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The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • Page 7

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IP I Boston Red ox Star' Batsman Tris Speaker Will. Report Worlds Series Exclusively For Atlanta Constitution 4 TrItram Speaker. of Mubbard Texas. the former tar outfielder of the Little Rock tem In the Southern league and now paetimlng for the BotoD Red So the American league representative in the coming worlds series with tie New York Giants will rover the big serf. excIlvely for The Con.

stltntlon. Speaker Is very much in the public eye right now not only In view of being on the pennant winners and baring much to do wltn their remark. able success but In view of the. close race that he Is running Ty Cobb. the sensational Georgian.

for the batting honors the league. Speakers big bat Is feared by every American league pitcher. The Giants. too. fear his war club.

for it was his heavy hitting that brought about the downfall of the team of McGraw la 1909 when the two teams tied up In a pot series. In the opening game of the series the only game that the Giants won Speaker whaled the famous fadeaway of Christy Mathewson for three solid clouts and. then repeated In the second contest' tyBitting Wtltse and Marqusrd three times and crossing the. with the three runs that boat the Giants. On October 11 on the Boston field.

Speaker busted a 4 to 4 tie and won the third consecutive victory of the series by mauling Otis Crandall for a home run in the ninth Inning. and in the final game of the series at the Polo grounds on. October 14 Speaker again hit Crandall for two long clouts driving in three of the five tallies made bybis team. Speaker is being regarded as the Baker of the 1912 series. The readers of The Constitutions sporting page will no doubt remem- her the excellent manner in which Ty Cobb covered the worlds series for this paper lat fall and the excellent Inside reading that Ty gave his readers.

Speaker will cover the series samemanner this fall and. being I participant In the series a combatant In each game. he will naturally give some points that will be overlooked by the layman and the spectator- to few of the Inside sidelights. Speaker Is well fitted to cover the series. He Is a player of merit and long experience.

a college man and. a student. This will be his first venture as a newspaper scribe but Tile has the habit of doing everything that he does in an excellent manner so The Constitution' readers can look for something good. The worlds series will begin October 7. Speakers articles will probably begin a day earlier and each morning following the game The Con- tltutlon will carry his Inside descriptive Account of the hard-fought battles.

Don't miss this series. Its going to be a bear. THIS SPEAKER. Red Sox star outfielder. who wm report tie worlds series games or The.

Constitution. GEORGIA TECH WILL BUILD HANDSOME ATHLETIC FIELD WORK TO COMMENCE AT CCOSBOf FOOTBALL PlflSN SftftfeJ ATHLETIC FIELDS GEORGIA SCHOOL OT TECHNOLOGY. OVTH END HOwING ThLAWM AND JTANR5 OICHITECT lWCAptXR The friends. of the Georgia School of Technology are greatly pleased at the announcement that the Tech athletic field Is to be rebuilt which. when completed promises to he the finest and best arranged In the southern states.

The plans published herewith provide Ample accommodation for all athletic activities and are on such a scale as to met the requirements of the local Institution for many years to come. The final ground plans have been ac cepted and It Is Interesting to know that these were made by the. foremost landscape engineer In this eoutry. Charles W. teavttt Jr.

of New York. who is also In for the Pan-American exposition to be held In San Francisco in 1915. Engineer Leavltts plan shows two complete football fields two baseball fields tennis courts. cinder tracK anti provides space for a new gymnasium to be erected later. The main field to be located on the site of the present field and Is to be surrounded by modern grand stand bleacher auto parking space and all other conveniences for players and patrons of football baseball truck and tennis.

GyMM tum or The plans for gymnasium grand stand and bleacher are being prepared by Profesosr Francis P. Smith. BS in architecture. University of Pennsylvania and head of the architecture department at Georgia' Tech. HI.

preliminary sketch Is shown herewith. giving a splendid view looking across the south half or the main Odd and showing in perspective the new gymnasium and grand stands. The present grand stand and leach- ers will boa torn down and a temporary wooden bleacher built on the east side of the main field. This bleacher will be replaced by a permanent concrete structure after the city has opened Orrne street. A new modern grand stand built of reinforced concrete and seating 5000.

vs to be built on the site of the present grand stand with provision for doubling this stand when the addition al capacity Is required. When complete the field will provide for seating UOffff with- auto parking spaces and ample standing room for those patrons who prefer to stand along the side lines at football. The actual work of construction cannot be begun until after Thanksgiving. a the present field will be used by the football team this season. The old stands are being repaired and other temporary stands will be erected for the accommodation of the large attend- ante to the November games.

Start After Tkankeclvlnff. It Is not anticipated that the plans of Professor Smith can be perfected in their entirety In the immediate future. but a substantial beginning will be made after Thanksgiving and the field will completed as the funds of the school will permit. It Is hoped and believed that the friends or the school will likewise as sist In consummating this most worthy enterprise. All intercollegiate games should be played on the campus of the home college and' the friends or Tech.

will be delighted to know that this will now Become possible at the local Institution. Tech lias always preferred to play its games on the campus and was only Induced to play football at Ponce de I eon by the nominal rental charged. The records show that the receipts with one exception. have averaged more Tech than at Ponce de Leon. It is.

therefore unwise for Tech to pay rental for any outside park when tht money can be used to so much better advantage In making permanent. Improvements on its own field. ComtroTF r. In this ronection It Is well to point out that Tech has had no controTenj over the matter of playing at Ponce de Leon and certainly none with the Georgia Railway and Electric company as has been stated. The Georgia Railway and EJectrlc company has always been very liberal with Tech and the school is pleased to take this opportunity for expressing its sincere gratitude for the many kind- nesses and courtesies granted by the company.

