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Stirring Battle Between Seasoned Veterans Wasg
Best Spectacle of Year—Graves Did Brilliant
Work—Contest Extremely Rough, But Clean.
By O. B. Keeler. !
CCORDING to the traditional
A gpartan dope, the club five came
home on their shields Tuesday
night. But they were the livest look -
ing dead heroes 1 ever saw. And as
for their victorious foes, all I have to
gay 18, It ought to Be pretty soff for
Birmingham tonight.
No—not that exactly. But that cel
ebrated Tllinois aggregation was fair
|y well taken over the jumps. I think
it still is able to trim the Alabama
quintet. The club played the best
game in the world Tuesday night, and
it wasn't good enough to head the
Yankees. And I'll be hanged If I can
see Birmingham doing much, even
against the remnants.
You have to hand it to the I. A. .
If you didn’'t they would take it from
you, probably on a criss-cross, or
what I'd call a “guards forward” com
bination. Class? That bunch reeks
of it
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BX’T I'm going to hand it to the
Club, and especially I am going to
hand it to Johnny Graves. I held
off of Johnny after the Georgia game.
I rated him the star of the contest,
but he works for the same paper that
I do, and—well, you know. But not
this time. That little bear-éat is go
ing to get what is coming to him, it
the typewriter holds out.
The score, it may be well to men
tion, was 28 to 24, the visitors on
the long end, but not very long on
the long end. And fairly lucky to be
there, at that.
1 don't see a lot of use telling the
detailed st of the trouble. Nearly
everybody :r?tnwn saw it. The same
kind of crowd was there that attend
ed the Qeorgia game. The crowd
thought the Georgia game was the
limit, So 4id 1. We were all wrong.
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NOT S:I:lng to my own alleged
jud t at all, but to that of
such Wworthies as C(oke Davis, Joe
Gregg, Al Bilanchard and the totally
unreliable Bis Falvey-—judging by the
expressions of these and other case-}
hardened fans, there never was an
other basketball game like it any
where. It was anybody's game when |
the first half ended. It was anybody's
game until 40 seconds before the last!
gong clanged—and it was the Tli
nois combination that kept yelling at
the timekeeper to know “how much
more ‘
There is no denying that the Yanks
had the goods. | was born a South
erner—that s, on the south side of
Chicago—but I'd be the last to ques
tion the fact that the Yanks had the
goods. ‘
All T have to say is, they had one|
hellacious time delivering them. ‘
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ITHOUGHT the Georgia game was}
fast. I.still think it was fast.
But this one made tlte Georgia game
look as IT it was backing up. If the
Club had played the same ball
against Georgia that it played againet
llinois—but we won't monkey with
comparisons.
The Club scored first, as usual, The
Club can gcore the first basket on
anybody. Then the Northerners
started something. -If you will look
at the box score you will see that five
baskets were collected by the Hnnolu‘
guards and nonc hy the Ciub guarda.‘
This conveys an idea of what hap
pened.
It was a Yankee trick—but, Lord!
it was pretty to watch. I don’t know
enough basketball to name the play—
I'd call it & criss-cross or guards for
ward. They worked it half a dozen
different ways. The center would tip
the badl to a forward, playing back a
bit, and one of the guards would be
shooting down the floor at the same
time, and then it would be fiip-Aip
and-a-basket. Just llke that.
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WE'LL. the visitors had the town
boys running around in circles
with this clever piece of ingenuity.
They got a lead of half a dozen points
| before the Club hegan to regain con
. sclousness. It wag J. Graves who got
his head above water first. Johnny
suddenly discovered that following nis
opponent got him nowhere except
away from what happened. He adopt
ed the very sensible plan of releas
ing his man and waiting for the ball
instead. After that the play did not
work so well, because Johnny or Car
ter would be all tangled up with the
misplaced guard of the opposition
who was trying soulfully to shoot a
basket,
_Btill, the big boys from Chlcago
managed to hold their lead until.near
the end of the half. They outweighed
~ the town boys, and were desperately
. fast. The Club played a rough game,
‘ but you can’t rough 'b%‘ much ton
-4 nage to do any good. till, ilt both
ered the visitors a bit, and when the
Club shot two goals in rapid succes
llfi? and the half ended with the score
19-17. against the locals, the crowd
fancied hopefully that another Geor
gla finish was due.
