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If Commodores Expect Anything Easy Here Saturday, Georgia May Trim Them OVERCONFIDENCE MAY COST VANDV THE CAME Bv Percy H. Whiting. I T has not often fallen to the lot of Atlanta football fans to have a decisive football game • played within the confines of a lo cal park. The Tech team has not been in the championship tunning f.n years and it has been years sjiv’e Georgia has played any team bitt Tech in Atlanta. This year, however. Georgia is s . d to meet Vanderbilt on Sat urio.v at Ponce DeLeon park and the game should be one of the five or six decisive struggles of the sea son in Dixie. Georgia most certainly has a , •'ance to beat Vanderbilt. And the team that beats Vanderbilt has the championship cinched. rlf course. Auburn, always a contender, and Sewanee, appar ent \ strong this year, must be counted on. But Georgia should he able to take the number of eithe' And at the same time neither appears to have much , nonce with Vanderbilt. It’s All Up to Georgia. Apparently if the Commodores are to be trimmed by a S. I. A. A. team this year it will have to be Georgia, and the trimming 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— that the Commodores have taken the lead, always to hold it. Os course, this is ridiculous. No team ever 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 go down. Certainly the Tennesseeans have nothing on the Georgians save ex perience. This is a tremendous advantage, truly. But it is not an overwhelming one. No team ever won on experience alone Any way you figure it—and there are plenty of ways—it will be a good game and a decisive game. It xviil mean more to the Georgia men if thex can win than any game played in years and years, for it means that the Red and Black is hack in the lead again and strong enough to meet the strongest—and conquer. Don’t Take It Seriously. The press dispatches sent out from Nashville, to the effect that Vanderbilt has a look-in on the championship of the country at football, are not to be taken too '"rrail.x It is not at. all likely that * t i guff represents the opinion of Vanderbilt players or coaches. Vanderbilt has had the best teato In the S. I. A. A for several years. 1' has been able, by superhuman efforts, to tie Yale and Annapolis. I' has never been able to trim M < higan. 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 ' « first team that gives- them a fight. That has ever been a Cotn modoro weakness. Vanderbilt men remember with a pang of disgust '“ silly parade before a Sewanee game one fall not so many years ago and the terrible threats of what the Commodores were going to do i" Sewanee—and with a mingled feeling of regret at the showing and of pleasure at the .just retn rtion. they recall what really hap pencied. If the Commodores come to At nta with any hunch that they are coming national champions and t at they are going to have a soft time with Georgia, they are likely to be trimmed, and trimmed good proper. The Cunningham nm is sure to have a lot of power id drive to it. and it is certain to ' a' its hardest against Vander bilt. A committee of Vanderbilt men. 'hich Hamilton Douglas. Jr., is Airman and of which Innis R n. a former Vanderbilt foot- ’ ■ aptain, is a member, is work "g with the Georgia athletic au ' cities 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 ss2'> Touring Car <>()0 Delivery Car 625 Tihvii Car 600 These new prices, f. o. h. Detroit, with all (Mpiipment. An early order will menu »n <‘Hi‘lx delivery, tie) particular* from Ford Motor Company, 311 I’enehtref *treet. Atlanta, or direct from Detroit factory. 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 Dei,eon 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 he required to occupy the grandstand. There is, however, a FODDER FOR FANS ■—— ■ , ■ , . I Forrest Cady, Red Sox catcher, claims that the Giants jump right at a catcher when they ate sliding into home plate. At that they don’t get there often enough to make it very dangerous. » w * li 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 deatb 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 <>f 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 Dallas, 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 Ito Carl Diem, Deutsche Sportsbetorde 1 for Athletik. Berlin, N. 24. Hiegels, I Ar. 3.” The above advertisement has been ‘ running for weeks In the German dai : lies. I'nless results are forthcoming ’ soon, ii will appear in some of the ■American papers. Even at this early date Germany is i getting busy with her plans for the ! 1916 olympiad. She wants to leave I 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 Ran and Braun, I sprinter and middle-distance, respec tively. and Liesche and Passemann. high jumpers. This quartet competed at tile Olympic meet, and with the ex- Iception of Passernanii every one did al! i that could be expected of him. These are only a few of the good I 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 to’e. it is no surprise that the Pil sent-r 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 Sil John "But 1 find a difference between the wav 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 I 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 T 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 AM) NEWS. