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Dixie Club's Card Is Best of Season—Scrapping Is Fierce All the Way
M ORRIS,TH()IJGHSHADE[), SQUARES SELF WITH FANS
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, By Sam Bell.
CARL MORRIS has squared
himself with Atlanta fight
fans. He stepped from under
>e cloud of his recent transgres
sions at the Dixie Athletic club last
night and, although shaded by his
shiftier opponent, Al Kubiak, the
Philadelphia heavy, the Oklahoma
n hite hope milled consistently. It
..as the best card the local fight
iub has put on this season.
Exhibiting a repertoire of in
fighting that was surprising. Ku
biak started after Morris in the
second round, placing left and rignt
to the body with regularity through
the bout. He easily shaded Morris
in the third round, scored a good
lead in the fifth, and put the fight
in his own hands by thumping Mor
ris stomach, fearfully in the tenth.
Referee Saul’s decision giving Ku
biak the bout was received with
cheers. , <
At no time was either man in
danger. Kubiak, although leading
and forcing the fight after the sec
ond and third rounds, could do
little more than make the Oklahoma
giant wince with his body tattoo.
Occasionally flashed at his
opponent with vicious left jabs,
some of which reached a resting
place on Kubiak’s jaw. Both fight
ers started blows that landed on
the atmosphere, and Morris, after
missing his left, usually went into
a clinch, to be outfought by Ku
biak,
The fight went pretty much the
same, round by round. Morris
would step out of his corner, dance
around Kubiak and start a left jab
or two. The pair would clinch and
Kubiak would begin on his oppo
nent's wind, now and then step
ping back and starting a right up
percut that seldom reached its
mark. Morris seemed to think he
could tire Kubiak by laying on him
in the hugs, but Referee Saul forced
the fighters to break when they
locked, and the program of the left
Jab, the clinch and the infighting,
with the flash of the right uppercut,
would be rehearsed.
Despite the fact that some of the
rounds were tame, notably the first
and sixth, the fight pleased the
crowd and can be pronounced the
most Interesting seen at the Dixie
club this year. With the slashing
preliminary sessions, it was an ex
cellent card.
The Fight by Rounds,
The first round was a fiddling
match. Morris opened cautiously
with a gentle left to Kubiak's face.
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and lushed his opponent to the
ropes. Kubiak put a right across
Morris’ chin in the clinch, and a
couple of easy hooks to the body.
Morris stung a left to the head as
the gong sounded.
The second round was even.
Morris continued using his left jab
on Kubiak's face and the latter
pushed in and played for the body.
Coming out of a clinch. Kubiak sent
a stiff right to the jaw that shook
the Oklahoman, and Morris missed
a couple of swings.
Kubiak opened this session fierce
ly, putting a left to the chin and
pounding Morris' ribs in the clinch.
Morris failed to put across a real
blow in this session, and it was
Kubiak’s round.
The fourth was a tame round, as
far as sheer fighting went, albeit
full of fireworks. Kubiak landed a
right and left to the body early in
the round, and Morris jumped up
and pushed the Philadelphian to the
ropes, missing a vicious left swing.
Kubiak Gets Going.
Kubiak took a good lead in the
fifth round, tearing to Morris and
playing his wind with left hooks. He
made Morris wince with a fierce
right uppercut, one of the few he
started that reached a real mark
during the fight.
The sixth was tame, a repeti
tion of the fourth.
In the seventh Morris came out of
his corner slowly, but rushed Ku
biak and put a left to the face.
Kubiak banged him in the body
and the blow looked low. Saul
warned Kubiak. Morris rallied
and rushed, but the stomach blow
had hurt him, and it was Kubiak’s
round by a shade.
The white hope squared his score
in the eighth, and if he had a shade
in any round, it was in this session.
Morris opened by missing a left,
but put three short, hard ones to
Kubiak’s wind, and the Philadel
phian missed the next two blows
he started. Kubiak closed the
round with a gentle right and left
to face.
The ninth was an even round
and much like the others. Morris
jabbed and tried to shut off Ku
biak’s air, and the latter fought in
and pummeled the body.
Morris Had No Chance.
