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Dixie Club’s Card Is Best of Season—Scrapping Is Fierce All the Way
MORRIS, THOUGH SHADED, SQUARESSELF WITH FANS
Bv Sam Bell.
C\KL MORRIS has squared
i :ll seif with Atlanta fight
tai.'. He stepped from under
, 1( j of his recent transgres
. , at the Dixie Athletic club last
• mid, although shaded by his
~ opponent, Al Kubiak, the
, phia heavy, the-Oklahoma
hope milled consistently. It
~,e b es t card the local fight
■, lias put on this season.
Exhibiting a repertoire of in-
• :i g that was surprising. Ku
started after Morris in the
; r ind. placing left and right
. body with regularity through
bout. He easily shaded Morris
: third round, scored a good
i the fifth, and put the fight
OS own hands by thumping Mor-
• . nach fearfully in the tenth.
... ■ ■■. Saul’s decision giving Ku
:.;ak the bout was received with
\i no time was either man in
dang -" Kubiak, although leading
Hud f’'icing the fight after the sec
ond md third rounds, could do
little more than make the Oklahoma
.ia:r wince with his body tattoo,
ii . u'ionallj Morris flashed at his
j.poinmt with vicious left jabs,
nil- 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
:■ 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
nark. Morris seemed to think lie
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
- lub this year. With the slashing
preliminary sessions, it was an ex
cellent card.
The Fight by Rounds.
The first round was a fiddling
lateii. Morris opened cautiously
ith a gentle left to Kubiak's face,
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and rushed 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.
1 he 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. Mcfrris
jabbed and tried to shut off Ku
biak’s air, and the latter fought in
and pommeled the body.
Morris Had No Chance.
In the tenth Kubiak cinched the
fight. In this session he stepped
out of iiis corner with a better
sense of direction, and his right
uppercuts landed several times. Be
wrestled Morris to the ropes at the
middle of the session, and had him
xriE 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 Piles' 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.
Danny 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 GOES WHOLE
SEASON WITHOUT A HIT
DENVER, Dec. IS.—Hats off to Heap
of Denver—Healy who pitched for the
champions of the Western league during
the season just ended. Mr Heals- has
made a new record, and one whieli, like
tnat or Joe Wood, may stand forever.
In thirty-seven games, Mr. Healy ap
peared at bat eighty-two times anil not
e .' llr Healy make a base hit.
I hats an unprecedented showing. It
has occasionally happened that some per
lormer went fifteen or slxteeir games hit
less. but never before has any athlete
been up eighty-two times and finished
wi, h a batting average of .000.
It S the most wonderful thing of the
age reversibly speaking ami lids should
be doffed in honor of Mr. Healy. Nobody
else ever did it—nobody may ever do it
again.
FORTY DOGS TAKE PART
IN CHASE OF ONE WOLF
BLOOMINGTON, ILL., Dec. 18.-An
old-fashioned wolf bunt furnished con
siderable sport for a score of nimrods in
Shelby county this week. Joseph Sarver
noticed a wolf enter a hollow log and suc
ceeded in making it a prisoner. Joseph
Adams, a local baseball promoter ami
sportsman, arranged a chase, after pur
chasing the animal from Sarver. After
assembling the hunters and 40 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 IS. -Four 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 poo]
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.
<ta HE champion jockey of lite
| year in America is a Texan,
born and bred. His name is
Hill.
While there yet remains more
than a week before 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. Ho was practically
unknown a year ago. having ridden
only five winners in 1911. He first
broke into prominence at the half
mile track at Oklahoma City, where
he rode his first winner. I gist 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 his merits.
Hill’s climb to fame was little
short of remarkable; lie 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 ridden IGO 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’™ PAY“SIS,OOO
TO BE RID OF BRESNAHAN
ST. Loris, Dee. 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 hfs 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 tiring of Umpire Jim Johnstone by
the National league recalls the fact that
he was once looked in a Uttle Rock jail
to protect him from 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.
• ♦ 4
Damon Runyon says that Ping Bodie
rovers more territory than any outfielder
in the American league- sitting down.
♦ ♦ ♦
Rill Armour will report In Hot Springs
early in January to get in training for
his arduous duties as a scout.
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 and
Clarke is yammering for gore--preferably
Red gore.
4 4 4
Garry Herrmann !s 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 bull clubs.
« * •
Bill Coughlin has signed again to man
age Allentown.
>*4 4
The Indianapolis club is trying to buy
Beals Becker from the Giants.
Ik 4 4
Charley Carr, manager of the Kansas
City team, is trying to induce “Doe”
Gessler to play ball for him next year
The doctor retired from baseball last year
to study medicine.
• • a
Several papers have published what
purported to be “What J. McGraw Thinks
of Rube Marquard.” But, of course, none
of them have dared to publish the real
facts. It wouldn’t be lawful.
• 4 a
Red Corridon is reported to have a pep
pery temper and he anti John Evers are
likely to have many a tilt.
DOCTORS BREAK FINGER
TO HELP BLOCK’S GRIP
MILWAUKEE, WIS., Dec. 18.—Jim
my Block, ex-White Sox catcher anil
now with the Milwaukee club, had his
finger rebroken at a local hospital yes
terday so as to remove a splinter,
which has 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 lightweight,
set about today trying to match his
man with Backey McFarland on the
strength of Brit ton's easy victory las;
nght over Frankie Nelson in a ten
round bout here.
JAPANESE HORSE OWNERS
BUYING AMERICAN NAGS
NEW Y<>HK. Dec is. Representa
tive of various Japanese horse owners
are in America to gather up about 30
thoroughbred mares. The gallopers
will be used first for racing purpose--,
if racing is revived, and then retired
to breeding establishments.
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DOWN ELEVATOR SHAFT
SEWANEE, TENN . Dec. 18—Nathan,
lei Gerhart, a substitute on the varsity
basket ball team of the University of
tl.e South, fell through an elevator shaft
ft' in the fourth floor of the Hoffman
Hall, a distance of 80 feet, to the first
door. Sunday nlghi His hip was frac
tured in two places, and while his in
juries are . 'a.si.l. red serious they are
not necessarily fatal.
MILLIONAIRE CHOSEN AS
COACH CF YALE'S CREW
NEW HAVEN. BONN., Dec. 18.—Con
uratuladons were showered today upon
W. A. Harriman. 1913. .son of the la’e
railroad magnate, who has been chosen
coach of the Yale crew to succeed
James (_> Rogers, who resigned.