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Last Belated All-Southerns
Are in and Here's Final Pick
Os South's Gridiron Experts
THE dope's all tn. the last all-
Southern (except the Stauffer
joke eleven in Collier’s) is
t picked and the final assignment of
gridiron honors for 11'12 can be
i made.
The fast of the picks which were
; those from New Orleans and Texas
i —make no matertai change in the
’ consensus eleven and the honor roll
for the year :sl
E, Brown, I. e . Vandorbilt
T. Brown. 1. t Vanderbilt
Peacock. 1. g Georgia
| Morgan, c Vanderbilt
Barker, r. g Mississippi
Lamb, r. t Auburn
, Gillem. r. e Sewanee
Tolley, q. b. Sewanee
Hardage. I. h. b Vanderbilt
.McWhorter, r. h. b Georgia
Sikes. f b Vanderbilt
Baseball cranks may be Interest-
Football cranks may be Interest
ed also in some of the previous
picks. Here Is the consensus all-
S, I. A. A. eleven for previous years:
1911.
.Morgan. < ........Vandeibilt
.Metzger, g Vanderbilt
Bonner, g Auburn
Freeland, t Vanderbilt
Cogdell, t Auburn
Gillem. e Sewanee
Vandegraaf. e Alaba ma
Morrison, q Vanderbilt
Hardage. h. b Vanderbilt
McWhorter, h. b Georgia
Davis, f, b Auburn
1910.
s Neely, e Vanderbilt
Gillem, e Sewanee
i Freeland, t Vanderbilt
Patterson, t Mississippi
Metzger, g Vanderbilt
Kinnebrew, g Mississippi
Caton, c Auburn
Browne, q. b . .Kewanee
Morrjgon, h. b Vanderbilt
Lanier, h. b Sewanee
Streit, f. b Auburn 1
1909.
f Lucas, c Georgia
t'heape. r. g Sewanee
• Falkenberry, I. g .Sewanee ’
Cogdell, r. t tuburn
Grifiin. I. t Vanderbilt 1
Freeland, r. e Vanderbilt
Williams, I. e Sewanee
Browne, q. b Auburn
‘ Lanier, r. h Sewanee
Hardage, I. it Auburn
Metzger, f. b Vanderbilt
1908.
■Davis, c. . Auburn ’
Hnrslock, i. g Vanderbilt
Dougherty. I. g Tennessee 1
Davis, r. t ... Tech (
Faitlkenberry, l t Sewanee i
Williams, r. e Sewanet
V. Blake, I. e Vandeibilt I
Leach, r. It .Tennessee (
Knox. 1. h Mississippi
McLure. q. b Auburn '
Markley, f. b Sewanee
1907.
Lewis, I, e Sewanee i
Lex Stone, I. t Sewanee
Stone, c. Vanderbilt |
Fautkcnberry. r. g Sewanet
Davis, r. t Tech
B. Blake, r. t. Vanderbilt
Costen. q. b Vanderbilt
Lanier, 1. h Sewanee
Craig, r. h Vanderbilt
Markley, f. b Sewanet
1906.
Stone .. ..Vanderbilt .. ..('enter
Chorn ....Vanderbilt. Right guar.l
Connor .. Mississippi ..Left guard
Stone .. ..Sewanee ..Right laekh
Pritchard ..Vandeibilt .Left taekh
i Bob Blake . .Vanderbilt. . Right <mi
■ Blown Teel, Left end
Coaten . . . .Vanderbilt . . .Quartei
Dab Blake Vandeibilt. Right hah'
■ Craig .. ..Vanderbilt ... Left half
Manier .... Vanderbilt Fullback
Consensu* picks a.e not aVailabb
■tfor the previou- pale. but heie i
■Bhaa) Nash Buckingham, Hui-
vard and Tennessee expert, ranked
the Southern players for the three
previous years:
1905.
Player. Position. College.
B. Blake, left endVandeibilt
Taylor, left tackle .. .. Vanderbilt
I. Brown, left guard ....Vanderbilt
Patterson, center Vanderbilt
Stone, right guard .. ..Vanderbilt
Pritchard, right tackle ..Vandeibilt
Hamilton, right end •• ..Vanderbilt
Kyle, quarter Vanderbilt
D. Blake, left half .. ..Vanderbilt
Craig, right half .. ..Vanderbilt
Manier, fullbacks’anderhilt
1904.
