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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 8ft. 1913.
YOUTH RISES
Yes, Indeed, Jeff Is Some Fond of Animals
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By “Bud” Fisher
By Ohiek Evans.
C HICAGO, April 30.—"Jeff" Adams,
who ha* been for a long time
one of the best known caddies al
the Chloago Golf Club, has recently
joined the professional ranks. His new
position is at Michigan City and se
curing it has made Jeff one of the hap
piest of boys. Geoffrey Adams, to
give him the high-sounding name, I
discovered by accident, was born
eighteen years ago at Warrenville, a
tiny hamlet five miles west of Wheat
on. He is the youngest of four broth
els, all of whom caddied at Chicago
Golf. His brother Frank, who is r.
very good player, is now the profes
sional at the Canton, Ill. Golf Club.
Jeff has always lived at hie parents'
home in Wheaton, whloh is about a
spile from the Chicago Golf Club, anti
he has caddied all the year around
Since he was ten years old Any time
during the last eight years he could
be eeen, club in hand or under arm,
Walking along the road leading to
tjje golf grounds at 7 o'clock In the
morning on week days and at about
8 o’clook on Saturdays and Sundays.
Fpr be it known on week days cad
dies were allowed to play over the
Chicago golf course in the early morn
ing, but not on Saturdays and Sun
days, and Jeff missed no opportunity
tp play his own game or to caddy for
others. He has caddied for nearly all
the well-known amateurs and pro
fessionals who have played at Chica
go Golf. Years ago Willie Smith, not
ing his ambition, advised him to turn
professional when he was old enough.
Caddied for C. B. MacDonald.
Jeff recalls with special delight a
day that he was caddying for C. B.
MacDonald, former national cham
pion. He had earned one dollar, but
Mr. MacDonald, probably recognizing
his efficiency, gave him $10. This
was an event in his needy, hard
working life.
Jeff considered his caddying season
proper from May to October. This
was his moneymaking period, and he
once told me that he averaged about
$160 in May and June and September
a year. He used to make more
and October than in the other months.
These were school months and the
order system was not in force. Jeff's
own schooling had stopped at the
seventh grade, and after that his cad
dying was literally the year through
On winter days when the weather
was too severe for players to come
out Jeff could be found in Dave Foul
in' shop distening to golf stories or
asking fifty and one questions upon
the one subject in the world—'golf.
Jeff feels deeply grateful to Dave
Foulis for his great kindness to him
during these years at Chicago Golf.
It was Dave who gave hint the first
club he ever owned, and so it seemed
quite the natural thing for Dave to
come into Chicago with Jeff to help
him buy the tools for his new shop.
And it Is very easy for the old friends
of Jett to picture him In the little
workshop }n the Indiana woods, or to
fancy we hear the sharp echo of his
clegn-cut shots among the trees
Jeff plays a very good game of golf
In very good form and he has made a
77 at Chicago Golf, whloh is a splen
did score for that difficult course.
8urs To Bo Famous “Pro."
Although Jeff has been a sort of
special caddy for Walter Feron I
think there is surely not a member
at Chicago Golf who does not know
him. There was something marked
about his appearance. He was small
and rather stooped and his hair was
long and black and his right side and
shoulder had been lowered by the
constant weight of heavy golf bags.
Day in and day out he and I trudged
the Wheaton links last summer and
al all times he appeared to be a faith
ful and patient student of the game
1 have never heard him swear and
] do not think he even smoked. Ap
parently be cares for but little besides
golf and’ has few Ideas beyond it.
Faithful, hardworking and scantily
clad, undaunted by any weather, he
was forever on the job, and if these
characteristics prevail In his new sit
uation the litle caddie from Chicago
Golf will be a successful professional,
and if his game continues to im
prove a very famous one.
Jeff's new' club is beautifully located
on the old Pottawattomte Indian trail
ip a dense wood. The ground* are
rolling with a stream of water run-
3 1ng through. The holes are of good
Usance and hewed out of the for
est. I spent a very enjoyable day
there last fall and can testify to the
charm of location and the agreeablllty
of the membership. So the friends
of little Jeff have every reason to
congratulate him.
YANKEES TO KEEP CHASE;
SMALL CHANCE FOR TRADE
Kilbaneand Dundee Fight to Draw
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Slow Battle for Feather Title
G eorge stallings win offer
the Cracker club some pitchers
either to-day or to-morrow.
He is getting* them waived out of the
big leagues now.
When the offer is* made it will be up
to Bill Smith to decide whether or not
he will want the men. Probably he
will.
Buck Becker has* been placed on the
ineligible list. His fate will hardly be
decided under ten days.
