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Goal posts have been erected at Ponce DeLeon park and the field has been marked oft in the conventional gridiron pattern. In fact, the stage is all set for what should be the greatest foot ball battle that Atlanta has ever seen. Thia game ma'ks the strongest bid that a Gioigia team has been able t<> make in the last tin v< ire or more for the ehampionship of the South. Georgia has In < ri gaining lootbull strength steadil I'"’. three years. This year it stronger limn it has byen In years -stronger per haps than it Ims ever been tn fore in ail Its history. It has a ■■first” team of husky, experienced foot ball players, and it has substitutes of the most unusual ability. It has been well coached by Head Coach Alee Cunningham and by his assistant. Howard Ketron. If ever a Georgia >eatn hail a chance for the championship, this is the team. And if ever the time was ripe for a Georgia team to win a cham pionship. Saturday is the time. Is Vendy So Strong? The Vanderbilt team, chronic champions of the South, are tout ed this year as being exceptionally strong. Possibly they are. Their early scores show it. and they rolled up a greater total of points in their first three games than any other team in the United States Yet experts are still to be shown! Vanderbilt had a good team last year, one of the best in its history. Rut it lost from last year’s eleven three of its very best men, three of the best men who ever played in the South—Ray Morrison. "Big Un" Freeland and "Frog” Metz ger Not event the most rampant Vanderbilt enthusiast claims that their places have been ex en half way filled True. th< other men on the team have rounded out,'and it is a smooth aggregation. But it can not possibly be as strong now as the Vanderbilt team of 1911. On the other hand, Georgia should be l ight now stronger titan any Athens team of recent football history. The material is there. The coach is there. The men have been well handled and well condi tioned. Certainly this team is ma terially stronger than the one which b St yea 's strong Vanderbilt eleven defeated. Os course, no sane dopester would actually tout Georgia as the v. inner. Our own opinion is that Vanderbilt will win. At the same time every student of the game feels tlt.it <>n Saturday afternoon the Go'd ami Black team will get on' of the toughest tests of all its long history. South's Best Game Sure. It looks like the greatest game of th> yea in Dixie. Only three other contests compare with It the Vanderbilt-Virginia, the Van derbilt Auburn and the Vanderbilt- Sewanee contests. Xml it is a known fact that the Commodores look on today's game with the greatest apprehension. They feel confident that if they can get away with Georgia the rest, with the exception of Hat \ai d, w ill be easy. T.he Commodores fear Bob Mc- Whorter —as well they may. They feared him last year, but they found he was very largely the whole Red and Black team then Their defense • onsisted in one se play "Block Hob McWhorter” — and it »av<<i them. This y ear Mc- Whorter, still the star, is far from the whole team They may block him cold and still meet "defeat. But what • a 10l more likely to happ-n si ,f wha i thi y fca> most is tha* the? v , t,, k hilll vvjll b# frustrated by the other members of the Georgia team and that this most brilliant of Southern backs will get free often enough to get straightened out for a run to the goal lino. If he gets thus straight ened out a few times -good-night, Va nderbllt 1 Crowd Will Be There. Judged by the interest displayed in the game, Iho crow d which will witness it will be one of the largest that ever saw a football game in Atlanta. The football "STIFF-ARM” WILL BE MUCH USED THIS YEAR | By Monty. NEW York, oct. IS.—The fa mous "stiff arm," one of tile greatest offensive plays in all football, and one of the least un derstood, seems likely' to be mighty' popular this year, and of greater usefulness than ever before. The efficient use of the stiff arm by Yale's famous player, Walter Camp. Jr., has done as much as anything else to bring the play into prominence. Camp Goes Either Way. l.ike other experts with the stiff arm, Camp uses the arm to the right and the turn to the left, but he uses it just long enough to get the defensive back in the habit of looking for it. Then he changes his tactics when the opportunity presents itself, and, taking the tackler by surprise, throws him straight across in front of his own body. and. swerving sharply in the direction in which the arm was first used, continues on his original