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15. 1912. seating capacity of something like 7,500 at the park, so there is small danger 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- Georgia 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 7 ♦ ♦ • 'The strain of playing the semes is tell ing on the players. But it’s nothing compared with the strain of writing the series. • • ♦ We’ll be sorry if Mathewsog works again We re franklx tired oT reading this “youth against age" stuff. One would think Matty was 50. * ♦ e A year ago Providence sold Hugh Hedi 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 be highly pleasing and edify ing to T.v Cobb that several near-pugil ists have adopted his name There are a “Ty Cobb” and a “Young Tj 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 has grabbed four of the foqtball players recently expelled from the University of Mississippi on charges of profes sionalism S P. U. wired Sewanee its line-up. including the names of <’a 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 I his brother. Charley, arrested here, charging him with grand larceny, forg ery. obtaining money under false pri- | 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. “I 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- I lection. Isn't it better that 1 protect i him than anybody else? Isn't that brotherly love? "What gets to me is that people should take that box 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. <. 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 from 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. flTfl Cures In 1 tn 5 days fl ■ Gonorrhoea and Gleet. MH* fl ni t ontainsno poison and Its K> W " Iff fl JOT niaybeusedfullstrengtb absolutely without fear. Guaranteed not to stricture. Presents contagion. WHY NOT CURE YOURSELF? At Druggists, or we ship express prepaid upon receipt of4l. Full particulars mailed on request. 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It looked , like more of a slaughter, with Devore up, but Hooper pulls down his scream ing liner. No runs, two hits, no errors. Hall grounds along the first base line and Merkle runs in to grab it, while Tesreau lumbers over to first to cover. Merkle throws wild over Tesreau’s head and Hall goes on safely to second. Hooper singles and Hall takes third Yet'kes strikes out. Speaker flies to De vore, who doubles Hall at the plate. It is awful base running on Hall's part. He had the plate safely if he had slid, but. hurler-like. he hesitates and is lost. Ihe throw of Devore is a marvel. No runs, one hit, one error. FOURTH INNING. Doyle grounds out to Stahl. Snod grass flies to Wagner. Murray grounds to Yerkes arid is out to Stahl. It is the shortest half-inning thus far. No runs, no hits, no errors. Lewis flies to Devore, who continues his marvelous work with a corking catch. Gardner is hit by a pitched ball. Stahl, tears off a single to left and Gardner advances a base. Wagner bumps one by Doyle, but Larry re covers it in time to get Gardner at second. Cady out, Tesreau to Merkle. No runs, one hit, no errors. FIFTH INNING. Merkle grounds briskly to Stahl and retires as usual. Herzog stands up and lets the umpire call three strikes on him. After that he grows irritated, but it is too late. Meyers single to left as usual with nobody on or nobody else likely to get on. Fletcher grounds to Wagner and the lumbering Indian is forced at second to Yerkes. No runs, no hits, no errors. Hal! springs the surprise of the aft ernoon by straightening out one of Tesreau’s saliva bends for a short fly. I Either Snodgrass or Doyle could have | got it, but with the lamentable lack of team play that has been shown by the i Giants all the way through the series neither man does get it. Hall reaches second on this fluke. This unsettles Tesreau and he walks Hooper. Yerkes I forces Hooper at second to Fletcher unassisted and Hall gets to third Speaker Is walked, Lewis lifts a. high foul to Merkle and we can fairly see Tesreau pulling. iw» Meyers circles around qndbrneath it. The Red Man holds it all .right and Gardner gets his chance It amounts to nothing, how ever, for he grounds to Tesreau and is out to Merkle. No runs, one hit, no error's. SIXTH INNING. Tesreau manages to ground as far as Yerkes and doesn't even bother to I run it out, being averse to extraordi ! nary exertions. Devore, after getting everything that is coming to him, in cluding several fouls, takes a base on balls. Doyle seems to like the looks of the first ball pitched him and meets it for a fly to deep right that bounds into the crowd. It is a clean home run and the Giant fans have more hys terics as two runs come rolling in. Snodgrass flies to Lewis. Murray out. Hall to Stahl. Two runs, one hit, no errors. Stahl flies to Devore. Wagner hits the first ball pitched for a single to Center. A wild pitch puts Wagner on third. Cady is out, Tesreau