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TINKER DELAY
Baseball Fans Think Chicago
Magnate Has Placed Big Offer
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\ large-sized suspicion exisls io-
day that C. Waistcoat Murphy,
a Chicago, Illinois, gentleman,
is th< main reason for the seeming
reluctance of Joe Tinker to sign a
Brooklyn contract.
Perhaps such a suspicion does Mor
phy an injustice. It is likely that ho
Is in no wav responsible for the coy
ness of the said Mr. Tinker. But tin
fact remains that Murphy covets Tin
ker in a most unhoiy way, and wouid
go to unv fair limit to get him.
The Chicago fans are clamoring for
Tinker. They have agitated for hi'
return ever since they learned that
the CincinnatiVlub would put him on
the auetton block They want Tinker
or anvthing else. Murphy i» 'in had
or anything else. Murphy Is 'in bad"
with the Chicago club. But If he got
Tinker for them it would he a master
stroke—one that would cause the fans
to forgive him for his many omissions
and comissions 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-
*av baseball politics, tlun Tinker's
stand against signing with Brooklyn
seems only the more mystifying.
Tinker Holding 0u‘ tor $7,500.
The moment Tinker aftlves his sig
nature to a Dodger contract he will
get Ihe $10,000 bonus, lie will also
l.e guaranteed $6,0011 tier 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. Thai makes at least $1,500
difference. He's a non-manager this
year. In the minds of most fans $6,000
makes a might 1 ig salary for Tinker.
Adding to It the $10,000 bonus, it will
make his 1014 Income exictly $16,000—
without doubt the biggest salary evrr
received in any one season by a non
manager player.
It certainly seems stran- that with
such a lure Tinker refuses to be
lured: that he In.lds out and seems
quite indifferent about signing. This
has given rise to the belief that Mur-
phv assured Tinker that the Chi
cago club Yould pay him not only
the $10,000 bonus, but a.so a salary of
$7,500 under a contract running f o.-
three years, if Tinker would only do
a little Jockeying about aignlng the;
Brooklyn contract so that C. Waist
coat could have time id do a little
underhand work.
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TJERE Is a bit of gorflng advice from
Harry Varden, the great English
player:
'Carry as few clubs In your equip
ment as possible. The more you carry
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 wba;
time.
‘in my bag I carry a midiron, a
driver, a cleek. two brassies, two
mashies, a driving Iron, a niblick and
a putter. The equipment. I think. Is
enough for anybody, and there are
enough clubs in that lo' to meet any
emergency."
A MATHEMATICAL fiend In Pltts-
•o burg lias Just discovered that
Fred Clarke, th. I’irate manager,
made a 'horrible blunder" In trill
ing Outfielder Wilson and lnflrlders
Butler. Dolan and " "< r and Pitcher
Robinson to the Cardinals for First
Baseman Konetchy. Third Basemin
Mowrey and Pitcher Harmon. The
figure gentleman n*ide his discovery
after he found, via pad and pencil,
that the Pirate quintet compiled 269
extra bases last season, while th6
Cardinal trio annexid only 167.
However, Clarkn 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 101 extra bases in
comnarlson
Frank Hinkey Named
Head Coacli at Yale
Chicago Boy Has Had Thirteen
Fights This Year and Won
Six Knockouts.
Hv Loft Hook.
C HARLIE WHITE has Just fin-
iffhed the busiest and best year
of his career in the ring. From
January 10, when lie whipped Tommy
Bresnnhan in ten rounds at Omaha,
until December 19, when he whaled
Ad VVolgast over the same route at
Milwaukee, his record is full of the
toughest kind of fights, the kind that
have made him the championship
timber that he ii to-day. Jack Brit
ton is the only man who made Char-
He 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 fight with Jack Britton,
who was much too big for him and
male 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 j
and his great reach kept his smaller
opponent out of the way. .
Dundee Given Shade.
Tt seems Ft range that the only
other bad fight that he made during
the year should he at New Orleans.
