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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 I!. Whiting.
NOT a man who played in the
Southern league last season
had played in it continuous
ly since its organization in 1901.
The eleven seasons that have passed
since the opening of the Southern
league have seen ever) player of
the 1901 season swept from the
held.
In the league hist teat 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 hint went
that other veteran. "Doc” Wiseman,
of Nashville, who played with the
league from its organization until
the 1912 season had put eleven
ears of consecutive service to his
credit
\ND who did th. passing of
* * Moleeworth and Wiseman as
players leave the ranking perform- j
< r of the Southern league in point
■ f 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
nst year who saw service the year
before Jordan started. They are
Stanley, Rohe and Swann. But no
one of those men has played i on
tinuoualy in the Southern. And as
Frank Is planning to get rid of
Stanley and Swann, they will not
be on hand to contest honors next
.ear with the famous Flying
I nitchman."
z CONSIDER. now. tlie amaziiig
case of Jordan: This man came
to the Southern league In 1905, as
manager of the club. Hi lias solved
four stormy terms as mogul, he
has been field captain every year.
And yet. despite his worries and re
sponsibilities. Otto has managed
Io:
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
fiTfe Curc * in Ito 5 days
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HE wr ■fi «, 9k w» ( onta ’ n? no poison and
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r, , absolutely without fear,
.maranteed not to stricture. Prevents contagion.
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Here Is Jordan s Record in Southern League
Vear. Pos. G H. S.B. B.A. P.O. A. E FA
1912 2b. 99 63 - 13 .200 242 254 16 949
1911 2b. 129 106 13 .228 362 338 17 .976
1910 2b. 142 !00 24 .205 452 364 22 Q7'<
ian« ou 120 27 239 481 393 26 - 971
908 2b. 138 107 25 .217 456 301 24 969
mnc oL 127 116 19 253 386 359 25 967
,906 2b. 134 123 27 .257 412 336 26 963
1"5 2b. 124 116 23 .272 416 455 26 J7I
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.
. . .
j THERE are a thousand interest
ing facts connected with the
* record of < >tto Jordan. Among them
a re:
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 chances as Jordan
does.
If 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 hu played In only 99 games.)
East year and the year before he
CHAS. MURPHY LOOKS OVER
GROUNDS AT TAMPA. FLA.
TAMPA, I'DA.. Dec. 31 Charles W.
Murphy, of the Chicago National base
ball Hub. 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 .1. Murphy.
Mr. Murphy announced the spring
I schedule of the Cubs as follow?*:
J o ksonvilh . South Atlantic league,
March 19; Chattanooga. Southern
league March 20-21; Memphis. South
en eague, Mart Nashvilh
' Southern league, March 24-25-26;
Louisville. Xmerlcan association. March
•27-28-29-30-31. Indianapolis. American
iatioii. Xprll 3-4-5 ♦». Chicago
univeraltx and Northwestern university
at Cl i ago April ; ;m<i x
The seaaon opens for th*' Cubs at
'[Chicago on April 9 with the St. Louis
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FRANK FARRELL PLANS
TO GO AFTER F. CHANCE
\I A\ VoRK. Dec. 31 Unless in the
• .••untune he should hoar from Prank L.
•Tor’ll. b’nmk Farrell, president of the
» v i • • loan league cl ib probably
J will lea\*‘ f<>r California early next week
to < onsnlt with the former manager of
( the Chicago Nationals on the subj-.et of
( tuo . . coming here to take charge of
> He Highlanders.
CHANCE TO LEAD YANKS
IF HIS WIFE IS WILLING
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i Ij *s \N< 111.1 :s. !>«•<• 31 a message has
just wafted in from the southern orange
I farm "t Frank Chance that he was per
fectl.x w Hing ( i> g,, i,, New York and man.
, I age the Inter" an league team, but that
hi> filluu- is all up to Mrs Chance If
| | she's willing, so am I ,t' she s against
' tn. go ’tg. I 11 sia\ ,ere ano quit baseball
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31. 1912.
stole 13 bases a season—his worst
mark. Twice he lias stolen 27
buses, his best mark.
'ptlE amazing thing about Jor
dan is that, despite his long
service (and he played three years
before lie 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.
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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
NEB YORK. Dec 31. Prank Farrell,
owner of the New York Americans, has
opened negotiations to secure Lajoie, the
■ great second sacker of the Cleveland club
‘ 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 . Pee. 31.- ,i lni
Baskette. the Nap pitcher, severely in
jured his right hand when a firecracker
, which lie held exploded without warning
It is not known whether the iniuri v ill
c ■ . hi ng
M’LEAN SAYS M'GRAW
WILL LAND HIM A JOB
CINCINNATI Dec 31 I.arrj .Mclaan,
the tall catcher who was set adrift bi
the local team because he broke tie
i lull rules, claims to have the promise
I of .Manager McGraw. of the Giants, that
he will ''land” with some major league
team for next season.
KELLEY QUITS TO HOUCK.
NEW VtRK. Dee 31. Claiming a
foul. Eddie Kelli x. the Harlem light
ight. quit in th. fourth round of his
bout last night with Tommi Houck of
Philadelphia, after the club phvsiciatt
made an examination and ruled the
blow was above the belt.
LANGFORD IS COMING HOME.
NEW YORK I >ec 31 A ".lark cloud'
hovers ..ver the white hopes' in the per
son of Sam Langford, who Is now on his
way here from Xi sltalla. determine.! to
s-cure matehe- with the pale raced heat
I •••• "h" ar. Uuminx he •nvyweig'c.'
