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PAT FLAHERTY. formerly pitcher-outflelder of the At lanta ball club, has realized another ambition. Ho has landed as manager of the Lawrence (Mass.) team. Pat is wintering as usual in Louisville, but he will go at once to take up his new work. Pat is an experienceci and long headed and ought to show cm something up in the New England league. « » ♦ ep HE ancient contention that last 1 year’s Southern league wat 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. Joftnston, Welchonce and Johnson. ' How many do you suppose will stick? Moran has already been passed back. Long will be sent back. Most of the rest of them will return. The big noise is Welchonce. 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, and got by for awhile. Welchonce 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 lie stole 81 bases, a league record, entitles him to consideration. Hendryx batted 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 .26’6 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 V< >RK Dee. II Thonim- .1. Lynch wa« re-elected president. and John A. Heydler. secretary-treasurer, of the National league. The present board of directors was continued, •excop. that • J. Sullivan, of New York, succeeds the late John T. Blush. 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 to go uncontradicted. and the report that one club had opposed the re-elec tion of Lrnch wa- denied. SUMMERS BEATS BURNS AND WINS ENGLISH TITLE LONDON, Dee. 11. Johnny Summers last night won the welterweight cham pionship of Great Britain from Sid Burns, on points. The fight took place at the National Sporting club. Both fighters hat! from London. GARDEN CLUB IS AFTER BRITTON-M’FARLAND GO NEW TORK. Dec 11. Manager •lib sun, of the Garden Athletic club expects within a day or two to get signatures to articles that will bring together In New York Jack Britton and Packet McFar land. lightweights. G. C. STEWARDS MEET JANUARY 4. PITTHBI HG. Dec. 11. stewards of the Grand Circuit wilt meot here Januarv < and mum dates for the races for thi I'd : wonders of the Zack Wheat and Jake Daubert order, who can bat better in the National league than in the Southern. James batted .335! 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 batting averages, one fact should not be over looked—that Waldorf, of the Crack ers. had the amazing distinction of batting .031 for last season. In 13 games he went to bat 32 times. He made one hit. Netzel. of Mem phis, was another honor man. With 10S times at bat he hit .209. Waldorf also brot ght up the j ear in pitching avi rages. w ith one win and eleven losses, for a percentage of .083. ♦ * ♦ THK Volunteers hate a candidate frir a job at second base who is a wonder. His name i s Frank Le- ' toy Goal by. He doesn't drink, lie 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 fall-down in hitting last year. The new man is Jack McCrone and he was secured from Baltimore. The Orioles landed him rrom Jersey City, but his big work was done last year with tile New Bedford club, of the New England lague. He batted .290. The man 1s really an outfielder, but he can do a turn at first base if needed, * • * THAT baseball is paying, if you 1 own the right club, has been demonstrated recently by the pro bating of the will of the late 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 be a hard job. but the 'casualty howlers' continue to prepare lists of ac cidents which are supposed to have taken place on the football field. These lists are more or less authentic, mostly less. Among the ten deaths which were at tributed directly to football in the-list re cently published was that of Charles Hires, Jr., a meber of the Haverford col lege eleven. Now Hires is not only alive, according to his friends at the Main Line institution, but is attending classes. He was injured tn a gridiron battle, but re covered. Since tlte "casualty howlers” went wrong on Hires, how arc we to be lieve that the other tune were killed’.' •.gain, we find included in the list of 1 injured 62 who sustained mieor sprains. I wrenches and muscle bruises. Ever.' man I who lias engaged in athletics- golf. l.en- I nis. baseball and running knows what a 1 muscle bruise is. kthletes usually refer to it as "charleyhorse." It disappears in a day or so if the proper attention is paid to it. VIRGINIA ALUMNI WANT GAME WITH ST. LOUIS U. ST LOVIS. Dec 11 The University of t irginia tlunini association of St. Louis has started a movement which will In all probability result ft a lootball game be tween st. Louis unlverslt j and the Vir ginia eleven here next fall. While nothing definite has