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18 GEOMIAN WOW COWH® * EXWKFS’ ______ EDITED W. S FARNSWOFTH RECORDS PROVE LEAGUE IS SHY ON GLASS By Percy 11. Whiting. THE mor#* a man studies the batting and fielding averages which have Just been issued by the Southern league the more it sw eeps over you what a really in< dlocre league it was last year and what a HORRIBLE club Atlanta must have bad to finish last. 4a points behind Chattanooga and b'i behind Montgomery. The league lacked class and the record* show it. Take tin tits', basemen: Sykes, Agler. McGil vray and Doe Johnston wot' the best: and •'Doc." while he "went up." was not among the star bai ters, and was the worst fielder of the entire lot. Wares. Marean. Alpernian and Jordan were the real second haw men und the’ stars were Al >er rnan and Jordan, though the rn*”- oixls do not show it. Elberfeld, Ellam. Bnlentl. <T.m d.ill and Harbison were useful shortstops, though Ellani batted most feebly The third basemen had nothing i on the rest. \imeida batted mar velously well for a while, and had a pood record for the year. Hut bls fielding was off. There were three or four good outfielders, but they won their fame by good butting rather that’ good fielding <'i.rtalnly there wilt be fen med als given to the Southern of |a-t ’ sen on for its pitch-is. Aitchbon. oft Montgomery. really did great work with a poor ilub. So did Detnaree—but hardly a Southern leaguer believes he i good enough to slick in the National leugtp . Wagner had a good year, but lie Isn't any Walter Johnson oi Ed Walsh. Foxen is a line old has been—with a good team behind him. Boyd, of Birmingham. was 2T> per cent pitcher and 75 per cent support. Cavtt ami Smith were a couple of skinny youngsters win may fill out some day and amount to something, but who haven't ar rived yet. AH usual, there aie a lot of fea tures of interest about the fig ures. For Instance. Bill Bernhard got through the season with n batting j average of 1.000. of course. In: didn't get to but so very often. Then there was the amazing per formance of "Natural Stull" Wal dorf. The big German worked in 12 games and lost 11 of them. Another notable pitching effort was that of Bair. In 1911 he won 20 games and lost 11. In 1912 he won 8 games and lost 21. It is also worth recalling that At lanta hail one pitcher whose avet - \ ago for the season was ,75n. This ‘man was Price. Ho started in only four games and won three of them. The best average of any regular At lanta pitchers If you could call any of 'em “regular"—were tlmae of Sitton and Becker. Sitton won 10 and lost 10. Becker won 7 and lost 7. Both, accordingly, had a pitching average of .500 for a team that finished with an average of .394. It is also worth noting that the only first baseman who was sent up to the big leagues for anything but a cover-up was "Doc" Johnston, and ills fielding was the worst of any Southern league first baseman. Several players who were canned for one reason or another through out the season made good show ings. Al O'Dell, who wasn’t good enough for Atlanta, led the league third basemen in fielding, and hit well. Earl Sykes, who was also let out by Atlanta, was second among the first lawmen in fielding. Sea bough. who wa* canned by Nash ville. proved, according to the rec ords. the second best catcher in the league. An interesting happening was that Atlanta let out two pitchers to Montgomery —Johns and Paige. Each man won 14 games und lost 15 for the season. The only differ ence was that Paige worked in one more game—and got a tie. THORPE AND PENDLETON TIED ON TOUCHDOWNS NEW YORK. Nov 8. The total grist of touchdowns for Captain Thorpe, of the Indians rose to fourteen last Saturday, which makes him and Pen dleton, of Princeton, the leaders of the season in that department. Each han made fourteen. The Indians always have been a big scoring team, but it also is characteristic of them that they are •coned on at a more extensile rate than Is generally the case with a team of so much strength otherwise. It would appear that there is a wider gap between their strength in offense and defense than Is true of most teams of their caliber. A better iu<-a could be had of just how strong the red men arc this year if they played Harvard. Yale or Prince ton. None of these three 1s on the (’ar little schedule. Still the Indians have * game on for next Saturday which is likely to test their scoring ability bet ter than any preceding game. They are to play tin- Army, aim owing to the •ffectiveness of the Army defense, ft i« seldom that any opponent thrives much W: PO’ro making even if it heats t u Bolbltis. Here’s What Vanderbilt Is Up Against Tomorrow at Harvard This is the preat Brickley in the act of kicking a goal. This Heid goal phenom, who scored nine of Harvard’s points against *’ Princeton with his educated toe. is feared more by Vanderbilt lhan any other man on the Crimson eleven. The Commodores m \\ S3*" W >ll keep close watch on him in tomorrow's struggle at Cam- A jnßlhC V\ /C- x... 7/ * / ii ) / \ // I BBcL— ■ I Bus*// // / / BB \ // B HHk. Il \ // //I Bk// /- v // \ .4! 