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SPORTING PAGE,
DECEMBER 26
The Atlanta Georgian | pER s.*<,'Jss: , ~^i
J NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
By PERCY H. WHITING.
More people are shot each year in the hunting field than are
killed in five years at football
Those figures are not guaranteed, but the exact dope would
probably make the showing a little worse for the hunting end
of it.
The most awful of all sport tragedies are those .which result
from accidental shooting* while hunting. Friends kill friends,
brothers kill brothers and accidents of a most heart-breaking na
ture are continually happening.
In this section of the country, where there is little deer shoot
ing, there is not as high an average of awful accidents as is noted
in the Maine and Canadian woods. There the hunter takes a crack
at everything moving he sees and pots a guide or a fellow hunts
man with about ns great regularity as he does n deer.
“In the Open,” Saturday Kveiling Post’s sporting depart
ment, has some rather good things about how to handle fire-arms
in order to guarantee the smallest per cent of accidents. Here
are some of the suggestions:
Common sense forbids, under any and all circumstances:
1. Carrying a loaded gun Into a house.
2. Pointing one loaded or unloaded at a human being.
3. Shooting at anything until you know what it Is.
Never leave a loaded gun around camp or house. Never
leave a loaded revolver where children may get It or where
It may be disturbed by the women of the house.
Keep the muzxle of gun, rifle or revolver, loaded or unloaded,
pointed straight up or straight down.
Keep your Angers off the trigger until yon Intend to shoot.
Always make sure the gun Is unloaded before passing It for In
spection-some one might have slipped In a shell during your
absence.
Never carry a gun at full cock yourself, nor hunt with a man
who does; It Is entirely unnecessary and very dangerous.
In walking behind a companion In the fleld carry your gun
on your shoulder, muzzle up, or under your arm at the shoulder,
muzzle pointing at the ground at your feet; never carry It over
your forearm, with muzzle pointing at your companion's back.
Never pack a loaded gun In a wagon, sledge or boat.
Never pull a gun toward you by the barrels.
In crawling through brush or under fences, or over walls,
put the gun through flrst, ahead of you; never pull It after you.
Never be in a hurry to shoot—It Is the sure sign of the
bungler. Take time to see what you are flrlng at. Above all
else—think.
SOME TURF CELEBRITIES
A careful following of these rules and the application of a
little common sense will do much to prevent the awful accidents
and tragedies of the shooting fleld.
The attempt to pnt through a players limit in the National
League fizzled. Colonel Dovey, of Boston, is still strong for it,
though; and is likely to keep right on agitating the question until
he gets action.
However, such a limit will never come in the' big leagues,
just as a salary limit will never nrrive.
That is the point in which the major leagues are always
going to differ from the ntonors. They will not tolerate any
limit on expense. The town with the money is going to spend it
and the people who put up the economy howl are going to draw
nothing but the large laugh. Up in the country where the pn-
tronage possibility is comparatively unlimited the expenses will
have to follow suit.
Down in tho smaller leagues things are bound to be different
and players and salary limits are nearly always going to bo in
force. And really, to get down to brass tacks, the leagues where
the limits are most strenuously enforced will be the most suc
cessful.
YANKEES IN ATLANTA
MARCH 2 TO APRIL 4
Old Stagers Will Boil Out For Month at Hot
Springs and Then Report Here.
Chase Will Play.
Lada label, with Jockey Walter Miller up. At the left la Billy Garth,
a successful trainer.
Abe Attell Ought to Win
From 0. Moran, of London
By TAD.
New York, Doc. 26.-Abo At tell. America'!
greatest Uttlo fighter, will do battle wltli
Owen Moran, tho pride of Kugland, on Now
Year's afternoon In 'Frisco.
Attell fs picked by the best authorities In
tho country to win and will no doubt he a
10-to 6 favorite when the men outer the ring.
,Moran la a grand little lighter. He la the
great eat two handed t»oy that hat 'tilted
ua In the paat ten year*. He la no Bill
Kqulres, nor la he a "Gunner" Molr. He
didn't come here with a troop of trumpet*
era announcing bit arrival. He la a great
favorite In the East, and since be stopped
Frankie Nell In the Weet hla atock baa
Giants Go South
About March 1
New York, Dec, 2«.—The New York
atloiuUs will do more training next
>rln* than ever before—and leaa ex-
bltlnf.
Marlin Springe. Texas, hna been se-
cted as the training point, and the
I ante will Jump right there from their
>mea. They will go back to New York
r eaay stages.
