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MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1915
LLaziness Is the(zzrnq That Usually Rots the Rungs of the Ladder Leading to Fame
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*GEORGIAN SPORTS COVERED 4 IXPERTSS
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Chick” Evans Raises Question of
How Far an Angry Player Can
Throw an Unoffending Club.
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By Chick Evans.
HIZ story goes that once upon a
I time two golfers were playing
(quietly along, each doing his
utmost, but one of them had not only
one, but several, pieces of bad luck,
and after that began to play badly.
IFollowing a particularly bad shot, the
unfortunate one hec ame SO angry lh:(l‘
he threw his club with all his might.
“He threw it,” said the teller of the
story, “one hundred and fifty feet.”
‘lmpossible,” said the listener. “No
person living could throw a golf club
that far,”
The discussion ended in a bet to be
decided later, and I put the question
ip 10 my readers.
GHI." 1S very {irying upon one's|
temper, and there are few golfers |
who have not t some time in their
goiting lives thrown their clubs I
confess to the crime—and it is no less
than that—but it happened years ago,
and I do not think I shall ever be a |
repeater ‘
My wn act o irred on the fif-|
teenth reen at Glen View, perhaps
SEeVeNn vears as I was playing with
Kennet FKdw Is, then, as now, one
of the very leaders of the game, while
I, at that time, was very much of an
Imknowr I had been missing repeat
ed short putt nd when I lost on this
green by missing a very short one, 1
threw my putter and it went high
over the telegraph wires and along the
road bevond
‘L.eave it there!” 1 shouted to my
cad How many times since the
ave 1 eard the remar made by
ither fers, for 1 have seer ithout
11l of em do the same thii 2, from
Jerry Travers OWn, mere pa g
here to exempt Francis Quimet hose
good temper and patience are mar
velous
5.0 &
C ADDIES usually disregard the in
junction to “leave it there,” and
".r»;; either ) { It up or the golfer
aoes it himself ith shee h air
I remember that I nearly lost my
life once, escaping by an inch a clut
thrown by an angry plaver I was
very young, just heginning to play
well, and my opponent con ered
nimself the better player ind was
very Jjealous of me., It happened that
I had holed several long putts, and
finally wound up the match by a 3(
footer Whiz! came the club past m
head, barely missing me However, |
have never heard of anyone being se
riously hurt in this way, but it is a
disgraceful danger
In the end, golf is a great trainer
and leveler of bad habits, for 4 man
begins by blaming his club, but he ns
ually ends by recognizing the fact that
the fault lies with the man behind it.
But, returning to the question as to
how far a golfer can throw a club,
that heave of mine over the telegraph
wire gave me a sort of a standard
idea on the subject. From that expe
rience I deduce the fact that a player
could throw an iron-headed club
about 150 feet and not have to be
either a McGrath or an Arlie Mucks.
I think, however, that 150 feet would
be a good record,
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w E all know the feeling that one
could throw the club farther than
the ball went, but that is a little golf
ing delusion, handy in conversation.
Do not confuse the throwing of a
club with the aceident of letting it slip
from the hands. On rainy davs it
often seems impossible to get a tight
cnough grip
CHATTANOOGA, Dec, 4. "Bully”
Vandergraaff, of Alabama, is real all-
American timber. Coach Johnny Spie
gel. of the University of Chattanooga,
says so, and there I 8 no coach in the
country better gualified to pass on the
relative merits of the Alabama star
than is the Moccasing' pilot.
As the star member of the greatest
backficld which ever represented Wash.
ington and Jefferson, Splegel played
against every leading eleven in the
country, except those on the Pacifie
Coast, He {8 of the opinion that Van
dergraaf ranks wtih the best that he
ever faced. Vandergraaff was Included
in the all-American eleven picked by
Epnlegel for local and Eastern news-
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Curry Made Captain ‘
0f Vandy for 1916
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NASHVILLE, Dec. 4 ‘Rabbit” Cur.
