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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. Great One Day O ffer JJ* 3* SHMHMMBMHBHHH ■!!!■■ 11l IUM Illi I MaRMgffIOBMB F° r Tomorrow Only I||Fb| Extra Pants IIFREE F/'/ rl MH Illi |l Thousands eagerly await this announcement every I ' 'i H1 V **•* pw year. For when we say FREE it means FREE. We ! , g 1 give the best in the house. No change in styles—no I'll lessening of quality. 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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 VIRGINIAHEBE 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. 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"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. 15