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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
I'lie Tenderfoot Tosser Isn’t Made for Diamond Path, ’Which Is Strewn With Thorns
SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
Copyright, 1913. International News
Service.
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p au | e t to Leave Mobile; Snede-
cor , Montgomery; Agler, At
lanta; Abstein, Memphis.
S OUTHERN LEAGUE fans will
„ ce a regiment of new first
basemen next year. The 1913
jlony has almost been depopulated.
their places will come a bunch
of new faces.
\bck Coyle, the Chattanooga first
w , ker. and Bill McGilvray, of Bir
mingham. are the only ones now on
,.„me-back lists, unless indeed it
b( Kutina, of New Orleans. Be it said
. irth, rmorc. that McGilvray "slowed"
onsiderably last year, and it is by no
meat!? certain that he will be in the
Southern next season.
,'haManooga fandom is divided over
i n>lc Everybody likes him person-
a ll, Some of them are convinced
■ hat he's the best all-round first
baseman in the Southern League.
aver that his crippled hand
ma k, s hint erratic on thrown balls
, n ,1 slows the infield more than his
rnelv hitting at intervals helps th,
dub . 1. .
p(j far. no intimation of Manager
McCormick’s intentions has been
received, but it seems a safe bet that
t oyle will return unless an opportu
ne offers itself to get somebody who
> mighty good” to take his place.
Ho could not be waived out of the
league, furthermore, and will not
leave the circuit even if he departs
from Chattanooga. As for that mat
'd. it is not certain that Coyle will
no: retire from the pastime. Mrs.
Coyle is fond of the Arkansas farm,
and hr gets more and more in the
humor of quitting every season.
Bill Schwartz has definitely an
nounced his intention of managing
from the bench at Nashville, and Ar
ne Hofman will not stay in the
Southern Hence it seems that a new
man will inevitably be seen on the
Nashville team’s initial cushion. Just
who he will be depends on coming
'fades. as he was not provided for
in drafts or purchases. There is a
hunch prevalent in Nashville that
no new man will be Kraft, the hard
hitting first sacker who finished the
season with New Orleans and was
drafted hv Brooklyn. There is no
chance for him; of course, at Brook
lyn, against Jake Daubert.
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ATLANTA sold Joe Agler to Jersey
* * City, where the star fielding first
of them all can pull down a
higher emolument. In his place Smith
has bought Eible, a Saginaw (Mich.)
busher, who is said to be somethin:;
swell.
Mique Finn didn’t waste a week
announcing in Memphis that Bill Ab-
stein must travel, and the ivory one
will doubtless seek a lower class
league. The Irishman is trying hard
to land Gene Paulet for his place, but
hasn’t succeeded just yet. Finn has
Dunkel. a busher, from Muskegon,
Mich . who will be tried out.
Snedecor was drafted from Mont
gomery. and Bobbie Gilks has named
no successor for him as yet.
Paulet will refuse to report to Mo-
"ile, as the atmosphere of that city
has weakened him physically. In-
•nead. Bris Lord has hitched onto
Calhoun, the collegian.
The Pelicans may persuade the re-
fiartoiw Kutina to report. Kutina
wouldn't go to New Orleans with
i rank after being traded thither last
><-ar. but may be willing to play un-
dfr the new management.
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By GEORGE M’MANUS
Will Spend $10,000 on Ball Park
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Concrete Stands in 1915—Maybe
Offers $20,000 for
Smith-Langford. Go
s.\N FRANCISCO, Dec. 2.—Jim
Buckley, manager of Gunboat Smith,
rjmeived from Promoter Robinson, of
| ' afl - Cal . an offer of $20,000 * for a
niatoh between Smith and fcam Lang
ford
Buckley wired back that if Robinson
" v : post his money with Promoter
•'fTroth, of this city, the match was as
1 as made. Of course, it was under-
I ‘’""d that no definite date could be set
r 'he bout until the Gunboat had com-
li ">d h > engagement with Arhtur Pel-
■ i, f , on A \ew Year’s Day.
