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3== Louie Hardage Now Promoting Soccer Football League to Play at Loca l c tan and Sunday A tie for in Atlanta merican ANNISTON, ALA.. Dec. 20.- Louie Hardage. the well-known Vanderbilt football atar, Is In Anniston and will make bin headquarters here this win ter. He has proposed that a soccer football league be organized here, three teams representing the 1'o liam Guards, the Alabama Presbyterian College and the City Athletic Club. A pennant will he offered, and a warm race will re sult. ^y^HIUK” EVANS, ‘’America's 1 greatest amateur golfer,” ac cording to Vardon and Ray, .11 display his wares at the Athletic ub course In East Lake the latter irt of the week. He arrives Christ as* morning and will spend at least a piece of bunting and a slice of world's series melon. Robinson, the new Brooklyn mat.a ger, fell heir to a mighty good b t! club—one of first division caliber, if i ! can secure a good intielder and an other pitcher. The Dodgers last sprirr. played championship ball, but the h * : of one reliable pitcher to assist Ruck er and Ragon proved their undoing As soon as Rucker and Ragon, worn out by working almost every othe. day. were forced to give way to tin younger and less capable slabster* tli Dodgers faltered anil fell. Robinson Is regarded as one of tin greatest developers of young pitch ers in the country. Perhaps he can tote his youthful slabmen to the train ing earn,* next spring and develoi them into steady, consistent worker: However, “Bobby" would feel muon easier in mind If he could secure l> trade or purchase one more seasonci t wirier. Branch Rickey will lead the “srteak busting” Browns next year. He stop pod Into the managerial shoes after George Stovall was lifted out of them late In the summer. The St*. Loui outfit never has been a dangerous fac tor In any pennant race since 190S but they are something of an uncer tain quantity this year, although it's a 100-to-l bet that they won’t grab the bunting. The Browns drew about 30 players in the recent drafts, and some of then, were among the best men that cavort, ed in the bushes last season. Rickey may be able to pick about five or si: good men from the gang. Given some new blood. Rickey may weld together a team that will fur nish more trouble than the Brown- ever have given before. The Browns as many may remember, have fo many years possessed the happy fac ulty of breaking winning streaks. Bai clubs can go along amassing grea records, whipping every other team in the league, and then when they come to the Browns they go down and oui It’s the same with record-breaking pitchers. Stallings Is the most feared mnna ger In the National League. He tool hold of the Braves last year; after they had floundered for years in and around the cellar position, Infused some of his own fighting spirit into them, fired a few “hasbeens” and “neverwussers," and built up a team that played wonderful basebal throughout the year, and fought t< the bitter finish in every battle. Stallings next season will be strengthened by a few young pitchers and some fielding recruits. One or two may develop into good ball pluj - ers. If they do, Stallings will have* a team that will be a strong contende r for first division honors next season. In Tyler and Purdue he has two gre.tr pitchers. In Maranville he has one of the best shortstops in the game. II has schooled his men thoroug’.ilv in teamwork, and they are due to dem onstrate its effect next season. Boston Gets Garden From Battle Creek N EW YORK, Dec. 20.—The eyes of the baseball public Just now are focused In the general di rection of Messrs. Chance, Stallings. Corrigan, Rickey and Robinson, and voices are asking: “What’ll you fellows do in 1914?” Anybody who can answer that question Just now will come mighty lose to forecasting Just what the fin ish will be In both leagues next Oc tober. The above-mentiigied quintet con stitute the “dark-horse” element In Hie major leagues, and the eleven rl- v al managers are having nightmares these winter evenings worrying over Just what those five fellows will do. Of the five, Robinson I* the only one who will make his first bow as manager In April, 1914. The other four handled the managerial reins for the whole or part of the 1913 season. But their work was only of experi mental nature, nothing upon which to base an accurate estimate of their strength when once they get under wav. as they are expected to do next BATTLE CREEK, MICH., Dec. 20- 1 Yobablv for the first time In the his tory of major league baseball a major league teem next season will have an entire outfield that graduated from the fame minor league lot. The Boston Na tionals have drafted Larry Gilbert from Milwaukee, Pete Common from Kan »n> City, and Dutch /.willing from St. Joseph -and every one of them is a Battle C»eek player who jumped to bigger fields. Coinptor was sold to the St Louis Americars. 