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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 ANNISTON, ALA., Dec. 15.—T» e | Alabama Presbyterian College will not ' 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- s.ue u f the S. I. A. A. i a -rotce i s a Bt/r A ham is TO KE — ZOO Kl 0 JlLK AAr T*€. i-OVJtfFfc MOT OwLV MM)E pOO MAG 'UAmuzu frGT- fSMfi- TV*-»T“ HC WAJ TL 0 O-G But Pit.oMd&o tt> B.C A C*i& F»P- ftAorvrsr*- wkfo is (MUi-nMs fl-cs-nw*. IV TVVC Moose M ** c ' op court tf Pn, ewD j op A^D rwcvj +Ppmi*rO 'PCOOP-T 0.p E cTDO Jr - ac* prietvc* 3rot> ec - IMJTtmo f>WV *» ui— up J#* I S Cnt-TTVl „ rw*rr m*T &CVT SHS JPFASJ TO iS AMOTMrO- TV+T.AJ ho m NM nn-o egMo If FOOL'EM ALL 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." 'OHOOWTTTN TO KlO ME - ICWO'JO VOU A|t6 yvooti.e vuiwov Mt&ee THE ®*IUFF 7B BE COHHMUfO Southern League Meeting Begins v*v t*v v • *!• v • v v • v 4**v 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. . IWOOOK JjPOR-T^. suwe/w aptkk-hoom PEElo«G OUT" of the SHUiTTEP^T 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. 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