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Til ft ATLANTA* GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
TINKER TELLS
SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
Hurry Up; It’s Nearly Time lo Swear Off
Ei:bets’ Love for Free Advertising
Caused Ex-Cincinnati Manager
to Join Outlaws.
By Bill Bailey.
HICAGO, Dec. 31.—Joseph H.
Tinker, who hurled the mon-
^ key wrench into the wheels of
•rganized baseball when he signed a
federal League contract, made the
statement to-day that the machinery
would have gone along smoothly with
tever the slip of a cog if Charles H.
Qbbetts, the Brooklyn magnate, had
a red less for free advertising.
Much has been written about the
love of the Brooklyn magnate for
louble-headers and his celebrating
lolidays. President Herrmann, of
i he Reds, has declared also that Eb-
i>etts was seeking free advertising
when he sought Tinker for $25,000.
And now it is -Tinker who declares
hat it was the magnate’s love of
free advertising that resulted in his
signing a Federal League contract.
And it must be admitted that it was
ihe signing of Tinker and Brown that
really made the third league formid
able.
One step backward and you have
Tinker as the big fellow, for it isn’t
likely that Brawnie would have taken
the plunge along.
Here is the story as told by Tinker
to-day:
"When I read that I had been sold
to Eb'betts I wasn’t pleased,” began
Joe. “But when I heard that 1 was
to receive a cash bonus of $10,000 for
signing you can wager that my feel
ings underwent a change.
"No one can find fault with me for
going where 1 can get the most
money. If a man possesses talent he
can not be blamed if he turn it to
the best account.
Heard Nothing from Ebbets.
“I w r aited a few' dasy and heard
nothing from Ebbets. Then I tele
graphed him. I received no answer
io my message.—-d wanted to know
where I stood, whether the story of
the $10,000 bonus really went.
“I waited until I knew’ that Ebbets
was in Cincinnati. Then I wired and
asked him whether he would be in
Indianapolis on the following day.
There was no answer.
"I did not go. On the day that I
should have met him, 1 received a
telephone call from Manager Wilbert
Robinson, of the Dodgers. He told
me that Ebbets was angry because I
had wired and asked him about the
bonus and the terms.
"Then came a letter. It was from
Ebbets. He offered me a salary of
$5,000 a year for three years and the
bonus of $10,000.
‘Here is where the publicity stunt
a me in. I was to go to the National
League meeting in New’ York in Feb
ruary. The contract and the cer
tified check would be there. There
would also be a group of newspaper
photographers. There would be a lit
tle party and the check would be
photographed.
Letter Arrived Too Late.
That was the first and only time
that I heard from Ebeets. His let-1
ter was just a bit too late. The deal
with the Federal League had been
'■ompleted, and I had decided to cast
my fortune with them, even if the
contract had not been signed ”
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DUNDEE AND WHITNEV WORTHY FOES FOR WELSH
Food for Sport Fans
1 Jy GEORGE E. PHAIR.)'—
Juarez Results
FIRST—Five and one-half furlongs:
Thomas Hare 105 (Carroll), 20-1, 8-1,
LI, w’on; La Estrella 110 (Cavanaugh),
7-2, 6-5, 3-5, second: Roundup 110
Matthew^), 3-1. even, 7-10. third. Time,
07. Also ran: Summer Hill. Carona,
Ida Cook, Goddess, Stokes, Society Bird.
Leford, Oooma, Panhachapi, Auntie
Purl and Lamb’s Tall.
SECOND—Five and one-half furlongs:
Herpes 107 (Feeney), 4. 2, even, won;
Little Jane 102 (Claver), 6, 2, even, sec
ond; Chilla 102 (Carter), 4. 8-5, 4-5.
third. Time. 1:06. Also ran: Madeline
B , Tyree, Ruth Esther, Marsand, Rose
• >f Jeddah, Nila and Canapa Gimli.
THIRD—Mile and one-sixteenth:
< ’urllcue 110 (Hill). 9-5. 4-5, 2-5. won;
Hinton 96 (Metcalf), 5-2. 4-5, \-z\ sec
ond; Sleepland 110 (Smith), 20, 8. 4,
'bird. Time. 1:46 4-5. Also ran:
•Mimesis. Downland, Moonlight. Defy,
Brack Bonta. Joe Woods, Horicon and
Wise Mason.
