Newspaper Page Text
6
GECfiHAI SFOW O«B*DMm
EPITLD W. 9 FARNSWORTH
Here’s Once McWhorter Was Stopped Before
He Got by Tech'--Moore Was “On the Job”
u\ f~X\
/ / W mie -*' x\\
/m W- !
/TSL * w
//&\ ■JW Jfir
/ ! t&wi ? Im. jst js o®j» ■ iziw
//> 1 ’ Jrea* A if Jj|| 4SSSRWB
/ k j g? Joi ? C «t zs
//A > r ' * '“<riMMKc JsHl Bhdn iJi
/ZBL. p U Xi «.
I JURt *' > ? 7T
/$< j «WX P k ■' ■
.p. ? 9 wW ! * ®L
JBk\ W>taX JxhJf ;WMW 4PJL * i
i<t. wxv’ iJ&m J
.Ur 1 W' &<F/4i
« ' ‘ ’%♦'-. W " ffr «/7“
W.\- j» ‘ / /
\\|sO*“ Jf XZL, -
«A. '•{F73T X' X’s»
'' • lafe%®'' * '""w
*> ’i*-- - -&i» * OW’’ ?? X.
" the camera clicked on this plat Bob McWhorter had torn around end and was yoing head-on against
Moore, lech s right end. The Georgia interfereiiee had Tailed in its purpose of clearing a track for its brilliant
back, and a second after the picture was taken McWhorter was down. Kight back of Moore is Thompson, of
Championship Hangs on Vandy-Auburn Battle
+•+ +
Georgia-Auburn Game Will Settle Second Place
By Percy 11. Whiting.
THERE Is one BIG game, one
good game and a couple of
fair games left 1n the South.
The BIG one is rhe Vanderbilt-Au
burn encounter slated for Birming
ham next Saturday.
Too bad it isn’t to he played in
Atlanta. It’s so far over to Bir
mingham. it's an off day here—
and there’s an educated football
patronage. More people would come
to Ponce DeLeon in automobiles to
see it than will get inside the Bir
mingham park.
The game Saturday between Au
burn and Vanderbilt is for the
championship. Os course, there are
few who believe ’hat Auburn has a
chance. But, then, you can't tell.
Auburn has made the whole season
for this one game. It has devel
oped slowly but very surely. Phys
ically, its men are as good as Van
derbilt’s. They hav< been trained
this year as perhaps never befon
For Vanderbilt the game Isn’t of
particular interest. The Commo
dores reached the height of theii
season at Harvard -or tried to. The
rest of the games this season are
just pure anti-climax The men
aren’t in condition. MeGugin is
trying to get them light, only a
few regulars played against Cen
tral, But the Commodor, s will not
be right; they will be overconfi
dent, and there will be that psycho
logical handicap of don’t-git e-a
hangn. ss.
Os course, Vanderbilt ought to
win. But outside of til. Harvard
game it will probably be tin
toughest A’anderbilt gets this v. a
• * •
rpHE uil'J other BIG gab . ..t the
■ S’. I. A, a . season wtli bi th<
contest between Georgia and Au
burn at Athens Thanksgiving day.
That gam.- ought to settle second
place in the S. I. \. A ranking.
This will be on. corking con
test, by the way. It ought to b,
mighty even, too. Auburn hasn't
any sucli bidlliant offensive per
formers as McWhorter and Had
dock. But it has a grand machine
-a team of big. strong performers.
It will be handicapped by tin fact
tl*
h i it Thanks-
giving afternoon may find them a
bit crippled.
• ♦ •
'T* HANKS* HYING day's gam. here
in Atlanta will be no slouch
performance and ranks ns one of
the few fair games left. The Clem
son team has been erratic this year
as erratic as a doped horse. But
It wilt be especially pointed for the
I'hanksgiving day contest. It ought
to lie a battle.
• » *
many days will . lapse be
* fore tlie fans of the Empire
State of tile South will stop talk
ing about that I’ech-tleorgia game.
It turned out pretty much accord
’ng to th< dope. w. said iwo
touchdowns, and with an even
break in luck that would have been
the answer. Once Teen had ~
touchdown and a fumble cost it.
Once when Georgia had lost the
ball on downs to Tech almost on
the Jackets' own goal line, the Ath
enians were able to retain posses
sion ot the ball, get first down and
shortly afterward make a touch
down by a Tech off-side play. Os
course, it was all in the game but
with an * ven break of luck Tech
would have made a touchdown or
Georgia would have made one less-.
