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TTTTC ATLANTA GFORCITAX AND NEWS.
The Leading Hitter of the Stove League Seldom Breaks Records in Past Company
Mutt Bought the Wrong Breed of Gila Monster
By ‘Bud 9 Fisher
Evans Declares Course at Regina
One of the Best in the
Dominion.
By “Chick” Evans.
rpHE Regina Country Club, of Re
gina, Canada, is four and a
half miles from the heart of
the town and the street cars run al
most to the clubhouse doors. About
$30,000 was spent last year in per-
D. ting the transportation service, so
tat problem is well settled. The golf
-nurse measures a little less than
o 000 yards. Our old friend, Arner
Tollifson, the club professional, tells
me that the land is a sort of flat
prairie, yet the course is not really
monotonous, for a creek winds
through it and around the north side.
The club has discovered that while
the prairie grass makes an excellent
fair green, it does not make a good
putting green. For that reason all
the greens were tom up last fall and
are being made, in the literal sense of
the word. They will be built accord
ing to the best modern ideas and will
be sown with the finest grass seed.
Club Is Growing Rapidly.
In addition to the contemplated im
provement of the course, for which
ihere is ample money, it is planned to,
erect before long one of the finest
clubhouses in the Northwest to take
the place of the present comfortable
but unpretentious structure.
The club has about 200 members,
and the remarkable thing is that al
most all of them are active. The
club is a young one. perhaps only two
years old. and at the time of its for
mation very few of its members had
ever played a game of golf; at pres
ent, however, several are playing un
der 85. Truly an excellent record
that speaks equally well for the en
thusiasm of the members and the
zeal of the teacher. The ladies have
also taken a deep interest in the club
and Tollifson particularly mentions
Mrs. Philbrick, who has made won
derful progress In playing.
I understand that Tollifson will
have complete charge of the club,
outside and in, next year
Winnipeg Joins in Tourneys.
The Regina players have their tour
naments. too; once a year they jour
ney to Winnipeg and once a year the
Winnipeg golfers go to them. In the
provincial championship played last
season at Regina there were over 60
entrants. They came from Saskatch
ewan. Moose jaw. Saskatoon, Prince
Albert. Indian Head and all the oth
er places round about. Tillifson says
that he has seen the 6,000-yard course
jammed with players time and again.
The Regina Country Club is not the
only course in Regina. There is a
nine-hole course out near the bar
racks where the officers of the Royal
Northwest Mounted Police play (the
British colonial official is a great golf
missionary), and some of the towns
people belong to this club, too.
Arner Tollifson himself laid out a
course at Saskatchewan Beach, which
is 80 miles from Regina. It is on the
shores of the last mountain lake, and
Arner says that he is well satisfied
with his work on it.
Lookout President
Knows Nothing of
G. Smith Signing
CHATTANOOGA, TENN., Dec. 22.
President Andrews professes entire
ignorance of the reported purchase
of Pop Boy” Smith, former Birming
ham hurler, from the White Sox. He
says he has heard nothing from Mc-
Cormick on the matter.
Of course, it would not be possible
for McCormick to close a deal with
out the president's signature, how
ever, and President Andrews is of the
opinion that the deal has been closed
b\ McCormick, but awaits waivers or
other formalities before being official
ly promulgated.
Cravath Threatens
To Join Federals
TX)S ANGELES, Dec. 22 — Cravath,
one of the stars of the Phillies, may
jump to the Federate. “The Federal
league has made me a swell offer for
next season and unless the Philadelphia
management 'comes through' strong I
am going over to the Federals.”
This wire was received by a menu
here to-day. The movement of the reds
shows how strong they are in their
fight for stars.
Mississippi Aggies
Play Local Five Next
r he fourth game of the local basket-
hall season will be played next Satur-
a\ night at the Atlanta Athletic dub.
The Mississippi Agricultural and Me
chanical College five will be the op
ponents of the locals.
KILBANE VS. GRIFFITHS.
• LEVELAND, OHIO, Dec. 22.—Man-
ig* r .Jimmy Dunn said to-day that there
' a possibility that Featherweight
" ampion Johnny Kilbane. of Cleve-
an/1, will meet Johnny Griffiths, of
Akron, in a twelve-round bout at Can
ton in January. Kilbane will insist,
however, that Griffiths make 130 pounds
dngside.
HARRINGTON RELEASED.
