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Vandy Has Tough Game Saturday With Harvard
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(Tech Team Seems Likely to Lose to Sewanee
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By Percy 11. Whiting.
ONE sentence of the story of
the Harvard-Princeton game
that was flashed from t arn
bridge Saturday afternoon brought
sorrow into the estimable tamlh "I
■'Brlckley—wherever it may be r>
Siding—but It WHS a glad tiding to
Dixie. The sentence was.
"Brickley was hurt on the play
that gave Harvard its last touch
down, and will hardly be able to
play before the Yale game.”
If thia report proves true, Van
derbilt’s chances of holding Har
vard next Saturday are vastly in
hanced.
Tim coming Saturday doesn't of
—ter anything very thrilling In a
football way. To Dixie fans In gen
eral there Is just one BIG game
and that will not be played In
Dixie It will lie staged in <’am
bridge, where Vanderbilt hooks up
• with the official gridiron represen
tatives of old J. Harvard, long
since deceased.
Ah has been alleged before, Van
derbilt picked out a rotten bad
year to play Harvard. Eor years
and years, when Harvard hasn't
had a poor team, it has had a
good team that played poorly,
which was much the same thing.
But this year they have an eleven
up there which either wasn't pick
ed for family or social reasons, or
else the society guys are stacking
up stronger than usual this year.
Anyhow, It Is the best Harvard
team of recent years- not Improb
ably the best team Him ird ever
had.
In fact, M. F. Delano, manager of
the Owen Poultry Farm, who was
here last week for the poultry show
and who was a football player lor
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in earllet days, told me
this:
"I’ve seen Harvard plaj this
j year. I have seen every Harvard
Rteani for the last twenty years. 1
have seen most of the big Eastern
teams of the same period. I be
lieve not only that it is the best.
Harvard team, but it is likely to
be ranked the greatest football team
of all time.” Which I.' going some.
So It will lie admitted that Van
derbilt Is playing Harvard the
wrong year, just as it is refraining
from playing Michigan a year when
it could tie kinks in tie Wolver
ines.
But Brickley’a being out w ill make
a difference. He Is the big man "f
the team, one of the .big football
players of all time.
Eiren with Htii kl/ j out \ amici
blit has little chance of making a
good showing. Harvar d bt at Prim e
ton Saturday. 16 to <i That is a
tremendous beating. And the team
. .that lost is a corking good one. The
■ Crimson team is a Tartar. It ought
to roll up from four to six touch
downs on Vanderbilt. If the Com
modores cun hold them down to ~n
advantage of three touchdowns It
will be a credit able show ing
Harvard show ed weakness tn Sat
urday's game In an inability to
put up a aucveHs.fi, . .-fens, .gainst
the forward pas. it this weak
ness continue- Vanderbilt will
score. The <'oll,lllo.lores hav. never
tailed to pull off Mime long forward
passes In a critical game when the
rules allowed long ones. McGugln
is likely to uncork some of his old
fifty-yard passes against Harvard
• • •
ep HE best gain. played in ti.e
next Saturday, and one of
inteiest to Atlantans and
SgfrVKiat.' v-l" I" -
and Tech. which win be
at Ponce 1 u Lem.
Saturday Georgia ami x, .. n ,
; played a fnrt'tft N-'vt siiiir. w .-
gtune Will' .llisd'et I tl- 1. h is
[ question.
Has Tech any chance with Geor
gia?
Apjiaiently the answer is going to
lie: "NO."
Saturday the Jackets got their
first beating. Auburn administered
it, and the score was 27 to 7.
The Tech team showed a mar
velous offense.
In my opinion, the South never
had a team of its weight that had
llu offense of Tech this year. It
Is mad. up of midgets, on the de
fense it .an do but little, for it
takes weight to put up a defense.
But on offense the team is a mar
vel. What it lacks in weight it
makes up not only witli speed, but
witli variety of attack.
Auburn showed well Saturday.
Said Tom Bragg, the graduate
manager, w lieu the game w as over:
"It's all right. We're coming
The team started slow, but it is
progressing fust. It ought to be one
of Auburn's best teams.”
This seems like a truthful pre
diction Tiie Auburn team is with
out sensational stars—but it is a
better tiling: it Is a team, a mass
"f eleven players welded together
and working as one machine. It
lias not been rounded into condition
yet. They are holding it back to
liave it in shape for the Vanderbilt
game the Saturday before Thanks
giving.
