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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. YaLicle 1 k r ille Actors Will I3e H appy When Ball Players Decide to Stic k to the Diamond •<Q EQMLAM S' PORTS' COVERED ] EXPERTS'* C3CTJ C-T3 |j]7 The Bunch Wishes All a Happy New Year ------- jBy i Bud ) Fisher TO PRES. HIK "Boy Manager" Explains the Welchonce-Callahan Deal; Also Talks of Perry Trade. N ^XSHVILI.E. Dec 31 ManaK-r Schwartz save out the follow ing; statement last night in re ply to President Hirsig* article of Saturday afternoon. As is well known. Harry Wei- ; chonce was drafted in 1912 by Wash ington. Then, prior to the American ; Association meeting, which was held! in November a! Milwaukee, Mr. Far- , rell, secretary of the National Com- j mission, issued a bulletin whereby all j cla ms for drafted players by the ma jors would have to be filed by Feb ruary 1, 1913. 1 advised Mr. Hirsig j at this meeting to claim player Wel- chonce, which, as we all know, was not done. I suppose it was either an oversight of Mr. Hirslg's, or he! thought the national agreement rul- | ig which reads that all ('lass A players drafted by the majors were, to be turned back to dubs from which ; the\ were drafted, still prevailed. 'In .January. Mr. Hirsig wrote me of the Callahan proposition and. j knowing that the Nashville <*lub wa- absolutely without funds, for at tin end of the season thej were unable j to pay me jny salary and I agreed t*> 1 accept a one-year note for $1,000, which is still unpaid, and also labor ig under the impression that Calla h»n would be given to the Nashville dub for claim on Welchonce, I then wrote the letter which Mr. Hirsig published. • • • af w coining to Nashville for spring! ^ ’raining in 1013 I was surmised to hud that Mr. Hirsig had failed to j file claim for Welchonce and that Atlanta was boasting of 'putting one ver’ on the Nashville club. We then immediately explained our position in the matter to Secretary Farrell, who at once recognized our claim and put it in his next bulletin We were still In doubt as to our rights in the case and as a precaution I asked Del Young to write Welchonce warning him against signing an Atlanta con tract if he was turned over to that flub by Washington. This fact will be substantiated by both Young and Welchonce. 1 consented to negotia ting with Atlanta for Callahan be cause we were not sure whether Wel chonce could be brought back here and. in case we lost him. I wanted to get another good outfielder. “Atlanta still persisted in their claim that Welchonce was their prop erty and tliis fact so irritated us that we decided to stand pat and hold our ground “About this time 1 was called to Cleveland, Ohio by the death of my mother, and while in that city I had a conference with Mr. Bernard, vice president of the Cleveland baseball club, and he assured me that there was no doubt that we would get Wel chonce by appealing to Mr. Herr mann or the commission. “After receiving this encouraging • nformatlon I immediately wired President Hirsig as follows: '“March 2S. 1912. W. G. Hirsig. President Nashville Ball Club, Nash - vilb . Tenn : Can not leave before Monday. Will see Herrmann at Cin cinnati on Welchonce matter. If pus- sibc meet me there Wire me at Akron. WILLIAM SCHWARTZ.’ * • • *< r T'llS telegram can bo suhstan- t t a ted by Mr Bloomsbein at the Western I’nion >fflce, from whom l received the above copy yesterday afternoon It was my purpose to hold on to opr claim for Welchonce and land h in as soon as poaviible, but 1 was surprised tu receive a tele gram from Mr. Hirsig two or three days later stating that the Callahan- Welchonce deal had been mode. 1 was always a warm admirer of Welohonce's ability as a player, and 1 he rea n the world I eyer considered getting rid of him was on account of the condition of ihe treas ury of the Nashville basebe.ll club. • • * *»1\ referring to the Perry-Berger 1 trade. Mr Hirsig lays particular stress on the fact that I had been willing to part with Perr. prior to his action in Atlanta. This Is no se cret and has no bearing on the dis pute at all Had I been able to bet ter my ball club with certain trades 1 would have been glad to trude Per- r\\ and i had even considered trad ing him to clubs in this league. That was a matter that was strictly up to my judgment. But Mr. Hirsig does not state in his article that Mobile wired us right after the Columbus meeting that they would be willing to - vc $200 and Berger for Perry, and T hat I refused to consider the deal This was nearly a month before the Perry deal was made, and we had no further conversation on the matter. • • » “|\ respect to Mr. Hirsig.