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TOUGH FOR ME,
MIS FLVNN
By Ed. W. Smith.
gang's Um tough and
I tn<> big for me. Guess I’ll
have to content myself with
beating up some smaller ones once
in a while."
This was the way Jim Flynn, of
Pueblo, Colo., passed up the Lu
ther McCartys and the Al Palzers
and the Jess Willards of the heavy
weight class the other day when he
was in Chicago. Jim sat down with
me for a half hout In between
trains and chatted over the situa
tions past and present and inci
dentally to make plain to tne his
future plans.
"After I had trimmed Al Kauf
man and Carl Morris and Charley
Miller, 1 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 entirely wrong, it
now appears to me.
"Flynn’s as good as he ever was,
and the same old heart is there —
you cun bet a whole lot on that.
But—and that’s a big .BUT this
time—those kids that are springing
up are a lot better than 1 figured
they were.
Jim Has No Kick.
"Why, this fellow McCarty is so
big and so long and so tough and
so strong that, try as 1 would. 1
couldn’t reach him at all. He sim
ply held me off with that long left
of his and winded the life out of me.
using a long tight and an uppercut
that murdered me. of course, I am
dissatisfied always when one of my
fights is stopped with me on my
feet. But I guess in this ease it
was all right.
"Remember in Las \ "gas that I
felt the same way about it when I
boxed Johnson'.’ Just because i
might bleed a little or something
like that is no sign that I am being
killed. 1 always ltav< a charter and
have won some of my toughest bat
tles after being apparently out
classed at the stall
Going to Fight Some More.
"No. I'm not out of the fighting
game. Tom McC’arey has promised
to get a man of more reasonable
size for me the next time, because I
made a hit In the Mcf'arty tight. It
was nothing to be ashamed of, a
defeat like that. I’m told, so 1 am
resting content."
Flynn is now in the East resting
up for a few w eeks’ After he fully
recovers from the grind of training
—he has had two long tough tights in
the last two months—he will be
ready for any of them and would
like to get on on the coast with
such men as Gunboat Smith, Ft ink
Moran and others of the smaller
heavies,
JUD M'TIGUE FOLLOWS
EXAMPLE OF H.PERDUE
NASHVILLE, TENN., Dee. 27 -
When Hub Purdue ton- up his Boston
uniform last season and "got by" with
his demand for a major league sal
ary, his example doubtless inspired
others to go and do likewise. In any
event, Jud McTigue. local product, a
member of the same outfit. lias followed
In Hub’s footsteps, at least as fat as
refusing to play major league ball for u
minor league salary i.s concerned
McTigue is spending the winter here
with home folks and with the late addi
tion to tht McTigm family circles in
the form of a Nev. England' brkb with
■whom he run away and married be
tween games in the late summer. and
Bays h" has his Boston contract, but it
is in his pocket unsigned and will so
continue unless there is something more
added byway of compensation for 1:*13
Mae state- that he realizes that lie is
no Christy Mathewson X.,,. B uv k,.,
k. .
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Dixie League Has Had But Four
Real Managers Since Beginning;
Smith, Frank, Finn, Molesworth
By Percy 11. Whiting,
rll HIS has been a big winter of
I managers. They have occu
pied ten times as much space
in the papers as the players. And
the question has arisen, “Do the
managers or the players make the
team'”’
Both, of course.
And, equally of course, a good
manager gathers together good
players.
But .suppose there was a good
manager with a good team and a
poor 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 a good ball
player say, "If we had a good man
ager, we’d win a pennant," which
doesn’t pt oVe anything, of cout -e,
but is suggestive.
• • •
A N official of a big league 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 struck with the fact
that it has had but very few real
managers.
Think it over. What real top
notchers have been in the league?
Bill Smith, of course, to begin at
home. Then there have been
Charley Frank, Carleton Moles
worth, Mike Finn !
"Go on go on." you say. But
where to?
John Dobbs. Bill Bernlni'd ami
Bill Schwartz ale In the doubtful
class. W e are inclined to believe
that they are real managers. The
trouble is that all of them have
been handicapped by not having
had enough money to spend for
player.-, Given an even break with
the rest, they would perhaps have
ranked with the best. All three
seem to possess qualities O1 lead
ership. along with a knowledge of
ball players and of baseball.
Four top-notch managers and
three uncertainties in twelve years.
