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SPORTING PAGE, DECEMBER 25 The Atlanta Georgian i ■’"Kywass**! [NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS By PERCY H. WHITING. "Encourage good, clean hone racing and cut out all vulgar ahowra, and you will have better attendance all around," amid Nor man J. Colman, former lieutenant governor of Missouri, at the convention of the American Fairs and Expositions. 'God so made man that he wants to see contests," Mr. Nor man continued. "He will stop In the street to witness a dog fight, and will watch two boys battle. Ministers of the gospel and others of high moral tone will witness a horse race that is a pure contest for speed for a purse, where there Is no pool selling or other form of gambling." THE CRITICAL SITUATION /Wlfy Sure, encourage good, clean horse racing. But is there such a thing! To get “good” racing—contests between really great horses, there has to be a betting attachment. To get “clean” racing you have to cut out the betting. And there you are. Since it is against the principles of the Amalgamated Order of Sporting Sharps to work much on holidays (or any other time) we take the liberty of allowing Battling Nelson to fill up part of the column with some really sensible advice. Here it is: Every man should learn to box. It would be a good thing for women, too. If more of them went In for stuffed glove exercise. ■ There Is a fot of merit In boxing which perhaps you have never thought of. There Is more In It than the development of your punch. There Is more In It than the Increase of lung expansion It gives you. There Is more In ft than the Improvement of your wind. More than the strengthening of your stomach. Here are some of the thlngH that boxing will tench a boy or man: It will teach him to be cool under fire. It will make him courageous. It will wear off that natural timid feeling every boy lias who la called upon to defend himself. It will teach him to bear punishment without flinching. It will teach him to use stVategy In the rnce of danger. It will cure him of the Inclination to faint every time he hns a bloody nose. If boys learned to box when they were young It would save them many beatings and bullylngs by older boys. A good, hard punch, well delivered, by a boy who hns learned fairly well the rudiments of the boxing game will upset any bully who weighs from 20 to 40 pounds more than the boy he Is brow-beating. I never heard of a bully who knew nnythlng about boxing. Every boy, no matter who he Is or whure he lives, Is bound to en counter this kind of a fellow. If he doesn't know how to hit and defend himself, It Is worse than useless for him to try to cope with him. He may even be seriously hurt If ho does so. A bully Is always too lasy or too swell-headed to lenrn to fight prop erly. Usually he has groat strength and a mean disposition. Uppercut the bully. Swing hard for his solar plexus. You know how the crowd always yells itself delirious when one of these contemptible bullies gets a swift cross or a counter or a swing to the Jaw that puts hint down and out. Then, perhaps, you don't know thnt a swift punch Is the quickest way In the world to knock a man senseless. Suppose a man meets a robber armed with n revolver at night. The chances are always that he can't escape getting shot or beaten, because these hold-up artists are cowards and apt to hurt their victim, even If ft Isn’t necessary. Now, tell me, what chance would a man like Jesse James have If ho stepped up to Bob Fitzsimmons with a drawn revolver nnd ordered him to throw up his bands? None In the world. One of Fltx's short arm Jerks—an uppercut that would travel like lightning and not have to move more than a foot or six Inches, would put Mr. Bandit out of business. A bandit hardly ever shoots before he orders his victim to throw up his hands. Biff him before he can pull the trigger. And in closing: Yo sporting editor wishes ye sports a merrio Xmasse. OLD ENEMIES GET TOGETHER Battling Nelson and Abe At- tell Engage in Little Private Bout. By TAD. e tw York. Pec. 2ft.