7w /7# K « V y/ s \ O ® v BWBBMb . SS'.j wJMBw» \ —*“*■?, .r'( ~ \ * w • ii'l' H. w ipixr ruxi, \ * x v \ r ' ’ i' l! P'l'i'klcy WZ ; \ ■' l'"' i: "■ *'l y. VANDY WORKS IN STADIUM TODAY fOR HARVARD CAMBRIDGE. MASS.. Nov. 8. Tile Vanderbilt tekm, twen ty strong, has arrived within the shade of Cambridge’s historic < Ims and this afternoon take-- the first football work out that ever a Vanderbilt leam took on Mri.-sa chusetts soil. Tip Harvard team has extended to \'anderl>llt the courtesies of the stadium and they will go through go al, fast signal practice there till* a ftenioon. .MeGugin's ty<-ale.-t i.ar is that his men may go stale mentally lather than physically, and to avoid any such thing lie sought to put the Commodores at east*. He point ed out to them that while Har vard possttftseil a big. nigged team mid would outweigh Vanderbilt something like six pounds to the man. still they need not bo looked upon us being exactly invincible. No one ever accused John Har vard of having that splendid cour age of the Yale Bulldog or the Princeton Tiger, And MeGugin im pressed upon bis charges the fact that when the 1910 team clashed with Yale the Vanderbilt backs lit erally made a monkey of End Kirk patrick, who was chosen by Walter Camp for his All-American team. Collins Outshines Neely. Wilson t'ollins. one of the stars of this year's back field, has it all over Bill Neely, of the 1910 team, while Sikes outshines Kent Morri son in every department of the game. When it comes to compar ing Lewis Hardage to Bo Williams, who was the best of the 1910 back field —Well. Georgia sent Vander bilt a great man in Williams, but Williams' going in the football hall ot fame will have to go a long way s before ho meets Hatdage coming out. There are many who make the claim that Vanderbilt caught Yale in 1910 when the Bulldog was lam entably weak, but they all overlook the fact that that same "weak” team played both Harvard and Princeton to a .standstill. So far as the linesmen go. Buddy Morgan at center has improved in his work 100 per cent, and the same is true of Nuck Brown at end. No man in the 191" lino east approach the matchless Frog Metzger, but Tom Brown Is far and away better than he was when he appeared against Yale. Shipp, at tackle, is improving every day and right now is at the top of his stride and should he round into shape tn time for the Harvard affair he will prove a hard nut for the Harvard lines men to crack. It's Just as well not to make any comparison at the quarterback position since such brilliant performers as Ray Morri son appear about one time in a dec ade. Rut there is a chance that Zach Curlin's broad toe. backed by 155 pounds of muscle, will figure In the affair with Harvard, and if he does get going right -well, Brick ley may be a pretty fair sort of player, but Curlln, when he is right, is almost as much of a wonder at booting the ball over the goal This Year's Team Is Best. Taking every thing into I'onsidet ution. the teum of 191<) could not compan* with this year's Comm >- dor-s. vho li» vi shown lite most dazzling a|>eral met si ill on a Houthern gtiuiroii. TIER ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1912. z \ \ \ MF \ g'TjWatwlfei By \ ' KFnnV WMb } / AO® ~ J 898 / /ba - BB 7 // at'® ':"4 . > / \ U._; f Xsnl //Mvc oWr iSMBM ' \v- * MW. I*FB a b B 1 A Mm probably xx’• Stew..