course. Cleverly used' and Camp is clever with it—that maneuver is baflling in the extreme, and some of the best tacklers are fooled by It. The method takes account of the natural brace and shift of weight to meet the customary stiff arm. and as a result the tackler Is taken off his balance ami some times rather easily throw n across. It Is next to impossible to get under the arm. and most coaches teach the tackler to break through ft, with the chest at the same time thrown across the runner's legs, but with a shifty, long striding back of the Camp variety the perfect tackle is not always possible, and the de fensive player must nail his man as best he can. “Stiff Arm” Not Slugging. It would be a good plan, perhaps, to explain right here that in the • minds of those who are not skilled in the intricacies of football the stiff arm is often confused with slugging tactics. Groans and hisses are often heard in the stand when a tackler is staved off by the stiff arm. The nick, as all football men know, is done with the open hand against the head or shoulder of the tackler, and the very term "stiff ui in” precludes the possibility of a blow. Hough players, it is true, have used the doubled-up fist on more than one occasion, .but this is hardly enough to condemn the le gitimate use of one of tin prettiest maneuvers in the gam* In Hie old days there was a form of stiff ann used on the de fense that hud as much as any - thing to do with the abolition of hurdling. Shirley Ellis of Hat yard. '• . ekes of Columbia, and a host of o.hets will remember it well. In those days th< hurdler rose up on th. backs of his interference, and as the pile was pulled down, shot on over-the press for his distance. It was an effective, if dangerous, play ann for a time was used all over the country. How Hurdling Was Blocked. Then the defense found a solu tion. as is th' custom of the de fense. .inti it was this solution that helped mark the end of hurdling. As tht hurdler rose on the backs rrrr Atlanta Georgian and news.fr iday. October is. 1912. fans are wise to the fact that this •will be one of THE contests of the year, and they are apparently all making their plans to he out for the excitement. There is much disappointment among local motorists over the rule forbidding any motor cars on the side lines. The reason for mak ing this rule is evident enough, but those who have watched the games from their own machines are keenly regretful that It has been passed. of his inlerfere’nce, his head came up into the open, and a defensive back was told off to do nothing but meet the runner's chin with the stiff aim. This process threw the runner's head back sharply, even though it was not a blow, and re sulted now and then in a serious injury. Just why nobody was per manently' hurl in the process no one knows to this day. Open field hurdling meant, of course, tiiat the 'tackler ran the risk of being kicked in the face, but, after all. the defensive stiff arm was one of the most danger ous features of the hurdling meth?, od. These old tricks of the game, fortunately, have been abolished, and the stiff arm is once more what it was originaly intended to be a perfectly’ legitimate aid to the runnel. So important was the stiff arm considered at Princeton last year, where the runners were fast but light, that the coaches set a series of posts in the ground at irregular intervals, their padded tops at just . about the height of a tackler's \ head. In and out between these posts the backs were run, each man giving tile stiff arm to every' post. It was something like the schooling of polo ponies between -takes. The result was apparent early in the season, for the Prince ton backs did better work with the stiff arm than did the runners on any other team. BOYS HI AND G. M. A. .TIE UP IN GRID GAME The Boys High school football team will make ils 1912 prep league debut against the Georgia Military academy this afternoon at G. M. A. Both teams regird tills as a heavy game, and have been working earnestly of late. Although the G. M. A. team won the footirJl championship last year, their present team consists mostly of raw material, while the B. H S. team will enter the fray with a team of vet erans. Tlte G M A. team will possess the greater tontidenee because of its re cent tictoiy over Tech High and be cause of its unbroken string of victo ries over B. H. S. in the past. G. M. A. lias the best coached team, and will be m better training, yet B 11 S. w ill depend on freak plays and for ward passes to overcome these disad vantages. 