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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. * ♦ • |<>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. • » » 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. ■> • • 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. * £ 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 • » u 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 -«•••$• •'•••;■ 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. Don’t Look Any Further Don’t Worry Any Longer Come here and look over as large an d selected stock of gift spi'cial z/ A ties as you would care to see. A won- 2/ / COME TO /W derful variety of splendid and useful y/// ' articles. | W ocinuTocreT _- JRj Leather Collar Bags. Handkerchief. Tie and nz BtfIUHIHtE $1 to $3.50. Sox. box. $1.50. T7 HOLIDAY GIFT Leather Jewel r y Tie and Socks. $L /3 Headquarters Ja <'uses. $1 to $3 00. Tie and Handkerchief, wW * u ’ Hangers, $1 to j /IT fl Clothes and Hal Belt and Garter. SL (nl / Vv J Brush Sets $2 to $5 Belts with Sterling V' /* L 1 I'ie and Handkerchief ver Buckles. $3..>" t< \ f Cases, $2.50 to $3.50. $ tK - Drinking Cups in Lea- Cuff Links. 50c to s•’ t her Cases, sl. Pin and Tie Clasp. s > 1 * if Military Brushes in- to $1.50. lit 'HI Leather Cases, $3 Pin and Cuff Link. $1 to $5. to $1.50. |l-W Combination Travel- Link and Stud. Tux ■* Faxes (Leather), edo and Dress Sets, 1 $3.50 to $12.50. s2.cli u* 45. Full Dress and Tuxedo Pins, 50c to $6. nT £L(F" Dress Protectors, Watch Chains, $1.50 to Parks - Chambers-Hardwick Co. I 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.