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IF DOPE BfflES
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By Percy 11. Whiting.
OUR old friend, Mike Dope, will
turn his final back flip to
morrow afternoon. And aft
er that, nothing doing until the
baseball season opens. If the said
Dope lands on his vies Thursday it
will be about the first time this
season.
Anybody who van feel sure of
picking the winners of the Vander
bilt-Sewanee, Georgia-Auburn and
Teeli-Cb mson football games could
feel sure of anything.
It past performances are worth a
hang the winners will be Vander
bilt. Auburn and Tech.
But we haven't any money to bet
Ae can pick the three wlnnr r.-.
' Vanderbilt will probably beat Si
vAitiee. The defeat of the 1 'ornmo
tlore.- last Saturday (for defeat it
was. if the scores didn’t show it),
will doubtless wake them up. And
vuee Vandy is awake, it will handle
thb Tigers easily enough. Sewa
nee men will hav< to play a couple
us, hundred times better ball than
tijey. uncorked in tiie state of Geor
gia to make any impression on
Vanderbilt.
One fact tnc Commodores must
f;pe-—they will not win any more
games for awhile on their "rep."
Tl.ei very record in trie past was a
goaf-getter. But it didn’t get Au
burn's. .and now tbv goat’s dead.
Th Commodores will bat. to beat
• Sewanee fin the Tigers’ merits,
which are considerabh
In that Athens gam. we find it
hard to pick the winner. It ought
to be Auburn by three or lour
touchdowns. A’et, nobody believes
it will be. and there will be small
surprise if Georgia wins it. The
answer to the question binges on
the matter of condition. If Geor
gia is absolutely right and if the
men play as they ought to play
they can beat the Auburn team.
In the Atlanta game Tech should
he the winner, but it ought to be
close—and a spectacular game be
sides. If the Jackets can overcom
the listlessness that naturally fol
lows the Geprgia-Teeh game they
will show Clemson mote about
football than they learned from
any two teams this season.
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, pOR several seasons Atlanta pa
pers have urged that Georgia
and Tech change their schedules
so that their game be played here
on Thanksgiving day. which Is the
logical time.
East year contracts were signed
which made necessary the continu
ation of the present wretched ar
rangement for another three years.
Well, it has worked out pretty
will for Georgia.
But how about Tech'.’
.Wore people will travel out oi
Atlanta to Aliens Thursday’—if the
day Is tin* —than have left this city
before for a sporting event in a
long time. A thousand or moi.
will go down by train if the weath
er is fair anil several hundred by
automobile. Virtually every per
son who goes to the game in Ath
ens from Atlanta will be just one
less at the Ponce DeLeon struggle.
That la, every spectator attracted
to Athens is the price of one ticket
out of the Tech and Clemson pock
ets.
The best arrangement the only
logical and reasonable arrange
ment—will be for Tech and Geor
gia to meet in Atlanta on Thanks
giving day and to charge enough
for tickets to make it worth while.
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mllE statistics .bout football
* deaths will prove interesting
this year. They will show that the
deaths to college players this year
number exactly one, The rest of
the players killed, ten at last re
port, were either prep school play
ers or athletic club or corner lot
players.
Anybody can see the answer.
Athletic club football should be
frowned down. The papers should
not support it, the football authori
ties should hop on it whenever pos
sible and ft should be vigorously
fought Football is no game for
athletic club teams or for untrained
teams.
Among the prep schools football
should be conducted under most
strict regulations
No boys should be allowed to
play:
1 Who are under sixteen years.
2. Woo are under 120 pounds in
weight.
3. XX ho have not been < xaminei.
by a physician.
4. Who do not keep up in their
studies.
5. Whose parents obj. ’t to their
taking part In the game.
More than that, no prep school
team should play:
(a). Any college team of any
character, uml> any circum
stances.
(bt. Any team which outweigh
fl as much as ten pounds to the
man.
Too many prep school teams are
run as advertising adjuncts and not
a bona tide sporting and physi
ve,..p; .nt pt op. .sit ion XVh« n
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By Bill Bailey.
HttW would you like to be an
umpire in the National league
next year
"What a quesitlon!” you query
light back. "I wouldn’t lil«- to be
an umpire in any league."
X’< ry true. But there are degrees
of badness. There’s bad and then
tint se. Umpiring anywhere may
be a bad job, but umpiring in the
National next year certainly will
be worse and then a few degrees on
top of that.
Take a glance al tile nianageis.
