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' Football, Under Fire for Eight
Years, Finally Proves Itself
Real Leader of College Sports
By J. \V. llpisinaii.
r T was after the season of 1906
I that things came to a head in
football lor year? matters had
beer, steadily getting worse until
at last, the pimple having enlarged
to a boil and the boil swollen to a
carbuncle, finally burst, and all the
football surgeons in the country
had to be called into hasty consul
tation to keep the grand old game
from dying a violent death.
No doubt about it, too many mon
were getting seriously hurt, and too
many getting killed outright in the
game to make it at all defensible
Whole Thing Wrong.
And then there were other tilings
amiss. Colleges wen going out aft
er material with their pocket* bulg
ing with coin of the realm; more
attention was being paid to the at
tainment of tiptop grades on the
athletic field than in the class room,
and all the activities and business
of college w ork and life seemed
rapidly centering around college
football.
Then came the cloudburst, and
along with it the reforms. There
is no need to recount them here
but in most cases they were whole
some and beneficial certainly they
were needed. Not alone did college
facultle take drastic action in va
rious nil) ■ and along various lines,
but the footballers themselves,
through their rules committees and
coaches, v. <> ked quite ns hard and
accomplished quite as much in the
rigin direction as hnd tin- college
mentors Year after year, the rules
were cl nut d wholesab . the game
revamped, safer elements of play
introduced, dangerous features
eliminated, the spectators' view point
always borne in mind, and the
proper balance between offense ami
defense struggled for
And finally the reward -e this
indefatigable labor has come.
•‘On Approval" Eight Years.
How long has ,'t taken' >.lusi
eight years.
No one can deny that enough thi
long period of probation the game
has been on trial only. It has been
on trial with the public the par
ents. the faculties and the players
themselves All of these had to he
satisfied, else the game could not
bye.
During these eight years the game
has paaaed through more and great
er changes than in all the 36 pre
edlng years of its American Ids
lory. At times it his been almost
anything but FOOT ball, and at
times it has been almost basket
ball. At times most any players
and iearns could play it success
fully, and again it has been almost
impossible for anybody to play it
Rut. it has finally won out in every
way
It Suits Everybody Now.
The public likes the present gum<
more than it ever did before. This
is shown by the tremendous crowds
that go in ever-increasing numbers
to witness even the ordinary games
Parents have become reconciled
to It because it is not nearly as
dangerous as of yore, and because
it is no longer so wearing ami ex
haunting to the system.
Faculties like it because less
frenzied attention to the profession
al features and tendencies of the
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old game are in evidence: because
il is no longer so exhausting to par
ticipants that they can not study
after practice, and because the
whole uproar has resulted in u bel
ter understanding between profes
sors and students, with more co*
operation, a wider viewpoint for
both, and a more sane and health
ful life and living for both.
And. finally, the players like it
because there is more science and
skill in the game than ever; be
cause the little man has a better
relative chance than formerly, and
because the work Is not so grlnd
ingly unendurable as it used to be.
Evidences of the Reaction.
Hut what 1 really started out to
do was to call attention to the clear
and undeniable evidences that foot
ball had “eomo back." So. without
more ado. let me recall to your
minds that eight years ago every
last college and athletic club on the
Pacific slope followed the lead of
Leland Stanford and the University
of California, and Abolished Ameri
can Rugby altogether, substituting
therefor the English soccer. And
thus has it been out there for the
past eight years. Rut just the
other day we read that all the col
leges but the two named have de
cided to give up soccer and go back
to American Jtiigby again. For this
purpose they have formed an inter
collegiate league, w hich includes all
the prominent colleges of the coast
except California and Stanford. Hut
these two can not by themselves
keep soccer alive out there, and it
is easy to guess what they w ill be
holding mass meetings for in the
course of a couple of year at most.
Everybody's Doing .t.
We also read the other day that
the Canadian colleges had decided
to organize an intercollegiate
league modeled after the leagues
of the States, and that their main
object was to introduce our col
lege football into their own halls.
