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Frank Browning, Carl Thompson
and Elliott Dent Will Be Back
for Coming Season—All Have
Delivered for Crackers in Past.
By Harry Lewis.
’!T'li the I%] ane L e @ aon
\N drawing near Billy Smith
manager of the Crackers, is & |
busy party these days trying ‘o ar
range his team for the start of the
Prßclice games
Although Billy pnot SAaying mucsa
about his plavers, It can sasiiy be seen
it Smith is banking strongly on his
rio of grea urlers—Elliott Dent
'arl Thompson and Frank Hvunn:nu‘
to make his aggregation a pennant
ntender during the coming ocam-)
alps
A\ three pitchers have already been
iried and have delivered in clean-cu
fashion Dent and Thompson helped
the Crackers win the pennant in 1913
oth hurling great ba during the)
tall end of the 1913 season Both also
piteched fairly good ball last season,
sithough Carl didn't report for duty
ntil the season was well under w
Browning Had Hard Luck.
Last season was Browning's s
hance with the locals Smi Wi~ |
sidered Frank one of his malnstays
He had rather har juck thr ghout |
the 1914 campalgn, losing many games |
Y Oone run ‘
With Dent, Browning and Thomp ‘
wn on hand from the jump of the
oming season, local fans should be
vated to some grand hurling In &
ecent letter recelved from Dent the
atter states that he is rounding into
the very best cond!tion of his career
which meana that. Elilott should place
many games in the win column before
he 1915 season is over
Browning is spending mos f his
time In Atianta He reports that his
arm is feeling fine, and he is anxiously
iwaiting the start of the season
Thompson 18 taking things easy on
his farm, resting for the start of the
fireworks
Several Youngsters on Staff.
Rilly also will have several young
sters on his staff, but they will have to
show something in the art ol twiri
ng before Billy can count on them to
ake turns with the “"Big Three”
Hack” Eibel and Rivington Bis
and 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
o walt until Roy starts hauling in
he long flies or smashes the ball out
for timely hits before he can be placed
n 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 vet. It is hard to
wpe the Crackers out Not much is
nown of the new men. However,
with Dent, Browning and Thompson
as the hurlers, with Bisland and Ei
hel as a foundation for the infield
Billy has a good start in building his
1915 aggregation
Dodgers to Report
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In Florida Sunday
BROOKLYN, Feb, 27.—Manager Wil
bert Robinson has notified his piayers
to report at Daytona, Fla., on Feb
ruary 8.
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 15, Birmingham, at Daytona;
March 16, 17 and 18, Jacksonville, at
Daytona; March 19, 20, 21 and 22, Phil
adelphia Americans, at Daytona;
March 23, 24, 26 and 26, Long Branch
Cuban Stars), at Daytona; Efi;nvh 27,
8, 29 and 30, New York Americans, at
Daytona: March 31 and April 1 and 2,
Keewatin College, at Daytona; April 3,
jacksonville, at Jacksonville; April b
and 6. Richmond, at Richmond: April 7
and 8, Washington, at Washington;
\pril 9 and 10, New York Americans, at
Ebbets Field; April 11, New York Ameri
ans. at Newark: April 12 and 13, Phila
delphia Americans, at Ebbets Field;
\pril 18, Providence, at Providence;
\pril 25, Newark, at Newark.
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Locust Grove Five
Wins Seven Strai
aight
TENNILLE, GA. Feb.’27.—Locust
Grove Institute barely won its sev
enth straight game thise afternoon
from the fast Tennille team, 36 to
34 The game was tied at the end
of the second half. Witchard, of
,ocust Grove, shot the winning goal.
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Wingo Leaves for
Reds' Training Camp
NORCROSS, GA., Feb. 27.—Ivey B.
Wwingo left this morning for Alexan
dria, La., the training camp of Her
soe’s Cincinnati Reds. Wingo will be
with the Reds this season if Herzog
and Huggins can agree on the trade
for him
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Billy Smith’s ‘Big Three’ Will Be Back Again
Browning, Dent and Thompson Are Real Stars
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In Big Cue Match
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Andy J. Rogers, champion of the
Fastern States, and BEverett (Kid)
Ingraham, cha#dmpion 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.
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
received regarding his work on the
Coast,
mg/%@!‘e clion
b’ : Georee LRy ~—
, THOSE BASEBALL PLAYERS.
| “They do not want the iron cross,”
' Remarked the buseball fan.
' “They do not want the iron cross—
They want the iron man.”
“My Best and Worst Play,” inte®™
ests us strangely. Our worst play was
perpetrated when we held a king full
against four tens. Our best play was
when he quit trying to piay poker.
Charley Cutler, according to the
press agent, wants to meet Gotch.
Somebody 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 c¢lubs having neen 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.
