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MONDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1915
T S e. A
CGEORGIAN SPORTS COVERID 4 FXPERTSS
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Chick’ Evans Raises Question of
How Far an Angry Player Can
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Throw an Unoffending Club.
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By Chick Evans.
HE story goes that once upon a
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 hegan to play badly.
ollowing a particularly bad shot, the
unfortunate one became so angry that
he threw his club with all his might.
‘He threw it,” said the teller of the
story, “one hundred and fifty feet.”
“Impossible,” said the listener. *“No
person living could throw a golf club
that far.”
The discvssion ended in a bet to be
decided later, ar d 1 put the question
Up o my readers
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(;lll,"' is ver trying upon one's
temper, and there are few golfers
Who have not at some time ir their
golfing ves thrown their clubs I
confess to the crime—and it is no less
than that—but it happened vears ago,
and I do not think I shall ever bhe a
repeater
My own act occurred on the fif
teenth green at Glen View, perhaps
Seven vears ago I was playing with
Kenneth Edwards, then, as now, one
of the very leaders of the game, while
I, at that time, was very much of an
unknowr I had been missing repeat
ed short putts, and when 1 lost on this
Ereen by missing a very short one, 1
threw m putter and it went hig!
over the telegraph wires and alo: B the
road bevond
Leave it there! I shouted to m;y
caddi How many times since the
have 1 eard the remark made b
other goifers, for I have seer ihout
” of them do the same thing, from
Jerry Travers down, merely pausing
here to exempt Francls Ouimet, whose
gond temper and patience are m r
\e s
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C ADDIES usually disregard the in
junction to “leave it there,” an
they either pick it up or the golfer
does it himself with a sheepish air
I remember that I nearly lost my
life once, escaping by an inch a club
thrown bv ar ingry plaver I was
VEry young, just beginning to play
well, and m:y opponent considered
himself the better plaver, and wus
very jealous Mme It happened that
I had ole several long putts, and
finally wour up the match by a 30-
footer. Whiz! came the club past n
hea barely missir me However, |
have never heard of anyone being se
riously hurt in t vay, but it is a
isgraceful danger
| the end. g« i great trainer
and leveler of bad habits, for a man
beging by mir clu it he us
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he fault lie Vit ehind |
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OM JONES sends us the follow
I ing statement concerning his
impression of the Jim Coftey-
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
opponents for Willard. With that
knockout charged against him it
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 T was told about the
Moran fight I think Coffey should be
given another chance. Of course,
that's none of my business, but from
a sportsmanlike standpoint that
would look like a good matech.”
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LARNEY LICHTENSTEIN writes
from New York that he has ar
ranged dates for Wolgast, also for
Joe Welling, the lightweight comer,
in his stable. Wolgast is to box Frank
CaHahan in Brooklyn, December 7
Frankie Whitney in Atlanta Decem
ber 14, and Leach Cross in New York
December 17, Welling will meet Ben
ny Leonard on the same all-star card
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 Chattanooga
have all billed 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
scrap.
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TO-NIGHT in Memphis, Pal Moore,
the crack little bantam from the
Tennessee City, will sSquare off for
action with Artie Armstrong, the Chi
cago crack. Moore has bheen going
great of late and should beat the
“Windy City” lad.
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,FANS here are showing much inter
-1 est in the Burns-Williams twen
ty-round canto in New Orleans to
nignt. This will be a real champion
ship battle, with Burns being given
a grand chance to take the title away
from Williams, who has not been gO
ng any too good of late
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M cGOORTY added another victory
to his list the other night. when
he stopped Nick King in eleven
rounds in Australia MeGoorty is
scheduled to meet Les Darcy in a
twentv-round contest on the other
side Christmas Day.
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iD!RCY already holds one knock-out
victory to his credit over Mc-
Goorty, besides boasting of victories
over Jimmy Clabby and Jeff Smith.
