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I THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. Now Is the Time When the Baseball and Football Fans Can Weep Quietly Together D) f; TINKER Oh, My, Yes! Things Are in Terrible Shape in Mexico By ‘Bud’ Fisher Ebbets Flashes $25,000 Speech on Herrmann, and Garry Breaks His Promise. By Frank G. Menke. N EW YORK. Dec. 13.—Those loud bellows of commingled rage jyid anguish which near ly fractured your ear drums to-day a me from Chicago—from the throat of C. Waistcoat Murphy, to be exact. They issued forth the moment that C. Waistcoat learned that Garry Herrmann, the genial owner of the <’incinnati-club. had worked some thing like a criss-cross and sold Joe Tinker to Brooklyn for $25,000—the biggest cash sum ever paid for a ball player. C. Waistcoat left yesterday for his ■ hicago domicile. Before leaving he had an extended talk with the said .Mr. Herrmann. After the talk and just prior to departing for the train Waistcoat informed the assem blage that it was “all fixed up” and ied everyone to believe that Tinker would play with the Cubs nekt sea son. Until t> p. m. yesterday Herrmann gave off the impression that what | Murphy said was pretty nearly right. Quite loudly Herrmann announced that Murphy had been authorized by him, as owner of Mr Tinker, to deal with Tinker. ‘Tf, Murphy and Tinker can come to some understanding—and 1 don’t doubt that they can—Tinker will go to Chicago,” spoke Herrmann. “No other club can negotiate with Tinker in the meantime.” Deal in “Soda Water” Parlor. Just then C. Holiday Ebbets. own- •*r of the Brooklyn team, sought out / Herrmann in the Waldorf-Astoria ”so- * da water” parlor. And then, right before a large lot of people, the Gar den of Eden scene, which involved Adam, Eve and ail apple, wgs re peated. Ebbets played the role of Eve, Herrmann held down Adam's job and $25,000 took the place of an-ap ple. “Lookit here. Garry,” said Ebbets. “you think I'm kidding about that $25,000 for Tinker. I’ll repeat the offer now and make you a cash pay ment of $3,000 to bind the deal.” "But,” protested the weakening Herrmann, “y* see, Charley, I’ve given Murphy a chance to talk to Tinker first.” Ebbets responded to the effect that “Murphy ain't a-goin’ to give you $25,000 or anything like it, I'll bet. You'd better take this here $25,000 offer, Garry.” And, finally, Garry did. Immediately afterward Ebbetts announced: “Tinker said he would not play with Brooklyn, but 1 guess he’ll change his mind. He's to get $10,000 of that $25,000 if he signs a Brooklyn contract and that’s a mighty good inducement. I admit that $25,000 is a mighty big price to pay for a 34-year-old ball player, but with Tinker in our line-up we're going to give some of these gents with pennant dreams some mighty unpleasant nightmares. •Further than that—I expect we’ll get back what we are paying for Tinker in increased attendance in our exhibition games and during the first month of the regular league sea son. Tinker will be a drawing card.” Herzog May Manage Reds. Before putting through the Tinker deal. Herrmann gave Outfielder Bob Bescher to the Giants for Catcher Hartley and Infielder Herzog, who no doubt will be selected as manager of i he Reds. Both the Cardinal and Pirate own ers to-day expressed themselves as . pleased with the deal which they en gineered by which First Baseman Konetchy, Third Baseman Mowrey and Pitcher Bob Harmon, of the Car dinals, were turned over to the Pi rates in exchange for First Baseman Jack Miller, Inflelder “Cozy” Dolan. Outfielder Owen Wilson. Outfielder Arthur Butler and Pitcher Hank Robinson. Why the Cardinal owners should be pleased it is hard to tell. The ways and minds of baseball mag nates are beyond all humsTn under- standing. Holy scaokg ? hs*.6 a t>L£»D'r^t.vT'r ^eaeL armed t 0 |™ 8T6e ^- IP 0'oe**.; , ' CNANC6 15, To Pfe Yost rock / r 1 \ •— “1 QH, THIS ^ too HOD ' U/HY -BID t GVEft. COM\E TO M€Y4C.O 1# Hfc (A? 1‘*•.*- BE ToR.TuR.et) To PSlVTH AHB TNeN KlLLpD. boo HOO ! r y ( OH. bgar VM C.ON& . He 4E65. Mfc ' OH.THIS l^> ftWfOL I ,( v\ So YoU.Yfe TO BlE. . 0OO HOO. 1 too H00[ ntlLc hr comes Ru*eT AT M€ . T HOPB IAY It, POMNCtSS MS AOVSIRLC f* SMACK ’ )ifr ii ■ • 9 • ? tf!" ■Z l,C* >s». 3 IS, t POLLY AND HER PALS Some Smiles Will Fetch ’Em; Some Won’t how Comes it iQO k»j jj if* / Ouch, pa Sit im AH' out <x ~r*A7 | Civt The ' front door, vahew r c — F G/eRe ■Supposed to be ! uops “the vy/HiLt J The head ,of The house it 1 Cooped up like] HyEUA I '"OMCE 0VltC 1— whaddYe MLW. i”’OMCE OVER : Wol Tha DEUCE Kiuoa 'Talk is ~i\AH Ah'/how Just A PRj6ht5m«.e AHD A VIlUP. PA, There’s' NoIhimo -re n’.s— ' mini That- Mirir Look Forward to C. Evans’ Visit v • *5* • v ‘Chick’ Will Inspect East Lake BOXING News of the Ring Game inker Surprised at Offer, Says Murphy Can Still Get Him CHICAGO. Dec. 13.