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Bill Smith May Take Crackers to Cuba Next Fall
Will Make Trip if Team Finishes Near the Top
By Percv fl. Whiting.
BILL smith piling to take the
Cracker club to Cuba next
fall, provided they make an
even half-way decent showing In
• the. Southern league rave. Yester
day Manager Bill received a sort of
tentative proposition from Cuba,
and he wasn’t long- in coining '
through with an enthusiastic us- 1
sent.
“Go!" said Smith, “I should say
I would. Do you know what the
New Orleans players made In the
•> tall--JIOO apiece and all expenses.
Do you guess I’d go for that. Well. .
I should say. It would be a grand
; trip.'’
The supercilious way that the
Athletics treated tin Cuban teams
this winter makes it likely that no
big league teams will be invited to
Cuba for a while To make money,
a team 'unist be secured that will
| lose a good proportion of its games.
So perhaps there was something of
an insult in the invitation to the
* Crack' .s. But Bill Smith isn't sen
si live.
“I’ll lak< the Crackers if things
break right." says Smith.
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|<>E Massaguer, sporting editor of
J Tit. ilfivito Post and El Dla.
has ’ rltt.cn Bill Smith, touting
Ilian Viola very violently. Juan,
it will be recalled, is the Cuban
aim played with JaeksAnville and
CvkHidMis tn the Sally league and
wiyo got a try out with Chnttanougn.
r . x plains Viola’s poor
Work with tile Lookouts by dilating
tin an injury that did trouble him
s-'V< rely fyr a w hile. He says that
lie is all right again and that his
showing with tin Havana IL-ds, the |
team in, is now playing with, has
been immense.
Smith is not especially keen for
Viola, but may decide to give him
■another chance.
M ORA NANDDRISCOLL
TO FIGHT FOR "TITLE"
By Ed. W. Smith.
lATEST English sporting pa
pers Contain much of an in
t( v-ting nature about the
boxers oA the other side, but noth
ing that is quite so readable as ;<
story about the matching of Owen
Moran and Jem Driscoll, two of the
greatest lighters that England eve-:
turned out. That of itself is not of
such great importance, but we
r 'pad with u great deal of nstonisli
i mem. that tllv battle is to be for
the Ceathf .veigh; championship of
p <be wo-Id
Won't that maki Jolinnj Kilbune
jump out of bis boots though? \V,
think so. it will start a roar a’!
f along the in. . too. for over her,
h we are Hot used to seeing tin Brit
-1 i«!i claim anything of any linpur-
‘ lance in the boxing line without n
• big p ot'st.
No Weight Mentioned.
g Ender the conditions ot the
E agreement signed by the men üb
[.' solutely no weight is mentioned
g at, all, so i< don't see where the
- technical British have a eham.r to
make a championship battle out o’
h a catch-weight affair. Then maj
Ks be a side agreement of some kind
jt-soim: amendment to tin at tides
® somywliet but certainly the
w<-ighf gets no mention in th. i-upy
of the article- printed in Spotting
;■ Life.
.r i Th<- men. who long hat. p... n
'Jtte cm luics. will meet at th.
jriohit;' Spurting rhJb in » B.c’.'.v
!
of Atlanta’s distinguished,
albeit distinctly dusky, base
ball citizens is going to Cuba this
u infer. His name is Bedding, or
something of that sort, but to At
lanta baseball fans he is known as
"Spaniard."
"Spaniard" turned up at the ball
park a few years ago. then a skin
ny, long-armed young buck, and
wanted any Job. He was wild about
baseball and gradually edged Into
the job of fetching to the battere
in batting practice. Finally he was
hired for that work aldne, receiving
the munificent sum of s<l cents a
game. Now "Spaniard” is draw
ing '2t'O a month all summer with
the Lincoln Giants and this win
ter he is to go to Cuba, with all
expenses paid for himself and his
wife, and a nice salary to boot.
"Spaniard” was a great favorite
with the Atlanta players during his
term of service, for lie "had a. lot
of stuff," but with it such good
control that tlie butters felt, no fear
of being hit.
