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Southern League Has Made a Big Mess of Things
“Short Game” Situation Will Not Be Improved
By Percy H. Whiting.
UrNLESS the train schedule? an
changed or unless the ached*
ule makers work a miracle.
Atlanta will not be a lot better oft
next year in the matter of "short
srames" on Saturday than it w
fast season or the season before
Here’s the situation: In Mem
phis, New Orleans and Mobile they
have to play Sunday ball or starve
to death. It has been the expe
rience of all minor league cities
where they have Sunday games
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 arc so inelastic that
clubs which play In Atlanta on Sat
urday must leave Atlanta compara
tively early in the afternoon In or
der to get to the remote burgs men
tioned tn time for games Sunday
That’s the situation.
What can they do about it
One thing the local association
cun do and has done. They have
forced the league to change their
rule which provided that all games
must be ended one hour before train
time. The local association prom
ged to have automobiles on hand
to whisk the players to the trains,
and got the league to agree that all
games could be held until 40 min
utes of train time.
It was suggested also that tm*
league try to get all Sunday ball
towns in the same division of the
circuit, with an idea that condi
tions could be Improved in this way.
However, until the Montgomery as
sociation decides what it is going to
do, and until the schedule makers
find out whether they arc to ar
range a schedule with Montgomery
in or out. little progress can be
made.
If Montgomery sticks in the
league. Atlanta. Chattanooga, Nash
ville and Birmingham will be in the
Eastern division, while New Or
leans, Mobile, Montgomery ami
Memphis will be in the Western di
vision.
Real miracles are predicted for
this change. Including a 149-gnme
schedule in five months, and prac
tically no early starting games in
Atlanta. Take this for a certainty,
though Those miracle workers on
the schedule committee are going
to have the hardest sledding of their
■ererr on this very proposition
» ♦ •
rj ELATED news has leaked out
D from the Southern league meet
ing that President Kavanaugh and
Manager Mike linn, of Mobile
(both residents of the burg of hit
tie Rock. at last reports) had a
couple of young Irish ructions nt
the meeting. And when it came
time to name the schedule commit
tee, Mike Finn was left off.
Os course it’s a tine joke, leaving
Finn off the schedule committee.
His Excellency Sir Mike is the
shiftiest schedule maker in Dixie
today.
♦ • •
THE Southern will use the double
1 umpire system again this year,
as long as it pays. East year the
league started with that system,
and then when it got poor it had to
farm out Hill Carpenter to squeeze
through at all. This year Judge
Kavanaugh will try it again, and
already Carpenter. Hudderham,
Hart, Kellum, Pfenning*'! - , Breiten
stein and Stockdale are under con
sideration. If Pfennings! - were
dropped no gnat harm would be
done.
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tint the Southern league
moguls have had a etyance to
think over this Kavanaugh -diem,
of not opening the league season
until April 17, they don’t Ilk. it i
little bit.- It means that there is
going to be an awful gap between
the 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 tfie “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 the spring, when the cot
ton business is bn the blink. The
early weeks of April suit these cot
ton folks fine. And, as everybody
knows, when the cotton crop starts
a-moving in the fall, nobody in the
“cotton towns" lias time for meals
much less baseball.
This “short season” stuff is a
loud, brill scream. Doubtless it’s
a big hit with Nashville. This
town has suffered with i long string
of strict economists Newt Fisher,
Ford Kuhn and now President Flit -
sig. If that village over acquired a
mogul who would loosen up, it
would expire in a flurry of sur
prise and delight.
IVY WINGO'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 Crane.
I)Y WINGO, with two years' ex
perience as a National leaguer,
will take the position the coming
season as first catcher of the St,
Louis ('atdinal.s.
This sudden rise of the young
ster to eminence in the "big show”
has been bi ought 'about by reason
of Boger Bresnahan’s trouble with
the St. Louis club, the settlement of
which is still holding up Bresna
han and the club in 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 host 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 lajtt sea
son that lie played him behind the
bat in 92 g inn s and used him as a
pinch hittei in eight games.
