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Pat Flaherty, Former Cracker,
Lands Job as Manager; Has Long
Head and Ought To Be Success
|»v Percy 11. Whiting.
PAT FLAHERTY. formerly
pitcher-outfielder of the At
lanta ball club, has realized
another ambition. He lias landed
as manager of the Lawrence
(Mass.) team.
Pat is wintering as usual in
Louisville. but he will go at e
to take up his new work.
Pal is an experienced and long
headed and ought to show 'em
something up in the New England
league.
'"THE ancient contention that last
* year’s Southern league was be
low the average is likely to be
borne out by the small number of
Dixie leaguers sent up last fall who
will stick.
The league sent up ten outfield
ers. They were Moran, Hendryx.
Jacobson. Long. Stengel. Williams,
James, Johnston. Welehonce and
Johnson.
How man;, do you suppose will
stick ’.’
Moran bus already been passed
back. Long will be sent back. Most
of the rest of them will return.
The big noise is Welehonce. This
man is promising. The only thing
against him is the fact that he has
been up before and that he didn’t
stick. It is harder to go back a sec
ond or a third time than it is to
tackle it the first time. Yet. now
and then a player does it with fair
success. Bob Spade did it. with
nothing, ami got by for awhile.
Welehonce batted .325 last year
and though he was with a despond
ent and disorganized club, he stole
24 bases and scored 63 runs. He
has gone to Washington, a team
that needs an outfielder, and will
get serious consideration.
Jimmy Johnston, who went from
the Barons to the White Sox. hit
only .296. but the fact that he stole
81 bases, a league record, entitles
him to consideration. Hendryx
battea poorly and is hopeless. Ja
cobsen, who went with the Giants,
looked a wonder until they began
curving ’em to him. Then he
showed his true colors. He will
hardly do in this league, much less
the National. Long batted .266
why say more? Stengel batted .290
with Montgomery, but showed a lot
of speed in the National and may
linger. He may prove one of the
LYNCH IS RE-ELECTED
BY NATIONAL LEAGUE
NEW YORK. Dec. 11. Thomas .1.
Lynch iva- re-elected president, and
John A. Heydler, secretary-treasurer. of
the National league. The present board
of directors was continued, except that
•J. Sullivan, of New York, succeeds
the late John T. Brush.
The election of Messrs. Lynch and
Heydler. the former for a term of one
year and the latter for three years, was
unanimous. The league would not per
mit a rumor even of a ripple of discord i
to uncontradicted, and the report j
that one club had opposed the re-elec
tion of Lynch was denied.
SUMMERS BEATS BURNS
AND WINS ENGLISH TITLE
LONDON. Dee. 11. Johnnr Summers
la<t night won the welterweight eham
pionshlp of Great Britain from Sid
Burns, on points. The tight took place
at the National Sporting club Both
fighters hail from London.
GARDEN CLUB IS AFTER
BRITTON-M’FARLAND GO
NEW YORK. Dec. 11, Manager Gilt
son. of the Garden Athletic club, expects
within a day or two to get signatures to
articles that will bring together In New
Vork .lark Britton and Packet. Mel-'ar
laitil, lightweights.
<• C STEWARDS MEET JANUARY 4
i'll I'HHI H<J, 1 tec. 11. Steward- of the
■Shanti t ir<*u t will meet her* January '
MMwiii dates for the rie-rs for Hu !Tt : j
wonders of the Zack Wheat and
Jake Daub rt order, who Can bat
better in the National league than
in the Southern. James batted
.235! He's sure to stick! John
son. of Montgomery, made a mar
vellous showing while he lasted
and looked a world beater. He has
a chance.
♦ ♦ •
PEAKING of baiting averages,
one fm t should not be over
looked that Waldorf, of the <’l ack
ers. had the amazing distinction of
batting .031 for last season. In 13
games he went to bat 32 times. He
made one hit. Nctzel, of .Mem
phis, was another honor man. With
108 times at bat he hit .209.
Waldorf also brought up the rear
in pitching averages, with one win
and eleven losses, for a percentage
of .083.
