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SPORTING PAGE, DECEMBER 21 The Atlanta Georgian : I PERCY H. WHITING.! SPORTING EDITOR j r NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS By PERCY H. WHITING. 'A year ago this time the baseball world was at peace. The last and the liveliest of the outlaw leagues—the long-ob noxious Tri-State—hod come back into the fold, reformed and set tled down to an upright life. The Atlantic League managed to stir up a little fun during tho summer by going outlaw. But the Atlantic was c highly re spectable outlaw; and, compared with the very fine “amuck” run by the Tri-State, its performance was tame to a fault. But, gentlemen of the baseball world, if the American Asso ciation puts a baseball team in Chicago, turns outlaw and begins buying players out of the major and minor leagues, then there will be a brand of excitement dealt out across the bar that will make Decatur-st. whisky look mild as lemon pop. The American Association is a strong organization. It has been on a paying basis and "playing the big towns” for a good while. There is money in the league treasury and the teams have strong backing. But if they put themselves outside tho pale then they will bring on a fight that will cost lots of money and cause lots of excitement. Right now it looks as though the Association would deliber ately walk into trouble. But there is yet plenty of time to think it over. Pressure will be brought to bear on the magnates and they may change their minds about having a team in Chicago. There is not a chance on earth thnt the major leagues will give the association a right to play in tho Windy City. So if the Class A league goes in, a war is started right there. If the American Association is wise it will stay out of trouble. But if it isn’t, and wnnts the warmest fight on record it knows where to find it. Tho Pennsylvania athletic authorities are out with a state ment that whatover happens they will play Michigan next year. Says Trainer Mike Murphy: “These Westerners ore good sports men. You do not hear their undergraduates growling under n defeat nor do they protest their opponents’ players. They play good, hard football and are going to give us a great battle on Franklin field next season. While there is always a possibility of Pennsylvania playing some other of her foes, it is not at the ex pense of dropping the Michigan game. Why, this game in a few years will grow to be the biggest game of the lot.” Everybody is glad to see this Penn-Michigan game contin ued as an annual event. The inter-sectional games are the best fun. When East meets West or West meets South things are bound to happen. Football is getting big enough now so that inter-sectional games are worth while, and it would be unfortunate to have the very biggest of them cut out. It is to bo hoped that Vanderbilt will get a good game in the East next fall, and Sewanee, too. Both the Southern teams will learn football by so doing, and we should hate to guarantee thnt the Easterners also will not. COLUMBIA BASKETBALL TEAM PLA YS A. A.C.SATURDA Y NIGHT Should Be Best Basket Ball Game of Year in South. The Athletio Aasociatlfm of the Carlisle Indian School has issued announcements that hereafter only bona fide students of tho institution will be allowed to play on its teams, and no player will be allowed to take part for more than four years. Up to this year the Carlisle sehool has been allowed to do about as it pleased. The colleges against which the Indians have played recognized that the conditions at Carlisle were different from what they were at Harvard and Yale, and accepted any old team as I6ng as it did not practice scalping, “tomanawkry” or cannibalism on the field. This year there has been u lot of criticism of the Carlisle team, and in consequence new rules have been passed. Probably it is a pood move. Athletics all along the line are being polished up and there is no reason why Carlisle should es cape. The star basket ball event of the year In Atlanta will be the Columbia Uni versity- Atlanta Athletic Club game at the Atlanta Athletic Club gymnasium Saturday night The Columbia team left New York Friday and should be in Atlanta Bat urday afternoon. This team is one of the very best of the country. Last year It finished sec ond in the Intercollegiate basket ball league and this year It seems even stronger. Every member of the team is a good athlete and prominent In other depart ments of sport besides basket ball. J. J. Bryan, captain of the team, made the all-American basket ball team last year. He also rows on the crew, wrestlse and plays football. On the track team he Is a high jumper and shot putter. 