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Big Expose of Mississippi Men
Due at Intercollegiate Session
At Tulane University Tomorrow
' By Percy 11. Whiting.
THE biggest blow-off In years
in Southern intercollegiate
Athletic usstk’iation circle*
is expected at the annual meeting
which will be |)eld at Tulane uni
versity, Nev • Orleans, tomorrow
and Saturday.
The association will take up the
cases of the University of Missis
sippi and of Kentucky State uni
versity. and the inside tip is that
i riot may conlidentlly be antici
pated.
The Mississippi case has been a
storm center all this year. The fac
ulty of the college opened up by
tiring Players Causey. Walon, Ca
hill and Shields and Coach Stauf
fer. The executive committee of
the S. I. A. A. t’ook the same ac
tion. Then the Mississippi faculty''
reconsidered its action, but the ex
ecutive committee of the S. I. A. A.
refused to do likewise. Instead,
they piled It on by disqualifying
Fit tcher mar the end of the sea
son. Then Mississippi played the
baby act and canceled its game with
Mississippi A. A M.
In papers which make a special
ly of University of Mississippi news
there have been constant Hints that
Coach DeTray and one man elose
to him may also be put under lire,
hut nothing definite is known of
this.
From information gleaned from
rumors and hints, it appears that
athletic conditions at the Univer
sity of Mississippi have been hor
rible. As is usually the ease, the
pernicious activity of the alumni
involved the college and the col
lege authorities failed in their duty
of keeping their own athletics clean.
Some tine stuff will no doubt be
brought out at tin coming meet
ing.
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IN a recent letter from Edward T.
Holmes, president of Gordon and
secretary and treasurer of the S, I,
V A., he says:
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Dear Mr. Whiting: J am inclos
ing the list of proposed amend
ments to the s 1. a. a. constitu
tion which will be considered at
the annual meeting Friday and
Saturday at New Orleans.
The most Important matter
which will he considered will
probably be the hearing of the
charges against the University of
Mississippi and Kentucky State
universltly. As the matter now
stands live Mississippi players and
the coach are under tire
Kentucky State had trouble with
the Kentucky association and was
blacklisted by that organization
> Both Mississippi and Kentucky
State will bring their cases be
fore the convention for a linal
hearing.
Tulane will entertain the con
vention at a smoker Friday (-veil
ing.
Responses indicate that the 25
colleges of the association will la
repri sente.i
Very truly yours, •
111 AVAItD T. H< >I.M I’.S
See -Treas. S I. A. A
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'l' Hl’, ost ot proposed amendments
to the constitution of the S 1
\. A. is as long as the constitu
tion of th. s United states and
more complicate a.
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UPSTAIRS
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None of the provisions WHICH
SEEM LIKELY TO PASS are es
pecially important.
It is evident from the number of
amendments aimed at the playing
under assumed names that this evil
has reached considerable propor
tions.
One rather important amendment
offered is that no S. I. A. A. team
shall be allowed to play with any
team in the S. I. A. A. territory
which is not a. member of the as
sociation. This provision, of course,
is aimed to put the pressure on col
leges which do not join the asso
ciation.
A resolution is also offered that
the association appoint a commit
tee to publish a list of “colleges"
in the Southern territory. Such a
list is necessary because of the
olie-year rule, which provides that
players going from one college to
another shall not be eligible for a
year after the change. Often bit
ter questions arise as to when a
college j.s and isn’t a college.
An amendment which would be
rather drastic if adopted provides
that no man shall take part in in
tercollegiate athletics until he has
been a resident at the college for
otic year, that to be a resident for
one year he must matriculate with
in 30 days of the opening of the
season and must see It through.
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THE usual annual effort to unseat
1 Dr. W, L. Dudley, of Van
derbilt, as head of the association
is made in a proposed amendment
that provides that no officer except
the secretary-treasurer shall be
eligible to succeed himself. That
appears a foolish provision, with
no earthly chance of becoming a
law of the association.
• To make this a little strong, it
is further provided that no person
shall be eligible to hold the office
of president who is connected, di
rectly or indirectly, with any col
lege of tile association or who is
, or ever has been a student at any
college of the association. P. S.
If this gets through, it will be nee
' wary to seek among ditch diggers
and such for digit ie men.
