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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
No Use Trying to Fool Mae; She’s Wise
SEIM 0
Smith Had Him Nearly Landed
When Big Pirate-Cardinal
Trade Upset Everything.
By W. S. Farnsworth.
B ill SMITH vtenT to ■
a I league baseball meet in* * wltn
th^ avowed intention of secur*
ing "Cozy” Dolan from the Pirates.
But Dolan was traded, along with
Robinson and Wilson, to the Cardi
nals for Konetchy, Harmon and
Mowrey.
Barney Dreyfuss had practically
promised Bill that he would send Dv
lan to Atlanta. The Cracker man
ager, however, has not given up all
hope of securing the peppery little
inflelder. He itt nrt a big leaguer, but
the fastest minor league inflelder 1
ever saw in action.
It's almost a cinch that the Car- I
dinals will not hang onto bin). And
Smith has a "perfect understanding''
with Miller Huggins, so it may be that
“Cozy" will be taking rare of thirl
base out at Poncy Park along about
next April.
Dolan Looked Like Collins.
The writer was traveling with the
New York American League club in
J9II when Dolan joined i^;oam. It
was late in the fall. During the last
four or five weeks of the season he
looked like another Jimmy Gollins, blit
he "blew." During his stay with the
Lillies and Pirates he shewed in
flaahes only.
"He’s a gn at minor league player. '
George Stallings told me after Dolan
had been with the Yankees a few
days. And at that time every scribe
and player In New York gave Stall
ings the laugh.
But you can't fool the boss of the
Braves on young players. He seldom
misses 'em.
• • •
Arthur Schwind. the inflelder the
Crackers bought outright from the
Boston Nationals, is a "regular” play
er. according to Matty Matthews.
Matty saw him play down in San
Antonio last spring, and says he is a
faster man than Nell Ball was when
he was at his beat in this league.
• • ♦
Director Smith, of the Birr. Ingham
club, has offered Matthews a change
to pick up a nice piece Of coin in tho
spring by training the young Baron
twlrlers. Matty will have to tigg’n
down the jon, however, as he has re
signed with the Newport News team,
and will have to report to his club
at least a month before the season .*
over.
* • •
\. J. Heinneman, of the New Or
leans club, is a red-hot fight fan. He
says the game is flourishing agutri in
the Pel village.
• • •
Charley Frank is on the job with
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
266 shares in tl>« club and retain
Frank as scout for the Naps.
• * •
Fi\ e big league clubs have made
Rill Smith an offer for Tommy Long.
But William wants him in the Crack
er outfield another season.
• • •
George Stallings is expected 'o
show up during the day.
* • •
There was some whispering to-dav
that Charley Frank might land Mike
Finn's berth in Memphis
• • •
Lou ('astro was on hand asking the
boys what they'd have—rain or shine.
* • •
It’s up to Atlanta to draw a mem
ber of the schedule committee.
• • *
Bill Smith saw Bisland during the
baseball meeting in New York, and
reports that the former Cracker
shortstop is looking immense.
• • •
Bill also saw Barney Dreyfus?. Th**
Pirate 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 Wallie
Smith for Manager Bill -when he
arrived home yesterday, in which f he
ex-Cracker midway guardian said: “IT
this Flannagan that you’ve got is the
same Flannagan that played with
me in Vancouver, you’ve got a grand
ball player." Flannagan Is the "same''
man.
Fifteen Lives Lost in
Baseball Last Year
CHICAGO. Dec. 15 —Fifteen live*
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,
as compiled by J. R. Vickery, of Chi
cago, shows that the fatalities were
most numerous in this city, where
three persons were killed by being j
at ruck by pitched balls
As in the vase of football. ti e great
est risk to life i«- encountered by the '
unskilled player, for the list of fifteen
deaths does not include a major
league player or even a minor league ;
athlete of sufficient experience in
baseball to be widely kn.iwn.
Of the fifteen killed all except o.v
were hit by pitched balls or foul tlp^. j
which are practically the same The
i v option was J. Whethstone. of New 1
Orleans*, who died as the result of a
broken spine sustained in eliding to a
base.
TO 0 RG A N 12 L SOCCER TEAM
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put a basket ball team In the fie d j
this year, but plans are under war,
to organize a soccer football sjuadl
io meet other teams in the South. An ;
effort i? also V'eing made here to >r- j
ganize an athleti • as-.ociation oui-
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Third-Sacker Has Long-Sought
Position as Manager of Team.
Griffith Defends Herrmann.
By Frank <«. Mrnke.
N EW YORK, Dec. 16.—Now that
Charles Herzog, erstwhile
Giant inflelder, is soon to real
ize his rather wc*ird ambition—to be
come manager of the unmanageable
Cincinnati Reds the question arises:
"What’s he going to do about it?"
7’erhaps 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. Somo 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
paper than the Reds 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-
pec! yet. In 1912 they finished sec
ond. and ahead of the then world’s
champion Athletics! Last season they
again finished second.
