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THE ATLANTA GEOUGTAN AND NEWS.
There Is Always*One Course Left Open to White Hopes—Tliey Alight Go to Work
KEEPS HONUS
Rule Suggested Six Years Ago
Enables Wagner to Maintain
Unbroken Record.
Buckingham to Coach
Denver Gridiron Boys
DENVER, Dec. 24.—H. G. Bucking
ham, of Memphis. Tenn., was last night
Appointed coach of the University of
Denver football tbam. He formerly was
a coach of the University of Tennessee
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A Gila’s a Gila, but Not a Monster
By O. B. Keeler.
I N the intervals of rumors con
cerning Bills' Smith and his pend
ing deals tor Desperate Esmond
and Third-sacker Yeager, of Montreal
that one looks as if it will slip, by
the way—and other gossip of a simi
lar nature, we note ‘that the reason
for our old friend, Honus Wagner, get
ting once more into the National
League Society for Three Hundred
Hitters dates back about six years
ago.
Hans Libert and Zack Wheat also
horn in under the same conditions,
and, in fact, that exclusive society,
this year numbering 23 members,
would have been curtailed by three
had it not been for something that
happened half a dozen years back.
We refer to the sacrifice fly rule.
* * •
CIX rears ago Billy Murray, now a
O Pirate scout and then manager of
the Phillies, instituted a motion to
credit with a sacrifice hit the useful
bloke who should arise in the pinch
and smite a long fly to the oufield on
w hich a runner on third scored.
This was a deserving clause in the
scoring rules, and has proved _a popu-
ar measure since its adoption, but
never more so than this year.
* * •
\X/ITHOUT that saving clause, dat-
W ing six years back, good old Ho
lms, for the first time in all his long
and’ honorable National League ca-
leer, would have finished outside the
charmed circle of .300 wallopers.
\s it waif, Hans batted an even .300
ir. the official figures. Without the
redit of sacrifice flies deducted from
Ills “at bats,” the Flying Dutchman
would have hit just .298—a pretty
fair little average, by the way, but a
whole lot of a margin when those
wretched little two points would have
separated the great shortstop from
his rightful place in the noble three
hundred class.
* * •
O OB TORT and Wheat would ha\
IV. been hauled dowpi to a miserable
"97 each bad they been charged with
times at bat on the several occa
sions when their long punches counted
runners from third.
Among the other swatters who
profited by the rule were Jake Dam
pen who led the National League by
P margin of .002. Gavvy Cravath
V he -an second, would have lost .00;,
from his record had his sacrifice flies
been plain “at bats," and Heinie Zim-
mennan gained still more, finishing
on, better than he would have if Mr.
Murray had not fathered that bright
idea six years ago.
* * •
A MON6 the .300 hitters who did not
Jv p 0 tp a ny sacrifice files were Mil
ler. Collins, Brown. Schmidt, Hess.
Hartley, Hooper and Crandall. Jack
Miller of Pittsburg, hit the most sac
rifice flies, his total being fifteen. Ed
Konetchv walloped thirteen, and two
I nhs—Zimmerman and Saler—were
next, in order, with eleven and ten,
respectively.
* * •
I I T. to our way of thinking, the
best thing that sacrifice fly thing
iRs done in its six years of opera-
ion was to Keep old Hans TVagner
"iiere he belongs—in the most exclu
de and select batting circle of his
league—in the Society of Three Hun
dred Hitters.
We always said Honus could Hit
.300. When it was reported he was
damaged and running on one side by
reason of a busted knee—and had no
'•’nance to bit In his usual stride—we
ame to bat with this little asser
tion:
‘Honus will bat .300 with a crutch,
if necessary.”
And Honus did it.
Thanks to Mr. Murray.
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I 'AHE ring statistician who cuts
loose once a year with a review
of the champions will find him
self all out of material when he
reaches for the 1912 “dope.”
Jack Johnson had a lively year, In
jail and oat, mostly in, but as heavy
weight champion the Big Cinder w r at
not called upon to defend his title.
The wholesale movement to “legis
late” Johnson out from under the
championship failed for the simple
reason that none of the pale heavies
were able to make a decent showing.
