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News of the Ring Game
mi-: ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
II I hey Could Do Away With Jockeys, the Racing Game Might Come Back to Its Own
BE
OUTNEXTWEEK
Manager Billy Smith Admits He
Is Afraid to Look the List
in the Face.
By O. B. Keeler.
A }-1'ROACHES now the season
for sending out contracts, but
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
long one, and I’ll be able to tell
more about it when we get the eon-
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
Leinar worth a good many more than
■ wo in the bushes.
The contracts will be mailed out
next week-
* * *
hPOT another pig in a poke just
now,” Mr. Smith added. ‘ Name’s
S adie, and he’s a left-handed pitcher
tck 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
•ntracts 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.
[X the meantime, Billy isn’t having
l such a bad time. He looks sleek,
rid lias 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
her’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
i'fice from the expedition.
* * *
A TELEPHONE call from George
** Stallings, at Haddock, Ga., in
formed Messrs: Smith and Callaway,
and other directors of the Atlanta
lub, that two friends of the Boston
manager, Thomas Heath and a Dr.
McGaine, would be in Atlanta Sun
ny, 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-
al the others t<» show 'em
Ttrne of the Atlanta brand. Mr. Nun
nally fancied they might like to
watch Chick Evans play at East
Lake.
’ l don’t play that game,” he said.
* * *
“W ELL. I do,” announced Billy
vv *‘I played twice at Chevy
' base, in Washington, last time I
was there. I hit the ball and I busted
ne bat—the stick, 1 mean. Oh, it's
some game.”
Bill also admitted that he had been
• nveigled into playing out at East
Lake one time.
“But I don’t suppose I would give
'hick 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 NOTJHER circumstance that will
enable Mr. Smith and the direc
ts 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
■birred up. Messrs. Smith, Callaway.
Ryan and Nunnally desire to be put
m record as the gunmen who can do
1 he stirring. The invitation was is
sued some weeks ago, and has now
" » n accepted for the latter part of
next week.
IMPRESSIONISTIC.
" hen we icould limn the White Hope
The only words that come,
I" fix you with the right dope,
4re: “Lowlife! Loafer! Bum!”
¥ * ¥
When you consider that there was only
-*■ pounds difference in the weights, we
s hudder to think what Levinsky would
liav e done to Coffey if the New Yorker
ad been about ten pounds lighter.
* * *
Is Gunboat Smith entitled to be
mown as a knocker-out?” asks Old Bill
mughton. And, then again, is Gunboat
> mith entitled to be known?
¥ * *
hi reply to many queries we would
~ay that we see nothing the matter with
e heavyweight fighters of to-day ex
iting that their service is weak, their
delivery poor, they slice their drives,
away from the plate and have too
'nuch lead in their keels.
• * *
Phasing rabbits with greyhounds is
'*ud Anderson’s training specialty, con-
met which might easily be construed as
slur at his opponent, Mr. Cross.
* * *
Georges Carpentier, the French cliam-
"n, must surely be some drawing card
'/ )r l he music halls in Paris and Lon-
m. for he is receiving $2,500 a week
the Folies Bergeres in Paris at pres
et giving boxing exhibitions, and will
meive a similar amount from the Pal-
'<lium Music Hall in London after his
Engagement in Paris is finished.
* * *
■loe Thomas. Charlie White's trainer.
' anxious to send Ruby Hirsh, a Chi
go bantam, here for some bouts.
1 irsli has fought the best 115 boys
found the Windy City, and always
: ves a good account of himself. Joe
’ fites that he will let Hirsh fight any
y here on a winner take all basis.
Sidelights on Sports
By A. H. C. MITCHELL
C i 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.
* * *
A T\XAGKHS are to blame. They
l' 1 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 be' ’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 they would ali consent
to begin training not earlier than
March 10. But they won’t.
¥ lit *
«i\17’iEN I first suggested <'hur-
vv 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 8h and 90.
"My earlier exo^rLou e as man
ager taught me that this was an
error. The players get down iri*o
the warm climate, and become
U o-d 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
sha"'' to ’->v ball ’"ring the first
month, some other team is quite
liable to get a big ‘edge’ on you.
♦ • *
DY PLAYING at Charlottesville
L my mpi’ 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
4 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.
¥ * *
(Y 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 c ard
at home for our exhibition
games,” answered Griff with a
grin.
250 Tots Get Gifts
At Owls’ Xmas Tree
Two hundred find fifty children
were made happy by a Christmas
tree at the Owls’ Club Friday after
noon, and each child drew' an armful
from the 2,000 toys that graced the
huge tree.
When Banta Claus arrived he found
the great room of the club taxed to
its capacity with the crowd of chil
dren and grown-ups. The older per
sons also were remembered. Holly
and cedar boughs were used to dec
orate the clubrooms, and the walls
were completely hidden by the masses
of foliage on every side.
Montreal Has Water
Famine; Main Breaks
MONTREAL. Dec. 27.—More than
100,000 persons are suffering from a
water famine here to-day. Manufac
turing plants are shut down. (’arts
are delivering water to hospitals,
while citizens are melting snow for
drinking water.
These conditions • xist «s the result
of a 60-foot break in the main water
supply conduit.
Mine Guarded After
Riot Fatal to Two
JAMESTOWN, ARK.. Dec-. 27.—A
heavy guard w-as placed about the
property of the Jamestown Mining
Company to-day, following a riot last
night in which two men were killed
and eight seriously hurt.
Investigation showed there was no
trouble between the miners and the
company, but that a belated Christ
mas celebration got beyond control
of the local police.
