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6 GZSMM RIS cmtfYSMW ______ EDITLD z% W. 9 TARNSWETK ... Here’s the Only Time That Georgia Gave McWhorter Any Kind of Interference---and It Wasn’t Much eL - ? ' fe be— \Jr MKMVIi *iiaX7wgyS«nWir^wJnßkWATMHtW&Swlff ■ W ir>r.. ■ ■ HMb ■BRarWU'y ? w? j . • v 'A® - - v ■X_iP r Wfiiii. z *«Br:wj»®f' Q ? /Tai • VI.. W:\ Ws''lEßa> ”1 VC®*** ■.wfofrw «.. S’, a JR ■ »z~ ® .A . . t * ifc 1 Mr< f i - WR i 1| h ’** ’ « »* y I'eSALI ■**.< ■ ■■*wv s » .**w< ■*'"* r- ~' '. ' ' - ♦♦. ... ......»■ _ •*., » :* • « ..x has some likeh football material, but in the game against Vanderbilt Satu.nhiv their attack was. very miieh ■•bush league.” McWhorter. a wonderful offensive player, tried time amt agam to make decided gains, *" ar<\ aiways was dropped in his tracks because his team mates gave him no help. Georgia's interference amounted to naught, and Coach Cunningham must work hard to improve this irnpoitant part of the game, or a "*■* ■„ . ■ ■■■ ... - Atlanta Is Off Again on Football-less Weekl -?••!• Georgia Plays Alabama Saturday and Will Win By Percy 11. Whiting. ATLANTA is off again on an other foothallless week. On Saturday the Tech team plays—but it plays in far-away Jacksonville. Not until a week from Saturday will there be a contest in Atlanta. And that day there will be a real one. for Au burn plays here that day, and the Auburn-Tech game is always some performance. Georgia has a very moderate game Saturday, with the L’niversl tj’ of Alabama as the opposition. The following Saturday Cunning hams men get busy wit! Sewanee. Vanderbilt takes on a light game Saturday, with th< I'niversity of Mississippi (provided that team doesn't cancel), but the following Saturday gets busy in earnest with Virginia. At that the fact that Virginia was so unmercifully trounced Saturday by V. M. 1. (which latter team lost the pre vious Saturday. 31 to 0, to Prince ton). makes this game look rather cinchy for the Commodores, and it will not surprise anybody hero If the Commodores run up almost the •core on the Virginians that they did on Georgia. Sewanee plays Tennessee Sat urday in Chattanooga, and it should be an Interesting game. The Knoxville team is all of an uncer tainty and nobody is absolute ly sure as yet Just what to expect of Sewanee. It appears that, in the South at least, the coming week doesn't promise any stirring football do ings, • • ♦ VT that the mud, lashed ip into the semblance of a billow y t'O’lll bv the heroic .struggle on Ponce DeLeon field Saturday after noon. has begun to settle back to I Its normal smoothness and the football folks have had chance to think over the strange happenings of that fateful game, Georgian.- are asking themselves a lot of things, among them this "How the dick ens did it happen, anyway ?'* Forty-Six tn nothing scored by what appeals to b< only m iv<r •ge Vanderbilt team on what •rented an exception;!.ly strong Georgia eleven 46 to <•! It w ,sn t a mete defeat It was a men il drubbing. It will not take ovei on. mm. At Lyric this week, the “Mother Love” drama, “Madame X.” IS 3IXDQI H HO7IVI ‘H3AV3M Wol| AXNVTQKV NV3'l| J.flOlS ‘SXOVaHONQHI SX33N fJjMOI 113. I | game like that for everybody to reconstruct (heir notions about that \ underbill team. Unless the dope is badly deranged, it is a wonder team—an eleven so good that it will make history' for itself that will not for many years be forgot ten. There wasn’t any license for an average team to beat Georgia the way Vanderbilt beat them. There was not a lot of difference in the weight. In ex|<erience the Athe nians had perhaps a slight edge. Georgia had the advantage in con dition. The Commodores’, vaunted speed wag nullified by the muddy field. And yet, despite all these things. Vanderbilt just everlastingly romped. There wasn’t a time when there appeared any real chance that Georgia would score, (•nee, and only once, was there a worried expression on a Vander bilt face. It was when Georgia had made a couple of first downs in succession and were going good. It even looked bad enough so that Joe Covington, who was re served for rear trouble, was stuck in Whether it was Joe’s peppery presence or Just the petering out of Georgia's sprint, but. any how, the ball was lost, and Vanderbilt was off again on the mad chase on ward and ever onward to Georgia's goal line. If the Vanderbilt team has no hard luck with injuries—and in juries are always a dangerous pos sibility. for the Commodores have a tolerably fragile back field —the Vanderbilt team will not have trou ble this year, except with one game ■and that one with Hatward. And. say what you please, if the Com modores get up there in good