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Crack Shortstop Flatly Refuses
to Join Brooklyn Club—Mur
phy in Cincinnati.
C CHICAGO, 11 A*., Dec. 26 The
Tinker rase is still as mud-
died as ever, but from behind
all this mixup comes a voice that tells
the writer that the veteran shortstop
and recently manager of the Keds
will he back with i he Cubs next sea
son. In a way the entire matter has
taken on a different aspect.
To-day Tinker flatly refused to go
to Brooklyn, declaring that Chicago
is his favored berth and that it is
with the West Side team he. wants to
play next year, lie se<yns to disre
gard the $10,000 bonus offer en
tirely.
This stand by Joe and the fact that |
1 ‘resident Murphy is in Cincinnati,
where he and Carry Herrmann have
held a conference lasting hours,
makes it appear as though Joe knows
more than lie cares to say. that if he j
lared say it it would be along the
lines that the Chances of the Cubs
getting him back are mighty bright.
Offers Trades.
|*Yom one closely connected with
the Cub chief comes the story that
Murphy yesterday offered' Bresnahaii
and one other Cub in one deal and
Bresnahan and two youngsters in ex
change for Tinker and that Joe would
be made a Cub again within the next
few days. Cincinnati sent the story
that Murphy was ready to give Bres-
rahan, Lavender and an outfielder for
Tinker.
There is something strange in all
this mixup and it wouldn’t he sur
prising if it developed that Murphy,
boss of the Cubs, and Carry Herr
mann, chief of the Reds, had closed
long ago for Tinker and that all this
wrangle and talk was a lot of press
work to keep the National League
before the public. Such things are
often pulled in baseball.
Here’s how Joe looks at the propo
sition :
*1 know the public has heard
enough about ball players who
threaten to stay off the diamond and
make millions in business, unless
some club pays them what they de
mand. and I do not mention my own
occupation without this in mind
Hopes to Make Plant Pay.
"With a few years of effort I can
undoubtedly make my silver-plating
works pay more per year than I can
get playing ball. Furthermore. I can
still be in that business fifteen or
twenty years from now, but I have
only a few more years on the dia
mond. Should I accept a good sal
ary for playing baseball for the next
three years away from Chicago the
plant may deteriorate and perhaps
close, and by the time my contract
expires 1 will have lost my customers
and be compelled to start all over
again, spending the money made in
1 Jrooklyn
"Everything I have is invested in
Chicago; iny home is here, also my
family. My friends are all here, and
I doubt if I will leave Chicago, even
though Brooklyn meets my terms."
Bui Brooklyn doesn’t seem willing
to meet the terms. Kbbets will pay
Tinker the $10,000 bonus, but he will
tot pay him $7..‘>00 a year for three
years. And further than that. Kbbets
made the deal with Herrmann un
known to Tinker, who wired both of
them to di» nothing without consult
ing him. The fact that they did has
irritated Joe.
INDOOR SPORTS
By Tad
MADE MANY I
FIGHTER-fLOTD
Notable Successes of Prize Ring
Have All Made Enemies, Says
Pugilistic Expert.
Yesterday’s Racing
Results
AT JUAREZ.
FIIIS'I 5 1 - furlongs Theodorita. 10S
(Slovens* 3 t <' won: Ed Luce,’ 10G
• Uuyi. J to 1. seoinil: Husky Dave. 1 OS
t Kiix hbauin>. 1 to 2\ 'bird. Time:
I .T-o Also ran: Hr. Bailey. Trans
art. Koundun. Stevesta. Fred A John
son. Meshach.
SECOND- 5 1 furlongs Ilex, 108
tKiddle), 5 to i. won; Garden of Allah.
100 (Hoffman), even, second. Tildy
Wolfarth. 100 (Gentry), 1 to 2. third.
Time: 1:06 2-5. Also ran: Bashful
Betty. George Harms. Miss Nile, Nila,
Amohalko. Christmas Daisy and Char
ley Brown
THIRD- 5% furlongs Edmond Ad
ams 105 (Carter), 20 to 1. won; Little
Birdie, 95 (Haynes), 2 to 1, second;
Zulu. 105 t Mi-Martin), 2 to 1, third.
