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Frank Browning, Carl Thompson
and Elliott Dent Will 8e Back
for Coming Season—All Have
Delivered in the Past.
By Harry Lewis.
7ITH the 1915 baseball scason
W drawing near, Billy Smith
manager us the Crackers, is &
busy party these days trying to ar
range his team for the start of the
practice games
Although Billy is not saying mue
about his players, it can easily be seen
hat Smith is banking strongly on his
trio of great hurlers—Eilliott Dent,
‘arl Thompson and Frank Browning
to make his aggregation a pennant
contender during the coming cam
paign
All three pitchers have already been
tried and have delivered in clean-cufl
fashion. Dent and Thompson helped
the Crackers win the pennant in 1813,
both hurling great ball during the
tail end of the 1913 season. Both alse
pitched tairly good ball last season,
although Carl didn't report for duty
unti] the season was well under way.
Browning Had Hard Luck.
last soason was Browning's first
chanee with the locals. Smith con
sigdered Frank one of his mainstays
He had rather hard luck throughout
the 1914 campalign, losing many games
by one run
With Dent, Browning and Thomp
son on hand from the jump of the
coming season, local fans should be
reated to some grand hurling In a
recent letter received from Dent the
atter states that he Is rounding into
the very best condition of his career,
which means that Elliott should place
many games in the win column before
the 1915 season is over
Browning is spending most of is
time in Atlanta He reports that his
arm Is feeling fine, and he is anxiousi)
awaiting the start of the season
Thompson is taking things easy on
his farm, resting for the start of the
fireworks
Several Youngsters on Staff.
Billy also will have several young
sters on his staff, but they will have to
show something in the art of twirl
ing before Billy can count on them to
take turns with the “Big Three.”
“Hack” Eibel and Rivington Bis
land are the other standbys of the
Cracker outfit Of course, Roy Mo
ran should fit in handily, but local
fans have not seen Roy in action for
such a long time that they will have
to wait until Roy starts hauling in
the long flies or smashes the ball out
for timely hits before he can be placed
in the same class with the above men
tioned players
Harry Welchonce would fit in nice
v, but, of course, Harry will not play
ball for some time yet. It is hard to
dope the Crackers out. Not much is
known of the new men. However,
with Dent, Browning and Thompson
as the hurlers, with Bisland and Ei
bel as a foundation for the linfield
Billy has a good start in building his
1915 aggregation,
Dodgers to Report
In South Febh. 28
BROOKLYN, Feb, 27—Manager Wil
bert Robinson has notified his players
to report at Daytona, Fla., on Feb
ruary 28.
The complete schedule of spring
training games was announced last
night as follows:
March 6,7, 8, 9 and 10, Brooklyn vs.
Superbas. at Daytona: March 11 and 12,
Stetson College, at Daytona; March 13,
14 and 156, Birmingham, at Daytona;
March 16, 17 and 18, Jacksonville, at
Daytona; March 19, 20, 21 and 32, Phil
adelphia Americans, at Daytona;
March 23, 24, 26 and 26, Long Branch
(Cuban Stars), at Daytona: March 21,
28, 29 and 30, New York Americans, at
Daytona; March 31 and April 1 and 2,
Keewatin College, at Daytona; April 3,
Jacksonville, at Jacksonville; Axrll b
and 6, Richmond, at Richmond; April 7
and 8, Washington, at Washington;
April and 10, New York Americans, at
libbets Field; April 11, New York Ameri
cans. a 1 Newark; April 12 and 13, Phila.
delphia Americans, at Ebbets Field:
April 18, Providence, at Providence;
April 25, Newark, at Newark.
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—Presicent
Gilmore, of the Federal L.eague, an
nounces that his league would try
1o get an early advantage over the
National and American Leagues this
vear by opening the Federal L.eague
season several days before the other
major league openings.
it was declared on authority here
tn-day that the Federal I.eague has
abandoned any intentiop of coming
into New York City this season, and
that there would be no transfer of
franchises other tnan that of Kangas
City to Newark.
Secretary John: A, Heydler, of the
Nationa' League. announced to-day
that he had received the signed con
tract of Umpire Charles Rigler, this
completing the league's staff of um
pires for 1915.