. . .
BUT it waen't college lads the Club
was fronting. You can say all
you blame please about youth being
served, and sometimes it may be true,
but when it comes to a grueling fin
ish on @ basketball court, Friend
Youth is served rough, and that's a
faet. The youngsters play with a
wonderful dash for the first half and
| afl of the second. For the last sis
; n minutes I'd pick a team with
wrinkleg in ite face—the fine wrinkles
t drawn by hard tralning and many
DR.J.T.GAULT
SPECIALIST (for men)
ESTABLISHEDI4YEARS
22-34 INMAN BUILDING
Atlanta Georgla
A THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN B B SPORTING NEWS WRITTEN BY EXPERTS B M WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28,1917
'How A. A.C. Five Lost |
. After Winning 29 in é
{ A Row on Home Court |
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! OLLOWING is the line-up |
{ F and summary of last night's |
% struggle, showing the A. A, |
; C's first defeat on their home ;
court, after winning 29 straight: |
I. A. C. (28). A.A.C. (24). |
2 Griesle (6).....R.F..... Westmore- §
! land (12)
| Elliott (12).....L.F. ... Lester (8) |
{ C0chrane.......C...... Dußard (4) |
{ Frieling (8)....R.G......... Graves |
! Pressler (2)....L.G......... Carter }
[ Field Goals—A. A. C., 10 (Weet- |
g moreland 4, Lester 4, Dußard 2); 0
g IA. C, 12 (Griesle 3, Elliott 4, |
g Frieling 4, Pressler). §
! Field goals shot in first half—
! A.A.C.,8; I.A C,B. Score end of
{ first hali—l. A. C., 19; A. A, C., 17.
{ Field goals shot in last hulf-—;
VA.A.C, 2; 1. A.C, 4 Points scored
{ in last half—A A.C, 7; 1. A. C, 0. g
g Fouls committed—A. A, C,, 5; |,
IA G $
é Foul goals shot—Westmoreland, |
{ 4 out of 5 triale; Elliott, 4 out of 5 ¢
! trials. ‘
| Referee — Albert Blanchard. }
;| Timekeepers—Williams, Atlanta; {
) Pressier, |. A. C. Time of halves— 3
' 20 minutes. 2
campaigns. There's something back
of the wrinkles that comes to the top
when the wind is gone and the legs
are sagging.
That was what beat that wonderful,
flashy squad from Georgia Saturday
night. And that was what made the
game Tuesday night a grand battle
between prime athletes, seasoned and
fit; with brains in their heads and
something back of their belt-buckles.
Youth was no great figure in the
game. They were vets, man for man.
And how they fought for it!
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THE visitors, with all their weight
and speed, playved a singularly
clean game. I am told in the North
referees do not permit as much rough
work as they do in the South. It is
a fact that when the lid came off for
a few minutes in the second half, and
the Yanks got to roughing it, they
were not as apt at that part of the
game as their opponents. They were
penalized more in that half, and prop
erly so. It looked once as if they
had lost their heads a bit.
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A.\'D this calls up an odd thing I
have noticed about Johnny
Graves, especially in these last two
games. Johnny when In a hard battle
is 80 wild that he’d meke the Wild
Man From Borneo look like the con
ductor of an Epworth League straw
berry festival. He is go full of fight
that it ie running out of his ears.
There are timea when he can not stay
on the floor—he behaves like a grain
of popeorn on a hot shovel.
But that same J. Graves is playing
basketball all the time. Don’t let 'em
tell you different—J. Graves is play
ing basketball all the time. I can
point you to a number of six-fool
athletes and pastmasters of the game,
from Athens and from Chicago, who
will take a paralyzed oath to this
effect.
Johnny Graves, captain of the Club
team, was the smallest man on the
floor. But he had something on his
inside that made up the difference in
pounds and inches—and then some.
Johnny Gravek was the star of the
hardest and fastest and most brilllant
game ever plaved in the South—that's
all Johnny was.
‘.. . .
THFZRE is plenty to be said for all
| the boys. They were up against
the class of the world, and they knew
it—and all it did to them was to
make them play better than they
could. Westmoreland and Lester had
it on any of their opponents when it
came to accuracy of shooting. Dubard
played his regular game, and added
something. Carter was a fair mate
to his captain. I don't know a better
| definition of the elusive term. “class”
than to say it_is the ability to do
more than you ean when you have to.
