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SPORTING PAGE,
DECEMBER 25
The Atlanta Georgian i ■’"Kywass**!
[NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
By PERCY H. WHITING.
"Encourage good, clean hone racing and cut out all vulgar
ahowra, and you will have better attendance all around," amid Nor
man J. Colman, former lieutenant governor of Missouri, at the
convention of the American Fairs and Expositions.
'God so made man that he wants to see contests," Mr. Nor
man continued.
"He will stop In the street to witness a dog fight, and will
watch two boys battle. Ministers of the gospel and others of
high moral tone will witness a horse race that is a pure contest
for speed for a purse, where there Is no pool selling or other
form of gambling."
THE CRITICAL SITUATION
/Wlfy
Sure, encourage good, clean horse racing.
But is there such a thing!
To get “good” racing—contests between really great horses,
there has to be a betting attachment.
To get “clean” racing you have to cut out the betting.
And there you are.
Since it is against the principles of the Amalgamated Order
of Sporting Sharps to work much on holidays (or any other time)
we take the liberty of allowing Battling Nelson to fill up part of
the column with some really sensible advice.
Here it is:
Every man should learn to box.
It would be a good thing for women, too. If more of them went In for
stuffed glove exercise.
■ There Is a fot of merit In boxing which perhaps you have never
thought of.
There Is more In It than the development of your punch.
There Is more In It than the Increase of lung expansion It gives you.
There Is more In ft than the Improvement of your wind.
More than the strengthening of your stomach.
Here are some of the thlngH that boxing will tench a boy or man:
It will teach him to be cool under fire.
It will make him courageous.
It will wear off that natural timid feeling every boy lias who la
called upon to defend himself.
It will teach him to bear punishment without flinching.
It will teach him to use stVategy In the rnce of danger.
It will cure him of the Inclination to faint every time he hns a bloody
nose.
If boys learned to box when they were young It would save them
many beatings and bullylngs by older boys.
A good, hard punch, well delivered, by a boy who hns learned fairly
well the rudiments of the boxing game will upset any bully who weighs
from 20 to 40 pounds more than the boy he Is brow-beating.
I never heard of a bully who knew nnythlng about boxing.
Every boy, no matter who he Is or whure he lives, Is bound to en
counter this kind of a fellow.
If he doesn't know how to hit and defend himself, It Is worse than
useless for him to try to cope with him. He may even be seriously hurt
If ho does so.
A bully Is always too lasy or too swell-headed to lenrn to fight prop
erly. Usually he has groat strength and a mean disposition.
Uppercut the bully. Swing hard for his solar plexus.
You know how the crowd always yells itself delirious when one of
these contemptible bullies gets a swift cross or a counter or a swing to
the Jaw that puts hint down and out.
Then, perhaps, you don't know thnt a swift punch Is the quickest
way In the world to knock a man senseless.
Suppose a man meets a robber armed with n revolver at night.
The chances are always that he can't escape getting shot or beaten,
because these hold-up artists are cowards and apt to hurt their victim,
even If ft Isn’t necessary.
Now, tell me, what chance would a man like Jesse James have If ho
stepped up to Bob Fitzsimmons with a drawn revolver nnd ordered him
to throw up his bands?
None In the world.
One of Fltx's short arm Jerks—an uppercut that would travel like
lightning and not have to move more than a foot or six Inches, would
put Mr. Bandit out of business.
A bandit hardly ever shoots before he orders his victim to throw up
his hands.
Biff him before he can pull the trigger.
And in closing:
Yo sporting editor wishes ye sports a merrio Xmasse.
OLD ENEMIES
GET TOGETHER
Battling Nelson and Abe At-
tell Engage in Little
Private Bout.
By TAD.
e tw York. Pec. 2ft.—Untiling Nelson and
i Attell did hook up In the gymnasium
•ftar Mil.
The other day we printed nn article about
the rivalry between the pair and stated th**n
that If they did hook up It would be n fight,
ami no brotherly love affair. Itoth nro
training at Milieus' place, near Trlaco. and
the other day put the gloves on for three
round*.
At tell bled tho Nattier In the first rc
and had hla cheek lab! open In tho second
by tl
•ffali
when they wore milled apart they shook
nd laughed over the thing ite t*
the boat friend* In tlie world.
bauds am. ___
they were the
Attell Is ruling favorite in the fight.
Which takes place on New Year's day out
there.
