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■I SPORTING PAGET, DECEMBER 27 The Atlanta Georgian PERCY H. WHITING SPORTING EDITOR ' &7^£ws;fiuFw£^5]|S0U T MERN LEAGUE MOGULS ARE 1 PULLING OFF A LOT OF TRADES By PERCY H. WHITING. The writer feels like apologizing every time he uncorks any golf in this column. So few people are interested in the great game, compared with the vast crowd which is batty on the sub ject of baseball. However, the goiters make up in enthusiasm what they lack In numbers and anyway some of the sharps are harping again on our old hobby, the length of golf courses. That’s all the apology we’re going to offer this time. A writer in The World of Golf says: The rubber-core simplifies golf In three ways. It adds length to the shot, especially from Iron; It rises much more quickly than the gutta, making bad Ilea more easily negotiated; and above all It goes a very long way when very badly hit To make golf as skillful a game as with the gutta our courses must be made more difficult. The additional length given by the rubber-core rendered some lengthening of our courses necessary; but the craze for lengthening courses Is fast becoming a mania, and Is destroying the Oner features of golf. The fashion Is in vogue now of making boles very long, greens very large and fairway very- wide. Now the hitting of a ball on to an acre of grass SQme 220 yards away may call for some physical strength, but It does not require very great skill. The modern two-shot hole Is from 400 to 440 yards long, the modern fairway Is far too wide, and the green Is large. The principle of this thing seems simple enough. Any hole longer than a one-shot hole (which may be any rea sonable distance from 50 yards to 200 and still be “good”) should be at a distance of two or three FULL shots from the tee. . “There is a reason.” Sure. If a holers at a distance of two full shots ; and a man misses one shot it will take him three at least to get to the green. The man who plays perfectly gets there in two. Under ordinary circumstances he wins the hole which he deserves. “Full shot” holes put a premi um on good play. A man who makes his shotswell does not often find himself beaten by some “lucking” duffer. On a course whero there are a lot of drive-and-iron holes a man may slob one shot utterly nnd then by a good recovery reach the green in as few strokes as the man who plays perfectly. You can talk about the beauty of these medium - irons - to • the • green, after the drive; but on a championship course they ought to be left to the player who has fluked a shot. A glance at recent baseball bulletins show* that the Southern League mo guls are trading about a bit. Nashville haa swapped McElveen for Walters, which seems—according to the official averages—to give Birmingham decidedly the best of It Both men are good fielders, but “Humpty" Is all to the good with the swat-stick. Mike Finn,-Instead of selling Rocken- feld to Jersey City, has traded him for Keister. Montgomery has also shipped Nye, securing Merryman, of Fort Wayne. In his place. The following baseball transactions in which Southern and South Atlantic players figure have been recorded by the National Association: Contracts. With Little Rock—W. A. Coiart. With Jacksonville, Fla.—E. J. Fln- Y. M. C. A. Teams Play on Saturday On Ratardny night the usual basketball frame* will be flayed ,n the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. The ti*nm* scheduled to play are the Y’* and the C’a and the A*s against the M’a. George Tebeau haa naked an even $100,000 for his Louisville club. Admitting all this, which every body will not do, it is a natural conclusion that golf courses have got to bo longer than they were when the old gutta-percha ball was used. The present rubber- cored ball is probably nearly 20 per cent faster than the old. Therefore each full-ahot hole ought to be nearly 20 per cent longer than it was before the ad vent of the “lively” ball. It does not necessarily follow that tho whole course must be 20 per cent longer. If this length is undesirable it may be cut down by making more one-shot holes. Theso are good at almost any rea sonable distance, because one good shot puts you on the green. This was all a matter of vital importance iu Atlanta a year ago, when many members of the Esst Lake Club wanted to shorten the course. A full season of play has convinced everybody that the East Lake course is none too long and that it is as good a test of golf as the Soutl] has ever seen. It has more “good” holes than any course in the South that any body's knows about and is nearec a true test of golf than any other. ATTELL DOWN TO120POUNDS Is About Ready For Fight With Moran and Ex pects to Win. Ban Francisco, Dec. 27.