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6 GEOMA3 EDITED W S FARNSWORTH # V— • —.—.— There's Nothing Like Going After Things Right :: :: :: :: :: By “Bud’ Fisher » ..... ■ - - ---.I . ■■ —— l *^ m * M ***^***^* M ——— ■■■!■ ———m— NO' You (er*Y ill LOOK AT YH6 bLISOKY ’ | I »■ PAFER TiLl. I 4E t ' | I THROUGH WISH AhO ; J IF YOU BoTH« R ’ • - /(4AIN I'LL CAP You , zj * • \<Njr*e OAb3l ' , a . a P ***/?> \ | 11 n * ' Jew ' 1 ? A^'jmi. ff V JSr r ’ S£ Ct - nil > > ■ J.M'**> ■■ ■ ? ~ ■ g&’gr ‘ -z_ _ - - V-~ HUE CHANGE TOE "GET" MURPHY IS LET SLIP lh \\ . J. Mi-lldli. v t ;v> V'liK. I»«• Hl I. <.« ba 1 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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