to the usual mark. It hasn't a vast deal of weight and in knowledge of the game and gen eral ability it is well below the Vanderbilt standard. This is sort of a rambling esti mate of the two teams and maybe it brings you back to the same place you started from. Studying the situation carefully and consid ering the two teams, player by player, it would be difficult for anybody to give a valid reason for picking Vanderbilt as the sure win ner. The strongest asset Vanderbilt has is MeGugin. Nobody pretends to explain why he is a better coach, in point of games won. than any other man who ever came into the South. He doesn't know as much about the theory of the game as many another. He wasn't a par ticularly good player in his col lege days. He is no deep student of the sport. He has no fancy methods. He doesn’t work his men very' hard. And yet he wins. And Just for the very reason that McGugin’s Vanderbilt teams have usually won in the past it is sur mised that they will win again. MeGugin knows better than any body else that A’anderbilt’s game with Georgia in Atlanta will be one of its toughest this season. And he will prepare fry It as carefully as he dares. It will bo one of the big games of the year in the South, and At lanta is lucky to have drawn it. If Georgia can win it, it will do a lot toward breaking the "football trust” and will put football on a better basis in the South. You have my word for it, though, if Georgia wins it will play better ball than it ever played before in all its history And that might easily happen So the thing is in teresting. BILLINGS HORSES WILL SOON REACH LEXINGTON LEXINGTON, KY.. Oct. 3.—Floral Hall, at the breeders' track, is being converted into a 22-stall stable for C. K. G. Billings' collection of American trotters. Russian Orloffs, Arabian and English ridimr horses that is coining this week in two diMstons The Cleveland division wdl comprize Lou Dillon, l.okij: t hlan. L.-,X\ Hipester 2.01. Charley Mitchell. “ nox 4 Lewis korrest. 2.061, ; Lou Billings -084 i, Haman and Slats. The other di vision will include the famous Orloff um- ka ' » thre v ? ra -' s - presented to Mr club ' anu BARKER BACK AT MISS.: WILL PLAY A HALFBACK OXFORD. MISS., Oct. 3.—“ Rube" Bark er. All-Southern lineman of 1911 has re turned to Oxford and will again hold down a position on the football team, much to the gratification of Coach DeTracv. Bark er has been at the university' for two • V r\7ki , o klng pi ? rt ln "earh- every branch ot athletics and made a good showing in the A anderbilt-Mlssissippi game last vear Last season Coach Nathan Stauffer used mtn at right tackle, but DeTracy has de cided to push him into backfield service where at halfback, besides carrying the ball, he will be able to use his toe. GRIM PLANNING TO GO BACK TO LYNCHBURG LYNCHBfRG. A A.. Oet. 3. John .1 Grim, the Irish comedian of the national pastime, who managed Newport News a portion of the past season In the Virginia league, is spending some time here with his Wife, who is visltng her home folks. Front what can be learned about the movement of Grim he is laving his plans to Isml a berth tn the Virginia league for 1913 for himself, and if he gets it he will be back at Lynchburg next season. Manager Chance Picks Tesreau To Be Hero of World's Series By Frank L. Chance. Manager of Chicago Cubs. MGRAW’S men should win the world's championship. Jeff Tesreau, the husky young pitcher, should be the big man of the series, and I do not mean only in a physical sense, either. But I figure Larry Doyle is likely to develop into one of the big stars. It is upon Tesreau. how ever, that I base my belief, and it will amount ’to a certainty If he gets away with the first game. AVorld’s series present some strange baseball spectacles. It is history that almost every one Is won by the individual feats of some man. For that reason I place so much dependence in Tesreau. Go back a few yews. In 1909 the Pirates and the Tigers met. The wonderful work of "Babe” Adams has not been forgotten and will not be by the fans of this gen eration. He was the great big man of that series. It was his pitching which made' the Pirates the world's champions. In the year of 1910 the Cubs were the victims of one man and that man was the youthful Eddie Collins. His batting, his fielding, his base running and his ability to get away with everything that he undertook had more to do with the victory of the Athletics than any other factor that entered into the play of those games. Tesreau Picked as Star. His work in that series may not stand out as promising as did that of Adams in 1909, but we who play- The work can't come too hard for the Blacksmith when he has a fresh chew of satisfying Drummond. aafaaKMwEßSjjK. DRUMMOND natural leaf CHEWING TOBACCO I g ed on the losing side were every bit as conscious of it. Last year it was Baker. The slug ger of the Athletics emerged as the great big man of the series. It was Baker’s bat which decided the pitching duels. Unless the unexpected happens some one man will stand out above ail the others In this coming seri « I pick Tesreau for the reason that he has pitched some remarkable* ball against us this season and I think I know what a great young twirler he Is. Should he start the series, and I would- send him to the mound If he belonged to the Cubs and w» were in the series, the first gamz will count more than usual. The one thing that can be count ed against Tesreau is his inexpe rience. It doesn’t make a great deal of difference what tempera ment a ball player possesses, he is bound to become a trifle nervous when playing such a short series for such high stakes. It’s the ambition of every ambi tious ball player to become a mem ber of a world’s championship team. He wants to be able to say that he played with a team w+iich won the highest honors of the diamond and that he assisted in winning them. That’s natural. That thought is with one night and day. First Battle Counts Much. There is the chance that Tes reau will suffer in the first game of the world’s series as the ordinary youngster on the day that he pitches his first major league game. But if Tesreau-is cool and calm and gets away with a win I think the fellows fffim Boston will have their work cut out for them.