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Commodore Eleven This Fall Is
As Strong as Last Year’s Team
Nashville, tenn., oct. 2«.
After taking stock of the
Georgia game, it begins to
appear that Vanderbilt has a team
this year that Is surprising every
body. Vanderbilt Included. Every
year ft is the regular lament of the
Commodore followers that the team
can no\ possibly be as good as last
year’s, but, generally speaking, the
team is about the same, and usu
ally just a little better. That was
the case this year.
Losing Ray Morrison, Big t’n"
Freeland and Frog Metzger, All-
American and All-Southern stars,
would be a terrific setback to any
team, but the present indications
are that McGugin has suc< essfully
filled their places and that by the
end of the season, at least, the
team will be superior to that of last
year.
Taking up that agglomeration of
fttct and fancy known as the grand
old dope and looking at erj?h place
■separately and individually, tve find
that the team, while It may not
present such a collection of stars,
averages up stronger than that of
1611.
Morgan Much Better.
Bud Morgan played center both
years. In 1911 he weighed 230 and
this season he has trained down to
210. IV Ith the weight reduction
has come a corresponding increase
in playing power.
At guards there is no question
that the team Is weaker than last
•eason. Frog Metzger was a guard
Saved By His Wife.
She’s a wise woman who knows just
what to do when her husband’s life is I
in danger, but Mrs. R. ,J Flint. Brain- i
tree, \ t., is of that kind. "She insisted ■
on my using Dr. King’s New Discov
ery.” writes Mr. F„ for a dreadful I
cough, when I was so weak my friends'
all thought 1 had only a short time to
live, and It completely cured me." A
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most saf. md reliable medicine fur
man > throat and lung troubles—grip
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INew Motorcycle Records
Due at Piedmont Park;
i Club Meet On Today
Some rattling good motorcycle racing
j is slated for Piedmont park this after
i noon, w hen the Atlanta Motorcycle club
I will hold the first of a series of events
that will be continued until weather
conditions interfere.
Every crack rider in the city has en
'■red, and great rivalry' exists between
he amateurs. Eight events are slated
Turing the afternoon and some new
: ecords are likely to be hung up.
Harry Glenn established a new track
record yesterday in practice when, on
m Excelsior "Six" he negotiated the
half-mile course In J 4 seconds flat,
i Harry expects to lower this mark to-
I day, but he will have to travel at top
speed to do it.
of the class that is found rarely in
the South, and no matt has been
found to fill his place. However,
from Covington, Swofford and
Daves, McGugin will pick a pair
that will average up close to the
pair of last year
Remarkable as it may sound,
Vanderbilt has found a man to fill
"Big Un" Freeland’s shoes. His
name is Shipp. He is a better man
than Freeland physically—heavier,
rangier and faster. He lacks Free
land’s experience and cleverness at
diagnosing the plays of the opposi
tion. but today he is practically as
good a tackle as Freeland. Tom
Brown is back on his old job on the
other end of the line, much im
proved by age and experience. The
line is, on the whole, as good as
last year’s.
On the ends there ls a consid
erable improvement. The ends play
a peculiar part in McGugin'* de
fensive game, being used at smash
ing interference. Nuck Brown, the
least man on the team, but one of
the best ends Vanderbilt ever had.
is back at hie old wing and is
smashing them bettor than ever.
The other end Is not yet settled,
but however It turns out it will
probably be stronger than last year.
1 timer has held the place through
the early season, but during the
past week McGugin has ocen trying
Milholland, a California boy of
much promise, and Sikes, fullback,
as alternating end and full. It la
probable that this arrangement
will be tried out in the Mississippi
game
Lust year the back field consist
ed of Ray Morrison and three other
men. all of them playing their first
year on the team. The three others
.ire all back and. without excep
tin' . have shown remarkable im
provement. Hardage, Sikes and
v'' Ilins form the speediest trio Van
derbilt has ever had. and they work
together with a precision that is
baffling to the enemy. Curlin. who
- holding down the quarterback
iob, is no Ray Morrison, of course,
bu' h»* Is tetter than the average
While th ntir< back field as
whole probably stands above that
of last year
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 26. 1912.
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Atlanta Football Fans Treated Badly by Yellow Jackets' Schedule
TECH ELEVEN SHOULD BE PLAYINC AT HOMETODAV
By Percy 11. Whiting.
rpHE team? of Dixit- are kidding
j themselves this afternoon
for the last time this season.