11. P. Cerussl, one of the guards, stroked the Columbia crew at Pough keepsie last year and Is a famous oars man. W. A. Klmbel, another guard. Is a star baseball player, and S. Meletzer Is something or an nil round performer. He was on the all-American basket ball team last year, Is a star of the gym nasium team and plays lacrosse. C. L. Hill, who Is one of the for wards, Is a two-rnlle runner of consid erable ability. The Atlanta Athletic Club team Is practically picked. Doonan will play one forward. The other will go to Holliday, Thornton or Ramspeck. Thornton Is not In the best physical condition, and It Is doubtful If he will get In. At center Rappole will perform, and the guards will be Hudson and Heinz or Colquitt. This team is a reasonably strong one and ought to mnke a good showing. All of the men are In great physical condition, and understand the game. Under the careful coaching of Fred Hoyt, they are showing some encour- THE BASEBALL GIRL CERUSSI AND HURLEY. Corussi is a famous athlete and has done great work for Columbia both on ths basketball floors and on the water. He is at the right in the picture and is illustrating a foul. agln^r team work. The event will be open only to club members and ladles, but owing to the very large size of the membership and the Interest In basket hall there Is sure to be a crowd that will tax the capaci ty of the hall. The JJne-up: Columbia—Meletzer, Hall, Klendel or Mahen. forwards; Ryan, center; Couls. «!, Schoneppe or Klmbel. guards. A. A. C.—Doonan, Holiday. Thornton or Ramspeck, forwards; Rappole, cen ter; Hudson, I-Ielnz or Colquitt, guards. AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE ASS’N MAY RUN RACE IN SAVANNAH Chicago, Dec. 21.—Snvannnh mny be ae- lected by the Amerlnen Automobile Amo- elatlon an the location of the proposed stripped stock touring car rnce. Rnrnnnsh wnnts the rnce. The Georgia city wants It so much thnt It will bunk nil the turns If necesssry nnd provide a guard of soldiers to pstrol the route and protect spectators. N, II. VnnSIcklen Is buck from the Geor gia city, where lie went to look over the route. He Is chairman of the technical board of the A. A. A. nnd whnt he says about the route will curry weight. Here i* his views: •They nro the best ronds I ever anw. Michigan avenue or any boulevards lu Chi cago nre mere country ronds compared to whnt I wns shown In H’t, Catherine county. They nre shell ronds nnd nre ns hard as cement. After n long-continued rnln storm. In which more than two Inches of water fell, I wns driven over these roads lu n slx-rylinder Stevens-Ruryeu at sixty miles nn hour, nnd there was not n fleck of mud thrown up. Those roads will stand n speed of seventy five to ninety tulles an hour on ail the rnis that will enter the race. “The course over which It Is proposed to hold the contest Is on the outskirts of the city of Savannah. It Is rectangular In shape, four miles la length nnd one mile wide, track, and a sti other corner. cut off by a rnllrond track runs into an* of the four-mile stretchea Is Inside the city; the rest of the route Is outside. “If the race Is awarded to that place, tho citizens assured me street cars would not run during the races, while they would bank the turn at the railroad so as to ex clude that comer from the trick. All other corners would be banked, too, so that n speed as high ns the cars could attain would be possible at nil places. “St, Catherine county hns between 150 and 200 miles of this kind of roads. They nre built by convict labor nnd nre the best In the country. If not In the world, In my opinion. They coat, I am told, nlwmt 13,500 Jng— - - stand heavier traffic.” AMERICAN ASSOCIATION WILL TURN OUTLAW SURE Chicago, Doc. 21.—Thsrs can no longer bs any doubt that tho American Association intends placing a club in Chicago. That an option on the St. Paul club has boon obtained by Ihe faction which seeks to invade this city In a fact and that Charles 8. Havenor, president of the Milwaukee Club, had In his pos session not long ago an option on tho old Congress street park, on the West Ride, Is another fact. That he may exercise that option at the present s tline is more than n probability. And Inasmuch as It has been re- ported that an American Association emissary has gone to Utica*. N. Y„ to confer with the owners «»f the former National League park, it Is evident that the American Association Is not only t ager to get Into Chicago, but Is willing to bhl for patronage on the West Ride. “Boshter Bill” Squires Knocked Out Once More Bakersfield, Cal.. Dec. 21.