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JJECAUSE the hall players object
to the garish fence signs and
because they detract from the ap
pearance of the park, the directors
are considering the scheme of do
ing away with them at Ponce De-
Leon ball park. The money re
ceived from the sale of this privi
lege is rather inconsequential and,
considering the. amoun| it would
add to the attractiveness of the
pitrk to do away with the sighs, the
diSectors believe it might uo.t be a
bad idea to get rid of them entirely.
Some of the big league clubs have
taken this step and they believe
that in the long run it pays
M *i W
•'CHE baseball situation in Mont
gomery is becoming alarming.
Richard Tillis, owner of the fran
chise, has announced that he will
have nothing to do with baseball
next season and will not run a. club
in Montgomery.
All attempts to raise :t stock
show in public in the meantime, a
condition that would hardly be tol
< rated by the boxers here. There
will be a purse of $7,500 tor tin
battle, two-thirds of which will be
given to the winner.
Claim Driscoll Is Champion.
In commenting on the match.
St orting Life has this to say:
"Driscoll, as everybody knows, is
tin undisputed world’s feather
weight ciiampiqn, while no one has
J a bette: t ight to challenge him for
| tlto title than Owen Moran, True,
I Moran met with several reverses in j
Anie’ieu. but the fact must not bo
lost sight of that he was opposed
in bigger men. to whom he had to
concede from sen to twelve pounds
especially In the cases of a.i Wot
gast and Puckey McFarland."
Tliis is scarcely true. Moran
neve had to concede that much
weight in this country, especially to
VV olgast, who at best is a natural
I.'.(i-pounder. Moran weighed 126
to 128 all the ;ime he was in this
j country and perhaps many times
wa« welt over the 130-pound mark.
Moran Beats Condon.
it is probable that Moran and
Driscoll will meet at 126 pounds,
which is what they call the feath
erweight limit in England.
That Moran Is in pretty good
-hapc at tlie present time is shown
bj his flm- defeat of Johnny Con
or. of Loudon, decided at Hi: -
mingiium, Eng’am], th. other night.
Ih. ..it,l,, went the full twenty
•miti.A urn m (1U „ „.,t 1(n , asv de
' ■' .uouaii it to ' i;m <Jj,] he
,tli\ ti»‘‘ n.
THE ATLASTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. I I ESDAY. DECEMBER 10. 1912.
company in Montgomery to handle
the franchise have proved fruitless.
So that city is in the air.
in the meantime the Little Rock
folks, who were previously on the
market for that or any franchise,
have announced that they have re
tired for this year and aren’t pre
pared to buy. «
Just how much of this is bluff
can't be determined, just offhand.
Considerable, no doubt,
But if Tillis is in earnest, which
is quite possible, for he lias enough
money so that he doesn’t particu
larly care whether baseball is
played or not, he may start some
thing. If Montgomery folks can't
raise the money for the purchase of
the franchise, then it is on the mar
ket for fair. If Little Rock doesn’t
want it—wow!
There are few enough good cities
within reach of the Southern
league circuit now. To cut out one
of them might work a decided
hardship, especially’ when that one
is so well located, from a railroad
standpoint, as Montgomery. of
course, there has never been any
money in that town for a visiting
team, but it served to break the
jump from towns which did pav.
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A/TEMPHIS baseball writers are
• L ’ l wailing because the Turtle
club has no major league affilia
tions and hence has more trouble
than other clubs in getting players.
Anybody will admit that the
Memphis team hasn't had any luck
of late in getting players who could
win pennants.
Also tljbse bn the inside will be
slow to deny that major league af
filiations are not. an unmixed
blessing.
Charley Hemphill < ante to Atlan
ta last year with major league af
filiations that wen- irreproachable.
But It didn't get him anything.
When a team wins a pennant or
makes a good showing in the
Southern league, the fans are al
ways willing to give more than due
credit to the big- league club that
furnished some o‘s the players.
But did you ever think of the
lemons that are unloaded, always
at a good price, on Dixie clubs by
the organizations with which they’
are affiliated. Think of the “Biff”
Corbins, the Ira Hogues, tin?
