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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1907.
HERE’S WHArS DOING WITH SPORTS—WHICH ISN’T MUCH
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
By PERCY H. WHITING.
The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association has give us
that bne-year rule we wanted.
Now why not all. get together and see what we can do about
hnving decent athletics from prep schools to universities t.
The prep schools have a reform coming to them, and they
seem in danger of overlooking the fact.
But especially it is up to the colleges.
Any college baseball team thnt wants a coach who knows his
business apply to Otto Jprdan, Atlanta, Qa.,
Otto has been at Milledgeville each spring as coach for a
couple of years and has turned out good teams. But intercol
legiate baseball has been abolished there and Otto is looking for
a new place.
"Once a coach, always a coach,” says Otto. “I’ve got to have
me a job.”
It would be hardly possible to get a better man. Otto knows
baseball as well) as any man in the South and the work he has got
out of the Atlanta team, as field captain, for the past two years,
■has shown what he can do ns a leader of baseball men.
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Joe Bickert is going to coach the Mississippi College team in
the spring—will give up his job.as a saloon artist to do-it.
From mixing booze to coaching a lot of college boys is a queer
jump. But probably “Diamond Joe” will make a success of it
The Southern Leaguers are sorry that Johnny Dobbs has
dropped out'of the running. John was a quiet, clever, gentleman
ly chap, well educated, well behaved and in consequence well
liked. lie had a hard team to handle in Nashville and maybe his
methods were not strict enough. But his team made money, even
though a tail-ender, and it seems as though he was entitled to an
other trial.
The New Orleans club can havo Frank Delehanly if it wants
liim. Ho is said to be a trouble-maker from start to finish andwould
, disorganize nny' club. When Frank WANTS to play, he is as good
as the best of them. But he has a chronic grudge against man
kind and is one of these basebnll politicians.
' What a couple of men of thnt character can do to a ball club
was pretty clearly shown in Birmingham last year. Vaughn had
a club which should have finished one-two-three. But it didn’t.
Cause: A couple of malcontents, team politics, too many
candidates for the job of manager and a lack of firmness on the
part of Vaughn in dealing with conditions.
A couple of football teams representing societies connected
with a church got in a row up in Williamsburg, N. Y., the other
day and the police hod to stop the disturbance.
Moral: Only college football should be tolerated.
Probably that is not strictly a moral, but yon gather the idea.
In the major leagues they are trying to do away with double-
headers as fnr ns convenient.
Wo wish the Southern League would take up the desirable
reform. Doublo-hendors are an nbomination, and the less of
them we havo the'better.
"AS TO FAKERS," SAYS TAD,
"O'BRIEN WAS NOT ONLY ONE”
By TAD.
New York, Dee. 17,—Jack O'Brien’s
quick detest of Bill Heveron nt Phila
delphia Friday night brings Jawn be
fore ue again.
Any way you take It, O’Brien la a
great tighter and when trying honeatly
can cope with nny man ot hla weight
In the world. J
Jawn has had hla pannlnga. The
foatlve little peanut hasn’t much on
him. He has aeen the error ot hie ways
and Is now on the level.
He surely waa on the level when he
nudged Heveron on the maatlcatlng
J ortlon of hla anatomy. Now that
awn Is good, why let him alone.
He Is not the only faker In the world.
Ha told us he wae crooked and Is now
fighting his wsy back Into our good
graces.
the great Bol
going about telling ua of his honesty),
fake? Didn’t he admit faking?
Didn’t Joe Gone admit faking? And
later didn’t he make more money In a
rear than he ever made In hla life be
fore?
■Waan’t Britt a faker and didn’t he
continue to draw Immense purees In
his lights?
Well, why pick on O’Brien, then, who
Is down?
Tommy Bums? Bums claims that
hs agreed to fake with O’Brien the sec
Jawn In the ring
i Quaker then and
ut side-stepping? O’Brien of
fered to fight him elx or twenty rounds
and glvs the money to charity. John
son offered to fight him six or twenty
rounds and give him 75 per cent of the
money If he didn’t stop him. Is Tom
my ^returning?
