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i i 14 TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 190ft appreciation Every day it is worn will causethe wearer to think c the donor and a stronger tie of friendship is sure to follow. FREDS. STEWART & CO 6 PEACHTREE STREET. Billy Smith Signs Beaker and Infielder Dyer fj ||edited by ll PERCY H. WHITING. I OFFSCBAtL PICTURE OF TECH FOOTBALL TEAM (CAPTAIN FOR NEXT Photo by Motes A Clark. , BACK ROW—SWEET, LUCK, M’CARTY, PITTARD, MUNROE, 8NYDER, HENDERSON, "LOB8TER” BROWN YEAR). MIDDLE ROW—QOODIER, A88I8TANT MANAGER! MACDONELL, ROBERT, HEISMAN, COACHi ADAMSON, EMERSON, CHAPMAN MANAGER. . BOTTOM ROW—BUCHANAN, BELL, DAVl£8, CAPTAIN; HIGHTOWER. [not NEWS/MT VIEWS BV PERCY H. WHITING. Our old blonde friend “Nig” Clnrk, burnt into the lime light again, by tying with ( Stone, of St. Louis, for first batting honors in the American League. Guess that’s pretty fair for the ex-Cracker, who now ranks right with the best catchers in tho country. * Atlanta bike fans ought to turn out in a bunch to give Bobby Walthour a welcome when he appears on the local track Christmas afternoon. Atlantans wore never more proud of “Our Bob” than right now. For pluck and persistence through a gruelling six- day grind his record was a marvelous one and although beaten at the very start by a technicality and held back in the race by what looked liko unjust rulings, he stuck it out until by tho rules of the race he was forced to quit tho track. Bobby Walthour, though ho did not even get in the* last sprint, was the hero of the six-day race and when lie makes his first appearanco in Atlanta, people are going to turn out to show that they appreciate what he did. Report has it that Bobby Oilks will manage the Gulfport team next season. Certainly the Mississippi town could hardly get a better manager. Bobby has always kept his Shroveport * team right at the top in the Southern League and has done it without any grent financial outlay. : If it weren’t for professional football, basketball’and bnse- ball dope on next year’s teuiiis the sporting department would pretty soon be out of a job. - Come what may there is always our old friend baseball dopo though, and fifty or sixty thousand loyal baseball fans who are ready to read it, be it ever so “dopy.” DYERBOUGHTBYSMITH TO PLAY THIRD BASE Th« tut sap In the Atlanta Infield baa been filled. Bill Dyer, of Worces ter, Mass., has been bought by Atlanta from Cincinnati,, waivers have'been secured for him end he will sign an Atlanta contract when one la sent to him. ' ' Last season Dyer played with Har risburg In the.Outlaw League. He la recommended by Barney Drey- fuss, Tim Mullane and a bunch of othera Billy Smith ha* also closed for Beeker, the outfielder that Cincinnati bought from Lake Linden. He made Ilf.hits In 109 games last season and fielded It Is said Clark Griffith Is after "Bandow" Mertes. Merles played sec ond bnse for "Griff” during the first two years of the Chicago American League vlih only two errors., team, and the club won the pennant Ted Sullivan picked him out as the best j both seasons. man. In the league and Larry Hoffman touted him so strong that Billy Smith just had to buy him, though he came high. University of Georgia Has Very Ambitious Schedule For Baseball Next Season Athenians Will Make a Long, Hard Trip and Expect to Do Even Better Than This Year. 8|>r*olnl to The Georgian. • University of ficonli). Athens, tin.. Per. 17.—Tho outlook for n winning Imwlinll team nt Georgia next spring seems to lit* rery bright, mid, barring accident*, the team thin- year should lie 60 per cent stronger thnn that of Inat year. Right of Inat year’* squad have returned, and there la aome excellent mnterinl among tho new men. Then laat year wua Tommy 8touch*a flrat yenr, and lie had all the difficult!