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THK ATLANTA GKOKOTAN AND NFWS. W’licii the I ’hmyjcr (Iocs Iiroke He's Willing to Admit the Wisdom ol the 1 *iLei Jy wtdip n WATCH BETSYJR.il bringing up father AND GILBERT IN By GEORGE M’MANUS Atlanta Entry in 300-Miie Grind! Can Make 80 Miles an Hour, and That's Traveling. liy \Y. S. Farnsworth. \ TLA NT A ' going to tome mighty clowe to winning the Savannah motorcycle race on Christman day. \t leant, that is my way of thinking after having taken a spin on the mudguard of the Gate City s c*ntr\ in he long 300-mile grind. The name of our entrant Ik Betsy, it. Rider's name in Hal Gilbert. '!*••- aether They jmiUe the fleeteet your- . tblng you ever h« Every motorcycle ride in thin in k ..f the woods knows Gilbert. Betsy, .Ic. needw an introduction. Ixt me rave the honor of making: you .n - quaint ed. (7IRAT. Betsy. Jr., s a ”Crun«-A*- * Janta” motorc>« tv L. S. ('rane m t'.e owner, and if the motor turns utir to be tire winner of the Savan nah grind, then starts the manufac ture of more Betsy Jrs. t .Mr. Crane is the proud owner oil he famous automobile Old Bet y. I iietsy. Jr., is fMd Betsy's daughter. j Second. Betsy. Jr., is the freakiest-j •joking piece of machinery yours ruly ever aav. The engine look. 1 ke any regular motorcycle engine, i So do the wheels, apokes. handb-lau - and seat, but the gasoline tank about twice the size of regular tank. It holds over four geHons of ^asolin and ntn* pints of oil. This means that Gilbert will have to stop onh ( nice for gasoline and oi 1 during the long trip. \ nd Betsj Jr., is going to be ahoed with automobile tires, thus being as, noar puncture proof as possible. B UY let me tell you about niv r e on Betsy. Jr„ Gilbert, aided un i abetted by a long rope tied f«> Mr. crane's car was towed out Peach tree to Lead Man's Curve, wlier* .1 line street that runs over to How-1 Mill road offered .lust, the chance wo desired. t.lilbert told me to climb onto Bin mudguard (said mudguard will la* stripped when the big race* is h. id) and grab him around the waist. \e'. * to*»<rri tor 1U" .irds b\ i uto Gilbert Anally got his power “h motor turning, and then dropped tb< rope. tiff \to went, whizzing ut a 73-111 e- au-hour gait tight off tlte ba: I 1 >s. my breath at Peachtree and never g ’t back again until we hit Howell MHI but that wasn’t over a few eccon Travel say. we traveled so fast • wt 1 can't remember a blooming tiling. except that 1 caught a glare at the speedometer at one time and •aw the little hand hovering around 'ho SU-mile-an-hour mark. VOS I HAVE ridden behind Tex Ka liai ' Arthur Chappie. Morty Graves and • ither noted demons, but Gilbert ear ned me faster than I ever want t<• .ravel again on a motorcycle. \nd paste this prediction in your, »-.nnet Hal Gilbert going to v *1 t Mat Savannah race with Betsy, Jr oarring accidents. POLLY AND HER PALS Don’t Worry; the Family’s Not Growing Polite j \»OT$r THE MATTER DEL 10/4 , 6AL LAur y'FlMD MO ( CUTER ■: COMl A>'n CM “THE CoFA W/lTH '/I K J 1 —} UHCUt S/4MMV .* Til HERE y60 DUUIA 1 . T4KE. MIWE D l Uil A 1 T1 1 we Th/s - ORE. PELIOA! 6reat 6uud Ho*/ CbMts a 'TheVRE- 60 ALL-FIREO PERLITE, ALL OF 4 - Sc/ODE-M ? I DUHFid, IMLESS MEBBlf S'BTC4USE I klHO To WH^POVe M64W, g/Mt) To COUSlM /ISHl'R l . my 1 So £orrV fer Him BE in' Ai> HEl? LAID UP VX/ITS "THE r > I - . THAT I WE fit in An' j RE/AD ~To HIM A [COUPLE OF HOURS I Dio! A Knoxville Hunch for B. ‘Stove League’ Offers Outfielder McFarland May be Suspended for Poor Work With Britton MlLWAl-KKK. W1S.. I)e . It. Lackey McFarland will not he given outlier chance to get easy money in Wisconsin by stalling through u light with any opponent of any weight, if reports of coming action by the State Boxing Commission are correct, lie is to be suspended for six months at least, and more orobably for a year, rumor .says. Two cause* enter into this probu- * > 1 1 1 - e • • ■ • t « ne McFarland's ridicule of the com mission. \\ hen he