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8 GK3KBR SPCW OW3*EXKEW EDITED Zy WS FARNSWORTH Mr. Jack---Turn About Is Fair Play---Nit :: :: :: :: :: :: By J. Swinnerton 5, I WHY JACK DEAR . HOW j _ • z \ r- sweet of 'ton to spend (vu hat ? waiting 1 h -J' Aup H to'^ N& _ I •khFe 1 ’ J J -±=- | \OU SHOULDN'T L x T Ido that wifey y eA TA d Atu 1 Js> i Y.VJ M (1 tTW" —dvWH/Vic .rcV V>s>-<s«rJZ c ' a. I v,®’Zi I’G ( 0.l J ( vp • TTTti r \ c? ill // i \ : /ftt '" ii / WCVI \ 7/!' 11 , I •i Ta O t <a KV--V..Y H ITuJ v't W •,\ n >■- M - f - c,. JkwEßf l * 1 i Last Belated All-Southerns Are in and Here's Final Pick Os South's Gridiron Experts THE dope's all tn. the last all- Southern (except the Stauffer joke eleven in Collier’s) is t picked and the final assignment of gridiron honors for 11'12 can be i made. The fast of the picks which were ; those from New Orleans and Texas i —make no matertai change in the ’ consensus eleven and the honor roll for the year :sl E, Brown, I. e . Vandorbilt T. Brown. 1. t Vanderbilt Peacock. 1. g Georgia | Morgan, c Vanderbilt Barker, r. g Mississippi Lamb, r. t Auburn , Gillem. r. e Sewanee Tolley, q. b. Sewanee Hardage. I. h. b Vanderbilt .McWhorter, r. h. b Georgia Sikes. f b Vanderbilt Baseball cranks may be Interest- Football cranks may be Interest ed also in some of the previous picks. Here Is the consensus all- S, I. A. A. eleven for previous years: 1911. .Morgan. < ........Vandeibilt .Metzger, g Vanderbilt Bonner, g Auburn Freeland, t Vanderbilt Cogdell, t Auburn Gillem. e Sewanee Vandegraaf. e Alaba ma Morrison, q Vanderbilt Hardage. h. b Vanderbilt McWhorter, h. b Georgia Davis, f, b Auburn 1910. s Neely, e Vanderbilt Gillem, e Sewanee i Freeland, t Vanderbilt Patterson, t Mississippi Metzger, g Vanderbilt Kinnebrew, g Mississippi Caton, c Auburn Browne, q. b . .Kewanee Morrjgon, h. b Vanderbilt Lanier, h. b Sewanee Streit, f. b Auburn 1 1909. f Lucas, c Georgia t'heape. r. g Sewanee • Falkenberry, I. g .Sewanee ’ Cogdell, r. t tuburn Grifiin. I. t Vanderbilt 1 Freeland, r. e Vanderbilt Williams, I. e Sewanee Browne, q. b Auburn ‘ Lanier, r. h Sewanee Hardage, I. it Auburn Metzger, f. b Vanderbilt 1908. ■Davis, c. . Auburn ’ Hnrslock, i. g Vanderbilt Dougherty. I. g Tennessee 1 Davis, r. t ... Tech ( Faitlkenberry, l t Sewanee i Williams, r. e Sewanet V. Blake, I. e Vandeibilt I Leach, r. It .Tennessee ( Knox. 1. h Mississippi McLure. q. b Auburn ' Markley, f. b Sewanee 1907. Lewis, I, e Sewanee i Lex Stone, I. t Sewanee Stone, c. Vanderbilt | Fautkcnberry. r. g Sewanet Davis, r. t Tech B. Blake, r. t. Vanderbilt Costen. q. b Vanderbilt Lanier, 1. h Sewanee Craig, r. h Vanderbilt Markley, f. b Sewanet 1906. Stone .. ..Vanderbilt .. ..('enter Chorn ....Vanderbilt. Right guar.l Connor .. Mississippi ..Left guard Stone .. ..Sewanee ..Right laekh Pritchard ..Vandeibilt .Left taekh i Bob Blake . .Vanderbilt. . Right <mi ■ Blown Teel, Left end Coaten . . . .Vanderbilt . . .Quartei Dab Blake Vandeibilt. Right hah' ■ Craig .. ..Vanderbilt ... Left half Manier .... Vanderbilt Fullback Consensu* picks a.e not aVailabb ■tfor the previou- pale. but heie i ■Bhaa) Nash Buckingham, Hui- vard and Tennessee expert, ranked the Southern players for the three previous years: 1905. Player. Position. College. B. Blake, left endVandeibilt Taylor, left tackle .. .. Vanderbilt I. Brown, left guard ....Vanderbilt Patterson, center Vanderbilt Stone, right guard .. ..Vanderbilt Pritchard, right tackle ..Vandeibilt Hamilton, right end •• ..Vanderbilt Kyle, quarter Vanderbilt D. Blake, left half .. ..Vanderbilt Craig, right half .. ..Vanderbilt Manier, fullbacks’anderhilt 1904. Beene, left end Tennessee Taylor, left tackle .. .. Vanderbilt Phillips, left guardSewanee Elgin, center U. of Nashville-. B. Brown, right guard ..Vanderbilt Hamilton, right end .. ..Vanderbilt Scarbrough, quarter .. ..Sewanee Craig, left half Vanderbilt B. Blake, light half .. ..Vanderbilt Parker, fullback Tennessee 1903. It Blake, left end Vanderbilt E. Kirby-Smith, left tackle.. .. Sewanee Green, left guard .. .. Tennessee Smith, center Cumberland Suddarth, right guard. Cumberland Phillips, right tackle ....Sewanee Sitton, right end Clemson Maxwell, quarter Clemson Bridges, left half ....Cumberland Colmore, right half .. ..Sewanee Hanvey. fullback .. .. Clemson JUDGE IN INDIANAPOLIS UPHOLDS BASEBALL FAN INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Dec 6.