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CHAS. MURPHY silk HAT HARRY’S divorce suit
Well, of Course, ThaVs a Different Thing Again
MR DELA!
Baseball Fans Think Chicago
Magnate Has Placed Big Offer
Before Crack Shortstop.
By Sam Cranr.
d:iy that (\ Waistcoat Murph .
A *• a Chicago, llllnt is, gentleman
is the main reason for the seeming
reluctance of Joe Tinker to sign a ,
Brooklyn contract.
Perhaps such a suspicion does Mu.'- j
ph\ an injustice. It is likely that he
is In no way resi onMble for the coy
ness of the said .Vlr. Tinker. Hut the
fact remains that Murphy covets Tio- |
ker in a most unholy way, anil "Oiiid |
go to anv fair limit to get him.
Th Chicago fans are clamoring for .
Tinker. They have agitated for hi-|
return ever since they learned thit
the Cincinnati club would put him on
the auction block They want Tinker
or anything else. Murphy is in bad’’
or anything else. Murphy is ‘in ba.l
with the Chicago club. But if he got
Tinker for them it would be a master
stroke—one that would cause the fans
to forgive him for his many omissions
and cnmissions of t'.e past.
If Murphy h. s not confabbed with
Tinker and urged the little shortstop
to hold off signing a Brooklyn con
tract until he could play a little sub
way baseball politics, thi n r I inker :*
stand against signing with Brooklyn
s-Tins only the more mystifying.
Tinker Holding Ou‘ for $7,500.
The moment Tinker affixes his sig
nature to a IV-dger contract be will
get the $10,000 bonus. He will also
be guaranteed $6,000 per annum. Tin
ker is holding out for $7,500. This
was the salary he received last year
from Cincinnati.
However, last year Tinker was a
manager. That makes at least $1,500
difference. H«*'s a non-manager this
year In the minds of most fans $6,000
makes a might l ig salary for Tinker.
Adding to it the $10,000 bonus, it will
make his 1914 income exictly $16,000
without doubt the biggest salary ever
received in any -one season by a non
manager player.
It certainly seems stran~ that with
such a lure Tinker refuses to bo
lured: that he holds out and seems
quite indifferent about signing. This
has given rise to the belief that Mur
phy assured Tinker that the Chi
cago club would pay him not only
the $10,000 bonus, but a»Bo a salary »f
IT.ff.A under a contract running f■».*
three years, if Tinker would only do
.« little jockeying about signing that
Brooklyn contract so that C. WaUt-
coat could have time to do a little
underhand work.
$ • »
H ERB is a bit of gorflng advice from
Harry Vardcn, the great English
player:
‘Carry as few clubs in your equip
ment as possible. The more you carrv
the greater the hesitation on your
part when it comes time to use one or
the other. And a golfer should not
hesitate. He always should know just
what club to use and at Just whi;
time.
In my bag 1 carry a midiron, a
driver, a cleek. two brassies, t\v >
raashies. a driving Iron, a niblick and
a putter. The equipment. 1 think. Is
enough for anybody, and there are
enough clubs in that lo* to meet any
emergency.”
• • •
\ MATHEMATICAL, rteml In Pitts
burg has Just discovered that
Fred Clarke, th "Irate manage-,
made a 'horrible blunder" In tral-
ing Outfielder Wilson anti lnflelders
Butler, Dolan and " 'tr and Pitcher
Robinson to the Cardinals for First
Baseman Konetehy, Third Baseman
Ylowrey and Pitcher Harmon. The
figure gentleman made Ills discovery
after he found, via pad and pencil,
that the Pirate quintet compiled 269
extra bases last season, while the
Cardinal trio annexed only 167
However. Clarki and the staunch
Pirate fans are not worrying. Pitts
burgh needed a first-class first base-
man. Clarke landed one. What's a
small matter of 102 extra bases in
com pan sen 7
Frank Hinkey Named
Head Coach at Yale
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Chicago Boy Has Had Thirteen
Fights This Year and Won
Six Knockouts.
NEW HAVEN. CONN. Dec 25 —
Frank Hinkey has been appointed head
roach of the Yale football team. lie
succeeds Howard Jones, who, during the
last season began his work as ale's
first salaried football coach under a
contract. Jones, it is understood, sev
ered his contract in order to accept a
lucrative proposition.
Hinkey graduated front Yale in 1895.
