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Tech, Vanderbilt and L. S. V. Arp
Tied for Third Place In
1913 Standing.
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I T ip a simple enough rnaltcr to
write a review of the footba.l
season in tlw Southern ln*er-
colkglate Athletic. Association. but t
attempt a ranking of all the to.in ,
therein in a task from which the
#*toutest heart (or nerviest dopesterr
mav well quail.
No one denies that Auburn la en
titled to the championship, but that
is about the only well-established
place in the ranking Enough has
been said and written about tha
Plainsmen and their play to render
any extended review of their season
superfluous. They had splendid ma
terial and lots pf 11 . and the coaches
knew how to utilize it. Not t v« r\
college or a t of coaches knows how
to handle good and plentiful material,
even if the> haw ii, end Auburn r
greatest achievement lay in making
the most of her opportunities
The strength of the Auburn team
was revealed bj the fad ihai 1 hi
fi'd not need • grea t l\ diwfsifled
Style of p 1 !- in <rd*t t<» win h
f ames Their play was iimosl en-
irely straight football without even
forward passing figuring to any ex
tent 1n their work. This serve* to
show how powerful their men were
and how well they were drilled in
the rudiments It was a v*r> fin*-
ream, and Auburn may well be prduu
of it.
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TW ABOVLZ,
OM comes the big Job in trvin?
Jty between Georgia, Vanderbilt, j
Louisiana and Te< h.
That Georgia deserves to rank
ahead of Tech Is «t once conceded.
l»ut It 1a not so clear that she de
serves to be rated ahead of the other
♦ wo. And. on the other hind. It if
not clear that these other two men* i
p v v-her rating than doeui Tech And !
hf : the cause of all our trouble*
Anar a very careful and thorough)
consideration of the fact? in the case. !
1 b-*:k*\e it right to rank Georgia;
nread of »?? the three with \ J
clean hold on second place Vui* |
derbih will register a b1p "hollir" .t »
this point on the ground that th* j
held Auburn closer than did Gaorgi.i.
So they did. but they failed to do
anything against \'irglnia. that w is
At all comparable to what the Geor
gians accomplished against the same
team.
Vanderbilt will point to her big
score against Sewanee. hut, with all
due respect to Sewanee, her team \v.
not up to standard this year, and 1
do not ratp that victory as any great
er than Georgia's against North Car
olina. And after you have consid
ered these two games of (he Commo
dores, what have they left worth
duelling on in their season’s record?
Nothing And what has Georgia 1 e f t
outside of her good \ Ictory over Ala
bama—a team that heat Tennessee
worse than Vanderbilt could beat
them—and a clear victory over the
strong Tech team. \nd these ire
the reasons I 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 V • V *i* • V
Carlisle Players Also Honored ;
that Tinker may return to the Cgbs
Tinker is willing; Fivers is willing-
in fact, anxious—and there Is ni
doubt that President Alurph;
would pleased to have the pepper:
Joe back within the Cub fold. Ru
there la one other who must be will
ing for a trade—Garry Herrmann, th*
president-manager-czar of the Cincin*
natl club.
But Herrmann Is sadly In need 0
a first-class catcher and it may bi
that he will east his eyes Cubwaxi
when looking for a working partner t|
Clarke. You know Johnny Klin}
is out with his annual retirement noi
tires, so Garry will have to loo*
around and find a first-class receive!
to assist Clarke.
He can look all around the Nation*
League circuit and still not do a* « c l
as he can right here In Chicago. Th«
catcher ti e now refer to Is. of courix?
Roger Bresnahan. Ever since th/
closing of the 1913 season the wlnte
league scribes have been trading Rog
er First, we had him going to Brook'
lyn. and as a manager, but whet
Wilbert Robinson affixed hi* Join
Hancock to a Superba contract thal
let Bresnaha.n out.
HoW Hekman Ranfe Teams
Clemson and
see.
Florida and
sippi College.
Tnlane.
Citadel.
Mercer.
(Charleston.
Aul)urn.
Georgia.
Tech, N'anderbilt and
Louisiana.
Sewanee ;md Miss. A.
and M.
