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THIS ATLANTA GEORGIAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1906.
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Tech-Vanderbilt Game Next Sporting Eventl
^Edited By PERCY H. WHITING.
TECH'S NEXT ADVERSARY HAS ALL STAR CAST
Football faun of Atlanta are (twalUnp
eagerly ibe debut of the out* all-star foot
ball cast which will visit Atlanta this
K*a»fMi— the Vanderbilt team.
Tlii* team meets Tech on Tech Held
Saturday In a game of the greatest Im
portance to the Southern football world.
This Vanderbilt team Is the one which
bits rolled up. IS) points on their South
ern adversaries In four games, which beat
tiie husky Rose Polytechnic team XI to 0.
nnd which "morally defeated" the famous
Michigan machine, though tbo game went
t«> the Northerners by a score of 10 to 4.
This f« the team likewise which will
nest week measure strength with the Car
lisle Indians, one of the very strongest
teams in the Kant thla year.
It will be worth the price of admia-
►loti Just to see the bunch. It Isn’t every
day that It la possible to see In action
a football team like Vanderbilt baa.
lint don't let any one get away with
tin* Idea that Vanderbilt Is going lo smear
It' alt over the Tech team and run up
any huge and Juicy score.
Vanderbilt Is going to win. The football
fans may as well harden tbetnaelves to
that fact right now. Rut It aeema almost
certain that the local players will hold
the Vanderbilt men down to aa close n
►'•ore as any team In the South—closer, no
doubt, than even the Rose Polytechnic did
It’a going to !* a greet game all right:
one of the lieat of the year.
There la only one regrettable feature
about the game, and that la that Van
derbilt a« bndly outWelgha Tech. When
a good light team goes against a bum
heavy team, the light team has the bel
ter chaw*, but when the heavy team Is a •
wonderful football ream, likewise, then it
la tough on the "little ’one." Ho there
you are. Roth teams know football from
the front end of the rate book to the
Iasi S-yard line, and then over the goal
posts, and an exhibition of real aetentlflc
football can Ik* counted on with nil con-
fldetiro.
thut the latter will try- to make up what
ever UlfTereoce there may be In walght
by trick playa and speojl.
Helaman'a men will find, however, that
Vanderbilt i« right there "with the pep
per" when It comet to nabldug trick
plays. The t'ommodorea have l»eeu care
fully drilled iu -handling short kicks and
forward passes, and In every game they
hare played they Imre got the tall from
the opposing team most every time any
thing fancy was attempted. 4* scramblers,
the Commodore* have proved themaelrea
wonders.
Tech will And the Vanderbilt men fast aa
well, for It has been with combined speed
and strength that Vanderbilt baa defeated
| so uinny opponent*. The Commodores will
also lie found to be hard and sure tack-
lew. The men go low and hard after their
nran. and It has heon next to the impos
sible to get by them.
Costeu, at quarter, who defends the back
field. Is lightning fast and a fine flying
tackier. Captain bnu Blake at half la a
fast track man and runs like a steam en-
glne.
The speed and strength <|f Craig are too
well known to eommeot upon. ' Mauler at
full hack la very fast and a terrific line
plunger.
Rob and Vaughn Blake, as well as Pritch
ard, .get down the Held on pants at a
great dip. Atone at center Is well nigh
n* versatile as Rob Blake, and he. too. Is
fast and foxy. Cborn. Noel. McLain—new
men—arc all husky chaps who are deliver
ing the goods right along.
The Vanderbilt team will go Into the
game weighing close to ITS pounds, and will
tfne-np ns follows:
Approximate
Player. Position. Weight.
Vaughn Blake. . .left end 154
Prifchard.. left tackle.. .. .. 200
McLain left guard 2W
Mono.. .. center ISO
(’horn right gnanl.. 175
Ed Noel right tackle ISO
Rob Blake right end .. .. 173
<'o*ton quarterback 149
ban Blake (captain)..left half 167
Manler fall back 175
Craig right half 167
FOOTBALL TEAMS IN ACTION
/ANDY FEARS .
TECH TRICKS
By MARSHALL MORGAN.
special to The Georgian.
Nashville. Term., Nov. 13.—In the slush
nnd snow yesterday, Vanderbilt practiced,
setting ready to meet Georgia Tech. The
«'otumodores know llclsinnn nnd Tech, and
they will Ik* ready for all the stunts of
the Yellow Jackets when the whistle blows
v'A Tech Hold Kqtunbiy.
