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No Use Trying to Fool Mae; She’s Wise
Smith Had Him Nearly Landed!
When Big Pirate-Cardinal
Trade Upset Everything.
By \\ . S. Farnsworth.
B ILIj SMITH went to the Nation
al league baseball meetl ig
I{le avowed intention of secur
ing 'Cozy” Dolan from the Pirates.
Hut Dolan was traded, along: with
Kohirmun and Wilson, to the Cardi
nals for Konetchy, Harmon and
Mowrey.
Harney Dreyfus* had practically
promised hill that he would send Do
lan to Atlanta. The Cracker man
ager. however, has not given up all
hope of securing the peppery little
infirlder. He is not a big leaguer, but
the fastest minor league infielder J
ever saw in action.
1; s almost a cinch that the Car
dinal:-. will not hang onto him And
Smith has :i “perfect understanding”
with Miller Huggins, so it may he that
‘ Cozy" will be taking care of thirl
base out at Poney Park along about
next April.
Dolan Looked Like Collins.
The writer was traveling with the
New York American League club in
11ll l when Dolan joined t^^^eam. It
was late in the fall. During the >ast
four or five weeks of the season he
looked like another Jimmy Collins, but
he ‘ blew.” During his stay with the
Phillies and Pirates he showed in
flashes only.
’Tie's a great minor league player."
George Sta.1 ling* told. me after Dolan
had been with the Yankees a fe*v
days. And at that time every scribe
and player in New York gave Stall -
lng» the laugh.
But you can’t fool the boss of the
Braves on young players. He seldom
misses 'em.
* * •
Arthur Schwind. the infielder the
Crackers bought outright from the
Boston Nationals, is a “regular” play- j
er. according to Matty Mathewo.
Matty saw him play down in Nan
Antonio last spring, and ways he is a
faster man than Niel Hall was when
he was at his betd in this league.
• • •
Director "Smith; of thfc Birn.ingh&m
club, hrts offered Matthews a chan e
to pick up it. nice piece of coin in the
spring b\ training the young Baron
t wirier* Matty will have to turn
down the joo, however, as lie has re
signed with the Newport News team,
and will have to rfgy't his club
at least a month be fare, the season s
over.
<* * •
A. .1 Heinnoman. of the New Or
leans ciub, is a red-hot fight fan He
says the game is flourishing aga^h in
the Pel village
• * •
Charley Frank is on the Job wit!)
a big smile. He doesn't know Just
where he stands with the Pelicans,
but he does know that he has two
years more of a contract to run with
* * •
Charley; Somers.
Somers is almost sure to sell his
2Kt> shares in the club and retain
Frank as scout for the Naps.
• * •
Five big league dubs have made
Bill Smith an offer for Tommy Long.
But William wants him in the Crac\-
er outfield another season
• • •
George Stalling.** is expected to
show up during the day.
• • •
There was some w hispering to-day
that Charlev Frank might land Mike
Finn's berth in Memphis
* • •
Lou Castro was on hand asking the
boys what they'd have—rain or shine
# * •
It's t*p to Atlanta to draw a mem
ber of the schedule committee
* • *
Rill Smith saw Bisland during the
baseball meeting in New York, and
reports that the former Cracker
shortstop is looking immense.
• • •
Bill aiao aw: Barney Dreyfus* Th*
Firate boss savs that Conzelman will
give up the game if he doesn't hang
on with the Pirate next spring
• • •
There was a letter from Wollie
Smith for Manager BUI ''♦when he
arrived home veterdav, in which the
ex-Cracker midway guardian said: “If
this Fiannagan that you've got is the
same Fiannagan that played with
me in Vancouver, you’ve got a grand
ball player." FI anna gran is the “same'’
man.
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Baseball Last Year
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CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—fifteen liv**s
constituted the toll the young man
hood of America paid for its devotion
to baseball during the year 1913. The
death list of the national obsession.
#is compiled by J. R. Vickery, of Chi
cago, shows that the fa tali tea were
most numerous in this city, where
three persons were killed by being
struck by pitched balls.
