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'• TTEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, flA., SUNDAY. DECEMBER 11, 1913. 13 D MOST BALL PLAYERS PASS Ad Wolgast, Foi mer Lightweight Champion, Who Will Probab ly Show His Wares Here I his Winter THERE’RE SOME EXCEPTIONS ♦ Mathewson, Lajoie, Wagner and Plank Refuse to Join Dowfi-and- Out Class—Football and Pugilism Also Must Have Youth. By Frank ( N EW YORK. Dec. 13.—It all de pends on the sort of athlete referred to—that’s the answer to the question: “At what age is an athlete at his best?’ In baseball an athlete usually reaches his prime around 25, and goes into the discard around 30; .n boxing the limit ranges from 20 to 25; in football it is from 17 to 23, with the crest around 20; but ther* are exceptions to these rules as there are exceptions to all the rules. AY alter Johnson, the whirlwind twirler of the Senators, has just turned 25. and looks good for ten years more in major league society. Ty Cobb, of* the Detroit Tigers, and Eddie Collins, of the Athletics, are around 27. and. barring accidenr, ought to be cavorting on the big league diamonds for ten years more. The same is true of Joe Wood, the Hoston twirler, now 24; “Tris” Speak er, the Boston outfielder, now 29; Joe Tackson, the Cleveland slugger, who is around 25, and Jimmy Archer, the Cub catcher, who already has reach ed 30. Old Players in Game. Mathewson. of the Giants, now* is 33. has been in the big league for thirteen years and is still one of the greatest twirlers that ever stepped id the mound. Eddie Plank, the port- side flinger of .the Athletics, is 37, has been many years in service and still is a star of the first water. The national game does not boast of two better lnfielders, two grander sluggers than Lajoie. of the Naps, and Wagner, of the Pirates. Wag ner Is 40 and has mingled in nig league battles for seventeen seasons. Lajoie is about two years the junior of the Pirate, and has been in major leagues for fourteen years. What’s the answer? First, that these four men are among the great est natural ball players ever born. And the second part of the answer is that they have kept them.selves in condition through the years—have lived straight, clean lives, have taken care of their physical selves and so have survived the legions who have come and gone during the past sev enteen years. In tennis there is no real age boundary. Just now it looks as if youth has the call because Maurice McLcughlin, Jhe Californian, and na- tional champion, is only 23. and R. Norris Williams, second, is the same age. These two, with their two team- I. Menke. mates, who won the international tennis championship, averaged around 23. But. in rebuttal, Wilding, the great New Zealander star, who de feated McLoughlin, is well into his thirties, and many of the greatest tennis players in America and in Eu rope are over 30, and some are near ing the 40 mark. No Age Limit in Golf. In golf it is the same as in tennis. Ouimet, the American open cham pion, is only 20. Travers, one of the greatest golfers in the country is 26. Most of the American stars are either under 23, or only slightly over it. But in England it is somewhat different. Vardon and Ray, that wonderful pair, arc nearing the grandfather age. Hil ton, the English amateur champion, is over 40. and J. H. Taylor, open champion, is 43. Football calls for youth, and the gridiron gladiators seem at their best around 20 and 21. Before that age the player has not arrived at his full development; usually after it the strenuous game exacts its toll and after a player reaches 23 or 24 his effectiveness is gone. Youth Has Call in Pugilism. Youth has the call in pugilism, with the fighter at his zenith around 25. There are many fighters who are un der that agp; even a number of champions. But they do not reach their full power until that time. And soon after that they lose it—and lose i. rapidly. Kilbane, the featherweight champion, is under 25; so is Ritchie, the lightweight champion. Gunboat Smith, the leading “white hope,” is only 25. and most of the “hopes” either are under or of that age. Packey McFarland is 24. Jeffries was in his prime at 25. Jack Johnsm, however, was well in h s thirties when he won the cham- j \ ionship from Jeff. Sam Langford is far over 30. Fitzsimmons won the championship ifter 30. li*. pony polo, perhaps, the most strenuous of all games; the youth and middle-aged shine forth from the cluster of stars. England’s great team which visited here last summer aver aged over 30. So did the American team. But the substitutes for both aggregations were mere youths, bril liant players, but given no chance be- CFiuse it was felt that their presence on the teams would break up the combinations which had played to gether for a number of years and thus developed a wonderful bit of teamwork. Sam Harris Faces ‘Gossip’ Charge by Milwaukee Club t MILWAUKEE, WIS., Dec. 13.