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THE ATLANTA G E OR GT AN AND NEWS.
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M’ TENER IS BRINGING UP FATHER
I OLD LEAGUE
Morgan G. Bulkeley Was the First
president, Taking the Of
fice in the Year 1875.
rank G. Aioiikc.
N ^i;u YORK. Dec. 17.—John K. j
Tcner is the seventh pres- I
i.iPTit that the Naitonal League!
had since its organization, late in ;
ii;., His predecessors in the office •
;Vt . 'neon Morgan B. Bulkeley, Mil- i
„un A. Hurlburt, A. G. Mills. X. L
,o H i > C. Pulliam and Thomas
l,.r h. Mr. Hurlburt died in of-
, \ p rll 10, 188:*. Mr. Mills resigned
,, position in 1885, and Harry Put
in) (ommitted suicide in 1909 by
!\noting himself in the head, after a
mical and mental breakdown.
‘ hr. Bulkeley, the first president.
,.(1 office only one year, being suc-
teedeti in 1870 by William A. Hurl-
v-,: v* v. ho has been called the “found s*
y f the National League.” Mr. Hurl-
wielded the reins until .he died, in
uc. His successor was A. G. Mills,
ho was succeeded in 1885 by N. K.
Young. Mr. Young was also the sec-
, nan ond treasurerv of the league,
jn ,j j! was not until after the Na-
’ ■ ,iiji.ti went to war with the American
• ;, tJU e that Uncle Nick stepped clown
iii. i out This was in 1902. -
\ successor to Mr. Young was not
,.sen . t once, but during 1902 the
National League was run by a com-
uiittee. of which tlie late John T.
; ; :sh was the chairman.
In 1903 Harry C. Pulliam, who had
.(• i Barney Dreyfuss’ right bower as
ph setarv of the Louisville and Pitts-
, T ,-iubs. was elected president. Pul-
,im's ■ areer in the league was very
> ormy. The strain of Jthe 1908 cam-
;;iigi. when tHe memorable play-off
( tie between New York and
ago occurred, and other incidents
;-'suited in Mr. Pulliam breaking
cowi!. At the meeting of the league
:m Chicago in 1909 Mr. Pulliam's con-
on became so serious that it was
ided to put the affairs in the hands
of John A. Heydler, who was then, as
low. secretary-treasurer of the or
ganization.
Mi Heydler. like every other man
w: o has held the position or been the
custodian of the office, could not sat
isfy all of the magnates. He had an
excellent chance to be elected presi-
ent of the league at the meeting in
Dcfember. 1909, until the Philadelphia
•Tub was sold to Charles P. Taft, of
I'incinnati. This transaction lost Mr.
Jlevdler the vote of the Philadelphia
iiub and the election.
For an entire week the two factions
of the league were deadlocked. Final-
it was agreed that President John
T. Brush, of the New York club,
s k «»uld select the man and all the
• >s would vote for him. Mr. Brush
sprung a complete surprise by nam-
g Thomas J. V> r nch, the former
’Ting uf umpires,” who had been out
of the national game for many years.
Mr. Lynch’s term has been filled
v '-th trouble. He has been repeatedly
' "(Ids with the club owners, but
f each year lie managed to be re-elect-
r p< i because those opposed to him could
* :.ot agree upon any individual. Until
i r ‘ ( oupb‘ of months ago Mr. Lynch s
' on >r .. fifth year appeared to
j good. His opponents—Herrmann,
Kbbets and Dreyfuss—could not se-
; :re any more votes for their candi-
■ ate Bob Brown. Then President
Bake’-, of the Phillies, began his cam-
| K'ign for Tener, which met with such
! “ ‘ ess that in a very short time all
T the club owners were enlisted in
• unanimous “call” for the Govern -
0: ‘ ,0 accept the position.
Wolgast Expects to
Stop Charley White
l lb: A GO, Dec. 17.— Ad Wolgast was
own M-day for the purpose of al-
*' i-K tho fans to give him the once
r , ,re he steps into the ring at
X. vaukf-o with Charlie White Friday
d says he is as good as the
• ''^fought Nelson and that he will
a, ‘' Ad is styling himself light-
. 'Tampion again. He contends
»• „ fi nte kitchie can not do 135 pounds
. any more and since be was
- Pl ,r ‘ as; bolder of the title, that honor
m T1 e promoter
y, M akp t; advantage of this and are
asm S tne fight as a title affair.
