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Big Expose of Mississippi Men
Due at Intercollegiate Session
At T ulane University T omorrowj
By Percy H. Whiting. I
THE biggest blow-off In years
in Southern Intercollegiate
Athletic association circles
is expected at the annual meeting
which will be held at Tulane uni
versity, New Orleans, tomorrow
•nd 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
a riot may lonfidentlly be antici
pated.
The Mississippi case has been a
Btorm 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. took the same ac
tion. Then the Mississippi faculty
reconsidered its action, but the ex
ecutive committee of the S. 1. A. A.
refused to do likewise. Instead,
they piled it on by disqualifying
Fletcher, near the end of the sea
son. Then Mississippi played the
baby act and canceled Its game with
Mississippi A. & M.
In papers which make a special
ty of University of Mississippi news
there have been constant hint* that
Coach DeTray and one mnn close
to him may also be put under tire,
but nothing definite is known of
i his.
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 case, 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 fine stuff will no doubt be
brought out at the coming meet
ing.
• ♦ $
IN a recent letter from Edward T
Holmes, president of Gordon and
•ecretary and treasurer of the S. I.
A. A., he says:
Dear Mr. Whiting: J am incloa
ing the lisl of proposed amend
ments to the S. I. A. A. constitu
tion which will be considered at
the annua! meeting Friday and
Saturday at New Orleans.
, The most Important matter
which will be considered will
probably be the hearing of the
charges against the University of
Mississippi and Kentucky State
unlversitly. As the matter now
stands five Mississippi players and
the coach are under fire.
Kentucky State had trouble with
the Kentucky association and was
> blacklisted by that organisation
Both Mississippi anti Kentucky
State will bring their cases be
fore the convention for a final
hearing
Tulane will entertain the con
vention at a smoker Friday even
ing.
Responses indicate that the 25
colleges of the association will be
represented
Vary truly yours.
EDVVkHD T. HOLMES
Sec.-Treas. S. I. A. A.
• « •
THE list of proposed amendments
. to the constitution of the 8. I. |
A. A. is as long as the constitu
tion of these United States and
more complicated.
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None of the provisions WHICH
SEEM LIKELY TO PASS are es-
I peclally 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 8. 1. A. A. team
•shall be allowed to play with any
team in the S. I. A. A. territory
which Is no! 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
one-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 is and isn’t a college.
An amendment which would be
rather drastic if adopted provides
that no rfijn shall take part In in
tercollegiate athletics until h« has
been a resident at the college for
one year, that to be a resident for
one year he must matriculat'd 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 se'eretury-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 any col
lege of the 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 nec
essary to seek among ditch diggers
and such for eligible men.
ITt/umablj to make it worth
while for some man not connected
with any of the S. 1. 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 one that
anybody be allowed to play college
baseball so long as he has not,
since entering college, played for
more than his expenses. On that
basis. Ty Cobb could enter college
and play baseball so long as he did
not rejoin the Tigris. Swell rul
ing, that
ItNIjESS there has been a lot of
*- underground work, there will
be few, it any, changes of Impor- i
tance in the constitution and none
among the officials. Dr. Dudley has
made| the 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 ~
fall out of him several times in the ■
' past, but never with much suc< < ».-
SMITH STOPS WUEST
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■Smith, of California, will get .< <
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ATLANTA GEO KG JAh Ab D NEWS. THIKSDAY. DECEMBER 12. 1912.
Former Atlanta Newspaper Man Has Good Line on Ex-Big Leaguers
FUNNY STORIES FROM AMERICAN ASSOCIATION |
By 0. B. Keeler.
'Former Atlanta Newspaperman,
now Baseball Editor Kansas City
Star, Who Is in Atlanta on a Vaca
tion.)
A < STANDS for American
AA 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 at all times in a desperate
altercation with its president on
the subject of umpires.
"A. A." also stands for other
things, as the dictionary will show.
Among the first to bob up ih 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
I-Knew-Hlm-When league. There
may be some dead wings in it, but
there Is no lack of conversational
control.
