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Jackets Have Three Stiff Games in Row—Must Go Some to Win Any
TECH SEEMS TO HAVE A CHANCE WITH (iEORGIA
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AI’BI’EN T< (h-mgia ■
"alm Sett a la i . Mercer
against Columbia. Vatidy vs. '
Virginia a- i:. ,\t Salur.ay! \\'• 11.
it s uv-ly look’s interi .-ting. Sort of I
makes a < h ip wall hi < oa'd l>" in at
I* ,ist til> a' pi. a- at mice. anil
Till I. . i t • iin. Ihe w.-.i best, ap
pac-ntly. ti.it Ims rap. I’sonted ik.a
local t •hnologlea! sohol in vi a,--,
arukadvertised. with smue cause. li
the lightest team of full-giov. u ■ 01-o 1 -
leg<- nun in the world. has escaped i
thus far without a defeat. It has
beaten Citadel. Mini Alabama
and Florida by highly creditable
•cores. It has gum through tin
uonth of October (which means
likewise through the "light" m
nea r-pt ad ice g.iue * i i\ ithmu a <b -
•eat.
I’rom non oil something lining. .
Tech hasn't a very pleas. mt three,
-weeks to look forward to. It will
lake every thing in the shop to. pro
duce a. creditable showing against
Auburn next Saturday. It will take
;all of that, and ma,' lie mo e. to do
anything with Sewanee on th. I'ol-
Ifiwilig Saturday. Xi.d Cm Satur
day after that, Nhyembm Id. oiiiv
the game w ith (hyorgia 1
And right there is whir- f.ieml
ship eeases.
• • •
•pWii Wei ks ago it was ha:il for
* anybody but partisans of the
two Georgia riVa s to see any in
terest in the Tech-Georgia game.
Right now it looks like a BIG A. F
i’AJR. In two weeks mole It may
look bad again.
Flight now. hbwevei. it appears
t nit Tech will certainly have a
e alive wit ii Georgia. Mind y ou. I
think Georgia will win; is almost
certain to win But Tech lias a look
in. it may lie closed tin tight by
.t hr J tit n. But it isn’t now .
F'ot’a trams in question hate nut
('it..del. Tech won 2(1 to (>. Geor
gia 33 to it- a cli ar advantage tor
Gc, igia. Roth met I’niversity of
Alabama. Teen won 20 to 3. Geor
gia 12 to 9 - whi- h gives Tech the
edge.
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ia .'Him ns must have been a shade
off their game w hen they met Tech.
They certainly play ed a vastly bet
ter game against Georgia. The Red
and Black players, on the other
hard, neo. below form in their Al
abama gallic, whii. the Tuscaloosa
team, as a result of vigorous coach
ing. w.i .hdng better ork.
Till ■ scores, and a lot of bther
i lings, incieuiti that Tech has a
i'al i came with Giorgia -nothing
to bunk on and nothing io bet on,
but i Hough' to make ,ne coming
I eeii- G- oi gin gaum loom big as a j
real sporting event. Two weeks ago Ii
it looked like an afternoon's stiff
r ve, ci e loi' Georgia. Two w eeks i
l iom now well, we'll not guess :
111" ■ hut. if nothing happens, we'll
tell how it looks later.
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TKCH will undoubtedly ghe Au
burn a stiff i liasi nf-xt Satur
day. It is hardly to be supposed
that tin- local team can. win." They
haven't the. weight ami the power,
and no matter how confusing their
formations and how cleverly-their
forward passes and trick plays are
' xeeutjMl,. they an not at all liable
to g. t away w iih the long end. But,
then, the Jackets will play a stiff
game, giving the Alabama’ Poly s the
bent-in the shop w hich has proved
something good this year.
Georgia has a tough game Satur
day—-a game that will have a di
net bearing mt the .second place
tanking in the S. I. A. A. this soa’-
som For the Pied and Black plays i
Sewanee. The team that wins will '
hay i Auburn to reckon with for
second place providing always
that a miracle doesn’t happen to
give either Auburn or Sewanee the
victory over Vanderbilt that Geor
gia didn’t get.
