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SPORTING PAGE,
DECEMBER 24
The Atlanta Georgian
AMERICAN ASS’N
ABANDONS INVASION
Chicago. Dec. 24.—The threatened
baaeball Invasion of this cjty by the
American Association apparently has
been abandoned.
President W. R. Armour, of the To
ledo club. 1s out with the statement
that he Is unalterably opposed to the
expansion policy and will use every In-
fluence he has to block the Invasion of
Chicago.
Armour’s attitude Is backed by Co
lumbus and Indianapolis.
It Is unlikely that the Insurgent fac
tion of the association will try to over
come the objections In their league as
well as to fight the enemy from with
out.
M’CAY AND M’CI
TO BOWL ELLI
Sporting Editor The Atlanta Georgian:
On behalf of R. J. Mcfleery and
myself, I challenge J. R- Elliott and
E. E. Eagan, -of the Atlanta howling
team, to a ieriea of live games, total
pins to count, to be bowled on the At
lanta alleys Friday night. January 10.
1908. I nm not satisfied with my show
ing against Mr. Elliott In our recent
match, as I did not warm up before
the firat game, In which he beat me
.EERY WANT
0TT AND EAGAN
eighty pins, and I hereby challenge him
to a return match, to be bowled In At
lanta Saturday night, January 11. R. J.
McCleery, my team mate, also chal
lenges E. E. Eagan to an individual
match to be bowled the same night
as my conte*;' .ith Mr. Elliott. All
matches Je five games, total pins
to count. Sincerely yours,
BERNIE M’CAY,
Mobile Bowling Team.
Mobile, Ala., Dec. 22, 1907.
I NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
By PERCY H. WHITING.
They *a.v it costs James R. Keene #200 a day to keep up his
great horse Colin.
Why does he do itt Well, since Mr. Keene says that his
stable does not pay, even when it is earning a world’s record sum,
then it must he because racing horses is a hobby of Mr. Keene’s.
And can Mr. Keene afford to gratify that class of whims J
Sure; he has plenty of money.
And where did he get itf At the greatest of American gamb
ling games—playing the stock market. •
And how mnny poor children who aren’t going to have any
Christmas this year could be made happy beyond words by the
amount Mr. Keene spends in one day on this one racing machinet
We don’t know. Maybe three or four hundred. And in a year!
Well, Bay a hundred thousand.
Why pick out Mr. Keene and Colint Chiefly because that is
the most extreme case. And because it is the senseless expendi
ture of extreme amounts by the very rich on their whims and
fancies and hobbies that makes the lot of the poor appear a trifle
harder than it need be. And because this feeling comes home cs-
S ecially strong at Christmas time when the lot of the rich seems to
e so much brighter and that of the poor so much darker.
Bernie McCay is one of these rare characters who does not
know when he is “licked.”
Not satisfied with his recent defeat at the hands of Elliot^,
the Atlanta bowling champion, he wants another match.
If Elliott is willing he will come back again. And doubtless
Elliott will be willing.
You can’t down Bernie—and keep him there. And that’s why
he ia a good ball player and a good manager. And that’s why El
liott will have to hustle if he accepts the challenge.
The first people who arrived on the scene of the Brockert Sta
tion wreck on the Canadian Pacific Monday morning were the
members of the St. Louis University football team.
These men immediately set to work to rescue the living, give
medical aid to the injured and make themselves generally useful.
And when the wreck was cleared away the football men had made
heroes of themselves by their efficient and fearless work.
And yet this was only the expected.
The football team of a college represents the best of its brawn
and more than frequently the best of its brain as well. The men
are trained in the use of their muscles and gray matter. They
understand how to take orders and how to give them.
And when the crisis comes they are better able to give good
accounts of themselves than the “grinds” and the “mollycod
dles” and the men’s whose scholarship reports may show up n lot
better.
At times like that one up on the Canadian Pacific you get an
answer to the question, “Why is football such a great garnet”
And the answer is, “Becauso it makes real men.”
Awhile back much notice was given to the really remarkable
achievement of Adolpn Toppcrwein, who hit 72 491 out of 72,500
targets.