« recent 1 conversion to the fact that 1 was per laps not the best manager he could secure a fact that I am fully a*a:e of. I would not like the im pression to become prevalent that 1 diti not attempt to strengthen my 1 lub last year or that I thought it to be good enough, even when we were winning during the first month. In fact while w e were ill second place. I went to him with one of the advisory board and told him we were skating >n thin icc. and that T realized the bub ought to be strengthened in or der to maintain its position in the f r '’ division. He treated the matter And said that the team would . there w th the mater.al we bad. "1 n-.a tb s statement to show the '■ 4n " where l have stood over these matters, and also to bring out certain ‘ ic s that seem to have been over- »c*ried b; M: Hirsig. No one regrets ? te Troubles 'hat have arisen more ian myself ,»> my relations with Mr H rsig had been of the most friendly A.incL> i’u. wtie yousg £AY THg tousey SUce Biep 1 ' OlAlCSj AND t NAwe you Dinner, in thg sei*rr PrAtC N r^?. VtAR SPIRIT I tvaro \ UT ' 5 <^0 APol-©M£S—To CorypiaKT- t 0'3 fiy Ce> - Atvl V8oPy. PROPERTY RE NASHVILLE Hirsig Declares That He Has Never Been Able to Secure Waivers on Him. BOXING News of the Ring Game old FITZ. It in on undent warrior. He ntoppith not a clock • Time won. he'd take thin While Hope j Famous Plays—By Heisman r • v v • v v • *1* • v No. 3—The Old Guards' Back By J. W. Heisman. j ELDOAI. indeed, nowadays, do we see any such bucking and running mnr tin ft nhm hr d no noth to do, | with the ball by linemen ns we used to se* 1 in the olden days of the i fid slop the whole bum flock. w BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip 15V lac Nr c. N ASHVIT,1,B, TENN, Dec. In Bumming up t lie tcrial left over from season baseball fans have p rally overlooked the fact that 31.— m a - last gen- Artl Just why this popular and effective method of advancing the ball has fallen into decadence I can not say, for certain it is that It. is quite as possible to make good ground by using a guard or a tackle to gain ground with the ball as anybody else, provided the num is good, the formation correct and the ground dry. But outside of tin* Tech team hardly any eleven In the South ever uses the rattles when he gets a punch in the a lineman for this purpose; and neither do many- of the Northern or jaw.’ This Is not exactly the truth. J Eastern teams, though once upon a time Heffleflnger, Cowan, Winter, Dill, Cranston, Bowser and a host of the star linemen were about as much relied Hofman. former Cub and Pirate star, j who finished the year with the local elub, is still on the Nashville roster. I ntil otherwise disposed of, Hofman must be considered a member of the team, although last season he ex pressed a desire that he be allowed to go to the coast next season, where he could demand a much larger salary for ids services and also play several more months during tne year Artie signed with Nashville through personal friendship for Bill Schwartz, and it can not be said that he didn't do all within his power to lift the Vols from their lowly position next to the bottom. He didn’t succeed, but the fans saw that he was playing his best, ami before the season closed practically all of *hc bleacherites were Artie's strong admirers. It is understood that Manager Schwarts would be glad enough to let him go to the coast if lie could bo gotten out of this league. • • • UOFMAN is not desirous of retwrn- 1 1 ing to Nashville, according to his own statement, but Just how he can keep from it if he can not be gotten out of the league 1* hard to sav. Should Mr. Hirsig win nut in the courts in the present squabble, it is stated that he is desirous of bring ing Hofman here as a manager, as he has already stated that Schwartz will not return if he retains control. Hofman is now wintering at his home at Akron, Ohio, awaiting what ever disposition shall be made of him and it is rumored that if things don’t go to suit him he'll sign up with Joe Tinker or Mordecai Brown, his old teammates, in the Federal League. Artie has always had a desire to fight the “baseball trust" ami could do it no better than to align himself with the Feds, who seem to be in a fair wav to achieve success this season. He admires Tinker as much as any man in baseball and there is no doubt of the fact that he would like to play witti him again. • • TJi‘FM AN’S roa»; in organized base- * * ball has been none too smooth since he instituted a $3,000 suit against President Murphy, of the Cubs, for salary due him after he was trailed to Pittsburg The suit is still l ending in the courts, but it is said that Hofman has a good chance to win Rut for this suit, it i« the general opinion that Artie would still be in the big leagues, for he is undoubtedly one of the brainiest and wisest out fielders in the game, although