It was really a game. There
wasn’t a doubt about it. And |he
Very best part about it was the
.lean way it was played. It was
vicious to a degree, but there was
only an occasional bit of unneces
sary roughness and the officials
made short Work of it. Also th.-i.
>. emed to b< the most sportsman
like spirit prevailing among the
students and the supporters of the
two colleges.
This is emin. ntly as it should be
There isn’t th. slightest reason
for any enmity between Tech ami
Georgia. They are both tine, high
grade volliges. They .Iran their
students from the best families of
the state. Thejr teams ought al
ways t.. meet on a basis of high
grade. sportsmanlike rivalry. Andi
on such a basis they did meet on*'
Saturday.
THE game was a big vindication
'" ' 'oa. ci . x < '■.iiining c.i:
He coaching methods hav. been
under tire off and on all the season.
But he simwv.l t'.;.*m Situ day Hi
teain played lit.•• footbaf The men
TZ F ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1912.
wore In good condition; they
showed real knowledge of the game
and excellent head work. His
•coaching methods proved them
selves in that game. His men beat
Tech Wi ■se than Auburn or Se
wanee db' That was all that he
could expect. it. was more than
many ted. And it proved that
< ’unningham methods are winning
methods.
• • •
A I* EW individual stars displayed
sue i brilliancy Saturday that
it is hard to pass over their work
without some mention. <>f course,
McWhorter was the big constella
tion. He played the truck horse
part as usual, and while he got
away tor no brilliant runs, he did
most of the ground gaining for
Georgia. Sometimes he had inter
ference. The one time when lie got
it i onsistently lie marched down
the field to a touchdown witlj, no
break or let-tip at all. When he
didn't hav. any help he made his
gains apj way. Next tin the Geor
gia honor tx,y comes Paddock. This
lad made the most brilliant run of
the game and one that put Georgia
in position to make a touchdown.’
He got away on u trick play, but
he had to slide through most of the
Tech team to get his distance.
Io one lad on the Tech team fell
the honor of being both the hero
and the villain of the piece.
man was McDonald. it was his
luckless late to be the man who
stumbled right to Georgia's goal
line. Within a few inches was
alimst deathless gridiron fame
fame that would outlast his life, at
least. He was on the verge of scor
ing mi Georgia in a game Tech was
losing by a big score. And then he
fumbled. He made up for this play
as well as he could by doing almost
all the classy offensive work for
T. ch. He Charged through the line
-in bac»
punts Ike a < demon and he tackled
well. The other men on the Tech
team played well. But the man
whose work stands out particularly
the man who played the greatest
game of all, for his ounces was
this McDonald.
tie Bed Sox recruits. Hubert
•■( ard. lute of Denver, went home to
l-iesibi the ether .lay and celeb rated bv
pi'. hing a r.i.-blt no-run oiie nian-to-iirst
I'a.-e game i. i Fresno against Lemoore.
And all lie got out of It was a (Mo-0 tie.
BILL SMITH WILL BE HERE THIS WEEK TO BUILD CRACKERS
SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, Nov. IH.
Billy Smith, manager of the
Atlanta ball club, reached
here this morning from the minor
league meeting and will be here to
day and possibly part of tomorrow.
He will leave then for Atlanta.
Smith geemed delighted with the
meeting of the'nioguls and with the
trades he puiled off.
"ESverything was fine at the meet
ing,” aaid Smith, "and 1$ enjoyed
it. There was certainly a large
time.
"I pulled a few trades that ought
to be to the advantage of the team.
Os course, 1 am going slow and I
started some thingsup there that
may result in big deals later.
"Howeye , I am not worrying,”
added Smith. “We had some nice
material left over from last year.
We picked u;> some good men by
purchase at the end of the season
and we have an arrangement with
x V ■raink
JK.,
igbSl»<XaßF < y
■' ■ SNk k-<
t : *
• IB ? ‘ *</' V
- Hn " ?;
”>
n wW’ z
'* * '*-’ x/
. -n n .. ——.—- -——— -
kj ® _. . jXv’Ltl ' "* ""
LOCAL BOXING
CLUB CALLS OFF
TOiMTS GO
rpHERE will be no fight at the
« Dixie Athletic club tomorrow
night. Manager Norton has
called off the program of bouts
that had been arranged.
The matchmaker originally' had
I scheduled Dave Deshler anti Clar
ence English fop the main bout.
D< shier hurt his hand in a bout
with Younf McCartney. of Phila
delphia, a few nights ago and was
forced to cancel his match. The
matchmaker Hun seemed Young |
I Otto. a hard-hitting New Yorker. I
to tight English.
