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SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
0-o-o-only J-j-j-just Oc-oc-oc-occasionally
Baseball Fans Think Chicago
Magnate Has Placed Big Offer
Before Crack Shortstop.
By Sam (Trane.
A large-sized suspicion exists to
day that C. Waistcoat Murphv,
a Chicago, IIlln« is. gentleman.
Is the main reason for the seeming
reluctance of Joe Tinker to sign a
Brooklyn contract.
Perh#uj* *e such a suspicion does Mur
phy an injustice. It is likely that he
Is in no way resi onjible for the coy
ness of the said Mr. Tinker. But th'*
fact remains that Murphy covets Tin
ker 1n a most unholy way, and wou;u
go to any fair limit to get him.
Th Chicago fans are clamoring for
Tinker They have agitated for his
return ever since they learned that
the Cincinnati club would put him on
the auction block They want Tinker
or anything else. Murphy is ‘in bad
or anything else. Murphy is ‘in bn i
with the Chicago club But If he got
Tinker for them it would be a master
stroke—one that wo Jd cause the fans
to forgive him for his many omissbms
and comiaslons 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
way baseball politics, then Tinkers
stand against signing with Brooklyn
seems only the more mystifying
Tinker Holding Ou' for $7,500.
The moment Tinker affixes his sig
nature to a Dcdger contract he will
get the $10,000 bonus. He will also
be guaranteed $6,000 per 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. That 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 $'0,000 bonus, it will
make his 1914 income exlctly $16,000—
without doubt the biggest salary ever
received in any one season by a non-
manager player.
It certainly seems stranc that with
•uch a lure Tinker refuses to b<*
lured; that he holds out and #«*ems
quite inditTerent about signing. This
has given rise to the belief that Mur
phy assured Tinker that the Chi
cago club would pay him not only
the $10,000 bonus, but a.so a salary
$7,500 under a contract running f 'C
three years, if Tlnke • would only do
a i it tie jockeying about signing the:
Brooklyn contract so that O. Waist
coat could have time to do a little
underhand work.
• • •
H ERE is ft hit of gorflng advice from
Harry Vardcn, 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
h« sit ate. He always should know Just
what club to use and at just what
time.
In mv bag I carry a midiron, a
driver, a cleek, two brassies, two
mashies, a driving iron, a niblick and
a putter. The equipment, 1 think, is
enough for anybody, and there are
enough clubs in that lo* to meet anv
emergency."
• * •
\ MATHEMATICAL florid In Pitts
- » burg has just dlvoverfd tli.it
Erect I’larke, th ’irate manager,
made a ’horrible blunder" in tru 1-
lng Outfielder Wilson and lnfloldera
Butler. Dolan and ’> r and Pitcher
Robinson to the Cardinals for First
Baseman Konetchy, Third Baseman
Mowrey and Pitcher Harmon. The
figure gentleman made hts dtscovery
after he found, via pad and pencil,
that the Pirate quintet compiled 269
extra bases last season, white the
Cardinal trio anncxul only 197.
However. Clarke and the staunch
Pirate fans are not worrying. Pitts
burgh needed a first-class first base
man Clarke landed one. What’s a
•mall matter of 102 extra bases in
com pa ri son ?
Frank Hinkey Named
Head Coach at Yale
VKW HAVEN, CONN., Pec 25.—
Frank Hinkey has been appointed head
coach of the Vale football team. He
succeeds Howard Jones, who, during the
last season began his work, as Vale s
first salaried football coach under a
contract Jones, it Is understood, sev
ered his contract in order to accept a
lucrative proposition.
Hlnkev graduated from Yale in 1895
He played end. and Walter Camp and
other football experts regard him as
one of the best ends that ever wore the
blue For the first time in many years
Hlnkev assisted in the coaching at Yale
field last fall He Is known as an ad
vocate of the open style of play, and
Is a firm believer in the forward pase.
‘Merry Christmas—Everybody!’
