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12 [GEOKW ®o® CCMiffiD» HMIKTS* He Looked, But Not Where He Was Going :: :: :: :: By G. Michelson r~ - r r ~ \ 1 -v lyx- ' < \ IK / “V *s * x WH <r « ° ' 'it sS w "'> w \ •fchsyi 7 JOwFTI X * X/k v w x z#X iitjMX .wifeww v■ z > VS JrhkL XiSuSKSih** *®|ga * _J\{^'^:•' *3 r* **> 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. taking yourself, when you see the gen uine Quaker Herb Extract. Don’t j ’ any one tell you this or that is just as good. You must realize that you nev« r saw such results as have been made oy Quaker Herb Extract and Oil of Bali - See the hundreds of people who suf fered with stomach trouble, rheunw tism, catarrh, kidney, liver, Indigestion, constipation, that have been cure Some that have long given up all hope of ever seeing a well day again. Quaker Extract. 6 for $5.00, or 3 f $2.50: Oil of Balm, 25c, or 5 for $1 ■ We prepay express charges on all ders of $3.00 or over. Call today at Coursey & Munn's <1 - store, 29 Marietta street, and obta' these wonderful remedies. (Advt >