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Condition and Experience Will Count a Lot in Vandy-Georgia Game
ATHENIANS HAVE CHANCE FOR SOUTHERN TITLE
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By Percy H. Whiting.
IT has fallen to the lot of At
unta to see the best game of the
S. 1. A. A. season of 1912. It is
the Vanderbilt-Georgia game which
mH he played at Ponce DeLeon
next Saturday afternoon.
There appears small doubt but
that, when the final estimate of
teams is made at the end of this
sea-on. the first two' teams will be
Georgia and Vanderbilt but
ntiether that will be the order or
whether it will be reversed re
main? to be demonstrated.
Only one other team seems now
to have, a look-in. That team is
Auburn. The Alabama Polytech
n.; s take on both Georgia and Van
derbilt so the thing should be
worked out to a real decision. If
sfn'y other teams in the sblect or
ganization have a chance for the
championship they have not shown
li yet.
rHK man who could forecast the
inner of Saturday's game with
ertainty .would.be a wonder.indegd.
■ - he could get rich in one short
afternoon
It will be an exciting betting
proposition.. Vanderbilt has. the
more experienced and less trained
tram Georgia has a team made
up of fine individual players, but
because so many are new men it is .
not a team that has absolutely per
fected team play. It will be bet
n trained for the game, however.,
than the Commodores.
Mclntosh Tries to Harmonize
Teas and Fight Performances
By W. AV. Naughton.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 14.
H- <■ is an extract from a
.j-cular letter from Hugh B.
i In sh, dated at Sidney, Aus
tralia :
< >::■ of the innovations this sea
son i> Stadium is t.he Thurs
■\ matinee performance. Every
the Stadium box-holders
r\ < in exhibition of sparring in
- ■ 'goes’ and training displays
onsist of bag-punching.
.t . ini. ground exercises and such
interesting stuff. The fu st of
■ • .told Thursday and proved
■ >ip ■ success. It attracted a
. ii.-tion of latfes. This is
a > n< '. feature of the tight
n Australia Eadies have
o kept away except when
■ th n -.in occasional curious
of the sex allondi d. ihink
c ■. o rd bo shocked, and was
11 in find it was not so
•t. di. Hugh D. Mcln
■ 1 o wife and Madame Til.
A nil'! rich wife of Paul
'iiiiio.;ed Parisian boxer,
.-■ hostess and serve afternoon
ladies who attend on
Not Entirely New.
V' ill say now that pink teas
■ ■ -g ! tourneys can not be
tln m uizel
•n •. of course, that they
■ •••>. a! t j lP eiieieet matches
A -'!,i in and other portions of
!'■ tisn empire. The game in
’’-i 1 :hf "flanneled fools of the
• we! Iciids itself to mild
>' a g< I'. cs of t hat Mud.
1“ ’ha: matter, not'd came over
s . opp (-■ .if years ago th; ’. i".
n d'’ :o add it social atmosphere to
'ii' ' .inspianted game of baseba".
•’ of he amber fluid, douden
■ wee handed around
ii'tng intervals in the sport out '
I remember the circumstances
' r f ol a room mate of mine
1 ■' o;e baseball in those years,
f-'sented the innovation on the
that it robbed the American
na pastime of its masculin-
It remained for Mclntosh,
ever, to graft a teapot onto a
' "ting glove and now the only
ng o do js to lay back and await
■nments. Unless the sport of
"mg degenerates there is little
1 of boxing and oolong becom
ntftd to such an extent that
wi’l not be able to tell where
inking ends and thumping
begins.
Might Increase Onslaught.
c a. world-old claim, of course,
si there, is no sport or diversion
4 an no; be improved "by the
ng influences of women," but
'* game of glove, where so
depends upon the delivery of
bout punch, it is hard to see
” the thing can be adapted to
1 ne standards of entertain
ment.
