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mUNDAY, DECEMBER 1-
SPORTS QCOVERID 4 IXPERTS:
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Gunner Smith Meets Frank Mo
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ran Tonight, While Jimmy
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Wilde Is to Box Zulu Kid.
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By Harry Lewis.
UNBOAT SMITH, the only box-
G er before the fistic world to
day who holds twenty-round
deoision victories over both Champion
Jess Willard and Frank Moran, is go
ing to get another chance to reach the
top of his division.
g‘onight at the Clermont Rink in
gay Gotham the Gunner will be asked
to peddle his fistic wares in a sched
uled ten-round mill with Frank Mo
ran. Upon the result of this bout,
according to Jim Buckley, promoter
of the bout and manager of Smith,
depends whether or not the big Gun
boat will ever get another chance at
Jess Willard.
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“GUNBOAT SMITH will have to
show me in his bout with Mo
ran that he is the Pittsburger’s mas
ter if he hopes to get on with Wil
lard again,” states Buckley to a Goth
am scribe. “The Gunner is showing
21l his old-time form in his work
outs, but I realize that boxing fans
will have to see for themselves that
Smith is packing his old-time stuff
before they will pay their good money
in the box office to see him meet Wil
lard.
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“lF Smith whips Moran decisively,
I am going to send Jess an of
fer of $30,000 to box Smith here with
in the near future at my club,” con
tinues Buckley. “Should Jess refuse
this purse, I will make a strong bid
to get Georges Carpentier to box
Emith in a return bout, should the lat
ter arrive on our shores. It will be
remembered that Smith lost to Car
pentier on a foul in six rounds on
July 16, 1914, at London. In my opin
ion, Smith was winning by a wide
margin when the bout ended, and 1
think a record-breaking crowd would
witness another Smith-Carpentier
mill, should the pair be rematched, es
pecially if the Gunner can dispose of
Moran.” 1
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IT seems that Buckley has pretty
much confidence in his protege.
We hardly believe that Smith will
gain his old place in the heavyweight
division that he held a few years back,
when he was considered the best
heavyweight in this country. It was
on December 27, 1912, that Smith won
a twenty-round decision over Frank
Moran at San Francisco. On May 20
of 1913 he handed Jess Willard the
same dose. Neither of these glove
wielders has wiped off the sting of
those defeats, despite the fact that!
both of them are considered better
fighters by boxing fans in general at
the present time. |
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THE writer would suggest a bout
with the winner of the Moran-
Smith set-to and Fred Fulton, the
glant from St. Paul. If Moran or
Smith could beat the big Westerner,
then it would be time enough to talk
of a Willard matech. We will know
more about the fighting ability of
Messrs. Smith and Moran after to
night’s conflict. ‘
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TWO of the greatest boxers of the!
“Pee Wee” division are due to
don the padded mitts tonight in far
off London, where the Zulu Kid, who,
with Jimmy Pappas, shares the fly
weight championship of this country,
will tackle the sensational Jimmy
Wilde, the title holder of that class
in London. The Zulu Kid-Jimmy
Wilde match is a scheduled twenty
round affair, and boxing fans on this
side of the water will anxiously await
the result of tonight's mill. ‘
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JIMMY WILDE has been touted to
the sky by all those who have
seen him battle. As the Zulu Kid is
2 great little ringman, he should be
able to make the English wonder step
at his best. He will also know more
about this Wilde glove-wielder after he
finishes with the American battler. If
the winner of the Wilde-Zulu Kid gO
could be prevailed upon to meet Jim
my Pappas, the winner of such a bout
would then be entitled to a clear
claim on the flyweight championship
of the world.
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MH\'F, DONLIN, the former Giant star,
repregents Hugh Grant Brown, the
millionaire sportsman, who has erected
A mammoth arena in Havana. ' Donlin
called upon Manager Pollock the other
day in Gotham to arrange a 40-round
battle between Freddie Welsh, the light
weight champion, and Johnny Kilbane,
the featherweight titleholder.
After painting the possibilities of the
match Donlin asked Pollock his terms.
“Fifty thousand dollars and the selec
tion of the referee,” chirped the man
ager “Don't make any other arrange
ments,” declared Donlin, “for I will ge:
In touch with Brown at once, and In all
probability he will increase the money.’
