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By James Swinnerton INDOOR SPORTS By Tad Mr. Jack Solves the Servant Problem for a Few Minutes NEW CAPTAIN OF TOOTLES PLATER OF JORDAN TTPE By X-Leaguer. M EMPHIS, Dec. 12.—Jimmy Mullen, the new second sack- er secured by Finn, and who will be appointed captain of the club J^r-the passing of Hill Abstein making such an appointment necessary—has .had quite a varied career in baseball. While Mullen is comparatively . youns in years, he has been playing ball since he was old enough to hold *1 bat, and commenced his profes sional activity on the diamond while in his teens. Mullen has had the benefit of hav ing plaved under two of the most successful managers that handle clubs in the American League to day. Mullen first attracted attention as a substitute on Donnie Mack’s Ath letic team. This was in 1904, and he put in the most of his time on the _ diamond that season as an under study to Danny Murphy at second Tinsp nlturniph ntfiir nlnvcol of hfcl he was turned over to tlie Washing ton team. Plays Under Jennings. Mullen left the Washington team in the middle of the season and joined 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 nls baseball paraphernalia % to another locker, that locker being in t lie clubhouse of the Newark baseball dub. He 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 plaved, namely, Baltimore and Newark. He remained in the Canuck city for three consecutive seasons, and played < onsistently good ball, being accred ited one of the steadiest men in his position in the league. Toronto disposed of Mullen before I he summer af 1912, and he Joined the Utica club of the 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 nqver leads any leagues in hitting nor winds up a season with anything remarkable in the way of a fielding average, he is what is known as a valuable ball player and his worth is more appre ciated bv the ball players than by the s pec ta tors. He has a thorough knowledge of the game ami should certainly be of benefit to Shanley 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 cluk The effectiveness of this kind of play er is greater than is apparent to the average occupant of the grandstand or bleachers. KILLED H BACKSTOP TO STEAL BASES Nooga' Boys Expect To Down Athletic ClubFiveTo-morrow 5 Thi* \tlanta Athletic Club basket ball ‘•earn hail better be preparril for a tierce ■ipssle to-morrow night. Advance no tices from Chattanooga state that the Svtsitors a' 1, prepared to put up the 'toughest sort of a fight, and really ex- fuect to defeat the local boys, l j ue Beau coach of the Athletic Club 'hoys, is leaving no stone unturned in an effort to get his players in the best , of shape .Toe is pulling ihe.n through a 'long drill every afternoon and says the ‘boys are showing much improvement in f their work. . , ■ Following is the line-up of the rival f teams: ... t a. A C. Pos ’Nooga. Doom’s Catcher Led National League Receivers in Turning Back Would-Be Pilferers. rll-L K1LLIFER, of the Phil- ' lies, who might still be on the St. Louis American League club had not Jim McAleer fired him from that team in 1909. was the best throwing backstop in the National League Inst season. He turned back 130 attempts to steal on him and was one of three men who averaged one or more men thrown out per game. The other backstops who had a rec ord like Killifer were Alike Simon, of Pittsburg, and Jimmy Archer, of Chi cago. Killifer and Archer both re ceived many votes from the Chal mers Commission of newspaper ex ports as being the players most valu able to their teams in last season's competition for the car. * * * C1MON averaged 1.04 victims to the ^ game and Archer 1.02, the Pitts- burger flagging 96 men in 92 contests and the Chicagoan 105 in 103. Johnny Kling, of Cincinnati, ranked fourth among the windpaddists when it came to pegging out men who tried to steal. Ivy Wingo. 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 Bert 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 wlndpad. The lone exception cropped up in Cincin nati, Johnny Kling. who caught 37 less games than Tommy Clarke, hav ing on average as a thrower that was .16 better than that amassed by his young teammate. * * * ALL told, there we.re 1.24<> National' League players thrown our in at tempting to steal second, third or home last season. The Philadelphia backstops turned back 17'.