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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. He Had It Once" I« Like Saying “He'd lie a Champion if He Could Punch US II STAR, IS N. r. EXPERT Prince Hal Is Said To Be on His i Last Legs as Big League !, Performer, By Monty. *-rEW T’ORK. Deo. li P«uu Hal Chase! They railed, him > * Iojtfev. a four-flusher, a stalfer. a,\ grandstand .player, a quitter, ajrid they say lie was ‘ laying dqwn" jo'll the. New York Americans. And they said that was why Frank Charice traded him to the White Sox. Now, listen to something that will surprise ypu—Chase is on his last legs as a big league ball player, and the next reason is likely to be his last in the majors. Prince Hal. as he was called at the Height of his glory when the ac ^uow ledged ’peer of first basemen, j V*\ r as guilty of an he was. charged j with irr 1910. He was accused of pur- ; posely laying down on the job so that j could get th^ position of man* 'Lager of the Yankees, then held by George Stallings, with whom Chase) •*«i*Jd not get along with ai all. Chase "‘got Stallings’ job the next year—that lifst'dry. But lie failed as a mana ger—that. too. is common knowledge, fhifi, when Harry Wolverton was Appointed as his successor, Chase, disgruntled again, resumed his old Toaflpg tactics. At That, Snakes Have to Live Like Everything Else z— i ~zz~r By 6 Bud 9 Fisher Gee, J'm ldckv. a rjcm \ JUST G/vve Me this 5|w «ll Mexico movnd. ^ ™ e SMM.cesr5R.fcet) OF,' ***.’'Z TH * M€'S ftR.H.HV Too IM Meuj VoRx THEN MCV/6P- S5W A UK6 THU. t CAM CofcT <v THOUSAND DOLCACS TOP- HIM S,l THe ONIN rRouai.6 IS1HM He's A hot ATHeA. OoC. AKT> MAH-5C Hfe CAM X STAHD Cold ndrthcrh climate. r— t 'THEN Ai^A'N t He TRIP MlteHT Bt- HAKD ON HIS DCLICAte health. I'D HATH To HAvjfc ANTTHlAb Mr GortH”, POLLY AND HER PALS Aunt Maggie’s Making Chickens of ‘Em All YXTOLVERTOX failed, and ‘ Frank y ’ ('Chance was signed up to head ’The team the past season. Chase swore by all that was holy then that '■rthe was going to “play his head off" lOr the Peerless i>ader. He became a beco,worshiper of Chance. But he. continued to play poor baseball in spots, and the fans howled, “He’s up to his old tricks again—lasting down the job." The tough luck of it is this—Chase was not laying clown on The job—not last year. It brings to mind in a way the story of the boy who called “Wolf" when there was no wolf. Biit this lime'the “wolf" had arrived, and the fans wouldn’t be lieve it.' They thought Chase was still a. great ball player, but that he ^wasn't trying. A. Boston friend of Frank Chance, a man to whom the P. L. is willing tio confide almost anything, is au- ij^htrTity for-a story told by the man- vageL , • ■-, * n '.*■ • * *t/\XK Saturday afternoon last * . ^ smumer,-just before Chase was ’^traded.” says Chance, “the crowd got after Chase and booed his every , move. When the game was over Ch&Se' could not be found in the clubhouse, lie had locked himself in one of the shower baths, and wailed until • h3 thought everybody - had dressed and gone. But when he came £bwt Trainer Barrett* and myself were still there. Chase was crying like a baby. He went over and sat down on wine of the chairs, with his face bur led in his hands, and the tears streamed down his cheeks. He sob- Tied as if his heart would break. We tried to console him. but he would not speak. Before Barrett and r left, • there were the beginnings of tears in ■ our eves. too. f "The next day I went to Air. Far- lr reli and said: ’See here, this boy isn’t laying down on you. He's Hy ing to do his level best, but he just can't play the way he used to. His days as a star are over. Now he s trying to accomplish things, but it's U.OO late.' " After Chase was traded to Chicago hr put up a sensational game for a ’ v vhort. while, but then slumped and be- to play mediocre ball again. The Chicago fans, just like their New York brethren, got after Chase and accused him of loafing and even con- *■ spiring to get Jimmy Callahan's job >i’r manager. Chase, it is learned, was entirely