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Bob Blake, South s End, Writes ot Commodores’ Training Methods
VANDY’S SYSTEM OF PLAY DESCRIBED BY EXPERT
-KT ASHVILLE, TENN.. Oct. 17.
\j Vanderbilt's unparalleled record of
**■ success in Southern football since
the advent of McGugin in 1904 natural
ly makes the McGugin methods of
training and the Vanderbilt style of
football taught by him of exceptional
interest. Both of them are hard to
describe and even harder to define.
There is so much of the personality of
McGugm worked into both, and so much
-x th* football spirit and instinct in
the Vanderbilt squad, the majority o l
wham have had preparatory football
training of exceptional merit before en.
tertng the university, that the mere
question of method used is not such a
great factor in the results achieved.
However, Bob Blake, Vanderbilt's
and the South’s greatest end and cap
tain of the Vanderbilt team of 1907,
w ho worked three years under McGu
qin and has helped him from time to
time as assistant c°ach, can come as
near telling about it as any on, else.
This 'S what he says:
Bv Bob Blake. •
, n far as training goes, . the* chief
O point in the Vanderbilt system is
light scrimmaging work, hard work
in long distance running to develop
the wind and enable the team to
pull off plays with the speed it
uses: much signal practice, and
comparatively little secret practice.
Two scrimmages a week is about
a= much as McGugin ever puls his
men through, and in hot weather
the number is reduced. Such scrim
mages as there are are usually
without any of the hard.
u:uelling work that used to be
thought necessary to develop a
football team.
The lack of these hard scrim
mages lessens the chances of in
jury. in the first place, and, in the
,-econd place, it does not leave the
men worn and tired when the
games come.
That is one secret of the abound
ing energy and vitality that the
Vanderbilt teams display. I think.
They are fresh, fit and ready for
the fight on Saturdays when they
meet their opponents. There is
never a scrimmage* on the Friday
before a game.
Worn-Out Team Loses.
The disadvantage of sending a
team into a. game worn out and
pounded to pieces was never shown
more forcefully than in the Vander
bilt-Sewanee game of 1909, when
Vanderbilt entered the contest list
less and spiritless because of two
long I rips and fierce struggles on
the previous Saturdays. It is sig
nificant that this game is the only
one lost to a. Southern team since
the coming of McGugin.
Much long distance running is in-
■ hided in the training program. On
rainy days, when the field is un
usually sloppy, McGugin occasion
al y has hfs entire squad out on the
roads in long distance runs, and
every day he finishes the after
noon's practice with a mile or so
for each man on the track. The
‘ nd u rance and hard wind develop
ed by this work form one of the
chief factors in Vanderbilt's most
distinctive feature, the rapidity
with which the plays are pulled off.
When Vanderbilt played Yale, the
Eastern papers were amazed at the
speed with which play followed
play. There 1s no waiting for the
team to line up to call signals. Even
before the ball was down the quar
ter began singing them out. and by
the time the men were all on their
feet and in position the play was
started.
Work Constantly on Signals.
Another strong point in the
reaching system Is the signal prac
tice. The team is drilled at least
one hour each day, drilled so that
*ach man thoroughly and absolutely
knows exactly where he must stand,
where he must go. and what he
mum do when each signal is called.
It is this insistence on absolute ex
actness of style that gives the sure
’’’’curacy that marks the playing of
the teams. When a new play Is
bring learned, there Is no haste
shown. The play is drilled In slow
v and thoroughly. When It is once
mastered it is pulled off with light
ning-like speed.
| lie Vanderbilt style of play does
not include any large assortment of
’ l eak plays in the attack, and there
fore comparatively little secret
practice 1g necessary. Os course,
' llp 'cam usually has a card or two
up its sleeve which can be pulled
n case of necessity. But to a large
extent Vanderbilt uses plain foot
ball
Oils does not mean, however,
'rar the *ame plays are used year
pr 'er year. It Is the very fact that
yx are not th»t has kept Vander
b'l’ s attack so diversified that their
“bponents are often guessing. Me
’’•ugin has been, the greatest devel
per of new pfeys the South ever
probably, and the beauty about
s that they are all standard
i ays There is the split play, one
' f the most effective line bucks
hat ha« ever Ipeen devised. It was
tll she Sol|(h bv
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gin. and has been adopted by all
coaches, but was not mastered by
them until Vanderbilt had had the
use of it for one season, in fact, it
has always remained as one of Van
derbilt's own plays.
