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Dixie Club’s Card Is Best of Season—Scrapping Is Fierce All the Way 510 RRJS, TliOU(iH SH ADED, SQUARES SELF WITH FANS By Sam Bell. CARL MORRIS has squared himself with Atlanta fight fans. He stepped from under ■v, 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 white hope milled consistently. It as the best card the local fight ab has put on this season. Exhibiting, a repertoire of in fighting that was surprising. Ku biak started after Morris in the ■cond round, placing left and right the body with regularity through •in bout. He easily shaded Morris n the third round, scored a good . ad 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 Morris 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 <lub 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, Christmas Sale Nou) On , ' Clothes for Men” 4* YOUR CHRISTMAS GAIN! fEssig Bros.’ Reduction Sale Off—Cash Sales Only Jwjy WOL will appreciate the saving at this season. The difference will buy many a good * gift. Ihe Suit or Overcoat bought here during this special price season will make a magnificent present for yourself. Every Suit and Overcoat in our stock is an extra good one. Brown and grays and many smart mixtures. All good models. Overcoats full and three-quarter lengths; all weights. (Blacks and blues not included.) 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Silk UK thought to the friend so hon- JgWL Sox to match completes the The illustrations will furnish you with many other ored - iJUr artistic effect. splendid suggestions. ESSIG BROS. CO., 26 Whitehall Street 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. The fourth was a tame round, as far as sheer fighting went, albeit y 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 witli a fierce right uppercut, one of the few lie 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 witli 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. 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 DEN VER, Dev. 18.—Hals off to Healy of Denver—Healy who pitched for the champions of the Western league during the season just ended. Mr. Healv has made a new record, and one which, like that of Joe Wood, may stand forever. In thirty-seven games, Mr. Healv ap peared at bat eighty-two times and not once did Mr. Healy make a base hit. That s an unprecedented showing. It has occasionally happened that some per former went fifteen or sixteen .games hit less, but never before has anv athlete been up eighty-two times and finished with a baiting average of .000. It's the most wonderful thing of the age reversibly speaking and 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. TIL, Dec. 18-An old-fashioned woll hunt furnished con siderable sport fur a score of nimrods in bhelby county this week. Joseph Sarver noticed It wolf enter a hollow log and suc 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 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 aO pounds and gave the dogs a hard bat tle. 400 MIDSHIPMEN NABBED FOR BETTING WITH ARMY ANNAPOLIS, December 18.—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 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. f k xHE champion jockey of the I 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—Turner—lias 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 prominence 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 limo hq was quickly given an oppoitunity to show .his merits. Hill’s climb to fame was little short of remarkable; he became a star in a day nnd 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 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 $1.1.000. 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 I Diamond News and Gossip The tiring of Umpire Jim Johnstone by the National league recalls the fact that he was once locked in a Idttle Rock Jail to protect him from irate fans. • The project of cutting the Southern '.eague down to six clubs max 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. • ♦ Bill Xrmour will report in Hot Springs early in January to get in training for his arduous duties as a scout. o * * 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. » « e ’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 Syracus.- and Clarke is yammering for gore-—preferably Red gore. *. * ♦ Garry 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 M- W • Bill Coughlin has signed again to man age Allentown. * * t The Indianapolis club is trying to buy Beals Recker from the Giants. * li< * Charley Carr, manager of the Kansas City team, is trying to Induce "Doc” GeSslei 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 "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. * • • 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., Dec. IS.—Jim my Block, ex-White Sox catcher and 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. A Des Moines man had an attack of muscular rheumatism in his shoulder. A friend advised him to go to Hot Springs. That meant an expense of $150.00 or more. He sought for a quick er and cheaper way to cure it nnd found it in Chamberlain’s Liniment. Three days after the first application of this liniment he was well. For sale by all dealers. (Advt.) MAKE SOMEBODY Happy with a Kodak—the gift that pleases both young and old. Jno. L. Moore & Sons have a complete line. 42 North Broad St. (Advt.) 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 Packey McFarland on the strength of Britton’s easy victory last nght 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 tn America to gather up about 30 thoroughbred mares. The gallopers will be used first for racing purposes, If racing is revived, and then retired to breeding establishments. Your Own Name On This Knife JOHN SMITH Atlanta. G.i NO COST TO YOU This handsome knife is 3 1-2 inches long when closed, with two razor-steel blades of finest quality. The transparent handle shows your name and address plainly, just as shown in the above cut. Any one can earn one of these handsome knives with very little effort Just send us your name and address on the coupon below. 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