And Mike never smi'ed
That's as near as Welsh cares to dally
with Kilbane,
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Secretary for Sox
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Appointed by Frazee
CHICAGO, Deec. 18.—Larry Graber,
who for several years has been bhox of
fice man at the Cort Theater here, to
day is on his way to Boston to become
secretary of the Boston Red Sox. Har
ry Frazee, one of the new owners of the
Sox, 18 part owner of the Cort, and
Graber's work at the theater made a
hit with him.
DR.J. T.GAULT
SPECIALIST (for men)
22 Inman Bullding
Atlanta Georgla
Red Sox Manager May Recon
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sider Retirement to Help New
Owners on Winning Way.
By Innis Brown.
EW YORK, Dec. 18.—Ambitious
American League managers
who have begun to gather a bit
of hope for the 1917 season in the re
port that Manager Bill Carrigan, of
the Red Sox, is all through with the
game, can take a hitch in the belt and
brace for a shock. Already it is be
ginning to look very mucnh as though
Big Bill, of Lewiston, was only in
dulging in a little joke.
Not that Bill was just spoofing the
boys when he emitted certain sounds
to the general effect of a retirement.
No doubt Bill was entirely and grimly
sincere In his speech. But spreading
conversation about quitting with the
next starting time still several months
away and actually stepping out for
good are horses of a different color.
Oh, ves, quite different.
Already it would appear, Bill is be
ginning to mellow up a bit on the res
olution to retire. Bill has taken the
midst of his business activities up in
Lewiston, Maine, Bill has taken the
time to speak a little piece concerning
his attitude. Said piece is no positive
commitment. In fact, Bill was very
careful, indeed, to have it stated that
thus far there is positively no re
traction.
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'HUVVEVER, the well-known art of
picking between turns, or taking
pointers from the general context,
lays the foundation for quite a heal
thy surmise that William is some
‘what doubtful even in his own mind
about his resolution of retirement.
'Hear what Carrigan has to say to a
‘Boston scribe, who has but lately
sounded him out:
~ “The new owners of the Red Sox
are starting in on a hard job, and I
might be able to help them if I re
turned to the Sox as manager; but
this is only an idea of mine and may
never be carried out.
~ “If T thought I could do them a fa
vor 1 might consent te return to the
game; but even after I consider that
thought I don’t know that when it
came right down to business I would
actually dip into the game again.”
“Have you changed your mind any
since a few weeks ago when you were
80 certain you wouldn't return?” Car
rigan was asked.
“I don’t know that 1 have,” he re
plied, “but I'd like to help out the new
owners if I could.”
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HAVE you received any offers from
the new owners?”
“No, I haven't heard a word from
them. T suppose they don't want to
start talking business until they get
everything settled regarding the
ownegship, but whatever their delay
is I haven’t received any communica
tion from them. I've been doing some
little thinking on the problems of the
Red Sox, and if I did do anything in
the way of getting back into the game
it would only be for one year, until
the new owners learned the ropes.
“I wouldn't consider any long term
contract, should I do any business
with the new owners, for, as I sajd, it
would only be in the nature of helping
out with my experience for a year un
til Ward and Frazee learned the art
of successfully owning a big league
ball club.”
“It's fairly certain, then, that you'll
come back?” he was asked.
“Indeed, it is not,” replied Carrigan.
“I say all these things, thinking them
over rather than as definitely decided
matters, and it is merely because I
would disltke to see the club upset
that I entertain the thoughts at all—
‘more sympathy than anything else,
you might say.”
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Lawson-Mitten Are
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Leading 6-Dayßacers
' NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—8 pinning
around the big saucer track at Madison
Square Garden fourteen teams were tied
at 186 miles no laps at 8 o’clock this
morning in the six-day bicycle race.
Lawson and Mitten were setting the
pace, The riders were three miles and
five laps behind the record of 189 miles
nine laps, set by Lawson and Drobach
in 1974, At one minute after midnight
this morning the riders got away. The
cyclists are competing for $15,000 in gold,
$5,000 of which will go to the winning
pair Saturday night.
. The teams entered are:
| Goulett and Grenda, Spears and Me-
Namara, Egg and Dupuy, Root and
' Madden, Hill and Drobach, Carman and
Wiley, Kaiser and Cameron, Deßeats
and Walthour, Lawson and Mitten, Ea
ton and Ryan, E. Ohrt and Bello, Thom
as and H. Ohrt, Spencer and Carrell,
Smith and Kopsky.