♦ ♦ ♦
pHE Volunteers ha\e a candidate
for a job at second base who is
a wonder. His name is Frank Le
roy Goalby. He doesn’t drink, he
seldom smokes, and his sleeping
average is nine hours a night. Just
at present he, is engaged in the
pleasant occupation of working as
an electrician in a coal mine. Just
what the duties of an electrician in
a coal mine are is not apparent,
but anyhow he has taken on enough
weight to bring him up to 170
pounds.
« ♦ •,
DILL BERNHARD has picked up
an outfielder to take the place
of Kerr, who was such a fierce
fah-dqwn in hitting last year. The
new man is Jack McCrono and he
was secured from Baltimore. The
Orioles landed him rrom Jersey
< ’ity. but his big work was done
last year with the New Bedford
club, of the New England lague.
He batted .290, The man is really
an outfielder, but he can do a turn
at first base if needed.
* * ♦
THAT baseball is paying, if yon
1 own the right club, has been
demonstrated recently by the pro
bating of the will of the lute John
T. Brush. The owner of the New
York Giants was worth a million
and a half when he died and he
made most of it out of baseball.
As was expected, the Brush heirs
will keep the club and run it as it
was run by John T. Brush, with
John J. McGraw in supreme com
mand.
ONE OF THE “FOOTBALL
DEAD” COMES TO LIFE
PHILADELPHIA. Dee. 11 It is get
ting to he a hard job. but the 'casualty
howlers' continue to prepare lists of ac
cidents which are supposed to have taken
place on tin football Held. These lists
are more or less authentic, mostly less.
Among the ten deaths which were at
tributed directly to football in Ute list re
cently published was that of Charles
Hires. Jr., a meber of the Haverford col
lege eleven. Now Hires is not onlv alive,
according to his friends ai the Main Line
institution, hut is attending classes. He
was injured in a gridiron battle, but re
covered. Siner the "cnsualtt bowlers"
went wrong on Hires, how arc we to be
lieve that the other nine were killed'.'
Again, we find Included In the list of
injured 62 who sustained minor sprains,
wrenches and muscle bruises. Ever. man
who lias engaged in athletics golf, ten
nis. baseball and running knows what a
muscle bruise is Vthletes usualh refer
to it as "charlcyhorse." It disappears in
a day or so if the proper attention is
paid to It.
VIRGINIA ALUMNI WANT
GAME WITH ST. LOUIS U.
ST. l.iil’is, Dec 11. The I nlvcrsitt of
Virginia Alumni association of St Louis
lias started a movement which will in all
probability result in a football game be
tween st Louis universltt and I lie Vir
ginia eh ven here next fall
While nothing definite has vet been
don. toward arranging the matter, several
of the Virginia alumni have written to
their alma mater requesting ,| lU i an at
tempt be made to schedule the game
When Bather M< Namara. din . tor of
a 1 htlc.- at St Louis universit.i wa- in
terviewed last night concerning ; iu-
UT he denied an? knowledge of th.- ove
te»r.i. lint expr.-ssi-d die opinion ll.al the
pr<m..sed game w. ill. i.< a drawing
t Mid
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEW&WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER IL 1912.
"White Joke' Again Fights His Sparring Partner; Chattanooga Fans Bunked
CARL MORRIS HAS BEEN CAUGHT WITH GOODS
By W. S. Farnsworth.
CARL MORRIS reputation has
been blown to smithereens.
He should be barred from
• ver fighting again, and yours truly
will use whatever influence he has
to see that he never climbs into a
’ocal ring. The Dixie Athletic club
may go through with his match
scheduled for next Tuesday with Al
Kubiak, but not until they have
listened to a long and loud protest
from yours truly.
Last night Morris fought his
sparring partner. Jack Keating,
alias Bob Williams, over in Chat
tanooga. He bunked the fight fans
of the Lookout city. And if I am
not greatly mistaken, it was this
same Keating-Williams that Mor
ris fought over in Shreveport a
couple of weeks ago.
