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<®OKM SK»K ‘y EXPEKW DDITLD Zz 9 FARTTo WOHTH _ Birmingham and the South Await Struggle; Vanderbilt, . Though Crippled, Should Win Statistics of Vanderbilt and Auburn Elevens VANDERBILT. AUBURN. Years On Years On Name. Ape. Height. Wgt. Team Name Age. Height. Wgt. Team Position. Turner . 22 a ft. 11 In. 166 11. e. Kearly .21 5 ft. 9 in. 168 2 Shipp. . .21 6 ft. 3 in. 210 11. L Lamb. .23 5 ft. 8 In. 175 3 Daves. .21 6ft 9 in. 175 11. g Lockw’d 19 5 ft. 10 In. 208 1 Morgan .19 6 ft. 4 In. 315 S c. Burns. .22 6 ft. 2 in. 186 2 Swafford. .22 5 ft. 11 In. 170 1 r. g. Thigpen .21 5 ft. 11 in. 185 1 T Brown 33 6 ft. 3 In. ISO 3 r. t. Louisell 18 5 ft. 9 in. 175 1 E Brown .20 5 ft. Bln 160 3 r. e. Robinson 20 oft. 8 in. 165 -2 Curlin. . .21 5 ft. 10 In. 157 2 q. b. Major .22 5 ft. 10 In. 150 3 Collins . .21 5 ft. 9 In. 164 2r. h. Hart. ..18 5 ft. 8 in. 165 2 Marriage. .23 5 ft. 10 In. 167 21. h. Newell .20 5 ft. Bln. 146 3 Svkes . .21 6 ft. 11 in 165 3 f. b. Ressijar 21 5 ft. 8 in. 165 2 By Percy R. Whiting. BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Nov. M. This is the day of the big game—the game that settles the football championship of the gknKh. Riofcwooo park is the place. Two-thirty p. m. is the time. Ton'll g»t the result In the football extra The stage is all set, the players are here, and spectators, rooters and mere football sharps are gat It- • erlng from the four corners of the Soutlx A gnod part of Atlanta Is here, much of Nashville and absolutely all of Auburn And Birrntngharn doesn't know what to make of it. This Is no col lege town, but rather a dull mining and mamufacrtnrlng burg. The sight of college men parading the streets—the advanced dressers, loud with college colors and recog nisable anywhere by high-rolled trousers and anarchistic socks—has given it rather of a turn. It will be davs In calming down again. • • • IHAV® visited the camps of both teams, I have talked with coaches, players, camp followers, "experts” and just plain rooters. And out of It all comes only a jumbled Idea that Vanderbilt OUGHT TO WHS —but may not. The confidence of the Alabam ans Is beautiful to behold. •'What has Vanderbilt got on Auburn —but a. big bluff?" asked a former Auburn player this morn ing—a player, by the way, who had suffered at least once at the hands of a Vanderbilt eleven. "Wo have weight, strength, training, clever ness. speed, headwork, teamwork, everything. EVERYTHING.” He got. positively hysterical about It. And I admitted It all. Over on the Vanderbilt side.of the fence the enthusiasm Is not so convincing “If all our men were right we’d murder them," Is the plaint. Rut all the men aren’t right. That’s settled. No use going back over It, "Buddy" Morgan. Vanderbilt’s best man on defense and the man who smashes the line bucking ef forts of opponents is just recover ing from grip, but will play. Lewis Hardage, who 1s a full half of the Vanderbilt offense this year, as fur as the running attack Is con cerned, and who Is far more than half of the offense when forward passes are needed, Is In wretched condition. They say they will not put In Hardage at all. Rut then they may. The man who has an old grudge to settle with the Auburn Polys is fair ly dying for a shot at the represen tatives of his old alma mater. If the game is going against Vander bilt It will take the police to keep AUGUSTA WANTS CLUB IN SOUTH CAROLINA LEAGUE . AUGUSTA, GA., Nov. 28.