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He Looked, But Not Where He Was Going :: :: :: :: By G. Michelson
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BASEBALL RULES
VERIf HARO ON
PLAYERS
ORGANIZED baseball is a ne
cessity. It protects the vested
rights of the club owners, it
prevents the jumping of contracts
by ball players and stands as a
guarantee against a player revolu
tion —all things that in the long
run protect the players from inevi
table salary’ reductions. At the
same time the powers of club own
ers in organized baseball are such
as to be far from equitable to Ihe
players.
The cases of Joe Tinker and Frank
Chance loom up prominently just at
this time because both those stars of
the diamond are prevented by the rules
of organized baseball from bettering
themselvea as they could and have the
chance’to do, if they were free agents.
The national agreement says those
players are the property of the club
they happen to be under contract with
until that club releases them from res
ervation. Rut that Is not sill. Even If
the club that has them bound virtually
during their careers of usefulness,
which means throughout their baseball
lives, releases them, the other clubs of
the league with which they are con
nected can step in and claim their
services.
This prevents the players from hav
ing the broad -cope to secure engage
ments that other fields in business and
sports furnish.
Chance Hampered.
Frank Chance has been put on the
market under the waiver price of 11.-
500. a ridiculously low sum. considering
the great record the man lias made as a
manager and player and the ability he
still has left Chance has been claim
ed at the waiver ptice that he was put
under, according to general opinion by
President Murphy to belittle the "Peer
less Leader” through spite. But wheth
er that opinion Is right or wrong, the
fact remains that Chance Is being kept
from securing a lucrat've position that
he could secure if not hampered by the
national commission rules.
President Farrell, of the Yankees, has
not said that he would engage Chance
as a manager, but there is an impres
sion among Now York fans that this
will be the case. or wrvnlrt he if Far
rell could secure a clear title to the ex-
Cub’s services And there is no doubt
tliet Chance could sign an advanta
geous contract at a big salary- and a
bigger one than he got from President
Murphy—were bis hands not more or
less tied.
Tinker, Too, Hindered,
Then there is Joe Tinker, who said
at the recent meeting of the National
league board of directors that tried
Horace Fogel:
"If 1 am not allowed to sign with the
Cincinnati club as manager. I shall give
up baseball altogether 1 will not play
again with the Cubs under any circum
stances. This is the chance of my life,
the only one 1 will have In baseball, and
1 think that my past succe-s with the
Chicago club and President Murphy en
titles me to be given tills opportunity
by Murphy. If lie doe* not. he will not
get my services, no matter what salary
he offers me. I appreciate that I am
going back a* a player, but 1 have al
ways had the ambition to manage a
National league club, and now I have
the chance and the only one 1 ever will
have. I would have to quit anyhow
in a year or go as a player, and if 1
, *ni forecd out now. it would make only
a difference of a vear or two."
But Murphy's string on Tinker is a
rope of wire cable strength, and made
so by organized baseball and the na
tional commission's strict, although
necessary, rules.
V NEW SPORT FOR L. G. I.
" LOCI'ST GROVE, GA., Dee. 4 For the
first time in Its history L. t; 1 is to have
a basket ball team. Ever since the foot
ball season closed Coach Noles has had a
large number of landldates tor the team
out at work every afternoon
Tech Will Make Big Play for
Football Material; Look Out for
Large Doings at Flats in 1913
By Percy IL Whiting. ‘
rpHEV may all deny it until
i they are bright pink in the
face, but out at Tech, or else
where among the friends of 'Be< h,
they are making plans for a foot
ball team next fall—a real team, a
big team! Such plans have not
been made since the Inst time
t’oaeh Heisman signed a five-year
contract. The fall after that hap
pened there was more material at
Tech than you could shake a stick
at. Mere coincidence, no doubt,
but a fortunate one for the Yellow
Jackets.
As to the exact plans—well, they
are secret.
They have Issued formal denial
of the ‘‘cinch course" rumor. Very
well, that means that all the play
ers who go there will have to com
bine scholastic genius with real
athletic ability.
But for one thing they have a
system of student table waiters—a
system that may prove useful. It
was inaugurated last year, and will
be continued.
