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Heisman Warns That Auburn Is
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Strong and Aggressive—Ducote,
Bonner and Revington Stars.
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By J. W. Heisman.
HE superb game the Plainsmen
put up last Saturday against
the twice champions of the‘
West has certainly served to put new
eSSy life and “ambition‘
| it :in the Yellow
¢ "a 8 Jackets, and they
(E B realize to the full
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aF TR ~,\. poor Alexander:
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§F 7e . i being on the verge
g"“ L MEES g 8 lof tears because
§1 ‘smuiiilia | | of having no more
37 %Sgeam - worlds to conquer.
G 0 L WE EEEP a 0 Yes, the game |
g ~ #&&#d means much to]
B ~ gl 9 the Jackets for
L 2 L not only o they
’ SO want to g o
SRR hrough their ‘
third full season without a defeat be-‘
ing chalked up against them, <but
they understand that if they/can win
from Auburn they will undoubtedly
be ranked ahead aof Ohio State and‘
that their football ~will' probably be
considered superior to/ anything in|
either the South or the #&Vest. |
The Jackets were strong in their
admiration for Ducote’s powerful
plunging, sure tackling and excellent
punting. They also thought mighty
well of Revington’s line bucking and |
his sterling defensive play, while in
Bonner they recognized one of the
very best linesman they have seen in
several seasons. It is to be freely ad
mitted that Auburn possesses in these
three men a trio of undoubted stars
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I daresay my warnings regarding
the rapidly growing strength of the
Plainsmen will now be! regarded. 1
have heen pointing out that there was
no sense in anyone assuming that
Tech wounld show a superiority, of
anvthing like 50 points against Au
burn--those who assert it ask alto
gother too much of Tech and give
eredit to Auburn for altogether too
little: and I am glad that Auburn has
had an onportunitv to reveal her true
strength before Tech went against
her. Now, it is plan to be seen, that
Tech will have every reason to be
“tickled to death” i# she even wins, let
alone running up a score.
The fact iz that defeat three weeks
ago hv Davidson was the making of
the Anburn team. It woke them up
and showed them how much better
they conld play if thev really tried
like the Davidson Wild Cats try. Pos
siblv thev felt a hit' ashamed of them
selves—as a team alwavs feels when
outnlaved by a much lighter~ aggre
gation, and that was the very tonic
the Oran>e and Rlue warriors needed.
T have alwavs said thers was an im
menso amount of latent strength in
the Auhurn team. and if they ever
learned to trot it out when the occa
sion called for it, they would make a
formidable team for any eleven to
line up against.
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Yes, Auburn will.present much the
hest team Mech will have gone up
against fhis season. “We“learn 'they
paid comnarativelv little attention
last week to drilling against Ohio
State's formations (and =0 much het
ter. tlicrefore, is their fine showing
again<t the Buckeyes), but Kkent
themeerlves occupied from earlv till
Inte drilline on Tech’s formations,
This should have them in fine shave
to intellicently meet the Jacket nlays,
while 'the brand of defensive power
thev chowed in Montzomery is good
enonch to make all sorts of trogble
for the hest team that ever stepped
out on 2 eridiron.
l';“ addition. T really look for Au
burn to snring some new stuff on
Tech. lam vprettv well satisfied that
the whole Anhurn camn hag trained
and worked from she first dav of this
gpacon with an eve singled on the
Tech team, and that thev have ex
perimented extensively with a lot of
stnff that the Tech sconts have seen
nothine of the entire season.
To he sure Tech has held back
‘one or two little things also, and
Thuredov will he our last chance to
gep whether thev are any eood or not
Mpvhe thev will work ont well and
mavhe not-——who can tell?
At anv rate. T am verv elad that
we are tn -hava for the wind«un of
the sencon a oame that will he qmore
than warth while waterhineg and on-
Hosed to us a team: that will strain
ng t ' verv limit.
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Boy Hi and Tech Hi both had a
good scriramage Monday. Their scrubs,
plaved against the varsity and gave
them - tough fight. Nobedy was hurt,
ho’:‘t:."“ p. of Tech Hi, was back in the
game vesterday for the first time since
the Chattanqoga game. His presence
will aid Tech® Hi materially. .