This was “some shooting,” all right;.but think of shooting
at 72,500 targets and missing 9. Must have been exciting sport, all
right. Imagine the group of excited spectators watching him
break his 11,097th straight. That’s the kind of a game that the
people like, something where the target has some chance 1
When it comes to sport, tho; we should prefer something
a shade harder—that is, if we were Topperwein and could shoot
as woll ns he. This business of breaking about seventy-two thou
sand of nnything in succession would pall on anybody. It is too
-much like shooting at a stuffed quail nr seeing how many times
you could hit a barn door with a baseball nt ten feet. ,
As a test of physical endurance that event bad some good
points. As a sporting event it wasn’t so much. The poor target
didn’t have a reasonable chance.
SEE
HEAVEN HELP
THOSE^ BEARS
Rube Waddell and Bernie
McCay Off On Hunting
Trip For Three Days.
Mobile, Ala.. D«C. 24.—The day
after Christmas "Rube" Waddell and
Hernia McCay, two baseball notables,
leave for a three days’ hunt. They go
Into the wildest part of southern Ala
bama, about 10 miles from here, and
expect to set at least one bear before
they return.
Dr. Inse, chief owner of the Mobile
association, and president of that
body, who has been eerloualy III, Is
fast Improvtns.
LEFTY DAVIS
TO BE MARRIED
L!lnneapollsNiU»*efT»eoN-e<.—Lefty
Davis, American Association and Na
tional League outfielder, who learned
his first baseball In the Sulphur
Springs bottoms, of Nashville, Is to be
married. His bride-to-be Is Mips Cave,
ct Burlington, Iowa.
Unknown to his friends In this city,
Lafty has gone ahead quietly and ar
ranged the details of the wedding
without consulting any one, nnd al
though the date has not been set. It Is
believed that this will be announced
within a few days. Mr. Davta was one
of the best and most popular ball
players that ever wore Minneapolis or
Chicago uniforms- .
Artie Hoffman
May Quit Cubs
Bt. Louis, Mo.. Dec. 24.—Artie Hoff
man, the utility man of the world's
champion Cubs, announced that he will
try to buy the Des Moines ball club.
Hoffman thinks he sees a chance to
make more money out In the Western
Lesgue city than he can by being a star
In a world's championship club.
The announcement made a few days
ago by Mike Cantllton that he might
dispose of the Des Moines club caught
the eye of Hoffman at once and he an
nounced that he will take the matter
up with Cantlllon In the near future,
and If the club ran be purchased for
anything like a reasonable amount, he
will leave the Cube and become a minor
league magnate. Hie father Is a wealthy
■t. Louisan.
PACKY GOES EAST.
Nsw York, Dec. 54.—Pack McFar-
land and his manage^ Hurry Gilmore,
will leave Chicago this week to In
vade the Eastern camp of the light
weights. The etock yards lighter hits
been matched to meet Tommy Murphy
January 7. I,t Is the most Important
match Murphy has hnd since he start
ed flghttng, ns McFarlnnil Is looked
upon today as the most formidable of
lightweights to lay claim to the cham
pionship since Joe Gans has gone Into
retirement.
WHO’S HERE
TOMMY BURNS.
Here it the man who holds the heavyweight championship of the ;
world. Hie measurements show that he is the smallest man who ever :
went clear to the top in the prize ring. It now remains to be seen how •
long he will be able to pick the lemons in the fighting orchard.
Rogers Chosen to
Lead Wisconsin
Madison. Win.. Doc. 24.—Ilnrinn B.
Rogers, of Portage, has been elected
captain of the University of Wisconsin
football team for 1908. Rogers has
played left end on the team three
years. Ewald O. Stlehtn, of Johnson
('reek, center on tho team, was the only
other candidate, getting two votes to
Rogers’ nine. Rogers Is a second-year
student In the college at law.
With Jake Stahl, Charley Hemphill
nnd Keeler on the Job for the Yankees,
v.here will Bell stand? Perhaps tho
westerner will make Stahl and Hemp
hill hustle for a regular Job.
It Is said that the American League
J. McGuire After
Eddie McFarland
Cleveland, Dec. 24.—Manager Jim
McGdlre, of the Boston Americans, has
been here on the trail of Eddie Mc
Farland. one of tho Chicago White Sox
cutchers.
McGuire came on with the hope of
landing the veteran backstop, und
thinks that he can come to terms with
him.
Altho Jim has nobody to trade for
McFarland, he says that he has had a
tip that Comlskey Is willing to part
with his old standby for a suitable
nrnount of the coin of the realm.
