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_TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1916.-
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-GEORGIAN SPORTS COVERED & EXPERTS™
Sectional Results in Football Also Discussed by
Noted Football Authority, Who Announces
His “Annual List’ of College Stars for Year.
The foliowing astory by Walter
Camp, the noted foothall expert,
should prove interesting reading for
!MM fana din this section. In his
honor roll” Hat, printed in box form,
~ Camp names seven Tech men—Cor
penter, Lang, PAMllips, Morrison,
Johnston, Strupper ond Spence; ofher
Southern football stars are also men
tioned.
By Walter Camp.
HE football season of 1916 has
proves what was predicted by
the writer—~that the blems
of attack and defense In ufl? game
which {s now crystallizing into definite
form are becoming each year more
and more complicated. There are two
forces at work continually. One Is
the effort to devise plays and by
plays. I have no reference to fakes
g or tricks or startling demonstrations
that might work once in a while, but
a really organized form of attack that
shall force the opposing line to spread
out, and thus stretch itself so that
there are vulnerable points.
The other force is that of the de
fense which is planning all the time
to find some method by which they
can spare a man who is now some
where in their backfield in order
that he may reinforce these thinner
points on the line. For several years
the teams have taken a center back
of the line and made him a roving
center in order that he may rein
force other points at the moment of
attack. This is still effective under
certaln conditions but it has sug
gested to the minds of students of
defense how valuable It would be
if there could be no such rover and
if he could be drawn from the back
,Meld and still not leave that back
fleld vulnerable to forward passes oF
quick kicks. All this makes for
greatly increased interest and a
really more sclentific development of
the game.
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I.\' the Bast, the season’s excitement
was carried to the very end, because
Harvard and Yale had both beaten
\ Princeton and hence the Yale-Har
vard game settled the issue between
these three old rivals. And Yale
won. But Brown had beaten Yale
and Harvard, while Colgate had been
beaten by Yale, Hence the Colgate-
Brown game, if won by Brown, would
give her the premier position. But,
alas for Brown, and the simple solu
tion of leadership, Colgate defeated
Brown and thus tangled matters up
badly. Pittsburg and the Army went
through the season undefeated, but
neither of them played Colgate,
Brown, Yale or Harvard. Hence the
winter will be filled with dicussion.
The contest in the Middle West
roved very extraordinary. At the
goclnninx of the season a great deal
was expected from Wisconsin and
her new Harvard system of coaching
. with Withington in charge. Chicago,
. too, was regarded as having better
looking material than for some two
or there seasons. Minnesota was,.
however, the favorite on account of
w over veterans in their good}
work of the year hefore. The team
that apparently stood in their way
was to be Illinols. Northwestern and |
Ohio State were not much in the
recokning, and yet, as a matter of |
fact, as things turned out, these two(
came through unbeaten until Lhelr‘
final contest of November 25, In
which Ohlo State won out, 28 to 8,
largely due to the {ndividual work of
Harley. ‘
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MINNESOTA would have had a
clear lead had it not been for a
disastrous defeat at the hands of -
nols 14 to 9. One fatal inetrcepted di- |
agonal forward pass over the end of
the line thus spelt the ruination of
Minnesota's season, for there could
be no question In the mind of any
who saw her powerful attack, when‘
b it was going, as to the enormous
amount of drive in it and the way
in which it subjugated the opposi
tion. Nor did Illinois profit mate
rially by this defeat of Minnesota, ex-‘
cept as a great satisfaction for
Zuppke, the coach, and Macomber, the
captain, for Illinois was defeated by
( Colgate and Chicago. The Ohlo State
/! team under Coach Wilce had a most
satisfactory season and developed an
exceptional star in Chick Harley,
who was the best of the Middle West‘
backfield by all odds.
Following him closely Wwas, how
ever, Driscoll of Northwestern, the
diminutive back of 147 pounds, but
as slippery an individual as ever
wore cleats. It was a pleasure to
record the advance of Nnrthwestemi
under Coach Murphy, for he had had
hard sledding for two or three years.
