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“He Had It Once" Is Like Saying “He’d He a Champion if He Could Punch COVERED 4k At That, Snakes Have to Live Like Everything Else By ‘Bud’ Fisher N. Y. EXPERT Prince Hal Is Said To Be on His Last Legs as Big League Performer. By Monty. N EW YORK, Dec. 15.—Poor Hal Chase! They called him a loafer, a four-flusher, a staller, a grandstand player, a quitter, and they say he was "laying down" on the New York Americans. And they said that was why Prank Chance traded him to the White Sox. Now, llsrten to something that will surprise you—Chase Is on his last legs as a big league ball player, and the next season Is likely to be his last in the majors. Prince Hal, as he was called at the height of his glory when the ac knowledged peer of first basemen, was guilty of all he was charged with in 1910. He was accused of pur posely laying down on the job so that he could get the position of man ager of the Yankees, then held by George Stallings, with wliom Chase did not get along with at Tfll. Chase got Stallings' job the next year—that is history. But he failed as a mana ger—that, too, is common knowledge. Then, when Harry Wolverton was appointed as his successor, Chase, | disgruntled again, resumed his old loafing tactics. • * • YXTOLVERTON failed, and Frank Chance was signed up to head the team the past season. Chase swore by all that was holy then that he was going to “play his head off’ for the Peerless Leader. He became a hero worshiper of Chance. But he continued to play poor baseball in spots, and the fans howled, "He’s up to bis old tricks again—laying down on the Job." The tough luck of it is tills—Chase was not laying down on the job—not last year. It brings to mind in a way the story of the boy •who called "Wolf” when there was no wolf. But this time the "wolf” had arrived, and the fans wouldn’t be lieve It. They thought Chase was still a great ball player, but that he . wasn’t trying. A Boston friend of Frank Chance, a man "to whom the P. L. is willing to confide almost anything, is au thority for a story told by the man ager. * * • i(ANE Saturday afternoon last '-s summer, just before Chase was traded," says Chance, "the crowd got after Chase and booed his every move. When the game was over Chase could not be found in the cltlbhouse. He had locked himself in one of the shower baths, and waited until he thought everybody had dressed and gone. But when he came out Trainer Barrett and myself were still there. Chase was crying like a baby. He -went over and sat down on Gee, LUCKY. A R.tCM Y jvsr Gave ~ie Stueu. f- n©u<,*c>. BR.eet> of, few —— -- - ... WeiW YORK. TH6Y NCVlRR. a Xxx» UKC YHtS. t CAAI A, -CMOUVMYt) ©CH-CARS FOR. HtN\ 5UR.F WHFH 1 GF~T NOW*-' ONLY TR.0URL6 <<> THAT A MOT vweoYrtR*. DOG AMT5 may-**, ml GaW-t START) Cold NortHcra clim atc. / THfeN AGAIN THC TRIP MIGHT 66 MART) ON WUCATF. HEALTH. fO HATE TO HARE ANYTHIM6 HAPPEN Te HIM IF * tookY Him Au/APy FROM t*s XAYlve Country v»hrr.b SAF* POLLY AND HER PALS Aunt Maggie’s Making Chickens of ‘Em All /IuutH166ie W/OTS THE IDZA*l work Th at V'SAV About TRViw' to Dod6e F4lf IS MHt j F4s I 6AV, OWCE CHICKEAl pox LAVS HOLT Ofj A FAMILY, nS doNMA make AClEAH Six/EEPj So 'The r r~' I started im BV MSSIAJ' A<ZHUR. AH' A’fCRE I <J*T “THROUCtH IM A ‘Smack “The Hull MtfttV! ff. ^/r?RRtTf. Champ Loses First 20-Round Go *;*•*! r**I* v»r Matty Baldwin Wins Decision This is the sixth of the series of the life and battles of Lightweight Champion Willie Ritchie, written exclusively for The Georgian. one of the chairs, with his face bur ied in his hands, and the tears streamed down his cheeks. He sob bed as if his heart would break. We tried to console him, but he would not speak. Before Barrett and I left, there Were the beginnings of tears in our eyes. too. "The next day I went to Mr. Far rell and said: ‘See here, this boy isn’t laying down on you. He’s try ing to do his level best, but he just can’t play the way he used to. His days as a star are over. Now h^’s trying to accomplish things, but it’s too late.’ ’’ After Chase was? traded to Chicago he put up a sensational game for a short while, but then slumped and be gan to play mediocre bail agtfin. The Chicago fans, just like their New York brethren, got after Chase and accused him of loafing and even con spiring to get Jimmy CaUahan’s job as manager. Chase, it is learned, was entirely innocent of any such thing, but the printed chargee stung him ngaln, until now he is practicaliv a broken down ball player, both physi cally and in spirit. Poor Hal Chase. Sport Scribes Will Pick Most Valuable Player in Southern Unexpected opposition was encoun tered among Southern League mag rates this morning to the awarding of the Rose trophy' to the most valuable player in the league. The club presi dents remembered some of the trouble that came last fall in the dosing day.T of the contests for the three medal offered for the 191” season. The trophy next* season will be in charge of a commission of eight news paper men, one sporting editor from each city in the league. Each member of the commission will vote for rig! players, his first choice receiving S points, his second choice 7 points, and s«> on. The votes of the eight scribes will he compiled and the player re '!\ ing the highest number of points win win the award. BOXING LID STILL ON. ANDERSON, IND., Dec. 15.