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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY TEAM WINS BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP OF U. S..
RUGGED RUTGERS FIVE
'FIGHTS VALIANTLY BUT
IS OUT OF ITS CLASS
By GUY BUTLER.
Introducing New York University,
chaimpion basketball team of the
United States.
They have departed from our
idst, those champions, crowned
fil]y last night at the Auidtorium,
when they hammered the gallant
little Rutgers five into submission
before the greatest crowd that has
ever seen a basketball game in At
lanta. This crowd was estimated at
5,000, and the score was fixed at
49 to 24,
If strong resistance counted for
anything, Rutgers should be the
champion, for those boys from New
York State put up four of the hard
est tusgles gver witnessed here, be
fore losing out on the home stretch !
to the most wonderful aggregation
of basket shooters that ever wore a
pair of trunks in the entire South,
not a county barred. Rutgers came
sthrough two battles by the skin of
; their teeth, winning twice _from
Georgia and Utah by 3-point mar
gins, and another after a gruelling
mill,
N. Y. DESERVED VICTORY.
New York University’'s team de
_serves all of the honor that gies
with the championship. First of all,
they play the game as it should be
played, they know it from the ground
up, an dsecondly, they are clean
sportsmen and won their ‘title fairly
and squarely from the best teams
in the United States—and the world,
for that matter. ‘
The final game of the tournament
was not what you would call a
thriller, It was just a good game,\
with both teams fighting for every
inch of ground, and every point that
‘was made,
; Rutgers did not give up, even!
when their score had been doubled
at theend of the first half, with New
York leading by 19 to 8. They kept
up their desperate battle, for they
were fighting uphill, and soon after
the start o fthe last half, it seemed
that the plucky little team, fighting
valiantly for a victory that meant
the championship of the world, had
an xecellent chance of overhauling
their mighty foes, but they missed
‘shot after shot from mid-court,
which they treid in deperation, not
being able to gett under the basket,
because of the wonderful guarding
Baker and DeLaney. In fact, the
.entire New York team had a hand
in keeping Rutgers away from their
goal, and forcing them to try chance
shots or not score at all. ;
Luck was against Rutgers; of
that, there is no doubt. Time after
time, the ball would ghoot up from
the court out of the hands of
“Benny” Benzoni, the Rutgers for
ward,~or French, the husky guard,
or maybe, Taliefero, the other for
ward, with the basket its goal, al
ways to strike the rim of the hoop
and topple over into the court again,
But that bad run of lugk couldn’t
keep the game collegians ¢own, and
they kept plugging along, never giv
ing up hope, and every time they got
out into the dlear, they took a shot;
at the basket.
It was the uncanny Cann, the
grim Goeller and the mighty
Mooney who léd the onslaught for
New York, and their remarkable
work both defensively and offen
sively was too much for their foes.
The equal of Howard Cann as a‘
forward has never been seen by’ the
writer. He possesses wonderful l
speed, the agility of an acrobat, and
his opponents must sometimes won
dor if he is not really super-human
when he #8 en the court.
It takes an eye wilness to appre
ciate the work of that New York
quintet. They handle the ball so
easily, as if performing sleight of
hangd tricks. They shoot baskets with
the same ease with which they han
dle the ball, and their teamwork is
simply marvelous. That is the near
est we can come to describing their
work.
Rutgers in reality never had a
chance from the beginning no more
than they did at the end, when Storey
and Holman were sent in as substi
tues to relieve Goeller and Mooney.
New York's dazzling play in their
three previous games had already
given the fans the idea that they
were invincible, and their great vic-
BEST TEAM IS WINNER;
GREAT WEEK PASSES
By HENRY VANCE.
The average basketball fan of At
lanta is having the carbon burned
from his lungs this morning. The
average fannette is mourning the loss
of a perfectly good barrette and
weeping over the strayage of a way
ward hair net, These got lost, cr
chattered, or pilfered, or something in
the shuffle. Most every vox popu
liar in the town is wand2ving around
the streets with a vacant stare in his
eyes. This stare of blindness waa
caused by the poor geek trying to
follow the ball, as it shot from the
mittens of one New Yorkers to the
other in the national basketball tour
ney which closed Saturday night.
Oh, what a pop-eyed, tongue-pro
tuding, mouth-gaping. ear-popping,
nerve wracking week it has been. It
was worth $1,000,000 in radium
pileces to sit at ring side and watch
those athletes cavort over the ourt
the past week. Atlanta has been
served a treat sportologically. the like
of which she has never seen before.
Atlanta has rollicked sundry roliicks,
spasamed innumerable spasms, gulped
hundreds of gulps, and through it all
Atlanta has been as happy as a 10-
yvear-old with a constellation of stone
bruises ow each hoof.
IT HAS BEEN GREAT WEEK.
It has been a gladsome week: a
week replete with thrilis. I wouldn't
have missed it for a carload of Kohi
noors. And,in the word s of the
prophet Isaalah, or some other sea
port prophet, the Atlanta Athletic
Club, aided and abetted by Al A,
Doonan, deserves a ream Or S 0 of
praise—first, because they had the
necessary spunk to o out and make
a bid for the attraction; secondly,
bhecause they had the tenacity of a
orate of bebradded rivets to stick by
the gums until the A, A. U, awarded
All-Star Quintet
Picked by Butler
By GUY BUTLER.
