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12 GIOB3M ®OEFSOWED * IXMEfF 1 LP TLP S FARNSWORTH ’s Nothing Like Going After Things Right :: :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher Cm®! LffOW AT TMC frUHOAT ; RAA»*. TU-t. 1 St'' | TXOUtw wiYHtr *•<» i IFWOWISttMt /MAIM n.l. tAf YbU . \wY«t «vei 3 , z —v - \ . tp" l 1 L. , i i T r P \ IT 'SF -Ase- 1“/ Ziw'jf M •.J jSr _ ?<¥J ja»L Jh AAi'V 7 ' JS mfr '-Mu’s ■?J 4 \\w Kl* ' ryjfc*’ -.<• ■+<H ry&n ,i -Hi 2*a- cj r wBL> jr> J UV ~~ —._ _ j. s j gr FINE CHANGE TO “GET" MURPHV IS LET SLIP By W. .1, Mcßeth. NEV YORK. Dec. 16.—Baseball conies into its own again! The football season went out with a clash and a bang a season of many Burprises. Now we return to baseball and its many w into vicissitude Last week marked the real preliminary gun of the 1613 campaign, for it ushered in the annual meetings of the two major leagues. There wasn't a great deal of fuss or flurry’, either here or in Chicago. The chief regret of the faithful who visited these parts for the pow-wow of the old major was that all the old com rades were not on hand. It wag felt that Ban Johnson was somewhat ex clusive in calling the American league conclave in Chicago. Truth to tell Ban and his henchmen were not missed so much, perhaps, as the customary ban quet of the Red Sox in celebration of the world's championship. The little fry. which cluster the corridors of the fashionable hotels where the big gath erings are held, hold it a high mark of distinction to rub elbows —or heels— over or under the festive board. John son's meeting in Chicago shut out from the feast not only the National league magnates, but also the minors who saw better opportunities of barter at the local gathering Jimmie McAleer will have to stand Impeached or foster an other "love feast" when the annual schedule meetings of the two big leagues are held here next spring. The annual meeting of the National league proved but a "squib” to the special meeting called on November 16 for the suppression of Horace Vogel, former president of the Phillies. Hor ace was pretty well sque'ched, it will he remembered, when the conference passed into history. The passing of Fogel caused no vain regrets In any quarter. Charlie Murphy, even, desert ed him in the tlna! dark hour, as well as Charlie H. Ebbets —parts of the usual trinity of disturbers. The disci pline administered to Fogel doubtless will prove a great good for National league tiffaits in general, though the house cleaning did not go far enough. ' in the estimation of most people in terested tn organised baseball. Good-bys. Good Riddance. Organized baseball may have lost but little in Fogel. Still he was not the ■worst offender. Charles Webb Murphy was the real disturbing element He prompted all of Horace’s outbreaks H« inspired the damaging article which appeared under Fogel’s signature in a ] Chicago paper: doubtless he egged on Vogel to write most of his incrimi nating communications. He made Fo gel the "gout” of his own dlstu-bances •nd then dropped him. like n lite coal, when he felt himself in jeopai’dy. Murphy is a very lucky individual u> ba among those piesent just now. He gave utterances to more caustic criti-' clam of the league and the conduct of its affairs than did the unfortunate Fo gel. Rut Murphy was wise enough ui do nothing more damaging than to peddle idle chatter. He put nothing in black and white And when the big trial came he calmly denied everything and got away with It. Had Goods on Murphy. Had the National league possessed a bit more backbone it might have made things uncomfortable for Mr. Murphy. It might even have stowed him away on the shelf with his friend Horace. It had the "goods" on him. Rut t vtdently it figured one catch at a time was very good Ashing A sporting editor from Chicago came to the meeting with proof of Murphy's duplicity in the form of a letter. This missive was a private communication — a “confidential billet"—and he refused to turn it over to the authorities on that ground. The National league ad a copy of the letter and might, v ith some pressure oi diplomacy, hat - -- - cured the original long enough to ad mit It as evidence and thus implicate the boss of the Cubs. But it stalled too long and let the opportunity slip. Thus eeeaped the real offender. ‘Canning’ of Mississippi by S. I. A. A. Recalls Fact That Others Have Been Under Ban I’lxllE action of the Southern In- I tercolleglatc Athletic asso ciation Saturday in sentenc ing the I’nlverslty of Mississippi and Howard college to suspension recalls the fact that perhaps a dozen of the colleges of the asso ciation have been under fire w ithin the' last ten years. The historical cases in the South have been sadly numerous. A slathei of Tennessee colleges have been under the ban or under suspicion at any rate. Cumberland fell under official suspicion seven or eight years ago—and hasn’t been heard of athletically since, though its athletic standing is officially rated “A No. 