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In Big Cue Match
Andy J. Rogers, champion of the
Kastern States, and Everett (Kid)
Ingraham, champion of New England,
will play a 600-point match pool game
starting Tuesday night and finishing
on Thursday night.
Rogers and Ingraham have decided
to play 200 points each night. The
match should be one of the most ex
citing and hardest fought staged in
this city in a long time, as both play
ers have been winning regularly.
‘Tod’ Slean Still
For Racing G
LA FAYRTTE, IND..: Féb. 27.--Al
though Tod Sloan, once greatest of all
jockeys, has long since stepped out of
the limelight, he is still in the racing
game. He has visited Lafayette in
search of promising young horses, which
he is buying up to start a racing string
next season.
Sloan, while he is now 40 years old. is
still dapper, dresses faultlessly and
weighs little more than he did in the
days when he was the idol of the horse
racing world.
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Loss of Collins Big |
Blow to Mackmen,’
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Says Chief Bender
BALTIMORE, MD., Feb. 27.—Chief
Bender, who was signed by the local
Federais, is in Baltimore. The bi |
Redman is the picture of health, angl
says he will win at least twenty games |
for Otto Knabe next season. Bender |
declared that Kddie Collins will be a|
gserious loss to the Mackmen, !
“Juidie Collins’ loss will be the worst |
kind of a blow to the lag aspirations |
of Connie Mack,'” asserted Bender, |
“Collins is a wonder, and will make
the Chicago White Sox have a wonder
ful infield. If I were asked to {flck the
star player of the world, I would ‘name
Collins first and Ty Cobb second.” |
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Cricket Popularity
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Waning in England
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“While nearly all are agreed thati
there is something wrong with the
great national game of cricket,”” says |
Garden C. Smith, in Golf Illustrated, |
“‘there is much diversity of opinion a#|
to what it is, and as to how the de-|
cdy is to be arrested. {
8o far as one can gather, the hest!
opinion is that the game, although
somewhat changed in character, owingf
to new conditions, has suffered no de- |
terioration and is still in its highest |
manifestation, as attractive as ever lo’
those who play it."”
BOSTON, Feb. 27.—Captain Tom Hal
pin, of the B. A. A, has quit racing for
the present, at least, and has asked |
Manager George V. Brown to cancel all |
of his engagements for the remainder |
of the season. i
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ATLANTA. GA. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25 1915,
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NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 27.—Fight. |
! ers of all ranks and classes are now |
'<, swarming over the city of New Or- <
; leans. Many are working as walt- |
, ers and at other occupations, since 5
! the game Is not profitable to them /(
any more. Other old-timers are )
{ working as helpers and rubbers to |
{ thelr more fortunate brothers of the |
¢ ring, and in this way manage to
; pull out a small weekly salary.
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Athletics Will Have !
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New Ball Uniforms
Connie Mack s authority for :hol
news that the Athletics this year wlll{
be garbed in an entire change of uni
form under the guidance of Jack Gray‘
and Harry Long. The A's home suits
will be white flannel with a blue stripe
one inch wide and white stockings with
a black stripe. The traveling sult will
be of light gray with blue stripes and
white stockings with blue stripes. Con
nie says that he is not making the
change because the boys lost the
world’'s championship. but thinks it 1s
a stunning uniform and entirely differ
ent from anything tney had before.
The Phillies’ home uniforms will be
white flannel and blue ste‘»cki'nTs. The
traveling uniforms will be Yale gray
with black stockings.
Bill Donovan Strong
In His Praise for
Shortstop Derrick
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NEW YORK, Feb., 27.—8i1l Dono
van, of the golden smile and mirthful
countenance, may be the most jovial
person in the world, but Roger Bres
nahan evidently considers him as a
kill-joy. “What do you think of my
new shortstop, Bill Fischer?” asked
Roger. “You have seen a lot of him
in the International League.”
“He's a pretty good man,” replied
Bill, “but I wouldn't compare him to
(laude Derrick, the fellow you let gBO.
Say, if you could get Derrick to play
the ball for you that he played down
in Baltimore the last two seasons, you
would stop looking for a shortstop.
