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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-12
LARRY M'LEAN MEETS
CHARLEY SCHMIDT AT
NEW YORK TUESDAY

NEW YORK, Oct. 12,-No bout that
has been arranged for this city. not
even excepting the bouts in which
champions, alleged champions and
near champions have figured, has
caused more interest than that in which
Larry Mclean catcher extraordinary
of the Cincinnati National league base
ball club, and Charlie" Schmidt. chief
of the catching bureau of the Provi-
dence International league team, will
be the principals at the New Star Ath-
letic club next Tuesday night.
At last these two opponents of the
padded mitt and mitts are to meet
within the confines of the squared ring.
They have been at loggerheads for
some time and have threatened more
than once to settle their differences
without obligating thmselves to adhere
to the we'll defined demands of the
Marquis of Queensberry code as modi
fed and regulated by the state athletic
commission.
Finally they went TO the manager Of
the New Star and requested that they
be permitted to use the clubs ring. The
managers business instinct whispered
to him and he decided that they might,
provided the public be admitted to see
the contest, and Mclean and Schmidt
agreed.
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SOX AND CUBS TIE; MAY
PLAY GAMES ALL WINTER

CHICAGO, Oct. 12-With the score
tied 3 to 3. the second game of the
series between the Chicago American
and National league clubs was called
yesterday in the twelfth inning because
Of darkness. The game was>the sec
ond tie in the series, the opening con-
test Tuesday ending without score.
Lord and Weaver collided at full
speed in center field in the eighth in
ming, when each was trying for Mil
ler's hit They were knocked uncon-
scious. and both had to be carried from
the field. Lord quickly recovered, but
Weaver was in a dazed condition for
several hours
Johnson, a recruit. who took Wea
ver's place at short, enabled the White
Sox to tie up the game in the ninth
inning. after the Cubs had taken the
lead in the eighth. With Borton on
first, johnson tripled, scoring him. Eas
terly followed with q triple, his fourth
hit Of the game, and brought Johnson
home with the tieing run
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Bv John j. Tigert.

(Fullback of the Vanderbilt football
team in 1901 -o2 -o3-o4 and later
the first Rhodes scholar from
Tennessee to Oxford, England.)
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-12

~ HICAGO, Oct. 12.-From the
high school football field. TO
the prize ring; from the halls
of learning into the heat of flstic
fray; from moleskins into trunks
and boxing gloves-that's the jump
Ben Groutch, who captained a
championship Cook county high
school football team last fall, has
decided to take.
Groutch was graduated from
Crane High school last June with
a diploma and the reputation of
being one of the best football play
ers who ever made tackle for the
Crane colors. He played three years
on the team. the first two as half
back and the last one, 1911, as
fullback. In 1911 he was the cap
tain of the gridiron squad.
Groutch's 1911 team work won the
Cook county championship last
fall in the minor division of high
schools. That was as far as
Crouch could lead his team, for
the boys were not big enough to
compete in the major division.
During vacation last summer
Groutch watched Chat Is, he did
watch for awhile) some of the IA
nous ringmen swatting one an
other about the Nate Lewis gym
nasium in Madison street. Crouch
is a cousin of Nathan and haunted
his place because he loved the
thud of the padded fist, just as
much as he enjoyed the smack of a
sharp tackle on the field of high
school gIory--the gridiron.
Crouch Boxes x. o. Brown.
One Gay when Crouch was pres
ent there staggered into the gym
nasium as tough a looking party
as one would care to gaze on at
close quarters. The rough person
began TO divest himself of his
clothes preparatory TO a workout
in the ring. AS Groutch watched
the fellows bullying muscles he
asked Lewis, who is that man."
That's Knockout Brown. the
coming champion of the middle
weights" remarked Lewis, who
manages the Greek terror DO
YOU want to box with him? He is
shy of sparring partners because
he hits them too hard
To Lewis surprise. Groutch real
trunks, pulled on some big mitts
and went six ROUNDS with the
knockout lad. who has fought all
the good 1881 Founders in the game.
The gridiron hero and the ring
veteran went at it in slam bang
fashion and the moleskin boy was
on his feet after eighteen minutes,
He took Iacing but he smiled
back through the blood that smear
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-12
CHICAGO BOY JUMPS
FROM SCHOOL TO RING

