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EDITED W. 9 FARNSWORTH
Pat Graham May Be Traded to
Mobile for Dunn; Joe Is Heady
Catcher—Old, But Very Steady
By Percy 11. Whiting.
BILL SMITH may trade Catcher
Pat Graham to Mobile for
Catcher Joe Dunn. The deal
1s pending Smith has been keen
for this trade ever since he decided
to take over the Atlanta club. Hut
Providence wanted Dunn. too. and
the Grays were willing to give
Catcher Schmidt, the former De
troit bjtckstopper, for him This
deal was put through, but Schmidt
balked on going to Mobile. So
Providence agreed to let him go to
any club which would give SI.OOO
for him Now, Schmidt Is surely
worth SI,OOO. and will probably- li
able to sell himself somewhere. If
he does the Dunn-Graham deal w ill
be taken up and no doubt put
through.
Dunn is one of the wisest old
heads that ever played in this
league. He’s so fat and placid that
he doesn’t half get credit for hli
real worth.
-Joe Dunn is the headiest catcher
In this league,” la BUI Smith’s way
of putting It. “If I can trade him
for Graham I'll call It a mighty
good deal.”
pHARLES BENDER, famous Tn
dian pitcher, will arrive In At
lanta next week to spend most of
the winter. He will bring with him
his wife, his automobile, his golf
clubs and hls guns.
Year before last Bender was in
Atlanta most of the winter. Ho was
a constant player over the East
Jgike golf course and show ed amaz
ing proficiency nt the game. He
also went on many hunting expedi
tions. That year he was somewhat
cramped In his hunting expeditions
by the inflexibility of the train
schedules and his frequent Inability
to round up a good automobile So
this year he is taking no chances.
He has taken his automobile along
with him on his Southern trip and
will have it in Atlanta. Bender is
now in Montgomery.
• • •
\I7ELL, after all. the Southern
*’ league meeting will probably
take place 1n Birmingham Instead
of Little Bock And this means
that Atlanta will probably get the
spring meeting.
The natural place for the meet
ing was Birmingham. But Judge
Kavanaugh asked that the meet
ing be held In Little Rock because
his wife was seriously sick and he
did not feel able to leave. Within
the last few days Mrs Kavanaugh
has taken a decided turn for the
better and President Kavanaugh
has notified the Birmingham au
thorities to go ahead with the thing
as originally planned.
The spring meeting seems to
have been sort of wished on At
lanta and President Callaway will
doubtless face his duty like a man
and invite the moguls to the Gate
City for the schedule session.
• * •
17 ROM baseball headquarters
1 comes the announcement that
the Crackers are out after Jay
Kfrke and that they stand a good
chance of getting him. The news
leaked out of Boston yesterday and
Manager Smith has confirmed it.
The deal is not actually closed yet.
but it Is likely to be before night.
Ktrke will be remembered as the
second baseman of the New Or
leans team a couple of seasons ago.
He went to Boston, where he con
tinued to hit like a fiend His field
ing was not up to major league
standard, however, and that was
the reason he was turned back.
Klrke batted .822 last year In the
National league, which ought to
make him nearly a ♦OO hitter in
this league
• ♦ •
TPHE Cardinals want the Crackers
to play them a brace of games
1n Americus. Manager Miller Hug
gins has written Billy Smith ask
ing for games in Americus March
26 and 27.
Smith never was keen for road
trips in the spring and will hardly
agree to go to Americus. He feels
that there would be no chance of
making expenses there and that
Men of l
I sood iasie like |
I ike best Burley
I natural leaf
■ /3zz wj// f/ndit in I
Idrummondl
V natural leaf
I CHEWING TOBACCO H
I the trip would not be worth what
It con.
Smith has asked Huggin.” to play
the games in Atlanta.
• • •
| ID Whl.l'E has b<-en sold by the
Atlanta club to the Lawrence
team, of th- New England league.
Wolfe is the kf.l picked up out of a
shipping clerk’s job last spring by
Charley Hemphill, on the advice of
Tommy Atkins Wolfe showed a
lot of promise, but did not know
enough baseball to stick in the
Southern. He was farmed around
a bit last summer and tried out
again last fall
Wolfe has a lot of promice. He
Is a big, rangy kid with a fine in
stinctive knowledge of how to field.