Vanderbilt Is lookluf for n choice assort
ment of trick plays on the part of Tech.
coach McOugln. Captain ban Blake and
nil the members of the team are aware that
trick plays are ffelsinsn's long salt: they
f further that they outweigh *“
SNAP8H0T TAKEN SATURDAY WHEN GEORGIA HELD TECH AT THE GOAL LINE.
kuovr further that they
Tech, anil
DONALD FRASER AND TECH TEAM8 JUST BEFORE THE BALL WAS SNAPPED.
BAN JOHNSON TALKS OF
OUTLOOK IN HIS LEAGUE
By SAM CRANE.
New York. Nov. 13.—President Ban John
son. of the American league, while hero
Katurday and Mnmlay. In consultation with
the owu«v« of tho Itaitou club, with hi*
usual shrewdness and buslnehs Intelligence,
as well ns baseball knowledge, adjusted
the affairs of the llub organisation to ibn
satisfaction of all the tmrtles Interested,
and brought order out of a very compli
cated situation.
John I. Taylor, who controlled the Bos
ton elnb during the,year* of Its greatest
artistic and financial successes, comes back
to feta own. and will re-enter upon UU
duties with reaewed energy and eothual-
•MB.
!e talking about bis league, just prior
to hit departure for Washington, after
settling the affairs of the Boston elnb. Pres
ident Johnson aald:
•The American League experienced the
Boat successful season In its history dar
ing this yatr from erery point of view,
Every club made money, several showing
mammoth financial Improvement over any
previous year.
"In New York, for Instance, every visit
ing dub received for Its share or the re
ceipts three timet as much ss in any scs-
sou before, and nearly ovary other club
showed big gains In attendance. Even In
Boston, n i.ill-cml club, thn attendance
showeu very little falling off. I am emi
nently sathfl'xl with last season's results
and tho fttt- 4 • prospects, of the league. .
"t nm L: <i ».r a shorter season than
last srnje.tt, f : i dole eulled for; In fact. I
hare (tdvnci.it>! the curtailment of the
league cluunyiouahlp son sou for several
years. The annual world's championship
has developed Into speh vu*t Importance
that these post-season contests are the
biggest sporting events of the whole y«iar,
nnd attract world-wide Interest. Conse
quently, they should be played under fa
vorable wentlier condition*, nnd the pres
ent length- of the season doep not allow
of that poMihlllty."
When asked If there was c.uy possibility
of Itotrolt I King supplanted by any other
city. President Jobn*on said:
"None la the leant. Detroit made money
last season, and has very bright prospects
for aext year. The Detroit* were a strong
aggregation this year, and will In* much
stranger next season. They will have a
new and hustling* malinger in Hugh Jen-
ulngf, and so will the Washingtons la Joe
CsntllUon."
BROOKLYN GOES TO COURT
OVER BASEBALL SORROWS
New York. Nov. 15.—Litigation In the
New Jersey courts will follow tho annual
.meeting of the Brooklyn baseball club.
The faction* In tho organisation led by
Charles Kbbtttt aud Edward Uattlott clash-
ed, nnd some Inside baseball history Is
likely to l*o told ns a result.
Tho Ebbltts faction was In the majority,
and votod to elect Mr. Ebbltts, his son,
Charles H. Ehbttts, Jr., Henry W. Medl-
cus. Albert C. Wall aud Robert A.^ Wright
director# of the clol*. The last-named Is
clfutnl to the phicc of tho late
Harry C. Vonderltorst, of Baltimore.
In casting their ballots, llaulou aud Far--
dlnaiid A. Abell voted for Hanlon. Abell
and Howard Griffith*, of Jersey City. Han
lon and Abell cast 1.200 shares nAl Ebbltts
the remainder, or 1,251. Hanlon at once
protested the election, claiming that Kb-
tdtts, hi* son, and Medleus, nro not eligible
n* directors for the coming year. He bases
hi* claim on tho ground that they were di
rector* last year, and failed to file a
certificate of election with the secretary of
state of New Jersey.
The peualty for u failure to file such a
statement la that tlio meu so elected are
not eligible to election to succeed them
selves until one year has elapsed from the
end of their terms. Hanlon's protest was
not heeded, nud .the matter will be taken
Into the courts.
