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Commodore Eleven This Fall Is
As Strong as Last Year’s Team
Nashville, tenn.. oct. 26.
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 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 jirst a little better. That was
the case this year
Losing Ray Morrison. "Big Un"
Freeland and Frog Metzger. All-
American and All-Southern stars,
would be a terrific, setback to any
team, but the present indications
are that MeGugin has successfully
filled their places and that by thd
end of the season, at least, the
team will be superior to that of last
yeat.
Taking up that agglomeration of
fact and fancy known as the grand
old dope and looking at each place
separately and individually, wo find
that the team, while it may not
present such a collection of stars
average# Up stronger than that of
1911
Morgan Much Better.
Bud Morgan played centei both
years. In 1911 he weighed 280 and
this season he has trained down to
2l'>. With the weight reduction
has come a corresponding increase-
Saved By His Wife.
She’s a wise woman who knows just
what to do when her husband’* fife' is
m danger, but Mrs. R. J. Flint, B raln .
tree. Vt.. is of that kind. "She Insisted
,on my using l>r. King's New In*.,iv
ory." writes Mr. F„ tor a dreadful
cough, when I was weak my friends
al! thought I had only a short time to
live, and it completely cured ine " \
quick cur- for coughs and olds, it's the
most safe and t tilable medicine for
many throat an-: lung troubles- grip,
bronchitis, croup, whooping cough,
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Motorcycle Records
Due at Piedmont Park;
Club Meet On Today
Some rattling good motorcycle racing
is slated for Piedmont park this after
noon, when the Atlanta Motorcycle club
; will hold the fiiiit of ;l series of events
-that will be, continued until weather
conditions interfere.
Every crack rider in the city has en
o red, and great rivalry exists between
the amateurs. 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
m 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.
in playing power.
At guards there is no question
that the team is weaker than last
season. FTog Metzger was a guard
of the class that is found rarely in
the South, and no man has been
found to fill his place. However,
from Covington. Swofford and
Daves, MeGugin 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
"Rig 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
u peculiar part iu McGugln’s de
fensive game, being used at smash
ing interference. N'uek Brown, the
ivast man on the team, but one of
the best ends Vanderbilt over had,
is back at his old wing and is
smashing them bettei than ever.
The other end is not yet settled,
but however it turns out it will
probably be stronger than last year
Turner has held the place through
the early season. but during the
past week MeGugin has oeen trying
Mllholland, a California boy of
much promise, and Sikes, fullback,
a- alternating end and full. It 1#
probable that this arrangement
will be tried out in the Mississippi
game.
Last 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
■ i ' all back and, without excep
tion. have shown remarkable im
provement. Hardage, Sikes and
Collins form the speediest trio Van
derbilt btu ever had, and they work
together with a precision that is
baffling to the enemy. Curlin, who
> holding down the quarterback
job. is no Ray Morrison, of court**
bm h. in Muter than the average
v. nil., the rutin back field as a
I V hole probably stands above that
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1912.
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This photo
graph shows
Du bard
getting a
full length
throw to
Falvey.
“Pie”
Weaver is
shown at
tempting to
block the
heave, but
he was a
fraction of a
second too
late.
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 in this city 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 lias a splendid team this
■season, and tile Vols are picked to give
the Tigers strenuous resistance.
W 0 LG AST 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 # tame six-round
bout, according to fans reviewing the
battle today. Wolgast apparently did
not exert himself, although displaying
flashes of in-fighting.
The fifth round was Daniels’ best,
when he landed bard on the face and
followed it with a left to the head, left
and right to the neck and two stiff
rights to the head.
TECH SCRUBSWILL FACE
STONE MOUNTAIN BOYS
Coach Graham's Stone Mountain
prep school lads will be the opponents
of the Tech scrubs at Tech- flats this
afternoon. The game will be called at 3
o’clock.
Last year the scrubs beat Stone
Mountain, 6 to 0.
Lyric this week—“ Ma
dame X.’’
Next week at the Lyric—
“ The Traveling Salesman.”
Atlanta Football Fans Treated Badly by Yello
TECH ELEVEN SHOULD BE PLAVING
By Percy 11. Whiting.
THE teams of Dixie are kidding
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
arid to the dreaded November
games. And this reminds us of a
kick.
<>f course, Tech is entitled to
schedule games any old place and
any old time. Rut if the Jackets
are again to leave an open Satur
day in th'- latter end of October it
is gently suggested to the t'niver
sity of Georgia that they play here
in Tech's open time. Think of At
lanta gameless cn 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
g.< mes.