—1 tls pos sible that Augusta will enter a new league to be formed in South Carolina within the near future. The poor management of the Sallj league caused this city to drop from the ranks and the place where Cobb, Ruck, er. Engle. Cicotte. Stallings and other diamond celebrities really secured tholr •tart has had no professional baseball for nearly two years. Charleston also was compelled to drop out of the Hally and now Columbia has done the same thing. With a league composed of Augusta, Charleston, Columbia, Spartanburg, Greenville and Anderson and a salary limit of |1,500. some money should be made and a number of local business men are planning to secure a franchise Mor Augusta. COLLEGIATE X COUNTRY RUN AT ITHACA TODAY ITHACA, N. Y„ Nov. 23. Record, breaking performances were looked for today in the slx-mlle Intercollegiate cross-country race, in which eleven colleges were entered. Ideal weather conditions prevailed and the course was in fine shape. Yale expects to retain her supremacy, but there was certainty of a three-cornered fight between Har vard, Cornell and Dartmouth. Syra cuse. Pennsylvania. Princeton and Brown were expected to fight for fourth place, with the Yale, Colgate and City of New York teams bringing up the rear. Because of his wonderful record, John Paul Jones, of Cornell, was re garded as a winner of individual hon ors. with Tabor, of Brown, second. CONWAY VS. BRANNIGAN. PITTSBURG, Nov. 33—Frankie Conway, of Philadelphia, and Patsy Brannigan, the local fighter, are in tine for their six-round bout here to- Both are confident of being able put a'a> tin other in tin limit-u Irtm out. He would gladly break a leg to win tills game. The rest of the Vanderbilt te:rtn looks good enough, as far as ap pearances go; but Dr. Owsley Ma nter, head of the training depart ment, says they are a set of spa vined, doddering wrecks and maybe they are. Shipp’s ankle is twisted up like ttesue paper—to let them tell it. Collins, however, is in fine trim. All joking aside, .Vanderbilt Isßot right—or anywhere near right. Whether or not the Commodores are so badly shot to pieces that they will loee to Auburn the after noon's performance will tell. I’m inclined to like Vanderbilt, even considering all things » ♦ # cpHE Auburn crowd hasn’t any * ante-game excuses. The team has played one whole season to get ready for this game. AND IT IS READY. Seldom has any team so brasenly saved Itself for one single struggle as Auburn has this year. The Ala bama Polytechnics have not played a really tough team this season. They started with their own alum ni. Then they hideously walloped Mercer. Then they got away with Florida, but the Floridians scored 13 frolnts. The next Saturday they rolled up 27 points on Clemson, but were scored on themselves to the extent of 6 points. Then came the game with Mississippi A. & M., which Auburn won by a touch down. The next Saturday Auburn rolled up 37 points on Tech, but were scored on ones. The follow ing Saturday came the game with L. S. U., which Auburn won by a single touchdown. This Is a moderately good sched ule. but not by any means a hard one. The Auburn team was forced to "get right" but once this season —and that was for today’s game. Apparently Auburn must have a lot that hasn’t been turned loose yet—ln plays. In tricks and in re serve strength and power. Take this as a certain fact: Unless Auburn plays better to day than ever before this season Vanderbilt will win. That much Is certain. So is the fact that the Aubumltes plan confidently to turn loose more than they have before this season and more than they ever turned loose in their lives. • « • 'THHC weather here today is fair x and warm. Everything has combined to make today’s game a big drawing card. We shall soon know how the peo ple of this burg respond. My own opinion Is that after today’s game Vanderbilt and Auburn will have had enough of this town and that they will be ready to transfer the game to Atlanta, where it really belongs. BROOKHAVEN CLUB OPENS LINKS AND SHOOTING TRAP The Brookhaven Golf club will be of ficially opened this afternoon at 3 o’clock. Elaborate plans have been made for the opening. Some well known local celebrities will be present. Mrs. William Lawson Peel has con sented to officially christen the course by driving the first ball from the first tee. after which the regular program set for the day will be carried out. All the golfers of the club will par ticipate Ln a driving, an approaching and a putting contest, prizes being hung up for the winner in each event. But golf will not hold the entire center of the stage. The Gun club will officially open and hold its first shoot on the traps, for which a handsome silver loving cup is offered to the win ner. The finals in the golf tournament for the J K. Ottley trophy will also be played. GORDON BEATS RIVERSIDE IN HARD BATTLE. 