After the meeting, Hanlon said that he
had begun a suit lu the court of chancery
of New Jersey to compel Charles II. Kb-
Mils, the president of the club, and Henry
W. Medleus, the secrotary ami treasurer, to
t-cruml several thousand dollars alleged to
have been drawn by them as , salaries
nnd In excess of the Amount allowed by
the certificate of organisation during the
years 1*05 and 1906.
Mr. Hanlon claim* that the salaries of
th«* mwdUcui and treasurer are fixed by
charter, as $4,000 and |2.000. respectively.
Mr. Ilaulon alleges that Ebbltts drew from
the club at the rate of $10,000 a year, nnd
Med lens at tbo rate of $1,000 a year.
BABB WANTS SORRELS.
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the Houthern League last season, until
tit* hand was put out of business t»v u
fall on a cuspidor. It Is hardly be-
~ Dobbs will consent to
turn to hi* early 1906 form.
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PENNSY BEARS
YOST’S TEAM
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TO RE8T UP FOR SATUR
DAYS BATTLE.
Philadelphia. Nov. ID.—The Univer
sity of Pennsylvania football squad of
about twenty-live left this city yester
day for Winslow Junction, N. J., to put
on the finishing touche, for the game
with Michigan on Saturday. Kvery
man on the squad was In the pink of
condition when the men left the city
and the coaches are confident that tho
players will make great progress under
the bracing New Jersey air. Here the
men will not he permitted to line up
for any scrimmages, hut will devote
their whole time to living out of door,
and running through signals. Thev are
By no means confident of defeating the
Michigan club, but will enter the game
with the same spirit which enabled
them to overcome Harvard two years
ago.
FRANK'S HATCHET OUT NOW
FOR MANAGER BILLY SMITH
Special to The Georgian.
Memphis, Teon., Nov. 13.—After the an
nual meeting of the Southern League di
rector* In Birmingham In December, Billy
Smith will probably have to find a new
method to get nrouuil the notary limit, ac
cording to the dope eprung today by Tom
McCullough, secretary and trcu*urcr of the
Memphis baseball club. Tom soya the
team* which will line up with Charley
Frank are going to rote to amend the
constitution ho that no player can he su*i
pended In order to avoid the "fourteen
men and $2,700 monthly salary" rule.
McCullough thinks It altogether probable
that the Atlanta team will make a fight
for a higher limit, but at this writing
every Indication Is that tho ran fority wilt
vote to keep the present limit.
Here I* about the way the teams will
Ilue-up;
For Frank: New Orleans, Memphis,
Shreveport, Montgomery, Nashville nnd
'Uttle Bock.
Agalust Frank: Atlauta.
On the fence: Birmingham.
In the "on the fence" etas* might i*os
tlbly the added tho name of Montgomery,
but this la hardly probabla, Iu view of
the stand the directors there took lu th*«
fracas last summer, when It seemed for
a time that there would be decided oppo
sition to the re-election of President Hav
ana ugh. At thut time, tho Montgomery offi
cial! came out stroog for the Judge.
Jack Powell and "Red" Donohue were
taken out of the box Just once lout sea-
sou. Jack Cliasbro established a record in
the other direction, being sent to the b»*n< l»
sixteen times.
Vanderbilt Is Almost Sure
To Play Carlisle “Injuns”
Special to The Georgian.
Nashville. Tenn.. Nov. 15.—It seems well-
nigh certain now that Vanderbilt will play
th** Carlisle Indian* on Dudley field either
on TboToday following the Tech game t.No
vember 22*. or on the following Saturday,
November 24. The Indian* have sigullW
that they e*n ploy on one or ihe other of
those dates. Vanderbilt Is more than anx
ious to meet the Redskin*, and the latter
seen* anxtou* to make the Southern trip.
It will be their ftrat Invasion of the foot-
IW! territory of the Kouth, aud Vanderbilt
will endeavor to give them a warm n*vp-
tton. provided the men couie out of the*
Tech game In good condition.
Vanderbilt I* plsnulng for snob s mass
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! SOME BASEBALL YARNS
SPUN BY BERNIE M’CAY
Bernle McCay Is the prince of baseball yam spinners. Th, other day
the sporting department was out on a little Jaunt with him and somebody
. )>ulled the cork out of Bernle's renilntscenee-Jug. When he started the
-porting department yanked n pencil out of its pocket and begun taking
notes. Before the seance was over the tienell had dropped from Its tired
officially closed, und a review, which
necessarily, because of the game, play
ed over the country. Is probably In
accurate, shows that It claimed twelve
victims. Baseball contributed to tbo
deaths of perhaps a dozen more, who
died from heart disease, fell off -roof*,
ware run over by cars while hastening
to u game or were killed In fights grow
ing out of games.
