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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. Don’t covet your neighbor’s car. A Ford of your own is surely within your means now that the price has reach ed bottom. Higher stand ards of living at lower cost— that’s what the Ford price changes mean to you. Runabout $525 'Pouring Car 600 Delivery Car 025 Town Car SOO Those new prices, f. o. b. Detroit, with all equipment. An early order will mean an early delivery. (Jet particulars from Eord Motor Company, 311 Peaehtret street. Atlanta, or direct from Detroit factor). _'l, -".."■■J""' . - ~ r—- 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- GERMANY ADVERTISING FOR AMERICAN TRAINERS "American trainers, two. Gentle men willing to take the jobs may apply to Carl Diem, Deutsche Sportabetorde for Athletik, Berlin, N. 24, Flegels, Ar. 3.” 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 HfW Core* in 1 to 5 d»r« V • Gonorrhoea and Gleet, ■nfe, B ■ ’ ■mi Contains no poison and ■B ■ W M maybrusedfullatrength absolutely without fear. Guaranteed not to stricture. Prerents contagion. WHY NOT CURE YOURSELF? At Druggists, or we ship express prepaid npon receipt of sl. Full particulars mailed on request. THE EVANS CHEMICAL CO., CiMtaaaU, •. Wl IN'JEQTION-A PER- i [ * MA KE NT CVKE » | 'i of the moat obstinate oasea guaranteed !n from i‘ , 3to 6 daya ; no other treatment required. \ I ) Sold by all druggists | “ THE OLD REHAB LE.*’ "*| [remedy™ men| MARTIN MAY PEACHTREE STREET UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES / X FOR SALE >4 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- MORE money passes over the counter for Fatima Cigarettes than for any other brand of cigar ettes in America. The extra-quality blend has made them famous. Still you get 20 Fatimas for 15c. 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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. At tiie end of the first half thev ..[Hill [I Illi.l 11,,, Jir™ 'hIIiiIIIiII' H|||||lll*’ RALSTON SHOES Find favor in the eyes of the most critical. They feel as well as they look. You’ll enjoy wearing them —not a moment's discomfort; for they need no B breaking in—a I A *n. « j, tact which h&r \ we shall / H ° ! fZ2 b= glad /JTBW to prove. /V\w JoC w W R. D. BARKSDALE CO. | x. 11 Decatur St., (Kimball House) likwli \ 1 </. ■ \--T7- ■ =■.■■' ■ =fr 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. 13