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GEORGIA EXPECTS
HARDEST GAME
WITH TECH
Athens, ga„ Nov. 12.—The
Georgia team resumed prac
tice again yesterday after
noon for the first time since the
Clemson game last Thursday, and
strenuous workouts will be hold
every afternoon this week in prep
aration for the game with Tech on
Saturday.
Coach Cunningham. Assistant
Coach Ketron. Captain Peacock
and several members of the team
went over to Atlanta for the Tech-
Sewanee battle last Saturday to get
a line on the Yellow Jackets' for
mations and all are convinced that
the game with the Blacksmiths Is
going to be the hardest on the Red
and Black schedule so far this sea
son, and, according to the showing
Tech made against the Tigers, the
heavy Cunningham outfit will have
to go the limit to head off the light
but fast machine of Heisman's.
Georgia will put in a hard week
from now until Saturday and will
present to the thousands of specta
tors quite a different line-up than
in the Vanderbilt game the middle
of October. These changes were
necessitated by injuries and by the
wonderful showing some of the
scrub* have made since then. Par
rish. who played right end, is out
on account of ills knees, which have
given him trouble all fall. There
is no chance of his getting in the
game, as he has been forced to
quit practicing. His place will be
filled by Hitchcock, who has shown
good form on the scrubs and who
played a neat game against Clem
son
Harrell Out For Season.
Harrell, the 210-pound tackle,
seems to be out for the rest of the
season on account of two fractured
ribs received in the Vanderbilt
game. Henderson has shown un
usual brilliance at this position,
however, and in the Sewanee game
showed the greatest defensive play
ing ever seen here. His broken
field tackling was wonderful, while
in the < 'lemson game he earned a
place as goal kicker, getting three
out of four against a bad wind. An
other long suit of his is sizing up
plays, so he will bear watching
Saturday.
A new face will also be seen at
quarter. This is the one place on
the team that has given the coaches
a lot of worry the whole season.
Saneken. who. it was thought,
would be the regular, has been
troubled with malaria and a bad
ankle nearly all fall and in trying
to find the right man no less than
six quarters havt been used in tile
games. Dorsey has the best head
of any candidate yet, but his 111)
pounds make him too light. Nor
ton was depended on, but the team
will finish the season without him
by virtue of the fact that he has
been ruled ineligible, his disquali
fication coming as a result of the
charge Hiat while at Bingham he
received money indirectly as a
teacher for coaching services, so
Paddock, who was in school last ,
year and former captain of the
Peddie institute team, draws the
generalship job for Saturday. He
is the fastest man on the squad,
has been developed all season on
the scrubs and played a good game
at Augusta. He seems to be a
coiner and the student body be
lieves he has arrived.
Atlanta Boy at Full.
The fullback position also will
show a change, and instead of
Wheatley filling in here an Atlanta
boy, Charley Thompson, will do the
lira plunging Wheatley is out for
good on account of waler on hia
knee and shows no signs of Im
Georgia Plans to Batter Down
Tech Line With Heavy Forwards
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
GEORGIA’S attack in Satur
day's classic affray will be
centered on Tech's line. It
takes_no Napoleon to reason out
that tills will be Cunningham's plan
of battle. It takes no Stonewall
Jackson to know that Heisman’s
mind is now perturbed alone by the
question of how he will keep his
forwards from being beaten to
earth.
If Tech’s first defense can, by
some miracle, be brought to stand
the smashing for four long quar
ters, the gloom that now hovers
over the Flats may be transformed
to a brilliance as glorious as a
sunrise. But if Heisman succeeds
In this lie will have performed an
act that will put him in the Joshua
class—and Joshua, it will be re
membered, made the sun stand still.
For there is no gainsaying the
fact that, though the battles that
the Yellow and White made against
Auburn and Sewanee and Alabama
have been a.s remarkable exhibi
tions of the value of careful train
ing and unqualified lighting spirit,
still it is no less a fact that in thd
face of tlie superiority in beef, if
nothing else, that Georgia possesses,
practically dooms all this work to
go for naught. Fate has appar
ently decreed that Tech must suf
fer defeat from her most bitter ri
val.
“God." said Napoleon, "is always
on the side with the heaviest artil
lery," and in football weight comes
close to being synonymous with
cannon.
McDonald Corking Kicker.
Admit all Tech’s strong points.
