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I 8 ft# I THK ATLANTA GKOKGIAN AMI XKVTS The First Tiling an Early Frost Usually Lands On Is a New Baseball League A °y SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT Well, of Course, Thai’s a Different Thing Again r TINKER DELAY Baseball Fans Think Chicago Magnate Has Placed Big Offer Before Crack Shortstop. the Silk hat ha CASE IS PiRST OF rvt owoRce soirz \ -ID BE H£>P.D j (S COOHSEL MTAO-y fOGl'J£7Vl£ 3UB-/ AM e-ARFOLL n Hv S;mi Crane. \ 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. IF IT PLEAiE TJ+C- \ COURT WiE 5aouM> MEPV MUCH LIKE A P0SrP0fJE>AEVT A r the OEFehJDAN T |S IpOlTE it- 1 - * '*jWAt>OVE MEAw ILL. * ARE yo«J Soce THAT Ht'J POT OUT Vd |TH A couple of vuREm^’’ A . idfTeiHSii I : » — V' i. THEVE MU ILL BE MO KAO Re OEMws (KJ KAy COURT ~ tier THAT STVPlD BOOB r+WttW /fJ MERE 8V J 0CLO6F OR I'Ll FimE" \ I'U U / him so 0oc.i A-hetw paroom me. are you LOOK/W & FOR 7RE CTUO &€ “ / COUMi£l-l-OK.. M i*Ay IM couvSeu-os. \ vjilL AGR££ TO PO-TPOUt THE CMt UWTlL TOMORROW - AS A FAMORI® 'i 00 • COURT If for too W- j vnell- 1 ffo*\ -me caoguj flRLS UMIOV (VOW GO ow 'M'TH TME STOPV Ml id 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 ►J* 9 v v • •: 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!" / 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. * * * 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 EADE’S Leave Macon Union Station 3.00 a.m. 3.61 a.m. 4.22 a.m. 7.26 a.m. 1.30 p.m. 3.45 p.m. 5.00 p.m. 5.1 8 p.m. Leave Atlanta Tormlnal Station 8.00 a.m. 9.47 1 2.30 4.00 8.30 p.m 9.00 p.m 1 0.1 0 1 1.45 ASK THE TICKET AGENT Sciatiea, Lumbago- pains in ilimbs. All druggists. the head, fate and! E. FOl'QKK % £ ? ().. Inr!. t*P*n - f.ir l v . js> Beekman Si . N Y. CITY TICKET OFFICES 603 Cherry Street 4th Nafl Bank Bldg. Macon, Ga. Atlanta, Ga. OR AT THE STATION pi th Hi ; ;tt: r >r IF W- ( 0‘ K M12 H'< 1 :l; B ' M R tip Fir ni4 of