Newspaper Page Text
Football Season Ends—Indoor Sports Next
=Edited By PERCY H. WHITING.
SAVANNAH TEAM HAS NOT BEEN SCORED ON THIS YEAR
HUWATCHEK
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
BY PERCY H. WHITING.
The college football teams in Georgia did not win any ehnra-
pionabips this year and the entire state will not furnish more
than one All-S. I. A. A. football player.
But you have to hand it to them for perseverance, hard work,
honest effort and file-tested grit.
Tech stnrted off the season equipped largely with an athletic
field and eoaelt. Also there wns a very small amount of footall
“material.”
How to combine the three into a football team which should
uphold the athletic honors of Tech was the question.
The wonders Ileismnn wrought have been evident all the
season. lie dug up a quarter-back off the baseball team. He
operated on n punting end and brought him buck to college. He
made a couple of good half-backs out of very light,'and in one
case very new, material. He developed one full back, saw him
' ruled out by the S. I. A. A. and then developed another. He
pieced together a line nut of athletic odds nnd ends and it held
through the season ns well as most lines made out of better ma
terial.
The Teeh team lost three games but never, perhaps, has it had
a more creditable season. The victories came from hard train
ing, constant parctico and willing effort. Every mnii gave up
chances for brilliant work in order to play with his team as a
team and secure the best results.
A team like the one this year may not win absolutely the
highest honors, but it is laying a foundation on which future
teams can be built.
And the results will be seen in no greater distance into tho
future than the fall of 1907.
Down in Athens there has been another plucky football
fight. Hampered by lack of good material, handicapped by a
“past,” Georgia, under the guidance of Coach Whitney, built up
a team which played fair, fast football and wound up its col
lege season with a victory over its proverbial enemy—Auburn.
At Mercer the fight was of even a more up-hill character.
Coach Tarr opened his season with nothing at all but a deter
mination to build up a good team.
Of course he could not hope to turn out a winner intone
year, but he built up a team that did well.
At Dahlonega there was another hard fight to get footbull
results; but there, as at the other Georgia colleges, the players
swung to it with a will uud finally, with the aid of Couch Craw
ford and n lot of hard work, turned out a team which went
through the season in a highly creditable manner.
%
The Georgia football season of 190t! has not been the most
brilliant on record. But it has been one .which has done much
toward the tip-building of footbnll—nnd honest athletics of nil
kinds.
And just at the wind-up attention is called to the fact that not
a man on a Georgia team was seriously injured in a n football
game this year and no matron any visiting team was badly hurt.
As fur as Georgia is concerned “debrutalised footbnll” is a
success.
The Savannah football team, pictures
of four members of which appeur
above, Ih a bona fide amateur organiza
tion. It has gained considerable noto
riety by reason of the fact that It
stands pmctlcaly alone in Hit class as
a city team. Mucji has been said about
professionalism, but Hnvannuh hus no
professionals.
The Blue and White team Is com
posed of John Artley. captain; Will
Artley, Oeorgo Butler, Joe Kosslter, Joe
Block. Berdlo Sullivan. Harry All, IIu-
wntcheok, Hhuey, Seely, Morgan, Mon
roe. Naglor, Powers, -Wortham, Ous
Smith, t'ornwell, Palmer and Colquitt.
George Butler formerly played quar
terback on Tech and Berdle Sullivan
ployed end on the same team; Rosslter
and Black played on Georgia, lx*fore
which time, however, they won dis
tinction on the Savannah team;
Hhuey was a member of V. P. j. two
years ago, while All played on Clem-
son. Palmer played with Hewauee. The
two Artleys havo played with Savan
nah for years and, with Cornwell, were
members of Pennsylvania College
teams. Colquitt was a member of
Georgia's squad in 18$7, and In 1898
made the Southern record for the mile
run. which he still holds.
The team averages about 175 pounds
In weight. Not having had the ad
vantages of u coach, and being obliged
to coniine their pructices to two nights
a week, go into their games handi
capped.
The record of the teum for the pres
ent year Is:
November 5—Savannah, 28; Flori
da. 0.
November 13—Savannah, 27;'Stetson
University, 0.
November 29—Savannah. 39: Jack
sonvllle. 0.
