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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) NEWS Definition of a Wise Guy: The Sport Who Can Make the Other Kellow Believe Him The Trouble Is, Jeff Doesn’t Know One Snake from Another Ex-Cracker Goes on Trip in Pitts burg Woods After Displaying His Georgia License. folio Wins story concerning Otto Jordan, the former Crack- * er second sacker, was pointed m a Pittsburg newspaper recently. Jordan was a great favorite here and has a host of friends: The hunting adventures of Otto Jordan, one-time second baseman of the Atlanta ball club, and an old ball placer are causing considerable amusement to residents of Pittsburg’s B0Ut h side. Jordan Is a fine built man weighing 190 pounds, and the picture of well-conditioned happiness and health. But as a hunter he has his amusing qualities, and there Is no gainsaying It. Jordan at one time was considered one of the best ball players in minor league company, but has about out lived his usefulness on the diamond. La«t season he started off with the Chattanooga club of the Southern League, but was later let out by Kid Elberfelci manager. He later joined a =pm -pro team where he finished the season. Then Otto got to hunting gnd one day proudly displayed his Georgia license, in which he is styled "athlete" on the line where the oc cupation of the person holding the license is noted. Because of his license and his fine, manlv appearance, he was invited by Boh Phillips to go hunting with him one Saturday soon after the rabbit season opened. They set out bright and earh. and took to the woods. It was just fine for Jordan. All the morning he tramped blithely on, drag ging yards and yards of tangled vlnerv after his big heels. Instead of slipping his feet from the cumbering vines, he was just dragging them along in the flush of his strength. Scratch Out “Athlete.” But what a sad difference. Jordan got a few rabbits, and In the after noon he also got the legache. He sat down time and again. Then Phillips demanded: “Let me see your Georgia hunting license.” It was turned over upon demand. Phillips took a pencil, ran a line through the word “athlete” and returned it without a word. There was no comment from Jordan. While he was about it Phillips played it rather mean on his compan ion. Leaving Jordan sitting there, resting, he made a short excursion i through the woods. He shot a rab bit. Returning he threw it down at Jordan's feet: “There’s the consarned thing. I don’t want it. Let it lay.” He walked off. After a hundred yards or s >. he looked back. Along trudged the patient Jordan, carrying the rab bi’, just as Phillips intended him to. It’s an old trick, and it worked; let the tenderfoot carry the game. ■Iordan got home very, very tired. And Sunday he had cramps in his legs. But to show that he was a very de mon for punishment. Jordan was out bright and early Monday mornihg with another party. This crowd spent a few days near Plainsville. Jordan did fairly well. He was getting accli- - His Hunting Dream. On the second clay out, the crowd bad the misfortune to have Jordan "hoot a squirrel. It was a misfortune, but not until that night did they un derstand why. Once in the house where they made I their headquarters, Jordan was nomi nated to sleep in the same bed with j Adam Do wait, a veteran hunter of the South Side. He went right to jdeep yip was tired; big men often do get tired after a day in the woods, hut he got the nightmare. A thou sand squirrels were biting him. The rrei murder preyed upon his fnind. in his efforts to free himself, he drew nariv bis mighty right fist and dealt Adam Dewalt a huge buffet on the side of the head, whereupon Dewalt M?a\od . fly right through the side the house. It took the whole party o comfort the dreamer, and the next jav it was far from a happy party. fao,p was swollen and his l «eth loosened. Louisville Has March Dates With Atlanta LOUISVILLE. KT., Dec. 16.—The re- , trip of the Louisville Baseball club p 0m lls ,r aining camp at Fort Myers, , ,a has hePn arranged with the fol- 17*Bi K rm R ir t ,T s: Atlanta - Match 16 and tanoo'^I March 16 and 10; Cliat- W ,„ Ma, ; ch and 21; Nashville, we r, —, " LKnoxville, March 21 homo" March 26 they open their Cubs p s serles with the Chicago K, -m L T, S ’, WALTERS to-night. I to T ’ ec - 16.