Roger Bresnahan is getting rid of
his veterans, but Joe Cantillon is
getting rid of his youngsters. He
has re?eased Lee Tannehill.
| It is hard to gain recognition these
days. Charley Cutler comgs out flat
lfomed with the claim that he I 8
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ATLANTA., GA. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1915
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.
champion wrestler of the world, and
yvet the war in BEurope doesn’t even
hesitate.
Ball players on training trips are
not rejoicing over the report that a
Chicago firm has received an order
for 27,000,000 cans. .
THE PRESS AGENT IS A WIZARD.
Jess Willard, down near. Merico,
Is wild and flendish now.
The 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.
“Jack Johnson needs work.” A firm
in Leavenworth, Kang, is willing to
give him work for a year, furnishiug
him with hammer, rockpile and other
necessary implements.
CALLS FOR B. B. CANDIDATES
CHATTANOOGA, Feb. 27.—Captain
Randall issued a call to-day for ail can
didates for the University of Chatta
nooga baseball team to report Monday
afternoon.
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Bill Donovan Strong
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In His Praise for
Shortstop Derrick
NEW YORK, Feb, 27.-—Bill 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,” geplied
Bill, “but I wouldn't compare him to
(‘laude Derrick, the fellow you let go.
Say, if you could get Derrick to play
the ball for vou 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
gtop in the world.”
Derrick is one of the mysteries of
paseball. In the minors he covers
ground like @ 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.
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
cal American League squad at the train
ing camp at San Antonio.
‘Loss of Collins Bi
Blow to Mackmen,’
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Says Chief Bender
BALTIMORE, MD., Feb, 27.-Chief
Bender, who was slgned by the local
Federais, 13 in Baltimore. The big
Redman -is the picture of health, and
gavs he will win at least twenty games
for Otto lkinabe next season, Bender
declared that .Eddie® Collilng will be a
serfous loss to the Mackmen
“Juddie Collins’ loss will be the worst
kind of a blow to tike,tiag aspirations
of Connie Mack,”’ asserted Bender
“Collinse ™ a wonder, and will make
the Chicago White Sox Rave a wonder
ful infleld. °lf 1 were asked to pick the
star player of the world, I wonld name
Collins first and Ty Cobb second.”
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esta, in Peuglot,
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Wins Grand Prix
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb, Z7.—Resta, in
Peugeot, to-day won the Grand Prix
BRUNSWICK, Feb. 27.-Wade Rey
nolds will manage the Brunswick team
for the 1915 =eason in the eGorgia State
Leagpe. A meeting of the fans was
held this week, and plans made to sub
seribe the money needed to start the
season., Reynolds was a former player
in the American League He caught
for Brunswick last year and is pdpular
with the fans,
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Students’ Expenses for Sporting
Events Very Low, Due to Season
lNckets—Penn. Relays Becoming
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World’s Championship Meeting.
By Walter Camp.
I) RESIDENT HIBBEN'S hope, suggested in his report, tha
the time would come when the collegian would be agmitted
to all his sports at a merely nominal charge, or even free
of any charge whatever, has prompted mueh discussion
One might believe from reading the strictures passed upon
this suggestion that it-was a new one. To those who follow the
history of college sport, however, this is one of the old, familiar
remedies due to come to the front onee in so often. It is usually
greeted as a universal panacea for all the ills of college athleties,
and then quickly disappears. Extravaganece in college athletics is
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HE classified athletic meets at
I the Young Men's Christian As
clation have been conducted In
all classes cach month and after the
geries is completed gold, silver and
bronze buttons will be given to first,
wecond and third places In Classes A,
B and C.
Since these meets have been serving
as try-outs for the Hexathlon con
test, which will be held ‘March 17, a
great deal of interest has been added
and the men and boys are working on
all events. The George Muse Clothing
Company has offered a large loving
cup as a State trophy. This trophy
will be given to the assoclation in
Georg'a that makes tife best record n
the Heéxathlon, This Is_purely State
competition and while all associations
compete against each other, the com
petition is held on the local gymnasi
um floor of each city and the results
forwarded where they will be tabu
lated .and the winner declared.
At the meeting of the physical di
rectors of the State of “Georgia, to
gether with Dr. George J. Fisher, it
wag recommended that the mssocia
tions of (ieorgia accept the Hexathlon
scheme as set forth by the interna
tional .commitiee. Dr. Fisher dis
cussed at length the various phases of
ruling and scoring in this interna
tional contest and the general feeling
resulted among the directors that
Georgia could not afford to be the
only State that was not represented
in this affair. .
Table of Points Used.
Bach event in the classified athletic
meet and Hexathlon is classified ac
cording to a table of points. In the
running high jump, for instance, the
perfect scoring of 100 points is placed
at 5 feet 7 inches, and for each quar
ter of an inch less thec athlete re
celves 1 point less. In classifying the
men into A, B and C classes the men
are divided according to tHe number
of points they make; as 40 and under,
Class C; between 40 and 70 points,
('lass B, and above 70 points, Class A.
