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TTTE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. 1 ['lie Lead ing Hitter of the Stove League Seldom Brea! as Record ts in Fast Company Mutt Bought the Wrong Breed of Gila Monster By ‘Bud’ Fisher Evans Declares Course at Regina One of the Best in the Dominion. By “Glide” Evans. ry^HE 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- • . ting the transportation service, so lat problem is well settled. The golf .-nurse measures a little less than 0 000 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 modem 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 there is ample money, it is planned to erect before long one of the finest < lubhouses 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 wMth his work on it. Lookout President Knows Nothing of C, 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 lie 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 1/)S ANGKL.ES. Dec. 22—Cravath, one of the stars of the Phillies, may jump to the Federals. ‘‘The i* ederal League has made me a swell offer f9r next season and unless the Philadelphia management ‘comes through' strong i am going over to the Federals.” This wire was received by o fncmi ere to-dav. The movement of the reds shows how strong they are in their fight for stars. Mississippi Aggies Play Local Five Next i he fourth game of the local basket ball season will be played next Satur- night at the Atlanta Athletic Club. The Mississippi Agricultural and Me- hanlcal College five will be the op ponents of the locals. KILBANE VS. GRIFFITHS. hEVELAND, OHIO, Dec. 22.—Man- • r Jimmy Dunn said to-day that there a possibility that Featherweight ampion Johnny Kilbane, of Cleve- •d, will meet Johnny Griffiths^ of tron, in a twelve-round bout at Can- i in January*. Kilbane will insist, wever, that Griffiths make 130 pounds gside. HARRINGTON RELEASED. ' 1 XNEAPOLIS. MINN.. Dec. 22.— Kelly, manager of the Indianapo- team, of the American Association. • unced here last night that he ha*i ■ ased Pitcher William Harrington, or Hrapolis. to Binghamton, of the York State League. LfeKOR. t This r,-,. or Mi sNAK.es. LN, Nfe H r E N ^ L ' y oe M(/kal sna! N ? “P°n 'xe * 1 SELL rr To 'uO OMt p^o neR-Cs ‘*>h€R£ j g«t rio oe ! Jeep'S Pe-r^AKt. THE \ GIL&NlOrtS-reR. DevoURK, snakes ukl sprees l 0 1 POLLY AND HER PALS Of Course, the Family Couldn’t Afford It This Month 1 CAii {Tcarcelv WAn -To $nc*/ \X/H4T “The. Bi/MCH BouGH-1 you Tor. Christmas, P4; •MW MA66IE. M4, ASHUR. VtUClA /\*io 51/Rt! Tm4T^ The. outy W4V IV/E Could AFFord 4M EXPENSIVE PRE^FftT! vy/4L‘ ARF iou (funE PoSlT/VE y'kiM AfTord \ IT - Posrrnie! ma B60RED IT 7\M-L out ! you H4ve Five. P4V p Mouth V’kMOtf.' (-'FF- i /rtlt£% Wells-Carpentier Fight a “Fake,” Is New York Report CHICAGO, Dec. 22.—According to a New York report, the recent Bombardier Wells-Georges Carpentier scran over in London 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.. Der. 22. — The breach between President Hirsig and Manager Schwartz, of the Nash ville baseball team, has reached a serious stage. President Hirsig has 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 J400 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 Welchonce-Cailahan rieaj of last year was also made without his sanction. Hirsig denies this and has called on Schwartz for a public re traction. i Sporting Food ). By GEORGE E. PHAIR'™~ JOSEPH IS NOT JOSEPH. Then Joscnh Tinker up and spoke: ‘Twirlers in 1913 Were Not as Effective as in 1912'—Cracker Captain WELCHONCE PRAISES DENT AND COVELESKIE BOXING News of the Ring Game. RITCHIE WILL GO EAST. FAY YORK, Dec. 22. Willie Ritchie he matched with Freddie v\ elsh, Rivers or Paekey McFarland at lison Square Garden, after his nout Tommy Murph) on the coast, Jan- 23, according t« an announcement Att lq-Odif PrniB^ 1 “•' Billy’ Gibson. Cruthers Signs to Play With Athletics PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 22.—Charles Cruthers the young Philadelphian who , played brilliantly at second base for the j Athletics last season at the fag end after , the pennant had been clinched, has, signed a contract for 1914. , Cruthers is one of Lari Mack s finds. I He looked so promising both In batting i and (Hiding down in Raleigh. N. <’ . Iasi , summer that the son recommended him Jo the father, lie Joined the Athletics sfter Raleigh hail finished its season. ; and in the few games he played he more i than fulfilled all press notices. A. A. U. Track Men Ignore Kolehmainen NEW YORK. Dec 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, ati- noimred is continued at the meeting There the Finn produced all his prizes, annarentlv has not continued to any ex tent and nothing was done toward dis ciplining Kolehmainen or absolving him from blame. .