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6 GLDKMH SMW COT® * EXPEWS* 1 EDITED W, 3 rAFNSWOF7H _____ Did You Ever Have One of Those Repeating Alarm Clocks? :: :: By “Bud” Fisher T '' —" — ~ ■ii i . - X- f —t' " • C 711 ' fflfi yj -SSTjiL [IB J FR3 Ik FSN <- lit lH«tl K OTa 4 <X F jCtfl •*, tgt otA. <■>*- JL e ~~ 'V V‘" :- „ cot’t.jl \ < z* w 'Z'''' jj - . 5 ' .£3 < 2/r -• Ml X/K- :< ® o il *' v o-’i ’MI / ° <7° Q W / a J^VvWh ■“ -■■.■»v'? v ~-™— —, -- /• z Wllß .•• 1® 7;.O — •*!/# ° 6 6 ’*ll . 9 Mlir 0 1 1 . . .dW Lt! : •■'•/ ■ ■ / ZJT * ——— >•»« A.«• Modern Football Penalties Are Marvelous Things •»••%• •J**4* •S**4’ •!-*4‘ ’r*+ 4**+ *$•••!• •>*•4' Takes a “Philadelphia Lawyer” to Dope 'Em Out By Percy H. Whiting. were coining back from I the Georgia-Vanderbilt foot ball game, ‘ How can you tell,' asked she, “what the penalties are for?" "Why, that’s very simple," said he, sagely. "A five-yard penalty is for off-side, fifteen yards is for holding, half the distance to the goal line is for roughness." "How said she. And It was. ♦ • • THE man who can tell the pen alty that has been inflicted in a football game by the distance as sessed is a wonder indeed. At that, however, it is entirely possible to get a slight line on it in that way Eor instance, three penalties are absolutely conclusive. If a team is soaked two yards it must inevitably before taking out time more than three times during a half. If a team is set back ten yards you may know that the defensive side has interfered with an opponent in the case of a forward pass before the ball has been touched. A 26- yard penalty is passed out because a team is not ready to start play at the beginning of the second half. There is only one two-yard pen alty, only one ten-yard penalty and only one 26-yard penalty, and the offenses mentioned are those which they punish. * « • THERE are nineteen offenses for which the penalty is five yards, fourteen offenses for which the penalty is fifteen yards, two for ■which the penalty is loss of half the distance to the goal line, four for which a “down" is lost, ten for which the ball is lost, three rules which, if broken, lead to suspension, two that result In disqualification, and three that are punished by for feiture of the game. So it isn’t so awfully simple after all. • * • op HE offense that most often calls * for a penalty of five yards in the average game is that for off-side play. Six varieties of this offense are specified. Tricks intended to draw opponents off-side get the same penalty—likewise interfer ence with opponents before ball is put in play. So does unreasonable delay—though you seldom see this rule enforced. Holding by the de fensive side is tn the same class, as far as the penalty is concerned. It will be recalled that after the ball has been put in play, players on the side not in possession of the ball may use their hands or arms to get at the ball or the player, but must not tackle or hold their oppo nents. If they do, they are soaked five yards. Another five-yard pen alty is given for a flying tackle or for tackling below the knees —with certain exceptions. The rule says: “There shall be no tackling below the knees, except by the men on the line of scrimmage on the de fense, and of these, the two men occupying the positions on the ends of the line of scrimmage may not tackle below the knees " A foolish ly complicated rule it seems to us. • » • COI'PLE of fifteen-yard pen alties are important The rest are seldom assessed. The most farqiliar is the penalty for holding This is an important penalty The rule reads: "After the ball has been put in play the player carry ing the ball may ward off oppo nents with his hands and arms, hut no other player of the side in pos session of the ball shall hold or use his hands or arms (except with the arms close to the body) to ob struct an opponent." The other important rule which has a fifteen-yard penalty is that for pushing, pulling and interlocked interference. This is one of the newer rules and was passed to do aawy with what wag regarded as a dangerous feature of the. game. Last year a lot of penalties were plied up because of this rule. This year the players are getting more used to it. Other comparatively important causes for a fifteen-yard penalty are failure of a substitute to report, illegal return of a player to the game, interference with a fair catch, piling up, hurdling, trip ping and side line coaching. There are others, but you don’t often hear of them. • ♦ ♦ Fa team is soaked half the dis -1 tance to its goal line It is after a player has been disqualified for striking, kneeing or kicking an op ponent or else for a foul within the one-yard line. This latter rule is made to cover a foul committed within the one-yard line in case the distance penalty, if