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Condition and Experience Wilt Count a Lot in Vandy-Georgia Game
ATHENIANS HAVE CHANCE FOR SOUTHERN TITLE
By Percy H. Whiting.
1/ has fallen to the lot of At-
. iita to see the best game of the
< 1 A. A. season of 1912. It is
tPH \anderbilt-Georgia game which
played at Ponce DeLeon
n , v : Saturday afternoon.
T ■ re appears small doubt but
when the final estimate of
is made at the end of this
the first two teams will be
G u j,i and Vanderbilt but
nt) , (i that will be the order or
w h- : Her it will be reversed re
to lie demonstrated.
( > i one other team seems now
t i, | ie i look-in. That team is
\ ni The Alabama Polytech
n; - : ik> on both Georgia and Van
pi t so the thing should be
uni out to a real decision, if .
any other teams in the select or
gan ...itioii have a chance for the
c ionship they have not shown •
It yet.
• * *
,-pHE man who could forecast the
1 .cum i of Saturday’s game with
i .iintv would be a wonder indeed.
he could get rich in one short
afternoon.
It will be an exciting betting
pi,.position. Vanderbilt has the
ini.;.' experienced and less trained
p n Georgia has a team made
>1; tine individual players, but
■ , >. -o many are new men it is
1,.,, h team that has absolutely per
fected t>am play. It will be bet
ter Gained for the game, however,
r , ii tie i’ommodores.
Mclntosh Tries to Harmonize
Teas and Fight Performances
By \V. W. Naughton.
S'. \ FRANCISCO. Oct. 14 -
H< n- is an extract from a
•cular letter from Hugh B.
. ■< i. dated at Sidney, Aus-
•ii' f the innovations thissea
t’.n Stadium is the Thurs
■i.itinee performance. Every
- i the Stadium box-holders
in exhibition of sparring in
■ ■■ •' Hid training displays
consist of bag-punching,
: u ground exercises and such
■n .. sting stuff. TJte first of
field Thursday and proved
n? • success. It attracted a
tion of ladies. This is
new feature of the fight
■i Australia Eadies have
o out away except when
■ i n art occasional curious
of tin- sex attended, think
ciid be shocked, and was
to find it was not so
all. Hugh It. Mcln
- wife and Madame Til.
.i:id rich wife of Paul
■ ■ ilcd Parisian boxer,
and serve afternoon
ladies who attend on
Net Entirely New.
. -a■. now that pink teas
, -id t>u. tieys can not be
iii nize!
. course, that they
i’ the cricket matches
•A i a ami other portions of
-i empire. The game in
tlanneied fools of the
■ x ■>! It nds it seif to mild
-of that kind.
l it matter, word cameover
i loitple of years ago that in
’■ ■ ii mid a social atmosphere t >
n-ph.nted game of baseball.
- ■ tin- amber fluid, douderi
■ 'in, were handed around
' - intervals in the sport out
" inlier the circumstances
! for a room mate of mine
baseball in those yea's,
I the innovation on the
at it robbed the American
pastime of its masculin
f' in.iined for Mclntosh,
to graft a teapot onto a
- and now the only
’ - do is to lay back and await
• '■nts. t’nless the sport of
- '-generates there is little
boxing anti oolong hecom
!"d to such an extent that
not be able to tell where
' king ends and thumping
Might Increase Onslaught.
""i ld-oid claim, of course,
is no sport or diversion
' not he improved “by the
- influences of women." hut
game of glove, where so
' pends upon, tlie delivery of
■ "nt punch, it. is hard to see
‘ thing can be adapted to
standards of entertain*
f the ladies could steel
' ''s to tlie spectacle an or
i"'xing contest affords, there
"liability that their pres
■ "Uld increase rather than
the onslaught of the pugil-
I'Oor man that doesn’t like
'en 4ft Ids very best when
are looking on, and by
sen a fighter who under or
ncumstances might not be
1 as a glutton for punish
"ould put up with quite a
•ig rather than strike his a
while watched bv female
tigs <nn.'idered. the sport
bg had better be left to the
' discontinued alto-
- new departure Mclntosh
■'■A claim originality They
Take a specialty of sem
i t linage in l.ondnn at one
if the , able told tin truth
ware muuy coronet* as
/CONSIDERING first the matter
of experience, the Vanderbilt
team this year is made up pretty
largely of old material. Some of
the names that are new to the or
dinary football Vans 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 at
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 of the five is
ready to .lump 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 one 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
Mclntosh is importing French box
ers in fair-sized lots. At 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
tei weights. The last named claims
to be a direct descendant of Hon
ey Balzac, the famous French au
thor. .
The coming season's boxing in
Sidney will certainly have a French
i flavor. And yet it does not seem
j so very long since the popular idea
was that the Frenchman could not
inflict a corkscrew punch unless
permitted to use his feet.