The Club dld. th‘u..Tuudny night.‘
THE most briliiant shot of the‘
evening was made by Pressler,
who sent one through the basket from
the center circle. A good deal of the
wonderful passing of the vigitors was
wasted hecause of an Inability to get
the ball in the basket after working it
down the floor. They just miesed
shot after shot-—and the furious work
of Graves and Carter left little chance
for return engagements with the ring
until the ball had been worked an.
other furlong or two.
Al Blanchard refereed a thoroughly
saeisfactory game, 1 consider him
not only a good referee, but a lucky
one. If he has any life, accident or
health insurance left this morning
it is beecause none of the companies'
special agents saw himgin that mad
whirl the night before.® They'd can
eel it, sure. But then Al won't have
the chance to referee many more
games llke thnt.. The{ don’t have 'em.
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I RECKON the better team won, It
is not very hard to say that. You
see. the Yankees were playing on an
unfamiliar court, after a game the
previous night, and a long train jour
ney. Also, the heat bothered them a
lot. They looked more hauled in than
the Bean Boys at the finish. But they
had the goods—no denying that. They
had the goods. But (ag previously
suggested) they had quite some time
delivering the same,
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Battery Men
AM WOODWARD, former |
S captain of the Tech baseball |
team for three years, will )
assist Coach Heisman in develop- |
ing the pitchers and catchers who
are trying out for berths on the ;
! Yellow Jackets' team for the com- ;
§ ing seasoh, according to weord re- ;
| ceived from Sammy yesterday. }
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played with several minor league |
clubs in this section of the country, |
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. Boxing Notes |
| DPRIRg Ivoies
le YORK, Feb. 28.—Joe Lynch, Go
tham’s foremost contender for the
bantamweight title, wiii meet Jack
Sharkey, his West Side rival, at the
Pioneer SportingiClub, tonight. Johnny
Dundee was originally scheduled to fight
Jimmy Duffy, but Dundee is oufl&n‘
from a heavy cold and requested “he
management to postpone the bout until
March 6.
LYNCH, according to New York crit
ics, holds a pbépular decision over
Johnny Ertle, and if he wins, tonight
he will be signed to box Kid Williams
at the Pioneer Club on March 13. Shar-
Key's most recent victory was over
Johnny Coulon, former bantamweight
chnmplon. Benny McCoy and young
“Red MceDonald, also bantam®, wiil
meet in the other ten-rounder,
N!w YORK, Feb., 28.—Bennie Leon
ard is to get another crack at
Freddie Welsh's lightweight crown.
Billy Gibson is preparing to make Welsh
a bl( offer for a championship match,
On Wednesday the Glbson entry wil
take on Johnny Clinton at the Manhat
tan A. C.
801 DEVERE, who recently beat Sam
[Arft{xford and went ten rounds with
Jim Coffey, will meet ‘“‘Fireman Jim''
Flynn in the ten-round, wind-up at the
Clermont Sporting Club,” New York, next
Thursday night.
CARL MORRIS, who lis scheduled to
meet Joe Bonds at the Harlem
Sporting Club, New York, Friday night,
has protested against Billy Moore act
ing as the reteree. Commissioner Wenck
will be asked to name ah official to
day. '
IN£w YORK, Feb. 28.—Jack Dillon, of
| Indianapolis, outpointed Al McCoy,
claimant of the middleweight champion
ship, in ten rounds here last ni(hl.‘
iDlllon led in seven rounds, |
ST. PAUL, Feb. 28.—Battling Levln.i
sky, of New York, surprised local
fans by defeating Billy Miske on points
in ten rounds here last night. Levin
sky kept his left hand in Miske's face
during most of the route. ‘
|
BOITON. Feb. 28.—Young Britt won
on a foul over George Chaney In the
third round of a scheduled twelve
round go here last night. |
PROVIDENCE, Feb. 28.—Al Schubert
and Terry Martin went twelve
rounds to a draw here last night.
le YORK, Feb. 28.—Augle Ratner
is lufferln% from an attack of
grip and his bout with Marty Cross,
which was to have been held at the
Palace Sporting Club in the Bronx, to
night, has been postponed two weeks,
Ratner will start tralning March 2,
Jim Scott Predicts
Flag for White Sox
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28.—Claiming
that the Chicago White Sox players will
participate in the world's series games
next ra.ll. Jim Seott, veteran pitcher
for the pale-hosed men of Comiskey,
arrived in Los Angeleg to vigit his
brother before reporting to the Chicago
American League club training mmr
Scot‘,ulled to have a good geagon last
yvear, but he claims he feels in great
shape and will do better this year.