Losing to Auburn was’no dis
grace to Teeli, and was only wliat
was to be expected. But. naturally,
Tech must show more strength to
win from Georgia.
On the other hand, tiie Georgia
team lias found itself it was a
demoralized collection of mueh
hanpnered individuals against Van
derbilt. It was onlj- part of a team
tin following Saturday against
Alaba ma.
Saturday Georgia came to life.
True, it succeeded only in tleing
Sewanee, nnd true also that if Geor-
ALWAYS PICK MATTY.
WALSH AND WAGNER
By Damon Runyon.
I-vtiSHIBLY it Is out of more
veneration to their years, but
the lay observer is struck by
tlie fact that all selections of star
baseball teams made by experts,
ball players, umpires, or mere fans
this season include tlte names of
those doddering old gentlemen,
Chris Mathewson, John Honus
W igner and Edxvardo Walsh.
These parties are veterans, as
bast ball goes, and they have s< en
many a xotithful star rise and also
fall during the past few years, but
somehow the . lose of every season
finds these aged birds In there,
being selected by those who love to
dope out paper ball teams. Walsh
is not as sentie as the 31-year-old
Mathewson or the 3x-x ear-old Ho
nus. but they are veterans none tile
les-, ami no youthful light has yet
been able to dim the luntei of
their t.row >w.
Mathewson, Wa.sh ami WagneC
How much would the average man
ager bid for this trio” Walsh, the
successor to Joe MctHtmity’s title
of "The Iron Man." is morel* in
his prime as 11 pltehei How’ long
Honus Wagner will last is some
thing that no man can answer. He
is a wonderful ball player today,
and age does not wither nor cus
tom stale in his pas, Mathew
son may be fading, but you don’t
convince ant one who -aw him
wo it in the world s set ies of that
fxl’t.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.MONDAY. NOVEMBER 4. ini-.
gia beats Auburn on Thanksgiv
ing day the race for the second
position in the S. I. A. A. will be a
hopeless tie, but It played ball.
Sewanee went to Athens confi
dently expecting to trounce Geor
gia as the Red and Black had not
been walloped, except for the Van
derbilt games, in tears. The moun
taineers were "sore” at the charges
of "ringing.” and besides they
knew they were strong. Coach
I'ope s men got away with a rush.
But after a bit they found them
selves against a defense as good as
their own and an offense that was
even a shade better.
Tiie recrudescence of the Red and
Black seems to mean that Georgia
will beat Clemson Thursday by
about as many points as they want
to score; that, they will trim Tech
on November 16 by two or three
touchdowns, and that they will giv*
Auburn a Joltful encounter on
Thanksgiving day.
• • •
q ATURDAY'S contests turned out.
In the main, about as was ex
pected. Georgia played unexpect
edly well against Sewanee, and
Harvard pinned it on Princeton a
little harder than was looked for.
Vanderbilt beat V irginia by about
the two touchdowns that were look
ed for. Mercer ran all over Co
lumbia, of Florida.
in the West, Minnesota beat Il
linois. and Wisconsin trimmed Chi
cago.
In the East. Penn State handed
tiie long suffering Pennsylvania an
other In the same spot, while Wil
liams did quite us much for that
chronic victim, Cornell, otherwise,
there wasn’t anything impressive
offered.
• » •
EXT Saturday, in addition to
1 ’ the games already mentioned,
Tennessee plays Mercer at Macon,
Alabama tackles Mississippi, and
Auburn plaj s L. S. U.
selections, is Napoleon Rucker, the
Brooklyn Express, greatest of all
left-handers (with apologies to
those who think that title should
go to Eddie Blank). True. Rube
Marquand is a wonderful southpaw.
So are Vean Gregg anti "Lefty”
Hamilton and George Tyler, but
they Imie yet to stand the test of
time as Napoleon Rucker has stood
it.
It is a tine tribute to the so
called veterans that thex are still
ranked among the leaders of their
kind in an era when new phe
noms ate of almost dally occur
rence.
SHAUGHNESSY BREAKS
WRIST IN SMITH BOUT
ROSWELL. N MEN . Nov , Uube
smith, of lienxer, and Pete Shaugime sy,
of Fort Worth, went five rounds at Clovis
last night Shauglinessx broke his wrlsi
in tl e tilth of a scheduled ten-round bout.
