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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. Paying $25,000 fora ] Ball 1 ’layer Is Showing Beef Trust How to J Boost Cost of ] Living BILL LINDSAY'S SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT Better To Be a Lobster Than a Wise Guy PELS' INFIELD Former Coast League Star Should Prove Good Man at Third Base. N r K\V ORLEANS, Deo. 29.—The announcement from Portland, Ores:., that Bill Lindsay would be transferred to New Orleans next season Is a strong Illustration of the intention of Chaney Homers to put the very best minor league team at his command in this city in 1914. When it was reported some time ago that Lindsay would come here, denial was made both at Cleveland and Portland, and it was said that Manager McCredie, of Portland, con sidered Lindsay so valuable that he would not part with the infielder. Somers changed his mind, though, realizing that Lindsay’s return to New Orleans would be a highly popu lar move. For a long time it was doubtful whether clubs in the Pacific Coast League would waive on Lindsay, as he whs considered the star intielder of that association last season Baseball politics entered into it. however, and | one thing that is said to have induced the Coasters to let Lindsay get out was the consent of the New Orleans club to Artie Hofman, the once great est utility player In the game, going from Nashville to San Francisco. Former Manager Frank held up Hofman’s transfer as long as he thought be would control the desti nies of the Pelicans in 1914, thinking ii a bad move to let Hofman get out of the league, and desiring, if Hofman made any change at all, to bring "Cir cus Solly" to New Orleans. Lindsay’s coming to New Orleans Insures a first-class third baseman for the local team next season. This is where the Pelicans have been re garded as somewhat weak, compared with the other teams in the league. Undsay is not only one of the best infielders in the minors, but is one of the best hitters. His record both last year and the year before has secured this rating for him. The Pelicans now appear to be pro vided with one of the strongest ar rays of inflelders in the Southern League. Tulane and L. S. U. May Quit S. I. A. A. A big change may be made in the make-up of the S. 1. A. A. oefqre the next football season opens and a new organization is likely to be formed. Refusal of leading members of the S I A A., which includes Auburn. Vanderbilt. Georgia. Sewanee and Geor gia Tech, to give Tulane or Louisiana State games next season is the cause of the whole affair. The new rollegiate organization, to be known as the South western, embracing Louisiana. Texas. Oklahoma and Arkansas, within the next few months, says The Daily Htates. 4 New Orleans publication. The new organization, according to information from an authoritative source by The States, is looked upon favorably by Tulane. L. S. U.. Missis sippi A. and M . "Ole Miss.” Texas l\. Texas A and M., Arkansas and Okla homa. The first seven named colleges are s l. A. A. members at present, but are reported in a receptive mood to loin the proposed body, whose purpose will be to insure high-class football in this section. Ragan Considering Offer From Federals OMAHA. NKBIL, Dec. 29—'‘Pat” Ra gan. pitcher of the Brooklyn National league club, who lives In Omaha, is se riously considering overtures made to him by Federal League officials. *Th< v offered mo a two years’ con tract at a much better salary than the Brooklyn club has paid me." said Ha gan last night. '‘While I prefer to re main in organized baseball, sentiment is a small consideration, and. like every other ball player, 1 am prepared to lake advantage of any proposition that car ries a satisfactory financial agreement. ' Ragan declined to say what financial inducements had been held out to him. ‘Famous Plays’—By Heisman No. 1—The Simple ‘V’ Wedge By .). \V. Heisman. V ERY frequently indeed during the football season I am asked to explain or to describe this or that famous play of a day long gone by; but at that time of the year there is scarcely room in the sporting pages for all the live news, let alone the dead. Now, however, 1 have opportunity to outline a few of the old-time great plays that may prove of interest to the football fan. The accompanying diagram illustrates the play that was used by all teams a quarter of a century ago with which to open the game. It is a simple wedge, or “V," as it was called. This must not be confounded with the famous Hying wedge, which came into existence at Harvard some five years later, and which I will describe in my next number. While the rule that a game of football must start with a kickoff a! or near the center seemed ui come into existence for the first time in 1894, yet it is a fact that the rule always has been in the.game. But up to 1894— the time when llie rule lirst insisted that the kick had to 1h> actual and bona fide all teams got around the matter by simply picking tip the ball and scraping it across the toe of the shoe, tints making a constructive kick of it, or a kick so easy and short that it was