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TTTT ATLANTA CJFOTJGTAN AND NEWS.
Definition of a Wise Guy: The Sport Who Can Make the Other Kellow Believe Him
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[x-Cracker Goes on Trip in Pitts
burg Woods After Displaying
His Georgia License.
,— HK wowing riocy concerning
1 otio Jordan, the former Crack-
A er »»cond aacker, was printed
, n 9 pittstxurg 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
th , Atlanta ball club, and an old ball
n'ayer are causing considerable
imusrment to residents of Pittsburg’s
,oath side. Jordan Is a fine built
man , weighing 190 pounds, and the
picture of well-conditioned happiness
an d heaKh. But as a hunter he has
M, amusing qualities, and there Is
no gainsaying It.
Jordan at one time was considered
one of the best bell players In minor
league company, hut has about out-
Hrod hl« usefulness on the diamond.
Last season ho started off with the
Chattanooga club of the Southern
league, but was later let out by "Kid"
Elberfeld, manager. He later Joined
a gembpro team where he finished
ttw ,oBson Then Otto got to hunting
and 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
Bob rtv'lips to go hunting with him
one Saturday soon after the rabbit
season opened. They set out bright
and earlv. and took to the woods.
It was just fine for Jordan. All the
morning he tramped blithely on, drag-
a.ng yards and yards of tangled
vino: 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
through the woods. He shot a rab
bi:. 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 so, he looked back. Along trudged
'he patient Jordan, carrying the rab
bi:, just as Phillips Intended him to.
l:'s an old trick, and it worked; le't
the tenderfoot carry the game.
Jordan 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
r.uht and early Mi^nday morning
wiili another party. This crowd spent
» few days near Plainsvllle. Jordan
l.il fairly well. He was getting accli
mated.
His Hunting Dream.
On the second day out. the crowd
had the misfortune to have Jordan
•hoot a squirrel. It was a misfortune,
hut not until that night did they un
derstand why.
Once in the house where they made
their headquarters, Jordan was nomi-
hated to sleep in the same bed with
Adam Dewalt, a veteran hunter of
the South Side. He went right to
•■“ep He was tired; big men often
do get tired after a day in the woods.
R ut he got the nightmare. A thou
sand squirrels were biting him. The
squirrel murder preyed upon his mind,
in hi, efforts to free himself, he drew
hsck his mighty right fist and dealt
adam Dewalt a huge buffet on the
'■de of the head, whereupon Dewalt
*s,av»d to fly right through the side
, the house. It took the whole party
,o comfort the dreamer, and the next
av It was far from a happy party.
face was swollen and his
■seth loosened.
Louisville Has March
Dates With Atlanta
LoriSVTLLE. KY„ Dec. 16.—The re-
Jirn trip o' the T^iuisvllle Baseball club
mm Its training camp at Fort Myers,
, , h,s been arranged with the fol-
Atlanta. March 16 and
; anoo« M t!an h March 18 and 19 > Chat-
Marpvf „ March L ’° and 21; Nashville,
v..' " ai!d 23; Knoxville, March 24
hemp - onr? 11 March 26 they open their
Cubs Prtng serles with the Chicago
cfn.VT r y. s - WALTERS TO-NIGHT.
Vu. .■ • T>ec - 16.—The winner of
rfsifsS "■ "
\ n at St. Joseph, Mo., be-
7*1 ly and Bill Walters will
'iiovf-r . , the club with Mike
f.fleer , , a ? d Bill are down to go
Kelly is a slight favor
er ' v alters.
"HELLO BILL,” OR
hello GIRLS,” at
dutc h mill a hummer
or that 17 ally feel dul1 and grouchy,
a |itt>* * e ls not worth living, take
gutch Mi|» e an ; n ? down to the
Jbe show for 9® t your troubles.
,r om start # , week 18 a hummer
3 d cut th' n 8h- and if the p,ans
^ scarrv X. "management do not
ter next wiM be even bet '
: °*tumpe * ek than this. With new
ty ones t D^*.t how g'rls—and pret-
"lake a ' r .°°~: the Dutch Mill will
thr r ° rd ln Atlanta, and It de-
t>ier e arp * uc oe*8. too. for the shows
Patp ona Q p ?.° 0d and dean, and the
9e '• '"creasing dally
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Baseball Spread ‘Some Banquet'
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Fine Scenery, Startling Speeches
By 0. B. Keeler.
A FTER solemn deliberation,
tending through the few 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 tjhe Atlanta
Baseball Association at the Hotel
Ansley, was a Banquet, in the strict
est Lucullian and Epicurean sense of
the term.
* * •
T HE Mural Decoration* constituted
a large point on which Messrs,
Lucullus et al. 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 Jence, advertising
signs, and all—and the players in the
field.
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 phlclcy
ball club of Mike Finn, that came so
near to licking us.
All that was within the tables.
Around the halt were tall pillars,
each surmounted by a flag and the
name of a Southern league ball club,
in the order of their finishing.
And across the end of the entlr3
apartment was flung a great blue pen
nant—“Champions 1913“—a gift from
the Spalding Compiny.
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
weis-ht to our original contention.
