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"9TSF* THE ATLANTA * GEORGIAN.TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, lf)0H. Mid-winter Calm Settles O'er World of Sports zEdited By PERCY H. WHITING. ANOTHER INSTALLMENT OF SAVANNAH'S FOOTBALL STARS LAST WEEK OF GREAT STOVE SALE. S* Buck’s Ranges W. ARTLEY. Hera are four more membere of the 8avanneh football team whioh will meet the Charleston All-Stare on Christmas and New Yean day in two of the most strenuous games of the year. AND Stoves on trial 30 days free. This sale has made a tremendous impression on Atlanta and hundreds of housekeepers have taken advantage of our liberal offer. Others have promised to call later. Come today, tomorrow, or one day this week anyhow, because this sale closes positively Saturday evening. m Some Snappy Dope About Hitting Stunts in Major Leagues Fr»e*t 4. luinlgun. chief artist for the SjMi’tiiig Now*, lifla worked out Home Intercut!uk stntlstlos-abotit it page of ’em— hh to the hitting stunts of the major league teams, ospccinlly their hitting for oxtru bases. Here «re mido of the facts he has turned ftp: hits American League tenuis made ntor for extra bases than the Nationals. The Americans made molt* hits for extra haws and the total number of bases secured was 4,893. In the National League 1,783 of the swats Were for extra bases and the total was 4,487. Cleveland had the most long-distance •macks in the American League, Chicago In the Kntlount League. In the American League the eastern ftain* made more lilts for extra bases than the westerners. In the other league condi tions ns to sectional long-distance hitting were rtversed. In the American, the Cleveland team had the creiitoxt number of doubles, New York excelled in triples and the Athletics led In round-trip smashes. The National’s lenders were the Phillies in two-buggers, the Cubs In three-baggers and the Brooklyn* In four-baggers. Philadelphia furnished the Individual lend ers for both leagues, Harry Dnvls topping the American slugologlsts and Bbetwood Magee the National swat brigade. The Athletics’ captain and tlrst-sacker other century plants-Napoleon Litji and Shut Crawford (113t. Davis led the Athletics In long hitting, Flick the Clevelands, Htone the St. Lull*, Williams the New Yorks and Isbell the Chi- on cos. I.ujole excelled In drives for half the cir cuit. getting forty-eight. 4 Fhuer Flick's specialty was triples, the Clevelander getting the skidoo numbet such drives. Hnrrls Itnvls easily took first place leading home-run hitter, for he put r extra bases. Wagner touched the high- water mark In doubles, wrth thirty-eight. The pace In triples was set by Schulte mid Clark, each outfielder having the luck less number of thirteen. In homo runs all the National leaguers I a slx-Innlng game was played, and In nddl- j lion to these two limit swats he made a > triple and n single out of five times at hat. This was the long-distance batting record of the season. Next to Delehnnty came Fielder Joues, who umdc a pair of doubles, a triple and a home run. Kach league showed up with mnuy honvy events, there being twenty-one guinea In the American and fifteen lu flic National, In which twelve or more runs were made. .New Y'ork defeated Washington 20 to 5 In bowed to a new-comer—Jordan, from Hal tlmoro—who made twelve hits for the limit. No man In either league made six hits lu oue came. Only five men made five hits lu one nine- lulling game. They were Artie Itrouthc ig . Dig John Anderson, Hocks Fcylndd, Fred Clarke and Frank Hchullo. Hovornl players made us many home runs In ono game—Davis, Header, lllckcy, Frank Delehnnty and Seymour. The day Delchauty mado his two doubles •ould hot liar _ _ _ and Washington trounced Poston 17 to 3 lu seven rounds. Boston hud earlier In the season handed the Senators a 19-to-2 licking. In the National League. Chicago bore off the honors with a 39-to-O defeat of New York, while the Phillies trounced Boston IS to 8. A game In which both sides often found their way over the pan was played on July 12. between New lark and Cincin nati, score 16 to 11: Your last chance to get a Buck’s stove on.thirty days’ free