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6 OOMAH MB ©ffl® >KMHFI _ EDITED fy W S VARNSWOKTH A LONG PASS MADE DURING PRACTICE OF ATHLETIC CLUB’S CRACK BASKET BALL TEAM - —— ——————■ Gggp-'.s ‘ ~ / I H 'lk \ X IJf W r- / (M? ; “ J W v"" V *«. ■> ' T \ w.'/v A \ JBMH It ; I / f % w x '&£#& \&mSwi§ * . *■ ' HF «M| wM isb^ ' BM / !■ A w / > Jh .; s<• J Jfir \ \ 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, quinsy. tonsilitis. hemorrhage*. \ : ri,.i will convince you. r,u --ts. aiid SI.OO. Guaranteed >y all druggists (Advt ) Lyric tins week “Mad ame X ’’ - / ■it f' ' I ■*‘ < I v ; I gSgduJ* | . w * <• I J&jfluß * I ■W -' j * if 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 ‘* f last \ THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1912. JkH Mfe, jkXi *' k nm M RsOr' 4exS» ’// ■■■KJM • • / x \ \ ' Jr \ \ eW . W \ \ ‘ d SZi’KK > A <- > ..... ~ ' ■ I ' Jf ..... . ■ V r’W .f ; 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. « « » 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. » • • 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? * * » 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 » ‘“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 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. LL I 'v I tSormhiikfri nrtfltf ' •■ x •■■> x^X* 0 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. i\ / • 4 I i / I I z O* .M ab sSgigngr f miIE . - ®E®5 f ■ '■ 1 nA a » I i \ 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 asfkasldjf When the blood becom nfected with any unhealthy humor th< < feet is shown by boils, pimp' ' rashes or eruptions on the skin. Huin<” get into the blood usually be> ,vi of an inactive condition of the dim ,na live members. Thus unhealthy matter is left in the system to sour an l ferment and be absorbed into <. ■ rculation. Remove these humors a’’" no skin trouble can exist, been s very source is then removed. BouS rashes pintles, etc. can never be cured throu.cn the apr m of external medicines, because sm ■ ffirfrb treatm ■ ’ have no possible effect on the _bi the most ’ ■ obtained from such measures is t- K? I P f,rar y’ ’ SiS.S. CURES all skin affects"’- I because it Hies the blood. It goes down n 1 / the circulation and cleanses it of every ■ OTO a T!E a ‘ 1 uu^,ea Ehy jnai er. Then the blood exercii normal function of supplying nourishment to the ' tide instead'of irritating it with a fiery hum I "'' you have skin trouble you could not do than purify your blood with S. S. tS- It does not “patch up” it 1 Book on Skin Diseases and any medical .aivice free. thf swirr SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA. 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". Both coaches were anxiou- tn firn out what, had happened and ran the sidelines to the goal. Bn-:' of the Sewanee goal line they foUIF McWhorter with the ball. But it was a touchdown all rig Jl - I dare say the only one e Vf " made on any gridiron where tin man with the ball ran the length the field and no one knew wli- •••* was.