The diamond on which the Giants
III practice Is furnished by the hotel
tople at Marlin Springs. John Mur-
ty, the veteran ground keeper at the
Dla Grounds, will go there early In
ebruary to get the grounde In proper
indltlon. The big push ball and other
iraphemalla will be shipped In time to
inch camp when MeGraw and Ills
wng players reach there about Feb-
The regulars will report March J. By
tat time MeGraw will have Bleed up
'M young recruits, and such as fall
lort of big league caliber. In his opln.
n, can be chaaed. That will simplify
j« task of selecting the players who
111 get a trial In league games.
Games will be played every Saturday
id Sunday In Dallas and Fort Worth,
is team being divided so that games
m be played In each city on the same
net. A aeries with the Washington
am Is also being arranged. The final
une wUl be played In Dallas on April
The team then starts for home,
aylng exhibitions In the following
tics: Little Rock, April * and 7; Co-
imbus, April 8. and Wheeling. April
I. On April 11, Yale will open the
cal season at the Polo Grounds. Jer-
•V City has booked a game on April
1. and Newark appears on the follow
'd day.
ef Osceola, Ps.
gone aky-hlxh.
However, Alie Attell Is beyond dope. You
esn't figure him at all. lie's simply a wiz
ard.
lie has seen Moran tight, lie was In hla
brother Monte's corner the night Owen
gnve him the trimming, and Abe lost a dla*
mend ring and pin nn the go.
(’alike Jeffries, Abe wants to fight the
boy who bent his brother.
Tom Sharkey aeys that If Kid MoCoy will
Football Teams
Play 0 to 0 Tie
Special to The Georgian.
Savannah. Go., Dec. 26.—The Charles,
ton and Savannah football teams met
here Christmas afternoon and played a
hard frame to a 0 to 0 tie.
The Charleston team was made up of
football stars of the first magnitude.
But they were short on team play. In
consequence the local players were able
to hold them safe at all times.
Sure Was Pitching
Even For e e Bushes * ’
fit. Louis hits n minor league player who
performed down In Arkansas this year and
rsturnod with great talcs of his accom
plishments.
"Yes." he was telling n hunch of cranks,
"I struck out 26 men In a game at Fort
Hmltb. They only bit one foul off me In
the whole gnme.7
lie continued along the aame line for fiulf
an hour. The audience was nwo-ttruck.
"Yes," he said, "In a game lato In the sea
son my foolers Were going good. I struck
out the flrst IS hatters, and then we were
so far ahead I lobbed them over and let
them get a few lilts.”
The admiring silence was appalling until
one Innocent-looking auditor asked, "Do
they wear uniforms In that league*"—Ex
change.
CUBANS WERE EASY.
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Maddox, Virginia, end. 0
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The Milwaukee club has drafted Walter
House, of Memphis, Tenn., one of Quincy's
pitchers the past season.
White Sox Can f t
Visit Honolulu
the
8ox to Houotulu enrly In the
spring has fallen through.
President Charles Cotnlskey says he would
like very much to take the trip, but can
not see he way clear to do bo, as he has
other pkitis for the team's training trip
which have not been completed.
The Lowell club of tl\e New England
League has secured ns inn linger Arthur W.
Daley, late of the Montpelier elob, of the
Northern League.
The Birmingham oltih of the Southern
Longue has drafted Catcher ltnuh and Hec-
oiul Baseman Tom Downey from the Lan
caster dub of t thfe Trl*8tnte Longue.
President John W. Pohldns has called tho
annual meeting of the Atlantic longue at
the Franklin House, Easton, Pa., January 7
next, nt which Paterson will be admitted
to membership.
Camp’s All-American Team
The only really authoritative all-American football team Is that turned
out each year by Walter Cairtp, America's leading football expert. Here
Is Mr, Camp's pick this year:
First Eleven. 8econd Eleven. Third Eleven.
Find McCormick, Princeton. Exendlne. Carlisle. ’ Wlster. Prlncton.
Tackle,. .Dague, Annapolis. Horr, Syracuse. Lang, Dartmouth.
Guard.. .Draper, Pennsylvania. Rich, Dartmouth. Goebel. Yale.
Center,. .Ziegler, Pennsylvania. Grant, Harvard. Phillips, Princeton
Guard.. .Schulz. Michigan. Thompson. Cornell. Krlder. Swarthmore
Tackle.. .Erwin, West Point. O'Rourke, Cornell. Weeks, West Point
Scarlett. Pennsylvania. McDonald, Harvard
Dillon, Princeton. Stelfen, Chicago.
Marks, Dartmouth. Capron. Minnesota.
End Illglow, Yale.
. Quarter. Alcott, Yale.
| Half back Jones, Yale.
Hollenbeck, Pennaylvanla.Hauser. Carlisle.
Coy, Yale. ' . Douglas. Annapolis.
By SAM CRANE.
Ilnl Chase will Join the Yankees in At
lanta, having severed nil connections with
the outlaw organization, the California State
League.