■ ■■i if the ladies could steel
iisc \es to the spectacle an ut-
'.v boxing contest affords, there
probability that their pres
would increase lalht-i than
uper tiie onslaught of the pugil-
-a poor man that doesn't like
" t " seen at his very best when
' lies are looking on. am! by
' to.o n a fighter who under o'-
circumstances might not be
- ded as a glutton for ptmish
r>l would put up with quite a
■''•ring rather than strike his
while watched by female
* thing- consldeird the sport
n ' fioxuig had better bo loft to the
r o e|gp discontinued nlto
* •‘•'hr r.
air new departure Mrlntoah
art-ely aim originality. The'
' ’"ake a specie tt o' 'em
. • tronag. In |,opi• ■r> a op.
n ’ and ' the I able told the t util . .
■ere were as man> coroneu ab
/CONSIDERING first the matter
of experience, the Vanderbilt
team this year is m.ade up pretty
largely of old material. Some of
the names that are new to the or
dinary football fans are names of
men who for two or three years
have been playing on scrub teams
or as substitutes on the varsity.
Those who are absolutely new aj
Vanderbilt have all had a slather
of prep school training.
McGugin has a team that is al
ready made.
Now. take Georgia: Coach Cun
ningham this year had about the
largest amount of first-class mate
rial, physically and of potential
playing possibility, that has ever .
fallen to the lot of a Southern
coach. At the same time'there.isn't
anything quite so difficult to whip
into a team as a slather of un
trained men. For instance, he '
might have five men who seem
ideally fitted to play the, center po
sition Yet not one. i,f the five is
ready to jump in and play a pol
ished game at the position. So five
good candidates aren't half as use
ful, especially for an early game,
as one trained performer. For the
closing game of the'season Cun
ningham should have a well trained
team; Whether or not it is possi
ble to get one ready for a game at
the middle of October remains to
be demonstrated. If he doesn't, it
is no discredit. If he does, he will
have performed one of the most re
markable feats ever accomplished
cauliflowers ears at one Queens
berry assemblage in England's cap
ital last year.
Costumes May Come Next.
Either the innovation had a con
trary effect to the on>' desired or
the supply of boxers gave out. for
there has not been a high-grade
glove contest, in London for many a
moon.
Mclntosh’s next circular will be
awaited with interest. If his new
scheme thrives, the boxing show
girl of the future may class with
the horse show girl of the past.
Then the editoresses of the ladies’
columns will be expected to furnish
hints as to correct costumes for
Queensberry matinees.
And in the meantime it looks as
though a lady patron of Mclntosh's
temple of thumpology will have to <
acquire perfect pose in order to en
joy fisticuffs and the cup that
cheers at one and the same time.
Otherwise the spectacle of a ring
man being suddenly up-ended by a
violent clout may cause her to up
set the brew and spoil her gown
Speaking of Paul Til recalls that
MMntosh is importing French' box
ers in fair-sized lots, the time
of his last circle the Parisian box
ing colony in Sidney consisted of
Til and Bernstein, lightweights, and
Audouy, Truffier and Balzac, wel
t" weights. The last named claims
to be a. direct descendant of Hon
ore Balzac, the famous French au-
I thor.
The coming season's boxing in
Sidney will certainly have a French
flavor. And yet it does nog seem
sn very long since the popular idea
was that the Frenchman could not
inflict a corkscrew punch unless
permitted to use his feet.
lipton ready to race
IF RULES_ARE CHANGED.
NEW YORK. Oct. 14—Sir Thomas
Lipton, who arrived by the steamer
Caroniti yesterday, said he proposed to
discuss with the New York Yacht club
officials terms under which he might
challenge for the international yacht
ing trophy which he has thrice vainly
tried to lift.
"I am always ready to challenge,”
said the Englishman, "and if the New
York Yacht club would modify the rule
requiring the challenging boat to cross
the Atlantic on its own bottom. I be
liece I could build a boat to hold her
own with any American-built boat of
the same type, style and weight. If I
built a freak boat and sail het across,
they will build a lighter one here to
beat me. There is no sport in that."
Sir Thomas said if he built another
challenger he would name her the
Shamrock IV. He said he had won 23
out of 29 races in which he had com
peted in European waters. "Yachting I
as a pastime in England is falling off." <
he said, “but in Germany it is becom- j
ing more and more popular. At Kiel i
this year I saw the finest yacht races 1
ever witnessed, with as many as 129
boats in one race.”
