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TIT! 7 ATLANTA riFO^fH \N ANT) NEWS.
Success Seldom Comes lo a Man Who Is Too Lazy to Go After It
WOULD BLOCK The Bunch Wishes All a Happy New Year
MOIL
Hank O’Day Comes to the Bat
With a New Plan, Hard to
Understand
Bv 0. B. Keel
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‘ERE rompu Hank O'Day, «onic
umpire, who once mana^nd ‘he
Cincinnati Reds, with a brand
new idea for n rule to prevent th"
intentional passing of a heavy fiat
rer at a critical Juncture
Candidly, we don't pet Hank
Take « slant at the report, exa* 'v
as published in the daily prints, an 1
see nhat you think about it.
“\f AKJNG the pitching: box narrow
x * * er would accomplish the tie-
■ red object," is Mr. O'Day's report •!
opinion.
As previously stated, we don't gei
him
in the first place, there hajm’t be* ti
any •'pitcher s box" for quite a while
There used to be, and a guy copM
wander around as far ns its limit ?
would let him. But these days it’a a
k ah, and all the slabman has to do it:
pitching is to start with his hind fo,*t
ontact with said slab and not take j
in
more than one step from it in '.n
pro' es# of deli very
\* Mr. O'Day meant "make the slfli
narrower," wc still would fall to •»*
what effect that would be toward re
straining a pitcher from lobbing c»\ *
four w ide ones.
M R. O'DAY isn't the first one lo
tack’e the problem of making a
pitcher put it over and it seems t >
us that nobody will succeed in that
undertaking without the aid of hyp
notism. Certainly some manager*
owning wild hurlers with lota of stuff
would be very grateful to Mr. O’Dav
if he would devise a plan to keep the
be 1 ) over the plate. Also, If Mr.
O'Day. by a juggling of the slag
measurements, fan compel a pitcher
to keep his product Just over the cor
ners of the pan. Mr O’Day would bet
ter give up umpiring and working *>n
the rules committee, and start man
aging another ball club.
He would have some valuable
pitching service what?
Chick Evans Leaves Atlanta
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Expert Praises Our Golfers
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
KERSES. KERSES, KERSES.
s
O far as our research extends, only
ne rule ever has been proposed
that seemed at all likgly to preven
the intentional passing of a hea' y
hitter in a pinch VV% forget wh *
suggested it, but it hf
plausibility entirel
O'Day's hunch, so
The idea whs that the batter re
ceiving four wide pitches h*vd the op
tion either of taking his lVtse or of
remaining at bat and allowing < he
next batsman in order to take the
base for him
1
it her an air or
1 lacking from Mr.
far as Understood.
S UPPOSE, for example,
ry Welchonce was
th| t Hnr-
up with
Tommy Dong on second or third and
a right-hand pitcher on tho slab. Sup-
pose the r. h pitcher had been pun
ished severely by Harry, but had been
getting" Wally Smith and Risland
w thout difficulty.
Then It might not be out of ord-*r
to suppose that, with two out. the
pitcher would rather see Harry
first than waving his big stick at
plate.
All right Four balls. But Harry
declines the offer at a signal fr »m
his boss. Wally Smith trots on down
to first Harry remains at bat. Four
more halls?. Maybe Then Rislan*
walks and the bases are full and
Welchonce still/at bat.
on
V/01’ see tfie idea.
* Put even that x
DU Id n't be alto
gether a fair rule
Becoming candid again, we don’t
see how any rule is to be made that
will do justice between pitcher and
batter in this respect In our opinion,
ihe strategic move of passing a heavy j
hitter is sufficiently penalized by the
additional runner on the bases an 1 ,
you may easily recall instance after i
instance when the supposed "w\».v
sister" has come along a d cleaned
up.
Anyway, when it comes right down
to the point, how is anv umpire going (
to know for sure (if the pitcher ap
parently tries to get the ball over)
whether the base on ball* s Inten
tional?
We await r. O'Day's further elu
cidation of this "problem vexed."
By Chirk Evans.
T WILL be hard for me to get back to Chicago for work after living in
the warm hearted hospitality of Atlanta. My games of golf over the
Atlanta courses will mark a most enjoyable occasion, and big. dirty,
noisy Chicago will* seem almost unbearable because my mind will be full
of the bapp.v events in your clean, delightful little city. I can not ever
adequately express how much 1 owe to tlie* generous hearts of Mr. and Mrs.