''NNEAPOLIS, MINN., Dec. 22.—
Kelly, manager of the indianapo-
i earn, of the American Association,
announced here last night that he ha/1
• ased Pitcher William Harrington, of
1 1 larapolis, to Binghamton, of the
York State league.
RITCHIE WILL GO EAST
NEW YORK, Dec. 22 Willie Ritchie
"ill he matched with Freddie Welsh,
10,1 Rivers or Packey McFarland, at
Madison Square Garden, after his hout
" th Tommy Murphy <»n the coast, lan-
a f> 23. according to an announcement
n.Rrmy-**Billy Gibson.
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Wells-Carpentier
Fight a “Fake," Is
New York Report
CHICAGO, Dec. 22.—According to a
New York report, the recent Bombardier
Wells-Georges Carpentier scrap over
In Ijondon in which Wells suffered a
knockout in the first round was a huge
“fake.” The story Is said to have
been brought to this country by an
American who witnessed the contest.
As the story goes, there was an agree
ment to make a clean-up. Heavy wa
gers were made that. Wells wouldn’t
last two rounds, and those in the know
went about betting freely. Carpentier
stepped out, tacked one on Wells’ jaw.
and the fight was over. It is alleged
that close to $75,000 was won on the
fake.
Schwartz and Hirsig
Wrangle Over Deal
NASHVILLE, TENN.. Dec. 22. -
The breach between President Hirsig
and Manager Schwartz, of the Nash
ville baseball team, has reached a
serious stage. President Hirsig ha.s
demanded that Schwartz retract cer
tain statements, which so far the
manager has shown no disposition of
doing.
The controversy arose over the
Perry-Berger deal, whereby Nashville
receives Heine Berger, pitcher, and a
cash consideration of $400 from Mo
bile for infielder Clayton Perry. The
deal was closed by President Hirsig
while in Atlanta.
Manager Schwartz. In a public
statement, declared that it was made
without his knowledge or consent, and
that the Welehonce-Callahan deaj of
last year was also made without his
sanction. Hirsig denies this and has
called on Schwartz for a public re
traction.
Cruthers Signs to
Play With Athletics
PHII.ADEtJ’HIA. Per. 22. riiarlr,
Cruthers the vounsr Philadelphian who
plat ed brilliantly at second base for the
Athletics Iasi season at the fun end after
the pennant had been clinched, has
siftned a contract for 1914
Cruthers is one of Karl Mack s finds.
He looked so promising both in batting
and fielding down in Tinleigh. N. <’. Ian
summer that the son recommended him
t' the father. He joined the Athletics
after Raleigh had finished its season,
and in the few games he played he more
than fulfilled all press notices.
A. A, D. Track Men
Ignore Kolehmainen
N'RW YORK. Pec. 22 —Hannes Koleh
mainen. world's champion long distance
runner was ignored by the registration
committee of the Metropolitan Associa
tion at its meeting at the St. Bartholo
mew A C The '‘investigation. an
nounced as continued at the meeting
„ here the Finn produced all his prizes,
apparently has not continued to any ex-
ten, and nothing was done toward dis
ciplining Kolehmainen or absolving him
from blame.
Sporting Food
By GEORGE E. PHAIR'™™^
JOSEPH IS NOT JOSEPH.
Then Joseph Tinker up and spoke:
“Xmr whoddapath ink o’ that t
U ill someone put me Joseph to the
spot where I am at?”
Clark Griffith avers that Garry
Herrmann is not wholly to blame for
the situation in Cincinnati. It would
be downright cruelty to place all the
blame on the shoulders of one man.
One way to produce a winner in
Cincinnati would be to keep Tinker
and trade the stockholders.
The report that Georges Carpentier
has been fined $100 for faking shows
how rapidly the French are assimilat
ing American ideas.
“Sentiment.” says Mr. Murphy, “will
not cut any figure in the reorganiza
tion of the Cubs.” This is one of the
easiest things in the world to believe.
THE MAGNATES' WAIL.
Oh. the long and snowless winter!
Oh. the warm and hat mg winter!
IYhrn the buds of spring are showing
In the grass a I yonder ball yard;
When the zephgrs in the blent hers
Are as warm as those of May time.
And we sit and yearn for baseball.
