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Bob Blake, South s Greatest End, Writes of Commodores* Training Methods VANDY’S SYSTEM OF PLAY DESCRIBED BY EXPERT ASHVILLE, TENN., Oct. 17. Vanderbilt's unparalleled record of - success in Southern football since tne 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 McGugin worked into both, and so much .< -u» football spirit and instinct in the Vanderbilt squad, the majority of whom have had preparatory football training of exceptional merit before en. t e rmg the university, that the mere question of method used is not such a .•reat 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, who worked three years under McGu sin and has helped him from time to time as assistant coach, can come as near telling about it as any one else. This is what he says: Bv Bob Blake. _, O far as training goes, the chief •5 point In the Vanderbilt system is light scrimmaging work, hard work m 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. Thro scrimmages a week is about M much as McGugin ever puts his men through, and in hot weather the number is reduced. Such scrim mages as there are are usually hght, without any of the hard, gruelling 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 second 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 rounded 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 trips and fierce struggles on he 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 cluded in the training program. On rainy days, when the field is un usually sloppy, McGugin occasion al v has his 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 endurauice 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 piay followed play There is 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 f“et and tn position the play was started. Work Constantly on Signals. Another strong point in the coaching system is the signal prac tice. The team Is drilled at least one hour each day, drilled so that each man thoroughly and absolutely knows exactly where he must stand, where he must go, and what he must do when each signal la called. It is this Insistence on absolute ex actness of style that gives the sure accuracy that mark# the playing of ’he teams. When a new play Is being learned, there Is no haste, shown. The play Is drilled In slow -11 and thoroughly. When it is once mastered It Is pulled, off with light g like speed. 1 he Vanderbilt style of play does not Include any large assortment of !rn ak plays In the attack, and there- r nr< comparatively little secret T'"actiee Is necessary. Os course, ’ho team usually has a card or two ''P Its sleeve which can be pulled n case of necessity But to a large extent Vanderbilt uses plain foot ball. '♦ This does not mean, however, that the same plays are used year sfter year. It is the very fact that 'hey are not that has kept Vander bilt’s attack so diversified that their opponents are ofterf guessing. Mc- Gugin has been the greatest devel oper of new plays the South ever i;,| l probably, and the beauty about Is that thtfy are all standard Pays There is the split play, one the most effective line # biicks bat has ever been devised, it was hitroduced hi the South by McGu- jZ MARTIN MAYV Z 19U PEACHTREE STREET UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES y FOR SALE A 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 fai t. it has always remained as one of Van derbilt's own plays. Forward Pass a Factor. The forward pass is another. In •he early days of the pass the Eastern coaches derided it. It was considered a species of basket ball. While they were doing that .Mc- Gugin was developing it. and it has proved an important factor in his success. In 1907. for instance, a year when the. pass reached high development, it enabled Vanderbilt to win the Sewanee game and tie the Navy game. Every man on the \ anderbilt team is a trained re ceiver of passes, and practically all of them are good at passings the ball. The long straight shot pass 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 stj.ua.il. will quit playing football and have a great game of baseball with a foot 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 CINOH A THENS), 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 his 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 wilt be able to get in the Saturday conflict. A hard scrimmage was indulged in yesterday afternoon, and all the 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. 17.—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 w’ith 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 be would give the Sharon dub first chance. But Clepper did not get Bedient after ail. .fess Burkett was scouting for promising young players and he heard of Bedient. He made an offer which the 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 afternopn in practice vesterdai The varsity lined up for a short scrimmage against the second varsity, composed pf 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 that, but the team showejl 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, has not yet come to Its proper development and. on account of the long and fearfullt hard schedule facing them, no effort can lie made to force them prematurely. loe Covington, the regular tackle, whose ankle was sprained in the Mart Ville game was out in uniform, hut was not in condition to do hard work Vanderbilt leaves for Atlanta I liurs day night, tarrying seventeen or eighteen men and will have a practice in Ponce Deleon park I'rlday afternoon to unlim ber the men fur the big game with Geor gia Saturday A car load of students will accompany the team on tire trip. BEDIENT’S WIFE WILL NOT WATCH HIM PITCH I BOSTON. Oct 17.—-Mrs Hugh Rc i dient. wife of Hugh RAuienl. young Boston hurler, who is a ■world's series i star, did not see her Husband work 1 'against Boston In either game I "Hugh is really a hero." said Mrs. Bedient after Mrs. Ray t'ollins had 1 phoned her of Hugh's success. "You know I net or saw h hall game until I lots married, and now when Hugh | pitches I always -ipt al home I get I nervous when he pitches, so I inl«s ■those games." 