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Newspaper Page TextfHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1906. FOOTBALL SEASON OPENS SPORT NEWS —EDITED BY- PERCY H. WHITING Football Under New Rules Proves Pretty Good Game The question of what the public la to expect of football under the new rules was not answered at Tech field Sat urday. The new "forward pans' was tried very little. Maryville fought very shy of it anti the Tech men let It severely alone In the first half. In the second when things were going against the local players. It was tried a few times — once with great success. The ball wns j passed twice behind the line and the Fplay appeared to be going toward the : left end. Then, of a sudden, the man with the ball turned and passed It for- iward to a man waiting far ahead. The ball Balled high In the air, land- | ed fight and the runner was oft with i It In a whiff, making a good gain. That : was the only pass of the day which really worked, hut It was an Indication of what may be expected later. Here is the forward pass rule In full, for tho benellt of those who are still mystified by the play: "The forward pass shall be allowed to each scrimmage, provided such pass be made by a player who was behind tho lino of scrimmage wlien the hall was put In play, and provided the ball, after being paused forward, does not touch the ground before being touched by ft player of either side. ‘•The pass may not be touched by a nlaver who was in the line of scrim- P hull was nut In play mage when The bill wan put In play except by either of the two men play ing on the ends of tho line ir on the en«H *u ,, . »A forward pass over the lino of scrimmage within a spoce of five >ud s on each side of tho center ahull ho Un *a"forward pass by the side which docs not put the ball in play In a scrimmage shall be unlawful. ••A forward pass which crosses the goal line on the fly or bound without touching ft player on either side shall be declared a touchback for the de fenders of the goal." The "onslde** kick Is going to make a lot of difference. Once In Saturday's game the hall was kicked 35 yards down the field by a Maryville man and received by the Tennesseeans, who gained at least 40 yards on the play. In years past If one team kicked the ball Its members coul/ not touch It again with some exceptions until it had been touched by members of the other team. Now, when the ball fs kicked It belongs to the man who gets In speaking of football under the new rules, Coach Dickson said: “The forward pass amounts to noth in?. In mid-season games between teams of anywhere near equal strength It Is a hopeless play. I do not expect it to he tried, except ns a last resort, aside from practice games and games where one team Is hopelessly out classed. “The onslde kick 1s another matter. I expect to see n lot of short kicks and a high premium has been placed on the man who can make sure, accurate kirks and who can tell Just how far Ills kirks arr going. This is of the Krratcst Importance nml a now klml of klrkcr will hr developed by all success ful teams a kicker who can get away the ball fast and surely for short dis tances. ■ The ten-yard rule seems pretty se vere to mo. II Is hard to see how teams ran make the distance. And 1 can tell you one thing. It will be the cause of a |, ( t of accidents. I expect to sco more this year than ever before." Maryville Proves a Tartar, But Tech Escapes Defeat TECH *• V " MA nTT L oxtdld 6 "The Football Nnvcim «ns on exmm 1 fion at Teeli Held Saturday afternoon when tho Georgia School of Technology team 1 played the opening game of the seaaoti i ngalnat the Maryville team, and drew i tic. Bcoro. 6 to 6. For the first time, tho Atlanta patrons of football had a chance to see the 're- formed game" an played tinder the new rulea; and. after aeelng, they dr. tnri I It ••pretty fine bnslneas.” of course, only a suggestion of what la to follow, when I els t man's charges get tho hang of the for- ' ward pass" and the “outside kirk was ml* | closed Saturday, but tho game w«« cor- I fahily more open, more spectacular nhd ■ faster than ever before. Notable because ; of their absence were the mass piajs against the center of the line, the vexatious delays when time was taken out and the ■ Injuries to players. .. Ah n spectacle It wm fine, ns foothnll It was a hit crude, and to Tech men It was a sad surprise. Tho Maryville game wns down on ttie schedule as a "practice game." The hast Tennessee team was everybody's victim Inst 1 year, and nobody expected much front Coach Iitckson's men. hut If ever n mere ! lively "dead one" lilt Atlanta It Is not re membered by local foothnll fans. The Maryville team Is Just naturally a warm proposition, and It waa nn discredit to Tech that her team secured only a tie, • though far bo It from any of ns to Bag- : gest that It waa not a surprise. Tho Tennessee team In made up «»f bus- j ky. fast men, averaging 151 pounds In • weight nml trained to the minute. 