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Jackets Have Three SnH Games in Eow---M’isf Go Some to Win Any
TECH SEEMS TO HAVE A CHANCE WITH 6EOMIA
By Percy 11. Whifijjo.
AUBURN against Teen, Georgia
age f ns l Sewanee, Mercer
against Columbia, Vandy vs.
Virginia- all next Saturday! Well.
It surely looks interesting. Sori of
makes a chap wish ho could be in at
least three places al once. and
preferably more.
The Tech team, the weakest. ap
parently, that has represented th
local technological school in year.-,
and advertised, w ith some cause, as
the lightest team of full-grown col
lege men in the world, has . .m d
thus far without a defeat. It his
beaten Citadel, Mercer, Aiibaina
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 some tiling doing!
Tech hasn't a very pleasant thi
weeks to look forward to. It will
take everything in the shop to pro
duct a creditable showing against
Auburn next Saturday. it will take
all of that, and maybe more, to do
anything wi .1 S. want e on the fol
lowing Saturday \nd the Satur
day after that November 16. <• im.es
the game with Georgia!
And right there is where friend
ship eeasi s
•p \V< > We _o it va - l ai d for
* body In I pa I t IS. ns of . lie
two Georg. -v.’ils to see any in
ter -t in the T, .di-Georgia game.
Right now it looks ■!;< a BIG AF-
I-'Xllt. in I . > w.eks more it may
look bud an tit
Right nor, i'.owe\e it appears
that Tech will c. rtainly have a
chance with G orgia. 'find you. 1
think Geor.ia will win. is almost
certain to v in. But Tech has a look
in. It may bo closed up tight by
tin 16th. But It isn't now.
Both teams in question have nu t
Citadel. Tech won 20 to 6. Geor
gia 33 to 0-a clear advantage for
Georgia. Roti met University of
Alabama. Tech won 20 to 3, Geor
gia 12 to 9 -which gives Teelt the
edge.
'.mateur followers of the dope 1
need not be led tar astray by that
pair.of Alabama scores. The Tus-
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i c.iloosam must hav< been a shade
off tin i gillie when tin y in. ■ Tee i.
i They certainly placed a vast.lv bet
ter game c.iinst fleorgia. The Red
and Flack players, on the other
hand. ,in below form In their Al
ab.-i'im ••• me. while ti Tuscaloosa
t< a:.i. a. a result of vigorous eoach
h was doing better work.
Tiie.'c neon s, .mi ~f other
tain;’,-', indicate that Tech has a
r.’il chance well Georgia nothing
to bank on and nothing to bet on,
but enough to maki the coining
Tech-Georgia gam* loom big as a
rial sporting event. Two weeks ago
it looked like an afternoon s stiff
exercise for Georgia. Two weeks
from now vn It, .. "1 nut guess
now. but. if imthir. h-ippens, we'll
tell how it looks I: ’er.
r • •
r pE<’H will undoubtedly give Au
burn a stiff • 'las next Satur
day. li :s hardly io be sup d
that the local team can win. They
haven't the weight and the power.,
and no matter how confusing their
lormations and how cleverly their
forward passes am’ trick plays are
. xeeu'ed. they are not at all liable
Io yet away v iti) th. lon- end. But.
then, tin rackets will play a st fff
game, giving the Alaouniu Polys tile
best in the shop- which Ims proved
I something good this yea 1 ,
Georgia Ims a tough game Satur
day a game that will have a di
rect bearing on the second place
ranking in the S. 1. V. A. this sea
son. Fur 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 g>t a
line on th.- comparative strength
of Sevvam i and Georgia. The;, both
played I niversity of Chatlanooga,
Sewanee winning 27 to <> and Geor
gia 33 tv 0. which isn't conclusive.
Otherwise, the dope on one hasn't
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SUNDAY BALL GETS MORE
PLAYERS INTO TROUBLE
NEW YORK. Oct. _'s. Tile crusade
started la.-t week by tile police against
Sunday baseball play mg by profi ssion-
jais was continued. Summonses were
served upon Josh In cur . Hal t'iiase.
