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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21,190&.
Deathly Calm Settles Over Sporting World
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
As far ns the writer can remember—which isn’t far, but
anyway no football player of the middle south has until this
year been mentioned in an All-American write up by Walter
Camp.
This year the prominence given to Southern players is not
so great as to attract any particular attention outside the South
ern states, but Camp, in his article on All-American football in
Collier’s this week, gives Owsley Manier a place as one half
back on the THIRD All-American.
Well, anyway, that is a start in the right direction.
Neither Rob Blake, of Vanderbilt, nor Stone of the same
college, were given places on any of the teams, though both were
mentioned among the prominent players of the year in their po
sition.
The writer would like to see in action the six men who were
better than Bob Blnke at end, but probably it is all right. And
no doubt the writer, who has not seen a game in the East in seven
years, is as familiar with the playing of the six men who won po
sitions as Walter Camp is with the Southern players who did
not.
Walter Camp makes n strong play for a retention of the pres
ent football rules ns they stand, lie seems to. think that the rules
committee hit it right the very lirst time when they made the
changes last fall, and that it would be little short of a sacrilege to
make any more alterations.
There be those of us who disagree with him. It is no cer
tainty that, because one change in the rules accomplished good
other changes would accomplish more good. It is also falla
cious to suppose that because one set of changes improved the
game more changes would injure it.
If the rules committee would loosen up, the forward pass rule
S mewhat, strnighteu out the fnir catch tangle, and shake things
» a bit it would probably do no harm.
rill.. Pec. .SI.—P. li. Skin-
t*r of 1h»* m*w fight rlub of
Illiotltc. Sew. has looelved Hi
fain*** J. Jeffries, heavyweight champion of
Hit* world, to moot Illfl # S«|iilr«*x. tin* Aim-
trallnn champion, In n finish light at Kho-
llto In April.
Mklnnor wired Jeffrie* offering it purse of
$50,000 for a light with Hqulro*.
This was Jeff* answer:
*T mu open to moot anylnxly for $50,000.
If Hqulres will moot me, tin* match Is on."
Grantland Rice Boosts Macon,
Next Training Camp For Naps
Walthour Back in Atlanta;
Guignard Coming on Friday
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Bobby Walthour, the hero of the Billing off and wo were penalized the
last six-day hike race. Is back from
New York, looking iui fresh and In ns
fine condition as ever In his life. Dur
ing the race he lost only a few pounds
and he gained them back within a day
-after the race ended.
"Of course 1 wax robbed,** said Bob
by In talking of the race. **W« gained
that lap five or six times, but they
never gave It to us.
"Bedell and 1 were easily the strong
est team In the race and we should
have won by five or six laps.**
"The rules were at fault. Every time
we tried to gain a lap somebody took
advantage of the ’accident* rule by
distance we had gained.*
Paul Guignard, the man with whom
Bobby will race at the Piedmont C’oll-
seum Christmas afternoon. Is due In
Atlanta Friday. With him Is Robert
Coquette, director of the Veledrotne
Buffalo of Paris and the sporting edi
tor of L’Auto.
Guignard Is the champion pace fol
lower of Europe and the man who de
feated Walthour on several occasions
In Europe during the past summer, a
compliment which Walthour frequently
returned.
Guignard recently went 59 miles 30
1 2 yards In an hour, anti 107 miles In
two hours, and Is perhaps the best pace
follower ever developed In Europe.
Y.M.C.A.’s New Golf Course
Ready For First Day’s Play
Macon, Oa., the Naps’ March home,
will prove an Ideal training center for
the clan of Napoleon, In spite of the
objections recently offered by a critic
that there were no gay and gaudy trim
mings to the town, writes Grantland
Rice In The Cleveland News.
Few purple-eyed soubrettes wander
up and down Its streets, and nobody at
first glance would mistake it for a cross
section of New York around Forty-
second street, but for all that It’s a good
town and lively enough .for the main
purpose In hand.