'I hey hare been up against the “new football gjnee the early pact of September, nml Hat- urdny they were playing their second game. Under Coach Dlcksou they have learned n lot of foothnll, new or old, nnd on their Saturday form they would have puzzled any team In the South. The Tech team, on the other hand, was only a suggestion of the hunch which will represent the local college a month hence. The Job of whipping a new team Into con dition and of teaching them the new rules nnd the new* game In the few days allot ted had been too much for even the foxiest of nil Southern conches, nnd there Is no denying that at times Maryville had the Tech men played almost off their feet. Tech luck and Tech pluck saved the day after Maryville had scored u touchdown In the second half, nnd seemed to have tho game cinched. The team tore loose, nnd tty whirlwind tactics carried the hall down the Held for n touchdown nnd kicked goal. Maryville's touchdown was due to nn ne- etdeiit, though nn accident that thdr own activity made possible. Maryville held Tech on Tech's 15-jnrd line. The Yellow jackets tried to kick out of danger, hut “Hlg" Bnmsel broke through, blocked the kick and went over for a touchdown. The line-up: TECH— Position. MARYVILLE— r •i r b center Hunt Hriiil'crsuti right guur.t It,-II .. .. l.-t t guard.. .. .Smith It. Mi-Farty right tai’klu.. ..B. gain*.. MnnriH-.. .. .. >ft tackle. . .A. Barnaul illll.. ' right Mill. '■™K Might.'U"r I"fl •'"•l - - •? ,,v'! "Chip" Unhurt....Iinarturtmrk.. ...... 1 as I"" right halt bank Fuatur (u) llavhla I' ft half hark.. .. . .-Bltrr fullback Campbell Summnr; downs. It. Sarnsel, Bn* ,his i'goalV. It arr, Davids: halves, fifteen minutes; Uofer.M-. o'lmuneU. v.n.i.i • nmtilrtt. Keene, of leniiessee, lints i! Elmore, of Mary- nen, Smith, of Tech, i Hie A Timely Sermon on Football Foothnll is on trlnl this year. In the hurry of getting together teams, hammering them Into shape nnd playing the opening games there Is danger that this fact may w overlooked. jly the general public the game of foot hnll stands under Indictment on the charge that it is brutal, dangerous to life and »»»»», that it is rotten with commercialism nml professionalism, that It Is guilty of several other things too numerous t<* mention, but Bias! some of them all too true. And It is up to the football teams of 1906 U> prove themselves not guilty. An alibi Is not sufficient. If tho charges come up again this fall ami the verdict goua agaluat the game, then football will 1.0 nlwtlahe.l by practically every respectable college In the I nltml nn cilncutlon ami inch other emolument* ti» hat,pencil to mime nhmg with It. And with the advent of the professional nml the tramp nthlete earn* mii array of .-Vila briltullly. dlarcpntahli- tart ley. sort p. u!i“hVmi«"if uilfnlrtieaa, illiytlllng to Will. Wllh It 111... came Ilcceptlnna HU the par, of the con-hun. ... What's the matter with football, anyway; ell, apparently u lot of things. At the start the game was ns horn et and decent os any of them. As It grew in ipiilartty the profits from the games grow nnzlugly. Each year the treasury of a ajortty of successful teams groaned umb r load of coin. With more money came the gh-priced coach-tho man who was paid win. Whether the coach was re*p>ii*d 0 for the introduction **f the j»r»»fes«.i.»i»al id the tramp athlete or whether It was st the prosperity of the teams ami tin- ■er-developed desire to win. has not tn-cn tlsfactorlly determined. Probably no inclusion would hold for all colleges, lt’tt ,ese men did come to so many cdb . ,at an enumeration would In* more painful inn valuable. The cause of most of the trouble was Tying too hard to win"-the chronic fault 1 American athletes, and especially the nit of football players. The r* suit was i array of athletic evils which threatened i ruin the great American game. Many colleges were reduced to hiring rank •ofesslonals, men who played through the mtl.nll season, made no protense .»f keep- tg up with college work, and returned, hen the football ***a«on was over, to such eeeefui avocations as pugilism and the 3M- i the lotroduc- tenuis t.r.