Verity a slim showing.
♦ • *
'p HEN look at the failures! Right
1 here in Atlanta last year there
were two Charley Hemphill and
Charley Alpermail. Both were fa
mous ex-big league players, yet
neither proved a manager. Then
go on back through the Southern
league list. Dale Gear, la w Whis
tler, Ike Durrett, “Chief" Zimmer.
J. ( 'Connor. Dominick Mullaney ,
Bob Gilks. F.d Gremingir. “Dueki-y '
Holmes. "Swats" Swaclna, George
Reed. J. Ryan, Tom Fisher. “Count"
Campeau, Ed Peter- and Ed Pabst.
No need to go further.
Dale Gear has since made a suc
cess of managing, and it is likely
that his Southern league record
suffered because of his lack of ex
perience. Lew Whistler was han
dicapped by a wife with enough
money so that working wasn't neces
sary. Bob Gilks wits almost a sin -
cess, but somehow couldn’t seem to
make it. He failed to Inspire his
men. A lot that need not be men
tioned were ruined by drink. Sev
eral lacked aggressiveness—notably
Ed Gremlnger Some had too much
like “Doni" Mullaney. Some
failed to advance swiftly enough
to keep pace with the league—for
instance. Newt Fisher. who won .
tie- first two pennants ami then
didn’t keep his stiid, . <nhe,s 101 l
short of the top-llotvh < lass fol .
THE ATLANTA AND NEWS. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1912.
some mysterious reason—good men
like Tom Fisher and Charley Babb.
* ♦ ♦
yVHEN you study the "Big Four"
the Southern league managers,
you do not wonder that nobody
offhand has ever been able to
“pick" good managers from raw
material with any degree of cer
tainty.
Charley Frank, the champion
manager of the league, in the point
of continued success, is a husky,
chunky, foxy Dutchman. He is a
convivial chap, fond of high living, •
fond of amusements, secretive,
scheming, given to keeping his own
council, not keen about active man
agement from the bench, not over
popular w ith his men, not given to
making presents or Jollying along
his 'players.
Contrast this man with Bill
Smith. Bill is a small, active,
nervous man. He is not given to
conviviality, is a man of exem
plary habits, has no amusements
save baseball, is no schemer, but
rather a man of quick, sure judg
ment, and a man who makes his
plans as 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
the bench, directing every move on
the field that he can possibly con
trol. He is the kind of a McGraw
manager, who thinks for his club.
Smith is a great believer in re
warding his players, and has given
away more shirts, neckties, hats
<ind suits of clothes than all the
other 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
tion.
Then consider Molesworth— an
other chunky individual, quiet as a
clam, apparently not particularly
aggressive, no 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
came 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
encyclopedia of minor league
baseball. He knows all about every
ball player, living or dead. He
know s baseball history- and baseball
laws. He has the sort of mind that
enables him to regard schedule
making us a relaxation. He is pop
ular w ith his men. is retiring, is no
seeker after publicity, is supersti
tious, doesn’t believe in 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 four
men who have done the most to
make playing history in the South
ern league.
Not any of which answers the
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 27 —The sta
dium to be built here will seat 50.000 per
sens. and will be of steel and concrete.
It will . st about Staili.UOO and will be
r- .e.v by lyt (. accenting to announce*
mint made by tin- athletic committee.
HANS WAGNER IS
ONE DE GAME’S
“YOUNGEST”
HANS WAGNER, the Pitts
burg shortstop, is one of the
“youngest” veterans in the
National league ranks. Physicians
ascribe the German's greatness to
his roving disposition, his fondness
for nature, and habit of eating
what he pleases. In commenting
upon Wagner’s ability to keep in
good shape, year after year, James
> Jerpe, of Pittsburg, who has known
the great shortstop a number of
years, says:
"When a man of his natural
physique can eat what lie xvants-,
drink what he wants, and do what
he pleases in the open air all the
year around, it isn’t any real won
der that he prolongs his athletic
career and stands off the slowness
and staleness that cemoes to the
beet of them as the years go by.
Simple Life For Honus.
“Honus is the living ideal of the
simple life. He clings to nature.
He spends his fall and winter in
woods and the spare time of the
summer at the banks of a stream
fishing. He loves the freedom of
the open air and he is at home in
the wildest woods. He has the na
ture of an Indian In this respect.
