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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMHER 14, 1913.
Throe Men, Agler, Dent
Conzelman, Probably
Gone for Good.
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THEN RIVINGTON BISLAND
SHOULD BE DRAFTED, SURE
Outfield, However,Seems Likely to
Remain Intact, With Good
Pitchers Left.
0. B. Keeler.
R esuming the discussion of
1914 prospects for Bill Smith
and the Crackers—lust now
disbanded after a lively tilt with the
Knoxville club of the Appalachian
League—there are certain points that
lend a glamour of encouragement, even
this far ahead.
Also a margin of gloom—but that,
like the aforesaid glamour, is merely
by way of surmise.
You can’t always sometimes tell,
as the poet says.
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T any rate, the fans may count
on seeing not more than four of
the champions missing from the line
up when the welcome reverberations
' of “Play ball” resound from the Red
Mountain and the Green Dell at Ponce
DeLeon next spring.
Many are called, but few are
chosen—the old Scriptural adage cer
tainly holds good in baseball.
Agler Dent, Conzelman, Long, Hol
land, Love and Thompson have been
selected for trial starts in the Main
Show.
Our guess is that the first trio will
stick. Harry, Slim and Carl are more
likely to return for “further season
ing.” And Carl may decide not to
play at all. We look for Tommy back,
too.
• • •
B UT the Crackers appear due to
■ lose one more man by the draft
ing process.
There are three candidates for that
hcncr—Ptslasid, Welchonce and
Chapman.
And right here we will just clear
our conscience of a haunting fear
that has oppressed it ever since Bob
by Gilks and Billy Gilbert, scouting
respectively for Cleveland and the
New' York Giants, stuck around the
better part of a week in this town,
looking ’em over.
There was no use saying anything
about it then, and it may be equally
useless now. But we weren’t going
to assist any such gimlet-eyed sleuths
to lamp the Best Shortstop in the
World.
Our guess is that Rivlngton Bls-
land is going from us.
We hope it's a bum hunch—for the
Crackers’ sa,ke.
• • •
T HIS much about Bizzy.
The writer watched Chapman, of
Toledo, and Red Corriden, of Kansas
City, play shortstop for a couple of
seasons. Red went to the Cubs and
made good. Chapman went to the
Naps and made better.
If our judgment of short fielding is
worth the quantity of white paper
this humble opinion will cover, Rlv-
ington Bisland is as good a hitter as
Corriden or Chapman, and can field
rings around either.
That is one of the reasons why we
fear Bizzy Is going from us.
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F IGURING even with that calamity
in view, the Crackers still have
remaining a first-class core for the
1914 billet.
The outfield should remain intact—
Welchonce, Long and Ai Nixon. It
looked good enough this year; it won’t
look any worse next. Nixon is sure
to improve with experience. He has
a world of speed, is sure death on
a fly ball, handles ground hits well,
and probably sports the best whip in
the league. At bat he pulls away
from many a hit, but probably can
be coached out of that fault. And he
does get on the bases. He Is aggres
sive and a fighter, takes chances and
plays hard all the time.
The outfield looks good.
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W HITEY ALPERMAN will be back
next year, and minus his trouble
some vermiform appendix should have
a brilliant season. He told the writer
while In Atlanta on his way home
after the operation that he hadn’t
felt just- right all season, and be
lieved it was his appendix that had
been troubling him.
Holland probably will be at third,
and that leaves first and short to
care for.
“Goat” Holliday, the rangy Tech
star will be tried at first base; Ham
Reynolds, Walter Keating and Leon
ard Dobard. farmed this season—will
be back trying out for regular jobs.
Then the reliable Frank Manush will
be on hand, and Bill Smith may ex
pect some help from his big league
connections. .....
So a corking good infield ought to
result. , . .
T HE pitching staff will lead off
with Thompson, Price and Voss,
and probably Love—unless Slim
makes a huge hit with Clark Griffith
and Carl Thompson with F. Chance.
Conzelman very likely will stick with
the Pirates. To our mind, Elliott
Dent was the best man the Crackers
sported this year, and he stands a
good show to stick in the Main Top.
Gill Price is a valuable citizen, and
It Is to hope that Carl will be with us.
Anyway, we have a good start.
