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<®OMM Sira® «»* HKMT LDITLD W, 9 FARNSWORTH _ _ __ Mr. J ack---He’s So Good to His Wife :: :: :: :: •• ;; By «/» Swinnerton 1. , , —-. 2'*("fa>R£ST one ' .jack >'ix \ '"E.R - res! J i ’p E se H “l - I 008 - Htes) ■•vwTHERBMp fiSw J ’ \ £2 ezXXX IB iw3™f w • . ' k t% Xr if ' rx zQtsi v ji L'-'-/< Rj LXL-fc <K v/ I Z'\ X'v= z/ Xss&r ■ ' 25 Greatest Southern League Players—No. 14—-Bill Bartley By Fuzzy Woodruff. - |"j LEY' was probably the best looking young pitclni tl.at ever cum< out of the South, or naywin ■m■• . Paus, . I'.iithi'ul fan, before making the '.atal inistaki that when 1 say “good looking pitcher,” I mean exactly what the three English words imply. Though the azure orbed William was sum .» hat of a hurlei; hh- pitching le.s been eclipsed many times tn the Southern league, but when It came to physical pulchritude, Billy was there. Pulchritude is not essential to a pastiiner. Mr. Mack could n* ver qualify as a matinee idol, and Mr. Wagner would be laugo-.d io scorn if he attempted to essay the tailor's model rule. But "Blue-eyed Bid” had the beauty. Just gobs 01 it. ami thereby hangs the tale of why lie failed to . stay around m the big tent, for baseball experts were mi.mimous in | declaring he had the necessary tai- i ent. Old Hob Bilks, then managing j Shreveport, dug the blue-eyed boy up somewhere In the Texas league. When he reported to Shreveport In hud a suit of store bought clothes and more sangfroid than any nlne taen-yeur-old hui <• ever possessed. tn<i before tile .-■■aeon opened hud Gilks attempted io relieve Mr Hartley of further sei vice with the Shreveport team he would have been driven out of town by every base wall suffragette in it; confine. Wo'ked Eyes Overtime. I'il knew that his blue eyes gave him an ace in th. bolt and he ’ worked it overtime. H took all the liberties of a seasoned veteran, kidded th< old players, joshed Gill j am mao. himself generally tn- I bearable. But Gillis knew he had a pitcher, , so he gritted his teeth and wait. . He didn't hav< to wait long. The season started with m tush. So din Bartley. In his first two games lie stood the opposing hitters on their •espectlve beans. His chest • xpan sion grew, and he had to order u j new sized, hat, Ml taere was no balm in Gilead for Gl,a.-. Finally the Shreveport c.ub reached Ytlanta. Blue-cyeo Billy , warmed up the first day. He giunce. over the At anta stands, caused : few fannesses to throw | .Its. a.ci then toed the plate. Made 26 Hits Tor 23 Runs. In the first three innings the At .auta batsmen ■ ■ übbed him for a dozen hits and a dozen runs. Be- | o.e the game ended they had made .1 26 hits and 23 ai..-. ami old Boh < 11. k.« was smiiin, . "What did you keep that kid in ... Bob?” a friend and well wisher asked. “Weren't you afraid you would break his h-firt?” “Break his heart, .r.-eplied GUks. “That was just what he needed. Why. that kid thought he was the greatest pitcher In the world. He didn't think the ball club had ever beer, organize., that could beat him. H' hart the idea so strong he was ;< pest. Now, maybe he'll hav< some sense and will be a teal pitcher. "And don't you believe l.e dogged it when they got to him this after neon." continued the Shrew port mogul "He was as game under punishment as anybody I've ever wen. He kept putting everything he bad on every ball he pitched, and they kept slapping 'em to tin fence. And a'' th. time I was laughing my hea 1 off. Now. lie . b a pitc>’er.” Connie Mack Landed Him. Gilks «a« right. Barth y then went to work and arnec to pitch in reality. After a few seasons lie attracted the eag.c eye of Connie Mack, who boug.it him fro ,■ K to working again, but Hill didn’t. An a cult a*'ti a season and a half with the Athletics:, most of which time lie spent on the bench, he was shipped I: .’!> South j to Atlanta, But by this tin ■!' I! hod become | possessed of the bit; i«o;gu» bug as: | well as the blue eyes. His work with Atlanta was indifferent and when- he asked for more money next yea - he was given the laugh by William Smith. He journeyed into the Eastern leag.ic 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. TV COBB WILL DRIVE AUTOMOBILE IN RACE ON TRACK AT AUGUSTA Al (il ST A, GA.. Noy. Ty Cobb will I>h both starter and contestant In i the autoniohlle races at thv Georgia- I Carolina fair grounds Thursday. The I peerless bah player Is an enthusiastic I sportsman and thoroughly enjoys rac . Ing. espeeliilly racing with the buzz | wagons, Tv win he ;l competitor in one of the races and a starter in the mib- event against time, with a flying | start. He will drive i Chalmers, while I against him will be pitted another! i Chalme’s, two Marions. ■■ Buick, a Mercer and tw o Velies. No doubt exists in tne minds of T.v Cobb’s I.fends regarding his ability to' drive n .