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T;=;W ; -:- : - SiiOSe-'- ■ mBK ’ Un ' a-.’X *«’ V Sl " 1 “* B H —~ S ffi IRB - ' S ti is? 11 '""*r£S* I *^ >z ' 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 If you are troubled with chronic con er.r.niion. the mild and gentle effect of Chamberlain - * Tablets makes th,ent c - pecially suited to your ease For sale by all dealers I Advt.) “THERMOMETERS ’ 'I >.<■ ies gift all can enjoy. T niu't inti r- - i n orna'.. ■nt of t e household li.o I. Alome w- Sons have a cmuple’t stock. 4? Nor'h Broad St < Adi t.) I 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. BAY GETS RELEASE. HI.I » >.MIN< ;■ ■< IN ILL.. Dec. IS. ■ compliance >vith Lie leviston of th natiomi vo in- ssim ordering the . tu. r of S3O" paid to Nashville for h release or to bo devla d a free ngen ll.i- v Itay, Pro a n m ■ man.ig, of ll'oomlnglou. was ,-iv n his mi. ot. ditiona' vias. ;.y ,; Th,. , l-.x 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 MARTIN MAY X' 19% PEACHTREE UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES . FOR SALE 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. 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