Shaughnessy broke the same wrist in
a tight with Jimmy Pern In Atlanta last
spring
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WOLGAST
NEW ORLEANS. .Nov. 4.—Joe
Mandot., the New Orleans
lightweight, who put Mexi
can Joe Rivers through the crush
er, is a 10 to 8 favorite in the bet
ting today for tonight’s tight with
Champion Ad Wolgast. There was
more money for Mandot in sight
than Wolgast followers would cover
at evens.
A host of followers of the game
have arrived from Chicago, St.
Louis and Memphis.
The principals had their last
work-outs Saturday, and yesterday
was a day of rest witli them. Ed
W. Smith, sporting, editoi of The
Hearst Chicago American, visited
the camps of the men this morning
and gave them instructions.
Tom Jones, Wolgast’s manager,
and Eddie Munger will be in W qj v s ’■
gast’s corner, while Joe Manfit;?
will have “Hobo”
Robidlou and Tiaiipiyi- Walsh as
seconds. "" **' *
The champion expressed confi
dence in liis abilftii'. to'iknock Man
dot out. but the iisus of opin
ion is that the mill tvilY go the full
ten rounds. A few wagers at 1 to 2
have been made by Mandot's ar
dent supporters'tfyl, local fight
er will score a knockout, and not a
few even bets have been made that
Mandot will get a majority vote in
the unofficial decision which will be
rendered by the local sport writers.
Wolgast announced he would
gladly nici’i Packey McFarland in a
finish match without insisting on
the latter weighing in at the ring
side.
700 HORSES FOR RACE
MEET AT JAMESTOWN
NORFOLK. VA., Nov. 4.—That turf-
I men all ovfer the United States believe
the racing plant of Jamestdwn Jockey
club is destined to become the leading
track in tiie country is evidenced by
the announcement that fully 700 horses
will be entered for the fall meeting,
which atpens November 13 and will
continue sixteen days.
In this lot of horses are some of the
best sprinters in the land. August Bel
mont will send a string of sprinters
which will keep the colors of the for
mer New York track owner to the
front in several races. Rockview, which
broke the track record for two-year
olds at Laurel, is in the string.
t'.uy Bedwell, with Lochiel, Prince
Ahmed and a score of other high-class
steppers, will also be on hand. William
Garth, with a string of 25 jumpers and
; sprinters, will be a contender for honors
in races on the fiat and over the jumps.
Garth’s Jumpers are considered the
equal of any that ever went over the
hurdles.
Thomas E. Ryan will have eight of
his best horses. Mr. Ryan's horses,
all tired in Virginia, are a source of
considerable pride to the lovers of horse
I llesh in Gid dominion.
MURPHY WANTS “LEAGUE”
FOR SHORTSTOP TINKER
CHICAGO, Nov. 4. 1 »o. ■ in. Bea
Hoblitzel and Marsans that’s all Pres
ident Mutphy, of the Cubs, wants for
Joe Tinker. When Johnny Eveis. new
manage . comes back to tali' op ids
‘ duties, h. w ill lie instructed io get these
I men, o. keep Tinker. If Evers can
make the tradi Murpiit says then is
nothing to stand in the way of Tinker’s
managing the Cincinnati Reds
“There could be no better medicine
than i’hahiberlaln’s Bough Remedy. My
children were all sick with whooping
cough. One of them was in bed, had a
high fever and. was coughing up blood.
' >ur doctor gave them <'hamberlain’s
, '’"Ugh Remedy and' tbe first do«b . nsed
| them, ami thr< ■ bottles cured them.”
I vs W s It. A Houaldson. of l.exlng
; '"ii Mis- I’.", -all l>\ all dealers.
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Twenty-Five Greatest Southern League Players
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No. B—Pratt Made Good Despite Family Tree
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
No Southern league player ever suc
ceeded in baseball with more handicaps
than Derrill Pratt.
"Strange, 1 never noticed any serious
bar to this young gent's career," the
bugs will say. "He has the build of a
ball player. He possesses the nerve of
a hungry bull dog. He has the speed
of a runaway locomotive. He can hit
so hard it hurts. He can think with
our best philosopher's. Then why the
handicap?”