Py, the wonderful Vanderbilt quarter- |
back for the past seasor was elected |
captain last night at the annual "nm-‘
modore banquet Curry has played
three vears on the team and comes
from Mariin, Texas ]
Soldi field Is
oldier Bartfield Is
Beaten by Brennaufll
BUFFALO "'—: _I :“K 0" Brennan
won the decision ove Holdler Bartfield
in 2 fast ten-rotund bout here last night
HERRING IS LEHIGH COACH
BOUTH PUTHLEHEM, PA,, Dec. 4
Hurry Herring, one of the best known
haskethall plavers in this country, has
baen ¢ lected ach of Lehigh Universi.
Iy's quintet for this season
THREE-CUSHION RESULTS.
CINUINNATL 1w i ~Juhn Denkel
mhn, of Philudeiphia eloated Willlam
Knithoff, 50 to 42, In their three-cushion
Bllllard mateh lust night
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’l\ OM JONES sends us the follow
ing statement concerning his
impression of the Jim Coffey-
Gunboat Smith fight, which we wit
nessed in Gotham last week:
“It was quite a treat, in a way, for
me to see this scrap, for 1 have been
hearing both men touted as possible
obponents for Willard. With that
knockout charged against him itl
doesn’t seem that Gunboat can be
seriously considered as a rival for
Jess. With Coffey it’s different. The
big fellow has plenty of room for
improvement, and in the near future
may be given the chance.
“I'm not saying this to try and teli
the public that Coffey stands a chance
with Willard. At the present time
the Roscommon giaat would not last
more than a few rounds with Wil
lard. Coffey has a good left jab,
but there doesn’t seem to be any
thing back of it. His right speaks
for itself, for it did all he asked of it.
“Bob Vernon disagrees with me,
for he is so enthusiastic about Cof
fey that he would like to see the big
fellow signed up right away. But
Bob will have to wait, like all
others,
“From what I was told about the
Moran fight 1 think Coffey should be
given anothef chance. Of course,
that's none of my business, but from
a. sportsmanlike standpoint that
would look like a good match.”
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LARNEY LICHTENSTEIN writes‘
from New York that he has ar
ranged dates for Wolgast, also fn:"
Joe Welling, the lightweight comer,
in his stable. Wolgast is to box ‘-'r;mi\’l
Callahan in Brooklyn, December T.f
Frankie Whitney in Atlanta Decem- |
ber 14, and Leach Cross in New \'nrl\"
December 17. Welling will meet Ben- |
ny Leonard on the same all-star 1"07':!%
with Wolgast and Cross on the 17th, |
will tackle Joe Welsh in Philly De- |
cember 25, and Quaker Jim Murphy |
in the same town on January 8§ |
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ATLANTA, Macon and Chat?nnooga;
have all hilled bouts for this!
month. Whitney meets Wolgast here
December 14; Feldman and Kid Un- |
derwood tilt the boxing lid in Macon
December 7, while Chattanooga is
to stage a Frankie Howard-Young
Denny bout and also a Budd-Delmont
serap
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TO-NIGHT in Memphis, Pal Moore,
| the crack little bantam from the
Tennessee City, will square off for
action with Artie Armstrong, the (Chi
cago crack Moore has been going
gréat of late and should beat the
“Windy City” lad
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FANS here are showing much inter.
. est in the Burns-Williams twen-
I'\ round canto in New Orleans to
nignt. This will be a real champion
ship battle vith Burns being given
1 zrand chance to take the title away
| from Williams, who has not been go
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ing any too“good of late
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\T ¢cGOORTY added another victory
A to his list the other night. when
|he stopped Nicl King i eleven
| rounds in Australia MeGoorty s
' scheduled to meet Les Dar y in a
twenty-round contest on the other
side Christmas Day.
