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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29,190&.
UP-TO-DATE NEWS
OF SPORTING WORLD
MOGULS MEETING
EDITED BY
PERCY H. WHITING
FOOfBALLGAME
NEW YEAR’S DAY
8AVANNAH AND "ALL 8TAR8” TO j
MEET—BOTH TEAMS ARE
CONFIDENT.
LATEST AND BEST PHOTOGRAPH OF J!M JEFFRIES
Bpwlnl to The Georgian.
Savannah, Ga„ Deo. 29.—The
Star” Southern football abrogation
will again meet the Savannah team on
New Year'a day. The “All Stars"
were defeated Christmas day by a score
of 8 to 2, and Captain Forsythe and
hla crowd determined on early ven
geance. They left for Jacksonville,
where they have l>een putting In hard
practice twice a day.
The defeat of the "All Stars’’ by the
Savannah team was Indeed a surprise
to many. There Is no discounting the
fact that the local team is made of a
■wonderful lot of players, but the repu
tation of the visitors on many hard-
fought fields had Induced a gentle be
lief that the home players were up
agAlnst It good and hard. The lack of
team practice was ascribed by For
sythe as the reason for their defeat.
The “All Stars’* have been practicing
Jn Charleston. S. C., but did not like
the treatment In the Carolina city.
Cyclone Duncan, a great Florida player,
and J. V. Chaney, of Charleston, have
joined the team since Its arrival In
Jacksonville. The general comment Is
that the New Year’s day game will he
one of the best ever seen In this city.
MURPHY TRAINING
FOR CORBETT RIGHT.
New York, Dec. 29.—Harlem Tom
my Murphy, who Is scheduled to meet
Young Corbett In a six-round bout at
the National Athletic Club. Philadel
phia, January 9, has been spending
Christmas In the country anil will start
hla hard training for the light today.
Johnny Oliver yesterday reported that
his protege was In fine condition and
was anxious to get down to regular
work.
Murphy was never more confident
of winning a battle than this fight.
Murphy does not expect an easy time
In the ring of the National Athletic
Club, as Corbett has made wonderful
strides toward regaining his old form
in the last two months.
JEFFRIES E HAS IS BEEN Y |N N RET E |REMENT?BUT J t” E^Q^URSEBOFFERED BY T THE U NEVADA V MININQ , CAMP8 L HAVE E BeIn , T00 MUCH B F- L *“ !9 " T "^ II --“*~'■ WMNR0 »
FOR EVEN HI8 RESOLUTION.
SPORTS CAUSED
MANYJ)EATHS
413 FATALITIES ARE CAU8E0 By
8P0RT8 IN THE UNITED
8TATE8.
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O 1908 SPORTING FATALITIES, o
O o
O 1906. 1905. 1904 o
O Mountain climbing. .191 179 137 0
O Automobillng no
O Hunting 72
O.Football 14
O Baseball g
O Boating 4
O Cycling b
O Horse racing 2
O Boxing 2
O Wrestling 1
O Gymnastics 1
O Polo 1
O Golf 1
O
O Totals
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
The team batting average of the Atlanta team during the
pnst season was .239.
The team’s fielding average was .962.
First about the batting average, for batting averages are
somewhat more important to a team than fielding averages—
just as a player who can hit but makes errors is worth more
than a perfect fielder who seldom hits.
Of course a team might bat around .300 nnd then lose by
poor fielding, but if ever such a thing happened it has escaped
the attention of baseball statisticians.
During the season the Atlanta players made 1,089 hits. That’s
quite a bunch of hits, but not so howling many, especially when
you consider that the members of the team were scored at bat
4,564 times. Of course this alarmingly large number docs not cov
er all the times that the players actually faced the pitchers, for—
as even the children know—bases on balls, hit by pitched balls
and events of that character are not scored against the players as
“times at bat.”
TRAVELING AUDITOR MAY LOSE OUT;
ALL TEAMS LOOK TO BE STRONGER
Representatives of the
Different Teams De
clare They Seek No
Trouble.
It may be interesting to know that the Atlanta team scored
477 runs during the season.
And the sorrowful part to think about is that with only
perhaps a dozen or two more runs the Crackers would have won
the pcnnnnt. If the one or twn runs needed hnd come in those
1 to 0 and tie games, which were so numerous during the season
the Atlanta team would have come home first in a romp.
At base stealing Atlanta did not shino.