trial. Come in and select your stove today. This offer holds good till Saturday night only. We will set up in your home any Buck’s stove we have in stock, let you use it for thirty days; if you do not find it to be all that a stove should be, we will come and get it at the end of that time—and there will be no obligations on your part. / We could not make this offer if we did not have absolute confidence in Buck’s Stoves and Ranges and know them to be the best the market offers. Let us show you in what ways they are best. Remember this thirty day free trial offer is good till Saturday night only. i Any Buck’s stove ordered during this sale will be held for future delivery on these terms. WALTER J. WOOD CO. 103-5-7-9-11 Whitehall Street. ~ tlllHIimilHIHIHHHMIMHtHHHHmMIIHMHMHIlHIIMIIIIIHHIHHmHaiHMHMMHHI j NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS BY PERCY H. WHITING. Here’s a Miirjjestion. made in tho interest of peace and quiet : Why not have the prep schools in the Atlanta territory ar range football and baseball schedules about six months in ad vance of the playing season, as colleges do. Think of the difference it would make. As it stands now, instead of playing football in the fall the prep schools spend more than half their time howling because they cannot get games. Each team waits until the other teams have organized be fore scheduling a single game. Then the strong teams will ar range games with the very weak ones. After all the very weak teams have had enough, the teams drop football and lake up diplomacy. It is the object of the game of each one of them to get dates only with teams they can beat. This makes it hard for the teams which appear very strong in the early dope. Nobody will play them. Then come wrangles, charges, more''charges, the use'of hard names, cards in the newspaper, accusations of • cowardieo and now nuil then free lights. ■ Hut the strong teams do not get together. It is hard to figure it out otherwise than that they are afraid o feaoh other, but anyway the results are the same. There is no reason why prep managers cannot begin oil schedules for next year right,now and have them arranged a month hence. Then by the insertion of forfeit clauses in the con tracts it would be possible to force teams to play or pay. It is time something was done along this line. The public is sick of the wrangling of the preps and would like to see them in the future talk less and play more. Of Course— ffiSH <CHE STANDARD OF PURITY. LOCAL FOOTBALL TEAMS MAY MEET CHRISTMAS Reports that footbull Is over for the year In Atlanta *eein to be a little pre mature. If tbs plana of Otto Jordan do not go wrong there will be u game Christmas day between an all-professlona! team, with Atlanta'* second basemanias Its leader, and a team made up or mem bers of the Atlanta Athletic Club. An effort Im being made to get Coach Ueisrnan to handle tho Athletic Club team, whiie Jordan will handle his bunch of star*. Munager Billy Smith of the Atlanta ball club ha* been u*ke«l to act us "end run" on tho Jordunlte*, but Billy says that he doe* not think hi* good health will jmrmit It. SMITH WILL SPILL CASH TO GET MEN HE WANTS Billy Smith will leave for New York Friday night, strong In the belief that he Is going to he uble to round up a good third baseman and a good out fielder to fill In the only gaps In the Atlantu team. It Is going to be a question of money, and If cold cash can tempt any of the National League moguls to give up their extra players, then the deni will go through. Smith will be armed with unlimited credit from the Atlanta Baseball Asso ciation and can spend as much as he wants for the two players. Billy Is not going It Irilnd, by a long shot. He has looked over the list of available players on the reserve lists of the National League club*, and lie tliinks he know* Just the men he want*. He think* ul*o that the major league malinger* can be tempted with gold to loo*en their hold on the very player* lie wants While Smith Is in the East lie will probably run up to Albany, N. Y., for a few day*. Billy used to play in the New York capital and wants to renew old acquaintance*. Paul Cojrtc <\v Cobb’* brother, Ims been landed m n place on the Kalama zoo team of thu Michigan State League by Billy Smith, (’nbb seem* to be a* promising a player a* ills brother.,and will no doubt make good in tho frozen North. , Football Ends at Emory With Two Exciting Games Hpechtl to Tho Georgian. Fniory College, Oxford, (»n., Pec. 4.