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OUTNEXTWEEK
Manager Billy Smith Admits He
Is Afraid to Look the List
•in the Face.
By 0. B. Keeler.
* PFROA£TOES now the season
-A for sending out contracts, but
k ^ Billy Smith, Cracker manager,
is not flourishing any trumpets.
Say—I’m afraid to, look the list
n the face,” 'Billy said Friday. * “It s
a long one, and I’ll be able to tell
more about it when we get the con-
v racts signed, sealed and delivered,
and all that sort of thing. But even
then—”
Billy went on-to say something
about one bird in Class A company
being worth a good many more than
two in the bushes.
The contracts will be mailed out
next week.
* * •
a/^OT -another pig' in a poke just
now.” Mr. Smith added. “Name’s
Simile, and he’s a left-handed pitcher
Jack Ryan got sweet on, up New York
way. Says he has the goods. Any
how, we’ve got his contract.”
Which will run the list of reserve
contracts up to about three dozen, to
be pruned down to half that number
the day before the season opens.
Billy also “is worried about the Es
mond deal. He doesn’t know which
way It is going to jump.
* * *
IX the meantime, Billy isn’t having
1 such a bad time. He looks sleek,
tnd has lost several crows’ feet that
were to be seen around his lamps to
ward the shank of the past season.
Friday afternoon, Billy and C. T.
N initially were going out on the lat
er's invitation to frisk a couple of
hundred acres of real estate for an
alleged covey of birds. Mr. Nunnally
wanted to try out a new dog. Billy
was to supply a brace of big sweat
ers for the pair and one (1) set of
old pants for himself.
Reports have not yet reached this
office from the expedition.
* * *
\ TELEPHONE call from George
** Stallings, at Haddock, Ga., in
formed Messrs: Smith and CaJlaway,
and other directors of the Atlanta
club, that two friends of the Boston
manager, Thomas Heath and a Dr.
McGaine, would be in Atlanta Sun
day, on their way to visit Mr. Stal-
idnga at his big plantation.
Mr, Stallings said his frineds were
nuts about golf, and urged Mr. Nun
nally and the others to show ’em
some of the Atlanta brand. Mr. Nun
nally fancied they might like to
watch Chick Evans play at East
Lake. s
“I don’t play that game,” he said.
+ * *
“U7 ELL, I do,” announced Billy
“I played twice at Chevy
' hase, in Washington, last time \
was there. I hit the ball and I busted
the bat—the stick, I mean. Oh. it's
some game.”
Bill also admitted that he had been
^inveigled into playing out at East
Lake one tube.
“But I don’t suppose I would give
Chick Evans a tussle yet,” he ad
mitted. “I think I'll go out and
Nvatch him. He must be a wonder,
from all accounts. Chief Bender is
rhe best golf player I ever saw. That
Indian does anything well.”
* * •
A MOTJHER circumstance- that will
* enable Mr. Smith art4 the direc
tors to bear with fortitude the sus-
oense of waiting: for the contracts is
a hunting party on the large estate
°f the same Mr. Stallings referred to
previously*
Mr. Stallings says tho birds around
n >s r'iace near Haddock, Ga., are very
plentiful and lazy..and require to be
stirred up. Messrs. Smith, CaJlaway,
Ryan and Nunnally desire to be put
record as the gunmen who can do
the stirring. The invitation was is
sued some weeks ago, and has now
been accepted for the latter part of
next week.
BOXING
Mews of the Ring Game
IMPRESSIONISTIC.
if'/icii tee would limn the White Hope
The onlj) words that come,
To fie yon with the right dope,
ire: "Lowlife: Loafer! Huai!"
• • *
'’v lien you consider that there was only
• pounds difference in the weights, we
-•hinider to think what Levineky would
are done to Coffey if the New Yorker
ad been about ten pounds lighter.
* * *
Is Gunboat Smith entitled to be
-own as a knocker-out?” asks Old Bill
'augiiton. And, then again, is Gunboat
tnith entitled to be known?
* * •*
•n reply to many queries we would
s ‘ l ~ v that we see nothing the matter with
'**■ heavyweight fighters of to-day ex-
^pting that their service is weak, their
delivery poor, they slice their drives,
l,u, l away from the plate and have too
much lead in their keels.
_ • * *
Phasing rabbits with greyhounds is
•iud Anderson’s training specialty, con
duct which might easily be construed as
B slur at. his opponent. Mr. Cross. *
* * *
Georges Carpentier. the French cham-
; on. must surely be some drawing card
r or the music halls in Paris and Lon
don. for lie is receiving $2,500 a week
R the Folies Bergeres in Paris at pre?-
” *t giving boxing exhibitions, and will
^eive a similar amount from the Pal-
adium Music Hall in London after his
engagement in Paris is finished.