caught again in the hands of the player picking it tip after a flight of hut an inch or two. * * * T HIS clever evasion of the kicking rule was first hit upon by Lehigh 1 about 1885. It has sometimes been ascribed to kjtinceton, but this is incorrect. After using it one year, Lehigh dropped the play on account of the fact that they did not accompany the maneuver with a shfflciently clever formation of the rush linemen to give aid to the runner. Here was where Princeton improved the play , and the "V" was then at once adopted by all teams. The reason why every team '.n the land so quickly followed in the lead of Lehigh and Princeton in adopting the wedge with which to open the game was that In those days the defensive play of all teams was lamentably weak as compared with their offense; lienee they hated to sur render the hail to their opponents right at the outset by actually kicking it to them, whereas by the use of the “V" they could legally kick it. yet retain possession of it. The diagram shows how the team with the ball set itself—some eight men forming a wedge, willi a quarterback and both halves Inclosed in the angle of the wedge. When all was ready, the center rush stooped, grasped the ball, scraped it across the front of his right foot, snapped it back to the quarter, who passed it to the first halfback, and instantly the whole crew, as one man, were off either to the right or the left at top speed and beating down on the defensive players like a battering ram. Meanwhile the other chaps were spread out ten yards in front of the ball, and stood tense and waiting for Hie soqnd of that shrill whistle which « k\ X& x d Whitney’s Style of Fighting Should Prove Effective Against Briton PROMOTERS SHOWER WELSH WITH BIG OFFERS By Left ITook. D ESPITE the fact that Freddie Welsh recently announced that he would seek a boui with Wil lie Ritchie immediately after his match with Frank Whitney at the Auditorium January 6, promoters all over the country are showering of fers at the British champion. Harry Pollok, manager of Welsh, writes that he has no less than ten offers for Welsh, and all of them are worthy of consideration. Milwaukee wants Welsh to meet Charlie White, the Chicago sensation: New York is after Freddie to fight Jack Britton; Salt Lake City, Utah, would use the British champion against some good boy; Denver wants him for Steve Ketchel, while Tom McCarey would like to match Welsh with the winner of the Leach Cross-Bud Anderson affair. These are only some of the promoters after the foreign star. All these offers are in Pollok’s hands at the present time, and are causing the little manager consider able worry. Ever since Freddie forc ed Ritchie to run out of a match with him at Vancouver a few months ago, promoters have been after his serv ices. However, it is doubtful whether Pollok will accept any of these bouts. Welsh has asked Pollok to getr Ritchie for him, and he will not rest until he drags the American champion into the ring with him. * * * LMiKDDIE claims that Ritchie is * doing everything in his power to dodge a fight with him. but says that he will follow Willie all around the country and force him into a fight. Welsh expects his set-to with Whit ney to be his last bout before fight ing Willie, as it is his present plan to start for the coast right after his battle with the Cedar Rapids “Fight ing Carpenter." Before taking on Whitney, Welsh clashes with Johnny Dundee in New Orleans on New Year’s afternoon, but expects to win handily over the Italian ringman. He does not think Johnny ranks in the same class with him, especially over the ten-round route. In glancing over Freddie’s record, it will be noticed that only one boxer has ever defeated Welsh in ten rounds, that gentleman being Packey McFarland, who was given a questionable decision over the Brit ish champion in ten rounds at Mil waukee way back in 1908. After that fight Welsh held Packey to a 20 and 25-round draw, thereby proving that he was as good as the Chicago mar vel. When It is taken into considera tion that Welsh has been fighting since 1905, his record is all the more wonderful. He has never dodged an opponent, always being willing to meet the best boys in the game. * * * C OUNT LOU CASTRO announced yesterday that he expects Whit ney to arrive here Wednesday. Whitney will immediately open training quarters and finish working out for the fight. Frank’s aggressive style of milling should make a big hit against Welsh. True, Freddie has a much better record than Whitney, but it must be taken into consideration that Frank has always lacked a good manager. This alone has kept many fighters from reaching the top of the ladder. Also the writer is expecting to see Whitney’s style of fighting prove very effective, against Welsh. Charlie White told us after fighting Whit ney that the latter is the hardest boy in the lightweight division to hit. Frank’s awkward style of fighting is very hard for an opponent to solve. Frank always keeps on top of his rival, never giving him a chance to draw back his hands to deliver a solid blow. Whitney is also a glut ton for punishment, and does