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Annual Meeting of Southern League Offers Little Excitement
ATLANTA’S DEMAND: ‘NO SHORT SATURDAY GAMES’
By Percy H. Whiting.
THE annual meeting of the
Southern league is due in a
month or so—and Indica
tions are that it will serve chiefly
as an excuse for Colonel Rick
Wood-ward to open a lot of dark
green bottles filled with bubbly
stuff Thia uncorking business will
doubtless be the main business of
the meeting
Os course, they will go through
the formality of re-electing Wil
liam M. Kavanaugh as president.
Sure!
The only thing that puzzles me is
why they' don’t elect him for life
and be done with it.
Judge Kavanaugh’s services this
year have pleased. He furnished a
fair staff of umpires and paid more
attention than usual to business.
Rut then If he hadn’t, they would
have elected him, anyhow. Tt's
chronic.
Then there’s one other thing they'
always do —they' discuss the salary
limit. They wouldn’t feel that they
had earned their pay if they didn’t
do that.
Os course, this salary' limit dis
cussion is purely academic. Only'
those clubs which can’t afford to
Jump the salary' limit pay- any at
tention to It anyhow. Rut still
they’ll discuss It.
Oh. yes, one more thing—they
will formally award the pennant to
i he Birmingham club. They go
through that formality every year,
too. And that'll he about all. ex
cept for the banquet that will be
given and the modified fire water.
Ah. surely 1t will be a great ses
sion 1
• ♦ •
PEAKING of salary' limits, it Is
probably a fact that the team
which won the pennant, Birming
ham, had the highest salaried club,
and that the Mobile team, which
made the most brilliant showing
next to the Barons, was the cheap
est.
Nobody supposes that the Barons
were under the limit or anywhere
near It. At that, they' probably
were far front the top record for
price. A lot of the Barone were
rank second-raters and were play
ing doubtless for small money. At
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the same time there were some
high-salaried men on the club—
Almeida, Prough and some other
former big leaguers.
The Mobile club, on the other
hand, was a cheap club. There is
no way of proving this, but every
body is willing to takeft as a fact
on suspicion. The combination of
Mike Finn and the Mobile treasury
doesn't sound expensive, somehow
Mike has been In the habit of turn
ing out cheap teams and the Mobile
club hasn’t been In the habit of
hiring any other kind.
Looking back over the late la
mented season the brave showing
of Finn’s team was the sensation of
the year. We all picked the Gulls
for last or thereabouts and It wasn’t
until the last month that anybody’
outside of south Alabama really be
lieved that Finn’s team would finish
in the first division.
• • •
QNB: thing will be up to President
Frank Callaway, of the Atlanta
club, and that will be to stand out
for a better schedule for tire At
lanta club. At that, we'll bet he
doesn't get it.
The chief kick on last year's
schedule was that Atlanta got a lot
of early Saturday games, so that
FODDER FOR FANS
So somebody has offered Ty Cobb $16.-
000 a year to buy cotton. Perhaps. Hut
what in the mischief does Cobb know
about cotton?
• * *
Very nice of McGraw to say he is go
ing to stick by Snodgrass—very tactful
and all that. But it doesn't give "Snoddv”
any come-back when "His Mugs" puts
the skids under him next season
...
Rewards offered for accurate informa
tion as to tlie whereabouts of the 1913
managers of the Cincinnati, Brooklyn,
St. Louis Nationals and Louisville
clubs There's money coming to ail of
them -when they are found.
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Confidentially, if you were the pros
pective manager of the Brooklyns, for
instance, wouldn’t vou hide?
...
Louis Hellbroner, well known in Dixie
as a big league scout, is likelv to be
named president of the Central league.
• « •
Columbus and Omaha will bld for the
1913 meeting of the National Association
of Minor I,eagues.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 31. 1912.
teams playing here that day could
catch early trains to some point
where they were scheduled to play’
Sunday games.
Now. it has happened for the last
two years that nothing has mat
tered much—early games, late
games, or no games at all. For the
team has been so supremely rotten
that nobody' cared a hang for the
games, anyhow. But suppose the
Crackers get in the pennant hunt
again—they have been there a
couple of times within the last ten
years, you will recall—think of the
hundreds, of the thousands of dol
lars, that will be lost if Saturday
afternoon games are called too
early .
This state of affairs has come
about because the Southern league
has acquired a false notion of the
importance of Sunday games as
compared with Saturday games. In
the Sunday towns they don't have
any attendance at all. to speak of,
except on Sunday. So they have to
play' up these games strong. At the
same time Atlanta —with a team
better than eighth—is the best Sat
urday town in the Southern league.
It should not get the worst of It.
There must be some way to devise
a scheme so that all the Saturday'
games are not cut into.
Charley Murphy says he wants players
nineteen or twenty to take the place of
most of his present team. It's good off
season conversation—but Imagine any
nfneteen-year-old boys taking the places
of Chance. Zimmerman, and those ginks!
