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I VlSHTVMS sux WOULD STAihiO STILL IF "VOU SIT DOWN VGU^E *MU_ <C,WC U*b a,ll a chance TO “SEE ISN^ THAT BEAUTtrUL / I CAN’T <- I -SEE N>^thh+j Al WITH THIS Ah <50^: CONE ON DON'T TR‘ WHO IS ^HE-NE Fiends wont knqv WHAT I'N ' talkin [''ABOUT' MK J144S: WHAT ARE \0O DOlNu, \\\\U I I f h-r J-Lm. THE ATLANTA G E OR GT AN AND NEWS. It l«n't True That Japanese Ivory Workers Are Bidding on Krecl Merkle - 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. ' ; •; [KKLIXO. KV„ Dec. 17 ' r ' one of the best '■•'D , ' half-mile circuit. '\a* I . M n^stiirc to-day. 'I’he I at jinl uw ncd JUST THIMk- WHLh V/E <0 dack to ANERlCAv Wfe CAN TELL OUR DEAR FRlEnD'i WE SAV ’ AIDA"! POLLY AND HER Pa Gets ‘Something Just as Good W/EIX OOlToR Mys j I “ThAWK m tf/OMT BE 4)U4R,4H il.MEO j j (JOCDWFIS Ver Paw’ll ' (5£ /4BLE To feoT FuSiress Jvc /CeTLhed’Em ‘ I PAvWOOWE IT' JlVE kETtHEDEM'j nrz, MUCH LON0ER A ShuR.L LhicremRdX is, mlarlV (JJME R! CjooD HlHERL)!j PAW/ (CElcHEO I! mV 'The. ! ^HiCRtw Pc>X ' A’COurSC • fHt Chicle >•) Pox! r flDDUXTitk^! You /4iwt Ool wo MORE CHICKEW Poy 'EM I H4I/1 ‘ Ho Ro^r!! 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 gineci' DANZ BEATS goodyvin KIKKsVIDI.K. ’!" i; r Dauzr of Monmoutu. I|! ' | K i«l < 1«m in. of s . in a I round bout here la^l nlgli 1 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 r , ; • . * « ... in j ion.-V'ip 1 lid i he p*»- i 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 By GEORGE M MANUS 3 <50 BACK ' THERE - lU'LL killed: Come om ~ OUT PUT ^ OUT AciAlN! rv m Domi y 5Pose 1 KUOIW MUSEU WHCM 1 Sff lm ? UH-* 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. • 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 A bracd new Idr hi'vrr Lollat with a distinct Traua- Atlautic a.1 The extreme of • mart nr** with out <*«a^^crutlou of atyle. Ide K'ilver fh/itn t Hf/rend ipurt nt Ihf lop It has I .no orr! nV.rea&aVe Buttonhole* — i n no olnei make wb eh en*h * ihe C' .a*- to retain It* original goodne*? thru tnozuh* of wem Z for 25e CARLTON SHOF. AND CLOTHING CO. 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, ricli and satisfying. A cigarette of such un common goodness that im itators have never been able to equal. Whole coupon in each package. -70 for