PROSPECTS BRIGHT FOR GOOD TEAM AT TECH
.
By J. W. Heisman,
Coach of Tech Baseball Team.
HE baseball candidates for the
T forthcoming spring season at
Tech have been working out
several weeks \ow, and already one or
two heavy cuts have been made by the
coaches.
At the outset the list of names
handed in by applicants amounted to
over ninety; but about half of these
have been lopped off. The competi
tion between the remainder, however,
is so keen that it is going to be more
difficult by far to make further cuts.
Thus far the boys have been work
ing out mainly in the cage, for the
weather has been the very worst for
February, in a baseball sensey that
tha writer can recall. In fact, the
sqkd was only able to get out on the
fleld a couple of times during the en
tire month, and then it was very dis.
ficult to ilet in any effective practice
because the fleld was covered with
wagons and workmen who were re
modeling it and constructing a new
quarter-mile track.
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T ECH is rather fortunate this year
in her retention of a goodly num
ber of veterans from the 1916 squad.
(‘aptain Jim Senter, of last year's ex
cellent team, will not be on hand this
spring, and as he was an All-South
ern hurler his loss will be keenly
felt. On the infield Tech does not lose
a single man, Preas, C, Smith, Hill and
J. Smith all being back and out for
the team. Catcher Morrison is also on
hand, though Paul Beard, second
string catcher of 1916, is among the
missing, having graduated last June.
In the outflald but one of last year's
trio of regularg falls to answer to the
roll call, and that is Wooten, who ca
vorted in center. Burghard in left
and Spence in right are both back in
harness.
The veteran pitchers to return are
“Pug” Bryant and Raiph Puckett.
Thus we see that a total of three
players only are absent from roll
call, and if all old men are able to
win back berths there should be but
three new faces on the 1917 team.
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ALRERT HILL, from Washington,
(3a., is captain of the team. This
will be his fourth and last season on
the baseball team. He has won an
All-Southern berth In times past and
only a fall-off in his batting prevent
ed him from repeating in 191£ He is
one of the very best college players
of the day and should have a fine year
of it. 'This is the same l(oy who
manages to shine in each "football
game he enters.
It may as well be admitted that the
lstudom hody is expecting every one
of the old men back to show improved
form this spring, and it is not at all
unlikely that they will. If they do, it
will prove a hard task for the new
men to unseat them for places,
- - -
H()“'E\’F.R. emong the remaining
30 men still on the squad there
are some good-looking ball players,
and it is far from certain to the
writer that some of them will not
crowd out some of the old boys. Of
course, the three vacancies from last
vear are coming in for a lot of at
tention from new aspirants. Then,
too, it is possible that the coaches
will decide to shift one or more of
last year's playvers to new positions
with a view to strengthening the
team generally by forming a new
combination.
It is well known that J. Smith
could go to the outfleld and make
quite as effective an outflelder as an
nfielder. Preas can do likewise, while
Hill can play third equally as well as
short. On the other hand, Spence
put in an entire season and with un
qualified success playing at second
base instead of in the outfleid, as last
year, and during the summer of 1916
he worked out at short. These possi
bilities may come in handy in shifting
men about in case of injuries during
road trips this s.pring, to say the least,
. .
OF‘ course, it is too early to say
much about new material; it hu‘
not been tried out sufficiently. Neariy
a dozen names are still on the list
comprising the pitching staff. Of these,
Puckett, Bryant, Hightower and Pl:gm
were in college last year, Among the
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Heisman Stories Will {
Be Regular Feature of
Georgian Sport Pages
WO {
OHN W. HEISMAN, wizard \
coach of the BBouth, today |
writes the first of a number of |
{ stories on the baseball outiook at 2
! Tech for the coming season.
