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®orm srew cores® » re. — LDITE-D Zy W. 9 VARNSWOFTH Smith Will Go to National League Meeting in Search of Few More Men for Crackers By Percy 11. Whiting. rpHE Atlanta Baseball ussm-ia- I tion will have to split up its talent in December, for twr important meetings occur so near together as to conflict. These two are the National league session in New York and the Southern leagu. meeting in Little Rock. Bill Smith will take in the Na tional league Session. He has an idea he can connect up with a player or two there, and even if hr doesn’t, a trip there will put him in touch with the National league managers, which is something that he wants. This will mean, no doubt, that President Frank Callaway, and perhaps one or two of the' direc tors, will make the long hike over to Little Rock for the Southern league session, which begins De cember 15. qOUTHPAW ZELLERS, formerly a star at Macon and last year considerable of a portside flinger in the local city league, has been promised a try-out with the Crack ers next spring. Zellers visited baseball headquar ters yesterday, talked things over with Manager Smith and will turn out early and get in shape. Director Charles Nunnally, of the baseball association, is a strong booster for Zellers and believes hr will make good. • • « srACON will probably serve as tin- Atlanta team's farm next sea son. Os course, players sent down there will go under a “gentlaman’s agreement” that they will be ro . ruined if desired. Also no play, r ' will be sent there except bush leaguers, for there is a league rule against more than a limited num ber of players from leagues of low er classification. But any good, green kids that Atlanta has and that Macon needs will go to Ma con. Bill Smith has always had a warm spot in his heart for the burg ever since he managed there, and is especially keen for it be cause his great friend, the former business manager of the Atlanta, club. Newt Ethridge, is connect' d with it. • • • p ILL SMITH has closed with the Montreal club for game- in Atlanta April 3, 4 and 5. "I guess I'm lucky to get them." FODDER FOR FANS Somebody in New York has alleged that an ill wind is blowing in the National league now. that Charles Murph) is standing in the draught and that he's likely to catch something besides a cold. w » • The only thing that looks bad for the Ball Flayers union is the fact that the club owners are not opposing it. ■ » ■ Christy Mathewson is hack in N-w York, after a hunting trip in South Caro lina. St * « Sid Mercer says that Mathewson expels to take a vacation next summer and wil] spend it outdoors. Baseball is his favor ite pastime. € $ * The International league will ha\> new managers this year: Clymer. . Bn!- falo; Smith, at Newark; Donovan. al Providence; Bransfield, at Uontre. ••!»<! somebody, vet to be selected, a .i« i> Citv. They’re all ' ” ’ and can you blame ’em'.' V M * A St. Louis man says the trouble with the Cardinals is that the.' are in Cleveland and managed in elm inn:•' The trouble with the Crackers lasi was that they were owned in Atlanta .im not managed anywhere. Navin, of Detroit, says ilia’ if th' Pav ers demand half pa) for spring ,rl l 1 '; >«■ for one, will not give his team an) tram ing at all. » » » Horace Fogel is to get .MO.oOO for a se ries of articles exposing ,4"'' league. Samuel Johnson solo I. mam. script of Rasselas for enough m p.t) mother's funeral expenses. Ami so goes. ... Anybody who would like to ta • Infle - er Corridon off Detroit sb otic . Navin gave for hint iJI-.Oi" 1 ' rivas' inunicate with Hugh Jennings. ♦ * ♦ Despite enough worr'es '■ m- 11 ''’ 1 Cobb a .200 Sticker, linger managed to hit .324 this )‘ '• ' 1; batting of his eighteen m Connie Mack gav< Russell. Harry llerrm.c n I ■. Frank Chance Flgurng - a ■ could prove Walter Johnson twr -..in ten million or ten cents Walter Johnson's ■ / ' ' u $7,000 a year expires altei i.y txpects to gel more attei The New York A ri< ‘ manager every 'lay. -^ rtb j\To COME-BACK When S.S.S. Cizre« There is no “comeback \X niU;T hly el. .mses the circulation because this gr< loodhas been pur*- tu?”t “Article of th. Old . Iro A „!7 nlte lioo as it wash; toreth. fiwihvS S S., this v ’tal successful in the disease was contt m< Heine strengthens treatment of Con t Vs’s’s there but it- found a cure bj the use ‘lTihil.hr ' WW?* ot this great ™» e 'b , j , Wv ,.