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TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICA^, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEAfRER 7, 1913.
All the News of the Boxinir World
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S.DJ. FOOTBALL
TEAM SHOULD BE
BEST IN HISTORE
Six Veterans to Return for Places
on Second District Agricul
tural Gridiron Squad.
T 1FTON, GA., Sept. 6.—Looking
at It through the typewriter,
before school has opened and
the grueling gridiron battles begun,
the 1913 pigskin team of the Second
District Agricultural team is going
to be the best ever put out by this
Institution of huskies.
At the present time it looks as
though the team for this year will be
belter than that of last Six of laat
year's warriors have a 1 ready signi
fied their intention of returning to
th* fold, and with them will < orne
a number of men who have had ex
perience at other school**, besides the
scrubs of last year and the raw ma
terial.
Probably the brightest hope of the
new students is Hancock, from Worth
Giving an Idea of the ( <
\uiet, Restful
Poses in the Speediest
Game of All
These three players are among
those helping to make handball,
as played on the courts of the
Atlanta Athletic Club, famous in
the South as the fastest game,
indoors or out, that the realm of
athletics has yet produced. At
the top is M. E. (“Willie”)
Keeler; at the right, Howard Ar
nold, and at the left 'Gene Kelly.
The daily
matches,
played at noon
and in the
evening on the
A. A. C. courts,
are watched
wonderinglv by
members who
have never
tackled the
“speediest
game in the
world.”
Cliance Roasts Yanks,
Calls Club 'Dummies/
AndMaybeHe'sRight
County. He is the lad who won the
marathon race from Albany to Syl-
Yester. Hancock is* well acquainted
with football, having had experience
on the Norman Institute team.
• • •
'THE old men back are Bob Glover.
* captain and full back <>f the
team, and Leo Jones, right end. It
v cMov^r-Jones forward pass
Combination that made the 1912 team
p * neu Ha re arc Owens, the
big center, and also the best the
school ever had and Kid Reynoloj,
right tackle. This kid was the fast
est man on the team last year. Jen
kins. left guard, and Royals, left half,
are both coming back. The old play
ers will constitute the most important
places on the team, and with them
back it looks like a walk-away this
l KOFESSOR J. M THRASH la. of
* . ..uiar, coming LmcK. Coach
Thrash served his time under the ma
chine man of Tech. J. W. Hetsman,
and he must have been a mighty apt
pupil. Judging from the plays he has
taught the Farmers. Word from
Coach Thrash at his summer home
state gnat he has evolved a number
of fast and tricky plays during the
summer, and will ju lip right into
teaching them to his (earn when he
hits the campus.
It wouldn t be half told to tell about
the Farmers without taking a glance
Into the back yard of that N. 1. camp.
There are a number of the old boys
coming back to help N. I. try to win
from the Farmers, among whom are
Noble, fullback; Austin. Arzo and
Berry Scoggins, the three brothers;
Cochran, Lee, Welch. White. Elrod
and McMath. Which is nearly all
of the old team. However, it is good
to know that N. I is to have a good
team. No one likes to see a walk
away. Professor Scoggins will coach
his brothers and the team.
NO TRACK IN VALE STADIUM.
NEW YORK Sept 6.—Coach Johnny
Mack, of Yale, says that there will be
no track for athletic meets in the new
Tale Stadium and that New Haven can
never hope to hold the Eastern inter
collegiate track and field championships.
The staudlum is built in a natural de
pression and the only way to have a
tigck would be a tunnel.
BP
PA her Jacobs and Catcher Hale, of
Burlington Pathfinders, have been
HVd to the St Louis Browns for $5 000.
"he men have formed one of the classi
est ba’firies in the Central Association
tLis season.
NEW YORK. Sept. 6.—‘'Don’t think
for a minute i tulk this way to protect
myself because we’re ast." says Frank
Chance. manager A the New York
Americans. “I didn’t believe such a
bunch of dummies could he assembled
on one club until 1 joined the Yankees.
They didn't know the first principles of
baseball. Not only that, they didn't
try lr the clubhouse when we were
losing in the spring, everybody laughed,
whistled and told funny stories.