Bausewein’s fate hangs in the bal
ance. Smith still believes he may be
a winning pitcher. He will not let
him go without one more trial.
Weaver’s case is the one that has
Smith scared bright pink.
“I can’t afford to fire Weaver,” says
Bill Smith. "He cost u« too much
money. Besides, if he comes around
he will be our best pitcher, r am go
ing to hang on to him as long as
he shows me anything.”
There is considerable reason for
believing that Weaver is one of the
men recently fined for breaking train
ing. He 1b surely in very bad condi
tion. But he will stick along a couple
of weeks longer, anyway.
Kernan’s fate is in doubt. With
Bailey out, Smith will have a fine
chance to try out the Chicago lad. Tf
he shows some hitting strength he will
be carried through the season as util
ity man. If he does not, he will
doubtless be let out, and It is possible
that the Crackers will r^e along this
season without a utility man, espe
cially as Graham can play any posi
tion on the team save that of pitcher
with considerable credit to himself
and the olub.
NEW YORK. April BO.—After main
taining silence all morning, Manager
Frank Chanoe, of the Yankees, this
morning denied that he intended trad
ing Hal Chase.
"There are a number of ball clubs
that want Chase,” said Chance, "and I ll
trade him. providing the other clubs give
about half their players. What I need
most of all is a good first barman. I
have one in Chase—the best In the busi
ness Wouldn’t r be foolish to trade
him ?”
DILLON WALLOPS MOHA,
.MILWAUKEE, April 29.—Jack Dillon,
of Indianapolis, won easily last night
in his ten-round bout with Boh Moha,
of this city.
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If Morris Delivers
Georgia Wins Title
ATHENS, GA., April 30.-- In an ef
fort to cinch the Southern Intercol
legiate Athletic Association cham
pionship by making it two straight
from Vanderbilt, Coach Cunningham
will shoot Pitcher Morris against the
Commodores this afternoon in the
final game of the series.
The Tennesseeans will use Sikes
on the mound and will stake every
thing on their famous football and
baseball hero.
Yesterday's game was hardly a
canter for'the Georgians.
Corley pitched three-hit ball and
held the Tennesseeans runless, while
McClure whs located for ten hits,
! which netted nine runs. The Com
modores had no earthly chance, and
after the first inning it was a matter
of how many runs Cunningham's men
would pile up.
Yesterday's crowd set the season’s
record in Athens, but it was not a
circumstance to what is expected to
day!
TH0MASVILLE SCORES 35
RUNS FOR LEAGUE RECORD
THOMASVILLE, GA.. April 30 —
The Thomasville Empire Deague team
broke the local record for runs yes
terday afternoon In a game with the
Boston team, thirty-five runs and
thirty-six hits be,ing secured off Kid
Blaton in six innings of play. Boston
got two hits in seven innings and no
runs.
BOYD AND LIMLINE DRAW
RELEASE FROM BARONS
BIRMINGHAM, April 30.—Pitcher
Boyd, star of the 1912 Barons, and
Pitcher Damline, recruit, were re
leased by Manager Molesworth to
day. Boyd’s arm has gone dead and
Damline has not delivered. President
Baugh, of the Barons, left to-day for
Chicago to get an outfielder and an
infielder.
Messenger is at his home with his
wife, who has been critically ill.
DOUGLAS AGGIES llEFEAT
NORMAN PARK FOR TITLE
DOITGDAS, GA . April 30.— Douglas
4gcie= defeated Norman Park yesterday.
8 to 0 'IV. is gives them the Prep
School championship of South Georgia.
Coach Cellars’ hoys have played every
team that would meet them, and have
won everv game The feature of yes-
ite,-day’s game was the hitting of Gray.
who secured three three-base hits out of
jflvjjripjl io JJtf Plfktg. up
By \V. W. Naughtou.
L OS ANGELES, April 20.—Referee
Eyton declared the 20-round
bout between Johnny Kilbane
and Johnny Dundee a draw. This, it is
to be presumed, means one-half the
featherweight championship will re
main in Cleveland and the ofher half
go to New York to keep company
with the America's cup.
The bout between the ttvo Johnnies
was interesting: in spots only. If they
had used their hands half as much as
they used their feet, it is just possi
ble that a knockdown blow would
have been in evidence at some time
during the evening. Taking it all in
all, the affair was an elegant argu
ment in favor of those who hold that
boxing is not brutal. Hanpening a*
it did at this particular time, it is a
pity that the members of the Califor
nia Legislature wer e not on hand to
witness it.