Ah a rule, a ball club doesn't go
South for any historic research or for
the purpose of putting In a month of
sightseeing and amusement, but to get
In condition for a summer’s campaign.
The local sqund leaves now In less
than three months, and while none of
them has ever visited this citadel,
they should have no kick coining when
they go.
Nestling Just 90 miles south of At
lanta, Macon Is almost the center of
the red clay hill arena.
Its population Is somewhere In the
Immediate vicinity of 30,000 souls.
The few main streets of the town
are broader than Euclid at its widest
margin, although a bit shy of the
wealth and spectacular effect of the
noted Cleveland thoroughfare.
The climate Is Ideal, barring an un
likely Interval of damp weather, which*
seldom prevails there Iti March.
While the Naps were losing t wo -
thirds of their stay In Atlanta on ac
count of hard rains, Boston only missed
two days of three weeks.
Macon Is distinctly more Southern
than Atlanta In every way, with its
old-fashioned homes and a general at
mosphere of tranquillity, for, as yet,
the smashing pace of the latter-day
commercial life Ims not butted In and
spoiled Its ante-bellum quaintness.
All In all. It would be hard to find a
prettier little town In a hundred
leagues* travel.
As a pennant maker, Macon stands
unrivaled.
In the last four years this city has
trained no less than folir champion
teams—one of them a world’s chain-
pbm outfit.
In 1903 and 1904 tho Boston Amerl-
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from tliib city as a starting point,
while In 1904 and 1905 the Macon
squad won ^he pennant of the South
Atlantic League.
A unique feature of Boston’s yearly
visit there was that Collins never once
asked permission to come nor attempt
ed to train on the league ball grounds
>f the town.
His team either worked around the
commons or upon the Mercer College
grounds.
Tlie Naps, however, draw the South
Atlantic ball yard—a fur better field
>f play thun the one visited by Collins'
men.
In addition to the Macon league cjub,
Business Manager Barnard will nlso
ange for practice games with the
Mercer College team, a club which beat
Boston on two occasions last spring—
highly difficult feat, perhaps, and
yet an Indication that Larry’s men may
draw some entertainment from this
brand of practice.
WALTER CAMP’S "ALL-AMERICAN’
A. A. C. Basket Ball Team Is
Ready For Game With Yale
The Young Men’s Christian Associa
tion golf course at Piedmont park Is
ready for play. The cups have been
placed in the greens, the flags planted
In the cups, the greens sanded, the tee
ing boxes put Ii^ order anti play will
as The
eather
takes ft
start as
possible.
With a score or more of players In
the Y. M. C*. A., with a course on which
thousands of dollars was sin-nd by its
previous owners and with a good pro-
fesei' ne.l In charge, the Y. M, A. golf
i jui>c Is going to Jump Uito immediate
I* puUrity.
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Murbarger. the ehmufdon wrestler
ndlina, hn« get Lick into the game aft
everul uum»h« >>f iUlelte**.
The Atlanta Athletic Club basketball
team Is In readiness for the mutch with
tho Yale team, which will be played In
the A. A. C. gymnasium Saturday night.
The game will be culled nt K o’clock. .
The Yale team this year Is said to
be one of the strongest which has ever
left the classic shude of the New Haven
elms, and It can be depended upon to
put up a rattling good game. The A.
A. C. team, as usual, Is strong and It
looks like an even game between the
two.
The contest will tie open only to
members of the club and to ladies ac
companied by (members.
Y.M.C.A. Teams Get Together
In Basket Ball Games Friday
The first games In the second series
of basketball contests at the local Y.
M. C. A. will be play^l Friday night.
The Y*s will meet the M's and the C’s
will play the A’s. The first game will
be called ai 8:15.
A good-sized crowd is expected f^r
the games Friday night. The Y. M. C.
A. teams are playing good basketball
and the members have a host of
friends. In consequence good crowds
have been and will be In attendance
from one end of the series to the other.
No admission fee Is charged for these
games.
NAT KAISER 4 CO.
CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
ON VALUABLES.
