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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. XX Jx MARTIN ' uy 2 PEACHTREE STREET UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES y FOR SALE 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, I I • • ■ ' ■ -I . 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 For singles— I rThe Remington Cuba pick the _ f• 11 S only easy single loader tT 3 P OT I 16 IQ S just toss in a shell, press the button and —“ PL'LL,’’ The side bolt makes it easy. You don’t have to tug at the barrel! or watch an on-and-off device. The action stays open after each single shot is fired. —It always stays open when the magazine is empty. Five shots — 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 handled magazine screw-cap makes cleaning, carrying and interchange of barrels quick and easy. Send for a motion picture booklet telling how the kick is used—how a friction device found only on the /tyn/ngcon.-LMC Autoloading Shotgun takes the punish ment out of heavy loads. Write 10-dnv Remington Arras-Union Metallic Cartridge Co. #***' 200 Broadway a, New York City 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- Boating. I tion of iength, planes, construction and comparison. If-’q JllQt This is P robabl y the most enlightening IL O JUol and interesting of any Motor Boating ar- . tide that has appeared in a long time. Ask U your newsdealer for a copy—he has it or will get it for you. MOTOR BOATING 10 cents a copy 381 Fourth Ave. SI.OO a year New York City 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 /I ML I DRUMMOND I NATURAL LEAF CHEWING TOBACCO I 000 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.