Alaitama.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1.—With a
crowd of something more than 200 fane
on hand to watch him, Willie Ritchie
went through his first Sunday’s grind
prior to his approaching mill with llftr-
1cm Tommy Murphy, witb the light
weight championship at slake 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 gvrn 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 p!a«-e. and the g\ m war
packed with the followers of the gvne
Murphy <h<i his boxing with Frankie r.«l
wards and Eddie Miller, three rounds
apiece.
fullback job. Brlckley stood head and
shoulders over any man that played
in the center of the backfield. Mahan
ha« made a wonderful record this
year, and possesses marvelous abil
ity as an open field runner. Guyon,
the Indian, a terrific lino smasher, a
great open field runner, a drop kick
er. a punter, and a. wonderful tackier,
completed the backfield quartet.
First Eleven. Position.
Merrillftt (Army) Find
Storer (Harvard) Tackle
Brown (Annapolis) Guard
Garlow (Carlisle) Center
Weyand (Army) Guard
Hitchcock ( Harvard > Tackle
Hogsett (Dartmouth) ...... 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
Marling (Yale) Center
Gatinns 'Cornell) Guard
Hallin (Princeton) Tarkle
Wagner (\ of Pennsylvania) Find
Prichard (Army) Quarter
Whitney (Dartmouth) .Left Halfhack
Fpiegel (W. & .T.) ....Right Halfback
Calac (Carlisle) Fullback
Bv Frank G. Menkc
N EW YORK, Dec. 1.—And now we
approach the most difficult task
of our giddy young 1 ife-—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
■ nlv a sprinkling of real football stars
n the Last and West. This season
practically every team in the coun-
iry has brought to light one or more
luminaries, who by all the laws of
fair near ought to be given positions
on (he all-star outfit?
Merriilat sakea rank as one of the
greates' end® that ever played the
game. He is a hard, sure tackier,
uets down under punt« with amaz
ing speed Tid seldom during the past,
season did be fall to spill a pin \ that
started around his wing On the of
fense ho is even h mightier power.
As \ 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 tm.de during the
season by Dartmouth.
Harvard Tackles Picked.
Storer and Hitchcock, the Harvard
(ackjea. loom up as the best men that
played at their positions in the East.
J Time and again during the past sea-
j son the rival elevens directed their
attack against these men. and almost
l .is often were they thrown back—
, many times with a. loss. Both men
j demonstrated their value on offensive
I 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
j well.
Brown, in the opinion of the crit
ics, is ope of the best placement kick
ers that c-v donned the moleskin.
We> ind all eaaon has shown almost
uneann\ 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
•f '1 Ghee uf Dartmouth; L>gan.
Harvard Huntington. «»f Coign *
Fii--hard. ' if th»* Arm. and Welch, of
'Carlisle, all are wonderful players--
each seemingly entitled to the honor
'of being called Rhe best. But an al-
I most micr oscopic examination of their
! records made it seem to us that Ghee
| Is worthy of first choice
* There was no hesitancy about the
Bridwell Is Slipping and Chicago
Fans Believe Johnny Can Win
Flag With Shortstop.
N OW for Louisiana They had a
strong team, and they have a
satisfactory 5-casor’s work to thc-ir
credit. But five of (he games on
their schedule were very eas> . in l
vet th©> were accrod on in two of
those. Three of their other games
were with R I. A A. teams Mis
Aisftlppl A M. Auburn and Texas
v & M These rrere the only atrong
tours Louisiana played fine of them
she lost and the other two she tied;
so that pbe can i take no \ en loud
claim on what phe accomplished in
REAL games. And that Is why I
place Louisiana second to Georg h
On lust what bas'« should team* be
ranke] anyway* There could b*> a
lot of hefty argument on that point
'self Tt> something llko in college
hateball no two teams play the
same opponents, nor the same num
ber of games, nor under identical
conditions. Therefore at boat the
whole thing «» a guf -s
Yes, but a guess ns to what" as to
which of two teams ha* made the
better record throughout the season,
or which la the stronger at the doae
of the season, or which of the two
would win If they encountered each
other In a game; and if so, on Sx hat
date are you supposing such a game
to take, or to have taken, place?
