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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1916.
Honesty Is the Very Best Policy to Insure You Against Any of the Risks of Life
T el T R T. R SRR T i
*GEORGIAN SPORTS COVERID 4 EXPERTSS
Al . &
Local Five Finishes Work To-day
for Fray With Columbus.
Dixie Title Hinges on Result.
. 7ITH eight out of nine victories
“ to their credit for the sea
son, the Atlanta Athletic
Club basketball quintet plays the last
game of their schedule Saturday
night. The Columbus Y. M. C. A. five
will be the opponents of the Joe Bean
warriors. On the outcome of this
game hinges the title of Southern
Champions for the season 1915-16.
The Atlantans have the best claim
to the honor so far this season, but
they must beat Columbus to become
the undisputed champions. Colum
bus was defeated by the Atlanta
team in Columbus this season, 21 to
16. Atlanta won from Columbus here
last season, 66 to 13.
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THAT the local team will be in tip
top form on Saturday night has
been evidenced by the great playing
of the men in recent combats. Wal
ter Dußard has been ill the past week,
but he will be seen in action in the
final encounter. Graves, Forbes, Les
ter and Westmoreland, forwards, will
most likely be put into play, with the
two first mentioned starting the game
off. Captain “Pie” Weaver and Frank
Carter, who have been setting a great
pace of late, will be looked upon to
bold the fast Columbus forwards.
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COLUM’BUS will have appearing in
its llne-up a number of new
faces. It is not quite positive wheth
er Petty, Dozier and Newman, old
stars, will be in action. These three
men have played in very few games
this season. In their places will prob
ably appear Struppa, a promising and
fast individual at forward. McMath
and McDuffie may divide the other
offensive position. Walter Dußard
will have as his jumping opponent
Bud Massey, a veteran on the Colum
bus llne-up. Turner, Patterson and
Smith will take turns at guarding Joe
Bean's rapid lorwnrd:.
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T HE referee of the contest will most
likely be Mike Donahue, of Au
burn. Mike refereed the game be
tween these two teams in Columbus
and his officiating was most satisface
tory to Coaches Bean and Bridges.
Coach Joe Bean will again offer a
five-pound box of candy to the lady
guessing nearest to the correct scores
made by the teams, and a three-pound
box to the one guessing second best.
Following is the probable line-up
for to-morrow's game:
Atlanta, Columbus.
Forbes, Lester, r, .
Struppa, Peddy, McDuffle, r. f.
Graves, Westmoreland, ). f. |
McMath, Kilcrease, 1. f,
Dubard, c...... Massey, Patterson, c.
Carter, r. g..... Turner, Newman, r, g.
Weaver, 1. g.......8mith, Dozler, 1. g.
Andrews Replies to
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Frank; Says Case
Belongs in Court
c‘ll.:i’or Frank Callaway, attorney for
ey Frank, In the latter’s contro
versy with President Andrews, of the
Ch.tunoofis ball club, announced this
mormn;kz at he had received a reply
to Frank's open letter to the head of the
Lookouts last Sunday.
Andrews, In his letter to Frank, re
fuses to accept Frank's proposition to
submit tßeir personal dispute to three
Bouthern League presidents or an arbi
tration board and states that the case,
if argued at all, belongs to a court of law
Andrews says that the Southern
league presidents are men of affairs:
that it would be unfair to ask them to
flvo their time to the controversy um!l
at rnonnl relations mifhl embar
rass them in trying to decide It
As to the proposed committee of dis
interested persons, Mr. Andrews says
that he would prefer the evidence in the |
case be produced before a court of law
with the witnesses under oath. In an
informal Investigation the necessary
evidenca mlfht be hard to secure, he
Says. The local magnate states that
while his chur{u #0 far have been
morek general, he is prepared to bring
specific proof fn court.
Fred Toney at Last
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Signs With Redlegs
CINCINNATI, Feb. 25.—~Fred Toney,
the premier ]vl‘cher for the Cineinnati
National la:'g-uc team last season, ves
%{'dn a contract for the season
Toney announced last month that he
would not sign up unless given $6.000
At the same time the club announced
that he wou'd not receive more than
$4.000. No announcement was made to
day as to what compromise, If any, had
been reached. |
JOHNSON ORDERED TO LEAVE
LONDON, Feb, 25.—Jack Johnson will
sall for SBouth America on March 3.