—Sam Harris, manager of Kid Williams, the Baltimore, claimant to the bantam title of the world, faces prosecution under Wisconsin’s new gossip law for talking too much to Chicago newspapers about the financial condition of a Milwaukee fight club which holds his forfeit for Williams’ appearance here the last of this month in defense of his title. Har ris, before leaving Milwaukee after Williams fought Dick Load man, of Pittsburg, here, signed a contract for Williams to fight Patsy Brannigan, also of Pittsburg, and posted a $500 forfeit with the local club. Later, however, other clubs bid higher for the match and Harris tried to recover the forfeit money, charging that the club which hail the forfeit was on the point of bankruptcy. For this charge in Chicago the local dub involved threatens suit for dam nges under the State gossip law and will also take measures to have Wil liams barred from fighting in Wiscon sin. New York and Louisiana, where there are boxing commissions, under the Inter-State agreements which makes a ooxer who violates his agreement in one State ineligible to appear in an- jt TTie gossip law, however, will be the chief point of attack against Harris, tnd he has been wafned to take back nis remarks about the solvency of the local promoters or stand suit. The The gossip law affects all persons who untruthfully talk about other persons’ affairs and is to individuals what libel laws are to newspaper publications. hiance and Mack Jse Different Tactics On Baseball Field S’EW YORK. Dec. 13.—Every major gue baseball player has his peeu- rities. Connie Mack keeps score, and ikes note of all tne bad plays. He Is his men about their faults the next y when the meeting Is called at the tel. when the c’ub is on the road, d in the clubhouse when at home, ank Chance tells the boys about the iys as they make them on the lot. e New York men will never forget ance on a few occasions during the st season, when he told one of his tfielders where he got off. t was during a game in Cleveland th a man on first base. Olsen hit > hall to the shortstop. The latter d no trouble in stopping the “pi I.” t in his anxiety to make a double .y by touching second, then throw- r to ’first, he missed the middle bag. d also lost the man at first. 'What are you trying to pull off out ir*-?” shouted Chance from the bench. ‘Why. I was trying to make a double .v,” answered the shortstop. ‘Let me tell you something.” said the nager. “You keep on making double ys like that and you. will double-play irself to Kalamazoo.” Cure* In 1 to 5 day* wm Jff ■ unnatural dischargee W t nf sins no poisons end BSSom WBIh mav »>“ used full Strength absolutely without fear Quaran- to stricture Prevent* conUgloiv IY NOT CURE YOURSELF? iggists. or by parcel post. $1 or es $2 75. Particulars with each or mailed on request. EVANS CHEMICAL COMPANY Cincinnati, Q„ Sporting Food j ‘ ft* aCOROl ft. PNAI*™—^ JOE TINKER. Joe Tinker was a manager who al-\ moat ran a team: To win a big league pennant tea a hi a I long and lasting dream. But he signed with Garry Herrmann. lie knew the game from soup to nuts and fought from bell to hell; lie f(night his owner all the year, and fought his owner well. But he signed with Garry Herrmann. He couldn't win for Herrmann with a thousand years of work, For a manager is sat on and becomes a common clerk When he signs with Garry Herrmann. The sole cause of the split between Messrs. Tinker and Herrmann was that Joe wanted to be a manager, whereas Garry wanted a messenger boy. We often hear of ivory displayed by ball players, but it is infinitesimal be side the ivory exhibited by get-rich- quick gents who own baseball clubs. As a result of Joe Tinker’s retire ment, approximately 90 per cent of our baseball scribes have picked Fielder Jones to fill the job. The other 10 per cent must have been en joying their day off at the time. Reports from Paris indicate that Jack Johnson is a strong exponent of wrestling We also have extraordi narily warm weather in this vicinity. Connie Mack has signed another In dian, despite the fact that he has the Indian sign on anything connected with or appertaining to baseball. PUGNACITY. “You great big bum!" the fight fan yelled Beside the ring where fights are held. “You great big bum. get in and scrap And slam this geezer on tin map! You stall around like some big rube And wallop like a hopeless boob! Why. I could climb through them there ropes i And clean you both, you poor old mopes!" He ambled home at 2 a. m. His wife arose and said. “Ahem!" His fighting blood had beat it hence And he resembled thirty cents. Physically, John K. Tener is big enough to be a white hope, but men tally he is not that small. CRICHTON ELECTED CAPTAIN. BETHLEHEM. PA., Dec. 13.—Harry A. Crichton, fullback, was yesterday elected captain of the Lehigh University football team. Crichton Is also captain of the baseball team. Hurlingham Club Admits Its Team Must Play Dashing Game as Do Americans if It Expects to Win the International Trophy in 1914. OTHER STARS TO EES “THE OLD RELIABLE” M'INTYRE LOOKS FOR TEAM. CHICAGO. Dec. 13.—Matty McIntyre, former White .Sox outfielder, who was with the Providence team last sum mer, is seeking to manage a minor league team next year. BERRY TO HEAD SWIMMERS. CHAMPAIGN. ILL.. Dec. 13.—Edward H. Berry, of Oak Park, was appointed — manager of 1. IFiii.