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Barons Will Hardly Win 1913
Flag; Molesworth Must Work
Miracle to Plug All the Gaps
Bv Percj H. Whiting.
Lr NLESS Carleton Molesworth
1 has a liberal supply of th.it
old 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
Moles worth.
He took a mediocre lot of play
ers last year and won a pennant
with them. How he did it, nobody
knows. His players wen' 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.
Jf C. Molesworth had his pen
nant-winning team intact at the
start of next season, it might not
finish In the first division. For it
is highly doubtful if he could keep
them going another season as h<-
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
back to Cincinnati. Catcher Yants
has been sent to the coast. Jimmy
lohfiston. his beat outfielder, has
gone to the Sox, and there’s more
than tin off chance that he’ll stick.
Bill Smith, by the wflj believes
tint Johnston is a marvel. He
foesn’t think there’s a doubt but
■h it he will make good.
So that makes one catcher, oni
nfielder and oneo utfiolder gone
The depletion of the team is eom
pleti d by the fact that one pitcher,
‘Pop Hoy" Smith, also has de
parted.
Now, four men kicked »fi
hamptonshlp team in a Class A
.'ague is not. comparatively, so
many. Bin those four men will be
hard to replace.
One can t help hanking, 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.
Mole.-«orth’s big asset is his
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. Ho may
not. The other three ought to be
strong this year If Moleaworth
uas picked up one other first-class
ultcher, his team will be dangerous.
Q iIaKINO. of th< lk< Ihood that
■ Bill Foxen will play out pretty
soon, the fat t should be borne fit
mind that pitchers an always Ihi
iast ones who play out. There are
more veteran pitchers, in leagues
great and small, than there are an
• lent 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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Nor. broad St. (Advt.>
Mullin, Plank, Wiltse, Moore, Pel- '
ty and Hughes. ,
In the Southern last year (here
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 Bill Hart, have finally t
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, Fox- '
on, Sitton, Atkins, Lively and Bill ’
Bernhard. It is hard to think of J
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, Alperman. Jordan and East
are entitled to the ranking of “vet
erans.”
Among the outfielders, Stanley,
Maloney, Gan ley and Hemphill all i
were relics of earlier (and better)
flays. j
The first basemen in the South
ern last year were comparative
kids—Sykes, Agler, Paulet and I
Johnston, especially. The old-tim
ers were MeGilvray and Rohe.
li\ the shortstop position there
were only a couple of genuine an
tiques last y ear, but they were won
ders for age and experience —lo
wit. "Kid*’ BJlberfeld and Pete
< i'Brien.
v GREAT change has come over
-i* 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
era ns uro 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
major league castoffs, You all know
what happened. Bill Smith ran foul
us the same reef year before last
in Chattanooga. Charley Frank is
finding out to his sorrow that lie
can’t do anything with tin- old
timers any more.
The league is especially favora
ble toward young players now, be
muse of the fact that selling play
ers has become a profitable enter
prise A few years back, a minor
h aeiiv team was fortunate tn g< t
Sl.iiu'i for .in.' player. Now prices
have run up over the J2V.000 mark,
and nobody believes that that is the
high water mark
Soil pay s to develop players. Ami
it doesn’t pay tn develop old ones.
Hi in v th- ernzi lor youngsters
JEFFRIES PICKS PALZER.
l.i'S ANGELES. I' i. 23. Th.' stock
of Ai Palzer, who is to meet Luther
| M 'Carty In tile "whit' hope" elimina
tion bout New Year's, has taken a big
rise since Jim Jeffries, forme - cham
pion. after seeing both men in training.
. said he’d be surprised if Palzer did not
knock out McCarty within ten rounds.
JOHNNY EVERS CONFIDENT.
Ki'ME. N Y. Doc 23 Johhny Ev-
I ire. manager of the Chicago Cubs, who
is wintering here, said he'll have an all-
( sta team next season and that the
’ Cubs will be contenders for the pen-
I nant.
STADIUM NEARLY FINISHED.
BERLIN Dee. 23. The big 1800.000
stadium here in which the 1918 Olympic
games will be held is nearing comple
t lon
WILLIAMS WANTS BOUT HERE.
Christy Williams the Memphis negro
fighter, known to the Queensberry game
. as the "Dark Ke. rot,” is anxious io come
to Atlanta in tight. 11<- Is in Chattanooga
I; new and baa opened negotiations witli the
- local club for a b"ii» with tirh'ir M ortho
or Hilly Hooper
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN A?CD NEWS. MONDAY. DECEMBER 23. 1912.
NEW WEIGHTS PLEASE
FIGHTERS IN GOTHAM :
NEW YORK. Oec 23.—The majority
of boxers who have been appealing in
bouts in this city and state today an
nounced themselves as* satisfied with
Hi' n< w weight.' fixed by the state ath
letic committee.
The scale of weights, which become
effective ftecembi i 21. are luS pounds,
paper weight: 115 pounds, bantam
weight; 125 pounds, featherweight; 135
pounds, lightweight. 115 pounds, wel
terweight. 158 pounds, middle weight:
175 pounds, commission weight, and
over 175 pounds, heavy weight.
LOCKE MAY PURCHASE
PHILADELPHIA CLUB
PITTSBURG, Dec. 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 ths club.