Morris fought Keating-Williams
here under the name of Jack Keat
ing, “heavyweight champion of
Philadelphian’s Gameness Pulls Him Through Ten Rattling Rounds
WHITNEY HIVES SEIfiER A TERRIBLE WALLOPING
By Left Hook.
ALTHOUGH Frank Whitney
failed to stop Joe Seiger at
the Dixie A. C. last night,
the Fighting Carpenter, for the first
time, displayed a swell right-hand
punch. Had Seiger not been the
tough nut that he is, Frank would
have knocked him out in four or
five rounds.
It was a corking ten-round mill.
Whitney won by ten thousand
miles. He landed a million blows.
Seiger. outclassed, proved that he
is one of the gamest young men
that ever roamed around this neck
of the woods. He did bis best and
never flinched under the heavy
punishment that was being served
him. Seiger was beaten decisively,
but he was a hero in defeat.
Whitney fought his fight with
one hand—his right. Frank’s south
paw was fractured in a battle in
St. Louis about a month ago and
he was afraid to use it to any ex
tent. Not once did he use a left
jab, but hooked the left lightly half
a dozen times. He never hit with
the back of the hand. Had that
left been in shape, it’s almost a
cinch that Seiger would have taken
the count.
Every round w.is the same, and
SPOKANE’S WHITE HOPE
WHIPS'EM TWO AT A TIME
SPoKAXE. WASH., Dec. 11. Spokane
police are wondering if they have in jail
a new an<i heretofore unrecognized “white
hope." The prisoner gave his name as
Johan Johnson, and Ids record was com
piled by the desk sergeant as follows:
Rested two policemen in a fist tight.
Whipped iwo lumberjacks selected from
a crowd of “fighters.'
Overturned a thousand-pound safe in a
downtown saloon.
Toro a door from its hinges at the same
place.
Hit a heavy gold which chain in two
while in a fit of rage.
Required six strong men to hold him
down while being handcuffed.
Ail this took place in Spokane, but the
police learned from Johnson’s friends that
ifi Helen;. It required recently a fire bose,
throwing a high pressure stream, to pre
vent him from wrecking a saloon.
Johnson admitted in court that lie had
“a few drinks." and was sentenced to a
brief term m jail for disorderly conduct.
BUTTERMILK MEEK MAY
LAND JOB AS MANAGER
BIRMINGHAM. Dec. 11. Herr,
Meek is to become a manager.
This is the latest straight tip from
the king of the tenpins, it will be
remembered that the former Baron led
the Northwestern league in the hitting
department last season, ami it is re
ported that next season lie is going to
have charge of the club. He was a big
hit witli tile Victoria club, where he
played last -umnic.. and with all the
clubs In tile Northwestern for that
matter, regardless of the fact that the
old wing was oil the bum most of I'm
tliiu- and he had to hit 'em ,< mil, to
gt t to the Initial i oi lier.
Canada." Morris knocked his man
out in the second round. After that
scrap, Keating hooked up with
Morris as sparring partner.
For all the boxing fpns of At
lanta know, Keating may have been
Morris’ sparring partner when they
fought here. I don’t know it, but I
am a pretty good guesser. At any
rate. 1 do know that Morris fought
his sparring partner last night in
Chattanooga, and thereby branded
himself a faker.
Keating - Williams lasted two
rounds again last night. Morris
and his partner ought to name the
skit “Knocked Out in Two Rounds,
or What a Cinch to Bunk South
ern Fight Fans.”
• * •
A L KUBIAK is here in town to
fight Morris next week at the
Dixie Athletic club. Al believes he
can beat Morris, and is willing to
fight the faking white hope under
any terms.