"I<efty" Russells and the other won
ders grafted on the Cracker pay
roll by certain big league clubs.
Verily, affiliations are all right—
if they get you any thing.
' . .
| FODDER FOR FANS |
The reason Charley Frank is trying to
get the Southern league salary limit re
duced is that the Pelican club lost money
last year. And the Pels were in the race
and playing in the largest city in the cir
cuit
I Fine "fl season stoiy, "l_arr> Lajoie Is
Slowing Ip and Will Soon Be Replaced be
a Faster Man.' Hut when April pops, j
gent named I«ijoie will be holding an in
field position with the Naps and butting
in the clean-tip position, as usual.
■ Artie Riggs :s trying to revive Die
Southeastern league. Tie has tried every
thing but oxygen and nitrogly'-<-rin with
out avail.
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George Stallings will never marage
another ball dub. he *uys. unless he
makes a success with the Boston Nation
als. All tilings considered, it is impossi
ble for George to make n failure of them.
Somebody beat him to that job
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An Englishman has been named mana
ger of the Newark team —a real so-help
us Britisher named Harry Smith. Verllv.
it is the Internationa) league now tn more
things than name.
• o e
Maybe Harry Smith is an Englishman
like Hurry Vaughn was The newspapers
had a lot about Vaughn's English birth
and touted him as a tremendous cricket
player. As a matter of fact, he was 1...rn
at Cincinnati or some such prosaic place,
and was never out of sight of fund ex
cept one night on th.' Mississippi
The Nats nave seven left-hand hitte.s
.llicl.son. It; an, I. "bold. Urals. Betts 1, b
blo and Hunger Tin t lune six left-hal.d
throw, rs Pit. Vers .Pegg, .lames. Mitel.ell
111.’ XV il.-oli and ilmnei and 1- J..lit Moll
HI th.-' left lai.det- ..... Willie Mitch-
ISiyiORRISTRYING
> ID PULL OFF J
FAKE FIGHT?
By .S. Farnsworth,
(( / 'ARL MORRIS has gone over
t to Chattanooga to fight a
fellow named Bob Wil
liams tonight. There is no fighter
named Bob Williams. This Wil
liams is Jack Keating, who has
been Morris' sparring partner since
he was knocked Out by Carl here
in Atlanta a few weeks ago. Keat
ing left here for Chattanooga the
day before Morris left and is mak
ing a big bluff at training over
there.”
THE above was shot to me over
the telephone this morning.
The informer-refused to give
his name, but he talked like a per
fectly sane person, and as I Jiad
heard whispers along the same line
yesterday, T am inclined to believe
that our young White Hope friend
is pulling oft’ a shady- deal tonight.
If Morris is fighting Keating,
here’s a promise that lie will never
light in Atlanta again. And also
it is our hope that he is never al
lowed to ktep within the plushed
topes anywhere in this universe.
If this fight is a fake It is likely
that Morris will be tipped off that
the "bird is out of the cage” when
some of his local friends read this
Story and he may call off the "Wil
liams” match.
Itut that won’t help .tiirji any. He
will be every bit as guilty as though
he did light Mr. Keating-Williams.
"Bob Williams” is said to be from
Brooklyn, and Chattanooga papers
are printing a line "phoney” record
for him. The writer has been a
close follower of the light game
throughout the East, especially in
New York and Brooklyn, for six
years, and 1 never heard of “Bob
Willie ms.”
JUNIOR CITY LEAGUE
NEEDS FEW MORE TEAMS
More teams, made up of players weigh
ing 135 pounds or less, are wanted by the
Junior t'ity Basket Ball league. The
teams in the league now are the S. V. li.,
the Weslej Memorial second and the Im
maculate (Conception team. The next
meeting of the league will bo held at the
Wesley Memorial church gymnasium at
ti p. m. Saturday and applicants for
franchises should be represented then.
ell bat right handed. And Willie doesn't
but at all.