As in the case of football, the great
est risk to Jife i« encountered by the
unskilled player, for the list of fifteen
deaths does not include a major
3#ague player or even a minor league
athlete of sufficient experience m
baseball to be Widely known
Of the fifteen killed all except one
•were hit bv pitched balls or foul tip?,
which are practically the same. The
exception was J. Whethstone. of New
Orleans who died as the result of a
broken spine sustained in sliding to a
base.
TO ORGANIZE SOCCER TEAM
ANNISTON, ALA., Dec. 7 5.—The
Alabama Presbyterian College will not
pat a basket bail team In the field
this year, but plans are under way
to organize a soccer football squad
to meet other team* in the South. An
effort is also being made here to or-
* *v7.e ?n athletic association out-
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Third-Sacker Has Long-Sought
Position as Manager of Team.
Griffith Defends Herrmann.
By Frank G. Menke.
N KW YORK. De<\ 16 Now that
Giant lnflelder, is soon to real-
Charles Herzog. erstwhile
ize his rather weird ambition—to be
come manager of the unmanageable
Cincinnati Reds the question arises:
“What’s he going to do about it?"
Perhaps Charley will do just what
his predecessors have done his very
best and then have happen to him
what happened to the others: First,
a prolonged dose of misery and woe,
and then the finding that he has been
pushed into oblivion.
But perhaps not. Some sage once
remarked something about a worm
turning Why can't Cincinnati, after
many years of inertia, after being
the butt of baseball ridicule for a
decade, do the unexpected and really
figure all year long in the battle for
the pennant?
Not that we think Cincinnati will-
but you never can tell. Remember
what Washington did a few years
ago? The Senators looked worse on
pjtper than the Rede do right now
and then fate made a peculiar ruling
and the Senators began whizzing
along the American League trail at a
terrific clip. And they haven't stop
ped yet. in 1912 they finished sec
ond, and ahead of the then world’s
champion Athletics' I vast season they
against finished second.
• • •
I N rebuttal some will point out that
the Cincinnati team hasn't a
pitcher to compare with Walter John
son Quite true. But the Senators
have had Johnson on their roster
since 1905. and even at that they fin- |
lahed around or near the bottom for
a goodly number of those seven suc
ceeding years.
Herzog long has been regarded as
the greatest little pepperbox in or
ganized baseball. He Is always busy ;
always all fire and enthusiasm, fight
ing a* hard In the ninth when his
team is hopelessly beaten as he is in
the first inning when the game be
gan. He is fighting always and he
never quits.
• ♦ •
YJT71TH such a manager to inspire
W Retts there may be a different
story to tell. And with a man of
Herzogs pleasing personality as
their manager, the Reds may really
amount to some thing next year They
haven’t much of a pitching staff', nor
much hitting or fielding strength, but
if Herfog can weld them into a base
ball team, the downtrodden Reds m.fc'
be able to rise up next year and fig
ure in a somewhat startling uplift
movement.
The general opinion is that Garry
Herrmann, president of the Cincin*
nati club, is the real reason for the
poor showing the club has made for
m&ny years, and the reason for the
constant dabbling of officials into the
club affairs. But Clark Griffith, who
held down the job as manager in Red-
land for three long years, rushes to
Garry's defense
“Garry Herrmann is the most un
justly abused man in baseball/' de
clared Clark Griffith. “Everybody
seems to think he’s the man who is
responsible for the many changes in
the Cincinnati management, the di
rectors and stockholders of the club
are the ones who have caused all the
trouble.
* • •
“LIERRMANN knows baseball from
beginning to end: he knows
that a manager can not do good work
when handicapped by higher officials
who overrule him And while 1 was
manager he always gave me free
rein: he let me run the club as T
saw fit. He never overruled me.
never disputed my judgment and he
fought for me against outside inter
ference.
“But what 1 had to buck is what
every other manager of the team has
had to buck. That's the mixing in
of the Freishman crowd who control
the stock But they don’t know any
thing about the inside part of base
ball. They think they do. And they
want to run the club, want to run
Herrmann and they want to run the
manager.*'
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Southern League Meeting Begins
Little Rock May Replace Billies
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BOXING
SPORTING
COMMENT
Sporting Food
News of the Ring Game.
By Ed W. Smith.
foundry swinging a sledge and
5 By GEORGE E. PHAIR™~~
THE PEEPUL.