* men, Chi cago’s 169, St. Louis’ 165, Boston's 151, Pittsburg's 151, Brooklyn's 146. Cincinnati’s 146 and New York’s 133. The catchers' record in this respect is appended: Thrown Av. Per Games. Out. Game. Smith Forbes .. Dubard.. Carter... Weaver. F . Nolman L* F McCollum ’ .c.. .Spencer-Brockhaul K. G Ohes L. G.. Gainbil-Harris •Dec SeaboughTo Be Let Out by Turtles i — ' MKMPHIS. TEW.. Dec 12.—Doc 'Seabough is slated for the greased echute. n veteran receiver of the Memphis .Turtles, formerly occupying the leading 'position behind the wood for the Vols. fig about to be let out. . Doc’s grizzled head Is dne to be Hopped off bv Manager Mike F.nn dur ing the next fen weeks, and Just as SO' • as Hir Miguel can supply I>oe with a i ice little job in some lower league ..the veteran will heat it. perhaps never fto eome hack again to the Southern ’’vi’ue Is through with his veterans, jir* want* to wipe his slate clean and make a fresh start, as the Turtles have be. o in a had wav for some time and is .range can not he otherwise than (beneficial. ... . S a bough's berth Is as yet unsettled, as Manager Finn Is looking around and •■intends to do the best he can for Doc. *The passing of Sea bough takes another nf the old guard away from the South ern and in Nashville the veteran Doc \a-• hundreds of friends who remem- 5 Vr him for what he has done in the BADGER OARSMEN TOILING. • HADISON. AVIS.. Dee. 12 Taking ad- v <- r i tgn nf everv opportunity seems to , f•- r„» r- ( i .,bbv * Harry H. Vail rawing g. each, who has kept his oarsmen on the fc- ,water every nieht for the past two V~—"Dth-v A freshman and a varsity ‘‘•Vl ,ht have been out daily .103 . 63 . 98 .104 . 116 . 87 . 51 . 100 Killifer, Phila. ... Simon. Pittsburg. Archer, Chicago .. Kling. Cincinnati.. Wingo, St. Louis . Miller, Brooklyn . . Meyers, New York Rariden, Boston . . Fischer, Brooklyn. Whaling. Boston Clarke. Cincinnati McLean. St. L-N. Y. 70 Bresnahan. Chicago 58 Dooin, Phila 50 Hildebrand, St. L... 26 Burns, Phila 15 Kelly, Pittsburg... 40 Coleman. Pittsburg. 28 Gibson. Pittsburg.. 48 Wilson. N. York.... 49 Roberts, St. Louis. 16 How ley, Phila 22 Hartley, N Y 21 LOS 1 04 1.02 .96 .94 .91 .88 .87 .84 .83 .80 .74 .74 Nelson Not Surprised Over Wife’s Action MILWAEKEE, AVIS.. Dec. ' 1. • Bat tling" Nelson, onre lightweight cham pion of the pugilistic world, aid not be tray any 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 1h one of the finest little women in the world.” said the former cham pion “She is very impulsive, though, and I am not surprised. She may be right. Perhaps we are mismated. We love each other, but we couldn’t get along together.” Mrs Nelson is quoted as saying that she never loved the Dane, but married him “because he proposed so persist ently.” WISCONSIN WOULD KEEP COACH. MADISON, WIS.. Dec. 12. Wisconsin students do not take favorably to the • j,:p;i nf abulishing professional football icoaches Coach Juneau could be barred i at any tithe that this rule were adopted for h" is engaged only for a year at a I time. Auburn Announces Football Schedule For Season of 1914 AUBURN, ALA.. Dec. 12.—The Au burn athleti • authorities to-day an nounced the football schedule for 1914. It will be noticed that this schedule is the same as the 1913 schedule, with the exception of the game vv.ith Louisiana State Univer sity. The authorities deemed it advisable to drop one S. I. 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 he on the 1914 schedule. Auburn played eight iS. I. A. A. teams the past season, which is prac tically double the number of S. 1. A. A. teams played by 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. Georgia 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. & M. of Mississippi nt Birmingham. October 31—Mercer University (probably) at Auburn. November 7—Georgia Tech at At lanta. November 14 Vanderbilt at Bir mingham. November 21—Georgia at Atlanta. , JOHNSON AND WIFE INJURED. ARRAN. FRANCE, Dec. 12. Jack I Johnson, the negro pugilist, and his I white wife were injured here to-day I when their automobile in which they i were en route to Paris collided with • the safely gates at a railway cross- i ing. Both were cut about the. head. INDIANA FOOTBALL PAYS. BLOOMINGTON. 