In arriving at this determination,
they were greatly aided by what
they saw of the game as played by
the Carlisle Indian team on the oc
casion of their visit this fall tn To
ronto. where they played tile uni
versity of that city a mated game,
one-half under the Canadian rugby
rules and the other half under our
rules. Tin contrast and points of
superiority in our game amazed tin
Canadians.
I hen, again. Union college, which
cut out Lie .. a game entirely eight
years ago. hm 'ocently come back
into th. fold and is again playing
American football. Columbia is
again battling with the question,
with bright prospects of having it
restored.
\nd down in Cuba they have had
at least two good teams for the
past three years the University of
Havana and the Havana Athletic
club teams. These teams defeat
ed fulane the first year they were
organized. Last year they were
barely defeated by .Mississippi. ami
this year. I understand, the Uni
versity of A .ibam.i is going dow n
the country is nearly double that
to Havana during the holidays to
try conclusions with them.
Also it is a fact that the num
la r of organized football teams in
the country is nearly double what
it was eight years ago; and along
with this comes tile statement that
the output and sale of football
goods and paraphernalia by sport
ing goods manufacturers Is quite
double what it Was In 1905.
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compliance >vith Lie leviston of th
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release or to bo devla d a free ngen
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 18. 1912.
BRAINS CINCH JOB
OF CATCHER FOR
mSTEB
By Percy It. Whiting.
BRAIN —The whitish mass of
soft matter (the center of the
nervous system and the seat
of consciousness and volition)
which is inclosed in the cartilagen
ous or bony cranium of vertebrate
animals.—Webster.
The above definition is set forth
in the precise language of the saint
ed Noah Webster, because it is the
Itossession of the tiling defined that
is to make McAllister the regular
catcher of the Cracker team next
year.
They were talking catchers yes
terday at baseball headquarters.
Hill Smith, as usual, was listening
"We ought never to have iet
Charley Miller go." said one direc
tor.
Yes. wi had," said another; ’for
two reasons—he had a thirst and
he had no great brain."
Whereupon a baseball writer, out
of the vastness of his ignorance,
lectured as follows on catchers and
brains:
“If a catcher isn’t a quick think
er, he is as useless as a punctured
balloon. A good quarter of the
thinking of the team is done by the
catcher. A bone-headed catcher can
tie upa team so it can’t beat eggs."
And then spoke Hill Smith:
"That’s ahy McAllister is going
to be our regular catcher, and a
mights’ good one. He may not be
the most brilliant natural perform
er in the world, though at the me
chanical part of the game he. is a
crackerjack. The main thing is
that he’s an old and experienced
catcher, and he lias one of the best
brains possessed by any catcher I
ever saw or heard of. He can al
ways make the right play. He can
always remember batters and their
weaknesses. He can work pitch
ers to perfection. He gets the con
fidence of the twirlers and the in
fielders. And that does more than
anything else toward making good
team play possible."
There isn’t any denying but that
baseball headquarters, quite unof
ficially. is worrying over the catch
er situation. But not so Bill Smith.
He has confidence in McAllister. He
believes that the old lad will warm
up under the Southern sun into a
wonder. He has managed McAllis
ter before. He knows him and
vouches for him.
• • •
'pHE late of me other two Atlan-
ta catchers. Graham and Kej ■
nolds. i uncertain. When Bill
Smith was at the Southern league
meeting. Mike I’inn said to him:
"Bill, 1 don’t see w hy you are try
ing tn get rid of Graham. He caught
some mighty good ball against us.
I think he was one of the best
catchers in the league last season.’’
Smith is open to conviction. If
he sees a chance to trade Graham
and get a man he knows about, he
will do it. If not. in preference to
letting him go for some stranger, he
will bring him here and try him out
in the spring.
Reynolds joined the Crackers last
5 ear w’hen they were at their worst
and did not get a fair chance. When
he d< parted he aired the conven
tional Recruit's Threat. "The feller
that beat.s me out next spring will
have to go like —." And he
undeniably meant it
Reynolds ha- the size and
strength to make a catclu He is
willing Maybe he will tit in as
second . atelier this year.