Time 1:06. Also ran Nifty. Visible.
« >rmonde Cunningham, Cool, Stars and
Great Jubilee.
FOl’RTH—One mile Vested Rights,
101 (Taplin). 10 to 1. won; Cousin Puss,
115 (VanDuaeni. 8 to 5. second; John
Reardon. 108 (Hoffman). 2 to 1. third
Time 1:37 1-5. Also ran: -Seacilff,
Truly. Just Red. Irish Gentleman. Man-
p.sseh, Zim, Dorothy Dean, Prince Eu
gene.
FIFTH 5 V* furlongs:
dah. 100 (Neylon), 8 to 5
stone 105 (Ford). 6 to 1
Sly, 110 (Estep), 3 to 5.
1:06. Also ran: Herpes,
est. Thistle Belle Curlicue, Grittier Lad
SIXTH One and one-sixteenth mile:
Clinton 98 (Metcalf), 7 to 2. won; Polls
ill Howard), even, second; Defy. 105
<Neylon), t to 6, third Time: I 46 2-5*
AN. ran: Oscuro. Pendant. Ix>rd Elam
Ri.se of .led-
. W i»n; Bright-
. MOOnd; .Miss
bird Time:
Annual Inter-
Time,
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AT CHARLESTON.
FIRST Six furlongs: Camel ia 107
• Sumner), 8 1, won; Cynosure. 4-1 sec
ond; Question Mark, 3-2. third. Time,
1:18.
SECOND—Six furlongs Frank Hud
son 109 (Buxton). 6-5. won: Volthorpe,
8-5. second: Kthelburg II.. 3-5. third
Time. 1:17 1-5.
THIRD—Five furlongs Coy 112
(Goose), 7-10. won; Deposit. 3-2*. second;
Lady Lightning, out, third. Time.
1:03 2-5.
FOURTH—One mile: Ringling 107
‘McTaggarn, 7-2. won: Sir John John-
Fon, 7-2. second: Dart worth. 3-5. third.
Time. 1:44 3-b.
FIFTH—Six furlongs: Samuel R.
Meyer 108 (Goose). 4-5. won. Duquesne,
1-3. second. L. II. Adair, out. third.
Time. 1:16.
SIXTH—-One mile and 20 yards; Kin-
mundj 103 (McTaggart). 4 5. won;
■c 4 u-e 5-2 uu 1 an, 3-1,
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By Otto ('. Kioto.
D enver. Dec. 26. "i love you
for the enemies you’ve made,”
so spoke a well-known qjan
of the world the other day to his
warm particular friend. Never was
there an expression with which the
writer is so thoroughly in accord.
Life's path is strewn with successes
made possible by th© constant swing
ing of the sledge on some person who
thrived and prospered under the
shower of blows as they descended
< n his person. Of course we mean
that a man must have his contin
gent of friends. However, the fel
low who has nothing but friends and
registers no enemies- well, put him
down as a failure.
While in New York recently Willie
Ritchie and myself dined on Broad
way one night and he told me that he i
attributes the great cause of his suc
cess-next to his ability to fight to
the constant knocking that has been
heaped on him from several direc
tions. *T want people to speak well
of me.” he said. ‘On the other hand,
if they can’t say a nice tiling about
me. I pray and hope they’ll knock me. J
] want to have them always keep my
name before the public- if they’ll do j
that either in saying good or had
things about me well. I’ll reap the
harvest and my future is secure."
Knocking Means Something.
How true all this is and how often
have we seen it exemplified. The old
adage about never knocking a sucker
is certainly true. When you see some
one In public life knocked, you know
he amounts to something or the darts
of the knockers’ arrows would not j
be aimed at him. More successes have
undoubtedly been made by knock
ers than were ever created by boost
ers. The records stand for that.
Recently, when Jimmy Flabby was
in Frisco.* Harr> Foley gave him tHis
advice: "Say. Jimmy, are you in the
lighting game for the .money'.”’ asked
Harry. To which Flabby replied in
the affirmative. "Then go out and
make all the enemies you can When
you have done this your popularity
has suffered some, but your bank ac
count will have swelled to great di
mensions. You can’t eat three squares
on popularity, but the coffee and
sinkers will come with great regular
ity if you have the old certified check
at yoiii command."