I'eckey MrKarUnd will tight .timrm
< lahi’.v JO rounds 146 ringside before
Jim ( off rot h s San Francisco club pro
viding ihat he gets $15,000 for his end.
!*! s 'ho statement made bv Kmll
Httry. manager of I'arkey. to n OhlcaKo
sporting- writer yesterdav
* * m
the ta»t that Packey must travel
- v r «>unds of milling it he goes West
seems to b« the one big drawback of
the match. ’ continued Thity. “MoFar
land is strong for the ten-round game
and when It’s over a longer route.
l ackey shines. He can get $10,000 for
f. 0 . 11 , 11 * Gibbons in New York, and I
think he Is easily worth the extra $6,000
to box t labby over the long route.”
• »* *
To-morrow night in Jacksonville. Fla ,
Eddie Hanlon, the local welterweight,
will meet Jack Robinson In a sched
uled 15-round set-to Eddie is up
against a veteran of the game, but his
youth and punching ability should give
him a great chance against the clever
Jack
Billy Lutz manager of Hanlon, has
been putting his protege through a stiff
boxing drijl for the past week and says
fhat Eddie is showing more stuff than
ever before. Hanlon has been doing
his boxing with Frank Baker and John
Worthy.
• • •
As predicted in this column Saturday
Leach Gross and Bud Anderson have
been matched to box a return scrap in
Los Angeles on New Year's 1 >a\ Tom
McCarey. promoter, got Sammy Wal-
lach. manager of Cross, and Dick Mc
Donald, who acted in a likewise capac
ity fqr Anderson, together, and articles
"ere signed. McCarey plans to put the
winner against Joe Rivers.
• • •
Charlie White, who boxes Ad Wol-
gast on December 19. says he is not su
perstitious. but be does not like the
idea of bucking fate in the manner in
which n has been pui up to him in
his coming back Charley was looking
over his records the other day and
found that the affair with Wolgast
would be his thirteenth fight of 1913.
and it was scheduled to take r'.aco on
Friday.
• * •
White at once sought his manager.
Nate Lewis, and was on the verge of
calling off the go However, when he
was told that Frank tThance. former
manager of the Cubs, always demanded
berth 13 on his travels he reconsidered
and decided to call himself the super-
stitiousless champion* If there Is such a
thing
• * •
RiUj Papke has again called off his
scheduled fight with George Chip in
MTwaukee on January 12 Papke hurt
his right hand while training and will
not be able to use the Injured member
for at least a couple of months.
W
JITHOUT passably good
hands the fighter is nix
in his business and un
less the fighter knows how to hit
properly it is likely that he is
out of commission a good share
of the time that he should be
earning scads of coin. One man
who has had wonderfully good
luck with his knuckles is George
Chip, claimant of the middle-
weifht championship. Chip cer
tainly knows how to hit properly,
as well as often and hard, and
accounts for the perfect condi
tion of Ills knuckles by some
early advice he received from
“Pop” Coulon. father of the ban
tamweight champion, which he
followed carefully.
• • •
VTOT only are the Chip mitts al*
most without blemish, but
they are large and strong as well
and exceptionally well knit.
There’s a story to this that Chip
likes to tell. Here's about the
drift of It: “One time Johnny
Coulon was boxing a main event
down in our country and I was on
in the semi-windup with two fel
low's. three rounds apiece. I beat
both of them, but broke my left
on one and my right on the oth
er. mashing both hands in pretty
much the same way. I happened
to get on the same train with
Johnny and his father to go back
home and my hands w’ere a sight.
They were so sore and swollen
that I couldn’t even lace my
shoes. I was pretty well disgust -
ed with the fighting game right
then, especially as I got but $35
for my night’s work.
* * *
*‘\\7 E got talking on the way
back and he asked me a
lot of questions, how old l was.
what I was doing and the like.
Then he asked me if I intended
to stick to the fighting game I
told him I was pretty sick of it
right then. He told me not to be
discouraged, especially as I was
only 21 years old. but to And my
self a job in which T could
strengthen my hands and make
them big and powerful. ‘Your
hands are your tools, and with
out goods tools you never can
amount to anything in the fight
ing game.' he told me. 1 never
forgot it. Soon as my hands had
healed a Uttle I got a job in a
used there. When I started in I
could hardly do the work, but in a
short time my hands got stronger
and I could swing the hammer
for flfieen minutes at a time
without taking a rest.