1 ast tall St. I ouis let him go to Kansas City, where he proved a whirlwind. /Willing came to Battle Creek In 11*10 from Bay City He batted 326. third man In t)’» league, and was sold to the Chicago White So* who later let hint g.» to St. Joseph, Mo. I .aery Gilbert Joined the club as a left-handed pitcher. In 191? Manager MeKeman decided to make him an out fielder for his hitting Milwaukee took him In the spring <>r 1913. The 1913 draft Included all three, and by an odd turn of fate Boston got them Evans will be the guest of George ' lit*. “Chick” and Mr Adair are more than acquaintances—their excel lent friendship is of several years’ f.Hiding. It is more than likely that :\r. Adair will take “Chick” out to the Druid Hills course fur a match <r t a o, but most of the playing will j : bablv be dune at East Luke. Chick” is going to write for The < . :rgian and Sunday American dur- 1 is visit. He will telj of the good and bud points rtf the lojal ■ uises; will describe his games her-*, end comment oil the performances of I io local stars. Harold Hilton, in a recent issue of (L f, the celebrated British weekly • can of the game, comments on tne . »!ection of Evans us “America’s greatest golfer” by Vardon and Ray. lie says: 1 have always held the opinion, nd moreover have expressed it rath- , fropjy. that in his accuracy in htt- i g his wooden club shots, and like* - iron play Up to the hole, jjr. Charles Evans, Jr., is the equal t my amateur player living. I saw . tough of the Chicago boy’s game at "Wheaton Iasi y?ur to convince me i:>n this point.” •■•wfv *mmI am® Tannin Is Elected Red Sox President /'■' MANCK, chief of the down-trod- den Yankees, is expected to lead an uplift movement next wumrner that will cause heaps of troubles for all baseball persons who aspire to places in the first division. Chance took over the Yankees last year when they stacked up as about the worst aggregation ever given the title of a baseball club. The use of the pruning knife en abled Chance to rid himself of lots of excess baggage, .and the wide-open purse of Owner Farrell enabled him to get together a fast infield and a speedy outfield. The Yankees Just now look weak In the pitching box, but f-om© of Chance’s recruits may develop into finds If they do the Yanks will bear watching. Carrignn, at the head of the Red Sox, will have practically the same team that grabbed the American league pennant and the world’s championship In 1912 Perhaps the team has disintegrated; perhaps the old fire and spirit that carried them to the crest of baseball In 1912 is gone. Without it, Carrignn can not be expected to cut a very wide swath in I he American League, even though he has some of the greatest stars of the game on his roster. BOSTON, De{\ 20. m .ivsepli J. Lan nin was to-day elected president of the Boston American League baseball club. For the present the duties of club ee^relarv will be performed by Edwin T.. Riley, who has been acting In tat capacity for the past year. Di rectors elected were Joseph J. Lan- i” ;<n-ra! h. Taylor John i. Taylor, Frank P. Cooper and John R. Turner. These three golfers will play Evans during the latter’s visit here. At the left is Tick Tichenor; in the. center, Stewart Maiden, the Athletic Club’s professional; at the right, George Adair. McFarland to Tour World After Wedding CHICAGO, T >ec 20 Jimmy Callahan and his White Sox players and John McQraw and his buttling Giants, who are. on a world's exhibition tour, will have nothing on Par key McFarland, the clever and scientific boxer, who is engaged to marry Miss Margaret Lough- lin, of Joliet. Ah soon as the knot is tied Packey and his bride will start a tour around the world on their honeymoon. Mc Farland will give exhibitions abroad, but under no conditions will he engage In real battles. The pride of the South Side and Manager Emil Thlry are out lining the ttlp and several favorable offers have been received. D UT the 1913 slump, which finally u aused the “canning" of Jake Stahl and the appointment of Carrignn, may not carry through into next year Perhaps It came only in the nature of a reaction, a relaxation, that usually follows all terrific strain*. If the Red Sox do "come bnck” next, sum mer, they'll be up around the top all the year, giving thi* Athletics. Sena tors and Nap** looked upon now as the three contenders for the 1914 pennant, a merry little tussle for the WRESTLER ROLLER BARRED. PORTLAND, Dec. .20.