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! TENNESSEE LEADS
| ENTIRE COUNTRY IN
I PILING UP POINTS
Many Upsets Occurred East Saturday
SIXTEEN CARS ARE !
ENTERED FOR BIG i
HUNDRED MILE RACE I
MANY UPSETS OCCUR
ON EASTERN FIELDS
Princeton Vanquished By Dartmouth and Yale Held Scoreless
By Washington and Jefferson—Army Triumphs By
Narrow Margin—Harvard Fulfills Expecta
tions—Michigan Aggies Again Victors
j New York. October 26.—Football played
[ under the weather conditions, that pre
vailed throughout the eastern states Sut
turday, is of comparatively little value
for purposes of comparison when the
leading university elevens are under con
sideration. Almost without exception the
games were played on rain-drenched grid
irons.
It was one of the worst football days
encountered by teams of this section in
{several years, and upset carefully planned
gridiron campaigns of more than one
coach.
| By all the rules of football, it was a
f day when weight should have counted as
, the margin of victory, but there were
glaring exceptions. Dartmouth’s defeat of
Princeton by a 6 to 0 score was a strik
ing example. Although pounds lighter,
Dartmouth completely outplayed thd
Tiger team, and the score failed to show
* the superiority of the New Hampshire
I. Aggregation. Both offensively and de
fensively the Green had the edge on the
[ Orange and Black, and thePe is no reason
for believing that upon a dry field victory
would have swung the other way.
Dartmouth was quick to penetrate the
weakness of the center of Princeton’s
line on defense. On the theory that mis
ery loves company, Princeton and Yale
have a fraternal feeling today, .the Elis
having failed just as dismally to distin
guish themselves against Washington and
Jefferson as did Princeton against Dart
mouth. The blue was outplayed in of
fensive tactics, and but for four flashes
of the strong defense, which has been
Shown at New Haven all season, would
have been scored upon and probably de
feated.
Harvard Outclasses Rivals
The result verified the belief that Yale
has yet to develop an attack that can
win from her most formidable foe. In six
games the Elis, while not scored upon,
, have scored but 9"> points in I»2G minutes
of play. At present Yale and Princeton
appear to be about evenly matched, con
sidered broadly, but neither is a finished
nor exceptionally promising football
•leven. Compared to Harvard, which each
Will meet in the next few weeks, the
Hjjrigers and Elis apparently are outclassed.
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Harvard's 29 to 0 victory over Penn
sylvania was all that her supporters tfould
desire. Had the held been dry It is pos
sible Pennsylvania State might have
proved more formidable. Since Washing
ton and Jefferson, which held Yale to a
no-score tie on Saturday, defeated Penn
sylvania State 17 to 0 a week ago, the
Crimson cohorts figure the 29 to 0 victory
over the same team served as a satisfac
tory standard for a comparison of too
present relative strength of Harvard and
Yale.
The gloom is not confined entirely to
Vale and Princeton, however, for Penn
sylvania, Cornell and the Army received
severe setbacks Saturday. The. best the
Quakers could do was to tie Carlisle, 7
to 7, due to a sensational 80-yard run by
Marshall late in the game. Hut for sev
eral determined stands at critical mo
menta and Marshall’s individual exploit'.
Pennsylvania would have been defeated.
The heavy but fast University of Pitts- i
burg team, already victors over Car
lisle, added Cornell to the list of victims
by a score of 20 to 7. Cornell’s touchdown
resulted from a series of line plunges and
end runs which indicated the Ithaca
eleven is rounding into promising form.
Army Barely Wins
The Army’s margin of victory over Tufts
was the smallest possible, c oming as the
result of a fumbled pass which the vis
itors turned into a safety. Considering the
wretched playing conditions the two
elevens were evenly matched. At thy
same hour the Army’s greatest rival, the
Naval academy, was running up her big
gest score of the season, 76 to 0, against
the Maryland Agricultural team at An
napolis.
In the middle west, the Michigan “Ag
gies'* added Wisconsin, conference cham
pions, to their list of victims, taking the
Cadgers into camp by the same score as
that by which they defeated the Uni
versity of Michigan. Chicago won from
Perdue, which previously had tied Wis
consin, by a 0 to 0 score, due to field
goals from the toe of Quarterback Rus
sell. Illinois defeated Indiana, 10 to 0,
and Minnesota rolled up 30 points to South
Dakota's cipher. Co^ch Yost took his.