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Atlanta Can Afford To Be Happy
Gridiron Stars Will
Play in ’Nooga To-day
CHATTANOOGA. Dec. 25 —Chatta
nooga fans will witness Christmas aft
ernoon a stirring gridiron fray between
the eleven from the Eleventh United
States cavalry and an all-star aggre
gation of collegians. Amon§ the ranks
of the latter will be seen Nuck Brown
and “Roaring Ammle" Sikes, of Van
derbilt: Tolley. Hammond and Ward of
Sewanee: Cushman. Ratten and 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, ana
are in a position to put up a grueling
contest.
IMPROVING FROM INJURY.
CHATT ANOOGA. Dec 24 Private
Holland, of E. Troop, Eleventh United
States cavalry, who suffered concussion
of th- ‘-wan In a basket ball game with
I
f assured.
Chicago Boy Has Had Thirteen
Fights This Year and Won
Six Knockouts.
By Loft Hook.
C HARLIE WHITE has just fin-
ished the busiest and beat year
of his career in the ring. From
January 10, when he whipped Tommy
Bresnahan in ten rounds at Omaha,
until December 19, when he whaled
Ad Wolgast over the aame route at
Milwaukee, his record is full of the
toughest kind of fights, the kind that
have made him the championship
timber that he is to-day. Jack Brit
ton is the only man who made Char
lie back up, and only his groater
weight won for him.
Charlie has had thirteen fights dur
ing 1913, till 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
made him look bad after the first ten
rounds, is tlie only blot on Charlie's
marvelous record of the year. Brit
ton was too long for Charlie to get at
and his great reach kept his smaller
opponent out of th© wav.
Dundee Given Shade.
It seems strange that the only
other bad fight that he made during
the year nhould be at New Orleans.
Johnny Dundee was given the shade
over 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
around Chicago to prove that Charlie
was worsted in the New Orleans pa
pers Johnny has evaded such offers,
through his manager. Scotty Mon-
tteth, and it seem a that the Gotham
pair want 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 Cam.;.:, OhV\ after
Kansas had floored him. demonstrat
ing that he must take a few wallops
before he gets mad enough to hit.
Charlie started off his year by giv
ing Tommy Bresnahan, the boy who
took Matty MeOue to a trimming re
cently, a ten-round drubbing at
Omaha. He next met Pal Moore,
with whom lie had boxed a draw in
the preceding November, and won
decisively from him in ten rounds at
Kenosha.
Stops Joe Thomas Twice.
Then came his two battles with
Joe Thomas, the pride of New Or
leans. On April 21 he stopped Joe in
eight rounds, but the home fans re
fused to believe it wasn’t a lucky
punch, so Charlie repeated it In two
rounds on May 9. The tyro. Joe Mey
ers, was his next victim. Meyers
stuck to the canvas in the second
round of the Aurora go on May 2S
The next battle was the disastrous
Britton affair described above.
But to 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
Johnny Griffiths, of 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 left
hooks caught him solidly in the sec
ond round of their Racine go on Sep
tember 15. Mickey staggered blindly
about the ring and the referee stopped
the go.
The Kid Kansas tight on Novem
ber 15 at Canton was next, and how
Charlie stopped him has been told.
The doubtful ten-round affair with
Johnny Dundee at N«*w Orleans fol
lowed on November 27.
A 1 the last battle, that with Ad
Wolgast in Milwaukee December 19,
is still fresh in the minds of the fans.
Charlie's victory makes him one of
the dangerous 133-pounders, and
?ham; :• ■.-> and near-champions can
do well look out for the thin Chi
cago Hebrew,
Majors Will Wage
War Against Feds
With Injunctions
CHICAGO, Pec. 26.- War on the Fed-
ral League will be waged by a combi
nation of the American and National
J eacu© and the injunction ig
o be tfie weapon of defense wielded by
be two big baseball organizations.
