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8 ®©KM STOW OTO*HI®TO EPITLD Ty 9 FAPNSWOFTH Oh, Look Who’s Back From Their Vacation! :: :: :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher i --- 1 - ■ F * ' ' 1 Joy Hte-fs a p. 1 hutt got a GOOD I &- wr Pf ~ews ? 'x? ! 1 co '■etc flEs", ' L ' 1 i ! SA,VS '**'■ * WS ' T ' i x* • cove our SB. ‘ _ r " r"" BACK TO I C I < VX/OR.K J :S / 1 V j dShJ i 7 _ t/tylT'J*- 'r\ JK> />»_ Y r•* \ I H-i I *M*v -.-fW ‘c2s T»wi <s !i (TjlLjl H 11 I J .>., -' ’-7MU yrVf j . , -- - - ■ - - -• —1 "■" ■ ■■"«—- -.. i. Billy Smith Has 1913 Crackers Well Lined Up; OnlyOnePlace That He’s Not Filled for Sure By Percy 11. Whit ini;. S(t far have Bill Smith's plans for his Atlanta club pro gressed that it Is possible to pick the Atlanta team of 11'13 with amazing accuracy. This is the way it looks Infield —Agler, first base. Alper man. second base; Dobard. short - atop; Wallace Smith, third base. Outfield—Bailey. Callahan and one man yet to be secured, prob ably Jay Kirke. Catchers -McAllister and Rey nolds. Pitcheis Weaver, Donnelly, Bra dy, Becker and Price Utility Keating. • • * z~\F course. Bill Smith will bring on a few other men for trial Graham and Malcolmson. catchers; Ninon. Long and possibly Sisson, outfielders, and doubtless several pitchers. But in the back part of Bill Smith’s head, where the heavy thinking is dom . the line-up is al most deci, < <1 on. One position in tin outfield is i uncertain ami will be until Jay Kirke or some othei heavy hitter is signed. Th, t . is also an off i chance that som< other infielder may be bought. Says Bill Smith; "I started to 1 buy an Infielder from the Boston Nationals. But 1 didn’t. 1 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 is a 300 hitter "And fast,” put In the intervlew et. ’’Yea. and fast.” admitted BUI. •'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 and he’ll steal mighty near as many bases as he it, 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 ami the slide, he is likely to get away with It all right.” Returning to tne outfield Smith continued "I 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, ts the Kirke deal rentes through, we are fixed.” Kirke. of course, will be recalled 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 liki .y to come to the Southern and to pile up an aver age that will put him strictly in the hunt, if he doesn’t catch one ball in five that come his way. Ac cording to Smith’s system, a team needs two real sluggers. He ex pects to have them with Bailey and Kirke. • • • rrWO men 1n the infield at. al * ready well known—Aglet and Alperman. Both are corkers as good as any players in their posi tion in the league. The right wing . of the Crackers’ inner defen-. sas tight as a -teapot. Wallace Smith, the new third baseman, comes fron. the t’ardi- He whs picked up oft the in St • i •• ■. • < . ■ » - I; 1912 AVERAGES OF ; : 1913 ATLANTA MEN J • • • Player, Pos. B.A. F.A. S.B. • • Agler, lb .264 .98.;, 14 • • W. Smith, 3b. .257 .953 20 • • Dobard, ss . 269 .925 35 • • Keating, utility.. .252 .880 57 • • McAllister, c 253 .956 20 • • Graham, c 239 .937 20 • • Reynolds, c .226 .945 2 • • Malcolmson, c... .215 .981 15 • • Bailey, of 315 .965 25 • • Callahan, of 250 .964 30 • ® Nixon, of 279 .922 15 • ; • Long, 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 lie was taken on by Louis 1 Castro at Portsmouth. "The I Count” boosts him skyward and I says that he has made good al ready. Keating was discovered by Connie Mack, who touted Manager i His 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. CMITH is pinning all his faith on Lew McAllister, the old Detroit catcher, for 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 KN4 iXVILLE, PENN., Dec. 7 Tl < athletic authorities at the University of Tennessee are negotiating with the Vanderbilt football management for a football game to be stagdd between Tennessee and \’andeiblit-in November, 1913. While nothing definite has been heard from the 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 u date on that team's schedule Practically all the Volunteei stars will return to the "hill" next season, and with added material. I < am .-sc, should be represented by one of the best elevens in th« South. INTERNATIONAL LIMIT IS BOOSTED TO $6,000 NEW \ORK. I 7 The snljirv limit in the International league, which 14 000 ,i month last year. max b» | boosted to Jt.junt a month this year. so llhat <lub owneis mav avail t hemsrlv • > |<»f the >e \ iv» b . f ii.gii Knob plavcr* -HE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1912. Battling Nelson Wants to Come to At/anta—Kubiak's Manager Writes WHITNEY AND O’KEEFE WILL MIX HERE TUESDAY By W. S. Farnsworth. RANK WHITNEY and Tom my O’Keefe are going to min gle again here in Atlanta. Thp Dixie Athletic club has just signed them, and next Tuesday night they w ill display their wares. The last mill between this pair was a peacherino. Whitney, who is here in town, is confident that he will win decisively this time. He claims he was not right before, but he started working this morning, and lie should be in tiptop condition by Tuesday. O’Keefe will probably’ arrive to morrow