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Chick Gandil Put Griffith and
Washington on the Map by His
Sensational Work Last Season
This is the fourteenth of a series
or articles giving the history and
career of youngsters who made
good in the big leagues the past
season.
< v iHEN Chick Gandil was ask-
VV recently to name what
he believed to be the great
asset of a ball player, he an-
s. briefly, "Plenty of grit."
Consciously or unconsciously, the
>ung star who did so much to aid
Senators in their sensational
-H from almost last to second
race in the pennant race, men
•ioned the one thing that enabled
,'rn to enter the ranks of the first
.nd foremost.
In the lexicon of this youngster
■re Is no such word as “discour
gement,” or he would have gone
'.nick to driving rivets In a boiler
Stop, from which he graduated into
■iie baseball profession. Like Jim
b'ffries. Gandil started out in life
. • niug his bread as a boilermaker.
Ho was born 23 years ago in Min
neapolis, Minn. His parents not
. Ing endowed with the surplus of
> orldly goods that has made Rocke
feller an emperor of finance, Chick
?. i.l to pass up many of the pleas-
t. and benefits usually given the
sons of well-to-do people. Among
•lie things Chick was compelled to
. > without was an education that
would enable him to get a good
start In life.
He attracted the attention of a
I'.-w bush league scouts in 1907,
hen he was eighteen years old,
and the Cananea club of the cactus
made him an offer that made it
profitable for him to lay aside the
-ledge and devote all his time to
baseball. He remained with Can
anea one season, and in 1908 shift
ed to Shreveport. He did pretty
well there and at the end of the
“INJUN BILL” HAILED
AS BEST OF COACHES
MADISON, WIS., Dec. 20.—There is
a new coaching star in the football
firmament —Indian Bill Juneau, who
this year developed a team which won
the Western football championship for
Wisconsin and a team which challenges
Harvard for a game for the American
supremacy on the gridiron next season.
Descendant of the man who founded
the city of Milwaukee, Injun Bill Ju
neau, after several years coaching on
minor teams, in his first year at Wis
consin brought out the title winning
team, and the big, silent, almost taci
turn coach Is hailed by Badger varsity
men as the equal of Coach Stagg, of
Chicago, and “Hurry Up" Yost, of
Michigan, and unquestionably the
greatest football tutor at Wisconsin
since the days of Phil King.
Unlike many who have filled the po
sition at Wisconsin, Juneau is an orig
inator. He is capable of devising new
stunts in football. He is a thinker, a
football strategist, like Yost and Stagg,
not merely a developer of trained foot
ball players.
When he played football he was a
star, when he coached he was a great
er star. It’s a funny coincidence that
Juneau played on the last team that
yon a championship for Wisconsin in
1901. He wound up his playing career
in that season, and now, tn his first
year as coach, he has another title
eleven.
DOC JOHNSTON SURE OF
JOB AT FIRSTWITH NAPS
CLEVELAND. Dec. 20—Doc John
ston has the call at first base for the
Naps next year. He is not a star stick
er, hut he is a lively man around first
base, puts a lot of ginger into the game
and shows a lot of life on the bases.
In fact, he is one of those men who
go crazy on the paths, and Cleveland
has been without such a player for
many a year.
Even Joe Jackson, with all his speed,
has never displayed any undue base
running ability such as was shown by
Johnston and Chapman.
PALZER-M’CARTY BOUT
WILL NOT END SERIES
J ’ ’S ANGELES, Dec. 20.—1 t was an
hounuet] here today that the Palzer
lc( arty fitfht on New Year’s day would
,K t end the elimination series to locate
real “white hope," but that the win
ner would have to meet a number of
’•'hpr heavies whose names have been
oi<ie<l to the list of ‘'possibles,’’ including
<irl Morris, “Gunboat’’ Smith, Jim Sav
“Bombardier’’ Wells and Frank Mo-
HOLIDAY
RATES
VIA
W. & A. R. R. AND
N. C. & ST. L RY.
WHAT GANDIL HAS
DONE ON DIAMOND
IN LAST 3 YEARS
BATTING.
With White Sox in 1910.
«. A.B. R. H. S.H. S B P.C.
“ 275 21 53 7 12 .193
With Montreal in 1911.
138 520 78 158 27 30 .304
M ith Washington in 1912
117 443 59 135 IS 21 ' .305
FIELDING.
Pos. G. P.O. A. E. PC.
1910— lb. . 74 854 57 10 .989
1911— lb. . 138 1390 80 15 .983
1912 lb. . 117 1106 68 12 .990
season he was drafted by the St.
Louis Browns.
The task of making good with a
tail-end team, however, was too
much, and after a short trial he
was turned back by the Browns to
the club from which they got him.
