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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. in the Classroom the Football Hero Finds AiA the Paper Is Still Waiting for Jeff’s Story a Dt ictcrep, AND I'M :>He<AKIUb pof ruf AMERICAN •S<Dt A«u ;,Apetic IWHICH WAV AR.P- A You (JOIN - t-AfiX SAA\e WAV You are: I feOTTA ( APfc V,)L NOW t'*A O-OSP TO THE MBVIt A> LINS* WKPN T 46T Af riL iHEM eeH'HU YO*~ tHVrW*Tr CNETVC!. Tech, Vanderbilt and L. S. Tied for Third Place 1913 Standing. U»HO Are you I T is a simple enough matter to write h review of the football »#«#on In the South* rn Inte collegiate At.hlet4<* Association. but i • attempt a ranking >f all the teams therein Is « task from which th stoutest heart (or nerviest rlopest* i - ntav well quail. No one denies that ^uburn it en titled to the championship blit that 1# about the onlx «e.l-estnbllsh^d plaa a In the ranking Enough ha - been eaid and written about th H*lriam*m and their play to render any extended review of their sen son superfluous They had splendid in i »enal and lota of it. anil the < oa< n •- knew how to utilize it Not ever> * nllege or aet of coaches hnow.« how to handle good and plentiful material, even if they have it, and Auburn e greatest achievement lay 1n makitiK the most of her opportunities The strength of the Auburn tesm was revealed by the fact that the> did not need a greatly diversified style of pla> in order to win th ir games. Their plnx \\,.s almost m- titnJy atraight football, without <\ *a forward passing figuring to any . tent In their work. This Serves show how powerful their no n \\ «■ and how well the> were drilled tr the rudiments It was a very fin- team, and Auburn may well be proi . TO LINK POLLY AND HER PALS There Were Two Low Necks did y 5ee the mv 11— PollV ItfEMI Ou7 LA ft AII6HT WITH lo<r/MEO< f^MoCT £Tl.tEV/E5. ,Ati' The “TmepmomcTer. Tea A&o\n L I60T A IDL4! ILL 6/T TH>4T NEW BEAU OP | HD?5 To LECTURE- I HER ABOU1 f3uWDL/W<rl UP HER Che5'T ! d 5ure i^pehu; But vWoTs Tkt 600D OF/4<?6u»M6 yffiTH HER* a,HF U/UHl LISTfW T'NuThiN’! j—' 5o- BE WARE BEE WA R E Mf##lt BRAVE. Hf /4 R *75^ ylRt A H'JLUP W THEE DEEP' <jKEAiGlh4S\ C4H7 /< BUDDy LlSTf/J “To The Mi/S*c VX//THOUT BC5Ti«'r v oe The P/irt-/ * ^ OW 1 omes the big Job in trying determine the order of prio' i 1. \ between Georgia, Vanderbilt. Louisiana and Tech. That Georgia deserves to rank ahead rtf Te< ii Is at once concou •<. but It is not so Hear that ahe d servos to he ruled ahead if Die other two. \nd ou the other band, it not clear that these other two men • 1 "her rating than does Tech. And i i-'s 1. cause of all our trouble: After a very careful and thorough ■ onsld rat ion of the facts 1 ri the < 1 - i believe It right to rank Georgia ■ - ■ <>f ->‘1 1 a «h#r threw, with cm n hold on second pises V d'-rb w register a big “holler" th s point on the ground that the' held Auburn closer than did Georgia So they did. but they failed to do anything against Virginia that w - .1 all comparable to what the Geor gians accomplished against the same tea in. Vanderbilt will point to her big •core against Sc wanes, but. with all due respect to Hews nee, her team w not up to standard this year, and I do not rute that victory as «n' grea' • r than Georgia's against North Car- nlinn. And after you have consid ered these two games of the Commo dores. what have they • left worth dwelling on in their season's record? Nothing. And what has Georgia left outside of her good victory’ over Ala barna a team that beat Tennessee worse than Vanderbilt could beat them and a clear victory over the strong Tech team And these .ire the reasons 1 place Georgia ahead of the Commodore* Ritchie Starts Work For Championship Go With Tommy Murphy 4 Harvard Stars on All-Eastern v • v v • v v • v *’*•*’- • v *!«••;• Carlisle Players Also Honored that Tinker may return to the Cubs Tinker is willing; Evers la willing— in fact, anxious—and there Is no doubt that President Murphy would be pleased to have the peppery Joe back within the Cub fold. Bit there is one other who must be will ing for a trade—Garry Herrmann, the SAX FRANCISCO. Dec. 1.