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Here's One lime McWhorter Was Stopped Before
He Got by Tech---Scrappy Moore Was “On the Job"
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When the camera clicked on this plat Bob McWhorter had lorn around end and was going head-on against
Moore, Tech’s right end. The Georgia interference had failed in its purpose of clearing a track for its brilliant
back, and a second after the picture was taken McWhorter was down. Right back of Moore is Thompson, of
Championship Hangs on Vandy-Auburn Battle
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Georgia-Auburn Game Will Settle Second Place
By Percy H. Whiting.
THERE Is one BIG game, one
good game and a couple of
fair games left In the South.
Th* BIG one is the Vanderbilt - Au
burn encounter slated for Birming
ham next Saturday.
Too bad It Isn’t to be 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 that 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 have been trained
this year as perhaps never before.
For Vanderbilt the game isn’t of
particular interest. The Commo
dores reached the height of their
season at Harvard -or tried 10. The
rest of the games this season are
just pure anti-climax. Tin men
aren't in condition. McGugin is
trying to get them right. Only a
few regulars played against Cen
tral. But the Commodores w ill not
be right; they will be overconfi
dent, and there will be that psycho
logical handicap of don't-give ,-
hangness.
Os course, Vanderbilt ought to
win. Hut outside of the Harvard
game it will probably be the
toughest Vanderbilt gets this year.
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epHE only other P,JG game of the
* S. 1 A, A. -enson will i« the
contest between Georgia mid \u
burn at Athens Thanksgiving day.
That game ought to settle Mi-nnd
place in the S. I. A. A. ranking.
This will b< one corking eon
test, by the way. It ought to be
mighty even, too. Auburn hasn’t
any such brilliant offensive per
formers as McWhorter and Pad
dock. But it has a grand machine
--a team of big, strong performers.
It will be handicapped by th, fact
that its season is made fo> 'the
. \ andeiblit gam< and that Thanks-
giving afternoon ma? find them a
bit crippled.
• • •
•"p HAX'KSGIYING day's game here
1 in Atlanta will be no slouch
performance and ranks as one of
the few fair games left. The Clem
son team has been erratic this year
—as erratic as a doped horse. Hut
it will he especially pointed for the
Thanksgiving day contest. It ought
to be a battle.
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A GOOD many days will elapse be-
' fore the fans of the Empire
State of the South will stop talk
ing about that Tech-Georgia game.
It turned out pretty much accord
ing to the dope. We said two
touchdowns, and with an even
break in luck that would have been
the answer. Once Tech had a
touchdown and a fumble cost it.
<>nce 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 of 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 even 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. Ami the
very best part about It was the
clean 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 there
seemed to be the most sportsman
like spirit prevailing among the
students and the supporters of the
two colleges.
This is eminently as it.should be
There isn't the slightest reason
for any enmity between Tech and
Georgia. They an both tine, high
grade colleges. They draw their
students I'rmn tin hist families of
the state. Their teams ought al
ways to meet on a basis of high
grade. sportsmanlike rivalry. And
on such a basis they did meet on
Saturday.
THE game was big vindication
for Coach Alex Cunningham.
His coaching methods have been
um ■ r fire off am! on all the st ason.
But he showed them Saturday. His
team played tine football. The men
TITE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. NOVEM BER 18. 1912.
were 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 worse than Auburn or Se-
Wjtnee did. That was all that he
could expect. It was more than •*
many expected. And it proved that
Cunningham methods are winning
methods.
• * •
\ FEW individual stars displayed
z 1 such brilliancy- Saturday that
it is hard to pass over their work
without some mention. Os course.
McWhorter was the big constella
tion. He "played the truck horse
part as usual, and while he got
away for no brilliant runs,-he did
most of the ground gaining for
Georgia. Sometimes lie had inter
ference. The one time when he got
it consistently he marched down
the field to a touchdown with no
break or let-up at all. When he
didn’t have any help he made his
gains any way. Next on the Geor
gia honor roll 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 a trick play, but
he iiad to slide through most of the
Tech team to 'get his distance.
To one lad on the Tech team fell
the honor of being both the hero
and the villain of the piece. This
nan was McDonald. It was bis
luckless fate to be the man who
stumbled right to Georgia's goal
line. Within a few inches was
almost deathless gridiron fame —
fame that would outlast his life, at
least. He was on the verge of scor
ing <>n 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 th< classy offensive work for
Tech. He charged through the line
and around th** end, he ran hack
punts like a demon and he tackled
well. The other men on the Tech
team played wtII. But the man
• whose work stands out particularly
tin man who played the greatest
game of all, for his ounces was
this .McDonald.
