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Backfield Men Likely to Do Most of the Starring This Season FLYNN, OF YALE, PROMISES TO BE ANOTHER COY —" ' 1 ! By Monty. \-rEW YORK, Oci. 12.—This is a -back field year" in football. Practically every new man of any real promise whatever devel pe,i this far, in the East at least, is a member of the ball carrying orp ; . It seemfe certain that when he curtain shall have rung down the end of November, the fellow stamped as the season’s greatest gridiron warrior will be one of the quartet behind the line. Yale, Har vard. Princeton and Pennsylvania —the Big Four —all have their one particular crack who has jumped nto the fore at the outset. During the last decade the bright special lights of the several seasons have hailed from almost every po sition. Last year he was an end —the one. only and peerless Sam White, of Princeton, who picked up fum bled balls and galloped over half the field length in scoring victo ries over Yale, Harvard and Dart mouth. The preceding season he was a quarter back —Earl Sprackling, of Brown, who. practically unsupport ed by a mediocre team, tore off open field runs of dazzling brillian cy, his greatest achievement being an almost single handed defeat of Yale. In 1009 Jack Kilpatrick, a typical Yale style of 200-pound end, was the sensation, his wing of the team being totally impregnable all the year, and his work in getting down under kicks put him among the greatest ends in history. Coy Greatest of All. I’he season of 1908 brought forth the man considered by many the greatest that ever played. He was a full back, the tremendous Ted i'oy. of Yale, the best all around kicker of his year, and the most powerful line pulverizer within memory. That this year of 1912 w ill offer a man even closely comparable with Ted Coy is not to be expected. Another full back was the star of 1907 in Sam Kennard, of Harvard, who made a field goal that beat Yale. Walter Eekersall, Chicago's mar velous quarter back of 1906, was in a class by himself as a drop kicker, was an untouchable specter in an 'THE smoker’s de sire is—quality first; quantity sec ond. A simple, in expensive package permits FATIMA Cigarettes to meet both these require ments. 20 for 15c. " Distinctively Individual'' 20 /or ALL ABOARD FOR THE GEORGIA STATE FAIR-MACON AUSPICES GEORGIA STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OCTOBER 15-25 The music of the saw and ham- The greatest Midway ever held in the Every building packed to the walls with Poultry and live stock will cover acres of space mer can be heard at every turn. The South will greet your eyes. Forty Big Shows the most Artistic Exhibits that have ever i n their exhibits. The judges of the poultry are big fair will start on time. Flags and Ridin S Devices will be there for your been held at the state Fair Jt lo<)ks kke George Ewald, of Cincinnati, Ohio; P. A. Cook, of flutter from every building, and the amusement. Nat Reiss, the King of Carni- they are aIJ waking up to the f acttzh at Geor- Scotch Plains, N. J., and Mr. R. H. Plant, of Macon, i ..- . . ... ~ , val Fetes, will be the great director of his . . Ga The live stock exhibit will renrespnt hlup rib beautiful decoration*; will add to the Biff Association of Shows More free acts gia is the most resourceful state in the South. ’ . , blue nb- 1 x rm x ™ Associanon 01 - nows . more rree acts bon winners> an d the judges are W. Gettys, of beautiful picture. The State Fair than you care to look at. Three Big Brass Her people always deliver the goods. No use Athens, Tenn, and Mr. Loring Brown, Georgia’s own is a dream. Bands. going to Missouri. cattle raiser. EVERYBODY AND HIS COUSIN, AUNT AND UNCLE ARE INVITED TO COME GEORGIA STATE FAIR-MACON W. E. DUNWODY. President HARRY C ROBERT. General Manager • Big Football Men : Os Past 10 Years ■ • 1902—Harold Weeks. Columbia. ' • half back. < • 1903—Willie Heston, Michigan. 1 • half back. ( • 1904—John DeWitt. Princeton. < • guard. , • 1905—Tom Shevlin. Yale. end. < • 1906—Walter Eekersall. Chica- i • go, quarter back. < • 1907—Sam Kennard, Harvard, < • full back. ( • 1908—Ted Coy. Yale, full back. < • 1909—John Kilpatrick. Yale, end. < • 1910—Earl Sprackling. Brown, < • quarter back. < • 1911 —Sam White. Princeton end 1 open field, a sturdy interferer for his backs and an unfailing general in directing the attack. Tom Sltevlin, a human combina tion of a battering ram, stone wall and bullet, who featured every Yale game in 1905. was a greater end even than Kilpatrick, because of the fearful speed with which he hurled his 200 pounds down the field. In 1904 the guard position had its day. John DeWitt, certainly the most sensational and one of the most capable linemen in the annals of the game, held the center of the stage. His long run, a la Sam White, followed by a 45-yard goal after a fair catch, humbled Yale and won the Tigers the battle. Then There Was Heston. Willie Heston, a half back of the irresistible, keep-on-going, tear them-apart sort, won the 1903 hon ors for Michigan. Now, coming to the first year of the decade, we find Columbia possessing the top rung man. He was