Newspaper Page Text
7
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS
It Isn’t True That Japanese Ivory Workers Are Bidding on Fred Merkle
BRINGING UP FATHER
By GEORGE M’MANUS
I WI^HTH'S .
SUX WOUL.C
"bTANO STILL
IF TOU SIT
130VN |
WILL US
*LL A CHANCE
TO SEE -—.
ISN'T Tft>0
beautiful.
Jt)ST THINK-
WHEN V/E <0
BACK To
ANE^ICA-WL
CAN TELL O0R
DEAR FRIENDS
WE SAV "AIDA !
I CAN'T L
SEE
A’k Thins
'WITH THIS
'I <Sut:
CONE ON -
DON'T TRT
TO SO BACK
IN THERE•
TOU'LL set
killed :
WHO IS
£HE-ME
DRIENDS
WONT
KNQW
WHAT 1’N
• TALK IN
[''ABOUT'
irgan G. Bulkeley Was the First
President, Taking the Of
fice in the Year 1875.
MR
WHAT ARE
XOU DO I NR
CONE ON
OUT AND PUT
ME OUT *SA»N
H\ Frank G. Menke.
•EW YORK. Dec. 17.—John K. j
Toner Is the seventh pres - |
’ ident that the Naitonal League I
, had since its organisation, late in |
■ - His predecessors in the office I
-p been Morgan B. Bulkeley, Wil- |
„ a Hurlburt, A. G. Mills, N. F.
■ nc Harry t'. Pulliam and Thomas
i yn ch Mr. Hurlburt died in of-
, April 10, 1882. Mr. Mills resigned
, csuion in 1885, and Harry' Pul-
,n . ..mmitted suicide in 1808 by
)0t ', is mself in the head, after a
. and mental breakdown.
Bu kele.v, the first president.
,i office only one year, being suc
ked ill 1878 bv William A. Hurl-
r . «-ho has been called the ‘founder
the National League.” Mr. Hurl-
rt wielded the reins until he died, in
His successor was A. G. Mills,
, t\;,s succeeded in 1885 by N. K.
\l Young was also the see-
» r , ,md treasurer of the league,
was not until after the Na
nai went Io war with the American
asue that Uncle Nick stepped down
j out. This was in 1902.
, successor to Mr. Young was not
, se n It once, but during 1902 the
POLLY AND HER PALS
Pa Gets ‘Something Just as Good
Iv/e KTched'Em
D/HX/60WE it'
||VC KeTCHEo tM
Fiddlestick
(jocd F/JTHERS
PAv*/' kElcHED
VX/HMT? r
whv The Fiddlestick?
/fHKkEM PlX VG«J /4IW1 CjoT Ho
Bourse - j
The cftim u j L tw - H4
Pox') \ .A
Dorn y SPcsf l
wooiw UtAiltS,
WHEM l
See ’Em *
fSuTTiUW
im Sure!
< ; ub was sold to Charles P. Taft, of
* incinnati This transaction lost Mr.
Heydler the vote of the Philadelphia
club and the election.
For an entire week the two factions
of the league were deadlocked. Final
ly it was agreed that President John
T. Brush, of the New York club,
should select the man and all the
clubs would vote for him. Mr. Brush
sprung a complete surprise by nam
ing Thomas J. Lynch, the former
"king of umpires,” who had been out
of the national game for many years
Mr. Lynch’s term has been filled
1 th trouble. He has been repeatedly
at odds with the club owners, but
i-ar'i year he managed to be re-elect-
pfl because those opposed to him could
l ot agree upon any individual. Until
> couple of months ago Mr. Lynch s
reelection for a fifth year appeared to
be good. His opponents—Herrmann,
Ebbets and Drey fuss—could not se-
Harvard Arranges
Hard Games for 1914
Football Season
Boy Scouts to Hold
Big Tournament at
‘Drome’ Saturday
The Georgian’s Expert Golfer Picks Sixteen Greatest Performers
1 FODDER FOR FANS j
Hats off to Lou Castro. His speech
at the Southern league banquet the
other night was a bear. Charley
Frank happened into a spell of hyster
ics during the Count’s oration that
finally ended with the chubby Pelican
falling out of his chair.
league. Musser lasr year was the sen
ond best hurler in the Western league
Bob Baugh invited all the ‘fellows ’
at the banquet the other night to the
same sort of a feed “when the Barons
win the penant next year. Quiet, Rob
ert. you're tipping the boat.