This places a man according to his
own ability and If he jumps 4 feet
11 1-2 inches or higher he goes into
Class A. Height between 4 feet 4
inches and 4 feet 11 inches places the
men in Class B. Those bélow 4 feet 4
inches men are in Class C. However,
if @ man isg in Class A in five events
and Class B in two events, his Class
B points are carried to (Mlass A divi
sion. An athlete may advance his
points to his highest class, but can not
bring them down to his lowest class,
Under this scoring system men are
not only divided in classes 80 that
they compete with men or Itke ability,
but it tends to bring the all-around
man to the top. The all-around man
is the prominent athlete of the day
and this discourages the old idea of
gpecialization, or of being a one-event
star
Greeks Introduced Pentathlon.
This idea of all-around competition
is not a new one and has been long
tested out in America. America, how -
ever, 1s not responsible for this all
around idea and the Pentathlon (the
five-event contest) was introduced by
the Greeks in the elghteenth Olympic
Festival. This consisted of combined
competition in five events and includ
ed the running of one stald (600
vards), long jump, discus throw, jav
lin throw and the three-fall wrest
lings. The athletes who competed
were called “Pentathletes” and ‘they
must compete in all five events.
In ‘the present Hexathlon contest
the records of the best eight men of
this association will be sent to the in
ternational committee, and, after
comparing them with other associa
tions, the definite standing and plac
ing of Atlanta will be determined.
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a growing evil that is becoming such
s menace that, as predicted in this
column & year ago, very serious con
sideration must and will be given to
it. But when it comes to the admis
sion charges, these bave bpen held al
really phenomenally low figures, nfi
susily recognized by any student of
onditions. . o
In the last ten years these charges
have not kept pace with the advance
in almost any other line of what
‘might be called the amusements of
jife. In the larger colleges, by Season
tickets and the like, these expenses
are brought to very small figures.
Just to take one test: A y
man can kee every important e
contest on his home grounds
the entire year, and in fact in fs
cases all the athletic contests of
entire four-year course, for less tha
it costs him to take his girl to an
portant social event of the collegs
yeur—the promenade, for instance. A
sum of approximately twenty dollars
will admit a man to all the athietie
contests, whereas ‘three or four times
that sum would barely finance even
economically the latter event
The other.point in this very brief
comment, which will later be followed
by a more exhaustive discusgion, and
that is that the poor man. the mun
| who is working his way through, is
given in all the larger colleges an op=
’pnrtunlly to see the important athlet
lc events free by acting as usher
Ipm-vlou- to ‘the, beginning of the
| game. And finally it is the public, the
graduates who can afford to pay the
| limit of $2.60,. who make ap nine
tenths of the sum taken in at the gate
in the big game.
Big Penn Carnival. }
With the first of March in sight, the
college athlete is beginning to awaks
en from mid-winter lethargy and logk
longingly out on the opening field and
river. Indoor sports, which have
served -as a stop gap, begin to find &
waning interest as the sun mounts
higher, :
The first of the big outdoor events,
and the one toward which the track
athletic world is already beginning to
point, is what is known under the
elaborate title of Intercollegiate
Interscholagstic Relay Carnival ;
is really the conception of the brain of
Ellis, of the University of Pennsyl
vania, who more than twenty years
ago started these relay races, with a
few schools competing, and two or
three invitation events for colleglans.
This year, on Friday and Saturday,
April 28 and 24, will take place the
twenty-first of these annual meet
ings, and It is safe to say that the in
terest in the event is, even to the col
leges, closely bordering upon that ot
the intercollegiate championships:
and as far as the number of people
I'Hrm-tl,\' interested on account of the
interscholastic races, this relay car
nival dwarfs the Intarcollexmtdtml
and field championships almest into
ingignificance. -
The great championship relay races
will be supplemented by two medley
relay races, in which teams from col
leges not entered in the championship
relay will compete. In the first of
these the first man covers a quarter
mile, the second a half mile, the third
three-quarters of a mile and the last
man a mile. In the qther so-called
medley relay the first man covers 110
vards, the second 220, the third 440
and the fourth 880, This will add an
element of novelty to the meet. :
Title Relay Race. ]
The usual champlonship 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 thr: i
groups, the first group being invited
to take part in the champlonship re
lay races, for it should be understood
that this is still'an invitation meet.
The big relays will be run on Sat
urday, but on Friday the college
Pentathon, a so-called all-around
track and field championship of all
the colleges in America, will be held.
The authorities are sure that Sweden
will send a team of runners unless
hefore that time the country becomes
involved in war. As last year 300
schools and colleges were represent
ed, It is easy to calculate that at the
present rate of expansion this relay
invitation meet is rapidly assuming a
position of interest as a world’'s
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