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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27,190G.
Football Players Getting Ready For Finish
-Edited By PERCY H. WHITING.
THE TEAM WHICH TACKLES TECH THURSDAY
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Latest photograph of Clomoon player*, who appear on Tech field Thurtday In the final game of the eeaeon.
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NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
By PERCY H. WHITING.
. Wh.v can’t the Tech management frump it up with Vanderbilt
to play in Atlautu again next season! According to the present con
tract the next game is duo in Nashville.
Atlanta people want to see the game at Tech Park. The Van
derbilt team is something of a show these days and promises to be
• even more so next season with only one man—Dun Blake—off this
year’s team and with the possibility that Hob Patterson and Ed
Hamilton will be back again.
This game would be a certain liuaiieial success in Atlanta. The
crowd which braved an awful rain-storm Nov. 17 to see the Commo
dores play indicated what the attendance at a Vanderbilt game would
bn in good weather.
In Nashville it is dnuhtnil if a Teeh-Vanderbilt game would pay
. expenses. At baseball Tech is a good drawing curd there, but not
at football. It takes the Indians or Sewuneo to draw out thu enthu
siasts and the enthusiasm there.
JOCKEY MILLER BUYS A BUBBLE
Washington, Nov. 26.—Jockey "Marvelous" MMIer bought an automo
bile here today. Packy Fitzsimmons, the boy’s booking agent, did the
purchasing, the order going to a Chicago house. The understanding was
that the machine be delivered and put In running order for Miller at San
Francisco on or before December 18. The price Is stated to have been
83,800.
Miller, a week ago, had the famous "tied Flyer,” used by Young Cor
bett In heyday on the coast, offered to him at a song, but the llttlp fellow
Insisted on a new one.
“None of the Jockeys will liuve to walk down to the ferry this year,"
declared Miller before the opening race, meaning that the new car would
be at their dlsposul cnch night ufter the close of racing at Oakland.
Miller leaves for tile coast Saturday night, where he will ride for
Tom Williams through the winter. While Miller has gone In fora "bub
ble." he hua not neglected to Invest some of Ills enormous winnings in a
more substantial way. Just before leaving New York his nttorney took
over a nice cottage home at Gravesend for Miller «t a reported price of
116,00(1.
Miller’s great work on the truck on Saturday seemed an advertise
ment, for the largest crowd of this season was at tile track yesterday aft
ernoon.
No fewer than 4,000 of the army of those who won on Miller’s
mounts were there, whereas the usual Monday attendance of racegoers Is
iiluiii! •• r.nn. *
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On 30 Days’ Free Trial,
Our FREE TRIAL OFFER is making a big hit. Anv stove or range put in
your kitchen FREE FOR 30 DAYS. Then if you want to buy you can pav at
$1.00 A WEEK.
Look at the grent Buck Stove dissected above.
No. 7, family size, with fireback, guaran- d* 4
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103-5-7-9-11 WHITEHALL.
It is not at nil certain that Vanderbilt would consent to change
the loeation ot the frame from Nashville to Atlanta. If the Commo
dores lake trips to both Ann Arbor and Chicago—as now seems
likely—it would be impossible for them to make such a change, for
the two northern trips would exhaust all tile uvailtiblc time of the
Vanderbilt team.
However, it 's worth’riskinir. It would be financially desirable for
, both teams and besides Atlanta wants to see the frame.
The writer’s attention lias been called to (lie fact that especial
mention of Owsley ,Mtinier’s pliiyintf was left out of the write-up of
the VainlyInjuns" tritiue.
This was most distinctly due to an oversight. No man on the
team—save Hob, Hlake, who scored the only points—was more de
serving of credit. These two players are undoubtedly the best on
the Vanderbilt team and if ever u Southern college lias turned out
’All-American material these two men are the said material. They will
both appear in every nll-S. I. A. A. team of the year.
Of course it is lutrd to expect good sportsmanlike conduct from
a baud of red Indians, but the Carlisle howl that the team was not
in condition when it tackled Vanderbilt is sickening, even considering
; the source.
Just how the Indians showed their alleged “poor form" is hard
to tell. They started faster, bucked and ran harder, tackled more
, viciously and more certainly tlmn any team which-ever, played, in
Nashville. ’ They were 'just smothered by superior plnyiug strength,
and that’s how they happened to lose. • ’ i.
• they happen
After the game was over it is likely that they did not feel their
’beat. ..They.had been outplnycd and it hurt. - ,
But'it is bum opera to put up that variety of a post-mortem howl.
Big League Baseball News
Told in Short Paragraphs
W&shlngtun, D. <\, Nov. 27,~The ”1 will be just us Rood as ever.” says
latest report as to the Identity of Joe' Earl Moore, of Cleveland, who was out
Cantlllpn's successor at Milwaukee
picks Dick Cooley as the mail.