CAMBRIDGE. MASS., Dec. 17 — Har
vard’s varsity football team of 1914 will
have the heaviest work of any Crim
son eleven in recent years, if a tenta
tive schedule made public lasr night is
earned out.
The list includes a game with the
University of Michigan. October 31. and
Georgetown, October 3, both to be play
ed here. Nine games, the same number
as last s< ison, are proposed. Michi
gan will outplace Cornell on the sched
ule and Georgetown will take the date
lately occupied by Holy Cross.
Except for the Yale game, which will
be played at New Haven on November
21, all of Harvard’s contests will be in
the stadium. The schedule follows:
October 3—Georgetown University.
October 24—Penn State.
October 31—University of Michigan.
November 7 Princeton.
November 14—Brown University.
November 21—Yale.
Nine troops, aggregating about two
hundred Boy Scouts, are to give a big
tournament. The first of Its kind ever
given in the South, at 2:30 o’clock Sat
urday afternoon at the Motordrome.
The tournament is not to be an ath
letic meet, in the ordinary sense of the
word. The contests are to be in the
things th light the Boy Scouts—tent-
pitching. signaling by wigwag and field
wireless, bugle calls, drum corps work,
special drills and first aid relief work.
A handsome silver cup has been of
fered to the winning troop, and there
is 'plenty of rivalry among the various
commands.
tvans* List of ll. 5. Golf Leaders
Matty Matthews is geting into con
dition for the hard season he expects
at Newport News. He takes a ten-
mile jaunt every night—in a 60-horse
power automobile.
Francis Ouimet. Boston.
Warren K. Wood, Chicago.
Jerome Travers, New York.
W. J. Travis, Garden City.
John G. Anderson, Boston.
Fred Herreshoff. New York.
W. C. Fownes. Jr., Pittsburg,
Eben Byers. Pittsburg.
D. E. Sawyer, Chicago.
R. A. Gardner, Chicago
Oswald Kirby, New York.
P. W. Whittemore, Boston.
. Harry G. Legg, Minneapolis.
Chandler Egan, Medford, Ore,
Jack Neville, San Francisco.
A. V. Macan, Victoria, B. C.
Fraser Hale, Chicago.
E. P. Allis III, Milwaukee
Heinrich Schmidt, Boston.
Mason Phelps, Chicago.
Paul Hunter. Chicago.
B. Warren Corkran, Balti
more.
hfelson Whitney, N. Orleans.
Stewart Stickney, St. Louis.
Donald Edwards, Chicago.
We have as yet heard nothing of
any plan to reassemble the National
League In a special meeting to give
Cap Anson that $1,200 which the league
voted to vote him
We always had a hunch that O B.
Andrews, president of the Lookouts,
and L. Castro were as friendly as the
measles, but it is a long alley that has
no ashcan.
Baseball Chronology- Dec 14. 1913
Ebbets pays $25,000 for a shortstop
Dec. 14. 1914- Baseball bonds listed
In Wall street.
Dec. 16, 1915—Morgan loots National
League.
Wolgast Expects to
Stop Charley White
As a successor to the popluar Charley
White. “Chief'’ Wahoo is traveling
great guns. The Indian was a great
football performer, a great baseball
player, but since be Joined the Mexi
can athletic ranks he Is a scream.
Veteran Announcer
• To Retire on Jan. 1
Sometimes when we are enfeebled
by listening to a baseball mag
nate for several hours we feel that
Samson's favorite old weapon is as
potent as ever.