—With a crowd ofAsomething more than ilOO fans on hand to watch him, Willie Ritchie wem through his first Sunday’s grind prior to Ills approaching mill with Har lem Tommy Murphy, with the light weight championship at stake. His per formance, so far as the crowd was con cerned, consisted chiefly of six rounds of boxing with three sparring part ners, and, although gym work is not the truest test of a man’s ring ability, the San Franciscan displayed quite enough to warrant the assertion that he is improving Harlem Tommy Murphy started work at Shannon’s place, and the gym, was packed with the followers of the game. Murphy <1 id his boxing w ith Frankie Ed wards and Eddie Miller, three rounds apiece. fullback job. Brickley stood head and shoulders over any man that played in the center of the back field. Mahan has made a wonderful record this year, ami possesses marvelous abil ity as an open field runner. Guyon, the Indian, a terrific line smasher, a great open field runner, a drop kick er, a punter, and a wonderful tackier, completed the backfield quartet. First Eleven. Position. Merrillat' (Army) End Storer (Harvard) Tackle Brown (Annapolis) Guard Garlow (Carlisle) Center Weyand (Army) Guard Hitchcock (Harvard) Tackle Hogsett (Dartmouth ) . . j End Ghee (Dartmouth) Quarter Guyon (Carlisle) Left Halfback Mahan (Harvard) ....right Halfback Brickley (Harvard) Fullback Second Eleven* Position. Hardwick (Harvard) End Talbott (Yale) Tackle Ketcham (Yale) ' Guard Marti tig (Yale) Center Gaunns (Cornell) Guard BaJlin (Princeton) Tackle Wagner (l*. of Pennsylvania) ...End Prichard (Army) Quarter Whitney (Dartmouth) .Left Halfback Spiegel (W. & .1.) ....Right Halfback Calac (Carlisle) Fullback N F EW YORK, Dec. 1.— And now we approach the most difficult task of our giddy young life—the selection to-day of an All-Eastern eleven, an All-Western team to-mor row' and All-American aggregation on Wednesday as our final football job of the year. Never before has the picking been harder. In other years there was 1 nlv a sprinkling of real football stars iy the East and West. This season practically every team in the coun try has brought to light one or more luminaries, who by all the laws of fairness ought to be given positions on the all-star outfits. Merrillat takea rank ax one of the greatest ends that ever played the game. He is a hard, sure tickler, gets down under punts with amaz ing speed and seldom during the past season did he fail to spill a play that started around his wing. On the of fense he is even a mightier power. As a broken runner he has few peers, and he handles the forward pass with perfection. Hogsett was one of the big factors in the great showing made during the season by Dartmouth. Harvard Tackles Picked. Storer and Hitchcock, the Harvard tackles, loom up as the best men that played at their positions in the Easi. Time and again during the past sea son tlie rival elevens directed their attack against these men. and almost as often were they thrown back— many times with a loss. Both men demonstrated their value on offensive plays in every game during the sea son. Brown, the big Navy •guard, and Weyand. of the Army, had no equals on the Eastern gridiron this year. Brown was a stonewall on the de fense and a great offensive player as well. Brown, in the opinion of the crit ics. is one of the best placement kick ers that ever donned the moleskin. Weyand all season has shown almost uncanny ability in breaking through his opponents’ line and either blocking bunts or dumping a play almost as soon as it started. Garlow, of Carlisle, was the strong est part of the Carlisle line on de fensive play, and for a heavy man got down the field faster under punts than any center that played in the East. Ghee at Quarter. Making the selection of the All- Eastern quarter was the hardest task of all. Ghee, of Dartmouth: Logan, of Harvard; Huntington, of Colgate; Prichard, <*f the Army, and Welch, of Carlisle, all are wonderful players — each seemingly entitled to the honor of being called the best. Rut an al most microscopic examination of their records made it seem to us that Ghee s worthy of first choice. There was no hesitancy about the Clarke. You know Johnny Klin? is out with his annual retirement no tices, so Garry will have to look around and find a first-class receive? to assist Clarke. He can look all around the National League circuit and still not do as weil as he can right here in Chicago. Tha catcher we now refer to is, of course, Roger Bresnahan. Ever since the closing of the 1913 season the wdnte? league scribes have been trading Rop er. First we had him going to Brook lyn. and as a manager, but w f h*n Wilbert Robinson affixed his John Hancock to a Superb a contract that Bridwell Is Slipping and Chicago Fans Believe Johnny Can Win Flag With Shortstop. KT ()W for Louisiana Thr> hurl a l ^ strong team, and they have a satisfactory season's work to their 1 credit. But five of the games on their schedule wers very eas\ an l yet they were scored on In two of those. Three of their other gam-** were with S. ). A. A teams Mis sissippi A. & Y , Auburn