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BILLY SANDS, VETERAN OF BASERALL. WILL BE BACK ON JOB NEXT SEASON
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: Star of 1884 Has Signed Contract to Guard Gate at Ponce dc.-Lctvm Durinlg /9/ 6C:amf¢ilgn 54 "
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Sands Was a Member of First
Team That Ever Represented
Atlanta in Southern League.
By Fuzzy Woodruff.
ILLY BANDS i»s coming back to
B Atiantas lLa park and to the
Boul iern -yl
Pause. gentle reaer efore you b
gin heaping mpre ations on the head
of Chariey Frank nd accuse him of
hiring every antediluvian athlete for
his ball club from Pop Anson down o
Otte Jordan Rilly Sands Is not g
ing to be located out In the pastiming |
pasture ’
But he has algned a contraet |
guard the gate, sven as did Hora!
of old, who for like service was glver
all the farming land he could plow In
5 week, according to tradition
Billy SBands is an expert on this |
He has been barring the way of tick
etiess persons who have wanted to
200 theatrical performances, vaude
villa moving pictures, grand opera, |
Jegal executions and other popular
Atlanta movements for the past 25
yoars, and now he's going to take a,
turn at the seme trick out at the ball |
park i
Don't think, sither, that Billy Sands
i any noviee at this baseba Eame
Way back yonder when Ed Hruffey
was such a 'nhi)'. rier that he car
ried a notebook, he used to write of
Bill SBands’ doings on the diamond
And right now Bruffey will tell you |
that there have heen few shortstops
to wear an Atlanta uniform who had |
anything on old Billy
Played Here in 1884,
Billy was & member of the first
team that ever representad Atlanta in
the Southern League. Hy the way
this was the 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 team. 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 lealue. He was president of the
clud and Charles Collier, afterward
Mayor of Atlanta, was its manager
The league was a l!ittle four-club
affair—Atlanta, Macon, Augusta and
Columbus—and ball players were as
scarce as recall votes in those days.
Blily Sands had just moved to At
janta. He was superintendent of the
Atlanta Newspaper Unlon, but ne had
had lots of baseball experience In
Washington, where in 1879 and 1880
be played shortstop ‘on the Govern
ment Printing Office team of the De
partmental League of the Capltal
o Jim Lynch in Outfield.
He was one of the first men signed
and he naturally was put at his old
place in the short fleld. Among the
other members of the same club was
Jim Lynch, now a prominent dealer
in amber suds at Broad and \*‘nlwn
streets. Imagine the Jim of to-day
cavorting around in the outfleld! But
Jim did, and he had never lost his
Jove for baseball. There is something
‘radically wrong when. he misses a
game at Ponce Del.eon Park.
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 season
was 30 games. Activities began in
June and lasted until September.
. But If the season was short, the
@‘ was flerce enough. Mr. Sands
{ of breaking up an eleven-inning
san against Columbus that brought
“Atlanta the championship. He did it
‘with a home-run clout. He declares
p it there was more fighting done at
old Peters Park that afternoon than
/A 8 done at the battle of Peachtree
~ The next season Mr. Sands forsook
v % rt fleld and took a job as a
‘Southern League umpire. While he
was handling the indicator, Hank
O'Day was a pitcher for the Savan
bah club. He umpired for several
Seasons and finally left baseball for
theatrical business, but in 1892 he
sturned to the game in a financial
WAy as a director of the club, when it
pastimed at Brisbine Park. |
~_Mr. Sands still shows signs of his
diamond activities. The fingers of
n¥ inds are as crooked as a ward
politician or the dealer of a brace
faro box. “We didn’'t have gioves in
‘those days—that is, no one but the‘
‘catcher did. But we managed to
~handle the ball pretty well. I was
\able to handle it.” sald Mr. Sands,
with & swelling of the chest, “weil
baough to make an unassisted 'riple
880 ihere at Paters fPark .So
Sands as He Looks To-day With Glove and Bat
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iyou see we played real baseball in
‘those days.”
When Mr. Sands was a director of
‘tho Atlanta club he struck up an ac
quaintance with a big, rangy athlete
‘o( the Mobile club., He was a catcher
and first baseman and his name was
Jake Wells, In after years Mr. Sands
workad 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 heen assoclated with theatrical
life in Atlanta ever since. He 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 a post 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.