FOURTH—Six furlongs: Irish Gen-
eman 105 (Gentry). 5-2, 7-10, 1-5. w r on:
■^oslus 98 (McDonald). 5-2. 4-5. 1-3, sec
ond: Just Red 105 (Smith), 10. 4, even,
'bird. Time, 1:13. Also ran: Sir Fret-
mi and Zim.
FIFTH—Five and one-half furlongs:
Fool o’ Fortune 108 (Gentry), 4. 6-5, 3-5,
won; Durin 103 (McDonald), 12. 4. 2,
econd; Old Gotch 105 (Feeney), 7-2.
-5. 3-5. third. Time. 1:06 1-5. Also
• an: Dusky Dave, Ceos, Silver Tone,
-tevesta and Muy B t uena.
SIXTH—One mile: Loween 100 (Cla-
er), 6, 2, even, won; Swish 100 (Mc
Donald), 6, 2, even, second; Butter Ball
05 (Gentry), 6, 2. even, third. Time.
37 3-5. Also ran: Amon, Siguard.
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By O. B. Keeler.
H ERE is yet another chapter in
that more or less absorbing
serial story, “Where Is Kid
Elberfeld At?”
The report now’ emanates from
Pelicanville that the Pepper Kid may
not play for any of the Somers ball
clubs, let alone managing the Peli
cans. It was for that job that Count
Castro, telephoning from The Geor
gian office the night of the last day
of last season, ostensibly signed the
Kid to Charley Frank, f
The first grumble of the well-known
Dogs of War was heard w’hen Frank’s
connection with the New Orleans club
was severed.
• • •
THEN there w’as a row about the
1 stipend.
It is said that Somers offered to
use the Kid. the New’ Orleans job
passing with C. Ffcank, on one of his
other ball clubs at the same salary
Frank had signed him for.
That was whera the trouble came
in. Frank insists that the stipend
was to have been $3,250 for the sea
son. Elberfeld’s impression was $4,500.
Also, Elberfeld asserted he wouldn’t
take any less.
* * *
THE Pepper Kid evidently had an
* eye on the new Somers club at
Portland. But Mr. Somers had other
ideas. Then Johnny Dobbs, also a
Somers protege, was put in command
of the Pels, and there evidently was
American Golfers
To Try for British
1914 Championship
NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—Four Ameri
can golfers—Jerome D. Travers, Fred
Herreschoff. Francis Ouimet and Hein
rich Schmidt—have decided to try for
British amateur golf championship for
1914, according to announcement here.
They will leave for England early in
the spring.
“Ouimet was quoted here to-day as
saying: “I may never get another op
portunity and I intend to make the
most of it. 1 am planning to start for
England early in April to get used to
conditions and surroundings.''
Fred Lake Arranges
Games With Pilgrims
BOSTON, Dec. 3*.-«-Fred Lake, who
is to manage the Fitchburg club in
the New England League next season,
has arranged two exhibition games
for Fitchburg on the morning and
afternoon of April 20. when Patriots’
Day will be celebrated, with the
strong semi-pro nine that Chick Mc
Laughlin. the former Harvard cap
tain. is to organize next season. Mc
Laughlin's team will play under the
name of the Pilgrims and expects to
arrange games with several of the
other New*England League clubs be-
before the opening of the champion
ship season.
no place on the payroll for the Kid.
As a matter of fact, it appears El
berfeld w’as on the Chattanooga re
serve Jist w’hen he "signed” with
Frank, and if that was the case, the
contract wasn’t worth the physical
exertion it took the Kid to sign it,
as he wasn’t eligible to talk business
with any other club.
Of course, it was Elberfeld’s idea
that he w’as a free agent. *
The question is, where is he at?
Also, will the Southern League lose
Us scrappy little pet?
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I N the meantime, the astute J^Dobbs
1 and the equally shrewd prexy, A.
J. Tleinemann, axe scraping together
a ball club that is hot going to finish
in the cellar—we’ll make that predic
tion this far ahead.
