Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13
PREP SCHOOLS
GREAT HELP To
COLLEGE TEAMS
Vanderbilt and Sewanee Secure
COrking Athletes From Ten
nessee Institutions.
BY Frank Anderson.
coach at Riverside Military Aead-
envy, Who Has Developed Many
corkine Diamond Stars.)

SHJ' VINO TaS developed Many
Corking Diamond Stars.)
THE question is often asked,
Where do Vanderbilt and Sc
vance get so many good ath-
letes?" 1t is easily answered: From
the prep schools of the State of Ten
nessee. That State is full of prep
schools, prominent among which
might be mentioned Castle Heights,
Mooney Branham and Hughes, T. NJ
l. Webb's School, Bowen, Morgan
School, Winthrop. Sewanee Military
Academy, Hawkins School, McCalie
School, Baylor Branden Training
School, Vanderbilt Training School,
etc.
OF late years the prep schools of
Georgia have done their share in
building up the big college teams Of
the State. Though there are only a
lew good prep schools in Georgia,
they are among the best to be found
IN the South. Some, of the best ath-
letes ever turned out in Dixie got
their training at Stone Mountain,
Gordon, G. NJ. c., Riverside. @ NJ. A.,
Marist, Peacock and Locust Grove.
The list Of good ones coming from
the prep schools is imposing. Let's
see. At Georgia have been "Peg"
thurman, Omar Franklin, Bob and
Hamilton McWhorter, Henderson and
Clements, Of Gordon; kid" Wood
ruff, Baby" Wilder, Punk" Malone
Carter Franklin and Kyle Smith, of
Stone Mountain; Shorty" Brooks,
John Cox, Starke and Rucker CHM,
Joe Harrell, DeLaperriere, Tabor and
Billy Powell. of Riverside: Timon
Bowden and Bill Annette, of Locust
Grove; Frank Martin and Charlie
Thompson, of Boys High School, and
George Harrison, of Marist.
At Tech Ed Lafitte, of Marist;
Jim Luck and ErslIine Mayer, Of G.
NJ. A; Armistead, Goree, Goat Hol-
liday and Tommy Mcmillan, of Boys
High School; Doc" Wilson, Carl
sloan. Wooten and Amason, of Stone
Mountain.
At Mercer Bradley Hogg, Biz
Faulk and CLAY Binion, of Gordon;
Ernest Gray. Of Locust Grove.
PrePs Good Start for Boys.
II is only in the last few years that
Georgia and Tech have been around
the top Of me s l. A. A 1t used TO
he Van1 rhilt Sewanee, Auburn or
Ternesr TIE prep school is com
ing in .'s own, and henceforth the
COLLEGES Of the State must look to
them '0 furnish their star athletes
Tn reason is a good one. AT the
rep school the aspiring athlete is
to-oEf the very rudiments Of the
game, things that a college coach
Sup-Cs7s already known. Every up
to-date prep school has a graduate
coach in charge of athletics, a man
who is on the job all the time. 1t is
the business Of the prep school coach
to develop athletes, not simply to pick
the best athletes from a big bunch of
good ones
This, to my mind, is the great
beauty Of prep school coaching. To
see a raw athlete develop under your
eyes, watch him catch the fine points
of the game and to gradually gain
that confidence in himself which is so
essential to the college player. Then,
too, at the prep school the aspiring
athlete is taught the right principles
of good craftsmanship. He knows
how to lose with good grace. The COL
lege coach brings to the prep ath-
lete that never say-die spirit, that
idea Of fair play and courtesy to the
visiting team which is the best fea-
ture of college athletics.
There is a ruling in the s. l. A. A.
units before he can play football.
Mighty few fourteen unit men come
out of the public schools.
Good Crop This Year.
This years crop of prep athletes
is a good one. Gordon Institute sends
out McWhorter Adams and Kingery.
Riverside turns loose Haines, Preas,
Burr and Mcneil. Norton and Haul
man finished at Stone Mountain, and
Ellison, Lanier Swami and Wilkerson
received their dips" at G.. NJ. c. In
this list are some names we will hear
rather often in the s. I. A. A. next
wear, if l am any judge of athletes.
There have been other star ath-
letes in the Georgia prep schools who
Jumped right over the colleges into
professional ball Paul Cobb and Ed
Reagan Stone Mountain products, are
plaving with Lincoln and Cordele re-
spectively. Frank Thrasher, of Riv-
erside. has led the Appalachian
League in batting; Abercrombie, of
Lee Institute, won a pennant last
year for Jacksonville, and Lee Grove,
of Riverside, is playing third for
Brunswick.
Here is a team composed of grad
yates of the Georgia prep schools
who are now playing professional
ball. Each one Of them learned the
game at a prep school
Bowden Locust Grove, catcher
L.aftte. Marist, pitcher.
Hogg Gordon, pitcher
f. Mayer G. NJ. A., pitcher
Holiday, B. H. s., first base.
Brooks, Riverside. second base.
Reagan. Stone Mountain. shortstop
Red" Smith. B. H S. third base.
Thrasher, Riverside. right field.
Cobb, Stone Mountain, center field.
CHM. Riverside left field.
That wouldn't be a bad little team,