—“I have received ► official announcement of my sale Brooklyn. All I know is what I read id am told,” said Tinker this inorn- g, when told Brooklyn had closed e’ purchase for his services. “I want to play in Chicago. First, cause I have business interests here, id second, because I like that club. I ated recently that I wouldn’t play in •ooklyn. , , “When I made that remark I meant ■^>ry word of it, but I bad little thought en that the magnates would cut me on $10,000 of the purchase price. Ms with the promised salary of from ,500 to $10,000. certainly is a surprise id makes me sit up and think. How- er. if President Murphy will stand by e I’ll make good my threat not to go 1st. Murphy can get me if he s will- g to spend the money .“ If Murphy is sincere in landing lin- •r, there is still a chance. He has enty of surplus material and some of is with some real money would bring nker hack. Though the sale to Brook- n was made, it carries with it a clause at if .Toe refuses to sign a contract, bbets is to get back his coin and Toe rain will be the property of the Reds. YANKEES SELL BACKSTOP NEW YORK. Dec. '3 -The Yankees st night disposed of the services of itcher Smith, the youngster who ined the team in midseason Smith as sold to the Montreal club, of the ternational League. ALLANT AND HAYES IN DRAW. WESTFIELD. MASS.. Dec. 1*. Gil- Tt Gallant, of Chelsea, and < .rover ayes, of PT5iladelphia. went ten rounds a draV in the inain bout a! tne r hip Athletic Club last night By 0. B. Keeler. A TLANTA golfers, and particu larly those allied with the At lanta Athletic Club, are con gratulating themselves on the pros-^ peetive visit to Atlanta of Charles Evans, Jr., better known as “Chick,” who is to spend a. week—probably the week of Christmas holidays—as the guest of George Adair. “Chick” and Mr, Adair are rather more than acquaintances. Their ex cellent friendship is of several years’ standing, and their mutual fervor in the matter of golf is an additional vie that binds. As a matter of fact, it was the aforesaid mutual tie that attracted Mr. Evans to Nashville some years back at the same time Mr. Adair was there, the object of both being a golf tourney. Anyway, they met in Nashville and have been good friends ever since. * * * GOT to thinking about ‘Chick,’ up * there in Chicago, probably wkh his favorite links all covered up with snow and ice. and I thought he might like to swing his clubs over our At lanta courses,” said Mr. Adair. “So I invited him to visit me. and he took me up right away. Oh, he’ no stran ger here. He was in Atlanta two or three years ago, and played at East Lake then.” • * • ALSO,,here's something else. ** Mr. Adair is redesigning the Ath letic Club course at East Lake into what is expected eventually to he one of America’s classic inland courses. It was a mighty good course to begin with. But Mr. Adair lias been planning for years to change the plan to conform with that pub lished in The Georgian some months a ^r G —his own pet idea, gained from j experience on a hundred famous courses in America and Europe. So Mr, Adair is keen to get Mr. { Evans’ opinion the new plan, and. ; while playing over the present course the famous amateur no doubt will use his practiced vision on the lay-out for the future. ••‘Chick’ has played on every fa mous course in the world. 1 suppose.'* said Mr. Adair, ‘and his opinion is certainly worth something in a mat ter of this kind.” I T may be remarked in passing that every bunker except two designed for the new course has been put in. and all the putting greens sodded but I two. and it is now a certainty that j the new course will be ready for play | bv June 1. 1914. * • E r EVERTING to the pleasant top: 0 f Mr. Evans, it will be recalled (that Harry Vardon and Edward Ray. j the great British professionals, aft-' their tour of this country last fa'l. «r a ve it as their opinion that Evans st amateur golfer thej -n- countered, by no means excepting Francis Ouimet, who defeated .them both in the open championship tour nament at Brookline. “We do not judge a player by hia performance in any one match, or even in any one tournament.” Var don told the English newspapers. “We rate him by the manner in which he takes hold of the ball and his gen eral style and pow r er to play And by that standard we consider Mr. Evans the best in America.” * • 0 C OME now more complimentary notices from our British friend?. The latest copy of “Golf.” the cel ebrated British weekly organ of the game, edited by Harold H. Hilton, contains Mr. Hilton’s comment on the selection of Vardon and Ray. Mr. Hilton is about as well quali fied to pass judgment on a golfer as any man living, dividing, as ho doe?, with John Ball the honor of bein^ Great Britain’s greatest amateur golf4 er. We quote Mr. Hilton in his maga zine. • • * UTHAVE always held the opinion, ' and moreover have expressed it rather freely, that in his accuracy in hitting his wooden club shots, and likewise in his iron play up to the hole. Mf. Charles Evans, Jr., is the equal of any amateur player living I saw enough of the Chicago boy's game at Wheaton last year to con vince me upon this point.” After which Mr. Hilton says more very kind things about Friend Chick. * * • S 3 It is no wonder that Atlanta KO’f- ers feel .indebted to Mr. Adait for affording: an opportunity to watch “Chick” in action—for. of course, he will play w'hile here. Will a duck swim? Sprint by Fogler Fails to Gain Lap NKW YORK. Dec. 13.—Spurred by nu merous complaints of thefts and other “strong arm” work. Deputy Police Com- rnlssioner Dougherty and 30 men raided Madison Square Garden lo-day and drove out the gangsters who have been preying on the spectators at the six-day bike race. Seven men were arrested as suspects. The raid took place during the hours when the drowsiness' of spectators made them easy prev for pickpockets. The race will end to-night, with the greatest number of broken records that has ever attended a similar event. Fogler. a veteran rider, took the lead of the field shortly before 8 o’clock and pedaled furiously in an attempt to steal ifi lap. but failed At 8 o'clock six teams were tied for leadership and they were 11 miles and 8 laps ahead of the record. Y. M C. A. FIVE WINS. COLUMBUS. GA.. Dec. 13. —In a bas ket hall game her last night between the regular Y. .VI. C A. team and a picked learn from the Atlanta <’it> l eague, the former won by the score of 71 to 19. 1 ’eddy starred for the locals amkMauk for the .visitors. Boxing critics will soon be touting Mike Gibbons, the St. Paul phan tom. as the knockout kid. and rightly so. Not in years were tans given the shock they we£f handed the other niglu. Gibbons stopped “Wildcat” Ferns in two rounds at New Orleans. Ferns needs no intro duction to pugilistic fans, as he has fin- years been known as about the toughe^i welter in the game. * * * Gibbons' achievement in putting the Kansas City boy away deserves much praise. Several weeks ago Mike met Jimmy Perry, who is well known around these parts, and Knocked Jimmy out in a few rounds. The feat, however, was overlooked by many of the fans, as they said that .Timmy was slipping. But Gibbons’ knoclfout win over Ferns proves without a doubt that he is the holder of a real punch. * * * Joe Mar.dot has made a good start on his come-back campaign. Joe took on Pat Drouillard in a ten-round go at Windsor Wednesday night, and accord ing to reports had a good shade on his rival. If Joe buckles down to hard training there is no reason why he shouldn't he able to give the best of them a tough argument. • & * Eddie Hanlon will be asked to stack up against a wise old owl Tuesday night in the person of Jack Robinson. Jack, although well along in years, is still able to heat youngsters who know little of the game. But—-they all meet their Waterloo some time, and It would not be the biggest surprise, in the world if tliis Hanlon boy spilled the beans. * * * Eddie is a stiff puncher and has the makings of a comer. Local fans who saw Eddie floor Terry Nelson here a few months ago know that when J Un ion hits, the receiver usually takes a dive to the canvas. Robinson may still have his good old head with him, but we would advise him to stay clear of Mr. Hanlon's right hand. * • • Although McFarland has been bea:- ing all his opponents regularly for the past five years, Chicago fans refuse to rave over him. Pac-key was hissed and hooted all through his go with Britton McFarland s tactics In making his op ponents make weight, while he comes In at catchweight. s the cause of his unpopularity. * ■ * * Leach Cross will probably be matched within the next few'days to box Bud Andergbn in Los Angeles. Anderson’s receni knockout win over Barrieau has put him in line for another chance at the Easterner. * * » The railing off of the Ritchie-Murphy set-to has muddled up the lightweight division worse than ever. Murphy In sists that he is entttled to first crack at the champion, while Rivers. Britton. Cross and Welsh are all raving mad They must now settle back and await their fling at the title holder. * A » If “Kid” Young. Meyer Pries and Charlie Lee are looking for a chance " swing the padded mitts. Prank Baker says he will acoemmodate t lie trio. Frank is tired of waiting for a bout around these parts, but states that he would like to put up one farewell exhi bition. * * * Baker says lie will box all three boys on the same night, boxing four rounds with each, and agrees to beat every one of them. Also, let it be understood that Frank doesn't weigh one pound more than any of these boys who are demanding big prices to meet him BASEBALL i Diamond News and Gossip Bad Luck Greets Cross Family *I*e-!