Ueorge Adair.
Interest in golf has grown very rapidly in the last few years in the
Southern States, and nowhere in the South do 1 think that golf enthusiasm
is greater than in Atlanta. The natural result of so much enthusiasm has
l>een the development of some very good Southern players, yet it is always
a matter of surprise that these players do not go farther in the National
Amateur, whose very efficient vice president, Mr. Milton Dargan, lives here,
or in the Western, which has a deep interest in Southern players. One
would think that the Southern player had certain natural advantages in
tlie opportunity to pla.v the year around. Of course the game is young in
the South, but the time Is rapidly approaching when Southern golfers should
reach a higher championship standard.
At the present moment the very best Southern players are many shots
itehind the best players of the West and North. Of course the Southern
player must travel far to the big tourneys, and consequently comparatively
few go. The Southern showing in the lfilM National was better than usual,
and Nelson Whitney, your champion, qualified well up. but no Southern
player yet has gone far in either Western or National. Many times I have
heard the reason asked.
In the upbuilding of champions, there are. 1 think, the following essen
tials: First, enthusiasm and the type of enthusiasm! that is the essence of
patience, Golf looks so easy, and Is in reality so hard, that it is tin* most
discouraging game at times in the world for the player. Then comes exam
ple and instruction, and instruction should bo either verbal or by example,
for voung players Imitate readily. 1 think the best sort of instruction is
placing with a letter player. The next essential is a good golf course re
quifing championship pla.v. You can learn tin* shots on any course, provided
its condition allows the ball to fall and run the same every time. One
must In* able to judge the roll of a ball, and know just what ground behavior
eau Ih‘ expected of it. One can learn to lilt the ball in the air, but unless
tin* ground is right, he loses power to judge results. A good course aids
good play and penalizes bad. I learned my golf on a flat b-hole stretch of
ground, and then I ituproxed It by playing a great deal at Chicago golf a
championship course.
Christmas has your,
Aew Year soon will;
But the Tinker story
Is with us stm.
BOXING
News of the Ring Game
The Federal League is now an estab
lished fact Charley Murphy has begun
to issue long statements proving that it
doesn’t exist.
‘‘What’s this baseball game coming
to?" inquired Fred Clarke, anxiously.
Without accurate statistics we should
say about $4,000,000 net per annum
Ilersig Insists He Is Still Presi
dent, Whiie Schwartz Re
fuses To Be “Fired.”
“I am opposed to the intentional pass
ing of a batter." says Mr. .Johnson, "but
what are you going to do about it?"
That’s just the way a lot of us feel
about the White Hopes.
N
We don't know how the Tinker deal
will eventually pan out. but we will bet
that Tinker gets the worst of it.
"Baseball,” observes a leading base
ball manufacturer, "is one of the fun
damental causes for the athletic su
premacy of America." It was also the
cause of the same thing in ancient
Greece.
ONLY HERZOG.
Breathes there a man with heart so
stout
lie has not\elt his nerve ooze out
And his strong mind go batty.
Whose spirits have not tin ned to lead.
Whose inmost feelings have not bled
When he received the sentence- dread:
"You manage Cincinnati ”
Whenever a ball player tries to tell
you he is not superstitious and does not
believe in signs, show him an S with
two lines drawn through it. thusly, $.
and watch results.
A T THE present moment Atlanta ha
cx Stewart Maiden, one of the best in tin 1
»od
instructors, among whom is
niutri oceans of enthusiasm
and a course-to-be at East Lake that will doubly merit the title of the
champion course of the South; indeed, it would l** called a good link in any
part of A me lien. And there are already some ver\ good players here.
Some of you play Very good wooden shots, some very good irons, and some
putt extremely well: in fact, the more successful Atlanta golfer plays gen
orally well, but I would suggest more practice of individual shots, a steady
methodical attempt to roun* out one’s game.
When one of these scandal monger
pessimists tackles you with a tale to
ihe effect of money is tight simply re
mind him that .loe Tinker has been of
fered $36,000 or thereabouts by the Fed
eral League, some of which is said to
be real money.