Forward Pass a Factor.
The forward pass is another, in
the early days of the pass the
Eastern coaches derided it. It was
considered a species of basket ball.
V\ hile they were doing that .Mc-
Gugin was developing it. and it has
proved an important factor in his
success. In 1907. tot instance, a
year when the pass reached high
development, it enabled Vanderbilt
to win the Sewanee gam? and' tie
the Navy game. Every man tut the
Vanderbilt team is a trained re
ceiver of passes, and practically all
of them are good at passing , the
ball. The long straight shot pa-s
Is McGugin's own specialty, and he
has taught his men the trick of the
thing. Sometimes in the early part
of the season the entire squad will
quit playing football and havg .a
great of baseball with a.toot
ball for the ball. That, kind of
practice makes them sure in the
handling of the most difficult
passes, while hours and hours of pa-
KETRON THINKS VANDY
WILL HAVE NO CINCH
ATHENS. GA., Oct. 17.—San
ford field is the busiest spot
in Athens this week, and
Georgia's gridiron warriors are
being primed to the minute for the
conflict with Vanderbilt at Atlanta
Saturday.
With only two days left for final
preparation. Cunningham Is driving
Ills team at a terrific pace, and it is
now practically assured that the
players will take the field in per
fect physical condition.
Henderson is improving rapidly
from the injury sustained in the
Citadel game, and it is now thought
that he will be able to get in the
Saturday conflict.
A hard scrimmage was indulged
in yesterday afternoon, and all tne
men came through without injury.
However, another light scrimmage
will be given the men this after
noon. On Friday the players will
take things easy with a signal drill.
Cunningham was last night none
too well pleased with the scrim
mage, and refuses to talk on the
outcome of the struggle.
Ketron Is Confident.
Assistant Coach Ketron. how
ever, today expressed the opinion
that the Red and Black would be
victorious in Saturday's struggle.
Contrary to many other local au
thorities. he does not concede the
edge to the Commodore back field,
and believes that McWhorter, Pad-
DISCOVERED BEDIENT
BUT DIDN'T LAND HIM
SHARON, PA., Oct 1 7.—E. E. Clep
per, who was the manager of the Sha
ron O. & P. league team back in 1908,
claims to have discovered Hugh Be
dient. Clepper was always on the look
out for good material, and developed
such players as Otto Miller, of the
Brooklyn club; Bert Tooley, shortstop
with the same aggregation; Rube Sel
lers, formerly with the Boston Nation
als; Hanlon, who caught for Philadel
phia; Welchonce. formerly with Phil
adelphia and later in the Southern
league: Bair, of the Nashville club;
Kerr, of Memphis, and many others.
One day the Sharon club was playing
a game at Conneaut Lake when a
Meadville man told him about Bedient.
Clepper immediately started for Fal
coner. N. Y., and saw Bedient pitch.
Impressed with his great work. Clep
per walked two miles to the farm where
Bedient lived, to see his parents. At
that time Bedient was just 18 years of
age. His parents refused to allow him
to leave home, but Clepper got a prom
ise from Bedient that whenever he de
cided to enter the professional ranks he
would give the Sharon club first chance.
But Clepper did not get Bedient after
all. Jess Burkett was scouting for
promising young players and he heard
of Bedient. He made an offer which
rhe Sharon club could not meet, and
Bedient signed with Burkett s team in
the New England league. He developed
rapidly, and soon after became the
property of the Sox.