to Merkle. Hall walks. Hooper fans. No runs, one hit, no errors. SEVENTH INNING. Merkle singles to center Herzog flies to Lewis. Meyers hits to Wagner, who tosses to Yerkes to force Merkle, but he is declared safe. Fletcher files to Speaker. Tesreau singles to right, scoring Merkle. Meyers is held at sec ond. Devore flies out to Lewis One I run, two hits, no errors. Wilson is now catching for New York. Yerkes is out, Fletcher to Mer kle. Speaker singles to center. Lewis doubles to the left field fence. Murray holds Speaker on third. Gardner grounds to Merkle, Speaker scoring on the play. Stahl hits a slow one to Doyle and Lewis scores. Stahl is safe at first Wagner fans-. Two runs, two hits, no errors EIGHTH INNING. Doyle singles to right. Snodgrass hits to Stahl and is out at first, Doyle taking second. Murray files to Speak er Doyle is held at second. Speaker makes a beautiful limning catch Mer kle di.s on a swift grounder to Wag | nrr who throws to Stahl. No runs, i one hit. no errors. Cady reaches first when .Merkle and I Doyle miss his easy fix Doyle gets an error. Hall singles to right, sending | Cady to third. Hooper flies to Snod | grass, t'adx scoring after the catch. ; Hall is held at first. Speaker is out. Doyle to Merkle. One run, one hit, one error. NINTH INNING. Hsrzog walks Wilson singles to I center. Herzog scores <>n Speaker's throw in to plate. Fletcher lines to Speaker who an to second, doubling Wilson Tesreau walks lr»v>r> is nut, Verges to Rtsh! One r un. one hit, one error. lewis walks Gardner fans Stahl forces Lewis to «< • onri Herzog to Dove U.rgne out Herzog to Merkle I No runs, no hits, no errors. I , Georgia Will Give Vanderbilt a Hard Game, Predicts Tech Coach HEISMAN ADMITS TECH SHOWINfi SI.HI’RISED HIM By 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 knoxvn 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 defeat Georgia handily next Saturday, I am en tirely sure that it xvill 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 w ill get around Geor gia's ends, 1 imagine. Both 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 ail invaders and that they are well capable of doing it. My information is that they claim a weight if over 170, and with the speed and ability of "Dummy” Taylor at halt and Captain Buie at quarter. 1 have no doubt that visit ing teams there this fall will find something else besides the weather a "warn proposition.” 1 am ad vised that they hope to catch Tech napping on October 26 That they can not do, as xve are well "on to" them, and if they beat Tech it xvill 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 the ac counts it would appear that Cit adel surprised the Athenians as much by their splendid forward pass game as they did the Yellow- Jackets. It Is certainly a sight worth witnessing to see the way Martin and Folger, of the Citadel team, get those long, speedv passes ’ off It is clear that Merce'r has re- 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. "Distinctive!)) 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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 size, notwithstanding 1 think so well of them. T look for the Vol unteers to get xvell back on the map again this fall, and next fall we will again see them having a sax or txvo about things. The Afabama-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 1 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. 1 had looked for a de feat to the unmelodious tune of about four touchdoxxns at the. hands of the Tuscaloosans, but 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 the end of the first half they I] I 111 Il Hill min mill I ill lll''i ’liiini'ih k, . ‘'‘HilliliinliliriM | Ttj 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 *p.,, i, fact which a ti?” we shall / jjQ H ’ ! F.J ~u /Y> 11 Decatur St., ;■■ flfjft- 'j®j 'A (Kimball House) \ _ JI ■W” \ - > had three points garnered, while Tech had none. And then came out that "come-back" stuff that Citadel saw a \< eek ago, and after that it was merely a question of z how long the quarters were as to xvhat the size of Tech’s score xvould be. I have told the public before that they couldnt 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 they 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 "considerable some" demoralizing to Alabama. Team Is Lightest Ever, M ith Moore, a 140-pound fresh man, in the game in place of a con siderably heavier naan, 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. I 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 did last Saturday. I freely say that it was. in my opinion, the greatest victory, considering the limita tions, thal Tech ever won, and I am proud of the team accordingly. Whether these featherweights can stand the gaff and keep up this pace is something that remains to be seen. To keep them ‘‘on edge" for a whole season of . games in w hich they will always be greatly out weighted is a task I fear be yond our powers, perhaps beyond anj- 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 xvill be well xvorth any man's time to inspect of a Saturday aft ernoon. 13