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TTTF ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
The Fighter Who Cnn (iel ci Decision Over John Barleycorn Has Not Appeared Vet
SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
You Simply Can't Escape the Dear Things
EI PRtSIOENT
PIER TO TIE
Tinker Squabble Proves That
Head of Club Has Right to
Complete Deals.
R\ Prank G. Mcnko.
N rfTW YORK. Dec 22. The Ttnke?
J squsibbl® ha* brought clear
to the fore the fact that th<
rrewrlent of a ball club has full po a <
to trade, *ei! or buy a player and thai
his actions, in this re^rpect. can nol h«
repudiated by the directors of a Hub
It also has shown that the t 'in- in
nati club directors arc vacillating
persons that they interpret the rules
of the National league only as t! c-
tend to serve the best Interests of the j
Cincinnati club
' The rules of the National Tjeaguc i
are rleaxlv defined on the point o: j
who has final and full power to nego
tiate for players. That person 1s the |
T»resident—and the president a4one
The National League rules take it for
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is empowered by the directors to act
for them, and that all his acta are
binding upon them.
Practically the same Cincinnati club
directors who canceled the agreement
made by Herrmann, declaring that h1s
actions had to he ratified by the di
rectors before they were final and
binding, assumed « different attitude
in 1910
• t •
AT that /imp Manager Dooln, of the
** Phillies entered Into a deal with
Garry Herrmann Involving the ex
change of seven players When Pres
ident Fogel, of the Phillies, heard of
the deal, he ordered It canceled, de
claring that Dooln had no authority
to ma.ke It.
And how the Cincinnati people did
roar! They insisted that Dooln did
have the power; that the deal was
legal and binding They Insisted that
a manager * acts did not have to be
ratified by either the president or the
dire* tors They carried their proteit
against the cancellation of the deal
on lo league President Lynch, who
correctly interpreted the rules, de
cided In favor of Philadelphia, stating
that T>ooin b-«d no right to make such
a deal, and that Fogel alone had the
power
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i hence fort h ?
A NOT CAJINEGTE ought not to
overlook Billy Gibson, fight pro
moter, when lie hands out the next
hunch of hero rm dais Gibson de
serves one. for he is attempting what
no other man in the world would try.
He’s trying to find, through process
of elimination, a real, regular “w r hlte
hope a roan who can put up a bat
tle a la Mosers Sullivan. Corbett,
Fitzsimmons and Jeffries
"T won t die haptfy unless I do.”
sa^s Gibson.
Gibson s a pretty nice fellow, and It
seems a shame that he’ll be unhappy
and miserable woien It comes time for
him to make an earthly exit
COACH TO GET RAISE
IOWA CITY, IOWA. Dec. 22 The
Iowa Athletic Board has voted Coach
.1 esj»p B Hawley a substantial raise in
salar\ for the coining season and ap
pointed a committee to proceed at once
with the drawing up of a contract to
be offered him.
NO CHANGE IN UMPIRES.
PITTSBURG, Dec. 22.—There will he
no change In the staff of umpires, ac
cording i«> John K Tener, president of
The National league He said the best
manager* hod told him the present
staff is as good as could be found.
BRITONS PLAN CHANGES.
CHICAGO. Fee. 22. While the Ameri
cans are standing pat on their 191.2 ten
nis rules, the Britons are planning to
make some radical change* Also, they
want the International tennis rules for
1914 changed
Former Sox Southpaw, on His
Way to Minors, Thanks Loyal
Supporters.
C "CHICAGO, ILL., Dcf. 22. Doc
White, veteran Whit® Sox
hurler and until recently one
of the most effective pitchers on i he
South Side organization, to day ia
wending his way westward, where he
will take up his new berth. White
is beading for Venice, Gal., where he
'"'ill be seen In uniform next season,
and for several seasons thereafter.
Here 1s "Doc’s” farewell.
