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If Commodores Expect Anything Easy Here Saturday, Georgia May Trim Them
OVERCONFIDENCE MAY COST TANDY THE GAME
Bv Percy H. Whiting.
I T has not often fallen to the lot
of Atlanta football fans to
have a decisive football game
? ayed within the confines of a lo
cii park. The Tech team has not
been in the championship running
' r years and it has been years
iincr Georgia has played, any team
but Tech in Atlanta.
This year, however. Georgia is
f ated to meet Vanderfcfilt on Sat
urday at Ponce DeLeon park and
the game should be one of the five
or six decisive struggleseof the sea
son in Dixie.
Georgia most certainly has a
chance to beat Vanderbilt. And
the team that beats Vanderbilt
has the championship einched.
Os course. Auburn, always a
contender, and Sewanee, appar
ently strong this year, must be
counted on. But Georgia should
b» able to take the number of
either. And at the same time
neither appears to Ihave much
chance with Vanderbilt.
It's All Up to Girorgia.
Apparently if the Commodores
ere to be trimmed by a S. I. A. A.
team this year it will have to be
Georgia, and the triimming will
have to be done Saturday after
noon at Ponce DeLeon ball park.
There are a lot of folks in the
South who have the notion that
Vanderbilt is never to- be beaten—
at the Commodores have taken
the lead, always to hold it.
of course, this is ridiculous. No
team sver grew so strong that it
was not trimmed in. due time.
Michigan, Yale, Virginia are strik
ing examples.
This may be Vanderbilt's year to
r. down.
t'ertainly the Temnesseeans have
nothing on the Georgians save ex
perience. This is a. tremendous
oilv.intage, truly. But it is not an
..t < ( whelming one. No team ever
won on experience alone.
Any way you figure it—and there
a e plenty of ways—it will be a
game and a decisive game. It
■Aill mean more to the Georgia men
: f they can win than any game
played in years and years, for it
means that the Retd and Black is
hack in the lead again and strong
'rough to meet the-strongest—and
conquer.
Don't Take It Seriously.
The press dispaiches sent out
f ore Nashville, to the effect that
Vanderbilt has a look-in on the
•hampionship of the country at
football, are not to be taken too
literally. It is not at all likely that
such guff representts the opinion of
Vanderbilt players or coaches.
Vanderbilt has hnd the best team
In the S. 1, A. A. for several years.
It has been able, by superhuman
efforts, to tie Yale and Annapolis.
It has never been able to trim
Michigan, even in. the years of the
Wolverine's weakness.
if the Commodores get swelled
up with any of that sort of stuff,
they are likely to fall easy prey to
the first team that gives them a
fight. That has ever been a Com
modore weakness Vanderbilt men
remember with a pang of disgust
the silly parade before a Sewanee
game one fall mot so many years
ago and the terrible threats of what
the Commodores were going to do
to Sewanee—and with a mingled
feeling of regrex at the showing
and of pleasure at the just retri
bution. they recajl what really hap-
Pended.
If the Commodores come to At
lanta with any htunch that they are
coming national champions ami
that they are getting to have a soft
time with Georgia, they are likely
“ be trimmed,, and trimmed good
and proper The Cunningham
am is sure to have a lot of power
and drive to it, and it is certain to
I’la.v its hardest against Vander
bilt.
' committee of Vanderbilt men,
a iiich Hamßtion Douglas. Jr., Is
'hamman and of which Innis
"ti. a former Vanderbilt foot-
‘' ■ '.'plain, is a member, is work
with the Georgia athletic au-
11 ‘tics in preparing for the game.
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and every detail will be attended
to.
It is announced that the game
will start at 3:30 o'clock, and, of
course, the place is Ponce DeLeon
ball park.
Nix on the Autos.
Owing to the fact that last year
automobiles tore up the Poncey
ground terribly in getting to and
from the side lines, it has been de
cided by the owners of the park
that no vehicles of any kind will
be allowed on the grounds. This
will mean that the north side lines
will be reserved for pedestrians
exclusively and that everybody else
will be required to occupy the
grandstand. There is, however, a
FODDER FOR FANS
Forrest Cady, Red Sox catcher, claims
that the Giants jump right at a catcher
when they are sliding into home plate.
At that they don't get there often enough
to make it very dangerous.
* V •
It will be awful if the National commis
sion runs Horace Fogel out of baseball
and makes him go back to newspaper
work—hard alike on Horace and the read
ing public
...
