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THh A 1 LAMA lilM)KUlA.N AND NEWS. They Are Starting Baseball Leagues on Paper, but Some Paper Isn’t Worth Much & SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT • • • • Copyright, 1113. International Ncwa Service. • • • • • • • • By Tad jus™ Rational League Averages Are An nounced— Cravath Runs Sec ond With .341. (Vtioial Ifational League bat- tm* av»ra«»». rel.Med to-dev, sbw ,T*.ke D««b*rt. the Dodger*' fe .a-krr, *nd former Southern flame player, leads the list In hitting, ■al# smashed the ball at a .350 clip for ■he season. ] g and McDonald both top Dan L rI hut neither played in many games. I a the real runner-up, with an I,.rage of Ufa 1 nvoinwlni are ihe averages of the |, - more for the T leant A B. R. H- Cat, ■inlttng. Brooklyn. ..60 IX 33 .383 ■rtwnaM. Cin.-Bos.. .1** ?» 2“ -j|$ Baubert. Brooklyn ...e08 .6 1.8 3o0 Hil.e*. I’hiladelphia 8. » 30 34o travail Phlladelphia.6J5 .8 178 .341 t'alsh', Philadelphia . 30 3 10 .333 lotllaa, Boston * 3 ,1 irnan. Boston 34 3 U .3.4 I ttsburg 43. 88 lo6 .117 i , nnati 882 4. 121 .311 Xjker. I’liila .114 64 131 .316 Kartlev. New York. ...19 4 6 .316 7 Hess. Boston S3 9 36 .313 ■levers. New York . ..3 • 8 3< 118 .313 | J L 4 9 . 16 .306 ■Vheat, Brooklyn ...5.35 64 161 .301 Robert, Philadelphia .573 08 172 .300 m Hgner. Pittsburg 413 51 124 .300 Eooper, New York .... 30 11 0 .300 fletchei New York . 538 76 16(J .297 I 436 4'. 1 IL29 Li*. I , Bos oi 269 88 kb 31*. ■inn Boston 138 15 41 .297 ■ 640 70 100 296 ■takes. St Louis ..539 60 158 .293 ■nodgrass. New York .457 65 1 S3 .291 ■aier. Chicago ..519 94 150 .289 ■dams Pittsburg ...114 13 33 .2*9 1 46 8 18 .289 New York .600 7 4 146 .287 Reach, Chicago . 456 99 131 .287 Burns. New York . .605 81 173' .286 Berzog. New York ..290 46 83 .286 IlcLean. St. L. N Y...227 10 65 .286 • . Chicago .. . 446 81 127 .285 ins. St Louis...382 74 109 .285 1 Eonnolly Boston . ..427 79 120 .281 Rroh. N Y.-Cin 399 51 112 .281 Royle. New York. 482 67 135 .280 Butler, Pittsburg 214 40 60 .280 plbson, Pittsburg . .118 6 33 .280 I rates, Cincinnati 107 63 113 .278 Carey. Pittsburg . 620 99 172 .277 Konetehy, St. Louis 504 75 189 .276 fDOcmick. New York 80 9 22 .275 rf.vert, Boston 524 74 143 .273 Hendrix. Pittsburg 99 13 27 .273 ping. Cincinnati . 209 20 57 .273 Miller. Pittsburg 580 75 158 .272 Mongel, Brooklyn 138 60 119 .272 Miller. Brooklyn . .320 26 *7 .272 Kelly, Pittsburg 82 11 22 .268 Murray, New York 520 70 139 Lf7 futshaw, Brooklyn 592 72 158 .267 Magee. St. Louis. 531 54 142 .267 nscher, Brooklyn . 165 16 44 .267 ^ I Ison. Pittsburg 580 71 154 .266 Mitchell Chi.-Pitts. 478 62 127 266 Moran. Brooklyn 515 71 137 .266 £rcher, Chicago .368 38 98 .266 Pyme, Pitts.-Phila. 506 63 134 265 Uarke. Cincinnati 330 29 87 .264 Pevore, N. Y.-Cln. Ph.277 43 78 .264 Knab* Philadelphia. . 571 70 150 263 Cuderus, Philadelphia.588 67 154 .262 r.sher Brooklyn 474 42 124 .262 I? il* ’ f 'i 1 ila<J el ph iat.. 454 83 119 262 ibmeida, Clncinnat i.. . 130 14 34 262 Ijerkle, New York . 563 78 147 .261 Itarmon, St. Louis ..92 7 24 .261 llowrey, St. Ivouis 450 61 117 .264* Prmer, St. Louis 81 7 21 .259 Blackburn, Cincinnati 27 1 7 259 pJSs« eP b Cin . c . innatl • 5ri 8fi 132 258 In ’ Br S. ok, yt> 31 6 8 .258 l>nDin ne nu^ OS , t0 , n 502 65 129 .257 I™’ Philadelphia 129 6 33 .256 lames. Boston 47 5 12 .255 p ingo, St. Louis 307 25 78 254 k m£rv-f hi '■' Bos1on 142 20 36 254 fuggs. Cincinnati . ... «t 7 17 254 & u,°f lon 407 54 103 .253 trifPitu hicago 91 11 23 .253 Boston 127 16 32 .252 Kan's B 2f t0 i n 235 22 59 -251 Ihelan Ph ^ U,S 245 18 61 - 24M 1'ieian < hicago 261 41 65 uq lirn^D Vll |v' Boston 571 68 141 .247 £ tr £w-” ” » :iii hS?' phla .:S 11 !5 [naiing, Boston °il 2” 51 °42 r*r ■ ii,s 2 « ^ 242 ■ridwell ?r.°. ok| y" 87 3 21 .241 liiduLh' ' hlca * to 405 86 1*7 .240 LShlm .88 11 21 .2.29 llrkp SL.. hlca *" - 42 5 10 .238 ferl,h.r B u 248 « 58 .226 Kikm rw 08,0n 246 31 fi * 236 lb ah pJu a S?. 21)3 33 4* -236 ■man. 1 hil.