In the tenth Kubiak cinched the
fight. In this session he stepped
out of his corner with a better
sense of direction, and his right
uppercuts landed several times. He
wrestled Morris to the ropes at the
middle of the session, and had him
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 18, 1912.
holding on to avoid the fiercest body
punishment yet exhibited.
Kid Young knocked Rat the
Rounder cold in the first prelimi
nary, in the second round. Kid
Shepard picked out a soft spot and
laid down to Arthur Worthy in the
second bout.
In the third bout, Meyer Pries
quit after two rounds of fierce mill
ing with Al Smith, of Jackson
ville, and Pries' manager said that
his boy was sick and had gone on
on three minutes notice, and be
sides had to fight Spider Britt on
Christmas—so you see, etc.
Dinny McShea took an awful
lacing from Kid Lavelle in the
semi-windup, and finally caved in
the third round. Lavelle beat him
at will and unmercifully after the
first session.
DENVERITE G 0F e WHOLE
SEASON WilhOUT A HIT
DENVER, Dec. 18.—Hats off to Healy
of Denver -Healy who pitched for the
champions of the Western league during
the season just ended. Mr. Healy has
made a new record, and one which, like
that of Joe Wood, may stand forever
In thirty-seven games, Mr. Healy ap
peared at bat eighty-two times and not
V’! ce • MT- Healy make a base hit.
1 hat s an unprecedented showing. It
has occasionally happened that some per
former went fifteen or sixteen games hit
less, but never before has any athlete
been up eighty-two times and finished
with a baiting average of .000.
It s the most wonderful thing of the
* ge T D? v f r sibly speaking and lids should
oe dotted in honor of Mr. Healy. Nobody
ei>e ever did it—nobody may ever do it
agajn.
FORTY DOGS TAKE PART
IN CHASE OF ONE WOLF
BLOOMINGTON. ILL., Dec. 18 An
old-fashioned wolf hunt furnished con
siderable sport for a score of nimrods in
.Shelby county this week. Joseph Sarver
noticed a wolf enter a hollow log and sue.
ceeded in making it a prisoner. Joseph
Adams, a local baseball promoter and
sportsman, arranged a chase, after pur
chasing the animal from Sarver. After
assembling the hunters and 10 dogs, the
wolf was given its freedom. The hunt
ers and dogs, after an exciting run, cap
tured and killed the animal. It weighed
50 pounds and gave the dogs a hard bat
tle.
400 MIDSHIPMEN NABBED
FOR BETTING WITH ARMY
ANNAPOLIS. December 18.—Pour hun
dred 'midshipmen violated Superintendent
Gibbons' order forbidding betting on the
recent annual interservice football game
at Philadelphia, it has been disclosed in
an investigation just finished at the Naval
academy.
The investigating board, it is said,, ob
tained a full list of midshipmen who are
declared to have contributed to a pool
amounting to $2,000, which was covered
by the West Point cadets.
The report is in the hands of Superin
tendent Gibbons, who will assign punish
ment.
To Tiny Southern Lad
Goes Honor of Leading
All American Jockeys
Texas Kid, Named Hill, Puts It
Over Veterans and Piles
Up Nearly 200 Victories.
THE champion jockey of the
year in America Is a Texan,
born and bred. His name Is
Hill.
While there yet remains more
Allan a week befoie the calendar
circle is completed, one is quite
safe in awarding Hill the title, for
his lead is such that only one
jockey—C. Turner—has a chance
to overhaul him before the end of
the year and such a thing is im
probable, for Turner has tempo
rarily retired from the saddle and
is spending the winter months at
his home In Covington, Ky.
The new champion of the Ameri
can jockeys is a product of the far
Western turf. He was practically
unknown a year ago, having ridden
only five winners in 1911. He first
broke into pt eminence at the half
mile track at Oklahoma City, where
he rode his first winner. Last win
ter he accompanied some of the
bush horsemen to Juarez and as
there was a scarcity of riders at
the Mexican track at that time he
was quickly given an opportunity
to show bis merits.
kill's climb to fame was little
short of remarkable; he became a
star in a day and at the close of
racing at Juarez last April was Ac
knowledged by horsemen and turf
followers to be the best lightweight
rider in the country. Up to date he
has i Idden 160 winners this year
and there is a possibility that his
grand total will reach the 200 mark
before the beginning of the new
year. He is but sixteen years of
age, weighs less than 100 pounds
and seems to have a number of
years of usefulness as a race rider
before him.