And there you arc.
So much depends upon the angle
from which you are viewing the
question. It j** easy to understand
that for good and sufficient reasons
one team might be much further
along in Its development early in
October than another, and would
probably win the game were those
two teams to come together at that
time. On the other hand, the first
team might have retrograded, rela
tively. by the latter part of Novem
ber. while the other had gone on to
fulfill her destiny, the exigencies of
her schedule and the local peculi
arities of her situation in such u
wa> as to be exceptionally strong
right near the close of the ne tson.
whereas it showed practically no
strength during the first half and
could not therefore be expected to be
able to make much of a record Un
der these circumstances should the
''omparatiie records be relied upon
to show which was the better team?
or should w*» just look at the two
• am* in action M ih“ same or at
Mfferent turns Jurng th n season -in1
ex ureas hii experr op : nion **
ing the season as would do Justice
to the top-notch playing strength of
both—whlri would bo a thing im
possible to do.
So you see we have herr a very
complicated proposition to uindle
season form. but. form at the close of
the season." Very well: could any
team show more brilliant playing form
on Thanksgiving Day than Tech" To
beat this strong team two touch
downs better than e\en Auburn « ould
score against them should certainly
be a classy enough performance to
suit an\ bodv.
And If one inquires into Tech's
early season form they find the Yel-
! va Jackets going «t * clip Thai none
can surpass, for the\ defeated both
CMtadel and Chattanooga early in the
season by scores that were not even
approached by any other teams at
any time during thp entire reason
Now. while N’anderbilt did nothing
er.pvci.tiH worths of mention in the
early part, of (ho season, and still
nothing in mld-eeaaon. hut did come
to n fine height at Its close, Louisiana
came to 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 early in the
season, and in the middle of the sea
son, and at the end of the season.
Yes. she lost to both Auburn ajid
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 sin would have won from these
with a different line-up. hut she
would, no doubt, have held both Au
burn and Georgia closer had she
been able to encounter either team
earlier or later.
These I consider good and sufficient
reasons for saying plainly that at the
very least Tech is tied with both
Louisiana and Vanderbilt for third
place.
C -x H1CAGO. ILL . Dec iLiko a
duck takes to water, the Chi
cago fans are taking to the
announcement rhat there is a. slight
possibility that Joe Tinker will return
And play shortstop for Johnny Evers
end his ball club Give Evers Tinker
at short and he'll win the flag in the
National Laagu.- ^xt year," 1* the
talk that on* 1 heirs around sporting
circles the«e. days
And, aftei all there is a chance
] WILL frankly sa> that I try to
* lake \1 L these points into con
sideration in ('tempting i ranking
it win )!!>' give general satisfaction
for anvone o rink all the 1 teams
according to hie opinion as to their
relative aireugth on the last playing
dav of (he season, although ?*urh a
plan would lime much argument in
its favor The SFJAfsoN record of a
team MUST largely h* taken into
account even ihough it may have
planned more definitely for n par
ticular rival or two at a particular
time of (he season, rather than on its
whole season's record.
And after that one mult still leave
room for the injection of a little per
sonal opinion Into the equation ns U
which team would win were they to
come together.
Vanderbilt played neither Tech nor
Louisiana, nor did either of the oth
ers piny either of the remaining two.
I low is one to decide w hich would
win in (he case of an encounter be
tween any? There Is no sure way to
deeldo If there were, no am h thing
as betting on the outcome of games
would take place; the fact that people
bet and bet proves that they are of
different minds. But it U put upon
my shoulders to hazard an opinion
and a duty that I must face, others
may disagree with me—and plenty
of them will. NY© shall not go to war
on that account.
\ LABAM.fi
A * won and lost aboui
number of games during the ( c ,
h d ina?m’’ 'h a? Alabama won ov<
the Palmetto* by a decisive margi
of Li points the laurel wreath imr
he handed the former, for wher.
direct game does lake place hetw*'
two learn* the results of ih,
contest must be accepted for Hi*
face value regardless of what « on
partitive scores In other encounte;
may show.
