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Dec. 17.—1 f Arthur Rues makes pood as third baseman of the Boston Braves Jay Kfrke will bo turned loose—and will naturally land in Atlanta. If Rues does not make good, Klrke Is all that stands between George Stallings and a big blue hole at third base. For Arthur Devlin has received the hint to shift for himself, and is searching for a job as a minor league manager. Never again will he appear on the held for the Bos ton Braves. Devlin until two years ago was one of the Infield kings of the Giants, and one of the greatest pop uliir favorites in New York. East yeui he d'd well for the Pilgrims Now la 's on the market. If Devlin does not secure a minor league managerial job, for which he is looking, he may Join Johnny Kling on the Boston "reserve list" until such time as disposition can be ■nude of him. Second Veteran To Go. This is the second step in Gai ney’s plan of removing veterans from the National league tail-end ers. Manager Johnny Kling having been tin first to go. Al Bridwell and John Titus are now the only . wo old-timers left on the roster. Having disposed of Eddie McDon ald. who was released to Sacra nento, who refused to go there and who was snapped up by the Gubs. Gafney and Stallings depend entire- 1 iy upon Arthur Hues, the Boston recruit, to hold down third sack this year. Jay Klrke is the only other third baseman on the team, and he has never developed into a big league Infielder His exception al batting alone holds him—and may not hold him long, at that. Bues, who succeeds both Devlin and McDonald, was known as the "home run king" of the Northwest ern league in his last season there in 1911. He led the league In bat ting. He hit 27 home runs in the SMITH GIVES SHADE TO M’FARLAND OVER MURPHY KENOSHA. WIS, Dec 17. Fight sane today are unanimous tn their praise of the tight Backey McFarland put up against Eddie Murphy In their ten-round, no-decision contest here test night. Although no decision was rendered, Ed W. Smith, referee, today agreed with the other spectators iti giv ing Packoy the shade over the Boston fighter. With the possible exception of the sixth round, it was the Chicago lad's battle all the w ay. ”1 was glad to show my friends that my last victory over Murphy was no fluke,” said Pucki-y. discussing the tight today ”1 beat him all the way.” Murphy was there with an excuse Said he: "In the tenth round Packet butted me in the .ye, which staggered me and let him cross the right to my jaw. and that sent me to the canvas. H« algo funded two foul blows.” TINKER OFFERS JOB TO THREE-FINGERED BROWN CINCINNATI. De 17 Mordecai Brown, former st:. pitcher of the Chi cago <’ubs. u ay w, ~. Cincinnati uni form next y< Joe Tinker, new n <• Huger of tile Bids, has made him in off. r and Brow n. it is Baid, will accept it in preference Jo a job as umpire FIGHT CLUB IN PARIS SIGNS PAPKE AND KLAUS PARIS. Dee 17. Billy Papke, middle weight Champion of France, and ilaini ant to the world’s till., today was Signed to meet F>ank KlauS, of I’itts burg. Pa, before the Wonderland club.' of Paris, on the night of March YALE WILL NOT CHANGE OLD COACHING SYSTEM NEW HAVEN. t’tiNN, Dee 17 Tale Will Stick to the graduate , ouch system for iis football elev. n. an.. J. fcapalding, eapt; In of : . J«|. t, Ul ‘ wtn head com ii n* M yiu.. season. Bues made 219 hits that year and had an average of .352. Bues seems to be Devlin’s neme sis. because lie followed him to New York when McGraw traded Devlin to Boston, and now he has finally ousted Devlin from a major league berth altogether. McGraw dug up Hues in the Northwestern league when he decided that Devlin, the ex-champion, was slowing up. But Herzog did such exceptional work in New York, and McGraw was so satisfied with Shafer and Groh as substitute infielders that he let Bues out to Buffalo. Batted .282 Last Year. On the Buffalo team last year, Bues batted .282, He played tn 154 games, was 568 times at bat, scored 77 runs, made 160 hits for a total of 240 bases, netted 21 sacrifice lilts, 19 stolen bases and 51 bases on balls. He struck out 62 times, made 19 two-baggers. 