Should he whip McGoorty again, there
will be no denying the fact that the
\x‘urnim-or is made of championship
material
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'‘Big Nine' Colleges
D Action of
cvenounce Action o
- Abolishing Baseba
' Abolishing Baseball
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CHICAGO, Dec. 6.-—~Reports from the
"l!u{ Nine” conference col eges to-day
indicate that with few exceptions they
|are displeased with the action of the
}!m ity representatives in abolishing
baseball at the Western conference in
’xlnrnmn.-
| Miinols faculty and student leaders
{denounced the action, as baseball is the
| favorite sport at Urbana, and they sav
{they will go to the mat to retain base
{ ball A break in the Big Nine is even
@ possibility should the various faculties
“v.f.'xrw the decree. The lini hold that
the universities as individuals may
'AP"'!l‘“' baseball, but that it is going too
[far to legislate the sport out of exist
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Coach Stagg, of the Maroons, ex
[ plained how the abolishine of baseball
Is expected to uphold amateurism in
college s=ports. de« iaring ! abolitior
would take away the great mass of men
I"‘” perivre themselves to retain their
amateur standing
Coach Fred Murphy, of Northwestern,
I!urn-m- Yale baseball captain, shouted
fire while denouncing the action
{ ““The dropping of baseball does not
eliminate the troubles with professior
nlismm, excent as it nlulyfu-« 1o the singis
!-[.:,” of baseball he =aid ‘lt strikes
me thaty one angle for the conference to
work on would be not to make the pro
'hwu‘m al ball player a professional so
foothall,”
Professor Moran, Purdue’s fpresey
tative at the facult meeting, said bhane
{ball hud not been abolished, but s
| merely on probatior I the o
'Alnl plavers c'ear the sport it w
' be retained, he sald
\Cross and Dillon Box
In Gotham This Week
| NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—The Broadwas
,\'[HJY ng Club, Brooklyn, An threes
Ishows arranged this week In lillor
‘unn Porky Flynn are the principals ir
fthe main svent to-morrow ght The
§ Brookivn Club has signed leach Oy e
and Jimmy Barry box ten rounds
é Saturday night
'WEISS LANDS REGULAR JOB.
CHICAGO, Dee, & Becaune ¢ the
| sple id showing made b son Weiss
|the amateur, who joined the Chicag
| Faderals last season and played first
{ BHase the lntter part of ghe vear, he will
|‘, o gAt on Jow Tinker's team
. 1w torans wil' © Troppe f
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LET THEM RAVE!
(A few lines dwelling on the futil
ity of a rough-house between a white
corpuscle and a red corpuscle))
| College athlete,
Summer ball,
Football hero
In the fall.
| Wise professor
1 Finds it out,
Throws the low-browed
Athiete out.
College prof., he
Dreams of fame
‘Purging all the
Football game.
He has lots of
Work ahead.
Same old stuff when
He is dead.
When he cashes
All his dreams
There will be no
Football teams.
They hire professiona! coaches they
hire professional trainers; they hire pro
fesslonal professors. And when an as
piring vouth happens to accept a few
more dollars for an afternoon on a ball
field than he could have earned all
week in a foeundry, he is a loafer, a bum.
mer and a lowlife, who must be shot at
sunrise Amateur athletics is a noble
game A lot of highbrows have grown
rich keeping It pure.
The Feds, we understand, have a site
for a baseball park in New York. John
J. McGraw has a site for a baseball
team In the same city.
The paucity of hunters’ deaths in Wis
consin, we read, i= due to the fact that
“the hunter is required to exercise more
care while hunting owing to the heavy
penalty in case he kilis a dbe.”
We take it that the wise hunter who
went into the woods last season dis
guised as a buck now disguises himself
as a doe There are many curious
angles to woodcraft
There is a chance, according te
Weeghman, that there will be peace be
tween organized and Jdisorganized base
ball I« it possible that the $1,250.000
spent in New York was made up of
noxlous gases?
Seventeen teams have been drawn for
the six.day bike race in New York. Sev.
enteen thousand fall guys will be drawn
for the last night,
Mrs, Vernon Castle is said to be look.
ing for a new dancing partner. What
about Harry Pollok?
ola Pres Gaffney issoes an ultimatam
to the effect that the Braves will have
to refrain from bawling out the nmps
It seems that everybody is irying to
cripple John Evers
HANDCUFFED!
By Johnny Evers)
| can p‘.{ though | fracture my ankie,
| can play though | fracture my spine,
Such accidents never could un‘lo
That calm, sasy nature of mine.
A few broken bones ain't no puzzie—
| break ‘em and still | play ball;
But how can | play with a muzzie’
| simply can't do It at al!