'Johnny Evers Not To
Be Traded'—Murphy
L'HICAGO. Dee. 17.—President C. W.
. ut Cubs, to-day said the
•"D that he was considering swap-
v,;? ,)o hn. Evers for Tinker
,;j ridiculous.
I pul on the bidding block
land him,” saj 8 Mur-
I .! , r ' ' ;i can say right here that
<’nh* ers ,l!: “ 110 one else will run
I U,J - S next season.”
KELLY TRIMS WALTkRS.
MO.. Dec. 17.—‘Spike
I t M ■ : 1 l ‘ , ago. gained the decision
* - ! 1 * - ! Walters in a tifteen-
' here last night. Spike was
' r throughout and had the
T ' ^n-ssing from the time the
f'A 'totted until the hot finish
n 'teenth round.
•NEAPOLIS president ill.
'‘-is. Dec. it. Pres
[‘ : “Ion. of the Minneapolis
s | . * ,'T the American Assocla-
••tins home in this city. He
J* * roin stomach trouble.
[ DcR 0 NEILL TO DO BATTLE.
J ■ ' J!n ; ['»- • )7. -Sapper Q'Neill.
, Takf”, ; 'Shtweight, is scheduled
I i -v .-Lnerican debut here to-
in a bout with Young
f° s t rotter dead.
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Harvard Arranges
Hard Games for 1914
Football Season
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 last 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 Iasi, season, are proposed. Michi
gan will displace Cornell on the sched
ule and Georgetown will take the date
lately occupied by Holy Cross.
Except for Hie 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 L;4 —Penn State.
October 31 University of Michigan.
November 7 Princeton.
November 14—Brown University.
November ill — Yale.
Valuable Prizes for
Motorcycle Demons
In Savannah Race
SAVANNAH, GA.. Dec. 17.—The final
arrangements for the 300-rnile motor
cycle race on Christmas day were com
pleted last night at a meeting of the
contest committee of the Savannah Mo
le < Hub.
At this meeting it was decider! that
the winner of the race will not only be
awarded the first prize of ?o00 in gold,
but also the Mayor and Aldermen «
trophv. a solid silver cup. ”0 inches
high, valued at ?::00. The second prize
will be $250 in gold and the third prize
$100 in gold. There will rfiso be a spe
cial prize uf $60 for the first Savannah
boy who finishes the race.
EX-CUB A MANAGER.'
TKItKK HAUTE. IND.. Dec. 17. Ru
fus Gilbert, the former ( ub pitcher,
who went to Denver from Terre Haute.
Is t<» be manager of the local club it his
release from I trover can be obtained
on satisfactory terms'.
DIAMOND OUTFIGHTS TRACEY.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec T.—Harry j
Diamond tic- sensational .-'Outhaai R ,
featherweight, outfought I-eo I raeev, |
of Tioga in six hard rounds at the.
Fatrmount Athletic Club last night.
SHUGRUE DEFEATS SMITH.
NEW YORK Dei H Young Joe!
Shugme defeated < . Smith at Brown s
Gvmnasiuin iast night m ten fast,
rounds. Shugrue won he.-atiae he dts- ,
played better cleverness and landed the.
cleaner blows
GOOD-BYE, CARL; NOBODY CARES, j
NEW TOFIK. Dec. 17. -Carl Morris ,
has l-ft for -Thlaliouta to retire from
;he ring. 1; was announced here t- -,.a, ]
tie will again become a locomotive en j
The Georgian’s Expert Golfer Picks Sixteen Greatest Performers
EVANS SELECTS OlilMET AS BEST U. S. GOLFER
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By Chick Evans.
OT^HIS is the season of the year
| when go.'f writers aro busily
engaged pieparing lists of the
besi sixteen players in America and
the peculiarity of the lists is the wide
divergence after the first three names.
This fact immediately brings us to
the Question of standard and it shows
us that without a generally recog
nized standard lists of players are
likely to become mere registers of
prejudices and unstudied opinions. 1,
being a practical golfer as well as a
theoretical reporter of the game, have
spent the last few weeks painstak-
inglv devising my own little ratihg of
players and I hope it will contribute
something to the entertainment of
golfers.