They do tell 'em, in the A. A.
And there are plenty of pegs to
hang ’em on.
There (for instance). ,1s 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
trock—or, rather, there was Nicho
las Altrock—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. slack wire.
And there are plenty more of the
ex-greats, and some of them fairly
great, at that, and all good to hang
stories on.
They started on Mordecai z ßrown
before the last season ended, when
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 it was the
finest sport he (Joe) ever 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 bet
1 was walking behind Brownie,
who carried his gun as if he was
trying to bunt. Up popped a bird
and began to run 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,’ says I. 'you aren’t
j going to shoot him running, are
| ' .'"ii'.”
“ 'Why, no.' says Brownie. I'm.
i going to wait till he’stops!’”
And Joe says Brownie did that
very tiling. V.d when tin bird
j stopped and sat down to rest,
Bi write blazes away. And missed
Waddel 1 Funny as Ever.
Rub. Waddell likes to live in
Minneapo'is, where he occasionally
is permitted to pitch in the summer
time. Hj likes it so well that Joe
Cantillo- has to take him out to
Hie fare, ever so often, mid it is a
fa< i Jat the Rube's control lever
alii n works better after one of
those fiittle rural excursions. He is
lust funny a» ever, If possible,
in..-Vmjoys himself more than Jo>
Mees. x
One of tile first things Geofge
A Edward decided to lio after lie was
***\phippe<l to Millertown was to go
-fishing He went to a sport Ing
house and selected |7i’> worth
\ tackle, which he ordered deliv
'ft . to himself, In can of Jo< t'an
'•VGt <•. o u.
I' V •■ouirln i ••••• th* l oint am
U-vXSk* "' buck. Hl* III' I of
;ig tin Ruin was mu !■< t
'h f..t a week That was
George, who loves the plaudits of
the assembled multitude more than
anything else in the world, except
perhaps—
But 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.
The 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,
when a searching party discovered
him playing first base at the top
of his voice for a team of twelve
year-olds, who were taking an aw
ful ticking from a bigger club.
One From Frank Bowerman,
Frank 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
northern 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
railrajtd 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-,
NEW YORK, Dee. 12.—" Now
watch the Reds make a
clean sweep,” said Garry
Herrmann, his face wreathed in
smiles, as he started for Cincin
nati today. "1 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 with his fellow National
JOHNSON’S NEW UMPS
SECOND BRICK OWENS
MllAt Xt'KEK. Dee. 12. Charles Fer
guson. the crack American association
umpire, who was signed up by Han John
son recently, is regarded by American
assix-iation critics as equal in ability to
"Briek” Owens, who graduated from
Chivington’s .circuit into the National
league a year ago. Ferguson has been a
member of Chivington’s executive staff
for three seasons and during that time
has never had any trouble < f anv con
sequence.
Ferguson, who is a native of St. Paul,
where Bill ■ Brennan, of the National
league, also hangs his hat. formerly
plated in the American league as a mem
ber of the Browns. He later played with
St Paul in the Xmerican association, and
then managed the Wausau. Wis . club, in
the Wisconsin-Illinois league
MERCER QUINTET OPENS
SEASON FRIDAY NIGHT
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M u’oy GA., Dec 12 -The Mercer
basket hall five gels going in its Initial
game on the local floor tomorrow ntght.
While the team this season will not be
a- good a- the one that wore the orange
and black last year, It will be u pretty
fast and well trained bunch
Tl.e team that Mercer plays will Im
> ompuaeil of some of the best amateurs
in thiii section of the state Hot <’ook,
of M* tier’s last teat’s team, will play
a I'ltward fo> the Irani against tils old
i« anmuM t-.< it «lu< 1«» Im* a Ml ) haft I
MWjsM ruiiK- al .< n<» doubt M>>nu sh ? L*mw
*•-’ hull will i<r übcoi
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.
The 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 the
dramatis personae consisted main
ly of the Jap, Frank Bowerman (in
the same boat), a 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 the
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 plaved that bass like a pop foul
near the bleachers. Bounding to
his feet with a wild whoop of “I
got it!” he swung the wretched fish
50 feet in the 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.