The: John McGraw, for install. '■
No umpire would select McGraw
as a companion between the horns
of S and 5 on a pleasant afternoon.
Also John Ever.-. You never heard
of an umpire committing suicide
because he Was deprived oi John's
company during the same hout-.
Also Miller Huggins. He’ s a
quiet, nice little fellow before and
after the game. That is. some time
after. But there are umpires who
believe that Huggins was put on
earth to prove that there are liv
ing, breathing Dr. Jekylls and Mr.
Hydes.
No Chance For Revenge.
George Stallings, appointed boss
of tire BFaves. also is among those
present, and there are umps who
have the opinion that lie was ap
pointed to peeve said arldters quite
as much as to strengthen the lowly
Bean Eaters.
Those four art! prominent, but
there tire others. There was a
gathering of umpires in Chicago u
few days ago. Or. rather, it fol
lowed the appointment of Evers.
And they went down the line.
McGraw was the first man dis
cussed. It was the general opin
ion that McGraw ranked as fair
only because some of the others
were so much worse. McGraw
really causes the umps about as
much anguish as any man in the
gam -. Because McGraw never loses
his head. If lie did the umpires
could get some consolation and
some revenge.
McGraw kicks. Oh, how he does
kick! You sec. the umpires stand
for a certain amount of it because
they are schooled to control them
selves and give a man all the lee
way that an excited player or man
ager should have. Well, McGraw
advances to within a hair's breadth
of that line. But the moment the
umpire reaches the point where he
will explode and banish the offend
er to the club house, McGraw stops.
And the ump is left alone with his
wrath.
Clarke Is Sarcastic.
b’red t'larke, of the Pirates, also
ranks as fair for the reason that
some of the other fellows are so
much worse. Clarke Is one of those
sarcastic fellows whose words are
sweet, but the meaning of which is
ga 11.
Dooin an Orator.
Now comes "Red” Dooin. Here is
a fellow built on the oratorical lines.
Dooin surely can deliver a speech.
There Is never any question about
his earnestness, either. And um
pires have been known to vow that
if they believed one-tenth of wlint
Dooin told them tße world
would be better for their dive into
the lake with a stone weighing two
tons attached to either head or
1< gs or both.
We pass along'to Bill Dahlen.
Bill is usually so horribly grieved
at the actions of htk own charges
that lie hasn't much left for the
umpir. And Stallings? You just
get up in a gathering of umpires
and mention him as a nice, quiet.
■asv -going sort of a fellow on the
ball field, w . o always has the Wel-
I fare, the good w ill and the pleasure
of tin umpires at heart, and see
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1912.
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N ashville, tenn., Nov. 27.
—Camp followers of the Com
modores Hocked to Dudley
Held today and craned their necks
to see just how many wounds their
idols had. Not many have fully re
covered from the dreadful shock
administered by Mike Donahue's
team Saturday.
The coaches had not a word to
say, either over.the result Satur
day or the prospects for a. victory
over the Sewanee Tiger. To retain
11 leg on the Southern champion
ship. 'lie Commodores MI ST win
from Sewanee. To be nominal
champion. Georgia will have to dis
pose of Auburn. But that is hop
ing for too much, although the
sympathy of all Vanderbilt is witli
Cunningham's men.
The spectacle of eleven big,
strong men in tears is seldom wit
nessed, but that is exactly what
happened on the team's return from
Rtckwood park Every man want
ed to shoulder the blame for the
loss of the game, and every man
prot< sted to McGugin that he would
die in his tracks before the Se
wanee Tiger should even so much
as score.
Vanderbilt is up against a great
I big proposition, and while the team
Is in far better shape than the
coaches dared hope for. still they
haven't enough time to get into
proper shape for such an antagonist
as the Tiger. Sheldon. Parlier and
Gillespie are all husky and power
ful backs, possessed of remarkable
driving power, and it can not be
denied that between these three
sweeping gains will be made. There
is no use trying to analyze Se
wanee's play with other teams,'be- *
eaus.- they hardly care whether
I they win from any other team or
inert. It Is a tradition of Sewanee
that tlie thing they must hate above
all others is the Commodore,
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Developing and priming his shoulder and hitting muscles.
McFarland Bout Will Make or
Break “White Hope“ Morris
By Left Hook.
X V THEN Curl Morris crawls
yy through the ropes at the
Dixie club Thursday night
he will face a crisis. When he
emerges from the ring on that oc
casion he will bear the mark of
tighter or lie will bear the brand
of bum.