1 imher wire came to Buckley from
I r '" sha. Wis.. asking regarding plans
1 tees for Smith. Bef »re lea\
V ; '" r ! f coast the Gunboat was of-
E 1 Vl• ;i *10,000 guarantee if he would go
i ' ' L ’ '■ and meet Bombardier Wells
[ a return match. Buckley refused. h»-
' • as by- bad already closed with
, * Pelkey match i le ma ■
'be trip abroad later, however, if
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'inn Picks Mullen
To Captain Turtles
Dec. 2.—Manager Finn, of
I Memphis elub. announced this
1hat Second Baseman Mullen,
I btatned from Utica, of the
I * ?r k State league, in exchange
I. ■' 1 ort'iiv. will captain the 1914
' 'it Mullen succeeds Bill
| this capacity.
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By O. B. Keeler.
rr^HE spring cleaning of the Atlan-
J ta Baseball Association is go-
inT to be quite expensive out
at Ponce DeLeon Park.
The total cost, the directors esti
mate. will be about $10,000. and will
include the following items:
A new fence, all around the field.
A new smoker, for the negro fans,
built on an angle off from the eas*-
ern end of the present smoker, around
near where the “Bull” sign stands.
New’ braces for a great part of the
old stands.
Painting the whole works.
A LL that in addition, to the usual
w’ork of getting the turf in con
dition for baseball, surfacing and
"tuning up” the diamond and infield,
and all that sort of thing.
Truly it has been remarked. "The
life of a baseball magnate is one
blank thing after another.’’
You may fill in the blank yourself.
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C T. NUNN ALLY has another idea,
• however, and the other direc
tors are thinking it over
At a recent conference, while the
subject of improvements and repairs
were being considered. Mr. NunnaUy
advanced the opinion that U might be
taking time by ihe well-known fore
lock to spend just as little money ai
possible on only necessary repairs th<*
coming season, and then spend a real
bunch «of coin on a big concrete stand
the year after.
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<4\Y/E’VK got to do it some time-
W that's a cinch.” said Mr. Nun-
nally. "Atlanta's outgrowing the
present plant, and, moreover, Atlanta
deserves a regular concrete affair, the
same as most of those in the big
leagues. Birmingham has a first-
class plant, patterned after Forbes
Field, in Pittsburg, but it has *he
same fault ns Forbes Field—the stand
is too far away from the scene of ac
tion."
Further discussion agreed that the
Atlanta, idea would be more on the
Cleveland plan, or Shibe Park, home
G f i lie Philadelphia American
Leaguers, constructed more near y
straight up in the air. instead of
sloping rapidly away from the dia
mond.
T HK next stand for Atlanta ought
to scat about fifteen thousand,
was the general opinion. That would
he rather larger than the <’ubs’ stand
jn Chicago, and would make a fine,
commodious park for many years to
come.
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B UT of course ail tl. t is very muen
in the air at present, and it is a
huge undertaking, only to be ap
proached with much care and plan
ning. It would be impossible to build
a new plant before next season, and
so the directors are merely thinking
the idea over carefully.
In the meantime, the old park w
have to be dolled up a bit, though il
doesn’t look so b«.d, at that.
Federal Magnates
Lay Plans for 1914
PITTSBURG, Dec. 2.—The magnates
of the Federal League here here yester
day and much Important business was
transacted.
Acting President John A Gilmore, of
Chicago, presided. The p'ans for uni
form grandstands and hall parks, on
which a corps of experts have been
working for some time, were submitted.
Fach franchise holder was also required
to put up an additional $5,00U. this mak
ing $15,000 each team has in the league
treasury. .
Because Pittsburg and Kansas < ity
teams^own their own grandstands, they
will only he required to put up $Jo,000
in all. while the other magnates will
he required to put up twice that sum.
The franchise of the Pittsburg team was
officially iransferred to a company head
ed hy John G Barbour, a millionaire
stockholder.
Ned Hanlon, of the Baltimore team,
gave the presidents of each team a
heart-to-heart talk in regard to players
for the coming season. Practically every
plaver on the St Louis American
League and St. Paul American Associa
tion teams, is reported to he ready to
sign Federal League contracts.
Packey McFarland to
Marry Joliet Girl
PITTSBURG, Dec. 2 -It was learned
here to-day that Packey McFarland, the
pugilist, is engaged to marry Miss Mar
garet Lough ran, of Joliet. Ill. Tim news
came here in letters io friends and for
mer classmates of Miss Loughrarr. The
time of the wedding was not mentioned
in the letters, but it is expected that it
will occur within the next two or three
months Miss Loughran is a graduate
of the class of 1904 of St. Mary's Col
lege, Notre Dame.
