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FIRING LINE, FINANCE,
WANT ADS,
SPORTS.
ATHLETIC CLUB WINS BY MARGIN OF ONE POINT
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Guard Shoots Winnimg Basket
30 Seconds Before End—At
)« lanta 23, Birgingham 22.
BI'RMINGMM. Jan. efi.—Atla.nta
won the closest and hardest
fought basketball game ever
ployed on 'a local court, where the
Birmingham Athletic Club’s five went
down in defeat before the team of the
Aflanta Athletic Club by the narrow
margin of 23 to 22.
5 B was anybody’s battle until the
last thirty seconds of play, when Oli
wver, the clever Atlanta guard, made a
dazziing overhead shot for the bas
ket which landed squarely and turn
ed defeat into victory. His team was
“s point behind up to the time.
b Strupper dil not play, much to the
disappointment of the local fans, who
crowded the hall in hopes of seeing’
. the famous Tech athlete in action.
They soon forgot their regret, how
. ever, when the teams clashed in play
that was fast, furious and as evenly
matched as two fives could. be.
The lineup: s
B.A.C. (22) ALA.C. (23)
' Montgomery .. Forward ... Sullivan
Gillam.. .. .. Forward .... ....Bass
Baker ;. .. .. Center'.. .. .. Cocke
Waldroht. .. .. Guard .. .. ..Qliver
Laudghinghouse.. Gugrd .. .. .Bryan
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Leave Bleachers, Get
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Into Game,’ New Slogan
(‘%y International News Service.) ]
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—“ Get out of the
bleachers and into the £me!" ]
This is the slogan of United States
Lawn Tennis Association, as expressed by
the vice president, Julian 8. Myrick. It
is a slogan that means big things for
tennis if its purpose is realized. ‘
During the last few years tennis has
grown by leeps and bounds. Every year
it gains more followers, and the real
tennis. enthusiast, who starts playing the
~ game at a tender age, {(eeps on chasing
y ltlhte little white pill until well along in
v e. ‘
Tennis is 4 game for both young and
old, and a pastime for both sexes. The
establishment of national championships
for boys, girls, ‘men and women has given
it great popularity, It is estimated that
in .the United States alone more than
3,000,000 people play tennis, and the game
is still growing. There is only one sport.‘
baseball, which has more active follows
ers, and baseball is primarily a mascu
line pastime. i
Vice President Myrick recently urged
the officials of the National Collegiate
Athletic Asseciation to foster tennis to &
greater extent in the colleges of the coun
try. “Make tennis a major sport,” was
the substance of his plea. But in urgmN
this he also asked that the college ath
letxi! mentors take steps to broaden the
ganle and extend its scope to all students.
Make it a free-for-all’ gnd provide the
means for all students "to play it, he
urged.
.' Omne,of the strongest arguments in
v favor of the continued growth of tennis
was seen at Forest Hills last autumn,
when Vincent Richards, fifteen, boys’
chasupion of the United States, played in
the open singles. He had previously been
3 the team which won the mnational
übles championship. The same week
saw the inauguration of the father and
» Son and veterans’ championships. In the
latter olass several players participated
who have seen the suns of fifty sum-
Jpers. ©
To Formulate Plans ‘
For Grant Monument
(By International News Service.)
§ NEW AYORK, Jan. 25.—The proposal
made by Captain Harry McCormick to
erect a monument to the memory of Cap
tain Eddie Grant, former Philadelphia and
Giant star, who di?d Jighting in France,
has met with the favor of baseball men,
and a committee of three is now being
formed for the purpose of arnr‘nnnn’ for a
material tribute to the valor of that
splendid soldier who embarked upon the
Great Adventure this day last fall in the
Argonee Forest. The committee will con
gsist of President John A, Heydler, of the
National League; Captain McCormick, who
has been disecharged from the army, and
John McGraw.
v These men will take the matter in hand
and will decide what in their opinion, is
' the best site for the monument, the most
desirable form in which it may be cast and
the method to be pursued in the raising
of the funds for it. It is certain that
they will lwu the whole-hearted support
i of every oné in baseball--clubowners, play
ers and fans.
