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■ 1 TIIF ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS U COVERED 4k D) TURTLES PWER IF JORDAN TYPE Mr. Jack Solves the Servant Problem for a Few Minutes By James Swinnerton Mike Finn's Field Leader Has Sure Had a Varied Career on Baseball Pastures. By X-Leaguer. M EMPHIS. Dec. 12.—Jimm Mullen, the new second seek er secured by Finn, a.nd who will be appointed captain of the club —the passing of Bill Abstein making such an appointment necessary—has had quite a varied career in baseball. While Mullen ia comparatively young in years, he has been playing ball since he was old enough to hold a bat. end commenced his profes sional activity on the diamond while in his teens Mullen has had the benefit of hav ing played under two of the most successful managers that handle iubs in the American League to day. Mullen first attracted attention as a substitute on Connie Mack’s Ath letic team. This was in 1904. and he put in the moat of his time on the diamond that season as an under study to Danny Murphy at second base, although he also played other positions on the team. While Mullen fielded well enough for tlie Athletics, he did not hit as well as Connie Mack requires, and he was turned over to the Washing ton team. Plays Under Jennings. Mullen left the Washington team in the middle of the season and oined the Baltimore club, which was under the management of Hugh Jen nings. He remained with the Balti more team until 1908. when he again moved nis baseball paraphernalia to another locker, that looker being in the clubhouse of the Newark baseball club. Me only remained with Newark one season, when he again hit the trail. This time his destination was Toron to. of the same league as the two cit ies in which he had previously played, namely. Baltimore and Newark. He remained in the Canuck city.for three consecutive seasons, and played consistently good ball, being accred ited one of the steadiest men in his position in the league. Toronto disposed of Million before ihe summer of 1912, and he joined the rtica club cf tli* New York State League. His work was quite a fac tor in landing a pennant for that city in one of the closest races that ever occurred in the New York State League, the last game of the season deciding; the winner. Mullen Valuable Player. While Mullen never leads any leagues in hitting nor winds up a 'eason with anything remarkable in the way of a fielding average, he is what is known as a valuable ball p ayer and his worth is more appre ciated by the ball players than by the spectators. He has a thorough knowledge of the game and .should certainly be of benefit to Shanlev this season and wield a steadying influence over that brilliant but erratic young player. He is the same type of player as otto Jordan, who covered second several seasons for the Atlanta club. The effectiveness of this kind of play er is greater than is apparent to the average, occupant of the grandstand >r bleachers. "WIPE.. IN'! Ti©e.t> O* HEAfciis^ YOU COMPlajM ABOUT kjqY Be^G to GfcTCoMPTJfNT SERVANTS' y i i Going out and get y You SOME I •• JACK SEHT "To COOK ■ / j/J APRAID-ER MV HUS8AMD WAS MISTAKEN DOM'T NEED AkiV COOK' f) T ¥T M\SSU5 JACK well YouR | Cute litTlE huQBy tent me over, to gc pAt?_oP ’A'D —- ' Me JACK SAID ) I WAS TO BB ! SECOND MAlD J \ UM- \TS A j MISTAKE im AFRAID. | HAVE\ > ONE ALREADY " ."OH . I HAVE \ OME HIRED already! §s® 5.- i Huu_o.wireY ,| |'M HOME6ARV-V VYHECElS THE HELP I St NT AROUND ? 