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GSfflM MB 02WI» * EOliiEirS’ LPITLD ty W. 9 FARNSWORTH Mr. J ack--He Gave His Attention to the Wrong Party :: :: :: :: By J. S winner ton TeouckF) J ~~l be awFuux | • CAREFUL. OF ■ I ft 0 -=• h FATHER WONT I FAS l\ 3 $ *4 n TbujAqK? \ W WLM. ’ •’ u • p- H<S FOOT >S / <~* d'A \ I - II 50 O Tjjft xSlft >jfc£k- 1 :. .'X t*<sF M i ■«i Vandy Wins, Tackling Will Do It, Says Heisman •>»•;• •»•••;• +•+ •!•♦+ •>••? <*•+ -(•••J* •!••’!• •’•••!• Score Will Be From 1 to 3 Touchdowns to 0 By J. W. Heisman. THE only mill down on the Southern slate for tomorrow is the one between Auburn and the Commodores. This game will not only decide the championship of the South, but probably also it will settle which team shall rank second, for it is likely that Auburn will defeat Georgia on Thanksgiving day, and more likely still that Vanderbilt will do the same thing for Se wanee. A comparison of the weights of the two teams shows a .slight edge in favor of Vanderbilt. Team ex perience indicates a stand-oft. though perhaps Auburn ha* a shade the better of the figures hero. Speed in the back field must go to Van derbilt’s side of the ledger. The prestige of past performances, both this year and in previous years, is clearly with the Commodores, while the matter of physical condition points toward Auburn. The play ing grounds are neutral. A consideration of the foregoing facts does not clearly point out a winner; so we must go further. Vanderbilt's running game Is con siderablj ahead of Auburn’s, but the Commodores are almost as far behind the Alabamians when It comes to the bucking game. It seems certain to my mind that the Vanderbilt backs are going to make substantial gnlns around Au burn’s ends, for they did tt even against Harvard. Is it equally certain that Auburn is going to make headway through Vanderbilt’s line? No; not equally certain— despite rhe tremendous driving power of the Auburn back field. W hy not ? Because Vanderbilt’s line is heavy enough and its charging and tackling good enough very nearly <o match It. Excellent as Is Au burn’s drive and power, it must not be lost sight of that they only scored once on Mississippi A. M., and that was by a long end run by Newell. Against L. S. U. they fared no better, making only one touch down. and that not by bucking, but because the left end curried the ball for a rather long run. Was Donahue Possuming? The question arises, therefore, may not Donahue be holding his light under a bushel? Might they not have scored more had they chosen so to do? Yes: that is quite possible, for Donahue has been playing the patient, waiting game the whole season in anticipation of this game. Auburn is not likely to show many new and effective plans; but it is fairly possible that they could have scores more points with the plays they used had they seen fit to do so. When it comes to punting. Au burn. with Majors to propel the pigskin, has all the better of it over Vanderbilt; while the latter is un doubteldy Auburn's superior when it comes to forward passing. It must not be overlooked, however, that Vanderbilt is considerably bet ter fortified than Auburn in the matter of goal kicking from the field; and such a play in such a game is likely to bo the deciding factor, a* it has been in many an other gatne this season. Here's Vandy's Edge. Tile departments of play thus tar considered show, I should say. a very slight margin in favor of the Commodores; but hardly enough or. which to base a sure prognostic a ► tion in their favor. Now however, we < ome to the last item needing consideration, and here the dispar ity between th. tea.us has been de cidedly marked so much so that I am inclined to think that the rsult of the game will turn upon this very point. 1 refer to the tackling. I will not mince Matters. In Au burn's game in Atlanta the play ers tackled wretchedly, and my un derstanding is that they have been k weak in that respect the whole sea- son. It is true, sufficient time has elapsed since then for the Auburn ites to have overcome this fault, and perhaps they have done so. Vanderbilt, on the other hand, has been a fine tackling team the whole season. Their defense has been irrepressibly fierce and eager, and even against Harvard they plunged in so valiantly that they met with severe penalties. In the end. this ambition will count heavi ly, despite the probable infliction pf penalties; and I think it reason able to suppose that this same abil ity to “pile in” is going to turn the tide in Vanderbilt’s favor. But Just one more point. The great Hardage is t.ot In the best of shape. And don’t you know that Auburn is going to hit him like a ten-ton truck every time they can get near enough to do It? They can not have