VANDY LOOKS WEAK ON
EVE OF LOCAL CONTEST
NASHVILLE. TENN. Oct 17. Van
derbilt had a decidedly off afternoon in
practice yesterday. The varsity lined up
for a short scrimmage against the second
varsity, composed of eleven of the sub
stitutes. and in the course of that scrim
mage the seconds put over two touch
downs on their betters.
Not only tbnt. but the team showed
weakness in the signal practice, getting
somewhat balled up from time to time
As a matter of fact, the Vanderbilt team,
while in good physical condition, lias not
vet come to its proper development; and.
on account of the long and fearfully
hard schedule facing them, no effort can
be made to force them prematurely.
.toe Covington, the regular tackle, whose
ankle was sprained in the Maryville game,
was out it; uniform, but was not in
condition to do hard work
Vanderbilt leaves for Atlanta Tbuts
dat night, carrying seventeen or eighteen
men. and will have a practice in Ponce
DeLeon park Friday afternoon to unlim
ber the men fol the big game with Geor
gia Saturday A cur load of students will
accompany the team on the trip.
BEDIENTS WIFE WILL
NOT WATCH HIM PITCH
BOSTON, Oct. 17. -Mrs. Hugh Hr
client, wife of Hugo Bedient. young
Boston hurler, who is a world s series
• tar, did not see her husband work
against Boston in either game.
' Hugh is really a hero." said Mrs.
Bedient after Mrs. Ray Collins had
phoned her of Hughe success. "You
know I never saw a ball game until 1
was married, and now when Hugh
pitches 1 always sta> at liornf i get
nervou.-- w hen he pitchC l , so I ini” '
those gamer
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 17. 1912.
tient drilling in the proper throw
ing of the ball make it reasonably
certain that the passes will be
properly made.
Team Developed Slowly.
Early development of the team is
another secret of Vanderbilt's suc
cess and her reputation as a scor
ing machine. There is no forcing
and no effort to bring the men to a
climax, but the system of .training
i.s sueh that they naturally and
easily reach a- place about every
Saturday where they are in condi
tion to go in iand put up a chain
pionstlip fight, if necessary.
Vanderbilt also offers a unique
style of defense. The men are
spread wide and appat/ntiy loose
ly over the field. As a matter of
fact, the arrangement has been
found by experience to give a per
fect balance between a defense
planned for close, hard-crushing at
tack or for the breaking up of for
ward passes or end runs. The men
are so placed, with a double line of
defense spread witj,e. apart..-that
they can usually reach the neces
sary spot at the critical, moment.
That they do so is testified, to by
the remarkably clean goal line that
Vanderbilt has maintained for the
last eight years.
dock, Wheatley and Covington or
Awtery do not suffer by compari
son with Sikes. Hardage. et al.
As Cunningham has been work
ing his warriors behind closed gates
all during the week, little is known
of the formations or style of play
that he will use against Vandy. It
is hinted that the Georgia line-up
will be changed, but it is not known
whdt new additions there will be.
Big Crowd Comes Over.
Georgia students are enthusiastic
over the chances of the team, and
will come to Atlanta Saturday 300
strong. A mammoth mass meeting
has been called for Friday night in
the chapel, and on this occasion
the players and coaches will ap
pear and make talks. All of the
pent-up enthusiasm will be turned
loose on the streets of Atlanta Sat
urday.
McWhorter, w’ho has been indis
posed on account of a severe cold,
is now in perfect condition, and
upon his shoulders is carried a large
share of Georgias chance of vic
tory. Bob is bigger and faster than
ever this season, and local sup
porters are of the opinion that the
Commodores can't stop him. His
work in the practices has been phe
nomenal, and his open field running
is more sensational than ever. But
Bob is not the only great player on
the Georgia .team. There are ten
other men. determined and ready to
fight to the last ditch.
CHARLEY CRAVATH GOES
back to Minneapolis
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 17.—Charles
Cravath. of the Phillies, is going back
to the minors because President Hor
ace Fogel thinks all Cravath can do is
to sub.