*** that a new conch nlwny* him to contend with. Ttys year ho can atnrt right off from the Jump with n strong nucleus nnd anv* all the time wasted usually In prelim inaries. If a suitable cage can be secured. In door practice will begin about January 15; otherwise, a little later. Manager Homer Cnrmlchacl hna been working hard on n schedule, nnd hna ar ranged the beat one Georgia hna ever had —In fact, probably a"morn ambitious one thnn nny other college In the state of Georgia has ever had. Mat year the team took a northern trip, pl.iyl’4 Ylrglnln, Georgetown, George Washington and several other of the larger colleges. The trip was a very suc cessful one, Georgia defeating George town, which Is rjght up at the top of the honp when It cornea to haselutll. and. break ing even on the other gmuea. On nccount of the succcsa of this trip, another one hna been nr ranged for this yenr, which will take in some of (urgent colleges In the country, nud will be the hardest schedule ever played by team In thin section of tho country. The northern trip will consist of the fol lowing game*: ' * Clttnoon; at Clcmson, Saturday, April JO. Washington nnd Lee university, nt Lex ington, V»., Monday, April 22. Virginia Military Institute, at Lexington, Tuesday, April 23. Naval academy, nt Aunnpotla, Wednei day, April 24. George Wushlugton university, at Wash ington, Thursday, April 25. I’nlversify of Virginia, at Charlottesville, Friday nud Saturday, April 20 and 27. Besides these games. Manager Carmichael Is arranging a splendid schedule with tho other Southern Intercollegiate Athletic As- socltttlou teams, mid for the first time In many years Georgia will play both Vander bilt and Kewnnce. It Ima been arranged so that the annual debate between Georgia nud Washington and Leo will take place In Lexington on the night of the Gcorgla-Waahlugton — 1 Me game. Larry Hoffman Tells Some New Ones on Tommy Hughes There la more newt and baseba II dope In a page of one of Larry Hoff, inan’a latter* than there la In a volume of the usual bull playcr-a efforta In an rplatolnry direction. . . A letter to Lurry recently asking for the latent newa brought forth the ' NOTES OF SPORT. The.Boaton Natlonala will look very much like the champion 1 White Sex next aenaon, that la, aa far aa unlforme go. Of Course /mu sj*** . ( 9hcm V QtWAnyBoNem pm MADE l ’DUor THE STANDARD OF PURITY. following line of talk: I would be only loo glad to accom modate you If 1 were able, but aa there la no world’a aerlea or other big attrac- (lona to apeak of, I am unable to do anything for you. My father la ntlll laid up with hla apralned knee, which makea me practl cally a prisoner. It la very aeldom I get out to nee any of the boya, ao I hear very little newa. Tom Hughea la vlaltlng hla two brotheni here now. who are mualelana, both playing In the' orcheatra at the Colonial theater (formerly Iroquois). He has been here two weeks now, but will leave for hla home at Halida, Colo., next Tuesday. He haa oeen out to aee me several times, but I can’t get away only on Sundays, to go around with l|lm. Umpire Tim Rynn, who finished In the Southern League: Frank Roth, of the Sox. and myself, took him nround the laat two Sundays and allowed him | the hole In the lake and other things of I Interest, besides selling him the Mason- > le Temple for $3.10. i Tom’s a great boy and Is always i willing to take advantage of a bargain. He has just returned from Newark, N. J., where he has been visiting : friends since the close of the American I,eague season. ! Hughes looks to be In grand shape I and says that he Is as lit as a fiddle and | Is anxious for the season of 1007 to roll I around. ' For Atlanta's sake. It Is a shame that we have to lose him, but then every body wishes him the beat of luck with \ New York. He uugiii make g-rl !n a walk there, as he has everything a good pitcher shnulil have—good control, steadiness and he Is rellnbte at all times In a pinch, uses good judgment ahd Is as cool ns an Iceberg while performing on the rubber, besides having an as sortment of curves that can’t be beat. Hla high fast ball has us good a jump on It as any major lengue star. Tom never reaorta to the spit ball, aa he doesn’t have to. He haa a soft spot In hla heart for Atlanta and says If "GrlfT" doesn't want to use him he wants to come bock to Atlanta again. Tom tells a good one on himself about when he arrived In Chicago. It was on a Wednesday afternoon while hla brothers were playing at the mati nee. When he came out of the depot he ordered a cab and told the man on the box to take him to the Colonial thea ter. . He arrived there about an hour be fore the close of Ole performance, ao he thought he would go around the comer to State Street and take a look