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TECH MAY
Should Yackets Score Three
Touchdowns Against Auburn
. They W|l|‘£.ead in Scoring.
By J. W. Heisman.
OMORROW’S football game be
_tween Tech and Auburn will be
a momentous one for both
teams, but particularly so for Tech,
BT R The Yellow Jack
§ el TR cts have gone for
e e | 27 straight games
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‘0 scorins i that
L -. time over 1,000
if ~% vwssg §. points and having
PR 'vy 4 total Of bt
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:,w< sy three ‘scores tal
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so% o oasddd ter inl both ways
: $% 2% than the very best
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fg4 7% g the entire country
tggd o4G can show, Pitts-
TBE b digiel
iy burg, the nearest
RAR i team to Tech,
L RSN ASh o “'ing hun dre ds
of points less in their credit column
and half a dozen more on the depit
side of their ledger.
If you will reflect a momént you
will readily eomprehend that the
Tech players would aimost sooner
part with a finger, yea, a hand, than
to come down to second place in
either this marvelous offensive record"
or this splendid defensive showing,
and particularly so when the winning
of this game tomorrow would mean
that, in most corners, they would be
hailed as the best team of the year
throughout the length and breadth of |
the land. - Already have the Jackets
freely been so acclaimed in the South
and West, and even in the East there
are not a few who so regard them,
while if, on .top of this past record,
they can defeat a team that "played
the pride of the West to a standstill
but five days ago, then will they, in
all probability, be hailed even in the
last as a better team than the mighty
Pittsburgers.
But Tech had hoped to .score the
pecessary 20 points on Auburn that
would again make them the first scor
ing team of the year, as they were in
1916. At present the strong Navy
team is 19 points ahead -of them, and
therefore an even score of points
against the rejuvenated Plainsmen
would be required for Tech to take
rank again as the best scoring ma
chine of the country. Can Tech do it?
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After seeing how Donahue’s fine
team held down the Buckeyes that
seems utterly impossible, the more so
as Auburn made this fine stand
against Ohio knowing scarcely a thing
about the latter’s play, while the Au
burn scouts have seen and watchedl
with the eyes of a hawk every game
that Tech has played this year. Add
to this their improved morale and
fichting confidence, their desire for
revenge for the last two years of de
feat at the hands of Tech, the realiza
tion that if they can win from Tech
they will have done more than any
other team Tech has met in the last
three years, and you can see that Au
burn has every right and reason to be
considered a tartar: the real question
of the hour should be whether Tech
can win at all, not whether she can
score 20 points on the Plainsmen.
If Tech should score 20 points .on
Auburn by some mitacle you can bet
ter believe there will be some noise in
the Tech cheering sections the in
stant the twentieth point is tallied
that shall send Tech to the front in
scoring as wall 48 in victories.
Tech’s line-up will be about as
usual. There is some doubt as to
whether Whelchel will have recovered
sufficiently to play, for he has not
scrimmaged a down since the second
quarter of the Indian game. Harlan’s
chances for getting in are not overly
bright either. He did go into the In
dian game for a few minutes, but had
to come right out again, as his in
jJured muscles would not stand the
racket, and he also has not had a
serimmage down since. In case nei
ther of them can make it the line-up
will probably be:
* (enter, Phillipps; right guard, Dow
ling; left guard, Mathes; right tackle,
Carpenter; left tackle, Higgins; right
end, Bell; left end, Fincher; quarter,
Hill; left half, Strupper; right half,
Guyon, and fullback, Guill
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Guyon is about all right again and
the rest are in good shape also. Rogers
fs rapidly getting over his boils,
though he has been out of the hurly
burly over two weeks,
! It appears that the two teams are
very evenly matched as to weight,
while Tech has one more veteran in
the game than Auburn.
With one team that has amply
proven itself to be playing quite as
good football as the champions of the
West arrayed against one that has
thus far proven itself the best in the
Bouth, we may well look for just about
the hest game to come off that has
ever heen staged in Dixie. In Ducote
the visitors will show a ground-gainer
who is far and away superior to any
The favorite smoke in
every eamp—send your
\ soldier a box.