ASHVILLE, TENN., Dec. 30.—
The bitter factional feeling
which has existed in the Nash
ville baseball war for the past two
wcoM# reached a climax yesterday in
an exchange of torrid statements be
tween William Hirsig, majority
stockholder in the Nashville club, and
William C. Schwartz, last season’s
manager of the local team, llirsig
emphatically declares in his state
ment that under no circumstances
will Schwartz manage the Nashville
club next season since "he has been
convinced that the 'bov manager’ was
not the best leader the Vols could
get for 1914." Schwartz is charged by
Hirsig of having approved of the
Wclchonce-Callahan deal, repeatedly
denied by Schwartz previously, and
published a letter from Schwartz in
support of that contention.
Hirsig also attempts to 'saddle the
responsibility for the Perry-Berger
deal on Schwartz, offering to produce
numerous witnesses in order to sub
stantiate his accusations.
Boh Fitzsimmons’ ambition to shine
again in the pugilistic limelight lias re
ceived a decided setback at the hands
of the New* York State Boxing Commis
sion. The commission has issued an
edict prohibiting the former' world’s
champion from engaging in any bouts
in New York because of his age.
Famous Plays—By Heisman
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No. 2—The Old Flying Wedge
I
According to reports. Nevada is plan
ning another heavyweight fight to a
finish. Bill Dailey, the San Francisco
theatrical man, is trying to arrange a
bout to be held during the first week
in July. He may match the winner of
next Thursday’s bout between Smith
and Pelky with some suitable opponent.
Negotiations regarding the appearance
of Gunboat Smith in Paris to take on
Sam Langford are not expected to suc
ceed, as Smith is demanding: his travel
ing expenses and a purse of $25,000.
Garpentier may get Langford if the
latter accepts a weight limit of 178
pounds.
A coast critic says: "Put old Bat Nel
son’s heart inside of Joe Rivers and he
would be the lightweight champion of
the world for the next five years."
Weighing " 46 pounds Packey McFar
land insists that he is a lightweight.
Why not admit it and let him fight Gun
boat Smith for the title?
"Battling" Lovlnsky will box ten
rounds with Bob McAllister, the clever
middleweight of San Francisco, at Mad
ison Square Garden. New York, on Jan
uary 12. A match is pending between
"Snapper" O’Neil and Jack Britton for
the same night.
The receipts for the fight between
Jack .Johnson and Jim Johnson
amounted to $5,179. Langford and Jean
nette drew $11,370 for their fight. Both
bouts were staged in Paris.
jLTlRSIG insists that he is still presi-
* *■ uent of the Nashville club, ehar-
There will be much joy water con
sumed on New Year's evening, but every
dav the National Commission meets it's
New Year Eve for the members of said
august body.
Auburn Willing
To Play Indians
Here Next Season
\ M()N(i the best players at East Lake Is the champion of the club.
George W. Adair, lie is truly a good, accurate, thoughtful player.
Auburn has accepted the offer to meet
Carlisle on an Atlanta gridiron next fall,
asking that the game tie staged two
weeks after Thanksgiving I‘ay If is
probable that the contest will be held at
either Grand Field or Roney Park
Mr.
His
chief trouble is with his wooden clubs, and is because the ascent and descent
of his club describe two different lines, and does not throw the club head
through the hall crisply enough. Mr. Tiehenor plays well, and his shots all
have a suggestion of a hook. Perry Adair shows much promise, and Mr. W.
H. Rowan is another good player with a future. I noticed several younger
men who take a deep interest in the game, and it is very important that
they in* encouraged lo play. It is good for them physically and morally,
and it insures future champions.
Wouldnt* it be fine to have the big National or Western cups in Atlanta?
Good luck!
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STROUGH TON. W1S., Dec SO.
Sever Quale, of Stoughton, has accepted
the challenge of August Raddatx, of
t’hicago. former champion walker of
Germany, to a 26-mlle hike on a six-
foot hardwood or sawdust track in some
large city Raddatz will have ihe ad
vantage in ago. Quale recently nosed
him out in a leu-ndle walk in this city.
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Said
HANS STILL A KID.
Tinker (Joe) to Wagner
(Honus)
"How do you pet a ten t-hou-
nand bnnost"
Wnpner (Ilonux) to Tinker
(Joe)
jtiHt 0 youngster, I don't
know."