Captain Grant represented in every way
clean-hearted, courageous American man
hood. He was a credit to his profession,
and baseball was the better for having
possessed him. He died like the man
that bq' was, and over his grave, as gver
that of that famous British explorer
whose body rests in the ice floes of the
Antartie, might be inscribed: ‘‘Here lies
a very gallant gentleman.”
Kearns Declares He
Was Double-Crossed
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.-Jack Dempsey
had a negro sparring partner pamed the
Jamaica Kid when he was preparing for
' his recept Jfight with Billy Miske in
Philadelphia. Miske also had a colored
nparrlnql‘pn.rtner named Jack Thompson.
Jack Kearns, manager of Dempsey, and
Jack Reddy, mentor of Miske, became em
bloiled in an argument over the merits of
the two negroes. So to settle the matter
they were matched to box one of the
preliminary bouts, to the Dempsey-Miske
affair, and Kearns and Reddy wagered
SIOO on the result \
The bet was to be paid om the decision
of Dan Ly"m. the newspaperman of this
city, provided the bout went the full dis
tance, Thompson outweighed the Ja
maica Kid. However, the bout was pretty
even until the fifth round, when the Ja
maica Kid quit. J
Kearns hollered murder when the Kid
declined to continte, and refused to settle’
the bet. Ie claimed that he had been
double-crossed.
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Cubs Book Exhibition
.
Games With Blues
4 CHICAJO, Jan. 25 -<Secretary Johnny
_ Seys, of the Cubs, announced the closing
x contracts for two exhibition games at
ansas City April 19 and 20, the final
tuning-up contests the National League
wehampions will engage in hefore the pen
nant race starts. Half a dozen far western
ethes are anxious to see the Cubs in their
preliminary training and have written for
exhibition dates, o
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‘Squire Slows Chance to Fatten
! Bank Roll—Harvard Wants
- Haughton—Al Lippe Chirps.
k- By GUY BUTLER.
i HARLES EBBETS, the Squire of
Flatbush, has frequently been re
ferred to as a miser, # man who
will hold onto his coin regardless of
what transpires, but his latest action
may quiet his‘knockers for a while.
The squire up and let Jake Daubert,
his slugginfiand brilliant-fielding first
baseman, go®o the Cincinnati Reds, and
didn't demand a nickel of eash in the
bargain, ’'tis said. He obtained two |\
players, Tommy Griffith, once with the‘
Braves, and Shortstop Kopt, an old
Athletic, in exchange for the veteran.
Jake would have held his job with the
squire until he couldpt get around it
it had mot been for’/a bit of legal trou
ble the player had with the club recent
ly. The trouble was anent unpaid sal
ary.
Naturally the squire couldn't retain a
player that had lured him _into_ the
courts, so it had to be done. Vice Pres
ident John J. M%Gmw, of the Giants,
was angling for the lanky firstbaseman,
with a roll large enough to choke an
ox. The Squire of Flatbush couldn’t
see a mere roll of bills, for he needed
good ball players, so Garry Herrmann,
president of the Cincinnati Reds, and
incidentally, chairman of the National
Commission, which has recently been,
holding the center of thke spotlight, in
the absence of Manager Mathewson,
made a trade with the wily Squire. ‘
Scarcely a soul in the world expected
'Daubert to go to the habitat of Garry
Herrmann, and the trade means that
Hal Chase, the other grand flrst!ruseman
of the National League, who belongs to
the Reds, and who was suspended to
ward the close of the season by Mana
ger Matty for alleged gambling and bet
ting against his own club, and a flock
of other things, is to be let out. What
could a club do with a brace of great
firstbagemen like Hal Chase and Jake
Daubert? They're too good at first bage |
to be shifted to another position, and
‘the ruleS won't allow & team to playl
‘two firstbasemen at one and the same
time. It would be a crime to keep eith- l
er of them on the bench.