The Rovs Hi cripples are rapidly
roundine into shape. Collings was out
and showad the same old propensity of
snagging the hall out of the ether for
long gains. With him in the game, Boys
Hi exvrcts to work many passes. .
Jt will he interesting to note the dif
ferent styles of nplay. used by the two
sehools. Terch Hi. co”ched by Boozer
Pitts. an old Auburn star, uses the old
Auburn style of hard line plunging and
sweeping end runs.
Roys' Hi. coached by T. F. Wood, of
Notre Dame. is well versed In the West
ern art of passing and open piay, very
f~w straight plays being used. Tt wil)
be the old (ha't]e betwen the hammer
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a"y‘:. t;?-.r—r’gn Tech Hi has a good end
and hr,:'m'fin'd runner, and in Lyle a
line plunger.
golo(‘:u{,v’(' !’(Er P.xgv\'\" Hi, is prcbably the
best broke nfield runner. in the prep
league. A. Staton or Lemon does the
passing for the gang. ‘
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BOVE is a picture of King, the speedy left end and captain
A of the Davidson Wildcats, who surprised the South by
defeating Auburn a couple of weeks ago in Atlanta. King
is one of the best men at his position in the South, according
to Bill Fetzer, the Davidson coach, who is also shown in this pic
ture, and J. W. Heisman, the Tech wizard. {
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Tigers Will Enter Tech Game in
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| ÜBURN, ALA., Nov. 26.—There
| A has been no rest for the Plainsmen
during the last three weeks, and if
Monday evening's work is any indication
of what will come during the remainder
of this week before Thanksgiving, the
Tigers are certainly in for their share
of hard work. Coach Donahue had his
men out early yesterday afternoon, and
every man was given all the practice
he could stand up under,
Not satistied with the showing Au
burn made on the defensive against
Ohio State, the Auburn coach has his
squad on the defense Monday against
the scrubs. The scrubs tried everything
in their maneuvers and were entirely
unsuccessful against the varsity squad.
Coach Donahue is hoping to develop
his team during these three days so
that they will be able to stand up
under the powerful offensive attack of
Georgia Tech. Auburn men think now
that wénders will never cease, and, if
this is so, Auburn may have a chance
to beat Tech.
The reason for this bold statement lies
in the fact that the Tiger squagd came
out of the Ohio State game without a
single injury of any kind. The only
evidences of the terrific fight are a few
scratches on the faces™of those Au
burn heroes. If no injuries are sus
tained during this week, the Plainsmen
should enter the battle on ‘“Turkey
Day” in the pink of condition.
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UNIVERSITY, ALA., Nov. 27.—Coach
Kelly threw his scrubs against the var
sity eleven here Monday afternoon in
one of the fiercest scrimmages held this
month. The air was chilling and the
teams had on their fight shirts. The
argument continued long after night
fall, by the light of the moon. Since
the practice of last Friday, which was
the last one until Monday, the team
had lost in accuracy. Another scrim
mage is to be held this afternoon, fol
lowed by a hard practice without serim
mage, Wednesday the team will leave
for Birmingham to meet Camp Gor
don Thursday morning.
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CLEMSON COLLEGE, Nov, 27.—Just
two more days of practice remains be
fore the Davidson game, gso Coach Jiggs
Daonahue is making the seconds count
in preparation for the battle with the
Wildcats in Charlotte. A dummy scrim
mage was held Monday afternoon, the
serubs using the *Davidson formations
and the varsity given a thorough drill
in breaking them up.
Toward the end of the practice the
entire corps, led by the' college band,
marched to Riggs Field to cheer the
team. Enthusiasm is at fever pitch on
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TIGERS EVEN
IN WEIGHT
Both Elevens Average About 16§
Pounds — Former -Sewanee
Coach Assisting Best.
By John Dearborn,
EWANEE, TENN., Nov.-27—
S Once the Royal Purple Tiger
must quench his thirst for
Commodore gore,, and once again
he will wend his way toward Nash
ville on Thanksgiving to grapple for
supremacy with his ancient rival, He
goes down the mountain Icalizing that
to register a win he must play one of
the hardest games in its history,
Never were two teams more evenly
matched, both on paper and other-
Vise. In weight they are almost evenly
balanced—about 165 to the man. From
the standpoint of experience the y are
on a par. Both teams have given
generously to the service of our coun
try, and most of the men on the
teams are young, inexperienced and
playing their first year of college foot
ball.