You don’t catch Honus browsing
around in the city or on the streets
of his home town. He keeps to him
self or in his own pet. little circle
of woodmen.
"I have known him personally
for years, and 1 know that his fond
ness for hunting and fishing and
life in the open air has kept him
from going to the discard as a real
ly great player. Honus roams the
woods from pure desire. He doesn't
Worry. He sleeps a lot, and he eats
what he pleases and when lie
pleases. Ham and eggs look good
to him three times a day. Between
meals he 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 vigor and
conserves much of that dash and
speed that make him the annual
wonder on the ball field?
Eats What He Wants.
"There is nothing tempting on
the hotel or dining car menu for
Honus. He prefers the simplest
kind of fare and plenty of it. Honus
would stop at the Waldorf-Astoria
and calmly order ‘ham-and,’ all
the while ignoring with character
istic contempt the alleged tempt
ing merits of lobster a la Newburg,
pate de sols gras, crab ravigotte
and the pastries and kniekknaeks
of the st< waid’s batting order. For
fifteen years they have tried to
wine and dine Honus and educate
him up to these lofty notions in
the culinary art, but the German
would rather order his own meals
and pay twice as much for them us
the chap who fusses over the
Frenchy menu and Its varieties.
"As so: the evenings in a large
city. Honus always enjoys himself.
In New York he hunts out the big
moving picture shows, where the
movies may be showing African
game hunts or some sort of adven
ture in the jungle, woods, or on sea.
The next morning he mnv be up
bright and early, and within an
hour or two be 45 minutes from
Broadway, where the fishes have
no idea of the closeness of the little
old New York town.
"Yes. I; ir lunny how tin Dutch
man k'-eps in shape yvttr in and
y ea •
Whitney and O’Keefe to Clash
Here New Years; Palzer and
McCarty Go Figures Slugfest
By Left Hook.
FRANK WHITNEY and Tommy
O'Keefe are going to mix up
again here New Year's night.
The Dixie A. C. has just made the
match, and if it is anywhere as
near as good as the last mill be
tween this pair local boxing fans
will get a full run for their money.
Also Promoter Henry Norton is
burning the wires trying to get
Battling Nelson for the winner on
January 15.
O'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 manager, claims he
can do 133 pounds ringside.
Packey McFarland is 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 long, and
when it does yours truly will string
along with Britton.
By the way, Britton got his real
start here in Atlanta, when he
fought Charley White and George
Memsic. He didn't get over SIOO
for the two fights, but he left a
mighty high impression, and Mike
Saul, who is now refereeing at the
Dixie A. C., claims that he was the
first to predict that Britton would
some day be a champion.
So when you consider that one
of the three best lightweights in
the world, if not the very best, beat
• him, OlKeefe’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 return bout ever
since.
* * *
vrrHEN Al Palzer and Luther Mc
’ Carty hook up New Year's
day, fistic followers on the Pacific
coast are likely to see a battle along
the line of famous old-time fights,
such as the Sullivan-Ryan. Jef
fries-Sharkey, Mitchell-Sullivan,
Kilrain-Sullivan, Fitzsimmons-Ma
her, Dempsey-Laßlanche, McAu
liffe-I'arney, McAuliffe-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," he replied without a
second’s thought.
The writer has never seen Mc-
Carty, but I saw Palzer lick Tom
Kennedy- and Al Kaufman, and
those two nights the New Yorker
sure looked like a champion. He
knows little of the scientific end of
the game. Is dead slow on his feet
and has little or no defense, but he
sure can belt with both hands.
Also Kaufman’s right hand kicks
never budged him an inch, and
Kaufman could hit as hard with his
right hand as any man that ever
climbed into a ring.
* ♦ *
IN his career, which so far as pub
lic interest is concerned began
in 1911, Palzer has had just six
battles of more than ordinary no
tice, but it must be admitted that
the results from four of the number
were exceedingly favorable to him
self, as they were clean knockouts.
On June 28 Palzer won a fifth bat
tle, Bombardier Wells, the English
heavy champion, going down after
three rounds of hard battling. The
fight was nevertheless a moral de
feat for Palzer, for had Wells any
stamina back o? his science he
would have made a short, quick job
of the lowan, who Was outpointed
10 to 1.
Balzer's n_ext battle and th. last
lie fought was with Tony Ross, a
third-rate heavy. at Philadelphia.
and while no decision was given, Al
was badly outpointed and defeated
by the Italian veteran.