not know what the word quit means. The "Fighting Carpenter" may be beaten, but one thing the fighting public can vouch for, and that is that Whitney will give them the best he has. • * * T HE Cedar Rapids boy has fought before an Atlanta following for two years, and has yet to make one unsatisfactory fight. And Frank has met some of the toughest. He has stacked up against Grover Hayes, Jake Abel, Battling Nelson, Joe Thomas, Eddie O’Keefe and Charlie White. Local fans who saw Whitney in these bouts know that he put up a rattling scrap on every occasion. Against Welsh. Whitney will be forced to meet the best boy he has ever been up against. Welsh is a champion, and there are many ex perts who think that he can t ke Willie Ritchie to a lacing. He did it once, and this will always be a black mark on Willie's record, un less he meets the Englishman and erases it himself. * * * THE three companies of the Fifth A Regiment who are promoting the Welsh-Whitnev scrap have instructed Matchmaker Castro to get a good bill of preliminaries, and the Count is busy lining up some top-notch matches. Weak, Nervous and Diseased Men Permanently Cured Dr. Hughe* is an an experi enced Specialist, who successfully treats and per manently cures Blood Poison, p™ Skin Diseases. JL .Nervousness. Var- ^ 1 " •' ' elns. Kuilifj Hlml- der Troubles. OI* siruotlons. Catarrhal Discharges and all Borrows and chronic diseases <*f Men and Women. 1 am aguinat high and extortionate fees charged by *ome physicians and specialists. You will find my charges very reasonable and no more than you are able to pay for skillful treatment. 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Some of them ran forward as soon as the whistle blew and threw themselves under the feet of the wedge, trying to trip it up; others tried to catapult into it so hard that their force should carry them clear through it; others dove deadlong over the top and tried to get the runner inside around the neck, while the ends stayed out and looked for a out-out on the part of the runner. Oh. it was a line thrill you got while waiting for that infernal whistle, ami that no matter which side you were playing on. It gives me the "jim mies** yet to think of times when 1 have stood ic my place in the one side or the other of that wedge and waited for the mad Huns to leap into us like so many panthers, or have crouched low. with the defensive team, and with dry tongue counted the second until that Carthaginian juggernaut oi destruction should be set in motion and then sweep over us. * * * rvLl) BALLIET, one of the greatest centers that ever lived, was one of j ^ the U»st men to head his wedge. In ui,\ day we had to go against him ai Lehigh, but later he went to Princeton, and there he was even a worse j man to have to encounter. If the Y" shot off to the left it was manifestly easier for the defense to cave in its right side than its left; but at this juncture the right half with the ball would pass it back and out to the left half, and then, the I quarterback in front and the fullback behind, the remaining three backs would jump to the right side of the Y to take the places of the right guard, right tackle and right end. who had gone down and out. Thus a secondary "V" would shoot off from the primary and the ball keep on go ing. Laurie Bliss and Uarr\ Williams mow coaching Minnesota) were very clever in taking advantage of this superb interference and in passing the ball to each other back in the corral, and Yale gained tremendously nearly always on this opening play. And 1 remember several times, seeing this opening play go all the way for touchdown. But the seem* that dwells most vividly in my recollection with refer ence to this V” play and its execution is the wav the giant Hefflefluger, of Yale, used to bust the blooming thing up. He stood about 6 feet 2 inches in his stocking feet, and weighed about 195 pounds stripped. With it all he was able to make the hundred in about "ten and a half." and was, alto gether, the best football player 1 have ever seen. Playing left guard (H ou diagram». he set himself just like a sprinter on his mark, and the instant the ball went into play lie would shoot forward at the mass of his op ponents like a bull making for a red blanket. But just before the collision, high in the air arose his huge figure, and he threw hi" hip squarely upon the heads and shoulders of the opposing guard and tackle so that it was quite imjtossible for them to sustain the shock of his ponderous weight and momentum. Down the> invariably went in a heap, while Neff's" onward flight gen erally carried him right on Vo the runner himself, whom he would catch under the chin ami yank back out of the rear of the wedge like some might} hook snagging a tint fish and the whole thing generally ended right there it would hate made a great subject for the movies." It's Up to Ebbets To Secure Tinker, Declares Herrmann CINCINNATI, Dec. 29.