Gentle reader, the secret lies in the
fact that Mr. Pratt succeeded in the
Southern and then tn the majors, de
spite the predictions of every one of his
home friends that he was going to be
a star and tried to make his baseball
journeys a personally conducted tour.
Pratt started in the Southern league
with Montgomery in 1910. He was fresh
from the classic portals of the Uni
versity of Alabama, where lie had been
more than a prominent citizen as cap
tain of baseball and football teams,
of cotillions and stroke
bar or something in the glee club.
After he had performed all the feats
of heroism that college life affords, he
turned his thoughts to more serious
things, among them being baseball as a
FODDER FOR FANS
Charles Corniskey, byway of a little
publicity, has announced that he will pay
Frank Chance $20,000 a year as manager.
Fat chance that Murphy will let him go
to the White Sox at any price.
« • ■
Charley Murphy’s agitation for fear he
will not get Mike Dolan to play short
stop for his Cubs is amusing. Charley
in effect owns both clubs.
• • •
An announcement In a Pittsburg pa
per says that Bud Sharpe, the old Pi
rate first baseman, who has managed the
Oakland team this year, has been or
dered to quit the game by his doctor,
and that he has decided to do it. The
story says that Sharpe "expects to go to
Georgia and that he will probably scout
for the Boston Nationals.”
• • •
The Boston Americans are capitalized
at 8100,000. They made almost half again
more than that on the world's series
alone.
« * »
Catcher Meyers is buying a ranch at
Riverside, Cal.
• * «
It seems that after all Mordecai
Brown's sale to Louisville has not been
completed. The Colonels refused to turn
over the purchase money until they were
sure that Brown would play with them.
• • •
The Terre Baute club has offered M.
Brown the management and a part own
ership of the club.
■ • •
J. Evers, manager, says that he will
not let J. Tinker go to Cincinnati for
anything yet offered him in the way of a
trade. Included in the list the Reds were
willing to give up for Tinker were Phe
lan and Almeida, both former Barons.
• • •
With a certain appreciation of the fit
ness of things, the Illinois Athletic club
waited until Charles' Murphy, the pro
hibitionist mogul, was away before it
started tiie tank season.
• * •
Kre»l Snodgrass will be kept by Mc-
Graw as an advertisement. He committed
the rnost’coltly rrr«>r in the world.
• • •
The death of Vice President Sherman
recalls the fact that he was a tremendous
fan. a warm supporter of the Washington
team, and that, even though a fatally sick
man. he received the world's series bul
letins with the greatest interest.
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Things have come to an awful paAs with
the Highlanders when they let Tommy
McM-illan go and keep "Slowfoot Jack'’
Lellvelt.
if the National league lets "Foolish"
Porto Rico’s New Wonder.
From far-away Port" Rico come re
ports of a wonderful nev discoverj- that
i.< believed will vastly benefit the peo
ple. Ramon T. Marclian, of Barce
loneta. writes: “Dr. King's New Dis
covery is doing splendid work here. It
cured me about five times of terrible
coughs and colds, also my brother of a
severe cold In his cheat and more than
twenty others who used it on my ad
vice. We laqe this great medicine will
yet b<- s ild In every drug store iu Porto
Rico." Fo ; - throat and lung troubles ft
lias no ■ quiil. V trial n ill convince vou
of its mo it. sh, and sl,oo Trial bot
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method of livelihood,
Pratts Are Big Folks.
Over in Alabamit the Pratt clan is
numerous and influential. Inasmuch as
there is a town named Prattville that
boasts a family of Pratts reputedly
possessed of enough of this world’s
goods to keep a whole pack of wolves
from all the doors in a city of consid
erably larger proportions than Pratt
ville, there are lots and lots of folks
that insist on claiming kin with the
family of which Derrill Is now the most
famous member.
It was a considerable shock in polite
Alabama circles when it became known
that this dashing young aristocrat was
to become a professional ball player.
They aren't educated enough yet in
Alabama to recognize that nowadays
the list of hired athletes reads like a
blue book —more or less.
But Derrill cared not e whoop for
the shock to society, nor did Pratt
pere. The elder Pratt was to a large
degree responsible for his son’s career.
He had taken an enthusiastic interest
in his offspring’s feats as a gridiron
warrior and when he suggested base
ball Papa Pratt was enthusiastic in
telling the son to go forth and make
people forget Hans Wagner. During
Derrill's time in the Southern league
Fogel get away with his present play
against Lynch and the impfres it will
go down in the estimation of the fans to
a point not less than 5 degrees below con
tempt.