You'd think you had the best short
stop in the world.”
Derrick is one of the mysteries of
baseball. In the minors he covers
ground like a Maranville, but as soon
as he gets in the big circus he be
comes a bloomer. But Bill should
have given Roger his opinion on Der
rick before Radj cut the strings to
him.
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‘ SMALL SQUAD OF INDIANS.
| CLEVELAND, Feb. 27.—~Twenty-sev
en regulars, including Manager Bir
mingham and Lee Fohl, who has been
engaged as coach, will compose the lo
val American League squad at the train
ing camip at San Antonio.
Nate Lewis Sets New
Style for Managers;
d Apol ’
CHICAGO, Feb. 27.—Nate Lewis,
who manages Charleyr White the Chi
cago lightweight, says:
“My man never will meet Johnny
Dundee again until Scotty Monteith,
who manages Dundee, apologizes tor
an insult.
“Yes, yes, go on,” coached the au
ditor.
“Well, it happened this way,” =aid
Nate. “In New Orieans in 1913 White
and Dundee staged a scrap. Dundee
floored White in the tirst round. Just
as he sent him to the floor the lightis
went out. Monteith, I learn, later said
that I had those lights turned out to
save White from a knockout. That
wasn’t true, I had nothing to do with
the switching out of the lights. Mon
teith, by making such a statement,
did me a gross injustice, and I'l!l not
permit his man to figant mine until he
euts his words.”
Monteith refuzes to eat 'ein.
The charge made at the time was
that if the lights hadn’'t gone out just
at the moment that White hit the mat
he never would have been able to
jump to his feet within the ten second
limit. Switching off the lights, it was
said, enabled White's tralners to pull
him into his corner and revive him.
The lights were off for nearly 30 min
utes. By that time White had recov
ered his polse and stayed to the finish
of the bout with Dundee.
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WALTER CAMPISNOTIN
FAVOR OF PROPOSEDFREE J
ATHLETICS FOR COLLERES:
Students’ Expenses for Sportin
Events Very Low, Due to Seas
Tickets—Penn. Relays Becomi
World's Championship Meet.
By Walter Camp. .
P RESIDENT HIBBEN'S hope, suggested in his reporfiy
the time would come when the collegian would be admiti
to all his sports at a merely nominal charge, or even fre
of any charge whatever, has prompted much discussion.
One might believe from reading the strietures passed u
this suggestion that it was a new one. To those who follow the
history of college sport, however, this is one of the old, family
remedies due to come to the front once in so often. It is usu
greeted as a universal panacea for all the ills of college athle
and then quickly disappears. Extravaganee in college athle
'
By Georse I Phair
THOSE BASEBALL PLAYERS.
“They do not want_the iron cross”
Remarked the baseball fam.
“They do not want the irom cross—
They want the iron man.”
“My Best and Worst Play,” inter
ests us strangely. Our worst play was
perpetrated when we held a :in' full
nrim four tens. Our best play was
when he quit trying to piay poker.
Charley Cutler, according to the
gmong wants to meet Gotch.
y must have told Charley
that Gotch has a broken leg.
We don't believe the rumor that
Tommy Leach has signed with the
Reds. Tommy has always been con
sidered a sensible ball player.
Baseball clubs having peen limited
to twenty-one players, the next step
will be to limit a meeting of the Na
tional Commission to twenty-one
quarts of wine.
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Roger Bresna®we is getting rid of
his veterans, but Joe Cantillon is
goflinr rid of his youngsters. He
has released Lee Tannehill.
The average wrestler never would
succeed as a newspaper man. When
ever he admits that he has been flop
ping he thinks it is news.
It is hard to gain recognition these
days. Charley Cutler comes out flat
footed with the claim that he Is
champion wrestler of the world, and
yet the war In Europe doesn’'t even
‘healtnte‘
Ball players on training trips are
‘not rejoicing over the report that a
Chicago firm has received an order
tlor 27,000,000 cans.
THE PRESS AGENT IS A WIZARD.
Jess Willard, down near Mexico,
Is wild and fiendish now.
‘Thc press guy makes a wildcat grow
| Where once there was, a cow.
Possibly there is nothing in a name,
but Jess Willard's first opponent was
'a lad by the name of Fink.
