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Rause, faithful fan, before making the fatal mistake that when 1 say "good looking pitcher," 1 mean exactly what the three English words imply. Though the azure orbed William was somewhat of a hurler. his pitching has been eclipsed many times in the Southern longue, but when it came to physical pulchritude, Billy was there. Pulchritude Is not essential to a pastimer. Mr. Mack could never qualify ns a matinee idol, and Mr. . Wagner would be laughed to scorn if he attempted to essay the tailor's model role. But "Blue-eyed Bill" had the beauty, just gobs of it, and thereby hangs the tale of why ho failed to stay around in the big tent, for baseball exports were unanimous in declaring he had the necessary tal ent. Old Bob Gilks, then managing Shreveport, dug ’the blue-eyed boy up somewhere in the Texas league. When he reported to Shreveport h<‘ had a suit of store bought clothes and more sangfroid than any nine teen-year-old hurlet ever possessed. And before the season opened had Gilks attempted to relieve Mr Bartley of further service with the Shreveport team 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 Reasoned veteran, kidded the old play ers, Joshed Gilks and made himself generally un bearable. But Gilks knew he had a pitcher, so he gritted his teeth and waited. He didn’t have to wait long. The I season started with a rush. So did | Bartley. In his first two gamer hi stood the opposing hitters on th. i. respective beans. His chest expan sion grew, and he had to order a new sized hat. and t.igre was no balm in Gilead for Gilks. Fin/ly 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 fits, 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 r.nd well wisher asked. "Weren't you afraid you would break his heart?" 'Break his heart, hell," replied Gilks. "That was just what he needed. Why. that kid thought he | z was the greatest pitcher in the 1 wmld. He didn't think the ball club had ever been organized that could beat him. He had the idea so strong he was a pest. Now, maybi he'll have sorni sense and •„TI be a real pitcher "Anu don't you believ. 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. He kept putting everything he had on every ball he pitched, and they kept slapping 'em to the fence. And all the time 1 was laughing my head off. Now. he'd be a pitcher.” Connie Mack Landed Him. Gilks was right. Bartley then went to work and learned to pitch in reality. Aft< a few seasons ho attracted the eagle eye of Connie tMacl. who bought him from k vepo-t. jot to working again, but Bill I didn't. As a result aftei a season and a half with the Athletics, mo; ' of which lime lie .‘■pent on t! . bench, he was shipped back South to Atlanta. But by this ti:n Ili . . . . ~u possessed of the big league bug ; - well as the blue eyes. His «,,. k with Atlanta was indifferent and when he asked for more money next y ear he was given to ■ tango by William Smith. He journey < d into the Eastern league and now Lord- knows where lie is, probably in some bush bui’g 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 I 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 he a competitor in < one of the races and a starter in the i mile event against time, with a dying start. He will drive a Chalmers, while j against him will be pitted another 1 Chalmers, two Marions, a Buick. aj Mercer and two Velfes. No doubt exists in the minds of Ty , Cobb’s friends regarding hi-; ability to I drive a ear fast, and with an oiled trael and a clear day he will make tiling.' extremely interesting for all rivals. In addition to the mile race, there will be a flve-inile, a ten-mlle and a twenty-mile race. Several hundred dollars will be given in prizes by the Richmond County Automobile assoeia- I tlon. • Cobb has entered into the automobile racing proposition In dead earnest, and ■ he will endeavor to win just as hard as i he tried when he defeated Tris Speaker ! Joe Jackson and Nap Lajoli for tha J batting championship of his league. FOUR-SIDED DEAL LIKELY WHEN TINKER IS TRADED NEW YORK Nov. 26. - A tra'de prob ably will be made here today by which Chicago will receive Miteheli, Phelan, Kniseley and "another play er" in return for Tinker, who is slated to manage the Cincinnati team. Tinker is expect ed here today. Corridon. 