Woolverines to Nashville and over
whelmed Brother-In-Law Dan McGuigan’s
team, the final score being Michigan 33,
Vanderbilt 2.
The New Zealand all black Rugby team
was scored on yesterday for the first time
in its American tour, and the University 1
of California varsity Rugby team did it. |
The score was 38 to 3 against California.
Agricultural College Victor
Over Wisconsin—Chi
cago in the Race
Chicago, October 26.—In football play
Michigan Agricultural college occupied
the commanding position in the west.
Leadership decisions aj*e yet to be made
in the “big nine” conference. Most of
the games scheduled last spring as cham
pionship battles are yet to be fought.
Chicago’s , team, with a declared weak
ness In the line, placed itself firmly in the
race Saturday by its defeat of Purdue
In Saturday's game the Maroons showed
some of the possibilities friends claimed
for them at the opening of the season.
Their back field proved more shifty than
that of the visitors. Their kicking and
covering of kicks was superb.
Purdue showed three weaknesses, inabil
ity to kick, inability to cover short and
high kicks and inability to handle long
and elusive spirals. Illinois proved its
right for another week at least in select
company by defeating the Indiana team.
The Illinois have a hard month’s play
ahead of them, meeting four "big nine"
teams in succession. Its battles with Chi
cago this week is the decisive one in its
schedule.
Brack tin Scored Touchdown
Carlisle, Pa.. October 26.—Coach Glenn
Warner announced tonight that it was
liracklin, the. Indian halfback, and not
Guyon, left halfback, who scored the
touchdown against the University of
Pennsylvania eleven in their annual foot
ball game Saturday.
Fight Postponed
New York, October 26.—The 10-round
bout between Leach Cross and Willie
Ritchie, which was to have taken place
here next Wednesday night, has been
postponed to November 10. because ol’ an
injury sustained by Cross to a muscle
over his rib. A specialist today said
Cross will be able to fight November 10.
This is a day of specialists ■
—Successful men confine
energies to one line.
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TENNESSEE CONTINUES TO LEAD
. ENTIRE COUNTRY IN SCORING
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TENNESSEE LADS HAVE SCORED
234 POINTS—GEORGIA A DIS
TANT SECOND—AUBURN HAS
NOT BEEN SCORED UPON
By ASA ROUNTREE, JR.
Although the pigskin warriors repre
senting the University of Tennessee did
not swing action Saturday, they never
theless continue to lead not only the
southern colleges, but the entire country,
in piling up scores on opposing elevens.
The Tennessee lads have scored a total
of 234 points in four games to a total of
17 made by the opposition. Georgia fol
lows far in the rear with a total of 192,
while Georgia Tech ranks third with 183.
Auburn is the only team in the south
that has not been scored on this season.
Georgia and Vanderbilt were scored on
for the first time Saturday by Virginia
and Michigan, respectively. The Virginia
eleven scored 13 points against the Blue
and Red aggregation, while the Wolver
ines piled up 33 against the Commodores.
Georgia Tech has been found by the oppo
sition for only 9 points.
Mercer scored her first points of the
season Saturday against Citadel, while
Clemson has been able to amass only 6
points this year.
The following is a list of the points
made by and against the principal south
ern universities:
Alabama-Opponent: Score.
Howard . 27 0
Clemson .A. 20 0
Georgia . 0 20
Tulano . 26 0
Totals ... 73 20
Georgia-Opponents: Score, j
Alabama Preds . 108 0
Dahlnriega . 51 0
Alafmma . 20 0
Virginia . 6 13
Totals . 192 13
Auburn-Opponents: Score.
Mercer ..■. 53 0
Florida .!. 55 0
Clemson . 20 0
A. and M. 34 0
Totals . 154 0
Ttt'nessee-Opponent: Score.
Carson and Newman . 58 0
Athens . 95 0
Maryville . 75 0
Sewanee . 6 17
Totals . 234 17
Vanderbilt-Opponent: Score.
Maryville . 59 0
Central of Kentucky . 48 0
Henderson . 33 0
Michigan . 2 33
Totals . 142 33
Georgia Tech-Opponent: Score:
Seventeenth . 19 0
Citadel . 47 0
Chattanooga . 71 0
Mercer . 33 0
Florida . 13 3
Totals . 183 9
Mercer-Opponent: Score:
Auburn . 9 &3
Tech . 0 89
Citadel . 7 7
Totals . 7 93
Sewanee-Opponent: Score.
