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The Atlanta Sunday American herewith presents specially posed action moving pictures of "Chief" Meyers, the New Tork Giants' great Indian catcher and slugger, throwing out an aspiring base pilferer. These are characteristic attitudes of the sterling backstop, known to baseball patrons
oa over the major league circuit. Meyers' deadly throwing to the bases has made him a most feared maskman, and the best base purloiners in the National League refuse to take an unnecessary chance on the paths when Meyers is catching The accompanying series of pictures shows the various
moves made by Meyers in the act of cutting off a prospective base plunder er. The picture at the extreme left shows Meyers signaling for a pitch-out; the newt depicts Meyers setting to make the throw; the third picture portrays Meyers drawing book for the throw, and the extreme right photo
graph shows the completion of the throw, and the demise of a foolhardy ba se runner.
HARVARD HAS GREAT ELEVEN
FOR 1013: CANDIDATES ILL
Nine Men Who Played Against
Yale Last Year Will Be Back,
Easier Schedule for This Fall.
Noted Stars Returning to Game.
C AMBRIDGE* MASS* Sept. 18.—
With the most favorable pros
pects In many years for a
championship season, varsity and
liear-varslty candidates for the Har
vard footbajl eleven will report to
Captain R. T, P. Storer at 3 p. m
to-morrow on Soldiers’ Field. Head
Coach Percy Haughton, who was last
year re-engaged to run the eleven for
a three years’ period, will also be on
hand to give the men pointers on pre
liminary practice and a send-off for
the season's work.
With nine of the sixteen men who
played In that famous game against
Tale last fall returning to college
this year and eligible for the t$am,
followers of the gridiron game, and
more particularly of the fortunes of
the Crimson, are confident that Har
vard will again cover Itself with
glory. Never before have they taken
this view with better cause.
Easier Schedule This Year.
Harvard has eased up a little on Its
schedule this year, Dartmouth hav
ing been dropped and replaced by
Brown. The Dartmouth game, com
ing just before the struggle with Yale,
has always been a hard one for Har
vard, in view of the fact that it was
necessary to keep as much strength
in reserve as possible for the Eli
game.
And the battle that Dartmouth has
put up for the past four or five years
did not permit any fooling on the
part of the Crimson. The result has
been that Harvard has been pretty
well fagged by the time the last game
was staged. Brown, It Is expected,
will not prove anything like as hard
as the Green.
Granting that those men who sub
stituted for some of the regulars In
the Yale game, and who, as a matter
of fact, played fully as well as their
forerunners In the contest, will play
the positions this year that they
piayed last, only two places are to be
filled and with the material at hand
this should not be a hard task. With
such a nucleus around which to build
a team, Harvard, therefore, may well
look forward to another clean sweep.
Many Regulars Are Back.
The regulars who played In tn^
Yale game and who are returning
this vear. are Frank J. O’Brien, the
« >eedv right end; H. R. Hitchcock,
right‘tackle; W. H. Trumbull, right
gu*iA‘ A left guard (.also
Principal Choices
For Harvard Eleven
Right end....
F. J. C'Brlen
Right tackle
..H. R. Hitchcock
Right guard. .
...W. H. Trumbull
Center
..F. Wigglesworth
Left guard...
,...S. B. Pennock
Left tackle —
...R. T. P. Storer
Left end
... W. T. Gardiner
Quarterback..
E. W. Mahan
Right half....
C. E. Brickley
Left half
...H. R. Hardwick
Fullback.......
„...F. J. Bradlee
Walter Camp’s choice for an All-
American position); Captain R. T. P.
Storer, left tackle; C. E. Brickley,
right halfback (another All-American
choice), and H. R. Hardwick, left
halfback.
In addition to these men there are
F. Wigglesworth, who substituted at
center; Logan, a sub-quarter, and F.
j. Bradlee, substitute to Percy Wen
dell at fullback. Bradlee was consid
ered by many one of the fastest men
In the Harvard backfleld.
There is every Indication at pres
ent that the end position, left vacant
by the graduation of Sam Felton, an
other All-American choice of Walter
Camp, will be filled by H. T. Gard
iner. the fleet tackle, who broke his
arm in the Princeton game two years
ago and who has since been out of
the running. At that time Gardiner
was playing a game that bade fair
to put him in the All-American com
petition, Being very fast he should
come In handy for end work.
Great Quarterback Material.