and Texas \ AM. These were the onl\ strong teams Ix>uisiana played. One of them she lost and the other two she tied: so that she can make no \er\ loud • laim on what she accomplished in REAL games. And that is why I place Louisiana second to Georgia. On just what basis should tea in# he rnnke 1 anyway? There could be a lot of hefty argument on that point 'self. It's something like in college baseball r»o two teams play the same opponents, nor the same num ber of games, nor under identical conditions Therefore at best the whole thing is a gue*»* Yes, but a guess as to what'’ a* to which of two teams hae made the better record throughout the*season, or which is the stronger at the - lose of the season, or which of the two would win if they encountered each other in a gam A and if so. on what date arc you supposing such a game to take, or to have'taken, place” And there you are Fo much depends upon the angle from which you are viewing the question. It i# eas> No understand that for good and sufficient reasons one tram might he much Further along in its development curb in < »ctober than another, and would probabb win the game were those two teams to come together at that tim*\ < >n the other hand, the first foam might have retrograded, rela tively. by the Inner part of Novem ber. w :ile the other had gone on to fulfill her destiny, the exigencies of her schedule and the local peculi arities of her situation in such i "H\ as to hi t v . ptionnlly strong right neat the close of the sea.-on. whereas c showed practically no strength during the first half ami ould not therefore he expected to be able to make much of a r» ord l’n- • ier these circumstances s -iuld the comparative records be relied upon io show which was the better team? t »r should we just look at the two •-.■•ms n action at the same or at Afferent times during the season and xpress an expert opinion as to the season." \ ery well: could any team show more brilliant playing form or. Thanksgiving Day than Tech? To beat this strong team two touch downs better than even Auburn could score against them should certainly be a classy enough performance to suit anybody. And if one inquires Into Tech’s «aii\ sea sod form they find the Yel low Jackets going at a clip that none can surpass, for they defeated both Gitadel and Chattanooga early in the season by scores that were* not even approached i>\ an> other teams at any time during the entire season. Now. while Ynmlerbilt did nothing especialh worthy of mention in tin- early part of the season, and still nothing in mid-season, hut did come to a fine height at its close, Louisiana came fo her height at mid-season, against Auburn. The first part of her season shows nothing to wonder over, nor does the last. She made a good showing in one game in mid season at the top of her form, and that lets her out. But Tech did things earl> Ir^thc season, and in the middle of -4HSli- son, and at the end of the season. Yes. she lost to both Auburn and Georgia, but just at a time when she had in the field her weakest line-ups of the year, due to absolutely nothing but bad luck. By this it is not meant that she would have won from these with a different line-up. but she would, no doubt, ha\e held both Au burn and Georgia closer had she been able to encounter either team earlier or later. These 1 consider good and sufficient reasons for saying plainly that at the very least Tech is tied with both ! Louisiana and Vanderbilt for third plat e. re a very handle. j WILL frankly saj that 1 try to take ALL these points into con sideration in attempting a ranking. It will not give general satisfaction for anyone to rank all tile teams according to his opinion as to their relative strength on the last playing day of the season, although, such a plan would have much argument in its favor The SEASON record of a team MI ST largely be taken into account even though it may have planned more definitely for a par ticular rival or two at a particular time of the season, rather than on its w'ltole season's record. And after that ne must still leave room for the injection of a little per sonal opinion into the equation as tr» which team would win were they to come together, Vanderbilt played neither Tech nor Louisiana, nor did either of the oth ers play either of the remaining two. How is one to decide which would win in the case of an encounter be tween mix ' There is no sure way io decide. If there wet*', no such thing as betting on the outcome of games would take place; the fact that people Let and bet proves that they are of different minds. But it is put upon my shoulders to hazard an opinion and a duty that l must face. Others max disagree with me--and plenty of them will. We shall not go to war on that account. can venture to draw unuei DES JARDIENS LEADS CHICAGO- ’ is the CHICAGO, Dec. l.