Cut out that quince talk for a while.
Bums. Coma home here with the real
fighters.
Ktanloy (Young) Ketchel, the Mon
tana welter-weight who beat Joe
Thomas lost Thursday night In a 10-
round go at Ban Francisco, has Jumped
from an unknown to a contender for
the middle-weight title In three fights.
Ketchsll has proved that he Is entlUad
to meet the winner of the Kelly-Papke
t.out, which It scheduled for December
10 In Milwaukee, and already the West-
dickering for
"Cut” in Jennings’ Salary
Proves Very Good Increase
Detroit, Dec, 17.—Hughey Jennings
has found out there Is such a thing as
gratitude. When Jennlnga met hie em
ployers, Yawkey and Navtn, at the
Chicago meeting ot the ' American
League they called him to one tide.
"We don't want to take any advan
tage ot you," eatd Spokesman Navln,
"but I wish you would taka this new
Malarkey May
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There are grave doubts If John Ma
larkey will manage Macon next year.
Harry Vaughn haa announced that he
will not give waivers on him and he
may pitch for Birmingham next sea-
■ A rumor at the meeting had It that
Savannah was trying to get Bernle Me.
Cay to lead her club during the coming
aeaeon.
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§ “ANOTHER GOOD TEAM
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contract and look H over and see
whether you are willing to eland the
cut.”
Hughey opened the document. In
stead of a cut, there was a liberal
boost for the unexplred portion of the
time for which he haa been engaged.
Jennings signed the new contract with,
out a murmur, and now will receive aa
much as any leader In the American
League.
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The second T. M. C. A. basketball
team and the team repreeentlng the
University School of Stone Mountain
will meet Thursday night In the Y. M.
C. A. gymnasium.
The llne-upe of the teams follow:
U. S. Y. M. C. A.
Porter, c Phillips, c.
Doiler. f Farguaon, f.
Cory, f Cheatham, f.
Bailey, g Jones, g.
Evans, g Avary. g.
Harris, sub.
It Is reported that the Ceotral I.rtgue
will drop Canton sod take tn Zanrirltle.
The champion rugby teem of Mend
Stanford. Jr.. Unlreretty of California, mny
Invade Canada.
ptonahlp series lengthened to foe garnet
out of nine or sti games oat of eleven.
CHARLEY BABB DOPES OUT
HIS TEAM FOR NEXT YEAR
'When Charley Babb waa In Atlanta
ho waa asked what looked like hla reg
ular team for 1908. Here ia hla pick:
Catchers—Ott and Owens.
Pitchers—Savage, Schwcnck, (Sani
ty and Swift
Infield—Carey, first base; Cranston,
second base: Richards third base;
Vogel, ahbrtstop.
Outfield—Fox, left; Kustu*, center;
McKenna, right
The Tlmes Democrst of New Orleans,
which did pot have a representative at £ne
recent lensue meeting, furnishes some
startling commenta on the affair.
Here Is one of ’em:
At the dose of last season’s race Billy
fimith. of Atlanta, bad no less than six
teen men on the Atlanta pay-roll, four
teen In' uniform and two In the club '
house ready for an emergency. When
Atlanta turned Into the stretch on the
home grounds the following players were
In the employ of the cIud: Sweeney,
Smith. Castleton, Ford, Mackenzie,
Spade, Zeller. Fox, Jordan, Castro, Dyer,
Faskert. Winters, Becker and Perry
Mpe, or the Macon dob. With Smith
In the above list the aggregate of six
teen men, yet nothing was said by the
Now, Perry Llpe was In Atlanta at the
close of last season sod Billy Smith dhl
hare a bunch that he might slgp him. But
Upe wae never n member of tho Atlanta
team and was never “In the club house
ready for an emergency."