December 1—Savannah. 12: Geor
gia, 0.
The season begins In Savannah In
November and ends January 1. The
team Is not yet In first-class shape,
but will be by Christmas, when they
have their hardest game with an ag
gregation representing Charleston.
The record for seven years shows
that Savannah has made 638 points
to her opponents' 6. An effort will be
mude to organize earlier next year
and play any colleges which will play.
COMPOSITE ALL-S. !A. A.
AS PICKED BY EXPERTS
Of Course
mw
mi
(WOLATES* BONBONS
^ /fiujtaq .j
‘CHE STANDARD OF PURITY.
THE CONSENSUS OF 0PIN0N
ON ALL-S. I. A. A. TEAM OF 1906
Vanderbilt..
Vanderbilt..
Mississippi.
Sewanee. .
Vanderbilt..
Vanderbilt..
Tech....
Vanderbilt..
Vunderbilt. .
Vanderbilt..
Vunderbilt..
center
. right guard
.. left guard
right tackle
.. left tackle
.. right end
.... left end
quarter
.. right half
.... left half
.... fullback
When all Is said and done the only
way to pick un All-S. I. A. A. team is
to get the opinions of the best informed
men and wield their opinions together
Into a "consensus team." Such & team
will he found above. •
This team represents the views of
Will Rwlng, sporting editor of The
Nashville American; Bradley Walker,
ex-Virglnla player and prominent offi
cial; Nash Buckingham, ex-Tennessee
player and writer on football subjects;
Coach Quill, of Sewanee, the football ar
tist of The Memphis News Scimitar, nnd
the football writers of the four Atlanta
papers. Kuch man's selection was given
one vote and the players who got the
most votes were given the places.
In most cases the players selected
had a large majority.
Bob Blake, of Vanderbilt, for right
end. and Munter, of Vanderbilt, for
fullback, got nine votea cuoh—or all
which were cast.
Stone, of Vanderbilt, received
majority for left half, with six votes,
against two for Shipp, one for Furtlck
and one for Derrick, of Clemson. The
one really; open race was that for the
position* of left guard. The only man
who drew two vote* for this position
•was Connor, of Mississippi. Watkins,
of Sewanee, received two votes for
place on tho team—one for a guard's
Job and one for a center's place. The
men who drew* one vote a piece were
Rimer, of Mississippi; McLain, of
Vanderbilt; Parrish, of Texas; Mc
Carty, of Tech, and Stone, of Vander
bilt.
Three men were mentioned for the
place at right tackle—Stone, of He-
wanee, who drew’ live votes; R. Noel, of
Vanderbilt, whp got two, mul Sims, of
Alabama, who received one.
Just as a matter of historical interest
the all-Southern of last year Is given:
Blake (Vanderbilt) . nnd Hamilton
(Vanderbilt), ends; Taylor (Vander
bilt) and Jones (Auburn) tackles; Der-
from every one of the experts, though i/ “V. a JOU *7 <Aumirn) tackles; per.
one wanted him for a guard, while the r,t * c an< (Vanderbilt),
rest voted him a center position. Cos- j * uar “f' t *'“tterson (\anderbllt), cen-
ten. of Vanderbilt, won eight votes fori ter ' Kyle (Vanderbilt); quarter; Jolin-
quarter's Job. with one writer not vot* i v* n * ttn, l V-ralg (Vanderbilt),
In*. halfbacks; Manler (Vanderbilt), full-
Chorn, of Vunderbilt, got his position | , „„„ .
at right ,guard with only one vote, Here Is Will Rwing's all-Southern
against lilm. and that was from Nash ■
Buckingham, who gave the position to 1
Rimer. of Mississippi. This was Ri
mer's only vote.
Dan Blake gets his jfositlon at half
with only one vote against him—that
of The News Scimitar, which gives the .
place to Shipp, of Sewanee.
Shipp also received the vote of Quill,
but the Sewanee coach chose to knock
Craig off to make a place for the ex-
Mooney school star.
For only four positions was there
what might be termed a scattering
vote. These four were left end, left
half, left guard and right tackle.
