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While Mullen Is comparatively young In years, he has been playing ball since he was old enough to hold a bat, and 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 clubs 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 most 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 the 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 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 nis baseball paraphernalia to another locker, that locker being in the clubhouse of the Newark baseball club. 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- trs Irk which he had previously played, 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 )iis position in the league. Toronto disposer! of Mullen before The summer of 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 1n 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 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 by the ball players than by the spectators. He has a thorough knowledge of the game and 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 club. The effectiveness of this kind of play er is greater than is apparent to the average occupant of the grandstand or bleachers. iM T.R£t> OF HEARING VOU COMPl^ikJ ABOUT nioT AfM-E To G£T SERVANT'S ‘ i am Going out and get You SOME « * They are not HERE AHD l_ WILL Do the work, until l CAM hiRE SOME MV.’TuF! ’ SvfnnS.RIoh-13 INDOOR SPORTS By Tad Nooga' Boys Expect To Down Athletic ClubFiveTo-morrow ■ The Mlanta Athletic Club basket hall team had better be prepared for a tierce tussle to-morrow night. Advance no- . tires from Chattanooga state that the .■ a v isitors are prepared to put up the w-toughest sort of a tight, and really ex- Jfr.pect to defeat the local boys. ' Joe Bean, coach of the Athletic Club .V hoys, is leaving no stone unturned in ‘Kan effort to get his players in the best Tof shape Joe is putting them through a s’, long drill everv afternoon and says the : . hoys are showing much Improvement in * f their work. „ , Following is the line-up of the rival iD TD STEAL BUSES IN Dooin’s Catcher Led National League Receivers in Turning Back Would-Be Pilferers. t x Tilda KILLIFER, of the Phil- V/V/ Des, 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 (browing -backstop in the National League last season. He ttimed back 130 attempts to steal on him and was one of three men who averaged one or mure men thrown out per game. The other backstops who had a rec ord like Killifer were Mike Simon, of Pittsburg, and Jimmy Archer, of <’hi- cago. Killifer and Archer both re ceived many votes from the Chal mers Commission of newspaper ex perts as being the players most valu able to their teams in last season’s competition for the car. * * * Cl MON 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 fourtn 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 windpad. The lone exception cropped up in Cincin nati, Johnny Kling. who caught 37 less games than Tommy Clarke, hav ing an average as n thrower that was .16 better than that amassed by his young teammate. * * • ALL told, there were 1.240 National ^ League players thrown out in at tempting to steal second, third or home last season. The Philadelphia backstops turned back 179 men, Chi cago’s 169, St. Louis’ 165. Boston’s 151. Pittsburg’s 151. Brooklyn's 140, Cincinnati’s 146 and New York’s 133. The catchers’ record in this respect Is appended: Thrown Av. Per THE U ^0I C CluB FlovH DID vou ji || j j &er ' r I I|| fl L R.e-AW'' D JU LT” UFE Tt> M fcNA(y£ OnE YE*? I'D i FOIL THEC* EATHtHD* -S IN POOR AFORTtT E)Kia)6 °P THE fE>/vis THE MATIOMAL LEAOtUE ' ... U; earns * A A C. Fh jSmith Forbes. . . . Du ba r* I. . . Carter.... t. '■ Weaver. . Pos ’Nooga. ft p Nolman I, p McCollum .. Spencer-Brockhaul ft (« Ohes I,. (;..Gambll-Harris DocSeaboughToBe Let Out by Turtles i* MEMPHIS, TEN.V. Dec. 12.—Doc Sea bough Is slated for the greased .chute. The veteran receiver of the Memphis - Turtles, formerly occupying the leading position behind the wood for the Vols. ’“is about to be let out. , line’s grizzled head is -lopped off by Manager Mike Finn dur- f.-ing the next few weeks, and jubt ajj soon as Sir Miguel can supply Doc with ■ a nice little Job in some lower league .‘ the veteran will beat it. perhaps never .. to come back again to the Southern ■''.tVike is through with his veterans [itHe wants to wipe his slate clean and S?make a fresh start, as the Turtles have K been in a had way for some time and "■'h change can nut be otherwise than h beneficial. , J. Seabough’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 Seabough takes another . of the old guard away from the Bouth- V and in Nashville the veteran Doc V J s hundreds of friends wh<> remem- him for what he has done in the Killifer, Phila. . . . Simon. Pittsburg. Archer, Chicago .. Kling, Cincinnati.. Wingo, St. Louis . Miller, Brooklyn ...104 Meyers, New York .116 Rariden, Boston ... 87 Fischer. Brooklyn.. 51 Whaling. Boston . . 77 Clarke, Cincinnati .100 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, Ht. Louis. 16 Howley, Phila 22 Hartley, N. Y 21 badger oarsmen toiling. MADISON. WIS., Dec. 12 Taking ad- /anu’ge of every opportunity seems to ' f»e the hobbv of Harry K. Vail rowing coach, who has kept his oarsmen on the water every night for the past two months. A freshman and a varsity eight have been out daily. 130 96 105 61 92 95 102 76 43 64 80 4 3 36 15 8 20 14 21 18 1.08 1.04 1.02 .96 .94 . 91 .88 .87 .84 .83 .80 .74 .74 Nelson Not Surprised Over Wife's Action MILWAUKEE. WIS.. Dr.- 11.-“Bat tling” Nelson, once lightweight cham pion of the pugilistic world, did 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 sepa ration. “Fay is 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 he 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 th.e 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 ' idea of abolishing professional football i coaches. Coach .Juneau couhl be barred i t ary time that this rule were adopted for he is engaged only for a year at a i lime. Auburn Announces Football Schedule For Season of 1914 AUBURN. ALA., Dec. 12.—The Au burn athletic 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 with Louisiana State Univer sity. The authorities deemed it advisable to drop one S. I. A. A. team, and In asmuch as the L. H. 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. J. A. A. teams played by the other leading teams of tli ssociation Vanderbilt played only three teams in the South ern Association, namely: Auburn. Tennessee and Kewanee; 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 ]<> -University of Florida at Jacksonville. October l7--Clemson at Auburn. October 24—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 21—Georgia at Atlanta. JOHNSON AND WIFE INJURED. ARRAN FRANCE, Dec. 12.—Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist, and his white wife were injured here to-day when their automobile in which they were en route to Paris collided w'ith the safety gates at a railway cross ing. Both were cut about the head. INDIANA FOOTBALL PAYS. BLOOMINGTON. INI)., Dec. 12. In diana made $14,000 out of the football season this year. The receipts from the Maroon contest were neany $3,000 Baseball traek and basket ball show a deficit of $2,000. Baseball Stars Shine on Gridiron • *’* v • V *i- • •> Forward Passes Were Easy Money New Orleans Club Reported Sold to Frank's Friends WORGIN TRIMS MAHONEY. BELOIT. WIS., Dec. 12. A1 Wor- gin. of Milwaukee, defeated Kid Ma honey. of Racine, in ten rounds last night. 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 Is, 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, so far as football training helping a baseball player is concerned. * • • OUT 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 cback 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 "rainbowing” in a slow arch that gave the opposition time to get under the ball. * • • A/JERRILAT. who caught two of the passes for touchdowns and dropped another only after a tre mendous leap in the air. played ren- frfleld for thr West Point tram last year, and Ins judgment ui lly balls 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 w’hile 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. ¥ * • \ NOTHER 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 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. • . t 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- | (act 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 i amount of contempt for flying spikes. And most of all. there’s the old I heart; the old determination, as Bob IJnglaun used to put it—the old Eng- lish-for-vlscera, the demand for which is the same in both these 1 games, and in all others. That's where most of the mutual benefit gets on, we take it. THOMAS MAY MEET WAUGH. NEW OKI.FANS. LA . Dee 12 .l<»e Thomas, local lightweight, may be seen j in a Fort Worth, Texas ting on Christ mas Day. Joe received a wire yester day 4 ITe> ng him a match with HoF- Waugh there and has wind the Fur' Worth iitomoieis for their best terms. 1 Champion Returns to the Ring •}•••!• •;•••> ■{•••{• 4*a4* +•+ Ritchie’s Story of His Career NEW ORLEANS, LA.. Dec. 12—The New Orleans baseball club has been acquired by local men who herteofore have never been mentioned in any of the negotiations during tlie 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 who have secured control of the lm-.d club have gone about the matter very quietly and, after getting together the necessary financial backing, simply beat the time of the Heineman-New man intersts and completed the deal with Mr. Somers while the. latter was in Now York. At the same time U is understood Secretary Ueinemann 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 hi.* 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-point match at pocket billiards. Four years ago the baseball player won the chant plonship from Weston at Kansas City and the letter asserts he was not given a square deal. TWO KNOCKOUTS ON BILL. TERRE HAUTE. 1X1).. 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. This is the fifth of a scries of h Willie Ititchie, written exclusively for Bv Willie Ritchie. S AN FRANCISCO, Deo. 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 Fettled It. Besides, my friends kept coming to me and telling me how foolish I was to quit just 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 to let me go, ami, in fact, lie offered me a nice raise if I would stick with the auto mobile business. I told him plainly that 1 wanted to be a fighter; that I had bad some experience and that I Intended to try again, j One-Round Hogan was the big star tlreh. ffV* "had the reputation of be ing a whirlwin 1 and a knocker nut. They were boosting him to the skies. He was getting the big money and beating all coiners. 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. I had seen Hogan fight several of his battles, and I came to the con clusion that I t’ouid heat him. I fig ured it out in my mind that he was just made to order for me. The fans laughed nt me and said that I was crazy, but this did not change my opinion. I wanted Hogan, that was Ml, 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 1 looked too strong for Hogan, for he passed me up. I kept after hint, 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 lie 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 I 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 lor the match and worked hard to get into shape on about four days’ notice. 1 took something like $50 for my end. All 1 wanted was expense money and experience. It was a tough old battle, anil I won the decision on points. Yes, I did run into a few of Label’s right- hand Jolts to the jaw. and they sure 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. T guess that my condition counted, as I had a nice lead at the end of the fourth round. Label set up a cry for a return match, claiming that he was out of torics of the Lightweight Champion> The Georgian. condition. The fans seemed to like the idea, so 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 1 was sure of my condi tion. His blows did not seem to both er me at all and the victory was a soft one. The next In line 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. I took on Reilly two weeks after I beat Label the second time. Well, this was sure one speedy miil Reilly had all his cleverness with him and he stepped around and gave nte a boxing lesson for two rounds. They r were writing their own tickeis 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 8way, for J was in grand shape. I 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, w'here he fought Packey McFarland a ten-round draw. I was not consi lered in his class, but I went after hint 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 way that Fo ley kept sizing nte up T realized that he did not think much of me as a fighter. He thought that he had the makings of a « hampion In McCarthy. That bricklayer gave me some battle. I have u 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 he tossed me all around the ring. I could not box him at all, and when we did get in close he had the better of the mixups, for that Bort of going was just what he liked. 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