'T 'They are niqt HERE and i will Do the wo^k UNTIL I CAN HIRE Some. . myself * - r 3vJihhERIcm-T5 BACKSTOP TO STEAL BASES ON INDOOR SPORTS Dooin’s Catcher Led National League Receivers in Turning Back Would-Be Pilferers. HOW Pip VOU G*T- IS" (Cl Sto r,iacH wiiiBl 1 , 1 MICAFFCRV , CLO» **WU i -1 -r K1LL1FER. of the Phil- v\/ lies, who might still be on the St Louis American League club had not Jim McAleer fired liim from that team in 1909. was the best throwing backstop in the National League last season. He turned back ISO attempts to steal on him and was one of three men who averaged one or more rnen thrown out per game. The other backstops who had a rec ord like KJIlifer were Mike Simon, of j Pittsburg, and Jimmy Archer, of Chi- ! cage. Killifer and Archer both re ceived many votes from the Ciial- | mers Commission of newspaper ex perts as being the players most valu able to their teams in iast season s competition for. the car. Because cuterr miter \ ROBwsow Wer papfv EH - THEM BELA OLE AN piAEL TlA»KA(F hex Buev n+eiR te>nii A«te BOTH I/O rvrC WATIOMAl I_eA4-ue VWHERE are voukj THAI A/AJT IT THAI hlUT I" \JJHH NOT &2T j (>0 N L IN OK I flELOCR DVB' I TO mawagK / { BfOOKi-TJ 'l By Tad Champion Returns to the Ring •I'iv *!•••’* *r *1* • *1* • v »c*#4■ Ritchie’s Story of His Career TW6 POUNOK CLU0 i frfco • 'U-O'-' S —' / TVtETCe'J A lOITA smarter SUTJ AROUND THA/j ROB/V JO M HE'LL TMIto'A' A nff: anu ITS A V>?£ Nooga’ Boys Expect To Down Athletic ClubFiveTo-morrow CIMOX averaged 1.04 victims to liie ^ game and Archer 1.02, the Pitts- burger flagging 96 men in 92 conte- - and the Chicagoan 105 in 103. Johnny KUng, of Cincinnati, ranked fourth among The windpaddists when it came to pegging out men who tried to steal. Ivy Mingo, of St. Louis, fifth; Otto Miller, of the Superbas. sixth; "Chief" Meyers, of the Giants, seventh; Bill! Rariden, of the Braves, eighth; Will Fischer, of the Superbas ninth, and Bei t Whaling, of the Braves, tenth. in every instance save one the catcher who was most active in head ing off baserunners when they tried to do the Raffles act was the man who was most, often called on by his manager to don the windpad. The lone exception cropped up in Cincin nati. Johnny Kling. who caught 37 less games than Tommy Clarke, hiv ing an average as a thrower that was .16 better than that amassed by his young teammate. IfJV oofi FIMV6 DP THE TEAMS in the NATIONAL LEACtuE Auburn Announces Football Schedule For Season of 1914 The Atlanta Athletic Club basket ball team hart better be prepared for a fierce tussle to-morrow night. Advance no tices from Chattanooga state that the visitors are prepared to put up the toughest sort of a fight, and really ex pect to defeat the local boys. Toe Bean, coach of the Athletic Club bovs is leaving no stone unturned in an' effort to get his players in the best of shape .loe is putting them through a long drill everv afternoon and says the boys are showing much improvement in their work. ^ .. , Following is the line-up of the rival teams: p 08 ’Nooga. simith ’ . R. F Nofman Forbes' ...U V McCollum Du bard C.. .Spencer-Brockhau! Carter . ...R. G Ohes Weaver . .L. G .Gambil-Harris 96 105 61 Doc Seabough To Be Let Out by Turtles MEMPHIS, TEN.V. Dec. 12.—Doc Seabough is slaied for tha greased chute. The veteran receiver of the Memphis 'Turlies, formerly occupying the leading position behind the wood for the Yols, is about to be let out. Doc's grizzled head is due to he lopped ojFby Manager Mike Finn dur ing the next few weeks, aud just as soon as Sir Miguel can supply Doc with a nice little *<’b in some lower league the veteran wiH beat it. perhaps never In come bad. again to the Southern circuit. . . Mike is through with ins veterans. He wants to wipe his slate clean and #nake a fresh start as the Turtles have been In a bad wav for some time and a change can not be otherwise than beneficial. ... . Seabough's berth is a.* > et unsettled, as Manager Finn Is looking around and intends to do the best be can for Doc. The passing of Seabough takes another • .f the old guard away from the Soutn- and iji Nashville the veteran Doc has hundreds of friends who remem ber him for what he has done in the A LL told, there were 1,240 National ** League players thrown out in at tempting to steal second, third or hotfie last season. The Philadelphia backstops turned back 179 men. Chi cago's 169. St. Louis' 165. Boston’s 151, Pittsburg's 151. Brooklyn’s 14b. Cincinnati’s 146 and New York's 133. The catchers' record in this respect is appended Thrown Av. Per Gaines. Out. Game. Killifer, Phila. ...120 130 1.08 1 Simon, Pittsburg.. 