—Dr. Roller, the wrestler, will not - be permitted to wres tle In Portland Sheriff Word, who stopped professional wrestling here last spring among local men, says that out siders are also barred. Holler wanted to wrestle Ben Jackson, another heavy weight here. ANOTHER LEAGUE PLANNED. ERIE, PA., Dec. 20.—A new baseball league, to be known as the Pennsylva nia State League, is the latest in the sport world. It has the backing of Horace Fogel Fogel suggests a league made up of the following towns: Erie, Altoona. Scranton. Wilkesbarre, Wil liamsport. Harrisburg. Reading and Troy. He has promised to use his in fluence to make it go. EDDIE MURPHY GETS MATCH. BOSTON Dec. 20 — Eddie Murphy, the South Boston ring star, has been matched to meet Steve Kennedy at the Unity Cycle Club, of Lawrence, on Christmas afternoon. This should prove to be one of the best lightweight matches staged in New England for some time. YALE QUINTET WINNERS WEST POINT, X. Y., Dec. 20.— Yale defeated the Army at basket ball this afternoon, 40 to 32. The poor shooting of baskets by the Army was responsible for their defeat. Look at This Big XMAS OFFER Motorcycle Demons Make Fast Time on Savannah Course Sam Langford Wins Over Joe Jeannette SAVANNAH, Dec. la—Between 30 nd 40 of the fastest motorcycle rid- rs in the country are in Savannah r the Grand Prix 300-mile race to run over the Vanderbilt course a-re Christmas Day. The prizes of- ered by the city and the Motorcycle Tub were sufficiently attractive to ring the best talent in the country o Savannah, and the event promises ■> be one of tlu fastest ever run. In the tests that are being made aily the daring drivers have taken he 1-2 mile course at an average ■. -ed of 69 and 70 miles. The fastest i” so far was made by “Mud” Gard- yesterday afternoon, when he av- . raged 78 miles. Special Cable to The American. PARIS, Dec. 20.—Sam Langford, of Boston, defeated Joe Jeannette, of New York, in a rattling twenty-round battle to-night on points. It was a slugging match from start to finish, with the “Tar Baby” usually in the lead. Positively the last time this offer will made BETTER ORDER Minnesota Will Not Play Carlisle Team liquor dealer that quarts of these brands and get one quart of the same FREE. No offer ever i will equal this MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. ?*.—The board of athletic control of the University of Minneapolis, at a meeting to-day. de cided by a unanimous vote that there would be no football game with Carlisle In 1914. The board was officially noti fied that the net receipts for the Min- nesota-Chicago football game, played at Northrop Field on November ir>, were $32,148.50. Of this amount Chicago re ceived $16,074 25. Loss of Mike Murphy Hurt Penn Eleven Five Full Quarts E. B. 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California Port Whether the fact is generally recog- zrl or not. there Is no doubt that the -once of Mike Murphy had much to , with (he poor showing of the Penn "(ball team during the past season, lien a man of Murphy's ability sud- •nly drops out of any organisation, ere i- always great difficulty in tilling - place. There was not another man America who know' as much about e training end of the game as Mur- y. The result was that when he ,-d. it was necessary to put the train- g of the men in other hands. In the future, the men of Penn will ’■babiy find a ntan who is able to ike care of the athletes’ physical con- tiirn, but to do this In a year when methods must be change,1, Is some- ’ : beyond the power of most train- Most of the members of the Penn am had been under the eye of Mur- V in the past. They kept in shape arrying out Ills orders. Then every- nrg was changed with Murphy's ROBERTSON SPEAKER’S EQUAL. Manager Mike Finn, who at Little Rock developed Tris Speaker.’ says that Dave Robertson, the Giants’ Southern League recruit, is a better batter, a faster runner and a more natural play er than Speaker was, and just as good a thrower, and that he will bat .340 or better for’ the Giants. y«r>,q Cures lit 1 to 5 day, wg v t4 JB W unnetural disc! antes. sSL 2 *,® KB Contains no poisons and Kmla— fS'fPntny b. uaed full H Bill \t» M stonrti absolute!, iSRuir-’* —r— ulthmit fear Guaran teed not to awlrture. Prevent, contagion. WHY NOT CURE YOURSELF? At Druggists, or by parcel post, $1. or 3 bottles S3 75. Particulars with each hott'e er mailed on request. THE EVANS CHEMICAL COMPANY * * r eclnnotl C\ of Money for Ten Send Double the Amount Quarts and Get TWO QUARTS FREE pMiteoiw Sweet Mwb Sweet fM) ME FOR CURES ONLY This offer is good only at prices as above quoted, December 11th to December 25ih, 1913. This offer positively not good on orders put up in jugs, pints or half pints. 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