1.” The saute was true of the Fnfverslty of Nashville even longer ago. and that school dropped off tin- athletic map. The I’nlversitj- of Tennessee has just emerged from a period of suspen sion and is once more back in the good graces of the S. I. A A. S. P. U., of Clarksville. Tenn, isn't in good oder even now. Howard college is the only one in Alabama whirhi has been in trouble lately. Tulane has been a chronic war rior against the S. 1. A. A. authori ties until just lately , and as for its sistei institution of Louisiana, the L. S. L’., it was a subject of consid eration within the last few years, for flagrant ringing. The Kentucky colleges are in constant hot water. And. coming nearer home, it will be recalled that it was not so long ago that Tech and Georgia were both under fire the same year, .though Tech was exonerated. Here’s the "Sentence.” The official decision In the Mis sissippl case, promulgated Saturday at the New Orleans meeting, was: Resolved. That the University of Mississippi is hereby suspended from the S. I A. A.; (2) that Coach DeTray is deburred from coaching any team In the 8. I. A. A.; (3) that VOLS' PITCHING STAFF TOBE STRENGTHENED NrASHVILLE. TENN., Dec. 16. | Realizing that the rnlserabli pitching corn- of last sva son's Volunteers was responsible for the club’s failure to land clos< tn the top, Manager Schwartz has been busy since the season closed annexing Hu signature of all fling e.-s who an anxious to work in Sulphur Dell. With "Big Eat l-"e!iartj, "Chui-k" Case and Jimmy West as a nucleus. Schwartz intends tv build up a pitching tats that will bring a rag to float once mote in the Volunteers' park. The sour taste produced in the fans’ mouths Inst summer by tin wield work of Teddy Bair and Wingo tndoisoii is still there and Schwartz will havt to exhibit a classy bunch of ball tossers to make the fans foiget. ’ Os the new men. Pitcher Mor row. secured from Brooklyn, looks to be the best bet. The former Notre Dame college boy iterfortned in great style for Columbus, Ga., and at the end of the season was considered one of tin classiest pitchers In the South Atlantic. Then there Is Kid Williams, who was picked up on the corner lots of Springfield. Mo., be 'Doc" Sea bough, and his work looked so good to Manage: Hill last spring he Shipped tin young man to the Ap palachian leagn. so- seasoning. Oves there be developed into a sen sation and the Volg were compelled to sell him to Brooklyn to keep THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1912. the captain of the Mississippi foot ball team is debarred from furthei participation in intercollegiate sports in the 8. 1. A. A.: (4) that Manage: Si hauber is disqualified from any connection with athletics Os any institution of the S. J. A. A.: tut that Player Fletcher is debarred from participation in intercollegi ate contests in the S. 1. A. A.” 1 his was the second drastic ac tion taken against a member of the S. I. A. A. tit the New Orleans ses sion. Howard college, of Birming ham, was suspended Friday- be cause of violations of S. I. 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. & M. college. "Ole Miss” drew out of this game be cause Fletcher, star quarterback and mainstay of the line-up, was barred 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 he be kept out of the prospective game 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 the "chancellor of the Univer sity of Mississippi defended the ac tions of the offefiding athletic au thorities and threw the weight of his influence against the effort to purify athletics at the university.” It also developed that "Professor Bel), of the university faculty : J. W. McCall and others signed notes for S2BB in order to pay the fees of certain beneficiaries of such alumni scholarships with the express un derstanding. as openly avowed to the executive committee of the S. 1. A. A. by Professor Bell, that the amount was to be repaid from the gate receipts of the Thanksgiving football game.” him from being drafted. It is more than likely that Charlie Ebbetts will turn Williams back t'oi the same purpose that Nashville sent him to the Appalachian for. Among the m w pitchers signei only Carmichael can be classed as a vete-an, and while Fat is just now on the suspension 'lst as a esult of continued infraction of Mr. Wi’- !iam Smith's training rules, no trou ble is anticipated in having this raised. Schwartz, doesn’t think Billy is exactly crazy ove- tin re bellious Pat. but he ought to have several more good games in his system and they could surely be used to splendid advantage by Hir sig s team. In Leslie Johnson, w ho takes his meals in Union City, Tenn.. Schwartz has discovered a real honest-to-goodness white hope, who supports his 195 pounds of avoirdupois on q structure measur ing six feet two Inches 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 his home town. George Beck, who came from the Kitty league at the end of last sea son. has all the ear marks of a classy hurler. He