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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. 7here Were Fwo Low Neck POLLY AND HER PALS 5uR£ i Seem it ! But WdU The 6ooo CE/4<?6u/M6 5me df/UNi UiUu T'MuTHiH’? j—' I 6eT A idea! ill Gn ll 50- BE - WARE THdT MEW/ BEAU OF g!i _ Ha?5 To lecture. |:> SBt ' WA R E HER AdCV7 BUMDLW6*J i UP HER CHE5T! _ <3kBA7(juUSl CAHi A Bu'Doy Li^W To The muSic vWfTHouT BU5T(w'r H up The R4RTV® Ij MENWIE PR4VE til-arts Arl. Ati’5ltZP im f THEE D£F.P' 1 PollV IK/EMT OUT LMT WI6HT WITH Lova HECK. AH t»Ho<rr 5‘LE-EV/E5. ah' the thfj?mome7ec. 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. These famous cigarettes are made of choice high grade tobacco selected for its un usual mildness and tempt ingly satisfying flavor. These are marvelously good —as anyone who smokes them will tell you. And they are always of tha same unapproachable qual ity. You never lose your liking for Piedmonts. Whole coupon in each package. 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.