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Inj Kiilo nil! be iunxil 100-e and
will naturally hind in Atlanta If
Biles .he- not make good. Kirke Is
all that stands between George
Stallings and a big blue hole at
third base.
For Arthur Devlin has ivceived
the hint to shift for himself, and Is
searching fur a Job as a minor
league manager. Never again will
he appear on the field 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
ular favorites In New York. Last
year he did well for the Pilgrims.
Now he'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 Huston "reserve list” until
such time as disposition van lie
made 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
era, Manager Johnnv Kling having
been tile lit-, to pi. Al Bridvvell
and John Titus are now the only
two old-timers left on the roster.
Having disposed of Eddie McDon
ald. who was released to Sacra
mento. who refused to go there and
who was snapped up by the Cubs,
Gufiiev and Stallings depend entire-
Iv upm Arthur Rues the Boston
recruit to hold down third sack
this year. Jas Kirke is the only
othei 'bi:d Busemail on the team,
and lie : ns never developed into a
he I". • '.o'b ldei. His exception-
• I l>.' a lon< holds him—and
•i iv ■ ’ebl him long, at that.
I. ■ . w in succeeds both Devlin
: >d M. Donald, was known as the
"Moi" run king" of the Norttlweat-
• n i.aune in his last season there
in “I’ He led the league in bat
tit.g. ll< hit 27 home runs in the
SMITH GIVES SHADE TO
M’FARLAND OVER MURPHY
KENOSHA, WIS.. Dec 17.—Fight
ran: today are unanimous in their
praisi of 'lt. light I’ut'kt y McFarland
put up against Eddie Murphy in their
ten-round, no.decision contest here
last night. Although no decision was
render d. fid \\ Smith, referee. todav
agreed with the other spectators in giv
ing Paekej the shade ovei tin Boston
fighter With thi possible execution of
the sixth round It was the Chicago
lad's battle all the wav >
''l was glad to show my friends that
my last victory over Mtnph.v was no
fluke.” said Paekey. do ussing ihe light
today "I beat him all Im way "
Murphy wa« there with an < xcuso
Said he: "In the tenth round Paekey
butted me in the eyo, which staggered
me and let him cross the right to my
jaw. and that sent m. to the ativa-
He also landed two toul blow.- "
TINKER OFFERS JOB TO
THREE-FINGERED BROWN
CINCINNATI. Dee. 17 Mordecai
Brown, former star pitehe, of the Chi
cago Cubs, may wear a Cincinnati uni
form next year.
Joe Tinker, new manager of the Reds,
has made him an offer and Brown, it Is
said, will accept it in preference to a
Job as umpire.
FIGHT CLUB IN PARIS
SIGNS PAPKE AND KLAUS
PARIS. Dec. 17.—8111 y rapke, middle,
weight champion of France, and claim
ant to the world's title, todaj was
signed to meet Frank Klaus, of Pitts
burg, Ph . before the Wonderland club,
of Paris, on the night of March 5.
YALE WILLNOT CHANGE
OLD COACHING SYSTEM
NEW HAVEN, CONN. Dee. 17 -
Yale will stick to the graduate coach
-ystem for its football eleven, and Jesse
Spalding, captain of the 1912 team, will
act aa head coach next year.
season. Bites made 219 hits that
5 ■■ii and h id an average of .352.
Ilins seems so 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 h<' decided that Devlin, the
ex-champion, was slowing up. But
Herzog did such exceptional work
In New York, and McGraw was so
atisfled with Shafer and Groh as
substitute infielders that he let
Buis out to Buffalo.
Batted .282 Last Year.
On the Buffalo team last year.
Hues batted .282. He played in 154
games, was 568 times at bat, scored
77 runs, made 160 hits for a total
of 240 buses, netted 21 sacrifice hits.
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, but, long before
Gafney engaged him to lead the
TOO MUCH CLINCHING
NOWADAYS, SAYS JEFF
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iOS ANGELES. CAL., Dee. 17.
James J. Jeffries, once the
world's heavyweight cham
pion. is disgusted with the fight
game. Jeff's disgust is based on
the loss of clean hitters and the
predominance In the ring of
clinches and rough work artists.
■Then' is too much holding,
clinching and other rough work in
the ring today," declared Jeff
"T was not lighting long, before
I came to the conclusion that it
was of ns much importance to me
to thoroughly understand the rules
as it was to know how to hit a
blow properly.
"1 studied them closely, and the
knowledge I gained was an impor
tant factor In helping me win my
lights.
•'How ? you may ask. In the first
I place. In all my contests I was
never warned, cautioned or cen
sured by any referee. There never
was any reason for It. I knew the
rules and obeyed them at all times.
Why a boxer should hold I nev
e have been able to understand,
‘i and when I see one doing so 1 can
not help but believe utat he is
, afiaid of getting hit. How In the
name of heaven can you hurt any
one in the ring by holding Itls
hands and arms'.' You have to hit
I him to do that
rile mail who leads first always |
FODDER FOR FANS
i Red Donln Is U|' against it. He can't
start doing anything until he finds for
sine who owns the Phillies The onlv
thine certain s that he will not be
troubled again by Horace, the Bird
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i Rod" Cnrrldon who figured in
the I inker trade Is the same one who
handed Larry Lajole an automobile, and
got fired off the St. Louis Browns in con
sequence which is a humiliation, indeed
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! The Pittsburg club may frame a deal
with the Cardinals that will send Ed
Konotuhy to play under Fred Clarke. The
■ consideration will be players and money.