The club has paid Kubiak s ex-
in describing the first round I can
tell you the story of every spasm,
so here goes:
Seiger rushed' out from his cor
ner with lowered head. A right
uppercut almost sent his think
tank off his shoulders. For a full
minute they worked on each oth
er’s body in a clinch, Whitney al
ways getting his blows in first. A
right to the head as they broke
sent Seiger to the ropes. Whitney
followed fast and sent in rights
galore, first booked and then
brought up. Seiger covered and
took a terrible beating around, the
head. Just when it looked as
though Whitney was going to floor
the visitor from Philadelphia, Joe
would open up and flay away with
both hands. But his swings were
■wild and M hitney always stepped
back far enough to avoid any trou
ble. And as soon as Seiger played
himself out Whitney would again
take up the work of dealing out
punishment.
Every rotjnd was the same, with
the possible exception of the final
one. Whitney fought harder than
ever in this spasm and had Seiger
weak al lhe final bell.
1 counted but five real blows for
Seiger. Four of these were wild
lefts that landed on the body. The
FORBES' FINISH COMES
WITH STIFF UPPERCUT
KALAMAZOO. Mil’ll.. Dec. 11.—Jeff
O'Connel was too fast for Clarence Forbes
and the seconds of the Chicago lad tossed
a sponge into the ring in the fifth round
of a ••qjieduled ten-round go here last
night. A left uppercut to the jaw put
borbes on the rocks.
Jimmie Martin, of Philadelphia, had the
shade over Danny Mcßea. of Flint, in the
semi-final.
RIVERS AND BROCK WILL
HOOK UP IN CLEVELAND. 0.
CLEV ELAND. OHIO, Dec. 11. \n of
fer which practically conceded the de
mands for a match here between Joe
Rivers, the Pacific coast lightweight, and
Phil Brock, of Cleveland, has wired Riv
ers’ manager last night by Matt Hinckel,
manager of a local club. The bout will
be held on January 7 or January 9.
KILBANE AND DUNDEE
WILL FIGHT FEB. 22D
CLEVELAND, OHIO, Dec. 11. -Johnny
Kilbane. featherweight champion, has
acred to meet Johny Dundee. New York
featherweight, in Los Angeles February
22 in a 20-round battle for the title.
. A. B. L. MEETS TONIGHT.
The \tliuita Basket Ball league will
hold a meeting tonight at 6: 15 o'clock
i' I'. .1 t'ooledgi A Sons’ stot e on Fo'
>yth street so the purpose of fotmu-
I’ltiug plans looking toward the opening
of n • ague F Ida; night.
penses here, and probably guaran
teed him a certain amount of the
long mazuma. The promoters stand
to lose money if they don’t put on
the match. But 1 am sure that in
the long run they will prove win
ners if they turn down the match.
Kubiak is in good condition. He
has trained for two weeks, and is
working here every day. There are
two good heavyweights up East
who are every bit as’good as Mor
ris—Jim Stewart and Tom Kenne
dy. It looks to me as though the
promoters would make a very wise
move if they sent for one of these
fellows to take Morris' place.
Stewart has beaten Morris, and
Kennedy is regarded as a better
miller than Stewart.
Henry Norton is president of the
Dixie Athletic club, and Mike Saul
is matchmaker and referee. 1 ap
peal to them for the boxing fans
of Atlanta to never give .Morris an
other tight here.
other was a nice right hook that
caught Whitney high on the head.
When the boys left the ring
Whitney didn't have a scratch on
him. On the other hand, Seiger’s
face was cut and pounded so badly
that his best friend wouldn’t have
recognized him.
But Joe is game and against a
boy of his own style, say Walter
Little, for instance, he would prob
ably make a swell scrap.
The preliminaries were bearcats.
The card opened with a four-round
tilt between Kid Superior and Kid
Young. They are a couple of pa
perweights. but they sure did put
up a slashing bout. Mike Saul
called it a draw and it was the best
decision possible, despite the fact
that a few soreheads howled and
groaned.
Billy Van was carded to meet
Tommy LaVelle. The announcer
told us that Van had iced pedals,
and as he didn’t show up, Kid
Meadows took his place. Meadows
was not in very good condition,
but he put up a swell scrap until
the third round, when his legs went
back on him and the referee was
forced to stop proceedings and
award the decision to Lavelle.
It was a large evening, as Joe
Walcott would say.
