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Jackets Have Three Stiff Games in Row—Must Go Some to Win Any
TECH SEEMS TO HAVE A CHANCE WITH GEORGIA
By Percy H. Whiting.
AUBURN against Tech, Georgia
against Sewanee, Mercer
against Columbia, Vandy vs.
Virginia—all next Saturday! Well,
it surely looks interesting. Sort of
makes a chap wish hi' could be in at
least three planes at once, and
preferably more.
The Tech team, the weakest, ap
parently. that has represented the
local technological school in years,
and advertised, with some cause, as
the lightest taani of full-grown col
lege men in tine world, has escaped
thus far without a defeat, it has
beaten citadel. Mercer. Alabama
and Florida by highly creditable
scores. It has gone through the
month of October (which means
likewise through the "light" or
near-practice games) without a de
feat.
From now on—something doing!
Tech hasn’t a very pleasant three
weeks to look forward to. It will
take everything in the-shop to pro
duce a creditable showing against
Auburn next Saturday. It will take
all of that, and maybe more, to do
anything with Sewanee on the fol
lowing Saturday. And the Satur
day after that. November .16. comes
the game with Georgia!
And right there is where friend
ship ceases.
♦ ♦ •
'pWO weeks ago It was hard for
' anybody but partraans of the
two Georgia rivals to see any in
terest in the Tech-Georgia game.
Right now it looks like a BIG AF
FAIR. In two weeks more it may
look bad again.
Right now. however, it appears
that Tech will certainly have a
chance with Georgia. Mind you. I
think Georgia will win; is almost
certain to win. But Tech has a look
in. It may be closed up tight by
the 16th. Rut It isn’t now.
Both teams in question have met
Citadel. Tech won 20 to 6. Geor
gia 36 to o—a clear advantage for
Georgia Both met University of
Alabama. Tech won 20 to 3, Geor
gia 12 to 9—which gives Tech the
edge.
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caloosans must have been a shade
off their gams when they mot Tech.
They certainly played xi vastly het- ,
ter game against Georgia. The Red
and Black players, on the other’
hand, were below form in their Al
abama game, while the Tuscaloosa
team, as a result of vigorous coach
ing. was doing better work.
These scores, and a lot of oilier
tilings, indicate that Tech has a
real chance with Georgia—nothing
to bank on and nothing to bet on,
but enough to make tiu: coining
Tech-Georgia game loom big as a
real sporting event. Two weeks ago
it looked like an afternoon's stiff
exercise for Georgia. Two weeks
from now—well, we'll not guess
now. but. if nothin:, happens, we’ll
tell how it looks later.
• • »
’TECH will undoubtedly give Au
burn a stiff chase next Satur
day. It is hardly to be supposed
that the local team can win. Tit-y
haven’t the weight and the power,
and no matter how confusing their
formations and how cleverly their
forward passes and trick plays are
executed, they are not at all Hable
to get away with the long end. But.
then, the .Jackets will play a stiff
game, giving the Alabama Polys t m
best in the shop—which has proved
something good this year.
Georgia has a tough game Satur
day—a game that will have a di
ret bearing on the second place
ranking in the S. 1. A. A. this sea
son. For the Red and Black plays
Sewanee. The team that wins will
have 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
line on the comparative strength
of Sewanee and Georgia. They both
played University of Chattanooga.
Sewanee winning 27 to 0 and Geor
gia 33 to 0. which isn't conclusive. -
Otherwise, the dope on one hasn't
SUNDAY BALL GETS MORE
PLAYERS INTO TROUBLE
NKW YORK. Oct. 23. The crusade
started last week by the.police against
Sunday baseball playing by profession
als was continued. Summonses were
served upon Josh Devore, Hal Chase,
Louis Drucke and Uy Seymour, of Lar
ry Doyle's Giants, playing against the
Lincoln Giants, and Nick Altrock and
“Germany Schaefer." of an “All-Amer
ican” team playing against the Metro
politans at another park. Each player
was ordered to appear in court today
SALLY LEAGUE ELECTS
OFFICERS THURSDAY
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SAVANNAH GA.. Oct. 28. —President
N 1’ Cornish, of the South Atlantic
Baseball league, has called a meeting
of the league directors for Thursday
morning hete. officers will be elected
and routine business transacted.
