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* 1 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. I v/H^TiA SUV Gonjn A OO VOMEN’ 1+15 VAJlF^ )*)OWT 72vl_K TP HIM — HET££.'v£ JJST~ | IDUKE 70 K«OW vjo)*A.r^ m(y wArreit. ,| ifH 1 '.'W vAiirp. qc*. i-Ai rwiJt+r JHF CAU-ED ' v<6 A ifJAK.E /W rHT. ftAA • VJJELL— AA7BE /*AA A/tfT V K(Nt> E.MO'J frT 70 MtV• - j mjell- i'll <k> OUT MOVJ AiNO OCT - v .7 - JOA'F O7X FOiEi A The First Thin^ an Enrlv Frost Usuallv Lands On Is ci New Baseball League PflCKEVSHADES JACK BRIT SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT Poor Judge; He Can’t Pin a Rose On Her McFarland Manages to Pile Up Lead in Majority of Rounds. Nelson “Kids” Victor, l!v Ed W. Smiilj. H1CAGO, De 9 Pwkf Karland. world’s greates er. lost bin hand but won last night. Opposed 10 Jack Brit ton. of Chicago, the idol of the Block- yards displayed so much feeling of a disagreeable nature that he couldn’t box a lick, and when It name to lighting Britton, be lost much of tin* sterling. sparkling qualities that brings him that title of "world’s greatest boxer.” The battle went the full ten round'., and at the finish the general verdict Mas that McFarland had had a good shade the better of it. In addition to being pitted against one of the best lighters in the busi ness in the legitimate 135-pound lass. Packer was badgered and heckled by one Battling Nelson, once world's champion of the division and avowedly Packer's lifelong bitter enemy. Nelson sat near McFarland’s corner, and sent messages over to Britton’s corner, even attempting openly to have Referee Stout act as a messenger boy for him. Stout wouldn’t, but the incident obviously annoyed Packey, who leaned out of the rope* between tile fifth and sixth round a and yelled at Nelson: "It’s a good thing for you ! haven’t got you in here to-night. I’d knock your head off.” Nelson, knowing lie bad the Mc Farland goat meandering, merely grinned and tossed some notes across the nng The papers were promptly kicked out, but Packey was as wild as a loon after that, and didn’t re cover his bearings for a full round. The contest was a ken disappoint ment. especially to Packey’s friends, because lie didn’t do the impossible knock Britton out. He failed in tills .lust as very other good fighter has, not so much because he lost his head in anger, but because lie can not beat Britton any more decisively Than lie did last night at least in ten rounds. Packey has flashed bis speed be- lore Chicago crowds against a lot of mediocre opponents He beat them without trouble. Assembled in t lie ring last night with one of the best men in the business, tlie crowd of Packey’s friends though lie should treat Britton In much the same man ner. When he didn’t do it. there was , hissing and booing, and the crowd yelled in disapproval. It was hardly Just, because McFarland did his ab solute beet. The first three rounds were in Britton's favor, the next two were fairly even, hut from the sixth round on it was McFarland’s battle in a big walk. In the ninth and tentl^ rounds Britton’s gloves were heavy as lead, and he couldn’t hold them higher than his waist with any success. Packey, too, was dog tired, but he carried all the battling to the North Sider. and was entitled to the shade. 3VD<ve WMHAUi£l>- PetrtT) gy aho CiEkiCh ■sHOSPIEO TO OETPsTH last MfrrrHiS vajif-f QiUJEO H/AA ASNJAAE I fj T>+ls &P-A SX* po/2. voHS T&OA'-t Hr S (AlOtlRjeT) p.ho him/ajct tv Gerr I hi GrOOV AT MftivlE — ifj me 'mcam r? met SlLfC Mat HAP-V-H POJ'/M «- AS THt TOO G-e ( £ Sfil-L. H-AmO/miO- AAPVE. TMC 'NA<'0*6 5£ Am AiMFOt- E>*FUU_ oF Tr^WAnZV- ComM-OAjW cau-co the Bl/O MAE BEEievei Hi nm Amo haftw comT/a»l»E.S 1 ham £M r THE VAJiFF fEl GHT AT- THAT - I'LL 8t-irAC, THESE FaOujEOX' Home mow and jer Mvifii-E IM fiooo - /Wi ajOT A feoPBMOMAl- HUJOAMO our I 6£L.IBME in HAV/A/O- THi MM CH«€ ps: '- >L ' ®“ THE (40U>Jt ^ pi*-/ HCTt wou Acer PEAf. SOM£ AlfC£ e: 5H p(-0\M STf- s All fo*. uo u •vyOO CAN- Brost Mfe- / TC B& l Objm MU60 Random ‘Heisman■ Reflections’ j INDOOR SPORTS .*•••»• *!••*!