12 TO 7 BARNESVILLE. GA.. Nov. 23. Gordon defeated Riverside on the grid iron by the score of 12 to 7 and as the result the whole town celebrated, the students parading the business section in night shirts. Gordon’s victory brings about a triple tie in the prep school ranks. Gor don tied Georgia Military college, 7 to 7. Riverside and Gordon have met twice, each winning a game. The Georgia Military collcge-Riverside game at Athens Thanksgiving day will have much to do with the ultimate ranking of the two teams. REMATCH WHITE AND MOORE. CHICAGO, Nov. 23.—That classy lit tle ten-round engagement at Kenosha on Thursday night, in which Charley White handily bested Pal Moore. Is to be staged again. The misfit feather weights may come right back for the next show or may b. held over for the third card, but they will battle again. Moore is satisfied that he can do bet ter and wants the chance to prove it. fRE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 23, 1912. Trio of Vanderbilt Stars Who Are Stare to Give- Auburn Here the fleet Collins is shown booting. This gre'at sprinter is expected t<» make many gains for the Commodores this after loon. _________ " ’ \ Jlllo W ' /X x V ■ ■ \ / A- ') \ \ / y \\ x //L \ M X>■ K z«ic\\ Z- z k r® 1 * " v si i George Burns, Giant Youngster, Rapidly Developing Into Star By Sain Crane\ (This is the fifth of a series of articles on youngsters who have made good in the big leagues.) George burns, one of the Giants' second strring of out fielders. has the stuff in him to make a big league star If given the opportunity. What few chances he has had to ''show” since he joined the team demonstrated that he has class enough to warrant his being re tained on the club’s roster. And the fact that Manager McGraw \is held on to the youngster Is evi dence enough of his ability. During the early part of last sea son Burns was put in as a pinch hitter quite frequently and made good nearly every time he was called on. and for a while has a most enviable batting record. He was kept under cover, more or less, by reason of Becker, who was Hist substitute outfielder, showing very strong it hen he was put out in cen ter at the time Sttydgrass filled in at first base, owing to Merkle hav ing a felon on his thumb. Burns, though, will get his chance later on, and as he is only 21 years old he can afford to wait. He was in 28 games during the sea son of 1912, however, and that en titled him to a share of the Giants’ world series receipts. Last season he was given a half share, so he has no reason to complain of his short career in the major league. He is ambitious, though, and would be the happiest youngster on earth could he secure a permanent berth on the regular team. Often Wait Years For Chance. Young recruits nowadays some times have to warm the bench for three or four years before they ob tain the chance to show their worth and Burns, unfortunately, seems to be doomed to face that unsatisfac tory situation. But it is the policy of McGraw and also Connie Mack to hold back his youngsters until they are exactly ripe and then spring them. Mack’s success with Eddie Collins and the sensational result of that plan shows the benefits to be derived from such wide hand ling. Arthur Shafer, of the Giants, is in the same boat with Burns, and had to bide his time, which will be next season. It is possible that Burns may get his long-waited op portunity, too. next season. Burns is a crackajack outfielder