"That doesn't win ball games Base
ball Is serious, if you want to get on
top. The Cubs were on top because
the boys had one thought baseball and
to win. They figured out plays before
each game how to fool the enemy. It
was nothing hut baseball with them.
"Of course, now. a smart manager can
get everything out of a player He must
study his hoys, see how he is going to
direct them.
"But if you haven't the class you
can't squeeze wuter out of a rock, and
If you haven't the class you're not go
ing to win.”
Navin Denies $70,000
Offer for Ball Club
Detroit Magnate Adds He Does Not
Care to Sell Providence
Team.
DETROIT, MICH.. Sept 6.—Presi
dent Navin this afternoon denied that
be had been offered $70,000 for the
Providence club by a syndicate of
Providence capitalists, as reported
from that city.
"I wouldn’t sell the club for that
price, anyway,” he said ”1 paid $75.-
000 for it two years ago, and have
sent about $25,000 worth of players
there since. We don’t care particu
larly to sell it. though, of course, we
would If offered money enough. We
had a pretty good team there this
year except for lack of good pitching,
even though It Is finishing low. We
will have a better one next year Be
sides. it’s a good place to train Ti
gers.”
BROWNS BUY TWO PLAYERS.
URLINGTON, IOWA, Sept. 6 —
MITCHELL TO BE GOLF "PRO.”
LONDON, Sept. 6.—"Abe” Mitchell,
the English amateur golfer, who has
entered for the American amateur golf
championship at Garden City. L 1. to-
j lay announced his intention of becom
ing a professional as soon as he is of-
I fered a suitable position. He was the
runner-up for the British amateur
championship last year
PUGH BOAT IS SENT ABROAD
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—The Disturber
fill, the hydroulane which won the free-
for-all championship and the Wrigley
cup at Chicago, has hen shipped by
I James A. Pugh. her owner, to England
to compete in the forthcoming races for
the Briush international trophy for mo
tor boaaa.
Heavies of To-day
Are Lacking in Skill
Some persons have remarked that
more of the heavyweight fighters have
been killed in 1912 by blows than in any
one year that the oldest fans can re
member. Why is it, do you suppose?
Many answers have been advanced, but
the most plausible one appears to be
that the present crop of heavyweights
is one that lacks cleverness.
A fighter must have some natural abil
ity and must be fitted by nature to stand
groat strain. However, there has been
so much demand for a heavyweight hope
to beat Jack Johnson that many young
men of stalwart appearance, and not
even half fitted for such a rugged un
dertaking, but who have been attracted
by the call of gold, have become mar
tyrs to the game One has but to cite
the Calgary affair of May, when a
fourth rater killed Luther McCarty by a
blow McCarty in previous fights had
trained to the minute. Luther, accord
ing to the statements of his trainers
following his death, did not train a lick,
as he was confident that he would de
feat I’elkey without half trying Over
confidence and the lack of physical fit
ness caused McCarty's untimely end. In
the more recent accidental killing of
Bull Young by Jess Willard again the
lack of condition of the former resulted
in his death. Willard is considered but
a third rater, and to have killed Young
indicates that Bull must have been
practically a novice Willard never has
claimed to be a hard hitter.
The pages of the prize ring history,
when men possessed real cleverness,
show there were no fatalities when Jem
Mace. Jake Kilrain. Paddy Ryan. Jim
Corbett. Jim Jeffries. Tom Sharkev, Joe
Choynskl, KM McCoy, Peter Maher and
many other big fellows held the public
attention They fought with real clev
erness
Branch Rickey
To Lead Browns,
St. Louis Rumor
ST. LOUIS. MO., Sept. 6.—That
Branch Rickey, scout and legal ad
viser of the Browns, will succeed
George Stovall as manager on Sep
tember 8, when the club departs on
its last Eastern trip, was authorita
tively reported to-day. Although the
Browns’ management would not con
firm the report, it le generally un
derstood that the change will be
made.
President Ban Johnson of the
American League reached this city
unannounced and was closeted with
President Hedges of the Browns the
greater part of the day.
Ban Johnson's visit to this city
usually eventuates In Important base
ball developments. He seldom calls
without an important reason for be
ing here.