These Are Well Fixed.
Just look back on your memory a
bit and note how many fighters that
have got a bank account enjoyed
popularity. John L. Sullivan seems
to he the only exception and he only
got hold of his bank roll after he
ceased being a good fellow and bank
ing on popularity at that. Jim Cor
bett. who is well fixed; Ad Wolgast.
who has several hundred thousand
dollars’ .worth of real estate; Rack* y
McFarland, the J. P. Morgan of the
fight game; Tomniv Ryan, a Syra
cuse house owner; Tom Sharked, the
New York honiface; Tommy Burns,
a rich Canadian merchant, and others
too numerous to mention, were at
tacked almost daily either in the
press or by some of the tight follow
ers. But at the same time well say:
‘‘They’ll have to give no benefits for
any of that bunch because of old
age and the down-and-out affliction."
Then go over your list of popular
ones and note the difference. For in
stance. Jack McAuliffe. Kid Lavigne.
George Dixon. Wilmington .Tack Daly,
Tommy West, .lent Hall. Young Grif-
fo. Buffalo Costello. Young Corbett.
Terry McGovern and others of that
ilk what’s the answer? The first
named group were knocked, the last
named boosted.
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At Least Johnny Evers Says So, Umpire’s World May Not Reign
and He Has a Good Argu- i Supreme Next Season as in
ment, Too.
Former Years.
Nashville Directors
Notify Kavanaugh.
Of Hirsig’s Downfall
LITTLE ROCK. ARK, Dee. 26.
Judge W. M. kavanaugn. president of
the Southern Baseball League, stated
to-day that he was in receipt of a tel
egram from Fred Haury. secretary of
the Nashville baseball club, stating thui
at a meeting of the club directors, held
Tuesday night. \Y. G. ilirsig was de
pos’d as president and Civile Shropshire
was elected to till the vacancy. He said
that the secretary had asked hint to
notify the presidents of the other clubs
in tin’ Southern League of the action
of the* Nashville directors.
Judge Kavanaugh said that until he
could get further reports in verification
of the telegram he would withhold the
notification When asked what action
In would take in the matter, he said
that the trouble was local to the Nash
ville club ami he had no Interest in the
matter and would take none.
THE RINGSIDE BUG.
/ hey may hare their so-called fight-
era irho cavort about the ring.
I ml irho ilyhtly smite each other
irith a puny jab or swiny.
/ would rather see the fellow irho
h<is bouyht a ringside seat
It he jabs and hooks his fellow men
and stamps noon their feet.
/ would never sit oeside him. for I
dearly tore my life.
And / do not <are to minyle in a use
less form of strife,
Hut I tori' to sit and watch him as
he deals out hook and swing,
h'or he always battles harder than
the fellows in the ring.
Ex-Southern League
Twirler to Coach
Minnesota Ball Club
quick knockout
Wells.
win over Bombardier
Pal Brown, the Western lightweight,
is a big favorite With the followers of
pugilism in Australia. Since Brown has
been there he has defeated every lighter
he has met. In his first battle he fought
Mehegan. The fans offered odds of
to t on the Australian champion, hut
Pal gave him such a terrible beating
that he was lucky to last 20 rounds.
Athletic Club Five
Battles Miss. A, &M.
To-morrow Night
George Chip delivered again. George
repeated his knockout victory over
Frank Klaus at Pittsburg Tuesday
night this time putting Klaus away in
five rounds. This Chip boy must be a
wonder, and its about time for the pub
lic to recognize him as the real mid
dleweight champion.
The Atlanta Athletic Flub basket
bill team will have for their opponents
1 the fourth‘game of the season to-
I orrow night the Mississippi Agricul-
1 ral and Mechanical College five. The
J) ississippi players are strangers in this
s ection but not in'college circles, hav-
i Jg handed out defeats last year to
j uburn. SeWanee. Tulane. Vanderbilt
»« id others. They captured the cham-
j onship of the S. I. A. A. last sea-
*- *n
j ’fhe team is composed of last year’s
’veterans and are going to be a hard
going
club for tlie Joe Bean men to trounce.