I will endeavor to pick an all
star aggregation from the mem
bers of the quintets who battled
for world supremacy at the Au
ditorium last week. My selec
tion follows:
FORWARD—Howard Cann,
New York U.
FORWARD~-Joe Dermody, Y.
M. O. .
CENTER~—#Red” de Barnardy,
Kansas City A. C.
GUARD—Audrey Kincaid, Los
Angeles A. C,
GUARD—M. R. Baker, New
York U.
These selections are based on
the wonderful work of these men
in the tourney just finished. It
may be that one or two of them
outdid themselves in this tour
ney, but, be that as it may, in
my opinion, they were the real
stars of the four days' play.
tory over Rutgers elevates them to
an even higher point in the estima
tion of all the folks prgsent.
STRONG IN CRISIS.
In their game last night, they dis
playe dthe same smoothness, the
same ability in the crisis as they
showed in their easier games ear
lier in the tournament. They did
not crack under fire, and performed
just as sensationally, were just as
much at home in the finals of the
tournament a 3 they weer on opening
day. They hae an air about thewmn
that causes their opponents to feel
something akin to stage fright. Yet
they are not a cocky bunch, and their
sportsmanship had won for them
many admirers.
In spite of all that, the entire
crowd down at the Auditorium Sat
urday night was pulling hard for
Rutgers. But the crowd ls always
for the under dog, and Rutgers was
most assuredly that.
L2ét us set down to the game agaln,
Not once during the fray did little
Rutgers have the satisfaction of be
ing in the lead. Howard ‘Cann of
N. Y. U. was the first to score, He
shot a field goal only a minute or so
before the whistle that sent them into
the battle. New York had six field
goals before Rutgers could get their
first.
Mononey's ability to shopt foul goals
also added to the score of New York.
In the first half he negotiated four
fouls, and in the second, three. Talief~
fero also had some luck at shoot
ine free baskets, his total being six.
TWO FORWARDS STAR.
For the visitprs, the two forwards,
Cann and Coeller and Mooney, the big
center, were, of course, the leading
lights, This trio scored 37 of their
team's 49 points. Benzoni, who won
the Georiga and Utah game by scor
ing field goals during the final few
minutes of play, was not equal to
the task of overcoming the New York
lead. but he produced four field goals
during the evening, two of which
were of the spectacular varlety.
French at a gmard, played a fine
game for Rutgers, as did Talleffero.
Here is the summary:
New York U. (“F)' Pos. Rutgers (24)
Cann (10) o nizagpr £oa Benzonio (8)
Coeller (12) HhasbustrEe Talifero (8)
Mooney (15) G Hall (8)
De Laney (8) G Meury‘
. .
Bolkar (9) corsoiviesceessss PrENch (2):
Substitutions—New York, Storey
(2), Holman. Personal touls—-New‘
York, 7. (Cann 1, Mooney 8, De Lanev}
2, Paker 1); Rutgers, 10 (Benzoni 2.1‘
Talieffero 1, Hall 2, Meury 2, F‘ranch‘
3. Foul goals—New York, Mooney 9:
Rutgers, Talieffero 6, Time of halves
—Twenty minutes. Referee—Yates.
Umpire—Lange.
the basket carnival to Atlanta, and
thirdly, lecause they had a great
enough vision to play the taing on a
big league scale. The national bas~-
letball hamplonship of the past week
were put across in more supern stvie
than any of their predecessors: and
it is a riskless venture to say that
they were better attended and more
wholesemcly supportel than any ever
staged befure. I don't know wgethor
it is permissable for one town o get
the championship tourney two years
handrunning or not, but there is al
ready considerable lingo being drib
bled around, and much talk being
handed *o and fro that Atlanta will
go after the tourney aZsin next year,
WORKED TO STANDSTILL.
That may or may not be. The gen
eral impression seems to be that the
committee in charge and one Al Doo
nan are just about as weary, now
that the tourney is over, as a chi~
ropodist who has toiled ceaselessly
over a centipede with a flock of corns
on each foot. The last time I saw
Al he looked like he was going down
in a sea of perspiration for the thira
time. I threw Al a rope, but he man
aged to yell back that he didn’t
gmoke cheroots.
But the tourney is over. The
smoke of battle is slowly clearing
‘away, but it will take a week of sun
shine and a galaxy of March winds
to entirely rid the city of the smoke
of battle. Atlanta has dreamed bas
ketball, talked basketball and thougnt
basketball for a solid week, The
epidemic of basketitis has gripped
the city. Why, the other night
when 1 was wending my way home
ward, via the ankle-express, I over
took a cage enthusiast, who had just
been to the game. He was dribbling
the breakfast supply of grapefruit on
HEARST’'S SUNDAY AMERICAN — A Newspaper for People Who Think .. SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 1920
Central High Has
g
.
Strong Five; Beats
Junior Smithies
Central High of Chattanooga eas
ily defeated Tech High Saturday aft
ernoon at the Y. M. C. A, 28-18.
The visitors have the best claim of
any team in the South to the South
ern prep school basketball champion- |
ship. The team is playing its thira
year together and has team work
down better than any high school
five that has ever played here.
