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By ‘Bud’ Fisher
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Rule Suggested Six Years Ago
Enables Wagner to Maintain
Unbroken Record.
Bv O. R. Krelor.
I N the intervals of rumors con
rerning Billy Smith and his pend
Ing deals for Desperate Esmond
and Third-sarker Yeager, of Montreal
that one looks na if it will slip. I>Y
the way- and other gossip of a simi
lar nature, we note that the reason
for our old friend. Bonus Wagner, get
ting on^e more Into the National
league Society for Three Hundred
Hitters nates back about six years
ago
Hans I^obert and Zaok 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.
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S IX years ago Billy Murray, now a
Pirafo 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 oufleld on
which n runner on third scored.
This was a deserving clause in the
scoring rules, and has proved a popu-
Jar measure since its adoption, bnt
never more so than this year.
POLLY AND HER PALS
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U /1THOUT that saving clause, dat
ing six yea’s back, good old Bo
nus, for the first time in all his lbng
and honorable National Deague ca
reer. would have finished outside the
charmed circle of .300 wallopers.
As it was Hans batted an oven .300
•he official figures. Wlthoui the
•edit of sacrifice flies deduoijoa Lroni
u ■ in« Dutchman
would hive hit just '<t pretty
fair little average, b\ t.fae W. but a
v hide lot of a margin ’■’hen those
wrethed iitt*« two point J* would have
separated the •horUtop from
1,iv npuji. i i.la« r .* Tn DV • noble three
hundred i iasS.
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R OBERT anH 'Uheai would have
been hauled Tvn to a miserable
II cat h had itry t*CD charged with <
times at bat on the several occa
sions when the r long 'punches counted
runners from tltitd.
Among the other swutters who
profited by the rule weie Take Dau
brrt. w ho led the National 1 e.agu% by |
a margin of .002 flawy < 'ravath.
who ran second, would have lost 005
from his record ltad Ids Hiuriflie Hies
Teen plain “at hats." and Heinie Zim
merman gained still more, finishing
.007 better than he would have if Mt
Murray had not fathered that bright «
Idea six years ago.
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Sporting Food
\ gdONG the .300 hitters who did not
pole any sacrifice flies were Mil
ler. foilin' 0 . Brown. Schmidt. Hess
Hartley. Hooper and (Irandall. Jack
Miller, of Pittsburg, hit the most sar-
riflce flies, his total being fifteen Erl
Konetcby walloped thirteen, and two
Cuba—Zimmerman and Saier were
next in order, with eleven and ten.
respectively.
By GEORGE E. PHAIR
$10,000.
I'hr shades of night icere falling fast
I When from a oasebatl meeting passed
1 t magnate full of liquid joy
W ho said: "I'll hand you, Joe, old
hoy,
$10,000.”
I l'T to our wa\ of thinking, fhe
-* best thing that sacrifice fly thing
l as done in its six ><*ars of - pera-
trn was >o Keep old Man* Wagner
where he belongs in the most exclu
sive and select batting circle of Ms
league—in the Society of Three Hun
dred Hitters.
We always said Honua could hit
.300. When it was reported he was
damaged and running on one side b\
tcason of a busted knee— and had no
chance »o hit in his usual stride -we
came to bat with this little asser
tion :
“Honus will bat .300 with a crutch,
if necessary'
And Honus did it
Thanks to Mr. Murray
Referee Halts Bout in the Fifth
Round to Save Pittsburger
From Knockout.
! II hen Joseph heard the gladsome
news
] II thrilled him to the very shoes.
"I'll < ren play in Kankakee”
He said, "if you present to me
$10,000 ”
And Where Are Our Champions?
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Yes, ‘Where?’ the Echo Answers
Fifty Motorcycle
Demons to Start in
300-Mile Marathon
Fourteen Games for
1914 Rutgers Nine
By Left Hook.
TAKE ring statistician who cuts
j loose once a year with a review
Buckingham to Coach
Denver Gridiron Bovs
ITTSBt RQ. PA , Dec.
George Chip, Scruntun
d le w eight. a ppare n t ly
come to stay. To-day he
be taken seriously in/ the
gle for championship honors,
put himself right up in the front
ranks last night, when, for the sec-
• mi time, he knocked out Frank
Klaus, local star. This time the fin
ish came in the fifth round of a six-
round bout.
And then the Cincinnati crowd
| Spoke up in accents harsh and loud:
j "Hear Sir We sin ur to eat our hat
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mid- ! Kef on' you get your hands on that
has! $io.000.”
must |
strus- , The tine* was' printed fnr and wide,
OhiP ; tin hill and plum and countryside.
And ns it flashed about the earth
As advertising it was worth
S10.000.
In spite of ail the press agent work
i u , v * , i-i : in his behalf. Joe Tinker refuses to In-
( h p beat Klaus into a helpless I fe5t the stage , thereby nlakln 8 g himself
■ ondit.on, and Kefeiec Dillon stopped |the idol of theater patrons,
the bout to prevent serious injury. * * *
Landing a hard left on the jaw of. The fact that Mr. Tinker demands a
Klaus started the Pittsburger over \ three-year contract to play In Brooklyn
DENVER. Dec. 24 H. G. Bucking- !
ham. of Memphis. Tern., was last night
appointed coach of the University of !