The dope is about even?y distribut
ed. Sewanee defeated Kentucky State
by a greater score than did Vander
bilt. Vandy registered an unearned
victory over Alabama, while Sewanee
could do no better than a tie, Van
derbilt has suffered more defeats, but
they have encountered v stly stronger
teams. Reports come in that, al
though they have often been out
classed, they have never been out
fought. With such a team as this to
face the Tiger fully realizes what he
has to go up against.
Hammond, with his brilliant punt
ing, is expected to be a prominent fac
tor in Sewanee’s victory or defeat. He
iz probably Sewanee’'s most consistent
player, of course excepting Wortham,
who undoubtedly is one of the great
est little backs in the country.
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the campus and in spite of the fact that
Davidosn is a big favorite in the bet
ting, the Clemson men are confident
that they will upset the dope. The
team will, be in perfect shape when the
whistle blows Thursday.
Coach Donahue, who is saying very
little these days, predicts that those
persons who expect to see Davidson
pass his team to death are in for a big
surprise, and further says that the Ti
gers will show a drive on that day
which will give Fetzer's team a merry
time. .
There is a grimness about the prac
tices which foretells that every Clemson
man is going into that game determinea
to play the game of his life for a vie
tory. ‘,
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Heisman Knows Nothing of S. I
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A. A. Rule Which Bars First-
Year Men Thanksgiving.
By Reuben A. Lewis.
HERE is one little matter that
I is far from settled.
Mike Donahue, coach of the
Auburn eleven, has stated that
Trapp, a first-year man, would not
play against Auburn Inasmuch as the
S. I. A. A, rules barred him. He in
timated that Auburn did not expect
to oppose Dan Whelchel and Judy
Harlan, the freshmen on the Yellow
Jackets.
Coach Heisman avows that he
knows nothing that will prevent Har
lan and Whelchel from opposing the
Plainsmen. He will conduct an in
vestigation today, and will seek to
learn if the agreements are binding.
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Should it develop that the Tech
representatives are bound by any
proviso, he will be in a fortunate
position. - For Tech has-a nice quota
of pubstitutes. Shorty Guill will be
shifted to fullback, Higgins or Mathes
to guard and Ulrich or Fincher to an
end. The Yellow Jackets would not
be embarrassed to any great extent,
but it is naturally the desire of Coach
Heisman that the regular line-up be‘
used in the final engagement. 1
~ There is one particular in which
Auburn is woefully weak. |
. The Plainsmen are bereft of sub
stitutes, who can compare with the
regulars, When Bonner was disabled
in the third period of the Ohio Statc
game, he was replaced by Blackshear.
He was a game little fellow, but too
light to stop the drive of a big man.
The difference was apparent, and
'Mike Donahue confessed quite openly
' that the matter of substitutes was his
lone weak point.
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Should any of the Tigers be forced
to retire from the gathe, Tech is
going to derive a great benefit. Au
burn wag uninjured by the terrific
battering of Saturday. The manner
in which the Plaingmen withstood the
fierce tackles and mass plays showed
that they were in good condition.
The Turkey Day game will not be
a repetition of the Carlisle game, with
frequent truces for the removal of the
[injnrvd and winded. There should
be a drive and a verve to the game
Ithflt has been absent in previous en
gagements,
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One has asked what is the differ
ence between a big Eastern team,
such as Yale, and Auburn, Tech or
Vanderbilt in the South. It is the
matter of substitutes. The Big Four
combinations have such a number of
men gompeting for positions that the
loss of a.regular does not appreciably
weaken them. But with a Southern
institution, the disparity is marked.