With the contests slated for today
out of the way they will settle
down to the sterner things of life —
and to the dreaded November
games. And this reminds us of a
kick.
Os course. Tech is entitled to
schedule games any old place and
any old time. But if the Jackets
are again to leave an open Satur
day in the latter end of October It
is gently suggested to the Univer
sity of Georgia that they play here
In Tech's open time. Think of At
lanta gameless on an October Sat
day afternoon! It’s a crime.
Georgia is playing in Columbus,
Ga., this afternoon. Foolish! The
Athenians might better be playing
In Atlanta., where the crowds give
up real money to see football
games.
And, speaking of that. It strikes
us as rather doubtful policy on the
part of the Tech athletic authori
ties to give up Ponce DeLeon park,
so long as they hold that they can
keep other football teams out of
the city. But next year Tech will
play at the Hats and the Atlanta
Baseball association will be at lib
erty to schedule any games It wants
to at Poncey. Suppose Georgia
should transfer a couple of games
there and suppose Vanderbilt
should take a notion to play Vir
ginia there —-It would certainly
play the wild with Tech’s gate re
ceipts. The Tech team is never
destined to be very' strong. It
therefore behooves the Tech ath
letic authorities to keep the town
pretty well bottled up, lest some
stronger team take up athletic
headquarters here and win the
Jackets’ patronage away from
them.
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ALL of which is more or less be
side the point. What we start
id out to say is that practice games
end with today’s struggles. The
games of November are all real
contests. Atlanta gets some good
ones and there will be good ones
played all over the South. Os
course. Vanderbilt’s unexpected ex
cellence has knocked the race for
the S. I. A. A. championship into a
three-cornered hat, but there is a
pretty struggle on for second place
with Auburn, Georgia and Sewanee
clearly in the hunt.
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LOT of promising young foot
*■ ball players have been ruined
by over-much newspaper praise,
if you let the coaches tell It. The
truth Is. though, it was a lack of
ECKERSALL AND COY WILL
OFFICIATE AT BIG GAME
NASHVILLE, TENN., Oct. 26.
With Walter Eckersa.ll. Chicago, the
West’s greatest quarter back, as ref
eree. and Ted Coy. Yale the East’s
greatest full back, as umpire, the Van
derbilt-Virginia game, one of the de
ciding Southern championship battles,
to be played in Nashville November 2,
will be illustrious from the officials'
standpoint, at least.
Eckersall has been agreed upon, but
the selection of Coy has not yet been
made final. Coy. who lives In Chatta
nooga. Tenn., was umpire of the Van
derbilt-Georgia gume in Atlanta. Allen
Brown, former Vanderbilt end. will act
as head linesman.
SEWANEE'S GAME WITH
TENNESSEE ROYAL ONE
CHATTANOOGA, TENN., Oct. 26.
After a severance of athletic relations
for six years, Sewanee and Tennessee,
two Tennessee members of the three
in the Southern Intercollegiate Ath
letic association, meet tn this city to
day in a battle that will have a direct
bearing on the state championship.
In other days Sewanee bad the
’’edge” on the eleven from Knoxville,
and has six victories over Tennessee to
one defeat already on the records, but
Tennessee has a splendid team this
season, and the Vols are picked to give
the Tigers strenuous resistance.
WOLGAST GETS ONLY DRAW
IN BATTLE WITH DANIELS
QUINCY, ILL., Oct. 26.—Freddie
Daniels, of St. Joseph. Mo., fought Ad
Wolgast. lightweight champion of the
world, to a draw in a tame six-round
bout, according to fans reviewing the
battl today. Wolgast apparently did
no' exec himself, although displaying
flushes J' n-fighting.
The fifth round tuts Daniels best,
when he landed hard on th»' fa e and
■ followed it with a left to th* head, left
and Ight vo the neck and two stiff
1 rights to tb* USSA
brain and not an over-abundance
of praise that did the work.
It is recorded that somebody
once said to Jim Delehanty:
“Jim, do you think the use of a
spitball spoils a young pitcher?"
“Naw,” said Jim.
“Well, how’s that?” he was asked.
"Well, it’s this way,” said Jim.
