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Barons Will Hardly Win 1913
Flag; Molesworth Must Work
Miracle to Plug All the Gaps
By Percy 11. Whiting.
LT NLESS Carleton Molesworth
! has a liberal supply of that
obi pennant-winning pep that
he can shoot Into his players next
season he's not going to finish one
two-seventeen.
Os course, there's no telling about
Molesworth.
He 'took a mediocre lot of play
ers last year and won a pennant
with them. How he did it, nobody
knows. His players were Inspired
They always played as well as they
knew how frequently better.
"Moley" took players who were
lemons with other clubs our sw< «t
--tempered old friend. Bill Eoxen, for
Instance- and made ’em winners.
If C. Molesworth had his pen
nant-winning team intact at the
start of next season. It might not
finish in tin Hist division. For it
is highly doubtful if lie could keep
them going another season as he
did last. Also it is highly Improb
able that there will be another such
feeble'Southern league for another
century, at least.
But Moley will not have his team
Intact. The one star in the Infield
was Almeida. The Cuban has gone
baek to Cincinnati. Catcher Yantz
has been sent to the coast. Jimmy
Johnston, his best outfielder, has
gone to the Sox. and there's more
than tin off <*ance that he'll stick.
Bill Smith, by the way. believes
that Johnston is a marvel. He
doesn't think there's a doubt but
that he will make good.
So that makes one catcher, one
Infielder and onio nthelder gone
The depletion of the team is com
pleted by the fait that one pitcher,
“Pop Boy" Smith, also has de
parted.
Now, four men kicked off a
championship team in a Class A
league is not, comparatively, so
many. But thosi tom men will bo
hard to replace.
One can’t help banking, too. on
the fact that the players on the
Baron team last year undeniably
played better than they knew how.
It is extremely doubtful if they will
have another such season.
Molesworth's big asset is his
pitchers. Hardgrove, Eoxen, Boyd
and Prougb were good winners last
season. Eoxen is getting desper
ately old now. He may have an
other good season left. He may
not. The other three ought to la
strong this year. If Molesworth
has picked up one other first-class
pitcher, his team will be dangerous.
* • •
CJ PEAKING of the likelihood that
Bill Foxen will play out pretty
■oon, the fait should be borne in
mind that pitchers are always the
last ones who play out. There are
more veteran pitchers, in leagues
great and small, than there are an
cient players of any other position.
In the big leagues, Cy Young lias
just departed. but look at the old
timers left—Powell, Mathewson.
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.—1
Mullin, Plank, Will.se, Moore, Pel
ty and Hughes.
In the Southern last year there
were twice over more old-time
pitchers than there were antique
players of any other sort. Os
course, the two shining examples
of hurling antiquity, Theo. Breiten
stein and BIJI Hart, have finally
quit the slab and donned the blue
of the umpire. But look at the
old ones who figured in the South
ern last year—Merritt, Campbell,
Berger. Swann, Paige. Dessau, Eox
en. Sitton, Atkins. Lively and Bill
Bernhard. It is hard to think of
Atkins as old, but he is, as pitchers
go, and so are Dessau and Sitton.
Next to the array of old-time
pitchers, the second basemen ran
more to age than the players of
any other position. Starr. Marcan,
Perry, Alperinan, Jordan and East
are entitled to the ranking of "vet
erans."
Among Hie outfielders, Stanley,
Maloney. Ganley and Hemphill nil
went relies of earlier (and better)
days.
The first basemen In the South
ern last year were comparative
kids—Sykes, Agler, Paulet and
Johnston, especially. The old-tim
ers Were* M< Gllvray and Rohe,
In the shortstop position there
Were only a couple of genuine an
tiques last year, but they were won
ders for age and experience—to-
w It, “Kid” Elberfeld and Pete
O'Brien.
• • ♦
a GREAT change has come over
- the Southern league in its atti
tude toward veteran players. A few
years ago It was believed thaj un
less a team had plenty of them it
had no chance. "The veterans are
needed to steady down the young
sters,” they said.
Lately it has proved that vet
erans are neithei necessary nor
profitable.
Charley Hemphill wrecked on this
very rock. He didn't know any
thing about bush league youngsters,
so he tried to win a pennant with
major league castoffs. You all know
what happened. Bill Smith ran foul
of the same reef year before last
in Chattanooga. Charley Erank is
finding out to his sorrow that he
can't do anything with the old
timers any more.