In ninth place I must rank Tenne;
see as tied with Clemson. Both w,
from Davidson by low scores, ai
both have to their credit one corkir
good game against a strong team
Tennessee against YanderbTt .ir
Clemson against Georgia. Tennesse
as well as Clemson. were snowed nr
der by Alabama, while both had h.
victories against ’ess-r teams.
CHICAGO, Dec. 1.—Paul Des Jardiens
center rush on the University of Chicago
championship football team, ha? beci
i elected captain of the 1915 eleven
Ban on Willard May
Be Lifted To-morrow
NEW YORK. Dec. 1.—It was an
nounced ♦''-day that the suspension of
•Jess Willard by the State Athletic Com
mission, which has been in force against
the T^xas heavyweight since last March,
will be raised to-morrow by the commis
sion. and Willard will be able to fill
his engagement with Carl Morris at the
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
The Cigarette of
k Quality
FLORIDA and Citadel lost to all mo
1 big teams*, but played pretty fair
ball, all things considered, throughout
the season. The formt?r won from
the latter and so must be rated high
er. Both of them deserve better
ranking than Mercer, although th*
game between CltAdel and Merc, r
was a tie.
Tulane belongs down th*re some
where. but at exactly wtI not 1 it
would be hard to say—probably be
tween Citadel ar,d Florida.
Mississippi College came Into
prominence throughout the first half
of the season with some rice games
add creditable victories Her work
for the season entitled her to a place
alongside of Florida.
Texas A. M has been left out
of the ranking, as she is so far away
it is impossible to keep good track of
her over in this neck of the woods.
The''- had h good team all right, is
shown by their playing Louisiana to
a stands?!V
Consideration of !h.» Kentuck-
colleges is omitted for the same rea
son.
Chattanooga is not in tim associa
tion. but she mnde a fine fight of g
against every team except Tech. Her
season’s r- ord would be on a plant
with that of Florida.
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VOW, at It ween Louisiana, Yan-
'
hut whs* Tech is FT’LLY deserving
of a. ranking on a par with the other
two. Let us look again at what all
three teams did.
Vanderbilt beat Fewanee badl> . but,
on the whole, hardly any worse—-in a
football sense -than did Tech when
t * recal.ed that the Tiger* scored
twice on Vanderbilt, whereas she
couldn’t score at all on Tech. Fo this
comparison nc neither t«um any
thing
AFTER POLICEMAN'S JOB.
John Anderson, once a noted major
league first baseman and outfielder, has
g)ven up the real estate business at
Worcester. Mass., and is seeking an ap
pointment as policeman
AF Sewanee won from Alabama and
* * Tennessee she must be handed
sixth place; for Alabama defeated
damson, the on In other possible con
tender outside of Mississippi A and
TINKER MAY SELL RANCH.
PORTLAND. OREO.. Dec 1.—Owner
McCredie. of the Portland Coast League
baseball club, is going into ranching a*
a side issue. T-Te ha* a’ready secured
an option on some property owned bv
Joe Tinker near this city.
Inasmuch as Mississippi A. & M.
also defeated Alabama, it may be ar
gued that they hav« as much right ;'o
be pur sixth a* Sewanee; and I dare
say they have. Sew anee won ov* r
A ’ i ba m:t by a three point*' mars hi.
K. & M - ■
ma -gin. In addition. A. A- AT play d
the strong Louisiana team a tie
game. On the other hand. Sewanee
did about equal!' web to hold Texas
to * dose acore. Altogether, it Is
a stand-oft, and a tie for sixth place
t non ore.- -i«- f e;u Tennessee but
one point whib Tech's mid-season
\ ictory over Sewanee whs achieved
after the had already decisive
ly defeated Tennessee < *t' course.
N’anderbilt conies back and says,
' Yes. but we are cot comparing mid-
* together? And if th* 5 latter is
IPs’, l«»t us no: forget t u we
Hve to bear in mind what the
N of development of each team
m order to be fair *o both and
the game ai such a <tete cur-
• &HONO" COLLINS BUYS HOME.
PITTSFIELD. Dec 1.—John F.
("Shono”) Collins. of the Chicago
American League baseball team. has
bought a house on Sprlngside avenue, in
this city, and will make Pittsfield his
residence.