He played end. and Walter (’amp and
other football experts regard him as
one of the best ends that ever wore the
blue. For the first time in many years
Hinkey assisted in the coaching at Yale
field last fall. He is known as an ad
vocate of the open style of play, and
is a firm believer in the forward pass.
Gridiron Stars Will
Play in 'Nooga To-day
CHATTANOOGA. Dec 25.— Chatta
nooga fans will witness Christmas aft
ernoon a stirring gridiron fray between
the eleven from the Eleventh United
States cavalry and ai> all-star aggre
gation of collegians Among the ranks
of the latter will be seen Nuck Brown
and “Roaring Ammie” Sikes, of Van
derbilt; Tolley. Hammond and Ward, of
Sewanee; Cushman. Patten and John
son. of Georgia Tech
Most of the collegians are in the dtv
snd are in great shape for play The
soldiers, however have been playing
troop games regularly up to date, "and
are in a position to put up a grueling
contest.
IMPROVING FROM INJURY.
CHATTANOOGA, Dec. 24. -Private
Holland, of E. Troop. Eleventh I'nited
States cavalry, who suffered concussion
of the brain in a basket hull game with
* local collegiate quintet last night, was
reported improving to-day, with recov
ery assured.
By Left Hook.
C HARLIE WHITE ha8 Juat fin-
ished the busiest und best year
of his career in the ring. From
January 10, when he whipped Tommy
Bresnahan in ten rounds at Omaha,
until December 19. when he whaled
Ad Wolgaat over the same route at
Milwaukee, his record is full of the
toughest kind of lights, the kind that
have made him the championship
timber that he is to-day. Jack Brit
ton is the only man who made Char
ily back up, and only his greater
weight won for him.
Charlie has had thirteen fights dur
ing 1913, his luckiest year in the ring.
Six of them have ended by knock
outs with Charlie on the winning
side. The tight with Jack Britton,
who was much too big for him and
made him look bad after the first ten
rounds, is the only blot on Charlie’s
marvelous record of the year. Brit
ton was too long for Charlie to get at
and his great reach kept his smaller
opponent out of the way. ,
Dundee Given Shade,
it seems strange that the only
other bad tight that he made during
the year should he at New Orleans.
Johnny Dundee was given the shade
over him in Iheir recent ten-round
affair there, but a year before White
took Dundee to a trimming in New
York, where he was a popular idol.
Nate Lewis, manager of the speedy
Chicago scrapper, is endeavoring to
get Dundee into a ring with White
around Chicago to prove that Charlie
was worsted in the New Orleans pa
pers Johnny had evaded such offers,
through his manager. Scotty Mon-
tieth, and it seems that the Gotham
pair want none of Charlie’s left hooks
to interrupt their quiet pursuit of
the shekels In the South.
Charlie stopped Kid Kansas quite
a big fellow, a little more than a j
month ago, in Canton, Ohio, after !
Kansas had floored him, demonstrat
ing that lie must take a few wallops
before he gets mad enough to hit. "*
Charlie started off his year by giv
ing Tommy Bresnahan, the boy who
took Matty McCue to a trimming re
cently, a ten-round drubbing at
Omaha. He next met Pal Moore,
with whom he had boxed a draw in
the preceding November, and won
decisively from him In ten rounds at
Kenosha.
Stops Joe Thomas Twice.
Then came his two battles with
Joe Thomas, the pride of New Or
leans. On April 21 he stopped Jo* in
eight rounds, hut the home f re
fused to believe it wasn't u * V.
punch, go Charlie repeated it in two
rounds on May 9. The tyro, Joe Mey
ers, was his «ext victim^ Meyers
stuck to the canvas in the second
round of the Aurora go on Ma|- 28
The next battle was the disastrous
Britton affair described above.
But to show how little effect Jack’s
punches had on him. he stopped Jack
Abel in two rounds hero on July 18.
He later shaded Frank Whitney in
ten rounds.
On September 1 Charlie was given
one of the best battles of his life by
fohnnv Griffiths, of Ohio. They
fought twelve fast rounds at Canton,
and at the end Charlie looked the
better to the sport scribes.
Mickey Sheridan Lasts Tv\o Rounds.
Mickey Sheridan, the Gilmore light
weight. received the firs* knockout of
his life when one of Charlie’s 1c*;’:
hooks caught him solidly in the sec
ond round of their Racine go on Sep
tember 15. Mickey staggered blindly
about the ring and the referee stopped
the go.