Tech is perhans the most fortu
nate team in the South in this respe2t.
| For Heisman has substitutes that are
good enough for any varsity eleven
‘in Higgins, Mathes, ‘Jochnson, Wally
’Smilh. Colcord, Shaver and several
other gridironists.
|A ican Will Open
American Will Op
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. In 1918, Says Ban
! CHICAGO, Nov. 27.—American League
'baseball clubs will open the 1918 base
ball season regardless of war conditions,
according to a statement made here by
President Ban B. Johnson, KEven though
the various clubs may be shy many of
‘their star players because of the draft
-Johnson said, the league will operate as
‘usual and endeavor to give the public
'the best possible brand of sport.
Johnson predicts, however, that the
‘days of 'the old ‘war time’ contracts
are over and that the'salaries paid the
ball. players (will be pretty liberally
'slashed. ¢
A 154-game schedule, Johnson asserts,
probably will be played, but an attempt
will be made to arrange a schedule with
sufficient open dates to make possible
‘the practical ellmination of double-head
ers.
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Former Dodger in
Engineering Corps
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DENVER, Nov. 27.—Ray Andrew,
graduate of Denver corner lots and for
merly a member of the pitching staff of
the Brooklyn Dodgers, is today a mem
ber of Uncle Sam’s engineering corps,
Andrew enlisted here yesterday. He
'was manager of the TLaCrosse, Wis.,
Central l.eague team, last season.
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Tex Rickard Referee
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' NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—Final plans
' for the New York six-day race were
completed today with the naming of
"l‘ux Rickard as referee. The race opens
next Sunday night. Oscar Egg., winner
?u!’ 1916 race, and Paul Suter have ar
{rivw‘. from France to compete. .
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Syracuse University
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Team Begins Work
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| OMAHA, NEBR., Nov. 27.—Members
;ryf the Syracuse University football team
will practice on Creighton Field here
| today in preparation for their game with
|t?.~- Unversity of Nebraska eleven at
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Leonard and Kirke to
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| NEW YORK, Nov. 27.—Lightweight
Champion Benny Leonard is today on his
way to Denver, where Thursday night
' he meets Sajlor Kirke in a ten-round
| bout.
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. DIZS FROM FOOTBALL INJURY,
| DETROIT, Nov. 27.—Ellis Hamilton,
| 17, the first victim of football in Detroit
' in ten years, died at his home of septi
' caemia. lle was injured in & football
game Suaday afternoon.
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NORMAN , ACTING ONDER
THE DOC'S ORDERS,
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Claims Tech's Treatment of In
dians Was Disgusting—Tells
Folwell Received Raw Deal.
, DD “Disgruntled Coaches” Neal
A F. Harris, coach of Carlisle.
The bantamweight director
of the Indians, who were over
whelmed 98 to 0 by Tech, avows
in public print that he was
given a raw ‘deal by the Georgia
School of Technology. He told Bob
Folwell, so states the Philadelphia
Inquirer, that “I certainly was dis
gusted at the poor showing accorded
my team by Georgia Tech last Sat
urda.”
Through Bob Folwell, coach of the
Pennsylvania eleven, the following
lament was made:
“I certainly was disgusted at the
poor treatment accorded my team by
Georgia Tech last Saturday. Penn
today both on and off the field dis
played good sportsmanship against
my young Indian °players. Coach
Heisert, of Georgia Tech, would not
allow the referee and head linesman
to keep time, but made us accept: one
of their players as the sole time
keeper. The result-was the first
quarter was twenty minutes, the sec
ond, nineteen minutes; the third
quarter was fifteen minutes, and the
final quarter was only ten minutes,
called because of darkness. I am sure
of this, as two of us kept a stop watch
,and we tallied on the time. During
+the halves the Georgia Tech threat
ened the officials with the statement
that if they were not sure of their
penalties against Tech that the crowd
Iwnuld mob them. Billy Sunday wit
'nessed the game, addressed the stu
dents between the halves, and told
them that he believed that Georgia
Tech could beat Penn in a return
games.”
