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l / TTTF, ATLANTA 0 EOT? 0 IAN ANT) NEWS. I'lie Tin Horn Sport Is Always Heard From When He Its Beaten tit Hiss Own (lame m 2V SECURE DOLAN SILK 1 1AT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT - - - - No Use Trying to Fool , 1 / l Ci\ Mae; SI -1 DOWT TR-V TO ie’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 League baseball meeting with the avowed intention of secure lng "Cozy” Dolan from the Pirates. But Dolan was traded, along with Robinson and Wilson, tu the Cardi nals for Konetchy, Harmon and Mowrej. Barney Drey fuss had practically promised Bill that he would send Da- la n to Atlanta. The Cracker man ager. however, has not given up all liope of securing the peppery little inflelder. He is m t a big leaguer, but the fastest minor league inflelder I ever saw in action. It’s almost a cinch that Ihe Car dinals will not. hang onto him. And Smith has a "perfect understanding" with Miller Huggins, so It may he that "Coxy" will be taking care 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 1911 when Dolan Joined |eam, It was late in the fall. During the ' ist four or five weeks of fh* season he looked like another Jimmy Collins, hilt he ’ blew.” During his stay with the Phillies and Pirates he showed in Hashes onjy. "He’s a great minor league player. " George Stallings told me after Dolan had been with the Yankees a fe>v 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 < ’rackers bought outright, from the Boston Nationals, is a ‘ regular’’ play er. "according to Matte Matthews. Matty caw him play down in San Antonio last spring, and ways he is a faster man than Neil Bull was when he was at his he:,', in tala league. • * • Director Smith, of the Birmingham club, lias offered Matthews a change to pick up a nice piece of coin in the spring by training the young Baron twirlers Mattv will have to tu*n down tiie 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 :s J. Heinneman, of the New Or leans Hub, Isa red-hot fight fan. He says the game is flourishing agafei in the Pel village. • * • Charley Frank is on the Job with a big smile. He doesn’t know juni 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 260 shares in the club and retain Frank as scout for the Naps. • * » Five big league clubs have mnde Bill 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-day that CharloN Frank 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 ehortstop is looking immense. • • • Bill also saw Barney Dreyfuss Th*' Pirate boss sa\s that Conzelman will give up the game if he doesn’t hang on with the Pirate next spring. • • • There was a letter from Wallle Smith for Manager Bill -when he arrived home yesterday, in which the « x-Cracker midway guardian said: "I\ 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 liv-s constituted the toll the young man hood of America paid for Its devotion to baseball during the year 1913. The death list of th»* national obsession, as compiled by J. R. Vickery, of Chi cago, shows that the fatalites were most numerous in this city, where three persons were killed by being struck by pitched balls As in the case of football, the great est risk to life D encountered by the unskilled player, for ;he 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 »\vn. 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 A TOICE (S A “TDKC BOT fi, HAM li /jo lOD. Silk hat harav the. l-ovj <-ipe. ajot o«lv «M)E POUR AAAfe "ME: * TAG. JO 0 CrG But t» •J9UA«.C A Poil. 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Griffith Defends Herrmann. to organize soccer team ANNISTON, ALA., Dec. 15.—Th# Alabama Presbyterian College will n >: put a basket ball team in the fie’.: »his year, but plans are under w » > to organize a soccer football sjiimu t«> meet other teams ir» the South. At effort -s also being made here to r»r- pH!v,7.c an ath’eti ? association oui- ue of the S. 1. A. A. By Frank G. Mcnke. N EW 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 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. Some 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 light now, and then fato 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 the 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. * * * 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 Beds ma> 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 m.