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6 r®oiKM srcatfWflgf»gßgWi EDITED 9 FARNSWORTH This Mast Have Been Finnegan Jeff Tackled :: :: :: :: •• By Bud Fisher ''ON? Mr,r« C Nr.3>R. I A |fwct (. Gee I've GoTa -cFT " Just you say you’ look, at wav»in4Tcn,Manx < ~~GH Si«-~~"'A f X HJBAU'LG ( \ ! NOW. I'M ! p CR THfc Buu. NXOOS6 party that s thc k.m> or msn rot cotmx with / KOW I Youft *oROS I | you ! showed J™"® I I I GfcY «□ p„„ ’ T '*' fl ' F reß. JON'I YOU , «. BULLETS . I T ’S YOU Out Yt c You've R-iOVGO H OWI ,ovsl LAM ' I YOU YOU R FOVUY ! I I ' ! I P-anu 3 YOTer< KNO\n THAriAeY€HYOOOV , e uT \ with BAUUOTS. J i J 1 WILL YOU \ ' NOT *-ei>’bTG«.eO Ulb -AT TH,<, COUNTRY -S NOW y7 ’ J ANb tt£GTiON BAY. J GtOftiCUS CCUNTfCX OF \ \ ’\ RAC>N(, A GR.FAT CRISIS. \ ~~fl/ jII O ■r. ■ i?W . w 8 ■wy w 1 tJs-M _ JZ I • L * ‘ >»■>«. -Ly S-S.AJI CC-TAXV During the famous Becker trial, the prosecuting attorney asked the police lieutenant where he had gotten about $20,000 he had deposited in various banks. Bocker replied: “Finnegan gave it to me.” Who Finnegan may be no one knows. I t Referee Smith Would Have Given Decision io Mandot Over Wolgast if He’d Been Allowed B\ I'M. W. Smith. I Referee of Fight and Sporting Editor of Hearst’s Chicago American.) NEW ORLEANS. Nov. P Joe Mundot had a shade the bet s ter of the last two rounds of his flglit with Champion Ad Wol here, and that shade would have earned him the decision had I been allow ed to render one. I was not compelled by the agr. . rnent between the men to render any verdict. 1 am not cowardly in those things, but I am mighty glad that I was not called upon to give a verdict, for It would have taken the champion's laurels away from him. Wolgast had the best of the In fighting. but Mandot clearly out boxed him, especially in the last two rounds, and he hud scored the most points. I would like to see these two game little warriors hook up in a battle over a route. It sure would prove a hummer, and I • don't know which man I would buck should J make a wager. There was too much clinehlng in many of the rounds, especially the early ones. This was dim to the tact that neither boy understood thy Other’s mode of attack Toward the end of the bout, however, the lighting was much yle,iner and more scientific. Wolgast Started Fast. Wolgast Started off in the Hist round as though he nu ant to finish Mundot right then end then With head lowered, tin champion sailed right In, slamming away with tights and lefts to the body. Mundot took some of these, but blocked most <,t them. Toward the end of this opening session Mandot found himself. 11, j held Wolgast at bay \gitii a long left jab that didn't earr.t a heap of •team, but, nevertheless, counted for points. During the next s ■ rounds it i was a case of give and take .ill the way, Wolgast getting In iminx damaging body blows while at close | quarter- <>n tln other ham!. Man - I I dot used a right cross to the h. ad I that worried th, npl.m not a I iil: ' Wolgast Slipped to Floor. In the seventh, Mundot s- friends |« claimed he had kt ocked Wolgast I (town with a left to the jaw but I It was not a knock down b\ atix means. Wolgast'* feet, wliich wer, ROUND BY ROUND STORY CF WOLGAST-MAN DOT GO , Round 1 Mandot start'd the :.c B gresaor. with M olgast holdir.it on 'l l. y i gjatnch Wolgast drove hard oft io |. ( .,,\ and h<*vy Infighting foitow<>: Moig.isi I tended heavy body blows and Mandot Clinched. Honora were even Round * XX'olgast landed lift to tody I . and swung to jaw Mnndot clinch... 1 Wolgast landed hard left t- lasiy an. ; ?! tnteaed a awing to the jaw They dm. r.ed i bln center of the ring Wolgast was , : aggressor. landing another left to body I £>nd two lefts to the Jaw tn a clinch Mandot landed right an.' let: on jaw and Wolgast clinched. Hound even Round 3—Wolgast n d wit: left t. body He followed with btt ar.u Maud ■■ t.■' countered him with right " olgast ' tended left to head heavy interning followed. It was Mandot - tour., Round ♦—Wolgast landed a: unnei.'