Kansas beat Nebraska for the first.
time in several years, while out on
the coast Oregon and the University
of Washington both finished unde
feated. Notre Dame beat Nebraska
20 to 0, and played a strong game
#against the Army, but lost 20 to 10.
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S OUTHERN football became com
plicated In a similar fashion to
that of the Middle West, but did not
result in so many marked upsets, For
a time it looked as though Auburn,
Vanderbilt and Georgia Tech would
_fight it out, but Vanderbilt was de
feated by Tennessee and Auburn by
Vanderbilt. Tennessee was tied by
Kentcky State, and as Tennessee
did not meet Georgia Tech it left the
usual post-seagon discussion to set
tle claims. Washington and Lee un
der Coach FElcock showed well in a
Northern trip. They also tied Geor
gla Tech 7 to 7, their most notable’
~ games being a close game with the
Army, which they lost 13 to 7, a'tie
s-me with Rutgers, 13 to 13, a defeat
‘y4ot the Navy 10 to 0, and another
"close game with Washington-Jeffer
son, which they lost'lo to 6. Hence
. Washington and Lee, Georgia Tech
and Tennessee each hold a high place
~ and their individual partisans will
_ fight it out in words.
By WALTER CAMP, l
LAI'I‘ year we gave a list of &
hundred players of prominence.
S 0 great had been the general de
velopment and Increase of really
skilitul players that it would be Im- "
possible to keep the number of those
deserving mention in the season of
1916 down to that number. Here
are those who have done well in the
various sections of the country—a
so-called honor roll: |
Ends, 1
, Obl. o , Princeton, 1
Caamtellanos, Oolgaie i ‘n Sigte ‘
&.‘. Foe '3:“l‘ Ohregon }
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o Venderitth. ey |
\ w Melean, Prinoston |
| Fa. Stala lgl . Wash
| Oourtney, Ohlo State | U mor, G"own
| Qonper, Louist ana. Petty, Litnols.
{ DeVitalia, Brown. Thornbdll, Pitt
Ducote, Auburn. Thrash, U o Ge
Gates, Yale Ward, Navy.
Homing. Celgate West, Ooigste
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{ ....‘.d:-nm Ldpscom. Vanerdbit
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‘2 Dadmund, Harvard Purdue. &
) Farnum, Brown. Seagraves, Wash. Un.
{ Garreit, Rutgens Siles, Put
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3 g T ™ Virginia.
‘ . Wheelor, Harvard. 1
\ e Tech. White, Syracuse. ‘
Lowe, 1
1 Centers. 1
COallahan, . Piva. 1
! Dittmar, ‘?‘-‘:. !mu- Ga. Tech |
{ tiennert, Princeton. { Auburn. '
{ Holtkamp, O. 8. . B G :
w. Wash. State | . Minn. '
{ an, Army. ! 4
Quarterbacks. :
, Colgate. ~ Minn. :
Pa : ‘fluumvc_ut '
rry, Vanderbilt | Macomber, 11 1
art, Pltsburg. Morrison, Ga. Tech.
’ am, Dash. State, | Murray, Harvard. ‘
‘ Tulane. Purdy, Brown. ‘
{ Gerhart, Army. | Robinson, Harvard 4
Creen, Unly. of Ala | Scarr, h’%eu |
er—. Chicago. | Shiverick, 3 4
rston, Aubum. | Smith, Yale 1
{ Laßoche, Yale. | Sharp, California. |
? Halves and Fullbacks. |
§ Anderson, Mississipp. Johnston, Ga. Tech |
{ Bergman, Notre Dame. Keating, m#a b
5 Berry, Pa Kohler, N. |
; &S'Anhm. LeGore, Yale w
4 5 ‘(v,‘::gunh. I)::i.n" w‘ |
, _Harvard. Maulbetsoh, Michigan. |
%. Pa State Mueller, Cornell. :
'all, Notre Dame. McCreight, W. &J. j
$ Donm Fordham. McKay, North Dak.
Deetjen, Wesleyan. McLaren, Pitt.
