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7 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. You Have a Right to Think Many Things You Have No Right to Say TINKER TELLS SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT Hurry Up; It’s Nearly Time to Swear Off Ebbets’ Love for Free Advertising Caused Ex-Cincinnati Manager to Join Outlaws. By Bill Bailey. C HICAGO, Dec. 31.—Joseph H. Tinker, who hurled the mon key wrench into the wheels of organized baseball when he signed a Federal League contract, made the statement to-day that the machinery would have gone along smoothly with never the slip of a cog If Charles H. Ebbets, the Brooklyn magnate, had cared less for free advertising. Much has been written about the 3ove of the Brooklyn magnate for double-headers and his celebrating holidays. President Herrmann, of the Reds, has declared also that Eb bets was seeking free advertising when he sought Tinker for $25,000. And now it is Tinker who declares that 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 irhe signing of Tinker and Brown that really made the third league formid able. One step backward and you have Tinker as the big fellows for It isn’t likely that Brownie would have taken the plunge along. Here is the story as told by Tinker to-day: “When 1 read that l had been sold to Ebbets I wasn’t pleased,” began .Toe. “But when I heard that T 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 I can get the most money. If a man possesses talent he can not be blamed if he turns it to the best account. Heard Nothing From Ebbets. “I waited a few days and heard nothing from Ebbets. Then I tele graphed him. I received no answer to my message. I 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, I 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 came in. I was to go to the National League meeting in New 7 York in Feb- I 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 Ebbets. His let- j ter was just a bit too late. The deal with the Federal League had been completed, and I had decided to cast my. fortune with them, even if the contract had not been signed.” And there you are. If the owner of the Dodgers had met Tinker on that Sunday in Indianapolis and had placed the check for $10,000 in front of him the chances are that it would have been in Joe’s pocket and his sig nature attached to a contract within s fe wminutes. For at that time Tinker didn’t know what arrange ment he would make with the Fed- erals IFTVtKr ainiT Hfcftp-"/ siTriwa office VJO irw THW STEt J OG'RM>«E'R- I'fA A LIAR.- LOOK. AT TVtE CRAd KIODIN6- \JJITM MCP- \‘U. CALC IVAT MOMBGR AHO Scare him Jiu>-y KELCO 30&0 VIOLET? MR MMPSOfJ PLEASE- VNtfl! rUCR-E ? 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Dec. 31.—There was lively betting here to-day on the Leach Gross-Bud Anderson fight, which takes Face to-morrow afternoon. Cross has been made the favorite by his New York friends and they are freely wager ing that the Bowery dentist will again whip Anderson. > most pleasing and popular V» •izea Ide filler Collars for 25c * r e easy to pnt on and take off—perfect fit- lB S—comfortable—durable. Hare—excln- sirely—Linocord Unbreakable Buttonholes. CARLTON SHOE & CLGIHiNG iO. By 0. 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. The first grumble of the well-known Dogs of War was heard when Frank’s connection with the New Orleans club was severed. * * • THEN there was a row about the * stipend. It is said that Somers offered to use the Kid, the New Orleans job passing with C. Frank, on one of his other ball clubs at the same salary Frank had signed him for. That was where 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 ide-as. Then Johnny Dobbs, also a Somers protege, was pi;t in command of the Pels, and there evidently was no place on the payroll for the Kid. As a matter of fact, it appears El berfeld was on the Chattanooga re serve list when 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 ho was a free agent. The question Is, where is he at? Also, will the Southern League lose Its scrappy little pet? * * * JN the meantime, the astute Dobbs * and the equally shrewd prexy, A. J. Heinemann, are scraping together a ball club that is not going to finish in the collar—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, 4 New Orleans is looking up—what? ‘Fighting Carpenter' Arrives To-day for Go With British Champion DUNDEE AND WHITNEY WORTHY FOES FOR WELSH Food for Sport Fans 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 1 intend to make tha 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- beforo the opening of the thampion- siup season, 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 ciubs. Charles Hall, pitcher, was the only veteran to be let out. He was released to the St. Haul American Association. Grover Cleveland Brant, a pitcher, goer to Beaumont, Texas, and First Baseman Mundy. formerly of the Nor folk. Ya. f club, will play next season in Worcester. The Boston National management has signed for next season Jack Martin, a pitcher, formerly of the New York Americans, and later with Rochester of the Internationa: 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. Seg- german, Englewood; C. L Becker Woodland; B F. Merriman, Waterbury’ and W. E. Truesdell, Foxhllls. 