So Hal has written to hla friend. Trainer
Mike Martin. I am half Inclined to lielleve
that Hal can not do without Mike's grand
conditioning ruhtdng down, for which the
Ynnkeen' trainer Is famous. Rightfully so,
too. for there la none better.
Chase was not half so Imd an he was
painted. He writes that he played only two
games with the Han Jose team, believing at
the time that he had a perfect right to do
no. But as soon as he received word from
Owner Frank Farrell, thru Secretary Na-
bon, notifying him of tho edict of the Na
tional commission prohibiting players under
the National agreement from playing with
outlnw clubs during the winter, Hal Imme
diately quit.
Picks Yanks to Win,
Ilnl writes also: "I think the deal made
for Niles and Hemphill and the engagement
hope that the Giants will _
play off with. There wouldn't be slathers
of the good old coin to divide, I guess. III
that case, would there, Mike?
"I will meet the hors In Atlanta, ready
for business, and I don't see where any
team In the league has anything on us. If
and the outfield, too. I can’t for the life of
me see bow we can he beaten out if thlnet
break anywhere near even for us.”
By this It cau be seen that Prince H»i
has his mind made up to play In New York
again, and that his heart will be in b!i
Along about February 1 Trainer Martin
will be sent by the club to Hot Sprints
Ark., where he will take charge of some nf
the old-timers who will go there to
out" preparatory to Joining the team In
Atlanta. The plnyera who will probably B o
to Hot Pprlngs are Keeler. Orth. Kleluow
Cbcshro, Klherfeld, Rickey, Stahl and
Hemphill. Manager Griffith will also co
to the Hprlngs.
The Yankees will be In Atlanta from
March 2 to April 4, and will play thro#
games each week of their stay there with
the Atalnta team, champions of the South
ern League. The week of March 27 the Chi
cago Cubs, world's champions; the Cleve
lands and Cincinnati* will play the Atlanta!
In Atlanta, which will necessitate the Yan
kees taking abort trips to Macon, Augusta
and possibly to Birmingham.
Games in Atlanta
From Atlanta the Yankees will travel
north by easy stages, playing In Lynch-
burg. Richmond, Roanoke, Baltimore' ami
Athens, (in. The dates hnvo not yet been
arranged, for the reason that Hecretnrv X.q.
hon hns not been notified of the date the
American League championship season will
open, but he has everything arranged to
complete the Itinerary when he Is sure of
the opvnlug date.
EVERY KNOWN NATIONALITY
REPRESENTED IN BASEBALL
An old-time fan, whose Interest In the
players la evidently of a keen and analytic
nature, sends n query to the Chicago Jour*
nal concerning the nationalities of the va
rious big league players. Tho section of
his question In regard to the races Is as fol
lows:
"Was there ever really a great negro
player? If so, who and where did he play?
"Speaking of nationalities, was there ever
a really great French player, aside from
Lnjole?
‘Who are some of the big Swedes or Nor
wegians In the game?
"Is the game so distinctly American that
foreign-born citizens never become expert at
It?
Have we ever had h great player a Cu
ban or Spaniard?
"There are some line Indian players, like
Render. Does that fact show that It ap
peals to that nationality? Who are some of
the other big Indians 111 the game?
"Who are some of the distinctly Cana
dlnn plnyera, and what have they done?
•Who Is the great player of German de
scent In the game? I suppose you will say
Wagner, but who are the others?
‘I have never heard of nn Italian player
of any Importance, hut I presume there
must lie one somewhere In this cosmopoll
tan country."
The African has found the color line In
the big leagues a harrier that Is insurmount
able. One of the best of the black players
was a catcher named Walker, formerly with
the Syracuse Stars.
Several Frenchmen of great ability have
figured In the game besides the wonderful
I.ajole. The flrst Frenchman to gain lasting
fame was Berthrong of the Washington Na
tionals, whose record for running the bases,
made In 1868, still stands unbroken. Others
of French descent now in the game are
Beaumont of Boston. Moreu of Philadelphia.
I H npnrtc of tho Highlanders and Parent or
the 1'llgrlms. Two of the l>est French play
ers have left the big league only lately—
I.U (’banco und Merles.
John Anderson of Washington Is the
largest HrandLuivInn now performing. Isbell
of the Sox I* alleged to be a Swede, and
also to be of Freneh lineage. Lnndgreit of
the Cubs is Swedish. Ferguson of the Gl-
nuts Is said to he a Swede under an old
Irish name. Anderson of Pittsburg Is either
Dnnlsh or Norwegian. Jacobson of the Bos
ton Americans Is a Daue. Grnfflus, a for-
THE, HALLROOM BOYS—They Try to Be Rah Rah Boys on $13 Per.