-ar ffist, and with an oiled track j and a clear day he will make thing.” > extremely interesting for all rivals. In addition to the mile race, there will be r. llve-mile, ;> t n-mile and .'C : twenty-mile race. SeV<: . hundred I , dollai s will be gh eu in ; .! ses' by tn« Richmond County Automobile assoeia- ’ ! Horn- Cobb has entered into the automobile racing proposition in dead earnest, and : ' lie will endeavor to win just s« hard as he tried when he defeated Tris Speiker Joe Jackson and Nap Lajofe for the batting championship of his league. FOUR-SIDED DEAL LIKELY WHEN TINKER IS TRADED I NEM YORK. Nov. 26. A trade prob-! (ably will be made he e today by which •Chicago will n rive Alitehell, Phelan, j Kniseley ami "another playein return ; i so: Tinker, who Is slated to manage' the Cincinnati tea. i. Tiuke: is expect ed here today. • 'o: ••Idoii, tl.c thi: d baseman bought by thi Dci.oit Americans from Kansas City, is said to be the “other playa ." e ferix d to by Evei s. In order to icing such a t ’ade about Cincinnati will i.avc ■to stibo a ba: gain with l»etroit. Pres i idem Herrmann is said to lie prepared to oil’er iii-> HetroH team Erank I'hanc; ( .so ■ < '.■. I'idon. Detroit, It is said, would ; then send < "nance to the New A'ork lAme.ie iis in exchange for one or more local players, and the managerial prob lem of President E.ank Earrell, of the New York team, would be solved. PRESIDENT FOGEL SAYS NEWSPAPER MEN LIED PHU. ADELPHI A, Nov. 26.—Horace I S. fog. . p . shl.ut of tin Philadelfihia . cub. emphatically denied here last night having made the statements for which alleged utl lances lie is to be tried by the National league. He de clared that if it Is true, as lie is led to j believe, that several New York m ws pap< s- hav. sworn to affidavits that he sal.; 'the National league race was fixed for tlie Giants to win." lie will prefer a charge of perjury i.gainst them in court. KII.BANE TO MEET MORGAN. • LEVELAND. ••Hill. Nov. 26. Johnny Kilba.ie, featherweight eham- I>iou. ami Eddie Morgan the English baitiHi . have been matched to light New Y ear's day p San Eraneisvo. SLOSSON DOWNS YAMADA. NUM Y 1 >RK, No\ '.'G. Ge,, g Ron la.-t nig, t i> tinted Koc.iji Yamada, tin Japanese, in the first plai of their six-night -• ssiiu a. 18.2 bah. line bil 1. ir .s foi ;> Wadi pu: «e. X.OTOR DEALERS TO RACE. ■•..A, Yi.'lK. y ,• Th.. I ie.il- i 1..s • ..nn-M .■ -. .... .:i Ig ;..... rnnm*,. ’.v 4 1 h ii l a pit h! i zUt ’ hui • $:>(>.((", r\»p <Lc • uf hvlJiiiL' uutvnwbilv i'aco. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1912. Booze W\\\ Cost Birmingham the Vandv-Auburn Game Within Few Years OUtilN MAY FORCE ANOTHER CONTEST THIS YEAR By Percy IL Whiting. r-irvHE South is fairly hysterical | over the prospect of a post season game between Au burn and Vanderbilt for the foot ball championship of the S. I. A. A lot of • ppi itiou mfi.-t beove - cone to get the game, but it is possible to overcome it. Os course. Dr. YV. L. Dudley, of Y’anderbllt, ).resident es the S. I. A. A., and long the czar of Vander bilt athletics, will oppose it. He has aiways been against port-sea sm.r games ami championships'. But then th" time lias passed when Dr. Dudley can absolutely cont:ol Van derbilt athletics. I'an McGugin is now a power to be reckoned with. And Dan wants a post-season game. If it eve" comes to a test of strength between McGugin and Dr. I Dudley over the post-season game thing it is likely that. McGugin would turn up winner. Eor he would have 95 per cent of the alumni of the college behind him. •»f course. Auburn’s altitude is uncertain. Naturally they don't iCant the game. Still it might be I forced on them in away that would make a refusal to play quite diftl- | cult. Time will tel’. Auyhov.. you can put this down I as a cold fact: Dan McGugin wants a post-sea son game, am; Daniel has away of l ettlng the things he goes out afte •. IT'S hard to stop v., itir.g about that Y'anJerbi'J-Auburn game , las; Saturday. Mo'.e tilings hap pened than you could shake a stick at. And before anything el a is said ue venture tbe j.; .'diction that the game will not long remairf an an- , mini fixture in Birmingham. It will be traasfe.Ti'd to some real col- • lego town or played on alternate years at Auburn and Nashville, And thi.