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Bv Pullback.
T HE thing that has handicapped I
the Tech team for the past
throe years is now a thing of!
the past and Coach Heisman ha*
men who will stack up with the bf
of them In weight.
Beef, in the line especially, has boon 1
the crying need as the barks never j
had a chance to make any headway
with a lino in front of them tint
would cave in before they got started
being outweighed from 20 to 3o ;
pounds to the man.
It sill be an entirely different
stor# this year,' There are at leant
five or . lx men trying out for each ,
position. Hut after thd weeding out
has been accomplished, which by the
way, will be a difficult proposition foi
Heisman, the men who are most like
ly to fight it out to a finish for a
place on the varsity are as follows:
Three Out for Center.
At center are the scrappy Al T»el>.
who Ik heavier than last year and
can hold his own with most any of
them Patterson, the Chattanooga
High School man, and Trawick,
big 200-pounder from last year’s
scrubs.
Big F>1 Means will be on one guard,
while Morrison. Merrill© and Cole
man will mix it for the other.
The learn will be well fortified at
tackles by Rainey, « hefty sub of la*d
5 efljr Johnston, t he < ‘hat fanooga
crark; Spence, a big 200-pounder, and
Mallory* the Louisville High School
star Any two of these men will
average 180 pounds and will lie hard
to set by, as they are aggressive be-
fdden.
Many Out for Ends.
The ends will he taken care of hy
Cushman, the Chattanooga epeed
merchant; Lucas, a fast man. Moore.
<i last \ ear’s scrub. Beard and Rels-
nlder, who is a good dropkicker, and
will be a valuable man for that rea
son.
In th# back fie Id Tapia in Took will
take a half. Big G**ne Patton, the
famops East Tennessee halfback, ulli
he at full, while the other half li
between Tommy Hancock, a last
year's scrub; McDonuld, a varsit>
man of last year; Gardner, a scrub, j
and Murphee, another Louisville star
who is leading the punters, shooting
'Jxin pretty .‘fpirals 45 and 50 yards
<t\\y n the held.
\Yith F’atton to do the line plung
ing \nd Captain (Took and the othei
half with the speed to circle the ends
the team will have the wonted driv
ing power which has been lacking
so long
The quarterback position is uncer
tain ns yet. There are several good
men out for the place, but most of
them are too light.
The tackling dummy has been in
Njse for two days now nnd the men
are getting their muscles in nhap.'
for the harder work, (’barging prac
tice and falling on the ball have be* r
going on every day and with n fin
days of fK'riromuge. beginning next
-week, they will be In tiptop shape
for the first game, September 27. with
the Seventeenth Jnfuotry at Grant
Field
Golf Tournament for
Hammond Trophy Is
Last of A.A.C.Season
That brief, crisp season that exists
betwixt the ending of Southern base
ball and the beginning of football is
to be tided nor in Atlanta by the
Anal golf tournament of the year —
that put on by the Atlanta Athletic
Club at East Lake for the T. A
Hammond trophy.
* The tourney is a handicap affair,
flayers qualifying according to net
scores In a round played next Katur-
tfay. The first and second rounds of
match play are scheduled to be fin
ished by September 26; the third
round by September 27. nnd the finals
on September 28. Match play will
be at 18 holes in all rounds except
the finals in the first flight, which will
be 36 holes
The Hammond tourney will round
out the most popular and successful
golfing season the Athletic Club has
enjoyed, both in general interest and
in the quality of the average play.
The final tournament is attrating
much attention, both by reason of
the handsome trophy and because it
is the last of the season.
Pelky Now Retracts
Burns Confession
CALGARY, ALBERTA. Sept. 16 —
Arthur Pelkey. the heavyweight pugil
ist, to-day retracted the “confession"
which he signed about a wek ago In
which he accused Tommy Burns of
forcing him to fake in the Rurn,s-Telkey
match last spring.
Pelkey declared that he was under
the inTlueno -if liquor when he made
*nd signed the *'confession.
Want Ritchie-Cross
Bout in Gay Gotham
NEW YORK. Sept. 15. -Efforts were
made here to-day ti thatch Willis
Ritchie, the lightweight champion, and
J^each Cross, the New York aspirant for
tiie crowm for a ten-round bout in this
city during September.
Cross is willing, l ut It is not known
whether Ritchie will consent or not
Mantell Loses to
Gage on a Foul
EL PASO. TEXAS, Sept 15 —Frank
Gage, Los Angeles lightweight, won on
a foul from Battling Mantell in the
fourth round of their scheduled twenty-
round bout at Juarez.