Hut there ain't no baseball schedule;
And wc think of what is coming
In the cold and clammy Springtime
li hm the air is full of moisture
and the park is full of puddles
And the bleachers all are vacant
And the gate receipts are absent,
oh. I lie warm anil baling winter!
Oh. the (old and clammy Springtime!
“There is hope for Jess Willard,”
says Jim Corbett, thereby smashing
the world’s record for optimism.
We note by the sport page that they
are playing baseball in St. Louis. That
! is more than thev dc in summer.
Ft Ik ?aid that «'harlie # White w ent
| into the fitrht game for his health, but
j promoters ran tell you that he is not
I in it for his health now.
| The report that bowling enabled Cy
Falkenberg to come back reminds us
that some players bowl, while others
bowl.
VOCAL MONEY.
I Thr moment that a baseball star is
piaff’d upon the block
The magnate cleart his voice and
(jinn the baseball world a shock.
Ur offers forty thousand bones in
such a lusta strain
That ever!/body hears the ne.ws from
Oregon to Maine.
Oh. he would gladly sign a dozen
mitlion-dollar cheeks,
Hut on the square, he wouldn't pay
| ten thousand dollars (Hex.)
Ih doesn’t buy the player, but he
hastens to explain.
■■oh. I teas double-crossedhe says,
and wears u look of pain.
‘Twirlers in 1913 Were Not as Effective as in 1912'—Cracker Captain
WELCHONCE PRAISES DENT AND COVELESKIE
BOXING
News of the Ring Game.
By Harry Welchonce.
(Captain of Crackers.)
W HILE but seven men hit for
a percentage of .300 or bet
ter In the Southern League
last season, I am led to believe that
the pitchers as a whole were not quite
as effective as they were during the
season of 1912, as there was a gen
erous increase in batting averages
the past season over that of the pre
vious year.
In some case^the younger pitchers
increased their percentage of games
won and lost over that of 1912, even
though their clubs finished lower in
the race than they did the previous
season. For instance, Prough and
Hardgrove, of the Birmingham club,
both can boast of higher percentages
than they could for the season of
1912, although their club won the
pennant that year and finished third
this year. J account for this by the fad
that both men have developed great
ly and their pitching the past season
was just as good as the increase in
their percentages would indicate. The
same thing might apply to Coveles-
kie, of Chattanooga, and Cavet,) of
Mobile, although in the Pole's cast*
his club’s standing was materially in
creased over that of 1912. This may
cut some figure in his won and lost
column, but nevertheless no credit
should he taken away from the Pole,
for I consider him the hardest propo
sition 1 had to face at all times. He
was a glutton for work, as his record
shows. The past season has been
the only one in three-that I have been
called on to face him that I didn’t
think we could get his goat, but the
same tactics that we used in seasons
gone failed to affect him last season,
and any time I stepped to the plate
it was a battle to see which would
come out on top, with the Pole finish
ing as often as I did.
• * *
f ''A VET also worked In a great many
^ more games than he did dur
ing the 1912 season, and had he not
been handicapped with a bad eye
during the closing weeks of the sea
son he would probably have done
better. Although 1 consider him a
much improved pitcher I did not find
him as much of a puzzle as I did the
year before. In fact, the Nashville
club could not beat him during the
1912 season, regardless of who pitch
ed against him, and perhaps this had
something to do with him having
something on me, but I managed to
chase the hoodoo after joining the
Crackers.
There were several other young
pitchers who were away up in the
percentage columns w r hen they were
officially announced—Dent. Price and
Conzelman. Atlanta; Hogg. Mobile;
Williams, Nashville; E. Brown. Mont
gomery, and Wilson, of New Orleans.
The first three mentioned I was not
called upon to face, as I was lucky
enough to be on the same club with
them, and doubtless, considering the
way Dave Robertson was treated at
their hands. 1 savfyl several points
on my season's average by escaping
them.
1 CONSIDER Dent the best right-
1 hand pitcher there was in tlie
league—curves, control and other es
sential qualities taken into consider
ation-—with Joe Conzelman running
him a close second. Dent had it on
him in at least one thing, namely,
control. Price is a great pitcher and
can stand all kinds of work, although
prone to be a little erratic at times.