* •!•••’« •!•••!• •;•#•!* y •*•••;• !l Defense—Has It Retrograded? By Tad J BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip 1 President Buker. of the Philadelphia Flub, offered to trade 1 Ionian and Knahe to Cincinnati for Tinker and <iroh. In reply to the offer Gurr> Herr mann telegraphed hack two words. Quit kidding.". • * • Bill Smith will attend the National league meeting with Clark Griffith. Bill stopped off at Washington to pick np Griff. Some time in Gay Gotham for these two "youngsters * t Memphis has lost Paul Smith, who was bought by Memphis from the Adrian Club, of the Michigan Associa tion. Smith has contracted to play with Washington and the national commis sion has ruled that he had the right so to contract. • * • 'The Worcester. New England League. < lub is fighting the draft of Outfielder Shorten, who is the. property of the Memphis dub Jesse Burkett, former National League butting king, manages the Worcester club, and is endeavoring lo find a flaw in the draft. Three National League chibs. Cincin nati. Pittsburg and Chicago, are after Pitcher Hovlik. of the Milwaukee club, j laving disposed of outfielder Larry chappelle for $15,000. the Millers may try to get about $10,000,000 for llovlik. * ** • BoHton fans consider "Rabbit" Ma- ranville a great baseball player, but the vouiir mans lather still insists that his son should have stuck to the plumb ing business •'Walter was doing nice ly as an apprentice in a tinner's simp and should have stuck to it." says I*op- I ' er . . . President Johnson has come "tit with a strong boost for ‘Three-Fingered*’ Brown as manager of the Cincinnati Beds a team thkt is without a leader at present A few days ago President Herrmann. 0! Cincinnati, published a statement in which he said that Tinker would not be re-engaged. • * • Mr. Johnson stated that lie eonisd- t-red Brown a credit to the game, and that in his long* experience in baseball be had never rnet a squarer or more intelligent representative of the na- tional pastille than Brownie. From his conversation it could easily be seen that Mr Johnson would not hesitate to name Brown as the Red manager if such a thing was In his power B of cmirse./the National League is far from being within Mr. Johnson’s iurisdietion. At the same time, he has • | National Leaf <■ Baseball, and when he comes out with a boost for Brown it means something The Amen an League’s president is considered the "big man" In baseball to-da>. and it’s not going to hurt Brownie s < hances of landing the Cin- clnnati .iob one hit bv having him come >ut in the open with a Brown boost. And there are any others who view the ’on at Cincinnati in the same Tght, By Coach Ilcismaii. U rHKNKVFR present-day f'>o f ball players stop for a. mo ment to contemplate the fact that some years ago the offen sive team had only five yardf* to gain to make first down, they invariably fall to wondering how the defensive team ever held their opponents for downs at all. Admitting, as they df>, that the defense of to-day could not stop a team for that required gain, the inquiry is pertinent as to wheth er modern defense lias not deterior ated. Well, that depends. First of all. It depends upon what you are con sidering. If by stopping a team you merely mean stopping its running or rushing attack, of course there can be little doubt that the defense T to-day is not near as sturdy as it used to be in the (lays when who*a afternoons w ere put in by the coaches teaching the players how to get un der the line and stop tile dreaded “guards back" or the famous "tackle over" ramming, smashing, grinding plays of that period. But. tlnui, it must be borne in mind that no forward passes were played in that day; and, as a result, the secondary defense found it not only safe, but eminently proper, to come right up behind the line and play on the very haunches of the tackles. If our secondary defense of to-day wero permitted to do this, no doubt they Could also do better in the matter of stopping a rushing attack. Still, it must he admitted that sec ondary defensive