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“Jack Johnson needs work.” A firm
in Leavenworth, Kane., is willing to
give him work for a year, furnishing
him with hammer, rockpile and other
necessary implements.
SUIT YOURSELF ABOUT IT.
We do wot ask you, kind reader, to
place implicit confidence in what fol
lows, but it came to us through the
United States mails and was signed
by Buddy McMillan, who, as all men
Lnow, isß an honorable man. Here
is 4¢:
Wolter to Get New
Chance With Yanks
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—Harry Wolter,
like Birdie Cree, is to get another
chance with the New York Americans.
The Yankees are dickering with the
Los Angeles club for the services of
Wolter, as glowing reports have been
Lg;‘:fl:ed regarding uis work on the
LOoast,
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a growing evil that is becoming Su€
« menace that, as predicted in thN
column a year ago, very serious coßs.
| sideration must and will be given i&
|it. But when it comes to the
| slon charges, these have been
'rmlly phenomenally low figures, as i
casily recognized by any student 8
i conditiond
| In the last ten years these
| have not kept pace with the
‘ln almost any other line of What
| might be called the amusements of
|life. In the larger colleges, on
tickets and the llke, these X o
| are brought to very small y
Just to take one test: Hie
mMAan can see every im athiet
contest on his home g 1
the entire year, and in in n
cases all the athletic contests :
entire four-year course, for less th
It costs him to take hllr to an i
portant social event the coliey
year—the promenade, for al *fig’
sum of approximately twenty '
will admit a man to all the athietic
contests, whereas three or four time
that sum would barely finance even
economically the lltlwfl. L e
The other point in 'y brie
comment, which will later be followed
by a more exhaustive ¢ r
that is that the poor man, the mi
who Is working his way through, Iz
| given in all the larger colleges an op
| portunity to see the important ,“, ;
ic events free by acting as usher
previous to the beginning of the
game. And finally it is the public, the
graduates who can afford to pay the
limit of $2.50, who make u ine
tenths of the sum taken In at the gat
in the big game.
Big Penn Carnival. "
With the first of mtcjbm .
college athlete is b.’in 'ng to a ]
en from mid-winter lethargy
longingly out on the ww
river. Indoor sports, which hai
served as a stop gap, begin to find
waning Interest as the sun mou
higher. =i
| The first of the big outdoor events
'land the one toward which m trac
athletic world is already beginning to '
point, is what is known under the
elaborate title of Intercollegiate and
Interscholastic Relay Carnival. This
is really the conception of " “Nin of
Ellls, of the University o otk
vania, who more than A g
ago started these relay ’
few schools gompeting, 4
three invitation events
This vear, on Friday
April 23 and 24, will
twenty-first of these
ings, and it is safe to &
| terest in the event is, /
leges, closely borderi
‘|the intercollegiate | .
and as far as the ng‘
directly interested oni ® .
interscholastic races,
niva! dwarfs the interd
and field championship X
insignificance. 4 ,
The great championship !
will be supplemented by t, 4
relay races, in which teams . S 8 §gy
leges not entered in the cham pius il
relay will compaie. In the first of
these the first man covers & guarter
mile, the second a half mile, the third
three-quarters of a mile and the last
man a mile. In the other so-called
| medley relay the first man covers 110
vards, the second 220, the third 440
and the fourth 880. This will add ap
element of novelty to the mest.
Title Relay Race.
The usual cha.mp()('mnmp relay will
be held for one, two'and four miles.
The committee, under Mr. Ellis, has
|endeavored to group the colleges and
universities, rating them in three
groups, the first group being invited
to take part in the championship re
|lay races, for it should be understood
that this is still an invitation meet.
The big relays will be run on Sa
urday, but on Friday the coljessn
Pentathon, a so-called all-aro
track and field championship of
the colleges in America, will be
The authorities are sure that Swedes
| wiil' send a team of runners un
before that time the country hee
|involved in war. As last yee
‘|schools and colleges were Trepre
|ed, it is easy to caloulate that at
| present rate of expansion this ¥
|invitation meet is rapidly 1m
, | position of Interest as a orld’
championship meeting. B
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