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Though the azure orbed William was somewhat of a hurler, his pitching has been eclipsed many times in the Southern league, but when It came to physical pulchritude, Billy was there. Pulchritude is not essential to a pastlmer. Mr. Mack could never qualify as it tnatinee idol, and Mr. Wagner would bi- laughed to seoi n if he attempted to essay the tailor's model role. But "Blue-eyed Bill" had the beauty. Just gobs of it. and l hereby hangs the tale of why he failed to stay around in the big tent, for baseball experts wore unanimous in declaring he bad the necessary tal ent. Old Bob Gilks, then managing Shreveport, dug the blue-eyed boy up somewhere in the Texas league. When be reported to Shreveport he had a suit of storZ bought dottles and more sangfroid than any nine teen-year-old hurler ever possessed. And before the season opened had Gilks attempted to relieve Mr- Bartley of further service with the Shreveport tenm he would have been driven out of town by every baseball suffragette In its confines. Worked Eyes Overtime. Bill knew that his blue eyes gave him an ace in the hole and he worked It overtime. He took all the liberties of a seasoned veteran, kidded the old players, joshed Gilks and made himself generally un bearable. But Gilks knew he had a pitcher. »o he gritted his teeth and waited. He didn't have to wait long. The season started with a rush. So did Bartley. Tn his first two games he stood the opposing hitters on their respective beans. His chest expan sion grew, and he had to order a *new sized hat. and there was no balm In Gilead for Gilks. Finally the Shreveport club reached Atlanta. Blue-eyed Billy warmed up the first day. He glanced over the Atlanta stands, caused a few fannesses to throw tits, and then toed the plate. Made 26 Hits For 23 Runs. In the first three innings the At lanta batsmen clubbed him for a dozen hits and a dozen runs. Be fore the game ended they had made it 26 hits and 23 runs, and old Bob Gilks was smiling “What did you keep that kid in for. Bob?" a friend and well wisher asked. "Weren’t you afra’d you would break his heart?" “Break his heart, hU .” replied Gilks. “That was just what be neeued. Why, that kid thought he was the greatest pitcher in the world. He didn't think 'the ball club had ever been organized that could beat him. H- had the Idea Bo strong h< was i pest. Now. maybe he'll have sotm sense and will be a real pitcher. "And don’t vou believe he dogged It when they got to him this after noon." continued the Shreveport mogul "He was as game under punishment as anybody I've ever seen. Ho kept putting <vo ythlng he had on every ball he pitched, and thee kept slapping 'em to the fence. And all the time 1 was laughing my head off. Now, lie'll be a pitcher." Connie Mack Landed Him. Gilks was right. Bartle? then went to work and 1» anvd to pitch tn rculiiy. Aftc ■ a few seasons le attracted tin- eagle <o' l onni .'lack. who bought him t oiii big w didn't. As a result after a season and a half with the Athletics, most of which time he spent on the bench, he was shipped back South to Atlanta. But by this time Bill had become possessed of the big league bug as well as the blue eyes. His work with Atlanta was indifferent and when he asked for more money next yeas he was given the laugh by William Smith. He journeyed into the Eastern league and now Lord knows where he is, probably in some bush burg and if he's ■''there he’s charming fair maidens with that baby stare. TY COBB WILL DRIVE AUTOMOBILE IN RACE ON TRACK AT AUGUSTA AUGUSTA, GA., Nov. 26.—Ty Cobb will be both starter and contestant in the automobile races at the Georgia- Carolina fair grounds Thursday. The peerless ball player Is an enthusiastic sportsman and thoroughly enjoys rac ing, especially racing with the buzz wagons. Ty will be ti competitor in one of the races anil a starter in the mile event against time, with a flying start. He will drive a Chalmers, while against him will be pitted another Chalmers, two Marions, a Buick, a Mercer and two Velles. No doubt exists in the minds ot Tj Cobb's friends regarding hi.- ability to drive a ear fast, and with an oiled track and a clear day he ■will make things extremely interesting for all rivals. In addition to the mile race, there will be a flve-mlle, a ten-mile and a twenty-mlle race. Several hundred dollars will be given in prizes by the Richmond Count?