His record shows that he did almost
as much as anyone else in bringing
the ppnnant to Atlanta. I might men
tion here that Carl Thompson show
ed himself to be a pitcher of consid
erable caliber while with the Crack
ers. and only his bad luck at Bir
mingham kept him from being among
the select at the finish. *
* * *
V\7 HILE E. Brown was the strike-
.out king of the league, 1 rate
him about third among the right-
hand pitchers, and Hogg, of Mobile,
fourth.
Brown has the failing that so
many strike-out pitchers acquire. He
is likely to develop a wild streak in
some particular inning of the game
in which he either walks enough
batsmen or is compelled to let up on
his speed to get the ball over, and
is hit freely. If not for this his
percentage of wins would have been
a great (leal larger than It was.
Hogg displayed baffling speed at
times and again at other times was
not so much of a puzzle, but every
thing taken Into consideration he is
a mighty steady pitcher with the re
quired nerve and brains that go with
it.
Wilson, of New’ Orleans, and Wil
liams, of Nashville, are both young
southpaws, and I consider them both
good men who are just in the early
stages of development. Wilson, es
pecially, has an iron nerve, as no one
with h*ss than that could have gone
through the mill that eventful day at
Mobile last September when a pen-
rant was at stake and come out with
flying colors.
I N making comparisons of the pitch-
* ers 1 have failed to take into con
sideration 1'rough, of the Birmingham
club, who led the league. He has a
grand curve hall and a good head, but
I don't hardly believe his courage is
as strong in a tight place as that of
Eddie Dent and some more of the
boys I have mentioned.
Now, to take a glance at the older
pitchers of the league, those held
over from 1912 and otherwise: Very
few r if any of them were able to hold
their own and quite a few of them
were given a change of scenery, with
the hope that it would prove a stim
ulant, but in almost every case there
was no improvement.
In speaking of a few who found
the going pretty rough I might men
tion Case, Montgomery: Fleharty and
More, Nashville; Newton and Par
sons, Memphis; Brady, Atlanta, and
Berger, of Mobile. Berger did man
age to win as many as he lost, but
he was not near as effective as in
1912. There were also about 35 oth
er aspirants who found the pace too
fast during the season and were
compelled to seek new pastures else
where. Taking ail things into con
sideration and carefully comparing
the batting averages of the men for
1912 and 1913 seasons I find that In
most cases each individual player
who was ranked as a regular during
the 1913 season increased his aver
age from 10 to 16 points, and In some
cases more. Of course, the Cincin
nati hit may have helped some, but
I hardly think enough to be notice
able, and after clue deliberation I be
lieve we will have to attribute the
general Increase In batting to poor
er pitching handed us in 1913 than
that of 1912.
Smith Out to Beat
Pelky in 5 Rounds
On New Year’s Day
SAN FRA NT 1 SCO. Dec. 22. Gunboat
Smith is a much better fortified tighter
than when he appeared here last, and
he knows it. Time was when Smith
would almost shy at a piece of paper
like a thoroughbred race horse, but
things have changed He Is now one
of the most confident boxers in the
business
“How big is this fellow Pelky?” ask e/1
the "gunner” at his training quarters
yesterday.
“He is not so tall as Jess Willard,
whom you shaded last May,” was the
reply.
“If that's the case, then everything
is all right. Bo long as. he Is low' enough
for me to hit I am satisfied," remarked
Smith with a laugh. According to
Smith. Arthur Pelky will last about five
rounds on New Year's Day
Smith is gaining weight, though hard
at work.
Pelky worked out before a large
crowd. He boxed eight rounds so stren
uously yesterday that Manager Tommy
Burns ordered that lie rest to-day.
He boxed two rounds each with Char
lie Horn. A1 Kreltzer, Tommy Burns
and Stanley Dean.
Betting on the hout, though light, re
mains at the opening odds of 10 to 8.
with Smith favorite, ami he is expected
to remain at this point.
Bill Foxcn Released
By Birmingham Club
BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 22.—Announce
ment was made last night by President
i Baugh, of the local baseball association
t that Bill Foxen, Baron t wirier, had been
' sold to tlie WUkesbarre Club. Foxen
has done good work for the Barons
since being a member of the club.
The disposition of Foxen caused little
surprise, as it had been indicated that
he would not he a Baron next season.
HURT IN ATHLETICS.
MADISON, WIS., Dec 22. — Eighty-
eight. or 1.02 per cent of the 7,160 ac
cidents occurring in Wisconsin during
the last fiscal year were due to football
or other athletic work, according to the
State Board of Vital Statistics.