Gouls Drucke and Cy Seymour, of Lar
ry Doyle's Giants, playing against the
Lincoln Giants, and Nick Altrock and
"Germany Schaefer," of an "All-Anier
iii’ti" team playing against the Metro-
I politans at another park. Each player
[ was ordered to appear in court today
SALLY LEAGUE ELECTS
OFFICERS THURSDAY
SA\ ANN \H. GA Oct 28.—President
IN. P Cornish, of the South Atlantic
, Baseball league. Ims called a meeting
of the league directors fcr Thursday
morning here Officers w ill be elected
and routine business transacted.
OAKLAND WINS PENNANT.
SAN FRANi'ISUO. Oct 28 By tak
ing the last two games of the season
from I.os Angeles yesterday. Oakland’s
baseball team won the Pacific < oast
II- gm pennant from Vernon by the
fi ai t ion of a g une
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run within miles of the dope on the
other -so comparisohs are difficult.
When McGugin was in Nashville
I asked him what about S< ranee.
"They are trong again this
y ear." said Dan
"Where did they get it?" watt
asked.
"Well, they have a good part of
la st vest's team back, they are well
coached and they have good men
in—” and then he rattled off a
string of names and gridiron rec
ords that didn't linger in the mem
ory. It was MeGngin’s opinion,
however, tr it Sewanee was several
imes as strong as last year.
Georgia usually plays good Dall
against Sewanee. If the team
plays up to its ability and if Mc-
Whorter is rigat. Cunningham's
team should cop. It will be noted
that there are two "ifs" in tiiat
sentence.
Twenty-Five Greatest Southern League Players
No. 4—Frank Smith Graduated From Piano Mover
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
rpHJIPERAAIENT is an attri-
| but, commonly possessed by
persons who sing or shoot
Shakespeare for the edification of
a low-browed public. When a ball
payer develops symptoms of this
" ui.'i ase tans and players begin to
'■all him a "bug" 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
-potlii'ht for a period a- brief as
a drunkard's pledge. He is sc, al
lowed by an oblivion as dark and
* IK suddont as ifw unexpected mes
sage of death.
The Southern league has pro
duced more than its quota of these
tempe a mental athletes. "Bugs"
Raymond's name will forever give
tlte South the questionable honor
of being is productive of wild and
woolly nastimers as it is of fleecy
cottcn.
But not many yi-ars ago a bug
flourished in Dixie, who made a
mark in the major leagues that
fandom will not soon forget, and.
despite his tempera merit, he re
mained in tile big leagues more
than the allotted time of a hurler.
He passed into the dark regions
of bush league life last year, but
for many a day his prowess will be
remembered where salaries tire the
size of a senatorial bribe and ath
letes partake of fleeting flame each
day just like it was then 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 h< was called to
higher duties. New Orleans will
swell its parlez vous chest ami
speak in glowing terms of Joe Jack
son. .Memphis throws fits when the
magic name of Jake Daubeit is
spoken. Atlanta can go to foam
ing at the mouth over Russ Ford,
! Jimmy Arche.. Ed Sweem-y. Nig
Clarke ami a half dozen others.
Nashville still remembers Hie day
when Ed Abbaticeldo performed
wonders tn Sulphur Dell. Chat
tanooga recently had a glow of
pride when Steve Veik> s did deeds
of derrindo in a w orld's series. The
name of Rube oidring is better
known in Montgomery titan tk*
name iis mayor answers to. .Mo
bile points with pride to Zach
Wheat.
But it you want an honest-to
il oodn.ss knockdown-and-drag -out
battle, just go within a radius of
20 miles of Birmingham and p o
fess ignorance of thi fact that
Frank Smith was a great baseball
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• CONGRATULATIONS !
: ARE DUE ATLANTA :
J MOTORCYCLE CLUB :
• —.—- •
• 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' beard finally •
• consented to allow races, and to- •
• day the members of that board are •
• so p*eased with 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 t'ack in the South. •
• Again—hats off to the Atlanta •
• Motorcycle club! •
• •
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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 tiiat the fans and scribes did
not stop at writing' him down a
"bug." He was -given tiiat 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,
w hen 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
tiian tl’.e classic forehead of the
fighting sailor man.