This was the second meeting of
the two schools, and in this game
Tech High made a much better show
ing than in the first encounter.
This was the last basketball game
for either school this year.
Ray, center of the visitors, starred.
He was all over the court, and his
flaylng was far better than that of
he ordinary high school player. He
‘was ably assisted by all his team
mates.
Merritt and Stewart starred for
Tech High. The playing of this palr
at forwards was wonderful They
played a much better game than
usual, and with a little support by
thelr teammates would have given
the visitors a close call.
Singer and De Barnardy Star
for Victors and Dermody for
Detroit—Score, 46 to 35.
By CHARLES SHONESY. |
Third and fourth places in the
national basketball championship
were decided Saturday afternoon at
the Auditorium when ahe Kansas
City Athletic Club and Young Men's
Order of Detroit, the losers in the
semi-finals, battled for these posi
tions. Kay BSee coped the game,
46 to 35.
The game during the first half
was little less than a massacre as
the Missourians ran wild. Singer and
De Barnardi led the attack and did
it so thoroughly that the handful of
people in the Auditorium %new the
result of the game as well us they
knew where they were perched.
The size of the crowd evidently
had a depressing effect on the piay
ers as none of the brilllant basket
ball that has marked each of the
contests they played before wag in
evidence. The players were kiiding
and trying much fancy stuff.
Detroit started off like a whirl
wind and score 6 points before the
winnerg came through w.th a single
pointer. But after that first field
goal they came so fast that the
scoreers had trouble in marking
them up. The game was full of
brilliant dribbling, but passwork
was passed up.
SINGER WENT WILD.
Of the wild men, Singer was wild
est. He played with all the vim that
marked his first game here. He was
all over the court, passing, breaking
up passes, dribbling and mostly shoot
ing. He had an eagle eye on the
basket, and scored on nearly every
shot at the goal. He registered ten
field goals and one fonl goal during
the fray.
De Barnady, possibly the most pop
ular player in the entire tourney,
more than lived up to his past play
‘lng in the first half, but in the sec
ond he and his teammates, thinking
the game safe, tried the funny stuff.
' On two different occasions, he drib
‘bled the ball the length of the court,
only to get the pill messed up with
‘hig feet and kick it out into the au
‘dience. He shot five field goals and
‘one foul.
~ Joe Dermody was the losers’ star.
'He, with any kind of help, would
‘make a wonderful team. He is ex
tremely fast, and dribbles expertly.
His shooting powers are «vidently un
limited, nspecially the foul goal shoot
ing. Pisher also played a nifty game,
shooting five field goals.
~ Peabody of Kay BSee contributed
three field goals, all from about the
center of the court. Moberly hung
}up four field goals during the fray.
‘Y. M. 0. USED SUBS.
Y. M. O. used every playeér with
‘the team, four substitutions being
‘made. The game was very clean,
no men being put out for personal
fouling. Kay See suhstituted only one
man, Fox going in for Moberly near
the close of the game. None of the
substitutes scored any points,
This game, like all the rest, was
handled in a very efficient manner.
Lang refereed, Thorpe umpired and
Yates scored.
The score:
Kansas City A. C, )(‘46) Y. M. 0. (35)
Singer (21) 1< Dermody (10)
Moberly (8) Lok fas R R Fisher (10)
De Bernardi (11) & iirsiat OB I
Peabody (6) ......... Whitmarsh (4)
G.
JOYe® .....000sc00i00-iOOOO. Houser
Substitutes—Kansas City, Fox for
Moberly; Y, M. O, Moore for Voss,
Kershner for Fisher, Whitmack for
Whitmarsh. Foul goals—Sßinger (1),
De Bernardi (1), Dermcdy (5). Field
goals—Singer (10), Moberly (4), De
Bernardi (5), Peabody (3); Dermody
(5), Fisher (5), Voss (3), Whitmarsh
| (2). Referee—Lange. Umpire—
Thorpe. Scorer--Yates, Time of
lhalvu——'rwenty minutes.
the pavement as he walked, and was
mumbling hoarsely: “Hold 'em,
Spartanburg!”
BEST TEAM WINS.
The best team won the tourney.
That goes without saying. Those
who followed the play of the New
Yorkers throughout the tourney saw
almost from the jump that they had
their oppponents outclassed. The
uncanny Cann, the mighty Goeller,
who is to basketball what Hod Eller
is to baseball, and the meandering
Mooney, make up the greatest trio
baskethallists have ever geen this side
of the Mason and Dixon lines. They
are no doubt the best trio severat
million miles north of the same llne,
Jongitude seven and latitude eleven—
or something.
A FEW DRIBBLES
Basketball as it was played dur
ing the tournament just closed lis
something that /we rarely have a
chance to watch, and that bunch of
classy teams* that fought for the
championship are without doubt . the |
cream of the country. Every game
was a corker from the start. l
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That c¢crew from New York Uni-‘
versity cértainly is there when 1t
comes to carrying the ball around}
the court, and some fans are in
clined to believe that they would do
well as vaudeville jugglers. The ball |
moved around with them like a ten
nis ball, and to see their fancy drib
bling made one imagine that it was
an easy art |
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Notice the scores by which Rutgers
has been trimming the others. Pretty
narrow, still they came through with
the goods at the finish. First, Geor
gia was drubbed by a 3-point mar
gin, then Utah by the same number.