KLAUS STARTS WORK TO DAY,
CHICAGO, Sept 15. -Frank Klaus.
known to the ring as the “Pitsburg
Bearcat,” is due hero.to-da> The East
erner was billed to meet Eddb Men* • >r;y
In a middleweight championship battle
at Milwaukee on September 22. but be
cause of an injured eye. the taxing com
mission of that city set the date hack a
week, to September 29. Klaus has ar
ranged for quarters at O’Conneli a gym-
N ASHVILLE. TENN.. Sept. 15.—
Now that the chief topic of
conversation in connection with
Southern League baseball has grown
to be a guessing contest as to what
club Johnny Dobbs will head next
season. Montgomery and Chattanooga
having been eliminated by Johnny’s
own st.iiement, considerable specula
tion is attached to a dark and mys
terious conference held in Nashville
between Dobbs and Barney Barnard,
of the Cleveland Naps, while the
Montgomery club was paying a Until
\Mslt to the Vols.
Bill Schwartz and Barnard have
for many years been very close
friends, and the Cleveland mogul
never fails, to drop around to see the
Vols* pilot whenever he happens to
he in Nashville. That’s what made
it seem strange to the Boy Manager,
when, one afternoon, during the last
series with the BilMkens. he walked
over to the visitors’ bench to speak to
Dobbs ind. lo, and toehold, there sat
Barney engaged in a very earnest
and low converation
Barney looked a little sheepish, hut
never advanced any information as
t<> the nature of hie chin-feet with
the Montgomery boss. And Schwartz,
after he had passed the time of day,
and pulling his sweater a little closer
arotind him to protect himself from
the chilly weather (?). beat it back to
the Vo!»* dugout.
•It'didn't take Schwartz long to put
two and two together, after Dobbs
admitted ’ that he and Barnard had
bqen discin«ing some of the Pelican
Vlflverrt. in answer to a request from
Bill as to Dobbs’ opinion of Kratf. the
New Orleans first-sucker, on whom
the Vols' chief had gotten sweet. Bar
nard told Dobbs, !*» Johnny gave it
out. that Kraft was impossible as a
fielder, the Naps having tried him for
two years and found him not up tvi
grade. It’s a curious thing about
managers, that when they want to re
tain a bab player, how much fault
they can find with his fielding, hit
ting and h. ©running. but when he is
on the block, for sale, "phenom"
makes the tall timbers sound like or
chard gras a
Dobbs may not go to New Orleans
but it is just possible that he and
Baraev framed .p a deal that after
noon for a berth in Pelieantown.
SPORTING COMMENT
GREAT FALLS WINS RAG.
OGDEN. UTAH, *ept. ' 15.—The
season of the Union Asociation of
ficially closed to-day here with games
at Salt Lake. Great Falls and
Helena. Great Falls takes the iwn
nant with Halt Lake us the conten
der.
By Fid W. Smith.
W HY Is it that the big men
of the ring, the heavyweights,
have been the pests that have
stirred up trouble nnd more or less*
have always been the disturbing
element in having the game
stopped in various places? You've
noticed, haven’t you, that big fel
lows usually are concerned when
trouble starts? This idea is sug
gested by the "confession” made
by Arthur Pelky, the man who was
in the ring with Luther McCarty
when the latter dropped dead In a
Calgary ring. Pelky says his battle
with Tommy Burns, a six-round af
fair of last March, was a "frame"
and that It was previously re
hearsed several times. Burns later
managed Pelky and a abort time
ago announced that he Intended to
take him to Europe and possibly
get on a match with Jack Johnson.
• • •
CTOLLOWING recent fatalities in
* the ring this "confession," even
If it is afterwards found to have no
foundation, is going to do a whole
lot of harm. Unfortunately, the
target of Pelky’• remarks, who
makes vehement denial to the whole
thing, has been mixed up in pecu
liar looking affairs before and in
stantly that old scandal out In Los
Angeles between Tommy Burns and
Jack O’Brien, of Philadelphia, is
brought to mind when the former’s
connection with this latest off
color scandal is uncovered. Burns
and O'Brien were matched out there
and later developments were to the
effect that Burns had agreed to
let O’Brien stay the distance or let
him win or something of the kind.
As they were ready to start the
content Burns advised O'Brien that
the battle would have to be on the
level. O’Brien thereupon made a
desperate effort to have the bets
called off, but failed and the ring
side scandal that ensiled is still
being discussed out that way.