ed his face and looked ready for
more.
Lewis thought well of him from
that time on, and so did Brown.
Crouch and the Greek are the best
of friends Lewis has agreed to
handle Ben, and in a month or so
will start matching him up. He
calls him a middleweght hope
He Is Only a Kid.
Crouch has just turned twenty
years. He weighs about 152 pounds
stripped and is growing right along
He'll be a real middleWeight pretty
soon.
Lewis and Brown expect to make
a trip to the coast this winter ana
they intend to take Groutch with
them. They want him to see the
best in action and to learn all he
can before they start him out aft
err the good one.
Crouch is strong well behaved
and is ambitious. Brown predicts
bright future for him.
The former Crane gridiron star
was born in Chicago He is Jew
and lives at 334S Lexington street
He says he'll box any middleweight
who communicates with that num-
her
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John ge Famous Vand Player Tells the Play He Ever Saw
HOW JOHN EDGERTON WON GAME ALL BY HIMSELF

have been so spectacular to the
crowd. but it stupefed the men in
the game. H. was in that memora-
BILE game between Vanderbilt and
the University of Nashville when
Nashville had gathered team
which averaged more than 200
pounds from tackle to tackle,
This team had overwhelmed ev-
erything in the South. We hear
much of "Sewanee pluck" and de-
servedly So but this team made
Sewanee quit and ran through them
for a touchdown on kickoff At
the time the play | have in mind
was made neither side had scored.
Vanderbilt had held Nashville for
downs. several times within the
shadow of her own goal and. after
three plays, a recovered punt,
45-yard run by Mclean on a de-
laYed pass and d penalty for Off
side, now held the ball for the first
time in Nashvilles territory.
will give Grantland Rice's de-
scription of the play, written in his
own inimitable manner, since ] can
not hope to equal it:
The ball was now on Nashville's
ten-yard line The Vanderbilt CON
tingent rose in a body. Sharp and
clear the signal for Vanderbilts
great captain was called, and Edg-
erton, with the force Of a batter
ing ram, hurled his weight into the
line.
1T. wavered, then gave complete
~ away and the tawney- haired
plunger came through like a shot.
Two men tackled him on the five
yard line, but he swept them off
their feet and, with superhuman
strength, writhed and wggled and
twisted and fought his way across
the goal line with four men trying
to check his mad march for glory"
This is the greatest play l ever
saw. l would like to add that I
have always felt exceedingly guilty
in connection with this play. We
were all so stupefied when we saw
Edge" topple over that line Of
giants and saw him get up with
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-12
ATHLETICS WIN SERIES
FROM FOGEL'S PHlLLIES

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 12.-The Phil
adelphia American league baseball
team won the championship of the city
here yesterday by defeating the Phila-
delphia Nationals in the fifth game of
the inter-league series by the score of
to , The American league team took
four of the five games played.
Carroll Brown pitched for the former
worlds champions. RiXey. who start
ed for the Nationals, was replaced by
Chalmers in the fifth "Runt'' Walsh,
who started on the receiving for the
Phillies. was replaced by Moran in the
third inning, after two passed balls had
been charged against him
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Bv Monty.

-EW YORK. Oct. 12.-This is a
\ back field year" in football.
Practically every new man of
any real promise whatever deVel-
med this far. in the East at least,
fl. member of the ball carrying
.orns. 1t seems certain that when
he curtain shall have rung down
., The end of November, the fellow
-tsmned as the seasons greatest
crfdiron warrior will be one of the
opartet behind the line. Yale, Har-
yard Princeton and Pennsylvania
the Big Four-all have their one
particular crack who has jumped
into the fore at the outset.
Duriny the last decade the bright
sneciaI lights of the several seasons
have hailed from almost every po-
sitjon.
Last year he was an end-the
one. only and peerless Sam White,
of Princeton. who picked up fun
bled balls and galloped over half
the field length in scoring victo-
rios over Yale. Harvard and Dart
mouth.
The preceding season he was a
quarter back-Earl Sprackling, of
Brown. who, practically unsupport-
cd bv mediocre team, tore off
open field runs of dazzling brillian-
~. his greatest achievement being
an almost single handed defeat Of
Yale.
In 1909 Jack Fitzpatrick, typical
Yale style of compound end, was
the sensation, his wing of the team
being totally impregnable all the
wear. and his work in getting down
under kicks put him among the
greatest ends in history.
Coy Greatest of All.
The season Of 1908 brought forth
the man considered by many the
greatest that ever played. He was
full back, the tremendous Ted
COY. Of Yale, the best all around
kicker Of his year, and the most
powerful line pulverizer within
memory.
That this year of 1912 will offer a
man even closely comparable with
Ted Coy is not to be expected.
Another full back was the star of
1907 in Sam Kennard, of Harvard,
who made a field goal that beat
Yale
Walter Eckersall, Chicago's mar
yelous quarter back of 1906, was in
class by himself as drop kicker,
was an untouchable specter in an
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-12
TICKET SPECTATORS
ARRESTED AND FINED