—Sher iff Black, of Madison County, had no tified the promoters of a prize fign at El wood billed for Wednesday nig* ; ' to call off the same. Jack Dillon. ( Indianapolis, and Jack Jelfries. brother of Jim Jeffries, v v matched. The ban on the fight L ime 1n Madison County ten years pu' will be continued. By Willie Ritchie. S AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15.—Aft er my first 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 hit downcast, figuring that I did not fight a,good fight, and now that I look over the past I know very well that i made a had showing that night. The next one in line for me was Antone LaGrave, also some tough lightweight then. Hr- 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 lightweights a battle This was the only match in sight for me, so I accepted it. We fought over In Oakland, and were supposed to weigh 185 pounds. It looked to me as though Tony weighed a ton, but 1 did not raise any objection. 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, T got the decision after six rounds of rough and tumble fight ing. LaGrave kept after me all the time, and, believe me, I had tn do some very fancy stepping and stalling around. Now and then I would go in and slug With him. hut T finally boxed h in cleverly in the last two rounds, and the decision seemed to suit tne crowd all right. . Tackles Baldwin Next. This victory made me ambitious, an ,I I felt that it was up to me to j n the twenty-round game if I hoped o do anything for myself Mat- ty Baldwin was in town and they were looking for somebody to flgh him Talent was sear •. and AnallJ liin Griffin came to me and offered l" a proposition to go on with the B T was "undecided at fl-st. « « c,1 , : L nc . ,I] v t f e !i Mind you. up r lf ; h 1s time /never had gone fa,- '"SS* set.f-Au^t ]o j>0. £ u i live' ‘because, it was my first time looked hke on ( VSd *£& h m deds.vely, and S&tJJSjW cham^nshJP.^ ^ reported "at O^mLmd^ ^ufT:’. ...u . „ • that he My second* advised of course, Baldwin w to 1 shot over me, and figured that way. 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 light 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 knoede me stiff. At first I took this stuff, and then I began to hand some of my own talk back to him. at the same time keeping away from him and boxing the best. I knew how. I really believe that I could have knocked Baldwin out that night, or else 1 might have givei^ him a bad beating, but I did hot dare take the chance. I wanted to make sure that 1 could go the twenty rounds and finish strong. I had heard so much about four-round fighters blowing up that I was rather badly scared, because I 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 I covered up and boxed and skipped away when I thought I was in danger. But when the sixteenth opened up I felt strong and my wind was good. I decided to take a chance. I waded in and mixed things up 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 all the time. He looked all 1n and act°d that way. He knew all the trick of the game, and he managed to fool me, but still, if I had known about one-twen tieth of what I know now, I sure could have flattened him Harry Foley to the Rescue. All the fans who saw the battle know that I had the last three rounds by a big margin. But I am willing to admit that he outpointed me He bad such a lead in the first fifteen rounds that my only chance would have been a knockout, and he stalled me, all right. T sure did miss a grand chance, for had I 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. H^ might have given me a draw that night and have, got away with 1t. but he was too conscientious for anything like that. Of course, I never figured on Foley ns a manager then. He came to me after the battle and gave me some good, sound advice. He told me how I could have beaten Baldwin by wad ing in, and he took me aside and illus trated a few little tricks to me which I have never forgotten. Ebbets and Heydler On National League ScheduleCommittee NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—President John K. Toner, of the National League, has increased the membership of the league’s schedule committee by the ap pointment of Charles H. Ebbets, of the Brooklyn club, and John Heydler, sec retary of the league. Barney Dreyfus, of the Pittsburg club, will remain at the head of the commit tee as the Governor’s personal repre sentative. Cincinnati Officials Oppose Tinker Deal CINCINNATI, Dec. 16.—Several members of the board 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 that form, but do not believe 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 to purchase from other clubs even one first-class player, while the club 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 Reds. For that reason the deal may be declared off and Tinker dis posed of to some club that will yield the Rods 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 othsr sort of a deal contemplating the ex change of players. Cross-Country Run To Be Held Saturday The annual cross-country run of Georgia Tech will be held Saturday afternoon. The course will be from the school to the 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 this, twenty ptoi and cakes, baked b: the wives of the members of the far ulty, will be presented to the next twenty men. Heavies to Box in New York on Dec. 22 NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—Battling L* vinskv, the sensational light heavy weight, has been signed to box ten rounds with Jim Coffey, the Dublin giant, in the Garden, on December 22 The same night, in the same ring. George Rodel, the Boer, will tackle Fire man Jim Flynn in a ten-round bout. Old League Gets House Cleaning •!