If he learns to bat and steadies
down a bit he will go to tho big
leagues.
• • •
JZ ID WELLS, the New Orleans
lad who has caught a good hit
of ball for the Crackers, has landed
a job with Vancouver. The Crack
ers turned him adrift last fall and
he was out of a job when Bill
Smith took up bls case. The local
manager ran across the Vancouver
manager at the minor league meet
ing In Milwaukee and touted him to
Wells so strongly that the Van
couver man signed him.
"1 think a lot of Wells.” said
Smith, ’’and I believe he’s a lot bet
ter catcher than some In this league
T might mention, lN’ll make Van
couver a good man and I’ll bet my
hat on It.”
‘•HEFFELFINGER BEST
PLAYER OF ALL”—CAMP
NEW HAVEN. CONN.. Dec. s.—Ac
cording to Walter Camp, the Yale ad
visory coach, ’’Pudge” Heffelfinger, the
old Blue guard, was the greatest foot
ball player he over saw
When asked the question. Camp said
that a recent occurrence on Yale field
would show- just why he considered
"Pudge" the greatest player of all time.
Walter contends that Heffelfinger could
do everything as well ns any other
player, and a whole lot of things that
no other player ever thought of doing.
Camp says of Heffelfinger’s recent
exhibition of his football ability:
" ’Pudge’ In coaching the Eli guards In
sist, il that they should get Into the In
terference, and they expressed doubt
about their ability to do so. Then
’Hoff,’ the veteran of twenty years ago,
took Ills pla. .> as a guard on the varsity
against the scrubs and made the pres
ent day players’ eyes stick out by dem
onstrating very clearly how a guard
could do what he had asked them to do.
"When a man weighing 230 to 240
pounds and out of the game for about
sixteen years—for ’Hoff played for the
Chicago A. A. after leaving Y’ale—can
step into the line of a 1912 varsity team
and show strapping youths, well
grounded In the football of today, things
they thought impossible It Indicates
rather clearly that a great football
player of the old days Is not out of the
reckoning when It conies to the selec
tion of the greatest players of all time.”
MILLIONAIRE WANTED
AS COACH BY ILLINOIS
CHAMPAIGN, ILL., Dec. S —Tom
Shevlin, of Yale, was groomed as a pos
sible head football coach at Illinois by
leaders tn the faction here which is op
posed to the present coaching system.
Shevlin was pointed out as an Ideal
coach, largely responsible for the suc
cess of Minnesota on the gridiron.
Fear that sufficient inducement could
not be offered the Minneapolis million
aire, how ever, loomed up as an obstacle.
Shevlin has no need of the money, but
the sanguine dope artists figured that
he might come for the love of the game
anyway.
Other names suggested were those of
Walter Eckersall, John Richards, of
Ohio State, and Omer, of Northwest
ern.
Head Coach Hall has been on the
point of retiring for several years. If
he quits active field direction It is be
lieved he will consent to remain in an
advisory capacity.
University athletic officials refused to
discuss the boom for Shevlin for the
coaching situation at till.
"Prep” White, assistant coach this
year and an Illinois alumnus, was re
garded by some observers'as a more
likely bet than Shevlin or any other
outsider
WALTHOUR AND CAMERON
TEAM FOR SIX-DAY RACE
NEW YORK. Dec. !> Bobbs Wal
thour. of Atlanta, and George Came-on.
of New York, have teamed up for the
six-day bicycle race which starts here
■at midnight Sunday. Local bike fans
.believe that this team has a grand
chance of winning first money, and
they are being backed heavily.
Walthour rode in the first team race
which was run here thirteen years ago.
He lost hie partner in that contest and
rode alone against his rivals for four
days. With \rchie M&cEachon, of Can
ada. as a partner, he won the race of
1901. He duplicated this performance
in 1903 with Bennie Munro, of Memphis.
RACING AT CHARLESTON.
NOTWITHSTANDING LAW
CHARLESTON. S C, Dec 5. L. V
Cassidy. spercarj of the Charleston Eair
and Racing association, has drifted in.
together with several horsemen, and at
Palmetto park s.-no 100 thoroughbreds '
ar» enjoying Use This is the advance
development of Charleston's sixty-one
da\< racing’ meet, which will open on j
January 2 •. the recent anti betting law to
the contra!' notwithstanding
r i- understood thilt no interference i
f rom tIo governor <i th<* attorney
jgrnr’al is feared by th* rat e track men.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1912.
