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(■ T was after the season of 190 u that tilings came to a head in football. f‘\>r years matters had been steadily getting worse until at last, the pimple having enlarged to a boil and tl>*> boll 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 men 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 things amiss. Colleges were going out aft er materia! with their pockets bulg ing with coin of the realm; more attention was being paid to the at tainment of tiptop grades on the athletic field than tn the class room, and all the activities and business of college work and life seemed aptdly centering around college football Then came the cloudburst, and along with it the reforms There is no need to recount them here by in most cases they ware whole some and beneficial—certainly they were needed. Not alone did college faculties take drastic action in va rious ways and along various lines, but the footballers themselves, through their rules committees and coaches, worked quite as hard and accomplished quite as much In the right direction as had the college mentors. Tear after year, the rules were changed wholesale, the game reramped safer elements of play introduced. dangerous features eliminated, the spectators* viewpoint always borne in mind, and the proper balance between offense and defense struggled for. And finally the, reward of this indefatigable labor has come. "On Approval" Eight Year*. How long has it taken'.' Just eight years No one can deny that through this long period of probation the game has been on trial only. It has been on trial with the public, the pat ents, the faculties and the players themselves Alt of these had to be satisfied, else the game could not live. During these eight years the game has passed through more and great er changes than th oil the 86 pie ceding years of it« American hi* tori’- At times it has beep almost anything but FOOT ball, and at times it has been almost basket ball. At times most any players and teams could play it succors- . fully, and again it .has been almost impossible for anybody to play it. But it has finally won out in every way. it Suits Everybody Now. The public likes the present game 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 and ex hausting 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 stipation, the mild and gentle effect of ’ hamberlaln’s Tablets makes them es pecially suited to your case. For sale by all dealers. (Advt.) “THERMOMETERS” Ihe .\ r.as gift al! can enjoy. The most h ter* sting ornament of the household. ,ino. 1.. Moot- A Sons have <A4vt‘) ,ete “ ,O<k N " r ” 1 Broad St. old game are in evidence; because it is no longer so exhausting to par ticipants that they can not stu<’\ after practice, and because the whole uproar has resulted in a bet 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 abetted relative chance than formerly, and because the work Is not so grind- Ingly unendurable as It used to be. Evidence* of the Reaction. But what 1 really started out to do was to call attention to the clear and undeniable evidences that foot ball had "come 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 Beland Stanford and the University of California, abolished Ameri can Rugby altogether, aufistituting therefor the English soccer. And thus has it been out there for the past eight years. But 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 Rugby again. For this purpose they have formed an inter collegiate league, which includes all the prominent colleges of the coast except California and Stanford. But these two can not liy themselves keep soccer alive out there, and it is easy to guess what they will be holding mass meetings for in the course of a couple of years, at most. Everybody's Doing It. 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 lialls. In arriving at this determination, they were greatly aided by what they saw of the game Us played by the < arllsle Indian team on the oc casion of their visit this fall to To ronto, where they played the uni versity of that city a match game, one-half under the Canadian rugby rules and the other half under our rules. The contrast and points of superiority In our game amazed the Canadian s. I hen. again. I nion college, which cut out the old game entirely eight years ago, has recently come bach Into the fold and is again playing American football. Columbia la again battling with the question, with bright prospects of having It restored. And down in Cuba they have had at least two g»od teams for the past three years-the University of Havana and the Havana Athletic club teams. These teams defeat ed Tulane tbe first year they wore organized. Last year they were barelj defeated In Mississippi, and this year, I understand, the Uni versity of Alabama is going down the country is nearly double that to Havana during the holidays to try conclusions with them. Also it is a fact that the num ber of organized football teams in the country is nearly double what it was eight years ago: and along with this comes the statement that the output and sale of football goods and paraphernalia In sport ing goods manufacturers is quite double what It was in 1905. BAY GETS RELEASE Bl.<m>MlN<;T<iN. ILL.. l>ee. 18. In compliance wit' the decision of the national commission ordt ring the t’e lurti of 8300 paid t» Nashville for Ills release or to b< deela ej a free agent. Harry Bay. of Peoria, former manager of Bloomington, was given his uncon ditional release in that Th re Eve club THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1912. BRAINSCINCHJOB Os CATCHER FOR M’ALUSTER B\ Percy 11. 