B ACK of the wood, Chapman and
Dunn made a good team this year
and should be better next. Chapman is
. developing, and Joe Dunn had the
only bad year in the nine he has been
in fast company. And it wasn’t so
bad at that, . .
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BETTER 11 BY
311 FEB CENT
Tech Coach Reserved, but Hope
ful Over the Outlook for 1913
Football Season.
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NEW MATERIAL SHAPES
UP HEAVIER AND FASTEB
Six Veterans of Last Year Supply
Core of Prospective Machine
for Initial Scrimmage.
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TITLEBBUBLES
111 1 SETS ALL
Great Cotton States Match Must
Be Played Off—Smith
Wins Singles.
Travers First 4-Time Champion
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Great Record by Young Golfer
T HE sun went down at East Lake
yesterday afternoon, or some
what to the westward, and a
large, round, yellow moon began to
climb up through the well-known
azure sky when the pink dust settled
on a certain clay court, and the ref
eree announced that the champion
ship match in doubles, standing two
sets all, would be finished later.
He meant earlier, of course, but it
didn’t matter.
The gallery was ready to call It a
day’s work, for they had seen the
classiest tennis yet exhibited in the
Cotton States tournament, fought out
to a temporary dog-fall in the chal
lenge match for the title, Smith anl
Mansfield against Brooks and Bart
lett
Smith Won Singles Title.
In the morning Carleton Y. Smith
had made good a raft of predictions
by winning the singles championship
from Lee Allen Brooks in the chal
lenge match. Carleton got by in
easy fashion, 6-0, 6-2, 6-2, and It gen
erally was expected that, w’ith Mans
field working^ in anything like the
form he displayed the previous day in
the doubles against Ramspeck and
Orr, the championship in doubles
would move over from Birmingham
to Atlanta withou* undue delay.
The transfer is being effected—If at
all—with some delay.
Hallman Won Consolation Cup.
Before going into the specific
causes of the delay, it may be men
tioned that the youthful Mr. Harry
Hallman—a deceptively fragile-ap
pearing youth with a most provoking
chop shot—stood on the back line
for an hour or so during the after
noon and watched T. M. Wilson chase
himself into a state of coma.
Mr. Hallman contributed occasional
chop shots to the chase, placing them
judiciously, first in one corner, then
in the other, while Mr. Wilson alter
nated between the points of attack
after the manner of a shuttle.
When it was entirely over the
consolation goblet In singles was the
property of Mr. Hallman, the scores
being 6-1, 6-2.
Last Rites Lasted Well.
Reverting to the principal fire
works of the afternoon, a large and
appreciative gallery assembled shortly
after 3 o’clock to watch the last rites
in the accumulation of tlfe Cotton
States doubles cup by the Atlanta
representatives.
The cup, along with three other
cups, a brace of vases (pronounced
vawzes, if you prefer, and something
that looked like a vanity box, adorned
the table of the official referee and
jingled in harmony with his occa
sional agitation. The referee was
changed three times during the match,
but, it should be said in justice to the
various officials that none of the
changes was due either to defective
officiallng or the proximity of the
silverware.
Some Clever Tennis.
Anyway, the gallery fully expected
to watch the cup transfer business.
Instead, they saw some of the pret
tiest tennis that has graced the fa
mous red clay courts this season.
It wasn’t tennis of the rough-neck
California type, to be sure. There
wasn’t so much of the smash-every-
thing-and-cop-it-or-lose-it style in
evidence."
It was good, careful tennis, shot
through with brilliant flashes and
dazzling strokes and every now and
then a dashing rally or a sudden burst
of speed. *
It was smooth tennis.
The Longest Set.
The visiting team opened with
some fast work and ran the count in
games to 4-1 before Smith and Mans
field settled and began to reel off the
points.
The set ran into deuce and hung
there, palpitating, with Brooks and
Bartlett on the defensive, either at 1
deuce or a game down, until the At
lantans finally ran out, 11-9, in the
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Atlanta’s Only Error, Made by
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Umpires Beaten in
Melee When Braves
And Redlegs Fight
Tinker Starts Trouble When Maran-
vllle Bumps Him and Team
Joins in Scrap.
CINCINNATI, Sept. 13.—The Bos
ton and Cincinnati National League
ball players engaged In a fierce mix-
up during the playing of the first
game of the double-header to-day.