.it on the jaw and vtelously forced Mui :»t to the ropes. Wolgast staggered Mui •with left and received tw lefts ’n r< turn Wolgast scored heavy left on hva.. and heavy infighting follow.. Honors •ven Round s—Wolgast forced th. tight.ng and landed left on jaw. and rtcelvt heavy left In return on the head. Wot i gust landed on Mat dot - body and btu I. B Hiving heavy body blows In return It "ll.' a, i. i fc . MMBandot scored hard oi law Wklkhsl pStellow • I Mandat all over the ring Mati ** slot landed heavy left upper, nt . t n. ■ k j right on bo.i' Infighting follow,. ;. < .i wet from an overturned water bucket ill his coiner, slipped from underneath him, and he was fulling when th, New in leans lad tapped him with a left. Tin eighth round was a pippin. Wolgast opened w ith u stinging left to the jaw. The punch spun Mun dot abound, but before the cham pion could follow up his advantage, Joe covered up ami went into a clinch. As I brpke them .Mandot stepped In elo»e and worked both hands to the head. <me of these punches caught Wolgast on the nose and made it bleed profusely. At the bell they ware tearing into each other and both w, re weak. Wolgast Down in Ninth. In the ninth round Mandot flared Wolgast with a right to the jaw. It was a terrific punch, but the champion proved that he is a hard nut. for he arose in a jiff} and fought Mandot to a standstill lor a minute. 'Toward the end of the round, however. Joe began to forge to the front and he handed out many telling blows, both to the !u a,l and the body. Hard Fighting in Tenth. The tenth round belonged to Man dot by a shade. When the bell started them on their wav in this spasm, both came out of their cor ner- very wild. They uncorked •swings that they brought up from the floor, but none of them landed. Mundot was the Hist to settle down, and he shot a right hook to the head ttiat sent the chathpi m up against the ropes. Mandot closed in fiist and, with the champion's back bi nding' oVei the ropes. jam med two rights to tlie body and then crossed a right to the jaw. Wolgast finally eased himself Into close quartets, and. although he was dead tired, he fought like a m idd< it. d tiger, crow ding rights and h its to the body with telling effe, t. Hut Mandot was not to be denied long, and as soon as I tore them aj.a t, tie Now Orleans lad began | 'looking both hands to the head, and al the bell he had Wolgast on the run for the first lime during the len-lound session. $lO 000 For the Champion. The ehampion received SIO,OOO for hl- end, while Mandot received 30 b- r cent of the gross receipts, which w> e it, mt s2S,otm. Between 7,000 and s.OOO persons saw the battle. ’■ ill" > " - IgiiM landed body blow, t Mat . .. to the jaw when VVol- —. st t. . Mandot landed I ‘is I. -. . . ... \V..|g;:M follow, d With bod. ..nneh.s Man.lol (ought Wolgast i'" lot's w.th bar.! rights and lefts mpiott clinched. \\ olgast 1 I'leed'.ng, and had worst of round. R 8 The men clinched. Mandot do- I. go..I infighting Wolgast landed left ' f slit I. kali ays Mandot uppercut W olgast The h eal man io- V. ive.l 1. rlgl I an.l lett t. n , head Wol gast bleu.tig . f.isely M.-t fighting Cautiously ■r. . enter i f ring. e.'ioh showing ' KJts 'd ' it. ■ - w o’ga• ■r< reived heavy ’ hl-’ «s M e round ende.:. with honors in • uver of Mam: ,t. Hound M.lgast swung left hard to | I ' Mat det landed heavy left in clinch. Mandot bleeding from nos» Woteut ' a.T eked to knees with right Hose and ' ' .ght Mat Ct tv the ropes. Wolgast . . kii’g th. w■ : ?<■ tor w« ;y. .Mandot hit .’•■nn and lume.l some l .-avy rights on i.ac \\ . 'g.i-• climbed. Mandot showing . nr." generalship Wolgast received heavy pumslnnent and bit wild, tut still strong ll'. it men toon much punishment. Man I <!..< a round Round 10 Maudot was the aggressor, landing ■o heavy lefts or tin- law. " K.fst . Iln.'i 0,1. miaalng a left for Man '." s til’d. Mand.'t landed two lieavv rights \\ ■ ’Kilting followed with the ■ l ampion . u the rope- Wolgast clinch..l In u 'ally in the ..mter of the ring Roth ! men «. il> Mai d.lt re.eiv.-d heavy rights I >n file 1.... and staggered " olgast with a I nil .r S'- .Uriel I>. speratc lighting lo.low ed " Olgast • aggress.. . with j Mfitiii’ii t !jr.. r:g lT»th iiM»n w«»re .. \TT.AXTA GEORGI AN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 5. 1912. Georgia Needs Juvenile S. I. A. A. and a Whole Slather ot Reform PREP SCHOOL ATHLETICS ARE IN AN AWFUL MESS By Percy H. Whiting. I { ET after the prep school I ■» athletic conditions again,” a prominent prep school football cpach whispered in our ca pacious ear the other day. "Give 'em thunder. They are worse rot ten than they ever were before hiring players, buying players and till such stuff.” No doubt all he said, and much along the same line he didn't say, is painfully true. Prep school athletic conditions are unquestionably bad. And get ting worse. Players are hired like farm hands. We don’t know this, but it’s true and can be proved by anybody who is willing to make the effort. A man who awns a big prep school told me onr*e: “We hire play ers. Sure. What’s wrong with it? There's no rule against it. We don't belong to any association. We don't violate any rule by playing hired hands. "Look here," he added. ‘ I've got all my money tied up in this school. I've got to make it pay—and I do. The way