Ban Johnson is said to have dis
liked Stovall ever since the umpire
spitting episode. •
What Is World’s Fastest Game?
+•+
Answer: Handball—See A.A.C.
By O. B. Keeler.
Y OU keejj hearing and reading
about tennis these days, with
the Atlanta Athletic Club tour
ney Just over and the Cotton States
championships about to start at East
Lake. And then you hear and read a
lot about golf, with a tourney every
week or so, staged by the A. A. C.
And there are the celebrated water
sports. And basket ball coming on.
And tango dancing, which is getting
to be regarded as an athletic diversion
par excellence.
So this i9 going to be a modef»t lit
tle word for handball, the Fastest
Game in the World.
• * •
\V ITLL make that assertion flat-
vv footed, which is a style that will
get you next to nothing at handball.
Handball is the FASTEST GAME.
Tennis la a pretty fast game. Bas
ket ball is not exactly a sedative ex
ercise. Boxing not accomplished
with any degree of success on
crutches, and even wrestling has been
known to move perceptibly to the un
aided vision.
But handball bears the same rela
tion to these gentle diversions that
the sweet gazelle with the silvery feet
has to a kind-faced Jersey cow, pre
supposing the cow to be sitting down
fn the shade while the s. g. w. t. s. f.
has Just heard a loud ki-yl in its im
mediate vicinity.
• • *
T HERE are three kinds of handball
played in this country—the origi
nal Irish, or four-wall court game;
the two-wall court modification, and
the one-wall or open-face court used
by the Atlanta Athletic Club.
Each type has Its advantages and
Its drawbacks.
But any one of the three Is sixteen
times faster than the next fastest
game In the world, which you are
hereby permitted to select for your
self. according as your tastes run to
tennis, tidale-de-winks football or
chess.
• • •
T HE open-face courts in the lower
gym at the A. C. measure 24 feet
in length by 12 in width, and when a
regular game is in progress that com
paratively limited space is fuller of
compressed action than a Waterbury
watch when the governor slips.
The first time you see a four-hand
game in progress—watching it safely
from the running track above—you
remark in full accord with the coun
tryman at the circus, giving Friend
Camel the once-over:
"There AIN’T no such game!”
* * •
I T doesn’t look possible, sure enough.
And it sounds like a sextet on the
bass drum.
Four little figures exhibiting large
expanses of sleek and velvety epi
dermis hammer a white ball against
a black wall with a ferocity and vigor
that reduce the unaccustomed mind
to a palpitating blank until somebody
misses and the thumping roar flat
tens out Into a chorus of alibis.
Left and right, swinging like old
Terry McGovern in a corner rally,
those four figures hammer the ball in
streaking lines of white until some
desperate shot flies outside, or some
well-aimed •"kill” plunks solidly at
the base-board.
• * •
D O they hit it hard?
Well, there are three standard
makes of tennis ball, and only one of
them will stand up through five
games of regular handball doubles.
Sometimes a single game is the
limit, and a ball that will resist Carle-
ton Smith's driving tennis service all
afternoon will come feebly apart at
the seams and gasp for breath.
Oh, they hit it pretty hard.
• • •
T HEY wear specially designed
gloves to protect the hands from
that terrible battering, and the
punches handed that helpless pellet
would carry the K. O. label In any
ring contest. Service Is done with
the clenched fist, and the pill shoots
back, less than six Inches from the
floor, a mere white streak.
But those chaps trap it—standing
on one ear at times (vide Dr. Claude
Smith) or lying at full length (see
Cone Maddox) or lunging this way
or that, like a big league infielder
scooping a fast one in his meat hand
in a play that brings the stands up
roaring. The big league inflelder
pulls that play once in a week—
maybe; these chaps pull it a dozen
times a game.
• • •
J IM CORBETT in his palmiest day
played handball—was handball
champion of America at one time—
because handball was the only thin#
he could find that would test the limit
of his marvelous footwork.
Jim never reached the limit in
handball.
Nobody ever will.
• • •
TJANDBALL Is as personal a strug-
** gle as boxing, with fewer black
eyes. It is a man-to-man game. Wom
en play tennis—lots of them. Women
play golf, and even baseball and foot
ball; and basket-ball Is a favorite
woman’s game.