-Pittg.. .259 37 60 232 Lr; r rs Hr pi, , t r bur8 155 if 3« 232 E n B,okls ' n 28 1 8 231 rylln, Boston ..210 19 4g 229 |hlth a ''ko«. t,SbUrg " 83 U I* 229 Knahan 285 35 « 228 I ■&*";. . h,c *«" 182 20 37 .228 ]• elDs h iS a «° -15* 17 35 .224 J 1 Brooklyn is n a v'° hr»a„. N>w Vork ; •* • « ; 222 |_ Louis ...404 44 *9 .220 IOMlin ard bi *m‘' W Vork -105 5 23 219 Lpo-v 1 Philadelphia..518 av in 218 te’ l S; r T ( ’ i, | 188 2 * 41 .318 >k‘ d n,. , i Lon ‘ M 40 « 32 88 .217 lather it S nC, « nnatl • 79 < 17 -215 p ner, st. Louis 183 16 39 213 fialmers. Phila.. ' irant ri n v- 7; s' i.oui* . ‘JJ ; 4 2 |! pft«e' New v"*! 1 ' 48 8 : - 88 Bo,',™ York , 2 t , 2 « 2 ;;* b, n « s i t nc te t ‘ 84 2 t! :In L'r'p'l^'J'^buhg . ? ?5 Joi Milwaukee Closes Two Corking Bouts 15 i S, a?7a 8 tV;„^ W t ‘ w U 0 k «'|te P h r e° 8 t” ,lBh,y uftractive to f»t J ' s * n <> Promoters. The P M;Perife k i frr>t tl '“-night, alien fcth over itf”' an<1 -lack Britton [her i s si '« ten-rmiiul route. The Irnttiy iol l“ r December 29. when F ' I'-orge rw wln . endeavor to polish [■ -n •••'Icwe'Shi ” d w m,k t hl * cl a'ru to l'e.1 0 e Rhl championship tindis- | E L T E. R b matched. I' ; Is. Barrett' CL ' — Ki(l Graves , 4'rett. local aspirants to the 1 I.iit'rhave been matched tihUn^d t’" 1 " before the South c ,' ‘c Club, of this city. Tburs- I be pail met in Brooklyn 1 - a *w «Ver since each bn 82 - ^»r fi„Vi Ctn , rv , n I fr his rival. In I ' t hi k Rodrnond and Hall [ 0( «u lightweights, will clash BRINGING UP FATHER By GEORGE M’MANUS NDTLET LDDSE Jake Daubert and Wheat Are Also Fixtures With Brooklyn Team for 1914, By Sam Crane. B ROOKLYN, Dei'. I. — President Ebbets, of the Brooklyn club, and the McKeever Brothers all deny that Nap Rucker will be ex changed for Marquard and Herzog, of the Giants, and Ebbets also took oc casion to say that Manager Wilbert Robinson will have to keep hands off when It comes to a case of the dis posal of Daubert. Rucker or Wheat. Club owners do not look with pleas ure on a manager or anyone else but themselves bothering with their club’s assets, and players are in that class. But, nevertheless, while that is right in a way, still it is those man agers like McGraw and Mack who are given free rein and absolute author ity to release and engage their play ers who have been the most success ful and have made the most money for their employers. Interfered With Tinker. It was because of President Herr mann's interference with Joe Tinker in running the team that caused the munager to take a sensational fling at Herrmann last seaso and It was be cause Tinker insisted on full power for next year, which was not granted, that Joe was not signed as manager for next year. It was because President Hermann did not want to take the burden of Tinker’s release cause on his own shoulders that the officials of the club were induced to sign the statement giving the reasons of Tinker's being thrown down That the Reds will be a second division club next season seems to be a foregone conclusion After being in baseball for a year or more club owners get the foolish idea that they know how to run their teams as well as, if not better than, the managers they hire for the job. Then comes the friction between the magnate and manager, and the jig is up as far as the winning power of the team goes. McGraw a Real Manager. John T. Brush, when he engaged McGraw as manager of the Giants was wise enough to give the latter full power over his players, and he never withdrew his manager's abso lute control. This was one reason why McGraw has been so remarkably suc- i essful. What McGraw said was law. and there was no going behind his or ders. There was no appeal, not even to Mr. Brush. President Hempstead has followed in the footsteps of his lamented fa- ther-ln-law. and the result was that the Giants were again w inners of the National League pennant, and more money was turned into the coffers of the club than ever before. Athletic Club Five Opens Basket Ball Season Saturday The basket ball season will be inau gurated by the Atlanta Athletic Club five next Saturday night, when they clash against the Bessemer Athletic Club, from Bessemer. Ala. The local team has been practicing for the past ten days and should be in gr£at shape for a tough game by Satur day They are looking for a harder game than they had with the Bessemer squad last year, as reports state that the visitors are much stronger this sea eon. Following is the probable line-up of the Atlanta team: Du bard, center (captain*: Forbes. Mnith. Abbott. Wight, forwards; Carter. Weaver. Locke, guards. The line-up of the Bessemer team will be: Houston, center: B. S. Clay <cap- tainl, Donaldson, Bailey, forwards; 1 Clay, Edmondson, Filmore. guards. ^ Johnny Dundee Gets New Orleans Match With Joe Rivers NEW ORLEANS, IaA., Dec. 1.