UK AGO, Dec. 17.—Ad W r olgast was
own Jo-day for the purpose of al-
> in* *he fans to give him the once
WmI , ore be steps into the ring at
J^ukf-p with Charlie White Friday
V p *ys he is as good as the
n nn kelson and that he will
wav.-, i Ad is styling himself light-
, i'jnvpion again. He contends
rj n » 0 ,l nce Ritchie can not do 135 pounds
" a p. v more and since he was
" *lder of the title, that honor
v ?0 him The promoters
a “*- n advantage of this and are
smg the fight as a title affair.
sition given is the logical result of
the application of my standard.
Garden City Record Poor.
Mr. Travers is a marvelous match
player—his winning the national
championship on four different occa
sions emphasizes the constantly re
peated fact.
Pie has two very fine shots—a
beautifully long, straight iron, and a
good putting stroke, achieving the
last with a Schenectady. The great
est defeat I ever experienced in my
life was at the hands of Mr. Travers,
and conceit might lead me to say that
J considered him in consequence a
very great player, but the truth is
the weather on that da^’ and the
course were marvelously adapted to
those two perfect strokes of his and
that is a very different thing to say
ing that a man has adapted skillful
strokes to untoward weather condi
tions. As Mr. Byers has pointed out,
match play rounds at Garden City
were not very good this year.
I except the Travers-Ouimet match,
of course, the others being generally
a little ragged and only brilliant in
spots.
Warrent Wood has mastered the
secret of wooden club control that
constantly evades Travers. The lat
ter, no doubt, can play more con
sistently than Warren, the longest
iron shot, and he may have a trifle
*he edge on putting, yet Warren is
an excellent putter and from 200
yards down to the green he is un
doubtedly the better player In re
covery from trouble Warren is also
the better of the two. and I have
never known him to “shank” a shot—
something Travers did several times
at Garden City.
Travers is assuredlv a better match
than Warren and he has the ad
vantage of more constant practice.
Warren is a business man with a
most exacting business. Indeed few
Western players. after their school
days, have the leisure of Eastern
golfers.
Last June, for nearly a month, I
had an opportunity to watch War
ren's game under conditions of leis
ure during the tour of the mid-West
ern team, and tne result satisfied me
as to his great ability. When he is
really going he has all the shots in
his bag.
Travis Given Fourth Place.
The fourth position on mv list be
longs to Mr. Travis. He in still one
of the greatest golfers in the coun
try, and a dangerous opponent for
any player in the world, for time has
not destroyed his skill, but merely
lessened his endurance
J. G. Anderson has the fifth posi
tion on my list. He plays a good,
sound game of excellent golf.
llerreshoff has the sixth position
and I bracket Fownes and Byers for
seventh and two well-known Chica
goans and an Eastern player for
eighth place. P. W. Whittemore. a
good fighter and a good player, has
ninth place, and I assign the eleventh
to ( handler Egan and Harry lAtgg,
twelfth to Fraser Hale and K. P. Al
lis, and the unlucky thirteenth to
Heinrich Schmidt and Mason Phelps.
Heine’s showing in England made
him deserving of a better place, but
his continued ill luck here rendered it
impossible to give it to him
Number fourteen. Warren Corkran,
of Baltimore, is a sound player who
will doubtless give a better account
of himself next year. Nelson Whit
ney, the Southern champion, de
serves a plac e on the list, and 1 place
Stewart Stickney, the trans-Missis
sippi champion, and Donald Edwards,
who has played particularly well
about Chicago this year, at number
sixteen.
As payment for Paul Musser. former
Cracker I wirier, George Clark, the
southpaw sent to Montreal last sum
mer by Manager Griffith, of the Na
tionals. has been recalled and sent to
the Des Moines club, of the Western
“Governor Tener is very happy over
the fact that he will soon devote
all of his attention to baseball affairs '
Yes. but—ah. well, let him be happy
while he may.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 17 Billy
Jordan, veteran announcer of ring con
tests is about to retire He has turned
in his resignation as a market inspec
tor to the health board after thirteen
years of service. He goes out of office
on January 1 at the age of 82 years,
and expects to spend the balance of
Ids days with old companions at the
Youtsville Soldiers Home.
