The Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, GA.) 1906-1907, October 25, 1906, Image 12

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Newspaper Page Text12 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN', THURSDAY OCTOBER, 25, 1906. UP-TO-DATE NEWS OF SPORTING WORLD AMERICA’S BEST GOLFER LANDED BY LOCAL CLUB SPORTING Alexander Smith. America's greatest golfer. has l*ecn secured to act ns pro fessional for the Atlanta Athletic dub daring the winter and early spring. The deal with Hmlth wna closed Wednesday by Hire, and the new Instructor will be In Atlanta In a few days. The fact that Hmlth has been secured to act as professional at the local golf club Is an achievement on a par with that of se curing the I test golf course In the South. ' As n player. Alex Smith has no equal In A ln * r l<'* today, and not over a half dosen In the world. Whnt he has done to the foremost professional and amateurs of the country this year has been some- thing sorrowful for the rest of the players to contemplate. He won the Western Open championship w*lth nil ease, and then con clusively proved his supremacy by captur ing the Open Championship of America. In which event he met the lw»st professionals and amateurs In the couutry. As at player, therefore. Smith can be depended upon to uphold the honors for the Gate City. As an Instructor. Hmlth Is said to rank alongside of the best of them. So highly were bis views regarded that Golf, the greatest of the magasines devoted to the game In this country, secured him to write a series of articles, which will afterwards appear In hook form, giving his views on how to learn to piny the game. Whnt Smith con do for the golfera of Atlauta by his play and teaching la bard to estimate. Juat at present, only four or five Atlanta golfers would be able to hold their own with the best tnen In the Houtb, and not over one or two meu In the club would, at the present time, have any chance for the Southern championship. Whnt they will be able to do after Smith gets through with them will l»e a question easily answered by waiting until the end of the tournament next June out at East Lake. Smith's services In preparing tho better players of the club for this erent will be Invaluable, but whnt lie will do for the be glnners Is worth thinking about. Every thing of success In golf comes from start lug right, and Smith will spend the win ter In teaching the new players how to start. Smith ha’s a wide knowledge of'courses lid his advice will In* of value iu getting the local course ready for the champion ship uext spring. Among the chief advantages of having Smith as the local “pro" will ho the prestige added to the course by the fact that America's greatest golfer wfU liftve It In charge during the winter. A score or two of professional golfera, Including some of the best Iii America, ap plied fur the Job as professional at East lake, and the Atlanta Athletic* Club was fortunate In securing the best In the lot. Play Handicap Tournament • At East Lake on Saturday The flret handicap tournament ever played over the new golf course of the Atlanta Athletic Club at East I.iiku will take place Saturday. It will be at medal play, eighteen holes and four handsome prises will be offered. The usual entry fee will be charged. The first prise will be n handsome caddy bag and the others will ho val uable merchandise prises. The task of dealing out a new bunch of handicaps has been turned over to n committee composed of Byrd, Tlchcnor and one other man yet to be named. Mr. Byrd la the expert on the olh players, Mr. Tlchenor on the new ones and these two, with the third man yet to be elected, will have the task of se lecting equitable handicaps for the large bunch of players In the club. A Held of at, least 35 players Is look ed for. A handicap tournament draws better than any other kind because it puts all golfers on u par—provided the handicapping la right—and It Is as In teresting for tire duffers as for