The former champlon has Incurred the
dnl-unn of the British authorities
Al hix departure was suggested by
them with 3\‘: alternative n, being de
ported. Johnson has been visiting the
provinces as the headliner of a revue,
and he has been making a lot of
money,
ELLIS GAINING ON DE ORO
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25.—Alfred
DeOro lost a little of the lead he had
over (i'lhlflon Ellls In the three-cush
fon billiard champlonship match when
the second ikw!l was finished last
ml. The score now stapds 100 to A 9,
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TO COACH MARQUETTE TEAM
%AV‘“E. Feb. M Juek Me-
Dartmouth siar, was to-day
coach of the Marquette Univers
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| sing to-day of Schulte.
His other name is Frank.
He never cares a hoosit
If days be dark and dank.
He never cares a whatsit
If clouds are in the sky,
Nor if the sun is shining
To dim his eagle eye.
At times when fans are heated
And ball games grow intense
I like to watch Frank Schulte—
He uses common sense,
| like to watch Frank Schulte
When strolling up to bat.
He acts like one who never cares,
But when he comes to bat he wears
a head beneath his hat.
What is this rough-necked world
coming to? We read in the public
prints that there was almost a riot at
a whist tournament. Some uncouth
person must have raised his voice
above a whisper.
“What,” asks J. J., “has become of
Jim Gilmore?” Whaddaya think we
are—a student of ancient history?
WHY LOOK BACKWARD?
The Federal League has came and
went
And many a bank roll has been spent
For salaries and meals and rent,
But this is 1916.
Lucifer and the Federal League fell
down. Not that we are comparing
Lucifer and the Federal League in a
moral sense, but they started some
‘thing they couldn’t finish. In sport
'and in other phases of business they
don’t ask, “How good ig he?” They
ask, “Is he a winner?"
“Indians” is an appropriate name
for the Cleveland athletes in view of
the fact that they are owned by those
aboriginal Americans, Dunn and Mec-
Carthy.
. While there is an outery in certain
circles against the Russian ballet,
‘there is nothing saig against the bare
limbs in a marathon race. But pos
-Bibly they figure that a man who runs
a marathon race hasn't sense enough
to keep warm. :
DON'T MISS IT.
(By Oscar Hip.)
Don’t miss my stuff in The After
noon Yelp.
I can tell you two months ahead of
time when every game will start in
the American and National League. |
can even tell you when they started
last year in the Federal League. And
| can let you know how the Federal
League will finish this season.
| can let you know two innings
ahead whether the gent who roddlu
Feanuts or the gent who retails soft
drinks will walk on your favorite corn,
| can tell you two minutes before
you hand your tickets to the usher
that he is going to sting you for two
bits.
| can tell you all | know about base
ball if 1 have time enough, but |
haven't many more years to live.
Anyhow, read my stuff. It will hand
you a liberal education in physics,
chdomi.try and higher mathematics.—
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Y.M.C. A. Athletes
Practice for National
Athletic Hexathlon
Only four events of the six required
In the National Athletic Hexathlon were
held last ni{ht in the Young Men's
class at the Y. M. C. A. The meet was
in the nature of a practice nl:h! for
the national meet, which will be held by
the Atlanta Assoclation on the evening
of March 15. Although the marks made
last night were good; yvet they do not
gquite measure nJ' to “honorable men
tion" when considered nationally. The
results of the meet last nlshl are:
Twelve-pound Shot Put-C, C. Seles
key, first, distance 36 feet 7 inches; P.
1. Wooten, second: L. N. Duggan,
third; J. M. Coieman, fourth
Fence Vault—-P. L. Wooten, first, 6
feet 3 inches; C. C. Splelko'y and 8. K.
