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By George McManus
IN PRACTICE
Schedule of Twenty-two Games
Includes Naps. Braves, Yanks
and Class AA Clubs.
By O. B. Keeler.
r-pxEiL Atlanta fans are going to
I more pre-season baseball next
A apring, and (presumably) bet
ter 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 tilled soon.
* * •
H ERE is the 1914 practice schedule,
as far as laid out to date:
March 1«, 17—Louisville. A. A
March 19. 20, 21—Cleveland Ameri
cans.
March 24, 25—Newark, Interna
tional.
Marcn 26—New York Americans.
March 27, 28 Boston Nationals
April 1, 2—Cleveland Americans.
April 3. 4—Columbus or Macon.
April «, 7, 8. 9, 10. 11 Rochester,
International.
That leave® March IS and 23 open.
March SO 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, anfd three
clubs from the big Diass A A circuits,
the American Association and the In
ternational. Those games, with Louis
ville, Newark and Rochester, ought to
he very interesting, as furnishing a
line on the respective »peod of the
big minors as compared with our own
Class A circuit.
• • •
L AST spring IMP' Boston* were hero
for five Raines the only major
leaguers to be seen Toronto had
three games. Rochester two. Colum
bus two and Ty Cobh'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 Hi* Show
to start.
* * *
**I OOKS like a good, lively itched-
•—* ule to me,” said Billy Smith.
“It will give us n lot of hard games
and plenty of chance to try out our
bunch of new material —and goodness
knows we need it!"
BOXLNG
News of the Ring Game
The New York State boxing pommli-
cion refuses to let Bob Fitzsimmons re
turn to the ring bacause of his age.
The same ruling might prevail against
certain young white hopes now obtain
ing money under false pretenses
• • »
Battling Levtnsky is beginning to feel
the effects of overwork so Danny Mor
gan has signed him up for only* five
battles In the next eleven days.
* * *
The Clabby-Plllon match is off, for
the reason that the men could not
agree on weight. Clabby says that he
docs not Intend to box at a greater
weight than 158 ringside, as he can
easily make 152 if necessary. Even at
168 ringside Clabby thinks he would be
cheating himself
• • •
Since the Clabby-Dillon fight is off.
Uncle Tom McCarey lias wired Mike
Gibbons an offer to meet Clabby on
January 17. McCarey also plans to use
Charlie W^iite and Joe Rivers some time
this month.
• * *
Our dear old pal Battling Nelson has
In the past referred to some champions
as "a piece of cheese.” Be that as It
may. we wish to add that the champion
piece of frontage is one Bombardier
Wells Are we right?
• * •
English sports are at present moving
heaven and earth in an attempt to un
cover a British heavyweight who can
regain the title from Georges Carpen-
tler. the shifty Frenchman The down
fall of Bombardier Wells has proved a
sad blow to the fistic fanatics of the
United Kingdom A tour of Scotland.
Ireland and Wales is now being con-
iucted to uncover promising material.
9 • •
It is said that George t* too mod
est to claim the championship, but wait
until some good live press agent gets
hold of George.
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HAVE A CARE
You hare dour it, Joseph /'inker; you
have done it, Hardy Brown.
You hare signed the papers that will
turn the pan time up Hide down.
Yon hare signed the papers that will
hint the pastime inside out,
4nd the lairyer folks will yet you if
you
don't
watch
out.
* * •
President Murphy denies Heine Zim
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 lias
licked Big Larry McLean. But. then,
I^arry has been confined In Cincinnati
the more recently.
« • •
Governor Tener says his policy will be
“Order first.” in contrast to Mr. Lynch,
who always lets Garry 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.
u • *
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
Giants In 1908.
• • *
As for Tinker, you must he a bone-
head if you can’t Me that the Interests
of the dear old pastime demand that he
should Joyously acceo r . 45,000 a year from
Fbbets and scorn 112,000 a ycur from
any one else
• * •
But ball players are an ungrateful lot.
You’d think Tinker would be so glad to
J <• tired out of Cincinnati that he would
snap up anybody’s offer.
• • •
Rumor has it that Dave Allizer,
shortstop for the Minneapolis club, in
the American Association, will forsake
tiie national pastime to work his 160-
acre farm near War road, Minn., which
he recently purchased.
* • *
Jac ,r Knight, who leads all leagues in
the major-to minor and minor-to major
a»t. lias 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. Harmon
is one of thu chaps who wouldn't go
with the world’s tourists because he was
afraid of becoming seasick, reads an ex
change. Bob has only been away from
St Louis for about two weeks, having
gone to his plantation in Louisiana.