The league is especially favora
ble toward young players now, be
cause of the fact that selling play
ers lias become a profitable enter
prise. A few years back, a minor
league team was fortunate to get
SI,OOO for liny player. Now prices
have run up over the $20,000 mark,
and nobody believes that tHat is the
high water mark.
So ft pays to develop players. And
it doesn’t pay to develop old ones.
Hence the craze for youngsters.
JEFFRIES PICKS PALZER.
LOS WGEI.ES. Dec. 23 The stock
of Al Balzer, who is to meet Luther
McCarty In the "white hope" elimina
tion bout New Year's, has taken a big
rise Since Jim Jeffries, former cham
pion, after seeing both men In training,
'.lid he'll be surprised if Balzer did not
knock out McCarty within ten rounds.
JOHNNY EVERS CONFIDENT.
HOME. N Y Dec. 23. —Johhny Ev
ers, manager of the Chicago Cubs, who
1- wintering here, said he'll have an all-
Stu- team u«xt season ami that the
Cubs will be contenders for the pen
nant.
STADIUM NEARLY FINISHED.
BERLIN. Dec. 23.—The big SBOO,OOO
stadium here In w hich the 1916 Olympic
gam< s will be held Is nearing comple
tion
WILLIAMS WANTS BOUT HERE.
< hrlstv Williams, the Memphis negro
fighter, linen n to the Queensberry game
as the ''Dark Secret," Is anxious to come
to Atlanta in light lie is in Chattanooga
now and has opened negotiations with the
‘"''“L a l "-'Ut with Arthur Worthi
er Hillv Ho -per
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1912.
NEW WEIGHTS PLEASE
FIGHTERS IN GOTHAM
NEW YORK. Dec. 23.—The majority
of boxers who have been appealing <n
bouts in this city anil state today an
nounced themselves as satisfied with
the new weights fixed by the state ath
letic committee.
The scale of weights, which become
effective December 24, are 108 pounds,
paper weight; 115 pounds, bantam
weight; 125 pounds, featherweight; 135
pounds, lightweight. 145 pounds, wel
terweight; 158 pounds, middle weight;
175 pounds commission weight, and
over 175 pounds, heavy weight.
LOCKE MAY PURCHASE
PHILADELPHIA CLUB
PITTSBi’RG, Dee. 23.—William H.
Locke, secretary of the Pittsburg club,
today renewed his efforts to close a
deal whereby parties he is representing
will purchase the Philadelphia National
league club. Locke’s reward will be
the presidency of the club.
Locke refused to state for whom he
was acting, denying, however, that it
was for Governor John K. Teller. He
said the price asked by the present
Philadelphia owners now is regarded as
too high.
[baseball
Diamond News and Gossip
They have christened Miller Huggins
the “Henpecked Manager.’’
* ♦ ♦
Charley Dooin will take thirty-one
players South with him in the spring.
Hugh Jennings says that the only Ti
gers sure of their places next year are
«-?r\ ( 7’ awfor<1 ’ st *nage and’ Dubuc.
1 s interesting, considering that
< obb, (’rawford and 1 »übuc are hold
outs.
Ct * 4
The Detroit youngsters will go South
some time between February la and 25
rhe old guard, If any of ’em decide to
report, will follow the recruits hi a cou
ple of weeks.
» • e
•loe Tinker once changed hands for S 5.
1 hat was when he was playing semi
professional ball In K. e.
• • •
Tinker, by the way, hasn’t been losing
luonej at this baseball game. He owns
fruit lands in Oregon, a home in Chicago,
real estate in Kansas City, an automobile
and a bank account.
• * «F
bred Clarke won a wardrobe betting
that he would not get in a single game
ast year It is a signltteant fact that
he has turned down several men who
wanted to make the same bet with him
again for next season.
• • A
Connie Mack is planning to sign a
long-time contract with Jacksonville to
train there, beginning in the sprng of
191-t Next spring he will go to San
Antonio.
a • *
Joe Ganzel never took but one drink
in his life. He was in a saloon with
Hube \\’ad<lell Connie Mack slipped in.
\\ hereupon Waddell grabbed Ganzel’s
ginger ale and left Ganzel the suds
Hube had ordered. To protect the Rube,
Ganzel drank ’em and then swore off
for the rest of his life.
» • »
Johnny Dodge, who a year or so back
was captaining a high school football
team in Memphis, will be taken South
with the Phillies in the spring. He grad
uate<l to the National league from the
\ irginla.
