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f i TTTT ATLANTA CJFOTJGTAN AND NEWS. Definition of a Wise Guy: The Sport Who Can Make the Other Kellow Believe Him COVERED 4k [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 The Trouble Is, Jeff Doesn't Know One Snake from Another By ‘Bud' Fisher Ctt s ^ ^CY 66 ALA. OFP PA™ T ^ b\t>-ICAN z&Zgyzr ««« ye S-riSR.M,>r. THIS Br-cr, ^ SUM Ll.cs u*, j-j t ^ * ™ AT ^ 9 / I’LL 0>O P/ND That t>o< A *.e . * CAN RSCOfee«i.6 Kin\ gf TStB Lueqp he> ftotry u»npR6 m.v ^ 1-OCATtD Amo with ™Ti Alt Til CMT THS SNAkG IN Tu/o CAN HO P OUT *H» M&fcG HG ! NOW TO UGeHATt Poor l-iTtcC “yinV ifTTi: POLLY AND HER PALS We Must Confess Pa’s No Lady IT SuTTitM.'/ & A O?iMt Thai in 5’pue or Ths f-Aci -That mih (ptwcAWnwED |^hce« up kfoli Mi/lMMW ION Cotft AW j R4 Voi/U. (So AT \X/ltt AN I 04SLUT EVEN 5THTR /A E MOSe. OUT^ioEi 1 Baseball Spread ‘Some Banquet' •m* 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 ECZEMA Ami all of the eldn, euch u tetu*. rlDfworm, * round Itch and eryslpelM are In stantly relieved and permanently cured to atay i cured by TETTERINE Don't auger when you ran relieve rmimelf | an easily. Read what Mr* A H. Kin*. 8t ’ Loul*. *ay* Have been treated by epeelnNut f#r ecze ma without sucoets. After using Tetterlne a few weeks I am at laet cured. &0o at drugglata. or by mall. 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*. 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