Rounding second in the first inning,
Maranville accidentally bumped into
Tinker. Tinker made a pass at Ma
ranville and a terrific fight began.
Half a dozen players ran in and
began exchanging blows.
Umpires O’Day and Emslie tried to
stop it, but were overthrown. Cooler
players separated the belligerents.
Tinker was badly bruised and Ma
ranville struggled to get at him and
renew the fight.
Both players were ejectel from
the game*
Baseball Summary
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games To-day.
No games scheduled.
Standing of the Clubs.
YV. L. Fc.
Phila... 87 48 .645
C’eland. 81 67 .687
W’gton. 78 58 .673
Boston. 69 64 .519
W. L Pc.
Chicago 71 68 .611
Detroit. 58 78 .427
N. York 49 84 .369
S. Louis 52 88 .371
Yesterday’s Results.
Boston, 3; St. Louis, 2.
Chicago, 6; Washington. 4.
Cleveland, 3; Philadelphia, 1.
New York, 4; Detroit, 3.
NATIONAL LEAGUEL
Games To-day,
Philadelphia at Cincinnati.
New York at Chicago.
Brooklyn at SI. Louis.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. Pc. I W. L Pc.
N. York 90 44 .672 1 B’ooklyn 58 74 .439
Phila... 79 49 .617 j Boston. 57 74 .435
Chicago 77 69 .566 i C’nnati 59 81 .422
P*sburg 72 64 .529 j S. Louis 47 94 .333
Yesterday's Results.
New York, 4; Pittsburg, 2 (first game).
Pittsburg, 8; New York, 0 (second
game) ,
Philadelphia, 2; St. Louis, 0.
Chicago, 4; Brooklyn, 0.
Cincinnati, 5; Boston, 4 (11 innings;
first game).
Boston. 1; Cincinnati, 0 (5 innings;
called, darkess; second game).
K OXVILLE, TENN., Sept. 20.—
Knoxville played Atlanta to
a standstill, 4 to 4, this aft
ernoon in as pretty an# eleven-inning
game as was ever seen on the local
diamond, the contest being witness
ed by about 3,000 people.
Knoxville outbatted the visitors,
but the hitter team put up the better
fielding game. An error by Burke in
left was directly responsible for two
of Atlanta’s runs, the ball being hit
by Long and rolling between Burke's
legs up left field bank. Welchonce.
however, duplicated, letting a hard
hit ball pass him, the local team sub
sequently scoring two runs in the
second Inning.
After the fourth Inning some very
classy ball was served, and though
several times each side had runners
on third the necessary hit was not
forthsomlny
Eight of Thompson’s fifteen strike
outs were charged up to Wynne a»d
Merritt.
Knoxville’s four runs resulted from
a pass, an error and four hits, three
of them comini? before anybody was
down. Atlanta’s three in the third
resulted from three successive hits
by Thompson. Agler and Low? and an
error, the tying score following a
beat-out hunt by Holland, who stole
second and went to third on Bis-
land’s out at the plat and a passed
ball. The box score;
Knoxville. ab. r. a. po. a. e.
Knox, rf. . . . 5 J 2 4 0 1
Wynne, lb. ..B 0 A 9 0 0
Burke, If 6 0 1 3 0 1
Cleveland, 3b.. 4 112 0 0
Clunk, cf. . . ■ 4 1 2 4 0 0
McElveen, ss. . 4 1 2 0 6 1
Hummell. 2b... 5 1 2 4 2 0
Wallace, c. . . 4 0 1 6 2 0
Merritt, p. ... 4 0 0 2 4 0
Schelfley, p. . 1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals .
.41 4 11 33 14
Weisn Recovers His
Lord Lonsdale Belt
SEATTLE, WASH., Sept. 13.—The
Lord Lonsdale championship belt,
eipblemalle of the lightweight box
ing championship of the British Em
pire, which was stolen from Freddie
Welsh at Vancouver August 28, was
recovered here by a customs officer.
The purser of the steamship Princess
Victoria, from Vancouver to Seattle,
noticed that Henry Beckett, one of
his passengers, was wearing a gold
belt underneath his coat. He notified
a customs officer here, who halted
Beckett* _
Atlanta. ab. r. h. po. a. e.