Beene, left end Tennessee
Taylor, left tackle .. .. Vanderbilt
Phillips, left guardSewanee
Elgin, center U. of Nashville-.
B. Brown, right guard ..Vanderbilt
Hamilton, right end .. ..Vanderbilt
Scarbrough, quarter .. ..Sewanee
Craig, left half Vanderbilt
B. Blake, light half .. ..Vanderbilt
Parker, fullback Tennessee
1903.
It Blake, left end Vanderbilt
E. Kirby-Smith, left tackle.. ..
Sewanee
Green, left guard .. .. Tennessee
Smith, center Cumberland
Suddarth, right guard. Cumberland
Phillips, right tackle ....Sewanee
Sitton, right end Clemson
Maxwell, quarter Clemson
Bridges, left half ....Cumberland
Colmore, right half .. ..Sewanee
Hanvey. fullback .. .. Clemson
JUDGE IN INDIANAPOLIS
UPHOLDS BASEBALL FAN
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Dec 6.—A solar
plexus punch to the wife who objects
to making a late supper for her husband
because lie is a baseball “bug” and stays
to root for the tronie team until the last
man is out was handed down by Judge
Collins, in police court.
It was a home-run swat on the part
of the court.
The domestic troubles of Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Williams were being argued in
the court room and it was found that
when Williams was late in coining home
from tile bail game no wife or supper was
ready to greet him. It was a cold bis
cuit for him
The judge upheld the "rooter" and told
the wife that she must find some common
bond of sympathy so that they could live
together In peace.
PLAY STARTS JAN. 9
IN BILLIARD TOURNEY
I’ITTSBI’ID; Hee. K. Plh\ for the
world s championship at 18.1 balk line in
billiards will take plate in this city Jan
uai \ 10 and 11. < leorge Sutton hav-
ing challenged Ora Morningstar, present
hmder. The winner is to receive the title,
diamond trophy, all gate receipt# and a
purse of SI,OOO, offered by Harry Oavis.
of Pittsburg. In addition, Sutton and
Morningstar have agreed to post a side
bet of SSOO.
one of the Interesting features how
ever. centers in the efforts to include
Yamada, the Japanese expert, who re
t entl\ competed in the 18 2 tournament
in New York Yamuda has not yet con
sented to enter the contest, but nego
tiations are under way. In any event,
Sutton ami Morningstar will battle for
the 18.1 title.
CARRLEY EBBETS WILL
SHOW FAMOUS BASEBALLS
BROOKLYN, Dec. 6. When the
Brooklyn Dodgers hold their house
warming in the rotunda of the Ebbets
field stadium next spring one of the
most interesting things to be found
there will be the big case containing
all of the balls won by the famous old
Atlantic* of Brooklyn In the infancy of
the national pastime.
Among the number i.« the bail used in
the eleven-inning battle with the Cin
cinnati Red Stockings in 1870. when tin
Atlantic* broke the great winning
streak of i 'ineintiati. Tile famous old
case of balls has passed through sev
eral hands in the past decades, and re
cently was i.ought by the Brooklyn club.
SMITH SIGNS PITCHER.
Herman H.iitnei. a young *ini-pro
(t.-sional soutiqaw from Michigan, lias
been signed by Maliag.-r Billy Smith foi
a tryout next spring.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1912.
WHITE SOK HAVE!
A REUL FIND IN
HUGE PETERS
By Sam Crane.
(This is the tenth of a series of
articles on "Youngsters Who Made
Good in Big Leagues" last season.)
ANY young pitcher who can
win five games and lose six
in his first year as a big
leaguer is worth watching, and can
be recognized as having very prom
ising ability as a boxman.
This was the record made by
"Rube" Peters, who pitched for the
Chicago White Sox during the sea
son of 1912. That Manager Jimmy
Callahan has confidence in the tall
youngster was shown when he de
cided to keep him as one of his
regular staff for next year; in fact.
Callahan has given it out that he
thinks Peters will be one of the
pitching- sensations of 1913.
President Cumiskey, who is one
of the most liberal of club owners,
when it comes to the point of pay
lag big money for any player he
thinks will strengthen his team,
was lucky in securing Peters by
draft from the Minneapolis club, of
the American association, in the
fall of 1911.