{ Drisceil, N. W. Newman, Oreg. Aggies
Emery, Tennessee. Neville, Yale. ‘
{ Everhard, Indlana. %‘fl. Army. ‘
{ Floyd, Vanedrblit. , Brown
{ Flannagan, L. 8. U. Parsons, Oregon. ‘
S Gllroy, Georgetown. Prendergast, Auburn.
, Dartmouth. Revington, Auburn. ‘
ough, Idaho. Rodgers, W. Va ‘
m-.. Pitt. Schville, Miss. A&M
ouse, Brown. Rarmon, swwa. ‘
Hazel, R,uomn Sprafka, Minn. ‘
{ Rubbell, ate. Sorenson, Ohlo State.
2 Harley, Ohio State. Strupper, Ga. Tech.
Hoover, Whit. fir\a-, Ga. Tech. 4
Horween, Harvard. Vidal, Army. \
g Hazell, Rutgers. Westcott, Tufts. |
Hazel, Rutgers. Wyman, Minn. 1
Huntington, Oregon. Young, W. & L. f
{ Ingram, Navy. :
) (Copyright, 1916, Otis F. Wood.) :
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Alabama's Schedule
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TUSCALOOSA, ALA., Dec, 12.—The
football schedule for the University of
Alabama for 1917 has been announced
by Mana%er Hugo Friedman, as follows:
September 29—Southern University on
campus.
October 6—Southern University on
campus,
October 13—Mississippi College on
campus.
October 20—Open.
October 27—University of Mississippi
on ecampus.
November 3—Sewanee at Birmingham.
: November 10—Vanderbilt at Birming
am.
November 17—Tulane on eampus.
Thanksgiving Day—Georgia at Bir
mingham.
This schedule probably means the sev
erance of relations between ‘Alabama
and Tech, the latter team being left out
by Alabama to take on Vanderbilt.
Held Saturday Night
The annual football banquet of the
Tech varsity will be given Saturday
night, December 16, at the Druid Hills
Golf Club.
The success of the 1916 team has been
unprecedented in the annals of football
at Georgia Tech. With this fact in
mind the 1916 banquet will in every way
be in keeping with the record of the
1916 team and should set the high
water mark for gala occasions of this
nature.
Members of the Tech team wili elect
the 1917 captain, while letters will also
be awarded for the 1916 season.
Jimmy Duffy Stops
Melzer in Eighth
CINCINNATI, Dec. 12.—Jimmy Duffy
last niqht disposed of Eddie Mezger
in the e %hth round of a scheduled ten
round mill.
TODAY’S SPORT EVENTS.
Annual meetlng of National Baseball
League at New York.
Opening of the annual bench show of
New Haven Kennel Club at New Ha
ven.
Annual meeting of Metropolitan Golf
Association at New York.
| Jack Sharkey vs. Gardper Brooks, ten
rounds, at New York,
Silk Hat Harry
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I ES DARCY, the Australian boxer
4 who is on his way to this country,
has & lp-rfln'f partner named Jim Tra
cy, who, he figures, will be the man to
give Willard a battle for the champion
ship. Tracy is only 18 years oid, weighs
182 pounds, and stands 6 feet 4 inches.
He &ocdlod the “Cornstalk.”
MIKI GIBBONS, the St, Paul middie
welight, is a product of the Y. M
C. A. During his ring career he has
shared in many big purses. He has built
an attractive house for his family, which
includes two children, and also built a
residence for his parents.
SANDV FERGUSON, the big heavy.
weight, who once knocked out Gus
Ruhlin, is training in Philadelphia with‘
the intention of staging a “‘come back"/
in the pugilistic arena.
OHNNY SALSBERG, the New York
| bantam who has been dllphyln(
considerable class of late, is an!clng for
a match with either Johnny Ertle or
Kid Williams.
J IMMY PAFPPAS, claimant of the fiy
weight title of this country, lis
scheduled to meet a lad named Frankis
Mullen in a ten-round battle at Cleve
land tonight. This will be Pappas’ first
bout since his scrap with Lahn.
BENNY LEONARD Is billed to ex
change wallops with Sammy Robi
deau In a twelve-round miil at Provi
dence, R. 1., on Wednesday night.
