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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. We wish to call your attention to tiu: tact that most Infectious diseases, such as w hooping cough, diphtheria anti scarlet fever, arc contracted when thi child has a cold. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy will quickly cure a cold and greatly lessen the danger of contract ing these diseases. This remedy Is famous for its cures of colds it con tains no opium or other narcotic an< may be given to a child with hnplicfi confidence. Sold by all dealers. tAdvt. HOLIDAY RATES —VIA— N. C & ST. L. and W. 4 A. R R, MAKE SOMEBODY Happy wit i a Kodak—-the gift tha' pleases both young and old. Jno L Moore & Sufis have a completi fine' (' 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" « * * Charley Dooin will take thirty-one players South with him in the spring. • V M 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. ♦ * * 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. • * * .Tne Tinker once changed hands for S 5 That was when he wus playing semi professional ball In K. C. * tj »F 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. » * M 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. e ♦ ♦ 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. •» k * 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 ». • » h you have a naif million that isn’t working xou car, get the Phillies lock, stock and bat boy • ♦ • 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.) • • A 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. 606 SALVARSAN 914 Neo Saivarsan The two celebrated (J erm a n i »re pa ra t ion s \ that have cured per / 4/Jjy \ nianently more eases fd/fe T °f syphillis or blood \M(? • \ poison in the last two .''ears than has been Ya cured in the history of pk_ J world up to the * time of this wonderful Hscovery. Come and lot nn demonstrate to s mi h-»w I cure thia dreadful disease in three to five treatnunts. I euro the' following tiis", s»-• nr make no charge: Uydr<>c<‘le, Varicocele, Kidney, Blad der ami l’r* s(Hti* Trouble. Lost Man hood, Strivtur- Acute and Chronic Gonorrhea, amt nil nervoyn ami . hroiiiv diseases ot men h.nd women. Free consultation ami examination. Hours 8 i. ni. to 7p. m.; Sunday. DR. J. D HUGHES l6</ ? North Broad St.. Atlanta, Ga Opposite Third National Bank. MARTIN ' i9i/ a PEACHTREE STREET UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES y X FOR SALE X 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 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. 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Jj|F’ s T | CONE’S** ™ J “A Good Drug Store” Kimball Hotse Block 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.