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14 COACH HEISMAN PICKS GEORGIA TO DEFEAT TECH I It’s a Wonder Jeff Didn’t Want to Pick Out the Policeman Also :: :: By “Bud” Fisher A Iww To a sk you I __ vY ** GfP A COIICCTiON VO ) f CHARjTy. I KNOW uuHMY A C AYO«. . COLLECTING. ’ r VUANT YOvj To ; C * U “" 4N ; iXX ■ msa ooXto ; r-1 , I •'.—.'X'.•;,*■• ’/rr«i T s 7 so ' i " d i tou ; i i m ( i L * dolla£ ,S. J / HfeLP CoucecT > _ <__ '-'H *lO, Buk x i ~Y" ,*S?\V 1 ' ' i * OR >G 2j£> i 1 SkX ' -< JO, 3&X ZYY d 'O Y— J . *,TW\ ' jm r o w « •«£. ii >‘ i | - If 118 Isl W Y..X JIt syS— -- _r ' zzz ' ij I • < Yellow Jackets’ Coach Sizes Up Tomorrow’s Gridiron Baffles HEISMAN PICKS GEORGIA BY TWO TOUCHDOWNS By J. W. Heisman. MOST everybody has had their say about the Georgia-Tech game long ere this, and when 1 come to think it al) 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 .email end of the horn. "Small end” comes in particular!) pat when speaking of relative t weights, but no less so when we | consider backfield speed, team ex perience and star players. When it comes to punting the diffe once Is in favor of Tech, and perhaps so in forward passing. Which has tin better team play? I’d rather an swer that after the game. So like wise such matters as interference, tackling, getting down livid‘under punts and a few other of the side lights of the game. The general idea that weight in football will crush speed is correct, in the main: and what sneed Tech has is overmatched by the speed of the Georgia hacks. With equal fighting spirit the advantage must still lie with the heavj team, espe ciallj when the preponderance of weight is so very’ great. When It comes to general know - edge of football—why. Tech has. It is true, absorbed an amazing amount of football know' Igo for i> green team, bw Geo. g l .. •< team of veterans have shown In the pas', that they know football (whether they learned it this year or last makes no difference), and 1 doubt not they will show it. So it's lilo a forecast of the weather. The bureau says some times it is going to rain because it oug t to ain. end then it dot sn't sometimes. Georgia ought to win by a touclx own or two more still If M. \t hott< i get. <ut loose too many times. Com 'ruing this : tter point, no expert has the right to pose as a prophet. Al! 1 know is that, out side of Vr nderbilt. no Southern team has- vet stopped him from getting loos.* on* or more times In a game, ami If * m others couldn t. how van the light, aw Tech team be expected to stop him S. r ance -aje it is 1. quest! >n Os Stop Mc- Whorter; t ci' " I' 'A i>*' !■ ’ were an *n dim y. tit' 1 - . • 1 halfback Tech wmi'd bo :*- good as Georgia, but with McWhorter being. as In is. McWhorter, well- Hur all for t'. i .on! Go* night. SEW A\ EE VS ALABAMA. -*• frou 'r which lot team won t'ro.n Mis sissippi A A M . an*: >’n ■*• I is- ialoosans .m Geoig'a su a bard race w* a now in ro- Ilion to judg* jus: what a good same T. ch i played to beat the Alabamians so i bad y. Some :*av* *qi t v s a* eau-.’ Tech had com* to a heigh too early. Have subsequent ganos in which Tech has participatee borne out this contention'.’ Not thus far. to saj the least. In the game with Sewanee th** two teams played 192 downs, which is about tin more downs than I ever heart! of being played in any previous gam. between any teams And yet Tech stood the gall' and was crowding Sewanee harder than ever at t'i* very finish of this interminable game. It all simply means that Tech and Alabama both have real teams, ami if Alabama is in good fighting trim she is going to make thing- a degree or two warmer for Sewanee that* the thermomete would seem to indlcat* . S"wane 1 should win bi a touch down or two. They have the weight, at 'east < qua! speed, mor* expcrlenc* , the belt* putltei rind a stiffer defens' MEKCEK Vs. CLEMSON. 1 1 ERE ■a ga that, 1 atn afraii. Mfii stiff-arm my tackie. 