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SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
By Tad
IN PRACTICE
Schedule of Twenty-two Games
Includes Naps, Braves, Yanks
and Class AA Clubs.
By O. B. Keeler.
T HE Atlanta fans are going to see
more pre-season baseball next
spring, and (presumably) bet-
<er baseball than they have been af
forded in some years. Certainly bet
ter practice baseball and more of it
than last spring, when only fourteen
practice games were played, and only
one big-league club—the Boston Na
tionals—were seen at Ponce DeLeon.
The spring practice schedule for
1914 already includes twenty games
here and two in Macon, and two open
dates probably will be filled soon.
• * •
H ERE is the 1914 practice schedule, I
as far as laid out to date:
March 16, 17—Louisville, A. A.
March 19, 20, 21—Cleveland Ameri
cans.
March 24, 25—Newark, Interna-
tionaL
March 26—New York Americans.
March 27, 28—Boston Nationals.
April 1, 2—Cleveland Americans.
April 3, 4—Columbus or Macon.
April 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11—Rochester
International.
That leaves March 1? and 23 open.
March 30 to 31 the Crackers will jour
ney over to tackle the Boston Ameri
cans.
* * *
T HAT lay-out, with reasonable
weather conditions granted, will
afford the Atlanta bugs a squint at
three big league clubs. Cleveland
dropping in on us twice, and three
clubs from the big Class A A circuits,
the American Association and the In
ternational. Those games, with Louis
ville, Newark and Rochester, ought to
be very interesting, as furnishing a
line on the respective speed of rhe
big minors as compared with our own
Class A circuit.
• * •
L AST spring the Bostons were here
for five games—the only major
leaguers to be seen—Toronto had
three games, Rochester two. Colum
bus two and Ty Cobb’s team two. The
season of practice games closed April
8 last spring, and it will run us up
to April 11 next year, only four days
before the flag drops for the Big Show
to start.
* * *
4*1 OOKS like a good, lively sched-
*— 1 • ule to me." said Billy Smith.
**Tt will give us a lot of hard games
and plenty of chance to try out our
bunch of new material—and goodness
knows we need it!”
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SPORTING COMMENT
Wolgast on Edge
For Redmond Bout
MILWAUKEE, WIS.. Jan. U —Ad
Wolgast, former lightweight champion
of the world, and Jack Redmond are j
on edge for their ten-round set-to here
to-day. Although Wolgast rules a 2 to
1 favorite over Redmond, the latter Is
a tough boy, and should give the
’ Fighting Dutchman” a tough argu
ment.
Redmond has fought some of the
toughest boys in the game and has a
big following in this city. The winner
will meet Charlie White, of Chicago,
the latetr part of this month.
Matty McCue Meets
Bresnahan To-day
RACINE. WIS., Jan. 1 — Matty Mc
Cue and Tommy Bresnahan clash In
a return go here to-day. The pair
met about one month ago with hon
ors even. Tom Jones, manager of
McCue. is looking for his protege to
put over the knockout wallop.
NEW CHARTER FOR ATHLETICS.
HARRISBURG, PA., Jan. 1.—A char
ier has been granted to the American
league Baseball Club of Philadelphia,
commonly known as the Athletics. The
club is capitalised at $*>«),U00, and the
incorporators are Ben F. Shibe. Cor
nelius McGinicuddy and Thomas S.
Fhibe.
Jaurez Results
FIRST—Six furlonss: Christmas
Eve, 100 (Carroll). 9-2, 2. even, won:
Kiltie. 100 (Vandusen), 8. 3, 3-2, sec
ond: George. 107 (Groth), 20. 8, 4.
third Time. 1:13 1-5. Also ran:
'General Warren. Transact, Rodondo,
Mystic Bov. Violet May, Irish Ann,
Vava. Hester. Hyki.
SECOND—Six furlongs: Anne Mr-
Ges, 103 (Feeney), 2, 7-10, 1-3. won;
Mandadero. 103 (Claver), 3 1-2, 6-5.
3-5 second: Star Berta, 103 (Den
ny) 20, 8 4, third. Time. 1:13. Also
ran': Kali Inla. Stoneman. Daylight,
Quick Trip. Evran, Commendation.