17-YEAR-OLD LAD DIES FROM BLOW ON THE JAW SHAMOKIN. PA.. Oct. 18. Clyde Lincoln, a 17-year-oltl pugilist of \Vil liamspmi, died at Sunbury. Pa., yes terday from injuries inllieted by Reno Bell Tyson, a negro boxer of Harris burg, in a six-round bout last night. Lincoln was knocked unconscious by a blow on the jaw in the fourth round and never recovered. Tyson was ar rested. MORDECAI BROWN WILL LEAD LOUISVILLE CLUB CHICAGO Oct. 18. - Mordeeai Blown, former pitcher for the Chicago Na tional league baseball i’<ib. released to the Louisville . lub of th, American as soeiation. is to tie manager of the •LmiLville team, i position now vacant. a< "idfiig to a report heie yesterdai. McGugiifs Career in South Has Been One of Continuous Success ■W -rASHAMI LE I ENX.. Oct. IS.— Dun McGugin, football coach, is known all over the South and West, and even in some sec tions of the more or less benighted East. Daniel E. McGugin. attorney at law, prominent citizen of Nash ville. and prime mover in some of the largest business enterprises in the entire South, is not so well known. There was a time, in 1904, when a new coach came to Vanderbilt. That was the last new one, up to the present and into the future, for he has been there ever since. He came out of the West, whereas Vanderbilt coaches had been com ing from the East. He was young, and Just out of college. He knew no one in Nashville, and the South had never heard of him to any ex tent. Even the spelling of his name was a sort of stumbling block to the sporting writers, and some of them made him "McGui gan.” x In 19oT* Vanderbilt had had a fairly good average team. It had beaten Sewanee by one scratch touchdown, but had lost to Cum berland in the first game of the season and was hopelessly tied up with three other teams for the championship at the end. Before the season of 1904 was half gone, the men that journeyed up to Nashville to play Vanderbilt went home with strange stories of a race of long, rangy men that moved with terrible swiftness about their work of piling up scopes. That was where McGugin had come in. McGugin Bom in |o w a. Ervin that day to this McGugin has been known of all Southern football, but even yet the football follower knows very little about the other side of McGugin. His his tory is brief, but crowded with the things he has done. He was born in Tingley, la„ 33 years ago. Be received his literary education at Drake university, Des Moines. Ia„ and incidentally took up his foot ball education. He played on the Drake team two years, and made a reputation as a linemait that ex tended over the middle West. His law course was taken at the great Michigan law school, and there, under "Hurry Up” Yost, he received the finishing touches or. his football training, as well as his legal learning. He played two years on the big' Michigan teams of 1901 and 1902, and in 1903, being then in his senior year, and hav ing played out his allotted span of collegiate football, he turned in and helped Yost develop that team. In 1904 he came South, spending the football season in Nashville and the rest of the year in Detroit where he practiced law . More and more his interests became South ern, however, and especially his in terest in the Nashville girl who be came Mrs. McGugin. Finally, two years after coming to Vanderbilt, he signed as athletic director for the entire year, and in addition to coaching took on the work of leach ing a class in constitutional law. Coach McGugin is also Professor McGugin. Dan Becomes a Southerner. He opened a law office in Nash ville, and. unlike some lawyers w ho open offices, also began to practice. Nashville people found that he knew law and could practice it Just as he knew football and could teach it. He not only became prominent in thi' legal world of Nashville, but became interested in the project for the development of Tennessee’s eltormous water power. He was as sociated in this with Fielding Yost his old football instructor, who. by the way. is now his brother-in-law as well, and between them they succeeded in organizing the Ten nessee Ftawer Company, a 520.000.- 1)00 corporation, which is running transmission lines from three groat plants on the Ocoee river. In East Tennessee, and tlw Groat Calls of the <’aney Fork to towns all over Tennessee. These lines will be open and in o|«eration in a few months. Georgia's Assistant Coach, Former Star Player, Compares Two Teams KETRON HINTS GEORGIA HAS CHANCE FOR TITLE By Harold W. Ketron. (Assistant Coach of the Georgia Team.) Athens, ga.. Oct. is.—The one [absorbing question In. Athens and all Georgia, and especially to Georgia alumni, “Has Georgia a chance to win from Van derbilt in Atlanta ..Saturday?’’ I have been ask?d this question both in person itntl by letter so many times that it has really be come monotonous. used vaiious and sundry answers and have led myself to believe that after fourteen years of wandering in the wilderness a Georgia eleven at last stands in sight of the promised wland. I do not mean by this that Geor 'ifia will win from Vanderbilt, neither do I mean that the Commo dores will have so much edge as has been predicted by certain foot ball author itis's in the South. If I were called upon for a criti cism of former Georgia football teams. I would unhesitatingly say, Our former poor showings, say be tween 1898 and 1911. must be at tributed to Georgia's annual change of coaches and training system I lie result of these changes have prevented the vatsity teams from having first-class substitutes and scrub team's from which to draw. Nice Boost For Cunningham. With the coining of Alex Cun ningham in 1910. Georgia at last solved the question of the coach ing system and found the right man for the place. Too much praise etui not be given this grand little fobtball wizard for tne work he has accomplished with the Georgia ma terial in the past three yea's. The secret of Cunningham’s success has been his ability to keep the men in splendid physical condition, at the same time by his remarkable per sonality, securing from the play- The Globe Clothing Co. | The Globe Clothing Co. | The Globe Clothing Co. We’ve Printed It In Large Type, So —— You Can Quickly Read the Gopd News Men's and Young Men’s Suits W $lO, $12.50, sls. $10.50, $lB, S2O, $25. 1 to wr 1 Boys' and Children’s Suits $2.50, $3.00, $4.00. $5.00, $0.50, $7.50. $lO. Men’s Overcoats and Cravenettes $lO. $12.50, sls, $lB. S2O. $25. Boys' and Children's Overcoats and Reefers < $2.50, $3.00. $4.00, $5.00, $7.50. 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Therefore, there can be no edge in weight. Georgia's ends will per haps have the shade in weight on Vanderbilt’s wing men. In expe rience they should be about on a par. Since my attention has been directed to Georgia’s line. I will re frain from an opinion of it except that the players have the weight, gray matter, nerve and experience. Both teams have new quarter backs and in this department there should not be very much edge. This brings us to a discussion as to the merits of the backfields. From all reports. Vanderbilt must be ex-, ceedingly strong in this depart ment. Should it be a "dog-fall” up to this point, 1 feel no hesitancy in predicting that Georgia will be properly taken care of here. Should the work of Wheatley and Paddock be anywhere in the class of that of Sikes and Collins and the battle proper be put up to McWhorter and Hatdage. no Georgia sup porter need worry as to the out come. McWhorter Best of All. Having seen most pf the back field’. men in the South for some eight or ten years, also having seen players like Hollenbach, of Penn- sylvania; Wendell, of Harvard: Camp, of Yale, and Pendleton, of Princeton, I am frank to say I be lieve Bob McWhorter Is the equal, if not the superior, of any of them. I presume both teams will use the open style of play In the con test Saturday and in this event the spectators will have the opportun ity of watching Individual work and may judge for themselvea. At any rate, there is sure to be some lively doings when the teams min gle. SOX AND CUBS MEET IN NINTH CONTEST TODAY CHICAGO. Oct. 18.—Before the sun was up today, a long line of eager fans formed before the gates at the White Sox baseball park, awaiting a chance to buy tickets to the final and deciding game of the city series. Walsh and Lavender were the pitch ers picked by the opposing teams, and upon their work the followers based their hopes of victory. Out of eight games played, each team has won three and tied twice. After the game between the teams Thursday, thousands of fans rushed from the West Side to the Sox grounds, clamoring for tickets for to day's game. The fight for tickets last ed long after dark. It was estimated 30.900 fans would see the game toda, INDIANS WANT DAUSS; WAS SENT TO DETROIT INDIANAPOLIS, -Oct. 18.—A rumor has been revived here to the effect that Manager Mike Kelley would attempt to land Pitcher George Dauss, the In dianapolis boy, for the Indians next year. Kelley sent Dauss. who was hi one best bet with the Saints this year, to Detroit just before the season closed, where he had tryout with the Tigers. In case Jennings decides not to keep Dauss, it is regarded as a certainty that he will come here.