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6 CTCB3M SKI® CCWKD^SSIBF 1 . EDITE-D ty W. S FARNSWORTH Mutt Never Could Take a Joke Great Britain Rights Reserved* By “Bud” Fisher 'TteLL,' r> *W **N T F ( > INTDA BAKCA.SHCP I , punno’ I . ' _ * M,uT T I’MC k *ll ) AM mkTTT IJJWT- -1 I ’ ONt H OVM SCKTOUT Txt OtMfcft ItootA , ~C’ * GOOQ THg bAK€R.ONuX HAO k / ! An D GOT ANOTHER £ATNfc A PrC-CG OAPft., I uj. / L . , I Fop. Two Pte* LEFT, how T"~ ' i ! that Reminds *a£ . a/' Yog « DiDhc Qmg Each P ’ E ' * Good Ga& vc I < J * AAN * v,e ■ ' f .I's ' i, s»»**<* him „> ' X'jjg/ 1 ! ” i''- - -J J&T ''' Hr W} :J| ' 4 *J® /SB " ? -"-y— -—fiiksSS®” •’»’ SffivK Will ■- ff Hl h B I ~ST £ _W?**?r -”-v- niiiuiwMaSag \ JL* lUfr-W** *** Football, Under Fire for Eight Years, Finally Proves Itself Real Leader of College Sports By .1. W. I b isnian. IT was lifter the season of 19i)5 that things came to a head in football 10l years matters iiad beer, steadily getting worse until at last, the pimple having enlarged to a boil and the boil swollen to a carbuncle, finally hurst, and all the football surgeons in the country had to be called into hastt consul tation to keep the grand old game from dying a violent death. No doubt about it, too many men were getting seriously hurt, and too many getting killed outright in the game to make it at till defensible. Whole Thing Wrong. And then there were other things amiss. Colleges were going out aft er material with their pockets bulg ing with coin of the realm, more attention was being paid to thout talnment of tiptop grades on the athletic field than in the class room, and all the activities and business of college work and life seemed rapidly centering around college football. Then came the cloudburst, ami along with it the i •■forms. There is no need to recount them here, but in most cases they were whole some and beneficial • erlainlt they were needed. Not alone did college faculties take drastic action in va rious ways and along various lines, but the footballers themselves, through their rules committees and coaches, worked quite as hard and accomplished quite as much in the light direction as had the college mentors Year after year, the rules were changed wholesale, the game revamped, safer elements of play Introduced, dangerous features eliminate .1. the spectators' view point always borne in mind, and the proper balance between offense and defense struggled for. And finally the reward of this Indefatigable labor lias come. “On Approval" Eight Years. How long has it taken? Just eight years. No one can deny that tluough this long period of probation the game has been on trial only. It lias been on trial with the public, the >ar ents, the faculties and the players themselves. All of these had to be satisfied, else the game could not live. During these eight years the game lias passed tluough more and great er change- than in all the 35 pre edlng years of Its American his lory. At times it has been almost anything but FOOT ball, and nt times it ills been almost basket ball. At times most an\ players and teams could piav it success fully. and again It lias been almost impossible for anybody to plat it But it has finally won out in eve; > wa y. It Suits Everybody Now. The public likes the present game more than It ever did before. This is shown by the tremendous crowds that go in ever-increasing numbers to witness even the ordinary games. Parents have become reconciled to It because it Is not nearly as dangerous ns of yore, and because it Is no lunger so wearing and ex hausting to the system Faculties like it because less frenzied attention to the profession al features and tendencies of the If you are troubled with chronic con stipation, the mild and gentle effect of Chamberlain’s Tablets makes them es pecially. suited to your case. Fur sale by all dealers. t Advt.) “THERMOMETERS” The Xmaa gift all can en.fuj The most interesting ornau.. nt of tin ■' " ' I- “ I. | .. • A SO! .... stock. 