— J.>e Rivers, the Mexican lightweight, who defeated Leach Cross last week, has been matched to box Johnny Dundee in a ten round bout here on Christmas Day. T. D Tortorich. promoter, closed the match yesterday. This bout should prove a corker for local fans. Dundee has been coming to the front rapidly lately and 1s hound to give the Mexican a tough sc rap C. Nunnally Will Aid B. Smith "*"*"*' +•+ +•+ +•+ *>•+ A M II A II ■»> __ Will ‘Shop’ for Players Together LOOKOUT FOR B Riders Work Out in Six-Day Cycle Race NEW YORK. Dec. 1.—The entire con tingent of sixteen teams entered for the six-day bicycle race in Madison Square Garden, which starts at midnight Sun day. December 7. began final training to-day on the roads in this vicinity and at the Vailsburg, N. J.. motordrome. The (ierman team. Packe Busch and Applehaus, and the French team. Perchicot and Breton, were out for practice. Perchicot is also entered for the feature event in the preliminary races next Saturday night against Frank Kramer. .Jackie Clarke and Francisco Yerri for the world's short distance championship. This year, for the first time in the history of the six-day race. foreign teams overshadow the American en tries. There are only six American learns in the contest There are five distinct foreign teams and five combi nations. four of which are composed of ( ne American and one Australian each, and one in which an Englishman will ride with an American. Among the prominent entrants he sides those already mentioned are Clarke and Hehlr and Walker - and Pye. of .Australia the Australia-American combinations of Coullet and Fogler. Grenada and Moran. Root and Mc Namara. and John Bedell and Corry. Fred Hill and Rysn and Walthnur and Collins, America, and Verrl and Brocco, Italy PLAYERS SOLD. DECATUR. ILL., Dec. 1 Pitcher ‘Rube' Hildebrand and Third Baseman Toner, of the Great Falls club of the Union Association, were purchased by the Decatur Three-1 League club. This is the first step taken for tlu* reorgan ization of the club for the 1914 season. By O. B. Keeler. ILL SMITH expects to have some active support in his gum-shoe endeavors in New York about December 8 and 9. when the Naticinal League annual meeting comes off. C. T. Nunnally. a direc tor. is going on to New York on business Monday and he told Billy Saturday he would try to wait over for him and chaperon him through the toils and pitfalls of the session. Bill grinned and took unto himself a hunch that with the Hon. Nunnally of well-known generosity in baseball matters back of him he could loosen up a few notches when it came to picking up a couple of infielders, which is what Bill will be trying to do in New York. As to the prospects. Bill has no more to submit just now than that the Pittsburg bunch has a Ibng string of youngsters and B. Dreyfuss is a trading kind of a bloke. T HE Cracker management is book ing exhibition games for the practice season. These games already are arranged: Louisville. American Association. Mar< h 16, it an<i 18 Cleveland Americans. March 19. 20 and 21. New York Americans, March 26. Rochester. Eastern League. April 7, 8. 9. 