has a nice change of pace, a sweeping curve and territii speed. Little Is known of Hendee. who pitched last year in the Mink league, but he will be carried ove: to Hot Springs with the others- in the spring ami given a chance to prove just what be Is w orth. KEELER TD TEACH DODGERS HOW TD HIT DALL Bv 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 has already been engaged by McGraw for 1913 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 Snodgrassian 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 his 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, while Ebbets is about the first to introduce a bat ting instructor. If Keeler can impart any of his wonderful batting knowledge to the Dodger "kids," he will be worth as much to the dub as Robinson is to the Giants, or Gleason to the Sox. "\t ee M illie" had consider able success In the role of teacher last season, and he expects to do even better this year. Robinson produced Marquard and Tesreau for McGraw last year, and he expects to dig up at least one nltching treasure from the muss 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 the experiment of an early start with the recruits last year and It was a big success. - JOE BEAN NAMED A. A. U. COMMISSIONER FOR GA. NEW ORLEANS. LA. Dec. 16. Southern A. A. V. Secreta.y Benedetto In < announces the appointment of Joe \\ Bean, of the Atlanta Athletic club and Martst college, as A. A. U. o - mlssioner for the state of Georgia. This matter has been hanging fire so: some time and after due consideration tin l-onora.-.- position was offered to Mr. Bean. The Atlanta man comes highly rec ommended. and for the past few months lias been handling registrations in At lanta for the Southern A. A. F. In future he will be official represen tative of the Southern A. A. r. tn Geor gia. HEMERY, IN A DIETRICH. SETS NEW AUTO RECORDS LONDON, Dec. 16. -Eleven new auto records have been hung up bv Victor Hemery, driving a Dietrich ear at the Brooklands track. Starting out for a twelve-hour rec's ord. Hemery was forced to stop because of engine trouble, but up to the time he quit he had made new marks for 100. 150. 200, 400 and 500 miles, as well as covering record distances during the six hours he rode. His greatest speed was a trifle over 98 miles an hour. He covered 518 miles In six hours. SWIMMER AT PRINCETON SETS NEW 50-YARD MARK PRINCETON. N. J.. Dec. lt>.—Hor ace O’Sullivan, u sophomore, made an intercoll, glut- swimming record todaj negotiating 50 yards in 214-.'. s. c.nil’s, beating thu old record by 1-5 of as"- - end. I Smith Pleased With New Salary Limits; Sore on Attempt to Cut Down Season Under Five Months By Percy H. Whiting. 4 4 r T'HEY'RE trying to make a | 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 players had to pay railroad expenses when they joined the club and to cut the season down to 120 games, like tile Cotton States and the rest of the Class D leagues.” So says Bill Smith, slightly wroth. ’J'HE truth is, Bill Smith returned i from the Southern league ses- j sion in an insurgent state of mind. t For 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 the open, must have some under-the table doings now, for it always goes quickly into executive session, and all that leaks out comes through the cyacks or up the chimney. <i> « ia rpHE "sliding scale” came within an ace of passing the meeting. Five of- the clubs were for it. At lanta held out against it and, 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 $3,600, and it was 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 RICHEsTkid HASPITCHING PROMISE rr>HE "Marty" O’Tooles at $22,- | 000 and “Rube" Marquards at SII,OOO, come pretty high in the baseball pitching arenas, but on the diamond »horizon appears just now a budding Mathen son of the $1,000,000 o'. $1,000,000,000 brand. Don't for a moment believe that this possible "phenom" expects to receive anywhere near that figure for his services, however. fie is stl’l in the hands ol' that great National league flinge', "Three-Fingered" Mordecai Brown, late of the Chicago Cubs, and the name of the wouid-be star is none other than Fowler McCormick, son of the Harvester trust magnate, Harold F. McCormick, and grand son of the great oil trust financier, John D Rockefeller. Wears Brown's Castoffs. Just at present Kid McCormick is wearing 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 he liked. May Be Croesus Some Dey. Young McCormick, who someday may be the richest man in the world. Is very modest in his man ner. but aha'os hi- father's hope fulness. Os course. McCormiik will elite. Princeton university after prepara tory work which will soon begin suits me well enough.” said Billy Smith. “The S2OO limit on the players is, fine. It lets us through all right. Os course, 1 would like it if they would allow us more I men for the first month, while we are trying our players out, but I guess I can get along if the rest can.” cpHE 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 