In fact. It was Bresnahan's confi
dence in Hie youngster and his de
sire to develop him that caused
llogci to lay off more thin the
president of his club thought whs
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
tfiat Bresnahan expected of him.
and that the new manager of tile
Cardinal.- Miller Huggins, has just
as high tin opinion of the young
catcher's ability vas shown by
Huggins' first managerial act. the
releasing of tile veteran backstop.
Bliss
Huggins must surely have in
vb w tlw securing of another catch
er. but ne'' i thole- Wingo is now
tlrmiy established as the club’s first
string man behind the bat. and St.
Louis fans are confident he will do
• ven better than las season
Wingo came from Norcross. G.i .
a lv ■’.) is in the section v" the na
tion ’hat lias furnished OU! Cobbs.
Jackson* and otli'-r femous luik*
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1912.
p KRHAPS the most short-sighted
thing the league did at Its re
cent meeting was to cut out the
provision that the salary limit didn’t
stick foi' file first month of the
leagiu season. That rule enabled
managers to try out ball players.
Anybody knows that you can't
I tel: n player by what he does in ex
hibition games. Atlanta has had a
lot of cases. 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 ('astro 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
ease of Hill Vfebahn. The giant
looked like the wonder of the world
in exhibition gHmes, only to slump
when the real test came.
Minor league teams must depend
for much of their profits on devel
oping ball players fqr sale to the
big leagues. Under the old rule,
managers had nearly twice the
chance to discover real talent that
they have now. If the moguls are
wise, they will put tills rule back in
force at their coming meeting.
hall stars. He was first heard of as
a professional with the Greenville
club of tiie 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 tiie
Greenville team until lie was finally
selected as the regular catcher.
That he had staying qualities Is
proved bj the records, that show he
caught in 104 games.
Sougat Him Outright.
Hi;.-: 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 11'10, only to warm up pitchers,
but he was used a few times to
ward the elose of games that were
either lost or won beyond any
doubt.
In 1911 Wingo played in IS games.
Bre iialuin and Bliss doing most of
the catching. In those is games ho
baited .211 and bad a fielding per
eentage of .91(1. He only had three
passed bail-.
Hilt it was last season (19121 that
lie youngster camo to his own. He
was given every opportunity to
show his w orth and he made a great
record. 11" caught in 92 games and
had a batting av. rage of .265. He
made S 2 safe hits in 310 times at
bat, including two home runs, eight
three-base hits and IS doubles. He
also is credited with 38 runs.
Fielding Average .957.
Wingo's fielding was very tine.
He had 360 putouts, 14S assists and
23 errors, giving him the fielding
average of .957 Three passed balls
are charged against him for the en
tire 92 games His 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;
th 'rc is nothing of the tender,
clinging t. ndeney about his make
up
Wing., is in the red-headed class
of catchers, like Chai ley Dooin, and
both are of the fiery, energetic class
of backstops.
Wingo with his youth and star
ciness, good habit- and ambition,
bus i vei promising future He is
tiie style of player in fhnnu tei that
OLE MISS.IS UP IN
AIUDNGSIDINDN
SITTON
IACKejON, MISS., Dec. 19. -The
action of the Southern
Into.collegiate Athletic a>-
s.a:;.tion in outlawing the Uni-
V' :sity of Mississippi football
organization . and putting up
the ban against Coach D'-
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
izing 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 H. 1.
A. A. would be in its censure, and
former university students are a
bit surprised that the resolutions
were not more caustic in tone.
\\ hat 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,
end 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
tiie 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
tiie trying 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
weie afterward forced to exoner
ate. DeTray was not barred by
the association before tiie season
was well under way, because of his
past record with one of the outlaw
elevens in Texas.
Advices from tiie university state
that football spirit among tiie stu
dents is deader than Hector’s pro
verbial pup, and among a majority
of the students tiie feeling is one of
sore disappointment and disgust
over the methods of management
and actions of tiie faculty during
the past eight months.