Presumably to make it wort h
while for some man not connected
with any of the S. I. A. A. colleges
to serve it is proposed to pay the
president a salary, though the
amount of this salary Is left blank.
In order to make it possible for
professional ball players to take
part in the college games, it has
been proposed by some ope that
anybody be allowed to play college
baseball so long as he has not,
since entering college, played for
mon- than his expenses. On that
basis. Ty Cobb could enter college
and play baseball so long as he did
m>t rejoin the Tigris. Swell rul- j
ing. that
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, I jNI.ESS there ,ias been a Io: s.f
underground work, there will j
be lew. it any, changes of impor
tance mt ie const it tttion and none 1
amofig the officials. Dr. Dudley has
made tin association what it is
and is the logical man to lead it
so long as he Is willing to take the
job. Various disgruntled athletic
authorities have tried to take a
fall out of him several times in the
past, but neve r with much success.
SMITH STOPS WUEST.
XtiRK Dee. 12,—Gunboat
Smith, of California, will get a chance
‘ill tin elimination bouts to uneove a
l"’\ “white hope" by virtue of the easy
victory he scored last night over Hany
IV\ in st. of Cincinnati. Tin referee
-topped th. tight before the end Os the
first round.
THERMOMETERS
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AILAMA‘.iWRGI..L\ AaXD I\EVV&. IHI KSDA\. DLCEMBEK 12, 1912.
Former Atlanta Newspaper Man Has Good Line on Ex-Big Leaguers
FUNNY STORIES FROM AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
By (.). B. Keeler.
(Former Atlanta Newspaperman,
now Baseball Editor Kansas City
Star, Who Is in Atlanta on a Vaca
tion.)
Ay» STANDS for American
/-X association, a circuit
* * of baseball clubs
sparsely inhabiting the mid
western section of these Unit
ed States, playing an article
of ball slightly more supine
than the majors—sometimes and
engaged nt nil times in a'desperate
altercation with its president on
the subject of umpires.
“A. A.” also stands for other
tiling-, as the dictionary will show.
Among the first to bob up In con
nection with the American associa
tion would be alarming anecdotes.
The association is full of ex-major
veterans, and ex-major vets are
full of anecdotes. It Is the original
l-Knew-Him-When league. There
may be some dead wings in it. but
til’re is no lack of conversational
control.
They do tell 'em, in the A. A.
\tid there are plenty of peg.- to
hang ’em on.
There (for instance) is Rube
Waddell, and everybody knows
there- never was but one really and
truly Rube, and that George Ed
ward is it. There is Nicholas Al
troek or, rather, there was Nicho
las Altroek who got so eccentric
that even the Kansas City Blues
couldn’t maintain him. so they
wished him on Clark Griffith, who
gave him the job of doing a brother
act with Germany Schaefer, using
the coaching lines as a .■•lack wire.
And there are plenty more of tin
ex-greats, and some of them fairly
grdat, at that, and all good to hang
stories on.
They started on Mordecai Brown
before the last season ended, whet:
it was rumored the famous pruned
slabman of the Cubs would man
age Louisville next year.
Brown Went Bird Hunting.
Joe Cantillon was talking about
the first time Brownie ever went
bird hunting. Joe says fit was th<
finest sport he (Jo. ) eve: had, even
without the element of personal
hazard, which was considerable. It
seems Joe was chaperoning the
party.
"We were hunting over a field of
sage grass," said Joe, “and you bbt
I was walking behind Brownie,
who carried his gun as if be was
Hying to bunt. Up popped a bird
and began to un along the path
in front of us. Brownie jumped
about a yard, right up in the air.
and came down with his gun point
ing in the general direction of the
bird.
"'Hold on.’ say.- I. 'you aren’t
going to shoot him running, are
you
y. no.' say- Brownie, 'l’m.
i going to wait till h< stops!'’
And Joe says Brownie eld that
very thing. Ami when the led
Stopped and sat down to 1' St.
Brownie blazed away. An.', ml—.l
Waddell Funny as Ever.
Rube Wilddell likes to live in
Minneapolis, where occasionally
is permitted to pitch in the sumtner
time. He likes it mi well that Joe
Cantillon has to take him out to
the. farm ever so ofi.-n, and it Is a
tact that the Rube’s control lev.
always works better after one of
thos. little ’ttral excursion-. He i.-
just as funny as . ver, If possible
and enjoys himself more than Joi
does.
one of the ti st things Georg.