OAKLAND WINS PENNANT.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28. -By tak
ing the last two games of the season
from Los Ang. les y eaterdny. Oakland's
baseball team won the Pacific <'oast
league pennant from Vernon by the
fraction of a game.
MAHTIN MAY
19U PtACHTREE STREET
UPSTAIRS
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
INHIEBFFMEO PLEDGES >
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. AIONDAY. OCTOBER 28.1912.
run within miles of the dope on the
of het -so comparisons are difficult.
When McGugin was in Nashville
I asked him what about Sewanee.
“They are strong again this
year,” said Dan.
"Where did they get it'.’" was
asked.
"Weil, they have a good part of
last year's team back, they are well
< oaclted and they have good men•
in—" and then lie rattled off a
string of names and gridiron rec
ords that didn't linger in the mem
ory. It was McGugin's opinion,
however, that Sewanee was several
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 “ifs” in that
sentence.
Twenty-Five Greatest Southern League Players
•:•*•?•
No. 4—Frank Smith Graduated From Piano Mover
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
rTMiJJPEIIAJIENT is an attri-,
| bute commonly possessed by
persons who sing or shoot
Shakespeare for the edification of
a low-browed public. When a ball
player ’develops symptoms of this
disease. ’aus and players begin to
'•all iiiiM a hug" and chroniclers of
the pastime find in him a fertile
field for feature stories. The ball
player with temperamental spirit
occupies the full glare of the
spotlight for a period as brief as
a drunkard's pledge. He is swal
lowed by an oblivion as dark and
as siidd< nt as the unexpected mes
sage of death.
The Southern league lias pro
duced more than its quota of these
tr atper.'i cental athletes. "Bugs"
Raymond's name will forever give
th" South the questionable honor
of being as productive of wild and
woolly uastimers as it is of fleecy
cotten.
But not many years ago a bug
flourished in Dixie, who made a
mark in the major leagues that,
fandom will not soon forget, and,
despite his temperament, lie re
mained in the big leagues more
than the allotted time of a hurler.
He passed into the dark regions
of hush league life last year, but
sot many a day his prowess will be
remembered where salaries are the
size of a. senatorial bribe and ath
letes partake of fleeting flame each
day just like it was their portion
of ham and eggs.
Each City Has Its Pet.
Each Southern city has its own
pet player, who in after life re
flected some of his glory on the
town from which lie was ea'led to
higher duties. New Orleans will
swell its parlez vous chest and
-peak in glowing terms of Joe Jack -
son. Memphis throws tits when the
magic name of Juki Daubert is
spoken. Atlanta can go to foam
ing at the mouth over Russ Ford,
Jimmy Arche:. Ed Sweeney, Nig
I'lurke and a half dozen others.
Nashville still remenmeis the day
when Ed Abbaticchio performed
wonders in Sulphur Dell. Chat
tanooga recently had a -glow of
pride w hen Steve Yerkes did deeds
of derrindo in a world's series. The
name of Rube Oldring is better
known in Montgomery than the
name its mayor answers to. Mo
bile points with tride to Zach
W hea t
Rm if you want an honest-to
stoodnr»s kno .tdow n-a t d-drag -out
battle, ju«t so within a radius of
30 "rules of Birmingham and p o
fea= ignorance of the fact that
Frank Smith was » great baseball
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• CONGRATULATIONS •
J ARE DUE ATLANTA J
J MOTORCYCLE CLUB J
• •
• Hats off to the Atlanta Motor- •
• cycle club! •
• The organization furnished •
• 5,000 persons, free of charge, a •
• fine program at Piedmont park •
e Saturday. It didn’t cost a cent, •
• either. •
• For six months the Motorcycle •
• dub has been trying to get Pied- •
• mont track to race on, but not un- •
e til Saturday were they able to get •
e a permit. The park board finally •
• consented to allow races, and to- e
• day the members of that board are •
• so pleased with the manner in •
e which Saturday's races “'drew the •
a crowd" that they are contemplat- •
• ing banking the turns of the track e
e and thereby giving the Atlanta •
e Motorcycle club what they deserve •
e —the best race track in the South, e
e Again—hats off to the Atlanta •
e Motorcycle club! e
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pitcher and that he won his spurs
on the old West End field in the
shadow of the Magic City's prize
slagpile.