POST ATHLETICS AND
Y. M.C. A. ARE WINNERS
Two games were played in the Fulton
basket ball league at the Armory court
last night before the largest crowd of
the season. Two other games of the third
series will be played at the Arntorv court
tonight
Both games last night were almost en
tirely free front toughness, though Referee
Applewhite called a large number ~t fouls
on all foul teams fir violations of the
rules, principally for holding ami drib
bling
The Post Athletics, 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 ibis
season last night, defeating the Agogas
of the Tabernacle 20 to 10 in a good
game.
COFFEE COOLER NOT HELD
IN FAMOUS MURDER CASE
la'NDi'N, Pec. 19.—Frank Craig, the
negro pugilist known as the "Coffee
Cooler," was discharged today when ar
raigned In connection with the killing
of Jessie Mclntyre, an actres. bv Anna
Gross, an American regress, on Decem
ber 1. Tiie prosecution accepted t'ratg's
statement that he had assisteel the Gross
woman to buy the revolver < t he idea
that si e wanted it tor Iter protection, as
she was the only negro woman tn the
heuae where she lived.
Chance Beats All Baseball Records for Money
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$20,000 Salary Is Greatest Ever Paid a Manager
By \V. J. Mcßeth.
NEW YORK. Dec. 19.—Frank
Farrell, owner of the Yan
kees, will make a ten-strike
in securing the services of Frank
Chance to manage his team, al
though the price demanded by
Chance —-$20,000 a year—-is 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.
Tiie friends of the Y'aintees and
the American league in Greater
New Y’ork are a legion and they
virtually demanded that Chance
come here to take charge of the old
hilltop aggregation.
The New Yo*k American club
here has been put under more or
less of a handicap by tiie 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 Fat
ten pays to Chance. If he gives
him tiie $20,000 a year as a salary,
all well and good,' and 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
Chickasavvs ball club, but now an
Arkansas politician, does exercise
its $20,0(19 option on tiie Mont
gomery franchise pretty good at
tendance seems certain.
President Kavanaugh, of tiie
Southern, who has been in New Or
leans on street railway business,
obtained tiie option from owner C.
A. Tilles. Personally the judge
doesn’t think the franchise worth
$20,009, but they're anxious for
Southern league baseball in Little
Rock and may see their way cleat
io go that strong.
"Last spring," said Judge Kava
naugh. "Mr. Tillis offered to sell for
$20,900. Little Rock took him up and
he backed out. Since then Montgom
ery has sold its good players and now
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.
| LuuiH Cardinal.*, will wear a Pirate uni
|fomi next yew*, according to "inside in
| formation." which states that the t’ardi
■ nals will receive several players, includ
ing Jack Miller, a fait first baseman, in
i exchange.
CORNELL CO-EDS ARE SORE:
BARRED FROM BASKET BALL
ITHACA, N. Y.. Dec. 19.—Cornell 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 war
too rough.
FAMOUS KEENE HORSE
NOW IN GOULD STABLE
I PARIS, Dee. 19 - The rumored sale of
I Peter Pan, the great American stallion.
.by Janies R Keene to George Gould, was
given credence today by the fact that
when 'he thoroughbred arrived he was re
ceived by a representative or Gould and
at once taken to the Gould stables.
REDS MAY GET BROWN.
CINCINNATI. OHIO, Dec. 19.—Mordecai
Brown, the former star twirler of the
Cubs, will play with Cincinnati next rear
it Manager Joe Tinker, who signed’ his
' Redland contract yesterday. agrees to the
| terms asked fiir by the Louisville club
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.
mote 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 if
paid to a man like Frank ('hance—
matters no more titan rent, if busi-
sec ne is. But still he isn’t worth $20,-
000, so I third; the $12,500 I offered Mr.
Tilles on behalf of the Hutton syndi
cate a very good proposition.
“Mr. Tilles told tne lie had lost $36,-
000 since lie had owned tiie franchise,
but that lie is willing to lose sl6 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 1 hursdays everything closes
at noon. That's good for baseball Then
during summer everything, except some
of the retail stoles, doses at 1 o'clock
on Saturdays. Now. about Sunday
baseball I don’t know.”