1ND.. Dec. 12. In diana made $14.00(1 out of the football season this year. The receipts from the Maroon < ontesi were nearly $3,000. Baseball, track and basket ball show ja deficit of $2,000. WORGIN TRIMS MAHONEY. BELt > IT. WIS.. Dec. 12. Al Wor- gin. of Milwaukee defeated Kid Ma honey. <>f Racine, in ton rounds last nig hi. Champion Returns to the Ring +••!* +•+ +••!- + -r»+ Ritchie’s Story of His Career Hullo.nni I’M HOME EARLY Baseball Stars Shine on Gridiron *!* • *!* Forward PassesW ereEasy Money By 0. B. Keeler. B EFORE 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 18. the occa sional aid that training in the 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, go far as football training helping a baseball player is concerned. * * * DFT 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. * * • T HE most sensational gridiron vic 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 forward 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 that they shot fast and low. like a catcher's peg to second, instead of “rfiinbowing” in a slow arch that gave the opposition time to get under the ball. • • • VTERRILAT. who 'aught two of the *■* * passes “or touchdowns and * mentions leap in the air. played cen- t a rfleld for t>Y' We«t Point team last 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 grax»plers, 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. * * * A NOTH HR spectacular example was to be seen in the person and performance of Sam White, a couple of years ago. Samuel is best remembered as a football star who escorted Princeton to victory by grabbing fumbled foot balls and running away with them. But Friend Samuel, of hateful memory at Yale, first was a baseball player a* Tigertown, and by his own statement it was hia 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. • • • I F there must he 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 tne dirt,” while head-on collisions with plung- • ing half-backs should breed a certain j amount of contempt for flying spikes. And most <»f all, there’s the old heart; the old determination, as Bob Unglaun used to put it the old Hng- lish-for-viscera. the demand for which is the same in both these games, and in all others. That’s where most of the mutftal , benefit gets on, we take it. New Orleans Club Reported Sold to Frank's Friends NEW ORLEANS, LA.. Dec. 12.—The New Orleans basely 11 club has been acquired by local men who herteofore have never been mentioned in any of the negotiations during the recent changes of the club and will bo run next year as an independent organi zation free rrom entanglements with any outside club, according to informa tion received from apparently reliable sources last night According to these authorities, those who have secured control of the local club have gojie about the matter very quietly and, after getting together the necessary financial backing, simply beat the time of the Heim-tnan-New man inters)s 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. Netvman offer. Details of the plans of the new own ers were withheld, but It is understood that there i - a st r< mg probability tl it Charles Frank will return to his old place as manager. Kling and Weston In Cue Match Again CHICAGO, ILL. Dec. 12. Johnny Kling and Charles (“Cowboy”) Wes ton have been matched for a 600-polnt match at pocket billiards. Four years ag<> the baseball player wmi the chain pionship from Weston at Kansas City ami the latter asserts he was not given a square deal TWO KNOCKOUTS ON BILL. TKRR E H A t *T K, INI).. 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. Jack Watts, a local negro, knocked out Bill Donovan, of Indianapolis, in the third round. THOMAS MAY MEET WAUGH. NEW ORLEANS. LA.. Dec 12 Joe Thomas, local lightweight, may be seen j ip a Fort Worth. Texas, ring on Christ- ; in; — Day Joe received a wire yes' r- da\ offering him a match with Bobby Waugh there and has wired the F<u Worth promoters for their best terms This is the fifth nf a series of stories nf the TAfjhtweight Champion) Willie Ritchie, written exclusively for The Georgian. By W illie Ritchie. S AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12.