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COBB fflf QUIT
BASEBALL LIKES
COTTON MARKET
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 30
"Ty" Cobb, outfielder ex
traordinary. hae threatened to
quit baseball, and from private
sources here it is learned that it is
with good reason. Tyrus has been
offered a partnership in a cotton
brokerage firm and is considering
acceptance. While the baseball
public generally will laugh at the
suggestion, Tyrus deciares that he
means it.
Cobb waxed enthusiastic during
the Giants-Red Sox series in New
York and Boston, and especially to
the scribe from Philadelphia, who
accompanied him while he was "ex
perting."
"Baseball doesn’t mean a thing
io me except for what money I can
make,” Cobb told the scribe, when
asked about the brokerage part
nership offer, "If I can make more
money out of baseball than in it,
I'll quit in a minute. And if this
offer turns out one-half of what it
is said to be worth to me, the De
troit club or no other major league
club could afford to pay me what
1 would ask.”
Cobb has had business ambitions
for more than a year. During the
strike of the Detroit club here.
Cobb was the most unconcerned
player of the team.
“I have a peculiar contract," he
said. “If 1 am not reinstated it
doesn’t worry me a bit, for I will
go South to my home and still draw
my salary. I will not be a cent loser
either way. for I can go into busi
ness.”
It is believed that the knowledge
that no heavy fine would punish
him led the American league head
to reinstate him with a nominal
fine for the sake of league disci
pline.
"I can not make known yet where
1 will locate if I go into business."
Cobb said, “but, believe me, unless
1 am mistaken now. the Detroit
club will be looking for an out
fielder 1n March.”
FOGEL"DENIES CHARGES
IN WHOLESALE FASHION
XEW YORK, Oct. 30.—A general de
nial of charges brought by the National
league against Horace Fogel, president
of the league’s Philadelphia club, in
this city, on October 17. are contained
in a letter received from Mr. Fogel to
day by President Thomas .1. Lynch
•Mr. Fogel's letter expressed defiance
of the right of the National league to
try his case for alleged statements re
flecting upon National league baseball,
according to Mr. Lynch, who said the
text of Mr. Fogel’s reply would not be
made public until November 26. when
the league will meet here to give the
Philadelphia official a hearing
GEORGIA FEARS GAME
WITH PURPLE ELEVEN
ATHENS. GA., Oct. 30.—Coach
Cunningham, of the Univer
sity of Georgia football
team, is printing his men for the
big game with Sewame here Sat
urday. The Georgia players tame
out of the Alabama game in fairly
good shape, although several of
them are suffering with “Charley
hosses" and bruis* s
The score rolled up against Ten
nessee by Sewanee has caused
much alarm in the Red and Black
••amp and Georgia students expect
the hardest game of the yea An
other source of alaim at Georgia is
the injury suffered by McWhorter
it now .-•emi* doubtful as to
he will b. able to appeal
Bill Smith, Like McGraw, Brains
Os Every Team He Ever Managed
By Percy H. Whiting.
WHEN the world’s series was
on they said that the
Giants were 50 per cent
ball club and 50 per cent McGraw.
It was charged and admitted that
McGraw furnished most of the of
fensive brains of the club. When a
man came to bat he took his orders
from McGraw. When he got to
first he took his orders from Mc-
Graw. All the way around It was
McGraw’s mind that directed the
playing.
< This is history now—but inter
esting because in just this iioint
Bill Smith, who leads the Crackers
again next season, resembles the
Little Napoleon, who has three
times won National league pen
nants and who has once won a
world’s championship.
Bill Smith is the brains of any
< lub he leads.
Unfortunately for him, t lie
Southern league salary limit makes
it necessary that he remain on the
bench. He hasn’t the opportunity
that McGraw has, for “Muggsy”
can direct from third base coach
ing line. But Bill accomplishes it
Just the same, by proxy.
* * *
T REMEMBER one day some four
or five years ago, 1 was taking
some, pictures while a game was in
progress. I was working around
the coacher's box. Just off third
base, when I happened to kick the
glove that Walker had left there
when he quit his position.
"Howly Moses, put that back,”
said Scotty, who was coaching at
third.
“What for?" I asked, consider
ably mystified.
“I’m using It to pass on Bill's
signals," said Scotty.