Sutton tied for second, 6 feet 1 inch;
M. Rohm, fourth, g
Running mfh Jumr»-u. K. Sutton
first, 4 feet 11 inches; P. L. Wooten and
W, E. Clower tied for second, 4 feet 0
inches: G. A. Beattle, fourth,
Standing Broad Jump--8. K. Sutton,
first, § feet 7 inches; P. 1. Wooten, sec
ond; C. C. Seleskey, third, and G, A
Beattie, M. Rohm and 1. N. Duggan
tied for fourth
. The other two events completing the
hexathlon series are the 60-yard ?;nun
and the 220.vard potato races, hese
were not held last night due to lack of
time
In the Young Business Men's Class
to-night, beginning at 8§ o'clock, the
same series of evenis will be run off,
the lengue games for the night being
postponed,
Schedule Adopted
By A. A Bfii ial !
y A, A, Officials
COLUMBUS, OHIO, Feb, 25.-Club
owners of the American Association
Baseball League, in session here last
nlrm, adopted a playing schedule of
188 games for the coming season, nam
ing April 18 as the npfl\mfi date. The
lant {""‘" of the season will be rhnd
October 1. Toledo, Ohjo, was listed as
one of the league cities, but no an
nouncement of detally for the reoccupa
tion of the city was made,
ST. LOUIS, Feb, 25— Unconditions!
releases have been handed out by the
£t. Louis Cardinals to Pitcher Hub Per.
due and Shortstop Arnold Hauser
Pitcher Jack Roche has been wsent tn
the Little Rock Southern League club,
The Kt Louis Hrowns have releared
InfleMer James Walsh to thé Memphis
Southern League team,
BASKETBALL GAME TO-NIGHT
The Decatur High School girls’ bas
kethall team will pay Washington Semi.
nary to-night st § o'clock at Dona ' d
Franer Pmnnmm Ten cents admis
sion will be charged
Silk Hat Harry
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Pitcher Dick Rudolph, of the Braves,
has resigned his job as coach of the
Williams College baseball squad. Dick
wili report to Stallings March 1.
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l Pat Moran and his Phillies will
leave for Jacksonville, Fla., March 3.
They will go from New York by boat.
Training will begin March 6.
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Boston Red Sox have signed Jimmy
O'Nelll, of the famous O'Neill basebail
family. O'Neill was the best flelding
shortstop on the Providence baseball
club.
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A Michigan-Canadian baseball
league may be organized this season
at Bay City, Mich.
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“Germany” Schaefer is on his way
from Havana, (Cuba, to the Yankees’'
spring training camp at Macon, Ga.,
to act as chief adviser, ’
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John (Shane) Collins also may en
ter the race for the third base postl
on the White Sox if Manager Ruw-'
land goes through with his threat to
make Jack Fournier a regular flrut'
sacker. Shano asserts he can play |
any place on the club except pitch
and catch.
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Roy Corhan, new shortstop of the
St. Louls Cardinals, secured from the
Pacific Coast League, is one confident
chap in his ability to stick in the Na
tional League. He has written Mana
ger Huggins that there is only one
man in baseball who could beat him
out of his job, and if there is any
chance of Huggins signing that
man Corhan deciares he will not re
port to the Cardinals. The man Cor
han mentions is Hans Wagner,
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“Home Run” Frank Baker arrived
in New York the other day and held a
long conference with Colone! Ruppert,
of the Yanks, after which le said
everything was satisfactory.
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Pitcher Charles Schlansker and
Outfielder Charles Oberta have signed
their 1814 contracts with the Bloom
ington (lil.) team.
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The Yanks have spent $120,000 for
players since last summer, according
to a statement made by Captain T, 1.
Huston, one of the owners. With
$120,000 as a total, the Yank owners
have spent more money in one year
for players than any major league
club, not even excepting the White
Sox, who heretofore had held the
record.
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According to Cantain Huston, the
top price was pald for Lee Magee, It
was $25,000. In the players the Yanks
took on last summer from the minors
Dan Tipple, of the Indianapolis Amer
fcan Association team topped the list
at $9.500,
DODGERS ARRIVE AT CAMP
HOT SPRINGS, ARK., Feb. 25— Hot}
SBprings to-day showed the first symp
toms of becoming a baseball nutnlnll
camp when the vanguard of the Brook-
Ivn Nationals arrived. Jack (‘..--mml
was In command of the first band of
arrivals, who registerad as Sherrod M
Emith, John T. Myers, R. 1. Marquard,
Edward J. Pleffer and Nap Rucker,
Pitcher Larry Cheney will arrive Bun
day.