But otto claim- he is sick and
van not tight, bast night h- wired
that he had just sent some un
known boy. name Young Motto, to
take his place. Motto will arrive
j here some time tpday, but It won t
do him any good, as the club re
| fuses to stand for him.
Being unable to secure a good
bout at such short notice, the Cl lb
promoter has decided that there
will be “nothing doing” tomorrow
night.
VANDY AND SEWANEE
ENTITLEDTO HONORS
Vanderbilt continues to lead the
Southern teams in scoring. The Com
modores now have 370 points to their
credit and only 12 against them, 9 of
which were scored by Harvard. Ten
nessee Is next to Vanderbilt in number
of points scored, but the Knoxville elev
en has met such triple-plated cinches
as Kings college, Maryville. Memphis
Medicos, Central, Mercer and Kentucky
State.
Next to Vanderbilt, the best defensive
work has been done by Sewanee. The
Tigers have had but 25 points scored
on them, and they have met some tar
tars. including Tennessee, Georgia.
Tech and Alabama.
BRESNAHAN WON’T SIGN
UNTIL HE GETS HIS PRICE
TOLEDO. OHIO, Nov. 18. Koger Bres
nahan. deposed manager of the St. Louis ’
Nation! league team, said todav that he
was not going with Pittsburg. Chicago or
Cincinnati, or any American league club,
until “t get my price.''
It is said that nothing under SIO,OOO a
year will tempt him.
Georgia. charging forward in an effort to clear away for his team male. Coming forward with arms flying like
flails is McDonald, the Tech quarterback, who performed so brilliantly on offense and offense for the Jackets.
McDonald was in every .play and downed McWhorter again and again.
Washington that will give us spme
grand men.
‘‘Our alliance with Washington
should he all of helpful. When
that team was down at the bot
tom its surplus material was a joke.
But now that it is up in the world
the situation is changed. Griffith
has promised to look out for us,
and I know that his promise is
good. Atlanta fans will recall the
men he has given us in the past.”
Smith is looking fine and pros
perous, and Is looking forward to
an enjoyable winter in Atlanta. Bill
believes thst there is only one real
city in the world, and that’s Atlan
ta. He can see that New York has
some strong points and that Chi
cago is a big place for its size—but
Atlanta’s the town for him.
Manager Smith expects to spend
his whole winter in Atlanta. He
will secure rooms at some hotel, as
usual, and trill make his hangout
at baseball headquarters.
Brickley, Thorpe and Flynn Marvels of Season
•i-e-h
Great Race Between Trio For Gridiron Honors
By Lombard Law.
BRICKLEY. Thorpe and Flynn.
If you are selecting the
most brilliant performer on
the gridiron today, pause here and
pick.
And if you can satisfactorily sin
gle out one ot' this sterling trio and
disea. d the other two, then you're
some picker. Judges of the all-
American team this year will be
fortunate in not having to break up
the trio. They can perform their
office satisfactorily by placing all
three in the backfield.
Most seasons have an individual
star of the Ted Coy type who stands
out from the rest like a green vest
at a wedding. In 1911 picking the
winner from the pack was a pipe,
for there was Sam White. But
look who there is in 19121 Cast,
your eye again upon that line:
Brkklty, Thorpe and Flynn.
They certainly look good to the
lovers of football. Os any one of
them it can he said that he is one
of the greatest playetw that ever
donned the moleskins for his col
lege—yes, that he is one of the
grandest performers in all gridiron
history.
Players that in some seasons
would be called sensations, who
were, in fact, called sensations last
year and the year before, have
failed to draw anything more than
passing notice this fall, interest be
ing centered on Brickley, Thorpe
and Flynn. These three have mo
nopolized the spotlight, to the utter
exclusion of many really great
players. The pre-season dope was
principally devoted to a string of
all-American veterans —Wendell,
Harvard halfback; Bomeister, Yale
end; Devore. Army tackle; Mercer,
. Pennsylvania fullback; Morey,
Dartmouth halfback, and Pendle
ton. Princeton halfback. Every one
of these men is now playing as
grand a game as that which won
hint his all-American honors, but
they have done little basking In
the limelight since Brickley. Thorpe
and Flynn began indulging their
wild scoring p; ocllvitties.
Thorpe Greatest Athlete.
Jim Thorpe, of the ('arlisle In
dian school, is the world's greatest
living athlete. He won his title
Billy has not decided yet when he
will have his recruits report. “It
looks.” he said today, “as though
there would be no big league team
training in Atlanta. If there isn’t
our club will have all the time it
wants, and we shall not have to get
them to Atlanta quite as early as In
some past years. On the other
hand, we shall have a lot of mate
rial to work through and shall need
a reasonable amount of time.”