• • •
The Phillies are trying to sell Gabby
Cravath to some class AA club, but the
price asked thus far has been too high.
• • •
Joe Tinker says lie would rather see
Hans Wagner perform than any other
player. "It makes me feel so young,"
says Joe.
• « «
Cy Forsyth, of Dallas, now the prop
erty of Chattanooga, is likely to add to
the gayety of the Southern league next
season—for so long a time as lie lasts.
Cy’ is a batter. Nobody ever denied that
—but a bug! Wow!
• * «
Somebody alleges that in searching for
speed and dash the managers are over
looking Toni .Needham, Tom,»they say.
can play two pair harder than’any man
in organized baseball.
ATHENS BELIEVES
SEWANEE TEAM
"RINGING"
ATHENS, GA., Oct. 31.—Al
though no official protest has
been made or will probably be
made by Georgia officials here,
there is a common belief that some
of the Sewanee players' records
should be investigated before fur
ther participation in S. I. A, A.
football. Besides it seeming an un
usual coincidence that such stars
as Moore, Dobbins and Sheldon
should decide to come so far to en
ter college. It is reported that one
star, on coming from Murfreesboro,
Pa., is to automatically forget his
name while playing in the South,
and is participating in Southern
athletics under an assumed name.
Coach Cunningham is putting his
warriors through gruelling work
outs this week in an attempt to
round the team in shape for the
game with Sewanee Saturday,
which is considered here as one of
the hardest on the Red and Black
schedule.
Athens Men Not in Condition.
For the first time since Cunning
ham took charge of Georgia athlet
tics, three years ago, he is having
trouble getting his men in the prop
er physical condition. In past sea
sons this has given the coaches but
little worry, and only a few times
last season was time taken out in
any game for a Georgia player.
This season, despite the up-to-date
training quarters that were estab
lished at the beginning of the prac
tice season, not only in practically
every game has some player been
knocked out, but in more than one
scrimmage has a sprained ankle, a
lame knee or a Charley horse been
developed.
“Not that Georgia Is begging off
on account of any disappointment
scores up to now or wishes to make
any advance apologies," remarked
Coach Cunningham when asked in
what shape his team would be for
Saturday, "but it is just to let
Georgia supporters know that the
team does not merit the criticism it
is receiving.”
Wheatley's Knee Is Bad.
Wheatley has had a sprained
knee for several weeks, and the
past few games he has played in
found him limping around support
ed with a brace, Parris and Du-*'
cas seem not to round Into form,
while Harrell and Sancken are now
hospital patients. So it has been
and continues to be, and of course
such conditions as these necessi
tate a continual change in the line
up.
DIA THOMAS’ SCALP
ANNEXED BY W. LEWIS
NEW YORK. Oct. 31.—Another for
eign scalp lias been annexed by an
American boxer. It is the tuft from
the head of Dia Thomas, middleweight
champion of England, and today it
hangs at the belt of Willie Lewis, who
beat the Briton tn ten rounds of fast
fighting at the New Forty-fourth
Street Sporting club last night.
Joe Jeannette, the Hoboken, N. J.,
heavyweight, had an easy time out
pointing Jim Johnson, another negro
heavyweight. Johnson had 28 pounds
advantage, but was a child in the skill
ful hands of Jeannette.
Jeannette goes to Australia next
month for several tights, one with Sam
Langford, for the heavyweight cham
pionship.
HORR. PURDUE'S COACH.
SUMMARILY DISMISSED
LAFAYETTE. IND., Oct. 31.—Coach
Marquis F. Horr, in charge of Purdue's
football squad, lias been summarily
dismissed by the university authorities
for "improper condui ■ "
Horr came from Northwestern uni
versity a yeai ago
Former Atlanta Sport Writer, Now at Harvard, Sizes Up Crimson Team
HARVARD EXPECTS SOFTCINCH WITH VANDERBILT
Ry JI dwell Foreman.
(Former Atlanta Newspaper Man,
Now a Student at Harvard.)
Harvard university,
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Oct.
31.—At Harvard Just now
the Crimson- gluttons are licking
their chops and casting hungry
glances at a team they' are to meet
November 9—Vanderbilt, the hope
of the South. The Johnny Har
vard® philosophize thusly:
“Just after a jaw-breaking chew
with Tai Pendleton’s braves from
Old Nassau, we will have one
palate-tickling delicacy' in this
sweet morsel from the South, from
whence all sweet morsels flow.”
And with that the hungry de
mons lick their chops, preparing to
roll the savory bit beneath their
greedy tongues. But there are those
from the South here who, after
Vandy’s recent wonderful showing,
are hoping that the Commodores
will interfere with Harvard’s di
gestion
Wendell’s Crimson warriors
whipped the Brown Bear to defeat
Saturday, but the victors showed a
weakness at line plunging, the
scores being made mainly' by Brick
'iey’s running and kicking. Whether
Coach Haughton is saving his line
plungers for next Saturday’s strug
gle with Princeton is unknown. He
will probably need all their power
then.