Concede their superior speed. Grant
their supremacy in variation of at
tack. Recognize tliat in McDonald
the Jackets possess a kicker of bet
ter caliber than anything Georgia
boasts. Unequivocally state that in
freak formations and trick plays
there is no Southern team the equal
of Heisman's midgets. Pay tribute
to that fine college spirit that lias
made a wonderful, figlit-to-the
death eleven of what looked early
in the season the most hopeless
football aggregation ever assem
bled in Dixie.
Consider all of these things, and
when tlie words "Remember Geor
gia’s weight" are spoken they
strike a minor chord as dismal as
tlie monotone of the church bells
tolling a doleful accompaniment to
Tech Eleven in Fine
Shape After Struggle
With Heavy Sewanee
Fired with tlie determination to over
corfie “Luck,” the dauntless Yellow-
Jackets have started on the last hard
week’s work of tlie season.
No one was injured in the Sewanee
game and from present indications will
go into the fray with Georgia in tip
top shape. A long and hard signal
practice comprised the larger part of
tHe work yesterday, but today the hard
est serininiage of the year is expected.
Secret practice is being held and abso
lutely no one but players and managers
are allowed on the field. This is not so
much a precautionary move, but merely
a matter of saving time and labor by
not being worried with curious crowds.
Saturday marks the climax in the
affairs of Tech football affairs and ab
solutely everything will be turned loose
in order to make as good a showing as
is possible against such overwhelming
odds, botli In weight and experience,
ami also in luck
The men are going good and more
spirit is being displayed than ever be
fon . and though tlie finger of destlnx
Heein* to point to defeat, the Techites
niaj be alile to show -oin. football of
the IS 11 ? caliber
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
the passing of a well beloved
friend to the grave.
Admit Georgia's weaknesses. Re
member the early setback of the
Vanderbilt game, which was enough
to have broken the spirit of the
hardest fighting force. Hearken to
the stories that are whispered from
Athens that fraternities are playing
a part In football. Grant that
Georgia's physical fitness will not
measure up to that of the Heis
manltes. Consider it unlikely that
Cunningham has planned any strat
egy that the wily Heisman has not
prepared for. Then let the words
ring out, “But remember Georgia’s
weight,” and they chime with a
cheeriness that would make a
Christmas carol sound like the foot
steps of a bill collector on pay day.
Threw Weight on Line, .
And so on Saturday the thou
sands of football enthusiasts who
will journey to Ponce DeLeon for
the fray will see Georgia's great
heft thrown time and time against
the slender forwards of the Yellow
Jackets. Gradually, it is the Geor
gia plan, to batter the Tech
strength down and then sweep on
through a game but hopeless de
fense to victory.
Os course, Heisman will try to
obviate this, but when the question,
"How can he?” is propounded Sol
omon could probably not answer,
nor can the Tech coach. A line of
170-pound men will move a line of
150-pound athletes if it sticks to
the work long enough.
This year’s football rules have
given an added premium on weight.
Four downs are given a team to
move forward ten yards, and with
difference in beef and brawn it is
difficult to see how the lighter
fighters are to stop the attack.
Last year's clash between the
Yellow and White and the Red and
Black gives a valuable object les
son. and tn 1911 the weight dis
crepancy was not so much in Geor
gia's favor us it Is this year.
In the first quarter Techjs speed
fairly dazzled the Athenians. The
ball was constantly In Georgia's
territory. The thousands of yelling
alumni of the state university were
dumbfounded with the showing.
But Cunningham had planned his
game well. He kept battering away
at the line.
The second quarter still found
Tech playing the better ball, but it
also found the Georgia defense
strengthening. It was not so much
Georgia’s improvement, it was
Tech's weakening under the terri
ble bombardment.
Team Finally Played Out.
And in the third quarter Tech's
doom was plain to every one. It
was only a question of seconds be
fore a Georgia back would cross tlie
goal. Once more the signal was
given for a line attack and Mc-
Whorter was sent over tackle. The
Tech forwards were spilled. Mc-
Whorter jogged by the first defense.
Then time and again he was tac
kled, but the Jackets were too
weakened to hold a runner of Mc-
Whorter's strength. He threw them
off with the case of a profession
al burglar casting aside conscience.
The game was Georgia’s.
If this was the proper attack last
year -and it proved all of that—
this year it should be doubly effec
tive.
Tech's sole chance seems to rest
in playing Georgia off her feet with
a series of tricks and forward
passes in the early stages that will
pile up a score than the Athenians
cun not overtake when the midget
linemen are crushed.