* I would consider It a favor if you
can find apace in > our columns to
publish these few lines that I may
express to the Chicago public my
gratitude for their part of my suc
cess during my baseball career in this
good old town.
“Father Time has crooked his fln-
per and has beckoned me to come
from my berth as major leaguer to
the ‘brush’ to make my home
"Ten years and more I’ve struggled,
fought and toiled and tried my best to
win for Commy and the fans, who've
always stood the test, supporting me
when 1 was ‘had’ and giving me their
aid when 'Take h>m out' is probably
what they fain would have said. It’s
haid lo leave my friends and pals,
who’ve been so kind and true. The
thought of going chokes me up and
really makes me blue.
"Through future years I’ll thank
you. fans, for vyhat you’ve been to me
You’ve been my Judge and jury. and.
1 say It gratefully, it’s to you I owe
what small success I may have had.
for you’ve encouraged me although
im work at times was sad. The play
ers realize what it means to have the
fan’s good will it helps a man to
hear the rooters’ voices, loud and
ohrlll. You’ve stuck to me through
all arid helped me capture many a
game, you’ve not found fault when
1 was licked, but cheered me Just the
sa me
"You’ve urged me on to better
work by sticking day by day. not
knowing, perhaps, bow much it
meant; but I just wi^h to sav Id
love to grasp you by the hand and
tell yoti. one by one. how grateful to
you all 1 am, now that my w’ork is„
done.
"To Pomm\ and the boys I wish
succefss In years to come and that
they'll lick the Pubs each year I
guess that’s wishing some.”
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LOCAL FANS TO SEE ENGLISH CHAMPION LIGHTWEIGHT ON JANUARY 6
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By W. S. Farnsworth.
F V? EDDIE WELSH, the English
lightweight champion. and
Frank Whitney, the Fighting
Parpen ter. are going to open the 1914
boxing season in Atlanta, when, on
the evening of January 6. they will
tie up in a 10-round session.
Our genial friend. Count Lou Cas
tro, has decided that the time is ripe
for another mill, and I guess be is
right The boxing fans seem to be all
keyed up for a scrap; and in Welsh
and Whitney they ought to witness a
corking mill.
• • «
VV ^ 1 1 F*V need> no in:roduotion
vv in Atlanta. He has been tried
ttmr and usaln and never found
wanting He has fonght Jake Abel.
Battling Nelson, Charley White and
a dozen other tough ones within the
boundary lines of the Gate City and
always gave satisfaction True, he
didn't beat White, but he gave the
clever and hard-hitting Chicago boy
the hardest kind of a scrap.
Frank has never been in a slow
bout in Atlanta. You have got to
hand it to this lad for making the
other fellow travel. If his opponent
wants to box. Then Frank will box;
if said opposition desires to stand toe
to toe, then Frank accommodates.
He always gives the fans a run for
their money.
• • •
A ND now for Mr. Lightweight
Champion of England Welsh, lie
started battling way back in 1906. His
debut ended with his opponent tak
ing a big sleep in the tliird round.
Since then Freddie has fought fully
100 fights, and only twice was the de
cision against him
Packey McFarland was handed the
verdict over him. Rut the bout was
in Milwaukee, where McFarland was
exceedingly popula* until he iwugh;
Jack Britton the other night. After
that Welsh met McFarland twice,
once in a 25-rounder in Los Angeles
and again in a 20-rounder in England.
Both scraps were declared even
Matt Wells earned the decision over
Welsh for the F.nglish title in 1911,
but Freddie reversed matters and won
back the crown in 1912.
Just look over the following 1st of
some of the men that Welsh has
fought:
Eddie Fox. Jimmy Dunn. Tommy
Feltz, Tommy Love, Frank Carsey,
Jimmy Devine, Matty Baldwin. Billy
Glover. Young Erne. Willie Moody,
Tim Callahan. Seaman Hayes, Young
Josephs. Willie Fitzgerald, Dave
Deabler. Maurice Sayers. Charley
Neary, Packey McFarland. Phil
Brook. Abe Attell. Harry* Trendall,
George Memsie. Rev Bronson. Young
Donohue. Johnny Fravne, Jack Good
man. Henry Fiei. Johnny Summers.