The Boston players say that Tesreau
compensates for his wildness that results
in frequent bases on balls by scaring the
opposing players to death. What with
his speed and wildness it takes a brave
man to stand up before him.
* * *
The Boston rooters have used the fa
mous Harvard "snake dance" as one of
their rooting features. New Yorkers de
scribe it as an example of progressive lu
nacy.
Art Fletcher, the prize in-and-outer of
the world’s series, began his baseball ca
reer with the Dalias, Texas team.
• • •
Marquard will be so modest and re-
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The above advertisement has been
running for weeks in the German dai
lies. Unless results are forthcoming
soon, it will appear in some of the
American papers.
Even at this early date Germany is
gettihg busy with her plans for the
1916 Olympiad. She wants to leave
nothing undone to make it one of the
finest meetings ever held, and they are
trying with everything at their com
mand to duplicate Sweden's recent ef
forts.
Kaiser Wilhem's domain boasts of a
splendid track team, included in which
are such cracks as Rau and Braun,
sprinter and middle-distance, respec
tively. and Liesche and Passemann,
high jumpers. This quartet competed
at the Olympic meet, and with the ex
ception of Passemann every one did al!
that could be expected of him.
These are only a few of the good
ones a number of clubs in Berlin and
other important cities have enrolled.
Germany well remembers the great
showing of Sweden, due to the efforts
of an American trainer.
And Germany, among other nations,
appreciates this fact that America
alone has the best trainers. There
fore. it is no surprise that the Pil
sener famed country wants two Amer
ican trainers to do for Germany what
Ernie Hjertberg has already accom
plished for the Svenska country.
BRITON NOT IMPRESSED
BY WORLD’S SERIES DIN
NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—Sir John Har
rington, former British minister to
Abyssinia, arrived in New York on an
American visit just in time to see the
first of the world's championship
games.
"The excitement here over baseball
is. after all. just what we have in Lon
don over a big soccer match." said Sit
John. "But 1 find a difference between
the way people go in for sports here
and in England. Over here you make
more of a business of your sports. For
instance, in baseball all your players
are professionals who are paid salaries
to work at baseball, but not play it.
Some one was telling me that Ty Cobb
is to get $15,000 next season. That is
extraordinary. Baseball playing is more
remunerative than many of the learned
professions.
"Then 1 think you people over here
do not go in so much for the love of a
sport itself as to win. You insist upon
being first. I believe that with us we
love sports more for their own sake
than for the idea of beating somebody
else at them."
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 15. 1912
seating capacity of something
like 7.500 at the park, so there is
small dangeY- of overcrowding.
However, it is not unlikely that
one of Atlanta's largest football
crowds will be out for the game.
Georgia has a tremendous backing
in Atlanta, and Vanderbilt is not
without strong representation.
Moreover, the game is of such pri
mary importance that it will ap
peal to sport lovers from all over
the state of Georgia. In attend
ance. it ought to rank next to. and
perhaps even above, the Tech-
Georgla contest. It is certainly
likely to be a more closely contest
ed battle and one of greater inter
est.
tiring now that he'll talk about himself
in his sleep.
* * *
Mathewson and Tesreau lost their
games, Marquard alone won his. Who'd
have thought it?
♦ ♦ .
The strain of playing the series is tell
ing on the players. But it's nothing
compared with the strain of writing the
serie®
• • *
Well be sorry if Mathewson works
again. We're frankly tired of reading
this “youth against age" stuff One
would think Matty was 50.
• • *
A year ago Providence sold Hugh Bedi
ent to .Jersey City for S7OO. And now
look at him.
• • *
The performers in the world series are
“playing for Sweeney" now. and will
end it the first chance they get.
• •
It must he highly pleasing and edify
ing to Ty Cobb that several near-pugil
ists have adopted his name. There are
a “Ty Cobb" and a "Young Ty Cobb” in
the ring at present, both dubs.
S. P. U. TURNS UP WITH
FINE BUNCH OF RINGERS
NASHVILLE, TENN.. Oct. 15.—The
truth is out now as to why Sewanee
cancelled a game with the S. P. U. team,
of Jackson, and took on the weaker
Florence Normal instead.
It seems that the S. P. U. bunch lias
grabbed four of the football players
recently expelled from the University
of Mississippi on Charges of profes
sionalism. S. P. I', wired Sewanee its
line-up, including the names of Ca
hall. Manship, Shields and Walton, all
of whom were put off the University
of Mississippi team a short time ago.
