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Commodore Eleven This Fall Is
As Strong as Last Year’s Team
Nashville, thnn., oct. 26.
After taking stock of the
Georgia game, it begins to
appear that Vanderbilt has a team
’his year that is surprising every
body, Vanderbilt included. Every
year it is the regular lament of the
» Commodore followers that the team
can not 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 ease this year.
Losing Ray Morrison, "Big L’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 successfully
filled their places and that by the
‘nd of the season, at least, the
iearn will be superior to that of last
year.
Taking up that agglomeration of
fact and fancy known as the grand
old dope and looking at each place
«eparately and individually, we And
that the team, while It may not
present such a collection of stars,
averages up stronger than that of
1»11.
Morgan Much Better.
Bud Morgan played centei both
V*ar». In 1911 he weighed 230 and
ihte m-ason he has trained down to
JlO. With the weight reduction
has come a corresponding increase
in playing power.
At guards there is no question
that the team is weaker than last
season. Frog Metzger was a guard
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New Motorcycle Records
Due at Piedmont Park;
Club Meet On Today
Some ia it hug good motorcycle racing
is slated for Piedmont park this after
noon, when tile Atlanta Motorcycle club
will hold the first of a series of events
that will he continued until weather
conditions interfere.
Every crack rider in the city has en
cted. and great rivalry exists between
i lie amateqre. Eight events are slated
during the afternoon and some new
; ecords are likely to be hung up.
Harry Glenn established a new track
record yesterday in practice when, on
an Excelsior “Six” he negotiated the
half-mile course in 34 seconds flat.
Harry expects to lower this mark to
day. but he will have to travel at top
speed to do It.
of the class that is found rarely in
the ijouth. and no man 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 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.
Tui net* has held the place through
the early eeaaon, but during the
past w<-ek McGugin has been trying
Milholland, a California boy of
much promise, and Sikes, fullback,
as alternating end aud lull. It is
probable that - this arrangement
will be tried out in the Mississippi
game.
Last year the back field consist
ed of Hay Morrison and three other
men. all of them play ing their first
year on the team. The three others
aie all back and. without excep
tion. iian shown remarkable im
provemem. Hardage. Sikes and
fo ’ nl tlle neediest trio Van
derbilt has ever had. and they work
logethei with a precision that is
Waft ing to the enemy. Curlin. who
is holding down the quartet back
lob. is no Ray Morrison, of course
hut he a bettei than lhe average
wiiir the entire back field as a
V no'e probably stands abnw that
of last year.
THE AT LANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 26. 1912.
Atlanta Football Fans Treated Badly by Yellow Jackets' Schedule
TECH ELEVEN SHOULD BE PLAYING AT HOME TODAY
By Percy 11. Whiting.
'|■' H E t<-;nn of Dixb are kidding
I themselves this afternoon
for Ihe last time this season.
With the contests slated for today
out of the way tliej will settle
dtjwn to tlie 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
ant 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
dny afternoon! It's a crime.
Georgia is playing in Columbus.
Ga., this afternoon. Foolish! The
Athenians might bettor be playing
in Atlanta, where the crowds give
up real money to see football
ga mes.
And, speaking of that, it strikes
us as rather doubtful policy' on the
part of the J'ech 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 Troh will
play at the Hats and the Atlanta
Baseball association will be at lib
erty to scheduie 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 'rite 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. leitt some
stronger team take up athletic
headquarters here and win the
Jackets' patronage away from
them
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A IsL of which is more or less be
side the point. What we start
ed 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
tliree.-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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LOI of promising young fooi
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 Eckersall, 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- \ irginia 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 vet been
made final. Coy. who lives In Chatta
nooga, Tenn., was umpire of the Van
derbilt-Georgia game 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 tine<
in the Southern Intercollegiate Ath
letic association, meet in this city to
day in a battie that will have a direct
bearing on th< statt championship.
in other days Sewanee had the
"edge'' on tin- eleven from Knoxville,
and lias six victories over Terinessee to
one deteat already on the records, but
Tennessee has a splendid team this
season, and the \ o's are picked to give
the Tigers strenuot s resistance.
WOLGAST GETS ONLY DRAW
IN BATTLE WITH DANIELS
QLJNt N 11. L., Oct 26 —Freddie
Danieis of st. Joseph. Mo., fought Ad
Wolgast. lightweight champion of the
world, to a draw in n tame six-round
bom. according to fan- reviewing the
batt’’ today Wolgast apparently did
no' ->xei' hiinse f, although displaying
flashes of in-fighiing
Ihe fifth round vas Daniels' best,
"hen he landed hard on the face and
folloa cd it with a leti to the head, left
■nd tight lo the nark and two s', iff
rights to the head.
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.
"W ell, 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 odde?
