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12 OOMAN COW® * EIMTC LPITLD 9 FARNSWORTH " Twenty-Five Greatest Southern League Players No. 2—Bunions Made Archer Game’s Best Catcher By Fuzzy Woodruff. M T rITH the possible exception of V/V the fact that bunion rhymes with onion, there U little to recommend this particu lar form of foot affliction—and there are those people who don’t like onions Still it is ecorded in Southern league history,, the au thority for the story being none other than the: voracious chroni cler. Count Ixtu Castro, that a pair of buntons were responsible for on< of 'he most sensational baikstop pe s the national pastime has ever known and assuredly the bright e«- particular star in that position that Dixie ever »mt to the majo-s. Mcrihes and P arisees and otner basepai experts m.c have trouble in picking tip placets to fill the vs ious positions in out- .<nd in field in their ali-.sta- se’ectlons. but for two >en. - tluy have not hesi tated n hen i> came to catcher, the position above all others most diffi cult to fill on a successful baseball tea m. Whenever they reached that place they just wrote down Jimmy Aicher and felt that they had done their work well. He was is easy to choose .is Ty i.'o'ob ami H ui is vVagn er. Jimmy Ones a Cracker. And if will be remembered that not many Mitiiim-rs hate passed since Mr. At. .!••■ sported th. spar gl, s of .i I'nickfr and was called to higher things right from the stricken field of Ponce DeLeon. Rut I started out to tell of bun ions. and tiie bunions have not yet been touched on. as the afflicted man said when he tip-toed. According to Count Castro, these bunions are directly responsible for Archer's famous short-arm throw front a squatting posture that has made him the most dangerous catcher to base runners that the game has ever known. Archer s throwing technique has been dwelt on in reams and reams of copy pa per, but the cause has never been touched by ambitious w> iters. Here is ("astro’* account: When Archer came to Atlanta he ihri w to all bases standing erect, tak ing the usual step of the catcher. Then he bought a pair of shoes They were execrable shoes In fact, they did not fit the well formed hoof of the now famous Jeeins. And bunions were the result. There were bunions under his heels and, bunions back of them and they were wide-awake bunions that received excellent pay for working overtime, .lames knew no comfort save when he was standing on his toes. A beam of joy would flash over bis pleasing features when he squatted to signal the pitcher. Then he was on his toes and there was happiness in his soul If no* tri his soles Feet Hurt When He Arose. Rut the gloom returned when he rose to receive the delivery and when he stepped to peg the tor tures of the damned were reflected on his once smiling physiognomy. "Then why rise?" reasoned James. He had never thrown with full arm swing. He had invariably used the snap peg that distin guishes the first-class catcher from the man of mediocre merit. "Why rise?" he again asked himself. He tried it without rising. The discovery was startling Tip throw was just a.» fast and accurate as it had eve: Qaen from standing posture and he had saved that frac tion of a second which he had once used in resuming his erect position - and fractions of second.* count when men are dashing around bases. From that time on his catching was revolutionized. His throws to first and second base were so sud denly and unexpectedly made from h e squat that base runner after base runner bit the dust. Southern league athletes did not dare move mote than a foot or so off the bag when Ar, he was receiving And he blessed the buniotwt. Archer though was not long for the land of cotton. The next year he sported the Tiger stripes of De troit. Hugh Jennings’ crowd wa» then marching through the Ameri can league with ease and dispati’h Jennings Didn't Like Poee. But Archer didn't shine with the Tigers. It wasn't his fault, though. He still used his bunion peg and that peeved Jennings Hughey had been used to seeing < atvhvr* stand up and throw. He tried to change Archer's technique. but Archer knew what he was doing and stuck to his personal peg. He bad a sublime faith in the virtue of bun ions. Still tills didn't help him with the Tiger chieftain. Jennings asked waivers on him, and to the surprise of Archer's Southern league friends, everybody waived The next year lie was in the Eas'ern league and his work there wa« so impressive that he was gobbled up by no less an expert than Frank Leroy (’hanee, recently t,« pornd F’r, Icm Leadet. p sent when Arche- was was on a Sunday at th'- West Sr - ball lot. Cincinnati was the oppo nent, and Clarke Griffith had a gang of demon base runtie.s in cluding the marvelous Bolt Resell er. A double-header was sched uled. Griffith r‘,< ognized the t'ub w .ik mss wa« behind the bat and 'old bi men to run w i d on Catch?’ Moran They followed itist m ,ions and in a few innings Moran was th owing inywne o excep th. base’- - . The fl st game was tost ami th'' second gamt s°emed like y to go the same wu>. when the h io,lng crowd <om pe led Chance to yank Mo an '.nd •uhstituti rbe tftri 1 bet Archer Killed 'Em Off Easily. 'l'he chant* wits <■ ■ , . Ar her began throwing ■ *>•* ,s squatting /a ■ * ■ ijfcX iwn u t I \ T . >- 5 X-.aTi • A .*' -j ofTjir I, <1 _ W . ;w ■’ I 3J / / X h A K \ ( W X \v »S / / ' X MSWt ’ X x / / X X X /// . \ ffiKwk * " < / / ■ , X ( » \ Mg||gagfr- kt 7 * >’■ >// a . \ X x / ■■■ —X W'//•X / V / / yA ? X. / / His-ttS \ / / \ ' - , Private Schiffelin is photographed just as he missed duteh- ing Private Hampshire Both men fell heavily to the ground, and Th.* photograph was taaen durmg a z the camera snapped .in«t in time to furnish one of the best foot- scrimmage of Company F team, Sev r ©nteenth Infantry, at Fort McPheraon. ball pictures CVer taken. A U B U R N TE A M SHO WS PROMISE-DONAHUE By Coru-h Mike Donahue. I RI’RN. ALA . oct. 211. In /“% defeating the Cletn.«on Tigers Auburn showed the best foot balj she has shown up to date. While there is room for considera ble improvement yet. especially iu (ailing signals and lining up more rapidly still the team is on the way to mastering the fundamentals of football. The backs drove haru, the interference vv as fair and few tack les were missed in the open. The lir.e plunging attack displayed by (’lemson was a surprise to Auburn and had the defense gm ssing for a time, until II was finally diagnosed and stopped. Auburn was looking for the open game from Clemson and was suc cessful in frustrating ail attempts at this style, but the line plunging came as a surprise. Clemson, how ever. has the best team they have had In years, and the battle between the Tigers and the Yellow Jackets will not be the walkover that it has been in previous years. Auburn tints far has been trying to develop an effective, straight forward football style Nothing but simple football was used against Clemson. Auburn should have scored 34 points instead of 27. When on Clemson s three-inch line, with A. A. C. ANNOUNCES RACE FOR THANKSGIVING DAY The annual road race under the aus pices of the Atlanta Athletic club will he heal on Thanksgiving day. Novem ber 28. and will be started at Hl: 30 a. m Tile course will start front the club house on Auburn avenue. The event is open to all amateur athletes registered in the Southern Amateur Athletic union. Prizes of gold, silver and bronze med als will be given to the contestants fin ishing first, second and third, also a cup to tlie team finishing first. Five men constitute a team, though as many as wish can be entered from any one or ganization Emiles close November 21. and reg istration number must acc'ompanv en try. WM. ZIMMERMAN HERE: IS VISITING OTTO JORDAN William Zimmerman, who played for the ' rackets in 191«. is in Atlanta on a visit. He blew in to see his former manager Otto Jordan, and is his guest while in the city Zimmerman played with the Newark term thi« year, and piled up an im pressive batting average. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1912. position. Runrie l s were nipped "ff first It was worth a man's life to tty to steal second. Ambitious players, who had reached third, were nailed at that bag when they ventured too fa on their wav home. f'hicago hail not seen such throwing 1n years. Cheer af’er r hee- lang out for Arche", from that time on he was the idol of the West Side. He has remained al Hie tpp. but Lou Cast o says he wouldn't be the. we eit not for the bunions \ \ A sg > goal to gain Captain Major tried io take the ball from the center's hands instead of waiting for a pass, and lost a touchdown. Th’s play led to the fumble in a pool of water that gave Clemson a touch down. so that the mistake really cos' Auburn two touchdowns. Auburn's next game will be Mis sissippi A. and AL. which always turns out a string aggregation. A lot of trouble is expected in win ning this game, but the team will now begin to take on more ad vanced football., The aim at Auburn this year is for a November team not for an October team, and the policy has been one of consistent development, so that when Auburn meets Vander bilt on November 23. there will be as few weak links as possible, and the team will h - abb to put up a creditable exhibition against the star