Its officials assisted materially in building the present field at Tech put in spur track on Hemphlll avenue for Tech's convenience have always responded to requests for extra oar service rented Pice de Leon park at a nominal rental have given employment to many students and alumni and In many other ways too numerous to mention. True. there has been considerable discussion as to the Increased rental now asked for Pone. de Lon park. but no official of the Tech has taken part In this discussion.

except In denying that Tech' attributes' the Increase Jo the Georgia Railway and Electric com pany. Therereally is no controversy Over Ponce tic Leon park so far. as Tech 9 concerned. The real situation Is that the present lessees of Ponce de Leon iiave Increased the rental to Tech-about 1000 per rent over the amount charged heretofore sod state the Increase Is necessary to cover the damage done by football. Under these circumstances Tech has concluded that It would toe unwise to attempt football at Ponce tie on.

It seems bet to Invest the money In permanent Improvements' at her own grounds rather than In rental receipts. Tech must maintain her own field In order to have a place to play baseball and the Increased seating capacity re. qulred for football can easily be provided. Tech's new field wilt meet every re. qulrment for many years to corn.

and she asks the sympathy and cooperation of the-public until the completion of this new field. where her patrons will even more comfortable than ever before. WILLIAM N. RAXDLE. Director of Athletics.

Georgia Tech. PREP ELEVENS i GETTING READY Oy. HI Interest among prep football 1 on. up by lisps and' founds fiur log the past week among the roar ochQoI. Boys' high.

Georgia academy. Tech high andPeace Hardly any of the team were sbl. to jJ Practice until. tile first of. last weske J1 of them.

when work was staged by all The teaRjie which had urn soon. and with ther addition high schooL who tailed to put uuv teSOt a season wl t- yrodocft son Interesting geme forthe followers 1 prepJbaU 3 orel mUtarT academyjS won. th thepennarit year coming tiirougli" the season ut a. loss while' that. the teamthai comes oat' lilac thl year win have had some bar battles and hardly haT perfect per.

ealitage The eleven that represents toe Days' high school will no doubt prove a stumbling block to some of the oth F' earns judging ire the' showing of oral of th candidates during the past eek. The' team win' greatly miss the services of' Thompson wnose kicking and work nnJh nTfriss hrnurht latf to the high' school rooters last season 3J MeDcagsJ and Snyder Wfl al be sh- sent. The most promlalng candidates for places lo th line InMuae LrO hrld. Ijft Daly. Starr.

rloltzenddrf Le Corit if some Coleman arid Johnson. The itrst' 3 game Is. scheduled with Riverside at Gainesville. on September 28. and the.

boys have high hopes of lowering some of the scores made In recent yeses. At the presentprospectg for a good team are not BObright at Georgia Military academy. but with our old men back. Kendall. Batob.

UttleOeld and. Brown and with an abundance of new material. kch Griffin will no doubt- turn out. a team. for the College Park boys.

Practically the whole- back field Is absent this Year. with the. exception of Brown at quarter Luck. and the two McLaws being abvent. Tech high school by not putting out a team last season appears to have helped hr chances for a rood team' wonderfully because the boys are reporting dally end showing an Interest' that was manltested" before.

Laird has been elected captain. and it. states that the other schools are going to. hay. a.

hard time downing his bunch. At Peacock the team was heavily hit by losing such as Venabla. HIn man Blount and Willet Howys the boys have gone to work in r. net and under th trlcflona of Coaches Quiggand liardlo hope to S. able to redeem herself tm sonic of the defeats administered to her during last season hi- Boys' high an Georgia Military academy By L.

Gregg Hell Work His Way to the Worlds Series Gilly the Gopher THAT THE SAME TO W12tTE FEATURE STUFF AND THAT MANS i SOT rr Ill. COVER. FOR. THE PAPEES AND MAKE AU. 1 A.

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FER PAI II EWS. I I 11 IA1 SUNDAY MORNING' SEPTEMER 22 191 IRICE. Fjv ETS. PEA ER COVERS SERIEsi AtlantaCOnstitution Sci Ueciung- I 1 3 of' the 4 on-October fly the the 7- L. 4' tc if i a CLOSE OFP00 TBALLSBAS I a I trri' ac- I Ria en I bTT' c' y1ci ft uaea I' 11 tH-Th I onrvn I thi andthe away fe tbai1 I th Techsttributa a th about Ii Resid baa' rk among foil and PeacockTleet If rear lsatvsaon.

apd W4tCh was saneetas tefl sJ' wlti OUt5 fuiet ail fur the of last. 9vltheut team tti this I I 015Cr duriu week. of woo lilt- to roosrs iaaissa' tophridge Pot- tar an t' teamfor t-t 1' ahard 1 men t. ear- 7 Boyshlgh IGilly HelIWork HisWay theWorids Aw. FORGET Il.

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