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1 COLLEGES ILL NUMBER New System Is Welcomed by the Football Enthusiasts All Over the Country, Bv Frank <L 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 ' n,.»st acceptable gift for the football . mhusiasts—the announcement that P.-xt season they will number their • 'ball gladiators. In the East Princeton, Pennsylva-1 :i ,-i. Brown, Cornell. Dartmouth and \ irlisle came out in favor of the plan. So have Holy Cross, University of Maine, Colgate^ and a number of the ,-mailer colleges. Washington and! Jefferson College has numbered its ■player* tor two years. The Army of- . tr ials declared they would number :,ieir men if the Navy did; the Navy said it would number its men if the Arm.' did. So it seems certain that both these institutions will fall into line. •V f- * * * I X 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 1 he plan. This leaves only Harvard and A ale among the big institutions in the en tire country that have not openly fa vored the plan. However, it is said that the officials at both these col leger have changed their recent =views on the subject, and that when i;c}4 rolls around they will not hold out against the numbering plan. * * * A URGE flock of persons in this -V i iin d of the free and home of tIre rave leadlly aj?i ee with Boli Fitz- -immons in his statement to-day litat, as old as lie is, he could go into he ring and hummer into oblivion | 1 bont 90 per rent of the persons who appear therein and obtain the pub- , Jfr’s money under the false pretense •if fighting. Fitzsimmons' is something over .if. lie's otft of training, his wind is not ; good as it used to be, lie's a hi! dabby here and there, and some of muscles and joint* have stiffened | til age. But after watching the an- of Carl Morris, Jim Flynn. George : lio'lel; Jim Coffey. Soldier Kearns,] . Jc.-s Willard und legions of other j (•ngshoremen, street car conductors ail railroad firemen, thinly disguised ,is "white hopes," we're willing to Igor money on Fitzsimmons against till field, atid give big odds us well. Juarez Racing Results AT JUAREZ. FIRST Six furlongs. BtrUa IF; 'feneyi. 4. 8-5, 1-5. won; Genera! alien 07 (Nevlonl, J. even. 1-2. see „1 ,t,t Got eh ins (Kirsohbauini. !. X-o, ’• third. Time. 1:14 1-5. Also ran; ■nth V . Colonel Mel 'uueull. latile Hit, oof. Thomas, Hare Uarona. Vava. lahama Ham. George. I'urln. hool Fortune and Barbara Lane. si;gond Mile: Little Marchmont , Loft,is). 2. 2-5. out, won; Joe ,,,„ls 107 (MeMartin), 8. 3. 3-3. »ec- • 1; Eye White 107 (Neylon). 4-o, 1-5. i. third. Time, 1:40 3-5. Also ran: i,lie Shapiro, Stonettian, Ben > ncas id Commendation. , , A . THIRD—Six furlongs: ttsapie l ho • nylon, 0. 8-5, 4-5, won: Manganese it (Gentry), 7, 5-2, 6-5. second; Hlar- Ii4 (Gross), 6. 2, even, third, 'l ime. i;j 2-:. A'so ran: Janiel, Fi;- ,l4trr > ; iMpath. Milton Koblee. Bing and liitii W. . ,. . , Ril’KTH -Five furlongs: Sir Fretful ■ (Taylor), 4. 6-5, l-2. won; Bonne >iance 105 (Neylon), 7-2, even. l-i>. ond; Bert Getty 100 (Matthews), i-2, 2-5. third. Time 1:26 45. Also !'•■ Transparent. Voladay. Jr., Nicias. FIFTH - Six furlongs: Parlor Boy 10 Benton), 4, #-5, 4-5. won; Barsac 10< Matthew's'), 3. 2, even, second: Mack ’•• Kubanks 100 (Woods). 3, even. 1-2, Ijird, Time 1:13 1-5. Also ran: Seneca • w**i of Asia. Amon, Jessupburn, Gold inn. Swish. Hardy. , ^ SIXTH Mile and one-eighth—Gordie 89 (Noyhm). 8-5, won; Sugar Dump, =10. second; Sir John, even, third, ’ime 1:54. POLLY AND 1 . V- ~ T 1 JER PALS ______ r • T UMIF 1 PFT /TiIFC 1 Otherwise Pa Was a Good Picker , s - *T t , . To ItT L v ' .... FROM LAST ChriSTM/G 250 R4AJOKERC(«m &I6M1 RU8f\WATS_ 3 Pl/MK BRACELET 1 \UAfCHE* Sixteen phomiY 1FIVE BRACELET S A MO A WOULD I BE DPcr! Vou KMOW THAT 1 HAVE ENOUGH, CAEAP Je#/ELRV To LA6T , ME THE RtSt OT HV J— HAluPALjUnJj WHERE V'6o/d' PA * THEVN" /tw OiAUCE ten To on My MOREV BACK l Art. P, 0. Men Rest First Time in Three Weeks The first leisure moments the work ing force at the Atlanta postoffice have ki.-twn for three weeks came Christ- Day at noon, when all departments (, f the big establishment were closed find the men went to their homes to ‘mend the rest of the day with their families and friends. The general delivery window's and ' 'H p of the stamp windows were kept pn all morning and two city deliv- '"‘p* were made by the carriers and "■n parcel post wagons. Carlisle drops Dartmouth. p ARUISLK. PA Dec. 26.