Quarterback should not bo hard to
fill with the wealth of material the
Crimson has at hand. Freedley and
Logan, last year's substitutes, will b*
eligible. But what seems most prob
able now is that ••Eddie” Mahan, cap
tain and halfback on last year’s
freshman team, will be given the call
at quarter, where he was tried in the
spring practice. Mahan’s wonderful
playing at school and on his fresh
man team last year, indicates that
he will be one of the fastest men in
the backfleld that Harvard has eve’-
h<1, r*he powerful backfleld that Brick-
ley, Hardwick and Bradlee will pre
sent at the beginning of the season—a
string of backs who have already
played a year on the freshmen and a
year on the varsity teams together—
should be well-nigh unsurpassed,
lacking in nothing.
Hardwick will make an able suc
cessor to Felton in the punting line,
for although he is probably not as
pretty or mystifying a booter as Fel
ton, he can average as high in dis
tance and direction.
Brickley, who has already dug a
deep niche for himself in the halls
of fame by his drop and place kick
ing, will contiue to bear the brunt of
this work, while Bradlee is a ter
rific line smasher. Hardwick and
Brickley, as is w T ell known, are tw T o
of the most dangerous men In a
broken field who have even played the
game. All shine on the defense, too.
A Line of Veterans.
With the line composed entirely of
veterans—as Gardiner has already
qualified for this title—the Crimson
eleven should have little trouble in
starting off in midseason style, al
though a number of new men will
probably be given opportunity to
show' their metal in the early games.
With Mahan, already known the
country over as a high-caliber back
fleld man, at the helm, the path of
the Crimson warriors seems to be
one of roses.
Other prominent and promising
candidates for the eleven left over
from last year’s varsity squad are;
Ends—-C. A. Dana, J. A. Mllhol-
land, a drop kicker of no mean
ability; H. S. J. Smith and A. J.
Weatherhead.
Tackle—H. H. Beebe.
Guard—H. McGuire.
Backs-—G. Bettle, E. V. Handy
and H. W. Frothingham.
Quarters—T. C. Coolidge, V.
Freedley and M. J. Logan.
In addition to Mahan, the most
likely candidate* for positions on the
varsity team coming up from last
year’s freshman squad are Soucy and
Gilman. The former played a whirl
wind game at center on the cub team
last year and may give Wigglesworth
a hard rub for the pivotal position,
although the latter’s experience and
greater weight will stand him in good
stead. Gilman was a first-class tackle
and should develop rapidly. But, with
Hitchcock and Storer back, both of
them veterans of three years’ expe
rience. and the latter captain of the
team, Gilman wdll have a hard time
landing a berth at his old position.
He may be drilled In the w'ork of an
end and should show up well there.
First Week Train in Rudiments.
The first w'eek of work w'ill be de
voted to drilling the men in the rudi
ments of the game, such as falling on
the ball, passing, the use of the medi
cine ball, running down under kicks,
the charging machine, a few forma
tions and long runs for conditioning.
Scrimmages will not be Indulged in
before Tuesday of the following week.
The usual blackboard talks will oc
cupy half an hour each afternoon.
Coach Haughton will probably have
as his assistants in the coaching line,
Leo Leary, ’01, who has drilled the
ends for a long while past; Lothrop
Withington, ’ll. and Paul Withing-
ton. ’09. both of w'hom have been
aiding him for several years, and D.
C. Parmenter, center on the team last
year, and R. B. Wigglesworth, quar
ter of the 1911 aggregation.
The team will have about ten days
of training to get Into shape for the
first game, the opening struggle being
that with the University of Maine
on September 27, the first Saturday
after the opening of college^
More Kicking Aids
Light Teams in
Football This Year
Football this season will be more
spectacular from the side lines than
has been the case in years. The re
moval of the restriction from kicks,
allowing them to be made from any
point instead of from a point at least
five yards behind the line of scrim
mage, is expecied to result in trick
plays galore and also in the spec
tacular short kicks which featured
the game to such an extent several
years.
All sorts of forward passes, quick
opening smashes and delayed plays
seem certain this year from kick for
mation, and, on the other hand, most
shrewd coaches will double-cross the
enemy with kicks from regular for
mation. The rule makers could not
have made a change that would have
added more to the attractiveness of
the game from the spectators' stand
point.
