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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. foot hn II by a score of 66 to 0. 000 O000<«h>00 000 000000000110 o a O HONORABLE MENTION 0 O FOR 80UTHERN MEN. 0 O a O Walter Camp's all-American 0 Otfootball teams, three In number. 0 O appeared In the current Issue of 0 O Collier’s. Not one of the teams O 0 contained a Southern college play- 0 0 er. However, a number at South- 0 0 cm players came In for honorable 0 0 mention. They are: 0 0 Bob Blake, Vanderbilt, end. 0 Maddox, Virginia, end. 0 Sherrill. Vanderbilt, tackle. 0 Stone, Sewanee, tackle. 0 Beebe, North Carolina, guard. 0 Hodgson, V. P. I„ guard. 0 Honaker, Virginia, quarterback. 0 O00000000000000lXH>00000000 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. . r FEfJPjHERE C0ME.S A BUNCH OF THOS i:[h #i 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 I IWMWHWMWtWMWimWHMWtWHMWWHW* 1 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.