yet been dong toward a-ranglng the matter, several of rhe Virginia alumni have written to their alma mater requesting that an at tempt he inude to schedule the game. When Father M< Namara. director of athletics at St Louis university, wus in terviewed last night concerning lb- mat* ter he denied an> know ledge of Ute u me- Inient. but fxppesid the opinion that the I proposed game would be a good drawing THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 11, 1912. ( White Joke’ Again Fights His Sparring Partner; Chattanooga Fans Bunked CARL MORRIS HAS BEEN CAUGHT WITH GOODS By \V. S. Bai-nsworth. CARL MORRIS’ reputation has been blown to smithereens. He should be barred from ever fighting again, and yours truly will use whatever influence he has to see that he never climbs into a local 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. Up 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 GIVES SEIGER 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 his 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 g 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 wag the same, and SPOKANE'S WHITE HOPE WHIPS 'EM TWO AT A TIME SPOKANE. WASH.. Dee. 11. Spokane police are wondering if they have in jail a new and heretofore unrecognized "white hope.” I’lie prisoner gave Ills name as Johan Johnson, and bls record was com piled by the desk sergeant as follows: Bested two policemen in a list fight. Whipped two lumberjacks selected from a crowd of “fighters.'' Overturned a thousand-pound safe in a downtown saloon. Tore a door from its hinges at the same place. Hit a heavy gold watch chain in two while in a fit of rage. Required six strong men to hold him down while being handcuffed. All this took place in Spokane, but the police learned from Johnson's friends that in Helena it required recently a fire hose, throwing a high pressure stream, to pre vent him from wrecking a saloon. Johnson admitted in court that he had “a few drinks." and was sentenced to a brief term .n jail for disorderly conduct. BUTTERMILK MEEK MAY LAND JOB AS MANAGER BIRMINGHAM, Dee. 11.—Herre Meek is to become a manag< r. This 1- the latest straight tip from the king of the tenpins. it will be remembered that the former Baton 1< d the Northwestern league in the hitting department last season, and it is re ported that next season he is going to have charge of tile club. He was a big lilt witli tile Victoria club, where he played las; .summer, and with all the clubs in' th< Northwestern for that matter, regardless of the fact that tin old wing was on the buty most of tin tlnm olid hi hail to hit 'em a mile to get to the initial corner. 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 fans of At lanta know, Keating may have been Morris’ sparring partner when they fought here. T don’t know it, but I am a pretty good guesser. At any rate, I 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 lias 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 hooked 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 Whitney always stepped back far enough to avoid any trou ble. And as soon as Seiger played himself out M hitney -would again tajee up the work of dealing out punishment. Every round was the same, with the possible exception of the final one. Whitney fought harder than ever in this spasm and had Seiger weak at the final bell. I 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 LvAI.AMAZt m. MICH.. Dec. 11.—Jeff O’Connel was too fast for Clarence Forbes and the seconds of the Chicago lad tossed a sponge 'lnto the ring- in the fifth round of a scheduled ten-round go here last night. A left uppercut to the jaw put horbes 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. CLEVELAND, OHIO, Dec. 11. An of fer wh.eh practically conceded the de mands lor a match here between Joe Rivers, the Pacific coast lightwetgb’. and Phil Brock, of Cleveland, has wired Riv ers' manager last night bv Matt Hlnckel, manager of a local club. The bout will be held on January 7 or January 9. KILBANE AND DUNDEE WILL FIGHT FEB. 22D CLE\ ELAND, OHIO, Dee. 11. -Johnny Kllbane, featherweight champion, lias attred to meet Joliny Dundee, New York featherweight, in Los Angeles February 22 In a 20-round buttle for the title. A. B. L. MEETS TONIGHT. The Atlanta Haskel Ball league will hold u meeting tonight at 6:15 o’clock at I'. J. ('ooh dge Al Hotts’ store on l’<> - syth sttei t to- the purpose of fortnu liiting plan* looking toward the opening of it* o ague F id.i' 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 niatdh. But I 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. I ap peal to them for the boxing fans of Atlanta to never