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THI-: ATLANTA GEORGIAN AM) NEWS.
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BRINGING UP FATHER
BOXING
News of the Ring Game
IMPRESSIONISTIC.
1 1,1 W would limn the White Hofic
I hr only v oi ds that come,
1 " J'-r j/ou with the right .dope.
\'t: "Lowlife! Loafer! Bum!”
*» * *
’ 1 ' • ' uu consider that there was only
pounds difference in the weights, we
; her to think what Levinsky would
ve done to Coffey if the New Yorker
been about ten pounds lighter.
* * *
Is Gunboat Smith entitled to be
"'P as a knocker-out?" asks Old Bill
hditon. And. then again, is Gunboat
‘ i ! ’h entitled to be known?
* *
i eply to many queries we would
' ilV ,lia! we see nothing the matter with
1 heavyweight fighters of to-day ex-
; : <ug that their service is weak, their
••■■very poor, they slice their drives.
away from the plate and have too
ttueh lead in their keels.
tj Chasing rabbits with greyhounds is
•: Anderson’s training specialty, oon-
!,c 1 t which might easily be construed as
v !ur at his opponent. Mr. Cross.
* * *
‘-Gorges Carpentier. the French cham-
, must surely lie some draw ing card
| " the music halls in Paris and Lon-
.
• Folies Bergeres in Paris at pres-
giving boxing exhibitions, and will
ve a similar amount from the Pal-
.
| - Semen, in Paris is finished.
"■ Thomas. Charlie White's trainer,
mixious to send Ruby Hirsh, a Chi
-<> bantam, here for some bouts,
'’has fought the best 115 boys
'ind the Windy City, and always
a good account of himself. .loe
that he will let Hirsh fight any
here on a winner take all basis.
IL BE MAILED
1ITNEXTWEEK
lHanager Billy Smith Admits He
Is Afraid to Look the List
in the Face.
By O. B. Keeler.
A CCROACHES now the season
for sending out contracts, but
Billy Smith, Cracker manager.
, not flourishing any trumpets.
Say—I'm afraid to look the list
■ im fare,* Billy said Friday. "It's
ring one, and I’ll be able to tell
I ,>.out it when we get the ron-
■r;i Is signed, sealed and delivered,
| ncl all that sort of thing. But even
;hcn—”
Billy went on to say something
I, i it one bird in Class A company
] — wortli a good many more than
I; wo in the bushes.
The contracts will be mailed out
next week.
* * *
»*/*''OT another pig in a poke just
' J now,” Mr. Smith added. ‘‘Name’s
|Sindle, and he’s a left-handed pitcher
’k Ryan got sweet on, up New York
Iway. Says he has the goods. Any
how. we’ve got his contract.”
I Which will run the list of reserve
! -ontracts up to about three dozen, to
the pruned down to half that number
■ day before the season opens. j
Hilly also is worried about the Es-..
murid deal. He doesn’t know which
it is going to jump.
* * *
IX i he meantime, Billy isfli’t having
1 -.ich a bad time. He looks sleek,
is lost several crows’ feet that
were to be seen around his lamps to
rn.nl tlie shank of the past season.
Friday afternoon, Billy and C. T.
Nunnally were going out on the lat-
i s invitation to frisk a couple of
mdred acres of real estate for an
..leged covey of birds. Mr. Nunnally
wanted to try out a new dog. Billy
to supply a brace of big sweat
ers for the pair and one (1) set of
•id pants for himself.
Reports have not yet reached this
>fi e from the expedition.
* * *
IA TELEPHONE call from George
k* Stallings, at Haddock. Ga., in-
"imed Messrs: Smith and Callaway,
land other directors of the Atlanta
Hub, that two friends of the Boston
bnanager, Thomas Heath and a Dr.
pUeGaine. would be in Atlanta Sun
day. on their way to visit Mr. Stal
lings at his big plantation.
Mr. Stallings said his frineds were
nuts about golf, and urged Mr. Nun
nally and the others to show ’em
of the Atlanta brand. Mr. Nun-
i ally fancied they might like to
latch Chick Evans play at East
1 :a ke.
