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Minor Colleges Growing Strong, Old Eli Is Worried
COACH HEISMAN CAN’T SEE HOPE FOR TECH
Bv J. W. Heisman.
iCoach of the Tech Team.)
1-\HE big football teams of the
East have just finished their
preliminary games. If tbe
scores of these games alone told
the whole tale, we should at once
assume that Princeton and Penn
o'vaitla had strong elevens, while
vale, Harvard and Cornell were
undeniably weak.
Both the first named have won
derful back fields this year, and it
is fairly probable that the prelirn
■rary performances of two
are by no means “pap flashes.” But
with the wealth of material that
both Yale and Harvard boasted of
a couple of weeks ago and the sys
tem of coaching that obtains at
t.tese places. I tim far from be
iieving that they will not soon be
gin to show us something vastly’
different.
In Al Sharp, Cornell has a new
roach—that js, new’ to Cornell and
ru lege ranks, but not to coaching.
Sharp is really pne of the wisest
football men in the entire country,
and I dare say we shall soon be
gin to note the effect of his work.
But Cornell is another of those
colleges that, teach little outside
of engineering, and w’hen -you try
to combine this with football.you
have a real task before you. no
matter where your college is lo
cated nor how many students it
enrolls.
Some part of the answer to the
question. "Why don’t the big fel
lows invariably make monkeys of
the little chaps as they used to?"
lies in the fact thta the little fel
lows are growing some themselves.
Colgate plays pretty good football
nowadays: so does Washington and
Jefferson, and so, occasionally, does
Wesleyan.
Is Old Eli Slumping?
Yale men are seriously agitated,
none the less, over the suggestion
that Old Eli is going through a
period of actual athletic decadence.
It is true the Elis haven't won a
college championship in any im
portant athletic sport in several
years, and the charge is openly
made by sons of Yale that now
adays the students at the New
Haven institution go out on the
field with the sole idea in their
heads of making their “Y," and
not with the pole-star of athletic
supremacy for Yale as their aim.
Well, that has been the case often
enough at many’ another institu-
PIPE DREAMS
- By GEORGE E. PH AIR ’ " -
ODE TO AUTUMN.
melancholy days have come.
The saddest of the year,
" hen Murphy fights the Demon
Rum
And not a voice to cheer.
• • •
Mr. Murphy, who will train his ath
letes in Florida next spring, overlooks
the fact that he can procure the use of
the Desert of Sahara rent free.
After listening to various magnates,
one gieans the impression that aside
from being the acme of perfidy, iniqui
ty and debauchery, baseball is a clean
sport.
* • •
MERELY a suggestion.
! 'g is the city series is an event of
import, it is but fitting that it be
Red with great eclat. What
" i be more appropriate at this par
i lime than an allegorical page
r,r ' usher in one of the games?
A pageant somewhat after the follow
ing fashion:
BAND.
P'aying ‘ Onward. Christian Soldiers.)
members of w. c. t. u.
CAMEL.
(Driven by F. Schulte.)
FLOAT.
Demon Rum in Chains.)
C. WEBB MURPHY.
'Guarded by B<oo ° Pinkertons.)
OHORT OF PROHIBITIONISTS.
CUBS.
‘Riding on Water Wagon,)
BAND.
Playing Funeral March.)
THE ELIXIR.
Hank O'Day
' >ne summer day
i Johnny Kling, sez he:
"One moment. John.
Before you're gone—
have a word with ye.
' ou used to be
A Cub,” sez ho.
I winked a knowing wink.
Just let me know
Before you go
'' lf,r brand of booze they drink.”
H ...
' ,ce Fogel, who fain would clean
-ase bail, possesses the chief requi
’ a vacuum cleaner.
' ' ins have only one fault to find
I, ” suspension of Hon. Finneran.
Is not permanent.
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tion, and I see no reason why it
can not happen at Yale also, or at
any other college, big or little
It all comes back to this “college
spirit” stuff. It’s |ik e love and
electricity a something intangible,
invisible, unweighable and unmeas
urable. yet none the less real and
potent, and a thing to conjure with.
If college boys don't keep a sharp
lookout their spirit is just as apt
to run down and out as an electric
battery. Everything may look just
the same on. the outside and even
on the inside, but the "fire's out”
just the same.
Loud Wails in the West.
in the West. Minnesota was
beaten the other day bv South
Dakota. Can you beat it? Yost is
complaining that his material at
Michigan is the poorest he has had
in a long time, and Stagg is saying
the same thing at Chtcago.
In tlie South. Vanderbilt always
gets good material and McGugin
knows how to make good fuse of it.
Their big score of 105 to 0 against
Bethel college has only been sur
passed in this section, so far as 1
know, by a score thst Clemson
made against Guilford college in
1901. This was 122 to 0. Yes: it
was simply a. case of. , 100-yard
dashes- one after- the other, up and
down the field, and then take out
time, and rest, while the goals
were being kicked.