There isn't much chance to get a I
line on the comparative strength
nf Sewanee and Georgia. They both
played I’niversity of Chattanooga. j
Sewanee w inning 27 to o and Geor
gia 33 to 0, which isn’t conclusive.
* 'therwise, the dope on one hasn't
tun within miles of the dope on the I
othei -so comparisons are difficult.
When McGiigin was ii, Nashville
I asked .dm what about Sewanee.
"They are strong again this I
year." said Dan
'Where did tiny get it?" «j
W.'.l, they hate a gooff part of ‘
last year’s team back, they ale well
eoaclied ami they have good men
in " and then he rattled off a
string of names ami gridiron rec
ords that didn’t linger in the mem
ory It was McGugin’s opinion,
however, that Sewanee was s veral
times as strung as last year.
Georgia usually plays good ball
against Sewanee. If the team
plays up to its ability and if Mc-
Whorter Is right. Cunningham’s
team should cop. It will be noted
that there are two "its" in that
sentence.
| ’l’ looks painfully as though Van
derbilt hail picked out sort of a
bad year for playing Harvard. The
crims, n s 3(1 to 10 victory over
Brown Saturday was impressive.
I’iien it is to be remember'd that
the Cambridge eleven trimmed Am
herst 46 to ii. Williams 26 to 3 and
Holy C.OSS IJI lo II ail moderately
strung teams.
On the other hand, it is barely
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.MONDAY. OCTOBER 28. 1912.
Possible that Harvard has picked a
bad year for playing Vanderbilt.
Yale did. tlie Navy did and the In
dians did. Maybe this is another
of those bad years. There’s tins
about it for sure. Coining as it.
dm s between Han aril’s games with
Princeton ami Yale it may be a lot f |
harder than J. Harvard is pining
for.
A. A. ADOPTS LIMIT. BUT
DOESN'T TELL ABOUT IT
CHICAGO. net. 2’B. -Club owners of
(he American association met here jester
day to discuss the salary limit of the
association for next year. After a live
hour session behind closed doors, it was
announced that a limit had been named
and would be enforced, but the amount
was not made known, though it is sup
posed to be $6,000.
GORDON PLAYS G. M. A.
MU.l.ill •GEVUJ.E. (Jet. 28. The Gor
don institute and Georgia Military epl
lege footbail teams meet here tins after
noon.
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Twenty-Five Greatest Southern League Players
No. 4—Frank Smith Graduated From Piano Works
l>.\ b'lizzy Woodruff.
r I'M'. M PER AM KN T is an attri
| bute commonly possessed by *
persons wim sing or shoot
S.lakespear, for tile edilieation of
a low-browed public. When a ball
l a. ir develops' symptoms of tills
oiseage. tans and players begin to
call him a "bug" and chroniclets of
the pastime fine in him a fertile
field for feature stories. The ball
player with temperamental spirit
occupies the full glare of the
spotlight tor a period as brief as
a drunkaid s pledge. He is swal
lowed by an oblivion as dark and
as sudden as unexpected message
of death.
The Southern league has pro
duced more than its quota of those
temperamental athletes. "Bugs"
Raymond's name will forever give
the Smith the questionable honor
of being as productive of wild ami
woolly pastimers as it is of fleecy
cotton.
But not many .years ago a bug
nourished in Dixie, who made a
mark in the major leagues that I
fandom will not soon forget, and.
despite his temperament, lie re
umined in the big leagues more I
than the allotted time of a hurler. ,
He passed into the dark regions
of bush league life last year, but j
for many a day his prowess will be i
1.- membered where salaries are the
size of a senatorial bribe and a th- j
letes partake of fleeting flame oacli
day just like it was their portion
of ham and eggs.
Each City Has Its Pet.
Em il Southern city has its own
pet player, who in after life re
'llected some of his glory on the I
town from which he was called to
liiglmr duties. New Orleans will
swell its parlez vous chest and j
speak in glowing terms of joe Jack
sou. Memphis throw s tits when tin
magii name of Jake Daubert is i
spoken. Atlanta can go to foam
ing at the mouth over Russ ford, I
Jimmy Archer. Ed Sweeney. Nig
I’.arke and a half dozen others.