At 9 o'clock this mornmg the four
teen teams were still tied, having cov
ered 206 miles and four laps. This dis
tance is five miles and eight laps behind
the record
Hornsby Only Man
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Cards Won't Se
ST. LOUIS, Dec, 18.—8 t, Louis Cardi.
nals, according to announcement, are
willing to part with any player on the
rolls except Roger Hornsby In this
even If the Reds could do a great deal
worse than take back Miguel Anrhl
Gonzales, the tall Cuban catcher with
the deadly throwing arm. Other Cardi
nals who would fit in elegantly on the
Cincinnati/ club are Pitcher Watson,
who ghows signs of being a topnotcher;
Outfielder Tommy lLong, a Ym», natural
batsman, and Pitcher Lee Meadows, the
evexglass twirler Add these four men
to the present roster of the Reds and
the team would be reinforced to formid
able proportions
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TJOE MANDOT, former lightweight
| champion of the South, is now ref
‘ereeing bouts in New Orleans. Last
Friday night the French Market boy
was third man in the ring at an ama
teur boxing tourney staged in the
kPellcan City.
N em—
THE greatest bantam Cincinnati has
| turned out in some time, Joc Ha
ley, is billed to make his initial ap
pearance in a ring encounter at New
‘Orleans tonight. Haley's opponent
will be Eddie Coulon, and the pair
‘are scheduled to clash over the fif
teen-round route. Haley stopped
‘(‘oulon several weeks back in Cincin
'nati, but the latter claims he was sick
ion that occasion.
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‘IF Ritchie Mitchell can defeat Joe
Welling in their ten-round mill at
Racine tonight, the chances are he
'will make his next fight against Ben
ny Leonard, the New York sensation.
Already Milwaukee promoters are
laying plans for a bout between Rich
fe and Benny.
NEW YORK, Dec. 18—Kid McCoy
(Norman Selby) is being sued for
divorce again. Mrs. Edith Valentine
Selby, eighth wife of the former pugi
list, filed suit recently in the New
York Supreme Court. The name of
the co-respondent is not revealed, but
the evidence is said to be based upon
a sensational rald upon McCoy's
apartments in the Hotel Seville some
time back. The young woman in the
case is sald to be well known to
Broadway. 1
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GAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18.—Les
Darcy, the Australian middle
weight, 18 en route to America aboard
the steamer Hattie Luckenbach, m--‘
cording to report in sporting circles
here today. At the offices of the!
Luckenbach Company it was sald thc‘
steamer would arrive at Balboa, at
the southern end of the Panama ('a-‘
nal, on December 24, but it was not
known whether Darcy was aboard as
a s*oker or not.
CHICAGO. Dec. 18.—Jess Willard,
heavyweight champion of the
world, today decided there lis no
chance for any promoter to get him
into the land of war and trouble,
meaning France. He gcoffed at thn‘
idea of Jack Curley taking him over
there for a fight with Georges Car
pentier. “Any fighting 1 do will be
done under the Stars and Stripes,”
said Jess. 4
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NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Frankie
Burns, the lightweight from the
Coast, will meet Frankie Nelson, of
Hoboken, at the Olympic A. C, to
night. Tommy Farrell and Young
Molinari are booked for the semi
final. |
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NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Jimmy
Johnston put over two winners at
the Broadway Sporting Club Saturday
night—both by knock-outs, Tom Cow
ler stopped Homer Smith in the sev
enth round, and Augie Ratner knocked
out New Al McCoy in the tenth
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Bransfield Wants to
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NEW YORK, Deec. 18.—" Kitty"
Bransfield, for years a star first sacker
in the National League, is being u!ron.-‘
ly touted as ready for a chance to de
liver in the capacity of a major lea;ue‘
umplire. ‘
Bransfield had a most successful sea- |
son in the International League in 1916
and President Barrow, of that orxanlni‘
tlon, 18 confident that Bransfield is
ready to hold his own in either of the
majors, According to the lnternunvmul‘
lfaiue leader, no umplire in years wanl
aefli Ject for less complaint than Brans-
=lO ALTUANTA GEURUGIAN—
B e TI N TN
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WILLARD-CARPENTIER A POOR MATCH.