—Garry Herr mann, president of the Cincinnati Na tional League baseball club, to-day Is sued a statement to the effect that he was through with the .toe Tinker case. "It is iiu to Brooklyn to get Tinker or get stung," said Herrmann. "Presi dent Ebbets. of the Dodgers, has paid the Cincinnati club $15,000 as the pur chase price. Cincinnati has accepted the money and will keep it." Did Johnson Fight His Brother-in-Law? A story, which comes from Chicago, is in ^circulation to-day, w hich says that .lack Johnson pulled off one of the rawest fakes in t,he history of pugi lism In his recent fight in Paris. It is said that Johnson's opponent in this bout was his brother-in-law, Gus Rhodes, a powerful built negro, who is something of a fighter, and who accom panied Johnson when he jumped bail and fled to Canada, on bis way to France. These persons insist that Johnson told them before he left Chicago that Rhodes would he his first opponent in a bout in France, for the reason that he wanted to avoid a real fight with Sam latng- ford as long as possible. The> declare that Rhodes is a ringer for Battling Jim and could easily he mis taken for the latter when stripped for action. The story has been cabled to tin* French Federation of Boxing by Chi cago men who are hostile to the chain pion, and it is expected that there will he a thorough investigation. If it turns out that LIT Arthur’s antagonist was his brother-in-law. it is believed that he will h»' barred from further ring con tests in European countries. Giants Deny Owing Cardinals a Player NEW YORK. Dec. 29. —John B. Foster, secretary of the Giants, to-day said that us far ns he knew the club did not owe a hall player to the St. !x*uts Cardinals. At the time Pitcher Otis Crandall was returned by the Cardinals to the Giants it was said McGraw agreed to give the Cardinals an outfielder at the end of the season. The Cardinals recently made a request for the outfielder, and Foster to-du\ an swered it by saying that as far as he knew the Cardinals did not have one coming. BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip TO THE RED DIRECTORS. Here*s to you. merry gentlenten, Keep on the job, tee pray; Your every move and chirrup Gives us a laugh til way. * * * Konetohy is quoted as being "dissat isfied with conditions in St. Louis.” This seems to make it unanimous. * * * It is now four days since Charley Murphy has issued a statement on the Tinker situation, thus breaking the world's record for self-control. * ♦ * "If the pitchers come up to form and expectations,” says Connie Mack, "the Yankees may finish as high as fifth." Thanks for the lobster. * * * Manager Branch Rickey lias a pick of thirt> -seven athletes from w hich to build UP his 1914 combination. Thirteen of them played with the Browns last sea son. while twenty-four of them are new comers. Bill James, the former Cleveland hurl- er, has been secured by the Browns from the Pacific Coast League. w • * lnfleldtr Eddie Grant, who was lucky enough to he in for a share of the world’s series coin last October, is said to he headed for Memphis. Grant is a Harvard Law School man. • * * A close friend of Manager McGraw says there isn’t a chance of any team landing Fred Snodgrass from the Giants. He says that McGraw thinks Snodgrass is the best gardener in the business. * * * YIlly Doyle, scout for the Naps, has leased parks at Portsmouth, lronton. Chillicothe and Charleston, and will start a school for baseball rookies about April 1. Doyle, as principal, will divide his work among four classes. 'Ruby Bob' Denounces Boxing Commission PLAINFIELD. X. J , Dec 29.—Bob Fitzsimmons is denouncing the mem bers of the New York Boxing Commis sion for their refusal to allow him to box "It’s box or starve with me." said the once great champion of the ring here to-day in a lengthy statement, lie renounced his American citizenship caustically, compared treatment in this country with that received by English athletes, and expressed his regret for ever leaving the latter country. "Ruby Rob” declared he is better now than when he fought Jeffries. Athletic Club Five Plays Columbus in Big Game Saturday The Atlanta Athletic Club basket ball team journeys to Columbus next Satur day afternoon to meet the champion Co lumbus Y. M. C. A. quintet on that night. This will be the first road trip for the local hoys and also the hardest game of the season. The Columbus boys took the Atlanta team into camp in both games last sea son. th$ first on the Columbus court, 40 to 19, and on the local floor by the count of 43 to 26. Joe Bean’s players are expecting the tussle of their young lives and the men will be put through a week of stiff practice. So far this season the teams have won all their games, both'having played four. Columbus won from Bessemer, 59 to 13, and the following night the Atlanta hoys mopped with Bessemer 46 to 14. l*ast Friday night Columbus whipped Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical 104 to 15 and Saturday night Atlanta won 66 to 29. Although dope slightly favors Columbus, the Atlanta squad can he counted on to give the champions a tough battle. The line-up of the two teams will be as follows: Position. .. ..rf.. . .. . .If. . . Atlanta. Forbes.. . Smith.. . Du Bard . (‘arter. . . Weaver.. •■rg.. • •Ig.. Columbus. . .. Kilcrease Peddy . . . Massey ,. Newman .. ..Dozier Chip Doesn't Claim Middleweight Title PITTSBURG. Dec. 29.