As championship candidates our
White Hopes run muchly to gorgon-
zola. the same being a fine brand of
ripe cheese recently discovered by Joe
Reichl.
Alii yes; the middleweight cham
pions, some flock. We have Jimmy
Clabby, middleweight champion of
Hammond. Ind. And George Chb-,
middleweight champion of Scranton,
Pa. And Frank Klaus, middleweight
champion of Pittsburg. And Frank
Mantell, middleweight champion of
Sacramento. And Billy Papke, mid
dleweight champion of something or
other.
Clabby appears to be the best of the
lot, with Chip a suspicious secono.
The remainder of the herd might
possibly qualify as sparring partners
for a real fighter.
Packy McFarland is the welter
weight champion, but he isn’t printing
this fact on his letterheads, for fear
that he may have to meet Mike Gib
bons. Mention these two boxers and
you have talked about the entire
142-pound division.
Willie Ritchie has worked like the
regular lightweight champion that he
I is. Since taking the title from Wolgast,
the San Francisco boy has beaten his
two most dangerous trailers—Joe
Rivers and Leach Cross—and is now
rematched to meet the veteran “Har
lem” Tommy Murphy. But it is up to
I him to fight Freddie Welsh as soon as
possible.
As featherweight champion. John
nie Kilbane had an easy year of P.
He tangoed for twenty rounds witn
I Dundee, kicked “Young" Mars, of Cin-
cinnatl. until that youth never can
hope to amount to ^ anything, ana
picked a few' “plants.
1 Johnnie Coulon, as bantamweight
champion. Is the most pitiful sped-
men of a title owner we have ever had
run for the past twelve months, leav
ing all the fighting in this clas.« to
Williams, Ledoux .and Campi. Wil
liams is the best of the bunch and is
the bantamweight king in everything
but name.
Not a title changed hands, not x
champion (save Ritchie) took a
fighting chance. Nothing about thi
year 1913 for the ring birds to grow
excited over.
Giants Announce
Spring Training Trip
Schedule for 1914
American League President Said
to Have Signed Two New
Arbiters—One ‘Fired,’
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NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—Secretary John
R Foster, of the New York National
1 eague club, last night announced the
spring training trip schedule of the
team. For the first time in many years
trie Giants will not play an exhibition
f ame on the Polo, Grounds before the
eginning of the regular season.
Following Is ihe training schedule of
the team:
/ March 14, 15, 21. 22, Dallas; 28. 29,
0. 31. Houston; April 1. Beaumont;
rf \pril 4. 5. f>, 7, New Orleans; April 8,
JToblle; April 9, £hattanooga; April 11,
32. 13, Baltimore.
The training schedule of the second
team follows.
March 7. 8. Dallas; March 14. 15. 21,
21, Waco; March 28, 29, Dallas; March
f). Denison; March 31, Sherman;
L.pri! 1. Bonham: April 2. Paris; April 3.
I'Yxarkana; April 4, 5. 6, Memphis; April
17, Nashville; April 8, Knoxville; April 9,
Asheville; April 10, Richmond; April 11,
Portsmouth.
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Fourteen Games for
1914 Rutgers Nine
NEW BRUNSWICK. X J., Dec. 24.—
The Rutgers College 1914 baseball sched
ule, consisting rtf fourteen games, was
announced to-day. The local college
is to have a Saturday game wdth Prince*
ton.
The schedule for the Southern trip,
to follow the Princeton game, has not
been announced yet. The schedule fol
lows:
March 28—West Point, at West Point.
April 4 Princeton, at Princeton; April
15, Hamilton, at home; April 18, K. P.
].. at home: April 25, Union, at home;
April 29, L’rsinus, at home.
May 2—Swarthmore. at home; May R.
Stevens, at home; May 9. New York
University, at home; May 13, Dickinson,
at home; Mfcv 16. New York University,
at New York; May 23. Delaware, at
Newark, Del.; May 30, t'nion, at Sche
nectady
.June 13—Stevens, at home
| Holiday Gun Shoot
At College Park
j The College Park PresH Club will hold
i; <x regular holiday gun shoot on tlm
club’s grounds to-morrow morning. In
addition to the regular shoot a hand!
cap affair will be held in the afternoon.