* * *
^l^EALLY, I figure this made
1V the fighter of me that I am
to-day. Of course I afterwards
learned how to hit well, and while
1 use a lot of short arm punches
and swing some, 1 always bring
my hands over to an opponent in
such a way that the fist lands
with the front of the knuckles.
AnfN-I’ve never forgotten ‘Pop’
Coulon or Johnny for that ad
vice.
• * •
“VEVER until some writer,
begran to make a fuss over
that delayed punch did I think
very much of it. I used it a lot
and it proved effective, but, as
you say. one must be mighty
careful about how he takes lib
erties with it. especially against
a clever ring general. If he beats
you to it. you are apt to And
yourself stretched out on your
spine in a hurry.”
Emperor William Aids
1916 Olympic Games
Special Cabl® to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, Dec. 16.—Emperor William
has granted his consent to the holding
of athletic contests next May at the
new stadium. In which officers and pri
vates may participate, in preparation
for the Olympic games to be held here
In 1916
The Crown Trince has given his name
as a patron of the contests, and the
War Minister will appoint a committee
to make the arrangements.
1 Dundee and Welsh
Matched for Bout
N t V\ ORLEANS. Dec. 1 .V— Johnn •'
Dundee, of New York, and Fredii e
(Welsh, English lightweight champion,
i have been matched for a ten-round
J bout before a local athleti.' club New
(Years afternoon. The rival ligh -
j weights signed articles yesterday. T’u
decision is to rest with the newspa
pers.
When the wrestlers aren't pulling
off a frame-up
And corralling all the kale there is
in sight.
There arc pugilists who try to bust
the game up
Bp performing in a questionable
fight.
They are gentle as they would be
with a brother,
And they chortle as they take the
public'8 mon;
Taking one consideration with an
other.
The public’s lot is not a happy one.
Packev McFarland is quoted as
sayina tnat he doesn't care if he nev
er fignts in Milwaukee again. Neither
does Milwaukee.
There is no truth in the rumor that
McFarland is going to fight Johnny
Coulon at catch weights, but he would
if he could.
One of the peculiar features of the
Milwaukee scrap is that neither of
the principals was indicted for ob
taining money under false pretenses.
Georges C’arpentier never will star
tle the world as a fighter, but he will
be written in history as the guy that
put the bomb In Bombadier Wells.
As we understand it, Mr. Wells has
all the qualifications of a successful
pugilist except that he can’t fight.
The average boxing show would be
highly interesting to the average
fight fan if it were not for the get-
rich-quick gents who perpetrate the
windup.
Boxing classes have been organized
at the University of Wisconsin, evi
dently to prepare for the game with
Minnesota next fall.
Governor Tener says he will do ail
the talking for th e National League,
hut if he does he will have to gag
Charlie Murphy.
By 0. B. Keeler.
\ /W AN'AGER BIL(L.Y SMITH being
I y I once more on l>is Native
Heath, and most of the other
Southern League moguls having got
in early Monday morning or late the
night before, everything was ready to
sound the gong for the annual meet
ing.
The first gun was scheduled to be
fired at 11 o’clock, when the direc
tors’ meeting was to be held. Noth
ing very exciting was expected in this
assembly, however, and the interest
< entered on the regular business
meeting at 2 o’clock in the afternoon,
held on the mezzanine floor of the
Hotel Ansley.
The directors’ meeting also was
staged there, and the big dinner Mon
day night—an elaborate affair—is to
be in the banquet room of the same
hostelry.
A J HEIN EM AN and Charley
• Frank, of New Orleans, arrived
Sunday; also Frank Coleman, of
Memphis; Bob Baugh and W. D.
Smith, of Birmingham, and President
W. M. Kavanaugh and his secretary,
Adolph Jacobson, of Little Rock.
^ The other mogulsrea^hed town
dmiav mtftuing/Ia was no
lU'lay in eft!ling*"the aftxfe&£6rs’ meet-
* * *
AT the opening assembly the pen-
nant of 1913 will be awarded offi
cially to Atlanta, any protests will
be heard with regard to the past sea
son’s play and business, and a propo
sition from the Dixie League will be
considered.
No fireworks are expected.