- is why: The game will become the great "booxe game” of the whole season. And it will be discontinued just as the Ynle-Princeton struggle in New Yoi 1. was discontinued—be cause it served too many people only as an excuse for a debauch. It’s the logical time ami place for u “big time” by al! those thus inclined. It’s a short 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 any man who wants to get away for a “big time" will select the Y’anderbllt 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. Xnd it must have been a seedy lot of individuals that turned out I of Pullmans Surday morning. Even some staid .xt .a eta os wi. slightly illuminated for the ocea- i | 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. wie porter and they defied tlie railroad men. The last we saw as we departed" from the ear Sunday morning, the be forementioned officials had gently grabbed the far eml of a sheet and rolled a couple of protesting sleep ers into the ear aisle. Oh. surely, surely. It was thi i sad end of a large time! And because of things previously hinted at. the game tn Birmingham J : will not long be an annual affair. M ateii ami see if this doesn’t turn out just as predicted, «> ♦ «•- LOT of funny things happened * in the Birmingham park Is liwatui j more tiian 100 yards from the near- j j <st point of Hie fi.\\ Realizing I '.;at .'.i-ai :'a d!'.:''rv. .to identify the Auburn players, the newspaper men requested Graduate .Manager Tom Bragg to send up a substitute or a crank who knew tin? men to help us out. He i-ent a short and chubby freshman, elaborately dressed and decked with ribbons that »gH fio; i Just west of his chin clear down to the tops of his shoes. I And this ti:a, • . teq by i 'olonel Bragg •whither as a .vhlmsie:.! Jest o. j. t haphazard) .as uf llicteil with in impediment in his conv rsa’ion- —an impediment that consisted in lingering lovingly over i*:s "s*<?s." Th • game was well startv.i ,vh t, 1 lie arrived. Rcssijac had just been 1 yanked and Sparkman substituted. Tiii.s from he Auburn man. loud ly, "Auburn -iu. v ji.'-t put in—" then he hesitate.l, “S-S-S-S-i; SSSS- S-S-s-s-r- s-s-s-.-L'sss SSS,” he was f'ai:’y writhing with it. Voice trim .lie re:, of the press box, in a loud aside, "Get a steam fitter. His pipes are leaking.” JOHN T. BRUSH, GIANTS' _0 WNER, DIES ON TRAIN ST. LoITS. Nov. 26. The body of John T. Brush, owner of the New York Giants, who died in his privat. car n-..ir Louisi ana, Mo., early today while en route West in search of health, was brought to St. Loui:?. where it will be embalmed and shipped to In dianapolis today. Eew details came in from the little, out-of-the-way Missouri town In regard, to the baseball mag nate’s d..;,ti . Kept Alive by Will Powe 1 lv;i" . wr.o were with Mr. Brush stated that while death hud not been expected so soon, it was only his indomitable will that had kept him alive so long. They declared lire demise was hastened by an ac cident which occurred last summer in New York city. Eor years he had been a sufferer of locomotor ENGLISH TENNIS TEAM READY FOR BIG MATCH NEW YORK, Nov. 2fi. England's best lawn tennis players will compete against the Australian champions in Melbourne this week in the challenge matches for the Dwight E. Davis in ternational cup. Since 1907, when \\ filling and Brookes captured the trophy, it has been an j American team that lias 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 Hie Davis cup the contesting nations have spent more than $1,d00,000 on the. match ■: waged for its possession. OLD MISS QUITS WHEN FLETCHER IS DEBARRED I OXFORD. MISS.. Now 26.—The an nual gum.- between the University of j Mississippi am! ti e Mississippi Agricul- ' tural and Meehaincal college has been 1 declared off by the university. When Quarterback Eletcher, of the university team, was declared Ineligi ble, the tttth player of the team to be so declared, the team took a vote and agreed to call off all practice ami the .annual game with their rivals. J. R. WESTMORELAND TO MANAGE TEAM AT MERCER -MERi’EK UNIVERSITY, MACON, I i GA.. Nov. 26. J. R. Westmoreland has! ' be.