Ormonde Cunningham. ■
THIRD—Five and one-half fur
longs: Bing. 102 (Taylor). 7, 6-5, 2-5,
won; Milton Roblee, 97 (CaTroll, 1).
3 4:5 second; Scarlet Oaks. 115
(Taplin), 2-6, out, third. Time,
1:06 4-5. Also ran: Any Time. Rat-
!d&
FOURTH—One mile: Truly, 102
(Groth), 8, 2, 7-10, won; Brookfield,
103 (Smith), 4, even, 2-5, second;
Colonel Marchmont, 105 (Gentry),
even, 2-5, 1-5, third. Time, 1:38 4-5.
Also ran: Transparent, Sonada, Hen
ry Walbank. .
FIFTH—Five and one-half fur
longs: New Haven, 107 (Groth), 3,
3-5 won; Dominica. 104 (Fee-
ney), 3,’ even, 1-2, second; Colquitt,
102 (Gentry), 7-2, 6-5, 1-2, third.
Time. 1:05 3-5. Also ran: Seneca,
Cross Over, Hardy, Parlor Boy.
SIXTH—Six furlongs: Acumen. 112
I Loft us), 2-1. won: Stanley S., 112
(VanDusen), 2-1, second; Palatable,
j in ( Riddle). 4-5, third. Time, 1:12 4-5.
\]*n ran: Kid Nelson. Eye White.
Muff. Key, Evelina.
By Ed W. Smith
J UST a few days ago we
sprung a yarn about figur
ing out fighters on the 100
per cent efficiency basis used in
these modern times in a good
many business houses. To our
great surprise we began to get
letters almost immediately from
fighters and their managers who
want to be considered as being
of that class. Some of these let
ters had point to them and others
didn't, but it all serves to show
that the 100 per cent efficiency
idea caught on in great shape
and the •consistency, gameness
and aggressive” pari of it might
in future be taken as the right
way in which to judge the real
fighter.
* * *
A ND turning over the leaves
of the fighting books of
1913, now that the year is almost
at: an end. it is suggested that the
“hundred per cent winner” in the
different classes is a mighty
scarce commodity. As a. matter
of fact the fighters who went
through the entire year without a
single defeat are about as few
and far between as first-class
fighters are supposed to be. As a
matter of fact we can figure less
than two dozen of what might be
called good men who went
through the twelve months with
out meeting with a single reverse.
* * •
S TARTING with the little fel
lows, we find that the cham
pion, Johnny Ooulon. did little or
no battling and naturally escaped
unscathed. So did his closest ri
val, Kid Williams, of Baltimore,
who had a busy year. Frankie
Sinnet, who will be Ooulon's next
serious opponent, also fought well
and gained a place near the top
on his sturdy work.
• • <•
'"T HE boss of the featherweight
4 division. Kilbane, of Cleve
land. also put in a rather light
year and while we are told he had
several close calls, as in the con
test with K. O. Mars, of Cincin
nati. nothing serious really hap
pened to the Forest City boy.
* * •
T HE lightweight class didn’t
furnish a single upset of note.
Like other champs. Willie Ritchie
escaped defeat, but his battles
were so few as to be almost de
void of interest. Willie contented
himself with an occasional flyer
into stage work and let it go at
that, the feature of this year be
ing his horrible controversy with
Freddie Welsh over the Van
couver fiasco. Johnny Dundee,
one of those twixt-and-between
fighters, but generally classed as
a lightweight, also went through
the year clean as a whistle, as did
Jimmy Duffy, of Buffalo; Tommy
Murphy, of New York, and Sam
Robideau, of Philadelphia.
* * •
F the near lightweights, who
should be called welters, of
course. Packey McFarland stands
out. There wasn’t a chance to
trim him. Mike Gibbons, if a
welter, also escaped defeat, as did
Mike Glover, the star Eastern
fighter of this division. The lat
ter is credited with having shad
ed Jack Britton, of Chicago, as
di»l McFarland a couple of times,
so that lets Jack out, though th*
Chicago boy had a dandy yea** as
far as earnings are concerned.