Now. nothing is known of the
Tech plans, but It has been the
history of these student table wait
er Jobs that they have ever and
anon attracted a lot of good ath
letes. Also sheer coincidence, of
course
Let it not be supposed that any
one even hints that Tech will go
outside the rules in getting up ma
terial. No chance of it. The men
behind the Tech team—Coach Heis
man, Graduate Manager Randle and
the rest are above suspicion. More
than that, the college authorities
are wide awake and will let noth
ing happen in an athletic way’ that
is not entirely’ to the credit of the
school.
The point Is that there are a
thousand ways to make it easy’ for
athletes to get through a college,
ways that do not conflict with any
rule on the books, ways that may
prove useful at Tech, just as they
are useful at a dozen other S. 1. A.
A. colleges every season.
For instance, a deserving man
wants a college education. The time
is past when he is likely to get a
cash offer But it is possible to
offer him a position that will
make It comparatively easy to work
his way through college. So long
as tlie man does an amount of work
that is a fnir equivalent for the
money lie receives, all is well When
he does less work, things look bad.
And at many an S. 1. A. A college
today good athletes are coming by
money mighty easily.
However, there will never be any
of this at Tech —not so long as
Missis. Matheson. Randle and
Heisman are on their present jobs.
Hut. if rumor is to be believed,
there will be an effort made to use
every legitimate means to round up
some corking' football talent at
Tech next fall.
Tech men feel that the Jackets
are about due to beat Georgia.
They will spare no pains to accom
plish the result
lmt at Tech there Is guarded
talk of a coalition of alumni and
friends —of a quiet meeting or two
at the Capital City club—mere
talk, of course But if a fine-tooth
com bing-of-prep-schools campaign
and if the offering of every legiti
mate help to deserving boys who
want to get a college education,
and if the utilizing of every legiti
mate and (according to the S. 1. A.
A. laws) legal method of getting
player- will assisl any. look out for
Tech next fall!
• • ♦
*-p Y\ ELY'I. men and boys died this
* year as the more or less direct
result of football injuries. As far
as i an be learned, no college player
and no well trained, full grown
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 4. 1912.
player was killed. School boys and
athletic club players were the only
victims. ’
If prep school authorities will
be more careful of two points, to
wlt, the careful examination of all
candidates for teams and the re
fusal to play teams of vastly’ su
perior weight; and if the playing
by athletic club teams is prohibited,
the number of deaths from the
game will decrease to a point where
they are negltble.
Here is the number of killed and
injured at football ip the last twelve
years:
Year. Killed. Injured.
1901 7 74
1902 15 106
1903 44 63
1904 14 276
1905 24 20(1
1906 14 160
1907 15 166
1903 11 304
1909 30 216
1910 22 499
1911 11 I,'S
1912 12 IS3
Total 219
Average 18
♦ * •
A so-called list of the injuries
is here presented:
Injured 183
Fractured legs and ankles . . . . 12
Sprained ankles 33
Kicked in head .. 4
Fractured shoulders 4
Major dislocations .. .. .. ..13
Fractured ribs 9
Broken noses .. io
Broken hands and, wrists .... 6
Facial injuries and cuts on
head ~ 5
Spinal injuries . •>
Fractured collar bones 8
Broken arms 3
Broken jaw 1
Internal injuries 8
Fractured skull 1
Fractured hip 1
Minor sprains, wrenches and
muscle bruises 62
Terrible list, isn't it!
• • •
IF the football fatality list looks so
1 bad. though, consider the sea
son's record for killed and injured
in hunting. It is:
killed while hunting 92
Injured while hunting 51
Here is the tabulated list:
Killed. Injured.
Illinois 8
Indiana 2 1
lowa 2
Kansas 1 t
Maine 3
Massachusetts .... 2
Michigan 26 IS
Minnesota 8 6
New Jersey 1
New York 10 4
North Dakota 1
Ohio 1
Pennsylvania 12 5
Vermont 1 3
Washington 1
YVisconsfn 13 12
Alaska 1
Totals 92 51
Tins list only covers the actual
limiting season and takes in only
sixteen states and Alaska. Nat
urally it is tremendously incom
plete. Probably the true figures
are double those shown.
