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TTTT: ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. r—*- The Fighter Who C.m Get <i Decision Over John Barleycorn Heis Not Appeared Yet SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT GIVE PRESIDENT You Simply Can't Escape the Dear Things Tinker Squabble Proves That Head of Club Has Right to Complete Deals, By Frank G. Menke. N EW YORK, n*c. 22 Th« Ttnkfr unuitbbl* brought clearly to the fore the fart that th< present of a ball rlub ha« full powe** to trede, well or buy a player and that hi* aotlona, In this respect, ran not bf repudiated hr the dlrertora of a rlub it aleo haa shown that the Cincin nati rlub directors are vacillating persons, that they Interpret the rule' of the National Leagu* only as the' tend to w^rve the beat Interest* of the '■‘lnrfnnntl rlub. The rule* of the National Tsea*ue are clearly defined on the point of who haa Anal and full power to ne*o tiate for players. That person Is the president—and the president alone The National League rules take 1t for granted that the president of a club is empowered by the directors to art foT them, and that all his acta are binding upon tnem Practically the same Cincinnati club directors who canceled the agreement made by Herrmann, declaring that hla actions had to he ratified by the di rectors before they were final and binding, assigned a different attitude in 1 PI 0 • * t AT that time Manager D-voln, of the ** Phillies, entered into a deal with Oarr\ Herrmann Involving the ex change of seven players When Pres ident Pogel. of tne Phillies, heard of the deal, he ordered It canceled, de- ' larlng thai Dnoln had no authority to make It. And bow the Cincinnati people did roar! They Insisted that Dooln did have the power; that the deal was legal and binding They insisted that a managers acta did not have to be ratified by either the president or the directors. They carried their protest against the cancellation of the deal tip to league President Lynch, who orrectiy interpreted the rules, de- oed In favor of Philadelphia, stating that Dooln had no right to make such a deal, and that Pogel alone hat! the power • • • T IKK has lost about all Its sweet- ne«s for the st Louis Cardinal fans It was hard enough for them to endure the blow dealt them when the selling of liquid refreshments was abolished at the park but the sale of FX1 Konetchy to the Pirates is a crushing blow What charms will a beer-less and Konetchy-less hall park have for them henceforth'’ • • • ANDY CARNEGIE ought not to ** overlook Billy Gibson, fight pro moter. when he hands out the next hunch of hero medals. 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 "white hope’ a man who can put up a bat tle a la Messrs Sullivan, Corbett, Fitzsimmons and Jeffries "1 won’t die happy unless I do. ' says Gibson Gibson’s a pretty nice fellow and It seems a shame that he’ll be unhappy and miserable wnen 1t 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 Jesse B Hawley a substantial raise In salary for the coming 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, Dee 22. There will be no change in the staff of umpires, ac cording to John K Tener. president of the National League lie said the best managers hod told him the present staff Is as good as could be found BRITONS PLAN CHANGES. CHICAGO. Dec. 22 While the Ameri cans -are standing pat on their 1913 ten nis rules, the Britons are planning to make some radical changes Also, they want the International tennis rules for 1914 changed THCGG'S D/RTv va/OHK GO/M \ OM H/E75& - LAST kllGtUT t (rAV6 AAV *OCL omce o\j£n and coumted to. &OOAS - MOVA/ ‘ 7 i ^oppose tv»€.vuif* vviuc sheiwirn that old JT>lX JMIL6 WOW A/V/C^ I'M THO 'V-AD ALEUcn+AMPE?- 'Anirn iwnori*euT that ftpTV TR AMT" THKAwP»I- / TWlTH (TH OOli. THejEWTH ANNiMERTHARy' ’ AnjO VME AH6 ATH j_ovi m i^ ath &/&S- HA-H XEOEi A f>oe^ ABOUT COPIO a ■POI'OW 60 WEffOLfi amO rxe. \wipr’* OoiiOwEO MOOtAEJ m-a-ma- \ AtECKT>* DOVOO toe® a&o mow vou cau<vmt me IU -vour_ ARMTM SmEA-M e\/s fJ V sts INDOOR SPORTS By Tad Former Sox Southpaw, on His Way to Minors, Thanks Loyal Supporters. C HIOAGO, ILL., Doc. 21. Doc White, veteran White Sox hurler and until recently one of the most effective pitchers op ihe South Side organization, to-day ts wending his way westward, where he will take up his new berth While is heading for Venice, Cal., where no will be seen In uniform next season, and for several seasons thereafter. Here Is "Doc's" Tarewell; ' I would consider It a favor if you can find space in your 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- rer and has beckoned me to come from my berth us 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 Tommy and the fans, who’ve always stood the test, supporting me when t was ’bad’ and giving me their aid when Take him out’ is probably what they fain would have said. Il s hard to leave my friends and pals, who’ve been so kind and true. The thought of going chokes me up snd realh makes me blue. "Through future year* I'll thank you. fans, for what you’ve been to me You've been mv Judge and Jury, and, 1 sav It gratefully, it’s to you I owe what small success I may have had, for you’ve encouraged me although my work at times was sad The play ers realize what it means to have tiro fan’s good will; It helps a man to hear # the rooters’ voices, loud and shrill. You’ve stuck to me through all and helped me capture many a game, you’ve not found fault when I 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, how much !l meant; hut I Just wish to sav I’d love to grasp you by the hand and tell you, one by one. how grateful to you all 1 am, now that my work *s done. "To Commj and the boys 1 wish success In years to come, and that they’ll lick the Cubs each year 1 guess that’s wishing some." Nick Altrock's Last Good Game +•+ -!