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12 WOMAN Sira® GOW» * Hl®r EDiTLD W. 9 FARNSWORTH Gee! But Jeff Is Particular About His Personal Appearance :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher I ~ | ix;' ME *\usr ! >t*UYY, W( *<Y. s . [l*4 AV$ . WA A GG - * B<x,r , _ .XXX BAC< HuR.Ky o. O UT > I ToC>A * Klzvl COME Q N • ) *r— ( o . , x; T o t? T °L H r No! taune 1 . ( 'o^ o »r Me j ** r T T'«„ *-=»>' —' • ec ™ eii,eA ’ *“’“**- Macken z .«•« t» Gs EITHER., J t Be out/ lanothatz \ VO>ou / . ■; r' a X i —I y /• * v & ( \ 'W' z<?% i \ i 1 °^' T >W tf¥ Aw : 'H W vv 1 u W y ■ -"<& V M ' > i / I vl/ > \ / i k / jjik c fjL Zyy, .Vy4 ' > . j — ttwrsrr.r by SUMCO Frank May Quit as Pelican Mogul After 1913 Has Not Been Out of First Division Since Start By !’( i'<-y 11. Whiting. I<HE’:'! i- talk that this may bi 'narky Frank'- last year with th< New < irlei ns club It’s mere rum > ■ thus far. but :h, av< few who doubt "t. .;>■ ->ns time' on the ln»id< . "Th it Dutchman ha- absolutely outlived it: usefulness o New <»• leans. Despite th< fact that In has given the city winner after win ner. that Im lias almost had his team "up there.” tn- Is unpoptt la r. .luttt why tile Crescent City fans don't like the Dutchman nobody seems to know . Xsk them down their and they’ll tell you, ‘‘Oh, Frank’s always oui for the money." That's true enough, too. but is It any rare qualification? It has al ways been the trait of a lot of man agers. and some of them are pop ular. too. One thing about Frank, he has never been one to take the public Into hie confidence. He neVer says anything about his team until just before the season opens; he dis courages all attempts to find out. He has an idea that his team Is bis owti business and h<- keeps it as such. Frank is a great publicity man at that, but he is the kind who stirs up a fight to create talk. This keeps him before the public, but it doesn’t always ■ ndear him to the fam . • • IF Charley Frank loaves the Peli can team at nv end of the 1913 season, it wouldn’t he very surpris ing if Bill Bernhard went down there. This is a mere surmise, of course: but it night turn out that way • • Q'K tuiiig ibout Charley Frank, he l as . ertalnly been the wlz ard ender of the league. He in the only manager who has seen contin uous service since the league start ed. He was a manager in 1901. He will be a manager in 1913. After that-well, who knows? But, any how. he will have had thirteen years of continuous service. Frank started with Memphis. He finished in the first division his first two years out. Then, in 1903, with "Daddy” Dungan, Billy Phyle. Perry Werdem. Red Ehret, Theo Breitenstein, Charley Miller. Char ley Fritz, Al Miller. Vli Accorslni, Harry Mclntyre and Milo Stratton, he won a rag for Memphis. A fine old bunch they 'were. too —the saintly Dungan, the unsaintly Wer den, and such emotional and tem peramental performers as Red Ehret Dusty Miller and AccorsinF tn 1994 Frank shifted to New Or tuns and finished third Then be won another pennant. The Dutch man had a good team that year Dy gen. Manuel, Phillips anil Breitenstein wer< his star pitch-’* ere. In fact. Dygert. Breitenstein art Phillips led th league hurlers m inc order named Rohe. Wll llsms. Holly and Beci: formic 1 a strong infield, while Stanley, Na deau and Hahn were the outfield ers. The last named was third among the regular batters of the league.’ The next font year# 19"6. 1907. 1908 and 1909 found the Dutch man in the first division and in 1910 and 1911 he copped the bunting again. Last year he was a useful third, * * THINK it ove ’ Twelve years Southern league manager. Four times he nas -Aon a pennant! 'tin' n, ha.- finish,-. Four •i.n<-s he has finished thi:m NEVER H' S TH F. t >l' T« ’ll ..IAN BEEN "19 OE Ts I r i .just 11|\ , x Frank’s average position for the k entire tWelvs years has been mid way between second place and third. Frank’s teams have won 904 j games since the league opened. Frank’s teams have lost 680 games since the league opened. The average standing of ail Frank’s teams in the Southern league is .571. Can you beat it? tirIIfCTHKR Frank’s period of »» usefulness has ended will be demonstrated in due time. Those who know him best doubt it. He’s i wise old king yet. If he will leave IPALZER TRIES RING IN A MOCK BATTLE By H. M. Walker. IOS ANGELES. Dec. 25.—Big Al Balzer spent the better part of an hour yesterday prowling about the bleak interior I of the Vernon arena building, test ing ropes, dancing about on the red canvas floor of the ring, experi menting with a chair in the lout corners of the fight pit. mid going through the motions of fighting an imaginary McCarty. "First time I’ve set foot in the ring here.” said \l "Met'arty lias fought here once and 1 want to he as familiar with ths ground mt he is. "The building certainly is a whale,” continued Balzer. "We haven't anything like it back Exist. I’m going to have a corner with my back to the sun, even if I have to sit on the same side of the ring with McCarty. These ropes would OLD-TIME FOOTBALL MEN WILL PLAY TODAY CHATTANOOGA, TENN.. De< 25.