Fogel is endeavoring to send Cra
vath back to Minneapolis, and it is un
derstood that Minneapolis is willing to
give good cash for Cravath. or the club
is willing to give Fogel the pick of the
Minneapolis players.
The balance comes
out straight when ( 4g||
our book keeper has
mild nerve-soothind
Drummond to chew
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SOX PUNNING TO
SPEND WORLD'S.
SERIESMONEY
By \V. S. Farnsworth.
Boston, mass., oct. K.-ah the
bitterness that w.as felt toward
the Red Sox by rooters who had
failed to ,-evui • their seats for Tues
day's game wRs laid aside today-in th
genera! jubilation that followed the
victory over the Giants in the contest
for ihe world's baseball championship.
I'lic American leaguets ai the hero*
of Boston, which gave itself up to a cel
ebration planned to culminate in a
great parade ami a mass meeting in
Faneuil hall, the ettfdle of liberty.
\\ hile th ■ ordinary Boston citizen
was exulting today, the world's cham
pions made known how they intend to
spend the money which they won in tile
greatest series America lias evei sei n
Sox Divide Fortune.
The purse of $88,543.01 won by the
Red Sox in conjunction with the title
Wo ld's Baseball Championship." and
winch was divided ..litong the 22 play
ers—s4,o24.63 to each—is going to be
invested in farm lands, city real estate,
in bank and railway stocks, in various
business enterprises and in government
bonds A portion of it will be placed in
'he bank, while a small part of it will
go to provide college tuition, European
trips, automobiles and even airships for
Ihe prize winners.
"Guess I'll use my money in buying
up a few stray shares of stock in that
bank in Chicago in which I am vice
president,”'said Manager Stahl.
"New Rochelle. N. Y., real estate
looks awfully good to me," said Cap
tain “Heinie" Wagner. “I've got all
the rest of my money invested that way
and I guess I’l tie this up tn dirt, too,
although.” and Wagner grinned. “I hear
they're planning to run me for mayor
back home. Now, if that's the case
maybe I'll keep a little money out to
campaign expenses.”
Wood Wants Aeroplane.
"Haven’t made any plans yet," said
Pitcher Joe Wood. “Guess I’ll drop
the cheek in the bank and wait around
for a neat little investment to show up.
However, if f can get a nice aeroplane
cheap enough I might buy one. Flying
fascinates me.”
Catcher Cady lives in Bishop Hills,
111 He’s invested every dollar he has
earned in the diamond game in farm
lands, and his winnings in the world’s
series will go the same way.
"Pretty soon I hope to own that little
hill from which the town gets its
name, said Cady. "Then I will change
its name to 'Cady Hills'”
Fruit Orchards For Two.
Outfielders Hooper and Lewis and
Pitcher Hall are Californians and they
will use their winnings in the purchase
of fruit orchards.
Outfieldec Speaker has not decided
■what he js going, to do with his money
ultimately, but for the present he's go
ing to place it in the bank.
"This nice little bundle of money will
give. nfte a ch?thoe'to.buy a farm up near
Irty home in 'Burlington. Vt.. that I've
had my eye.ori for a long time,” said
Pitcher Ray Goliins
Larry Gardner, third sacker, who
hails from Enosburg Falls. Vt., is also
going to invest tn Vermont farming
lands.
".My little $4.00(1 is going right up to
Lewiston. .Maine, my home town," said
Catcher "Rill” Carrigan. “I haven't got
any plans now as to how I'll spend it
other than that every dollar will be
spent in Lewiston.”
Twin Troublemakers Have About Talked Themselves to Death
WILL PROBABLY THROW FOGEL OUT OF LEAGUE
By \V. .1. M Beth.
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Those
Siamese T« ins of Trouble
makers. Charles Webb Mur
phy and Horace Fogel, have just
about talked themselves to death.
Horace, the figurehead of the Na
tional league affai's in Philadel
phia. according to the criths in
that staid town, is a dead cock in
the pit. It is claimed that he will
be relieved of the executive by the
stockholders, even should the Na
tional league fail to take action on
the many wild utterances- of this
disgruntled magnate. Charles W.