I do it is to advertise — with a winning team. A team that cleans up means added patronage. If 1 have a winning football and baseball team 1 can virtually afford to cut out my newspaper advertis ing. I can fill my school without it." There you have it—winning teams pay; there's no rule against it. Therefore, hire players! ... rxDN’T ask me the solution —and * ' don't flatter yourself you know one that will really solve. The first step and the one that should have been taken years ago is to form a prep school athletic association along the lines of the S. 1. A. A. That would do some good, but not a lot. You can’t wipe out wrongs with laws, as reformers Fave been finding out for years. Then what? Goodnesg knows! I'ntll you ciin make the men whp have their money tied up in schools appreciate that, in the long run. professionalism in prep school sport doesn't pay, there will be no lasting rc forms. At the rate p‘ogress has been made in that direction of late years the desired reforms will be effected about thirty-seven hundred years hence. Please don't understand from this, by the way. that all schools are doing things tttey ought not. A lot of schools in Georgia and the surrounding states are clean as a polished diamond in athletics and in everything else. And a lot of them aren't. • • • q \ID a college coach early this ' fall: An alarming thing is the steadily increasing number of men who write me cvety season want ing to know ‘how much will you pay me to come to '.” They seem to think I'm crazy or untruth ful when I tell them we don't pay anybody to come to our college.” What can you expect of a lot of boys who get paid for going to prep schools to play football and baseball? Naturally they expect something out of going to college. And do they get it? Frequently. When they accept money for playing on college teams—accept it directly or Indirectly—they have to sign an affidavit that makes them out liars. The S. I. A. A. requires ihc affidavit If they tell the truth, they are declared Ineligible—eo they don't tell the truth. Os , ourse, few colleges pay a man real money out of the athletic ssociayon funds But tile ath letes get it. just the same. The most popular methods are. 1 The fake salary tor the myth- 2. The "scholarship.” 3. The "loan.” In the first case, a man is paid a nice salary to represent a cloth ing house, or a shoe store, or a laundry. There is little or no la -t bor connected with the jqb. It is merely an indirect way ,jf paying the athlete for his services. The "scholarship” is popular. And it is one of the slickest ways of fiaylng an athlete's way through college. The frantic alumni uffual ly put up-the money, and it is sup posed to be for the purpose of get ting a deserving and education desiring young man through col lege. As a matter of tact, it usu ally goes to some famous prep school athlete —and a lot of the con tributors figure on getting their money back by betting on the games in which he plays. It is mighty hard to draw a line between the right and the wrong use of scholarships. When the charge that Sewanee was using "ringers” was made the other day, somebody said. ‘‘What’s the use of saying Sewanee pays its athletes money? They have a keg of scholarships up there. When ever they see a deserving man, and especially a deserving athlete, they give him a scholarship. No wonder they have good material." It wouldn’t be tremendously sur prising if the S., I. A. A. some day took the fnitter in Irani! by ruling that no man who was going through college on a scholarship would be eligible to play on an athletic team. This would be hard in a few cases, but it would throw out a lot of FODDER FOR FANS The Cubs, Pirates and Dodgers have refused to waive on Roger Bresnahan. • • • Barney Drey fuss wants Bresnahan as a catcher and Frank Chance to play first base and is quite willing to pay for them. • • * Leslie Mann, of Seattle, equaled Ar thur Reus' homo run record of twenty seven this year He is going to Buffalo next spring, where Beus went. • « V Since there has been a Chicago Na tional league team it has played 4,631 games. Os this number it won 2.712 and lost 1.919. for a winning per cent of .586. Eddie .McDonald, who jumped baseball when tie was shifted from the Braves to Sacramento, has applied for a job with the Cubs, and may be accommodated. • • • With Billy Sullivan passing out of ma jor league baseball. Ed Walsh must have a new battery mate, for when Bill goes another famous battery will be broken up. The man who succeeds Sully will be Ray Schalk. * « « Six former" big league players have been offered the job of managing the Sac ramento team next year, and a half dozen have declined. v * « The