Comiskey might have been tipped
off about the youngster’s ability
before any other owner, for the
Chicago magnate has many agents
working for his interests who are
not regularly employed scouts.
Anyhow, “Commy" got in first with
his claim, and, although there was
some controversy over securing the
services of the promising twirler,
he was finally landed for the White
Sox, and at the low drafting price.
One of His Best Deals.
“It was one of the best deals I
ever made," was the comment of
Cumiskey, last spring, at the time
Peters gave glorious promise.
The White Sox trained during the
spring of 1912 in Waco. Texas, and
on one visit 1 paid to the White Sox
camp I well i emember Manager
Callahan praising Peters to the sky
and predicting the youngster as
having a great baseball future.
Peters was born in Jackson,
Miss., 26 years ago, and began
playing professionally in his homo
town in 1909. He remained with
the Jackson club through 1910,
when he was "nailed" by the Min
neapolis club for 1911. His rise
was very rapid, for during that
season lie won eleven games and
lost three, giving him a percentage
of .786
Peters was the leading pitcher of
the American association, his first
year 1n a high-class league.
Peters, as his ability developed,
was spotted by routs from all over
the country, but' Cumiskey's Inter
ests were well looked after by the
Cantillon brothers, with whom
there was a "working agreement” >
with "Commy." VHI
Pitches Right Handed. v<jt
Peters is a right-handed pitcher ’*
and batter. He weighs 185 pounds
and is exactly six feet in height.
He could not have a better build
for a pitcher. His initials arc O.
C., but he is known variously as
Rube. Pete and Blondy. But the
nickname of “Rube" lie likes best,
and that is the one-he will go down
in baseball history along with
Marquard. Waddell and others as
another "Rube," and he*bids fair
to become just as famous as those
two southpaws of eccentricity and
rare ability.
Under Callahans careful tutel
age, Peters developed wonderfully
in the South during spring prac
tise. but the wise manager of the
White Sox look no chances of
b caking the youngster's heart b>
working him too frequently. Cal
lahan appreciated that he had a
"wondei" if h< was properly nursed
and not called on to do too much.
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
• Bill Kay, who led the New York State
league in batting, is a great player in
thai league. He has tried it higher up
several times, but couldn't make a go.
• * •
Aurora had a player—and he was a
roarer, too—who performed in 103 games
as an outfielder and didn't amass an er
ror.
• • •
Guy Zinn, who didn’t report to Roches
ter last year, wasn't suffering from a
swelled beau, but a swelled appendix or
some*bing of that sort, is the rumor now.
Anyhow, he has applied to Ganzel for re
instatement and a job.
• • »
Barry McCormick is a card. After he
slumped from Milwaukee to Peoria he
looked over the reserve list of the little
Ilinois club, said he liked the first base
man. and to release everybody else. He
is now doing some tall scouting.
♦ » «
Louisville is rooting to get Jack Stans
bury back from the Cardinals. As he is
better than a .300 batter in the Ameri
can association there isn't a lot of chance.
• * *
Baseball maxims: "The Anti-Saloon
league sure sends up a lot of ball play
ers who stick.”
♦ ♦ *
Another one: “A 10l of ball plavers
got diamonds who ain't got anything
else.”
* ♦ ♦
It looks as though the papers would gel
tired ot talking about “a second Ty
Cobb.” “There ain't no such a pus
son.'
• • •
And while all New York is popping
hysterically over the prospect of getting
Frank Chance as manager of the High
landers the Peerless Leader goes right
on picking oranges.
♦ ♦ *
Rule Marquard. in discussing his Bios
aoni Seeley troubles, denied all the alle
gations of his accusers except the one
that he is a great left-hander.
Akron has raised SIO,OOO and will buy
itself a hall club.
* * *
<\v Young has been offered the job of
managing the Portland team, of the
Nor th western league.
Harry Gaspar, sent by Cincinnati to
Toronto, says he will give up baseball in
favor of photography. They say he is a
right, good photographer.
♦ ♦ ♦
Hans Robert has bought a farm in
Crawford county, Pennsylvania.
• » »
Note, Montgomery Advertiser: When
you clip baseball notes from The New
Orleans States and credit them, please do
the crediting to The Atlanta Georgian.
The States lifts them bodily—without
credit; as do a half dozen other papers.