*'/(( It (I'lU'IKf/'IHIWtlt Kt I f*U I I Will someone pul 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 ha Imp winter! When the buds of sprint/ are showing In the grass at ponder; ball yard; When the zephyrs in the bleachers Are as warm as those of May time. And we sit and yearn for baseball. Hut there ain't no baseball schedule; And we think of what is coming In the cold and clammy Springtime When the air is full of moisture and the park is full of puddles And the bleachers all tire vacant And the gate receipts are absent. Ob, the irarm and balmg winter! oh, the t 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. It Ik paid that < ‘harlie # White wont into the fight game for his health, but promoters ran tell you that he is not 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. The moment that a baseball star is placed upon the block The magnate clears his roue and gives the baseball world a shock. He offers forty thousand bones in such a lustp strain That everybody hears the news from Oregon to Maine. Oh. he would gladly sign a dozen million-dollar cheeks, Hut on the square, he wouldn't pay ten thousand dollars (Mcx.) Hi doesn't buy the player, but hr hastens fft explain. "Oh. / teas double-crossed," he says, and wears a look ttf pain. 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 cases\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 llie 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 fact that both men have developed great ly and their pitching the past season was just as good as tb^ 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 case 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 be taken away from the Pole, for I consider him the hardest propo sition I 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 stopped 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. • * * ( ^AVET 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 I 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 youn pitchers who were away up in the 1 percentage columns when they were officially announced—Dent, Price and (’onzelman, 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 he on the same club wdth them, and doubtless, considering the way Dave Robertson was treated at their hands. 1 »av«*1 several points on my season’s average by escaping them. 1 hand pitcher there was in the 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 pennant to Atlanta. I might men tion here that Carl Thompson show ed himself to he 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. • • • * \I7HILE 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 w'alks enough batsmen or is compelled to let up on his speed to get the hall over, and is hit freely. If not for this his percentage of wins would have been a great deal larger than it was. Hogg displayed battling 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 less 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. • • * | X making comparisons of the pitch- * ers I have failed to take into con sideration Prough, 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 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- nt, but in almost every case there no improvement. 'taking of a few who found pretty rough I might men- ^'Montgomery; Fleharty and 'ashville; Newton and Par- 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 w’ho found the pace too fast during the season and were compelled to seek new pastures else where. Taking ail things into con- the batting averages of the men for 1912 and 1913 seasons I And that in most cases each individual player who was ranked as a regular during the 1913 season increased his aver age from JO to 15 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 due deliberation 1 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 Oil New Year’s Day SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22 Gunboat Smith is a much better fortified tighter than when he appeared here last, and lie 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 Ik tills fellow* Pelky?” asked