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‘DQRCV already holds one knock-out
‘ victor to 1} credit over M
| Goorty. beside boasting of victories
over Jimmy Clabby and Jeff Smith
'~ Id he whip MecGoorty again’ there
| will be no denying the fact that the
| foreigner is made of hampionship
| material,
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Bill o'Hara, Formen
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- Big Leaguer, Enlists
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| TORONT( e ! W A “Bin"
O'Hara, former L member of the New
Yorl § Louis Natlonal Leagu¢
| baseball tes s and later of the Toronto
| Internationals, has been granted a com
| glon in the British R al Naval Air
| Serviee He will leave rtly for Eng
land to nplete a course in aviation
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NEW YORK, Dee .4 —Sam Langford
the Boston *“‘tar baby,” was outpointed
by Harry Wills, of New Orleans, in ten
rounds ‘ast night.
Frankie Wagner shaded Fred Kiedler
in ten rounds,
Marty Cross defeated Kid Herman in
ten rounds,
Harlem Tommy Murphy, the veteran
lightweight, gustained a broken arm in
his bout wl& Pete Hartley when both
hoys fell from the ring in a eclinch
Murphy's head hit the floor first. He
was unconscious for half an hour.
Artie Thomas knocked out Harry
Weston In the first round.
LOB ANGELES, Dee, 4.--The foothall
game between Syracuse University and
Oceidental College, set for this after
noon, has been called off The loecal
college received a telegram from Mr,
Brooks, coach of the Syracuse team,
saying that the heavy rains had caused
a landsiide on the Southern Pacific Rall.
road, near Dunsmuir, and that it would
be impossible to arrive in time for the
game,
ANSELILA IS SOLD FOR $5,000
LEXINGTON, KY. Dec. 4. A deal
YHas been closed hers by which Lewis H,
Titus, of Goshen, N. Y. bought of ¢ A,
Harrison, of Seattle, Wash. the world's
champion vearling fi'ly Anselila, 217}
The price Is vald to be close to $5 N".
Anselila was bred by John W, "lmnk‘im'.
of Woodland, Cal.
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BAR WOLGAST'S BROTHER
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 4. Johnny Wol
gast, birother of Ad, is barred from all
bouts in the Btate of Wisconsin by the
boxing commission. Wolgast had failed
to appear In Oshkosh recently, when
booked to fight
AMES. TOWA, Dee, 4 Durwood Moss,
of Des Molnes, has been elected 1818
Ames football captain Moss wasx this
weason's balfback. |
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WESTCOTT TUFTS CAPTAIN
) MEDFORD, MAER, Dee. 4 -Oliver H
Westeott, «f Malden, bhas been slected
captain of the Tufts College footbail
team
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BIRMINGHAM, Dec. 4. —Alabama's
tentative football schedule for 1916 in
cludes three important games to be
played in Birmingham, with Sewanee,
Tennessee and Georgia. The latter
game will be played Thanksgiving Day
if a more or less permanent urrnnfie
ment can be made with the Univers ty
of Georgia athletic authorities, 'l‘hls‘
day, the greatest of the football season,
always has been a weak one on Ala
bama's schedule
CGeorgia Tech, which has been an Ala
' bama opponent for the past twe years,
will in all probability be left out be
}C;nusv of conflicting dates. Mississippl
College, Tulane and Howard Coellege will
lhu met.
Battling Budd Lands
Bout in Chattanooga
CHATTANOOGA, Dec. ¢.—After a lull
of six months, boxing is to be revived in
Chattanooga. Battling Budd,' of At
lanta, and Young Delmont, of Memphis,
are to be the principals in the opening
‘bout which will be staged here Monday,
December 13
The fact that the Willard-Fulton bat
tle for the heavyweight championship
of the world will be staged In this sec
tion appears to have boomed the game |
to some extent locally. |
Braves' Scout Will 1
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oach Harvard Nine
CAMBRIDGE, Deéc. 4.—The election nf'
Fred Mitchell, coach and scout of the
Boston Nationals, as head coach for the !
Harvard baseball team, has been an- |
nounced by the athletic association. ‘
Mitehell has been engaged for one
vear, ;
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Tech High Bows to
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Wesley Memorial
Wesley Memorial opened her basket
ball season yesterday afternoon by de
feating Tech High, 37 to 16. Both teams
used many men.
