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Barons Will Hardly Win 1913
Flag; Molesworth Must Work
Miracle to Plug All the Gaps
By f’eny 11. Whiting.
UNLESS <'arleton Molesworth
has a liberal supply of that
old pennant-winning pep that
he can shoot Into his players next
season he’s not going to finish one.
two-seven teen.
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 sweet
tempered old friend. Bill Foxen, for
instance —-and made ’em winners.
If C, Molesworth had his pen
nant-winning team intact at the
start of next season, ft might not
finish in the first division. For it
is highly doubtful if he could keep
them going another season as he
dkl last. Also it is highly Improb
able that there will be another such
feeble Southern league for anothei
century, at least.
But Moley will not have his team
Intact. The one star In the infield
was Almeida. The Cuban has gone
back to Cincinnati. Catcher Yantz
has been cut to the const. .Jimmy
.Johnston, his best outfielder, has
gone to the Sox. and there’s mor.
than an off chance that he'll stick.
Bill Smith, by the way. believes
hat Johnston is :v marvel. He j
doesn't think there’s a doubt but
that he will make good.
So that makes one ''atelier, one
infielder and oneo utfielder gone.
The depletion of the team is com
pleted by the fact that one pitcher,
"Pop Roy" Smith, also has de
parted.
Nov, four mtn kicked »*ft
championship team In a Class A
league Is not. comparatively, so
many. But those four men will be
herd to replace.
One can’t help banking, too. on
tin- Tact 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.
Molesw orth's big asset is Ills
pitchers. Hardgrove. Foxen. Boyd
and Plough were good winners last
season. Foxen is getting desper
ately old now. He may have an
other good season left. He may
not. The other three ought to be
strong this year It Molesworth
lias picked up one other first-class
pitcher, his team will lie dangerous
...
Q PEAKING of the likelihood that
Bill Foxen will play out pretty
soon, the fact 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.
tn the big leagues. Cy Young has
just departed, but look at the old
timers left—Powell. Mathewson.
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Nt Bawd Si. tAdvt i
Mullin, Plank, Wiltse, Moore, Pel- |
ty and Hughes. t
In the Southern last year there
were twice over more old-time I
pitchers than there were antique
players of any other sort. Os
course, the two shining examples
of hulling antiquity, Theo. Bretten- j
stein and Bill Hart, have finally i
quit the slab and donned the blue <
of tile umpire. But look at the '
old ones who figured in the South- ,
ern last year—Merritt, Campbell,
Berger. Swann, Paige. Dessau, Fox
en, Sitton. Atkins. Lively and Bill
Bernhard. It is hard to think of
Atkins ns old, but he is. as pitchers
go. and so are Dessau and Sitton.
Next to the array of old-time
pitchers, the second basemen run
more to age than the players of
any other position. Starr. Marcan,
Perry, Alperman. Jordan and East
are entitled to the ranking of ‘‘vet
erans.”
Among the outfielders, Stanley,
Maloney, Ganley and Hemphill all
were relics of earlier (and better)
days.
The first basemen in the South
ern lasi year were comparative
kids—Sykes, Agl« r, Paulet and
Johnston, especially The old-tim
ers were MeGllvray 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
wit, "Kid” Elberfeld and Pete
< f’Brien.
* * *
a GREAT change has come over
4*■ the Southern league in its atti
tude toward veteran players. A few
years ago it was believed that 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 neither 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
majot league castoffs. You all know
what happened. Bill Smith ran foul J
of the same reef year before last
in <'huttanooga. Charley Fr ank is
finding out to bis sorrow that be
can’t do anything with the old
timers tiny mole.
The league Is i specially favora
ble toward young phij ers now, be
cause of tin fact that selling play
ers has become a profitable enter
prise A few years back, a minor
league team was fortunate to get
SI,OOO for anj player Nou pri- e
have run up over the $20,000 mark,
and nobody believes that that is the
high water mark.
, So it pays to develop players. And
it doesn't pay to develop old ones.