A beautiful loving cup will be given to
the winner.
HICAGO, Dec. 24.—While the
magnates and managers of
major league clubs are scouting
around for material to strengthen
their clubs for the 1914 campaign.
President Ban Johnson is not sitting
around idle. Big Ban Is searching
the Class A leagues for good umpires,
because he needs them badly. The
staff as it is at present is none too
good.
Reports have it that the czar of the
American League has signed two new
eallmen. Thty are “Red" Held, the
St. Louis boy, who last year did good
work in the Pacific Coast League,
and Ollie Chill, of the American As
sociation.
Held has been in the game a long
time, and wherever he went he has
done well. He umpired In the Con
necticut League, and then last year
went to the Pacific Coast, a Class A A
body. He had little trouble in the
Western League wdth players, many
of whom are former major leaguers.
It is also rumored that Big Ban is
about to correct the biggest mistake
on his umpire staff That Is, to fire
Charley Ferguson, who gained much
notoriety in the George -Stovall inci
dent last summer. Johnson stuck by
Ferguson unAil the end of the season,
but after the close of the campaign
he took some recognition of
howls of the different managers
Crack Runner Coming
To America in Spring
NEW YORK. Dec. 24.—In a letter to
Matthew P. Halpin, chairman of the
athletic committee of the New York
Athletic Club. Jean Bouin, holder of
the world's record for running one hour,
> announced that lie would come to
America next spring and probably en
ter some of the open athletic meets.
Bouin is the runner who at the Stock
holm Olympics created a sensation by
his showing in the 5.000 meter race, in
which he ran the winner, the redoubt
able IlanneH Kolehmainen. to a half
yard in the world's record time of 14
minutes 36 3-5 seconds
At the Stockholm Stadium on Labor
Day of this year Bouin. in an hour race,
rari ten miles in 50 minutes 46 seconds,
17 seconds faster than Kolehmainen a«*
romplished in his record ten-mile cham
pionship race He ran Hie unprecedented
distance of J1 miles 1.442 feet before the
hour had lapsed.
Fifty Motorcycle
Demons to Start in
300-Mile Marathon
SAVANNAH, GA., Dec. 24. Fifty ma
chines are expected to compete
in the 300-mile Grand Prize pro
fessional motorcycle race over the
shortened Grand Prize automobile course
on Christmas day. The value of the
cash prizes and cups to be contended
for has attracted motorcycle riders from
all over the country.
So important has the event become
that the Federation of American Mo
torcyclists. of which the Savannah Mo
torcycle Club is a member, and under
the sanction of which the event will be
run. has sent down Arthur Mitchell, of
Chicago, as official referee for the
race.
While the entries are piling in the
road work has not been left undone.
The Chatham County Commissioners
have had a force of convicts at work
for several weeks, smoothing out the
rough places on the course and banking
and improving the turns.
This will not only be the longest mo
torcycle event of its kind ever staged,
but the first of its kind—tire only 300-
mile race for the world's record for the
distance and this record will probably
stand unless another race is attempted
at Savannah.
Freddie Welsh Made
10 to 8 Favorite
OverJohnnyDundee
NEW' ORLEANS, LA., Dec. 24.—Fred
die Welsh. British champion, has been
made a 10 to 8 favorite over Johnny
Dundee, the Eastern lightweight, by lo
cal fans Welsh has been working here
for the past week and Is showing great
form in his daily workouts.
Harry Pollock, manager of Welsh, is
looking for a sure win for his protege.
Pollock says he has Welsh matched to
box Frank Whitney in Atlanta and feels
that a victory over Dundee will boost
Freddie's stock considerably. The
Eastern lightweight has been going good
of late and is being touted all over
the country as a contender for Willie
Ritchie's crown. This means that
Welsh will have to be at his best to
win.
Dundee is expected here some time
J to-morrow and will get down to real
I work at once. A victory over Welsh
will be, a big feather In his cap.