Harold Weeks, the wonderful half back and hur dler, whose fame has lived in New- York’s big university these ten years, though the game he helped make great has been under faculty ban. Surveying the entire ten years, we find three ends, two quarter backs, one guard, two full backs and two half backs in the conspic , uous class. In other words, there are four linemen and six backs. The line seems t<> stand little chance of catching up any of the difference this year. Flynn Is a Wonder. The quartet who have bounded to the fore are Flynn of Yale, Hard wick of Harvard, Fred Trenkman of Princeton, and Harrington of Pennsylvania. Os the bunch Hard wick and Flynn look the best, with an edge in favor of Flynn. The latter played his first varsity game for Yale against Syracuse a week ago, and was two-thirds of the at tack. as well as a star on de fense. Among other things, he scored two of Yale’s three touch downs and still another, which was disallowed because the officials considered that he hurdled one tackler. All of them were on runs of between 20 and 50 yards. At Yale they are booming “Lefty” Flynn, a second Ted Coy. That, to ' be sure, is going a little too far, but after seeing his great perform ance of last week, we can not do otherwise than declare him to ap pear at least the equal of any man since the great Ted. Waiter Camp, Jr., a Star, It is sincerely to be hoped that the illness of Walter Camp, Jr., will not prove so serious as to keep him off the Yale eleven in the fall. If in condition, he should prove, as he did toward the close of last season, one of the most valuable men on the team, both as runner and kick er. The younger Camp’s path to football fame has not been an easy THE AIL A5 I A C-tKUJXttIAJN A ATL7 ~OfTTVnSTBTTA I Y“'TFft rt 1> 1,912. one yet his development was steady until shortly before the Princeton game las>year. when he came along by leaps and bounds. Camp played three great games against Brown. Princeton end Harvard. The most remarkable feature of Camp’s play was a use of the stiff arm in running, which is peculiarly his own. It is true that he has had some special coaching at the hands of his father, but it is great ly to his own credit that he has been able to develop a style of run ning about as difficult to face as any to be found on the football field. Generally speaking, the stiff arm is not used so much by the bigger backs. Wendell of Harvard relies upon his terrific shoulder drive tc throw off the tackler, and Ted Coy used to run with a high knee ac tion that was as effective as the stiff arm. Corbett of Harvard and Brown of the Army were backs who relied on what is known as "flinging the feet.” CHICAGO BOY JUMPS FROM SCHOOL TO RING CHICAGO, Oct. 12.—From the high school football field to the prize ring; from the halls of learning into the heat of fistic fray; from moleskins into trunks and boxing gloves—that’s the jump Ben Groutch, who captained a championship Cook county high school football team last fall, has decided to take. Groutch was graduated from Crane High school last June with a diploma and the reputation of being one of the best football play ers who ever made a tackle for the Crane colors. He played three years on the team, the first two as a half back and the last one, 1911, as a fullback. In 1911 he was the cap tain of the gridiron squad. Groutch's 1911 team work won the Cook county championship last fall in the minor division of high schools. That was as far as Groutch could lead his team, for the boys were not big enough to compete in the major division. During vacation last summer Groutch watched (that is, he did watch for awhile) some of the fa mous ringmen swatting one an other about the Nate Lewis gym nasium in Madison street. Groutch is a cousin of Nathan and haunted his place because he loved the thud of the padded fist, just as much as he enjoyed the smack of a sharp tackle on the field of high school glory—the gridiron. Groutch Boxes K. O. BrOwn. One day when Groutch was pres ent there swaggered into the gym nasium as tough a looking party as one would care to gaze on at close quarters. The rough person began to divest himself of his clothes preparatory to a workout ’in the ring. As Groutch watched the fellow’s bulging muscles he asked Lewis, “Who is that man?” “That's Knockout Brown, the coming champion of the middle weights,” remarked Lewis, who manages the Greek terror. "Do you want to box with him? He is shy of sparring partners, because he hits them too hard.” To Lewis’ surprise, Groutch real ly consented He got into some trunks, pulled on some big mitts and went six rounds with the knockout lad. who has fought all the good 158-pounders in the game. The gridiron hero and the ring veteran went at it In slam-bang fashion and the moleskin boy was on his feet after eighteen minutes. He took a lacing, but he smiled back through the blood that smear- LARRY M’LEAN MEETS CHARLEY SCHMIDT AT NEW YORK TUESDAY NEW YORK. Oct. 12.