- Automobile associa tion. Cobb lias entered into the automobile racing proposition in dead earnest, and he will endeavor to win just as hard as i he tried when he defeateel Tris Speaker Joe Jackson and Nap Lajole for the batting championship of his league. FOUR-SIDED DEAL LIKELY WHEN TINKER IS TRADED NEW YORK, Nov. 26. —A trade prob ably will be made here today by which Chicago will receive Mitchell, Phelan. Kniseley and "another player” in return for Tinker, who is slated to manage the Cincinnati team. Tinker Is expect ed here today. Corrldon, the third baseman bought by the Detroit Americans from Kansas City, is said to be the “other player” re ferred to by Evers. In order to bring such a trade about Cincinnati will have to strike a bargain with Detroit. Pres ident Herrmann is said to be prepared to offer tin Detroit team Frank Chance for Corridon. Detroit, it is said, would then send chance to the New York Americans in exchange for one or more local players, and the managerial prob em of President Frank Farrell, of the New York team, would be solved. PRESIDENT FOGEL SAYS NEWSPAPER MEN LIED PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 26—Horace S. Fogel, r ■ sident of the Philadelphia club, emphatically denied here last night having made the statements for which alleged utterances lu> is to be tried by the National .league. He de clared that if it is true, as he is led to I believe, that several New York news papers have sworn to affidavits that he - ltd "the National league race was fixed I for the Giants to win.” he will prefer a charge of perjury against them in I court. KiLBANE TO MEET MORGAN. • LEVEI.AND, OHIO, Nov. 26. 'Johnny Kllbane, featherweight chum i cion, and Eddie Morgan, the English , bantam, hav been matched to tight N- w Year's da?' in San Francisco. SLOSSON DOWNS YAMADA. Xi'.Vi 5 < >RK, No' -6. George Slos ■mn last night . .I' ali 'i Kodiji Yamada. ■ Japan.-., in the first plat of their six-night ses.-hm at IV2 bulk Ilm bil liards tel a *sOll purse. MOTOR DEALERS TO RACE. ’'• I D'ltlx. X, , ■. Ti'. M .„. "ii." a s i.uu.n i.us lii'fii formed. " •!■ a nrftutezaii a . i s;a, , for t | le i’ ■ i ' elding au 'Cm l.iic races. THE ATLANIA GEUKWIAN AJND NEWS.TI ESDAA, NOVEMBEK 26, 1912. Booze Will Cost Birmingham the Vandy-Auburn Game Within Few Years M’GUGIN MAY FORCE ANOTHER CONTEST THIS YEAR By Percy IL Whiting. THE South is fairly hysterical over the prospect of a post season game between Au burn and Vanderbilt for the foot ball championship of the 8. I. A. A. A' lot of opposition must be over come to get the game, but it is possible to overcome it. Os course. Dr. W. L. Dudley, of Vanderbilt, president of the 8. I. A. A., and long the czar of Vander bilt athletics, will oppose it. He has always been against post-sea son games and championships. But then the time has passed when Dr. Dudley can absolutely control Van derbilt athletics. Dan McGugin is now a power to be reckoned with. And Dan wants a post-season game. If it ever comes to a test of strength between McGugin and Dr. Dudley- over the post-season game thing it is likely that McGugin would turn up winner. For he would have 95 per cent of the alumni of the college behind hhn. Os course. Auburn's attitude is uncertain. Naturally they don't want the game. Still it might be forced on them in away that Would make a refusal to play quite difli cult. Time will tell. Anyhow, you can put this down as a cold fact: Dan McGugin wants a post-sea son game, and Daniel has away of getting the things he goes out after, c ♦ * J T*S’ hard to stop waiting about that Vanderbilt-Auburn game last Saturday. More things hap pened than you could shake a stick at. And before anything else is said we venture the prediction that the game will not long remain an an nual fixture in Birmingham. It will be transferred to some real col lege town or played on alternate years at Auburn and Nashville. And this is why: The game will become the great “booze game" of the whole season. And it will be discontinued just as the Yale-Princeton struggle in New York was discontinued —-be- cause it served too man?' people only as an excuse for a debauch. It's the logical time and place for a "big time" by all those thus inclined. It's a shotjt night's run from a hundred towns and cities— most of them dry, or at least most of them eminently' respectable. Everything In Birmingham in the booze line is as open as a dessert landscape. So naturally an?- man who wants to get away for a "big time” will select the Vanderbilt- Auburn game as the excuse, the Saturday before Thanksgiving as the time, and Birmingham aS the place. There were high old times there Saturday night. And it must have been a se6dy lot of individuals that turned out of Pullmans Sunday morning. ■ Even some staid Atlantans were slightly illuminated for the occa sion. It took the station master, or the yard master, or some such lordly official, to pry a few of them out of their bunks when Birmingham trains arrived in the Gate City. They laughed at the porter and they defied the railroad men. The last we saw as we departed from the ear Sunday morning, the be forementioned officials had gently grabbed the far end of a sheet and rolled a couple of protesting sleep ers into the ear aisle. Oh, surely, surely. It was the sad end of a large time! And because of things previously hinted aj. the game in Birmingham will not long be an annual affair. Watch and see if this doesn't turn out just as predicted, ♦ * w A LOT of funny things happened at the game. The press box in the Birmingham park is located more than 100 yards from tlie near est point of tin- field. Realizing t.'