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14 OCSW ©B# * EXMIF 1 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 . Wf* ' f f. —* 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.-. w Jr \ r \ *h e C rac k~ /f " \ ers have just / / * • ’> secured this / '■ from // /lb Jr ; e Boston //r T : I Nat ion ais. // / i > f / Last season / // z W » 4 Weaver //^/K // p ' * ch e d / grand ball // ? // for New Or- //leans, Bos /'/ / t S/S? ton secur- ///' ,tm a ' / / the end of f/ / /// / f jflg|||L the season. IN , / / < I *. ~e- J J ■I 1 W 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 i i kW r .s £ * , j . r j 1 A A \\ b w sty©® EsR / I * BILzJ 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. =— .. 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. 606 SALVARSAN 914 Neo Salvarsan The two celebrated German preparation that have cured per rnanently more case ot ss’phillis or bio"' poison in the last t a < years than has been cured in the history the world up to the time of this wonderm discovery. 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