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Vandy Has Tough Game Saturday With Harvard
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Tech Team Seems Likely to Lose to Sewanee
By Percy 11. Whiting.
ONE sentence of the story of
the Harvard-Princeton giime
that was flashed from I’uiii
bridge Saturday afternoon brought
sorrow into the estimable family of
Brickley—wherever it may be re
siding—but it was 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 this report proves true, Van
derbilt’s t lianci s of holding Har
vard next Saturday ar* vastly en
hanced.
The coming Hatuitluy doesn't of
fer anything very thrilling in a
football wuy. To Dixie tans in gen
eral there is just one BIG game
and that will not be pktved in
Dixie. It will be staged in t'mii
bridge, where Vanderbilt books up
with the official gridiron represen
tatives of old .1 Harvard, long
since deceased
As has been alleged before. Van
derbilt picked out a rotten bad
year to play Harvard For 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 Harvard ever
had.
In fact, M. F. Delano, manager of
the Owen Poultry Farm, who was
here last week for the poultry sliov
and who was a football player for
the Massachusetts Institute of
- Technology in earllet days, told me
this:
"I’ve seen Harvard play this
year I have seen every Harvard
team for the last twenty years. 1
have seen most of the big Eastern
teams of the same period. 1 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 is going some
So it will be admitted that Van
derbilt is play ing Harvard the
wrong year, .hist as it is retraining
from playing Michigan a year when
it could tie kinks in tin* Wolver
ines.
But Brickley s being out will make
a difference. He is the big man of
the team, one of the big football
players of all time.
Even with Brickley out. Vandei
blit Ims littl*- chance o: making :
good showing. Harvard beat Prim
ton pi turday. 16 to b Th it I- a
tremendous beating. Xnd th* team
that lost is a corking good on* Tin
Crimson team is a Tartar It ought
to roll up from font to six touch
downs on Vanderbilt. If tne Com
modores can hold them down to an
'advantage of three touchdowns it
will be a creditable show ing
Harvard showed w< uluie.** in Sat
urday's game in an inability to
put up a successful defeus, against
the forward pass. ft this w.nk
nes continues. Vanderbilt will
score. The Commodores have nevet
failed to pull <»ff some 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.
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THE best game play,*. .ii .hr
South next Saturday. and one ot
>*•• uJiar interest to Atlantans uu*i
Georgians will be that between S>-
wane? and Teeth, which will be
| played at Pom e D*L>on
' Saturday Georgia and s, mee
play* d a hot tie Nevi Saturday's
game will answei tin- ,r* uiendcms
durst lon
Has Tech any chance with G®or*
gia?
Apparently the answer i ■ going to
be: "NO.”
Saturday the Jackets got then
first beating. Auburn administered
It, and the score was 27 to 7.
The Tech team showed a mar
velous offense.
In my opinion, the Soutli never
liad a team of its yveiglit tliat had
the offense of Tech this year, it
Is made up of midgets. On the de
fense it cun do but little, for it
takes weight to put up a deflmsi .
But on offense tin* team is a mar
vel, What it lacks In wplght it
makes up not only with speed, but
with variety of attack.
f'.tburn showed well Saturday.
Said Tom Bragg, the graduate
manager, when the game was over:
its all right. We're coining
The team started slow, but it Is
progressing fast. It might to be one
of Auburn's best teams.”
This seems like a truthful pre
diction. The Auburn team is with
out sensational stars but it is a
better* thing; it is a team, a mass
of eleven players welded together
ind working as one machine. It
has not been rounded into condition
yet. They are holding it back to
have it in shape for the Vanderbilt
game the Saturday befor. Thank.-
giving.
Losing to Auburn was no dis
grace to Tech, and was only what
was to be expected. But. naturally.
Tech must show more strength to
win from Georgia.
Cm the other hand, the. Geoigia
team has found itself. It was a
demoralized collection of mueh
haminered individuals against Van
derbilt. it was only part of a team
Hie following Saturday against
Alabama.
Saturday Geoigia came to life.
Tine, it succeeded only in tieing
Sewanee, and true also that If Geor-
3 DODDERING PLAYERS
STILL WORLD'S BEST
By Damon Runyon.
|~x OSSilil. Y it is out of mete
veneration to their years, but
tlie lay ol’ erver is struck by
t!><- fact that all selections of star
baseball teams made by experts,
ball players, umpires. or mere fans
ifiis season include the names ol
ho' doddering old g-nil'm-m.
* *ll'i Mathewson, John Bonus
\\ ann. am Edwatdo Walsh.
