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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER, 20,1006. Football Still the Sporting Live Wire ^Edited By PERCY H. WHITING. VALE’S FOOTBALL TEAM IN ACTION Thl« photograph shows how brilliantly Knox, the Tale halfback, played at West Point. He hnd Just naught a punt by Mountford and raced ’I yards back with It when the camera clicked, Captain Morse, of the Yale team, was at his side continually and nut un such good Interference that Knox eluded every soldier on the field except Captain Hill, Tha latter Is shown In the picture tuckllng Knox from behind It was the best tackle made during the game, and prevented Knox from speeding 40 yards further for a touchdown. NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS By PERCY H. WHITING. District Attorney Jerome lins announced that he will break the next neck of gambling in New York or it will break his neck. Both, maybe. When he goes after race track gambling he goes after some of the richest and riiost influential gamblers in New York. If he could clean out the hand-book men he would do more than any other man has ever done, and more than almost any of them have ever tried to do. And if ever there was a pestefcrous little cveil it is thnt said hand-book game. Only two more football da ys between the sporting page and the bleak mid-winter dreariness which stretches almost unbrok en from December 1 to “reporting season.” The New Orleans Item commented recently on the fact that a New Orleans semi-professional team nearly secured a Cotton States League franchise. It will bo a long day before such a thing happens. The New Orleans territory belongs to, the New Orleans team and the only way any other team could get in the city would bo by playing out law baseball. , And the Cotton States has trouble enough to wohblu along and dodgo yellow fever and debts without taking on a fight with the National Association. Some paper, with fine but unconscious humor, has printed a note to tho effect that Tebeau is trying hard to expand tho iWestern League and niake it better. “Sufferin’ snakes!” Tcbeau’s efforts to make the American 'Association “better” have been one of the saddest sights of or ganized baseball—and about o a par with Charley Prank’s ef forts to "purify baseball,’.’ and Muggsy .McUraw’s attempts to eliminate “rowdyism.” Please pardon us while we smile. From now until the day before tlio ClemRon game gloom in wads may be expected to be the hand out to the football sharps who visit Tech. But the cripples will all he in the line-up o nthe day which made the turkey famous and what they’ll do to Clemson—well, we’ll talk that over after the game. Class Teams Battle Hard But Neither Side Scores Special la Tlie Georgian. . Kmory College, Oxford, Ga,, Nov. 20. Decidedly the moat exciting acene ever enacted on the Emory College gridiron wax witnessed yesterday In the senior- sophomore game. From the time of the klck-ofT It wns a hard fight between Emory's two .best tehms, but neither side succeeded .In scoring a point. The final score was 0 to 0. The present sophomore team Is the only team that hns ever succeeded In keeping the present senior eleven from scoring. After the game the highly eluted sophs paraded the streets of Ox ford, crying the boast the seniors made In their 1900 relay messuge: "Kkldoo. reltfy! We play football!" Wade, Bird and Elliot were sophomore stars, while J. M. and W. A, Woodruff and Smith made excellent gains for the seniors.. Yesterday's game between the Junior and freshman teams resulted In a score of 24 to 0 In favor of the Juniors. Carl Smith did some sensational work by kicking goal four times In succes sion. On account of the muddy field the freshmen almost Invariably fum bled the pigskin. ’ Buck’s Ranges) Free for 30 Days Let us put this sanitary, fuel and worksavingBuck’s Range in your kitchen | for 30 j days’ free trial This range has a large white enameled oven, a hot blast fire-back, r a fuel-saving fire-box, a non-wearing top, an enameled-lined reservoir and many other improvements not found in other ranges. / In order that you may be thoroughly convinced of its merits, we will