J. N. HIRSCH,
Atlanta Distributor.
E. L. ADAMS & CO.
Distributor, Atianta.
GRIFFIN GROCERY COO.
fi\ Grifin Distributor.
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HREE of the seven members of the famous Auburn line are
T shown here. Sizemore, one of the 200-pound guards, is on
the left, while End Gibson is the center figure. Will Bert
Styles, the lightest member of the forwards at ‘tackle; is
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START AT
2 O’CLOCK
Spectators Must Pay War Tax to
~ See Auburn-Tech Game.
Much Is at Stake.
By Reuben A. Lewis.
HERE are several new angles
I to the Thanksgiving battle on
Grant Field.
The game will start at 2 o'clock.
Although it kas been advertised for
2:30, the authorities determined to
begin at 2 o’clock that the battle
might end before nightfall.
A war tax must be paid. It will
be necessary for every one who gains
admission to the field to contribute
19 per cent of the admission price of
his ticket to the United States war
fund.
To facilitate the handling of the
crowds, each ticket will have the
gate number stamped upon the back.
and the spectators are urged to pre
sent the cardboards at the gate
designated.
Indications are that a record crowd
will be in attendance. The weather
should be fair, though a bit misty. It
should be a vigorously fought game,
for the Yellow Jackets have much at
stake on the outcome. Should they
score 20 points, they will be heralded
as the leading poiqt scoring machine
of the United States.
If they defeat Auburn worse than
did Davidson, the Jackets will be ac
claimed the greatest eleven in the
nation. Marked victories over Penn
sylvania and Carlisle have given
Tech a reputation in the East. Au
burn, by holding Ohio State scoreless,
must be highly regarded in the West.
A victory over Auburn will assure
recognition in the conference terri
tory.
man they brought to Atlanta last
vear, and Revington’s greatly im
proved form places him not far be-
Hind his sterling compatriot. And
Bonner, at right tackle, is undoubt
edly All-Southern timber; yes, frank
ly, I intend to find a place somewhere
on the All-S. I. A. A. team for that
fellow. And the rest of the Auburn
outfit is worthy of these three great
stars.
The officials will be referee, Cap
tain Elcock; umpire, Lieutenant Cos
grove, of Cornell, who umpired the
Penn-Tech game, and J. S. Counsel
man, of V. P. 1., who has o%ted for
years in Southern; games. "This in
sures a most capable corps of officials,
men who know their business and en
joy reputations not to be impugned.
Gloriana! What a"game it will be!
lI dmbt it Atlanta ever again see
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Sparring Partner Intoxicated
Dies After Exhibition With Fitz
By James J. Corbett.
ON RIORDAN made £ fine rec
ord as an amateur boxer in
Australia in the early 80’s and
decided to go to San Francisco to try
JERRTETSmERSIEE hig luck there- asa
A”2 % professional ring-
GG %8 ' | man. He arrived
§ iWL in the California
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§RS W WYy 1884, but couldn’t
3gi 23 ;::‘:igi:';i *§; # anv i tant
El e R get any importan
& §‘3% :\ .\ 4 matches and soon
fi T i drifted into the
i \\w 4§ . cccupation of
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G e i S i.'«;tralpmg boxers,
T Rl BAs ‘time went on
T easnacealieyr . Riordan becatid
somewhat intemperate in his habits
and lost his effectiveness, both as a
pugilist and as a trainer of boxers.
Bob Fitzsimmons knew Riordan
while both were in the Antipodes,
and the friendship was renewed after
Bob arrived in America in 1890. Then
their pathways separated, and Rior
dan and Fitz didn’t see each other
for a few years. However, just be
fore Fitz went on the road with the
vaudeville show in October, 1894,
Riordan hunted up the freckled war
rior and asked him for a job as a
sparring parther in the exhibition
matehes which Fitz gave on the
stage. DBob had learned that Rior
dan was drinking heavily and at first
rejected him on that account. 80l
was a stickler for sobriety in his camp.
