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1 Jj i M ’ 1 : "' •! ' <1- I t il ] •' 0 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. Modern Ring Champions Are Fully Qualified to Settle Their Titles hy 1 )ebate [NJ D) °y COLLEGES BRINGING UP FATHER • '•I*-. W i-*' By GEORGE M’MANUS New System Is Welcomed by the Football Enthusiasts All Over the Country. ■» 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. * Sr * 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. Juarez Racing Results WHAT i<b that - a botchers parade? f certainly HOT - THEY ARE. SOLDIERS - HOW WATCH - THICj A <REAT SCENE' \ VHEFI 4'NKS. FI4HT 0 I COULD L\CK em even if they have them HATCH ETts! 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Bill Schwartz To Be Tinkerized Gunboat Smith Not Consistent With K.O. T* • v *h§*J‘ •{•••J* v*v 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. BigG Cures In 1 to 5 day* unnatural discharges. ■ Contain* no poison* and ; may be used full i s t r e n fih absolutely ; without fear. Guar an- ’tot to stricture. Prevents contagion. Wwy NOT CURE YOURSELF? Druggists, or by parcel post. $1 or 1 bottles $2.75. Particulars with each ’tie cir mailed on request EVANS CHEMICAL COMPANY 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.’ ” Opium VkUk«ry «nd Dru Habit* «aatetf •t Iioma it at 3*»itariuo* Book 00 at]bje* J*W . Ol I M. W OOLLEY U-N. VkM Xaul-.ri***. Atlanta. <>aotoia ( ECZEMA SUFFERERS ( H'-art what I. 8. Clddens. Tampa. Fla., aay*. 1 It prom that Tetterine Cures Eczema Far MV«a yuars I had mimii an my ' ankla. I tried many remtdlmt and nu merous doctor* I tried Tatt*rln# and after el|ht w*ck* am entirely free fram tha tar- ) rinie ae/ama. . Tettertne will do much tor other*. 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