—The 190* football season rlosed here yesterday with tin* senior-junior and sophomore-fresh man games. The Juniors succeeded in scoring on the seniors, but at the finish the score was 27 to 6 In favor of the seniors. During the last Imlf. the seniors worked the forward pas* very successfully, making most of their gains in that manher. Wlwnbnker, llow- aid and Ktl|»e stsud for the senior*, while j Dewar. Smith and Sullivan played well for : the Junior*. ! The sophomore-freshman • gome yesterday , resulted In a victory for the soph*; score ^ 16 to 0. It was easy work for the sophs. | despite the star playing of Clay, Burnett ( and Hatcher for the freshmen. Reuuun. ( Botterts, Limhcrt and Pitts made sensation- 4 nl plays for the 1909 men. j < ! SOME BASEBALL YARNS SPUN BY BERNIE M’CAY | i "It was it question about Ed Ashen- back," said Bemie Met’ay, "whether he liked to play baseball lea* or take in the money •more. "I remember when Atlanta was down In Charleston In the spring of 1904. Aiihanback owned the franchise there then and played first baa** when he* couldn't get anybody elac tc take the Job. "In one of the games we played against thorn Chttritr Nnilih was pitch- Ing for us and (’barley was certainly 0 bending them over. - "When Ed came to the bat the first t time Smith curved one across the plate t NAT KAISER & CO. » a Bargains in unredeemed Dia- - f monds. Confidential loans on val- r uablcs. 15 Decatur St. Kimball H^m. ALL-AMERICAN TEAM. Right end—Forbes, of Yale. O Right tackle—Pullen, of West O Right guard — Thompson, of 0 0 Cornell. O Center—Hockenberger, of Yale. 0 latft guard—Burr, of Harvard. O J-eft tackle—Cooney, of Prince- 0 Left end—Wlsler. of Princeton. 0 Quarterback — Tad Jones, of 0 'ale. 0 Right half buck—Knox, of Yale. O Left half back—Hubbard, of O tmherst. Fullback—McCormick, Prince- O —New Y'ork World. BOUQUET FOR MIDSHIPMEN Plenty of Good Jockeys Riding at New Orleans Ik? Anuu|toll*. Mil., Do«*. 4.—At noon forma- lain ,yr*tonhiy ui order was road to rlgnd* of midshipmen which win* two s offh'lnl recognition of tho naval f»Mit- all victory Haturdsy, though tin* order •lid not specially mention it. Admiral ui noadetny, seised tho occasion for ox »re**lng III* general sstlsfaetlon at tho rotj< Idol uf tlio midshipmen Ixkly and tholr icbotattle excellence. . - After commenting on tho sclmlusth’ ex •tdloucc of the ttiideut I tody, tho admiral ••The superintendent I* pleased to add.ti ho above good record hi* congratulation! ipou tlie standard attained In athletic*. "Rvery officer and man lu tho navy h HAS “ARRIVED/ New York, Dec. 4.—The eight- 0 cylinder car I* here. Automobile O cranks are today very busy talk- 0 Engines of *ix - cylinder O model*. The Introduction of th'e 0 six-cylinder car, however, Is ho O comparatively recent that few 0 leurth of riding talent In New Or loin* this.whiter. Of the riders known on Fasten) tracks, Garner, Heuuessy. McDaniel, Nlcol, Trox- lor, McGee, L. Smith and Bedell are here, and Natter la expected. A* Ilenuesay will do the ridiug for llur- low and O’Neill, he trill lie sure to he neur the top of the Hat of wlntilng Jockey*. Garner's Jockey, McCormick, I* yet not ready to start. McDaniel, who showed good form In the fall, mado an unlucky *tnrt when lie go{ a fall off Pompadour on the first day. It didn't fenxo **Pqddln’," as the boy la term ed even by members of Ida family, much— probably due to the fact that he bad not in dulged tn any "wasting" on the train from Henning. In fart, "Puddln’a" gastronomic foul* were such ns to lead onlookers to believe that III* career n* a lightweight Jockey would not be long-lived. Most boys of “PitddluV ago arc "gistd doers." in till* respect, the III tie Jockey possesses considerable class. Nlcol can go to scale at l"H pounds, and, though till* Jockey never won hi* way to (topulur favor In the Fast, It Is quite a different mill ter In the West, mid down in New Orleans. Nlcol, for 111* part. Is quite n different Jockey in the Crescent City. For some reason, lie never seemed at home on tho tracks around New York, mid (Ills feeling. It seems. I* shared by Ids employer, \V. Phillips. There was a want of confidence and luck of dash per ceptible lu his courses which is lug here. Austin T. Taylor. Auhucliou. Mluder, now, Pendergust. Tooninn. Trnomioi an*i J. Martin are well known Western riders. Ue|M»rt speaks very well of a little f.