Newspaper Page Text
I
f>
i nr, AUiA^ IA UljUIVUiAA AAU
a r, vv o.
# Art Has Its Demands, but Love Is tlie Lure Tliat Tickles tl\e Box Office Alan
■Q>
LET ILL CLUBS
What' s a Million, Anyway?
By James Swinnerton
10*ner of Reds Plans to Dispose
of Former Manager at League
Meeting To-morrow.
B.\ .James Clarkson.
C - —^ HIl * AGO, ILL., Dec. 8.—It now
begins to look as though the
- y National League meeting to be
|he!d in New York to-morrow will be
|a pretty lively affair after all. Prac-
irally every club in the circuit will
|i,'n after the services of Tinker, who
be placed on the market by Garry
(Herrmann.
The Pittsburg Pirates want Joe
tbadly. Tinker admitted yesterday
|:hat Clarke was going to land him, al-
nough he did not intimate what the
Londitions of the trade may be. How-
• says there is nothing of ;i
fsure thing" nature connected with
the possibility of him going to the
11 ?■ would be willing to play
■ or Clarke, although he seems to pre
fer retinning to his first love—the
j’ubs.
Tinker to Bring High Price.
The meeting to-morrow night may
(Ling on more trades than we aie ex
isting. Practically every manager in
hr National League, with the excep
tion of McGraw, will be in attendance.
[There will also be several American
League magnates there.
'Mark Griffith, who comes out in an
Interview and says he will not run
lower than second next season, will
Inake a bid for Outfielder Bates, of
\ Cincinnati Beds. Griff says he
asn’t an idea that he will succeed in
picking the deal, but nevertheless he’s
oing to tackle Herrmann,
lust who Clarke, of the Pirates, will
\ ffer for Tinker is not known. It is
•asonable to believe that Herrmann
ill ask a whole lot when he says to
it* National League moguls: "Gen-
i emen. make your offers.” Tinker cost
[Herrmann in the neighborhood of
.000 in money and players. Five
players came to the Cubs via the Reds
vhen Tinker was assigned to the
|nanagement of the Herrmann tribe.
So you can gamble that Herrmann
v ill hold Tinker at a high price. How-
ver, Joe is worth a high price, and
Reds will no doubt be able to
et considerable talent in exchange for
ini.
Evers Leaves for East.
Johnny Ev«r» staled when lie left
l l&ct Thursday tiuM. he
pidn’t think he would attend the meet
ing But you can bet that Peppery j
John will be among those present at
Ihe confab. And it would not be sur- |
) rising to learn that John was armed
vith a lot of paper? from Charles W.
Murphy authorizing him to go the
limit to secure the services of Tinker.
\ moi ir.i i, League, despite the
fact that it is willing to gd the limit
• itii the kale, has no chance of gat
ing Tinker. The National League
Magnates have all stated that Tinker
s too good a ball plaver to let get out
-f the league. That means that he
ortstop for one of the National
[League clubs next season.
. j
'Boozers Can NotWin
In Baseball’-McGraw
John J. McGraw, manager of the
New York Giants, is not a teetotaler
1 imself. but he has no use for the
boozing ball player. Before sailing
for the Orient Mac got the following
off of his chest:
"If you really want to be a big
•"ague star, to break into the major
organizations, you’ve got to pass the
ink emporiums by.*’
But McGraw didn't give that advice
about drinking, or rather not drink-
ng. just to say something that would
|look nice in print. Talk to him a.
j minute. It was evident he meant it.
I don’t have an anti-drink pro-
rion in a single one of my con-
acts.” McGraw said. "I wouldn't
ha\e a player on my squad who had
to be kept away from the bars on a
•ntract. Baseball is a science to-
mv—] suppose everybody says that.
But if you ha ve followed the develop
ments of the game during the 25
f, ars as 1 have, you would under
stand what 1 mean.
The baseball player of to-day who
becomes a real star and lands in the
Headlines, who draws the salary that
w ould have been fabulous five years
a "o to-day. must be more keen and
a lert. must think more quickly than
u ■ essful man in almost any
»ther profession. You can't do that
*nd drink. That is why the boys lay
'ff the foam stuff while the baseball
season is on if they stick long on the
Giants. I want the best that is in
them, and they can’t give it if they
indulge in drink even moderately."