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 the Detroit team Crank Chance for Corridon. Detroit, it is said, would then send ' 'hanee to the New York Americans in exchange for one or more local players, and the managerial prob lem of President Frank Carrell, of the New York team, would be solved. ; PRESIDENT FOGEL SAYS NEWSPAPER MEN LIED PHILADELPHIA, Nov 36. Horae. S. Fogel. president of the Philadelphia club, emphatically denied here last night having made the statements for which alleged utterances he is to be tried by the National league. He de clared that If It is true, as he is Jed to believe, th • several New York newa papeis .lave sworn to affidavits that he sain "the National league race was fixed tor the Giants to win.” he will prefer a charge of perjury against them in court. KILBANE TO MEET MORGAN. CLEVELAND, OHIO, Nov. 26. - Johnny Kilbime, featherweight cham pion. and Eddie Morgan, th. English I bantam, have been matched to fight I New Avar's day in San Francisco. SLOSSON DOWNS YAMADA. NEW YORK. Not 26. . g. Slog son lust nig. : defeated Kodiji Yamada, the Japanese, tn the first play of their six-night session at 15.2 balk line bil liards foi a t.'i'Hi purse. MOTOR DEALERS TO RACE. NF.M YORK, N... a; Tile Mm,,, Dml lers « lu.iest association ,ias been f OI - Int a with a lapiiaiizatl.in of r.'tu.uon. for tlie purpose of holding automobile racetf THE ATLANTA. GEORGIAN AND NEWS.TUESDAV, NOVEMBER 26. 1912. Booze Will Cost Birmingham the Vandy-Auburn Game Within Few Years M’OiN MAY FORCE ANOTHER CONTEST THIS YEAR By Percy. IL Whiting. r-plii Sim.i 1.~ fniili hysterical I over the prospect of a post si ason game between Au- I bum and Vanderoilt fo.r tile foot ball championsu: • of tile S. I. A A. A lot of upp< siliot: must be over- iom :o g* ■ t■ ■ game, but it is I : <.. • i:>.(• to 0.. ...., omi it. «.»!’ course. I". W. L. Dudley, of n<i-"oilt, | csident cf the S. I. A. A., and long the czar of Vander bi I athletics I" oppose •i I. He 1..i always been against post-sea son games an l championships. But then the lime iia" pasted when Dr. Dudley can absolutely control Van derbilt athletics. Dan McGugin is now a power to be reckoned with. And Lian wants a post-season game. If it . ver, conies 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 ceut of the alumni of the college behind him. 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 diffi cult. Time will tell. | Anyhow, you can put this down us a cold fact: Dan McGugin wants a post-sea son game, and Daniel has away of getting the things he goes out after. e * .> | T’S hard to stop writing 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-Princetori struggle in New York was discontinued—be cause it served too many 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 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 Vanderbilt- Auburn game as the excuse, the Satuiday before Thanksgiving as the time, and Birmingham as the place. There were high old times there Saturday night. And it must have been a seedy lot of individuals that turned* out Os Pullmans Sunday morning. Even some staid /.tiantans were slightly illuminated for the occa sion. it took the station master, or tie 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 u»e porter and they defied the railroad men. The lust we saw as we departed from tile 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 at, the game In Birmingham wi'l not long be an annual affair. Watch and see if this doesn't turn out Just as predicted. a * A LOT of funny things happened nt the game. The press box ’n the Birmingham park is located /mor. than 100 yards from thenear p est point of the field. Realizing I that it would be difficult to identify the Auburn players, 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 i ’ll from just west of his chin clear down to the tops of his shoes. I And this man, selected by' Colonel I Bragg i. whether as a whimsical jest or just haphazard) was-af flicted with ;'ii impediment In his com ■■isaticn —an impediment that consisted in lingering lovingly vvt r bis "sX." The game was well started when he a iyeil. Ressijae iiad just been yanked and Sparkman substituted. This from the 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 faiily writhing with it. Voice from the re:;r 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. 26. —The body, of John T. Bruslp owner of the New York Giants, who died in his private ear near Louisi ana, Mo., .early today while en route West in search of health, was brought to St. Louis, where it will be embalmed and shipped to In dianapolis today. Few details came tn from the little, out-of-the-way Missouri town in regard to the baseball mag nate's deatlL 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 indomitable will that had kept him alive so long. They declared his demise was hastened by an ac • cident which occurred last summer in New York city. V’or years he had been a sufferer of locomotor i ENGLISH TENNIS TEAM READY FOR BIG MATCH NEW YORK, Nov. 2G. -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, w hen Wilding and Brookes captured the trophy, it has been an 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 the Davis eup the contesting nations liave spent more than $1,000,000 on the ■ matches waged for 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 lias been i declared off by the university. When Quarterback Fletcher, of the university team, was declared ineligi ble. the fifth player of the team to be so declared, the team took