McGraw is not entirely satisfied with |
the way Walter Holke handlemhe first |
base job, and probably will refflace the |
youngster with a seasoned veteran. |
Hal Chase is the man he is now seek- !
ing, and the deal should be closed short- |
ly
e o L et S eRI |
/ Crimson Cries for Haughton.
Percival D. Haughton, president of
the Boston Braves, and formerly coach
at old Harvard, may renew his con
nections with that famous institution of
learning within a brief spell. The Har
vard ‘students and- athletis association
are trying to persuade the famous coach
to_return to his first love.
Percy is in the Brave ball club up to
his neck, and there a possibility of
Tis severing all sconnections with the
aseball club, and going back to foot
ball. He coachaed the Crimson athletes
for nine years, winning 71 out of 82
gamesg played, and tieing four. For the
past three years, Percy has been with
the Braves.
old H&vam is anxious to wipe out
that 6 to 3 defeat handed her by Yale
in 1916, and no hetter man could be
picked for the 4ob than Mr. Haughton,
one of the greatest fpotball coaches in
the world, whose stay’in baseball proved
unsucc®ssful.
+The Irish Actor.Boxer-Cave Man.
Al Lippe, the hustling fight manager,
springs a lot of mew stuff in his latest
press agent story about Fred Dyer,
welterweight chgmpion of Australia.
Mr. Lippe deserves a vot~ of thnks from,
the sporting editors for his kindness in,
furnishing us sßmo real live, spicy
stuff about his “mauler. We haven’t,
space for Mr. Lin- 's entire article,
but will show you a few excerpts from
it, which might prove interesting.
He starts thusly:
“Probably the most '\igrsati]e boxer
today is Fred Dyer. Hli¥ life's history
so far if written, would read like a
volunw from Rlc?\ard mmimg Davig
and there is copy enough around Dyer
to fil a page or more. The rank and
file of the sporting fraternity know
only that Fred Dyer hails Zom Austra -
lia, where he ls\reconiz'l the welter
champion, and.that he Is a very clever
hoxer and musician. It is more than
the{ know of most boxers, but it is only
a tiny part of interesting facts con-
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rne Tech High basketball quintet wich is holding first place in the loeal prep league. The
players are, left to right, first row, Mumford, Captain Bennett, Markeles, Cole; second row, War
ren, Williams, Gaston and Coggins. Cpach Enloe is the man standing.
Auburn Tigers
~ Soldiers
ÜBURN, ALA., Jan. z.’».-'l‘ho,'Au-
A burn Plainsmen, with their regu
lar line-up on the floor and all
of the men in good shape, buried the
Camp Benning bagketball team under a
63-to-9 count here tonight.
It wag a walk-away, all of the Auburn
players showing up_well. Floyd, Barks
and Hahn shot goal after goal, and the
soldiers were dizzy at the end of the
game. Wade and Trapp played great
ball at the guards.
The' line-up:
AUBURN. Position. C. BENNING
FIONT CoWaabaccons e rivvsris LORRSIY
BRXEE ' oledsdiise oßy L adivaspnt’s COFEIRS
Hahn .............. C, .Stewart, Adams
WHAS o.oovssinies 83, ~ Stercinger
EIRRP dooevtedvios Uk onoeravis ORBERFE
cerning the Actor-Boxer as he is shown
in England and Australia.”
“He expects to meet Ted Lewis soon,
and if he loses he will continue ligab
ing and entertaining as he is doing now
which is mother?teresting side of this
b%:er‘a career 4nd_ accomplishments
The fans seldom let Dyer ifit out of the
ring .after he finishes a ut until he
uh;:s a song and plays his ukelele,
which is strapped on the &st in his
corner ‘a sort of charm he lieves in.
