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TTEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, C,A„ SUNDAY, DECEMRER U,
1013.
Ad Wolgast, Former Lightweight Champion, Who
Will Probably Show His 1 v ares Here This 1 Vinter
Picks Hogsett and Merrilat as Ends;
Ballin and Talbot, Tackles; Pennock
and Brown, Guards; Desjardien,
C enter; Huntington, Quarter; Craig,
Brickley and Mahan, Backfield.
The ex-light-
weight cham
pion is at pres
ent down to
hard training
for his bout
with Charlie
White at Mil
waukee Friday
night.
Walter Camp’s All-American Teams
FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD ELEVENS.
End—Hogsett, Dartmouth; Fritz, Cornell; Solon, Minnesota.
Tackle—Ballin, Princeton; Butler, Wisconsin; Halllgan, Nebraska,
Guard—Pennock, Harvard; Busch, Carlisle; Munns, Cornell.
Center—Des Jardien, Chicago; Marting, Yale; Patterson, Michigan.
Guard—Brown, Navy; Ketcham, Yale; Talman, Rutgers.
Tackle—Taibot, Yale; Weyand, Army; Storer, Harvard.
End Merrilat, Army; Hardwick, Harvard; Rockne, Notre Dame.
Quarter—Huntington, Colgate; Wilson, Yale; Miller, Penn State.
Halfback—Craig, Michigan; Spiegal, Wash. & Jeff; Baker. Princeton.
Halfback—Brickley, Harvard; Guyon, Carlisle; Norgren, Chicago.
Fullback Mahan, Harvard; Eichenlaug, Notre Dame; Whitney, Dart.
N EW Y^RK, Dec. 13.—The last chapter of the football history
ot 1913 has been written. Walter Camp, the “Grand Old
Man” of American football, an the greatest expert on
the game in the country to-day, has made his All-American selec
tion, and nothing more remains to be said on the subject. The ar
ticle in which Camp selects the representative eleven will appear
in Collier’s for December 30.
This year, Camp, who is head of the advisory committee on
football at Yale has distributed his favors with prodigality, nine
different schools being represented on his first eleven. He has se
lected two men from the West, Des Jardien, of Chicago, for cen
ter, and Craig, of Michigan, for halfback. The only college
having more than one man on the team is Harvard, which is rep
resented by Brickley at halfback, Mahan at fullback and Pennock
at guard, while Yale has but one man, Talbot, at tackle. Also
' this year a minor college is represented on the first team, by Hunt
ington, of Colgate, at the quarterback position.
Hogsett, of Dartmouth, and
Merrilat, of the Army, drew the
first selection for the ends, while
Ballin, of Princeton, filled in at
the other tackle position, and
Brown, of the Navy, was made
first choice for right guard. 4
Camp Praises Hogsett.
In reviewing: his first team selec
tion, Camp first takes up the ends.
Of Hogsett he says:
“Although perhaps regarded as
small for the position of end. he
demonstrated thoroughly his ability
to discount criticism of that kind.
He was wonderfully fast down the
field, a clever tackier, quick to size
up the situation, and a first-class
man on attack. His former expe
rience as a halfback made him dou
bly serviceable in interference and
rounded out his play into a complete
product of gridiron skill. He is a good
receiver of passes, and quick and ac
curate in diagnosing a play.**
Discussing Merrilat, he says:
added asset, for his field goal kicks
have before this brought victory to
the Navy and this year these kicks
scored all of their nine points against
the Army."
Western Man at Center.
In discussing his selection for cen
ter, Camp says:
Des Jardien, of the University of
Chicago, was the best center in the
country and did much to enable his
team to win the long-desired victory.
He was steady and reliable in his
passing, giving a ball easy to handle.
He was also absolutely dependable
for his share at line work on attack
and was a power on defense.”
Coming down to the backfield men
he writes:
‘For the position of quarter, there
was developed a man who has the
speed of a first-class track athlete,
w ho handles the bail as easily as he
would a basebaii. who has power, ac
curacy and, above all. coolness and an
excellent Judgment for plays. This
man, Huntington, of Colgate, by his
wor.c In the quarterback position was
a large factor In Colgate’s successful
He is strong, fast and has an season. He is one of the best hand
lers of the ball on the gridiron, botli
111 Vl i a Vionl.^ j .
Bv Frank G. Menke.