But Riordan pleaded for the job so
ardently and promised so faithfully
to turn over a new leaf that big,
warm-hearted Bob finally gave in and
hired Con.
And to his dying day Bob Fitzsim
mons regretted that action, because
it led up to the saddest experience of
nis life,
When Bob and his theatrical troupe
appearasd in Syracuse on November
16, 1894, Riordan, who had tried his
best to stay away from liquor, broke
loose again without the knowledge of
Bob. Just a few hours before he
went on in an exhibition match with
Bob» he drank a half pint of whisky
in addition to taking other drinks.
F o b
Cqn was scheduled to do the first
sparring that night with Bob. Con’s
orders were to rush in at Fitz with
the tap of the gong and furnish some
exercise for him. But on this night
Con ignored instructions. He went
to the center of the ring, but refused
to mix it. Fitz moved around a lit
tle, hoping to coax Con into making a
few swings, but Con stood little more
than motionless. Then Fitz sent a
light tap to Con’s jaw. It was merely
a “tickle” punch, delivered as a sort
of cue for Rio~dan to begin swinging
at Fisa. To the utter amazement of
Fitz and the surprise of the crowd,
Riordan staggered for a second or so
®@ 8 SPORTING NEWS WRITTEN BYEXPERTS ©® ©® WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 28. 1917
Bonner is the star of the forwards, although Caton is a rather
clever snapperback. The Auburn line is perhaps the heaviest in
‘the South, and has shown geeat powerywhen the opposition nears
Its goal line. It will be interesting to see whether they can check
Tech’s powerful drive.
after Bob had tapped him lightly and
then crumpled to the floor.
Bob didn’t know *vhet to make of
the incident, nor did anyone else.
Every spectator knew that Fitz had
not hit Riordan hard enough to jar
him, much less send him to the floor.
However, when it was seen that Rior
dan didn't get up, there was just one
thing to do—to carry him out of the
ring. Fred Block, of New York, was
acting as theatrical manager for Bob
Fitzsimmons at that time. (‘})arlos
Glori, former e2ptain of polfce in
Newark, N. J., was Fitz's prize-ring
manager., Together the two men car
ried Riordan out of the ring and
seated him on a cnalr near one of
the exits. All this time Riordan
sgemed to he in a stupor.
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Riordan was left sitting on the
chair by Block and Glori and the two
men started back toward the ring.
However, a few minutes later Rior
dan was seen to fall out of the chair
and onto the floor. He then was
picked up and carried to the back of
the stage, and then taken to his
hotel at orders from physicians. He
died there two hours later.
THe police arrested Bob Fitzsim
mons on the charge of manslaughter,
despite the fact that the physicians
who examined = Riordan’s body de
clared that death was of an acci
dental nature. It was found upon ex
amination that when Riordan’s body
slipped to the floor the back of the
chair struck the back ‘of his head,
causing a blood clot to form on the
floor of the fourth ventricle. This
was the cause of death.
.
Milwaukee May Get
Ertle-Moore Scrap
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 28.—Tom An
drews, of this city, is planning a double
windup for next month - that should
prove a big attraction for the boxing
fans. His aim is to match Johnny Er
tle and Pal Moore and Bryan Downey
and Joe Egan, the Boston whirlwind,
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Boone Kelly Should Never Have
Allowed Loser in House—Two
Fast Preliminaries.
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By Harry Lewis.
T'S mighty tough to see a good
I Sportsman make a bad mistake,
but this is just what Manager |
Boone Kelly, of the Columbia The
ater, did last night when he allowed
the lad who styles himself as Mickey
Ross to enter hig playhouse. The lat
ter is just about the biggest frost I
have seen in a long time, and his at
tempts to even make a showing
zg.g’ainst Johnny Underwood were piti
ul.