—Bt'cause of the person nel of the all-star team, the all-star-Eleventh cavalry football fracas which will be staged here this afternoon will attract real In terest The all-stars will be led by no less a personage than Ted Coy. the famous Yale athlete, while mar shalled beneath his orftlame will be Ray Morrison, the old Vandy prod igy. Sheldon, of Sewanee, and Tol ley. of the same school, in the back fl-Id. wit!-, Finlay, of Virginia, anu Gillem. or Sewanee, on ends: Swaf ford. of Vanderbilt; Dolton, of Se wanee; Wahoo and tluyon. of Car lisle. and Stoney, of Sewanee on die lim in addition to these stars GERMANS OPPOSE BOXING I IN NEXT OLYMPIC GAMES sI < iCKHODM, r**c. The grnf Tai secretary of th* Olympic games, to |. c , hel«t hi Berlin tn IHI6, Mr. Dli m has • been spending some time In Htoekh. Im i o gather information from the Swedish committee. which conducted the su eess- i fnl meeting of lids Mr. Diem told the correspondent of the Associated Tress I that the German games will be conducted i or tile same lines as were the Swedish, with one central body and different com- t mittees for various branches of sport The stadium in Berlin, which is near- i Img completion, will contain a large run- 1 nmg track, surrounded by a < voting track I i’ll.- running track will be «6S meters long, i ..nd there will be plenty of room on the green inside for field sports The Berlin < stadium will cost SBOO,OOO. At the next Olympic congress Ger- i many will propose the farcy cycling and i figure -kilting tn an ice rink be added to > h. Olympic program. an. will strongN .pposi the Inclusion of boxn g The Gar- | i’.huk To no* understand boxing at ail. . 11,1 'I Idem. ar. consider it a bar i bar. us sport. Germany pr..t»abh will bo j opposed on this point i.y England. Pni.cd > I states. Sweden an. T’enmnrk mCm-c . *"’ i, have favored box’ng ( THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1912. [ New Orleans, where he has stayed too long, and go to some town where he is not so well known, and if he will act as club president and leave the actual, sordid, begriming details of managing to some heady player, he will make a go of it for ten or twenty years yet. For he has a long brain, has this Frank. He has outfigured about every man he has tackled when he < ntered the league. He is the only man who ever succeeded in bringing lhe Southern actually to its knees. And he has had the other managers jumping sideways ever sirree he started. hold the weight of an elephant, and the floor padding is perfect. I haven't a kick of any’ kind on the arrangements.” Balzer has recovered from an at tack of biliousness, and both he and Manager Tom O’Rourke declare they are satisfied with the boxer’s condition. Tn the afternoon he boxed six rounds with Al McClus key and Charley Horn. Al is naturally left handed, and in sparring uses this hand with good effect, but the favorable com ment upon this fact led O’Rourke to make the following interesting talk: "Balzer has scored ail of his six knockouts with a right uppercut. It's a punch that never fails to bring home the bacon once it lands." The advance seat saie has been so heavy that all doubt of a ca pacity house has vanished. who will probably start, there will be on hand Ed McCallie. the old Cornell star of 1907; Dexheimer, last year with the Tigers and this year with the University of Chat tanooga. and possibly Bob McWhor ter. of Georgia. Notwithstanding the stellar foot ball ability’ and experience of the all-stars, the outcome of the game will be of considerable interest, as the cavalrymen have an excellent eleven, and furthermore have the advantage tn the matter of team co-operation and condition. The two stars of the soldier eleven who have been out since the Tech garni at the first of th< season. wiP be buck in full strength. The duo is composed of Speehi and Duval, halfbacks. CHAS. BRICKLEY BECOMES AGENT FOR TAILOR SHOP BOSTON. Dec. 10. Charley Bricklev, champion football plaver of 1912 t s n ,, u a shot-putter and a tailor s agent The versatile halfback of the Har vard team the only man selected by all the experts for the all-American eleven began Inst week to take orders for fash ionable clothing from the undergraduates at the Gambridge institution The young salesman was sufficient! v advertised by a New York firm, which announced in the Harvard Crimson that . u , ,K" en time and place "Charles E Brickley. Harvard representative." would be pleased to take orders of the students for winter and spring clothing it is understo.Hi that Brickley will re reive a remarkable sum as retainer ami in commissions u sum that would make the average agent of a business house gasp with envy Since, according to liar vand statistics mad, public last week, • 000 young men enrolled at the univer-ity pay almost 8350,000 a year for their clothes, the business is worth a small tor tune ' tailors brickley has also "taken up sim'-put ting. He >.trainlng at the Harvard gvm t od in. for tl'.e .