said the commission ■ ouM not force him to weigh in foi his battle with Britton, and the sou nd his listless lighting Then finally iu the ring. Pennsylvania Lost On 1913 Athletics PHILADELPHIA, De« 11. I'oot- ' ail and basket ball were the only sport* at the University of Pennsyl vania to show a financial profit lust reason, according to the report sub mitted Inst P g it to tee. Uhletir A*- s»-elation. Iteceipts from football were Xv4.t*92 for 1912. while the expenses wff. $2S,742. Basket hall cost *2.397 and t »e receipts were $3,937. Basket '•nl? receipts v^ere $8,092 and expenses <10.110. '•'rack cost 13.006. with re ceipts of $7,380 The report showed n deficit Of $S.4V.L The expenses Included interest on bonds, olflo* and general expenses a* well as donations to many sports, for which no admission fee*? are charged. The net receipts from *1! sources ..♦re $92,234 and the expenses $100.- PLAVER’S ARM BROKEN ITHACA N V 1H k v* I tu Howard Fritz, the Cornell football star who won honor* in the Pennevi- aniH game Thanksgiving day. broim his au*m during the contest when in tae second period he collided with Minds of Perm yvlv\,hia. He was con scious of m alight bruise n • <• rig: t orearm, but paid no attention to ■util to-dav, when a swelling was noticed iiiiri e consulted Cornells sthlet c phy.-jf-inn. who found b> A aj exaqntnarivi.M t ■ Ft • •» •• >.<<• w M\ (). B. Keeler. lamp in a JCnoxvllle newspa per--the esteemed Rentinc;. unless the clipping boy played us false- that Billy Smith manager of the Crackers, has been the topic for a debate by the Knox ville members of the Stove League. That august body (meeting in De cember), on hearing of Billy's depar ture for Washington and other points Fast in quest of ball players, prompt ly held a meeting, which considered Billy's needs and made certain rec-. ommendations. 9 0 0 LMIIST. the Stove League caked 1 Bib s attention to the Knoxville outfield of 1913 Messrs. Burke, Clum; and Knox were regular and estab lished members in good standing of the Amalgamated Order of Demon Slug gers (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# lust September. It seems Bill was much impressed by the, wprk of the outer gardeners In that engagement. O » the m. eLng of tlv Stove Ltag e proceeded to inquire of Billy Smith (by publication) why he dldu . take up the matter of ball players with Knoxville instead pf fricku.g Washington and Barney Dreyfuss. ' With Morle> Jennings. Elinor I^awrence ana a revv more Knoxvjllc players on 111 a pay roll, Mr. Smith would have a real, live aggregation of ball tossern during the vocational p riod of 1914," the me And then It was amendment, that while the Knoxvi" bygs would hate to see either Air. j Clunk or Mr. Burke or Mr. Knox >- .part, or all of them, still they (the 1 bugs) wouldn’t stand in the way of 1 the advancement of popular, ban-4 working ball players. We will take occasion, to slip tills j suggestion to Bill the first chance vva get. FIGHT FOB TITLE IS POSTPONED for Sport Fans 1* GEORGE E. HONUS. SoiNc years ago a fan troald sag: “Old If onus Wagner's through!" "All, yes!'* his friend iron Id make reply, l nd ivigr a teardrop from his eye. »■< ting suKK.ht.fu, Various Reasons Given for Delay j - u,d hrare 11 lou v and »>ourrfut »inh: added, by way »»f | , t "Old Ilonas Wagner's through!" of Bout; Champion Claims He Has Abscess in Nose. By W. \Y. Naughtou. «\AN HUNCTWO . DpV. U. -The s vv K notice that Signor Ric<*aroo Hoblltzell has made formal ap- , plication for the position of manager | postponed of’ I I Mn/'iuiiu I ! TJ ail o j] J W C Willie Hitcbie-Tommy Mnrph} lightweight championship battle scheduled for lant night has been but the general belief is that these two lightweights will not 1 ; FODDER FOR FANS of the Cincinnati Reds. cant understand is vv n> a guy whe | ()e brought together again at a latei hat played and played and playc . . , with tli:. * Inin h -:-i>u,.l dfliberat.