—A solar plexus punch to the wife who objects to making a late supper for her husband because lie is a baseball “bug” and stays to root for the tronie team until the last man is out was handed down by Judge Collins, in police court. It was a home-run swat on the part of the court. The domestic troubles of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Williams were being argued in the court room and it was found that when Williams was late in coining home from tile bail game no wife or supper was ready to greet him. It was a cold bis cuit for him The judge upheld the "rooter" and told the wife that she must find some common bond of sympathy so that they could live together In peace. PLAY STARTS JAN. 9 IN BILLIARD TOURNEY I’ITTSBI’ID; Hee. K. Plh\ for the world s championship at 18.1 balk line in billiards will take plate in this city Jan uai \ 10 and 11. < leorge Sutton hav- ing challenged Ora Morningstar, present hmder. The winner is to receive the title, diamond trophy, all gate receipt# and a purse of SI,OOO, offered by Harry Oavis. of Pittsburg. In addition, Sutton and Morningstar have agreed to post a side bet of SSOO. one of the Interesting features how ever. centers in the efforts to include Yamada, the Japanese expert, who re t entl\ competed in the 18 2 tournament in New York Yamuda has not yet con sented to enter the contest, but nego tiations are under way. In any event, Sutton ami Morningstar will battle for the 18.1 title. CARRLEY EBBETS WILL SHOW FAMOUS BASEBALLS BROOKLYN, Dec. 6. When the Brooklyn Dodgers hold their house warming in the rotunda of the Ebbets field stadium next spring one of the most interesting things to be found there will be the big case containing all of the balls won by the famous old Atlantic* of Brooklyn In the infancy of the national pastime. Among the number i.« the bail used in the eleven-inning battle with the Cin cinnati Red Stockings in 1870. when tin Atlantic* broke the great winning streak of i 'ineintiati. Tile famous old case of balls has passed through sev eral hands in the past decades, and re cently was i.ought by the Brooklyn club. SMITH SIGNS PITCHER. Herman H.iitnei. a young *ini-pro (t.-sional soutiqaw from Michigan, lias been signed by Maliag.-r Billy Smith foi a tryout next spring. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1912. WHITE SOK HAVE! A REUL FIND IN HUGE PETERS By Sam Crane. (This is the tenth of a series of articles on "Youngsters Who Made Good in Big Leagues" last season.) ANY young pitcher who can win five games and lose six in his first year as a big leaguer is worth watching, and can be recognized as having very prom ising ability as a boxman. This was the record made by "Rube" Peters, who pitched for the Chicago White Sox during the sea son of 1912. That Manager Jimmy Callahan has confidence in the tall youngster was shown when he de cided to keep him as one of his regular staff for next year; in fact. Callahan has given it out that he thinks Peters will be one of the pitching- sensations of 1913. President Cumiskey, who is one of the most liberal of club owners, when it comes to the point of pay lag big money for any player he thinks will strengthen his team, was lucky in securing Peters by draft from the Minneapolis club, of the American association, in the fall of 1911. Comiskey might have been tipped off about the youngster’s ability before any other owner, for the Chicago magnate has many agents working for his interests who are not regularly employed scouts. Anyhow, “Commy" got in first with his claim, and, although there was some controversy over securing the services of the promising twirler, he was finally landed for the White Sox, and at the low drafting price. One of His Best Deals. “It was one of the best deals I ever made," was the comment of Cumiskey, last spring, at the time Peters gave glorious promise. The White Sox trained during the spring of 1912 in Waco. Texas, and on one visit 1 paid to the White Sox camp I well i emember Manager Callahan praising Peters to the sky and predicting the youngster as having a great baseball future. Peters was born in Jackson, Miss., 26 