1 •fe game lam Saturday, and I would • ' •••••••••••••••••••••••••• jFOOTBALL TEAMS Z AT “PINK LADY” • C SATURDAY NIGHT : • • , • Homer George, manager of the • i • Atlanta theater, has invited the • : • Georgia and Tech football teams • • to see "The Pink Lady" at his • • house tomorrow night. The win- • ; • ners will occupy boxes. Students • • will entertain between the acts • j • with college songs and cheers. • ••••••••••••••••••••••••a* Im' quite as apt to go wrong in try ing to forecast a winner between Mercer and Clemson. One month ago w*' would all h ive said Clem son. without even thinking over it. Until last Saturday tin* 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 1 should say that the chances favor Mercer. But tin* Baptists are such lu und-out performers in all their athletic contests that one hardly knows what to expect of them in any given match. And certainly Clemson 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, sot the fray when the whistle whists * « ♦ Al Bl KN VS. FLORIDA. ■y'HE schedules have it that Au burn plays Florida at Auburn tomorrow. This is not th* Univer sity of Florida, as Auburn has al i ly playeii thetlatter; 1 presume it is Stetson college that is meant. No matter whether it is Stetson or Columbia, or what Florida college there * an be no question whatever about Auburn winning, and by al most whatever score she pleases to make. Stetson would boa much better game for Auburn, thougii. than Columbia. ♦ * • TENNESSEE VS. MLSSLSSIPL I'HK former was well beaten by Mercer last week, and the hit ter still more 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 a’re making a dis appointing showing of their No vember games. y GORDON-STONE MOUNTAIN GAME TOMORROW MORNING Sonil.i ~nly in interest to the great ■ e-orgia-Te* h gam*' to the played in At- 1 iunte tomorrow is the Gordon-Stone Mountain game which is to be playeii at l’*nc< DeLeon in the morning at 10:30. I'liis g.inn promises to be a good ehibi tion of prep football. The Gordon team this year is very Peavy for a prep schol and has made a god record so far The Stone Mountain team, while not nearly so heavy as their opponents, is a good, fast, snappy bunch *f youngsters and can he counted on to give u good account of themselves EIG RIDERS FOR 6 DAY RACE. NEW YttRK, m. 15. Most of the world famous bike riders will enter the <i\-day hike race which commenced on December 9. It will lie held In Madison Square Gulden, under the auspices of th* Garden Athletic club, which has staved these races annually since 1891. GIBBONS STARTS TRAINING. *‘Hl*'AG*> Nov. 15. Mike Gibbons arriv'd here today to train for a fight mi lie ember 3 in New York with Ed die MeGooriy. Gibbons has hired a numb* of M* *.loorty’.- old sparring partners to help him tiain. PLAN BIG XCOUNTRY RUN. ITHACA. N V Nov J 5. .Pans w. ■: e | omplet. ; today- tor tin- . ross-country will ■■ Novemlw 23 in::" ill ' ■ ’ll twclvt colleges will COIU- Ipct" '!';*■ .*■ will bi 191 runnets j u the ' six-mile race. 9 I’llE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 15, 1912. It’s a tossup which will win. I choose Mississippi, you take whichever you please. <1 ♦ ♦ MISS. A. & M. VS TEXAS. 'THE former of these teams seem to be in somewhat the same state of mind, body and football as Mississippi and Tennessee. Tex as we leave heard little about this season, but should win. FORWARD AXD BACKWARD P\ss. 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 loijg or short a time as she likes. Auburn is going to make the effort of her life to down the Commodores, who had br st be on their guard. It will be the classiest game of the season, if not the closest. Last year Alabama had to lead a dog's life with her light team, try ing to make a strong showing in lier October games, and then to keep i; up through all her Novem ber games. This year a similar task has fallen to Tech’s lot. Ala bama did remarkably well with her job, and thus far Tech has done even better this year. Tech has been in superb condition for a month, but how to keep the team right there for another two weeks is the 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 the Mississippi colleges, Alabama. Tulane and L. S. C. are putting up against each other week after week all help to raise Tech’s standing in the tinal 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 one day, and Penn started in. Before the stopped she had piled up 27 