Dyer is a sweet ainqer and a clever fel
low with Hawaiian instruments. He hag
'been on the best circuits of Great
Britian, and is known in Loq‘lon and
Parisian music halls as the' Actor-
Boxer.”
“Dyer’s right name is O’'Dwyer. Hlg
father “was a rough but good-natured
Irishman and his mother a sweetfaced
‘Welsh woman of refined tagte and man
ner. ’ b
. The wind-up brings you to your feet:
“Dyer has been “on the seven seas
and on all continents. He is a young
man in .fie' but old in world experience.
He has the reflniement of a blue blood,
the gentleness of a woman, the nature
and temperament of an artist, except
when it is in the prize ring, where he
has the fighting spirit of a cave man.’’
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, ‘JANUARY 26, 1919.
’? Pal Moore in Three -
g Battles This Week
§ HICAGO, Jin. 25.—Pal Mcore,
$ C Nate Lewis’ sensational ban
§ " tam and fl?: conqueror of
¢ England’s famous Jimmy Wilde, is
{ going to make three tough fights
! in six days this week. Nate thinks |
. Pal should have plenty of work‘s
¢ before he sails the Atlantic to meet ;
! Wilde again and is seeing that he |
| gets it. !
! Lewis and Moore lefi today for
! Buffalo, where on Monday night |
! Pal meets the rough Dick Load
. man over the ten-round route. Fri- |
day night Moore will be over in |
Baltimore traveling twelve rounds !
to a decision with Young McGov- 3
ern. The very next evening—Sat- {
! vrday—in Philadelphia Moore will |
{ be called on to step six rounds ?
{ with Joe Leonard. {
}Fulton Boys. Tackle
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Boys’ High on Tuesday
After an unsuccessful attempt to bheat
down the Tech High team, Fulton High
will make an effort to congquer the hated
rival of the Smithies Tuesday afternoon.
| The teams are scheduled to meet on the
court of Boys High. y
Commercial pmy\at G. M. A, and Pea
fcock meets Marist Tor the cellar cham
pionship, :
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Seminary Meets Fulton
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Girls’ Team Monday
Fulton High Schools girls’ basketball
‘team meets the Washington Seminary five
Monday afternoon ip a. game postponed
from Yast Friday. It will be played at
Fulton, x
. Three,games are billed for Friday aft
ernoon in the Girls’ League. Fulton meets
Kirkwood, Marietta takes on College Park,
and the Seminary girls play at Deeatur.
~ Winner for
Tech Hi
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AINESVILLE, GA., Jan. 26.—Teeh
High defeated Riverside here to
night.
Riverside led during the first half of
the game by 15 to 10. and maintained
the lead to within five minutes of the
tlose of the game.
Barchen was taken out during the last
half for rough playing and his place
‘was taken by Ham. Dudley played a
game for Riverside, an umfo
wood for Riverside, and Mumford
featured for Tech High. :
‘ The College Park girls played the
Gainesville girls before the boys' game.
The Gainesville girls defeated the vis
itors. 9 to 3.
The line-un: ; -
Tech MWiagh. Position Riverside,
BEDRASL . . ...o0 Lo B 50l incc oo BIDGT
Mumford ....... L._F.....Barchen, Ham
Gaspon .....counn eks Se i {\'hzuley
SRR ;o coties BLEE rearisis SANNEEE
Wazrren™ ........ In G. +.0004.. Scignus
Referee—Pove. @
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Decatur High Boys
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Will Meet Any Team
Decatur High ScKool boys, after perfeet
ing a basketball organization with Hugh
Clement as ecaptain, Saturday hurled a
free-for-all challenge at the world, so to
speak, the particular world being com
posed of basketball teams in and around
Atlanta,
A game has been arrainged for Monday
with a team from Kirkwood.
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Rain Prevents Boys
. .
High Game in Newnan
NEWNAN, Jan.® 26.—The basketball
game scheduled here today bet Ween Boys'
High and Newnan High was poscponel on
account of rain, the coarc being outdoors.