not as young as he once was. However, there are a number of clubs, includ ing the Browns and Cards, that could use a man of his ability, yet they nnsented to let Pittsburg send him <' ' of the majors, thereby hinting largely at a "frameup." If members of the boxing commission are honest about wanting to keep Fitz in his grave clothes they should take steps to prevent Fred McKay from pub lishing any more challenges. There is a limit to the old man’s endurance. * * • Mr. Fitzsimmons says that “the av erage fighter nowadays gets a case of i the rattles when he gets H punch in the jaw.” This Is not exactly the truth, lie g* ts a case of rattles at the thought of getting a punch in the jaw. > • * • And then, if you want to think try j upon as the backs in this respect, to figure how bad Fitz is to-day if Bill | * * * * Bang could knock him out four years , .. . .... , ,, . . . , f ago. i —OW it is trtio Hint running a lineman could not be thought of on a |V| wet Held, for the reason that starting from one’s position on the line and turning sharply around the quarterback calls for a very short turn, especially if it is the guard who is to run with the ball; and .such a turn can not be negotiated on wet or slippery footing. Rut on a dry Held an agile man can. with good cleats, make the turn with no difficulty; and him once in a while will give the backs a rest, while, at the same tun Coffey says that ”I<evtnsky is the only boy I ever had to bunt for when I wanted to start a punch.’ In some vague way this recalls the story of the hunter who brought the hear hack to camp hv staying a scant ten yards In front all the way. • • • Wo are pleased to note that Paris has charged Jack Johnson with faking. Paris being the only civilized commun ity up to this time that has not charged him with something. * * * “In Paris.” said Jack Johnson recent ly." they called me the “invincible.” Also, “faker” and “bum.' Young Saylor and Rav Bronson, the American fighters who have landed iti Australia, have already been signed up for bouts at Sydney. Savior is to meet another American fighter. Pal Brown, of Minnesota, for 110 rounds on next Monday night, while Bornson will go j against Johnny Summers, the English I welterweight champion, on I January 1* | usin time, it is >i play so widely at variance with till those involving the use of ia back to carry the ball that the play constitutes an added difficulty for the defense both in the way of diagnosis and proper set and charge to stop j the thing: it makes a good variant. This piny as used by all the big teams of the East twenty and mortr years ago was usually worked from a normal formation of both the line and the backs; indeed, in those days we had hardly any other formation for any kind of play. The fullback was slightly forward of the two halves, and this formed a good set of the backs for end running and many other popular plays as well. w Jack “Sapper O’Neil, the clever En glish lightweight, who made good In Bis debut in this country by winning In decisive fashion from Fred Hslsland in New York, has been matched to fight Johnny Marvel, the Gotham lad. in New York on New Year's afternoon. • * * Freddie Welsh is receiving offers al - ! most daily and could box twice a week j so far as the promoters are concerned. His latest offer is from Salt Bake City to meet Gilbert Gallant the Boston < lightweight. January 16. lie has offers | to box at Memphis January 4 and ut Milwaukee January' -0 The constant knocking Jess Willard received at the hands of the many box ing experts around the country must have done the Kansas City heavyweight much good. Jess stopped George Rodel In nine rounds at New Haven. Conn., the other night, and is now In line for a match with the winner of the Smith- Pel ky go at San Francisco to-morrow. ELL, on the iustant of the snapping of the ball these three backs, maintaining carefully their relative positions with reference to each other, all plunged right at the back of their own tackle, about | forming a splendid interference for the left guard coming behind. The right half watched that tin* opposing left end did not get in too far and get | the runner, while the left half primarily helped the right guard handle the opposing guard. The right tackle and end united to turn the opposing tackle out, and if they needed more help the fullback promptly gave it to them. After stuffing the ball into the left guard’s stomach the quarter caught him by the left arm and swung him around with a “crack-the-whip” swing and helped him to turn short in. At the same time the left end abruptly deserted his place off the line and came around behind also. Being a faster man than the guard, it was no trick at all for him to put his hands on the guard’s hips and shove with