DENVER TRIMS MILLERS
AND CAPTURES SERIES
DENVER. COLO . Oct 14. Th. D-n
ve Western league club won the iiiinoi
league cliu in pionship by ddfeatii.g Min
neapolis the American association pen
nant winner. yesterday. in the fifth and
final game of the series, 4 to 3. This
victory gave the Denver club four out
! of the five games played.
ST. LOUIS TEAMS PLAY
TIE IN THE CITY SERIES
ST. LOUIS. Oct. 14 Da-.km-s.-j
stopped the fourth game of the inter- I
league series for the championship of i
St Louis, between the local American
league team and the National league
club. In the tenth inning with the score
tied. 2 to 2
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.MOXDAY. OCTOBER 14. 1912
by a Southern coach.
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NTOW. in the matter of condition:
The Commodores must play the
University of Virginia November
2. they must play Harvard Novem
ber 9. and they must be ready for .
Auburn November 23.
To the Vanderbilters every one of
these three games is of more im
portance than the Georgia game. If
the Nashville players are in top
notch condition for the Georgia
game, they will go stale long be
fore they get to Cambridge for the
game which is supremely impor
tant to them —the Harvard contest.
A lot of McGugin's success has
been due to the excellent physical
condition he keeps his men in. You
seldom hear of a Vanderbilt player
being overtrained He keeps his
men in this condition by requiring
only light work, except when heavy
work is necessary and that is in
an occasional scrimmage and in a
ga me,
, You can put it down as an abso
lute certainty that the Vanderbilt
. players will not be absolutely fit
and hard for the Georgia game.
And condition is surely a big part
of the battle in a close game.
The Georgia, football schedule is
so arranged ' t ha't Coach Gunning
ham is taking no big chance in
bringing his men up to the finest
condition for.this game. With Tan
dy out of the 'way, the Athenians
play Alabama. Sewanee and Clem
son. All three of them should •be
easy games, unless Sewanee shows
surprising and unexpected strength.
In fact, t'oach Cunningham will not
have to make any big preparations
for a game until that of November
16. when Tech will be the Athen
ians' opponent. Coach Cunningham
can get his men fit for Vantjerbilt,
let them go stale, and then brine;
them around again before any ex
treme exertions will be needed.
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A NY WAY you figure this Satur
day's contest, it should be a
great game. The Red and Black
has the chance of its career to pol
ish off the Commodores and to. win
the football championship of the
South.
If Cunningham and his men can
"get by” Saturday they will not be
headed this season. They have the
material and the men will be in
condition. They have been taught
all the football that they could pos
sibly assimilate in the short time
they have been training.
Can they overcome the team that,
year after year, has swept the best
in the South before it? It's a puz
zle. But there'll be something doing
while they’re solving it.
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GEO. STALLINGS SIGNS
WITH BRAVES FOR 5
YEARS AT SIO,OOO PER
BOSTON. MASS., Oct. 14—Georg. |
Stalling- has signed to manage the
Boston Nationals team. His contract
tuns for five years
This deal has been »n for weeks, but
was hung up tight because Stallings
refused to sign tor a one-year contract.
He claimed that there was no chance to
build up the club in one yea and tiiat
his only hope was to have several years
to put the Braves in the tunning. He
said he did not care to get a good
fiamework built and then to see the
club turned over to some other man
ager. Evidently he won hl- point, for
his contract is ironclad and tuns so
five years.
it is reported that Stallings is to get
SIO,OOO a year for his set vices.
HEITMULLER IS DEAD;
HIS TEAM IS VICTIM OF
TYPHOID EPIDEMIC
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 14.—Following
close upon the death of Outfielder
"Heinie” Heitmuller, comes the infor
mation that the entire Los Angeles
club of the Pacific Coast league is
threatened with typhoid fever and the
fear is entertained that the team may
be wiped out by an epidemic.