Xtid. therefore, it wouldn't bo
surprising to see both sides scor
ing repeatedly, but whatever the
result it is sun to be'a game worth
going miles to see. a battle for
blood, a meeting of rapiei and
broadsword, a duel between six
shooter and Kiuuu gun.
••••••••••••••••••••••••a*
• GEORGIA AND TECH J
: TEAMS MATCHED J
: evenly—on paper:
• Application of the arithmetical •
• rule of ratio and proportion to the •
• games thus far played this season •
• shows that the Georgia and Tech •
• football teams that meet in At- •
• lanta Saturday are—on paper— •
• evenly matched. •
• Georgia and Tech, thus far this •
• season, have each played six •
• games. Georgia has scored 118 •
• points to the opposition’s 74. Tech •
• has scored 77 to the opposition’s •
• 49. The ratio rule works out that •
• 118 is to 74 as 77 is to 47, or re- •
• versing it, 77 is to 49 as 118 is •
• to 77. Either way it shows the •
• scores to be almost exactly in pro- •
• portion. •
• * Georgia and Tech have each •
• played three teams—Sewanee, •
• Alabama and Citadel. The com- •
• blned scores for these games show •
• Georgia 59 to the opposition's 22, •
• and Tech 40 to the opposition's 16. •
• The ratio rule on these results •
• shows 59 is to 22 as 40 is to 15, or •
• reversing it, 40 is to 16 as 59 is to •
• 23—again almost exactly in the •
• proportion of the actual scores. •
• Os course, arithmetic does not •
• cut much figure in football, but •
• the figures are nevertheless Inter- •
• estlng as forming a basis for com- •
• parison of the results achieved by •
• the rivals this season •
••••••••••••••••••••••••a*
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
President Lynch has returned from his
<)f - the West, laden, it Is said, with
affidavits collected in Pittsburg and else
where to be used against Horace Fogel
this month.
• • ID
J. Cal Ewing, manager of the San
brancisco team, after gathering a col
lection of stars for thepurpose of mak
ing a trip to Australia, has called off
the project and will spend the winter
hunting bears.
• * •
Hugh Duffy who, like Bresnahan, suf
fered from the suffragette regime in Mil
waukee. where Mrs. Agnes Havener di
rects the destinies of a ball club, will
take charge of the St. Paul team in the
American association next season.
Walter Johnson is pitching independ
ent ball out in his home state of Kan
sas He won for Humboldt the other day,
with Ad Brennan, of the Phillies, doing
the pitching for the lola, Kans., team.
Owner Ebbets will turn over Harry
van Buskirk to the Newark club for a
years for conditioning next spring.
* * •
Besides being the hero of an unas
sited triple play, Neal Rail now has an
other claim to distinction. He is the
only player io the pastime who ever re
ceived $4,000 striking out, that being his
share of the world’s series money, in
which his sole labor consisted of walking
to the plate and taking three futile
swings.
• ♦ •
Leslie Mann, the Seattle outfielder,
equaled the home run record made by
Arthur Hues las®t year, in the Northwest
ern league. Each banged the pellet over
the fence on twenty-seven different oc
casions* oddly enough. Mann also goes
to the Buffalo team, where Hues plaved
this year.
• • •
The advice of a Western scribe to ball
players when signing up to manage a team
is: Hire a high-priced lawyer to draw up
your contract. A contract is as strong
tu> its weakest point. See that it is free
from flaws, blisters and blowholes. Read
carefully to see that it contains no loop
holes through which the owner can wrig
gle. Be sure that it is properly signed,
sealed and attested. Then tear it up and
trust to luck. Johnny Evers and Miller
Huggins, take notice
• * ♦
The annual meeting of the American
league will be held this year in Chicago
on December 11. according to an an
nouncement made by President Ban
Johnson.
• ♦ •
Eootbail star Pendleton, of Princeton,
who is also a shining light on the base
ball diamond, is said to have received a
tempting offer from Clarke Griffith to join
the professhmal ranks.
• • •
Milan, of the Senators, the champion
base runner of the American league, says
that sliding Is more than half the art of
base stealing It was Milan's agilitv
in evading the touch that made it pos
sible for him to swljm' so many sacks.
« • «
Stovall is demanding young blood for
the Browns, and it is said that he will
ask for waivers on John Powell and .lim
it.» Stephens, the veteran battery This
despite the fact that Powell pitched better
than fair ball in 1912 and would have!
eounted it one of his best years If he had
received strong support
Old-Time Pitcher Says Boxmen
WasteMuchEnergy Warming Up
By Sam Crane.
