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10 GKSSA3 ifMZ COVW * KPlfflO | LPITLD S FARNSWORTH _ A LONG PASS MADE DURING PRACTICE OF ATHLETIC CLUB’S CRACK BASKETBALL TEAM / t / W Os / < 1 z" f - " < // V \ \ /if / I photo- \ J J raph shows \ i B' va " er \ l i Du bard I getting a I hall length / y | hrow to / < ' I ■ • S7s ” ' i 1 Falvey. \ I I \ \ I ■ ' /^7'-w I I Meaver is V 'i 4 I I town at- ) I 'noting to \ V &. WW I | Mock the ’ ' I <e.ave, but ‘ l e was a f T’V o / ruction of a x -Al 'ccond too ™ HraHi late. TV < V / 1W ■ A W 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 quit k cure for coughs and colds, it's the most saf. md reliable medicine fur man > throat and lung troubles—grip •■ .... onv n. .. you '. u ~ „ a|ld j, l>> « 'liusslew 'Advtj 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. fir \ Jt2E ' • • '** «hv \ > \ \ \jjgj ' . \ \ vTmSH <• < : ' , I * I *<U / 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. • * * 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. » • • 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? • * * /"'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. • » * 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. J3IHI i''-'' 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. F\ ‘1 F<-/ / I \ / - I — * * " *ll 9/ 1 U ■ ’ Y'"'' - •’ • fwMB W .Z- jHI “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 Boils, Rashes, Pimples, Eto. When the blood becomes infected with any unhealthy humor the e • fectisshown by boils, pimples, and rashes or eruptions on the skin. !lu' n ° r ‘ get into the blood usually because of an inactive condition of the elim ina tive members. Thus unhealthy matter is left in the system to sour an ferment and be absorbed into the circulation. Remove these humors a® no skin trouble can exist, because its very source is then removed. 1 ■ (sss) than purify your blood with S. S. S. It doesnot “patch up” if . cur e; ” Book on Skin Diseases and anv medical advice free. 77f£ SWT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, U- peculiar circumstances, called for a consultation of coaches, at which it was agreed to make the best of the weather conditions. The game went on and the fourth 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. \ Sewanee man appeared In f ront 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" Both coaches were anxious to find 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 man with the ball ran the length el the field and no one knew where lie rashes, pimples, etc. can never be cured threng the application of external medicines, because •'■‘ c treatment can have no possible effect on the J" 00 ' the most to be obtained from such measures is te porary relief. S. S. S. CURES all skin affection' because it purifies the blood. It goes down tn the circulation and cleanses it of every P :1 ’ , ‘ r ‘ e . < ’ unhealthy matter. Then the blood exer< ■'C' normal function of supplying nourishment to the tide instead of irritating it with a fiery hum'" you have any skin trouble you could not do