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"GET" MURPHY
IS LET SLIP
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jXI iirii's into its own ag.ilti! Tin
footbiill wiihiii »i-l>l oi l with a
clash and a bang a season nt many
BUl'ln'ist-S.
Xmv we return to bm-rbal) and its
many winti vicissitudes. Lust wi-.'lt
tparked the real preliminary gun of the
1818 campaign, for it ushered in the
annual meetings of the two major
leagues. There wasn’t a great deal of
fuss or flurry, cither here or in Chlcag '.
Tile chief regret of the faithful who
/isited these parts for the pow-wow of
tin old major was that all the old com
rades we’,- not on hand. It was felt
that Han Johnson was somewhat ex
clusive in calling the Aim lean league
conclave in Chicago. Truth to tell Kan
and his henchmen wen not ml-red so
much, perhaps, as the customary ban
quet of the Red Sox in celebration >f
the world’s championship. The little
fry. which clusters the corridors of the
fashionable hotels where the big gath
erings are held, holds It a high mark of
distinction to rub elbows -or heels
over or under the festive board. John
son’s mietlng In Chicago shut out from
the sea-t not only the National league
nmgnuK’e. but also the minors who saw
betti opportunities of baiter at tile
local with- 'big Jimmie Mi A let r will
hive to stand Impeached or fostc an
otln- "o\. feast" when the annual
sehi-i uh meetings of the two big
leagues a held here next spring.
T.i- annuel meeting of Ila National
l‘-ugn prox • d but a".- quib" to the
peel: meeting culled on Novelilbel 26
for tie SUPP es ion ■' Horace Fpgel,
•.cm. piesid ■'.! of the Phillies. Ho;-
uCe l as pell II Sqm 'ehed, it w ill
I t . inendi. .d. when the •■onforotleo
lU-sed Into hlsto y. The passing of
Hog,' caused no vain regrets in any
otiurt 1'h.,111 Murphy, even, desert
ed him in the lina! dark hour, as well
as Charlie 'I Eb’iel- paits of the
turn*! trliity >•’. .istr.t her . Die disci
pline administered to Fogel doubtless
will plot a great good for National
leiigt aiValrs in general, though t>.e .
’tours < an.ng did not go far enough.l
I, . 'O,l m of most |.< ■ e ill - i
Iciv'.ed In orgalitKed baseb'ill.
Good-bye, Good Riddance.
ttrguniz-d lias.-ball may huv. lost bu. i
Htth hi Fogel. Stni he was not tit. j
u,,ee ... ndl <-ii.c W« bb Mui phi |
ras tile a' distu ldng element. H i
I rompled ml of Horace's outbreaks. H*'
inspired the damaging arti. ea '.•ie’.i t
npjuared under l ogel’s slgmiti e in a.
Chicago pape : doubtless he , g-ged on
Fogel to write most of 's incrimi
nating communications. He made F>>
get the ‘goat" of his own disturbances
and thui dropped him. like a live coal,
when he felt himself in jeopardy.
Murphy is a very lucky individual t •
be among those present just now. He
gavi utterances to no . caustic c'.lt'
elsm of the In ague and the conduct of
Jia affairs than did the unfmtunat, Fo
gel. Hut Mm; hy was wise enough to
uo nothing nto <• damaging than to
jwddle idle chatter He pm nothing in
black and' whit, And wiieu the idg
trial came lie calm’v denied everything
and got away with it.
Had Goods on Murphy.
Had tin National league posse.-sed a
bit more ba. kbone it might htive made
things uncomfortable for Mr. Murphy.
It might even hat. stowed him away
on the siodi v. Ith his friend Horace. It
had the "goods" on him. Hut cvid< ntl.v
it figured one catch at u time was very
good fishing.
