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Vandy Will Win
Alabamans May
By Percy 11. Whiting'.
X-r v ELI they v< given II« 'he
\/'\.' nnseer to the tniestion.
\\ hat's Vanderbilt ot
this \eai '.’" The next problem fae
fnt I'll. ■ football fans is. What
ah.mt Auburn'."’
’ Down he e in Georgia there is
more than a little interest in that
question. Te< h's next home game
is with Atilmrn. Vanderbilt's only
hard game in the South this sea
son is with Auburn. Georgia's final
game of the season is with Auburn.
So Auburn cuts some figure.
It will probably settle down to a
due between Georgia and Auburn
for second place honors in the
South. Now that Vanderbilt has
eliminated Georgia from the ..race
for the <-hampionshit>, Auburn
seems to be the only team that
stands between the Commodores
and the title. And somehow Van
derbilt refuses to take Auburn se
riously It's an odd thing about
the Alabama Polys, every year they
haven't a game scheduled with
Vanderbilt they have a corking
■team. Evert year Auburn does
schedule a game with the Commo
dores they hit a slump and lose to
tne Nashville eleven by a tremen
dous score.
Little enough is known of the
Anbttrn team ns yet. Auburn beat
Mercer. .’>fi to b. in the Alabamans'
opening college game, lint that
wasn't n real test. The .Mercer
train had no coach and not much
• si at that time, and was soft
.pickings The following Saturday
titbit: n defeated Florida, 27 to 13.
This game doesn't pro.ve much
either wax. for Florida is a team
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Championship; What of Auburn?
Be Good Enough to Take 2d Place
about which little is known. Last
Saturday, Auburn took Clemson's
number. 27 to ti. Again lhere isn't
such a lot to be learned from this
score, for nobody can tell yet
ix bei e.' <'letnson stands. Lumping
the three games, however, and dop
ing it all out. it appears that Au
burn |las -a strong offense,, and a'
weak defense. Thex have piled up
110 points, but they have been
M-orrd on for 19. In these figures
college games only are counted.
Auburn also had a sort of glori
fied scrimmage with an alumni
team which should hardly count in
the real figures.
Auburn's defense looked a lot
better last Saturday in the Clem
son game than it has looked before
this season. A pool of xvater. a
fumble, a scramble for a loose ball
and a little luck combined in giving
Ihe Clemson men their only score.
The only real weakness the Auburn
team displayed was in its inability
to withstand a driving line attack.
The Clemson team gained consist
ently at this form of offensixe
plnx.
Auburn has some corking play
ers thjs year. Men like Newell,
Robinson, Arnold and Christopher
xxould be stars anywhere.
Auburn has what should be A
comparatively light game Satur
day when it plays Miss A. ,<• M at
Birmingham. Then its schedule
opens up ami It has Tech in At
lanta, L. S. I', at Mobile and Van
derbilt at Birmingham on succeed
ing Saturdays, and then Georgia in
Athens on Thanksgiving day.
When Thanksgiving day comes it
is likely that the football champion
ship of the South will lie betxveen
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 25. 1912.
Georgia and Auburn. Sewanee is
the only team that threatens
either. And long before then Geor
gia may hate eliminated Sewanee.
We shall all know more about it
Saturday after next When Auburn
plays Tech here.
...
L'VERSBOI>V is about ready- to
admit that the Vanderbilt team
of tills year i» better than last
year's eleven, xvhich was believed
by many to have been Vanderbilt s
best. But a lot of them haven't fig
ured why.
They said that tlie places of Free
land, .Metzger and Morrison couldn't
be filled. Well, in respect to Mor
rison, they called the turn. They
haven't filled his place. But they
have developed a tolerably Pliable
pair of quarterbacks. Freeland's
place lias been filled by Shipp.
When Dan MeGugin xvas in Atlan
ta last week he said: "You'll be
disappointed in Shipp.in this game.
A lot of people were in the last
game. He hasn't learned yet to go
to a play. He waits for the play
to cOtne, to him. . But he's learning.