Later he explained that if it was
in one place It meant one thing and
if It was In another it meant some- .
thing else. Scotty was serving as
a relay station. Smith would sig
nal hint from the bench. He would
give his glove a kick and the signal
was passed on to the man at bat
or on bases.
In this way Smith, though barred
from active work on the coaching
lines, was giving his orders, just as
McGraw does
* ♦ •
•DILL SMITH has another point in
common with McGraw. He is
the big boss of the team he man
ages. off the field as well as on.
McGraw is one of the few big
league managers who asks no
body’s advice about who he will
buy, sell or trade Any deal he
wants to make he makes, and if
there is any paying to do he tells
the club how much it is and that’s
all they are supposed to know.
It is a notable fact that the clubs
with which Smith has been suc
cessful have been run on this basis,
while tile clubs where he has been
against the Tigers. The great half
back has been placed under the
care of, a local osteopath who is
using every mean to put him In
playing condition
The shifting of Bowden from end
to halfback seems to have been an
effective move on the part of Cun
ningham. for Bowden played the
greatest game of his career Satur
day, replaving Halfback Paddock,
who has been sent to the reserves.
Conklin will play regularly at end
for the test of the season. The
quarterback problem has not yet
been solved. Sancken has returned
loathe game, after recovering from
an injury, and it is most likely that
In- wtd start th* game against Se- •
wanes.
THE ATLANTA GEORGI \N AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 30. 1912.
held down and required to consult
with a club president or with club
directors about sales and such
have failed. At Chattanooga Smith
was tremendously handicapped. So
he was at 'Buffalo. And it was be
cause club officials wanted to take
some of the financial management
away from him that he split up
with the Atlanta association after
winning the 1909 pennant.
* * ♦
'■pHROUGH the coming season
Smith will have free financial
rein. He can buy or sell whatever
and whomever he pleases. There
has been no limit placed on the
money he can spend. All he has to
do is to ask for it. He will not have
to consult anybody about anything.
He will have a call on unlimited
money and he can buy and sell as
he pleases.
With circumstances like that Bill
Smith shines. He is a good spend
er—but he is a good salesman as
well. He uncorks a keg of money
at the first of a season, but he
makes most of it back at the end of
the season by selling some good
players.
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IT would be the making of the
•'lackers if by some good luck
Smith could arrange his pay roll so
that he could afford to figure as a
playing manager. That would en
able him to take his position on
the third base coaching line. In
that position he is able to ginger up
his own batsmen and base runners,
to harry the opposing pitcher and
to direct the play. One of Smith’s
specialties is worrying pitchers. He
can stand at third base and yell
"Oh, you big boob, you big farm
er.” so it sounds like a deadly in
sult. His vocabulary of vitupera
tion is somewhat limited, but he is
there with the vocal modulations,
and he makes every word count.
And woe unto pitcher or umpire
when B. Smith gets in the coacher’s
box and begins firing
COBB ARRIVES; DEER AND
TURKEY TAKE TO WOODS
AUGUSTA, GA., Oct. 30.—Ty Cobb
and family have come home for the
winter. Cobb’s father-in-law, with
whom he is visiting, is one of the
wealthiest men in this section of the
state and has a splendid estate nine
miles from the city. One of the at
tractions on the Lombard estate which
gixes Cobb a very groat amount of
pleasure is the large fish pond whore
one can go almost any day and catch
a large string of perch, bream, trout
or pack within a few minutes.
One of Ty Cobb's favorite branches
of sport is hunting. Each year ho makes
a trip with a party of friends down
the Savannah river for 150 miles to
shoot wild turkey, deer, squirrels and
duck. There are a few bears in the
Savannah river swamps also. The
party goes down by boat and camps
out by the side of the stream.
Cobb does not talk much about his
salary demands on the Detroit man
agement. but it is understood that he
will insist on a contract calling for
$15,000 a year for the next three years.
FIFTH REGIMENT TEAMS
PLAY 2 GAMES TONIGHT
Two games will be played in the Fifth
Regiment basket ball league tonight.
The better of the two should be the
struggle between the Atlanta Grays
and the Marist Rifles. The Atlanta
Grays’ team is nov tied for first place
with the Horse Guards aggregation,
and lias won every game so far. Al
though the Marist Rifles lost to the
Grady Cadets, their team lias been bol
stered up for the game tonight. Two
members of the Atlanta Athletic club
team, who are members of Marist
Rifles, will probably be in the lineup
against the Grays tonight.
