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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. © Art Haw Its Demands, 1 mt Love Is the Lure That Tic! vies the Box Office Man § -GIG S' PORTS' COVE! m d ^ m PERT ^ nil ior What’s a Million, Anyway? - - By James Swinnerton LET ALL CLUBS Owner of Reds Plans to Dispose of Former Manager at League Meeting To-morrow. By James Clarkson. C HICAGO, ILL., Dec. 8.—It now begins to look as though the National League meeting to be e’d in New York to-morrow will be & pretty lively affair after all. Prac- •.ally every club in the circuit will go after the services of Tinker, who be placed on the market by Garry Herrmann. ie Pittsburg Pirates want Joe to Tinker admitted yesterday ia ■ 1 iarke was going to land him. al- • igh he did not intimate what the ondltions of the trade may be. How ever. Joe says there is nothing of a sure ihing” nature connected with possibility of him going to the p it.-w ft© would be whilng to play • iarke, although he seems to pre fer .••turning to his first love—the Tinker to Bring High Price. , meeting to-morrow night may bring on more trades than we are ex pecting Practically every manager in ii« National League, with the excep tion of McGraw, will be in attendance. There will also be several American League magnates there. • 'lark Griffith, who comes out in an n’erview and says he will not run ower than second next season, will iake a bid for Outfielder Bates, of he iMnclnnati Reds. Griff says he asn t an idea that he will succeed in making the deal, but nevertheless he’s going to tackle Herrmann. Just who Clarke, of the Pirates, will offer for Tinker is not known. It is reasonable to believe that Herrmann ill ask a whole lot when he says to • he National League moguls: “Gen- emen, make your offers.” Tinker cost Herrmann in the neighborhood of 525,000 in money and players. Five players came to the pubs via the Reds when Tinker was assigned to the management of the Herrmann tribe. So you can gamble that Herrmann will hold Tinker at a high price. How ever. Joe is worth a high price, and he Reds will no doubt be able to get considerable talent in exchange for him. Evers Leaves for East. Johnny Evers stated when he left ■mre for Troy last Thursday that he di t i think he would attend the meet- ing. Hut you can bet that Peppery •I i will be among those pre-sent at bp confab. And it would not be sur- rig to learn that John was armed • a lot of papers from Charles W. Murphy authorizing him to go the unit to secure the services of Tinker. The American League, despite the ■i that it is willing to go the limit a ith the kale, has no chance of get- ng Tinker. The National League magnates have all stated that Tinker :< too good a ball placer to let get out of the league. That means that he will shortstop for one of the National League clubs next season. Packey Rules 2 to 1 Choice Over Britton In To-night’s Bout * HICAGO, Dec. 8 —Packey McFar- and. the popular South Side boxer, and Jack Britton, the pride of the North >i<le, both Chicago fighters of Irish par entage. will meet to-night in a ten- round bout before Tom Andrews' L'leensberry Athletic Club, of Milwau kee. In contrast to most fights which have eld in the Badger State since the using bill became a law. to-night's bat <• should be one worth going miles to see. The principals have trained hard ■"- 1 faithfully and are in condition to *‘ & i ten rounds at a lively clip. M< Karland is in better shape than he as been for any fight in the last six •nth- He has done considerable road work and has not missed a day in the gym. Realizing he must meet one of the >j °st men of his weight in the world, HMtton is in the best of shape. Three of conscientious training has put Ja ‘M< in tip-top condition. Welsh Would Take Joe Rivers’ Place In Go With Dundee NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 8.—Promoter . ortorlch will have no trouble finding a ■notable opponent for Johnny Dundee _ hr '’rnas Day, according to a message ’ ? "■ vi yesterday from Freddie Welsh. cgllsh lightweight, who telegraphs ! :a t he. is anxious to meet the Italian ?n weight here in a ten-round bout in ne event Joe Rivers is unable to keep '■'* « r pragement. , • ‘e Dundee-Rivers bout, according to ^ Tortorich, has not been declarer vet. Rivers was signed to a set z: Hr ticles with the understanding he • d release in the event he could not * a match with Willie Ritchie on the '**■* Christmas Day. 1 ortorlch says he has not heard from ' ° H Ijev y, Rivers’ manager, requesting *,,, re ■ from the contract he entered /«’ ]* er « recently, but expects to know finitely within the next day or two Athletic Club Five Plays Chattanooga Quintet Saturday s*.*, r '^ at tanooga Tigers. champion whi players of East Tennessee, •v„ P - the Atlanta Athletic Club in Right Con<3 8 ' ame the season Saturday Hgprs defeated every team in la.pt year and went J *.fi ,ha entire season without a de- a *.... have been at work for quite « , sr *son and ate now in **x- nt condition. POLLY AND HER PALS There’s Sometning the Matter With Ashur Famous Yellow Jacket Coach Looks lor Very Few Changes HEISMAN TALKS ABOUT 1914 FOOTBALL RULES Wells and Carpentier Will Clash To-night NEW YORK. Dec. 8. — Bombardier Wells. English heavyweight champion, and Georges Carpentier. the French tltleholder, are scheduled to meet ir. a twenty-round go to-night at the Na tional Sporting Chib, London. Al though both have been knocked out. By J. W. Heisrnan. B ASEBALL has become so well crystallized that we hardly 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 say positively that thei 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 thev 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 or 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. * * * U/HEN the requirement to gain 10 v v 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 thai lay in open work unfolded