Johnny Dundee was given the shade
oyer him in their 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
ar<hind Chicago to prove that Charlie
was worsted in the New Orleans pa
pers. Johnny lias evaded such Offers,
through his manager, Scotty Mon-
tleth, qnd it seems that the Gotham
pair wa.pt 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
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-
’Merry Christmas—EverybodyF
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Atlanta Can Afford To Be Happy
By 0. B. Keeler.
filP.RV CHRISTMAS, every
body!
That is not a very original
nay to start this tiling off. but then
the rest of it isn't going to be origi
nal, either. ,
And (anyway) we’d like to bar,,
that 151'ief 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
nomes from the heart, and to every
body that sees it, and to everybody
thafi doesn’t, we say, from the heart—
"Merry Christmas!"
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T HE conventional thing to do. when
you toil on a dally column, is to
fill it ttn about December 25 with
witty things by way of suggestions
of appropriate gifts to well-known
persons.
Tor example, a sprinting medal for
Willie Ritchie; a peace commission
for Heinie Zimmerman; a ball club
for Cincinnati—all that sort of thing.
Sure, it’s funny.
Majors Will Wage
War Against Feds
With Injunctions
NEW HAVEN, CONN. Dec. 25.—
Frank Hinkey l as been appointed head
roach of the Yah* football team. He
succeed* Howard Jones, who, during the
last season began his work a* Yale’s
lirst salaried football coach under a
contract Jones, it is understood, sev
ered his contract in order to accept a
lucrative proposition.
Hinkey graduated from Yale in 1805.
He played cud. and Walter Camp and
other football experts regard him as
me of the beat ends that ever wore the
blue For the first time in many years
liink< y % assisted In the coachinf Kt Yale
last fall He la known as an ad
vocate of the open style of play, and
is a linn believer in the forward pass.
Gridiron Stars Will
Play in ’Nooga To-day
CHATTANOOGA Dec. 25.—Chatta
nooga fans will witness Christmas aft-
ern< on a stirring gridiron fray between
the eleven from the Eleventh United
State* cavalry and an all-star aggre
gation of c dlegians. Among the ranks
of th^ latter will be seen NucK Brown
and “Roaring Ammie” Sikes, of Van
derbilt; Tolley. Hammond and Ward of
Sewanee: Cushman. Patten ami John
son. of Georgia Tech.
Most of the collegians are in the city
and 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 United
States cavalry, who suffered concussion
of the brain in a basket ball game with
a local collegiate quintet last night, was
reported improving to-day. with recov
en- assured.
CHICAGO, Dec. 25.—War on the Fed-
ral League will be waged by a combi
nation of tlie American and National
] eague magnates and the injunction is
t > be the weapon of defense wielded by
4 te two big baseball organizations.
Charles W Murphy, president of the
Chicago National League club, to-day
admitted that the magnates were going
1 make use of the injunction
Although President Murphy did not
a hull it, persons who claim to know
ing Tommy Hresnahan, the boy whojpild that the knowledge that the in
took Matty McGue to a trimming re Ijmction could be used to prevent major
centlv i ten-round drubbing it ' aguers from Joining the Federal out-
, .. .. , ,, , V; 1 w" league was Imparled to Murphy
Omaha. He next met I’al Moore . ox - President Taft, who is a warm
with whom he hail boxed a draw In If j,.,,q „r the baseball magnate,
the preceding November, and won | The way the injunction was explained
do isively from him in ten rounds at tw Professor Taft was like this, accord-
Kenosha’ I'g to Murphy’s friends:
c ton , j oft Thomas Twice I The bl * b ague clubs pay their players
btops Joe I noma* I w ce. , , of thelr salaries for playing
Then came Ills two battles wilt :r> per ,. 0M| f „ r being „„ , lie re-
Joe Thomas, the pride of New i>r- * . rV( . list. If the plater Jumps to the
leans. On April 21 he stopped Joe in j -outlaw" league an Injunction will be
eight rounds, hut the home f ■ | htained preventing him from p aying
fused to believe it wasn't a * > ,»->'< The Jumping to the Federal
, ,, . _ i. . I .eague also would mean the automatic
punch, so < hnrlie repeated it in two cu( ,i ntf ofr of hi8 salary and placing
Sidelights on Sports
By A. H. C. MITCHELL j-
F "T^ HE die is cast. Charley Her-
I zog has signed to manage
the Cincinnati Reds for the
season of 1914.
