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eioKwa srao corao » exkikfs' LPITLD Jy W. 3 YARNS' WORTH ' Jeff May Need Glasses, But He Doesn’t Need an Ear Horn :: :: ;; By “Bud” Fisher ! .Tfgf- MOST I fTTyrT.'T ~ t • -1 I ' ' , N tMfc world, i cam i <■ „ *' / l IM IFWMJL-'hTTW 1 ' ' ~ * r-~- — 1 «e-n,, MW j 77 7 i a ■*>*»• i f"i»«w'""i mm «"i. taNMivaHr l T» T«4 «*»«««, _ ,) ' , Ml- Vou iK ™.- A* ' H »»»•■»*"■» - » ji t | L - vV-A \ 1 //// ND’ ■[/'//> \\U CAN'T SEE I ' II >j 1 , Bril a | '-j.). ijL*Lllli I gH '7 A BL-'wyar'-w S i/inl ■ i i —■ - > —— - i BIG ONES ARE TOD TOUGH FOR HIE, 15 FLVNN l>\ Ed. W. Smith. gang's too “tough anil | too big for me. Guess I’ll have to content myself with beating up some smallei ones once tn a while." This was the wax Jim Flynn, of Pueblo. Colo., passed up the Lu tite) McCarty* and the Al Palzei end the Jess Willards of the heavy, weight class the other day when In was in Chicago. Jim sat down with me for a half hour in between trains and chatted over the situa tions past and present and inci dentally to make plain to me his future pliins. "After 1 had trimmed Al Kauf man and Carl Morris and Charley Miller. I figured that the old horse was just as good as ever and that none of the big fellows had a thing on*me," Jim remarked a trifle sad ly. “McCarty, a raw hand, didn’t look any tougher than old stagers, but I reckoned entirelx wrong, it now appears to me. "Flynn's as good as he ever was, and the same old heart is there— you can bet a whole lot on that. Rut —and that', a big BUT this time—those kids that are springing op are a lot better than I figured th ay were. Jim Has No Kick. "Why, this fellow McCarty is so big and so long and so tough and so strong that, try as I would. 1 couldn’t reach him at all. He sim ply held me off with that long left of his and whaled the life out of me, using a long right and an uppercut that murdered me. Os course, lam dissatisfied always when one of my fights Is stopped with me on my feet. But I guess In this case it was nil right. "Remember in Las Vegas that I felt the same way about it when I boxed Johnson? Just because 1 might bleed a little or something like that is no sign that I am being killed. T always have a chance and have won some of my toughest bat tles after being apparently out classed at the start. Going to Fight Some More. “No, I'm not out of tluj fighting aame. Tom MoCawy hes promised to get a man of more reasonable size for me ths next time, because I made a hit in the McCarty fight. It was nothing to be ashamed of, a defeat like that. Fm told, iro I am resting content ’’ Flynn Is now in the East resting up for a few weeks. After he fully recovers from the grind of training -he has had two long tough tights in ■he last two months—he will bi ready for any of them and would like to get on on the coast with such men as Gunboat Smith. Frank Moran and others ot the smaller heavies. JUD M'TIGUE FOLLOWS EXAMPLE OF H. PERDUE NASHVILLE, TENN. Dec. 27 - When Hub Purdue tori- up his Bo«ton uniform last season and "got by” with his demand for a major league sal ary, bis ex." tup- - mubtles* inspired others to go and do liki xvisi In anx event. Jud MiTigW local product, a tiienm-:■ of the ‘-tune outfit, has followed in Hub's footn■ at hast as far as refusing to play major league ball fol a minor leugut salary is concerned. MeTigiu i- -p tiding the winter lure with home folk and with the Into addi ’ion to the M Tigui family circles in tin- form of a New- England bride with whoni he tan awttx and married be tween games in tile late summer, and says ho ha« pis Boston contract, but It •' in lit.- pocket unsigned and will so continu-. unless there is something more added In wax- of compensation for 1913 -Mai Hat- that he rialtzcs that lie i« rm < bri tx M«tl-< uson or Nap Km k< r as yet, hut that .i.Ui th,, monex of- Dixie League Has Had But Four Real Managers Since Beginning; Smith, Frank, Finn, Molesworth i I By Percy 11. Whiting. rTX HIS has been a big winter of I managers. They have occu pied ten times as much space in the paper-- as the players. And the question lias arisen, "Do the managers or th< player imilo the team Both, of course. And. equally of .nurse, .1 good manager gathers togefliei good players. But suppose there was a good manager with a good team and a txior manager with a good team, which combination would win the more games? An interesting sidelight is thrown on this dark problem by the fact that you frequently hear a good manager say. “If 1 had