Birmingham had a pretty punk
party 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 began to
show his temperament.
Hi enjoyed being a whole bail
club. His mighty strength enabled
him to pitch about every Other day.
and lie enjoyed going in the box
belter titan a small boy enjoys
going in a mudhole in June. And
wh< u lie didn't pitch he played
somewhere else. He first based,
second based, third based in fact,
sang every pari in the infield, choir,
lid did outfield duty when occasion
demanded.
Wat a Slugger With the Bat.
And he did all these jobs well.
Though never a certain hitter, he
was one of the most dangerous
batsmen ever to face a hurler on a
Southern diamond. He aimed him
self with a war club as formidable
as that historic jawbone with
which Kid Samson routed armies,
and when he connected with 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 a home run. They
will tell you the ball did not hesi
tate at the center field fence, but
soared a- gracefully as a buzzard
ever Ihe Gib: altar-like s lac pile
and then on ami on to the top of
Red mountain, wheie it struck a
miner preparing to fire a cha ge of
Heisman's Weekly Comment on Football Games and Gridiron Affairs
NEW STUNT WITH FOOTBALL SCORES SUGGESTED
By J. W. 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
ball ;his 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 w-ithout 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 by the to-
dynamite. It is further recorded
that the miner, on recovering con
sciousness. was firmly convinced
that he had been the victim of a
premature 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 baseball
town ’n 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.
Tins 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. changeu. 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 etee 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 prlma
donna. If Ins support was not gilt
edged. he sulked. Frequently he
jumped back to his piano moving
in Pittsburg Every time an op
portunity offered, lie would de
clare he had forsaken baseball for
the prize ring and a challenge to
.Teffries or Johnson or whoever held
the palm at the time would forth
with issue, and the scribes‘would
have sport withal.
Traded to Boston for Lord.
In short, he tried to outrdbe
Waddell. His usefulness to the
White Sox soon became less than
nothing Fomiskey 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 lie isn’t still a great
pitcher in Birmingham and you'll
have everybody to fight, from Os
< tr 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 qf the scores of va
rious football teams, and the only
way they have ever, as yet, ar
anged 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.
Tito 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.
Why no; 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 i's 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
also are interesting, but I think the
above outlined plan would give
them something new and worth
while.
How 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 year* 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 Air. Gould has just pur
chased from James R. Keene for 350 -
000. The mares are Fairy Slipper, dam
of the Rock Sand colt for which Ed
ward R. Bradley paid $14,000 in Sep
tember; Curiosity, dam of the great
horse Novelty; Biturica, 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
XEV\ YORK, Oct. 28. The Davis cup
tennis intttch will be played November 28,
29 and 30 at Melbourne, Australia, accord
ing to official advic es received from Ixm
don. 'the aeries will be Hie eleventh of
the international competition for the cup
which was offered by Dwight F. Davis
an American. The British challenging
team, composed of C. P. Dixon. J. C.
Parke. E. 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 thii
year.
A. A. ADOPTS LIMIT. BUT
DOESN’T TELL ABOUT IT
<'IHCAG<>. < let. 28 -Club owners of
the American association met here vestcr
day to discuss the salary limit of the
association for next year. \fter a five
hour session behind closed doors, it was
announced that a limit had been ponied
and would be enforced, hut the amount
was not made known, though it is sup
posed to be $6,000.
scored by opponents into the num
ber of points scored by the teams in
question, and see what you get:
Vanderbilt nn .3 83
Sewanee 32 . 5011
Auburn 1016 g ’
Tennessee 6.373
Tech 4.016
Clemson 3
Alabama 3.231
Georgia 1
Mercer
It will be observed that the rank
ing changes considerably under
thia system. Sewanee 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
in 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 le
worth noting that Florida defeat
ed South Carolina by 10 to «, while
North Carolina defeated the South
Corlfnans by’ only 9 to $, 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 waa sup
posed, for everybody knows what
kind of football the Tarheels put ttp.
GORDON PLAYS 0. IM A.
MILLEDGEVILLB, Oct M.—The Ooe
don Institute and Georgia Military col
lege football teams meet here this after
noon
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