COSTS ABOUT $200 A DAY
TO MAINTAIN GREAT COLIN
YALE NOT TO
TRAVELJOUTH
Eli Baseball Team Abandons
Usual Easter Trip to
Southland.
New Haven. Dec. 24.—The baseball
authorities at Yale have deride,1 to
abandon the Easter trip of the nine to
the South.
For many years the Yale team has
played a series of games during the
Easter recess with Georgetown I'ni
verslty of Virginia, Richmond or am-
team of sufficient caliber to give the
Yale team practice. *
Instead of going South the nine will
pass most of the Easter vacation in
New Haven, practicing In the Held if
the weather permits. Cage work win
not be begun until much luter than
usual.
B. WALTH0UR
T0RIDEABR0AD
He and Sherwood Will Go to
France—Kramer
. Balks.
By J. 8. A. MAC DONALD.
Xcw York, Iter. 24.—It costs more money
to maintain America's champion race horse
a day than It does the biggest clubman In
New York.
Janie* R. Keene’s Colin stand* ns the
finest liver among the equine aristocracy of
America. And this Is ns It should he. for
Colin holds the remnrknble record of having
earned for bis owner no less than $132,163.
The fact that It cost Bookmaker ’’.Sol”
Llchensteln, America’* most prodigal sport
ing mnn, ns much ns $150 n dny to exist,
was stated recently by a friend of the
leviathan layer.
Well It may be surprising, but neverthe
less true, that approximately $1,500 a week
Is required for the maintenance of Amer
ica’s -rejgnlng thoroughbred favorite.
Colin Ms the only race horse in the world
with Ids own personal physician. Dr. E.
E. Shepherd, one of the best-known vet
erinarians In the new world, receives $300
per week for caring for Colin.
Down nr the staldlng headquarters of
Janies II. Keelie. Colin occupies Stall No. 18.
Every morning Dr. Shepherd will be found
will hold Its winter meeting In New
York next year. This probably means
that Bun Johnson will soon remove
the league headquarters to this city.
| Just Notes j
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Umpire Billy Evans, of Ban Johnson's
staff, who turned down a proposition
to referee in the Cleveland Hockey
League, because of a bum knee, will
finish the season ns referee in the In
terstate Polo League.
L. J. Becheberle, a deaf mute of
Cincinnati, has asked to be appointed
a scorer in the national bowling tour
nament. He claims that the fact that
he enn neither hear nor speak will not
interfere with his work.
The Brooklyn club ha* asked for
waivers on Outfielder Burch, and the
St. Louis club wants to dispose of
Outfielder Jack Murray. The latter Is
one of the men who was said to be
headed for the Polo Grounds a few
week* ago. Looks like McGraw
doesn't want him.
Dartmouth and Williams, which have
been on the out* for « year, have kissed
and made up.
••Hilly" loiuder. tho ex-Glant nnd ex*
rhlllie, will coach the Williams College
nine next spring.
track team.
nt Colin's stall door. The colt's temperature
Is taken nnd carefully noted all thru the
season. Jockey ••.Marvellous’* Miller re
cocting in order to gallop nnd exercise
Colin. For this Miller Is paid lion a week
extra to Ills $15,000 a year salary.
Colin has two rubbers. experienced men
nnd experts In the work, who are paid ns
much ns $50 a .week.
Then comes the stnll Itself. It Is made of
dry 1'nllforula pine over n concrete bottom.
A system of drain nnd n special water
plpo line running from a deeply-bored fresh
water soring over a tulle away and forced
by windmill Is another costly feature.
Colin’s stall Is electric lighted nnd venti
lated by electric fans.
Colin eats nothing but the best selected
oats nnd specially selected California hay.
And that costs $10 a day.
Trainer "iJmmy’' Howe, the regulnr stable
trnluer, has a contract with Mr. Keene
which calls for 10 per cent of all Colin’s
stake winnings. So far Itowe’s bonus
amounts to something over $12,000, or about
$700 a week, for the past racing season. Of
course this Amies out of Colin's gross earn
ings nnd must be charged against the great
colt s maintenance. Incidental expense
brings up the total of Colin's weekly Idll to
about $1,500, or nlmut $200 a day.
New York. Dec. 24.—Victor Breyer,
a French bicycle riding promoter, is
here endeavoring to sign up aome of
the alx-day rider*, to compete in
France. So far he has only landed
Bobby Walthour and Charley Sher
wood.