• • *
Charley Murphy has wrecked what was
left of the Cub machine. That means that
the race next year Is between the Giants
and th» Pirates.
a • *
Considering how many ball players and
umpires have gone in for vaudeville this
winter leads to the suspicion that the
theatrical moguls be hard put to it to
fill the programs.
A A A
There's only one thing worse than a
ball player In vaudeville and that's a bait
player in "legit.”
AAA
Jimmy Block has served notice on Mil
waukee that he does not play next year
unless he gets as much aa Corniskey gave
him. Which is foolish. If be was worth
what "Commey" gave him he'd still be
in the big leagues. At that Jimmy is
making good money scraping the tops off
suds. So he doesn't worry.
• • •
Reports arrive from San Francisco that
Buck Weaver has turned up there and
that he admits that he Is a regular short
stop. He states that nobody in the big
leagues has anything on him. This is, of
ourse, glad news to the baseball fans
of the coast.
AAA
Jackson and Graney are sure of out
field positions with the Naps next year.
The other job Is uncertain. Tim Hen
dryx has been passed up and the chance
lies among Ryen, Liebold and Beall. If
none of the three conies up to specifica
tions Joe Birmingham will play it him
self.
AAA
J. Kling points out that before John M.
Ward resigned the Boston Braves won
25 games and lost 65. and that after he
resigned they won 27 and lost 36. Ward
isn't popular with Kling.
AAA
Clark Griffith's salary has been raised
from $7,000 to SIO,OOO.
AAA
Nap Lajoie and his wife toured two
weeks tn the East after the baseball sea
son ended and then went back home to
Cleveland for the winter.
AAA
President Janies Gaffney, of the Boston
Braves, says that he will not interfere at
ail with George Stalling.- Thev all
say It.
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“Old Man” Pratt tagged along with tin
Montgomery team almost as conscien
tiously as Bill Sticney.
Pratt Played—and Danced.
And there was the rub. All the home
fans knew the young infielder well
enough to call him by his first name.
Alabama alumni used to give a couple
of college yells every time Pratt went
to the plate. He danced with the bluslii.
ing buds of Montgomery as regularlj
as he donned his spiked shoes each aft -
ernoon.
Any ball player will tell you that this
is the poorest sort of start for an ath
lete. But Pratt, being a wise young
person, did not have his head turned.
He just played ball.
His Rise Was Brilliant.
In his first year he broke a shoulder
tendon in the practice season and his
arm did not recover for months. Ed
Greminger farmed him out in the Cot
ton States league and the next year he
reported to Johnny Dobbs in Montgom T ,
ery. Dobbs tried him at third base ami
shortstop and finally located him per
manently at second. His brilliant yep.;;
is of too recent date to mention.
He was sent to the St. Louis Browins
and with that lowly club, during his
first year in the majors batted bettei
than 300, all of.which is some record.
M’GRAW HIGHEST
PRICED MANAGER
IN BIG LEAGUES
Frank Chance's statement that he got
SB,OOO as manager of the Cubs was
something of a surprise, as it was gen
erally supposed that he got a yearly
stipend of not less than five figu
although it is presumed that his k
in the Cubs returned him enough to
him in the plutocratic class of basal
men.
Apparently, John J. McGraw is the
highest priced man connected wltii tin
game, so far as mere salary is con
cerned. McGraw is said to be getting
something like SIB,OOO a year, with a
long-time contract, and this is rea;
money.
When Bresnahan signed his four
year contract at St. Louis. Mrs. Brit
ton gave out a statement as to tic
Duke's yearly salary which caused a
laugh among baseball men. As it
turned out, Bresnahan was getting $lO.-
000 salary witli a percentage on th.
profits of the club.
Fred Clarke is supposed to be get
ting a higli salary, at least SB,OOO, it
not more. Connie Mack probably take
down more actual cash every year thar
any one else, but Connie’s interest ir
the Athletics puts him in the class ol
magnates.
It was supposed that Chance wat
getting at least $25,000 a year out of
the Cubs, counting salary and divi
dends. but his salary alone would have
been placed at over SIO,OOO by any
baseball man making an offhand gues“
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