The new liberties with the kick
will suffice also, as was the case w r ith
the forward pass, to give the lighter
teams a more equal chance with the
heavier elevens, as with a subtle of
fense mingled plentifully with short
kirks and long passes, speed, skill,
cunning and endurance will count for
as much as brute force and physical
strength. The local coaches are cer
tain to avail themselves to the ut
most of the kicking game and Chatta
nooga fans will see a great deal of
the typical Sam McAllester football.
Michigan Would
Return to Fold
M/IN XEAPO U1S, Sept. 13.—The
University of Michigan is ready to re
sume membership In the “big nine”
college conference, according to a
statement received by the University
of Minnesota board of regents from
the governing board of the Michigan
school.
The communication recites that
universities in the Western confer
ence have reached an agreement that
all rules before enforcement must be
approved unanimously by members of
the conference.
“Under these conditions,” says the
statement, "this board would welcome
a resumption by the University of
Michigan of membership In the con
ference.”
Pennsy Warriors
Report To-morrow
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 13.—Accord
ing to the call issued by Captain Louis
Young, candidates for the University
of Pennsylvania football team will re
port at Franklin Field Monday. The
faculty commltte la opposed to pre
liminary practice and no preliminary
training will be indulged in until the men
report in this citv.
The death of Mike Murphy hus made
it necessary for the football committee
to secure a new trainer. George Orton,
who succeeds Murphy as coach of the
track T*-am, will not assist with the
football men, as he intend* to devote
hus time to the cross-country candidates.
E
IN AMERICA
Great British Player Notes Vast
Improvement During Last
Thirteen Years.
S HAWNETE, PA.. Sept. 13.—Harry
Vardon came to this country
thirteen years ago and cleaned
trp the map. But golf In America
| thirteen years ago and to-day Is not
! exactly the same as the grent Kng-
I lish player confessed to us before
starting his second round to-day.
*T’ve never aeen a game advance
i so quickly and so far,” confessed
I Vardon after a round with Jack Mc
Dermott. “It Is beyond all figuring—
and reckoning.”
We followed Vnrdon 1n the opening
day’s play for 27 holes. We trailed
Ned Ray for 9, and as a starter It can
be fiaid that Vardon exemplifies the
great mywtery of golf.
From the tee he Is perfect, straight
and truo with a fair, clean carry Hls
cleek. Iron nnd rnaehie shots are in
the same place, beat toward the pin.
But here we have a man who has
mastered all the hardest shots of golf
—one who Is a wonder from tee to
the green—and yet when he reaches
the green there are hundreds who are
his master.
♦ • •
T T was a strange sight to Ree the
* great English player, the greatest
of nil golfers, reach the green by
wonderful work, and then miss put
after put anv average amateur play
er could hole out.
It was here, and here only, that
Vardon was weak. McDermott, stand
ing almost straight, nutted with great
confidence. Hls heels were held to
gether. there whs no bend to hls body,
end he took a free, clean tap at the
hall. Vardon assumed a crouching
portion, holding his nutter far down
In place of a follow through, he had a
short stab at the ball, and It was
upon the green that he lost most
strokes
Ned Ray. the long English driver, Is
a wonder from the tee. Contrary to
all dope, he swavs his body and
lunges at the hall, but gets a tre
mendous carry.
• • •
T HIS is t he main diff**r#»nce between
the English and American golf
ers. Vardon and Ray play an abso
lutely straight shot from the tee with
the tendency to nlice, but yet a tre
mendous carry.
McDermott and the leading Ameri
cans play a long low shot with a
hook for a long run. Vardon and Ra >.
say that in England there is little
chance for a run, but that most of It
Travers Says: ‘Keep
Your Eye on Ball'
Most Poor Shots Caused by Look
ing Up, Champion
Insists.
NEW YORK. Sept. 18.—'“Jerry 4 ”
Travers and Walter J. Travis have
both said time after time that they
thought more bad shots at golf were
caused by failure to “keep the eye
on the ball” than by any other fault.
“Jerry,” in a close matcher, keeps re
peating to himself. “Keep your eye
on the ball” every time he is prepar
ing to make a stroke.
A few years ago in the amateur
championship at Garden City, Tra
vers and Travis were engaged in one
of their famous duels for supremacy.
Things had not been going well for
“Jerry” and he found himself two
clown with four to play. He won the
fifteenth, which then was the thirty-
third of the match, by a grand put.
He did keep his eye on the ball,
and reaching the green won the hole
and squared the match. From the
seventeenth tee Travis, for some un
accountable reason for him, again
looked up Instead of keeping his eye
on the ball, and half topped and
hooked it into sand mounds, while
“Jerry” was safely down the middle
by tending strictly to business won
the hole, and the next on© and the
match.