In the past Manager Kelly had boenl
in the habit of allowing Mike Saul
and “Happy” Joe Trent to do all his
matchmaking, but for some reason or
other Kelly allowed himself to be
fooled by a lot of “guff” that this
Ross boy had been shooting, and as a
result Kelly decided to book ‘this
match. The result should teach the
people connected with the Columbia
Theater a good lesson, and hereafter
I hope that things will be left in the
hands of Saul and Trent, two boys
who have done more to make the
game here than anyone else in this
section of the country.
g
Mike's little talk at the end of the
fiasco told the story, although the
words he uttered are not fit to put inl
print. I doubt if there was a sadder
man in th® house than Boone Kelly
himself, when it was all over, but he
was warned against this same thing,
and he can thank himself that he has
a string of good bouts to look back to
that will cause the crowd present last
night to forget that a lad by the name
of Ross even made his appearance
here.
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It took the fans but a few minutes
to find out just what this Ross boy
was. The latter quit cold before the
third round even started, refusing to
leave his corner for this session, de
spite the fact that his seconds tried
hard to shove him from his corner.
If Boone Kelly paid the boy one
nickel, he made even a worse mistake
than he did when he first matched
him to go on with Underwood.
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The preliminaries, booked by Happy
Joe Trent, were very good, being up to
the usual standard. Two bouts were
staged, both being four-round affairs.
In one of these scraps ‘“Battling”
Bloomberg and d Sailor put up a
fast battle, whi in the other go
Young Flynn and,Jack Leary also
staged a slashi gO. These two
scraps afforded fans with eight
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MAN doesn’'t always =ot to be captain of his football team by
A being its most brilliant player. Sometimes he gets to be captain
by reason of a row with his coach--at least, Bonner, of Auburn,
did, back in 1911. But that is a most unusual business, so he‘e goes
for a little story about it. .
There is a Bonner on the Auburn team today, and it is a brother of
this Bonner. A little brother. He has to be a little brother, although
he is a very sizable athlete. The original Bonner was 6 feet 7 inches
tall. He did not weigh as much as you might fancy, from all this alti
tude; but he packed about 180 pounds of bone and gristle, and he was
very hard to kill--and quite fast for so longitudinal a man.
Well, this elongated Bonner had been a sub the year before; and
in 1911, at the start of the season, he was regarded as about a half
regular. Mike thought sometimes Bonner would make the first string
and then again he thought he wouldn't.
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It was while Mike was in the latter frame of mind one afternoon
that this lm'idenfi happened. Mike was in a very large temper for so
small a football conch. He was snapping at the men in serimmage
practice—riding them all over the lot. The scrubs had scored, and
Mike was all out of step with his usually sunny disposition.
Bonner was having a bad day. The scrubs were sifting through
his side of the line, and his own backfield was buinping into hind on the
attack, and the sawed-off coach was flaying him alive every two minutes,
Bonner knew he was going badly, and that got on his nerves as much
as Mike's riding. His nerves got all frazzled out, and when you frazzle
out six feet and seven inches of nervous system, it is some frazzle.
Bonner’s self-command disappeared all in a lump as Mike rapped
out an unusually brisk comment. He wheeled on the little coach and
looked down at him as if from the top of a stepladder.
“You go to hell!” he said, crisply.
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Mike was astounded, but probably no more so than the usually
docile Bonner as he realized the enormity of his crime. Mike was
prompt to act. Standing on tiptoe and reaching up as high as he could,
he took a firm hold of the scruff of Bonner's neck, spun him around,
and propelled him in a sort of staccato fashion toward the sidelines,
frequently booting him in the most convenient portion of his anatomy.
it must have been the funniest performance ever seen on a foot
ball field, but the other members of the squad were too stricken to see
the humor of it. Nobody laughed. Mike told Bonner to turn in his
uniform and never set a foot on that gridiron again.
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OW, here is where Bonner got right.
N The big fellow was heart-broken. He realized that it was his
fault and he was crazy to straighten things out. Also he was
man enough to own up and apologize. He did not sneak around and
apologize on the quiet to Mike. He went through with it like a man.