* * *
TN comparison with Paizer’s rec
ord. that of McCarty is a long
one, though but few of his battles
were of more than local impor
tance. Like Palzer, McCarty be
gan his serious ring career in 1911.
and to date has fought eighteen
battles, winning all but two, Jess
Willard and Jim Stewart both out
pointing him, tile former so badly
that the bout was stopped to save
Luther. Following these defeats,,
McCarty took a new lease of life,
knocking out Jack McFarland in
two rounds and Jim Flynn in six
teen. The latter victory was a sur
prise to many and has opened the
eyes of the sport world to McCarty
as a championship possibility.
In his fight with Flynn the big
fellow made his best appearance
yet and showed that he has ac
quired considerable knowledge of
the game. His best blow in the
tight was a right uppercut, and
those who are backing him for his
coming battle rely on this punch
to dispose of Palzer.
The latter has a crouch some
what similar to that of Jeffries, and
a right-hand uppercut or a straight
left lead, both of which McCarty
possesses, are counted by authori
ties to be two of the best blows to
successfully counter such an attack.
• e »
A N impressive thing about the
records of both Palzer and Mc-
Carty is the number of battles they
have won by knockouts. Both have
a formidable and forbidding list, a
sure indication of the tremendous
strength and hitting ability of these
two warriors. Out of six battles
Palzer has live times dropped his
man to the canvas for the full
count, while McCarty has had the x
numerals tolled over thirteen out
of eighteen opponents. It is a rec
ord that few first-class heavies in
ring history have acquired.
In summing up, taking into con
sideration the youth, size, strength
and stamina of these two men,
whoever is the winner on January
1, he 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 decide.
At this writing, however, it does
not seem likely that Johnson will
ever again clash in’the ring with a
white man.
M'INTOSH QUITS FISTIANA
SIDNEY. N. S. W„ Dec. 27.—Hugh
Mclntosh announced today that Im had
disposed of his interests in lit, pugil
istic gam< to "Snowy” Baker Mc-
Intosh will devote his w hoi. tim, .
theatrical circuit.
ATLANTA LEAGUE GAMES OFF.
AU scheduled games in th" Atlanta I
league for this week have been post
poned. The postponed series of three
.games will probably be played one I
week after the last regularly scheduled
series.
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By Janies Clarkson.
Chicago, Dec. 27. —jame-
Tilden Sheekard, a Cub since,
1906, is on the block for trade.
The famous left fielder, who bat
ted and fielded his way through
seven Cub campaigns, has drawn
the “long straw" and from now un
til a trade is concluded he is a
marked man.
President Murphy last night tip
ped his hand that had under cover
a trade that would bring a star
pitcher to the Cubs. He denied
that Miller Huggins, of the Cardi
nals, had offered ' him $4,000 for
Sheekard. Murphy said he never
would accept a cash offer for his
left fielder, but he would consider
letting him go in a trade in which
the Cubs would receive his equal
or more in playing strength.
“What we need is another good
pitcher,” he said. “With another
man equal to any of our second
string men the Cubs next year will
be the strongest aggregation that
ever opened our park, not even ex
cepting the teams of 1906, 1907 and
1908.
“Where is there an outfield that
can compare with Schulte, Clymer
and Mitchell?" he asked. "And the
infield, Saier, Evers, Zimmerman
and one of our stock of shortstops?
You can’t beat it as a team.”
Sheekard Out of Lineup.
The Cub boss expounded at
length upon the virtues of his out
fielders, but did not once mention
Sheekard, except to deny that he
w'ould 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 the Reds
that will send Sheekard there atm
bring the twirler here.
If a Cincinnati deal fails, nego
tiations may be opened with the
Cards. Murphy yesterday admit
ted that he could have had Pitcher
Geyer, of the Cards, but he turned
down the proposed deal. Just wh it
the nature of the deal was he re
fused to disclose. It is believe-d
Manager Huggins offered G<-yer
and cash for Sheekard, and that s
how the rumor started that Shcck
ard was to be sold for $4,900.
PITCHER OWEN GOOD CATCHER
MILWAUKEE. Dec. 27.—Figu ■--jus
given out show that Frank Owen, for
merly a star pitcher with tip t’hiragi
White Sox, did some brilliant work : t
the club as a catcher.
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