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Manager €Charley Frank Will Mail
Papers to All Players Who
* Want Tryouts.
ITHIN a week or e things will
W begin to hum in baseball cir
cles throughout the country, At
lanta will not be exempt, for President-
Manager Charley Frank and Secretary
William Andrew Smith will put tgeir
heads together thig week, get up all of
the names of the men who have signi
fied their desire of a trial with the
Crackers, and mail out the contracts for
the 1919 season.
About 22 or 23 "'men will get their,
papers from the Crackers, and shorily*
we will begin hearing from thg holdoutg
The season sos the latter is already on
in the major leagues \
All of the clubs in the Southern
L.eague will send out their contracts
within a couple of weeks.
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Yankees Sign Baldwin,
Coast League Catcher
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—Earl D. Baldwin,
a backstop drafted last year by the Yan
kees from the Portland club, Pacific
League, dropped into the cage of Harry
Sparrow. This amazed Sparrow, for he
was busy all the past few months trying
to get in touch with Baldwin. Baldwin is
only back a few days from the other side,
where he fought with the 144th Artillery.
He came over from Camp Merritt, from
which spot he expects to be mustered
out shortly.
The recruit is built along husky lines,
standing § feet 10 inches high and weigh
ing 182 pounds. He Is considered to be a
catcher of exceptional ability. He was dis
covered by Clarence Rowland in 1915 when
playing on the High School team of Oak
land. Rowiand sent him ta the Peoria
ctub of the Three-1 League. He played
with Tacema in 1916, and then went teo
Portland.
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National League In
Need of Backstops
NEW YORK, Jan. 26.--Minor league
managers who have promising young
catchers for sale would do well %o seck
a market for them in the National
League, for last season there was a dearth
of good backdlop material in the senior
major organisation. With few excep
tions, the clubs were handicapped by lack
of good men, one of them thus retarded
being the Giants, Neither Bill Rariden
nor Lew McCarthy played up te his usual
standard, and neither could be depended
upon to deliver a hit when hits counted
for most. John McGraw has omne good
youngster on his list, George O'Neill, the
talkative kid from St. Lopis, who was
farmed out to Memphis last spring. If
he is made of the right stuff he will be
given an excellent opporsmlty to land a
perth for himself at thd training camp
next spring.
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Night Practice Being
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Held at Kansas Univ.
LAWRENCE, KAN., Jan. 25.—50 busy
has Coach W. O. Hamilton, of the Univer
sity of Kansas, becomesin athletics that he
found It necessary to hold basketball prac
tice at night in order to devote more time
to the track team. Heretofore the eve
nings have been sacred to study—or co-eds
—but now the fair sex and books must give
way to work'ifor the basketeers.
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Yo:;;m Jake Schaefer
»
rims Welker Cochran
(By International News Sefvice.)
NE‘V YORK. Jan, 25— Ywn(‘ Jake
Schaefer overwhelmed Welker Cochran
in today’s play, winding up the big bil
liard mateh at Dalv's with a total score
far the day of 600 to his opponent’s 322,
and a grand té)(al of 3,600 for Schaefer
and 3,076 for Cochran,
G ia Beat 1
¢! 1
Down ‘Y’ of
THENS, GA,, Jan. 25.—Georgia
A romped on Macon Y, 51 to 20, in
- a Whirlwind gamé tonight, win
ning on almost perfect tgamwonk. Geor
gia ran all over and all around Macon
from the first, outclassing them,in ev
ery way.
! Cox, Pound, Anderson and Mott made
brilliant individual play, and Morgan,
for Macon, did some pretty work,
Georgia's team played like a machine
and Mu('yn was helpless, Georgia took
the lead’in the first half when Ander
son made the first fleld goal after a
series of perfect passes, The first half
\was hotly contested, ending, Georgia
17, Macon 11.
Macon pfit uH a game fight, and Mor
gan played brilliantly, but to no avail
against he practiced passing of the
Red and Black.
