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7 THI-: ATLANTA GEORGIAN AM) NEWS. [If They Could Do Away With loci <ceys. the Racing Game Might Come Bac! V to Its Own 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. By GEORGE M’MANUS i Dont see How AMY one _ in Switzerland ’'•'N live on the level with TNE-aE NOONTAlNt: C*A> 1^> NOT HI<iH "VET V*1Y UNTIL WE UP NICjH we CAN’T breath oen Xp 20000 Y{ BOOT'S up; — 1 HOW (m—V r H»<iH Af?E| iMjir V/F f <,OOONESS WHAT 1^ That - a switz CHgESE LION? GtWHAT —- THE BA^L ON Htb NECK FOR? oh: dot ik a 'oT.c>eKtsA,Rc> ooc - HE C,oeA> OF> IN DE NOUNTAIN-5 AND IF HE FIND C.ON1E ONE J?° T L05T HE •s'ME DElv\ sone D>RANOt out of dot kec: L f— •ilu IN CA*iE YOU <,IT LOKT EH ' WELL I DON’T KNOW WHERE i His nane ik FREDRICK HE ISIS VOT TOO CALL- A LlFt ?>AVER IN ANERlKA’ HERE ' FREDRICK. V here fredrick::: % \ o o - e. - LE- LA - E - HEEE! AH’. LH -LA- HE - >TOOO! VOS ivr LOS FI ERE ? r c t Ml** \ Jeff Simply Has to Have a Pet Around the Place 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 DIDN'T Get Rit> OF IT THAT lv€ <0 all ovr readers. s» thg ARTIST (IAA06 JEFF KILL SNAKE. ___ '—f, r' r X M6A* MINI COfAINfe NOW. X'LL BE NICE To Hin\ AND CHEER HI1A UP 8CCAUSS HE'LL BE ALL BROKEN Up ABOUT LOSING his. pet snake Fannv. HfeLLb JEEP, T EKpecTso*ro see YoV ALL BROKeN AEYSR. losing YoOR PET 4.NAKL n WHAT THC f 'P I thought you j ►ClLLgo IT. OH, t DiD Kill Fanny,but This is her brother pete . I I IP'.I' '1 ‘■-5? \T r /m/9 Sta* Cm. 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. I PAY ME FOR CURES ONLY • you h«ve been t.iklnt treatment tor wooks and months and pay Ing out your hard earned money without belnq cured, don t you thInk It It hlqh time to accept DR. HUGHES’ GRAND OFFER? You will certainly not be out any more money if not cured. 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