Jimmy Pappas Gets
LOUIR, Dee. 6-Jimmy Pappas,
Atlanta bantamweight, shaded Jim
" Murphy, of Bt. Louls, In elght slash-
Ing rounds last night
Pappax wiil meet Frankie lzzo for the
fiywelght champlonship of the world at
! Future City A, €, here within two
weekn
NEW YORK. Dee. 6 - Ceorge Both
. for fifteon yearas lllhi-v.gl chan
i i wrestler, eateh-an-cateh.ean gtyle
“w b arms and lex to-night with
Ivar Linow, the Russiar anan ek in a
fiviind it in the internationn! wres
thing nament This makes the third
meeting buiwesn the pair
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
WHITNEY WILL ARRIVE TO-DAY FOR WOLGAST 60
RANK WHITNEY, who has ap
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
plon, and a ringman of very much
prominence. He has been before the
public off and ¢n 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 champlon honors.
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§WJLGAST. like the man he took
the title away from, Bat Nelson,
was a real champlon. In the days that
Wolgast reigned supreme the light
weight poundage was down to the
133-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 is. 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
weight 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 ofl'er{
after offer has been sent to such boy”
as JYoe Rivere, Joe Mandot, (‘harllq
White, Johnny Dundee and other
stars to meet Whitney here. Did vhefl
accept? No'! Some claimed the eity
was not large enough to support l{
high-class match, others stated thu‘
the guarantee wasn't bhig enough.
while some hinted that they would
come if another opponent outside of
Whitney wawx secured.
. . -
WH!TE and Mandot both ukod‘
$1.500 to meet Whitney. When
they demanded this amount they
no doubt knew what they were asked
1o g 0 up against Mandot still re.
members that occasion in New Or.
leans when Whitney floored him twice
for the count of nine, while Frank
was one of the few fighters who Char
lie White hit a number of times with
his deadly left hook., but fallad to
even floor. Yes, we have always been
a strong supporter of White simply
becausy we think he is one of the
squarest and greatest lightwelghts in
the couniry, but the writer must ad
mit that White was one of the many
fighters who never seemed 1o care
for any more of Frank Whitney's
game J
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WHI GAST, however, much uniike
the other lightweights, appar
ently fears none of them. True, he is
o get & pretty price for his argument
here, but it s 4 known fact that no
promoter has ever lost 8 nickel by
hooking Wolgasi. Ad drew a $40.000 |
house for a ten-round bout in Mil- |
waukee with Willle Ritchie before the
latter Jost his crown, and until Hw‘
recent Glbbons-McFariand go, that
house wan the record for a ten ‘
round ring encounter
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WMIT.\‘I-:\' will get busy immedis
Ately on his arvival here in mak
ing preparations for his go with
Messrs. Wolgast. Frank realizes the
fact that he is facing a tough cus- |
tomer in this Wolgast party, and he
is sure to be At his best when the
Kkong time arrives. Whitney will be
accompaniad hy his manager, Eddie
Harvey, an experienced man in the
boxing game, who wiil look after the
business end of the match,
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WIHT.\‘I-ZY Is taking all the chance
in the coming set-to. He must
first pay off Wolgast and all other
expenses hofore e recelves ane nie kol{
for his services, He will algo have g
big local expense to pul on the show |
such us the renial 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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Wtk 72y DDRURR
| 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
“football” as hideous a sound as the
thunder of German guns over a HBel
gian village: when the gay green of
the golf course turns a meaningless
color that inspires neither 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 over
time.
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ANYOODY can become a baseball
enthusiast with a scorching sun
making heroic the deeds of the dii
mond; anyone can become a football
nut with the bands braying, the boys
yvelling and the girls in their radiance
making men feel mighty mere; any
one can be a golf bug with a playiil
zephyr whirling across a perfectly
mown fairway. But it gets to be an
other thing when the wind is whis
tling as cold and deadly a note as o
water moccasin’s war cry and the
radlators are cracking out a warning
that it is better to stand thelr 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 of bat against
ball, for the thud of foot against pls
skin, for the click of wood against
gutta-percha can not he chilled by the
blasts of winter or dimmed by the
fog of & frosly morning. FElse there
would be lean and hungry winters
for some several gentlemen of m:
acquaintance whose sustenance is ¢
rived from writing of things sportive
- . .