Bonner wrote out.and “posted” his apology, not only to Mike, but
also to the entire student body. He asked their foyiveness and Hoped
Mike would see his way to reinstating him on tHe squad. If Mike
would do that, Bonner promised that whether he ever made the varsity
or not, he would be out there to fight, bleed and die for Auburn as long
as Mike would permit him to.
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Of ecourse there is only one thing to do when a fellow comes
through like that. Mike went to the stricken Bonner and shook hands
with him, and possibly made him a small apology on his own account.
And Bonner came back to the squad next day—and in less than twenty
minutes Mike was positive that he had at least one guard’s job taken
care of, '
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ONNER played great ball all that season; but that wasn’t what
B elected him eaptain at the end. There was Caton, whom Jack
Heisman selected in his recent series of articles on All-Southern
football players for all time. And there was Cogdell, All-Southern end
and tackle. They were put forward as candidates, too. It was a vote
by plurality, and when they counted the ballots Cogdell had 7, Caton
had B—and Bonner had 9.
And, oddly enough, everybody was pleased and happy.
Bonner made a grand captain in 1912. He fulfilled his promise to
fight, bleed and die, playing in every game that year without losing one
minute’s time-——the only man on the team to make such a recerd. Au
burn did not lose a game in the Southern Association that year, al
though the team was badly shot to pieces after the Texas trip, which
took eight regulars off for a while with fever.
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LOOMINGTON, IND., Nov. 28.—
B In response to a call sent out
by Evald Steihm, Indiana
coach and president of the Big Ten
conference, athletic directors and
coaches of the conference will meet
in Chicago December 15 to draft the
1918 schedule.
Camp Gordon’s crack football 'team
was scheduled to leave Atlanta Wed
nesday afternoon for Birmingham,
where they meet the strnn]g University
?_’f Alabama clan there Thanksgiving
Day.
Coach Kelly has been putting his men
through strenuous work-outs for several
days and hopes to have them in perfect
condition when they line up against
the soldiers Thursday.
Gordon expects its hardest game of
the season. McWhorter, Thrash, Bond,
Brown, “Kid"” Woodruff. Vandergraaf
and the other stars will get into the
game against the Alabamans.
Mississip i Aggies
Play Indian Eleven
MEMPHIS, TENN.,, Nov. 28.—The
Mississippi Aggies will meet the
Haskell Indians here Thursday after
noon in the final game of the sea
son. Haskell probably is the strong
est Indian team in the country today,
for Carlisle is on the down-grade.
rounds of fast milling, so that they at
least got some action for their money.
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Next Friday night Young Carthy is
scheduled to box Terry Nelson, and
the Brooklynite might as well know
right now that he must give the fans
a run for their money or he had bet
ter not make his appearance here, as
the boys connected with the sport
here do not intend to allow any out
siders to kill a sport that it has taken
such hard work to put on a sound ba
®is. As for Ross getting on here any
more, he might as well kiss all his
chances good-bye. Last night killed
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RED FULTON’S victory over
Gunboat Smith Tuesday night
in Milwaukee, which he got on
a technical knockout in the seventh
round, further strengthens the Min
nesota giant’s claim that he is the
logical man to fight Jess Willard for‘
the championship. ‘
Fulton won easily from the Gunner.‘
outweighing him about 40 pounds, and
though a bit awkward, completely
showed up the Californian.
Undoubtedly Fulton is the only man
in the country today capable of giv
ing Willard a real fight, for the rest
of the heavies have shown they are
not worthy of encountering the cham-%
pion. ‘
Fulton has beaten Andre Anderson,
Carl Morris, Sam Langford and
Smith. He knocked out Anderson, got
a decision over Carl and knocked out
Tham and the Gooner. Though none
of the above men are real top-notch
ers now, they are four of the best
the division has. |
Smith holds a 20-round peoint vic
tory over Willard, the present cham
pion, which he secured several years
ago. Smith is a real veteran now,
and though Fulton will get little
praise for his knockout victory ‘over
the Gunner, it is something that the
other leading heavies today have not
done.
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It is now up to Willard to attach
his signature to the articles of agree
ment for a scrap with Fulton, or re
tire permanently from the ring.