Three players were killed In Phila
delphia. says t. paper of that city, and
three more In other parts of the state.
Three were killed In New Jersey. The
batted ball was deadly, four persons
being killed in this way. Pitched bulls
claimed three victims, which shows the
force In a pitcher's arm. Three per-
O Jeffries was selected to referee O j sons passed atvay after being struck
O the Tommy Burns-Jack 'I’lhlen O which had slipped from the
batter's hands, and one man ruptured
a blood vessel by swatting a pitched
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HOW DOWLING HIT THE TIES.
They’ve told a h*t of them on Fete Dow I- aero** with th-
tag, bat here'* ow> t ililak U uev. WU-u
he *rat plteblng out lu Haeramento. iu the good*
«‘oo*t league. MH’lotkey. notv with the y or t«\.» u•*•)»* !*• wllng
L’anlinalf. wap Managing the Butte, Mont.,
team.
Dowling wa* IHg nnd a left hander, nud
that ha* ntnraya t*r-n the kind of man
Mcf.lnakey liked. >4* he win*! Dowling that
be would give him flu*) sdvaneo money
•o»t transportation to report at Butte.
Dowling wired tan-k; "All tight. C«nue
object.
"Who the are youV’ MItely imjuirvd
MeClonkcy. The man didn't *ay anything
but be reached doirn Iu hi* pocket and
pulled out n ticket from flacranitnlo to
Butte.
1 "Hrre’a your trcn*i*ortatlou.’’ aald Imwl-
IdpiwHl Out \ ,
He'd walk-d.
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More Fatalities Caused by
Baseball Than by Football
The baseball season of 1,06 Is now | John Ailing, skull fractured by
" ■’ ' '' ' pitched ball at Ppltstown, Pa„ July 4.
Joseph J. McDonald, of Mt. Holly,
N. J., hit on head by pitched ball Sep
tember 3 and died next dny.
Frederick Whittaker, shortstop on
Hamilton Terraco, N. J.. team, struck
over heart by batted ball, dying In
13 minutes, July 34.
Eugene Harris, 15 years old, hit on
head by batted ball at AVliervllle on
April S and killed.
Thomas F. Burke, of I-yon, Moss.,
professional team, struck by pitched
ball on August 11 and killed. •
Henry Dyehl died one hour after be
ing hit on head by pitched ball at
WiAwter, Ohio, June 1.
Three spectators were killed.
In Camden, N. J., June 16, Thomas
P. Baker was hit by a bat tlu»t slipped
from a player’s hands ami died in an
hour.
George C. Huckett, of 3U64 Hnmllle
street, Philadelphia, a as watching a
game on .May 30 and was killed by a
batted ball.
Hurry to see a game cost the life of
Eva Bennett, 2347 North Marshall
street. Philadelphia, July 22. She
droptied dead from excitement.
Fear that the Athletics might lose a
game brought a stroke ot apoplexy
that killed James H. Benson. 1106
South Twenty-second street, Philadel
phia, April 15.
Some of the serious baseball acci
dents that did not terminate fatally
follow:
John Murphy. 45 years, Philadelphia,
ball too hard.
The list of players to whom the game
was fatal followa:
Joseph Schneider, 38 years old. of
Germantown, Pth, dropped dead from
exhaustion utter scoring * home run
ut Belmont on July 2.
Fl ank Wilson, 14 years old. 342 Shed-
aker street, Philadelphia, struck and
killed by bat slipping on May 26.
George T. Snyder, policeman, old ball
player, stricken with heart dtsenee as
he made two-base hit.
William Garrison, 712 Spruce street.' skull fractured.
Philadelphia, ruptured blood vessel
while striking ut ball In Camden, N. J„
on April 12, and died.
Casper Alusscltnan, catcher of Cata-
tinrsdearned T»i« aauQua. Pn„ team, hit over heart by
imreaccmca uia-, ,,| U . h ,,i baU at ratnsauqua August 21
and killed
Alfred Moyer. 10 years, accidentally
I'ourtst-ti days nit* r tin* d-*a! was ,-listed,
a mnn wnllts-l tip to Mrt'loskry and said,'
"ttello. Mac.''