TINKER WANTS KLING
NKM VORK. 11 < IX Manager Tii:-
l.er. .1 th. ileus, win try to s.gn Johnny
Kling. 11.- !.r>iH : tab catcher, who man
age.I il>< Boston Nationals las’ season.
Cubs Will Number More
'Crabs* Next Year Than
Any Club in the World
Evers Is the Prince of Growlers,
and He Has Gathered To
gether a Lot Like Him.
CHICAGO, Dec. 18.—Critics
have already dubbed the
1913 Cubs as the “Crabs.”
President Charles "Webb Murphy
admits that he fears for the safety
of umpires next year.
Johnny Evers, the Cubs’ new
manager, years ago was styled the
biggest “crab" in baseball. The
Trojan does not deny this; in fact,
he has often boasted of it and
laughed when he named himself the
“human crab.”
Otis Clymer, the veteran Minne
apolis outfielder, whom Evers con
siders using In the outer garden,
has for years been recognized as a
champion crab. They say his
growls have won many a game for
the Minneapolis team.
Eddie McDonald, the new utility
player, secured from Sacramento, is
also an umpire baiter. Crabs make
wise players. Evers argues. Some
say that was one reason why Evers
traded Downey for McDonald.
Miller, outfielder, is also known
as an ill-tempered player, and the
famous Helnie Zimmerman by his
threats to bite off umpires’ ears
won his title as a crab.
True, Evers has promised to con
trol his temper as much as possible,
but Murphy is afraid Johnny will
forget this promise in the heat of
close diamond battles.
miller’hugginFwill
PLAY SECOND FOR CARDS
ST. Lol ’IS, I lee. 18.—During a confer
ence between Manager Miller Huggins.
President ,1. C. Jones and Mrs. Britton
plans for the local Cardinals for next
year were discussed and trades with rival
clubs were mentioned which are expected
to strengthen the weak spots.
One important position already deckled
upon is second base. Miller Huggins will
be the guardian of the center cushion all
season unless he is injured. When Hug
gins was appointed manager it was re
ported that he would lead the club from
the bench and shift Lee Magee back to
the infield.
Not until he sees that he Is going back
and to such an extent that he believes
hts presence is weakening the infield will
Huggins step out.
"I am going to play second base,” said
Huggins today, "and Magee probably will
be in left."
Classed as a veteran. Huggins has been
in the big league eight years, and he
played one of the most remarkable sea
sons of his entire career in 1912. He batted
.304 and up to the laist four or six weeks
of the campaign he was biffing around
.320.
As a run-getter, ability to work the
opposing hurler for a walk and to know
Just what to do in the pinch Hug has
few superiors.
CASSIDY ROASTED FOR
SEVERITY WITH JOCKEYS
EL PASO. TEN.. Dec 18. Starter t’as
sidt is coming in for a lot of criticism
by horsemen and racegoers at Juarez due
to what is termed his harsh treatment
of the jockeys under him. and there is a
growing demand that the power of dis
ciplining the riders be taken awav from
the starter and placed in the hands of
the stewards. There is hardly a dai
passes that a rider is not set down for
some slight Infraction of the rules Ten
days’ suspension was for a time the pun
ishment Inflicted, but this has been re
duced to five days, due largely to the
criticism leveled at the starter.
Ered G. Hopper, an Oklahoma owner,
disposed of his string in the paddock yes
terday and announced his retirement from
’he game. The horses sold wefe Hake.
Halronla. Chanticler and Harlem Maid
OTIS JOHNSON OFFERED
BACK TO PORTLAND CLUB
PORTLAND, DREG.. Dec. 18.—Otis
Johnson, the third baseman who was
with the local Pacific Coast team two
years ago and went to the New York
Americans, has been offered back to
Portland. He played with Rochester in
the International league last season.
Otis was a heavy hitter when with the
Beavers.'