players of to-day are not in a class with those of a det - ade ago, when it comes to getting into the mix-up and doing their full share toward stopping a strong buck through the line; and that no matter where they might be permitted Jo station themselves. Nowadays they are mostly coached how to stop for ward passes, not bucks; and wh.it tackling they do is mainly on tho opposing end runners. Hence they have not had the coaching on slop ping the stuff through the line that used to be expended on these sec ondary men. On the other hand, it can be point ed out w ith equal truth that the sec ondary defensive players of that day would have made an even greater mess of the job of trying to stop for ward passes had they been called upon to do it without several years of working up to It. In short, ’lie defense of ten years ago was strong er for stopping the offense of th t period than would he the defense to-day, while the converse is true re garding defense under present rules when contrasted with what the de fensive players of bygone days could do with the game of to-day. * * * VX7H AT is going to be 1; - limit o ** the throngs that will patroni/. the football of the future? That would be difficult to say. Had you noticed that the attendance grows greater every year? The Yale-Horvard game drew 4?.- 000 this year. The Army-Navy game drew 47.000. None of the big games in the We^t drew less than "5,000. In the Southern cities the attend ance lias been distinctly larger than In any previous seasons. Thirty years ago tlie college that built a stadium seating 30,000. does Penn’s in Philadelphia, would have been considered non oompo mentis. But that 30,000 capacity is no longer sufficient for the Arm’ - Navy game, so they took their game to the field with the largest stands in the countrx ; and then it wasn’t nearly large enough. Harvard’s sta dium was built to hold 40,000. and still it didn’t hold more than half of those who clamored for admission. Now tomes Yale with her 00,000 ca pacity stadium well under way. A11I will it be filled with spectators when completed? At the big games it cer tainly will, and running over And isn’t that remarkable when you stop to think that New Haven is far from being a large city? In other words, they will not depend very much on the resident'population to fill up the big saucer. The people will pour in from hundreds of mites in every direction. The ancient Coliseum at Rome held but 70,000 spectators, and while it was comfortably filled at all bargain matinees.» it must be remember *d that the attractions were even more numerous than in the football coli seum of to-day. and that the stage settings were particularly and pe culiarly realistic—rather more so than in our day. In another ten years the querx at each college will be where will they find a plot of land large enough on I which to build the football coliseum Mh;jt will be required in that day. j 1_IAI) you noticed how the use of 1 * shift formations !» spreading like wild fire over the country? The quick Jump-shift very similar to the Min nesota shift that was introduced at New Haven by Shevlin in 1910, just prior to the Yale-Princeton game— was first shown in the South by Tech, also in 1910? But Tech never learned it from Yale, or from Minnesota either. They took it lip weeks before Yah* ever heard of it, right after th* »• Alabama game in October, and (worked not only the backs into 'he Jump, but the line as well. And that j very year yet they used it to get a : high-grade punt formation a pur- 1 pose for which it was not employed by any team that year, nor the next I either. What surprised me this year was not to see a good many college teams j playing a jump-shift, but a goodly number of prep teams as well. The ' Jump-shifts of Tech High, of Bovs’ j High, of Riverside and of G. M. C. : were all different from each other, Sand all had points of merit. Othr->r ; prep tenms doubtless used such is well, but these happened to be all the prep teams 1 saw from this State this fall. 1 did gee a game between two Tennessee prep