With Mott back in the line-up and
a week more of practice, Georgia
seemed much stronger than against Au
burn.
Summary: »
GEORGIA (51). Pos. MACON Y (20)
SO IR) Vi, RaPo higa i AN
Pound (18) ..... L. F. .... Morgan (12)
Anderson (15) .... C. ....«... Grace (8)
Cheves (2) ...... R G ...... Blilings
Mott (4) ........ L.G. ......... Fusp
Referee, Jones,
. .
William Wettleaf Wins
. .
a Big Pinehurst Shoot
PINEHURST, N." C., Jan. 25.—Wll
liam Wettleaf, of Nichols, lowa, a 21-
yard man, won the midwinter cham
pionship at Pinehurst today on- the
shoot-off of a triple tie in the midwin
ter handicap. Wettleaf tied at 96 with
P. H. Willey, of Dansville, N, Y, 18
vards, and Henry Hensler, of Aberdeen,
Miss.,, a 16-yard man. ;
Wettleaf brake all 20 on the shoot
off. Frank 8. Wright, of Buffalo, won
the high amateur average contest with
the remarkable total of 4456 out of 450
targets. Dr. A. H. Aber of Drapesburg,
Pa., was a close second at 440,
The Southern gunners came in for a
good-sized slice of the $3,065 distributed
as flrlxe money among the 36 guns, who
broke 90 or better in the midwinter
handicap. 4
Hensler, Misgissippi’ gunner, who tied
for first position at 96, carried off S3OO.
Other Southern guns who broke into the
money were Thomas J. Aycock, of
Jacksonville, and R. P. Earle, of An
derson, 8. C. i
The following is a list of the South
ern contestants:
R. P. Earle, Anderson, 422, 17 yards,
91: J. I Chipley, Greenwood, 419, 20,
84; D. A, Deen, Jacksonville, 418, 20,
87; George M. Collins, Due Waest, QN?'
20, 72; R. G, McCants, Ninety Six, \
20, 86; T. T, Todd, Caronaca, 106, 20, 84;
S. Shefftall Jr., Jacksonville, 400, 20,
83; Isaac Andrews, Spartanburg, 388;
J. R. Cothran; Atlanta, 383; W. J. Stod
dard, Atlanta, 363, 16, 84; Thomas §
Aycock, Jacksonville, 18, 91: Henry
Henster, Aberdeen, Miss., 16, 96,
Great Catch Robbed
Roush of Bat Honors
A wonderful catch of a difficult fly bu¥
~dom-ived Ed. Roush, the Cincinnati star,
of the batting championship of the Nae
tienal League. And what {8 more remar
kable than that is the fact that Ed. Roush
made the ecatch himself and did not have
the hit taken u’ny from him. Tt was
one of the most freakish happenings in all
bascball history. !
- The other day President Heydier awatd
ed the batting honors for the past season
to “Zach” Wheat, of Brooklyn who hit
335, Southworth, of Pittsburgh, batted
higher than that— 341—but only played
in sixty-four games, Roush ranked next
with .333, just two points behind Wheat.
Bill "Phelon, the widely known Cinein
nati scribe, peints out the wnusual play by
which Roush robbed himself of the cham
niouship.
The apparent impossibility of this hap
pening makes the incident remarkable. If
Roush had muffed the fly or let it drop
rmflrhz he would have led the league
n tting.
“During a game against St. Louis, with
a Cardinal runner on third, Roush tore
in for a short, fast-dropping fly. He got
hold of the ball, but stumbled, went to
his knecs, and let it get out of his hands,
By a marvellous, lightning grab he got
the ball before it touched the ground, and,
rising, threw te thlr:lu*-u. whence the
Cardinal runner had started for the piate.