• • •
CCANDAL has trailed Burns 'n
other directions. There was a
row when he failed to battle Bob
Fitzsimmons at Bsstngton, Pa., and
there was much sour talk around
here when Mike Schreek was bat
tling at his best and Tommy re
fused to meet him. Nasty telegrams
were produced to show that Burns
wanted to "talk tt over” with John
Wllle, but all of this was forgot
ten when Burns won the heavy
weight championship by defeating
Marvin Hart.
• * •
T HERE’S sn old ringside saying
that the "bigger they are the
harder they fall " In the light of re
cent events we'll have to change
that to read: "The bigger they are.
the less courage they have." At
least the assumption is that fixers
are entirely lacking in courage or
elw» they wouldn't want to fix. Good
little men like Bat Nelson, Ad Wol
ff art. Freddie Welsh. Packey Mc
Farland, Willie Ritchie, and dozens
of others we could name, have al
ways been content to otand on their
own merits and fight their best,
losing if they must, but always
losing honorably.
TV-TOST notable of all the scan*
dalous fights of the ring that
entailed a lot of suspicion have been
among the bigger men. There was
an awful stench following the night
that Big McVay jumped into the
ring the night Jim Corbett and Tom
Sharkey were boxing and lost the
fight for Corbett on a foul. The
facts of the Wyatt Earp decision
in San Francisco the night Sharkey
is supposed to have been beaten by
Bob Fitzsimmons on a foul are still
fresh In the minds of those who
follow such matters, to say nothing
of the scandal that followed the
Jim Corbett-Kid McCoy encounter
at the expiration of the boxing law
in New York in 1899.
• • •
r T"'H ERE was much trouble over
* the Jack Root-Tommy Ryan
battle in Philadelphia and more
recently almost everybody will re
call that scandal came out of the
Jack Jobnson-Stanley Ketchel bat
tle on the coast, during which
Johnson "took” a knockdown from
hia opponent when it didn’t look ,
possible that Ketchel could knock
him down with the aid of a base
ball bat. So it looks as if the mon
umental faking has been done
among the big fellows, though
doubtless there are many entirely
honest and upright men trying to
battle their way into a prominent
place in that division. Probably
there are a lot of shady boys among
the minor classes, too, but they cer
tainly never pulled off things as
rotten as some of those shown by
the heavies.
• • •
IT BEHOOVES those Athletics to
* look a little out. Mack’s base
ball team can not lose many more
games, although they can continue
to do no safely unless the Cleve
land bunch braces and wins now
and then while the Sox and a few
other teams are taking vigorous
wallops at the Philadelphia gang.
The Naps certainly have wilted sad
ly under the present strain, worse
even th ui d4d Mark’- crew. They
haven’t shown a high degree of
courage, that's sure.
• • •
THE ©nd of the baseball raoes is
* a bit too near us to prove very'
exciting One league or the other
may pull a close finish, but it isn't
likely. Those birds out in front are
used to the fire nnd nothing is going
to stop either of them—seriously.
Carl Morris Will
Battle Al Reich
NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—Carl Mor
ris, the Oklahoma heavyweight, was
to-day matched by Billy Gibson to
battle Al Reich, the former amateur
heavyweight champion, in the feature
bout of ten rounds at the Garden
Athletic Club next Friday night.
Reich entered the professional ranks
last FTiday night at the Garden A. C.
in a bout with Sailor White. After
rive rounds, in which Reich had all
the better of the fight. Referee Joh
stopped the bout to save the Sailor
from a knockout.
C LEMSON COLLEGE. S. C., Sept.
15.—The fact that only the old
students have as yet reported
at Clemson makes it impossible to
make a satisfactory prediction as to
the make-up of the Tiger team. Coles,
Kangeter and Turbevllle will not be
back. Captain Gandy, nevertheless,
is quite hopeful over the prospects
for a winning team.
Coach Williams is hero and he has
already inspired the men with hope.
The Tigers believe in Bob Williams,
and they work for him as they will
for no other coach. Coach Williams
is among the silent men when it
comes to giving out the dope, but
there is no more faithful worker to
be found on the gridiron.
The football field is full of candi
dates every afternoon. The men move
around like veterans. There Is plentv
of material among the old men, and
it is said that there are several prom
ising men among the recruits who are
to report next week.
Rip Major, the captain of last year's
Auburn, is the assistant coach. He
once wore a Clemson uniform and is
familiar with the Tiger tactics. Major
has starred at nearly every position
on a football team, and will render
valuable service In whipping the
Tigers into shape.
Clemson has a stiff schedule for
this fall, as follows:
October 4.—Davidson at Clemson.
October 11—Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
October 18—Auburn at Clemson.
October 29—South Carolina in Co
lumbia.
November 1—Citadel in Charleston.