years ago, and began playing professionally in his homo town in 1909. He remained with the Jackson club through 1910, when he was "nailed" by the Min neapolis club for 1911. His rise was very rapid, for during that season lie won eleven games and lost three, giving him a percentage of .786 Peters was the leading pitcher of the American association, his first year 1n a high-class league. Peters, as his ability developed, was spotted by routs from all over the country, but' Cumiskey's Inter ests were well looked after by the Cantillon brothers, with whom there was a "working agreement” > with "Commy." VHI Pitches Right Handed. v<jt Peters is a right-handed pitcher ’* and batter. He weighs 185 pounds and is exactly six feet in height. He could not have a better build for a pitcher. His initials arc O. C., but he is known variously as Rube. Pete and Blondy. But the nickname of “Rube" lie likes best, and that is the one-he will go down in baseball history along with Marquard. Waddell and others as another "Rube," and he*bids fair to become just as famous as those two southpaws of eccentricity and rare ability. Under Callahans careful tutel age, Peters developed wonderfully in the South during spring prac tise. but the wise manager of the White Sox look no chances of b caking the youngster's heart b> working him too frequently. Cal lahan appreciated that he had a "wondei" if h< was properly nursed and not called on to do too much. BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip • Bill Kay, who led the New York State league in batting, is a great player in thai league. He has tried it higher up several times, but couldn't make a go. • * • Aurora had a player—and he was a roarer, too—who performed in 103 games as an outfielder and didn't amass an er ror. • • • Guy Zinn, who didn’t report to Roches ter last year, wasn't suffering from a swelled beau, but a swelled appendix or some*bing of that sort, is the rumor now. Anyhow, he has applied to Ganzel for re instatement and a job. • • » Barry McCormick is a card. After he slumped from Milwaukee to Peoria he looked over the reserve list of the little Ilinois club, said he liked the first base man. and to release everybody else. He is now doing some tall scouting. ♦ » « Louisville is rooting to get Jack Stans bury back from the Cardinals. As he is better than a .300 batter in the Ameri can association there isn't a lot of chance. • * * Baseball maxims: "The Anti-Saloon league sure sends up a lot of ball play ers who stick.” ♦ ♦ * Another one: “A 10l of ball plavers got diamonds who ain't got anything else.” * ♦ ♦ It looks as though the papers would gel tired ot talking about “a second Ty Cobb.” “There ain't no such a pus son.' • • • And while all New York is popping hysterically over the prospect of getting Frank Chance as manager of the High landers the Peerless Leader goes right on picking oranges. ♦ ♦ * Rule Marquard. in discussing his Bios aoni Seeley troubles, denied all the alle gations of his accusers except the one that he is a great left-hander. Akron has raised SIO,OOO and will buy itself a hall club. * * * <\v Young has been offered the job of managing the Portland team, of the Nor th western league. Harry Gaspar, sent by Cincinnati to Toronto, says he will give up baseball in favor of photography. They say he is a right, good photographer. ♦ ♦ ♦ Hans Robert has bought a farm in Crawford county, Pennsylvania. • » » Note, Montgomery Advertiser: When you clip baseball notes from The New Orleans States and credit them, please do the crediting to The Atlanta Georgian. The States lifts them bodily—without credit; as do a half dozen other papers. « * « Among the famous baseball players who are good golfers are Heinie Zimmerman, Ty ( obb, Larry La.loie, Russ Ford, Harry Wolter ami Hal Chase. Among the fa mous golf players who play baseball nothing doing. ♦ * • Weaver, the White Sox infielder, when accosted 1»\ the gent who is writing a se ries on “the toughest pitcher I ever met.” told bis story in three words: “None of ’em." Modest little cuss! • * • Frank Farrell may go to Bermuda himself to look over the place as a train ing ground for the Yankees. If he likes it he will send the players there next March. • • • When the Pittsburg club sent a Blue Grass league player a contract calling for $75 a month, the player sent back word he could make more money stopping runaways back home. P. S. lie is still stopping runaways. t HANDLED BRICKS ALL SUMMER TO MAKE TEAM CI.IIVKL.