Both Georgia and Utah played a rast
game, but the New Jersey boys had
the comeback every timme. However,
Rutgers took Y. M. O. in tow by a
comfortable score. |
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Everybody felt good when they saw
and heard a big group of Tech “let
ter” men give Georgia yells alt
through the game. The Georgia boys
are back in Athens with that tale,
and it might possibly help ot the
strained relations between the two.
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Some of the defensive exhihltlons‘
put over by teams in the tournament
have been an eye-opener to basket
ballers in this vicinity. New York
worked that five-man defensive game
‘throughout the tournament very suc
cessfully, and the crowd came to
their feet to see the wholé team
swinging back and forth after the
“egg,’”’ as Jake of N, Y. U. calls It
And, oh, boy! how about that whole-‘
team offensive? No long shots, no
fancy shooting, but sure things. Just
pass the ball back and forth untn
the right time—then another goal.
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Johnny Westmoreland played one
of the best games of his life against
the Detroit crowd. He was all over
the court, guarding and shooting. It
was hard to shake him from that
ball, and he sent the ball through
the hoops frequently. ‘
L * - ‘
Considering the extraordinarfly‘
good passing, shooting and drlbbling,i
the foul goal shooting of the teams
as a whole was pretty weak. Moo
ney of N. Y. U. was the most con
sistent. He missed only about one
out of every seven or eight tries.
Taliaferro of Rutgers is in the same
class with Mooney, and tn ‘one game
put over eleven goals out of fourteen
tries,
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The- big auburn-haired gentleman
from Kansas City named De Ber
nardy was one of the best in the
series, and his all-around fast and
sensaticnal playing earned hilm much
applause. Some of his shors were
wonders, and brought back memories
of Alfred Scott, 4
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And when it comes to being an
active gentleman, let me refer you
to one Benzoni of Rutgers. a very
slight young chap who seemed to be
with the ball quite frequently. In
l Sport Lingographs
When they rode to the park in a
bus. ‘
Ah, those were the deys of enjoy
ment untold,
When they rode to the park in a
bus.
Those happy remembrances make my
heart sick
As | think of the days we could play
fully nick ;
A ball player's ivory dome with a
brick s
Whey they rode to the park in a
bus.
Joe Beckett knocked out a gent in
London the other night, thereby
strengthening Sir Oliver Leodge's con
tention that the dead come back,
The gent whom Mr. Beckett
knocked for a goal was none other
than Dick Smith, He is not, how
ever, the same Dick Smith who al
ways held his own in the days be
fore the eighteenth uamendment,
Golfing experts in Flor'da tell ‘us
that Babe Ruth is a great ball player.
SPRING TRAINING,
The same old rains,
The same old pains,
The same old achas and yells,
The same old kicks
About the hicks
‘Who run the bush lotels.
The same old dope,
The same 2ld hope,
The same old pennant dreams,
The same old scribes,
The same 011 gibes,
But not the same old teams,
This is the most conservative hase
ball campaign in yars and yars., Fully
a week has eame and went, and no
body has uncovered ancther Ty Cobb.
No doubt when the boys get the
range on those nearby fences in Cali
fornia there will be a flock of Babe
Ruths.
Ya gotta believe statlstics, partic
ularly in baseball. According to the
DENATURED GAMSLING.
Time was when | invested jack
Upon the steeds which ran the track.
| never got my money back,
Not one thin lonely dime.
But, now that | have ceased to play,
Old John J. Luck has come my way,
|, make a mental bet each day.
And win it every time,
Johnny Dundee, who threatens to
become a fight promoter, ig covering
a lot of territory. Abe Attell was
the only pugilist we ever knew who
could block and hit and count the
house at the same time,
RAIN.
“It looks like rain,” the stranger
said.
It was a voice of pain,
For he had paid six bits per head
to look on hooch that once was red,
And that is why the srranger said:
“1t looks like rain.”
The Aubudon Club, which deals in
boxing shows, is appropriately named.
t‘he game with Utah he saved the
game for Rutgers by a series of abour
four field goals in the last five min
utes of play, all of which were maae
on the full run.
: . * *
The game Saturday afternoon be
tween Kansas City and Detroit start
‘ed out like a tea party, evervbody
italdng their time and shooting when
it. was convenient. Detroit did not
play as fast as usual, excepting Der
mody, who delivered with ten fiera
goals.
- * *
Although Los Angeles. went out of
the running in the second round, the
champions had a mighty good team,
“Skeeter’ Swann certainly lived up
to his reputation, and the way he
slung the ball toward the goal was
a caution.
- * *
College teams displayed- their su
periomity in this series as never be
fore. +The college teams as a whole
showed up much better than eclub
fives. Rutgers, from the East, ana
Utah, from the Far West, plaved ilke
demons. Cieorgia sure deserved a bet
ter ending for its hard fight.
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The way those two New York
guards, Baker and Delaney, handlea
the classy Kansas City offensive
showed them to be right there with
the goods. Kansas City, up to that
time, had put their games over In a
fast fashion, but when the two boys
from the big city hauled out after
them the ball was gone and so was
the game. Baker and Delaney have
a great system of getting the ball
without bothering the man and start
ing a dribbling match until the dan
ger is over.