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<wOACH 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 hugely bunk,
for a couple of reasons.
In the first place, there isn't one
field 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 ag*ency.
In the second place, nine-tenths
of the secret practice is just pure
bunk, hocus poetts, 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.
Trick 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 ft is. without
any encouragement from their
coaches.
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| N an effort to rescue the Corneil
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 jg hopeless.
This ought to be a corking idea.
FRANK CHANCE OFFERED
FIVE MANAGERIAL JOBS
?. ct> 26 —Chance is
to leave for his California ranch this
evening, with five offers as manager
from its many major league ball teams
ringing in his ears. He refused to tell
which teams made tlje offers.
It makes no difference, anyway ”
Chance said. “I can’t deal with any'of
them, for Murphy has not given tne 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.
rH»<L gOt th r. e * tele « Tam s and one Jong
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 loeallv lo dav at
Piedmont park, when the local team
pla.vs the club from Lithonia. The bat.
o’clock v e st ,“ r ‘ eil PFfnptly at 3:30
He?.- 11 will be charged
, a '' ,lane >‘ >oi' local football
ban The'X’* iS " itb f°oi
m- ■ ■ t ' ?4Ulls ean b* distinguished
by their jerseys. Lithonia will wear
blue and Atlanta maroon.
PENNSY IS CONFIDENT.
1 HILADELPHIA. Oct. 26.—-Improve
ment m form since the game with
Brown made the University of Penn-
TXfoVLTJ'? •” r ' o ; k<llrr ”<■ victory over
Lafayette tms afternoon on Franklin
Acid, despite the fact that alwavsin ,he
lor the'%S e s lIBS Pr ” V " n b, '
MACGIRT GETS DECISION.
l.”l IS. Oct, 26. An Ma,-Gift. of
ahoiii * C(i: t} )r deciMon over T ,\r
Met arthy of S'. Louis, la-t night in
sn cig-.;, ounu bout before tne tutu
Diner* club.
Just ordinary action pictures, such
as are taken of almost every game
played in Atlanta, tell sorfie 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 weaJv
n esses.
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Mitchell and Ford to
Open Boxing Season at
Staten’s Gab 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 Givins and Urik Rus
sell, and gives him a draw with clever
Young Erne, Philadelphia’s beat 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. .
ATLANT A GRAYS WIN
A CLOSE GAME FROM
GUARDS OF ATLANTA
CLUB STANDING.
Clubs. Won. Lost. P.C.
Atlanta Grays 3 0 1.000
Governor’s Horse Guard 2 0 1 000
Grady Cadets 2 1 657
Fulton Blues 1 , 50c
Marist Rifles 11 '»00
Atlanta Guards .... 1 2 333
Fulton Fusllllers . . 0 I 000
German-Amer’n Guards 0 3
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 the
Grays until the last game of the season
when they meet the Governor's Hors.
Guard in what will he the best game of
the season. •
JACK DILLON KNOCKS OUT
CONNORS IN 7 ROUNDS
INDIANAPOLIS. Oct. 26. -Jack Dil
-1011 knocked out Battling Connors, of I
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 complete!' '
outclassed.
packey McFarland easy
WINNER OVER DUFFY
BUFFALO. N. Y„ Oct. 26. Pack- -
VlcFarisnd had an e ; tsv time in his n
round battle with .limin' Duffy, of
.Lockport, here last night.
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“Greatest Football Play I Ever
Saw”--Written byCunningham
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 Dudley field to
its feet in a body, cheering- like
mad. \t 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 Hie game the rain,
which had been falling all of the
morning, ceased, and. save for a
muddy field, the weather 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 Hamilton was
refereeing and. under these most
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peediia ■ eircumstanct called for a
consultation of coaches, al which it
was agreed to make the best of
the weather conditions.
The game went on and the f"iirth
quarter found Sewanee leading.
io 6. Georgia had the ball on Se
wanee’s five-yard line, where a
fumble gave Sewanee Ihe ball. Gil-
Jem stood back of his goal line and
punted Hie ball into the clouds,
w here it- was lost to sight. Both
teams went on a line after the ball
Bob McWhorter. Georgia's great
halfback, found it near his goat
line. He picked it up and started
back down the field, butting into
the side-line near tlic place where
Harris <'ope. tlle Sew anee coach,
was standing.
A Sewanee man appealed in front
of him and ho dodged. Ic king to
ward the Georgia side-lin- v.
the Georgia coach saw him. I ' 1,,rl
tliis point on he w4s b’St t ■
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out what had happened and ’’
the sidelines- to the goal. *’■
of the S' waii' C goal line tlicy I" nd
McWhorter with the ball.
But. it was a touchdown •; - ’■
and 1 dan ay the only one e‘ r
made on any gridiron wl’ei'
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the field and no one knew wheie !,e
was.