17 triples and 9 home runs. Stallings managed the Buffalo team last year, hut long before Gtifney engaged him to lead the TOO MUCH CLINCHING ' NOWADAYS, SAYS JEFF I OS ANGELES, CAL,, Dec. 17. I 4 James J. Jeffries, once the world's heavyweight eham pion, is disgusted with the tight game. Jeff’s disgust is based on the loss of clean hitters and the predominance in the ring of clinches and rough work artists. "There is too much holding, clinching and other rough work In the ring today," declared Jeff. "I was not fighting long, before 1 came to the conclusion that it was of as much Importance to me to thoroughly understand the rules as it was to know how to lilt a blow properly. "I studied them closely, and the knowledge 1 gained was an impor tant factor In helprng me win my fights. "How? you may ask. In the ilrst place. In all my contests I was never warned, cautioned or cen sured by any referee There never was any reason for it. 1 knew the rules and obeyed them at all times. "Why a boxer should bold 1 nev er have been able to understand, and when I see one doing.so 1 can not help but believ. that i )e is afraid of getting hit. How in the name of heaven can you hurt any one in the ring by holding Ills hands and arms? You have to hit him to do that. "The man who lead.- fust always FODDER FOR FANS Red Dooln Is up against it. He can't -lari doing anything until he tin,ls f.lt sure who owtw (he Phillies The only thfiig certain is that he will net be troubled again by Horace, the Bird • • * . 51 * i-, O-irridon who figured in the linker trade is the same one who handed Larry Lajote an automobile, and K”t lilt'd <ift the St I.i'uia Browns in von sequence which is a humiliation. Indeed ♦ • • The Pittsburg club may frame a deal with the Cardinals that will send 12d Konetehy to P lay under Fred Clarke The ■ ’nsideration will be players and money. Ii the i'ub pitchers show anything .1 I-"IS team may b. ,n the running thl.- I year Safer. P.vers, Brldwell or Corri don ami Zimmerman form a fair infield i she, Sard. Shulte and Mltch.-ll do weii enough in the outfield. Xn,| Jeems Archer can catch. Ered Clarke has managed the same ball -bib for fourteen year- X gentle read el, not the Highlander-, the Nap.- or e'en lj>'' -'I Louis Hroyy tis Merely the Pirates. Captain Kidd has nothing on this guv. I l |-y l 'rs“ g ,h '' US performel by' 1. Loses fI.VOO In shoe busines.- and be- I THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 17, 1912. Boston team, he recommended Bues as a good man for the Pilgrims. Although a veteran, Devlin is not much more than 30 years old. He is a college graduate. He was bom in Washington and went to George town university, where he became famous as an all-around athlete. He was the champion boxer of the college, a star football halfback and captain of the baseball team. In professional baseball, with the Newark, N. J., team, McGraw ac quired him in 1903, and he soon be came one of the best third sackers in the major leagues. He became a popular favorite in New York and never lost bls standing with the "fans" there. But McGraw found that his legs yvould not stand big league championship speed, and placed “Buck" Herzog at third base, benching Devlin in 1910. Last year the Giants' manager turned him over to John M. Ward. He played at third base, shortstop and first base for the Pilgrims last season, batting hard, fielding reasonably well, and now- and then showing flashes of his old-time star form. leaves himself open to counters more or less. “ 'Supposing both my men adopt the same method of boxing?’ you may ask. “That same thing has happened to me many times, and In that ease I never hesitated to carry the go ing to the other man. and It was always under these circumstances that I got cqt up the worst. "I won the championship by a counter blow, I also defended my title on four other occasions by a counter. "1 beat Bob Fitzsimmons with a counter when iie was coming to me. and won the championship. I later defended it against him and beat him a second time with a left hand swinging counter to his body. "I beat Gus Ruhlin and Jim Cor bett each with the same counter and defeated Jim Corbett the first lime with a left-hand swinging counter to the chin and put him out with one punch. "How often do you set a boxe counter these days? Few can L-l! what a counter really is. It is usually rushing in with head down and slam bang away without the least < fiort to block, duck or jump away front a blow. They swing tiom all positions and all angles and it is getting to be quit,- a com mon thing t„. - ei . boxet stand with hts right foot forward. comes nervous wrec k. ' «. Figures in automobile accident .n a friend loses life and Evers’ t erves shaken again. •» Leg is broken ami he goes into re tirement. re 4. Named manager of the Cubs • u ■ Washington Park, the home of the Brooklyn team since 1898. is beina ,1|«- I Connie Mat k managed a football team hack m IW. His star halfback wm named Keuben Waddell R u be was ui placed by Walter Camp. More men faced Rube Benton last sea son than faced an; pit. her In the National league ytilte a feu ..f ern got hits, too • • * After Rube Marqtiard s famon- win nlng streak soueeied out last rear he’ made a miserable record. winning seven game* and losing eleven After the league meeting A.irr v Herrmann and r’.im Llehenhefm, owner of . the Montreal game, plaxed twenty games lof |dnt>> hh* for 1100 a game. Carry was I a century to the good at the linlsh.’ .a : HOWL LOH SHOOT SCHEDULE W BUSHLEM By Percy 11. Whiting. LIKE an echo from the deep bushes, from the haunts of the Class It league, comes the noise of the howl for a shorter schedule for the Southern league. Os all tile short-sighted, short measure. short-skate proposals this is most nearly the limit. The location of the Southern league makes it an ideal organi zation for a long schedule. Good weather comes early. It stays late. Baseball can be played with cer tainty of good weather from April 1 to September 30—and usually 'longer. Yet a light is on in the Southern league to shorten the season. Pres ident Kavanaugh proposed to the magnates that they cut the sched ule from 140 games, as it is at pres ent,, to 126 games. In that case each team would play each other team three three-game series at home and three on the road. The argument in favor of the shorter schedule is that the fall games don't make any money, any how . It is unite possible that, in sev eral Southern league cities, the last two or three weeks are not paying ones. But the logic of supposing that by lopping off two or three weeks all the clubs will make money all the time would bring tears to the eyes of even a juvenile logician. The reason the late games do not pay is that before these games ar rive the league race is usually set tled. And after it is there Is no hope of big attendance. Cut off the last three weeks of the playing sea son, say, and you will have the in terest dying out three weeks ear lier still. • • * THE moguls didn’t fall for Presi dent Kavanaugh’s scheme, but some of the natural-born econo mists were inclined to favor playing the 140 games and packing them Into as short a time as possible. These men reason that by playing 140 games they will get as much mono as ever, but by playing them in less time they will cut down ex penses. The logic of this is flaw -0 ss. Carried to the extreme, it would provide a schedule calling I for double-headers every day. Thus the lln games could be played In less than three months. Grand idea that! It's a wonder somebody hasn't sprung it before. \ou all know what a crowded schedule means—innumerable dou ble-headers. a world of games that never get played, wornout players, tired and disgusted fans, smaller receipts—oh. yes, ami economy. That's the watchword in the South ern now. ECONOMY. • s - p 1-1 it said to the credit of the * ’ Atlanta club, it is not in fa vor of carrying the craze for econ omy to a point where it is likely to jeopardize the popularity of the i game. The local club, at the recent meeting and at all meetings, has | stood out for a high limit—or no limit, it is for a season that is as long as the fans want. It is for good baseball and lots of it. But some of the other members of the Southern league are for economy—and lots of it! RUSSELL WHIPS GARY: AFTER JOE MANDOT NOW NEW ORLEANS. De-. Frankie I Russell. tlte Southern sensational lightweight, decisively beat Tommy Gr.ry. <>f Chicago. here last night after ten round- of hard tight'rg. Russell will probably be matched with JO' Mandot here soon. An effort is being made to match Rattling Nelson with Russell f. New Veals day, and the winner with Mandou This Ought To Be Grand Season for Cowboys *•* +•+ +•+ +«+ +#+ Wild West McCartyand Jess Willard Loom Large By Ed. W. Smith. THERE may be a cowboy at the top of the pugilistic heap be fore another year has rolled around. At any rate, it looks very much as If the country west of the Mississippi river is bound to mo nopolize affairs in the heavyweight division of pugilism. When Cowboy McCarty's sizzling punches sloughed poor old Jim Flynn into the discards out in Los Angeles the other night, not only did a bright new star loom up with great brilliancy, but another cow boy was boomed up, too, as a strong possibility. You remember our old friend, Jess Willard, don’t you? You may remember, too, that a. short time back he bested McCarty in a fen-round battle in New York. Willard Looks Good. The natural inference Is that Wil lard may some day come to the front as a possible victor over Mc- Carty in a long battle. And then there Is Al Palzer, the giant lowa farmer, who may upset WARLIKE EARLY DAYS RECALLED BY COMISKEY By James Clarkson. Chicago, Dec. 17.