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J THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN,THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6.1906. Echoes of Sporting Earthquake Dying Away .Edited By PERCY WHITING. ■••••••••••••••••••••••••a* WILL RACE IN SIX DAY CONTEST Here are pictures of the men who make up America's star team in the six-day bicycle race which begins December 9 in Madison 8<Juere Garden. Barring any accidents these men will make any of the teams hus tle. Root ie one of the long-distance wonders of the country and Fogler himself ie something of a star. It is likely that.this pair will be favorites for first money. THE GEORGETS MAY NOT RACE HELD AT QUARANTINE AND MAY NOT GET IN SIX-DAY CONTEST. New York, Dec. 6.—The two Georget Brothers, Leon and Emil, who came here from Europe with the rest of the foreign riders for the six-day race, are being detained' by the United Staten Immigration authorities at Ellis Island and may be deported to Europe without being able to land. When 1* Torralne arrived she was boarded at quarantine by several phys icians of the United States immigration service and one of these discovered that both of the Georgets were suffer ing from some disease of the eye. They ordered that the two French cyclists be held for examination, but permitted the rest of the party to land. GOLF'S DECEMBER I8SUE INTERESTS LOCAL PLAYERS. Golf, the official bulletin of the Southern Golf Association and the bent golf magazine of America, has made Its appearance for December. The number Is of Interest to Southern golfers, tor It marks the Inauguration of a Southern department, and of espe- lal Interest to Atlanta players because It rontalns the third of Alex Smith’s lessons In golf. As Smith has begun to give lessons at the local course and because he the greatest authority on the game In America today, Atlanta golfers will be especially anxious to read what he has to say on the subject. In the current number he takes up the subject of learning to play, under the title “Off the Tree and Through the Green." The article Is Illustrated by six excellent photographs. In the Southern department are pic tures of Thomas B. Paine and W. R. Tlehenor, of .Atlanta, and of the Golf Club house at Darien, Ga. MACON TO PLAY CRACKERS TWO GAMES NEXT SPRING At Intervuls between his strenuous time out and signed with Macon for two games next spring. These games will be played In Atlanta March 18 and 19. The Macon team will bo strong next spring and will certainly give the Crackers a hustle. preparations for the New York trip. Manuger Billy Smith finds a bit of tlmo to attend to baseball business and In a leisure moment Thursday lie took BY PERCY H. WHITING. • E. E. Smathers has tacen cleared. The Board of Review of the National Trotting Association has decided that Elmer E. did not pay anybody to “dope” F.oti Dillon. C. K. G. RUlings and Murray Howe, his hired man, have been discredited. Presumably this ends by nil odds the most unsavory case which ever arose out of a “gentleman's race. And now that all has been said and done the writer must confess he does not know what to think of it. Ho saw the famous.race,.saw the work-mils before it, the trials against time after it, ho knows slightly both the principals —Smathers and Billings—their lieutenants, Howe, Tanner, Mc Donald; Ed Mulloy, the man who took care of Lou Dillon; Spear, the man whose charges were most damaging to Smathers; Saun ders, tho man who was charged with “doping,” and practically everybody even remotely connected with the ease, lie has talked it over with almost all of them, read everything available writ ten about the case and right now is ready to admit thRt lie can’t make it out. Undoubtedly there was something behind the ease which ha* never como out. The whole truth has not been told yet. Something was wrong with Lou Dillon the day of the race. George Spear says Smathers asked him to-mnkc some "arrange ment” so that Major Dclmnr would win the race against Lou Dillon. That’s one side of it. Smathers Ray* he knows nothiug about it. Ed Saunders who first swore that lie had been paid by Smathers to dope the horse now swears that ho was paid to swear falsely. It's all another sad example of “trying too hard to win.” There were two men with unlimited means trying to win a gold cup. On the face of the evidence either one was a bad winner or the other was a poor loser. Anyway, every man interested in pure sport will be glad to hear the last of this disgusting ease. It has done more harm to harness racing than a thousand anti-pool 'selling laws and a hundred convictions for knavery among professional drivers. If the gentlemen can’t race like gentlemen* what are we to expect? r EMORY TEAMS ARE RANKED; ALL-EMORY TEAM PICKED BpoclAl to The fJcorrtnn. Emory College, Oxford, Ga., Dec. 6.