Power Plant Offices
Go to Chattanooga
CHATTANOOGA, Dec. 27.—The
general offices of the Tennessee Pow
er Company, controlling the hydro -
electrical developments on the Ocoee
River, have been moved from Cleve
land, Tenn., to Chattanooga.
With the exception of the resident
engineer, who wi11 be at Ocoee, all
officials of the concern will be sta
tioned here.
BLOOMINGTON SIGNS UP PAIR.
BLOOMINGTON. ILL.. Dee. 27.—Con
tracts were received h th** Bloomington
Association t< -day from Outfielder T
P. Lapps, < .* Dewar. U'.lu., aiy. Se-.onu
Harman Fred Hill of Denver, Colo.
Troops Guard Plant
Of Mining Company
JAMESTOWN, ARK. Dec. 27.—
Following a general row' at the
Jamestow-n Mining Company’s plant,
in which two were killed and eight
seriously injured, a company of State
troops was to-day sent to guard the
mining property.
There is no strike, but the rowdy
ism had got beyond control of local
officers.
Stork Brings Storks
Another Little Stork
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.- Tim stork
presen;< <1 Mr. ar.d Mrs. Ivlgur VY. Stork
with a little Stork.
Sporting Food
By GEORGE E. PHAIR i
LINES TO G. HERRMANN.
What though your infield he heavy
and short
What though it never amount to
so much?
Herzog and Hoblitzell, \cihoff and
(iroh—
Think what a hit it will make
with the Dutch!
A story of a Cincinnati baseball
pame next summer will bear a strik
ing resemblance to an account of a
achuetrenfest.
Jf 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 commission.
Were / in the proper position.
If I had the right
/ would rise in my might
And sentence one man to perdition.
Vd smite him and /fay him and clout
him,
And utterly conquer and rout him—
The second, / mean.
With the ivory beau.
Who splashes the tea ter 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 ht
had a broken jaw.
Ad Wolgast wants to wreak ven
geance on Charlie White. He came
to this conclusion after counting his
share of the gate receipts.
Qeorge Rodel may now' be ronsid- I
ered a regular heavyweight. He has
joined the vast army of fighters who
have whipped Jim Flynn.
Cows' Disease Is
Fatal to Farmer
I BINGHAMTON, N. V., Dec. 27 C, .1.
[ Banta, a farmer, died from anthrax, a
■ biscaso highly contagious ami imviUi
• bly mortal among cow?.
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 smull 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 be played here.
Frank Klaus Through
With Boxing Game
PITTHBURG, Dec. 27.—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 ring Buck Crouse. who
knocked out Chip some time ago, Is
demanding a fight with Chip.
Klaus’ friends say lie is Inclined to
go East and become a hotel and saloon
proprietor. He was recently married,
and is by no means pauperised bv his
finish at the hands of Chip.
FODDER FOR FANS
U, S, Walker Nearing
End of World Tramp
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Dec. 27.—Joseph B. Me-
Kulec, the American long-distance
walker, now in London, says he is
nearing the end of his tramp around
the world for a wager of $30,000.
Since May he has toured Belgium,
Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden,
Norway, Finland, Russia and Bohe
mia. He wins if he reaches New
York in 1914.
PUBLICITY.
When the chatter of Tinker is cold
and stark
And the fans no longer will fall for
the same,
tiome god of the bleachers comes up
to the mark
With the good old whimsy: “Vm
through with the game!"
* * •
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 deul.
* * *
“We have a first division club over
here,’ 1 says Mr. Ebhets, and if they can
ever get over the habit of finishing in
the second four they will undoubtedly
prove It.
* * *
“I think.” thinks 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 he works.
* • *
Mr. Ebhets 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 came
to going to St. Louis.
¥ T ¥
THAT $25,000.
The shouting and the tumuli quits.
And Tinker comes and others go:
And, though ire strain our agile wits,
We can't see who's out all that
dough.
• Speaking as president of tlie 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 shonld
not.
* ¥ *
$5 PER. /
u We can’t afford no pensions,* 0
Said the magnate with a high*
“We have the best intentions, f
But the price of wine is high: 9
• ¥ *
Many big and Southern leagues* art
playing ball in the New Orleans Win
ter League. We glean the following
names from the box scores: Schulte.
Casey, Kirke, Hauser. Kentell, Martina.
Bush, Jordan and Dobard.
• • •
Malty Matthews is still training. Ho
is taking exercise every day for his un
derpinntng. He is chasing up eighi
flights in one of the biggest buildings in
the city—In an elevator.
New Year Feast for,
Atlanta Poor Planned
Preparations for giving a New
YeFfl feast to 1,000 poor person* of
Atlanta next Thursday are being
made by the Union Rescue Mission,
at No, 234 Marietta street. Every
poor person in the city will be wel
come.
The committee in charge of the
dinner asks for contributions of
money, books, food or toys. They
should be sent to the Mission or to
any member of the committee, which
is as follows: C. W. O'Connor, secre
tary; C. W. Hatcher, T. L. Thrower,
C. A. London. C.. H. Burge, M. D.
Smith. W. A Weathington, D. J. Fant
and Van Bell.
Monks Lose Statue
Guarded 300 Years;
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, Dec. 27.—A priceless bron/.o
statue by Benvenuto Celini Ik missing
from the monastery of San Hetiig-
n a no, Florence, where it has been
constantly guarded by monks for 300
years. A marble worker who wr
recently repairing the altar bus dis
appeared. and is suspected.
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