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8 COACH HEISMAN PICKS GEORGIA TO DEFEAT TECH It’s a Wonder Jeff Didn’t Want to Pick Out the Policeman Also :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher ■ ' TOUUD ' r r o ASK Yov"| I _ v-- «-• WWT J .■ ?| \ A Dci.i ai / . 'I, f j ~ L ' ' * ' ' BUR.X gaL>- rw IwS JI lu— t1 ill lA fr Ow J? | -'ll nil *E3 I I 1 f ML* > \ —-I L—E3 I **:*• j iy«f- — Yellow Jackets’ Coach Sizes Up Tomorrow’s Gridiron Battles HEISMAN PICKS GEORGIA BY TWO TOUCHDOWNS By J. W. Heisman. M)ST everybody has bad their say about the Georgia-Tech game long ere this, and when I come to think it all over, I find myself largely in accord with the badly overworked "consensus of public opinion." And that con sensus is that Tech is in for the •mall end of the horn "Small end" comes in particularly pat when speaking of relative weights, but no less so when we consider backfield speed, team ex perience and star players. \\ hen it comes to punting the difference is in favor of Tech, and perhaps so in forward passing. Which has the better team play? I'd rather an swer that after the game. So like wis such, matters as interference, tackling, getting down field under punts and a f>-w other of the side lights of the game. Tlte general idea that weight in football will crush speed Is correct. In the main: and what speed Tech has is overmatched by the speed of the Georgia backs. With equal fighting spirit the advantage must •till lie with the heavy team, espe cially ali'ii the preponderance of weight is so very great. When it comes to general knowl edge of football —why. Tech has. it s true, absorbed an amazing mount of football knowledge for a neon team, but Georgia s team of veterans have show’n in the past hat they know football (whether they learned it this year or last makes no difference!, and 1 doubt tot they will show It. So it's like a forecast of the weather. The bureau says some times it is going to rain because it ought to rain, ami then It doesn't sometimes. Georgia ought to win by a touchdown or two —more still if McWhorter gets cut loose too many times. Concerning this latter point, no expert has the right to pose ns a prophet. Al] I know is that, out side of Vanderbilt, no Southern team hgs yet stopped him from getting loose one or more times in a game, and if the others couldn’t, how can the light, raw Tech team be expected to stop him’' Sewanee says it is a question of stop Mc- Whorter: that If McWhorte' were an ordinary, normal ('.’) halfback Tech would be as good as Georgia, but with McWhorter being, as he is, McWhorter, well-Hurrah for Wilson I Good night SEW.WEE VS ALABAMA. q|X('E Alabama beat Mississippi, sJ and also won from Tulane, which latte team won from Mis sissippi A. & M . and since the Tus caloosans ran Georgia such a hard race, we Hiv now in position to Judge just what a good game Tech played to beat the Alabamians so badly. Some hate said it was be cause Tech bad come to a height too early. Have subsequent gam< s In v i)i< h T ticipata borne out this contention .’ Not thus far. to say the least In th. gam*- with Sewanee the two teams played 192 down-, which is about KO more downs than I ver heard of being played in any previous game between any teams And yet Tech stood the g.’iff and was crowding Sewanee hinder than over at the very finish of thi- interminable gam. It a:’ simply means that Tech and Alabama both have :eal teams, and if Alabama is in good fighting trim she is going to m;ik, things a degree or two warmer for Sewanee than the thermometer would seem to indicate. Sewunc should win by a touch down or two. They have the weight, ut least equal speed, more experience. the betle. punter and a Stiff) liefens.. JUEIKEK VS. < LEMStiX 1 I ERE . game that. I am afraid, wifi stifl-arm my tackle. I was fooled in tin Mercet-Tenne«- 4 game la st S .tu:da y. and 1 would be quite as apt to go wrong in try ing to forecast a winenr between Mercer and Clemson. One month ago we would al! have said Clem son, without even thinking over it. Until last Saturday the dope still veered that way. though in dimin ishing quantities. If Mercer can play the game she put up a week ago, and if Webb is still out of the game for Clemson I should say that the chances favor Mercer. But the Baptists are such in and-out performers In all their athletic contests that one hardly knows what to expect of them in any given match. And certainly < 'lemson has put up several swell games of football this fall and there is no apparent reason why she shouldn't do it again. It looks to me to be merely a question of which team is fittest, mentally as well as physically, for the. fray when tip whistle whists. * * « Al'Bl’RX VS. FLORIDA. 