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BY PERCY H. WHITING.
As fur ns the writer ean remember—which isn’t fur. but
anyway—no football player of the middle south has imtil this
* year been mentioned in an All-American write up by Walter
Camp.
This year the prominence Riven to Southern players is not
so great as to attract any particular attention outside the South
ern states, bnt 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 Bob’ 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 iu their po
sition.
The writer would like to see in action the six men who were
better than Bob Blake at end, but probably it is all right. And
. no doubt the writer, who has not seen a game in the Hast in seven
years, is as familiar with the playing of the six men who won po
sitions os Walter Camp is with the Southern players who did
not.
Lm Angeles, Cnl.. Dee. 21.-F. (1. Skin-
u*r, tin* promoter of tin* new fight «lul* of
Itholit*. Nev., has tecolved the consent of
J. Jeffries, heavyweight champion of
world, to meet Rill Squires, the Atm*
trnllnii champion. In n finish tight at itlm-
Itc In April.
Skinner wired Jeffrie* offering u purse of
ISO,000 for n light with Squire*.
ThU was Jeff*a answer:
"I am open to meet nnybody for $50,000.
If Squires will meet me, the match Is on."
Grantland Rice Boosts Macon,
Next Training Camp For Naps
Walter Camp makes n strong play for a retention of the pres
ent football rides as they stand. lie seems to think that the rules
committee hit it right the very first 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 iu the rules neeomplished 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 rulo
somewhat, straighten out the fair enteh tangle, and shake things
* up a bit it would probably do no harm.
Walthour Back in Atlanta;
Guignard Coming on Friday
V
Bobby Walthour, the hero of the falling off and we were penalised the
lift alx-day bike race. Is back from*
New York, looking as fresh and In ns
line 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 I was robbed,” paid Bob-
iby in talking of the race. "We gained
that lap five or six times, but they
• never gave It to us.
"Bedell und 1 were easily the strong
est team In the race and we should
have won by five or six laps."
"The rules were at fuult. Every time
we tried to gait* a lap somebody took
Advantage of the ’accident* rule by
distunce we had gained.”
Paul Guignard, the man with whom
Bobby will race at the Piedmont Coli
seum Christmas afternoon. Is due In
Atlanta Friday. With hltn Is Hubert
Coqudle, director of the Veledrome
Buffalo of Paris and the sporting edi
tor of L'Auto.
Guignard Is the champion pace fol
lower of Europe und 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, and 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
Rico 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 enbugh for the main
purpose In hand.
Ah a rule, a hall club doesn't go
Bouth for any historic research «»r for
the purpose of putting In a month of
sightseeing and amusement, but to got
In condition for n summer's campaign.
The local squad leaves now In less
than three* months, and while none of
them has ever visited this citadel,
thuy should have no kick coming 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 somewheir In the
Immediate vicinity of 30,000 souls.
The few main streets of the town
are broader than Euclid ut its widest
margin, although n 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 in March.
While, the Naps were losing two-
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 generul at
mosphere of tranquillity, for, as yet,
the smashing pace of the latter-day
commercial life has not butted In and
spoiled its ante-helium qualntness.
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 four champion
teams—one of them u world’s chum-
plon outfit.
In 1903 and 1904 the Boston Ameri
can squad fought Its way to fame
from this city ns a starting point,
while in 1904 and 1905 the Macon
squad won the pennant of the Bouth
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
of the town.
Ills team either worked around the
commons or upon the Mercer College
grounds.
The Naps, however, draw the Bouth
Atlantic ball yard—a far better Held
of play thun tho one visited by Collins'
men.
In addition to the Macon league club,
Business Manager Barnard will also
arrange for practice games with the
Mercer College team, a club which heat
Boston on two occasions Inst spring—
no highly difficult feat, perhups, and
yet an Indication that Larry’s .men may
draw snmd entertainment from this
brand of practice.
THEGLOBECLOTHING CO.
89-91 WHITEHALL STREET.
A. A. C. Basket Ball Team Is
Ready For Game With Yale
WALTER CAMP’S "ALL-AMERICAN
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 In order and play will
start as soon as the weather makes It
possible.
With a score «*r more of players in
tho Y. M. C. A., with a cojirse on which
thousands of dollars was spend by Its
previous ,,w n*-r.« and with a good pro
fess! nal in charge, the Y. M. C. A. golf
course is going to jump Into Immediate
I* pularity.