innocent of any such thing, but the primed charges stung him igain. until now he is practically a broken down ball player, both physi cally and in spirit. Poor Hal Chase! Sport Scribes Will -Pick Most Valuable c Player in Southern j AWT M4G6IF .) tf/Otf THE/ mots' That '/'&>•/ ABOUT I TRVTw' To Dodge TAIf IS UHf r-" JBUWkT J T MAy BL. Oct FATHIONED) ' BUT I 6Ai, CMCt CHICKibl Pox LAVS HOLT Obi A FAM/lV/ts Lonma /44KE A CuAbl SwthP^ so 'the , rr nr SoobitR ns cver. -the I mmr ", 1 Parted im BV KiSSlW A^hur am A 1 pore I 6iT 2>j Through /m (jObibiA 5fAACK ~1HL Hull FArflLV 1 . i I I Unexpected opposition was encoun tered among Southern League mag rates this ‘morning to the awarding of the Rose trophy to the most valuable player in the league. The club presi dents remembered some of the trouble that came last fall in the closing days the contests for the three medals "ff.ered for the 1913 season. , The trophy next season wilt be in • barge of a commission of eight news paper men. one sporting editor from « j flrh city in the league. Each member of the commission will vote for eight pi|.a.vers. bis first choice receiving 8 quints, ills second choice points, and so on. The votes of the eight scribes will be compiled and the player receiv ing the highest number of points will w iri the award. BOXING LID STILL ON. ANDERSON. IXD.. Dec. 15— Sher iff Black, of Madison County, had no tified the promote s of a prize figh ;T El wood billed for Wednesday night to call off the same. Jack Dillon, vf Indiartapplis, and .Jadk Jeffries, brother of 1m Jeffries. were matched. The ban "tr the’fight game Madison Count.' ten years pi-i will b® con! in-u*- d. C ^mp Loses First 20-Round Go ,, n << . t.t. tn . , ScheduleCommittee Matty Baldwin Wins Decision This is the sixth uf the series of the life an<i Imltlrs of Lighticdyht Champion WiUic Hitehic, written exclusively for 'The (Jcoryiun. By Willie Ritchie. S AN FRANCISCO, Dev. 15.—Aft er my first bout with Johnny Mc Carthy I felt that I was ready for most anything. I found him the toughest proposition of the bunch. He gave me plenty of trouble, and he started me thinking. I was a bit downcast, figuring that I did not fight a good fight, and now that ( look over tlie past I know very well that J made a bad showing that night. The next one in line for me was An tone EaGrave, also some tough lightweight then. He had just gone fifteen rounds w ith . Bat Nelson, and had lost to Ad AVolgasi. but still they looked upon him as a rough and tum ble fighter who would give any of the lightweights a. battle. This was the only match in sight for me. so J accepted It. We fought over .in Oakland, and were supposed to weigh 135 pounds. It looked to me as though Tony weighed a ton, but 1 did not raise any objection. I knew that 1 bad to bent him if I wanted to keep forging ahead, and I made up my mind to take a chance, no matter wiiat happened. Anyhow, -I got the decision after six rounds of rough and tumble fight ing. EaGrave kept after me all the lime, and, believe me, I had to do some very fancy stepping and stalling around. Now and then I would go in and slug with him. but 1 finally boxed him cleverly in the last two rounds, and the decision seemed to suit the crowd all right.. Tackles Baldwin Next. This victory made me ambitious, and I felt that it was up to me to break in the twenty-round game if I hoped to do anything for myself. Mat ty Baldwin was in town, and they were looking for somebody to fight him. Talent was scarce, and finally Jim Griffin cam© to me and offered me a proposition to go on with the Boston boy. 1 was undecided at first, but Griffin kept after me. and. so, did my friends. They gave me the usual old line of stuff about a gieat future and a chance to make a reputation for my self. and finally i fell. Mind you, up to this time I never had gone fai- ther than eight rounds, and all. of my opponents had been boys with local reputations only. The date was set for Adgust 30, 1911. I will-never forget it as long as 1 live, because it was my first twenty-round trial. Baldwin at that time looked like one bf the leaders of the ligntw eight division. None of them had beaten him decisively, and they were even talking aboil! send ing him in against VYo'gast for the lightweight championship. I trained hard for the -bailie and reported -a Dreamland in fine shape; Of course. Baldwin was pbout, a T to I shot over me. and'l guess lhat fie NEW YORK, Dec. 16.