Billy Muiray. the Phillies’ new man
ager, who has been HI for some time,
is up and around again.
of the play during the 1906 season. Wt
haye heard that before, Earl.
It is rumored that Cantiilon Is ne
gotiating..with Cleveland for, the serv
ices ot Elmer Flick. Elmer woi^ld look
mighty good In. the outfield here.
DECATUR TEAM
BEAT G. M. A.
DONALD FRASER WON A GREAT
BATTLE FROM COLLEGE
PARK- BOYS.
Thu prep game nt Piedmont I’urk
Monduy afternoon between O. M. A.
und Donald Fraaer resulted In a dear
victory for Donald Frazer. Thu score
was 6 lo 0. At no time In the game
wan the outcome In doubt, for Donald
Fraser’s oulck end runs and excellent
tackling showed early how the game
was going. Tho hall was In ll. M. A.’s
territory almost the entire time. 1
When tho game was called Donald
Fraser had the ball within two yards
of (1. M. A.’s goal line, and six seconds
more would perhaps have meant an
other touchdown for Donald Fraaer.
The Intense rivalry between the two
schools for the past six or eight years
rendered the contest all the more In
teresting. If rooting could have won
tho game for O. M. A. they would have
had It, for the cadet boys made the
welkin ring. However. Donald Fra
ser’s supporters were equally zealous,
und their enthusiasm stirred the teum
to do somo line work.
Courlrlght and Cox simply outplayed
the Q. M. A. ends, Cox’s tackling und
Jenkins’ fpst. running, being the fea
tures of the game.
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0 WRESTLER CHALLENGES. O
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O Dan York. a local wres- 0
0 tier who has thrown every man I11 0
O Atlantu at or anywhere near Ills O
0 weight, now challenges any 126 to O
O 130-pound wrestler III tho HontlV. O
O York wants to wrestle for a side O
O bet or purse, an" he will take on O
O anybody who can make tho weight O
0 and get tile money hung up. O
0 York seems to be a coming O
O wrestler, and will undoubtedly O
O make It more then Interesting for O
O any of tho lightweight .wrestlers. O
O Address all challenges care of Tho 0
O Georgian. 0
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MOUNTAINEERS
ARE WINNERS
Special to The Georgian.
.Stone Mountain, Oa., Nov. 27.—Below
will be found the record of the Stone
Mountain team in the game* played
by that aggregation this nea*on:
The l T . 8. B. record this year:
IT. 8. B„ ID; Tech Scrubs, 0.
U. 8. B., 50; Gainesville, 0.
IT. 8. II., 12; Georgia Scrubs, 7.
IT, 8. B., lo; Locust Grove, 4.
IT. S. B„ 86; Hoys’ High school, 0.
Total, l T . H. B., 173; opponents, 11.
Some New Dope on Alex Smith, Golfer,
New “Pro” of the Atlanta Golf Course
The following article by Arthur
Pottuw, which appeared In the De
cember number of the Illustrated
Sporting News, tells much' of in
terest about the life of Alex
Smith, America’s best golfer, who
Is due In Atlanta Tuesday night
to take charge of the Atlanta Ath
letic Club’s golf course during the
winter: • ,
< No matter how good a tusn may Is* hi any
department of spprt* he Una to gulo a title
before Ills greatness la qn accepted fact.
This maxim U ns true In golf ns In nny
other pastime. There are existing, perhaps,
unkuowu to fame,.golfers ns great ns.those
linen such titles as that of r —
have, on...... —I-—~—
tcur champion and open champion of the
United Stats*, hut. tlis golfer who. uever
:nIns either or “
3U7, the lowest score ever made In a sluib
no evidence that Ills chnnge of al
Improved Ills stroke, ns he took 331, which
Is not great work for him.
Smith dhl better In next year's o|k*ii nt
more than Willie Anderson
was not In foriu. He finished twenty-tbnv
stroke* Iwhhid the winner, Willie Ander
son. who had 300, a very icii»iirkiil»Ie‘|HT*
titles Is apt to ba over
rer which Is born. to
ludi unseen.* r> •
For many years Alex Nnillli has exhibited
In nil part* of this country golf of -
Only four weeks ago G. M. A. defeat
ed Donald Fraser badly. Recent prac
tice has put the latter Into good shape,
niul they now seent to be playing to u
great finish.
They try lance* with the Boya’ High
School Wednesday afternoon at Pled
toont Park.
GREAT SHOOT
FOR THURSDAY
t’raek shots with the revolver will be
out In force Thursday morning at the
Governor’s Horse Guards’ range, near
East Point, to take , part in the rifle
shooting' contest which has been ar
ranged* by Captain C. C. Smith, of .the
Atlanta Grays, and Lieutenant' A.