-After witnessing a few of the four- round fights. I simply could not resist the temptation to get back into the game. I fought against it and tried my best; but the feeling was there, and that settled it. Besides, my friends kept coming to me and telling me how foolish I was to quit Ju9t when I had a chance to go to the front. They refused to give me a rest. Finally I went to my boss and threw up my Job. He was sorry (o let me go, and. in fact, lie offered me a nice raise if I would stick with the auto mobile business. I told him plainly that I wanted to be a fighter; that I bad had some experience and that I Intended to try again. One-Round Hogan vva» the big star then. He Had the reputation of be ing a whirlwin 1 and a knocker out. They were boosting him to the skies. He was getting the big money and heating all comers. They touted him as a champion and he was swelling around the town as the whole show. Nobody could touch him, but I made up my mind to take a chance. Now, 1 had seen Hogan fight several of his battles, and T came to the con clusion that I could beat him. I 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. I wanted Hogan, that was all, so I started out to issue a few challenges for a four-round fight. Passed Up by Hogan. T was a full-fledged lightweight by this time, strong and healthy and full of pep. Maybe I looked too strong for Hogan, for he passed me up. I kept after him. but he only laughed Rt 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 Wolgast, and he was the champion then. Label was a hard hitter and knew more about the game than T did. The. fans told me that I was foolish to go* on with him, that he would beat me up and send me back to work, and that I would be through with the game for keeps. But nothing could stop me. I signed up for tiie match and worked hard to get into shape on about four days’ notice. 1 took something like $50 f<»r my end. All I wanted was expense money and experience. It was a tough old battle, and I won the decision on points. Yes», 1 did run into a few of Label’s right- hand jolts to the Jaw, and they sure did shake me up. But l 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 had a nieo lead at the end of the fourth round. Label set up a cry for a return match, claiming that he was out of condition. The fans seemed to like the idea, no I came right back the next Friday night and gave Abe an other trimming. I had him all the way this time. The confidence was there, and I was sure of my condi tion. His blows did not seem to both er me at ail and the victory was a soft one. The next in lino was Charley 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 defeat and square myself with my friends. 1 took on Reilly two weeks after I bear. Label the second time. Well, this was sure one speedy mill. Reilly had all his cleverness witii him and he stepped around and gave me a boxing lesson for two rounds. They were writing their own tickers 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. 1 hammered him all over the ring in the.last round and got the decision. I guess my condition did it. McCarthy Proves a Tartar. I felt that I was really on my feet again and that I was good enough for any of them. I began a regular course of training and kept on the sharp lookout for matches. The game looked better to me than it ever looked be fore. Johnny McCarthy had Just returned from Kansas City, where he fought Packey McFarland a ten-round draw. I was not consilered in his class, but I went after him all the same, and finally got the match. Harry Foley, who is now managing me, was then looking after the affairs of McCarthy. We knew each other, all right; but from the wav that Fo ley kept sizing me up T 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 nt it hammer and tongs every inch of the way. He was rough and strong, and he to?*sed me all around the ring. 1 could not box him at all, and when we did get in close he had tiie better of the mixups, for that sort of going was just what he liked. After that battle I gave Reilly an other chance, and again won the de rision Thpn T started after Mc Carthy once more, hoping to do bet ter with* him; buc our second meet ing resulted in a draw. It was al most tiie same old thing over again. He was too rough and too strong for me, and 1 did not seem to be able to hit him hard enough to make him slow down. ‘THE OLD RELIABLE" at drugg;gts.ortrial box nv mailboo FROM PLANTEN 93 HENRYST BROOKLYN.NY. „ U- *" E W A BE OF IM I TAT I O N B — DON 'T BE TORTURED { lauia. say*. 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YOU COmCla,\N ABOUT not able To GET Com Servants' i am going out and GET You SOME ' The Bone Setter ] 1 ciis Been famous in J Baseball, but the ] Bone Driller ht ] Beat Him