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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20,1906.
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What Sports Are Doing and Fans Thinking
AMERICA’S BEST ADVERTISED PUGILIST
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jj PERCY H. WHITING.
NOtOrF WARS
FOR KENTUCKY
THE 8TATE RACING COMMISSION
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NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
BY PERCY H. WHITINO.
Poor little Terry McGovern, perhaps the greatest fighter of
his inches and ounces the world ever saw, the man Who fought
in a hundred battles and lost but two—now is a hopeless maniac.
If ever a man’s life taught a temperance lesson that man’s
life is the one. Booze, existence at forced draught, the pace that
punishes—all of these things joined in accomplishing Terry’s
downfall.
The story of Terry’s life and the moral are so much one and
the same that we ’ll pnss the moral.
Lexington, Ky., Dee. 20.—Rule*, sweeping
In their ■cope, lure been adopted by the
state racing commission and tbs breeding
bureau. Action also baa been taken wblcb,
It la believed, will make turf wars Iropos*
slble to far at Kentucky ta concerned.
One rule Is that any reputable turf
mao, trainer or jockey can secure a II*
cense to operate on any track In Ken*
tucky. Another rule !■ that where an own*
er, trainer or jockey la ruled off the turf
In Kentucky, he can appeal his case to
the commission.
Any reputable turf organisation can se*
cure a license to operate a track, If the
application for licenses la made thirty
days before the contemplated opening of
such meeting. The commission adopted al«
together about twenty-two rules.
TIM HURST’S DOPE
ON ENGLISH SPORT.
"Speakln' of them European trip*
which some of our talented athletes
didn't make this winter brings to mind
a little Incident of a trip I made across
the big drink once,” said Tim Hurst
as he slid Into a chair at American
League headquarters In the Flatiron
building the other day, and dealt him
self a pair of openers In th* game of
baseball talk.
Having been entertained by Abe
Nation's personal observations of the
Caruso trial from the viewpoint of a
witness, the chair warmers were prim
ed for a discourse on foreign affairs.
So Tim proceeded:
''This aln'.t no fairy tale." said he,
"but simply my way of lookin' at the
difference between baseball an’ cricket.
"Along In—well, never mind when I
attended a cricket match In England
with a well-known cricket man. After
piping this game for about two hours
I was ready to beat It, but the friend
said:
'Please wait, Mr. Hurst. I want to
Introduce you. old tellah, to our cap
tain, who la quite as famous, I dare
say. In this country as your cleverest
baseball players In the States.'
"So I stuck, but nothing doin'. I'm
getting hungry, so I Anally flagged my
friend again.
“ ‘Say, you better hurry up If you are
goln' to And your friend, the captain,’
I told him: 'but on the level, didn’t you
tell me he was playing In this gamer
“ ‘Oh, yes. So I did, old fellah, but
I don't believe he’ll go to bat today.'
"That's the answer to baseball versus
cricket," concluded Tim.
BLANTON WILLING
TO FIGHT HAYES!
The rough time tlmt Charley Frank is hnving in securing n
place in New Orleans to play ball next year is a sorrowful indi
cation of Charley’s popularity in the- Crescent City. So many
people “have it in” for the "Dutchman” that he is kept con
stantly on the jump.
Tho most amazing thing nbout the baseball situation in New
Orleans, anyway, is the unpopularity of Charley Frank. He has
given thorn good baseball there for a couple of years hut they
hate him for all that.
The proposal to revive the American Derby in Chicago with
gentleman riders is something of a laugh. Just one thing made
the Derby popular—the chance to bet big money on a big race.
The year they ran it without betting proved thnt, if any proof
was needed. If they rail it without good horses and without
betting it would attract about as much attention as a matinee
race for 2.28 class pacers.
Tex Ricard is wasting his talents as a prize fight promoter—
he ought to be a press agent, for somebody else, of course.
Just by way of getting a little free advertising he offers to
match Jeffries and Johnson, colored, for $50,000. This offer was
perfectly safe. Jeffries has said that the color line is drawn for
him and he has proved several times that he is a man of his
word.
Tex will next turn his activiey to making a match between
“Jack” D. Rockefeller and J. “Purp” Morgan for $1,000,000. He
has as good a chance of getting on the Jefferies-Jolinson match as
he has the Rockefeller-Morgan go.
And think of the advertising.
Of Course
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‘CHE STANDARD OF PURITY.