Edward decided to do after he was
shipped to Millertown was to go
a-fishlng. He went to a sporting
goods house and select. .1 >7(l worth
of tackle, which he ordered deliv
ered to himself, in cate of Can
tillon, < i • I >
Joe couldn't s> >■ tin- point ,m
-ent the Stuff back. Hi- Id. ~
punishing tin Rub- was not t. ■ t
I him is't.’h t'oi week Teal u.
George, who loves the plaudits of
the assembled multitude more than
anything else in the world, except
perhaps—
Rut George Edward got over it
in time, as everybody has to in
this sorrowful, world. And it was
about three weeks later that he was
told to take extra good care of his
wing, as he was to unfurl the same
against Danny Shea’s K. C. Blues
the next day, the said Blues for
some absolutely unprecedented rea
son being at that, time engaged in
a tussle for the top rung of the
ladder,
Tlie morning before the game,
George Edward said he believed
he’d go for a little walk, to steady
his nerves before going to the park.
And tHat was the last heard of the
Rube until sunset that afternoon,
wh n a searching party discovered
him playing first base at the top
of his voice for a team of twelve
year-olds. wiio were taking an aw
ful licking from a bigger club.
One From Frank Bowerman.
Crank Bowerman—you recall
Bowerman of the once-famous bat
tery' of Mathewson and Bowerman
—played first base for the Blues
year before last, and he says it
isn’t Matty’s fault that his
(Frank's) dome of thought still is
acting as a washer to keep his col
lar from coming off.
Matty used to spend much of the
winter hunting with Frank up in
Michigan, where Frank
owns a large number of square
miles of timber land. The occa
sion of the sparing of Frank’s bean
was a combination of Big Six, a
hammerless gun that jarred loose, a
railroad track in the wilderness,
and a stubbed toe for the world’s
greatest hurler.
"As it was, it absolutely ruined a
perfectly .good hat," Frank used to
say, and feel affectionately of his
grizzled thatch covering. And Mat-
GARRY SURE TINKER
WILL PILOT A WINNER
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NY.W YORK. Dee. 12—" Now
watch the Reds make a
clean sweep," said Garry
Herrmann, his face wreathed
smiles, as he started for Cincin
nati today. "I have every confi
dence that Joe Tinker, who will
manage my team, will make It a
winner.”
Herrmann seemed quite overcome
with joy. and, as one of his friends
put it. continually wore one of those
"i ve eaten the canary" smiles. To
gether witli his fellow National
JOHNSON’S NEW UMPS
SECOND BRICK OWENS
Mll A\ Al KEIt.. lice. 12. Charles Fer
guson. the crack American association
umpire, who was signed up bv Ban John
son recently. is regarded by American
as-yciailon critics as equal in ability to
'Brick t >wens, who graduated from
t oivington's circuit into the National
league a year ago. Ferguson has been a
member Chfvingmn'x executive staff
tor three seasons and during that time
has never had any trouble of any con
sequence.
Fi rguson. who is a native of St Paul
where Hill Brennan, of the National
eague also hang- his hat. formerly
iI 1 in he American league as a mem
| 1 ~f ’iy* Browns. He later played with
Ist Paul in tin* Anu Hcan association, and
phen managed ti c Wausau, \\ is._ club, in
h« \\ isconsin-lllinolH league.
MERCER QUINTET OPENS
SEASON FRIDAY NIGHT
M\< <>N, CA , Dee. 12. The Mercer
basket ball the gets going in its Initial
gatue on tilt local floor tomorrow night,
While the team this season will not be
" good .is the one that wore tin- orange
and black last .tear, it will be a pretty
lasi and well trained bunch.
Tie team that Men er plays will be
eomposo'j of some of the best amateurs
nt tills section of the Stall. Hot Cook,
of M.-r. Cf's lust year's team, a 111 plav
II forward forth.- team ugni.iHl Ids old
, num |, t „ 1,, „
I I mo.i t. .in.- nod to,, |
■lt all ll I hi ■
ty shaken for once, if never again.
“Lord! He curled up like a Sara
toga chip on a hot platter when he
found out I was all right,” Frank
says,
T’tie writer was war correspond
ing for the Blues when Jap Barbeau
went on his first fishing excursion.