“J don’t play that game." he said.
* * *
*YV I do,” announced Billy
vv ‘ J played twice at Chevy
'hasc. in Washington, last time \
as there. I hit the ball and I busted
iie bat—the stick, I mean. Oh, it’s
; ome game.”
Hill also admitted that he had been
nveigled into playing out at East
Lake one time.
"Hut I don’t suppose 1 would give
< ’hick Evans a tussle yet,” he ad
mitted. “I think I’ll go out and
watch him. He must be a wonder,
- »rn all accounts. Chief Bender is
Lie best golf player 1 ever saw. That
Indian does anything well.”
# * *
\ MOTHER circumstance tliat will
‘ enable Mr. Smith and the direc-
tors to bear with fortitude the sus-
i'ensu of waiting for the contracts is j
a hunting party on the large estate
the same Mr. Stallings referred to
Previously.
He. Stallings says the birds around
I'lace near Haddock, Ga., are very
•‘ntiful and lazy, and require to be
stirred up. Messrs. Smith. Callaway,
L. an and Nunnally desire to be put
record as th» gunmen who can do
" stirring. The invitation was is-
' cd some weeks ago, and has now
m'n accepted for the latter part of
next week.
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By 'Bud' Fisher
WELL, I FlVALl-Nf 0,oT Rtl> OF
JFFF'i ENAKe YESTCR-DAY. a
R-FAD6R WR.OTG A LETTER TO
THE ARTIST I-ANINC, THAT THERE
WAS, NO HbHVOR (N ^ SNAKE AND IF THEY
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Sidelights on Sports
By A. H. C. MITCHELL 1
C LARK GRIFFITH, manager
of the Washington team, is
one of the sensible baseball
men. He has exploded the idea
that it is necessary for a ball club
to start South soon after New
Year’s Day and hike down to the
lower end of Florida or Texas to
properly condition a team for the
championship season.
For two years Griffith has taken
his ball players down to Char
lottesville, Va., which is about 100
miles south of Washington. He
starts practice about the first of
March. For the past two years
his team has finished second in
the American League race. He
has. in those two years, got a good
start when the championship sea
son opened and has held a good
position throughout the race for
the pennant. His system not only
displays common sense, but is a
great saving of money. Big league
baseball is one of the most waste
ful businesses in the world. Coal
Oil Johnny, Death Valley Scott,
the late Charlie Gates and other
spendthrifts have nothing on big
league baseball when it comes to
throwing money away.
* * *
M ANAGERS are to blame. They
get the idea that some other
manager will "put something
over” on them by starting spring
practice in the middle oL winter
so they urge the club owners to
allow their team to go South two
months or more b ‘he sea
son opens. The club owners, fear
ful tliat the manager will have
an alibi if his team doesn't g**t
a good start, consent. The result
is about three weeks or a month
of training that is unnecessary.
* * *
I T costs six to eight thousand
* dollars to train .< big league
ball Hub in the South, in spite of
the fact that the players are not
oaid for their work. A considera
ble part of this could be saved if
liie clubs did not start South so
early in the year. It would be a
good idea if thev would all consent
in begin training not earlier than
March 1“/ But they won’t.
“IA/IEN I first suggested Char-
vv lottesville,” said Griffith,
‘‘everybody thought I was making
a big mistake. Most folks thought
that a team had to go to ex
tremely Southern cities where the
temperature at all times was
around 80 and 90.
“My earlier experience as man
ager taueht me that this was an
error. The players get down into
the warm climate, and become
ii" 1 to it in few weeks. Then
they must go North. The weather
in the Northern section is near
ly always bad. The men, fresh
from the South, take colds, their
muscles stiffen, and they usually
are in bad shape for a full month.
And when your men aren’t in
she-'' to ’"v ball '”ing the first
month, some other team is quite
liable to get a big ‘edtre’ on you.
* * *
Q Y PLAYING at Charlottesvilfe
my ' meet practically the
same climatic conditions in March
and early in, April as they meet
in the middle of April. They are
then used to playing in cold, raw
and drizzling weather and they
do no) mind it, nor are they sus
ceptible to colds and stiffened
joints.