Chattanooga. 28 0
Marlon . 88 0
Tennessee ....,. 17 H
Texas .. 7 13
Totals . 140 39
Clemson-Opponent: Score.
Davidson . 9
Alabama . 9 p9
Auburn . 9 -9
Totals . 9 4»
Atlanta. Ga., October 20.—Football in
Dixie tliis season promises to prove even
more complex than it lias in previous
years. With the smoke of yesterday’s
gridiron battles throughout the soutli
clearing away, experts today ore 'busily
ligurlng on the comparative strength of
tlie various elevens which will battle for
the 8. I. A. A. championship of 1913.
Easily the greatest surprise among yes
terday’s games was the Georgia-Virginia
clash, it lmd been predicted that Georgia
would not lie able to hold the heavier vet
erans from Charlottesville to a close seore
and many Georgia supporters admitted
that the hopes of the red and black were
limited to scoring. The fact that Vir
ginia was held to a tie until the last few
minutes of play, and won by the narrow
margin of 13 to (i. tlierefore was regarded
as a distinct surprise.
VanaerDllt s poor snowing against
Michigan proved a surprise. Yost’s Wol
verines apparently outclassed the Com
modores in every department and pre
dictions now are made by gridiron ex
perts that Vanderbilt will have to show
great improvement in order to meet the
standard of play already set by Auburn,
Georgia and Sewanee.
Sewanee’s stubborn fi^ht with Texas
at Dallas indicated that the Tigers are
an important factor in the S. I. A. A.
race. Florida’s showing against Georgia
Tech yesterday also was a surprise, ■ It
having been thought that the Floridians
would prove easy picking for the Yellow
Jackets. Auburn recently defeated Flor
ida by a large score while the best Geor
gia Tech could do was to win 13 to 3.
While Georgia Tech was having its hard
battle with Florida, Ajiburn was rolling
up a score of 34 to 0 Against Mississippi
A. and M.. a team always regarded as
a strong contender for southern football
honors.
While much of the scoring of yester
day’s games was the direct result of
cleverly executed forward passes, it was
significant that the majority of the win
ning teams depended for their best ground
gaining on “straight football,’’ with few
trick formations. As a result the element
of luck was not a deciding factor in the
more Important contests.
Next Saturday should witness a num
ber of battles of even greater Interest
than those played yesterday. Georgia
meets North Carolina, Sewanee plays
Georgia Tech, Virginia clashes with Van
derbilt, Auburn faces Louisiana State apd
Mississippi A and M. is matched with
the Texas Aggies. In addition to these
there will be a number of Interesting
games c# lens Importance. Not until next
week will it be possible to measure the
strength of the leading elevens with any
degree of accuracy.
ENTRIES FOR 100-MILE RACE I
CLOSE—16 CARS ENTERED
M. I). BRANDES
A prominent local jeweler who w ill drive a car in the hundred mile race.
Entries for the 100-mile race, which will
be staged at~the fair grounds on Wednes
day, October 29, closed yesterday evening
with two additional cars entered, bringing
the total number of cars entered for the
big race up to 10.
The cars entered yesterday were as fol
lows:
National 40—Entered by E. S. Hanberger
of Birmingham; will be driven by Willis
Odell.
Pope-Hart ford—Entered by Highland
garage; will be driven by C. F. As good of
Atlanta.
Over 1000 out of town reservations have
been received by the promoters, and this
number is expected to be greatly in
creased during the coming two days. The
sale of tickets in this city has also been
large, and indications are that the largest
crowd ever gathered In Birmingham will
witness‘the race.
Although the race will not begin Wed
nesday' until 2 o’clock, the gates at the
fair grounds will be opened at 12 o’clock.
Practice spine were held over the race
course yesterday' afternoon by several of
the cars entered for the big race. One
car, the Hornet, met with an accident.
The car, occupied by' L. B. Graham and
Tome McKane, tvas going about 50 miles
an hour when a tire came off on the far
curve, causing it to crash through the
fence. The car turned over and landed,
right side up. Outside of a few bruises
the occupants were all right. The car
■was disabled pretty badly, but it will be
repaired in time for the race. A large
number of local people attended the trials
yesterday.
Practice will be held again Tuesday aft
ernoon.
American League All-Star
Team Better Than Nationals
The Athletics, the 1913 world's cham
pions, have a pretty good batting club.