15 Decatur 8L Kimball House.
Bargains In Unredeemed Diamond|.
Forbes of Yale proved himself an Ideal
end under the present rules, says Walter
Camp In Collier’s Weekly. Ho had been
the fastest tackle on the gridiron In yetting
down the field on kicks. With nil bis
speed he welshed ns much ns any ordinary
guard, and, although nt times the not
turn of his weight caused him to overrun
hl« mark, no back was strong enough to
push him off when once he reached his
man.
Wlster of I’rlnceton was good In all-round
end work, tackling, nnd getting down the
field, thoroughly rellnble. aud In addition
to this was a particularly graceful and
clean handler of the forward pass. The
Princeton system on the forward pass did
not clear away the opponents for the run
ner ns did Yale's, but In spite of this Wis
ter, by his ability to catch the ball on a
run when half-way turned, made himself
particularly valuable.
Of the other ends that should l>e noted
aud who would, save In such star compntiy.
have been all-American ends, are Aleott
of Yale, Parry of Chicago, Scarlett of
Pennsylvania, Starr of Harvard, Blake of
Vanderbilt and Iloagland of I'rluceton.
Bigelow of Vote, as a tackle, needs no
introduction to lovers of the sport. Abso
lutely steady, never caught napping, quiet,
determined, and powerful, he was the star
mau of the year for the position. He was
very fast in getting down the field, certalu
In hts tackling, aud In his defensive work
a very hard ntuu for Interfere!** to get
out of the way. His style was not at all
showy: there was no great rush when he
sinrtfsl forward, but somehow or other be
always managed to keep going straight at
the runner in spite of Interference, and
usually reached him. Bigelow adapted him-
seif to the new game with remarkable fa
cility. particularly In the way of taking
on-side kicks and forward passes. He was
a student of the liound of the ball far
beyond ‘that of any other tackle of the
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HERE ARE THE THREE ELEVENS
First Keleren.
End Forbes, Yale
Tackle..Bigelow, Yale...
8econd Eleven. Third Eleven.
.... Hague, Annapolis Lcvene, Pennsylvania.
«wi»icr..i*iKcum, Draper, Pennsylvania Weeks, West Point.
Guard...Burr, Harvard Ziegler, Pennsylvania JCersInTg. Harvard.
Center..Dunn, Penn. Htate Hoekenberger, Yale Hunt, ludlnus.
Gunrd...'Thompson, Cornell Dillon, Princeton Christy, West Point.
Tackle..Cooney, Princeton Osborn, Harvard Nortlnroft, Annapolis.
End Wlster, Princeton Marshall, Minnesota Excndlne, Indians.
quarter.Kekersnll, Chicago Jones, tale E. Dillon. Princeton.
Half— May hew. Chicago Hollenhnck. Penn Morse, Vale.
Half Knox, Yale Wendell. Harvard Mauler, Vanderbilt.
Back.... Feeder, Yale McCormick, Princeton Garrets, Michigan.
oil In tho team above, Ilorr of Syracuse
comes ve.y riose, and at times was compe
tent to displace some of them.
Pullen of West Point, had he not met
with nu accident, would undoubtedly hare
made the position. Wauseka of the Indians
wns another most reliable man, and Paige
of Yale, In spite of Its being his first season,
showed splendid capabilities.
Burr of Harvard, as stated Inst year,
nnd as practically confessed by all critics
this year. Is, lu addition to bis punting
ability, a first-class guard. He played the
position well. He Is powerful, active, has
football sense, nnd can be relied upon to
extent) himself to his limit no matter what
the odds may be against him. When to
all this Is added his ability ns a distance
kicker, It Is uo wonder, that he Is teganled
as an especially valuable man.
la the Yale gaiue he repeatedly took
passes which entne from his center soiling
‘ g the ground, nnd In spite of every
Heap mnnngcd to get the ball np and
get it off for his kick withont being
blocked. Any one ot these poor passes
might have lost an ordinary game, aud
there would have been no fault found with
the kicker had be failed to get the hall off.