|V 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. « * • “LJHRRMANN knows baseball from ** 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; 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 ference. "But what I had to buck is what every other manager of the team ha$ had to buck. That’s the mixing in <>f 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 rue Herrmann and they want to run the mu nag er.” Look THAT 0R At£ V THin(x - OF CO^St iMt'U. L>TAn)0 OM THE Sroop K>« HOUR - TO SHOW OFF THAT MAwW Fop coat al she has ewuf VoiuOE TTi il Al IMOO 5COUU- |F JHE M/AS fAV PAO&HTER. THAT lOOF s Li HER 0L0 PAR WET Suit DSEO ouER. HOvJ &GES jH £ b/er weh. Bi& feet WAT T14HT BOTTOM ' sVoir-asto* HEAD ITS OUT OF the <pu£snoL^ ‘ Mil » )!r 11 ,'TTL- c v>jAiTIn1 WlAHEY I look AT the / SHE TWISTS AW / TVRWS- SRC MAXES he ilex- I I Theh Saw emEFU ] ,i iw He*. / ?lac£ fifrOS vijith SHE S S O owe*.3£A*'Wj, \u\U i i ,//> J JmAejK’ I SlT AmijiwP "VET i cart | 5tmoV1>W , . MUtH USWWS IWDOOI* SpoRTi'. suwe/w AFTWLUOOW pEEKiwO OuT OF THE 5H uTTE PUT BOXING News of the Ring Game. SPORTING COMMENT I uc'key McFarland will liKlil Jimmy C labtiv _|| r.iunds at Hi rln K sl<]c before Jim I o(Troth's San Francisco dub. nro- vKlIriK that he gets $15,(100 fur hls end. I ms was the statement made by Kmll Ihlry, manager of Packey, to a L'hlcago sporting writer yesterday. ^ ^ acl that I’ackev must travel -0 rounds of milling if he goes West seems to be the one big drawback of the match, continued Thirv. "MeFar land is strong for the ten-round game and when it’s over a longer route, laekey shies. He can get J 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.” To-morrow night in Jacksonville. Fit*. Lddie Hanlon, the local welterweight. will meet Jack Kohinson in a sched uled 15-round set-to Eddie Is up against a veteran of the game, but his yout)i and punching ability should give nirn a great chance against the clever Jack. • ♦ • Billy Lotz. manager of Hanlon, has been putting his protege through » stiff boxing drill for the past week and says that Eddie is showing more stuff than ever before. llanJon has been doing his boxing with Frank Baker ami John Worthy. • • ■ \s predicted in this column Saturday Leach Gross and Bud Anderson have been matched to box a return scrap in Los tiigeles on New Year's Daj Tom MeGarey. promoter, got Sammy Wal- laeh. manager of Gross, at 1 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 dnv and found that the affair with Wolrast would he his thirteenth fight of 1913. end it was scheduled to take place on Friday. White at once sought It's manager. Nate Lewis, am! was on the verge of calling off the go. However, when he was told that Frank Chance, former manager of the Gubs. a.ways demanded berth 13 on his travels he reconsidered and decided to call hlnvsu]f the super- stitiousless champion, if there is such a thing Bifiy Papke has again called n I scheduled fight with Georg*' '" ip in I \T rwaukce «'?t Jamiary • Paoke htmf I his rfght hand while tnvin nr and will 1 *‘»>t l«e able tt» use the injured member for at least a cOuple of months. i By l id W. Smith. ^■fTlTHOUT passably good V/V 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. * • • "^OT 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 to 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. I was pretty well disgust ed with the fighting game right then, especially as l got but $35 for my night’s work. * * » “\U E got talking on the way ' * hack and he asked me a lot of questions, how old 1 was, what I was doing and the like. Then he asked nie if ! intended to stick to the fighting game. I told him l was pretty sick of it right then. He told me not to be discouraged, especially us 1 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 ing game.’ he told me. ! never forgot it. Soon as my hands bad healed a little 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. • w * *‘I)EALLY, I figure this made t he fighter of me t ha t i am to-day. Of course 1 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’ Coulon or Johnny for that ad vice. * * * ‘*^EVER until some writers 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. oi.e 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 has granted hls consent to the holding of athletic contests next May at the new stadium, in which officers and pri vates may participate, in preparation for the Olympic games to be held here in 1916 The Grown IVince has given his name as p patron of the contests, and the War Minister will appoint a committee to make the arrangements. Dundee and Welsh Matched for Bout N7\Y ORLEANS. Dec. 15.