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BIG COLLEGES
BRINGING UP FATHER
By GEORGE M’MANUS
New System Is Welcomed by the
Football Enthusiasts All Over
the Country.
________ •
By Frank G. Menke.
N EW YORK, Dec. 25.—In keep-.]
ins with the Yuletide spirit,
most of the big colleges in the
ernmtry came along to-day with a
ir.njt acceptable gift for the football
pnthuslasts—the announcement that
next season they will number their ]
football gladiators.
In the Bast Princeton, Pennsylva
nia, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth and
Carlisle came out in favor of the plan.
So have Holy Cross, University of
Maine, Colgate and a number of the
smaller colleges. Washington and
Jefferson College has numbered its
players for two years. The Army of
ficials declared they would number
their men if the Navy did; the Navy
said it would number its men if the
Army did. So it seems certain that
both these institutions will fall into
line.
* * *
I X the West the conference colleges
' have announced they would num-
her their players next year. The
smaller Western colleges have fol-
lowed the larger ones in approving
the plan.
This leaves only Harvard and Yale
niong the big institutions in the en-
: e country that have not openly fa- .
\ored the plan. However, it is said I
\:t the officials at both these col-
. cs have x changed their recent j
lews on the subject, and that when
• 14 tolls around they will not hold j
• ui against the numbering plan.
$ * *
A LARGE flock of persons in this
* ^ 'and of the free and home of the 1
v< readily Agree with Bob Fitz-
mmons in his statement to-day.
’hat, as old as he is. he could go into j
Tie ring and hammer into oblivion
. bout 00 per cent of the persons who
appear therein and obtain the pub
lic's money under the false pretense
of fighting.
Fitzsimmons is something over 50.
He’s out of training, his wind is not
s good as it used to be, lie’s a bit j
flabby here and there, and some of
> muscles and joints have stiffened
age. But after watching the an-
of Carl Morris, Jim Flynn, George
Hi 11 ’el, Jim Coffey, 1 Soldier Kearns.
Jess Willard and legit* of other
"ligshoremen, street car conductors
. nd railroad firemen, thinly disguised
us “white hopes,” were willing to
ager money on Fitzsimmons against
Lie field, ami give big odds as well. |
POLLY AND HER PALS
By the Way, Bought Your Xmas Presents Yet?
Mississippi Quintet
Holds Great Record
me mn \ BE Am 1 guV MoT
Christmas pre5emts tor our.
FRlEMOi AMD RFMTu/fS ~7HK> /
VfeAR li/E SHOT MV WAOJ
KEEPiM' UP OOTAipL rT/ r,
AifRRy Christmas'.'
Joe Bean, coach of the Atlanta Ath
letic Club basket ball team, is losing
no time in getting his warriors in
shape for # the. husky bunch from the
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechan
ical College Saturday afternoon.
The Mississippi quintet holds the
tmpionship of the Southern Inter
collegiate Athletic Association and
Las only lost two games In the past
two years. Practically all the play-
ers of last year’s team are back again,
.-«> that the local quintet will have to
lo up against a well-oiled machine.
Toe Bean realizes this fact and is
jutting in most of his time trying
to perfect the team play of his boys,
•lot* is after soeed. as he hopes to rush
Lie visitors off their feet by getting
• ie jump on them at the start. Sat
urday's game should prove a great
tussle.
Bill Schwartz To Be Tinkerized
4*f4*
ols’ Manager Refuses to Weaken
P, 0. Men Rest First
Time in Three Weeks
Tt
ip first leisure moments the work
force at the Atlanta postoffice have
iwn for three weeks came Ohrist-
s Day at noon, when all departments
the big establishment were closed
hr men went to their homes to
■ I the rest of the day with their
lilies and friends.
general delivery windows un<l
■ of the stamp windows were kept
■ all morning and two city deliv-
were made by the carriers and
parcel post wagons.
CARLISLE DROPS DARTMOUTH.
1 vmJSLH, PA.. Dec. 25.—Coach
Warner, on his return yesterday
■"I a shooting trip in the South, said
I >artmouth probably will be
from (he fotball schedule of
1 arlisle Indian School next year.
Indians have been invited to play
Hanover next year, but owing to
long (rip and the probability of
financial returns, Warner said
isle felt compelled to decline. The
"'Cans would have liked a Dartmouth
A up in New York or Boston, but this
l vented by Dartmouth faculty re-
striotions.
IOWA TO KEEP HAWLEY.
•W.\ CITY, IOWA, Dec. 25.—The
1 i athleUe board has voted Coach
■ R. Hawley a substantial raise in
v : ;>ry for the coming season, and ap-
L in ted a committee to proceed at
fr.re with the drawing up of a contract
■ 1 e offeree! to him.
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Jimmy Johnston Threatens’ to Bet
$5,000 on Boer Against the
Smith-Pelkey Victor.
• By Ed Curley.
N EW YORK. Dec. 25.—Joimes
Johnston, tne boy manager of
these here and other parts,
breezed over our parquet floor lavvst
evening simply puffing nlmself away
in an excited manner. And Joimes is
some puffer.
The way that young man was
worked up was simply scandalous.
“Nothin’ extraordinary,” he 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 Smith-Arthur Pelkey
fight, which takes place on the coast
on New Year’s Day, and also to in
form you that I am willing to lei
Rodel 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 $5,-
000, which I will let stand as a side
bet. All J 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, ;fnd if Rodel can not
beat the winner of the Gunboat
Smith-Arthur Pelkey light, then 1
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 and it’s up to Messrs. Smith
and Pelkev 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 2,000 miles away as if Smith
should grab off the wave of the ref
eree's mitt. Still (as a saver), you
can never tell.