—Untiling Nelson and i Attell did hook up In the gymnasium •ftar Mil. The other day we printed nn article about the rivalry between the pair and stated th**n that If they did hook up It would be n fight, ami no brotherly love affair. Itoth nro training at Milieus' place, near Trlaco. and the other day put the gloves on for three round*. At tell bled tho Nattier In the first rc and had hla cheek lab! open In tho second by tl •ffali when they wore milled apart they shook nd laughed over the thing ite t* the boat friend* In tlie world. bauds am. ___ they were the Attell Is ruling favorite in the fight. Which takes place on New Year's day out there. „ .Monday and Is now out of the run nlag aa far aa the middleweight champion- •hip la concerned. We were looking for ward to the cowboy tighter meeting the winner of the Ketley-I*apkc affair, but with one of his weapons Injured he can not be considered. The Kelley Papke tight comes off next Monday. Ketchell with nls broken band will be at the ringside, as will Htun- ton. tbs nsw tighter. "Dear Santy Cl aim: When you report Within thla hapless town, old aport; When you Arrive from far away With toys and such dope In your slolgh. With dolls and blocks and spinning With Teddy bears and lolly-popa. With tin horn bundles on the side. With drums to beat ami sleds to slide. With hobby horses, books to read. And stuff on which the youngsters feed. Don't overlook us, old Kaxlp. But pasta your glims upon this slip, Thla latter which we send to you— WE WANT A MOGUL—I*. D. Q — A manager to lead our push From out the tail-end underbrush; We want the real thing—not a dub. Tours truly. “Nashville Baseball Club.” Tar levs eight -cli next m plan. ..jrilte, as It Is desired to wake It an •clab league. A meeting will tie held tb at Mat toxin to carry out the Meridian Sells Another Player Meridian, Mias., Dec. 25.—The Me- rldlan Baseball Association of the Cotton States Leugue, hus sold Catcher Andrews to Lynn. Mass. The same team has dratted Third. Basemun Itoth. who had been engaged as manager for the next season as the successor of Guy Sample. This now leaves Meridian with only seven men on the reserve list. SOME KIRKERINOS IT NEEDS NO WORDED EXPLANATION. RACING PLANT, COSTING HALF MILLION, MAY BE BUILT AT THE CITY OF MEXICO KIRK. “Maybe you got a flash at the fellow that Just gave me the tip,” re marked the Manicure Lady. “The fellow with the long hair." “Ye.s,” said the Head Barber. “I had him spotted for an actor.” “No. he ain't no actor. He's a newspaper man from Missoula,* Mon tana. He works on the Missoula Messenger, he told me. His nails was pretty black.” “Must have been a pressman out there," ventured the Head Barber “That there printers' Ink gets under the nails something, fierce. I know —I used to be devil In a printing shop." “He was no pressman," declared the Manicure Lady. “He told me he was a newspaper poet. I never heard of a newspaper poet, did you*”* “Sure I did. My cousin BUI Is a newspaper poet. He writes Jingles about the races and the prize fighters. He wrote one awful sad one about the death of a middleweight. Want to hear It?" "Indeed I do," the Manicure Lady assured him. “I am very'fond of poetry. If it’s good and sad." THE FATE OF THE MIDDLEWEIGHT. ‘This one is sure sad," asserted the Head Barber, clearing his throat "This is how It goes: , “‘The middleweight lay upon the ground, His head was going around and around. , He heard the monotonous One, Two, Three Drop from the Ups of the Referee. He heard the ominous Four, Five, Six, And he tried to rise, but his legs were sticks. He heard the Seven. Right, Nine—and then He heard the fatal numeral, TEN! “ ‘The dying middleweight gave a stare At the hungry thousands assembled there. They yelled at him to get up and fight— No look of mercy he seen that night. “I was double-crossed ” he said, with a whine, “Give my regards to Jack O’Brien." Well." said the Manicure Lady, “1 s'pose that's pretty fair, but some how it ain't what I call a real poem." The Head Barber was plainly disappointed, and showed it. “I thought It was some poem," he declared. "What do you call a real poem, anyhow?” “About love," said the Manicure Lady. ‘‘About love and the stormy sea and the waves and the mountains and the stars. That stuff your cousin wrote sounds pretty good In a way, but I don’t like them things about mlddlewelghts. The fellow from Missoula told me a pretty thing he Just wrote for the Messenger. It was like this: WHY BETTY RUBBERED. " ‘When Betty wanders down the street I smile to see her dainty feet; My happiness Is all complete When Betty wanders down the street. " ‘Her eyes are fairer than the blue That lends the violets their hue. Her satiny neck Is stretched a ml’.e To catch my smile.’" “Not for me," said the* Head Barber. "That’s funny newspaper verse. It ain’t the kind they read In the Subway.” “Why not?” demanded the Manicure Lady. “Because,” the Head Barber concluded, “people get tired enough in the Subway without reading that kind of dope.” LOCAL SPORTS SPEND A QUIET CHRISTMAS By J. 8. A. MAC DONALD. Han Francisco, till.. Him*. 