—c, a. co miskey says that present daj’ baseball rivalry is a tame affair compared to that of the eighties, when the old St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Stock ings were on earth. “There ■ lots of interest in our city series now," remarked Commy the other day, “but the fans don't go to extremes as they used to do. I remember one occasion when we were victorious In a big series game and were almost murdered on our way home from the ball park. We were all piled into a 'bus and were lying in a heap on its floor so the rocks and other missiles couldn't strike us. Some of them found their targets, however, and they hurt, too.” "I suppose stones would hurt,” YOU MAY HAVE THE BEST Rooms for Rent in all Atlanta—you know it—but the hundreds of people who at this season of the year are looking for accom- ' modations do not know it. It is up to you to tell them you can, if you advertise in ■ Rooms for Rent,” “Apartments for Rent” or the “Boarders Wanted” column of The Georgian. Nowadays, when a man or woman wants to find a Boarding house Ihe Georgian Want Ad Pages are consulted, for each dav we print a directory of practically all the rooms and apartments tor rent in the city. Why let your rooms or apartments remain vacant when a Georgian Want Ad will rent them. We Receive Want Ads Over the Telephone THE GEORGIAN WANT AD DEPT. Just Call—Both Phones 8000 the whole tribe of them when he gets into the swing of things out on the coast. And further there is a chance that Carl Morris, the Oklahoma Giant, may come back and do things that again will boom his stock. That is but a remote possi bility, but in this funny game of fisticuffs one never can tell. One thing is sure. Flynn has been eliminated front further con sideration in this race to find a new champion among the -white men. It is hard to thus write the fistic obituary of a game, willing fellow like the Pueblo fireman, but it is only tn the natural course of events that such things come up. Jim has had his fling at the title. He failed against the black holder of the hon ors at Las Vegas last July, and now a youngster of limited expe rience but winning parts steps in and finishes up the job. Good-Night, Flynn. Hence Flynn can not be taken se riously tn the future as a contender among the youngsters of the game. He is thirty-three years old and has said Joe Tinker, who had been lis tening, “but I doubt If they could hurt any worse than the taunts that have been hurled at us sometimes. You never rode through a street full of your late supporters after dropping the deciding game of a city series, 16 to 0. I got all the panning I ever want on that mem orable October day.” "Yes," retorted Commy, "but you fellows nowadays get a lot more ealve, in the way of real money, to heal your wounds. A world’s se ries In the old days netted ten players about JBOO apiece, and we shared In every game. Now, 24 or 25 men split the coin and each one grabs off more than that amount for each or the four first days. We loved the game when I was playing, but we would have been able to stand a few more rocks and gibes if we’d got the money you fellows get now.” been fighting too long and has re ceived too many severe beatings to hope to come back like some young man might. The beatings are the thing that take the sap and stamina out of a fighter. There is a nat ural limit to what the human con stitution can stand. And Flynn ap pears to have reached that limit in this McCarty battle. Surely Jess Willard looms up now as one of the most likely to upset future dope. That fight he had with McCarty In New York dem onstrated that he is there with most everything. He was given the ver dict almost unanimously by the New York papers, and it was said in reports of the contest that Mo- Carty scarcely was able to land one telling blow on him. Cutler Loses a Chance, Willard is the young fellow un covered by Charley Cutler, of Chi cago, about a year ago. Cutler had him under his eye for a long time here and nursed him along care fully. Then he made the fatal mis take of taking him to New York city and leaving him there all alone Naturally somebody "stole” Willard from Cutler, and now he is lost for all time to the Chicago wrestlei\ who stood a chance of making » heap of money with Jess, it the lat ter had stuck. We liked Willard better than any of the other hopes we had seen, because he had such a good looking head. He seems to be above the ordinary in intelligence, which Is considerable of an Item in the general summing up of a man’s championship assets. Jess is now around Buffalo, N, Y., where they think highly of him. Hr slapped Sailor White to sleep in jig time there the other night, and they are ready to back him against any of them now. But Al Palzer Is to get the next crack at McCarty. It will take place in Los Angeles around the first of the year. It will be a grand battle and one worth going miles to see. The winner will be boosted high, as he will deserve to be. Aft er that Willard and some of the others may get a chance. It’s an open race and a long one.