But even at that, more than twice
as many men w ere killed hunting in
Michigan than were killed in all
tile United States at football.
Truly now. you anti-football
cranks, which is the deadlier sport?
The tabulation of the killed and
injured according to the ways the
accidents happened Is Illuminating.
Here it is:
Killed.
Shot by companions 3.5
Shot themselves 30
Mistaken for deer 11
Shot by unknown hunters .... 7
. Injured.
Shot by companions 29
Shot themselves 12
Shot by unknown hunters .... 3
DEALERS WILL INCORPORATE.
NEW Y’oRK, Dee 4 Final arrange
ments for tjie Incorporation of the Motor
Dialers Contest association, organized to
promote motor races throughout the
country, will be made tonight.
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•WALTER CAMP PUTS:
J ONE WESTERNER ON Z
:his all american:
• > •
• NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Here is •
• the all-American football team •
• selected by Walter Camp: •
• Felton, Harvard, and Bomeisler, •
• Yale. ends. •
• Englehorn, Dartmouth, and But- •
• zer, Wisconsin, tackles, •
• Pennock, Harvard, and Logan, •
• Princeton, guards. , •
• Ketcham, Yale, center. •
• Crowther, Brown, quarterback. •
• Brickley, Harvard, and Thorpe •
• Carlisle, halfbacks.
• Mercer, Pennsylvania, fullback. •
• •
••••••••••••••••••••••••••
WLH BOUGHT
B! SMITH FROM
BRAYES
PITCHER WEAVER, last year
of the Boston Nationals, has
been bought by the Atlanta
club.
The deal was completed yester
day by Manager Smith, who finally
succeeded, after days of trying, in
getting in touch with Manager
Stallings over the long distance
phone.
Says Bill Smith: "1 believe this
At eaver will be as good a man as
the Atlanta club has ever had. I
like him. He has the size and the
stuff. Os course, he couldn't do
anything with the Boston Nation
als.' No pitcher could. The team
was too badly disorganized. He was
good enough, however, at any stage
of the game to win two-thirds of his
battles in the South. And that’s a
plenty.’’
BESSEMER FIVE WILL
PLAY STIFF SCHEDULE
BESSEMER, ALA.. Dec. 4.—The Bes
semer Athletic' dub team, which plavs
the Atlanta Athletic club at Atlanta Sat
urday night, has planned one of the most
pretentious schedules that the team has
ever undertaken.
Games have been arranged with At
lanta Athletic club, Columbus Young
Men s ( hrlstian association. Mobile Young
Mens Christian association, Montgomery
Young Men's Christian association. Bir
mingham Athletic club, Auburn and
many ether of the best fives in the South.
MONTE ATTELL IS MERE
TARGET FOR J. KILBANE
CLEVELAND. OTHO. r>ec. 4.—After
Johnny Kilbane. featherweight champion,
had mauled Monte Attell all over the
ring in the sixth, seventh ami eighth
rounds of a scheduled twelve-round go
last night, the police stopped the fight to
prevent Kilbane from knocking out the
brother of the former champion.
KETCHAM CAPTAINS YALE.
NEW HAY l-.N, < t>XX„ Dec. 4. Henrv
Ketcham, center, of Brooklyn. N Y was
elected captain of the 1913 Yale football
team last night.
A THREE-YEAR-OLD CHILD
RESCUED FROM MONSTER
I his is one of the most remarkable
eases o n record. This little child, only
a trifle over three years old. for the
past year and a half has had one con
tinuous tight for life. He has had sev
eral bilious attacks, at times almost
dying. and was taken with the mumps.
Before he was over that he got the
measles. Not alone were these enough,
but he had this monster sapping the
very life blood out of his body. Al
though the child was nothing but skin
and bones, the careful attention of the
mother and aunty, as the mother re
sides with her brother, Mr. John Geary,
of Beaver Side station, on the river
ear line. Hollywood road. Mr. Geary is
an employee of the Georgia Railway
and Electric Company at the trouble
Poor Matchmaking Is Cause of
English-Whitney Fiasco; Foul
Blow Ends Farce in sth Round
By W. S. Farnsworth.
