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TIIE ATLANTA GF.ORG I AN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER, 16. 1906. South's Best Team Here For Big Game ^Edited By PERCY H. WHITING. VANDERBILT TEAM HERE AND ARE READY FOR TECH PRITCHARD, Tackle. E. NOEL, Tackle. BOB BLAKE, End. MANIER, Fullback. Commodores Arrive Friday Morning and Will Do Some Light Work During the Afternoon. Q000000000000000000000000O o 0 O "What’a tlm dopo?" Inquired the tf O a porting department of Coach 0 o Heiaman on Thursday. O “Heme old atory," replied Mr. O O Helsman. "Greatest same of the O O year. Beet teams In the Bouth. 0 O All that sort of thin*. You O o know." 0 o We didn't, but this Is the way It O O appears to us: 0 O Don't fall to see the O O Great. Grand, Gritty, Uallany. O 0 Giddy. Glorious, Gentlemanly O Q O O GAME. O 0 VANDERBILT V8. TECH. 0 0 Como one, come all. O 0 Coach McGurIii taken pleasure O 0 In presenting his all-star O O II—COUNT THEM—11 0 O In their little two-act O 0 COMEDY (for them) 0 0 TRAGEDY (for Tech) 0 0 Entitled 0 0 "PLAYING THE GAME," O 0 or O 0 “THE TENNESSEEANH' 0 0 REVENGE." 0 O O 00000000000000000000000000 The Vanderbilt team has stolen a march on Atlanta. When the Nashville train came to rest In the old station Friday morning sixteen of the Mouth's huskiest football warriors, Dan McUugln, coach of the team, Frank Kyle, hta assistant coach, nnd Will Ewing, sporting editor of The Nashville American, emerged from a alee per and stole silently to the Aragon. The Commodores "had arrove." Just what brought them here a day ahead of schedule nobody seemed to know—not even the members of the taam. But they were there, all right; and as line a lot of Southern athletes us It was ever anybody's privilege to ate. Friday afternoon the Vanderbilt learn will go to aonte secluded spot and run signals. Also, they may do a bit of light work—lust enough to keep them In-trim for Saturday's contest. McGUGN 13 WORRIED. •'I look forward to the Tech game ns a hard one," said Coach Dan Mc- Gugln. "The report that Tech la weak and light i haa not encouraged us aa much aa It haa aome of our friend*. "Coach llelsman Is the dean of us nil down here, and we look • to his teum to play soino remarkable ball. "We have seen nothing of tricks nnd don’t know what success we shall have In blocking them. "One thing you cun count on, and that Is a good game. Vanderbilt la In grout condition. Outside of Frank Wynne, who has a bud knee and enn- not play, llie team Is In good condition. I expect that Vanderbilt will play her best, hut I must admit most frankly that I uni more or less worried over the outcome." Will Ewing, who has followed the Vanderbilt teimi this year In every game and who Is one of tho most en- thustustlc uf the Commodores' rooters, said this morning that ho thought that If the Vanderbilt team desired they could run up to or 50 points on tho Yellow Jackets. Ewing Talks of Team. •T think It Is it matter of what Mc- Gugln tells tho team," euld Mr. Ewing I think the Vanderbilt team Is one of the wonders of the world. They cun 1 pretty near do what they want to. But j It Is not Improbable, In view of the fact that Vunderbilt plays the Indians next week, that tho boys will take It comparatively easy. “The team weighs about 178 pounds to the man and Is lightning fast. The line-up will be: •'Left end, Vaughn Blake; left tackle, Pritchardr left guard, McLain; center, I Stone; right guard, ('horn: right i tackle, E. Noel; right end. Bob Blake: ' uartorback, Costen; left half, Dan 1 Hake; right half, Craig; fullback., Manler. "This team practically beat Michi gan. Theio was no doubt about It. 1 Vanderbilt should have won that game, and they will whip the Indians. The I learn beats anything I ever saw. Slono at center Is one of the greatest that ever played; Bob Blake Is as good a player aa aver wore a uniform and ought to make the All-American and that