AND, anyhow, the winter's the tims
to talk about it a'l. 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 Hterature deal
with the past and the future
. v
WHIHIFO.I. let's throw some
more kindling in the st
bring out a new scuttle of coul, leht
A not too nolrome cigar, stir a toddy
that sends off a steam as fragrant as
B new-mown meadow and ax cheerfu!
A% a bald-headed fat man. and forzet
that the thermometer s trying '
play U-boat, and remember it's on's
a few brief weeaks before the gro:
will again grow green all around
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ALIX CUNNINGHAM, the Von
Hindenburg of Georgla s footba
destinles, was telling this one
“Tiek™ Tichenor while the Georgia
coach was In Atlanta a few dayvs agno
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“TICK was referesing a game for
us At Athens a few senrs ngo’
chirped Alex. “We were playving Ten«
nesses, | belleve. At that time there
Wae nothing fn the rule books abont
hiding the ball or decelving the othe
team with anvihing that looked ke
‘he oblate apheroid. 8o we framed up
this piay On a given signal. he
snapper back got In pos'tion, but he
didn't have the ball. He had a hend
tear painted up to look lke the plg.
kin. He snapped this o Bobh M.
Whaorter, who would start & sweeping
ondd run A sonn ax this got away, a
guard would soap the real hall to the
quarierback and he would amble
chased at the Rex, Tumlin Bros,
lnnd at Chess's place at Five Points,
The prices are sl, $1.50, $2,00 and $3,00
lrlngsidp, which are very popular for
an attraction of this kind.
stralght ahead--usually for a touch
down.
. - .
“TICK, 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, I believe, had walked asross 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
.A - ‘
h(‘ ET up, he shouted after he
i ¥ had blown his lungs out on
{his whistle. ‘Don’t you see the ball's
downed?” Finally they di get np
and there was the headgeaX on the
ground. Tick saw it flattened there. '
“'Great guns, men,’ he velled, ‘the
derned thing's busted.' "
I . .
17 Teams Tied in
'.D . s
- Six-Day Bike Race; 1
|
. Walthour Entered
|
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| NEW YORK. Dec. ¢ Pedaliipe their |
jWay around the ten-lap-to-the-mile
'saucer, track at Madison Square Gar
den, sédventeen teams who started in the
'vx-d.uv bicycle race at midnight, were
all tide at the end of the eighth hour
to-day and had set a new mark of 19
miles and two laps. The former record
was 189 miles and 9 laps, made in 1914
The Garden was crowded at midnight
when the 17 riders were sent off Flach
'luum had its hordes of “‘rooters’ In
| the early hours the riders had failen "
{little behind the previous marks, but
| when daylight streaked *“rough the hig |
amphitheator the riders kept up »
Inl.vri\ plugging. which at 8 o'clock had
I#et & new mark
| The scores for all at 8 a m., the
e'ghth hour were Hill-Grepnnde, 190
i.,,,:.«», 2 lapm; MeNamara-Spears, Feg-
Dupuy, Magin-Lawrencs, Thomas-HRy
|at Hansen-Mitten, Kopsy-Wohlrab,
I Rulilvan- Anderson, Moran-Waithour, |
| Plercey-Walker, Drobach-Cory, Katon- |
Madden, Suter-Madonna, Fogler-Car- |
mun, Rodiftusse, Vanderstuyft, Hanley.
PHalstead and Seres-Linart |
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Spanish Champ Plays
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' Here Tnesday Night
| Louie Vasques, echampion hilliard
tplayer of Bpain, will make his fipst At
| fanta AppEaArance 10-morrow nighy at
the Montgomery billiard pariors. In ad. ‘
dition to giving exhibtions of faney and ‘
jirick billiard shots, he will play matches
{ With some of the bext M‘linnt-'u n Hn-‘
[eity, and agree to play any man in the
ity LOOD points 1o 400
1 Avknowledged master of the ivories
lat the straight rall KAMe, he owns a
| record of 43 points made In ones run
| He also has & run of 11 at three cush
j on hilltards
'.. . |
Gridiron Teams Will
Clash This Afternoon
| - ‘
| ILOB ANGELES Dee 6 - The long
niked-of football game between Kyry -
cuse University and Occidental Co lege
Will oceur this afternoon, the teams
meeting on Washington Park fleld
RILOOMINGTON, IND, Twe. & Frea!
