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THE ATLANTA GEORflTAN AND NEWS. Le He Had It Once" Is Like Saying "He'd He a Champion if He Could Punch” °y At That, Snakes Have to Live Like Everything Else By ‘Bud 5 Fisher 1.1. EXPERT We Hal Is Said To Be on His 1 Last Legs as Big League i Performer. Gee, t'o cocky. a rjcm MexfCAN josr gave thi^ ijweLL Mexican tee novnq. 17^ SM*LL€Sr BRfee\> OF 00(3 WOfcUb. N€'£ ^ BRMoHf Too j in new York tksy NENep- A iOo V ^ CAN GET A THOUSAND ( Dolcar-s eoa. Huv\ 5uR.e TMt ONLY 'R.0U6L6 IS THAT He'S A HOT WEATHER. Dog and MA-I-Kfc hC CANfT STANt) COLT) noRtHcrn climate. •■ V ' 1 HEN AjvSiN THt TRIP MM.HT Rb HARO ON WIG 'IXLUR'I- hiauvh. t'D HATE To NAME ANT'THING happen To Him iP T took Him Away k rom his NATixe 1 Country iuHeC-T. he's - T' NT fmbroM to come ?rs. and ersuade ut, Bill he Cen- >ed into an out- s knew te news 1 Otto ennsyl- -ther of e Gulls' l. , easy, ng lay. ;on I'll season The* kont to od. Bu until By Monty. EW YORK, Dec.»15.—Poor *Hal Chase! They called him a loafer, a four-flusher, a staller. i grandstand player, a, quitter, and V ey say lie was "laying down" oh c New York Americans. And they i* id that was why Frank Chance •ruled him to the "White Sox. Now, ken to something that will surprise ■jmU—Chase is on his last legs as a IjLleague ball player, and the next ?• aSon is likely to be his last in the majors. p fpttnce Hal, as lie was called at the knight of his glory when the ac knowledged peer of first basemen, 'as guilty of all lie was charged Uh in 1910. He was accused of pur- 'osel-y laying down on the job so that ie could get the position of man- °f the Yankees, then held by ^Vojge Stallings, with whom Chase did not get along with at all. Chase got. Stallings’ job the next year—that iitstory. But he failed as a mana ge—that, too. is common knowledge. ‘F r\ » , : v.'.* L • . ry POLLY AND HER PALS • • • • Aunt Maggie's Making Chickens of 6 Em All en. when Harry Wolverton was I Ifypdinted as his successor. Chase. ^gruntled again, resumed his old .uaflng tactics. J Ij V ERT O X failed, and Frank .enhance was signed up to heavl h Team the past season. Chase iore by.all that was holy then that 6reAi£uuS „ ^ fan M4G6i£ (f c . A mi; tuE/t v J ipu\Rj) \ttciz Jha't i T MAy PE- OLfe FASHIONED , II BO I outE ChiCK'EaJ VS4V ABOUT (| m TRyiw’ To D0D6E iser ie Xa illowedl club of whica om't’u t Star? 11tor or ler an il 50 was nd lu ld . ews —Cap- : crew Arm- sointexi of the link of e been 1 it is All et the :W North er ba girh, >-mor- game ? girls ? sev- ttle is N. id*a>. »ight- :k. of heid was somg to "play his head off" '’ -the Peerless Trader. He became f hlerp worshiper of Chance. But he k {titinueu to pla\ poor baseba n ♦nots. and the fans howled, "lies up - his oid tricks again—laying down !jjn ‘the job." The tough luck of it is tnis—Chase was not laying down on ie job—not last year. It brings to mind in a way the story of the boy ho called “Wolf” when there was no vo-if. • But. th£s time the "wolf" had ' r !TrPived, and the fans wouldn't be lieve it. They thought Chase was still, a. great ball player, but that lie' . i ain't t rynim A Boston friend of Frank Chance, r^' Pian to whom the P. L. is willing •:h .-confide almost anything, is au thority for a story told by the man ager; * * * NJE Saturday afternoon last ' ^ summer, just before Chase was 'traded, M says Chance, <r the crowd got i fter Chase and booed liis every move. When the game was over naSe could not be found in the t ubliouse. lie had locked himself in v.Ur.of the shower baths, and waited YH til he thought everybody had essed apd gone. But when he came out Trainer BArrett and myself were « til ther<». Chase was crying like a Labyv lje went over and sat down on • ne of.,the chairs, with, his face bur- •a. in his hands, and the tears streamed down his cheeks. He sob bed as if his heart would break. We ’fled fo console him, but he would not M>eak. Before Barrett and I left, iere were the beginnings of tears in our eyes, too. "The next day 1 went to Mr. Far- re|l and said: 'See here, this boy n.’t laying down on you. He’s try ing to do his level best, but he just play the way Iip used to. HlS j ;jys as a star are over. Now lie's b'yjrfe, to accomplish tilings, but it’s jyo f{ite'.’ " After Chase was traded to Chicago rie put up a sensational game for a short M’hile, but then slumped and be- ran to play mediocre hall again. The :i’eago fans, just like their New V\>fk brethren, got after Chase and aVciised him of loafing and even con- spiring to get Timmy Callahan's job :<s manager. Chase, it is learned, was entirely innocent of any such tiring tnlt the printed charges stung him again, until'now he Is practically a broken down ball player, both physi cally, and in spirit. Poor Hal Chase! LAVS HOLT OH A F/SM/LY n$ doNMA MAKE A ClEAH SvutbP So -The r f CNER. -the / Kpfr, BETTER if t ^fARTEO BV KISSIKI' A^hur. AH A'FORE I 6)7 "THROUCjH /m Oohma t>M4CK THE Mull FAMilV. Champ Loses First 20-Round Go *>#v •!