The Governor's Horse Guards also
meet the Fulton Fusiliers. This game
was scheduled for last Friday, but was
postponed. The Fusiliers have a
game scheduled tonight with the Ger
man - Ameri. m Guards, which they will
win bj the sot felt route. The game
with th* 1 lio.se Guard will therefore
lomplete the entertainment
iRUIIE MAROUARD
I GOING TO STUDT
MUSICABROAD
By Damon Runyon.
New YORK. 0ct.30. Wat’cher
step, reader, and do not dis
turb the ruminations of the
officers of the law with screams for
succor, while we spill some left
handed news that came dribbling
wirewise out of Passaic, N. J., yes
terday. Do you remember Richard
de Marquis de Marquard? The fel
low that used to hang out around
the Polo grounds? Ah, yes. Reu
benish Marquar—the same! As
suredly you do!
Possibly you have been wonder
ing what had become of him since
last he furled his famous south
paw and went wandering away into
the night. Well, he’s in Passaic,
and while there is no information
at hand as to the length of the sen
tence, we can bear witness to the
fact that he is trying to Insert him
self next to pure reading matter.
Hither, reader, hither:
Announcement From Passaic.
“PASSAIC, N. J.. Oi-t. 30.—'Rube'
Marquard, the Giants’ famous port
side twirler, who has been making
a great hit as a vaudeville artist
at the Montauk theater here, was
quoted in a Passaic paper yester
day to the effect that he was
through with baseball for good, and
that he was going to Europe to
study music in a conservatory.
"1 am through with baseball. I
have had my last days on the dia
mond and am going to Europe,
where f will take up vocal culture
in a large conservatory. Baseball
has its fascinations, but music is
my speed.”
We pause in the quotation to
call the reader’s attention to a bit
of poor technique in the great
pitcher’s press agentry. The asser
tion that the Markee of Marquar’
intends studying music in a large
conservatory is most inept. He
should have stated that Mr. Mar
quard will acquire his musical edu
cation in a small deaf and dumb
asylum, thus making the celebrated
lefthander unique among persons
seeking foreign tunes, and lending
value to the item.
However, we resume this can o’
peas:
Early Call of Genius.
"I have always followed the hand
organist around Cleveland, and
whenever I got the opportunity to
hear music—for in those days we
did not have moving picture shows,
where music is played galore—l al
ways took advantage of it.”
Oh. yes. is a subsequent de
nial of the above. The Rube says
in his addenda that he was "kid
ding" some reporter, but he admits
that it is true he intends having his
voice cultured, although he doesn’t
say what for. You know, reader,
it would serve that Rube just right
if the Giant management now in
sisted on his going straight to Paris
and studying music in that large
conservatory.
TIGERS SCRIMMAGING IN
EFFORT TO GET IN TRIM
PRINCETON, N. J. Oct. 30—Heavy
scrimmaging was the portion of the
Tiger eleven today. The coaches are
using eveiy man to prepare them for
the style of attack they must meet
when they buck the Crimson next Sat
urday. All the men are in good condi
tion.
CRIMSON WORKING HARD
AND FEARING THE WORST
CAMBRIDGE. MASS.. Oct. 30.
Crimson coaches are concentrating
their attention now on the problem of
holding Princeton's euct runs next Sat
urday.
A g oomy prediction is made here
thai Harvard will lose.
Mitchell Gets Chance to Beat
Ford on Low Blow, So He Flops
By W. S. Farnsworth.
A DAPPER young referee gave
400 fight fans a chance to en
joy a good night’s sleep
when he declared Barney Ford, of
Philadelphia, had fouled Terry
Mitchell, of New York, in the
fourth round of the main bout at
Harry Staten’s Olympic club.
It was a foul blow all right and
we -were all glad that the referee
saw it, for otherwise we might
have been forced to sit through the
entire scheduled ten rounds. And
goodness knows we wouldn’t have
eared to do that, unless some of us
prefer wrestling to boxing.
The blow that ended our misery
was a left swing that didn’t carry
much steam, but it was far below
the limit in the Marquis of Queens
berry code. The wallop probably
didn't hurt Mitchell in the least,
but he saw a chance for victory—
and his only opportunity he had to
win, by the way—so he took an
awful "Brodie.'’