-i- 311 ~f '< • IL Itisl. s '"‘ l b’t‘Hoii. irreai C<q3 ( 'X // n "'" ~:,> T.V ’ n end. who will till most // the <jainc. but of the kiekjnp against // HW 1 the < ommodores. vsKk ■ // afl ° ■vw-AX \p®sS*y'A // a commanding SWIMMING TEAM ID ORGANIZED BYA.A.C. I I fTAIIE Atlanta Athletic club has j branched out—or rather swam out- into a new field of sport: for the club has at pres ent a swimming team that prom ises to give an excellent account of itself. Being something entirely new in .Atlanta, the club members are taking much interest in the practices and welfare of the water squad. Tom AVlnans, a member of the swimming team of the Illinois Ath letic club that represented the Stars and Stripes in the recent Olympic meet, ranks as one of the team’s stars and is doing much toward its success by his able coaching. The first appearance of the teain will probably be against the Bir mingham Athletic club. This club also has a water squad that aeems to be the pride of the Iron City’. It also boasts of an Olympic athlete — in fact, a teammate of Winans. RIVERS WINS A BRIDE IF HE TRIMS MORRIS LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8. —When Ray mond Rivers, the pugilist, stands toe to toe with "Sam" Morris In the arena next Tuesday he will put up the fight of his life. If lie beats Morris and gets the purse Bivers will marry Miss Agnes Maher, an actress, on Wednesday night. If Rivers is whipped well, lie Isn't thinking much about that today. Miss Maher will wait at her home to hear the result of the battle. SCHWARTZ SIGNS FOR 8-ROUND GO WITH ABEL CHATTANOOGA. TENN . Nov 8 Articles have been signed between Jake Abel, of this city, and Yankee Schwartz, of Philadelphia, to meet here In eight rounds November 27. The two will be the headliners for the opening of a new club The two fought a draw in Nash ville last spring. Abel is already train lug here. MISSISSIPPI MEETS ALABAMA TEAM TODAY TI'SCALDt ISA. ALA Not x. The rnivt isity of Alabama and rhe I'nh e ■ Uy of Mississippi lootball teams meet ' on the gridiron here today The Iranis Will •■ld- the lailin < \elily j matched «■ to spi ed, w Iglu and eXJK I ir||i 1 ■“. / // lead will save i.iow'ws, ik«wt v // the men for the ... ~ I Dartmouth and Inis picture shows Wendell / / and Brickley about to hit the line 'I ale games, in one of their famous rushes. With Clemson Out of Way, Georgia Has but 2 More Hard Battles ATHENS, GA., Noy. 8. The Georgia players are back home, after a victo rious trip to Augusta, and have settled down to get ready for Tech. The Geor gia nnn have no game Saturday. The following Saturday tlfey play Tech and the closing game of the season comes Thanksgiving day with Auburn. All the Georgia players will bh in Atlanta for the game between Tech and Se wanee. Yesterday s defeat of Ciemsou, 27 to 6. was easy sailing for the Red and Black. At no time were the Georgians- in danger, and the only guess among the 2.000 present was “how great will be the defeat?" The Georgia team was much heavier than the Tigers. Bob McWhorter was the individual star of the game. He ran repeatedly around Clemson’s ends tor gains any where from 25 to 5C yards. He carried the ball over the goal line twice for touchdowns. Second to McWnoiter on the offen sive work was Charlie Thompson, the Atlanta boy. This lad played great ball and his line-plunging counted one touchdown. Bowden got the other. Thompson kicked three of the four tries at goal. Clemson's one touchdown yvas the re sult of some beautifully executed for ward passes, Kangeter taking the ball over. Clemson was outclassed in every de partment of play. NAP PITCHER CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER PEORIA, ILL.. Nov. B.—Roy Walker, a member of the Cleveland American league pitching staff, was.arrested here this afternoon upon advice of the chief of detectives of Nashville. Tenn., where a warrant Is out for his arrest on a charge of attempted murder. Walker denies having been In any trouble In NashVUJl lie will be returned there tomorrow TAD JONES IS INJURED PLAYING WITH SCRUBS EXETER. N 11 Nov. B.—Tad Jonez, former Yale quarterback, who has been • ■•aching tin Ex te: academy team this fall, Is confined to Ins looms here by Injuries receive,] while play ing with the scrubs this week. In a ■•■rfmmage he suffered a biokep ilb and an Injury to th, left Should*':, MORRIS AND KEATING ON WAY TO ATLANTA WITH Carl Morris and Jack Keating on the rattlers and yvith the Dixie Athletic club's new boxing emporium in good trim, everything Seems to be shaping up tn fine style for the opening battle of the new boxing organization. Both Morris and Keating wired yesterday that they had left. They should be here tomorrow. This will give them a few days on the ground to get acclimated and to give fight followers a hint as to what they really have in the way of Queensberry ability. The work on the club rooms is The Last Shall Be First ■- 1 . N considering the purchase of a pair of I Shoes, the “last’’ represents