the ‘‘gunner” at his training quarters yesterday. ‘‘He is not ho tall as Jess Willard, whom you shaded last May,” was the reply. ‘‘If that's tiie case, then everything Ik all right. So long as he la 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 he rest to-day. He boxed two rounds eaeh with Char lie Horn. A1 Kreitzer, Tommy Burns and Stanley Dean. Betting on the bout, though light, re mains at th< opening odds of 10 to 8. with Smith favorite, and he Is expected to remain at this point. Bill Foxen Released By Birmingham Club BIRMINGHAM. Dec. 22. —Announee- ; ment was marie last night by President I Baugii. of the local baseball association that Bill Foxen, Baron twirler, had been sold to the Wilkesbarre 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 be 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. fight Gibbons or Clabby and each of these prospective opponents thinks he us worth as much as Paekey. These $30,000 bouts have gone out of style everywhere. • * • Joe Levy has joined the rebels and says Rivers will fight only at 133 pounds. lie will make one exception, Willie Ritchie, saying that Joe will be glad to get on with the champion at 135. • * * Joe Thomas, the New Orleans boy, contlimes to hit the toboggan at a mer ry clip. Joe met Bobby Waugh in a fifteen-round go at Fort Worth, Texas, last week, and lost tlie* 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 WolgHKt to his list of victims last Friday night, and is now claiming the 133-pound title. Accord ing to reports, the bout was one of the pest ever staged in Milwaukee, proving a great improvement over the Britton- McFarland fiasco. * * • Two corking' heavyweight scraps wil! be staked in New York to-night. Bat tling Levlnsky. Danny Morgan’s latest wonder, meets Jim Coffey in one of the ten round mills, while Jim Flynn and George Riwlei clash In the other ten- round affair. • • • Billy Gibson says he has to put on ‘‘white hopes” at his New York 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. * • • Frank Baker took a trip to The Geor gian sporting department Saturday noon and had some harsh things to say about “Kid” Young. The latter had agreed to post a forfeit to meet Baker in a private bout, but showed the white feather by failing to put in his appear ance. “Why, he wouldn’t step into the same ring with me tinder any con ditions,” chirped Franklin, after wait ing thirty minutes for Young to arrive. Boxing fans will now turn their at tentlon to teis Angeles and New Or leans. Bud Anderson and Leach 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 hoys. 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, has started negotiations with Tommy Walsh, manager of Mandot, in an effort to secure the French ring- man for a January date. * * * 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 ball game between the two teams at the local club Saturday, January 14. This practically completes the At lanta Athletic Club’s schedule of dates for the year, only one more open date remaining. Johnny Dobbs After Baskette for Pels CHATTANOOGA, TENN., Oec 32. "Pi* Jim” Baskptte, who has beta pastlmlns: for Charles VV. Somers ac Toledo and Cleveland for some foud seasons, probably will Join Johnny* Dobbs at New Orleans next spring flasket te got "In bad” with Toledo nnd 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 ir» 1909, Is confident that the big right- hander has some good baseball left tr, his system, and will try hta best to sign him. New York ‘Commish’ Will Not Bar Paekey NEW YORK. D*<\ 22.—That the Ntw ork bnxlng commlsalon will not plac% Paekey McFarland under suiponsinn her* was aiated to-day by Commisainnei* t’rlcc, who declares McFarland's show ing in bouts here, even though h*» never tried to knock out his opponents ha* made him a great favorite with the fight fanH. McFarland, in a wire to Billy Gibson* infers the Milwaukee promoters were piqued because the crowd was was not up to expectations, and that the specta tors were peeved because he didn't trv* to knock Britton out. He adds his sus pension in Wisconsin was due to spit* work. Opium Whl*k«n«l Drue M«Mu %*•»«< •» Horn* or *» S«olt«Hum. Book on aubju* DR B M. WOOLLEY. *-N. Sanitarium, Atlanta, banrafe * 1 JEWELERS A BROKERS 301 Peters Bldg Money Y\ to T^oan. Phone Main 22R STRICTLY PRIVATE. Wilton Jellico Coal $5.00 PER TON The Jellico Coal Co. 82 PEACHTREE ST. Atlanta Phone 3668 Bell Phone Ivy 1583