CHARL!‘IY SOUTH, a local 128-pound
er, is anxious to get on around
thege parts. South is boxing dally with
Battling Clarke and other local boys.
I T may. surprise some, but it is not
entirely unlikely, that Gibbons some
of these fine days may pack up his grip
and make the trip to Australia to '“call”’
Darcy. Some few days before the Phan
tom fought Dillon in Bt. Paul he was
talking to Harry Sherman, the promoter
who staged the bout, and, nccordln% to
Sherman, he remarked: ‘‘After I lick
Dillon I want to lick a couple of other
fellows; then 1 may close up my boxing
career with a trip to Australia.” And if
Gibbons goes to Australia ever{)body
knows there will be a Gibbons-Darcy
battle,
HARRY DUNDERDALE, who is weil
versed in the boxing game, thinks
Billy Hooper is one of the best negro
boxers in the country his weight. Dun
derlee refereed Hooper's bout with a big
negro named Griffin in Albany recently.
and, according to Harry, Hooper won
the decision after a great ten-round
battle.
K ID WILLIAMS, bantamwelght cham.
pion, sends along some clippings of
his bout with Billy Fitzsimmons, the
New York bantam, in Baltimore the
other night. According to the scribes
Williams handed the ghsterner some
what of a lacing.
Willarad-Carapentier
Match Stifi) in Air
NEW YORK, Dec, 12.—The proposed
match between Jess Willand and
George Carpentler, the French cham
pion, was still very much up in the air
today. Out of the flood of reports,
“gtraight goods” interviewe with per
sonages connected with the affair, and
suppositions, it developed that Carpen
tier has not received permission to come
to the United States, althourh arrange
ments are understood to be in the mak
ing.
Tex Rickard, the promoter, sald to
day he is still endeavoring to get Car
pentier and Darcy together, but Darcy’s
whereabhouts are uncertain, and Carpen
tier may not be able to come.
Kid Herman Has Easy
Time With Schneider
MEMPHIS, Dec. 12.—Pete Herman, of
New Orleans, last night had an easy
time whipping Leo Schneider, the st.
Louls bantam, in elght rounds.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, Dec. 12.—Bryan
Downey won over Johnny Harvey in 12
rounds here last night. 4
~THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN-
WILLIAMS PLACED AT No. |
IN OFFICIAL NET RANKING
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By Arthur Robinson.
EW YORK, Dec. 12.—The two
N outstanding features of the re
port of the executive commit
tee of the United States National
Lawn Tennis Association are con
tained In the findings of the ranking
committee and the intelligence that
the executive committee has—in its
own words—"decided to stand pat on
the recommendations already made,
as to changes in the amateur rule”
Here is how the first ten are offi
clally ranked:
No. I—R. 'Norris Williams, Jr.
No.2—William M. Johnston.
No.3—George M. Church.
No.4—R. Lindley Murray.
No. s—lchiya Kumagae.
No. 6—Clarence J. Brifin.
No.7—Watson M. Washburn.
’ No.B—Willis E. Davis.
No. 9—Joseph J. Armstrong.
No. 10—Dean Mathey.
The recommendations of the execu
tive committee concerning changes in
the present amateur rule will be act
ed upon by the delegates at large to
the annual meeting of the national
assoclation in February. These rec
ommendations are as follows: .
I—No player shall deliberately cap
italize his reputation.
2-—No player shall receive traveling
expenses for playing in a tournament,
team match or exhibition, except from
a club or association which he repre
sents.
3—All team exhibition matches
where gate receipts are charged shall
be under the strict supervision of the
executive committee. \
4—Players engaged lin the tennis;
goods business, though not made
professionals, shall, while so engaged,
be ineligible to compete in events
sanctioned by the U. 8. N. N, T. A.
s—There shall be a tribunal to in
terpret the amateur rule and apply it
to each individual case.
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THIS year’s first ten differs con
| siderably from that of last year.
‘Maurice E. McLoughlin, Kar] H. Behr,
Theodore Roosevelt Pell, Nathaniel
W. Niles and Walter Merrill Hall,
all of whom were in the first ten of
1915, are either unranked or rated
lower than they were last year.