The Kid Kansas fight on Novem
ber 1* at Canton was next, and how
Charlie stopped him has been told.
The dou - A fill ten-round affair with
Johnny Dundee at New' Orleans fol
lowed on November 2 7.
A i the last battle, that with Ad
Wolgast in Milwaukee December 19.
is tiU fresh it; the minds of the fans.
Charlie’s victory makes him one o f
th«- dangerous »2 3-pounders, am
Champion* and near-champions can
do well to look out for the tain Chi
cago Hebrew.
’Merry Christmas—Everybody!’
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Atlanta Can Afford To Be Happy
Majors Will Wage
War Against Feds
With Injunctions
CHICAGO, Dec. 25. War on the Fed-
ral League will be waged by a combi
nation of the American and National
J eague magnates and the injunction is
jl» be tlie weapon of defense wielded by
lie two big baseball organizations.
I Charles W Murphy, president of the
(Chicago National League club, to-dav
’admitted that tin* magnates were going
1 i make use of the Injunction.
I Although President Murphy did not
'admit it. persons who claim to know
, e ii<l that the knowledge that the in
■1 motion could he used to prevent major
1 aguers from joining the Federal *'<>ut-
} w" league was imparted to Murphy
1 ex-President Taft, who is a warm
I lend of the baseball magnate.
The way the injunction was explained
.1 Professor Taft was like this, accord-
1 g to Murphy's friends:
The big league clubs pay their players
*• per cent of their salaries for playing
#• id 25 per cent for being on the re-
► -rw list. If the player jumps to the
j outlaw" league an injunction will be
l 'btained preventing him from w aving
lull. The Jumping to the Federal
* .eague also would mean the automatic
|cuCting off of his salurv and placing
I imself on the big league blacklist.
Colorado Racing
In for Big Boom
DENVER, COLO.. Deo. 25.—Denver’s
1914 racing season promises to be one
of the most Interesting of years. The
new State Racing Commission appointed
by Governor E. M. Ammons hus called
a meeting at the Statehouse for Friday,
January 16. for organization.
The chief business will be the dis
cussion of plans for a Spring meet.
Governor Ammons is heartily In favor
of a racing meet in the Spring, as is
every member of the commission.
There are twenty-one tracks in Colo
rado, all of them being half-mile courses
except Overland 1’ark. in this city. No
eonfvet of dates is possible under the
Jurisdiction of the commission. The
season will start at Overland in June,
as was customarj in past years, and
will continue through the fall affairs in
Northern Colorado.
The meetings will be short From
thirteen to nineteen days is the limit
that can be allotted to Denver
WAGNER AFTER JOE MANDOT.
WINDSOR. ONTARIO. Dec 25. Pro-
loter Cdassco. of the Windsor A. O.. is
* \ ( ou3||to match Billy Wagner, of Chi
1 e’o, for an eight-round bout with Joe
arc-'t ere in Jar.uar> Wagner's
hiw'n * recently against Freddie Duf-
V -f L< stor. entitles him to a chance
gainst the Southerner.
Sidelights on Sports
By A. H. C. MITCHELL
ry> HE die is cast. Charley Her-
S zog has signed to manage
the Cincinnati Reds for the
season of 1914.
The contract is for ONE
YEAR.
Since Griffith quit one year
has been the limit of any Cin
cinnati manager. Hank O’Day
lasted a season and then grace
fully jumped at the chance to re
sume the work of umpiring in the
National League. When a man
prefers umpiring to managing the
Reds it shows what sort of a job
managing the Reds really Is.
« • •
E w ish Charlie Herzog a very
merry Christmas, but we
fear it will be the last merry
Christmas he will enjoy for some
time. He starts in with a poor
ball club. His only chance of
success lies In building up the
club witli young players and
throwing out the old ones as
fast as he can. Herzog has never
had experience as a manager.
His baseball career has been
brief. He is 2S years old. He was
born in Baltimore and graduated
from the Maryland Fniversity.
After a short minor league expe
rience he was signed by the
Giants and played with that team
in 190S and 1909.