.*'. it Would b'- utffictl.t to Identify t.c. Auburn i.ay vis. the newspaper men requested Graduate Manager Tom Bragg to send up a substitute or a crank who knew the men to help us out. He sent a short and chubby freshman, elaborately dressed and decked with ribbons that fell from just west of’ his chin clear down to the. tops of his shoes. And this man, selected by Colonel Bragg (whether as a whimsical jest or just haphazard) was af flicted with an impediment in his conversation—an impediment that consisted in lingering lovingly over his “s'es.” The game was well started when he arrived. Ressijac had just been yanked and Sparkman substituted. This from trie Auburn man, loud ly, "Auburn has just put in—” then he hesitated. "S-S-S-S-S——SSSS- S-S-s-s-sssss s-s-s-sssss sss. he was fairly writhing with it. Voice from the rear of the press box, in a loud aside, "Get a steam fitter. His pipes are leaking.” JOHN T. BRUSH, GIANTS' OWNER, DIES ON TRAIN ST. LOUIS, Nov K 26. —I'he body of John T. Brush, owner of the New York Giants, who died in his private car near Louisi-, ana. Mu., early’ today while en route West in search of health, was brought to St. Louis, w’iiere it will be embalmed and shipped to In dianapolis today. Few details came In from the little, out-of-the-way Missouri town in regard to the baseball mag nate’s death. Kept Alive by Will Power. Friends who were with Mr. Brush stated that while death had not been expected so soon, it was only his indofiiftable will that had kept him alive So long. They declared ins demise was hastened by an ac cident which occurred hist summer In New York city. For years he had been a sufferer of locomotor ENGLISH TENNIS TEAM READY FOR BIG MATCH NEW YORK, Nov. 26.--England’s best lawn tennis players will compete against the Australian champions in Melbourne this week in the challenge matches for the Dwight F. Davis in ternational cup. Since 1907, when Wilding and Brookes captured the trophy, it has been an American team that has challenged for this prize, but this year the United States failed to place a team in the field. It is estimated that since the offering of the Davis cup the contesting nations have spent more than *1,000,600 on the matches waged fur its possession. OLD MISS QUITS WHEN FLETCHER IS DEBARRED OXFORD. MISS., Nov. 26.—The an nual game between the University of Mississippi and the Mississippi Agricul tural and Mechanical college has been declared off by the universitv. When Quarterback Fletcher, of the university t. am, was declare ! Ineligi ble, the fifth player of the team to be so declared, the team took u vote and agreed to call off all practice and the annual game with their rivals. J. R. WESTMORELAND TO MANAGE TEAM AT MERCER MERCER UNIVERSITY. MACON, GA., Nov. 26.—J. R. Westmoreland has been elected captain of the Mercer basket ball team. This is Westmore land’s third year on the team, and he should make an able leader of the Or ange and Black. FOUR PUNCHES TO JAW ENOUGH FOR ART NELSON BUFFALO, N. Y., Nov. 26.--It re quired less than one round for Willie (Knockout) Brennan, of Buffalo, to put Art Nelson, of Milwaukee, uwut las night. Four swift punches to the law. •ach of which put the Westerner oti thi' ileor, turned the trick. COMEHOW there doesn't seem to be the enthusiasm stirring that there should be over that Tech- Clemson game. It will be a corker —in many ways, no doubt, the most brilliant and spectacular game of the Southern season. Here are two teams, both light and both of virtually the same weight, both immoderately fast and both reputed tricky. They are to meet in the last game of the sea son for both of them. They will uncork all they have. Coach Heisman is not in the least sure that his team-will win it. “I am finding it tremendously- dif ficult to get any work out of the boys, since the Georgia gajne,” he said today, “They have let down. Then there is a chance that Mc- Donald will not play. If he doesn’t, I shouldn’t be surprised if Tech lost the game. At best, it will be a hard battle.” ataxia. One day at the Polo grounds he started home in his au tomobile. On the way home a ter rific storm came up. The chauf feur ran the car into a pillar of the elevated road structure and Mr. Brush was slightly injured. While the Injury was not serious, the shock proved too much for his nerves, and he had been out but little up to the time he left New- York last Sunday on the trip which resulted in his death. Had Very Successful Career. Mr. Brush was born in Indianap olis, and first came into promi nence when he