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By .1. W. Heisman.
rT is a great pity that track athlet
ics have not as strong a hold
■ upon the affections of the public
■ in the South as they have in the
I North. This is one of the prettiest
I forms of pure athletic work we have
J and one of the worthiest, and from
« the point of view of sound common
sense anything accomplished in most
■ any one of the recognized track or
field events ought to count for as
'I much as does the work of a football
■ hero like Brickley or a baseball idol
like Cobb.
j An Olympic winner of the hundred
I or of the Marathon or the Penthalon
I is esteemed a deal more highly by
I folks of foreign countries than are
I tue stars of any other game of either
I tiieir land or ours.
■, American Rugby football and base-
I ball are peculiar to this country, and
I we go wild over them. One would
I think that we also would esteem
a highly an athletic event that was
Jd recognized as standard the world
D, over, such as running or jumping;
v] for in the former sports our cham-
H pions can only lie champions among
m ourselves, and never world beaters —
I since they can not enter into com pe
in tition against the whole world in
either the gridiron or the diamond
pastimes. Surely a championship that
is world-wide and that has been won
I in a sport contested by nearly all the
■ peoples of rhe earth is more desirable
and should stand for more than one
■ in which national excellence only can
be attained.
, Now our athletic young men of the
East, the North and the West are
gradually waking up to this fact, and
there is more interest and enthusi-
I- asm manifested each succeeding year
I over the national championships in
; track and field sports and in the mat
; ter of preparation for the great Olym-
I Pic games; but in the South we are
f far from having caught up with the
band wagon.
While, it is true, we have not as
yet developed many men down here
1, who are capable of doing wonders on
< the cinder path, the fault is by no
! means to be laid entirely to the door
i of the athletes themselves. In a
I large part the sporting public is to
blame. Ifjthe public would patronize
i these games and take an interest in
them as they do in baseball or in
football we should soon see a far
I greater number of young men going
in for track work, and far better work
■ resulting.
As it now stands a college man
works hard a whole spring to fit
himself for a trying effort in the mile
run or the high hurdles, has the priv-
■ liege of competing in one or two dual
■ meets that the college has, after
> much trouble, been persuaded to
■ schedule, and then finds almost no
1 audience, and that a highly inappre-
S ciative one. After his great effort he
'■ notes with disgust that the papers
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the next day have little or nothing to
say about it, even when he won the
event, and after that he decides he
■will for the future go in for nothing
but baseball or football.
Now this is all wrong. There is
not one of us that does not thrill
to the core at
I the sight of a
close finish in
the dashes, not
one that does
not like to see
Track
Athletics
Interesting.
Z—— a we u executed
high vault, and not one that can fail
to understand the display of im
mense strength Involved in a 150-
foot fling of the 16-pound hammer.
Then why, in the name of consisten
cy, should we not be as keen to go
out and watch these things as we
are to see a baseball thrown in a
way that we have already seen ten
thousand times before, or to watch
a football gam&that we do not half
understand ?
Our Southern college athletes ap
prove heartily of track and field
sports, and they are anxious to en
list the sympathy and support of the
public. If these were forthcoming it
would not be long before we would
find some Southern names among the
Olypmic heroes the same as we do
in other sports.
The next time the reader hears of
a track meet being held anywhere in
the South I trust he will make up
his mind, here and now, that he will
attend the meet and lend the encour
agement of his presence at least.
One of the severest losses possi
ble for Tech at this juncture is Cap-
tain Bradley
from the basket
ball team. His
parents are op
posed to athlet
ics, and have
stopped him
Tech Loses
Captain
Bradley.
from continuing.
This is a body blow right, for
Bradley was the only regular left
over from last year's team, and was
about the fastest man on the Tech
team. While light, he was chock
full of pepper, and could get about
the floor and follow up the ball in a
manner that no other member of the
squad could approach. Besides his
persistency and physical endurance
kept him in the game at all stages,
so that he was an extremely depend
able man.
