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It 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. ■ — 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 NotManageMacon 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. oc^oowooooogooooooooooockj § “ANOTHER GOOD TEAM O FOR ATLANTA." 8AY8 BILL. O S "It begins to look as If Atlanta O O will coma back with another good 0 0 team In 1*01,” aaya Will Ewing In O O The Naehvllle American. "Be- O 0 sides retaining many of the men O 0 who helped ‘cop’ the rag the post o 0 aeaeon. Billy Smf ' ' ‘ " 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. Y. M. C, A. Plays Stone Mountain O Mere. Those Firemen moguls are 0 0 always hustling and they spread D O the coin. too. when good players 0 0 art In eight." 0 O O C0000000000000000000000000 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 oo<H>oooa<KK>DOOoooooaoao<K5o 0 0 t> CHATTANOOGA 8TILL 0 HOPES FOR FRANCHISE. O 0 0 0 Chattanooga. Tenn.. Doc. 17.— 0 0 Speaking *of the Atlanta South- 0 0 ern League meeting, A. M. Gifford, 0 0 a local baseball enthusiast, who 0 O attended the meeting, said: 0 0 "We met with much encourage- 0 0 ment, and there Is not d city in 0 O the league that Is unfriendly to 0 0 us." said Mr.- Gifford. "We have 0 O not altogether lost out. and there 0 O Is a chance that a deal for one of 0 0 the franchises may be closed. 0 0 We expect an official and final O 0 answer tomorrow, or perhaps this 0 0 afternoon. The deal can be closed 0 0 In an hour If a favorable answer 0 0 Is received.’’ 0 0 » 0 00000000000000000000000000 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. s . _ 14 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