Keeping the ©ye on the ball may or
may not sound foolish, but helps spell
success at golf If the eye Is on the
ball the mind is apt to be concen
trated on the work in hand.
That final peep up the course Just
as you are about to put beef into the
ball accounts for more topped, Bliced,
pulled and schlaffed shots than any
thing else you do.
You could not hit a croquet ball
with any accuracy unless you kept
your eye on It A croquet ball Is
many times as large as a golf ball,
and is much easier to hit. The same
rule applies to billiards, tennis or
baseball. You must keep your eye on
the ball.
is In the carry, so they play for this,
rather than the low, hooked ball.
Both Vardon and McDermott putted
with their heels together, but while
McDermott stood almost erect, with
his putter held near the end, Vardon
bent far over, with his putter held
well down, and McDermott had much
the better putting.
For some reason both Vardon and
Ray are bitter at their treatment
from the American press. They claim
they have received all the worst of It
and announce that the only metro
politan course they will play is Bal-
tusrol. They say they will play no
other New York course. Their main
complaint is the kick that has been
made over the price they charge,
which is $200 for every match.
Jack McDermott clearly outplayed
Vardon in their first 3b holes, but tho
great English player 1m still well off
his game. Alec Smith, picking up
where he left off in the Metropolitan,
is playing better and steadier golf
than any here. Alec is good from
every angle There is no weakness to
hls game and he is putting in fine
form, which with Alec always meaiio
low scoring.
IS NOT SERIOUS
Despite Off Year With Crops, Au
tomobile Official Predicts Rec
ord Year for Cartercar.
"W« have not been aft acted se
riously by the drouth In some of the
Western States,” said Harry R. Rad
ford, vice president and general man
ager of the Cartercar Company, who
has just returned to Pontlao from a
trip through some of the States
which suffered most. “The loss h?is
been great, of course, but the farmer
has been enjoying prosperity for so
many years that one season of hard
luck does not discourage him.
“Our sales are excellent for this
time of the year, and many of the
Cartercar agents are hanging up rec
ords, even in the States where one
naturally would suppose sales would
be slow. One reason for this condi
tion Is that the farmer does not con
sider the motor car merely as a lux
ury, to be purchased after everything
else has been paid for, but almost as
a necessity, something that he really
needs. The farmer wants and needs
the motor car, and he Is going to
have it, even at a sacrifice of other
things. The increase in the number
of furm-owned motor cars, even dur
ing the last two years, has been mar
velous. To-day In the small country
towns you see more motor cars than
horse-drawn vehicles.
“I do not believe the drouth is as
serious as the first reports would In
dicate, because In many places the
suffering and damage has been re
lieved by good rains. In many sec
tions where the drouth was supposed
to be the worst I saw splendid fields
of corn, which looked as if they would
yield a good crop. I do not see any
thing to worry the motor car man
ufacturer, and I know that from the
way sales are coming In there is
nothing to worry us. This Is going
to bo the best Cartercar year on rec
ord.”
OF PASSING CARS
Total of 2,308 Machines at Given
Point in One Day—Horse-
Drawn Vehicles Scarce.
OAKLAND, CAL., Sept. 8.—-otn In
teresting count has ben made here o<
automobiles and other vehicle* pawn
ing a given point In a day.
Between the hours of 7 a. m. and
7:30 p. m. on Sunday, when the rec
ord was made. 2,308 automobile*, 1,228
motorcycles and 192 bicycles pa**ed
a given point.
This would make an average of
about three and one-half automo
biles passing the given point every
minute of the twelve and one-half
hours, or where the record wai taken,
at tiie Alameda Infirmary. It mean*
that there was practically alway* an
automobile In sight, considering th#
view from that point.
CROSS-COUNTRY TOURIST
ON WAY EAST FROM COAST
Immediately after the finish of the
recent Indiana-Pacific tour, W. O. L.
Westgard, field representative of the
American Automobile Association,
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route that will be by far the longeot
and in some ways one of the most
important cross-country llnea It
will run via Yuma, Phoenix, El Paso,
Fort Worth, Dallas, Texarkana, Little
Rock, Memphis, Nashville, Knoxvllla
Asheville, Greensboro, Richmond.
Washington. Baltimore and Philadel
phi a, to New York.
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