‘d , onditions which of professionals In tramp athlete—the to college bartering his service* for of the Not Bad In tho South. ,, ..... be ftabl with alH.ut 7S degrees of thankfulness that conditions In the south did not. as a rule, get as had as they *tnl In the West and East. But “'“V* tin grant cases. The 1 nlverslty of (aeoigla team has In times past made up large Iv of hired men. the University of I (Mines ' i sent recruiting parties tip Into the Ins of East Tennessee to hire g.md llkelv looking farmers and lumbermen to add weight and strength to her «dh«*nvlse feeble teams, and i'ntuberlaitd lias been giilltv of methods which r»**ult»*d lu Mich a. tlon on the part of the Southern Inter- eolleglnte Athletic Association that football knocked III the head III the Tennessee • die «t ef th. .f athletic d In the South, however, tliero was a force at work for reform which has done won ders the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association. This Nwly, with l>r. William !.. Dudley at its head, has gradually re formed the athletics of the middle South until fair and -piare football l« playwi at ‘ -lie JuristUetion of the oil* ge The fact remains, however, that the conn trr .ip.cts that football shall 1»* played this x.ar In a decent, respectable manner: that ther** shall U> no profess|onaIi»ni: that tie* ne.mt.er of serious accidents will lie cut down to a minimum, and th.it brutality shall ate-dutely l*e eliminated. Get Player® Honeetly. Teams will do well to remember that the univ wav to get -l team Is to select one from the men who Cine to college In the tntur-il .nitt'c of event*. Recruiting from among near In farm hands, butchers and huge but M-edi persons of that variety is net KUM tlomsl theso days .Nor Is pros elvting thnmgh the pr*p s.1hs»1k for th** good material developed there. No Induce Incut* should lie offered to aii\ man to go t*. .*tiv .oliege It times past “athletic s. h*d .rships. • given only to good football pla.ers fat Joi s. nml even money have ’.-.'u used in wearing men. Th.se metlnsl*. m.u’oe,. are r.gnrded as rather 'bml form ' the- - .lays, and will proha I dy net t.e not I *s| In any liege*, t hi* mu »,,<!. though ev* rylusty knows they have bvwu used lq mans la time* i*ast. HERE ARE THREE HEAVY WEIGHT PUGULISTS. READING FROM LEFT TO RIGHT THEY ARE: TOMMY BURNS, JACK O'BRIEN AND SAM BERGER. j League Standings Club®. Chicago Now York . . IMttaburg . . Philadelphia. Cincinnati . * Brooklyn . . St. I.ouIh . . Boston. • . . Played. Won. Lost 146 145 146 .422 AMERICAN. Clubs. Played. Won. Lost. P.C. Chicago .... 145 89 56 .614 New York. . . 146 88 58 .603 Cleveland. . . 146 84 62 .575 hiladelphia. . 142 76 66 .535 St. Louis . . , 144 74 70 .514 Detroit .... 143 69 74 .483 Washington . . 147 64 93 .367 Boston .... 149 47 102 .315 SATURDAY’S GAMES. American League— New York 4, Cleveland 1. National— Brooklyn 6, Pittsburg 5. New York 6, St. Louis 2. St. Louis 1, New York 0. Boston 7, Cincinnati 3. Philadelphia 6, Chicago 2. SUNDAY’S GAMES. American— Chicago 8, Washington 5. Washington 3, Chicago 0. St. Louis 7, Boston 1. Boston 2, St. Louis 0. FIGHTS SCHEDULED. Philadelphia, Oct. 1.—McOarey, of New York, and Billy Fillls will meet at the Broadway Athletic Club Thurs- day. . „ .Saturday l T nk Sellers nnd Young Erne will face each other In the star bout at the National Athletic Club, with Grover Bayes, of Chicago, ami ••Emergency" Kelly In the semi-wind J»»e Thanis nnd his manager, Harry Foley, will leave here tomorrow for his home In San Francisco. Joe will light Dick Fitzgerald at Colma Octo ber 23. Another great reform ran be accomplish ed by cutting down ex prime*. One of the chief evils lu time past has been the lavish nml often useless expenditure of money— for Combes w ho were paid more for two months' work than a regular professor was tor his service* during the entire year; f«»r fanev uniforms, f*»r expensive training tables, nnd for a thousand and one unnec essary things. With the expenses **f the football teams cut down to a reasonable amount—say. not above that usually spent on a baseball team-one of tji«* chief cause® of complaint will 1m* removM. As to Brutality. • brutality must !h' eliminated. Right here and now too much stress can not be laid on th.