your own JO foot. The styles and seasons change, but your foot never. Therefore [jr=jl consider the last. / / A |IJ I FIRST, the last we give you is j' 'll the kind of tit which makes you forget that you have on V new shoes; no special rub or pressure at any particular place. And you can absolutely depend upon the stitching, 1 toe caps, welts and counters. They are ULTRA and CONSERVATIVE, with . every variation of style between those two extremes. Low heel English styles, tan Patent Colt, French Calf, black Children's. Boys' and Youth's and black, lace and button, the ’an Russia calf. $4 to »6. I '“or ° Min, and COMFORT shoe. $4. »5 and $6. Gun metal calf and vlcl kid. »3.50 Children. 60c to sl. PARkSCHAM BERNHARDWICK 37-39 Peachtree Street D COMPANY IZ Atlanta, Georgia [ progressing well and they promise to excel in comfort and appearance anything ever shown in Atlanta. The club promises some long needed reforms. For instance, they claim that they will cut out the long waits between the bouts. For another thing, they have provided real ring clothing for the prelimi nary performers and there will be none of this appearing in nonde script apparel that has been so badly “bush league” in other fistic entertainments here. TECH HIGH DOWNS ALUMNI. Tech High school defeated the alumni of that school yesterday afternoon at Piedmont park by the score of 14 to 6. JACKETS HOPE TO HOLD TIGERS TO CLOSE SCORE THE Yellow Jackets have fin ished their week’s yvork. No scrimmage tvas held Thurs day. but a hard signal practice was gone through and the team is notv putting on the finishing touches for the battle Saturday. , Hutton will be in the game at end, though for a while it looked as if he was not likely to be in good shape. He has, howbver, come around all right and will greatly strengthen Tech's defense. Hutton is a good man at end and knows the game. This is his third year • under Coach Heisman. Moore is all right again and will be seen at his place on right end All of the injured men will be able to start in this game and every man is more than determined to bring another English cup to Tech’s trophy hall. It is privately and re luctantly admitted, however, that this seems to be the wrong year to turn the trick. Tech Not Up to Mark, This time last year Tech men were cheerful, for they' had out played Auburn from start to fin ish and had met defeat only be cause of one small incident —a 90- yard run by one Mr. Newell. A year ago the team was in good physical shape. This year the men are not actually Injured, but abso lutely every man has some vulner able spot. The whole bunch is playing on pure grit and nerve. Loeb has a broken hand and a sprained ankle. Hutton has a brok en nose; Fielder both ankles sprained; Luehrman, shoulder smashed, while McDonald, one of the mainstays of the team, had to ’ be taken out of last Saturday's game on account of old injuries re hurt. These are but a few exam ples, but they give an Insight Into the kind of stuff the men are made out of. who will tackle tha Sewanee Tigers with colors flying. Georgia Mep Watch Gams. Very few new plays will be un corked Saturday, as the entire Georgia team will be here ta wit ness the game and to get what In formation they can for the "big show” on the Saturday following Loeb will be played at center to morrow, while Montague and Means will play the guards. Captain Luehrman and Colley will look aft er the tackles, while Hutton and Moore will play' the ends. This is the best line Tech has and one that is always there with the fight. In the backfield Cook will play a half, with Fielder as his running mate., McDonald will play the quarter and Thomasson the full back. FOGEL MAY CALL ON COURTS TO HELP HIM PHILADELPHIA, Nov. B. Though he faces expulsion from the National league for his ill-advised criticism of the umpires of his league and their handling by President Tom Lynch, Horace Fogel, president of the Phila delphia club, today dug up a new scheme to further prolong the agony . According to a story current here Fogel's lav. yer has served notice on Lynch and the presidents of the seven National league clubs other than the Phillies, that Fogel will go into court n case they continue their crusade against him and will endeavor to for" the government to prosecute the club owners of the National league unde the Sherman anti-trust act and try to prove that the National league, in con junction with the American league, constitutes a conspiracy in the restraint of trade.