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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
The Tin Horn Sport Iw Always Heard From When He Is Beaten at His Own Game
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SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
No Use Trying to Fool Mae; She’s Wise
TO ORGANIZE SOCCER TEAM.
'NNISTON. AT.A., Per 15. The
Aial Presbyterian Pollege will not
1 ut . -k**t ball tenm In the fie *1
thif ir. but plans are under wav
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to n, et ether learns in the South. An
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Smith Had Him Nearly Landed'
When Big Pirate-Cardinal
Trade Upset Everything.
P»v W. S. Farnsworth.
H ILL SMITH went to the Nation
al League baseball meeting wltn
the avowed Intention of secur"* *
ng '•Cozy*’ Dolan from the Pirates.
Hut Dolan was traded, along with
Robinson and Wilson, to the Cardi
nal? for Konetehy, Harmon and
Mowrev.
Barney Dreyfus? had pradticaPy
promised Bill that ho would send Do
lan to Atlanta. The Crarkor man
ager, however, has not given up all
hope of securing the peppery little
infiolder. He is n^* a big leaguer, but
the fastest minor league Infielder I
ever saw in action.
It's almost a cinch that the Car
di rials will not hang onto him. And
Smith has a “perfect understanding”
with Miller Huggins, so it may be that
“Cozy” will be taking care of third
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 'ast
four or live weeks of thfc season he
looked like another Jimmy Collins, but
he blew." During his stay with the
Phillies and Pirates he showed In
flashes only.
“He’s a gr* at minor league player,”
George Stallings told me after Dolan
had been with tha 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
Rraves on young players. He seldom
misses Vm.
• • •
Arthur Schwind, the inflelder the
Gracker* bought outright from Die
Boston Nationals, 1? 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 bAt in this league.
* * •
Director Smith, of the Birr. Ingham
club, ha* offered Matthews a chance
to pick up a nice piece of coin in the
spring by training the young Baron
twirier*. Matty will have to turn
down the joo,#however, as lie has re
signed with the Newport New's team,
and will have to report to his club
at least a month before the season is
over.
• • •
A. J. Heinneman, of the New Or
leans club, is a red-hot tight fan. He
says the game is flourishing agafci In
the Pel village.
• • •
Charley Prank is on the Job with
n big smile. He doesn't know Just
where he stands with the Pelicans,
but ho does know that he has two
years more of a contract to run with
Charley Somers.
* • »
Somsrs 1s almost sure to sell Ills
26b share* in the club and retain
Frank as scout for the Naps.
• • •
Five big leajru< clubs have made
Bill Smith an offer for Tommy Ix>ng.
But William wants him in the Crack
er outfield another season.
• * •
George Stallings is expected to
show up during the day.
• • •
There was some whispering to-dav
that Charley Prank might land Mike
Finn's berth in Memphis
* * •
T«ou Castro was on hand asking the
boys what they’d have—rain or shine.
• * *
It’s up to Ait ants to draw' a mem
ber of tin schedule committee.
• • •
Rill Smith saw Blsland during the
baaeball meeting in New York, and
reports that the former (Tracker
shortstop is looking immense
• • •
Bill also saw Barno\ Drey fuss. The
Pirate boss says that Conselman will
give up the game if he doesn’t hang
n with the Pirate'- next spring.
* * •
There was a letter from Wallle
^mlth for Manager Bill when he
trrived home \esterday, in which the
i *-Cracker midwajr guardian said: “if
this Plannagan that you've got is the
same Flannagan that played with
me in Yanrnu\ pr, you’ve got a grand
ball player.' Flannagan is the “same*'
man.
Fifteen Lives Lost in
Baseball Last Year
CHICAGO, Dec. 15 Fifteen lives
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,
os compiled by J. R. Vickery, of Chi-
ago, 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 i^ encountered by the
unskilled player, for the list of fifteen
deaths d..es not include a major
league player or even a minor league
arhlet* of sufficient experience in
baseba'l t<» be widely known
Of the fifteen killed all except one
were hit by pitched balls or foul tips,
which are practically the same The
exception xvas J. Whethstons, of New
< irle-ans who died as the result of a
broken spine sustained in sliding to a
base.
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Third-Sacker Has Long-Sought
Position as Manager of Team.
Griffith Defends Herrmann.
By Frank G. Menke.
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 tBe battle for
the pennant?
Not that we think Cincinnati will
Vmt 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 the> 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.
IN 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, lie 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 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 m.$t
be able to rise up next year and fig
nre 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 f«*r the
constant dabbling of officials into the
club affairs. But (Mark Griffith, who
held dow n 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.
« * •
“IIERRMANN knows baseball from
*1 beginning to end; he knows
that a manager can not d<> good work
when handicapped by higher officials
who overrule him. And while 1 was
manager he always gave me free
ro’n; 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 T 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. ’
Southern League Meeting Begins
Little Rock May Replace Billies
BOXING
News of the Ring Game,
I'uckej' McFsrtaiid will light Jimmy
Clubby 20 rounds at 145 ringside before
.Mm ( oflrroth’s San Francisco club, pro
viding that he gets $15,000 for his end.
J h s was the statement made by Emil
lnir.v manager of Lac key, to a Chicago
sporting writer yesterday
• * *
“The fact that Packey 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
and when It’s over a longer route
l aekey shies. Be can get $10,000 for
boxing Gibbons In New York, and 1
think lie is easily worth the extra $5,000
to box Flabby over the long route.”
• * *
To-morrow night in Jacksonville. Fla .