THAT most pitchers warm up
too long and strenuously be
fore games, is the opinion
held by many well posted baseball
men, and it is often surprising; that
managers so seldom call off their
boxmen.
Pitchers of long experience, like
Christy Mathewson, and who are
expected to know how much pre
liminary practice they can best
stand to get them fit. appear to be
just as over-exuberant when their
arms feel good as ambitious young
sters who have their reputations to
make.
Catchers who receive the balls
the pitchers throw up during the
warm-up period, were scarcely ever
known to choke off a too enthusi
astic twirler. They appear to think,
as does the manager, that a pitcher
should know his own business and
how much workout he can stand
better than any one else. And that
seems to be the plan followed by
ail managers and catchers in gen
eral.
It is a very bad system. It must
necessarily be sn>. There is no
pitcher who ever lived, who, if his
arm “feeds great,” will not cut
loose more speed than he ought to
and continue longer than is best
for his strength and stamina, un
less he is called down and warned
that he Is going dangerously far.
But who is to give them the warn
ing, or who does, rather?
Robinson Recognizes Fault.
1 have seen Coach Wilbert Rob
inson, of the Giants, once in a
while shout to a pitcher, "That’s
enough, what do you want to do,
pitch yourself out?” But unfor
tunately, it is not “Robbie” who
does the warm-up job with the
pitchers who are to work in a
game. He is usually busy in try
ing out some youngster, and Man
ager McGraw is batting to the in
fielders.
Catchers seem to be averse to
telling their pitchers what to do,
and then again two catchers work
with one pitcher, and therefore fail
to appreciate how much their pitch
er is doing.
It is safe to say that more pitch
ers have been knocked out of the
box by reason of overworking
themselves prior to a game than
from being out of condition other
wise.
This is the opinion held by Jack
Lynch, the pitcher of the old Mets,
Washingtons, Buffaloes and other
clubs in the early days of the game
and who was one of the most fa
mous boxmen in the country and
contempqraneous. too, with such
cracks as Radbourne. Keefe. Welch.
Buffington. John Clarkson, Mullane
and others.
Lynch probably has the record of
pitching more games in one day
and winning them all than any
other twirler. When with the Na
tionals of Washington, then an un
attached club, he pitched three
games in one day. At Fall River,
Mass., in the morning of a Decora
tion day, at 1 o’clock in Taunton,
and at Providence. R. 1., at 4 in
the afternoon. It is needless to re
mark that Lynch did little warm
ing up before any of the trio of
games, and he did not believe in
much of it when he had but one
game to pitch.
Worked Every Other Day.
Lynch, in speaking of the pre
liminary practice of pitchers to me.
said:
"When Tim Keefe and I were
pitching for the Mets in 1883-84.
we were the only pitchers with the
club and we had to work every
other day and possibly that is the
reason why we did not feel like
warming up Joo long and hard, but
even with pitchers of the present
day ji ho are asked to work only
twice a week at the most, all that
is necessary is for them to work
out their shoulder muscles only
enough to' be sure they are stretch
ed enough out of the necessary
suppleness. There is no need of
getting up the big sweats that
pitchers seem to think they require
nowadays. Os course, we old
timers loved the good old sweat
the same as pitchers do now, but
we would not ever exert ourselves
to get it before a game, to that ex
tent that it would weaken us.
“I have watched Tesreau and
Marquard warm up before games
at the Polo grounds this past sum
mer when I felt like calling them
down myself. Tesreau makes a
lot of work for himself when he is
pitching anyhow. He has a tear
ing, wearing delivery and, being a
big fellow, he works himself much
more than pitchers with a smooth
er action.
"On a hot day such as I saw him
warm up and the way the perspira
tion poured off him. he must have
been pretty nearly all in before the
game started, and he surely showed
it by his work in the first few in
nings of a couple of games I well
remember. /
I A Waste of Energy.
“In the ten minutes of warm-up
work a pitcher who works fast, as
most of them do now, will pitch
nearly as many balls as he may be
called on to use during an entire
game, and he pitches his head off
in practice, too. In my opinion it
can not help but be a most need
less and dangerous wjste of ener
gy. It is bound to be. .
“Again, I have noticed that the
other players, besides the pitchers
work too much before a game. It
is all well enough to have speed to
burn and give a lightning fast ex
hibition of preliminary fielding for
the benefit of the spectators, but
when that period is over the play
ers should take a short rest before
the game begins; bus no, they are
out doing their lively stunts that
must sap their stamina and take all
the ginger and good old pop out of
them."
