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Big Expose of Mississippi Men
Due at Intercollegiate Session
At T ulaneUniversity T omorrow
By Percy H. Whiting.
THE biggest blow-off In years
in Southern Intercollegiate
Athletic association circle#
ie 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 confidentlly be antici
pated.
The Mississippi case has been a
storm center all this year. The fac
ulty of the college opened up by
firing 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. I. A. A.
refused to do likewise. Instead,
they piled it on by disqualifying
bletcher near the end of the sea
son. sThen 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 hints that
Coach DeTray and one loan close
to him may also be put under tire,
but nothing definite is known of
this. ,
From information gleaned from
rumors and bints, it appears that
athletic conditions at the Univer
sity of Mississippi have been hor
rible. A# 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 fine stuff will no doubt be
brought out at the coming meet
ing.
* *
TN a recent letter from Edward T.
Holmes, president of Gordon and
secretary and treasurer of the S. 1.
A. A., he says:
Dear Mr. Whiting. J am inclos
ing the list of proposed amend
ments to the S. I. A. A. constitu
tion which will be considered at
the annual 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 tire.
Kentucky State had trouble with
the Kentucky association and was
blacklisted by that organization.
Both Mississippi and Kentucky
State will bring their eases 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.
Very truly yours.
EDWARD T. HOLMES.
Sec.-Treas. 8. I. A. A
TIIK Jis’ of proposed amendment*
to the constitution of the S. 1
X. A. Is as long as tile constitu
tion of thes. United States and
more complicated.
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MARTIN
' 19U PEACHTREE STREET
UPSTAIRS
fTRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
UMEOEEMED PLEDGES ,
X FOR SALE X
None of the provisions WHICH
SEEM LIKELY TO PASS an es
pecially important.
It Is evident from the number of
amendments aimed at the playing
under assumed names that this evil
lias 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
one-year rule, which provides that
players going from one college tp
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
lather drastic if adopted provides
that no man shall take part in in
tercollegiate athletics until he lias
been a resident at the college for
one 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.
♦ * n
r p HE usual annual effort to unseat
Dr. Vi . 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- I
reotly or indirectly, ’with 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 meh.
Presumably to make it worth
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 js left blank.
In ordet to make it possible for
professional ball p'ay.rs 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. I
since entering college, played for
more than his expenses. On that
basis. Ty Cobb could enter college
and play baseball so long' a* he did
not rejoin the Tigers. Swell rul- 'i
ing. that.
i rNLESS there has been a lot of
U underground work, there will i
be few. if any, changes of impor
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 a
fall out of him several times In the
past, but never with much success
——— ——' --r '
SMITH STOPS WUEST.
NEW YORK. Dee. 12.—Gunboat ;
i Smith, of California, will get a- chance
in the elimination bouts to uncover a
real "white hope" by virtue of the easy
victory he scored last night over Harry
I Wuest. Os Cincinnati. The referee
I stopped the light before the end of the
flrs.t round.
THERMOMETERS.
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<• have them fancy or plain, from ’fir
to >3.Ou. A. K Ihiuken Co.. Optk biiib
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IHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. 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 A STANDS for American
I 11 association, a circuit
* of baseball clubs
. sparsely inhabiting the mid
wetern 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 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
T-Knew-Him-When league. There
may be some dead wings in it, but
there is no lack of conversational
control.
They do tell ’em, in tie A. A.
And there are plenty of pegs to
hang 'em on.
There (for instance* is Rube
\A addell, and everybody knows
then never was but one .really and
truly Rube, and that George Ed
ward is it. There is Nicholas Al
ii ock 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
net with CJoriFUiiiy n gl
the coaching lines as a -lack 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.
1 hey started on Mordecai Brown
before the last season ended, when
it was rumored the famous pruned
slabman of the Cubs would man
age Louisvilh next year.
Frown Went Bird Hunting.
Joe (/antilion was talking about
the first time Brownie ever went j
bird hunting. Joe says it was the
finest sport he (Joe) ever had, even
without tlie element of personal
hazard, which was considerable. It
seems Joe was chaperoning the
Party.
“We were hunting over a field of
sage grass." .'■aid Joe, “and you bet
I was walking behind Brownie,
who carried his gun as if he was
trying to bunt. Up popped a bird
and begun 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 tlie general direction of the
bird.
“ ‘Hold on.' says 1, 'you aren’t
going to shoot him running, are
you”’
"‘Why. no.’ says Brownie, ‘l’m
going to wait till he stops!'”
And Joe says Brownie did that |
wry thing. And when the bi d
•stopped and sat down to rest,
Brownie blazed away. And missed.
Waddell Funny as Ever,
Rube Waddell likes to live in
Minneapolis, where he occasionally
is permitted to pitch in the summer
time. He likes it so well that Joe
Cantillon has to take him out to
the farm ever so often, and it is a
fail that the Rube's control lever
always works better after one of
tlu’se little.mral excursions. He is
Just as funny as ever, if possible,
find enjoys himself more than Joe
does.
One of the first things George
Edward decided to do after he was
shipped to Millertown was to go
a-fishing. He went to a sporting
goods,house and selected $76 worth
of tackle, which he ordered deliv
ered to himself, in care of Joe Cun
tillmi, C. o. D.