While neither boy knew any too
much about the game of hit and
get away, Ford verily is the bet
ter boy. He is fairly clever and
packs a fait kick in his left hand.
Mitchell probably can hit the hard
er. but he swings them from the
floi r and a wooden man could
block all his offerings without trou
ble.
Mitchell’s Face Well Beaten Up.
This Mitchell person, a noble son
of Italy who carries an alias in
Mitchell, has a tough looking face.
Said face has suffered many a beat
ing. His ears are tinned to a turn
and his nose covers his face like a
gridiron warrior’s rubber guard.
This same face led Ford to believe
that his only hope of winning- was
by working on the body and there
fore he centered his attack at that
part of Mitchell’s anatomy.
Time and again he ripped his left
to the midsection of the New' York-
BILL CHAPPELLE WANTS
TO BECOME AN AVIATOR
JACKSON. MISS.. Oct. 30.—Big ''Bill’’
Chapelle, of the twirling staff of the Chat
tanooga, Southern league team, may be
come an aviator.
While in Jackson last week Chappelle
ad mi ted that he had such aspirations and
added that he intended to go to New York
■ t an early date to study up on aerial
navigation, with the idea of adopting
aviation as a profession. He disclaimed
any intention to abandon baseball, but
said he had figured it out that he cduld be
a baseball pitcher during the summer and
an aeroplane pilot in the winter.
Chappelle was here with John J. Mc-
Grath, of Massachusetts, who gave two
successful flights during the state fair in
a 70-horsepower Blcriot type monoplane.
There is one difficulty that seems to
stand in the way of Chappelle's attaining
the object of his desire. That is his
weight. The Chattanooga slab artist, his
friends assert, has the nerve that is es
sential to successful endeavor in the avi
ation profession, but thev fear his weight
will interfere.
PRESIDENT LYNCH GIVES
OUT ANOTHER BULLETIN
NEW YORK. Oct. 30.-- The following
contracts and releases were published to
day by T. J. Lynch, president of the Na
tional league:
Contracts.
W ith Chicago: John J. Evers, for five
years; Harry E. Chapman and George
Yantz, probationary contracts.
With Cincinnati: K. I>. Almedia.
Releases.
By Chicago to Louisville: Mordecai
Brown.
By Pittsburg: To Columbus, Ohio,
Leonard L. Cole and Iran Tipple.
TINKER TO MANAGE REDS
IF HE CAN GET RELEASE
CHICAGO, Oct. 30- Shortstop Joe Tink
er, of the Chicago National league base
ball team, and Garry Herrmann have
agreed upon terms under which Tinker
will manage the Cincinnati Nationals next
season if he can obtain his release from
Ch lea go.
Tinker announced today that he would
not play again with the Chicago Nationals
Herrmann will give one infielder and
two outfielders for Tinker.
Evers says he will not consent to a
trade unless he can get Mike Poulan, of
Philadelphia. for shortstop
er and many of the blows were al
together too low. The dapper
young referee warned him twice to
keep his punches higher, but he
verily thought he could get away
with the below-the-belt wallops.
When Mitchell went down from
the punch tliat won the long end
of the purse for him, he earned
himself a job in Hamlet, where
death scenes cut so much ice. He
wiggled and twisted in imaginary
pain that would have done credit
to a Sothern or a Hackett.
Foul Blow Carried No Steam.
The blow' that "floored” him
wouldn’t break an electric bulb,
but it was a foul and the referee
was very kind in allowing us a
chance to beat it for the feathers.
Up to the finishing punch, the
fight was all Ford’s. He did all
the forcing and landed all the clean
blows. Mitchell shook off many
hard left hooks and smiled at ’em
all. But whenever Ford jammed
his left low it hurt the Gotham lad
and in the third round one of these
uncouth wallops caused him to sink
to his knees. It was then that the
referee gave Mr. Ford to under
stand that repetition of the same
would cost him the scrap.
It was announced before the fight
that the winner would meet Clar
ence English here next Tuesday
night. Good night, Mr Terrance
Mitchell!
Walsh Quits to Baker.
The semi-windup was scheduled
to go six rounds, but Frank Baker
made Ed Walsh—not big Ed
of spit ball fame—rest his head
peacefully on the canvas in the
middle of the second round. Mr.
Walsh thereby proved that he is
possessed of plenty of good sense,
for he was in for a fine lacing had
he remained on his prominent ped
als.
