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fluff’s Work Was a Trifle Lumpy :: :: :: :: :: :: ■'•' •• By “Bud” Fisher .. 1 twe <sotta vo n toclcan '> to rntse fAxsetr. / naptha H n ' D ' You try «n mc ahmonia, not 1 .«> CL_>_a- 'CLILLL/ • O • V “— < - «*v> — _ [■ j£> 'iF; „ r± *4 ' \ ----——'- i (~g | rtTL M fa a z® 5 y£> !■ g? Sr ihx3 si iw h-m wp mm WJiiF#- ■ wl $■ if 131*4 mI fv rfj*. * l HtcT \ ®n wiiHfc "' ? . Af/i iB®W JSfer 4 "**“• *P 3» ,| . - -- ■ —.-- . - S// //W'S' /// ■' ' F co^r.e J6 -!929. &■* & AtU* CO ... Vandy Has Tough Game Saturday With Harvard +•+ +•+ •!••+ •!•••!• +•+ •!•••[• •?••+ •!•••!• (Tech Team Seems Likely to Lose to Sewanee —— • 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. •to :■ ■ ~0i|... .IPX. x,’ i ■ r hi. -. mum tippears in .ill 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 K aaai ■> > , . m , _ , RACES OFF AT MINERAL SPRINGS FOR THIS YEAR MINERAL SPRINGS. INI., No. 4 There will be no more racing this year at the Springs race track. Forty-live days’ racing will bo provided lit 1913, be ginning about June 15 and ending Octo- $19.35 WASHINGTON and RETURN Via SEABOARD ll'. Niivembei Xtl. )o It’ll, limit 1 . in l " i Ist. Full inform.!tion |c>t> 'l’jeket > ifti. .XX la. I.t | <.X.I \i . NIfiNDOTIO-TO-8 GHOIGEOVER 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. i tdvt i Twenty-Five Greatest Southern League Players -r**-? •b*4- vY’b "i’**;" •!•••£• 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. * « « 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 '!• ’ ••• Hua in.' cd hi .. . . uggls'.s. 1 Adv' 1 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. MARTIN MAY >5 ' 19% PEACHTREE STREET UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES y FOR SALE “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“ at it. BLOOD POISON Plies and Rectal Diseases. CURED TO STAY CURED. By a true specialist who possesses the ex perience of years—the right kind of experi ence-doing the same , thing the right way ' hundreds and perhaps thousands of times with unfailing, perma nent results. No cut ting or detention from business. Don't yon I think it's about ■ £ to get the right treatment? I GIVE 606. the celebrated German prepara tion for Blood Polson and guarantee results. Come to me. I will cure you or make no charge and ’ will make my terms within your reach I cure Vari cocele. Hydrocele, Kidney, Bladder and Prostatic troubles, Piles. 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