25.—About the most Interesting tiling heard In the gos*lp f turf affair* hare Hit* Week I* tin* news of big race track promotion In the t'lty of Mexico. A tlrst-clns* raring plant, costing npwnril of $600,000 and equipped In the most modern style, will lie erected In the Mexican capita! " wltlita the next eighteen mouth*. Mnre- . a Jockey eluh lint lug Jurisdiction and government over thoroughbred racing by Virtue of special legislation toward thnt etui. Will direct the raring on the new course, 'it pl t ii I lx t h, foremost In commercial ami in I circle* In tho undent city, are at the nd of both tho new race track* and the uposed Jockey eluh. The Intention I* to place the Mcxlcnn turf niton the same plane and Mtiitii* a* racing I* found In New York itm| under the French Jockey flub oil the 1‘iirlslnn courses. The men behind the Idea of crenting a turf >r Mexico desire racing for the social and sporting attribute* behind. Hfrnngo n* It may seem, the project Ik not living urged because of the tliinucliil po*Nlldlltles of The toiler of Mock Is to he l.nr- tcred la thl* country. However, a deter mined effort will lie made to bring an ade quate ntinilier of horse*, owners. Jockeys mid official* from the Iiilted State* to prop- rly wet In motion tho machinery of the Idg project. While there hn* been no great fanfare about tile thing, the fact that earliest and substantial uieusures hud been already taken toward launching racing In the great empire to the south of us wu* learned this Week during the visit here of Fraud* de Cnrrerro, the noted “Ranch King" and tint- millionaire ago ho witi __ California and a noted Iuim-IuiII player. He I* a member of the new t'allf-unlu Jockey Flub and the Westchester Kitdng Associa tion of New York. Though tumble to give nay details, the young Mexican confirmed the correctness • if the fact* In the mnlii above related. It Is thought rndng will h» Inaugurated In Mexico on it first-class basis about January 1, He! Ylslo tinrrom n„ m ,. r ... ... enllber to attract horses nnd horsemen who participate In mid-winter racing from a* far north ns New York. It is umv poNsIlde to ship from New York to tho t'lty of Mexico well within n fortnight and at little greater cost than the rail transpor tation to New Orleans, La. The Ideal winter climate, the population and the wealthy duns of cltlzetis necessary support n hlgh-gride turf are to he found nlng rndng there for three years past a lot of culls from tho American turf con tenting for $200 purses, racing ha* never been considered on u pretentious basis be fore the present time. Already L. Ilium Is spending upward of tco,nun In purchasing middle-grade thorough breds for breeding purposes In Mexico. He recently secured twenty-eight head thru Kentucky and New York, nnd will pick up another band on the winter * trucks next month for shipment Houth. Tho day may come when the t'lty of Mexico will rival tills eltr New Orleans. la., and l.os An geles. t’nl., ns n winter racing point. CLEMSON AND TENNESSEE WILL PLAY COMMODORES Nashville, Teitn., Pec. 25.—I'lemson nnd IVnuessce will be ou Vanderbilt's schedule text fnll utile** all signs fall. Itoth of these teams have agreed to meet he Commodore* and It I* now only a mat er of arranging terms and date*. It has made a most Inglorious side- The Atlanta team offers to play, bat give Vanderbilt only n guarantee of pease* to appear In Atlanta. This Is n *f this kind from Tech simply amounts to declining to play the Nashville team. Next year It Is Vanderbilt's turn to go to the fidverslty of Michigan for a game, and ns the Commodores will use tin all their spare time on the long Jaunt to Aun Arbor there Is un chance that they will take on another Eastern game until 1908. Christmas promises to he the quiet est holiday of the year with Atlanta aport-lovers. The semi-professional football game which was one of the near-features last year has wisely been abandoned. So there Is no athletic exhibition on tap. The Atlanta Athletic Club’s golf course at East Lake has been well patronized all day. The first car brought out a delegation of players, and they will come steadily till sunset. The 8AM PHILLIPS WANTS GO WITH KETCHEL. Chicago, Dec. 25.