Joe couldn’t see lite point and
sent the stuff buck. His Idea of
punitldng the Rube was not to let
him />iteh for a week That was a
dvwndfu! blow tn the faithful
George, who loves the plaudits of
the assembled multitude more titan
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
Ills 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 licking 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 tlie 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 nufnber 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
WILLPILOT A WINNER!
NEW YORK, Dec. 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
MIIAVAI KEE. lire, 12. Charles Fer
guson. the crack American association
umpire, who was signed up by Bun John
son recently, is regarded bj American
association critics as equal in ability to
•Brick Owens, who graduated irotn
' oivingtons circuit into the National
league a year ago. Ferguson has been a
member of Uhivington s executive staff
for three seasons and during that time
has never had any trouble of any con
sequence.
Ferguson, who is a native of St. Paul
Where Bill Brennan, of the National
league, also hangs his hat, formerly
played in the American league as a mem
ber of the Browns. He later played with
St. Paul in the American association, and
then managed the Wausau. Wis., club In
the Wisconsin-Illinois league.
MERCER QUINTET OPENS
SEASON FRIDAY NIGHT
MACON, GA., Dec. 12. The Mercer
basket ball five gets going in Its Initial
game on the local floor tomorrow night.
While the team this season will not be
as good as the one that wore the orange
and black last year, it will be a pretty
fast and well trained bunch.
The team that Mercer plays will be
composed of some of the best amateurs
In this section of the state Roy Cook
of Mercers last year s team, will pist
il forward for the team against his old
teammates. It is due to be avert hard
fought game ami no doubt some fast bas
ket ball will be uncorked
I
ty shaken for once, if never again.
“Lord! He curled up like a Sara
toga chip on-a hot platter when he
found oiff 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 played 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.
‘T'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
■•ollect a dozen maddened frpgs
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 tel 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
CHARLOTTESVILLE? VA„ Dec. 12—
rhe basebull schedule arranged by Man
ager H. S. Mackay. Jr., for the T’uiver
sity of t irginla team for 1913, has been
ratified by the General Athletic associa
tion. The schedule, complete, Is as fol
lows:
March 17 -Catholic university.
March IS—Holy < rows.
March 21 Princeton.
March 22—Lehigh.
March 24- Holy Cross.
March 25 Washington Americans.
March 26—-Johns Hopkins.
March 28—Amherst.
March 2S—Washington Americans.
April 2—-Lafayette.
April 3—Cornell.
April 4—Cornell
April 7—Randolph-Macon.
April 11—North Carolina, at Greensboro.
April 18—North Carolina, at Charlotte
April 17—Davidson
April 18—North Carolina.
April 19—Georgetown.
April 23—South Carolina
April 25—Trinity, at North Carolina.
April 29—Georgetown, at Washington.
April 30—Navy, at Annapolis.
May I—Princeton, at Princeton.
May 2—Yale, at New Haven
May 3—Army, at West Point.
LOOK FOR NEW MILE MARK.
NEW YoRK, Dee. 12.—A new record
is expected to be hung up Saturday
night when Abe Klv'.ttt and Mel Shep
pard, the crack distance runnerq. meet
in a one-mil* sprint.
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. Tn othqr
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 I 2-3
yards five years ago was found
to be the correct distance, as
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
Os 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
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 day«.
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 the pass, or rather Its
possibility, Is ail right In the game,
it is the fact that a team with the
ball in possession always MAY
pull off the crazy thing that com
pels the defensive team to keep ita
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 does the
business.
Penalties Should Be Same.
Mr. Chip Robert calls my atten
tion to what strikes me as a rule
point that stands in need of amend
ment. The point is interesting. In
other games and in other depart
ments of football as well penal
ties are uniform—as they should
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 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
to get off-side it is not only a loss
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,
.it makes no difference, as the nils
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 a.« it was
before—-as is the case when the 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 an
other? On this occasion I happen
to be off-side on a first <i°"' r ‘
play—and opponents arc given a
mere first down in addition to their
five yards. Thus my team has lost
a mere five yards. But the next
time I get off-side I find it hap
pened after my team had stopped
them three times in their tnieat.
and all this good work is thrown
away because the present '- u
makes the penalty not merely
yards loss, but sends the nunioe
of the down back to first. Had tne
application of the penalty beffl
uniform, It would still be fourtn
down, and the distance to w
gained would still be about n'<’
yards on their last trial, as tne.
had gained nothing on their three
rushing attempts. , .J
The rule should undoubtedly w
amended so as to make the
ceeding down after a foul by we
defensive team be the same as t
was on the play during which W
foul occurred, as is the ease when
the offensive team makes ft f pu
I look for very few changes. Hr
deed, for next season. A few re
wordings for the sake of great*
clearness will about wind up
deliberations of the committee.
I wonder might they not «
themselves why require the P unt *’
to pull his stunt off standing 8”
yards behind his scrimmage i(»
instead of anywhere In the field »
pleases? Surely there is no
sense in retaining this rehc of
dark, middle ages.
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