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5 If the Cub pitchers show anything .1.
Evers' team may be In the running this
year Saier. Evers. Hrfdwell or Corrl-
• don ami Zimmerman form a fair infield.
Hheckard. Shulte and Mitchell do well
enough tn the outfield And deems Archer
can catch
I Ere,i Clarke hit.- managed the same ball
club tor fourteen years. No. gentle read
er. hot the Highlanders, the Naps or e'en
the st. Louis Browns. Merely the Pirates.
Captain Kidd has nothing on this guy
, Bumping the bumps, us performed by
' J. Evers:
J. Loses SI,OOO In shoe business and be-
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.TUESDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1912.
Boston team, lie recommended Rues
as a good man for the Pilgrims.
Although a feteran, Devlin is not
much more than 30 years old. He
is a college graduate. He was born
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., [earn, McGraw ac
quired him in 1903. and he soon be
. came one of the best third suckers
In the major leagues. He becalne a
popular favorite in New York .and
never lost his standing with the
“fans” there. But McGraw found
that his legs would not stand big
league championship speed, and
placed "Buck" Herzog at third base,
benching Devlin in 1910. Izast year
the Giants’ manager turned him
over to John M. Ward. He played
at third base, shortstop and first
base for the Pilgrims laat season,
batting hard, fielding reasonably
well, and now and then showing
flashes of his old-time star form.
leaves liimgplf 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 case
I never hesitated to carry the go
ing to the other man, and ft was
always under these circumstances
that I got cut up the worst.
“I won the championship by a
counter blow. I also defended my
title on four other occasions by’ a
counter.
"I beat Rob Fitzsimmons with a
counter when he 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 Ruhlln and .71m Cor
bett each with the same counter
and defeated Jim Corbett the first
time with a left-hand swinging
counter to the chin and put him out
with one punch.
"How often do you see a boxer
counter these days? Few can tell
what n counter really is. it Is
usually rushing in with head dokn
and slam bang away without the
■ east effort to block, duck or jump
away from a blow. They swing
from all positions and all angles
and it is getting to be quite a com-
I mon tiling to see a boxer stand
I n ith his right foot forward.
comes nervous wreck
2. Figures in automobile accident in
which a friend loses life and Evhrs' nerves
shaken again.
tiremem * S broken alwi h * « oes in,n re
-4 Named manager of the Cubs
Washington Park, the home of <he
Brooklyn team since IS9B, is being rlis
mantled. li s almost IDie devastating a
graveyard *
Connie Macs managed a football team
hack in His siar halfback was
named Reuben Waddell Rube wa« un
placed by Walter Camp
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More men faced Rube Benton last sea
son than faced any pitcher In the National
league. Quite a few of >m got hits. too.
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\firr Rube Mar.iuard s famous win
ning streak squeezed out last rear he
made a miserable record winning seven
games and losing eleven
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\fter the National league meeting Garrv
Herrmann and Sam Lichenhelm, owner of
the Montreal game, played twenty games
of pinochle for SIOO a game. Garry was
a century to the good at the finish.
■ FDR SHORT
SCHEDULE W
BUSHLM
By Percy H. Whiting.
LIKE an echo from the deep
bushes, from the haunts of
the Class D league, conies the
noise of the howl fop a shorter
schedule for the Southern league.
Os all the 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 fight 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 quite 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 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.
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'T’HE 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
money as ever, but by playing them
in less time they will cut down ex
penses. The logic of this is flaw
less. Carried to the extreme, it
would provide a schedule calling
for double-headers every day. Thus
the 140 games could be played in
less than three months. Grand idea
that! It's a wonder somebody hasn't
sprung it' before.
You 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, and economy.
That’s the watchword in the South
ern now, ECONOMY.
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p E 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
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. Dec. 17,—Frankie ,
Russell. the Southern sensational
lightweight, decisively heat Tommy
Gary, of Chicago, here last night after
ten rounds of hard tightlng.
Russell « 111 probably be matched with
Joe Mandot here soon. An effort is
being made to match Battling Nelson
with Russell for New Years day, and
the winner with Mandot.
This Ought To Be Grand Season for Cowboys
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Wild West McCarty and Jess Willard Loom Large
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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 ten-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 Balzer, the
giant lowa farmer, who may upset
WARLIKE EARLY DAYS
RECALLED BYCOMISKEY
By James Clarkson.
CHICAGO, Dec. 17.—C. A. Co
miskey says that present
day 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's 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,"
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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 from 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 in 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 in 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.
Y r ou 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
salve, in the way of real money,
to heal your wounds. A world’s se
ries in the old days netted ten
players about SBOO apiece, and we
shared in every game. Now, 24 or
25 men split the coin and each one
grabs off more than that amount
tor each of 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 wed got the money you fellows
get now.”
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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 lighter. 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 Mc-
Carty scarcely was able to land one
telling blow on him. *
Cutler Loses a Chance.
VVII lard is the young fellow un
covered by Charley Cutler, of Chi
cago, about a year ago. Cutler had
him under his eye t'or a long time
here and nursed him along care
fully. Then lie 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 wrestler,
who stood a chance of making a
heap of money with Jess, if the lat
ter had stuck.
We liked Willard better than any
of the other hopes we had seen,
because he had suet} 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.
Tess is now around Buffalo, N. V„
where they think highly of him. He
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, '