These articles will be a regular 1
feature in The Georgian and Sun- ;
{ day American from now until the |
iclon of the college basebail sea- S
son. ;
Heisman needs no introduction |
to readers of The Georgian sport )
pages. His stories during the past g
football and baseball seasons have |
been read by thousands of college |
sport enthusiasts, among whom |
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Heisman is considered peer of col- |
lege coaches. !
It is the aim of The Georgian |
and Sunday American sporting ¢
department to have all branches |
¢ of sports covered by experts. Heis- (
{ man is surely without an equal
§ when it comes to writing and dis- 2
cussing college athletics in this
imtion of the country,
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new men are Toole, Pruitt, . E,
Johnson, R. C. Johnson and Ivens.
Several of these look as though they
might have something, and it s
strongly hoped that one or two of
them will show ennugh ability to fill
the gap left open by Senter's gradu
ation.
About the same line of dope goes for
the catching staff. Morrison, Guill,
Malcolm, J. Ward and Fife were here
Igst year, while new aspirants are W,
Ward and McMurray, both froin (‘as
tle Heights: Daves, Vickers, Mcßey
nolds, Murrah and J, W. Brown.
‘-. . ‘
}AT the present time Howden and|
| Collins look as though they
'would push Preas the hardest for first
'base. Butner is also a first baseman,
‘but 1t is not thought probable that he
will be eligible. Howden is a new
man, while Collins was here last year
and wags assistant football manager.,
At second, besides "Red” Smith,
there are McNeil, from !ast -years
scrub team: Williams, from West
oint; Stearns and Whitely, both new
men. When the smoke has cleared
away we should find the position well
fonlf\ed.
\/- . .
'QUTTE a number of good-looking
youngsters are out for the hot
corner. Aside from the veteran, Jay
Smith, we find Turner, from Birming
ham (a product of the Iron City's City
League); “Wallie” SBmith, of last
year's Tech High (and brother to
“Red” Bmith, of the Braves); Scott,
of last year's scrub team, and Brew
ster, of Gordon Institute. There are
others, but most any one of these
should work out to satisfaction
For Captain Hill's place there are,
naturally, not so many candidates,
Two of the newcomers look promis
ing. One of them {8 Arnold, from
Newnan, while the other {s Whiteley,
a Middle Georgia product,
. - .
A’l‘ the outset there were over 30
candidates for outfield berths.
Of the new men Fellers and Rudicil
look as& though they might be heard
from.
Thomas, formerly of Tech Hli, is
back In college again after a year's
absence, and looks good; but he did
pot enter until the opening of the sec.
ond term, and so will not be eligi
ble. Joe Guyon is another good-iook
ing outflelder who will not be eligi
ble.
Among the list are geveral men who
tried out last year and made good
showings. J. H. Johnston, Hettle,
Price, Mathes and Lyndon are among
them. Possibly some of these may
show enough general improvement to
land a regular's place. Fincher, for
By Tad
merly of Tech Hi, is also among the
outfield candidates. S:lolt of the rest
are clearly too young or too small, or
show the need of further seasoning
before they may entertain high hopes,
" 99
OWING. then, chiefly to the pres
ence of tried veteran material and
to the fact that a considerable quan
tity of it wan be successfully shifted,
it seems as though there should be no
great difficulty in turning out for this
spring a strong and particularly well
balanced aggregation. If no satisfac
tory outflelder appears to fill Woot
ens' shoes, J, Bmith could easily be
sent out, or Preag could step oul
there, while Smith went to first. This,
of course, is on the assumption that
a satisfactory third baseman can be
found from among the rest of the hot
corner candidates.
‘lf, on the other hand, a plethora
of outfleld talent should be discovered,
while an unexpected weakness pre
sented itself in the infleld (a contin
gency that does not seem likely at the
present time), Spence could he pulled
in from right, and thus the strength
of al¥ departments kept on a par and
the ship on an even keel.
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FRAN'KLY, the pitching staff looks
good to me. [ believe it wiil be
stronger than it has been in vears.
As for the backstopping work, I ap
prehend no difficulties, as there are
among the new men several who look
to have the goods, whflfi Gulll, of last
year's scrub team, woulll do first rate,
also.
