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Southern League Has Made a Big Mess of Things
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“Short Game” Situation Will Not Be Improved
By LVivv 11. \\ liiiiim.
IrNLE.SS the train schedules an
J changed or unless the sched
ule makers work a miracle.
Vtlanta vlll Uot be a lot better ofl
next year in the matter of "short
4 ames" on SatuMay than it wa«
last eason 01 tin season beiot
Hen's tile situation: in Mem
phis. N w 1 mean-- and Mobile they
have to play Sunday ball or starve
to death. It has I’ccn the expe
rience of all minor league cities
where they have Sunday names
that they don't have much attend
ance at any other time.
Now. it happens that these cities
are so far from Atlanta and the
train schedules are so inelastic that
Hubs which play In Atlanta on Sat
urdav must leave Atl mta compara
tively early in the afternoon In or
der to get io the remote burgs men
tioned hi time for games Sunday.
That’s the situation.
What can tin y do about it
One thing the local association
enn do and has done. They have
forced th- leagw to change their
rule which provided that all games
im-t b. cm! d one hour before train
time. The local association prom
■—d to have automobiles on hand
to whisk the players to the trains,
and got the league to agree that all
-atm -. could b. held until 40 min ,
utes of train tiim
It was sugge-ted also that tn
.■ague try to get all Sunday ball
•owns in tin same division of the
circuit, with an idea that condi
tions could be improved in this way.
However, until the Montgomery us
,clatl , vhat it la going to
do. and until the schedule makeis
>l l out ■’ 'o tin-r they are to ar
ringe a schedule with Montgomery
in or out. little progress can bn
made.
If Montgomery in t »<•
I ague. Atlanta. Chattanooga, Naah
! Io and Birmingham will be in toe
~ division, while New Ot
eans. Mobile, Montgomery and
Memphis will be in the Western di
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Rial miracle.-, ale predicted for
this o'tinge. including a 110-gnme
schedule in five months, and prac
tically no early starting games in
Atlanta. Take this for a certainty,
though: Those mirael. workers on
the schedule ■ onimlttee are going
to have th- hardest sledding of their
career on this very proposition.
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[-» ELATED news has leaked out
13 from the Southern league meet
ing that President Kavanaugh and
Manager Mike Finn, of Mobile
(both residents of the burg of Lit
tle Rock, at last reportsi bud a
couple of young Irish ructions at
the meeting And when it came
time to name the schedule commit
tee. Mik- Finn was left off.
Os couise It's a tine joke, leaving
Finn off the seheduh committee.
His Excellency Sir Mike is the
shiftiest schedule maker in Dixie
today.
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'PHE Sont -on v .11 the double
1 umpire system again ti ls year,
as long as it pays Last year the
league started with that system,
and then when it got poor it had to
farm out Bill Carpenter to squeeze
through at all Tilt- year Judgi
Kavanaugh will try it again, and
already Carpenter. Rudderhum,
Hart, Kellum, Pfennlnger. Breiten
stein and Stockdale are under con
sideration. If Pfennlnger were
dropped no gnat harm would be
done.
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\q I >W that the Houthern league
moguls have had a chance to
oink over this Kavanaugh scheme
ot not opening the league season
until April 17, they don’t like it a
little bit. It means that there is
going to be an awful gap between
tin last exhibition game and the
first league game, a gap during
which the ball players will contin
ue to eat their heads off without
bringing In a thing.
In tl;e "cotton towns”—especially
Memphis, Mobile and New Orleans,
this doesn’t work for beans. In
these burgs there is a big idle pop
ulation in tlic spring, when the Cot
ton business is on the blink. The
early weeks of April suit these cot
ton folks fine. Amt, as everybody
knows, when the cotton crop starts
a-moving in the fall, nobody tn the
"cotton towns” has time for meals
much less baseball.
This "short season” stuff Is a
loud, hrill scream. Doubtless It’s
a big hit with Nashville. This
town has suffered with a long string
of strict economists Newt Fisher,
Ferd Kuhn ami now President Hir
sig. Il' that village ever acquired a
mogul who would loosen up, it
would expire In tl flurry of sur
prise and delight.