-••:• +•+ Final “Flash’* in Minneapolis By 0. B. Keeler. O X a sport page of The Sunday American there was a big pic ture of Nicholas Altrook and a little story of how the once great southpaw was shoving lumber in a yard near the White Sox ball park in Chicago, the scene of many of his past triumphs. As I read that story I 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." Minneapolis hall park; their mas ter’s whip cracked, and they jumped through, rolled over, and played dead * * * TN a fairly comprehensive term of 1 service, I never have been privi leged to see a regular no-hit, no-run game. It wasn’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 the plate. Twenty-five of them walked back to the bench. One Miller reach ed first on a single; one drew r a base on balls; both died stealing. One fly ball was caught in the out field. The other Millers went sofily out on gentle grounders, pop-up flies, or on jumping, darting third strike.-. When that game was over, I real And then I thought of the last Ized 'that7 had wen a”gameVnV " great game old Nick ever pitched, or an absolute mastery of pitching arm ever will pitch. I’m afraid. I saw him pitch that game is a little story about it. This e Cigarette cl Quality Piedmont — the 5c. cigarette that has never been success fully imitated. Day in and day out—Pied mont goes along satisfying smokers who appreciate the goodness of finest, fra grant, mellow tobacco and perfect workmanship. The biggest selling 5c. cigarette in America—un commonly good—unvan ingly uniform. Whole coupon in each package. JO for LOCAL FANS TO SEE ENGLISH CHAMPION LIGHTWEIGHT ON JANUARY 6 FREDDIE WELSH AND WHITNEY TO BATTLE HERE F -'ltKI 1 lit By W. S. Farnsworth. EDDIE WELSH, the English lightweight champion, and 'rank Whitney, the Fighting Carpenter, 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 1 guess he 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. • • * U’lllTNFY needs no introduction vv in Atlanta. He has been tried time and again and never found wanting. He has fought Jake Abel. Battling Nelson, Charley White and a dozen other tough ones within the boundary lines of the (.ate City and always gave satisfaction True, he didn’t beat White, hut he gave the clever and hard-hitting Chicago hoy 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. 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 tfie decision over Welsh for the English title in 1911, but Freddie reversed matters and won back the crown in 1912. Just look over the following list 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 Deshler. Maurice Sayers. Charley Neary. Packer McFarland. Phil Brock, Abe Attell, Harry Trendall, George Memsic, Ray Bronson, Young Donohue. Johnny Prtfyne, Jack Good man, Henry Piet, Johnny Summers. Matt Wells. Pal Moore, Willie Ritchie. Jimmy Duffy, Jack Langdon, Grover Hayes. Young Saylor and dozens more. YX7 ELSH gave Willie Ritchie a„ * * merry trim A ND Chi) now for Mr Lightweight hampion of England Welsh. He started battling way hack in 1905. His debut ended with his opponent tak ing a big sleep in the third round. Since then Freddie has fought fully HiO fights, and only twice was the de cision against him. Packer McFarland was handed the verdict over him. But the bout was in Milwaukee, where McFarland was exceedingly popular until he fought Ritchie rimming in a 20-rounu 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 last Welsh thought he was going to 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. It was a case of chilled pedals of the lowest degree. * • * Ilf ELSH i s now after Ritchie again. vv hut Willie is going tp take on Tommy Murphy. However. Freddie sins ho will stick .V-er the American title holder until he corners him In the meantime the European champion is going to tour the South. On New Year's Day he will meet Johnny Dundee in New Orleans Im mediately after that scrap he will set sail for Atlanta to battle with Whitney. prepare for his \X T E wish to congratulate Count Castro on starting off the win ter season with such a corking bout Carrigan Will Be Only Playing Leader BOSTON. Dec. 26.-^111 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 former players in uniform, allowing them to visit the coaching lines. Connie, however, will differ from all his rivals in this respect. It has been many years since Connie donned a uniform, and yet he has been by far the most successful of the lot. 