'T'HE schedules have it that Au burn plays Florida at Auburn tomorrow. This is not the Univer sity of Florida, as Auburn has al ready played the latter; I presume it Is Stetson college that is meant. No-matter whether it is Stetion or Columbia, or what Florida college there cun be no question whatever about Auburn winning, and by al most whatever score she pleases to make. Stetson would be a much better game for Auburn, though, than Columbia. • • s TEXXKSSEE VS. MISSISSII’I. 'T'HE former was well beaten by Mercer last week, and the lat ter still more 1 soundly thrashed by the University of Texas, so both of them are a little in the dumps for a few days. Both these teams seem to have shot-all the bolts they had in stock during .October, with result that they are making a dis appointing showing of their No vember games. It's a tossup Avhii-h will win. I choose Mississippi, you take whichever you please. MISS. A, \ M. VS TEXAS. 'T'HE former of these teams seems to be in somewhat the same state of mind, body and football as Mississippi and Tennessee. Tex- MORDECAI BROWN WILL NEVER PITCH AGAIN TEKKE H WTE. IND.. Nov. 15 Mur tiecai Brown, once greatest of the <’hi cago Cubs’ pittHiers and known as the "Three-Fingered Wonder." will never pitch again. Brown came here from Chicago after his release to go hunting and to talk with Owner Wagner, of the Terre Haute ' lub. wiio is seeking his services as man ager During his sta\ Brown became slights ill and consulted a physical!. who promptly told him that if he valued his limbs he should ne'er pitch again or take part in an.' br.se ba 11 or athletic con tests. The doctor reached this decision after examining Brown s knee, injury to which hastened the end of his major league ea rn r The physican told Brown that the knee wmild never be entirely well and that another injur' might result in the loss of the use of the leg GRAPPLER MAHMOUT QUITS MAT TO FIGHT THE TURKS NEW YORK, Nov 15. YusifT Mahtnout, Frank Gotch’s protege from Bulgaria, who is regarded as the best cateh-as <pt. li-e.-m wrestler 111 the World, wind ing tin- American champion. has gone to j tight th>- Turks He has taken the field | w ith tb>- Bulgarian army in the war of I the Balkan states against the Moslems and as a result has poHtponed indefinitely the American tour he had planned. BIG RIDERS FOR 6-DAY RACE. NEW YORK. ov. 15. Most of the world famous bike riders will enter th" six-tiny bike race which commenced on December 9. It will b, hold In Madison Square Garden, under the auspices of th. Ga h-n Athletb- club, which has ■ tag. d these races annually since |\9l, WOLVERTON REFUSES OFFER. NEW YORK. Nov. 15. Hairy Wolverpm, de; ...se.l manager of tbo Yankees, today r< fu. <-d an offer to mati ng. the Sa. rameuto t<- m of th, r, . Hi.- • ’oust leagtn . although he v i.. asked THE ATLANTA GEOHGLA-N AND NEWS. I KI DAY. NOVEMBER 13, 19±-. as latter we have heard about this season. Texas should win. » * • EUK'VARD AXI) BACKWARD PASS. EVIDENTLY Auburn, by taking on a light game for the Satur day preceding her Vanderbilt game, plans to run no risks in the way of possible injuries to her men. She can put in what men she pleases and for as long or short a time as she lilies. Auburn is going to make the effort of her life to down the Commodores, who had best be oil their guard. It will be the classiest game of the season, if not the closest. Lust year Alabama had to lead a dog's life glth her light team, try ing to make a strong showing in her <Tctober games, and then to keep it up through all her Novem ber games. This year a