In preparing my list T determined 5
to make intrinsic merit as evidenced '
bv sound golf my standard of meas
urement. I have used medal play as
the basis of my judgment in deter-
- ino g the control of shots, .and
1 atch play, freed as far as possible
from circumstances over which the
player himself lias no control. Tne
artual value of my standard depends,
of course, upon what my judgment of
poif strokes is considered worth. As
I progressed with my list T was con
fronted with the fact that several
pluvcrp occupied so nearly the same
niche that only a golfing Solomon
could determine which ones to eject,
and not being any sort of a Solomon,
I have boldly bracketed them. While
this may weaken the list, it has the
virtue of squarely presenting tho
merits of the plajers.
1 give Francis Ouimet the first
place 011 rny list. Although I do not
believe that anyone seriously be-
lieve.* that he is intrinsically a better
player than Ray and Vardpn. his vic
tory over them at critical moments
deserves the greatest possible credit.
It is founded upon sound golf and
there is nothing freakish about it. I
nlaved wiih him in 1911 in the second
half of 'he National Amateur quali
fying round at Apav.amis and my
oYiinion of his 'uture was formed
then and it was not altered by his
failure to qualify at Wheaton 1 he fol
lowing year In the National Ama
teur mt Garden City I saw but feu of
his strokes, owing to the fact that
the Eastern plnvers started early and
r 11 o Western player.-; late, but those
few stroke- confirmed my former
good orenion. He uses even club j
well and there is throughout a sub
stantial soundness to his game,
I t.ve Warren Wood the '•econri j
place on mv list and Jerome Travers
third. L mav •pern strange ot first)
roading to --or -i Western champion j
placed tiichd of be national one. but j
j , • » d (in' - p!:n'er-» j.! \ in ' heir I
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tVeins’ LisI of II. 5. (Jell Leaders
1. Francis Ouimet. Boston.
2. Warren K. Wood, Chicago.
3. Jerome Travers. New York.
4. W. J. Travis, Garden City.
5. John C. Anderson, Boston.
6. Fred Herreshoff, New York.
7. W. C. Fownes. Jr., Pittsburg.
Eben Byers. Pittsburg.
8. D. E. Sawyer, Chicago.
R. A. Gardner, Chicago.
Oswald Kirby, New York.
9. P. W. Whittemore, Boston.
10. Harry G. Legg, Minneapolis.
Otion given is the logical result of
the application of my standard.
Garden City Record Poor.
Mr. Travers is a marvelous match
plaj er - hi 9 w inning the nations
championship on four different occa
sions emphasizes the constantly re
peated fact.
lie has U'o very flue 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
I considered him in consequence a
very great player, but the truth is
the weather on that day 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. Byerg 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
the edge on putting; yet Warren is
an excellent putter and from 200
yards down to the green tie 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 assuredly a better match
than Warren arid 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, 1
had an opportunity i" watch War-
renT sarn/- under ' onoirions of leis
ure during tin* iour -A the ni:d-Wc-L
cm I«* tiii, and Lir r< -nil f iti.slied nn*.
Chandler Egan, Medford. Ore.
11. Jack Neville, San Francisco.
A. V. Macan, Victoria, B. C.
12. Fraser Hale, Chicago.
E. P. Allis III, Milwaukee.
13. Heinrich Schmidt. Boston.
Mason Phelps, Chicago.
14. Paul Hunter. Chicago.
B. Warren Corkran, Balti
more.
15. Nelson Whitney, N. Orleans.
16. Stewart Stickney, St. Louis.
Donald Edwards, Chicago.
ns to his great ability. When lie is
really going he has all the shots in
his bag.
Travis Given Fourth Place.
The fourth position on my list be
longs to Mr. Travis. He is still one
of the greatest goiters in the coun
try, and a dangerous opponent for
any player jn 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.
Herreshoff has the sixth position
and 1 bracket Fownes and Byers for
seventh and two well-known Chica
goans and an Kastern player lor
eigt.th place. P. W. Whittemore »i
gofd fighter arid a good player has
ninth place, and 1 assign the eleventh
to ('handler Kgari and Harry Legg,
twelfth to Fraser Halo and E. I’ A’
lis. and the unlucky thirteenth to
Heinrich Schmidt arid .Mason Phelps;
Heine’.** showing in England made
him deserving of a better place, but
his continued ill luck here icndeied it
impossible to give it to him.