When the season is oxer lie will be
a womVr.",
-
xvell, this chap Daves threatens to
do it. Said Dr. Owsley .Manier,
Vanderbilt's assistant coach, the
other day: "Daves is more like the
great Choi n than any man Vander
bilt has had before or since the
Hine of that xvonder performer. He
isn't so very big. but he's a bear
cat to scrap and he enjoys the
Work. He is one of the few lines-
. men who can get right into plays
without paying the least attention
to his opponent. He has the happy
faculty of successfully disi egardlng
him. Give Daves a year under Me-
Gugin and he will be one of the
best linesmen the South has ever
known."
So it turns out that the places of
Metzger, Freeland and Morrison
have been filled by men who, in the
lump, stack up nearly if not fully
as strong. Then it is a notable
fait that several of Vanderbilt's
regulars of last year's team have
improved. Take Collins for one.
This man was erratic and disap
pointing last year. This year he
seems to have found himself. Mor
gan is playing an improved game.
So is N Brown and llkexvise T.
Brown. So naturally there is every
reason why Vanderbilt should be
stronger than last year, even if
last year's team was the stronge«t
that the Commodores had had up to
that time.
VEACH IS A FIXTURE
IN DETROIT OUTFIELD
DETROIT, MICH . Oct. 25. A broken
limb or the loss of an eye is about all
that can keep Bobby Veach out of De
troit's left field next, season The Peoria
boy is counted as one sure of his position
in a line-up that is dailx tn danger of
another shift
The kind of pegging that Veach pulled
off for the Tigers the past season was
the best furnished by a Detroit out
fielder He has a powerful and true whip.
As a fielder he la sure and a good judge
of a fly ball. He has an easy stvle.
He is a natural batsman, a free hitter,
and should be in the division of 300
ciouters next season Tv Cobb and other
players are of the opinion that Veach has
not hit above his stride since joining ihe
Tigers, but that It is his natural batting
pace Whai will Robert do when he gets
out on a hitting spree"’
WANTS SUNDAY BALL. SO
GETS HIMSELF ARRESTED
BOSTON, MASS , Oct 26 Eugene J
O’Connor. Jr., the advocate of Sunday
baseball, was fined |» by Judge Ely- for
hatting a ball on Boston common Sun
flax. and on appeal was held on SSO bond
The defendant made pi long and fervid
appeal for Sunday baseball telling the
court that lie had been arrested twice be
fore on the same charge, but could not get
a jury trial.
U. OF C. MAKES TRIP.
CHATTANOOGA. TENN.. Oct 25
The eleven of the I'nlversity of Chat
tanooga left today for T>anvllle. Ky
whore it meets Kentucky Central to
morrow
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•TECH SCRUBS PLAY •
J STONE MOUNTAIN :
: TEAM TOMORROW:
• •
• The Tech scrubs and the Stone •
• Mountain aggregation will hold the •
• field of action in Atlanta football •
• circles Saturday. •
• The scrubs are especially •
• strong and Stone Mountain al- •
• ways has a good team. •
• The game will .start at 3 o'clock •
• at Tech flats. •
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BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
Muggsy McGraw will get $3,000 a week
for his vaudeville act—-or anyhow the
press agent says he will Personally we’d
give a large, slick lead dime to see Mugg
sy in monologue.
The White Sox players received more
than ssoo each for winning the Chicago
ctiy series.
• • e
Mordecai Brown will be advertised next
year as the best three-fingered pitcher
alive.
• • •
It has been determined that anybody
can become a successful National league
president who can give all eight clubs the
best of It. while at the same time giving
all seven opponents the worst of it.
» « ♦
Herman Schaeffer's engagement with
the Washington club as clown has ex
pired. Next year he will either manage
the Sacramento team or else scout for
the Senators—and a bad deal it is. either
way.
• • •
The magnates will now play baseball all
winter at the Waldorf.
