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—%,+ \t.\ — ■ --—; t—ifr » i."4u< ■-■ (TROKHIAN AMI N'KVVS. BE 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 .Tvi" By GEORGE M’MANUS > * * 1 .Dont sre Mow ant onp _ IN VNIT.I**LAND Live on the level with '•'Ll. THE1»E MOONTAINV. DCS IT NOT HI«H TET V*1T until we ue *o hk«h wr CAN'T BREATH rw <,oooncva ■AANE WHAT THAT - A 5.WIT2- CHESSC-LIOM? • whatGaP- - ,THEf ON HI'S . • Heck**©*? oh: dot iaa ; st. aefc-NANo oog HE GOES UP IN OE nountain^ and if hcfind •some one \!?°T LOST-HE S*VE-DEin sone fS^NOT OUT ■ OF DO T KE< .’ >P—Hr . . >; . >„ ,p< t »). Jeff Simply Has to Have a Pet, Around the Place * A * « t - T * ■' _ - £ ty ‘Bud’ Fisher WELL, T F/vallv Got- Alt, or ' jeppis SNMce'yEjT6An#fr. * «.«*«>€* wcotc A, letter TO THE ARTIST SRiNlNfe TMRV THERE WAV N6 NOMOR fN A »***£ ONE IP THET all OUfi RJSAtXJES. s* TH«- »NAKt. 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. v’ " : 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 • PAY ME FOR CURES ONLY y«u ba«« bean taking treatment far waaka and manlha and »av- Ini aut vaur hard earnad roaaav wtthaut being ^•'1* y,u think It la high tlma ta accept OR. HUGHES' GRAND OFFER? You will cmatnty not ba out an.v more money if not cureo. Cento:- tatlan and Examination ara Fraa far tha naxt thirty day*. If I deride that ac.r condition will not yield readily to my treat ment. 1 i*iil ba honest "dth you and tall you ao. and not accept, your mono under a promfke of a cure. 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