A sporting edit., from ( ’hicago <ame
to the meeting with proof of .Murphy's
<iut>liclty In th, form of a ’otter. This
missive was ni> >\.<t communication
a •’eonlldvntittl bilim" and he refused
to turn it oxi. to ts authorltle. m,
"that ground. The National league had
a copy of the lette and might with
some pressut. o diplomacy have se
cured the o Igim.’ mg emmgh to ad
mit it as evi.b ii ■ and t ie.- implicate
.1 the boss <o i i'uos. Hu. it stalled
too long un i '■ t ' ■ oppo ir.nily slip.
Thus is. aped tile lea offender.
‘Canning’ of Mississippi by I
S. I. A. A. Recalls Fact That
Others Have Been Under Ban
r-psHE action of Hie Southern In
I tercolleglute Athletic asso
ciation Saturday in sentenc
in'.: tin- I’nlvet slty of Mississippi
and Howard i-olh ge to suspension
recalls the fact that perhaps a
dozen of the colleges of the asso
ciation have b"en under fire within
the last ten years.
The hi.-toiieal case- in the South
have been sadly numerous.
\ slatho of Tennessee colleges
liav. bi'ti undei the ban or under
.suspicion al any rate. Cumberland
fell under official suspicion seven or
eight years ago and Hasn’t been
heard of athletically since, though
its aiiblpHc standing is officially
rated "A No. 1." The same was
true of the I'nivc ‘dty of Nashville
even longer ago, and that school
dropped off the athletic map. The
I'nivi sity of Tennessee lias just
emerged from ii period of suspen
sion and lit once more back in the
good graces of the S. I. A. A. S. P.
I'., of Clarksville, Tenn!. Isn't in
good oder even now.
Howard college is the only one
in Alabama which has been in
trouble late!.' .
Tulane has been a chronic war
rior against the S. I. A A. authori
ties until Just lately, and ns for its
sister Institution of Louisiana, the
1., S. r . it was a subject of consid
eration within the last few years,
lor flagrant ringing. The Ki ntucky
colleges are in constant hot water.
And. coming nearer home, it 'will
be recalled that it was not so long
ago that Tech ano Geo.gin were
both under tire the same year,
though Tech was exonerated.
Here’s the “Sentence.”
The otlieial decision In the Mis
sissippi case, promulgated Saturday
at the Nest < ’cleans meeting, was:
"Resolved. That the I’niversity
o| Mississippi is lii’.ehy suspended
front the S. I A. V; (2) that Couch
DcTray is debarred from coaching
any team in Hu- S. I. A. A.; (ID that
VOLS' PITCHING STAFF
TO BE STRENGTHENED
\-ASH\ II.LE TENN., Dec. 16.
Realizing that the miserable
pit-liing co p- of last sea
-on'e Volunteers whs ii-sponsible
sot the club's failure to land close
to ti>e top. Manager Schwartz has
been busy since tile season closed
annexing Ute signature of all ding
ers who are anxious to work in
Sulphur Dell.
With "Big Karl'' F.ehavty.
■■('hues'" t'.isc and Jimmy West as
a nucleus. Schwartz Intends to build
up a pitching staff that will bring
a rag to Hout once more in tile
Volunteers' path
The sour taste produced in the
fans' mouth* last summer by the
wlerd work of Teddy Hair and
W Ingo Anderson is still there and
Schwartz will have to exhibit a
classy hum'll of ball tossers to
make the fans forget.
<>f the new men. Pitcher Mor
row. seemed from Brooklyn, looks
to be the best bet. The former
Notre Dame college boy performed
in great style tor Columbus, Ga..
ami at the end of the season was
considered om of the classiest
iteln r.- in the South Atlantic.
I" .n there is Kid Williams, who
was picked tip on the Cotner lots of
Sp.ingto d. Mo. by Do." Si a
I bough, and his work looked so good
to Manager Hill last spring he
shipped the young man to the Ap
palachian league fu ironing.