took charge of the Indianapolis baseball team. Later be acquired control of the Cincin nati club. Then he took over the New York Giants. He started in business life in a clothing store in the Hoosier capital. Brush secured control of the Reds in 1881 for practically nothing. Aft er holding it for ten years, he sold it to Garry Herrmann for *IOO,OOO. He used this money to purchase the controlling stock in the Giants from Andrew Freeman. Parks-Chamhers-Hardwick 37-39 PEACHTREE ST. ICO. E ATLANTA, GA. [ Your toes get room to reach out and expand in taking a long, fast step in our,shoes. They fit the heel without nibbing a hole in the sock. They conform to the instep and as a support and rest, and, in fact, in every item of fit, .comfort and fine appearance, jthese are tJie shoes . for men and boys. Pride H rool ’i slippers in leathers and felt. High or low cut. SHOOS colors, $1.50 to $3. $*3.50 to Hiawatha, Indian mocassins, $2. New Shipment of Boys’ Shoes. Eppa Rixey, Jr., Makes Good in Major League First Year Out (This is the eighth of a series of articles on “youngsters who made good in the major leagues’’ last season.) By Sam Crane. NO college youth ever gained prominence on the diamond more rapidly than Eppa Rixey, the sensational young left hander who flashed to the front as a member of the Philadelphia Na tionals last season. One year ago the name of Eppa Rixey- was un known to the baseball world. To day there is hardly a city in the country’ where the fans are not fa miliar with It. Rixey has the reputation of being the best pitcher Imported from the college ranks In years, and it took him less than four months to es tablish it. It did not require even that long for him to demonstrate his worth as a player, for less than a month after he donned a big league uniform Horace Fogel, the Philadelphia owner, turned down an offer of *17,000 for him made by Charley Murphy, of the Cubs. The offer was made as a result of Rix ey’s wonderful performance against Chicago. Rixey first attracted attention as a pitcher while a student of the University 'of ' Virginia. In one game there he struck out 21 men in a nine-inning struggle, and soon had a whole army of scouts trailing him. When he graduated last June he had offers from at least a half dozen big league clubs. Eppa Gets Big Salary. All sorts of inducements were made to the youth, who was finally induced to exchange his sheepskin for a Philadelphia contract calling for *9OO a month, a salary almost equal to that of a senator. It was through the good graces of Bill Rigler that Rixey- was persuaded to cast his lot with the Quakers, and for the part the National league umpire played in discovering and getting him to sign he received a handsome bonus. Rigler aced as coach to the Vir ginia university squad last spring. It was while working in that ca pacity that he became familiar with the youngster's worth. Besides his remarkable ability, Rixey has the distinction of being the tallest pitcher in the league. He stands nearly six feet six in his stockings and uses every centi meter of his height in his delivery. Besides having a lot of smoke, he has good curves, far better control than the average left-hander and is an excellent fielder. There is no question about him having the re quirements of a big league star. He has exceptionally lung arms and these enable him to use tremen dous speed. Beat Best in League. Out of twenty games he pitched for the Quakers last season, the Southerner captured ten, and many of these from the best twirlers In the league. With a better team, his record would have been vastly improved, for wretched support cost him a number of victories. Dooin is convinced that he has a phenom in the collegian and would not part with him for the price of an O’Toole. It was against the wishes of ht« family that Eppa entered a profes sional baseball career, and for a time Dooln was in danger of losing his new found gem, for his rela tives made strong efforts to dis suade him from continuing in the game. It appears that Eppa Is a real blue blood, one of the F. F. V.’s of Virginia. One of his uncles is Sur geon General P. M. Rixey, U. S. N.. retired with the rank of rear ad miral, decorated by King Alfonso of Spain, and surgeon in charge during the last hours of President McKinley. Another uncle was the late Congressman John Franklin Rixey. Eppa has troubles of his own be sides spending his S9OO per month during the season. He can’t find beds long enough to fit him In any of the big hotels where the Phillies are wont to stop while on the road. His real worries, though, are in th sleeping cars, where the only place he can rest comfortably is in the aisles. Besides being long-legged, long waisted and long-necked, Rixey is long-headed and has shown mon baseball sense than any college re cruits, with the exception of Char ley Sterrett, of the Yankee.'--.