- *h«v HIS OLD TITLE Ad Says Ritchie Failed to Make Weight for Murphy and Should Join Welters. By Eddie Geiger. C hicago. i>*c. is. a<j woi- gast from his Milwaukee train ing camp astonished us by lodg ing a claim to the lightweight cham pionship yesterday. He based it on the allegation that Ritchie was un able to do the weight agreed on— 135 pounds—an hour before for Tom Murphy, and that this was the rea son the match was called off in San Francisco. Here is what Wolgast had to say over the telephone: “I am the champion again. Ritchie could not make 135 for Murphy. His nose is not sore and it did not rain. Willie belongs in the welterweight class with McFarland and Gibbons. Ritchie won the title from me by unfair methods; I had no chance to win that day. They were in there to trim me. He was given the honor on a foul. Now he can not make the weight any more, so the title reverts to me. This means that my fight with Charlie White Friday night of next week in Milwaukee will be a championship affair. Of course I can't lose the championship in a. no decision contest unless White should happen to stop me. I will be on the lookout for that left hook, never fear. Remember. I am the 133-pound cham pion.” i It may be that Wolgast knows what he is talking about on Ritchie being unable to make the weight. Willie was credited with making 135 j at 3 for Leach Cross in New York, j but the commissioners are not very strict on the weighing in the East. Anyway, Wolgast has lodged a claim which is bound to start a hot argu ment with the California champion. MR. LYNCH SPEAKS. / trust the league irill prosper. That you trill ne'er go broke: I irish yon every bright xnckeHnJ I also hope you ehohe! • * * President Tenet, of the National League, says that his chief concern will be to preserve the honesty of the game, and he seems to think tnaL this will take up all his time. The Baseball Writers' Association is going to hold a meeting in New York to take a solemn vote on the “Cincinnati base hit,” which is a device whereby a man gets a single whether he makes it or not. The National League meeting reminds us of a conclave of opium smokers. Nobody ever mentions any sum less than $25,000. * 9 *' It is true that these futurists can paint noises. We would like to. have a full-length jiovtialt of 'one of Biltj Smith s “speeches” during that Iasi At lanta-Mobile series. TINKER PASSES. Autumn and winter the of tirefruin /tings through the country from main to mains “Manager wanted for /teds again." • * • You can look for a general relief from tension through tlie smaller cities of the Atlantic Coast and the Middle West. The International League and the American Association have decided not to inflict on the defenseless peasantry of those places tlielr interleague gou lash. * * * The back-to-tlie-soil movement, ought to be strong among ball players. Rube Klslnger is treated with the utmost consideration because lie has a farm to run out to when he isn’t. * * * “Since the newspapers depend so much on baseball for news begins Governor-President Tener. Exactly' Just as the grafters, in turn, -depend no much on the newspapers for pub licity. * * * FEAR t liltie hue of print or two ■ 1'u.n fill the heart with dread. When it tells some basher stew Is leaking from the dead. * • • Yes. Felice, the managers maybe .-aid to Vie Tinker-ing. Jack Knight refuses to tie traded to j Toledo by the Yankees We should worr> + * * The Boston Braves will use the Red j Sox Park the greater part of next sea- I sou. The arrangement allows for the i housing of the former while a steel and Brothers Have Habit of Losing Hoppe to Defend Cue j the dan of G. Stallings. ^ j Title Against Sutton NEW YORK. Dec. 13.