Here’s a Sure-Enough Live Wire That
Billy Smith Has Signed for Crackers
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—* f / ■ '"N. ~ A 1 HENS. GA., Dec. s.—After a
c 'N \ /» successful season on the
JMPF \ \ gridiron. Georgia is turning
. -Jf ‘ ’ I / \ her attention to baseball prospects,
; > # -L J I and. aft» , taking stock of the ma-
i- ¥ j/v & '' I teriai on hand <‘<>ach Cunningham
and ’ dpiain M-Whorier find that
lY / v *'” o itloo'. is not so bright for a
wL J f ■ w inning team, the eollqg- being es-
*' l"'cial!\ shy on pite nrs and in-
fi -li’-r.-.
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r \ *h e C rac k~
/f " \ ers have just
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BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
If Cy Young pitches for Atlanta next
year It will be his twenty-third season
on the slab.
• « •
The chief business before the National
league when It meets on Monday will be
to decide what in thunder a contract is
anyway. Roger Bresnahan wants to
know
• • •
Mathewson Is a many sided player
ball player, checker player, basket ball
star. He's aJI-sided except port-sided.
* • ’ •
The chibs in the Pacific Coast league
earned $30,000 last season Fat way to
get rich, owning one of those clubs*
» » *
Five American association clubs will
train In Kentucky this year Ixiuisville,
Minneapolis, Toledo, Columbus and Mil
waukee.
• • •
Hank o’Pay is getting popular -as an
umpire. Both the National ami the Amer
ican league have made him offers.
♦ • *
Bill Maloney and Gene Paulet. of the
Mobile team, are playing basket ball this
winter. Bill, you know, is that great 35-
year-old kid who played for Finn last
year.
• • •
With Tinker gone and with J Evers
suffering from Murphy and from mar.i
gerial cares, the Cub infield in punctured
• * •
Slim Sallee is working on a new ball
a reverse slow ball Ills Idea Is to start
it slow and have it gain momentum un
til It whizzes past the batter like the
Twentieth Century Limited on its wax
• • •
Some gink lias wittily remarked that
Horace kogels action was akin to that of
the gent who ffmlled that one on the bar
keeper about coming outside and putting
him out.
• • •
.1 Evers has been hired to play the role
of manager, second baseman and goat
• • •
The Naps may give Catcher Grover
Lund Ins third chance in the big show.
They need a catcher and Land almost
answers that description
«
Bill Hinchman will doubtless get the
job of managing Columbus not that he
particularly wants it.
• • •
Two former Birmingham players. Tom
Downey and George . Yantz. were traded
by the Cubs to Sacramento for Eddie
McDonald, the former Boston National
performer.
• • •
Before the National league handed the
mitten to Horace Fogel, the) got four
lawyers to pass on the legality of their
action. Being informed that tin-. < .mid
make It stick In the courts, they handed it
to Horace P S He Ims ft still
• « •
Chick Gandil, of the Senator. and
Prince Gaskill, of the Newark club, .ire
wintering at Shreveport. Gaskill used to
play with Shreveport when Bob Gilki- led
that club through a Southern league
campaign
• • •
Ed Koney says that Miller Huggins ml'
get belter work out of Mike Max'. > than
Bresnahan ever did Roger tried t<- hull\
Affke into doing good work Mik. w. -
mulish and wouldn't bulb for beans
Kones h»’:eves Huggins will had Mow
rey and make a wonder out of him
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PITCHER^'BUCK” WEAVER.
WOOD QUITS RUNNING:
SAYS IT DOESN'T PAY
Alfred E. Wood, the famous English
l runnt i-, who last year ran fifteen miles
in the wonderful time of 1 hour 18
minutes ami is seconds, has abandoned
the career as a professional ath
lete and has hung up Ills shoes for good.
Wood, who is at present in Toronto, has
found the running game far from lu
crative.
In his last swing around the Domin
ion of Canada, in which he ran ten
hard races, the great British atiiiete
t leafed but $26 outside of his expenses,
or about 26 cents a mile, assuming
that Wood ran most of his races at his
favorite ten-mile distance.