already, and covers lots of veldt. He Is a sure catch and has a- good strong arm. He knows, too. where to throw the ball, something that certain veterans in the business do not. aunear. to be any too ant at But Burns is a very wise youth. He is not addicted to a whole lot of conversation, but does plenty of thinking. He,is in line with Otis Crandall on talk, and it is his retir ing disposition ‘ that keeps him somewhat in the background as re gards tlashiness. Excellent Base Runner. Burns excels at base running. He is nearly as fast on the bases as Shafer or Devore, and they are some speed boys. He has never reached the coveted .300 mark as a hitter, but he stands up well at the plate and has a good eye. He is a free hitter and is a difficult man to size up at bat. for he hits to all fields. An opposing player can not “lay" for him with any degree of certainty. This is a strong point, too. Burns is a short, stout youngster, being five feet seven inches in height, and weighs 170 pounds. He is very active, though, and brimful of ginger. In fact, he is a McGraw style of player from head to feet. Utica, N. Y., was the city in which Burns first attracted the at tention of big league scouts in 1911, and "Sadie” McMahofi who was a star pitcher for the old Baltimore Orioles when McGraw was a mem ber of the same team, spent nearly a month in the New York State league getting a line on Burns ex clusively. Ab a result of this thor ough investigation. McMahon ad vised McGraw to secure the prom ■ ising player. This was done, and $4 in cash was paid the Utica club for his release. This was in the fall of 1911. Showed Sudden Flash. Burns joined the Giants late in (lie season ami reported to McGraw in Ma lin with the first bunch of recruits. He wisely look things easy in practice, and for a fort night failed to show up to expec tations. But suddenly lie flashed one day like a meteor. He had gotten himself into tine trim and then cut loose with all lie had. and lie knocked McGraw, the Giants and the war correspondents silly with his sensational work That showed how wis< and shrewd a kid he was. He just waited and piked along until he knew he was in form and then made himself known. 51- Grave was "dead stuck” on the youngster’s work and the headwoik he allowed in not playing himself out at the start. Burns hangs up his hat in St. Johnsville, N. Y„ where he resides with his parents. A freight ear might possibly hide the little town, but it is Burns’ home, and he thinks there is no other burg like it—not even excepting the big citv. <T Vy & * 77 End Chester snapped just as he ■ had punted the pigskin. Harvard 10 to 8 Favorite Over Yale in Struggle for Title; 35,000 Will Witness Game By W. J. Mcßeth. NEW HAVEN, CONN., Nov, 23. With the Eastern champion ship at stake the prospect of witnessing one of the most thrilling and desperately contested battles in football history was the magnet that drew 35,000 persons to this lit tle town today for the thirty-third annual clash between Yale and Harva rd. It was a typical college crowd, recruited from every state in the nation, that filled the hotel to its capacity or paraded the gaily dec orated streets during the hours preceding the game. Mothers, wives, sisters and sweethearts of grad uates and under-graduates of both institutions, together with pretty college girls, all garbed in multi colors lent brightness to the scene. The day was bright and clear with little wind—an ideal day for the blue ribbon event of the 1912 football season. The field was dry and fast. • RECORD OF TEAMS • J IN GREAT EASTERN : : struggle today: • • •» Yale. • • Yale 10. Wesleyan 3. • • Yale 7, Holy Cross 0. • • Yale 21, Syracuse 0. • • Yale 16. Lafayette 0. • * Yale 6, West Point 0. • V d<. 