—Coach { »l«fnn Warner, on liis return yesterday fr,, m a shooting trip In the South, said ” <c Dartmouth probably will be 'Tapped from the fotball schedule of ">y '■’arlisle Indian School next year. , The Indians have been Invited to play • n Hanover next year, but owing to p long trip and the probability of : 1 1 financial returns. Warner said arhsle, felt compelled to decline The Indians would have liked a Dartmouth Karne in New’ York or Boston, but this prevented by Dartre out h faculty re- •trictiona. ill Schwartz To Be Tinkerized -I- • v F Vols’Manager Refuses to Weaken ijM Cures !n 1 t« 5 day* MM 1 unnatural dl»* barges. RTa « ■ * Im. mu.n nofhiW>«C W mMw'w IT may *• «ki fun strength absolutely without fear. Guarau- n stricture. Prevent* <ontagl<>n. „y w Y NOT CURE YOURSELF" ,• or by parcel post. $1 or ,ori ie« $2.75. Particulars with each >'i l i e c * r mailed on request EVANS CHEMICAL COMPANY Cincinnati, O. Jimmy Johnston Threatens to Bet $5,000 on Boer Against the Smith-Pelkey Victor, By Ed Curley. N - KW YORK, Dec. 25.—Joimes Johnston, the hoy manager of these here and other parts, breezed over our parquet floor lawst 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,” lie 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 Fmith-Arthur Pelkey tight, which takes place on the coast on New Year's Day, and also to in form you that I am willing to let Rod’el 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 $f».- 000. which I will let stand as a side bet. All I want is to get the winner of that fight, and Rodel will meet that winner on February 22. which I be lieve is Washington’s birthday, so I am informed, and if Rodel can not beat the winner of the Gunboat Smith-Arthur Pelkey fight, then i 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. The chal lenge has been forwarded to San Francisco audit’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. IOWATO KEEP HAWLEY. IOWA CITY. IOVs A, Dec. 2o —The Iowa athletic hoard has voted coach b Hawles a substantial raise in -alarv for the coming season, and ap* pointed a committee t<> proceed » once with the drawing up of a contract to be offered to him. N ashville, t.enn , tfec. 26- Out of the mass of charges and counter charges burled by .Manager Bill Schwartz and Presi dent William “Alibi'' Hirsig, of the Vols, in their violent argument grow ing out of the Pcrry-Bcrger deal, about the only thing which the fans in Voltown can find out to he a posi tive fact is that the boy leader stands a fat chance of being decorated with the tinware simply because he de cided lie would actually be manager and not an errand boy. Yes, sir! Schwartz is about to be Vinkerized. That is, unless lie gets a move on himself and takes back all the mean and nasty things lie said' about Mr. Hirsig, who is real cross with Bill. All Bill will have to do will 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 Clayt 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 1n order to hold onto his job. Not if he had to subsist on a snowball diet for the remainder of the winter. • * * N OW 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 and 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 there you are for a nice heluva tan gled situation. One of the strangest developments in the entire busineeh is the fact that Bill has never as yet .signed his 1614 contract. “I Just kept putting it off from time to time, and haven’t ever attended to the matter,'' is the only explanation Bill offer?. Now. since he and Hirsjg have got ten into this argument, Bill has drawn up a contract offering to accept ;i cut of $1.<»00 in salary should :he Vols fail to finish 1-2r3 in 1914 BUT. w ould you believe it, Hihshig wouldn’t sign It just because Bill acted naughty and told I he fans .iu.-st who Hie real manager is and who the bat boy is. (’an 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 Hlrsblg. but getting his backbone up i* going to be a mighty costly experience if all the signs don't fail • * • OH FORE Hirsig went down to At O lanta he gave Schwartz a prom ise that no deals or trades would be arranged. So when the pews came back that Perry had been traded for Berger and a cash consideration, Bill almost threw' a fit, arid gave it out that he didn't believe the deal had been made. Now, when Hirsig re turns to Nashville, he verifies the reported swap, and the more Bill thought about it the madder he got at being made the “goat,” so he ups and admits that lie iyn’t a real, hon est-to-good ness manager at all. but a plain, ordinary bat boy whom Mr. Hirsig allows to hang around Hulphur 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 wefrd Welchonee mistake. Now. if there is one matter on which Hirsig should be ashamed to look the Nanh- villrf fans in the face, it Is the evil Welchonee 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 Welchonee away because he hated to part with the $1,500 draft money necessary to have him re turned lo the Nashville club. * * * OUT whether Bill Schwartz is the Vols’ manager next season or nN, he is going to make the fur fly from Hirsig's back before he is done with that gentleman. “I’ve got a grand hand to play against that fellow,” says Bill, “and I 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 caving tried to ‘frame up’ any of this kind of stuff on mo. 