* * *
Milton Singer of Kansas City prov
ed one of the best point getters of
the series, running up a total of Th
points, which is pretty good. Only
a very few were foul goals. e andad
Deßernardy certainly worked wen
together, and were the main reasons
for Kay See's good showing. Singer
averaged ten field goals a game,
which is going some, considering the
teams which were faced.
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The Utah boys from beyond the
‘Rocky Mountains made a very good
showing, upsetting the dope by last
ing the second round. A hard-fight
ing, scrapping crowd they were, and
the ball was never safe. Rutgers
thought the game was on ice, but
Utah played until the last like de
mons. Georgia and Utah would sure
have made a match, for they both
have the spirit of fight until the whis
tle blows.
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Tom Thorp, Jim Lange and Yates
are to be commended on the good
refereeing and umpiring they Aid
Auring the series. The crowd real
ized that these men knew their busi
ness, and very seldom was there any
dispute. All of them know the ;.!amo
throughonut, and it was a pleasure
to see them handle the game with
out a kick,
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Clean basketball was the. rule in
this tournament, and, while . many
personal fouls were called, they were
for the most part unintentional. The
.sportsmanship displayed by most or
the men was goo dand long will be
remembered by fans. ’
Great numbers of birds attend box
ing shows, particularly the cuckoo.
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Bill Klem, the celebrated ump, is
journeying amidst the various Na
tional League training camps, in
siructing the pitchers in the recently
adepted rules, regulations and by
laws of the national pastime. He
will advise them to refrain from the
shine ball, the emery ball, the Jico
rice ball, the slippery eim ball, and,
last, but not least, the fish ball,
We were often told in olden days
that athietes were prone to enlarge
ment of the heart, but now they suf
fer chiofly from enlargement of the
bank roll.
o .
Community Service to
.
Organize B. B. Leagues
Baseball leagues are being formed
by the Community Service under the
direction of Mr. Voorhis and Mrs.
Bradley, of A. G. Spalding & Bros.,
and Mr. Wililson, athletic director of
the Atlanta Community Service.
Several girls teams have already
been formed, and practise begun, All
girls in industrial and commercial
life or girls’ teams who wish to par
ticipate im athletics, such as base
ball, volley ball, swimming and all
outaoor sports, are requested to in
quire of Mrs. Bradley, who will reg
ster them and place them on tedms
‘according to ages and the gports that
appeal to them most.
It is expected that a great many
girls’ baseball teams will be seen in
}action on local diamonds in Atlanta
this summer, and the twilight games
in married men'’s, single men’s, young
’l;ulins‘ and intermediate boys’ and
girls’ leagues, will take up the idle
Ihnurs in a healthful and interesting
leisure time »nrogram., All industrial
plants or institutions who have
‘Loums organized or who wish to or
‘gunizp a baseball team are requested
‘to call upon Mr. H G, Voorhis or
'Mrs. Bradley of A. G. Spalding &
Bros., Ivy 2626, or Mr. Wilson,
athletie director of the Atlanta Com
‘munity Rervice, Tvy 7790, who will
asslst them in organizing the register
them in the league best fitted for
them.
The Atlanta Community Service
basketball leagues have just com
pletea a very successful season, and
many réquests from teams and indi
viduals have been made by both old
and young of both sexes to compete
in the weekly Twilight League ac
tivities, and Mr. Wilson is being
kept busy locating vacant properay
wheer courts and diamonds can be
laid out. Atlanta Community Ser
vice offers something to all girls,
boys and married folks, from the
}bn,hy to grandpa.
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‘Bill Klem Instructs
Slabsters on Rules
| JACKRONVILLE, Fla, March 1. '-The
Dedgoer pitchers have heen fully instructed
regarding the new pitehing rules by Um-«
kpvrw Bill Klem, special emissary of the
National League.
Klem left today for the eamp of the
Praves
Battling Sh d
attling Sheppard,
Atlanta Boxer, Is
Champion of Ohio
Do you Atlanta fans remember a
boxer bearing the name of Battling
Sheppard who fought around these
parts three or fnur years ago? Shep
pard is an Atlantan. He is now the
lightweight champion of Ohio, and is
making his home in Ironton, Ohio.
Sheppard write to the sporting
editor sending his record since leav
ing Atlanta. This boy has really
done remarkably well in the ring
game, having defeated Jack Lawler,
Frankie Burns, Joe Riley, Young
Lawrence, Frankie Nessler, and a
number of other boys around the
East.
He sends clippings of his bout
with Joe Riiey, wnich Sheppard won
in the fourth round, when the ref
eree stopped the fight. This boy is
anxious to box again in Atlanta., He
declares he¢ is better now than at
any time in his career.
CAREFUL
’Evers Declares Conceit Was
l Cause of Braves' Defeat After
Their Sensational Rise.
By JAMES J. CORBETT.
Will the Reds of 1920 be victims
of the conceit and carelessness which
has robbed so many major league
clubs of their chance for champion
ship repeats?