He was told he would never do for
the big show, and men who were
supposed to know a ball player
when they see one made these as
sertions. This only spurred Gandil
to renew his efforts. He went back
to the bushes disappointed, but not
discouraged. He studied his faults
and devised ways to correct them.
So well did he succeed that in
1910 he was given his second
chance with a major league out
fit. the White Sox taking hold of
him. He played 77 games with the
white-hosed bunch at first base
and was once again pronounced a
failure. His fielding was not bad,
but he did not seem to hit well
enough to stick. As a result he
was relegated to Montreal.
There, in 1911, he learned to bat.
He got a chance to play regularly,
and this seemed to improve him.
At the end of the International
league season he was the proud
possessor of a .304 batting percent
age.
When Clark Griffith took hold of
the perpetual tail-enders he soon
discovered that he was in need of
a first baseman. Jack Flynn was
then guarding first for him, and
proved a bigger failure as a first
base guardian than he had at Pitts
burg. Jack Knight, who succeed
ed him, also fell down miserably
in trying to live up to the assign
ment.
So Grist threshed the minorsand
spied Gandil in Montreal. Chick
was playing at hL best, and the
owners of the Maple Leafs set a
big price on him, but the Old Fox
paid It gladly and has* never re
gretted it.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1912.
FORT! ROUNDS OF
BOXING HERE ON
NEXT MONDAY
By Left Hook.
cpHE Dixie Athletic club has ar
j ranged an all-star show for
next Monday that should give
the boxing fans of Atlanta a mighty
good run for their money. On ac
count of Tuesday night being
Christmas Eve, the weekly show
was shifted back from Tuesday to
Monday. There will be four ten
round mills, and on paper all look
like hummers.
Mike Saul is going to meet Frank
McMahon, a Westerner who has a
good record, in the linal bout of the
evening. Mike will give up his ref
eree job for one night, as he wants
to show local sports that he can
scrap as well as he can referee.
- And Mike sure can referee.
In the next main bout Spider
Britt will hook up with Al Smith,
the boy who made Meyer Pries
quit in two rounds last Tuesday
night. Spider will have to be at his .
best to beat Smith. .
Eddie Hanlon -and Tommy La
velle are scheduled to go ten rounds,
too. But as both can hit to beat
the band, this bout is not likely to
go half the distance.
Those two demon black sluggers,
Arthur Worthy and Kid Hooper, are
going to open the card. Well, here
is a fireworks bout for keeps.
There are no "SI,OOO per” fight
ers in this bunch, but it looks like
the best card, from an action stand
point, that has ever been staged in
this city.
LAVENDER AND RITCHIE
HUNTING IN GEORGIA
MACON, GA., Dec. 20. —Jimmy Lav
ender and Lou Richie, two of the Chi
cago Cubs pitching mainstays, are in
Macon for a few days, before proceed
ing to the former's home at Montezu
ma, Ga„ where they will spend several
weeks in hunting.
Lavender states that he expects Jim
my Archer and Jlmmv Sheckard to
also be his guests after the first of
January. Richie will stay in Georgia
until time for the spring workout.
FULTON LEAGUE FIGURES.
Club Standing.
Clubs. Won. Lost. P. C.
S. V. D 2 0 1.000
Y. M. C. A 2 1 .667
Post Athletics 2 1 .667
Company C 2 1 .667
Company H 1 2 .333
Agogas 1 2 .333
G. A. C 1 2 .333
Baracas 0 3 000
Results Last Night.
Baracas, 12; Company H, 21.
S. V. D., 21; Company C, 12.
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
i
Mike Mitchell, for two years the field I
captain of the Cincinnati Red}?, will be I
reduced .o tic ranks on the Cub team,;
since .1. Evers w ill do his own captaining. *
♦ ♦ *
The Cubs would 1 ve all the best of the ;
recent Tinker deal provided the rules'
would let them play five shortstops simuL '
taneously.
* • *
The Cubs’ chances for a pennant seem ’
to depend a good bit on the condition ot .
the former Cracker. Al Bridwell. If he
comes through al) right and the pitch- '
era perform creditably they should win
the bunting
* « sj« ■
John McGraw says that when he was
arrested m Cuba for bawling out some
players he got F. Bancroft, the Reds
business manager, to jrilot him to court.
The judge fined McGraw S2O for his be
havior and Bancroft S2O for being asleep
when it happened.
* * *
A controversy has arisen between John
Kling and the Boston Nationals as to
whether he resigned first or whether
they beat him to it.
Larry Doyle has remarked: “If the
Pirates get Koney. the race is over in
July.” Some kidder, Larry. But Pitts
burg hasn't tumbled yet.
* ♦ <! ~
Frank Chance’s reluctance about ac
cepting a $20,000 job is appalling to those
of us who haven’t $20,000 job* - and we
constitute a majority.
