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BILLY SANDS, VETERAN OF BASEBALL, WILL BE BACK ON JOB NEXT SEANON
Star of 1884 Has N\ ened Contract to Gz;ard Ca‘lc a"l.}’on;:dc i:on Du;i.t:g / ;;6 C:’mpaign“* 0 o
Sands Was a Member of First
Team That Ever Represented
Atlanta in Southern League.
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
ILLY BANDS coming balk to
s e s
mouthern Al e
Puuse gontie reader, before You be
gin heaping imprecations on the head
of Charley Frank and accuse him of
hiring every antsdiluvian athlete for
his ball clud from Pop Anson down o
Otte Jordm nilly Sands is not go
ing 1o be located out In the pastiming
pasture
But he has s gne a contract to
guard the gate, even as did Horatio
of old,. who for like service was given
ail the farming land he could plow in
A week, according to tradition
Billy Bands is an expert on this job
He has been barring the way of tiek
otiess persons who have wanted to
pee theatrical performances, vaude
villa. moving pictures, grand opera
jegal executions and other popular
Atlanta movemenis for the past 25
sears. and now hes going 10 lake a
turn at the same trick out at the ball
park |
Don't think, either, that Billy Sands
s any noviee at this baseball game 1
Way back yonder when Ed lhufloy'
was such a kid reporter that he car- |
ried & notebook, he used to wrile ol}
Bill Sands’ doings.on the diamond
Afd right now Bruffey will tell you
that there have been few shortstops
to wear an Atlanta uniform who had
anything on old Billy
Played Here in 1884,
Billy was a member of the first
team that ever representad Atlanta in
the Southern lLeague. By the way,
this wnas nv first league that ever
pepresented the South in the national
pastime
That was in 1884, and, according to
Billy and Bruffey and Cap Joyner, it
was some ball tesm. The national
pastime had just started becoming
popular in the South. Henry W,
Grady, quick to see the possibilities
of baseball was the moving spirit be
hind the organization of the clob and
the lealuve. He was president of the
club and Charles Colller, afterward
Mavor of Atlanta, was its manager,
The league was a little four-club
affair—Atlanta, Macon, Augusta and
Columbus—and ball players were as
scarce as recall votes in those days.
Billy Sands had just moved to At
lanta. He was superintendent of the
Atlanta Newspaper Unlon, but he had
had lots of baseball experience in
Washington, where in 1879 and 1880
he playved shortstop on the Govern
ment Printing OfMce team of the De
partmental League of the Capital
City.
Jim Lynch in Gutfield.
. He was one of the firet men signed
and he naturally was put at his old
place in the short field. Among the
other members of the same club was
Jim Lynch, now a prominent dealer
in amber suds at Broad and Walton
streets. Imagine the Jim of to-day
cavorting around in the outflield! But
Jim did, and he had never lost his
love for baseball. There is something
radically wrong when he misses a
game at Ponce DeLeon Fark.
Mr. Sands doesn’'t remember the
names of all the other athletes, but
George Whitlock was on the club, as
was Jim Craig, now an engineer on
the Panama Canal work, and a fellow
named Wiley, who was living in Cali
fornia when last heard from. The
battery was composed of a German
named Heisman, pitcher, and Billy
Lighting, catcher. The league msonl
was 30 games. Activities began lf'u
June and lasted until September. }
But if the season was short, thoi
playing was fierce enough. Mr. Sands
tells of breaking up an eleven-inning
game against Columbus that brought
Atlanta the championship. He did it
with a home-run clout. He declares
that there was more fighting done at
old Peters Park that afternoon than
was done at the battle of Peachtree
Creek.