teams, however, but neither of these used Jump-shifts. I was jsirticularly impressed with the excellence of the work done by the Tech High team in this depart ment of play. Their shifting was particularly fast, clean and uniform. It did not violate the rules in any way, and it was done quite as well as the best college teams oould do <t. This means that in a year or so the prep players who come to college will already have been thoroughly initiated into the mysteries of quick shifts, I which will make the work of the coi- j lege coaches easier. On the other hand, this matter of jump-shifting Is leading to so many freak formations in the backfleld md so many maneuvers calculated to take advantage of the wording of the rules in new and unexpected ways that it would not surprise me if the rules committee did no: take n hand in the p-ame and do some legislating regard ing these quick shifts in a year or two. They make things too hard for the officials, for they can’t watro everything in a game as the games are now played. Camp Stops Talk of Yale-Michigan Game < 'll 1C AGO. l>ec. f Walter Camp, ath let it' adviser for Yale, yesterday put a stop to the talk tliu.t lie is attempting to arrange a game between Yale and the CniversitN «*f Chicago for next sea son. * Camp denied lie is here on such a mis sion. and further stated that there are two strong reasons why such a game can not h»> played. First, he declares, t he Yule 1914 schedule is so filled that It would be almost impossible to slip in anottier. and. secondly, he doubted whether Coach Stagg would take his team to New Haven for a clash. Camp said there isn’t a chance of Yale coming here. Local Five at Work For ‘Nooga’ Quintet The Atlanta Athletic Club basketball j team has started work for next Sat- j urday night, when ihev play their sec- find game of the basketball season. I The Chattanooga Tigers, champions of , Fust Tennessee and one of the best fives in Tennessee, will clash with the 1 local fix e. The Tigers went through the 191U-1913 season without a defeat, eliminating some of the sir* igest teams throughout that section of the Sough. SPRING DATES FOR REDS. CINCINNATI. Bee 9. The Red spring dates have a 1 1 been filled by Frank Ban croft. who is always right on the job at getting favorable games for tlie club during the practice season The team will pia\ at Orleans Mar* . 28 and 39; at Memphis. March 20 and 31. anti at Lou .Nville. April 1, 2 ami 3. At Red’and Fn-ld the club will pla> Washington April 1 and i> Cleveland and 7. De troit S. 9 and 10. ami Boston 11 and 12 PLAYER SIGNS CONTRACT. NEWARK. OHIO. Bee. 9.—Bert Brown. 18 years ol<i premier second- baseman f the local city league for tfiin ■ irs, sigme da contract with the Torre Haute Central League teem yes- tei da> ILLINI FIVE BOOKS GAME. CHAMPAIGN. ILL . Bet . 9. The Cniversitv of Illinois to-day booked a basket ball game with James Milliken University of Decatur, lo be played here December 13* THtJ> 1-^ i-AfcV . 7VJO DOLLARS .SHORT*v VHAOOV6 MEAN !! DO VOO TV+IAlK THAT I CAW TfW A GP-OLEA, ICEI^VAW,' BAPETB-, Butcher. .Some ou'H'A T* 16 ' , , \ iupp0i£ wEr N" ^ ’' m<-caff£^ 'rH/nfr AMT) 0OVML&D A WHAT ? UUDOOR SPORTS' BlU w> OI w £r (-+OWLE 7He BA CO O TV10 OOCKi 3HOB-T White Sees McCue Floor Ad Wolgast I11 ‘Gym’ Workout CIllCAGD. Dec. 9.—Charlie White, who is matched to box Ad Wolgast in Milwaukee on December 19. saw hi? opponent dropped to the floor from a right cross, and Charlie will likely try that punch repeatedly when 'they meet. Ad and his stable mate. Matty McCtyt. put on the gloves in Lewis yesterday. In the third round Wol- gast rushed in at his opponent, and Matty shot over a tight cross. Ad hit the floor like a log. hid head hit ting before his body. Jones May Quit Yale To Enter Business NEW HAVEN. Dec. 9. Now that the captaincy of the Yale football team for 1914 has been decided, interest shifts to the appointment of the coach ing staff for the coming year, and though it is generally regarded certain that Howard Jones will be at the head of affairs next fall, a report is