This experience following a long run
of hard luck on the cinder path, caused
Wood to toss up the sponge as a run
ner. and he declares that, outside of
doing a bit for fun now and then, he is
through with racing for all time.
JOE MANDOT WILL TAKE
REST AT HOT SPRINGS
SAX FRANCISCO, Dec. 5 .Joe Man
tlet. champion of the South, recently de
feated by Joe Rivers, is going to take
a rest.
Coleman and Mandot will leave for
New Orleans via Los Angeles within a
<la> or iu«» and it is planned to give
Mandot a few works rest at Hot Springs. |
Ark
S V. D. AND G A. C. WIN.
The Fulton Basket Ball leagues 11*12-
191 J seas.ip opened last night with a dou
ble bill at the armniA The S \ I' (cam
defeated the Anting Men’s Christian esso
eiat’on It- to 17. and the Georgia Ath
lei :<• club »lefeat<M| ti e Tahrrnavle Riua«a<
bx the low score of 7 to b
MILLIONAIRES GATHER
TO SEE POINTERS RUN
HIGH POINT, N. Dec. s.—The an
nual field trials of the American Point- !
er club open tomorrow on the estate of |
George \V. Gould here. Many prominent*
men in national sporting, financial and |
social circles will be present for the meet. 1
Among those who will arrive tonight are I
George J. Gould. Clarence Mackay. Ker
mit Roosevelt and Vincent Astor. The
trials will begin at noon tomorrow and
continue through aaturctay.
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CATARRH imieBLOOD
A polluted and impure condition of the blood causes irritation and in I
uammation of the different mucous membranes of the body, and we call it
Catan h. Ihe early stages of the disease are characterized’ by such svmn
toms as a tight, stuffy feeling in the nose, watery eyes, ringing nois'es in
lif ti ea , S ’ ,rt ! latK ' nof tl,ethr oat. and often hoarseness and difficult breathing
If thextrouble is not checked it invades the stomach and other portions of
the body and becomes a dangerous disorder. Antiseptic washes spravs
etc., are beneficial in removing accumulated mucus from the nose or throat’
but such treatment can never cure Catarrh. S. S. S. is the one real del
pendable remedy for Catarrh. This great medicine cures the disease be
cause it purities the blood and thus destroys its cause. S. S. S. goes into
he circulation and removes the last trace of catarrhal matter, and then the
r 4 bl °° d P erforms its work of nourishing the
Cw lne!ubraneSi 'nd tissues instead of depositing
impure matter into them to irritate and in.
flame. S. S. S. cures to stay cured. If von
, , have Catarrh in anv form take S. S. S and
as s lla ' e done Book on Catarrh and any medical advice
free to all who write. S. S. S. is sold at drug stores
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA
Georgia Baseball Prospects Are
Far From Bright; College Is
Shy on Pitchers and Infielders
PACKEY M’FARLAND
STOPS BAT TERRY
IN FIFTH ROUND
DAYTON. OHIO, Dec. a.—Pai key
McFarland handed Battling Terry
such a. lacing in the fifth round that
the referee stopped the contest in that
round to prevent a clean knockout last
I night. The mill was a scheduled ten
j round affair. For four rounds MeFar
| land just toyed with his opponent. Then.
| stepping from his corner in -the fifth.
I he turned to Manager Thiry and said:
"Here’s where I cut loose." And he did.
| Terry was sent against the ropes in a
helpless condition. He could not defend
■ himself, and the referee stopped the
I fight.
GEORGE STOVALLS WIFE
REAL BASEBALL EXPERT
i SI, 1.01 IS, Dee. 1. “I haven't missed
i a game of ball 'at home in seven years,"
i was Mrs. George Stovall's answer re
cently to the question whether she eared
much for the game.
Every day when the Browns plav at
home the manager's wife is in her' box
at Sportsman's park, and not a piav in
■ the game escapes her eyes. If was the
: same when her husband was with the
■ Cleveland team. The result Is tlwie is
I not a wotnatf in tne country that knows
! more about baseball than does Mrs. Sto
: vail. It is doirbtful if there is another
I who knows as much.