and won tlie game. Has the reader any Just conception of what “sand” it takes for a team to do that? The same day Mississippi A. & M. col lected 24 points before Tulane real ized she was supposed to be play ing a game of football, not cheek ms. And then the game wound up 27 to 24 in favor of Tulane. These two games furnish, in the scores, about the strongest examples of up-hill fighting tnat my memory recalls in the history of the game. BOSTON RECRUIT PITCHES NO-HIT. NO-RUN GAME FRESN’o. (’At... Nov. 15. Hubert TLeon ard, v Lo pitched this year for Denver. hi the Westen league. and who has been sold to the Boston Americans, celebrated his arrival in his home town by pitching a no-hit no-run game against Lemoore, champions of the San Joaquin Leonard pitched for Fresno Only one of the Lemoore platers reached second case. 'Phis man walked and stole sec ond. The game was called at the end of the ninth Inning because of darkness, the score being 0 to 0. JAMES AND MORROW FOR NASHVILLE TEAM NASHVILLE. TENN.. Nov. 15.—A telegram received here from President Hirsig it Milwaukee announces the purchase from Brooklyn by Nashville of Outfielder Jesse James and Pitcher Morrow. James played last season with Nash, ville, while Morrow was with Columbus in the South Atlantic league. WOLVERTON REFUSES OFFER. NEW YORK. Nov. 15. Harry Wolverton deposed manager of the ed an otter to n age the Sacramento team of the Pacific Coast league, although he was asked to name hit own terms DELANEY BROCK (DRAW. <’l,i:vi<laxi . Nov. 15 Cal Delaney laini Ma t Brod,. local featherweights, | boxed twelve ivuiub to a draw here last i I night. HARO LOCK HAS HANDED HANDY HDTTINIE 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 Commodores fairly walloped the life out of Fielding Yost’s Michi ganders, yet the 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 the 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 Manier: “If your man Hardage hadn’t been hurt, I think the score would have been a tie. You had hard luck, sure.” Os 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 the 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 ami 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, Chorn, 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 momen Craig whirled into Chorn and fell. Be fore he could get up a Michigan man was on him ami :i sure chance for a touchdown was lost. Later in that game Van derbilt received a punt on her own fifteen-yard line, from which Cos ten ran it back ten yards. Then tile 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 givdn for alleged in terference with a fair catch. Yet Gmustein, the man who caught the punt, actually run seven yards be fort Tom Blown got him, . nd the , niles say two steps is ■nough afte such a catcb 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 dopoaters were confident today that tlieir 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 gantb was taken io be more in the nature of an instructive setback than an event tliat 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 tlieir 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 tlieir system of play tins 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 tiie team has revealed a versatile attack. It has found comparative ease in scoring, whether by line plunging, runs around end, for- 1 ward 'passes or goals from the field. Yale stands undefeated, while Princeton has been beaten by Har vard, but Yale has no such victory to her credit as Princeton’s 22 to 7 I 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 “Bluey" the Tiger line would feel lost. The Princeton center is out to steal Ketcham’s all-Ameri can job. Slienck 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- I cially eager ami quick in action, j 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 lie seems to be a reliable man of fair speed. Vet eran Phillips makes up in aggres siveness w hat 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 tiiat they will be chosen, the Tigers will have little to fear from I the territory outside the tackles. 