- The next season Mr. Sands forsook
the short field and took a job as a
Southern League umpire. While he
was handling the indicator, Hank
O'Day was a pitcher for the Savan
nah club. He umpired for several
seasons and finally left baseball for
the theatrical business, but in 1892 he
returned to the game in a financial
WAy as a iltngt:i:bo&m; cl;‘xb. when it
~ Mr. Sands still -h:ws‘:i;}ns of his
diamcond activities. The fingers of
both hands are as crooked as a ward
; or the dealer of a brace
faro box. “We dldn't have gloves in
E;y.——mn is, no one but the.
catcher did. But we managed to
‘handle the ball pretty well. 1 wu!
handle it,” said Mr. Sa.nda.\
‘with a swelling of the chest, “weil
enough to make an unassisted triple
play out there at Peters Park. So
Sands as He Looks To-day With Glove and Bat
Love of Game Still Sticks to Old-Time Star‘
telow are foul wes of illy Nands At the left he s shown ready 1o reesive a low one In the pieture to the fl‘bl he s |
' ng & bat, wi ;" ' ‘ "‘;‘: "" left, is just plain Billy Sands. The insert photo was taken of the veleran in 1554, when he was :
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you see we played real baseball in
those days.”™ .
When Mr. Sands was a director of
the Atlanta club he struck up an ac
quaintance with a big, rangy athlete
of the Mobile club. He was a catcher
and first baseman and his name was
Jake Wells. .In after years Mr. Sands
worked with that same man in his
various Atlanta theatrical ventures.
Twenty-five years ago Mr. Sands
went to work with the DeGives and
he has been associated with theatrical
life in Atlanta ever since. le is in
timately acquainted with hundreds
and hundreds of theatrical people
whose names are household words
throughout America. He has been on
the main door during every opera
season in Atlanta, and he knows all
the opera people. A few years ago he
was offered aspost with the Metropol
itan force by Billy Guard, the general
representative of the great musical
organization, but New York couldn’t
lure Mr. Sands away from Atlanta.
2 And so he's going to be on the gate
fills season with gnarled fists and
wrinkled face and a heart young
enough to enjoy a ball game as thor
oughly as any 12-year-old kid on the
bleachers.
“How old am 17" sald Mr. Sands, n
reply to a questiop. “Why, 1 was 50
so long ago that I've forgotten .that
I've ever reached the half-century
mark. Just watch my speed out there
at the ball lot.”
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—80 b Curtis, who
?itched for the Battle Creek team of
he Southern Michigan League before
that circuit broke up, and thenftoined
the independent Rail Lights of Toledo,
which defeated several major league
teams in exhibition games, will, it is
%orted, get a trial with the Chicago
ite Sox in the spring. .
LELAND’S CREW IS INTACT
SANFORD UNIVERSITY, CAL., Jan.
15.—Seven of the eight-oared crew of
Leland Stanford University, which fin
ished second to Cornell in the Pourh
keepsie regatta last June, wil be eligi
ble for next year's contest, is it ex<
pected. .
MEARSTS SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA, S auAY, JANUASY 16, 1916,
Nine Brothers Make !
Ine protners MaxKe '
BODE, 10WA, Jan., 15.—Nine broth
ers make up a ball team In this elty.
The family name is Sorlein. The oldest
member of the team is 34; the young
est 15.
Three of the boys are cashiers of
banks; another is president of a bank.
Three are®farmers and two others are
students.
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Harvard Mermen to
Have Costly Pool
. CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Jan. 16.—Har
vard is to have a new swimming pool,
which will cost §14,000 and will be placed
in the basement,
he tank will be 76 feet long and 20
sept wide, designed both for ordinary
swimming and competitive meets to be
held by the varsity and freshman
teams.
George Stallings says the Yankees
will make a mistake if they let Out
fielder Miller, secured from Moblle, go
without a full trial. Stallings says he
has Bud Sharpe's word for it that Miller
is @ coming star, and he opines that
Sharpe is the best judge of a ball play
.er he knows. Sharpe also n&meaka high
ly of Hendryx, the outflelder secured
by the Yankees from New Orleans. ‘
LETTERS FOR HYDE PARK
DEDHAM, Jan. 15 —Sweaters havc{
been awarded the following members of
the Hyde Park football team. George
H. Andrews, James Feeney, Roland S.
Fulton, Douglas Hgiwmrson BEarl 8.