Was Called “Bonehead Frank.”
Smith had temperament. In fact,
he just oozed it. He had so much
of it that the fans and scribes did
not stop at writing him down a
"bug." He was given that moni
ker despised by all ball players.
He was called "Bonehead Frank”
around Birmingham, though it has
never been written that he failed
to touch second or tried 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
key and his brow was no higher
than the classic forehead of the
fighting sailor man.
Birmingham had a pretty pirfik
p trly of pastimers that season. In
fact, the ball club consisted of Ir
win Wilhelm. Frank Smith and a
lot of old rums overripe for the
discard. The team cracked early in
the race, and then Smith begrin to
show his temperament.
He enjoyed being a whole ball
club. His mighty strength enabled
him io pitch about every other day.
and In enjoyed going in the box
better than a small boy enjoys
going in a mudhole in June. And
when be didn't pitch he played
somewhere else. He first based,
second based, third based —in fact,
s ing every pari in the infield choir,
aid did outfield duty when occasion
demanded.
Was a Slugger With the Bat.
And he did all these jobs well.
Though never a ceriain hitter, he
was one of the most dangerous
batsmen ever to face a hurler on a
Southern diamond. He armed him
self with a war club as formidable
as that historic jawbone with
which Kid Samson routed armies,
and when lie connected witli his
full strength the ball kept going
There is no man in Birmingham
who will not swear to the tradi
tion that once Smith broke up a
game by hitting :t home run. They
will tell you the ball did not hesi
tate ar the center field fence, but
soared as gracefully as a buzzard,
over the Gibraltar.like slag pile
and iher on and on to ths top of
Red mountain, where it struck a
miner preparing to fire a charge of
Heisman's Weekly Comment on Football Games and Gridiron Affairs
NEW STUNT WITH FOOTBALL SCORES SEGGESTED
By J. AV. Heisman.
IN baseball we can figure out bat
ting and fielding averages and
thus get a fair line on offensive
and defensive strength. In foot
rial! 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 the like. These
figures from the standpoint of the
individual are seldom impressive,
because in football the individual
can do hardly anything without the
active assistance of his teammates.
In baseball the players hit the ball
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 bv the to-
dynamite. It is further recorded
that tire miner, on recovering con
sciousness, was firmly convinced
that he had been the victim of a
pretnatpre blast, and was puzzled
when he 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 the most dependable basebaH
town in the circuit. For all of
which Bonehead Frank should re
ceive the lasting gratitude of
Southern patrons of the game.
Smith was again a Baton in 1903.
This year Birmingham was man
aged by Tom O’Brien, and had a
real ball club, but still Smith was
called on to do the utility act. He
did not shine particularly as a
pitcher, but was above the aver
age in effectiveness
The South was surprised when he
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 changeo. The spitball
was soon afterward introduced, and
Smith became a master of that puz
zling delivery.
When he saw himself a star, he
did the same thing that stars of
the stage, of art. of literature, of
fighting, of everything else are wont
to do. He thought himself too
bright for common, every-day work.
Instead of being the fine old truck
horse he was in the Southern league
he became as willful as a pritna
donna. If his support was not gilt
edged. he sulked. Frequently he
jumped back to his piano moving
in Pittsburg. Every time an op
portunity offered, he would de
clare lie had forsaken baseball for
the prize ring and a challenge to
Jeffries or Johnson or whoever held
the palm at the time would forth
with issue, and the scribes would
have spoil withal.
v Traded to Boston for Lord.
