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Alabamans May Be Good Enough to Take 2d Place
l‘>\ Percy 11. Whitiug.
WELL, they've given us the
answer to the question.
"What's Vanderbilt got
this year'"' The next problem fac
ing Dixie's football fans is. "What
about Auburn?”
Down here in Georgia there is
more than a little interest in that
question. Tech's next home game
Is with Auburn. Vanderbilt’s only
hard game in the South this sea
son ts with Auburn. Georgia's final
game of the season is with Auburn.
So Auburn cuts some figure.
It will probably eettle down to a
duel between Georgia and Auburn
for second place honors in the
South. Now that Vanderbilt has
eliminated Georgia from the raoe
for the championship. Auburn
seems to be the only teem that
stands betyveen the Commodores
and the title. And somehow Van
derbilt refuses to take Auburn se
riously. It’s an odd thing about
the Alabuma Polys, every year they
haven’t a game scheduled with
Vanderbilt the) have a corking
team. Every year Auburn does
schedule a game with the Commo
dores "hey hit a slump and lose to
the Nashville eleven by a tremen
dous score.
Little enough is known of the
Auburn team as yet. Auburn boat
Mercer. to 0, in the Alabamans'
opening college game, but that
wasn't ’ real test. The Mercer
team had no coach and not much
else at that time, and was soft
pickings The following Saturday
Auburn defeated Florida. 27 to 13.
This game doesn’t prove much
either way. for Florida is a team
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about which little is known. Last
Saturday, Auburn took Clemson’s
number. 27 to 6. Again there isn't
such 3 lot to be learned from tills
score, for nobody can tell ye<
where Clemson stands. Lumping
the three games, however, and dop
ing it all out, it appears that Au
burn lias a strong offense and a
weak defense. They have piled up
110 points, but they have been
scored on for 19. In thee* 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 then it has looked before
this season. A pool of water, a
fumble, a scramble for a loose ball
and a little luck combined in giving
the Clemson men their only score.
The only real weakness the Auburn
team displayed was in its Inability
to withstand a driving line attack.
Tlte Clemson team gained consist
ently at this form of offensive
play
Auburn has some corking play
ers this year. Men like Newell,
Robinson. Arnold and Christopher
would 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 and 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.
IVlien Thanksgiving day conies it
is likely that second place in the
ranking of Dixie teams will lie be-
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.FRIDAY. OCTOBER 25.1912.
tween Georgia and Auburn. Sewanee
is the only team that threatens
either. And long before then Geor
gia may have eliminated Sewanee.
We shall all know more about, it
Saturday after next when Auburn
plays Tech here.
...
EVERYBODY is about ready to
admit that the Vanderbilt team
of this year is better than last
year's eleven, which was believed
by many to have been Vanderbilt's
best. But a lot of them haven't fig
ured why.
They said that the places of Free
land, Metzger and Morrison couldn't
be filled. Well, in respect tt> Mor
rison, they called the turn. They
haven’t tilled his place. But they
have developed a tolerably reliable
pair of quarterbacks. Freeland's
place haa been filled by Shipp.
When Dau McGugin yvas 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 come to him. But lie's learning.
When the season is over he will be
a wonder.”
As for filling Metzger’s shoes—
well, this chap Daves threatens to
do it. Said Dr. Owsley Manier,
Vanderbilt's assistant co«ich. the
other day: "Daves is more, like the
great Chorn than any man Vander
bilt has had before or since the
time of that wonder performer. He
isn't so very big. but he’s a bear
cat to scrap and lie 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 disregarding
him. Give Daves a,year under Mc-
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
fact that several of Vanderbilt's
regulars of last year’s team have
, improved. Take Collins for one.
This man was erratic end disap
pointing last year. This year he
seems to have found himself. Mor
gan is playing an improved game.
So is N. Brown and likewise T.
Brown. So naturally there is every
reason why Vanderbilt should be
stronger than last year, even if
last year's team was the strongest
tfcat 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 Hobby 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 dally 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 is sure and a good Judge
of a fly ball. He has an east style.
He is a natural batsman, a free hitter,
and should be In the division of 300
ctouters next season. Ty Cobb and other
platers are of the opinion that Veach has
not hit above his stride since joining the
Tigers, but that It is his natural batting
pace. What will Robert do when he gets
out on a hitting spree?
WANTS SUNDAY BALL, SO
GETS HIMSELF ARRESTED
BOSTON, MASS., Dot. 26.—Eugene J.
O'Connor, Jr., the advocate of Sundav
baseball. was fined $5 by Judge Ely for
batting a ball on Boston common Sun
day. and on appeal was held on SSO bond.
The defendant made a long and fervid
appeal for Sunday baseball, telling the
court that he 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. 28.
The eleven of thi i’niversity of Chat
tanooga left today for Danville, Kt .
where h meets Kentucky Central to
morrow.
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I TECH SCRUBS PLAY •
: STONE MOUNTAIN J
: 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 fffid 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 McGra w 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.
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The White Sox players received more
than SBOO each for winning the Chicago
ctiy series.
* • •
Mordecai Brown will be advertised next
year as the best three-lingered 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 wall 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—al the Waldorf.
s * >.
h'ogel’s attack on President Lynch
makes his reelection absolutely certain.
s « *
Horace Fogel says he w ill sell the Phila
delphia team for a cool million—but it
must be couL 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 leag >e
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.
• • V
The Louisville club is on the market—
and a drug on the market at that. It 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 back a lot of
men picked him as one of the two best
catchers in the American league. Last
year Washington traded him to New-
York. I.ater tlte Yanks sent him to the
International league. Hr lasted less than
a year there. Next year he will be in the
Southern. In 1914 it may be the South
Atlantic.