13. W. X .1 3. • o Yale 10. Brown 0. • • Yale 6, Princeton 6. • • Total Yale 89, opponents 12. • • Harvard. • • Harvard 6, Maine 0. • • Harvard 10. Holy Cross 0. • • Harvard 26, Williams 3. • • Harvard 46, Amherst 0. • • Harvard 30, Brown 10. • • Harvard 16. Princeton 6. • • Harvard 9, Vanderbilt 3. • • Harvard 3. Dartmouth 0. • • Total—Harvard 156, opponents • •••••••••••••••••••••••••• Z-' * ••••••«•••••••••••••••••«• • HOW HARVARD AND ’ • YALE WILL LINE UP J ; IN BIG STRUGGLE? • • • Yale. Harvard. • • Avery, le.Felton, le. • • Talbot, ItStorer, It. • • Cooney, lgPenner, Ig. » • Ketcham, cParmenter, o. • • Pendletorf, rg Hitchcock, rg. • • W. Curran, rtDriscoll, rt. • • Bomeister, reO'Brien, re. • • Wheeler, q Gardner, q. e • Spalding (capt.), Ih. ..Harding, Ih. » o Philbin, rhßrickley, rh. • • Flynn, fWendell (capt.), f, • • Yale —Average weight, 180 • • pounds; average height, 5 feet 11 • • inches; average age, 21 1-2 years. • • Harvard —Average weight, 171 • • pounds; average height, 5 feet 10 • • inches: average age, 21 years. • ••••••••••••••••••••••••a* Harvard’s hopes rested largely on Brickley, the wonderful drop kicker, whose booting has won so many games for the Crimson this year, and Feltoa. the port side punter. Yale rooters hanged their faith on "Lefty" Flynn, whose long spir als have kept the ball out of Yale territory in many of this year’s games, and Pumpelly, the sub full back slated for a chance to show his ability whenever the Blue is within drop-kicking distance of the Crimson goal posts. Harvard, with a team lighter than Yale’s by nine pounds to the man, was a 10 to 8 favorite In the bet ting. The presence of much Yale money and the excellent condition of the Blue souad hstcl the tendency of forcing down the odds to 10 to 6 offered last night. The pre-game enthusiasm shown here last night and today has sel dom been equalled. Old graduates of 20, 30 and 40 years ago joined with the students of today in their enthusiasm. The Harvard squad at New- London came here this forenoon. Quarterback Zach Cnrliu ting off one of his marveliou drop kicks. g|r I •«t*(****«*«*!!«*«>*«««lli SRESULTS OF PAST ! : HARVARD-YALE ! : GRIDIRON GAMES a • 1875—Harvard 4 goals. Yale • 1876—Yale 1 goal, jla card 0. • 1878—Yale 1 goal, Harvard 0 • 1879—Yale 0, Harvard 0. • 1880—Yale 1 goal, 1 touchdown, • Harvard 0. • 1881—Yale 0, Harvard 1 safeties. 1 • 1882—Yale 1 goal. 4 touchdowns. 1 • Harvard Z safeties. 1 • 1883 —Yale 23, Harvard 2. • 1885 —Yale 48. Harvard 0. ® 1886—Yale 29, Harvard 4 • 1887—Yale 17, Harvard 8 • 1889—Yale 6, Harvard 0. ® 1890—Harvard 12, Yale 6 • 1891—Yale 10, Harvard 0. • 1892—Yale 6, Harvard 0. • 1893—Yale 6, Harvard 0. • 1894—Yale 12, Harvard 4 • 1897—Yale 0, Harvard 0 • 1898—Harvatfl 17, Yale 0 • 1899—Yale 0, Harvard 0. • 1900—Yale 28 Harvard 11 • 1901—Harvatl 22. Yale o. • 1902—Yale • 1903 —Yale 16. Harvard 0. • 1904 —Yale 12, Harvard 0. • 1905—Yale 5, Harvard 0. • 1906 —Yale 6. harvard 0. • 1907 —Yale 12. Harvard 0 • 1908—Harvard Yale 0. • 1909. —Yale 8. harvard 0. • 1910 —Yale 0, Harvard 0. • 1911—Yale 0, Harvard 0 • They were confide# of victor) ■ hoped to shatter a kvelve-year iw ord by scoring a touchdown " n Yale. The Blue tean is making i“’ boasts, and lacks noronfldence, I' expressing the grlmiess typi al " f the Bulldog ran thrown n light sig nal drill in the moving and ’he coaches said they wire ready ~r the fray. With Victory G<»s Title. Victory-fur Hurvanitodai the undisputed footbak champl oll ' ship as the Crimson stifar had 't 1 giaged in and won allbf Its rigid games, scoring 136 poits to their opponents’ 9. The Yale team had e'B games, scoring 89 poiHs again'’ 12. w inning seven game! and tyh>6 one, the battle with Priteton pll(l ' ing 6 to 6. Before today Yale ail H i v r bad met in 32 bottles sine foot’' 1 - was introduced in the eolg ' had won 22. Harvard 5. rid ed in ties. Their 1910hn<l ”” games ended in 0 to 0 sites. THORPE AND BRICKLE’VWAY BOX CARLISLE, PA.. Nov. 23-Mr ..ra menta are being made for a V>xim : between Jim Thorpe, of Crh- Charles Brickley, of Harvan heavyweights in their respltlve co ‘" leges. I