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BASEBALL RULES
ML HARD ON
PLAYERS
ORGANIZED baseball Is a ne
cessity. It protects the vested
rights of the club owners, 1t
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 orga nixed baseball are such
as to be far from equitable to the
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
themselves 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. But that Is not all. 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 front hav
ing the broad scope 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 sl,-
500. a ridiculously low sum. considering
the great record the man has made as a
manager and player and the ability he
still has loft. Chance has been claim
ed at the waiver price 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 lucrative 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 New York fans that this
will be the case, or would be if Far
rell could secure a clear title to the ex-
Cub's services. And there is no doubt
that Chance could sign an advanta
geous contract at a big salary—and a
bigger one than he got from President
Murphy—were his 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 I am not allowed to sign with the
Cincinnati club as manager. 1 shall give
up baseball altogether. I will not play
again with the Cubs under anv circum
stances. This is the chance of my life,
the only one 1 will have in baseball, and
I think that my past success with the
Chicago club and President Murphy en
titles me to be given this opportunity
by Murphy. If he does not, he will not
get my services, no matter what salary
he offers me. I appreciate that 1 am
going back as a player, but 1 have al
ways had the ambition to manage a
National league club, and now 1 have
the chance and the only one 1 ever w ill
have. I would have to quit anyhow
in a year or so as a player, and if 1
am forecd out now, it would make only
a difference of a year 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 commissions strict, although
possibly necessary, rules.
NEW SPORT FOR L. G. I.
LOCUST GftoVE, GA., Dee. 4. For the
first time In its history L. G. 1 is to have
a basket ball team. Ever since the foot
ball season closed Coach Noles has had a
large numtier of candidates for 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 11. Whiting.
rpHEY may all deny it until
4 they are bright pink In the
face, but out at Tech, or else
where among the friends of Tech,
they are making plans for a foot
ball team npxt fall —a real teain, a
big team! Such plans have not
been made since the last time
Coach 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 Hie
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. I. 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 the man does an amount of work
that is a fair equivalent for the
money he receives, all is well. When
he does less work, things look bad.
And at many an 8. I A. A. college
today good athletes are coming by
money mighty easily.
Honever. there will never be any
of this at Tech not so long as
Messrs. Matheson. Randle and
Heisman are on their present jobs.
But. 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.
Out 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 tine-tooth
i tmibing-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. I. A
A laws! legal method of getting
.players will assist any, look out for
Tech next fall!
• • •
-p\\ ELVE men and boys died this
* year as the more or less direct
r< suit of football Injuries. \s far
as can 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
lie more careful of two points, to
wit, 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 neglible.
Here is the number of killed and
injured at football in the last twelve
years:
Year. Killed. Injured.
1901 7 74
1902 15 ■ 106
1903 44 63
1904 14 276
1905 24 200
1906 14 160
1907 15 166
1908 n 304
1909 30 216
1910 22 499
1911 11 1/8
1912 12 183
' 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 so
Broken noses 10
Broken hands and wrists .... 6
Facial injuries and cuts on
head 5
Spinal injuries 2
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!
• • •
T F the football fatality list looks so
r 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 11
Maine 3
Massachusetts .. .. 2
Michigan 26 18
Minnesota .8 6
New Jersey 1
New York 10 4
North Dakota 1
Ohio 1
Pennsylvania 12 5
Vermont 1 3
Washington 1
Wisconsin 13 12
Alaska 1
Totals 92 51
This list only covers the actual
hunting 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 were killed hunting in
Michigan than were killed in all
the United States at football.
Truly now. you anti-football
cranks, which is the deadlier sport?
The tabulation of the killed and
injurejl according to the ways the
accidents happened is illuminating.
Here it is:
Killed.
Shot by companions 35
Shot themselves 30
Mistaken for deer u
Shot by unknown hunters .... 7
Injured.
Shot by companions 29
Shot themselves 12
Shot by unknown hunters .... 3
DEALERS WILL INCORPORATE.
NEW YORK, Dec. 4. Pinal arrange
ments for the incorporation of the Motor
Dealers Contest association. organized to
promote motor races throughout the
country, will be made tonight.
••••••••••••••••••••••••••
•WALTER CAMP PUTS:
J ONE WESTERNER ON J
:his allamerican:
• 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. •
•••••••••••••••••••••••••a
HER BOUGHT
BY SMITH FROM
BRAVES
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: "I believe this
Weaver 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
«emer Athletic dub team, which plays
the Atlanta Athletic club at Atlanta Sat
urday night, has planned one of the most
pretentious schedules that the team has
ever undertaken.
(lames have been arranged with At
-I®ntA cu’L 1 et,c rhib, Columbus Young
Men s Christian association. Mobile Young
Mens Christian association. Montgomery
A oung Men s Christian association Bir
mingham Athletic club. Auburn and
•any ether of the best fives In the South
MONTE ATTELL IS MERE
TARGET FOR J. KILBANE
CLEVELAND, OHIO. Dec. 4 -After
Jobnny Kilbane. featherweight champion,
had mauled Monte Xttell all over the
ring m the sixth, seventh and eighth
rounds of a scheduled twelve-round go
last night, the police stopped the tight to
prevent Kilbane from knocking out the
brother of the former champion.
Vinv C * P J A 'NS YALE.
N»L\\ HAV KN, CONN., Dec 4Henrv
Ketcham, center, of Brooklyn, N Y was
Xml s \ a S.° f ,he 19,3 Ya "' fo °‘ball
A THREE-YEAR-OLD CHILD
RESCUED FROM MONSTER
This is one of the most remarkable
eases on 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
car line. Hollywood road. Air. 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 than, but he
hasn’t had the necessary expe
rience.
♦ ♦ ♦
THE matchmaker of the club
came to me the day before he
signed English and Whitney, 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.
♦ * ♦
-pHE 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 wide open and shot
a right to the head. But. while the
blows shook Clarence up a bit, he
came back in a jiffy each time 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 Whitney
inside of ten rounds, and Clar
ence knew this better than any
other man in the house.
• • ♦
'THE 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 own.
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
Whitney, 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.
♦ ♦ ♦
T T 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, W’ells quit,
and Kubiak may never have had a
thing to do with it. But local fans
will never forge.t 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 t.wo
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 Kennedy, both the
equals of Morris, could be secured
reasonably.
HARRY WOLVERTON LANDS
PLACE WITH SACRAMENTO
SACRAMENTQ, CAL., Dec. 4.—Har
ry Wolverton, former manager'of the
New York Americans, will manage the
club here next season.
Previous to going with the Yanks
Wolverton was manager of the Oakland
team on the coast and knows condi
tions well.
He had a disastrous season last year
with 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
of Watervliet, ami Joe Tlmmas of Cali 1 -’
fornla, middleweights, fought a ten
round draw before the Watervliet Ath
letic club last night.
Both fighters finished in good shape
despite terrific banging in the last fou-'
rounds.
_.^ T1 -* N ' rA LEAGUE ORGANIZES.
"he Atlanta Basket Ball league held
its organization meeting last night The
opening, which was scheduled for Fri
day night, was postponed until Friday
December lx
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
little children that were 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 are 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
ZIMMERMAN INIIS
MAN IAIHO KEPT
GUBSINHUNT
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. "Heirue” Zimmerman, the fa
vorite son of the Bronx, tops the list
with the highest percentage of .372.
A favorite Giant, too, John (Tories)
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 .353.
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 Meyers was a
hot one. JThe 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 anil
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 to
his credit. He made just as many
three-baggers as he did circuit clout’.
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 wick'
drives that scorched the turf.
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