Ae for counting Bill Smith as a player,
well, that le a rich Joke. As well count
I-rank for New Orleans or Finn for Little
Bock. The only difference was thst Smith
was In uniform. He nover had any moret
notion of playing, though, than "The Dutch
man’* did. .
"Saturday In Atlanta the astute Sam
uel was again on hand armed with a
goodly bunch of the Nlcklen money."
That Is another of "them things" from
The TImes Democrat
If Strang wee on hand he kept himself
well out of sight The only men wo saw
from Chattanooga was A. W. Gifford.
one to New Orleans
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sny that.Hart Is an especially, good man.
The Noblett. by the way, Is Jim, hot Bert.
The St. Louis Browns train In Shreveport
art qt.rfntr ' * ?
Two years ago Barney Dreyfus* raced
across the continent to get Joe Nenlon to
pity first base for Pittsburg for $8,000 a
renr lwfore Cincinnati could reach him.
Now Barney would trade Joe. Stung again.
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JACK O’BRIEN DUCKS OUT
' OF FIGHT WITH JOHNSON
New York, Dee. 17.—Jnek O’Brien has run
out ot bu proposed light with Jack John
son. so the articles sinned for the flcht are
Just to, much spoiled pnper. Poor-Jscg has
hurt hla hand hitting Itlll •Heveron, one of
the choicest quinces erer grown In Eng
land.
After the Heveron elfslr O'Brien made a
date with Rant Fltspntrlck, who said lie
would ellneh the Johnson bout. - O’Brien
enme to tha scratch nil right, hut st once
announce*! that he hnd broken hla.'hand In
the tight of the prevloan evening and that
hla doctor told him that It would lie lrapos-
elide for him to box ngaln for nt leant two
mouths. . .
In support of the statement that some of
the bones In his right hand were smashed,
he pulled back the cuff of. his Immaculate
kid glove nnd showed some Iodine stains.
Now that there Is nothing doing with
Philadelphia Jack,, Johnson Is beginning to
feel the chill of winter. He had figured on
n ttin of coal and a few groceries with the
proceeds of the’serap. There la a long win
ter on and everything going out and mighty
little coming In, to keep 111 Arthur from
having to ask charity, or really haring to
go*4o work. ^
The moving pictures of the Burns-Molr
battle were shown in New York last Mght.
Only five rounds were tbown on the coughs,
but there was enough to show how the bax.
tie
ugh t
as won nnd who the hotter man was.
tdjW
The knock-out is plainly seen. Burns had
pretty soft nil the way through.
Molr took the count four times during
the affair nnd not once did he have a
chance In the fight. Well, maybe once In
the third round, when he cuffed Burns on
the head nnd battered him on the neck nnd
ears, it looked ns though the gunner might
have gathered, hut the Canadian was stall'
Ing. • ’* •
Olsen Too Much
For Peanut Man
Chicago. Dec. 17.-Dr. T. M. Alien, who
has Immortalized the peanut by ranking It
hla sole food for two months, finished his
"stunt" before a .crowd in his home town
last night. Then ho offered to show the in
vigorating effects by outwrestllnc any man
In the house. Bull Olsen, of Chicago, took
the doctor up nnd tossed him over the ropes
DON'T PUT IT OFF
Make your Christmas buying a pleasure by doing it early. That gives you a better and
cleaner stock to choose from, and more time to select. j We’ll tag, and wrap, and store away
anything you buy here, and deliver It any time you say. By having your shopping finished
you can enjoy the last rushes of holiday buyers as an interested spectator and not be worried
at the last minute.
A great assortment of Chiffon
iers in Oak, Mahogany and
Bird’s - Eye Maple finishes.
Some with all long drawers,
some with two short top draw-
ers, and four long drawers, and Exactly like cut; handsome
others with Hat Boxes. All Quartered Oak Dressing Table
prices. One exactly like cut in with big oval glass; just right
?r ,,r ' a “ k ..$12.75 ft - $12.50
Open
at
Night
All this week
we will re
main open
till 8 at night
for the con
venience o f
our custom
ers. This will
be an ideal
time for trad
ing, as the
store will not
b e crowded
and s e 1 e c-
tions can be
made with
more time
and care.