WHEN Clarence English delib
erately swung a low, vicious
right hand into Frank Whit
ney’s groin last night, the boxing
game in Atlanta was given another
black eye. It is about time that
something was done to keep the
game clean here. If Atlanta fans
can't be given a run for their mon
ey, it’s time that the game was
closed up tight. There have been
altogether too many bunks.
I believe that the Dixie Athletic
club Is trying to stage good bouts,
but they don't know the game.
Henry Norton, the president of the
club, an Atlanta business man, is
the backer of the organization. He
is verily doing the best he can. But
until he can get a competent match
maker he is going to have trouble.
The present matchmaker is a
square, hustling young man, but he
hasn’t had the necessary expe
rience.
• • •
mHE matchmaker of the club
1 came to me the day before he
signed English and Whitntey, and
asked what I thought of a handicap
match between the pair. I was op
posed to the handicap part of it.
and told the matchmaker that there
never was a handicap fight that
didn’t turn out bad. But he im
mediately went ahead and adver
tised the bout. "English must stop
Whitney to win."
And as a. result English, realiz
ing that he couldn’t stop Whitney,
brought up a low right hand that
was one of the rankest foul blows
ever struck.
The punch cost English the
chance of ever fighting here again.
♦ • *
’IMIE fight lasted into the middle
of the fifth round. English
fought like a demon for four rounds,
but Whitney was "there” simply
to stick out the ten rounds. And
Frank can't be blamed for not fight
ing back If he had been fighting
for points, I am sure he would
have stood up and would have
taken a chance. Nobody ever ac
cused Frank of not giving his best.
But Whitney just didn't have to
take a chance. Four times he
caught English w ide open and shot
a right to the head. But. while the
blows shook Clarence up a bit, he
came back in a jiffy each tirpe and
fought hard and fast.
It was English’s fight by a mile
up to the time of the foul. But he
never could have stopped YVhitney
inside of ten rounds, and Clar
ence knew this better than any
other man in the house.
• • •
’PHE matchmaker of the club tip
ped me off before the fight that
English tried to "frame” with
station on Piedmont avenue, and he
will cheerfully answer questions in re
gard to this case, as he feels to this
child as if it were his ow n.
In order to show the sincerity of the
Health Teacher toward this child’s
case, Mr. Geary will tell you that the
Health Teacher suggested to him to
try and get the child strengthened up
before giving it any treatment for
worms, but the child kept going down
until it was necessary' for quick work,
and here was where Quaker Herb Ex
tract did the work quickly, completely
and without starving, dieting, but ail
the time building up the weak, run
down system. Now. the monster will
be explained and all different worms
that have been expelled by children and
YVhitney. but Frank wouldn’t stand
for it. Here's his story:
"English got Whitney on the
phone and tried to get Frank to
■frame’ with him. But Frank told
him there was nothing doing. Then
English began swearing over the
phone. The telephone operator
made a complaint against English,
and he was arrested.
“And ‘His honor’ soaked Clar
ence $25 for using them cuss words.”
All of which means that English
didn’t get more than carfare for
his work of last evening.
♦ * *
IT was announced from the ring
that. Carl Morris and Al Kubiak
would probably be the next pair to
meet in the ring here. Kubiak
might last the ten rounds with the
Oklahoma giant, but he was mixed
up in a shady fight here with Jum
bo Wells. To be sure. Wells quit,
and Kubiak may never have had a
thing to do with it. But local fans
will never forget that fiasco.
As for Morris, it is up to the club
to get a real topnotcher to battle
’ him or not stage him at all. It
seems to me that after the two
• bloomers that Morris has been in
the club would be willing to pass
him up.
Morris is altogether too good for
third-raters. If the club wants to
show Morris again, let it get
Kennedy, Stewart. McCarty or
Flynn for him. Flynn and Mc-
Carty probably would demand too
much money to come here, but
Stewart and Kenifedy, both the
equals of Morris, could be secured
reasonably.