the good player*. Already the entry Hat la well filled nnd If la probable that the largest Held of the, year wnl face the starter. Kntrles arc to be paid as the players start. The start may be made any time between sunrise and sunset. It was thought at first that the event would be restricted to the afternoon, but us many of the golfera will go out to sec the Tech football game In the afternoon the affair was opened up and will run all day. Probably quit? a number of players will start In the morning and finish up In time to see the kick-off of the Tech-Davldaon game. KIMIMMMNIHtl AL ORTH BEST OF THE YANKEES Albert Orth, be of the famous smile and n less famous but highly effective “spit" hall delivery, not only lias l»een the most consistent winner for the Yankees sgalust a all comers this season, but he remained ef fsctlve to the finish, ns his great worls In the Chicago games attested. “The spltbsll has proved a boomerang for a number of pitchers who were good without It.” remarked Clark Griffith not Jong ago, “but It baa brought Orth up nntoug the stars ouce more. He has mas tered this delivery, which Is rupldly full ing Into general disuse, more completely than any other pitcher In the American League. He pitches easily, but he has ex cellent control of the wet ball." Even without the “spltter,” Orth Is n great pitcher, for years of experience have made him a wily Imixiiiuii. and bis knowl edge of the butters Is such that he seldom Is hit hard. Not only Is be a good pitch er, but he Is a fowl ball player anywhere, lie can piny the outfield nnd Is it good batter. Iu games lie pitches he Is never retired to allow another tunu to bat In bis place, for be ranks ns the l»cst hitting pitcher lit the lengue. lie won n gnme for New York toward tho end of the season with a lilt when the Imses were full mid two men out In tli> ninth Inning. I^evlnus to that, he had rescued Chesbro nnd stopped a Chicago rally. Ifo went In again ffntur* day and gave a splendid account of him self until his arm suddenly fulled him. MIHUtMHIMHIMHHIHHMHMMHHHMMHtMt Orth liegnu us a pitcher In the old Imlbina Ntate league. He broke luto the National League with the old rbllndelphln clul*. which then Included lajolc and Ed Dclejsuuty. He remained aeverul seasons with the Chillies, always pitching good ball. When the American Lengue expand ed and annexed Washington Iu 1901. Orth east his lot with the Hens tors. Though pitching for n tnfT euder, lie did good work, but was considered only ni^ordlunry pitcher, until ho was traded to New York Iu 1904 for Tom Hughca and Hilly Wolfe. Since then he has become mi exponent of the “damp delivery," and lias hud much success with It. llml the Yankees accorded Orth nil tho support ho deserted he would have a much (tetter record than the figures now give him. He lias not pitched u bad gnmo this season, and has lost quite h numtier of bard luck games. On otic western trip lie was beaten by three clubs, though pitch ing good bull, because of errors mid lack of pinch hitting Iwhlnd bliu. On this trip he pitched a one hit game nt t'hlcngo nisi lost, 1 to o, the lilt not counting in tho scoring of that nno run. . As an emergency slab artist, Orth has been of great value to the Yankees this season. Yloce than any of the other pitch ers lie has iieeti railed upon to go to tho rescue of n twlrler In distress, and on ninny such ocruslon* he lias saved tho game.