put one in your kitchen for one month FREK| of any charges whatever. Let us send you one today. A Buck’s Range is now in operation in one of our big windows and yon are invited to come I in, try the biscuits and test the baking qualities of the best Range wen and money can make. Maxwell House Blend Coffee, Rogers’ LbRosii Flour, with a Buck’s Baking, will please you we | know. • Walter J. Wood Co. 103-5-7-9-1 1 Whitehall Street. ALEX SMITH HERE NOV. 27 “New York, November 20. -h\ O. Byrd, Atlanta, Ga.: •‘WUI leave Monday, 26th, for Atlanta." (Signed) * “ALEX SMITH." Such In the telegram received yesterday by F. G. Byrd, chairman of the golf committee of the Atlanta Athletic t'luh, and the question of when Alex Smith will be here Is at last settled. Smith, It tnay be well to add. Is America’s champion golfer, the man who has won practically every open tournament which he has entered this year. Including the U. S. G. A., Eastern G. A. and Western G. A. open championships. Also, he Is the man who will be golf professional of the Atlanta club during the winter. STATISTICS OF THE CARLISLE INDIANS AND VANDERBILT FOOTBALL ELEVENS THAT MEET ON GRIDIRON THURSDAY. | .. Age. m. Wt. Cnrllslo Indian*. Tmlllnn. ,. v *n d r rbllt Wt. HI. Age. Prepared. Home Toe*. Norib Dakota, Ch ppewn 21 (Mil 170 W. Uardner. I.oft end. '-Blake. 156 6.1t 19 Bowen. Nashville, Tone. Norib Dakota, Chlbpews 2.1 178 Wa-seu-Ke. la-ft tackle. Pritchard m 6.02 20 Bslrd. Miss. North Dakota, Slum 23 B.on'4 174 Dillon. Deft guard. Chora 176 6.00 22 ■ Fnjcttr. Jin. Oklahoma. Monaco 21 8.M 199 limit. outer. Htone ISO 6.03 21 Mooney. Nashville, Tana. Minneapolis, Chippewa 20 6.10 192 Iji llnoifne. night guard. McLain 2ot 6.10 21 - - (Homester, MU'. North Dakota. Chippewa 22- 6.11(4 IM Duls.l*. lilght tackle. Noel 1*3 6.07 20 Ilnwen, Nashville, Trim. Oklahoma. Delaware 22 5.11 1C* raid. Ksendlne. ltlght end. B. Blake 174 8.00 21 llowcn. Nashville, Trim. Minneapolis, Chippewa 20 5,19 146 A. Libby, Quarterback. C'osten 160 6.10 24 McTyelre. McKensle, Teas. New >ork. Timeororn 20 6.00 134 Jit. Plcaauiut. la-ft half. D. Blake, captain -170 6.21 24 Bowen. Nashville, Tima. I’lsh, Caddo 1!) 6.07 143 llendrli. Ulght half,. Craig 164 6.08 24 It. AII. School. Cnlleoks, Tons. Minneapolis, Chippewa 23 5.10 19! Little lloy. I'nlllmvk. Mauler 179 ,A02 20 Wallace, Nashville, Trim. Averages 2144 6.1044 1® \ • 5.1044 1® 17544 5-10 . 2144 Southern Football Coaches Pleased With New Football CLEMSON WINS FROM U. OF T. COACH M’GUGAN THINKS I/ANDY MAY BEAT INDIANSI “Football In the South under the new mien |h u success," suy the coaches of the prominent Houthern teams. The new code, which stirred up such a vast amount of criticism last winter, and which, before the season, moat of the coaches milted In condemning, has been tried and found satisfactory, says tho current Issue of RlUfcway’s Maga zine (Atlanta section). It miiy be remembered thnt last fall the athletic tea-pot was stirred by such tempestuous disturbances hecnu.se of football that it looked us though the game would be relegated by im>st re spectable colleges to the athletic down- and-out club, along with ping-pong, pugilism and a few others. It Is not necessary to recount the many attacks on tho game—attempted actions by leg islatures forbidding it, Its abolition by Columbia and other universities and a sctm’hing through the press which It will long remember. A new rules committee was conse quently appointed and ordered to “re form" the game. Whaf’they did was, to put It gently, an “adequacy," Naturo of Changta. Briefly, the changes which they de cided upon provided (1) that ten yards must be gained In three downs; (2) that after a kicked ball bit the ground everybody was “on side” and It be longed to the man who got It; (3) that fine forward pass could be made during each play; (4) that when lined up the two teams must be separated by a "neutral zone" equal to the length of the ball; (5) that hurdling be barred, and (6) that time could be taken out because of Injuries only three times in each half. Barring two or three games for each team, an entire season has been played under this revolutionary code. The press lias