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I T"”*" $S THE MERCER CLUSTER MEBCER FIVE gifg the Baptist to stay with the SENSATIONAL COMEBACK IN SEC OND HALT SWEEPS TECHSTBKS , ^ take ^ gti „ K out of OPT PBBT AND WJNS GAME BY j.. uw , JaokeL< > ONE POINT. * ' * && . Atlanta— Wlxn “Big Eddie” Whitehead leaped high in the air and tossed the ball though the rims with only five seconds left" before the timers whistle ended the battle, ' Mercer won the nvost sensational game that tny Mercer aggregation of basketeers ever engaged in, the final score being 20 to 19. Mercer’s Orange and Black war- ■ riors staged a most remarkable comeback. After Tech had led them - by a score of 14 to 7 in the first half'of the contest, they came from behind and with every man showing a complete reversal pf form, fairly ■wept the Yellow Jackets off their feet. “Slap” Rents was the one big out .standing star of the battle, though closely followed by Whitehead, who rang the final goal that brought , victory to the Baptist quintet. The veteran forward. Rents, stood out so prominent 1 v in the contest and cheering by the Mercer supporters Tech ha« great teem the united period.-7 that was deafening while Tech stu- There is no mistake “bout it the The wqarers. of the <trudge-. and dents pleaded in vain for the tioid basketball tournament held in Atlan teams showed -unlimited speed arid and White aggregation to win. "jta last March of the National Ama x splendid, pasnwork. The teams went- A partial list of Macon boys ami teur Athletic Union has opened the up and down the floor, with varying M ercer students- at the. present time eyes of (late City in basketball..-success, both missing trys for goats together with former Mercer stu [Teci.’s team this year is well coached continually as they were forced to dents arid Macon boys attending the- 1 possesses many star'players and is try long shots, for the, guards of -— ‘ — — ' 1 contests includes: j. Roy’ Rowland, a team that will cop many games I both teams played stroflg. en masse and were ever (’raven, Herndon Brown, (from good teams before the season The Mercer five played a bit’ off them ^Robert Mobley, “Skiny” Deni.cke, T. (closes. ' c.olor in the opening stages, getting C. Drew, A key Turner, Flournoy | This is Tech’s second -year in away, to a slow start Mtrd blowing Howard, Edmuiid Morgan, Carlton b-skidbii.l and the Yellow Jackets many tries fyr- goals. In fovi. shoot- Binns, Roy P-itts, J. Y. Rudied, Ed j have a star five in the field. They ping, Mercer was.deficient, in the hid.fair to makf’all their opponents first half but Whitehead shot five hump in their games on the remain- U ut of seven in the last period. 19 Yel- luUJl KAMA’S DOZEN. Mercer uiven Big Send-Off Never before has a Macon team iniived as great a send off and •is im-ch praise us thaf'accorded the charges'of Coach Josh Cody by the ui.ee rtl.arita newspapers Gonslitu- tion, Journal and Sfinday. American, Meritt, Howard Diinwoody,' Ralph ! Newton, Albert. Bush, Malconi Irwin, Sam CoUman, Leo Hargrove, Robert McKav and others: Quotations, from Atlanta newspaper Quo Cations concerning the game from the sport scribes attending the struggle'and the . stories of which the Atlanta gentlemen were unable 1'lie writers in all three of the t„ get into editions that came to pape.s praised the Baptist for their j Macon, proves highly interesting, work and the great comeback stunt For this reason several are being of tile (grange and Black five in the used to- show what the Atlanta boys der of the schedule. We may be guessing wrong, but no less an au thority than Josh Cody told the Tech 'players after the game: You have ('improved 500 per cent Night shirt parade spoiled. A perfectly good “night shiy.t pa rade”' wus spoiled by the Macon boys victory and tonight the Bap list are taking the “Gate City” to rids, whooping and shouting “who took the sting out of the Y'ellow who.” second half after they were appar- (think of the aggregation that Coach j atlu .' ts 7 j|^ei> did that’s e«t.y in line for a beating struck Cod/ has forralled for this season. Th(? Mcrcer „ tars are be j n( , wann . home with the Gate City fans. ! '.Morgan Blake writing. in'the- Jour- , y 0( . ni , ratu!alt . (l on aH sWes and l'he Baptist machine was at a loss |hal. says in part: “The undoubted whalt . ver they-wish in Atlanta that for. a time what to do in the first iti ,r of the evening, according to the wjihi „ the power gf Mercer men half of the contest, had hard luck writer’s viewpoint, .was Mr. Weekly. to provj<h , th#y . are rece iving with a few shots they did get for Mercer’s guard who put up one of' „ mt , mbers of the team de the basket and in many ways wefe the flashing exhibitions of recover- . „ - , . ,, , , , , . -. ■-. r 1 . . • , . , . 