Tiie World’s Series?
Purget it. McGraw has been inter
viewed so often on that—really, it
-s too old to talk about it. The
Public didn't care for any alibis for
e Giants now, even though four or
‘Vf* of the Giants didn't play up to
rrn The hard season’s combat
obably was responsible for that.
Npxt year?
e don’t win pennants in the win-
said McGraw. ‘‘I don’t want to
ross Cincinnati. You know Cincin-
p,a ti has won the winter pennant
* e ‘ v 'e times straight. We take ours
n the summer.”
1,
MR JKCK \ Am ABOUT To
read To tou tour uorre
UNCUES VJtUU IM Vs/HICH HE
l EAVES TOO MORE THAN A
MILLION DOLLARS IN MONET
AND SECURITIES PROVIDED
TQU CEASE YOUR FOOUSH
FLIRTING-WHICH HE QUITE
RIGHTLY thinks REFLECTS
ill. on the family name.
i At tv ^
L /\U>
' The will heads -HM- i do hereby bequeath 1
TO my MBPHEW MR jack all OF MV PROPERTY
MONEY SBCURiTlES AND REAL ESTATE
Bun in consideration thereof he must
Renounce flirting-in all forms or The
ESTATE shall rev&rt To Ch arty And — /
("BEAUTIFUL. 1 .
1 AM I DREAMING
OK ARE Tou a
LIVING 9ReaThiNG-J
V WOMAN ? •
/
m
L
AT TV. At
LAW
At t Y A
U,Avvj
i whats
OM Tou
FLATTERER'.
"1
WONDERFUL 1 .'
POLLY AND HER PALS
There’s Sometning the Matter With Ashur
The
s'mv aJEv/view/.
/15HUR. Doc. HF?
/M There T"' fH
-THE tti'/MMEM
FDLRS /4V M
CAHi
PI66ER OU1 UteiTs
The TeougLE :J;
1 DA\ti6cut if.’ J h°PEi
-THEV 4f.iT MUTHIV
5ericu£ The.
M4T7ER o'/riH
“The Boy!
T
LL
6/tAJ6U//4V!
6AH6WA y.‘
—^
v\ V
6g£4T ouusf
Doc, \&ol
The IrcuhleA
s
H E.U EL.lVHE.fC
LfOJ ME. AT Lf S
ok. CH1 c K<lN-Po>,
I Don't KNOW;
WHICH. SJ
N
.V
V-
Jl_
FULTZ DOUBTS
Welsh Would Take
Joe Rivers’ Place
In Go With Dundee
r
Famous Yellow Jacket Coach Looks tor Very Few Changes
HE ISM AN TALKS ABOUT 1014 FOOTBALL RULES
The
greatest player?
■IcGraw didn’t hesitate a bit;
uddie Collins, beyond a doubt," lie
;,J - "I used to believe Wagner was
greatest ever. He’s slowed up a
_ l - °ut is a mighty sweet player still.
.< ollins—well, he’s about the best
ar ^ver stepped out on the field."
• ; H te-wolgast go closed.
yhWApKEE. Dec. 8. -Ad Wolgast
carles White have been matched
.'A' 1 bit of negotiating ha? been
and if Woigasf does not mee
No Action Will Be Taken
Fraternity Until Contract Is
Received From Outlaws.
by
N'
EW YORK. Dec. 8.- David L.
Fultz, president of the Base
ball Players’ Fraternity, issued
a. statement !n which he said he did
not believe the report that a number
of the players in organized ball have
signed with the Federal League, for
the reason that 85 per cent of the
players in the Tour larger leagues had
stated to him personally that they
would not sign with anyone until con
tracts satisfactory to the fraternity
were procured.
Mr. Fultz's statement follows:
“J do not believe the report ♦hat a
number of the players in organized
ball have signed with the Federal
.Deague, for the reason that 85 per
cent of the players in t’ne four larger
(leagues have stated to me personal y
that they would not sign with anyone
until contracts satisfactory to the fra
ternity were procured.