HARRY WOLVERTON LANDS
PLACE WITH SACRAMENTO
SACRAMENTO, CAL., Dec. 4.—Ha:-
ry YVolverton, former manager of the
New York Americans, will manage the
club here next season.
Previous to going with the Yanks
vvolverton was manager of the Oakland
team on the coast and knows condi
tions well.
He had a disastrous season last year
witli the Yanks and finished nowhere
There was always a lot of doubt, how
ever, as to how much of the Highland
ers’ ill success was due to his manage
ment and how much to hard luck.
LARRY ENGLISH DRAWS
WITH THOMAS IN HOT GO
fornia. middleweights, fought a ten
round draw’ before the YY r atervliet Ath
letic club last night.
Both fighters finished in good shape
despite terrific bangifig in the last fou:'
rounds.
•r^ TL^ TA LEAGUE ORGANIZES.
he Atlanta Basket Ball league held
its organization meeting last niglit The
opening which was scheduled for Fri-
December l 'l3 WaS poß,poned until •’’riday,
people right here in Atlanta at Coursey
& Munn s drug store. Is it any wonder
the people are talking about the won
derful work that the Quaker remedies
are doing? Look at the hundreds of
littlo cnilui*6n that wore restless in
their sleep, screaming out, almost
scared to death, grating of teeth, breath
bad. especially in the morning, picking
of the nose, biting of the nails, fever
flushes on the cheeks, In a weak, run
down condition. Many have expelled
worms, but if there ate no worms the
medicine is composed of herbs, roots
barks, berries, leaves, gums and blos
soms. They are harmless to give to an
Infant or a delicate woman. There's no
mineral or chemical poison. That's
what you are giving your children, or
MERMAN MS
MAN ■ KEPT
CUBS IN HUNT
By Sam Crane.
IN looking over the' official batting
averages of the National league,
New York can swell with pride,
because of the fact that a native of the
big burg, “Heinie" Zimmerman, the fa
vorite son of the Bronx, tops the list
with the highest percentage of .372.
A favorite Giant, too, John (Tortes)
Meyers, the famous Indian catcher, col
legian, literary man, thespian, conver
sationalist. raconteur and a gentleman
of all around versatile parts in gen
eral. outside of his swatting ability, is
second only to the best batter, for the
Chief has the average of .358.
Captain Larry Doyle, of the Giants,
and “Pinch Hitter” Harry McCormick,
also of the champions, are tied for sixth
place, each with the highly commenda.
ble average of .333, which shows, as
any school boy knows, that they both
made safe hits on an average of every
third time at bat.
Battle a Close One.
The battle for the batting supremacy
between Zimmerman and. Moyers was a
hot one. The Chief led for a long while,
having a phenomenal average in the
early months of the season. The Chief
batted for a while over .500 and was
considered so dangerous with his big
war club that it became the custom for
opposing pitchers to pass him purpose
ly when there were runners on bases.
This was a serious handicap to the
Indian, and as he received the inten
tional "skulls” when he was in his best
batting stride, it no doubt beat him out
of the leadership, although he does not
himself make that claim. He is too
good a sportsman for that. Zimmer
man was not passed purposely nearly
as often as was Meyers, as the Cubs
were not dangerous until later in the
season, about the latter part of July.
Zimmerman was at bat 557 times and
Meyers 371. The fact that Zimmerman
had the more chances adds to the bril
liancy of his great feat rather than
diminishing it.
To the Bronx boy belongs most of the
credit for the Cubs’ grand fight and
sensational stern chase after the Gi
ants. Lavender, Cheney and Richie did
splendid pitching, of course, but it was
Zimmerman's “punch” that carried the
winning weight and put the Cubs in
the race when they were thought to be
hopelessly out of it.
Leads in Two-Baggers.
Zimmerman also led in two-base hits,
with 41, and in home runs, with 14 tn
his credit. He made just as many
three-baggers as he did circuit clouts.
He used a long and very small handled
bat and took a long but most vicious
swing at the ball and with a firm toe
hold that gave him tremendous power
behind his swings. He "stung” the ball
terrifically hard and it was said of his
opposing outfielders that they needed
shinguards when facing his wicked
drives that scorched the turf.
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