Brown, of Tech, was the «?asy winner
at left en«l. with four vote*, against
two for Huggln*, of Mississippi. nnd
one for Duncan, of Texas—two dope-
stem not voting.
Craig, of Vanderbilt, had a handy
Your Feet Must Be
Comfortable
The matter of having your
feet well groomed is as es
sential to an enjoyable holi
day as that of an appeassd
appetite.
The Shoe We Sell is Proper
The reputation of
every shoe we offer
the public is beyond
criticism. Yet we
have always sustain
ed it and will assure
every patron of entire
satisfaction.
The Ont-of-Towo Buyer.
It is not necessary for
purchasers of shoes to come
to the store in order to get a
satisfactory fit or to secure
the correct style. If you will
l ve us the measurements
and indicate the "last,” we
will send just what you want
Satisfaction Assured.
FRED S. STEWART & CO.
: : On the Viaduct
6 Peachtree Street.
BANQUET TO TWO CRACK CITYTEAMS
local team MEET CHRISTMAS DAY
it* la*! of (la* many celebration* which
market I the closing of tlio hicnl football
Meant) n wa* a Itanque! given Ha (unlay night
at (he Ktowah by some town friend*' of
Tet-li team, to the regular*. MUtmtltutcM,
mnlinger* and couches and some of (he
friends of the organisation.
Tho affair was a Jolly one. The menu
■as one of Harry Silverman's Imst. and
the speeches afterwards merited (he warm
applause which they received. ■ Burton
Huiith acted ns toastmaster, and among
the speechmakcrs were George Adair, W.
11. Glenn. Judge Marcos Deck, Harry Hil-
venusn. W. It. Tlohenor, Conch Helmimii
ml Captain Davies.
PLAYED BALL
DECEMBER 1
(Jwlug to a misprint on Uerule MeCny'i
calendar and a misapplication of high tern
perature by the weather bureau, there was
bull game nt piedmont park Saturday,
Fully one hundred shivering fnns turned
out to see the fun and help some worthy
harlty—nature unknown. ,
The game was between the All-Stars mid
the Firemen, nnd the All-Stars won. The
.somewhere in the vicinity of
• 1. The authorities could not quit
i that |H>lnt, but It wns regarded n
Immaterial.
Weldon II . L
slab work, aud Smith
in the near rule.
by Innings.
Firemen XXSKili
All Stars Oil 1—8 15
notable success
it. ii. K
team, as published , In The Nashvlll '
American: » , »
II. Blake, left end Vunderbilt
Prichard, left tackle Vanderbilt
Parrish, left guard Tex-i*
Stone, center Vanderbilt
Chorn, right guard Vanderbilt
Stone, right tackle Seyvance
Duncan, right end Texas
* ,'osten, quarterback Vanderbilt
D. Blake, left half .Vanderbilt
t'ralg, right half Vanderbilt
Manler, fullback Vanderbilt
Suvannuh, Gu.,'Dec.*3.—The 8avan-
null team, which defeated th’e Univer
sity of Georgia on Saturday, Is ar
ranging to play the greatest games of
the season on Christman und New
Year's day, J. A. Forsythe, the famous
t'letnson end. Is organising a team
which, he claims, will be-the finest ag
gregation ever osseitibled In the Hoqth.
H. Ketron stated while he was here
that the team which came to Savannah
two years ago under the name of tho
Charleston team, on which were For
sythe, Hid Smith. Sapp, Sadler. Cheney,
Bennett, Tutwller, Gunter and a few
other Southern stars, was the best team
ever corralled In the South at any
time. They beat Savannah 6 to 0, the
only time Savannah has been scored
against in an existence of seveh years.
This time Forsythe promises to bring
six of tho best men on that team, aug
mented by Shipp, Ketron, the most fa
mous of Clemson'* backs, and several
others known to every player In the
South, whose names cannot hp divulged
at this Juncture. This team will aver
age 185 pounds In weight and will lie
composed of the creme de la creme of
all Southern stars.
Of course, the team which Savan
nah has now could not defeat such a
team; but the local men, while they ex
pect to play only bona fide Savannah
e k
>f t!
pro
ner or Wt
. nly
men, are bestirring; themselves to^ get
out all of the available material,
la very probable that either Pop War
ner or Whitney will be employed to
coach them. Whitney, Forsythe and
other authorities who have seen the Sa
vannah men say that they lack much
In training, but >that In physique ami
stability they are no’thlng short of mar
velous.