BERNARD TELLS TURTLES
TO FORGET ABOUT ADAMS
MEMPHIS. TENN.. Dec IL—An ef
fort to land Jack Adams for the catch
ing stuff of tin 1913 local team met
with tin- following reply from Secretary
E. S. Bet nurd, of the Cleveland club:
"Understand Adams will be retained
by Cleveland next season. In the event
a transfer were contemplated, it is»
doubtful if he could be waived out of
the league." .
This information was imparted to
Manager Benhard by the <'leveland sec
retary in a recent letter and means
that the local team must look to other
quarters for a successor to Tonneman,
who will not return. Adams was a
member of the 1911 Memphis team,
joining Bernhard at the same time
Newton was purchased from Louisville.
Because of his splendid throwing arm.
the young Texan was a decided hit with
Red Elm frequenters. He unfurled the
flashiest line of pegging ever shown
on the local lot. and in addition was a
capable .man behind the hat. But Jack
wasn't so many shakes as a hitter, and,
like most catchers, who grow stiff-mus
cled from continual stooping, could not
run the sacks.
At the end of the 1911 campaign Ad
sms was recalled by Cleveland and last
season he caugh' a number of games
for the Davie-Birmiughiim combine,
tine reason of major leaguering evi
dently his made an improved catcher
of the Texan, for in 1911 Jack was
woefully weak in the es-intlal matter
us experience. x
White Sox Sure Have Promising
Youngster in “Buck’ 1 Weaver to
Fill the Big Gap at Shortstop
(This is the twelfth of a series of
articles on “Youngstere Who Made
Good in Big Leagues.”)
By Sam Crane.
(( 1~) UCK" WEAVER seems to
[j have filled in at the short
stop positions for the Chi
cago White Sox, with ability
enough to warrant Manager Calla
han in holding the youngster per
manently.
Ever since George Darts, the
popular ex-Giant manager, captain
and famous player, retired from
that important position with the
White Sox the Chicago Americans
have had great trouble in securing
the right man for the place.
Several promising players were
tried, but all were found wanting
through various causes until young
Weaver was recalled from the San
Francisco club in the fall of 1911
and given a thorough trial. He
demonstrated in 'the few games he
played toward the wind up of that
season that he was of big league
caliber and had the stuff in him to
make good.
Callahan Saw His Worth.
When Jimmy Callahan took
charge of the White Sox in the
training camp in Waco, Texas, last
spring that wise old veteran and
great judge of ball players sized
the youngster up as being just the
player he needed, and by careful
and systematic coaching Weaver
developed so rapidly that he was
given the shortstop berth on the
regular team.
Callahan’s judgment proved cor
rect. and the new recruit did his
share in pushing the White Sox to
the front in the early months of last
season’s race. It will be remem
bered that it was the fact of the
White Sox pitchers “cracking” un
der the strain of the fast early pace
set by the team that caused the
club to fall back and not on ac
count of any failure on the part of
the other players to come up to the
mark.
Weaver played a steady, con
sistent game all through the sea
son, whether the club was on a
winning streak or In a. losing rut.
In fact, his playing was on the sen
sational order during most of the
season. His great work cinched
his job for him, as he is retained
for next year, and has a most bril
liant future, according to all good
judges of baseball.
Struggled to Reach Top Class.
Weaver had his troubles in get
ting into the big league class and
was shifted around from pillar to
post more than is usual for young
players, before he proved himself
as worthy. He started in as a pro
fessional with the Pottstown (Pa.)
club in 1909. His w-drk in his first
year out attracted the attention of
big league scouts.
The Cleveland club, of the Ameri
can league, secured him. He did
not get much of a trial with the
Naps, or possibly was not quite
ripe for the big show and he was
released to the Saginaw (Mich.)
club, but again failed to make good
and was shipped back to Cleveland.
There was no opening with the
Naps, they being overloaded with
new players, and the Cleveland
club released the youngster out
right. He then secured a job with
the Northampton (Mass.) club, of
the Connecticut league, where he
played a couple of months, and
then went to the York (Pa.) club,
of lhe Trl-State league.
