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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. S6K0R T*l«, I,, - <5ilAko N yren.,TH € ^ or *u. snak**.I smak*: h PReys OPON H6R.CS WH€R£ l Ger R(0 06- ) 1 PCT ,\N X POLLY AND HER PALS Of Course, the Family Couldn’t Afford It This Month 1 OM SCARCELY WMlT To 6ho*j \XAMT The BuniCM Bought You For. Cnmtr^AS, pa ’• 'MY AutJT H/166IE. M/1, /45MOR, PEZ.IC\A ,4/JD tAYStLE! 5ure! TihatZ The. ohly mY ix/e. Could AFFord £l/ch Aid eypfuzm present ; m.’ arf ybo (June Pc6f7ii/E y'giu AfFogo PoS iTiv/e! yia] Figured rr All out ! You HAVE flVE ?AY DAY* This Mouth V'kuovx/.' (frF'J-rERBjTlt 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. Opium Whl*k»r ■"«* Drue Kublt* •* Horn* or •« Sanitarium. Book on aub)a«P Ft**. OK H M. WOOLLEY, VIM* SaniUrioaa, Atlanta, Oaorglw * 1 brokers 301 Peters Bldg Phone Main 22# STRICTLY PRIVATE. Wilton Jellico Coal $5.00 PER TON Tlie Jellico Coal Co. 82 PEACHTREE ST. Atlanta Phone 3668 Bell Phone Ivy 1585