In the Matter of Spheroids.
In the past I have smiled more
than once at the general emptiness
of rule 2, in the Official Guide,
which deals with the football itself.
Until this year the rule simply
said that the ball should be of
leather, containing a rubber blad
der, and should have the shape of
a prolate spheroid. It said nothing
whatever as to how long the ball
should be. what its size of circum
ference, what its weight, whether
new or old. That was where "pro
late spheroid” covered a pretty
wide fiehl. I ven is re the assertion
that, aside from the assumption
that a football possessed the shape
of a prolate spheroid just because
the rule said it had. to be that
shape, not one player in a thou
sand and not one official in a hun
dred could have told w hat a pro
late spheroid whs. Where igno
rance is - bliss, etc., which was
probably the' reason no one ever
cared to raise any arguments over
rule 2.
But so far as the rule was con
cerned, a team could have brought
...
AUTUMNAL TRAGEDY.
Old Father Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
1 To look for his winter clothes:
But when he got there
The cupboard was bare.
So he went to the ball park and frothes.
. WHO?
• Who is the heavy-hitting bloke
Who laughs alike at urves and smoke
And looks on spitballs as a joke ?
The weather man.
, Who is it beats the Giants, Sox
( Or Cuba by twenty city blocks,
And costs the magnate piles of rocks?
The weather man,
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RAIN THREATENS TO
KILL CHICAGO GAME
»
> CHICAGO, Oct. 10.—Encouraged by
the fact that their teams played Wed
nesday despite the threatening weath
er. thousands of Cub and Sox fans
wended their vay to Comiskey park
’ early today to secure the choice seats.
The weather this morning was worse
than threatening. A light mist began
falling about 5 o'clock and continued
for several hours. The sky was over
cast with heavy clouds that indicated
rain in plenty. But the fans’ ardor
could not be dampened, and it is es
timated that if the weather clears off a
larger crowd than yesterday’s 20,000
will be on hand to see the game.
Walsh pitched in rare form yester
day, holding the Nationals to one hit
Only 28 men faced him. He did not
issue a base on halls and struck out
seven men. Lavender also pitched a
masterly game. He held the Americans
to six scattered hits and received bril
liant support. The score was 0 to 0
and the game was called at the end of
the ninth <in account of darkness.
The receipts were $11,624.25, of w hich
$6,288.43 will go to the players. $2,096.15
to each club owner and $1,164.25 to the
national commission.
DEATH OF BRUCE-BROWN
DUE TO NARROW COURSE
MILWAUKEE. WIS.. Oct. 10.—The
coroner’s jury which investigated the
death of David Bruce-Brown, the au
tomobile driver who was killed when
his machine went into the ditch prior
to the Vandeibilt cup race last week,
has returned a verdict that the road
on which the race was driven was too
narrow for safety.
PHILLIES FIELD POORLY
AND LOSE TO ATHLETICS
PHILADELPHIA, Oct 10.—The Phil
adelphia American league baseball
team won its second game in the lo
! cal inter-If ague series here yesterday,
defeating the Philadelphia Ntaional
league players by a score of 4 to 0.
Houck, the young Oregon twirler,
pitched for the former world’s cham
pions and gave only three hits, t'hal
l-mers pitched a steady game for the
i Phillies, but received poor support
CARDS WIN OPENER FROM
LOWLY ST. LOUIS BROWNS
ST LOUIS. Oct. 16. The local Na
i tiona! league team won the opening
i game of the Inter-league citv cham
pionship »erie with the American
league club yesterday. 7 to 6, In ten
! hard-fought Innings. In the tina in
ring low fielding bv th< \mer> ,in»
permitted the Nationals 'o ti'l th-
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 10. 1912
out a football as big as a barrel
had they phosen to do so, and one
that weighed a ton or an ounce,
and the other team would not have
been able to pu |} a ru j e p oo k to
back up a kick, so long as the
blooming thing had the right
shape.
Putting One Over on Vandy.
'The'only time I.,ever saw the
question of kind of ball come up In
a game was in 1906. when a match
was on betwen Tech and Vander
bilt at Tech park. It was a fear
fully wet and stormy day. and in
four seconds after the game start
ed the ball was .-licker than the
head of a Chinese, doll. Well, we
had determined at Tech that if we
scored w’e were going to take out
the old ball and substitute for it a
new. dry. ball with which to kick
goal. Ami so it befell, else would
there be no tale to tell. Imagine
.the consternation of the referee
and the loud protests from the
commodores when we threw out
the hall and called on our substi
tute, who was carrying the new one
under his Sweater, to let us have
it. The referee said we couldn't
do it, but we asked him to show it
to us in the rule book. Ho looked
and he looked, but he. found noth
ing, All he had to argue on was
the prolate spheroid proposition,
and he decided not to tackle that
one. And so we kicked the goal
with the new, dry ball, and made
sure of our extra point.