forgotten that Hard age was once theirs, and that he has. so to speak, gone over to the enemy. Yes; they will surely have the smash against this individual whether they have it against the whole Vanderbilt team or not. By this I do not mean at all that they are going to attempt any thing in the least unsportsmanlike with Hardage. lam perfectly con fident they are not. But, wholly within the bounds of* legitimate football roughness, they are going to do their best to impress the Vanderbilt captain with certain odd moments of the game which he will be apt to remember till Monday morning, anyway. liemember, though, that Vander bilt still played grand ball ajl the way through against Harvard, even though their captain had to leave that game in the second quarter. The verdict? Vanderbilt, I think, by one touch down surely, and probably by two: perhaps by thnee. No score for Auburn. Don’t forget the tiny Tech team made 19 first downs on Auburn, rushed the ball 373 yards, and pushed it over for the only touchdown that has been scored against Auburn this year. If Tech could do it once, Vanderbilt can do it twice or oftener. THREE-RING SHOW AT ATHENSON THURSDAY , * TH ENS, GA., Nov. 22.—The ZA Georgia team, after enjoying a few days rest following the hard game with Tech, has resumed practice again, and between now md Thanksgiving Coach Cunning ham will reorganize both his at tack and defense for the battle wlth Auburn. The players came out of the game Saturday in good shape, most of them a bit bruised up. but none of them injured to any extent. Row den contracted a charlcy horse Sat- ■ urday night, but several days rest at his home at McDonough lias put him in practice again and, bar ring injuries, in the next ten days tlie Rep and Black machine should be going at a great dip in the an nual battle with the Alabama Polys. It is tlie first Georgia-Auburn HOLLENBACK SLATED TO BE PENN'S HEAD COACH PHILADELPHIA, Nov 22 Bill Hol | lenbaek. former all-American fullback, is slated to succeed Andy Smith as head i each of the i’l iversity of Pennsylvania | next year. JAPANESE BILLIARDIST WINNER IN PLAY-OFF NEW YORK. Nov 2. Koiljl Yamada, tlie .lapum >e cueist. inflated l ira Morn ingstar. 500 to 21*9. ill the plttj-off for third pl. - in the championship 18.2 balk line billiard tourrament. TIGERS WILL ELECT BAKER. I'RINCET* >X. N. .1 . Nov. 22 ■Hubei ’’ B iker, tin Til;, r s wonderful halfback. is stalls I for the captaincy of the La 13 eleven. THE ATLANTA GEOHGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1912. Tlie Tech-Georgia game is over. The preponderance of weight did the trick, as I said it would do. But the Georgia team played much the best game it has played this sea son. Just a point or two; Tech had scored a clear touch down when the Jacket runner dropped the ball across Georgia’s goal line. He did not drop it be cause he was fiercely tackled, or anything of that sbrt. Not a Geor gia man was even touching him. It was Just greenness. That's been the way with the team all this year—nervy, but nervous. Tech had worked it up there and over, not by any fluke or t>y one single, long, break-out run. but by steady driving, play after play, from their own reception of the kick-off. Tech’s play was worth that touch down. It is also a pity that & Tech man was off-side when Georgia made a last try at a touchdown in the sec ond quarter. His being off-side af fected the particular play not in the slightest, for McWhorter was pulled down by another Tech player from behind hie interference, so that it would have cut no figure whatever whether the off-side man crumpled this interference or not. In cases where the particular foul plays no part in the play as it transpired it is no longer customary for officials to call it (excepting unsportsmanly play), and it would, in the particu lar case in hand, have served the ends of equity better not to have called it, although the official was undoubtedly within his rights in doing so. But on the strict merits of the playing at that time Georgia should not have scored Just then. In other words the score of the game does not at all fairly express or represent the game that Tech put up. Instead of three touch downs to none it should have been two to one tn favor of Georgia; for that is really the kind of game the public witnessed. Georgia is coming strong now and Auburn will have to watch out on Turkey day: the Athenians are at last using their talent, and using it well. game ever played on the local grid iron, and will draw thousands of spectators to the Classic City. In addition to the Georgia-Auburn game in the afternoon, the title for the state championship in prep ranks will be decided in the fore noon, when tile Georgia Military college, of Milledgeville, meets