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PRESIDENT KAVANAUGH IS NOT IN BIRMINGHAM GEORGIAN REPRESENTATIVE AT ANNUAL LEAGUE MEETING The Georgian will have a representative at the annual league meet ing In Birmingham. Mr. Percy I!. Whiting will cover the meeting and will give all who read this page plenty qf off season news. By PERCY H. WHITING. Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 28.—The prospects of a meeting of the board of directors of the Southern League on schedule time this morning do not look bright. Captain Crawford, of Shreveport, Is the only member of the board who Is here its yet. President Kavnnnugh did not put In an appear ance this morning and A. P. Atnerlne, of Montgomery, Is not here as yet. B. Stern, of New Orleans, Is not expected, and James Palmer, of Nashville, tho fifth member of the board, has not ar rived. The Shreveport delegation Is in with Harry Erlich anti Tom Fisher In tow, and tho Memphis hunch, consisting of F. P. Coleman, president of the elub; Tom McCullough, the secretary, and Charley Babb, manager, are here. The meeting of tho directors will bo held as soon ns President Kavanaugh arrives, Unless Kavanaugh springs a sensation It will bo a peaceful affair. The league meeting will bo called ut 10 a. m. Hat urday. Except For Boston Nationals, Majors All Made Big Money By 8AM CRANE. New York. Dee. 88.—There li lot, ot money fn Imftehall. President Juhnion nnd Preeldent I'lilllnm. ot the Amerleuu un.l Xntluiuil leilitueii, re- Miectlvelv, hnve eome out with utiiteineut. ! Ihnt Itn be hull wo» never more tlunlielulljr uronmr.m, than In the muuou Ju.t put, anil that evury elub. with ono exception, made money. The excepted «*no In probably the lloston National*, sail that wan entirely by reason of the management's penurlousnes* In re fusing to spend money to streugtheu tho • team. . ..... • Tb« biggest winners from the "long green" standpoint were, of course, those clubs whoso teams were "In the race," ut one time or another, during the season. Thteo of the most populous cities In the country—-New York, Chicago and Philadel phia, In each of wlileh two clubs wore lo cated—made the most money. Both New York dubs had a look-in nt several stages of the race. Chicago was In n similar position, and the Athletics, of Philadel phia, were In the race until late In tho season. This was, of course, a fortunate coincidence, nnd poured the coin In streams Into the coffers of those clubs. 0 TURF BARS LIFTED. O O * 1 0 St. Louts. Mo., Dec. 28.—John O i 0 J. Ryan, the noted "get-rlch- O , 0 quick" man nnd turf plunger, la O 0 trying hard to have tho ban placed O . 0 against him by the turf asaocla- O 0 tlons East nnd West lifted. Near- O • 0 ly two years ago the American O 0 Turf Association debarred him O 0 from nil race courses under Its Ju- 0 0 rlsdictlon. Immediately all other 0 0 turf governing bodies took slml- O 0 lar action. O 00000000000000000000000000 FOX AND HOUND RACES. Mentone, Ark., Dec. 28.—Lovers of sport from half a dozen states have rounded up ut this fumous resort to enjoy tho unnual fox hunt nnd other Christmas festivities given here each year under tho auspices of the Club House Company. Red foxes are abund- nnt In the hills hereabouts this year nnd the sport promises to he on n grand scale. One hundred hounds will take part In the chase. The sports will continue through the greater part of a week. HOW GEORGIA COLLEGE TEAMS WILL PLAY FOR CHAMPIONSHIP Here Is the official arrangement for the Georgia state Intercollegiate baseball championship for the next two seasons ns agreed upon by the three colleges Interested—Tech, University of Georgia nnd Mercer: Georgia plays Tech two championship games In Atlanta, one on home grounds: Tech plays Mercer two championship games In Mucon. one on home grounds: while Mercer comes to Athens for two chumpinnshi games, and Georgia g«»es to Macon for one championship, and a practice game. Next year the same method will be used, and Tech wll come to Athens for two games, Georgia goes to Macon for two, and Mercer goes to Atlanta for two. Here Is a bunch of fancy photograps of Jack O'Brien and Tommy Burns, snapped while they were training for their recent fight. These photographs were taken at the fighters' training quarters. On the left is Burns when about to send right to body, in the center O’Brien developing strength by wrestling with his trainer, and on the right O’Brien as he looked In ring. NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS UPTON, GAMEST OF YACHTSMEN The Southern League moguls, magnates ajul the rest of the bunch will be in session tomorrow, winding up the business of the year. It has been a good year in the Southern League. The wrong team won the pennant and to do it made use of methods in securing a man which do not tend to help baseball. But anyway they won it by playing good baseball and very like ly they would have won anyway, even if they had not paid Nashville to deal Castro to them—off the bottom of the deck. It wasn’t the most peaceful season the lengue has ever known. With the exception of the year when Charley Frank decided to have n little league of his own there has never been one when so much hard feeling was evidenced. But it all came out right in the end—as far as Atlanta was concerned, at any rate. Otto Jordan and Charley Frnnk kissed (metaphorically speaking) and made up and the other little rows quieted down. As a contest between eight teams for a bit of a rag the sea son was a good one. There was no run-away, such ns Charley Frank started the year before, and right to the last week of the race three or four teams had a chance. It took practically the last game to convince Atlanta that the Crackers were not’good enough to finish second. Financially there was no kick coming. Nashville and Little Rock did not get rich. But on the whole the season was profita ble. There will he losing clubs in any league and tho Southern had less than the average. The fact that yellow fever steered clear of the country,was a great help to the Southern. In 1!)0.