White Sox have a deal on with their ruddy-hosed brethren for Buck O'Brien. It is said that Buck's unpop ularity with doe Wood will get him off the world's championship club. * V « Bill Armour has signed to scout for the St. Louis Nationals next season. Rill Lellvelt's bride, formerly Miss Edith Carpenter, turns iut to have been a "cow girl" singer at a Denver theater A Memphis paper has the distinguished president of the Atlanta ball club figuring under the alias of Calloway—.which is nearly close, but not quite. V « * There's a queer kink to the Bresna han case. He was given his unconditional release Dnder those circumstances, the other clubs in the league are not given a chance to get him at the waiver price. Yet the National league clubs say they will not let him escape from that league Fine complication—and brought about by a woman and a magnates? at that. • « • The Pacific Coast league is up on its easily agitated dignify again and swear ing that it will mu -be classed with the bush leaguers by being tied to any salary limit • • • Making five 1-ltg In a game was a clinch this year and easy enough so that eight men in each big league performed It. BUI Sweeney < three tlpieai. .lake I hiubert (twice), Byrne. .MllU-r. Hobllts el. Doyle. Titus. I.obert. olson. Yerkes. •Collins. Cobb. Schalk. Cariscl Bakm* and I Lajoie • • • athletic! crooks. The rawest of the popular meth ods of getting athletes into col lege is the "loan.” A man who has made a big prep school reputation as a half back wants to go to col lege. So some enthusiastic alum nus or some alumni chapter or or ganization "lends” him' enough money to get through college. He signs notes in due form—which are shown if there is any yell raised. He isn't required to pay interest on the notes, and nobody expects that he will ever pay back the money. • • • NOTWITHSTANDING the many ways of dodging the S. I. A. A. rules and for all the dodging that is being done, conditions are grad ually improving. What the colleges need is: First—More careful scrutiny by the responsible heads of the dol lege of the athletic doings. College presidents would not tolerate ath letic crookedness in their colleges —if they knew about it. But too many take pains that they shall not know about it, and too many more are indifferent. Second —An appreciation of the fact that, in the long run, athletic crookedness doesn’t pay. Third—The development of the spirit of amateurism and of the ab horrence that any gentleman should feel for any crooked methods, ath letic or otherwise. Fourth—A reform of conditions in the prep schools, so that so many good athletes would not be made "ringers" before they even got into college. in the heart of the bluegrass-and-red liquor country, at Owensboro, Ky. • • • The Naps have Bob Gilks down in Pen sacola now. laying out the field that the Cleveland and Toledo teams will use for training next spring. • • • Whoever succeeds Roger Bresnahan will have his hands full from the very start. No less than seven of the best players on the team are due to renew contracts in the spring. Many of them arc dissatisfied with their salary, and it will be no easy task to coax them into signing up. • • • B'g Ed Konetehy is one of the players whose contract expires. The star first sacker has long been dissatisfied with the salary paid him. It is said he will demand $6,000 next season. M * M Mike Mowery, Kid Hauser, Lee Magee and Ivy Wingo are some of the others who will likely ask for a boost in sal ary Magee and Wingo have shown big improvement the past season and are sure to put up a kick If they do not get a raise. • * • Moniecai Brown says lie doubts that Grayson has paid the Cubs for his re lease. After being assured last season by Murph} that he would be allowed to serve out his three-year contract with the Cubs, the veteran hurler feels badly at being released. • « • Pitcher McGinley, of Toronto, lias been passed on to Binghamton. CATARRH ..BLOOD A polluted and impure condition of the blood causes irritation and in flammation of the different mucous membranes of the bod}', and we call it Catarrh. The early stages of the disease are characterized by such symp toms as a tight, stuffy feeling in the nose, watery eyes, ringing noises in the ears, irritation of thethroat, and often hoarseness anddifficultbreathing. If the trouble is not checked it invades the stomach and other portions of the body and becomes a dangerous disorder. Antiseptic washes, sprays, etc., are beneficial in removing accumulated mucus from the nose or throat, but such treatment can never cure Catarrh. S. S. S.’ is the one real de pendable remedy for Catarrh. This great medicine cures the disease be cause