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6 ®QKM TCW O®»*DMrS > EDITED Z>r W. S FARNSWORTH Oh, Look Who's Back From Vacation! :: :: :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher ■. JT“ ~ - — ( r ~ z * s. —/- a OH,JOV A iX HE> 1 *UTT ( I JUbTGOTA GOOD i FISTIuZ j sow. G W <<>) ,CO reu. MV-rr ; M ■>. - J < C J ’ ? <WV-\ owe ou. l ¥ j BT A- / J I T> J I . 'd| I• 1m a i 1 ■ - - I iC-— —” B/' i awl ™fTjW®i Hi i W»aJ|iJiJiMii MU- , Br ,J I ~ " — J ] ,s / £r —■** - . . - * . - -.- . _ ....—.— - "- - - COPvfeiCHt »9<A BY TH? 3Ta&. Co Billy Smith Has 1913 Crackers Well Lined Up; OnlyOnePlace That He’s Not Filled for Sure By Percy H. Whiting. SO far have Bill Smith's plans for hie Atlanta club pro gressed that it is possible to pick the Atlanta team of 1913 with amazing accuracy. This is the way it looks Infield —Agler, first base. Alper man. second base: Dobaid. short stop; Wallace Smith, third base. Outfield —Bailey, Callahan and one man yet to be secured, prob ably Jay Kirk< Catchers —McAlliste: and Iley - nolds. Pitchers— leaver. Donnelly, Bra dy. Recker and Price. Utility—Keating. • • • course. Bill Smith will bring on a few other men for trial Graham and Maleolmson. catchers; Nixon. Long ami possibly Sisson, outfielders, and doubtless several pitchers. But in the back part of Bill Smith’s head, where the heavy thinking is done, the line-up is al most decided on. One position in the outfield is uncertain and will be until Jay Kirke or some other heavy hitter Is signed. There is also an otT chance that some other inlielder may be bought. Says Bill Smith: I started to buy an inlielder from the Boston Nationals. But I didn't. I have first call on a couple of extra men that Clark Griffith has, and if Smith. Dobard or Keating fail me. I will call on the Washington club. That protects me on infielders." "How about outfielders?" was asked. "A cinch," said Smith; "Bailey la a .300 hitter— " And fast." put tn the interview er. "Yes. and fast." admitted Bill. •’l'll tell you,” he added, "I think Bailey will steal a lot more bases for me than he did last year. You take a real fast man, who knows how to slide ami he'll steal mighty near as many bases as he is made to. If he’s on first and no signal is given he may stick there. But If you signal him to go down he goes. And having the speed and the slide, he is likely to get away with it all right." Returning to the outfield. Smith continued: "1 consider Callahan a grand man. No. he didn't show it in the early part of last season. But, then, you know conditions on the club. He will be a good man. Then, if the Kirk' deal comes through, we are fixed." Kirke. of course, will be ret ailed as the husky chap who played such good ball at second base for the New Orleans team season before last All he batted for New Orleans was .308. He hasn't done much but hit with the disorganized Boston Nationals. His fielding was admit tedly rotten. However, when a man can hit way over .300 in the Na tional he is likely to come to the Southern and to pile up an aver age that will put him strictly in the hunt, if he doesn't eat< h one ball in five that come his way Ac cording to Smith's sy stem, a team needs two real sluggers. He ex pects to have them with Bailey and Kirke. • * * 'TWO men in the infield are ,1- * ready well known- Ag > r a'rnl Alperman. Both are corkers—as good as any players in their posi tion In the league. The right wing of the Crackers’ Inner defen « is .is tight a- a It ,i pot. Wallace Smith, the new third baseman. eotneS from the Cat <ll - He was picked up off tin lots in St. Louie a couple of years back and ( .inverted into a corking infit Ider. Jus’ why the t 'ar- ' •••••••••••••••••••••••••• J 1912 AVERAGES OF ; J 1913 ATLANTA MEN : • • • Player, Pos. B.A. F.A. S.B. • • Agler, lb 264 985 14 • • W Smith, 3b. .257 .953 20 • • Doliard, ss. . . 269 .925 35 • • Keating, utility.. .252 .880 57 • • McAllister, e.. .. 253 .956 20 • • Graham, c 239 .937 20 • • Reynolds, c. . .. 