sitape and with everybody on edge, look out for surprises! ft is like ly that the Crimson will have enough power and drive to down the Commodores, but they are like ly to be treated to forward passes and emi runs that will startle t hem. • * • r\NE thing about the Georgia team they had some clover plays. One was a fake end run which was built around the known fact that • very opposing team will play to bold McWhorter. On this play M< Wliorter ami the Interference are started around one end. Then the ball is passed to somebody else, who eottios tearing through center' fol a good gain. Owing to the • ‘getmxs ot the V.iiidi i bilt men not to H McWhorter get through their Hngos. this worked capital ly several times. Cunningham's Im tl .1 -<> urn orked some neat doU b. passes and showed that they knew .1 lot of advanced football. \\ hat th< y tell down mt, oftett, was ■ok "I aptness and training in tile rudiments inability to tackle, o Start fa« to < harg. , .nd the like. \nd thes, are things that Georgia teams must learn from assistant coaches, if at all. lot' tim\ do not within the grope vt u head coach. If the Red THE A TI A NTAGEQRG TA sa> I) NEWS.MOXDAY. OCTOBER 21. 1912 and Black is to show well through the rest of the season, It needs some of its many loyal alumni to come to the rescue and to give their time as individual coaches. If the Georgia material can learn the rudiments and can leave Alex Cunningham free to teach the big principles of football. It will yet come through the season with the record of only one defeat. For the material is surely there. • • • SATURDAY’S game was adver fc tiged as a duel between Mc- Whorter and Hardage. It came mighty near turning out an un equal but mighty brave fight be tween McWhorter and the whole Vanderbilt team. It wasn't quite that, for Henderson and Peacock played good ball and several other Georgia men did fairly well. But in the main McWhorter played the largest part of the game for Geor gia It is pointed out that McWhorter did not gain as much, ground as Hardage. Well, hardly . Suppose conditions had'been re versed and McWhorter, aided by the brilliant Vanderbilt interfei once and starting behind that hard-charging Commodore line, has played with Vanderbilt against Georgia! And suppose Hardage had been working with the demor alized Red and Black eleven. Would Hardage have gained as much ground as McWhorter did? We don't know the answer. But it's worth considering. No danger that we shall try to detract! anything from the brillian cy of Hardage’s performances. There's a halfback worthy of the very highest position! What John Craig at his best had on him we don't pretend to know. Also, be it mentioned, his running mate. Col lins. is only a step or two behind in brilliancy, but he is a shade fragile to compare with the Com modore captain. • • « IT was our impression that, after a * football game, the ball belonged to the winning team. If this is true, it was poor sportsmanship on the part of the Georgia team to attempt to get away with the ball. Prom our own personal viewpoint, it would seem that, to the Geor gians, that ball would be a rather sorry souvenir. GORDON AND RIVERSIDE IN BIG BATTLE TODAY BARNESVH I.E. GA . I x-t It The i Cordon football team emerged from the Locus; Grove game with only a few J bruised placers Tud«\ Gordon .journey* jio Gainesville, where a game will lie Ipla.wd with the fast Riverside team. Both leaiiia ap|»ear to he pretty evenlj match* | e<l, and a batd game is sure to be the ; result. BIG PREP GAME TODAY. IMTMT GROVEL GA . <hl ”1 An lil tereming gatne in prop school circles will be plated here today, when the Stone Mountain team come« to Locust Grove 'for a gamp with the locals Eugenie Blair in “Mad ame X,” at the Lvric this week. " 1 • t.o.irn <»l husky, likely'ookius players will have a bad season, '('he Gnorfrian photographer snapped it V l every scrimmage when the ball wax in possession of Georgia, and in this picture alone did the Athens clown show! j any interference for the man with the hall—and surely the interference in this play doesn't amount to iniidiJ I Coach Cunningham verily needs some assistants at Athens. SO® GEORGIIi DOPEFWOUP IT BIG MS By W. S. Farnsworth. Ji ’ST before the last game of the world's series in Boston 1 had a long talk with Frank Farrell, president of the New York league club. He tipped me off that he doesn't believe Tommv Me-Mil lan. ex-Yellow Jacket stat, will stick up in the fast company be cause of his inability to hit. "I am going to give McMillan another chance next spring." said Mi’. Farrell, "but I don't believe he will do. He can't hit. The little fellow is a mighty good infielder