• • •
I N rebuttal some will point out that
tlie 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
ished 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 as 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.
* * *
YY/ITH such a manager to inspire
the Reds there may be a different
story to tell. And with a man of
Herzog's pleasing personality as
their manager, the Reds may really
amount to something next year. They
haven’t much of a pitching staff, nor
much hitting or fielding strength, but
if Herzog can weld them into a base
ball team, the downtrodden Reds u'.|i.
he able to rise up next year and flu
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
many years, and the reason for the
constant dabbling of officials into the
club affairs, lint Clark Griffith, who
held down the Job as manager in Ked-
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.
• * *
•* LI EHRMANN knows baseball from
II beginning to end. he knows
that a manager can not do good work
when handicapped % by higher officials
who overrule him. And while I was
manager he always gave me free
rein; lie let me run the club as I
saw fit. He never overruled me.
never disputed my judgment and he
fought for me against outside inter
ference.
"Hut what I had to buck is what
every other manager of the team has
had to buck. That’s the mixing in
of the Fleishman crowd who control
the st»K'k. 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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Little Rock May Replace Billies
BOXING SPORTING COMMENT
News of the Ring Game.
J“® k *y McFarland will light Jimmv
n a ,\ y i° r,,un<lH at 146 ringside before
J »n ( oPrroth’s San Francisco club, pro
viding that he gets $15,000 for his end.
I h s whs the statement made by Km 11
lhtry tpanager of Packey. to a Chicago
sporting writer yesterday.
• * «
"The fact that Packey must travel
20 rounds of milling if he goes West
seems to he the one big drawback of
o>e match, continued Thirv. "McFar
land Is strong for the ten-round game
and when it s over ;i longer route.
Packey shies. He can get $10,000 for
boxing Gibbons in New York, and I
think he is easily worth the extra $5,000
to box Flabby over the long route."
M H «
To-morrow night in Jacksonville. Fla .
Eddie Hanlon, the local welterweight,
will meet Jack Robinson in a sched
uled la-round set-to Eddie is U p
against a veteran of the game, but his
Youth and punching ability should give
hint a great chance against the clever
Jack
• * •
Billy Lot/., manager of Hanlon, has
been putting his protege through a stiff
boxing drill for the past week and says
that Eddie is showing more stuff than
ever before. Hanlon has been doing
his boxing with Frank Baker and John
Worthy.
• • a
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 Day Toni
MeCarey. promoter, got Sammy \Val-
laoh. manager of Gross, and Dick Mc
Donald, who acted in a likewise capac
ity for Anderson, together, and articles
were signed. MeGarey plans to put the
winner against Joe Rivers.
• • •
Gharlie White, who boxes Ad Wol-
gast on December 19. says he is not su
perstitious, but he does not like the
idea of bucking fate in the manner in
which it has been put up to him in
his coming back. Gharley was looking
over his records the other day and
found that the affair with Wolgast
would be his thirteenth tight of 1913.
end it was scheduled to take place on
Friday.
*• * •
\N hite at once sought Ids manager.
Nate Lewis, and was on the verge of
calling off the go. However, when he
was told that ^'rank Ghance. former
manager of the Guhs. always demanded
berth 13 on his travels he reconsidered
and decided to call himself the super-
stltiousless champion, if there is such a
thing
* * *
Billy Papke lias again called off b s j
•n-^eduled fight with George Ghfp in:
MTwaukee on Jamiarv 12 Paoke hu* ;
h - tight hard while training and wj] I
not be able to use the injured member I
for u: least a couple j month
Bv Ed W. Smith.
¥ T TlYHOUT passably good
bands 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
weight championship. Chip cer
tainly knows how to hit properly,
as well as often and hard, and
accounts for the perfect condi
tion of his knuckles by some*
early advice he received from
"Pop" Coulon, father of the ban
tamweight champion, which he
followed carefully.
9 • •
^TOT 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 ti> 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
lows, three rounds apiece. I beat
both of them, but broke my left
on one and my right on the •oth
er, smashing 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 were a sight.
They were so sore and swollen
that 1 couldn't even lace my
shoes. 1 was pretty well disgust
ed with the fighting game right
then, especially as I got but $35
for my night's work.
• • *
‘*\\ T E got talking, on the way
' * back and he asked me a
lot of questions, how old 1 was.
what I was doing and the like.
Then he asked me. if l 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. hut to find my
self a job in which 1 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,’ lie told me. 1 never
forgot it. s'o.*n as my hands had
healed a 1*ttie l got a job in a
foundry swinging a sledge and
handling a big shot that they
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 fifteen minutes at a time
without taking a rest.
* * *
-REALLY, I figure this made
v the fighter of me that I am
to-day. Of course 1 afterwards
learned how to hit well, and while
1 use a lot of short arm punt hes
and swing some, I always bring
mv hands over to an opponent in
such a way that the fist lands
with the front of the knuckles.
And I’ve never forgotten ‘Pop’
Coulon or Johnny for that ad
vice.