It was a lively affair. The scene
was Lake Minnetonka, some 20
miles from Minneapolis, and tlie
dramatis personae consisted main
ly of the Jap. Frank Bowerman (in
the same boat), a 1 medium sized
bass and a bucket of green frogs.
The bass started things by bolt -
ing imprudently with a frog at
tached to the business end of die
Jap's line, Barbeau was surprised
and shocked beyond words. Os
course, he was hoping for a bite,
but it was his first one, and he
handled the situation according to
baseball instinct. That is to say,
he played that bass like a pop foul
near the bleachers. Bounding to
his feel with a wild whoop of “I
got it!" he swung the wretched fish
50 feet in tlie air. to the full extent
of the rod and line. His apparent
intention was to "freeze" the bass
as it descended, but he saw prompt
ly that he couldn’t get under it.
“Take it, Frank!" he yelled, de
spairingly, and went down on the
back of his neck as his foot caught
in the frog bucket.
"I’ll wait till it lights,” said the
veteran, cocking an eye at the de
scending bass, which was on the
verge of hysterics at such treat
ment. Then he rescued the rod and
the fish, while the Jap undertook to
collect a dozen maddened frogs
with one hand while he rubbed the
back of his head with the other.
Jap was inclined io blame Bow
erman. who had "lucked” the frog
by the time-honored process of ex
pectoration.
“You never can tell where they’ll
hit one of those blamed spitters,”
he said.
1
league magnates, Herrmann left for
home today. The annual meeting
of the league was finished last
night.
Now that the Tinker deal is out
of the way, attention focused today
on the possibility of Frank Chance
being signed to manage the Yan
kees. While Frank Farrell, the
owner of the Yankees, refused to
give out any statement, Chance is
expected in New York within a few
days to sign a contract. The deal is
said to be as good as completed.
VIRGINIA BASEBALL
SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED
CHARLOTTES VILLE? VA.. Dec 12.
The baseball schedule arranged bv Man
ager JI. S. Mackay. Jr., for the Vnlver
ol. y ir^ nia tfani for ’W, has been
ratified by the General Athletic associa
tion. 'Pile schedule, complete, Ts as fol
lows:
Match L. Catholic uni versii\.
March 11* Holy t.'ros.s.
March 21 Princeton.
March 22 Lehigh.
March 24 Holy 'ross.
March 25 Washington Americans.
March 2k- Johns Hopkins.
March 28 Xinberst
.March 29 Washington Americans.
April 2 Lafayette.
April 3 Cornell.
April 4 Cornell.
\l>ril 7 Randolph Mm ~p
April 11 North Carolina, at Greensboro.
Anrll 12 North Carolina, at Charlotte
April 17 la vidson.
April 1S North Carolina.
April 19 Georgetown.
April 23 South Carolina.
April 25 -Trinity, nt North Carolina.
April 2" Georgetown, at Washington.
April 30 Navy, at Annapolis.
May I—Princeton, at Princeton.
May 2 Vale, at New Huven
May 3 \rmy, at West Point.
LOOK FOR NEW MILE MARK
Nl’A\ Y< >RK, Ihc. 12. —A new record
is • xpicted to be hung up Saturday
night When Ab. Kivl.it ,ml Me) Hhep.
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I ill .1 <»|)C - • • !»’ lilt
Coach Heisman, in Dissecting
1912 Gridiron Rules, Finds That
Very Few Changes Are Needed
By J. W. Heisman.
N-OW that the smoke of an
other football season has
all cleared away, we are in
position to see clearly how the
rules worked out. For so many
years now the rules have been
tinkered with each winter that we
naturally look for further changes
each successive season.
But this year I seriously doubt
whether any important alterations
will be made. As a whole, the new
rules by themselves, and also in
combination with the old ones,
worked out very nicely. Few com
plaints of any kind have been
heard, coming either from players,
coaches or spectators, in other
words, a satisfactory game has at
last been evolved, and there will
be found little or no need for fur
ther change.
The most gratifying manner in
which the rules operated this year
was in producing a game that had
its offense and its defense properly
balanced. The salient features of
this corrected adjustment were:
1. The average distance re
quired to be gained by a team
on offense was 2 1-2 yards per
down. This as a mean between
3 1-3 yards last year and 12-3
yards five years ago was found
to be the correct distance, as
contrasted with the erroneous
extremes.