Wright, of the Governor’s Horse
Guards.
This competition will begin at 10
o’clock, and will- last* until about *12. It
is open* to all-citizens of Atlanta and
members of all the militia compares
are especially asked to be present.
Handsome prises have been offered.
The Anderson Hardware Company do
nates an army model, 33 caliber Smith
& Wesson revolver; Charles W. Crank-
shaw, Jeweler, gives a silver loving cup,
and W. J. Govan presents a box of
cigars. These prises are to be award
ed In the order named.
The contestants will each shoot ten
shots from the following distances: 25,
50 and 75 yards.
FELT0L0GY.
Take your old felt Ijat* to Bussey to
ba cleaned. 28 1-2 Whitehall street.
| GORDON’S DEFI.
Sporting I’dltor ilcorgimi:
In view of the fact that the Stone Moun
tain football team has apparently persisted
In evading the challenge* of Gordou lust!
tute for the puifi three years on account of
alleged conflicting games with other schools,
for the second time hi the.lnyt four week*
I, ns manager of the athletic board, openly
etinllenge the Stone Mountain team for
football gnuie nt any time, nt nny place and
under nny-conditions -that Stone Mountnln
may desire.
In issuing this challenge we grant Atone
Mountain the privilege of training each aud
every official, including referee, umpires
ami head'linesman. The Gordon team will
meet the Stone Mountain players upon
grounds , that Atone Mountain may name,
the*'gate receipts to be arrange!! most ad
vantageously for Stone Mountain.
Should Stone Mountain agree to play the
game nt BarnesviUe, Gordon will pay all
expenses for the Stone Mountain team: will
also pay Stone Mountain a bonus of $50,
mid the Stone Mountain team desire
to play the game in Atlanta, Gonion will
come to Atlanta for a reasonable percent
age of the gate receipts'or for* guaranteed
expenses. -
In Case Stone Mountain prefers to play
the gap I I 1|
will Tie
hr _
Mountain for guaranteed expenses.
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The authoritl
dven their consent to all the conditions
lereln contained.
«Stgncdi W. I*. BllltCIf,
Student-Manager Gordon Football Team.
November 33. Wk
Horn In I’arnoustle, Scotland, the hlrthpl—
of so many famous fallowers of the royal
and ancient game, he did ns all hoys In
that town do, played the game from In-
fancy. Iii Carnoustie boy* are born with a
golf club, not a silver spoon.'ln the mouth.
The ••siller” comes afterward, America con
tributing its quota. Smith was ulno n club
maker, and theu ofter mastering his trade,
nnd after becoming au accomplished golfer,
he left Scotland for this country in 1898,
and has remained here ever since.
Ills first engagement ns n professional
was with the recently defunct Washington
Park Club of Chicago, he uud Fred Herd
sharing the duties of professional*. A very
curious coincidence wa* the position In
which he nnd Herd finished In the open
championship of 1898 nt the Myopia Hunt
Club, the first American cttnniplonidilp in
which Smith took part. Hen! finished first
with 328, nnd Smith was second with 335.
Myopia was then n nine-hole course of 2,960
His great rival. Willie Adder*
Im ha* often beaten him since, was
third with 336, and Alex Smith’* brother,
Willie, wan fifth with 346. Kuril score*
would dot win at Myopia uowadnys. In the
__lex Smith
wa* not at his beat, and his brother Willie
was. By the way, it Is worth mentioning
iy, It Is worth iu<
that Alex, In spite ofvhl* own pBenoiaenal
success of recent years.
considers
Willie to be the best golfer In America. At
Baltimore then Willie wns first with 315,
uiul Alex took 337.
11(1 Air* Iwvk owl. , >
The open championship of 1900 i* distin
guished from all others ns belug the year
of the English Invasion.. Those two famous
players, Harry Vardon and J. II. Taylor.
uniij iniuuii Rim w. a*.
were In thfk country, und whou they entered
for the open championship it was the gen
eral opinion that tne fight for the title wan
merely a duel t»etween these two great
golfers, and so It proved. Undoubtedly this
feeling had some effect upon our own pro
fessional* who entered the contest Impress
ed with the Idea that It was a losing game
for them. Alex Smith dhl not greatly dis
tinguish himself In this fixture, his totni
of 340 by uo means giving a proper Idea of
hi* capacity.