\NiI. OHIO, Dee. 6. -Gaylord Stowe, the utility man of the Cleveland university school eleven, is not a boy vho is easily dixeouruued. He tried for the I’niversity school eleven a year ago. He failed to make good. Coach Rush told him he was too tall (or his weight and lacked the reouisite jgtrength. So Stowe set his to,, the eleven this year. tMv'Vg' £ : 'jgMßk arrived, instead of loati flwJpWjjbt to Strasburg, < >hio, aK : log«j£l,' ears all summer. \s»> re -p. to school in Septembi f’TOJIP er and stronger. And he also made ffle team, tilling in at half, end and tackle, playing in all the important games. As a side issue, he developed proficien cy as a kicker ami was the Brlckley of University school. NAT CARTMELL NAMED TO SUCCEED M. MURPHY PHILADELPHIA, Dec 6. Nat Cart tnell. of Louisville, will almost certain!} be named to succeed Mike Murphy as coach of the University of Pennsylvania track learn. Murphy's resignation has not been formally acted on. but the vet eran handler of athletes is in Thomas ville. Ga , now. suffering from a malady that will forbid his taking part in active training work again Carttnell was first heard of as an ath lete when he representeil a Louisville school at one of Vanderbilt's annual scho lastic meets in Nashville. He went to the University of Pennsylvania, where In has been a star He has coached the Ini vcrslt} of Virginia track team will, I success for seieral jears S2.m,[ll]oYEAß FOR BASEBALL SALARIES WHEN professional baseball players make up their minds to concertedly de mand bigger salaries, as they pos sibly may some time through the newly organized Players fraternity, it would be well for them to study some of the financial statistics of organized baseball and get some idea of how much money is now being handed out for players' sal aries It’ is possible that the figures would make a most effective strike breaker. They will give a stagger, anyhow. According to Secretary Heydler's records. 283 players took part in National league games last season. A conservative average of salary for each player would be $2,500, probably it is nearer $3,000. But taking the lesser amount, the amount for salaries alone paid out by the parent organization was $707,500. $1,414,500 Big Leagues' Salaries. The American league can be put down as paying out to players fully as much as the National. This brings the salary list of the two big leagues up to the astounding fig ures of $1,414,500, nearly a million and a half, and without the latter amount is reached. But those are not all the figures by a long shot. The report of Sec retary Farrell, presented at the re eent meeting of the National Asso ciation of Minor Leagues, showed that $997,000, only a shade less than a full million dollars, was paid out by the minor baseball leagues throughout the country in salaries. Now, taking this million with the nearly a million and a half the two big leagues dispense for playing talent, it will be seen that the pro fessional players throughout the land are receiving $2,500,000 in round numbers annually. This shows that the club dwners are doing something toward the uplifting of the ‘.'downtrod,” and many of the minor league mag nates are "over their heads" In their endeavors to keep above water and pay salaries. Few Clubs Make Big Money. The first three clubs in either tin* American or National league and possibly a like number in the Class AA. make big money and the two clubs that are fortunate in having learns that contest for the world's championship make bigger money, but in tile long run when profit and losses are averaged up. It will be found that tile salaries of the play ers forms the "kitty" where the most of the money finally drifts. To enable the clubs of the Na tional and American leagues to pay the salaries of their players they must average $590 per game for the ; 174 games scheduled. But salaries, while forming a big item, are only one of the many expensive ones the club owners have to face. Nothing can perhaps show better the wonderful growth of tile na • tional game than the enormous