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TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, UA„ SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1913. Famous Tech Leader Says All Elevens In S. I. A. A. Displayed Marked Improvement—Declares Jackets Should Be Formidable Next Fall. By J. W. Heisman. I r\HE All-Southerns have been picked—each picker to his fan cy—and the ranking of teams it. still being wrangled over; and now a hort review of the work of each team during the season should not be ■u iliout interest. The heavyweight teams—those av eraging 170 stripped to the man and ovi r—were Auburn, Vanderbilt. Lou isiana, Georgia and Tennessee. The middleweight teams—those av eraging 105 or thereabouts—were t mson, Alabama, Sewanee, Missis sippi A. & M. and Tulane. The lightweight teams—those aver- mring 160 or less—were Tech. Florida, i iadel. Mercer. Furman and Missis sippi College. The veteran teams—those having inure old men than new on the team— were Louisiana, Auburn, Georgia, Al. abamaand Tennessee. The mixed teams—those whose < imposition was about equally divided between old and new players—were Sewanee, Florida, Citadel, Tulane, Mississippi and Clemson. The green teams—those that had more new men on their roster than were Tech, Vanderbilt, Mercer and Furman. The ranking of teams In the S. I. A. A. according to actual performnaees against other teams throughout the season is one thing, but the question of awarding credit according to the talents confided to each team’s care is quite another. « * * \\TE And the names of Auburn, *' Georgia and Louisiana included in both the heavyweight and the vet eran lists; and, accordingly, we might expect to see them all taking high rank as a result of their season’s play With Auburn taking first place. Georgia second and Louisiana tied for third, ii needs only to be said that all three of these teams lived up to the measure of their responsibilities and made excellent use of both their phys- leal strength and their experience. The Commodores are found among the heavyweights, but In the primer .lass when It came to individual knowledge of the game at the outset of the season. With good coaching, •we might reasonably have expected of the Vanderbilt team to find them somewhere down about the middle of the ranking at the close of the jubilee. As a matter of fact, though, we note their location to be a tie for third with two other teams. This is doing better than their followers had a right to expect, and thus they measured up to considerably more than their full obligation, and their season may well lie characterized as having been an minentlv successful one. But if this is true of Vanderbilt, bow much more so is it true of the Tech team, for here we have an eleven t'hat is found in the last divi sion of both the weight and expe rience classifications. A couple of line-ups of the Tech team during the season did average slightly above 160. though never much more, while most of their playing was done rather un der that figure than over it. As for the experience end, it needs only to be pointed out that 28 men saw work in varsity games during the season, vvhiie only six of these had ever ap peared in a varsity line-up previous to this season. From this point of Yew it would appear that the Tech team has again deserved just a lit tle more than most any other South ern team of the season. This view' is further supported by PIMPLES SOURCE OF GREAT DANGER May Be Means of Absorbing Disease Germs in Most Unexpected Manner. Make Your Blood Pure and Immune With S. S. S. In thousands of instances the most virulent types of blood troubles have been the result of coming In contact with disease germs In public places, and the apparently insignificant pimple has been the cause. 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These facts are brought out in a highly interesting book compiled by the medical department of The Swift Spe- cltTc Company, 217 Swift Building, At lanta. da. ft is mailed free, together ^ith special Information, to all who describing their symptoms. 4 a hv'Ule of S. S. 8. to-day. but be \ t In have something palmed on wisely claimed to be “just as good." Th*- only reason why anyone will try to sell you something in place of S S S. is the extra profit. B. McKenzie, Who s Making Fine Course at Ansley Park v s k ' Sa the fact that out of eighteen coaches and sporting writers who picked All- Bouthern teams, not a single one of them chose a single Tech man for a place on this all-star aggregation. In other words, everybody agrees that Tech had absolutely no stars of the first magnitude, not even among her few old players. But, if such was the case, does the team not deserve even greater credit for the high stand and ranking to which it attained than one that was blessed with an abundance of excel lent material to start with? Con sider for a moment what any of the other teams that were in the second or third lists in the above classifica tion did NOT succeed in accomplish ing, and the reader will then be in position to Judge for himself. * * * /""‘OING back for a moment to a con- sideration of Auburn’^ play, I de sire to point out that Auburn, in my opinion, reached a higher stage of line development than any Southern team heretofore has attained. Vanderbilt backflelds have in the past carried off the palm, but no S. I. A. A. line ever before has shown the class that marked the work of the Orange and Blue forwards this sea son. And as the Plainsmen lose, but few of their veterans of this season. It may be counted as a certainty that Auburn w r il 1 produce an even stronger eleven next year. Louisiana had an almost entire vet eran team this season, so it is likely she will lose many of her players for 1914. As a result she may not stand quite so high, relatively, at the close of the next