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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
Art Haw Its demands, but Love Is the Lure That Tickles the Box Office Man ©
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What’s a Million, Anyway?
By James Swinnerton
Owner of Reds Plans to Dispose
of Former Manager at League
Meeting To-morrow.
By James Clarkson.
HICAGO, ILL., Dec, 8.—Jt now
begin* to look as though the
National league meeting to be
held In New York to-morrow will be
a pretty lively affair after all. Prac
tically every club In the circuit will
*o after the sewicea of Tinker, who
win be placed on the market by Garry
Herrmann.
The Pittsburg Pirate* want Joe
badly. Tinker admitted yesterday
that Clarke was going to land him. al
though he did not Intimate what the
conditions of the trade may be. How
ever, Joe says there is nothing of a
“sure thing” nature connected with
the possibility of him going to the
Pirates. He would be willing to play
for Clarke, although he seems to pre
fer returning to his first love—the
Cubs.
Tinker to Bring High Priee.
The meeting to-morrow night may
bring on more trades than we are ex
pecting. Practically every manager In
’he National League, with the excep
tion of McGraw, will be in attendance.
There will also be several American
league magnates there.
Clark Griffith, who comes out In an
interview and says he will not run
lower than second next season, will
make a bid for Outfielder Bates, of
the Cincinnati Reds. Griff says he
hasn'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
wtll ask a whole lot when he says to
the National League moguls: “Gen
tlemen, make your offers.” Tinker cost
Herrmann In the neighborhood of
$25,000 in money and players. Five
players came to the Cubs 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
the Reds will no doubt be able to
get considerable talent In exchange for
him.
Evers Leaves for East.
Johnny Evers stated when he left
•re for Troy last Thursday that he
didn’t think he would attend the meet
ing. But you can bet that Peppery
John will be among those present at
ie confab. And it would not be sur
prising to learn that John was armed
ith a lot of papers from Charles W.
Murphy authorizing him to go the
init to secure the services of Tinker.
The American League, despite the
act that it is willing to go the limit
ith the kale, has no chance of get-
ng Tinker. The National League
agnates have all stated that Tinker
is too good a ball plaver to let get out
of the league. That means that he
will shortstop for one of the National
L.eague clubs next season.
POLLY AND HER PALS
There’s Sometning the Matter With Ashur
Packey Rules 2 to 1
Choice Over Britton
In To-night’s Bout
CHICAGO. Deo. 8.—Packey McFar-
ian/1, the popular South Side boxer, and
Jack Britton, the pride of the North
Side, both Chicago fighters of Irish par
entage, will meet to-night In a ten-
•ound bout before Tom Andrews’
Queensberry Athletic Club, of Milwau
kee.
In contrast to most flghls which have
been held in the Badger State since the
coxing bill became a law, to-night’s bat
'd 1 should be one worth going miles to
wee The principals have trained hard
and faithfully and are in condition to
a rep ten rounds at a lively clip.
McFarland is In better shape than he
has been for any fight in the last six
months. He has done considerable road
*ork and has not missed a day in the
gym.
Realizing ha must meet one of the
best men of n1s weight In the world,
Britton Is In the best of shape. Three
Neeles of conscientious training has put
Jack In tip-top condition.
Famous Yellow Jacket Coach Looks tor 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
titleholder, are scheduled to meet In
a twenty-round go to-night at the Na
tional Sporting Club, London. Al
though both have been knocked out.
Wells b£ A1 Palzer and Gunboat Smith,
and Carpentier by Frank Klaus and Bill
Papke, there is much rivalry between
them. Wells claims he wa/i ill when
Carpentier stopped him nearly a year I
ago in four rounds. They will fight for
an^8,0<j0 purse.
GEORGIA APPLES WIN PRIZES.
ELL1JAY, Dec. 8.—John W. Clayton,
a fruit grower of Gilmer County, has
Just received a telogmm That he won
first prizes on four varieties of apples
exhibited at the National Apple Show
in New York.
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Bv J. W. Heisman.
Welsh Would Take
Joe Rivers’ Place
In Go With Dundee
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 8.—Promoter
• ortorich will have no trouble finding a
* Mtable opponent for Johnny Dundee
nristmas Day. according to a message
'elyed yesterday from Freddie Welsh,
1 nglish lightweight, who telegraphs
at he is anxious to meet the Italian
eritweight here in a ten-round bout in
, ::e event Joe Rivers Is unable to keep
en £ a Kement.
. J he Dundee-Rivers bout, according to
Tortorich, has not been declared
as yet. Rivers w f as signed to a set
^ articles with the understanding he
d release in the event he could not
■ a match with Willie Ritchie on the
-jsi Christmas Day.
ortorich says he has not heard from
- f vy. Rivers’ manager, requesting
! < ase from the contract he entered
, ’’ recently, but expects to know
mtely w’ithin the next day or two.
Athletic Club Five
Plays Chattanooga
Quintet Saturday
... . ■' ''RattanTigers, champion
-.ethaU players of East Tennessee,
the v . th ® Atlanta Athletic Club in
Mar*"* ® rame of tlle season Saturday
defeated every team in
thrm, es9ee Iast year, and went
re.. *£.. ,he entire season without a de-
i hey have been at work for quite
season and are now in ex-
while this
condition.
ASEBAL.L 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 the 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 tbe 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.
* * *
W/ HEN the requirement to grain 10
yards in four downs first came
into existence, it seemed doutrtful
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 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, w r here
offense long ago took on a mere open
and venturesome style, there has been
no inability to score touchdowns,
be-nce 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 thqy have here a real problem
to worry over. It will be recalled that
in their gaihes 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 lias 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 minuted
Coming back to the contention of
Yale, Harvard, et al.. it Is claimed
that when a team gets 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 : "ed with
consistency in four trie’ and there
fore it ought to be 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. 1
Why not make 1t 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, peeming-
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. 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 the 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 team
against Navy (lri large part taught
the former by Notre Dame) shows
clearly that even the Navy or Eastern
defense does not av^-ll against a mod
em system of attack. So what the
Eastern teams 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.
■j
A ND
1 * mo]
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 anti be
lieve this way about it. for dirl they
not his§ 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? I don’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 {joint.
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. So it might
veiy well be that we shall see changes
in both these respects even this win
ter.
I look for some of the old dead let
ter rules to be 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 heavy changes
needed. The way the public all over
the land patronized the games 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. Doc. 8 Billy Gibson of
the Garden Athletic Club, is through
with heavyweights for all time to come
according to a statement credited to him
to-day. The New York public, he said
won’t fall for the big fellow’s. The Wil-
lard-Morris bout was the last straw’
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