- President John lv. Tener, of the National League, has increased the membership of the league's, schedule committee by the ap pointment of Charles If. F.bbets, of the me to take a chance and rush anil mix i .. . . . . . . . „ ,,, thin.. ,h. , H„, I Brooklyn club, and John Heydler. sec- ret ary of the league. Old League Gets House Cleaning •:•••/• -;•••:• -fo-f •!•••:* New Blood Comes Into Circuit j Athletic Club Five I‘Red’ Smith Here; Will Meet Augusta j Thinks Dodgers Will Quintet Saturday Be Well Up in 1914 things up with the veteran, but I thought to myself that the best thing 1 could do would be to make a care ful fight of it, so J did. Loses to the Boston Boy. Matty tore right after me in the first round, lie tried to get my goat. He called me a busher and a four- rounder and a dub. and he told me that he was jusi waiting to knock me stiff. At first P look this stuff, and then J began to hand some of my own talk back to him. at iHe same time keeping sway from him and boxing the best I knew how. I really believe that I could have knocked Baldwin out that night, or else I might have given him a bad besting, but I did not. dare take the charter. I wanted to make sure that 1 could go i lie twenty rounds and finish strong. I had heard so much aboui four-round fighters blowing up that 1 was rather badly spared, because 1 was not sur* of myself Instead of forcing things for the first, fifteen rounds. 1 allowed Baldwin to do all the leading. Me certainly did outpoint me. for l covered up and boxed and skipper! away when I thought 1 was in danger But when the sixteenth opened up 1 felt strong and my wind was good. T decided to take a chance. 1 waded in and mixed things up a bit, and Matty lost his smile and clinched when! 1 landed a tight to the jaw. This gave me courage, and the bal ance of the battle I was after him all the time. He looked all in and a< t°d thatWay. He knew all the trick of the game, and he managed to fool me. but still, if I had known about one-twen tieth of wiiat I know now, I sure could have flattened him Harry Foley to the Rescue. • All the fans who saw the battle know that I had the last three rounds by a big margin. But Tam willing to admit that he outpointed me He had such a lead in the first fifteen rounds that my only chance would have been a knockout, and tie stalled me. ail right. I sure did miss a grand chance, for had 1 slipped one over on Baldwin I would have been right up near the top. Harry Foley refereed the ha I tie. Doesn't it seem strange that f should have taken him as rny manager' two years later, after- I trad become the champion? 1 admit this myself, but at the same rime 1 always did have a j great deal of admiration for Foley. J He might ia\e given me a draw that j night and hate got »wa\ with ii. hut he was :oo conscientious for anything like' tha 1 . Of course. ! never figured nn Foley as a manager then. He came to me after- the battle and gave me some good, sound advice lie told me how I could have beaten Baldwin b\ wad ing in. and he took me c^dde and > ins trat'vi a lew tricks to m*- which Barney Dreyfus, of the Pittsburg club, will rempin at the head of the commit tee as the Governor's personal repre sentative. Cincinnati Officials Oppose Tinker Deal CINCINNATI, Dec. J 5.