current in Yale circles that Jones may not be here after all. It Is rumored here that Jones is being pressed to take a po sition in another line of business FORMER BALL STAR DEAD. PITTSFIELD, MASS.. Dec. 9. John J. Grunt, aged TC. a member of the Bek- ford baseball team, of Brookly n, which won the championship of the country in 1861 and 1863. died last night after a short illness. He was a native of New York City and joined the Eckfords as shortstop in 1856 TEMPLE VS. SHERMAN. SUPERIOR, WIS . Dec. 9 —Ray Tem ple. Milwaukee lightweight, and Joe Sherman. Southern boy. will clash here to-night in a scheduled 10-round set-to. Sherman was a former sparring partner for Joe Mandot. who was onoe defeated by Temple. T<45»S> ili Cracker Outfielder Also Keeps Busy Telling Home Fans About Local Team’s Great Finish. Food for Sport Fans 1y GEORGE E. PH AIR.' PURDUE ELEVEN DREW WELL. i, VFAY BTTE. LND., Dec 9 The 1 e oeipts from football games played by the team of Purdue University during the season lust closed amounted to <18.- 000 This is the largest amount’cleared in the history of the university. THE WHITE HOPE. A White Hope is a large section of human flesh surrounded entirely by hot air. It is called White because that is the color of its liver, and It Is called a Hope because it hopes ta obtain a living with out working for It. Technically the White Hope is a fight er, but it generally has about as much fighting spirit as a senile clam. The only time a White Hope shows any fe rocity is when it attacks a free lunch counter. On such occasions it resem bles a famished behemoth. It beards the Bismarck herring In Its den, It smites the pickled pig’s foot hip and thigh and ravishes the Boston baked bean on Its very threshold. The White Hope, however, Is not wholly to blame. It is a child of cir cumstance. It begins life as a human being in some sequestered hamlet far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife. It waxes strong in the back and weak in the mind, utterly ignorant of the terrible fate in store for it. Then comes the Manager like the vil lain In the movies. He inveigles the feeble-minded creature from its happy home, forces it to sign the fatal pa pers. and from that time on its doom Is sealed. It is a White Hope. The White Hope is then taken to a newspaper office, where it is Bertll- . toned, photographed in fifty-seven pos tures and Introduced to the world with the accompaniment of a brass band. It then climbs Into a prize ring and, for a stipulated share of the gate receipts, demonstrates that Phineas T. Barnum knew whereof he spoke. THE BACKSLIDING OF P. M’FAT- LAND. fit' was a shinififj model in the eyes of honest men, | fi tih his sterling an dhis upright disposition: l I Re was a thing of credit to the fight ing game—and then He decided to become a politician. While it is sad to reflect on Mr. Mc Farland's plunge Into politics. It might have been worse. He might have be come a wrestler. Reports from Mexico indicate that all the stars are Jumping the Federal League. TOPHAM TO HEAD BUCKNELL. After figuring up the cost. John Ever* Li:WTSBURC. PA . Dev 9 Karl l ot - came to the conclusion that a cable- ’.a r **r Philadelphia. La* been elected gram to his boss in Europe be c aptain fif the Bucknell College football j nothing short of suicide, team for 1914 Topham played full- back for R ; knell during the past sea- j Garry Herrman says Mordeca* Brown son. 1 will not manage the Cincinnati team, but’ neither will the unfortunate person who is hired for the job. Yussif Mahmout writes from Paris to deny the report that he was shot. He avers that he wasn’t even half shot. The All-Stars beat the Soldiers, 22 to 7. instead of ’23 U) 7. Tffis important point having been settled, le’ the world proceed on Its way. Christy Matbewson did not bean a batsman all last season, but he probably figured that with so much ivory In the league it would be useless Kid Williams, pugilist, has awakened to the sad fact that It is one thing to get a guarantee In Milwaukee and an other thing to GET IT. JAKE SHOULD