* * *
THK New York Yankees last
* spring trained at Bermuda,
where it was intensely hot. When
they reached the United States,
the sudden change in weather
worked havoc with the team’s
condition, forcing Frank Chance,
manager, to vow that never again
would he go so far south to con
dition his charges.
* * *
f \ I ' the temperature is the same
^ in Washington as it is in
Charlottesville, why don’t you
train in Washington?” Griffith
was asked. “Because, if we did.
we wouldn’t he any draw ing card
at home for our exhibition
games,” answered Griff with a
grin.
Local Five Meets
Mississippi A, & M,
Quintet To-night
The Atlanta Athletic Club basket ball
team plays its fourth game of the sea
son to-night against the Mississippi Ag
ricultural .College quintet. The game is
expected to be by far the hardest fought
of the season as neither team has met
defeat.
The Mississippi aggregation holds the
championship of the Southern Intercol
legiate Athletic Association and have
only been defeated once in two years.
All the players on this year’s team are
veterans which means tliat the local
squad is to have a tough time of it to- |
night.
Both teams are in great, shape for the
fray, .loe Bean, especially, has had his
boys hard at work. The game should
prove a corker.
Chance Offers $5,000
Bonus to Get Tinker
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 117. While dis
cussing the proposed transfer of Joe
Tinker from Cincinnati to Brooklyn.
Frank Chance made the statement that
he would give Charley Ehbets. the
Brooklyn magnate. $5,000 bonus for his
bargain. He added that if Ehbets would
consider such an offer he would be de
lighted to turn over the cash to him
without delay.
‘‘Tinker is worth ever.' dime of the
$25,000 that Ehbets is reported to have
offered for Tinker.” said Chance. ".loe
is a high-class player and well worth
that sort of money. If Ebbets does not
think so he will do me a favor by allow
ing me to pay him a $5,000 bonus for
his bargain.
“I do not think that Tinker would go
to the outlaws if his demands were not
met regarding the $10,000 bonus lie
wants for signing, but he has an in
tense nature and there is no telling
what he would do."
BLOOMINGTON SIGNS UP PAIR.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL.. Dec. 27.— Con
tracts were received by the Bloomington
Association to-day from Outfielder T.
I’. Lapps, of Dewar. Okla.. and Second
Jlaseinan Fred Hill, of Denver, Colo.
George Chip to Fight
Greek Brown Jan. 1
CHICAGO. Dee. 27.—George Chip will
have a pleasant time trying to stop his
next opponent. George Knockout
Brown, the local Greek sidewheeler, is
j going to step six rounds with the con-
’ queror of Frank Klaus in Pittsburg New
’ Year's I lay.
Brown is training on raw meat, as ;
usual, and when lie starts the pyrotech- j
r,i< s Chip w ill do well to be out of range, j
t’hip will be a whale if he stops the
Chicagoan in six rounds.
Sporting Food
By GEORGE E. PHAIR
LINES TO G. HERRMANN.
What though your infield be heavy
and slow!
What though it never amount to
so much?
Herzog and HoblitzeU. Seihoff and
droll—
Think what a hit it will make
with the thil< h !
A story of a Cincinnati baseball
game next summer will bear a strik
ing resemblance to an account of a
senuetzenfest.
If you were to ask Tom Lynch
what are the chief requirements of a
president of the National League he
would tell you a pair of brass
knuckles.
Frank Gotch announces that he has
heard the call of the mat, but the
said call sounds suspiciously like the
jingle of a dollar.
THE SPLASHFUL SECOND.
Were, / on the boring eommiMHion,
Were / in the proper position.
Ifl had the right
I would rise in my might
And sentence one man to perdition.
I'd smite him and flay him and clout
him,
And utterly conquer and rout him—
The second, I mean.
With the ivory bean.
Who splashes the water about him.
It is estimated that there is enough
water splashed on the spectators at
the ringside every year to irrigate
every acre of the Desert of Sahara.