10 and 11. The Boston Braves—so-called be cause it was sheer bravery that kept them in the National League for many seasons—also want a three- game series here, and invite the Crackers to visit Macon and play them there. Dates will be arranged as soon as possible. * * * DY the way. the Braves’ communi- cation, written T>y George Stal lings. manager, is a very cordial epistle, and includes an urgent invi tation to Bill Smith and the At lanta club's directors to spend some time at Mr. Stallings' big planta tion, “The Meadow,” near Haddock. Ga. After requesting the exhibition games. Mr. Stallings writes: “If we have anything that will do you any good>> we will be glad to help you all we can.” That refers to players, of course. For the invitation— “The biros are plentiful, only too tame: they need someone to stare them up a little. Tell Messrs. Ryan and Nunnally if you can lure them this far away from the big city we would be pleased to have them with us and will try to fix up some real city food during their stay.” Messrs Ryan and Nunnally. hav ing tried the said hospitality last year, agreed that no special induce ments would be needed to lure them down to "The Meadows” if they could possibly arrange the visit. * * * B ILL expects lo leave Atlanta about December 6 for New York. He may possibly go a bit earlier and stop over at Washington. local Manager to Leave on Scout ing Trip Saturday—Will At tend National Meeting. Food for Sport Fans SPORTING SIDELIGHTS T Y COBB did his best stick work against the Boston. Philadelphia and Cleveland pitch ers in leading the American League batsmen for thf- fifth con secutive season. The Red Sox pitchers were the easiest of the lot. In the last campaign he faced the Boston twirlers seven ty-nine Jimes and banged out thirty-five safeties for an aver age of .4 43. He made seven hits off Collins in fifteen times up. eleven off Leonard in twenty- two tries; eight off Bedient in nineteen chances; three off O'Brien in the four times he faced Buck; two off Anderson in four attempts. and three off Moseley in ten chances. Cobb faced Joe Wood three times, but didn’t get a safety- nor did he get a hit off Foster in the three chances he had against the Kid Wvckoff. of the Athletics, was real meat for Tyrus. who found him for five safe hits in seven tries. T ut; appointment of Wilbert Robinson to succeed Rill Dah- len as manager of the Superbas has met with great approval among the umpires of the Na tional League. “Lord” Byron declares that lId- ova ner of the Brooklyn learn could not have picked a better man than Robinson to handle his team. There is a reason for “His limps” madness. Bill Dahlen haunted the umpires night and day, while- on the other hand. Robinson, mild and good-natured, rarely if ever gets Into a con troversy with the czars of the diamond. W r ILBERT ROBINSON'S first move as manager of lin* Brooklyn team is the suggestion that involves the transfer of Charlie Herzog to the Brooklyn club. The Giants’ inflelder would be used at shortstop if the deal is completed. Since the release of Bob Fisher to Toronto, the Brooklyn club is left with two candidates for snort field—Movie, a New York State League re cruit, and O'Hara, of the Fort Wayne team of the Centra! League. DIRECTORS RE ELECTED COLUMBUS. Dec 1. \t the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Co lumbus Baseball Association, ihe old hoard «>f directors was rn-Hected. At a subsequent meeting held by the direc tors. George S Hamburger, a manufac turer. was elected president of the as sociation The general impressions pre vails that .lim Fox will again be elected manager of the lea in. B ILLY SMITH, manager of the Crackers, is not satisfied with the players he has on hand for next season. This much was settled yesterday when the local manager stated that he will leave Saturday morning on a scouting trip. He will also attend the National League meeting at New York December 9. Smith plans to stop off in Wash ington en route to New York to have a conference with Clarke Griffith. Smith would like to get another in- fielder or two for next season, if pos sible, as from the present outlook of things the Cracker manager will be able to use a good man At present Smith has Eible for first, McConnell for second, Jennings for short and Manush for third. Eible and Jennings are unknown quantities and Smith would like to have some one on hand in case either happened to fail to deliver ihe goods McConnell should have little trou ble in holding down the middle cush ion during the entire season. He was a star in the American League until he injured his