—Several members of the board of directors of the Cincinnati National League ball club do not approve of the sale of Joe Tinker for a cash consideration of 335:000 to Charles H. Kbbets, of Brooklyn. Others are satisfied with the transaction in that form, but do not believe the 315.000 net to be pa d Cincinnati is a sufficient return for Tinker's service*. It is pointed out that $15,000 will not be sufficient to purchase from other clubs even one first-class player, while the club is in need of more than one good man. A majority of the directors believe that a trade of Tinker for other play ers should and could have been ar ranged to vastly more advantage to the Reds. For that reason the deal may be declared off and Tinker dis posed of to some club thai# will yield the Reds one or more players to strengthen the playing of the team. It is a practical certainty that Tin ker will not be with Brooklyn unless President Kbbets agrees to some, othar sort of a deal contemplating the ex change of players. .Cross-Country Run To Be Held Saturday The annual croes-countr > run of Georgia Tech will be held Saturday afternoon. The. course w ill be from the school to the waterworks and leiuni, a dis tance of a little over three mile ,t . A handsome cup has been offered to the winning team, and medals to tlie first three men. in addition to this, twenty pies and cakes, baked bj the wives of the members <»f the fac ulty. will be presenter! t«» the next twenty men. Heavies to Box in New York on Dec. 22 figured i nit t w ay At \ dtdsed i | fi; NEW U>RK. Dec 15. Battling |,c virskv. :h*» sensational light heg\> weign, bo.* been signed ir* box i«n rmirms w ■ Jim < 'ufTe; iije lAublic giant, in *he Garden, nn December 't he *?’ii" night. >ri I lie same ’'icg r>. T-ge rtodel. the R ( *«. w II tackle t r i|f' man Jim Flynn in i o n round bout. By Damon Ruuvoii. N eKv Fork, Dec. 15.—They have now made a prettx good job of the house cleaning in the Na tional League, and the hitherto musty old organization is ill polished up, and presents a clean and inviting appearance. There may be one or two corners that the cleaners have overlooked, but they will get at ’em late- on. The new blood that came into the league during the past couple of years is responsible for the rehabilitation of the antique. Men like Harry Hempstead, of Jhe Giants; Jim Gaff ney, of the Braves: YV. H. Baker, of the Phillies, and Schuyler Britton, of the Cardinals, could not abide the mess they found on their arrival. If there had been only one or two newcomers they might have to stand for the old order, but too many strangers landed on the league at about the same time, and they just naturally drifted together for com pany. Then, finding that there were a* many of them as there were of the other fellows thwv started in to throw things out the windows It all began w ith the elimination of Horace Fogel as year ago. At the same time a muffler was applied to Charles Webb Murphy, the celebrated conversationalist front Chicago. Lynch of the Old Order Finally, the new crowd went out gunning for an able, responsible citi zen to conduct their business on a business basis, and they picked out John K. Tener. the Governor of Penn sylvania. What happened to John K. is now a. matter of history. It seems that the house cleaners had nothing against Thomas J. Lynch, but they felt he belonged to the old order, and so he had to go. A new combination has therefore come to baseball. It is composed of tire progressives of the National League, headed by John K. Tener. and made up of the gentlemen named along with Charles Hercules Kbbets. the Squire of Flatbuvh. Never let it be said that we slighted Charles Her cules hn any matter. He was a pro gressive long and long before the Na tional League felt the slightest symp tom of a change, and he is a pro gressive now. If Charles Hercules were not al ready a progressive, he would un doubtedly be converted bv his part ners. the Messrs. McKeever the Messrs. Progressive McKeever. as we might say. to give them their firm name. «‘uriouslv enough. Harry Hemp stead. Jim Gaffney. \Y. H. Raker and Schuyler Britton are all compara tively inexperienced in baseball af fair* The former, who was the fit«t of t e newcomers to break uto i s league. Is a son-in-law of John T Rrusit • :e shiest legislator league ev *■ had. but Mr. Hempstead pair, little attention to ha-’ebali. Like ihe other- however, he ,i l ,;; iio--« man and bwriness fmn