Hall, who was No. 10 on last vear’s
list, is placed in Class 3, in among
those players who rate between the
thirtieth and fortieth best players—
the fourth ten. Behr, Pell and Niles
are in the second ten, while Mc-
Loughlin is unranked because of “in
sufficient data.”
Five new names appear in the first
ten. These are Murray, Kumagase,
the Japanese player; Davis, Arm
strong and Mathey.
In the second ten, upon equal foot
ing, but arranged alphabetically, are
Behr, Heath Byford, Conrad B. Doyle,
Harry C. Johnson, Niles, Pell, Harold
A. Throckmorton, W. T. Tilden, Jr,
K. H. Whitney and 8. Howard Vo
shell.
In the third ten are Leonard Beek
man, Craig Biddle, G. Colket Caner,
the Harvard football player; Willlam
J. Clothier, a former national cham
pion; Alrick H. Man, Jr,, Roland Rob
erts, Douglas Watters and Irving C.
Wright.
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IN the fourth ten are Charles M.
Bull, Jr., J. B. Cannon, Walter
Merrill Hall, Richard Harte, another
Harvard football player; Francis T.
Hunter, Fred €. Inman, Edwin P.
Larned, W. 8. McElroy, Hachishiro
Mikami, Kumagae’s doubles partner,
and John 8. Pfaffman.
One hundred plavers were ranked
by the committee, and in making its
findings the committee considered
card-index records of 4,606 players in
men’s singles and 2,111 teams in
men's doubles. A subcommittee, which
compiled the women's ranking list,
considered the records of 1,032 play
ers.
Here is how the doubles teams are
ranked:
I—William M. Johntson and Clar
ence J. Griffin, national champions.
2—Maurice E. Mcloughlin and
Ward Dawson.
3—George M. Church and Willis E.
Davis.
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b—‘nllno F. Johnston and Joseph
J. Armstrong.
Idw‘_'"d B. Alexander and Karl H,
7—Dean Mathey and Harold A.
Throckmorton. [
B—W. T. Hayes and R. M. Burdick.
9—Alrick H. Man, Jr, and C. M,
Bull, Jr,
10—Willls E. Davis and H. V. D.
Johns.
The women singles player's rank
qu for the first ten is as follows:
0. I—~Miss Molla Bjurstedt, na
tional champion.
No.2—Mrs. Edward Raymond.
No.3—Miss Evelyn Sears.
No.4—Miss Anita Meyers.
No.s—Miss SBara Livingston.
No. 6-—Miss Marie Wagner.
No. 7—Mrs. Homer B.‘amn. |
No. B—Miss Martha Guthrie. |
No. 9—Miss Eleanora Sears. 1
No. 10—Mrs. Barger Wallach. |
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TKE proposed changes in the am--‘
teur rule, if adopted at the nn-l
tional association’s meeting in Feb
ruary, will debar McLoughlin, John
'ston, Fred B. Alexander and several
other noted players from competition
in events scantioned by the anoch-i
tion. ~
These players are engaged in the
sporting goods business, and one of
the proposed changes alms directly at
players with commercial associations
of this sort.
‘ Widespread opposition is expected
to develop to these changes, but
‘thero fs one phase of the flxecutl\'e‘
committee’s recommendations which
suggests a strong possibility of a sat-i
isfactory adjustment of the matter.
This is the eclause which states
that “there shall be a tribunal to in
terpret the amateur rule and apply it
to each individual case.”
It is generally hoped that this tribu
nal will decide in favor of the play
ers if the recommendations of the
executive committee are adopted.
Thelr adoption, however, Is consid
ared a remote possibility, and it is
believed that Mcloughlin and John
ston, both former national champions,
together with Alexander, will con
tinue to compete in the big tourna
ments of the tennis season. \
The Pacific Coast Association is
strongly opposed to the proposed
changes, and has been waging an ac
tive campalgn against the recommen
dations of the executive committee of
the national body. It has enlisted the
sympathy and co-operation of the
tennis officlals in a great many dis
tricts on both sides of the Mississip
pi, and the indications are that the
proposals will be voted down.