Ivilbane is all that has been claimed
for him in the line of cleverness. But
judging by last night’s work, heavy
punching is not his specialty. There
is this much to be said, of course—
in Dundee he met one of the shiftiest
youngsters ever seen in the ring. Dun
dee may not be a good judge of dis
tance, but he seems to know to a dot
when anything dangerous is coming
his way. By drawing back at the
right moment he converted probably
a ha If-hundred right crosses into
misses, and half that number into
glancing blows.
Champion Wanted Knockout.
Kilbane’s palpable object from first
to last, in fact, was to end it all with
a right snap. He feinted his oppo
nent into leaving openings, and
whenever the moment seemed oppor
tune, John’s dexter glove shot across
like a flash. But quick as it came the
little New Yorker was equally quick
in dodging, and although tried re
peatedly the number of rights he
landed could probably be counted on
the fingers of one hand.
Among them all there was only one
solid enough and well timed enough
to send Dundee back a pace, and that
was delivered very late in the fight.
Of the two men Dundee is probably
the harder puncher. Kilbane has it
on him in range and reach, and it
was seldom that Dundee was able to
connect with full force. His best ef
fort is a left swing, and in order to
score with this punch he had to con
vert himself into a leaping tuna. It
stands to reason that a man who has
to hoist himself into the atmosphere
to send home a blow can not add any
particular force to it, and that was
the trouble with Dundee.
In the Intter rounds when Kilbane
was tired Dundee wag there with his
leap and swing time and again. If
he could have remained on the ground
and committed the same assault it
would have punished Kilbane more
than it did.
At the start of the fight KUbane
devoted much time to feinting, his
object being of course to confuse his
opponent. Dundee apparently knew
just what to expect, for he feinted
■when Kilbane feinted and tried to
counter whenever Kilbane led.
Kilbane’s Left Was Truer.
The only difference apparent be
tween them at the outset was that
Kilbane sped a truer left. He landed
with this punch very often, but never
in a way to ruffle the New Yorker,
who kept leaping and swinging with
the left. The first seven rounds were
in a manner spiritless, but the eighth
saw the first bit of earnest work. They
became embroiled over against the
ropes, and after fumbling at each oth
er’s ribs with short right-handers
they stood away as if by mutual con
sent and began to lash out freely.
Kilbane got home with punishing up
percuts and took many hard body
blows in return.
It seemed to be part of Kilbane’s
system to rest up after infusing a lit-
tie extra energy in his boxing. He
took things so easy in the tenth round
that some of the spectators began to
revile him, reminding him that a
champion was always expected to set
the pace. The slur went unheeded,
and Dundee redoubled his efforts to
land a high left that would produce
results. Wiifn th- round was about
half over Kilbane began to cut loo«c
with the right. From that point foi
ward Kilbane fought ;n spots only, but
when he did out loose it was evident
that he had a one-punch finish in
mind.
Thirteenth a Good Round.
JTh* thirteenth round k»b the -most
spirited of the series. They discarded
feinting entirely in this particular
spell and traded hooks and uppercuts.
Dundee came out of a rally .with his
right eyebrow damaged, and there
was bio:>d on Kilbane’s lip. Kilbane,
it seemed to the writer, gained the
lead in the fourteenth round. There
was another earnest mixup, and the
champion stood to his guns better
than his opponent Dundee took to
covering and was not as eager to
climb in the air and swat back.
If the fight had ended there, the
chances are Kilbane would have
gained tlie decision, but, whether
from choice or because he was tired,
the champion slowed up perceptibly
after the fourteenth round. He went
back to the feinting tactics that he
employed, in the early rounds and al
lowed Dundee to leap and lunge to
his heart’s content.
In the sixteenth round again Kil
bane seemed to be saving his
strength, and Dundee, by being dUi-
gent, pulled level with his opponent.
It may have dawned upon the cham
pion in the minute’s resting spell that
he was following the wrong course.
Anyhow he shot out of his corner
when the starting bell sounded and
went at Dundee determinedly. Dun
dee stood his ground and fought bark
until the frequency of the champion’s
uppercuts warned tlie New Yorker
that It would be wise to cover up. It
may be that Kilbane was slightly in
the lead when the seventeenth ended,
but persistent Dundee pulled level
again in the remaining rounds.
Kilbane Tired in Last Round.
Tn the last round of all Kilbane was
palpably tired and Dundee’s climb
ing tactics were very much in evi
dence. Once or twice indeed it looked
as though the champion was badly
jarred by tlie punches in question.
The round closed amid scenes of great
excitement. The Kilbane cohorts were
bellowing and Dundee’s friends were
shouting to the New Yorker to crowd
his man and knock him out.
They were hammering each other
when the official timekeeper smashed
the gong and called a halt, and Ref
eree Eyton did not hesitate a moment
in declaring it a draw.