Captain Dillon reluctantly admitted
this fact. late.last night when inter
viewed by a reporter
"Yes. it's Hye that the boys are badly
scared.” said Dillon. "Hughey Smith is
bedridden with typhoid, while Walter
Slagle, ’Bill’ Tozer and myself are sick
and out of the game. Many of the boys
are complaining of feeling ill, and. for
the time being, we are what you might
call 'all shot to pieces.’”
SECRET PRACTICE FOR
VANDY BEFORE GA. GAME
NASHVILLE, TENN., Oct. 14. —Secret
practice has begun at Vanderbilt in prep
aration for the Georgia game in Atlanta
Saturday.
CoiuJl- M< 'Gogin has never followed the
Eastern practice of waiting to the last
month of tiie season to bring his team up
to its lighting edge, and this year more
than ever he is pushing matters on ac
courit of the fact that oneof'hTs hardest
games comes so early in the season.
What happened at the secret practice
in the way of developing new plays is
a matter that only the coaches and the
players know. It is possible, however,
that Georgia will have an opportunity to
find out. as the Commodores are expect
ing to have to let themselves out to the
fullest to win from Cunningham's men
CHARLESTON FISHER GETS
TWO DIAMONDS IN CATCH
CHARLESTON, S. C„ Oct. 14.—Fred
Shriver hooked in Charleston harbor
today a sheepshead fish which had a
three-stone diamond ring in one of its
gills and a seven-stone diamond ring
in its stomach.
Wrestling Champion Forsakes Mat; to Winter on the Pacific Coast
HORRORS OF TRAINING HAVE PUT GOTCH ON SHELF
By Ed. \V. Smith.
Ci HICAGO, Oct. 14.—The mat
game will know Its greatest
exponent. Frank Gotch, no
more.
The absolute horrors of training
outweigh in the Gotch mind the
love—or need, as the ease may be
—of money. In other words, the
champion will attempt to worry
along now on what he has accumu
lated—and live in peace and quiet.
Also he will live without the tor
ture of having to think that with
in a certain time he will have to
start the hideous grind of going
"on the road" to get himself fit for
a hard match.
Dante never pictured worse tor
ture or harrowed a soul with more
frightful ideas of an inferno than
Gotch entertains about training.
It's a strange situation, but a
true one. nevertheless. And other
athletes who have reached a cer
tain age after troublous years of
the grind talk in much the same
strain as does Gotch. Ask Jack
Johnson and he will tell you, if he
is in the mood.
Gotch Afraid of Grind.
The other day 1 ran into Gotcii
in a downtown hotel. It was the
first time 1 had seety him since last
| FODDER FOR FANS
The Athletics, champions of Philadel
phia anyhow. are going to Cuba for a
twelve-game, series. Doubtless they have
designs on the championship of the Un
easy Republic
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Dayton baseball writers claim that
Marty Krug, utility man of the Red Sox,
stands suspended by their ball club
They allege that he signed with Dayton
under the name of Martin Craig; that
he .jumped, and that the suspension put
on him then has never been raised.
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Larry laijeune. of Grand Rapids, and
last year of Chattanooga, led the Cen
tral league in, hitting this year His
mark was 361 If he had shown a lit
tle of that for the Lookouts, things would
>uiv« looked mighty different for Bill
Smith. „ ,
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Brown Keene, oi Springfield, ham
mered the ball .323 this year in the Cen
tral Shaughuessey, the old Clemson
coach, put a mark of 303 to his credit.
Greminger. former Montgomery manager,
hit .283 for Canton. “Punch” Knoll, the
old Nashville outfielder, now manager of
Dayton, hit .281 Aristo DeHaven, for
mer Cracker outfielder, was up to his
old tricks, with a mark of .250
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Joe Cantillion says this of the world’s
series games: "The boys all have their
eyes peeled so wide for the gate re
ceipts that they play everything safe
There is none of the slap-dash play that
makes baseball interesting There is
something to this. too. They certainly
play everything mighty safe.