FEMININE FOOTBALLERS
CANT PLAY IN CHICAGO
1 Hli'At,' Dec. IS. A football game
between the "Vassar champions.”
though none of them ever saw Vassar
and a man team, advertised to
played in t"m ago. was stopped just i
before t . ball v. as kicked off by the
mayor and a delegation of ministers. |
FRENCH TURF ALL
STffIUPOO
DDPINGEVIL
By E. G. B. Fitzhamon.
LONDON, Dec. IS.—Sam Hil
dreth’s famous prescription
seems to have fallen under
the bah of the French turf author
ities who are committed, body and
soul, to sworn reports made to them
by Professor Kaufman, of the gov
ernment veterinary college at Al
fort. After the horse Carnyre won
the Prix DeMont Blanc at Saint
Quen recently, its saliva was col
lected in a sterilized receptacle im
mediately for analysis by Professor
Kaufman. He reported to the stew
ards that he found therein certain
alkaloids denoting that some im
proper drug had been administered
to the animal before its race.
Camyre is trained by Hildreth,
who prepared it for that race and
saddled It. On the strength of Pro
fessor Kaufman’s report, the stew
ards have disqualified Hildreth’s
horse and awarded the race, and the
purse to the horse that r»u. second.
Crusade on Against Do; g.
The turf authorities tn Austria
and France are carrying on an un
ceasing but almost hopeless cam
paign against this world-w’ide
practice of doping race horses.
AVith amusing gravity European
newspapers inveigh against Amer
icans for introducing over here the
various surreptitious means of
stimulating horses to exceed their
usual speed and stamina.
This new celebrity, Professor
Kaufman, is admitted to be mar
velously skillful in detecting dope
by means of analysis of horses’
saliva. But doping has become so
generally practiced it can not be
stamped out merely by exposure
and the subsequent disqualifica
tion of the horse. There is the bet
ting angle to be considered. The
Parimutuel is organized under gov
ernment control by different rac
ing associations. Its ready money’
business bets are settled at once,
whereas the result of Professor
Kaufman’s scientific tests of saliva
can not be made known until three
or four days later. Therefore, it is
possible to win a large sum and
get away with it in plenty of time
before the illicit use of dope can
be determined, after which the dis
qualification of the horse and the
loss of an ordinary purse would not
matter.
Suggestion to Stop Trifling.
Hence the only way to deal thor
oughly with the doping of horses
would be to engage competent as
sistants for Professor Kaufman and
to institute the practice of not pay
ing off Parimutuels until five or
six days after each race. It would
be necessary for assistants to col
lect from every horse sufficient
saliva for scientific tests to deter
mine by disqualifications which
horse had won the race, after which
the bets would be paid. Unless
some such sweeping system is in
augurated. doping of race horses
may as well be accepted as having
come to stay.
Doping is practiced quite com
monly in England and Ireland, but
the Jockey club stewards dare not
start a campaign against it. They
are busy sitting on the lid while the
thankful sycophantic sporting press
dare not expose the rottenness of
the British turf and the non-sport
ing press will not do so because
almost every publisher cherishes
the secret hope of being created a
lord of baronet or fears being
called a spoilsport.
CRIGER WILL BLOSSOM
OUT AS MANAGER SOON
LA POItTE. IND., Dec. 18. Ixiu Cri
ger. former backstop, who is making Ids
winter home In Elkhart. Ind., has an
nounced that lie will make a trip to
Aaco. Tex . to work out with the Bos
ton pitchers, and later accept one of the
several offers which he has received to
■■ the management of a minor league
club.
Buck O’Brien’s World’s Series
Balk, That Almost Cost Title,
Not Balk At All, Thinks Evans
By Riley.
BILL EVANS, who umpired on
the bases October 14 at the
Polo grounds, has admitted
that maybe the famous balk made
that day by “Buck” O’Brien was not
a balk at all.
Since the alleged misdeed prob
ably cost O’Brien and the Red Sox
the game, which, if won by Bos
ton, would have ended the series
then and there, Evans’ long de
ferred admission is important. Had
Snodgrass caught that fly out in
center field tw’o days later. "Buck”
O’Brien’s balk would very likely
have lost the world's championship.