When Owen Moran and Abe Attell
fought a draw when the latter was
champion it was said that the Eng
lishman claimed the possession of
one-half tlie world’s title in the feath
erweight ( lass. The rule, however, is
that the champion must be defeated
before being required to hand oVer
his laurels, so that Kilbane, even
though he broke even with his Xew
York rival, is still thp champion
featherweight of the world.
As matters stand. Dundee has the
best right to consideration when Kil
bane gets ready to defend his title
again.
The gate receipts of the fight were
given as $J 3,782.
"Scotty” Montelth, manager of Dun
dee, this morning offered Kilbane a
winner-take-all proposition for a re
turn match.
GORDON BLANKS SEWANEE
ON MACON DIAMOND, 6-0
MACON. GA., April 30. —Southpaw
Gordon twirled air-tight ball here yes
terday and as a result Sewanee de
feated Mercer, 6 to 0, in a one-sided con
test. The victors scored one run in
the second, one in the third and one in
the sixth and tallied three in th© eighth.
Mercer had chances to score in the
second and ninth, but Gordon tightened
in the pinch and retired the losers with
out a run.
Prep League
News and Notes.
The Riverside baseball team has made
a remarkable record so far this year.
Out of sixteen games played they have
won fifteen and tied one. This per
formance beats anything made by a
Southern prep school In many years
Monday the Riverside boys defeated
Stone Mountain 7 to 1.
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Locust Grove is the only prep team
in this section of the country that could
give Riverside a good argument. Un
fortunately L. G. I. is not in the G. J
A. A. this year, so there is no chance
of a meeting between the two schools
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Boys High is trying to make arrange
ments with Marist to play off their tie
game Friday. This contest was to have
taken place last, week, but the Marist
lade had to drill for tiie Memorial Day
parade, and the game was postponed
The two teams played a ten-Inning 3
to 3 tie game at the beginning of the
season.
Bill Bedell, of .'I eoh High, is back in
school again, and is training hard for
the annual prep meet May 9 Bill over
worked himself in the high school meet
April 13. and was sick for a week
Donald Fra°er School, of Decatur.
seriously considering a plan io enter
some men in the annual prep meet
There are at least two athletes at the
school who could give a good account
of themselves against any of the stars
in the Atlanta schools Jernigan and
Phillips are both all-around athletes,
and have made a number of good rec
ords in competitive meets.
The senior class won Lhe greatest
number of points in the inter-class track
meet held at Emory College Monday.
Their points totaled 53. The sophomores
were second with 35. The freshmen and
the juniors lagged away behind, the
formr-r getting * points and the latter 1.
Carlton, of the senior class, was the
sensation of the day in the class track
meet at Emory on Monday. He scored
a total of 32 points, and with 4 more
would have had enough to have beaten
the "sophs" single-handed.
Carlton was first in the 100-yard, 220-
yard and 440-vard dashes, the shot put
and the running broaxi jump, and third
in the high jump. This If a remark
able performance for any one man to
make
The 100-yard dash will be a thriller
in the prep meet this year. Allen, of
Marist: Sifford, of G. M. A : Parks and
Bedell, of Tech High, and Spurlock and
Lockridge. of Boys High, have all en
tered.
Students at Peacock are greatly in
lerested in ha mi ball. Lenny and
Wells are the stars at this game. They
would like to meet any two Prep league
players in the city.
Pitcher Fox, of Boys High, is working
hard this week in preparation for the
proposed game with Marist Friday Al
though this game has not been arranged
yet. Fox wants to be on the safe sole
Boys High is hot after the Prep league
pennant this year, and if Fox is not
at his best in th© game to come. The
school will have a hard job keeping
in the first division
Howard Lanier has been pitching good
ball for G M O. tills season. He is
also leading the all-prep pitchers at
bat. In a game with Gordon Saturday
he smashed out a three-bagger with the
bases full, which made, possible the de
feat of the Gordonites by a score of 9
to 4.
Peacock and Tech High will play
to-day on the Peacock diamond
at Piedmont Park. These two
teams opened the Prep league season
on March -5. This will be their sec
ond meeting Peacock has been work
ing hard lately to develop a good pitcher
and they think they have him in Bams
RUBE ZELLARS RELEASED
BY MACON TO VALDOSTA
MACON, GA.. April 30.— Rube Zollars.
the former Mercer twirier, has been
released by the Macon club to the Val
dosta team Pat Moses, also a former
Mercer slabman. will tie retained by Ma
Two Si3eo
'After dinner-recess
DUFFY BEATS TEMPLE.