IVY Wl NGO’S RISE IN
BASEBALL WONDERFUL
This is the thirteenth of a series of
articles of "Youngsters" Who Have
Made Good in the Big Leagues-”
By Sam ( rant’.
IVY WINGO, with two years’ ex
perience as a National leaguer,
will take the position the coming
season as first catcher of the St.
Louis < 'ardinals.
Tills sudden rise of the young
ster to eminence in the "big show”
has been brought about by reason
of Roger Bresnahan’s trouble with
tlie St. Louis club, the settlement of
which is -till holding up Bresna
han and the club tn business af
fairs that mean much to both.
But, even if the friction had not
occurred, Wingo was in line to be
come one of the best backstops in
baseball by reason of his ability
alone. There was no young player
in the National league who showed
more promise than the graduate
from the Carolina association.
Manager Bresnahan took so much
interest in his understudy last sea
son that he played hint behind the
bat in 92 games and used him as a
pinch hitter in eight more games.
In fact it was Bresnahan’s confl
uence in the youngster and his de
sire to develop him that caused j
; Boger to lay off more than the
president of his club thought was
best for the team's standing in the
race, and that was made the basis
of the charge that the released
manager had not given the club his
most loyal efforts.
Wingo Made Good.
Wingo made more than good, all
that Bresnahan expected of him,
and that the new manager of the
Canlinals, Miller Huggins, has just
us high an opinion of the young
i catcher’s ability was shown by
Huggins’ first managerial act. the
releasing if the veteran backstop.
Bliss.
Huggins must sure!} have in
view the securing of another catch
er. but nevertheless Wingo is now
tlrmly established as the club's first
. I tring man behind the bat. and St.
Louis fans are confident he will do
I even better than last season
Wingo came from Norcross Ga
* j which is in the section of the nu
| lion that lias furnished on Cobls*
IHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1912.
p ERHAPS the most short-eighted
thing the league did at its re
cent meeting was to cut out the
provision that the salary limit didn’t
stick for the first month of the
league season. That rule enabled
managers to try out ball players.
Anybody knows that you can't
tell a player by what he does in ex
hibition games. Atlanta has had a
lot of rases. Bill Smith let Neal
Ball go because Neal had a sore
arm and Bill didn’t have any time
for experiments. Smith went along
with Castro at short and won a
pennant. But the Montgomery club
picked up Ball, virtually for noth
ing, and made good money by sell
ing him. With a month’s trial this
money would have been kept where
it belonged—here in Atlanta. Then,
on the other hand, there was the
case of Bill Viebahn. The giant
looked like the wonder of the world
in exhibition games, only to slump
when the real test came.
Minor league teams must depend
for much of their profits on devel
oping ball players for sale to the
big leagues. Under the old rule,
managers had nearly twice the
chance to discoxer real talent that
they have now. If the moguls are
wise, they will put thia rule back in
force at their coming meeting.
ball stars. He was first heard of as
a professional with the Greenville
club of the Carolina association In
1910, where he was a team mate of
Jackson, the great Nap outfielder,
second only to Ty Cobb. He play
ed in various positions on the
Greenville team until he. was finally
selected as the regular catcher.
That he had staying qualities Is
prove 1 by the records, that show ho
caught in 104 games.
Bought Him Outright.
Rip league scouts soon detected
the youngster’s promising ability,
and Bresnahan bought the catcher
outright for the Cardinals, although
the recruit was then only 19 years
of age.
He was given very little chance
in 1910, only to w'artn up pitchers,
but he was used a few times to
ward the dose of games that were
either lost or won beyond any
doubt.
In 1911 Wingo played In 18 games.
Bresnahan and Bliss doing most of
the catching. In those 18 games he
batted .211 and had a fielding per
centage of .916. He only had three
passed balls.
But it was last season (19121 that
the youngster came to his own. He
was given every opportunity to
show hi - worth and he made a great
record. He caught in 92 games and
had a batting average of .265. Ho
made 82 safe hit- in 310 times at
bat, including two homo runs, eight
three-base hits and 18 doubles Ik
also is credited with 38 runs
Fielding Average .957.
Wingo.s fielding was very fine.
