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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. 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