similar task has fallen to Tech's lot. Ala bama did remarkably’ well with het job. and thus far Tech has done even better this year. Tech has been in superb condition for a month, bu thow to keep the team right there for another two weeks is tiie big conundrum. It's like try ing to keep a hair-edge on a razor while using it daily to open cans of corned beef. The "dog-eat-dog" games that rite .Mississippi colleges, Alabama. I ulane and L. S. U. are putting up against each other week after week al) help to raise Tech's standing in the final ranking. Let the good work go on. Michigan had scored three touch downs on Penn, before the latter had secured a point. Then the Wolverines decided they had gar nered enough for cme day, and Penn started in. Before she stopped she had piled tyv 27 and won the game. Has the reader any just conception of what "sand" it takes for a team to do that? The siime day Mississippi A. * M. col lected 24 points before Tulane real ized she was supposed to be play ing a game of football, not check ers. And then the game wound up 27 to 24 in favor of Tulane. These two games furnish, in the scores, about the stiongest examples of up-hill fighting that my memoyr recalls in the history of the game. GORDON-STONE MOUNTAIN GAME TOMORROW MORNING . n- "V 1 -' 111 ill,e ' est to the great ei ‘ ga,lle : ' ,|M Pla.ved in At- x „■ , ls th " Gordon-Stone Mountain game which is to be plave.i at l once I'el.eon in the morning at 10:1(1 This game promises to be a good ehlbi tion of prep football The Gordon team this rear is verv heavy for a prep schol and has made a El win S " . f “ r T he Mountain warn, while not nearly so heavy as their opponents, is a good, fast, snappy bunch of youngsters and can be counted on to , give a good account of themselves. BOSTON RECRUIT PITCHES NO-HIT. NO-RUN GAME i I 1,1 SXo. CAL.. Nov. 15.- -Hubert Leon ard. who pitched tills year for Denver in I ice Western league, and who has been ■sold t" the Boston Americans, celebrated | Ins arrival m his home town I>\ pitching ;a no-hit no-run game against' Lemoore, | champions ot the San Joaquin vallev. , Leonard pitched for Fresno. Only one i the Lemoore players reached second i Itase Ibis man walked and stole see - I ond. I lie game was called at the end of :thi ninth liming because of darkness , the score being 0 to (I. GIBBONS STARTS TRAINING. I'HICAGO, Nor 15. Mike Gibbons |;.’Tive<l lu re today to train for a fight lon December 3 In New York with Ed i die McGoorty. Gibbons has hired a number of MeGoorty*’s old sparring partners to help him Hain. PLAN BIG X’COUNTRY RUN. 1 I HA) A, N. V .Nov 15. Plans were completed today for the cross-country race which will be run on November 23 ami In which twelve colleges will com -1" to rhere will b< 191 runners in the six-mile race. DELANEY-BROCK DRAW. , 1 LI- \ l-.L \NI >. Nev. 15. Cal Delaney land Mac , l’r» -I. local featherweights. ■ \» o twelve rounds to a draw here last HARO LUCK HAS HANDED ■¥ HOT TIME Nashville, tenn., Nov. is. That Vanderbilt lost two of the greatest battles of its ca reer by sheer hard luck is admitted by followers of the victorious teams on these occasions. In 1906, the < ’ogimodores fairly walloped the life out of Fielding Yost’s Michi ganders, yet tiie score went 10 to 4 against them. Then at Cambridge last Saturday there was a fierce combination of the fates trumped up against the Southerners who had traveled 1,200 miles to battle with the Crimson clan. In the gymnasium at Michigan in 1906, Just after tire game, Yost said: "Well, you fellows did have a hard break of the luck and we were fortunate in getting away with the game." Harvard’s graduate manager to ward the close of the fourth pe riod of last Saturday's game said to Dr. Owsley Mauler: “If your man Hardage hadn't been hurt, I think the score would have been a tie. You had hard luck, sure." <>f course, hard luck counts, and there Isn't any use trying to turn loose a lot of sob stuff, yet it is certainly interesting to note the specific instances of tough fortune which lost the Southern champions two big contests. Hard Luck in Big 1906 Game. All through the 1906 Michigan game