Riverside, from Gainesville. Both of these teams are coached by Georgia men, and neither has been defeated this year. In addition to this morning game, there is also to be a road race run, under the auspices of the track team that is being reorganized at Georgia now for work next spring. The run will be for three miles out Lumpkin Hill and around Milledge avenue. There are already eighteen men who are training, while fully thirty will enter. G. SMITH AND JACK TWIN WRESTLE FOR 10 ROUNDS BI’FFAIA), N. Y. Nov. 22. —Gunboat Smith, the California heavyweight, and Jack <Twin) Sullivan, fought ten rounds last night at the Broadway annex. M'CUR BEATS ANDREWS. RACIN’I<. WIS,. Nov. 22 Freddie An drews, the Milwaukee bantam weight, was outgeneraled and outfought in a ten round bout with Mattie McCue, of Racine, here last nighu McCue was the aggres sor and from the start landed telling blows on his opponent, who was ready for the referee to halt the bout when the tinal gong sounded. NAVY’S GOAT DIES. ANN A POLIS, Nov. 22 Bill, for many years the goat mascot of the Middies, is dead. \n Angora cat will replace him in the Arniy*Navy game November 30. ENGLISH-NIOTTO SCRAP MW END mm: YOUNG MOTTO and Clarence English hook up tonight at the Dixie Athletic club in a ten-round bout. At least that is the way the advance notices read. But both of the young mixers claim that the affair will end long before the tenth spasm. As both are good husky gents, with a kick, it is not unlikely that one or the other will take the count. Motto has been showing up sur prisingly well in his work-outs and he will have a big following at the ringside tonight. English has al ways given satisfaction here, his fight with Jimmy Perry last spring being the best bout ever staged in Atlanta. The semi-windup between Frank Baker and George Lavelle should be a bear. These two boys fought six rounds to a draw the other night and it was a pippin affair, too. Tonight they are scheduled to go eight rounds. The extra pair of sessions should be enough to de cide which is the better man. Mike Saul and Clarence Collins meet in a six-round bout. And there will also be a battle royal. YALE PLANS TO USE SUBSAT START; SAVE REGULARS FOR LAST NEW HAVEN, CONN., Nov. 22.—With both teams on edge and both eager for the battle, only light signal drill was scheduled for the Yale and Harvard squads today, in preparation for their annual gridiron clash, which takes place on Yale field tomorrow. The Harvard eleven, which is now quar tered here, is brimming with confidence. Odds of 10 to 6. and in some cases 10 to 5, are being offered. Coaches are well pleased with the work of the team, and with Brickley’s toe in excellent shape they look for victory. On the Yale campus, confidence is not so pronounced. The team has shown great improvement during the week, the work of the linesmen has been perfected and a number of trick plays have been mastered. Yale coaches have announced their in tention of using the subs freely, figuring that this will give the regulars a chancb to rest up for the final quarter. COBB BACK FROM TRIP DOWN SAVANNAH RIVER AUGUSTA, GA.. Nov. 22—Ty Cobb and a party of friends returned today from a trip down the Savannah river, where they have been hunting for sev eral days. The baseball star says that the game in the Savannah swamps is not as plentiful as it was last year, although Tyrus and party bagged a large number of squirrels anil ducks. Ty is having an easy time and en joying life. He is not worrying about coming to terms with President Navin, for should Ty decide not to play ball any more he will be in fine condition for the remainder of his life, so far as this world’s goods are concerned. Ty is probably worth SIOO,OOO, and Mrs. Cobb’s father is worth nearly $1,000,000. ROURKE OF OMAHA NOT IN FAVOR OF OUTLAWS OMAHA. NEBR.. Nov. 22. William Rourke, president of the Omaha base ball club, said today that he -is opposed to the formation of an "outlaw" league. "I am in full accord with President O’Neill.” said Rourke. "I do not see how such a league would be a financial success." CHAMPIONSHIP EMBLEMS LOST HERE BY DERRICK Claud Derrick is shy two world’s championship medals, a couple of half carat diamonds, a pocketbook and a tew such tilings, as a result of his trip to tlie Tech-Georgia game. Whether he was "frisked" or whether he dropped the junk, lie does not know, but lie fears the worst To be on the safe side, lie lias offered a reward. The finder should notify him at Clayton. Ga. TIGER TEAM BANQUETED. NEW YORK, Nov 22.