42 North Broad St old gaum ar. in evidence; because it is no longer so exhausting to par ticipants that they tan not study after practice, and because the whole uproar has xesultod in a bet ter understanding between profes sors and students, with more co operation, a wider viewpoint for both, and u more sane and health ful life And living for both. And, finally, the players like it because there is more science and skill in the game than ever; be cause Hie little man has a better relative chance than formerly, and because the work Is not so grlnd ingly unendurable as it used to be, Evidences of the Reaction. But what 1 really started out to do was to call attention to the clear and undeniable evidences that foot ball had "come back." So, without more ado, let me recall to your minds that eight years ago every l ist college and athletic club on the Pacific slope followed the lend of I.eland Stanford and the University of California, and abolished Ameri can Rugby altogether, substituting therefor the English soccer. And thus has It been out there for the pust eight years. But just tile other day we read that all the col leges but the two named have de cided to give up soccer and go back to American Rugtn again. I'm this purpose they have formed an inter collegiate league, which includes all tlie prominent colleges of the coast except t'alifornia and Stanford. But these two can not by themselves keep soccer alive out there, and it is easy to guess what they will be holding mass meetings for in the com so of a couple of years, at most. Everybody's Doing It. \\ e also read th.* other day that the Canadian colleges had decided to organize an intercollegiate league modeled after the leagues of the States, and that their main object was to introduce our col lege football into their own halls. In arriving at tills determination, they were greatly aided by what they saw of the game as played by the Carlisle Indian team on the oc casion of their visit this fall to To ronto, where they played the uni versity of that citv a match game, one-half under the Canadian rugby rules and the other half under our rules. The contrast and points of superiority in our game amazed the Canadians Then, again. I nion college, wnicti ■ lit out the old game entirely eight v.ars ago. has recently come back into th. fold and is again playing Vmerican football. Columbia is ■ .guilt banting with the question, with bright prospects of having it restored. \nd down in Cuba het have nad at 'vast two good l.ants for the bast three tears tile I'niversity of Havana and tin Havana Athletic club teams. These teams defeat ed Tulane the first year they were o*g‘*niz**d. Last y<ar thev were barelv defeated lit Mississippi, and this year, 1 understand, the Uni versity of Alabama is going down tlie country is nearly double that to Havana during the holidays to try conclusions w ith them. Also it is a fact that the num ber of organized football teams tn the country is nearly double what it was eight years ago; and along with this comes tlie statement that the output and sale of football goods and paraphernalia l>y s|s>rt ing goods manufacturers is quite double what it was in 1905. BAY GETS RELEASE. Bl.OtlMlNG'l i>N 11.1., Dec. 18 1 vompllan . with the decision of tl national . o.amission ordering the r< tmn of »300 paid to Nashville for It r.' ease .u to be decia ed a five agen Hai t v Bay, ot Peoria, former managt of Bloomington, was given his uncot diimnui . ■ ..«. l.> : ,a,: Th..■ Ej THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 18, 1912 BRAINSCINGHJBB OF CATCHER FOR MILLISTER \ By Percy H. Whiting. BRAIN —The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilagen ous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals.—Webster. The above definition is set forth In the precise language of the saint ed Noah Webster, because it Is tile possession of the thing defined that is to make McAllister the regular catcher of the Cracker team next year. They were talking catchers yes terday at baseball headquarters. Hill Smith, as usual, was listening. "We ought never to have let Charley Miller go." said one direc tor. "Yes, we had," said another; "for two reasons—he had a thirst and he nad no great brain." Whereupon a baseball writer, out of the vastness of his ignorance, lectured as follows on catchers and brains: "If a catcher isn't a quick think er, he is as useless as a. punctured balloon. A good quarter of the thinking of the team is done by the catcher. A bone-headed catcher can tie up a team so it can't beat eggs.” And then spoke Bill Smith: "That's why McAllister is going to be our regular catcher, and a mighty good one. He may not be the most brilliant natural perform er in the world, though at the me chanical part of the game he is a crackerjack. The main thing is that lie's an old and experienced catcher, and he has one of the best brains possessed by any catcher I ever saw or heard of. He can al ways make the right play. He can always remember batters and their weaknesses. He can work pitch ers to perfection. He gets the con fidence of the