a vote and agreed to call off all practice and tin annual game with their rivals. J. R. WESTMORELAND TO MANAGE TEAM AT MERCER MERCER UNIVERSITY. MACON, GA., Nov. 26. J. It. tVestniorelaml has been elected captain of the Mercer i basket ball team. This is Westn.are- I 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 A-t Nelson, of Milwaukee, away ’a-' night. Foui swift puncfies to the jaw, each of which put the Westerner on the floor, turned the trick. CoMEHoW there d lesn’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 Geoigia game,” he said today. "They havq 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. I me day at the Polo grounds lie 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 ami 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 H'ip 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 thw 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 a clothing store in the Hoosier capital. Brush secured control of tiiy Reds in 1881 for practice Ip- nothing. Aft er holding it for ten years, he sold, it to Garry Herrmann tor SIOO,OOO. He used this money to purchase the controlling stock in the Giants from Andrew Freeman Parks-Chamijers-Hardwick 37-39 PEACHTREE ST. CO. L ATLANTA. GA. | \ our 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, i hey conform to the instep and ankle as a support and rest, and, in fact, in every item of fit, comfort and line appearance, these are the shoes _ _ . for men and boys. Pride r °om slippers in leathers and hinohng felt. High or low ent. Shoes AII <-oiors, $1.50 to $3. <0,50 to Hiawatha, Indian mocassins, $2. New Shipment of Bovs’ Shoes. Eppa Rixey, Jr., Makes Good in Major League First Year Out (Ti is 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 Jlixey, the sensational young left hander who flashed to the front as a member of the Philadelphia Na tionals last season. One year ago ■he name of Eppa Rixey was un known to the baseball work 1 . To day there is hardly a city in the country where the fans are not f; - miliar with it. Rixey has the reputation of being the best pitcher imported from the college ranks in years, and it took him less th in four months to es tablish it. It did not require even that long for him to demonstrate his wort.'n 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 Ch'cago. 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 lie graduated last June lie had offers from at least a half dozen big league clubs. Eppa Gets Big Salary. All sorts of inducements: ■■.■ ere made to the youth, who was finally indtieed 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 Rigler that Rixey was persuaded to east his lot with the Quakers, and for rhe pajt the National league umpire played in discovering and getting him to sign he received a handsome bonus. Rigler need as coach to the Vir ginia university squad last spring. It was whije working in that ca pacity that he became familiar with the youngster's worth. Besides his remarkable ability. Rixey has the distinction of be! the tallest pitcher in the leagut He stands nearly six feet six it his stockings and uses every cent! meter of his height in his deliver; Besides having a lot of smoke, h has good curv- s, fa? better eontiu than the average left-han I, r and ; an excellent fielder. There is n question qoout him having .ie re quirements of a big .eague star. H lias exceptionally long . rtns an< w:ese enable him to us. : ;hhi uous speed. Ssat Best in League. Out of tw.nty gam'. - he pitchei . for the Quakers last sei; on, :..i Soothe■ per captured toil, and : . of these from the best twirl.q- I the league. With a b< ti tea:.; his record would have been vastlj improved, for w:\tv'. 4 •41 'i' cost him a number of victor., s Dooin is convinced that he has i.l'.-nom in the -eoliegian and won', not part wit.i him for the price o tin O'Tool’.. it w:.s against tilt wi.-nce .if Im family that Eppa entered :. prof?.' . siomil baseball career, and for : time Dooin was In danger of .osini his net, foul 4 for hi :< lives made strong efforts t ■ O suade him from continuing in th' It appears that Eppa b.Uv blood, one of ti:e !•'. V.’- Vir.,i.:i a One of tils uncl-s L- S::r geon <! ne.’al P. M. Rixey. I*. S. X. retired with the rank of real ■ mlral, decorated by Ki;i- Ai.n-i <>;' Spain, and surgeon in r Ji during the last hours of Pr. s. a McKinley. Another ancie was tu late Übngi essman J.oiin l-'r tnklii Rixey. Eppa has tr.-fbles of his own be sides spending his S9OO per montl during the season. He can't tint beds long enough to lit In:" in an! of the big hotels where tn Phillis are wont to stop while on the read His real worries, though, are in sleeping cars, where the only pwi' l be can rest comfortably is in tin aisles. Besides being long-legged, h'lil. waisted and long-necked, Rixey n long-headed and has shown mot) basebull sense than any colleg. A' fruits, with the exception of < r U' ley Sterrett, of the Yank" -■