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14 aowAH srcw co/wmxmw , LPITLP . YARNS WORTH Jeff Let His Sense of Humor Get Away With His Judgment :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher r ' I —— - r- ~ w >| - Hx t Pur |TH6CHWE, OUD r’ H ' I i IN ,T Just | KENNER? 1 Found Lm ■ ll J Wj ’ 1 I ‘j s -V J T*Xtoul " 11 Po<K»T book. • / f! ■ I W / -. i honest v of I ■< n _, 1A GTo u6 ' j lon YH6 &IQGWAVK Y /■ " ' ’-"- “-x ■ _ ' | The SANxE I \ rHe F/NDER- ) Cao * TS.V WAIT «H 0 1 _ *) OLD GUN V "- _/ *. f . ■&>. I ' T^AC|C " . s«»l 6wv ; ' ' |ft£ L ‘ la? <L& l 5eT ”° u ‘° M-- s “ 1 &sta§ar aft 9> *SL i ' 1 wjswssi '-"’*<i > &sfc. W Blfe | I '" - iwJ’W I 1 Mmml iMgjs «, /s Stlffl - L ®L» -, UMIBBRuivEKb- *-’*"4g*£r ~«■»* feL , , _ - jo„ ■:, jo .','?»■ to • £ WE»g Vandy Will Win Championship; What of Auburn? -’-••J- •!••<♦ +•+ -<-••!* +•+ -i-*-b -!-••!• -!-•-!• •!•♦•!' 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 “Correct Dress for Men' Special Values in Men’s and Young Men’s Suits We are selling the greatest values at $15.00 and $18.50 These suits are all wool, well tailored, shape retaining features that we guarantee. The 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 Stree 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. ••••••••••»••••••••••••••• 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. • •••••••••••••••••••••••a** 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. • ♦ » 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 ( -.'•o-,' 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- IPW'H ,|, TOJi:T .™= lIP Hi : i : ~ 5 * nhrtW fw : zSTte S j®U so I . ?i ° Ur com^or t i® provided for in those Si • V stylish, trim looking Ralstons you’ll find in p b[K®|p^4 r y/MS our store. Select the style which pleases your fancy, :? broad or narrow toe, and we are [f positive that when you try them on E ; |DWill you'll say, ” I never knew before :| new s b oes could be so coni- s|. ■’•W®!Kfeto» sortable,” and the reason j| ■ ’'WBB * s ’ they’re made on h yi ■■ - ® x moulded lasts — an exclu- j? lotl s * ve I^ ston feature, jg 2 fehil •sOk. May w r e show you? 3| • wi WiW%k WwWs. I I il'®' 1® i I R - D> BARKSDALE CO. || j II Decatur Street W Xl r k. KIMBALL HOUSE E 19 T lll y« « 1 jyn n»l■■■< I■ ■ I iww»— Wiffn , .TITw , 1 -r^^j^ry^-y*^»T-rFr9wr»^XIXXX»TX*/5 1 H/ 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. Next week at the Lyric “ The Traveling Salesman.”