Commodore aggregation. Thei ■ are no stars on the Auburn line up tu match those tn the Commo dore aggregation, but there are a number of players of fair ability w lio are gradually absorbing the fundamentals of football, and a more w illing crowd of workers was never seen on an Auburn field. It is just a question of time and pa tience to master the fundamentals thoroughly. With these mastered, the rest Is a simple matter. TECH SCRUB TEAM WILL TACKLE STONE MOUNTAIN The Georgia Tech scrub team will tackle '"oach Graham's boys from Stone Mountain at Tech flats Saturday after noon at 3 o'clock. The scrub team at I’ecli is especially' strong tills year ami should give the "prep" boys a good game. Last year the scrubs barelv defeated Stone Mountain by the score of to 0 and from all reports Stone Mountain haa a far better team this year. The scrubs have played only one game this year, when thev defeated the Georgia Military loadetiiv t e rtll , to 0. RED HILL QUITS TECH: WILL GO INTO BUSINESS Dean ("Red"! Hill, Tech's football captain in 1910. has resigned from col lege and will leave for his home in Gloversville, N. V.. on October 26. Since Mr. Hill quit playing football, on ac count of the four-year rule, he has coached the championship rlae« team of the school for two years and has assisted in coaching the scrubs. H- leaves school to g<> In the textile buginee ttt Maryland. A DIVING TACKLE THAT WENT AMISS, BUT UPSET RUNNER / z \ z / x x x \ New Records Expected Saturday When Motors Race at Piedmont Park i The first of the Atlanta Motorcycle chib's races will be held Saturday after noon at the Piedmont park race track. This meet was scheduled for last Sat urday, but on account of the unfavorable weather conditions It was postponed for a week The riders are practicing every afternoon, and it is not unlikely that new records will be established Saturday. Harry Glenn, considered one of the best professional riders in the country, went ■ over the track yesterday and did the half I mite In 37 seconds flat. Tins is exception ; ally good time, as the track is not yet lin the best of condition. The park t board, however, has promised to have it I scraped and tolled before Saturday. so I that fast time can be hung up. Following are the list of events on the card: Single cylinder. 5 miles, amateur; 4-horsepower. Single cylinder. 5 miles; professional; . 4 horsepower Twin cylinder; 6-horsepower; single cyl •ncier. 5-horsepower; 5 miles; amateur; one-fourth lap handicap. Twin. 6-horsepower, and single, ©-horse power. 10-mile professional: one-half lap handicap. Match event: 10 mile professional 5- horsepower. single. 6-horsepower twin one-half lap handicap \ustralian pursuit race. Free-for-all “lemon” race. BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip Severn\-five games were placed in the American association last season in which fifteen or more hits were made. Nineteen hits was the top mark for the vear against two twenty three-hit games which tleo for last year's record. .Minneapolis in fifteen games made fifteen or more hits • • • Charley Murphy, now that he has rid himself of an excellent but venerable first baseman, has announced that a number of other old I'.Ahis on the t’ub team are destined for iw basket. Ihe world's series ended a week ago. It seems longer. • • • The average amount paid by each spectator to see the world s series games i this year was and a couple of them were worth it. * • • HUI Smith is resting up. after ids strenuous work as newspaper corre spondent through the world’s series at Springfield. Ohio. He will be in At lanta before snow flies in Springfield. With Gabby Street. Otto .lordan and Kid Elberfeld all on the Chattanooga team t ext year the Lookouts will hardly lose out for lack of a good, vehement kick now and again Those three are willing complalners Bills Sullivan. White Sox catcher, mav buy and manage the Tacoma team of the Northwestern league • • • President Coml.*ke> and hi* friend* have started nn annual hunting trip It will be a hard trip for the «mafl bird* and the large bottle* 1912 Brand of Football Is Best in All History 4-e-i- •J-e-i' 4**4‘ -i-e-i- ... -. Game Faster; Danger of Injury Less Than Ever By Percy H. Whiting. VH 7 H A 1 dn vou ,hinl< of ,he yy new football? The ques tion is being bandied •around as usual this fall. 