NEW YORK, oct. ia dozen men,
charged with ticket speculation, ar
rested outside the Polo grounds yes
terday, were fined $40 apiece in police
court.
The operations Of the men apparent
ly were of a limited nature as most Of
the arrests were made comparatively
early in the day, and none of the pris-
Oners was found to have more than g
half dozen tickets. The large number
of seats-30,000 in au-aValable at the
gates. had left the spectators little
opportunity to ply successful trade.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-12

(Fullback of the Vanderbilt football
team in 1901 -o2 -o3- o4 and later
the first Rhodes scholar from
Tennessee to Oxford, Eng land.)
T%HERE is such a diversity of
play in modern football and
such a difference in their ma
ture that many kinds of plays are
practically Incompatible. 1t is diff
ficut to compare a wonderful kick
with a skillfully executed forward
pass, or an old time smash through
the line with half the team hiking
the man with the ball. with one of
these artful, lodging runs through
broken field which so delights
spectators.
The most remarkable kick | ever
saw was in a game of Rugby, play
ed at Oxford. England, between the
all-South Africans and oxford uni
versity. A South African, running
at top speed and surrounded by
several tacklers, dropped a goal
from the field at a distance of about
50 yards
This is no effort at humor, nor
application for membership in the
Ananias club. It's fact
1t was truly a wonderful play,
and the ball sailed over the center
OF the posts clear out of the park.
L looked as If it would have gone
over from the center of the field.
Yea, 30, II Was Some Kick.
1t very much resembled in this
respect kick made by Fitzpatrick,
of Sewanee, in 1900 which won
game from Vanderbilt by an eye
lash, as it We're.
Vanderbilt had made two touch
downs and had missed both goals
Sewanee had made one touchdown
and kicked goal. There were only
a few minutes to play and Vandy
seemed to have the game slowed
away on ice. Sewanee heeled a
talr catch near the center of the
field. With the wind blowing
hurricane behind his back, Kilpat-
rick kicked the ball clear out of the
~ AiV Ipulu IOl nave kicked II
nearer the center of the bar if he
had measured it with a rule and
the ball landed in the top of a tree
standing behind the north goal on
Dudley field. In those days a goal
from the field tailed five points. so
this phenomenal kick gave the III
gers the game by a score of II
to 10.
! have seen Phil Connell dash
down the field bowling over a whole
team with his arm. one after an
other as fast as they came to him.
| have seen Hubby Davis make
touchdoWns from the kickoff. side
stepping man after man. | have
seen Bob Blake catch punts and run
through whole team for touch
down. | have seen Frank Kyle
shoot along like a rabbit, chang
ing his direction every second and
never Stacking his speed But be-
lieve the greatest play I ever saw
was executed by John Edgerton.
Edgerton and Oscar Jenkins
were the greatest line plungers
ever saw. jerks" was faster than
Edge" and could. with ridiculous
ease, carry IS many men as could
climb on; but Edge" had more
power and was harder to tackle
than any man | have seen in action
in his time or since.
Edgerton's Bio Play.
The play | refer TO might not
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-12
CLABBY MAKES HASH OF
J. SKELLYS SUBSTITUTE

GARY, IND, Oct Jimmy Clabby
knocked out Tom Mcnahan, OF Chicago,
here last night, The bout was stopped
in the fourth round by Chief OF Police
Martin.
Monahan was so badly punished that
1t was unwise to continue the one
sided affair longer. Clabby was to have
met Jack Shelly, Of Terre Haute, but
Jack failed to show.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-10-12
WEAVER, THOUGH BADLY
HURT, IS OUT OF DANGER