Lynch has always been a great
student of pitching and baseball.
He knows more about box work
and its science right now than the
majority' of the pitchers who are
drawing salary. He was always an
originator and was the discoverer
of some of the most effective deliv
eries now in use. He would be a
model pitcher-coach if he cffuld be
induced to accept such a position.
Welsh Regains English
Title From Wells in
Twenty Fierce Rounds
LONDON. Nov. 12.—Just as soon as
Freddy Welsh recovers from the beat
ing he had to take at the hands of
Matt Wells before the National Sporting
club last night in winning back his title
of lightweight champion of Great Britain
he is coming to' America seeking bouts
with Ad Wolgart and Packey McFar
land.
The Welsh-Wells bout went the full
twenty rounds, the former winning on
points after one of the fiercest fights ever
staged in England.
WOLGAST AND RITCHIE
TO MEET “TURKEY” DAY
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12.—Ad
Wolgast and his manager, Tom Jones,
arrived In San Francisco today to com
plete negotiations for a Thanksgiving
day fight with Willie Ritchie before
Jim Coffroth's club. Coffroth was ready
to arrange final details and Billy Nolan,
manager for Ritchie, said his man was
ready to sign.
It was said that the articles would be
Hgned without a hitch. Tlie right will
be staged Thanksgiving afternoon and
wilt «ri> twenty rounds.
LUCK ms ows
BEEN AGAINST
TECHWS
JUST as the "battle royal” is
about to be fought, it would be
well to take just a glance at the
important battles of Tech for the
last few years and see what an im
portant part luck has played in the
games—not exactly luck, but just
a turning away of the face of
“good fortune” when victory, fame
and even a possible championship
has been at stake.
Take a look at the Georgia-Tech
game of 1910, the first time that
Georgia had beaten Tech in seven
years. "Red” Hill, on a beautiful
run around right end, scored the
first touchdown of the game, and
"Doc” Wilson kicked goal, tfie score
standing 6 to 0 at the end of the
first half.
Georgia scored a touchdown on
hard play tn the third quarter, but
the quarter ended with the ball in
Techa possession on Georgia’s ten
yard line. A signal, a buck, and a
fumble, and Georgia had the ball
and, with renewed courage, went up
the hill, and in the last minute of
play scored the winning touch
down, Maddox being the man w'ho
carried the ball across.
The game was so close that the
battle was cal Fed just as the last
play started, and Georgia won just
by a fraction of a minute.
That was the main game for that
season, and It was lost
MoWhort»r Turned Trick.
Again we have something that is
unexplainable to happen in the
Georgia game of 1911. Tech and
Georgia both played a beautiful
game, and in the first half the Yel
low Jackets twice had the ball on
Georgia’s eight-yard line, and yet
no score; but in an open field, after
several attempts on the same play,
Bob” McWhorter broke through
the line, and again Tech lost by
one lone touchdown. A side back
was slow in coming up, and Mc-
Whorter got a start, and that was
enough.
That was the biggest game lost
by a single misplay, or rather an
unlucky coincidence.
Stop for a-minute and glance at
the Auburn game, 11 to 6. Tech
had Auburn 6 to 5 up to the last
quarter, and was on Auburn’s five
yard line, when a forward pass play
was called and Newell, an Auburn
sub,' Intercepted the pass and ran
105 yards for a touchdown and a
victory for Auburn, Just one fail
ure to back up a pass, and Tech
lost the best chance she will have
in years to defeat a bitter rival.
Sewanee Was Lucky, Too.
And now the same relentless Ne
mesis is still with the Tech team
After having upset all dope and
played Sewanee a magnificent
game, a single fluke, and the moun
tain tigers go back to their lair
with a ball with 7 to 0 painted on
it.
Now, the great question is: Will
it or will it not? Will luck break
even and let hard work and honest
effort get a chance, or will it step
in just as the dawn of a better day
is breaking and put Tech back in
the line of “couldn't break the
jinx?”
With a fair show, the Yellow
Jackets have a medium chance of
scoring, but, score or no score, the
team will put up a never-even
thtnk-of-die fight, and Georgia ha*
been stung before, and may be
again.
PALZER TO FIGHT ROSS.
PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 12.—A! Falser,
looked upon as Jack Johnson's successor
as the heavyweight champion of the
world, will meet Tony Ross, the Italian
fighter, of Newcastle, Pa., at the Olym
pic club, Friday night