50 straight and combination
Book Cases and Desks. Our
line of cathedral glass fronts is
an innovation, but makes the
handsomest goods of this na.
ture yoft ever examined. Will
you come and see them? We
are holding open house these
days. One * tma
like cut for JLU
Wood's Chifforobe
The neat man’* delight. Made ot solid quartered oak,
rubbed down to a mlrror-llke brilliancy, 5 feet 2
Inches high, 3 feet 8 Inches wide, and 221-2 Inches
deep. Has 5 drawers and a hat box; divided Into t
compartments.Wardrobe part Is 22 by 20 by 4 feet S
Inches, containing 4 pants hangers, and 4 coat hang
ers. A. perfect gem for methodical men. Only a
. week . $25.00
‘ We have no collectors.
YdU make your own terms
and do your own paying.
We Can Save You $5.00
Proposition
We’ll take your old stove,
or range, or gas stove as
first payment on one of
our fine New “Eagle”
Steel Ranges, at a fair val
uation—say $5 or $10, or
even more, according to
worth. This saves throw
ing away, or giving away
your old stove, and enables
you to save $5 or $10, and
to get an “Eagle” without
investing a cent at time of
purchase. The balance yon
can pay at $1 a week or $5
a month.
How We Can
Afford It
About 18 months
ago we made a con
tract with the man
ufacturers of the
“Eagle” goods at
prices 30 per cent
less than today’s
market. Just before
this contract ex
pired we ordered
seven carloads of
the “New Eagle”
Steel Ranges and
they are now in our
warehouse. That’s
why we can afford
to sell you a $50
Range for $39.50,
and still make a fair
profit. That’s why
we can make you
the above liberal
offer. That’s why
we can make you
such liberal terms.
$1 Down and
$1 a Week
to $10.00 On a Range
' Proposition
If you cannot convenient
ly call, telephone either
phone 744, and we’ll send
out a man to value your
stove and you can see just
exactly how much you can
save before you come. to
buy. We can certainly
save you $5.00 and maybe
more. We have arranged
with a second-hand store
to take over ail the stoves
and ranges we trade in
during this sale. Don’t put
off buying, as this offer is
liable to be withdrawn
without notice.
The New “Eagle” Steel Range .
Our Music Cabins! sleek Is full
and complete. Every tseto can be
gratified. We recommend the above
style, however, ae the beet value in
our etock. Stylieh, handsome,
smooth as glass, nest, flowing linos,
nothing can be more artistic, nothing
’more desirable than this pattern.
This steel plate French Range te our latest improvement and Is made of
cold drawn blued steel sheets, put together In the most skilful and
scientific manner by first-class mechanics. The "EAGLE* Is SO Inches
high, 27 Inches deep and 42 Inches long; the oven Is 18x16 Inches, the
top haa six large hole* and is surmounted by a capacious hot closet,
made of blued steel.
The “EAGLE” IS handsomely nickeled, all doors, supports, handles
S e nnd edges being solid nickeled. The "EAGLE* Is fully asbestos
and fitted with a duplex grate, which burns wood or coal, end
feed, so that you can feed the fire without opening tops. A
long draft plate extends- horitontally across the front end. giving fresh
air to entire length of fire. This feature save* you money. We guar
antee the "EAGLE’ to be abeolutely perfect In operation and the price
$1 Down
$1 A Week
$10
$39=
Walter J. Wood Company
This Is a December special, but we
have only a few and cannot guar
antee you ono unless you come early.
This is the- most perfeotly made
desk we’ve offered yetr Quartered
oak throughout, strongly mode and
superbly finished. Rubbed by hand
tb a brilliant polish; 60 other styles
in etock, in mahogany, bird’s-eye
and oak, but our speeial Is an axtra
value.
103-5-7.9-11 Whitehall Street.
$1 Down
$1 A Week
$10