Higgins, l.eon K. cConnell, George
Minnick, G, Lauriat Reynolds, Henry
T. Siebert, J. A. l.slie, Warren and
Manager Kdward B. Roberts.
PORTLAND, OREG,, Jan. 16—A profit
of approximately $8,400 was cleared by
the football team of the Oregon Agri
culture College on its season just closed,
uccofiding to a statement issued to-day.
The longest trip made by the fiam dur
ing the season was to Lansing, Mich.
‘They also made trips to California and
Eastern Washington.
Folger Will Manage
Chicago Bike Grind
CHICAGO, Jan. 15.—Joe Folger wlill
manage the six-day bike race to be
staged at the Coliseum next month by
Packey McFarland and Thomas P. Con
vey.
Twelve teams of pedalers have been
ulgned, according to McFarland, who is
jubilant over the success in procuring a
sanction for the race, which at first was
Vdented by the National C. A. ‘
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Garry Says Commish
Will Remain on Job
CINCINNATY, Jan. 15.—*There's
nothing in the reported dissolution of
the national commission as far as I
know,” said Garry Herrmann, chairman
of the baseball commission, to-day.
“The commission recently elected offi
cers for another yvear and is bound to
remain in force at least that long. Base
ball needs some sort of ‘ovornl‘n’ body
such as the national commission.
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| You Just Ought to See
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. Jim Coffee’s Collection
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. OfßooksHe's Gathering |
} N W _YORK: Jon. B—Jomes |
§! Coffey, the Roscommen
| glant, whe battied Frank Moran In |
| New York recently, was told the |
\ other day that Moran, whe s
Emhh' of a student, always
L has & emall library in his training
} Quarters. {
L *That's nothing,” reterted Cos. |
| fay, “I've & sow books myself™
| He resched inte & locker and
pulled out some small, leather
. coversd velumes
{ “This one is on the Corn Ex
change, this is on the National
} City Bank, and the other on the '
Kansas City National. And you |
might say that if | keep on and
' am lucky thet | sxpect te have
{ the biggest library of this sort
that any prize fighter sver owned.
§ 'm very studious, | am.”
Jimmy Callahan
Wifi Ap in
Va.mieville Act
PITTEBURG, Jan. 15 -Jimmy Calia
‘han, new manager of the Pittsburg M
rates, will make his first public appear
ance heres, not on the ball fleld, but on
the stage, having lgood over the long
;'cuum "nu the New Davis 'r::uor
o A r in & monologus stunt,
nium)‘ afterncon, January ".%
salary will be §s7so for one week He
probably will take a short tour of sev
‘eral cities of the theatrical cirouit, then
take up his duties ax manager of ‘he
Pirates
‘ Partial to South
Foothall followers ll:"h. Middle West
are disappointed that the name of none
of the eleven universities of that sec
tion sppears upon the schedule of the
Harvard eleven for next ssason. Ap
parently the Crimson favors the South
rather than the Weat, for the Univer
sity of Virginia and North Carolina
University both rh,v at Cambridge next
sutumn. \'tr(nn was, dafeated % to 0
last fall, but North Catolina is & new
comer.
WHITE'S SON IS CAPTAIN
NEW YORK., Jan. 15-—Louis F
White, son of Charley White, the box
ing referee, will captain the Fordham
Prep relay team this season White
played tackle on the prep sleven last
SeASON
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’How Ring Stars Get in Shape
Valuable Advice by Tramer
EW YORK, Jan. 16.-One of the
N real mysteries of the fghting
game i the wonderful physi
sl condition of :::1 .um:::“ For
years they-—the good ors-—
keep fighting and fghting, and al
ways display marvelous skill, plenty
of endurance and & world of speed
in every sncounte
There was ulh"u elss 10 do but
to find out—why® So thinking of
one of the best sources of Informa
tion, a real clever trainer, wa huntad
up Aleck Goodman, the Englishman
who developed Ted Lawls, the walter
welght champlon.