"If they had any brains they
wouldn’t use it; and since they
haven't nothing makes any differ
ence.”
That's the way with those foot
ball players who puff up. if they
had any brain their head wouldn’t
swell so as a result of a little
praise. And since they haven’t,
what’s the odds?
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/"'OACH YOST has’ announced
that he will not hold any more
secret practice on Ferry field this
season. If there is any more confi
dential work to be done it will be
done in the gymnasium.
This is in line with progress.
Secret practice is largely bunk,
for a couple of reasons.
In the first place, there isn’t one
field in a hundred where the prac
tice can be kept really secret. Any
body who wants to find out what Is
going on can usually do It without
the aid of any detective agency.
In the second place, nine-tenths
of the secret practice is just pure
bunk, hocus pocus, and self-flim
flamming.
Anybody who has followed foot
ball for ten minutes or more knows
that mighty few games are won on
trick plays. And surely that is all a
team is supposed to learn by secret
practice—trick plays and freak for
mations and such. What wins
games is speed. strength, team
work, hard charging, good dodging,
courage, determination and luck.
Prick plays don’t cut any figure
once in ten years. You could take
all the stuff that was ever learned
in all the secret practices ever held
and Yale couldn’t win a single
game from Princeton with it—not
if Old Nassau was having the luck.
Secrecy is bunk in football.
Therefore, the less of it the better.
These college men take themselves
seriously enough as It is, without
any encouragement from their
coaches.
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J N an effort to rescue the Cornell
team from its present ghastly
slump many things are being done
and among them a series of mov
ing pictures have been taken of the
team in action. With the aid of
these the coaches are showing the
men their weaknesses. If this
doesn’t do any good it is figured
that Cornell is hopeless.
This ought to be a corking idea.
FRANK CHANCE OFFERED
FIVE MANAGERIAL JOBS
CHICAGO, Oct. 26.—Frank Chance is
to leave for his California ranch this
evening, with live offers as manager
from as many major league ball Wann
ringing in his ears. He refused to tell
which teams made the offers.
It makes no difference, anyway,"
Chance said. "I can’t deal with anv of
them, for Murphy has not given me my
release I can see. 'hough, that he has
granted permission to four of them to
dicker with me. Otherwise they
wouldn t dare to make overtures to me
while I am a member of the Chicago
club, or even on the reserve list of the
Chicago club.
"I got three telegrams and one long
distance call yesterday, all offering me
berths as manager I paid no atten
tion to the telegrams and gave no sat
isfaction to the party on the telephone."
ATLANTA SOCCER TEAM
MEETS LITHONIA TODAY
The first soccer football game of the
season will be played locally today at
Piedmont park, when the local team
plays the club from Lithonia. The bat?
tie will be started promptly at 3:30
o clock. No admission will be charged
Here Is a chance for local football
fans to compare this game with foot
ball The teams can be distinguished
by their jerseys. Lithonia will wear
blue and Atlanta maroon.
PENNSY IS CONFIDENT.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26.—Improve
ment tn form since the game with
Brown made the University of Penn
sylvania eleven cocksure of victory over
Lafayette this afternoon on Franklin
field, despite the fact that always In the
past Lafayette has proven a bugaboo
for the Quakers
MACGIRT GETS DECISION.
ST. lAOUIS, Oct. 2«.—Art MacGlrt of
Oklahoma, got the decision over T M.
McCarthy, of St. Louis, last night in
an eigiit-round bout before the 4uto
Driver* club.
Just ordinary action pictures, such
as are taken of almost every game
played in Atlanta, tell some inter
esting stories. For Instance, that
picture of the Georgia-Vanderbilt
game which appeared in The Geor
gian Monday. No Georgia player
could look at it without realizing
one of the crying weaknesses of the
team and without seeing that there
were men who should have been in
the play who weren't within blocks
of it. If the moving pictures ever
get a little less costly it would not
be surprising if many teams used
them regularly in an effort to
study and illustrate their weak
nesses.
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Mitchell and Ford to
Open Boxing Season at
Staten’s Club Tuesday
Harry staten has arranged a card for
the opening show of his boxing club
on next Tuesday that ought to furnish
plenty' high sport. He has secured
Barney' Ford, of Philadelphia, and
Terry Mitchell, of New York, two
husky welterweights, for the main bout.