•-C M »
The Louisville team has passed up the
.'libs UH a source of playing material
and will try to hook up with Pittsburg
» s. »
The bnckers of the Louisville bull club
say tlieir reason for passing up Alordecai
Brown was thill lie is Too old. Tliev want
j youngsters.
I Bill Schwartz will have to make a eon- I
tract wit,!, a iaetory for his spring sup
’A. "*,> ans. He has designs on Elliott.
Bair, l-leharty. Lattimore. Lindsay and I
eeV'Tid "tht-rs. He will stand pat on his j
outfield with Young. James and Hah.
* *
Jimmy Archer is holding out with, great i
Vigor. He wants, strange to relate, mert
salary.
Ihe efforts of Charles Murph' in Chi- I
.•ago and of Mrs Britton in St laiuia '
''o.' l ., 1,1 ion Hwse of Mr. Fogel, ini
I lu.aiielphla. to popularize baseball arc I
| wringing enthusiastic encomiums from 1
otuer National league moguls.
«4 « |
I Shouting the battle cry of "Five thou- I
i I'T.i °l, hvthlng. Jack O’Connor, former '
! Little Lock player, later manager of the
St Louis Browns, will press Ids claim for
salary against Coloftel Hedges. The ease
Is the first baseball wrangle that hus
gone to the civil courts In years.
Horace Fogel is to go Into the silk
u.anuiuetunug busiues lie shut.ld re
fill tuber. however, that even worms will
turn.
Sam Crawford .-ays that he'll play lire;
| base or any other position for the \\ hite
v or any other < lub that will piei him
his pi I. . wliiel h a philosophical way
Twenty-Five Greatest Southern League Players
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No. 15—Harry Sallee Has Forsaken White Lights
I»y Fuzzy AVoodruff.
\ t l ' ,e brand of booze as
X/V firmly implanted on his no
ble Roman nose as France's
lleur delis was once written on
the shoulder of Erance’k convicts,
Harry Sallee was extradited from
the Southern league.
And the South laughed when the
word was sent that the cause' of his
departure bad been a draft from
tile St. Louis Cardinals, tustead of
a discharge to a league denominat
ed "D,” and "D” stands for
"damned” as well as the Cotton
States.
Os course, this was no great pro
motion. When Sallee was called to
greater things, he was a httrler for
the Birmingham ball club, and in
that good year of IHOK the Barons,
under Harry Vaughn, had finished
first. In that same season, in the
National, the Cardinals had finish
ed a miserable last.
Great Caesar said he would ratn
er he first in Griffin than second in
Rome (Italy, not Georgia, please),
and Sallee had no great joy in
DR. W. L. DUDLEY WILL
SPEAK BEFORE N. C. A. A.
MIDDLETOWN. CONN.. Dec. 10.—The
National Collegiate Athletic association
will hold its annual meeting at the Hotel
Astor. New York city, on Erldav, Decem
ber 27.
At the morning session, besides the in
formal address of the. presiding officer
and the report of the secretary, in which
an attempt will be made to sketch briefly
the history of the association, to outline
its aims and methods, and to indicate,
how its usefulness mqy be increased,
there will be two formal addresses. Pro
fessor William L. Dudley, of Vanderbilt
university, president of the Southern In
tercollegiate Athletic association, who has
bad many years of experience in dealing
with intercollegiate athletics, will discuss
"The Proper Control of College Athletics.”
Dr. George L. Meylan. medical director of
Columbia university, in his paper on
“Athletic Training." will review briefly
the history of training for athletic con
tests at the time of the ancient < flympic
games, in England, and later In the
United States, and will consider in detail
the important topics of coaching, medical
supervision and training table.
CUTLER THROWS VINCENT.
CHICAGO. Dec. 10. -Charles Cutler to
day has added to his record a victory
over Illa Vincent. Cuban heavyweight
wrestler.
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shucking his shirt whereon was
writ ‘Champion” for an apparel
that bore letters which the wear
ers hated to exhibit as badly as a
beauteous boy cares to show a blue
eye.
There was no weeping, wailing
nor gnashing of teeth when Sallee
Was sent from the shadow of the
slagpile that once marked Birming
ham’s ball lot.
