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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
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BRINGING UP FATHER
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By GEORGE M’MANUS
New System Is Welcomed by the
Football Enthusiasts All Over
the Country.
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By Frank G. Menke.
N EW YORK, Dec. 25.—In keep
ing with the Yuletide spirit,
most of the big colleges in the
• untry came along to-day with a
most acceptable gift for the football
enthusiasts—the announcement that
• ext season they will number their,
football gladiators.
In the East Princeton, Pennsylva
nia, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth and !
i arlisle came out in favor of the plan. j
So have Holy Cross, University of
Maine, Colgate and a number of the
smaller colleges. Washington and
Ifeffereon College has numbered its
players for two years. The Army of
ficials declared they would number
their men if the Navy did; the Navy
said it would number its men if the
Army did. So it seems certain that
both these institutions will fall into
line.
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I N' the West the conference colleges
have announced they would num- |
.her their players next year. The
-mailer Western colleges have fol-
,lowed the larger ones in approving'
.tile plan.
This leaves only Harvard and Yale |
among the big institutions in the en- i
lire country that have not openly fa- I
..xored the plan. However, it is said
that the officials at both these col
leges have changed their recent
views on the subject, and that when
1ST4 rolls around they will not hold
, out against the numbering plan.
...
A LARGE flock of persons in this
land of the free and home of the
brave readily agree with Bob Fitz-
simmons in his statement to-day
that, as old as he is, he could go into
the ring and hammer into oblivion
about 90 per cent of the persons who
appear therein and obtain the pub
lic’s money under the false pretense
of fighting.
Fitzsimmons is something over 90.
He’s out of training, his wind is not
as good as it used to be, he’s a bit
flabby here and there, and some of
his muscles and joints have stiffened |
with age. But after watching the an
tics of pari Morris, Jim Flynn, George '
lioiiei., Jim Coffey, Soldier Kearns,
•leas' Willard and legions of other
longshoremen, street car conductors
and railroad firemen, thinly disguised
os "white hopes," we’re willing to,
wager money on Fitzsimmons against ■
ihe field, and give big odds as well.
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FIGHT WINNER OF Vols’Manager Refuses to Weaken
AT JUAREZ.
FIRST—Six furlongs: Birka 10a
• i Feeney), 4. *-5. 4-5, won: General
Warren 97 (Neylon), 3. even. 1-2, sec-I
..ml; O’d Gotcli 105 (Kirsehbaum), 4, 8-o,
4-5, third. Time, 1:14 1-5 Also ran:
Berth V . Colonel MoDougall, Little Bit,
■Vt’oof, Thomas, Hare Carona, Vava,
Alabama Bam, George, Dunn, Fool
o'Fortune and Barbara Lane.
SECOND—Mile: Little Marchmont
'll (Loftus), 2, 2-5, out, won; Joe
Woods 107 (McMartin). S. 3. 3-2. sec
ond; Eye White 107 (Neylon), 4 o, l-o.
out. third. Time. 1:40 3-5, Also ran:
Sadie Shapiro. Stoneman, Ben Incas
and Commendation.
THIRD—Six furlongs: Osaple 105
(Taylor), 5. 8-5, 4-5. won: Manganese
Hii (Gentry), 7, 5-2, 6-5. second: Blar-
‘ri v 1H (Gross), 6, 2, even, third. lime,
1:13 2-5. Also ran: .lantel, Sir Harry,
lied path Milton Roblee, Bing and
Edith W. . _ , .
FOURTH—Five furlongs: Sir Fretful
75 (Taylor), 4. 6-5, 1-2. won; Bonne
Chance 105 (Neylon), 7-2. even. 1-;..
second; Bert Getty 100 (Matthews)*
T-2. 1-2. 2-5, third. Time 1:26 45. Also
ran: Transparent, Voladay, Jr., Niclas.
FIFTH—Six furlongs: Parlor Boy lltj
Benton), 4, 8-5. 4-5, won; Barsar 10<
•Matthews). 8. 2. even, second; Mack
H. Eubanks 109 (Woods). 3. even. 1-2,
third. Time 1:13 1-5. Also ran: Seneca
lewel of Asia, Amon, Jessupburn, Gold
Finn. Swish. Hardy.
SIXTH- Mile and one-eighth—Cordie
F 89 (Neylon). 8 5, won; Sugar Dump,
T-10, second; Sir John, even, third.
Time 1:54.
P. 0. Men Rest First
Time in Three Weeks
The first leisure moments the work-
ng force at the Atlanta postoffice have
known for three weeks came Christ-
n as Day at hoon, when all departments
"f the big establishment were closed
■*nd the men went to their homes to
-pend the rest of the day with their
families and friends.
The general delivery windows and
•“■■me of the stamp windows were kept
pen all morning and two city deliv
eries were maije by the carriers and
parcel post wagons.