a pitcher and an outfielder (for instance), I'd win a pennant.” But you never heard u good hall player say, “If we had a good man ager, we'd win a pennant,” which doesn't prove anything, of course, but is suggestive. a N oltieial of a big leagie club said last summer. “There aren't but a half-dozen big league man agers, anyway—Connie Mack. John McGraw, Frank Chance. Fred Clarke, Hugh Jennings, and maybe one or two others." In the Southern league, going back through the dozen years of its history, one is si ruck with the fact that it has had but very few real managers v Think it over. What real top notchers £ave been in the league.' Bill Smith, of course, to begin at home. Then there have been Charley Frank, Carleton Moles worth, Mike Finn 1 “Go on. go on.” you say But where to? John Dobbs. Bill Bernhard and Bill Schwartz are in the doubtful class. We are inclined to believe that they arc real managers. Tile trouble is that all of them have been handicapped by not having had enough money to spend for players. Given an oven break with the rest, they would perhaps have ranked with the best. All three seem to possess qualities of lead ership, along with a knowledge of ball players and of baseball. Four top notch managers and three uncertainties in twelve years. Verily a slim showing. • » • rp HEN look at the failin’.*-: Right * here In Atlanta last year then were two *J?hailey Hemphill and Charley Alperntan. Both were fa ntous ex-big league players, yet neit her proved a manager. Then go on back through the Southern league list. Dale Gear. Lew Whis tler Ike Durrett. “Chief'' Zimmer. .1 O’Connor. Dominick Mullaney. Bob Gilks. Ed Greminger. “Duckey Holmes. “Swats" Swaeina, George Read, J. Ryan, Tom Fisher. "Count'’ Campeau, Ed Peters and Ed Pabst. No need to go further. Dale Gear hats since made a sue cess of managing, and it is likely that bis Southern league record suffered because of his lack of ex perience. Lew Whistler i\a- han dicapped by a wife with enough money that working wasn’t neee« s try. Bob Gilks was almost a suc cess. but somehow couldn’t seem to multi it. He failed to inspire Ids men. A lot that need not be men tioned were ruined by drink. Sev eral lacked aggressiveness—notably Ed Greminger. Some had too much like "Dorn” Mullaney. Some failed to advance swiftly enough to kerb pace with the league foi in-t.im . Newt Fisher. who won tin Hi st tvi> ■enmints and thep c ■ i. -•itdi < »th.- l\ 1 -boil .ii.. i,,,. iioteli , l,i -s 1. u • THE ATTANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. DE( EMBER 2T. 1912. some mysterious reason—good men like Tom Fisher and Charley Babb. * « * IVUEN you study the "Big Four" I the Southern leagut managers, you do not wonder that nobody offhand flas ever been aide to “pick" good managers from raw material with any degree of ci r tulnty. Charley Frank, the champion malinger of Hie league, in the, point of continued spccess. fs a fmsky. chunky, foxy Dutchman, tie is a convivial eliap, fond of high living, fond ol amnsemyiits, secretive, scheming, given to keeping his own council, not keen about active man agement from the bench, not over popular with his men. not given to making presents or .jollying along his plavers. < ontrast this man with Bill Smith. Bill is a small, active, nervous man. He is not given to conviviality, is u man of exem plary habits, has no amusements savi baseball, is no schemer, but rather a man of quick, sure judg-' meat, anil a num who makes l|is plans us he goes along. He is no loose talker, but believes in giving out all facts that will interest the public, so long as his team is not hurt by it. Smith manages from tlie bench, directing every move on tue field that he can possibly- con trol He is the kind of a McGraw manager, who thinks for his club. Smith is u great believer in to warding his players, and has given 1 way mote. shirts, neckties, hats and suits of clothes than all the oilier Southern league managers rolled together. He is popular with some of his players, unpopular with others, and doesn't give a hang what his players think, so long as they play the game. Smith is no walking guide of ball players, but is a great Judge of them in ac t ion. Then consider Molesworth—an other chunky individual, quiet os a elam, apparently not particularly aggressive, 110 deep schemer, a man of ideal habits. Molesworth has managed from both bench and field, but always he has been the kind who has tried to secure brainy players and then has been willing to let them play the