at the shop windows. When he turned back Into Rundolph street he aald some one had moved the theater across the street. After a short while he went back around on State street and when he came back oglan he was surprised to see the thenter on the side of the street where he saw It In the first place. After that he took no more chances, but con fined his walks to Randolph street alone, w here he could keep bis eye on the electric sign all the time. He was afraid If he went back on State street again some one would move It away altogether during his absence. While Tom was in New York this fall he went Into a gents’ furnishing store on Fifth avenue one day to pur chase a little scenery for himself. When Tom buys anything he never asks the price, but Just says "I’ll take this" and 'Til take that." He bought some socks, shirts handkerchiefs and a pair of suspenders. Then his .eyes' feli on u couple of neckties that he fancied while the first clerk was wrap- ONLY Y.iW.C. A. GOLF COURSE IN COUNTRY WILL BE OPENED IN ATLANTA THURSDAY Atlanta has the first and only Y. M. C. A. golf course In America. Through the courtesy of the park board the local Y. M. C. A. has secured the use of the course at Piedmont park uaod for many years by the Atlanta Golf Club, and on Thursday morning will open the course with Chris Crosby In charge as professional. As! far aa can be learned this Is the only Y. M. C. A. course In the country and will be a big feather In the rap of tho local association. The good fortune of securing a course ready made fell to the lot of the local association. The course at Piedmont park had been given the best of care by the At lanta Golf Club and when they left It, to move In a body to the Atlanta Ath letic Club's new course at East Lake, they abandoned one of the neatest lit tle nine-holes courses In the South. This course will be put back In Its old first-class condition by the Y. M. C. A. and under Crosby*! care will be as good aa ever. The only change In the course will be In moving tho first tee down beside the Georgia building. Otherwise the course will be just where and what It has always been. In the Georgia building a full set of lockers will be Installed and shower baths will be placed. A comparatively small number of lockers will be put In at the start and mors will be added as-the game Is taken up by the mem bers of the club. The Y. M. C. A. has about twenty to thirty first-class golfers, most.of them, men of; very considerable prominence In Atlanta, who will form the nucleus of tbs club’s players. That there will fast be more until the number of actual players will run over 100 Is practically certain. With s membership of aome 1,300 men, mo»t!r swung, It may safely be aald that then will, before long, be more players than the course can hold. It Is likely, too, that many local golf, ers will Join the Y. M. C. A., Just get the privilege of the course. While, as a golf course, It Is not In the sank class with the East Lake plant, still It Is convenient and will be desirable for men who have time only for nine holes In an afternoon. Of course no golfns will be permanently drawn away from the East Lake course by the Y. M. C. A course, for the shorter round Is not good enough to offer that attraction t> a good player, but It will be u crest stamping ground on mid-week after noons, especially during the winter, for those men who have time only for - short round. ' “Lobster” Brown Will Make Fine Leader For Tech Team No election of captain by any football team this year has received more fa vorable comment than that of "Lob ster” Brown as captain of the Tech team, which election. It may be men tioned In passing, was narrated exclu sively In The Georgian. With Davies and Plttard, the only men on the squad to graduate this ping up his prsvlous order. Clerk No. 3 took the two ties that he had selected eut of tjte case and wrapped them up In pink tissue paper and tied a little baby ribbon around them and says ”$6.00 please.” It almoet took Tom’s breath away, but he sqys he didn't want to be a piker bo he planked down his tf hard (?) earned dollars and tried to look like W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., ns much os possible and remarked. “You must be having a sale on these ties to- He says he didn't