The team should be a pretty hard
hitting bunch, and should exhibit
steady — perhaps brilliant flelding
proclivities, While, as a whole, the
men who are likely to make the team
are none too fast in individual speed,
their base-running experichee should
makeé them reasonably good base run
ners, and they should also be able to
play a heady, inside game of ball,
_ Baseball News |
WITH Joe Bush and Amos Strunk
now in the fold Manager Connle
Mack, of the Athleties, has only one real
star unsigned, He {8 Frank Thrasher,
the “Watkinsville Walloper.”
JOHNNV DOBBS, the Pellcan pllot,
has arrived in New Orleans to take
charge of the 1917 team. Johnny or
dered the Pel battery squad to report
for spring practice today,
M ANAGER MATHEWSON and some
of his Redlegs, will pass through
Chattanooga next SaturdAy evening, on
their way to Shreveport, La., the spring
camp. \
IN 1915, Bobby Watt, the young In.
flelder secured by Chattanooga, went
Ithrou:h the seagon without an error.
He was then captain of the Columbia
University team,
GEORGE CUTSHAW, second base.
man for the Brooklyn Nationals, has
agreed to terms with the Robins and
will sign his contract in a few days, ac.
cording to report,
T HOSE who have signed with Brook
lyn are Marquard, Cheney, Coombs,
Dell, Aplplevon, Mails, Miller, Mavers,
Snyder, Daubert, Getz, Cutshaw, John
ston, Merkle, Myers, Hickman, Smyth,
Fabrique, Cadore and Durning.
‘.K ID” ELBERFELD s hot lfier‘
“Doc’" Johnston, of Birmingham.
The Kid wants to put Hyatt back in
the outfleld and use Doc on first base, |
——— \
RAV CALDWELL, the tall telegraph
ognnmr-pllcher. who hag been a
member of the Yanks for several years,
did not come South with Mareger Bill
Donovan and the rest of the first squad
the other day.
P RESIDENT FRED SHEPHERD ang
Secretary Foster, of the Chatta
nooga team, returned to Lookoutville
from 'hdf recent meennfi in Birming
ham, wéll pleased with the 1017 nchos
ule.
EDDII PLANK, the star left-hander
of the Bt. Louis Browns, says thers
are only 80 many pitched balls in the
arm.of a filnger, and that he tries to
conserve his.
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By Ed Danforth.
ECH HIGH never defeated a bet. |/
ter basketball team than that
Boys' High aggregation, And
when Frazer and Hamlett led that ter- |’
rific drive in the last minute of the |
game Tuesaday, which carried them
over the scanty margin held by thel!
enémy, they didn’t realize they had !
done a big thing. ‘
Out in the corridors of the Marietta
street school Wednesday they were|
playing over that game and thinking|
of the flag. Over in Boys' High,
glooms were walking sentry ottside ‘
classrooms, where five lads were gaz
ing out the window, ‘way beyond Cae
sar and chemistry, and playing over |
the same game with hearts that were
too heavy to see they had won in|
losing. |
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TFA’H practically cinched the pen-|
nant Wednesday by virtue of the
most brilliant plece of generalship you
could wish to see on a basketball floor, |
The boys who staged it did not know |
they were doing anything like that; ft|’
was instinct or the call of the wild or
something that brought it about
It was like this: The score was
tectering at 28 to 27, with Tech on
the small end. And there were about
90 seconds tp play. A large and com
fortable foot belonging to one of the
sweating players slopped over the rim
»f a tennis shoe that was too small
and time was taken out. Then Tech
learned how the score stood. They got
together and coneentrated on just one
thing. That one objective was one (1)
basket, .and they were working for
just that one, Of course it had to
happen, and wjth Tech driving .in
just gne directidn and High trying to
defend five gates at once, the inevita
ble happengd. Frazer grabbed the
leather out of a heap of straining
youth and slung it far down the
floor to Hamlett, who rolled an easy
one. The fact that this happened once
more: before the whistle blew means
nothing. That one basket was warth
the whole game. °
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THERE-wu a lot more to this game,
as has been said once before,
This particular scragm was the sub
stiute clash for the late combat
which wound up undecided in a
battle royal. Which now forgotten
hg(:flhth»fl were ,all right, for it
couldn't he helped at the time. But
when the substitute game was agreed
upon it became the storm center of a
prep school row that quit on dead
center. Both sides had good conten
tlons for not playing: each thought
{tself right and held on. It was at
noon Tuesday that by a vote the Boys',
High team decided to walve their,
claims of date and place of playing |
in order that the game might be de
cided, It was a sportsmanlike thing
to do, and likely if they had not Tech
would. For it's the big man who can |
gurrender in the interests of good,
gport.