Here Is our old friend Philadel
phia Jack O'Brien In a charac
teristic pose—that Is, It’s charac
teristic when he Is fighting, which
Isn't often. Usually hs Is posing,
but up to now he has not over
looked any chances to make easy:
money.
NOTES OF 8PORT,
It the reports frora California are true,
Mnnutter Frank Chance of the Chicago Cuba
has signed several coast league players for
next season.
President Harry Hermann of Cincinnati
doubtless wilt be re elected chairman of the
national commission. No other name Is
mentioned and It looka very much aa though
ho oue elae wanta the job.
Both the National and American league
meetlugs were pretty little lore, feasts,
seemed to be the general luclluatlon to wipe
out the old scores and start a new game.
The New Orleans Mid-winter Baseball
I«eugue lias opened Its season, and games
are played every Saturday. Hounds good to
tbe fun.
The Hamilton Tigers are the ltugby foot
ball champions of t’atmdu for 1901
Jack Johnson, the negro heavyweight pu
gilist, la booked to soil for Australia next
week.
Boston followers of the green cloth prob
ably will witness a Millard match In the
near future between Harry Cllue, of Phila
delphia. aud Albert Cutler, the uew short
stop champion.
With polo, races and carnivals, the roller
skating rink Is In great favor this winter.
ow they want six day races on the little
wheels.
Nearly all the American Jockeys who
raced lu Europe this year have signed con
tracts to return to tbe other side next
season.
Nearly every city and town In the coun
try has a local klug of the fans or rooters,
but In Mike Regan Itostou claims the prise.
And the claim certainly looks good, ltegan
is not Interested financially In baseball. He
love* the game solely for the enjoyment It
affords him. and not only attends the opeu-
tug games In the several cities of the Amer
ican and National leagues and In the East
ern, New England and other minor leagues,
but he makes It a rule to.attend their nu
ntml meetings during the winter. Tbe dis
tance I* never too far for Mike to trarel to
see a championship game « r any other base
ball e-.eut oat of the ordinary. Ills e^aal
i s a sluiou pure ball fan is not to lie
iouud.
The following communication speaks
for Itself. It Is now up to Hayes:
Arlington, Ga., Dec. 2ft. 1905
To Mr. Percy Whiting, Sporting Editor
Atlanta Georgian, Atlanta Ga.
Dear Sir: In a recent Issue of The
Georgian I noticed that Mr. Eddie
Hayes, the Atlanta feather welghL I*
anxious to arrangs a contest with me
for the feather weight championship
of the South.
A while back I received a letter from
your local man telling me that he would
light me for a purse or a side bet.
then addreseed a letter to him at 20
Gordon street, asking him the slse of
the side 'bet and purse he would de
mand, but have railed to hear from
him.
Hayes says that he wants to mset
me at 118 to 124 pounds. My best
weight Is 12t, but, I guess h# would not
mind two pounds difference, and If he
does not, I would like to say that I
will box him 10 or 15 rounds In any
town where we call get sufficient In
ducements.
I will make a side bet of reasonable
proportions. Probably It- might be so
ns we could pull the match In Savan
nah, Balnbrldge, Albany, Rome or Au
gusta.
I have about completed arrangements
for a match to occur In a few weeks,
but If Mr. Hayes can show me where
a go with him will pay me better, I
will cancel It and meet him right away.
I am mailing him a letter In today's
mail, and I hope to hear from him
soon. Yours respectfully,
OSCAR I.ELAND BLANTON.
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flu American View of Athletics at Oxford
It looks as though Manager MrGrsw Is
Utkins on the return to form of Christy
Mstbcwaon next season. In enaa Mstty Is
Will Jark Dnnn return to one of the ma
jor leagues next season, now that Hugh
Iluffy has the Providence club?
With the players In condition and either
l.letdmrdt or Ilnrgcr to nuke good. It looks
a safe bet that tha coming year will be
tbe one time that the Cleveland club will
look down from tbe top.
President Murphy, of Chicago, has no
new advertising scheme for the Cube tbte
week.
Fred C. Clarke, manager of the Flttiburg
To write a story of athletics at Ox
ford would be to write the story of the
life of every undergraduate from 2
5 o’clock each afternoon In tho term,
eays Warren Schutt, Cornell's Rhodes
scholar. In Illustrated Outdoor News.