* necessity of playing foothalI ns n gentleiilan is expected to play nnv game. It is well enough for coaches and pin vers to scoff and say that football is not a ladles' game. It Isn't. Ilut the fm r remains that unless brutality is elim inated from footlml!. the game will not be |day 1**1 more than a year or two longer. The new rules will do much to elimi nate that disgraceful element from the game. The fact that tennis ure free from i»rofessinunis will do even more. Brutal .laving Is seldom done by regular . col lege student* In nay event, they seldom start It. It Is the misplaced pugilist who Inaugurates the trouble, and wltu the pro fessionals f the game there is m mu* h danger from brutality. Above nit things, let us have honest and efficient officials. The rules put It In the power of officials to have football played 111 a decent manner. Rut they will have has been specifically forbidden nnd ... . . -ffpinls en- ngainst all penalties provided. Let the officials force tiles.* penalties impartially against nil It Is necessary to the salvation And If the first officials tried will not d*» It. let's have some other*. , We want decent f«Mvttwill. If we don t have It. another fall will find the people of America wandering hopelessly about look ing for some game which will take Its pine Football Prospects of Georgia Are Bright Special to The Georgian. Athens, On., Oct. 1.—Football prac tice at the university Is well under way, and under the able coaching of Coach Whitney the squad Is rapidly being moulded Into fine form. Mr. Whitney played on the Cornell team In 1901 as tackle, then he finished college nnd took up coaching as a pro fession. Under his coaching Scwanee turned out two very successful teams In 1903 and 1904. Last year he served as coach at North Carolina A. & M. At this stage of the game It Is too early to make any predictions, but If early season form counts for anything, It looks as though Georgia will have a very successful team. W. O. Marshburn, from Barnesvllle, Ga., a member of tho senior law class, is the manager of tho team. , Although Captain Lowndes' resig nation from the captaincy of the foot ball team, on account of parental ob jections, is much regretted, the uni versity and the team are to be con gratulated upon having such a splen did player and able leader as Loring Raoul, of Atlanta, chosen to fill Lowndes’ place. Raoul Is not 'only prominent on the gridiron, but Is a star track athlete. Under his captain cy tho 1906 track team met and de feated the strongest teams In tho Southern Inter-Collegiate Athletic As sociation. It wilt be remembered that Georgia won the three-cornered meet DARLING WINS HANDSOME CUP the Atlanta Athletic Club in connection with the Truwlrk cup were won by F. U. Darling who defeated P. II. Whiting 4 up and :i to play. Mr. Darling played a steady game while IiIh opponent gave an excellent imitation of it man trying to play golf without looking at the ball nnd put up sueh an exhibition that Sliint Andrew, the patron saint of golf, hmiiediutely there after resigned III* jolt. NOTES OF THE SPORTS “Hilly" Hogg, of the Highlanders, allowed the White Sox but live hits In two games. MeCHynn Is the best man MeCloskey, of St. Loni*. ha* signed this season. He wail a wonder In the Tri-State League. The Heaton Americana have been doing better work under the management of “Chick” Stahl. Only n winner goes In baseball. The Ginuts are playing to imatt crowds In New York. President Pulliam hn» given up the idea of buying the Ilnston National®, nnd will tight for re-election to the league presi dency. Rlgley, the new National League um pire, come® from the Central League, where he had a reputation of giving n good beat ing if Mr. Player wa% not good. For the second time, “link” Hawlej ha* won the Wisconsin State League pen mint with his LaCrosse team. In the Eastern League, Baltimore took third place from Rochester by 1 point. Lynn. «*f the New England League, an. Springfield, »f the Conneeticut League, ar the Joint holder* **f the baseball chain pionshlp of Massachusetts. Let Brotman, The Tailor, Dreaa You. Watch this space for announce ment of additional place where he will operate. BROTMAN IS GROWING. CAPTAIN RAOUL. NOTES ON THE GAME The Tech field need* a hair cut. Satur day the grass was long and holding. Fast running nml accurate kicking lu such a liny Held were impossible. It Is hard to give especial credit to any members of the Tech team, f**r nil did so well. Every man In the aggregation did his best, and the candidates all showed great promise. the Campbell, Foster and Maglll w stars for Maryville. Campbell'* v secondary defense was brilliant. Foster .11*1 great work at right half, and Maglll delivered the good* In his position. Bunt, the 143-pound center, did excellent work, and showed himself to !