—Hid Mercer, Iu Tho New York Globe. I WHITE SOX STILL ON TOUR On the right In the photo I* Davy Johnson, the premier plunger of the year. who la rcntitcd to have and loet over a million dollar* In hie bettlne ring speculation this season. It Is said that several day. aaS Johnson paid over an obligation to Bookmaker Appleby, which amounted to Itno.ooo. Roseben Jacnuin Senator Clay and other horse, recently running In the Appleby .Ilk. reverted to their former owner Johnson ua a result. ’ • EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING AUBURN MAN’S AFFIDAVIT MAY DISQUALIFY SHIPP "Skinny” Rldpp, the most brilliant of ths Kewnnee hacks, will not be ou the pnrplo lea mi Raftirdny In the game against Au- Iniru—that Is, not If Anlmrn can help It. Manager Wright, of the Anlmrn team, baa made affidavit that Rblpp played three gamea with the Chattanooga team In tho TrIHtate I-rogue In 19CU. This, the Au burn men here Fay, will debar him on tho grounds that the by-laws of the South ern Intercollegiate Athletic Association pro vide thnt no man who plnya on a regularly organised tenm in nn organized league shall lie eligible to take part In games ployed by Rout hern ’ Intercollegiate Athletic Associa tion teams. / Manager Wright Is s Chattanooga lioy, and so la Rhlpp. According to the Auburn mnuagor, there can Is* no ralatake nboat It, nml Rhlpp li not eligible. The pnpera Iu the enae hare lieeu forwarded to the proper officials, I nuil It Is exported that Rhlpp will he declared Ineligible before Saturday. - When Hewanre came to Atlanta to play Tech, there was considerable talk, and many aald that Rhlpp wna Ineligible. rase was made agdlust him, however V. Tech Is more Interested In playing i, boll thou Iu making protests. If Rhlpp Is declared Ineligible It will n hard blow to Rewsnee. ft,, t, r the most brilliant half liaekHho has I,,,,, developed In the South this year. lie la Rewnnee'a main reliance na a Id k. or. jiud If he Is rnled out It will no n! that Coach Quill will hare the aurtcawnr task of developing a new kicker to S out the Rewauee tenm. Bblpp wns a lik-h elsss punter, a sure kicker from pi,,.,, inent and a drop kteker of some ability u, la also one of the most brilliant op, i,' ivi.i runners the South has ever known ' If Rhlpp la declared Ineligible. It trot not strrprfse the sbarpa to see little s.. 1r . brotigh, the brilliant quarterback ,,f it,. Rewnnee team last year, who hat given no football this year In favor of hla ,tndle. Hearhrougb la the greatest punier for hi. Inches that the Routh hat ever kn„tSi “»<' o h ‘: n , ,V Y' , ' ,, jKni was In Atlanunft ' “m «h5 t »u,!!. 0p to *** .^fbwugi, back Thomas Lands the Knockout But Fitz Lands the Money San ljrancisco. Cal., Oct 25.—Dick Fitzpatrick barricaded hlmaelf. so ef fectively behind his gloves, forearm, and elbows last night at Colma, that the alx’teenth round was reached before Joe Thomas could Arid an opening for a knockout punch. Fitzpatrick made monay for his friends and presumably for hlmsell by remaining on deck until the fifteenth round Was passed. The betting that Thomas would wit. within fifteen rounds was at even money, while the wagering on general results was at 10 to S, with Thomas on the long end. ’ Tht> Fitzpatrick crowd knowing of Dick's staying qualities, liked ^hc round betting proposition better than the straight-out Investment, and pocket- ed a lot of coin over Thomas' failure to down the Chicagoan within the i-tn- ulated tl.nc. When the sixteenth round be can Fltapatrlck did not cover up as care fully as he did In the preceding round. Perhape “he thought after landing the fifteen round money that he could af- ford to take a chance and mix It mere freely. Anyhow, he left openings and Thomas took advantage of them. , First Fitzpatrick went to the iNir from a left hander on the chin. When he aroze a right hand punch on the law sent him down again, and before i he could be counted out officially his seconds tossed up a damp towel In acknowledgment of defeat. Dope on Elberfeld’s Reformed Baseball The Improved baseball game Bug- Rented by “Kid" Elberfeld some weeks ago has been tested by Joe McGInnlty, who Is now training the young idea how to pitch at Princeton, and tho iron Man is enthusiastic. “Run the bases either way, and in crease the science,” Is the meat of the scheme which Elberfeld and McGInnlty nre fostering. Here Is the Idea In a nut-shell: • When the first batter In an Inning comes to the plate, he shall have the right to run to first or third, as he pleases, keeping the selection to him self