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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