-lv ; <»»♦*• T lie flglit «i.s au led off almost lay himself open to a wallop like tint \ at the eleventh hour, ancl several eon- ° \ , fllctlng reasons are given. The one I IIKRF. Is some doubt as to where . , * Kred 1'Inrlie wants Joo Tinker to mo '' t l ,| -‘ ualble ,a ,hat Kil, ' He " as play on, the Plrutes. ! ov erweight, too much so to get Mur* ■ \\ t* already have the greatest j phy s consent to battle. If that is so, shortstop in the game. ' said Fred- ^^ ■' « f? ,. criW.. i 1 oliaDli r.'Verrlng t„ Wag nor 1 U ' e, ‘ U m ‘* ks V** of k,UI;,t ' Maybe 1-Veil want. ,l..e to eatoh. ' Rs a lieiitweigtij. their weight for la.-n ' night's battle being 1 ' side. ■J other reasons are that it rained I ! during the afternoon, thus hurting the house: that Ritchie had an ab scess in the nose, and that the doo tor ordered him not to light to-day ice hear the selfsame sung: “Old Ilonas Wagner's through! j The poor old gent is slipping fast. IIis dag of youth and speed is past. Iff scarcely ftas a gear to last— ft Id Ilonas Wagner's through!" That song ielll fieho years from note: "Old Hon it* Wagner's through!" And men mill shako their heads and say: "The poor old gent has had his day: His youth is slipping fast await ObJ Honus Wagner's through!'' "Boxing,” says Maurice Maeter linck, “creates mental energy.** It if? plain that Maurice never Has met Kid Broad. The Yanks will be the first team to Mexico. Merely a gathering of Na t onal League magnates. T ie report that Yardon ami R iy cleaned us $11,500 on their American trip leads one to believe that there will be several*farewell tours. ‘Cross-country running develops the lungs.” avers Harry Hillman. Now w® know why those Mexican gener- j als are so chesty. It is said that the St. Louis Browne arc underpaid, but, having seen them play, we refuse to believe it. i WINTER. Nporting editors remind us That our lot in life is hard. II orn and V'eary you will find as Writing stories by the yard. Let us thru be up and faking Baseball stories dap by dau. It's u wryrti undertaking. Hut tee need our weekly pay. Chicago Not After Game With Harvard CHICAGO, Dec. 11.—The Univer sity of Chicago, through its board oi physical culture and athletics, last night declined to meet Harvard in a football game next fall. The hoard in a statement issued after meeting, ex pressed appreciation at the invitation for a game at Cambridge, but decided that it was not advisable to schedule games with teams outside the “Big Nine.” The decision is in line with the spirit of the conference a» informally expressed here at the faculty meeting last week, when scheduling of inter- sectional games was declared not de sirable. DAVENPORT BUYS PITCHER. davenport, iowa, Dec. u. Frank Lakaff, veteran twirier of the Decatur Three-Eye League team, has been purchased by the Davenport team. He is one of the oldest twin ers in the league. SEMINARY FIVE LOSES. The North Avenue Presbyterian School five defeated Washington Seminary yesterday, 12 to 7. Mandot Gets Shade Over Pat Drouillard DETROIT, Dec. Jl.—Patsy Drouil lard, of Windsor, gave Joe Mandot. of New Orleans, an eight-round te* before the Windsor A. C. laat night, and lost only by a shade. Mandot landed the greater number of blow? but they did not carry the force tha' Drouillard’a did. The contest was -ar even thing lor the first five rounds?- Joe had the better of the sixth and seventh, but the eighth \fas even. McAllister Outpoints Donovan in Gotham NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Bob Me A lister, the California middleweight made his first appearance in the Eh® here last night in a ten-round bou with Young Mike Donovan, of this city, and cleverly outpointed the loca boxer tbourghout. McAllister weigh ed in at 159 pounds, Donovan at 155. The Wolgast-White match has been . on again for 24 hours without having been called off again. This breaks! poumJ,. ng- | ?h* e rt f,‘ct nn tL t t r,, t[liy 9 'n,Id' S '* ^ l ° ' a " PreVi ° U9 r ‘ COrdS ' start. •GOV.” and warm hand TO THE With bubbling glass shako They Fail y.