226 .945 2 • • Maleolmson. c. . .215 .981 15 • • Bailey, of 315 .965 25 • • Callahan, of 250 .964 30 • • Nixon, of 279 .922 15 • • l.ong, of. 266 .978 17 • • Sisson, of 293 .976 40 • • • dinals have sold him is hard to guess. He hit .259 last year—fair enough for an Infielder —and fielded .920. Such averages as that in the National ought to make him a star when he transfers the same en deavors to the Southern. Little is known of Dobard, ex cept that he was drafted from Day ton and that his marks are good. Keating. the other infielder, comes pretty highly touted. He started last season with Lynch burg and when that team sickened and died he was taken on by Louis Castro at Portsmouth. “The Count" boosts him skyward and says that he has made good al ready. Keating was discovered by Connie Mack, who touted Manager Otis Stockdale, of Lynchburg, onto him Keating is a trenmedous base stealer. Last year he had 57 to his credit. The previous year, with Raleigh in the Eastern Caro lina league, he pilfered 51—and that in spite of a stiff charley horse for the last part of the season. • * * is pinning all his faith on Lew McAllister, the old Detroit catcher, foi work behind the bat. Smith knows him, as McAllis ter worked for him that disastrous season at Buffalo. The other catch er will be used merely as a filler in. The pitching staff, numbering two new ex-big leaguers, Donnelly and Weaver, should be formidable. Smith will let Sitton. Johns and Johnson go and possibly Waldorf. Smith will vary his usual prac tice by having only a few men re port, and will bring them to At lanta later than usual. His tenta tive reporting date is March 10. TENNESSEE TRIES FOR GAME WITH VANDERBILT KNOXVILLE, TENN., Dec. 7.—Th® athletic authorities at the University ot Tennessee are negotiating with the Vanderbilt football management for a football game to be staged between Tennessee and Vanderbilt in November. 1913. While nothing definite has been heard from tlie Vanderbilt authorities with reference to the matter, yet the local football management believes that Vanderbilt will consider favorably a game with Tennessee and sign a con tract to that effect. Dr. H. E. Buchan an. president of the University of Ten nessee athletic council. Is conducting the negotiations. Inasmuch as Tennessee put a fairly good football team in the field this year, with prospects of an even better eleven next season. Vanderbilt may be induced to give the Volunteers a date on that team’s schedule. Practically all the Volunteer stars will return to the "hill" mxt season, and with added material. 1 i nness' should fte represented by one of the best elevens in the South. INTERNATIONAL LIMIT IS BOOSTED TO $6,000 NEW V<>KK, l>*v. 7. The salary ihnlt in tlu- Int» i national league. which a month h*Rt year, max be boo'-trd SHjhhi a mouth this year, so I’ uil club oxx nm * max ax ail theiniM'lx• > |»J the <• x h of high-gi nd* player# THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1912. Baffling Nelson Wants to Come to Atlanta-Kubiak's Manager Writes WHITNEY AND O’KEEFE WILL MIX HERE TUESDAY By W. S. Farnsworth. F’rANK WHITNEY ami Tom my O'Keefe are goiry; to min gle again here in Atlanta. The Dixie Athletic club has just signed them, and next Tuesday night they will display their wares. The last mill between this pair was a peaeherino. Whitney, who is here in town. Is confident that he will win decisively' this time. He claims he was not right before, but be started working this morning, and he should bo tn tiptop condition by Tuesday. O'Keefe will probaldy arirve to morrow morning. * ♦ * pATTLING NELSON wants to ■4-'come to Atlanta to box. If the promoters of the Dixie Ath letic club can secure him for any reasonable money, I am sure they would be making a good move if they' put him on with the win ner of the Vyhitney-O’Keefe scrap. Atlanta has never seen a tighter of the Nelson type. Although the Battler is not the Battler of old, he still puts up an exhibition that no other fighter, be he bantam, light, welter, middle or heavy, can du plicate. From the tap of the starting gong to the final bell, he is always fighting. S. I. A. A. MAY HAND “CAN” TO MISSISSIPPI UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS, Dee 7.—Those ac quainted with the inner workings of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic association think that the grand bounce is being prepared for the Uni versity of Mississippi. The annual meeting of the S. 1. A. A. is to lie held in New Orleans, December 13. am! it is believed that at this meeting it will be voted to expel the University of MissitvMppi from membership. In ef fect that would kill athletics at the Oxford institution, as all members of the S. I. A. A. would thereby be barred from competing against any Missis sippi team. Mississippi’s offense wa» calling off the annual football struggle against the Mississippi A. and M. nt Jackson Thanksgiving day. When the S. I. \. A. ruled that Fletcher, quarterback, could not play because of alleged pro fessionalism. the Mississippi players held a meeting and voted to disband. Tills action, it Is said, was sanctioned by college authorities, though tile Fletcher case had been sent to the S. 1. A. A. for arbitration, both sides agreeing to accept tills verdict. Other interesting