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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
BRINGING UP FATHER
By GEORGE M’MANUS
AND GILBERT IN
Atlanta Entry in 300-Mile Grind
Can Make 80 Miles an Hour,
and That’s Traveling.
By \V. S. Farnsworth.
\ TLANTA Is going to come
mighty close to winning the
Savannah motorcycle race a
Christmas day.
\t least, that is my wax of t <nk i t
after having taken a spin on the
mu'guard of th*- Gate City’s entry in
the iong 300-mil* grind on Turkey
l)a>.
The name of our entrant is Betsy,
,lr. Rider's name la Hal Gilbert. To
gether they make the fleetest your
hlng you ever saw.
Every motorcycle rider in this neon
of the woods knows Gilbert. Betsy,
•lr., needs an introduction. Let me
have the honor of making you • -
quainted.
P1HST. Betsy, Jr., is a ‘ Crane-At-
* lanta" motorcycle. L. S. Crane
1 the ow ner, and if the motor turns
»>ut to be the winner of the Huvn.n-
uah grind, then stiyts the manuf .c •
rure of more Betsy Jrs.
Mr I'rano is the proud owner of
he famous automobile Old Bet y.
Betsy, Jr.. N Old Betsy’s daughter.
Second. Betsy, Jr., is the freakiest-
looking piece of machinery yours
truly ever saw. The engine looks
’ike any regular motorcycle engine.
So do the wheals, spoke*, handled .;
md seat, but the gasoline tank
.^bout twice the size of a regular tans.
If hold* over four gallons of gusolinc
nd nine pints of oil. Tills means
ihat Gilbert will have to stop unlV
once for gasoline and oil during tVu
long 'rip.
And Betsy, Jr., is going to be klmed
with automobile tires, thus being
puncture proof as near tv* possible.
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POLLY AND HER PALS
Don’t Worry; the Family’s Not Growing Polite
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have 'Th/S'
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PERLITE, ALL-OF
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MEBBif S'BcCAUSEj
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COUSiR ASHUf?
This after**** 4 '-
B UT let me tell you about my ride
on Betsy, Jr. Gilbert, aid* ,: and
abetted by a long rope tied t«* Mr.
Crane’s car, was towed out Peach
tree to l.>ead Man’s Curve, where .*
fine Street that runs over to Bowe l
Mill road offered just the counce wn
desired.
Gilbert told in* to climb onto C.e
mudguard < said mudguard will be
stripped when the big race is held)
and grab him around the waist. An -
r being towed for 100 yard* by the
mto Gilbert finally got his powerful
motor turning, and then dropped the
rope.
Off we went, whizzing 4> « 75-m '
un-hour gait right off the bat. I lost
my lircatl at Peachtree and never g '
* back again until we hit Howell Mill
but that wasn’t over o few second ■.
Travel—say, we traveled so fast
’bat l can’t remember a blooming
living, except that l caught a glanco
at tiie speedometer at one time and
saw the little hand hovering around
the 80-mile-un-hour clip.
WhadpVe HEAS,
klM O DO
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j^ORRV FER MIM
BE IR’ Ay ML? laid
up W/ITM the j
Cwickeu BPgJ
) DHAT I WERT iw AH j
REAP Do HIM A
COUPEE OF HOURS I D»o!
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A Knoxville Hunch for 8. Smith
I HAVE ridden behind Te\ ltlchar Is,
* Arthur Chappie. Morty Graves and
other noted demons, but Gilbert car
ried mo faster than 1 ever want to
ravel again on a motorcycle.
And paste this prediction in your
bonnet Ha! Gilbert is going to win
rlial Savannah race with Betsy, Jr.,
burring accidents.
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‘Stove League’ Offers Outfielder
Jaurez Results
AT JUAREZ.
FIRST Phe and one-half fur-
ung.u Blrka, 103 (Klrschbuum), 5-2,
1, 1-4, won; Transact, 103 < Benton),
.S 3, 3-3, second: Alabama Ham. 106
lWood). If*. 6. 3, third. Time, 1:06.
Summer Hill, General Warren, de
forest, Ford. Maid «*f Norfolk, Attica,
Mary Pickford, Tigella, Dr. Bailey,
Fool O’Fortuno also ran.
SF/’OND Si\ furlong*: Hose of
Jeddah, 103 p\e vloni. 1. 1-4. out,
won: Palatable. 103 (Riddle), 6, 2, 1,
second; Annual Interest 108
tO’Brien). 6, 2. 1. third. Time, 1:07 1-5.
(Tarter, La»fty Hey wood, N,» Quarter.
Eye White, Bio Ja, Charles Fox.
Wicket also ran.