'And as for ourselves though we haven't see all we expect to .of the NAUGHTON LAUGHS AT BIG BOXING ALLIANCE By \V. W. Naughton. r~J-sHERE is talk now of interna- I tional control of boxing, and it is to laugh when one no tices tjie seriousness of the parties promulgating rhe idea. Some one in New York, who is evidently piqued because the Parisian pu gilistic authorities refuse to pillory Papke when politely petitioned to punish him. has thought up a scheme for forming a world-wide bond so that the penalty for of fenders of the future will stretch across the seven seas. How on earth can ant movement of that kind be made a success of as long as boxing occupies the footing it does at present? A clean-cut law admitting of the car rying on of boxing matches to the satisfaction of pugilists, promoters and public does not exist in any country in the world, probably, and until such a law obtains in every place where the sport of lhe ring is fostered it is folly to talk of universal control. New York is the instigator of the new movement and what can New- York offer its allies across the seas? New York has a state law and an athletic commission, but it is not sure of the ground it stands on by any means. In New York the bouts are lim ited to ten rounds, and that means that boxers of a certain stamp— those with whom endurance is a chief asset —have no business in New York. They do not permit of decisions being rendered there. New York has barred two world’s champions. Jack Johnson and Ad Wolgast—because matching pu gilists as famous and prominent as these is likely to draw much at tention to the game of the glove In the city named. Now. if the suggested alliance is termed it will be spoken of as an American-French - English-Austra lian alliance, but it will not be anything of the kind. It will sim ply be an understanding among certain cities of these countries, and such being the case, any rule which is intended to punish offend ing pugilists will be largely futile, at any rate so far as this country is concerned. No better exampliflcation of this is needed than the case of Ad Wol gast. He is barred from New York, not through an.' wrongdoing, but rather on the contrary. He is not wanted, because he has worked to 1912 game, we ate inclined to like it. Kicks are coming from various quartets. The Princeton Alumni Weekly is out w ith-a gentle knock for it. Harvard isn't especially de lighted with it. Several Southern colleges are complaining. But let 'em kick. The general public likes it. and what our old friend the g. p. likes usually sticks, • ♦ • PJIGRESSLX'G just a minute, here are Princeton's kicks: 1. That the change from three downs to four is reactionary legis lation and encourages continuous rushing. 2. That tne increase of the value of the touchdown and goal from touchdown to seven points, thus making it greater than two goals frojn field, tends to knock the place kicking and drop kicking stuff out of the game. 3. That by requiring that a for- the top of the tree and in conse quence the columns that would be written about him in the New York sporting pages were ho matched there would excite the public mind and give opponents of boxing a chance to complain. Anyhow, he is barred from the big city. And there is not an other city in America that is not straining every nerve to capture him. For weeks pas’ he has been considering offers of small fortunes from North. East. South and West and has at length decided to box in San Francisco Thanksgiving time. What matter to Wolgast that New York doesn’t want him? And, supposing he bad been guilty of something more offensive than of winning the championship, it would be just the same. He would find lots of places willing to welcome him with open arms. It may be some day that there will be uniform laws covering the boxing question in every state in America. When there are it will be time enough to invite foreign countries to join in a movement for the betterment of the sport. WILL SELL 28.357 SEATS FOR TIGER-YALE GAME PRINCETON, Oct. 23.- The Princeton University Athletic association announced today that 28.357 seats will be sold for the Yale-Princeton football game here on Novernbe,- 16. Os this number, it is es timated that 18.000 will he reserved for the followers of the Tigers, while the rest will go to the supporters of the Blue. The demand for seats in the Pritt ,-elon stands has become so heavy that the share of tickets for each undergraduate has been cut from four seats to three. TINKER LEADS REDS IF HERRMANN CAN BUY HIM CINCINNATI, Oct. 23. That joe Tinker may be the next manager of the Cincin nati baseball club was given official veri fication here last night when August Herrmann. president of the club. in an swer to the question whether Tinker would be the man. said: "While no definite, urangeim-nts regard ing Tinker have been completed, there Is no denying the fact that h< lias been , on. sldered and asked for his terms in case he can ls> purchased in the tegular way from the Chicago club.” GAVIGAN STOPS STANTON. CLEVELAND. OHIO, Oct. 23.