until he starts. Each succeeding batter In that Inning Is compelled to run the same way. “You see,” explains Elberfeld, “the first man who played baseball, and the fellows who decided on the nine posi tions, must have been right-handed; otherwise, why should a runner be The White Sox will have another busy week, as the barnstorming still continues. They have found It a pay ing proposition and besides they have not had the opportunity many times iu their lives of waitsing around the bergs as real world champions. While the coin Is In sight they consider them selves as ready to get It as anybody else. And why not? t Thursday the postponed game at Morris will be played off nnd then Hilly 8ulllvan's old town. Edgerton, Wls„ will be touched Friday. The Inhabi tants of that town are prepared to wel come William with open arms. The Gunther* will be the prey Sat urday and i hen Sunday some revenge will t>e attempted to be gleaned front Callahan’* Logan Squares. Orval Overall, who hag been visiting In Cincinnati for a few day*, returned yesterday and wilt ttart for the coast shortly with Manager Chance. The cubs expect to play a couple of more games before breaking up, tho matches to be contested with the Logan Hqunres urn. the Gunthers. There was an effort made to get the remainder of the. Sox and Cub* to play Satur day nnd Sunday at the west side ground*, but “Jlggs” Donohue was un able to cancel his dates. • Pro rid* nt Murphy is now taken ur with the location of the club's training ground* next year. sMurphy may lake a trip to Han Antonio, Tex., to *e* V'hHt the conditions are down there for spring work, nnd will nl*o drop In at Pueblo on the way down. None of the Cubs ha* signed his contract for next year, hilt moat of them will do so w hen the time connh. President M.irrhy wilt ;.trend to this part of the work, ns Chance will be In California. Johnny Kllng goes to K.-in*nv City at once, where he will open up a large billiard flail. Joe Tinker expects to remain In chlcage all whiter. compelled to run to the right, and why should the shortstop be placed between second and third to<atop hits by right- handers? “It Is a big handicap,” argues Mc- Glnnlty. "for a right-hand batter to run to flr*t base, and It would be equally hard for a left-hander to run toward third.” •Therefore,” chime* In Elberfeld, “the batter who comes up first In an Inning Hhould have the choice of running eith er way.” As both Elberfeld nnd McGInnlty argue. It would certainly Increase the science of the game, as the first base man would have to be able to play third and vice-versa, with the third base man. For a while the hunters would have a picnic, hs the third und first basemen would be puxxled as to which xhould play In close, and fhe second baseman uind shortstop wouldn't know which should be ready to cover third or first bag when the third or first baseman went In to field th$ ball. Now, wouldn't that be n pretty mix-up? Anofher advantage In tills new game, Elberfeld maintains, would be the ef fect It would have on the crowd If the game was close. The fan would be In a continuous state of anxiety trying to figure out which way the batter would run. .McGInnlty says he has tried It, and It not only reuses amusement, but a lot of excitement. Tho Iron Man, by the way, has been engaged by J?rlnceton to coach the new Pitchers down there this fall and next spring. /As all of the regular Tiger pitchers graduate this year. Joe Is having n hard time picking out a youngster. His main trouble I* getting a man with sufficient weight and strength to make him speedy. Most of the candidates, ho says, are too small. In the meantime, Elberfeld Is anx iously awaiting u trial of the pro mpted game of reformed baseball. What do you fans think of It, any- way?