Roush claimed a double play on the ground
that the runner had left before the ball
was caught, .and Hank O'Day, the umpire,
sustained the claim. A
“But the rules say that & runner can
start from a base after a fly ball has
been ‘momentaril® held’ Jack Hendricks,
munager of the Cardinals, promptly pro
tested the ghme on the ground that Roush
had momentarily held the ball before he
dropped and recovered it. The St. Louis
claim was disallowed, the game and all
that had been done therein, went off the
records. And, as it happened, Roush had
made two hits out of three times at bat
that afternoon. He lost the hit and with
those hits he lost the champlonship and
the honor of leading the league two years
in succession ™ - ‘
.
Famous Oriole Four
Hold Managers’ Jobs
NEW YORK, Jan 256-—Btars of the
famous Baltimore Orioles of twenty-five
"years ago will contribute one-fourth of
the managerial brains that will figure in
the major league penant races this year,
With the recent oppofitment of William
“Kid” Gleason ng manager of the White
Sox, the Baltimore alumni association,
quartette’’ is complete John MceGraw,
Wilbert Robinson and Hugh Jennings, who
were teammates of Gleason on the famous
Baltimore champions of 1894-97, are the
three other members, «
The new manager of the Pale Hose
pitched for Ned Hanlon's famous aggre
gation. Robinson wns rlr’ cateher ont the
team. MoGraw. the thir kmmln. and
Jennings the “only” shortstdp. The faet
that this quartet is holding down big
league managerships today upholds the
contention that the old Orfoles were a
brainy and capable outfit, and as Gleason
son says, “a veritable team of managers”™
Today, after !wvnty-‘h'e years, Gleason
and Jennings are destified to match their
baseball brains in a pennant race, while
McGraw and Robinson will figure once
AgAin as rivals in the senior major league.
While there Is an element of mystery
in Charles Comiskey’'s action in dethron
ing Rowland and elevating Gleason to the
managership of the Sox, balldom is agreed
that the* Chieago ctub will find itself une
der the wing of one of the smartest men
in baseball, Gleason is satd to have had
a m share in helping Chicago to the
world’s championship in 1917 and Comis
::y evideutly atiributes the olab's -J
FIRING LINE, FINANCE,
WANT « ADS,
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SPORTS.
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Showed Remarkable Aptitude for
Sport and Was Persuaded to
Go After Title.
By JAMES J, CORBETT.
NE of the little knowr} facts con
cerning the career’ of Freddie
Welsh is that he took up boxing
not with the idea of adopting it as a
;mmprolon!iofi. but
¥ T Bt merely to save him
E g i 4 gels from a con-
W “ 4 Q,'sumpf!“"fl grave
i el = @ ¢ Welsh was born
L - o i in Pontypridd.
; S Y °%' Wales, on March 5,
i i # K*?-::';gxsss, the son of a
o g SRI o prosperous auction
¥ S } eer. In his early
£ R iteens his health
£ {was poor and his
§ ik {parents consuited
i N §varlous physicians
e § concerning him.
E' 2 4 Each declared that
L ¢ Freddie nmbnbfig
F b wouldn’'t live until
5 he was 20, but con
) soled them with the
y suggestion that ife
PR might be prolonged.
if Freddie was sent to some warm,
health-giving climate. California was
suggested—and Freddie was sent’ to
America and ticketed through to the
Golden West.
Arriving there Welsh sought counsel
from some eminent physicians.
““Go in for athletics of some kind,"”
they advised. “Don’t &t)tempt anything
too violent at first. easy. Choose
some sort of sport as a starter that will
interest you and yet Gouesn't make too
great a demand upon your strength.”
Welsh had never had a boxing glove
on in his life, but the ring game had
appealed to him from his earliest bey
hood. So he enrolled in_a gymnasium
and as soon as he had succeeded In
building up his strength a little bit’
through gymnastics and calisthenics, he
sought a gymnasium boxihg instructor
and took iessons.