CARLISLE DROPS DARTMOUTH.
CARLISLE. PA., Dec. 25.—Coach
Glenn Warner, on his return yesterday
f r om a shooting trip in the South, said
’’tat Dartmouth’ probably will be
dropped from the fotball schedule of
11 ‘ Carlisle Indian School next year
The Indians have been invited to play
In Hanover next year, but owing to
’'i p long trip and the probability of
-mall financial returns, Warner said
' arlisle felt compelled to decline. The
Indians would have liked a Dartmouth
Kame in New York or Boston, but this
prevented by Dartmouth faculty re
strictions.
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Cincinnati. O.
Jimmy Johnston Threatens to Bet
$5,000 on Boer Against the
Smith-Pelkey Victor.
By Ed Curler.
N EW YORK, Dec. 25—Joimes
Johnston, tne boy manager of
these here and other parts,
breezed over our parquet floor lavvst
evening simply puffing himself away
in an excited manner. And Joimes is
some puffer.
The way that young man was
worked up was simply scandalous.
“Nothin’ extraordinary,” he gasped,
when he noted the looks of alarm on
our alabaster features. “Just fell in
to inform you and the world in gen
eral that George Rodel, the Boer war
rior, is anxious to meet the winner of
the Gunboat Smith-Arthur Pelkey
fight, which takes place on the coast
on New Year’s Day, and also to in
form you that I am willing to let
Rodel fight the winner of that bout
on a winner-take-all basis, and if
that proposition is not satisfactory,
then I will dig and get together $5,-
000, which I will let stand as a side
bet! All 1 want is to get the winner
of that fight, and Rodel will meet that
winner on February 22, which 1 be
lieve is Washington’s birthday, so l
am informed, and if Rodel can not
beat the winner of the Gunboat
Smith-Arthur Pelkey fight, then 1
will ship Rodel to South Africa via
the Pacific Ocean, the via meaning
that I will take him down to a dock
in San Francisco, point out the way
to South Africa and let him swim the
remainder of the distance. Then ”
That’s all we would listen to, and
calmly but gently tossed him out of
the twelfth-story window. Tne chal
lenge has been forwarded to San
Francisco and it’s up to Messrs. Smith
and Pelkey to give it the “once over”
if they feel so inclined.
Touching on the little affair be
tween Gunboat Smith and Pelkey. it
has to be a regular show or there
won’t be a “white hope” left In the
country. If there is he will be locked
up as* a vagrant.
From the showing of Pelkey around
here many moons ago it looks to a
fellow 3.000 miles away as if Smith
should grab off the wave of the ref
eree’s mitt. Still (as a saver), you
can never tell.
IOWA TO KEEP HAWLEY.
IOWA CITY. IOWA. Dec Jo.—The
Iowa athletic board has voted Coach
lesse B. Hawley a substantial raise in
salarv for the coming season, and ap
pointed a committee to proceed at
onr-e with the drawing up of a contract
to be offered to him.
N ashville, tenn., Dec. 25.—
Out of the mass of charges and
counter charges hurled by
Manager Bill Schwartz and Presi
dent William “Alibi” Hirsig, of the
Vols, in their violent argument grow
ing out of the Perry-Berger deal,
about the only thing which the fans
In Voltown can find out to be a pbsi J
tive fact is that the boy leader stands
a fat chance of being decorated with
the tinware simply because he de
cided he would actually be manager
and not an errand boy.
Yes, sirl Schwartz is about to be
Tinkerized. That is, unless he gets a
move on himself and takes back all
the mean and nasty things he said
about Mr. Hirsig, who is real cross
with Bill. All Bill will have to do
w ill be to have an announcement made
through the press that he didn’t tell
the truth about being consulted with
in regard to the Perry-Berger deal, no
matter if he already has emphatical
ly stated that the trade came as a
great surprise to him, since he in
tended holding on to t'layt unless
waivers could be secured and the
Omaha sale put through. In other
words. Hirsig simply wants Bill
Schwartz to publicly brand himself
as a liar and he can have the mana
gership, with a lot of nice little
strings tied to it. Nobody in the
Southern circuit who has ever talked
for five minutes thinks that he would
stoop to the level made by Hirsig In
order to hold onto his job. Not if he
had to subsist on a snowball diet for
the remainder of the winter.
• * *
MOW that the mess has spread
^ through the board of directors,
these moguls, with an exception of
two, have lined up behind Schwartz,
and declared their intention of stick
ing until the finish. One of two
things seems certain. Either Hirsig
or Schwartz will have to get out of
baseball in Nashville, and the fans
are all behind the boy leader, and are
pretty sick of Hirsig. The way the
situation sizes itself up just now,
with both Schwartz and Hirsig hav
ing delivered themselves of their ul
timatums, it puts baseball in Voltown
on a mighty shaky footing. Schwartz
wants Hirsig to keep hands off of
trades, sales, etc., and let him run
the club from the bench just as he
thinks best. Bill thinks he .has enough
baseball sense end judgment to be
Justified in making such a request.