Charles W Murphy, president of the
Chicago National League club, to-day
admitted that the magnates were going
o make us© of the injunction.
Although President Murphy did not
-rtinlt it, persons who claim to know
aid that the knowledge that the in
unction could be used to prevent major
eaguers from Joining the Federal- “out-
aw" league was Imparted to Murphy
ex-President Taft, who is a warm
riend of the baseball magnate.
The way the injunction was explained
y Professor Taft was iike this, accordi
ng to Murphy's friends.
The big league clubs pay their players
5 per cent of their salaries for playing
and 25 per cent for being on the re- !
serve list. If the player jumps to the j
‘outlaw" league an injunction will be j
btained preventing him from p aying !
ball. The jumping to the Federal ;
>oague also would mean the automatic
cutting off of his salary and placing !
imself on the big league blacklist.
Colorado Racing
In for Big Boom
DENVER. COLO., Pec. 25.—Denver's |
J914 racing season promises to be one
of the most interesting of years. The
new State Racing Commission appointed
by Governor E. M. Ammons has called
a meeting at the Statehouse for Friday,
January 16. for organization.
The chief business will be the dis
cussion of plans for a Spring meet.
Oover.. -r Ammons Is 1 MTtlb in favor
of a Trt. ing 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 th#
Jurisdiction "f the commission. The
season will start at Overland in June,
as was customary in past years, and
will continue through the fall affairs in
Northern Colorado.
The meetings will be short. From I
Thirteen to nineteen days is the limit
that can be allotted to Denver,
Sidelights on Sports
-j By A. H, C- MITCHELL
1 -A HE die Is oast. Charley Her-
zog has signed to manage
the Cincinnati Reds for the
se;ison of 1914
The contract is for ONE
YEAR.
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
prefer** umpiring to managing the
Reds it shows what sort of a job
managing the Reds really is.
• • #
W E 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 as he can Herzog lias never
had experience as a manager.
His baseball career has been
brief. He is 28 years old. He was
born 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.
• • •
VT’GRAW 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 Lake his
position. Next year, with Ten
ney as manager. Herzog kicked
over the traces and refused to
play for the team any longer.
• * - •
O F course discipline would have
been the proper thing, but
the late William Hepburn Rus-
selis. owner of the team, was
hard pressed for players about
that time and couGdn’t afford to
have any idle m-*H®. • his hands.
He traded him back to New York
and there Herzog has been ever
since.
Herzog was the f sensation of
the 1912 world’s series but last
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.
• • •
OW Herzog has been made
manager of the Cincinnati
Reds. It is, of course, possible
that the Reds will do well next
year—possibly finish in the first
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
be know where to go and get
players? Is he “on the inside"
with the minor league managers?
Or must he be 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
his work cut out for him. Yet he
was willing, not to say gjixious.
to take the job.
Merry Christmas, Charlie.
PERCENTE TO BOX KID MORAN.
MADISON. WIS., Dec. 25—Kid
Moran, of Los Angeles. Cal., has been
matched to box Joe Percente. the Madi
son Italian fighter, on New Year’s aft
ernoon. Percente recently challenged
ny Wisconsin boxer to meet him at 133
to 13S pounds for the light heavyweight
championship of the State.
WAGNER AFTER JOE MANDOT.
WINDSOR, ONTARIO. Dec. 26.—Pro-
inter Glassco, of the Windsor A. C., is
nxious to match Billy Wagner, of Chi-
ago, for an eight-round bout with Joe
.Tandot here in January. Wagner's
hewing recently against Freddie Puf-
y. of Boston, entitles him to a chance
gainst the Southerner.
Dave Smith Meets
Eddie McGoorty in
Return Go To-day
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
SYDNEY. N. S. W.. Dec. 25.—Eddie
McGoorty, the American claimant of the
middleweight championship of the world,
will battle Dave Smith, the Australian
t Geholder, in a scheduled 20-round bout
here this afternoon.