morning. * * * IDATTLING NELSON wants to J come to Atlanta to box. If the promoters of the Dixie Ath letic club can secure him for any reasonable money, 1 am sure they- would be making a good move If they put him on with the win ner of the Whitney-O’Keefe scrap. has never seen a fighter 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, Dec 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. I A. A. is to be held in New Orleans, December 13, and it is believed that at this meeting it will be voted to expel the University of Mississippi from membership. In ef fect that would kill athletics at the Oxford institution, as all members of the S. 1. A. A. would thereby be barred from competing against any Missis sippi team. Mississippi’s offense was calling off the annual football struggle against the Mississippi A. and M. at Jackson Thanksgiving day. When the S, I. A. A. ruled that Fletcher, quarterback, could not play because of alleged pro fessionalism. the Mississippi players held a meeting and voted to disband. This action, it is said, was sanctioned by college authorities, though the Fletcher case had been sent to the S. I A. A. for arbitration, both sides agreeing to accept this 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 various vice presi dents will also be returned to office. BRESNAHAN AND LAWYER ARE GOING TO MEETING ST LOI’IS, Dec 7 Armed with h bundle of evidence to show lie should col lect no less than >4(1.000 in addition to his 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 hy his lawyer. Gorge 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 chances of the former lightweight champion and boxer, Ad Wolgast, ap pearing in a local ring on New Year's day were dimmed today by the receipt by I’ imioter t'oflroth from Wolgast's manager. font Jones, of a telegram saying Wolgast's left aim and hand had stiffened and that he did not cate to box again soon. IRWIN BUSINESS MANAGER. NEW YORK, Dei 7. Arthur A. Ir win. scout for the American league ba.-ebal! club situ < I9'ix. has been ap pointed Imslm s- managei mid wi; heieaftei look aft< only the liu.inei.. end of th< club True. Nelson has no great 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. He wades in wide , open, never backs up a step and the harder he's hit the faster He battles. The following letter 1 just re ceived from Nelson's manager, John R. Robinson, well explains itself: PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4. 1912. VV. S. Farnsworth. Sporting Editor The Georgian. Atlanta. Ga. Dear Bill; Have hooked up with Nel son again. He made a great tight 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 I will give them best rate possible. Bat. sends his regards and so do I. Your old pal. JOHN R. ROBINSON. ♦ • * a L KUBIAK is verily’ In earnest when he says he will fight Carl Morris here on a wlnner-take-all basis. I was afraid that Al might come here, do a sweet flop a la Jack McFarland, and said in Wed nesday’s paper that the match should never be made. But last night I received a let- BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip FLASH—Birmingham. Ala.. Dec. 14. \V M. Kavanaugh has been named presi dent of the Southern league for the ump steenth time. Governor John K. Tener. of Pennsyl vania, who is said to head the syndicate that is to buy the Phillies, was a ball player himself once and made the tour around the world with A. G. Spalding's famous team. • * • Joe Casey, former Little Rock captain, has slumped to the Hartford club. * * • Bumpus Jones, once a world-beating pitcher, is helpless with locomotor ataxia at a Dayton hospital and a benefit is being planned for him. All he asks is that the fans raise enough tn keep him in tobacco and shaves during the short time he has to live. , • a • The Western league magnates have asked "Tip” O'Neil to resign, hut thev 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 has already- been awarded. a • The only man who hasn’t thus far been suggested as manager of the Highlanders is < harley Faust and Mr. Faust is hereby put in nomination. * ♦ ♦ Harry Howell, once a pitcher in the big league, now an umpire in Texas, has had . the nerve to ask for more salary. Willie Keeler will hold his job as bat ing instructor on the Brooklyn team, not that he accomplished much last year. » ♦ ♦ Lou <’riger will take the Boston Ameri can pitchers to Waco for a work-out next spring. • • • I’mpire Rigler says he spent >250 in making plans for a trip to Cuba and now the Cubans have asked waivers on the trip. • • • In apologizing for Horace Fogel Presi dent Lynch expressed the polite opinion that possibly he had been "ill-advised.” I T. Redus is mentioned as probable president of the Cotton States league in 1 1913. It was foolish to mention it in ad vance. Redus may skip the country be fore they can name him • • r New Orleans experts are saying that if Charley Frank let a chance pass to get Orlie Weaver he must have something mighty strong in sight They surely liked Weaver down in that Crescent City • • • The only ball player who Is really doing anything on the stage is Hugh Jennings The report is that he is really clever ■ * • Harry W olter will ask the new manager of the Highlanders, whoever