About The Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, GA.) 1906-1907 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1906)
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 \ 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- THEGLOBECLOTHING CO. 89-91 WHITEHALL STREET. 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. It!; tlie D000O0O0O0000000000000000O O O O INDOOR ATHLETICS O 0 AT A. A. C. "GYM." O O 0 0 The annual contest for the In- O 0 door athletic championship of the O O Atlanta Athletic Club will bo held O O Friday right in the A. A. C. 0 O gymnasium. 0 O A large field has entered the O O evr nt and It should prove Inter- 0 O esting. O O O O00OO0C0O00O000000000O00O0 Sd 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 • miHMMHMHHHHHIl 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.