twlrlers and the In fielders. And that does more than anything else toward making good team play possible.” There isn't any denying but that baseball headquarters, quite unof ficially, is worrying over the catch er situation. But not so Bill Smith. He has confidence in McAllister. He believes that the old lad will warm up under the Southern sun into a wonder. He has managed McAllis ter before, lie knows him and vouches for him. * * • 'THE late of the other two Atlan ta catchers. Graham and Rey nolds. is uncertain. When Bill Smith was at the Southern league meeting. Mike Finn said to him: "Bill. 1 don’t see why you are try - ing to get rid of Graham. He caught some mighty good ball against us. 1 think he was one of the best catchers in the league last season." Smith is open to conviction. If he sees a chance to trade Graham and get a man he knows about, he will do it. If not. in preference to letting him go for some stranger, he will bring him here and try him out in the spring. Reynolds joined the Crackers last year when they were at their worst and did not get a fair chance. When he departed he aired the conven tional Recruit’s Threat, "The feller that beats me out next spring will have to go like ." And he undeniably meant It Reynolds has the size and strength to make a catcher He is willing. Maybe he will tit in as second catcher this year. TINKER WANTS KLING. XEIV YORK. Bee. IS Manager Tin- Ker. of the Reds, will tr\ to ign Johnny Kling, the former Cub catcher, who man aged the Boston Natiouels last seaion Cubs Will Number More ‘Crabs* Next Year Than Any Club in the World Evers Is the Prince of Growlers, and He Has Gathered To gether a Lot Like Him. Chicago, Dec. is.—critics have already dubbed the 1913 Cubs as the "Crabs.” President Charles Webb Murphy admits that he fears for the safety of umpires next year. Johnny Evers, the Cubs’ new manager, years ago was styled the biggest "crab" in baseball. The Trojan does not deny this; in fact, he has often boasted of it and laughed when lie named himself the “human crab.” Otis Clymer, the veteran Minne apolis outfielder, whom Evers con siders using in the outer garden, has for years been recognized as a champion crab. They say his growls have won many a game for tile Minneapolis team. Eddie McDonald, the new utility player, secured from Sacramento, is also an umpire baiter. Crabs make wise players, Evers argues. Some say that was one reason why Evers traded Downey for McDonald. Miller, outfielder, is also known ns an ill-tempered player, and the famous Heinie Zimmerman by his threats to bite off umpires' eats won his title as a crab. True, Evers has promised to con trol his temper as much as possible, but Murphy is afraid Johnny will forget this promise in the heat of close diamond battles. MILLER HUGGINS WILL PLAY SECOND FOR CARDS ST. I,OI'IS, Dec. 18.—During a confer ence between Manager Miller Huggins. I resident .1. C. Jones and Mrs Britton plans for the local Cardinals for next year were discussed and trades with rival clubs were mentioned which are expected to strengthen the weak spots. One Important position already decided upon is second base. Miller Huggins will be the guardian of the center cushion all season unless lie is injured When Hug gins was appointed manager it was re ported that he would lead the club from the bench and shift Lee Magee back to the infield. Not until he sees that he Is going back and to such an extent that he believes his presence is weakening the Infield will Huggins step out. “I am going to play second base," said Huggins today, "and Magee probably will be in left." Classed as a veteran, Huggins has been In the big league eight tears, and he played one of the most remarkable sea sons of his entire career in 1912. He batted .304 and up to the last four or six weeks of the campaign he was biffing around .320. As a run-getter, ability to work the opposing hurler for a walk and to know just what to do in the pinch Hug has few superiors. CASSIDY ROASTED FOR SEVERITY WITH JOCKEYS 111, PASO. TEX.. Dee 18 Starter Cas sidy is coming in for a lot of criticism by horsemen and racegoers at Juarez due to what is termed his harsh, treatment of the jockeys under him. and there is a growing demand that the power of dis ciplining the riders be taken awav from the starter and placed in the hands of the stewards. There is hardly u dat passes that a rider Is not set down for some slight infraction of the rules Ten days' suspension was for a time the pun ishment Inflicted, but this lias been re duced to five days. <iue largely to the criticism leveled at the starter. Fred G Hopper, an Oklahoma owner, disposed of his string in the paddock ves terday and announced his retirement from the game. The horses sold were Rake. Balronla. Chanticler and Harlem Maid OTIS JOHNSON OFFERED BACK TO PORTLAND CLUB PORTLAND. OREG., Dec 18.