Packe.\ McFarland asks $15,000 to
fight Gibbons or flabby and each of
these prospective opponents thinks he
is worth as much as Packey. These
$30,000 bouts have gone out of stvle
everywhere.
0 0 0
Joe Levy has joined the rebels and
sa.vs Rivers will fight only at 133
pounds lie will make one exception,
Willie Ritchie, saying that Joe will he
glad to get on with the champion at 135.
0*0
Jo* Thomas, the New Orleans boy,
continues to hit the toboggan at a mer
ry clip. Joe met Bobby Waugh in a
lift eeri-round go at Fort Worth, Texas,
last week, and lost tHe decision after a
hot battle. Thomas, however, was
forced to give away nearly 10 pounds
In weight.
• * •
Kind readers, chalk up another one
for Charlie White. The Chicago sensa
tion added Ad Wolgast to his list of
victims last Friday night, and is now
claiming the 133-pound title. Accord
ing to reports, the. hout was one of the
best ever staged in Milwaukee, proving
a grunt improvement over the Britton-
McFarland fiasco.
* * •
Two corking' heavyweight scraps wil!
he staked in New York to-night. But
tling Levfnsky, Danny Morgan's latest
wonder, meets Jim Coffey in one of the
ten round mills, while Jim Flynn and
George Rod el clash In the other ten-
round affair.
“white hopes” at his New Yor^c club
because he can’t get any other fighters.
Which reminds us of the man who
wanted fried onions when he couldn't
get ice cream.
* 0 *
Frank Baker took a trip to The Geor
gian sporting department Saturday noon
and had some harsh tilings to say
about "Kid" Young. The latter had
agreed to post a fnrfe.lt to meet Baker
in a private bout, but showed the white
feather bv tailing to put in his appear
ance "Why, ho wouldn’t step into
the same ring with me under any con
ditions," chirped Franklin, after wait
ing thirty minutes for Young to arrive.
* * *
Boxing fans will now turn their at
tention to IjOh Angeles and New Or
leans. Bud Anderson and i^each Cross
are scheduled to clash in a twenty-
round bout before Tom McCarey’s club
on New Year's Day In a go that will
have much to do in deciding the fu
ture of both boys. On the same day,
Freddie Welsh will swing the padded
mitts in a ten-round set to with John
ny Dundee at New Orleans.
• • *
Billy Wagner, brother of Charlie
White, may meet Joe Mandot at Wind
sor, Ontario. Promoter Glassco, of
Windsor, lias started negotiations with
Tommy Walsh, manager of Mandot, In
an effort to secure the French ring-
man for a January date.
0 0*
Willie Ritchie only wants $10,000 to
box Jimmy Duffy. We agree with Wil
lie when he says he doesn’t need a
manager of the Nolan type.
Athletic Club Five
Arranges Game With
Mercer for Jan. 14
Joe Bean, coach of the Atlanta
Athletic Club basket ball team, after
a conference with Captain John West
moreland, of Mercer University, closed
for a basket hall game between the
two teams at the locaj club Saturday,
January 14.
This practically completes the At
lanta Athletic Club's schedule of date*
for the year, only one more open date
remaining.
Johnny Dobbs After
Baskette for Pels
CHATTANOOGA. TENN.. Oec 32.
"Rig Jim” Baskette, who has hetr*
pastlming for Charles W. Somers aC
Toledo and Cleveland for some fouii
seasons, probably will join Johnny*
Dobbs at New Orleans next spring
Baskette got “In bad” with Toledo
and the Naps on account of his leis
urely habits, and the Mud Hens are
about ready to let him out. Dobbs,
who started Baskette In baseball in
1909, U confident that the big right
hander hae some good baseball left in
his system, and will fry his best tv
sign him.
New York ‘Commish’
Will Not Bar Packey
NEW YORK. Dec. 22.—That the New
York boxing commission will not place
Packey McFarland under suspension her*
whs stated to-day by Commissioner
Brice, who declares McFarland’s show
ing in bouts here, even though he never
tried to knock out his opponents has
made him a great favorite with the fight
fans.
McFarland, In a wire to Billy Gibson,
infers the Milwaukee promoters wer*
piqued because the crowd was was not
up to expectations, and that the specta
tors were peeved because he didn't try
to knock Britton out. He adds his sus
pension in Wisconsin was due to spit*
work.
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