Chattanooga to Play
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Florida and Sewanee
CHATTANOOGA, Dee, 12.—~The sched
ule of Chattanooga University as draft
ed to date, follows:
September 22-—Prep School at Cham
berlain Field.
September 29-—-Oglethorpe University
at Chamberlain Field.
October B—Open.
October 13—Pending.
October 20—~Howard College in Bir
mingham.
October 27--Tennessee in Knoxville.
November 3—Louisville in Loulsville
(probable).
November 10-—Maryville at Chamber
lain Field (probable).
November 17-—Sewanee at Chamber-~
lain Field.
November 29—Florida (probable).
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Captain Huston to
Hunt in Georgia
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.—Captain Til
Huston and a party of his friends will
invade Georgia during the holidays to
hunt and fish. The captain avers that
the fish in waters he knows are so
lentiful and wild that they will actually
sump into the boat.
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PHILANTHROPY.
When asked to fight for .hant{
Jess Willard answered “‘Certainiy!"
“The tales of woe In Europe often
grieve me to the core.
It cuts my heart to read of men who
spiil thelr ruddy gore,
And never get a chance to draw a jit
ney at the door.
“It chills my soul to think of men
whose ‘oumiul blood Is spent
In fighting fights that do not bring &
solitary cent,
| And of thelr famiiies at home who can
| not pay the rent.
“So | will fight with Carpentier at any
time or spot,
For where or when | fight a man—i{ do
not care a jot.
"I\ fight him In an opry house or on &
| \\ vacant lot.
"‘l ulm&:y want a milllon bones, a bonus
the side, ‘
And chicken feed for Thomas Jones, my
| old and trusty 'guldo.
For charity boglm. or me, where Wil
| lard’s folks abide.”
When asked to fight for chmtr
Jess Willard answered ‘Certainiyl® ™
The Willard-Carpentier match is 8
certainty aside from the fact that Anne
Morian. who is backing it, doesn’t know
anything about it, and that Carpentier,
who is fmng to fight, doesn't know any
thing about it, and that General Joffre,
who is going to hand Carpentier a leave
of absence, doesn’t know anything about
it, and that nobody knows anything
about it except the scribe who took a
shot in the arm. If the same scribe
had taken another shot he might have
scribed as follows:
CONSTANTINOPLE, Deec. 11.—Humld
Kalla Pasha, the Sultan’s Favorite
Wrestler, was released from service on
the Freelunch front today in order to
wrestle with George Hackenschmidt, the
Russian champion, in Albuguerque next
month. They will wrestle for charity,
the proceeds to be donated to the fund
for the u{)kwp of indigent vodka dis
tillers of Vladivostok.
THE BOXING PROMOTER MOANS,
Dead heads, dead heads everywhere,
On evorJ boxing night!
Dead heads, dead heads everywhere,
Nor any coln In sight!
Dead heads, dead heads, here and there
Confront my tearful eye!
| now have reason to believe
The cost of eggs is high.
It is rumored that Jack Curlgly will be
one of Les Darcy's managers. This con
firms the report that Darcy is a game
guy.
SENSIBLE PERSON.
Consider Jack, whose other name I 8
Curley.
He does his pugilistic copping early.
The ()ian% we understand, will wear
violet uniforms next vear. Whaddaya
mean modesty?
Ball players as a rule are modest lads.
1f you don’t believe It, take a look at
one of Helne Zim's neckties,
Headline—Welsh and Kilbane Likely
to Battle. But they are more likely to
box.
Gunboat Smith can exz)laln why Car
pentier’s first name |ls Georges. When
they fought In London, Gunboat saw
two of him.
It i not surprising to learn that the
Cubs will not come South next spring.
They didn’t come South with much last
summer.
BACK TO THE FEED BAG.
The baseball strike, the papers say, has
falien thin and flat,
The pla(oru jearn In winter where the
price of eats Is at.
Wolgast Signs for
Three More Fights
CHICAGO, Dec. 12.—Ad Wolgast, for
mer lightweight champion, has ll‘(‘,nod
up for three fights at Kenosha, iB.,
against any men that Promoter Jake
Gelsg may select.