He had 360 putouts, 148 assists and
28 errors, giving him the fielding
average of .957. Three passed balls
are charged against him for the en
tire 92 games, ills big number of
assists demonstrates how good a
thrower the youngster is.
Wingo was given the rather pe
culiar name of Ivy by his parents,
but he Is as sturdy as a young oak;
then is nothing of the tender,
clinging tendency about his make
up.
Wingo is in the red-headed class
of catchers, like Charley Dooln. and
both are of the fiery, energetic class
of backstops.
Wingo, with his youth and stur
diness, good habit* and ambition,
has a ven promising futur>. He is
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OLEMISS.ISUPIN
0 ON GRIDIRON
SITUATION
J- ACKSON, MISS., Dec. 19.—The
action of the Southern
Intercollegiate Athletic as
sociation in outlawing the Uni
versity of Miesisslppi football
organization and putting up
the ban against Coach De-
Tray and Fletcher, a player of
the 1912 team has created no sur
prise and very little comment in
athletic circles.
In fact, the action of the S. I. A.
A. had been fully expected, and the
University of Mississippi did not
make any effort to oppose it, real
ising the hopelessness of their
cause. After Ole Miss refused to
play the Thanksgiving game with
the A. & M. college In Jackson un
less Fletcher was allowed to play
with the team. It then became a
question of how severe the S. I.
A. A. would be in its censure, and
former university students are a
bit surprised that the resolutions
were not more caustic in tone.
What effect the action of the as
sociation is going to have on foot
ball at the university is a matter of
conjecture. It Is certain, of course,
that there is no hope of reinstate
ment In time for the 1913 season,
regardless of what action may be
taken by the university authorities,
and up to this time there seems to
be no sentiment in favor of an
outlaw organization. In fact, Ole
Miss would make poor headway in
scheduling games with an outlaw
eleven, and the athletic leaders at
the university are well aware of
this fact.
Among local members of the
alumni association the opinion is
unanimous that the university fac
ulty in charge of athletics could
hardly have made a worse mess of
things than they have succeeded in
doing. They literally jumped from
the frying pan into the fire in their
effort to "purify athletics" last
summer by bringing charges of pro
fessionalism against five players
and the 1911 coach, whom they
were afterward forced to exoner
ate. DeTray was not barred by
the association before the season
was well under way, because of bis
past record with one of the outlaw
elevens in Texas.
Advices from the university state
that football spirit among the stu
dents Is deader than Hector's pro
verbial pup. and among a majority
of the students the feeling is one of
sore disappointment and disgust
over the methods of management
and actions of the faculty during
the past eight months.
POST ATHLETICS AND
Y. M. C. A. ARE WINNERS
Two games were played in the Fulton
basket nail league at tl e Armory court
last night before the largest crowd of
the season. Two other games of the third
series will be plated at the Armorv court
tonight
Both game- last night were alpiost en
tirely free from toughness, though Referee
Applewhite called a large number of fouls
on all four teams for violations of the
rules, principally tor holding and drib
bling
The Post YthletTs, of Fort McPher
son. defeated the Georgia Athletic club
by the extremely narrow margin of 2
points, 21 to 19.
The Young Men's Christian associa
tion team won for the second time this
season last night, defeating the Agogas
of the Tabernacle 20 to 10 In a good
game.
COFFEE COOLER NOT HELD
IN FAMOUS MURDER CASE
LONDON, Dec. 19.—Frank Craig, the
negro pugilist known as the "Coffee
Cooler.' was discharged today when ar
raigned tn connection with the killing
of Jessie Mclntyre, an actree. by Anna
Gross, an American negress. on Decem
ber 1. The prosecution accepted Craig's
statement that he had assisted the Gross
woman to buy the revolver on the plea
that she wanted It for her protection, as
she was *1 e only negro woman in tli<-
he where she ’t\r.
Chance Beats All Baseball Records for Money
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$20,000 Salary Is Greatest Ever Paid a Manager
By W. J. Mcßeth.