amount paid for sala . ies. but it also proves that the magnates are not * "hogging it all." as some players of the past did foolishly believe to their sorrow, and some of the play ers of the present imagine just as ridiculous things. And possibly it . may be to their sorrow, too. Thuie are individual cases where certain deserving players haw been •underpaid, lint the great big ma jority of the capable ones are paid according to their abilities and tlieli salat les raised In accordance with the imp'ovement they show aiul their increased value tn tiler CUll-o Smith Has His Work Cut Out For Him Handling Bad Actors, But He’s the Lad Knows How By Percy 11. Whiting. IF the Cracker team of last sea son had been properly held in hand, it would have finished certainly no worse than fourth. Booze crabbed it. Old Red Eye cost the Crackers any chance of a cred itable showing. One of Manager Smith’s big jobs this coining season will be to keep the Cracker bad actors from per forming any cut-up stuff. He had a lot of them willed to him by Manager Hemphill. There is no use going into details. Most of -the fans know which players were tanks and which were not. However, Bill Smith doesn’t ex pect any trouble —nor do the fans who know him. "I never had any trouble with any of my r players," said Smith in talking over the matter of disci pline. "1 treat them right and they treat me right. Os course, any’ manager who lets his players walk over him is a simp. The first time he sees a head, crack it—that’s the idea. After he has made examples of two or three of his players he doesn’t have any more trouble. Anyway, I never did.” One of Smith's chief assets has been his ability to enforce disci pline. Bill doesn't stand for any foolishness. He is in most deadly earnest about this pe.nnant chasing business, and lie gets his players in the same notion. His example is contagious, and it is a mighty dull player who does not, after a bit, begin trying for the pennant as hard as Smith. Smith has had some bad actors on his staff now and again—some right here in Atlanta. But never a one but behaved better for Smith than he ever did for any oth er manager. Following a Good Lead I i The footsteps of the man who wants the very latest I styles in shoes invariably lead —SKjJ'Q to our store, it's our policy '■''>/vt * I to show the new styles | l k " first. That’s the reason /■ t 2 we make Ralstons /'■•'-v? ' s *' our leaders. Jah. T'. This season we especially wish to mention our OxwIWIF Houn’ Dawg I model —newest of the new. Come in and 5 H see it if you are looking for something different I —and good. R. D. BARKSDALE CO. 11 Decatur St., Kimball House BB 1 I I V\ nOY MORAN goes to the Pacific Coast league. The announce ment comes from Washington and settles the fate of the former At lanta outfielder, still, by the way, a resident of Atlanta. Moran was given only a most casual tryout by Manager Griffith, and it was believed that he would order Moran to report for spring training. However, it is evident that the Gray Fox must have dug up ancient dope and modern opin ions. and decided against the fleet footed ex-Cracker. « « • T) ILL SMITH is up in the air over the case of Fitcner Waldorf. He has never seen him work and lias to form his views by studying the records and by asking opin ions. And both are very various. A couple of Waldorf's games make him look like the best pitch er in the world. The rest make him look like the biggest bum. Most of the dopesters think the knock kneed lad is a howling farce, aid so do most of the players. On ti e other hand, there are a few who believe that there is an off-chance the big ex-Cub has some real stuff in him. Ex-Acting Manager Whitey Alperman is one of his big boosters. He thinks Waldorf has much ability and that there is a chance that he can make good. Our own private opinion is that, because many an ugly duckling has blossomed out into some swan, Smith would make a mistake not to look the man over before getting rid of him. As to the cases of Johns, John son and Sitton it is ail decided — they go to the highest bidder. This Johnson, by the way, may in time develop into a pretty good player. He has as smooth and easy a delivery as any man who has ever worked in Atlanta, and his Kitty league record was fine.