You've got to band it to Daniel Mor-
] gun. of tin* firm of Morgan & McKetrick.
of New York, when it comes to pushing
a tighter along the busy path. Dan
I loves an argument ar.d can band out
| language that Daniel Webster never
heard of. but at the same time always
has several words of praise for his
tighter.
Chicago Joe Thomas. Charlie White’s
trainer, lias been offered a job to travel
with the Washington Senators next sea
son. Joe deserves much credit for
Charlie’s ring success, as he lias been
with the Chicago boxer for nearly three
years. He is also a grand little fellow.
Cleveland Will Hold
Boxing Tournament
MINNEAPOLIS. MINN., Dec 26. R.
j (5 Parsons, once a pitcher in the Amer-
| lean Association, has been engaged as
! coach for the Fniversity of Minnesota
1 baseball team, according to announce-
! ment made to-day. Parsons left the
American Association to go to the Mem
phis club, of the Southern league. He
succeeds Dennis Sullivan, who recoin
I mended Parsons for the position.
Mobile Five Not to
Have Team This Year
Morgan’s weekly letter arrived yes
terday, and he has several words to
say about several of our "white hopes."
Dan wants to send "Battling" Levin-
sky. his latest heavyweight sensation,
against George Rod el, Gunboat Smith
or Arthur Pelky. and declares that lie
will not rest -until he drags them all
into the ring with his protege.
Dan made a star out of Jack Britton
when Jack was drifting about the coun-
tr> as a fairly good lightweight, and
lie did the same with Knockout Brown,
who was never better than a good sec
ond-rater
Pelicans May Get
Lindsay From Coast
PORTLAND. DREG.. Dec 26 "Bin"
Idndsay. third baseman of the Portland
team, in the Pacific Toast League, will
be sold to New Orleans, according to an
announcement to-day by Manager Mr-
Creriie. of the Portland team All Coast
ted waivers on
1 ‘ <r;uf clubs have grant
LindM).
The Mobile Y. M. C. A. basket ball
team, runner ups for the past four
years to the < tampion Columbus i M?
1 «’ A. team, will not have a tnant this
f a son The Mobile quintet carries the
(high honors of being the only team to
[defeat the Columbus aggregation on the
Columbus jeourt in five seasons. They
accomplished this feat in 1911. The
|Mobile team had a great bunch of basket
ball tossers on its line-up and was
; feared by every team of note In the
isection. The team last year lined tip
las follows. Boost and Penny, forwards:
Ebbeck. center: Maiden, Rad cl iff and
Baunhouer. guards.
j No special reasons are quoted by Mr.
I W ft Christian, last year’s manager,
j for the Alabamans not having a team
‘this season.
Michael Saul, with his green kelly in
hand was an early caller yesterday.
Michael has assumed the management
of Meyer Pries and has some cruel
words to say about "Kid" Young. *T
see that Young is looking for a bout,
around here." started Michael. "Well,
1 saw Pries hold Young practically to
a draw at Athens, and l know Pries
can beat him In a return go. If some
promoter will match these boys, they
can have a little of my money on
Meyer." after which Mr Saul went on
his way.
"Kid" Williams, of Baltimore, and
Eddie Catnpi. the San Francisco ban
tam. have signed articles to fight twen
ty rounds on Lincoln’s birthday. Febru
ary 12 A year ago on this date Wil
liams shaded Campi In a twenty-round
go. and the San Franciscan has been
after a return scrap ever since.
By .James Clarkson.
C HICAGO, Dec. 26.—It’s .the quar
relsome man who draw's down
the good things in baseball, ac
cording to Johnny Svers.
"Have a falling out with your for
mer employer and then accept, the
first big offer that comes along—that
seems to be the se ret of success in
baseball these days," says John.
Evers cites the cases of Joe Tinker,
Frank Chance and Roger Bresnahan,
and each case bears out his theory.*
Chicago fans well remember the
Chance episode. The Peerless Leader
was introduced to the tinkling .tin
ware* without any formal prelimina
ries. Everyone knows there was a
difference of opinion between Presi
dent Murphy and Frank Chance as
to how the Cub machine should be
oiled. Chance lost his job and for a
time threatened* to retire from tho
game.
