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6 [gicsmi sram ©aww _ LDITLD W. 3 FAWWORTH There’s More Than One Way to Get Ink Out of a Bottle :: :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher --c< 4vr ~ c ; S«I.W., !S „.,/ " | e. e Scttls of ink’ ves , G*r 'NKcurcr ! j ,r can-t / _ . -r> x. ' sUfeL '- I • ‘ r * Ar SOVTUE <v-VHOv'r’ ' BF WJ 1 Yt S ts | ! I -LI < I Cam. Ju & T j YOURX I *«srft> pull IT ’ or <-M.r I ©ft. ' [ p<j sH yhe 1 j? I \ MGMT.’ I r c e<.fr T ' r ’°*.K our • Co<k m. --. ■ -J x — —■— —... ~ | ——y f h^e• y . *®si> *' '* -> * L* I W —> w wl Q& ± m M I » 4®r ' bT jjW W < - bJB I ■ iIbB << RHI iS * I W 3 r—■ **»'* l * i Hl»if Ml n» -<►» Jg p: t’* Z ■ / I !„_ ' ~ "' - II —1 l'*' %> ' !«.<».•»» »T»X HQJt.JWA'X ■ Southern League Has Made a Big Mess of Things ••■•■•■ ■.-•■.• ’.*••»• •?•+ d-*-;- •>••?• +••{• “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 \ isloß- 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. A * • [-» 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. • • • '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. ■THERMOMETERS” Xmas gift all -an enjoy. The most Interesting ornament of oueeiio.i:. Inn, I. M> Sous itavo « COS.blew .... J. 4 v.„. , s . \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 t:,e of r,l a v, r '” -bar • tb. 4 i 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 +•+ $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’? > ■ 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. ! HERE’S ibe best iobacco i iasie of all 11 1 PuRUMMONDI ■k NATURAL LEAF Ji TOBACCOO Chew miK it