“As the advisory board has not yet
passed upon the Federal League’s
contract, and* as no agreement ha*
yet been reached with organized ball,
any player who signs a contract with
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 8. — Promoter
Tortorlch will have no trouble finding a
suitable opponent for Johnny Dundee
Christmas Day, according to a message
received yesterday from Freddie Welsh,
English lightweight, who telegraphs
that he is anxious to meet, the Italian
lightweight here* in a ten-round bout in
the event Joe Rivers is unable to keep
the engagement.
The Dundee-Rivers bout, according to
Mr. Tortorich, lias not been declared
off as yet. Rivers was signed to a set
of articles with the understanding he
would release in the event he could not
get a match with Willie Ritchie on the
coast Christmas Day.
Tortorich says he has not heard from
Joe Bevy. Rivers’ manager, requesting
a release from the contract he entered
Into here recently, but expects to know*
definitely within the next day or two.
B
Athletic Club Five
Plays Chattanooga
Quintet Saturday
The Chattanooga Tigers, champion
basketball players of Bast Tennessee,
will play the Atlanta. Athletic Club in
the second game of the season Saturday
night.
The Tigers defeated every team m
East Tennessee last year, and went
through the entire season without a de
feat. They have been at work for quite
a while this season and are now in ex
cellent condition.
English Net Sharks
To Return to Courts
Special Cable to The Atalnta Georgian.
LONDON. Dec 8. Norman Brookes.
either faction at the present time will the great Australian tennis player, who
be considered to have committed an
act of hostility to the fraternity which
may amount to cause for expulsion.
"We understand that the Feder.il
League contract, which will be sub
mitted to us within the next few day*,
will comply with all our requests; if
so, the fraternity will place no ob
stacle in the way of players signing
when the proper time comes, if they
think the move is a wise one. A few
of the nlayers may have signed al
ready. arid a number more may have
agreed to do so when the contract ia
approved, but there isn’t the slightest
doubt in the mind of any member of
the advisory board that the player*?,
with few exceptions, will remain ab
solutely loyal to the fraternity iaJ
will follow out the plan agreed upon
•several months ago."
Japs Drop 16 to 3
Game to Americans
TOKIO, Dec. 8.—The Japanese base
ball players dropped a 16 to-3 game to
the Americans yesterday morning, when
a nine from Kelo University met a
mixed team composed of players from
the Chicago American League < lub ami
the New York Gian is Scores:
lias not appeared in first-class tennis
since his defeat by James Parke in
the last Davis competition in Australia,
has decided to return and will play in
the tournament on the Riviera this win
ter. If all goes well with him he will
make another attempt to win the all-
English championship next year.
This of course means that Australia
with the help of Mr. Brookes, who is
still considered one of the best if not
the best individual player in the world,
is going to make a strong bid to take
the Davis cup away from America next
5 ear and Hive It a not er trip to I he
Antipodes. On the Riviera Mr. Brookes
will again have an opportunity of meet
ing his old competitor Anthony F.
Wilding. When last here, Mr. Brookes
was considered the best player of the
two, but Mr. Wilding has improved so
much that the struggle should be a
very keen one.
WOLF TO LEAD ROCKFORD.
ROCKFORD. ILL., Dec 8.--Directors
of the Rockford W. I League team have
voted to accept the terms of Orville
WoTf to manage th** nine in 1914 Wolf
caught on the Rockford team two sea
sons.
GEORGIA APPLES WIN PRIZES.
ELLIJ \ 5 ! >e< 8
a lruit grower of Gilmer County, has
.lust received a telegram that he won
first prizes on four varieties of apples
exhibited at the National Apple Show
in New York.
By J. W. Heismau.
ASEBALL has become so well
crystallized that we nardly ex
pect any changes in the playing
rules from year to year. But foot
ball is a game which in its nature is
bound to go through a deal more of
experimenting before we can sav
positively that th® very best and
most satisfactory rules have at last
been evolved.
It must be admitted that the ele
ment of danger has not been entirely
eliminated from the game, nor, for
that matter, do I ever expect to see it
so. Football is undoubtedly a rough
game, and it always will be, else it
will not be football.
