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4 ■ "TV ' ! ^' v ”''* " lv "V Iff'Iflt'Fy JWM "* *% TUP: ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. BE 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 .el lig hits on S ports 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. * PAY ME FOR CURES ONLY ff you havn boon taking treatment for weeks and month* and gay- lng out your hard earned money without bring cured, don’t you think It |* high time to accept DR HUGHES* GRAND OFFER? You will certainly not be out any more money If not cured. Consul* tatlnn and Examination are Free for the next thirty days. If I deride that your condition will not yield readily to my treat ment, I will be honest with you and tell you ao. and not accept your money under a promise of a cure. 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