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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1906. F L UP-TO-DATE NEWS OF SPORTING WORLD —M.M—» F| NEWS OF SPORTS EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING 1 PICTURES OF O'BRIEN AND TOMMY BURNS IN TRAINING PRESIDENT KAVANAUGH IS NOT IN BIRMINGHAM GEORGIAN REPRESENTATIVE AT ANNUAL LEAGUE MEETING 2 The Georgian will have a representative at the annual league meet ing in Birmingham. Mr. Percy H. Whiting will cover the meeting and will give all who read this page plenty of off season news. Here Is a bunch of fancy photograps of Jack O'Brien and Tommy Burns, snapped while they were training for their recent fight. These photographs were taken at the fighters' training quarters. On ' the left is Burns when about to send right to body, In the center O'Brien developing strength by wrestling with his trainer, and on the right O’Brien as he # looked In ring. By PERCY H. WHITING. Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 28.—The prospects of a meeting of the board of directors of the Southern League on schedule time this morning do not look bright. Captain Crawford, of Shreveport, Is the only member of the board who is here as yet. President Kavanaugh did not put in an appear ance this morning and A. P. Amerine, r»f Montgomery, Is not hero us yet. B. Stern, of New Orleans, is not expected, and James Palmer, of Nashville, the fifth member of the board, has not ar rived. The Shrevoport delegation Is in with Harry Erltch and Tom Fisher In tow, and the Memphis bunch, consisting of F. P. Coleman, president of the club; Tom McCullough, the secretary, and Charley Babb, manager, are here. The meeting of the directors will be held as soon as President Kavnnnugh arrives, Unless Kavanaugh springs a sensation it will be a peaceful affair. The league meeting will be called at 10 a. m. Sat urday. Except For Boston Nationals, Majors All Made Big Money By 8AM CRANE. New York, Dec. 28,-Thcr. I. lot. of money In limwball. Pro.lilont Jolmaon unit I'ro.lilent rnllluin, of Iho Aniorlcnn ami National Irngut’a, ro- .MetlT.ly, linvo cubic oat with atatcmanti ! that liaarltall wua novar ntoro financially nroancroua than In tho miuwu Jnat , and that ovary club, with ono cacoptlou, made money. The excepted one is probably the Hoaton Nationals, and that was entirely by reason of the management's penuriousness lu re- i fusing to R|>en(l money to atreugthen tho team. . „ . ... Tho biggest winners from the “long green" standpoint were, of course, those clubs whose teams wore 'In the rice,’’ at ono time or another, during the sennon. Three of the moat populous cities la the country—New York, Chicago and Philadel phia, in each of which two cluba wore lo cated—made the most money. Both Now York clubs had n look-in at several stages of the race. Chicago was In n similar position, and the Athletics, of Philadel phia, were in the rare until late in the season. This was, of course, a fortunate coincidence, and poured the coin In streuuis into tho coffors of those clubs. O TURF BARS LIFTED. O O O Q St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 28.—John O 10 J. Byan, the noted “get-rich- 0 0 quick" man and turf plunger, is 0 10 trying hard to have tho ban placed 0 • 0 against him by the turf associa- 0 0 tlons East and West lifted. Near- 0 ! 0 ly two years ago the American 0 0 Turf Association debarred him 0 0 from all race courses under its Ju- 0 0 rlsdlctlon. Immediately all other 0 0 turf governing bodies took slml- 0 0 lar nctlon. 0 00O0O00000000000000O000000 FOX AND HOUND RACE8. Mentone, Ark., Dec. 28.—Lovers of sport from half a dozen states have rounded up at thlH famous resort to enjoy the annual fox hunt and other Christmas festivities given here each year under tho auspices of the Club House Company. lied foxes are abund ant in the hills hereabouts this year and the sport promises to be on n grand scale. Ono hundred hounds will take part in the chase. The sports will continue through tho greater part of a week. NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS The Southern League moguls, magnates and the rest of the hunch will be in session tomorrow, winding up the business of the year. It has been a good year in the Southern League. The wrong team won the pennant and to do it made use of methods in securing a man which do not tend to help baseball. Hut anyway they won it by playing good baseball and very like ly they would have won anyway, even if they had not paid Nashville to deal Castro to them—off the bottom of the deck. It wasn’t the most peaceful' season the league has ever known. With the.exception of the year when Charley Frank decided to have a little league of his own there lias never been one when so much hard feeling was evidenced. But it all came out right in the end—as far as Atlanta was concerned, at any rate. Otto Jordan mid Charley Frank kissed (metaphorically speaking) ami made up mid the other little rows quieted down. As a contest between eight teams for a bit of a rag the sea son was a gooil one. There was no run-away, such as Charley Frank started the year before, and right to the last week of the race three or four teams had a chance. It took practically the last game to convince Atlanta that the Crackers were not good enough to finish second. Financially there was no kick coming. Nashville and Little Rock did not get rich. But on the whole the season was profita ble. There will he losing clubs in any league and the Southern had less than the average. The fnet that yellow fever steered clear of the country was a great help to the Southern. In 1905 the appearance of that dis ease in New Orleans and Shreveport threatened to stand tho league on its end. Last year nothing of that or any other kind happened to interfere with the Inminess. Here’s n vote of thanks to Fate for the success of the past season and the fervent