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Otto Jordan Is Veteran Player of Southern League
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Has Been Playing for Eight Consecutive Years
By Percy 11. Whiting.
NOT a man who played in the
Southern h-aguo last season
had played in it continuous
ly since its organization in 1901.
The eleven seasons tlint have passed
since the opening of the Southern
league have seen every player of
the 1901 season swept from the
held.
In the league last year was. it
is true, one man who had been with
it from the start. And this man
was Carleton Molesworth. who led
the Barons to the pennant. But
Moley, after eleven consecutive
years of play, dropped out as a
player last year. With him went
that other veteran, "Doc" Wiseman,
of Nashville, who played with the
league from its organization until
the 1912 season had put eleven
years of consecutive service to his
credit
• • •
\ND who aid th< passing of
z * Molesworth and WisSman as
I'layers leave the ranking perform- j
er of the Southern league In point
of playing service?
It is a two-to-one bet that not
one fan in a hundred could answer
correctly.
The answer is: Adolph Otto Jor
dan, our esteemed fellow citizen,
erstwhile manager and player of
the Atlanta team, who will next
year begin his ninth consecutive
season as a Southern league play
er.
Three men played in the league
last year who saw service the year
before Jordan started. They are
Stanley. Rohe and Swantf. But no
one of these men itas played con
tinuously in the Southern. And as
Prank is planning to got rid of
Stanley and Swann, they will not
bo on hand to contest honors next
year with the famous "Flying
Dutchman."
/•■CONSIDER, now the amazing
case of Jordan:This man came
to the Southern league in 1905, as
manager of the club. He has served
four stormy terms as mogul, he
'as been field captain every year.
And y et, despite his worries and re
sponsibilities, Otto ha> managed
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Lead the Southern league second
basemen in fielding in 1905, 1906,
1909 and 1911.
Rank second among the second
basemen in 1907, 1908 and 1910.
Only once, and that last year,
when everything broke wrong for
him. has he fallen as low as fourth
in fielding. In eight years he has
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Here Is Jordan s Record in Southern League
Year. Pos. G. H. S.B. B.A. P.O. A. E FA
1912...2b. 99 68 13 .200 242 254 16 949
1911 2b. 129 106 13 .228 362 338 7 976
1910 ..2b. 142 100 24 .205 452 364 22 .973
1909 ,2b. 144 120 27 239 481 393 26 971
1908 2b. 138 107 25 .217 456 301 24
1907 ,2b. 127 116 19 .253 386 359 25 967
1906 2b. 134 123 27 .257 412 336 26 963
1905 2b. 124 116 23 .272 416 455 26 $1
Totals 103 856 171 3,207 2.800 182 .971
met the fielding competition of the
Dixie league, facing ex-big leaguers
and comers, with an average better
than second place.
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-pHERE arc a thousand interest
ing facts connected with the
record of Otto Jordan. Among them
are: -
That Otto has played in 1,037
games in eight years, or an average
of 130 games a season. Only once
has he failed to play as many as
124 games a season. One season he
did not miss a game.
In the eight seasons Otto has
made 856 hits, 171 stolen bases and
has batted from .205 to .272.
In eight years of service Jordan
has had 6,189 chances. And out of
all those chances he made but 182
errors, an average of less than 24
a season.
Jordan’s grand fielding average
for the eight years is .971, a mark
probably not surpassed by a score
of second basemen in all baseball's
history—certainly not by men who
go after such ohances as Jordan
doos.
It is a coincidence that in three
different seasons Jordan made the
same number of errors. 26. The
least he ever made in a full season
was 17. (Last year he made but
16, but he play-est in only 99 games.)
Taist year and the year before he
CHAS. MURPHY LOOKS OVER
GROUNDS AT TAMPA. FLA.
TAMPA, FUA.. Dec. 31—Charles W.
Murphy, of the Chicago National base
ball club, arrived yesterday to look
Tampa over, with a. view of bringing
the Cubs here for spring training. He
is accompanied by Mrs Murphy and
Thomas J. Murphy.