Coach Cope, of Sewanee, demanded
the removal of these men from today’s
game, as the S. I. A. A. rules establish
ed them as ineligible under the one
year limit. S. P. U. refused to play
with the substitutes, and the game was
called off.
JACK JOHNSON HAS HIS
BROTHER PUT IN CLINK
CHICAGO, Oct. 15.—Jack Johnson,
champion heavyweight pugilist, lias had
his brother. Charley, arrested here,
charging him with grand larceny, forg
ery. obtaining money under false pre
tenses' and a few other counts, and
claimed that the prosecution was an
evidence of "brotherly love." The
champion swore out the warrant and
appeared against Charley in the munic
ipal court.
“It’s just a case of too much brother,
ly love on my part.” said Jack. "1 let
him have lots of money and then he
goes and four-flushes around and
sponges on my friends. So I'm having
him taken into court for his own pro
tection. Isn't it better that I protect
him than anybody else'.’ Isn't that
brotherly love?
"What gets to me is that people
should take that boy for me and think
he's a world's champion.”
THREE-FINGERED BROWN
IS SOLD TO LOUISVILLE
CHICAGO. Oct. 15.—Mordecai Brown,
the three-fingered pitcher of the Chicago
club, of the National league has been
sold to the Louisville team, of the
American association. C. w. Murphy,
president of the Chicago Nationals, asked
for waivers on Brown some time .ago.
He has been sold by Murphy because of
a lameness resulting trom a twisted knee.
SHERMAN BADLY BEATEN
IN FIGHT WITH MANDOT
MEMPHIS. TENN.. Oct. 15. —Joe Man
dot. of New Orleans, was awarded the
decision over Joe Sherman, of Baltimore,
at the end of an eight-round bout here
last night.
Mandot had the advantage from the
start.
Sherman was badly punished
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Sox Overwhelmed
In Yesterday's Game;
Even Stahl Lost Head
Boston Mogul Made Tremendous
Mistake in Putting Collins Into
Game That Was Lost.
By John (Chief) Meyers.
BOSTON, Oct. 15.—Yesterday's
was the first decisive victory of
the series. There was no
question about the best team of the
day winning.
Our win was so clean-cut that it as
tonished many of our supporters. No
wonder, either, for it was the first time
we played up to our real form. That
victory did worlds to establish confi
dence and fight in our ranks.
Yesterday's victory proved a double
disaster to the Red Sox.
That first inning, when O'Brien went
all to pieces, the entire team blew up
behind him. Every man on the club
lost his head. We had them all so far
up in the air that we’d have beaten any
kind of pitching.
It was the first occasion of "rattles”
that the Hub outfit showed.
Stahl ‘‘Pulls a Bone."
Jake Stahl did a foolish thing yes
terday when he sent Collins in to re
lieve O’Brien.
I can not explain such a move, un
less Jake was as befuddled then as he
and his men were in the previous in
nings.
Here the game was hopelessly lost—
Boston had one chance in a million for
victory—but still he wasted a good
pitcher in the last eight innings.
C ollins showed by the manner in
which he finished that he would have
been a mighty valuable asset to have
in reserve in case Wood should have to
hang out the distress signal.
J never in all my life saw a team of
such reputed strength so thoroughly
disorganized as was Boston in the first
inning of yesterday’s game.
We did not realize that we had them
on the run till O’Brien pulled that
balk.
I will say for him that it was the
beat balk I ever saw. It took the back,
bone not only out of the pitcher, but
out of every man supporting him.
McGraw grasped the situation in a
flash.
He tipped us immediately to use our
own judgment and to strike while the
iron was hot.
The result was five runs in no time.
After that the "Rube" could go along
as he pleased.
Was Cinch For the Rube.
Marquard had one- of the easiest
games of the series. 1 knew lie would
win just about as he pleased after that
first inning.
Rube was as cool as an iceberg all
the way. Boston lilt him a trifle harder
than he is usually hit during the first
four innings. But that simply made it
a baseball game after a fashion instead
of a massacre. It gave our supporters
a chance to see that the Giants are a
team of class.
That catch of Snodgrass' in the fourth
inning was as pretty a bit of fielding
as any one can ever hope to see. It
took a sure triple off Wagner and kept
the score from assuming an exciting
tone. Yet I am glad that the play came
off as it did. It was the straw that
broke the camel's back. It took all the
fight out of the Sox. That catch licked
them.