„ .Monday and Is now out of the run
nlag aa far aa the middleweight champion-
•hip la concerned. We were looking for
ward to the cowboy tighter meeting the
winner of the Ketley-I*apkc affair, but with
one of his weapons Injured he can not be
considered. The Kelley Papke tight comes
off next Monday. Ketchell with nls broken
band will be at the ringside, as will Htun-
ton. tbs nsw tighter.
"Dear Santy Cl aim:
When you report
Within thla hapless town, old aport;
When you Arrive from far away
With toys and such dope In your slolgh.
With dolls and blocks and spinning
With Teddy bears and lolly-popa.
With tin horn bundles on the side.
With drums to beat ami sleds to slide.
With hobby horses, books to read.
And stuff on which the youngsters feed.
Don't overlook us, old Kaxlp.
But pasta your glims upon this slip,
Thla latter which we send to you—
WE WANT A MOGUL—I*. D. Q —
A manager to lead our push
From out the tail-end underbrush;
We want the real thing—not a dub.
Tours truly.
“Nashville Baseball Club.”
Tar levs
eight -cli
next m
plan.
..jrilte, as It Is desired to wake It an
•clab league. A meeting will tie held
tb at Mat toxin to carry out the
Meridian Sells
Another Player
Meridian, Mias., Dec. 25.—The Me-
rldlan Baseball Association of the
Cotton States Leugue, hus sold Catcher
Andrews to Lynn. Mass. The same
team has dratted Third. Basemun Itoth.
who had been engaged as manager for
the next season as the successor of
Guy Sample. This now leaves Meridian
with only seven men on the reserve
list.
SOME KIRKERINOS
IT NEEDS NO WORDED EXPLANATION.
RACING PLANT, COSTING HALF MILLION,
MAY BE BUILT AT THE CITY OF MEXICO
KIRK.
“Maybe you got a flash at the fellow that Just gave me the tip,” re
marked the Manicure Lady. “The fellow with the long hair."
“Ye.s,” said the Head Barber. “I had him spotted for an actor.”
“No. he ain't no actor. He's a newspaper man from Missoula,* Mon
tana. He works on the Missoula Messenger, he told me. His nails was
pretty black.”
“Must have been a pressman out there," ventured the Head Barber
“That there printers' Ink gets under the nails something, fierce. I know
—I used to be devil In a printing shop."
“He was no pressman," declared the Manicure Lady. “He told me he
was a newspaper poet. I never heard of a newspaper poet, did you*”*
“Sure I did. My cousin BUI Is a newspaper poet. He writes Jingles
about the races and the prize fighters. He wrote one awful sad one
about the death of a middleweight. Want to hear It?"
"Indeed I do," the Manicure Lady assured him. “I am very'fond of
poetry. If it’s good and sad."
THE FATE OF THE MIDDLEWEIGHT.
‘This one is sure sad," asserted the Head Barber, clearing his throat
"This is how It goes: ,
“‘The middleweight lay upon the ground,
His head was going around and around.
, He heard the monotonous One, Two, Three
Drop from the Ups of the Referee.
He heard the ominous Four, Five, Six,
And he tried to rise, but his legs were sticks.
He heard the Seven. Right, Nine—and then
He heard the fatal numeral, TEN!
“ ‘The dying middleweight gave a stare
At the hungry thousands assembled there.
They yelled at him to get up and fight—
No look of mercy he seen that night.
“I was double-crossed ” he said, with a whine,
“Give my regards to Jack O’Brien."
Well." said the Manicure Lady, “1 s'pose that's pretty fair, but some
how it ain't what I call a real poem."
The Head Barber was plainly disappointed, and showed it.
“I thought It was some poem," he declared. "What do you call a real
poem, anyhow?”
“About love," said the Manicure Lady. ‘‘About love and the stormy
sea and the waves and the mountains and the stars. That stuff your
cousin wrote sounds pretty good In a way, but I don’t like them things
about mlddlewelghts. The fellow from Missoula told me a pretty thing
he Just wrote for the Messenger. It was like this:
WHY BETTY RUBBERED.
" ‘When Betty wanders down the street
I smile to see her dainty feet;
My happiness Is all complete
When Betty wanders down the street.
" ‘Her eyes are fairer than the blue
That lends the violets their hue.
Her satiny neck Is stretched a ml’.e
To catch my smile.’"
“Not for me," said the* Head Barber. "That’s funny newspaper
verse. It ain’t the kind they read In the Subway.”
“Why not?” demanded the Manicure Lady.
“Because,” the Head Barber concluded, “people get tired enough in
the Subway without reading that kind of dope.”
LOCAL SPORTS SPEND
A QUIET CHRISTMAS
By J. 8. A. MAC DONALD.
