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Big Expose of Mississippi Men
Due at Intercollegiate Session
AtTulaneUniversityTomorrow
By Percy H. Whiting.
rpHE 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
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
a riot may confidentlly be antici
pated.
Tile 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. 1. A. A. took the same ac
tion. Tlien 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
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 hints that
Coach DeTray and one man close
to him may also be put under tire,
but 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 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.
TN a recent letter from Edward T.
Holmes, president of Gordon and
secretary and treasurer of the S. I.
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 Now 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
universitly. 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 cases be
fore the convention for a tinal
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.
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rilE list of proposed amendments
to the constitution of the S. 1.
A. A. is as long as the constitu
tion of these United States and
more complicated.
MARTIN MAY
' 19U PEACHTREE STREET X
UPSTAIRS
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
UNREDEEMED PLEDGES y
FOR SALE >4
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None of the provisions Will*'ll
SEEM LIKELY TO PASS arc es
pecially important.
It is evident from the number of
amendments aimed at the playing
under assumed mimes that this evil
Ims 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
onelyear rule, which provides that
players going front 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 man shall take part In in
tercollegiate athletics until he has
been a resident at the college for
one year, that to boa, resident for
one year he must matriculate with
in 30 days of the opening of the
season and must sec It through.
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'P HE 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 the association or who is
i or over 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.
Presumably 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 j layers 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 hits not. '
since entering college, played for
mon than his xpenses, On that
basis, I’y < 'obb could enter college
and play baseball so long as he did
not rejoin the Tigers. Swell rul
ing. that.
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I TNLESS there has been a lot of ;
underground work, there will
be few, if any, changes of Impor
tance in the constitution and none
I among the officials. Dr. Dudley has
made the association what it is
and is tin 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.
SMITH STOPS WUEST.
NEW YORK. Dee. 12.—Gunboat
I Smith, of California, will get a chance
In the elimination bouts t<> uncove: a
real “white hope” by virtue of the easy
victory lie scored last night over Harry
VVuest, of t’ineinnatl. The referee
I stopped the tight la-fore the end of the
first round.
THERMOMETERS.
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IHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TITTRSDAY, DECEMBER 12. 1912.
Former Atlanta Newspaper Man Has'Good Line on Ex-Big Leaguers
FUNNY STORIES FROM AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
l>\ (). I>. Keeler.
(Former Atlanta Newspaperman,
now Easeball Editor Kansas City
Star, Who Is in Atlanta on a Vaca
tion.)
A A STANDS for American
2 association, a circuit
* * of baseball clubs
sparsely inhabiting the mid
western section of these Unit
ed States. playing an article
of belli 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 arc
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 the A. A.
And there are plenty of pegs to
hang ’em on.
There (for instance) is Rube
Waddell, and everybody krtbws
there never was but one really and
truly Rube, and that Georgy Ed
ward is it. There is Nicholas Al
troek -or, -ather, 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
ga ( vo him Uje 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
grt-at. at that, and all good to hang
stories on.
They started on Mordecai Brown
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, .foe 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
I 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.
“ 'Hud 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
very thing. And when he bl d
stopped and sat down to rest.
Brownie blazed away. And missed
Waddell Funny as Ever.
Rube Waddell likgs to lit’e 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
fact that the Rube's control lever
always works better after one of
those little rural excursions. He is
just as funny ns ever. If possible,
and enjoys himself more than Joe
does.
Oni 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 ami selected 176 worth
of tackle, which he ordered deliv
ered to himself. In care of Joe Can
tillon. C. O. D.
Joe couldn’t see the point and
sent the stuff back. His kiva of
punishing the Rube wag not to let
him pitch for a w ewk. That was a
d'eadtul blow to the faithful
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 licking from a bigger club.
One From Frank Bowerman.