CHICAGO. Oct 12.-GeOrge Buck"
Weaver. member of the White Sox
team. who was injured yesterday in the
second game of the city series when he
collided with Captain Harry Lord. was
declared out of danger today by DR.. j.
II. Blair.
Viewers injuries, at first thought to
be serious, were superficial. according
to the physician. He believes the short
stop can get back in the game by the
middle OF next week
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two Titans standing on his chest on
the five yard line, that we stood
with eyes open and mouths gaping,
rendering no more assistance 70
him than is given a runner in these
latter days, since hiking" has been
prohibited.
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opeu ltlu, sturdy lnlefreFer Tor
his backs and an unfailing general
in directing the attack.
Tom Shevlin, a human combina-
ton of a battering RAM. stone wall
and bullet, who featured every Yale
game in 1908, was a greater end
even than Fitzpatrick, because of
the fearful speed with which he
hurled his 200 pounds down the
field
In 1904 the guard position had its
day John Dewitt, certainly the
most sensational and one of the
most capable linemen in the annals of
the game, held the center of the
stage. His long run, la Sam
White, followed by a 45-yard goal
after a fair catch, humbled Yale
and won the Tigers the battle.
Then There Was Heston.
Willie Heston. a half back of the
irresistible, keep on going, tear
them apart sort, won the 1908 hon
ors for Michigan. Now. coming to
the first year of the decade, we
find Columbia possessing the top
rung man. He was Harold Weeks,
the wonderful half back and hur-
dler, whose fame has lived in New
York's big university these ten
years, though the game he helped
make great has been under faculty
ban.
Surveying the entire ten years,
we find three ends, two quarter
backs, one guard, two full backs
and two half backs in the conspic-
uous class. In other words, there
are four linemen and six backs. The
line seems Is stand little chance
of catching up any of the difference
this year.
Flynn Is a Wonder.
The quartet who have bounded to
the fore are Flynn of Yale, Hard
wick of Harvard. Fred Trenkman
of Princeton, and Harrington of
Pennsylvania. OF the bunch Hard
wick and Flynn look the best, with
an edge in favor of Flynn. The
latter played his first varsity game
for Yale against Syracuse a week
ago. and was two thirds of the at
tack, as well as a star on de-
Tense Among other things, he
scored two of Yale's three touch
downs and still another, which was
disallowed because the officials
considered that he hurdled one
taclIler All of them were on runs
of between 20 and 80 yards. At
Yale they are booming Lefty
Flynn, a second Ted Coy. That, to
be sure, is going a little too far,
but after seeing his great perform
ance Of last week, We can not 90
otherwise than declare him to APP
pear at least the equal Of any man
since the great Ted.
Walter Camp, Jr., a Star.
1t is sincerely to be hoped that
the illness of Walter Camp, Jr.. will
not prove so serious as to keep him
off the Yale eleven in the fall If
in condition. he should prove, as he
did toward the close of last season.
one of the most valuable men on
the team, both as runner and kick
err The younger Camps path to
football fame has not been an easy
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Big Football Men
Of Past 10 Years

. l9o2-Harold Weeks. Columbia.
. half back.
. 19O3-Willie Heston, Michigan.
. half back.
l9O4-John Dewitt. Princeton,
. guard.
l905-Tom Shevlin. Yale. end
Q 19O6-Walter EckersaH. Chica-
go, quarter back.
l9O1-Sam Kennard, Harvard.
. full back
19o8-Ted Coy, Yale, full back.
. l9o9-John Fitzpatrick, Yale, end.
. l9lO-Earl Sprackling. Brown,
o quarter back.
. 191l-Sam White Princeton. end.
The Detroit times., 1912-01-18

SAGINAW, Mich. Jan. 1S.--Train
No. I. on the Pere Marquettc was
DELAYED az Novi. near Plymouth. a.
O'Clock this morning. by the defai'-
ment Of seven cars. No one was ~
inred.
The Detroit times., 1912-01-18
mrs. SOUTHW|Ck GRANTED
DIVORCE AND GETS BACK
LAND DECIDED TO HUSBAND
Judge Hosmer Rules That Wife
Has Established Charge
of Cruelty
DEFENDANT is SCORED
when a Man of 40 Marries a
Woman of Sc 1t Invites Sus-
picion," Says Court