With a rare few ‘exceptions, every
ball team that was of lowly origin
that rose to championship heights
suddenly became possessed with the
idea in the fololwing season that it
was unbeatable. The players always
seemed to work along the theory that
they constituted the greatest outfit
in baseball, and couldn't be beaten.
But not since 1915 has any club re
peated in the National League.
“1t was conceit more than anything
else that beat the Boston Braves of
!1915," declared Johnny Evers, who
was a member of both the champion
ship team of 1914 and the Boston
club of 1815. “When the boys stun
ned the baseball world by crashing
through to world championship
heights in 1914, they began to believe
that they were the eral miracle men.
And miracle workers, you know, can
{do anything.
SPURT WASN'T THERE.
! So when the 1915 season came
|along the boys figured that they
could win ball games merely with the
wave of their hands. That they were
whipped in many of the early games
of the season didn't bother them
much, They figured that whenever
they wanted to they could rush right
into a tremendous lead and defeat all
opposition the rest of the way.
“But when the time came for them
to spurt and to plunge along to the
top they found that it couldn't be
done. Their early carelessness had
landed them too far behind the flying
leader,
Too late the Braves awoke to the
fact that although they were miracle
men in 1914, they weren’t able to per
form in miraculous fashion in 1915.
“It was much the same with the
Phillies of 1915, When they won the
National League pennant they figured
that nothing in the world could beat
them in 1916, Pat Moran made al
most frantic efforts to correct such
an idea. But the players thought
they knew more than Pat. 1 guess
they reasoned he was someihing of
a calamity howler because he in
gisted that even though they had won
in 1915, they 'would have to work
their hardest to repeat the following
geason, As a result, the Phillles were
side~tracked and the Brooklyn Dod
gers ran in ahead.
DODGERS GOT THEIRS.
“The Dodgers cerfainly became In
flated with their own {mportance
Infmr their 1916 triumph—but the
Glants won the 1917 pennant, And
{then it was the Giants’ turn to
[imagine themselves as a team uncon
querable for years to come. But the
'Cuhu whipped the Giants without an
{awful lot of trouble in 1919, and the
{Cubs, in their efforts to repeat, “got
theirs” in 1819,
How uabout the Reds?
iHHave they connected with the idea
that they constitute the greatest com
bination of baseball players in the
world—or not? Are they over-confi
dent regarding 1920-—or merely con
fident? If it is the latter, and they
play ball as they did last season-——
earnestly, carefully and with all their
j hearts-they should repeat. But if
{they don't—ls they become careless#it
|is an easy 10 to 1 bet that they land
isom(-wlmre else besides at the top.
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| Ruth Wins Suit on Homer ;
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. Tailor Fails to Cash In
| .Miller Huggins tells a story of
{how Ruth nearly won a suit of
clothes with a long hit while playing
ball in Los Angeles,
| He, of course, was the center of
{.’ttlrnl'tinn whenever he appeared in
uniform; one day a tailor sat in the
| grandstand during practise time and
jcarefully watehed Ruth try to knock
| the cover off the ball. Babe wal
{ loped the ball several times, but
|couldn't get it Outside the diamond.
i When the game started the tallor,
}prnhuhly with an eye to publieity,
{offered a SIOO suit to any batter
| who could put the ball in the bleach
lers, far out beyond centerfield. Ruth
‘wunl to bat in turn, took a healthy
wallop at the first ball pitched and
sent it “a mile,” plumb right Into
said bleachers, When he trotted
across home plate he sought out the
tailor.
“Not on your life,” said the chalk
and scissors expert. “You don't get
lany suit out of me; that was a
| frame-up.”
$ AMATEUR BOXING BOUT,
| NEW YORK, Marvm 17.—The amateur
llmvnx tryouts which will determine Uncle
| Bam’s team for the Olympic games at
"\nl\nmp this year will be held in this
eity if favorable action is taken by the
legisiators on the measures now before
‘flmm whieh, if wdopted, would again jegals
Early Arrivals, Hampered by
~ Rainy Weather, Have Been
Working Out in Y. M. C. A.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, March 13,
(Special).—Roy Ellam’s Vols are com
ing in by every train, and by Mon
day afternoon, when thie main smash
reports, at least twenty-five men are
expected to be on hand.
I.ess than a dozen patterymen ar
rived for the first day's call, offi
clally set for March 10, but rainy
weather, which lasted through Fri
day, made practise impossible in the
Dell for those who arrived early.
As a result of the deluge, Skinper Roy
steered his hirelings to the main
gymnasium of the Y. M C. A, where
indoor workouts were in order.
Pitchers and catchers warmed up
under wraps and pussy-footed
around the gym in rubber shoes,
while a few of the outfield can
didates, along with one¢ or two in
fielders, amused themselves by
bunting out light taps to one another,
The entire catching staff, includ
ing Bubber Jonnard, twin brother of
the pitched sold to Detroit; Frank
Kom{)ocker, last year's second string
receiver, snd “Drag” Smith, receiver
of the crack Lawrenccburg indepen
dent team, were on hand the first
day, and were confronted with the
unusual task of catching a lone
hurler, Hodge, a member of last
vear'’s mound staff. Work and Dodd,
independent players frcm Philadel
phia, followed into camp and joined
the pitching aggregation.
BURKE REPORTS.