In the game Saturday Savannah
could have scored ot least two mon-
touchdowns had she resorted to kick
ing. But this was not done. When
Butler kicked, which was seldom. h<-
outpunted Graves, of Georgia, by from
10 to 25 yard*. But he and his team
mates refused to play a kicking game.
Insisting on making their distant
through Georgia's line. Georgia
assumed the defensive from the first,
finding that she could not make the re
quired dlstghde,
A local enthusiast, well blessed In
this world's goods, has offered. J 1,00*•
toward getting Tech or Clejnson t<>
play here next season, and It Is tnon-
than probable that a game will be ar
ranged with the latter. Efforts to get
Tech to jflay a post-season game this
year were unavailing.
Match Between Star Golfers
Is Now Practically Assured
The proposed golf msteb bciwfen Alex
Smith. I (mu I golf professional, nnd Itnbert
Simpson, professional of the Memphis Gown-
chib, for £50 n side will certainly-lie
played.
Saturday afternoon a <-arlofld of golfers'
coming Imck from Hast Like ■nlsurilwd the
neoessary £59 ami Word wa* wired to Mem
phis that the money was up. The date* se
lected were next Saturday In Atlantn mid
the following Saturday In MempbL. All
that remain* now to close the match Is of
ficial action by the Atlanta Athletic Club
aud the acceptance of dates by Simpson
and bl* Memphis latckers.
f the
Iturdcd mm far and *wi„
profeMMlou.nl In the South, while 1
course the tsnit-of them nil. Locpl golfei
believe that Smith cgu Unlay tieat-nny r
In the (Tutted States, hut tlu-y will no d«
have an opportunity to lisi-kMlil* opln
mul It wa* Id* victory
player which encouraged the
to. back him agnlnat Smith.
handy i _
that stoat
Memphian'
NAT KAISER & CO.
Bargain! in unredeemed Dia
mond!- Confidential loan* on val
uable*.
16 Decatur St Kimball Bonn*.
DIAMONDS.
In connection with our biiRiuess we have added a
stock of DIAMONDS, bought direct 'from the IM
PORTERS for cash. We propose selling them on a
very close margin of profit, cheaper, perhaps, than
they can be bought elsewhere, and then, besides. IP
DESIRED, THEY MAY BE PAID FOR IN MONTHLY
INSTALLMENTS.
To the average Young Man or Woman-there Ls no
better INVESTMENT or SAVINGS BANK than the
purchase of a DIAMOND.
ATLANTA DISCOUNT CO.
JOS. N. MOODY, Preiident
I OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPOOOOOO
o • o
O MOGULS GOING NORTH. O
O Billy Hmlth, manager of the lo- O
O cal ImseUell team: W. R. Joyner, O
O ami perhapa Secretary Newt Eth- O
O rldg* will leave Friday n'ghl to O
O be preaent In New York at the O
O meeting of the National League. O
O Preiident Dtckinion will alio at- O
0 tend the meeting. Manager Smith O
0 plana to put through tone deal, 0
0 for player* at that time. C
O O
00000000000900000000000000
817-818
Century Bldg.
j FOOTBALL INJURED
' Pell hats cleanyd and reshaped in
' lat*«t Ciiftt-y, 29 1-2 White
hall Street.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”
O o
O “PREP8" MAY PLAY. • i>
O . O
O Representatives of 8tone Moult- c
O tain and Gordon Institute will 0
O meet In Atlanta Monday and try u
O to inak© arrangements for a game 0
O t to be played *between the two 0
O teams on Saturday. Prospects for O
O :tn antic?ble agreement look bet- O
O tor than ever before. °
O o
00000000900000900000000003
RACE TRACK AT A8HEVILLE.
New York. Dec. 3.—A plan la on foot
for the establishment of n flrst-cla.«'
race track at Asheville, N. C. Th
Southern railway, following the ex
ample of the New York Central an 1
Canadian Pacific and other big trim*
line developers, may put a.shoulder to
the wheel, v