—N0 bout that has been arranged for this city, not even excepting the bouts in which champions, alleged champions and near-champions have figured, has caused more interest than that in which "Larry" Mcl.ean. catcher extraordinary of the Cincinnati National league base ball club, and “Charlie" Schmidt, chief of the catching bureau of the Provi dence International league team, will be the principals at the New Star Ath letic club next Tuesday night. At last these two exponents of the padded mitt and mitts are to meet within the confines of the squared ring. They have been at loggerheads for some time and have threatened more than once to settle their differences without obligating thmselves to adhere to the well defined demands of the Marquis of Queepsberry code as modi fied and regulated by the state athletic commission. Finally they went to the manager of the New’ Star and requested that they be permitted to use the club’s ring. The manager’s business instinct whispered to him and he decided that they might, provided the public be admitted to see the contest, and McLean and Schmidt agreed. ed his face and looked ready for more. Lewis thought well of him from that time on, and so did Brown. Groutch and the Greek are the best of friends. Letfis has agreed to handle Ben, and in a month or so will start matching him up. He calls him a middleweight "hope." He Is Only a Kid. Groutch has just turned twenty years. He weighs about 152 pounds stripped and is growing right along. He'll be a real middleweight pretty soon. Lewis and Brown expect to make a trip to the coast this winter and they- intend to take Groutch with them. They want him to see the best in action and to learn all he can before they start him out aft er the good one. Groutch is strong, well behaved and is ambitious. Brown predicts a bright future for him. The former Crane gridiron star was born in Chicago. He is a Jew and lives at 3348 Lexington street. He says he'll box any middleweight who communicates with that num ber. SOX AND CUBS TIE: MAY PLAYGAMES ALL WINTER CHICAGO, Oct. 12.—With the score tied 3 to 3. the second game of the series between the Chicago American and National league clubs was called yesterday in the twelfth inning because of darkness. The gamg was the sec ond tie in the series, the opening con test Tuesday ending without a score. Lord and Weaver collided at full speed in center field in the eighth in ning. w-hen each was trying for Mil ler’s hit. They were knocked uncon scious, and both had to be carried from the field. Lord quickly recovered, but Weaver was in a dazed condition for several hours. Johnson, a recruit, who took Wea ver’s place at short, enabled the White Sox to tie up the game In the ninth inning, after the Cubs had taken the lead in the eighth. With Borton on first, Johnson tripled, scoring him. Eas terly followed with a triple, his fourth hit of the game, and brought Johnson home with the tieing run. WEAVER. THOUGH BADLY HURT. IS OUTOF DANGER CHICAGO. Oct. 12.—George "Buck" Weaver, member of the White Sox team, who was injured yesterday in the second game of the city series when he collided with Captain Harry Lord, was declared out of danger today by Dr J. H. Blair. Weaver's injuries, at first thought to be serious, were superficial, according to the physician. He believes the short stop can get back in the game by the middle of next week 1 . John Tigert, Famous Vandy Player, Tells of the Greatest Play He Ever Saw HOW JOHN EDGERTON WON GAME ALL BY HIMSELF By John J. Tigert. (Fullback of the Vanderbilt football team in 1901-02-03-04 and later the first Rhodes scholar from Tennessee to Oxford. England.) r is such a diversity of play in modern football and such a difference in their na ture that many kinds of plays are practically incomparable. It is dif ficult to compare a wonderful kick with a skillfully executed forward pass, or an old-time smash through the line with half me team hiking the man with the ball, with one of these artful, dodging runs through a broken field which so delights spectators. The most remarkable kick I ever saw was in a game of Rugby, play ed at Oxford, England, between the all-South Africans and Oxford uni versity. A South African, running at top speed and surrounded by several tacklers, dropped a goal from the field at a distance of about 35 yards. This Is no effort at humor, nor application for membership in the Ananias club. It’s a fact. It was truly a wonderful play, and the ball sailed over the center of the posts clear out of the park. It looked as if it would have gone over from the center of the field. Yea, 80, It Was Some Kick. It very much resembled in this respect a kick made by Kilpatrick, of Sewanee, in 1990, which won a game from Vanderbilt by an eye lash, as It were. Vanderbilt had made two touch downs and had missed both goals. Sewanee had made one touchdown and kicked goal. There were only a few minutes to play and Vandy seemed to have the game stowed away on ice. Sewanee heeled a fair catch near the center of the field. With the wind blowing a hurricane behind his back, Kilpat rick kicked the ball clear out of the lot. He could not have kicked it nearer the center of the bar if he had measured it with a rule and the ball landed in the top of a tree standing behind the north goal on Dudley field. In those days a goal from