Nashville still remembers the day
" I'll Ed Abbatcbio performed
wonders in Sulphur Hell. Chat-
I tanoog'a recently had a glow of
i pi ide when Steve Yerkes did deeds
of derrindo in a world's series. The
j mime of Rube oldring is better
known in Montgomery than the
name its mayor answers to. Mo
bile points with pride to Zach
Wheat.
But if you want an Imnr.-t-to
goodness knockdown-and»drag -out
I battle, just go within a ladius of
1 40 miles of irmingiiam and mo-
I fess ignorance of the fact that
I ank Smith was a gnat biiseba 1
• CONGRATULATIONS Jj
J ARE DUE ATLANTA ;
J MOTORCYCLE CLUB :
1 • •
• Hats off to the Atlanta Motor- •
• cycle club! •
! • The organization furnished •
• 5,000 persons, free of charge, a •
• fine program at Piedmont park •
• Saturday. It didn’t cost a cent, •
• either. •
• For six months the Motorcycle •
• club has been trying to get Pied- •
• mont track to race on. but not un- •
• til Saturday were they able to get •
• a permit. The park board finally •
• consented to allow races, and to- •
• day the members of that board are •
• so enthused over the manner in •
• which Saturday's races “drew the •
• crowd” that they are contemplat- •
• ing banking the turns of the track •
• and thereby giving the Atlanta •
• Motorcycle club what they deserve •
• —the best race track in the South. •
• Again—hats off to the Atlanta •
• Motorcycle club! •
•••••••••••••••••••••••••a
pitcher and that he won 'his spurs
on the old West End field in tlje.
shadow of the Magic City's priz-l'
slagpile. .i" . ’
Was Called "Bonehead Frank."
Smith has temperament. fact,
he just oozed it. He haff s<f rrftlch
of it. that the fans and scribes did
not stop at writing him down a
"biig." He was given that moni
ker despised by all ball players.
He was called "Bonehead Frank”
around Bittningiiam, though it has
never been written that he failed
to touch second or trifeff . to steal
with the bases full.
Smith looked the part, though,
when he reported to Birmingham in
1902. He was fresh from Pitts
burg, where he had earned his daily
corn beef and cabbage juggling
pianos from installment houses to
flat buildings and vice versa. He
was a big hulk of a man. not tall,
but with tremendous back and
shoulder muscles, superinduced by
his piano pulling’ proclivities’. He
had a tout ensemble of Tom Shar
i key and his brow was no higher
j than tlie classic forehead of the
' lighting sailor man.
Birmingham had a pretty punk
I p.irty of pastimers that season. In
fact, the ball club consisted oil Ir
win Wilhelm. Erank Smith and a
lot of old rums overripe for the
discard. Tlie team cracked early in
the race, and then Smith began to
j show Ids temperament.
He i njoyed being a w hole ball
club. His mighty strength enabled
him to pitch about every othei day.
, and lie enjoyed going in the box
better than i small boy enjoys
going in a mudliole in June. And
when lie didn't pitch he played
I somewhere else. He Hist based,
second based, third based—in fact,
s ing every part in the iutield choir,
i aid did outfield duty when occasion
demanded.
Was a Slugger With the Bat.
And he did all these jobs well.
Tiiougli never a certain hitter, lie
was one of the most dangerous
biusmen ever to face a butler on a
.Southern diamond, lie armed him
self w ith a wa: i lull as I'ormidable
as that historic jawbone witil
which Kill Samson routed armies,
ami when he connected with his
full strength the ball kept going.
Tiler, is no man in Birmingham
who will not swear,to the tradi-.
lion that "lice .Smith broke up a
game by hitting i home i Un. They '
will tell you the Indi did not hesi
tate at the c.ntei field feme, but
soaied a- g.." fully as a biizYaiid
over tile Gibraltar-like slag pile
ami then on and on to the top of
Ited mountain, 'where it struck a
mini i prepat ing to til «• a , iia igo of
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Heisman’s Weekly Comment on Football Games and Gridiron Affairs
NEW STUNT WITH FOOTBALL SCORES SUGGESTED
Bv J. W. Heisman.