Hirsig doesn't think so; he wants his
finger In the pie all the time, and so
there you are for a nice heluva tan
gled situation. One of the strangest
developments In the entire business
is the fact that Bill has never as yet
signed his 1914 contract. T Just kept
putting it off from time to time, and
haven't ever attended to the matter.’’
is the only explanation Bill offers.
Now. since he and Hirsig nave got
ten into this argument. Bill has drawn
up s contract offering to accept a cut
of $1.0o0 in alary should .hi Vols
fail to finish 1-2-3 in 1914. BUT,
would you believe it, Hirshig wouldn’t
sign it just because Bill acted naughty
and told the fans just who the real
manager is and who the batboy is.
Can you beat it? Bill deserved *
whole lot of credit for ever waking
up to the fact that he was being made
a rummy of, by Hirshig, but getting
his backbone up is going to be a
mighty costly experience if all the
signs don’t fail.
♦ * *
l>EFORE Hirsig went down to At-
lanta he gave Schwartz a prom
ise that no deals or trades would be
arranged. So when the news came
back that Perry had been traded for
Berger and a cash consideration, Bill
almost threw a fit, and gave It out
that he didn’t believe the deal had
been made. Now, when Hirsig re
turns to Nashville, lie verifies the
reported swap, and the more Kill
thought about it the madder he got
at being made the “goat,” so he ups
and admits that he isn’t a real, hon-
est-to-goodness manager at all. but a
plain, ordinary batboy whom Mv.
Hirsig allows to hang around Sulphur
Dell. Hirsig contends that Bill knew
beforehand all about the Perry-Ber
ger deal, and, as for that matter,
declares Bill is always consulted, dig
ging up as evidence the bones of the
weird Welchonce mistake. Now, if
there is one matter on which Hirsig
should be ashamed to look the Nash
ville fans In the face, it is the evil
Welchonce tale. “Old Alibi”, told a
score or more different sorts of tales
about why Harry went to Atlanta,
but, strange to relate, he never hap
pened to tell the right one, because
he realized the bugs would go raving
crazy if he admitted that he just
gave Welchonce away because he
hated to part with the $1,500 draft
money necessary to have him re
turned to the Nashville club.
* * +
OUT whether Bill Schwa; rz Is the
^ Vols’ manager next season or not,
he is going to make the fur fly from
Hlrsig’s back before he is'done with
that gentleman. “I’ve got a grand
hand to play against that fellow,”
says Bill, “and 1 don’t believe he has
a chance in the world to beat me
out, unless he should, by some hook
or crook, get to a newspaper or two
and cut me off, and I don’t believe he
can do that. There is going to be
some curious looking things brought
out in this fight, but I have a whole
lot of faith in the baseball law, and
I’m going to tell a whole lot of things
that will make Mr. Hirsig awfully
sick of naving tried to frame up’ any
of this kind of stuff on me. If I man
age he has got to make a public
statement that I will have absolute
charge of everything, and I don’t think
he will be willing to do that. But
do you imagine that I am going to
back up? Not Willie. Say, you can
make a lot of money betting that IT
sticK to the last inning on what I
said right « : ih« start, and nor one
word wiij I retract. And that’s
final.”
Food for Sport Fans
1y GSORGE C. PHA1R.|-
He Possesses a Powerful Punch,
but Does Not Class With the
One-Blow Specialists.
By W. W. Naugliton.
S \N FRANCISCO, Dec. 25—Ih
Gunboat Smith entitled to be
known as a knocker out?
Of course he has shown many
times that he possesses a punch pow
erful enough to put an opponent to
sleep, but on the strength of what,
he has accomplished in that line has
he earned the right to rank with the
one-blow specialists the game has
known ?
Some think he has and some think
he has not, and those who hold (he
latter view adduce that while he
knocked out some of his opponents, a
far greater number escaped being
knocked out.
There is no gainsaying the evidence,
in the case. Smith’s work an a fin
isher has lacked continuity, and about
the best that can be claimed for him
up to the present is that he. Is an oc
casional knocker out.
John L. and Fitz Hitters.
Among heavyweight world cham
pions there were only two, namely
John L. Sullivan and Bob Fitzsim
mons. With Sullivan it. was a right
hander. with Fitzsimmons it was any
one of half a dozen assaults. As a
finisher Fitzsimmons was in a class
by himself, and it will be many a
long year, probably, before the ring
will produce such another.