92 Archer, Chicago ...103 Kling, Cincinnati.. . 63 Wingo, St. Louis . . 98 Miller. Brooklyn ...104 Meyers, New York.116 Rariden. Boston ... 87 Fischer. Brooklyn.. 51 Whaling. Boston . . 7 7 I Clarke. Cincinnati .100 McLean, St. L-N. Y. 7<» Bresnahan. Chicago 58 Dooin, Phila 50 Hildebrand, St. L... 26 Burns, Phila, 15 Kelly, Pittsburg... 40 Coleman, Pittsburg. 28 Gibson. Pittsburg.. 48 Wilson, X. York. ... 49 Roberts. St. Louis. 16 Howley, Phila 22 Hartley. N. Y 21 95 102 76 43 64 80 43 36 15 8 20 14 21 18 1.04 1.02 96 .94 9 1 .88 .87 .84 83 .80 .74 .74 .53 .50 .50 44 38 .31 .23 .14 Nelson Not Surprised Over Wife’s Action r*ast MILWAUKEE, WIS.. Dec. 11.—■‘Bat tling" Nelson, once lightweight cham pion of the pugilistic world, did not be tray ar.v surprise when he read a dis patch from Portland. Oreg . quoting Mrs. Fay King Nelson, his actress wife with saying that she would ask for a separation. •Fay is one of the finest little wornen in the world.’' said the former cham pion. “She is very impulsive, though, and 1 am not surprised. She may he | right. Perhaps we are mismated. We love each other, but we couldn’t get along together. 1 Mrs. Nelson :s quoted- as saying that j she never loved the Dane, but married | him "because he proposed so persist- ; ently.' AUBURN. ALA.. Dec. 12.—The Au burn athletic authorities to-day an nounced the football schedule for 1914. It wi!i be noticed that this schedule is the same as the 1913 schedule with the exception of the game with Louisiana State Univer sity. The authorities deemed it advisable to drop one S. J. A. A. team, and in asmuch as the L. S. U. game was the poorest game from a financial stand point. it is not to be on the 1914 schedule. Auburn played eight S. 1. A. A. teams the past season, which is prac tically double the number of S. I. A. A. teams played bv the other leading teams of the association Vanderbilt played only three teams in the South ern Association, namely: Auburn, Tennessee and Sewanee; whereas. University of Georgia only played one-half the number that Auburn did. Geoigia played Alabama, Clemson, Georgia Tech and Auburn. The Auburn schedule. as an nounced for 1914. is as follows; October 3—Montgomery Athletic Club at Auburn. October 10—University of Florida at Jacksonville. October 17—Clemson at Auburn. October 24—A. A' M. of Mississippi at Birmingham. October 31—Mercer University (probably) at Auburn. November 7—Georgia Tech at At lanta. November 14—Vanderbilt at Bir mingham. November .1—Georgia at Atlanta Baseball Stars Shine on Gridiron v#r *!* • *'* *1* • v v#*r van* r*v Forward Passes Were Easy Money New Orleans Club Reported Sold to Frank's Friends By (). B. Keeler. B KFORE the football gab has sifted too far back into the discard for the year, and the sporting columns are given entirely over to alleged boxing and the pros pects for a stone-wall infield for 1914. it appears to us a good time to say a few words about the relation of foot ball and baseball; that is. the occa sional aid that training in tlve sum mer sport is able to slip the prac titioner of the gridiron. Most people take it (and with much reason) that the two great American 'games are so unlike each other that proficiency in one can have no bear ing on the other. And that’s pretty nearly the case, so far as football training helping a baseball player is concerned. and line drives, together with his speed on the bases, made him a star. The same speed enabled Merrilat to slip away from the Navy grapplers. and the same judgment of a ball sailing through the air enabled him to take two forward passes over his shoulder while racing with the ball, and another that he had to jump for. It is one thing to take a punt in the arms, and quite another to pick a hurtling football out of the air with the hands and that is where the baseball training counts. JOHNSON AND WIFE INJURED. ARRAN. FRANCE, Dec. 12.—Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist, and his white wife w r ere injured here to-day' when their automobile 1n which they were en route t.o Paris collided w r ilh the safety gates at a railway cross ing. Both were cut about the head BADGER OARSMEN TOILING. - MADISON. WIS.. De- 12 Taking afi vantage of every opportunity seem® m '»e the hobby of Marry U. Vail pavig oaeh. who has kept bis oarsmen on ! i <» water every nia’rn for th** months. A freshman and a varsity eight have been out daily. WISCONSIN WOULD KEEP COACH. , MADISON. WIS.. Dec. 12. Wisconsin i students rlo not take fav<>rabl\ to the idea of ahoy- eg professional football • caches • 'oach .luneaw could be barred J j ;«t any tunv that this rule were adopted j ] for he i.* engaged only for a year at « j I time INDIANA FOOTBALL PAYS. BLOOMINGTON. IND., Dec. 12. -In diana made $14,000 out of the football season this >ear. The receipts from the Maroon contest were nearly $3,900. Baseball, track and basket ball show a deficit of $2,000. WORGIN TRIMS MAHONEY. BELOIT. WIS.. Dec 12.—AI Wor- g.n. of Milwaukee, defeated Kid Ma honey. of Racine, in ten rounds last night DUT when it comes to football, we have just had quite a season of illustrations in which baseball training has helped football players in action. There is Bob McWhorter, Georgia's great half-back. Bob played the out field on the Red and Black baseball team, and his unerring judgment of punts and sure handling of passes bore witness to the value of his ex perience in the outfield. A NOTHER spectacular example was to be seen in the person and performance of Sam W’hite, a couple of years ago. Samuel Is best remembered as a football star w'ho escorted Princeton to victory by grabbing fumbled foot balls and running away - with them. But Friend Samuel. of ha/teful memory at Yale, first was a baseball player at Tigertown. and by his own statement it was his training at shortstop -the practice on fast drives and bad hoppers that stood to him when he saw footballs bouncing er ratically about the field. NEW ORLEANS. LA . Dec. 12.—The New Orleans baseball club has been acquired by local rnen who herteofore have never been mentioned in any of the negotiations during the recent changes of the club and will be run next year as an independent organi zation free from entanglements with any outside club, according to informa tion received from apparently reliable sources last night. According to these authorities, those w'ho have secured control of the local club have gone about the rnatler very quietly and. after getting together the necessary financial backing. simply beat, the lime of the Heinenian-New man intersts and completed the deal with Mr. Somers while the latter was in New York. . At the same time it is understood Secretary Heinemann was waiting in Cleveland for Mr Somers to return and confer with him about the J. K. Newman offer. Details of the plans of the new own ers were withheld, but it is understood that there is a strong probability that Charles Frank will return to his old place as manager. This i* the fifth of a series of Willie Kit* hie, written exvlusicety fo By Willie Ritchie. S AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12—After witnessing a few of the four- round tights. 1 simply could not resist the temptation to get back into the game. i fought against it and tried m\ bev . but the feeling was there and that settled it B«s»ide? my friends kept coming to me and telling me how foolish 1 was to quit lust when 1 had a chance to go to the fi*ont They refused to give me a rest ** Finally I wen! to my boss and threw up my job. He was sorry to let me go. and. in fact, he offered ;ne a nice raise if 1 would slick with the auto mobile business. T told him plainly that I wanted to be a fighter; that I had had some experience and that 1 intended to try again. One-Round Hogan was trie big >tar then. He had the reputation of be ing a whirlwin i and a knocker out. They were boosting him to the skies. He wan getting the big money and beating all corners. They touted him as a champion arid he was swelling hround the to.vn as the whole show. Nobody could touch him. but 1 made up my mind to take a chance. Now. I had seep Hogan fight several of his battles, and 1 came to the con clusion that I couid beat him. 1 fig ured it out in my mind that he was just made to order for me. .The fans laughed at me and said that I was crazy, but this did not change my opinion. 