; "It's a great game. I never get tired
lof watching it. Baseball is one of the
I things that have made the American peo
. pie what they are. it has helped physi
j ealiy and has also served to implant a
love of clean, healthy sport in the boys of
! the nation." she said.
"Certainly, 1 can keep score," she de
clared emphaticallj. when it was inti
| mated that lliere were any number of fair
fans, constant attendants at the game
! but who know little of it, and would not
, know how to make a start at keeping
| score.
; "I seldom keep the score." she said,
| "because i generail' remember ever'
i play.
KELLEY LEADS MERCER
MACo.N. GA.. Dec. a. -Ered Kelley, of
Lawrenceville. Ga tackle on this year's
eleven, was last night elected captain
I Of-the Mercer football team for 1913.
overabundance of hurlers: in fact
so many that Captain Brannen
who had always pitched, was sent
to second base. There w s
Thompson, one of the greatest
pitchers college baseball ever pro
duced. who established a record by
striking out 22 men in a game
against Auburn, now owned by the
New York Americans; Wilder, the
sensational southpaw, who w 3
ruled ineligible just before the sea'-
son closed, and Beddingfield, who
was the hero of the Tech seri .•
along with Captain Brannen, of
this quartet not one remains for
a nucleus this? year.
Two Young Hurlers Remain.
The only hurlers in college of
any known ability at all are two
players who were here last year
Morris, who was Ineligible on ac
count of the one-year rule, and
< orley, a local product. In the
practice games last spring M or .
ris showed up well enough to make
the coach believe that a good man
can be made out of him. Corlej
pitc u d in the class games, attraer
mg some notice, but it was not
until this sumfher, while playing
v it!l ■' lo< al team, did he show i
marked form. These two players
are being counted on to uphold
the pitching end of the game. l )U t
this is not the only hole to be
Plugged. There’s no second bare,
man, shortstop or right fielder and
but one catcher.
Brannen was switched to
ond base, while Homer Thompson
alternated behind the bat and t
short. Neither will be on hand for
the February call. Erwin play, d
second in a few ganu s and, despite
his home run that won one of the
rech games, j s woefully weak with
the stick, while Cooper is the und
one remaining who has ever placed
short and he is weak in the same
department. So is Goodwyn. In
: ight field Twitty will be missing
and some new man will get his
job.
Five Old Regulars Remain.
The old men who will be back
at their places are Boh McWhor
ter, in center field, who led the
team in batting; Bowden, who did
most of tile receiving and was All-
Southern catcher; Hutchins, on
first: < 'ovington. at third, and Ruck
er Ginn, in left. This is the sum
total of last year's veterans, to
which might be added Riley, who
played s,»ort in several games: Er
win, who subbed at second; Good
win and Cooper, at short, and
Hawes and Hitchcock, in the out
field, and Captain Peacock, of the
football team, who was genera'
utility man last spring and the
best pinch hitter on the team.
There were but few stars sent up
to any colleges from the preps this
.'ear, and of these Georgia failed to
draw so extensively. The most
promising who will try f O r pini -
on the Red and Black are Harri
son. who was captain of Marist
col'ege and said to be a player of
real merit. He will try for second
base or short. Clements, who cap
tained tlie Gordon team, will fight
it out with be sent to
the outfield. Howell is another Gor
don player whose position is third
base. Henderson, of gridiron fame,
also played on Ihe Barnesville team
both at first and behind the bat
He will probably be used as an al
ternate for Bowden in doing the
receiving.
B'S Bunch Will Try Out.
Others who come with consid
erable recommendation are Lu< i< ii
Patterson, Shell Brannen, brothel
to Kid, who comes as anotlu .
pitcher and first baseman from
Gordon: Griffin, Harris, Chari..»
Thompson, of the Atlanta High
school; Ed Dorsey, of the Athens
High school: Walker Flournoy, of
Columbus; Fred Gillen, of last
year’s subs; Lester, an infielder of
note; J. W. Walker, Link, of tie
local high school: Rawson, of tie
reserves: Frederick, Denman, of
Riverside, who is a first baseman:
Durden, of G. M. A.; Cromarty
brothers, of Gordon, and
Brooks, brother to "Shorty” Brooks,
who was famous on the 'lO and
’ll teams for his batting. He
hails from Royston and should
have the goods.
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