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t 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 0!'. H ‘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 •I- • -J* v e *!*•*> -!•••> •!*•*!• 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 v*v **••-!* v**l* Ar+Ar *5-•4* +•+ 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! PAY ME FOR CURES ONLY l- y*« hart (mii tak'nf far w*ek« aid nonthi *«*d p«» In# y*u r ha* - * tarned mtaa> without bain* curtd dint yau think It Ip hljti tint* ta Jtaapt OS. HUGHES' GRAND OFFER’ Tau wtJ] c-riatnly no', b* out »n.» nvir* mono If not nr a Coniul tatton and (vamlnatlan ara fra# far tha na»1 thirty daya. If I dart6a that *<wr cotidUlon win m>t yiaid rr«4l-y to my treat ment. 1 «rt.i ba bonwt with y>u and tail you a... ami not arccrt >oor none? under a premia* of • cure My traatmant will paalttvaly cur* ar I will maka yaa aa ahar»« far tha taltewlag dltaaaaa WILL MEET IN LONG WALK. 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. r^uTjnr.’^'ipie* KIDNEY. BLADDER 4\D HIOOD TROUBLE. PILES. VARICOSE VELNS. FISTULA. NERVOUSNESS. WEAKNESS, RUPTU RE. ULCERS AND SKIN DISEASES. CONSTIPATION PU*t and Fistula and all Narrevp nnd Cfcronl* H f- RMumvtltm, Catarrhal Aflectiana, Ditaatrp Men and Waff*"* New arvt Chrontr t’a#** of Burning. 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Atlanta, Ga Iced not *© strlc' WHY NOT At Dmggi !«. $ bottles J'??** Cure* In 1 to .s daya unnatural disc -.arpev (v. • v.-n no pvtaooa and may i>« used full f'-eng’h abso'titoly utthont tea' Guaran- lVtrnfj rocfpyt'iv CURE YOURSELF? by par 'd poat $1 or Particula-f* with each bottle or mailed on reo*t*»st. THL EVANS CHEM'CAL COMPANY Cincinnati. O. 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 "7m 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'. 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