1 wanted Hogan, that was all, so I started out to issue a few challenges for a four-round fight. Passed Up by Hogan. I was a full-fledged lightweight by this time, strong and healthy and full of pep. Maybe 1 looked too strong for Hogan, for he passed me up. I kept after him but he only laughed at me and told me to go and get a reputation. He said that he was the big noise in the four-round game and that he would not have anything to do with dubs like me. Abe Label was also a star then, and the fans thought pretty well of him. One of the four-round promoters of fered me a match with Abe, and I just jumped at it. I think that I would have taken a chance against Wolgaat. and he was the champion then. Label was a hard hitter and knew more about the game than I did. The fanr told me that T was foolish to go on with him, that he would beat me up and send me back to work, ana that I would be through w’ith the game for keeps. But nothing could atop me. 1 signed up tor the match and worked hard to get into shape on about four days' notice. I took something like $50 far my end. All I wanted was expense money and experience It was a tough old battle, and T won the decision on points. Yes, 1 did run into a few of Label's right- I hand jolts to the jaw. and they sure j did shake me up. But I knew* that I must win, so I kept right on after him and boxed as cleverly as I could. I guess that my condition counted, as i I had a nice lead at the end of the fourth round. Label set lip a cry for a return match, claiming that he was out of stories of the Lightweight Champion> /• The Georgian. condition. The fans seemed to like the idea, so 1 came right back the next Friday nig'nt and gave Abe an other trimming f had him all the way this time. The confidence was there, and I was »uie of my condi tion. His blows did not seem to both er me at -all and the Victory was a soft one. Tiie next in line was Oharley Reilly, the boy* who gave me my first beat ing. He wanted a match, and I just jumped at the chance. Here was my opportunity to wipe out the old defea and square .myself w ith my friends. I took on Reilly two weeks after I beat. Label the second time. Well, this was sure one speedy nilil Reilly had all his cleverness With him end he stepped around and gave me a boxing le.'Won for two rounds. They were writing their own tickets on him to win. But he began to tire in the third, and here I put in my best licks. I just rushed and slammed away, for I. was in grand shape. I hammered him all over the ring in the last round and got the decision. I gwese iuv condition did it. McCarthy Proves a Tartar. 1 felt that I was really on my fee again and that I was good enough for any of them. I began a regular court* of training and kept on the sharp lookout for matches. The game looked better to me than it ever looked be fore. Johnny -VI• •«'arii.y had just returned from Kansas City, where he fought Paekey McFarland a ten-round draw. I was not considered in his class, but 1 went after him all the same, and finally got the match. Harry Foley, who is now managing me. was then looking after the affair.