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—Frank-
Farrell, owner of the Yan
kees, will make a ten-strike
in securing the services of I‘Yank
Chance to manage his team, al
though the price demanded by
Chance—s2o,ooo a year—ls the
largest ever paid to a baseball man
ager or player and, next to Ban
Johnson's $25,000 a year, the high
est ever paid to any man in base
ball.
The friends of the Yankees and
the American league in Greater
New York are a legion and they
virtually demanded that Chance
come here to take charge of the old
hilltop aggregation.
The New York American club
here has been put under more or
less of a handicap by the rather un
favorable location of their grounds
heretofore and the transportation
facilities. But now that the Yan
kees are to play on the Polo grounds
and with Frank Chance as mana
ger, there is a glorious opening for
Frank Farrell.
It makes no difference what Far
rell pays to Chance. If he gives
him the $20,000 a year as a salary,
all well and good, arid it will be
taken In at the gate, and much
LITTLE ROCK SURE TO
SUPPORT BALL TEAM
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 19.—1 f
Little Rock’s baseball syn
dicate, headed by "Happy
Scrappy" Hutton, formerly a mem
ber of the famous old Memphis
Chickasaws ball club, but now an
• Arkansas politician, does exercise
its $20,000 option on the Mont
gomery franchise pretty good at
tendance seems certain.
President Kavanaugh, of the
Southern, who has been in New Or
leans on street railway business,
obtained the option from Owner C.
A. Tilles. Personally the judge
doesn't think the franchise worth
$20,000, but they're anxious for
Southern league baseball in Little
Rock and may see their way clear
to go that strong.
"Last spring," said Judge Kava
naugh. "Mr. Tillis offered to sell for
i $20,000. Little Rock took him up and
he backed out. Since then Montgom
ery has sold its good players and noyv
its only asset is the franchise and
Johnny Dobbs—and a mighty good as-
ED KONETCHY WILL BE
TRADED TO PIRATE TEAM
PITTSBURG. Dec. 19.-‘Big Ed” Kon
etchy, the great first sacker of the St.
Lou J* Cardinals, will wear a Pirate uni
form next year, according to “inside in
formation.” which states that the (’anli
nal*» will receive several players, includ
ing Jack Miller, a fair first bast-nian, in
exchange.
CORNELL CO-EDS ARE SORE:
BARRED FROM BASKET BALL
ITHACA. N. Y., Dec. 19.—Cornel, co
eds today denounced as "horrid" the
ruling of the athletic committee that
they could not play basket ball with
rival institutions because the game wa.<
too rough.
FAMOUS KEENE HORSE
NOW IN GOULD STABLE
PARIS Dec. 19.—The rumored sale of
Peter Pan. the great American stallion,
by James R. Keene to George Gould, was
given eredcrce today by the fact that
when the thoroughbred arrived be was re
ceived by a representative of Gould and
at once taken to the Gould stables.
REDS MAY GET BROWN.
CINCINNATI, < Mill >. Dec. 19.--Mordecai
Brown, the former star twirler of the
Cubs, will play with Cincinnati next vear
it Manager Joe Tinker, who signed' his
Redland contract yesterday, agrees to the
terms asked for 'by the Louisville cbm.
which now owns Brown.
SOME BASEBALL
STAR SALARIES
Ban Johnson, president Amer-
ican league $25,000
Frank Chance, manager-to-be
of N«w York Yankees.. .. 20,000
John J. McGraw, manager of
New York Giants 18,000
Hugh Jennings, manager of
Detroit 18,000
Connie Mack, Athletics (and
part owner) 15,000
Ty Cobb, Detroit 10,000
Fred Clarke, manager of Pitts-
burg 10,000
Hans Wagner, Pittsburg .... 10,000
Garland Stahl, Red Sox (and
part owner) 10,000
Clark Griffith, Washington
(and part owner) 10,000
Roger Bresnahan, ex-manager
St. Louis Cardinals *IO,OOO
And percentage of profits.
more besides, in the first month of
the playing season. That is a whole
lot of money when one says it
quickly, but a manager's salary—ls
paid to a man like Frank Chance
matters no more than rent, if busi-
Set he is. But still he Isn't worth $20,-
000. so I think the $12,500 I offered Mr.
Tilles on behalf of the Hutton syndi
cate a very good proposition.