-n elected captain of the Mercer : basket ball team. This is Westmorc | land's third year on the team, ami he i should make an able leader of the Or j ange and Black. FOUR PUNCHES TO JAW ENOUGH FOR ART NELSON BUI-'IALo, N. Y.. NOV. 26. It re iquired less than one round for Willie : • Knockout > Brennan, of Buffalo, to put I Art Nelson, of Milwaukie, iv ay .as I night. Eou: swift punches io tie jaw. I leach of .. put the Western* • on] the floor, turned the trick. 1 Cii.MEHiiYV there dyesn’t seem to be the enthusiasm stirring that tliere should be over that- Teeh- Clemson game. It will be u corker in manv ways, no doubt, the most brilliant and spectacular game of tlte Southern season. Here are two teams, both light and both of virtually the same | weight, both immoderately fust and I 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. I’oach Heisman is not in the ; 1.-i.st sure iii'.t his team will win it. “I am finding it tremendously dif flcult to get any work out of the boys, since the Geoigla game," he said today. “Th y have let down. Then there is a chance that Mc- Donald will not pi ty. I' he doesn’t, I shouldn't be surprised if Tech lost the game. At best, it will be a hard battle.” .'■fiqtic. One Gay at the Polo ground:; he started home in his au tciuubile. on the way home a ter rific storm came up. The chauf feur ran the car into a pillar of the elevated road etrueture and Mr. Brush was slightly injured. While the injury was net serious, the : hock proved t. o mr .-li for bls nerves, and he had been out but. little up to the time lie left New York last Sunday on the trip which resulted in nls 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 he acquired control of the Cincin nati club. Then he took over the New York Giants. He started in business life in n clothing store In the Hoosier capital. Brush secured control of the Reus in 1881 for practically nothing. Aft er holding it for ten years, he sold it to Garry Herrmann for SIOO,OOO. . He used this money to purchase the controlling stock in the Giants from -Andrew Ereeman. - - ■— Parks-Chambers-Hardwick 57-59 PEACHTREE ST. CO. r 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 rubbing a hole in the sock. They conform to the instep and ankle as a support and rest, and, in fact, in every item of tit, comfort and line appearance, these are the shoes . . for men and boys. Pries© !/■ ji* ~ Red room slippers in leathers and FMnClling felt. High or low <-ut. ShOGS All <-olors, $1.50 to $3. s*3t.sO to S<i Hiawatha, Indian mocassins, $2. **" New Shipment of Boys’ Shoes. i Eppa Rixey, Jr., Makes Good in Major League First Year Out (This is the eighth of a series of I 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 Rixew 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 Ip 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- I ey’s wonderful performance i against Chicago. Rixey first attracted attention as a pitcher while a student of the University of Y’irginia. In one game there be struck out 21 men in a nine-inning struggle, and soon had a whole army of scouts trailing him. YVhen he graduated last j June iie 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 S9OO a month, a salary almost equal to that of a senator. It was through the good graces of Bill Rigier 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. Rigier 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 long 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. YVith a better team, his record would have been vastly improved, for wretched support cost him a number of victories. Dooln 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 his family that Eppa entered a profes sional baseball career, and for a time Dooin 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 the F. F. V.'s '?f 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 an? of the big hotels where tin Pliilli ' are wont to stop while on the roan. His real worries, though, are in sleeping cars, where the only p ac he can rest comfortably is in the aisles. Besides being long-legged, loiig waisted and long-necked. Rixey " long-headed and has shown mm l baseball sense than any college >•■ cruits, with the exception of Char ley Sterrett, of the Yankee-