—James W. Coffroth, the promoter of the Attell- Moran light, which will be held In the Mlsslon-st. arena on New Year's day, wants to make sure that the boxers will be at weight when the clerk of scales calls on them to weigh In two hours and a hslf before the boys enter the ring. Coffroth paid an official vis- It yesterday to the training quarters of Abe Attell near Colma. When I'ofT- roth arrived Abe stepped on the scales and showed that he weighed 110 pounds. Being so close to the weight, Attell has decided to go easy on hi* work. Attell Is very confident. T am ready to give Moran any kind of a fight he wants." said Attell. "If he wants to fight fancy. I’ll be there. If he want* to make a rough tight out of It, I am not afraid. Anything Mo ran sake for will suit me. I will surely win within ten rounds.” Refereo James J. Jeffrie* Is expected to arrive from Los Angeles on Mon day. GOTCH AND SWEDE MAY HAVE MATCH New York. Dee. 27.—IlJ.ilmar Load la. the two-bnndnil-pouml Rwedr whose title to the wrratllnjr championship of the United a tea was wrested from him two yearn aco ’ Frank ffotrb. at l>e* Moines, arrived In fw York today. The first thin* he »lld on Terms Accepted. With South Atlantic League—Umpire Frank Qulgg, Umpire Charles Lanlgan. WALCOTT WINS QUITEJASILY Defeats George Cole, Who Challenges Him For Another Go. Philadelphia, Dec. 27.—Joe Walcott, the former champion, last night scored a victory over George Cole, of Trenton. In the windup at the Broadway Ath letic Club. Cole took the bout with little preparation, as Eddie Chambers, who was billed to meet Walcott! was out because of a sore shoulder. Cole fought well for a time, but the longer the bout went the greater gecame Wal cott's superiority. Altho Walcott was not 111 flrst-cfase condition, he forced the fighting al nearly every stage. Joe had the ad vantage of every round except the third. The men had an argument at the end of the bout and had to be dragged from each other by their sec onds and the police. With Little Rock—Ben Hill. W. F. Parrott. With Savannah—L. Hixson. With Macott—Lawrence Beckley, John Mallarkey, Charles Stubbe. With Columblar—A. J. Romer, G. W. Lewis, Catcher Hartman. Released By Purchase. By Jersey City to Little Rock—Play er Keister. By Little Rock to Jersey City— Player Rockenfeld. By Lawrence to Atlanta—J. P. Cove- ney. By Montgomery to Macon—John Mallarkey. By Macon to Montgomery—Joe Peps, Fred Wohlleben, Jack Robinson. By Fort Wayne to Montgomery— Merryman. By Montgomery to Fort Wayne— Nye. Great Auto Show Opens Saturday New York. Dec. 27.—When the doors of Madison Square Garden open at 8 o’clock Saturday evening the motor- loving public will see the most beauti ful show of'the year. It will so far surpass any exhibitions that have ever been held In the garden as to be beyond comparison with them. Groucha The Monk. SAY, CAN’T YOU Keep This blamed clock in LfOR A CHANGE SAVANNAH ALMOST SURE TO GET STOCK CAR RACE A LEAGUE LEADER. Indiana Has Been Counted Out and Georgia Likely to Land Plum. thoiicb hlffffpat Chlenfo, Deo. 27.—It looks tta Havnnnnh would awnnleri tho atrlpiMNl stock oar race of the year. Tho event In going to come off, probably under tho auspices of the American Auto mobile Association, nnd It was origin* II? plunycd to hold It lu Indians. It has t»een found Impractical to have It In that state nnd as Savannah seems to be the Ideal place the Georgia city Is likely to get the cull. Decisive action has not been taken, no ir as .Savannah la concerned, for Presi dent Hotchkiss Is desirous of learning the nttltnde of the trade before determining U|hhi any one place. To get it full expres sion of opinion from mamifaeturcrs and prominent owners who are Interested In entering machines In such n contest Presi dent llotebklss Is sending out letters broad cast over ibe country. It was or!dually planned that the A. A. A. would bold Its stock car race lu the middle West, as the Vanderbilt cup rare will l»e In the Kast. thus dividing the plums Investlgntl that tho the roads state of Indiana. In ... to hold the contest, could not grant the a led the fact good enough, the Abk'h It was pro|Mtscd ueeessary permission, as the state legisla ture does not convene this winter. This plan, therefore, had to l»e abandoned. I The stock car race at Savannah has tipi to the present time been promoted by Ha vauuabaiis themselves on tlielr own nook. i but they wanted the backing of the nation j al organisation to aid In getting a large. entiy list. It Is now prohntilc