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 went to Indian apolis to meet Tinker, who was not oer- tain the Brooklyn manager would be there, and so did not leave Chicago. Robinson immediately got into com munication 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 1 signed, and wanted to know the salary I expected." Tinker said. " ‘Unreasonable,’ he re plied. when I told him. He promised to think It over." Tinker would not name the salary figures, but some time ago he said that $7,500 would be satisfactory. He said he expected to meet Charles Ebbets, president of the Brooklyn club, before long. TUTHILL IS OUT AGAIN. WEST POINT, X. Y.. Dec. 22.—HarrJ Tuthlll, trainer of the Detroit Ameri can League baseball club, and more re cently of the victorious Army football team, left here for his home In Detroit yesterday. Tuthill has been confined to the hospital here since the day after 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. Herr\ who was graduated from Amherst in 1910. was prominent as a hockey player while at college. PERRY IN MOTORCYCLE RACE. 1’RBANA. 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- mile race at Savannah. Ga., on Christ mas Day* Pratt Resigns From Players' Fraternity ST. LOUIS, Dec. 22.—Derrill 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 h:.- action thus: "Uncomplimentary and unfounded things were said about me last October when I was accused of telling the se crets of the Players’ Fraternity. Of course these reports were untrue, but i"t»the good of the Players’ Union I am going to resign. I have the fraternity's good will at heart, and will do all I 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 refaring for the fall season. This is 80 miles more than was rowed in any other fnil. FIGHTER DIES. LONDON. ? •<- ; —Jf.-nmv Ri:r*vw.*- ;l-o lightweigi t boxer, r.l d here after a bout w, George Freeman, at the Ju dean Athletic Club. In the sixth round ] Burrows was pressing Freeman hard ! when he suddenly collapsed and fell, j Efforts to revive him failed. I 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 years before, 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 be knew the old fellow w*as 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, I think it was I 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 tlie porter started making up the beds, Nick came along to my section and sat d6wn and began to talk. • * * "VT IOK 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 limes; the dawm 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 Mordecal Brown the first day; how he pitched out a heart-breaking struggle against the three-fingered W'onder 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 fare. "And If Hahn had caught that fly I’d been pitching him yet. I reckon!" * ♦ * \17ELL. Nick told me all about it. ** 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 the grand old southpaw' who was far along on the dun-colored back trail. » • * TPK 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 ter years. But I kind of felt like loosen ing up. you know, and—aw, well— good-night! ” • * * EXT day \vp opened in Minno- 1,1 apolip, and Carr elected Old Nick Altrock to pitch tile 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 Ros=man. the two Delehantys, “Gavvy" Crava'h, now the home-rar, hitter of the Phillies, Hobe Ferris Otis Clvmer—oh. thev could hit. those Millers! But they faced their master's hand that bright May afternoon, in the new DO YOU ITCH? 1 If so. use Tetferln* | Itch, ringworm, ftchlnp It i ’" T . a n>g, ground , - - t' 'es. infant sore all other skin trouiles Head w at r ft 1 Kaus. ■ <m ais. «ays- 11 Enc!a**d find SI. <n TeLcrinr. One- tlnne mou for cerii ibO wartii nf othti i and brain had been shown. The other eight Blues might as well have been high school pla,yers. There wasn’t a hard fielding chance in the game. 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 would have hit Nick Altrock that day. • * * \X7ELL, that was Nick's last goot 1 game—the last sparkle of the failing flame of a great pitching genius. Three days later. In St. Paul. Nick pitched again, and was found for a dozen sounding blows, though the Blues, poundfng even harder, pulled him In a winner. He did not win another game, and In a month he was given an uncondi tional release, going promptly to < lark Griffith at Washington to make sport for tiro fans by his clownish antics on the coaching lines. * * * 17 T 1 do. not remember Nick as a clown, though he undoubtedly wa? one of the funniest men in baseball I recall Nick as the serious narrator of a long, hard, adventurous basebal! life. And T recall him as a grim, cold and dominant figure, mastering with the final flash of his failing arm th< slugging champions of Joe Ca'ntillon and pitching the best game of ball I ever sav—and the lasf good game o! a truly great slabman. YALE ARRANGING DATE9. NEW HAVEN, CONN.. Dec. 22 V, hile the Yale football schedule will not 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 \N ashfngton and Jefferson. 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