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Little- Confesses He Stalled
With McMahon;‘Did It to Give
Fans Run for Money/He Says
By \V. S. Farnsworth.
x -w J ALTER LITTLE is a self-
VV confessed faker. He has
come out with the state-
) , nt that he stalled through the
. >.-round fiasco with. Frank McMa-
>n at the Dixie A. C. last Wednes-
. ,y night.
I did it to give the fans a run
their money,” claims Walter. “1
. -rted off in earnest in the first
>■ .unfl. but one punch that I land*
■ under the heart practically fin
h, d McMahon. I could have
■ked him out any time 1 wanted
after that blow. But there have
a n so many short main bouts
r. of late that I decided to give
inc fans a run for their money.”
It is hard to condemn Little for
.■uh action. He really meant well,
it nevertheless he should have
.topped his opponent as soon as
i, ssible. There may have been
,me, if not many, fans who bet
I money that McMahon
wouldn’t last five rounds, or any
number of rounds under five.
If there were any such wagers,
they were robbed of their money.
Still Little was probably trying to
protect the club, which had been
kind enough to give him a chance
when he was very much on the
"nut.”
• • *
O 1(1 CHIEF BENDER, who is
spending the winter here in At
'anta. declares that he is going to
• otk his arm off for the Athletics
n xt season. The big Indian broke
training last season, and Connie
Mack crime mighty near tying a can
io him. But the chief is high and
dry now, and there is no reason
why next season shouldn’t find him
as good as he was in 1910, when he
led the American league twirlers,
with 23 victories and 5 defeats.
The following from The New
Vork Sun is of interest to local
tans who are mittlng the Indian
very day along Peachtree street:
Big Chief Bender has asked
Connie Mack to please forgive him,
,nd promises to be a good Indian
in the future. The famous pitcher
of the Athletics fell from grace last
ummer, also from the water wag
n. and the climax was reached
when the Athletics played their
final series at the Hilltop. Bender
. iime to the park in a boisterous
nood. He didn’t care whether
school kept or not. and he wasn’t a
bit afraid when he saw the solemn-
“Recollections of
I
a Soldier’s Wife”
By Mrs. John A. Logan
, I
Did you think there was a great deal of bitterness in
the recent Presidential campaign? It was a “Pink Tea
compared with the excitement, rancor and turbulence
of the campaign of 1860.
Political differences that meant
probable war —a bloody war be
tween brothers. Speakers and
writers felt that the very life of
the Nation depended on then
words.
Mrs. John A. Logan was the
girl-wife of one of the most
noted figures of those stirring
times. She knew personally the
actors in the great tragedy being
staged; she was one of them her
self, weighted with a responsi
bility far beyond her years.
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faced Mack entering the dressing
room. Bender had been that way
before and Mack had quietly passed
him by. ‘But Bender’s condition
. that day was the la,st straw. Mack
actually lost his temper. He slap
ped on a $250 fine, suspended the
Big Chief -for the rest of the sea
son. without pay, and ordered him
to take the* earliest possible train
for Philadelphia.
"Bender was dunifounded when
he heard Mack impose this sen
tence and left town abruptly. He
took a brace alijrost instantly, and
reported at Shibe park for daily
practice, hoping that Mack Would
relent. But the Athletics’ manager
refused to even look at Bender, who
went home at the end of the season
wondering whether he would be
traded or not.
“Stories to the effect that Mack
intended to send the Big Chief to
the minors soon reached the pitch
er’s ears. He couldn’t believe them,
yet he worried. He wrote several
letters to Mack and receives no re
sponse. But one day Bender de
cided to place himself on record.
He wrote another letter to the tall
manager, in which he declared that
he had taken the pledge and would
work his arm off if Mack would
give him just one more chance.
When Mack received this missive,
he smiled. It was just what he had
been waiting for. He sent word to
the Indian that he would be ex
pected to report in first-class con
dition at the spring training camp,
and that his retention by the Ath
letics would depend entirely upon
his work in the box."
qCOTTY MACKENZIE, the golf
professional at the Brookhaven
club, declares that by next July his
course will be the best nine-hole
one in the South. At any rate, Mac
is working nigbht and day trying to
get the greens in tiptop condition,
and that is all that is lacking out
there.
The course is a picturesque one
and many of the holes are 'sure
enough “goat getters.” The greens,
however, are very rough and the
course is fully nine strokes harder
now than it will be when they are
ironed out.
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C EVERAL phonograph companies
are reported to have sent in
bids for a right to make a record of
the conversation that will follow' at
the first meeting of Muggsy Mc-
Graw and Rube Marquard.
Her recollections are History—
a most important addition to
the history of that period of our
country. They fire the imagi
nation and carry the reader
along as entertainingly as though
her work were a popular novel
of the day.
Mrs. Logan’s description of the
famous Lincoln - Douglas de
bates, the fierce campaign of
186(1 and the inauguration of
Abraham Lincoln, appear in the
January
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1912.
MANAGERDF“AD"
BACKS ON ON
525,m OET
. By \V. \V. Naughton.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., Dec.
27.—8i11y Nolan and Tom
Jones, who have been bom
barding each other from long range
for several days, drew close enough at
Los Angeles to exchange a few’ broad
sides. It is said Jones retired from the
engagement with a few dents in his
managerial armor.
Recently Jones gave out. that Wol
gast would make Ritchie a present of
SI,OOO it the new ehampion would sign
articles for another match, to take place
next Fourth of July. Furthermore that
Wolgast would bet $5,000 against $2,-
500 on the result of the contest.