—The Princeton alumni will give a banquet at the Mar tinique hotel tonight in honor of the 11*12 Tiger eleven. Betting Is That Vandy Wins By Two Touchdowns +•4* 4*»4* Commodores May Be Ripe For a Trimming Now By Percy H. Whiting. rTXHK betting on the Vanderbilt ; Auburn game here in Atlan ta ssems to be that Vander bilt will (or will not, depending on which end you take) beat Auburn by two touchdowns. And it’s brisk. Apparently it is all a question of how many of Vanderbilt's men are out of the game because of injuries and what sort “of condition those who do play are in. TT will be recalled that the only 1 time Vanderbilt ever lost a game to a Southern team conditions had framed themselves much like this. The Commodores had made their season for a big game tn mid season (with Michigan, if our memory serves). Several of the men were injured in this game and most of the rest went stale. Then when the game with Sewanee came the Commodores didn’t have the punch. A good deal the same thing has happened now. The Commodores tried to get fit for the Harvard game. They didn’t work it, how ever. But at that they got in the best condition of the season. In the Harvard game several of the men were injured and the brightest star of them all, Hardage, was so badly hurt he may not be himself again this season. Since then sev- French Boxing Authorities to Give Billy Papke Diamond Belt By Ed. W. Smith. THE French boxing authorities are about to present Billy Papke, of Kevranee, 111., with a gold and diamond belt, suitably inscribed with the words “Cham pion of the World.” Wouldn’t that be enough to send the other Amer ican fighters off into a towering rage? We think it will and we imagine further that there will be many a strong letter of protest sent out from this side of the Atlantic as to what right, etc., etc., etc. But, believe us, Papke and his manager, Al Lippe, are making the most of a nice situation in Paris and are frying the fat out of the occasion and doing a neat job of it. Other countries may- storm and rage and say- that the French, who never had a world's champion fighter and who have been in the boxing game but a matter of a few- months, have no right to do this, the fact re mains that it is to be done. Papke Beats Champions, Papke knocked out Jim Sullivan, the champion of England, a short time ago, and followed this up by knocking, out the French idol, Georges Carpentier, or making him quit, which is about the same thing. That was enough for the French, and the belt is now in the hands of a jeweler and will be finished early next month for presentation to William when he boxes the next time in France. This news goes to show that we were misled by the reports from the other side to the effect that Papke was extremely- unpopular over there and might be ruled out alto gether. Evidently the French are not as unfair as that Klaus Declines Match. Incidentaly. Erank Klaus is not going to box Papke next month in Paris. That news is contained in a letter from Lippe. who, after tell ing us all about the big belt, goes on to say: "More tough luck tor us. Klaus has refused point-blank to fight Papke here. Everything was all light until yesterday, when it was time to post a forfeit. Neither eral men seem to have gone stale. And the consequence is Vander bilt faces a hard game with a strong team in no good condition for the test. Unless Vanderbilt utterly out classes Auburn—which nobody really believes —the game should be close. It wouldn't be utterly flab bergasting if Auburn got away with it. The truth is that, though the Commodores have lost but one game in the South under McGu gin's coaching, they have had some clo,se calls. In another game it took a miracle in the shape of a forward pass of gigantic propor tions to get the Commodores through alive. They CAN lose. Maybe this Isn’t the time, but, of course, their number will eventual ly be taken. Possibly Saturday is the eventful occasion. < * * ttP here we get in the way of thinking that Vanderbilt, Au burn, Georgia Tech, Sewanee, Clemson, Alabama and the two Mlssissippis are about the only col leges in the S. I. A. A. But they aren’t. Not quite. Witness this from Kenneth Todd, formerly of Macon, but now of Houston, a sport writer of just renown: “Here is a tip worth something, perhaps, in summing up later on. "Texas A. & M., z located at Col lege Station, Texas, is a member of Klaus nor Engle, his manager, showed up and didn't even send an apology. They were offered $3,500 for a losing and $5,000 for a win ning fight, exceptionally good terms over here. The papers here are roasting Klaus terribly, and he may yet be shamed into the bout. But 1 know,, he doesn’t want it. Big Bouts in Sight. “In the meantime they have given Papke a match with Dennis Ber nard, the French boy who lately defeated George Gunther, the American colored middleweight, over here. The bout is set for De cember 20 and surely will draw well. They- are trying to get some body for Bill for