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Condition and Experience Will Count a Lot in Vandy-Georgia Game
ATHENIANS HAVE CHANCE FOR SOUTHERN TITLE
By Percy H. Whiting.
IT has fallen to the lot of At
anta to see the best game of the
S. I. A. A. season of 1912. It is
, Vanderbilt-Georgia game which
will be played at Ponce DeLeon
next Saturday afternoon.
There appears small doubt but
(hat. "hen the final estimate of
teams is made at the end of this
seamn. the first two teams will be
Georgia and Vanderbilt but
nTi-thei that will be the order or
whether it will be reversed re
nt n- to be demonstrated.
Only one other team seems now
have a look-in. That team is
tuburn. The Alabama Polytech
n: s take on both Georgia and Van
derbilt. so the thing should be
worked out to a real decision. If
any other teams in the select or
ganization ■ have a chance for the
championship they have not shown
It vet.
.pHE man who could forecast the
* winner of Saturday’s game with
, ertainty would be a wonder ind.egd.
Also he could get rich in one short
afternoon
It will be an exciting betting
proposition. V.anderbilt has the
more experienced and less trained
team. Georgia has a team made
up of fine individual players, but
because so many are new men it is
no; a team that has absolutely per
fected team play. It will be bet
ter trained for the game, however,
than the Commodores.
Mclntosh Tries to Harmonize
Teas and Fight Performances
By W. W. Xaughton.
SAX FRANCISCO. Oct. 14.
Here, is an extract from a
circular letter from Hugh B.
>i lir.'isii. dated at Sidney, Aus
tralia:
in. of the innovations this sea
son at ihe Stadium is the Thurs
c.-\ matinee performance. Every
t": - ’a\ the Stadium box-holders
. . n exhibition of sparring in
- 'goes' and training displays
consist of bag-punching.
- l ing, ground exercises and such
ite!‘-sting '•tuff. The first of
• mid Thursday and proved
• n't e success. It attracted a
\ : -in t’on of ladies. This is
■ \ new feature of the fight
x : Australia Ladies have
.■in away excent when
i .. . n an occasional curious
•' lie sex attended, think
. - ■ .d be shocked, and was
: -c io find it was not so
14 all. Hugh D. Mcln
' s wife and Madame Til,
< ' and rich wife of Paul
inputted Parisian boxer,
s hostes-' and serve afternoon
■ ladies who attend on
Net Entirely New,
" ■ <ay now that pink teas
:■> i tourneys can not be
’■ ■ iri. tn m iz'-l
" I a o:' course, that they
■ '• ea at tiie cricket match! -
‘ A alia and other portions of
British empire. The gam - in
hie “flanneled fools of the
' excel lends itself to mild
i g‘ ces of that kind.
I' l ' tha: matter, word cameover
s-as a (onple >f years ago that in
o tier to add a social atmosphere to
he • game of baseball,
cups of he amber fluid, doudeo
cream, were handed around
'luring intervals in the sport out
yonder.
I remember the circumstances
1 -t iie y. for a room mate of mine
' ■> ■* : He baseball in those years,
resented the innovation on the
s,, oi'e that it robbed the American
•itional pastime of its masculin
: remained for Mclntosh,
owever, to graft a teapot onto a
Tr; glove and now the only
= io do is to lay back and await
1 "Pments. Unless the sport of
"ng degenerates there is little
of boxing and oolong becom
biended to such an extent that
II not he able to tell where
! nking ends and thumping
begins
Might Increase Onslaught.
's a world-old claim, of course,
there is no sport or diversion
an not be improved “by the
mg influences of women,” but
* game of glove, where so
depends upon the delivery of
lockout punch, it is hard to see
the thing can be adapted to
nine standards of entertain
nient.
if the ladies could steel
i -• ves to the spectacle an or
boxing contest affords, there
probability that their ptes
would increase rather than
"l’> r tiie onslaught of the pugil-
• i poor man that doesn't like
seen at his Very best when
' ties are looking on, and by
token a fighter who under or
' circumstances might not be
~ | 'led as a glutton for punish
would put up with guile a
■ring rather than strike his
while watched hv female
* -e
'hinge considered the sport
"oxfng had beftei he left to the
' <> else discontinued alto
» I r - I I
>ls new departure Mclntosh
elv i aim originalitr Thm
io nake a eperla!t« of fem
I' • E 1
' * anti if the ~t>bi« Um) the t uth .
'■r» wert many coronets 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 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 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 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 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
te weights. The last named claims
to be a direct descendant of Hon
ore Balzac, the famous French au
thor.
The coming season's boxing in
Sidney will certainly have a French
flavor. And yet it does not seem
so very iong 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
Uaronia 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 1 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 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
a« a pastime in England is falling off."
he said, “but in Germany it is becom
ing more and more popular. At Kiel
this year I saw the finest yacht races I
ever witnessed, with as many as 129
boats in one race.”
DENVER TRIMS MILLERS
AND CAPTURES SERIES
DENVER. COLO., Oct. 14.—The Den
\ei Western league club non the minor
league championship by defeating Min
neapolis, the American association pen
riant 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 Darkness I
stopped the fourth game of the inter- i
league series for the championship of l
St. Louis, between the local American
league team and the National league]
duh. in the tenth inning with the score
tied. 2 to 2
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.MOND \V. OCTOBER 14. 1912.
by a Southern coach.
* * ♦
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 211.
To the Vandei bilters 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 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 that Coach Cunning
ham is taking no big chance in
bringing his men up to the finest
condition for this game. Van
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 gel 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 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 i
Stallings lias signed to manage the
Boston Nationals team. His contract
runs for five years
This deal has been on for weeks, but
"as hung up tight because Stallings
refused to sign tor a ooe-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 tunning. He
said lie did not care to get a good
framework built and titen to see the
club turned over to some other man
ager. Evidently he won his point, for
his contract is ironclad and runs to
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
’ i
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 al 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 on ac
count of the fact that one“df’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„ 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.
Wresiling Champion Forsakes Mat; to Winter on the Pacific Coast
HORRORS OF TRAINING HAVE PUT fiOTCH ON SHELF
By Ed. \V. Smith.
CHICAGO. Oct. 14.—The mat
game w ill 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 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.
Tlie 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 they 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 I-ajeune. 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
Pat" looked mights different for Bill
Smith. _,
• • •
Brown Keene, of Springfield, ham
mered the ball .323 this tear in the Cen
tral. Shaughnessey. the old Clemson
coach, put a mark of 303 to his credit.
Greininger. 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
• M ■
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.
• • •
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. Clad in a woolly
overcoat and under a heavy doth
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 off the i oat 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 casting
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
he 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 Red Sox." He got the 300 tickets
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 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
game® count among the games in which
the players get their share. Such criti
cism is rot If this were not so there
would bean 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 the.ir four that they talk of abol
ishing the serise. This series means an
average ot something better than $3,504
for every player who takes part—but
that isn’t enough.
fort 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 w’hen I fancy those six
weeks, or maybe it would have to
be eight weeks this time, of wont
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 thart*, i uy to
think that it wouldn’t be so hard
to go through them again. That's
the way with most of us, I guess.
But 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 1 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, ft’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 I 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 w’e are
going out to California. In the
southern part of the state I’m go
ing to pick out a little patch of
tA'rgl that isn’t too expensive and
I’ll‘rfuy it for a winter home. Mrs.
Grßqh is wild about orange and
lenlijn 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 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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