Wolgast's come-back this year has
been .-urprisins. His record shows that
he has engaged in 30 fights, aggregating
more than 200 rounds.
Wolgast's next flght probably will be
against Patsy Cline in New York o
January 11.
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Commodores’ List of November
i Games Fails to Include Battles
i With Tech, Georgia or Auburn,
l By Fuzzy Woodruff.
' Vanderbilt sticks to its an-
I nounced schedule for November,
playing Kentucky, Tenneasee,
Alabama, Sewanee and Illinols, and
leaving Auvburn out of their plans, the
Commodores are cotng te win &
whole lot of championship claims, for
the very simple reason that they will
meet no Southern teams calculated
to interrupt their string of victories.
But good hard common sense, or as
much of it as we have with the ther.
mometer nfiutefln. freezing and the
weather feeling colder than that, tells
us that no championship claim is go
ing to recelve any very serious con
sideration in the future unless the
team m.klnfi that claim has met and
defeated at least two of the big four
of Dixie—Tech, Vanderbilt, Auburn
and Georgia.
A schedule which includes none of
these colleges may be a good schedule
from & sporting viewpoint, but it can
not be considersd a Trepresentative
Jayout of games for this section,
And if the Commodores persist in
this kind of a safe-and-sane schedule,
they are soon going to find football
Interest drifting away In Nashville,
and their claims, however loud, being
met with a lack of consideration that
they will richly deserve.
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JI'GT how the Commodores have
seen their way clear in forgetung
about their annual meeting with Au
burn in Birmingham is a problem.
This game has become a Southern
classic. It's on a par now with the
Tech-Georgia and the Auburn-Tech
battles in Atlanta, It is Birming
ham's best football bet, and it's one
of Vanderbilt's financial reliances.
But they kill that game AS remorse
lessly as a bald-headed man would
swat an annoying fly. Maybe politica
i{s the answer in this case, as it is the
answer in so many of our American
troubles.
Vanderbilt was the leading spirit in
fighting the one-year rule in the
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic As
soclation.
Tom Bragg, of Auburn, was Just as
vigorous In domsndhx that the one
year rule be established throughout
the South. |
The first big college to rush to the
assistance of Vanderbilt was the
University of Alabama, Auburn's ri
val for State patronage. Vandy and
Alabama turned the trick. Lined up
with the little colleges, they struck
Auburn and her associates hip and
thigh,
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THEN suddenly comes the an
nouncement that Vanderbllt and
Auburn will not meet in their annual
November game in Birmingham.
On the Saturday usually set aside
for this battle Alabama and the Com
modores will struggle at Rickwood
Field. The answer's casy, isn't it?
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Cub Fans Anxious
To Know Manager
CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-—-Cub fans are
awalting with an anxiety today the an
nouncement of the name of the man
who wlill pilot the team nexi season.
President Weeghman, attending the Na
tiondl League meeting in New York,
was expected to break the news by
wire. Who the new pilot will be still is
“ doer. dark mystery in Chicago.
willlarmm W, Wrigley, Jr., has acquired
some SISOOO more interest in the Cubs,
having purchased the stock yesterday
(l;)ohrlngu his total holdings up to $165,-
Incldentally It was revealed that
Weeghman and Willlam M. Walker, a
close business associate, are in control
of the Cubs. It means that Weeghman
will be re-elected president when the
stockholders meet next month.
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Frenchman to Start
For U. 8. Soon, Report
NEW YORK, Dec. 12—Georges Car
pentier, boxer and soldier, of France,
will start soon for the United States.
Tex Rickard announced that he has re
celved a cable from Deschamps, man
ager of Carpentier. The cable conveyed
the information that arrangements to
obtain the French champion’s furlough
would be made immediately and that
Carpentier was ready to box any one
Rickard might name.
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Virgets-Moran Bout
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Set for Friday Night
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 12.—The 20-
round bout between Phil Virgets and Pat
Moran, scheduled for last night, has
been postponed to Friday on account of
inclement weather.
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Johnny Kilbane Wins
Twelve-Round Bout
YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO, Dec. 12—
Johnny Kilbane, featherweight cham
pion, defeated Al Miller in a twelve
round bout here last night.