Bill expects to go to the South
ern league meeting at Birmingham
and will stand as usual for a high
salary limit.
MINOR LEAGUE MAGNATES
HAVE LEFT “‘BREW BURG”
CHICAGO, Nov. 18.—The exodus of
minor league mganates, who tarried in
° \
with ease at the Olympic games.
And it looked as if it was going to
be easier still* for him to gain the
title of world’s greatest football
player, after he began kicking goals
and striding over tacklers eprly last
month. He showed at the start that
• he had lost none of those almost
uncanny qualities of speed, courage
and strength which have made him
a veritable world-beater in every
line of sport which he has taken up
It took “Lefty” Flynn to divert
attention from Thorpe. This hap
pened when Yale played the Army,
Carlisle having an unimportant
game that day. In the Army game
Flynn made It clear that the big
Indian was going to be up against
competition for the season’s indi
vidual laurels, world-beater or no
world-beater.
There were now tw.o sensational
gridiron luminaries, each with that
terrific lunge that pierces any line,
that shiftiness of foot that bewild
ers all tacklers, that powerful drive
that lasts till the last possible inch
of ground is gathered in—and each
having, above all, a phenomenal
ability' to boot the ball.
Brickley Leaped to Front.
Football fame, alas! Is a thing of
evanescence. No sooner did Thorpe
and Flynn lay off one Saturday
than Charley Brickley, another
Olympic performer, one of the
greatest of the American hop-step
jumpers, suddenly burst over the
football horizon—and he has never
been out of sight since. It was
against Williams that Brickley
really found himself. He drop
kicked over the standards as easily
from one side of the 30-yard line
as from the other. Two touch
downs and two field goals he reg
istered* in this game, increasing to
four touchdowns and two field goals
against Amherst the following Sat
urday. Three field goals was his
contribution in the Brown game,
and when he got three more against
Princeton it simply piled on the
agony tor the worried bugs who
have to tell who is the football her *
of 1912.
Brickley kicks equally well mi
the drop or from placement. Most
of his goals this season have been
on drop kicks, but some of tile most
difficult chances—that drive from
the 47-yard line in the Princeton
game, so: instance—have been
Chicago to change ears and a few bank
notes on their return from the national
meeting in Milwaukee, was complete t<7
day. \A ith the exception of President
Baum, of the Pacific Coast league and
President Ewing, of the San Francisco
club, there were no visiting arngnates’ left
within the gates. ‘
Ewing and Baum remained over to see
President Comlskey, of the White Sox
who. with President Johnson, of the
American league, is expected to return
today from a week’s outing in Excelsior
Springs. The coast leaguers want to tali'
over with Comiskey the few remaining
details to be arranged for the south side
team's spring training trip to California
in February.
FLYNN MAY BE UNABLE
TO GET IN PRACTICE TODAY
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Nov. 18.—The
Yale regulars, owing to bruises and
bumps from which some are suffering
as a result of Saturday’s battle with
Princeton, were scheduled for only
light practice today. Lefty Flynn was
said to be so badly used up that it was
impossible for him to get into practice
today.
Changes may be made in the regular
line-up before Saturday. It is possible
that Pumpelly, the sub who made the
phenomenal drop-kick that saved the
blue from defeat, may start the game at
guard and a sub quarterback may be
used in his place.
booted from placement.
Flynn drives the ball an unearth
ly distance when he’s' booting up to
top form, and running with the ball
he is one of the hardest men in the
world to down. Both are stone
walls df defensive strength.
Thorpe Is one of the most dan
gerous men to opponents that eve:
played in a backfield. Fast and
ppwerful on all kinds of attack and
defense, he can be classed with the
most illustrious of this Immortals
who live in history as gods of the
gridiron.
Fitting Trusses
A NY clerk can’t fit a truss properly
1 *• It requires a professional under
standing of the human form and a
long experience in fitting many pecu
liarities to give you a truss that will
benefit you and not aggravate the trou
ble.
And rupture is far too serious to take
chances with it.
Jacobs’ Pharmacy
Gives You the Best
Professional Service
For over 27 years we have been fit
ting trusses properly. We have the
largest and most successful business in
the Southern States, the best equipped
department, ami the most extensive
stock of Trusses, Elastic Hosiery. Helt',
Bandages, Abdominal Supporters. etc.
At our Main Store we have private
fitting rooms, quiet and apart from the
general business, with men and women
attendants. And we invite consulta
tion. Our expert professional mi' :
costs you nothing; it may save yen
much. Don’t neglect it.
Jacobs' Pharmacy
Atlanta, Ga.