that the A. i A. A. will take hold of that proposal race, nationalise It ami make It the big otock ear struggle of the organization. These radical changes In the plans of the technical Ismrd, together with the rules governing the stork « ar contests, will the presented to the executive committee of the A. A. A. by t'hitlrnutn Van HIcklen nt a meeting of that committee In Xew York Saturday, December IK. If Snvnimah Is selected as the scene for the A. A. A. stork ear races the meet proim- hly will take place the week or possibly the a fte Ormond tty of Savannah will give handsome es for each race. The entrance f»*c •h race will not exceed $500 and all t 160 to 300 miles. • Is no other course* In lug in the ii those who have lus{H>cted GIANTS BALK AT PAYING $1,000 OWED NEW ORLEANS Appeal to National Commis sion and May Go to Law Over It. vents Will be It Is claimed ountry available 0 early spring that course nwrpose. It Ii lecla ugtb, while In oddftf' utile course which can lu* race*. On both course* straightaways, practically tber is shorter miles oil fo there are tw* vel, and A. C. CROWDER. Tills lx the new president of the Cotton States League. New York. !»ee. 27.—There trill Is* no New Yeor’s present of $1,000 to tho New Orleans club l»y the New York National Longue rlnh la settlement of the Pelicans' claim for ilnuinges for failure to carry out the contract to |iley an exhibition serlen with the Athletics la the lamlslaim city last spring, for President Itrusli Is not satisfied with Hie ruling of the'national commission mi the Ktilijocr, and tins asked for a re hearing of the He will hard . , matitl, Pulliam and By WILLIAM F. KIRK. “I was noticing In the paper," said the Manicure Lady, "a nuestio. which they wanted answered, 'What I* a Good Woman?' I sent in »! answer this morning, and I hope It won first place. It ought to.” ' “What did you hand them?" asked the Head Barber. “This Is what I wrote; 'A good woman Ib one who Is true to herself while she Is Blngle, and true to her husband If she Is married.” “Pretty good." said the Head Barber, "but why didn’t you make It lone er? Nobody ever won a prize by loafing on the job and turning In short copy.” "Well," said the Manicure Lady, visibly nettled, "what le your definition of a good woman?" n "I haven't looked over the dope,” said the Head Barber. “I can tell von right now what I think a good man Is. If you want to know. A good man u a man with plenty of sand, good footwork and a punch In either hand Cor bett was a good man; Fitzsimmons was a good man; Sullivan was a g(K ,j man. t CORBETT TELLS HER HIS MISSION. "I knew Corbett,” declared the Manicure Lady. “He was in here the other day to have his nails fixed. He showed me the null on the little linger of his right hand—the one that Sharkey chewed off. He'e sure a swell fel- low. Gee! you ought to hear him talk about the stage. " 'My mission on the stage,' !)e says, 'Is not to parade pugilism, hut to demonstrate that some pugilists has brains. Take that play of mine' he says. 'The Lady and the Burglar.' In that play I show that the human i n . tellect Is the most wonderful thing in the world. When I steal the silver nnd hear the lady of the house coming down. I sit on the bag. showing that mind can rise above matter.'" "Corbett Is all right," agreed the Head Barber. "I always liked Jim but I don't think he’s any great aetor. He was pretty fair In vaudeville, where he told the story about the fellow with the brown hat, but he ain't so much In the drama.” “Anyway," said the Manicure Lady, "about the good woman. I think a good woman Is the best and sweetest and noblest work In all creation. Like the little daisy In the dell, waiting for the morning sun to come up and open Its petals, she waits and waits through the years, until her lord and master comes- to claim her for his own." GIRLS DON’T WAIT; THEY WORK. . The Head Barber grinned. “Who wrote that ticket for you?" he demanded. “Who slipped that to you about the daisy In the dell? I s'pose there Is plenty of daisies In the dell, and plenty of good women, especially the good women. “I ain't no cynic. I don't get enough money a week to lose my faith In the ladles. But there's lots of mush In that thing about the lady waiting for her lord and master to appebr and claim her. I’m married, and I know. My girl didn’t wait—ehe Just came along and grabbed me. They don't wait. They work." "Maybe they do." admitted the Mani cure Lady. "But you certainly must give It to them—their work Is fine and flossy." “It Is.” agreed the Head Barber. "You never trimmed a set,of nails like you arc going to trim your lord