—George Chip to-day disclaimed the middleweight championship. The conqueror of Frank Klaus chanced to encounter a 'party of sports who hadn't witnessed the com bat. Chip modestly assured these men that he didn’t claim to be a cham pion. “But,” he added, "T have a good punch, can take some hard wallops without going over and box some. How ever. I’ll be fair to you and say that my legs are not speedy. Ever since I got into the game that’s been my handi cap. Hard work hasn’t helped much. I have played baseball and run races in hoped of getting more speed, hut every, thing fails. Slow’ feet and all. 1 am ready for the big guns in the middle weight hunch.” Ritchie Ignored by Ad Wolgast Willie Is Told to Get a ‘Rep’ This is the twelfth of a series of stories of the life and battles of Light* weight Champion Willie Ititchic, written exclusively for The Georgian, Bv Willie Ritcliie. GRIFFITHS MEETS TEMPLE. MILWAUKEE. l>r Milivau- keeans to-night w ill get a glimpse of I a real ing star when Johnny Grit'- I flths, of Akron. Ohio, begins it) shoot I rights and lefts into Ra\ Temple, his I opponent, in a ten-round scrap be fore the Riverview Athletic Club. WOLGAST MAY FACE REDMOND. MllAY' \l K!GE Dec 29 Yd Wolgast and Jack Redmond may box ten rounds before the Queensberry \ <\ at the Auditorium here on the afternoon of Now Year's Day. It was while fighting Redmond two years .tg.- that Wolgast broke a bone in his left hand, thereby starting a train of accidents to the then champion. HIT BV BASEBALL: SUES CITY. DENY HR, COLO. Dec. 29. -A base ball pitcher has involved the city and countv in a damage suit for $3,000. j Mrs. Hazel E. Lehew in a complaint filed i in the District Court asserts tHat on September 31. while she was passing the baseball grounds maintained by the city at Washington Park, her nose was broken by a hall. She asserts that the backstop behind the catcher was too low to stop a badly thrown ball. KETCHEL TO BOX^ M’CORMICK. TERRE HAI TF. IND Dec. 29. Ed- i die Ketchel. the Grand Rapids light weight. has been matched to box Art McCormick, of St. lx»uis, ten rounds on I New Year's night here. S AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29.—That four-round bout with Champion Wolgast convinced me of one thing, and that was of my ability to lick him. I did not claim then that I could beat any lightweight in the world, but I made up my mind that I had Wolgast’s number, and nobody could make me believe otherw ise. ’ You’re pretty lucky, kid, that I did not knock you out," said Ad after the battle. "I was just testing myself, and 1 came near flattening you." "Say, I’ve got your number,” I re plied, "and any time you want to take another chance, just say the word. 1 know I can beat you." "That’s the funniest thing I ever heard in all my life,’’ said Wolgast. “You go back with the four-rounders, where you figure.” But I did not go back among the four-rounders. I just went around making speeches about, Wolgast. 1 called on Promoter Jim Coffroth and asked him for a twenty-round match with the champion. Coffroth treated me very nicely and listened to what 1 had to say, but he told me that I was not quit? a big enough card to send in against a champion. Some of my friends laughed when I told them that I Intended to keep on Wolgast s trail, and others agreed with me. This little bit of encour agement which I received helped me along a whole lot, for I felt that I had a few boosters left and that I might possibly get on with the cham pion by taking a long chance. Camps on Wolgast’s Trail. Three days after the battle Wolgast departed for Chicago. When I heard of his leaving T came to the conclu sion that I might just as well trail right after him, so J boarded the train the next morning and landed in Chi cago right at his heels. Wolgast got a good hand in the W indy City, and he told the sporting writers there what a joke the battle was and how he simply stalled around with me. And he got away with it. too. for the Chicago papers did not take me seriously at this time. They stated that the champion simply took me on to pick up some expense money and also to try himself out after his operation for appendicitis. But before I left San Francisco I did a little press agent work. I gath ered up a bunch of clippings from tjie local papers and also secured a few photographs showing Wolgast and myself on the floor and Wolgast in distress in several of t lie rounds. There was great action to them. and. as.everybody knows, the camera never tells lies. Well, there was a different story to relate after I had peddled my stuff around Chicago. They were willing to admit then that there must have been something to the San Francisco reports. They gave me quite a send- off, and said that J was at least enti tled to a match with one of the light weight contenders, even if Wolgast did pass me up. Turned Down by Champion. Wolgast jumped to New York and I jumped right after him. I saw that the advertising I was getting helped to boost me along, and that the best thing I could do