-* of McCarthy. We knew each other all right; but from the way that Fo ley kept sizing me up I realized that he did not think much of me as a fighter. He thought that he had the makings of a champion in .McCarthy. That bricklayer gave me some battle. I have to admit this. We went four rounds to a draw, and we kept at it hammer and tongs every inch of the way. He was rough and strong, and lie tossed me all around the ring. \ could not box him at ali. and when t we did get in close he had the better of the mixups. for tha* sort of going was just what he liked After that battle I ga\e Reilly an other chance, and again won the de cision. Then I started after Mc Carthy once more, hoping to do bet ter with him; bin our second mee ing resulted in a draw. It was al most the same old thing over again. He was too rough and too strong for me. and I did not seem to be able to hit nim hard enough to make him slow down. MEN Cured Forever i Kling and Weston In Cue Match Again 'THE OLD RELIABLE" PlANTENS or black ’CAPSULES r T 1 HE most sensational gridiron vie- * tory of the year easily was the unexpected success of the Army over the stronger Navy eleven. That suc cess was due to the forward pass. And the forw*ard pass was operated by a couple of crack baseball play ers. Quarterback Prichard, who flipped the oval on the forward passes that brought victory to West Point, played first base on the baseball team last year. He was noted for his accurate pegging—and his passes in the big football game of the year were re markable for their distance and ac curacy. and for the fact tha they shot fast and low . like a catcher's peg to second, instead of "rainbowing' in a slow arch that gave the opposition time to ge; under the ball I F there must be such a thing as * compensation, according to our esteemed and ex-fellow countryman Mr. Emerson, we beg to put forward on the other hand that constant con tact with Mrs. Mother Earth while playing football ought to add confi dence and daring to a baseball play er's method of "hitting the dirt." while head-on collisions with plung ing half-backs should breed a certain amount of contempt for flying spikes. And most of all. there's the old heart; the old determination, as Bob Unglaun used to put it- the old Eng lisii- for-viscera. the demand for which is the same in both these games, and in all others. That’s where most 'of the mutual benefit gets on. we take it. CHICAGO, ILL . Dec. 12. - Johnny Kling and Charles ("Cowboy") Wes ton have been matched for a 600-point match at pocket billiards. Four years ago the baseball player won the cham pionship from Weston at Kansas City and the latter asser t he was not given a square deal. R E M E DYfor M E N AT DRUOGI8TS.OR TRIAL BOX BV MAILIO, r*0M PLANTER 93 HENRY BT. BROOKLYN.BY. ■ -BEWARE or IMITATION* — By a true aped el t si *ho r'wwr* the exper'. mu*# of year#. Tha rtfht kind of experience—doing the tame thing tha right way hundreds and per haps thousands of times, with unfailing, permanent ■suits. Don t you tMric it’s time to get the right 1 treatment? I will cure yon or tnaice bo rhsrge, thus proving that my preterit day. scientific methods are absolute ly certain. I hold out no false bopea If I find your case 1* Incurable If you dealre fo eon- DON’T BE TORTURED TWO KNOCKOUTS ON BILL. TERRE HAUTE, IND.. Dec 12.— Two boxers were knocked out on the bill put on by the Wabash Athletic Club last night. Spot Davis, of Ko komo. stopped Jimmy Watts, of In dianapolis in the third round of the opening bout, .lack Watts, a local negro, knocked out Bill Donovan, of Indianapolis, in the third round I ttou 'in L-p instantly relieved and perms • willy cured. Head «hat J R Maxwell, At lanta, Ga.. says. It proven tbs' Tetterine Cures Eczema I lettered a(on'' with severe eczema Tried »i| dIAerent remedies and was In despair wnan a neighbor fold me to try Tetterine. After using V> werth I am eamgletaly oured Why should you suffer when you can «n easily get a remedy that cures all skit, troubles- oc- 7*ma. 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Jot Thomas, local lightweight, tnav he seen in a Fort Worth. Texas, ring on Christ mas Day. .loe received a wire yester day offering him a match with Bobby Waugli there and has wired the Fort j **THt VICTOK ’ DR. WOOLLEY'S SANITARIUM ar.« all inefrrietj aai drug addle dona l eallv treated Our M year* fixpertenee show* these disease* are curable PaUenis also treated homes Consultation confidential. A book on tha sub ject. fr<* Dr. B M. WOOLLEY 4 SON. No. 2-4 Via. tar 8*&iwfea* . AtiaMa j