Lorenzo Ferguson Woodruff, of
Montgomery. Ala., gave perfect sat
isfaction in the role of referee.
TEAMS OF ’l3 AND ’ls
WIN GAMES AT EMORY
OXFORD, GA., Oct. 30.—The seniors
and sophomores were easy winners
over the freshmen and juniors in the
games at Emory yesterday afternoon.
The features in the senior-freshman
game were the consistent gains of
Blake, fullback of the seniors, and the
long runs of Lasseter, senior right half
back. who made two gains of 35 and
60 yards each. The score was 19 to 0,
Lasseter, Rumble and Blake made the
touchdowns. Lasseter kicked one goal
Jackson. Brown and Teabeaut were the
stars for the freshmen.
In the second game the sophomores
had it all their way. The first two
touchdowns made b.v the sophomores
were scored on forward passes. A long
run of Stokes, sophomore left tackle,
and a 38-yard run of Dorter’s for a
touchdow-n were the features. The
score was 20 to 0. Porter kicked two
of the three goals.
DONAHUE WILL WATCH
JACKETS FOR TRICKS’
By Coach Mike Donahue.
Auburn. ala., oet. 30.—with
her preliminary games all
stowed safely away. Auburn
is now busily engaged in preparing
for her more important November
contests. The first of these is with
Georgia Tech on Saturday. Tech,
while somewdiat light, seems to
have a strong and versatile team,
and while the dope favors Auburn
somewhat the game is sure to be
close, and hard fought.
The work of the Auburn team
in the game with Mississippi was
far from being a finished product.
On both offense and defense, many
tagged ends will have to be gath
ered up before tin Auburn foot
ball team will look anything like
VIRGINIA TEAM
IS BRACED FOB
■ BATTLE
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA„ Oct.
30. —One of the football clas
sics of the South will be play
ed Saturday when the Vanderbilt
and Virginia teams meet in Nash
ville. This is the first time in five
years that representative teams
from the Southern and South At
lantic divisions have engaged in a
big athletic contest.
All who have followed the two
teams during the present season
will confess that on paper Vander
bilt has the better chance of win
ning the game. The Commodores
have passed through a strenuous
season without being scored upon
by their opponents. The ease
with which they took the measure
of the strong Georgia aggregation
is clear evidence of the fighting ma
chine that will represent the Ten
nessee institution.
Virginia’s season has been far
from an unqualified success. The
Orange and Blue team caught its
stride early in the season, and
every indication was pointing to
the most successful year in the his
tory of football here. With nine
veterans back in college, with last
year’s substitute squad almost in
tact, and with the accession of un
excelled new material, hopes ran
high among the undergraduates for
an unbroken string of victories.
But these hopes suffered a severe
setback when the team struck a
tartar in Hampden-Sydney. The
Orange and Blue barely nosed out a
10-to-0 victory. The team recov
ered* its old form and easily de
feated the University of South Car
olina the following day. But disas
ter came with the decisive defeat
at the hands of the Virginia Mili
tary institute. Virginia has never
failed in the past to swamp the
cadets, and this defeat was bitter
and discouraging.
But the team that will represent
Virginia at Nashville will be sev
eral hundred per cent better than
at any time of the season, rhe
Orange and Blue has only opposed
against its opponents the cripple*
and second string men. All the
regulars will be in condition, bar
ring accident, to take part In the
Vanderbilt game, and Virginia can
be relied upon to give a good ac
count of itself.
When you have a bad cold you *«n*
the best medicine obtainable, so as
cure It with as little delay as P<”
ble. Here is a druggist’s opinion:
have sold Chamberlain’s Cough R® m •.
for fifteen years,” says Enos Lollai,
Saratoga, Ind., “and consider !! ,
best on the market." For sal*
dealers. (Aavti
a smoothly* moving machine. In '
juries, that not any that are se
rious, have interfered with the de
velopment of the team and this
week mid-term examinations wi 1
interfere a great deal with tne
practice so that there will not *
any likelihood of great impro' l
ment by Saturday. With the ■'
ception of some bruises the pla."
caine out of the Mississippi ga
in good condition and then
to be more evidences of coin 1 rI
action and team power on Sstut
day. . .
Practice this week will con'
mainly of adding on a few ”
plays and smoothing off the 1
* dges so prominent in Satin 11
contest.