—Otis Johnson, the third baseman who was with the local Pacific Coast team two years ago and went to tl New York Americans, has been offered back to Portland. He played with Rochester in the International league last season. Otis was a heavy hitter when with the Beavers. FEMININE FOOTBALLERS CAN’T PLAY IN CHICAGO CHICAG*’. Dec. 18.—A football game between the ‘Vassar champions," though none of th.in over saw Vassar, and a man team, advertised to l>< played in '"uieago. was stopped just before the ball was kicked off by the mayor and a delegation of ministers. FRENCH TURF ALL STEWEDUPOVER DOPING EVIL By E. G. B. Eitzhaiiioii. IONDON, Dec. 18.—Sam Hil dreth's famous prescription seems to have fallen under tlie ban of the French turf author ities who are committed, body and •oul, to sworn reports made to them by Professor Kaufman, of the gov ernment veterinary college at Al fort. After the horse Camyre won the Prix DeMont Blanc at Saint Quen recently, its saliva was col lected in a sterilized receptacle im mediately for analysis by Professor Kaufman. He reported to the stew ards that he found therein certain alkaloids denoting that some im proper drug had been administered to the animal before its race. Camyre is trained by Hildreth, who prepared It for that race and saddled it. On the strength of Pro fessor Kaufman’s report, the stew ards have disqualified Hildreth's horse and awarded the race and the purse to the horse that ran second. Crusade on Against De; ;g. The turf authorities in Austria and France are carrying on an un ceasing but almost hopeless cam ■paign against this world-wide practice of doping race horses. With amusing gravity European newspapers inveigh against Amer icans for introducing over here the various surreptitious means of stimulating horses to exceed their usual speed and stamina. This new celebrity, Professor Kaufman, is admitted to be mar velously skillful in detecting dope by means of analysis of horses’ saliva. But doping has become so generally practiced it can not be stamped out merely by exposure and the subsequent disqualifica tion of the horse. There is the bet ting angle to be considered. The Parimutuel is organized under gov ernment control by different rac ing associations. Its ready money business bets are settled at once, whereas the result of Professor Kaufman's scientific tests of saliva can not be made known until three or four days later. Therefore, it is possible to win a large sum and get away with it in plenty of time before the illicit use of dope can be determined, after which the dis qualification of the horse and the loss of an ordinary purse would not matter. Suggestion to Stoh Trifling. Hence the only way to deal thor oughly with the doping of horses would be to engage competent as sistants for Professor Kaufman and to institute the practice of not pay ing off Parimutuels until five or six days after each race. It would be necessary for assistants to col lect from ever> horse x sufficient saliva for scientific tests to deter- , mine by disqualifications which horse had won the race, after which the bets would be paid. Unless some such sweeping system is in auguiated. doping of race horses may as well be accepted as having come to stay. Doping is practiced quite com monly in England and Ireland, but the Jockey club stewards dare not start a campaign against it. They are busy sitting on the lid while the thankful sycophantic sporting press dare not expose the rottenness of the British turf and the non-sport ing press will not do so because almost every publisher cherishes the secret hope of being created a lord of baronet or fears being called a spoilsport. CRIGER WILL BLOSSOM OUT AS MANAGER SOON LA PORTE. IND., Dec. 18. Ix»u (Ti ger. former backstop, who is making his winter home In Elkhart. Ind., has an nounced that he will make a trip to Waco, Tex. to work out with the Bos ton pitchers, ami later accept one of the several offers which he has received to take the management us a minor league Buck O’Brien's World's Series Balk, That Almost Cost Title, Not Balk At All, Thinks Evans By Riley. BILL EVANS, who umpired on the bases October 14 at the Polo grounds, has admitted that maybe the famous balk