The contract is for ONE
1 i :ar.
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.
season failed to live up to cham
pionship form and McGraw 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.
Dave Smith Meets
Eddie McGoorty in
Return Go To-day
^ OW Herzog has been made
manage! _of the Cincinnati
rounds on May 9. The tyro. Joe Mey
ers, was his next victim. Meyers
stuck to the canvas in the second
round or the Aurora go on May L'S
The next battle was the disastrous
Britton affair described above.
But yo show how little effect Jack’s
punches had on him. he stopped Jack
Abel in two rounds here on July IS.
He later shaded Frank Whitney in
ten rounds.
on September 1 Charlie was given
one of the best battles of his life* by
Tohrnv Griffiths, oi‘ Ohio. They
fought twelve fast rounds at Canton
and at the end Charlie looked the
better to the sport scribes.
Mickey Sheridan Lasts Two Rounds.
Mickey Sheridan, the Gilmore light
weight. received the first knockout of
his life when-one of Charlie’s le»:
hooks caught hinusolidly in the sec-
i,d 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 If at Canton was next, and how
Charlie stopped him has been told.
The dou tful ten-round affair with
Johnny Dundee at New Orleans fol
lowed on November 27.
A d the last battle, that with Ad
Wolgast in Milwaukee December 19
is ’-till fresh in the minds of the fans
Charlie’s victory makes him one •'
ihe danscrous U! 3-pounders, an*
^hampious and near-champions <•:*
do well to look out for the thin Chi
cago Hebrew.
imself on the big league blacklist
Colorado Racing
In for Big Boom
DENVER. COLO . Dee 25 Denver’s
1914 racing season promises to be ore
of the most interesting of years. The
new State Racing Commission appointed
by Governor E. M. Ammons has called
a meeting at the Statehoiise for Friday,
January for organisation
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 Park. In this city No
conflict of dates is possible under the
Jurisdiction of the commission. The
season will start at Overland in June,
a« was customary in past veam. and
\« ill rontim’e through the fall affairs in
Northern Colorado.
The meetlna* will he short. From
thirteen to r. reteen davs 1s the limit
that can be allotted to Denver.
XIT K wish 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
hall club. His only chance of
success lies in building up the
club with young players and
throwing out the old ones as
fast a^ he can. Herzog has never
hud experience as a manager.
His baseball career has l^een
brief. He is 28 years old. He was
horn in Baltimore and graduated
from the Maryland University.
After a short minor league expe
rience he was signed by the
Giants and played with that team
in 1908 and 1909.
A I’CRAW discovered that Her-
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
first 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 Iaike his
position. Next year, with Ten
ney as manager. Herzog kicked
over the traces and refused to
play for the team any longer.
WAGNER AFTER JOE MANDOT.
WINDSOR. ONTARIO. Dec. 25.—.Pro-
* ter Olassoo. of the W^isor A. C. O
' '•ui'-y » match Billy Wagner, of Chi-i
*** for an eight-round bout with Joe j
here in January. Wagner’s
' % ecently against Freddie Duf- I
of don. entitles him to a chance j
gainst the Southerner. i
/ A F course discipline would have
^ been the proper thing, but
the late William Hepburn Rus-
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
Reds. It is. of course, possible
that the Reds will do well next
year—possibly finish in the lirst
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 organize a ball club? Does
lie know where to go and get
players? Is he “on the inside’’
with the minor league managers?
Or must he he 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
ills work cut out for him. Yet he
was willing, not to say anxious,
to take the job.
Merry Christmas. Charlie.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
SYDNEY. X. S. W.. Dec. 25.—Eddie
McGoorty, the American claimant of th©
middleweight championship of the world,
w i 1 battle Dave Smith, the Australian
titleholder, in a scheduled 20-round bout
here this afternoon.
Several months ago Smith met Mc
Goorty in America, blit was knocked
out in one round. Smith lias always
claimed that McGoorty caught him with
a lucky punch and will try to redeem
himself to-day.