back Held Is the best up to yet. "Walt till you ae* them play." . TECH GETTING READY. •Tackle some, you fellow*, tackle. You'll have plenty of It to do Satur day." Such «» the prophetic utterance pf Coach Helsman to hi* squad Thurs day afternoon when the bunoh of foot ball material turned out on the soggy Tech field before tlielr last hard prac tice In preparation for tho Vanderbilt game—which Is for them tim supreme test of tho year. And for a good ten minutes (he men run at each other In pairs, tackling vigorously and giving a life-like Imita tion of tho way they ure going to stop the Vunderbilt runners Saturday. The Tech team Is not quite nt Its host. Sweet Is out of practice on ac- count uf a bail cold; Luck's knock lire In such condition that It Is usually hard for him to determine on which It Is best to limp, and ''Lobster'' Brown bus not quite recovered from the ankle twist which kept hint out uf the prac tice all last week. However, these men are slowly "rounding to” and will probably be In good enough condition Suturday to In- NOT. NEWS, BUT VIEWS By PERCY H. WHITING. We khall proach a short sermon today, dearly beloved breth ren, taking as our text tho wise but often-doubted saw—“Hon esty is the best policy,” show how it can be applied to athletics and take as our example the Vanderbilt team. Just as a reminder it may be mentioned that the Vanderbilt team is the best in the South today—one of the best in the coun try- No Southern team, recruited by any means, has over class ed with it. Secondly, it may be stated that this team was secured by hon est athletic methods. No inducements are held out to athletes to go to Vanderbilt—none, that is, except the promise that every roan who tries for a team will have an equal chance with every other man and that they will not have to go into competition with a lot of professionals and tramp athletes. This team has been built up by methods which were above criticism, and it proves one thing—that honesty pays in collego athletics as well as elsewhere. Vanderbilt can not only say truthfully “our athletics have been decent from the first,” but they cau add after “decent” the words “and successful.” If the teams which , find it necessary to send scouts among the “prep” schools, offer “athletic scholarships” and even come right out and pay athletes for serving would study tho methods and the results of Vanderbilt they, might leam somo valuable lessons. What is true about Vanderbilt is true of other colleges. Vanderbilt was mentioned as the team most conspicuously honest, the most successful and the one which will next be seen as Tech’s opponent in Atlanta. COACH M'GUGIN. tereat their Tenneasee rival*. Change* In Lln*-Up. "Our llna-up at th* opening of Sat urday’* game will be the same ae It ha* been In the most of tho games this season," **!d Coach Heiaman In answer to a query. "But what It will be at the end I can't even prophesy. I'm go ing'to give them all a chance. I have a lot of good substitutes who can do ae well as the regulars on defensive at least. And that's where they will be most-of the time,'no doubt," added Mr. Helnman sadly. To<-h hopes to score on Vanderbilt. "of course they will beut us," said Sweet, one of the oldest and most ex- pcrlenced men on tho teum. “They sre larger, older, more exi-erlenced und better players. Wo arc outclassed. Wo are not even trying to keep that a se cret from .ourselves. But It would not surprise me a lot to sec us score against Vunderbilt. It might happen the way It did In that Georgia game— a good high kick, fast running by some of our men, a fumble und Tech lias tho bull and Is away with It and across the goal line. Of course that may be an Idle dream, but It Is a possibility— and we worked It Ibreu times on Geor- glu," he added i cmlnlsccntly. That Is tho Tech hope now—to score on Vanderbilt, and to hold the Com modores to. a smaller score thun any Southern team