Hence [lie craze for youngsters.
JEFFRIES PICKS PALZER.
LOS ANGELES. Dec. 23.—The stock
of Al I‘alzer, who is to meet Luther
McCarty In the "white hope" elimina
tion bout New Year’s. !i..s taken a big
its. since Jim Jeffries, forme' cham
pion, after seeing both men in training,
■aid he'd be surprised if PnlZ' r did not
knock .tut McCarty within t«n :ounds.
JOHNNY EVERS CONFIDENT.
HOME. N V, Dec. 23,-Jolihtiy Ev
ers. manager of the Chicago Cubs, who
is wintering here, said he'll have an all
slu team next season and that the
Cubs will be contenders for the pen
nant.
STADIUM NEARLY FINISHED.
BERLIN De. 23. Tin big sßoo,oon
stadium bi te in which the 1916 Olympic
games will be held is nearing comple
tion
WILLIAMS WANTS BOUT HERE.
Oiiristt Williams, the Memphis negro
fighter, known to the Queensberry game
as the "Dark Secret." Is anxious to come
to Atlanta In fight He is in Chattanooga
now an.l lias opened negotiations with the
local eiub tor a bout with Arthur Worthy
or Billy ..11. <>i>er
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 appearing in
bouts in this city and state today an
n<>UwTbd 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 wight; 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
PITTSBURG, 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. Toner. 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
nlayers South with him in the spring.
•? ¥ »
Hugh Jennings says that the only Ti
gers sure of their places next year awe
Cobb. Crawford. Stanage and Dubuc.
Which is interesting, considering that
Cobb, Crawford and Dubuc are hold
outs.
« «
The Detroit youngsters will go South
some time between February 15 and 25.
The old' guard, if anj of ’em decide to
report, will follow the recruits In a cou
ple of weeks.
♦ • <i
Joe Tinker once changed hands for $5.
That was when he was playing semi
professional ball in K. C.
» • »
Tinker, by the way, hasn’t been losing
money at this baseball game. He owns
fruit lands in < ‘regon, a heme in Chicago,
real < stat< n C insas City, an automobile
and n bank account.
» » •
Kred Clarke won a wardrobe betting
that he would not get in a single game
last year. It is a significant fact that
he has turned down several men who
wanted to make the same bet with him
again for next season.
* * *
Connie Mack is planning to .sign a
long-time contract with Jacksonville to
train there, beginning tn the sprng of
1914. Next spring lie will go to San
Antonio.
« * St
Joe Ganzel never took but one drink
in his life. He was in a saloon with
, Ihibe W’addell. Connie Mack slipped in.
Whereupon Waddell grabbed Gansel's
i ginger ale -uni left Ganzel the suds
Rube had ordered. To protect the Rube.
• Ganzel drank ’em and then swore off
I for the rest of his life.
0 Kl *
i Johnny Dodge, who a year or so back
i was captaining a high school football
; team in Memphis, will be taken South
with the Phillies In the spring. He grad
uated to the National league from the
Virginia.
* 4 ♦ t
Harry Camnitz, of bincoin county Ken
tucky. has signed with Louisville for
next season He is Howard
brother
♦ • ♦
Christs Mathewson sa> s that Fred
Clarke must have been bitten by a fox
in his early youth.
Harry Davis will probably wind up as
manager of the Reading team which is
an improwmen' over Cleveland.
» ¥ •
Charlex Murphy wants Slim Salk e He
savs he woulu be a towei of strength.
One thing sure, he wouldn’t be any wa
. ter tower
Il \on have «i naif million that isn't
' working vo i an get th< Chillies l..ck,
Stock and bat bo\
♦
No game indiiA. Wet grounds
Next \eur othur Shaict will g<. ois-
I guised as a hud carrier, to keep away
from this perfumed note gag.
’ The first Whi.s Sc> who signed a
contract was a red man His name is
G» rg- M Johnson and h» s a genuine
Winnebago iWe alwaxs supposed that
was some variety of turnip, but it seems
not.)