"Mr. Tilles told me he had lost $36.-
000 since he had owned the franchise,
but that he Is willing to lose $16,000
and get out of baseball. That means
$20,000 for the franchise.
"If Little Rock does get back in the
fans will turn out. We have practi
cally two holidays a week in Little
Rock. On Thursdays everything closes
at noon. That's good for baseball Then
during summer everything, except some
of the retail stores, closes at I o’clock
on Saturdays. Now, about Sunday
baseball I don’t know.”
Iho judge refused to make any
statement on Sunday baseball, but tne
tip Is that If Little Rock does get back
' in the league baseball on the Sabbath
I Wi.l be allowed. So with half holidays
• on Thursdays and Saturdays and Sun
day baseball as well, there is no reason
"hy Little Rock shouldn't draw twice
• as good as Montgomery.
PITCHERS OF AMERICAN
I PLEASED WITH CHANGE
pitchere AG ° o ’da?%e?e A reporttd to**b!
she announcement made by
, dally to star pitchers on wekk teams’?
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■ DUNDEE TO GET CRACK
AT KILBANE’S TITLE
LOS ANGELES, CAL., Dec. 19 Tohn-
l ny Kflbane. of Cleveland, featherweight
, champion, and John Dundee, of New York
have lust been matched to tight twenty
roauds for the featheru wght title « ti e
Vernon arena, where Kifbane won the
championship from Abe Attell.
, The light will take place in April, but no
' aftar April ?5 • eXCePt thttt “ must be
OTTO JORDAN IS HIT BY
S3OO LIMIT ON PLAYERS
CHATTANOOGA. TENN., Dec 19-Oniy
two Chattanooga players will be affected
seriously by the enactment of the S.'lO't In
dividual salary limit, but grave fear is
felt that at least two of the team's "old
heads" will not return next rear when the
maximum salary they can receive Is a
measly S3OO. The twain are Otto Jordan,
veteran second baseman. and Charley
Street, the old-time Washington catcher.
ness comes in to make such a sal
ary possible.
Too Much Outside Advice.
The Yankees in years past have
not been run to club’s advan
tage, and neither to the team's.
There has been altogether too much
advice given, and, most unfortu
nately, taken. Arthur Irwin, tor
instance, is not popular with the
Players, consequently he should be
kept as far away from them as
possible.
And, believe me, Manager Chance
will insist, on that—or else he will*
not be the manager.
The Yankees have been run in a
haphazard way altogether too long.
It is common gossip that too many
favorites have been played, ami
that breath of scandal must be
eliminated. Frank Chance is the
man to do it or 1 miss my gue j.
Chance will be manager in name
as well as deed, or 1 am much mis
taken.
I do not think he would accept
tlie position unless he was guaran
teed a free hand.
The Yankees are popular here
and so is their owner, Frank Far
rell, but they can not continue
their popularity or expect patron
age unless the club is run on lines
that meet witli public approval.
Baseball is a sport that is on the
level and it needs nothing hidden.
The honesty of it is unquestioned—
it is recognized, and tile more mys
tery thrown about it is not fur its
good.
Game an Open Book.
Everything should be open and
above board. The sport solicits
publicity. There is nothing under
cover about it. Frank Farrell,
therefore, wants to cut out ah the
advice (well meant, possibly, but
terribly insidious) from his too anx
ious friends and allow Manager
Chance to run his team as a one
man organization.
Farrell has a business manager
in Arthur Irwin. Well, let Irwin
run his end, but nothing else.
ith Frank Chance as their real
manage., the Yankees will be a
genuine success, and this is as
sured, just so long as Chance is the
head of the club and the Polo
grounds their playing field.
There have been just three man
agcis in the National league who
have been on top in the last eleven
years—McGraw. Chance and Clarke.
They are all "crabs” in their way,
but they fetch results. They are
all born leaders of men and have
the happy faculty of bringing out
all there is in their player.-:.
DOG STUFF BARRED BY
N. Y. BOXING COMMISSION
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.—Because he bit
an opponent on the shoulder during a si**
rouml bout here, Joe Faboy, a local >■
er, was barred for life by the New V-rK
boxing commission.
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