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10 OSH Si?CW CO® 9 * EXPBETF] _ _ LPITLD /r W. S FARNSWORTH A LONG PASS MADE. DURING PRACTICE OF A THLETIC CLUB’S CRACK BASKETBALL TEAM I IB* y' / •’. / ” f v\ \ / \ •'■ T M / ’ I .'...Z \ aJ| AJH ;’$?Wr■ ’-'X *<ss? Jjt Vwjjpsi F ’Sr ■ HH S"- ■ ■ \ Os (y. \W* < -w 1 Z w J ■' jHwvw'-’ ■ ’-’.... f M f\ wt ® \ • x} \ a -<x_— 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 Saved By His Wife. She's a wise woman who knows just what to do when her husband's life ia in danger, but Mrs R. J Fit nt , Brain- ‘ tree, \t. is of that kind. She insisted 1 on my using Dr. King $ New Dis< ov- ■ •ry. writes Mr. F., for a dreadful! '■oog i wuen 1 was so weak mv friends al! thought 1 had only a short time to I 'iv*. and it completely cured me" \| 't'ji'k us-e for roughs and colds it’s the most safe and reliable medicine for I m«rc. throat and lung troubles—grin I c t? up. whoemng ■ >«nn iti.*. hemorrhages v trial r ,<! ’nt SI.OO '”” c 'gg * S lAow ) S T WV- - •£> «JBar , ®r “ < ■• , .. . ■ \ Jr \ \ F "Wf" $g \ I ‘ \ ' / <4.1 0- ‘ * >( ( This photo ». A I raph shows B Walter Du bard C *.. I getting a IV' length | throw to y a I “ s ' s ” \ I Falvey. 1. | “Tie” 1 I leaver is Bl- I hown at- > I empting to Hi I b'ock the / | neave, hut jfflj—4 ' I V * ' ' I /’ c was a . I 'faction of a 4&S econd too late. 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 • ♦ ♦ 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. ♦ - • 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? ♦ * * <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. • * * | 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. jgjllßl 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. < y ' 1 b “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 . When the blood becomes infected with any unhealthy humor tin. *'*■ fectisshown by boils, pimples, and rashes or eruptions on the skin. Uuii"’ lJ get into the blood usually because of an inactive condition of tin «dii»ir. ’ . live members. Thus unhealthy matter is left in the system to sotit a" ' iferment and be absorbed into the circulation. Remove these hunioi no skin trouble can exist, because its very source is then removed. b' rashes, pimples, etc. can never be cured throuj, ■ the application of external medicines, because 1 treatment can have no possible effect on the J the most to be obtained from such measures i : J CT* 1 P ora, y relief. S. S. S. CURES all skin afirct’””' I J because ’ t purifies the blood. It goes down r I / the circulation and cleanses it of every p<’ ti vHMHfWw unhealthy nfatter. Then the blood exr normal function of supplving noui i hmentto li tide instead of irritating it with a fiery hum von have anv skin trouble you could not do than punfv your blood with S. S. S. It does not “patch up" it C,IT j Book on Skin Diseases and anv medical advice free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA. GA. 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 ■ Botli co.• ches were inxiou- " i' l ' 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' man with the ball ran the lens the field and no one knew wheie !,e was.