Everyone admits it. Batting goes a long
way in deciding ball games, as was shown
in the recent world's series. Now, tak-*
ing all these things into consideration,
how would you like to see two clubs, one
from the American and the other frpm
the National, who hit over .300?
Two such teams could be gotten to
gether. They sure would he all-star
clubs, as most of the real starry athletes
of the two leagues art; among the mem
bers of the two nines.
Just like the Athletics outswatted the
Giants in the .championship series, tile
American league all-star batting team
has it on that of the National, and by a
margin of 10 points, too. The heaviest
slugging team in the Ban Johnson circuit
has a cpmbined ’average of .336, while
that of the' National is .326.
Not a player for either the Browns or j
Cardinals gets a place on the all-star hit
ting clubs of the two major leagues.
George Stovall, who managed the Browns
until September 6, when he was deposed
in favor of Branch Rickey, might have
gotten a place if Stuffy wielnnis had not
been in the league. That’s the closest
St. Louis came to having a man on either
of the heavy hitting organizations.
Good Pitcher Is Lacking
Not only does the American team out
class that of the National, but it also
has the better players. Put Connie Mackj
and John McGraw in charge of the two
clubs and there would sure be some bat
tling, but McGraw, if he had the team, |
would be somewhat hindered for a good
pitcher.
Earl Tingling of the Superbas is the
hurler who draws the honor in the Tom
Lynch organization. He was the lead
ing slugger of the league, with a\ marie
of .373. Now', everyone knows that Ting- ;
ling is not considered such a much of a
pitcher, but he draws the honor because
he hit the ball so hard during the 1913
campaign.
With the American league it is differ- j
ent. The greatest hurler in the country, ■
who is none other than Walter Johnson,
carries off the honors, with a swatting j
percentage* of .280. What Walter lacks
in hitting, when compared to Tingling,
he makes up more than 10-fold wnen it .
comes to fooling the opposing batters, j
Infielders Nearly all Athletics
lu the infield for the Ame^can league
all stars you would have every one of
the Athletics’ famous $100,000 bunch with
the exception of Jack Barry at short.
Collins, Mclnnis and Baker led their op
ponents Jn batting for their respective
positions, but Barry foil below Ray Chap
man of the Naps, so the latter gets first
place, but only in hitting.
The outfield also would be manned by
a trio of stars. Ty Cobb in, center. ,
There’s no question about ids being a
rather pert performer. Then Jackson in .
right is another. Olaf Henriksen draws
the left field position. Steve O’Neill was
the leading hitting catcher iu the Amer
ican league and gets the place.
For the Tom Ryncn crew there are
ndt so many real stars. Jake Dauhert,
the best first sacker in the league, draws 1
the initial station Job. Jimmy Viox of
the Pirates, second; Heine Zimmerman,
Cubs, third, and Hans Wagner of the j
Pirates, short, are the other infielders.
Jack Meyers is the catcher. -
Phillies Draw Garden Assignments
In the outfield, for the hardest swat- I
ting nine in the National, a trio • of
Phillies pull down the honors. Gavvy
Cravath, leading home run hitter oT the
majors, draws right, Sherry Magee left
and Beals Becker the center field Job.
Two members who get places on the
club In the Ban Johnson circuit fell below
the .3U0 mark during tin* season. They
were Chapman, wlm hit .387, and Johnson,
.380. Not one of the National leaguers
dropped out of the select circle.
JLlere are tile two leading swatting
teams In the -American and National
leagues:
American League
Name—Team and position. Ave.
Johnson, Washington: pitcher .280
O’Neill, Cleveland; catcher .\ .805
Mclnnis, Philadelphia; first .322
Collins, Philadelphia; second .340 j
Baker, Philadelphia; third .33S !
Chapman, Cleveland; short .287 j
Henriksen, Boston; left.385
Cobb, Detroit; center .391,
Jackson, Cleveland; right.372 i
Total average .836
National League
Name—Team and position. Ave.
Yingling, Brooklyn; pitcher . .306
Meyers, New York; catcher .306
Daubert, Brooklyn; first . .360
Vlox, Pittsburg; second .309
Zimmerman. Chicago; third .313 i
Wagner, Pittsburg; short .306 i
Magee, Philadelphia; left ....312
Becker, Philadelphia; center .321
Cravath, Philadelphia; right .:i31
Total average .326 <
In Sporting Circles
* II y ASA ROUNTREE, JR.