mind It because to didn’t feel the second shock so much when clerk No. I came back with his bill. He saysTie Is thankful that he didn't look at any suits of clothes, hats and gloves, for If he had he would have had lo look up Griffith and get some ad vance money. In the future he Is always going to ask the price of anything he Intends to tjr. Tom wants to be remembered to all the boys and joins me In wishing all of rou a merry Christmas and a happy few Tear. I am. Sincerely your friend. LARRY HOFFMAN, 9903 Dearborn Street. NAT KAI8ER & CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. IS Decatur St Kimball House. Bargains in Unredeemed Diamonds. year, and with lote of good substitutes to draw from, there should be no trou ble In getting out a crackerjack team. The trouble with the team this year was that It was too young and light and with a young team a year makes lots of difference In weight and expe rience. The average age n«ct year will be at least a year more than the.ltot team, and the men will have-the addi tional advantage of having, played to gether a year. One thing that added lots to the greatness of the magnificent Vander bilt team this year was the fact that Its members had played together so long that to do the right thing at the right moment came almost as a matter of second nature. It Is said that Craig, Manler and Dan Blake have played the Vanderbilt back field for three years. Practically the' whole Tech team this year was composed of new men. i the back field not a man was o season's eleven, though Davies had played kt 1104. Hightower and Adam son had never been In an Intercol legiate football contest before this year. Brown's strong point Is his punting. Tech men believe that there Isn't a man In the Routh today who can touch him. and think that he le as good as Scarborough was In his palmiest days. A man who esn coolly boot the ball forty or fifty yards after he has been tackled by a man aa big os he Is not to be despised In this time when kick ing constitutes such a large* portion of the game. It was Brown’s trusty toe that kicked the goal from placemerit and won the game from the Davidson giants, and It was that same trusty toe which so many times punted the ball out of danger during the Thanksgiving game, when It looked so often as though Clcmson were going to make the score eomethlng tike 31) to 0. When ever the Tech goal Mae was In danger the "Lobeter” would be called on for a punt,' and away the ball would sail O0000O0000000000000OOCO o <W O 0 ROOT AND FOOLER WIN. O New York. Deo. 17.—The six-day 0 O bike race was won by Root nnd w O Fogler. Downing and Hopper 0 O were .second, Rutt and McFarli O third. ., , „ 0 Walthour was a lap behind 0 O when the grind began and was u 0 not allowed In the final .sprint f"i “ 0 positions. 2O000000O00000O00O0WK><>COO Any time you think ball players donl know their business. It was reported^ 357 times last season that George Mid- lln, of Detroit, would retire. Now has signed at an Increase In salary. down the field, only to be brought bar* by the most laborious efforts on t» part of the Clemson men, It was a«* a kick by Brown which put the bad ins position which enabled Roberts to m against Vanderbilt. „ The highest honor that can come n a football player In this section Is to placed on the all-Southern, and tra honor has been bestowed upon the®* Tech captain for three years n#*7 record that has been madi by t, players. On defense he Is equnll) and few teams that have sent a rut. around his end this season for ■ • substantial gains. Off the field he • modest about his exploits os lie t spicuous In a game. . Besides, football Isn't his only Jtutt He le a fine second baseman, an ‘ one of the stare ot the Teeh " “O' 1905. Last year he was kept out game on account of scholastli . and never got In real good | he played excellent ball jn j games he did get In. It I* E r eM H that he will not try for th« team next season In orderto ” jf g self for the trying gridiron cam, that will face him In the fall- . y | Tech already has gsmeawh'^j with Vanderbilt. Sewanee. Auhm.^, Clcmson, for next year, so ,ha ' , r I they do not take on another ^ game the 1907 team will *»'* ',. • J well cut out, and than Bl ” . j li he is familiarly known, ‘ho have no more efficient Ie»“ er *