, l.iver tin A- ite di veloped into a sen
s.ittoi: and tin- Vo.y Wi . compelled
■ idm it Brooklyn, to keep
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.MONDAY. DECEMBER 16, 1912.
tile captain of the Mississippi foot
ball team is debarred from further
ptw'tlclputlon In intercollegiate
sports In the S. I. A. A.; <4) that
Manager Schauber is disqualified
from any connection witli athletics
of any institution of the S. 1. A. A.;
(5) tliat Player Fletcher is debarred
from |>nt tleipation in Intel collegi
ate contests In the H. 1. A. A.”
Tills was the second drastic ac
tion taken against a member of the
S. 1. A. A. at a New Orleans ses
sion. Howard college, of Birming
ham, was suspended Friday be
cause of violations of H. 1. A. A.
rules governing eligibility require
ments.
Suspension of "Ole .Miss” came as
the result of her refusal to play the
annual Thanksgiving game with
Mississippi A. X M. college. "Ole
Miss” drew out of this game be
cause Fletcher, star quarterback
and mainstay of the line-up, was
tinned by the S. I. A. A. authori
ties.
When Mississippi A. & M proved
Fletcher to be ineligible under S. I.
A. A rules and demanded that ho
be kept out of the prospective
. ganu for the state championship,
Mississippi declined to play.
College Authorities at Fault.
An investigation by the executive
committee of the S. I. A. A. showed
that th, "chancellor of the ( nlver
sity of Mississippi defended the ac
tions of the offending athletic au
thorities and threw the weight of
his influence against the effort to
polity athletics kt the university."
It also developed that "Professor
Bell, of the university faculty; J.
W. Met’all ami others signed notes
sot $2 98 in order to pay the fees of
certain beneficiaries of such alumni
seholatships with the express un
derstanding, as openly avowed to
the executive committee of the 8. 1.
A. A. by Professor Bell, that the
amount was to be repaid from the
gat, receipts of the Thanksgiving
football game."
him ftom being drafted. It is more
than likely that Charlie Ehbetts
will turn Williams back for the
same purpose that Nashvi"e sent
him to ilte Appalachian for.
1 uciclt. who cost the Vo s on 1
i S3O, comes t out Beatrice, Neb .
He is touted ns a coming star, tip
the beam at considerably above
iso and is a giant in height.
I'notch is a New Orleans boy end
while he has only had the benefit
of three years' experience. Schwartz
believes hi will make the Vols a
winner It might happen that he
will blossom into 'h star, just as
Williams and Walker did. and
neither of these flingers cost the
Nashville club a cent in real money,
and a goodly chunk of mqney was
secured tor each.
Among the new pitchers signed,
only Carmichael can be classed as a
veteran. «ttd while i’at is just now
on the suspension list as a result
of continued infraction of Mr. Wil
liam Smith's training rules, no trou
ble is anticipated in having this
raised. Schwartz doesn't think
I’illy is exactly crazy- over the re
bellious Pat, but he ought to have
several more good games in Ills
system and they could surely be
used to splendid advantage by Hir
sig's team.
in Leslie Johnson, who takes his
meals in I'tifon City. Tenn.,
Schwartz has discovered a real
lioiiest-to-goodness white hole,
whp supports his 195 pounds of
avoirdupois Oil a structu e mea-iii-
KEELER TD TEACH
RODGERS HOW
TO HIT BALL
By Damon Runyon.
NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—An
nouncement was made yes
terday that Willie Keeler
has been retained by Charlie Eb
bets to coach the young Brooklyn
players in the art of batting next
spring, while Wilbert Robinson lias
already been engaged by McGraw
for 191!i to teach the Giant pitch
ing students how to shoot. In fact,
Robbie had his job for next year
cinched long before he retired to
Baltimore and his winter rumina
tions over that Snodgrasslan muff.
"Kid" Gleason will be back with
Jimmy Callahan and the Chicago
White Sox, while Joe Sugden will
again be with Detroit, and Jim
Ryan with Clark Griffith at Wash
ington. Heine Peitz will probably
have Ills old job at Cincinnati, and
practically every big league club
that goes into a spring training
camp next spring will have a vet
eran player along to coach the kids.