« <> •
Harrj Camnitz. of IJncoln county Ken
tucky, has signed with Ixmisvihe for
next season. He is Howard (’amnltzs
brother.
• • <•
Christy Mathewson says that Fred
Clarke must have been bitten Ky a fox
in his early youth.
Harry Davis will probably wind up as
manager of the Heading team- which ts
an improvement «»vcr Cleveland
• • •
Charley Murphy wants Slim Sallee. He
says he would be a tower of strength.
One thing sure, he wouldn’t be any wa
ter towei.
If you have a naif million that isn’t
working vou can get the Phillies—lock,
stock an<l bat hoy.
• ♦ •
No game today. Wet grounds
« « «
Next year Arthur Shafer will go dis
guised as a. liod carrier, to keep awnv
from this perfumed note gag
The flint White Sox who signed a
contract was a red man His name Is
Ge<rge M. Johnson ami he’s a g.nulnu
Winnebago. iWe alwavs supposed that
was some variety of turnip, but it seems
not.)
<’harl«-< Ferguson the new American
league umpire Is wintering In Mexico—
which Is a good Idea, at that.
Rube Waddell is training a flock of wild
geese and will exhibit them In vaude
ville.
• • •
The Thillles will train at Southern
Pines next spring, as usual
Red Dooin Wishes it denied that he has
signed Old Man Jinx for 1913. ”We
Worked him to death last year,” suvg Red.
WALTER LITTLE
DESERVES HIS
BOUT HERE
By Left Hook.
ALTHOUGH Walter Little is no
champion, it seems to me
that the Dixie A. C. has
made a good move in securing him
as an opponent for Frank McMahon
at the show Wednesday night. For
a year Walter has been hanging
around these diggings trying to get
a scrap. He has challenged every
man of his weight who has fought
here, yet he has never been able to
land a bout until now. '
Little sure has a heap of “stlck
toitness” and has insisted right
along that he would stay here in
Atlanta, until he was given a
chance. In the meantime, he has
trained faithfully, and Wednesday
night he is going to do his utmost
to prove to local boxing fans that
he is as good as any lightweight
who has displayed his wares here
abouts of late.
Little claims that the club has
promised to stage him with Tommy
O’Keefe in the near future if he
gets away with McMahon. Little
has always believed that he could
best O’Keefe, a stunt which if he
accomplished would earn him a
chance against the very best 133-
pounders In the country.
McMahon Is an unknown quanti
ty to yours truly'. He has some
clippings that show he has won a
number of battles. He is a husky
looking young man. but it is im
possible to get a true line on him.
Whether or not the main bout is
a winner, the rest of the card sizes
up swell. In the semi-windup Tom
my Lavelle and Eddie Hanlon clash.
Both are sluggers, and soniebody
is likely to drop before the eighth
round is reached.
Spider Britt, the best fighter of
his inches in this city, will hook up
with Al Smith, the boy who stopped
Meyer Pries the other night. This
mill should be a peacherlne. It is
scheduled to go six rounds.
The card will be opened with a
four-round setto between those two
slugging dinges. Arthur Worthy
and Bily Hooper. Those who were
lucky enougli to see the last scrap
between this pair will certainly be
on hand again Wednesday night.
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VANDERBILT FIVE PLAYS
A. A. C. TEAM SATURDAY
Atlanta basket ball fans are in for a
treat next Saturday night when the Van
derbilt university basket ball team comes
here for its annual game with the At- t
lanta Athletic club team.
This game fs always one of the big
gest games of the local season by reason
of the good team that the Commodores
•always turn out and the close game that
they play with the local quintet.
Vanderbilt has a strong team this year,
and in its personnel are some of the
star football players of the past season.
Buddy Morgan, the giant center; Enoch
Brown, the captain of the 1913 eleven;
Swafford, the big guard: Toni Brown,
the all-Southern tackle, and others are
on the team. Nelson, the fleet little
forward, is captain of the Commodore five
this season.
HARVARD BEATS YALE IN
OPENING CHESS ROUND
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Harvard bested
Yale by the score of 3 to 1 In the first
round of the twenty-first annual inter
collegiate chess tournament at the Co
lumbia-Harvard, Yale-Princeton league
here. Haivard won two games and two
were drawn.