ton.
wlug, Cornell
Cooney of Princeton was better than last
year, owing to twtter physical condition
and less of the worries of captaincy. Al
ways a stalwart man in defense, be proved
exceptionally good In that respect this year
and made good openlugs for bis uien
through which to com**. lie was also an
able assistant to Captalu Dillon In judg
ment. and bis experience of the former
season was particularly valuable In this
respect. Furthermore, be was on the watch
always when Ills side wns on the offensive break through or force Imck n line which
*«** that nolNsly broke through Iw-tween
him ami goar.1 and folio—op tho ploy. | ‘^ottETiiSKi*. Erwin oml llrMc, of T«l«,
over hint
went through the Princeton team without
difficulty, and in this attack eventually se
cured a touchdown. It was this very abil
ity of Thompson that led to Cornell's
dual undoing nt Pennsylvania, when her
team bad the hull on the very goal line, and
yet. In several trials, were unable to put
It over. They aeut their plays np Into the
center, where they thought they could rely
upon the power of Thompson. But no man
is good enough to do all the work, ami
particularly not In the present game. If the
opponents know that be la to he selected
Many tackles have been careless In this
respect, and It has been expensive for their
team.
Soma Good Lino Mon.
Among tbs tackles outside of those Min-
were a line pair, and could hold their own
in any company, as could also Krueger and
Krider. of Kwarthmore: Pevear. of Dart
mouth; Mtaunard, of Princeton, and Dillon,
of the Indians.
Dunn, of Pennsylvania Htate. was the best
•center of the season, and It wns he who W
his team to such remarkable results, a
•leal of It depending upon Dunn himself-
He weighs Just under 200, is something over
6 feet In height, and absolutely reliable J«
his passing, secure lu blocking, active in
breaking through, and In diagnosing pi*J*j
He was it stumbling block to \ ale. »b*1
proved to l»e a similar difficult proposltjj"
for all the teams that met Pennsylvania
State. Home Idea of bis record ami accom
plishments may be gathered from the
that his team wns never scored upon
by Yale, although their schedule Incloag
games with Yale, Carlisle Indians and tw
navy. Captain Dann’s team defeated tw
Carlisle ludians, and performed a slwjr
feat with the navy. lie persistently brow
through nnd blocked kicks. Able to run
the hundred inside of eleven seconds,
wns down under his own side s kb it* «n*J
the ends. Beyond all and glvlug hint n<M*J
worth was hts earnestness of purpose ant
character.
Of other strong centers, there wer#
Parker, of Harvard, whose only weakntf*
wns occasional poor passes for kicks:
man, of Cornell; Htone, of Vanderbilt: -«_
tun, of West Point, and Dwyer, of Penn
sy I vanln.
Eckcrsall, of Chicago, In a season wJJJ
drop-kicking has beeu most valuable.
■eased the same abilities of the quartet*««
which gave him the position last
In addition, even to greater wrfec«»J
the qualities of a drop-kicker. Infortutute
!y, in ouo or two of bis games, tbejMJ
of mud. and It was Jwpo**™*
»«r nu/ «me to bring off these kick*,
outside of O’Brien, of Swarthmore. &•*
been the only drop-kicker who has
really consistent meuace to the *>It
goal*. In his last game—that with
brnskn—he kicked no lets than five.
May hew. of Brown, was the most r, ‘ r -. (Jft
able half-back of the year, and gzr®
trouble to opposing teams than
else, particularly when one consider*
games In which he played.
Knox, of Yale, made longer runs ag«i
the strongest defensive teams than » '
other man on the gridiron, If ^
ran more than half the length ^*
through the Brown team, and perforn
similar feat against West Point, ss
In Yale’s final game of the yea.
with llntward. Against a team ****'“,-»
at the top of Its game, Knox went »
the middle of the field In spite of ***•“£
ed tackles down almost t*> the g«*»
only itelng finally stopped by Hend*» r
behind.