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8 aowiAN sraw cow®® * wars* i EDITED W S VARNSWOHTH Jeff Let His Sense of Humor Get Away With His Judgment :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher r- -Hh As C--J .. 7“1 •■ fiM S2OIN IT Just , ! KENNEDV ■ IFn IC ” PockFT book < • l r - HOMEST'/ OF J II ~"' 1 « S '~ V~ ''NG To LIE. I I ,'oNTHt- S'D&UZAOC / v I Vug SiANVE; \ rM6 f 'NDFR- / ij 1 On A TO somtßODY.' I’LL WAIT MD r ~ OLD &vn i V s---7Z 7 '' •_ f ' rR Ii - —rr e! > lxng ! ' T | •' p-e L Z .ai iii X? - —rHMR- I —Od ■ p—« i fitly' A ,t I , w. I,' i£< ' iiti A BBRBj > v? A 1 E® .• • '•■MsF-'a f ii - BBPr Eg*? *■ Wa | <JIL- i) yifflftl „ 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 . “Correct Dress for Men" Special Values i;i Men’s and Young Men’s Suits We are selling the greatest values at $ 15.00 and $ 18.50 I hexse suits are all wool, well tailored, shape retaining features that we guarantee. 1 he coats are made full Box or English Models. It will be well worth a little of your time to come in and try on some of these suits at $15.00 and $18.50 See Our Window Display Os course we have higher priced suits if you want them at $20.00, $25.00 up to $40.00 Essig Bros. Co. “Correct Dress for Men" 26 Whitehall Street 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 •••••••••••••••••••••••••• •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. • • • •••••••••••••••••••••••••a 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 4-«+ +•-?• •$•••? +•-!• ■{•••;• 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- I[HiJ I mi rz J Ell j Your comfort is provided for in those i d stylish, trim looking Kalstons you’ll ti' - 1 ' j o,| y store. Select the style which pleases your fancy, :| >e I ,ronc l or narrow toe, and wc are P os '*' ve that when you try th- ' i -V Oll U s-i.Y, “ I never knew I - " L U that new shoes could hr /■ fortalile,” ami tlv l ’ S ’ tl’ l '. v ' rc ■ ® moulded lasts mi |jK sive Ralston feat:'I’. 1 ’. FC JIB MaY we show yr. II wu. | [’ln®' Hl R. D. BARKSDALE CO. B I- ts MR® Decatur Street 'yr I. KIMBALL HOUSE ‘"d‘ 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 " Next week at the Lyric “ The Traveling Salesman."