game as it camo to them. Molesworth seems neither particularly popular nor particularly unpopular. He is just a manager, and the players can take him or leave him, just as best suits them. Then lastly, consider Mike Finn. Here is a jovial, but moody, Irish man. He is the champion baseball envy cl .ped la of minor league baseball. He knows alt about every ball pluy’er. living or dead. He | knows baseball history and baseball law- H. has the sort of mind that enables him to regard schedule making a.s a relaxation. He is pop ular w ith his men, is retiring, is no seeker after publicity , is supersti tious. doesn't believe itt having his picture taken, doesn't like Friday nor the thirteenth of anything. Finn is another manager of good habits and is a good citizen. But there you have some of the striking characteristics of the font men who have done the most to mak< playing history in the South ern league. Not any of which answers tne question of "Which makes the team the manager or the players?” But it's never going to be answered anyhow, so nobody should com plain. STADIUM TO SEAT 50.000. PRINCETON, N J., Dec. 37. The -i.i niii'il to be built I er- will seal 50.000 per i"tand Will be of st. el and eongreie. It will e st übou' StivO.OOO anti will be by tt-1 a. e.,lomg t » antioime v ' Io ■S, < '.o |. . . limtdtte, HJNS HMTfi IS ONE OF GAME’S “MGTST" * - HANS WAGNER, the Pitts burg shortstop, is one of the vyoungest" veterans in the Natii.fnal league ranks. Physicians ase.ribi flu- German's greatness to his i-oving disposition, his fondness fur nature, and habit of eating what he pleases. In commenting upon Wagner's ability to keep in goof shape, yxat* after year. James Jerpc. i f Pittsburg, who has known the great, shortstop a number of \ i ars. says: "When a man of his. natural physiqur can eat what he xxants, drink what hi wants, and do what he pieages in the open air all the year around, it isn't any real won der that lie prolongs his athletic career and stands off the slowness and staleness that cemoes to the best, of them as the years go by. Simple Life For Honus. "Hotius is the living ideal of th-- simple life. He clings to natui . ! He spends his fall and white in woods and the spare time of tue summer at the banks of a stream fishing. He loves the freedom of the open air and lu- is at home in the wildest woods. He has the na ture of an Indian in this respect. W'U don't i-ateh Honus browsing around in the city or on the streets of his home town He keeps to him- . sell' or in his own pet little circle pt' woodmen. “I have known him personally ' for years, and I know that his fond ness for hunting and fishing ami life in the open air ha> kept him from going to the discard as a real-. Ix great player. Honus roams the | wood.® from pure desire. He doesn’t worry.' He sleeps a lot, and be eats ■ what h<- please- and wh-n he pleases. Ham and egg's look good to him three times a dax. Between nu-al.- lie seeks the open air—either in his automobile or on foot. "Honus has a poetic nature in this respect, although he is any thing but a poet. But the open air, the trees, the streams and the wild freedom of the woods have a fancy for him, and in this environment only is he happy. Is it any wonder then that he retains his vlgot and conserves much of that dash and speed that make him the annual wonder on tin- Pali field'.' Eats What He Wants. "There i> nothing t. mining on the hotel or dining car menu for Honus. He pref-->s the simplest i kind- of fare and plenty of it. Honus • would stop at th. Waldorf-A-toria and calmly ouler 'ham-and,' al! - the while ignoring with ■ aatacte: - i I istic contempt ti’u'alleged tempt ; ing merits of lobster a .. N. a burg, pate de sols gras, crab savigotti and the pastries md kniekknaek® ot tile steward's hatting ...di For lit teen x.-a-.s tiny have tried to wine and dine Honus and educate him up to these loft) notions in the culinarx art. but tin- German xvould rather pri or his own meals and pax- twice a* much for them a.- the chap who fusses over the I'Timclix- menu and its varieties. As fm the evenings in larg. city. Hontnj always enjoys himself. In Nexx Yoik he hunts out th< big moving picture shows, xx her th, • movies max be showing African I game hunts or some suit of adven ture in the jungle, xvoods. or on sea The next morning lie max- be up bright, and eat ly, and within an hour or two be. 45 minutes from Broadway, whore the fishes have no idea of the closeness of the Httl. o d Xi>w York town. Yes. is funti.x e.