So general Is the Interest and enthu
siasm evinced for the strenuous life,
you might aa well take away the books
and the clubs and all the rest that go
to make up the complexity of life at
Oxford aa to close the fields and burn
the barges. One exists In and through
the other; and, even to one Inclined to
the life of a bookworm, this fact must
be apparent, that athletics Is an essen
tial part of Oxford life. Even stately,
dignified professors show a boy-like
Interest In the different sports,''
Last year It was my personal experi
ence to see a famous old cricketer nt
50, now a grave professor of Greek,
play three different times for his col
lege against another college, with stu-
denta whom two hours before be had
been boring with Greek declensions.
Often and often do the old college
“dons," as they call the Instructors,
go down to the river, climb on bicycles
and pedal back and forth along the
tow path, coaching their college crew.
Thus has an atmosphere of athletics,
ae we call It—sportsmanship, as they
call it—developed at Oxford until It
pervades everything. A man who stays
In his room etudylng on an afternoon
ts looked down upon and shunned as a
moral outcast.
But alt men are not strong enough
to row or to play Rugby. So there
must be a diversity of sports to ac
commodate a diversity of tastes and
abilities. And there surely Is this, as
a resume of athletic emblems will show.
There Is the full "Blue" for crew, Rug
by football, association football, track,
cricket, and half-blues for cross-coun
try, hockey, tennis, boxing, wrestling,
fencing, broadswords, racquets, la
crosse, polo and billiards. So the ath
lete who Is particular as to his culling
has a broad field to choose from.
The ’varsity athletic honors are de
noted by colors, Instead of by letters,
as In America. A man who represents
Oxford against Cambridge on the crew,
In football, cricket or as "first string"
In track. Is said to get his full blue.
He hns an especial blue tie; the Blue's
hat-band—a very broad blue silk band
with oars embroidered In white for
crew, a wreath of laurel for track,
three crowns for Rugby, etc.; he has a
Blue's muffler of Oxford bluo: a Blue's
blaxer, of solid blue with the sign of
the branch of athletics at which It was
won; the Blue's sweater, a low-necked
sweater of white, trimmed with blue
silk; and besides these he has, of
course, tho uniform In which he does
his particular stunt. It is the hand
somest, most comfortable and most
adaptable athletic costume possible.
The half-blue, given for the minor
sports, Is denoted by blue and white In
Inch stripes, Instead of by solid blue.
In other respects the two costumes are
alike.
■Varsity teams do not have a train
ing table until, as a maximum, three
weeks before the event with Cam
bridge. The crow In certain years,
however, may be excepted, os they
sometimes eat together for five weeks
before the race. But the usuul order
of things for track or football Is for
each member of the team to eat at
Ills college table, taking such care of
his diet as he personally desires, until
week or ten days before the meeting.
There are no paid coaches at Oxford.
Old graduates are easily secured to
coach the crew, and esteem It an honor
to be asked. The captain alone
coaches the rest of the teams. Track
athletics, however, are more or less
under the supervision of one of the
professors who via* a noted hurdler In
his day.
So much for university athletics. I
have as yet not even mentioned college
athletics, where most distinctly the
spirit of sportsmanship Is nurtured. It
is from college football, cricket and
hockey teams, and from college crews,
that the 'varsity men are picked.
The university Is composed of some
two dozen different colleges, each col
lege consisting of from 76 to 250 men.
in many colleges rowing Is compulsory.
In almost every college each freshiiu
1" personaly solicited, tile first week. I.
the college captain of euch sport, to try
his ability In that line. No dlstinctfol
Is made between old men and greex
ones.
There are Intercollegiate contests
Rugby and association, In cricket,
hockey, tennis, and on the river
"torpids," or green races, and "eights,
the regular college eight races. Die}
college has a representative team and
captain, and each college plays every
other college, at a regular scheduled
time, for the chnmplonshlp. 'Varsity
blues,may play on their college team*
provided the games do not Interfer*
with practice. They rarely do, Itoto
ever. In the senson of 'vnrsliy prac
tice. It is from these games, us I haw
said, that tho 'varsity captain colleen
material for his team.
Each college has a separate nth et e
organisation, tho university athlete
clubs Interfering In no way. A spec
fled tax- Is levied each year by the col
lege authorities, who compose the com
mtttee. This tax covers expenses a
the college athletic grounds, buys new,
racing shells, keeps up the college hares
where the oarsmen change, and h' 1 -’*
a few employees. A voluntary sue*
scrlptlnn Is very rarely promulgated.