GRIEVE. Jake stahl sot in his banking house Through all the Boston uurry. u He piled his money, note by note. And antneered. *7 was nice the goat, , But / SHOULD WORRYr l Jimmy Johnston is wanted by the St. Louis Browns, but It is expected that Evers will give him a thorough try-out I before sending him to tne minors. If Joe Tinker accepts that job in the Federal League he will be able to write a dissertation entitled "From Messen ger Boy to Manager.” Those Federal magnates discuss $10,- 000 salaries with the ease and non chalance of a free-lunch fighter offering to make a $10,000 side bet. Collins and Barry a^e finished artists at working the double play, but Murphy and Herrmann are world's champions at working the double cross. THE OASIS. You fair oasis gleams 1.the t.livelong\ day— Yon shaded spot where amber foun tains play llll| All day it mocks my dry and bum-1 ing throat. So near to me and ict so far away. I wander homeward when my job ] i quit, \ <»• grasp a stein of lager in my mitt. | Till Xew Year s Day / tread the! desert s< ids And five hard bo-nee is all 1 win by if.I Tech Players Will Compete in All-Star Game on Xmas Day CHATTANOOGA, Dec. 9.— Cliatta- ! nooga will stage another all-star foot- ; ball game tills Christmas. Rut the players in this all-star game will be men who are still in school and who 1 expect to play again next season. Gene Patton. Talley Johnson. Cush- ! man and Senter, of Georgia Tech, all | Chattanooga boys, will earrv the bulk 1 of the interest at this game. Vander bilt. Sewanee and Auburn will furnish ! some of the men in the game. rrr JIS ,s ‘ the third of a series of letters- from members of the champion Cracker tram. It is from Tommy Long, who will again be in the outfield in 191 \. Tommy writes that he expects to be in great shape for spring practice, and hopes lo help the Atlanta club to another rag. l Toinette, Ala., Dec. 1, 1913. \V S. Farnsworth, Sporting Editor The Atlanta Georgian; Friend Bill—Your letter received a few days ago. and was glad to hear that the boys in dear old Atlanta are feeling fine. Have been taking pret ty good care of myself, and expect to report in great shape in the spring and help the Crackers cop another pennant. I went to my home in Bladon Springs for a ten-day visit after the close of the ball season, and from there came here to accept a position in the commissary of the Cochran** Lumber Company. The mill, how ever, burned down on the night of October 17. throwing the greater part of the employees out of work. [ had a great time while at work, dealing with the people of the town. They all wanted to know about the Crack ers’ grandstand finish, and kept me busy reviewing the dope. I am now spending much time fish ing and hunting. I landed a six- pound black bass the other day, be sides others of smaller size. Gee, but it's dandy sport, especially if you happen to be lucky. Near here there Is a river swamp abounding in game of all descrip tions, where many ducks, both Mal lards and Teal, as well as numbers of squirrels, have fallen victims of my dogs and gttn. I was a member of a camp hunt held in this swamp Thanksgiving week, and killed eleven ducks and 53 squirrels. Well, Bill, have nothing else to write about, so will close with re gards to all my friends in Atlanta Your friend. TOMMY LONG. MITCHELL TO CAPTAIN BROWN PROVIDENCE, R. I.. Dec. 9 -Seth 1 Mitchell, ’varsity center, will captain the Brown eleven next fall. He has i Played center three years, coming her® t from Phillips-Exeter. 1 PAY ME FOR CURES ONLY It you have been taking treatment for wuki and months and pay- Ing out vour hard earned money without being cured, don’t you think It is high time to aocept OR. HUGHES’ GRAND OfFER? You will certainly not be out any more money If not cured. Consul tation and Examination are Free for the next thirty days. If I decide that your condition will not yield readily to my treat- went. I wiil l>e honest with you and tell you so, and not accept your money under a promise of a cure. 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