NYHE PROPOSED WILLARD-CARPENTIERs match is not.such a
’I thriller when you stop to think about it. X
Willard, with about a foot in height and 80 pounds of weight
the best of it, has the battle half won before he starts. Of/ course
a champion is the card, but, then much better matches could be made.
Les Darcy, for instance, would make a much more interesting fight.
with Carpentier than the big, awkward Willard would.
Darcy and Carpentier are both middleweights. Both are wonder
ful fighters, and, as there is no advantage on either side, a fight be
tween them should be a corker.
| Carpentier did beat some heavies, such as Gunboat Smith and Bom
bardier Wells, but the idea of such a little fellow stacking up against
{ the mammoth Willard seems to be more of a joke than anything else.
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DEAR TAD—NOW THAT THE REAL “Oliver Osborne” has been
captured and his true name revealed, who is going to be the first
paragrapher to opine that “the women were as Wax in his hands.”
Yours very truly, CHARLES E. GRADWELL.
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More Maxims of the Hard-Boiled Eggs.
Smile and eggs will “smile” with yon, provided you are flush.
| An egg has the right of birth to wear a feather in his cap.
| A china egg has nothing to crow about.
| The yolk of an egg is burdened with financial worries.
You can lead an egg to a bar, but you can not make him buy.
ARTHUR (KIPLING) ROBINSON.
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Letters of a Honkey Tonker.
By JUNIE M'CREE.
New York, Aperill Ist 1915,
dear Ned
me an my' old woman is sepperated agin, our marreed life seams
to be one split weak after anuther. Evver sence she found out she cud
sling hash in a smalltime beanery she gotta sweld nut. They got her
singin songs in Shulema restoorant. 1 wuz in their last nite fer a mess
an sent a flunkey over to teller ware she awto go, wen she gets threw
with the song sumbuddy hisses her good an lowd, wel ned hissin always
maikes me soar so i jumps up an zez “the guy wots hissin my old woman
is like a house on fire, the sooner hez put out the better”, its an
old git back of mine ned, but the guys keeps on hissin, so I grabs
sum plate an starts doin a keestone pitshure withem. I gottem awl
duckin till 3 or fore guise grab me and ast me if im looney, 1 tellem
I wont stand fer nobuddy hissin my old woman an thy_sez no one is
hissin yure old woman, an I say yes they is, 1 kin stlll’il’('«rum. £0 they
awl lissund an shure nuff they heard the hissin an we found the guy
wot wuz doin it, it wuz doc sigel, but he wuzzent hissin my old wo
man he wuz jist drinkin coffee out uv a sawser, and besides the doe
wus nervus, so I sat down with the doc an talked toom fer a nour,
rehersin him how to drink coffee out uv a sawser with out hissin,
Yure pal, HAPPY NEELY.
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Larry, Turn the Crank!
DEAR TAD—DOESN'T IT MAKE yon sick when you hear a big
healthy galoot about the age of 30 curse his luck because he “never
had a chance?”’
You know the fellow who thinks that Georgie Cohan just BECAME
a big theatrical man, and that Vietor Herbert was LUCKY, and that
Caruso just sang because he COULDN'T HELP 1T?
Doesn't it give you that malarial feeling?
The sort of fellow 1 mean is the one who spent his yonth playing
pool and the horses and doesn’t know yet whether Dickens was a moviei
Actor or is just an imitation swear word,
Shake those fellows up who read your stuff and tell them that no
REALLY SUCCESSFUL man ever got to the front except hy HARD
WORK. As ever, THE DOCTOR.
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MY DEAR TAD—I SEE WHERE James “Yelping” Johnston is
trying to “lie down” the defeat of his “big conerete mixer,” Tom Cowler,
at the hands of Bill Brennan, the “Irish heavyweight champion,” which
took place at Rochester, N. Y. To begin with, inclosed vou will find
clippings where Brennan won, and, at that, “The Big Mayo Mauler”
was not half himself, having had a lot of trouble with his eyes of late,
and laying off since July, with only two other fights. Now, If Johnston
was to tell a mule that Cowler beat Brennan, that aulmal would kick
his braing out. In the first place, Cowler's dome, which is of solid ma
hogany, is as free from brains as an “elephant’'s back 18 from feathers,”
and it would be impossible for a thought, no matter how small it was,
to penetrate such a thick skull. He therefore, would have to depend on
brawn alone to beat a heady fighter like Brennan,
Answer: It ean not be done,
Exit Leo and the Mayo Mauler. Yours truly,
LEO P. FLYNN.