-.is swimming lean DRUGGIGT8.0RTRIAL BOX BY MAIL50o 1 its proposed Eastern trip in Febru , y I 1 TATI PNG*- Good Bouts Are Being Arranged by Local Promoters for the Gate City Fans. S OMl£ corking good boxing mills are being arranged for Atlanta fans, and right after New Year’s it is likely that the cream of the lightweights will display their stock-in-trade here. Arrangements are now being made whereby Ad Wolgast, former light weight champion of the world, will fight Frank Whitney or Charley Whit© about the middle of January. Wolgast has announced his willing ness to box here if the proper induce ments are made. Packey McFarland will also come to Atlanta during the winter boxing season. If Packey will make any reasonable weight Jack Britton says he will battle the stockyard champion here on a winner-take-all basis. Britton claims that McFarland tip ped the beam at 150 pounds when they met in Milwaukee the other night. Charley White, who was shaded by Johnny Dundee in New Orleans a fortnight ago, wants to meet Dundee again and local promoters are figur ing on rcmatching this pair. I ./each Cross also wants to come here. Cross and White would prob ably furnish the greatest fight ever held in the South, and this scrap may be arranged within a few days. Sixty-seven Horses Enter $20,000 Derby MONTREAL, CANADA, Dec. t The entries for tin* $20,000 interna tional derby of the Dorval Jockey Cluo of Montreal closed with 67 horses en tered, including nominations by many of the most prominent owners on th * American continnent, and the success of the event seems assured. The winning owner will receive $16,000 in Canadian gold, the owner of the second horse $2,000, the owner o" th«* third one $1,500 and the owner <>f the fourth $500. It will be the rich est race ever run in Canada. Two Dozen Preparatory Contests on Ante-Season Schedule of New York Americans. Bv W. J. Me Beth. N EW YORK. Dec. 13.—Frank Chance’s Yankees will n£xt spring engage in the most pre tentious training schedule ever at tempted by that club. The regulars of the New York Americans are billed for an even two dozen preparatory contests, the majority of them with clubs of sufficient class to make the big leaguers extend themselves. In many respects the plans mapped out by Chance, made possible by the fact that ills club will train at Hous ton, Texas, are similar to those ob served by John J. McGraw the past several years. Within a week alter the club goes into camp both first and second squads will be sent out to ad jacent towns on Saturdays and Sun days for real trials. These regulars and colts will alternate, the second team on Sunday supplanting the Sat urday stand of the first squad. Six games will be played by each of these clubs before the journey northward. The Kilties will leave Texas Sun day, March 22, beating it home by way of Memphis, Birmingham, Atlanta. Charlotte, Richmond, Norfolk and Baltimore. Two games each are booked at Richmond and Norfolk, so that the athletes should be pretty well acclimated, on their return. Once back, the real tuning-up processes j will be in order. Prior to the opening of the regular campaign live games will be played with Brooklyn and two with the Phil- I adelphia Nationals. Sprinkled among these interleague clashes are single games with Jersey City and Balti more. The complete training and ante- season schedule follows: Saturday, March 7, Beaumont, Texas (first team), and Houston, Texas (second team); Sunday, March 8, Houston (first), Beaumont (sec ond); Saturday, March 14, Houston (first team), Galveston (second team); Sunday, March 15, Galveston (first), Houston (second); Saturday, March 21, Houston (first team), Beau mont (second tegm); Sunday, March 22, Beaumont (first), Houston (sec ond); Tuesday, March 24, Memphis, Tenn.; Wednesday, March 25, Bir mingham, Ala.; March 26, Atlanta; March 27, Charlotte, N. C. (with Buf falo. International); March 28 and 30, Richmond; March 30, Norfolk (second team); March 31, Norfolk, The photograph at the left shows Wolgast shooting a left to the body, with the right ready to follow to the same spot. At the right the ‘ ‘ Michigan Bearcat” shown shift ing, one of his favorite methods of at tack when at range. Va. (first team); Wednesday. April 1, Baltimore. Aid.; Thursday, April 2. 3 and 4, Brooklyn, al Brooklyn; Sun day. April 5, Jersey City; April 7, Brooklyn, at Bro Klyn; April 8 and 9, Phiilies, at Philadelphia; Friday, April 10, Baltimore, Md.; Saturday, April 11, Brooklyn, at Brooklyn. • /^irayw/So’ve ryt/iing N 'EW YORK. Dec. 13. An inter national polo match is assured for next year. The ilurlinghain Club has challenged for another series, dispelling all doubts that England would not send over a polo team for next year. The American Polo As sociation has gladly received the challenge of the foreign club, and only the selection of dates remains to make the playing of the spectacu lar games a certainty The decision of the Hurlingham Club to make another try for the polo cup means that old John Buu, profiting f rom the lesaoii learned last ye ar, is going to send over a team thoroughly equipped to play the game !n the American fashion. England sadly confessed after tlie last series that her system of playing polo against the Yankees would never do. The visiting team repre sented the pick of the British army. The English ponies were pick* d with great care, and before the games were cot sidered the equal of the American mounts. The Duke of Westminster had spent a fortune de fraying the expenses of the team, and John Bull complacently sat