'departed tonight for Macon, though goals Columbus succeeded in making outplayed by the iellow Jackets who n(c and passing seen on a local ,, , , ’ ... . ,7 , . . . - . • , • .. . . • ' .' *, .. .. 1 Coach Cody and one or two will were made frbm far out in th«. by the way have a team that is 1 floor n some time. If there is any ‘ ■ . At the beginning of the second half the Orange and Black warriors come back strong and rung the bus kets for 21 points to -5 points, for the visitors. The' local’s passwork and goal shooting was much im proved during the last period "Slap" Rentz; “Big Eddie”. White head and "Smokey” Harper starred for Mercer. “Slap” Rentz shot four field goals and one foul, two. of his fie.d goals were spectacular. “Big Eddie” Whitehead, the high point man of the game, rung- three field goals and seven fouls for a total of thirteen points. “Smokey” Harper, at - standing guard was. t-he chief" cause of the low s^ore of the. visitors, fqts the . . onn . 1 - ,, , jiot-return to the. Heart of Geor- court, about 200 or more per cent stron- th ng weak y about Mr. Weekly, the %>. „ . ... ' r . . ... . .. ■ ’ "4, gia until late Sunday night. Tech ger than the one that represented record failed to disclose it. Mr. ... ... ; ... . * ... . , . 1 , , • . ... students are pulling for Mercer to tile Atlanta institution last season. 1 Weekly had great support from Ins , “ . , , . ■ J ' D _,_ heat Georgia next Saturday in Ma con-now. They declare if the Orange j ami Black warriors can lick the “Smokey” played a good Rentz Red and Bluck they will not be de jected in the slightest over tonight’s result I The lineup and summary follows: ■Merger (20) I Kent / (8) . . . j Wliil,-head (4 ) 1 Gamble (61 . j Weekly lif . . Scott . (- . Substitutes, .rf. . (If. . . ■.rg. . - Ig. . lie bv consistent from thee first blast of the whistle j (till the final second of play netted 1 ■st a well-earned decision ( Tech (19) . Flowers (*5) . . . Junks (0) . Fraser ^84 ...... Staton . M-av*r either team; Hi ore end of first half,* Merced ?, Tech J4; uffu‘iu\s, lefe-rre Lawdesf; foul», Kent for Mercer 4 out of 8; Fraser, .0 out of 4; Flowers, 1 out of l, Statdn, 0 out of 1. HOLDING STRliPPER CLOSE WM’ especially in the last few minutes !-At the conclusion of the first half comrade, Messrs Whitehead, of play that the Tech students ter- jTecb was leading by the score of 14 Gamble and Scott, but I am still of ! rifled to see the the apparent vie- m 7 with Mercer battling desperate- the opinion .that but for Mr. Week- tory wrested from them, bwan c*l- ! ly on the defensive. The Mercer ly Tech would have won handily” ling in frenzied voices “Get Rentz” mentor evidently gave his men some-t Ed Danforth in the Sunday Ameri “Got Rentz.” The Yellow Jacket thing in the rest period for when can commented as follows: “It was players headed the pleading of their the teams took the floor again the Tech’s first game and its first de followers and endeavored to 1‘get Baptist looked like a million dollars I feat. Whitehead, Mercer forward, Rants” but the sorrel-topped boy to the Mercer followers 'and im- took the leading honors when he from Columbus, Go., where basket- mediately began showing a com- found the target with a field goal kfcB' pfify^rs are born to 'the indoor Pl ete reversal of form and gradually '.a few moments before the fi- pgftime, eoold not be stopped and took the offensive from the Tech- j naU whistle sounded, after Rentz together with the entire Mercer ag- 'ties, who were appalled by the speed ihad shot a foul goal that placed Worked overtime and < * r *. ve and passing of the boys wear r (Mercer within one point of the Jack- the Atiantians just how the • intf the O ran « e jerseys and who ets. Steady consistent plugging orbaakstball should be played. soon ’ slow }y but surely began cut- GasaUs i Up Tech Star t.ng down the lead-of the Atlantans. Robert Gamble shlbwed as com-j Victory PopuUr To Man, Fan, k / a reversal of form in the last