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NOV? V
Manager Billy Smith Admits
Is Afraid to Look the List
in the Face.
A pproaches now the season
for sending out contracts, but
Billy Smith, Cracker manager,
K not flourishing any trumpets.
"Say—I’m afraid to look the list
n the face,” Billy said Friday. "It’s
■ long one, and I’ll be able to tell
more about it when we get the con
tacts signed, sealed and delivered,
arid all that sort of thing. But even
then—”
Billy went on to say something
about one bird in Class A company
eing worth a good many more than
iwo in the bushes.
The contracts will be mailed out
next week.
ur'OT another pig in a poke just
F 1 now," Mr. Smith added. "Name's
Sindle, 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
lire 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.
By ‘Bud 9 Fisher
Jeff Simply Has to Have a Pet Around the Place
IX the meantime, Billy isn’t having
* such a bad time. He looks sleek,
.und 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.
Nunnally were going out on the lat-
ier'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
•Id pants for himself.
Reports have not yet reached this
office from the expedition.
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the ARTIST SAVING THAT TH6R£ .
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\ TELEPHONE call from George
* * Stallings, at Haddock, Ga., in
formed Messrs: Smith and Callaway,
iid other directors of the Atlanta
lub, that two friends of the Boston
manager, Thomas Heath and a Dr.
McGaine, would be in Atlanta Sun-
nay, on their way to visit Mr. Stal
lings at his big plantation.
Mr. Stallings said his frineds were
»itits 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
J ,a ke.
‘T don't play that game,” he said.
“YV ELL, I do," announced Billy,
v v “I played twice at Chevy
Chase, in Washington, last time 1
was ihcre. I hit the ball and 1 busted
ihosS/nat—the stick, I mean 1 . Oh, it’s
some game.’’
Bill also admitted that he had been
inveigled into placing out at East
Bake one time.
"But T don’t suppose 1 would give
< hick Evans a tussle yet," he ad
mitted. “[ think I’ll go out and
watch him. He must be a wonder,
From all accounts. Chief Bender is
i he best golf player I ever saw. That
Indian does anything well.’’
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A XOTHER circumstance that will
enable Mr. Smith and the dilec
tors to bear with fortitude the sus
pense of waiting for the contracts is
hunting party on the large estate
f the same Mr. Stallings referred to
previously.
Mr. Stallings says the birds around
is place near Haddock, Ga., are very
Plentiful and lazy, and require to be
stirred up. Messrs. Smith. Callaway,
Ryan and Nunnally desire to be put
n record as the gunmen who can do
1 ne stirring. The invitation was is
sued some weeks ago, and has now
'•een accepted for the latter part of
iext week.
Sidelights on Sports
By A. H. C. MITCHELL
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BOXING
News of the Ring Game
IMPRESSIONISTIC.
11 hen we would limn the While Hope
The only words that come,
I'i pc yon with !hr right dupe.
Ire: “Lowlife! Lon fee! Hum!”
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When you consider iliat there was orl>
’• pounds differenc e in the weights, we
udder to think what Levinsky would
ive done to Coffey if the New Yorker
ad been about ten pounds lighter.
* * »
Is Gunboat Smith entitled to be
known as a knocker-out?’’ asks Old Bill
Xaughton. And, then again, is Gunboat
^mith entitled to be known?
V * ¥
In reply to many queries we would
-ay that we see nothing the matter with
he heavyweight fighters of to-day ex-
epting that their service is weak, their
delivery poor, they slice their drives,
pull away from the plate and hav. loo
mnoh lead in their keels.
• » *
^basing rabbits with greyhounds is
Bud Anderson’s training specialty, con
duct which might easily be construed as
ft slur at his opponent, Mr. Cross.
* * +
Georges Carpentier, the French cham
pion, must surely be some drawing card
or the music halls in Paris and Lon
don. for he is receiving $2,500 a week
’ the Folies Bergeres in Paris at pres
uit giving boxing exhibitions, and will
'°ceive a similar amount from th* Pal
ladium Music Hall in London after his
engagement in Paris is finished
* * *
■loe Thomas, Charlie White s trainer.