But somehow the old Irish game
of handball began and remains a
man’s game.
It’s that kind of a game.
# * *
I_J ANDBALL played 30 minutes a
A 1 day the way they play it at the
athletic club will keep any man in
prime physical condition, If all the
Test of his exercise consists in roll
ing his own cigarettes. And he won’t
roll many cigarettes, either, if he
plays handball the way It Is played
at the A. C.
It develops a man from the crown
of his head to the soles of his feet,
and if there is a perforable space in
side his alleged dome of thought, It
will put somethnlg in there, too—
something of swift thinking and
prompt decision; something of the
control of mind over muscle—and
a whole lot of the old sportsmanship
that stands to a man in the game of
life, as well as in handball.
* • *
T HEY have tournaments at the
Athletic Club, and every player
of experience has his established rat
ing. They pair off for practice daily,
In singles and doubles, so as to get
the most even matches possible.
And often three, of them play the
well-known and desperate game of
“-cut-throat,” every man for himself,
and you know the rest.
* * *
T ARLETON SMITH enjoys the
highest rating, probably. There
are a number who can make him
travel in high, however, and handball
is such a delightfully temperamental
game that almost anybody is likely
to trim anybody else, provided they
are anywhere inear equally matched.
“Willie” Keeler and ’Gene Kelly, both
southpaws, make up a formidable
team in the doubles, their terrific
service from the port side being es
pecially hard for a right-hand team
to combat. Both are top-notchers at
singles, too.
And in the same rank are listed
Howard Arnold, a crack right-hander
known as the “Speed Boy;” Dr.
Claude Smith, who makes the most
Sports andSuch
SUCH IS FAME.
“J just got back vacationing," quoth I
To one who reads the paper every
day.
And in surprise the lowlife made re*
ply-
"I never knew that you had been
awayt"
We shall not go into the details of our
vacation except to say that the shoot
ing was exceptionally good. In one
game we shot six naturals in succes
sion.
Larry McLean feels deeply Insulted
over the fact that a vulgar person In
Philadelphia threw a bottle at him. The
bottle was empty.
Philadelphia may be a slumbrous ham
let, but John J. McGraw & Gang have
a deep suspicion that It is subject to
nightmares.
It Is rumored 'hat a spectator was
seen recently in the Cincinnati baseball
park, but the rumor Is unconfirmed.
SOME BOIX.
There was a young fellow named Viox,
Who labored in Pittsburg's emplois.
At fielding he starred,
And he batted so hard
That Fred Clarke sang a paean of
joix.
Hugh Jennings Informs us that Ralph
Comstock has more nerve than any
youngster he ever saw. It is said that
he has almost as much nerve at a pea
nut peddler In the grand stand.
LOST IN THE JUNGLE.
A vacation is a pleasure,
A delight beyond all measure,
It's rapture with a sweet celestial
thrill.
Rut it banishes all gladness
And it fills your heart with sad
ness
When you haven't got the makin's of
a pill.
Frank Chance does not like Bermuda
as a training camp. This is due to the
fact that the odor of onions reminds
him of the work of his athletes.
ob ® Prva Uons during our
J ? ™ Wisconsin, we found the pop.
u-atlon of the state equally divided be
tween fight promoters and people.
As we understand It. Willie Ritchie
and Freddie Welch will fight for the
world's lightweight moving picture
championship.
A baseball scribe avers -that there is
no choice between the St. Louis major
league teams. But he does not tell us
where he has discovered the St. Louis
major league teams.
We note that one Ralph Bell has won 1
nineteen straight games for Winona. !
This reminds us that Winona is the !
place where Bill Taft was knocked off
the slab.
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But Johnny Reconsidered and
Now He Is Champion Among
Featherweights.
speotaoualr “falling shots” ever seen;
Jack Beasley, with a penchant for
“killing” a shot with count ten-all;
Cone Maddox, heavyweight cham
pion; Fred Brine, Joe Gregg, Jr., a
veteran; Henry DeGive, Charlie Bar
ker, Ed Gay, Alvin Cates, "Tie” |
Weaver, W alter DuBard, Gus Sisson
and a long list of others, notably some
new hands on the “night side,” who
have recently been bitten by the
handball bug.