Meintosh, of Epencer, has been elected
eaptain of the Indlana University foot
ball team for 1916
McLean Has Laugh onßrennan
Too Hot to Work, So Larry el %
()pmcd Fire on Arbil}ra(orl f
‘Umps’ Have Queer Experiences |
By Bill Brennan
Chief of Federal League Staff and
Former National Leaguer
Umpire.
HERE'S many a laugh pulled
I at the home plate during
a red-hot ball game, and
sometimes the umpire is the vie
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
Mcl.ean, one of the funniest char
acters that the diamond ever pro
duced,
Larry was catching for the
Reds, the C'ubs were their oppo
nents, the game was being played
in Cineinnati and it was the hot
test day of the summer, 1 might
add that it was the second game
¢ 0f @ double-header and Larry had
caught the first.
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uB ILL,"” said Larry, “you cer
tainly are a bad umpire
this afternoon.”
“Why stipulate this afternoon?”
I asked, because I thought Larry
was attempting to josh me.
“Have you had your eyves ex
amined recently?” he asked.
“Go 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.”
“You go right along and do the
catching and you'll have all you
can attend to,” was my come
back, and 1 was getting pretty
warm.
“Oh, well, of course, if vou are
going to get sore 1 won't say
anything more. | was just giving
you a little tip, and I thought you
ought to know, because [ heard
the other umpires talking about
n"
“Oh, they were, eh? Well, you
Just catch; that's all”
Larry was silent for a moment
“And, Bill, what's got into vou?
You used to wear nice clothes,
and look neat on the fleld, and
now you look like a tramp—yes,
#ir, just a plain, comman, every -
day tramp. Why is it, Bill?™
“Go right along catching, Lar
rv. and don't bother about my ap
pearance.” | yvelled at him
“Oh, of course, if you are going
to get sore I'll keep aulet. But |
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 he un
tidy that he was near the Hmit."
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' WAS boiling, and the fact that
Larry vias half smiling merely
added to my rage. The big back
ston caught a couple of more
pitches anad then opened fire.
Y. M. C. A. GOSSIP—BY G. W. MACKEY
T dinners given ‘o each class in
the men's division of the physi
cal department of the Young
Men's Christian Association during
the past week, it was decided to con
nect up the competition in the Tur
key League which is now running full
blast, with the membership depart
ment.
J. K. Orr presided at sach dinner,
and the plan was set before the mem
bers present, with the result that dur.
ing the next few woeks the Turkey
League will probably be the biggest
thing in this section of the country.
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TIIF: Turkey League is run with the
idea of the “greatest good (o the
greatest number.” and is cagried on
through each class in the physical de
partment. The 22 men's teams com
pete against each other on the per
cantage basis of points actually won
and points possible, so many points
being allowed for individual attend
ance, winning of basketba!! and vel.
leyball games and relay races. Thus
ench class fights for the double honor
of leading its own class group and
also leading the whole division in
highest percentage
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THN league is the major league of
the year, and at the close of the
schedale the latter part of Januvary,
all men who have played the game
will gather around the festive board
for an evening of good fellowship,
with turkey and “trimmings"” thrown
in for good measurc, |
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l.\’ brief, the scheme as presented to
the men present at the dinner is
ax follows: Instead of limiting the
competition to the gymnasium, It is
planned to have each member “go"
after another, sach new member re
celved by a team eounting se many
points for that team. This co-mem
bership-physical contest will run dur.
"'fl the rest of the Turkey League
schedule, and all men now lined up
wiill be busy getting in new men to
help out their team standing. The
team having the largest percentage
at the and of the league will be pre
ES, S f
DR. T. W. HUGHES, M
d . CHRONIC AND ACUTE DISEASES OF MEN.
' N. Broad %f . OpP n'.»'o:h.r ce lr‘d’N.(.'%:... A‘fl”:flw
. ! e it 3 aln, no ehlorof no
' iR D arges. Weakness and n.‘l’m
. ' : Houre famie?p "
i ) AP sundays, 10 to 1
-ATLANTA, GA.
“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 guesswork about his
umpiring. But you——"
“Time!” 1 yelled.
“Out of the game for you!" I
velled at Larry. “To the club
house, and surprise yourself with
a bath. You're out! You're fired!