Petronius very likely had some
gifts in the art of toastmastering, but
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 Kavanaugl
and “Bob” Baugh, and Major Jack
Cohen, and Mayor Jim Woodward,
and Charley Frank, and Gus Ryan,
and Charley Nunnally. and so fortn,
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 flight of Gasconades and
blood-curdling promises of what
w r ould 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 w r ere going to
lick you, and vou took it seriously.
This man Callaway w-ent 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, if the “crool” truth must
out.
But wait till next year, Mr. Baugh
pleaded.
* • •
T HIS being agreed to, Judge Kava-
naugh made a fine and feeling
address concerning the 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. “Th*s afternoon, on the mo
tion of Mr. Callaway, w'e created the
office of second vice president, and
we put Mr. Frank in it—and were
going to keep him!”
♦ • • •
T HEN Mr. Frank talked, and finally
the speech-making got to be
what might be called general, and
then Major Callaway, having put It
off as long as he could, called on Lou
Castro.
WTiat followed might be 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 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 rainstorm de
layed the game, and was presented
with diamond cuff buttons for hia
laudable efforts.
But the»night of December IS. 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 w'ould 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 son* as the cheering
could be quelled the meeting broke
up.
* * *
R EALLY, it seemed 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. Leonhardt
.'laims that he coulJ rot reach a satis
factory agreement with Robinson.
m 0 m
This is certainly tough luck for Han
lon, who has worked ten days for the
scrap. It looks from this distance that
Eddie should have been notified before
hand, so that he could have saved ihe
expense of training Eddie showed
much class in his daily workouts and
would hav« surely given Jack a tough
scrap.
*00
Chicago fans have made Charley
White an even money bet against 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 ln a ten-round go at New
Orleans on Christmas Day Both ring
men are contenders for the llghtwelgnt
crown and ahonld 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.
FYank received a wire from a promoter
in Savannah yesterday offering him a
bout with Frank Gaffney Christmas
Baker has wired back for terms and
expects to close the match ln 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 Levlnsky is sure to he the
next heavyweight champion of the
world. Although Levlnsky weighs but
170 pounds. Morgan says he is by far
the classiest big fighter before the pub
lic to-day. Danny wants to get Il
yinsky on with the winner of the Pelky
Rmith bout ln Ran Francisco on New
Year's Day.
• • *
Efforts are being made by the Na
tional Sporting Club of Iymdon to
match Georges Carpentier and Gunboat
Smith for a 20-round engagement.
Dick Burke, promoter of the club, has
made an offer of $10,000 for the battle.
Desrhamps. manager of Garpentier, is
willing to have his man meet Smith.
XMAS RATES
Reduced over N., C. & St.
L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R.
Apply any Agent.
Food for Sport Fans
-QyOEOfiGE B.
SCRAPS.
They advertise the windup as a fight
beyond compare,
A titbit for the boring fans, a mor
sel rich and rate.
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 each other's eyes.
But when the prime donnas fight
they loaf ten rounds or so
And never muss em'h other's hair or
hit a healthy blow.
They stall around and capture all
j the com 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 ghape aside from
th© fact that they need several pitch
ers and catchers and infielders and
outfielders.
SAVED.
We love Charlie Murphy—■
In fact, always hava.
He hasn't an equal
At spreading the salve.
Oh, how could the writer
Exist without Chasf
This column woujd wither.
And ;t) would the grass.
Jimmy Sheckard’s dope reveals the
fact that in addition to seven other
National League teams, Joe Tinker
had to Dlay against the Reds and
Garry Herrmann.
Reports from Boston indicate that
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 waa always hot
air In Charlie’s Immediate vicinity.
If Governor Tener succeeds In pacify
ing the National League he will make
Ellhu Root look like a bush league paci
fier.
The report that Jack Johnson’s skull
was injured in a motor accident leads
Red Sox and Reds in
Ante-Season Games
BOSTON, Deo. 18.—The Boston Amer
icans
the Cincinnati National
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a few weeks I am at laet cured.
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6HUPTRINE CO.. SAVANNAH. GA.
one to believe that It was a terrific
bump.
As we understand it. Ad Wolgast ls
the world’s champion claimant to the
world's lightweight championship.
NAMES.
He is 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.
He 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 hls claim Is taken seriously by
his manager and himself.
TRADES.
Behold the baseball magnates as they
make their wintei trades;
They hang around a gilded bar long
after daylight fades.
They trade a lot of stmies 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 of the greatest known tests of
control is 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 will make him feel not un
like a man getting out of Jail.
League Teams will play two ante-season
games in Cincinnati April 11 and 12, it
was announced here to-day. Only five
of the thirty or more players on the
Red Sox reserve list have signed for
next season. These are Wood, Wagner,
Gardner, Carrlgan and Foster.
Jack White Knocks
Out Memphis Boy
MEMPHIS, TKNN, Doc. 14.—Jack
White, of Chicago, a brother to Char
lie White, stopped Cleve Bridges, a
local boy, in the seventh round of a
scheduled eight-round flght last nigh*.
White practically put Bridges away
1n the seventh round when he ham
mered him to h1s knees with stomach
punches.
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