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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. Amateur followers of the dope ! need not be led far astray by that j pai’ of Alabama scores, ’file Tus- If You Are Buying a Truss 11 i;.\IEAJB|-;f: hai . it doe.nt fit *» properly. It will not only rut. anil ■ liafe an<l hint, but it max lesuit in a very dangeroii.- iondition. Don't ever take chances w ith children's trusses. Jacobs’ Pharmacy Has the Best Equipped Truss Department in ttie South and by fat the luigest , lock of Trusse s. I'iliKtn H..«ier> Belts ' H tn.luges, Abdominal S..|<pi>rli't et< • At our Main Stole v. e bav. Priiitti J itiing Rooms. .|iiie atnl secluded. nil!. , men ami women a’tendunts and the best plot's seion.d advice is alwa>- al! your command ft re of . Uatge. Ruptme is serimts. Always get tin best profesional serve . „• .lav bs’ Pharmacy. H .i.sts no nn>r< Jacobs Pharmacy Atlanta, Ga. 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. • ♦ • 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 Z z^/ To MARTIN 19% PEACHTREE UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES y i FOR SALE xffix A,SJK> /vz ‘ 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. i 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 1 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 White. CLEAN OUT YOUR KIDNEYS AND BLADDER Get Rid of Backache, Pains in Bones, Straining, Swelling, Etc. The kidneys and bladder ne 1 stimulant to expel the accumulations of sugar and uric acid which ! 'OR' in these delicate organs and '''hi'" accumulations cause so much misr-i’l Stuart’s Buchu and Juniper Compour is made for just such a purpose .'••• remedy cleans out the kidneys irs. bladder like hot water cleans ,;I _ grease. 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