Just what we will be able to do
to fill the gap we have not as yet
been able to figure out. Having
counted upon him right up to date,
we are not well prepared to fill his
shoes on short notice. It is going
to cut some ice with the final showing
of the team, but there are a number
of men who have sufficient size and
athletic ability, though not perhaps
as much speed or experience as Brad
ley. Tally Johnston or Cushman —
both football stars —are strong play
ers and one or the other is likely to
fall heir to the vacancy.
Prep Fives Clash
In Games To-morrow
The eleventh round of games In the
local Prep Basketball League will be
played to-morrow afternoon. The
games scheduled to be played are Don
aid Eraser and Tech High. G. M. A and
Stone Mountain and Peacock-Fleet and
Boys’ til ph.
CUBAN HURLER OFF FOR CAMP.
HAVANA, Feb. 16. —Emilio Pal
mero, a Cuban pitcher, left to-day for
Marlin, Texas. He will report next
Saturday to the New York club of
the National League for a try-out.
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TH BOX CROSS
IN MILWAUKEE
iHICAGO, Feb. 16.—Milwaukee s
effort to bring Jimmy Coffroth
here from San Francisco to
stage a boxing show has at last been
rewarded. The dean of fight pro
moters will leave the Coast within a
week for Chicago. He will arrange a
card for March 5 in the Beer City.
Coffroth is not making a special trip
of it. He's coming on business, and
has consented to act while here. The
main attraction is going to be Charlie
White and Leach Cross, according to
word from "Sunny Jim •” Coffroth is
not invading Wisconsin as a rival pro
moter, or with any intention to stir up
feelings among the boys who run
clubs there. He is coming as an
agent for the Riverclew Athletic Club
and will act only as matchmaker.
Jam?s is a booster for the fight
game and he hopes that the way In
which he will handle this show will be
of some aid to the MHwauKee crowd.
He is working on a salary and his
work will be open to all who have any
connections with the Wisconsin
game. Coffroth recently closed with
Cross, who Is now on his way here.
White has accepted. The March show
and possibly another one will be han
dled exclusively bj- Coffroth, and then
he will return to the West to prepa-e
for his match between Willie Ritchie
and Tommy Murphy.
Coulon Announces
He’ll Meet Williams
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16.—Johnny
Coulon announces positively that he
will defend his title against Johnny
Williams.
In a letter the bantamweight cham
pion goes on record as follows:
I am notifying Promoter Me-
Carey to send on the articles for
my contest with Williams —am
ready to sign.
J am in great shape again ex
cept for my injured hand, and
that is mending nicely.
All I ask Is that I be permitted
to participate In two minor bouts
before leaving for the coast. I
will accept the SI,OOO that Harris
offers as a “gift," and have made
arrangements to turn this money
over to Father Quill for the bene
fit of the Chicago Working Boys’
Home.
Positively the weight must be
116 pounds ringside. I will give
away no more weight.
JOHNNY COULON.
Amherst Is After
Steffen as Coach
CHICAGO, Feb. 16.—Walter Stef
fen, who was captain of the 190$ Inl
verslty of Chicago football eleven and
a member of the all-American team,
expected to decide to-day whether
to accept a position as football coach
at Amherst College or a similar po
sition at the Carnegie Institute of
Technology at Pittsburg.
Hub Purdue Ignores
President Murphy
NASHVILLE. Feb 16.—“1f I tin to
play on .the Cub team it will be only
after 1 have been ordered there by Pres
ident .James Gaffney, of the Bouton «lub,
my boas. I'm a Brave, and I’m going
to Htick.’T said Hub Purdue here, just
before boarding a train for Hot Springs,
where be will jviu the Bub Lun
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
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THIS CRUEL WAR.
AMONG THE HORDE of magnates infesting New York at this time
there are a number who know s omuch about baseball that they don’t
want to win a baseball war. These are mostly American leaguers. Headed
by Mr. Ban Johnson, whose fatness does not extend to his head, they have
declared emphatically against going into court with their Federal League
troubles, no matter how certain victory might be.