STAHL FUNERAL TO-DAY,
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Feh 25 Ar
rangements were to he completed to.day
for the funeral of Henry Rwahl, 74,
father of Garland (Jake) Etahl, of Chi.
cago, former Boston baseball star. The
aged Mr, Etahl dled here In Bt Johus
!(«-q..ul iate Inxt night, after a brief
Nnhens His home i In Elkhart. 1,
near here
PAUL DIXON KNOCKED OUT
NEW YORK, Feb 26 <Bilent Martin
knocked out Paul Dixon in the fAfth
round last night
‘THE ATLANTA GEURGIAN
Gameness? No Such Thing! Bat Nelson Says So
Dane i Remarkable Suotemnt]
He Often Wanted to Just Lie Down in the Ring
By Ed W. Smith.
HICAGO, ILL, Feb., 25.—“ These
stories about fighters loving to
" fight, longing for the punches
on the jaw and the chance of remm-}
ing them—these stories are all
bunk.” A
This is the sage observation of Bat
tling Nelson, who perhaps has taken
as many punches on the various
parts of his anatomy as any other
fighter living or dead. When Bat
was whirling his way through the
ranks of the world's best lightweights
he was known as a man who “loved
to fight.” Now he comes along and
shatters one of the pet traditions of
the ring.
He read an article in The Hearst
American a few days ago regarding
gameness, and it drew a reply from
him.
“They used to say I loved to fight,”
observed Nelson. “They sald I gloried
in being punched and that I was 'm
'pc-r\'lmu to pain. They often wmtel
big stories of how eager 1 was for
! the battle,
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I“NOW, for the first time I'm m'u‘
to tell you the truth, and if it
applies to me—l was considered the
gamest of all fightera—then It ap
plies to the other lights of the ring.
“lI hated to fight. So does every
fighter. [ never got into the ring
without a feeling of dread. 1 knew
that I was going to get punched, 1
was going to get hurt, I was going
to get black eyes and banged up em‘
and bloody noses galore. | knew that
for a few days after the fight 1 was
going to ha =ore in every muscle and
creaking in every joint.
“1 knew some fellow eleverer tht’!l
I wae going to stick his left jabs inta
my right eve and then smash his
right hand against myv saw. And tmv]
tell you that's a pleasant prospect and
that a man ‘glories’ in it. It's rot
on the face of It—that's what 1 say,
and nobody that ever got into a ring
can deny It,
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uV(vMYMEI have been written on
my gameness. More volumes
have been written on the fact that In
my twenty vears as a fizhter | never
took a backward step before an onpo
nent. T accept all these writines at
thelr face value., because deep in my
heart T know the truth of all the
facts at the bottom of that game
ness,
“I have come out of battles all
battered up. Folks have been walting
for me to take lunch with them after
a fight. A gay throng usually walted
in the hotel case. Sometimes I joined
‘them—but not often. Do you know
’whm 1 had to 40?7 Well, T had to #»
to my room and have a rohber pound
the soreness out of my flesh and a
boy hold lce cloths to my face, This
would last several hours, while down -
stairs the throngs would enlogize Nel.
son for his gameness and spend the
’mom-y he had won for them.
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>uNOW, Eddle, here's the real In
*ide. Remember my fight witn
Han'on? Also the one with Canoa?
I received my most severe punish
ment in these fights, In both batties
1 was tired at timesfearfully tired.
Time and again I felt like sinking
to the floor. That canvas looked 15
nice and soft and Inviting. And Yy
standing up I got more punches in
the Jaw than on the body. Gee, but |
wanted the fight to end—at times |
didn’t care how--just as kmr as it
ended. Canole Wit me in the liver 'n
the fourth round nd 1 actually
howled with pain for five minutes.
Poor Martin thought | was cursine
him. Had he known how badly | was
hurt he might have finished me.
“Throughout both fights | was ket
on my feet by Just one thing-—the
knowledee that no mattér how tired
1 was, the other fellow was Just as
tired—and in all probability just o
littie bit MORE tired, Every round
1 figured that If | could wtand on my
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feet for two more rounds the other
fellow might quit in one. That's all
that saved me,
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“ rur,. same applied In all my long,
historic fights, In every one of
them 1 often thought of how nice it
would be if the fight was over,
“And back of all that so-called
gameness there stands out the fact
that, like Leaches Cross, 1 was a busi
ness man. | knew that gamensss
and durability were the two capitals
of Battling Nelson. People came 1o
see him fight because he was game
and durable and aggressive and hon
est-always forcing the fighting,
never backing away. These were *he
lures that brought them to the arena
when | battled and gave my end of
the purse a swollen look,
“And they would continue coming
Just ax long as | was game and ag
gressive and durable and honest. Just
the instant | consed being any one of
the four they would stop coming -
and Nelson would be a dead one, %o
when | became tired, and wanted ‘o
have the battle over. I thought «f
what would happen if | would allow
nature to have her way and sink me
to the floor. 1 plugged on and on,
hoping against hope that the other
fellow wasn't thinking the same as |
was,
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“I T'BR purely & business propositisn,
Gameness is the abllity to stand
up and take the gaff—not because
you like the gaff, because nobody does
~~but because you know you'll be a
dead one in a business sense unless
you do.