„ i■ ■■ ' t, fetyby any one Home lr ttn, ‘ SPECIFIC CO., ALLAN IA, GA. ■'as smiths comment. "The teams that are going to train In the South ait- certainly not keen about play* ing exhibition games.” Smith, by the way. has always been a strong booster for exhibition games. He believes there is no bet ter way of getting players in condi tion. If he had his way—and he has, sometimes—he would have a steady stream of exhibitions from March 1 until the Southern league reason opened. « • • g ILL SMITH believes that Harry Welchonce may be the man" who is destined to complete Clark Griffith’s machine and to make it a pennant winner in the American It Dent and Welchonce make teal good," said Bin yesterday, “I don t see how they are going to keep Clark Griffith out of that pen nant. "Griffith told me that he was atraid that Welchonce wasn't enough of a fielder to make good— that he had always been able to hit in the big leagues, but that his fielding was weak. 1 told him,” continued Smith, "that the dope had changed. T consider him a great flelder and his record shows he was a great batte.. I think he may be just the man Griffi needs. "The Washington team will be awfully good next year. They have two of the greatest catchers in the world in Eddie Ainsmith and John Henry. Eddie was In bad shape toward the end of last season, and the club has sent him to Texas to get in trim. The reports from there are that he is improving and putting on weight fast. You know i what Walter Johnson is, and I want to tell you that Bob Groom is SOME PITCHER. I. consider him one of the best in baseball. Gandill has everything, and the rest of the infield is good. If they get Welchonce going good in right field, I believe the team is a pennant winnet. "If the Washington team ever gets in a world's series." concluded Bill, "they'll win easy. Walter' Johnson can pitch every other game and win every one he pitches." the choice on November L7. « » • <’lark Griffith has Gandil, Groom and Koster signed for next year, not to men tion Walter Johnson. Several big le&gue teams will not have that much class signed all season. * « * Mordecai Brown may be an umpire in ♦the American leeague next year. Maybe one reason why Devlin has been “mentioned” as manager of the lligh landers is that he has been canned by Stallings ami is looking for a job with some minor league team as manager. “Baby Doll” Jacobson is said to be slated for a trial with the Giants next spring. He'll lo«»k mighty good, too, un til they begin pitching him curve balls. • • • The Giants led the National league in hiding and the) did it with a team which boasted uitlv three .300 hitters. e * * Mart Whitney, once a Cracker, has been banished to Topeka. H ■ * laims h< didnt a thing to deserve it. and suj s he. won't « « ♦ I~i i~ Uyoekett, once of the Buffalo t. i’m is after the Harrisburg. 11!.. fran chise of the Kitty league. Here's wish ing him good luck and that lie doesn t "' <. . . Martv Krug, once with Columbia, S. <!.. lt f ,s been sent to Indianapolis by the Red s', x. The champs reserve the privilege of recalling him by August 15. ... The Columbia team of the Sally league v is titled SIOO at the minor leagues' meet- Hg n Milwaukee for playing Armbruster under the name of Ritter. This was done ; , n ,,i,i the rille against using players buigues of higher classification. Nic t'orish. the Sally president, got wise-and now Columbia has to pa). SECOND ROUND OF SHOOT AT BROOKHAVEN TODAY Thp second round of fifty targets in , , ■u”,-tai ge: trap shoot of tile Brook >,’ vs 7 n Huh Will be held this afternoon “ T i, ni-t block of fifty were shot last Dunn and John «• ~ttu A ' vtr ,‘ lead,n ß ~ end ■ I U"' IllH bio. k. _ •1,,: . is fm a liaiid.-oim trophy . j Vell i,; tiie I>upont I’ow der < Company THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1912 Great Harvard Back Helped Pile Up 17 Out of 20 Points Against Yale HARDWICK MOST VERSATILE MAN IN FOOTBALL By L. R. Murdock. (Sporting Editor of Hearst’s Bos ton American.) BOSTON, .MASS,, Nov. 30. While "Boots” Brickley is naturally head-lined as the Harvard hero of 1912, and Bob Stor er and Sam Felton crowd him for tiie top of column honor, it has almost been overlooked that the Yale game produced tile most ver satile man in football, snd that Huntington R. Hardwick, the light ning left halfback of the Crimson team, is the fellow whereof we speak. In the imaginary All-American elevens which will be devised by the “experts” of the country, Hardwick will likely be overlooked by many. But if the writer had a football team all his own, he would rather have Hardwick working therein titan any other man in foot ball outside of tiie Harvard team— and this goes for Jim Thorpe or any other star of the game. The truth, evident to all who watched the New Haven pastime closely, is brought out very clear ly by Coach Percy D. Haughton, the Harvard football master, In his own review of the Crimson tri umph. This shows how