N EW YORK. Dec. 13.—It all (1 e-
pendn on the sort of athlete
referred to—that’s the answer
to the question: "At what age is an
athlete at his best?'
In baseball an athlete usually
reaches his prime around 25, and
goes into the discard around 80; in
boxing the limit ranges from 20 to
26; in football It is from 17 to 23,
with the crest around 20; but ther 1
are exceptions to these rules as there
are exceptions to all the rules.
Wulter Johnson, the whirlwind
twirler of the Senators, has Just
turned 26, and looks good for ten
yearn more in major league society.
Tv Cobb, of the Detroit Tigers, and
Eddie Collins, of the Athletics, are
around 27, and, barring accident,
ought to be cavorting on the big
'eague diamonds for ten years more.
The same Is true of Joe Wood, the
Boston twirler, rtow 24; "Tris” Speak
er, the Boston outfielder, now 29; Joo
lackson, the Cleveland slugger, who
is around 25, and Jimmy Archer, the
Cub catcher, who already has leach
ed 30.
Old Players in Game.
Mathewson, of the Giants, now Is
33, has been in the big league for
thirteen years and 1h still one of the
greatest twirlers that ever stepped id
the mound. Eddie Plank, the port-
side filnger of .the Athletics, is 37, has
been many years in service and attll
is a star of the first water.
The national game does not boast
of two better inflelders, two grander
sluggers than Lajoie, of the Naps,
and Wagner, of the Pirates. Wag
ner is 40 and has mingled in nig
leugue battles for seventeen seasons.
Lajoie is about two years the junior
of the Pirate, and has been in major
leagues for fourteen years.
What’s the answer? First, that
these four men are among the great
est natural ball players ever born.
And the second part of the answer !s*
that they have kept them&elves In
condition through the year*—have
lived straight, clean lives, have taken
care of their physical selves and so
have survived the legions who have
come anil gone during the past sev
enteen years.
In tennis there la no real ago
boundary. Just now It looks as If
youth has the call because Maurice
Mc.Loughlin, the Californian, and na
tional champion, is only 23, and R.
Norris Williams, second, is the same
age. These two, with their two team-
mates, who won the international
tennis championship, averaged around
23. But. in rebuttal, Wildinr, the
great New Zealander atar. wno de
feated McLoughlin, is well Into his
thirties, and many of the greatest
tennis players In America and 1n Bu-
rope are over 30, and some are near
ing the 40 mark.
No Age Limit in Golf.
In golf it is the same as in tennis.
Ouimet, the American open cham
pion, Is only 20. Travers, one of the
greatest goifers In the country Is 26.
Most of the American stars are either
under 23, or only slightly over it. But
in England it Is somewhat dlffereni.
Vardon and Hay, that wonderful paiT,
are nearing the grandfather aare. Hil
ton, the English amateur champion,
is over 40. and J. H. Taylor, opsn
champion. Is 43.
Football calls for youth, and the
gridiron gladiators seem at their best
around 20 and 21. Before that age
the player has not arrived at his full
development; usually after it the
strenuous game exacts It# toll and
after a player reaches 23 or 24 hla
effectiveness Is gone.
LOOK, BOYS!
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excellent intuition. He is early down
the field under kicks, a good runner
with the ball, a hard, sharp tackier,
and has enough weight to he effec
tive in blocking on the line as well as
In meeting interference. Then he is
the star of the year in his handling
of the receiving end of the forward
pass, as his great work in the Navy
game showed, when he made two
touchdowns by this route.”
Ballin and Taibot at Tackles.
He writes of Ballin, the Princeton
tackle:
"He is a remarkable tackle of the
type that elevates that position to
one of especial interest in American
football. A guard and center must
be steady beyond all things. A tackle
has an opportunity to show brillian
cy and aggressive work, and has
more right to roam over the field
if he has the ability to size up sit
uations quickly. This Ballin had, and
in addition to his excellent line work
it was he who, on one or two occa
sions in the game against Harvard,
proved fast enough to get down the
field after the secondary defense had
missed the man and to overtake him
from behind.”