Vanderbilt got a bad break of the luck, but here is what killed them dead. Up to tile time of that game Bob Blake had kicked three fourths of the field goals attempted, yet against the Wolverines he missed five and kicked one, and all of them were short and not from difficult angles. The reason of his failure was that he had to kick from turf instead of ground dirt heaps as he did on his own field. Another play in this game which may never be repeated came about this way: It was Vanderbilt’s ball on her own 45-yard line. John Craig was called and. aided by beautiful interference, passed every man but the quarterback. Just be fore the quarter, Uhorn, got to him Craig’s own guard came down the field at top speed to hit the Mich igan tackler. Craig dodged the .Michigan man, but in the mean time Chorn had passed on and at just the wrong niomen Craig whirled into Chorn and fell. Be fore he could get up a Michigan man was on him ami a sure chance for a touchdown was lost. Later in that same game Van derbilt received a punt otj her own fifteen-yard line, from which Cos ten ran it back ten yards. Then the Commodores made a forced march which landed the ball one foot from the .Michigan goal line and first down. In his eagerness to open up the hole and sew up the game, Stein Stone made a bad pass to Costen. The ball rolled over the. goal line and a Michigan man fell on it, just as Manier came romping through the hole which Stone had made. Same Hoodoo at Harvard. Now. take the Vanderbilt-Har vard game as an example of wretched luck. Just at the time his physical efforts and his moral support were most needed Captain Lewie Hardage received an injury to his ankle which put him out for keeps. Shortly after that Harvard made her only touchdown, which was made possible by an adverse decision of the referee, giving Har vard fifteen yards, when no penalty should have been assessed. The penalty was given for alleged in terference with a fair catch. Yet Graustein, the man who caught the punt, actually ran seven yards be fore Tom Brown got him, and the rule < say two -iLp’ is enough after Princeton Eleven Will Match Speed Against Bulldog’s Brawn TIGERS CONFIDENT OF BEATING YALE TOMORROW By W. J. Mcßeth. PRINCETON. Nov. 15.—The annual battle of the Prince ton and Yale gridiron giants, scheduled to take place tomorrow, has filled the town with visitors and has given rise to the flood of con jecture and prognostication that al ways precedes this contest. Tiger dopesters were confident today that their eleven would prove victorious. The defeat at the hands of Harvard two weeks ago has had little effect upon their figures, for the loss of this game was taken to be more in the nature of an instructive setback than an event that can affect the intrinsic merit of the Princeton team. Old grads and the under-collegi ate body’ were alike strong in their conviction that the two weeks of strenuous practice which was the direct result of their team's defeat before the Crimson line, has more than made up for the raggedness of the Princeton play. And these same old and young football enthu siasts were more than willing to back their opinion. Tigers Average Weight 172. Princeton will again match speed against brawn. In constructing their system of play this year, the Jerseymen made speed an all-im portant qualification. Old Nassau’s eleven is unusually light—the aver age weight is but 172 pounds—but the team has revealed a versatile attack. It has found comparative ease in scoring, whether by’ line plunging, runs around end, for ward passes or goals from the field. Yale stands undefeated, while Princeton has been beaten by Har vard, but Y'ale has no such victory to her credit as Princeton’s 22 to 7 defeat of Dartmouth. The week after Yale beat Syracuse 21 to 0. Princeton overwhelmed the same team by 62 to 0. This would make it appear that those who call Yale the favorite in tomorrow's en counter have not as good’an argu ment as those who call the proposi tion a tossup. The punting and line-plunging competition between "Lefty" Flynn and Fullback Dewitt holds forth no greater promise of excitement than the duel at