Frank Bowerman—you recall
Bowerman of the once-t'amous 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
(Flank’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
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 e
grizzled thatch covering. And Mat-
GARRY SURE TINKER
WILL PILOT A WINNER
NEW YORK. Dec. 12.—" Now
watch the Reds make a
clean sweep," said Garry
Herrmann, his face wreathed in
smiles, as lie started for Cincin
nati today. “1 have every confi
dence that Joe Tinker, who will
manage my teain. 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
MILWAUKEE. Dee. IS.—Charles Fer
guson. the crack American association
umpire, who was signed up by Ban John
son recently, is regarded hr American
<° n critics as equal In ability to
Brick Owens, who graduated from
Chivington s circuit into the National
leagin- 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 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 Os 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 playa will be
composed of some of the best amateurs
In '.lds section of the state. Roy Cook,
of Mercer’s last years team, will play
a forward for the team against his old
teamfhutM. It Is due to be u vary hard
fought game and no doubt some fast bas
ket ball will be uucarked
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 greet! 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.
“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 to blame Bow-
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
VA„ Dec. 12
The baseball schedule arranged by Man
ager H. S. Mackay. Jr., for the Unlver
yh-ginia team tor 1913. has been
ratified by the General Athletic associa
tion. The schedule, complete, is as fol
lows:
March IT—Catholic university.
March 19—Holy Urdks.
March 21—Princeton.
Murcli 22—Lehigh.
March 24—Holy Cross.
March 25—Washington Americans.
March 26—Johns Hopkins.
March 28—Amherst.
March 29—Washington Americana.
April 2 —l-afayette.
April 3—Cornell.
April 4—Cornell
April 7—Randolph.Macon.
April 11 —North Carolina, at Greensboro.
April 12-North Carolina, at Charlotte.
April 17—Davidson.
April 18—North Carolina.
April 19—Georgetown
April 28—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 Yaf». at New Haven
May 3—Army, at West Point.
LOOK FOR NEW MILE MARK.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12. -A new record
is expected to be hung up Saturday
night when Abe Klvlat and Mel Rhep
imrd, the crack distance runtien. moot
hi a oho-inile sprint.
Coach Heisman, in Dissecting
1912 Gridironßules, Finds That
Very Few Changes Are Needed
By J. W. Heisman.
NOV 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, 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
of a team pulling off long for
ward passes at any stage of the
game compelled the defensive
team to 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 tile 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 Paas 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 all right In the game.
It is the fact that a team with the
bull in possession always MAY
pull off the crazy thing that com
pels ths defensive team to keep ire
defensive formation opened up.
and this last is what enables the
team with the ball to gain ten yard!
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. Chijy 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 1
game. Take foul interference.
Here the foul is always punished |
by the loss of fifteen yards, and 1
the down remains the same. If the ;
offensive team gets off-side, it is j
a five-yard loss and the same down, i
But if the defensive side happen*
to get off-side it is not only a loss
of five yards for that team, but the 1
following down becomes first down. :
no matter what the number of the |
preceding down on which the off- 1
side play occurred —that is to say.
it makes no difference, as the rule ’
now stands, whether the off-side 1
play was made by the defensive 1
team on a first down or on » 1
fourth down play, the subsequent j
down becomes first down, instead ‘
of remaining the same as it was
before—as is the case when the nt- ■
tensive team gets off-side.
To clinch the argument: For «- ,
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 down |
play—and opponents arc given a ;
mere first down in addition to their
five yards. Thus my team has los.
a mere five yards. But th'- nex |
time I get off-side I find it -i
pened after my team had stoppei j
them three times in their tru-co- j
and all this good work is thrown 1
away because the present hi'-' i
makes the penalty not merer n'
yards loss, but sends the n” 111 ’I’' 1 ’' 1
of the down back to first. Hao t>
application of the penalty .j
uniform,,.lt would still be fourtn
down, and the distance to »
gained would still be about nt 1
yards on their last trial, as W- :
had gained nothing on their till 1 ■
rushing attempts. , j
The rule should undoubtedly * ,
amended so as to make the sin- .
ceedlng down after a foul by 1 :
defensive team be the same as, ;
was on the play during which u■
foul occurred, as is the case wn.
the offensive team makes n foul-
I look for very few changes- in
deed, for next season. A few re
wordings for the sake of iff
clearness will about wind up tn
deliberations of the committea-
I wonder might they not a’
themselves why require the P unl
to pull his stunt off standing n
yards behind his scrimmage me.
instead of anywhere in the fie-'- ■'
pleases? Surely there is no g"'',
sense in retaining this relic of ‘
dark, middle ages.
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