—Bozeman Bulger, in New York Evening World. CHADWICK REMINISCES A FEW I sent a 1.1.gram to ray old frt.nd, I’b-rlo* I'oralskuy. congrntidztjug the lupky v.l.rnn ou Ills wvlt-vornvd trlmupli In win ning Hi. world'* championship honors of 1900; nnd 1 now proceed to add to thnt message n reminiscent chapter on previous world's championship and pennant winning eventa In which the sturdy vetersu hns been nn aetlve participant, not only na n team muunxer hut\as nn czreptlonnlly flue player,” wrltea ''Father” Chadwick. ••It waa In the efctly '83's that I flret aaw Comlakfy play oa captain of the old" 8t. lands Browne of thnt decade, and It wna Iu Wnahlnfton, It. C., thnt I Brat heenme liersonnlly acquainted—With bliu. 1 thould have liked to dip Inlo the apnnla of the old American aaaoclatlon of those Qnys more extensfteljr, os far na Cnmlakey waa concerned. In thla etory; but lock of time r one thin* prevente. • •The ezcltluit accnea and Incldenta con noted with Comlakey'a ten yearn of practi cal experience mznoaer and captain of the renowned Rli Ixiuls Browne—for. though Ye Bosa Manager' of the Jjerlod. the well known Chrla von dor Ahe^raa given thnt title. It waa Comlakey who really 'ran tho machine,' aided by that most able of lieu tenants, the genial Arils Lathsm-would Ml a most resdnblo volume. A retrospective glance at the old 8t. 1-oulz club's records In the 'go's at this time will not only tie apropos, but Interesting to fans, Inas much as the records In question Include the notable aerlea of gamea In the old Amort enn naooclatlon, In which t'omlakey’i Browns, for'four yenre In auccesslou, won ithe championship ' of tho nssociniluu-ln 1983. 1SS«. 1887. and 1888-thc race rcconl. of the four yearn being as follow.: Record of Four-Tim# Winneri. Wou. . . . Loot ■ Flayed. . . Percentage. 95 IJ .wsUM'.et p G. ADE SPEAKS ON I BASEBALL ABROAD I Although tin* Cults won* taut ten for tho world’s pennant, still they nro heroes In Chicago, whore they were recently Itnu- quotod. Auuuig tho speaker* was George Ado. who said: “It Is tough look for n minor leaguer to follow speaker* who Imre l*e*u batting alwrve .400. I uni down to speak on •Base ball Ahmad,* and, os them la none, iuy spoeeh will Ihf short. I selected tba sub- Jeot myself for thnt reason. “Iii every port where American wr*r*bii»» visit iKiseball Is played. The natives wateb the play, but few of them have n err it enough to try It. “There are only two countries when* hasotfflll u played properly—America nnd Jap*ti. Ail through Japan you can find Imsebirtl diamond*, and the little natives bare tf-nrued to run sad Held well, und this !• olsoui all that Is necessary, judging from sot»e guinea I saw recently Iu this C* tyExcba uge. MURPHY'S FINISH. New Haven, Conn., Oct. 25.—Kid Murphy, of Nnw York city, wax sent to dreamland by Bunny Ford, the ban tamweight champion of Connecticut, In their six-round go before the Olympia Social Club last night. Ford at all times had the best of the work, but bis opponent was game to the finish and took his drubbing with out a sign of yellow.. In the third round thing* came fast and strong to Murphy. The men were boxing In furious fashion when, with out warning, some one turned down the sunlight for Murphy. It was some thing In the nature of a straight left that did the trick. Murphy will probably trover be con- Incetl that he was not hit with a fall ing tree. The t'nlvendly of Michigan has opened ts now niIdol|c flej«l, which Is otic of the •cst equipped III the country, uud I* cuter- J through u fll.tMJ gate. Joe ('sntllllon. manager for several years of the Milwaukee club of the Anicrlcuu As soontIon, has signed n contract to tnaunge the Washington club for three years at salary of flO.OM a year. Joq and his brother Mike have bought the Minneapolis club of the American Association, and ns Joe nluo own* nn Interest In the !>es Molues club of the Western League he Is nuioug the most prominent of baseball moguls. Cantlllloira new contract with the Wash Ingtou people gives him absolgte control of I he team. Cnntllllon will try to retain Joke Htabl as field captain. 