BUTTE. MONT., April 3F— Jimmy
Duffy, of Ixjokport. X. Y., gained the
decision last night over Ray Temple, of
Milwaukee, after twelve round* of
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Lord Lonsdale Asked to Help Out
Bv Ed. W. Smith.
S TRONG efforts are being made
now by American boxing author
ities to bring about at an early
date some definite move for the in
ternational standardization of boxing
weights. There have been so many
different attempts made along this
line in the past, and all of them have
been so half-hearted and so dismally
weak in their fruition, that the box
ing fans early began to lose interest.
All of the students and well-wishers
of the game saw at once the advan
tage to be obtained in having a scale
of weights that would fit and lie rec
ognized all over the globe, but Amer
ica. England and Australia, w hich are
tiie only real live centers of boxing,
were so far apart on several of the
limits for the classes* that there
seemed little hope of working a
c hange.
T HROUGH Freddie* Welsh. English
lightweight champion. Lord Lons
dale, perhaps the most influential man
in England openly interested in the
boxing game, has been asked to lend
his assistance to the project, and
there is a good chance that he will
confer with Charles J. Harvey, Sec
retary of the New York State Boxing
Commission, soon relative to the mat
ter. The commission Is eager to
draw Lonsdale into tin* discussion and
to get his views on the matter. Then
the members will have something
definite to work on. Lonsdale is the
man who gives all of the champion
ship belts to the English fighters to
scrap for and generally i? ranked as
the foremost and most influential
sportsman in Great Britain.
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\17ELSH is a great pet of Lonsdale.
and the nobleman is in commu
nication with him at all times when
Freddie is away from dear old Eng
land. Hence Harvey figured that the
lightweight star would he the very
best man to get in order to interest
tin* Englishman in the project In
hand. Over in Australia, Reg. L.
Baker, w'bo is known as “Snowy,” and
who succeeded McIntosh as leading
promoter in the land “down under."
lias interested himself in the same
project and has written several let
ters here in the hope of interesting
the leading American promoters in a
scale of. weights that would be uni
form the w'orld over.
J UST glance over the figures show
ing the limits that prevail now in
the limits that prevail now in the
the different ( lasses in the three coun
tries and you can get an idea how-
hard it would ever be, under such
classification, to get a real world’s
champion. Here are the scales:
Bantamweight America, 116
pounds; English. 118; Australia, 112.
Featherweight America, 122
pounds; England. 126; Australia, 126.
Lightweight — America, 133
pounds; England. 135; Australia, 140.
Welterweight — America. 142
pounds: England, 147; Australia. 149.
Middleweight America, 168
pounds: England. 168; Australia. 160.
The biggest differences, of course,
are found in th * bantam, light and
welterweight classes.
* * *
A S has been pointed out more than
once, it w ill be a mighty difficult
thing to bring tin fighter who holds
a title in any class to a mind where
he would consent to change, especial
ly if there is a dangerous competitor
just ahead of him who weighs ' a
pound or two mere and who might
give him a desperate argument if
allowed to come in at his own figure.
For instance, the Australian scale
w'ould let some tough lightweights in
for battle, men who cannot now come
within three or four pounds of mak
ing the American limit established bv
Ga.tis. and maintained by Nelson,
Wolgast end Rit hie—the latter per
il a ps.
By Sol Plex.
C hicago, April 30.7-Just by wav
of correcting the impression
that he is willing to mingto
among the welterweight boxers, MiRa
Gibbons, who is training hard ogre tv
for a spring campaign In the Hnpr.
sends us word that he has no inten
tion of going out of his elfcss and that
150 pounds at 3 o'clock 1s the very
lowest figure he will make for any
of them Incidentally, Mike would
muc h prefer 154 pounds at the pres
ent time, or until he has had three
or four good battles and gives him
self a thorough test after his long tdle
spell. Mike hasn't turned a wheel
since his battle in New York last
year with p!ddie McGoorty, content
ing himself with resting up. He need
ed a vacation, he says, because the
McGoorty battle was the culmination
of a long series of battles that lrDt
him fagged out.
* * *
J OE MAN DOT ie going to maifia
another stab at that title thin*
The Southern lightweight star and
his manager. Tommy Walsh, hav*e
gone to Los Angeles once more, this
time to tako> on Buddy Anderson, the
young slugger who recently disposed
decisively of Kayo Brown, of New
York, in a smashing encounter.
After he has taught Bud hie piacf
he intends to take a shot at Tommy
Murphy and then claim a match with
Willie Ritchie. Some ambitious plan
that.
The Anderson match will take place
May 20, and Joe. will rest up a couple
of weeks before digging into the train
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