IN baseball we can figure out bai
ting and fielding . averages and
thus get a fair line on offensive
and defensive strength. In foot
ball this is much more difficult. Os
course one could add up all the
yards a team won or lost, or that
any individual player had made or
lost: also how many first downs
they had made and tlie like. These
figures from the standpoint of the
individual are seldom impressive,
because in footbah the individual
can do hardly anything without the
active assistance of his teammates.
In baseball the players hit the bajj
alone, or field it alone, or steal the
base alone, which is another thing
entirely.
It occurs to me, though, that
some interesting statistics could be
secured by dividing the total points
a team has made to date by the to-
dy immite. It is further recorded
tliat tlie miner, on recovering con
sciousness. was firmly convinced
that he had been the victim of a
premature blast, and was puzzled
when lie did not discover iron ore
scattered all about the surrounding
country .
Big Card in Birmingham.
Smith’s efforts alone kept the
sport popular in Birmingham in
those trying days of the Southern
league, and had as much as any
thing to do with making Birming
ham tlie most dependable baseball
town in tlie circuit. For all of
which Bonehead Frank should re
ceive the lasting gratitude of
Southern patrons of the game.
Smith was again a Baron in 1903.
This year Birmingham was man
aged by Tom O'Brien, and had a
real ball club, but still Smith xVas
called on to do tile utility act. He
did not shine particularly as a
pitcher, but was above tlie aver
age in effectiveness
The South was surprised w lien lie
was drafted by the White Sox. it
was thought but a question of
weeks before he would be trudging
back to Birmingham.
He didn't. He stuck, and his tem
perament changed. The spitbail
was soon afterward introduced, and
Smith became a master of that puz
zling delivery.
When lie saw himself a star, he
did tlie same tiling that stars of
tlie stage, of art. of literature, of
lighting, of everything else are wont
to do. He thought himself too
bright for cdmnion. every-day work.
Instead of being the fine old truck
horse he w as in tlie Southern league
lie became ,as w illful, as a prima
donna. If his support was not gilt
edged, lie sulked. Frequently he
jumped back tv his piano moving
I in Pittsburg. Every time an op
portunity offered, lie would de
clare lie had forsaken baseball for
tin- prize ring and a challenge to ■
Jeffries or Johnson or whoever held
the palm at the time would fortb
ton tor Hairy Lord. He lasted but
a season with tin Red Sox. and
then drifted to tile National league,
answering roll call at Cincinnati.
He was "never again effective, and
lasi season dropped completely out.
But .-ay he isn't still a great
pitcher in Birmingliaiji and you’ll
have everybody to tight, from <>s
i ir I'nderwood to tlie lowliest flop,
key- driver in the darkest coal mine
in Jefferson county.
witil issue, and the scribes would
linvc Sport withal.
Traded to Boston for Lord.
In short, he tried to outltibe
Waddell. His fisefulne-s to the
White So soon iime less than
inching. Cumiskey was tickled to
m ath wlt'ii In- traded him 4u Kus-
tal number of points that have been
scored against it to date. Papers
everywhere publish from time to.
time a list iff the scores of va
rious football teams, and the only
way they have ever, as yet, ar
ranged them is to put in the order
of points they have scored. This,
while interesting enough as far as
it goes, tells only one thing about
the teams.
The points that a team has scored
are to its credit: the points scored
against it are to its discredit. Sure
ly there is a relation between its
merits and its demerits, as there is
in every other kind of game.
Wlty not express that relation
ship either in tFactional or in deci
mal form?
For instance: Suppose X team
has scored in its games to date 100
points, while 8 points have been
scored against it. Then 100 is the
numerator of its fraction, while 8
is the denominator, and the deci
mal quotient, which indexes its
whole ability (offensive and defen
sive strength combined) is repre
sented by the division of 8 into 100.
or 12.50.