Of his other selection for tackle,
Camp has this to say:
'Talbot, of Yale, is the product of
persistent persevering, painstaking
efforts. He possesses a remarkable
physique for the position. Like Ballin,
of Princeton, he is also good in get
ting down the field under kicks, and
while not so fast as the Princeton
man he is slightly stronger on de
fensive work.”
Pennock a Revelation.
Pennock, the Harvard guard, Camp
alludes to as a revelation. After dis
cussing Pennock’s proclivity for
opening up holes in the opponent's
line for his own backs. Camp con
tinues:
“He has proved the most consistent
guard, exhibiting the same qualities
that gave him the place over any
others last year. In fact, It is only
fair to give him credit for something
better than consistency. If he did
not play such a well-rounded-out
game he would be regarded as bril
liant, for practically no plays have
been made through him and he is
the best man in any line this season
on slipping a quiet opening for his
back to come through."
Referring to Brown, of the Navy,
his selection for the other guard po
sition, Camp writes:
“Brown would make an ideal mate
for Pennock. While perhaps not so
strong on his feet as the Harvard
guard, he is rangier, extremely pow
erful and a bulwark to the line. Plays
can be built on or around him which
few guards could take care of, and
on the defense he is an immovable
block. His ability as a kicker is an
in feeding his backs and’moving"|n-
to the most advantageous position for
them to execute their plays. He is
an accurate passer, cool and steady
On Colgate’s slight shift, in which
the backfield has moved a little to
one side or the other, the work of
Huntington in putting himself in po-
?° that ‘he back might most
easily take tile ball, was not excelled
oy anybody for. years. "He is fast
strong and cool—three excellent
requisites for the position. He can
cover the hundred yards in close to
40 1-6 second and is an expert for-
ward passer.
Brickley the Big Star.
Taking up the other backfield men
Camp hag this to say:
n . comes to the halfbacks
and fullbacks there is again a pleth-
ora of candidates, with Brickley, of
course the star. This man needs llt-
L,® further description as deserving
PHn ? year His kI<; X in
the Princeton game, which won the
game, while It was a short one. was
Jhet y t h Ver > y r, emarka hle. from the fact
, at ball was heavy and grease
the field thick with mud, requiring
lL U k U8Ua n 1 -' 16 to F p t the bull over
the ■ bar. Brickley showed in that
game also some remarkable running
” ot ?! oa ® in breaking, but after
he got through the line. He followed
U P with five goals from the field
m tne Vale game, monopolizing all the
scoring for his side In that contest as
well as doing some excellent line
plunging. Altogether he kept undl-
mlnished his last season’s reputation,
and added a few more laurels.
Mahan All-Round Star.
“Mahan, of Harvard, Is one of the
beat all-round backfield men to en
ter the universities in a long time
He is a good kicker and a fine for
ward passer, but his greatest forte
lies in his end runs, either from the
kick formation or running hack In the
open. He has that deceptive change
of pace which must always charac
terize a runner who is to be suc
cessful in this line. He is also very
cool and will wait for the tackier to
almost reach him and then slip
him. His accuracy in punting is also
an added quality and he can get a
quick kick from short distance from
behind his line, placing it with cer
tainty and dispatch.
Craig Gets Backfield Berth.
“Craig, of Michigan, came in to
his ow n with a vengeance and would
fill out this backfield in idea! fashion.
“Brickley and Mahan are botli
rather Inclined to take the shortest
distance to the point they wish to
reach, while Craig is rather more
facile at slipping the would-be tack
ier and finding an opening. He was
the man w ho brought his team from
a very mediocre beginning to a frui
tion of a complete success for Yost."
OTHER SUSS TO
Good Bouts Are Being Arranged
by Local Promoters for the
Gate City Fans.
S OME corking good boxing mills
are being arranged for Atlanta
fans, and right after New
Year’s It is likely that the cream of
the lightweights will display their
stock-in-trade here.
Arrangements are now being made
whereby Ad Wolgast. former light
weight champion of the world, will
fight Prank Whitney or Charley
White about the middle of January.
Wolgast has announced his willing
ness to box here if the proper induce
ments are made.
Packey McFarland will also come
to Atlanta during the. winter boxing
season. If Packey will make any
reasonable weight Jack Britton says
he will battle the stockyard champion
here on a winner-take-all basis.