and a fair man on the bases, but I have go) to get seme hitters for my team next season, and unless McMillan takes a big brace I fear 1 will have to ask waivers on him." APH ILA DEL PH IA scribe at t lie big k * games told me an interesting story about Claude Derrick, former Georgia crack, w ho has been secur ed by the Yankees for next year, it seems that Connie Mack let Der rick go to Baltimore the past sea son. where he played corking ball. Mack tried to get him back by draft this fall, but W ashington drew him and then traded him to New York. The shrewd Mack hung onto Der rick for two years, but Claud went to the bad after the Athletics had made their first Western trip to Chicago last spring. Mack sold him to Baltimore, believing he had reached the end of his career be cause of an accident that happened in the Windy City. But Derrick soon recovered in Baltimore and today is considered the best of the youngsters drafted by the Majors. The accident was the result of a lot of tomfoolery. A member of one of the stvellest clubs in Chicago in vited the Athletics one hot night down to his club to take a plunge in a big pool, in the party were Derrick. Bris and Rube Oldring. Oldring and Lord thought they would have some fun with Derrick and began bolding him tinder the water. First one and then the other would push him down. Finally be became exhausted and nearly drowned. it took two physicians all that night to bring him around. The shock Derrick suffered was so great that he went all to pieces and was unable to play any kind of ball. Mack as a result sold him to Baltimore. But the Georgia lad is (). K. now and all the scouts at the series predicted that tile Yan kees have made a swell "catch.” ♦ fc ♦ z-sEORGK STALLINGS believes ' 1 lie w ill land in the first dir is ion with his Boston team next year. "Ml I will need to finish better than fifth Is a couple of pitchers." he told me on the return to New York after the deciding game. Wise baseball men consider Stallings as great n manager as McGraw and Mar k, Hughey Jen nings claims that the Georgian knows how to handle players bet ter than anybody In the Aorld. "Look at the way ho eat rind that New York burn h into second place." said the Detroit manager And look what <’h,i--. (|i<| the next year with the same outfit." he added. I , ~ Twenty-Five Greatest Southern League Players -r»T ’r*v ---•••• -?•+ q-e-J- No. I—Sparks Wore Ball Room Pumps at Debut 1 By Fuzzy Woodruff. I A W\IR of pumps, entirely prop | “ r for a ball room, but strangely out of the picture on a ball field, and a pair of hose as red as a blood-stained Balkan hillside maale a debut of a career notable. And the career afterward made baseball history, and base ball history that the lovers of the game are proud to boast about. The shiny slippers and the in carnadined hosiery were worn by Frank Sparks on his first appear ance as a professional hall player. I They were discarded the next day. , but the brand of baseball that the • youthful hurler pitched to the ac j eompaniment of the fancy foot j wear remained to keep him aa one ; of the most formidable slabmen the i National league knew for years. Not more Incongruous to his sur roundings than’ the adornment of his nether limbs was the man who made his debut that afternoon in the earl.v nineties. The scene was set in the old Highland park grounds in Mont gomery Birmingham was the op posing team. John McCluskey, afterward manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, was manager and first baseman of the Montgomery club. He had dug Sparks out of Howard college, where he had starred for Alabama's Baptist in stitution of learning and baseball. Fans Have Never Forgotten. McCluskeys club was dragging along in the race, and then, as now. the finances of the Montgomery club were not of .1. Pierpont Mor gan proportions. The attendance was slim that blazing August aft ernoon. but right now Columbus himself could not discover a man between the ages of eighteen and eighty in Montgomery who will not swear that he saw that debut. There were fine and resounding whoops of derision when Sparks took the slab and began tossing tn old Heinie Peitz. who caught him. Those crimson stockings ami that pair of pumps could not be over looked by the native wits. Some choice jests were dung across the field for the benefit of the embry onic star. He seemed as much like a ball player h.