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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. ■ w • 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 \y\ANDAy 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. • -T * '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. • ik * 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. Lver.t home n<>e<|s a Thermometer, "v have them fam v or plain, from 25 c 4 .* K - Opticians, 14 Whitehall St tAuvt.l 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. C3>ew DRUMMONB IP" Tasies good I farttier. Half int* I usual diew h plenty My! It’s good Idrummdno NATURAL LEAF ■ CHEWING TOBACCO