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4 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. Ill £ ‘ .11 COVffiED 4k 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!’ +•+ •k»4- •!•••!* 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. EADE’S Leave Macon Union Station 3.00 a.m. 3.51 a.m. 4.22 a.m. 7.25 a.m. 1.30 p.m. 3.45 p.m. 6.00 p.m. 5.1 8 p.m. Leave Atlanta Terminal Station 8.00 a.m. 9.47 a.m. 1 2.30 p.m. 4.00 p.m. 8.30 p.m. 9.00 p.m. 1 0.1 0 p.m. 1 1.45 p.m. OUT m ~ . for Gout, Rheumatism. .. . _ Sciatica. Lumbago: pains in the head, face and limbs. Alldrugadecs. K. foi'GKRA & r«„ I nr.. Agenu tor l ft W) Beekman bt . N Y- S ASK THE TICKET AGENT CITY TICKET OFFICES 603 Cherry Street 4th Nat’l Bank Bldg. Macon, Ga. Atlanta, Ga. OR AT THE STATION CENTRALt GEORGIA. 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.