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THE scrap was staged outdoors on
the Tech court. The day was full '
of spring and sunshine and the]
“house” was packed—and on two
hours’ notice. To the visitor from
up beyond the snow line, it looks
funny tn see baskethall played out
doors. It was my initial experience, |
thataway. I'd like to try It some
times outdeors—you can pass as high
as vou want to, and never hit the
rafters or a light globe.
The game was a regular hose race,
Tech got away to a flying start, High
closed up the gap and both were neck
and neck at the dozen mark. Along
about three three-eighths pole, Tech
drew awny and at the half was six
lengths ahead. With davlight show
ing between the two, “High moved
steadily forward under urging an®™t
the last tyrn was on even terms
22 to 22. Down the stretch they came
and Staten shook out the wraps that
sent High to the fiont. But then
they weakened right at the wire and
the fast.coming Tech team nosed out
a scant win.
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HA.\"ETT and Frazer are two of the
hest wprep school forwards in the
South. ‘They shoot goals by instinet.
Playing right into thely hands was
Lyle. a_corking good guard if ever
there was one. This Tech bunch has
certainly been coached.
In the other camp class was more
prevalent, Hubert, Wombhle and
Staten each proved himself a deadly
tosger and an aecurate floor man.
Davis playved a wonderfully steady
game at guerd, and his pal, Owens
distinguished himself with a long
ghot that was a halr-raiser. \
The line-up:
T.H B Position, B HS
Hamlett (21) ... L. F. .. Womble (1)
Fraser (8) Gaston R. F. ... Hubert (8)
Doyal (2)
Fraser (2) ..... Q. &, ..Btaten (8)
Lyle
ShefMiold .....L G .ivavi-s DRViS
Bancker ........R (O ..., Owens (2)
Time of halves, 20-20,
Fouls ealled, against Tech High,
4; agamst Boys' High, 5.
Foul goalsg shot, Tech High, Ham
lett 1: Boys' High, Womble, 2.
Pield goals, Tech High, Hamlett 10,
Fraser 4, Doyal 1; Bovs’ High, Womn
bie 4, Hubert 4 Staten 4, Owens 1.
Bcore end first half, 20-14,
Tech High Has Not
'
Yet Won Prep Title
Tech High School has not yet wnn“
the local prep hasketball (‘hanmlunnhm.‘
Coach Mclarty, of the Junior Smith
fen, stated today, He said that Tech
High has two more games to be played,
one a postponed game with Marist Col.
lege Friday afternoon, at Tech High,
and the other with the Boys' High
guintet next Monday afternoon on the
Waeslay Memorial floor,
Huf'u' High 8 now one game and
a half behind Tech High, but still has
A chance to cop the championshipn, pro
viding Marist defeats the league lead
ers tomorrow afternoon, and the Gil
mer street bunch downs them next
Monday.
Marigt College lost to (3. M. A, Tues
day afternoon, 30 to 22, and it 18 hardly
likely that the Bean boys will be able
fto take the measure of MclLarty's ag
w ’mgminn Friday afternocon, despite the
| fact that G. M. A. won three straights
before encountering Marist, i
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By George W. Mackey.
HE Twilight Basketball League at
the Young Men's Christian Asso
clation was opened yesterday afte
ernvon with two very good and fast
games. The Bloux lined up against the
Winnebagos, and a very close score re
gulting, the score hmnfg ‘n doubt until
the last few minutes of play 2
‘) The line-ups of the two teams were
a 8 follows:
Sloux (19). Winnebagos (18).
Blate, (Capt.) (13),.F,Villard u..‘un.\ [l]
h“{f” sipsponenrss B sanreviane n#nh}’
TSUBSIt ()i opine .00, i 00N v 3
Beebt (4)....0ui5...G. ... Anderson 0:)
SOITOLE o.pivarerinlle iacnrvas NI TN
Foul thtows---Slate, 1,
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THH second game was between the
Apaches and the Mohawks, and
| proved to be somewhat of a walk-over
for the former team.