Matt Wells. Pal Moore. Willie Ritchie.
Jimmy Duffy. Jack X^angdon. Grover
Hayes. Young Saylor and dozens
more.
• • *
\U ELSH gave Willie Rliehie a
merry trimming in a 20-round
go in Los Angeles just two years ago.
And Willie can't see Welsh at all
these days. Only a few months back
Welsh and Ritchie were to meet in
Vancouver. Both men were on the
ground, trained to the minute, and at
.
get a crack at the American title, but,
alas—
Ritchie found a way out
He claimed that he had been out
talked of $500 by the promoters and
he immediately caught the first train
leaving the Canadian town.
R was a case of chilled pedals of
the lowest degree.
• • •
\lTEIySH Is now after Ritchie again,
* V but Willie is going to take on
Tommy Murphy. However, Freddie
says he will stick after the American
title holder until he comers him.
In the meantime the European
champion is going to tour the South.
On New Year’s Day he will m^et
Johnn> Dundee in New Orleans, im
mediately after that scrap he will set
sail for Atlanta to prepare for his
battle with Whitney^
* * *
U7E wish to congratulate Count
** Castro on starting off the win
ter season with such a corking bout
Carrigan Will Be
Only Playing Leader
BOSTON, Pec. 26. —Bill Carrigan will
be the only playing manager in the
American league next season. Six of
the other seven teams will be handled
from the bench by forrrier players in
uniform, allowing them to visit the
coaching lines. Connie, however, will
differ from all his rivals in this respect
ft has been many years since Connie
*lonned a uniform, and yet he has been
by far the most successful of the lot.
TUTHILL IS OUT AGAIN.
WEST POINT, N Y.. Pec 22.—Harry
Tuthill. trainer of the Detroit Ameri
•'an League baseball club, and more re
cently of the viciprioiis Army football
team, left here for his home in Detroit
> esterdaj Tuthill has been confined t*
the hospital here since the day aiter
the Army-Navy football game
MACKMEN TO PLAY PENN.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec 22.—Connie
Mack, of the American League Baseball
Club, announced to-day that he had
arranged to play' two games with the
University of Pennsylvania team next
spring. The games will be played at
Shibe Park on March 30 and 31
JOHN HENRY TO COACH.
AMHERST. MASS., Dec. 22—John
Henry, catcher of the Washington
team, of the American League, has been
appointed coach of the Amherst hockey
team Henry, who was graduated from
Amherst in 1910, was prominent as a
hockey* player while at college.
PERRY IN MOTORCYCLE RACE.
URBAN A. ILL., Dec. 22.—Robert A.
Perry, the Illinois freshman motorcy
clist, who holds the dirt track record
for a mile on the old Indianapolis
Speedway, yesterday entered the 300-
mil® race at Savannah, Ga., on Christ
mas Day.
Tinker's Demands
Are" Unreasonable,"
Declares Robinson
CHICAGO. Dec. 22.—The salary Joe
Tinker demands from the Brooklyn Na
tionals was termed unreasonable yester
day by Wilbert Robinson, manager of
the club, in a long-distance telephone
conversation. Robinson wont to Indian
apolis to meet Tinker, who was not oer-
aln the Brooklyn manager would be
there, and so did not leave Chicago.
Robinson Immediately got into iotn-
munieation with Tinker here. After the
talk Tinker said he believed the differ
ences between himself and the Brooklyn
club could be adjusted despite the at
titude of the club toward his salary*
request.