McGRAW SIGNS TO PLAY
SEASON OF VAUDEVILLE
NEW YORK, Oct. 15. —John J. Mc-
Graw. manager of the New York Giants
baseball team, will be seen as a vaude
ville star a few weeks after the present
world's championship with the Boston
Red Sox is finished. A vaudeville man
ager says McGraw has agreed to go on
the stage for 10 or 20 weeks if he gets
$3,000 a week. The United Booking
Agency will give him this sum. the
manager said.
A contract with McGraw has been
drawn up by the United Agency, and it
is said that as soon as E. F. Alber re
turns to New York from Hot Springs.
Va., the manager of the Giants will
sign it, and thereupon register him
self as a “pinch hitter” in the game of
vaudeville.
Friends of McGraw say that, al
though lie is going into vaudeville, he
has no idea of giving up baseball. Hav
ing made the Giants what they are to
day. the "Little Napoleon of Baseball,"
as he sometimes is called, win keep
command of them for many years.
SEWER FOR GARY SPOILS
FOX HUNTING PRESERVE
HAMMOND. IND.. Oct. 15. —Ail that
remained of the biggest fox hunting
preserve in the middle West was oblit
erated yesterday when the Tolleston
dub dam. in the Little Calumet river,
was blown up with dynamite. The dam
was wrecked as a step toward reclaim
ing thousands of acres of swamp land
in northern Indiana and to provide the
city of Gary with a sewei system.
For years millionaire sportsmen of
Chicago, who maintained the fox pre
serves. were engaged In a feud witli
farmers of the surrounding country
Armed guards patrolled the dam arid
preserve to protect it.
C. HOLDITCH WINNER OF
VICE PRESIDENT'S CUP
C. Holditch won the vice president's
golf trophy In the play in the final tour
nament of the year over the East Lake
course of the Atlanta Athletic club
Mr. Holditch defeated H Clay Moore 4
up and 3 to play In their 36-hole finals.
At the end of the first nine holes Mr
Moore was 2 up. At the end of the morn
ing round he was 3 up.
Mr Holditch was 3 up at the end of the
seventh hole in the afternoon round and
had Mr. Moore 3 down at the turn and
liormle at the thirteenth hole He won
the match on the fifteenth green
T. L. Ingram won the second flight,
defeating T. B. Fay
J. G. Darling defeated F Hurr for
the third flight cup
DERRILL PRATT TO HELP
COACH ALABAMA ELEVEN
I'l HUA 1,04 >H A. ALA. Oct 15 Derrill
I‘ratt. the greatest all-round plavei ever
turned out bv the I'nlversltv of \l»
bants. «111 arrive here o< t<il>ei <1 to as
sist Graves it ■ S.'hlng the <deven fm
'he remainder < f 'be football season
I‘ratt was u great plav<t v» . kt. k-t
Itie Soulli has never seen tils aupenor
Georgia Will Give Vanderbilt a Hard Game, Predicts Tech Coach
HEISMAN ADMITS TECH SHOWING SURPRISED HIM
Bv J. W. Heisman.
(Coach of the Tech Football Team)
ON Saturday Sewanee decided
to go after a century score,
just to see what one would
look like. No doubt they did a
lot of running, but as little or noth
ing is known of the caliber of Flor
ence college, a guess as to the
merits of the Tigers’ performance
isn't worth the reader's time.
The Commodores rolled up an
other healthy score, and against
Rose Polytechnic the 50 points they
made mean more than did their
hundred odd against the other two
teams previously played. While I
look for them to flefeat Georgia
handily next Saturday. 1 am en
tirely sure that it will not be an
other track meet for the Tennes
seeans. The Red and Black will
have power, and will go some
through the line, but that Vander
bilt backfield will get around Geor
gia's ends, I imagine. Botli teams
are liable to do considerable for
ward passing.
Auburn Strikes Snag.
Auburn struck something of a
snag in Florida, but this was no
surprise to me, for Florida played
excellent ball last fall and has re
turned almost the entire team this
year. I am advised by more than
one correspondent from the Land
of Flowers that the football team
down the. e is planning to make
their native heath a Land of
Thorns for all invaders and that
they are well capable of doing it.
