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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. Amateur followers of the dope need not be led far astray by that pair of Alabama scores. The Tus- I If You Are. Buying a Truss RE.ME.MBEK ihui if it doesn't tit properly, it •w ill not only rub and chafe and hurt, but it may result in a very dangerous condition. Don't ever take chances with ihildt en's trusses. Jacobs’ Pharmacy Has the Best Equipped Truss Department in the South, and by lac the largest stock of ’frusaos, Elastic Hosiery. Belts. Bandage.-. Abdominal Supporters. et< At our Main Store we hate Private Pitting Rooms, quiet and secluded, with mitt and women attendants, and the best professional advice is alwa>» at your command free of charge Rupture Is serious. Always set the best profr«ional service -at Jacobs' Pharmacy. Ji costs no more. Jacobs 1 Pharmacy Atlanta, Go. 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 i 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 ••••••••••••••••••••••••a* • 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 eoeeeeeeeeooeeoeoeeeeoeeee 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. CLEAN OUT YOUR KIDNEYS AND BLADDER Get Rid of Backache, Pains in Bones, Straining, Swelling, Etc. The kidneys and bladder need * stimulant to expel the accumulation’ of sugar and uric acid which lodge in these delicate organs and which accumulations cause so much misery- Stuart’s Buchu and Juniper Compou™ is made for just such a purjiorc I■" remedy cleans out the kidneys ana bladder like hot water cleans oui grease. 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