has yet done, or will do. One remarkable feature of the Tech team Is Its extreme youth—collectively and Individually. Young—Fast—Light. Davies Is tho Methuselah of the learn. | He has advanced to. the extreme age of j 23. Sweet is another of tho patriarchs I and hux seen 21 summers go flitting by. [ Perhaps one other man on the team boosts of more than a score of years. The rest are In their teens. They are a fairly husky lot. how ever, und almost without un exception fast. Not another man on the team, except Henderson, Is even "heavy," as weight goes on a football tram, and the spued •it every one of them Is above the normal about In proportlun us their "eight Is below the liormul. Vanderbilt ran safely count on some speedy plays being tried against them. Thursday afternoon Tech ran signals before they lined up for tlielr Anal scrimmage. And of all the fancy, dou ble, triple and quadruple pusses, for ward and baekwnrd, button-button- whose-gqt-the-button, now-you-sec- me-and-now-you-don't play* that were ever Invented the Tech team haa them. They have not uncorked many of them yet, but Vanderbilt gets the benefit uf the whole outfit. Fot the Vanderbilt game 1s the last supreme test for Tech. Mercer, which team Tech tackles Saturday after next. Is not ralculuted to cause trouble, und Clemson, against whlcji team Tech tty likely Helsman COME AND M'CAY MAS SIGNED TO MANAGE MOBILE TEAM if our Clothing is not worthy of you. Come and see if it is not better than you anticipated, and very much better than you ever hoped to buy at the prices it is marked. Very Good Suits. (Single or Double-breasted) $7.50, $10, $12.50, $15, $18, $20, $25. Excellent Overcoats. (All tho New Styles) $7.50, $10, $12.50, $15, $20, $25. Good Raincoats. (For Rain or Clear Weather) $10, $12.50, $15, *$20. Boys’ Knee PantsSuits (For School or Dress) $1.50, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6.50, $7.50. Boys’ Oyercoats. (Fur any size Bov or Child) $2.50, $3, $4, $5, $6.50, $7.50. 1 I CLOTHING CO. 89-91 WHITEHALL STREET. W WAISTS GAMES WITH01AMPS SMITH HAS A8KED BOTH CHICA GO MANAGERS FOR DATES WITH THEIR TEAMS. Berate McCay will manage the Mo bile team of the Cotton States League next year. Everything In connection with the deal Is closed, although of course It Is made conditional upon Mobile's remaining In the league. That she will Is regarded as certain. This Is a great chance for the local ball player. Mobile Is tho best town In the Cotton States League and ha. often been mentioned with great prominence os the purchaser of a franchise In the Southern League. McCay mode a great showing last year with the Baton Rouge team. Though he had to run the team on debts and expectations, be got together a hustling bunch of players und made a nice fight for the pennant. As long as the clubs stayed within the salary limit McCay’s team was In tho running. When the other teams began to go out and spend the money McCay’s team hud to get along as best It could with the players It had. McCay will go out on a scouting tour for players In the near future nnd hopes to land some good men for his team. * Billy Smith I* after games with the two Chicago clubs which battled for the championship of the world In the Windy City-thls fall, "I have written to both teams,” said Billy Smith Friday morning, "and I hope to get games with them. They woifld surely be u good feature.” The only games Atlanta has sched uled thua far for the exhibition series are the four with Cleveland. Gets a Wallop, Lands on Head, Brain Is Fractured, Mike Is Dead hOrand Rapids, Mich., Nov. Id—As a result of striking his head on the floor when knocked out In- the ninth round of u light with Harry Lewis here laBt night, Mike Ward, of Surpla, Canada, lies dead at St. Marye Hospital. Four doctors worked over him uod. Father Schmitt administered the last rites of the Roman Catholic church early this morning. ““'F'rJf"; 1 ’ ,u nd *I rank O'Brien. Lewis' chief second, and Eddie Ryan, of Detroit, the referee, are under arrest. siJIifh.