given a vote of confidence to the new* rules. The public has ex pressed Its favor by attending the games in greater number than ever before. Up to the present the coaches had not I been heard from. To find out^what they thought about the "new football" a list of eighteen questions was submit ted to the most prominent coaches In the South. From the answers to the questions the following facts may be set down, as the views of Southern coaches on football in the 8outh under the new rules: What Coaches Think. The new rulea have not materially lessened the number of minor Injuries. It Is a question whether or not they have had any material effect on the number of serious Injuries. They have assuredly made football faster and more open—probably 35 per cent more open. They have lessened brutality, though most of the coaches protested that there was not much anyway. Strange to relate, tho coaches fa vored the ten-yard rule, in a propor tion of about two to one. Most of them, however, voted In favor of allow ing ten yards in four downs. With hardly a dissenting vote tho coaches gave their approval to the "oil- side kick" rule and not a man raised his voice in protest against the for ward pass, which wns the novelty most ^reviled before the season began. Only one roach gave his opinion that it would b« removed from the? code In future years. A practically unanimous vote was given to the rule requiring a "neutral zone.” Strange to relate, however, the rule forbidding "hurdling” did not suit a very large and very prominent minor ity. To the question, "Which change in the rules do you consider the most vital?" the experts were almost equally divided between the "on-slde kick" and the **ten-yards advance" rule. The question of which of the new rules was the most desirable brought out a tie between the "forward pass" and the "on-slde kick,” with the "ten- yard" rule, the rules against brutality and the "time-out” rule coming In for a scattering vote. There was a trifle more unanimity of opinion about which rule among the new ones was the least desirable and the "ten-yards" rule came In for the vote of lack of confidence, though the "forward pass," "on-slde kick” and other rules received some unfavorable notice. * BIRD SEASON is open. So Is Old Felt Hat Season. Bussey will clean and shape you.s tike new. Special to The Georgian. Clemson College, H. C„ Nov. 20.- Clemson football team defeated the University of Tennessee on a sloppy field 16 to 0. Neither team scored In the first half. Tennessee could not make the required distance at any time, and w’as fre- | quently forced to punt. The ball was i constantly In Tennessee’s territory. Four times In the first half Clemson was within striking distance, only to lose the ball on fumbles or downs. McLaurln, McFadden and Coles starred for Clemson. The line-up: Tennessee. Clemson. Prcx?ton center Clarke Dougherty .. right guard. .Brltt-Carter King right tackle .. ..McLaurln Leech /. right end Coles Gunther .. ,. left guard Keel Walters ,. .. left tackle .. .. Gaston Cochran left end Lykes, , Caughman, flpratt. Loueks .. ..quarterback .. McFadden, Warren. Baker .. .. ..right half.. .. Latimer, Blease. Keener.. .... left half ..Alien-Turner Peevy fullback Derrick Referee—Shaughnessy, Notre Dame. Umpire—Beverly, Lehigh. CELEBRATION FOR “PENNSY” Philadelphia, Pa., Not. !0.—Having at last a victory to celebrate, Penn sylvania celebrated with the entire cur. rlculum of the university. The stu dents cut all lectures and proceeded to make merry. They assembled in front of the training house and called upon each man who figured In the victory over Michigan to participate. Tomorrow Pennsylvania will get se rious again, and every effort will be made to get the team In first-class trim for the annual Thanksgiving contest with Cornell. Mi In! to The Georgian. , Nashville, Tenn, Nov. 20.