• • •
T T’S a great game to watch, hand-
1 ball.
And It’s a much greater game to
play.
And it’s the FASTEST game in the
world.
C LEVELAND, Sept. 6.—Kilbane—
the champion—talked recently
at his Avon Beach camp of
some of the fights he’s had. He was
chief gaffer of the fanfest between a
half-dozen ardent followers of the
mitt.
“The first bout I ever fought In the
ring was my last, I thought at the
time,” declared Kilbane. "It was with
Herman Zahnizer at New Castle, Pa.
1 was nervous and excited from the
paper talk that preceded the contest.
And when I ducked under the ropes
the crowd around the ringside de
cried my physical proportions as com
pared to the bigger and sturdier
Zahnizer. They thought I wouldn’t
last a round, and I had much the
same feeling myself.
“As they put the gloves on me I
had a conversation with myself, and
It amounted to this: ‘If I ever get
out of this ring alive I will never enter
another one.’ I not only got out of
it heart whole and fancy free, but I
stopped Zahnizer in nine rounds, and
then, having won and being full of
enthusiasm, I naturally revised my
decision about quitting the game.
Johnny Knew Attell's otyle.
“I beat Attell because I knew his
style from having previously boxed
him in Kansas City months before the
championship battle. He tried all his
stuff on me then and gave me a line
on what he had. Attell had the best
left-hand stomach punch I ever went
up against. It was just a little under
jab into the wind, but it generally
caught you when you were not pre
pared for it and slowed you up for a
half minute. I watched * for that
punch at Los Angeles and was able
to keep away from it and the left
hook to the jaw which invariably fol
lowed.
“When I knocked out George Kirk
wood in New York the crowd jeered
me so hard I knew I had to deliver
my very best fight.
“'Come on, you Irish staller; are
you going to fight to-night?’ was the
salutation that was shot at me as I
took my corner. Kirkwood came out
wiM-eyed and swinging his big right
hand from the floor. I took a few of
them on the top of the head, and after
that I got inside with my left and I
dropped him a couple of times. I had
no more trouble with him.
Was Sore When He Met Kirk.
“In St. Louis, when I fought Ollie
Kirk. I was so mad I could have
whipped a dozen featherweights.
Kirk had made me miss my train
home—that was the reason. He was
the most confident fellow you ever
saw before a fight, and I was so anx
ious to get even with him I didn't
give him a chance to make a punch.
I stopped him quick.
“Tommy Dixon went around the
East and talked about me, telling
what a four-flusher I was in the
boxing line. I paid him for It when
we met in St. Louis. I refused t(
knock him out, but I beat him around
the head until he couldn’t see. In
Oakland, Cal., when I defeated Jimmy
Fox I had to stand up between the
rounds. A copper who was at the
ringside stole my chair.”
MORE RACES FOR DECATUR.
DECATUR. ILL.. Sept 6.—As a re
sult of the success of the Great Western
race circuit meeting here, it has been
I decided to give a September race meet-
I ing Entries are now being received
The dates selected will be in the third
: week of the month.
U. S. RIFLE TEAM NAMED.
CAMP PERRY. OHIO. Sept. »>.—
Twelve sharpshooters were yesterday
appointed on the Palma team to repre
sent the United States in the contest
with Canada. Sweden and other coun
tries for the Palma trophy on Septem
ber 8 The United States defeated Can
ada in this contest in 1907 and again
last year, each time by world records.
HOBE FERRIS RELEASED.
ST. PAUL. Sept. 6.—Hobe Ferris,
utility inflelder for the local team of
the American Association. ha.-i been
j given his unconditional release. He
will leave for his home at Providence.
! R. I. Ferris’ release came as the re
sult of the addition of McKochnie to
i the team.
BOXING CLUB IS CHARTERED.
MADISON. \V1S., Sept. 6 —The Secre
tary of State has issued a charter to the
South Side Athletic Club of Milwaukee,
which will be a competitor of the
Queensberry Athletic Club of the same
city in giving boxing shows next win
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