enforced, would carry the ball across the goal line. In'this case the penalty is one-half the distance to the goal line. • • • "pHE four breaches of the rules that result in a penalty of the loss of a "down” are interference by the side making the forward pass, illegal forward pass, forward pass striking the ground a a kick from a point less than five yards FODDER FOR FANS Jimmy McAleer has issued an humble, albeit somewhat tardy apology to the "royal rooters* of Boston for the fact that they were frizen out of their seats one day If that apology had been sprung earlier it would have meant money to Jim. • • • Fame is a great thing. Tris Speaker was selected to start the automobile race at Salem, N H. He didn't get a cent for It. « * • Andy Soxalexis. who would have been the greatest ball player in the world if it hadn't been for a certain suggestive tick ling of the throat, was arrested the other day in Pittsburg os a vagrant. • • * When Soxalexis was arrested he claimed that he had been umpiring in the South ern league. Rudderham, maybe? • ♦ • John McGraw and Hugh Jennings are on the same vaudeville team. They re ceive more money for their act than Germany Schaeffer and Nick Altrock. Personal}- we would rather see the real comedians. • • • Horace Fogel must answer the charges of President Lynch on November 26. Wonder what he’ll say? • « • The reason why the club owners get the major portion of the world's series money is that they make the world's series rules It seems as though a child could answer that one. • • • George Simmons has been turned over by the Highlanders to Rochester • * • After a bit the Rochester team will have as many ex-Highlanders as the Rochester team has ex Tigers—which constitutes a calamity in itself, either way. « • • It was often stated before and during tile world's series that in the series of 1903 the Boston team won from the Pir ates after losing three straight What hapeneri was that Pittsburg won the first game. Boston the second. Pittsburg the next two and then the Bostonians romped. • • • Four players are still in the major leagues who took part in that 1903 series. The only one who Is making much noise is a certain bow-legged shortstop named John Wagner • • • Rube Oldring announces that he re ceived $82.75 as his share of the gate re ceipts of the Philadelphia city series. « « • Neal Ball did nothing In the world's se r.es but go to bat once—and strike out. He received $4,025.68 —or a mere matter of better than SI,OOO a minute This must make Rockefeller sore * • • • On the other hand there is the case of Stovall He was Jim McAleer's second choice as manager and as lake Stahl re fused at first to take the job Stovall came within a hair's width of getting it. In stead he got the Browns. Berlin didn t make a cent of money out of baseball this t ear. Neither did Guelph They are both In the Canadian league ■ « • Bransfield has signed to manage the Montreal tent next season. • • • In a game in the California State league recently a triple play occurred In which every man o one team got an asist or a put-out before the play ended. • • • The} make so few managers of Frank THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 22, 1912. behind scrimmage. This penalty is only exacted prior to the fourth down. It will be recalled that this year an incompletd forward pass counts only as a "down.’’ • • ♦ epHE ball is lost, as a penalty in these cases: If it is kicked out of bounds, unless touched; for in terference by the side making the forward pass on a fourth down, for a backward pass out of bounds on the fourth down, for an illegal or incompleted forward pass on the fourth down. If the forward pass Is illegally recovered or touched by the passer's side, if a forward pass goes out of bounds "on the fly." if the ball is batted, if an off-side player touches the ball, if the kick er recovers the ball, and if the kick is made from a point less than five yards behind the line of scrimmage on the fourth down. * • • x rERILY the penalties are plenti * ful enough and unwise is the man who thinks he can tell what a team has been penalized for by the amount of the penalty. To those who wish to, enjoy foot ball understanding!