SUMMER BALL QUESTION UP
CHICAGO, Dec. 4.-~The right of stu
dents to play summer baseball for
money hung In the balance to-day at the
semiannual assembly of the faculty rep
resentatives of mfl Nine Conference col
leges. Close followers of the inside
workings of the professors’ bhoard are
looking for approval of the existing rule
because & two-thirds majority, or six
schools will be required to throw the
measure overboard,
JOHNNY KILBANE IS VICTOR
SCRANTON, PA, Dee 4 - Johnny
Kilbane, featherweight champlon, mm'.’
his first appearance in the Hard Coal
region last night and trounced DPatey
Rrannigan, of Newcastle, in a ten-round
bout. Kilbane had the better of eight
of the ten rounds and siowed up \'!»ltly
toward the finish,
MIKE O'DOWD WINS AGAIN
MINNEAPOLIS, Dee 4 Mike
O'Dowd, of 8t Paul, had the hetter of
Frankie Hrennan, of Detroit, in a ten
round bout Hrennan was knocked to
his knees five times and held on des
perately to prevent a knockout,
BUCK CROUSE LANDS BOUT
PITTERURG, Dee. 4.1 t was an
nounced to-day that Buck Crouse has
been matched to meet SBallor Grande, of
California, at Duquesne Garden next
Thursday night
BOBBY BURNS K. 0. VICTOR
DES MOINES, Dee. 4. - Bobby Burns,
of Dallas, bantamweight, knocked out
Normal Rogers, of Peoria, in the fifth
round
ENGLISH BOXER WINNER,
DAYTON, Dec. 4 Ned lawis, of
England, won the decision over Young
Netll, of Allentown, s in fifteen
rounds
HARRY STONE BEATS DENNY
NW ORILEANE [ e 4 MHarry
Ftone, of New York, won the decision
over Young Denny, of New Orleans.
after fifteen rounds.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
WHITNEY WILL ARRIVE TO-DAY FOR WOLGAST GO
By Harry Lewis.
RANK WHITNEY, who has ap-
F peared in Atlanta on more oc
casions than any one other
boxer, will hop off a rattler some
time to-day, bound from New York,
and his mission will keep him here
until after the night of Tuesday, De
cember 14,
On that evening Frank will have a
ten-round glove controversy with one
Ad Wolgast, ex-lightweight cham
pion, and a ringman of very much
prominence, He has been before the
public off and on since 1906, during
which time he has fought the very
best of them, until] even to-day Ad
stands in a position where he Is con
sidered a worthy foe for Freddie
Welsh's champion honors,
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WiLGAST. like the man he took
the title away from, Bat Nelson,
was a real champion. In the days that ‘
Wolgast reigned supreme the light
‘w‘;’gflxm poundage was down to the
13%pound figure, and only real light
‘weights were able to contend for the
championship. Now the limit has
been raised sky-high, and Frederick
Welsh alone knows what it 18, Some
times he battles at a weight said to
be as high as 142 pounds, and at other
times he is around the 138-pound
mark. Such is the life of the light
welght division.
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‘WOLGAST. by accepting the Frank
| Whitney match, is simply prov-|
ing another instance where the
champs of ye olden days had it over
these modern “get the money” fight
ers. For the past six months offer
after offer has been sent to such boys
as Joe Rivers, Joe Mandot, Charlle
White, Johnny Dundee and other
stars to meet Whitney here. Did they
accept? No! Some claimed the city
was not large enough to support a
high-class match, others stated that
the guarantee wasn't big enough,
while some hinted that they would
'rnm« if another opponent outside of
Whitney was secured.
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WHITE and Mandot both asked
$1.500 to meet Whitney. When
they demanded this amount they
no doubt knew what they were asked
lm g 0 up against. Mandot still re-
Linembers that occasion in New Or
|lenns when Whitney floored him twice
for the count of nine, while Frank
was one of the few fighters who Char-
He Wialte hit a number of times with
his deadly lefr hook, but falled to
even floor. Yes, we have always been
A strong supporter of White simply
i because we think he is one of the
jequarest and greatest lightwelghts In
!th- country, but the writer must ad
mit that White was one of the many
‘flumnn who never seemed to care
'hu' any more of Frank Whitney's
game, .