This statement concerning the
statement of the Carlisle Indians
with their game with Georgia Tech
was made by Coach Neal F. Harris, of
the Carlisle eleven, to Coach “Bob”
Folwell in the dressing rooms after
the Carlisle-Penn game yesterday
afternoon. ‘
When asked if he thought that
Penn, at present, could defeat the
Georgia Tech team, he said that he
couldn’t say, as it was hard to com
pare two teams which has played the
same eleven, even though the inter
vening time is only of one week. He
changed the subject by speaking well
of the Penn players and how they
showed the best sportsmanship dur
ing the game. They didn’t seem de
sirous of roughing up their smaller
and weaker opponents. When a
Carlisle player fell he was often help
ed to his feet by one of the Penn
players,
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Poor T.o! When the facts are re<
viewed it would hardly seem that the
Indians were roughly treated, Be
fore the game, Carlisle asked for
shorter periods, although a $3.000
guarantee was to be paid for sixty
minutes. Heisman refused on the
ground that the Carlisle ‘team should
be in good condition for such a con
test.
At the very outset, the Indians
started “piling up’ after the ball was
dead. - When a Tech halfback was
downed, it 'was no unusual sight for
an Indian to leap in the air and come
to earth on the head or body of a
downed player. There was no excuse
for this rough play, but the officials
did not penalize the Indians for this
during the first half. Tech was ecalled
constantly for offside play.
Between the halves, Coach°Hels
man did ‘caution the-officials ahn‘n
this. and stated he wanted them %Yo
woghCthis® part of the play.
Harris returned and pleaded for
shorter periods. Heisman agreed to
play shorter quarters, provided the
Indians would play cleanly and
would eliminate their “piling up” tac
tics. Consequently the third period
| was twelve minutes“and the fourth
curtailed to seven and one-half.
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As to the poor sportsmanship of
[th:- Tech players, it is rather exag
gerated. Quite often the Indians were
lifted to their feet by the helping hand
of a paler opponent.
It is true that the game was called
on account of darkness. It was a
long-drawn-out affair, but there were
no end of injuries, infliction of penal
ties and substitutions,
1 It seems to be a hard matter for
| a coach to get a licking and not try
|to retaliate in some manner. Of
| course, Boh Folwell appreciated
'Coach Heisman being “merciful” to
him by not running up the Penn
score. He wanted to let friend Heis
know what Harris said, and thought
the best way to do this was in a Phil- |
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There cnce was a soldier named Byng,
Who crippled the Germans' right wing.
| His fourteen-inch guns
i Made a bum of the Huns;
| Byng! Byng! Byng! Byng! Byng! Byng!
2' Byng! Byng!
t Curtailment of the racing game In
| Juarez will be a hardship to a great
’many persons who may be forced to
‘earn a living. .
l If Pete Herman had seen Johnny Er
{tle fight last Wednesday eve, he might
| have reconsidered his claim of exemp
| tion.
| Yost lost a battle at the Great Lakes
{ Training Station. Maybe he thought ho
iwal fighting Pennsylvania.
| _Sturgeon is one of the fighters at the
Great Lakes camp. He will be a whale
'ln submarine warfare.
! Christy Mathewson announces that
| Heine Groh wiil remain with the Reds
next season. Having studied baseball
| for several years he has reached the
| conclusion that it is difficult to conduct
a ball club without an infield.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1917.
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Club Couldn’t Stage Battle
Scene Is Shifted to Dallas
FEW days after the articles of
A of agreement had been signed
by Bob Fitzsimmons and my
self for a contest before the Florida
FUBERTITEETIIRRG Athletic Club, of
g T . ”@ % Jacksonville,
gB“ % ;
| Y R| | “sometime in
3 Ao i 1895,” word came
R e g that the club
g Pl i could not stage
§ RSv d f the bout in that
g s Sl ot 8 city. It had as
§ g"i, # B 8 ! sumed at the
ol NS . time that it made
5 ao i ) £ the bid for the
8 " contest that the
s R would permit the
fight. But as soon as word reached
Florida that the club planned to put
on the contest, announcement was
made from the executive offices that
no such affair would be permitted
within the confines of Florida.
When Fitz and I were notified ot
this, the news immediately was given
to the papers and a statement.was
issued saying that new’ bids®for the
staging of the contest were in order.
Then Dan Stuart, a prominent West
ern promoter of that era, came to
the front' and made us an offer of
appreximately the same amount of
money which the Florida Athletic
Club had promised. Stuart’s bid was
the best of a number which we had
received and we accepted it.