ENGLISH POLOISTS CHALLENGE.
LONDON, Dee 2—The Hurlingham
Polo Club today forwarded a challenge
to the American Polo Association for
a series of cup matches in 1914.
Jess Willard Meets
Morris in Gotham
Fight To-morrow
NEW YORK, Dec. 2. Jess Willard
and Carl Morris, the two foremost
heavyweights of the white race, will
settle to-morrow night In Madison
Square Garden the matter of supremacy
between the pair. The bout is scheduled
to go ten rounds, but both promise a
knockout.
The Stale Boxing Commission, which
meets to-day, has been advised by the
interests which put Willard In bad lo
cally to lift tlie ban on the giant cow
puncher. Willard was put outside the
pale by the Queensberry Athletic Club, of
Buffalo. He failed to fulfill a match
with "One Round” Davis. At the insti
gation of the Buffalo club. Willard was
indefinitely suspended. The Bison City
Association, however, has just agreed to
waive its case, provided Willard fulfills
iiis contract with "One Round” Davis
in the near future.
A squabble has arisen over the referee
question. Promoter Billy Gibson has se
lected Billy Job for the office. Mor
ris doesn’t like the selection and asks
that Charlie White he the third man.
There will he a powwow to-day in Billy
Gibson’s office to straighten out the
tangle
Yost Gets No Credit
For Army's Victory
WEST POINT. N. Y. Dec. 2.—The
success of the Army plays used so suc
cessfully by the Army against the Navy
last Saturday was not the outside
coaching, according to a statement is
sued to-day by the Army Athletic
Council. Coach Fielding H Yost, of
the University of Michigan, the state
ment says, spent but one day at West
Point, and did not assist Lieutenant C.
D. Daly, head Army coacn. The state
ment says:
"Much has been said in the newspa
pers in the last few days in regard to
the assistance given to the coaches of
the West Point football team by Mr.
Fielding H. Yost. The facts in the case
are:
"In 1908 Mr. Yost did actually assist
in tlie coaching of the Army team This
year he arrived at West Point in the
afternoon of November 25 and left in
th^ evening of November 26. The state
ment that he was In any way connected
with 'he coach^g or training of this
year's team m absolutely without
foundation. As a result nf his visit not
one single play was added nor was any
change of evert the smallest importance
made.”
CUNNINGHAM GOES TO KANSAS.
ATHENS. Dec. 2.—Coach W. A
Cunningham, of the Georgia football
and baseball teams. left yesterday
for Kansas, where he will spend the
winter with his two children, who are
there. Cunningham will return to
Athens early in March in time for
the spring baseball training.
Dundee Is New Lightweight Star
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Italian Has Proved His Class
Bv Left Hook.
D ID the reader ever hear of
Joseph Carrora, a fighting na
tive of Sharkal, Italy? No?
Yes. he has if he reads- the sporting
pages. Carrora travels under the
name of Johnny Dundee and is the
latest sensation among the light-
eights. The Americanized Italian, by
getting something of an edge over
Charlie White in the newspaper ver
dict at New Orleans last Thursday,
leaped right up among the boys who
are scrambling around trying to land
a match with Champion Willie
Ritchie. White has been in line for
a crack at Ritchie for some weeks.
Milwaukee clubs have been bidding
for the match Now Dundee has in
an astonishing and sudden manner
stepped right out into the spot whei>-
White stood, and it is possible that
he may beat Joe Rivers to a colli
sion with the only lightweight cham
pion California, ever has had.
White Not Disgraced.
Before we plunge any deeper,,into
tills Dundee narrative we wish to say
that we do not consider that Charlie
White has been disgraced at all.
Dundee deserves great credit for his
victory, all right, no matter how-
small the margin. But not much
^censure is coming to White. Prob
ably he simply had a bad night. We
are one among those who would be
induced to give him an even break
against Dundee In another tussle
In fact, the upset may help White,
when we come to think it over. Char
lie has been getting rusty the past
few months because many of the
good lightweights have refused to
meet him. They did not care to
take a chance of getting hit with that
left of his. Charlie’s consequent in
activity no doubt has shunted him
off hi* boxing stride. White evi
dently has been out to finish his men
quickly in his few recent conflicts
and has neglected to box carefuly,
a little thing he knows well how to
do. He’ll come back, all right, hav
ing learned his good lesson in the
combat with the Dundee chap.