For on this fight depends his pu
gilistic career. If he is knocked out
or bested by Jack McFarland, he
will either have to desert the glove
game or be classed as the rankest
of corn beef and cabbage pugs.
In many respects this will be his
pugilistic debut. It’s true that
Morris' name has been frequently
seen on tlte sport pages in more or
less prominent type for two years.
Since that eventful day, when Jim
Corbett declared that he had found
■i giant in Sapulpa, Okla., who
would ultimately bring back the
heavyweight honors to the white
race, Morris has been a national
character.
Too Much Press Agenting.
His career was halted by over
press agenting. Morris was boomed
to the skits. His friends could see
nothing but the world crown rest
ing on his brow. He was first sent
against an unknown bum. He
won. but in no particularly impres
sive fashion. Then he was matched
against old Mike Schreck, who had
degenerated into the worst of
fourth raters, of course, he won.
Any high-class lightweight could
Then his overanxious friends,
and maybe a money greedy man
ager. hiked him to New York and
matched him against the toughest
of al! the heavyweight trial horses.
Jin Flynn, who has troubled the
best of them.
1 lie result is too well known.
Morris, big and game, was beaten
into a pulp by the rugged and ex
perienced Puebloan. He was then
declared a Joke. But he kept on
plugging.
Finally he was matched against
Luther McCarthy and McCarthy
made him know how a knockout
punch feels.
Is Starting All Over Again.
Morris, though, possesses the
qualities most necessary for a
champion. He has the size, the
strength and the heart. He decided
to learn the science. Despite his
defeats, he went back to Oklahoma
and decided to start all over again.
Up to the present time lie has
met only the most Inferior of the
heavies, men of the Jack Keating
type, who were not in his class.
But his manager has now decided
that he is ripe enough to try bigger
game. He matched him with Mc-
Failund—big, young, chesty and
withal a man who knows the game.
A COWARDLY, DESPICABLE,
OUTRAGEOUS IMPOSITION
ON THE PEOPLE
Beware of Thieving Imita
tors Who Have. Been
Working the People On
the Reputation of Quaker
Herb Extract.
A lady called at Coursey & Munn's
drug store and, producing a bottle
Jumping Rope for Wind.
ALL WEST AWAITS
MT UNO
RITCHIE GO
By W. AV. Naughton.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27.
Turkey and cranberry sauce
is the national dish at
Thanksgiving time, but here in the
far XV’est they’ like Queensberry
sauce as an added condiment.
This year it looked for a while
as though the Thanksgiving cele
bration would be incomplete. Pro
moter Coffroth had an option on
Lightweight Champion Wolgust’s
services, but he could not find a
suitable opponent.
Knockout Brown, who issued fif
ty-seven different kinds of chal
lenges to XVolgast in any ordinary
month, declined because of some
more pressing engagement, and so
did all the others who were con
sidered fit mettle for the Michigan
wildcat.
Coffroth Wanted Ritchie.
But here is the funny part, of it:
All the time Coffroth was dicker
ing with Knockout Brown and the
rest of them he had one particular
youth in mind as the boxer best
calculated to draw a big crowd with
XVolgast. This was Willie Ritchie,
a San Francisco product, who gave
Wolgast a hard time of it here once
in four rounds and who defeated
Joe Mandot in New Orleans.
Coffroth was debarred from talk
ing business with Ritchie because
Ritchie’s manager and Coffroth are
the principals In a feud which dates
back to the Battling Nelson days
and which was revived recently
owing to a personal encounter be
tween the men. Billy Nolan is the
manager's name. He said repeat
edly: "I will not have anything to
do with Coffroth." He overlooked
the fact that the public did not care
a continental if he never, never,
never had anything to do with
Coffroth. What the fight fans
wanted to know was whether
Ritchie was going to have anything
to do with Wolgast.
Anyhow, Coffroth sawed wood
and said little, while, as for poor
Ritchie, his plight was pitiable. He
was just aching in every’ fiber to
get a crack at the champion, but
through feelings of loyalty to his
manager was constrained to hold
aloof.
Nolan Retires From Scene.
Then came the Mandot-Wolgast
match at New Orleans and then
Coffroth made an announcement.
He said that owing to his Inability
to secure a suitable opponent for
XVolgast. he had abandoned his
plans for having a Thanksgiving
glove feast.