Welsh showed remarkable aptitude for
boxing. The man who tutored began to
insist that Freddie embark in the pro
fesgional end of the game. Freddie fin
|ally vielded and mingled in his first
professional engagement in 1905—when
he was nineteen years old,
A rather lowh “ham’'an” warrior
| named Young flliams was delegated .
|to try him out. Williams lasted just
| three rounds with Welsh and never once
' during the entire session of battling was
| he able to lu{ a glove upon the shifty
l Welshman--who then fought as a feath
'erweight. Thal sucggss so encouraged
Welsh that he ma&fi; a mateh a féw
weeks later with Johnny Kelly, and
whipped him decisively. Then followed
a knockout victory over [Rddie Fay in
five rounds,
The rise of Welsh in the pugilistic
ranks from then on was somewhat sen
sational. He quickly emerged from the
preliminary class and began fighting in
main bouts. He took on all of the mufih
men in the Bast and West and when he
had cleaned up the aspiring feathers,
he began tackling lightweights, even
though he had to “spot” them from six
to eight pounds. .
Late in 1906 a cablegram apprising
Welsh of the illness of his mother caused
him to return to Wales. Soon after he
arrived in Great Britain, fight promot
lers. having heard of hls American suc
cess, sought Welsh’'s services. Freddie
accepted a mateh with Seaman Hayes
and fuufi‘hl his first ‘battle on English
soll on February 13, 1907, Hayes out
weighed Welsh nearly 15 pounds but
Freddie whipped him in six rounds
Freddie then actepted other engage
ments—and in all of them he was a
winner. Soon England was as enthus
iastic about him as were the Americans
Freddie in those days was a “knock 'em
dead' fighter, ope with a really power
'ful wallop and he sent one foe after
‘ulmthur to dreamland.
Many men who saw Welsh in action
’thrnuzh 1506, 1906 and 1907 insist that
Welsh could drive a blo‘wfi(just about as
hard as ninety per cent the sluggers
‘\o? his time, )
| Freddie’s hitting power has demon
strated In London in the latter part of
1907,
- ~A few weeks previously Welsh had
'stopped Joe White in 36 rounds. This
caused the supporters of Freddie to com
‘ment profusely on his hitting power.
Friends of White took exception to this
attitude and an argument followed
Those who were lauding Welsh finally
boasted: ~
“Welsh can whip any two men that
you fellows can trot forth-—and do it on
the same night and in the same ring and
in less than 20 rounds.'’
The White followers uv(‘t-rtfld the defl
and then it was up to Freddie to make
good. Welsh showed no hestitancy in
tackling the job and made a side bet
of $250 that he would accomplish the
trick White's friends selected Gunner
Hart, welterweight champion of the
British Navy, who outweighed Welsh
18 pounds, and Arthur Kilis, anotner
champion, who had it on Freddie more
than 10 pounds In bullyp
It looked like an almost impossible *
task for a feasherweight to dispose of
a welterweight champion and a 138
pounder champion in less than 20 rounds
but Welsh accomplished jt without
much effort, He battered Hnr{ into sub.
mission during the 3rd round and then,
almost without a rest, took on KENis and
stopped him in five rounds.
The performance of Welsh that nigh!
stamped him as a man of real hitting
power, Welsh, had he so willed, might
have continued as a knockout phenom
for many years. But he concluded that
the better plan was to conserve his ener
gles 50 as to last the maximum distance
in the ring. And so, from then on, Fred
die contented himself with winning an
points—a program that was cmceTlent
for him because Freddie remained a top
notcher from 1907 until Benny Leonard
knocked him out—for the first time ia
his career—ten years afterward
. &
Virginia Falls Before
Powerful Navy Five
ANNAPOLIS, MD., Jan 26 -~Bhowing
some new Kinks In passing and playing aé
& high pace, the midshipmen won vjmlr
twelfth consecutive victory at basketball
by defeating University of Virgtmts Beo
this afternoon by 657 to 16
The Navy started with a sertes of passes
which quite took the visitors off their feet.
“They scored 32 points in the first half.
while the visitors four tallies were all
thromn. fpom ghe foul {loe by Pettwal,