the field tallied five points, so this phenomenal kick gave the Ti gers the game by a score of 11 to 10. I have seen Phil Connell dash down the field bowling over a whole team with his arm, one after an other, as fast as they came to him. I have seen "Huldy” Davis make touchdowns from the kickoff, side stepping man after man. I have seen Bob Blake catch punts and run through a whole team for a touch down. T have seen Frank Kyle shoot along like a rabbit, chang ing his direction every second and never slacking- his speed But I be lieve the greatest play I ever saw was executed by John Edgerton. Edgerton and Oscar Jenkins were the greatest line plungers I ever saw "Jenks” was faster than "Edge." and could, with ridiculous ease, carry as many men as could climb on; but "Edge” had more power and was harder to tackle than any man I have seen in action in his time or since. Edgerton’s Big Play. The play i refer tp might not MARTIN MAY >7 S 19% PEACHTREE STREET UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES y X. FOR SALE X w\ have been so spectacular to the crowd, but it stupefied the men in the game. If. wis in that memora ble game between Vanderbilt and the University of Nashville, when Nashville had gathered a team which averaged more than 200 pounds from tackle to tackle. This team had overwhelmed ev erything in the South. We hear much of "Sewanee pluck," and de servedly so. but this team made Sewanee quit and ran through them for a touchdown on a kickoff. At the time the play I have In mind was made neither side had scored. \ anderbilt had held Nashville for downs, several times within the shadow of her own goal. and. after three plays, a recovered punt, a 45-yard run by McLean on a de layed pass and a penalty for off side. now held the ball for the first time in Nashville’s territory. I will give Grantland Rice's de scription of the play, written in his own inimitable manner, since I can not hope to equal it: "The ball was now on Nashville’s ten-yard line. The Vanderbilt con tingent rose in a body. Sharp and clear the signal for Vanderbilt's great captain was called, and Edg erton, with the force of a batter ing ram, hurled his weight into the line. "It wavered, then gave complete ly away and the tawney-haired plunger came through like a shot. Two men tackled him on the five yard line, but he swept them off their feet and, with superhuman strength, writhed and wiggled and twisted and fought his way across the goal line with four men trying to check his mad march for glory.” This is the greatest play I ever saw. I would like to add that I have always felt exceedingly guilty in connection with this play. We were all so stupefied when we saw "Edge" topple over that line of giants and saw him get up with GET RID OF RHEUMATISM Rubbing with liniments, blistering the affected parts, the application of plasters, and other means of external treatment, are usually helpful in relieving the pains and aches of Rheumatism. But such treatment does not get rid of the disease, because it does not reach its source. Rheuma tism comes from an excess of uric acid in the blood. 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CHAMBERS SECOND WARD CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE. two Titans standing on his chest on the ■ five-yard line, that we stood with eyes open and mouths gaping, rendering no more assistance to him than is given a runner.in these latter days, since “hiking" has been prohibited. ATHLETICS WIN SERIES FROM FOGEL’S PHILLIES PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 12.—The Phil adelphia American league baseball team won the championship of the city here yesterday by defeating the Phila delphia Nationals In the fifth game of the inter-league series by the score of 5 to 2. The American league team took four of the five games played. Carroll Brown pitched for the former world's champions. Rixey, who start ed for the Nationals, was replaced by Chalmers in the fifth. “Runt" Walsh, who started on the receiving for the Phillies, was replaced by Moran in the third inning, after two passed balls had been charged against him. TICKET SPECULATORS ARRESTED AND FINED NEW YORK, Oct. 12.—A dozen men, charged with ticket speculation, ar rested outside the Polo grounds yes terday, were fined $lO apiece in police court. The operations of the men apparent ly were of a limited nature, as most of the arrests were made comparatively early in the day, and none of the pris oners was found to have more than a halt’ dozen tickets. The large number of seats—3o.ooo in all—available at the gates, had left the speculators little opportunity to ply successful trade. CLABBY MAKES HASH OF J. SKELLY'S SUBSTITUTE GARY, IND., Oct. 12. —Jimmy flabby knocked out Tom Monahan, of Chicago, here last night. The bout was stopped in the fourth round by Chief of Police Martin. Monahan was so badly punished that it was unwise to continue the one sided affair longer. Clabby was to have met Jack Skelly, of Terre Haute, but Jack failed to show. it continually grows thinner and more acrid, and poorer in nourishing qualities. 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