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SMITH WILL BE HERE THIS WEEK TO BUILD CRACKERS;
PLANS TO START TRAINING SEASON LATER THAN USUAL
SPRINGFIELD. OHIO, Nov. 18.
Billy Smith, manager of the
Atlanta l.»all club, reached
here this morning from the minor
league meeting and will be hero to
day and possibly part of tomorrow.
He will leave then for Atlanta,
Smith seemed delighted with the
I meeting of the moguls and with the
I trades he pulled off.
■'Everything was fine at the meet
ing,” said Smith, “and I 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, I am going slow and I
| started some things up there that
l may result in big deals later.
“However, I am not worrying,”
_added Smith. “We had some nice
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LOCAL BOXING
CLUB CALLS OFF
TONIORROW'S GO
rpiHERE will be no fight at the
{ Dixie Athletic club tomorrow
night. Manager Norton has
vailed off the program of bouts
that had been arranged.
The matchmaker originally had
scheduled Dave Deshler and Clar
ence English for the main bout.
Deshler hurt his hand in a bout
with Young McCartney, of Phila
delphia, a few nights ago and was
forced to cancel his match. The
matchmaker then secured Young
Otto, a hard-hitting New Yorker,
to fight English.
But otto claims he is sick and
can not fight. Last night he wired
that he had just sent some un
known boy, name Young Motto, to
take his place. Motto will arrive
here some time today, 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 club
promoter has decided ' that there
will be "nothing- doing" tomorrow
night.
VANDY AND SEWANEE
ENTITLED TO HONORS
Vanderbilt continues to lead the
Southern teams in scoring. The Com
modores now have 37(t points to their
credit and only 12 against them. 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, Mary ville. 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 IS.—Roger Bres
nahan. deposed manager of the Si. Louis
X'atloal league team, said today that he
was not going with Pittsburg. Chicago or
Cincinnati, or any American league club,
until "I get my price."
If is said that nothing under >lo,l'oo a
yeat will tempt him.
Georgia, charging forward in an effort to dear away for his team mate. Coming forward with arms hying 'iie-
Hails is McDonald, the Tech quarterback, who performed so brilliantly on offense and defense for the Jacket >.
McDonald was in every play and downed McWhorter again ami again.
Brickley, .Thorpe and Flynn Marvels of Season
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Great Race Between Trio For Gridiron Crown
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 tin
gle out one of this sterling trio and
discard 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 ths TedlCoy type who stands
out from Hie rest like a green vest
at a wedding, in 1911 picking the
winner from the pack was a pipe,
tor there was Sam White; But
look who there is in 1912! Cast
your eye again upon that line:
Brickley. Thorpe and Flynn.
They certainly look good to the
lovers of football. Os any one of
them It can be said that he is one
of the greatest players that eve"
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; Bomeisler, 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
him all-American honors, but
they have done little basking in
the limelight since Brickley, Thorpe
and Flynn began indulging their
wild scoring proclivilties.
Thorpe Greatest Athlete.
Jim Thorpe, of the Carlisle In
dian school, is the world's greatest
living athlete He won his title
material left over from last year,
we picked up stme good men by
purchase at the end of the season
and we have an arrangement with
Washington that will give us some
grand men.
“Our alliance with Washington
should be 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 that 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 Idm.
Manager Smith expects to spend
his whole winter in Atlanta. He
will secure rooms at some hotel, as
usual, and will make his hangout
at baseball headquarters.
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
gaRM®. x
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 early- 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 two 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 tlie 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, alasl 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 lie 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 hero
of 1912.
Brickley kicks equally well on
the drop or from placement. Most
of his goats this season have been
on drop kicks, but some of the most
difficult chances—that drive from
the 47-yard Hue in the Princeton
game, for Instance—have been
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.—Tlie exodus of
minor league mganates, who tarried in
Chicago to change cars and a few bank
notes on their return from the national
meeting in Milwaukee, was complete to
day. With the exception of President
Baum, of the Pacific Coast league, and
President Ewing, of the San Francisco
club, there were no visiting amgnates left
within the gates.
Ewing and Baum remained over to see
President Comiskey. of the White. Sox
who, with President Johnson, of the
American league, Is expected to return
today from a week's outing in Excelsiot
Springs. The coast leaguers want to talk
over with Comiskey the few remaining
details to be arranged for the south side
team’s spring training trip to California
! in February.
booted from placement.
Flynn drives the ball an unearth
ly distance when he's booting up
top. form, anil running with the b.
he is one 01' the hardest men in th
world to down. Both are ston
walls of defensive strength.
Thorpe is one of the most dan
gerous men to opponents that evi:
playedy in a backfield. Fast and
powerful on all kinds of attack aim
def use, hi- can be classed with t...
most illustrious of this immortals
who live in history as gods of tlm
gridiron.
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