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w.vI.(:ANT. however, much unlike
the other lightweights, appar
ently fears none :’ them. True, he is
to get 0 pretiy price for his argument
here, but it Is a known faet that po
promoter has ever lost a nickel By
booking Wolgast. Ad drew a $40,000
house for a ten-round bout In Mil.
’uaukrr with Willle Ritchie before the
latter lost his erown, and until the
!rom-m Gibbons-MceFarland go, that
house was the record sos a ten
round ring encounter.
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WHITNEY will get busy immedi
’—lv on his arrival here in mak-
Ing preparations for his go with
Messre, Wolgast. Frank realizes the
fact that he Is fucing a tough cus
'vmnvr in this Wolgast party. and he
I 8 mure to be at his best when the
Rong time arrives. Whitney will be
accompanied by his manager, Eddle
,Hmvv\‘. an experienced man In the
iboxing gkame, who will logk after the
| business end of the match,
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“m:'r.\‘v.v ix taking all the chanece
in the coming set-to. He must
first pay off Wolgast and all other
expenses hefore he recelves one nickel
for his services, He will also have a
big local expense to put on the show,
such as the rental of the house, the
building of ringside seats, paying off
of preliminary matches, and other
minor expenses,
Tickets for the bout go on sale to
day. The pasteboards can be pur
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B/ U 7 Y SCDDRUTE
’ ND now we come to the season
| of the real lover of sport, the
| season when bleachers are as
bare as the wind-swept woods are of
verdure; when the thousand All-
Something picks have made the name
"'lootbull" as hideous a sound as the
thunder of German guns over a Bel
gilan village; when the gay green of
the golf course turns a meaningless
color that inspires néither fondness
for the freshness of youth nor rever
ence for the whiteness of age, when
the stable thoroughbred forgets the
sound of the starter's bugle and the
pugilistic press agent works overs
time.
ANY.ODY can become a baseball
enthusiast with a scorching sun |
making heroic the deeds of the dia- |
mond; anyone can become a football
nut with the bands braying, the bu_v!]
velling and the girls in their radiance
making men feel mighty mere. any
one can be a golf pu; with a playfal
zephyr whirling across a perfectly
mown falrway. But it gets to be an
other thing when the wind is whis
tiing as cold and deadly a note as o
water moccasin's war cry and the
radiators are cracking out a warning
llhn it 1s better to stand their rau
cous conversation than to venture
forth into the open for more conge
nial company.
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B UT glory be, there are some whose
love for the crack as bat against
ball, for the thud of foot against ple
akin, for the click of wood against
gutta-percha can not be chilled by the
blasts of winter or dimmed by the
fog of a frosty morning. FElse there
would be lean and hungry winters
for some several gentlemen of my
acquaintance whose sustenance (s de
rived from writing of things sportive
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AND. un(hcw. the winter's the time
to talk about it all The other
seasons are too full of action. No one
Can ever get garrulous over the pres
ent. The only Interesting things n
conversation and In literature deg
with the past and the future
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WNIRIPOR(. let's throw some
more kindling in the stove,
bring out a new scuttle of conl, leht
a not too nolsome cigar, stir a toddy
thai sends off a steam ns fragrant as
2 new-mown meadow and ag cheerful
as & bald-headed fat man, and forzet
that the thermometer ix trying 1o
play U<boat, and remember It's on'y
A few brief weeks hefore the grass
will agaln grow green all around,
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ALIX CUNNINGHAM, the Von
Hindenburg of Geargin's foothal!
destinles, was telling this one on
“Tick™ Tichenor while the Georglan
coach was in Atlanta a few days ago
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“TICK was referseing a gama for
Ur At Athens a few years ago”
chirped Alex. “We were plasing Ten
nessee, 1 bhelleve. At that timg there
was nothing in the rule hooks about
hiding the ball or deceiving the other
team with anvthing that looked ke
the oblate spheroid. 8o we framed up
this play. On a given signal, the
mapper back got 'n position, but he
didn’t have the ball. He had u head
gear painted up to look like the pie
rkin, He snapped this to Deh My
Whorter, who would start o sveoping
end run. As soon sx thie got Liway, a
guard would snap the real ball to the
Qquarterback and he would amble
chased at the Rex, Tumlin Bros.
and at Chess's place at Five Polnts.