Crozier led the team with 34 and Jordan was next. Altogether
during the season the Crnckers stole 152 bnses. That this was not
the top figure may be judged from the fact that three men on the
Memphis team stole 117 bases during the year. These three
men were Babb, Thiel and Nichols, three of the fastest men who
hove ever played baseball in the South.
Taken altogether the averages of the Atlanta team were cred
itable and next year’s averages will be better,*no doubt.
We shall be glad if they are just good enough to give us that
pennant we have waited for so long.
GANS-HERMAN MEASUREMENTS
Gann.
32 years
5 feet 6 3-4 Inched
14 3-4 Inches
36 inches
38 Inches
29 Inches
11 3-4 Inches
13 Inches
lftl-2 Inches
12 1-2 Inches ......
8 inches
7 Inches
19 1-2 Inches ......
71 Inches
Arc..
Height
Neck
Chest (normal)
....Chest (expanded)
Waist
Bleeps (normal)
...Biceps (expanded)
Forearm
Calf
Ankle
Wrist
Thigh /.
Beach
Herman.
23 years
.... 6 feet 3 Inches
141-2 Inches
34 1-2 Inches
38 Inches
57 Inches
11 3-4 Inches
13 1-2 Inches
101-2 Inches
13 1-2 Inches
9 Inches
7 1-8 Inches
19 3-4 Inches
661-4 Inches
Of Course—
msH
pan
'CHE STANDARD OF PURITY.
PERCY H. WHITING.
Birmingham, Ala., Dec, 29.—The
pro»|)ect« for u peaceful meeting of the
Southern league seem so good that
It Is a shame to forecast It in advance.
Also It Is risky. For out of such a
peaceful crowd us has assembled the
Icvsile-t .or* of n r,m- fs so easily stir
red up.
Each mogul, on Ills arrival, solemnly
announced that he had no complaint,
no hard feeling and was looking for no
trouble.
The salary limit was Informally dis
cussed, but there was none of the wire
pulling nnd advance electioneering thnt
marked the last meeting—when tho
limit was anally set at 12,700 a month,
after one of the choicest word-tights on
record In the league.
If anybody wantH the limit changed
they are very quiet about It In advance,
President Amerlne, of Montgomery,
stated that any limit satlslled him, but
that he would llko to see It lived up to.
When he was asked as to methods of
enforcement he did not know the
answer.
Traveling Auditor to Go.
It Is generally admitted thnt the "trav
eling auditor” system In use lust year,
wns something of a Joke. It was obvi
ous to all ’ that any flrst-class book
keeper could bamboosle any traveling
auditor that ever hit the ties.
Unless Mose Wormser, traveling au
ditor, springs a report that surprises
everybody, he will probably be out of
his Job next season.
A warm report from Wormser Is one
of tho possibilities. If he found out
that any club was exceeding the salsry
llmlt during the post season he has not
mentioned It to the newspnper men up
to yet. However, maybe, he will
will spring u shock or two today.
The possibility that the player-timtt
will be changed Is,worth considering.
Last year every team was allowed
fourteen men. This limit was not
lived up to by all the clubs. Fre
quently tho managers brazenly carried
more men than this number and oth
ers dodged the limit In some way. Bil
ly Smith got around It by keeping a’
few reserve men on the suspended list.
Charley Frank ducked by loaning his
utility man and so It went.
This rule caused a lot of talk and
hard feeling last year and It may be
changed. As fur as Atlanta Is con
cerned, that will make no difference.
It Is the policy of the club next season
to carry n small number of high class
men—ns Charley Frank has done for
n couple of years past, and so the limit
Is not bothering the Gate City delega
tion.
Nothing But Pennant Team*.
Whether any of the old rows between
the cluba, which were so prevalent last
season, will he aired at the meeting Is
h«rd to forecast. Everybody on the
grounds early was in favor of peace,
but there was an air of expectancy
which showed that none of them would
be surprised at anything.
Each mogul, as he arrived, announc
ed that his club was going to be a
hummer, or words to that effect.
Down In Shreveoort Tom Fisher has
FIGHT BETWEEN ATLANTA CLUB
ANB KAVANAUGH TO BE DROPPED
By PERCY H. WHITING.
Birmingham, Ala., December 29.—
The preliminary meeting of the board
of directors of the Southern League
was held late Friday afternoon. Owing
to the delay of a trunk containing the
official records, till of the business
could not be finished Friday night.