Western Magnates
May Get Control of
St. Louis Americans
LOS a ANGELES, Dee. 24 It was
learned to-day from an Eastern baseball
man wintering here that a deal Is on
between President Maier. of the Venice
and Stockton clubs, and Bob Hedges
and the directors of the Sr. Louis
Browns, whereby the Coast League
magnates expect to obtain control of
the Browns and will hack Hat* Hogan
as manager of the team No confirma
tion could be had of ihe story Hap
Hogan irf manager of the Venice club,
in rtie Coast League.
McGoorty Battles *
Smith To-morrow.;
Other Bouts on Card
j CHICAGO, Dec. 24. Some interesting
fights are billed for to-morrow' after
noon and evening Probably the. most
Important is Eddie McGoorty’s match
• with Dave Smith in Australia. Eddie
I Is to box four men abroad before, re
turning. Smith is the firsu Here are
the matches for to-morrow: Battling
•Levinsky vs. Jack Driscoll, ten rounds,
[at Brooklyn; Eddie McGoorty vs. Dave
p ... _ , . _, r . Smith, 20 rounds, at Sydney. Australia;
Referee Halts Bout in the Fifth KM VVIlIlama vn Frankie Bradley Sir
rounds, at Philadelphia; George Rod el
vs. Howard Morrow, ten rounds, at Sy
racuse. N. Y.; Kid Kansas vs. Willie
j Beecher, ten rounds, at Syracuse, N. Y.;
Carl Morris vs. .lark Geyer, ten rounds,
[at Clovis, N. Mex.
Round to Save Pittsburger
From Knockout.
P ITTSBURG, PA., Dec. 34.—
George Chip, Scranton mid
dleweight, apparently has
come to stay. To-day he rhust
be taken seriously in the strug
gle for championship honors. Chip
put himself right up in the front
ranks last night, when, for the sec-
end time, he knocked out Frank
Klaus, local star. This time the fin
ish came in the fifth round of a six-
round bout.
Chip beat Klaus into a helpless
condition, and Referee Dillon stopped
the bout to prevent serious injury.
Landing a hard left on the jaw of
Klaus started the Pittsburger over
the dizzy road. Chip then closed in
and shot a short right to the jaw.
Klaus became weaker, and Chip con
tinued raining blows on his weaken
ing opponent, putting him down.
Klaus got up at the count of seven,
but was very weak. Chip was after
him like a Hash, raining blows on his
jaw and head.
The arms of Klaus dropped to his
side, and Referee Dillon stopped the
bout. Although on his feet, Klaus
was battered and did not know what
was going on. (’hip at no stage of
the fight was In danger. He was cool
and put up a wonderful battle.
Mississippi A. & M.
Has Strong Quintet
The Atlanta Athletic Club basket bail
team Is going to have a hard battle on
Its hands nexi Saturday night when they
meet the Mississippi Agricultural and
Mechanical College quintet.
Reports from the visitors’ camp state
that they have a better team than last
season, when they made it hot for every
team they played in Mississippi. Ala
bama and Louisiana.
OUTFIELDER TO JOIN BENEDICTS.
CHICAGO, Dec. 24. Fred Williams,
the Cubs’ speedy outfielder, will cele
brate Christmas eve py joining the An
cient and Honorable order of Benedicts.
He will he married this evening to Miss
Vada Perkins, of Ooodland, Ind. The
ceremony Is to he performed at the
home of the *bride.
COLUMBUS FIVE WINS.
COLUMBUS, GA., Dec. 24 In a has
ket ball game last night, Columbus V.
M. C. A. defeated Central College, Mis
souri, 114 to 26. Peddy, for the locals,
made 66 points.
The Cigarette of
LOADED BALL ABOLISHED.
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 24.—The use
of the loaded ball in bowling was
abolished by the officers of the Inter
national Bowling \ssociation here
last night. Opposition to the loaded
ball was inaugurated by the inter
national association some time ago.
ACKERLAND DIES.
CINCINNATI. Dec 24.—Max Acker-
land. 57 vears old. brother-in-law of ex-
Mayor Julius Fleischmann. died at his
home here yesterday from a protracted
illness He leaves a widow and several
children. A brother. Harry Ackerland.
of Pittsburg, is a stockholder in the
Chicago National league baseball club.
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