Big Jim Baskette, sometime slab
operator in the American Association,
and later with Cleveland, has been
shunted down to the Pels, and he
ought to be a tower of strength,
•something on the Coveleskie order,
to that bunch. Bill Lindsay, of the
Coast League, is going to play third
base# and with Jakey Atz at short
or second, the infield has already
rounded well into shape. That warm
favorite of the Atlanta fans, “Finis”
Wilson, who wrote “finis” with a
stout left hand under Mobile’s pen
nant chances last season, will doubt
less revoke some of his Atlanta popu
larity when he works here next sea
son. although he’ll always be a hero.
Take it all around, New Orleans is
looking up—what?
Red Sox Release
Six Players; Hall
Only Veteran to Go
BOSTON, Dec. 31.—Secretary Reilly,
of the Boston Americans, announced
last night that six players have been
sent to minor league clubs Charles
Hall, pitcher, was the only veteran to
he let out. He was released to the St.
Paul American Association.
Grover Cleveland Brant, a pitcher,
goes to Beaumont. Texas, and First
Baseman Mundy, formerly of the Nor
folk. Va., club, will play next season
in Worcester.
The Boston National management has
I signed for next season Jack Martin, a
j pitcher, formerly of the New York
Americans, and later with Rochester,
of the International League, and Rich
ard L. Crutcher, a pitcher from the St.
Joseph club, of the Western League.
GOLFERS AT PINEHURST.
PINEHURST, N. C.. Dec. 31.—As the
result of yesterday’s play In the annual
holiday golf tournament. Henry V. Heg-
german. Englewood; C. L Becker.
Woodland; B. F. Merriman Waterbury!
and W. E. Truesdell, Foxhills, will com
pete in to-day’s semi-finals. Seggeman
is matched with Becker, and Merriman
with Truesdell.
HERZOG SECURES CATCHER.
CINCINNATI. Dec. 31— Manager Her
zog. of the Cincinnati National League
team, to-day wired President August
Herrmann that he had signed a college
catcher named Frank Mellen. who had
played with the St. John’s College
team.
FAILS TO MAKE MATCH.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31.—Promoter
Tom McCarey announced last night that
he had given up his effort to match
Jimmy Ciabby*and Jack Dillon.* He
will await the coming of Larney Lich
tenstein. Ciabby's new’ manager.'
By Left Hook.
F IEDDIE WELSH, the British ti-
Whitney at the Auditorium-Ar-
Whitney at the Audtorium-Ar-
mory on January 6. is to face a tough
foe in Johnny Dundee, the Eastern
Sensation, at New Orleans to-morrow
afternoon. Dundee is piling up a
wonderful record this year, and many
of theiwise ones are picking him as a
coming champion.
To-morrow, however, Dundee will
be up against a past master at the art
of boxing. Freddie Welsh is one of
the old students of the game, and
should give Dundee a boxing lesson
for ten rounds. Johnny , is one of
those aggressive fighters who always
keeps coming, and is a glutton for
punishment. He also has a funny
style of jumping in the air when
landing a blow’, which makes it hard
for his opponents to solve his style.
But Welsh knows too much for John
ny, and after the first few rounds we
art; looking for the Englishman to
roll up enough points to give him :i
good shade.
A defeat at this time will be a se
vere blow for either boy. Welsh has
his heart set on beating Dundee and
then coming to Atlanta for his whirl
with Frank Whitney. The British
champion is out to force Willie
Ritchie into a fight with him, and
hopes to eliminate both Dundee and
Whitney before taking a long trip to
the coast. Freddie has picked out
two tough boys, and if he succeeds ir.
beating them his feat will be deserv
ing of much credit.
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^EITHER Welsh nor Dundee* has
^ been defeated so far this year.
Each is anxious to complete the 1913
campaign with a clean slate, and it is
interesting to see which of the two
will be successful.