Shreveport withdrew her protest
against Birmingham, and New Orleans
withdrew her protest which was filed
as a result of the removal or Krelten-
steln from the Memphis grounds, when
he was acting as an umpire. Mike
Finn asked for a rehearing- of a case
decided against him at a previous
meeting.
The league meeting will be called
Saturday about noon. President Kav-
anaugh’s annual report contains noth
ing startling. It shows the league to
be In a good financial condition, and
recommends a’ continued strict enforce
ment of the salary limit and a better
enforcement of the limit to the number
of players on each team. The presl
dent will advocate a rule forbidding
a club to suspend a man except for
enuse and to prohibit suspensions In
case of Illness or to keep the team
within tjie. fourteen-man limit. No
limit or the plnyers' limit, but the
Atlanta delegation will ask that the
time which the players' limit goes Into
force be extended a few weeks. The
fight between President Kavannugh
and the Atlanta oasoclatlon will proba.
bly not be aired.
corralled what looka like a really fast
bunch.
Shreveport has twenty-four men al
ready and may have a mun or two
more before the next season. Among
the new men secured by Shreveport
aro: Graham, of Grand Rapids, a left-
handed pitcher; Gusklll, of Houston, a
pitcher; Jeffries, of Jackson, Miss., an
outfielder; Massey, of Houston, a
catcher; Noah, of Ogden, Utah, a
pitcher; Torrey, of Tnllulnh, a pitcher;
Huzel, an Inflelder of semi-pro, re
nown In Cincinnati, and Bevnn, a col
lege man who pluyed third base with
Ohio State College last year.
Jeffries had a try-out a couple of
years ago with Memphis, but he was
too young then to do much good. He
Is a wonderful base stealer and a
hard hitter. Tony Smith Is another
man who will be given a trial und he
looks a wonder. He played with Gal
veston In 1906 and Bobby Gllks picked
him up at the last of the season.
He played a game with Shreveport In
Atlnntn Inst fall and showed up won
derfully well. In Tony Smith, Fisher
thinks he has a successor for Byrne,
ho was drafted by St. Louis.
Byrne was one of the three men
Shreveport lost from last year's re
serve list. The other two are Absteln,
who went to Pittsburg, and McGlynn.
McGlynn did not count, however, for
he was with the outlaweup to the time
be was sold.
Of the old men on the Shreveport
club who will return for a trial are
Grafflus. catcher: Hess, third base
man; Clarke, first baseman;. Powell,
catcher: Rapp, catcher: and outfield
ers King, Kennedy and Farrell.. Clarke
was signed last year as a first base-
man and played In the opening games.
Then he was token sick with typhoid
and was nut for the remainder of the
season. He Is from Spokane and is I stein, pitchers; Hausen, catcher, and
touted as a record-breaker. Hauls, Apperlous and McCann for out-
Farrell Is a grocery store mogul up I fielders.
Jeffries and Squires to
Fight For Championship
In his own country, and was signed
two years ago. He has never reported,
but Manager Fisher expects that he
will come down for a trial In the
spring.
Babb Has Good Men.
Charley Babb, who caused much
amusement by his announcement, that
he would win the pennant If Atlanta
didn't—which remark he seemed to
mean—has a good bunch 'corralled and
Is trying to put his brand on a few
more.
The squad at present contains Wag
ner, a left handed pitcher from Padu
cah: Taafee, an outfielder from Indian
apolis: Brotje, a semi-professional
pitcher from Toledo; Bells, a pitcher
from Keokuk; Watkins, the Galveston
pitcher, who was traded for Heldt and
Clark; Htockdale. Loucks and Suggs,
of the old pitchers; Ratchford, of Ma
con; Jimmy Smith, second base of last
year’s team; Babb and Buemlller, who
may be tried at short; Richards, of
Burlington, and another third baseman
for whom Babb Is dickering; Then,
Nadeau and Carter, of last year’s team,
and Nabers. of Burlington, for the out
field. Carey will, of course, piny first
base again. Charley Babb thinks that
hs "may" make good at short and will
play there If h» can get a third base-
man.