center. Ketcham, the Blue center rush, will be assured of a diverting afternoon's assignment when he faces Bluethenthal. With out “Blttey” the Tiger line would feel lost. The Princeton center is out to steal Ketcham’s all-Ameri can job. Shenc.k and Logan, the Princeton guards, are new’ players, like Pen dleton. the Yale guard. All three of these have displayed a great deal of fire on the offense, but could stand a deal of improvement on the defense. Veteran Cooney, of Yale, while never brilliant, shows a lot of action for such a heavy man. Yale Tackles Are Strong. The Yale tackles. Talbott and Warren, are particularly strong on the defensive. Talbott, being espe cially eager ■ and quick in action. They play high, but do much of the work of the end while on the of fensive. Trenkman’s ability is still somewhat uncertain, owing to the number of games he has missed through injuries, but he seems to be a reliable man of fair speed. Vet eran Phillips makes up in aggres siveness what he lacks in heft and should make things very interest ing for Cooney. As for the ends, they are not the strongest part of either line. On the defensive they do well enough, but on the attack Yale's ends have shown themselves particularly weak.. Unless there is a marked improvement in the work of Gil lauer and Avery’ tomorrow, assum ing that they will be chosen, the Tigers will have little to fear from the territory outside the tackles. Yale's ends have had a religiously devoted crew of coaches working on them daily since the Brown game. Yale is heavily handicapped at •••••••••••••••••••••••••• J 1912 RECORDS OF : PRINCETON AND ; • YALE ELEVENS: • ——— • • PRINCETON. • • Princeton 65, Stevens 0. • • Princeton 41, Rutgers 6. • • Princeton 35. Lehigh 0. • • Princeton 31, Virginia Poly 0. • • Princeton 62, Syracuse 0. • • Princeton 22, Dartmouth 7. • • Princeton 6, Harvard 16. • • Princeton 54, N. Y. University, 0. • • Total —Princeton 316. opponents • • 29. • • YALE. • • Yale 10, Wesleyan 3 • • Yale 7, Holy’ Cross 0. • • Yale 21, Syracuse 0. • • Yale 16, Lafayette 0. • • Yale 6, Army 0. • • Yale 13, Washington and Jes- • • ferson 3. • • Yale 10, Brown 0. • • Total —Yale 83, opponents 6. • • • ••••••••••••••••••••••••st end through the loss of Bomeisler. He is one of the best ends in the country, if not the best, but he has a bad shoulder that has kept him from playing steadily, and in the games which he has entered he has often been put out of play’ by a fresh injury. He is a typical hard luck player. Dunlap, Wight and Andrews are scheduled to play’ the LEACH CROSS KNOCKS OUT HOGAN IN THIRD ROUND NEW YORK. Nov. 15.—Leach Cross, of this city, knocked out One-Round Hogan, of California, in the third round of a scheduled ten-round bout here. Hogan was outfought in the first two rounds. In the third the Californian landed a left hook to Cross’ head. Cross dropped his head aS if the blow had dazed him. As Hogan came in, fooled by the East Sider's ruse, the latter sud denly straightened up, and landed left and right to head and body, and then with a terrific right cross to the Jaw put Hogan to the floor for the full count. Each weighed 137 pounds ringside. COMMODORES WILL USE ONLY SUBS TOMORROW NASHVILLE. TENN., Nov. 15. Vanderbilt will use only four regulars in the game with Central of Kentucky tomorrow afternoon on Dudley field, (’ouch McGugln having prescribed the rest cure. for his regulars, who were badly battered in the Harvard game, to save them for the Auburn and Sewanee games. Robbins at quarter, Sheal and Luck at halves and Milholland at full will be the back field. Huffman will play’ center, Daves and Swafford at guards, Reyer and Lowe at tackles and Chester and Reams at the ends. MERCER-CLEMSON GAME SHOULD PROVE A BEAR MACON, GA., Nov. 15.—Mercer and Clemson meet on the gridiron here in what promises to be by far the best game of the season locally. Clemson is after revenge for the de feat handed them' by Mercer last year and will fight fiercely. The teams stack up as being evenly matched in weight, speed and experience. AL KETCHELL AN EASY WINNER OVER MAHER BRIDGEPORT, CONN., Nov. 15.