FAILING utterly to display the form
that, was anticipated, the Missis
sippi Aggies, by falling easy vic
tims to the powerful assaults lost nearly
all of the prestige that they enjoyed be
fore coming to Birmingham. Throughout
the south the Misslsslppians were consid
ered strong contenders for the southern
championship, but the showing made Sat
urday eliminated them fr.om any further
consideration.
* * * . ^ ^
The defeat of the Purdue eleven at
the hands of Chicago Saturday lgcnlls
the fact that not since 1894 has Purdue
defeated the University of Chicago on
the gridiron. The game was then in Its
Infancy at Chicago, while Purdue had
been playing the sport for several years.
In 3901 they, tied It up, but eve* since
then the Maroon aggregation has been a
victor. From 1901 until 1910 the scores
were entirely one-sided, but the Purduo
lads have held their opponents down
much better during the past three sea
sons.
* * *
James E. Onffney, president of the Bos
ton Nationals, has retracted the accusa
tions that he made against the New Yoj'k
club officials concerning the, handling of
world's series tickets. In making amends
Mr. Gaffney said:
"I frankly confess I had the wrong
dope. It is my desire now to put Mr.
Hempstead right In the eyes of the pub
lic, for, upon investigation, 1 have found
that the local sales were conducted alo^g
the mogt honoftible lines. .1 am very
sorry that I so unjustly criticised his
work. My eyes were opened by a person
al experience. I bought four boxes from
Mr. Hempstead. Three of them were for
my friends. One of these men, who was
secretary to my former^ partner, the Into
John D. Carroll, sold his box for $300.
He was up# before District: Attorney Whit
man todaj% and got * good panning. Now.
the point 1 make is, that if friends of
mine speculated on boxes, who on earth
could prevent some1 of-the limited few
thousands of reserved scats falling into
the hands of scalpers? I am satisfied
! tl»a.t Mr. Hempstead did bis. level best.'’
* * *
The traditional lines that separated the
. teams of the South Atlantic Intercolleg
iate Athletic association and the South
ern Intercollegiate Athletic association
have beery'broken. And the Georgia-Vir
ginia game, played Saturday in Atlanta,
is responsible. For several years gridiron
enthusiasts of the entire south have been
trying to beat down the barriers, but all
| attempts met with failure until Virginia
consented to meet Georgia. From now on
it is expected that intersectional battles
will bo common occurrences and it is
hoped thatVthe.se relations will extend to
the diamond and track.
Voters Will Probably Pre
sent Petitions Asking that
Election be Called
Atlanta, October 26.—(Special.)—It looks
as if the first application of Initiative
legislation under the recentlV adopted
amendment to Atlanta’s charter will come
in connection with the city’s public
schools.
The public school system has been a
subject of agitation for some time grow
ing out of the fact of insufficient sup
port. Many of the school buildings are
too small to accommodate the pupils who
apply for admission. Conditions of many
of the schools from a sanitary stand
point are wholly inadequate. The board
of education has announced that it has
done everything possible with the fund
allowed by the city, and unless more
money is forthcoming the conditions so
severely complained of cannot he rem
edied.
After a month’s discussion of those
conditions, somebody suddenly suggested
this week the initiative and referendum
clause of the city charter, adopted at a
special election held in September.
“Why not,” said W. T. Terrell at a
meeting of the board, “set the girls in
the Commercial High school to work
turning out typewritten petitions to be
signed by the voters for a referendum
vote?” \
The idea took at once ,and just atLsoon
as the plan can be arranged, 60 type
writer girls in the Commercial High
school, it is said, will be set to work pre
paring petitions for initiative legislation
relative to the maintenance of the entire
scho«4 system.
It is probable that the details of the
plan will not be worked out until a meet
ing of the board of education early in
November. Hut the vital question which
is to be settled is one of ddequate school
funds, and from the attitude of council
it looks as it' the only possibility of set
tlement will come from a submission of
the wdiole question to the people.
The shape this question will have to
I take would be as to whether a special
tax should be levied for the support of
public schools, independent of and apart
from Hie general tax plan under which
council apportions whatever amount it
sees |lt to the school system. Tin* refer
endum legislation would deal with the
proposition as to whether such a special
tax should be levied and to what ex
tent.
If 26 per cent of Atlanta’s voters asked
for such an election it would have to be
called, and then the question submitted
to the voters would In: as between the
special tax feu* schools and t'he present
plan under which council gives them just
i what it sees Ht.
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