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Bill Lange, Ex-Cub,
In Critical Condition
SBAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 18.--Willlam
A. (Bill) Lange, former centerfielder of
the Chicago Cubs, is In a dying condi
tlon as the resu!t of blood poisoning in
his lips. He has been {ll for several days.
The blood polsoning is the indirect re.
sult of a sensational catch Lange made
years ago in Chicago. After a hard
run he caught a long fly, but so great
wag his momentum that he ran into the
oenterfield fence, breaking a board and
badly cutting his lips and chest,
Since then he has suffered several
times from blood polsoning in the lips.
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Of Heart Disease
EAST LIVERPOOL, OHIO, Dec, 18.
George “Scoops’ Carey, 45, former big
league player, is dead here of heart
disease. Carey was with the old Balti
more Orioles, later with the American
Assoclation and the American League,
Carey was a member of both the
Memphig and Nashville eclubs in the
Bouthern League several years baock.
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POR TS
ALIBIS.
When David trimmed Goliath all Go
llath’s friends arose
And sald: “It was a practice game, as
everybody knows.
Goliath could gave won If he had only
felt that way,
But he was simply training for a fight
| Thanksgiving Day.” \
When Harvard takes a beating from a
school devold of fame
The students simply smile and say: ‘lt
was a practice game.”
A little thing like that will never make
* old HMarvard quall;
We play these games to get in shape to
| knock the block off Yale.”
When Yale is walloped fore and aft and
llkewise to and fro
It never makes the students sad nor
fills thelr hearts with woe,
“We do not care who slaughters us or
stifles us,” they think
“If we can bulld a team to put old
Harvard on the blink.” 1
“l have been beaten forty times,” a’
mangled fighter sighed,
“And I've been trimmed three score and
ten,” another pug replied.
If they had only had a Yale or Marvard
education
And they had battied—one would be
the champlon of the nation.
Julius McKackletack, manager of the !
Mauve Sox, merely smiled when Inter-l
viewed at the close of the world’s series,
“The fact that we lost four stralght
games doesn't bother us in the least,”
he said. ““We are preparing for the se
ries in 1921.”
It was announced recently that Les
Darcy is not on his way to America.
Mike Gibbons slept well that night.
Football has changed in the last four
years. Nowadays they expect a regular
player to pass his own exams.
BAT NELSON.,
A few short, fleeting years ago
He had the whole worid at his feet.
Men turned and whispered to and fro
As Bat'went walking down the street;
No more they recognize his face,
Nor can !he‘y see his battered bean.
They pinch him when he tries to brace
A dinky fight show in Racine,
Northwestern, we are told, had four
star quarterbacke. The rules, however,
prohibit the use of more than one quar
terback at one time,
DIALOGUE,
“Take a look at this blg may comlne
toward us. Wait a minute—don't 100
now-—walt until he passes. There he
goes. Do you know who he 187"
‘““No. Who is he?”
“That guy made the All-Southern
team last year.”
“Oh, | see. Me's n‘frcch man.”
Football 1s one game in which yon
can be a loser and still be a winner.
Learning golf is a simple thing. Al
that Is necessary is to read the sport
ln% page. It is also possible to become
a big league ball player by reading the
box scores.
HOPELESS DOPE.
| can not figure wrestling dope,
it Is so dark and shifty,
For oftentimes they lose, but win,
And sometimes lose, but get the tin,
Or split It fifty-fifty,
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Ty Cobh:Celebrates
His Birthday Tod
Today, Monday, December 18, is the
blrthdl( of Tyrus Raymond Cobb, the
“Georgia Peach,” considered by a ma-
Jority of the fans in the country as the
greatest player of all time. The Demon |
Georglan (s 30 years old,
Cobb was born in Royston, Ga., on
December 18, 1886, His Jather's name
was Willlam H. Cobb, who has been
dead for several years,
Tyrus went to the big leagues with
Detroit in 19056, Bill Donovan had much
to do with Cobb's entering the big show
as a Tiger. He persuaded Bill Armour,
the mum%er, to. take Cobb from the
Augusta, Ga., club of tne Sally League.
