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Commodore Eleven This Fall Is
As Strong as Last Year’s Team
"XT ASH VILLE, TENN.. Oct. 26.
\fter taking .stock of the
Georgia game, it begins to
■o.o.rr that \arderbilt has a team
this year that is surprising every -
hotly, Vanderbilt im-ludec. Every
year it Is the regular lament of tile
I 'ommodore followers thai the team
• an not possibly be As good as. last
'tars, but, generally speaking, the
team is ‘bout the same, and usu
al.’.- just a little better That was
'he case this year.
i.oaing Ray Morrison, Big In”
I’reehtt.d an.: Frog Metzfcer. All-
American at u All-Southern stars,
would be a 'erriflc setback to any
team, but the present indications
are that McGugin has successfully
filled their p aces and that by the
•nd of the season, at least, the
team will be superior to that of last
rear.
I aking up that agglomeration of
f act and fancy known as the grand
old dope and looking at each place
separately anti individually, we find
that the team, while it may not
present such a collection of stars,
averages up stronger than that of
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Morgan Much Better.
Bud Morgan played i enter both
years. In 1911 he weighed 230 and
this season he has trained down to
210. With the weight reduction
has come a corresponding increase
in playing power.
At guards there is no Question
'hat the team is weaker than last
season. Frog Metzger was a guard
Saved By His Wife.
She's a wise woman who knows just
•vnat to do when her husband's life i K
n danger, but Mrs. R. .1 Flint Brain
tree, Vt„ is of that kind. 'She insisted
on my using Dr. King's New Discov
er.” writes Mr. F„ “for a dreadful
cough, when, I was no weak my friends
• all thought I had only a short time to
live, and ft .completely cured me.” A
suick cure for coughs and colds it's the
most safe and reliable medicine for i
many throat and lung troubles—grip, i
; brohehftis, .roup, whooping eouglt,
Quinsy, tonsilitis. hemorriiagws. Atrial
will convince you go cts. and JI.OO.
rented i»y <>; flruggieta (Advt)
;New Motorcycle Records
Due at Piedmont Park:
Club Meet On Today
Some rattling good motorcycle racing
j is slated for Piedmont park this after
; noon, when the Atlanta Motorcycle club
twill hold the first of a series of events
that will be continued until weather
conditions interfere.
Every crack rider in the city lias en
tered. and great rivalry exists between
he amateurs. Eight events are slated
luring the afterno</>i and some new
records are likely to be hung up.
Harry Glenn established a new track
record yesterday in practice when, on
inn Excelsior ‘Six” he negotiated the
half-mile course in 34 seconds tlat.
Harry expects to lower thia mark to
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 man has b-en
found to fill Ids place. However,
from Covington, Swofford and
Daves. McGugin will pick a pair
that will average up clo-e to the
pair of last year
Remarkable as it may sound.
Vanderbilt has found a man to tiil
Big In" Freeland’s shoes. His
name is Shipp, He is a bett<*l man
than Freeland physically heavier,
rangier and faster. He lacks Free
land s experience and oleverficss at
diagnosing the pla. s of the opposi
tion, but today' he is practically as
good a tackle as Freeland. Tom
Brown la back on Ids old job on the
other end of the line, much im
proved by age and experience. The
dne is, on the whole, as good as
last year's.
On the ends there is a consid
erable improvement. The ends play
a peculiar part in McGugin's 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 his old wing and is
smashing them better than ever.
The other end is not yet settled,
but however it turns out it will
probably’ be stronger than last year.
I timer has held the place through
the early iseason, but during the
past week MeGugin has oeen 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 otd in the Mississippi
game.
Last year the back field consist
ed of Ray- Morrison and three other
men. all of them playing their first
y ear on the team. The three others
are all back and. without excep
tion. have shown remarkable im
provement. Hardage, Sikes and
Collins form the speediest trio Van
derbilt has ever had. ami they work
together with a precision that is
baffling to the enemy Curlin who
is holding down tin quarterback
lob, is no Ray’ Morrison, of course
but he is better than the average
while the entire beek field a si h
whole probably stands above rh a t
of last yeax ,
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raph shows
ter
Dubard
getting a
hail length
throw to
t, Sis ,>
Falvey.
Pie”
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hown at
einpting to
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heave, but
he was a
i action of a
econd too
late.
By Percy 11. Whiting.
' I ’HE team*- of Dixie are kidding
I themselves this afternoon
lot the last time this season.
With the contests slated for todav
out of the way they will settle
down to the sterner things of life—
and to the dreaded November
game--. And this reminds its of a
kick.
Os course. Tech is entitled to
schedule games any old place and
anv 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 Io see football
games.
And. speaking of that, it strikes
us as rather doubtful policy on the
part of the Tech atliMtic authori
ties to give up Ponce DeLeon park,
so long as they hold that they can
!;eep other football teams out of
the city. But next year Tech will
play at the flats 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 A T anderbilt
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 ami win the
Jackets’ patronage away from
them
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of which is more or less be
side the point. What we start
ed out to say is that practice g-ames
end with today’s struggles. The
games of November are all real
contests. Atlanta gs Is 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, out there is a
p -etty struggle on for second place,
u it h Aubprn, Georgia and Sewanee
i learlv in lite hum.
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a LOT of promising young t’oot
ba:l j.layers 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 Eekersall, Chicago, the
W est s greatest quarter back, as ref
eree, and Tr'd t'oy. 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 Hom the officials’
standpoint, at least.
Eekersall 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 game in Atlanta. Aller.