Said
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Willard Stops Rodel
In Nine Rounds
NEW HAVEN. CONN.. Dec. 30.—
Jess WIllamL the Kansas City
heavyweight, who knocked out
George Rodel, a fellow "hope.'’ in the
ninth round last night, turned two
longin, anxious, hopeful eyes to-day
toward the Gunboat mith-Arthur Pel
ky row in California on New Year’s
Day.
Willard said he would try to get a|
match with the winner of the Smith-
Pelky affair, and there is no doubt
that a victory over the winner of the
Western fight woul,d put Jess in the
very forefront of the "white hopes."
and would earn for him the title of
white heavyweight champion
It was considerable of a task for
Mr. Rodel to eat anything to-day ex
cept spoon victuals as a result of the
right-han uppercuts which spoiled
his evening last nigh!.
This was the first twenty-round
fight held in the* Nutmeg State since
Young Corbett knocked out Terry
McGovern more than a decade ago.
; nd has aroused the hope that at"
last a permanent home has been
found for long distance fights in the
East. There was no interference of
anv kind from the o.ficials.
a< terizing the midnight meeting of a
majority of the Nashville club’s
stockholder's, at which he was de
posed and Vice President Clyde
Shropshire elected to succeed him, as
a rump" gathering, illegal and con
trary to the by-laws of the Nashville
club. Numerous legal decisions are
offered to support the assertion that
this meeting was illegal.
Schwartz in his answer to Hirsig
explains the Callahan-Welchonce deal
by stating that the failure of the
Nashville club to have him returned,
after being drafted in 1!>12 by Wash
ington. was due to the inability of
the Nashville club to raise the nec
essary $1,500 draft price to secure his
return to the club from which he was
drafted and to no lack of effort on
his own part to have Welchonce re
turned Schwartz published a tele
gram dated two days before Nashville
released its claim to Atlanta, in which
he asks Hirsig to meet him in Cin
cinnati. in order that they might con
fer with Garry Herrmann, of the Na
tional Commission, relative to pre
venting Washington turning the
player over to Atlanta. Schwartz was
in Cleveland, Ohio, at this time, and
offers this message «ns proof that the
deal was made without his knowl
edge.
CCHWAR'TZ als- denies responsi-
bility for the Perry-Berger trade.
claiming that he had requested Hir
sig not to make any deals while in
Atlanta.
Schwartz charges Hirsig with
being niggardly in supplying him with
players of ability around which to
build up a winning club, and charges
that when he approached Hirsig last
season he begged for new material to
bolster up his faltering machine, he
was denied any assistance by Hir
sig. who refused to heed Schwartz’s
warning that the ciub was "skating
on thin Ice," although later the Vols
took a slump from which they were
never able to recover.
TEXAS MAY MEET ILLINOIS.
URBAN A. ILL.. Dec. 30. -The base-
hall team of the University of Texas
has been offered the dates of May L
and 2 on the home schedule of the Uni
versity of Illinois baseball team.
Charlie White will make his next
scrap against Harry Donahue at Peo
ria. Ill . on January 5. White and Don
ahue will weigh 133 pounds at 6 o’clock.
Donahue is the boy who recently handed
Mickey Sheridan a neat lacing lor ten
rounds.
The Ad Wolgast-K O. Brown scrap
scheduled to take place in Milwaukee
Thursday night has been called off. The
New York lightweight has taken sick
and will not be able to fill the engage
ment.
George "Knock ’Em Dead" Brown,
the Greek middleweight from Chicago,
has landed a match with George Chip
in Pittsburg on New Year's Day. Brown,
formerly handled by Nate Lewis, is now
being managed by Larney Lichtenstein.
Joe Superior, the local bantam, would
like to get on in ore of the preliminary
bouts to the Welsh-Whitney set-to on
January Joe is particularly wild Lo
fight "Kid'’ Brooks.
Local fans are turning their atten
tion to New Orleans, where Freddie
Welsh and Johnny Dundee will mingle
for ten rounds Thursday afternoon. The
fact that Welsh will leave Immediately
after the bout for Atlanta to box Whit
ney has added much interest to the fray.
Welsh rules a 10-to-8 favorite.