MeCInskt-y looked id iii u Its BgHg |
w«s ,-v.r„l with dirt sod dust. Ids i-lothes I c. I struck by bat In game at Allentown,
were torn, aad !»• was na awful !outturn 10 Decatur St. Kimball Hotlto. f*., April 23.
Laverne Bird, s year* old, Philadel
phia. Kkull fractured by butted ball.
Howard Hill*, at Philadelphia, hit on
head by batted ball.
John Kenney, !) year* old. Stanhope,
X. J.. *ku!I fractured by bat.
Ralph A. Garrixon. Philadelphia, col
lided with fellow college player nt
Princeton .and *eriou*ly injured.
William Pfeiffer. 14 year*, Newark,
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ISPORTING GOSSIP
FROM METROPOLIS;-
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New York, Nor. 15.-It took Joe Golden
only two rounds to pat a crimp lu Eddie
Kenny's pugilistic aspirations, though’the
trick was turned In the first, wton Kenny
went down from n terrific left hook to’ the
Jaw. lie would have been counted oat, hut
the gong saved hint on the coant of eight.
He came hack lively, only to run Into ti
perfect' fusillade of blows, which brought
him to tho floor. It wns all over, and he
coahl not barn regained Ids feet In any
thing like the count -of ten.
Galloping tinder the wire an easy winner
of the Oakdale handh-np. at ilie A-pie-
dnet track. Stray, at odds .of 30 to 1, w ( ,n
for his former owner,, J. V. Henning,, a
Wall street broker, who fulled h few week*
ago, u fair-slsed fortune. ||,. will-lie able
to pay all he ouv, and have money with
which to resume business. The horse had
Iws-n sold with the rest of Mr. Henning's
stnbl. by the assignee, Ileuitfng wns ton-
py over the outcome, hut not morn so than
his trainer, who liad bought the horse when
he was sold.
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A SINCERE SLEEPER ;
WAS CUPID CHILDS;
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N. J., skull broken iu three places by
thrown ball.
David Stewart, Delaware •'allege
student, skull fractured by pitched
ball.
Lynron Aug. Ocean city, X. J„ hit
by pitched bull, concussion of the brain.
One woman was Injured playing ball
She Is Miw. William duifdoo, of Shar
on, Pu. She had two ribs broken bv a
pitched ball ut a .Methodist picnic
game.
Tho above statistics were compiled by
Philadelphia admirer of CootUrlt who
has maintained that the agitation
against the brutality of the gridiron
game was not Altogether sincere and
not based on facts. He maintained that
baseball claimed a greater list of vic
tims.
This man laboriously collected' all
tile statistics of injuries nnd fatalities
on the bull field In his section of the
country. A complete list would doubt
less assume tremendous proportions
When all 'the other memories of KM
Fhllds—who. with Dan Brouthers. led
the National League batters In 1S92—
are forgotten by his old teammates an-1
associates in Cleveland, the recollec
tions of his ability to sleep will llngei.
Clarence always held that the world
was topsy-turvy on the slumber prop
sltton, und that man was. meant to
.spend 16 out of every. 24 hours In bed.
Almost tlte chubby little second base-
man lived up to hts own startling phil
osophy.
One day wlion the Cleveland players
were sluing out In front of the Haul:
house, In Louisville, a man came ulonc
scattering circulars advertising a cure
for Insomnia.
"What’s insomnia?" naked the kid
"Sleeplessness,” explained McAlect
"Huh," sneered Cupid, crushing up
the. circular,’ "there ain't no suck
thing: - '
"Call this game, will ye?" shouted
Cuphl In the twelfth Inning of a des
perately placed tie game at League
park one afternoon.
"Why?" asked Umpire Lynch In sur
prise, for the sun was still two hour"
high.
"Because It's bed time ami 1,11
sleepy," replied Childs In all serious
ness. The game wasn’t called.
Childs mad* a home run bit oft J-- k
Stlvetts In Boston one day and re
ceived a great greeting from hie com
rades on the bench when he cam-’
back. When the side had been retired
and the Clevelaude took the field uir»
baU had actually been pitched before It
was noticed that there wa* nobody
second.
O'Connor stopped the game and run
over to the bench. There, leaning up l»
riw^uwivoi^ciiBjjtinli^fait^sIeep^^^.
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