By this method we would learn
that some teams that had scored
quite a lot of points did not have
nearly so high a combination per
centage as some others which had
not scored so many points, but
which, on the other hand, had not
been scored upon so frequently.
I make this suggestion to the
sport writers with no thought of
criticism for the tables they are
accustomed to publishing, for those
aiso are interesting, but I think the
above outlined plan would give
them something new and worth
while.
Ho w Scheme Works Out.
Take the prominent S. J. A. A.
teams as an example of this, in
the mere matter of points scored,
they stand thus (1 give first the
points they have scored and then
those scored against them);
Vanderbilt, 331 to 3.
Tennessee, 207 to 33.
Sew«.nee. 195 to 6.
Auburn. 103 to ih.
Clemson. 143 to 41.
Alabama. 126 to 39.
Georgia, 78 to 55.
Mercer, 71 to 78
Tech, 70 to 15.
Now, divide the number of points
scored by opponents into the num
ber of points scored by the teams in
question, and see what you get:
Vanderbilt 110.333
Sewanee 32.500
Auburn 10.158
Tennessee 6.273
Tech 4.066
Clemson 3,488
Alabama 3.231
Georgia 1.418
Mercer 91 o
It will be observed that the rang
ing changes considerably under
this system. Sewanee goes to sec
ond place, instead of third: Clem
son drops from fifth to sixth; and
Tech comes tip from last to fifth,
while Georgia drops from seventh
to eighth. It is only justice to note,
tn Georgia's case, tliat Coach Cun
ningham's team lias played Vander
bilt, while none of the other teams
enumerated have. And that, you
have my word for it. makes a ma
terial difference.
Jackets Still Winning.
Well, the “little but loud’ Yel
low Jackets have managed to get
in one more sting before getting
the inevitable but over the head
for their efforts that must come
l.itet. -and it's highly gratifying to
. everybody connected with the team.
I hazarded no guess as to the
outcome of the Florida battle,
which won on Saturday. It Is
worth noting tliat Elorida defeat
ed South Carolina by 10 to 6. while
North Carolina defeated the South
Corlinans by only 9 to ". which
would seem to put Florida almost
on a par with North Carolina. If
that is the cm rect measute of
Florida's strength, it would appear
that Tech is stronger than was sup
posed, for everybody knows what
kind of football the Tarheels put up<
A short time ago Mississippi A
and M. defeated Alabama by a score
of 6 to 0. This is not quite as good
as Tech did against the Tuscaloo
sans, but if Tech is even as strong
the A. and M., we at Tech are
well pleased to know it, for this is
another team that puts up excellent
football. It will be remembered
that they defeated the University
of Mississippi last Thanksgiving
day, and they have back a veteran
team, including Williams, their
great half back. The A. and Al.
played Auburn In Birmingham Sat
urday. They had great hopes of
beating the A. P. 1.. but 1 was not
able to share their optimism. How
ever they gave Donehoo’s team a
harder battle than I expected. The
game gave us a very good idea of
• the relative strength of a whole lot
of teams In this neck of the woods.
One Last Post Mortem.
Is there anything left that any
body can say at this late date about
that Vanderbilt-Georgia game? I
predicted a handy victory for the
Commodores by several (how many
is that?) touchdowns, but 1 can not
say I was any more prepared than
anybody else for the score that a
tually rattled out of the box.
All I have to say—and remember,
I didn't see the game -is that 1 atn
inclined to the opinion tliat Van
derbilt has the best team tlie Ten
nessee college has ever turned out.
Eet us all hope that the Commo
dores will meet with perfect suc
cess when they encounter Harvard.
The coming game between Geor
gia and Alabama will give a fur
ther and better line on Georgia
Baseball players who will do theatre al
stuff tills winter are .1. McGraw. Hugi
Jennings, Dutch Schaefer. Nick Altrock.
Rube Marquard, Red Dooin. Bill Sweene.'.
Manager Callahan of the Sox. and I' i
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