13 UTTING Jimmy Glabby rn the
* middleweight class, we find
th3t he and three othefs weht
through the year without a trim
ming. the others being the ter
rible George Chip, Jack Dillon, of
Indianapolis, and Mike Gibbons,
of St. Paul, who fought a. bunch
of good ones In the larger class.
Ulabbv has been the real sensa
tion of the year, having scored
one of the biggest hits ever at
tained by any fighter out on the
Pacific.
* * *
T HAT leaves only the heavy
weight division with the big
black still boss of the job. They
tried to take his title away from
him in Paris, but it looks as if
they failed. Still Jack nearly
bear himself in the only contest
he had during the year, a ten-
round maul with Jim Johnson, of
Virginia. The only other men ac
tually undefeated in the class
were Gunboat Smith and Georges
«'arpentier, of France—and if
Smith beats Arthur Pelky Janu
ary 1 they doubtless will be
matched for a London go within
three months.
p RETTY lean list of first-class
1 men, isn’t It? Few good ones
are being developed and the good
ones are more than holding their
own.
Welchonce Writes on Various Feats Accomplished by Dixie Stars
NEW SOUTHERN LEAGUE RECORDS HUNIi UP IN IW
Food for Sport Fans
aeOBOE E. PH AIM. J-
Dillon Rules 10 to 6
Choice Over Christie
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Jan. J —
Jack Dillon rules a 10 to 6 favorite
over Gus Christie for their scheduled
ten-round engagement here this aft
ernoon. Both boy a have been work
ing hard for the go and a rattling
scrap is expected. George Chip may
be secured to meet the winner.
Joe Mandot Battles
Fisher in Cincinnati
CINCINNATI. OHIO. Jan. l.—Joe
Mandot. of New Orleans, battles F3arl
Fisher here this afternoon in a bout
that is attracting much attention.
Local fans are Anxious to see whether
Mandot is as good as be was when he
fought such stars as Wolgast and
Rit .’hie. Fisher is a local product and
is well known around these parts.
Federal Leaguers to
Train at Beaumont
CHICAGO. Jan. 1.—The Chicago team
of the Federal League, and probably
the St. Lb tils and Kansas City teams
also, will train at Beaumont. Texas,
next spring, according to Joe Tinker,
manager of the’ local club, to-day.
Tinker said he would start with a
squad of about twenty-four players on
March 1, and put in a few nays at an
Indiana health resort before going down
to Beaumont. Tinker said that other
Federal League clubs would train in the
South.
JIM CLARK DIES.
LONDON, Jan. 1.—Pneumonia caused
the death today of Jim Clark, pro
prietor of ‘‘.Tack Straw’s Ooatle” on
Hempstead Heath, where virtually all
American boxers train for the English
engagements.
By Harry Welchonce.
Captain of 1914 Crackers.
B Y glancing over the dope for
the past season we find that
several new records were hung
up by members of the different clubs
which have stood for eight or ten
years, or, in other words, from the
earliest existence of the league.
In the first place, I want to men
tion Tommy Long's feat of scoring
112 runs for the campaign, which is
far above the mark of any other uth-
lete who ever donned the spikes in
Dixie. A combination of “A hard
and clever right-hand Hitter, backed
up by as hard and clever hitting ball
club as was ever assembled in the
Southern circuit,” did the business,
and Tommy may well be proud of
the fact that he set <\ mark for speed
merchants to shoot at for years to
come. He himself may again set a
new mark during the season of 1914,
and 1 earnestly hope he does, hut I
don’t think anyone else who is sched
uled to play in the big league of the
South this coming season lias a
chance to even equal it. I would
like to make a little prediction along
with this, and that is that barring
accidents this will be the last season
that you will see Tommy for some
time, as he will certainly be grabbed
up by some big league club before
the 1914 season is very many months
old.
* * ♦
A NOTHER new record established
was that for consecutive hitting.
Clayton Perry and Dell Young, of the
Nashville club, both making eleven
consecutive hits in three consecutive
games before falling down. Inasmuch
as Young’s total bases were greater
that that of Perry, to Young goes
the laurels, and he Is now the holder
of the record for consecutive hitting,
total bases considered, in the South
ern League.