Hardwick participated in Hie system scoring of 17 of the 20 points. What Hardwick Did. According to Haughton, who de vised the Harvard system of of fense and defense and who worked out for Harvard the Yale game the ory, this is what Hardwick did: He became the eighth and most important man on the scrimmage line in the Harvard attack. This eight-man line was Harvard's most successful progressive device. He acted as left end when Fel ton was drawn back to punt. He was called upon frequently to run with the ball from behind the line, principally for end runs. He was frequently on the line of scrimmage as the principal inter- i good line, Cook would look as good is most any 'of them. He is a shade ight, but can stand all sorts of punish ment. A great player! Taylor is a magnificent runner with the abll and a splendid drop kicker. His tackling and interference are too weak to let him get on our team. Folger is good around the ends and in slashing through quick openings. He is tall and fast and has a wonderful eye for judging forward passes. In pulling these down he is without a peer in the South today. In other depart ments he needs work and experience. Haxton is a real good 'halfback, al beit a trifle clumsy. There is no doubt of his ability to gain ground against most any team down here. Still he lacks the necessary brilliancy for this berth. Now for Hardage. No one, I pre sume, will deny my right to set him down as the one best bet of the year. So I set him down. This chap is one sure enough half back. For that matter, he was so the very first year he ever played college football. And this is his fourth on a varsity team. With each passing year he has become fleeter of foot and stronger of muscle, to say nothing of the steady acquisition of football knowledge. He is as shifty on his feet as a squirrel, yet runs with a power that breaks the hold of a would-be tac. kier at least half the time. His defen sive ability is quite satisfactory, and added to this he is one of the best for ward passers of the year. He is strict ly in a class with the best halves the South has produced. 1 would put him at rear guard on our defense. Wouldn’t he bring back the punts? Newell Lacks Only Weight. Os the remaining four, Newell is the weakest. This is mainly because he only weighs 146 pounds. So far as speed, driving power for his weight, . xperience, clear-headedness, sureness on handling the ball and inside play are concerned, he is not behind the others. He conies as near being a star as any man on Auburn's line-up. I do not consider him as good at blocking as Collins, nor as powerful in open field running as McWhorter. But for his weight I consider him the best half back of the y ear. But I drop him. < 'ollins is considerably heavier than Newell, and by reason thereof can bet ter tear loose from tacklers. He runs fearlessly with the ball and plays with great nerve and stability. He also is a very fast man. Altogether, he would be a valuable addition to any team in the country, and in another year he should attain premier honors in the South. He is up against exceptionally good men in this comparison, but there is no discounting the general splendor of his game. 1 count him out. This narrows the field to McWhorter, and him I choose again for right half back. This decision will. 1 fancy, not give entire satisfaction. Certain it is that McWhorter can not tackle like some other halfbacks, can not interfere like others, can not buck as do others, etc. But McWhorter has improved in these respects over his work of last year. Yes; he has put up one or two below par games this season, but he had been ill and had not fully recovered his ~it’« i gth. <>f course, if he ha. remained •i. wh>> > ■ son. so ijia’ all bi*-- work HEISMAN’S ALLSOUTHERN ELEVEN Continued From Preceding Page. serer in secondary defense. When Harvard kicked he was expected to go down the field, cov ering Felton’s punts, as an end. When Yale kicked lie, with Gard ner. was depended upon to catch punts and run them back. He was chosen to make the puntouts from behind the line. He was called upon to kick the goals after touchdowns. How He Did It. This is what Haughton says of his success: “Although a strong line plunger and capable of running the ends, Hardwick was doing more than his share by acting as an end, while Felton was kicking. I doubt if more duties were ever placed on one player than were assigned to Hardwick. “It surely takes a versatile ath lete to do so many different jobs, and I am confident no other man could have done them all up to the hilt as did Hardwick.” Haughton declares that the Har vard attack was naturally built up about he kicking of Felton and