And so he's going to be on the gate
this season with gnarled fists and
wrinkled face and a heart young
enough to enjoy a ball game as thors
oughly as any 12-year-old kid on the
bleachers.
“How old am 17" said Mr. Sands, in
reply to a question. “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. 15.—80 b Curtis, who
?ltchod for the Battle Creek team of
he Bouthern Michigan Len’;ue before
that circuit broke ulp. and then joined
the lnde‘ronden( Rail Lights of Toledo,
which efeated several major league
teams in exhibition games, will, it lis
wfled. get a trial with the Chicago
ite Sox in the spring.
LELAND'S CREW IS INTACT
SANFORD UNIVERSITY, CAL., Jan
16.—Seven of the eight-oared crew of
Leland Stanford University, which fin
ished second to Cornell in the Pough
keepsie regatta last June, wil be eligi
ble for nex: vear's contest, is i 1 ex
pectad
MEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA. SUNDAY, JANUARY 16 1916
Nine Brothers Make
¢ brotiaers MakKe °
BODE, 10WA, Jan. 15.—Nine broth
ers make up a ball team in this city.
The family name is Sorlein. The oldest
member of the team is 34; the young
est 106, \
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
CAMBRIDGE, MASS,, Jan, 15—Har
vard is to have a new swimming pool,
which will cost $§14,000 and will be placed
in the basement.
The tank will be 756 feet long and 20
feet wide, designed both for ordinary
swimming and competitive meets to be
held by the varsity "and freshman
teams,
MILLER 1S A COMING STAF
George Stallings says the Yankees
v\i‘l make a mistake if they let Out
fielder Miller, secured from Mobile, go
without a full trial. Stallings says he
has Bud Sharpe's word for it that Miller
is a coming star, and he opines that
Sharpe is the best judge of a ball RMK
er he knows. Sharpe also sé)eaks igh
lv of Hendryx, the outfielder secured
by the Yankees from New Orleans.
DEDHAM, Jan. 15 -—Sweaters have
been awarded the following members of
the Hyde Park football team. * Goorge
H. Andrews, James Feeney, Roland S,
Fulton, Douglas Henderson, Earl 8.
Higgins, Leon K. McConnell, George |
Minnick, G. Lauriat Reynolds, Henry
T. Siebert, J. A. Leslie, Warren and
Manager Edward B. Roberts.
PORTLAND, OREG., Jan. 15--A profltf
of approximately $3,400 was cleared by
the football team of the Oregon Agri
culture Qollege on its season just closed,
according to a statement issued to-day.
The longest trip made by the team dur
ing the season' wa& to Lansing, Mich.
They alsp made trips to Lalifornia and
Kasiern Washington &
Folger Will Manage
Chicago Bike Grind
CHICAQO, Jan. 15.-~Joe Folger will
manage the six-day bike race to be
staged at the Coliseum next month by
PPackey McFarland and Thomas P. Con
vey.
Twelve teams of padalers have been
alined. according to McFarland, who is
jubllant over the success in procuring a
sanction for the race, which at first was
denied by the Natjonal C. A.
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of the baseball commission, to-day.
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You Just Ought to See
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Jim Coffee’s Collection
Of Books He's Gathering
N EW YORK, Jan Ih.=James
Ceey, the Rescommen
glant, whe battied Frank Meran in
New York recently, was teld the
other day that Moeran, whe
something of a student, always
has & emall library in his training
quarters.
“That's nething,” retorted Ceof.
soy, “I've & sow books mysell™
MHe resched inte a locker and
pulled out some small, leather
covered 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 that | sxpect te have
the biggest library of this sort
that any prize fighter sver owned.
'm very studious, | am”
Ji Callah
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v ille Act
audeville Act
PITTABURG, Jan 15 -Jimmy Calla
han, new manager of the Pittsburg M
rates, will make his fArst public appear
'a:‘eo here, ::‘lo“ the ball llold.hbm an
slage, vin, .Q".‘ over the long
distance with IQTQ New Davis Theater
to cp;-‘ou in & monclogue stunt, bosl'n
ning Monday afterncon, January 34, His
salary will be 1730 for one week. He
probably will take a short tour of sev
eral cities of the theatrical circult, then
take up his duties as manager of the
Pirates.