}’ it is recom mended that they buy a rule book and glance over the rules. They are fearful and wonderful things, but they repay a lot of study. Chance's caliber that it would be a shame if he retired. On, viewing it from an other slant, so many teams need real mangers that F. C. ought to linger. • • • It is stated that Snodgrass will appear in vaudeville this winter in a sketch en titled "The Littlest Giant in the World.” If he only would, if he ONIA WOULD. It would certainly help the demand for stale eggs immensely. « * « Horace Fogel says that President Lynch has attacked him for campaign purposes only. But then nobody ever pays any attention to what Horace says, anyhow. • • • Oh, by the way, Charley Murphy didn't sell his Cubs after all. • « « Chance has lost out at Chicago. Bres nahan is to share the same fate at St. Louis. Pretty lucky for the teams that get these two men. Huggins seems slated to succeed Bresnahan. • »* • Let's see. now. when was it the Giants were to start on that tour around the world ? • • » Mordecai Brown is tickled to death that he is to be manager of the Louisville team The only trouble is that nobody has told him about it. • • • Connie Mack has stated in an interview that Jake Stahl really won the world's series. To us that seems a rank injustice to Snodgrass. “GUNBOAT” SMITH GETS STEP NEARER THE TITLE NEW YORK. Oct. 22.—" Gunboat” Smith’s heavy guns may yet batter a way for him to the leadership of the white hope brigade. As a result of Smith's showing over Jim Stewart, of Brooklyn, last night at the Madison Square Garden, when their bout was stopped in the seventh round, after the California heavyweight had floored Stewart four times, the Westerner had made a lot of new followers. Followers of boxing believe that Jack Johnson is rapidly nearing the land of oblivion, and it will not be long until a white man may success fully lay claim to the tile This was the first bout which has been stopped by the authorities since the state boxing law went into effect. Sheriff Harburger called ft a "brutal exhibition.' although Stewart claimed he was not hurt. EBBETTS WANTS CHANCE TO MANAGE BROOKLYN -NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—Frank Chance, of the Cubs, may manage the Dodgers next season. It is said that President Ebbets seriously is considering the matter and that before he gives his an nual banquet to the newspaper base ball reporters he will have secured the peerless leader's" signature to a con tract. TECH LOOKS FOR TROUBLE FROM FLORIDA THE easy games of the Tech foot ball season have been played and the Yellow Jackets are now buckling down to real hard work pre paratory for the big cold weather con tests. The October games, as a rule, have little bearing on the relative standing of the teams, and nothing of real football value is turned loose, but the next time Atlanta fans see the Tech bunch in action they will have the opportunity of seeing some real football of the deep-water variety. Next Saturday Tech plays the Uni versity of Florida in Jacksonville. The Florida boys have a good team this year, away above the average in play ing ability and extra heavy. This eleven outweighs Tech at least ten pounds to the man. This is consid ered the hardest of the October games and Coach Heisman ts putting forth every effort in order to make a credit able showing. Men All in Fair Trim. The team came through the Mercer game in pretty good condition and the men are all in good shape for a hard week's work. A heavy signal practice was held Monday, lasting until after dark, and the men were then run a mile at a good pace. If hard work and willingness count for anything the Yellow Jacket squad will make a creditable showing. Elmer is out of school for good on ac count of failing on a conditional ex amination. and the team will miss this linesman. Moore has a bum ankle and is on crutches, but a few days' rest will put him back in the-game as good as ever. Loeb’s Ankle Sprained. Loeb is still worried with a sprained ankle and was not able to be out in uniform Monday, but a short rest will likewise put him in better condition. The squad has been exceedingly fortu nate in regard to injuries this year and no one has really had a bad break, with the exception of Tyler Montague, two of w hose bones wore broken in his left leg in a scrimmage last Week. As a whole, the Tech team is tn good shape physically and the players are anxious for hard work. This week comes the real test of whether they can stand the grind, and next Saturday's game will determine in a great meas ure the possibilities of the team. MURPHY TO KEEP CHANCE AS CUBS’ UTILITY MAN t HICAGO. Oct. 22.—Reiterating his statement that he would announce the new manager of the Cubs within a few days, President Charles Murphy also declared he would not release Man ager Frank L. Chance and would keep him as a utility infielder. it was said that Chance would quit the game before standing for such hu miliation. K'ers still appears to be the most llkel\ candidate for manager, but Mur phy today refused to withdraw from his stand of keeping the name of the new leader secret until November 1. JOHNSON'S AUSTRALIAN MATCHES ARE CANCELLED SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA. Oct ’2— Jack Johnson will not fight in Austra lia Hugh Mclntosh, who had offered Johnson 150,000 for fights with Sam l>angford and Sam MacVey or Joe