The prices are sl, §1.50, $2,00 and $3,00
ringside, which are very popular for
an attraction of this kind.
straight ahead--usually for a touch
down.
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OGTICK. of course, didn't know the
play, and when it was put on
he and the Tennessee team all went
after McWhorter, When Bob was
thrown, the quarterback, ‘Kid’ Wood
ruff, 1 believe, had walked across with
a touchdown, but Tick didn't see him.
He was too intent on trying to get
Bob out from under eleven Tennes
see tacklers,
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6-(‘ ET up,’ he shouted after he
¥ had blown his lungs out ¢n
his whistle. ‘Don’t you see the ball's
downed?” Finally they did get up
and there was the headgear on the
ground. Tick saw it flattened there.
“'Great guns, men,’ he yelled, ‘the
derned thing's busted.'"
NEW RECORD FOR DE ORO
CHICAGO, Dec. 4 Sotting a world's
record for champlenship matches of 50
t',m! In 25 innings, Alfred DeOro, of
New York, defeated August Kieckhefer,
of Chicago, 50 1o 25 In the second block
of their title mateh last night., The best
previous mark in a tournament was 3¢
innings The champlon also set an
other mark by getting his 100 pointg on
the two nighte’ play in 97 innings.
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DETROIT GETS AA.U. BOXING
| CHICAGO, Dec. 4,.-At the Central
Amateur Athletie Union meeting here
the amateur boxing tournament was
awarded to Detroit. The twenty-second
annual handicap Indoor track meet will
| be held at Chicago February 26 and 26
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PITCHER SHAW RECOVERING
- WARHINGTON, Dec, 4.-The father
1.. v tehor Shaw has written Manager
Griffith that his son, Injured by the ac
| cidental discharge of a shotgun while
hunting near Plittsburg recently, is out
of all danger and will recover
PITTSBURG CUEIST VICTOR
i DETROIT, Dee 4. ~Charles ¥ lis,
Pittsburg, defeated Jess Lean, 50 to 46,
in thelr three-cushion league match last
| night
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McLean Has Laugh onßrennan
Too Hot to Work, So Larry
Opened Fire on Arbitrator
‘Umps’ Have Queer Experiences
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By Bill Brennan
Chief of Federal Loafue Staff and
Former National League
Umpire.
HERE'S many a laugh pulled
I at the home plate during
a red-hot ball game, and
sometimes the umpire is the vic
tim, and occasionally he is in
the position of indulging in the
ha-ha.
It's a battle of wits, with the
players attempting to put it over
the arbiter, and the latter there
to see that they do not. This is
one experience I had with Larry
McLean, one of the funniest char
acters that the diamond ever pro
duced,
Larry was catching for the
Reds, the ("übs were their oppo
nents, the game was being played
in Cincinnati and it was the hot
test day of the summer. I might
add that it was the second game
of a double-header and Larry had
caught the first,
- - -
“B lILL,” said Larry, “you cer
tainly are a bad umpire
this afternoon.”
“Why stipulate this afternoon?”
1 asked, because 1 thought Larry
was attempting to josh me.
“Have you had your eyes ex
amined recently?” he asked.
“Gio along and hurry the game,’
I retorted, and, looking down at
the form of the big’ catcher, I
wasn't a bit surprised that he
was peeved, for the perspiration
was pouring from him and his
uniform was as wet as if it had
been dipped in water.