matters will also be brought up at the annual meeting. Track and field championships will be awarded, probably to Nashville. Dr. Dudley, of Vanderbilt, will be re-elected president, and the vaiious vice presi dents will also be returned to office. BRESNAHAN AND LAWYER ARE GOING TO MEETING ST. LOUIS, Dee. 7—Armed with a bundle of evidence to show be should col lect no less than $49,000 in addition to bls 10 per cent of the profits for the last year of his management of the Cardi nals. Roger Bresnahan will appear before the special meeting of the board of direc tors of the National league in New York Monday. Notice that Bresnahan had changed his earlier decision not to attend the meet ing was received by his lawyer. George T Priest, from Bresnahan, who said he would leave Toledo Saturday for New- York. Priest will accompany "the duke" to the meeting. WOLGAST IN BAD TRIM: CAN’T BOX FOR AWHILE SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7. The clrances of the former lightweight champion and boxer, Ad Wolgast, ap pearing In a oral ring on N.-a Yt It g day were dimmed today by the receipt by Promoter Coffroth from Wolgast's manager. Tom Jones, of a telegram saying Wolgast's left arm and hand had stiffened and that lie did not care to box again soon. IRWIN BUSINESS MANAGER. NEW YORK. Dee 7 Arthur A. Ir win. scout for the American leagut baseball club since 1908, has been ap pointed business manager and will hereafter look afte: only the Hnanci.il end of the club True, Nelson has no gt;eat knock out punch, but he fights so fast that he will break the heart of any man who isn’t game from think tank to pedals. H< wades In wide open, never backs up a step and the harder he's hit the faster lie battles. The following letter 1 just re ceived from Nelson's manager, John R. Robinson, well explains itself: PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4. 1912. W. S. Farnsworth, Sporting Editor The Georgian. Atlanta. Ga. Dear Bill; Have hooked up with Nel son again. He made a great light with Leach Cross in New York on Thanksgiving day. Am planning a tour of the South and would like to stage him in Atlanta. Kindly see pro moters there and tell them 1 will give them best rate possible. Bat sends his regards and so do I. Your old pal. JOHN H. ROBINSON. • ♦ « » L KUBIAK is verily in earnest ■‘X when lie says he will fight Carl Morris here on a winner-take-all basis. I was afraid that Al might come here, do a sweet Hop a la Jack McFarland, and said in Wed nesday's paper that the match should never he made. But last night 1 received a let- BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip FLASH Birmingham. Ala.. Dei*. 14. W . M. Kaxanaugh has been named presi dent of the Southern league for the unip steenth time. * * * Gox’ernor J<»hn K. Tener, of Pennsyl vania, who is said to in-ad the syndicate that is to buy the Phillies, was a ball player himself once and made the tour around the xvorld with A. G. Spalding's famous team. * » • Joe Casey, former Utile Rock captain, lias slumped to the Hartford club. .Bumpus Jones, once a world-beating pitcher. :s helpless with locomotor ataxia at a Payton hospital and a benefit is being planned for him. All he asks is that tlie fans raise enough to keep him in tobacco and shaves during tlie short time he has to live “ w ■ The Western league magnates have asked “Tip” <>’Xeil to resign, but they are still waiting for the official docu ment. The International league will meet Mon day. It hasn’t a blessed thing to do, for Barrows is serving a long term as presi dent and the pennant lias already been awarded. • • • The only man who hasn't thus far been suggested as manager of tlie Highlanders is Charles Faust and Mr. Faust is hereby put in nomination. * ♦ ♦ Harrs Howell, once a pitcher in the big league, now an umpire in Texas, has had tlie nerve to ask for more salary. • • • \\ illie Keeler will h< Id his job as bat ting ’nstructor on the Brooklyn team, pot that he accomplished much last sear. • ♦ ♦ Lou (Tiger xvill take the Boston Ameri can pitchers to W aco for a work-out next spring • • ■ Empire Rigler says he spent $250 in making jl.is for a trip to Cuba and noxx the Cubans have asked waivers on the trip. • • • In apologizing tor Horace Fogel Presi dent Lynch expressed tlie polite opinion that possibly he hud been ‘‘ill-advised.’’ • ♦ • I T. Redus is mentioned as probable president of the Cotton States league in 1913. It xvas foolish to mention it in ad vance Redus may skip the country be fore they can name him. • • • New i>rleans experts are saying that if Charley Frank let a chance pass to gm <>rlle Weaver he must have something mighty strong m sight They surelv liked Weaver down in that Crescent City • * • The only ball player xvho is really doing anx thing on the stage is Hugh Jennings Tlie report is that ho is really clever. • • • Harry Wolter will ask the new manager of the Highlanders whoever he is. for permission to do his sitting training on tlie coast He ll get it. too- like a fish. * * It is reported that pressure has been put ..ii I’resident Navin to force linn to trade Corrldcn i<> t'lnrlnnall for Chance. If Hits is true it means that I'lnkor goes to t’in, inna't 1 for <’orrlden and that Frank Chatter goes to the Highlanders ter from Johnny Loftus, a Phila delphian of high standing in box ing circles throughout the East, in which Loftus says that Kubiak will fight on the winner-take-all plan. Anything Loftus says goes with yours truly, and if he brings Ku biak here, Al will have to come clean or, Johnny will fill him so full of holes that the big fellow’ will re semble a Swiss cheese. Here is Loftus - letter: PHILADELPHIA,'Dec. 4, 1912 - W. S. Farnsworth, Th<- Georgian. . Atlanta, Ga. Dear Mr. Farnsworth: 1 am anxious to match Al Kubiak with Carl Morris at the Dixie Ath letic club. Kubiak will box Morris any way that suits Morris. Winner take-all is the way we would like it. I won’t stand tor a 50-50 basis, but if Morris insists will cut 60 and 40. Mor ris has been offered many chances with Kubiak, but has always given an excuse. I don’t think that Morris would be easy for Kubiak, but I do think Al can beat him. for I figure that Kubiak's experience will return him the win ner. Kubiak just boxed Gunboat Smith and Tony Ross here, and a cou ple of days later Ross beat Balzer easily. Hoping that you will give this a little space in your paper, I ant Very’ truly yours. JOHNNY LQFTUS. BESSEMER CLUB FIVE IS TRIMMED AT COLUMBUS COLUMBUS, GA.. Dec. 7.—The Co lumbus Young Men's Christian asso ciation defeated the Bessemer Athletic club in basket ball here last night by the score of 33 to 15. Bessemer showed unexpected ability in passing, but fell down in goal throw ing. In the second half they picked up somewhat. Columbus did most of tin? scoring in the first half, getting 23 points, while Bessemer made only 4. In the second half Columbus used subs. Bessemer made 11 points to Colum bus' 10. Peddy led in scoring for Columbus Y. M. C. A., getting seven field goals and three fouls with extra point for fouls in throwing goal. B. S. Clay, of Bessemer, got three of their five field goals. His guarding was a feature. Summary: Columbus—Field goals, Peddy 7. I.ouons 3, Dazier 2, McDuffie 1. Massey I: fouls. Peddy 4. Bessemer Field goals. Clay 3. Donaldson 1, Schober 1: fouls. chober 5. Time, 20-15. Umpire, D. Kirven. HARBISON IN ATLANTA: 1913 PLANS UNCERTAIN Douglas Harbison, the Cracker short stop who was drafted last fall by the New York Americans, is a visitor in Atlanta. He seems an elusive performer in the off-season and. though several fans and Manager Billy Smith as well have seen him flitting about, nobody has been unearthed who knows what he is doing here (>r how long h ewill stay. Harbi son stated to one of his local friends that he did not know what disposition the Highlanders would make of his services. MARQUARD WILL MARRY MISS BLOSSOM SEELY ST. Louis. MO.. Dee. 7.- Rube" .Mar<iuard. of tlie New York Giants, ad mits that lie will marry Blossom See ley, ins vaudeville partner, as soon as she can get a divorce from her hus band. Joseph Katie, who has a $25,00(1 alienation suit pending against Mar quard in New York. JOCKEY MADE OVER $600,000 IN FRANCE NEW YORK, Dee. 7 —Frankie O'Neil. American jockey, lias retu.ned font Europe for the holidays. He made a record of 135 firsts and 312 seconds In 580 starts on tlie French turf and cleared over $600,000 during his sou years in I’rance. JIM THORPE HAS OFFER TO TURN PROFESSIONAL CARLISLE. PA., Dec. 7 Jim Thorpe, the Indian athlete, is considering an i ffii tr.ui. Or’ ■|'« (|inseh professional hockey te ini. of Toronto. Canada, to join the < lul> a> a big salary Wise Baseball Men Say That George Baumgartner Has More Speed Than Johnson or Wood (This is the eleventh of a series of articles on “Youngsters Who Made Good in Big Leagues” last season.) By Sam Crane. WHAT do you think of a 'young pitcher who has such tremendous speed and other promising points that he has been pronounced by such wise crit ics as Bobby Wallace, George Sto vall and Lou Criger as having "more” than Walter Johnson, of the Washingtons? Well, George Baumgartner, of the St. Louis Brywns, is the pitch er who expected to make the American “cyclone” take a back seat one