-m th, I tuuii- Whitney and O’Keefe to Clash i Here New Years; Palzer and I McCarty Go Figures Slugfest By Left Hook. FMtANK WHITNEY and Tommy O'Keefe are going to mix up again here N< w Year's night. Ta. Dixie A. I', has just made the match, and if it 'is anywhere as near as good as the last mill bi twain this pair local boxing fans will get a full run for their money. Also Promoter Henry Norton is burning the wires living to get Battling Nelson fit; the winner on January 15. * * Keefe was knocked out by- Jack Britton Christmas night, but that doesn't lower his standing a bit, for Britton is. probably the best lightweight in the country. I say lightweight because Danny Mor gan, Britton's managel. claims he cat do 133 pounds ringside. Backey McFarland 4s dodging Britton and has been dodging him ever since Jack outpointed him over in Memphis. It's a cinch that this pair will hook up ere longmind when it does yours truly will string along with Britton. By tin way. Britton got his real 1 start he.e in Atlanta, when lie ' fought chain y White and George Memsie. He didn't get over s!<••> for the Iwo lights, but lie left a mighty high impression, ami Mike Sam. who is now ref. reeing at the Dixie A. claims that tie was the first to predict that Britton would some day be a champion. So is hen you consider that one of th.- Cree best lightweights in ‘ tile World, if not the i. ey best, beat him. O'K. efe's reputation has not been dented in the least by his defeat at Britton's hands. At any rate,-he and Whitney put up the best scrap ever staged in Atlanta, and local fans have been howling for a ieturn bout ever since. ' ■ I‘alzi and Luther .11, Carty hook up New Year's 'lay. tistie followers on the Pacific coast are likely to see a battle along the line.of famous old-time fights, such as tile Sullivan-Ryan. Jef fries-Sharkey. Mitchell-Sullivan. K drain-S till Ivan, Fitzsimmons-Mu- Iter, Dempsey -Laßlanche, McAu liff -Carney, MiAuliffe-Carroll. Mc- Auliffe-Meyer. Lavigne-Everhardt. Ryan-West and hundreds of others of those mills that were nothing but a case of give and take. When Carl Morris was here I asked him which man he liked the best. "McCarty," is replied without a second's thought. Tile writer has never , n Mc -1 arty, but I saw Palzer lick Tom Kennedy and A! Kaufman, and I those two nights tlie New Vorki -uro looked like a champion. He knows ifttle of the scientific end of tile game, is dead slow on his feet end lias little or no defense, hut hi sure can belt with both hands. \lso Kaufman's rig: . band kicks never budged him an in.l'. and Kaufman could hit as iiaril with his • ight hand as any man that ever climbed into a ring, I N his caret r, which so fa 1 as pub- lic interest is eom-.i-rm-d begum in 1311, Palzer has bad just six battles of more than ordinary no. tiee, but it must be admitted that the results from four of the mmibei were 1 xceediugly favorabh to hitn- ■■ n knot Routs. On June 28 Palzer won a fifth bat tle. Bombardier Wells, the English heavy- champion, going down after three rounds of hard battling. Tile tight was nevertheless a moral de feat foi Paiz. r. for had Wells any stamina back o? his science he would luive made a short, quick job of the lowan, who was outpointed bi to 1. Palztr's next battle am the \,si • sough: was .. ith Tony Hos>, ;l ■it ■ al. -an . 1 i I 'll I’a de! phia. •and while nu decision was given, Al was badly outpointed and defeated by tile Italian vetei-an. TN comparison with Palzer's rec ord. that ol McCarty is a long one. though lint few of his battles were of more than local impor tance. Like Palzer. MeCartx be gan his serious ring carci r in 1911, and to date has fought eighteen battles, winning all bat two. Jess Willaid and Jim Ste v.ut both out pointing him, the former so badly that tile bout was slopped to save Luther. Folioxving these defeats,, McCarty took a new lease of life, knocking out Jack |leFarland in two rounds and Jim Flynn in six teen. Ihe lattci victory was a sur prise to many and has opened the eyes of Hie sport world to McCarty as a elm mpionship'possibillt'-. In his- light with Flynn the big fellow made his Ixest appearance yet and shn\\ i,| that In- has ac quired considerable ktiyj*-ledg<’ of the game. His best blow in tin fight was a right uppercut, ami those wlio aii- hacking him for hts c.nning battle iely on this punch to dispose of Palzer. The latter has a irouch some what similar to that of Jeffries, and a right-hand uppi-ri-ut ora straight left lead, both of which- MeCartx