But it can no longer be Said to be
anything like as dangerous a pastime
as it was some seven or eight years
ago. A number of unfortunate casu
alties do still occur each season, but
they do not number one-quarter what
they formerly ran to. And we also
observe that, the very serious acci
dents do not occur on high-grade col
lege teams or elevens that have been
handled by skilled coaches and train
ers. It is the young boys who go pell-
mell into the thing without competent
supervision and coaching, or who play
against teams very greatly their su
periors in weight and strength, that
get badly hurt pr worse.
But the American people have come
to realize that many more persons
lose their lives each year in hunting,
in skating, in swimming, in boating
and other sports than succumb in
football, and the mad outcry against
the game has entirely hushed. We
can not hope to make the game much
safer, so it is probable we shall see
no changes in the rules having for
their object the mere elimination
of alleged danger
in 10
Americans.
Kelo University
Afternoon game.
K
, ' Tie eleventh hour injury tlm pair' Afierr.oon game
n* . ’ o!< "P at the Hippodrome on.^hicHgo Americans
Member la. 1 New York Giants,
HEN tiie requirement to gu
yards in four downs first came
into existence, it. seemed doubtful
whether that was not asking too much
of the offense; and, indeed, for the
first year of experience under the rule,
it did look that way, for there were a
heap of games played in which abso
lutely no scoring was done, and a lot
of tie games were the result.
But. as the game opened up, and the
possibilities that lay in open work
unfolded themselves, it became ap
parent in the course of another year
that teams could force the bail across,
and as the players also became more
expert in the manipulation of the for
ward pass, they forgot to kick about
the 10 yards.
In the South and the West, where
offense long ago took on a mere open
and venturesome style, there has been
no inability to score touchdowns,
hence in these sections It is difficult
for players and coaches to understand
why the Eastern colleges should see
any need for reducing the distance to
be gained in four irials.
In all fairness, though, it must be
admitted that the results of the big
games in the East seem to indicate
that they have here a real problem
j worn over. It will be recalled that
BOUT POSTPONED. |n <■
1'Hk‘AGO. Dec 8 -The ten-round i Harvard, Yale nor Princeton scored
"Spike Kelly j*nd_ Billy Waj ers batt'e. j g s j n g e touchdown; a!! tiie po tits
that were scored in the three games
Kelly and Billy Walters battle.
•heduled in .St. Joseph. Mo., on last
I T1 ursda - ., o I>e-, ... . ,. , , .
(•ember 6. became of an injury to one j ^ame either bv way of field goals or
of Waiters' nanus. a safety. And that has been the story
for other years than this between
these Eastern teams.
It may also be recalled that the
Navy lias beaten the Army for the
three years preceding this one by field
goals only. This year, however, the
Army not <>^ly won the game, but did
it by touchdowns, not by field goals.
And how came it that the Army did
at last succeed in scoring touch
downs. whereas the Navy and the
other thre$ crack Eastern teams could
only execute field goals? We’ll an
swer that "uestion in just a minute.
Coming back to the contention of
Yale, Harvard, et al., it is claimed
that when a team gels the ball down
within an opponent's 20-yard line and
that opponent brings up into action its
secondary defense, the distance of 10
yards is too great to be '—’ned with
consistency in four tri* ’ and there
fore it ought to he shortened. Will it
be? I don’t think so.
These three may vote that way. but
they will be outvoted by the repre
sentatives of the smaller colleges, who
outnumber them.
Why not make it five trials at this
stage of the game? someone asks.
Well, that could be done, but it. im
poses too severe a mental and physi
cal strain on the defensive team to be
mown "ii : 1 «• defensive for jo loin '
lime without any chance of relief.
How conies it that Yale and the
other two can’t score when, seeming-
ingly, no other teams s**em to expe
rience this great difficulty? Two
points explain the situation. In the
first place, these teams aie simply
crazy on tiie subject of defense—and
they always have been. While I
cheerfully grant that the Western
teams, as a rule, know more about
offense than do the Easterners, I must
say that they are still far behind the
Orientals in the matter of repelling
attack. This being the case, the
Eastern teams are better able to stop
all manner of things than are those
in tiie South and West, hence fewer
touchdowns.