Brown, former Vanderbilt end, will act
gs head linesman.
SEWANEE'S GAME WITH
TENNESSEE ROYAL ONE
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.. Oct. 26.
After a severance of athletic relations
for six years r Sewanee and Tennessee,
two Tennessee members of the three
in the Southern Intercollegiate Ath
letic association, meet in this citv to
day in a battle that will have a direct
bearing on the state championship.
In other days Sewanee had 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
QLTNCY. ILL.. Oct. 26.—Freddie
Daniels, of St. Joeeph. 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
not exert himself, although displacing
flashes of in-flghting.
The fifth round was Daniels’ best,
when he landed hard on the face and
followed it with a left to the head, left
and right to the neck and two stiff
'rights to toe head.
Atlanta Football Fans Treated Badly by Yellow Jackets' Schedule
TECH ELEVEN SHOULD BE PLAVINfi AT HOME TODAY
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
spit ball spoils a young pitcher?”
“Naw.” said Jim.
’Well, how’s that?" he was a.-ked.
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 «av 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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r~'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-fllm
flamming.
Anybody who has followed foot
ball for ten minutes or more knows
that mighty few games are won on
crick 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.
Trick plays don’t cut any figure
once in ten years. You could take
ail toe 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.
Ihjs ought (o be a cot-King idea.
FRANK CHANCE OFFERED
FIVE MANAGERIAL JOBS
CHlc AGO, Oct. 26.—Frank Chance is
to leave tor his California ranch this
evening, with five offers as manager
from as many major league ball teams
ringing in his ears. He refused to tell
which teams made tlje offers.
makes no difference, anyway”
< Jtance said. “I can’t deal with anv of
them, for MMrphy has not given me my
release I can see, though, 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 paM no a “ len .
tion to the telegrams and gave no sat
isfaetion 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 footbal'
bad” t Th? n ? Pare th ’* Bame wlth f°ot
k -k T h teams can be distinguished
by their jerseys. Lithonia wifi wstr
blue and Atlanta maroon.
PENNSY IS CONFIDENT
PHILADELPHIA. Oct improve
ment in form since the whh
Biown made the Cniversity of Penn
sylvania eleven cocksure of victory over
Lafayette this afternoon on Franklin
flelu, d< spite the fact that alwa vs in the
fm ’ S Pr ° Ven " bU,raboo
MACGIRT GETS DECISION
s-t’. LOVIS. Oct. 26.— Art Mac-Girt, of
\'"’*“ olna got the decision over T M
McCarthy, of St. Louis, iast night in
an eight-round bout before the Auto
Drivers club. -"mw
Just ordinary action pictures, such
as aie taken of almost every gatrie
p ayed in Atlanta, tell some inter
esting stories. For instance, that
picture of the Georgia-Vanderbilt
game which appeared in The Geoi -
glan Monday. No Georgia playet
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 A! Dewey, while the record
Ford has sent Staten shows him to
.have beaten Ed Givins and Unk Rus
sell, and gives him a draw with clever
i'oung 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 GRAYSWIN
A CLOSE GAME FROM
GUARDS OF ATLANTA
CLUB STANDING.
Clubs. Won. Lost. P.C.
Atlanta Grays 3 o 1.000
Governor’s Horse Guard 2 0 1 000
Grady Cadets 2 1
Fulton Blues ..... 11
Ma rist Rifles 1 i
Atlanta Guards .... 1 ■> 333
Fulton FusilUers . . . ft 1
German-Amer’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 for tile
Grays until the last game of thd season,
when they meet the Governor’s Horse
Guard in what will be the best game of
the season.
JACK DILLON KNOCKS OUT
CONNORS IN 7 ROUNDS
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 26. —Jack Dil
lon knocked out Buttling Connors, of
Pittsburg, in the seventh round of
their scheduled ten-round bout here
last night. It was Dillon’s tight by a
mile in every round, and Connors
showed great gameness in staying as
long as he did. He was completely
outclassed.
packeyMcFarland easy
WINNER OVER DUFFY
BUFFALO. N. Y., Oct. 26.—Packey
McFarland had an easy time in his ten
round battle with Jimmy Duffv, of
Lockport, here last night.
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“Greatest Football Play I Ever
Saw”—Written by Cunningham
By Alex Cunningham.
rpHE most brilliant play ever
I 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 crow d on Dud lev field to
its feet in a body, 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 all of the
morning, ceased, and. save for a
muddy’ field, the weather conditions
were favorable fpr pulling off a
good game.
1 About ten minutes after the start
of the game, a heavy fog settled
on the field. Ed Hamilton was
refereeing and. under these most
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peculiar circumstances, called for f
consultation of coaches, at which ft
was agreed to make the best of
the weather conditions.
The game went on and the fourth
quarter found Sewanee leading. II
to 6. Georgia had the ball on Se
wanee’s five-yard line, where •
fumble gave Sewanee the ball. GKL
lem stood back of his goal line awl
punted the ball Into the clottdfc
where It was lost to sight. Both
teams went on a line after the ball.
Bob McWhorter, Georgia's *PMI
halfback, found It near his toai
line. He picked It up and staffed
back down the field, butting tnte
the side-line near the place wh«pe
Harris Cope, the Sewanee ooaoh.
was standing.
A Sewanee man appeared In front
of him and-he dodged, tacking to
ward the Georgia side-line, where
the Georgia coach saw him. From
this point on he was lost to view.
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 ft was a touchdown all right,
and I dare say the only one ever
made on any gridiron where the
man with the ball ran the length of
the field and no one knew where he
was.
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