all his might just as the guard hit the opposing rush-line. And may lx? those two, coming like a double locomotive on a freight train, couldn’t jam things over a fellow! The left tackle jumped into the guard’s place and took off his man so as to prevent the latter from nabbing the runner from behind, and th«n he cut on through to meet the play over ou the other side of center. N‘ OW this formation, and tho interference as told above, has all the ele ments of the best modern football, hence. I say, it is difficult to understand why it is no longer used. Of course not all teams of a quarter of a century ago had all the details as thoroughly worked out as 1 have here explained them, but the best teams aimed to perform the play Frank Baker rot himself tn bait with j this way; and with the weak defense of that day I can tell you that the local fans when he had a false report play was a whale. Why. Ueffletinger at left guard for Yale. Cranston at flaffney e at‘Sala.o week 111 Krank i r !« ht - ninr, ‘ ( f or Harvard Bowser at left guard for Penn and Winter at was In line for a match with Mike Saul , right guard for Tale used to make as much ground on this play as the at the Auditorium on January t>. but he backs averaged. Ueffletinger in particular was a perfect demon and. after stands little chance of getting the bout bursting through the other side of the Hue, would come tearing through an i open field for 10, 20 or 30 yards like a halfback. Athletics to Play Series With Cubs CHICAGO. Dec. 31.—The Chicago Nationals will play six games with the Philadelphia Americans during the spring traininr in Florida, it was | announced by President Murphy, of the Cubs, to-day. The first three games will be plav- rd on March 12. 13 and 14 at the Cubs’ training grounds at Tampa I The others will be played March lt». IT and 1S at Jacksonville, where the j world s champions will train. * C OWAN, left tackle for Princeton in 'S7. ’88 and *.89. was one more mad bull when he got started in a tackle around tackle play. This was worked just the same as when the guard carried the hall. The only iifference was that he did not get the help of the end rush following up and pushing from behind; but as he pot a better swing of his own. because or the curve not being so short, he could hit the line with more of his own force than could the guard, and with a good man like Cowan it was just as tough a proposition to stop. And Hector Cowan would have made his big gains even if there bad been no interference whatever. Never have 1 seen a player who could still hold his feet and drag on for yards and yards and yards the way he could, carrying sometimes two, three and even four men at a time. Of course the tackling in that day was not as low and keen as it is now. and often enough the tacklers were seen leaping up on top of the shoulders of the runners. When they tried to stop Cowan this way they simply got a free ride, for you could not pile enough men on him that way t«» weigh hint down so long as you let him have his h gs free with which to navigate. Outfielder Lewis, of the Red Sox, has decided to make Boston his home throughout the winter, instead of jour neying to California, as has been his practice each fall. He soys he wants to see what a New England winter is like. • # • Larry Lajoie fanned least of all the American League batters last season. In 137 contests the Cleveland veteran took three swings just seventeen times. Danny Moeller, of the Senators, was j the easiest to whiff, going down on strikes 106 times in 153 games. The Washington University at St. j Louis has lifted the ban on baseball | after having the lid clamped down hard ( for three years. The coming spring the institution will allow its team to compete for the Missouri Valely honors. « • • This is a busy winter for Heine Zim merman. clouting third sacker for the Cubs. Since the 1913 campaign closed Heine has been traded something like five times. w * * “Dots” Miller, the Pirate infielder, is the latest ball player to take up golf ing • * * “There never was a better umpire in the history of the game.” says Nap Lajoie. commenting on Jack Sheridan, the veteran of the American League staff and the dean of the arbitrators. * * * Jimmy Archer was in Chicago for a few days recently with his wife, and says that he is ready for the start of the 1914 campaign. Archer and his wife will spend the winter at Ormond, Fla. Archer will go right from his home to Tampa when the spring train ing trip starts. • * * Charles Carpenter, president of the Tri-State League, does r.ot favor an eight-club organization. Carpenter thinks that six teams are enough for the league for the season of 1914. He expects the league to have a better year next season than it had last. * * * Up In New York they have it that three clubs, the Giants. Phillies and Cubs, will fight it out fof the National T^eague pennant the coming season. May be this will turn out to be a fact, but then some team is liable to bob up and spring the biggest surprise of many days on the other fellows. TO PROSECUTE TOE FEDERALS American League to Ignore Sto vall’s Case While National Fights to Get Tinker. Heinie Zimmerman Will Stay With Cubs CHICAGO. Dec. 31 —When asked if he was thinking of trading Heine Zim merman. as reported. President Charles W. Murphy, of the Cubs, said: “I have repeatedly stated that Zimmerman was not on the market.” KLAUS’ EARNINGS $125,000. PITTSBURG, PA., Dec. 31.