“I never loved to fight. But 1
loved the money It brought me. With
that money | could enjoy life and
make life enjoyable for my family.
8o 1 fought. Had there heen any
other way to get the money hapestly
1 never would have been a fighter 1
fought hecause It broveht me » blgger
income than that of the President «f
the United States,
“I never knew & man who loved 1o
fight. Nelther did you nor anyboady
By Tad
else. I never knew a man who loved
punishment. No such man ever ex
isted, I never knew a man who loved
to punish his opponent, unless the
reputation of his loving to so treat
the other man comprised in part his
ring capital and m.nde. him a card.
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uKm McCOY was known as cruel.
In his heart MeCoy is as m!ld as
a chicken. But he built up a certa‘'n
name for cruelty and he capita'-
ized it
“Stanley Ketchel never liked to
knock out an opponent. But the pes
ple expected ‘Ketch’' to knock the
other fellow dead, and he was a mrd‘
because of this abllity on his part,
So he worked it to the limit,
“The same was true of Fitzs'm
mons. Anybody who knows Bsb
(knows to this day that he is Just a
great big, tender-hearted boy. He
knocked out his opponent because he
was expected to do 80, and because
people came to see him land the old
k. o. punch.”
Always original, the “Durable Dane"
seems to have put a new idea Into
the annals of the ring. There Is no
questioning the fact that Nelson
was the gamest and most courageoas
of all fighters. It is ring history that
in more than 250 fights he has never
backed one inch away from an op
ponent,
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w HEN a man of this caliber says
that there ‘s no such thing ag n
man loving to fight, no such A posses -
slon as what Is known as physieal
gameness, his words must bear
welght,
I wonder what some of the other
great ring stars have to say on the
subject,
Frank Whitney off
For His Hogle in
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Cedar Rapids, la.
After a stay of over two months
here, Frank Whitney, the local fa
vorite, departed last night for hia
home, In Cedar Rapids, lowa.
Whitney will combine business with
pleasure an his home Journey. Frank
wil! first pay a visit to his mother, in
Cedar Rapids, after which he will take
{nrt In minor bouts at Davenport and
Vaterloo, lowa. As soon A 8 these
dates are filled, which will be early in
March, Frank will come back to At
| lanta,
On Mareh 17 the "hcht!ng Carpen -
It-r” has a bout scheduled with Young
| Baylor, at Kansas City, This bont
| has been wet back a week, due to an
injury to Whitney's shoulder, recelved
In the Cortez battle Sayvior and
‘\\'h!moy should draw a packed house
{ln Kansas City, as Saylor. is the a 1
| who stopped Leach Cross In five
rounds the other night, while local
fans, of Course, are well aware of the
fact that Whitney holds a k. o vlrh»-j
Iy over that other great veteran ring
warrior, Ad Wolgast, ‘
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WAYCROES, Feb, 25.—-Dr, Paul lle-1
[ Gee, chairman of the Wayeross solleit -
ing committes metl mueh ncouragement
yesterday, and as the commities savers
Waycrons as Ravannah's substitute, it
Is belleved this city will become & |
member of the Hally League, Fans are
Rolng to pay off the assoctation's debis
so the old clans I organisation, of
which Diek Jemison, of Atlanta, was
president, as well an meet the Bouth
Atlantic's requirements
MATHEWSON LEADING SQUAD'
NEW YORK, Feb. 35 - The first mum‘
of Glante will leave for the tra ning
eamp wy Mariin, Texas, to-day d#'.fi
piayers will ba In the -;:sul hey
.nr;:. sod by Christs Mathewson.
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Crackers Get Wilbert Davis,
Mack’s Promising Young Pitcher
ILBERT DAVlS—and we are
\;\/ glad there's nothing in a
name--most promising of the
young pitchers corralled by Connie
Mack during the dark period of last
season when the great Philadelphian
was floundering around trying to re
build his invincible machine, will
vear a Cracker uniform this season.