« * «
Among the famous baseball players who
are good golfers are Heinie Zimmerman,
Ty ( obb, Larry La.loie, Russ Ford, Harry
Wolter ami Hal Chase. Among the fa
mous golf players who play baseball
nothing doing.
♦ * •
Weaver, the White Sox infielder, when
accosted 1»\ the gent who is writing a se
ries on “the toughest pitcher I ever met.”
told bis story in three words: “None of
’em." Modest little cuss!
• * •
Frank Farrell may go to Bermuda
himself to look over the place as a train
ing ground for the Yankees. If he likes
it he will send the players there next
March.
• • •
When the Pittsburg club sent a Blue
Grass league player a contract calling
for $75 a month, the player sent back
word he could make more money stopping
runaways back home. P. S. lie is still
stopping runaways. t
HANDLED BRICKS ALL
SUMMER TO MAKE TEAM
CI.IIVKL.\NiI. OHIO, Dee. 6. -Gaylord
Stowe, the utility man of the Cleveland
university school eleven, is not a boy
vho is easily dixeouruued. He tried for
the I’niversity school eleven a year ago.
He failed to make good.
Coach Rush told him he was too tall
(or his weight and lacked the reouisite
jgtrength. So Stowe set his to,,
the eleven this year. tMv'Vg' £ :
'jgMßk arrived, instead of loati
flwJpWjjbt to Strasburg, < >hio, aK : log«j£l,'
ears all summer. \s»> re -p.
to school in Septembi f’TOJIP
er and stronger. And he also made ffle
team, tilling in at half, end and tackle,
playing in all the important games.
As a side issue, he developed proficien
cy as a kicker ami was the Brlckley of
University school.
NAT CARTMELL NAMED
TO SUCCEED M. MURPHY
PHILADELPHIA, Dec 6. Nat Cart
tnell. of Louisville, will almost certain!}
be named to succeed Mike Murphy as
coach of the University of Pennsylvania
track learn. Murphy's resignation has
not been formally acted on. but the vet
eran handler of athletes is in Thomas
ville. Ga , now. suffering from a malady
that will forbid his taking part in active
training work again
Carttnell was first heard of as an ath
lete when he representeil a Louisville
school at one of Vanderbilt's annual scho
lastic meets in Nashville. He went to
the University of Pennsylvania, where In
has been a star He has coached the Ini
vcrslt} of Virginia track team will, I
success for seieral jears
S2.m,[ll]oYEAß
FOR BASEBALL
SALARIES
WHEN professional baseball
players make up their
minds to concertedly de
mand bigger salaries, as they pos
sibly may some time through the
newly organized Players fraternity,
it would be well for them to study
some of the financial statistics of
organized baseball and get some
idea of how much money is now
being handed out for players' sal
aries
It’ is possible that the figures
would make a most effective strike
breaker. They will give a stagger,
anyhow.
According to Secretary Heydler's
records. 283 players took part in
National league games last season.
A conservative average of salary
for each player would be $2,500,
probably it is nearer $3,000. But
taking the lesser amount, the
amount for salaries alone paid out
by the parent organization was
$707,500.
$1,414,500 Big Leagues' Salaries.
The American league can be put
down as paying out to players
fully as much as the National. This
brings the salary list of the two big
leagues up to the astounding fig
ures of $1,414,500, nearly a million
and a half, and without the latter
amount is reached.
But those are not all the figures
by a long shot. The report of Sec
retary Farrell, presented at the re
eent meeting of the National Asso
ciation of Minor Leagues, showed
that $997,000, only a shade less than
a full million dollars, was paid out
by the minor baseball leagues
throughout the country in salaries.
Now, taking this million with the
nearly a million and a half the two
big leagues dispense for playing
talent, it will be seen that the pro
fessional players throughout the
land are receiving $2,500,000 in
round numbers annually.
This shows that the club dwners
are doing something toward the
uplifting of the ‘.'downtrod,” and
many of the minor league mag
nates are "over their heads" In
their endeavors to keep above
water and pay salaries.
Few Clubs Make Big Money.
The first three clubs in either tin*
American or National league and
possibly a like number in the Class
AA. make big money and the two
clubs that are fortunate in having
learns that contest for the world's
championship make bigger money,
but in tile long run when profit and
losses are averaged up. It will be
found that tile salaries of the play
ers forms the "kitty" where the
most of the money finally drifts.