— aS Ketchell decisively' whipped Dodo Ma her in fifteen rounds. Ketchell took it easy for several rounds and then start ed ripping and tearing in. Maher was In distress after the eighth round, but showed he was a glutton for punish ment. BATTLING NELSON WINS HARD GO OVER STUART CHFAtiO. Nov. 1 5. Battling Nelson bumj>ed up against unexpected opposition at Hammond last night, when he met Art Stuart, but the Dane emerged vic tor after ten rounds of hard milling. Princeton ends. They look a bit stronger than Yale's pair. Flynn, Captain Spalding and Philbin of Yale, form an imposing backfield combination, but there is nothing there that does not appear also among Dewitt, Captain Pen dleton and “Tubby” Waller, or "Hobey" Baker, of Princeton. Each of the last two named has figured in an 80-yard run of the Sam White order this season. Pendleton is : ten-second sprinter, but is gener ally unlucky, in the big games, be cause the opposition makes it its business to “bottle” him. His spe cialty is long end runs, although tins year he lias also shown hint self able to pierce the tackles. Waller is a strong- line ruslte and a bulwark of strength in stop ping the other team’s plays. “Ho bey'’ Baker is a splendid back, quidk to pick holes in the line and handy’ at grabbing the loose ball. He is also a clever place kicker. “Stew" Baker's generalship at quartet back is acknowledged to be excellent. He is sure on catching punts, and is quick in getting up speed in running back punts Wheeler, the Yale general, is not expected to prove quite as strong as Stewart. Earle Dewitt, at fullback, is a fin ished punter. Last year it was largely- his booting that won the championship for Princeton, lie hits the line like a human pile driver, and statistics show- him to be the Jungaleers’ most consistent ground gainer. ATLANTA BASKET BALL LEAGUE-REORGANIZED The Atlanta Basket Ball league was re organized for the season at a meeting help at I'. J. Cooledge’s office. Two of last year s teams were not represented, owing to the fact that they had disbanded. £ . ~ plac ? s were Hied. however, by the fast Georgia Tech team, which Is enter mg the game for the first time in its l1 ,’? Q tf >er place was taken by Hugh Mauck s bunch of huskies, who last L he pennant, rei V le regiment, but win p m enter this year as the Atlanta Gray.-. ne entire team being members of that company. Jhe J'ther teams will remain the same. L’i i * oung Men’s Christian association. Knights us Columbus and Grant Athletic S’ . • team managers reported most ravorabl.y on the speed and personnel ■ their men. and with the acquisition / v Heisman's men. the basket ball fans y>ni be treated to some high-class exhibi tions of basket ball. Three courts will 1 used, Armory, Young Men's Christian as sociation and Teks’ Crystal Palace, with the possibilty of using the Knights of <’• nimbus court also. Games will be place.: on all three courts every Thursday. FOUR CUE EXPERTS NOW TIED IN TITLE TOURNEY NEW YORK, Nov. 15.—Willie Hopp-. Oro Morningstar, George Slosson aiL Harry Cline, with two victories an one defeat each, are today tied for first place in the 18.2 balk line billiard tom nament for the championship oft!" world. Yamada, the Japanese, lost to Sutton last night, though lie placed a brilliant game. Hoppe beat Taylor. Clint trom Morningstar by a whirlwind fin ish, and Slosson, making runs of 16 ,: 136. 48 and 33. swamped Calvin Dema rest. SHARPE TO SCOUT FOR BOSTON NATIONAL CLUB BOSTON, Nov. 15.—The Nation.)' league club here has signed »is s ’ for 1913 "Bud” Sharpe, former maj league star and manager of thr p--n --nant-winning Oakland club, in the I’.i clfic Coast league, last winter. BRICKLEY TURNS DOWN SSOO PER STAGE OFFER CAMBRIDGE. MASS., Nov. 1 Charles Brickley, Harvard's worni" drop kicker and all-round football st * today declined an offer to go ’ n ' vaudeville for SSOO a week. FRANCE IN WORLD’S SERiES. PARIS. Nov. 15. France will see " first league baseball game soon. French Baseball union has just J’’’: formed, with Franz Messerly, of f '' as president, to promote the Aineri'r; game, with the ultimate idea of rr--- ing a French competitor in wor championship series.