After J-'redcUe gets through trading
Wallops with Dundee, he wiP board a
rattler for Atlanta to mix matters
with Whitney. Welsh has already
beeh tipped off to the “Fighting Car
penter." and v.’ill not be caught nap
ping when he steps into the ring at
the Auditorium-Armory on the night
of January 6. Charlie White and
“Battling" Nelson have both Informed
Welsh of Whitney’s fighting qualities,
and they should know. White and
Nelson have fought the very best in
the boxing game, and words of praise
from them mean much.
* * *
\17ELSH will not have to do much
** work here, as he will be in fair
ly good shape from training for his
go with Dundee. Freddie has been
working in New O leans for ten days,
and reports from the Pelican City
state that thr* Briton looks better than
ever in hijClife.
Harry Pollok, manager of Welsh
thinks that his protege is fighting
better now than on his former visit to
this country. Pollok stopped off fora
short stay Monday afternoon on his
way to New Orleans, and had a few
words to say about Freddie. Pollok
has been Welsh’s manager for years,
and stated that Welsh wllL.urely beat
Ritchie is he <n < r gets the American
champion into the ring with him.
Pollok said that Ritchie proved he
didn’t want‘ any of Welsh’s game
when he ducked out of that Vancou
ver match. Ever since that day Welsh
has been claiming the lightweight
championship, as Willie ran out of the
bout after he had already posted n
forfeit.
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“I WILL let Welsh meet Ritchie at
any date, and will also get a
club to stage the go,” stated Pollok
when here. “J have a club in Lon
don that will give a $25,000 purse for
the mill, which is more than the boys
can get on this side. Ritchie will ac
cept these terms if he i.. a real cham
pion. but I doubt it. He met Welsh
on the Coast once, and I don't think
wants any more of his game,” con
tinued the little manager.
Pollok expects to force Ritchie into
a match when he arrives on the Coast
after meeting Whitney here. He did
not want to speak much of getting
Ritchie yet*, as he realizes that Wels.i
has two tough customers to dispose of
first in Johnny Dundee and Frank
Whitney. Pollok has had enough ex
perience in the boxing, game to know
what it means to-count your chickens
before they are hatched.. Upsets are
frequent in the pugilistic world, amt
who hut knows that Dundee or Whit
ney may spring the surprise of lhe
fistic year? -
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ALTHOUGH the writer does not
know much about Dundee, one
thing is certain—the latter’s record
gives one reason to believe that he
has the class of a. top-notcher and
should make things interesting for
the foreign star.
In Whitney Welsh will be facing
one of the most determined ringmen
in the game. Always willing and ag
gressive. the “Fighting Carpenter’s#
style of fighting is well liked in At
lanta. Too much can not be said of
Frank, as he has always lived up
to advance press notices when boxing
here. He will have all his old sup
porters rooting for him when the
gong sounds in the first round calling
him to the center of the ring to meM
the British wonder.
“DI'BK" GOLDBERG, the New
York cartoonist, will probably
be the third man in the ring. Welsh
and Whitney hf^re practically agreed
on him to referee. Goldberg will be
at the Forsyth during the week of
the bout, and there should be llttlo
trouble in getting him to act as the
official.
Matchmaker Castro announce!
yesterday that Whitney Is expected
to arrive here some time to-day.
Tickets were ser f to the Cedar Rap
ids boy Tuesday. Frank will imme
diately open training quarters and
finish working out for Welsh.
SPORTING COMMENT
By Ed W. Smith.
\ 70U usually can depend upon
V the Hgrhters to comp to the
front from time to time
with something entirely new.
Here's the yarn of a fight pro
moter who put he gloves on
with an aspirant for a fight at his
club and injured him so severely
that the tighter couldn’t work.
The fight promoter ia Billy
Haack, of Memphis, who also acts
as referee in all battles before
tile Southern Athletic Club of
that place. The unfortunate
fighter is Willie Rothwell, of
Brooklyn.
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D OTHWELl is no relation to
1N - the original Willie, who was
known to the ring as Young Cor
bett, the first man to whip Terry
McGovern. But when he landed
In Memphis he claimed to lie the
same sort of a. fighter. Haack
wanted a young man of about his
size and matched him at once
with Cleve Bridges' the young
man who,battled Jack White in
Memphis the other night. They
were to have gone on a coup!:'
of weeks ago, leut Haack rattier
doubted Rothweil's standing as .1
fighter and took a novel means of
finding out whether his suspi
cions were correct.