* * *
Fogel's attack on President Lynch
makes his reelection absolutely certain
« * *
Horace Fogel says he will sell the Phila
delphia team for a cool million but it
must be cool. Considering that Horace
didn't invest anything in the team origi
nally except postage stamps he might
make a fair profit out of it
• • •
Zanesville is out of the Central league
and out of baseball. You couldn’t Interest
that town in a team if you gave it a. big
league franchise and threw in the team
and money to run it
• • •
The Louisville club is on t.he market -
and a drug on the market at that, ft is
said Barney Dreyfuss made an offer for
it. but not enough to interest the present
owners
• • •
Larry Gardner has the ball that was
used in the deciding play of the deciding
game at Fenway park in the world’s
series Meyers was the last player who
handled it. but he didn't care to preserve
It as a souvenir
-« • •
The slump of Gabby Street was rocket
like Only a few years hack a lot of
men picked him as one of the two best
catchers in the American league. Ijist
year Washington traded him to New-
York. Later the Yanks sent him to the
International league. He lasted less than
a year there. Next year he will be in the
Southern In 1$»14 it max be the South
Atlantic
« • •
George Mcßride started West to spend
his winter hunting near Clarke Griffith's
ranch. He got as far as Milwaukee,
where he settled for the winter
• • «
One of the first requests the baseball
players union will make, according to
press dispatches, is that umpires be vested
xvith power to order out of the grounds
abusive spectators When you come to
think of It. that's reasonable enough The
joke is. however, that they've had that
power for years
• • •
Ten there will be no more
abusing of ball players by fans than there
Is now abusing of actors by people in
ths audience
9 9 9
They are now digging up the fact In
Cincinnati that any how. O'Dav managed
to pull the Reds through two pegs higher
this year than they were last rear
• • •
Frank Chance is through with Murphy
and Murphy is through with Chance, and
Evers is the goat
• • •
Fred Clarke has announced that he ex
pects to start next season with th« same
line-up he used last Pretty fair line-up.
too. but not quite good enough to win
Wouldn't it be awful for Barnex If Hans
Wagner started the slump that must now
be so near
• • *
'The Hi. Paul leam Ih looking for a man
ager.
• • •
Fame is a queer thing A Milwaukee
paper writes up old "Cy" Young as Ben
ton'' T Young
• • •
W>ll. anyhow, the Cubs beat M-ichigan
City the other day, right after thex lost
the city series
9 9 •
Frank Chance max team up with Jim
Jeffries in running a big amusement park
somewhere near Los Angeles The Team
less Leader ts considering the offer made
him hx Jeff's representative
• • ♦
Joe Wood and Tris Speaker will soon
go to Nashville and will »tax- there a
white with friends Thex will then go
duck shooting over at famous Reelfoot
lake
Twenty-Five Greatest Southern League Players
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No. 3—Jimmy Dygert Downed the Mighty Chesbro
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
MANY a man has paid out
enough money to cause a
lecture on ’The Extrava
gance of Our Times" for the privi
lege of seeing the performance of a
muchly touted star and remained
at the performance a slave to the
charms of some humble member of
the cast. Many a person has arisen
from a banquet table, where the
choicest of the land was served at
$9 a plate, to satisfy his appetite
with "pork and" at a beanery hard
by.
And the same thing has hap
pened in baseball so often that
even Hugh Fullerton has never
dared compile statistics on the phe
nomena.
it happened in the Southern
league back in. 1905. At that time
the progressive movement was un
heard of and the only thing to per
turb the mind of the body politic
was the regulation of the use of the
spitball.
Chosbro Best of Spitballors.
Moist delivery ha>d been effect*
ively used for the first time the
season before in the American
league, and Happy Jack Chesbro
was the leading exponent of the art
of employing saliva to baffle bats
men. He had used it so well that
he pitched the New York High
landers into second place, and
('lark Griffith, who managed the
club that season, was nosed out of
the pennant only when H. J.
anointed the pill a bit too freely
and contributed a wild pitch to the
gayety of nations and the greater
glory of the Boston Americans.
Despite this faux pas. the spit
ball was baseball's biggest problem.
Few hurlers, other than Chesbro.
had mastered it. The names of Ed
Walsh and Russell Ford were yet
to flash as stars in the baseball
firmament. There was a hue and
cry. likewise a hullabaloo, for its
prevention. Many magnates want
ed it eradicated just like the hook
worm. the boll weevil and the pred
atory wealth of the other fellow.
Naturally. when the Highland
clan turned Southward for the
training season. Chesbro was the
one particular star that everybody
wanted to see. He was then as big
a drawing card as Cobb is now, or
Lajoie a few years ago.
Griff Was Saving His Star.
Griffith was taking no chances
with Chesbro, who looked mighty
like an ace in the hole to the wily
New York leader. He let him
round to as slowly as he liked. He
pitched in few exhibition games,
and when he did he worked only a
few innings to fulfill advertisements
and then just lobbed 'em over.