Agler, lb. ... 5 1 1 » 0 0
Long. If. ... 5 1 1 1 0 0
Welchonce, cf.. 3 0
Smith, 2b. . . 5 0 0 3 5 0
Bisland. ss. . . 4 0 0 0 1 0
Holland, 3b. . 5 1 J } * ®
Manush, rf. ..6 0 2 1 J ■
Dunn, c. . . . 4 0 0 16 8 0
Thompson, p. .4 1 1 0 0 0
Totals . . 40 4 7 33 11 1
Score by Innings:
Knoxville 040 00 000 0 4
Atlanta 003 100 000 0—4
Summary: Two-base hits—Knox,
Clunk, McElveen. Burke. Three-base
hits—Welchonce, Manush. Stolen
bases—Welchonce. Slunk, Hummell.
Sacrifice fly—Welchonce. Bases on
balls—O; Merritt, 2; off Thompson, 2.
Struck out—By Merritt, 4; by Thomp
son, 15. Hit by pitched ball—By Mer
ritt—Dunn; by Thompson—Wallace.
McElveen. Passed ball—Wallace. Left
on bases—Knoxville, 7; Atlanta, 7.
Time—1:66. Umpire—Campbell.
McGoorty Will Start
Training on Monday
CHICAGO, Sept. 11 Eddie McGoorty,
Oshkosh middleweight, spent a few
hours In town to-day before his de
parture for his home city, where he will
[ spend Sunday with his folks. On Mon
day he will return to this city and be-
i gin training for his ten-round contest
I at Milwaukee with Frank Klaus, the
bout being billed for September 22.
McGoortv declares he will beat the
Pittsburg "bear cat” and then take on
jimmy dabby.
By Tick Tichenor.
\ T THEN Jerome Travers defeated
X/V John O. Anderson in the
* * finals of the amateur cham
pionship at Garden City, he was the
first man to win this event four
times.
Walter J. Travis previously had
won it three times, and H. Chandler
Egan had won it twice, but It was
left for the Upper Montclair playeT
to be the first to add four of these
trophies to his collection.
Over in England John Ball has won
the British «mateur championship
eight times, while Harold II. Hilton
has won it five times, but both of
these players have been in the game
a great many years. In fact, John
Ball won his first championship about
the time Travers was born.
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TRAVFJRS played tn his first cham-
* plonship tourney at Englewood In
1906, when he was 19 years old. Here
he won his first two matches handily,
but was beaten in the third round by
Walter J. Travis. He won at Cleve
land in 1907, defeating Archibald Gra
ham in the finals. In 1908 he won
again, defeating Max Behr, 8 and 7.
in the finals over the Garden City
course.
In 1909 and 1910 Travers did not
play in the national, but in 1911 he
was beaten by Harold H. Hilton In
the third round. Last year at Wheat
on he defeated Chick Evans in the
final round nnd again this year he
was unbeatable.
Thus it will be seen that Travers
has started in the championship six
times and four times he has been the
winner. Only once has he been beat
en in this event by an American, and
this defeat was administered by Tra
vis in his very first appearance In the
national.
I am, however, Inclined to the belief
that this defeat has had much to do
with his success since that time.
Here is what he has to say about
this match:
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i'TFTE match with Travis was pro-
» * greasing very satisfactory
when a photographer snapped his
camera at me, quite unexpectedly, so
fas as I was concerned, and I made
a bad shot. Under ordinary circum
stances 1 am by no means camera-
shy, but when a golfer is under hign
pressure the slightest unusual dis
traction will cause him to take ills
eye off the ball. There is no reasoa
w hy one bad shot should lose a match,
hut in this case I foolishly lost my
temper, with the result that Travis
took hole after hole and finally won,
3 and 2.
"The lesson was a severe one, and
I have not forgotten It to this day.
"I do not mean to be understood as
claiming that,but for the camera man
I would have beaten Travis, and I am
not relating the incident as an ex
cuse for my defeat. Always to the
victor belongs full credit, and a poor
loser in golf 1s a pitiable object. Tra
vis played better golf and won the
match, but I handicapped myself by
losing my temper. Moral—Never loss
your temper.”
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H OW well Travers learned the les
son to hold his temper as firmly
ss he grips his clubs Is evidenced by
his four triumphs as the first ama
teur of the United States, and the on*
achieved at Wheaton last year whs
under circumstances as trying as it
has ever been the lot of any golfer to
successfully overcome. And again this
year, when he was so badly off with
hla wooden clubs that he was force!
to use a driving-iron almost entirely
from the tee, he did not allow this
weakness In his game to worry and
fret him.