N ASHVILLE, TENN., Dec. 25.—
Out of the mass of charges and
counter charges hurled by
Manager Bill Schwartz and Presi
dent William “Alibi” Hirsig, of the
Vols, in their violent argument grow
ing out of the Perry-Berger deal,
about the only thing which the fans
in Voltown can find out to he a posi
tive fact is that the bov leader stands
a fat chance of being decorated with
the tinware simply because he de
cided he would actually be manager
and not an errand boy.
Yes, sir! Schwartz is about to be
Tinkerized. That is, unless he gets a
move on himself and takes back all
the mean and nasty things he said
about Mr. Hirsig, who is real cross
with Bill. All Bill will have to do
v\ ill be to have an announcement made
through fhe 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 in
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 director*,
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 so
there you are for a nice heluva tan
gled situation. One of the strangest
developments in the entire business
is th*> fact that Bill has never as yet
sign**; his 1 i> 14 contract. “I just kept
putting it off from time to time, and
haven’t ever attended to the matter,”
is the only explanation Bill offers.
Now, since li^ and Hirsig have got
ten into this argument, Bill has drawn
up a contract offering to accept a cut
of $1,000 in salary should the Vols
fail to finish 1-2-3 in 1914. BUT,
would you believe it, Hirshig wouldn’t
sign it just because Bill acted naughty
and told the fans just who the real
manager is and who the batboy is.
Can 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 Hirshig, but getting
his backbone up is going to be a
mighty costly experience if all the
sighs don’t fail.
* * *
1DEFORE Hirsig^ went down to At-
lanta he gave* Schwartz a prom
ise that no deals or trades would be
arranged. So when the news came
back that Perry had been traded for
Berger and a cash consideration, Bill
almost threw a fit, and gave it out
that he didn’t believe the deal had
been made. Now, when Hirsig re
turns to Nashville, lie 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 he isn’t a real, hon-
est-to-goodness manager at all, but a
plain, ordinary batboy whom Mr.
Hirsig allows to hang around Sulphur
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
weird Welchonce mistake. Now, If
there is one matter on which Hirsig
should be ashamed to look the Nash
ville fans in the face, it is the evil
Welchonce 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 Welchonce away because he
hated to part with the $1,500 draft
money necessary' to have him re
turned to the Nashville club.
Motorcycle Race
Postponed by Rain
The College Park Press Club will hold
its regular holiday gun shoot on the
club’s grounds to-day. About fifty
marksmen are expected to compete for
honors. Arrangements have been made
to hold a handicap shoot in the af
ternoon. A beautiful loving cup will
be given to the winner of this event.
Gunboat Smith
Not Consistent
With K. O.
By W. W. Naugliton.
S \N FRANCISCO, Deo. 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 what
he has accomplished in that line has
he earned the right to rank with the
one-blow specialists the game has
known?
Some think he has and some think
he has not. and those who hold the
latter view adduce that while he
knocked out some of his opponents, a
far greater number escaped being
knocked out.
There is no gainsaying the evidence
In the case. Smith's work as a fin
isher has lacked continuity, and about
the best that can be claimed for him
up to the present is that h^ is an oc
casional knocker out.
John L. and Fitz Hitters.
Among heavy weight 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 w'ould end the bout, but lie 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
w'eight and brawn and ruggedness.
He struck bruising blows, 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
j keep hammering at the one spot to
produce results.
Tommy Burns himself, who held
the title for a while, was a periodical
knocker out and nothing more.
Food for Sport Fans
OMAR AT THE MEETING.
10 P. M.
A likely player that I wunt to
strap, •
A flock of n ine, a bunch of kale cop.
And / should -worry 'trout them pays
at home!
What I say goes! another quart, old
top!
2 A. # M.
licitf Just let Hour uncle
for you here to-
Sow, lemme nee
i rill fir that
Will rink
write
This dope out
night.
Another quart!
’bout this—
Ten thousand beans
guy all right!
9 A. M.
It seems to me these guys I'rc loved
so long
Hare grabbed my shortstop from me
for a song.
(fee, what a head! And note, those
mutts out home—
Here's where your t'nrle Omar gels
- the prong!
FOOLISH LIKE Fc. XES.
I-onsider the mat nu n
'The boneheaded fat men.
For whom all the wise people fall.
We kid them and flay them.
Hut richly ire pay them—
They aren't such boneheads 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 2.1 is the day on which
Willie Ritchie will meet Tommy
his
, critics have not even given his team
a second look.
Quoth Ned Hanlon: “Brooklyn does
I not want two big league teams." In
fact. Brooklyn has existed for years
j without any.
I “Baseball,'' says an Australian critic,
“lacks the spirit of cricket.” That Is
[why baseball Is so popular.
All the Federal League needs for its
[Invasion of Cleveland is a baseball team
•and a baseball park. !t has the fran
chise.
As we understand it. the chief cause
of trouble in Cincinnati is that there
are too many tinkers.
Many a time and oft we have won-
,'dered how a lightweight can look a
weighing machine In the face without
' blushing.
/ remember. I remember
The lightweight pays we had
In days of husky Kid Laving*.
When I was but a lad.
The light weights then were little
men,
Hut gaze upon them now!
The loads <tf beef thin tote around
Would shame a full-grown coir.
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 doc Jeannette
Lest we forgeltv„ lest we forgelte.
MISSED HIGH
f
B oston, Dec. 25.—his golf 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. "I 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, L
said 1 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 entry for the cham
pionship, and I replied: 'What’s the
use of a player of my standing ar-
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 I turned away I
said to myself, Tin doin' this under
protest.’ ”
j Murphy, if he does not change
[ mind again.
1 —
i Just as Red Dooln’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
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