Denver football team • He formerly was
a coach of the University of Tennessee
XMAS RATES
Reduced over N., C. & St.
L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R.
Apply any Agent.
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 flash, raining blowa 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 Chip at no stage of
the fight was in danger He was cool
and put up a wonderful battle.
shows that lie Is
ment.
a glutton for punish-
Far be it from us to otter any advice
to the Cincinnati directorate, but Boh
Messenger, of the Browns, has the light
name for a manager.
of the champions will find him
self all out of material when he
reaches for the 1912 “dope.”
•Tack Johnson had a lively year, in
jail and out, mostly in, but as heavy
weight champion the Big Cinder was
not called upon to defend his title.
The wholesale movement to “legis
late” Johnson out from under the
championship failed for the simple
reasbn 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 Joo
Reichl.
Ah! yes; the middleweight cham
pions. s^rre flock. We have Jimmy
Clabby, middleweight champion of
Hammond. Ind. And George Chip,
middleweight champion of .Scranton,
Pa. And Trank 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 second.
The remainder of the herd might
possibly qualify as sparring partners
for a real fighter.
Packy McFarland le 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
(ds. Since taking the title from Wolgast,
the San Francisco boy has beaten his
l wo 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
him to fight Freddie Welsh as soon as
possible.
As featherweight champion, John
nie Kilbane had an easy year of it.
He tangoed for twenty rounds with
Dundee, kicaed “Young” Mars, of Cin
cinnati, until that youth never can
hope to amount to anything, and
picked a few “plants.”
Johnnie Coulon. as bantamweight
champion, is the most pitiful speci
men of a title owner we have ever had
to look upon. Coulon has been on the
run for the past twelve months, leav
ing all the fighting in this class to
Williams. Ledoux and Campi. Wil
liams is the best of the bunch and !s
the bantamweight king in everything
but name.
Not a title changed hands, not a
champion (save Ritchie) took a
fighting chance. Nothing about the
year 1913 for the ring birds to grow
excited over.
SAVANNAH, QA., Dec. 24.—Fifty ma
chines are expected to cstnpete
in the 300-mile Grand Prize pro
fessional motorcyole raoe 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 beoome
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—the only 300-
mile race for the world's record for the
distance -and this record will probably
stand unless another race is attempted
NEW BRUNSWICK, N J., Dee. 34.—
The Rutgers College 1914 baseball sched
ule, consisting of fourteen games, was
announced to-day. The local college
Is to have a Saturday game with Prince
ton.
The schedule for the Southern trip,
to follow the Princeton game, has not
been announced yet. The schedule fol
lows:
Marph 28—West Point, at West Point.
April 4—Princeton, at Princeton; April
15, Hamilton, at home- April 18, R. P.
I., at home; April 25, Union, at home;
April 29, Urslnus, at home.
May 2—Swarthmore, at home; May 6,
Stevens, at home; May 9. New York
University, at home; May 13, Dickinson,
at home; May 16. New York University,
at New York; May 23. Delaware, at
Newark, Del.; May 30, Union, at Sche
nectady.
June 13—Stevens, at home.
McFarland Is Still
In Good Graces of
NewYork'Commish'
NEW YORK. Dec. 24.—Packey Me
Farland is still in the good graces of the
J-'ew York State Athletic Commission
There will be no suspension of the Chi-
ago boxer because he offended In Wis-
onsin, which State ruled him out of the
r ng for a year. The boxing body of this
j State took up the McFarland case with
1 s regular business yesterday, but failed
(to see why they should punish the Chi*
jcagoan.
j The commission, in discussing the
|case, declared the Wisconsin body erred
l la suspending Packey without a hear
lig. They went further to Intimate that
jj was up to the commission to stop
I Packey from entering the ring that
Tight If he had offended and not wait
intil the promoters got clear and then
Dlace the Dan on the boxer. Their cor
:entlon Is that the public 1* to be oon-
idered first, not the promoters.
K
at Savannah.
'Western Magnates
May Get Control of
St. Louis Americans
The New York Board ef Charities
complftina that tha State haarPt enough
Institutions to provide for Its Idiots.
The said board evidently attended the
•Ix-day bicycle race.
nay
fered $35,000 for Joe Tinker, but he did
not speak above a whisper.
Giants Announce
Spring Training Trip
Schedule for 1914
Freddie Welsh Made
10 to 8 Favorite
OverJohnnyDundee
I ,OS ANQSSjES, Dm. 34.—Tt WJL (t
to-dajr from »n Eastern baseball
CTO wintering here that a deal la on
between President Maler, of tha Venice
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I Mayor Julius Fleischmann, died at his • • •
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CHICAGO. Dee 14 -The Federal
league Is hot on the trail of Joe Tinker.