Britton claims that McFarland lip
ped the beam at 150 pOunds when
they met in Milwaukee the other
night.
Charley White, who was shaded by
Johnny Dundee in New Orleans a,
fortnight ago. wants to meet Dundee
again a*nd local promoters are figur
ing on rematching this pair.
I,each Cross also wants to come
here. Cross and White would prob-
ablv furnish the greatest fight ever
held in tw- South, and this scrap may
be arranged within a few days.
Change and Mack
Use Different Tactics
On Baseball Field
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—Every major
league baseball player has nis pecu
liarities. Connie Mack keeps score, and
makes note of all me bad plays. He
tells his men about their faults the next
day when the meeting is called at the
hotel, when the club is on the road,
and in the clubhouse when at home.
Frank Chance tells the boys about the
plays as they make them on the lot.
The New York men will never forget
Chance on a few occasions during the
past season, when he told one of his
outfielders where he got off.
Jt was during a game in Cleveland
with a man on first base. Olsen hit
the ball to the shortstop. The latter
had no troiible in stopping the ‘pill.’’
but in his anxiety to make a double
play by touching second, then throw
ing to first, he missed the middle bag.
and also lost the man at first.
“What are you trying to pull off out
there?’’ shouted Chance from the bench.
“Why, I was trying to make a double
play." answered the shortstop.
“Let me tell you something. - ’ said the
manager. “You keep on making double
plays like that and you w ill doub e-piay
yourself to Kalamazoo.”
Sporting Food
* By QBOHaK B- *MAI»
JOE TINKER.
Joe Tinker icon a manager mho al
most ran a team;
| To win a big league pennant was his
long and lasting dream.
Hut he signed with Garry Herrmann.
He knew the game from soup to nuts
and fought from bell to bell;
He fitught his owner all the year, and
f(night his owner well.
But he signed with Garry Herrmann.
IJc couldn't win for Herrmann with
a thousand years of work.
For a manager is sat on and becomes
a common clerk
When he signs with Garry Herrmann.
The sole cause of the split between
Messrs. Tinker and Herrmann was
that Joe wanted to be a manager,
wherea® Garry wanted a messenger
boy.
We often hear of ivory displayed by
ball players, but it is infinitesimal be
side the ivory exhibited by get-rich-
quick gents who own baseball clubs.
Reports from Paris indicate that
Jack Johnson is a strong exponent of
wrestling. We also have extraordi
narily warm weather in this vicinity.
Connie Mack has signed another In
dian, despite the fact that he has the
Indian sign on anything connected
with or appertaining to baseball.
PUGNACITY.
“You great big bum!" the fight fan
yelled
Beside the ring where fights are held.
“You great big bum. get in and scrap
And slam this geezer on the map!
You stall around tike some big rube
And wallop like a hopeless boob!
Why, 1 could climb through them
there ropes
And clean you both, you poor old
mopes !**
He ambled home at 2 a. m.
His iejfe arose and said, "Ahem!"
His fighting blood had beat it hence
And he resembled thirty cents.
Physically, John K. Tener is big
enough to be a white hope, but men
tally lip is not that small.
Sixty-seven Horses
Enter $20,000 Derby
MONTREAL, CANADA. Dec. 1 —
The entries for the 520,000 interna
tional derby of the Dorval Jockey Cluo
of Montreal closed with 67 horses en
tered, including nominations by many
of the most prominent owners on the
American continnent, and the success
of the event seems assured.
The winning owner will receive
$16,000 in Canadian gold, the owner of
the second horse $2,000, the owner of
the third one $1,300 and the owner « f
the fourth $300. It will be tlie rich
est race ever run in Canada.
BERRY TO HEAD SWIMMERS.
CHAMPAIGN, ILL., Dec. 13.—Edward
If. Berry, of Oak Park, was appointed
manager of the Illinois swimming team
an its proposed Eastern trip iu Febru
ary.
IS
The photograph
at the left
shows Wolgast
shooting a left
to the hody,
with the right
ready to follow
to the same
spot.
At the right the
‘' Michigan
Bearcat”
is shown shift
ing, one of his
favorite
methods of at
tack when at
range.