McGraw was the first of the
modern-day managers to adopt the
veteran coach idea, and his exam
ple was soon followed by the other
managers. However, McGraw and
the other clubs specialized on the
young pitchers, yvhile Ebbets is
about the first to introduce a bat
ting Instructor. «
If Keeler can-jinpart any of his
wonderful batting knowledge to the
Dodger "kids," he will be worth as
much to the club as Robinson is
to the Giants, or Gleason to the
Sox. "Wee Willie" had consider
able success in the role of teacher
last season, and he expects to do
even better this year.
Robinson produced Marquard
and Tssreau for McGraw last year,
and he expects to dig up at least
one nltchlng treasure from the
mass of raw recruits gathered by
the Giant scouts last season. It is
likely that McGraw will send the
veteran instructor South with the
youngsters along about February
15. He tried tile experiment of an
early start with the recruits last
year and it was a big success.
HEMERY. IN A DIETRICH,
SETS NEW AUTO RECORDS
LuNDoN, Dec. 16. Elexen new auto
records have been hung up by Victor
Hemery. driving a Dietrich cat at the
Brooklands truck.
Starting out for a twelve-hour rec
ord. Hemery was forced to stop because
of engine trouble, but up to the time he
quit he had made new marks for 10b.
150, 2iio, 400 and 500 miles, as well as
covering record distances during the
six hours he rode. His greatest spe,al
was a trifle over 9S miles an hour. He
coVi red 51S miles in six hours.
1
I SWIMMER AT PRINCETON
SETS NEW 5-YARD MARK
PRINCETON, N J., De, 16.—Hor
ace O'Sullivan, a sophomore, made an
Intercollegiate swimming record today,
negotiating 5o yards tn 25 4-5 seconds,
beating the old record by 1-5 of a sec
ond.
Ing six feet two incites from his
Stetson to his Walkovers He has.a
record of having won 42 games out
of 49 he hurled in the bushes close
to bis home town.
George Reck, who came front the
Kitty league at the end of last sea
son, has all the car marks of a
classy butler. He has a nice
change of pace, a sweeping cutsre
and terrific speed. Little Is known
of Hendee. who pitched last year
in the Mink leagm . but he will be
carried ov.'i to Hot Springs with
the others in the sp: ing and given
a chance to prove just what he i*
wort u.
Smith Pleased With New Salary
Limits; Sore on Attempt to Cut
Down Season Under Five Months
By Percy 11. Whiting.
I trying to make a
I bush league out of the
Southern,” says Bill
Smith. “They're cutting the season
down so- it’s less than five months,
they’re keeping us from carrying
any extra men beyond the day the
season opens and they even tried to
pass a rule that play ers had tot pay
railroad expenses when they joined
the club and to cut the season down
to 120 games, like the Cotton
States and the rest of the Class I>
leagues."
So says Bill Smith, slightly
wroth.
« i- a
THE truth is, Bill Smith returned
from the Southern league ses
sion in an insurgent state of mind.
Ror one thing, Smith didn’t relish
the idea of being thrown out of the
meeting, along with newspaper men
and the rest, when an executive
session was declared.
Smith is inclined to feel, along
with a lot of other folks, that the
Southern league, which once con
ducted all its business out in tin
open, must have some under-the
table doings now, for it alway s goes
quickly into executive session, and
all that leaks out comes through
the cracks or up the chimney.
* • a
qpHE “sliding scale" came within
* an ace of pasting the meeting.
Five of the clusli were for it. At
lanta held out against it and, j
backed by Mobile and Birmingham,
managed to turn the fight against
Charley Frank. It required a three
fourths majority to carry the thing |
and one more vote would have put
it through. As it was, the salary
limit was made $3.6000, and it war
provided that no player was to' re
ceive more than S3OO. The player
limit was made 18. However, the
old rule which allowed managers to
carry extra players the first month
of the season was done away with.