Mrs. Frank s. Southwick was grant
ed divorce from her husband, VIII
liam ID. Southwick, by Judge Hosmer,
Thursday morning, after a sensational
trial lasting almost two weeks. The
decree also provides that the deeds by
which Mrs. Southwick transferred q
valuable piece of real estate on Third
ave., to her husband, be set aside.
The decision was announced after
an argument by Attorney James
Pound, for the husband, which lasted
for more than two hours. Former
Judge Lockwood, who appeared for
Mrs. Southwick, rose to reply, but
Judge Hosmer motioned the attorney
to sit down, saying that his mind was
made up as to the course he would
take.
II Will not attempt to fathom the
motive of this woman in marrying
this man SO shortly after the death of
her husband" Judge Hosmer stated.
1T is sufficient for me to say that she
had been bereaved by the loss of her
son, then her husband and soon after
ward her father. II may be that her
feeling of loneliness and her sense OF
gratitude toward the defendant
prompted her to act as she did
There was also, believe, certain
infatuation on her part, which l will
not attempt to explain. When q man
of 45 marries woman of Sc, 1t always
invites a suspicion which may not be
deserved, but when certain actions fol.
low. as has been testified to here, the
court Is apt to jump to speedy con,
clusion. From the first there appears
to have been disposition on the part
OF the defendant to dominate every &C.
tion of his wife. | can hardly under
stand the insistence of the defendant
upon ruling every act or his wife, and
his actions, believe, furnish grounds
upon which to grant divorce. Had the
Continued ON Page Eleven.
The Detroit times., 1912-01-18
vANISHES FROM VIEW
when .UNMASKEO AS MAN
GIVEN UP AS DEAD
Soldier, Athlete and Educator
Was Believed To Have Been
Drowned in st. Lawrence.
$4,000 PAID ON HIS LIFE
Courts Young Girl, Notwith-
standing He Has Wife and
Two Children

NEW YORK, Jan. 18.-Vanishing
after crushing his canoe 80 1t would
be believed that he was dead-a plot
that worked SO we'll that his wife col
lected $4,000 life insurance--Capt
Barton Cruikshank, or Potsdam, N.
", soldier, athlete and educator, wan
dered about the country for several
months and then came TO New York
as Donald Douglas" Under that
name it developed today, he courted
Miss Catherine Fobert. Of Centre
Moriches, Long Island. But Just when
| It seemed that he had succeeded ~
assuming new personality, Cruik
shank was recognized by former asso-
ciates, and he is again fugitive.
At her home today, Miss Robert told
of her engagement. She was intro
duced to Douglas" by her brother
who had met him In a business way.
Last Saturday Miss Robert accom-
panied him to Porto Rican steamer
on which he was to have sailed LOT
Nuguabo, Porto Rico, on business con-
nected with the engineering and con-
tracing establishment he had opened
here. Friends here believe he did not
sail, but took some other route know
ing that he had been recognized
"I knew Capt Cruikshank as Don
aid Douglas" said Miss Robert today,
"and had no reason to even suspect
that he was anything but what he
represented himself to be. He sug-
gested marriage and l agreed to wed
hi>, when his business became pront-
aEe.
But that he was the Capt. Cruik-
shank who disappeared. we had not
the slightest suspicion. The knowl-
edge that he was married and has two
children has utterly prostrated me.
am glad discovered his duplicity IN
time"
Cruikshank told L. z. CHM, a New
York lawyer who went to see him
after his identity had been estab-
-lished by Adjt.-Gen. Verbeck OF the
State National Guard, that he had lost
his money trying to establish miit-
tary school and decided to disappear.
In June, 1910, he went canoeing on
the st. Lawrence and stove in the
side OF the canoe so 1t would appear
he had been run down by a steamer
and drowned. Then he went to Cleye-
land and worked as soldier for the
National Guard Magazine. He attend.
ed national guard encampments and
finally came here where as Donald
Douglas he got contract to do some
engineering work for the national
guard. Gen. Verbeck met and recog-
nized him. Verbeck sent word to
Mrs. Cruikshank's attorney and later
the latter had CHM see him.
II Is said arrangements will be
made TO refund to the Insurance COM
panies the money paid by them on
Cz-SSshank's policies.