To enable the clubs of the Na
tional and American leagues to pay
the salaries of their players they
must average $590 per game for the
; 174 games scheduled. But salaries,
while forming a big item, are only
one of the many expensive ones the
club owners have to face.
Nothing can perhaps show better
the wonderful growth of tile na
• tional game than the enormous
amount paid for sala . ies. but it also
proves that the magnates are not *
"hogging it all." as some players of
the past did foolishly believe to
their sorrow, and some of the play
ers of the present imagine just as
ridiculous things. And possibly it
. may be to their sorrow, too.
Thuie are individual cases where
certain deserving players haw been
•underpaid, lint the great big ma
jority of the capable ones are paid
according to their abilities and
tlieli salat les raised In accordance
with the imp'ovement they show
aiul their increased value tn tiler
CUll-o
Smith Has His Work Cut Out
For Him Handling Bad Actors,
But He’s the Lad Knows How
By Percy 11. Whiting.
IF the Cracker team of last sea
son had been properly held in
hand, it would have finished
certainly no worse than fourth.
Booze crabbed it. Old Red Eye cost
the Crackers any chance of a cred
itable showing.
One of Manager Smith’s big jobs
this coining season will be to keep
the Cracker bad actors from per
forming any cut-up stuff. He had
a lot of them willed to him by
Manager Hemphill. There is no use
going into details. Most of -the
fans know which players were
tanks and which were not.
However, Bill Smith doesn’t ex
pect any trouble —nor do the fans
who know him.
"I never had any trouble with
any of my r players," said Smith in
talking over the matter of disci
pline. "1 treat them right and
they treat me right. Os course, any’
manager who lets his players walk
over him is a simp. The first time
he sees a head, crack it—that’s the
idea. After he has made examples
of two or three of his players he
doesn’t have any more trouble.
Anyway, I never did.”
One of Smith's chief assets has
been his ability to enforce disci
pline. Bill doesn't stand for any
foolishness. He is in most deadly
earnest about this pe.nnant chasing
business, and lie gets his players in
the same notion. His example is
contagious, and it is a mighty dull
player who does not, after a bit,
begin trying for the pennant as
hard as Smith.
Smith has had some bad actors
on his staff now and again—some
right here in Atlanta. But never
a one but behaved better for
Smith than he ever did for any oth
er manager.
Following a Good Lead I i
The footsteps of the man
who wants the very latest I
styles in shoes invariably lead —SKjJ'Q
to our store, it's our policy '■''>/vt * I
to show the new styles | l k "
first. That’s the reason /■ t 2
we make Ralstons /'■•'-v? ' s *'
our leaders. Jah. T'.
This season we
especially wish to
mention our OxwIWIF
Houn’ Dawg
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I I V\
nOY MORAN goes to the Pacific
Coast league. The announce
ment comes from Washington and
settles the fate of the former At
lanta outfielder, still, by the way, a
resident of Atlanta.
Moran was given only a most
casual tryout by Manager Griffith,
and it was believed that he would
order Moran to report for spring
training. However, it is evident
that the Gray Fox must have dug
up ancient dope and modern opin
ions. and decided against the fleet
footed ex-Cracker.
« « •
T) ILL SMITH is up in the air over
the case of Fitcner Waldorf.
He has never seen him work and
lias to form his views by studying
the records and by asking opin
ions. And both are very various.
A couple of Waldorf's games
make him look like the best pitch
er in the world. The rest make
him look like the biggest bum. Most
of the dopesters think the knock
kneed lad is a howling farce, aid
so do most of the players. On ti e
other hand, there are a few who
believe that there is an off-chance
the big ex-Cub has some real stuff
in him. Ex-Acting Manager
Whitey Alperman is one of his big
boosters. He thinks Waldorf has
much ability and that there is a
chance that he can make good.
Our own private opinion is that,
because many an ugly duckling has
blossomed out into some swan,
Smith would make a mistake not
to look the man over before getting
rid of him.
As to the cases of Johns, John
son and Sitton it is ail decided —
they go to the highest bidder.
This Johnson, by the way, may
in time develop into a pretty good
player. He has as smooth and
easy a delivery as any man who
has ever worked in Atlanta, and his
Kitty league record was fine.