On the other hand, they have been
too conservative in handling their of
fense, with the result that they have
not yet even found out the possibili
ties of the open game; hence they
think they need a change in the rules.
But the open work of the Army te«jm
against Navy (in large part taught
the former by Notre Dame) shows
clearly that even the Navy or Eastern
defense does not avail against a mod
em system of attack. So what the
Eastern teamf* need is not a change
in the rules, but a change in their of
fensive playing systems. This fact
will, I think, be borne in on them be
fore the committee meets, and the
Eastern representatives will find
themselves too weak, numerically, to
bring about any change in the dis
tance to be gained or the number of
downs in which to gain it.
* * *
4$
A ND now field goals have become
more common than three-baggers.
When one man can tally five of these
in one game the thing is getting to a
stage where it cuts altogether too
much of a figure
While a very pretty play, it must
yet be said that a field goal is not
strictly of the real essence of our
American game of football, as is a
touchdown. And even the non-play
ing public have come to flee and be
lieve this way about it. for did they
not hiss each time the Harvard team
lined up for a try at another one aft
er the first two, and call for a touch
down instead?
Well, what are you going to do
about it? r den’t know, i doubt if
the committee will do anything about
it this year. But before long we’ll
find the value of the field goal going
down still another point.
But when it does they will ajso
have lo reduce the value of the goal j
following touchdowns, for if the field |
goal is worth only two. certain it is!
that, the goal following touchdown is
not worth half as much. So it might
very well be that we shall see changes
In both these respects even this win
ter.
1 look for some of the old dead let
ter rules to be completely excised
from the book, and possibly some rule
forbidding le>ams to go beyond their
own scrimmage line in the execution
of shifts before tiie ball is put into
play.
Outside the above points. 1 see no
chance for heavy changes of any char
acter. nor aer any heavy changes
deeded. The wav the public all over
the land patronized the garnet? this
fall indicates very clearly that they
think football a pretty good game
now. Neither have there been any
very loud complaints from the coaches
or players; and so we may look for a
game in 1914 verv similar to what we
have been seeing for the two seasons
pa s l.
Manager of Naps Is First to Give
New Method of Tallying
Place in Game.
Packey Rules 2 to 1
Choice Over Britton
In To-night’s Bout
L’HlGAGO. I>ec 8 -F'ackey McFar
land, the popular South Side boxer, and
Jack Britton, the oride of the North
Side, both Chicago fighters of Irish par
entage, will meet to-night in a ten-
round bout before Tom Andrews'
Queensberry Athletic Club, of Milwau
kee.
In contrast to most fights which have
been held in the Badger State since the
boxing bill became a low, to night’s bat
tie should be one worth going miles to
see. The principals have trained hard
and faithfully and are In condition to
step ten rounds ar a lively clip
McFarland is in better shape than he
has been for any fight in the laat six
months. He lias done considerable road
work and has not missed a day in the
gym.
Realizing he must meet one of the
best men of his weight In the world.
Britton Is in the best of shape. Three
weeks of conscientious training has put
Jack in tip-top condition.
BUSCH TO LEAD CARLISLE.
CARLISLE. PA.. Dec. 8.—Annonce-
menu was made to-day of the election
of Elmer E. Busch, right guard, as cap-
tain of nerf year’s Carlisle Indian foot
ball eleven. Busch Is a member of the
Porno tribe and comes from Potter Val
ley. Cal.
WANTS BERTH IN S. I. A. A.
CHATTANOOGA. TENN„ Dec 8 —
The University of Chattanooga eleven
will make formal application for
trance into the S. I. A. A. ar the meet- j
ing at Jacksonville December I?. It
was announced to-day The decision!
was reached last night.
Bv Bill Bailey.
( -CHICAGO, De< 8 fu.- term
“delayed" is becoming quite the
tiling in sport now, and it re
mained for Joe Birmingham, lender
of the Naps, of tiie American League
lo hand us a new one. He calls It tiie
delayed squeeze play, and because
of its success against some of tiie
bent pitchers in the country, notably
Walter Johnson, of the Sena tot s, it
must now take its place alongside of
the delayed steal, the^delayed kick
and the delayed punch. Joe says the
play is n corker, and - describes it as
the regular squeeze plAy in everything
except that tiie runner on third does
not start with the pitch. Instead he
waits to see whether the batsman is
going to connect with the ball. Then
he hikes for home, and generally is
more successful in that way.
in the ordinary squeeze play liia
runner tears for the plate as soon
as tlie pitcher starts lo wind up.