* anxious to send Ruby fllrsh. a Chi
ago bantam, here for some bouts
Hirsh lias fought the best 115 bo> s
around the Windy City, and alwa-
ki\ps a good account of himself. •!"<•
''ritrs that h« will lot Hirsh light an;
o here *u a winner lake ai basis.
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.
* if *
■jV/TV.XACEKS 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 utge the club owners to
allow their team to go South two
months or more b-' *he sea
son opens. The club owners, fear
ful that the manager will have
an alibi if his team doesn’t gel
a good start, consent. The result
is about three weeks or a month
of training that is unnecessary.
* * 3
I '!’ costs six to eight thousand
1 dollars to train a big league
ball club in the South, in spite of
the fact that the players are not
paid for their work. A considera
ble part of this could be saved if
the chibs did not start South s«»
< ai X in the year. It would be a
good idea if they would all consent
begin training not earlier than
March 1". But th«-v won t.
“1171 BN I first suggested char-
vv lottesville," said Griffith,
"everybody thought l 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 8u and 90.
"My earlier experience as man-*
ager taught me that this was an
error. The players get down into
the warm climate, and become
ul-'T to it in • few* weeks. Thep
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
sha^ to ’'•v ball ’"ring the first
month, some other team is quite
liable to get a big ‘edge’ on you.
* * *
OY PLAYING at Charlottesville
my me* 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 not mind it, nor are they sus
ceptible to colds and stiffened
joints.
* * *
THE New York Yankees last
1 spring trained at Bermuda,
where it was intensely hot. When
they reached the Tinted 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 Ills charges.
* ■* *
( ) F the temperature is the same
w in Washington as it is in
Charlottesville, why don’t you
train in Washington?" Griffith
was asked. "Because, if we did.
we wouldn’t be any drawing card
at home for our exhibition
games." answered Griff with a
grin-
BLOOMINGTON SIGNS UP PAIR.
BLOOMINGTON. ILL.. Dec. 27.—Con-
i tract.- 1 were received by tl ? Bloomington
| A.-snciatioii t"-day from Outfielder T.
r. I^appH. • *f Dewar. Okla.. and Set-urn.
Baseman Fred Mill, of Herner,
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 arr
veterans which means that the local
squad is to. have a tough time of it to
night.
Both teams arc in great shape for Die
fray. Joe Bean, especially, lias had his
boys hard at work. The game should
prove a corker.
Chance Offers $5,000
Bonus to Get Tinker
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27. While dis
cussing the proposed transfer *»f loe
Tinker from Cinc innati to Brooklyn. J
Frank Chance made Die sla'ement that
he would give Charley Ebbeis. the
Brooklyn magnate. $5,000 bonus for his
bargain. He added that if Gibbets would
consider such an offer he would be de
lighted to turn over the cash to him
without delay.
“Tinker is worth every dime of the
$25,000 that Kbbets is reported to have
offered for Tinker." said Chance. "Joe
is a high-class player and well worth
that, sort of money. If Ebbets does not
think so he will do ine a favor by allow
ing me to pay him a $5,000 bonus for
his bargain.
“I do not think thai Tinker would go
to the outlaws if his demands were not
met regarding the $10,000 bonus l.e
wants for signing, but he has an in
tense nature and there is no telling
what he would do.”
George Chip to Fight
Greek Brown Jan. 1
CHICAGO. Dec. :’7. George Chip w ill
have a pleasant time trying to slop hi»
next opponent. George Knockout
Brown, the local Greek sidewheeler, is
going to str-p six t'ounda with Die con
queror of Frank Klaus in Pittsburg Now
Year’s Day.
Brown is training on raw meal, as
usual, and when he starts the pyrotech
nics Chip w ill do w oil i<, i.r out of rang'*.