Frank Kramer, of East Oraftge, N.
J„ the sprint champion of the world,
has refused to sign the contract of
fered him. He claims that he will not
go abroad unless the figures are great
ly boosted. Unless the French promoter
agrees, Kramer says he will compete
In the races at Salt Lake City next
f.ummer.
the best quarter-mllers In tho West.
Captain Whltlitngtou, of the Harvard
swimming team, will be back at Ills studies
In January. He’s the Crimson’s mainstay,
bln and the College of the City ’of New
1 ork.
The Princeton basket ball team has been
suspended by the A. A. V. However, tho
Tigers juay play college lives under collegl-
Wreading Is very popular nt Cornell. Lee
Tollmtt, the crack shot nnd hammer throw-
Mike Kelley has dug up old George Ho-
grlover and will play him In Toronto 1 * out
field.
Hruuch Uickev Is studying law nt Ohio
State. Griff will l»e plenscd If he shows
up In the spring with un A. C. (aide catcher*
Dan McCann has Just he
Ills mother resides In Brooklyn.—New York
Globe. Rends like ii "knock. '*
The Hallroom Boys Take Advantage of the Blue Laws.
Copyrlfht, 1007, by Amcricaa JourmMktmintr.
ORMOND RACES
BEGIN MARCH 2
New York, Dec. 24.—At a meeting
of the content committee of the Au
tomobile, Club of America the report
of Secretary Butler on racing condi
tions at Ormond-Daytona Beach was
presented. The date of the races was
fixed for the week beginning Monday,
March 2, for the following reasons:
1. A careful and thorough Investiga
tion of the tidal condition* shows that
this week will afTord from five to # six
hour* dally of good beach, varying each
day between the hour* of 10 a. m. and
6 p. m., and In view of the long distance
races which are to be run, necessitating
the widest beach possible In conven
ient hour* of daylight, this date was
selected a* the only possible and prop
er one.
2. That the first week of March Is
the height of the Florida season, when
many thousands of people are then on
the ground to witness the races.
Arrangement* have been completed
to provide an approximately 16-mlle
straightaway course, with loops, one at
the northern end of the beach at Or
mond and one at the southern end, at
the Jnlet.
The loops will be constructed of two.
Inch planking, furnishing a roadway
32 feet wide and providing an easy
curve by grading away the sand hills
at the edge of the course. The loops *
will be banked aix feet high at the
outer edge of the curve. By this means
a 32-mll© circuit Is available, beginning
and ending at the club house of the
Florida East Coast Automobile Asso
ciation on the beach at Daytona. In
front of which all of the long distance
races will start and finish.
This should provide the fastest
course In the world for long distance
races. .
Here also will be located the grand
stand and timing board, Indicating the
position of tho competitors at all timet
during the race.
New Year f sFight
Should Be Pippin
By W. W. NAUGHTON.
San Francisco, Dec. 24.—From th®
present look of things, a crowd will be
on hand that will make the Attell-Mo-
ran fight one of the greatest successes
of the seuson.
The question of weight Is a thing
the tight falls are puxxled over consid
erably. , t
There Is plenty of opportunity ° r
seeing Attell and Moran In action every
day, and the comparisons drawn so far
favor Attell.
The majority of visitors to the camp*
of the little fellows think that Abe w
faster on his feet and that he can nit
with greater rapidity than the Engiwn
boy.
Moran has all the vanity of a young-
ster of 23 and will not concede tms
much, while Trainers Jimmy Kelly and
A1 Wick* declare that It will take the
New Year's Day contest to decide
which la the shiftier.
appendicitis. Hnd the operation h®en d®*
•--.1 an hour, it la said, he would have
Aho Nation, the canning secretary
Yankees, says If he owned the clu
mild lire Griffith Just to make a I'wjJ
u*' news," and then hire hlui again to u ‘’
another piece of news.”
Walter Lyon wna elected captain of** 1 *
Ohio Northern football eleven for uext )
Lakewood High 8^1 will
sented In the senate with a basket
team.
Harlan Roger* was elected captain of the
Wisconsin football eleven for next
The HI. Louis F foollMi" t«m "“Ujjj
In Siwkniif on Christmas nail In >» r “"
New Ye«r day.