Over In Montgomery they are go
ing to depend largely on their last
year’s team, though all the weak spots
will be strengthened. The squad at
present consists of Bigger, first base-
man; Perry, former third baseman, who
will be tried at second; Busch, short
stop; Malarkey, Maxwell, Walsh and
Walker, the man Billy Smith tried to
get and failed; Burnum and Breiten-
SUBURBAN LIFE
AND THE WHEEL
“It hoa been anld,” remarks the latest
mngaxlne. The Circle, “that the bicycle
made Long Island, although It might ap
pear that the automobile has since absorbed
It. New Yorkers did not know what a gar
den spot was lying at their doors until the
bicycle came to lure them out on Its lerel
roads, where they might breathe Its pure
nlr. The bicycle did Its full share In bring
ing nlxMit the great snburtmn movement
which la to l»e noted In all large cities, and
which grew up along with tho development
of the bicycle habit. The city dweller
rode out Into the country and was flred
with the desire to make him n home there.
Through The bicycle ho learned to love the
country, and from loving green troea, broad
lawns. fr.*sl» air, and singing birds to Ifvlpg
among them was but n step. Nothing Is
body, mind, and
■oil, and nothing
lias done more to develop and foster this
affection than the bicycle. To the exhil
aration which comes to the automoblllst
tt **t<!« th*» rigorous exercise of pedestrian
lsm.“
Pan Francisco, CaL, Dec. 29.—Arti
cle* were signed today by William De
laney, representing James J. Jeffries,
and B. F. Taylor, representing the
Rhyolite Athletic Club, for m fight be
tween “Jim” Jeffries and "BUI”
ttgiutf-es. of Australia, for rh« heavy- next AnriL
weight championship of the world.
The fight Is to be with five-ounce
gloves, under the Marquis of Queens-
berry rules. Taylor has received a ca
blegram from Squires, saying that he
Is ready to start for America. The
fight will take place at Rhyolite, Nev„
Aleck McLean, the bike rider,
planning to take a trip to Australia
soon.
Hurry Vaughan, of Wrmlnghem, nnd Ed
Rnn.lrit, of Aiuruatn, are ao rare that their
team, will win the peunnnta of the South,
ero and South Atlantic leagues respectively
thnt they have arranged a poet-seneon ae
rie,. (Free, agent story.)
A remarhable thing nlmut the fielding
averages of the American League, ,aye
The New York Gtolie, 1, the errorless rec
ord of Pete O'Brien at third bane for
Ht. Louie. O'Brien In n necond bmtemnn.
lie wnn moved over to third toward the
cion- of the season, and played twenty
games without tnnhlng a hobble. The po-
alllon was unramllUr to him. nnd he bad
to linndle many bunt,, in all, he accepted
sixty chances without an error. All of
which leada to a guess as to what Inflelder
holds this record. Bobby Wallace once
accepted 19 chances at short for the old
St. Louis Cardinals before he finally allp.
ped up. This record covered eleven
straight games.
Ban Johnaon and Charley Comlakey are
old pais together In all aorta of weath
er again. Thnt there was no fnke In the
renewal of their old-time close friendship
I, shown by Bon accepting Tommy's Invi
tation to go to .Mexico with the White
Sox on the lutter'a spring training trip.
To make It still stronger. Ban la to ac
company Tommy nnd Joe Cnutlllon, with
several other baseball celebrities, on a
hunting trip to Arkansas on the good ship
White Sox. Tommy's famous house boat,
the latter part of January. Both Ban and
(-ominy aro fnmotiN hnntor* u<n» i.
'otniny aro famous huntors—that Is, they
say they are. but neither hns shown any
tangible results In the game they have
killed—or purchased. The tales they will
tell of their Arkanana experiences are ex
pected to meet their hot stories of the
Northern Woods. It la "Ban and Commy"
again, mire enough. A good thing for the
American League and the national game.
On one of Comlskey's honse host trips
down the Mlaalulppl the colored cook de
parted, and Tommy took up the black
man's burden temporarily, telling his
guests that he would get them up a meal
that would surprise them. They believed
him until he sent the cabin hoy up to the
village near where the White Sox was
tied np for a t.iuple of sponges for the
sponge rake he was to make. T» a Joe
< atitlllon, who la a chef to warm up to
took the preparation of the meal In hand.-
Exehange. •
NAT KAISER 4 CO.
CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
.. n °ff VALUABLES.
» Deeatur 8t Kimball House.
"o»i"a >» Unredeemed Oianuuoi..