• • •
George Mcßride started West to spend
his winter hunting near Clark 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 io
press dispatches, is that umpires be vested
with 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 years hence there will be no more
abusing of ball players by fans than there
is now abusing of actors by people In
ths audience.
• • •
They are now digging up the fact in
Cincinnati that any how. O'Day managed
to pull the Reds through two peg--, higher
this year titan they were last vear.
• • •
Frank Chance is through with Murphv
and Murphy Is through with Chance, and
Evers Is the goat.
• • «
Fred Clarke has announced that he ex
pects to start next season with the same
line-up be used last. Pretty fair line-up,
too, but not quite good enough to win.
Wouldn't it be awful for Barney If Hans
Wagner started the slump that must now
be so near.
• • •
The St. Paul team Is looking for a man
ager
• • •
Fame is a queer thing. A Milwaukee
paper writes up old ”Cy" Young as "Ben
ton” T. Young
• * •
Well, anyhow, the Cube beat Michigan
City themiher day. right after thev lost
the city series.
• • «
Frank Chance may team up with Jim
Jeffries in running a big amusement park
somew here near la>s Angeles The Teani
less Leader Is considering the offer made
him by Jeff's representative
» » «
Joe Wood and Tris Speaker will soon
go to Nashville and will stay there a
while with friends They will then go
duck shooting over at famous Reelfoot
lake
Twenty-Five Greatest Southern League Players
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No. 3—Jimmy Dygeit Downed the Mighty Chesbro
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
yr ANY a man has paid out
i y/1 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 lias 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 tn baseball so often that
even Hugh Fullerton has never
dared compile statistics on the phe
nomenon.
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.
Chesbro Best of Spitbailers.
Moist delivery had 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, hnd
Clark Griffith, who managed the’
club that season, was nosed out of
the pennant only when H. J.
an6inted 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 Eord were yet
to flash as stars in the baseball
flrmament. 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 t.he#other fellow.
Naturally, when the Highland
clan turned Southward for the
training season. Chesbro was the
one particular star that everybody
w anted to see. He was then as big
a drawing card as Cobb is now, or
Ijajoie 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 Gowly as he liked. He
pitched in lew exhibition games,
and when he did he worked only 'a
fen innings to fulfill advertiseffients
and then just lobbed ’em over.
Nor until the Yanks reached New
Orleans, just before they were
ready to turn their toes to the
North once more, did Griff decide
to let his 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 Klelnow caught
the great Chesbro. Hal chase had
not yet reported 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 Wid Conroy fur
nished the infield complement. Lit
tle Joe Yeager, as utility man. was
playing left, while the great Davy
Fultz and Willie Keeler were hr the
other gardens. It was a ball club
worth going miles to see.
New Orleans had some team tiiat
>*ai. too Big Sullivan caught,
Eire Beck. Otto Williams, Ed Hol
ley and George Rohe made the in
field. Rickert. Sian’ey and Eddie
Hahn formed 'hr- outer defense,
and though Frank numbered such
venerable veteran- as Theodore
Breitenstein, Zeke Wilson and Bill
Phillips on his pay roll, he sent an
unknown lo the mound.
Dygert Was an Unknown.
He was a little sawed-off right
hander 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 Klei
now. For the home club, Dygert
and Sullivan.”
There were whoops when Ches
bro’s name was spoken in Wil
liam's best stentorian basso pro
fundo. Dygert’s name went un
noticed. Two years later it would
have packed any park in Christen
dom.
He looked mighty small as lie
began tossing to the massive Sulli
van, but when he started to work
he did buslnes- in a businesslike
way, and the formidable head of
the New York batting list was 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
p 'actleally nothing, and they were
content to wait fior the unknown to
blow, as was expected every in
ning.
Bel Dygert worked another hit
less half and the fans and Nev.-
York players were alike puzzled.
The fans didn't know why they
were, but lite 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. Chesbro
tightened. He pitched with all hi?
arm and cunning. The Pels Ac e
helpless.
But so v. ere the Yanks.
Inning after inning rolled by.
Chesbro's dander was up. H.- ask
ed Griff to let him stay in the
whole battle. Griff consented, and
wise old Charley Frank kept Dy
gert on tlte slab. There have bf n
few interesting 'exhibition gan ■
played.'but that was one to make
any fan’s blood course faster.
New Orleans 1 to 0 Winner.
Al the end of the nine rounds,
the score was: New Orleans 1.
New York 0. Chesbro had surren
dered five hits. Three blows had
been made off Dygert.
From that time on Little Jimmy
was a marked man. Every club in
the majors wanted hint Ho -e
--mained in the South ju-t long
enough to pitch the Pels to a pen
nant, and then was gobbled up in
the meri ilf.-s maw of McGillicuddy
His dramatic career there is well
remembered. His brief life there
was tragic. He became a star al
most immediately, ami did it a; a
crucial time for the Athletics, when
the magnificent hurling staff of
Bender, Waddell, Plank. Henh t
Coakley et al. had ertu-ked. Dygert
kept Mack's team right in the race
for the rag, but lie gave his arm to
the cause.
He suffered the next season from
overwork, and netm again reached
, his brilliant form. He drifted to
Baltimore, in the Eastern, and < at
year once more lie heard the faith
ful of New Otteans shriek his name
in the wildest Latin style.
But his mind probably wandered
back st en years to the day when,
unknown but unafraid, he had faced
and humbled the mighty Chesbro.
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