“You certainly ought to have
vour eyes examined, Bill, and I'm
telling you as a friend, 'cause you
are missing a lot of 'em.” i
“You go right along and do the
catching s‘d vou'll have all you
can attend'to,”” was my come
back, and 1 was getting pretty
warm,
“Oh, well, of course, ilf you are
going to get sore I won't say
anything more, I was just giving
you a little tip, and 1 thought you
ought to know, because I heard
the other umpires talking about
W
“Oh, they were, eh? Well, you
just catch; that's ail
Larry was silent for a moment.
“And, Bill, what's got into you?
You used to wear nice clothes,
and look neat on the field, and
now you look like a tramp—yes,
sir, just a plain, common, every
day tramp. Why is it, Bill 1?"
“Go right along catching, Lar
ry, and don't bother about my ap
pearance,” I yelled at him.
“Oh, of course, ilf you are going
to get sore I'll keep cuiet, But I
heard some of the other umpires
remark that when a man began to
slip that he slipped all over, and
that when an umpire got to be un
tidy that he was near the limit."
- - -
l WAS bolling, and the fact that
Larry was half smiling merely
added to my rage. The big back
stop caught a couple of more
pitches ana then opened fire,
“Now, there’s Hank O'Day, who
is a regular umpire. Not only
does he keep his trousers creased,
but he can tell when they are
over, and he calls 'em. too: he
does. No euesswopk about hils
umriring. But voud...*
“Time!™ 1 yelled.
“Out of the game for vou!” 1
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velled at Larry. “To the club
house, and surprise yourselt with
a bath. You're out! Youe fired!
Get out!™ ; :
.- - 2
S AY, I never saw a fellow get o
away from that plate so %
quickly in my life. Larry was g
running as a man who was afraid
that tha decision might be re
versed and the suspension over
ruled, and there was the broadest H
grin on his face that I have ever
seen on a 4 human being. And then
I tumbled. Larry wanted to be
chased. He had petitioned the
manager, who had refused. Thers 3
was but one way for him to avold
catching the remainder of that i
double-header with the sun beat
ing down upon him-—that was to o
be chased by the umpire, and I
had fallen, .
“Larry,” T yelled, determined to
reverse a decision for once in my
life, but Larry wouldn't hear, and L
when they rushed a boy to the
clubhouse he was minug clothes ié
and telling his pals how he had a
put it over. 4
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'I'IIERE was one other time 2
when I felt like reversing a 7
decision, and had the rules allowed d%
me to reinstate a man I have 8
suspended I should have done so.
A Jones, a boy from the South,
who didn't last long enough to
make his first name familiar, was
the victim of my wrath, He was
attempting to make good and
stood at the plate stock still while
the pitcher put a third strike
squarely across the plate. 5
"You're out!” I shouted, and the
decision was as fair as any I ever o
gave. Then this youngster opened
up. T have listened to some fair
ly effective swearers in my day,
but the oaths which this fellow:
strung into sentences fairly dazed
me.
. ~ .
S ECONDS passheq before I
could recover and inform him
that he was through for the aft
ernoon, and that if he insisted
upon standing around that he
would merely delay the game,
Then he suddenly became very
courteous and polite,
“Brennan,” sa!d he, “do you nzt
that smokestack over there?”
and he pointed to one standing
~ beyond the center-field fence.
‘ “I do,” 1 answered, and was
{ curious as to what was coming.
“You see it 1s of brick and
stands more than 100 feet in
height?” he queried.
“1 do.” was my answer. ;
“I wish you no bad luck, Mr.
Brennan,” he continued, quietlike,
“but 1 do wish that smokestack
would fall, brick by brick, and
that every brick would hit vou
right on the skull. 1 do, Mr.
Brennan.”
Fordham Plays Yale
Or Tigers Next Year
NEW YORK. Dec. 4.—A1l but two of
Fordham's regulars are eligible to w
on the Maroon eleven next season.
students are already anticipating next
yvear as the bdiggest in thelr gridiron
history. A game probab'y will be ap
ranged with either Yale or Princeton,
while it 's almost aesured that the Ma
roons will oppose Columbia in a city
champlonship contest Georgetown,
Ho'y Cross and Villa Nova will all ap=
pear at Fordham Fleld