"The salary limit as adopted
WORLD'S RICHEST KID
HASPITCHING PROMISE
» rpllE “Marty** O'Tooles at 122,-
’ I 00l> and "Rube" Marquards
} A at SII,OOO, come p etty high
r j in the baseball pitching arenas, but
5 1 on the diamond horizon appears
• ' just now a budding Mathewson of
tb.e $1.000,000 or $1.000.00b.000
. I brand.
- Don't for a moment believe that
r this possible "phenom" expects to
’ receive anywhere near that figure
for liis services, however.
« He is .-till in the bands of that
great National league flinger.
"Tinee-Fingered" Mordecai Brown,
f late of Hie Chicago Tubs, and th'-
' name of the would-be star is none
other than Fowler McCormick) son
n of the Harvester trust magnate,
Harold F. McCormick, and gtand
’• son of the great oil trust financier,
John D Rockefeller.
Wears Brown's Castoffs.
Just at present Kid McCormick
is weaving one of Brown’s castoff
suits in a Chicago armory and is
being closely watched and schooled
by the veteran.
Brown was ordered by the boy's
millionaire father, who is a gradu
ate of Princeton college, to go as
far as lie liked.
May Be Croesus Some Day.
Young McCormick, who someday
may be the richest man in the
world, is very modest in his man
ner, but shares his father’s hope
fulness.
('t course. McCormick will enter
Princeton university after 1 epara
tory v-irk. vfhlvn will soon begin
suits me well enough," Said Hilly-
Smith. "The S3OO limit on the
players is t : . . It lets us through
all right. Os course, 1 would like
it if they would allow us more
men for the first month, while we
are trying our players out. but 1
guess I can get along if the rest
can."
THE question of how long to
make the season will be de
cided by the schedule committee.
It will start April 17 and will prob
ably end September 14. This will
make it the shortest season of
Southern leagm? history.
The "cheese paring” members of
the league are making a fight for a
shorter schedule. They believe that
a shorter schedule will mean less
expense and almost an effual
amount of receipts. The next any
body knows they will be splitting
the schedule.
On the schedule committee were
named Charley Frank, C. Z. Collson
and O. B. Andrews, with President
Kavanaugh ex-officio.
Os course, the league re-elected
all the old officers, with President
Kavanaugh back in the old job of
president-secretary-treasurer The
only change was to provide that the
club presidents shall In future con
stitute the executive committee.
❖ k'» 9
\ LOT of minor matters were dis
* * cussed. Both the New Orleans
and Chattanooga clubs were cen
i sured for their illegal work in
transferring Player Dave Bunting.
The Elliott case was left up in
i the air. Charley Frank refused to
agree to waive and there the mat
ter was allowed to stand.
The "cheese parers.” led by a cer
tain mogul of middle Tennessee,
tried to pass a rule that transpor
tation should not be paid any ball
players. This was a joke and was,
of course, voted down. It was de
cided that moguls could pay rail
road and Pullman fare and for
meals en route.
at Groton, is completed.
Almost every afternoon tutor and
''millionaire kid" may be .seen hard
at work, just as though pitching a
baseball was file most seriqus em
ployment it, the world.
McCormick, while only fifteen
y ■ ars ol age. is big and well devel
oped and just naturally bubbling
»v. with < xuberance and spirits.
Boy Looks "Likely."
"one can not tell accurately
what a hoy can do, but this .young
man looks very lilo-lv (o me." said
I Brown.
“He takes to the study of pitch
ing like a duck to water.
"He bears promise of the ideal
build for a pitcher. Hi has that
rangey appearance and agility that
go to make a good ball player.
"He ha.» learned the vepy first
thing very well—that is how to
stand, and I might remark that a
lot of the major league pitchers
don’t know that.