Jeannette, cabled today to W. W Kellv his representative in Chicago, to cancel all negotiations. Mclntosh explained that Johnson's part in the alleged abduction at Chica go had so angered the sportsmen and public of Australia that th* matches were no longer desirable. NEW PILFERING RECORD. PORTLAND. OREG.. Oct. 22-The Northwestern league official averages for the season, which have just been an nounced. show Ralph Myers, of the Spo kane club, possessing 116 stolen bases. This is believed to be a world's record for any league, large or small Boston Is Greatest Baseball City in the Country +•+ +«4* +»4- 4-«4- 4-«4- 4-«4- Recent World's Series Proves This Assertion By L. R. Murdoch. (Sporting Editor of Hearst's Boston American.) BOSTON is the greatest base ball city in the world. The following review of the world's series attendance will prove that assertion—so frequently made—be yond all doubt, forever and ever, amen. Boston and New York wonder why the crowd that saw the de ciding game of the world’s cham pionship was only about one-half the size of those that saw the first four games in Boston and the three in New Ybrk. The Red Sox man agement wonders why. The New York management plumes itself with the belief that had the decid ing game been played in New York, the Polo grbund fences would have burst with the mass of humanity which whuid have assembled there in. This is the answer; First —Boston was baseball "broke.” Second—Bostdn had to re sume business and quit talking baseball, or Boston trade might have gone stagnant. Third—Boston had begun to lose confidence in the team of which it had expected such miracles. Fourth The management made Boston suspicious and dampened the spirits and the ardor that brought the earlier baseball-mad crowds to the game. What the Figures Show. Had the conditions been re versed—the two last games being played in New York, the Giants falling down as the Red Sox had fallen, and had the management of the Polo grounds followed the pol icy of the Boston management, there would have been no larger crowd at the Polo grounds Wed nesday than there was at Fenway park, notwithstanding New York has a 5,000,000 population to draw from, while Boston has 1,000,000. To say nothing of visitors. Boston did more for the baseball magnates and players than any other city in the country outside of New York, with its 5,000.000 popu lation. has ever done. In this case Boston's 1,000,000,000 did even more than New York's 5,000.000. The games in the world’s series were seen by 252,037. They paid $490,833 for the privilege, Boston contributed 149,183 at tendance, while New York sent 102,854 to the ball games. Boston paid $272,403, while New York paid $218,425. Here are the figures; At New York. Attend- Re ance. ceipts. First game 35,730 $ 75,127 Fourth game 36,502 76,644 Sixth game 30,622 66,654 Totals 102354 $218,425 At Boston. Second game 30,148 $ 58,369 Third game 34,624 63,142 Fifth game 34,683 63,201 Seventh game 32,694 57,196 Eighth game 17,034 30,500 Totals 149,183 $272,408 Boston, therefore, sent nearly 50 per cent more "fans" to the game than New York did. Boston paid about 2o per cent more real money to see the world’s series than Nev.- York did. Game For Game, Boston Better. New' York may claim that it is unfair to do the figuring on the whole series because five games were played in Boston and three in New York. But the first three games In the Hub were attended by 99.455, who paid $184,712. These figures are nearly as large as those of the 102,854. who paid $218,425 to see the three games in New York. The "fans” of Boston were mis led on the opening day by the ad vance stories that there was not enough room at Fenway park to accommodate the crowds. There fore, the first day’s attendance was smaller than that on the second, third and fourth' days in this city. The first day’s attendance would certainly have been as large as the second day’s had Boston known that there was room enough for the "fans.” This is amply proved by the fact that on the second day in the Hub, when Boston knew that there had been vacant' space in Fenway park the day before, "fans" literally mobbed the place for the third and fifth games of the world’s series, and thousands were turned away. Had the attendance of the first day been as large as on the sec ond day in Boston, as it surely would have been but for the ad vance cry of insufficient room, the crowds of the first three days would have totaled 103.021, which would have been an aggregate of 1,000 more than saw the first three games at the Polo grounds. Beat Philadelphia "to a Frazzle.” Here is another comparison: According to the geographies and the almanacs. Philadelphia is sup posed to have a much greater pop ulation than Boston. But Philadel phia sent only 71,146 to the three games