> the nppearanee of that dis ease in New Orleans nnd Shreveport threatened to stand the league on its end. Last year nothing of that or any-other kind happened to interfere with the business. Here’s a vote of thanks to Fate for the success of the past season nnd the fervent hope that the coming season will be even hotter. And that Atlanta wins the pennant. N0TE8 OF 8PORT Of Course— fmH PURI ’MOT THE STANDARD OF PURITY. The latest trick appears to be to swap umpires as well as players. The Eastern League and American Associa tion will exchange two or more of their arbiters the coming season. The Pacific Coast League players |* will not be permitted to play with [ teams outside the league next season. When President Murphy, of the Chl- ; cago Cubs, begins to number the play ers what will he do when he comes to - 13 and 23? j If the National League hold* out for a long season and the American league for a short one there is likely to be a I good many conflictIng dates In the | dtles that have two clubs. ' Jack Doyle, who Is to manage the j Milwaukee club the coming season. ‘ should lie able to write an Interesting i book «>n baseball. Few players of the 1 present day have had the experience ’ Hcrappv Jack" Has had In the differ* i ent leagues of the country. J Manager Armour, of Toledo. Is €'er- ’ tainly doing a lot of hustling to make the "Mud Hens" a winner In *07. The feud In the American League certainly must be a thing of the past when President Johnson consents to make the spring trip with the White Sox. John Ganzel finished second In the list of Central league first basemen. Myers, of Canton, topped him by two points, their average being .996 and .994, respectively. About time for another Nevada town to offer a million dollars for a fight. Tommy Murphy, the little Harlem fighter, thinks Chelsea Is his hoodoo. He says sickness, postponements nnd rank decisions has been a combination too hard for him to beat. M. M. Riley, promoter of the Gans- Herman tight nt Tonopah, will act as matchmaker of the Casino Club, and Is open for any first-class pugilistic NAT KAI8ER A CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. 15 Decatur St Kimball House. Bargains in Unredeemed Diamonds. The new three-year-old stake of the Coney Island Jockey Club will be worth 125,000, with $10,C additional to be given the victor If he should win also the Tidal and Lawrence Realiza tion. Polar Star, the season’s best two- year-okl In England, Is not entered for the Derby of 1907. Lotta Crabtree will have quite a string of horses on the Grand Circuit next year. Nutboy, 2.07 1-4. and My Htar, 2.03 3-4, are the stars of the sta ble. The eighth annual tournament cf the Triangular College Chess League open* today In New York city. Cornell, Brown and Pennsylvania make up the league. The University of St. Louis football management * Is trying to arrange an annual Thanksgiving day game with Carlisle. The Brooklyn baseball club has signed a new pitcher, George C. Bell, if WHAT WILL HAS TO SAY With such nn elaborate spring pr<>Kram of baseball to hnud out to tho fans next year the supporters of the game in Stw Orleans are going to look f»r .tome tall doings the summer to follow. Frequently wadays one hears the talk that while spring exhibition games between major lengue clubs are mighty nice tli near so good ns a peunant-winuln, your own Ion true. Manager Frank will be expected to pro duce a world-beater next summer. Er in the bitter cold of winter the fan* t watching every move he makes, hoping find some evidence of new players. So fir no new ones have deyeloned aud the Me* prevails In many comps that Frank Is not paying much nttcntlnn to next year’s out- it. Manager Frnnk’s line of action In th* winter time has lieen care'nlly gone otrf in this column and the fans who are In clined to fear that New Orleans Is destined tb again become a second division t.*wi have another gnert* coming. While nothing authentic can ls» given out. It Is rumored that Manager Frank has Ju*t nabbed a very rich prise la an outfielder. Ills name cannot lie given nt this time, a« the deal has not iwen permanently elowd. but It Is sufficient for tin that he Is fully capable of holding the par* set by the league and Is regarded by Matt* ger Frank and others us a star iu minor company. The writer heard the other day from a# nnrellulde source that We., of the best pltehers ever seen la IdxJelsnd. would.come back to Vow Orleans next sim mer. I don’t know how true It Is auu P It here simply for what It Is worth. has boon over lu Portland f« and they say he’s getting tired of the Went. Maybe Jukey At* knows something n, "*‘ this, as Jake was In the same league wltft Wen for a long time, having played at Los Angeles. Sinking of French remlndi funny stories he used to tell nnd us he sat lu hotel lobbies. There net* .•ns a man in this league who roiild I*ea him telling stories, nnd most of hi* on the Impossible order.-WUl II. In New Orleans Item. t X i i Albany. Ball pitched for the Tri-State Lengue last season. Join, u Hal limn was .me of th- first to volunteer his servlet* for the proposed Y ok* MiUwrtrn benefit to be given in New TOM SHARKEY HAS A SCHEME Tom Sharkey has a scheme whk» he want* to have presented t • J* * fries. Tom suggests that J‘fT r on the best three men in the worn '* ten rounds each, and a lift').'."" 1 P“ * The three are to draw lots f t r * second and third chance. hour between fights. Each nun ^ stays ten rounds to get ont-thir the purse, those knocked "ut t-» nothing. So, If Jeff knocked them out he’d get the $100,000. If h ‘‘ k u n ,'",mir out two he'd get $4M<6.46. D f ‘ if knocked out one he’d get $3.U-» he failed to knock out any •■ . g he'd get nothing nt all. "I n* 1 1 out myself,” says Sharkey. Tom didn’t say what wool i . ,j e , if the first man knocked J. n - still figuring on that.—Ext ban-* Nine? his recent debut at ‘Monk the Newsboy," fleer*** former featherweight ebampb» n - '* realize that his fighting day* are w '' good. • THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1906. EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING PICTURES OF O f BRIEN AND TOMMY BURNS IN TRAINING