Chip will he i whale if he at"p- the
Chj< agnail in six / "unds.
Sporting Food
By GEORGE E. PHAIR
LINES TO G. HERRMANN.
What 1 hough your infield be heavy
and sloir?
What though it never amount to
so much?
Herzog unit HoblHzrll, Xeihoff and
(Jvoh—
Think what a hit it will make
with the Hutch '
A story of a Cincinnati baseball
game next summer will bear a strik
ing resemblance to an account of a
schuetzerfest.
If you v. ore to ask Tom Lynch
wha. arc the chief requirements of a
president of the National League he
would l el I you a pair of brass
knuckles.
Frank Gotch announces that he has
heard the call of the mat, but the
said call sounds auspiciously like the
jingle of a dollar.
THE SPLASHFUL SECOND.
Were t on tlw In,.ring commission.
Were I in the proper position.
1)1 had the right
/ would rise in my might
And sentence one man to pad it ion.
I\l smite him am! /lay him and < lout
h i m,
\nd utterly conquer amt rout him —
The second, / mean.
With the ivory bean.
Who splashes the water about turn.
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 thpt
makes it difficult to talk. Tom would
not find it difficult to talk even if ht
had a broken jaw.
Ad NVolgas»l wants to wreak ven
geance on Charlie White. He tame
to this conclusion after counting his
share of the gate re< eipu
Goorgc Rodel may now be ronaid-
erod ;< regular heavyweight He has
joined the vast army <»f fighters who
lutv 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 3.
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 he played here.
Ebbets Says He’s
Through With Tinker
NEW YORK. Dec. 27.—President
Charles H. Ebbets, of the Brooklyn
club, to-day declared that no further
Inducements would bo 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 Ebbct*. "This salary, to
gether with his $10,000 bonus, will make
him one of the highest priced men in
baseball. Wo have gone as far as we
can go."
Ebbets Would not divulge the amount
of salary offered, hut it is reported to
he between $5,000 and $0,000 a yetor,
for three years. This, with the bonus,
would make Tinker’s three-year income
around $2R,000.
PUBLICITY.
When the chatter of 'linker is cold
and slarl,
And the fans no longer will fall for
the same.
Some god of the bleachers comes up
to the mark
Willi the good old whimsy: "I’m
through with the game!**
• « *
After a number of years of study we
have c oncluded that baseball Is the easi
est of commercial fields. Every one al
ways gets the best of every deal
o m
"We have a first division club over
here.'* says Mr. Ebbets, and ff they cun
ever get over the habit of finishing in
the second four they will undoubtedly
prove it.
♦ * *
"I think. Diinks Mr. Tener "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 be works.
* * u
Mr. Ebbets says he is in no hurry to
sign Tinker. Since it involves an out
lay of about >25,000, * .>14 c an hardly
blame him.
* * »
Consider the benefits of travel. Fred
Merkle 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 v:\is t
We can't see who's out alt thai
duy ft.
"Speaking as president of the Na»
League/’ speaks Mr Tener.
see no reason why Anson 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 ivith a high:
“lfV have the best intentions.
tint the price of trine is high."
• * *
Many big and Southern Leaguers are
playing ball in the New Orleans Win
ter League. We glean the following
names from the box scores: Schulte,
Casey. Kirke, Hauser, Sentell. Martina,
Bush, Jordan and Pobard.
* * *
Matty Matthews is still training lie
is taking exercise every day for his un
derpinning. He is chasing up eighft
flights in one of the biggest buildings iri
the city—in an elevator.
Frank Klaus Through
With Boxing Game
PITTSBURG, Dec. 37 —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 ling Buck Grouse. who
knocked out Chip some time ago. J«j
demanding a fight with Chip.
Klaus’ friends say he is inclined to
go Last and become a hotel and saloon
proprietor. He was recently married,
and is by no means pauperized b.\ hiv
finish a> 'he hands of Chip.
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