♦ * *
The second-hand grandstand purchased
by the Mobile club is the one that was
at the race track in New Orleans. It was
picked up for a song—the swan song, in
cidentally, of racing in New Orleans.
• « •
Eddie Warner, a southpaw pitcher se
cured from Brown university by the Pi
rates, has been turned over to Colum
bus. He started well last year and then
stopped.
* * *
Is Rube M&rquard skidding? He did not
break into print at all yesterday.
♦ ♦ *
The doctor who operated on Frank
Chance last fall has given his official
opinion that the P. L. should be able to
play ball as well this year as ever in
his career.
JAP BILLIARD CHAMPION
DEFEATS MORNINGSTAR
PITTSBURG, Dec. SO.—Koji Yam
ada defeated Ora Morningstar at 18.2
balk line billiards, the score being 400
to 207. This is the second time this
week that the Japanese player has de
feated Morningstar, who is the world’s
champion at 18.2 billiards.
Morningstar. Yamada and George
Slosson are playing for a purse of
SI,OOO. The tournament closes tomor
row night. Yamada's average was
26 2-3; Morningstar's ,14 11-14. The
game went fifteen innings.
JOHNNY DUNDEE WINS
FROM EDDIE MORGAN
NEW YORK. Dec. 20.—Friends of
Johnny Dundee, the Italian feather
weight, today declared him in line for
a battle with Johnny Kilbane, the title
holder, as a result of his victory on
points last night over Eddie Morgan,
the English champion.
NEWARK TE’aM TO TRAIN
IN ALBANY NEXT SPRING
NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 20.—The New
ark International league club has an
nounced the choice of Albany, Ga., for
its training grounds next spring. The
team will go there about the middle of
March.
GEORGIA TO MEET
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OCTOBERS
GEORGIA and Virginia will
meet on the gridiron at Ponce
DeLeon park next fall. The
game has been scheduled for Oc
tober 25. In 1897 Virginia ami
Georgia clashed here in Atlanta, the
Athens team going down to defeat,
after a hard struggle.
It was in that game that Von
Gammon, Georgia’s great fullback,
was killed. Virginia was trying to
gain by their famous Hying wedge
formation. Von Gammon. head
lowered, dove into the play. He
managed to bring his man to the
ground. Intt when the players had
been pulled off the human pile, it
was found that his neck was
broken.
The Georgia-Vanderbilt battle
will probably he an annual event
here in Atlanta, if the game next
fail is a success, and local foot
ball fans can consider themselves
extremely lucky that such a clas
sic event has been secured for
them.
Virginia also announces that
their game >vith Vanderbilt next
season will be played in Charlottes
ville on. November 1.
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Mash Notes Drive Young Giant
Out of Baseball; Artie Shafer
Declares That He’s Quit Game
By Damon Runyon.
ATE'V YORK. .Dee. 20.—it i.-
with g ictanci that
we insert more woe into the
holiday season, but here is n blow
which fell, ka-chunk, upon the
Island of Manhattan last night,
diopping off the wires of the Asso
ciated Press utterly exhausted aft
er a long ride from California.
•Read! Read!
Los Angeles. Dec. 18.—Art Sha
er, utility infielder for the New
York Nationals last year, said to
day that he would not join Mc-
Graw's squad for the training siege
at Marlin next February. "I have
quit baseball for good,” said Shafer.
“For one thing, I got too many per
fumed notes.”
We instructed our Los Angeh s
correspondent to see Mr. Shafe'
forthwith and ascertain what these
notes were perfumed with, which
seems to us the most important
feature of the item, but up to the
moment of sliding to press no an
swer bail been received.
Mr. Shafer is not on the stage,
and Is not even threatened with be
ing sent there, so it can not be a
press agent stunt. It seems to us
that Mr. Shafer must have been
getting Re. -hard de Marquis de
Marquar’s mail by mistake. How
ever. if this theory is untenable, we
are willing to make constant ap
pear' throughout the baseball sea
ton sot Mr. Shafer's correspond
ents to cut out the perfume, if he
will only come back.
Os course, “Tillie" has plenty of
time before February 20 to deny
the Associated Press story. He has
been playing ball out In California
for a winter team that also harbors
Fred Snodgrass and Chief Meyers.
Snodgra.-s and Shafer are chums.
Shafer is a nice-looking, modest
young man. as well as a great ball
player, and we can not have him
pestered by perfumed notes if we
have to get it prohibited by ordi
nance.
GAVIGAN BEATS DENNING.
CLEVELAND. OHIO. Dec. 20.—Be
cause of his easy victory over Jack
Denning here last night, the Cleveland
supporters of Tommy Gavigan. a local
boy. are booming him for a tight for the
middleweight title with Mike McGoorty.
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