* * »
Charles Ferguson, the new American
' league umpire, is wintering in Mexico -
which is a good idea at that
4 • •
Rube Waddell is training a flock of wild
geese and will exhibit them in vaude
ville
■» * * •
» The Phillies will train at Southern
.» Pines next spring, as usual
i• * *
Red 1 »ooin wishes it denied that hr has
r signed <ild Man Jinx for 1913 ♦
worked him to death lust year,’’ says Ke*
WALTER LITTLE
DESERVES HIS
BOUTHERE
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 “stick
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 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. Llttlo
has always believed that he could
best O’Keefe, a stunt which if ho
accomplished would earn him a
chance against the very best 183-
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
mj Lavelle and Eddie Hanlon clash.
Both are sluggers, and somebody
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
I lour-round setto between those two
slugging dlnges. Arthur Worthy
and Bily Hooper. Those who were
lucky enough to see the last scrap
between this pair will certainly be
on hand again Wednesday night.
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A. A. C. TEAM SATURDAY'
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Atlanta basket ball fans are in .for a I
treat next Saturday night when the Van
derbilf university* basket ball team tomes
here for its annual game with the At
lanta Athletic club team.
This game is always one of the big
gest games of the local season by reason
<<f 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, i
Buddy Morgan, the giant center; Enoch
Brown, the captain of the 1913 eleven:
Swafford, the big guard; Tom Brown. ;
the all-Southem tackle, and others are !
on the team. Nelson, the fleet little
forward, is captain of the Commodore live
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. Harvard 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 tw<» team**'
probably will be arranged for Christmas
day. The second round w*ill be started to
day. with Columbia pitted 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 hint 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 ot
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 Heffa
linger and Frank Hinkey, former Yale
stars, were mentioned today as leading
candidates for the job as head coach of
the Y’ale eleven next year if the grad
uate system now in use is .abolished.
Hinkey is the favorite of the student
body.
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Athletic Club Should Develop
Cross-Country Runners Over
Big Golf Course at East Lake
By Sain, 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 confines
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 tRe road race
on Thanksgiving day, Joe Bean, of
the Atlanta Athletic club, is plan
ning a real cross-country run front
the East Lake club house to the
Auburn avenue building, a long,
perhaps top long, and gruelling
course for the lads that partici
pated in tile Peach tree-Piedmont -
Auburn event on Turkey day
It might be a good idea t.> nm
the next event on the East Lake
property over and about tin golf
links, where the golf hazards form
a tine country course, with jun i
ascents and descents and good .-oft
turf to run on.
It wiil be remembered that Gil
bert I’heeves, the Marist coihy,'
boy. w ho ruled a favorite in the
cent event, quit, complaining of ..
bad ankle. .’ othing will jam up
young runite s ankle as quickly .is
stone pavements.
Runners Could Use Spikes.
6n the East Lake turf the pr-p
kids could use spike shoes, whi,
should teach them nmic about
running form in a day than th \
can learn in a year _by word
mouth. A man can’t run .u< <•<•.<.-
fully in spikes without some kir
of form, although it may not be t
best.
It looks as though the Athlet •
club authorities would make a up
move to try cross-country project
on the turf so that these boys who
are bound to popularize this real
form of sport in Atlanta, can get
sure enough chance to learn how to
run In a manner that will gi\e
them speed and endurance.
DONLIN WILL STICK.
PITTSBURG, I lee. 23. -Although th,
Pirates have asked for waivers on .Mila
Honlin, the heavy-hitting outfielder, a
is hardly likely that lie will go to the
minors, as several big league clubs are
said to be after him.
WHITE HOPES MIX FRIDAY.
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.--The winner
of the Soldier Kearns-Jesse Willard
bout, to bi' staged Friday night it the
Harden Athletic club, will most likely'
be the next than to met t th- winner "t
the Palzer-i'arty bout New Year’s day.
In the elimination battles to uncover a
real white hope.