2. The elimination of "bik
ing" the runner made . the
strain far less burdensome on
the defensive tackles, so that .
they could hold up through an
entire game—to say nothing
of rendering the game much
less dangerous for the tackles.
3. The continued possibility
of a team pulling off long for
ward passes at any stage of the
game compelled the defensive
team to keep well back a strong
secondary defense. This op
erated to help out the offense,
and largely made up for what
the offense had lost in being
deprived of the right to help
the runner by pulling and
pushing.
4. The right to send this for
ward pass clear across the goal
line operated to keep the de
fensive team still scattered
even when the ball was close
to their goal, and so it became j
possible for a team to push the
ball across for touchdowns
without requiring much more
effort and strength than ad
vancing the ball in mid-field—
as was the case last year.
5. On the other hand, this
was somewhat compensated for
by the elimination of the on
side kick. This resulted in some
teams sending back only one
man to handle a punt, leaving
the others all up near the line
to help stop the fake kicks so
common in these days.
The Forward Pass Again.
Now that the reports are all in,
we will have to admit that again,
the country over, the forward pas*
has been oftener incompleted than
completed. No matter how prom
ising these things look in Septem
ber and October, by tlie time No
vember gets around the coaches
have found time in which to give
their teams ample defensive drill
on stopping them, with the result
that they arc stopped. In other
words, they are much less apt to
work out successfully In the big
matches of November than they do
In the early season games, when
team* have not hud time to thor-.
oughly cover all tiie defensive
points of play.
Ami still the pass, o rather its
possibility, Is all right in the gain*,
ft Is the fact that a team with the
ball in iMiseeWHion always MAY
pi: 1 off tie ' raze thing that com- |
I tile (lefiliehi tiatn to keep Its
defensive formation opened up,
and this last is what enables the I
team with the ball to gain ten yards ’
in four trials by rushing the ball I
It is the threat of the pass, rather
than the pass itself, that does the
business.
Penalties Should Be Same.
Mr. Chip Robert calls my atten
tion to w’hat strikes me as a rule
point that stands in need of amend
mc-nt. The point is interesting In
other games and in other depart
ments of football as well penal-i
ties are uniform —as they should I
be—and the same foul is or ought j
to be punished in the same way i
and exactly to the same extent, no 1
matter when it happens in tne
game. Take foul interference. I
Here the foul is always punished
by the loss of fifteen yards, and
the down remains the same. If the ’
offensive team gets off-side, it is
a five-yard loss and the same down.
But If the defensive side happens j
to get off-side it is not only a less
of five yards for that team, but the
following down becomes first down,
no matter what the number of the ;
preceding down on which the off
side play occurred —that is to say, j
it makes no difference, as the rule
. now stands, whether the off-side
play was made by the defensive
team on a first down or on a
fourth down play, th'- subsequent I
down becomes first down, instead ;
of remaining the same as it was
before —as is the case when the of- i
fensive team gets off-side.
To clinch the argument: For be
ing off-side why am I not pun
ished the same one time as an
other? On this occasion I happen
x to be off-side on a first down
play-—and opponents are given a
mere first down in addition to their
five yards. Thus my team lias lost
a mere five yards. But the next
time 1 get off-side I find it hap
pened after my team had stopp'd
them three times in their tracKS,
and all this good work is thrown
away because the present ™ie
makes the penalty not merely live
yards loss, but sends the numbß
of the down back to first. Had the
application of the penalty been
uniform, it would still be tourt
down, and the distance to ne
gained would still be about n'
yards on their last trial, a
had gained nothing on their tlirec
rushing attempts. .
The rule should undoubtedly'
amended so as to make the suc
ceeding down after a foul by '
defensive team be the same as 1
was on the play during which in
foul occurred, as is the case wnen
the offensive team makes a tom.
I look for very tew changes, in
deed, for next season. A few ve
wordings for the sake of I<r ' lt L
clearness will about wind up tn
deliberations of the committee.
1 wonder might they not as
themselves why require the I" l ''.’’
to pull his stunt off standing »'
yards behind his scrlmmag' “J'y
instead of anywhere in tlie fi<d’
pleases? Surely there is no S ! 'L
sense in retaining this relic “
dark, middle ages.
Chew DRUMMOND
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