1'at Towers Is ugnln president of the Eastern League. “Noodles” Hahn, the Nashville boy who played so long for the Clnelnatt team nnd who wan with the lllghlauders for it time Inst season, hns received un uppolntiuent from the department of agriculture ns gov ernment nu*nt Inspector Iu Clnrtnantl. Nashville Is still after n manager. And when tie comes he will lie up against It. Iletweeu the job of smnirlng and ban tiling players and Indng handled by the hoard of dlretcots he Is pretty well up against It. President Kuhn of the Nashville Baseball Association denies that Arthur Pearson hns lM*eu sold. It wns announced Iu oue of Hoc rotary KgrreH’s bulletins that the man had been secured by Indianapolis by purchase. MORE TROUBLE FOR TENNES8EE TEAM, A.A.C/s New Professional Wins Another Championship The Atlanta Athletic Club's new golf professional,* Alexander Smith, I* play ing some golf back East. Tuesday he turned loose anil added the champion ship of the Eastern Professional Golf ers' Association to his already long list. Here Is what The New York Sun had to *ay about the tournament: Public form on the links came true once more in the victory of Aleck Smith, of the Nassau Country Club, In the inaugural championship of the Eastern Professional Golfers' Associa tion, at the Forest Hill Field Club. He won the title with the score of 146, Nipper Campbell, of Boston, being second with 149. Smith hns won this season the national open champion ship. Western open. District of Co lumbia open and first money In the pro fessional tournaments at Bernardsvllle and Van Cortlandt Park. The only title he missed was the Metropolitan Golf AsMociatlon open championship, at Hollywood, which George Low won. Hmlth took second place. His tourna ment winnings exceed $1,000. .Yester day Smith won $125 and a gold medal, Campbell receiving $85. It wns the first Important tourna ment to be .held ai the Forest Hill Field Club .and the golfing enfhuslosts from Newark, the Oranges and Man hattan enjoyed the dashing play of the experts in negotiating the 5,412 yard course. It was In very good playing shape, although nine of the holes were only' opened this spring. An early rain made some of the going soft, but “mud on the ball,” was nn excuse for but few missed put*. The club furnished a scorer' for each pair and took good tal of 13, going out In S4 an?! returning with 39. Smith's long game had fine distance and direction? while he missed very few opportunities near or on the green. Ufa card was: .3 4455344 3—35 .5 4 3 4 3 6 4 4 6—88—73 .3 3 5 4 6 2 4 3 4—84 ,5 5 3 5 2 4 5 4 6—89—73—146 Out Word and Belmont will act as the caches for the University of Tennes see team tinting th« remainder of tho *eoson and the schedule will be flayed out. Ex-Coach PuPrec has gone home. Smith took hi* wad In the morning The gnme wsr too strenuous for him with 35. 38—73, made with the utmost The Southern Intercollegiate Athletic steadiness. The only 6 was on the Association sh »t the team alrto pieces I home hole. In the afternoon Hmlth by declaring Its players ineligible and got a 6 on the fifth as well as the the Michigan man gave It up In dis-1 eighteenth, but by a brace of 2* and four 3s he duplicated the morning to- j SPORT DOINGS. j Tin* recent series for the world's' chain- fdoni'trift showed— That “Jlggs” Donohue Is as good as tho (tost ul first; That George Davis Is still in a class by hlmself;- Tli.it Evers Is king of the second base* That Hoffman Is a star; * That tho “Cub” pitchers ran be hit; That young Unite can piny ball; That Comlskey Is the prince of club uwp ers; Thnt “Big Ed” Walsh Is s .wonder with Jhe “spit tor;” That Hahn did better hitting after his noso was broken; Tbit Hbulfe should not lie overlooked as n fielder and bitter; That “Cap” Jones Is n peerless lender. That “Cap” Chance Is a gnme loser and COACH NAMES AUBURN TEAM MEN ARE HEAVY AND WILLING AND HOPE TO GIVE 8E- WANEE A RUB* After seven years of the fighting game, during whieh'time ho took^girt m more Mur* seolng the Hwnrthiuoro game. “IfaY- ry I p” Volt, of Michigan, thinks* hi* eleven gust. Hpeelnf^to The Georgian. Auburn, Ala., Oct. 26.