Several months ago Smith met Mc
Goorty in America, but was knocked
€ it in one round. Smith has always
c almed 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 the cause
of the big flow of money on his chances.
Street Threatens to
Join Federal League
CHATTANOOGA, TENN., Dec. 25 —
'‘Gabby" Street, former battery mate
of Walter Johnson, star heaver of the
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
Federals, the other being Second Base-
man Carl Flick, secured from the
Philadelphia Athletics.
By O. B. Keeler.
M 12RRY CHRISTMAS, every
body!
That Is not a very original
way to start this thing off, but then
the rest of it isn’t going to be origi
nal, either.
And (anyway) / we’d like to bac.r
that brief 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
comes from the heart, and to every
body that sees It, and to everybody
that doesn’t, we say, from the heart—
"Merry Christmas!”
* * *
T HE conventional thing to do, when
you toll on a dally column. Is to
fill It up about December 25 with
witty things by way of suggestions
of appropriate gifts to well-known
persons.
For 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.
* * •
A ND yet, without getting anywise
clogged up with sentiment, we're
just going to pass the buck for this
time.
S > 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, Billy 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 Bill Smith.
...
■p*OOTBALL brought Atlanta the
A finest array of big games ever
shown on the gridiron of a Southern
city. It was a big season, in every
way.
Atlanta saw the game played in
grand fashion, and turned out grand
crowds to see it. 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.
* * *
TN the matter of golf, we have with
A us this morning—unless some
thing has crossed up the schedule—
Mr. Chick Evans, Jr., probably the
most brilliant young golfer in the
United 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
als, Atlanta golfers enjoyed to the
number of* more than 2,000 the fine
exhibitions at East Lake and Brook-
haven, when the two famous players
gave examples of the British game at
its very best.
And, reverting to Mr. Evans, who
is the guest of Mr. George Adair for
the week—well, we feel it a holiday
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.
• • •
"TAKE it all around, it’s been a pret-
A 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
great 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, ana a good many other things
good for cities and people to have.
So here it. is. Christmas Day.
* * *
A ND we just say to everybody—
1 x everybody that plays the game
hard and clean; everybody that takes
the gaff when it swings his way, and
doesn’t squeal; everybody that loses
like a sportsman and wins like a
gentleman (which is harder)—to all
such we say:
“Merry Christmas!”
TRAINS
DAILY
BETWEEN
LEVINSKY AND DRISCOLL.
BROOKLYN, N. Y.. Dec. 25.—“Bat
tling'' Levinaky, Danny Morgan's
heavyweight. is scheduled to swap
punches with Jack 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 tight to take p ! ace in
Milwaukee, December 29. under the
auspices of the Riverview Athletic
Club.
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Union Station
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Robinson to Give
Miller $800 Raise
INDIANAPOLIS. INP., Pec. 25.—
Manager Robinson conferred with Otto
Miller, a catcher for' the Brooklyn team,
who is reported to have been asked to
play with the Federal League next year.
Miller said after the conference that,
he had been offered an advance of $800
oyer the salary he received last year to
sign a contract to play with the Brook
lyn team. He said that he was unable
to do so because of an agreement made
by members of the players’ fraternity
not to sign until January.
RODEL FIGHTS TO-NIGHT.
S) RACUSE, N. Y., Pec. 25.—George
Rodel and Howard Morrow clash In \
ten-round bout here to-night. Local
fans are picking Rodel to win, due to
his recent great fight against Jinx
Flynn.
MORRIS AT IT AGAIN.
CLOVIS. N. MEX., Pec. 25 -Carl
Morris, who recently announced his re
tirement from the ring, has decided to
take another whirl at the ten-round
set-to.
WILLIAMS MEETS BRADLEY.
PHILADELPHIA. PA.. Pec 25 ♦
“Kid" Williams, claimant of the bar.-*
tamweight championship of the world,
takes on Frankie Bradley, a local bov*
here to-day. They are billed to go n\a
rounds.