—Tom my Gavigan, of Cleveland, stopped Walter Stanton, of California, in the second round of a scheduled ten-round go here last night. CUBS TO TRAIN IN FLORIDA CHICAGO, Oct 23 -- President Mtirphy of the Cubs. has decided upon Florida as 'he training grounds for his tram n« snring No definite spot has been se lected as yet. ward pass be made from a Doln , five yards behind the serins line the play i s spoiled; “fo requirement practically gives th* Play away before it is started and makes it useful only as a bluff 4. 1 hat the abolition of the on side kick is a retrogression. A lot of us were inclined to think that the change from three down, to four was going to shift the g a ~’ back to the stone age again n seems, however, that the rul M Oom mittee knew more about ft than did—which isn’t patrtlculariy su . prising. The danger of the old* time, messed-up. all-but-se.ramblJ struggle is gone, thanks to s e „~, changes in the rules, and Is nn , likely to return. AVe are quite of the Princet,. notion in regard to the so-w lrd pass provision. If the plav !s „ retaining it 1s worth making a -„ at Play. J-Tom the very start ft h „ been hedged .around with condl tions and penalties. Last year thev made it ridiculous. This year thev have simplified it a good bit. Next year perhaps they will allow a pas to be made from any old pl aCtt which will be better still • • * Q.\R virtue of the present game, it seents really to have ] Pf ’ senbd the number of injuries of course, there will always be in . juries from football. But the num ber seems less this year than ever before. A boy was fatally injured the other day. But it was in a Sunday game and doubtless be tween a couple of picked-up teams, whose members were In no condl. tion and who knew no football No really serious accidents have hap period this year among trained players. In fact, in all the history of foot bull there have been only a very few fatal accidents to trained ath letes. Not since football was In troduced, nearly 4n years ago. has there been a fatality at Harvard. Vale. Pennsylvania. Princeton or ( ornell. This year, under the new. est rules, there are ever, less in juries than before. Just why the present game should be less wear ing anti tearing we can’t say for • sure. But, anyhow. It Is. as the records show. • ♦ • A MOTHER interesting fecit-e ' the p: esent game of football is the vast possibility it afford- -v variety of attack. The day is g when a team can know only a half dozen plays and get by with then. Now. the forward pass, the various shift plays, iek play san i - old straight football offer uniim?- ed possibilities. The Tech team this year, so in stance, has some formations, -he like of which nobody eve l ' saw be fore Coach Heisman entered i■- season knowing that his team tad no weight and that if the Jackets were to make any showing a’ all ; they would have to do I: by meins of some football that hadn't Iwen discovered up to that time So he sat down and invented just « irh | football. That it has worked wi'l the scores of the games Tech has played this year demonstrate Football men say that the T A attack is the most puzzbug they evrr saw that just wlun tli»y think they have a certain fo’ina tion diagnosed it develops into something els entirely and '■‘aves them still engaged in a hopowss guessing contest. And Coach Heis man admits that he lias had a world of trouble teaching (he now formations and the new p'ays ’? his men. and that, at that, he lias at smart a team as lie eve saw Georgia showed a lot of inn est ing and puzzling plays hr e Satur day. and will learn a lot of ■■the-’ And as for Vanderbilt wel . that i team is loaded with new stuff They say that in the East tli»' on the forward pass as a good bluff and nothing else. Well, if Harvard keeps on thinking that the Crimson players have a terrible awakenina corning to them when VandeAi? I journeys there. If McGugln em 0" uncork the sort of stuff they hav* : In other big games there will hf ’ lot of surprised players up In Cam bridge. , HICKS DEFEATS ROSS; ir BOUT IS MIGHTY TAME CHATTANOOGA. TENN O'* ;S " Freddie Hicks, of Detroit wafl L the decision over Hugh Ross ' , rt York, in their eight-round mill the Chattanooga Aililetic club ile ‘ ! ' rt ia ", night. The mill wis slow 'hi In the second main bout. Christy . liams knocked out. Kid Mic hell seventh round. This mill "' a - s 1,1,10 '’ SOCCER GAME SATURDAY- The Atlanta soccer football , r t play the Lithonia team ‘i 1 park on Saturday. This will ll< ' game of the season for the i '" ,f ' l “Madame X” at Lyric this week. 4 » JLi i ihn AJi