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6 LDITLD Zy S FARNSWORTH IF DOPE BfflES HINDI JEGH AND ■MIN 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. ♦ ♦ • , 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. ♦ ♦ * 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 ■HkkL how j:arl MORRIS FOR M’FARLAND bout] X ' / £ ' '. \ I sr \ • \ \ % Jr ■ • \ \ \ i vj * ■■ , ■■ \ 1 »S \ I 'Ms J- F «- \ 1 FIGHTING MOGULS FJGEINPS" NEXT TEAR 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 • hat .i', ■ i ii- re'B nlya Up THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1912. \lM| f |F\ \\ WBsESaES* _/< v \ .<SS| \a, . X / i. * \ I / • / // ” ’B \ VANDY 5W AS SEWANEE GAME APPROACHES » 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, -WIL. v __ ..v.’ 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 in sm 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.)