—The winner of I,0 , t at St. Joseph, Mo., be- ■ and Bill Walters will <31 : by the club with Mike I f Pp.. r , ° an _d Bill are down to go I !le o\. ' Walters^ 117 iS a slle ’ ht favor " HELLO BILL,” or hello GIRLS,” at dutch mill a hummer Jr tha; U | i r ,t a ' ly f "' dul1 and grouchy, »!•:(!, ,'J* no J t wor th living, take Vii^anrt"? 90 down to the Tits sho„ for 0«t your troubles. f fom l hls .. w ee*< Is a hummer lj; d out bv t L fln ,h ’ and lf the Plaos m scarrv , management do not ,er nex, y "*» h .2 w "HI be even bet- ;i>stumes W n»i, ’I 3 " th,s - With new ty ones 'tnJ ,u h0w 9,rls — and P ret ‘ mai< n a recTLT’^'. Dutch M| ll w "' •sot, theW? " A tlanta, and it de- tbere ar." „« c 5 e88, t°°- tor the shows ’aa. ® ood and clean, and the mage Increasing daily. C«=, <Y o, oY ALt. OF P eee Hdvno^r thb lnaks I™** 1 - HlVroRY SAYc ^ " NA *€L SYDsaaCM 7 ru. Go flNb THAT bfiaAtue . Y CAN R6COfee<ii_6 ki*a Tue Lyeep in rtrt, ftotrr acy x>a< = > o LOCATED UNO LVTTH ™ ,S ** Y*UCLTT the ,-XVkG CN TlK6 AND NVT Dofc CAdvi HO P OUT NOU/ To LI*t»LATe \ Poor utyc6 “tint' re- POLLY AND HER PALS IT SuTTuJLV l£ A OiMfc Tw in Spite of 7hc f-Aci Tivn (XIEPE Ot|4RANTfl4ED VOU MI/iMMIN KlN<3)MS. AM' So /IT WILL AM l PA&Mi EVEN 5-no- /vie Alose. Ourr^ioE.! sr— T (meek op PA, ^OOll M4W- A f CtEAfJ <JE7- \ AVlM. "J THIS (?i6- • Sooo Evemin Ml# LUrtiO M€ bwlc Cam Pvwt 5TUPP Bo ~TVtt JUS'S -V OP\ A'holi ' ~tUAl OTUIR ' Fool, ixl, j-i Baseball Spread ‘Some Banquet’ +•+ :-*4- T*V •b«4- Fine Scenery, Startling Speeches By O. B. Keeler. A FTER solemn deliberation, ex tending through the tew re maining hours of Monday night, we reached at sunrise Tuesday morning the conclusion that the af fair might properly be termed a Ban quet We had been brought up to regard the Banquet era as having passed with the time of Lucullus. Ordinari ly, we still believe that that precept holds good. But we desire to get strongly into the record with the unflinching state ment that the Twelfth Annual Spread of the Southern Association of Base ball Clubs, tendered by the Atlanta Baseball Association at the Hotel Ansley, was a Banquet, in the strict est Lucullian and Epicurean sense of the term. * • • T HE Mural Decorations constituted a large point on which Messrs. Lucullus et ai. would have shown up feebly in comparison. The Hotel Ansley people went the limit of ingenuity, and evolved a plan that was greeted with whoops of de light when it burst upon the startled gaze of the expectant banqueters. The table, set for 40 guests, was in the shape-of an immense diamond, Inclosing a mimic Ponce DeLeon ball park—green grass, “skinned dia mond," grandstand, bleachers, play ers’ benches, board fence, advertising signs, and all—and the players in the fleld - , . .. , The scene evidently was of that memorable game between Atlanta and Mobile, when the attendance record went glimmering. There on one side was the Cracker line-up and score, and on the other was listed the plucky ball club of Mike Finn, that came so near to licking us. . All that was within the tables. Around the hall were tall pillars, each surmounted by a flag and t.ie name of a Southern League ball club, in the order of their finishing. And across the end of the entir' apartment was flung a great blue pen nant—“Champions 1913”—a gift from the Spalding Company. It was some festive scene. * * * S TARTING out with that much of an edge on the late M Lucullus, the rest of the comparison adds weight to our original contention. Petronius very likely had some gifts in the art of toastmasterlng. out even if we should accord him an even break with Major Callaway we should have left an array, or perhaps a bat- terv, of orators like Judge Kavanaugn. and “Bob” Baugh, and - v IaJ or J Jac p Cohen, and Mayor Jim Woodward, and Charley Frank, and Gus Ry 3 ”. and Charley Nunnally. and so forth, and so on, and especially Lou Castro. * • • M AYOR WOODWARD was Inspired to a most flowery address of welcome Mr Baugh was