And, speaking of that, it strikes
us as rather doubtful policy on the
part of the Tech athletic authori
ties to give up Ponce Del.eon 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 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 Vanderbilt
should take a notion to play Vir
ginia there—it would certainly
play the wild with Tech’s gate re-
• eeipts. 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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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 lias 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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A LOT of promising young foot
ball players have been ruined
by over-inuch newspaper praise,
if you let the coaches tell it. The
truth is. though, it was a lack of
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 uso of a
spitball spoils a young pitcher?”
“Naw,” said Jim.
’’Well, how’s that?” he was asked.
“Well, it’s this way,” said Jim.
’’lf 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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g-'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 gymmasium.
This is in line with progress.
Secret practice is largely bunk,
for a couple of reasons.
Tn 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
hunk, 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
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, teain
work, hard charging, good dodging,
courage, determination and luck.
I tick 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.
I 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
ream 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 five offers as manager
from as many major league ball teams
ringing in his ears. He refused to tell
which teams made t.'je offers.
It makes no difference, anyway,"
t hance said. "I can’t deal with any of
them, for Murphy has not given me my
release. 1 can see, though, that lie lias
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.
"J 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
rhe 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
tle will be started promptlv at 3• 3U
o’clock. No admission will be charged
Here is a chance tor local football
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ball. The teams can be distinguished
by their- jerseys. Lithonia will wear
blue and Atlanta maroon.
PENNSY IS CONFIDENT
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 26.—Improve
ment In 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.
si. LOUIS, Oct. 26. ',rt Mac Girt, or
Oklahoma, got the decision over T. M.
McCarthy, of St, Louis, last night in
an eight-round bout before • 1t - Auto
Driver# club.
Jackets' Schedule
AT HOME TODAY
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 carci 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, aiid
Terry Mitchell, of New York, two
husky welterweights, for the main bout.
Mitchell is one of those lighters 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
' arron 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 1.000
Governor's Horge Guard 2 0 1.000
Grady- Cadets 2 1
Fulton Blues 1 i
Marist Rifles 1 i
Atlanta Guards . . . . 1 j
Fulton Fusilliers ... 0 l jioo
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 the
Grays until the last game of the 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 Battling Connors, of
Pittsburg, in the seventh round of
their scheduled ten-round bout hero
last night. It was Dillon's fight by a
mile in every round, and Connors
showed great gameness in staying as
long as he did. He was completely
outclassed.
packey* McFarlan? easy
WINNER OVER DUFFY
BUFFALO. N. Y.. Oct 2»i.—Par-key
McFarland had an easy time in his ten- i
round battle with Jimmy Duffy , of I
IwKkpori, here last night.
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Football Play I Ever
Saw”--Written by Cunningham
By Alex (Trnniiighani.
THE most brilliant play ever
pulled off on any Southern
gridiron was - t forward pass
which, on a Thank ‘.'giving day in
1907, sent the Sewanee Tigers back
to the mountain, a ' f'-ateil team,
to the tune of 17 to 12. And, of
course, the team that\ pulled it off
was one coaela-d by tlhe prince of
coaches, Dan MeGuginl
This was the greatest play I ever
saw. It turned an alnOost certain
defeat into a victory, a.nd brought
the great crowd on J tmilev field to
its feet in a body ehl-ering like
mad. At Sewanee two seasons ago,
however. I witnessed a , play' that
happened under very peculiar cir
cumstances and will i udAbly never
be duplicated. Th< Un: ersity- of
Georgia, team, which 1 wins coach
ing, was playing S. t the
time.
Just before the gs n rain,
which had been fa Hit f the
morning, ceased, and. >r a
muddy field, the'wrath liiions
wire favorable foi pulling -ft a
good game.
About ten minutes after id- start
of tlie game, a heavy fog -eftled
on the field. Ed Hamilton was
refereeing and. under thesi 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.
Thj game went on and the fourth
quarter found Sewanee leading. L
to 6. Georgia had the ball on Se
wanee’s five-yard line, a
fumble gave Sewanee the ball. Gil
lem stood back of his goal line and
punted the ball into the clouds
where it was lest to sight. Bota
teams went on a line after the ball.
Bob McWhorter. Georgia’s great
halfback, found it near his goal
line. He picked it up and started
back down the field, butting lot
the side-line near the place wlit-rc
Harris Gope, the Sewanee eoam
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 Fro a
this point on he was lost, to vie".
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out what, had happened and ran
the sidelines to the goal. Bn-:'
of the Sewanee goal line they foUIF
McWhorter with the ball.
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made on any gridiron where tin
man with the ball ran the length
the field and no one knew wli- •••*
was.