• • •
Johnny Kling says there is only one
place he will play ball during the 1914
a son Kling says he will play in Kan
sas City, hut nowhere elae. As there
is little chance of the former star of the
Cubs getting a place in that city, he
probably will retire from tlie national
pastime. If he does he will devote all
his time to his billiard and pocket bil
liard hall.
Willie Holds U. S. Title; Freddie Owns English and Australian
RITCHIE MUST BEAT WELSH TO BE WORLD CHAMPION
r O.l/ A X D It BU »s', who publishes
the famous fight record boo/c,
and one of the greatest bor
ing authorities in the world, declares
that Willie Ritchie must defeat Fred
die Welsh before ha can claim the
“Championship of the World.'* The
following signed article by Mr. An
drews is very timely just now, as th<
Fnglish lightweight title-holder meets
Frank Whitney in a ten-roam/ mill
at the Auditorium-Armory next
Tuesday night.
a visitor at Nate Lewis* gym yes
terday afternoon. The rugged lit
tle Iowa lad boxed three rounds
with Charley White early in the
afternoon and later in the das’
worked three more fast rounds
with Packey McFarland.
The set-to with White was
rapid affair. Whitney and Char
ley battled ten rounds in Atlanta
last summer and they knew each
other’s style to perfection. It was
give and take all the way, wltli
matters very even at the finish.
‘‘Whitney is a good boy,” said
White after the scrap. ”1 look for
him to give Welsh a great fight
'Frank can stand any amount of
punishment, and when he is hurt
is the time he is most dangerous.
It is impossible to hit him with
any punch other than a straight,
fast left.”
The bout between McFarland
and Whitney was nothing more
than a clever boxing exhibition.
Packey’s left hand is a little
bunged up and the lads agreed to
simply spar. Packey was highly
impressed with the Cedar Rapids
boy and predicts that he will out
box Welsh unless Fred is at his
very best.
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By Tom Andrews.
WILLIE RITCHIE lightweight
champion of the world? Not to
my way of thinking. He Is
champion of America, winning that
title when he beat Ad Wolgast No
vember 28. 1912, on a foul at Da!y
City, Cal., in sixteen rounds.
Freddie Welsh Is champion of Great
Britain by virtue of his defeat of
Matt Wells two weeks before Ritchie
beat \Volgast. Welsh is also cham
pion of Australia, because he defeat
ed Champion Hughie Mehegen In
England. Thus Welsh has two crowns
against Ritchie’s one.
Also Welsh has a decision ov°r
Ritchie In a 20-round bout at Los
Angeles, although it must be con
ceded that Ritchie took that fight on
at short notice and could not pre
pare for a hard battle.
Ritchie’s long vacation, while on
his theatrical tour, caused much talk,
and he was being “punned” especially
after the trouble over his match with
Welsh in Vancouver, which was ad
vertised “for the world’s title.”
Willie silenced this criticism by his
wonderful fight with Leach Cross.
He proved he is not champion by
chance, but a real lightweight boss
and one the fans may be proud of.
Ritchie defeated Cross at his own
game—slugging. And over the ten-
round route Cross is one of the hard
est men in the world to defeat. Now
the critics accept Ritchie as a cham
pion who ean carry their money, al
though they would prefer to see him
in action more often over the twenty-
round route.
Will Ritchie raise the lightweight
limit to suit himself? We hear he ANOTHER new
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NEW SOUTHERN
Various Feats Accomplished by Dixie Stars
LEAGUE RECORDS HUNG UP IN 1913
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Johnson Announces
Contracts-Releases
CHICAGO. Jan. 1.—The following re
leases an«l contracts were announced to
day by President Ban Jonnson. of thv
American League:
Releases By Chicago to Venice Cal..
G. H. (“Doc”) White.
By Mobile to Cleveland. Gene Pau
lette.
B> Los Angeles ... Washington, B.
Spencer. K Mousel.
By I Vs Moines to Washington. Paul
Mu user
By Washington to Missoula. Dawson.
By Philadelphia to New York (A. I,.),
James Walsh.
B> New York to Toledo, John Knight;
to Montreal. .John Hmlth.
By Boston to St Paul. Charles Hall;
to Worcester. William K Mundy uj
Montria’. Albion Carlstrom to Omaha,
Martin Krug.
Contracts With Washington, Paul
Smith.
With New York F .1 Kelly
JIM CLARK DIES
LONDON. Jan. 1 Pneumonia caused
the death today of Jim Clark, pro
prietor of “.fa -k Straw's Castle” on
Hempstead Heath, where virtually all
American boxers train for the English
engagements.
will kick it to 136 pounds, and, judg
ing from the weight for the Tommy
Murphy fight—136 at 6 o’clock—he
has started in. Packey McFarland
wanted a match at 135 pounds at 3
o'clock, but Willie served notice il
would have to be 135 ringside.