—Hammy Phillips, the local hlffer, 1* after n match with Hfanley Ketchel. Phillips' barker Is willing to put up n side bet on Hammy agnlnat Ketchel and the latter hns agreed to meet Phillips If a cluli would offer a suitable purse for the mateb. Phillips claims thnt lioth Hill Papke and Tony Cnponl have sldestepjied many chances to tight him. Phillips wants to light Ketchel at 148 or 160 pounds, u weight the latter says he can easily make. course, tho pretty soggy. Is In fair con dition, and some good scores were made. No tournament la In progress. The hunters are out In force, nf course. Many paries left Tuesday night and will spend two or three days in the fields. The quail shooting Is re ported good all along the line, and par ties of sportsmen which have gone further south after ducks have had good luck. Most of the other good sporta are at home, playing with the children's toys and having a large time In a way that Is possible Just once a year. RALPH ROSE MAYBESTUNG May Be Declared Profes sional For Playing Foot ball For Money. ... gue n few years ago. will ho with the Philadelphia American League team next season, lie hn* liven drafted from Tecumseli of the tkiutheru Michigan League. THE HALL-ROOM BOYS. Copyright. 100?, by Atutrlean-Joarnsl-Xisarintr. They Meet an Incoming Llnei—Still on S13 Per. The Binghamton club of the New York J>*gue ht* been transferred to new owner* Whs have alerted J. II. Mooney, of Ilfott, n* president; M- H. Roach. of It«>novn. Pa., u* secretary, and F. F. Hammond, of Ulughsm- ' too. treasurer. James II. Itanium, of (Pm- i too, has been Nppotuted team manager. Han-1 •on has purchased a one-third Interest la the dab. t New York, Dec. 25.—There Is trouble la store for Ralph Hose, the world's cham pion shot putter. The big California giant Is Charged with having broken faith with the Amateur Athletic Union, and If tb** charges are proved he will la* disqualified by the A. A. C. It Is alleged thnt ltow played ou a professional football team In tils native town, which. If true, put* him vestlgutlon and will sift the matter to tb# bottom. He said: "It makes no difference who or what tn« athlete Is If he doesn't play fair with the A. A. U. he must get out. As long as I am iiregldeut of the association the sport must W clean and I will keep It so. The less "f Rose will be keenly felt by the American team for the Olympic games. He was looked upon ns the man for the discus event along with Hhcrldan. THE STARS IN WINTER! r John Kllng In Kansas City—This wonder ful man In nmv the hero of the stick Instead of the suit. Ill* billiard and pool room Is w . .... ... in9 to Iook „ kt? * — ...... ,..sylng salary. II* plays nightly engagements with the ties* pool players from Joplin. Albany, HcdalW. Excelsior nud other points. The grub si that gnme would make President llurpo/ wince, could he count It. Frank Cornice In California—Fresno, <’#!.. hns been stung. For years Its fame rente* 11st us nnd Chance, hut It hns - xi raisins. It wn* a question with Chance whether he would prefer to stand around the depot at Fresno all winter with a bunch of raisins In his band or cm- Joy the surf at Ocean Grove, fhs Wtter won and Chance has substituted six plnugra per day for a diet of raisins. Nick Allruck In I'lnelnmtl—Th. »™;hl season with thla lion of society Is ngM with fury. Following the turkey raffle Thanksgiving day there has lieen round an- cr round of society and other things, in* Welcome Pleasure Club has led the pro<«j slon with three hoe-downs nnd the Creek Kxrhauge Club has conducted s***JJ* successful poker tournaments. Nick is *»«" organising the Apollo Club for meu tb*t ar * eligible to u club of that name. Johnny Etc™ In Tnj. N. Y.-The hrro “I this sketch spends moat of hi# time at h* burning lodge on the Hudson. Busin*** shoes has gone to the dogs. In the dr*t ten days following his triumphal return to* Ever* shoe emporium shod everv man. woman and child In Troy, Albany. H»*henr^ tady and Cohoes. There is nothing left JJJ sweep out In the morning, and light lamps at 4 p. tu. Hughey Jennings In Baltimore—Has re tired to the shores of an unknown l" where he spends bis dsys chewjng Fielder Junk, In Wn»hln«t»-8pendlM Jg days quietly on a farm plucking the pet ont of winter daisies and oaring to Mjjff 1 .. “1 will,” “I won't.” "I wfi . * "Xtefc It’s merely a question with him •• to wh he stops on.—Chicago Beconl-IJert^