«•*!• v • v . v • v v#v v#v Matty Baldwin Wins Decision Ebbets and Heydler On National League ScheduleCommittee This is llir girth of the series of the life anil battles of Lightweight Champion Willie ftitehic, written exclusively for The Georgian. Sport Scribes Will Pick Most Valuable £ Player in Southern -Y Unexpected opposition was encoun tered among Southern league mag- rttCfes this morning to the awarding of ’lie Rose trophy to the most valuable ‘^Wper in the league. The club presi- i< ’nts' remembered some of tbe trouble \ iVrecl for the 1913 season. •AXhe- trophy next season ^ ill be in i-rtarge of a commission of eight hows- f'^jXe.r men, one sporting editor from : Yli ’city in the league. Each member of - the commission will vote for eight payers, h*ls first, choice receiving S ,ts, lus second choice 7 points, and on. The votes of the eight scribe . be compiled and the player reeeiv- tv !fhe. highest number of points will the award. BOXING LID STILL ON. j ft IjJERSOX, lND Dee. 15.—£=.ior- : Black, of Madison County, had nu- the promote, s of a pr /.e fleh- [ Ehwood billed for \X ednesda.' nign # off the same. Jack Dillon, -of f^ianapolis, . . ltd Jack Jeffries ) tolled. The l)an on the tigiv ^•--.Madison Comitx ; 't‘ . v0al> *lil be continued. By Willie Ritchie. S AN FRANCISCO, Dec. IT,.—Aft- er my ftrst 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, f did not fight a good fight, and now that T look over the past I know very well that 1 made a bad showing that night. The next one in line for me was Antone l^aGrave, also some tough lightweight then. He had just gone fifteen rounds with Bat Nelson, and had lost to Ad Wolgast. but still they looked upon him as a rough and tum ble fighter who would give any of the light \veights a. battle. This was the only match in sight for me, so T 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 I did not raise any objeetion. I knew that 1 had to beat him if I wanted to keep forging ahead, and I made up my mind to take a chance, no matter what happened. Anyhow, I got the decision after six rounds of roueh and tumble fight ing. HaGrave kept after me all the time, 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 I 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 frnally Jim Griffin came to me and offered me a proposition to g<» on with the Boston boy. 1 was undecided at fn^t, but Griffin kept after me, ami so did my friends. They gave me the usual old line of stuft about a gioat future and a chance to make .i reputation for my self, and finally 1 fell. Mind ypu, up to this time 1 never had gone fai- ther than eight rounds, and ad of my opponents had been boys with local reputations only. The date was set- for August 30, 1911. i v. ill neve forfeit as long a<* I live, because it was my first twenty-round trial Baldwin at that time looked like, one,of the leaders of the lightweight division. None of them had beaten him decisively, and they were even talking about send ing m in against TVo gast for tne lightweiglv ' barn, iOnshfp. I trained hard for the battle and reported U Dreamland in fine shape Of course. Baldwin was about a ?, to J skn; oxer me, and I guess tear he figured that way. AJy seconds advised 1 me to take a chance and rush and mix things up with the veteran, but 1 thought to myself that the best thing I could do would be to make a care ful fight of it, so I did. Loses to the Boston Boy. Matty tore right after me in the first round. He tried to get my goat. He called me a busher and a four- rounder and a dub, and he told me that he was just waiting to knock me stiff. At fust J took this stuff, and then T began to hand some of my own talk hack to him. at the same time keeping away from him and boxing the best T knew how. I really believe that I could have knocked Baldwin out thal night, or else I might have given him a bad beating, but I did not dare take the chance. I wanted to make sure that I could go the twenty rounds and finish strong, r had heard so much about four-round fighters blowing up that 1 was rather badly scared, because 1 was not sure of myself. Instead of forcing things for the first fifteen rounds. I allowed Baldwin to do all the leading. He certainly did outpoint me. for 1 covered up and boxed and skipped away when J thought T was in danger. But when the