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When the Plunder Goes liroke Hess Willing to Admit the Wisdom oi 11it^ Piker
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BRINGING UP FATHER
By GEORGE M’MANUS
Atlanta Entry in 300-Mile Grind
Can Make 80 Miles an Hour,
and That's Traveling.
By W. S. Farnsworth.
A tlanta i» going to com#*
mighty close to winning the
Savannah motorcycle race on
Christmas day.
At least, that Is my way of thinking
after having taxen a spin on the
mudguard of the (late City’s entry in
the long 300-mil® grind.
The name of our entrant Is Betsy,
Jr. Rider’s name is Hal Gilbert. To
gether they make the fleetest young
thing you ever saw.
Every motorcycle rider in this neck
of the woods knows Gilbert. Betsy,
Jr., needs an introduction. Let me
have the honor of making you ac
quainted.
• • •
T71RST. Betsy, Jr, is a "Crane-At-
lanta” motorcycle. L. S. Crane
is the owner, and If the motor turns
out to be the winner of the Savan
nah grind, then starts the manufac
ture of more Betsy Jrs.
Mr. C’ran** Is the proud owner of
the famous automobile Old Betsy.
Betsy. Jr., is Old Betsy’s daughter
Second, Betsy, Jr., b the freakiest- |
looking piece of machinery yours
•ruly ever saw. The engine looks!
like any regular motorcycle engine.
So do the wheels, spokes, handlebars
and seat, but the gasoline tank Is j
about twice the gin of a regular t mk
It holds over four gallons of gasolin 1
and nine pints of oil. This means
that Gilbert will have to stop onlv
once for gasoline and oil during the
long trip.
And Betsy, Jr., is going to be shoed
with automobile tires, thus being .is
near puncture proof as possible.
• .* *
B UT let me tell you about my ride
on Betsy, Jr. Gilbert, aided and
abetted by a long rope tied to Mr.
Crane’s car was towed out Peach
tree to Dead Man’s Curve, where
fine street that runs over to I lowed
Mill road offered Just the chance wo
desired
Gilbert told me to climb onto the
mudguard (said mudguard will be
stripped when the big race is heid)
and grab him around the waist. A Ti
er being towed for iftft yards by the
auto Gilbert Anally got bis powerful
motor turning, and then dropped t
rope
off we went, whining at a 76-m V
an-hour gait right off the bat. I lost
my breath at Peachtree and never g •:
it back again until we hit Howell Mill
—-but that wasn’t over a few set on*1
Travel—say. we traveled so fast
that 1 can’t remember a blooming
thing, except that I caught a glance
It the speedometer at one time and
law th«; little hand hovering around
the 80-mlle-an-hour mark.
• • •
T HAVE ridden behind Tex Richards.
* Arthur Chappie Morty Graves and
other noted demons, but Gilbert car
ried me faster than I ever want to
travel again on a motorcycle.
And paste this prediction in your
bonnet Hal Gilbert is going to wn
that Savannah race with Betsy, Jr.,
barring accidents
McFarland May be
Suspended for Poor
Work With Britton
MILWAUKEE. W1S . Dec 11.
Packey McFarland will not be given
another chance to get easy money in
Wisconsin bv stalling through a tight
with any opponent of any weight, if
reports of coming action bv the State
Boxing Commission are correct. He
is to be suspended for six months at
least, and more probably for a year,
rumor says
Two causes enter into this proba
ble action of the State Commission,
one McFarland’s ridicule of the com
mission, when he said the commission
could not force him to weigh in for
his battle with Britton, and the sec
ond his listless fighting when finally
in the ring
POLLY AND HER PALS
Don’t Worry; the Family’s Not Growing Polite
mv i vuas So
SoRRV fer him
BE'iW AS HL? laid)
up VVIITH THE >
Chickdj Pox -J
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“THAT I WE Ml |W AH
READ “To HIM A
OXIPLE OF HOURS. I DIO.,
A Knoxville Hunch for B. Smith
‘Stove League’ Offers Outfielder F!RHT FOR TITLE
IS POSTPONED
By O. B. Keeler.
"1 "1 7E lamp in i Knoxville newspi-
\J\ per the esteemed Sentinel.
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
East in quest of ball players, prompt
ly held a meeting, which considered
Billy’s needs ami made certain rec
ommendations.
THIRST, the
1 Bill's aft
Pennsylvania Lost
On 1913 Athletics
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 11. Foot
ball and basket ball were the only
sports at the University of Pennsyl-
\anla to show a financial profit last
reason, according to the report sub
mitted last night to the Athletic As
sociation Receipts from football were
$64,092 for 1912. while the expenses
were $23,742. Basket ball cost $2,397
and the receipts were $3,937 Base
ball receipts were $8,092 and expenses
$10,119. Track cost $13,006. with re
ceipts of $7,380. The report showed
a deficit of $8,489.