he is. for permission to do his spring training on I the coast He ll get ft. too—like a fish It is reported that pressure has been pul oti President Navin to force him to trade Corrlden to Cincinnati for Chance If iliis is true it means that Tinker goes i io ('lm imiati for Corrlden and that Frank Chance 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, The Georgian. Atlanta. Ga. Dear Mr. Farnsworth; I am anxious to match Al Kubiak with Carl Morris at the Dixie Ath letic club. Kubiak will box Morris any way that suits .Morris. Wlnner take-all is the way we would like it. I won't stand for a 50-50 basis, but if Morris insists w’ill 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 Palzer easily. Hoping that you will give this a little space in your paper, I Very truly yours, W JOHNNY LOFTOS. BESSEMER CLUB FIVE IS TRIMMED AT COLUMBUS COLUMBUS, GA.. Dec. 7—The Go lunibus 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 the scoring in the first half, getting 23 points, while Bessemjr 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, Louons 3, Dozier 2, McDuffie 1. Massey 1; fouls, Peddy 4. Bessemer —Field goals, Clay 3, Donaldson 1, Schober 1; fouls, Schober 5. Time, 20-15. Umpire. D. Klrven. 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 or how long he will stay. Harbi son stated to one of hie local (friends that he did not know what disposition the Highlanders would make of his services. marquaMK l marry MISSES SOM SEELEY ST. LOUIS. MO.. Dec. 7.-" Rube” Marquard, of the New York Giants, ad mits that he will marry Blossom See ley. his vaudeville partner, as soon as she can get a divorce from her hus band. Joseph Kane, who has a $25,000 allenatioh suit pending against Mar quard in New York. JOCKEY MADE OVER $600,000 IN FRANCE NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—Frankie O’Neil. American jockey, has returned from Europe for the holidays. He made a record of 135 firsts and 312 seconds in 580 starts on the French turf and cleared over $600,000 during bls sou" yeats in France. JIM THORPE HAS OFFER TO TURN PROFESSIONAL Carlisle, pa . Dec 7 jim Thorpe, tlie Indian athlete, is considering an oner from the Tecumseh professional hockey team of Toronto. C'anada. to join the I dub a' a big salary Wise Baseball Men Say That n I George Baumgartner Lias More I Speed Than Johnson or Wood I (This is the eleventh of a series of articles on “Youngsters Who Made Good in Big Leagues” last season.) # By Sain 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 Browns, is the pitch ar 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 more” 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 Cross, 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. ”1 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 41912) 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- 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 him. 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 off any more promisingly than did the youth who has made himself famous in one year with the losing St. Louis Brow ns. Baumgat liter is a versatile youngster, too, as he has played first base, and right up to the han dle. Tne "find" played witlt the Hunt ington, W. Va„ club of the Moun tain States league in 1911, and : was witlt these that he first at tracted attention of scouts from ~l over the big leagues. His record deserted all the interest manifest ed in him. He won 24 and lost 9, giving him a winning percentage of .727. His batting average was .126, and fielding .932 With the Browns last season he was in 28 games, fielded at a .985 gait and hit .245. In 1911 he aver aged nine strikeouts to a game, and he is going to try to boost that record next season. St. Louis fans think that he has it in him to do it. Mound City lovers of baseball are enthusiastic about he youngster, and Manager Stovall says he will not take back a word of the pre diction he made of the youngster's grand future a year ago. HORINE WILL FIGHT FOR HIS MARK OF 6 FT. 7 IN. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7 —Friends of George Horine, holder of the world's running high jump record, led by I’. > >- ident Elliott, of the Pacific Athletic 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 tecent meeting of that body this mark was turned down, while another of Horine's jumps. 6 feet 6 1-8 inches, was passed upon favorably. The Cali fornians are a sore lot because ths other record didn’t go through. Horine is credited witlt jumping 6 feet 7 inches at the Pacific Olympic try outs. Investigation by A. A. U ex perts brought out the charge that Ho rine used forbidden tactics in going over the bar, so the record was thrown into the discard. Horine got tlie other mark at a dual meet between Stanford uni versity and the University of Southern California, held on the Stanford grounds on March 29 last. BRENNAN SHADES CHIP. BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 7. —Knockout Brennan, of this city, shaded Gemsre Chip, of Youngstown, Ohio, here im-t night in a fast and exciting ten-round bout. A MILD, pleasing “Turkish-bleno” 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. 1 'ljDutinctieely Individual ” {^' ° i-x>c 20 or OSy» 4®