These gentlemen are not peaceful by Inclination, but by judgment.
I They have enough sense to know that about one more sordid money battle
between baseball promoters would finally educate the public to a complete
understanding of the fact that the ball park is simply an outdoor theater—
that rooting for Mr. Mathewson on the ground that he is a New Yorker is
about as silly as rooting for Mr. Sothern or Louis Mann on the same ground.
This feeling among fans is growing fast enough as it is. Even in St.
Louis, the real home of baseball fever, the public will no longer loyally
support bad baseball, any more than it would walk up to the box office
night after night and pay for bad acting. This has led to keener competi
tion for good ballplayers, and this is what makes the Federal League a
menace to the profitable Investments of big league owners. If they can
produce the proper brand of baseball they need have no fear of not draw
ing crowds —and the wise men in baseball know this is •true.
There was a time when fans went out and rooted for the "home team."
There afe not many of these fans now. They root for the home team only
when it is playing good baseball. The magnates have brought this about.
They have juggled ballplayers and dollars in the public sight for a decade,
and the pretense that it is “sport” is about played out. One more dress
parade of the money element such as would accompany a war would com
plete the work. j
PICKING ON FOOTBALL.
THE FOOTBALL RULES committee has done its deadly work. We
are growing to have more respect for the game and less for its rulers every
year. We wer enever very strong for the game, but any sport that can
survive this rules committee year after year must have some basic merit.
This winter the committee met just long enough to hand the dear old
game another black eye and then adjourn. On this occasion they got
after the forward pass again. Just when the public was beginning to be
lieve that by virtue of the forward pass football might eventually evolute
from a mess into an Interesting sport the rules committee begins lying
awake nights to devise means for choking it off.
Last season several teams used the forward pass fearlessly because
they found that under the rules the ball could be grounded without penalty
when the play was blocked. The dear old women of the rules committee
were extremely scandalized. By virtue of the forward pass and the use
made of it in the West there was danger that Colgate or Swarthmore or
somebody might bob up and wallop Yale or Harvard at any minute, these
universities not having the nrive to open up their game. So the rules
committee immediately penalized this play and increased the hazard of
attempting open attack, instead of giving it all encouragement
BASffiALIWi
Ty Cobb says that he will give the
American League the best playing he
ever has done the coming season. If
this is true, the pitchers and catchers
in the Ban Johnson circuit had better
be awake at all times.
♦ • •
"Hap” Myers, former first sacker for
the Braves, who was released to the
International League and recently
signed with the Feds, has a clause In
his contract which provides that he can
quit if the line-up does not suit him. He
got SSOO for signing it.
• * •
"King’’ Cole is reported at or near
Hot Springs, Ark., for the purpose of
taking the waters.
• • •
Jimmy Isaminger, of The Philadelphia
North American, says: ‘‘lt is not ex
aggeration to say that Eddie Collins'
eyes are worth their weight In gold.”
* * •
The Wisconsin-Illinois magnates will
meet Thursday to talk over the schedule
for the coming campaign. President
Weeks has called the meeting
• • •
Joe third sacker, who will
be given a try-out by the Pirates the
coming campaign, was recently ten
dered a banquet by his friends In Chi
cago. They all wished him the great
est amount of success
• • •
George Ben I st. L. Herring, Ray Stew
art, John McConas, John Summers and
Louis Crotttchall have signed their con
tracts with the Keokuk club, of the
Central Association, for the season.
• * •
Manager Art Devlin, of the Oakland
club, of the Pacific Coast League, is
anxious to see what Murphy, the young
infielder he recently signed, can do
Devlin has heard a k>t about Murphy
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1 ble an athlete he really is.
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Another minor league outfielder has
signed with the Federal*. He is Harry
Cassidy, last season with Denver in the
Western. Cassidy has been ordered to
report at Chicago March 1 for "assign
i ment."