>e one of the most brilliant players for his weight ever seen on Te»h field. The whole Maryville line charged l*»w nml worked hard. Robert acted ns captain for Tech during tie* Maryville game. A regular captain has not as yet been elected. Saturday's game was n .record-breaker In egurd to “elapsed time." It started at 3 iVlock and was over by 4. ml on the University *.f Ten- In jyfll and 1902. who is now coarhlng the Dahlenega learn, was lu At lanta .Saturday to **•*• Tech idny. lie say* that the pros|*eets at the N<-ih <.** * oliege seem reasonably drcuinstaneeH—though It i-qttestiolllnic ieorgla nlmission of r *.f him. Tech Brown, the great punter of th? team Inst year, was seen lu Atlanta M day in*truing This faet was regarded by Tech sympathizer® us a good sign. from Tech and Emory for the third consecutive time, thereby winning tho cup. Every afternoon, rain or shine, about fifty candidates are out on Herty field trying tor various positions. Up to Thursday afternoon, when the first scrimmage was tried, the candidates had light work. Tommy Stouch, coach of the 1906 baseball team. Is in Athens acting as trainer for the football team, and also as assistant couch. About seven or eight of last year's team are back at work, and a host of new husky material is on hand. The two largest men on th® squad are “Great” Scott, who is about six feet three Inches tall, and weighs something very close to 260 pounds, and Cleve land, of Griffin, who weighs 265 pounds and extends six feet two into the sky. Among the candidates for the va rious positions are: Quarterback—Graves, Hodgson, Llp- schutz, McDonell and Porter. Center—Harmon, Arrendale, Webb, Davison and Walker. Guards—Cleveland, Singleton, Nixon and Lucas. Tackles—Harber, Turner, McWhor ter, Gray and Pottlnger. Ends—Raoul, Hatcher, Thurman. Broughton, S. O. Smith and H. C. Smith. Halves—Ransom, Williams, Bost- wlck, Hugh, Ketron, Gilbert and Na pier. Fullback—Henry Bostwlck, Pottlnger and Phillips. “RED” EHRET IN ATLANTA Phil Ehret. more commonly known at “Red, ’ Is spending n few day® In At lanta on business. EUret la located In Montgomery at present, where he conducts a boozatorium. He says that he likes that town and Intends to remain there. Ehret wa® in his day one of the beat pitchers In the National League, and later did good work for Memphis, lu the South ern League. BURNS READY FOR J. FLYNN Los Angeles, Oct. 1.—Tommy Burns ended the hard knocks of his training for bis fight with Jim Flynn, of Colorado, Satur day. From now until Tuesday night, both he nnd Flynn will devote themselves en tirely to sba*iow’ boxing to keep from get ting stale. There was some fun at the Burns camp when the Inst bout w®s on. Kid Williams, a local 165-pound pork-and- beans, went out to Burns' quarters with the avowed Intention of “dolag things'* to Bums. Burns was put wise, nnd kept Wil liams on the floor most of the time for tw’O rounds. Then Williams quit. Burns has been made favorite In the lo cal betting at odds of 10 to 7. Both men announced yesterday that they will enter the ring at close to 170 pounds. OOWHJWHJMWOtKKHKKKHKHKHXW O 0 0 FOOTBALL 8CORE8. 0 0 O 0 Cornell 0, Colgate 0. 0 0 Army 12, Tufts 0. 0 O Ohio State 41, Oberlln 0. 0 0 Lafayette 31, Wyoming Semina. 0 0 ry 0. O 0 Dickinson 21, Lebanon Valley 0. O 0 Rutgers 6, Fordham 0. O 0 Harvard 7, Williams 0. -0 0 Virginia 11, St. Johns 0. 0 0 Princeton 24, Villa Nova 0. O O Pennsylvania 32, Lehigh 6. 0 0 North Carolina 0, Davidson 0. 0 0 Woodbury Forest 12, Richmond 0.0 O Auburn 10, Montgomery A, C. 0. O 0 0 00000000000O0O00O00O<K«HKW ATLANTA’S ATTENDANCE WA8 8EC0ND HIGHEST The figures showing how much each club contributed thl* year to the league'® sink ing fund are given below. A« each club contributes so much for each paid admis sion during the year, the sinking fund U a good Index of the attendance. According to the slnklrfg fund contribu tions, Atlanta was second In league attend ance, nml only slightly behind Memphla. The figures follow: Memphis Atlanta 3,071.81 irleans 2,448.93 Birmingham 2,116.22 Montgomery 1,257.45 Nashville .... .... ...... 