Not until the Yanka reached New
Orleans, just before they were
ready to turn their toes to the
North once more, did Griff decide
to let bls priceless pitcher endeavor
to go the route
He started him in the Crescent
City one beautiful Sunday after
noon, when the sun was blazing
hot. and Griff and Chesbro agreed
that the time had arrived for the
star to let himself out a bit.
Chesbro's appearance had been
advertised and the old ball park on
Tulane avenue was packed for the
performance. The Highlanders had
a formidable list of wonders that
spring and they were all used in
that combat Jack Kllenow caught
tile great Chesbro. Hal Chase had
not yet repotted for his big league
try-out, and John Ganzel was a
hold-out, so old John Anderson was
used on first. Jimmy Williams.
Kid Elberfeld and Wld Conroy fur
nlshed the Infield complement. Lit
tle Joe Yeager, as utility man. was
playing left, while the great Davy
Fultz and Willie Keeler were in the
other gardens. It was a ball club
worth going miles to see.
New Orleans had some team that
year, too. Rig Sullivan caught.
Erve Beck, Otto Williams, Ed Hol
ley and George Rohe made the in
field. Rickert, Stanley and Eddie
Hahn formed the outer defense,
and though Frank numbered such
venerable veterans as Theodore
Breitenstein. Zeke Wilson and Bill
Phillips on his pay roll, he sent an
unknown to the mound.
Dygert Was an Unknown.
He was a little sawed-off south
paw. recently extradited from the
New York State league.- There
didn't seem a chance that he would
be retained in the Southern at the
expense of any' of Frank's veterans.
Billy Carpenter: who umpired the
battle, announced the batteries.
'For New York, Chesbro and KJie
now. For the home club, Dygert
and Sullivan."
There were whoops when Ches
bro’s name xvas spoken in Wil
liam’s best stentorian basso pro
fundo Dygert's name tvent un
noticed Two years later it would
have packed any park in Christen
dom.
He looked mighty small as he
began tossing to the massive Sulli
van, but when he started to work
he did business in a businesslike
way, and the formidable head of
the New York batting Il«t rvas re
tired in order.
Chesbro. brimful of confidence,
worked an easy first inning, and the
Pelicans counted a run. The Yanks
weren't peeved. Chesbro had used
practically nothing, and they were
content to wait for the unknown to
blow, as xvas expected every in
ning.
But Dygert worked another hit
less half and the fans and New
York players were alike puzzled.
The fans didn’t knoxv why they
were, but the players did.
Dygert was using the identical
delivery that had made Chesbro
famous, and he was putting more
on it than Chesbro ever had.
Then that one run of the Pels be-
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gan to look formidable, Civ'sbro
tightened. He pitched with ail ;•«
arm and cunning. The Pe «,. »
helpless.
But so were the Yanks
Inning after inning r.Hi.,l by.
Chesbro's dander was up. He ask
ed Grist to let him stay in the
whole battle. Gi iff consented, and
wise old Cjtarley Frank kept Uy
gert on the slab. There have b.-.-n
few interesting exhibition gam.-
played, but that was one to make
any fan's blood course faster.
New Orleans 1 to 0 Winner.
At the end of the nine rounds,
the score was: New Orleans 1,
New York 0. Chesoro had surren
dered five hits. Three blows had
been made off Dygert.
From that time on Little Jimmy
was a marked man. Even club in
the majors wanted him. He re
mained in the South just long
enough to pitch the Pels to a pen
nant. and then was gobbled up in
the merciless maw of McGillicuddy. '
His dramatic career there is well
remembered. His brief lite there
was tragic. He became a star al
most immediately, ami did it at a
crucial time for the Athletics. wh»n
the magnificent hurling <atf
Bender, Waddell, Plank H- niex.
Coakley et al. had cracked. I' g-rt
kept Mack's team right in the ra <■
for the rag. but he gave his arm to
the cause.
He suffered the next season fori
overwork, and never again i• a- "I
bis brilliant form. He drifted i"
Baltimore, in the Eastern, and ia.-t
year once more he heard the la "
fit! of New Orleans shriek his nan
in the wildest Latin sty le.
But his mind probably wanu<-red
back seven years to the day " he
unknown but unafraid, he had fa 1
and humbled the mighty Chesb "
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