X The line-up of these two teams sole
ow: §
Apaches (20), Mohawks sl).
Bulllvan 8).........F..........David50n
SRR (10).. .00t + Fisoivves . NS £52
Jarvis sespis sl ser v sanss T
Jonesg (Capt.) 4).. .. G..,.. Hartney (l)
Cook, Ed. . Gl bummers (8)
Foul throws -Brown, 1,
| Standing of the teams follow:
l Team. : W, L 6. Pct.
| APBEDOD ,isoocxsitasensianitscsd l.m
}H}unx e ssssasatiiiivvine B B
MOBBWKS oo« . icvvisapsgils s siolli d m
WINRROAEOE. . .ivositsntniavnibdl. B
Fhe games for Friday night, begin
ning at 6:30, are: Apaches ve. Slouy
and the Winnebagos vs, the Mohawks.
The two leaders wiil doubtiess have &
hot time eontesting for the supremaocy.
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lN the Sensor Business Men's Class
Monday afterncon the Doctors, In-/
| surance Agents and Tech Higy Faculty
teams won In the games played, re
spectively, with tha Manufacturers,
Lawyers and KReal Estate Men. The
games were regularly scheduled ones of
| the popular Vocational League, whieh
in now holding =sway, Nc\'sn‘ydhm
men were present in the gym clags,
The standing of thege teams today is as
follows: Doctors, 185; Manufacturers,
14i; Insurance, 138; Real KEstate, 131}
Tech High, 118, and Lawyers, 9.
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IN the Junilor Class yesterday after
noon the Office Men, Merchants u‘d
Manufacturers were vietors over the
Southern Hell men, Doctors and Laws
yers. The rank of these teams sis:
Merchants, 87; Lawyers, #0; Office Men
83, Manufacturers, 81; Doctors, 69, and
Bouthern Bell, 48
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I AST night in the Young Business
< Men's Class two good games of
basketball were playved in the lu‘a\u
activities, Anpderson and Lanier th
thefir teams pulled off a spectacular
game, Anderson nesting a toss just be
fore the final whistle sounded, which
won the game for his team, 7-6. Han
som's team was not able to cope with
the strong Rowell aggregation, and so
,went down in defeat in both relay races
‘and the game, The points won by these
| four teams areé: Laniér, 181; Anderson,
lh’xfi, Howell, l:i?.,uml Hansom, 118.
Chattanooga Buys
. Outfielder Pagdook
‘ CHATTANOOGA, g"h. 28 “-Outfield
|er Paddock, of the Bt, Paul American
Association team, has been purchased
|by the Chattunooga Lookouts, accord
img to announcement made here last
night,
; Paddock had troubls with the ecludb
{last vear and quit the team. .In 1918 ¢
Ilw hit . 277 and fielded 081,
Manager Fiberfeld and the Lookout
{hurkers will leave Sunday for Orange,
‘ Fexas, tha training camp,
‘Bender Defendant
| In Suit for 15,000
n Suit for sls,
PHILADELPHIA, Feh. £B--Charles
(Chief) Bender, the Indian pitcher, was
made a Jdefendant in a suit for $15.000
damages Instituted in Common Pleas
Court nere vesterday hy Mrs. Bessle
Curran, widow of Joahn Carran, who was
killed February 17, by dn automobile
driven hy Render. Judge Shoemaker
tseued a ecaplas for Bender, fixing bafl
at SI,OOO, Reander was absolved of
’nogligvmv.» by the corener's jury Mon
day,
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IG. M. A. Quintet Is |
Winner Over Marist
The Georgia Military Academy bas
ketball team defeated the Mariat Ool
lege quintet yesterday afternoon in a
tough game, 30 to 22. - This was ths
fourth etraight victory for the G. M. A.
five, ¥uiton High, Commercial High and
| Peacock being defeanted by the cadets.
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Illinois A. C. Plays
Birmingham Tonight
The Illinois Athletic Club basketball
team, of Chicago, will play the Birming~
ham Athletic club at Birmingham to
night. This will be the third game the:
Windy Clity aggregation has played on
Ilheir present Southern trip
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