Han Francisco, till.. Him*. 25.—About the
most Interesting tiling heard In the gos*lp
f turf affair* hare Hit* Week I* tin* news of
big race track promotion In the t'lty of
Mexico.
A tlrst-clns* raring plant, costing npwnril
of $600,000 and equipped In the most modern
style, will lie erected In the Mexican capita!
" wltlita the next eighteen mouth*. Mnre-
. a Jockey eluh lint lug Jurisdiction and
government over thoroughbred racing by
Virtue of special legislation toward thnt etui.
Will direct the raring on the new course,
'it pl t ii I lx t h, foremost In commercial ami
in I circle* In tho undent city, are at the
nd of both tho new race track* and the
uposed Jockey eluh. The Intention I* to
place the Mcxlcnn turf niton the same plane
and Mtiitii* a* racing I* found In New York
itm| under the French Jockey flub oil the
1‘iirlslnn courses.
The men behind the Idea of crenting a turf
>r Mexico desire racing for the social and
sporting attribute* behind. Hfrnngo n* It
may seem, the project Ik not living urged
because of the tliinucliil po*Nlldlltles of The
toiler of Mock Is to he l.nr-
tcred la thl* country. However, a deter
mined effort will lie made to bring an ade
quate ntinilier of horse*, owners. Jockeys
mid official* from the Iiilted State* to prop-
rly wet In motion tho machinery of the Idg
project.
While there hn* been no great fanfare
about tile thing, the fact that earliest and
substantial uieusures hud been already
taken toward launching racing In the great
empire to the south of us wu* learned this
Week during the visit here of Fraud* de
Cnrrerro, the noted “Ranch King" and tint-
millionaire
ago ho witi __
California and a noted Iuim-IuiII player. He
I* a member of the new t'allf-unlu Jockey
Flub and the Westchester Kitdng Associa
tion of New York.
Though tumble to give nay details, the
young Mexican confirmed the correctness
• if the fact* In the mnlii above related. It
Is thought rndng will h» Inaugurated In
Mexico on it first-class basis about January
1,
He!
Ylslo
tinrrom n„ m ,. r ...
... enllber to attract horses nnd
horsemen who participate In mid-winter
racing from a* far north ns New York. It is
umv poNsIlde to ship from New York to tho
t'lty of Mexico well within n fortnight and
at little greater cost than the rail transpor
tation to New Orleans, La.
The Ideal winter climate, the population
and the wealthy duns of cltlzetis necessary
support n hlgh-gride turf are to he found
nlng rndng there for three years past
a lot of culls from tho American turf con
tenting for $200 purses, racing ha* never
been considered on u pretentious basis be
fore the present time.
Already L. Ilium Is spending upward of
tco,nun In purchasing middle-grade thorough
breds for breeding purposes In Mexico. He
recently secured twenty-eight head thru
Kentucky and New York, nnd will pick up
another band on the winter * trucks next
month for shipment Houth. Tho day may
come when the t'lty of Mexico will rival
tills eltr New Orleans. la., and l.os An
geles. t’nl., ns n winter racing point.
CLEMSON AND TENNESSEE
WILL PLAY COMMODORES
Nashville, Teitn., Pec. 25.—I'lemson nnd
IVnuessce will be ou Vanderbilt's schedule
text fnll utile** all signs fall.
Itoth of these teams have agreed to meet
he Commodore* and It I* now only a mat
er of arranging terms and date*.
It has made a most Inglorious side-
The Atlanta team offers to play, bat
give Vanderbilt only n guarantee of
pease* to appear In Atlanta. This Is n
*f this kind from Tech simply amounts to
declining to play the Nashville team.
Next year It Is Vanderbilt's turn to go
to the fidverslty of Michigan for a game,
and ns the Commodores will use tin all their
spare time on the long Jaunt to Aun Arbor
there Is un chance that they will take on
another Eastern game until 1908.
Christmas promises to he the quiet
est holiday of the year with Atlanta
aport-lovers.
The semi-professional football game
which was one of the near-features
last year has wisely been abandoned.
So there Is no athletic exhibition on
tap.
The Atlanta Athletic Club’s golf
course at East Lake has been well
patronized all day. The first car
brought out a delegation of players, and
they will come steadily till sunset. The
8AM PHILLIPS WANTS
GO WITH KETCHEL.