Fulton announced a few days ago
that if Willard continued to dodge a
bout with him he would claim the
heavyweight championship and de
fend it against all comers. 5 there
is no way to coax the peaceable title
holder into a ring with the plas
terer, Fulton should be ed by
all as the champion. :
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Tigers Have Final Workout and
Are Cheered by Students,
Expect Low Score. .
ÜBURN, ALA., Nov. 28.—Every
A student enrolled in Auburn was
on the bleachers Tdesday even
ing to watch Coach Donahue’s coliorts
but on the finishing touches before
they meet the mighty eleven of (yeor=
gla Tech, As usual, before a - hig
game, (‘oach Donahue lets his War
riors rest on the last day before” thé
battle, but, being anxious to get thein
in the best trim for the turkey“ddy
affair, he had them working mighty
hard until long after dark Tuesday:
The Tiger coach even has his. yvap
-Bity squad set against the scrb&i
and, while the scrimmage w not
hard, yet every man had all he&*mi'
ed. The team will leave today - fér
Atlanta, and a great send-off ".is
planned for the Tigers' benefit. Rvary
mman appeared in pink of condition;
and so far as can be ascertained :no
man wil! leave on the trip with a
single ailment. 9.7 Y
About twenty stalwart warriors
ill make the trip, and as a reward to
those faithful scrubs who every
evening battled their héarts .out
against the varsity, they will alsa be
taken, Every man on.the téam -is
anxious for the referee’s whistle; to
blow, for all think that they can hold
the Golden Tornado to a low scors. .
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UNIVERSITY, ALA., Nov. 28, ~The
thin red line will enter the xa.;nl
against Camp Gordon prepared .-for
a 4 hard fight. - Kelly's gridmen have,
but one more practice before the game
Thursday. Every man who will play
is in good physical condition, and.is
anxfous to met the Gordon team. The
squad has been practicing nearly twop
weeks for the tilt and will exert every
ounce of stuff it has to defeat the OP~
ponents, as the game will be the last
one for Alabama, and sghe is anxious
to win {t, st
Coach Kelly has used various for
mations and plays during the prace
tices lately, beringing in nearly every
play that the Crimson outfit has used
during the season. It is likely that
Alabama will use a varied attack
against the soldiers. poiad
! Stowers, the star of the Kentucky
game, will start at quarter statiom:
Rowe, O'Connor and. Stephenson are
some of the other stars who will be
in tiptop condition for the fight. - A
large number of men will. be carried;
and it is possible that Coach Kelly
will make many changes during the
game. A hard game is expected by
Alabama and in return she is expect=
ing to put up a hectic fight. o~ i
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r LEXINGTON, VA, Nov. 28.—Th
Generals had their last practice £
the season on the home field Tuesday.
They went through dummy scrig=
mage on Washington and Jefferson
plays and used several formations
which have been held in reserve for
the Pennsylvanians.
With the exception of Turner Bath
el, varsity tackle, whose injured knee
has not come around and who will
probably not start the game, -the
V?shlngton and Lee squad is in goad
shape and have reached the top ogl
form. In case Bethel does not sta
the game either J. Patterson .
Sede Scovell will be used in his ‘po=
sition. The Generals will leave ‘for
Richmond this morning, and will ha?‘,gv
a workout in the Boulevard park tH |
afternoon. i .
Coach Raftery would make no defi<
nite announcement of his line-up. But
it is probable that he will use the
same men who faced Geéorgetown—
Larkin and Fox ends, Bailey and Pat
terson, guards; Pierotti, center; Beth
el or Patterson and Atkins, tackle%;
Fain, quarterback: Silverstein, fuli,
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COLUMBIA, 8. C., Nov. 28.—Fhe
University of South Carolina expects
to win the annual game with the
Citadel, tq b H)]”‘l,)fld in](‘ntlumbl;‘
Thursday. Coach ixon Foster re=
ports his men in fair shape, brgwn
being out for signal practice Tuesday
afternoon and showing every indicas
tion of being at fullback jn th_O‘
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