* • •
Yf’GRAW discovered that iTer-
zog was trying to under
mine him as manager of the
team, and although the idea was
preposterous on the face of it.
the little general promptly traded
him to the Boston Nationals. The
tirst year here Herzog laid plans
to get Fred Lake’s Job as man
ager of the Braves. Fred nipped
the plot in the bud, but at the
end of the year a change of own
ership in the team cost I^ake his
position. Next year, with Ten
ney as manager. Herzog kicked
over the traces and refused to
phiy for the team any longer.
* • *
(A F course discipline would have
v -' been the proper thing, but
the late William Hepburn Bus
sells. owner of the team, was
hard pressed for players about
that time and couldn’t afford to
have any idle men on his hands.
He traded him back to New York
and there Herzog has been ever
since. ,
Herzog was the sensation of
the 1912 world's series but last
season failed to live up to cham
pionship form and MeOraw had
him on the bench much of the
time, playing Shafer at third
base. In the world’s series of '
last October Herzog did not shine
at all.
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OW Herzog has been made
^ manager of the Cincinnati
Reds. It is. of course, possible
that the Reds will do well next
year—possibly finish in the first
division, but none expects they
will be able to do so. If the club
finishes in the ruck, as it did in
1913, what will happen to Her
zog when the 1914 season closes?
Can he organise a ball club? Does
he know where to go and get
players? Is he “on the inside"
with the minor leagjie managers?
Or must he be satisfied with the
material tHe Cincinnati club of
ficials dig up for him? Or must
he fall back on the time-hon
ored device of swapping players
with the other National League
clubs?
Take it from any angle and it
will be found that Herzog has
his work cut out for him. Yet he
was willing, not to say anxious,
to take the job.
Merry Christmas. Charlie.
* • *
T* HE business of swapping
1 players in wholesale fash
ion the way the National League
has been doing for years leads
to nowhere. In the American
League the Athletics, which fin
ished first, have hardly a player,
if any. that was acquired from
another big league club in trade.
The Cleveland club, which fin
ished second, has a team of play
ers. with one or two exceptions,
that was developed from the
minor leagues. The Red Sox
finished third. Engle, who was se
cured from New York, is the
only player of the lot that came
in a swap with a major league
club. The others all came from
colleges or minor leagues.
PERCENTE TO BOX KID MORAN
MADISON. WIS.. Deo. 25.-Kid
Moran, of Los Angeles. Cal , has been
matched to box Joe Tercente. the Madi
son Italian fighter, on New Year's aft
ernoon. Percent© recently challenged
nv Wisconsin boxer to meet him a* 133
it> 138 pounds for the tight heavyweight
ichampionship of the State.
Dave Smith Meets
Eddie McGoorty in
Return Go To-day
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
SYDNEY. N. S. W.. D^c. 25.—Piddle
McGoorty, the American claimant of the
middleweight championship of the world,
wi 1 battle Pave Smith, the Australian
titleholder, in a scheduled 20-round bout
here this afternoon.
Several monUis ago Smith met Mc
Goorty in America, but was knocked
out in one round. Smith has always
claimed that McGoorty caught him with
|a lucky punch and will try to redeem
ihimself to-day.
! Smith will enter the ring an even
j money bet against McGoorty. Smith's
j recent win over Bill Lang is the cause
of the big flow' of money on his chances.
Street Threatens to
Join Federal League
CHATTANOOGA, TENN., Dec. 25 —
"Gabby" Street, former battery mate
of Walter Johnson, star heaver of the
Washington Senators, will cast his for
tunes with the P'ederal League during
the coming season, according to a let
ter written by Street to a personal
friend here, lie will rot report to the
Chattanooga club, which secured him
last season from Providence.
Two local players have now an
nounced their intention of joining the
Federals, the other being Second Base
man Carl P'lick. secured from the
Philadelphia Athletics.
By O. B. Keeler.
M erry Christmas, every
body !
That is not a very original
way to start this thing off. but then
the rest of it isn't going to be origi
nal. either. ,
And (anyway) we’d like to bac.t
that brief expression, delivered from
just under the fifth rib, against most
of the regularly bright and witty sal
utations.
Just take it from us, this time it
comes from the heart, and to every
body that sees it, and to everybody
that doesn’t, we say. from the heart—
“Merry Christmas!”
* * *
T HE conventional thing to do. when
you toil on a daily column, is to
fill it ut» about December 25 with
witty things by way of suggestions
of appropriate gifts to well-known
persons.
For example, a sprinting medal for
Willie Ritchie; a peace commission
for Heinie Zimmerman; a bell club
for Cincinnati—all that sort of thing.