Locke refused to state for whom he
was acting, denying, however, that it
was for Governor John K. Tener. 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"
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Charley Dooin will take thirty-one
players South with him in the spring.
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Hugh Jennings says that the only Ti
gers sure of their places next year are
Cobb. Crawford. Stanage and Dubuc.
Which is interesting, considering tliat
Cobb. Crawford and Dubuc are hold
outs.
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The Detroit youngsters will go South
some time between February 15 and 25.
The old guard, If any of ’em decide to
report, will follow the recruits in a cou
ple of weeks.
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.Tne Tinker once changed hands for S 5
That was when he wus playing semi
professional ball In K. C.
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Tinker, by the way, hasn't been losing
monej at this baseball game. He owns
fruit lands in Oregon, a home in Chicago,
real estate in Kansas City, an automobile
and a bank ace »unt.
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FTed Clarke won a wardrobe * betting
that he would not gel in a single game
last year. li Is a significant fact that
he has turned down several men who
wanted to make the same bet with him
again for next season
M * *
<’onnie Mack is planning to sign ai
long-time contract with Jacksonville to
train there, beginning in the sprng of i
1914. Next spring he will go to San
Antonio.
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Joe Ganzel never took but one drink
in his life He was in a saloon with
Rube Waddell. Connie Mack slipped in
Whereupon Waddell grabbed Ganzel’s
ginger ale and left Ganzel the suds
Rube had ordered. To protect the Rube.
<Janzel drank ’em and then swore off
for the rest of his life
* * ♦
Johnny Dodge, who a \eai or so i»ack
was captaining a high school football
team in Memphis, will he taken South
with the I’hillles in the spring He grad
uated to the National league from the
Virginia.
* * •
Harry Camnitz. of IJncoln county Ken
tucky, has signed with Louisville for
next season. ’le Is Howard Camnltz’s
brother
C # i>
Christy Mathewson says that Fred
Clarke must have been bitten by a fox
in his early youth.
Harry Davis v.'ll probably wind up as
manager of tin- IL mling team which s
an improvement «.vt i <’leveland.
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Charley Muroi.y wains Slim Salle* He
says he wmil. be a tower of stn ngth.
one thing sun. he wouldn’t be any wa
ter tower
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h you have a naif million that isn’t
working xou car, get the Phillies lock,
stock and bat boy
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No game today Wet grounds
• * •
Next year .nthut Shafer will go dis
guised as a hod carrier, to keep away
from this pe-tuine<l note gag
1 Tl •• Mrs; Whne S<-- who signed a
contra o’ wa< a red man His name is
tie rg< M Johnson and he s a genuine
Winnebago <We alway s supposed that
was some variety of turnip, but it seems
not.)
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CharHs Ferguson, the new American
lengim umpire, is wintering in Mexico
which Is a good idea, at that.
W <h »
Kobe Waddell is training a flock of wild
geese and will exhibit them In vaude
ville
i• • •
The Phillies will train at Southern
> Pines next spring, as usual
t• * •
' lied Dooin wishes it dented that he baa
• signed < tld Man Jinx for 1913. "\V.-
worked him totkath lu*4 year.' -ays Re
MITER LITTLE
DESERIES 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 ‘‘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 ttxdo hfs 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 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
four-round setto between those two
slugging dfnges. 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’
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
lanta Athletic club team.
This game is 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; Tom Brown. I
the all-Southern tackle, and others are 1
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, 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 two teams
probably will be arranged for Christmas
day. The second round will 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 tha 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
tlie 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 Yale eleven next year if the grad
uate system now in use is abolished.
Hinkey is the favorite of the student
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Athletic Club Should Develop
Cross-Country Runners Over
Big Golf Course at East Lake
By Sam Bell.
* TLANTA, like her sister cities
jFA, 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
r end of the football season.
Outside of the ehosen 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 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 Peachtree-Piedmont-
Aubutn event on Turkey day.
It might be a good idea to run
the next event on the East Lake
property over and about the golf
links, where the golf hazards form
a fine country course, with jumps,
ascents and descents and good roft.
turf to run on.
It will be remembered that Gil
bert Cheeves,. the Maris? college
boy, who- ruled a favorite in the re
cent event, quit, complaining of
bad ankle, Nothing will jam up
young runnel s ankle as quickly
stone pavements/
Runners Could Use Spikes.
On the East Lake turf the prep
kids could uoe spike shoes, vvlii. i
should teach them more about...-i
running form in a day than ti., ..
can learn in a year by worn of
mouth. A man can’t run sueces
fully in spikes without some kin
of form, although it may not be ti
best.
It looks as though the Athiel
club authorities would make a vv is
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 a
sure enough chance to learn how to
run in a manner that will give
them speed and endurance.
DONLIN WILL STICK.
PITTSBURG. Dee. 23.—Although til.
Pirates have asked for waivers on Milo
Donlin. the heavy-hitting outfielder. .»
is hardly likely that he will go to tha
minors, as several big league clubs <>
said to be after him.
WHITE HOPES MIX FRIDAY.
NEW YORK, Dec. 23. —The winner
of the Soldier Kearns-Jesse Willard
bout, to bo staged Friday night ; t tin
Harden Athletic club, will most like y
be the next man to meet the winne "f
the Palzer-Carty bout New Year's .(.-iy.
In the elimination battles to uncow a
real white hope.