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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) NEWS.
Definition of ci Wise Guy: Tlie Sport Who Con Make tlie Other f ellow Believe Him
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BRINGING UP FATHER
By GEORGE M’MANUS
(-Cracker Goes on Trip in Pitts- j
3J rg Woods After Displaying |
His Georgia License.
following story concerning
Otto Jordan, the former Crack-
A er second sacker, was printed
m a Pittsburg newspaper recently.
Iordan was a great favorite here and
ha* a host of friends:
The hunting adventures of Otto
Iordan, one-time second baseman of
th , Atlanta ball club, and an old ball
player, are causing considerable
amusement to residents of Pittsburg's
amith 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.
Last season he started off with the
Chattanooga club of the Southern
League, but was later let out by “Kid”
Elberfeld. manager. He later joined
a «emi-pro team where he finished
the season. 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 Phillips to go hunting with him
Saturday soon after the rabbit
juried. They set out bright
and early, and took to the woods.
If was just fine for Jordan. All the
•m'rning ho tramped blithely on. drag-
ng yards and yards of tangled
v nery after his big heels. Instead of
Mpping his feet from the cumbering
>• nes. he was just dragging them
Cong in the flush of his strength.
Scratch Out “Athlete.*
But what a sad difference. Jordan
u a few rabbits, and in the after-
inn he also got the legache. He sat
Own 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
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
nr so. he looked back. Along trudged
the patient Jordan, carrying the rab
bit. Just as Phillips intended him to.
It’s an old trick, and It worked; let
the tenderfoot carry the game.
Jordan got home very, very tired
And Sunday he had cramps In his
legs.
But to show that he wa* a very de
mon for punishment. Jordan was out
bright and early Monday morning
with another party. This crowd spent
a few days near Plainsville. Jordan
did fairly well. He was getting aocli-
mated.
Hi* Hunting Dream.
On the second day out, the crowd
h *d the misfortune to have Jordan
shoot 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
nated to sleep in the same bed with
Adam Dewalt, a veteran hunter of
’he South Side. He went right to
■Jleep He was tired; big men often
do get tired after a day in the woods.
H ut he got the nightmare. A thou
sand squirrels were biting him. The
squirrel murder preyed upon his mind,
n his efforts to free himself, he drew
ack his mighty right fist and dealt
• aam Dewalt a huge buffet on the
^de of the head, whereupon Dewalt
“Y®* t0 fly through the side
‘ he douse It took the whole party
Ha C °4 ort dreamer, and the next
> it was far from a happv party,
^wait's face was swollen and his
'*eth loosened.
Louisville Has March
Dates With Atlanta
LOUISVILLE, KY . Dec. 16 —The re-
f ' irn trip of th ® Louisville Baseball club
P° m ts trfl inlng camp at Fort Myers,
has been arranged with the fol-
mes; Atlanta. March 16 and
-anoo« n Tg han ?* March and 19; Chat-
March>•> Ma ^ ch 20 and 21; Nashville,
any - “ 2 r v and . 2o: Knoxville, March 24
home" «nrin« March 26 they open their
c ubg * spr,n « series with the Chicago
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HELLO BILL,’’ or
hello GIRLS,” at
dutch mill a hummer
or th y a °, U ii r . e . a '. ly feel dul1 and grouchy,
1 lltti- ♦ e 8 not w o p th living, take
Dutch Mil? 1 1„2 n ? fl0 down to the
Th « show th?. d f0rg< l t your doubles,
from start * h e week '* a hummer
3 ri ou?W ,|h - and lf the P |an#
eil the management do not
ter next i. 8how wi " even b«t-
eek than this. With new
ly on e* too W tl h ° W r» 0,r, * —and pret ‘
make V'r.r T thc Dutch Mill will
•e-ve- thf C0Pd ln Atlanta, and It de-
‘ 9ucc «*«. too. for the shows
Patronao- ?° od and and the
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Baseball Spread ‘Some Banquet’
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Fine Scenery, Startling Speeches
By O. B. Keeler.
A FTER solemn deliberation, ex
tending through the few re
maining hours of Monday
night, we reached at sunrise Tuesday
morning the conclusion that the if-
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~
bail 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 De< orations constituted
a large point on which Messrs.
Lucullus et al. would have shown up
feebly in comparison.
The Hotel Ansley people \v, nt 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, plat
ers' benches, board -ence, 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 cn one si le
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 dag and the
name of a rioutherr League ball club,
In the order of their finishing.
And across the end of the ent.r ■
apartment was flung a great blue p -n-
nant—"Champions 1913”—a gift from
the Spalding Comp iny.
It was some festive scene.
...
S TARTING out with that much of
an edge on the late M Lucullus,
the rest of the comparison add*
weight to our original contention
Petronius very likely had mm”
gifts in the art of toastmastering, on,
even if we should accord him an even
break with Major Callaway we should
have left an array, or perhaps a bat
tery, of orators like .Judge Kavanaug >
and "Bob" Baugh, and Major Jock
Cohen, and Mayor Jim Woodward,
and Charley Frank, and Gus Ryan,
and Charley Nunnally, and so fortn,
BOXING
News of the Ring Game.