hope that the coming season will be even better. And that Atlanta wins the pennant. NOTE8 OF SPORT The latest trick appears to be to swap umpires as well as players. The Eastern League and American Associa tlon will exchange two or more of their arbiters the coming season. The Pacific Coast League players will not be permitted to play with teams outside the league next season. When President Murphy, of the Chi cago Cubs, begin* to number the play ers what will lie do when he comes to 13 und 23? If the National League holds out for a long seuson and the American League for tt short one there is likely to b** a good many conflicting dates in tho cities that have two clubs. Jack Doyle, who Is lo manage the Milwaukee club the coming season, should be able to write un interesting book «m baseball. Few players of the |.resent *l.iy have had the experience "Scrappy Jack” has had in the differ ent leagues of the country. Manager Armour, of Toledo, is cer tainly doing a lot of hustling to make the "Mud Hens" a winner In ’07. The feud In the American League certainly must be a thing of the past when President Johnson consent* to make the spring trip with the White Sox. John Ganzel finished second In the list of Central League first basemen. Myers, of Canton, topped him by two points, their average being .996 and .994, respectively. About time for another Nevada town to offer a million dollars for a fight. Tommy Murphy, the little Harlem fighter, thinks Chelsea is his hoodoo. Ho says sickness, postponements and rank decisions has been a combination too hard for him to beat. M. M. Riley, promoter of riie Gans- llerman fight at Tonopah, will act os matchmaker of the Casino Club, ami I* open for any first-class pugilistic UPTON, GAMEST OF YACHTSMEN I WHAT WILL HAS TO SAY With such sn elaborate spring program of baseball to hand out to the fan* next year the supporters of the game In New Orleass ore going to look for some tall doings the summer to follow. Frequently nowadays one hears the talk that while spring exhibition games between major league clubs are mighty nice they’re not near so good a* a pcnnnnt-wlnnfng team Id your own league. Manager Frank will 1m» expected to pro duce a world-beater next summer. Kren in the bitter cold of winter the fnns an* watching every move he makes, hoping to find some evidence of new players. So far no new ones have developed urn! the idea prevails In many camps that Frank ia not paying much attention to next year n out fit. Mnnnger Frnnk'* line of nctlon In the | winter time has been on refill ly gone ■ In this column and the fnns who are clln«*d to fenr that New Orleans Is destine! I to agnln become a second division tow» | have another guess coming. While nothing authentic can he given out. I It Is rumored that Mnnnger Frank has just I nabbed a very rich prlxe In an outfielder, f Ills name cannot be given at this time. a« I the deni 1ms not been i*ermnnently Hose-!, | but It Is sufficient for the fans to know I that he Is fully capable of holding the pace I set by tjie league und is regarded by Mana ger Frank aud others ns a star in minor company. The writer hoard the other day from unreliable source that Wen French, of the best pitcher* ever seen In Dixieland. I would come back to New Orleans next snw-1 iner. I don’t know how true It Is and | It here *imply for what It Is worth. "•** has I teen over in Portland for s-»me tins aud they say he’s getting tired <»f th-’ "rat. I Maybe Jakey Atz know* something about | this, un Jake was In the same leagm Wen for a long time, having played I I.o* Angelo*. I Speaking of French reminds no* of R** I funny storle* he used to tell “on route and ns he sat In hotel lobbies. Tie r- never | was a uinn In thl* leagut' who muh hint telling stories, and most of his were i on the iuipostdble order.—Will R. | lu New Orleans Item. NAT KAISER A CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. 15 Decatur St Kimball House. Bargains in Unredeemed Diamonds. ••••••••••••••••••••*•••••••••• ••••••••#•••••••••• contest. The new three-year-old stake of the Coney Island Jockey Club will be worth $25,000, with $10,0 : r additional to be given the victor if he should win also the Tidal and Lawrence Realiza tion. Polar Star, the season’s best two- year-old In England, is not entered for the Derby of 1907. Lotta Crabtree will have quite a string of horses on the Grand Circuit next year. Nutboy, 2.07 1-4, and My Star. 2.03 3-4, ure the stars of the sta ble. The eighth annual tournament of the Triangular College Chess League open* today In New York city. Cornell, Brown ami Pennsylvania make up Un- league. The I’nivmUyiof St. Louis football management 1* trying to arrange an annual Thanksgiving day game with Carlisle. The Br*>oklyu baseball dub lia* signed a new pitcher, George C. Bell, >f Albany. League Pall pitched fo last season. the Tri-State J«d»* L Sum niuntcfi-r bU Terry MrG«vori wa* one of tlie first to I.*-* for til* pi-ulMM*,] tit to !*• given in New TOM SHARKEY HAS A SCHEMEI Tom Sharkey has a »cheme uhlcM he wants to have presented t-» b * f fries. Tom suggests that Jeff i** I on the best three men In the world P> I ten rounds each, and a $100,0**0 pur*^-1 The three are to draw lot* f ,r n _ I second and third chance. Half I hour between fights. Each man * ^ I stays ten rouftd* to get one-thlro l the purse, those knocked out w I nothing. So. if Jeff knocked them* I out he’d get the $100,000. If he k h n ‘ J«jv I out two he’d get $66,666.66. If h;/1 knocked out one he’d get $33.33Ju ■ I he failed to knock out any j f , I he’d get nothing at all. “I I all out myself." says Sharkey. h ^ | Tom didn’t nay what would •• *' . § I if the first man knocked J-ff *’ , ‘ still figuring on that.—Exchange Since bit* recent defeat at th" ’ ^ "Monk the XewstM*,’’ George !'•' f# former featherweight ehampk»n. * realize that hi* fighting d*J* a,v u ** good.