Jim Corbett was not a knocker out
by any means. He could, by prodding
and jolting, reduce an opponent to a
condition w’here a moderately hard
wallop would end the bout, but he did
not number among his deliveries a
blow calculated to turn the trick the
first time It landed.
Nor was big Jim Jeffries a knocker
out, for all his strength and all his
weight arid brawn and ruggedness.
He struck bruising blow's, but was
minus the smash that landed cleanly
and snappily and sent a man to the
land of dreams.
Johnson Not a Knocker Out.
Jack Johnson never has been a
knocker out. He had a right upper
cut that did great execution, but the
number of these punches assimilated
by Tommy Burns and Fireman Jim
Flynn proved that Johnson had to
keep hammering at the one spot to
produce results.
Tommy Burns hirnself, w'ho held
the title for a w'hile. was a periodical
knocker out and nothing more.
OMAR AT THE MEETING.
10 P. M.
».4 Jih olfi player that I want t<>
sway.
i .4 flni.k, oi aim . it ounvh of leu I c cup,
j Ami--/ should worry 'bout them {/uj/h
at home!
What I xi iji yocs! -u nut In r ijimrl. old
top!
2 A. M.
Will Tinker yell? Juat let your unelc
write
Thin dope out for you here to
night.
Another quart! Sow, lemrne see
’bout this—
Ten thousand beans will fix that
guy all right!
9 A. M.
It seems to me these guys Tee loved
so long
Have grabbed my shortstop from me
for a song.
Gee, what a head! And now, those
mutts out home—
Here's where your Cnele Omar gets
the prong!
FOOLISH LIKE F.XES.
f*fmsider the mat men
The boneheaded fat men,
For whom all the wise people fall.
We kid them and flay them,
But richly we pay them—
They aren't such boneheads tit all.
Tho Parisian wrestling fans who
threw vegetables at Jack Johnson
must have been mighty wealthy, or
they must have been mighty mad.
January 23 i9 the day on which
Willie Ritchie will meet Tommy
Murphy, if he does not change ms
mind again.
Just as Red Dooln s prospects were
ghtest a lot of experts up and
1/4.4 hilri In 11 In 4 Vi a
That is
“lacks the spirit of cricket,
vhy baseball is so popular.
All the Federal League needs for its
invasion of Cleveland is a baseball team
and a baseball park. It lias the fran
chise.
As we understand it, the chief cause
of trouble In Cincinnati Is that there
are too hiany tinkers.
Many a time and oft we have won
dered how a lightweight can look a
weighing machine in the face without
biushing.
/ remember, / remember
The lightweight pugs we had
In days of husky Kid Lavingr,
When I was but a lad.
The lightweights then irere little
men,
But gaze upon them note!
The loads of beef they tote around
Would shame a full-grown cow.
CONTINUOUS VAUDEVILLE.
The fighters come and pass away;
They take their gate receipts and go
And are forgotten in a day.
But every second week or so
Sam Langford battles Joe Jeannette
Lest we forgette, lest we forgettc.
Having the Tinker deal to write
about. New York's baseball scribes do
not find it necessary to trade Russell
Ford oftener than once a week.
There is good even in the worst of
us; in fact, we might even say that
there are some good traits in the var-
let who pinches the electric light
bulbs off our desk.
While Yale has abandoned the Eng
lish stroke, it still prefers football of
the vintage of 1893.
brightest a jot or experts u
picked him to win the pennant.
Fred Clarke bases his hopes for
next season on the fact that the
critics have not even given his team
a second look.
Quoth Ned Hanlon: “Brooklyn does
not want two big league teams.” In
fact. Brooklyn has existed for years
without any.
“Baseball,” says an Australian critic,
MISSED HIGH
GOLF HONORS
Did Not Wish to Play in Open
Championship Until President
Watson Persuaded Him.
B oston, Dec. 25.—nis go ir clubs
put away for the winter, Fran
cks Ouimet, of Brookline, the
youthful amateur whose victory in
the United States open golf cham
pionship surprised tHe golfing world,
told friends a day or two ago how
nearly he missed winning the title.
"I sigh now to think how I might
never have had a chance at the cham
pionship,” said Ouimet. "I did not
want to compete in the United States
Golf Association’s championship tour
nament. This was because I felt I
had no chance to win. To close friends
who spoke to me about entering, I
said I would rather learn something
of the game from the prominent golf
ers who would play. I said I would
not be an entrant.
“Later, during the tournament at
Atlantic v’ity. President Watson, of
the association, asked me why I had
not sent in my entry for the cham
pionship, and I replied: ‘What’s the
use of a player of my standing at
tempting to compete in such an
event? I don’t want to make a boob
of mvself.’
“'That’s all right,’ the president
said, ’but we are trying to get a good
entry of amateurs, so just hand in
yours.’
“I did so, but as r turned away I
said to myself, 'I'm doin'- this under
protest.’ ”
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