• * •
“YfEVER until some writers
1 > began 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 find
yourself stretched out on your
spine in a hurry."
| Emperor William Aids
1916 Olympic Games
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
! BERLIN. Dec 15. Emperor William
j has granted his consent to the holding
J of athletic contests next May at the
j new stadium, in which officers and j*rl-
j vates may participate, in preparation
for the Olympic games to be held hero
m iyi6
j The Crown ITince has given his name
a*? a patron of the contests, and the
War Minister will appoint a committee
to make the arrangements.
Dundee and Welsh
Matched for Bout
N . W ORLEANS, TVr. 16.—Jollllll ■ !
Dnmier. of Ww York, and Fredd o i
Welsh. Knglivi !,ghtweig.it ohampion. !
have been maiohfd for a ten-ronnd I
bout before a local Mtiilei:-.- club New
Year's afternoon. The rival Iigi---‘
\\eic 's s.gneU aitieles vesteruay. The
decision Is i.' rest with the newspa-1
pers. .
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PEElo«G OUT" of
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Sporting Food
—- By GEORGE E. PHAIR
THE PEEPUL.
When the wrestlers aren’t putting
off a frame-up
And corralling all the hale there is
in sight.
There are pugilists who try to hast
the game up
litl performing in a questionable
fight.
Then are gentle as they would he
with a brother.
And they ehortle as they take the
public's men;
Taking one consideration with an
other.
The public's lot is not a happy one.
Bv O. B. Keeler.
M anager bii.l.y smith being
once more on his 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-
’g.
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
centered 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.
m * •
A J. HEINEMAN 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 moguls reached town
Monday morning, and there was no
delay in calling the directors’ meet
ing.
• * *
AT the opening assembly the pen-
^ nant of 1913 will be awarded offi
cially to Atlanta, any protests will
be heard with regal'd 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 ray serene, but it is said
that President Kavanaugh has come
to Atlanta heeled with authority from
a Little 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
league •
President Kavanaugh will be 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.
ce V
tha
sayino that 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
Coulcn at catch weights, but he would
if he could.
One of the peculiar features of the
Milwaukee scrap is that neither of
the principal^ was indicted for ob
taining money under false pretenses.
Georges Garpentier never will star
tle the world as a fighter, but he will
be written in history as the guy that
is regretful to learn that Ambrose
McConnell isn’t in the humor to come
South to play with the Crackers, and
Bill is going to try again to persuade
him. If Ambjr still holds out, Bill
will go after Ben Kohler, of the Cen
tral League, who nas developed into
a better inflelder than he was an out
fielder when the Atlanta fans knew
him. \
• * *
DILL also came back with the news
that he had purchased Otto
Schmidt from the Ohio and Penmyl
vania League, a younger brother of
the burly Charley Schmidt, the Gulis’
catching mainstay last season.
For the rest of the off season Bill
is going to take things pretty easy.
"I’ve got a pretty good-looking lay
out," Bill said, "and I reckon I’ll
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. Bm
we’ne about dene trading until
spring."
Albany Must Pay
Yankees for Gaiser
CINCINNATI, Dec. 16.—The Na
tional Baseball Commission allowed
the claim of the New York club of
the American League for $250, whlca
is the balance of $600 due it from tha
Albany club of the New York State
League for the release to the latter of
the service of P. Gaiser under an
agreement entered into on April 9.
The payment of the first $250 was
made on June 1, but the second in
stallment was not paid.
Armstrong Is Head
Coach of Yale Crews
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 15.—Cap
tain T. B. Denegre, of the Yale crew
announced to-day that Richard Arm
strong, Yale ’95, has been appointed
head coach of the Yale crews
Guy Nickalls, of England, coach of the
Leander crew, and Eugene Giannini. of
the New* York Athletic Club, have been
asked to assist Armstrong, and it is
probable that they will accept. All
three were here to-day and met the
members of the squad.
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-
put the bomb in_Bombardier WeiT 8 : “"orifice* of 1 “telm encOU ™^ the
Girl Quintets Ready
For Game To-morrow
The Woodberry School and the North
Avenue Presbyterian School basket hail
fives, both teams composed of girls,
w*ill clash on the former’s floor to-mor
row afternoon.
Much interest centers on this game
especially with the fair fans. The girls
have been practicing fer the game sev
eral days and a closely fought battle is
expected.
LINDSAY WINS DECISION.
CHICAGO, Deo. 15.—Coe Lind.*
a local welterweight, won an eig
round decision over “Kid" Mack,
Joliet, in a private exhibition h
near Joliet yesterday.
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 th e game with
Minnesota next fall.
/
Governor Tener savs he will do all
the talking for the National League,
hut if he does he will have to gag
Charlie Murphy.
record-making.
to individual
That is about a!!, except that a
number of deals between the man
agers may be pulled off in the course
of the visit to Atlanta.
Kutina. Bluhm. Paulet. Starr and
McDowell all are in the thick of
trades, ind some of them may be set
tled right here.
As to our own troubles, Bill Smith
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