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ra«M srcw cowimeb EPITLD jy W S _ j Jeff Simply Wanted to Know, That’s All :: :: :: :: :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher T| r - f?l 4.00 ’ r J PRWA , —J i ’CAUSE „ y I j | ' CILNiNCr. W n - J w x sk< t B J S 0 f C «uii 'km®' ' ■' —<Sii, .lit vJj L- “v ! —» alii T Til A- • Jit mL Wt . - ■ t 17" —— . -- ■ .. . <’o*waiKrzor».. _ I 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. » ♦ * 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.