Since it may not have been a balk
after all, think how much excite
ment and Evans escaped
when Snodgrass muffed Engle’s
long fly ball,, And if It had not
been called a balk, the magnates
would have missed more than SIOO,-
000 that flowed into the box offices
the next two days at Fenway park.
And that Wood-O’Brien "fight”
would never have come off. for that
“balk” paralyzed and beat the Red
Sox.
s ♦ *
P VANS made the admission the
•*--* other day in relating the story
of a “fanfest" at the Copley Square
hotel the day after the game in
which O’Brien was chargeci with a
balk. At that gathertrig a baseball
player said he believed O’Brien
really thought he was off the rub
ber when he made the alleged balk.
Evans then made the surprising
statement that both he and Umpire
Klem, who called the balk, actually
doubted at the time whether it was
a balk. And now the story becomes
public.
• • *
you will remember the world se
ries stood: Boston, 3; New
York, 1, and one game tied, before
the game of October 14. In the
first inning that day, with a man on
first, a man on third, two out and
no runs scored, O’Brien made a mo
tion to throw to first base, but
stopped suddenly in his delivery.
Evans, who stood directly behind
O’Brien, says that he immediately
glanced at O’Brien’s feet to see If
one of them was on the rubber. He
admits now that he doubted wheth
er O’Brien was "on" or “off" the
rubber. He says that Umpire Klein,
who was officiating behind the
plate, was in charge of the arbi
trators that day, and it was his
duty to call balks. But he seemed
also to be in doubt, for he hesitated
before motioning to the man on
third to score and the man on first
to advance to second.
Klem has explained this—by the
way—by saying that he wanted to
see if the Giants would claim a
balk, although such a claim was
unnecessary.
yyHEN Klem tlnallj made his
ruling Evans and O’Brien
exchanged glances. Evans consid
ered O'Brien a wise old owl on the
mound, and it surprised him to see
"Buck” rattled enough to make a
false move to throw to first if he
was actually ready to pitch from
the rubber. So he asked O'Brien
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what was the matter,
“Bill. I thought I was a foot oil
the rubber.” O’Brien replied.
Evans believes that O’Brien had
actually planned that false move in
advance, deliberately intending to
"fake” a throw to first, in order to
catch the other man off third, but.
that he had a sudden obsession and
failed to carry out his intention.
He believes that O'Brien thought
his foot was not on the, rubber.
If O'Brien thought right, tlu-n :
was not a balk. Ami both Evans
and Klem were in doubt. Klem
saw O’Brien on the mound, in
pitching position, before the bluff
was made, and naturally supposed
that “Buck's" fool was on the lub
ber.
pOH the benefit of tiler wi ~do
not know the rules, a move to
throw a ball to first base—when
occupied—by the pitcher, standing
on the rubber, without actual'.'
throwing it, is as much of a ba
as a move to throw to the batter
without delivering the ball. Wheth
er or not D’Brien was rattled be
fore the alleged balk, the decision
took the steam out of “Bue.. and
immediately four runs chased the
one Klem had waved across the
plate. Pitching almost "air
tight" ball up to that time. O’Brien
lost the ball game. 5 to 2. then and
there, and fell into disfavor in
Boston. Th.' ••balk" led to the stoe
of the Wood-O’Brien fight, ups t
Wood and the Red Sox so much
that they were whaled the next
day at Fenway park, and then only
pulled the series out of the fire by
the desperate extra inning battle
they fought on the next and final
day.
RESIDES opening a big field for
winter speculation, Evans' ad
mission and explanation may lieji
to set "Buck" O'Brien right before
the Boston "fans.” “Buck" hints, '
always refused to comment on
either the balk or the “fight" that
he was alleged to have had with
Joe Wood as a consequence. “Buck '
is an old hand at the game and
very cautious about public conver
sation. It was left tor Bill Evans,
at this late day, to let in a bit "I
light on the most critical episode
of the world series.
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