Smith will enter the# ring an even
money bet against McGoorty. Smith's
recent win over Bill. Lang is th* cause
of the big flow of money on bis chances.
Street Threatens to
Join Federal League
THK business of swapping
* 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.
CHATTANOOGA, TENX., Dec. 25.—
“Gabby” Street, former battery mate
cf Walter Johnson, star heaver of Ihe
Washington Senators, will cast his for
tunes with the Federal League during
the coming season, according to a let
ter written by Street to a personal
friend here. He will not report to the
Chattanooga club, which secured him
last season from Providence.
Two local players have now an
nounced their intention of joining the
Federal*, the other being Second Base-
man Carl Flick, secured from the
Philadelphia Athletics.
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. Billv 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 Rill Smith.
als. Atlanta golfers enjoyed to the
number of more than 2,000 tiie fins
exhibitions at East Lake and Brook-
haven. when the two famous players
gave examples of the British game at
its very best.
And, reversing to Mr. Evans, who
is the guest of Mr. George Adair for
the week—well.* we feel it a liolidav
privilege to watch the redoubtable
Chick in 'action, and we beg to sug
gest that the local golfers owe thanks
to Mr. Adair for supplying them this
treat.
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
gr a at 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, anu 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 take*
the gaff when it swings his way. and
doesn’t squeal: everybody that loses
like a. snortsman and wins like a
gentleman (which is harder)—to all
suc»i we say:
“Merry Christmas!”
T7GOTBALL brought Atlanta the
1 finest array of big games ever
showui on the gridiron of a Southern
city. It was a big season, in every
way.
Atlanta saw Jhe game played in
grand fashion, and turned out grand
crowds to see if. Tech lost to Geor
gia, but that was all'right: and Geor
gia lost to Auburn—and THAT was
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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T X the matter of g-olf. we have with
1 us this morning—unless some
thing has crossed up the schedule—
Mr. Chick Evans, Jr., probably the
most brilliant ytmna golfer in the
T’nited 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-
Robinson to Give
Miller $800 Raise
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Dec. 23.
Manager Robinson conferred with Otto
Miller, a catcher for the Brooklyn teani,
Tv^o i« ’’en^rtpi to have been asked to
play with the Federal League next year
Milter said after the conference that
he had been offered an advance of
over the salary he received last year to
stern a contract to play with the Brook
lyn team. He said that he was unable
to do so because of an agreement mad*
by members of the players’ fraternity
not to sign until January.
RODEL FIGHTS TO-NIGHT.
SYRACUSE, N. Y.. Dec. 25.—George
J Rodel and Howard Morrow clash in i
(ten-round bout here to-night. Local
jf^ns are nicking Rede? to win. due to
ihis recent great fight against Ji» 5
| Fiynn.
MORRIS AT IT AGAIN.
CLOVIS, N. MEN., Dec. -.5—Carl
,Morris, who recently announced his r**-
ttirement from the ring, has decided •
■ take another whirl at the ten-round
set-to.
, WILLIAMS MEETS BRADLEY.
PHILADELPHIA. PA.. Dec.
■ “Kid” Williams, claimant of the bah*
jtamweight championship of the world
I takes on Frankie. Bradley, a local boy.
I here to-day. They are billed to go si<
rounds.
TRAINS
DAILY
BETWEEN
LEVINSKY AND DRISCOLL.
BROOKLYN. N. Y. Dec. 25.—“Bat
tling" Levinsky, Danny Morgan's
heavyweight, is scheduled to swap
punches with lack Driscoll to-night in a
ten-round affair. This is Levinsky’s
third fight in two weeks.
MACON AtLANtA
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.
PERCENTE TO BOX KID MORAN.
MADISON. WIS.. Dec. 25.—Kid
Moran, of lays Angeles, Cal., has been
niatcbed to box .'oe Percente. the Madi
son Italian fighter, on New Year s aft
ernoon. Percent© recently challenged
ny Wisconsin boxer to meet him at UG
to 13S pounds for tie light heavyweight
championship of the State
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