— In the content for thfc 1906 football pennant, the several clam teams* camo out aa follow*: -Senior, 1907, flrftt, Professor P. C\ Brown coach; sopho more, 1909, Hecond, ProfeHHor J. P. Manner Coach; Junior, 1908, third. Dr. C. W. Peppier coach; freshman, 1910, fourth, Dr. K. N. Duncan coach. The committee for the selection of 1900 "All-Emory” team has reported us follows: Center—(1. S. Johann, sophomore. Right Guard—W. H. Johnson, senior. Left Guiinl—J. C. Lambert, sopho more. Right Tackle—Copeland, sophomore. Left Tackle—Harry Wisenb&ker, sen ior. Right End—H. S. Howard, senior. Left End—Ed L. Reagan, sophomore. Quarter—W. C. Smith, Junior. Right Half—W. A. Woodruff, senior. Left Half—J. M. Woodruff (capt.), senior. Pullback—A. E. Dewar, Junior. Substitutes-Clay, 1910; Pitts, 1909; Wade, 1909; Elliott, 1909; Smith, 1907; Stipe, 1907. This year’s season has been altogeth. er successful. Three tie games have been played, and It Is thought that these ties will be played off soon. It Is believed by the student body here that this season's success is a broad step toward securing Inter-collegiate athletics for Emory. $50,000 STOCK OF CHRISTMAS FURNITURE... Sideboards, China Closets, Buffets, Dining Tables. j j UR preparations for the great festival have been j j extensive. We have brought together the larg- : est stock pf Substantial Furniture and Christ- e mas Presents in the Southern States. Our seven floors are simply chock-a-block with everything'that you can imagine in the Furniture Line. Come and look. It will be a treat and won’t cost you a penny. All On Our Famous Wood Easy Pay Plan. Walter J. Wood Co. 103-5-^-9-11 Whitehall Street. MORE WAR IN NEW ORLEANS 8UNDAY RACING PLANT NOW THREATENS TO OFFER SE- * RIOUS COMPETITION. Jack O’Brien Is “Real Mad” and Challenges Promiscuously Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 6.—Jack O’Brien, madder than any pugilist ever seemed to be before, Is todny throwing challenges about with a freedom that Is amusing. He has informed Matchmaker Me rit roy that he will fight Jack Johnson or meet Burns again before the Pacific Athletic Club anti notifies the world in general that he is willing to meet ei ther man before any club offering the best Inducements. The Philadelphia gentlemen Is so note he would not be worried If a speck of dust affixed Itself to his perfectly creased trousers. The renson for O’Brien’s anger Is the acceptance of Jack Johnson’s challenge by Tommy Burns and the evident willingness of McCarey to hang up a fat purse for the combat. Jack says lie has been slighted—In sulted—and that nothing will appease Ills wrath hut another go at Burns in the 24-foot ring with the conditions of the fray calling for the fight to go to a finish. O’Brien sixes up the situation in the following words: "That big dub Burns Is showing the white feather when he pusses up a re turn fight with me to take on Johnson, a man who has really shown little abil ity when given a chance with a good man. Johnson is a laugh. Having been pretty well advertised through Ills hol lering for h fight with Jeffries when he knew the big fellow had left the ring for good, he has Nailed along In th*s hallucination. He has met Joe Jeanette a d«|zen times, more or less, and al though Joe is a fifth-rater, he has failed to put him to sleep. "I want to go on record u» being willing to box Burns any number of rounds from six up to a finish, and I, am ready to make the $5,090 side bet he demands from Johnson.** Turf Peace at New Orleans Only a Forced Armistice New Orleuni, La., Dec. 6.—Which will possibly terminate In another turf war will be the racing on Saturdays and holidays aa well aa Sundays, of the Suburban Park race track. This Is because the Pair Grounds refused to acknowledge their Sunday racing. They will race against both City Pork and Pair Grounds, charging 50 cents ad mission, or one-third the admission charged by these tracks. Just what ac tion will be taken because of this an nouncement Is not known. BASEBALL DOPE. On their way home from California the Giants will stop at San Antonio, Texas, for a couple of games with the St. Louis Americans. Nice for "San Anton.” Owner Frank Farrell will represent the New York club at the American league meeting In Chicago next week. Charley Nichols thinks he made a mistake when he took up bowling. Hto was alw-uys a successful pitcher until then. He will get a trial with the Bos ton Nationals next spring. Billy Hamilton is about done with professional ball playing. He will coach the Dartmouth baseball squad next spring. A Western writer Is telling his con stituents that Harold Chose was, a col lege player at Columbia University be fore lie made Ills professional debut. Chase never set foot in New York be fore he went there aa a member of the American League team. Tulane Withdraws From Southern Inter-Collegiate Special to The Georgian. New Orleans, La., Dec. The mem ber* of Tulane Athletic Aaaoclatlon and the ntudent*. presided over by Presi dent Craighead, of the university, and President Ivy, of the athletic associa- Hon, who both gave Ihelr sanction, decided by unanimous vote to withdraw from the Southern Inter-Collegtate Athletic Association. The students have been discussing the withdrawal from the association for a long time. They luive gone over the matter thoroughly, and there was very little left for the association Itself to discuss. Assistant Manager Reese, of the foot. ball team, acted a# the mouthpiece of the student body. He stated that It was the almost unanimous wish of the students to have Tulane withdraw W«nn the Southern Inter-Colleglaie Athletic Assentation for many reason-, and he offered a resolution to that ef fect. This motion was put before the hou.— and there were hardly any opposed to Its adoption. The withdrawal of Tulane from tin. membership also received the sanction of President Craighead. The action taken by Tulane na» taken some time ago by the University of North Carolina, the colleges of Texn- and Virginia, who Joined the associa tion. 1 SOME BASEBALL YARNS SPUN BY BERNIE M’CAY New Orleans, La.. Dec. 6.