XMAS PRESENTS
Two Dozen Preparatory Contests
on Ante-Season Schedule of
New York Americans.
N 'KW YORK, Dec. 13 Frank
Chances Yankees will next
spring engage in the most pre
tentious training schedule ever at
tempted by that club. The regulars
of the New York Americans are billed
for an even twd dozen preparatory
contests, the majority of them with
clubs of sufficient clans to make the
big leaguers extend themselves.
In many respects the plans mapped
out by Chance, made possible by the
fact that his club will train at Hous
ton, Texas, are similar to those ob
served by John J. McOraw the past
several years. Within a week after
the club goes into camp both first and
second, squads will be sent out to ad
jacent ' towns Vi Saturdays anrl Sun
days for real trials. These regulars
and colts will alternate, the second
team on Sunday supplanting the Sat
urday stand of the first squad. Six
games will be played by each of these
clubs before the journey northward.
The Kilties will leave Texas Sun
day, March 22, beating it home by way
of Memphis, Birmingham, Atlanta,
Charlotte, Richmond. Norfolk and
Baltimore. Two game/ each are
booked at Richmond and Norfolk, so
that the athletes should be pretty well
acclimated, on their return. Once
back, the real tuning-up processes
will be in order.
The complete training and ante-
season schedule follows:
Saturday, March 7, Beaumont.
Texas (first team), and Houston,
Texas (second team); Sunday. March
8, Houston (first), Beaumont (sec
ond); Saturday, March 14, Houston
(first team). Galveston (second
team); Sunday, March 16, Galveston
(first), Houston (second); Saturday,
March 21. Houston (first team), Beau
mont (second team); Sunday, March
22, Beaumont (first), Houston (sec
ond), ^Tuesday. March 24, Memphis,
Tenn.: Wednesday, March 25, Bir*
mingham, Ala.; March 26. Atlanta;
March 27, Charlotte, N. C. (with Buf
falo. International); March 28 and
30. Richmond; March 30, Norfolk
(second team); March 31, Norfolk.
Va. (first team); Wednesday. April I,
Baltimore, Md.; Thursday. April 2, 3
and 4. Brooklyn, at Brooklyn; Sun
day, April 5, Jersey City; April 7,
Brooklyn, at Brooklyn; April 8 and
9. Phillies, at Philadelphia: Friday.
April 10, Baltimore, Md.; Saturday,
April 11, Brooklyn, at Brooklyn.
I Sam Harris Faces
‘Gossip’ Charge by
Milwaukee Club
MILWAUKEE, WIS., Dec. 18.—Sam
I Harris, manager of Kid Williams, the
Baltimore claimant to the bantam title
of the world, faces prosecution under
Wisconsin’s new gossip law for talking
too much to Chicago newspapers about
the financial condition of a Milwaukee
fight club which holds his forfeit for
Williams’ appearance here the last of
this month in defense of his title. Har
ris, be foie leaving Milwaukee after
Williams fought Dick Load man, of
Pittsburg, here, signed a contract for
Williams to fight Patsy Br&nnigan, also
of Pittsburg, and posted a $509 forfeit
with the local club, l^ater, however,
other clubs bid higher for the mutch
and Harris tried to recover the forfeit
money, charging that .the club which
had the forfeit was on the point of
bankruptcy.
For this charge In Chicago the local
club involved threatens suit for dam
ages under the State gossip law and
will also take measures, to have Wil
liams barred from fighting In Wiscon
sin, New York and Louisiana, where
there are boxing commissions, under the
inter-State agreements which makes a
boxer who violates Jiis agreement In
one State ineligible to appear in an
other.
The gossip law. however, will be the
chief point of attack against Harris,
and he has been warned to take back
ids remarks about the solvency of the
local promoters or stand suit. The
The gossip law affects all persons who
untruthfully talk about other persons’
affairs and is to individuals what libel
j laws are to newspaper publications.
i MOTORBOAT FOR CREW COACH.
MADISON, WIS., Dec. 13.—Rowing
I Coach Harry E. Vail, of the Univer
sity of Wisconsin, will have no trou
ble scooting about from one end of
Lake Mendota to the other next
spring to coach his crews. The ath
letic council has decided to buy him
a high-power motorboat.
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