league history. The “cheese paring” members- of i the league are making a fight for a shorter schedule. They believe that a shorter schedule will mean less I expense and almost an equal amount of receipts. The next any body knows they will be splitting the schedule. On the schedule committee were named Charley Frank, C. Z. Uollson 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. >ii « « A LOT of minor matters were dis cussed. Both the New Orleans and Chattanooga clubs were cen sured for their illegal work In transferring Player Dave Hunting. The Elliott case was left up in 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 the most serious em ployment in the world. Met orniick, while only fifteen years o! age. is big and well devel oped and just naturally bubbling I over with exuberance and spirits. Boy Looks “Likely." one can not tel: accurately what a boy can do. but this young man looks very likely to mo,” said Brown. "He takes to the study of pitch ing .ike a duck to water. "He bears promise of the Ideal build for a pitcher. He lias that rangey appearance and agility that go to make a good ball player. He has learned the very firs* 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 not be too hard at first. Headwork Strong Point. "It Is Important, especially in the case of a youngster, that the pitch er does not get his arm sore in training. After he is hardened to the throw and acquires more .-peed we will take up the curves. "One great point in favor of Master McCormick is his head work. He readily g asps the idea. I hat is al! important in pitching and I take it in most othe. pursuit* sud endeavors, a .lea- conception of what is to b done is the first requisite of 135-POUNDERSII NEED DE SDK FIGHTSSOON By W. TV, Naughton. SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. If,. si u ... Thanksgiving San Francisco has played host to all the young: tors who have played shuttlecock and battle dore with the world’s lightw-ight championship during the last half y»:ir. Willie Ritchie, Jt.e Rivers and Joe Mandot were in the city at one time. If \\ olgast had delayed his depart " ■ ■■ day or two, he could hav. fraternized with his three distinguish,C rha -. How these lads have mingled, to be sure! Wolgast has boxed Ritchie, Mandot and Rivers. Mandot has boxed Rivers, Wolgast and Ritchie. Rivers has boxed Mandot and Wol gast. Ritchie has boxed Wolgast and Man dot. And the end is not yet. At present Wolgast is avaing to get another crack at Ritchie, who I:.. 1 .,, ;he championship. Rivers, if he could luanag.,- ii. . ..;i. like a trip over the championship --et line. He would lik. to overlook Man dot and Wolgast and sign up -vith Ritchie. Mandot, too, would prefer Hite • :•> all others, but has sense enouga to .- v ognize that the public expects liin> to finish out the rubber with River- 1..-i\.iv flying at higher game. Ritchie, for the time being, i.- in , -• with the prospect of becoming a foot light favorite and raking in soiw 'f the easy monej- that awaits all new ly made champions. As their performances will show, not one of these 133-pounders towers over his classmates to any extent. They av erage In such a wav that no very great wrong would be done any on. of them if they wiped out past scores and start ed all over again. Wolgast secured a very shaky ver dict over Rivers at Los Angeles an', was shaded by Mandot at New Orleans. Rivers was defeated by Mandot at New- Orleans and Ritchie won the elmmpioi.- I ship from Wolgast on a foul And that “foul” is sticking in the craw of fair play, old sport and con | stant reader. They think Willie should I shorten his theatrical season and dem onstrate that he can triumph over Wol gast without the assistance of a foul. If Ritchie and Wolgast w<-re laps ahead of the old championship < andi dutes the tangle would be easier to un ravel. We would wait patiently while Ritchi. took his fling at the theatric: business and feel assured that t ’ ' i was another Wolgast-Ritchle match ; Store. I But Rlveis and Mandot are not vo- ■mg to be thrust aside, if thy ant • gel Ritchie, they will content I selves with Wolgast, and there s 1 | telling what ups and downs mat marked the progress of events in !: ' : ' pound cireb s by the time ltlt< -eady to don his war paint again This much is certain, however. T * coming year will be a memorable one so far as lightweight activities are n11 ’ corned. Rivers, Mandot and IV'JP* 81 had better get together and ' ' i; '’ "who's who," for there is something in the public attitude toward Ritchie which pledges an early return tc the ring on the champion s part. WHITNEY LEADS POLO TEAM NEW YORK. D<.-. 16.—Harry J’l-'-J Whitney has been elected eaptai; the American polo team, which w cept the English challenge for the in ternational trophy. If you are troubled with chronic _ stipatlon. the mild, and gentb- -ff '.’hamberlain’s Tabb-ts makes Hi. peclally suited to your ease. For -a. e by all dealers. 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