sixteenth opened up T felt strong and my wind was good. I decided to. take a chance. I w aded in and mixed things un a bit, and Matty lost his smile and clinched when I landed a right to the jaw. This gave me courage, and the bal ance of the battle I was after him ah the time. He looked all in and acted that way. He knew all the trick of (he game, and he managed to fool me, but still, if l had known about one-twen tieth of what I know npw, I sure could have flattened him Harry Foley to the Rescue. All the fans who saw 1 lie battle know that I had the last three rounds by a big margin. But 1 am willing to admit that he outpointed rne. He had such a lead in the first fifteen rounds that my only chance would have been a knockout, and lie stalled rne. all right. J sure did miss a grand < hance, for iiad 1 slipped one over on Baldwin I would have been right up near the top. Harry Foley refereed the battle Doesn’t it seem strange that I should have taken him as my manager two years later, after I had become the champion? 1 admit this myself, but at the same time I always did have a great deal of admiration for* Foley. He might have given me a draw that mg he was too conscientious for anything tike that. Of course, I never figured on Fo>> as a manage tlieh. He cam® to me after rne. bat Be ami gave me some good, sou ml advice He told me how : cfiijld have beaten Baldwin' b\ wad ing in. and he look me aside and illus trated ^ few lit-le tricks in me which 1 have uex *t forgotten. NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—President John i j K. Tener, of the National League, has ! j increased the membership of the I league's schedule committee by the ap- I potfttment of Charles H. Ebbets. of the j ; Brooklyn club, and Jolm Heydler, sec- j retary of the league. Barney Dreyfus, of the Pittsburg club, [ will remain nt the head of the commit- I tee as the • Governor’s personal repre sentative. Old League Gets House Cleaning -I-*-;. , New Blood Comes Into Circuit ; Athletic Club Five ! 'Red' Smith Here; Will Meet Augusta j Thinks Dodgers Will Quintet Saturday Be Well Up in 1914 Cincinnati Officials Oppose Tinker Deal CINCINNATI, Dec. • J5.—Several members of the hoard of directors of the Cincinnati National League ball club do not approve of the sale of Joe Tinker for a cash consideration of $25,000 to Charles H. Ebbets. of Brooklyn. Others are satisfied with the transaction in iliat form, but do not bplieve the $15,000 net to be paid Cincinnati is a sufficient return for Tinker's services. It is pointed out that $15,000 will not be sufficient tg purchase from other clubs even one first-class player, while the Hub 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 Rods. For that reason the deal may be declared off and Tinker dis posed of to some club that 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 Ebbets agrees to some other sort of a deal contemplating the ex change of players. Cross-Country Run To Be Held Saturday The annual cross-country riin of Georgia Tech will be held. Saturday afternoon. The course w ill be from the school to tiie waterworks and return, a dis tance of a little over three miles. A handsome cup has been offered to the winning team, and medals to! the first three men. In addition to j thi?, twenty pies and cakes, baked by! the wives of the members of the fac ulty. will be presented to the next’ twenty men. Heavies to Box in New York on Dec. 22 NETV YORK. Rattlinr L* vinsky. iwe **nsatlonal ligi t hcav weight. ha« been signed i<*» box ten rounds ^ Mi lin* Coffey, tiDublin giant, in ihe Garden, <-n December 22. The '•atne right, in thr same ring (iporpr. R ode I ihr Ri,r-r will tar-kle Fire man Mrn Flynn in a ten-round bout. By Damon ltiui\tni. N EW YORK, Dec. 15—They have now made a pretty go oil job of the house cleaning in the Na tional League, and the hitherto musty oid organization is all 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 toe league during the past couple of years is responsible for the rehabilitation of the antique. Men like Harr> Hempstead, of the Giants; Jim Gaff ney, of the Braves: W. H. Baker, of the Phillies, and Schuyler Britton, of the Cardinal*, could not abide the mess they found on their arrital. If there had been only one or two newcomers they might have to stand for the old order, but too rnanv strangers landed on the league at about the same time, and they just naturally drifted together for com pany. Then, finding that there were as many of them as there were of the other fellows, they started in to throw things out the windows. It all began with the elimination of Horace Fogel as year ago. At the same time a muffler