1 Yale’s ends hav* had a religiously | devoted crew of vouches working | on them daiiv since th* B’’uwn 1 | game. I Yaie is heavily handicapped at. •••••••••••••••••••••••••a ; 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, • • • •••••••••••••••••••••••••a 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, Wights 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, Couch MeGugin having prescribed the vest cure for bis regulars, who were badly battered in the Harvard game, to save them for the Auburn and Sewanee I games. Robbins at quarter. Shea and Luck at halves ami Milholland at full will be the back Held. Huffman will play center, Daves and Swafford at guards. I Reyer and Lowe at tackles and Cliestcr I and Reams at the ends. MERCER-CLEMSON GAME SHOULD PROVE A BEAR AIAt ON. 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 wil' 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.—Al 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 lie was a glutton for punish ment. BATTLING NELSON WINS HARD GO OVER STUART i * HP'va*. Nov. 15 Battling Nelson |buni]xd-up ugiUnst uuFXi-euted ‘»pu<>siHGii |at Hammond lust night, when hp met Art Stuart, but the j >ane enu rge<l vic tor after ten rounds of bard milling. • i 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 f in an 80-yard run of the Sam White ' order this season. Pendleton is a 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 this year he has also shown him self able to pierce the tackles. W aller is a strong line ruslie. and a bulwark of strength in stop ping the other team’s plays. “Ho bey” Baker is a splendid back, quick to pick holes in the line anti handy at grabbing the loose ball. He is also’a clever place kicker. “Stew” Baker’s generalship at quarterback is acknowledged to.b< 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 Hr 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 At , liir J la Basket Ball league was : vxL?‘i in tO r ! season at a meeting held at I*. ,r. Cooledge's office. Tv,* u as* years teams were not repres*nnd ovi Ing to the fact that they had disban<i< v L heir places were filled, however, by Hh iast Georgia Tech team, which is em 1 hlu* ?S. rne lor the first time in its other place was taken b. Hugh Maucks bunch of huskies, who las’ on the City league pennant, rep resentrng the Fifth regiment, but win will enter this year as the Atlanta Grav. . me entire team being members of tha company. .The other teams will remain the same, viz: > oung Men’s Christian associatioii l “ n of Columbus and Grant Athletic ♦g . ■ team managers reported most ravorably on the sneed and personnel of Jpetr men. and with the acquisition of Heisman’s men, the basket hall fans will be treated to some high-class exhibi tions of basket ball. Three courts will be used, Armory. Young Men’s Christian as sociation and Teks Crystal Palace, with the pAssibilty of using the Knights of Up turn bus court also. Games will be placed on all three courts every Thursday FOUR CUE EXPERTS NOW TIED IN TITLE TOURNEY NEW YORK, Nov. 15—Willie If oro Morningsta *■. Gvoige Slossmi ni Harry Cline, with two victories ’ ■me defeat each, arc today tied for li ■ rdai'i in th,. |,.2 balk line billiard tour nament .'for the championship of th* i 'vo rid. hamada, the Japanese. Inst to Sutton past nigh l , though he played a briid.! • game. Tioppe beat Taylor. Clin* "<»r from Morningstar by a whirlwind fln ish- and Slosson, making runs of l ,:,; 136. 4R and 33, swamped Calvin Dem <- SHARPE TO SCOUT FOR BOSTON NATIONAL CLUB BOSTON, Nov. 15. The Nations league club here has signed as s*‘<>ut for 19111 “Bud” Sharpe, former mu.i l! league star and manager of the i a nant-wlnning Oakland club, in the I’ eifle Coast league, last winter. BRICKLEY TURNS DOWN . SSOO PER STAGE OFFER CAMBRIDGE. MASS. Nov. !■ ''bail's Biiekley, Harvaid's «ui; ■ ■lio] kicker and all-round footba today declined an offer to go i' ' vaudeville f<> ■ 3500 a week. FRANCE IN WORLD'S SER'ES. PARIS. Nov. 15. -FYance will ilrst league baseball game soon. ’• French. Hasnball union has jus' b< ’ formed, with I’ram. Messcrly. • ns president, to promote th" Ameri* * game, with the ultimate idea *»f pr" v ’ ing a French competitor in worlu ■ championship series. ,