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 is such that they naturally and easily'’rpach a place about everx Saturday where they are in condi tion to go in and put up a cham pionship fight, if necessary. Vanderbilt also offers a unique style of defense. The men are spread wide and appai/ntly loose ly over the field. As a matter of fact the arrangement has ■ been found bv experience to give a per fect balance between a defense planned for close, hard-rushing at tack or for the breaking up of for ward passes or end runs. The men are so placed, with a double iine of defense spread wide, apart,--that they van usually reach the neces sary spot at the crtticalf 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 s 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 what 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, who 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 Georgia's chajice 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 f our bookkeeper has mild nerve-soothing Drummond to chew VLaJ’-, ; )] /■aH DRUMMOND NATURAL LEAF CHEWING TOBACCO I 9 SOX PLANNING TO SPEND WORLD'S SEMNEI By \\. S. Farnsworth. Boston. .mass.. < mt 1.7. — ah the bitterness that was felt toward the Red Sox by rooters who had failed to secur ■ their seats for Tues day's game was laid aside today in tie general jubilation that followed the victory over the Giants in ihe contest for the world's baseball championship. The American leaguers arc the heron of Boston, which gate itself up to a cel ebration planned to, culminate in a great parade and a mass meeting in Faneuil hall, the cradle of liberty. While the ordinary Boston citizen was exulting today, the world's cham pions made known how they intend to spend the money which they Avon in the greatest series America has ever seen. Sox Divide Fortune. The purse of $88,543.01 won bv the Red Sox in conjunction with the title "Wold's Baseball ('hampionship," and' which was divided among the 22 play ers—s4,o24.63 to each—is going to he invested in farm lands; city real estate, in bank and railway stocks, in various business eniei;piises 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 the prize winnera. "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 goqd to me," said Cap tain "Heinie" Wagner. 'Tve got all the rest of my money invested that way and I guess I’l tie this up in dirt, too, although,” and Wagner grinned, "I hear they’re planning to run me for mayor back home. Now. if that’s the cdse maybe I'll keep a little money out fo> campaign expenses." Wood Wants Aeroplane. “Haven’t made any plans yet," skid Pitcher Joe Wood. "Guess I’ll drop the check in the bank and wait around for a neat little investment to show up. However, if I 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. Outfielder Speaker has not decided what he is going to do with his money ultimately, but for the present he's go ing to place ft in the bank. “This nice little bundle of money will give me a chance to buy a farm up near my home In Burlington. Vt., that I've had my eye on for a long time,” said Pitcher Ray Collins. Larry Gardner, third sacker, who halls from Enosburg Falls, Vt., Is also going to invest in Vermont farming lands. "My little $4,000 is going right up to Lewiston, Maine, my home town,” said Catcher "Bill" Carrigan. “I haven't got any plans now as to how FIl 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. J. M Beth. N-EW YORK. Oct. 17- Those Siamese Twins 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 affairs in Philadel phia. according to the critics ,in that staid town, is a dead cock in the pit. It is claimed that he wiii 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 heartiest disorganizers that have been seen in the game in many years The owner of the Cubs has shown himself the "hardest loser"’ of history- In seven years he has won four pennants, two world's championships, and in. the other three- starts was nipped right at the who—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 club cost him just $105,000, and. according to Frank Chance. Murphy has run that sum well over the million-dollar mark for net earnings. Murphy has nev er 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 been responsible for .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 scrap heap and put up such a grand fight against fearful odds that until almost the very end of the campaign the Windy City threatened New York's peace of mind. And’for his pains h? 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 ft 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 Hall Caine’s New Serial “The Woman Thou Gavest Me” is a strangely human story of a woman’s life. You will be carried to the intensest pity—the deepest love and the extreme of hatred as you follow each character. The men and women will indelibly impress you and hold your keen interest to the very end. % I More Standard Oil Letters The Truth About Roosevelt-Archbold William Randolph Hearst in the October issue answers Senator Penrose and those false to their trust. It is an unrelenting revelation in the interest of truth and justice, and in the hope of better . government. The article reveals the Standard Oil cipher code and shows their investments in U. S. , Senators. T he surprising attitude of the then President is disclosed. This article should be read by every patriotic citizen. Hearst’s Magazine 15 Cents a Copy $1.50 a Year "boozed" away the pennant, and that Chance and his men would have to sign contracts with anti drink clauses. Chance at the time was convalescing from an operation for the removal of blood clot on the brain. He was a very sick man, but he refused to stand Ifor 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 l.ea’der 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 hero in Chicago. The players hate 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 Better? Yes—the Vanadium built Model T is a better car 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-Car 600 Delivery Car 625 Town Car SOO These new prices, f. o. b. Detroit, with nil equipment. An early order will mean an early delivery. Get particulars from Ford Motor Company. 311 Peachtree street. Atlanta, or direct from Detroit factory. is doubtful if he will accept. Who* ever gets the job will deserve great pity. He'll have to build up an en tirely new outfit, for the Chance machine without Chances 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 umpiraticai injus tices It seems time for Fogel to be made to prove his charges by the boa d of directors of the Na tional league, or to be thrown out of organized baseball.