Goodman oame over hera from
England bringing & reputation of be
ing second to none In ring -
man for & hard battle. fl. wlwo
brought along the “rep™ of being one
of the best teachers of the boxing
geme and also a stern instructor.
“Tell us bo-.:ou get & fighter in
shape™ we Raked
“It's just like this” he replied; and
this is what he sald:
How Aleck Does It
'Oocm a fighter in shape is sither
very or very easy. It all de
pends on how you go about it. The
firet move is to let your charge know
you are real boss when it comes down
to arranging his condition. When
you have knocked this through his
head the rest isn't hard. The real ne
cessities are sieep, fresh alr, proper
hours, good food and just enough
gymnastic work. Give any man,
fighter or office worker, this treat
ment and he's bound to reach his
best Dhyd?l condition.
“1 never trained a fighter, and nev
er knew one who amounted to any
thing, who didn't retire at a reason
able hour. Nine hours’ sleep is a
good rest and also a wonderful asset
When he arose he ate a light break
fast and after an hour's lolling about
hustied out on the road. About five
miles of running and Jogging was
sufficlent. Then it was right inte
the m.
"Tg first move In the gym is to
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training the eye, jacking up speed,
waking up the muscles and harden
ing the hands. From the bag the
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For strengthening the legs and de
veloping the wind this is about the
best exercise known.
“If you follow any fighter through
a bout you will notice he is on his
toes most of the time. The pressure
i felt more on the instep than on the
toes; s 0 you can see the advantage of
having that part of the foot in proper
shape. A man's legs will give out
first in a long encounter, so a trainer
has to pay particular attention to
;hou important parts of the human
rame.
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The Fairfield isan ESTAELISHED
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The new Fleetwood “Six-38"—
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“From the rope ski the
move is o shadow om
small gloves the fghter glides
the gym, feinting and dodging at
invisible opponent and throwing
umes of blows at the Imaginary
“Mr developing fast footwork,
with arms and agility thers is nothe
ing 1o compare with this part of z
rogram. When that is finished
E«uu system foliows
Develop the Instep.
“In selecting opponents for &
always make it & point Lo get
little men, fast heavy men and &
sluggers. When & man boxes
sentatives of these thres 4l
classes, Le meels svery branch
boxing. I pay strict attention to ™he
way muy man boxes and always make
him fight under my orders. Ii makes
no difference what he thinks, he h 1
to foliow my instructions. Omn that
am determined.
“That test winds up the day's woull
and the fighter is ready to do Juastios
1o & square meal BEaling is somes
thing over which & tralner must u
an eagle aye. There is no fighter
wouldn't keep foodlnl, himeelf after &
hard day's work until he could bardlp
move.
“Thersfore 1 always act as my
cook and serve what m
and plenty. | have a &
tion of herbs which I brought from
the other side, and which has proven
of incalculable benefit. It acts “a
system admirably, both for put
on and taking off weight.
“Welight is some that
A trainer, unlcnlm his —l'.“
to get down to a certaln poundage
The way a fan in tmining can pel
on and also take off welght is mywth
fying. 1 make it & rule to weigh n@
fighter at least five times a day. Th®
seems ridiculous, but it is absolutely
necessary for it gives you a true !lne
on his condition and you can gulde
yourself accordingly.
“Many good fighters are ruinel
every year by not having proper ine
struction. ['ve seen lads working
hard in & gym when they should have
been resting up. Too much work will
ruln a man's condition as much a 9
not enough exercise. The whole ae=
cret Iy giving a man just what
neecfs. ‘e
“When 1 got hold of Lewie he
the great habit of tearing in and bate
tering away at his man as if his
hands were made of malleable iron.
It took me some time to show him
his terrible mistake. He was hard to
convince, but I led him on slowly and
it wun"lw‘ou before he realized that
I was ng him the proper advice
The career of a slambang fighter is
very short, as ring records will prove,
while a good, clever boxer can go
along for many years. It's very easy
if you know how.”
“That's right,” we sald.