—A right uppercut to the Jaw caused “Bosher Bill' Squires, of Australia, to tumble 1n the sixth round of his fight with Jim Flynn, of Colorado, last night. The Australian was completely knocked out and had to be carried to his corner. It was a fierce slugging match from start to finish with Flynn doing the work. The trouble with Squires was that he seemed weak on his legs and feet. He wabbled and rolled like a drunken man even when not struck. That he was stronger than Flynn was shown by the way in which he twisted the “fighting fireman" around in the clinches and pushed him away at will. Yet when Flynn lowered his head and rushed, he always carried Rqulres to the ropes. Toward the last of the fight Rqulres had no defense to speak of. He wont in, lashing out aimlessly, and Flynn had little difficulty in avoiding him. The moment the award was made phy, his manager, chall* Tman In Flynn's behalf. Jsck IVmlrjr, formerly with the Clere- land Wheel baseball club, has l***n drafted from Oklahoma City by Sou Francisco. The 1907 victory by the Navy makes Its series with West Point a tie, 6-C. A mistake has l**eu made In the clouting Inrw of Krnh Sky - — • ■■■ Jiffs In 84 times .406 instead of . Indianapolis for IS06. The Hooib-r* also have a pitcher named West. Not old Hi, t#it a jouugster from Monmouth, Ills. MAN LEAVE8 PHYSICIAN AND DIVES INTO A WELL. Homer, La., Dec. 2V.—Illness and financial worry were responsible for the suicide here of George Gill, man ager of the local cotton exchange. Interrupting an interview with his physician. Gill walked over to the rear of his residence and dived Into nn open well, fracturing his skull on a bucket. MEMPHIS HEARS RUMORS OF OUTLAW LEAGUE IN SOUTH From Memphis comes talk of an out law league to oppose the Southern. The Commercial Appeal says: "Attracted by publicity given the possibility of the American Associa tion entering sacred territory of the so-called baseball trust In Chicago, ground that Is claimed at present by the American and National Leagues, under national agreement laws, several Southern sharpshooters have launched old time rumors regarding a possible Independent circuit In the South for Saturday nnd Sunday games. New Or leans, where several independent clubs already flourish; Memphis, Birmingham nnd Atlanta are towns sought by the independents, who are already pos sessed of enough enthusiasm to carry the scheme thru, provided a little finance is sprinkled in as a fertilizer." Very special news Item—Billy Smith arose Saturday morning in time for an 8 o’clock breakfast'. This Is the first time since Septem ber 14. Alton. III., dispatches to Cincinnati papers carry the news that Theo Brelt- enstetn, the New Orleans pitcher, has been indicted for Illegally conducting a saloon. Charlie Keith, the left-handed pitch er of Little Rock, who has been draft ed by the St. Louis Americans, Is looked upon as the luckiest of all play ers In the business. He is a student at Oxford Universi ty. England, having won one of the Rhodes scholarships In Arkansas, his native state. He recently left for Eng land. He Is allowed $3,000 a year for pur suing his studies and $100 a month during vacation. The 8t. Louis club will pay his transportation over, and In addition to bis $100 a month spend ing money will pay him $450 a month for playing ball. Pretty hard to beat that. Arlle Latham baseball stories are always good. Latham made his last appearance oa an umpire In the O. and P. League, and it Is said the "fans" there did not shed any tears when Arlle left. The last argument Latham got Into was with Charley Starr, the ex-Brownle, who is with Youngstown. He thought he could get away with it and have no come back. It seems every time Latham missed a strike he would shout through (he mask and tell the batter: “That's one I owe you, old boy." Starr was at the bat and when the same thing was put up against him he replied: "That’s about 123 strikes you ow e me and unless you pay your debts you will have to get busy for a law suit." "I never pay debts," said Latham, and there was no one who disputed his remark. John L Sullivan says that while Frank Gotcli is a wonderful wrestler he will never shine ns a prize tighter. Bnrn«>y Oldfield Is writing stories in which he nttempts to describe the sensations of a fast ride in nn ntttnmublli*. There Is proba bly no wan In the world so well •imilineil ns Harney to speak on the subject of the “dull, sickening thud.” Monroe May Take Mobile*s Place By GRANTLAND RICE. The beauty of the Gibson girt will never, never, fade. And Mr. H. C. Christy pens a most bewitching maid— Allan Gilbert has a type of most attractive grace, While Harry Fisher sketches an aristocratic face. The bunch of females I have named are all there In the cast —, But, hay, I know a girl that has them all lashed to the mast— The type whtch keeps each dome of thought cavorting In a whirl Is that nectarine of nature which we dub “The Baseball Girl.” She's got the "proper curves” all