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n THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. The Tin Horn Sport Iw Always Heard From When He Is Beaten at His Own Game COVERED 4y 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 *° : r - ' ni7,p a soccer football squad to n, et ether learns in the South. An ef, " ? ' > rl»o being made here to or- pan zo an athletic association out- fc^de of .the S. I* A. A. t. 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. A -JOKE IS A TDK.C Bor a HA/va is wo Kid Silk t+*r p_ v the 4-0 VJ WOT SMty M'voe POOR. 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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 j>«um VhUk*y Droj Habit* tt-Mtetf ■ »t Horn* tr at Sanitarium. Book on sublet I Free. DR B M. WOOLLEY. M N, Wimo$ ■ 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. 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