Before we forget, the rule this
year reads that, in addition to the
former requirements, the ball shall
henceforth be “tightly inflated.”
shall have a circumference of 28
to 28 1-2 inches around its long
axis, of 22 1-2 to 23 inches around
its short axis, ami shall weigh from
14 to 15 ounces. Presumably all of
ficials are going about this year
with a tape line and a pair of
scales in their hip pockets.
Tech Outlook Ghastly.
Tech managed to squeeze
through the games with Eleventh
cavalry and Citadel without being
knocked out. The cavalrymen had
a pretty good team—just about
such a team in all respects as I
expected to see. They were a fine
looking set of men and thoroughly
good' sports. Had Tech equaled
them in weight I have no doubt
the Yellow Jackets would have
won. Had the day’ and the ground
and the ball been dry, 1 make no
doubt Tech would again have won.
for the Jackets had little chance
of bucking that heavy’ line of sol
diers down to a touchdown on a
wet field; and yet what else can
one try on a soft footing?
Tech will be gritty, as I have said
before, but there are few latent
possibilities of development into a
high-grade and powerful machin,
How ca'n there be with an average
weight of 155-1-2 and absolutely
no substitutes?
I was doubtful whether we could
win from Citadel or not. But we
did. I am even mote uncertain
about Alabama. They tied us last
year when we had a better team.
Every game Tech plays this fall
will be a life ami death struggle,
with the accent on the “death."
But there’s some glory even in dy
ing—if you do it with your boots
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The side bolt makes it easy. You don’t have to tug at
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stays open after each single shot is fired. —It always
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three to get the cripples —each under absolute control of
the trigger finger. The recoil reloads for you —kicks
another shell in; takes the strain off the gun —the
I discomfort out of the kick —all without diminishing the
drive behind the shot.
Simple take-down—a few turns of the readily
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carrying and interchange of barrels quick and easy.
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BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
Joe Wood received a number of threat
ening letters from New York fans, promis
ing to shoot him if he trimmed the Giants.
In any other city it would listen like a
joke. But, you see, in New York they
really do shoot.
• • •
tn 1904 the Giants refused to play the
Red Sox for the world’s title. Maybe it
wouldn't have been a bad idea to have
done the same thin;,’ this year, rime will
tell.
• • »
The Nation! league won three world's
series in a row in 1906. 1907 and 1908. If
the Bed Sox cop now they will make it
three in a row in the American league.
M * *
Fans can't seem to get away from the
idea that it pays the players of the world's
series to string things out It doesn’t.
I’he series is “four out of seven.” After
the fourth game tbe players don’t get any
thing out of it but the exercise. So nat
urally it doesn't pay them to string it
along.
.1 Franklin • Baker has contributed his
dollar toward the Woodrow Wilson fund.
♦ * *
Jesse Becker, (he former Cracker out
fielder. was il.e second best baiter in the
\ irginia league this year, with .325. Steve
Griftin topped him with .356.
* * •
Three of the lied Sox players come from
far off California Hooper from Capitola.
Lewis from Alameda, and Hal! from Ven
tura.
• * •
Well. Perdue has scored another vic
tory Yes, downed DePauw 21 to 0. You
see there are several Perdues. In addi
tion to Hub.
« « *
Pitcher Lacount, of Wanatah i which is
somewhere in Indiana > broke Edward
Tofte's arm and dislocated Frank Clif
ford’s jaw with pitched balls in one ball
game. It appears needless to add that
Lacount was somewhat wild that after
noon.
• • •
That Balkan championship affair which
takes up so much first page space may
last longer, but it's tame compared with
the world’s series.
• • •
Powell of Kansas City, Patterson of
Minneapolis, and Cutting of Milwaukee
each pitched rive shut-out games this
year.
♦ ♦ *
It is likely that Almeida and Marsans
will be forbidden by the Red management
to play ball in Cuba this winter. It is
feared that a lot of winter ball will cause
them to go stale when the league season
begins.
* • •
Chance has already had three offers to
manage National league clubs this year;
none of them from Charles Murphy.
REGIMENT TEAMS PLAY
FIRST BASKET BALL GAME
LEAGUE STANDING.
CLUBS- W. L. P.C
Governor's Horse Guard 1 0 1.000
Atlanta Grays 1 0 1.000
The Atlanta Guards.... 0 1 .000
Fulton Fusilliers 0 1 .000
In one of the cleanest basket ball
games ever played in Atlanta, the
team representing the Governor's Horse
Guard met and defeated the represen
tatives of the Atlanta Guards last night.