These parties are veteran', a‘
baseball goes, and they ha' e seen
mii .' v .toothful star rise and also
‘'all during the past few years but
somehow the close of ever.' season
finds these aged birds in there,
being sel> eted by tlio.se who love to
dope out paper ball teams. Walsh
is not as senile as the 31-yetu-old
Mathewson or the 3S-year-old Bo
nus, but they are veterans none the
less. a.id no youthful light has yet
been able to dim the luster of
I heir prow ess
Mathewson Walsh and Wagner!
Bow much would the average man
ager bid for this trio? Walsh, the
successor to Joe McGlnnlty’s title
of “The Iron Man." is merely in
hts prime as a pitcher. How long
Bonus Waguei will last is some
thing that n > man can answer He
is s wonderful ball pluyer today,
and age does not wither nor vus
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I’HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEVVS..MONDAY. NOVEMBER 4. 1912.
gia beats Auburn on Thanksgiv
ing day the aw* for tin* second
po.-itlon in the S. I. A. A. will be a
h peless tie. but it played ball.
S wanee went to Athens confi
dently ixpecting to trounce Geor
gi as the Rod a; ( | Black had not
b<<*u w,i1)0j,.-ii, ev ept for the Van
derbilt games, in years. Tin* moun
taineers were "sore" al the charges
of "ringing.” and besides tliey
knew they were strong. Coach
Cope's men got away witii a rush.
But after a bit tliey found them
selvt s against a defens’e as good as
their own and an offense that was
even a shade better.
Tile lee! udescenei of the Red and
Black seems to mean that Georgia
will beat Clemson Thursday by
about as many points as they waul
to score: that they will trim Tech
on November tti by* two or three
touchdowns, and that they will give
Auburn a joltfill encounter on
Thanksgiving day.
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g? ATi’RDA Y'S contests turned out.
in the main, aoout as was ex
pected. Georgia played unexpect
edly well against Sewanee, and
Ha i vard pinned it on Princeton a
little harder than was looked for.
\ underbill beat Virginia by about
the two touchdowns that were look
ed for, Mercer ran al) over Co
lumbia. of Florida.
In the West, Minnesota beat Il
linois. ami Wisconsin trimmed Chi
cago.
In the East, P**mi State handed
the long suffering Pennsylvania an
other in the same spot, while Wil
liams did quite as much for that
chronic l ictiin, Cornell. Otherwise,
there wasn’t anything impressive
offered.
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Ni EXT Saturday, in addition to
1 ' ’he games already mentioned.
Tennessee plays Mercer at Macon.
Alabama tatk’es Mississippi, and
Auburn plays L. S. V.
tom stale in his ease. Mathew -
son may be failing, but you don’t
convince any one who saw him
work in the world’s series of that
net.
Still another comparative vet
j < ran. w hose name appears in all
| selections, is Napoleon Rucket. the
Brooklyn Express. greatest of al!
left-handers (with apologies to 1
| t lose who think that title should I
eo to Eddie Plank). True. Rube I
i Maixtuard is a wonderful southpaw.
I So arc Yean Gregg and "ix'fty"
Hamilton ami George Tyler, but
they have yet to stand the test of
time as Napoleon Rucker has stood
it.
It is ,a line tribute to the so-
called veterans that they are still I
ranked among the leaders of their j
kind in an era when new phe- i
noms are of almost daily occur
rence.
President James Gaffney, of the Boston ■
Braves, says that he will not Interfere at
i all with George Stallings. They all |
say it.
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CHOICE OVER
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 X favorite in the bet
ting today for tonight's* light with
Champion Ail Wolgast. The e was
more money lor Mamlot in sight
than Wolgasi followers would cover
at evens.
A host of followers ..'• the game
have arrived from Chicago, St.
Loui- ami Memphis.
Tile principals >*.*i<! their last
work-outs Saturday. ami yesterday
was a day of rest w ith them. Ed
W. Smitii, .--poitine editor of The
Hearst Chicago American, risitii
the camps of the men this morning
and gave them instructions.
Tom Jones, Wolgast's manager,
and Eddie Munger w 111 be in Wol
gast’s torner, while Joe Mandol
will have "Hobo" Dougherty. Bobby
Robidiou and Tommy Walsh a
seconds.
Fhe champion expressed couil
dence in his ability to knock Man
dot out. but the consensus of opin
ion is that the mill will go the full
ten rounds. A few wagers at 1 to 2
have been made by Mandot’s ar
dent supporters that the local tlght
| er will << ore a knockout, and not. a
few eveji bets have been made that
Mandot will get a majority vote in
the unofficial decision which will b >
rendered by the local sport writers.
Wolgast announced ite would
gladly meet Paekey Me Earl and in a
finish match without insisting on
the latter weighing in at the ring
side.