Tile judge refused to make anv
statement on Sunday baseball, but tne
tip is that if Little Rock does get back
in the league baseball on the Sabbath
" ll ’~ e alk,wt ‘d. So with half holidays
on Thursdays and Saturdays and Sun
day baseball as well, there’is no reason
why Little Rock shouldn’t draw twice
as good as Montgomery.
PITCHERS OF AMERICAN
PLEASED WITH CHANGE
pitchers^* ; toda’v e ' wJn-
V'reG e i d u’ 1 " ann °uncement made by
them U ‘!d
cfally to star pitchers ( ,n weak
DUNDEE TO GET CRACK
AT KILBANE’S TITLE
DOS ANGELES, CAL., Dec. 19 —Tnbn
ny Kllbane. of Cleveland, featherweight
champion, and John Dundee, of New York
have just been matched to tight twenty
rounds for the featherweight title at the
Xernon arena, where Kllbane won the
championship from Abe Attell
The tight will take place in April, but no
aft'er eXC * Pt th °' ” mUst
OTTO JORDAN IS HIT BY
S3OO LIMIT ON PLAYERS
CHATTANOOGA, TENN., Dec. 19—Only
two Chattanooga players will be affected
seriously by the enactment of the S.IOO in
dividual salary limit, but grove fear is
felt that at least two of the team’s "old
heads" will not return next year when the
maximum salary they cun 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
- possible.
Too Much Outside Advice
Tiie Yankees in years .-t have
not been run to tiie dub's .. .ra -
tage, and neither to t> f-ioi's.
There has been altogetlc ..e .
advice given, and, mo-: sir . ;
uately, taken. V.thu I win. f.i
instance, is not popular wits t' .■
players, consequently lie sitoul ' be
kept 'as far away from tlicn:
possibles
And, believ,. me. Manager Uiiatic*
will insist on that—or else lie will'
not lie the man. ger.
The Y’ankees have be* ti i n
hapltaztH'J vra... ;• ! - i'get!i-I to. i (1 .
it is coinniou gvssip that too .iratr
favorites have la n play..’ :
that breath of seandtij nt- I l
eliminated. Frank Uliam is t:w
man to do it or I miss m\ cue.-.',
(.'lutite" wiil b io; a ie."i in hltl
as well as deed, or I .mi ‘m.i.'li mis
taken.
1 do not think he would accept
the position unless he was guaran
teed a free litind.
The Yankees are popttla: lira'* 4
and so is thefr owner. Frank Far
rell, but they can not continue
their popularity or expeey patroi.-
age unless tile club is run on lin <
that meet witli public appl'ov d.
Baseball is a sport that is on ni
i"V“t and it needs nothing hidden.
I' l " honesty of i. is unquestiviio.
it is recognized, and the more my
tery thrown about It is not so :s
good.
Game an Open Book.
, live:ytliing should be sqjt-n and
above board. The sport solicits
publicity. Tiler, is imtlrhtg uii.r
covet about it. Frank: Farrell,
therefore, wants to cut oat all tb“
advice (Well m ant. possibly, but
terribly insidious) from liiw.tqo.anx
ious friend's ami allow Mating' ’
("nance to run his team as a oil--
man organization.
Farrell lias a' Itusim-s.- n: :ripe:'
in Arthur Irwin. Well, let Irwin
run his end. but nothing i4sr.
With Frank (’hance as tle i. .
manager, the Yankees will b" :
genuine success, and this is as
sured, just so long as Chance is the
head of tiie club and tiie I’.lo
grounds their playing field.
There have been just three man
age! s in tile National league who
have been on top in the last • '.even
years—McGraw. < 'hance and < lari'
They arc all “crabs” in their way.
but they fetch results. They re
all Ia a n leaders of men and have
th" happy faculty of bringing n
all there is in their players.
DOG STUFF BARRED BY
N. Y. BOXING COMMISSION
NEW Y(JRK, L>ec. 19. Because 1 M
an opponent on the shoulder during « ' A ‘
round bout here, Joe Kaboy. a local I
er. was barred for life by the New V->r«
boxing commission.
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