Mitchell is one of those fighters who
loves to trade slams, while Ford is a
clever boxer with a fair kick. A boxer
and a fighter always put up a good
mill, and Staten believes this one will
prove no exception.
Mitchell claims victories over Young
McCarthy, Honey Mellody. Jack Mc-
Carron and Al Dewey, while the record
Ford has sent Staten shows him to
have beaten Ed Glvins and Unk Rus
sell, and gives him a draw with clever
Young Erne, Philadelphia’s best boxer.
Eddie Hanlon and Charley Collins
will mix it in the semi-windup. A bat
tle royal and a six-round go between
two colored pugs will round out the
opening bill.
ATLANTA GRAYS WIN
A CLOSE GAME FROM
GUARDS OF ATLANTA
CLUB STANDING.
Clubs. Won. Lost. P.C.
Atlanta Grays 3 o j.ono
Governor’s Horse Guard 2 0 I,noo
Grady Cadets 2 1 .667
Fulton Blues ] j 500
Marist Rifles j i 'SOO
Atlanta Guards . .1 . . 1 2 .333
Fulton Fusilliers . . . 0 | .000
German-Ainer'n Guards 0 3 "000
In a brilliant and well played basket
ball game at the Armory court, the At
lanta Grays defeated the Atlanta
Guards by the close score of 29 to 23.
The game was the best played and
most interesting of any played here
this season. The Atlanta Grays have
again demonstrated that they are the
most likely contenders for the pennant.
The Atlanta Guards team Is now a
strong one. and the defeat of that team
by the Grays leaves a rosy path forth.
Grays until the last game of the. season
when they meet the Governor’s Hors
Guard in what will be the best game of
the season.
JACK DILLON KNOCKS OUT
CONNORS IN 7 ROUND:
INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 26.—Jack Dil
lon knocked out Rattling Connors, of
Pittsburg, in the seventh round of
their scheduled ten-round bout lien
last night. It was Dillon’s fight bv a
mile in every round. and Connors
showed great gameness'in staying as
long as he did. He was completely
outclassed.
packey McFarland easy
WINNER OVER DUFFY
BUFFALO, N. Y.. Oi l > Pack, x
McFarland had an easy timt in his ton
round battle with Jimmy Duffy, of
Lockport, here last night.
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“Greatest Football Play I Ever
Saw”—Written by Cunningham
By Alex Cunningham.
THE most brilliant play ever
pulled off on any Southern
gridiron was that forward pass
which, on a Thanksgiving day in
1907. sent the Sewanee Tigers back
to the mountain, a defeated team,
to the tune of 17 to 12. And, of
course, the team that pulled it off
was one coached by the prince of
coaches. Dan McGugin.
This was the greatest play I ever
saw. It turned an almost certain
defeat into a victory, and brought
the great crowd on Ditdlev field to
its feet in a hotly, cheering like
mad. At Sewanee two seasons ago,
however, I witnessed a play that
happened under very peculiar cir
cumstances and will probably never
be duplicated. The University of
Georgia team, which I was coach
ing, was playing Sewanee at the
time.
Just before the game the rain,
■which had been falling h!1 of the 1
morning, ceased, and, save for a
muddy field, th we th- r conditions
were favorable for pulling off a
good game.
About ten minutes after the start,
of the game, a heavy fog settled
on the field. Ed II miilton was
refereeing and. under these most
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peculiar circumstances, called for a
consultation of coaches, at which it
was agreed to make the best of
the weather conditions.
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quarter found Sewanee leading, 15
to 6. Georgia had the ball on Se
wanee’s five-yard line, where a
fumble gave Sewanee the ball. Gil
lem stood back of his goal line and
punted the ball into the clouds,
where it was lost to sight. Both
teams went on a line after the ball-
Bob McWhorter. Georgia’s great
halfback, found it near his g° al
line. He picked it up and startea
’back down the field, butting into
the side-line near the place when*
Harris Cope, the Sewanee coach,
was standing.
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of him and he dodged, tacking to
ward the Georgia side-line, wdiere
the Georgia coach saw him. From
this point on he was lost to vv"
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out what had happened and ran up
the sidelines to the goal. Back
of the Sewanee goal line they found
McWhorter with the ball.
But It was a touchdown-all right,
and I date say the only on<
made on any gridiron where
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