• • •
Manager Del Howard, of the Frisco
club, has received word from Managers
McGraw and Callahan of the world tour
ists that they have an outfielder the
Seals can secure. No name was men
tioned, but it’s a cinch that the ball
tosser is not I*ee Magee, Tris Speaker
or Sam Crawford
• • •
The White Sox should have one of
th** strongest hurling staffs In the
American league this year. Callahan
had a pretty good array of pitching
talent last season, and with some prom
ising recruits should improve greatly.
Then, Ed Walsh also may be a come
back.
• • •
Cicotte, Scott, Russell. Benz and
are some of the twirlers on Cal
lahan’s staff.
• • •
Clark Griffith received a postal from
Herman Schaefer the other day, wish
ing his chief the best success for th*
coming season. It was the first word
Griff had heard from the comedian since
he departed for the other Continent.
• • •
There may be quite a little fussing
over Just which American League club
will have first call on the Los Angeles
club for fanning purposes. Frank
Chance has just purchased $60,000 worth,
but the control still rests with Frank
Dillon, who ia Clark Griffith’s brother
in-law*
CUBBY FAILED
TO SHOW PUNCH
IN RECENT GO
CHICAGO. Feb. 16.—“Bunchless
Jimmy Clabby,” they are call
ing him on the Coast. It seems
that the Hammond Hash, though win.
ning by a basketful of points over
Petroskey, did not make as favorable
impression with the critical Los An
geles fans as he did with those of San
Francisco.
They like the man with the wallop
in Southern California, and they are
convinced that Clabby Is minus that
asset. Reports of the controversy say
th_t James set himself time and time
again and shot his right squarely to
the chin point without making the
sailor back up. It’s too bad. A Clab
by with a punch would be a ring
marvel. They give James credit for
being an Attejl for cleverness, but
they ask more than skill In the West
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ATLANTA. < j 1
INDOOR SPORTS
D AVIMf' r®BRIEFS
“Battling” Kelly, one of the most
promising youngsters developed around
here In some time, handed Young Gold
man a lacing for ten rounds Sat
urday night. Kelly floored Goldman in
the third round and had the best of
every session.
• • •
Goldman’s covering up tactics was all
that saved him from a knock-out. Kel
ly was forced to do all the leading and
pv* up a great battle, x considering his
experience This boy should certainly
be heard from in thA future.
* • •
Joe Superior, who fought a draw with
Kid York Saturday’night, holdJi the rec
ord for being the busiest battler In At
lanta. Superior’s scrap with York was
his seventh in eleven days. And of all
these bouts Joe has still to suffer his
first defeat.
• • •
Eddie Walsh, who was stopped by
Kid Young in two rounds recently,
wants a chance with some of the other
boys around here. Walsh is particu
larly anxious to get on with Meyer
Pries or Kid York, as he figures he
can take either of these boys to a lac
ing.
• • •
WilUe Ritchie Is said to be a very
modest pug. The other day Willie was
asked ir he could beat any boy in his
class and stated that he did not think
so, but would take a try st them all.
lack Johnson says it will take $50,000
to get him to fight Sam Langford ir
London. From tills distance it look."
very much as if tiie colored boxer will
have a difficult time getting a pro
moter to hang up a purse of this
amount.
« « •
Daniel McKetrick is besieging the
American press with letters describing
the corning Johnson-Moran as the big
gest thing in the world of fistlna. I
may be if it comes off. But Danle
is forgetting one. Gunboat Smith.
• ♦ •
‘ The writer saw Terry Nelson, the
Greek battler, stop Jim Cronin ir
Macon last week, and Terry looker
much better than when he was boxing
in Atlanta. Terry expects to come her*
soon, as he has been promised a mate!
with Mickey Gannon by a local pro
moter.
• • •
Mickey says his injured hand will br
in shape again before long and he wouk
like nothing better than to try It out
against Nelson.
After resting for a few days, Jimmy
Grant started light work yesterday ir
preparation for a busy campaign. Grant
meets "Spider” Britt here Wednesday
and will probably take on Phil McGov
ern. brother to Terry, some time next
week.
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