IF RULES ARE CHANGED
NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Sir Thomas
Lipton, who arrived by the steamer
<’at onia 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 1
requiring the challenging boat to cross
the Atlantic on its own bottom. I be
liece 1 could build a boat to hold her
own with any American-built boat of
the same type, style and weight. If 1
built a freak boat and sail her 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,"
| lie said, "but in Germany it is becom-
I ing more and more popular. At Kiel
, this year I saw the finest yacht races I
1 ever witnessed, with as many as 129
I boats in one race."
DENVER TRIMS MILLERS
AND CAPTURES SERIES
DENVER. COLO., Oct. 14.- The Den
ver Western league club Won the minor
'. ague championship by defeating 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. LOIIS, Oct. 14.—Darkness
stopped the fourth game of the inter
league series for the championship of
.St Louis, between the local American
league team and the National league
cluli, in the tenth Inning with the score
tied. 2 to 2
GABBY STREET BOUGHT
BY CHATTANOOGA CLUB
<ll ATT AN<•< «I \ TENN. Oct 14
I President <> H \ndrews has purchased
'la Id" Street Waller l"hn»on's former
baitet ' mate. iron, the Provident e club
lof itie Ini. rnHimnal '•‘ague Tlie eab «.i<
lartaiigi.i through President Navin, of th*
Detroit club
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. OCTOBER 14. 1912.
by a Southern coach.
...
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 he 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
game.
You can put it down as an abso
lute certainty ’ that the Vanderbilt
players will ndt 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 that Coach Cunning
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. Coach 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 Vanderbilt,
let them go stale, and then bring
them around again before any ex
treme exertions will be needed.
...
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 shot' 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—George
Stallings has signed to manage the
Boston Nationals team. His contract
runs for five years.
This deal has been on for weeks, but
was. hung up tight because Stallings
refused to sign for a one-year contract.
He claimed that there was no chance to
build up the club in one year and that
his only hope was to have several years
to put the Braves in the running. He
said he did not care to get a good
framework built and then tn see the
club turned over to some other man
ager. Evidently he won his point, for
his contract is ironclad and runs for
five years.
it is reported that Stallings is to get
SIO,OOO a year for his services.
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 true 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.
Coach McGugin has never followed the
Eastern practice of waiting to the last
month of the season to bring his team up
to its fighting edge, and this year more
than ever he is pushing matters ~n a.-
count of the fact that one of'his 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.. Qct. 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 TRAIN I Nfi HAVE PUT BOTCH ON SHELF
By Ed. W. Smith.
Chicago, Oct. H;—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 case 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 for
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 I ran into Gotch
in a downtown hotel. It was the
first time I had seen him since last
FODDER FOR FANS
The Athletics, champions of Philadel
phia anyhow, are going to Cuba for a
twelve-game series. Doubtless lhey have
designs on the championship of the Un
easy Republic.
* * *
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.
♦ * ♦
Larry Lajeune, 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
looked mighty different for Bill
Smith.
* • •
Brown Keene, of Springfield, ham
mered the ball .323 this year in the Cen
tral. Shaughnessey. 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. Arlsto DeHaven, for
mer Cracker outfielder, was up to his
old tricks, with a mark of .250
. . •
Joe Cgntillion 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.
...
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-
fall, when he wrestled Hacken
schmidt here. (Tad 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. 1 joshed the champion
fpr his appearance, but he simply
took off the coat and then gave me
a survey.
Has Quit For All Time.
"I'm but little heavier than 1 was
a year ago,” he said. “It’s the
coat, I guess."
Gotch has just closed up the fall
work on the farm and is easting
about now for something else to
occupy 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 so
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
lie was headed.
« • •
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. I'll revoke the license
of the fled SoxT He got tlie 300 tickets
Some day the bromidic photographers
will can this stuff about making the rival
world's series managers, rival football
captain amt rival automobile drivers
shake hands to be photographed—some
day. They ought to get thirty days for it.
* ♦ *
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 th? 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.
♦ » .
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 $3.508
for every player who takes part hut
that isn't enough
fort of a nice place, I think of the
wrestling game and wonder how it
would be to start cut again. Say,
the chills just begin to creep all
over me when I fancy those six
weeks, or maybe it would have to
be 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 them, I try to
think that wouldn’t be so hard
to go through them again. That’s
the way with most of us, 1 guess.
But with training it is vastly dif
ferent. The tortures of training
never w ill 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 I could do
so again, but 1 haven't the slight
est inclination to try it. That’s
final, and I don’t care how strong
you make it.
"Soon after Christmas we are
going nut to California. In the
southern part of the state I’m go
ing to pick out a little patch of
land that isn't too expensive and
I'll buy it for a winter home. Mrs.
Gotch is wild about orange and
lemon trees and wants them in the
front yard. That’s the kind of a
place I'll get.
To Spend Summer in lowa.
"I'll have somebody run It the
year round, because in the sum
mer well return to lowa and at
tend to business there. That’s
what 1 call an ideal arrangement.
“Wrestle again and again? Ouch,
hut 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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