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O INDOOR ATHLETICS O
O AT A. A. C. "GYM.” O
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O The annual contest for the In- O
O door athletic championship of the 0
O Atlanta Athletic Club will be held O
O Friday right In the A. A. C. O
O gymnasium. O
O A large field has entered the O
O event *and It should prove Inter- O
O testing. O
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Ooooocoooooooooooooooooooo
the champion wrestler
: buck into the game aft
•»f hi lone**
The Atlantu Athletic Club basketball
team Is in readiness for the match with
Yale team, which will be played in
the A. A. C. gymnasium Saturday night.
The game will be called at S o'clock.
T4ie Yale team this year Is said to
be one of the strongest which has ever
left the classic shade of the New Haven
elms, and It can be depended upon to
put tip u 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 be open only to
members of the club and to ladles ac
companled 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 p|ay<^t Friday night. 1
The Y’s will meet the M's and the C's
will play the A’s. The first game will j
be called at 8:15.
A good-sized crowd Is expected for j
the games Friday night. The Y. M. O.
A. teams are Haying good basketball |
and the members have a float of
friends. In consequence good crowds
have been and will be In attendance
from one end of th»* series to the other.
No admission fee 1* charged for these
games.
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CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
ON VALUABLES.
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Bargains in Unredeemed Diamonds.
Forbes of Yale proved himself an Ideal
end under the present rules, says Walter
Camp In Collier’s Weekly. He had been
the fastest tackle on the gridiron In getting
down the field on kicks. With nil his
spVed he weighed ns milch ns any ordlnnry
guard, and, although at times tho momen
tum of his weight caused him to overrun
his murk, no back whs strong enough to
push him off when once he reached hi*
Witter of Princeton was good In all-round
eml work, tackling, and getting down the
field, thoroughly reliable, aud Iu addition
to this was a particularly graceful nnd
dean handler of the forward pass. The
Princeton system on the forward pa** did
not clear away the opponents for the run-
ns did Y'ale'M, but In spite of this WIs
ter, by hi* Ability to catch the ball on a
when half-way turned, made hluiself
particularly valuable.
Of the other ends that should be noted
and who would, save In such star company,
have I wen all-American ends, nre Alcott
of Yale, Parry of Chicago, Kcnrlett of
Pennsylvania, Starr of Harvard. Blake of
atitierLUt and Iloaglaad of Princeton.
Bigelow of Yale, na a tackle, needs no
introduction to lovers of the sport. Abso
lutely steady, never caught uapping, quiet,
tetcrtnliied, nml powerful, he was the star
man of the year for the position. He was
very fast In getting down tho Held, certain
in his tackling, ami In his defensive work
a very hard amu for Interferes to get
out of the way. His style was not at nil
showy; there was no great rush when he
*tart<«l forward, but somehow or other he
always managed to keep going straight at
the runner In spite of Interference, nnd
usually reached him. Bigelow adapted him
self to the new game with remarkable fa
cility. particularly In the way of taking
on-side kicks and forward pusses. He was
n student of the l»oand of the ball far
beyond that of any other tackle of the
year.
Coouey of Princeton was better than last
year, owing to tietter physical condition
nnd less of the worries of captaincy. Al
ways n stalwart man In defense, he proved
exceptionally good In that respect this year
and made good openings for his men
through whleh to cotne. lie was also an
able assistant to Captain I»Ulnn In Judg
ment, ami his experience of the former
Konson was particularly valuable in this
respect. Furthermore, he was on the watch
always when his side was ou the offensive
e that nolNNly broke through between
him ami guard and followed up the plsy.
Many tackles have been careless in this
resiNft, nml it has been expeuslve for their
team.
Somt Good Lino Mon.
Among the tackles outside of those Bam-
HERE ARE THE THREE ELEVENS
First Kelsven. Second Eleven. Third Eleven.
End.....Forbes, Yale .....Hague, Annspolls I.ovene, Pennsylvania.
Tackle.. Bigelow, Y’nle Draper, Pennsylvania Weeks, West I’olnt.
Guard...Burr, Harvard Ziegler, Pennsylvania Kersberg, Harvard.
Center..Dunn. Penn. Htate Hoekenberger, Y’nls Hunt, Indians.
Guard...Thompson, Cornel! Dillon, Princeton Christy, West Point.
Tackle..Cooney, Princeton Osborn. Harvard .Northeroft, Annapolis.
End Winter, Princeton Marshall, Minnesota Exendlne. Indians.
H uarter.Kckersnll, Chicago........ Jones, Yale B. Dillon, Princeton.
nlf.... Mayhew. Chicago Hollenbeck. Penn Morse. Yale.
Half Knox, Yale Wendell. Harvard Mauler, Vanderbilt.