If golfers generally would follow
Travers’ advice, there is no doubt that
they would get more pleasure out of
the game, and at the same time the
lowering of their medal scores would
show the marked improvement In
their play.
It is said of old John Ball that
nothing ever seems to disturb him
In a match. Spectators may move
or talk or stand almost within reach
of the swing of his club, yet so great
is his power of concentration on the
shot that he does not notice them.
If this is true, it goes a long way
to explain why he has won the Brit
ish championship eight times.
• • •
! T T was with sincere regret that I
1 read of the defeat of Chick Ev
ans by John G. Anderson. I had
hoped that Chick this year would ac
complish his ambition of winning this
tournament.
After doing a brilUaitf. 71 on the
morning of the second day, and es
tablishing a record for the course—
In which he came home In 32, hav
ing six threes to his credit—it was
his luck to have the harder side of
the draw. In his first two matches
he had to dispose of W. C. Fownea
and Kben Byers, both former cham
pions. In his match with Byers he
almost threw It away after being six
up at one time, as he flowed Byers
to draw even with him and to carry
the match three extra holes. In his
next match, which was with Travis,
he won from the “Grand Old Man"
quite handily. Thus he had In his
first three matches to send to the
disrard three former champions.
Then came his match with Ander
son.
From reports of this match it
seems that Chick played brilliantly
until he reached the green. His driv
ing was fine and he was playing his
mashle beautifully. In the morning
round he was two up and but for
poor work on the green should have
been four or five up. Then came the
afternoon round, and he literally put
ted himself out of the tournament.
Time after time he missed two foot
putts. He had lost all confidence in
his putter. With the loss of con
fidence on the green went the match.
• • •
I T is a pity that a player as bril
liant in all other departments of
the game as Chick can’t learn to put.
Yet it has been this mme falling, this
inability of Harry Vardon to get
short puts into the cup. which has
cost him several championships. It
is indeed strange that two such fir s
exponents of the game of golf as
Evans and Vardon should be so weak
on puts which seem almost too easy
to miss.
New Booking System
Obviates Delay at
Tee 1, East Lake
Freat buslne*, fml Athletic elnb
golfers 1
New system for booking your shot
at the first tee—no waste of time, no
conflict of schedules—Just get up
there and shoot your drive Into the
lake, or on to the first green, accord
ing to your ability.
No delay—that’s the thing.
As It used to be, you had to go
out and stick a ball in the trough—
you know. And If there were sixteen
balls ahead of yours—well, you Just
stuck around and practiced mid-iron
swings until your time came. Maybe
half an hour.
Now', you Just telephone out from
town to the club, and tell the proper
person to put your name down to tee
off at 2:30 olclock, or 3 o’clock, r
whenever you will be ready to tee off
Just like in a dentist's date book.
If that exact hour Is already taken,
you take one five minutes earlier, or
later, or near enough to suit you.
Then you had better be out there on
time. For when your "date" comes
•round your name will be called, and
If you aren’t there to shoot your name
will be dropped down to the next
open date.
It’s a big convenience, say those
golfers who have tried It,
Packey McFarland
To Quit Fight Game
And Enter College
NEW YORK. Kept. 10.—Packey Mc
Farland. one of the greatest boxers the
ring has produced, is through with the
game In a few weeks the wizard who
has delighted thousands during the past
few years with his wonderful boxing
ability will be enrolled as a student at
Notre Dame University, where he ex
perts to take a full course of study to
fit him for a business career. Unless
he receives more money than he has
yet drawn down for a bout Packey de
clares that he will not engage in any
more public bouts. As McFarland drew
down a guarantee of $10,000 for his bout
with Matt Wells here, it will not be
very easy to coax him back into the
ring.
McFarland has had nine years of ring
work and he thinks it is enough Dur
ing that time he has saved money and
invested wisely, with the result that he
now has a hank account running well
up into six figures. He will celebrate
his twenty*fifth birthday in November
next, and figures that there is yet time
for a college course before settling down
to some business. McFarland Fs new
in this city as the guest of Billy Gib
son. and will return home during the
coining week.