Princeton’s quartet failed to appear, but
Columbia did not claim a default, and a
postponed match of these two teams
probably will be arranged for Christmas
day. The second round will be started to
day, with Columbia pitte<l against Har
vard, the present league champions, and
Yale playing Princeton.
CHANCE WILL BE GIVEN
INTEREST IN YANK TEAM
NEW YORK. Dec. 23.—Those close to
Frank Farrell, owner of the New York
Americans, announced today that Farrell
would gladly grant the demands of Frank
Chance for a small interest in the club
as one of the inducements to get him as
manager of the team next year.
Chance, out in his California home, said
he was anxious to play next year and
was glad that he was to lead the High
landers. but insisted that an interest in
the club must be included in his salary.
FIELDER JONES PRESIDENT
OF NORTHWESTERN LEAGUE
PORTLAND, OREG., Dec. 23.—Fielder
Jones, who gained fame as manager of
the Chicago White Sox, has accepted the
presidency of the Northwestern league.
He was elected for three years.
EX-STARS MAY COACH YALE.
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—8i1l Hefta
llnger and Frank Htnkey, former Yale
stars, were mentioned today as leading
candidates for the job as head coach of
the Yale eleven next year If the grad
uate system now in use is abolished.
Htnkey Is the favorite of the student
body.
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Athletic Club Should Develop
Cross-Country Runners Over
_ B*B Course at East Lake
By Sam Bell.
ATLANTA, like her sister cities
in this section of the South,
is strictly up against it for
outdoor winter sports, a fact that
is neither new nor startling, but so
forcible that it looms strong the
minute the whistle has sounded the
end of the football season.
Outside of the chosen few who
are fortunate enough to be able to
pound a golf pill around an expen
sive course and the enthusiast who
can wring real pleasure and physi
cal enjoyment out of a motorcycle,
the city becomes a morgue as far
as outdoor athletics is concerned
when football dies.
Right here basket ball, the only
indoor sport save poker, etc., that
has gained ground in the South,
gets off, but the person who has a
hankering for ozone and balks at
' the steam heat and fetid coniines
of gymnasium is at the end of his
tether.
There is absolutely nothing to do.
He has his choice of the festive
Indian club, hibernating or migrat
ing.
Happily this year finds in At
lanta a little outfit of enthusiasts
—you might say pioneers—who get
stared at and commented upon on
the streets for their hardihood.
They are trying to put Atlanta and
eventually the South on the map
of cross-country running, a thing
that may lead to the development
in this section of a form of ath
letics comparatively unknown
track athletics. This latter is as
true an amateur sport as foot
ball.
With the success of the road race
on Thanksgiving day, Joe Bean, of
the Atlanta Athletic club, is plan
ning a real cross-country run from
the East Lake club house to the
Auburn avenue building, a long,
perhaps too long, and gruelling
course for the lads that partici
pated in the Peaehtree-l’iedniont-
Auburn event on Turkey day.
It might be a good idea to run
the next event on the East Luke
property over and about the golf
links, where the golf hazards form
a fine country course, with jumps,
ascents and descents and good soft
turf to run on.
It will be remembered that Gil
bert Cheeves, the Marlst college
boy, who ruled a favorite in the re
cent event, quit, complaining of a
bad ankle. Nothing will jam up a
young runnel’s ankle as quickly as
stone pavements.
Runners Could Use Spikes.
On tile East Lake turf the prep
kids could use spike shoes, which
should teach them more about good
running form in a day than tin-,
can learn in a year by word
mouth. A man can’t run success
fully in spikes without some kind
of form, although it may not be the
best.
It looks as though the Athlet: ■
‘ club authorities would make a wis
move to try cross-country project
on the turf so that these boys, y ho
are bound to popularize this reel
form of sport in Atlanta, can get a
■sure enough chance to learn how to
run in a manner that will giv
them speed and endurance.
DONLIN WILL STICK.
PITTSBURG, Doe. 23. -Although tii
Pirates have asked for waivers on Mik
Dunlin, the heavy-hitting outfielder, it
is hardly likely that he will go to th
minors, as several big league clubs ,o
said to be after him.
WHITE HOPES MIX FRIDAY.
NEW YORK, Dec. 23. —The whv ■
of the Soldier Kearns-Jess'- Willo'i
bout, to b> staged Friday night at th
Harden Athletic club, will most Ilk- I.
be the next man to meet the winner ,1
the Palzei -I'a-. ly bout N ew Year's e
In the elimination battles to uneove; ;1
real white hope.