are vet 1 pe culiar people in that they v an not see why their business interests should be jeopardized by a lot of senseless jangling. Wanted to Uplift League. Mr. Hempstead had notions about uplifting the league before the others arrived, but he had to wait until he got able assistance, and then the general uplift almost yanked the dear old National League, out of its boots. Another strange feature of the change that has come over the an cient organization is the fact that all the progressives hre alike in that they are cheerful, good fellows. ‘There are few better than Hempstead. Raker. Gaffney or Britton, and a short, an swer is unknown them. Truly these be queer times in the National League. YYe are not saying that John K. Tener will make « startling success of his new Job of presidenting. Time alone can determine his fitness for the position, but we do say that the magnate? of the league have showl a disposition to yield to the sentiment of the fans by picking out the best man they could find and giving him full swing for four years. If Tener falls down that will be Tenor s fault, and Tener has yet to come a cropper on any job lie ever undertook, if we read his record right. Ad for Barney Drey fuss. Murphy and Garry Herrmann, they are in the movement, but not of it. They are Just being swept along by the gen era! impetus of the vacuum cleaner that i» being applied to the league. They probably do not object, because it would do them no good to object They belong to another regime en tirely. Garry Herrmann is still a member of the National Commission, but that, too, is something that will probably be taken up a little later on. The en tire National Commission has served its purpose as it is now constituted, and might, well be abandoned, but granting that the commission is to go on indefinitely, it is about time to oust Garry. Vandy Eleven May Play North Carolina NASHVILLE, TBNN., Dec. 15.—It was officially announced last night that Vanderbilt probabl.v would meet North Carolina University in football next reason for the first time since 190*1. Negotiations have practically been closed for bringing North Caro lina here on October 24 Other games scheduled to date are: Tennessee, Nov ember 7: Auburn, in Birmingham November- 14 and Se- vvanee m Thanksgiving Day. The matter of » game with Michigan is being considered, but. on account of the hard schedule, it is hardly prob able that it will be attempted as it •Cl! be n*i-es:-.tr\ :•• inn Km In- ’ : j p j - 'Hie Augusta Young Men's Chris tian Association basket bail team will pla> the Atlanta Athletic. Club bas ket hall team in the (bird game of the season next Saturday night on the local club’s floor The schedule for the ?ea?on fol lows: December 30—Augusta Y. M. C. A. December* 37-—Open. January 3—In Columbus. January 10—Auburn. January 17—Georgia. January 34 — In Birmingham January Ji—Open. February 7—Birmingham Athletic Club. February I4—Mercer or Clemson. February 31—Columbus Y. M. C, A. RUSSELL TO BOX KNIGHT. NEW ORLEANS, LA., Dec. 15.— Frankie Russell, local lightweight, has been matched \o box Phil Knignt in a ten-round bout at El Paso, Tex.ifr, on Christmas Day. 'Phis will be Frankie’s first scrap since lie lost to Joe Rivers about one month ago. J. Carlisle ("Red”) Smith/ third baseman of the Brooklyn Dodgers anil Atlanta boy, is back after a trip to ctiba with the Dodgers after the close of the National League season. "Red” had a gieat season with the Dodgers. He batted at a .396 clip, fielded way up among the third base men, and led tlie National league barters in making two-baggers. In the extra base department he was among the first ten. "I think Robinson will have a first division team next season." says Smith. "He has a strong infield, with Daubert on first: Cutshaw. second; Tinker, short, and yours truly on third. Of course, we are not sure of getting Tinker yet, but I think Joe will come along, especially if he gets that $10,000.’? FOOTBALL TEAMS PLAY TO-DAY BARNESVILL?:. GA.. 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