Stuart planned to put on the bout
in Dallas, Texas, and arrangements
started at once for the staging %}the
contest in that city along out
August 1, 1895,
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Meanwhile, Bob Fitzsimmons haa
gone on a tour with a wvaudeville
company. Fitz was a big drawing
card and the show during the first
few weeks was a big success. Fitz,
as was the custom with most boxers
in that day, put on a boxing exhibi
tion as his act. A year or so before
he had played the leading part in
“The Honest Blacksmith,” a melo
drama, but didn’t like that sort of
theatrical work. The vaudeville end
of the game, which permitted him to
exhibit his puglistic prowess, was
something more to his liking.
Bob always climaxed his vaude
ville performances with a trick that
many boxers have tried and at which
few have succeeded. He would hit
the punching bag with all his force,
snap the cord and send the bag
hurtling into the audience. Many
persons thought that the cord had
been cut, but this was not true. Bob
really had the strength in his punch
‘[ / AS :
R S 6R B R
ND while we are handing it to
A Auburn, for the gallant fight
to a 0-0 tie with Ohio State,
let us hand a little something to the
D s lnva«.ierf, too.
o SNy 't Ohio State came
§E .. . down to our
¥ . § ;ountry with noth
hE s ing to galn in
; R R § prestige by trimi
# Ve owe T Ming Auburn-—anc
! « : j! everything to lose.
B e 4 Ithmus: be %h[n[;
o &2 Ohio -State )
B %8 lose ino prestige
Lo R by being held “to
oo e TR 0 tie with the
i g { Plainsmen,
i AR B But here is
§ N > f. 4 where we huand it
i o i to the Buckeyes.
Hstsiasenamaciiawss They came down
here and playea a game, with all to
lose and nothing to gain, for thg sol
diers of Uncle Sam. They played
with a brand-new quarterback and
a green man in the line. They put up
a gallant fight, handicapped at the
start. And they were held to a tie—
for which (as suggested) all honor
to Auburn for their splendid achieve
ment, &
This Northern college did this for
Uncle Sam. And what next?
Why, that same bunch of Buck
eyes is going back to Cincinnati next
Tuesday, bruiscd and battered from
their colision with the big Tigers—
going to Cineinnati to play another
hard game, also for Uncle Sam’s
boys.
There is something pretty fine
about that; now, isn't there? They
don’'t get any money for it; they
risked—and lost prestige by . it.
There is something bigger and (it
may be) better than the sporting
ambition of the grand old game in
what those Buckeyes did, and in what
they are going to do. You have to
hand it to them.
o
And while ‘we are all glorifying
Mike Donahue and his stalwart
Plainsmen for upholding the honor of
the Southland, might it not be just as
well to stop and consider if we in
Dixie haven’'t been just a shade too
much absorbed in our production of
a real football champion this year;
and not quite enough ambitious
to sacrifice a prospect or two,
and a few thousand dollars or so—
for the sake of Uncle Sam?
Or maybe the Red Cross?
You remember what Kipling says,
in the Recessional—
“lf, drunk with sight of power . . .”
I admit I fell for it. I have been
Back Into the Ring
The fight game has lured Jake Abel
back.
Chattanooga's star welterweight, who
has fought several times in Atlanta,
against such boys as Frank Whitney,
Eddie Hanlon, Yank O’'Brien and oth
ers, has, after several months’ absence,
decided to go back into the game.
His next foe will be Kid Paris on
Thanksgiving night in Chattanooga.
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AND SO lADVISED HIM.
T 0 TAKE. UP GDLF. ITS
DONE. HIM A WORLD
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to snap the cord whenever he hit It|
from a certain angle. On two occa
sions, Boh drave the bag into the
fartes of men sitting in the “bald head
row” and these fellows promptly
threatened a suit for damages. They
didn‘t relish the stunt nearly as much
as the rest of the aaudience. In both
instances Bob made settlement with
them. l
Fitz always made a decided hit in
every town where he played, due to
the fact that immediately upon enr |
tering he would hunt up a few black-‘
smith shops and spend his morning
hours at each one of these making
horseshoes. On each he would
stamp his initials and distribute them
to his friends, or as souvenirs among
the audience. Of course, there was
always a scramble to secure posses
sion of the Fitzsimmons' horseshoess,
and many of them are still treasured
as trophies by the old timers.
