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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. ODOO<HWOOOCI<HJO0OOO<IOOOOCOO 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 5<1<KI<HXKWHJOO<HJO<1<KJOOOOOCOO 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’