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Bill Smith May Take Crackers to Cuba Next Fall
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Will Make Trip if Team Finishes Near the Top
By. Percy H. Whiting.
BILL SMITH plans to take the
Cracker club to Cuba next
fall, provided they make an
even half-way docent showing In
the Southern league race. Yester
day Manager Bill received a sort of
tentative proposition front Cuba,
and he wasn’t long in coining
through with an enthusiastic as
sent.
"Go!" said Smith, "I should say
I would. Do you know what the
New Orleans players made in the
fall—sloo apiece and all expenses.
Do you guess I’d go for that Well,
1 should say. It would be a grand
trip.” •
The eupercfHous way that the
Athletics treated the Cyban teams
this winter makes it likely that no
big league teams will be Invited to
Cuba for a while. To make money,
a team must be secured that will
iose a good proportion of its games.
So perhaps there was something of
an insult in the invitation to the
Crackers. But Bill Smith isn’t sen
sitive.
‘l'll take the Crackers if things
break right." says Smith.
• • •
TOE Massaguer. sporting editor of
•J Tlie Havana Post and El Din,
has written Bill Smith, touting
linn Viola very violently. Juan,
it will be recalled, is the Cuban
who played with Jacksonville and
Columbus in the Sally league and
who got a tryout with Chattanooga.
Massaguer explains Viola’s poor
work with the Lookouts by dilating
on an injury that did trouble him
severely’ for a. while. He says that
he is all right again and that his
showing with the Havana Reds, the
team he is now playing with, has
been immense.
Smith is not especially keen for
Viola, but may decide to give him
another chance.
MORAN AND DRISCOLL
TO FIGHT FOR "TITLE”
By Ed. W. Smith.
LATEST English sporting pa
pers contain much of an in
teresting nature about the
boxers on the other bMp, but noth
ing that Is quite so readable as a
story about the matching of Owen
Moran and Jem Driscoll, two of the
greatest fighters that England ever
turned out. That of itself is not of
such great Importance, but we
read with a great deal of astonish
ment thnt the battle is to be for
the featherweight championship of
the world!
Won’t that make Johnny Kilbane
jump out of liis boots though? Wi
think so. ft will start n roar all
along the line, too, for over here
ar are not used to seeing the Brit
ish claim anything of any impor
tance in the boxing line without a
big protest.
No Weight Mentioned.
i’nder the conditions of the
agreement signed by the men ab
solutely no weight is mentioned
at all. so we don’t see where the
technical British have a chance to
make a championship battle out of
a catch-weight affai . Ther, mu,
be a side agreement of some kino or
some amendment to th, articles
somewhere. but certainly the
weight gets no mention in the copy
of the articles printed In Sporting
Life.
The men. who long have been
bittv: enemies, will meet at th.
National Sporting club in a twenty
round engagement with -iv-ounc,
and the date ■ I January
ii*‘it nt- iiHii)
QNB of Atlanta's distinguished,
albeit distinctly dusky, base
ball citizens is going to Cuba this
winter. His name is Redding, or
something of that sort, hut 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 pitching to the batters
In batting practice. Finally he was
hired for that work alone, receiving
the munificent sum of 50 cents a
game. Now "Spaniard” is draw
ing 300 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 smrvice, for he "had a lot
of stuff,” but with it such good
control that the batters felt no fear
of being hit.
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WEC'AI'SE the ball 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 amount it would
add to the attractiveness of the
park to do away with the signs, the
directors believe it might not 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.
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"pHE 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 w ill not run a club
in Montgomery.
All attempts to raise a stock
show in public in the meantime, a
condition that would hardly be tol
erated by the boxers here. There
will be a purse of $7.K00 for the
battle, two-thirds of which will be
given to the winner.
Claim Driscoll Is Champion.
In commenting on the match.
Sporting Life has this to say:
•'Driscoll, as everybody knows, is
the undisputed world's feather
weight champion, while no one has
a better right to challenge him for
the titl, than Owen Moran. True.
Moran met with several reverses in
America, but the fact must not bo
lost sight of that he was opposed
by bigger men, to whom he had to
concede from ten to twelve pounds,
especially in tin- cases of Ad Wol
gast and Packey McFarland.”
This Is scnt.eL true. Moran
never had to concede that much
weight in this country, especially to
Wolgast. who at best Is a natural
130-pounder. Moran weighed 126
to 128 all the time he was in this
country and perhaps many times
was well over the 130-pound mark.
Moran Beats Condon.
It is probable that Moran and
Di iscoll, w ill meet at 126 pounds,
which is what they call the feath
erweight limit In England.