Murphy, after seven years of un
qualified success in Chicago, has
evidently drawn down about his
ears the wreck of a mighty ball
club.
•Murphy and Fogel have been the
hearties' disorganizers that have
been seen in the game in main
years The owner of the Cubs has
shown himself the "hardest loser’
of history. In seven years he has
won foui pennants, two world's
ehampionships, and in the other
three starts was nipped right at
the wiie -in 1909 by the Pirates,
and the last two seasons by Mc-
Graw's champions. His investment
in the West Side has yielded doubt
less the greatest returns of modern
baseball. The eiub cost him just
$105,000, and, according to Frank
Chance, .Murphy ha* run that sum
over the million-dollar mark
for net earnings. Murphy has nev
ei had a bad season, yet evidently
he can not stand prosperity.
Murphy Is Ungrateful.
-Murphy has been guilty of many
questionable acts, but he never
showed such ingratitude as when
he discharged his peerless mana
ger, Frank chance. Chance has
been responsible sot Murphy’s great
financial achievements. Few man
agers have ever carved out such
proud records. Even this season,
with a joke pitching staff, he re
modelled a team that looked fit for
the sA'ap heap and put up such a
gtand tight against fearful odds
that until almost the very end of
the campaign the Windy City
threatened New York's peace of
tnlnd. And for his pains he was
turned down cold, kicked out prac
tically from a hospital cot.
The dismissal of Chance would,
in any event, have bespoken in
gratitude unparalleled in major
league history, but the mean man
ner in which Murphy went about it
made him appear even more knav
ish than usual. Casting about for
some alibi to soothe his wounded
pride in the loss of the pennant,
•Murphy finally conceived the bril
liant idea of laying it all to "demon
rum.' He said that the Cubs had
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"boozed" away the pennant, and
that Chance and his men would
have to sign contiacts with anti
drink clauses. Chance at the time
was convalescing from an operation
for the removal of blood elot on the
brain. He was a very siek man,
but he refused to stand for C. W.
•Murphy's insinuations. He hurried
from New York to Chicago and a
stormy scene with the babbling lit
tle potentate occurred. The result
was a great split, naturally.
Chance Wants Release.
Frank Chance declares he will
not stand for any interference from
Murphy, unless he is given uncon
ditional release. In which event
the Peerless Leader will accept one
of three or four offers from Eastern
clubs. In the meantime the gal
lant aggregation which he has
welded together at the West Side
is very likely to go to seed Chance
is an idol to his men and a great
he o in Chicago. The players have
been sore at Murphy for a long
time. This latest slight to their
leader seems to have absolutely
demoralized the club. Joe Tinker
is slated to succeed Chance, but it
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than it was when it sold for
almost twice its present price.
Our gigantic production has
beaten the cost down to
where almost everyone can
now afford to motor.
Runabout $525
Touring Gar 600
Delivery (’ar 625
Town Cat SOO
These new prices, f. o. b. Detroit, with all
equipment. An early order will mean
an early delivery, (let particulars from
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factory.
is doubtful if he will accept. Who
ever gets the job w ill deserve great
pity. He'll have to build up an en
tirely new outfit, for the Chance
machine without Chance's guiding
hand would be but a shadow of
former Cub ability Before Mur
phy pulled his last fatal blunder
the Cubs looked a sure pennant
contender for 1913.
Murphy is doubtless responsible
for all of Horace Fogel's troubles,
and they are many as the sands of
the seashore. In fact, it looks as if
Horace may retire permanently
within the near future. If he does
not do so voluntarily the National
league may help him to decide on a
life of peace and solitude Fogel
has insulted the most sacred insti
tutions of baseball's organization
by insinuating against the honesty
of the national pastime. He has
charged Tom Lynch with deliber
ately throwing the pennant to New
York through umpiratical injus
tices It seems time for Fogel to
b> made to prove his charges by
the boa d of directors of the Na
tional league, or to be thrown nut
of organized baseball.