The score at the end of the first half
stood 24 to 7 in favor of the young
cavalrymen, and the final score was 60
to 16. No class B fouls were called
during the game, and a total of only
seven class A fouls were rung up on
both teams throughout the game. This
no doubt sets a new local record for
the fewness of fouls
The score:
Atlanta Guards (16).. ..G. H. C. (60)
Askpw. F. (2> Abbott, F. (26)
Stamper, F. (2) Jones, F. (22)
Bohannon, C (8) O, Grice, c. tio>
Barrett. G. (4) Elrod. G. (2)
Brooks, G Baker. G.
K Takes Forfeit.
The Atlanta Grays, company K.
claimed a forfeited game because the
Fulton Fusilliers, Company H. did not
report for the game. Company K's en
tire team, consisting of Mauck. Stall
ings, Aldred. Jarvis, Kahn and Rosser,
was present.
Tech’s Assistant Coach Analyzes Teams Which Play Here Saturday
ALABAMA SHOULD HAVE SLIGHT EDGE ON TECH
By W. A. Alexander.
(Assistant coach at Tech, who made a
scouting trip to see Alabama play last
Saturday.)
' I 4 H E football season will be
really opened in Atlanta next
Saturday.
Tech and Alabama play at Tech
Mats and the game promises to be
a thriller. Last year the two teams
fought for 60 minutes to a score
less tie. with Tech having a slight
edge in ground-gaining. This year
the two teams are very evenly
matched and a corking good game
ought to be plated. Both teams
will probably try everything known
in the football line to bring home
the bacon.
Alabama Has One Star.
The Alabama team will depend
a lot on its speedy left end. H
Vandegraaf This fellow is cer
tainly a wondetful football player
In my opinion he is one of the best,
if not the very best, ends the South
has produced in the last five years.
He weighs close to 160 pounds
stripped and is one of the fastest
men playing football in Dixie to
day. He has no weakness. His
running with the ball on an end
around-end play is his strong suit,
however. No halfback in th*
South has much on this lad when
it comes to skirting an end.
Tech will pin its hopes, on the
offense, on H. Cook and Captain
Is-.ehrman, Luehrman Is the best
line plunger on the Jacket squad,
and Cook is the best on passes and
end run plays.
Visitors Have the Weight.
Alabama will weigh about 167
pounds and Tech about 158 Ala
bama also is fortunate in having
much faster ends and backs than
Tech. Krom this it would seem
that Alabama has tile call. Tech
figures, however, that the line, al
though lighter, has more age and
experience than Alabama's and wit!
play better ball.
Tech's backfield, while not as fast
nor any more experienced than
Alabama, has better driving force
on line plays. Alabama’s ends just
simply have the call, both on of
fense and defense. This one impor
tant department of a team’s play
gives Alabama the advantage. It
is a fact that when an end run
A. A. C. TENNIS TITLE
WON BY CARLETON SMITH
C. Y. Smith has just won the club
championship of the Atlanta Athletic
club for the third consecutive time.
In the final round he defeated E. V.
Carter, Jr., whom he met in the. finals
last year also, score 6-3, 6-4. 4-6. 6-3.
»How America
Lost the Trophy
In Motor Boat Racing
A sportsman is a good loser.
That’s how Commodore Black
ton and the Atlantic Yacht Club
feel about the International
Motor Boat Races.
In the October Motor Boating Magazine
you will get the whole story of this great
water battle for national honors in speed and
dependability. Baby Reliance 11. the
American defending champion—had the
speed, but the fine little Britisher took the
Harmsworth trophy back to England be-
Yoiir cause she proved dependable in choppy
water.
aZder I Motor
I for this month gives a complete analysis of
F OF I the elimination “trials” which were aver-
I itable survival of the fittest. The details of
IVlotOr I the sev eral boats are also intensely interest-
I ing, delving as they do, into the finer ques-
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comparison.
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works it will gain more ground than
any other football play. It should
be easier for Alabama, with Van
degraaf running wiln the’ball, to
go arpund Tech's weak defensive
ends than it will be for Cook or
Fielder, Tech's halfbacks, to get
around Alabama’s strong defensive
ends
Both Weak at Pass.
Neither team has shown much In
the forward pass line so far. Tech
has never had much success with
the forward pass since 1908, whan
The Nitwit Watchman ■
on his lonesome
finds comfort and a?
companionship in mild /4L ' B
Burley B
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Piggy Hightower got away with a
number. Alabama was only suc
cessful in working two out of seven
last Saturday against Owenton col
lege.
At the kicking game Tech has
the call, as McDonald punts much
better than Joplin, the Alabama
quarter. \
All In all. It looks like a toss-up
and a fight to the finish. It wilt be
one of the best games of the season
as far as the evenness of the teams
is concerned.