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 cartilagon 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 possession of the thing defined that is to make McAllister the regular catcher of the Cracker team next year. They were talking catchers yes terday at baseball headquarters. Bill Smith, as usual, was listening. “We ought never to have iet Charley .Miller go," said one direc tor. “Yes. we 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 up a team so It can't beat eggs." And then spoke Bill Smith: “That’s why McAllister is going to be our regular catcher, and a mighty good one. He may not be the most 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 has 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 twlrlers 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. • « • -p HE tate of the other two Atlan- ta catchers. Graham and Rey nolds. is uncertain. When Bill Smith was at the Southern league meeting Mike Finn said to him: "Bill. I don’t sec why you are try ing to got rid of Graham. He caught some mighty good ball against us. 1 think he was one of the beat catchers In the league last season." Smith is open to conviction. If he sees a chance to trade Graham atid get a man he knows about, he will do it. If not, in preference to letting him go for .some stranger, hu will bring him here and try him out in the spring. Reynolds joined the Crackers last year when they were at their worst and did not get a fair chance. When he departed he aired the 'conven tional Recruit's Threat. "The feller that beaks me out next spring will have to go like -.” And he undeniably meant It Reynolds has the size and strength to make a catcher. He is willing. Maybe he will tit tn as second catcher this year. TINKER WANTS KLING. Xblii YoItK. I iec. 18 Manager Tin ker. of the Rods, will try to sign .lohnnj Kling, the former t’tih catcher, who man aged tbe Boston Nationals last season. Cubs.WillNumber More ‘Crabs* Next Year Than Any Chib in the World Evers Is the Prince of Growlers, and He Has Gathered To gether a Lot Like Him. CHICAGO, Dec. I«.—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, lie has often boasted of it and laughed when he named himself the ■Jhuman 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 Heinle 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' HUGGINSWILL PLAY SECOND FOR CARDS ST. LOL IS. Dee. 18.—-During a confer ence between Manager Miller Huggins, President J. C. Jones and Mrs. Hrttton 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 decided 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 his presence is weakening the Infield will Huggins step out. ”1 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 playt-d one of the most remarkable sea sons of his entire career in 1912. He batted 304 and up to the last 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, TEX.. Dec. 18.—Starter Cas sidy is corning 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. ami 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 har.lly a day passes that a rider is not set down tor 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. Fred G Hopper, an Oklahoma owner, disposed of his string in the pa<ldock yes tetday and. announced his retirement from the game The horses sold were Hake Balronia. Chanticler and Harlem Maid OTIS JOHNSON OFFERED BACK TO PORTLAND CLUB PORTLAND. OREG, Dee. 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 hi the Intel-national league last season. Otis was a heavy hitter when with the Beavers. FEMININE FOOTBALLERS CAN’T PLAY IN CHICAGO i Hlt'AGO. Dev. 18. A football game between the "Vassar champions,” though none of them ever saw Vassar, and a man team, advertised to be placed in Chicago, was stopped just before the ball was kicked off by the mayor and a delegation of ministers. FRENCH TURF ALL STEWED OP OVER DOPINGEVIL By E. G. B. Fitzhamon. LONDON, Dec. 18.—Sam Hil dreth’s famous prescription seems to have fallen under the ban of the French turf author ities who are committed, body and •oul, to sworn reports made to them by Professor Kaufman, of the gov ernment veterinary college at Al fort. After the horse Camyre 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 ran second. Crusade on Against De; g. The turf authorities in Austria and France are carrying on an un ceasing but almost hopeless cam paign against this world-wide practice of doping race horses. With 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 neeessarj 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 I 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. 1«A PORTE, IND.. Dee. 18 U>u Cri g-r former backstop, who is making his winter home In Elkhurt. Ind., has an nounced that lie will make a trip to Maeo. Tex., to work out with the Bos ton pitchers, and later accept one of the several offers which he has received to take the management of a minor league 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 two 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, tjiink how much excite ment and afisfument 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 "light” would never have come off. for that “balk” paralyzed and beat the Red Sox. » ♦ • 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 charged with a balk. At that gathering 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 Klein, 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 Klem, who was officiating behind tbe 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. KleYn 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. WHEN Klem finally 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 JZ MARTIN MAYXZ ' 19U PEACHTREE STREET UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES > for sale X /&/ what was the matter. “Bill, L thought I was a foot oft 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, then it was not a balk. And both Evans and Klem were in doubt. Klein saw O’Brien on the mound, in pitching position, before the bluff was made, and naturally- supposed that “Buck’s” foot was on the rub ber. • • « pOR the benefit of those who do 1 not know the rules, a move to throw a ball to first base—when occupied—by the pitcher, standing on the rubber, without actually throwing it, is as much of a balk as a move to throw to the batter without delivering the ball. Wheth er or not O’Brien was rattled be fore the alleged balk. the decision took the steam out of “Buen ami 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 ir Boston. The "balk" led to the sto:. of the Wood-O’Brien tight, upset 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 bj the desperate extra inning battle they fought cn the next and final day. » « « g ESIDES opening a big field for winter speculation, Evans' ad mission and explanation may help to set "Buck" O’Brien right before the Boston “fans." "Buck” hims< f always refused to comment <>n either the balk or the “fight" that hi- 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 for Bill Evans, at this late day, to let in a bit of light on the most critical episodi of the world series. r 606 SALVARSAN ' 914 Neo Salvarsan -vtscssb. 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