inspired to an amazing (light of Gasconades and blood-curdling promises of what would happen to Atlanta next year, both in the matter of' percentage and attendance, at the hands of Birming ham. “You didn’t play fair this time,” he asserted. “We said we were going to lick you, and you took It seriously. This man Callaway went out and got the Ad Men, and the Chamber of Commerce, and goodness knows what other civic bodies, and ” Well, and licked Mr. Baugh, and Baronville, lf the “crool” truth must out. But wait till next year, Mr. Baugh pleaded. • • • T HIS bring agreed 1o, Judge Kava- naugh made a fine and feeling address concerning tho Southern League and his association with Southern baseball, and took occasion to deliver a pretty tribute to the stal wart service and sterling value of Charley Frank. “We don’t want Charley Frank out of this league,” Judge Kavanaugh as serted. "This afternoon, on the mo tion of Mr. Callaway, we created the office of second vice president, and we put Mr. Frank in it—and we’re going to keep him!” • • • T HEN Mr. Franfc talked, and finally the speech-making got to be what might he called general, and .then Major Callaway, having put it ofr as long as he could, called on Lou Castro. What followed might bo described as a cataclysm, an upheaval, an out burst, or a deluge. Before the Count had been speak ing three minutes Charley Frank's neighbors were hammering him on the back in an effort to help him catch i his breath, and half the re maining non-combatants were shed ding tears of pure delight in their coffee. The Count has made speeches be fore. Once, to our certain knowledge, he entertained a crowd in the Mem phis ball park while a raipstorm de layed the game, and was presented with diamond cuff buttons for his laudable efforts. But the night of December 15, and verging on the midnight hour. Count Luigi de Castro, of Central America and the Virginia League, made the speech of his checkered and hectic career • • • R ehearsing bits of that inimit able address would be in far worse taste than touching up the lily with whitewash or spreading the gilt on 24-carat suspender buttons Count Castro spoke, and the car nage was frightful. He continued to speak until the more portly auditors turned from a delicate cerise com plexion to a royal purple Then he stopped, and as soon as the cheering could be quelled the meeting broke up. * • * R EALLY. It a pity that the late Mr. Lucullus was too late to see how it was done. BOXING News of the Ring Game. Eddie Hanlon, the local welterweight, will not meet Jack Robinson at Jack sonville, Fla., to-night. Piily Lotz, manager of Hanlon, received a wire from Charley Leonhardt, promoter, stating that he would have to postpone the match to a later date. I^eonhardt claims that he couij r.ot reach a satis factory agreement with Robinson. • • • This is certainly tough luck for Han lon, who has worked ten days for the scrap. It looks from tfIs distance that Eddie should have been notiiled before- hand, so that he could have saved the expense of training. Eddie showed much class in his daily workouts and would have surely given Jack a tough scrap. • • * Chicago fans have made Charley White an even money bet ifcainst Ad Wolgast for their ten-round bout in Milwaukee Friday night. Nate Lewis, manager of White, writes that much money is being wagered on the fight, as the boys have many admirers in the “Windy City.” * * * Johnny Dundee, the Italian with the Scotch name, who was credited with a shade over Charlie White Thanksgiving night, has been matched to box Fred die Welsh In a ten-round go at New Orleans on Christmas Day. Both ring- men are contenders for the lightweight crown and should put up a rattling bat tle. • • • At last Frank Baker has found a boy who has mustered up enough courage to step Into the same ring with him. Frank received a wire from a promoter in Savannah yesterday offering him a bout with Frank GafTney Christmas Baker has wired back for terms and expects to close the match in a couple of days. • • • Mickey Sheridan and Harry Donahue will don the padded mitts for a sched uled ten-round set-to at Kansas City Friday night. They