That Moran is in pretty good
shape at the present time is shown
by his fin, defeat of Johnny Con
don. of London decided at Bir
|| ‘’isuain. England, the other night
The affair went the full twenty
rounds, and Moran got an easy de
<i'i>n. although at no tim, did It,
hav. Condon tiny whole near a
knockout
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. I CESDAY . 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 i» bluff
can't be determined, just offhand.
Considerable, no doubl.
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!
t 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. Os
course, there has never been any
money tn that town for a visiting
team, but it served to break the
jump from towns which did pay.
K/TEMPHIS baseball writers are
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 those on the inside will be
slow to deny that major league af
filiations are not an unmixed
blessing.
Charley Hemphill came to Atlan
ta last year with major league af
filiations that were irreproachable.
Rut It didn't get him anything.
When a team wins a pennant or
makes a good sitowing in the
Southern league, the fans are al
ways willing to give more than due
credit to the big league club that
furnished some of 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, the
"Lefty” 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 anything.
DROPPER 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 f’els were in the race
and playing In the largest city in the cir
cuit
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Fine off season story, "Lurry l«»ioie Is
Slowing t n and Will Soon Be Replaced by
a Faster Man.’ But when April pops, a
gent named Lajote w ill be holding an in
field position with the Naps and batting
in the clean-up position, as usual.
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Artic Riggs is trying to revive the
Southeastern league. He lias tried every
thing but oxygen and nitroglycerin with- 1
out avail.
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George Stallings will never manage
another ball club, he says. unless he
makes a success with the Boston Nation
als. All things considered, it is ini) >sl
ble for George to make a failure of them ■
Somebody beat him to that job
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An Englishman has been named mana
ger of the Newark leant—a real so-help
its Britisher t . tied Harry Smith Verily,
it is t'ne Interim< 'vital league now in more
things than name.
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Maybe Harry Smith is an Englishman
like Harr, Vaughn was I'he newspajters
had a lot about Vaughn's English birth
and touted him as a tremendous cricket
player As a matter of fact, lie was horn
at Cincinnati or some such prosaic place,
and was never out of sight of land ex
cept one night on the Mississippi.
The Naps have seven left-hand hitters
lackson. Ryan. Liebold. Heals. Belts. Kib
ble and Hunger They have six left-hand
throwers Pitchers Gregg. James. Mitchell
and Wil-oii and Granet and I >oc Johnston
All the-, left handers save Willie Mitch
ISMOBIIISTRYING
TO PULL OFF I
FAKE FIGHT?
By \V. S. Farnsworth.
ARL MORRIS has goneover
y 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 weekrf 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 had
heard whispers along the same line
yesterday, I am inclined to believe
that our young White Hope friend
is pulling off a shady deal tonight.
If Morris is fighting Keating,
here’s a promise that he will never
fight in Atlanta again. And also
it is our hope that he is never al
lowed to step within the plushed
ropes anywhere in this universe.
If this tight 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
Hut that won't help him any. He
will be everj- bit as guilty as though
he did tight Mr. Keating-Williams.
“Rob Williams” is said to be from
Brooklyn, and Chattanooga papers
are printing a tine "phoney” record
for him. The writer has been a
close follower of the tight game
throughout the East, especially in
New York and Brooklyn, for six
years, and I never heard of "Bob
Williams.”
JUNIOR CITY LEAGUE
NEEDS FEW MORE TEAMS
More teams, made up of players weigh
ing 135 pounds or lees, are wanted by the
Junior City Basket Ball league. The
teams in the league now are the S V. D.,
Ute Wesley Memorial second and the Im
maculate Conception team. The next
meeting of the league will be held at the
Weslej Memorial church gymnasium at
6 p. m. Saturday and applicants for
franchises should be represented then.
ell hat right handed And Willie doesn’t
bat at all. -
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The Louisville team has passed up the
Cubs as a source of playing material
ami will tic to hook up with Pittsburg
Th, backers of the Ixiuisville ball club
sax their reason for passing up Mordecal
Brown was t gal he is too old Thev want
youngsters.
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Bill Schwartz v ill have to make a con
tract with a factory tor his spring sup
l: 1 '- 0f .. , , a , 1is Ue , lla ? Resigns on Elliott.
Bair, r leharty. Lattimore, Lindsav anti i
several others He will stand pat hn his
outfield with \oting, James and Dalv
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Jimmy Archer is holding out with great
vigor. He wants, strange to relate more
salary.