Mr. Murphy announced the spring
schedule of the Cubs as follows:
Jacksonville, South Atlantic league,
Mureh pi. Chattanooga. Southern
league. March 20-21; Memphis, South
ern league. March 22-23: Nashville,
Southern league, March 24-25-26;
Louisville, \merlcan association. March
127-28-29-30-31; Indianapolis, American
association. April 3-4-5-6 Chicago
university and Northwestern university
at Chicago Ap.’l 7 and 8.
The season opens for the Cubs at
Chicago on April 9 with the St. Louis
j Cardinals
FRANK FARRELL PLANS
TO GO AFTER F. CHANCE
\EW Y<»RK, Dec. 31 Euless In the
meantime he should hoar from Erank I,
.Chance, Frank Farrell. president of the
. York \merlcan league dub. probably
* will leave for C&liforni* early next week
to consult with the former manager of
,|tbe Chicago Nationals on the subject of
, Chance e.itiling here to take charge of
i the Highlanders
CHANCE TO LEAD YANKS
IF HIS WIFE IS WILLING
I I.< )S ANGIdI.I 'S. Pec. 31. A message has
just wafted in from the southern orange
I farm <»l Frank Chance (hat lie wus per
; 1 fectly willing t • go t . XW York and man-
I j age the Am* r .-an league team, but that
I | his future ‘ls all up to Mrs. Chance If
i she s willing. m ( i am I . f she - against
•no going I'll s>gi here and quit baseball
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1912.
stole 13 bases* a season—his worst
mark. Twice he has stolen 27
bases, his best mark.
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THE amazing thing about Jor-
dan is that, despite his long
service (and he played ihree years
before he joined the Crackers), he
is still growing strong.
Last year was his worst in bat
ting and fielding. But his friends
believe, and with good reason, that
his bad showing was due rather to
the friction that attended ills dis
missal by Charley Hemphill and his
exile from Atlanta than it was to
any slowing up due to advanced
age.
Jordan will be 33 years old on
January 5. He was born in Pitts
burg, Pa., and played his first
baseball with the Binghamton team
of the New York State league.
JORDAN’S long career has been
due to many things. The great
Dutchman is possessed of a won
derful physique. He Is rather be
low the average height and rather
above the average weight. His
weight Is well distributed and stout
ankles ami sturdy hands have stood
him in good stead.
But Jordan’s success comes
mainly because of his temperate
habits and because of the most
amazing willingness and determi
nation.
FRANK FARRELL DICKERS
FOR LAJOIE’S SERVICES'
YORK. Dec 31.—Frank Farrell,
owner of the New York Americans, lias
‘ opened negotiations to secure Lajoie. the
t great second sacker of the Cleveland dub
.' who, it Is rumored, will be let out be
cause his legs have gone back on him.
JIM BASKETTE HURT BY
FIRECRACKER EXPLOSION
CLEVELAND, TENN., Dee. 31.—Jim
Baskette, the Nap pitcher, severely in
i jured hie right hand when a firecracker
which he hold exploded without warning ,
It is not known whether the injure yy-fli 1
aftecl his pitching.
M'LEAN SAYS M'GRAW
WILL LAND HIM A JOB
CINCINNATI. Dec. 31. Larrj McLean,
the tall catcher who was set adrift by
th, local team because he broke the <
dub rules, claims to have the promise i ■
of Manager McGraw, of the Giants, that '
he will -'land'' with some major letfgue
team for next season. j
KELLEY QUITS TO HOUCK.
NEU YORK. Dec. 31 Claiming a
foul, Eddie Kelley, the Harlem light
weight. quit in the fourth round of hie J
bout E,-t night with Tommy Houck of ,
Philadelphia, after the dub physician
made an examination and ruled the
blow was above the belt
LANGFORD IS COMING HOME.
51." HIUK Dec 31 A -'dark doud"
hovers over the “while hopes' in the per- <
son Sam Langford, who is now on his ■
way here from Australia, determined to
secure matches with the pale faced heav- '
j ics yvl > ar Calming he Petty■■ weight
title. ]
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Met'arty in the picturesque costume of
a cowboy. He spent many years of his
life on the Western plains herding cat
ilffl MEET
WHITNEY HERE
TOMORROW
Frank whitney ingoing to
meet Tommy Lavelle in the
main bout at the Dixie A. C.
tomorrow night. Whitney was
originally carded to mix with Tom
my O'Keefe, but Thomas hurt his
hand in a work-out on Tuesday
and his manager wired this morn
ing that he would have to call off
the bout.