Mike Rurke, last rear's center
fielder, lives in Nashville and natur
ally ‘'was the first member of the
outfield combination to report. Mike
will be hard pressed for a job this
yvear, with nine men working for
regular berths in the suburbs. Joe
Greene, Pennsylvania steel leaguer,
arrived Thursday for an outfield trial,
along with McConnell, a big outfielder
from Big Sandy, Tenn.
Manager Ellam and Dave Barol,
another Pennsylvania steel leaguer.
were the first of the infielders to
report. Both are in condition, and
;lre anxioug to get into legular train
ng.
. The prospects of the Vols are look
ing upward. Gloom vovered the
Nashville eamp at first, but indica
tions are that a number of deals
will be developed in the near future
which will do much for the tailenders
of last year. { 5
LANKENAU IS TARDY.
A line on what the \%‘aave may
be gained. from the following lay
out. These men, with thé exception
of Parson Lankenau are all' expected
in by Monday or Tuesduy. Lankenau
is a school teacher and will mot re
port until his term is over the first
of June. The compiete list follows:
Pitchers—Bubber Jounard (Vir
ginia TLeague); Frank Kohlbecker,
(Volg); “Drag”. Smith (Lawrence
burg semi-pro). :
Pitchers -— “Shorty” Stewart,
(Louisville Colonels): 'Molly" Mels,
(Louisville Colonels); Hodge, (Vols);
Lankenau, (Vols); Charley Stauffer,
(St. Louis semi-pro); Tomlin (De
troit Tigers); Warren Dungan,
(Pennsylvania semli.pro); Johnny
Work, (Pennsylvania semi-pro);
Warren Sutherland, (city leaguer);
Willlara Statham, (semi-pro); Tom
Reader, (semi-pro); 'Tom Rogers
(eity leaguer), and Cason Allen,
(semi-pro), .
. First hose—Dick Kauffman, (Vols).
Norman Shuttleworth (Piltsburg
semi-pro),
Second base—Pel Ba'linger (Vir
ginia League); Lee Meyer (Vols);
Ottway Gilliland, (semi-pro); Harry
Anderson, (semli-pro).
Shortstop—Roy Ellam, (Vols).
Third base—F. G. Layne (Atlanta
fleet team); P, P. McConnell, (semi
pro); Dave Barol, (Pennsylvania
steel leaguer); Ed Krauger, (Quincy
111.).
Outfield—Burke, Dunning and
Wickham (Vols); Green, Guesen
meyer, Acree, Allessio, and Roberts,
(semi-pro).
Tad’s Tid-Bits
HARDEST HITTERS NOT ALWAYS
BEST FIGHTERS.
When you tell a friend about a
great fighter you have just seen he
invarlably asks: “Can he hit?”
That's what we all want to know,
for we fear that if the lad can't
sock he can’t grab a crown.
According to the fighters who
met him, Joe Choynski was the
most dangerous hitter that ever
graced the ring. Jim Corbett took
a lot of speed out of Joe Dby
knocking him out a few times when
he was about 19 or 20 years of age,
but later on Joe showed what a
wonderful fighter he was by taking
on all of the big fellows one after
the other and handing the mthe
time of their lives,
He knocked Tom Sharkey
through the ropes out into the
fourth row of soats in their fignt
in San Franeisco,
He hit Jim Jeffries in the mouth
in the same eity and Jeff’'s lip was
, wedged in between his teeth. Billly
Delaney had to take a knife anul
cut the lllp away between rounds,
Jeff says it was the hardest punch
he ever stopped.
Choynski hit Fitzsimmons in Bos
ton, knocking him down go hard
that when Fitz sought to get up he
tried to go through the floor, think
ing that it was the way up Fitz
says that the galleries seemed to
be coming up to him,
Choyngki knocked Jack Johnson
dead in two rounds in Galveston,
Tex., years ago, and then went to
jail when the sheriff arrested both
men, Johnson told the writer later
that the sheriff looked like an angel
when he stepped into the ring. “I
never before was so glad that a
fight was over,” he said,
Choynski was a near champ, but_
never landed,
Aurella Herrerd, the Mexican
lightweight, was another tierce wal
loper who never held a title. He
met McGovern in 'Frisco and at the
close of the fourth round hit Terry
g 0 hard that the latter Imitated
a man walking up hill as he re-
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TECH TANK;.
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Captain Weiss Has Swimmers
Out Daily for Practise—Meets <2
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| Being Arranged. ¥
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- After five weeks of good, consis- &
tent training and practice, the Tech 3
tank team is beginning to assume .
