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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