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Mcf’arty in the picturesque costume of
a cowboy. He spent many years of his
life on the Western plains herdins; cat
tle.
LAVELLE TD MEET
MEI HERE
TDMORROW
Frank whitney is going 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 ptit 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 No: ton 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 VVoigast and
he and VV hitney, or Lavelle, would
, make a corking scrap.
CROCKER AND BECKER
MEET IN FINAL ROUND
PINEHURST. N. C . Dec 31. Paul M
Hunter of the Midlothian club. Chicaro.
as eliminated from the contest in the
semi-final round of the ninth annual Pine
hurst holiday week golf tournament yes
terday when hu missed a two-yard put on
the home greets George H. (’rocker, of
Bt.w>kline, won from Hunter bv a four
\vn > a - Hl ,n eer <’. I. Becker, of
Woodland, in the final todav
Crocker advanced yesterday, on the de
fault of Walter J. Travis, of Garden Citv.
. Hunter won in the morning pla\ from
kooert Gould Shaw, of Brookline, 2 up
an<i 1 t<» play. Becker defeated W r
Iruesdale. of Fox Hills. 2 up and 1 to
play. 11l the early round, and won from 1.
H. Robeson, 3 up and I to plav, this after-
I noon.
iGROUNDKEEPER WILL SOON
GET BUSY AT PONCEY PARK
\\ orl. will i.c started as soon as tlte
' iH.tnum.l at Ponce DeLeon dries mil on
smoothing up the Held for next season.
Ihe ground is pretty well cut up hi the
plowing feet of the Tech. Georgia. Clem
son and other football players and bi tlte
automobiles that went on the field dur
ing the games, and it will take consid
erable ironing and working get the
I kinks out.
i A new .min pipe will be laid to takt
'■are of tiie water that sometimes accu
mulates in tight field. Improvements are
Planned also in the players' dub house.
THE NEW SPORTING ANNUAL.
The best littl, Sporting reference book
<»i the year i« The Police Gazette Sport
ing Xnnual for 1913, published bi the
Richard K Fox ritl’llshing Company. It
is a eoinpendium of lies! performances in
all branches of sports, adv compiled and
edited bi Sam <". Austin, the wdl known
' sporting writer and critic. The main
feature of the book is tite pugilist!, rec
ords, atm includes the hist, n ot everx
boxci ot prominenei ut the w.»rM.
Ihe view- to the test shows the big onxer about to land a right uppercut—a blow he can deliver with
t i ?' ee h an 1 d cleverness atl <3 which has gained him many of the victories that adorn his early record Mi
atty has had a varied career, being engaged in many lines of endeavor. He was reared on a ranch m.l th
fne world fe d ‘ d mUCh tO ffiVe hSm the bUild and strength that have hI ought him to the front ranks of'the box'-
tug worm. - -
White Hope McCarty Is a “Jack of AH Trades”
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“Mississippi Adonis” Once Tramped It in South
By Left Hook.
IUTHER M’CARTY. the ”Mis
sissippi Adonis,” who fights
Al Balzer for the white heavy
• weight championship at Los An
geles on New Years day. is being
’ touted on the coast as one of the
most remarkable athletes of the
■ times.
Wonderfully built both for speed
1 and strength, the fighter is seem
ingly ridding a rapid development of
headwork 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 to the coast
he has, however, shown great im
provement and had little trouble in
stopping the veteran, Jim Flynn.
Now. hooked up with Al Balzer,
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 be longed for the open
I air life. He had no liking for the
i kiss room, and to avoid it took
"French leave” in the night and
started on life's journey alone—ami
penniless. He hail 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.
With the corn-shucking season
over McCarty ambled into Omaha
and landed a position as bill dls
i tributor for an advertising concern,
j 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
Mortis and made a leap into the
limelight.
The old wanderlust again took
hold of tile big boy. and he made
the long jump to Los Angeles.
Stopping, necessarily, 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 ’he life on the high seas.
< 'net in Hie eiti of beans ami cul
'm ■. M. t'atty hiked t'> the wharve.-
and siiippej a- " th übh -botite'l sett
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 on 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 place
was short, the work not being to
his liking. His next stopping place
was aj 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, McCartj' went back to
his first love, looking after the eat-
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tie on the wide range of the North
west. Interfering at a time when
the ranch owner, Dick Collins, was
in trouble won for McCarty the
ownership of a. fine saddle hors, .
With his gift horse be started out
to do “some" riding. He landed
in the Sioux reservation, and spent
about a month among the redskins,
then drifted to Montana.
Gets Short of Fund*.
Lack of funds caused McCarty to
sell the horse, and he took up with
an advertising concern, doing the
country-wide advertising for a well
known tobacco. When arriving .
Culbertson, Mout., he learned the:
was to be a battle in the town, he
decided to stick around anil see th<
fuss. He tied in with one of th'
principals as sparring partner. He
had, from his earliest yuoth. like
boxing, and whether aboard ship '•
land never let pa-s an opportunity
to spar with the gloves.
January 7. 1911. he went in as t
substitute for a tighter who had
"run out" of a match against Walt
Adams, heavyweight champion of
Canada. McCarty put out the
champ in the second round.
He and Adams afterward went on
tin exhibition tour, and McCarty at
tracted the attention of Tommy
Burns by beating Joe Grimm—the
“iron man"—of Philadelphia. Tom
my looked the big cowboy over anti,
told him he was liable to be chant-:
pion of the world some day. M, 1
Carty, with this encouragement, t
plunged into the game fn good < it- '
nest.
He first attracted nation-wiile
fame by knocking Curl Morris cold