His contract has been received at
Charlie Frank's office at the Hotel
Ansley, sealed and signed.
Davis, like most of Mack's finds, is
a college product. He was grabbed
off the campus of some fresh-water
institution of learning and athletics
in Penngylvania and immediately put
to labor for the more or less shot-to
pleces Athletics,
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ACCORDI,\'G to the wily McGilli
cuddy, Davis is the most prdm-;
ising youngster that he has seen work
from the mound in years. So promis
ing does he consider him that he is
sending him to the equally wily Frank
to learn the fine points of the game
by engaging in the actual warfare
tather than by sitting on the bench
doing relief duty and pitching in bat
ting practice in the big show. ‘
In addition to being a hurler of rare
promise, Davis is a slugger extraordi
nary. Despite his last season green
ness, his hitting ability was recog
nized, mand he ‘was used by Mack as
his only reliable pinch hitter., |
Manager Frank is overjoyed in
grabbing this boy. He believes that
with Thompson, Perry, Lafitte, Davis
and one other good hurler he will
have as capable a hurling corps as
there is in the league, despite tha‘
well based boast of Birmingham, who
already have on the Baronlal pay roll
Dick Robinson, Arthur' Johnson, Carl
Black, Burleigh Grimes and two or
three recruits.
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TO-M()RROW the Southern League
magnates will meet for their
widely heralded hair-pulling. Some
' how or other, I have the hunch that
there isn't going to he a great deal of
hair pulled. The principal object of
the meeting, of course, is the adop
tion of a schedule and the tentative
arrangement of playing dates agreed
on by the schedule committee in Bir-
}5 Gossip of the Padded Cloves]
[~ s By HARRY LEWIS “ e
Milwaukee boxing fans are showing
much interest in the ecoming A 1
Wolgast-Freddie Welsh ten-round
bout, set for the Brewer City on
March 6. Despite Ad's long ring ser
vice he can be counted on to give
the champion a tough battle, provid
led his hands and arms do not go
back on him.
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Quiet reigns in the camp of Messrs.
Frank Whitney and Jake Abel re
garding the heated controversy be
tween the two over the proposed
Abel-Whitney contest in Chatta
nooga. As matters stand now, Whit
ney will do nothing as to another
Abel match until he returns from his
trip home.
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Eddie Hanlon, however, continues
to chirp aloud over Abel's refusal to
meet him in a return go here, and
Eddie is finding many of his friends
sticking to him, too. Eddie claims
that Abel has no right to dodge a
meeling with him, especially since
Eddie boasts of a 4 draw verdict
against the Chattanoogan, ‘
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A final offer has been sent to Joe
Levy, manager of Pal Moore, for the
bantamweight to meet Jimmy Pappas
here next month, If Levy doesn't
accept in behalf of his rro(.le then
Pete “Kid” Herman will get the
mateh. Pappas has already agreed
to terms,
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Pappas is at present in St. Louls,
where he is a big card. Since he
'-howed here last year, Pappas has
.mude & name for himself throughout
‘ ' High P 1
Boys' High Plays
’ Marist To-day in
{ One game Is scheduled for this after.
noon in the loeal prep basketball league
Boys' High Bchooi will tackle the
Icmlur«'m-!mr Marist College quintet
on the Wesley Memorial eourt. The
game should be hotly contested, as a
vietory for the B. H. §. squad to-day
will give them a chance of winning the
prep title
Tech High School had & contest sched.
uled with Peacock to-day, but the I‘b‘
ter team quit in the last round of the
season and has forfeited all her nmfln-l
ing scheduled gumen
'h)\-' High quintet went out of town
last Monday and defeated the fast Lo
cust Grove team, 36 to 14, in an inter
esting game
Charles Dexter, Jr.
HOUSBTON, TEXAR, Feb, 5. -
Charles L. Dexter, Jr., of Dallas, South.
ern amatenr champion, was sliminated
from the frst m’m in the opening
round yesterday o mnrh.rh{‘ol the
invitation golf fournament the Hous
ton Country Club. Dexter lost to J,
Lewis Thompson, of Houston, 3 u&uM
2to play. George V. Rotan, of Waco,
Texan, Ktate champlon, led the fleld ni
the qualification round with a wteda
score of T 4 Par for the course is 13,
HARTFORD, WIK, Feb, 25 .