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“I F he can’t lipk me, he can’t
1 lick anybody,” remarked th<*
willing Haack. who can go a trifle
himself w’ith the gloves. So drop
ping around to the gymnasium
one afternoon. Haack offered to
put‘the gloves on with Rothwell
“just for a little exercise." The
unsuspecting Rothwell was
pleased, but his feelings changed
a few minutes later for Haack
tore into him and with a well-
BUSINESS.
I rent ember, / remember
When baseball was a sport.
The magnates never threatened Ihen
To drag it into court.
But when the pastime waxed and
grew,
And people learned to love it.
Get-rieh-quteh- men came bulling in
And made a business of it.
A diagnosis of baseball reveals the
fact that It is afflicted with fatty de
generation of the bank account.
Looking over the expert dope, we find
that as usual the dying year has been
the greatest In the history of sport. It
always is.
The report that Arthur Pelky is train
ing in secret reminds us that Bill
Squires also trained that way.
Training a near-champion In private
has a twofold purpose. It serves as a
press agent stunt and It prevents the
K ubllc from learning what a fearful dub
e is.
Mordy Brown has volunteered to play
in St. Louis, but he has the satisfac
tion of knowing that he will not be
connected with the Browns or Cardinals.
There are several bright spots to be
found in the year of Our Lord 1913.
For instance, Frank Gotch wrestled only
once
One* of the most startlfhg features of
the last year is t#at Sam Langford and
Joe Jeannette met on only two oc
casions. In this respect the year was
far behind the average.
The last argument between Messrs.'
Langford and Jeannette drew $11,370.
showing that Paris also has a birth rate
of one per minute.
Some of the athletes on the world’s
tour were afflicted with mal de /per.
This is due to ihe fact that their stom
achs are not accustomed to anything
richer than free lunch during the off
season.
While Sam Crawford was not at home
on the ocean, he demonstrated later
that he is a whale on dry land.
WAR.
Oh, to fie a lawyer.
And with the lawyers stand.
While baseball magnates sea tier
wealth
About the blessed land.
If Mr. Bryan is not too busy with his
Chautauqua dates it behooves him to
bust Into the baseball imborgllo and
pour arape juice on the trouble waters.
The White Sox will open the season
with the Browns, thereby getting a run
ning start toward the top.
New York’s boxing commission did
well to declare Bob Fitzsimmons too
old to re-enter the ring. Why. he Is
almost as old as Jimmy Sheckard!
Mr. Fitzsimmons, however, will be
amply avenged. He threatens to re
nounce his American citizenship and
leave the U. S. A. tlat on Its back.
directed right to the jaw sent
Rothwell spinning to the mat.
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FURTHER than that, when
J Rothwell jumped to his feet,
he didn’t have the wild rage of
the real fighter shining in his eye.
Instead he turned about and shot
out of the ring, holding his jaw
with both hands. It Is needless
to remark that the Rothwell
match was called off at once.
That’s how Jack White came to
get the engagement In Memphis
Haack isn’t a big fellow, but he
is “all horse.’’ He is thinking of
making himself the regular trial
horse for the club.
Ed Konetchy Will
Report to Pirates
PITTSBURG, Dec. 31.—The state
ment emanating from St. Louis that
Ed Konetchy. the star first baseman
secured by the Pirates from the Car
dinals, wag “sore” and might jump to
the Federal League, is classed as th<?
veriest bunk by President Barney
Drey fuss, of the Pittsburg club.
"Konetchy will play for Pittsburg,”
said Dreyfuss “1 am as certain of
this as I am that I am alive. Before
we made the deal with Messrs. Brit
ton and Huggins we were sure of out-
ground. We knew that Konetchy
wanted to play in Pittsburg and that
there will be no trouble over Salary |
matters.”
Dreyfuss was asked concerning the
report that the "Big Train” was paid
at the rate of $6,2 * • last season.
“The question of salary is one tha!
concerns only the player and the club
owner,” was the reply. “I will say,
however, that when the time comes a
settlement will be effected without
trouble.”
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