*?! knocked out by Lewis in the ninth round, n left uppercut putting the Canadian down, his head striking the floor hard. He wa» li.’lflr.' co “ ,er ' "heTO he revived for a few minutes nnd talked ra tionally. Before he could be removed he lapsed Into a comatose condi- tton anti never recovered consciousness. The doctors pronounced It concuttdon of tho brain Thib fight wqh a hard one from start to finish, with Lewis having a « h hi Vhe ^,"y,', nl, „ h0 . U <5 h 'Y ard . cam . e * tr,,n K I" 'he fifth round and had 'V„.n U . t . LC «". St l!r tCd Wlth 11 ru ’ h "> ,he »'«*> «H» best from then until the Anal blow was struck. NEW BASEBALL DOPE BY WIRE : Boston, Nov. 16.—The middle-weight J title Is Involved In the meeting of Jo, , tVnloott nnd Billy Rhodes at Chelsea Washington, D. C„ Nov. 16.—Man- | Americans, was benched hut once the' Tlianltaclvln* night. The men liuti weighing In at 112 pound* George Stone, premier hutsm a un of i ager Cantlllon wants, McIntyre and j past season Schaffer for Garland Stnhl nnd the deal hangs lire. Next! Course HADS^fe. ‘CHE STANDARD OF PURITY. American Girl Will Pilot Lipton’s Next Challenger New York, Nov. 16.—That the yacht which Sir Thomas Llpton bring* to this country for another try at the Amer ican cup will be piloted by Mist Jane Morgan, one of the most enthusiastic heiress-yachtswoman, waa learned, and persons close In Sir Thomas* confi dence. .Sir Tltohtas paid a visit to Philadel phia yesterday to the homo of Miss Morgan, daughter of Randall Morgan, the Philadelphia traction magnate, and It was said an Interview wo* held In which be secured the promise of Miss Morgan to pilot hta yacht should he bring another one to this country. Mis* Morgan, since 1861, has held a license for navigating all oceans. This Is the highest mark of navigat ing skill and there are only two other women In the world who hold, a similar license. Miss Morgan also tiotds a cerilflcate as muster of her father’s yacht, the Waterus, which once belonged to Em peror Francis Joseph. pilot boats In Philadelphia tenters. It Is no easy matter to obtain n pi lot's license for the waters In this vi cinity, and a person applying for one has to pass a most rigid examination. At the time of examination Miss Mor gan covered eight pages with the answers to questions put to her by the commissioner and they were correct. Miss Morgan Is extremely popular among the young society folk. She lives with her parents In a beautiful home In Willow Grove avenue. Chest nut Hill, Philadelphia. pWOt '. j!7? UI ? l *nreijt.Snw 0 lMr‘tn i ° round, Maher failed to show any 0 an additional license permitting her t»| 0 of h|l( o|d . tlme form> an,, he prov ' 0 O ed a mark for hie younger op- 0 NAT KAISER & CO. 00000000000000000000000000 O PETER MAHER ESCAPES 0 O , WITH HARD BEATING. O 0 0 0 Philadelphia, Nov. 16.—Peter O 0 Malier, the perpetual Irish chant- O O plon, made u reappearance at the 0 O Broadway Athletic Club last night O O und took a hard beating from Ed- O 0 die Haney, a local lighter. O O Except for a moment In the flrst 0 Buck Freeman was a happy man last week at his Pennsylvania home. How ard Wall sent him about 20 game chickens and that tvas enough. Perrlno. purchased by Washington from Kansas City, has hern umpiring In the Paclflc Coast League. it Nebraska girl the other day. Clark Griffith may give Laporle a trial in the uutfleld next Heason. La- porte Is not a quick enough thinker or a sure enough llelder to hold down tho third sack properly, but his hitting makes him a valuable man. It lo sold that Charley Irwin, the agreed at 3 ji. m. Honey Mellody has agreed to meet the winner and Jo* Thomas und Mlk« (Twin) Rulllvan are welcome to visit Chelsea nt any time thereafter. Wal cott has announced that he will retire If defeated. 