THIRD Purse, two-year-olds and
up, 5 1-3 furlongs: Scarlet Oaks, 109
(Carroll), 4-5, 1-8. out, won; Red
Path 112 (Taplin), 3-1, 1. 7-10, sec
ond; Hlnata. 109 (Woods). 4. 7-10,
1-3. third. Time, 1:05. Temple Focht.
Rodondo. C la ribel. Florin Princess.
Janina and Bib Hensley also ran.
FOURTH-Five and one-half fur
long*: Dominica, 103 (Neylonb 6-5,
j-5, out, won: Cosgrove, 10S (Estep),
1-2, 1-6, second; Seneca, 105, Hoff
man, 6. 2, even, third. Time, 1:05 3-5.
The Cinder. Barsac, Bob Lynch, Body
Rillle, Uncle Ben also ran.
nITH Five and one-half fui *
ongF: Bavbura l^ane. 103 (McCabe),
-H*. won: Old Qotch, 103
*, 3, even, second; Durin,
6. 2, even, third. Time,
l^a Estrella. Irish Ann.
Ada Kennedy also ran.
le and one-eighth miles
l>\ O. 15. K«*(4t‘V.
A I *
W p* r the esteemed Pentin
unless the clipping boy
played us false that Billy Smith
manager of the Crackers, has been
the topic for n debate by the Knox
ville members of the Stove Leugue.
That august body (meeting in De
cember), on hearing,of Billy’s depar
ture for Washington and other points
East In quest of bull players, prompt
ly held a meeting, which considered
Billy’s needs and made certain rec
ommendations.
CMIIST. the Stove Dengue called
* Bill’s attention to the Knoxville
outfield of 1913 -Messrs. Burke, Clunk
and ICnox were regular and estab
lished members in good standing of the
Amalgamated Order of Demon Slug
ger* (Inc.) and recalled to (lie
Cracker manager’s memory the per
formance of the said demons in the
post-season series played with the
Cracker* last September.
It seems Bill wan much impressed
by the work of the outer gardeners In
that engagement.
CO the tu-' Ti' v> uf the Stov* League
proceeded to inquire of IP v
Smith (by publication) why he didu
take up the matter of ball player*
with Knoxville In lead of fricRti £
Washington and Barney Drey fuss.
"With Moriey Jennings. Rimer
Lawrence and a lew more Knoxville
pla-yers on ilia pay roll, Mr. rtnutu
would have 0 real, live aggregation • f
ball tofinern during the vocational pe
riod of 1914.” th** meeting suggested.
And then it was added, by way of
amendment, that while the Knoxvlfio
bugs would hate to see ei f i:er Mr.
Clunk or Mr, Burke or Mr. Knox ie-
part, or all o' them, still they (the
bugs) wouldn’t stand in the way of
the advancement of popular, hard
working ball players.
We will take occasion to slip this
suggestion to Bill the first chance w
got.
FIGHT FOR TITLt
IS POSTPONED
Food for Sport Fans
| Chicago Not After Mandot Gets Shade
Game With Harvard Over Pat Drouillard
~iy GEORGE E. PHAIR.j-
Mexico. Merely a gathering of Na-
HONUS.
Some years ago a fan would say: | t onal League magnates,
“Old Honus Wagner's through!"
"Ah, yes!" his friend would ntak
reply,
1 And wipe a ten drop from his eye.
Various Reasons Given for Delay I And l^nave a Imig mid ■mournful *igh:
of Bout; Champion Claims He
Has Abscess in Nose.
The report that Vardon and Ray
cleaned us $11,500 on their American
trip leads one to believe that there
will be several farewell tours.
CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—The Univer- DETROIT, Dec. 11.—-Patsy Drouil*
pity of Chicago, through its board of lard, of Windsor, gave Joe Mandot,
physical culture and athletics, last of New Orleans, an eight-round test
night declined to meet Harvard in a before the Windsor A. C. last niglu.
football game next fall. The board in
a statement issued after meeting, ex- j an( * ,ost Duly by
pressed appreciation at the invitation ‘ 1a
Kv
“OId Honus Wagner’s through!'
Tst-iiay in hear the selfsame song:
“Old Honus Wagner's through !
} The poor old gent is slipping fast.
His day of youth and speed is past.
He scarcely has a year to last—
old Honus Wagner's through!"
“Cross-country running develops
the lungs,” avers Harry Hillman. Now
we know why those Mexican gener
als are so chesty.
U J 1C notice that Signor Riccardo
Hoblitzell has made formal ap
plication for the position of manager
of the Cincinnati Reds. What we
can’t understand in why a guy who
has played and played and play cl
with that bunch should deliberat:dv
lay himself open to a w allop like that
T HERE is some doubt as to where
Fred Clarke wants Joe Tiivker to
play on the Pirates.
“We already have the greatest
shortstop in the game." said Fred
erick. probably referring to Wagner
Maybe Fred wants* Joe to catch.