Eddie Hanlon, the local welterweight,
w 111 meet Jack Robinson In a sc bed
tiled 15-round set-to Eddie is up
against a veteran of the game, but bis
youth and punching ability should gi\e
him a great chance against the clever
Jack
• * •
Billy Lotz, 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.
• • •
As predicted in this column Saturday
Leach Cross ami Bud Vnderson have
been*uatehed to box a return scrap in
L<>s Angeles on New Year's Day. Tom
McCgrev, promoter, got Sammy Wal-
lach. manager of Cross, and Pick Mc
Donald, who acted In a likewise capac
ity for Anderson, together, and articles
were signed. McCarey plans to put the
winner against Joe Rivers.
Charlie White, who boxes Ad Wol-
gast on December 19, says he is not su
perstitious. but be does not like the
idea of bucking fate In the manner in
which it has been put up to him in
his coming hack. Charley was looking
over his records the other day and
found that the affair with Wolgast
would be bis thirteenth fight of 1913.
and it was scheduled to take place on
Friday.
* • •
White at once sought his manager.
Nate I^ewls. and was on the verge of
calling off ihe go. However, when he
was told that 1-Yank Chance, former-
manager of the Cubs, always demanded
berth 13 on his travels he reconsidered
and decided to call himself the super-
atitiousless champion, if there is such a
thing
* * *
Billy Papke has again called <>ff his
scheduled fight with George Chip in
MTTwaukeo on January 12 Papke hurt
his right hand while training and will
not be able to use the injured member
for at least a couple of months.
SPORTING COMMENT
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” Ooulon. father of the ban
tamweight champion, w’hich he
followed carefully.
• » •
^TOT only are the Chip mitts si -
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
dow n 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 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 T 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
* * back and he asked me a
lot of questions, how old T 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, but to find my
self a jivh 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. I never
forgot it. Soon as my hands had
healed a little 1 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 w’ork, but in a
short time my hands got stronger
and I could saving the hammer
for fifteen minutes at a time
without taking a rest.
* * *
*‘0 EALLY, I figure this made
AV the fighter of me that I am
to-day. Of course T afterw’ards
learned how to hit well, and while
I 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. 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
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
BERLIN. Dec. 15. — Emperor William
has granted his consent to the holding
of athletb contests next May at the
new stadium, in which officers and pri
vates may participate, in preparation
f->r the Olympic games to be held here
in 1918
The Crown Prince lias given his 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
X7W ORLEANS, Dec. 15.—Johnn .
Dundee, of New York, and Fredd e
Welsh. English iightweig.it champion,
have been matched for a ten-round
I bout before a local athletic club New
Year’s afternoon. The rival light
weights signed articles yesterday. The
decision is to rest with the newspa
pers.
Sporting Food
By GEORGE E PHAIR *
THE PEEPUL.
IF hen the wrestlers aren’t pulling
off a frame-up
And corralling all the hale there is
in sight.
There are pugilists who try to bust
the game up
By performing in a questionable
fight.
They arc gentle aft they icotild be
faith 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.
ackev f
sayina tnat ho 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 principals was indicted for ob
taining money under false pretenses.
Georges Carpentier never will star
tle the world as a fighter, but he will
be written 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.
Boxing classes have been organized
at the University of Wisconsin, evi
dently to prepare for the game with
Minnesota next fall.
Governor Tener says he will do all
J the talking for the National League
' hut if he does he will have to gag
Charlie Murphy
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■ SanJtarmaa, Atlanta, Ganrgi*
By 0. B. Koeler.
ANAGER RILI.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 HEINEMAN and Charley
• Frank, of New Orleans, arrived
Sunday; also Frank Coleman, of
Memphis; Bob Baugh and W. 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 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 Rood offer for the franchise
The. protests probably will be
against the umpire staff and its work
in the last season.
* • •
'pHE appointing of a schedule com-
A mlttee 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.
is regretful to learn that Ambrog,
McConnell isn’t in the humor tocom«
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 inflelder than he was an out
fielder when the Atlanta fans knew
him.
• * •
“DILL also came back with the nev
■ A, that he had purchased <
Schmidt from the Ohio and Pr-m
vanla League, a younger brother
the burly Charley Schmidt, thr <
catching mainstay last season
For the rest of the off season l
is going to take things pretty ea .
“I’ve got a pretty good-looking In
out,” Bill said, “and I reckon V
chance it until the discarding sc.:
opens with the big leaguers. Th<
of course, I’ll be on the lookout :
pick up anything that looks good. But
we’re about dene trading until
spring.”
Albany Must Pay
✓ 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, w’hicti
is the balance of $500 due 1t from the
Albany club of the New York State
League for the release to the latter of
the service of F. 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., Deo. 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 Nickalts, of England, coach of the
Leander crew, and Eugene Glannini, of
the New York Athletic Club, have been
asked to assist Armstrong, and it is
probable that they will accept. AH
three were here to-day and met the
members of the squad.
AN announoemetU Is to be made,
through W. G. Poster, 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 win 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 [minted out with
much Justice, will be far better than
separate medals for pitching and bat-
tine. also, it will not encourage the
sacrifice of team play to individual
record-making.
* * *
"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
B ’ uhm . Paulet, Starr and
Me Dm, eh an arp ln the thlck f
trades, and some of them may be set
tled right here.
As to our own troubles, Bill Smith
Girl Quintets Ready
For Game To-morrow
The Woodberry 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 game,
especially with the fair fans. The girls
iave been practicing for the game sev-
eral days and a closely fought battle is
expected.
LINDSAY WINS DECISION.
CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—Coe Lindsay,
a local welterweight, won an eight-
round decision over “Kid” Mack, of
Joliet, in a private exhibition held
near Joliet yesterday.
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