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 bar* up? Not Willie. Say, you can make a lor of monev batting that 1*1 f stick to tlie last inning on what 1 i»aid right at the start, and not one word will I retra :. Anil that’s final.” Gunboat Smith Not Consistent With ICO, Hr Possesses a Powerful Punch, but Does Not Class With the One-Blow Specialists. B\ \Y. YV. Xaughton. S \ N FRANCI8CO, Dec. 25.—Is 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 wha*t be has accomplished in that line has he earned the right to rank with the one-blow specialists the game has known? Home think he has and some think he lias not, and those who hold the latter view adduce that while lie knocked out some of his opponents, a far greater number escaped being knocked out. There is no gainsaying the evidence in the cage. Smith’s work as a fin isher has laded continuity, and about the best that can be claimed (or 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 where 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 end 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 himself, who held the title for a while, w'as a periodical knocker out and nothing more. ■ mi. ■ nnanszm plum VS take? «u4 Dru lUbita (im(i4 H«km it at Sanitarium Book on »nkl«4 DB B. M. WOOLLEY Jl-N. Vinto* ftuoitarlaaa, Atlanta. <.*•<*« Food for Sport Fans -nToE'JROE E PHAIR.; OMAR AT THE MEETING. 10 P. M. A Ithclii player that I want to Htrnp, A flock of tetne, a bunch of kale cop, And / nhould worry ’bout them guys at home! W hat I say goes!—another quart, old top! 2 A. M. Will Tinker yellf dust lei your unelc volte This dope out for you here to night. Another quart! Now, lemme see 'bout this Ten thousand beans will fljn that guy all right! 9 A. M. // seems to me these guys I've loved so long Have grabbed my shoe I stop from me for a song. dee, irhat a head! And note, those mutts out home - Here's when' your t nele Omar gets the prong! FOOLISH LIKE F^XES. Consider the mat men The boneheaded fat men, For whom all the wise people fall. Hr kid I hem and flay them, Hut richly ue pay them— They aren't such bone heads at all. The Parisian wrestling fans who threw vegetables at Jack Johnson must have been mighty wealthy, or they must have been mighty mad. January 23 is the dny on which Willie Ritchie will meet Tommy Murphy, If he does not change his mind again. Jiisl as Red Dooin’s prospects were brightest a. lot of experts up and 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 j a second look. 1 Quoth Ned Hanlon: “Brooklyn does not want two big league teams." In fact. Brooklyn has existed for years without any. “Baseball,” say* an Australian critic, “larks the spirit of cricket.” That Is why baseball is so popular. Ail the Federal League needs for its Invasion of Cleveland Is a baseball team and a baseball park. It has the fran chtse. As we understand It, the chief cause of trouble in Cincinnati Is that there ■re too many tinkers. Many a time and oft we have won dered how a lightweight can look a weighing machine *n the face without blushing. J remember, I remember The lightweight pugs tee had In days of husky Aid Lavinge, When r was but a lad. The lightweights then were little men, Hut gaze upon them now! The toads 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. Hut every second week or so Ham Langford battles doe Jeannette Lest we forgette, lest we forgette. Having the Tinker deal to write about, New York's baseball scribes do not find it necessary to trade Russell Ford oftener than onto a week. Ther# is good even in tho 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. MISSED HIGH GOLF HONORS Did Not Wish to Play in Open Championship Until President Watson Persuaded Him. B oston, d^. 25.—hi* *oif clubs put away for the winter. Fran cis 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. “1 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 City, President Watson, of the association, asked me why I had not sent in my entrv 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 myself.’ “ ‘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 T turned away I said to myself, ‘I’m doin'- this under protest.’ " ECZEMA SUFFERERS l . R*»4l wh*t I- S. Giddcn*. Tctop*. Fl«.. ***». > It proris that ; Tetterine Cures Eczema F*r Mvan yaar* I Md *n n>y »nkl«. I tried many remedies and nu- '• erout d«et#r*. I tried Tetterine end after . eight »e«ke * m entirely tree from the ter* ) i loir rc/emi. : Tetterine will <1* a* much f*»r ©there. ft ) cure* rntema. tet’er. eryelpele* and other sVIn , trouk'ee It cu'ee lo atay cured. Get u to ) u ay—Tetter Joe. 50c a( drufolita. er bv mall. 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