« Roosevelt is like Taft. He was not of a pitcher's six ■ and helft, though those were not the days of the gigantic hurlers. He was blushing a beautiful accom paniment to his hosiery ami his delivery was as awkward as a real debutante's. Tile Birmingham batters wen not slow to go after him. Old Dad Phelan, with his brigand mus tachios. .Hid all the rest of the rough neck crew threw badinage that added io his discomfiture. The home funs settled back to watch the revelry. Was Sold to the Phillies Then Sparks began to pitch. H< used the same slow bal! and sweeping ! urve and absolute con trol that later made him a terror •••••«•«••••••••••••«•••• : FUZZY WOODRUFF i: WRITES SPARKLING : BASEBALL SERIES [ • This is the first of a series of • stories The Georgian will print on i • “Twenty-five Greatest Southern I • League Players," written by Fuz- • zy Woodruff. There is no one • better acquainted with Southern • league doings for the past fifteen • years than Mr. Woodruff, and all j • his articles, like today's, will be ! • filled with spice and ginger. He • opens his series with Frank ' • Sparks, who, after graduating • from this circuit, went to the • Philadelphia National league club. ; • where for years he was consid- ® ered one of the world's greatest • pitchers. • •••••••••••••••••••••eo«« to National league hitters. That night he owned Montgomery . The next season saw him In a Birming ham uniform, but he was sold ear ly in the race to the Phillies, and for nearly’ fifteen years he drew a salary and earned it. too, <as a . slabman servant in the City of Brotherly Love. Sparks' career In the National league is too recent In date to te count. Managers came and man agers went, but Sparks stayed. All the time he pitched steady, heady, consistent basebail. He was rarely brilliant, but he nearly always managed to go thiough a season with more wins to his credit than losses, however poor the team be hind him happened to be. It is extremely doubtful If a hurler ever remained in the major leagues so long with so little stuff. His fast ball was absolutely of a negative quality His curves were wide, but broke nicely , and he had that gicat asset for a pitcher—an ability to outthink a majority of batsmen. Was a Gentlemanly Player. He was one of the first of the "gentleman" ball play ers. He was a rare bird when ho first broke into fast company Thosi were the halcyon days of the rough neck. Sparks shunned demon rum. to bacco, ett sc words and al! those other pleasures we ate told to eschew when we are young ami piHctice when we learn "wisdom." IL- never played Sunday ball. He was always Inmiaculate in his il>' --. being in appt ;l ran< -a rather tinnieky business man lather than a demon athlete. His voice was as s'»lt as the whisper of a spring z< phy and his words as carefully chosen ,i« those of a Funday school superintendent when he explains whystliH lions didn't eat Daniel. I util 191 ii Sparks remained on the Phlllr pav .roll. When he was through h‘ was given an uncondi tional release as a reward for long and faithful service and was not Slow to grab on with Johnny I ’-.tm- „f < 'hattan .. K Though the Lookouts finished fourth In 1911), Sparks led the aague IF pitching. Arm Gene, Won With Head. The next season found hm Again; with Dobbs, only this time it--wai back on his old stamping ground!, in Montgomeiy, where ti:t---n yrt before he had faced his first pro-; fessional batter and bravriy brook ed tin- taunts in ref< ;em . 'nil pumps and crimson strn’kinc.-. He piti he<l Dobbs' outfit ilit', so ”.1 place in 1911. but his arm "al praeticri'lly gone. His tfiinkitiz ap paratus remained ini.tet, and he was able to be '’tie "f '"( league's leaders. Hi- saw that his baseball 'iayt wete over. His careful living in the days of his prime had guarante’’d a fat bank account and H'ld found him, still looking the business man and now a real business man. ?n --gaged in the jileasant jiastmtenf making two dollars for "m : little north Mabama town from which he emarated. There he tc;" hi s a Sun ,l ;i’■ s. :r'ol class arid votes t'o: Ricbtmm'l Pear-] son Hobson ami othei pr n 'tl ’t'ott- 1 ists, but among his h".; of In are a pair of patent i--.it - ; tmi ! and a blazing set of In has never forgott -n t.-mt - it of blood and na t (>)■■ VANDERI ii SOUTH! ' LEVENS: TENNI E SECOND Vanderbilt, wi I” ’ ' against their opj i <-rn fotohall tea i second, with Sev-. - is how Hie South! rr an.- nmrning. Vanderb 't 07 Bethel 100 Maryville ... j 54 Hose 1 '01y.... • ■ 46 1 Georgia ■ • ■ 307 Sewanee 34 Morgan. 101 I- bn once Mint • 27 Chattanooga.. 1.02 Auburn 3*> Alumni sfi Mercer 27 Klorida ' ' 27 Clemson ■ US Alai- ’ < 52 Marion 02 Birmingham.. 3 Tech 0 Mississippi Agrict 117 Clenit 50 Howard 2« Riverside •i Auburn I'l Georgia. 33 Chatlanooga 33 cltudel 0 Vanderbilt (>(1 Mercer. 21* i lordon.. .. . o Auburn it)'- Howard i) Tech a 5 Tech. o Eleventh >'a vali y . - 20 Cltade' j if' Vlahama j I''. Mercer - 5f 1