Jordan is widely known among the
followers of pugilism In every fight
that has been held in San Francisco for
years Jordan has been In the ring and
Introduced all the celebrities who were
'gathered h‘ Hie ringside, as well as the
referee and the coni eat a nt s. It is un
derstood he will make his last appear
ance as announcer in the fight on Janu
ary 1.
Valuable Prizes for
Motorcycle Demons
In Savannah Race
SAVANNAH, GA . Dec. 17.—'The final
arrangements for the 300-mile motor
cycle race on Christmas day were com
pleted last night a! a meeting of the
contest committee of the Savannah Mo
torcycle Club. , , ,.
At this meeting it was decided that
the winner of the race will not only be
awarded the first prize of $500 in gold,
but also the Mayor and Aldermen s
trophy, a solid silver cup. 20 inches
high, valued at $200. The second prize
will be $250 in gold and the third prize
$100 in gold. There will rOso be a spe
cial prize of $50 for the first Savannah
Johnny Evers Not To
^ Traded'—Murphy
Dec. 17. President C. W.
'■ the Cubs, to-day said the
he was considering swap-
p £er John Evers for Tinker
ilous.
ei is put on the bidding block
"D' to land him." says Mur-
' '-'u can say right here that
mid no one else will run
next season."
MORAN LOSES ON FOUL.
OAKLAND, CAL. Dec. 17 Owen
Moran was disqualified in the sixth
round here last night and Joe Azevedo
given the decision on a foul
Quality.
The Piedmont you smoke
today is just like the one
you smoked yesterday—
last year—or ten years ago.
The same choice, high-
grade tobacco—mild, rich
and satisfying.
A cigarette of such un
common goodness that im
itators have never been
able to equal. Whole
coupon in each package.
LY TRIMS WALTERS.
! ; ,, H MO., Dec. 17,-Spike
- gained the decision
BJi Walters in a fifteen-
' ere last night. Spike was
' throughout and had the
8 from the time the
^Jted until the hot finish
' ? h round.
Canterbury
l-j'im
“ eU >\ of (
Sailor
bout
,3 ,! 8(ressor
H..OO
k E. C;
jy*eball f
H 0n - is Ul
18 suffer
S*Pp ER
,XE\V Vf
A brand new Ide
8ilv»r Collar with
a distinct Trane-
Atlantic air.
The of
aniartitii with
out riafrerilion
of atyle.
PRESIDENT ILL.
Dec. 17.—President
h f a. of the Minneapolis
... American Assocla-
* fl h,s home in this city. He
K rrom stomach trouble.
LEVINSKY HAS TWO BOUTS.
NEW YORK. Dec. 17. Battling l*e-
vinsky will take part in two fights
next week On Monday night he will
lake on Jim Coffey, the Dublin giant,
for ten rounds at the Garden A. C . and
on Christmas afternoon will go againsi
Jack Driscoll. the heavy weigh* of
Brooklyn, in a ten-round go at the
Irving A. C , of Brooklyn.
Chinn t tprmatl //„ „
ipart at th» to?
it ha* Iuaocord U*bremk«bte Bctfoahole*
—In no other make—which eaable the
collar to retala tte original footnm tkm
month* of wear
2 for 26e
CARLTON SHOE AND
CLOTHING CO
GOOD-BYE. CARL; NOBODY C
NEW YORK. Dec. 17.—Carl
has left for Oklahoma to retin
the ring, it was announced here
He will again become a locomot
gineer
DANZ BEATS GOODWIN
KIRK8VII.LE. Mu, Dec IT
Danz. of Monmouth. H' easil
Kid Goodwin, of Quincy, in i
round bout here last nighL
“KNOCKOUT” WINS WITH K. O.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 17.—“Knockout '
Brennan of Buffalo, caught Hughie
Ross, of Chicago, utt the point of the
jaw and knocked him out in the eighth
and last round of their fight here last
night.
; ROTTER DEAD
TRUING. KY„ Dec J7.
- 1 -*. one of the best
half-mile circuit was
h pasture to-day.* The
"d at $5,000 and owned