-liot-pu; cyciita to la lie’., at variou* hxJoor meets HEAPOFACTIDNAT THE DIXIE A. C. TONIGHT According to those who have seen both Frank McMahon • and Walter Little work out, these boys should put up a rat tling mill at the Dixie A. C. to night. While neither is extremely clever at the game of hit and get away, both seem to pack a fine young kick, and it fs just possible that the bout won’t last the ten round limit. Little has been out of the game for a year and It is hard to tell whether the long rest has done him any good or put him back a couple of notches. Walter believes that he needed just such a layoff and predicts that tonight he will be bet ter than ever. McMahon may’ be a great fighter arid again he may not. He certain ly looks like a promising boy. He been fighting throughout the West, and yours truly has no line on him. Frank Whitney came here an unknown and sure made good. Perhaps McMahon will do likewise. Here's hoping he does. The eight-round semi-windup between Tommy Lavelle and Eddie Hanlon figures to be a tattling scrap. Roth can hit to beat the band, while Hanlon is also one of the cleverest young men that has ever battled here. But he will have to be at his best, for Lavelle is coming to the front with rapid strides of late. Spider Britt, the best boy of his inches around this neck of the woods, will have to travel faster than he ever traveled before to stall off Al Smith, the Jackson ville boy who stopped Meyer Fries last week. They meet In a six round go. Arthur Worthy and Billy Hooper, two slugging dinges, will open the card in a four-round affair. For the real fireworks this event looks like a hummer. These boys put up a great fight here last spring. MAY RACE ACROSS OCEAN IN 60-FOOT MOTOR BOATS PHILADELPHIA. Dee. 25.—Afte several successful voyages across the western ocean in small boats, the lead ers in yachting now are planning to attempt a race next spring either from Philadelphia or New York to Paris by motor boats of not over so feet. The yachtsmen of Philadelphia and New York a> going about ft with friendly rivalry io see which city shall have the honor of holding the race. This race must be arranged for fat in advance, <•> that the new boats now being built may br equipped tor this long distance contest. The tanks will have to be installed so that each one Will have a separate pipe to the'engine, ami also Imvi an arrangement to hold the tanks securely In place. Engines will have to be tested to rhe limit, as there will be no harbors from the start to finish of the race. It will not bt. like the Havana race, where a b i;.: could secure u harbor every twenty mil, s on th* 1 coast. The Bermuda race WHS easy - ailing conqiared to tills event, as the distance to Bermuda from Phila delphia is something like 750 miles, whereas the run to Pads is dose to 3,000 miles. A crew" for a 60-footer will consist of eight men. Each must carry five tons of grub, water, clothing and other ar ticles The gasoline will weigh close to twelve tons with the tanks and fittings. Y. ; this heavy weight can be carried bv u 60-t’oot boat with safety. MIKE DONLIN GOES TO PHILADELPHIA CLUB I’l I I Slit Hit, De, 25 Mike Donllu, t io sta outfielder, is now i rnembet of tin Phillies. This was acknowledge, by th Pittsburg club here today aftet It hau beeotm known that the Philadel phia club had refused to waive on him, although the other six members of the league had agreed to do so. This means that 1 Kudin rill become the property ... •: Ph.tp,-. ■ - hf , r v pr £ c T; t Heisman Discusses Elements of Football Success ■.•••.