Jack Dillon, the Indianapolis middle
weight. has been matched to fight Jim
my Clabby in a 20-round bout in San
Francisco on January 10 for what is
styled the middleweight championship.
How about George Chip? Dillon will al
so swing the padded mitts with Gun-
Christie in Indianapolis on New Year’s
afternoon.
Owen Moran, the English lightweight,
who was disqualified in his bout with
Joe Azvedo on the coast recently, is n<»w
on his way East. He may take part
in a few fights in New York before he
sails for home. Moran has been
matched to meet a British lad named
Kid Lewis, for 20 rounds in London
late in February.
Kid Williams, of Baltimore who has
been signed to fight Eddie Campi on
the coast for 20 rounds on February 12.
will leave for California on January 12.
After the fight with Campi Williams will
demand a light with Champion Johnny
Coulon for the bantamweight title.
By J. AY. Heisman.
X THE fall of 1892, after the “V” from a standing start had been In nsrfj
for over half a dozen years Harvard came forward with something
distinctly new—the “Flying Wedge.”
This pla.v was Invented by tt Cambridge man by name of Deland, and
was copied far and wide until legislated out of existence by the rule re
quiring that on the kick off the ball would have to be kicked an actual dis
tance of at least ten yards.
Delaud had never played football himself, but had been watching it for
fears on Soliders’ Field, and had often wondered why teams did not get
more variety Into their attack.
The first time it was ever exhibited “on any stage” was In the gam»
l)etween Harvard and Yale that year at Springfield. It fell to the lot of
the Crimson to kick off. and the Blue lined up ten yards away from the ball,
and prepared to attack the expected “V” in the usual way.
What was their amazement to see the Harvard team line up in a crazy,
new-fangled way to which there seemed to be no sense whatever. Instead "f
the center getting over the ball the Crimson quarterback was guarding it.
About 20 feet to his left and somewhat back of him was stationed the right
half, and to the rear of this latter and also back further was stationed tint
other half. And then there was an Indian file of five, and another of three,
widely separated from each other. But the queerest thing about it all wa-
the fact that the eight men in these two files did not come up to the middle
of the field and toe the scratch there, but seemed content to take station
some 20 yards back of midfield, as though they intended to have nothing
whatever to do with the ceremonies incident to the opening of hostilities.
The Yale players stared blankly, and the Yale coaches looked their college
color: no one of them could form a guess as to what might he coming off
or what should be done; the stands were awed with dumb, suppressed
excitement. The officials themselves stared and procrastinated, and asked
the Harvard and Yale captains twice each if they were ready. It appeared
Impossible that the Harvard team could be ready, but each time Captain
Dudley Dean, of Harvard, calmly insisted that he was quite ready for tl'“
dogs of war to be unleashed, and so at length the whistle sounded its
shrill blast.
A T ONCE the two lines of Harvard men started forward, seemingly aim
ing to come together at the point M. On they came, faster anil faster,
gathering momentum with each stride, but the quarter and the halves stood
stock still, while the hall had not yet moved a hair’s breadth. And until It
did move the Yale players could not charge forward; they could do nothing
but wait in anxious doubt and indecision.
But just before the right-hand column reached the point Dean, at
quarter, picked up the ball and passed it rapidly to the right half. T he
latter at once shied it over to the left half, then turned and also made fey
the point M. Meanwhile Dean, after passing the ball to the right half,
sprang forward and tumbled under Yale's right guard.
After the ball had been scraped over Dean’s toe. in fake conformity to the
kick-off requirement, it took but an instant for the two defiles of Harvard
players to effect a junction with the right half back at their apex, and will
all steam up the way they hit the Yale right tackle was something to remind
everybody of what a playful thunderbolt is like. With all that aroused
momentum it was out of the question for the defensive team to stop things
in their track, and a good 2o yards gain had been chalked off in favor of the
Crimson cohorts before Halfback Lake was finally brought to the sod.
“THfc V1CTUK
WANTS CHIP TO MEET DILLON.
TERRI. HAUTE. INI'. I'pc’. 30.-
George c'.ramir.ell. a local boxing pro
moter. telegraphed Jimmy Dime, man
ager of George Chip, offering a match
with Jack Dilion the first week in Feb
ruary.
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