season as now. However, It should be said that the Pelicans have advanced the standard of foot ball very materially in their section, and have given the other teams of their vicinity a standard of play to pattern after. Georgia’s team was high grade and about on a par with her elevens of the preceding two years. Their fine game against the strong Virginians shows the class of ball to which we are at taining in this neighborhood. While the Red and Black loses several of its stars, the quantity and excellence of the remaining material are such as to insure the Athenians another team next year of at least equal rank with that of the past couple of years. Vanderbilt, I consider, will be right in the lists again next year with a team that will make Auburn hustle to the limit if she wishes to retain her title. This Js not to say that there will not be other teams that will give them both a rup. Still I believe the Commodores are the real dark horses, for the reason that the men she will have next year all received varsity coaching and varsity experience this past season. It will be an almost vet eran organization, and it will have the necessary weight. It already has that. While the Vanderbilt stuff was very raw and green to start with this sea son, it can not be denied that it came w'ith a tremendous rush the last quar ter—and if it could do so well against Auburn's old guard and against Se- wanee’s more seasoned aggregation^ W’e may look for it to start off in 1914 with a rip and a roar that will make them favorites almost over Auburn right from the first week. Watch Vanderbilt! • * * TF Tech returns the players she has i * developed this year, she should have a better team than she has been able to turn out in several years. Not many will have been lost by gradua- ! tlon. while enough have been worked on and polished up this year to give her a stronger nucleus for the start cf next season than she has ever had before. The team should also be con siderably heavier than for several years past. As thir last point has been the one on which Tech has suf fered most in her big games of the past couple of years, it may be that she will find easier and smoother sled ding in her big games next year. Altogether, the outlook is promis ing, and Tech should be able to do her share to making the Southern season of 1914 notable for distinct advance ment in football excellence. All things considered, the records of both Sewanee and Alabama should be accounted as satisfactory for 1913 by their followers. The former suffered several rather severe defeats, but their outlook for next year Is such as to warrant hope of better things. Then, too, they will not make the mis take of going away out to Texas .n 1914. They will be able to plan their season and their team’s development more carefully—not to any more log ically—and we may be sure to find the Tiger a most dangerous antag onist again next season. Alabama will lose, at last, the great Vandegraaf: and the rest of us heave a sigh of relief at that welcome pros pect. There will bo other names miss ing from the Red line-up. but the Tuscaloosans have built a firm foot ball foundation in the past four years, and there is no danger of retrogres sion on their part. Their season may have shown no material advance this year, but it is equally certain that they have lived up to their motto of “No steps backward.” ... C ^LEMSON and Tennessee" Well, - what would you nave? If they were to win ALL their games they would win the championship. But that would not entireiv fall in with th*’ ideas of the other four or five teams that have been ahead of these two In j matters footballlc for the last ha:f | dozen or more years. And yet thes • | two would almost HAVE to win ill j their games to make your casual ob server believe they had made material advance. In reality, though, these two HA5 E advanced ’their standard during the season Just closed, and greatly, too, whether the inexpert observer notes ^ it or not. An advancement of the j standard of play is not necessarily | dependent upon the number of games won, for you must always allow tliatj boxer who whipped every 133-pounder of his day. He won, honorably de fended and finally lost the world's light weight championship. Incidentally Ad earned a forture of over $200,000, waved the greater part of it, and suffered a string of misfortunes, km startling a line of accidents and ailments us ever fol- lowed a man of the ring 1909 Bridge of none caved in. Sur- A detailed list of Ad's mourning pe- gioal operation necessary, riods Is as follows: 1910- -Ann broken in bout with Jack 1906 Left ear “caullflowered” into a Redmond. Rebroken in battle with bow knot. Tommy McFarland. 1907 Right ear scrambled to match 1911 -Stricken with appendicitis. Suc- 1908—Bones in both hands cracked cessfully operated on. and knocked out of Joint. 1912—Bores In both hands injured —" >—■— 13 U again. 1913-—Suffered serious attack 9t pto malne poisoning. Riba cracked in bout with sparring partner. At the present gait Wolgast should go into his fortieth year with a cork leg. a hickory arm, a glass eye or two an<i a couple of rows of store teeth. This clever Scotch professional is fast developing the new course into one of the best in the South. It takes a mighty clever player to turn in a good card as many of the holes are very “tricky.” The fair course is already in grand condition, and the putting greens will be immense before long. I it is quite possible for your opponent to advance his standards also. And yet you may be able to go at a faster clip than he, and to gain markedly on him, even if still behind in the race at any given point. These two teams started off the season in high hopes. They had ma terial and coaches and spirit. They were willing to work hard, and they had traversed the lane of defeat so long that