NCE upon a time there was «
football coach, and whan the
season rolled *round, he got out
hli squad and looked it over and said
it was a good equad, and that he had
some more good material coming on,
and that every prospect pleased him,
and that he was going to clean up.
That was very long ago. So long
ago that the name of that ooach, and
whether he reaiiy did clean up, do
not stick in the memory of the * f-
flant hereof.
But that coach was not named
Heisman; neither did he overlook the
young idea at a place called Grant
Field,
• • •
A ND, at that, things look pretty fitfr
out at Grant Field, somewhat to
the eastward of that celebrated In#
fitltution of learning and football
known as Georgia Tech.
There is a deal of new concrete
going into the building of stands, and
nome of It is kicking pigskin ovals—»
so-called because they are made of
horsehide—about the northern said
of the huge lnclosure.
And in the sunlit, dusty a!*,
through which resounds the hollow
“thut” of the practice punta, there
Is the taste and the scent of a kill
ing—of a “big year” in football for
Tech,
• • •
'"THAT is, with the gathering student
1 body.
As mentioned, some chapters
toward the front. Coach Heisman is
reserved in his predications.
• • •
D UT Coach Heisman has hopes.
l - J The 1913 eleven, for one thing,
will be at least ten pounds heavier
to the man than that game little
team of 1912, which averaged only
154 pounds. And it should be fully
30 per cent stronger.
“That team of 1912 was a wonder,”
the coach said yesterday. ”It lacked
both weight and speed. It had noth
ing that is usually taken as a requi
site of a winning football team—
nothing except a lack of stars.
“That sounds like an odd thing to
nay. But I mean it. The team of
1913 had no man on it who consid
ered himself a star. On the other
hand, every man put implicit faith
In his coach, and went the limit to
carry out instructions literally. And
I can say honestly that I never
coached a team of which I was
prouder than that slow, light, little
eleven of 1911.”
• • •
p OR this year, six of the regulars
* are gone: six remain. Hutton
has gone, and "Scrappy” Moore, and
Montague, and Luehrmann and Col
ley. Also Stegall. There remains the
backfleld, Intact—McDonald, Fielder,
Captain Cook, and Thomasson, and
Loeb, center, and Means, guard. But
there Is the fault of lack of weight,
even among the surviving veterans,
and they may have to hustle—some
of them—to hold their jobs this year,
with the heavier material coming on.
• • •
44 A NUMBER of good men have
** been developed on the sernb of
last year,” Coach Heisman said yes
terday. "Rainey and Lang are good,
and W. Goree and Tyler and Edgar
Montague; also ’Polly' Smith and
Trawlck. They should help out a lot
In getting out a good, sound squad,
with previous training.
“That experience is a great thing
in a squad. The success of an eleven
may be in a large measure predicted
by the percentage of the working
squad that starts the season with a
knowledge of the game and some
hard experience already ingrained tn
the system. Especially is this true
if the experience • has been In the
same college they are working for.
Sometimes a real star practically is
wasted on the desert air for one of
even two years, simply because he
doesn’t get shaken down Into his
place In the order of things.”
• • •
A ND Mr. Heisman declines posi
tively to count any new material
until It has matriculated and he has
looked it over in uniform.
Wherefore, there isn’t much doing
in the prophetic line at Grant Field.
But it Is stated by the coach that
of the 85 men at practice Saturday.
25 were men of previous experience
and training.
"And before this week is out,” Mr.
Heisman added, "I hope to have 7T
men out, of whom 50 will know some
thing of the game by reason of that
best of all experience—playing It.”
• • •
S O Grant Field Is a pretty lively,
dusty, spirited place these days.
And the gathering student body hums
with the old Tech spirit, and buzzes
with rumors of the great Devore. all-
American tackle In 1911 and famous
as a West Point star, who may be
obtained to coach the varsity line
men. he being now stationed at Fort
McF’herson, with not much to do in a
football way but look over the work
of the soldiers* eleven.
And the new men do look husky,
in their soiled, yellow jerseys—husky
1 In some measure with the old suet
! that will have to come off as wind
j and legs are developed
And that is what Mr. Heisman is
l doing out at Grant Field, rather than
tooting any fanfares on tin trumpets.
But he doesn’t deny that he hopes
for a team “fully 30 per cent stronger
* than that of last year.”