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ATLANTA. g i
Dreyfuss Among Those Expected
to Stir Up Plenty of Exclte
ment—Cubs May Name Leader
International News Serviee Sports
Editer.
EW YORK, Dec. 13~The set
N ting provided for the Nationa!
League meeting today by the
ruler of the weather was almost as
foreboding as some of mm
}um( have been issued by the
Leaguers who are assembled at the
Waldorf-Astoria for thelr aanusi
powwow,
Rauin—oold, gray and dreary—grove
the megnates to sheiter, and with the
prospect of & wrangle with the minor
league committee which will ask for
& new baseball board of uw
open affront of the In
leaguers, and Internal trouble In
thelr own lxuo. there was nothing
cheerful ah of Governor Tener's
constituents,
Barney Dreyfuss, minus the well.
known decoration of his messanine
lip, which he lost in an election bet,
but full of determination to stir up
his fallow magnates at today's meet.
Ing. was very much in evidence. Heo
came to town yesterday, and while he
refused to orate at length om his
plans, he permitted himself to de
quoted as follows:
“I am not saying whether or’ not
there will be fireworks In the meet
ing. I only know that I have some
suggestions to offer, and I think they
wil! all see sooner or later that the
government of the game must be
changed.”
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DREM’S& has been gunning for
Garry Herrmann ever sinoe the
Sisler case was decided against him
(Dreyfuss) by the naticnal commis
sion. He is still highly peeved over
losing Sisler, and he says he does not
want to take further chances of such
legislation by the commission,
President Tener, who generally pre
fers to\let his magnates do the talk
ing, sald that he expected his leag®
would approve of some new plan ‘
running the world’'s series. The divi
sion of receipts will be one important
item in the new plan, it is said, and
there is talk of a nine-game series
and cheaper prices.
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O.\'E of the most interested happen
ings expected today was that
Chrarles Weeghman, of the Chicago
Cubs, would name A& manager to sue
ceed Joe Tinker., Weeghman stated
yesterday that he had made no selec
tion at that time, but might *have his
mind made up within a few hours.”
Although he has gone on record that
he will not name Frank Chance, some
of the baseball experts seéem inclined
to think that the “Peerless Leader™
still has a look-in. Fred Mitchell, of
the Braves, is also a strong candidate
for the job, but it is said Boston
wants “Cy” Williams in a deal for
Mitehell, and Weeghman is loath to
part with ‘“Cyrus.”
| Mis. Helen Hathaway Britton ar
rived from St. Louls and Percy
Haughton came down from Boston,
giving every one ol the elght clubs
‘ representation,
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MA\ NAGER MILLER HUGGINS, of
| the Cardinals, is here, and Is
expected to make some deals, Wheth
er or not John J. McGraw will be
called upon to explain his action
when he deserted the Giant bench in
Brooklyn and made charges against
his players was a question. Me-
Graw sald he was ready to tell his
side of the matter at any time.
Trades between the club owners
werce freely predicted this morning.
and with so much to be done, it was
by no means a certainty that the
magnates would he able to wind up
all of their business during the day.
International Stirs
¢ :
Up Serious Rumpus
NEW YORK, Deo. 12.-~ln defying the
authority of the National Commgflon
the magnates of the International
League were belfeved today to have stir.
red up a serious rumpus in the ranks
of organized baseball,
The International League club owners
instructed President 4 Barrow to in
form the National Commission that Its
decision In the Newark case, ordering
the International club owners to pay
Charles Ebbets a sum of $9,000 to cover
his claims for loss of territory, would
not be carried out.
This stand, coupled with visible dis
sension in minor league ranks against
the present government of the game.
and demands which will be placed be
fore the National and American
leagues for equal representation in af
fairs between ma‘jor and minor league
olubs and the lifting of the draft from
Class AA leagues, foreboded a dangerous
storm in the realm of baseball.
The proposed interleague series be
tween tge International League and the
American Assoclation will be definitely
mapped out today. The International
Leaguers have voted to uphold the plan
and a joint committee representing the
two leagues will work out the detalls
today.
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