—The Auburn foot ball team left today to play Hewauee In Birmingham on Friday. Every member of the team Is Iii good condition. The mem bers of the team hnve been under regular training, and hnve had good coaching since September 14. Beinuse of the wealth of good scrub material. It has not been defi nitely known who would be on tbs 'var sity until today. The line up will l>e os follows: IMnyer. Position. Weight. Davis center.. Holley.... Gsutt.. .. Teuton..., Pickett.. .. Itatsoii.. .. Hughes.. .. “The team players of the old penuant winning Browns, who took part of the i Jority of their games from 1885 to 1W, In clusive—tlielr championship years—Includel \ the following; CMtebert, flushing, Hoyle, and Keniler; pitchers. Caruther*. Font*. King, Hudson, (’hamberltln and MriSInuls; Infleblers, Comlskey, Robinson, I a thorn nml Gleason; outfielders, ‘Tip* O’Neil, Curtis, Welch nnd Hugh Nlcol; Sylvester, utility man. “In the American league the Chicago club, under Comfskey'a management, the lengue pennant In 1900 and 1901. dub stood fourth In the race In 19)2 and fell to seventh place In 1903. In 1901 tb« j club worked up to third position; got to | second place In 1906, and reached the head of tin*' list In 1906, and capped the climax by winning the world’s championship ae ries. “It Is worthy of uote Just hero that Cora- Itkey’s team made a draw of tho worlds series of 1886, St. Ixtuls vs. Chicago; woa the series in 1886 against Chicago; lost th- | series of 1887 against the Detroit nine, lost tho series uf 1SS0,' New York vs. SL | Louis.” LARGE PURSE FOR_PUGLETS GOLDFIELD WILL GfVE *30,000FOR FIGHT BETWEEN GANS AND NELSON. .. . .left guard.. .. . ..right tackle.. .. ....left tackle.. .. , right end.. . left end.. .. quarterlmek. i nigh- MeLu. „ Captain Whltuer..right half back.. Hparkmnu left half hack. . .. l^ieey full Imck 166 Substitute*. Wllkerooti. JS. Harris, Thug- gnrd. Ware nnd Woodruff. The Hue averages 172 pounds, the Imck field 160 pounds, the team nlnmt 16$ pounds. The tenm this year la not composed of veterans, as It wns last year. Each man had to work aud fight In the practice for hla position. The team Is relylug ou team work to win. The attendance at the American League games during the past season totaled 2,- 968.076, while the figures for the National League reached 2.781,213. Ex-Csptsln Dan Hurley la out helping to coach the Harvard football nqiiad. Yale appears to have mastered (ftp sbott kick, and In fntnre games It la apt to lie shown that there Is no l>ctter player In the East than Tad Jones when It comes to galniug ground on a quarterback run. It was a great ah«K-k to Boston fight fans w hen “Honey” Mel tody woa the de cision over Joe WalcotL New York. Oct 25.—Tex ril.-knr.I I* determined not to lei Gnld(i"M Xe». get off hla puglllatlc map anil hu» Iu* 1 come out with an offer of u S3U.')W purae for a flnlah fltlit between Jo* Gan* and Battling Neluon. Rickard, who made a nice eum their I out go, ha* aubacribed a ■■ part of the purae and ha* collected the ■ emalnder from aeveral copper miner.. He 1* atlll waiting to hear from Iwtu men regarding the offer. Jimmy Britt haa gone Into training at j Shannon's villa, at San Rafael, «'al., the hope of getting on a mau n some good lightweight In the near -a- - Britt le working with Sent , who Is to meet AI Kaufman and tm pair put up some Interesting flKht*. Berger Is In line shape for hu ■»>« with Kaufman tnd expects to win cz« ly. . TO BANQUET LIPTON. New York, Oct. 2*.-.TIie Bi»*l. ,u '“'’JJ Flub has completed elalnirnte nrrnnynje. for a Itanquet at Delmonlco’s t*»uw| honor of Hlr Thomas Llpton, ah" * ia turned to New York from his . trip. Hlr Thomas has iocepted «u I tfon to visit Boston next week. NAT KAISER & C°. • Bargains in unredeemed V» mor.ds. Confidential loans on I uables. „ „ . 15 Decatur St. Kimball Ho"«* | TAKE YOUR STIFF or aoft felt hat to Buiacy i<> U* f‘*.. ed and reshaped like new, Whitehall.