* *
•oe Thomas. Charlie ’White s trainer.
v anxious to send Ruby Hirsh, a Chl-
Ago bantam, here for nonr* bouts.
Hirsh has fought the best 115 boys
around liie Windy City, and always
•iyes.a good accQunt of himself. Joe
vvr: tes that he will Jet Hirsh fight any
'°y here on a winner take all basis.
BRINGING UP FATHER
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By GEORGE M’MANUS
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Sidelights on Sports
~| By A. H. C. MITCHELL
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 t4ken
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.
* * *
VT\XAGKRS are to blame. They
get the idea, that some other
manager will ‘put something-
over” on them by starting spring
practice in the middle of winter
so they urge the club owners to
allow their team to go South two
months or more h-“ * Hie sea
son opens. The club owners, fear
ful that the manager will have
an alibi if his team doesn’t get
a good starL 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 a big league
ball club in the South, in spite of
the fact that the players are riot
paid for their work. A considera
ble part of this could be saved if
tiie clubs did not start South so
eai in the year. It would be a
good idea if tnev would all consent
io begin training not earlier than
March 10. But they won't.
“\1/IEN l first suggested Char-
vv lottesville,” sajth
“everybody thought I was making
a big mistake. Most’ folks'tliought •
that a team had to, go ,to -ex- .
tremely Southern citlefi where the f
temperature at all 'times , was
around 80 and 90. . w. ,
“My earlier exneriepce as. map- t
ager taught me that; thjscwah an •
error. The players -get do'wifi into
the warm climate, and ■ become;
to It in • few weeks. • Them
they must go North. Trie weather,
in the Northern section is neaT-‘-
ly always bad. The mfen, fFesh
from the South, take colds,! their'
muscles stiffen, and they usually '
are In bad shape for a fall month.’
And when your men arenit In'
shs~'' to ’**v ball ’’’-ring the flrst
month, some other teamiis quite
liable to get a big ’edge’, on yoti.
* * *
DY PLAYING at Charlottesville
my meet practically tfie
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 not mind it, nor are they“shsC *
ceptible to colds and stiffened
joints. * A
* + *
THE New York Yankee* last
* spring trained, at .Bermudat
where it was intensely hot.) When
they reached the United States,
the sudden change in vyeatrier
worked havoc with the team’s;
condition, forcing Frank CJiiajicii?.
manager, to vow that never atg-a+n '
would he go so far soutri''to con
dition his charges. - - -
* *
Z'*) F the tern erature s the same
^ in Washington as it is in.
Charlottesville, why* don't you
train in Washington?” Gruffit>i
was asked. ’ Becaqoe.'if we ^id,-
we wouldn't be any drawing card'
at home for our.* exhibition
games,” answered Griff 'with a
grin. » ) ' . .
Local'Five Meets
Mississippi A. & M.
Quintet To-night
^».Tl*e Atlanta Athletic Club basket ball
t£anr fcfiys its fourth game of the sea
son'to-night against the Mississippi Ag
ricultural College quintet. The game is
fexpeeled lo be'by far the hardest fought
of the'season as neither team has met
de'feat ,
‘ -'.The Mississippi aggregation holds the
championship of the Southern Intercol
legiate' Athletic Association and have
ojily been defeated once in two year**.
■Alj.th,e playem on* this year’s team are
veterans . which" means that the local
•squad is.to hftve.a tough, time of it to
night.
* teams are in great shape for the
fir»y.'* • .Tde .Beart. Especially, has had his
boj’s hard at. work. The game should
prove a corke'r.
Chance Offers $5,000
■ Bonus to Get Tinker
1 ‘LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27. SVliile dis
cussing, tire *pnoposed transfer of Joe
Tinker from Cincinnati to Brooklyn.
Frank Chance made the statement that
he woqld give /Charley Ebbets, the
•Brooklyn magnate, $5,000 bonus for his
bargain . Ue added that if Ebbets would
consider such an offer he would be de
lighted' to turn over the cash to him
Without, delay.
1 “Tinker is worth ever> dime of the
$25,000 that Cbbets is reported to have
offered for Tinker.” said Chance. “Joe
is a H7gh-cla«K ' player and well worth
that sort of money. If Ebbets does not
.think sir lie Will do me a favor by allow
ing i. nrie - to pay him a $5,000 bonus for
his bargain.
■“I, dovnot.-tpin k.-1 hat Tinker would go
to the outla’ws.if his demands were not
met regarding the. $10,000 bonus lie
wards for signing, but he has an in
tense nature and there is no telling
what he would do.”
i:
BLOOMINGTON SIGNS UP PAIR.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL.. Dec. 27.—Con
tra- ts were received by-tire -Bloomingtor
Association to-day from .OU'tfteJdfcr T
P. Lapps, of Dewar. Okla , arri Second
Baseman Fred Hill, of Denver, Colo.