Get out!™
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S AY, I never saw a fellow get
away from that plate so
quickly in my life. Larry was
running as a man who was afrald
that the decision might be re
versed and the suspension over
ruled, and there was the hroadest
grin on his face that T have ever
seen on a human being. And then
I tumbled. Larry wanted to be
chased. He had petitioned the
manager, who had refused. There
was but one way for him to avoid
catching the remainder of that
double-header with the sun beat
ing down upon him—that was to
be chased by the umpire, and I
had fallen.
“Larry.” 1 yelled, determined to
reverse a decision for once in my
life, but Larry wouldn't hear, and
when they rushed a boy to the
clubhouse he was minus clothes
and telling his pals how he had
put it over.
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'I‘HERE was one other time
when i felt like reversing a
decision, and had the rules allowed
me to reinstate a man 1 have
suspended I should have done so.
A Jones, a boy from the South,
who didn't last long enough ton
make his first name familiar, was
the victim of my wrath, He was
altempting to make good and
stood at the plate stock still while
the pitcher put a third strike
squarely across the plate,
“You're out!” [ shouted, and the
decislon was as fair as any [ ever
gave. Then this youngster opened
up. 1 have listened to some fair
ly effective swearers in my day,
but the oaths which this fellow
strung into sentences fairly dazed
me.
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S ECONDS passhed hefore T
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 ses
that smokestack over there?"
and he pointed to one standing
bevond the center-field fence.
“T do,” 1 answered, and was
curious as to what was coming.
“You see it is of brick and
#tands more than 100 feet in
height”" he queried.
“1 do,” was my answer,
“l wish you no bad luck Mr,
Brennan.” he continued, quietlike,
“but I do wish that smokestack
would fall, brick by brick, and
that every brick would hit you
right on the skull [ do, Mr.
Brennan.”
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’xom.-d With a handsome trophy on
the night of the banquet,
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Dl'Rl!\'(} the past week the teams in
both the men's and boyvs' divi
- Sions have made the following per
| centages:
: Senlor Business Men.
; ‘Pos- Por Last
! Points. sible. Cent, Week,
Dr. Dowman 199 164 707 701
O Ml ...... "0 W 500 518
Smith “irver B 8 188 85 N
! Anderson . 57 164 564 583
Junior Business Men.
| Walraven ... 93 158 bB% 510
Winship sIR 166 583 4N
Waters % 15 & B
| Swicegood |57 168 365 368
Noon Business Men,
I Upchurch 152 240 gan :g
| Fddens vseey 108 282 .03 ‘
Little ........., 119 3230 517 492
l.\lallme .0 136 242 816 814
, Young Business Men,
Apaches 132 197 619 518
[Keowahs ...... 107 114 gis 3B
Lomanches .... 119 195 616 A 4
Mohawks ...... %4 108 47 429
(Cherokees ..... 71 19 268 8
Seminoles . . 2 18 318 2B
i Young Men.
Eubanks ....... H' 28 5 n““
Newcomer ..., 137 0 L
Turner e 132 31 480 4
Wooten 107 381 243 304
Employed Intermediates.
Ralders . 86 858 .7
Plunderers ..... 47 8 848 523
Corsairs vvee 43 90 300 .76
Buccaneers o 22 80 358 301
mplo Boys.
Hussars . G. 2 .68 :g
Cossacks oK 2 a 0 .
Rough Riders .. 87 9% 810 a 1
Diragoons 21 9% 218 .M
School A,
Carlisle 0 100 311 16 818
McCutcheon ... 108 212 .48) |l%
Womble ........ 100 211 A 8
S . civiicdi -8 313 2
| School 8.1,
Cornell e 146 288 15 00
Dartmouth ... 136 246 887 a
Pennsylvania .. 126 236 g 33
Colgate ......... 114 2390 518 R
|Harvard . ..., 132 244 300 AB2
S ki .‘”1:. .!:l 535 393
Annapolis ... ... 110 185 .59 e
Carlisle sesese IDB 108 521 307
Chicago *....... 5 154 A 8 42
Michigan ....... 9 197 .487 “}
Ygins ....... I 3 1% . &
Prineston ...... 78 c.l': an
loro üb.
Torpedoes ..... 121 302 S 8 |
Zeppe'lns ....... 110 206 588 ' |
Aeroplanes . . 118 N 7 591
Bubmarines ... 108 211 &
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