of the world’s series played there last year, as against 99.455 who saw the first three games in Boston. Philadelphia paid $120,528.50 to see the three world's series games, while Boston paid $184,712 for the first three games played in their city. The Athletics won. as the Red Sox did, tnd the advance "dope" on the Athletics last year was fully as alluring as the advance drawing power of the Red Sox and Giants this year. You can't dodge the figures. Bos ton has proved that it is the great est baseball city in the world. Study the figures, you of the whole U. S. A., and be convinced. The following will explain the first four propositions made in this story, explaining the falling off of Wednesday’s crowd: Boston was baseball "broke” — the "fans" paid nearly a quarter million dollars seeing the games of the first week and taking a final shy at the game Tuesday, when they thought the championship ought to be won. That is a lot of money for any city to spend upon a week of baseball. "Fans" who had seen four games had spent from $2 to S2O per capita. They had taken four half days away from their work. They could spare no more money—and particularly they could spare no more time from business. A week of half holidays is enough to cripple the business of any hustling American city. A Matter of Business. Boston had to resume business the greater city has a population of about a million. About a quar ter million of them arc productive men of ages between 18 and 50. Os the quarter million at least 150,000 can not afford to see world's cham pionship games, and wouldn't be In terested if they did. That leaves Mrryf—BßOU’S; : (UNfi £aV pfb- ; ] * MAXINT CFRF. , ], ( ' of the moat obstinate cases guaranteed In from i* t 3 to 6 days ; no other treatment required i' i 3old by all dnijglsts. \ | ,J THE OLD RELIABLE” {remedy™* men. A-C.ynre t. 100.000 men who- do nearly all of the productive and profitable work of the city. Os these one-third were going daily to the ball games and the other two-thirds spent their afternoons with their ears glued to the telephones, waiting for the results. Business suffered a long continuous "wallop"—to use the language of the ball field. Bus - ness could stand it for a few days, but when every enterprise in Bos ton became afflicted day after day, the city's trade threatened to go stagnant. Boston began to lose confidence. The crushing defeats suffered by the American league champions on Monday and Tuesday could not be understood by the "fans." who imagined that their team had hern thoroughly and decisively beaten and would never "come back" on the final day. Boston generally gave up the battle Tuesday night, notwithstanding the warning of the baseball writers that the Red Sox were likely to win, even then. Made the Boys Wary. The management made Boston suspicious. The Red, Sox going into the game overwhelming favorites, the "fans” were unprepared for the close games at the beginning of tin series. When the Sox- had th® “edge," 3 to 1, and then stumbled the "fans" grew wary. After five runs were scored by the Giants in the first inning of Monday's game, the management began to advertise Tuesday's game, forgetting that the "fans” had a right to believe that, under all the rules of baseball, the Sox might be expected to win at any time until the last man was out. After the Giants scored six runs off Wood in the first inning Tuesday and the management be gan forthwith to sell tickets for Wednesday's game, you could not convince them that there was not something wrong. The "fans" could not understand why the manage ment had quit "rooting” for six or seven Boston runs in the last in nings to offset the six New York runs in the first. Iri'conclusion, it is wel,l-nigh im possible to ’'frame'up" a basebn,', game. The players were eager to settle the difference of $1,500 apiece between themselves. But the man agement's blunder in conceding the Giants Monday’s and Tuesday's games after the first inning of each made it difficult ever to convince the ’fans" that it was all "on the level." Ergo, the 17.000 on Wednesday. SIMMONS LET OUT WHEN DERRICK BECOMES YANK NEW YORK. Oct. 22.— Secretary Davis, of the Yankees, has announced that >e-- ond Baseman Hack Simmons has ' sold to the Rochester chib, from which “ was purchased a year ago. Simmons some good batting for the Hillmen year, but his second base play lacM • steadiness. Claude Derrick, formerly with the y letics, will cover second base next year WW Cure* in 1 to 5 day; |JP«> 1 Gonorrhoea ano Hvk Mm’ ■ Contains no poison an* JHJBhIW' W W maybeusedfullstreng ' ■Mt**" absolutely without fear Guaranteed not to stricture. Prevents contagion WHY NOT CURE YOURSELF? At Druggists, or we ship express prepaid up o receipt of sl. 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