it seemed to both its turn ing must surely be close at hand. Now, at the season’s close, they are possibly somewhat discouraged. But they need not be, nor should they be. Besides making admirable scores against weaker opponents the Vol unteers held Sewanee and Vander bilt closer than ever, and gave Ala bama a fine run of it. Is not that doing things? I think so. Clemson held Auburn well, turned the tables heavily on South Carolina- annihilated Mercer and played a truly wonderful game against Georgia. Are not those distinct advances? I am sure of it. If they will but stick to their guns, both Clemson and Ten nessee will be heard from in even more emphatic language in 1914. • • * M ISSISSIPPI A. & M. about held her own. They suffered one unexpectedly heavy setback at the hands of Auburn, but they held the very strong Louisiana team to a draw, did likewise with Texas A. & M and defeated the staunch Ala bamans. This team has now been playing ball for a number of years with a fine consistency of perform ance, which indicates clearly that it has come to stay. It is by the notice able building up of the game like this in one formerly isolated spot after another that the standards of the entire Southland are advanced. And ultimately that means that we shall occasionally produce, some where in the South, a single team or two that will not alone be able to lord It over the rest of the Dixie teams, but will show ability to face, on equal terms, the best of the West or the Hast. The time is coming. Florida and Citadel started the sea son weakly, but noth caught a fine stride before the race was half run and finished with good trains and with colors dying. Mercer met with misfortune from first to last. They wore lacking in material and, unfortunately, their spirit seemed also run down a oit. Everybody sympathizes with the Bap tists. and everybody would like to see them get togethe# and come along in the running. Mayhap they wiP next year. Here’s hoping. Tulane fared not quite so well as in 1912. It is a difficult matter, somehow, for the New Orleans insti tution to get going good. In fact, it always is difficult in a big city. See how many years it took Harvard to get together to where she could beat Yale or Princeton. I well recall how long it took us at Pennsylvania to get sufficient concentration on our athletics to hold our own with the country colleges. It took many years for Vanderbilt to do the same thing, and it has taken Tech years and years to get to the point where she could say she had a standard maintain. Tulane's tin?e will also come some of these days. • * * F * OR the first time in many laps arotjfi Old Sol the bunting goes not to Tennessee. Auburn brought the bacon home to Alabama; but ulie composite standing of the best TWO teams in each State shows tor 1913 the .State of Georgia in the lead. However, the Commodores have, by valiant work, kept their fair State well in the foreground,.while L. S. U. has done the same thing for Louis iana. Thus football excellence is shown to be a well scattered com modity through the South. While for the southeastern section public interest was greater than ever before. I do not hestate to say that it will be greater still in 1914. The teams will be stronger and the games better played; the crowds will be even larger and the public interest greater. Look out for 1914! Hurler Shawkey Was Forced on Athletics The story has often been told about Connie Mack endeavoring to trade Catcher Behaflg for Pitcher Paddy Green, a Yankee recruit, but it is not generally known- that Pitcher Hoo Shawkey was practically forced upon the lean leader of the world a charn- ^ Shawkey was tipped off to Johnny Evers, manager of the Cubs. Manager Dunn, of Baltimore, in fact, was the one who urged Evers to buy his ri ght- hander, but Evers bethought him tnat Connie Mack had an interest in the Baltimore team. So he mused thusly: “No manager in the country is in greater need of pitchers than Connie Mack. Now, if this man Shawkey is so good why does not Connie Mack take him? If’Shawkey is not good enough for the Athletics, I don't think he is good enough for the Cubs. I’ll pass him tip.” . No other big league manager seemed to care for the Baltimore pitcher, and finally when Mack saw that Shawkey might go for the draft price of 32.»00. he decided to pull him over to Phila delphia. Prichard Is Elected Cadets’ 1914 Leader WEST POINT, N. Y.. Dec. 6 —Cadet Vernon E. Prichard, of the second class, has been elected captain of next year's Army football team. Prichard has played quarterback on the team for two seasons and got in every game except one on the Army’s schedule this season. His brilliant for ward passing, spectacular open field running and excellent generalship have made him one of the season’s leading quarterbacks. He is 22 years old and was admitted to West Point from the Eleventh Congressional District of Iowa in June, 1911. Report Puts Fultz At Head of Reds CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—From Pittsburg) comes the story that at the recent j meeting of the Federal League in this l city, Dave Fultz, head of the Baseball I Players' Fraternity, was elected presi dent of the outlaw organization. The) yarn also says Christy Mathewson is to be elected president of the players’ body. . Fultz is to receive 57.000 the first year and an additiona' $1,000 the second with a salary of 19.000 for the third. 1 ‘Bud 1 Anderson Meets Barrieau Tuesday LOS ANGELES, CAL.. Dec. 3.—The “Bud” Anderson-Frank Barrieau bout next Tuesday will be practically a wel terweight affair. At a final conference yesterday morn ing the managers of both boxers agreed upon 135\*2 pounds four hours before en tering the ring. Promoter McCarey de cided that the contest would be staged as a night event. 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