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Harvard Eleven Is
Partial to South
Football followers tu-lho Middle West
are disappointed that the name of none
of the ecleven universities of that sec
tion lmnln upon the schedule of the
Harvard eleven for next season Ar
parently the Crimson favors the South
rather than the West, for the Univer.
ity of Virginia and North Carolina
University both &hy at Cambridge next
autumn. \'u-{u was defeated %to 0
Inst fall, but North Carciina is a new
comer. |
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WHITE'S SON IS CAPTAIN
NEW YORK. Jan, - li—Louis F
White, son of Charley White, the box
ing referee, will captain the Fordham
Prep relay team this season. White
played tackie on the prep eleven last.
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Valuable Advice by Trainer
By Ed Curley.
’ EW YORK, Jan. 16-One of the
’N real mysteries of the fighting
game is the wonderful physi.
cal condition of the gladiators. For
sass they —the real good battiers-—
‘.og fighting and muw al
ways display marveious plenty
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in every encounter,
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to find out—why? 8o thinking of
one of the best sources of informa
tion, & real clever trainer, we hunted
up Aleck Goodman, the Englishman
-‘o developed Ted Lewis, the welter.
‘welght champion.
Goodman came over hers from
lmm pringing A reputation of be
ing second to none in mmnu -
man for a hard Dbattle also
brought slong the “rep” of being one
of the best teachers of the buxing
game, and aiso a stern instructor.
“Tell us how you get & fighter In
ah%o?" we ukul
‘s Just like this” he replied; and
this is what he said:
How Aleck Does It
| “Getting & fighter in shape is either
very hard or very easy. It all de
‘r:-onbo- you go about it. The
move s to let your charge know
you are real boss when it comes down
to arranging his condition. When
anaw knocked this through his
the rest isn't hard. The real ne
censities are sleep, fresh alr, proper
hours, good food and Jjust enough
tie work. Give any man,
‘:t:ruor office worker, this treat
ment and he's bound to reach his
best physical condition.
“] never tralned & fighter. and nev
or 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 jJogging m‘
u:lldnt. Then it was right ilnto
the
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For strengthening the legs and de
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~ “If you follow any fighter through
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‘having that pert of the foot in proper
shape. A man's legs will give out
first In a long encounter, so a trainer
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lthou important parts of the humul
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“From the rope ski the
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small gloves the Aghter glides around
the gym, feinting and W fl'=
inviaible opponent and throw
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Deavelop the Instep.
“In selecting opponents for a man §
always make it & point to get sash
little men, ‘f::!“lflvy m:oul a few
sluggers ; A man Xeß repres
sentatives of these three fllfl
classes, he meets every branch
boxing. 1 pay strict attention to the
way my man boxes and always make
him fight under my orders, It makes
no dlgonnr. what he thinks, he has
to follow my instructions. On that ¥
am determined.
“That test winds up the day's work
and the fighter is ready to do justice
to & square meal. Bating is some
thing over which a trainer must keep
an eagle eye. There is no fghter who
wouldn't keep bodlaf himself after &
hard day's work until he could hardly
meve.
“Inerefore, | always act as my own
cook and serve what I deem proper
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tion of herbs which 1 t from
the other side, and which has proven
of incalculable benefi*. It acts on the
system admirably, both for putting
on and taking off weight.
“Welght s something that bothere
& trainer, particularly if his man has
to get down to a certain poundage
The way & fan in tralning can put
on and also take off welght is mysti
fying. ! make it & rule to weigh my
fighter at least five times a day. This
seems ridiculous, but it is absolutely
necessary for it gives you a true line
on his condition and you can gulde
yourself accordingly.
“Many good fighters are ruined
every year by not having proper in
struction. I've seen lads working
hard in & gym when they should. have
been resting up. Too much work will
ruin a man’'s condition as much as
not enough exercise. The whole se
cret is giving a man just what
neefa. o 0
“When I got hold of Lewis he
the great habit of tearing. in and bat
tering away at his man as If his
hands were made of malleabls 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 wasn't long before he realized that
1 was giving him the proper advice
The career of a slambang fighter e
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,