With regard to professionalism «
Oxford, in either 'varsity or relief*
athletics, I would say that It Is aa un
heard-of thing. It Is something so for
elgn to tho nature of the undergrade
ate that such a thought never enters
his head. There are games and
tests at Oxford for the fun there 1* ®
them, rather thun to make the con op
or the uiflveretty champion l» JJ
thing. Even though the young sthHw
will fight to the death In a hard-fou«*»
race, he does It because he enj-»s rac
Ing. Don't think that the Oxford nu»
doesn't care to heat Cambridge
they do, most decidedly, and. [ ,a
done tt, are extremely proud of It. *
though they never talk of it
from their point of view, dlr-cti)
Indirectly, to hire a man to 1“'-“
bridge would be to defeat th-- I *
the game or race-the fun of
In the game.
Fred Reel, tbe wrestler. Is nuking good
te predictions of his Wisconsin friend*.
For n long time p**t every one In tbe
Badger Ktate ha* been sajrlr - * t '* "
tbe coming champion, and
At Anteull a few _
cross-country Jockey, rode tbe winners of
live out of ala races and was third on an
other. This ts probably a record In steeple-
i-husfng aud hurdling.
In England thl* year Irish-bred horses
have wou more than $$28,000. Three of the
tieat 2-year-olds of the rear are Polar Star
luulHtttent. tlalvaul and Bllere Oalllon, all
bred In Ireland.
Among the eptrle* to the Thlnl. Lawrence
Realization and Annual Champion stake*
of 190*. which Hon.*d last month. Is tbe
Imy colt CmnroitoB by Florlsel. out of Bn!-
lint rn*\ the property of Clareuce II.
Markny. Florlxel is the sire of Volodyov-
nkl. Derby winner of 190$. and Rallnutne
PRINCE SAYS HE WILL
BUILD BIG HIPPODROME
Jack Prince and Mrs. Prince blew
tnto Atlanta Wednesday morning and
are at the Aragon.
Mrs. Prince will be located at the
Aragon during the winter, and Jack
will spend moat of hls time, though he
will jump to Nashville and Memphis
occasionally, where he has hippodromes
In running order, which are coining
him money right and left.
Jack Is now full of a big scheme for
a hippodrome In Atlanta—a big build
ing which will seat lft.ftftft people and
which will be the greatest thing of Hs
kind In the Bouth.
"We'll have It open next winter and
we'll give a six-day International bicy
cle race which will be just as good ns
Madison 8quare Garden show," said
Jack. "1 have an option on the land,
I have the franchise on all bike races
In the South and I'll give a big show.
When the race is out of the way the
woii 'the I’anibridgeisblre bamUrap of ”ijo£ building wUI be used for dog shows.
Indoor football games. Indoor circuses,
big balls—everything like that. - Great
thing! Fine thing! Atlanta's greatest
town In the South! I’m here to stay."
Thus spoke Jack.
"As for the Christmas day race," It's
ail right. Afternoon of Christmas.
Don't forget the date. Don't know what
the race will be, but It will be all right.
Probably It will be a ten or ftfteen-mlle
race, motor paced. Bobby and the
Frenchman will sign up this afternoon.
Incidentally, one thing may be men
tioned In connection with Jack’s com
ing home. It was raining when he ar
rived.
NAT KAISER * CD.
CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
ON VALUABLES.
15 Decatur SL Kimball House.
Bar-gems in Unredeemed Diamonds.
Because of the defeat of the one, l"-^
. class filly Lotus at Oakland W''"""'
comparatively poor cntnpauy, a ] „ n
satisfaction was created among rsuw
Tommy Burns, It Is said. ha* • 1, “ • 5,1
follow the example of other fl/.iter* 'J
lug on the stage.
The franchise of the Norwi' ! 1 tlu J
which won the pennant last■ f'f' ‘
the Connecticut League, r * 1 ‘
for $25.
Fred Clarke’s new contract witl
Pittsburg club does not cull J i9
playing. But It calls for liatn .
the paying—$8,500 per.
The trotting which the Nf* *', r ,
Horse Breeder*' Association ; -
the Bendvllle track lust summer r.• ■
a loss of nearly $5.0)0 to the «**•*..
cording to the treasurer* report.
run nt the June meeting «»f '**
Island Jockey Club have bren :i
The new g-year-old stake of a -
value of 1-5.000. with 21V®
te given to the victor If he •
win the Tidal and Lawrence R*
will clome on January IS.
’’it**!