Then h** is compelled, if the batsman
should happen to miss the ball or is
outguessed by the pitcher, to make a
Jong daring slide for the plate to
avoid the catcher, who is waiting for
him with the ball. It appears, how
ever. that the “delayed squeeze" has
been used by other teams, the Ath
letics especially making u feature of
it. and once or twice being success
ful in scoring not one man, but two,
with it. The runners on third and
second scored for Connie Mack by
using the play, especially against the
slower teams, and w'hen the throw
was made to first instead of an at
tempt being made to get the man at
the plate.
Maroons Offered
Game With Harvard
Leaders of Game Say Fourteen
Deaths This Season Not
Argument Against Game.
By KB W. Smith.
C TnCAGO, Dec. 8.—The fact th»t
there were fourteen deaths ;n
football this fall can not pos
sibly be an argument against the
great Intercollegiate game, for the
simple reason that the leaders of the
game will tell you that In the main
the reason of these fatalities is that
untrained or half-trained men are
permitted to enter into the fray.
Al least, that is the argument we
always have heard advanced, and in
a measure It is borne out by the fact
that the men who are best trained
seldom meei with serious mishaps.
But where is the line to be drawn,
and who shall have the say as to
whether a man is fit or unfit for such
a strenuous game? There ought to
be a line drawn somewhere.
Players are killed in baseball, too,
many of them, as the records of the
year Just ended w'ill show. Most of
these fatalities are caused by blows
from pitched balls which strike the
batter either on the head or over the
heart In such cases the matter or
training does not enter at all. The
men simply are killed, and that :»
alt there ts to it.
But football is the game of all
games that requires the highest per
fection of physical training in its
participants. The leading teams of
the country do not at the outside
schedule more than ten games dur
ing the season, and ten games for
the baseball player during the yesr
is but a little over a week’s work.
This shows the difference
TOBACCO HABIT .7
* nrnse rnur haaHh ■ralaan uaiir I
CHICAGO, Dec. 8.—The University
of (Mileage lias been offered the
choice of October 24 or October 31
for a football game with Harvard at
Cambridge, according to reports pub
lished here. Action on the proposi
tion will be taken by the athletic
board of control of the University of
Chicago near the end of tile month,
when Coach A. A. Stagg will return
from Pinehurst, N. C\
I Opium WhM«7 ■•»<* Drue Habit*
at Foma m *1 StnlKrlau. Book on
J»Vm. DR ». M. WOOLLEY M S. WMtot
•aaitmrimm, AtUaia. Gaorafe
Yau can e«n«uer tf
aclty In S day* lro
prorc vour health, prolano yaur Ufa. No more atom
ach trouble, no floul brea'h. BO h*>a" TTflllmfl— Re
gain manly vigor, calm nerve*, clear eyes and si
prrlor mental strength. Whether you ct.cvr or sreoka
pipe, elyarettee, clfara, get my Intereatlng Tobacrn
Book Worth Its weight in gold Mailed free. E. J.
WOODS. 534 Sixth Are.. 748 M.. New York. N. Y.
DON'T SCRATCH
If you only knew how nulckly and easily <*
Tntterlr-s cures ecr'tc*. even whers everything S
else falls, you wouldn't suffer and acxatch. £
Tetterine Cures Eczema
Rea-'i what Mra. Thomaa Thompson. Clarkes >
eiUa, Oa aaya t
i tuffered fifteen veara with tarmeiitlna
reiama Had the beat dorter*, but nothin*
did m* any «ood until I dot Tetterine. It ,
i ,sred m« » »« thankful.
Ringworm, ground itch. Itching rtf!ns and other S
«kin troubles yield as readily. Get It today - S
Tetterine ...» )
SOe at druggists, nr bv mail. \
SWUPTRINE CO. SAVANNAH. GA (