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TITE ATLANTA GEOROT AN AND *EWS. O D) HDD & KEEPS HONUS A Gila ’s a Gila, but Not a Monster By ‘Bud’ Fisher Get THAT’S TOO BAB, MV per <oft* Monsrt?- CHAStb f * Y JdAW A MOLC A Ntj * >50*Ant LOST- tm Both, i most feo Hu jtw 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. v ^5 / amt> roK*-HW*»vo«e vne 6<LA MOATS Ten &AT-S SNAJte* SO j h^'Ll 6at '/runti am> th?*, To VJBPP IH TKC MOLfc Itl o,trrf~ ? mm ’^'tV •rtV'-"' 3 ^ HWAQtrr y^r on. mv CCAO TO Tu^ HOLe r 'vUtiljS T>«ev v»»**<r *_i<iKT Tx><-*4 tmat Moce. mcs 6Ar«n YOU*. UtA*e rr PBT rAYTLSP- - '/ twst. -T,< 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 - - - m / - - By Cliff Steritt ii 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. h 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. (To-. 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? +•* •!-«•!• *•+ -!•••*• -S-** *•+ 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 i. 24. 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 MEN Cured Forever How lucky it was for the National ACKERLAND DIES. l.eeeue that its meeting was not held CINCINNATI. Dec Max Acker- in Cleveland, where the barkeeps are on I land, 67 years old. brother-in-law of ex- ,h strike. I Mayor Julius Fleischmann, died at his • • • J borne here yesterday from a protracted I Having perfected a fool-proof aero- ' illness He leaves a widow and several plane. It behooves Orville Wright to (children A brother. Harr> Aekerland. move to Cincinnati and start work jof Pittsburg, is a stockholder in the fool-proof ball club. [Chicago National league baseball club, j * * # -, —I The remains of the 12 foot giants found in Louisiana are said to have re- on Py • tru« sperlahiit wbrt ponnfMM th* ripen- fncs of years. Tks rt*M kind of rrprrtrnrr -doing lh« s*m« thin* tht rlfht I way hundred* and pot haps thousands at tlmsa. with unfailing. p*rman*nt results. Don't you think J It'a tlm« to got ths right treatment? I will curs you or make no charge, thua prosing that my r^eeer* day. aelenttfle method* are absolute ’.y certain. I hold out no false hope# if I find your case 1« Incurable. If *ou desire to con- a reliable, long established specialist of markably thick skulls This shows that efen In prehistoric times there were white hopes. tfc Canterbury Feds Make $45,000 Offer to Joe Tinker A eery shepelv collar, ■Ab||‘ ‘rbalan vast experience. rnro« to me and learn what ran be accomplished with skillful, scientific treatment. 1 can cure Blood Poiaor, Vari cose Vein*. Ulcer*. Kidney and Bladder dla- *«*e* Obet ructions. Catarrhal Dischargee Pile* and Rectal trouble* and all nerrou* and Chronic Disease* of Men and Women. Examination free and airtetl* confidential. Hours 9 s m to 7 p. m . Sundays. 9 to 1 admirably balanced in It* proportion*. A (treat favorite voting men. an<1 tho*« won wish to be up to the tnark in style. *4 Ide fi/i'er Collars 2 fnr 25c 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 $45,000 Jin a bank to insure Joe that his money iwili follow hla service The offer meets tin the hope that Charlie Murphy, of the I Cubs, can get him I iE.iiBiisan s.eq jnq ‘jpAojddp s.aof inj.w DR. HUGHES, SPECIALIST alwny* fit well and ncTrr pap st the top. Thev stand for pr<“< i*ion. * . urm v, -’nfinite ■ icety of detail and all-ronnd tightness. Oppoalt* Third Nat’l Rank 1* 1 2 North Broad St.. Atlanta. C.i i Car I ion Shoe & Clothing Co. COLUMBUS FIVE WINS. ! COLI MBUS, GA , Dec. 24. In a has- I hot hall game last night. Columbus Y. M. C A. defeated Central College. Mis souri. 114 t-‘ 26. Peddy, for the locals, made 66 points. NEW YORK, Deo. 24.—Secretary John B. Foster, of the New York National -eague club, last night announced the spring training trip schedule of the earn For the first time in many years he Giants will not play an exhibition atne on the Polo Grounds before the eginning of the regular season. Following is the training schedule of the team: March 14. 15. 21. 22. Dallas; 2*. 2$. 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 Years ago Piedmont Ciga rettes captured the coun 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. \ 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. SHUPTn!kE CO.. SAVANNAH. GA. or the bladdef RiliiTfd In 24. 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