Andrews heat Frankle Lynn m
rounds here last night, &
ATLANTA, GA.
mingham seems to be satisfactory
all of the clubs, with the exception of
Chattanooga, whose esteemed presi
dent 13 as hard to satisfy as an )
infant crying for the moon. e
There may be minor changes made
In the schedule—undoubtedly thers
will pe—but the changes will not be
of a nature to cause the magnates to
draw daggers and fly at each others'
throats. i
Again, there may be some strenu
ous debate on the spitball resolution
of Charlie Frank. Several of the clubs
possess the services of a hurler who
uses the moist delivery and it is sup=
posed that these clubs will fight
strenuously against the adoption of &
rule putting a ban on this time-kllllxz
method of pitching. The policy :
short-sighted, but that is a failing
common to most humans, baseball
magnates included. There Is little
trading to be done, but there will be
large quantities of brew to be con
‘sumed, which particular business is
‘usually accomplished with smiles and
‘good fellowship rather than stern
‘(‘ombat and beclouded brows.
~ President Baugh will reach Atlanta
to-day at 2 o'clock. It is not known
1 when Oliver Buckner Andrews, presi
‘dent of the Lookouts, will arrive. He
‘declared in an interview in The Chat
tanooga News of recent date that he
was not going to stay away from the
|Atlanta pow-wow on account of frig
id feet. He stated that it was the one
fmnd desire of his longing heart to at
‘tend this meeting. But he intimated
i(hat he wouldn't be on hand, though
it is known that there are trains still
running between this fair city and the
‘mountain metropolis of Tennessee,
‘and it is suspected that Oliver Buck=
ner possesses the railroad fare.
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U MPIRE HADLEY WILLIAMS, the
Nashville papers declare, has re
turned his signed contract to Presi
dent Baugh. That is nothing to write
about, as we view the thing. Hows
ever, the story goes on with the ine
teresting information that Umpire
Williams' contract gives him a sub
stantial raise in salary.
In recollecting Williams' work of
last season, we are encouraged toward
making a long planned, but equally
dreaded, plea to the esteemed boss of
this chronicle of events. S
the Middle West. He is the chlmfi
of the flyweight championship of 4
world, but he Is willing to give AWAY
from three to five pounds in order to
tackle the tough bant.:ml. ‘5
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Billy Lotz has not heard from Sa
vannah yet regarding a Yank
O'Brien-Cortez match. Billy says he
is confident the Boston boy can
the “Wop” battler to a lacing, and
has offered to let O'Brien fight tw
on reasonable terms, »5
.. . 3
lhz Kirk, the Pittsburg f
weight, is another boxer who is ’
Ing a chip on his shoulder. Kirk
claims that Young Feldman, the Ma~
con ringman, is afrald to meet him
in a glove contest here. ;
. » ;
Tom Law, Macon sportsman J
manager of Feldman, is contemplat
ing staging wrestling watches in Ma
con. According to Tom, Macon {8
strong for the mat game, =
S 9y 9 ¥
Pete Krust, a Greek bantamweight
from Chicago, is anxious to come to
Atlanta for a crack at some of the
best boys of his weight. Krust is
under the management of Kid How=
ard, who handled Jess Willard when
the latter fought George Rodel in
Atlanta, '
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Jimmy Perry, the Pittsburg welter+
weight and a boy who has a lla
following here, is fighting in his
form In and around . Pitts
“Jeems" pens that he is always \
1o come back (o Atlanta to encounter
Jacob Abel, Frank Whitney, Eddie
‘Hanlon or Yank O'Brien.
Leach Cross Says
He's Through With
Padded Mitt Game
. NEW YflßK._’;‘:‘;:W;fi. Teach Cross
has sung his “swan song.” The den
tist fighter says he is through. He will
4,‘-‘.'“""0 'mor-. 'T".hlu u’.flml. not z
.I}l:l Ifo:. ::I:mrt?;nt t::!:c't‘ ::“l‘l'l:h
Saylor. He simply says he's through.
Lewis Disposes of
Trendall in Seventh
ET. LOUIs, ..':;.“2! ~Ted Lawis
knocked out Harry Trendall, of St
Louls, in the seventh round here lass
night RNt :
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