But to get back to the Dundee per
son He is but twenty years old and
has lived In New York since his bov -
hood. He started boxing in 1910. this
being his fourth season as a mitt
flingor
Monteith Picks a Name.
\ Scotty Monteith, one of the
shrewdest of the New York cotoric
of managers, took Young Carrora
under his wing after looking him
over intently In a few' of his early
flights. Scotty is a genuine Scot
himself and hails from Dundee, too.
He realized the name Carrora would
never do for a topnotch fighter such
as he hoped to make of the lad from
Sunny Italy. So he named him after
his home town of Duhdee and picked
out John, a good fighting name, as
his front monicker. Carrora since
has made the name Dundee famous
In the ring and Montieth may take
him over some day to show* the folks
in Scotland.
Dundee fought fourteen four-round
bouts in New York and Brooklyn in
1910 and was credited with the shade
In all of them, so Monteith writes
He was extremely busy In 1911, box
ing no less than 45 times without
getting a real licking. Among his
opponents were Mike Malta, Frankie
Fleming. Kid Goodman. Young Mc
Govern. Young Packey Homroey. Ed
die Sherman, Young Brown, Tv Cobb,
Tommy Houck. Young Shugrue.
Young Cohen, Young Ketchell. Harry
Tracey. Bobby Reynolds and Tom
my O’Toole. That's a mighty rough
outfit to tackle.
Lost to Charlie.
Last year he battled nineteen times
as a featherweight with only one
decided reverse. That was an artis
tic trimming at Syracuse. N. Y.,
handed him by the same Charlie
White who boxed him Thursday In
the South.' White gave Dundee a
dandy licking that night and sent
him back to New York in bad shape.
Among Dundee's other 1912 foes were
Ed file O'Keefe. Young Wagner. Kid
Julian, Packey Hommey, Patsy
Kline. Matt Brock, Johnny Kilhane
(ten rounds no decision, in New
York). George Kirkwood. Harry
Thomas and Pal Moore. Another
hard gang to handle Kllbane shad
ed him. but Dundee did better against
the champion than with White.
Dundee hustled to the coast at the
start of the 1913 boxing season He
got into two scraps with Jack White,
Charlie's brother. In the first he won
the decision after 20 rounds and in
the second he stopped Jack before
the limit. He also stopped Frankie
Conley.
Then Tom McCarev sent for Cham
pion Kilbane, Dundee being held as
the logical challenger for the feather-
weight championship. Dundee
topped off all his previous good work
by holding the champion to an even
break.
Another Kilbane match was a cer
tainty in time had Dundee stuck with
the feathers. But, sad to relate, he
outgrew the class. John took a shot
at Tommy Dixon on July 4 at AUl
buquerque. Recently he lifted Mat
Brock at New Orleans'. Then came |
the White fight of lost week.
So look out for Dundee, you light
weights. He’s only 20, weighs about I
130 and is still growing a bit. He’ll be
big enough for Ritchie before many I
months have passed Dundee has !
proved his class, and is entitled to
serious consideration.
HARVARD ATHLETE TO WED.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.. Dec. 2.—An
nouncement was made to-day by Mr.
and Mrs. Galen L. Stone, of Brook
line. of the engagement of their
daughter, Margaret, to Huntington
R. Hardwick, the Harvard football
player.
FREDDY DUFFY WINS BOUT-.
CHICOPEE. MASS.. Dec. 2.—Freddy
Duffy, of Boston, shaded Chic West,' of
Holyoke, in a slow bout before the
Chicopee A. C. last night.
‘■A JOLLY MIX-UP” AT
THE DUTCH MILL IS
A JOLLY GOOD SHOW
One of the best Extravaganzas
seen here in many days is "A
Jolly Mix-Up,’’ at the Dutch Mill.
It is very amusing, and the splen
did chorus is simply grand in th*»
new costumes received this week.
If you are Inclined to be grouchy
or worried, take a little walk down
to the Dutch Mill and you will be
well paid for the trouble. It Is a
good show’.
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