CARDS TO PAY $15,000
TO BE RID OF BRESNAHAN
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 18.—That Roger
Bresnahan's claim against the Cardinal
club will be compromised out of the
courts —civil and baseball—was report
ed today from a reliable source. Bres
nahan. according to his attorney. Geo.
Priest, is still willing to settle on a
reasonable basis. The club authorities
are taking the same view, and it is
stated that the two factions will be
brought together immediately after the
holidays.
Roger is willing to take $15,000, it
is said, and tear up his two parchments.
This will leave him free to sign with
the Pirates. It is learned that the club
will settle on this basis.
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
The firing of Umpire Jim Johnstone by
the National league recalls the fact that
he was once locked in a Little Rock jail
to protect him fFom irate fans.
• • •
The project of cutting the Southern
league down, to six clubs may be ad
vanced soon, if Montgomery persists In
balking on playing ball this year.
♦ ♦ ♦
Damon Runyon says that Ping Bodie
covers more territory than any outfielder
In the American league—sitting down.
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Bill Armour will report in Hot Springs
oarl\ in January t<> get in training for
his arduous duties as a scout.
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Chattanooga considers that it has won
a great victory in landing the spring
meeting of the Southern league, and At
lanta is willing to let it go at that.
♦ ♦ ♦
The Reds and the Senators will play
an exhibition game at Cincinnati March
30. The Reds trimmed Griffith’s team last
year in an exhibition tilt at Syracuse ami
Clarke is yammering for gore—preferably
Red gore.
♦ * *
Garn Herrmann is said to be after
George Mullen. He figures that all George
needs is a change of background.
♦ » •
Fred Tenney is getting rich manufac
turing shoes. He says it’s easier than
making ball clubs. %
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Bill Coughlin has signed again to man
age Allentown
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The Indianapolis club is trying to buy
Beals Becker from the Giants.
Charley Carr, manager of the Kansas
City team, is trying to induce “Doc”
Gessler to play ball for him next year.
The doctor retired from baseball last year
to study medicine.
• • •
Several papers have published what
purported to be “W hat J. McGraw Thinks
of Rube Marquard.” But. of course, none
of them have dared to publish the real
facts. It wouldn’t be lawful.
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Red Corridon is reported to have a pep
pery temper and he and John Evers are
likely to have many a tilt.
DOCTORS BREAK FINGER
TO HELP BLOCK’S GRIP
MILWAUKEE. WIS., Dee. 18.—Jim
my Block, ex-White Sox catcher and
now with the Milwaukee club, had his
finger rebroken at a local hospital yes
terday sc as to remove a splinter,
which lias prevented him from grip
ping the ball to throw. The doctor
claims it will be all right now and that
next season he will be able to throw as
well as ever.
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BRITTON BESTS NELSON;
STARTS AFTER M’FARLAND
NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—The manager of
Jack Britton, the Chicago light weight,
set about today trying to match his
man with Backey McFarland on the
strength of Britton's easy victory last
ngbt over Frankie Nelson in a ten
round bout here.
JAPANESE HORSE OWNERS
BUYING AMERICAN NAGS
NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Representa
tive of various Japanese horse owners
are in America to gather up about 30
thoroughbred mares. The gallopers
will be used tirat for racing purposes,
if racing is revived, and then retired
to breeding establishments.
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SEWANEE, TENN., Dec. 18.—Nathan
iel Gerhart, a substitute on the varsity
; basket ball team of the University of
the South, fell through an elevator shaft
from the fourth floor of the Hoffman
Hall, a distance of 60 feet, to the first
tloor, Sunday night. His hip was frac
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NEW HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 18.—Con
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W. A Harriman. 1913, son of the late
railroad magnate, who has been chosen
coach of the Yale crew to succeed
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