back to await victory. * <1 ¥ , r T' HE Britons’ excellent form in , 1 practice games made them a logi- j cal favorite for the big matches. The defending four, after many changes, wasn’t considered nearly as strong as the foreign aggregation. But the Englishmen, playing along strictly seitntJflc lines, received a rude shock in the very first contest. The Amer icans, dashing and aggressive, like so many wild cowboys, literally swept the foreigners off their feet. It’s only too well known how Larry Wa terbary charged through tin* entire Briton four for frequent trys at goal. These dashing tactics triumphed over the more conservative playing of the challengers. The second game was a repetition of the first. It was more evenly con tested, simply because the foreigner? speeded up their game. It was a long time before England could be come reconciled to the fact that its wonderful polo team had been de feated. “My word, it isn't polo those Yan kees play; it’s only running races,” was the favorite expression of the English critics commenting on the series. After carefully weighing the subject, many came to tb' belief that after all the American style was su perior. and if England was to win at polo her team must follow the ex ample of the Americans and not re ly entirely on scientific blocking And passing. Therefore, it is but reason able to expect that England will send over a quartet next year that will be capable of putting up a slashing game, sacrificing conservatism for speed ai\d aggressiveness. • * * T) RAGTICALLY the same defending * team that successfully repelled the 1 invasion of the Englishmen last sea son will try the field next year. The only possible exception will be the loss of Captain Whitney, who recent ly announced his retirement from the sport. The Big Four leader partici pated in the last series against his will, but now declares he’ll never play in another. Great as is his loss, there are tw j capable substitutes t«» fill his position. Either Louis Stoddard or Malcolm Stevenson can be added to the de ft ruling combination without impair ing its strength. The two Water- bury brothers, already in training for the. polo season, will be available for next season, as well as Devereux Milburn, the greatest polo player iu the world, according to British judges. Stoddard is a first-class for ward. while Stevenson is a hack but. slightly inferior to the powerful Mil- burn. But whether Stoddard or Stevenson “makes” the Big Four, it will bo a formidable combination that Engaind’s team will tackle in 1914. Commission Should Provide Good Gloves For All Ring Bouts NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—The boxing commission has not overlooked very much in its effort to uplift the boxing game, but there are a few things which might yet be remedied which will Im prove it. The writer has reference now to ilia use of old boxing gloves by the pre lim inarv boys. These gloves, used one* t«* cover the hands of the performer* In‘a star bout, are little short of deadly weapons when they are put or the fists of the youngsters. Soaked in blood and water after a bout they are laid out to dry. and when the next evening's en tertainment Is offered these old glove* are pulled out and used. For the mailt bout new gloves are always provided. The preliminary lads, who know nod so verv mu«*h of the art of self-defense, tear after each other, each intent only on landing blows on his opponent. None of them can be expected to be a Packey McFarland In the art of evading pun ishment. They take what is sent them, and when they dodge a blow It’s usually by the greatest luck. When those water and blood soaked gloves are landed, against one of the boys a great injury, one which may remain for a lifetime, is apt t<» he inflicted. A cauliflower ear. a flattened nose, cut eyes, and split lips are some <>f the things which may be expected. And then the boy has hi* mark of a fighter. He goes around with his “badge” and is frowned on by enemies of the sport, who have some real evidence to declare brutal the gamo of boxing. And It's all due to the use of these old gloves. Other dangers lurk in the soiled glove, and it’s up to the commis sion to demand every club manager t<» provide new gloves for each and every bout he stages. This, no doubt, would prove a big boom for the manufactur ers of boxing gloves and a bit of a hardship for the club manager, but to the future of many a young inan it may mean much. . LOUISVILLE SELLS PLAYER. LOUISVILLE, KY„ Dec. 13.—The Louisville club of the American Asso ciation has sold Inflelder Jack Doyle to the. Montreal club of the Interna tional League. . MORPHINE WHISKEY AND TOBACCO Habits Cured Without Pain or Restraint at Cedarcroft Sanitarium, Lebanon, Tenn. Endorsed by Governors, College Pro fessors, Physicians and Ministers. Licensed under special law which gives it same standing as State insti tutions. No deposit or fee asked until cure is effected to satisfaction of patient. A successful method of Home Treat ment based on a gradual reduction has been devised for those who can not visit the sanitarium. Patients treat ed ut about same cost as their accus tomed drug. Address Dr. POWER CRIBBLE, Supt., Box XSL' Lebanon, Tenn. 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