Lavelle and Whitney, however,
should put up a swell mill. Lavelle
is a slugger who has been coming
to the front with rapid strides of
late, and as he packs a swell right
hand punch, there will always be a
possibility during the ten rounds
that he will get over a winning wal
lop. (
Promoter Norton has arranged to
match the winner of this bout with
Knockout Brown, the sensational
New York lightweight, on next
Tuesday. Brown has two news
paper decisions over Wolgast and
he and Whitney, or Lavelle, would
make a corking scrap.
CROCKER AND BECKER
MEET IN FINAL ROUND
HumVr
was eliminated from the contest in the
semi-final round of the ninth annual Pine
hurst holiday week golf tournament yes
terday when he missed a two-ya rd put on
1, V.u ne sreen. George H. Crocker, of
Brookline, won from Hunter bv a four
yard put and will meet c L. Becker, of
W oodiand, in the final today.
<"rocker advanceti yesterday, on the de
fault of Walter J. Travis, of Garden Citv.
Hunter won in the morning pla\ from
Robert Gould Shaw, of Brookline. 2 up
and 1 to play. Becker <1 Pleated W E
Iruesdale of Fox Hills. 2 up and 1 to
play, in the early round, and won from 1.
B. Robeson. 3 tsp and 1 to play, this after
noon.
GROUNDKEEPER WILL SOON
GET BUSY AT PONCEY PARK
\\ nk will be started as soon as the
<,i:,nion<l at Ponce DeLeon dries out on
smoothing up the field for next season
I he ground is pretty well cut up bv the
plowing toet of the Tech. Georgia. Clem
son and other footbaH plants an,! by the
automobiles that went on the field dur
ing the games, and it will take consid
erable ironing and working to get the
kinks out.
-' new drain pipe will be laid io tak«
care of the water that sometimes accu
mulates in right field Improvements ate
planned also in the players' club house.
THE NEW SPORTING ANNUAL.
The best little sporting reference book
of toe year is The Police Gazette Sport
ing Annual for 1913. published bv the
Richard K. Fox Publishing Company It
is a compendium of best performances in
all branches of sports, al,lx e.implied and
edited by Sam <'. Austin. the well known
sporting writer and critic. Th< main
feature of tile book is Ute pugilistic re, ■
ords, an,l includes tn,- historx <>f e'’v"‘v
boxer vl prominente in the world.
The view' to the left shows the big boxer about to land a rignt uppercut—a blow he cun deliver with I
usual fotce and cleverness and which has gained him many of the victories that adorn his earlvrecord Me"
Cartw has had a varied career, being engaged in many lines of endeavor. He was reared on a rakch and
fng world t 0 SiVe hlm the bUild and S,rens,h that have bioughl him to the front ranks of’the box-
White Hope McCarty Is a **Jack of All Trades’
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’‘Mississippi Adonis” Once Tramped It in Soutl
By Left Hook.
LUTHER M’CARTY, the "Mis
sissippi Adonis,” who fights
Al Palzer for the white heavy
weight championship at An
gelos on New Years day, is being
! touted on the coast as one of the
most remarkable athletes of the
1 times.
Wonderfully built both for speed
and strength, the fighter is seem
ingly adding a rapid development of
headwmrk that should give him a
look-in with any of the big fighters
in the game today.
In his early exhibitions McCarty
showed that he is game, can hit
hard and has some speed, but he
has a plentiful lack of experience
that was distressing to his admir
ers. Since he went in the coast
Im lias, however, shoxwn great im
provement and had little trouble in
stopping the veteran, Jim Flynn.
Now, hooked up with Al Palzer,
the lowa bearcat, he will get the
test that will show whether he is
to continue fighting or must beat it
back to the life of a cowboy at $35
per month.
McCarty has had a varied career.
He has been a district messenger
boy, cowboy, farm hand, lumber
pack, deep sea sailor, bill "sticker,”
roustabout, and many and various
other things. Os all the fighters
now in the ring he has had the most
picturesque career.