—Johnnv Dundee, of New York, and Fred I e Welsh. English Iightweig.it champion, have been matched for a ten-round bout before a local athletic club New Year’s afternoon. The rival lit* j weiglrs signed articles yesterday. The decision is to rest with the newspa pers. Sporting Food > By GEORGE E. PHAIR THE PF.EPUL. When (Jir irrcstlers aren't pulling off a frame-up And corralling all the hate there is in sight. There are pugilists icho try to hast the game vp lly performing in a quest ion able fight. They are gentle as they v'ould be with a brother. And they chortle as they take the public's man: Taking one consideration with an other. The public's lot is not a happy one. Packey McFarland is quoted as sayinq tnat 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 goir.rj to fight Johnny Coulon at catch weights, but he would if he cou!d. One of the peculiar features of the Milwaukee scrap Is that neither of the principals was indicted for ob taining money under false pretenses. Georges Oarpentier never will star tle the world as a fighter, but he will be written in history ns the guy that put the bomb in Bombardier Wells. As we understand it. Mr. Wells has all the qualifications of a successful puQ'Mst 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- j.dently to prepare for th e game with { Minnesota next fali. Governor Tener savs he will do ali the talking f6r the National League but if he does he will have to aag Charlie Murphy. 1 Opium Vhlak-y and Dru Hahlt* «irattd fcU n itjjnlt«riiiB». Fook on aiibiec* . . B vi wmLCV.l«4ifi«af uiDiunui, Atlanta. oi»« Southern League Meeting Begins Little Rock May Replace Billies By 0. B. Keeler. M anager hili.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 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 dinner Mon day night—an elaborate affair—is to be in the banquet room of the same hostelry. * * * A J. HEIN EM A N and Charley • Frank, of New Orleans, arrived Sunday; also Frank Coleman, of Memphis: Bob Baugh and \V. D. Smith, of Birmingham, and President VY. 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 regard to the past sea son’s play and busihess, 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. * * • HTHE 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 on 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. * * * AN announcement is to be made, through \Y G. Poster, sporting editor of The Chattanooga Times, that Randolph Rose, of that city, will of fer to the leatftie a handsome medal, to be awarded at the end of the sea son of 1914 lo 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 bv Nir. Rose, consisting of one sporting w riter in each city. The commis sioners will vote for their choice tit 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- I ting: also, it will not encourage the I sacrifice of team play to individual I record-making. ... TTfA T is about all. except that a I number of deals between the man 1 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 and some of them may be set tled right here. As to our own troubles. Bill Smith 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 Ambv still holds out, Bill will go after Ben Kohler, of the Cen tral League, who has 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 Pennsyl vania League, a younger brother of the burly Charley Schmidt, the Gulls’ 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. But we’re about done trading until spring.” Albany Must Pay Yankees for Gaiser CINCINNATI, Dec. 15.—ThA Na tional Baseball Commission allowed the claim of the New York club of the American League for $250, whlca Is the balance of $500 due it from tha Albany club of the New York State League for the release to the latter of the service of F. G-aiser under an agreement entered into on April 9, The payment of the first $250 was made on June 1, but the second in stallment was l.ot paid. Armstrong Is Head Coach of Yale Crews NEW HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 15.—Cap tain T. H. Denegre, of the Yale crew, announced to-day that Richard Arm strong. Yale ’95. has been appointed head coach of the Yale crews. Guy Nickalls, of England, coach of the Leander crew, and Eugene Giannini. of the New York Athletic Club, have been asked to assist Armstrong, and it is probable that they will accept. All three were here to-day and met the members of the squad. Girl Quintets Ready For Game To-morrow The Wood berry School and the North Avenue Presbyterian School basket ball fives, both teams composed of girls, will clash on the former’s floor to-mor row afternoon. Much interest centers on this gam**, especially with the fair fans. The girls have been practicing for the game sey- eral days and a closely fought battle is expected. LINDSAY WINS DECISION CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—Coe Lindsay, a local welterweight, won an eight- round decision over “Kid” .Mack, of Joliet, in a private exhibition held near Joliet yesterday. ECZEMA SUFFERERS ; i.lfrtLTit 1 - s - Gldacn -'‘- T,mp *- ->«■ Tetterine Cures Eczema ankls. I trl-d many rr-nud!*' and nu . merau, doctor*. I tried TettfNn* and fljht wetki am entirely free Trom the ter- rlb'e eczema. ’ Tetterine will d* ok mi: h fnr ntbpr. i. cire* eroana. tetter, err^lr-ela* and other shin ; trouble* t evt$ to » «> t ure.l t;*t a f uk>—lett^nne. aOr at drugqlats. nr by malt. J SH'JPTRINf CO.. 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