Harvard Won't Beat Best.
The Harvard eleven this year is a
wonderful organization, with drive
and power in the line, and speed
and brains in the backfield. But
Vanderbilt, having such a team as
she has, should certainly come to
Cambridge with high hopes of
crossing the Crimson goal line.
Harvard will have just finished a
tiresome, fatiguing game; men will
probably be injured. Certainly
Haughton, as usual, will use his
substitutes as much as possible.
The Crimson backfield this year
is one which by broken field run
ning as well as by, line plunging. Is
going to carry the’pigskin to many
big Eastern goals. Briekley, Hard
wick and Wendell! A trio of su
preme worth.
Percy Wendell, that two-fisted
demon line plunger who has made
the all-American team by his
crashing dives through lines sup
posed to be impregnable, has been
playing his usual great game. His
tremendous shoulder power gives
him a powerful stiff arm that is ca
pable of laying low the mightiest
tacklers.- Captain Wendell seldom
fails when called upon a buck
across for the last down.
Briekley was out of the game for
a few days last week. When I saw
him in the locker room directly
after his injury’. I feared that his
split gum might interfere with his
playing during the next few games.
But not so. The doctor has pro
nounced him sound, which condi
tion he has proven by his recent
marvelous work. Briekley is a
brilliant end runner. who, once
started, can carry the ball far and
wide.
Hardwick is perhaps Harvard's
most brilliant open field runner. He
has a dodge, twist and turn that
eludes tacklers in a manner almost
weird and uncanny. He is of great
service in returning punts, where,
by his shifty speed, he leaves in his
wake piles of spent tacklers, mys
tified by his magic dodging.
Gardner Weakest Behind Line.
Harry' Gardner, at quarter, is the
weakest man in the backfield. He
is not a great tackler nor tinner.
He is axfairly good field general,
however, which is about all needed
with the three other stars.
This backfield, I firmly believe, is
going to plough through Princeton
and Yale. It may fail to score, hut
a combination of throe such phe
noms -one a magnificent open field
runner and returner of punts, an
other a speedy end runner, and the
other a dusljing plunger— must
leave its mark.
This backfield, too, it must be
remembered, works behind a wall
of interference, a wonderful pro
tection. Coach Percy Haughton,
in secret practice, has an interfer
ence dummy - rigged up for the
players. Tills is used daily. The
men are taught to hurl themselves
before any tackler, anywhere, at
any time. To this practice of un
selfish team work must be credited
much of the success of Harvard's
backfield.
Vandy Has Fast Backfield.
Vanderbilt, like most of the big
Eastern teams, is this year blessed
with a fast backfield. Harvard’s
ends, consequently, will have their
hands full. The ends of the Crim
son. while not as high in average
as the backs, are good, safe play
ers. Sam Felton is an old, expe
rienced veteran. He is a savage
tackler and a great punter. Fel
ton's left leg is being counted on to
boot Harvard out of many a pie
carious position. Hollister, another
old end, was out on the field at
practices, but he tells me he is
still on probation. Coolidge. Froth
ingham, Milholland, O'Brien and
others are being groomed for the
other end.
Harvard's line lias been lighting
all the year with a determined
doggedness. The wall of defense
is as stable and tough as a barbed
wire fence. Composed of warriors
like Hitchcock, Storer, Trumbull
and Pennock, this defensive brigade
can hurl back the attack of the
hardest line plunger. The charge
made by the line is hard and low,
and the repulse delivered is severe.
There is no trouble here. The line
will fight, and fight well to the last
ditch.
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I expect to see Vanderbilt hold
Harvard to three or four touch
downs, with a possible score for
the MeGuginites.
Percy’ Haughton is not going to
extend his team on the Saturday
after the Princeton game. Wt ri
del! and Hardwick will probable be
out of most of the game. Several
linemen will probably be preserved
tor later use. This custom has been
consistently followed by the Crim
son coaches. They took on Van
derbilt for an easy struggle just
after the terrible Princeton Cash,
and they are not going to work
their heroes hard to roll up a big
score on the Commodores.
Commodores' Hardest Game.
Vanderbilt, on the other land,
will be up against its hardest game
of the season. But Hardage and
Collins should certainly he able to
slip over several long runs
If Haughton runs in some subs,
and then if Vandy pulls a couple of
successful foryvard passes, a score
for the Nashvillians should result.
There is. Indeed, no reason why
Vanderbilt should not get away
with some passes and trick plays.
Williams, as soon as Haughton sent
in his subs, unwound five success
ful’ forward passes, making a
threatening march toward the
Crimson goal. The Vanderbilt boys
should have a better aggregation
than the Williams crew.
BASKETBALL GAMES V'ANTED.
The basket ball five of Company H
is now organized and has several dates
to fill. Managers with fast liv< s un
der their wings kindly adilr< ss .Man
ager Maurice L. Levine, Company H,
Seventeenth infantry, Fort McPher
son, Ga. Games are desired away from
home.