The expenses included interest on
bonds, office and general expenses as
well as donations to many sports, for
which no admission fees are charged.
The net receipts from all sources
were $92,234 and the expenses $100,-
733
Stovd League called
tention to the Knoxville
outfield of 1913 Messrs. Burke, Clunk
and Knox a as 0 1 egula • arid a«ta 1
limbed members in good standing of the
Amalgamated Order of Demon Slug
gers (inc.) and recalled to the
Cracker manager’s memory the per
formance of the said demons 1n the
post-season series played with the
Crackers last September
It seems Bill was much impressed
by the work of the outer gardeners In
that engagement.
• • •
CO the meeting of the Stove league
^ proceeded to inquire of Billy
Smith (by publication! why be didn ,.
take up the matter of ball players
with Knoxville instead of frisking
Washington and Barney Dreyfugs.
‘With Morley Jennings, Elmer
Lawrence and a iew more Knoxville
players on his pay roil, Mr. Smith
*uld have a real, live aggregation of
ball tosaers during the vocational pe
riod of 1914,” the meeting suggested.
And then it was added, by way <>f
amendment, that while the Knoxvilla
bogs would bate to see either Air.
Clunk or Mr. Burke or Mr. Knox le-
part. or all of them, still they (the
bugs) wouldn’t stand in the way of
the advancement of popular, ban-
work in r ball players.
We will take occasion to slip this
suggestion to Bill the first chance ws
get.
• • *
V\7 K notice that Signor Rlccardo
** Hoblitzell has made formal ap
plication for the position of manager
of the Cincinnati Reds. What we
can’t understand is why a guy who
has played and played and playod
with that bunch should deliberate
lay himself open to a wallop like that
• * *
T HERE is some doubt as to where
FYed Clarke wants Joe Tinker to
play on the Pirates.
“We already have the greatest
shortstop in the game.” said Fred
erick. probably referring to Wagner
Maybe FVed wants Joe to catch.
Various Reasons Given for Delay
of Bout; Champion Claims He
Has Abscess in Nose.
Food for Sport Fans
Chicago Not After
Game With Harvard
s
FODDER FOR FANS
TO THE “QOV."
With bubbling glass and warm hand
shake
They ball you now with beaming eye.
You think you've grabbed an eas> stake.
But wait, old pal. till next July!
Yankees to Toledo
hit us; we re down
Good night! Don't
Arthur Devlin made his managerial
debut at the baseball meetings in Gay
Gotham by purchasing Catcher Barley
from the Buffalo* club for his own Pa
cific Coast league t«am.
Barney Prey fuss has signed his twen
ty-first contract with Fred Clarke, and ;
Garry Hermann In about t oaign his ;
twenty-first manager of the Reds. It's 1 • • *
a matter of haMt Charley Ebbetts offered $30,000 for Joe
• • • I Tinker yesterday And if that amount
Mathewson has not beaned a hall I spears Joseph, then Ebbets will have
PLAYER'S ARM BROKEN
ITHACA, N Y . Dec. 11.—William
Howard Fritz, the Cornell football
star who won honors in the Pennsyl
vania game Thanksgiving day, broke
his arm during the contest when in
the second period he collided with
Minds of Pennsylvania. He was con
scious of a Blight bruise in the right
forearm, but paid no attention to it
until to-day, when a swelling was
noticed and he consulted Cornell’s
athletic physician, who found by X
r«Examination that Fritz had frac- ]
hi* arm. J
player in years, which proves that the
Old" Master knows enough to never waste
a shot. He always alms for the wind.
• • •
The Federal league has a perfect
right to operate, acordlng to Garry
Herrmann This being what the lawyers
call a right without a benefit.
• • •
We don’t think Mr Herrmann would
knock the Governor, but this is what
he said "Mr Lynch is an honest man
and played no favorites. Be had no
chance when Governor Teller’s name
was mentioned
• • •
T. Cobb is carrying a terrible grouch
these days because Oscar Vitt claimed
he played for Cobb and not for Detroit
Well. Mr. Cobb Is still in the Mg league,
while Mr Vltt has hopes only of re
maining in select society another
tv.-lie months
p * * *
i’»Mk Knight has been sent by the
another dedication day
• • •
While Chubby Charley Murphy is tour
ing Europe. Chicago fans were doing a
little Tinkering with his team.
Bj W. W. Naughton.