made that day by "Buck” O’Brien was not a balk at all. Since the alleged misdeed prob ably cost O’Brien and the Red Sox the game, which, if won by Bos ton, would have ended the series then and there, Evans' long de ferred admission is important. Had Snodgrass caught that fly out in center field two days later, "Buck” O’Brien's balk would very likely have lost the world's championship. Since it may not have been a balk after all, think how much excite ment and aififument Evans escaped when Snodgrass muffed Engle’s long fly b»ll. And if it had not been called a balk, the magnates would have missed more than SIOO,- 000 that flowed Into the box offices the next two days at Fenway park. And that Wood-O’Brien “light” would never have come off. for that "balk” paralyzed and beat the Red • * * r" VANS made tlie admission the other day in relating the story of a "fanfest" at the Copley Square hotel tlie .lay after the . game in which O'Brien was charged with a balk. At that gathering a baseball player said he believed O’Brien really thought he was off the rub ber when he made the alleged balk. Evans then made the surprising statement that both he and Umpire Klem, who called tlie balk, actually doubted at tlie time whether it was a balk. And now the story becomes public. • • * Y"l’ will remember the world se ries stood: Boston, 3; New York, 1, and one game tied, before the game of October 14. In the first inning that day, with a man on first, a man on third, two out and no runs scored, O'Brien made a mo tion to throw to first base, hut stopped suddenly in his delivery. Evans, who stood directly behind O'Brien, says that lie immediately glanced at O’Brien's feet to see if one of them was on the rubber. He admits now that he doubted wheth er O'Brien was "on” or “off” the rubber. He says that Umpire Klem, who was officiating behind the plate, was in charge o‘s the arbi trators that day, and it was his duty to call balks. But he seemed also to be in doubt, for he hesitated before motioning to the man on third to score and the man on first to advance to second. Klem has explained this—by the way by saying that he wanted to see if tlie Giants would claim a balk, although such a claim was unnecessary. . A ,■ yyilEN Klem finally made his ruling Evans and O'Brien exchanged glances. Evans consid ered O Brien a wise old owl on the mound, and It surprised him to » e "Buck" rattled enough to make a false move to throw to first if he was actually ready to pitch from the rubber. So he asked O'Brien JX MARTIN MAY x' * ' m/ 2 PEACHTREE STREET UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES > FOR SALE A ! and /vz ! what was the matter. "Bill. 1 thought i was a foot off the rubber," O'Brien replied. Evans believes that O’Brien ha l actually planned that false move in advance, deliberately intending ti> “fake" a throw to first, in order to catch the other man off third, but that he had a sudden obsession and failed to carrv out Ills intention. He believes that O’Brien thought his foot was not on the rubber. If O'Brien thought right, then it was not a balk. And both Evans and Klem were in doubt. Klein saw O'Brien on the mound, in pitching position, before the bluff was made, and naturally supposed that "Buck’s” foot was on the rub ber. * • • pOR the benefit of those who do not know the rules, a move to throw a ball to first base—when occupied—by tlie pitcher, standing on the rubber, without actually throwing it, is as much of a balk as a move to throw to the batter w ithout delivering the ball. Wheth er or not O'Brien was rattled be fore the alleged balk, the decision took tlie steam out of "Buch and immediately four tuns chased the one Klem had waved across Hie plate. Pitching almost "air tight” ball up to that time. O'Brien lost the ball game. 5 to 2. then and there, and fell into disfavor in Boston. Tlie "balk" led to the story of the Wood-O’Brien tight, upset \\ ood and the Red Sox so mu< it that they were whaled the next day at Fenway park, and then only pulled the series out of tile fire by the desperate extra inning battl they fought on the next and final day. ♦ ♦ « DESIDES opening a big field for winter speculation, Evans’ ad mission and explanation may help to set "Buck" O’Brien right before the Boston “fans.” "Buck” hims< If always refused to comment on either the balk or the "fight” that he was alleged to have had with Joe Wood as a consequence, "Buck" is an old hand at the game and very cautious about public conver sation. 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