would be to set my self in as strong as I could. Promoter Billy Gibson, who always has been a good friend of mine, saw a chance to make up a big card bv putting Wolgast and myself on <n Madison Square Garden for a ten- round mix-up. I accepted right off the reel and agreed to fight for little more than training expenses. But Wolgast would not listen to anything that Gibson said. He flatly refused an offer of $7,500 to meet me, saying that he would not waste his time with any of the second-raters. Cross Also Passes Him Up. It was shortly after this that Tom McCarey made Wolgast an offer to fight Joe Rivers in Los Angeles on the following Fourth of July. Now. I real ly believe Wolgast took that offer in order to get out of a match with me. und. besides, there was a chance for him to make more money, and-so no body could blame him at the time. When 1 saw that I could not get the champion to go on with me. I began to hustle for a crack at somebody else. Le*fh Cross was the big nois • around New York and T approached him very humbly and asked to oe given a chance. But the best I goc was a laugh from Leach and all his friends. They would not even give me a look in. "Can’t afford to fight anybody with out a reputation," said Cross, as he looked me over. "You go out and see what you can do against some oi those second and third raters. If you make good, come hack, apd perhaps I will talk to you; but if you are beat en, go home to San Francisco." That was the way that Cro*s talked to me then. But it’s different now, He was lucky to get on with me in New York last month, and he has been after me ever since. But I beat him once, and I guess that It’s up to him now to fight himself back »® form if he wants to talk business with me. He certainly gave me tha once over when I was trying to strug gle along; but I guess he looked at it in a business way. For five weeks I hung around New York looking for a match with soma fighter worth while. But it seemed that the fates were against me. The summer was well on. and most of the boxing clubs had closed up for tht» season. I felt down-hearted and dis couraged, for there was nothing in sight for me, although I was willing to start against any of them. Finally an offer came to me from New Orleans, and this was a life- saver. It meant a chance for me to light Joe Mandot, who was then in his prime and looked upon as the lightweight champion of the South. It looked to be too good for truth, but when my ticket arrived I just hopped on the boat and set sail for the South. We did not have any trouble in coming to terms. They offered me a very liberal percentage, but I wouid have fought for almost anything just to get a crack at the Southern champ. He was the big show’ in his home town, and, naturally, nobody paid much attention to me. T was looked upon as a sort of fill-in fighter, with out any class. Feds Ready to Back Players in Court INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 29—“The Federal League will stand behind every one of its players and in any case where legal action is brought against the men the league will fur nish the defense." declared J. Edward Krause, a director of the Federal League, to-day when told that the of ficials of the Brooklyn club were planning to enjoin Joe Tinker from playing with the Chicago team of the new organization. “We think that the reserve clause in the contracts of the ball players is invalid and believe we can secure such a decision if the matter is taken into the courts/’ Mr. Krause asserted. New Cub Looks Good to Murphy CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—"I have been vis iting with my new’ pitcher. Harvey 1 terecht, the Cincinnati high school boy,” said President Charles W. Mur phy. of the Chicago Cubs, to-day, who is back from a round of business en gagements in Cincinnati. "He seems to be a fine youngster n il It a good head and brilliant possibilities. Naturally the boy and his friends are wondering if he will get a fair show iu the spring or be railroaded to the minors with hardly an opportunity to show the /foods. They needn’t worry. The be>ti proof of my anxiety to secure the young man is the amount of trouble and red tape 1 had to go through in order to land him. He seems to be well worth the trouble, and I will give him a thor ough try-out.’’ HANSON DEFEATS HERRICK. EL PASO. TEXAS. Dec. 29—Via Hanson, the "Rocky Mountain Tiger * was given the decision over Jack He rick, of Chicago, at the end of 20 rounds >f fighting here at .Juarez last nigh. The battle .was billed for the middle weight championship of the Southwest m W hi»k«y a nd Dru w Habfte ■ at Horn* yr at SarWlora. Boolr on aubja* |£>m. DR B. M. WOOLLEY. ifl-N. DON’T SCRATCH If you only knew how quickly and flMllj Tetterin' cun's eczema, e?en where erarythlc* else falls, you rrouldu’t suffer and scratch. Tetterine Cures Eczema Read what Mrs. Thomas Thompson. Clarkea- viile. da . says I suffered fifteen years with tormentlnfl ecrema. Had the best doctors, but nothlni did me any flood until I qot Tetterlns. It cured me. I am so thankful. 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