"Robinson told me the $10,000 bonus
was mine as soon as T .signed, and
wanted to know the salary I expected.' 1
Tinker said. " ‘Unreasonable.’ he re
plied. when 1 told him. He promised to
think it over "
Tinker would nol name the salary
figures, but some time ago he said that
$7,500 w’ould be satisfactory*. He said
he expected to meet Charles Ebbets,
president of the Brooklyn club, before
long
Pratt Resigns From
Players' Fraternity
ST LOUIS. Dec 22 Perrill Pratt,
second sacker of the Browns, has re
signed as his club's representative in
the Players’ Fraternity.
Unpleasant notoriety during the fall
series, when he was accused of having
divulged the secrets of the association,
is the reason given for his resignation.
There may be other causes. He ex
plained his action thus:
"Uncomplimentary and unfounded
things were said about me last October
wheti I was accused of telling the se
crets of the Players’ Fraternity. Of
course these reports were untrue, but
for the good of the Players’ Union I am
going to resign I have the fraternity’s
good will at heart, and will do all 1 can
for Dave Fultz's organization.
ROWING CREWS BREAK RECORD.
MADISON, WIS., Dec. 22.—Crews of
the University of Wisconsin broke all
rowing records at this institution when
they completed 230 miles of rowing for
the fall season. This is 80 miles more
than was rowed in any other fall.
FIGHTER DIES.
LONDON, Pec. 22.—Jimmy Burrows,
the lightweight boxer, died here after a
bout with George Freeman, at the Ju
dean Athletic Club. In the sixth round
Burrows was pressing Freeman hard
when he suddenly collapsed and fell, i
Efforts to revive him failed. 1
By 0. B. Keeler.
O N a sport page of The Sunday
American there was a t^g pic
ture of Nicholas Altrock and
a little story of hW the once great
southpaw was shoving lumber in a
yard near the White Sox ball park
In Chicago, the scene of many of jils
past triumphs.
As I read that story T thought of
old Nick's grand performance of 1906,
when he faced the Cubs and the
peerless Miner Brown, and set them
down in the first game of the world’s
series—and pricked the bubble of
their confidence and virtually won
the championship of the world for
the "Hitless Wonders.”
And then I thought of the last
great game old Nick ever pitched, or
ever will pitch, I’m afraid.
I saw* him pitch that game. This
is a little story about it.
* * •
IT was in the early summer of 1912,
1 in Minneapolis. Nick was pitch
ing for the Kansas City Blues, of the
American Association. He had not
shown much stuff since he left the
American League a couple of rears
b< fore, and had knocked about In the
big minor league until Dan Shay
picked him up in 1911. Carr took
over the Blues in 1912 and regarded
Nick as a valuable veteran, though
he knew* the old fellow was nearly
done.
Well, I was traveling with the Blues
as war correspondent for The Kansas
City Star, and we set out for the first
Northern Invasion of the year, in
May, 1 think it was.
1 have since thought It was rather
odd—In fact, I thought it was odd at
the time, for Nick wasn’t in the
habit of talking much about himself.
But along about the time the porter
started making up the beds. Nick
came along to my section and sat
dow*n and began to talk.
* * *
ICK told me the stor yof his life.
He told me the story of sixteen
years in professional baseball; the
first tryout; the failure: the partial
success; the tough luck; the hard
times; the dawn of fortune; the first
"regular job;” the prosperous times
in the big show*.
And then Nick told me about that
great series of 1906; how he beat
Mordecai Brown the first day; how
he pitched out a heart-breaking
struggle against the three-fingered
wonder on their next start—0 to 0.
Inning after inning, until Hahn, of
the Sox. misjudged a long, high fly.
"I pitched Brownie the game of his
life." Nick said, with a queer, wry
grin on his rugged, homely face. "And
if Hahn had caught that fly I'd been
pitching him yet, I reckon!”