, and so on, and especially Ix>u Castro.
* * *
iy yAYOR WOODWARD was inspired
to a most flowery address of
welcome. Mr Baugrh was inspired to
an amazing flight 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
averted. “We said we were going to
lick you. and von took it seriously.
This man Callaway went out and got
the Ad Men. and the Chamber of
Commerce, and goodness knows what
othor <dvic 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. “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. Frank talked, and flnallv
the speech-making got to be
what might be called general, and
I then Major Callaway, having put it
off as long as he could, called on Lou
Castro.
What followed might be described
I 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 bis breath, and half the re
maining non-combatantH 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 his
laudable efforts.
But the night of December 15. and
verging on the. mi Inijght hour. Count
Luigi de Castro, of Central America
and the Virginia League, made the
speech of his checkered and hectic
career
R EALLY, it seemed a pity that ihe I
late Mr. Lucullus was too late to
i see h9«v it was done.
Eddie Hanlon, the local welterweight,
will not meet Jack Robinson a* Jack
sonville. Fla.. tj-nighr. PUly hotz,
manager of Hanlon, received a wire
from Charley Leonhard*, promoter,
stating that he would have to postpone
the match to a later date. i^eonhardt
laims that he couIJ not reach a satis
factory agreement with Robinson.
* • •
Tills is certainly tough luck for Han
lon, who has worked ten days for the
scrap. It looks from this distance that
Edr.ie should have heen notified before
hand, so that Me could have saved the
expense of training. Eddie snowed
much class in his daily workouts and
would have surely given .lack a tough
scrap.
• * *
Chicago fans have made Charley j
White an even money bet against Ad
Wolgaat for their ten round bout in
Milwaukee Friday night. Nate Lewis,
•manager of White, writes that much
noney is being wagered on the fight, as
ti e 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 lightwf'gh*
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
ln Havannah yesterday offering him a
bout with Frank Gaffney Christmas.
Baker has wired bark for terms and
expects to close the match in a couple
of days.
* * *
Mickey Sheridan and Harry Donahue
* ill 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 rare Meyer
Pries also ran
Food for Sport Fans
—phair.|—
SCRAPS.
Thru fuller fixe the windup ax a flfjht
brpond compare,
.1 titbit for the boring fann, a mor
sel rich and rare.
Then never xa// a word about the
wild and tr illing gen lx
Who clout each other on the jaw and
pull down 50 cents.
Theg never xa// a word about pre
liminary guns
Who mu xx frich other's fen I ares up
and black each other's wnes.
Hut when the prima donnas fight
then loaf ten rounds or so
And never muss rath other's hair or
hit a healthy blow.
Then stall around and rapture all
the coin there is in sif/ht.
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 qood shape aside from
the fact that tney need several pitch
ers and catchers and infielders and
outfielders.
Danny Morgan writes from New York
that Battling Levlnaky is sure to be the
next heavyweight champion of the
world. Although Levinskv weighs hut
170 pounds, Morgan says he is by far
the classiest big fighter before the pub
lic to-day. Danny wants to get I,e-
vinsky on with the winner of the Pelky-
Smith bout In San Francisco on New
Year’s Day.
XMAS RATES
Reduced over N., C. & St.
L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R.
Apply any Agent.
SAVED.
Wc love Charlie Murphy—
In fart, always have.
Hr hasn't an equal
At spreading the salve.
Oh. how could the writer
Exist without ('has*
This column would wither.
And so would the grass.
Jimmy Sheckard’s dope reveals the
fact that m addition to seven other
National League teams, Joe Tinker
had to play against the Reds and
Garry Herrmann.
Reports from Boston indicate that
Old Rattling 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.
The report that Jack Johnson’s skull
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Have been treated by •oeclallrt fer eera-
mi without success After using Tetterlns
a few weeks I am at last eured.
50c at druggists, or by mall.
SMUPTRINE CO.. SAVANNAH. QA.
was injured in a motor accident leads
one to believe that it was a terrific
hump.
As we understand it. Ad Wolgast Is
the world’s champion claimant to the.
world’s lightweight championship
NAMES.
Hr is known us Wildcat Murphy
when the payers print his
name.
An ft you’d think tu was a lad of
ic nr like habit.
Hut 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 wojld of fistic strife.
Hut the Wildcat and the Murphy
both are phoney.
For when hr quits the ringside and
returns to private tiff'
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 seriously by
his manager and himself.
TRADES.
Behold the baseball magnates as they
make their winter trades;
They hang around a gilded bar long
after daylight fades.
They trade a lot of stories amt they
trade a lot of jokes;
They trade a lot Wf 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.
Smith and Wahoo
Pick Out Uniforms
Billy Smith has selected his visiting
uniforms for next season and they are
bearcats. Aided by (’barley Wahoo, of
A. G. Spa’ditig & Co., the local' pilot
picked a gray uniform decorated with
occasional stripes of red. blue and green.
The stockings used will he blue with
three narrow red stripes. A blue cap,
with a red visor, will top off the re
galia. “Atlanta” in blue letters will
decorate the front of the shirts.
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