1,101.62 Shreveport .. .. 992.93 Little Rock.. 769.17 LEWIS 18 EA8Y. Philadelphia, Oct. 1.—George Thom as, of San Francisco, easily beat Harry Lewis, of this city, In their alx-round bout at the National Athletic Club Saturday night. In the first round Thomas had an ugly fall, but wa® on his feet In an Instant, and to the aur- left to the jaw. There was nnd although Thomas was slightly winded by his fall, he managed to send in another to Lewis’ jaw os the gong sounded. Auto Race Candidates Do Some Dare-Devil Stunts New York, Oct. 1,—Such a dare-devil lot of death-defying merchant® In high speed were never before gotten together a* are to be seen each morning now flying along the Long Island roads, hitting only the high place*, a* they tune up for the Vnu- derl lit cup race, which re to be decided a week from Saturday. Beside some of these foreign drivers, the performance* o& “Bare Devil” Joe Tracy might qualify him for the position of the chauffeur for nn old Indies' home, but do not put him In line of wlftnlng, provided th** men nnd machine* from over the water hold together until the race I* over. Small woinbr the native* have borrow ed a word from th** Chinese, and call these men “foreign devils." That I* what they do call Lauda, Durny Ilermy, Nazzarro, and the r**st of those who hnve, In the gray of the morning, gone ripping over the oil- soaked roads with rockUss disregard of thdr own lives nml limbs, or the safety of their ponderous and costly racing ma chines. The expression somehow’ seem® to fit t« n nicety. These black, swarthy men, with their goggle* and air df Irrepressible brav ado remind one of his Hutnnlc majesty os he Is popularly pictured, a® they ram-jam over ht#, course at n rate that nralost put the feat* of Tracy, the greatest cnauc®- taker of America, on n commonplace level. The word hn* been passed along that the winner of the Vanderbilt cup this year will hnve to overage, at least, a mile a minute. The “foreign devil®” have th® idea firmly wedged into their brains. If they can, they want to do a trifle b«tter than that, so ns to leave a margin to off set any surprise which Trncy, or his Amer ican fellows, may see fit to spring OB them. Lancia declares he can nnd will make the 30 miles of the course In twenty-flvfi minutes. Ilermy, who triumphed on the Vanderbilt course last year, says that he will “out- devil" Trncy or any of the "foreign dev ils.' ‘COACH” CROZIER RISES TO EXPLAIN Richard Orozier, of the Atlanta base ball team, has gone to Wake Forest to take up Ills duties ns physical director and coach. Dick will be back In At lanta for the opening of the soda wa ter, candy ami cigar store which he and Otto Jordan will conduct, and will also spend the Christmas holidays here. Dick wishes to correct the Impres sion that he wants to leave the At lanta baseball team. "The arttcles in local papers did me an Injustice," said Dick on Saturday. "I closed the deal whereby I was to get my release this fall, before Smith became connected with the team and long before I de cided to engage In business here. In accordance with our agreement I got mv release, but you can say for me that if l play on any team next year It will be the Atlanta team. 1 am per fectly satisfied with my position there, I like the town and I never expect to get any better treatment anywhere than I have here. I like Atlanta and I hope to make my permanent home SMITH EITHER DID OR DIDN’T Either Billy Smith In talking twn ways or somebody misquoted him. According to Grantland Rice, who sel- dotft makes mistakes and never mis quotes, Billy said: "I picked up a pair of wonders in the Central League.” According to a Springfield, Ohio, dis patch, Smith said: "I didn’t see a man (in the Centra! League) that I would want on the Atlanta club.** Billy ought to get a little better team play out of his press agents. here. Speaking of the firm of Crozler A Jordan reminds us. Otto states most emphatically that the report that he is io be married Is "greatly exaggerated. NAT KAISER & CO. Bargain* In unredeemad Diamond* Confidential loan* on valuable*. 15 Decatur 6L Kimball Hou*»