wa» applied to Charles Webb Murphy, the celebrated conversationalist from Chicago. Lynch of th© Old Order. Finally, the new' crowd w'ent 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 I the: felt h* belong/-) 1 to the old order, and SO lie had to go. A new* combination has therefore come to baseball. It is composed of the progressives of the National League, headed by John lv. Tener. and made up of the gentlemen named along with t’harlea Hercules Ebbets. tiie Squire of Flatbuali. Never let it be said that we slighted Charles Her cules in any matter. He was a pro gressive long unit 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. MoKeever—the Messrs. Progressive McKeever, as we might say, to give them their firm name. Curiously enough. Harr' Hemp stead. Jim Gaffney. W. H. Baker an^, j Schuyler Britton are ail compara lively inexperienced In baseball af fairs The former. wTo was the first of i » new' Omer« to hreak Tito the 1 league is a son-in-law- of John T. P.ru« Lie ablest legislator the league eve- had. but Mr Hempstead paj.-i liftl rt attention to baseball. Like the i others however, he was 4 ‘ ueiness j man. and business men arc very j * caliar people in that they can not sec why their business interests should be jeopardized by a lot pT senseless jangling. Wanted to Uplift League. Mr. Hempstead had notions about uplifting tile 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 are alike in that they are cheerful, good fellows. There are few better than Hempstead. Baker, Gaffney or Brition, and a. short an swer is unknown to them. Truly these be queer times in the National League. We are not saying that John K. Tener will make a startling success of his new job of presidenting. Time alone can determine his fitness for magnates of the league have show® h disposition to yield to the sentiment of the fans by picking out the best man they couid find and giving him full swing for four years. If Tener T.111down that will be Tener’s fault, and Tener has yet to come a cropper on any job he ever undertook, if we read his record right. As for Barney Dreyfuss, Murphy and Garry Herrmann, they aro in the movement, but not of it. They are just being swept along by the gen eral impetus of the vacuum cleaner that is 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 ■■ <to,- 0 be taken up a little later on. The eri 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 Gam. Vandy Eleven May Play North Carolina N ABU Vi LLE. TEN X.. De. \. 15 -11 was officially announced Iasi night that Vanderbilt probably would meet North Carolina University in football next season for the first time since 1900. Negotiations have practically been closed for bringing North Caro lina here on October 24 Other games scheduled fo da e are: Tennessee. November 7. AubiICn. in Birmingham November 11 and Se- wanee. on Thanksgiving Day The master • r a game with Michigan is being considered, but. on account of the hard schedule, it is hardb prob- abi© that it will he attempted «• it will be necessary in make tin- trip to Arm Arbor. The Augusta Young Men's Chris tian Association basket ball team will play the Atlanta Athletic Club bas ket ball team in the third game of the season next Saturday night on the local club’s floor. The schedule for the season fol lows: December 20—Augusta Y. M. C. A. December 27—Open. January 3—In Columbus. January 10—Auburn. January 17 Georgia. January 21 In Birmingham January 31 —Open.’ February 7—Birmingham Athletic Club. . February 14 Mercer or ci«nison. February 21—Columbus Y. M. C. A. RUSSELL TO BOX KNIGHT. NEW ORLEANS. LA., Dec. 15.— Frankie Russell, local lightweight, lias been matched to box Phil Knlgnt in a t<m-round bout at El Paso, Texas, on Christmas Day. This will be Frankie's first scrap since ho lost to Joe Rivers about one month ago. J. Carlisle ("Red") Smith, third baseman of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Atlanta boy, is back after a trip to Cuba, with the Dodgers after the close of the National League season "Red" had a great season with the Dodgers*. He batted at * .296 clip, fielded way up among the third ha.«e> men. anti led (he National league batters in making two-baggers. In the extra base department' lie was among tlie first ten. "f think Robinson will have a first division team next season," *a\s Smith. "He has a strong infield, with Daubert on first; Cutahaw. second: Tinker, short, and yours truly on third. Of course, we are nor. sure, of getting Tinker vet, but I think Joe will roinn along, especially If he gets that $10,000.” FOOTBALL TEAMS PLAY TO DAY. BABNEHVILLE, GA.. 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