I Mercer’s sensational comeback ft was a typical garrison finish for Iri, wor ^ in tbe firat lend victory proved ju%t as popular (the invader^ They played basket- half as any Mansi supporter could i 10 h* 16 8 P ectators as th e success of ball all the way while Tech on two T j.hsps to see The lanky center play bellow Jackets had been -in the occasions^when they had a fair sort ' t ad before, and in addition beat “Gib-* ^' rst f ans didn’t dream of lead attempted to stall Lut Ref pfiigf Tsdi’s one big Star a t t ^ lat tbe could stage such eree Lawless forced them to put the % ths pivot to a large major l and wh « n the y dod see what a real (ball in the play. 1 *ty fl# the tip offa. ' Jy f eat tea « the charges of Coach ' His excellency. Chief Wheatley ^ ^ t ^ the Co , um Cody were they voiced their approv- i wa s not present at the struggle but al in no uncertain form and shook wa3 ably represented by Mr. Wal- j the T)ig amphitheatre with cheers > lace George who also praised the ( for the pluck^ lads who- had thus piercer aggregation. Mr. George in | turned apparent defeat into victory, patt said: “The outstanding feature j •It was most encouraging to see ■ of the game was, of course, the | the number of former Mercer stu- | great finish of the visitors. Their dents and alumni of the institution play improved marvelously as the present at the contest. Medical stu- j;ame went on and their defense ^ dents at Emory University and hun- steadied as the forwards got in their dreds of men residing in Atlanta (better work. “Slap” Rentz the little cheered for the Baptists whenever lontrhaired forward of the visitors, the ball swished through the nets ' was possessed of great speed and was for big points. When the Mercer'the high point man of the game, forward “Big Eddie” Whitehead Whitehead wasn’t quite so in evi- rang the goal that brought victory jdence in the scoring way but played to Mercer the excitement brought ia dandy game on the defense” F. C. William,. Mercer's Orange and Black bas- Gsptoia f V' 5c, 1 B|.' Ssth Weakley and Irving Uttor playing to “Smoky” ptoitioo at standing guard wmMtaWe ability and Tech could do practically nothing ia Mercer territory. Getting back to the game itself Ret away to a poor start Jb the first‘half, toe Atlanta out fit scoring three goals for a total -of six points to leas time than it takes one to bat an eye. The Tech- etera continued their good work an* when the first half ended the Yellow Jackets were on the long end of e 14 to 7 tally with (the cr °w«l of spectators, which was un usually large for Atlanta at an in. door battle, and Tech students con- f*dent that Tech was the superior team tad that they would roll up a Urge aeon in the last period. * Daring the second hqjf. the Tech ctadests lod by Flournoy Howard, Macon boy, enlivened the occasion conriderably by theikcheeiisig and yelling, occasionally mixing things «P with a “hi hi” for Mercer and ^similar calls for Josh Cody to speak. The Mercer mentor declined with *h*nks and the Tech students were denied the privilege of witnessing the big ex- Vanderbilt luminary per form .vocally. Conch Cody -evidently gave bis men something during the tat period; for when the Macon boys trotted back on the floor they gradually gained on the Techites until Whitehead’s basket put Mer- *er to the lead for the only time during the conflict. Here tLe contest saded amid uproarious cheering and applause from hundreds of Mercer students and alumni of the institu tion who had turned out for the bus. Y. M. C. A. aggregation in a hard fought game by the -score of |22 to 10 or. the New City Auditor- j ium court. I The weraers of th£ .Orange and 'Black jerseys were hard pushed in ' the first half for the score stood 11 (to 5 in Mercer’s favor at the end of Raymond E. Boyles Charles S. Jones MS 8 JHES PRINTERS School Work Solicited. Close Prices Given. 411 Broadway MACON,-- GEORGIA r SOMETHING NEW < • • EVERYDAY S- •• 1 FROM NOW UNTIL CHRIST- r T MAS. NEW AND ATTRAC- ‘ - . TIVE GIFTS FOR ALL THE * FAMILY ARE BE IN ADDED f ... ; : • - . TO OUR STOCK. f . ..; _; ■ •/ XMAS GREETING CARDS V " AND BOOKLETS WILL BE MORE POPULAR THIS r ■ YEAR THAN EVER. WE I CARRY THE LARGEST AS. r • • •• SORTMENT IN THE SOUTH. i - QUALITY GOODS ONLY I-- TRADE WITH US. THE J.W. BURKE COMPANY 1 406 Cherry St., Macon, Ga. 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