Chicago, Dec. 25.—Hammy Phillips, the
local hlffer, 1* after n match with Hfanley
Ketchel. Phillips' barker Is willing to put
up n side bet on Hammy agnlnat Ketchel
and the latter hns agreed to meet Phillips
If a cluli would offer a suitable purse for
the mateb. Phillips claims thnt lioth Hill
Papke and Tony Cnponl have sldestepjied
many chances to tight him. Phillips wants
to light Ketchel at 148 or 160 pounds, u
weight the latter says he can easily make.
course, tho pretty soggy. Is In fair con
dition, and some good scores were
made. No tournament la In progress.
The hunters are out In force, nf
course. Many paries left Tuesday night
and will spend two or three days in
the fields. The quail shooting Is re
ported good all along the line, and par
ties of sportsmen which have gone
further south after ducks have had
good luck.
Most of the other good sporta are at
home, playing with the children's toys
and having a large time In a way that
Is possible Just once a year.
RALPH ROSE
MAYBESTUNG
May Be Declared Profes
sional For Playing Foot
ball For Money.
... gue n few years
ago. will ho with the Philadelphia American
League team next season, lie hn* liven
drafted from Tecumseli of the tkiutheru
Michigan League.
THE HALL-ROOM BOYS.
Copyright. 100?, by Atutrlean-Joarnsl-Xisarintr.
They Meet an Incoming Llnei—Still on S13 Per.
The Binghamton club of the New York
J>*gue ht* been transferred to new owner*
Whs have alerted J. II. Mooney, of Ilfott, n*
president; M- H. Roach. of It«>novn. Pa., u*
secretary, and F. F. Hammond, of Ulughsm- '
too. treasurer. James II. Itanium, of (Pm- i
too, has been Nppotuted team manager. Han-1
•on has purchased a one-third Interest la
the dab.
t
New York, Dec. 25.—There Is trouble la
store for Ralph Hose, the world's cham
pion shot putter. The big California giant
Is Charged with having broken faith with
the Amateur Athletic Union, and If tb**
charges are proved he will la* disqualified
by the A. A. C. It Is alleged thnt ltow
played ou a professional football team In
tils native town, which. If true, put* him
vestlgutlon and will sift the matter to tb#
bottom. He said:
"It makes no difference who or what tn«
athlete Is If he doesn't play fair with the
A. A. U. he must get out. As long as I am
iiregldeut of the association the sport must
W clean and I will keep It so. The less "f
Rose will be keenly felt by the American
team for the Olympic games. He was
looked upon ns the man for the discus
event along with Hhcrldan.
THE STARS IN WINTER!
r John Kllng In Kansas City—This wonder
ful man In nmv the hero of the stick Instead
of the suit. Ill* billiard and pool room Is w
. .... ... in9 to Iook „ kt? *
— ...... ,..sylng salary. II*
plays nightly engagements with the ties*
pool players from Joplin. Albany, HcdalW.
Excelsior nud other points. The grub si
that gnme would make President llurpo/
wince, could he count It.
Frank Cornice In California—Fresno, <’#!..
hns been stung. For years Its fame rente*
11st us nnd Chance, hut It hns
- xi raisins. It wn* a question
with Chance whether he would prefer to
stand around the depot at Fresno all winter
with a bunch of raisins In his band or cm-
Joy the surf at Ocean Grove, fhs Wtter
won and Chance has substituted six plnugra
per day for a diet of raisins.
Nick Allruck In I'lnelnmtl—Th. »™;hl
season with thla lion of society Is ngM
with fury. Following the turkey raffle
Thanksgiving day there has lieen round an-
cr round of society and other things, in*
Welcome Pleasure Club has led the pro<«j
slon with three hoe-downs nnd the
Creek Kxrhauge Club has conducted s***JJ*
successful poker tournaments. Nick is *»«"
organising the Apollo Club for meu tb*t ar *
eligible to u club of that name.
Johnny Etc™ In Tnj. N. Y.-The hrro “I
this sketch spends moat of hi# time at h*
burning lodge on the Hudson. Busin***
shoes has gone to the dogs. In the dr*t ten
days following his triumphal return to*
Ever* shoe emporium shod everv man.
woman and child In Troy, Albany. H»*henr^
tady and Cohoes. There is nothing left JJJ
sweep out In the morning, and light
lamps at 4 p. tu.
Hughey Jennings In Baltimore—Has re
tired to the shores of an unknown l"
where he spends bis dsys chewjng
Fielder Junk, In Wn»hln«t»-8pendlM Jg
days quietly on a farm plucking the pet
ont of winter daisies and oaring to Mjjff 1 ..
“1 will,” “I won't.” "I wfi . * "Xtefc
It’s merely a question with him •• to wh
he stops on.—Chicago Beconl-IJert^