November 8—Georgia in Athens or
Augusta
November 15—Mercer at Clemson.
November 27—Georgia Tech in At
lanta.
J. R Douthit is the manager of
the team. He is arranging several
games for the second string of play
ers. There is considerable satisfac
tion here over the fact that Clinton.
Furman ami Newberry have all en
tered the lists, and the Tigers hope
that all these institutions may have
strong teams this fall.
Baseball Summary.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games To-day.
Chicago at Washington.
Detroit at New York.
Cleveland at Philadelphia.
St. Louis at Boston.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. f'c. W. L. Pc
Phila . .86 47 .652 | Chicago. 71 68 .611
Cl’land. 81 57 .587 : Detroit. 58 78 .527
Wash... 78 58 .573 SL Lo.. 52 88 .371
Boston. 69 64 .519 | New Yo.'49 84 .370
Yesterday’s Results.
No games scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games To-day.
Boston at Pittsburg.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati.
New York at Chicago.
Brooklyn at St. Louis.
Standing of the Clubs
W I
New Yo. 90 45 .667
Phila. . 80 49 .620
Chicago 78 59 .569
P’burg. 72 64 .529
W L. Pc
Br’klyn 68 75 .436
Boston. 67 74 .435
Cin’nati 59 82 .419
St. Lo.. 48 94 .338
Richards Makes Big
With No Tide Change
NEW YORK Sept. 14.—The oft-at
tempted feat of swimming from Battery
Park to Sandy Hook in one tide was
accomplished yesterday for the first
time by Samuel Richards, the Boston
amateur, who covered the 25 miles in
eight hours and twenty minutes.
He still was fresh at the end of the
long grind and swam a mile or metre
back toward the Manhattan shore be
fore he would consent to entering the
boat, t
Yesterday’s Results.
Chicago. 7; New York, 0.
Philadelphia. 7; Cincinnati. 6.
St. Louis. 7: Brooklyn, 6.
Others not scheduled.
OTHER RESULTS.
International League.
Newark, 8; Jersey City, 4.
Jersey City, 6 .Newark, 1.
Montreal, 4; Rochester, 3.
Rochester, 2; Montreal. 1.
Federal League.
Kansas City, 2; Chicago. 3.
Kansas City, 1; Chicago. 0.
Indianapolis 9; 8t. Louis. 2.
Indianapolis, 11; St. Louis, 3.
American Association.
Columbus. 6; Milwaukee, 5.
Indianapolis, 3; Kansas City,
Kansas City. 1; Indianapolis,
St. Paul. 4; Toledo, 1.
St. Paul. 10; Toledo. 7
Minneapolis. 2; Louisville. 1.
Louisville, 3; Minneapolis. 1.
Cotton States Titles Are Here
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Smith and MansfieldWinDoubles
A TLANTA tennis cracks made a
clean sw-eep of the Cotton
States championships, just fin
ished on the courts of the Atlanta
Athletic Club at East Lake, bv tak
ing the challenge match in doubles.
Smith and Mansfield defeating
Brooks and Bartlett, the Birmingham
defenders, In a hard-fought match
that had to be continued over from
Saturday Into this week.
Carlton Smith won the singles chal
lenge match handily Saturday morn
ing, defeating Lee Allen Brooks, 6-0,
6-2, 6-2, In straight sets.
The afternoon was set for the con
solation match in singles and the
challenge match in doubles. Harry
Hallman won the consolation cup,
defeating T M. Wilson In straight
sets, 6-1, 6-2. The doubles match
turned out to be a spectacular strug
gle and at dusk, when play ceased,
the match stood two sets all, Smith
and Mansfield having won the first
and third, and Brooks and Bartlett
the second and fourth.
The play-off was set for the fol
SEABOARD EXCUR
SION TO BIRMINGHAM
Monday, September 22,
$2.50 round trip. Leaves
Old Depot 8:30 a. m. Tick
ets good returning on regu
lar trains.
lowing week, and a sharp and well*
played final set went to Smith and
Mansfield, 6-2, giving them the matQb
and the championship. The full
scores were, 11-9, 4-6. ft-7, 2-6, 6-2,
The visiting players expressed
themselves as delighted with the hos
pitality of the club and the soclaJ
attentions shown them while guests
in Atlanta, It is probable the Cot*
ton States tourney will be played
here next year.
M'DEVITT TO COACH GOPHERS.
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 15.—E. W,
McDevltt, former linesman on the
Yale football team, will be assistant
coach at the University of Mlrne-4
sota, according to an announcement
made to-day. McDevitt’s home Is a4
Duluth.
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