—Although the Fair Grounds to the use of the re- thete Is little on the surface to Indl- barn whlch ere< ’ ,cd ate it, bcyoml a question the lines of Of Course ffiSH THE STANDARD OF PURITY. cleavage effected by the two seasons’ struggle between the rival racing clubs still exist. The horsemen who gave their alle giance to the Western Jockey Flub oc cupy bains again this year at the Fair Grounds, while those who went over to the American Turf Association are again at the City Bark. There Is an uneasy feeling that while outwardly the renegades, as the Western Jockey Club considers them, are welcome at NAT KAISER & CO. Bargains in unredeemed Dia monds. Confidential loans on val uables. 16 Decatur St oooooooooooooooooooooooooo o o O ROME BOY TO PLAY O O WITH KNOLL’S TEAM. O O ——— O O Felton Mitchell, the Rome, Ga,, O O boy last year with Vincennes In O O the ’’Kitty,” has been sold to O O Evansville of the Central League, O O and will get a try at short with O O "Punch” Knoll’s team. O Mitchell lidded und hit well in O "Here’s an old one,” quoth Bernle McCay, I’but I’ll give you the real facts, "When Dickie Knox U’as playing with Pendleton, Ore., In the Inland Emplro League, he used to have a bad day now and then. ”He had a girl In Pendleton he | thought a lot of and, of course, she was an ardent fan and took In about all the games. "One day when his girl was occupy ing a prominent position in a box he had an awful time. He began by boot ing Hie first one which came to him and In straight succession he booted four. “When he spilled the last one he turned around, walked deliberately to the center field fence nnd started to climb over. Tho center fielder rushed up and usked him what was the matter. "Dickie did not say anything, but he pointed over his shoulder Just before he dropped on the far side of the fence. And then we realised. "His girl had left the stand." oqoqqchcioqoqoqoooooooqooooo O KID KELLY OUT WITH O AN OPEN CHALLENGE. O O o O Kid Kelly, the local boxer, who 0 O recently knocked out Kid Young. 0 O challenges any boy of his weight— 0 O from 100 to 110 pounds—to fight C O him for a purse or side bet. Kelly O O is coming fast In the boxing work!- 0 O He has rot been at the game long. O O but he show’s great cleverness In 0 O his fights, and can stand up ami C O swap punches with any of them. 0 O 0 oooooooooooooooooooooooo 0 c From his work In the ring recently It Is evident that Benny Yanger Is m* mote the "Slasher” of old. FOOTBALL INJURED Felt hats cleaned and reshaped in latest styles. Bussey, 21 1-2 White hall Street. oelving barn which for them, they are likely to get a lemon handed them in the handicaps, and this ; o feeling has been Intensified by the o the "Kitty” and his friends be- O ridiculous nature of the weight allot- . o lleve he can hold the pace satis- O ments In the Inaugural Handicap. In » o factorfly In the Central. O which u good class horse like Belmere» 0 O was thrown In at a weight which made oOOOOOOOOOOQOQOOOOOOOOOOOO his winning next door to a certainty. The Fair Grounds people Insist on a strict compliance with the rules of the Western Jockey Club, the procuring of a license for trainers and Jockeys, and I although he hung up his slate during a registration under their rules. The | the past two seasons at i' + Park, exaction of this means for one thing J In the same way It is said officially that none of Ed Corrigan’s horses Is 1 that If W. H. Rudolph, who was at all likely to run at the Fair Orounds, | warned oft last year at City Park, and many of his adherents are likely : should be reinstated, as It Is rumored to follow his example. : that he will probably be by the ef- Many of the people who are permit* j forts of Joseph L. Rhinoch, that such. ted to race or bet at City Park will not action will not be recognized by the be acceptable at the Fair Grounds. An , stewards of the Crescent city Jockey Instance of this Is Bookmaker Jim; Club. Davis, who was ruled off, together with , Summed up. the situation is more In Jockey D. Hall, some years ago by 1 the nature of an armistice, which has President Tom Williams, of the Call- been forced by Hroiftnatanees «>n the President, ueaiv of peace. OFFICIAL BATTING RECORDS MAY SHOW CLARKE TIED WITH STONE There’, mine glad new. for Cleveland and Nig Clarke In the offi cial averages soon to be given out by Ban Johnson. Nig Clarke is tied with George Stone for the swatting leadership of the American League, with an official average of 351. That's what the good book, now being kept In Ban Johnson’s office In the Flsehrr building. Chicago, says, because one of the American League magnates has seen it himself, and hands out the good word. Noi wishing to get Big Ban sore on said magnate, his name la suppressed; hut It Is .me who is not given to foolery and he is not connected with the Cleveland club. To be sure, we all knew that Nig was bumping the ball at a pretty healthy gait all last summer, while he was In commission; but It’s good to know that Big Ban’s records were not missing out on any of those wholesome wallops that Justin Jay was passing to the fences around the circuit. The unofficial averages all showed Stone several points to the good over Clarke; hut unofficial averages butter no parsnips and are forgotten when the Ink thereon Is dry. It’s what Bl* Ban Is writing In the official book that counts.—Cleveland Xew*.