*u nov w th beaming eye: You think > "ii ve grabbed an ea»> stake Put wait. •:<! ?•!♦’. till next July! Barney Pre> fuss bat* signed his tweu- t'rKt .onirHct wiiit Ured Clarke, and Carry Hermann is about i oxign bis twenty rtr.«i manager of the Rods It's a matter of habit Mathew son has rot beaned a ball player In years, which proves that th* ♦ •Id Master known enough to never waste a lie always aims Cur the wind. The Federal League Las a perfect r.gbt i.» operate. ac»rdlng to Garry Herrmann. This b«-lng what ilir lawyer* , ;tli a. ri^fpt without a l««MieU{. * • • We don't think Mr Ik rrm.iin would knock the Governor, but tills !s what lu* said: "Mr. Lynch is an hi nest man and iilayos; no tav..rites. He had no oham* when • k*v* rtu-r T* :.et's cam?' was mil ' r«H '* Yankees to Toledo, hit us: we re down. Arthur Devlin made debut at the baseball meetings in Gay Gotham by purchasing Catcher Harley from the Buffalo club for •his own Pa cific Coast league t«ani • » * Charley ftbbetta offered >30,000 for Joe Tinker yesterday. And that amount spears Joseph, then Ebbets will have another dedication day. o • • While Chubby Charley Murphy is tour ng Europe. Chicago fans were doing u little Tinkering with his team. Yagotti.bandit to Dick HobMtjioll lor real nerv« lie waul a to manage the running We note by the sport page that the /* j six-day bikers are belli rid the record. ■among.-hose w.m a re u., pani. j- Of course, you all know what the rec- arly anxious lo Joe Tinker bark or d is. in a i ub# uniform is v. Bridw . il, i shortstop. The record of the six-clay bike race him when he awoke yeeterday. and I No Rollo th. - .. : l; '» ur “ and minutes Ii. not half as • -row worse tire di\ u He . 0,,0 * the popping sound i n tli* | important as the record in dollars and Uiew worse as the nay wme on. , offing is not an echo of the war n called upon the doctor, who told him I ^ l cents. l.rs managerial f that an operation w as necessary , and ( Good night! Don't It is -aid Ritchie’s nose bother* T. Cobb is i avrying a These day s be. uuj-- < >sv. Ire played for Cobl Y\>fl, .Yfr. Cobb .« Ml \ malning in seie Twelve months t-rrible grouch * *sv ar y rt claimed H4 o not for 1 »etrolt. till in the big league. s hopes only of re- -ociety .moth.’ John l Hev keiVller is lov>king for u Uiigaln in -ecoud hand bricks to pave | LD hamy ai d. according t<> a news item. J Bill Brennan, who handed the Giants u i game by forfeit ..ver the Phillies last I summer, might refer him to a certain lo- ! « :\!it\ In Philadelphia where a number I of bricks were Jfiurled with deadly ac- * who t>eri'ormed it then and tBerc. “You can't fight to-night.” su’d the doctor, according toa statement madfe by Uitchle. "1 must fight. ' said Ritchie. ‘I w 1; oo the best I can uipler the circum stances. ** X ^ “You had better pray for rain.” said the doctor.. And. sure enough, the rain came. [TERRE HAUTE SIGNS PLAYER. j NKWARK. OHIO. Dec. !L -Bert • llrown. IS years# old. premier second j j baseman »*r the local city league for ! | three years, signed a contract with I I the Terre Haute Central League team ; _ to-day. ' 1 Vm jt, ■ a gl ■ |c Dlu u ■■ ■ ' V *‘* w “ CURE YOl'RSELF “ PAY ME FOR CURES ONLY >ou .’'■ye boon takinp TreoTmont toi «ook« and months and »*>• a ut yoi»». hard oornod money vklthout bolnq *:urod. don't you tdib It Is hlfh time to »toe*t DR. HUGHES* GRAND OFFER". > <>j w1il Kvrtair.l.* ? ot tv o\ , nu>- inor-? moa«> if not cured. Consul • tktlon end Exoirinat:nn orr Free to-- the next thirty .days. C t de- : r that vr-.sr condition vdii tot jield readily to toy treat- r t ’v. I l«*- honest v> . >ou and tall ;.ou ao. and not accent j.-'ir money under promise or « M> treatment will positively vuro or I will rwaEa you ao charge ‘dr the Vollowicg diseases: KIDVEV. HUlmi R A\i) BLOOD TROUBLE. PILES. VARICOSE VEINS. FISTULA. NERVOUSNESS. WEAKNESS. RUPTURE. ULCERS AND SKIN DISEASES. 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