themselves, it became ap parent in the course of another year that teams could force the ball 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 arid 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 trials 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 to worry over. It will be recalled that J in t heir games with each other, neither Harvard, Yale nor Princeton scored a single touchdown: all the points that were scored in the three games came either bv way of field goals or 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 has beaten the Army for the three years preceding this one by field goals only. This year, however, the Army not only 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 three crack Eastern teams could only execute field goals? We’ll an swer that Question in just a minute. Corning back to the contention of Yale, Harvard, ef al.. it Is claimed that when a team gets the ball down within an opponent’s 20-yard line and that opponent brings up ir f e action its secondary defense, the distance of 10 yards is too great to be M ed with consistency in four tri- and there fore it ought to be shortened. W ill it be? T don’t think so. These three may vote that way. not they will he 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 thrown on the defensive for so long a time without any chance of relief. How comes it that Yale and the other two can’t score when, seeming- ingly, no other teams seem to expe rience this great difficulty? Two points explain the situation. In the first place, these teams are simply crazy on the .subject of defense-—and they always have been. hile 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 the South ani 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 team 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 ern system of attack So what the Eastern teams need is not a change in the rules, but a 1 iange 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. # ♦ * 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 see 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? 1 don’t know’. I doubt if the committee will do anything about it this year. But before long wee’ll find the value of the field goal going down still another point. But when it does they will also have to reduce the value of the goal 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. Po it might very well be that we shall see changes in both these respects even this win ter. I look for some of the old defid let ter rules to he completely excised from the book, and possibly some rule forbidding teams to go beyond their own scrimmage line in the execution of shifts before the ball is put into play. Outside the above points. I see no chance for heavy changes of any char acter. nor aer any hea vy changes needed. The way the public all over the land patronized the game* 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 very similar to what we have been seeing for the two seasons past. GIBSON THROUGH WITH HEAVIES. NEW YORK, Dec. 8. -Billy Gibson, of the Garden Athletic Club, is through with heavyweights for all time to com#*, according to a statement credited to him to-day The New York publio. he sriid. won’t fall for the big fellows The Wil lard-Morris bout was the lust straw TOBACCO HABIT 1 pro?< jro <•;» th, prolong yotir I If*- Is’o IDOT« Stom- [ icb trouble, no fouJ i a i i. * - pmIobmm B# pain manly vigor, calm nerve*, clear oye* and *u- ' p«*rlor mental strength Whether yrm chew or «uioke pipe. cigarette*. cigar*, g-': my lu'crcetlng Tobacco Worth weight In gold. Mulled free. E. J. WOODS. 534 Sixth Ave . 748 M . New York. N Y. j K Opium WbleW »nd Or«-Hnblta mtt4 L»f Homo *r ft Soo'toHut* Rook oe avhjaor D* « M. WOOLLEY. *»•**. I Sanitarian. Atlanta, DON’T SCRATCH If you only knew how quickly and naidly i Tettertne cure* ner*:ma. even where everything ' else falL*. you rrouldn’t suffer and scratch. Tetterine Cures Eczema Head what Mrs. Thomas Thompson. CJarke*- rille. Oa ■ I suffered fifteen years with fermenting eczema. Had the best doctors, but nothing did me any good until I got Tottorlne. It S cured me I *• thankful. ) Ringworm, ground Itob Itching pPe* *nd other / hWin troubles yield as readily. Get it today— ; Totterlne. 90c al druflUU, ar by moll. *HurrniNE co.. savannah, ga Wells by Al T'alzer and Gunboat SmitK and Carpentier by Frank Klaus and Bili Papke, there is much rivalry between them. Wells claims he wan ill when Carpentier stopped him nearly a year ago in four rounds an $18,000 purse. GEORGIA APPLES WIN PRIZES. ELLIJAY, Dec, 8.—John W. Clayton, a fruit grower of Gilmer County, ha^ Just rec#*ived a telegram that he won flrsi prizes on four varieties of apple* Thei will fight for I exhibited at the National Apple Show • In New York. OVERCOAT The Gift of Gifts— Of course you can buy Husband, Father or Brother an Overcoat—probably either one of the men folk men tioned would be better pleased with your selection than one he could make himself—and the novelty of receiving such a charming gift, would convert a necessity into a genuine Christinas tribute. We have a variety of garments that puts a keen rel ish on selection, and leaves no wanted feature of style, fabric, quality or workmanship! Men’s and Young Men's Overcoats - $75 to—$40 to — Youths’ Overcoats $15 The way made easy here for solving the question of gifts for him. The Furnishing Goods Section is a bazaar of bright, beautiful apparel, requisites and novelty gifts for men. Neckwear featured to the farthest limit of style and variety. Silk Shirts, Silk Hosiery, Smoking Jackets, Umbrellas, Canes, Solid Gold Jewelry, Leather Goods—complete line Thermos goods—Auto Gloves, Dress Apparel, and a host of other timely gifts. Slippers, Romeos and Moccasins for Men, Boys, Misses and Children, $1.50 and up.—Shoe Sec tion, Main Floor, Rear. Eiseman Bros., 11-13-15-17 Whitehall The South’s Largest Clothing Store Inc.