Looking through the records, I find
that Jack McAullffe insisted on 133
pounds ringside, but when he met Jim
Carney, of England, he Insisted on
133 pounds eight hours before the.
fight. He met Billy Meyer at 135
ringside and Jimmy Carroll at 137.
He fought Harry Gilmore it 133 and
Meyer, the second time, at 139.
George Lavlgne, when champion,
fought Die'. Burke in England and
the weight was 138, but when the
“Kid” met Erne it was 133. It re
mained at 133 except in the Erm -
Gans scrap, when it went to 1 If..
Since 4 then Nelson, Wolgast and Rit
chie have held it at 33 ringside, but
now the bars are agiin down and it
looks like 135.
This makes the English scale loik
better than ever as a whole, and it
will not be surprising to see an Amer
ican union organized ar|l adopting iho
English weights.
To be world’s champion Ritchie
must defeat Weis’. . who certatnly has
claim to recognition.
y Harry Welehonee.
Captain of 1914 Crackers.
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, 1 w»ant to men
tion Tommy Long's feat of scoring
112 rung for the campaign, which is
far above the mark of any other ath
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 a 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 I earnestly hope he does, but J
don’t think anyone else who is sched
uled to play in the big league of the
South this coming season has 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 sorpe
time, as he will certainly be grabbed
up by some big league club before
the 1914 season is very many months
old.
record established
consecutive hitting
Whitney Stops Off
In Chicago to Box
M’Farland and White
l*Yank Whitney did not arrive *n
th$ city last night as expected, it
seems that he stopped off in Chicago
oh the way from his hom* in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, to put in a fe« hours
boxing with boys who have either met
or worked out in a gymnasium with
Freddie Welsh. Whitney donned the
gloves for three rounds each with
Charley White and Packey McFarland
In Nate Lew is' gymnasium, as per the
follow ing story from Chicago:
CHICAGO. Jan. 1.- Frankie
Whitney, the Cedar Rapids light
weight. matched to meet Freddie
Welsh, the English Fight weight
champion, in a ten-round bout in
Atlanta, Ga., on January 6,
: A * 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.
• • •
ANOTHER record was broken, that
x * of the number of hits made by
an individual player during one sea
son and one new feat established
which was that of the same player
leading the’ league in two successive
seasons in hitting. The oid record
of 191 hits fof the season was made
by Outfielder Huelsman 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 lgy claim to one player
\vYio has done this. In August. 1911,
while 1 was a member of the Nash
ville club, 1 was lucky enough to
make clean hits in six times at
bat off Id’ Pitebers Prough and Speir,
of the' Birmingham club. While
Spalding’s record book does not show
this, th«? Southern League records
.will prove it, and the feat stands as
a record to-day.
• • •
I WANT to mention the record made
by thenWackers in their mad dash
for the pennant the last three weeks
of the 19>3 seasoin 1 consider this
greater than all individual records,
is it hat to be accomplished by every
member^of the tec^n traveling hand Moulton.
in hand, something you find In few
ball clubs. 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 three 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.
* * *
] RECALL a conversation 1 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
Mack Thinks 1914
Will Be Baseball’s
Greatest Season
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 I 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 it looks like you will have
to be satisfied with second place in
the race. Of course, the Crackers
will win 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 game to even
think of heating them out. The Mo
bile club has always gone good on
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,
I 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.
Brown Not Worrying
About Players; Glad
To Be With Federals
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 1.—“I can get a doz
en major league stars to sign a Federal
League contract within 24 hours,” de
dared Mordecai Brown u-day, former
National League pitcher, who has sighed
a contract to manage the St. Louis Fed
eral League dub for the next three
years. Brown arrived here this morn
ing to confer with owners of the local
“outlaw” team.
“I have orders from the owners of
the St. Louis dub to go ahead and build
up my team,” said Brown. “I have re
ceived twenty telegrams from major
league players who expressed willing
ness to sign a contract to play in the
Federal league. The major league
players have been waiting for just such
a chance as is now presented to them.
“No one was ever treated as badly as
I was treated when I was a member of
the Chicago Cubs. I’m glad I had a
chance to get out of the National
League. I was with the Cubs when they
won four pennats and two world’s cham
pionships, and I am getting more salary
for the next three years than I ever
drew while on the Cubs’ payroll.”
Merriman First in
Pinehurst Tourney
PINEHURST. N. C.. Jan. l.—B. F.