anil master when he falls for you and makes you his wife. It's all right for a daisy to live In a dell until It can get n flat, and you ain’t overlooking any bets. Be a good woman, pick out a good flat, and good luck to you.” Over there where they thought Gun ner Molr was a sure enough slugger and a clever ring general, they go in for wrestling. A Galician gentleman, who wrestles under the unique name of Zybsco (pro nounce as pronounce can), and whl weighs a matter of 18 stone—nearly 250 pounds In our language—is doing i great stunts on the mat and winning the approval of the sport-loving Brit ishers. Commenting on a match between Mr. Zybsco and a Cossack named Padoub- ny. The London Mall says: "Not since Hackenschmtdt defeated Mndrull for the second time hus any wrestling match excited such Interest as centers In the antagonism of these newer Goliaths. There were to have been four, nr even five..competitors for the privilege which victory Is to confer, but for va rious reasons Rogers, Arif Hassan and Koch have seceded, the Issue thus re solving Itself Into a duel between Zyb sco and Padoubny.” 1 GAME DEAD HERE. Very Interesting and well put. but not for us. Here In the United States the wrestling game Is deader than the time-honored door nail, because faking «md hlppddromlng have killed It. Wres tling, ns it happens, affords splendid opportunities for faking. Two rugged gladiators can strain and tug them selves red In the face without really In flicting any damage, and long ago the disciple of grappling discovered this fact, for you are .to know that even wrestlers have some brains. It Is pos sible that now and then two wrestlers may get together nnd have a sure enough scrap, but the percentage l» woefully against It. SEVERE RUN F0R_M0T0RS Will Plow For Five Days Thru Sandy Roads of Florida. York club Is merely awarding $1,000 to tho New Orleans Hull, loss an offset, when the original ilcninml of the Injured party was ten times greater, possibly to rare this $1,000, In the event of the national commis sion denying a rehearing nt Its next an nual meeting iu riuelnuntl on January 7, the New York elub will go to law. This Is the second clash the (Hunts have had with Southern longue dull*, the time before Memphis being penalized for viola tion of contract. Now the Knvnnnugh Iwnly Is preparing to take action as a whole against the New York Nationals, nnd In to doing has stirred up a hornet's nest. Home of the clubs ure desirous of pnsslng a rule that will prevent any ftmthern league from meeting the MeUrawItew In exhibi tion games, while others want the griev ances of the Dixie teams left to the Indi vidual members. iNote.—As Is usual with Southern League Iteen made to bar hliu.) M’GUGIN, BACK IN NASHVILLE, TALKS OF NEW ONE-YEAR RULE The election of Mr. Crowder as the Hucceraor of President Stacy Compton. In 'length. <ni the larger coursei of Vicksburg, who ha* served the sharp turns which will t»e elltul- {league In a manner thoroughly accept- t in ted. if desired, and some eousldersble t able during the past two years, was grades. There are twelve turns, which, bow- j somew hat of a surprise. The position was tendered him by a unanimous — l.o oiled and i vote of the board of director* after' *• *'» Bach t hr stums he runs •Is off the the announcement w«g made that Pre*- JjJg*- willlnmn r?»?n Vf Hast* idem Compton did not care to serve an- K,L " m " ,n * 01 other term, and the director* “put it up” to the Jackson man In nuch a man ner that he could hardly decline the honor. NATIONAL LEAGUE PRESIDENT TALKS OF RULES AND OUTLAWS are twelve turns, which, lu ■arable of reconstruction and nt least tt n ran be taken lit speed. The road surface is hard, the course will l»e «*ll< fences built to keep the roads.” The Boston American* will wear red stocking* next season, and be known at the Red Sox. Nashville. Tenn.. Dec. 27.—Dan McGugln, former Wolverine star, and for the past four years the football roach of Vander bilt. Is now a citizen of Nnshvllle. lie baa cast his lot tu Dlzleland nnd from now on will practice Uls chosen profession, that of law, will teach In the vnndcrldlt faculty, and will continue to coach the Vanderbilt football teams In the fall. A Louisville ninl Nnshvllle train Christ ina* morning brought the great coach back from Detroit, where he had l*'t*ii for sev eral weeks, arranging his business affair*. The partnership of Huston Sc Met;tight Is of course dlsS4tlved. t'ooch McUugtn was pleased that the not Indulge In the highest ambition any student—that Is, nn ntnlete—enu long for, that of making one of bis college teams.’ The rule is not needed down hen*. There are uo scouts In the Hmith. and there are no questionable moth.sis belug employed rger i us»*d for such purposes.** land. President Pulliam Is not worrying himself the least bit nl»out the talk of war on the part of the American Assm-lathm. and thinks there I* nothing In the retMirt that the American Association would like to lu- vndc Chicago. ••Conditions are very different now,’* ho declared, "from what they were seven year* «gu. when the American league was formed. TJien the Nntlomtl League was lu debt, there wen* dissension* In Its ranks. It was In disfavor with the public and the press, and It hud not the support of the minor league*. ••Now It Is different. Baseball I* organ ized as It never wns liefore. There are rule was adopted at the recent meet In-' so as to allow freshmen who are real students to play the game of ftHttball. -It wctild have been manifestly unfair." he declare*. **to have adopted a rule that said to ull freshmen. ’You shall not play; you must lie around here a year; we think . maybe you nn* not straight, and we don't J** ^ of mme lias it iieen so prosper- wnnt to take any chances. \on can take The Cedar Rapid* colt I* built along',,us; never ha* luiseltull had such a hold on exercise all right at college, but you can the *am« lines a* the quartet. the public. . — Baseball, organized baseball, extends The ranks of the human bean poles j from All>ertn. British Colnmliln. to Ont.-t- In the big leagues, now made up of | Ho and Queliec. across to the Bast, down Addle Joss. Fred Falkenberg. Victor M.^AHsmb- cmst t«» Florid*. acn»ra to the The Amcricnn Association could not en- t ** r wllbout breaking falih. It wnni.i have no more right to go there than i hlcago would have to conn* to Nashville. "The American Association uud the Hast- ern league 1 understand, ure not content that tin* Southern nnd the California leagues are in their class, but the two tun- Jor league* have nothing to do with that. Let the minor associations settle that among themselves. I niff not nt nil ex- cited over the war talk; In fact. I haven’t paid n bit of attention to It, a* I regard Is as pure “hot nlr.’ ** President Pulliam Is a memlier of the National rules committee, which meet* | n r ebriiary. and he Is heartily In favor of two change*. One of them Is the doing away with the pitchers' bill. Another Is the custom of s4*orlng a time nt the bat to the Imtter who bits a long fly and ffir ro ““" *-•» "Wbj shnu111 II Ilian who hit, n (!,, nuiL In rtTis’t, earriflm hluiasir for tho imrisieo ■If muring a rnnnor." iuntlnuoil Sir. l'nl. llsin. "In- given a time ’at tho InitJ He ailranrea tho rnnnor l.y Intontloiialfr malt- lug «n mit, rot a time at tb« list goo. against him. Let It Is* m-oreil iiy a simple out anil no time at the hat. That la fair- Sporlal to Tho Georgian. Jacksonville. Fla., Dec. 27.—"I™ will be one of the most severe ami In teresting road runs ever given In this country will be that In Florliln In ruary, the exact date of which has n»‘ yet been settled. The run will be from Jacksonville to Mlnnii, 368 miles, and under the aus pices of the Florldn East Coust Auto mobile Association. , The start will be made early In t"« morning and the drivers will ,ml *f * control nt the Alcazar. St. Augustine, and there take lunch and he enn'*" bv the muyor of the city, Postmzwef Alba, John Anderson and other pron" nent citizens. From that y drivers will hit the King's Highway tor Ormond. The distance from Jackson vllle to St. Augustine Is 87 miles, sna the 'total distance for the day to innnd will be 104 miles. Speaking of the King's High"a), J Is well known that King troops built a road from Mnrys'm. Ou., thru the Florldn forests, which still In very fair condition In places- The second day’s run will be toJJ** ledge. 175 ml^s from Jacksonville, to tal mileage of 71 miles for the Half of the distance, however. Is *•£ rough, going over a trail merely s"" . Ing the wny. The third day * cun be from Rockledge to Fort Pierce. miles, or 67 miles for the day. I", day’s run will be thru a barren and some creeks will have to lie for and possibly a little brldgework holm but the commissioners of the coun y will give a hand In making the [J* passable. The fourth day’s run »»*. a stemwlnder. and the "sand m *> will have a day of strenuous BorK ' i the going between Fort plcri , JL, Palm Beach Is paid to be somethin* awful, even no trail In some ptz _ and connections will have to be j with sundry turpentine roads < ut by the big wheel turpentine certs- The fifth day will be “w»*]e* , honey" for all hands, as the road from Palm Beach to Miami » In flne trim