it nitrifies the blood and thus destroys its cause. S. S. S. goes into the circ- -tion and removes the last trace of catarrhal matter, and then the s. s. s. ettre it as thousands have done. Book on Catarrh and any medical advice free to all who write. S. S. S. is sold at drug stores. T”” cv'frr cpfnpr cn C 4 Bat Nelson Would Come Here To Box; Explodes When Cincy Commission Says He’s All In By W. S. Farnsworth. A FEW days ago the Cincinnati boxing commission announced that they would never allow Battling Nelson to fight in that city, as they claimed he was too feeble, too old to ever fight any good man again. All of which has caused Bat tling Matthew Nelson to soar —and soar good and high, too. It seems that Nelson wrote me a few days ago, asking if the boxing game was flourishing here in Atlanta. If it was, the Battler wanted to come down here and do some milling. Before I bad found time to reply to his letter, the Cincinnati papers came out with the announcement of the boxing commission there that they would never stand for him fighting in the Brew Burg. As a result of this announcement. Nelson sent me the following let ter, which arrived in the early mail today; “Matty Baldwin is a pretty’ tough citizen. And in Boston, where I boxed only a short time ago, they still think me good enough to hand Matty’ a trimming in twelve rounds. Only two months ago I went fifteen strong rounds with Steve Ketchel at St. Joe, and when Ketchel was on the floor taking the count, in the eleventh round, his manager, Larney Lichtenstein, believed me any thing but feeble. “I don’t like the city of Cin cinnati. and I’m not crazy’ about boxing there, but I’ve accepted a match with Tommy Gary’ there, and I’m going down to that city just to show them that even a tough youjg fellow like Gary’ can not take any liberties with me in the ring. "I am thirty years old. I never tasted tobacco, liquor or any harmful drug In my life. At least half of my life I have slept in the open air. There is perhaps no man in the country who leads the careful life I do. My diet includes only strength building selections from the menus. I have no worries, and 1 have been an athlete seven teen years. Why should I be anything but the picture of health? "As far as the Cincinnati boxing commission is concern ed. I invite the closest kind of an examination into my phys ical condition. “Meantime, I'm working for the tight there November 11. and the only person who is going to be the goat on that night is poor Tommy Gary, my blood performs its work of nourishing the membranes and tissues instead of depositing impure matter into them to irritai and in flame. 3. S. S. cures to stay cured. If you have Catarrh in any form take S. S. S. and opponent. I’ll have to give Tommy a fearful beating just to show them that I am still a top-notcher. “Your old friend, "BATTLING NELSON.” • • • /''BEAT day’ for letters. Received v J one from Billy Smith, too. The popular Cracker manager is put ting in some spare time at his home in Springfield, Ohio. Here is what he has to say: “Well, how is things in At lanta? I have been here for a week now and am putting in twelve good hours' sleep every night. I am going to Milwau kee to attend the minor leagues meeting on November 12. "After the world’s series I went down to Washington with Griffith for two days. Clarke says he will do all he can to dig up some likely looking ma terial for me. With his aid; I am confident of giving Atlanta a one, two, three club. "Have had some snow here! Give my regards to all the gang. Yours. “BILLY SMITH.” YALE GETTING READY FOR TOUGH SCHEDULE NEW HAVEN. CONN., Nov. s.—The Yale football squad, after a four days layoff on account of the death of Guard York, came back yesterday thoroughly refreshed for the hardest week’s work ever put in on a Yale gridiron. Princeton’s style of play against Harvard was diagnosed as the same wing shifts Yale used last year. These have not been used much this fall at Y'ale, being discarded for the more Im proved shift formation devised by ex- Captaln Tom Shevlin, but the scrubs will use them this week. As Yale found a perfect defense for them last fall, they are not expected to prove danger ous. Yale will play Brown next Saturday and Princeton the week following meeting Harvard for the final game of the season on November 23. All the work of the next three weeks will be directed toward having the team in its top condition on the latter date. THE sales tell more money is spent for Fatima than for any other cigarette. The Turkish blend that has character— “distinctively individual.” No extravagance in pack ing therefore more smokes —20 for 15 cents. "DlsHnctively Individual" 20 /or Sa