Merriman, of Waterhury, Conn., former
champion of that State, yesterday won
the President’s trophy in the final round
of the Annual Holiday Golf tournament
here. He defeated H. V. Seggerman,
of Englewood, N. J., two up. The
match was hard-fought all the way.
G. R. Johnson, of Hackensack, N. J.,
finished at the top of the second divi
sion, and F. I. Amory, of Essex County,
Mass., first in the fourth division.
NEW CHARTER FOR ATHLETICS.
HARRISBURG, PA., Jan. 1.—A char
ter has been granted to the American
League Baseball Club of Philadelphia,
commonly known as the Athletics. The
club is capitalized at $50,000. and the
incorporators are Ben F. Shi be, Cor
nelius McGillteuddy and Thomas S.
Shibe.
EASY MONEY FOR BRITTON.
PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 1.—Jack Brit
ton is expected to give Joe Hirst a box
ing lesson here to-night for ten rounds.
Hirst recently lost to Mike Gibbons in
ten rounds.
Johnson Does Not
Want War, Asserts
Federals’ Lawyer
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 1.—Edward E.
Gates, attorney for the Federal League,
does not believe that Ban Johnson, of
the American League, is eager to war
with the newcomers. Mr. Gates said
to-day:
“I do not believe that Mr. Johnson
wants war. as he is pleased to term
competition for the services of baseball
players. It was Johnson himself who
revolutionized baseball ten years ago.
He knows now that the Federals are in
the right; that they are not encroaching
upon the rights of organized baseball,
according to the statutes, and that a
legal battle to determine the point
would eventually eroi in defeat for or
ganized powers.
“The Federals are contemplating no
legal action against organized baseball,
charging that it is a trust. The Fed
eral League is a highly independent or
ganization, dictating its own policy, and
doing business according to its own
ideas.”
Federal Leaguers to
Train at Beaumont
CHICAGO, Jan. 1.—The Chicago team
of the Federal League, and probably
the St. Louis 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 w-ith a
squad of about twenty-four players oil
March 1, and put in a few days at an
Indiana health resort before going down
to Beaumont. Tinker said that other
Federal League clubs would train in th«
South.
NICK CULLOP ELOPED.
CLEVELAND, Jan. 1.—Nick Cui-
lop, the southpaw twirier with the
Cleveland Naps, committed matri
mony the other night. He eloped with
Miss Pauline N. Dungan. of Virginia.
BROCK TO BOX YOAKUM.
DENVER. COLO.. Jan. 1.—Much in
terest centers on the Phil Brock-Stanley
Yoakum scrap, to be staged here to
day The boys have been coming to tho
front at a rapid rate lately.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1.—Connie
Mack, manager of the world’s cham
pion Athletics, does not agree with
Ban Johnson, president of the Ameri
can League, who recently in a Chicago
interview, said the year 1914 would
be most disastrous for baseball. On
the other hand, the master mind of
the game, in a New Year’s forecast
to-day, said it would be baseball’s
best season. Manager Mack said:
“I’m not predicting any pennants at
this time, but I feel confident that the
Athletics will be able to hold their
own in 1914. We must have our
strongest team, for the other clubs,
especially those that finished in the
second division, will be greatly
strengthened. I look for a much
harder race than last year, because
all of the clubs will be more evenly
balanced. The fans will see better
baseball the coming year, which 1
have every reason o believe will be
the game's most successful in every
way.”
Athletic Club Five Is
Rounding Into Shape
For Columbus Team:
The Columbus Y. M. C. A. quintet,
champions of the South, will be the
next opponents of the Atlanta Athlet
ic Club. The game will be played
Saturday nisrht on the Columbus
court, the Columbus boys playing a
return game on the local court Feb
ruary 21. Saturday night’s battle will
be the most strenuous of the season
for both teams, and though the odda
are against the Atlanta men. they will
go prepared to give the champions a
hard battle. Joe Bean is wasting no
time in rounding higr men into con
dition.
“DAD" SEEKS A JOB.
PORTLAND, GREG., Jan. 1.—“Dad”
Moulton, famous Stanford University
track and field coach, has written Man
ager Walter Mc^reedie, of the Portland
baseball club, filing application for the
position of trainer of the Beavers
While McOrcedie viewed the application
with a great deal of favor, he would
not state whether he would employ
EISEMAN BROS., Inc.
New Year’s Greetings!
We thank our friends and
patrons for a bountiful bus
iness year, and wish you
much happiness and pros
perity in
1914
EISEMAN BROS.,
11-13-15-17 Whitehall
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