000000O000O00O00000000«IOg The Plttshurgs have a lifelong lease ! old Cincinnati and Brooklyn third I 0 / 0 NO GOLF TOURNAMENT on the grounds at Hot Bpring*. The St. Louis Americans was tine of the smallest teams numerically last season, but It landed In fifth place. In two seasons Des Moines Ims dis posed of nine players to major leagues. No wonder the club has heen a money maker. PLAYED SATURDAY. 0 Imseman, who has been playing good | O ball In the Paclflc Coast le ague during O The' usual Saturday nfterrfrn.n 0 thd last few years, ha* cleared $S0,00o, 0 golf tournament will not be played 0 In mining Investments. - - . _ - - Pitcher Jack Powell, of the St. Louis such trip. It Is to be hoped that Billy Murray, the New Philadelphia manager, who has been stricken with typhoid fever, will be fully recovered by tho time the team leaves for the South next March, fe.vcr Convalescent could make no 0 ponent. Near tho end of the go 0 O Maher was very weak und Just O Yr. cod earned Tllii 1° managed to held himself together. 0 Mecckel Bargains In unreaesmea uia-. 0 , f illl(1 |( i >swi .„i anything 5 No. i tnonds. Confidential loan* on val uables. 16 Decatur St- 1 6 of u imnoli Ik- could have finished 6 O him. O O 6 Kimball Hon*e. 00000000000000000000000000 BOWLING AT A. A. C. The annual bowling tournament of the Atlanta Athletic Club was Btarted Thursday night with a match between the teams captained by Messrs. Coll, Gay and T. T. Williams. The flrst match was won by Coil's team over Gay’s, and the second by Williams' team over Coil's: The matches uf the tournament will be railed Tuesday und Thursday nights until the schedule Is completed. The members of the ten teams which lake part In the tournament are: J No. 1— L. D. Scott, captain; W. D. Stovall, Bockover Toy, K. A. McDuu- gal, F. C. Meyer. No. 2—8. C. Williams, captain: M. E. Laird, N. E. Parks, B. C, Taylor and R. E. Uushton, Jr. 3 r -\V. A. Sharp, captain: L. C. kel, T. C. Anderson, F. O. Hutton. d. Gregg, captain: W. Mushburti. W. W. Clarke, A. Jones, I* D. Met Teskry. - No. 5—Hlocum Bell, • nptutn: K L. Mycr, C. II. Matthews, It. II. U'u-tr, It. M. Freeman. Jr. No. 6—Ewell Gay, captain; L. J. Dickey, J. B. MANuIley. Clifford Key, N. U. Broyles. No. 7—K. E. Clapp, captain; C. R. Tidwell, F. R. Berry, X. A. Thornton, F. M. Farley, jr. No. 8—T. T. Williams, captain; A. Hoyt, A. F. .FRssInimons, W. W. Goldsmith, Harvle Hatcher. No. 9—F. J. Coll, captain: P. G. Lombard, F. L. Fleming, T. D. Boun ders, J. T. Kirkpatrick. No. 10—Howard Geldert, captain; Coko Davis, R. u. Lyon, F. L. Rey nolds, C, M. Ramspeck. NOTE8 OF SPORT. One of the matters likely to receive at tention from (he national baseball com mission. at Its meeting tu Cincinnati, to day, Is the question whether players under contract „r reserve to uutloual ngreement teams will Its allow,-d to'ptay v-llh black listed teams nfler their contracts expire. One view It that the men are still uw the reserve Mst. although their contracts expire at-lie- mnl uf the playing sen son, artjl that 0 tomorrow at East Lake. No ran- 0 O son waa given for dispensing with 0 O this hitherto successful weekly O O event. 0 o o O0000OOOO00O0000000O00OOOO BIG GAME IN “ALABAM." Special to The Gcorglau. Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 16.—A Urge number of Auburn nnd Tuscaloosa eup- porters will go to Birmingham to wit* nee* tho football game Baturduy after noon. The Interest In this annual cun- teat la Intense In Montgomery, where both colleges have numerous admirer?. The betting .this year Is even, y< ‘ ' " paper Auburn shows up much Letter than the University. Information re ceived from both colleges Is to the ci ted that both sides are confident. T.in«t The bout between link Unwell sml Jj McGernr, which wee to have taken p In Baltimore tomorrow night, has called off liy Bussell. QUAIL HUNTERS. Take your old soft and stiff felt *’* to Bussey to be cleaned. 21 1-2 \> » ball street.