"We are taking up the simple
overhand throw first. The throw
must nut be too hard at first.
Headwork Strong Point.
"it is important, especially In the
case of a young-tei. that the pitch
er does nut gi-t his arm sore In
training. After be is hardened to
the throw and acquires more speed
we will take up tlte curves.
-line g-eat point in t'avo. of
Master McCormick is his head
work. He teadily grasps the idea.
That is all important in pitching,
and 1 take it in most Other pursuits
and ■ tii'cuvurs, a clear conception
of what is to b< dune is the ii.'.-t
requisiti Ilf -to - ess.
135-PDDNDERSIN
NEED DE SOME
EIGHTSSOON
By \V. W. Naughton. 1
SAN I’RANi’ISf’O, De.. 16. 5i,,..- ■
Thanksgiy ing San Francisco ■
played host to all the young.-iers ■
who have played shuttlecock and battle- I
do;,- with the world’s lightw, ig.ii I
championship during the last halt .'vir. M
Willie Ritchie, Joe Rivet" and Jc ■
Mandot were in the city at one time. B
If Wolgast had delayed Id: departure B
eag or two. h< could have fratern’Z’l t
with his three distinguished rivals. ■
How these lads have mingled, to be ■
sure! ■
Wolgast has boxed Ritchie, Mandot a
and Rivers. ■
Mandot has boxed Rivers. Wolgast »
and Ritchie. B
Rivers has boxed Mandot and Wol- I
gast. B
Ritchie has boxed Wolgast and Man- B
dot. I
And the end is not yet. ■
At present W olgast is aeiiiiig mg, t B
another crack at Ritchie, who bulbs tie- ■
championship. ■
Rivers, if be could manage it. ivoui. ■
like a trip over Ute championship sin, i ■
line. He would like to overlook Man- ■
dot and Wolgast ami sign up '.. itb ■
Ritchie. ■
Mandot, too. would prefer Ritchie ■
■ ill others, but has sense enough to iv ■
ugnize that the public expects him m
finish out the rubber with Rivers belor,
flying at higher game.
Ritchie, for the time being, is thriil.-d
with the prospect of becoming a fe,,t
light favorite and raking in sxitne of tl’.e
easy money that awaits all m wly mum
champions.
As their performances will show, not
one of these 133-pounders towers ov<.
his classmates to any extent. They av
erage in such away that no very great
wrong would be done any one of the
if they wiped out past scores and start
ed all over again.
Wolgast secur-d a very shaky wt
dict over Rivers at Los Angeles an 1
was shaded by Mandot at New Orlean
Rivers was defeated by Mandot at N\ v,
Orleans and Ritchie won the champion
ship from Wolgaet on a foul.
And that "foul" is sticking in ■ ’
ctaw of fair play, old sport and con
stant reader. They think Willie should
shorten his theatrical season and a-it -
onstrate that he can triumph over Wo -
gast without the assistance of a foul.
If Ritchie and Wolgast were la;
ahead of. the old championship canei
dates t'.te tangle would be easier to un
ravel. We would wait patiently whir’
Ritchie took his Hing at the theatric;
business and feel assured that thft'
was another Wolgast-Ritchie mat' hiu
store.
But Rivets and Mandot ate not go
ing to be thrust aside, if they can '
get Ritchie, they will content them
selves with Wolgast, and there is no
telling what ups and downs may have
marked the progress of events in I ■■ ■
pound circles by the time Ritchie is
ready to don his war paint again
This much is certain, however. The
coming year will be a memorable one
so far as lightweight activities are con
cerned. Rivers. Mandot and Wolgast
nad better get together and decide
"who's who," for there is something in
the public attitude toward Ritchie
which pledges an early return to the
ring on the champion’s part.
WHITNEY LEADS POLO TEAM.
NEW YORK. Dec. 16.—Harry Paym
Whitney has been elected captain of
the American polo team, which will ac
cept the English challenge for the in
ternational trophy.
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