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OUTNEJtTWEEK
Vlanager Billy Smith Admits He
Is Afraid to Look the List
in the Face.
By O. B. Keeler.
* PPROACHES now the season
for sending oirt contracts, but
*■ Billy Smith, Cracker manager,
is not flourishing any trumpets.
"Say—I’m afraid to look the list
tn 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
tracts 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.
• * •
«pOT another pig in a poke just
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
the day before the season opens.
Billy also is w r orried about the Es
mond deal. He doesn’t know which
way it is going to jump.
* * *
IN the meantime, Billy isn’t having
* such a bad time. He looks sleek,
and 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
ter'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.
* * *
A TELEPHONE call from George
^ Stallings, at Haddock, Ga., in
formed Messrs: Smith and Callaway,
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
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
some of the Atlanta brand. Mr. Nun
nally fancied they might like to
watch Chick Evans play at East
Lake.
"I don’t play that game,” he said.
* * *
“VP ELL, I do,” announced Billy
v * “I played twice at Chevy
Chase, in Washington, last time I
was there. I hit the ball and 1 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 time.
‘‘But I don’t suppose I would give
Chick Evans a tussle yet,” he ad
mitted. ‘‘I think I’ll go out and
watch him. He must be a wonder,
from all accounts. Chief Bender is
the best golf player I ever saw. That
Indian does anything well.”
* * * :
A NOTHER circumstance that will I
11 enable Mr. Smith and the direc- j
tors to bear, with fortitude the sus-!
pense of waiting for the contracts is j
a hunting party on the large estate |
of the same Mr. Stallings referred to
previously.
Mr. Stallings says the birds around
bis 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
on 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.
BRINGING UP FATHER
By GEORGE M’MANUS
BOXING
News of the Ring Game
IMPRESSIONISTIC.
Tftien we would limn the White nope
The only words that come,
To fix you with the right dope,
Are: “Lowlife! Loafer! Bum!”
* * *
When you consider that there was only
pounds difference in the weights, we
shudder to think what Levinsky would
have done to Coffey if the New Yorker
1 ad been about ten pounds lighter.
* * *
“Is Gunboat Smith entitled to be
known as a knocker-out?” asks Old Bill
Naughton. And, then again, is Gunboat
Smith entitled to be known?
* * *
In reply to many queries we would
say that we see nothing the matter with
'he heavyweight fighters of to-day ex
iting that their service is weak, their
livery poor, they slice their drives.
- I away from the plate and have too
ti.uch lead in their keels.
* « *
Chasing rabbits with greyhounds is
1 : '<l Anderson’s training specialty, con
duct which might easily be construed as
a slur at his opponent, Mr. Cross.
* * *
Georges Carpentier, the French cham-
’ on, must surely be some drawing card
I;"' the music halls in Paris and Lon
don, for he is receiving $2,500 a week
at the Folies Bergeres in Paris at pres-
er -t giving boxing exhibitions, and will
rf-ffMve a similar amount from the Pal
ladium Music Hall in London after his
engagement in Paris is finished.
* * *
. Joe Thomas. Charlie White’s trainer.
:s ' anxious to send Ruby Hirsh, a Chi
cago bantam, here for some bouts.
Hirsh has fought the best 115 boys
around the Windy City, and always
Elves a good account of himself. Joe
^rites that he will let Hirsh tight any
boy here on a winner take all basis.
i .don't
How ANT ONE -
IN SWITZERLAND
*'N Live on the
level with
THE-aE
MOUNTAIN*,’.
CHE> l^> NOT
HKH tet -vKtt
UNTIL WE UP *>0
Jeff Simply Has to Have a Pet Around the Place
By ‘Bud’ Fisher
Sid
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1 By
A. H. C. MITCHELL f
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 ha3 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.
* * *
]\/I\N T AGERS are to blame. They
tV-I Set 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 b-' f he sea
son opens. The club owners, fear
ful that the manager will have
an alibi if his team doesn’t get
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 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 clubs did not start South so
early in the year. It would be a
good idea if thev would all consent
to begin training not earlier than
March 10. But they won t.
“V\/IEN T first suggested Ohar-
v v 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 taught me that this was an
error. The players get down into
the warm climate, and become
u- i 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 ’ey ball -'’-’Hng the first
month, some other team is quite
liable to get a big ‘edge’ on you.
* * •
TJY 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 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.
* * *
fA F 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 be any drawing card
at home for our exhibition
games,” answered Griff with a
grin.
BLOOMINGTON SIGNS UP PAIR.
BLOOMINGTON. ILL., Dec. 27.—Con-
tracts were received by the Bloomington
Association to-day from Outfielder T.
IV Lapps, of Dewar, Okla.. and Second
Baseman Fred Hill, of Denver, Colo.
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 that the local
squad Is to have a tough time of it to
night.
Both teams are In great shape for the
fray. Joe 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. 27. —While dis
cussing the proposed transfer of Joe
Tinker from Cincinnati to Brooklyn.
Frank Chance made the statement that
lie would give Charley Ebbets, the
Brooklyn magnate, $5,000 bonus for his
bargain. He added that if Ebbets 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 Ebbets is reported to have
offered for Tinker,” said Chance. “Joe
is a hlkh-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 he
wants for signing, hut 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. 27.—George Chip will
have a pleasant time trying to stop his
next opponent. George Knockout
Brown, the local Greek sidr-wheeler, 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 when he starts the pyrotech
nics Chip will do well to be out of range,
(‘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 in fir Id be heavy
and ft low ?
What though it never amount to
so much?
Herzog and Hoblitzclt, Neihoff and
Ch'oh—
Think what a hit it will make
with the Dut<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 boxing comm vision.
Were I in the proper position,
If I hail the right
I would rise in my might
And sentence one man to perditibn.
Td smite him and ftay him and clout
him,
And utterly conquer 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 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 h*.
had a broken jaw.
—4
Ad Wolgast 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 consid
ered a regular heavyweight. He has
joined the vast army of fighters who
have whipped Jim Flynn.
Virginia Eleven to
Play Yale for First
Time Next Season
FODDER FOR FANS
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 2.
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 presefnt 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.
Ebbets Says He's
Through With Tinker
NEW YORK, Dee. 27.—President
Charles H. 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.” j
Ebbets would not divulge the amount
of salary offered, but It is reported to
be between $6,000 and $6,000 a year,
for three years This, with the bonus,
would make Tinker’s three-year income
around $28,000.
PUBLICITY.
When the chatter of Tinker is cold
and stark
And the fans no longer will fall for
the same.
Some god of the bleachers comes up
to the mark
With the good old whimsy: “I’m
through with the game! 1 ’
* * *
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 ;n
the second four they will undoubtedly
prove it.
* * *
“T think.” thinks Mr Tener “an um
pire should be conciliatory but firm,
positive but polite, quick bid undemon
strative, strict, but reasonable.” For a ll
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.
* * •
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 wits,
lie can't see who's out all that
dtigh.
‘‘Speaking as president of the Na
tional League,” speaks Mr Tener, “1
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 with a high;
"We have the best intentions,
Hut the price of wine 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, Klrke, 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—ip an elevator.
Frank Klaus Through
With Boxing Game
PITTSBURG, Dec. 27.—Frank Klaus,
who was the principal claimant for the
middleweight championship until
knocked out for the second time in sev- J
en weeks by George Chip, is through
with the ring. Buck Crouse, who
knocked out (’hip some time ago, is
demanding a fight with Chip.
Klaus' friends say he is inclined to
go East and become a hotel and saloon I
proprietor. He was recently married,
and is by no means pauperized by his I
finish at the hands of Chip. *
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