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THK ATLANTA AN AND NKWS. Modern Ring Champions Are Ptilly Qualified to Settle Their 'Pities by 1 )ebate ly 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. Cures In 1 to 5 day* TB ur.natural <L a Res k & a * ns mH Contains no poisons and ma > - u * e<i fui1 strength absolutely without fear Guaran- '■> sti-lf-ture. Prevents (ontagiotT.-. " M V NOT CURE YOURSELF? ' TuggJsts. or by parcel post. $1. or ’Dies $2.75. Particulars with each 'T ° r mailed on request. HE EVANS CHEMICAL COMPANY Cincinnati, O. 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 lOpIntn Wlilaley and Dru Habit* I at Home or at SanUarfwm Book oa sabja# I Free. D* » M. WOOLLEY. 14-N, Wlmtot I SeaUtarlam. Atlyita. Georgia | ECZEMA SUFFERERS S Read what I. S. Glddena. Tampa. 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