—Coach McGugln, of the Vanderbilt team, hua the following to say concerning the Vanderbllt-lndlun game on Thursday: ‘Nobody In the world has any right lo expert Vanderbilt to heat the Car lisle Indians. They have undoubtedly the moat remarkable teatn In their his tory. Michigan heat us 10 to 4. Penn sylvania beat Michigan 17 to 0 and the Indians beat Pennsylvania 24 to 8. That would make It look like there were about 40 points between'the Indians and Vanderbilt. “To show that It was no accident when the Indians beat Pennsylvania they turned round and defeated Swarthinore, who had previously de feated Pennsylvania. Harvard, after almost all of sixty long minutes of play, managed to score five points against the Indians on seme very doubtful playing am! Harvard looks to he bet ter than Yale and Princeton to date. Here Is another little bit of dope: "Out of all the Western colleges >car Minnesota Is the only one to I a team near her standard of prev jeats. Thoy were fortunate at Mlq nesnta In having most of their eld < perlenced men hack, so that the five game title, the three-year rule, the tv- tralnlng-tahle rule, the no-prellmlnarfj training rule, ami the many Mk things that the conference tried to football In the West, didn't affect li't| so much. Minnesota has a big humk| of rams, powerful and fast, who pro! ably average 190 pounds, yet they «<■ unable to rio anything against the In diana Saturday at all, while the Indian' were gathering In 17. „ . "Another thing, this reput'd t<l-| pound average of the Indians mighty Iiff-i/ilor to me. They are re-| ported to carry 39 bucks on their squwfl and If they only average 165 pounds tMI Indians must be shrinking up. I play~| against these Indiana once myself ami there wasn't hardly a buck In the rrnxif who weighed as little as 165 pound'I Vanderbilt has aonte chance to »i". however." HARVARD MEN ALL IN TRIM Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 20.—The opening practice of the last week for the Harvard football team was very encouraging, as U showed that all the squad will be on hand for the Yale game. Keersberg will be at work tomorrow with his wrenched knee all right,, and Orr, whose foot bothered him. will also be In the practice tomorrow. Dorr, who has been out of the game with a severe cold, will be In the game. Every play which Harvard will de pend upon for ground gain was gone through. The signals for all of them are new and many of them have not been sprung In public. This means that Reid has so tar been able to keep with in the team what he will spring at New Haven next Saturday. Billy Smith. After “Phenom" But Hasn’t Landed Him Ve) Billy Smith Is Just bubbling over with a "good story" these days. This Is no "Jim Pox surprise," either. Judging, too, by the width of his smile and the slxe of his expectations, he Is Just on the point of signing some "phenom." Up to yet, however, the story has not been deemed by the said B. Smith to be sufficiently ripe for the plucking. But be on the lookout for something large and juicy. Paul Cobb, the brother of Cyrus Cobb, the Georgia boy who played such great baseball with Detroit last season, has written to Billy Smith, asking tor * try. Smith saj's that Paul Cobb |J * “husky gent," and has the api» a™" 1 -* of being a ball player. Bernie McCay left Monday night ft Mobile, where he will talk over Dlansj for next year with the Mobile nwneraj Bernie has signed as menage) : '['I Mobile team and will undoubtedly ) n "*l a good man for the beat paying te»»l in the Cotton States. Billy Smith has found a watch b* which he will gladly turn over to ■'”> body who will "prove property.' as to "ads" say. NAT KAISER & CO. Bargains in unredeemed Dia. mornis. Confidential loans on val uables. 15 Decatur St Kimball House. O00OOO00OO0OO00O0O0Q000004J V 1 w AUTO SHOWS TO COME. O , a O December 1-9—Grand Central Pal- O O ace. New York city. 0 O January 12-19—Madison Square 0 O Garden, New York city. 0 O February 2-9—Chicago. o O February 11-16—Detroit. Mich. 0 O February 18-23—Buffalo, N. Y. O O March 9-16—Boston, Mass. c 0 April 8-13—Montreal. Canada. 0 O o OQ000000000000000000000000 NOTE8 OF SPORT. The bout between Benny Yang Matty Baldwin, which was t; 1 come off before the club at Cm ‘‘ night, has been postponed until ’. > row night. It was news to a great many >■ 1 learn that Edward Hanlon Is f 111 terested In the Brooklyn basebai i Business men of Salt take City formed an association to try franchise In the Pacific Coast League. ■ ,.nl| ,i"|