413 406 293 0
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More than 400 person, met their
death during the last year from cauees
directly due to sport, and with almost
every one there rose the ever-burning
public clamor against the dangers of
some game or other. Of the various
branches football was tho most criti
cised, ns usual, and there seems to be
no question that It Is dangerous, since
eleven week, built up a total of four
teen fatalities, with something over 1(0
case, of more or less serlouH Injury,
but a glance at the Items of death',
creating In the various fields of epoit
since January shows that mountain
climbing leads.
In the first eleven months of the year
191 adventurers lost their lives In that
haxardous "pleasure.” Automobillng
has accounted for 110 deaths und 73
hunters have been accidentally killed.
It Is quite a drop from such figures to
the 14 fatalities of football, with, fol
lowing in order, baseball. >; murine. 4,
and 1 each for boxing, wrestling and
horse racing.
Climbing Comes First
Mountain climbing this year reached
Its -furthest north" of deaths. “The
sport of only the very few” has been
said of mountaineering. But Swiss
statistics show approximately 160.000
making one ascent or another each
season, and this covers only the 8wlss
Alps, saying nothing of the outlying
portions of the chain or of other great
ranges. Moreover, only 10 per cent of
the mishaps are laid to what may be
held as unavoidable causes—falling
stones, etc. Only S of the 191 unfortu
nates were well-known climbers, and
only 48 of the accidents occurred among
the highest and most dangerous peaks.
The nationalities of the dead-
strangely enough led by the 8wtsa
themselves—follow In this order: Ger
mans, Austrians, English, Italians and
Americans.
The "Red Devils" and "Galloping
Ghosts" and "White Whixzers" of the
years have left a dreadful talo behind
them. January recorded but one death,
and February added only two to that,
but November closed with the total
raised to 110. July (the worst of the
eleven months) accounted for 22.
Hunting ranks clearly third In the
annual “sporting deaths.” Wisconsin
seems to have the blackest portion of
the list to show, for her first day’s rec
ord tell, of 39 casualties (13 of them
fatal); but Maine reported for the first
fnrty-*l£ht hnur* nf tho RAAson 8 killed
and’7 wounded, so that the ghastly to
tal of 72 fatalities and 77 qther casual
ties for the entire country exhibits a
reasonably divided responsibility.
Eight on Diamond.
The death roster, In so far as Its
Items fall below football's fourteen, S|
headed by eight fatalities on the dia
mond field of the national game. Of
these two were spectators, struck In
the one case by a ball and In the other
by a bat which had slipped from ihe
batsman's hand, on a swing. Pitched
bolls again accounted for the death! oil
five players: Casper Musselnmn, of Al
lentown, Pa.: Thomas F. Burke, of Bol
ton; Teller Marina, of Brooklyn, Cbex
McDonald, of Camden, and Jesse Roh-J
ertson, a sailor In Uncle Sam's ns*T.
who was playing at Norfolk, Vs.
death of F. R. McKee near Rolls, MoJ
In October, was due to a collision with
another .member of his team while hot
were running for a foul ball.
These facts and figures have bee]
gathered with no thought of bring™
discredit upon any of the sports re
ferred to, nor hns there been anyj»
tentlon of "bolstering up" this muco
talked-of football record by dwern
upon the haxard of other outa«
games. The element of danger In *1
exist, wherever there is faeclnn' 1 ™
popularity. It exists more niarKeoi
for the callow boy than for the mw
of experience, properly trained to m -
the conditions In question. Arm
would seem only fair that the ent eg
public should bear something of “
sort in mind In commenting upon
sport or the other—should hate » ,
eye for the whole field, and so _pe
with a view to all the factsDost-
Journal.
GIRL ACCIDENTALLY SHOT
WHILE 8EATED BY FIMj
Cllfl
of Will
Special to The Georgian.
Gadsden, Ala., Dec. 29.—Lillian
ton, the 16-year-old daughter of
llam Clifton, was accidentally •
Thursday at the home of her (nth •
Lookout Mountain, above No**
Falls. The young lady's father
Luther Foreman, a young man
resides In the neighborhood, canw
from a hunting trip and wi-re •
by the fire examining their „
Clifton was also sitting by the'»
the opposite corner from ggi
Foreman started to shove hH p ,. tt l«
der the choir In which he »«*
when the hammer caught
manner, the weapon was
the load of shot taking poil
young woman's fsce, smut an . y*
Luckily the most of the l f “ ' . -
struck the mantel and flameo
striking tbs gif’