legs, and should be heard from next season in this cir cuit. He is a fast man and a corking player to lead off. Manusli is well known around these parts. He proved a valuable player as substitute for the locals and is a good veteran to have on a team, espe cially when some of the players In the Infield are youngsters. Basket Ball League To Close Season SOME JOB. 7 hr fjrnta who own the basvball club are always in his iray And (toss him on the slightest provocation: I'hc creatures in ihe bleachers swing the hammer every day And fill his soul with sorrow and vexation. He yets it from the owners and he I yets it from the mob And stands enough abuse tit drive him batty. / thank the Lord I dit*not hold the\ wretched person's job Who tries tit run a team in (Jin- cinnatty. Leading a team In Cincinnati is a great little job except that the leader is suposed to remain seven blocks in the | rear. The report that the Kenosha club has signed Jimmy Clabby ano Packey Mc Farland will be news to Jimmy Clabby and Packey McFarland. Not detracting one iota from Mr. Mc Farland’s record, but reports from Windsor indicate that Brewer fought like one. Recent events lead one to suspect that Garry Herrmann is the Fred Mer- kle of the. baseball magnates JOE SHOULD BE WORRIED. Joe Tinker t up and answered thus: “I do not care n 'Tinker's runs 'east. The Hot Stove League has a few hundred more jobs to wish on him. Mr O'Brien, of Harvard, is accused of having pulled a boner in the Yale game, but an investigation reveals the fact that it was the rules committee that committed the Merkle. Automobile drivers next year will race for- prizes amounting to $105,000. some cf which will not go to the undertakers. MISSED. A city huntsman killed a stay. A stay of noble size. And straightway hurried home to brag About his prize. "How queer! How wondrous queer!" they cried. And yet it teas not queer. For he had tried to shoot his guide. And killed the deer. COOMBS LEAVES HOSPITAL. PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 1.. Jack Uoombs, the Philadelphia American League club's pitcher, who has been a patient in a hospital since before the world’s series last October, left the in stitution to-day. Coombs contracted t> phold of the spine during last springs training season. He expects to he in condition to join the Athletics next 3’ear J0BACC0 HABIT , v ; The National Guard Basket Flail League will play Its final games this week Three games remain to be placed, two Wednesday night and one Friday night. The battle Friday night will be n all probability for the championship of the league Company G and the Governor's Horse Guards regulars will meet Nei ther of these teams have lost a game ye? The Horse Guards have played and won six games, while the Company G ' team has only played four, two of their games being postponed The Horse. Guards have experienced little difficulty in winning their games. Joe Tinker aver* that he would rather work for Charlie Murphy than for Gar ry Herrmann. Gee, but Garry is a cop ular guy! Having played a world's series with I the. Athletics, the Giants ought to be ( accustomed to rough going Football also has its economic advan tages. A young man who has been cheer ; leader for four years is highly quail- | tied to ballyhoo for a moving picture show. I Eddie Collins refuses to work for $15.- i 000 a year in the Federal League, evi dently on the theory that it is impossi ble to pay the butcher’s bill With stage I money. Valuables worth nearly $10,000 were left In the Harvard stadium, to say nothing of Yale's goat. You css esnqusr It salty In 3 days, lm- I P'«»« your health, srslang ysur Ilfs. No more siom • arh trouble, no foul breath, no hsarr weakness H4- <«in manly vlfer. calm nervea. eltar eyea end »t, pertor mental strength. Whether you rhew or ainoKi' 1 UP*. 1 Igarettea. cigars, set my In'erosting Tobac-o Rook Worth It* ueighr in gold Mailed free. E. J. WOODS. 534 Sixth Ava . 74B M New York N Y. Opluat Wktikay bru H»Mt« treated at Heaa* *r at SarltaHaaa. Rook oa aakied JVaa. DR ■ *L WOOLLEY. M-K RUao# Se«iturtmea, Arlaata. 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