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SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
No Use Trying to Fool Mae; She’s Wise
Smith Had Him Nearly Landed
When Big Pirate-Cardinal
Trade Upset Everything.
By W. S. Farnsworth.
B ILL SMITH went to the Nation
al l^eaguo baseball meeting with
the avowed intention of secur'*'
ing "Coa)’" Dolan*.tpjm the PJrates*
But Dolan was traced. along with
Robinson and Wilson, to th© Cardi
nals for Konetehy, Harmon and
.M owrey.
Barney Dreyfus© had practically
promised Bill that he would send De
tail to Atlanta. The Cracker man-
*-8*7. however, has not given up all
hope of securing the peppery little
inflelder. He is not a big leaguer, but
the fastest minor league inflelder I
ever saw in action.
It's almost a cinch that the Car
dinals will not hang onto him. And
Smith has a “perfect understanding'’
with Miller Huggins, so it may be th:it
“Cosy” will be taking care of thirl
base out at Poncy Park along about
next April.
Dolan Looked Like Collina.
The writer was traveling with the
New York American League club In
1911 when Dolan Joined te^ jeam. It
wa© late In the fall. During the 'as?
four or flve weeks of thy season he
looked like another Jimmy Polling but
he “blew.” During his stay with the
Phillies and Pirates he showed Jn
flashes only.
"He’s a great minor league player.”
George Stallings told me after Dolan
had been with the Yank«*es 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 Schwlnd, 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 Neil Ball was when
he was at his be.*.t in this league.
Director Smith, of the Birr..ingham
club, has offered Matthews a chance
to pick up a nice piece of coin in th©
spring by training the young Baron
twlrlers. Matty will have to tiurn
down the Jon, however, as he has re
signed with the Newport News team,
and will have to report to hi© club
at least a month before the season ;©
over.
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
shares In the club and retain
1-Yank as aeout for the Naps.
Five big league clubs have made
Bill Smith an offer for Tommy Long.
But William wants him In the CracIt
er outfield another season.
George Stallings is expected
show up during the day.
There was some whispering to-day
that <'harle> Prank 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 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
rhortstop is looking immense.
Bill also saw Barney Dreyfus*. Th-
Pirate boss says that Conzeltnan will
give up the game if he doesn’t hang
on with the Pirate next spring.
• • •
There wa| a letter from Wallle
Smith for Manager Bill when he
arrived home yesterday, in which the
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©
onslituted 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-
ago, shows that the fatalltes were
most numerous in this city, where
hree persons were killed by being
struck by pitched balls
As in the case of football, the great
est risk to life !«• encountered by the
mskilled player, for the i^st of fifteen
deaths does not include a major
league player or even a minor league
athlete of sufficient experience in
baseball to be widely known
Of the fifteen killed all except one
were hit by 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.
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A. J. Heinneman. of the New Or
leans club, i© a red-hot fight fan He
fray© the game is flourishing agaVi In
the Pel village.
Third-Sacker Has Long-Sought
Position as Manager of Team.
Griffith Defends Herrmann.
By Frank (}. Menke.
N B2W YORK, Dec. 15.—Now that
Charles Herzog, erstwhile
Giant Inflelder, is soon to real
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 predecessor^ 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. Borne 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
Vrut 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
ped 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
t lie Cincinnati team hasn’t a
pitcher to compare w-ith 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 ids
team is hopelessly beaten as he is in
the first inning when the game be
gan. He is fighting always and he
never quits.
W 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
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
many 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.
Southern League Meeting Begins
Little Rock May Replace Billies.
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I T ANAGE2R BILLY SMITH being
V/l once more on his Native
Heath, and most of the other
Southern League moguls having got
in earlji 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
! 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 differ Mon
day night—an elaborate affair—is to
be in the banquet room of the same
hostelry.
BOXING
News of the Ring Game.
SPORTING COMMENT
I ackey McFarJand wHl fight Jimmy
Mabby^° rounds at 146 ringside before
J in ( offroth s San Francisco club, pro
viding that he gets 115.000 for his end
ms was the statement made by Emil
1 hlry. manager of Packer, to u Chicago
sporting writer yesterday.
I'* 1 '' that Par key must travel
-0 rounds of milling if he goes West
seems to he the one big drawback of
the match," continued Thiry. ••McFar
land Is strong for the ten-round game
ar ’d w hen it s over a longer route
lackey shies Me can get $10,000 for
boxing Gibbons In New York, and
.think he is easily worth the extra $•
to box dabby over the long route.
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To-morrow night in Jacksonville. Fla..
Eddie Hanlon, the local welterweight,
will meet .lack Robinson In a sched
uled 15-round set-to Eddie is up
against a veteran of the game, but his
youth and punching abllltv should give
him a great chance against the clever
Jack
By Ed W. Smith.
W ITHOUT 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
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.
Billy I.otz, 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 Raker and John
Worthy.
As predicted in this column Saturday
I.each Cross ami Bud Anderson have
been matched to box a return scrap in
Los Angeles on New Year’s Day. Tom
Me Carey, promoter, got Sammy Wal-
laeh. manager of Cross, and Dick Mc
Donald, who acted In a likewise capac
ity for Anderson, together, and articles
were signed MeCarey plans to put the
winner against Joe Rivers
TO ORGANIZE SOCCER TEAM.
ANNISTON, ALA., Dec. 15.—The I
Alabama Presbyterian College will not *
put a basket ball team in the fled j
this year, but plans are under \va »• |
t" organize a soccer football ©quad 1
i" meet other tearns in the Bout) . An I
effort is also being made here to or- j
k-nize an athletic association out
ride of the S I. A. A. (
«UKRRMANN knows baseball from
I* beginning to end; he knows
that a manager can not do good work
when handicapped by higher officials
who overrule him. And while l was
manager he always gave me free
rein; he 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- j
ference.