- -l-a-j. *** Mental, Physical and Mechanical Values Equal By J. W. Heisman, IN nry last article we discussed what the novice needs to be come a successful football player. Now, we will take up the subject of team play and see what points enter into the make-up of a successful team. Here, though, the elements are found grouped under several gen eral heads. For instance, weight and natural speed are required; and these are physical elements. Grit and experience are, on the other hand, mental elements. But both are different fiom mere \play ing skill, such as ability to tackle, to interfere, to punt and to for ward pass. These last might be called the mechanics of the game. What relative value and impor tance these general heads bear to each other, in this connection, it would be hard to say; but, roughly speaking, I would put them about on an even footing. That Is to say, I consider that the mental ele ments, the physical elements and proficiency in the mechanism of the game, should share about equally in tlie credit of a successful team’s good performances. Now, placing a valuation of 100 on the total worth of the mental elements of the game, I would sub divide those elements as fallows: Mental Elements 1-3 of Game. Experience.. 30 points Grit (fighting instinct, will P°wer) 25 points Ambition (keenness for victory) 20 points Intelligence (getting sig- nals, memory, etc.).. 20 points Self-control (avoiding penalties, etc.) 5 points "l"o ta I 100 p O i n ts in all games grit and ambition to some extent coalesce. If so con sidered their total of points would be 15, which explains how it is $ (ft) ((D (0) (ft) <ft> <ft> d)) <s> ($ (0) d)> co) (0) d)> (0) dj) (0) d)> d)) <o) d& (ft) (ft) (ft) (ft) (ft) db (0) d» (d> © d)) ® f ' (ft) | Merry Christmas 2 <ft>. - 2 e: J j THANKS! : <ft> (ID (| pV OUR. patronage you have made 1912 the ® (V) banner year of our business career. We are Z (ft) grateful to our friends, and promise during 1913 to vf ll6 £ ooc * , va^ues and square dealings as in i 19l May you live long and prosper. I ESSIG BROS. CO. \ (ft) ■ dft “Correct Dress for Men” ? 26 Whitehall Street t X <’» ® 2 ® Happy New Year j (()> that tlie fighting spirit that a team displays in any given game counts for so much. Physical Elements 1-3 of Game. Weight 25 points S P eed 20 points Physical strength .10 points Natural athletic ability . . 20 points Ruggedness (immunity to injuries, vitality, etc.). 10 points Traction or driving power 15 points Tefal 100 points Strange to say, weight is not al ways synonymous with physical strength; hence the need of a dis tinction. Neither do any of the others, either singly or in combina tion, necessarily give a man driving power. A man may run like the wind —for sheer swiftness, and yet have no traction whatever. And it takes locomotives with traction to pull heavy freight trains up a steep grade or to plow through a moun tain snow bank. Mechanical Features 1-3 of Game, Charging 9 points Tackling 9 points Interfering (blocking) .. 9 points Ball-carrying (by indi- viduals), speed, dodg- ing, bucking, etc.) .... 10 points Punting 5 points Getting down field points Returning of punts (in- cluding catching and handling) 8 points Goal kicking (field goals and others) 6 points Forward passing (pass- ing and catching) ... 7 points j Signalling (judgment. snap, etc.) 12 points Team speed (lining up. harmony of movement, ®* c -l 6 points Variety of attack 10 points Defensive shifting .. .. 5 points ■ 100 points In a rough way these three tables give an idea not alone of what a player should have or must learn, but as well what a coach must look out for and teach. As a mat ter of fact he must think of a great many more points than these in handling either individuals or the team as a whole. For instance, there is the matter of training, with its accompanying questions of diet, amount of practice, etc. There Are Other Elements. From a perusal of the above ta bles the class player or the pros pective varsity aopirant can get a fair idea, of what physical and mental advantages he should pos sess to start with, and in what proportions they count. Also, he can get an idea of the relative value of the various departments of play. If he realizes that he is weak on any of the more impor tant ones it may spur him on to greater effort to improve his game in those respects. To. be sure, we have not even now named all the elements that go to make a suc cessful player or team, but these are the more important, and if a team were well fortified in all these points of play they would put up a pretty good article of football. It is taken for granted that everybody playing the game has studied well the rules and has a clear idea of their meaning and is apt in applying them. Hence, this important detail was oniitt, 1 from the tables. PITCHER, SHOT IN ARM. SUES FOR BIG DAMAGES GREENSBURG. PA., Dec. 25. -Demand ing §25,000 for injury done to his pitch ing arm, Sheila P. Howser, t wirier on the Connellsville team of the Ohio-Penn sylvania league, who was shot on Oct" her 27, while hunting on the farm of W. Mechling. has entered suit for that amount against Mechling. Awarding Howser, he and his companion had startt i’ I to obey Mechling* a order to leave when the latter fired and hit Howser, rhe shot taking effect in his right arm.