rlgt—the brand that you can't beat— She has "the speed"—nor do we here refer unto her. feet— She always "makes a. hit" to boot—no matter whom she faces— Just give her any sort of chance and watch her clear the bases. "A good catch” Is her aim In life, and when one comes along You’ll always find her on the Job—she'll never play it wrong. And a3 I look upon tho list which comes before my view, I And that some are 'grandstand” girls—and some are "bleacherites." She likes a "tie game" best of all—where no play-off will come— She cares not for a "salary whip” that’s always on the bum— Nor does she care a whit about the gent "who bam around Three hundred" every blooming night he tries to ''cover ground.” You'll nevet “catch her napping oft bor base." or In a trance; She'll use the "squeeze play” every time she draws a half a chance— And when you go to sign her up you’ll find that no Intrigue Mokes her forget “the diamond" In the matrimonial league. Several Southern papers have come out for Professor Riggs, of Clem- son, as Dr. Dudley’s successor at ttie head of the S. I. A. A. There could be no better choice than this, as Mr. Riggs Is well qualified In everv way to direct the affairs of the association. It begins to look now as ft Mobile must cough up 2,600 slmoleons be fore she can figure as any debutante tn the Southern League. There's mi reason why the league Itself should dish out all that coin, and the Cotton States organisation doesn't seem keen upon letting her out ut any cut In the original price. With Mobile In there's still another scramble ahead as to who shrill lead the team, a portion of her owners' favoring McCay and an other set clamoring for Red Fisher. There Isn’t a chance that Chattanooga wilt bag Little Rock's franchise. Bill Smith Is laying his plans to bag another pennant for his people In Georgia. With Ford, Schopp, McKenzie and Schwenck on deck he has the pick of Griffith's discards coming and Jimmy Ryan, the Montgomery mogul, figures that his new left fielder, already signed up, has Paskert backed off the dump. He will have Fox, Jordan, Castro and Dyer back nround Ills Infield with a couple of additions to bo tried out In the spring — Nashville Tennessean. ». PRITCHARD AND BURKS GO TO JOIN CHARLESTON TEAM Special to The Georgina. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 21.—Pritchard, of Vanderbilt, and Burks, of Alabama, two of the ablest football players in the South, passed through Savannah yesterday afternoon, en route to Colum bia, S. C., where Forsythe’s bunch of gridiron celebrities hgs commenced practice for the two great games of football on Christmas and New Year’s with the Savannah team. Pritchard was one of Vanderbilt’s star tackles last year, and made the All-Southern In a walk, and Burks is regarded by many as the most wonder ful halfback ever produced in the South. Forsythe promises to corral the finest lot of moleskin warriors ever seen In Savannah. The Savannah team Is composed without exception, of bona-fide amateur players, living in Savannah. Coach Williams, of Virginia Polytechnic Insti tute, is coaching them. It is a certainty that the game, here on Christmas and New Year’i will be rip-snorters, and some think that the local Napoleons are about to meet their Waterloo. The locals defeated Forsythe’s All Southern team lost year, two goals from field turning the trick. Not a touchdown was scored. NEW YORK FANS NOT PLEASED WITH M’GRAW’S LATEST TRADE Special to The Georgian. Jackson, Miss., Dec. £l.—President A. C. Crowder, of the Cotton States League, expresses the opinion that Mo bile will easily succeed In raising the required .$2,500 to secure the Shreve port franchise in th* Southern League, and that the amount will be paid Into tho Cotton States’ treasury before the end of the present month. Unless this Is done, however, Mobile will be com pelled to remain In present company. According to statements made at the recent league meeting In Gulfport, Mo bile was the only town on the circuit that made money last season. The Mo bile association cleared about $15,000, while Jackson, Gulfport, Meridian, Vicksburg and Columbus lost money. During the next two weeks It Is ex pected that something definite will be developed relative to the new forma tion of the circuit, and It seems to be a certainty that Monroe, La., will get a franchise, the promoters at that place having submitted a very Inviting pro posal, and confidence Is felt that Mon roe would be able to support a team. Selma, Ala., has also a&ked for a fran chise, but It is not probable that the Alabama town will be admitted In case Mobile goes out, as that would destroy the compactness of the circuit. Nothing has been heard from Hat tiesburg or Natchez concerning their Intentions, and unless at least two more towns come forward with offers at the January meeting, the circuit will be composed of only six teams. Tbo six-day bike met not amount to uiueh. Its scandal average. in New York did By WILLIAM F. KIRK. New York, Dec. 21.