AN FRANCISCO , Dec. 11.—Tho
Willie Ritchle-Tommy Murphy
lightweight championship battle
scheduled for la-st night has been
postponed, but the general belief is
that these two lightweights will not
be brought together again at a later
date. The fight wa« called off almost
at the eleventh hour, and several con
flicting reasons are given. The one
most plausible la that Ritchie was - '
overweight, too much so to get Mur
phy’s consent to battle. Tf that is so,
then it marks the passing of Ritchie
as a lightweight, their weight for last
night’s battle being 135 pounds, ring
side
Other reasons are that It rained
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 said Ritchie’s nose bothered
him when he awoke yesterday, and
grew worse as the day wore on He
called upon the doctor, who told him
that an operation was necessary, and
who performed it then and there.
"You can’t fight to-night.’’ said the
doctor, according to a statement made
by Ritchie.
“I must fight." said Ritchie. “I will
do the best I can under the circum
stances "
“You had better pray for rain," said
the doctor.. And. sure enough, the
rain cam - '.
—
i TERRE HAUTE SIGNS PLAYER.
NEWARK. OHIO, Deo. 11.—Bert |
I T
HONUS.
Some year8 ago a fan would say:
“Old Honu8 Wagner's through!"
"Ah, yes!" his friend would make
reply,
And icipe a teardrop from his eye.
And heave a long and mournful sigh:
“Old Bonus Wagner's through !"
Today we hear the selfsame song:
“Old Bonus Wagner's through !
The poor old gent is slipping fast,
Bis day of youth and speed is past,
He scarcely has a year to last—
Old Honus Wagner's through!"
That song will echo years from note:
"Old Bonus Wagner's through!"
And men will shake their heads and
say:
The poor old gent has had his day;
Bis youth is slipping fast away—
Old Bonus Wagner's through."*
^Boxing," says Maurice Maeter
linck, “creates mental energy.” It is
plain that Maurioe never has met Kid
Broad.
The Yanka will be the first team to
start spring training. This is due to
the fact that they need
atari.
Mexico. Merely a gathering of Na
tional League magnates.
The report that Vardon and Roy
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
we know why those Mexican gener
als are so chesty.
It is said that the St. Louis Browns
are underpaid, but, having seen then
play, we refuse to believe it.
WINTER.
Sporting editors remind vs
That our lot in life is hard.
Worn and weary you will find us
Writing stoides by the yard.
Let us then be up and faking
Baseball stories day by day.
It's a weary undertaking,
But we need our weekly pay.
The Wolgast-Whits match has been
on again for 24 hours without having
been called off again. This breaks
all previous records.
CHICAGO. Dec. 11.—The Univer
sity of Chicago, through its board of
physical culture and athletics, last
night declined to meet Harvard in a
football game next fall. The board 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 as 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. 11.—
Frank Lakaff, veteran twirier of the
Decatur Three-Eye League team, has
been purchased by the Davenport
team. He is one of the oldest twtrl-
ers in the league.
SEMINARY FIVE LOSES.
The North Avenue Presbyterian
School five defeated Washington
Remihary yesterday, 12 to 7.
Mandot Gets Shade
Over Pat Drouillard
DETROIT, Dec. 11.—Patsy Drouil
lard, of Windsor, gave Joe Mandot,
of New Orleans, an eight-round test
before the Windsor A- C. last night,
and lost only by a shade. Mandot
landed the greater number of blows,
but they did not carry the force that
Drouillard’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
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
boxer thourghout. McAllister weigh
ed in at 159 pounds, Donovan at 166.
running|
Among those who are not particu
larly anxious to see Joe Tinker back
in a Cub uniform is A Bridwell,
shortstop.
No. Rollo, tho popping sound in the
offing is not an echo of the war : n
We note by the sport page that the
six-day bikers are behind the record.
1 Of course, you all know what the rec
ord is.
The record of the six-dav bike race
in hours and minutes is not half/as
Important as the record in dollars and
cents.
real nerve
Beds.
- Brown. IS years old, premier second
He wants to manage the i bae9man of the lpcal clt >' lea ^® for
three years, signed a contract with
the Terre Haute Central league team
John D. Rockefeller is looking for a! to-day
bargain in second hand bricks to pave ,
his barnyard, according to a news Item
Bill Brennan, who handed the Giants a
game by forfeit over the Phillies last |
summer, might refer him to a certain lo
cality in Philadelphia where a number j
of bricks were hurled with deadly ac- j
curacy.
• * •
Bobby Gilks. new manager of the Ril-
liken*. lost all his savings when the
Pensacola State Bank went to smither
eens And Robert has always been a
pretty good saver, too.
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