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Hot joke on President Lynch, of the
National league He forgot the rule that
tie games must be played off in the city
where they were played, and started to
beat it for New York after Wednes-
fail. when he wrestled Hacken
schmidt here. Clad in a woolly
overcoat and under a heavy cloth
hat, the lowa star looked as fat
and sleek as a retired business man
whose one aim was to extract
most of the good things out of
this life. I joshed the champion
for his appearance, but he simply
took oft' the coat and then gave me
a survey.
Has Quit For All Time.
‘‘l'm but little heavier than I wt:s
a year ago," he said. "It's the
coat. I guess."
Gotch has just closed up the fall
work on the farm and is casting
about now for something else to
eccupy his time. But a sugges
tion about wrestling again brought
out the old Gotch smile and his
eyes narrowed down to little slits
as he thought about it.
"No more for me." he blurted
out. "Did you ever conceive some
hideous idea of Hades? Well,
I’ve got some hideous ideas, too,
but they're all about training. The
hereafter doesn’t bother me «o
much.
Many Hard, Hard Weeks.
"Every once In a while, usually
at night when I'm sitting at home
and enjoying the ease and com-
day's game. He got to Providence before
he was headed
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There was a trick to the way Mayor
Fitzgerald, of Boston, got 300 seats in the
Polo grounds for his 300 Red Sox rooters.
Secretary Heydler. acting for the national
commission. was deputed to inform
Mayor Fitzgerald that they could not sell
him a block of 300 seats. "All right,
then,” said Mayor Fitzgerald, "there'll
not be any series 111 revoke the license
of the Red Sox." He. got Hie 300 tickets
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Some day the bromidic photographers
will can this stuff about making the rival
world’s series managers, rival football
captain and rival automobile drivers
shake hands to he photographed -some
day. They ought to get thirty days for it.
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If the world's series has a single hero
this year, who is he?
...
Many papers have criticised the na
tional commission for its ruling that tie
games count among the games in which
the players get their share. Such criti
cism is rot if this were not so there
would be an incentive to make every game
a tie, which wouldn't be a very healthy
incentive, at $50,000 a game.
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The Denver team, rendered chesty’ by
its defeat of the American association
champions, has challenged the winners of
the world's series. Os course the Red
Sox will accept like a fish.
The national commission is said to be
so sore over the yelp of the players be
cause the tie game in Boston counted as
one of their four that they talk of abol
ishing the serise. This series means an
average of something better than $3,504
i for every player who takes part—but
that isn't enough
foil of a nice place, I think of the
wrestling game and wonder how it
would be to start out again. Say,
the chills Just begin to creep ’all
over me when I fancy those six
weeks, or maybe it would have to
bo eight weeks this time, of work
that would be necessary to get me
into condition.
"Now. I've had unpleasant things
come up in my life, and later on.
when I think of tbam. I try to
think that it wouldn't be bo hard
to go through them again. That's
the way with most of us, I guess.
Rut with training it is vastly dif
ferent. The tortures of training
never will be erased from my’ mem
ory.
Money Was Well Earned.
"People say I get my money easy
because it was just natural for me
to wrestle well and I have all of
the natural qualifications. I wish
these people knew the truth. It’s
the hardest money man ever got.
“They .are scolding me in some
quarters because. I don’t wrestle
Zbysco again. They may keep on
scolding. I don't care. I beat him
once: don’t doubt that T could do
so again, but I haven't the slight
est inclination to try it. That’s
final, and 1 don't care how strong
you make it.
"Soon after Christmas we are
going out to California. In the
southern part of the state I’m go
ing to pick ‘out a little patch of
Ipnd that isn't too expensive and
Bill buy it for a winter home. Mrs.
Gotch is wild about orange and
Idhgpn trees and wants them in the
ifofit yard. That's the kind of a
)|j;CVe I'll get.
To Spend Summer in lowa.
"I’ll have somebody run It the
year round, because in the sum
mer we’ll return to lowa and at
tend to business there. That's
what I call an ideal arrangement.
"Wrestle again and again? Ouch,
but it makes me shudder,” and
Gotch acted as if he meant it.
This is the best answer that can
be made to Jack Herman and his
earnest efforts to get a Gotch
match for Zbysco.
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