In short, he tried to outrube
Waddell. His usefulness to the
White Sox soon became less than
nothing. Comiskey was tickled to
death when he traded him to Bos
ton for Harry Lord. He lasted but
a season with the Red Sox. and
then drifted to the National league,
answering roll call at Cincinnati.
He was never again effective, and
last season dropped completely' out.
But say he isn't still a great
pitcher in Birmingham and you’ll
have everybody to fight, from Os
<-ir Underwood to the lowliest don
key driver in the darkest coal mine
in Jefferson county.
tai number of points that have been
scored against it to date. Papers
everywhere publish from time to
time a list of the scores of va
rious football teams, and the onlV
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.
Wliy not express that relation
ship either in fractional 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.
1 make this suggestion to the
sport writers with no thought of
criticism for the tables they are
accustomed to publishing, for those
also 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. I. A. A.
teams as an example of this. In
the mere matter of points! scored,
they stand thus (I give first the
points they have scored and then
those scored against them);
Vanderbilt, 331 to 3.
Tennessee, 207 to 33.
Sewanee, 195 to 6.
Auburn, 103 to 19.
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
FIVE FAMOUS MARES, SOLD
FOR $50,000, GO ABROAD
LEXINGTON, KY„ Oct. 28.—L. H.
Cooke, former trainer for Lucky Bald
win. but for the past three years one of
the "Yankee Colony” in France, and at
present in the employ of George Jay
Gould, has arrived here and will leave
soon in charge of the five thoroughbred
mares that Mr. Gould has just pur
chased from James R. Keene for $50,-
000. The mares are Fairy Slipper, dam
of tlie Rock Sand colt, for which Ed
ward R. Bradley paid $14,000 in Sep
tember; Curiosity, dam of the great
horse Novelty; Bituriea, dam of the
Futurity winner Maskette; Swiftfoot,
daughter of St. Simon and Lady Reel,
and Deity, by Disguise out of Isis.
DAVIS CUP MATCHES SET
FOR NOVEMBER 28-29-30
NEW Y<>RK, Oct. 28. The Davis cup
tennis match will he played November 28,
29 and 30 at Melbourne, Australia, accord
ing tu official advices received from Lon
don. The series will be the eleventh of
the international competition for the cup,
which was offered by Dwight E. Davis,
an American. The British challenging
team, composed of C. P. Dixon, J. C.
Parke, F. G. Lowe and A. E. Beamish, is
already at Melbourne and will have a
month’s practice on the courts there.
America is not to be represented this
yeai-.
A. A. ADOPTS LIMIT. BUT
DOESN’T TELL ABOUT IT
CHICAGO, Oct. 28. Club owners of
the American association mot here yeater
day to discuss the salary lirr.it of the
association for next year \fter a five
hour session behind closed doors, it was
announced that a limit bad been named
snd would be enforced but the amount
«.«s not made known, though it is sup
posed to be $6,090
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 10.15 S ~
Tennessee 6.273
Tech 4.06 6
Clemson 3.48 S
Alabama 3.231
Georgia 1.418
Mercer 910
It will be observed that the rang
ing changes considerably under
this system. Sew’anee goes to sec
ond place, instead of third; Clem
son drops from fifth to sixth; and
Tech comes up from last to fifth,
while Georgia drops from seventh
to eighth. It is only justice to note,
tn Georgia’s case, that Coach Cun
ningham’s team has 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 bat over the head
for their efforts that must come
later, and It’s highly gratifying to
everybody connected with the team
I hazarded no guess as to the
outcome of the Florida battle
which we won on Saturday. It i
wortl% noting that Florida defeat
ed South Carolina by 10 to 6. whil«
North Carolina defeated the South
Corilnans by only 9 to 2, which
would seem to put Florida almost
on a par with North Carolina, If
that is the correct measure 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.
GORDON PLAYS G. M. A
MILLEDGEVILLE. Oct. 28. The Gor
don institute and Georgia Military col
lege football teams-meet here this after
noon.
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