Then there was a genuine flurry
in the pugilistic glove cotes. Man
ager Nolan went hot foot to Los
Angeles to meet Torn Jones, and
Ritchie, after a few hours of deep
cogitation, sought out Coffroth and
wanted to know if there was not a
said: "I can not take this medicine; it
actually makes me sick at the stom
ach.” This was a terrible blow to the
Health Teacher, but Just as Soon as lie
saw the bottle the mystery was solved.
The woman had been imposed upon.
The medicine she bought was not
Quaker Herb Extract, and the style of
bottle and color of wrapper had been
Imitated. People are, therefore, warned.
If the genuine Quaker Remedies are
•wanted, they can be obtained in Atlanta
SCHEDULES NEED
REGOLITIfIII
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By Cole Morgan.
EVERY spring, when the base
ball season opens, some city
in every league has a flag
raising. The league pennant, won
the season before, is flung to the
breeze, and the fans hurrah.
XVhy can't Southern colleges
award a football pennant and have
a football pennant-raising on some
gridiron each fall?
XVhich is byway of again Intro
ducing the suggestion that South
ern colleges, through the Southern
Intercollegiate Athletic association,
decide on some definite and thor
oughly competent method of deter
mining the Southern football cham
pionship each season.
Another Tie Results.
This year there is a repetition of
what has taken place a good many
seasons in the past—two teams
claiming the championship and
each of them just as strong an
argument for it as the other.
Vanderbilt and Auburn have put
it over their opponents this sea
son. and last Saturday Vanderbilt
and Auburn tied. No individual or
organization has the authority to
render a decision declaring either
the real champion, though there are
any number of self-constituted au
thorities that will assume the task.
The S. I. A. A. could lay down a
few more rules and regulations
governing intercollegiate football in
the South that would make the
championshii> a definite fact rather
than a mooted question.
Must Regulate Schedules.
Regulation of schedules will help
bring this about. Restrictions as
to what teams S. I. A. A. elevens
could meet also would apply. And
such restrictions would tend to
strengthen the S. I. A. A. by bring
ing in good colleges that now are
out of the association, yet play as
sociation teams.
The football playing season
preliminary and regular—covers
nine to ten playing dates between
the latter part of September and
Thanksgiving day. Every team is
going reasonably strong by the sec
ond Saturday in October. Includ
ing that date, there are seven Sat
urday’s and Thanksgiving day left
in the season. Every team that is
on its mettle can stand eight good
games, after a preliminary or so.
S. 1. A. A. teams should be pro
hibited from playing any teams in
the South but S. 1. A. A. colleges
during that eight-game period
That would prevent a team mak
ing up a schedule of weak games
for the first halt of the season, to
permit it to go into three or four
stiff games toward the last, in su
perior condition, against teams that
had been playing stiff ball all sea
son and were handicapped accord
ingly.
Could Form Two Classes.
It is an undisputed fact that
about half the S. I. A. A. colleges
each season turn out first-class
football elevens and the other half
are second-raters. The S. I. A. A.
could create two divisions: (’lass
A and ('lass B, separating the as
sociation teams according to their
playing ability.
During the eight game period it
could require. class A teams to play
none other in the South but teams
of its own class. This would put
all on a reasonably equal basis
Os course, this is not Intended to
prevent a team like Vanderbilt from
going out of the South to meet
teams like Princeton, Harvard, 1 ’ar
lisle and Navy.
It would be up to the S. I. A A.
to devise rules that would enable
the executive committee to declare
the championship, based on the sea
son’s records.
chance of having the Thanksgiving
date restored to the calendar.
Coffroth, wily old fox that he '
said he would see what could be
done; and he saw. In less than 24
hours, Tom Jones, Coffroth
Ritchie were closeted togej > e '
drawing up and signing articles tor
a Thanksgiving tight, while Nolan
remained in Los Angeles so as no.
to clog the wheels of progress.
All things considered, it looks as
though the championship mat a a_
Daly City tomorrow will be v.i?r :■
witnessing.
at Coursey & Munn's drug star
always carry a fresh line of Q ua ,
Remedies, and they are not !>>
from door to door; no agents ar-'
ing them except the Health i .
The price of Quaker Extract
per bottle or three for $2.50.
Balm. 25c, or five for SI.OO.
Sufferers from rheumatism,
constipation, kidney, liver, stoma
blood troubles should call at ' '
Coursey & Munn's Drug Store,
rietta street. We prepay a”
charges on all orders of $3.00 ot
(Advt.)