* • •
1X7ELL. Nick told me all about it
» V and if it wasn’t very literary, it
caught up In force and smashing
metaphor. And some way I felt pret
ty solemn, listening there in the dark
ening Pullman to the life-story of
Xhe grand old southpaw* who was far
along on the dun-colored back trail.
• • •
^ICK was sort of sheepish about It
as he finished. He sat silent a mo
ment; then he got up abruptly and
slapped me on the shoulder.
"Gee.” he .said, with an embar
rassed sort of laugh. "I haven't talked
so much about myself in the last ten
years. But I kind of felt like loosen
ing up. you *know. and—aw. well-
good-night !"
• * *
MKXT rUy \vp oppppH In Minnn-
' ' apoli^. nnH Carr fleeted Old Nick
Altrock to pitch the first game against
the Champion Millers of Joe Can-
tillon.
• • •
THEY were a hard-hitting bunch of
1 veterans, those Millers, cham
pions the last two years, and cham
pions again that season, by the, way,
Claude Rossman. the two Delehantys,
“Gavvy” Cravath, now the home-run
hitter of the Phillies, Hobe Ferris,
Otis Clymer—oh, they could hit, those
Millers!
But they faced their master’s hand
that bright May afternoon, in the new
Minneapolis ball park; their mas
ter's whip cracked, and they jumped
through, rolled over, and played dead.
* m •
T N a fairly comprehensive term of
1 service, I never have been privi
leged to see a regular no-hlt, no-run
game. It w*asn’t In my luck, it seems
But that last good game that old
Nick Altrock pitched will do very well
to keep me from mourning my lim
ited allotment.
In nine full Innings, precisely 27
Millers walked from the bench to tho
plate. Twenty-five of them walked
back to the bench. One Miller reach
ed first on a single; one drew a base
on balls; both died stealing.
One fly ball was caught In the out
field. The other Millers went softly
out on gentle grounders, pop-up file*,
or on Jumping, darting third strike*.
When that game was over, I real
Ized that I had seen a game in which
an absolute mastery of pitching arm
and brain had been shown. The other
eight Blues might as w*ell have been
high school players. There w*asn’t a
hard fielding chance in the gam*
On the other side, the Blues made
three runs for Nick, all in one ex
plosive inning. That was three times
as many as he needed. No team on
earth w*ould have hit Nick Altrock
that day
• * •
‘ELL. that was Nick's last good
game—the last sparkle of the
failing flame of a great pitching;
genius.
Three days later. In St. Paul. Nick
pitched again, and w^as found for a
dozen sounding blow's, though the
Blues, pounding even harder, pulled
him in a w’inner.
He did not w*in another game, and
In a month he was given an uncondi
tional release, going promptly to
Clark Griffith at Washington to make
sport for the fans by his clownish
antics on the coaching lines
* * •
T r do not remember Nick as a
clown, though he undoubtedly was
one of the funniest men in baseball.
1 recall Nick as the serious narrator
of a long, hard, adventurous baseball
life.
And T recall him as a grim, cold
and dominant figure, mastering with
the final flash of his falling arm th«
slugging champions of Joe Cantilion
and pitching the best game of ball I
ever saw*—and the last good gam® of
a truly great slabman.
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YALE ARRANGING DATES.
NEW HAVEN, CONN.. Der 22. -
While the Yale football schedule will
be formally announced until aft^r
New Year’s, it was learned last night
that all the games but one have been
tentatively decided upon The schedule
includes: University of’Maine. Lehigh
\5 ashington and Jeffprson. University of
Virginia, Colgate. Brown, Princeton and
Harvard. All of the games except that
of Princeton will be played here
MACKMEN WANT “BUZZ.”
LOUISVILLE. KY., Dec. 22.—Theo
dore Brzozowskl. a local semo-pro south
paw pitcher has been offered a oor
tract by Connie Mack, manager of the
Philadelphia Athletics. “Buzz.” as be
is called, pitched a no-hit. game at Car
rollton, Ky., against New Castle last
summer.
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