Luther first saw the light of day
March 17, 1892, on a ranch owned
and operated by his father, 30 miles
outside of Lincoln. Nebr. Luther
was always outdoors and most of
the time astride a horse.
His mother died when he was
less than two years of age. but it
was not until his father sold the
ranch, in 1901. that Luther struck
out for himself, making his first
stop at the home of a relative in
Colorado Springs, Colo. Here he
stayed for nearly two years. at-<
tending school, much against his
wishes, as he longed for the open
air life. He had no liking for the
class room, and to avoid it took
"French leave" in the night and
started on life's journey alone—and
penniless. He had not yet reached
his twelfth year. Having been
raised on a ranch, he naturally
drifted into the corn fields of Kan
sas.
Passed Out Handbills.
Willi tile corn-shucking season
over McCarty ambled into Omaha
and landed a position as bill dis
tributor for an advertising concern.
He held this down for a few
months, then landed a “berth” with
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany. He delivered messages, and
the number on his cap was "1323."
Strange coincidence, but it was in
the thirteenth ring engagement that
McCarty hung the "23" sign on Carl
Morris and made a leap into the
limelight.
The old wanderlust again to, k
hold of the big boy, and he made
the long jump to Los Angeles.
Stopping, necessarilj. many times
along the route, he gathered eat
ing money by all manner and kind
of work. In southern California
McCarty spent several months, then
journeyed back to St. Louis, but
did not tarry long, making tracks
for Boston, Mass. He longed to see
some of the life on the high seas.
Once In the city of beans and cul
ture. McCarty hiked to tin* wharves
and shipped as "an able-bodied sea-
man.” He was able-bodied all
right, but not a seaman, so on his
first day- out was reduced to the
position of apprentice. The boat he
was on was an old-fashioned “wind
jammer,” and it took four months
to make the trip to Buenos Ayres.
From this leading South American
city he shipped twice around Cape
Horn, then oh a Norwegian bark
he sailed for China and Japan. It
was off one boat and onto another
for three years with. him. finally
landing back in Buenos Ayres and
then making his last trip on the
water, "jumping” the boat on which
he had shipped from the Argentine
capital to Boston when it was out
side of Mobile.
Goes to Lumber Camps.
From Mobile, McCarty roamed
into the lumber camps of Pine Hill
and later into the coal mines of
Blue Creek. His stay at each pla, e
was short, the work not being to
his liking. His next stopping place
was at Nashville, Tenn., where he
took a try at work in a dairy, but
left it to go to work in a construc
tion gang of bridge builders.
After one week of hard work, he
informed the foreman he had de
cided to quit, but a swinging girder
toppled him, breaking his leg, and
he was kept on the payroll for an
other six weeks. When able to
make his getaway, he hiked back to
the open country of North Dakota.
Having seen the greater part, of
the world. McCarty went back to
his first love, looking after the cat-
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tie on the wide range of the North
west. Interfering at a time whei*
the ranch owner, Dick Collins, wa
in trouble won for McCarty th
ownership of a fine saddle hors
With his gift, horse he started di
to do “some” riding. He lanft'l
in the Sioux reservation, and sp&
about a month among the redskin,
then drifted to Montana.
Gets Short of Funds.
Lack of funds caused McCartyo
sell the horse, and he took up wii
an advertising concern, doing te
country-wide advertising for a wi
known tobacco. When arriving t
Culbertson, Mont., he learned the
was to be a battle in the town,
decided to stick around and see t;
fuss. He tied in with one oft:
principals as sparring partner. F
had, from his earliest yuoth, lik,
boxing, and whether aboard ship.,
land never let pa-s ar. dpportunit
to spar, with the gloves.
January 7, 1911, he went in as
substitute for a tighter who h»
"run out” of a match against Wai
Adams, heavyweight champion o
Canada. McCarty put out th
champ in the second round.
He and Adams afterward went on
an exhibition tour, and McCarty at
tracted the attention of Tomin.'’
Burns by beating Joe Grimm —the
"iron man”—of Philadelphia. Tom
my looked the big cowboy over and
told him he was liable to be chain
pion of the world some day. Mc-
Carty, with this encouragement, >j
plunged into the game in good ear- /
nest.
He first attracted nation-wide '
fame by knocking Carl Morris cold