* * *
A NOTHER record was broken, bhat
of the number of hits made by
an individual player cliKring one sea
son and one new fears^eRtabllshed
which was that of the player
leading the league in two successive
seasons in hitting. The old record
of 191 hits for the season was made
by Outfielder Iluelsman while a
member of the Shreveport club, and
has stood since the 1902 baseball sea
son; 194 hits now stands as a record
for one season, but if Dame Fortune
continues to smile on me. I hope to
make it 200 in 1914. Nevertheless.
I did not allow this to interfere with
my working for the best interests
of the club in 1913. and I shall not
do so this coming season.
* • *
T HE most consecutive hits ever
made in one ball game In the
major leagues was six, which was
accomplished by Beaumont, of the
Pitsburg club, in six times at bat
during the 1899 season. This record
has been equaled a few times In the
minor leagues, and the Southern
league can lay claim to one player
who has done this. In August. 1911,
while I was a member of the Nash
ville club, I was lucky enough to
make six clean hits in six times at
bit off of Pitchers Prough and Speir.
of the Birmingham club. While
Spalding’s record book does not show
this, the Southern League records
will prove it, and the feat stands as
a record to-day.
I WANT to mention the record made
by the Crackers in their mad dash
for the pennunt the last three weeks
of the 1913 season. I consider this
greater than ail individual records,
as it had .to be accomplished by every
member of the team traveling hand
In hand, something you find in few
ball chibs. Just think of a ball club
going out and winning practically
every game for three weeks, with
the odds about 100 to 1 against them
that they would never overtake the
leaders, and then when it simmered
down to a final ihree or four games
they continue their Wonderful form
by going out and winning these in
straight heats, finally earning the
title of “Champions of the Southern
League.” This I think the greatest
finish ever made by a ball club in
the Southern League, and I don’t be
lieve it will ever be equaled under
the same conditions in this or any
other circuit.
+ * *
T RECALL h conversation I had with
* Umpire Hart as we were about to
leave Birmingham for Atlanta to start
our last and final series of games
at home. We had just defeated Bir
mingham three straight games, and
I might mention also broke Pitcher
Prough’s string of consecutive vic
tories. which would have established
a new record for straight wins in the
Southern had he succeeded In trim
ming us. Naturally we were all high
ly elated, and this brings me back
to Hart’s dope as 1 recall It. We had
figured the. thing very closely, and
Bill said: "You boys are going good,
and you have a great ball club, but
the odds are so great against your
club that if. looks like you will have
to be satisfied with second place In
the race. Of course, the uraekers
will wdn a lot of games at home be
tween now and the end of the sea
son. but the Mobile club must only
win half of their games while you
need practically every g;tme to even
think of beating them out. The Mo
bile club has always gone good on
the road, and I predict that they will
win more than half of their games
from now to the end of the season.’’
The finish Is now a mater of history,
and as Hart was called on to of
ficiate in the last and deciding game,
1 have wondered if he thought of our
conversation while he was looking
after the bases, and at the finish of
that last struggle at Mobile when the
Mobile club had snatched away from
their grasp their last chance for the
pennant which they had worked so
hard and earnestly for.
FODDER FOR FANS
HAVE A CARE.
You hare done it, Joseph 'linker: you
hove dove it, Monty Brown.
You hare signed the papers that will
lurn the pastime upside down.
You have signed the papers Unit will
turn the pastime inside out,
And the lawyer folks will get you if
you
don't
watch
out.
* * •
President Murphy denies Heine Zlrri
is on the market, but it Is hinted that
Charles would be glad to sell Heine’s
artistic temperament, or temper.
* • »
It Is reported that .Si Seymour has
licked Big Larry McLean. But, then,
l^irry has been confined in Ulneinnatl
the more recently.
* * *
Governor Tener says his policy will be
“Order first,” in contrast to Mr. Lynch,
who always lets <tarry Herrmann buy a
couple of rounds at the go-off
* * •
Mr. Herrmann says: “There will be
no blacklist of players who Join the Fed
eral League.” They will only be en
joined wherever possible, and In all cases
will be refused the right to play in or
ganized baseball.