give Morris an other fight 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. Meadow’s 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., Dee. IL—An ef fort to land Jack Adams for the catch ing staff of the 1913 local team met with the following reply from Secretary E. S. Bernard, 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 Bcnhard by the Cleveland 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 stlfT-mus cled from continual stooping, could not run the sacks. At the end of the 1911 campaign Ad ams was recalled by Cleveland and last season he eaugi.t a number of games for the Davis-Birmingham combine. (Im- sia-oti of major I'iiguering evi dently has imide in improved catcher of tli. Texuli, for in 1911 Jack was woefully weak in the easentlal matter of experience. White Sox Sure Have Promising Youngster in “Buck” Weaver to Fill the Big Gap at Shortstop (This is the twelfth of a series of articles on “Youngsters Who Made Good in Big Leagues.”) By Sam Crane. { I ) 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 Davis, 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, 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 bis 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 work 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 (Midi.) 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.) dub, of the Connecticut league, where he played a couple of months, and then went to the York (Pa.) dub, of the Tri-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 more de termined titan ever Io reach the goal of bls ambition a big league < lul> and Ip started off with York like a house aflie His playing at- tracted immediate a; t. I,: ~;. scouts, and he was draft ..a Chicago Americans. IMB- His great chance had sr.; . even yet, for he was urned ..-.•K to the San Francisco , • ME Pacific league. on an „;i ment and without being _ :• chance to show wiiat .-r That optional agreem-nt a- .H| bane of many a promising and bitious youngster, but ha ppi;;. new National Agieemeni rected the evil. The Chicago club i er In the fall of 1911, and fro::: : time dates the rise of shifted player. And '-.as : little short of phenomenal. H| While with the San I-’ran dub, Weaver played 182 g ,->:i with a batting average of B|l played second base ;is games ■ . fielding percentage of .945; stop. 94 games at an .Sps Hip. outfield 50 games with .942 centage. Last season (1912) W.-.n? -Hk e<T 147 games with tile Whit - .HE with a fielding percentage c” BB| His batting was ratio lav.. . only .224. Weaver is a right-: and er and batter. He weighs 9H pounds and is 5 feet 11 in- • rMB| height, a mode: build so a r. . player. He Is still a very yntingHK man. being only 21 ye,,.: -- ' He has plenty of time to • ■■'■•■!■» and gives every prospe< ..f !.-■'• M ing a star in his position He- BS name is George I). Weave:. but all the Weavers oho ii.-ive : players, the ni'kn;im< "Bit to drift to them naturally. the days of the famous “.n pr the original "Buck” Weaver. H PEACE IS DECLARED IN I NATIONAL: WAR FIZZLE® -NEW YORK, Dec. I’. T'm han matter out of the way. nothing but a love feast in - ? ' magnates of the National Icagui today that their business ve ■u.l'i pleted tonight. Attention today was fo.-us«i upon the negotiations ktiv-t: \ W. Murphy, president of tin - dub, and "Garry" HiTr'-aiw-.l'B dent of the Cincinnati lb' control of Joe Tinker. It was predicted by men counsels of Murphy and H’-' Tinker would be unil.r Herrmann before night. Mm ’ , asked about the sitiiati"ii. -.mt- H B| niann has got to show irn- iltd 1 more up his sleeve titan itis i ts. Herrmann simply repli'-d p. any • tions on the subject. ”1 Tinker, but it will tai:' a '■ WESTERNERS DECLARE I WAR ON AUTO ASSB LOS ANGELE'S. CAI... '.'H Twenty-four leading :nitoun>i. Los Angeles isrtted a do-lar.-t'-" 1 - " dependence from the Ant-- ciation of America today !!1 " plans for the formation of '■ Automobile association. A telegram to that •it. ’ William Schimpf. of 1 " of the A. V A., at New 4 or: The telegram expit s.-'ed ■• tile American Automobile'- tion in order to avoid any 11 ■ ' ' . conflict of authority. 1' that the proposed .’1 w would coniine its Udi! Dissatisfaction w ith t-u i- r A. A. A. was the reason gb ; present movement. A Des Moines man had muscular rheumatism in i’ : '■ J A friend advised him t" K" '' Springs. That meant an $150.00 or more. He sotidit : er and cheaper way to M found It in Chamberlain M Three days after the first . of tills liniment lie was we.. by all dealers. (Advt.t ■ THE IDEAL XMAS ■ GltT,.on> with a future ' "Ideal" fountain ten i- M Mtiindurd. Jim. L. .'.l-mi. A a point for ev< .\dn Uy I