It is said that the St. Louis Browns
are underpaid, but, having seen them j Frank Lakaff, veteran twirler of the
, ■ , • _ l4 I Decatur Three-Eve I.ea
play, we refuse to believe it.
Thai song trill echo years from now:
"Old Honus Wagner's through!"
And men will shake their heads and
saji:
"The poor old gent has had his dag;
His youth is slipping fast a tray—
Old Hi).ms Wagner's through!''
WINTER.
Sporting editors remind us
That our lot in life is hard.
Worn and iceary you will find us
Writing stories by the yard.
Hoffman).
! 1 3 (LoftUP
1:07. Vava
Jeorge. Hay.
IX TH
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FODDER FOR FANS
TO THE ••GOV.* 1
With bubbling glass arul warm imfu.
*hak«
They hail y*>u now with beaming e>*\
1 i u think v i ve grabbed a., easy stake
But wail. «»ld pal, till next July!
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Bv \V. VV. Xaughton.
S AN FRANCISCO . Dec. 11.—The
Willie Kltchie-T*>mmy Murphy
j lightweight championship battle
scheduled for last night has been
postponed, but tlie general belief is
I that these two lightweights will not
j be brought together again at a later
date. The light was called off almost
at the eleventh hour, and several con
flicting reasons are given. The one
most plausible is that Ritchie was
overweight, too much so to get Mur
phy’s consent to battle. If that is so, j
then it marks the passing of Ritchie
as .« ilfflitv niBlU. ’noir ; rtart spring training. This is due to ! iff previous records
nlfhts butt:v being l!o pounur. ling- the , act t £ at tliey need a runn ; nq '
Bart. no te by the sport page that the
six-day bikers are behind the record.
Among hose who are not parti- i- Of course, you all know what the rec-
arly anxious to see Joe Tinker bn -k ord is.
n a (’iib uniform is A. Bridweil. *
shortstop. j The record of the six-uav bike race
for a game at Cambridge, but decided
that it was not advisable to schedule
games with teams outside the “Big
Nine.”
The decision i.s in line with the
spirit of tlie conference as informally
expressed here at the faculty meeting
last week, when scheduling of interr
sectional games was declared not de
sirable.
DAVENPORT BUYS PITCHER.
DAVENPORT. IOWA. Dec. 11.—
been purchased by the Davenport
team. He is one of the oldest twirl-
era in the league.
lost only by a shade. Mandot
landed the greater number of blows,
but they did not carry the force tha r
Drouilluru's did. The contest was an
even thing for the first five rounds.
Joe had the better of the sixth and
seventh, but the eighth was even.
McAllister Outpoints
Donovan in Gotham
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SEMINARY FIVE LOSES.
The N6rth Avenue Presbyterian
School five defeated Washington | boxer thourghout.
Seminary yesterday, 12 to 7.
“Boxing." says Maurice Maeter- i
linck, "creates mental energy ” It i«;
! plain that Maurice never has met Kid
Broad.
Lit us then be up and faking
Baseball stones day by day.
H's a weary undertaking.
lint we need our weekly pay.
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Bob McAl
lister, the California middleweight,
made his first appearance in the East
here last night in a ten-round bout
with Young Mike Donovan, of this
city, and cleverly outpointed the local
McAllister weigh
ed in at 159 pounds, Donovan at 155.
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The Yanks will be the first team
The Woigast - White match has been
an again for 24 hours without having |
oeen called off again. This breaks
Yankees to Toledo. Good night! Don’t
hit up; we re down.
upend It inn Ids (Gross i, 2-1 , won;
a,gar Lump 105 ( Hill), 6-1. HrronU;
f»*an Quet n 103 (Benton), 2-5. t in .
ime, 1:53 2-5. Aim* ran: Bluebeard,
obr. Loul*. Sir John and (>rbed l,ad
Barney h«* signeF. bis twenty-first
rontracl will* Fv«hI «’larlve. and Gurry
Herrnmnn i:> about to sign Ms twenty-
first manager «*f tor Ued*. It's a matter
of
Arthur Devlin made his managerial
debut ut the )>useball meetings in (Jay
Gotham by purchasing t’atchcr llarley
from the Buffalo dub for his own Pa-
eifle Coast Btugue team.
PLAYER’S ARM BROKEN.
ITHACA. N Y Do-. U.—William
Howard Fritz, the Cornell football
star who won honors In the Pennsyl
vania game Thanksgiving day, broke
his arm during tl «• contest 'vht*n in
:ie Beroud period lie » ollidt-d \\nii
\linds of PenmylN aula. He was
cloti* of h blight bruise in the rig..t
.•rearm, but p^ki no attention t»# it
•ntll to-day, when a swelling w..
noticed and he consulted (' rne ' s
ithletie physician, who found by X-
ray examination that Fritz had frao-
ired his arm.