Remarkable, too, for the pennant
of 1906 was brought the Barons by
their pitchers, and pitchers alone.
Superb hurling made a club finish
first that would have done well to
finish fifth.
That hurling staff was composed
of Irwin Wilhelm, Rip Ragan, Gin
ger Clarke and Harry Sallee. There
would have been a howl move pow
erful than the biggest blast that
ever tore the iron ore from Red
mountain had Vaughn allowed Wil
helm, Ragan or Clarke to depart.
There was not a murmur when Sal
le’e slipped.
Wilhelm was a major league fiz
zle. Ragan went crazy the next
year. Clarke soon dropped Into a
NELSON-MALONEY BOUT
WILL GIVE LINE ON “BAT”
PHILADELPHIA, PA., Dec. 10.—An ac
curate comparison of the present boxing
abilities of Battling Nelson and Ad Wol-
can be made here Friday night,
after Nelson gets through with his six
round battle with Teddy Maloney, the best
lightweight developed in Philadelphia in
recent years. Nelson and Maloney will
meet at the Olympia club under almost
the exact conditions which marked the
meeting between Maloney and Wolgast
In the same ring only a few months ago.
Wolgast will have a slight advantage in
making the comparison, inasmuch as he
forced Maloney to make 133 pounds at
the ringside, while Nelson is allowing
the local star to come in at 133 at 6
o'clock. All other conditions are the
same.
Nelson is training at Jimmy Dougher
ty's Colonial hotel, Crum Lynne. Pa.,
working with two Philadelphia light
weights. id Beebe and Joe Ferguson.
The former lightweight champion of
the world is in splendid condition, and
ts working perhaps harder than at any
time In his career. He wants to whip
Maloney decisively; something Wolgast
failed to do. The local boy obtained an
even break with Wolgast, and on this fact
the comparison will be made. Nelson is
also anxious to test his drawing ability
as compared with that of Wolgast. and
has made several bets that lie will play to
more money than did the Cadillac fighter.
condition of innocuous desuetude.
SALLEE HAS STAYED TO
STAR.
The reason is plain. When he
was with Birmingham the elongat
ed left-hander looked on the flow
ing bowl, or cup. or stein, or “licker"
glass, or any other of the instru
ments used in the sacred cause of
imbibition.
Since he has been in the majors,
he has kept from the white lights.
He has stuck to the white line that
fixes the pitchers’ box.
Sometimes he has strayed, but
before the booze that sent him from
the South discredited could gain
too firm a hold, he has returned to
thp straight and narrow.
One year, under Bresnahan. Sal
lee’s pitching kept the Cardinals a
lighting factor until the last weeks
of the season.
Under Huggins, prophets say he
will do even better. Right now he
ranks with the best of the left
handers.
Maybe the sting of being sent
scorned from the minors made him
the star he is of the majors.
FIELDER JONES TURNS
UP; TOUTED AS MANAGER
CHICAGO, Dec. 10.—Baseball men are
gathering here for the meeting of the
American league to be held later in the
week. One of those who are here is
Fielder .Tones, former manager of th-
Chicago White Sox.
Jones said , his visit here had nothing to ,
do with the league meeting, though he
chatted with the ball magnates. H
would not discuss the report that lie
might manage the Yankees next year.
President Comiskey, of the Sox. wa<
expected here today. President Johnson,
of the league, is on hand, and Treasure’
Robert McCroy, of the Boston Red S.x,
is already- on the ground.
GEO. WATSON GOES DOWN
BEFORE JOHNNY SCHULTZ
COLUMBUS. OHIO, Dec. 10. Battling
Johnny Schultz, of Toledo, dropped
Watson, of Columbus, to the floor in tn
second round of their scheduled ten
round bout here last night.
Watson met his Waterloo while en
gaged tn a warm set-to in the center el
the ring. A short left jab over the hear
followed by a stiff right flush to the jaa,
turned the trick. ,
Harry Sully, of Columbus, outpointw
Young’ O’Brien, of Detroit, in oglu
rounds.