Sure, it’s funny.
* * •
AND yet, without getting anywise
clogged up with sentiment, we’re
just going ; to pass the- buck for this
time.
So far as we who live in Atlanta
are concerned, we don’t need to crack
our smiles on somebody else’s tough
luck.
In our greatest of sports, we had
the greatest finish of one of the great
est years Southern baseball ever has
known. Nobody is poking any merry
little quips at the Crackers, for in
stance. To be sure. Billy Smith
would like to find a couple of 18-
carat infielders in his stocking before
the day is over.
But as for Atlanta?
Well, Atlanta has Bill Smith.
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T700TBALL brought Atlanta the
1 finest array of big gam^s ever
shown on the gridiron of a Southern
city. It was a big season, in every
way.
Atlanta saw the game played in
grand fashion, and turned out grand
crow'ds to see it. Tech lost to Geor
gia, but that was all right; and Geor
gia lost to Auburn—and THAT wa3
all right, too, though it was the
championship game.
The better team won, and won
fairly—and that is the true aim of
true sport.
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TN the matter of golf, we have with
L us this morning—unless some
thing has crossed up the schedule—•
Mr. Chick Evans, Jr., probably the
most brilliant young golfer in the
United States, and the choice of Var-
don and Ray as the best player they
met on their recent tour of this coun
try.
Speaking of the British profession
als, Atlanta golfers enjoyed to the
number of more than 2,000 the fine
exhibitions at Ea?t Lake and Brook-
haven, when the two famous players
gave examples of the British game at
its very best.
And, reverting to Mr. Evans, who
is the guest of Mr. George Adair for
the week—well, we feel It a holiday
privilege to watch the redoubtable
Chick in action, and we beg to vsug-
gest that the local golfers owe thanks
to Mr. Adair for supplying them this
treat.
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T AKE it all around, it’s been a pret
ty good year in sport, for At
lanta, and for the South.
Atlanta has a great record to live
up to in the way of baseball, and At
lanta has also the framework of a
great ball club—and a great manager.
There is a live athletic club here,
playing basket ball matches between
whiles: so many golf courses that it
is hard to decide which one to tackle
next, ana a good many other things
good for cities and people to have.
So here it. is, Christmas Day.
• * *
AND we just say to everybody—
everybody that plays the game
hard and clean; everybody that takes
the gaff when it swings his way, and
doesn’t squeal; everybody that loses
like a sportsman and wins like a
gentleman (which is harder)—to all
suen we say:
"Merry Christmas!”
Robinson to Give
Miller $800 Raise
INDIANAPOLIS. IND., Deo. 25.—
Manager Robinson conferred with Otto
Miller, a catcher for the Brooklyn team,
who Is reported to have been asked to
play with the Federal league next year
Miller said after the conference that
he had been offered an advance of S80O
over the salary lie received last year to
*dgn a contract to play with the Brook
lyn team. He said that he was unable
to do so because of an agreement made
by members of the players’ fraternity
not to sign until January.
RODEL FIGHTS TO-NIGHT.
SYRACUSE, N. Y.. Dec. 25.—George
Rodel and Howard Morrow clash in a
ten-round bout here to-night. Local
fens are nicking Rodel to win. due to
his recent great fight against Jim
hiynn.
MORRIS AT IT AGAIN.
CLOVIS. N. MEX., Dec. 25.—Carl
Morris, who recently announced his re
tirement from the ring, has decided to
take another whirl at the ten-round
set-to.
WILLIAMS MEETS BRADLEY.
1 PHILADELPHIA. PA.. Dec 25.-
I "Kid” Williams, claimant of the ban-
itamweight championship of the world.
! takes on Frankie Bradley, a local boy.
here to-day. They are billed to go six
rounds.
TRAINS
DAILY
BETWEEN
LEVINSKY AND DRISCOLL.
BROOKLYN. N. Y.. Dec. 25—•’Bat
tling” Levinsky, Danny Morgans
heavyweight, is scheduled to swap
punches with Jack Driscoll to-night in a
ten-round affair. This is Levinsky’s
third fight in two weeks.
GRIFFITH VS. TEMPLE.
AKRON. OHIO. Dec. 25.—Johnny
Griffith was matched yesterday to box
Ray Temple, the fight to take p’ace In
Milwaukee, December 29. under the
auspices of the Riverview Athletic
Club.
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