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6 ®OKM SKW tDITLD W S TARNSWORTH I Silk Hat Harry’s Divorce Suit :: would yqu'go Home After That? ' :: . By Tadl gee < i -, ~>^r a I KKAPe BEk»£U£ ME . 1 TWt *M«PC •'''''■■/•''''•>/' HBh LIFE 'lf Srt£ I SLAMMED 50 M&Oivei | ?iJ6- om n? me. '’; / j/ j \ HtT Mt p»tyAi>U ID? iu |Vfc= - I rf \ kr/f just croak. s' I TUt>T HAtD rt/O -M iy? w | &ET our W’TII 1 vIKE wb 9B ■ ,|| 111 Hl jlMiht .UM 'f'liil —O.E we »r I 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. > « * IN a recent letter from Edward T. Holmes, president of Gordon and secretary and treasurer of the S, I, V A., he says: t 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 . . » '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. J _ /A / ° / X Zv/ xfvK MARTIN MAY ' 19% PEACHTREE UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES y FOR SALE A 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. • • m 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 • dt • , 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 I.IC I He. .1- a Thertumnet. •. IB '. « , y . , 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 t_ 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. Il't d, |hl er II I, dlstuti • t untie! • UPO l 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 Br™ Tasies good g farther. Ywlf we | I usual chew is plenty! My! Ibs good 1 DRUMMOND NATURAL LEAF I ■ CHEWING TOBACCO C 1 Bl - . ...