quite a formidable shape. Though :
the swimming season is really just 4
coming on, the husky White and Gold*¥
crew is already in splendid condidfss
tion and ready to meet all comers. 29
Beginning this past week, the mem-~is
bers of the squad were granted awisi
increased sign-out privilege. Theyrs:
are now given the right to sign-out®i¥:
at 4 o'clock three afternoons a weel, i# |
Monday, Wednesday and Friday, ln'-"'*-é’é;
stead of two as formerly. This givedA®
them over an hour each time !o{ =
their workouts, which is ample timel®
to get in some pretty strehuour:?%gi
trials. The squad also pmtlurf{"{*f‘fi
every Saturday shortly after noon torf':,':;js
threegquartérs of an hour or so: o
There are now ten men on th’g‘“‘ri'
squad and a full turn-out of th &
entire bunch comes every day’ olf:-"
practice. ~ Capt. R. G. Weiss is_luag
charge of the training and has putq';a
the men through some mighty “il'.q““’"
work. Nearly every afternoon n‘w@i‘;
gives them a 220-yard swimgg,
just for a starter and then lets themy.,,
begin on individual work. Triak »;
sprints and races are frequent ana
the competition is always very close: ;s
FRASER TO COME OUT. s
Now that the basketball season "‘;W
over, Gibby Fraser will be able tg S
put in some time with the swimmers,,
and it won't be long before he ‘eus,
back into the form that has made. .
him famous in Southern swimming
circles. His work in the lofiggrm;:-’:’
swims is exceptionally gbod ahd He e
can be counted on as 2 generollfgs.
point winner in any meet that hases
enters. Carson and Scott, WS
veterang from last year, have beemss |
unable, as yet, to arrange their. worles s
#0 that they can attend practise reg-iy: "
ularly. While they may not be ableus |
to get off for the trips, there is i
pretty likely chance that they camis
participate in the tank meets heldics
here in town. YL Rue
The schedule for: the swimming
season is still not completed due tor#
the laxness of the other teams to™ 2:
answer the challenges and letters of” z’
Manager Scott. The University of &
Chattanooga signified its intentlom &
some time ago of wanting the TechH"™
team to come up there for a dual ®.
meet. Tech answered immediately,”
accepting the proposition: and agree<"""
ing to come on Saturday rext, March'’
20. This was over two weeks ago"™
and the Tech men are still in thé'
dark as to whether their T',_,;J
}ance was agreeable or not. "A ;a-m
ply is expected at any time now, ..
‘and, though in. all probahility the s
date will be postponed to a bit later
in the season, there is a possibility, i &
‘that the Jackets of the.water will, &
invade Chattanooga this g¢om tn Zvom,
week-end. : ol kL 2y o
MEET CLEMSON HERE. - ./ 5 yoltd
One meet that is definite and thadfe
zives promise of being a dandy o L}
test all the way is the dual meetwes @
with Clemson at the local Y. M. Chen:
A. on Saturday, March 27. ‘The Tech &
men went up into Clemson last yearss s
in their enly meet and came ‘backm =
with the scalp of the Tigers by a wvic drs
tory of 50 toel9, Not so much.isis s
known yet of the activities of! the's::
Clemson mermen, but thé local -eel-“ass
legians are confident of repeating &g
their stunt of 1919, .
Other teams that are certain tgi%
be met this spring are the ,fi
Vanderbilt, the University fi Ken- ¥
tucky and Auburn. None of these =8
dntes are settled yet, though all’ Y%w o 8
are sure things. In the case of thesfs
latter meet, the Auburn men can ==
‘not get to work until outdoor swim- =&
ming is possible, as they have ngi s
indoor tank. . There is a possibility s &
of several other swims, too, and s, &8
altogether, the White and Gold repro &
reséntatives ‘will ‘have no. snap hy 8§
any means. e
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turned to his corner. It Jidn’t . g
though. : ;?\ el
When Herrera fought Bat Nelsomus
he knocked the lattér down so hard “¥&
that Bat landed right on TOP OFTE
HIIS HEAD, He weathered the &
storm though and beat the Mexi~ &
can, ; 8 &
As Night and Day Mike says: “Ya. &8
gotta have MORE than the puneh.” "S 5
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WELLS TO RETIRE? o il
Bombardier Wellg, who wore outt &
the seats or eighteen fighting 08
trunks sitting down in rings, NaSaed
declded to retire, according to a 5
letter from asfan in London. e
Wells, like Sydney Carton, nt"iSg
“The Tale of Two Cities,” might &
say: ¢ R
“It is a far, far better thing thatsiis
Ido than I have ever done; it got T
a far, far better rest that I go tO.=SB
than I have ever known.'” eonl
+IANE
AN OLD SONG. T
If the ocean was whisky Al
And I was a duck T
I'd dive to the bottom
And T never would come up. B
—a « bl e A g
808 ARMSTRONG ON JIM =
CORBETT. s R
“Don't 14t any, one ever tell you
that Mr. Jim Corbett couldn’t hit)t &
sald Bob Armstrong the other hy, B
“I used to train Mr, Jim Corbett, =
and most of the money I .l R
spent for headache powders, He &
didn't look like he wag o
vour head off, but it almost went &
off just the same. : Look .ag L
record--that will show you ho N
could ‘hit, He knocked Choynski
out a couple of times. He put ‘n”
1. Sullivan away. He |top‘pei!-:; #
Charley Mit.ch'gl and he stopped &
Kid McCoy. 1 say that's coneider: S
ablé advertisement for a punch’
DEVORE ON SEMI-PRO m.fl B
TERRE HAUTE, Marym 11~ John D
vore, starting as s semi-pro hall player iy
the xame mining community ‘whene
sprang Mordeecai Brown, unear T
Haute, gaining wmuch publicity :in .
majors, plizing in four world jes, |
landed with the Lafayette, Ind., ®ei
pro Red Snw, Sk el