Many young players would have
been discouraged by all those re
verses, but not “Buck’’ Weaver. He
had no such thing as quit in his
nervy make-up. He was move de
termined Ulan ever to reach the
goal of his ambition a big league
club uikl he started <»lY* >. iili Voik
like a house utile Hl» playing at-
tracted immedia att.-m :.,i;
scouts, and he w s drafted by the
Chicago American.
His gi eat chant had not air.' c '
even yet. for he vas turned over
to the San Franqco club, of th"
Pacific league, one optional ag , .
ment and wlthou being given a
chance to show w u he could do.
That optional ageinent was ,
bane of many a prqjsing an( ] ;l:i .
bitious youngster. It happily,
new National Ag' enrnt lias ■
rected the evil.
The Chicago club called Wr.v
er in the fall of 1911,nd from that
time dates the rise ( f the much '
shifted player. Anuit has been
little short of phenon-ial.
While with the S, Fraiicis,.o
club, Weaver playediß2 ginnes,
with a batting average .282. h
played second base 38 gm-s with i
fielding percentage of 45 sh„:t
stop, 94 games at an .8 elip. and
outfield 50 games wit 1.942 pvi .
centage.
Last season (1912) Wt er play
ed 147 games with the bite Sox
with a fielding percental ~f .in;,.
His batting was rather 1. being
only .224.
Weaver Is a right-bandej
er and batter. He wets 11"
pounds and is? 5 feet 11 ii lf > in
height, a model build for a
player. He is still a \eryou.ig
man, being only 21 years a g,..
He has plenty of time to velop
and gives every prospect of rul
ing a star in his position. I full
name is George D. Weaver. Mik
all the Weavers who have b ■
players, the nickname "Burl:" -
■ to drift to them naturally, n.e
the days of the famous old pi; .
the original "Buck" Weaver.
PEACE Ts DECLARED IN
NATIONAL: WAR FIZ..ES
NEW YORK, Dec. 11. Tin Bma
han matter out of the way. andi'h
nothing but a love feast in sigiithe
magnates of the National leagtleaii.
today that their business \umld be de
pleted tonight.
Attention today was focused ent-ly
upon the negotiations between
W. Murphy, president of the ''hip
club, and "Garry” Herrmann. I" -
dent of the Cincinnati Reds, for le
control of Joe Tinker.
It was predicted by mtn 'lose toe
counsels of Murphy ami IJij'iiiani l r.
Tinker would be under contract >
Herrmann before night. Jlurpn; "
asked about the situation, said: "IL ■
maim has got to show ma unit '
more up his sleeve than lis arm.
Herrmann simply replied to an; ■!
tions on the subject. ”1 hope t
Tinker, but It will tak< a littL
WESTERNERS DECLARE
WAR ON WTO ASS'.
LOS ANGELES. ''.1... Dee. '
Twenty-four leading aHomobiL "
Los Angeles issued a cjelaratii’ti "
dependence from the z'ntonm ■:
elation of America . 1 day " '
plans for the formatioi of tin '
Automobile associatioi
A telegram to that e’eet «•:•« "" !
William Schlmpf. of tfi contvs ■
of the A. A. A., at Net York.
The telegram expresed a
the American Automode's
tion in order to avoid ny um
conflict of authority. It a Is" -
that the proposed nw
would confine its field 1 tin V ;
Dissatisfaction with U'inu " f '
A. A. A. was the reasogitn fi-r tw
present movement. ,
A Des Moines man ha ai. atr.
muscular rheumatism ii-lti- st! 11 ’ r ;
A friend advised him i g" t"
Springs. That meant a .pi iise ™
$150.06 or more. He sougt :
or and cheaper way U<-
found it In Chambers's l.imt
Three days after the fit am
of this linljnent he was yll. I' 11
by all dealers. (Advt.) ,
THE IDEAL SMAS
Gift, om villi a future, t
"lilnil" fountnin pen Him
Mtundard. Jno. L. M<w>r<
a point fur evert txwl). I- l :
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