Number fourteen. Warren Uorkran.
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 place on ihe list, and I place
Stewart Stickney . Hie trahs-At iss
sippi champion, and Donald Edwards,
who has played particularly well
about Chicago this year, at number
sixteen.
LEVINSKY HAS TWO BOUTS.
NKVV YORK, Dec. IT. Battling Le-
vinsky will take part In two Agios,
next week. On Monday night he will
take on Jim Coffey, the Dublin giari
for ten rounds at the Garden A. c . arm
on Christmas afternoon will gi» agains"
Jack Driscoll. the heavyweigh
Brooklyn, in a ten »ound go a ' ie
Irving A. of Brooklyn.
“KNOCKOUT” WINS WITH K. O
ST. LOUIS Dec. 17.—‘ Knockout'
Brennan of Buffalo <augh : H’ ” <e
rtos of Chicago. <1 the i*u" ' of f 1 .
jaw and knocked him out in tk.- eighth
and ia^i round of ' oir :D '
nigh 1
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His speech I League. Musser last year was the se<
ond best hurler In the v\ estern League.
Bob Baugh invited all the "fellows
at the banquet Hie other night to tho
same sort of a feed “when the Barons
win the penant next year Quiet, Rob
ert, you’re tipping the boat.
\\ o have as yet heard nothing of
any plan to reassemble the National
league In a special meeting to glvw
Gap Anson that $1,200 which the leaguo
voted to vote him.
Baseball Chronology I >e< it 19]:: •
Khbets pays $J5',000 for a shortstop.
Dec. 14. 191 I -Baseball bonds listed
in Wall street.
Dec. 15, 1915—Morgan loots National
League
Sometimes when we are enfeebled
by listening to baseball mag
nate for several hours we feel that
Samson's favorite old weapon is as
potent as ever.
“Governor Tener is very happy over
the fact that he will soon devot*
all of his attention to baseball affair?
Yes. but ah. well. let. him be happy
while he may.
Jarette of
Quality--
cllars
Boy Scouts to Hold
Big Tournament at
‘Drome’ Saturday
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 M0 o’clock Sat
urday afternoon »: 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 taught the Bov Scouts fem-
pitchlng, signaling by wigwag and field
wireless, bugle * alls. 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.
Veteran Announcer
To Retire on Jan. 1
SAN FRANCISCO. Do. 17 Billy
Jordan, veteran announcer of ring i on-
tests is about to retire. He has turned
In his resignation as a market inspec
tor to the health board after thirteen
\cars of service. He goes out of office
on January 1 at the age of 8u years,
and <-xpects to spend the balance of
bjs days with old companions at the
Youtsvllle Soldiers' Home.
Jordan Is TvideL" known among the
followers of pugilism. In every tight
tha 1 has been held In San Francisco for
years Jordan has b<-eii in the ring mid
introduced all the refebrities who wer*'
gathered the ringside, as well ns the
Ifeferee and the contestant®. It Is un
derstood he w dl make his last appear
ance as announcer in the fight on Janu
ary 1.
MORAN LOSES ON FOUL.
OAKLAND, UAL.. I »e< IT. -('wm
Moran was disqualified in the sixth
round here last night and Joe Azevedo
given th* decision on a foul.
FODDER FOR FANS
Hats off to Lou Castro,
at 1 be 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.
* # *
Malty Matthews is geting into con
dition for the hard season lie expects
at Newport News. He takes a ten-
mile jaunt every night - in a (>0-horse
power automobile,
*
We always had a hunch that O B.
Andrews, president of the Lookouts,
and L. Castro were as friendly as Ihe
measles, but it is a long alley that has
no ashcan.
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As a successor to the popluar CliArley
White, “Chief Wahoo is traveling
great guns. The Indian was a great
football performer, a great baseball
player, hut since he joined the Mexi
can athletic ranks he is a scream
As payment for J’aul Alusser, former
Cracker I wirier. George Clark, the
southpaw sent to Montreal last sum
mer by Manager Griffith, of the Na
tionals, has been recalled ami sent to
the Des Moines club, of the Western
Canterbury
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