; former Cub and recent manager of the
I Hods, and If they can get him, $45.
1000 for three years will not be too high
price. Tinker and the heads of the
i Chicago F ederal league club are to
; meet again to-day. It Is reported to
halk signing The minute Tinker la
(ready to affix his name to a contract
(the Federal people will post the $45,000
Jin a bank to insure Joe that his money
iwili follow hla service The offer meets
tin the hope that Charlie Murphy, of the
I Cubs, can get him
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COLUMBUS FIVE WINS.
! COLI MBUS, GA , Dec. 24. In a has-
I hot hall game last night. Columbus Y.
M. C A. defeated Central College. Mis
souri. 114 t-‘ 26. Peddy, for the locals,
made 66 points.
NEW YORK, Deo. 24.—Secretary John
B. Foster, of the New York National
-eague club, last night announced the
spring training trip schedule of the
earn For the first time in many years
he Giants will not play an exhibition
atne on the Polo Grounds before the
eginning of the regular season.
Following is the training schedule of
the team:
March 14. 15. 21. 22. Dallas; 2*. 2$.
0. 31. Houston; April 1, Beaumont;
April 4. 5. 6. 7. New Orleans; April 8.
Mobile April 9. Chattanooga; April 11,
12, 13, Baltimore.
The training schedule of the second
team follows:
March 7, S. Dallas; March 14. 16. 21.
2. Waco; March 28. 29, Dallas; March
0. Denison. March 31, Sherman.
April 1. Bonham; April 2. Paris; April 3.
Texarkana. April 4. 5. 6. Memphis; April
7. Nashville; April 8. Knoxville. April 9
Asheville April 10. Richmond; April 11.
Portsmouth.
LOADED BALL ABOLISHED.
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 24.-The um
of the loaded ball in bowling was
abolished by the officers of the Inter
national Bowling Association hers
Last night. Opposition to the loaded
ball was Inaugurated by the Inter
national association some time ago.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.. Deo. 24.—Fred
die Welah, British champion, ha* 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 nas 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 oeen 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 hts best to
win.
Dundee Is expected here acme time
to-morrow and will get down to real
work at once. A victory over Welsh
will be a big feather in his cap.
Mississippi A, & M.
Has Strong Quintet
and Stockton dubs, and Bob Hedges
and the directors of the 8t. Louis
Browns, whereby the Coast League
magnates expect to obtain control of
the Browne and will back Hap Hogan
as manager of the team. No confirma
tion could be had of the story’. Ilap
Hogan is manager of the Venice club,
in the Coext League.
Moran Hopes to Get
Fights in New York
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 24 Owen
Moran, the British lightweight, disgust
ed with the poor* showing jvhich he
made against Joe Azevedo over In Oak
land a few nights ago. has decided to
shake the dust of California from his
shoes and take a chance at the ten-
round game in New York. He depart
ed for the East, promising to return in
good form.
Moran says thet he can get on in New
York, and he expects to start there 1n a
few weeks after he does some training
If there is nothing doing for him around
Gotham, Moran Intends to return to
London, where, he says, he can always
get plenty of work in the ring
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try with their goodness.
And their high qualitystill
keeps them popular.
The choice, mild tobacco
and careful workmanship
thatputs them sofarabove
all imitations, has made
Piedmont the biggest
selling 5c. cigarette in
America. Whole coupon
in each package.
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SHELTON STOPPED IN SIXTH.
ST. LOUIS. Dec. 24.—Carelessness on
the part of Jack Shelton at the begin
ning of the sixth round nut a sudden end
to his bout with l*eo Kelly at the Fu
ture dt> A. O . last night. The Comp
ton Hill boy landed a solid right across
to Jack’s jaw which sent the former
shoemaker down ^or the count of ten.
The Atlanta Athletic Club basket ball
team is going to have a hard battle on
its hands next 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.
CAROS PLANS SOUTHERN TRIP.
ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA.. Dec. 24 —
Word was received to-day from Man
ager Huggins of the St. T^ouis Cardi
nals. saying that the advance guard
of the team, twenty men will arrive
here February 20 for spring training
Fifteen or twenty mon* men will ar
rive on the first of March All of thorn
will remain here until the April series
with the Athletics is completed.
JO forfj*
FULL OF SCABS
What eoutd b* more piUful than th« conib-
! tion told of In thla letter from A. R. Avery
J Waterloo. N. Y.:
We hava been ualn* your Tetterlna. ir*
the bf.»t on earth for skin aliment*. Mr*.
8. C. Hart was a slfht to aee. Her fac*
waa a mass of scabs. Tetterlna has cured
It.
CATARRH
Cured by Tetterine
>!um Whlaiey aod Druj^ Habit*
_ Horn* f at Sanitarian book on stibjev*
■ DR R M. WOOL.LIV. U-H. Vlau
'ms. Atlanta. G«or*l*
Tetterlne rams erzemn. ground Itch, rln*-
worm and ail skin troubles. Its effect la
60a at drugsists. or by mart.
magical.
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