The est oris of Charles Murphy in Chi
cago and of Mrs. Britton in St. Louis
not to mention those of Mr. Fogel. ,n
Philadelphia, to popularize baseball are
wringing enthusiastic encomiums from 1
other National league moguls
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Shouting the battle crv of "Five thou
sand or nothing. ' .luck O’Connor, former
Little Hoel, player, later manager of the
St. Louis Browns, will press his claim for
salary against Colonel Hedges. ’l’he ease
is the first baseball wrangle that has
gone to the civil courts in years.
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Horace Fogel is to go into the silk
manufacturing busines He should re
member. how, y< r that even worms will
turn.
Sam Ct aw ford says that he’ll play first
base or any other position for the White
Sox or any other club that will |«y him
Ills price, which is a philosophical wav
of looking at It.
! Twenty-Five Greatest Southern League Players
a»a
No. 15—Harry Sallee Has Forsaken White Lights
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
rITH the brand of booze as
VV firmly implanted on his no
ble Roman nose as France's
• fleur delis was once written on
the shoulder of France’s' convicts,
Harry Sallee was extradited from
the Southern league.
And the South laughed when the
word was sent that the cause of his
departure had been a draft from
the St. Louis Cardinals.'instead 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 hurler for
the Birmingham ball club, and in
that good year of 1906 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 rath
er be 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 Friday, 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 alms and methods, and to indicate
how its usefulness may 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
had many years of experience in dealing
witli intercollegiate athletics, will discuss
“The Proper Control of College Athletics.”
Dr. George L. Meylan, medical director of
Columbia university, in his papes on
“Athletic Training.” will review briefly
the history of training for athletic con
tests at the time of the ancient Olympic
games, in England, and later In the
I'nited 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.
S Don’t Look Any Further
Don’t Worry Any Longer
Come here and look over as large
and well selected stock of gift special
ties as you would (‘are to see. A won
derful variety of splendid and useful
articles.
Leather Collar Bags. Handkerchief, Tie and
*1 to $3.50. Sox. box, $1.50
Leather Jewe Ir y -pj e an j Socks, sl.
< ,’ases, $1 to $3.50. Tip and Handkerchief,
lie Hangers, $1 to
$1.50.
Clothes and Hat Bell and Garter. »•-
Brush Sets $2 to $5 Belts with Sterling
Tie and Handkerchief v^ r Buckles. $3. ’"
Cases. $2.50 to $3.50. $5-
Drinking Cups in Lea- Cuff Links, 50c to $ ;1
ther Cases, sl. Pin and Tie Clasp, $1
Military Brushes in to $1.50.
Leather Cases. $3 Pin and Cuff Link. *1
to $5. to $1.50.
Combination Travel- Link and Stud. Tur
ing Cases Heather), edo and Dress Sets,
$3.50 to $12.50. $2.$U to $5
Full Dress and Tuxedo Pins, 50c to $6
Dre s s Protectors, Watch Chains, $1.50 to
$1.50 to $5. $3.50.
Parks-Chambers-Hardwick Co.
shucking bis 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 more 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
lee 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., Deo. 10.—An ac
curate comparison of the present boxing
abilities of Battling Nelson and Ad Wol
gast 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 altnost
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
is 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
lias made several bets that he will play to
more money than did the Cadillac tighter.
condition of innocuous desuetude,
SALLEE HAS STAYED TO
STAR.
The reason is plain. When lie
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
the straight and narrow.
One year, under Bresnahan. Sal
lee's pitching kept the Cardinals a
fighting 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 art
gathering here for the meeting of th(
American league to be held later in tin
week. One of those who are here ii
Fielder Jones, former manager of thi
Chicago White Sox.
Jones said his visit here had noth ? u
do with the league meeting, though hs
chatted with the ball magnates. Ha
would not discuss the report ilia: hs
might manage the Yankees next .rear.
President Corniskey, of the Sox. wU
expected here today. President .l.d-.nson.
of the league, is on hand, and Treasure"
Robert McCroy. of the Boston Red
is already on the ground.
GEO. WATSON GOES DOWN
BEFORE JOHNNY SCHULTZ
COH MBPS, OHIO. Dec 10.
Johnny Schultz, of Toledo, dropped
Watson, ot Columbus, to the floor in ™
second round of their scheduled ten
round bout here last night.
Watson met his Waterloo while en
gaged in a wiym set-to in the center™
the ring. A effort left jab over the heart,
followed by a stiff right flush to the ja«<
turned the trick. ...
Harry Sully, of Columbus, outpoint*
Young O’Brien, of Detroit, in eign
rounds.