-s-PauI Des .Tardier porting center rush on the University of Chiea championship football team, has be chance j elected captain of the 3915 eleven ALABAMA and Glemson p won and lost about the number of games during the s but inasmuch as Alabama woi the Palmettos by a decisive i of- -0 points the laurel wreath be handed the former, for wl direct game does take place b« two teams the results of contest must be accepted for face value regardless of.what pa rati vo scores in other eneo may show. In ninth place I must rank T see as tied with Clemson. Bot from Davidson by low score both have to their credit one <■ good gam*' against a strong i Tennessee against Vanderbilt Clemson against Georgia. Ten: as well as Clemson, were snow der by Alabama, while both hai victories against ’esser teams. Ban on Willard May Be Lifted To-morrow ! The Cigarette of i ^Quality NRVx YORK, De< - . 3.— It was an- nounced to-day that the suspension of Jess YYillard by the State Athletic Com mission. w hich has been in force against the Texas heavyweight since last .March, will be raised t<» morrow by the commiu- sion. and Willard will be able to fi.l his engagement with Carl Morris*at th“ Garden Athletic Club Wednesday night Hoping for some such favorable verdict, both boxers have been in active training for more than a week, so the late action, in no way will affect the condition of the men when they step into the ring. LORI DA and Citadel lost to a if Lie * big team#, but played pretty fair ball, all things considered, throughout the season. The former won from the latter and so must be rated high er. Roth of them deserve belt r ranking than Mercer, although th« came between Citadel and Mere r was a tie. Tulane belongs down there some where. but at exactly which notch it would be hard to say—probably be tween Citadel and Florida. Mississippi College came into prominence throughout the first half of the season with some nice games and creditable victories. Her work for the season entitled her to a place alongside of Florida. Texas A, iX M. has been left out of t he ranking, as she is so far a way it is impossible to keep good track *>f her over in this neck of the woods. The\ had a good team all l ight, as is shown by tiieir playing Louisiana io a standstill. Consideration of the Kentucky colleges is omitted for the same rea son. ChatlanouKa is not in the associa tion. but she made a fno fight of ; r against e\er> team excep; Tech, lfer spasun’s record would be *»n a plane with that <*f Florida. These famous cigarettes are made of choice high grade tobacco selected for its un usual mildness and tempt ingly satisfying flavor. I hesearemarvelously good as anyone who smokes them will tell you. And they are always of the same unapproachable (qual ity. You never lose your liking for Piedmonts. Whole coupon in each package. VOW, .*' between Louisiana, Van ■ i bin what Tech is Fl’Ll.Y des. i vim | «*f a l inking on tt par with the othc ! 1XX t. Let us look ag^in at w hat al j t hive teams did. AFTER POLICEMAN'S JOB. John Anderson, once a noted major league first baseman and outfielder, has given up the real estate business at Worcester, Mass., ami is seeking an ap pointment as policeman. AS Sexxanee won from Alabama and ** Tennessee she must be handed sixth place; for Alabama defeated Clemson. the onl\ oilier possible con tender outside of Mississippi A. and TINKER MAY SELL RANCH. CORTLAND. ORJ2G., Dc. Owner McCrebie, of the Portland Coast League has* ball club, is going into ranching as a side issue. lie has alread> secured an option on some property owned by Joe Tinker near this city. twice on Yando couldn't score at comparison nets t hing. Vanderbilt he* Tech. But in t Inasmuch as Mississippi A. & M. also deb ited Alabama, it may be ar gued that lhey hav« as much right to be put sixth as Scwanee: and 1 dare- sax they have. Sewatiee won ov< r Alabama by a three points’ margin, while A A M won bx a seven-pevnt margin In addition. \. A- M. played the strong Louisiana mam a *ie cam- < >n the other hand. Sewn nee dv about equa.lx we 1 to hold T«'Xrs to a close score Utogether. it is a siaml-off. and a tic f>«r sixth pla e Auburn •ser • SHONO" COLLINS BUYS HOME. PITTSFIELD. Dec. I John F. • "Shono”) Collins. of the Chicago American League baseball team. ha- bought a lions* op Springsale ax'enuc. in. this city, and \x ill make Pittsfield his residence. im I ly defeat nd » Y a tiderhi