TWO GOOD FIGHTS IN GAY
GOTHAM RINGS THIS WEEK
NEW YORK, Nov. 4.—A bout which
may have an important effect in the
tlstic world will be fought at the Fair
mont Athletic club AVednesday night,
I when Patsy Kline, the fast Newark. N.
| J., featherweight, will meet (Jeorge
| Kirkwood, of st. Louis, in a ten-round
| contest. Tom Casey*, the veteran pro
moter of Los Angeles, has pi'gnlsed the
winner a twenty-round tight with
Champion Kilbane.
At the Forty-fourth Street Sporting
club on Thursday night. Pal Moore, the
Philadelphia phantom. and Hairy
Thomas, the elusive English lad, who
decisively outpointed Ab,- Attell re
cently, will meet.
SHAUGHNESSY BREAKS
WRIST IN SMITH BOUT
.’smith, of Denver, and’ ''*cte' Si a ugtwe^’ ;
.*t I'ort Mor<h, went five rounds at Clovis
'as< mgbt Shaughnessy broke Ids wist '
iii the fit’ll of a scheduled ten-round bout
Shaughnessy broke the same wrist in
, a tight vith Jimmy Perry in Atlanta last
, spring
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No. B—-Pratt Made Good Despite Family Tree
By I'uzzy Woodruff.
NO Southern league player
evet succeeded in baseball
with more hundicuiis than
Deri iii Pratt.
"Strange I never noticed any se
rious bar to this young gent's ca
reer.” the bugs will say. "He lias
file build of a ball player. He pos
sesses the nerve of a hungry bull
dog. He has* the speed of a runa
way locomotive. He ean lilt so
hard it hurts. He can think witii
om best phibisophers*. Then why
the handicap
Gentle reader, the secret lies in
the fact tliat Mr. Pratt succeeded
in tlie Southern and then in the
majors, despite the predictions of
every one of his home friends tiiat
lie was going to be a star and tried
to make his baseball journeys a
personally conducted tour.
Pratt stai ted in tlie Southern
league witii Alontgomery in 1910.
He was fresh from the classic por
tals of tlie University of Alabama,
where he bad been more than a
prominent citizen as captain of
bi.seball and football teams, leader
in-chief of cotillions and stroke oar
or something in the glee club.
Attei he had performed ail tlie
feats of heroism tliat college life
affords, he turned his thoughts to
ill* rc serious tilings, among them
b *ing baseball as a method of live
lihood.
Piatts Are Big Folks.
Over in Alabama the Prat , clan
is numerous and influential. Inas
much as tlure is a town named
Prattville that boasts of a family of
Pratts reputedly possessed of
enough of this tvorld’s goods to
keep a whole pack of yvolves from
all the doors in a city’ of considera
bly larger proportions than Pratt
ville. there ate lots and lots of folks
that insist on claiming kin wi,j
tlie family of which Derrill is now
the most famous member.
It was a considerable shock in
polite Alabama circles when it be
came 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 tlie list of
hired athletes reads like a blue
hook—more or less.
But Det riil cared no a whoop for
the shock to society, nor did Pratt
Mere. The elder Pratt was to a
large degree responsible for bis
s.m's career. He had taken an en
t lusiastic interest in his offspring's
feats as a gridiron warrior, and
when he suggested baseball Papa
Pratt was enthusiastic in telling the
son to go forth and make people
lorget Hans Wagner. During Der
rill's time in the Southern league
•’ld Man Pratt tagged along with
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Pratt Played—and Danced.
And there was the rub. All the
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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 blushing buds of
Montgomery as regularly’ as he don
ned bis spiked hoes each after
noon.
Any ball player will tell you that
this is the poorest sort of start for
an athlete. But Pratt, being a wise
y oung person, did not have his head
turned. He just played ball.
His Rise Was Brilliantfl
I>l his first year he broke a
sliowlder tendon in the practice sea
son and his arm did not recover
for months. Ed Greminger farmed
him out in tlie Cotton States league,
and the next year he reported to
lohuny Dobbs in Montgomery.
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.-.hortstop, and finally located him
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liant year is of too recent date to
mention.
He was sent to the St. Louis
Browns and with that lowly club
during his first year in the majors
batted better than .300, all of
which is some record.
ATLANTA CLUB LANDS
ANOTHER_KID PITCHER
‘‘Major Frank Callatyay Bands eHr
ring.”
No. it is not the heading- over a. fish
story. It is an item of baseball news.
Herring is a big right-handed pitcher
that Manager Clark Griffith has sold,
under optional agreement, to the At
lanta club.
Th. "optional agreement” part mean-,
that Washington thinks enough of th*,
man to keep a string tied to him.
RACES'OFF AT MINERAL
SPRINGS FOR THIS YEAR
MINERAL SPRINGS, IND., Nov. A—
There will be no more racing this year
at the Springs race track. Forty-five
days' racing will be provided in 1913, be
ginning about June 1.5 and ending Octo
ber 1.