"But 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 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 "
Charlie 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
hls coming back. Charlej was looking
over his records Hie other day and
found that the affair with Wolgast
would be hls thirteenth fight of 1913.
and it was scheduled to take place on
Fridaj
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 Chance, former
manager of the Cubs, always demanded
berth 13 on his travels he reconsidered
and decided to onll himself the super-
stltiousless champion, if there Is such a
thing
’VJ'OT only are the Chip mitts al -
^ most without blemish, but
they are large and strong as well
and exceptionally w^Jl knit.
There’s a story to this that C’hip
likes to tell. Here’s about the
drift of it; "One time Johnny
Coulon was boxing a main event
down in our country and 1 was on
in the semi-windup with two fel
lows, three rounds apiece. 1 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 tile same train with
Johnny and his father to go back
home and my hands were a sight.
They were so sore and swollen
that I couldn’t even lace my
shoes. 1 was pretty well disgust
ed with the fighting game right
then, especially as l got but $35
for my night’s work.
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
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. I always bring
my 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’
1 Coulon or Johnny for that ad
vice.
“\EVER until some writers
1 y began to make a fuss over
that delayed punch did I think
very much of it. 1 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
Billy l’;ip> has ngain oa'Dd off h : s '
sc^edulrd fight with Gporpo Dhin in
ATTwh”V^p op Jarcarv 12 Papke Inc
h's right hand while training ami will j
not ho ah'p to use the injured member I
for at least a couple of months
“\V E got talking on the way
** back and he asked me a
lot of questions, how- old I was.
what 1 was doing and the like.
Then he asked me if 1 intended
to stl rt k 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 find my
self a Job in which I 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-
rig game.' he told* me. I never
forgot d. Soon as my hands had
healed a little 1 got a job in a
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN, Dec. 15. —Emperor William
has granted his consent to the holding
of athletic contests next Mav ai 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 I'rince has given hls name
as a patron of the contests, and the
War Minister will appoint a committee
to make the arrangements.
Dundee and Welsh
Matched for Bout
Sporting Food
By GEORGE E. PHAIR
THE PEEPUL.
When the wrestlers aren't pulling
off a frame-up
And corralling all the kale there is
in sight.
There are pugilists who try to bust
the game up
By performing in a questionable
fight.
They are gentle as they would be
with a brother.
And they chortle as they take the
public*s mon;
Taking one consideration with an
other.
The public's lot is not a happy one.
Packey McFarland is quoted aa
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.
Due of the peculiar features of the
Milwaukee scrap is that neither of
the principal© was indicted for ob
taining money under false pretenses.
Georges Carpentier never will star
tle the world as a fighter, but he will
be w ritten in history as the guy that
put the bomb in Bombardier 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.
Boxina classes have been organized
at the University of Wisconsin, evi
dently to prepare for the game with
Minnesota next fall.
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 moguls reached town
Monday morning, and there was no
delay in calling the directors’ meet
ing.
AT the opening assembly the p^n-
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 ?.aid 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 probabl.v will be
against the umpire staff and its work
in the last season.
THE appointing of a schedule oom-
A 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 rhe 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 hls
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 Ambro»«
McConnell isn’t in the humor to conn*
South to play with the Crackers and
Bill is going to try again to persuade
him. If Amby still holds out, Bill
will go after Ben Kohler, of the Cen
tral League, who has developed into
a better infielder 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 Pennsyl
vania League, a younger brother of
the burly Charley Schmidt, the Gulls'
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 lav
out," Bill said, “and I reckon I’ll
chance it until the discarding season
opens with the big leaguers. Tiieifr
of course. I’ll be on the lookont to
pick up anything that looks good. Bui
we’re about dene trading until
spring.”
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Yankees for Gaiser
CINCINNATI, Dec. 15.—The Na
tional Baseball Commission allowed
the claim of the New York club of
the American League for $250. whicn
is the balance of $500 clue it frorrrt'u
Albany club of the New York Sta:e
League for the release to the latter of
the service of F. Gaiser under an
agreement entered into on April
The payment of the first $250 was
made on June 1, but the second in
stallment was i.ot paid.
Armstrong Is Head
Coach of Yale Crews
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 15.-Cap-
tain T. R. Deneftre, of the Yale crew
announced to-day’ that Richard Arm
strong. Yale ’95, has been appointed
head coach of the Yale crews
Guy Nlekalls, of England, coach of the
Leander crew, and Eugene Giannini. of
the New York Athletic Club, have been
asked to assist Armstrong, and it
probable that they will accept. All
three were here to-day and met the
members of the squad
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Avenue Presbyterian School banker ba
fives, both teams composed of girls,
will 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 for the game sev
eral days and a closely fought battle is
expected.
LINDSAY WINS DECISION.
CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—Coe Lindsay,
a local welterweight, won an eight-
round decision over “Kid" Mack, of
Joliet, in a private exhibition hen
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.
Kutlna. Bluhm, Paulet, Starr and
McDowell all are in the thick of
trades, and some of them mav be set
tled right here.
As to our own troubles. Bill Smith
N7\V ORLEANS. Dec. 15 — Johnn.
Dundee, of New York, and Fred e
Welsh. English l ghtweig.it champion,
have been matched for a ten-round
bout before a local athletic club
Year’s afternoon. The rival lig-. -
weig* s s gred articles vesteraay. The
decision is to rest with tne newspa
pers.
Governor Tener sa v s he will do all
the talking for the National League, ‘
hut if he does he will have to gag
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