‘TH wait til! it lights.” said the
veteraq, 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 to 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.
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 by Man
a£er ¥ Mackay, Jr., for the Cnlver
s|ty id ' 'rginia team for 1913, has been
ratified by the General Athletic associa
tion. The schedule, complete, Is as fol
lows:
March 17—Catholic university.
March 19—Holy Cross.
March 21—Princeton.
March 22-Lehigh.
March 24 Holy Qross.
March 2f— Washington Americans.
March 26—Johns Hopkins.
March 28—Amherst.
March 29—Washington Americans.
April 2—Lafayette.
April 3 -Cornell
April 4—-Cornell.
April 7—Randolph-Mai on.
April 11—North Carolina, at Greensboro.
April 12-North Carolina, at Charlotte.
April 17 Davidson.
April 18 North Carolina
April 19 Geotgetown.
April 2S South Carolina
April 25 Trinity, at North Carolina
April 29 Georgetown at Washington.
April 30- Navy, at Annapolis
May 1 Princeton, at Princeton.
May 2 Yale, ai New Huven.
May 3 Army, at West Point.,
LOOK FOR NEW MILE MARK.
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Coach Heisman, in Dissecting
1912 Gridiron Rules, Finds That
Very Few Changes Are Needed
By J. W. Heisman.
NOW 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 1 2-3
yards five years ago was found
to be the correct distance, a.s
contrasted with the erroneous
extremes.
2. The elimination of "hik
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 ke»p 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
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 ease 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 pass
has been oftener incompleted than
completed. No matter how prom
ising these things look in Septem
ber and October, by the 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 are 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
teams have not had time to thor
oughly cover all the defensive
points of play.
And still tin- pass, or rather lt»
possibility, is all right In the game,
it is the fact that a team with the
ball in |h>sk salon nlw iy'*i MAY
puli off the crazy thing that <uu,
pi i* t|i«< oeti llsUi 'van, JO Keep it*
defensive formation opened up,
and this last is what enables the
team with the ball to gain ten yards
in four trials by rushing the ball.
It is the threat of the pass, rather
than the pass itself, that do> - the
business.
Penalties Should Be Same.
Mr. Chip Robert calls my attei
tion to what strikes me as a m e
point that stands in need of amem -
met*. The point is interesting. In
other games and in other depart
ments of football as well penal
ties are uniform—as they shouk:
be —and the same foul Is or ought
to .be punished In the same way
and exactly to the same extent, no
matter when it happens in the
game. Take foul interference.
Here the foul is always punished
by tlie 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
to get off-side it is not only a loss
of five yards foA 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,
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, the subsequent
down becomes first down, instead
of remaining the same as it was
before —as is the case when th, of
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 ai •
other? On this occasion I happen
to be on a first down
play—and opponents are given a
mere first down in addition to their
five yards. Thus my team has lost
a mere five yards. But the nex’
time I get off-side I find it hap
pened after my team had stopped
them three times in their track
and all this good work Is thrown
away because the present ru
makes the penalty not merely li''
yards loss, but sends the num" 1
of the down back to first. Had ta"
application of the penalty been
uniform, it would still be fourth
down, and the distance to J"
gained would still be about nw
K yards on their last trial, as tr.; '
had gained nothing on their tin
rushing attempts.
The rule should undoubted!.' b»
amended so as to make the suc
ceeding down after a foul by the
defensive team be the same as
was on the play during which the
foul occurred, as is the case when
the offensive team makes a sou,
I look for very few changes, in
deed, for next season. A few re
wordings for the sake of greater
clearness will about wind up the
deliberations of the committee.
I wonder might they not a’* l
themselves why require the pun" i
to pull his stunt off standing i> ve
yards behind his scrimmage line
instead of anywhere In the field h"
pleases? Surely there is no gr>
sense in retaining this relic of th l
dark, middle ages.
Oiew DRUMMOND
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