Brickley, but, after the Princeton game, when it was discovered that Harvard- might reasonably hope to realize its long-standing ambition to crash though Yale got a touch down, a scheme of line-rushing, was evolved and Hardwick’s versatil ity caused him to be chosen as the central factor in that only inno vation employed. Tills innovation was tiie eight man scrimmage line. This is what Haughton said of that plan: “By this simple operation tile of fensive line of scrimmage was suf ficiently lengthened to accomplish one of two results. “If the opposing tackle went out to meet tiie flanking movement it meant that the defensive line was so much weakened. If, on tiie otiier hand, this tackle neglected to observe the flanking man, lie was subject to an attack had been below par. he could not be given the position; but such has not been the case. Against Alabama, Se wanee, Tech and Auburn he played his old-time game; and as he is now stronger, knows more football and tac kles better than ever, I think, on the whole, that he is deserving of the place. I frankly admit, though, that had Fletcher not been ruled out I would have selected him for quarter and prob ably have placed Sikes at half along side of Hardage, with Tolley second choice at quarter. By Way of Acknowledgment. the players thus far considered are above the average in playing ability, and are, 1 consider, the cream of the talent. There is not one of them but deserves more eneoniums and stronger commendation than I have had room or time for. ATLANTA AND FULTON LEAGUES ORGANIZED The Atlanta, and Fulton basket ball league have organized for the ltd 2-13 season and the first game will be played .next week. Dick Jemison was elected president of the league. F. .1 Cooledge. Jr., of the Fifth regiment, was elected vice president, and Paul McGrew of Wesley Memorial, secretary and treas urer. Three games will be played in the At lanta league each Friday evening. There is an opening for one team in ibis league. The five teams now in the league are: Governor’s Horse Guards. Fifth Regiment. Wesley Memorial, Y. M. C. A. and Knights of Columbus. The Fulton league will be composed of the following eight teams this season: Agogas, Baracas of the Tabernacle. Y M. C. A. (second team). Company C. Com pany H. S. V. D., the Georgia Athletic club and the Post Athletics. The officers of this league this sea son are: E. H. Thomas, president; W. J. M. Webster, vice president and tempo rary secretary and treasurer Two games will be played every Wednesday and Thursday evenings, the double-header plan being followed. Wednesday's games will be played at the Y. M. C. A. court and Thursday's at the Armory court. AUSTRALIAN TENNIS TEAM WINS DOUBLES MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, Nov. 30.—-The Australian team won tin- dou bles matches against tin English chal lengers in the contest for the Dwight F. Davis International lawn trophy, thus obtaining revenge for Thursday's unex pected defeat iti the singles. The pt iv was brilliant. TOM LYNCH SURE OF JOB. NEW YORK, Nov. 3u.—President Tom Lynch, of the National baseball league, seems practically certain of re-election when the magnates hold their annual meeting next month. The Fogel case was the real test of Lynch’s strength, the lat ter's friends declared today MARTIN MAY X’ < 19U PEACHTREE STREET UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES > FOR SALE X \’«X* ND Zy on his outside. "By thus removing a. halfback from his customary position it might lie supposed that tiie run ning attack was weakened by one third, but since the introduction of the rule forbidding any assistance to the man carrying tiie ball it lias been extremely difficult to util ize all three backs to their full ef ficiency. especially in plays running at the line. "Furthermore, Harvard had two men of exceptional ability in Cap tain Wendell and Brickley. and it was, therefore, decided that these two men were capable of carrying the brunt of our direct attack." Result of Hardwick's Play. That the use of Hardwick in the manner stated was successful is shown by these incidents of tile game, all of which figured In the re sult: First. When Flynn kicked 60 yards from behind his own goal near the beginning of the first pe riod—one of the longest punts ever made against Harvard —forcing Gardner to fumble, there occurred Hardwick's first remarkable play. Haughton describe.'