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Those who knew Fitz in the earlier
days remember him for many things;
included was his singing.c Bob never
gave exhibitions,on the stage, but
he had a remarkable tenor voice. Had
it"been cultivated, there is a likeli
hood that Bob might have become
almost’ as famous a warbler as' a
pugilist. Many of Bob’s friends fre
quently enjoined him to to take a few
lessons in singing. But Bob con
tented himself with an untrained
voice which was rare in its sweet
ness.
“Oh, Promise Me,’ was Bob's fa
vorite song and no man who ever
heard Bob sing it could forget. Bob
could put intense feeling into his
songs and many men went to Bob's
training quarters more in the hope of
hearing him sing than of seeing him
in his workouts.
litz, as 1 have stated before, made
a big hit as a headliner of the
vaudeville -troupe and everything
went along nicely for him until he
reached Syracuse. And then came
the most unfortunate incident of Bob
Fitzsimmons’ life; one which caused
him great financial loss, great mental
anguish and his arrest and trial on
the charge of manslaughter,
It was the death of Con Riordan,
his sparring partner.
(Editor's Note? This is the six
teenth chapter of a series of articles
by Jim Corbett which deal with the
career of Bob Fitzsimmons. Few
amen knew Fiez as Corbett knew him,
and so thece stories reveal some in
cidents in the life of Fitzsimmons
that never before have been printed.
The next chapter will appear to
morrow.)
too much wrapped up in seeing Geor
gia Tech established as a nationat
champion. Maybe we all were, it
we'll admit it. Maybe we all went
off our nuts a bit, and got to yelling
for Tech to roll up the score—roll up
the score over every team, so that
up East they'd have to admit we ot
the South were THERE.
But what of it, after all? )
Let’s remember that Pittsburg has
a_ post-season game with Camp Lee,
Let's remember. that Ohjo State
scheduled TWOobenefit games, And
Rutgers. < Andolots of them©in ~the
Fast—allothe® Yalecand Harvard in
formal games, I think.
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What about this business, boys?
Are we running up a sectional foot
ball champlonship at the expense of
real and patriotic sportsmanship?
What about Tech not being permitted
to play a post-season game-—not for
the Red Cross—not for Uncle Sam's
soldiers?
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‘ By Harry Lewis.
' OLDIER MICKEY ROSS, who
S has hit Camp Gordon with quite
a pugilistic record, will get his
‘initial chance here tonight, when he
Squares off with Kid Underwood, of
Nashville, in a scheduled ten-round
bout,
On Ross’ showing tonight depends
what his future as a ringman will be
In this city during his stay here. If
Mickey can some through with a vie
tory over Underwood, he will be in
line for some good bouts at the Co~
lumbia, as Manager Boone Kelly has
decided to put on some new faces, and
among the soldiers at the camp are a
number of former Rastern scrappers,
who previous to their enlistment made
quite a reputation around Philadel -
bhia and New York,
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Many of the boys have been call+
ing on me during my off hours of sol
diering, and it's surely interesting to
see how the boys' continue to hold
their love for the sport. Jimmy Friar,
for instance, seldom misses a chance
to come to town to see the bouts.
Jimmy is the lad who fought Battling
Nelson 25 hard rounds a'few days be
fore the Johnson-Willard bout in Ha
vana. He will get on with / Pete
Shaughnessy or Terry Nelson in the
near future,
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Besides the Ross-Underwood go
Tuesday night there wiil be two four
round bouts, making eighteen rounds
of scrapping in all. These bouts will
be staged in addition to the theatri
cal performance, with no extra ad
mission charge,
B od S
On Friday night Terry Nelson and
Young McCarty will be the econtest
ants, These boys ought to put up a
slashing bout, as Nelson proved.by’his
scraps against Battling Budd and Pete
Shaughnessy that he is better than
ever, while McCarty has tackled someg
mighty good boys up East. It’'s now
up to McCarty and Ross tor make
good, as they are sure to pick up quite
a bit of extra money while in this lo
cality should they make good. Mike
Saul will referee both Tuesday and
Friday nights. 4
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