— Willie Hoppe. ' the balk-line billiard champion of the world, has been challenged for the 18.2 championship by George Sutton, of ! Chicago. The challenge was supported j by a $250 forfeit. Upon being notified Hoppe accepted and named Fcbruaty j and the Astor Hotel as the time and ’place for the.cutest. HOPELESS. | There teas a man in our town Whose mind was thick with moss: i For hr belicred this salary ichceze Ibout the new league butt SHERIDAN VS. DONAHUE CHICAGO. Dec. 13. -Mickey Sheridan, i South Side Hghtwelght. has been matched with Harry Donahue, of Pekir., for ten rounds before rhe Grand Avenue Athletic (hub ai Kansas City Decern* ! i bet 19. * I By H. -M. Walker. I DS ANGELES, CAL., De«\ 13.— “If I reach the next cor ner without somebody drop ping a safe on me or wopping *me over the head with a ladder I’ll feel that luck is coming my way.” Cigar store Speech bv Samuel Wal- Iac*h. “This appears to he the open sea son for the Cross family.” he adds. “All 1 need now is news from home that my house has burned down or an epidemic of the pip has struck the hired help. The firs: gink that says ‘Merry Christmas' to me had better duel; and duck quit-k.” The cause of Samtny’s grief is the fact that both his fighting brothers have acquired the habit of getting licked. Aside from the manager- brothers natural gloom at having the family pride steam-rollered there are financial cuts to heal. No manager can smij** when his entry is tunning a bad second. * * • T HREE weeks ago Leach <’ro.ss had a ten-round tangle with Willie Ritchie in New York and emerged from the muss smeared with the con viction that understudying a world’s champion is a baa business. Then came his trip to California with a fine large twenty-round lacing waiting at this end of the line for him. And Leaches would rather lose to any man In the game than his old tormenter,'Joe Rivers. “Brother” Phil Cross■ stepped into the ring of the Atlantic Garden A. one night last week for a scheduled ten-round hook-up with Johnnie Al berts. a New Yorker who has never amounted to much in the record book. Seventeen minutes after the gong rung a light t russ whizzed through the air. landed right oil the Cross head and Cross wasn’t right until much later In the evening, when he woke up in the bathhouse. Two brothers walloped in one week. Why shouldn’t Samuel rave? • * * S ERIOUSLY speaking Walladi takes the defeat of his young est brother greatly to heart. Phil frgd made several first-ciass showings and gave promise of developing into one of our best little American welt ers. It was planned to bring him to the Coast this month and Promoter MeCarey had agreed to use him in three matches “In some respects Phil is a better man than Leach,” explains Sam. ' But he isn’t careful enough. Look ai Leach and Abif Altell. You never hear of anybody stretching them out on the carpet for keeps, do you? That’s good management. another name for caution. “Rut Phil loves to slug. He's a regular Ketchel for pulling the sen sational stuff. ] suppose he traded wallops with Albert* and got the worst of the trade. He'll have to go back and beat Alberts to get himself on the perch again.” * 4 * 4 ^\T” GOODWIN is one of the many who believe that Joe Riv ers will yet he the world's lightweight champion. “I've been going to the ringside for 35 5'rars.” says the actor man, “and 1 never saw a man put up a better bat tie than Rivers did against Cross. "The Rivers of that night would have been a hard proposition for Ritchie to handle. I realize that Cross was not at his best, but in the best moment he ever knew r^each could not have tamed the Rivers that fared him. Joe is bound to impnove if he takes care of himself, and we may yet be cheering him as the title holder.” • • • A 'E alone is against Abie Attell tn 1:1s fight to regain the feather weight championship. According to San.Francisco report.-., Coffroth will bring Attell and- Kil- hane together in February. When "Jim" was inclined to argue against the possibility of the match proving a paying venture. Attell is said to have offered to protect the promoter by financing the venture to the extent of guaranteeing the ' guar antee" demanded by Kilbane. It can not be denied that Attell is entitled to a return chance at the crown lie wore for so many years But "They never come back-;" says Tom "How about Ketchel?” asks Dick A fresh field for an old argumen 1 TOBACCO HABIT profe your healt*. vrvlanf yat Yau ean r«n«iiar It ••ally in 3 oiyi, im protf* your health. pr«l*nf yaur Ufa. No mora ttoir. ach trouble, uo foul breath, no hear weakna««. N* •atn manly vlt«r. aalm narvaa. cImt ayas sn<i v pe.-lor mental strength. Whether you chew or amok# pipe, elyare-tte* eigara. get, my Interesting Tobacco Rook. W'orrh ita weight In gold Mailed free. E. J WOODS. 5"4 Slath Aye . 748 M . New Yark. N. Y. FULL OF .SCABS Wha’ could be naor- plUful than ih# condi tion told of In this letter from A. R. 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