• * *
AT the afternoon meeting, however
**■ it is said that there may arise a
question of dropping Montgomery
from the league list and substituting
Little Rock. This all may be gossip
of purest rav serene, but it is said
that President Kavanaugh has come
to Atlanta heeled with authority from
a Uttle Rock syndicate to make a
corking good offer for the franchise.
The protests probably will be
against the umpire staff and its work
in the last season.
* * *
THE appointing of a schedule com-
1 mittee also is a very important
feature of the afternoon meeting. At
lanta is practically certain to make a
strong bid for representation on the
schedule committee, especially as
Crackerville hasn’t been represented
since the organization of the present
lea gue.
President Kavanaugh will he re
elected president, of course, and there
Is no reason to object in any way to
that move, for the Southern League
head is an excellent official and has
done much to hold up the prestige of
the circuit in the ranks of other
leagues of similar class and impor
tance.
• • •
AN announcement is to be made,
through W. G. Foster, sporting
editor of The Chattanooga Times, that
Randolph Rose, of that city, will of
fer to the league a handsome medal,
to be awarded at the end of the sea
son of 1914 to the player adjudged to
have been of the most service to his
club, after the fashion of the Chal
mers trophy in the big show
A commission will be named by
Mr. Rose, consisting of one sporting
writer in each city. The commis
sioners will vote for their choice at
the end of the season, and the player
receiving the most votes will receive
the medal.
This method, it is pointed out with
much justice, will be far better than
separate medals for pitching and bat
ting; also, it will not encourage the
sacrifice of team play to individual
record-making.
is regretful to learn that Ambrrm*
McConnell isn't in the humor to comp
South to play with the Crackers, and
Bill is going to try agatn to persuade
him. If Amby still holds out, Rill
w ill go after Ben Kohler, of the Cen
tral League, who has developed into
a. better inflelder than he was an out
fielder when the Atlanta fans Jcnuw
him.
• • *
"DILL also came back with the newj
- L> that he had purchased Ottu
Schmidt from the Ohio and Pennsyl
vania League, a younger brother o!
the burly Charley Schmidt, the GuW
catching mainstay last season.
For the rest of the off season Bi!
is going to take things pretty easy.
“I’ve got a pretty good-looking lay
out,” Bill said, “and I reckon rn
chance it until the discarding season
opens with the big leaguers. Then,
of course, I’ll be on the lookout to
pick up anything that looks good. Bu
we’re about done trading until
spring.’’
Albany Must Pay
Yankees for Gaiser
CINCINNATI, Dec. 15.—The
tional Baseball Commission allowed
tho- claim of the New York club of
the American League for $250, v hica
Is the balance of $500 due it from th
Albany club of the New York Stat
League for the release to the latter ij
the service of F. Gaiser under a
agreement entered into on April 9
The payment of the first $250 n.u
made on June I, but the second- iu
stallment was not paid.
Armstrong Is Head
Coach of Yale Crews
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 15.—Cap
tain T. B. Denegre. of the Yale ere''
announced to-day that Richard Arm
strong/ Yale ’95, has been appoint*!
head coach of the Yale crews
Guy Nickalis, of England, coach of the
Leander crew, and Eugene Glanrini.
the New York Athletic Club, have be»n
asked to assist Armstrong, and it ii
probable that they will accept. Afj
three were here to-day and met tbf
members of the squad.
Girl Quintets Ready
For Game To-morrow
The Woodbe.Ty School and the Nortl
Avenue Presbyterian School basket hs!
fives, both teams composed of girls
will clash on the former’s floor fo-mon
row afternoon.
Much interest centers on this gtm*.
especially with th© fair fans The ffir’i
have been practicing for the game fe'-
oral days and a closely fought battl« ' e
expected.
LINDSAY WINS DECISION.
CHICAGO, D©c. IS.—Co© Lindsay,
a local welterweight, won an eight-
round decision over “Kid’’ Mack ?•
Joliet, In a private exhibition held
near Joliet yesterday.
THAT is about all, except that a
number of deals between the man
agers may be pulled off in the course
of the visit to Atlanta.
Kutina. Rluhm. Paulet, Starr and
McDowell all a^e in the thick of
trades, and some of them may be set
tled right here.
As to our own troubles. Bill Smith
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