—George Engle, manager of Frank Klaus, who was knocked out twice by George Chip within seven weeks, after he had beaten the best in this country and Europe, said that the former middleweight champion is through as a fighter because of careless training. He said that he and Klaus in the several years thev had been together had made $125,000. Atlanta Quintet Put Through Hard Drills For Columbus Came Joe Bean, coach of the Atlanta Ath letic Club, is a busy man these days. Joe is putting his players through a stiff drill every afternoon in an effort to round his squad into the best of shape for their clash with the champion Co lumbus five on the latter’s floor Sat urday afternoon. Although the Columbus team rules a strong favorite. Coach Bean is by no means conceding them the victory. He is going to take his boys down to Co lumbus Saturday fit and ready to pui up the battle of their lives. A victor , over the Columbus team will be a big' feather in the local boys’ caps and they are not leaving any stone unturned in the preliminary work. By James Clarkson. C HICAGO, Dec. 31.—Let the lit tle old National League warn, threaten and abuse the Feder- als. The American League isn’t going to pay any attention to them. Bar. Johnson, president of the .in- nior organization, probably remem bering how Ineffectual the attempts to stop himself, Comiskey, Somers and 'others some years back proved to be. declares that his organization will take no steps to combat the inde pendents and that George Stovall would not be prosecuted. ”1 do not believe that Tinker, Brown and Stovall have signed,” de clared Johnson when questioned last night. “If they have it’s a severe loss to baseball, as each one is an ex tremely capable player and has done much to help the game. * • * GT AM not interested in the report- * ed move to prosecute players who have violated reserve clauses to join the Federal League, and the American League will take no case to court. “Should the grievance come up be fore the National Commission,, it will not be at my instigation, and 1 shall permit my colleagues on that board to take the initiative.” * • * ALL of which Is expected to quell the ^ determined efforts of the National League to precipitate itself into a law suit with the third league. John son’s attitude can not well be ig nored. On the other hand, It is the National League that has suffered the most. Stovall was out of the American League as far as playing was concerned, although he is still the property of St. Louis. It is doubt ful if the Browns figure him as an asset, anyway. With Tinker and Brown it is different. Charles Her cules Ebbets, of* Brooklyn, has just paid $15,000 for Tinker, and his phi lanthropic activity has never before reached such proportions. So the Dodger Dedicator is sure to yelp if he doesn’t find a way to get the mon ey back. Outlaws Planning to Pitt Club in Gotham CHICAGO, Dee. 31.—James A. Gil more, president of the Federal League, is in New York to-day “looking over tbe ground with reference to getting a ball park,” according to Charles Weeghman. president of the Chicago Federal League club. Weeghman said that at the meeting here last Saturday of those interested in expanding the new organization. * New YorK millionaire produced a cer tified check for $100,000 to guarantee a club in New York. Weeghman said It was true that Knabe bad signed t 0 manage Baltimore, and added that John Miller, who went to St. Louis f^om Pittsburg, would manage the Toronto club. M’CORMICK SIGNS PITCHER. CHATTANOOGA, TENN.. Dec. 31 Manager McCormick has announced the purchase of Turner, a right-hard pitcher, from the Hendersonville club of the Kitty League. This gives the Lookouts nine pitchers. MAY GET BOXING. EVANSVILLE. IND., Dec. 31.—Local fight fans are inclined to believe that this city will have boxing contests after Mayor-elect Ben Bosse assumes his of fice shortly after New Year’s Day. .lium. WhUkey *n«J Drue iUblti frvatsd t Hon* or at Sanitation. Book oa ivbjt# _ V##. DR. B. M. WOOLLEY. M-N, I Sanitarium, Atiaaaa. 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