On Ty's first appearance at bat in the
majors he hit a double off Jack Chesbro,
scoring two men,
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‘ NEW HAVEN, CONN.,, Dec. 18 -
Fred Roeque, former Dartmouth hockey
coach, has been appointed head (‘Ollch‘
of the Yale hockey team.
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Third Annual Demonstration of
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Physical Activities Will Be
Held on New Year's Day.
TI-{E annual open house and dem
onstration of physical depart
ment activities which graves |
the entrance into the new year at
the Young Men's Christian :\ssm‘ia-‘
tion are coming again on their third
consecutive appearance January 1,
both afternoon and evening. Num
bers 1 and 2 were good, and at this
early date we are not saying what
will be the status of No. 3 In the pub- |
lic eye. Take a hint, however, and
reserve your seat early, for, with!
seating accommodations for about
500, and a very attractive program.
arranged, the probabilities are that|
the 8. R. O. sign will be hung up|
quite early in the evening.
For several weeks past the men
and boys who are to take part in the
gymnastic exhibition have been
rounding into shape, and at this tlmwl
are fast putting the polish on their
pet stunts, On the whole, the pro-3
gram will consist of the avvr:igevlass{
activities, with some special fmlluros]
added,. making a well-rounded and
highly entertaining physical demon
stration,
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SI'I'ZI‘IAL groups of both men and
boys have been practicing for
some time oh faney gymnastic dances.
Sixteen members of the men's leaders'
club will stage the “Dance of the
Dixie Rubes,” in appropriate costume.
The “Dance of the Jumping Jacks'
will be given in clown suits by the
School intermediate leaders. The
School A and B leaders also will have
a gymnastic dance, their offering be
ing a medley of steps from several of
}\h(- athletic and folk dances,
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ALHNH with this display of the
terpsichorean art as it should be,
imh:-r numbers on the program will
be a massed calisthenics drill by the
five men's classes, a difficult free
hand drill by the School A and B
leaders, a “delayed count” dumb-bell
drill by the School A and B ciasses,
apparatus work by the Employed In
termediates, well-formed pyramids
by the High Schoaol class, a fancy
'tnmhhng exhibition by four midgets
!lmm the School B class.
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ITHIC Senior leaders will give a num
ber of fancy gyrations and con
volutions on the high bars and the
parallel bars. Members of the boys'
classes will run several interesting
reday races, and the program will
close with a series of leaps and
Jumps from the springboards over the
“white elephants.” The springboard
work will be done in the afternoon
by a picked class of boys, while the
rmt‘n will display their skill on the
}lmurds at the evening program. ;
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B OTH the afternoon and evening
programs in the gymnasium wa
ter meets will be held in the big
swimming pool The boys will con
test in the afternoon, and in the
evening the program will be under
the auspices of the local chapter of
the American Red Cross Life Saving
Corps. The public is invited to all
four of these programs, there lmin&:i
no admisslon charge. The bullding
will be opened all during New Year's
Day for inspection by the public,
Contracts-Releases
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Approved by Tener
NEW YORK, Dec, 18.—President John
K. Tener, of the National League, an
nounced today that the following con
tracts and releases have been approved: |
Contracts—With Chicago, Frank O |
Murphy; with Cineinnati, Krnest |
Neitzke;, with New York, Sterling Styr- |
ker and 1.. A. Jaynes ‘
Releases— By Brooklyn, nnr'nndlrn!na!-i
ly, G. N. Rucker; by Brooklyn to Den
ver, W. L., J. P. Kelleher; by Brooklyn |
to Beaumont, T. 1., Albert K. Nixon; by
Chicago, unconditionally, Mordecal ;
Brown; by Cincinnati to Baltimore, | ‘
L., George F. Twombly; by Cincinnatl |
to Toledo, A W Alhert Schulz; |
by Cincinnatl to Montreal, 1, L,,!