January- and Feb ruary- dp-tes. Moreau and Carpen tier box January- 15 for the French title and Papke will get the win ner in February at Monte Carlo. The lesser fights net us $4,000 los ing and $5,000 winning, but the Monte Carlo match will double those figures, I'm sure. “Papke boxes in Paris December 4. so I had to cancel a lot of Eng lish music hall time at $650 a week. But we will get eight weeks of it at least later on. Wants to Box McGoorty. "What's, the matter with Eddie McGoorty coming over here to box Bill? He could get more money here than he could’in America, and tile trip surely would pay him well, fhey are talking about making Mike Gibbons an offer, but are waiting to see how he comes out with Eddie. 'We would like to catch Mc- Goorty for a side wager, as we feel confident of trimming him." NEAR-BREAK OF NECK DOES NOT PROVE FATAL ALMA. MICH., Nov. 32. —lnstead of having sustained a broken neck in last Saturday's football game, as was re ported. Captain Johnson, of the Mina col lege eleven, escaped with a fev. braised ligaments. He was able *<klu\ to v aik about the campus unaided. RUTT ENTERS SIX-DAY RACE. NEW YORK. Nov. 22.- Walter Rutt, German cycling champion, is the ninth European to enter the slx-day bike race that starts here December 9. the S. I. A. A. She was not a member last year, but during the season of 1911 defeated Auburn: Texas varsity also won from Au burn. Unfortunately, Texas A. & M. does not meet Auburn this fall; neither does Texas varsity. “Texas A. & M. defeated Hugo Bezdek’s Arkansas eleven, 27 to 0. in Dallas. “Last fall Texas varsity won from Texas A. & M„ but lost to Oklahoma. This season Oklahoma has won from Texas varsity, 21 to 6; so the really big game left for these parts was A. & M. and Okla homa. “Last year Oklahoma was South western champions by virtue of having easily disposed of teams that crushed Auburn. “You would appreciate seeing the A. & M. team in action.” O UR suggestions for a change in schedules of Georgia football teams has drawn a response from Cole Morgan, a student alike of football situation and of sched ules in general. He offers two “ideal schedules,” and then gives his reasons for the selection. Say- Mr. Morgan: Tech Schedule. t0,, . e . r —Tennessee in Knox ville _ (National Conservation ex position period). October 11—Chattanooga in At lanta. October 18—Mercer in Macon (Georgia State fair week). October 22—Auburn in Mont gomery (Alabama State fair week). October 25—Sewanee in Atlanta November I—South Carolina in Columbia. November B—Clemson in At- November 15—Vanderbilt in Nashville. November 22—Alabama in At lanta. November 27—Georgia in At lanta (Thanksgiving day). Georgia Schedule. 4 —Chattanooga in v nattanooga. October 11 —Tennessee in Alli ens. October 15—Mercer in Macon (Georgia State fair week). October 18—Clemson in Athens. October 25—Alabama in Tus caloosa or Birmingham. November I—Vanderbilt in At lanta. November B—South Carolina in Augusta (Georgia-Carolina fair week). November 15—Auburn in At- November 22—Sewanee in Ath ens. November 27—Tech in Atlanta (Thanksgiving day). REASONS. Tech and Georgia would play the same teams, thereby giving an opportunity accurately to measure their respective points of supe riority. Each team would play an equal number of games before meeting each other. They would be pitted against the five best teams in the South —Vanderbilt, Sewanee, Auburn. Alabama and Clemson. Atlanta fans would get to -if , six stellar games, besides one of lesser importance. Tech would have five of its ten games in Atlanta. Georgia would have three of its ten in Atlanta and three in Ath ens. Atlanta fans would see six teams, besides Tech and Georgia, tn action here, but no team would appear here more than once, ex cept Tech and Georgia Atlanta is the best paying fo< - ball city in the South and is en titled to see the best games that Tech and Georgia play There is no conflict of dates b- • tween the Tech and Georgia schedules, and after the Tennes see, Chattanooga and Mercer < a tests, there woulif be Intervals J two weeks or more (except wi the Carolina games) between tla dates Tech and Georgia would meet any' one of the outside teams. Most important of all- Tee ai. 1 Georgia would play in Atlanta ■ Thanksgiving ii;n and brine s ‘.son to a climax with th" <'M BIG event of the Atlanta football season. txrHILE all the shouting is ■' ’ height over the Van’A - > burn and the Georgia-A 'burn games, don't let’s forget ti:-< t Tech-t’lemson game will be ' as interesting a struggle as the s son lias furnished. It will be meeting of two light teams, teams that tire uueunny last’ '■ yond any doubt. Tech and 1 - ' <on art the shiftiest. triel" teams of the Southland. They play rare ball on Thanksgb ii-8 day.