Every Chicago fan remembers how
Chance was lured from the warmth
and comfort on a California ranch to
the rigors of a blizzard in Chicago
simply that he might confer with the
ow'nors of the Highlanders, the ulti
mate result of the conference being
the securing of’Chance’s signature to
a contract, w|th a nice fat bonus in
cluded for Chance.
Chicago fans heard enough of the
high price that was paid for Roger
Bresnahan last fall after the mighty
Rojalf had quarreled with Mrs. Bri
ton. owner of the Cardinals, and it
was some spat, too. Roger i9 said to
have received a nice fat check for
affixing his John Hancock to a Cub
contract.
The latest instance of getting a b >-
nus after a scrap came when Joe
Tinker’s throat was cut by the mur
derous directors of the Cincinnati
Red?*.
Joe had not been down and out four
days before a half dozen club owners
were bidding like multi-millionaires
for his services.
Result, Josephus is offered a bonus
of $10,000 if he will but sign a con
tract w ith Brooklyn.
All of which goes to prove that
Jawn Evers has the right idea when
he says the fighting player is the man
who gets the dough.
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By Frank G Menke.
EW YORK. Dec. 26.—Strict dis
cipline on the baseball field is
one of the things President
John K. Tener, of the National
League, will demand of his umpires,
according to his secretary, David Le
roy Reeves, with whom he has dis
cussed the umpire problem.
President Teller’s idea of what the
ideal arbiter should be was ex
pressed as follows:
"I do not wish to be understood as
meaning- that an umpire should be a
law unto himself; that his manner
should be dictatorial, his attitude ar
rogant and his entire demeanor
evince a self-satisfied air that would
brook no argument or intercession.
Right to the contrary, I think an um
pire should be conciliatory, but firm:
positive, but polite; quick, but un
demonstrative; strict, but reason
able.
"One of the card foal'principles of
justice i9 that every man should have
an opportunity to be heard, to pre
sent his side of the case. If a player
is guilty of the charges submitted by
the umpire and has no equitable or
reasonable defense, the ends of jus
tice and the morals of discipline can
be served just as well by suspending
the players three or four days after
the violation has occurred as by an
immediate suspension following the
report of the arbitrator.
"There is no reason why such cases
should not he considered in the most
lenient attitude possible and by all
means obtain the facts in the case
from both sides before the player is
punished by suspension."
ECZEMA
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TETTERINE
Don’t suffer when you can rellere yourself
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Louis, says:
Have been treated by specialist for eez*
ma wltheut sucoess. After using Tetterln*
a few weeks I am at last cured-
50o at drugolsts, or by mall.
6H UPTRINE CO.. SAVANNAH. 6A.
CLEVELAND. Per. 26.—It h<is bpf»n
arranged to hold the Amateur Athletic ,
I 'jnion boxing tournament here on Janu- :
afy 9 and 16. * j
Six classes. 108. 115, 125. 145 aqd 158 •
pounds, will be decided, the winners to j
be entered in the national tournament |
which be held at Boston in April. Box- j
ers from Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, Michi
gan. Wisconsin. Minnesota and Iowa are
free to enter the contests here.
Ebbets Declares He
Will Take Over Egan
BROOKLYN. Dec. 26 Dick Egan will
be taken over by the Dodgers front the
Cincinnati club for $5,000. according to
President Kbbets. of the Brooklyn club,
irrespective of whether the Kedland
people exercise options on Pitcher Earl
Yingling for $8,500 and Outfielder Rob
ert Moran for $.000.
Egan batted .242 in 60 games last year.
His fielding average4s were .972 for 37
games at second base, and .927 for sev
enteen games at shi rt.
Bills Gibson, manager of the Garden
Athletic Club, New York, yesterday
cabled Georges Carpentler. the French
heavyweight, an offer of $10,000 to come
here and box Uunkat Smith. Carpen-
tier gained muchdistinction by his
Leach Cross Favored
Over Bud Anderson
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 26 —Leach Cross
and Bud Anderson are down to hard
training for their fight here on New-
Year's Day.
Cross is the choice of the bettors,
although, so far. little money has been
wagered on the result. Each man claims
lie will bo in fine condition when the
time arrives for action.
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