There must be a mistake in the re
port that Tom Jones has a cold that
makes it difficult to talk. Tom would
not find it difficult to talk even if ht
had a broken jaw.
A d VV a I ga »t wa n r s I o v\ rea k yen-
geamp on Charlie White. He (dine
to this < oncluaion aft^r counting his
share of the gate receipts
George Rodel may now be consid
ered a regular heavyweight. He has
joined the vast army of fighters who
liav*? whipped Jim Flynn.
Virginia Eleven to
Play Yale for First
Time Next Season
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 27. The
University of Virginia, for the first
time in football history, will line up
against Yale’s team next season. The
date is set as October ?>.
Only one game remains to be clinched,
the first of the schedule. Wesleyan has
severed football relations with Yale.
Trinity has declined the offer of the
date and the other small colleges do
not seem especially anxious to play
here.
At present the schedule shows, be
sides Virginia, games with Colgate.
Brown. Lehigh, Maine, Princeton and
Harvard. All games except that against
the Tiger will be played here.
FODDER FOR FANS
Ebbets Says He's
Through With Tinker
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.— President
Charles II. Ebbets, of the Brooklyn
club, to-day declared that no further
inducements would be held out to Joe
Tinker to get him to sign a three-year
contract with Brooklyn. "We have of
fered him a salary consistent with his
ability," said Ebbets. "This salary, to
gether with his $10,000 bonus, will make
him one of the highest priced men In
baseball. We have gone as far as we
can go."
Ebbets would not divulge the amount
of salary offered, but it is reported to
be between $5,000 and $0,000 a year,
for three years. This, with the bonus,
would make Tinker’s three-year income
around $28,000.
PUBLICITY.
When the chatter of 'tinier is cokl
and stark
And the fans no longer will fall far
the same,
Some god of the bleachers comes up
to the mark
With the good old whimsy: "I'm
through with the game!”
* f m
After a number of years of study we
have concluded that baseball is the easi
est of commercial fields. Every one al-
ways gets the best of every deal.
• * *
"We have a first division club over
here,'- says Mr. Ebbets, and if they can
ever get over the habit of finishing in
the second four they will undoubtedly
prove It.
* * *
"I think," thinks Mr. Toner, "an um
pire should be conciliatory but firm,
positive but polite, quick but undemon
strative. strict but reasonable." For all
of which he sometimes drags down as
much as $10 a day when he works.
* * ■»
Mr. Ebbets says he Is in no hurry’ to
sign Tinker. Since It involves an out
lay of about $25,000. you can hardly
blame him.
m * m
Consider the benefits of travel. Fred
Merkie never knew how close he cam*
to going to St. Louis.
* * *
THAT $25,000.
The shouting and the tumult quits.
And Tinker comes and others go:
And. though we strain our agile wits,
We can't see who's out all that
d ugh.
“Speaking as president of the Na
tional League," speaks Mr Tener. "I
see no reason why Ansoi. should have a
pension." And, on the other hand, then*
are 1,800 reasons a year why he should
not.
* * *
$5 PER.
”We can't afford no pensions."
Said the magnate with a high ;
" We have the best intentions.
But the price of wine is high."
• * *
Many big and Southern Leaguers arn
playing ball in the New Orleans Win
ter League. We glean the following
names from the box scores: Schulte,
<’asey, Kirke, Hauser. Sentell, Martina.
Bush, Jordan and Dobard.
* • *
Matty Matthews is still training He
Is taking exercise every day for his un
derpinning. He is chasing up eight
flights in one of the biggest buildings in
the city—in an elevator.
Frank Klaus Through
With Boxing Game
PITTSBl RG. Dec. 27.—Frank Klaus,
who was the principal claimant for the
middleweight championship until
knocked out for the second time in sev
en weeks by George Chip, is through
with the ring. Buck Grouse. who
knocked out Chip some time ago. is
demanding a fight with Chip.
Klaus’ friends say he is inclined to
go East and become a hotel and saloon
proprietor. He was recently married,
and is by no means pauperized by his
finish at the hands of Chip.
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