“That’s acceptable,” said Nolan, w’hen
the news reached him. “Rut how about
the $25,000 Jones, offered to bet at sim
ilar odds a little time back? We’d like
tlte whole of it."
When the two managers met in the
Southern city, Nolan reminded Jones of
the $25,000. and Jones replied: “That
offer stood for ten days only, and was
withdrawn because It was not accept
ed.”
A flimsier pretext for falling to live
up to a betting proposition was never
advanced by a man of Jones’ promi
nence in spotting circles. It is,an ig
nominious back-down, in fact. If the
offer was made in good faith, it was
made because it was believed that Wol
gast could turn the tables on Ritchie
and tVolgast’s backers would have
jumped at the chance to place their
money at any time.
Jones’ contention that it was only, a
ten-day special, or a bargain counter
offer, suggests that there was never
any intention of wagering the amount
named.
I JUAREZ RESULTS
First—Miss Korn, 2, first; Bonnie Bard,
4; Florence Kripp, 9-10. Also ran; Zin
kand. Coppers, Pedro and Godfather.
Second—Bells, 2. first; Loving Mose, 6;
Sharper Knight, 1-7. Also ran: Jolly Tar.
Wolfrees, Garter, Greencloth and I See It.
Third—Hughie Quinn, 7-2. first; Bannis,
9-5: Lehigh, 4-5. Also ran: Icarian,
Aragonez and Colinet.
Fourth—Masalo. 10-1, first; Orba Smile,
7-2; Clint Tucker, 16-1. Also ran: Fly
ing Squirrel, Sir Barry. Tim Judge, Quid
Kiinc, Transparent and Edmond Adams.
Fifth—Baby Doll. 7-2, first: Lotta Creed,
5-1; Rue, 10-1. Also ran: L. M. Eckert,
El Paso, Balronia. Adolante and Anne
McGee.
Sixth—Set Back. 3-2, tirstr- Loveday,
8-5; Don Enrique, 8-1. Also ran: Shorty
Northcut, Gretchen G and Harlem Maid
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
Loole Drucke says he hasn’t received
enough money in payment for that sub
way wreck of his arm to live on the rest
of his life and that he’s coming back next
year to be the Giants’ best pitcher.
• • •
J’ S. —He has obtained McGraw’s per
mission.
• ♦ •
J. McGraw is preparing to reap his an
nual crop of holdouts by mailing out con
tracts.
« « •
..In the hope of raising money to buy the
Montgomery franchise the Little Hock
fans arc In the i roes »f a big financial
campaign —at tv, u bits a throw, as usual.
<« ♦ «
If Doc Johnston doesn’t make good at
first base for the Naps this coming sea
son Larry Lajoie will probably tackle the
bag. If Johnston lands Napoleon may go
to the outfield. He is said to have slowed
down too much to last at second base.
• * •
The Chicago club is trying to make a
deal for Brown that will suit him. Murphy
says he will not send Mordecai’anywhere
he doesn't want to go.
Connie Mack has so many catchers he's
talking of sending Schang, bis Buffalo
recruit, to the Highlanders. His brother
Philadelphia manager, Col. Dooin, is so
shy on catchers he’s offering a fortune for
a man to help out with the backstopping.
• • «
Red Dooin is going tn Southern Pines
shortly to look over the situation. His
team will train there in the spring pro
vided the situation strikes Red as suf
ficiently Southern and piney.
T’mps Byron, who graduates from the
International to the National in the spring,
is said to weigh 110 pounds in his span
gles, 105 pounds of which is grit and
ginger.
* ♦ ♦
If the Naps want to get rid of Lajoie,
as is indicated by their intention of cut
ting his salary, the Yanks would like to
take him on. They could use an infielder
of his batting caliber, even if he is slow
ing down.
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By R. W. Lardner.
C, HICAGO, Dee. 27.—Some of
us having nothing better to 1
do, were discussing outfield
ers the other day, and of course
the question arose. "Who is the
best outfielder in present-day base
ball?"
There were six in the fanning
bee and the names of four players
were brought up into the argument
—Speaker, Cobb, Sheckard and
llofman. Athletes like Bill Lange,
Fielder Jones and Fred Clarke were
barred because they were no long
er in active service.
Strangely enough, C. Welch Mur
phy, the Cub president, who was
among the fanners, picked an
American leaguer. Tris Speaker, in
preference to one Cub and one ex-
Cub, and the Chicago magnate’s
dope had a good deal of sense in it.
“The Boston man for me," said
C. V . “I like him because he plays
such a short field. He has perfect
confidence in his ability to travel
back after a ball, and the confi
dence is justified. He plays up so
close to the infield that he is able
to deprive batters of what would be
base hits with any other rnan in the
position. Perhaps he loses two or
three long drives that he would
catch if he observed the ‘rules,’ but
he makes up for that ten times
over by being in position to grab
the short ones.
MURPHY COMING SOUTH
TO PICK TRAINING CAMP
•'CHICAGO, Dee. 27. President
Charles W. Murphy, of the Chicago
National league club, left last night for
Florida to select a training camp for
his team. He plans to visit six or seven
cities which have offered sites for the
camp.
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THIRTY GAMES FOR CUBS.
CHICAGO. Dec. 27.—The Cubs will
play thirty exhibition games on their
spring training trip. __
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