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 be had given up his effort to match .Timm* 7 Clahby and Jack Dillon He will await the coming of Larney Lich- tenaijua, Clabby’a new manager. Bv Left Hook. F IEDDIE WELSH, the British ti- tie holder, who meets Frank Whitney at the Auditorium-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 manv of the wise 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 kno vs too much for John ny, and after the first few 7 rounds we are looking for the Englishman to roll up enough points to give him a good shade. A defea: at this time will be a se vere blow for cither boy. Welsh iias 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. * * * N "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 Freddie gets through trading wallops with Dundee, he w 7 ill board a rattler for Atlanta to mix matters with Whitney. Welsh has already been tipped off to the “Fighting Car penter,” and will not be caught nap ping when he steps into the ring at the Auditorium-A rmory 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. • • • W ELSH will not have to do much work here, as he will be in fa’r- ly good shape from training for his go with Dundee. Freddie has been working in New Orleans for ten days, and reports from the Pelican City state that the Briton looks better than ever in his life. Harry Pollok, manager of Welsh, thinks that his >rotege is fighting better now than on his former visit to this country. Pollok stopped off for a 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 will surely beat Ritchie if he ever 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 sine 7 - that day Welsh has been claiming the lightweight chamnuoifthla .Willla ran ouPof th# bout after he had already posted a forfeit. * * * “I WILL let Welsh meet Ritchie at any date, and will also get a club to stage the go,” stated Pollok when here. “I 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 ho i.> a real cham pion, but I doubt it. He met Welsh on the Coast once, and I don't think he 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 Welsn 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, and who but knows that Dundee or Whit ney may spring the surprise of the fistic year? •* * * * ALTHOUGH the writer does not know much about Dundee, one thing is certain—-the latter * record gives one reason to believe that he has the class of a top-notrher 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 Carpenters’ 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 me^t the British wonder. “DUBE" GOLDBERG, the New York cartoonist, will probably be the third man in the ring. Welsh and Whitney have practically agreed on him to referee. Goldberg will be at the Forsyth during thf week of the bout, and there should be littlo trouble in getting him to .act as the official. Matchmaker Castro announced yesterday that Whitney Is expected to arrive here some time to-day. SPORTING COMMENT By Ed W. Smith. \ 70U usually can depend upon Y the fighters to oome to the front from time to time with something entirely new. Here’s the yarn of a fight pro moter who put the gloves on with an aspirant for a fight at his club and injured him so severely that the fighter couldn’t work. The fight promoter is Billy Haack, of Memphis, w 7 ho also acts as referee in ail battles before the Southern Athletic Club of that place. The unfortunate fighter is Willie Rothwell, of Brooklyn. • • IJ OTHWELl is no relation to 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 be 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 couple of weeks ago, but Haack rather doubted Rothwell’g standing as a fighter and took a novel means of finding out w'hether his suspi cions were correct. • * • “I F he can’t lick me, he can’t 1 . lick anybody,” remarked the willing Haack, who can go a trifle himself with 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 Lore into him (jn1 with a well- directed right to the Jaw sent Rothwell spinning to the mat. • • • FURTHER than that, when 1 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 w r as called off at oiice. That’s how Jack White came to get the engagement In Memphis Haack isn’t a big fellow, but he is “all horse.” Hp 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, wa» “sore” and might jump to the Federal League, is classed as the veriest bunk by President Barney Dreyfuss, of the Pittsburg club. “Konetchy will play for Pittsburg.' said Dreyfuss. “I am as certain of this a» I am that I am alive. Before we made the deal with Messrs. Brit ton and Huggins we were sure of our 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 $6,250 last season. “The question of salary is one thal concerns only the player and the club owner," was the reply. “I will say, how’ever, that when the time comes a settlement will be effected without trouble,” BUSINESS. / remember, / remember When baseball was a sport. The. magnates never threatened then To drag it into court. But when the pastime wared, and prey?, And people learned to lore it, (Jet-rirh-quick men came butting in And made a business of it. A diagnosis of basetfall 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 cireatest 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 public from learning what a fearful dub he 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 startling features of the last year is that 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 mr*r This is due to the 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 un the ocean, he demonstrated later that he is a whale on dry land. WAR. Oh. to be a lawyer. And with the lawyers stand. While baseball magnates scatter wealth About the blessed land. If Mr. Bryan Is not too busy with his Chautauqua dates it behooves him to bust Into the baseball imborglio and pour grape 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. flat on its back. Piedmont stands alone—far above all imitators—the highest grade cigarette ever sold for the price. In quality of tobacco and workman ship it is always absolutely uniform— always pleasing and satisfying—always ripe, rich and mellow. 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