have agreed to weigh 133 pounds at 3 o’clock. • * * Frank Baker finished first in the tango dancing contest among several of our local boxers. Mike Saul and his green kelly took second honors after giving Frank a merry race. Meyer Pries—also ran • • • Danny Morgan writes from New York that Battling Levinsky is sure to he the next heavyweight champion of the world. Although Levinsky weighs but 170 pounds, Morgan says he Is by far the classiest big fighter before the pub lic to-day. Danny wants to get Le vinsky on with the winner of the Pelky- fimlth bout in San Francisco on New Year's Day. • • • Efforts are being made by the Na tional Sporting Club of Iymdon to match Georges Carp«»ntier and Gunboat Smith for a 20-round engagement. Dick Burke, promoter of the club, iias made an offer of $10,000 for the battle. Deschamps, manager of Carpentier, Is willing to have his man meet Smith. Food for Sport Fans Red Sox and Reds in Ante-Season Games SCRAPS. They advertize the windup a* a fight beyond compare, A titbit for the boring fans, a mor sel rich and rare. They never say a word about the wild and willing gents Who clout each other on the jaw and pull down 50 cents. They never say a word about pre liminary guys Who muss each other’s features up and black carfy other’s eyes. But when the prima donnas fight they loaf ten rounds or so And never muss each other's hair or hit a healthy blow. They stall around and capture all the coin there is in sight, And leave it to the poor prelims to show the crowd a fight. Few changes will be made in either of the St. Louis teams this winter. They are in good shape aside from the fact that tney need several pitch ers and catchers and infielders and outfielders. SAVED, We love Charlie Murphy—- In fact, always have. He hasn't an equal At spreading the salve. Oh, how could the ivriter Exist without Ghost This column would wither. And >o would the grass. Jimmy Sheckard’s dope reveals the fact that in addition to seven other National League teams, Joe Tinker had to play against the Reds and Garry Herrmann. Reports from Boston Indicate ihat Old Battling Redeye won a decision over Joe Walcott. We are astounded at Mr. Murphy’s complaint that the hotels In Ireland were cold. We thought there was always hot air In Charlie’s Immediate vicinity. If Governor Tener succeeds in pacify ing the National League he will make Elihu Root look like a bush league paci fier. The report that Jack Johnson’s skull was Injured in a motor accident leads one to believe that it was a terrific bump. As w’fi understand it, Ad Wolgast Is the world’s champion claimant to the world’s lightweight championship. NAMES. He w known as Wildcat Murphy when the papers print his name, And you'd think he was a lad of warlike habit. But when a fellow fighter lands upon his manly frame He is scarcely as ferocious as a rabbit. lie is known as Wildcat Murphy in the world of fistic strife, But the Wildcat and the Murphy both are phoney, For when he quits the ringside and , returns to private life He bears a name that sounds like macaroni. Tommy Murphy Is another ambitious athlete who claims Ritchie’s title. It Is ! said that his claim Is taken aerloualy by | his manager and himself. TRADES. Behold the baseball magnates as they j make their winter trades; They hang around a gilded bar long \ after daylight fades. They trade a lot of stories and they ! trade a lot of jokes; They trade a lot of repartee and trade a lot of smokes; They trade a lot of ancient tales that give a man the blues, And then they trade a bank note for another round of booze. One fft the greatest known tests of control T8 to throw a baseball In the vicinity of a National League meeting without hitting a wine agent. If Jlmy Sheckard succeeds In get ting his unconditional release from Cin cinnati it a*ill make him feel not un like a man getting out of Jail. BOSTON, Deo. 16.—The Bueton Amer- League teams will play two ante-season games in Cincinnati AdH1 11 and 12, it was announced hare to-day. Only five of the thirty or more players on the Red Box reserve Hat have signed for next season. 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