of these days and come to the front as a pitching star who will supersede both Walter John son and Joe Wood in speed. When any ball player speaks of a pitcher as "having mote” than another boxman. the expression covers every point in pitching, in cluding a swifter ball, superior curves, more deceptive change of • pace, better control and everything else. That lavish praise heaped on Baumgartner was given him while the St. Louis Browns were taking spring practice in Montgomery, Ala., last March. Monte Gross, the old Philadelphia Athletics’ shortstops, who is one of the most experienced old-timers in the business and one of the best of scouts, came out with the fol lowing stiff prediction on Baum gartner: Here's Monte Cross’ Prediction. “I am willing to stake my repu tation as a judge of ball players on the prediction that Baumgartner will prove the best pitcher in the American league this season (1912 Now, all those wiseacres of baseball were not so far wrong, if they were not absolutely right, in their bold but confident predic tions. Last season (1912) Baumgartner, although with a consistent losing aggregation, won eleven games and lost fourteen. Just take into con sideration what the youngster might have done had he been for tunate enough to have had his ini tial big league lines lAid with the Boston Red Sox, Washington or the Athletics, all winning teams and able to keep him out in both bat ting and fielding. It is safe to say' that Baumgart ner, under more favorable condi tions, would have more than made good the confidence placed in him by Wallace. Stovall. Criger and Cross. It is a very bold and robust im agination that will predict the pull ing down from their pedestals of such cracks as Johnson and Wood, who have established their great reputations by winning work year after year and give no indication of "going back” under the constant strain of one victorious season after another. Team Helped Johnson. Still, Johnson was not the re markable pitching sensation he was last season, until he had a team behind, him that was of some as sistance to hint. He was feared, of course, and was always dangerous, and every one knew his wonderful ability and appreciated it, but why not give Baumgartner an equal chance? Surely neither Wood nor John son ever started oft' any more promisingly titan did the youth who lias made himself famous in one year with the losing St. Ixtuis Browns. Baumgartner is n versatile youngster, too, ns he has played first base, and right up to the han dle. The "find" played with the Hunt ington. W. Va., club of the Moun tain States league in 1911. and it was with these that he first at tracted attention of scouts from all over the big leagues. His record deserved all the interest manifest ed in him. He won 24 and lost ti. giving him a winning percentage of .727. His batting average w.is .126, and fielding .932. With the Browns last season • was in 28 games, fielded at a .9'5 gait and hit .245. in 1911 he av< i aged nine strikeouts to a game, an i he is going to try to boost that record next season. St. Louis tans think that he has it in him to do it. Mound City’ lovers of baseball are enthusiastic about he youngstei. and Manager Stovafl says he wil: not take back a word of the pr> diction he ma4e of the youngstei - grand future a year ago. HORINE WILL FIGHT FOR HIS MARK OF 6 FT. 7 IN. SAN FRANCISCO. Dee. 7.—-Frien : ■ of George Horine, holder of the woi ld't running high jump record, led by Pres ident Elliott, of the Pacific Athleti' association, have begun a campaign which they hope will eventually com pel the A. A. U. to accept the young ster’s remarkable figures of 6 feet 7 inches. At a recent meeting of that body thi mark was turned down, while anoiiie’ of Horine's jumps, 6 feet 6 1-8 inchi .-, was passed upon favorably. The Cali fornians are a sore lot because the other record didn't go through. Horine is credited witlt jumping 1 feet 7 inches at the Pacific Olympic tr outs. Investigation by A. A. U. ex perts brought out the charge that Ho rine used forbidden tactics in going "v. . the bar. so the record was thrown itr 1 the discard. Horine got the other ma: at a dual meet between Stanford uni versity and the University' of Southern California, held on the Stanford groom, on March 29 last. BRENNAN SHADES YOUNG. BUFFALO, N. Y., Dee. 7.—Knockout Brennan, of this city, shaded Georg- Chip, of Youngstown, Ohio, here la-' night in a fast and exciting ten-romm bout. A MILD, pleasing “Turkish-blend” that suits the Amer ican taste. If you haven’t you proba bly will. 20 in plain package—that’s why the price is only 15c. " Diltinctioely Individual “ ybr