* • •
While Matty is engaged in proving the
honesty of baseball, we wish some one
would come along with the dope on who
put up the coin that was offered to the
umpires on the eve of the famous play- ,
off game between the Cubs and the j
Giants in 1908.
• * •
As for Tinker, you must be a bone- I
head if you can’t see that the interests
of the d*»Ar old pastime demand that he
should Joyously accejif $5,000 a year from
Ebbets and scorn *12,000 a year from
any one else.
* • •
But ball players are an ungrateful lot.
You'd think Tinker would be so glad to
be fired out of Cincinnati that he would
snap up anybody’s offer.
• * ♦
Rumor has it that Dave Altlzpr,
shortstop for the Minneapolis club, in
the American Association, will forsake
the national pastime to work his 160-
acre farm near Warroad, Minn., which
he recently purchased.
• * *
• lack Knight, who leads all leagues in
the major-to minor and minor-to-rnajor
act. has landed with Toledo, in the
American Association, which means he
ought to be with Cleveland before the
1914 pennant brush ends.
• * *
Bob Harmon Is spending the winter
paying fines to the city of St. Louis
for violating auto speed laws. Ilarmon
Is one of the chaps who wouldn’t go
with the world’s tourists because he was
afraid of becoming seasick, reads ail ex
change Bob has only been away from
St. l.jnuis for about two weeks, having
gone to his plantation in Louisiana
* * •
Johnny Kling says thert is only one
place he will play ball during the 1914
season. Kling Fays he will play in Kan
sas City, but nowhere else. As there
is little chance of the former star of the
Cubs getting a place In that city, he
probably will retire from the national
pastime. If ho does he will devote all
his time to his billiard and pocket bil
liard hall.
illifFM DR B M. WOOLLll.g-N.™
JflkSsMiartia. AtUat*. G*or«*»
REVOLUTIONS.
1 ietoriano Huerta spoke behind his
glass of wine:
“The Yankee baseball magnate
leads a life the same as mine.
For when he meets his fellow mags
he orders flocks of drinks.
And note he has a revolution
weighing on his hands,
lnd Ihttugh hr wears a smiling fare
he knows not where he stands.
lie differs from me (mly in the
brand of dope we pull.
For 1 ani shooting bullets while he
only shoots the bull."
It behooves Huerta to follow the ex
ample of the American Federals and
hire a few of the best scrappers from
the other side.
It is no surprise that the American
League refused to start a fight. Hav
ing won the world's championship, it
can tell the rest of them to go out and
get a reputation.
If we were running the Federal
League we should put a team in
Brooklyn where the fans are not par
ticular about the brand of baseball
they see.
GIVE US BASEBALL.
"1 do not rare," tht rooter said, "who
owns the baseball club,
lint / refuse to pay my coin to see
a comnum dub.
If I ran s*w a baseball team that
plays a real game,
/ do not cart- who owns if, though
I never hear his name."
Cincinnati may be responsible for
some startling baseball tales this win
ter, but Chicago furnished the sensa
tion of the season when Charles W.
Murphy said: “I have nothing to say."
Baseball, having become a busi
ness, the fan will patronize the best
baseball. For years the owners have
striven to suppress sentiment. To-day
what little sentiment is left is not cen
tered around the owners.
Baseball now is a question of the
survival of the fittest. If the Federal
League has enough money to survive
it will survive unless it develops the
internal strife that has made the Na
tional League the recipient of so
many brickbats.
England offers $25,000 for a white
hope, despite the fact that America is
willing to sell a dozen, for approxi
mately 30 centimes.
We are willing to admit that Frank
Klaus is through as a fighter. At least
he is as long as George Chip is in the
immediate vioinitv
Mr. Klaus' manager avers that the
said Klaus has earned $125,000 in the
ring. This shows that he never has
consulted Mr. Webster on the fine
points of the word “earn.”
It is estimated that the annual In
come of a topnotch boxer is 315,000.
And then they advise healthy young
men to work for a living.
We don’t know what the income of
the average wrestler is, but he doesn't
earn it.
Lincoln Beachey, who loopai
loops, evidently learned it by a dos« *
study of the Uubs the last time they
played the Sox.
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