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aOWM SMI® COMKB»EPEE'S LPITLP jy W*. 9 FARNSWORTH There’s More Than One Way to Get Ink Out of a Bottle :: :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher C ,S ' SEE Tn.s" ' / vjELI, HflUy CftN *NO>h C o e, ► ' SOTT-LE OF 'NK > >6 S GET TMg /NK. our ot - 'I *T CAN'T / . _ y r . _ X SivELl. * t-hat Boy r te y , BF DONK ’ I Yts <T I ( VQURX utr r ' r tLL r 0 ' tT - M ) I CAN. I m °st Go pule it ’ nmy Pvumng th e 1 Pus h the ? i \ K'Ght.’ 5 ®^ p C«-E I FotQET u 1 f ~ CtK °' JT COfeU " 4> k _ ' ._ ) liff »J a ' /'lh IM |W j||y ——f, |i»i.i ' flH fell s &■■ ißhk “1H v|i] wl 11 i |Wf I. ? 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. “THERMOMETERS” 1 -Xmas gift al: ra n enjov. T1 Host interesting ornament ..f tl »o -hold. Jno. I. Moor* w Sons h:o " -omplen stock 42 Nor .p . t Auvt.) 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 <-*4> ❖•-s- •!•••:• -:••<• .;••<. ,t. eA $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. HERE’S die besi iobacco taste of all | | rDRUMMONuj % NATURAL LEAF g mkCHEWING TOBACCOS Chew