My information is that they claim
a weight of over 170. and with the
speed and ability of "Dummy”
Taylor at half and Captain Buie at
quarter. I have no doubt that visit
ing teams there this fall will find
something else besides the weather
a “warm proposition." I am ad
vised that they hope to catch Tech
napping on October 26. That they
can not do. as we are well "on to"
them, and if they beat Tech it will
be because they have the better
team and the Tech team will not
be able to help itself.
The score turned in by Georgia
against Citadel was entirely cred
itable, for the latter plays a good,
snappy, nervy game. By tht ac
counts it would appeal that Cit
adel surprised the Athenians as
much by their splendid fotvva'd
pass game as they did the Yellow
Jackets. It is certainly a sight
worth witnessing to see the wav
Martin and Folget . of .the Citadel
team, get those long, speedy passes
off.
it is cleat that Mercer has re-
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covered from the shock of its over
throw at the hands of Auburn and
is beginning to make better use of
the material. To score almost as
many points against Howard as
did Clemson is a feat for any Bap
tist to smile over: for Clemson,
you know, has "some football team”
this Indian summer. Mercer’s game
with Tech next Saturday in Ma
con is going to be a pippin. Mer
cer will have the edge on weight
by a good ten pounds or more.
The Clemson men frankly admit
they were surprised by Riverside
on Saturday, and the mere score
alone would seem to bear out this
unblushing admission. But if few
of the regulars were in the game
until the second half the whole
thing is largely explained. I don't
fancy Clemson is going to try to
run up any big scores until it meets
the Citadel anti South Carolina, its
deadly state rivals. No, the Tiger
having tested his strength against
Howard, is now going to "lay low"
for a while.
Tennessee is bearing out my
forecast of a strong team Its score
against Maryville surprised me by
its s|ze. notwithstanding I think so
well of them. I look for the Vol
unteers to get well back on the
map again this fall, and next fall
we will again see them having a
say or two about things.
The Alabama-Tech Surprise.
And now what shall we say
about the real surprise of last Sat
urday? Alabama had the weight
edge all right, though not by as big
a margin as I had expected to see,
and they had the speed edge by big
margin, as I had expected to see.
and they had, the speed edge by a
team average. I should say, of not
less than three-fourths of a sec
ond on the hundred. They also
had the age and experience handi
cap in their favor. And yet Tech
won, and by a very decisive score.
Personally. I had looked for a de
feat to the unmelodious tune of
about four touchdowns at the
hands of the Tuscaloosans, hut the
fire and spirit with which the Jack
ets went into the very first scrim
mage told me in a trice that they
weren't going to beat us that much,
anyway.
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had three points garnered, while
Tech had none. And then came
out that “come-back” stuff that
Citadel saw a week ago. and after
that it was merely a question df
how long the quarters were as th
what the size of Tech's score would
be.
I have told the public before that
they couldqt look for much of a
football team, but they could ex
pect to see some mighty courage
ous fighting spirit this fall from
the Yellow Jackets.
What about their football play
ing? Well. I nearly believe thev
played bteter than they know how
to play. They put forth almost
superhuman efforts, and that, cou
pled with a peculiar style or sys
tem of play that we have adopted
this year, proved
some" demoralizing to Alabama.’
Team Is Lightest Ever.
.With Moore, a 140-pound fresh
man. in the game in place of a con
siderably heavier man, the average
weight of the Tech team is brought
down to 154. When it is recalled
that the next lightest team we have
ever had at Tech has been about
162 (in 1906), the reader is In a
position to understand just what
kind of a hole Tech is in this fall
for material; or, if the reader
doesn't, any athlete does. And, by
the way, the sporting editors of
Atlanta are cordially invited to
come out and weigh the team for
themselves any time they feel so
Inclined.
1 have dwelt for a moment on
this point merely because I want
Tech men and Atlantans to appre
ciate that fighting Tech eleven, and
to give them credit for what they
tlid last Saturday. I freely say that
it was, in my opinion, the greatest
victory, considering the limita
tions, that Tech ever won, and I
am proud of the team accordingly
Whether these featherweights
can stand the gaff and keep up thia
pace is something that remains to
be seen. To keep them “on edge"
for a whole season of games in
which they will always be greatly
outweighted is a task I fear be
yond our powers, perhaps beyond
any powers.
But as long as they can play
such football as they did last Sat
urday, whether they win or lose,
they will be putting up an article
that will be well worth any man's
time to inspect of a Saturday aft
ernoon.
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