•#•!• F§+ New Blood Comes Into Circuit B\ r Damon Runyon. N EW YORK, Dec. 15.—They have now made a pretty good job of the house cleaning in the Na tional League, and the hitherto musty old 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 later on. The new blood that came into the league during the past couple of years is responsible for the rehabilitation of the antique. Men like Harry Hempstead, of the GiantH; Jim Gaff ney, of the Braves: W. H. Baker, of the Phillies, and Schuyler Britton, of the Cardinals, could not abide the mess they found on their arrival. If there had been only one or two newcomers they might have to stand for the old order, but too many strangers landed on the league at about the same time, and they Just naturally drifted together for com pany. Then, finding that there werq 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 was applied to Charles Webb Murphy, the celebrated conversationalist from Chicago. Lynch of the Old Order. Finally, the new crowd went out gunning for an able, responsible citi zen to conduct their business on a business basis, and they picked out John Tv. Tenor, the Governor of Penn sylvania. What happened to John K. is now a matter of history. It seems that the house cleaners had nothing against Thomas J. Lynch, but they felt lie belonged to the old order, and so he had to go. A new combination has therefore come to baseball. It Is composed of the progressives of the National League, headed by John K. Toner, and made up of the gentlemen named along with Charles Hercules Ebbets, the Squire of Flatbush. Never let it be said that we slighted Charles Her cules In any matter. He was a pro- | gressive long and long before the Na tional League felt the slightest symp- i*tom of a change, and he is a pro- | gressive now. If Charles Hercules were not al- j ready a progressive, be would un doubtedly be converted by his part ners, the Messrs. McKeever—the Messrs. Progressive McKeever. as we 1 might say. to give them their firm | name. Curiously enough, Harry Ilcmp- | siond, Jim Gaffney. W. H. Baker and I Schuyler Britton are all compara- ’ lively Inexperienced in baseball af- 1 fairs The former, who was the first | of the newcomers to break into the , league, is son-in-law of John T. I Brush, the ablest legislator the league ! ever had. but Mr. Hempstead paid little attention to baseball. Like the i others, however, he was a business man, and busing men are very pe culiar people in that they can not see why their business interests should be Jeopardized by a lot of senseless jangling. Wanted to Uplift League. Mr. Hempstead had notions about uplifting the 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 Britton, 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 presldenting. Time alone can determine his fitness for the position, but we do say that the magnates of the league have shows a disposition to yield to the sentiment of the fans by picking out the best man they could find and giving him full swing for four years. Tf Tener falls down 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 are 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 of the National Commission, but that too, is something that will probably be taken up a little later on. The en tire National Commission has served its purpose as it is now constituted, and 7 might well he abandoned, but granting that the commission is to go on indefinitely, it is about time to oust Garry. Vandy Eleven May Play North Carolina NASHVILLE. TRNN, Dec. 15.—It was officially announced last night that Vanderbilt probably would meet North Carolina University in football next season for the first time since 190ft. Negotiations have practically been closed for bringing North Caro lina here on October 24. Other games scheduled to date are: Tennessee, November 7; Auburn, in Birmingham. November 14. and Se- wanee, on Thanksgiving Day. The matter of a game with Michigan Is being considered, but. on account of the hard schedule, it is hardly prob able that it will be attempted, as it will be necessary to make the trip to Ann Arbor, Athletic Club Five Will Meet Augusta Quintet Saturday 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 2ft—Augusta Y. M. C. December 27—Open. January 3—In Columbus January 10—Auburn. January 17—Georgia. January 24—In Birmingham. January 31—Open. February 7—Birmingham Athletic Club. February 14—Mercer or Clem son. February 21—Columbus Y. M. C. A. RUSSELL TO BOX KNIGHT. NEW ORLEANS, LA., Dec. 15.— Frankie Russell, local lightweight, has been matched to box Phil Knignt in a ten-round bout at El Paso, Texas, on Christmas Day. This will he Frankie’s first scrap since he lost to Joe Rivers about one month ngo. ‘Red’ Smith Here; Thinks Dodgers Will Be Well Up in 1914 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 a .296 clip, fielded way up among the third base men, and led the National League batters in making two-baggers. In the extra base department he was among the first, ten. "I think Robinson wUl have a first division team next season," eays Smith. "He has a strong Infield, with Daubert on first; Cutahaw, eecomri. Tinker, short, and youra truly on third. Of course, we are not mire of getting Tinker yet, but I think Joe will come along, especially if he get* that llO.Oftft." FOOTBALL TEAMS PLAY TtV-OAY. BAHNEHVILLE, GJl, Deo. 15.—Th» class football title at. 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