Next year Alex Smith played brilliant golf
In the opeu championship. The competition
was at the Myopia Hunt Club, by this time
mi 18-hole course. Not only did be show
E hhI golf, hut good nerve as well In his
st round he had to make nn SO to tie the
low score made by Willie Anderson—a 79
would have won. Well, he made the 80
and tied and this «U the best round made
one stroxy. i
The following year’Atex Smith came K;
being engaged by the Nassau Country c
of Glen Cove; Lmg Island, and he I* $
with that organisation. He took nnrt
the open championship of 1902, wb
played over the Garden City golf
Lawrence Auchterlonle was the wlnt
which wan
_ “ course,
winner with
NAT KAISER & CO.
Bargains in unredeemed Dia
monds. Confidential loans on val
uables.
16 Decatur St. Kimball BMum.
CLEMSON-TECH BATTLE
PROMISES EXCITEMENT
Football iiluyrrs uml football fanB of
Atlanta are all ready for the big flnlHh
which comes Thursday afternoon.
On Thanksgiving (Jay afternoon
Tech and Cl.mson will clinch In what
promises to b. the hardest fought game
of the season and as cl.se a contest os
ha* been played <n Atlanta this year.
The Tech team has Improved grad
ually this season and on Thanksgiving
day It will have reached the height of
perfection.
The Clemson team had a lot of its
hard games right otr the reel when the
season began and found the most trou
ble right at the sturl. Through the
entire season Poach Williams 1ms bf«
handicapped by injuries lo his players
But all the men have come mound und
will be In good shape for the game.
One thing Poach Helsniaii guaran
tees, and that is a world of fancy foot
ball.
"We’ll spring all our new play* 1,11
Plemson," he said- recently. "Every
thing we have been storing up all tlty
season. We’ll show them some plaif
that they never thought of— 1 that no
body ever thought of, outside of Tern.
You can count on somo pretty pass 1 ’
nnd some fancy work of that kind.
J.MHMHMIMHMMHMMMHIH
HOW THURSDAY'S GAME DOPES OUT j
By TRACY, HEAD KEEPER OF THE DOPE.
Will ricmson win from Tech? That is
Hu* queathuf that many a football fan is
asking today.
From ail the dope that i* available, the
Yellow Jackets ore n shade letter,,but they
have not much on the Clemson boys.
Coach Williams’ team ha* played the
Agricultural nnd Mechanical team of North
t nroliiui, «uU. while no score wns untile,
the I’lnasoii boye played fine ball ngnlust
the North Carolinaiin. Cleiu*on met An*
burn and won 6 to 4, and Tech held the
Auburnltes without a score, 11 t<
■on played Georgia nnd only "
goal line once, while tho Yellow Jflrke J
;m-«1 ter
did the stunt ’three times. Tech d"***
Dnvldnou 4 «to 6, while Clemson eouM n
wore against them. Clemson met MrgiJ
Polytechnic Institute and kept the »»***
ions from, crossing her goal line. Teen
not met Virginia Polytechnic* Institute,
sbe lm«, played a stronger elev. u-'anuw
hilt—and the final »oore wns 37 to t.
WILL PLAY BALL SATURDAY
December 1 may seem an odd date for a baseball game In Atlanta,
but Billy Smith Is planning to pull off the last baseball game ever pla>«
at Piedmont park aSturday afternoon.
The contestants will be the Firemen and a picked team, made up >»
the following stars: Matthews, catcher of the champion Birmingham
team: Henley, pitcher of the Philadelphia Americans; Bevllle. ii fS ;
base; Jordan, second base, of the Atlanta club; McMillan, short.it, i> nI
the Baton Rouge team, Cotton State* League; McCay, third base, : aa-
ager of Mobile team of Cotton States League; Duke, left field; Hl«>
Smith, center field,' manager of Atlanta team, and Woodward, right tleM. ■
of Baton Rouge team.
Against this all-star bunch will be pitted the Firemen, strengthened
It-ts alleged, by Joseph Curtis.
Time will be called at 3‘o'clock.
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O FOUR GAMES THURSDAY O
O FOR DAVIDSON TEAMS O
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O Davidson, N. C„ Nov. 27.—The O
O Davidson college football player* O
O will be the busy little things on O
O Thursday. The ’Vanity, meet* O
O V. M. I. at Lynchburg, V*., the O
O second team play* Bingham at O
O Asheville, N. C„ the scrub team O
O plays Catawba College nnd • the O
O freshman team meets the Char- O
O lotte Y. M. C. A. o
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TIE AT EMORY.
Hpeclsl to Tho Georgian. L,
Oxford, Ga., Nov. 27.—An
contest between the Juniors and
mores was fought on the Kni ; r! ’ 'Jj,
lege gridiron yesterday, neither -
scoring. • l;i .
If the sophomores had not ret-
fumbled the ball tta* game " ’ ,
doubtless resulted In s vlctu:
them. Carl Smith for the junj
Pitta for the' sophs, did
Unnal punting.
i and