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12 ffiOMW WOW CCWIffiB * EXMW EDITLD Ar 9 FARNSWORTH • He Looked, But Not Where He Was Going :: :: :: :: By G. Michelson ~~ • ’ p e * o . ♦ 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. ••••••••••••••••••••••••a* •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. taking yourself, when you see the gen uine Quaker Herb Extract. Don't let any one tell you this or that is just as good. You must realize that you never saw such results as have been made by Quaker Herb Extract and Oil of Balm. See the hundreds of people who suf fered with stomach trouble, rheuma tism. catarrh, kidney, liver, indigestion, constipation, that have been cured. Some that have long given up all hope of ever seeing a well day again. Quaker Extract, 6 for $5.00. or 3 for $2.50; Oil of Balm, 25c, or 5 for JU'”. YVo prepay express charges on all o' ders of $3.00 or over. <’all today at Coursey A- Munn's drug store, 29 Marietta street, and obtain these wonderful remedies. (Advt.i