Mathewson ba* not )** antxi a ball
1 player In years, which proves that the
j old Master knows enough to never waste
{a shot. He always aims for the wind.
• 'hurley Ebbets offered $25,660 for Joe
Tinker yvstenday. And If that amount
spear* Joseph, then Ebbet will have
another dedication day .
The Federal League bus a perfect
! right to ..I .*ruie. w.ordh.K to Garry
i Herrmann. This » elug what the lawyers
j ill* a riglu without a b«sn«-ut
While t’hubby Charley Murphy is tour-
| i*-^ F.u: • I’l’.lt-uK -T.i s aiv « <!r.g a
little Tinkering with bis team.
side
Other reasons are thut it mined
during the afternoon, thus hurting
the house; that Ritchie had an ab
scess in the nose, and that the doc
tor ordered him not to fight.
It is *:.id Ritchie’s nose bothered
him when he awoke yesterday, and
grew worse as the day wore on. He
called u*-on tin* doctor, who told him
that an operation was necessary, and
who performet : t’.ieu and there.
“You can’t fight to-night," --ah' the
doctor, according to a statement made
by Ritchie.
“1 must fight," said Ritchie. "I will
do the best 1 can under the circum
stances.'*
"You had bette pnay ■'«*r ruin." said
the doctor.. And, sure enough, the
rain came.
No. Rollo, the popping sound in tlie
offing is not an echo of the war n
In hours and minutes is not half as
important as the record In dollars and
i cents.
We
] kn*
*t think Mr Hernnann would
- Governor, but ibis is what
j he *a "Mr 1. n. . is an Inaursi muii
a n«1 nlaye*: i;o favorites He Fad !;•
j cliaiue wlieri Governor Tenor's name
I was mentioned "
Yag.ntol
real ner\»
Ut da.
«» Pick lloblitaell foi
to n.anuar the
John
! l*argalr.
! his )«an .
Bill iircnnt
rd.
■ :-l!or is k - king for j
ml . at.- Iiru'ks to pav«£
vi»r»ilnir t" a news !t**r.!
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| TERRE HAUTE SIGNS PLAYER. ;
; NEWARK. OHIO. Dec. 11. Bert!
(Brown, IN years t*h.. 1 iviuier second I
. buSfinan **f the local city league lor I
(three years, signed a contract with j
l the Terre Huub?. Central l.eu.e\;c teiuii
f to-day.
ILL! N l TO PLAY MILLIKEN.
‘ IIA MBA JON, ILL.. Dec. 11. T
T. Cobb is < a (Tying a- terrible ^romdi
ihcsc day* because ('scar V tt daln.c.
! jjliivC'i *>•!' iand r. ♦ for I -tr**it
Well. Mr. • ..bb us stiil in the big league
while Mr. Viu haw hopes only re-
gamc by f l icit over the Chillies last
summer, might ivfer b!m to a certain lo-
I cahty In Phila.-elphiu where ii number
*..*“1“ 5 wT’ - ’
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Particulars vvitli mu’
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PAY IV3E FOR CURES ONLY
ye.i h*Y» bvati taKlrsi treatment fur weeks *nd wenthe end pay-
* i? eut y*ur hard earned inenev vklthnut being cured, den t >*e
• 'nk It h Mg' time t* areegt DR. HUGHES’ GRAND OFFER'
*' *•! •••i-uir i . * o* m«v,- .oney If •'.<•1 ured. Cansul-
tatlei, anc* Examination are Free for the neat thirty oaye.
If 1 '-.i . «*- a .v.r nor.vlitiop .:'j yle’ul readily tc lay treat-
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: wi:r ir:ooe.\ under a prom in* of a cjir.
My treat men: a ill poittlvely cure er I wiiF make yeu at charge
fsr the fellow k:e iIInaus:
hlDHEY. BI.ADDFIt AND BLOOD
TROUBLE. PILES. VARICOSE VEINS.
FISTULA. NERVOUSNESS. WEAKNESS.
HI PTURE. I ECERS AND SKIN DISEASES.
CONSTIPATION
Piles MAd
L e-. a. Pifj,;iatu- . Catarrhal Aflecii«*n\
Oi'*atc. el Me i ii,ii WiineM.
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hi i * ; . j.-- s'.jre' In 24 boar-, i an
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- ^ . or t or-i own vv.n vi»mxo
and loajrbo jo- ju cured before :e'.ur.
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Gift! Why not a F’ord? You
couldn't make a better gift
to the wliole family. It's a
pleasure ear—a business car
an all around, serviceable
car—an economical ear. It’s
the family car the world
over. Drive yours home to
day.
i ivA hundred dollar? ia the new price of An
Ford runabout; the touring car is five fifty,
ilie town cur ..even fifty -f. n. )>. Detroit,
complete with equipment. Get catalog and
.my,
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