-l low called Ferris*. tin npprci>t|,-«> ,,f Fr*t"' Kelly, the former trainer of Fd Corrigan's, who Is now handling Bonn- Kcm|m-*s i, Ferries can ride at 82 pounds, and has won * out of the seven races in which he has ridden. harly in the field, with bis horse* bind ing here In good condition. Fred Htirtcw. the well-known Fnatcru owner-trainer. and his partner, Frank O'Neill, equally famous cry the head New Orleans Iterore they return to Untvc» end. The partnership will bo represented In all the stakes, and lui* made a ver> promising start. In the Crescent City derby, which this hie of $10. jlnntiHl five 2-year-olds— U«ynI Brecxe. Judge Post, Fan tastic, (Bid ami Sir Toddlngton. all well known |H-rformerN on Fastern. tracks In past season. The derby 'Will not' In* i numher JRIPBP ........ ... eroded In mig of at fair prices, and, all of the rues which lie Is now liiindllng lien* are sale If a satisfactory price can In.* ol»- Terry Tells the President That He’ll Lick “Y” Corbett Washington, D. C.. Dec* 4.—"How-de, Mr. President V "Very fine, Terry." And Theodore Roosevelt, admirer everything that's strenuous. in life, and Terence McGovern, one time n terrible f to budding fig lit weights, seated themselv In the president's reception rodlu and chat ted. McGovern showed tho president his In jured hand and explained how lie was un dergoing treatment for th»* wounded mem ber. The president, n great admirer of voting pugilist when he was cleaning up al»oiit New York In Roosevelt's day, tVmE keen Interest In the little fellow’s expluuu- aud when Terry declared that he’d BASEBALL BOSH. I 1 that looked like a snake throwing a Ashenback turned around, looked at "And be went," concluded Bemie. in* anybody (jot a chew of gum?" (To be continued.k Ran Johnson comes out strong against betting at hall games. Wiser men than "B. J." have wrestled with the problem, end bet ling still goe* on. lint every time ihey lilt It, It helps. "Cy" Young will try his eighteenth yesr of uinjor league, ball In 1907. Connie Mack ought to have little difficulty In picking out a likely lot of pitcher* next reason, lie has only fifteen mi hts Hat, and they hall from all parts of the eouu- lick "Young Corin'!t” or quit the gnmc for ever the president sullied with glee and wished him luck. Terry emerged from the r«H»m with hi* Celtic face wreathed in a great smile. B.v his side was Ills "private secretary." Both held their lends high. "Why. Flliek, that fellow Corbett sure !* my pie this time." Then poking himself In the rilm and throwing out Id* chest. Terry strutted out of the while house nud down the W'slk. "Guess he ain’t some snort, el», seer** titry? Notice how he cxnimm*d wr dukes.* I'm a Democrat, nil right, but l ui hang «*d If there ain't one gnim* prince. Got to hand it to him. nln't we, ruf? Told him to call when he needed us, didn’t we?” VIRGINIA WANT8 TO PLAY COMMODORES. University of Virginia ntuilents are making a plea for n Vanderbllt-VIr- ginla game next reason. Such a contest would be an Intereet- Ing one and would certainly attract a lot of attention. Vanderbilt haa the beat team In the middle South, Virginia In the eaatem South. A claah between the two would make the aparka Jty. try. The itntiti.-il meeting of-lhe uatlomil c»h". mission will Ite held early lit January, when a ebnirtnan will he rbmien. Mr. Herrmann will undoubtedly lie selected again. Ned Hanlon is considerable of a Fo.di FOOTBALL INJURED nn«l mhimsi'ini^ 1 * 1, H»* ini* Interest* In the Bmotlvi 1V i i Baltimore rlnlM. manages the flu >, -3 1-. White- inn if Ri-i|s, ami | 8 a property ur;iw*r cleaned Ifcijmey,