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FEfJPjHERE C0ME.S A BUNCH OF THOS
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mer Shreveport catcher. Is a Dane, and
Benson Is a Norwegian.
The flrst Indian to gain fame at baseball
was Socknlexls. CIsrlL the Cleveland catch
er, Is a Wyandotte Indian, and Phvle, a
clever pitcher, formerly with the Athletics,
is an Indian.
A few Cubans tre playing In the minor
leagues, and the Cubans show great st>oc<l
and fielding skill, hut are shy nn hatting
ability. The only Rpnnlard ever in the big
leagues. If memory serves aright, wan Vin
cent Nava, who was with Providence In 1881.
but did not last long. Castro, the Cracker
shortstop, is a South American.
Two big league catchers—fthsw of the
Boston Americans and Smith of Pittsburg-
are Englishmen by birth.
The Canadian players r.re of the French
variety, as a rule, tho the great Tip O’Neill
was an Irlsh-Canadlan. Lnjole and La
Chance both came from Frcuch-Canadlan
settlements originally.
It fs almost Impossible to count up the
German stars. They hare necome as numer
ous ns the irishmen In recent years, und
play as good a game. sred Pfeffcr wns
one of the early German crackerjncks. and
another was Charlie Getseln. Homo of th«
mightiest Germans now In the buslnc**.
Dcuti Kini> Bcnuiie, oieinieiui, iioiuiuiii
Kling, Pfelster and Reulliach, for example.
Other Dntcbmen of top-notch quality are
Lobert, Welmer, Schlelr, Duhlcti, IlnrstH,
Knnbe, Koybold. Unglaub, flnhn, Rohe, Al-
nerman, Altroek. Hehaefer, Hoffman.
Bchmfdt, Elberfeld, Klelnow, Altlzer and
Hickman.
The flrst Jewish player of high class wns
Llpmnn Pike. Plank of the Athletics,
Strung of the Giants and Camnltz of lifts-
Imrg are said td be Jews, and are certainly
vnlnnble performers. Jokey Ats of the Pel
icans Is a Jew.
Fraser of tho Cubs and Mnthewson of
New Y’ork are the most prominent Scotch
men now In the business outside of Bob
Wallace. Konetrhy of 8t. D>u!s Is sold to
he n Greek, and also a Pole.
Ahhntlcehlo of Pittsburg Is an Italian.
The Italian race does not seem to cars
much for baseball, and few Italian names
are found In the score cards of even the
sand lots and nninteiir teams.
Holly of the Cardinals Is a Bohemian,
with n real name ns long ns a pennant nole.
Only the dear Lord knows what Rube Wad
dell Is.
Overlooked In the shuffle. Ramey Pelt* li
of Jewish descent. Phllllpe Is of nn old
Freneh family. McLean uud Osborne nrs
.Scotch. Crlger Is of Norman French nacee
try, and Duggleby of English parentage.
ST. PAUL GETS
“PUG” BENNETT
Justin Bennett, best known to the
baseball world as "Pug,” who played
second base for Nashville before taking
a step further up the ladder, will not
wear a St. Louis uniform when spring
rolls around, says The Nashville Amer
ican. He has been sold to St. Paul.
Bennett’s stay in the big leagues was
brief. He played a fairly good game,
It is true, but there has been something
lacking about his work which "some
thing" was required of a major league
plawr. Bennett will surely make St.
Paul a valuable man at the keystone
pillow. He was easily the best all-
around second sacker that Nashville
has had since the present league start
ed, with the exception of Ed Abbatlc-
chlo. Both were good ball players and
fine hitters.
Just Notes
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It Is reported that Fogler snd Moran, the
second team In the recent six-day bike
race, won’t ride together sny more.
A Itowllng war has l»een started In Cin
cinnati by managers who are trying to
strengthen their teams for the coming
tourneys.
A story comes out of Detroit that WWb?
Heston has applied for the position of coach
at Case. Wfille will have to wait.
Tad Jones hns recovered from his foot
ball Injuries sufficiently to allow him to x®
to bis home In Excello, Ohio, for tho holi
days.
Goebel. Yale’s big guard. Is expected t0
develop Into a ktar hammer thrower.
George South worth, a Cleveland hoy, will
lead the Kenyon football team next year-
president John I. Taylor, of the Re»t<»a
Americans, says Cngtaun Is sure to wear
.Pilgrim uniform next year.
Along with the other blue Sunday law*
recently effected In New York city was on *
which practically kills pugilism.
Hugo Kelly. Who flghTs BHIPspkeDoc'’ 1 ^
I»er K Is said to l»e sn Italian nobleman.
Of course bis right nnme Ian t Kelly.