possesses, are counted .by authori ties to be tw.j Os file best blows to successfully counter such an attack. \ ' itl-i x ■ ■ tiling about lie ii cords .a' both Palzi-rand Al. . Carty is tin- number i*f battles tliex have won by l- noekouts. Both have n formidable and forbiihMng list, a sure indication < ; the tremendous sii-i-ngtb ami hitting ability of these twn warriors. Out of six battles I'aizcr Ims five times dropped his man in tin- canvas for tlie full count, while McCarty has had the humt rals tolled ovi-r thirteen out of eighteen opponents. It is a rec ord that i- ix fiist-elass heavies in ring historj have acquired. In summing up, taking into con sideration the youth, size, strength and stamina of the'si two men, whoever is tin- winner on January 1, lie is going to come close.to being a worthy white heavyweight rep resentative of America, and with proper handling should become a world’s champion. Whether the winner will ever meet Johnson or not in an attempt to gain undisputed hold on the title remains for the future to 'ilecide. At this writing, however, it does not seem likely that Johnson will ’ v< again elash in the ring wit i ■ white man. M'INTOSH quits fistiana SH >NI-:y N s vv.. De,.. 27. - Hugh Mclntosh aiinoune,-,; today th,,-, he had disposed of his int--i‘-sts in the pugil istic g,i.... to "Snowy" Bake'' Mc- Intosh will devote his whok tian- to a theat ical circuit. ATLANTA LEAGUE GAMES OFF. AU schedulrd games in the Atlanta ‘ «K U ' or this wee havi b< en post- ! I'"*" T ' : ' po-tpom-d series ot till-, e L-aim- will probablx l„ placed one " '' regulars scheduled JX MARTIN MAY X* ' 19% PEACHTREE | UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES .. FOR SALE X w u ANO /sy z Jl® SHEM IS OUT DF GUBS’ I SI 3 LIN W By .Janies Clarkson. Chicago, Dec. 37.—ja 1H{ ,. Tilden Sheckard, a Cub sine. 1906. is on the block for trade. The famous left fielder, who bat- I ted and fielded his way through s-iven Cub campaigns, has drawn lib- "long straw" and from now un til a trade is concluded lie is a marked man. I'resident Murphy last night tip ped his hand that had under .-over u trade that would bling a. star pitcher to the Cubs. He denied ilia 1 Miller Huggins, of the Cardi nals. had offered him 34.uu0 for Sheckard. Murphy said lie never would accept a cash offer for his left fielder, but lie would consider letting him go in a trade in which tlie Cubs txould receive liis equal ♦ or more in playing strength. “What we need is another good pitcher,’’ he said. "With another mat, equal to any of our second -tring men the Cubs next Jiear will bi- tin- strongest aggregation that ever opened our park, not even ex cel.ting the teams of 1906, 1907 and 190 S. "Wiie:e is there an outfield that • an compare with Schulte, Clynr .mil Mitchell?” he asked. “And ■ infield. Saier. Evers. Zimnic-riaa:- and one of our stock of shortstoj ; You can't bent it as a team." Sheckard Out of Lineup. The < 'uli boss expounded it letjgth upon the virtues of his out fielders. but did not once mention Sheckard. except to deny that ■ would let him go by purchase. It is believed, however, that Mur phy has his eye on Fromme. of Cincinnati, and that another deal may be put through.with tile Red tliai will send Sheckard there atn bring tin- twiiler here. If a t'iiu-innaii deal fails, in-go tiations mayxbe opened with the Cards. Murphy yesterday admit ted tii-it lie could have had Pitcher Geyer, of the ('aids, but he turned down the proposed deal. Just what tin nature of the deal was he re fused to disclose. It is believed Manager Huggins offered Geyer and cash for Sheckard. and that is how tlie rumor started that Sheck ard was to be sold for $4,000. PITCHER OWEN GOOD CATCHER MILW AUKEE, Dec. 27. —Figu:e.- iu givi n out shoxv that Frank Owen, for merly a star pitcher with the Cliicas- White Sox. did some brilliant work i-- r tin eluli as a catcher. CLYMER PROMISING YOUNGSTER I'lll' 'A* i< >. Dec. 27.—Otis Clx n who will get liis third big league chan- • with the Cubs next season and who I" in billed as “a promising yoUliß- ■ is only 37 years old. Cures in 1 to S day* ■tJ* W 4T» X a Gonorrhoea and Gleet S? Mk ® S * eS mw Contains no poison so" B_»S'njjr wlb mavbeusedfullstre-' l .i» NtaFl absolutely without if” Guaranteed not tn stricture. Prevents contagion. WHY NOT CURE YOURSELF? . At Itrupgiats, or we ship express prepaid OP” i receipt of sl. Full particulars mailed on request. THE EV AMS CHEMICAL CO.. 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