-.! it as follows: “Tile ball was loose and Bonn is let’ was just about to pick it up with a clear field ahead of him. At that moment Hardwick made one of tiie cleverest plays I have ever seen. Instead of trying for the ball himself, he went after Bonteis ler and, by a perfect piece of block ing, knocked him off his feet, which enabled Brickley to recover the ball. If Yale had scored on this play, it would have seriously affect ed the morale of the Harvard team." Second. When Hardwick ran down the field under a Felton punt, bumped Wheeler and the lat ter fumbled. On this play Storer recovered the ball for the first touchdown. Third. When Flynn muffed a Felton punt on Yale's 17-yard line in the third period. This was where the eight-man play accom plished the only touchdown which was made without the aid of a Yale misplay. Haughton described this most graphical)). He said: "The third quarter had hardly begun when Flynn fell a victim to one of Felton’s punts, ami it was Harvard’s ball on Yale's 18-yard line. On the next play occurred one of the most peifecr offensive moves I have ever wltm sseil. Gard ner ordered Hardwick on the right end of Harvard’s line, giving the eight men on tiie line formation, which 1 have previously described. The Yale left tackle either failed to observe Hardwick on his Hank or else anticipated a rush through the line, for he failed to assume his proper position. "Gardner was quick to recognize ids mistake and ordered wiiat is commonly known as 'a skin tackle play.’ Brickley was given the ball, and with W endell as ills only in terferer, stalled toward Yale's left end. “Wendell took out the end com pletley. Hardwick boxed the tac kle as eompletl. -y and Brickie.' tii.'-u proceeded to run around Yale's en tire back field, who. I assume, had also anticipated a line plunge. Tills scored a touchdown.” Fourth. After Brickley had inter cepted Pumpeliy's forward pass in the third period and had run 42 yards, it was Hardwick who ran around Yale’s left end and took Gardner's sudden forward pass, placing the ball on Yale’s eight yard line, where Brickley kickei? bis second goal from field. Fifth. After Brickley scored his touchdown, Hardwick punted out so successfully that he was able to kick a goal himself as neatly as he did after Storer's touchdown. popular standing * of this Cigarette is evinced by the fact that more money is spent for Fatimas than for any other! A plain package—so vze can give you 20—at a reasonable price—lsc. "Diltinctively Individual" 20 Egg” Army Favorite in Battle With Navy Today; 35,000 Fans Will Witness the Annual Clash THE LIXE-I I’. Navy. Army. Ingram, I. e. 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The big crowd that arrived last night thronged the hotel lobbies, and in many places informal class reunions were held by the one time middies and cadets. The Army eleven was made a slight favorite in tlu- belling be cause of its show lug in its last three games, but there was con- As Usual. One Year Ahead in Improvements Indian Motocycle 50r 1913 Q The Cradle Spring Frame) 7H. P. Twin Cylinder, $250; 4H. P. Single Cylinder, $200; F. O. B. Factory Thia newest and greatest motorcycle Without affecting the level, forward improvement is positively unique. motion of the body of the machine. Rear wheel fork is hinged at forward The rider is not conscious of even the end and axle connected by stays to roughest roed. All shocks are com two seven-leaf steel springs extending pleteiy absorbed by the leaf spnngs. back from the joint cluster below the Ihe life of the machineis enomxMMly saddle. Rear wheel can now pass increased. No jar anywhere. 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Tiie Navy team, av eraging 17s. outweighed the West Point.-rs tiiree pounds to the man. but tin- Army team more than made up for thi< handicap by its pos session of Keyes, the fullback who kicked ten goals from field in prac tice yesterday and whose wonder ful boot, has figured in every West Point victor) of the year. i A canvass made by the members of both athletic committees this resulted in the report that not one of tiie 35,000 tickets sold lor the game had fallen into the hands ot speculators, who are ac tive about tiie hotels. FIFTH REGIMENT ENDS FALL BASKET BALL CARD Th. Fifth Regiment liasketball fall seasc.ii is >vr. All games have been played, Thor esult of one game is ill dispute, and will be settled at a meet ing early next week. I’he Fulton Blues have forged up ward to third place, while tile Gov ernor's Horse Guard and tire Atlanta Grays both claim first. \ postponed game was played last night, tin- Fulton Blues and the Horse Guard meeting for the first time this season. The Horse Guard five was out played. by a score of 41 to L7. $12,000 ADVANCE SALE. \EW ) < IRK. Nov. 30.—Nearly $12,000 has .dread' been taken in through the advance sale of tickets for the McGoorty- Glbbons tigtit In Madison Square Garden on Dei ember -I for the middleweight title. 7