George Chip to Fight
Greek Brown Jan. 1
’ CHICAGO,.Dec. 27.—George Chip will
have a pleasant time trying to stop his
Lexf - Opponent , George Knockout
Brown, the local .Greek skiewheeler. is
.going to step six rounds with the con-
Queror of Frank -Klaus in Pittsburg New
•Year's Day.
Brown is .training on raw meat, as
Usual, and .w'Ojen he starts the pyrotech
nics Chin.will do well to be out of range.
Chip 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 he heavy
and aloirt
What though it never amount to
so mucht
Heizog and Hoblilzell. Xcihoff and
Groh—
Think whgt a hit it will make
with the 1 hitch
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 (ft 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 boxing non mission.
Were / in the proper position.
If / had the right
/ would rise in my might
And sentence one man to perdition.
Td smite him and flay him and clout
him.
And utterly cfmquer and rout him—
The second, / 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 ©f Sahara.
There must be a mistake in the re
port that Tom Jones has a cold tha*
makes it difficult to talk. Tom would
not find it difficult to talk even if ht
had a broken jaw.
Ad Wolgaa: wants to wreak ven
geance on Charlie White. He came
to this conclusion after counting his
share of the gate receipts.
George Rodel may now be < onsid-
ered a regular heavyweight. He has
joined tlie vast army of fighters who
have whipped Jim Flynn.
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Virginia Eleven to
Play Yale for First
Time Next Season
NEW HAVEN. CONN., Dec. 27.—The
University ’'dU* Virginia, for the first
time in football history, will line up
against Yale’s 1 -team next season. The
date is set as October 3.
Only one game remains to be clinched,
the first of the schedule. Wesleyan has
severed foqtball', relations with Yale.
Trinity has declined the offer of the
date and the "dther small colleges do
not seem especially anxious to play
here.
At present the schedule shows, be
sides Virginia, games with Colgate.
Brown, I^high, MalYie, I'rlnceton and
Harvard .\U games except that against
the Tiger w^ll beWplayed'here.
Ebbets Says He’s
Through With Tinker
NEW YORK.”- Der. ' 27.— President
Charles H. Ebbets, of the Brooklyn
club, to-day.,declared-* that no further
inducements-would be held out to Joe
Tinker Uo get him to sign n three-year
contract with- Brooklj/n. “We have of
fered him a.. salarylconsistent with his
ability,” said; Ebbets. i “This salary, to
gether with jds.$10,000 bonus, will make
him one of rhe highest priced men In
baseball. We* have r gone as far as we
can go.” ;
Ebbets would not divulge the amount I
of salary offered, but.it is reported to
)>e between: $5,01)0. Jnd $6,000 a year,
for three years, This, ^.with the bonus,
would make Tinker's three-year income
around $'28,000. . ’ * ' 5
FODDER FOR FANS
PUBLICITY.
When the chatter of Tinker is cold
and stark
And the fans no longer will fait for
the same.
Some god of the bleachers comes vp
•to the mark
With the good old whimsy: *•/’m
through with the game/”
* * *
After a number qf 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 sc-.ind four they will undoubtedly
prove if.
* * *
'I think," thinks Mr. Tener “ari 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 hurrv to
sign Tinker. Since tt involves an out
lay of about $'25,000. you can hardlv
blante him.
* * •
Consider the benefits of travel. Fred
Merkle never knew how close he cam*
to going to St. Louis,
♦ V *
THAT $25,000.
The shouting and the tumult quits.
And Tinker comes and others go;
And, though ire strain our agile wits
We can't see who's out all that
dugh.
“Speaking as president of the Na
tional league.” speaks Mr Tener, “I
see no reason why Arisor should have a
pension.” And, on the other hand, there
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.
Hut the price of wine is high."
• * *
Many big and Southern Leaguers are
playing ^all in the New Orleans Win
ter League. We glean the following
names from the box scores: Schulte.
<’asey, Klrke. Hauser, Sentell, Martina
Bush, Jordan and Dobard.
...
.Matiy Matthews is still training. H«
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
PITTSBURG. Dec.*;'27.~Frank Klaus,
who was the principal Claimant for the
middleweight v championship until
knocked out.for the sedond time in sev
en weeks by George a Chip. Is through
with the ring. Beck (’rouse. who!
knocked opt, Chip some time ago is
demanding a fight with Chip.
Klaus' friend/* say' he is inclined to
go East and become a hotel and saloon
proprietor. He was-recently married, j
and is by no means pauperized by his I
fintsh at the hands*of-Chip •
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