—There is much food for reflection in the big "swap” whereby the Giants get Tenney, Brld- well and Needham in exchange for Bowerman, Dahlen, FergUHon, etc., etc. Many of our most discerning fAns can not see where the Polo Grounders profit by tho deal, but Manager McGraw, un derstanding that our most discerning funs don’t go very strong on inside baseball anyhow, asserts that the transaction has strengthened the Giants. With all due deference to the baseball acumen of McGraw, the trade doesn’t seem quite even, let alone its being ad vantageous to New York. While it is true that McGann and Dahlen are get ting along In years, their steadiness has helped out many an erratic pitcher, and the fact that they always, knew what to do with the ball when they got it. no matter how critical the situation, made up for their stiffening joints. Tonney is a better first baseman than Dan McQann, but not a younger first baseman, and If McGann is paying tho tax of the years, so is the accomplished gentleman who will succeed him at the initial corner of the diamond. Tenney isn’t a better hitter than Daniel, and when the matter of base running Is considered he hasn’t got any terrific advantage there. Needham, the catcher, is & fairly good performer, but I believe most of our Polo Grounds enthusiasts will agree that Frank Bowerman, with all his cracked fingers and other scars of past battles, Is a better man than the Bos ton lad. Bowerman has been here with us for so many years that we regard him as a sort of fixture, and It will be hard for us to watch *hlm In a Boston uniform, as It will be hard for Frank to wear a Boston uniform when he ap pears at the Polo Grounds. Officials Elected For the B. H. S. Baseball Team The Boys’ High School elected base ball officers at a meeting held Friday night at tho Boys’ High School. Krone was elected captain and Ward manager of the baseball team. It Is doubtful If better men could have been chosen, for Keene Is a fast steady player and Ward has shown hli ability as a manager this fall. Thai High School has some fine ma terial to pick from this year, and ex pects to put forth a great tenm. The High School Glee Club will put a minstrel show before the public some time In February for the benefit of the team. NEGROES IN ALABAMA WILL RALLY TO FORAKER. Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 21.—Alabama negroes have begun a movement here In the Interest of J. B. Foraker for president. Large placards announce a meeting for Emancipation Day, at which leaders will speak. On the rds Is a large picture of Foraker, with the words: "Our choice for 1908.' Charley Murphy It Is fulling iloo n Chics go National grandstand to ti . nrosont size. Braggo the Monk—Everybody Knows Him. OjpTTtfht. 1907, by Amprfe*n-JoMrnal-En*nln*» HOLD ON, YOU DON’T HAVE J TO BUY TICKETS WHEN woe with ME,-Eve*t-1 BODY KNOWS "BRAC GO - \ ,WE GO IN free ! 1 JUST LET ME HAVE THE TWO BEST SEATS IN THE HOUSE ' MY FRIEND HERE, AND I WANT TO SEE THE SHOW,-YOU KNOW ME,— NOW CO AHEAD AMD CINE iME THE BEST Seats too hayeV (WHAT! - ME ! - TAKE MONEY FROM 1 ME ! - FROM BRAGGO, THE MONK, / FOR MEASLY THEATRE -TICKETS ? WHYl MY DEAR. MAN,— I GUESS YOU PONY [reauie wh*L=—C=-= Winter Horses In Columbia, S. C. Lexington, Ky„ Dec. 21.—Trainer Robert L. Davis has left here for Co lumbia, S. C„ with tho trotters and pacers to be prepared at that place tor the campaign of 1908. These hors** are owned by or under lease to Charles Floyd Jones, of New York, They are Margaret O. 2:08 1-4; Mighty Onward, 2:101-4: Peter Donna, 2:19 3-4: Robert C, the sensational yearling by Peter The Great out of Cocoon, 2:15, which trotted a mile hero last fall In 2:291-1. the first half In 1:12; Horace XV. Wil son, an 8-year-old full brother to Mighty Onward, that showed a mile si Columbus In 2:08 1-4; Joe Wentz. J"; by Patchen Wilkes out of tho noted Beuzetta, 2:08 3-4. a yearling filly Mighty Onward out of Mary A, full®'*" ter to Margaret A, and Axworthy, Pi™" cess of Kent, 2:22 1-4. and two 3-year- olds by Walnut Hall. In addition to these Trainer p»J>* will have Dr. Chase, 2:101-4, and W rlco, 2:09 1-4, one of the best horre. on the grand circuit last season. * Irst-named two are owned by Ism Eckert, of Reading. Pa., nmi wer shipped to Columbia some time age. Rutgers' new commander Is Chari** E. Corbin, 1909. He's a fullback. Kid Elberfeld has signed a New YorJ contract that calls for <1.000 *xt money If he plays the game ana tends strictly to business.