Paul Smith; by Phi'adelphia to |
Kansas City, George McQuillan by |
Philadelphla to Kansas City, George
Chalmers; by St. Louls to Little Rock,
8. A, J. H. Robinson; by St. Louis to
Seattle, N. W. L., Edw. Kline
Vandy's Football
Vandy's Footba |
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Schedule Announced
) NASHVILLE, TENN, Dec. 18.—Van.
derbilt's complete 1917 schedule has
heen announced as follows:
| Heptember 30, open
October 6—Transylvania at Nashville,
October 13- Chicago In Chieago.
October 20—-Kentucky State In Lex
ington
- October 27--Howard Collegp in Nash
ville
November B—Tennessee in Nashville,
November 10--Alabama in Birming
ham
| lyv.\‘umber 17—Virginia in Charlottes
ville
Thanksgiving-—Sewanes in Nashville.
WABASH ELECTS HANIKER
CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND., Dec. 18,
Leland Hanlker, of Aberdeen, 8. Dak.,
has been elected captaln of the 1917
Wabash foothall eleven Haniker has
played right tackle for two years,
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Joe Bean’s Champions Put Up
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Good Battle Against Spartan«
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burg Y. M. C. A, Quintel
HERE is joy in the camp of the
I Atlanta Athletic Club basketball
team today. The champions on
last Saturday night had a chance te
display their wares for the first time
this season, and, accoMing to those
present, prospects for the local team
winning the Southern title for the
third consecutive time loom up very
bright.
True, “Pie” Weaver and Forbes, twa
of last season's great stars, were not
In the line-up in Saturday night's
fray against the Spartanburg crew,
but despite the loss of these two stara
the team looked very good. The hoys
all played together in great ghabe,
and even Joe Bean is no doubt satis
fled with the team's chances for this
season.
. . .
THP} Spartanburg quintet gave the
club boys a stiff workout, but
this is just what Bean's warriors
needed for this time of the season.
Next Saturday night the Knoxville
five will come to our midst to clash
with the champlons, and the locals
are sure to be in much better shape
for next Saturday night's contest than
they were for the South Carolinans.
In the game against the Spartan
burg squad, Westmoreland and Du
bard starred for the locals. These
lads were all over the floor, and their
work drew round after round of ap
plause from the fans., The other
members of the team also did good
work, Johnny Graves, as usual, keep~
ing the home team on their toas
throughout the fray with his aggres
sive tactics.
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Il Is said that this season will prob
ably be the last for most of the
veterans on the team. This means
that the locals will iry their best to
end the season’s play with a vietory
and their third championship. Joe
Bean is, slowly groominz his young
stars, among whom are Emory Locke,
ex-Marist and former Georgia player;
W. A. Dodge, another ex-Marist play
'er, and Bill McLaurin, of the eclub, for
| work during the 1918 campaign.
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Tarheels and Va. Not
On Harvard Schedule
CAMBRIDGE, MASS,, Dec. 18. —Grad
uate Manager “'rml W. Moore, of Har
vard, has announced the tentative
schedule of the varsity f'!lllhlll" leil.m for
1917. Ten games are to he playec again
this fall, the season npmmu: w)l’lh Bates
on September 22 s
Cornell, Virginia, North Carolina and
the Massachusetts Agricultural College
have been dropped. The newcomers
are to be Bowdoln, who last played hers
in 1910; Springfield Y. M. C. A. College,
an opponent in 1414, and Carlisle, whose
last visit to the stadium was made in
1915, Boston College, Charley Brickley's
team, is playing the Crimson for the
first time
The schedule follows:
Septemnber 22, Bates; September 29,
Bowdoin; October 6, Boston College; O¢-
tober 13, Colby; October 20, Tufts; Oc
tober 27, Brown; November 3, Bpring
fleld Y. M. C. A. College; November 9.
Princeton at Princeton; November 17,
Carlisle; November 24, Yale.
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Connie Mack Is Not
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PHILADELPHIA, Deoc. 18.-—Connle
Mack, leader of the Athletics, has called
Ping Bodie of the Athletics on the sal
ary question. Bodle was purchased by
Mack and now states that he will not
report to the Athletics because the sal«
ary offered him lis not large emough.
“"Bodie can suit himself,” sald Mack.
“He can join us or stay in San Fran
cleco, but he can not go to any other
major league club
“T don’t care for Bodle's services. Ira
Thomas thinks he will make a good
man and that is the reason I purchased
him I am agalnst ball players who
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