Back.... Veeder, Yale McCormick, Princeton Garrels, Mlchlgau.
ed In the team above, Ilorr of Syracuse
come* ve»y close, nnd at times was compe
tent to displace some of them.
Pullen of West Point, had he not met
with an accident, would undoubtedly hare
made the position. Wauseka of the Indians
was another moat reliable man, and Paige
of Y’nie, In spite of Its being his first season,
sheweil splendid capabilities.
Burr of Harvard, ns stated last year,
nnd as practically confessed by all critics
center of the season, aid It was he whojej
his team to such remarkable results, a gooi
deni of It depending npou Dunn hlmwu-
He weighs Just under 200, Is something or*
6 feet In height, nnd absolutely reliable la
hla passing, secure In blocking, active »»
breaking through, and In diagnosing plajs
He was n stumbling block to Isle, aw
proved to lie a similar difficult propo*ln<*
for all the teams that met I’enniybaw*
State. Home Idea of his record and
pllshments may lm gathered from the
that hi* team was never scored upon”’
nisi nis leuiu wn* never scoreu i
uMt.lon to ll, punting
ability, a first-class guard. He played the navy. Captain Dunn’s team defeat*!
position well. He is powerful, active, has
football sense, nnd can !»e relied upon to
extend himself to his limit no matter what
the odds may lie against him. Wbeu to
all this Is added his ability as a distance
kicker. It Is no wonder that he It iegarde<l
as an especially valuable man,
In the Yale game he repeatedly took
passes which came from hla center soiling
along the ground, nnd In spite of every
handicap managed to get the hall up nud
K »t it off for bis kirk without being
ocked. Any one of these poor passes
might have lost au ordinary game, and
there would have l*een no fa nit found with
the kicker had he failed to get the bull off.
Thompson, of Cornell, was probably the
most powerful guard playing on the gridiron
this year, and In the game against Prince-
ton. when they put the plays aeross und
over him and out on his wing. Cornell
went through the Princeton team without
difflculty, nml hi this attack eventually se
cured a touchdown. It was this very ahll
Ity of Ihotupson that led to Cornell's
Dual undoing at Pennsylvania, when her
team hail the ball on the very goal line, and
yet. In several trials, were unable to put
It over. They sent their plays up Into the
center, where they thought they could rely
upon the |M»wer of Thompson. But no man
Is good enough to do ull the work, and
partienlarly not Iu the present game, If the
opponents know that he Is to Im» selected
to do It. Not n IleffelBtiger or a Hare could
break through or force back a line which
had been warned Iu advnuce of that one
imrtlculnr #|>ot. .
*>f the guards. Erwtn and Brides, of Yale,
were a fine pair, and could hold their own
In any company, ns could also Krueger and
Krtder. of *wartbmore; ivmr, of Dart
mouth; Htnututnl, of Princeton, and Dillon,
Carlisle Indians, and peviv*u*«n» -
feat with the navy. lie persistently bro**
through and blocked kicks. Able
the hundred Inside of eleren *»*<;■
trformed
Aide * to rg
ine nunurou insine or eleven secopdijS
wn* down tinder his own side's
the ends,
worth wn:
character.
Of other strong centers, there wr
Parker, of Harvard, whose only wcakn
was occasional poor passes for kicks; >• *
man, of Cornell; Htonc, of Vanderbilt: •
tan, of West Point, nnd Dwyer, uf » 0
sylvaula. _ h ,«
Eckersall, of Chicago, In a
drop-kicking has I teen most valuable,
s*‘*sed the same abilities of the , l u * r j* r ^jS,
vlil-h gave hint the position last y»*£JL.
In addition, even to T- _
the qualities of a drop-klcker. Infertn > ^
Ijr, In one or two of hi» *nme»-
was n sea of rand, and It was . , . n! l r ho*,
for any one to bring off these kb * • ^
outside of O'Brien, of Hwartfimere. b*• »
been the only drop-klcker who has 1
really consistent menace to the •’/ tK \>
goals. In his last gsme-that wita *
brnska—ho kicked no less than five. a.
Mayhew. of Brown, was the most r*nw
able half-back of the year, and
trouble to opposing team# than* 0 - ^
else, particularly when one consider*
imes In which be played. a
Knox, of Y’ale, made longer wn* J** 4B j
the strongest defensive teams than
other man on the gridiron. It was ” ^
ran mors than half the length «•*' %
through the Brown team, and p- ,*
similar feat against West Point. •* **“*-*
In Yale's Anal game of the y«» r ,
with Harvard. Against a team «**• 3 fl
at the top of Its game, Knox »‘ ‘
the middle of the field In spit*
ed tackles down almost to th" ;
only being finally stopped by
behind.