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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4,19Q7.
A Little Sporting News and Dope in Bunches
EDITED BY
PERCY H. WHITING.
MURPHY AND CORBETT MEET JANUARY 9
CONTRACT
FOR STAND
GliDE * CO., OF ATLANTA, WILL
PUT UP NEW BUILDINGS AT
PONCE DE LEON.
The Georgia Railway and Elecirfc
Company on Thuraday let the contract
for erecting the new grandatand and
bleachers at Ponce DeLeon park. This
new plant will be used by the Atlanta
Ttaaeball Association as soon as It Is
finished.
The contract calls for the coinpls-
Non of all work L As the South-
♦*en League aeaaon opena Apm in, and
as practice will begin about March 1.
it Is obvious that all of the preliminary
games and some of the championship
games will have to be played at Pied
mont park.
L0NG-DI8TANCE RIDERS.
As a sign of the times It Is to be
noted that no less then three Ameri
cans are In public pitnt. with letters
detailing their experience on wheel*
unroad. Two of them have : tunned
a tour around the world, while the
third Is just now writing on how
England looks from the top of a bi
cycle. However, this last wilier !*»
on-committal. and they mny decide to
»iidie the globe before returning.
A fourth rider, Karl Kron. should be
mentioned In the same connection. Not
satisfied with having gone, around the
world, and with twenty thousand miles
of riding already to his credit, he was
pedalling through Pennsylvania last
week, attracting the usual amount of
attention with his high wheel and white
costume.
If Jim iwichnnty
some of the other plants Manager
McAleer 1ms picked up C**r u song the
Ht. Louis llrowns will play the game
from all sides next season.
Jim McGuire, of the
Americans, hit for .300 last
twenty-fourth straight ycai
ball. Jim comes pretty near being tin*
•’Grand Old Man” of baseball,
the trimmings.
Manager Watkins, nf Indianapolis,
will have nearly u full team of cx-
mnjotH next year.
The Minneapolis club will liu\o two
mighty good ball players in Charley
Hickman and Tip O’Neill,
The National League «tnnde *W •
clubs for and two against the proal- j
dent of their organisation The Aincr- j
lean i/eagtie stand* fight chile* f.»i- «ml:
none against their rhlef IVili.ip* Mil-*
answers the 4iu*-*»tt..n «?n*-o M*ke*l.
_"What Is the flHfetfWrr. r>r “Which la
the .lictter league?”
The most Important quest Ion before
the Western* League magnate* is the
•election of two mure eltba in order to
have an eight-club circuit next season.
According to Pitcher Licficld. of
Pittsburg, Manager (’lark, of the Pi
rates. ” will lie the highest salaried hall
player In the world the coming season.
■me grmd tight nn The
enough to itroadwAy
to give the average New Yorker
a chance to see It. This Is the
Murphv-Cnrbett battle before the
National Athletic flub of Phlln-
ahoiit years ul_ ago and has
delphia, on January 9. Murphy Is
grown hravv enough during the
last two years to tight in the light -
weight dt\t*don Me »* fast, clever,
nn.i na= IH1WST It* ?.{- W.iffli Ho
th.n f i-plns it, t luunplonshtp
hunoiH Yt*QHJf TtTfBHT. “the ex-'
lightweight i hamplmi, has been :
training faithfully for tnanv weeks
with the Idea of recovering Ills
standing.' In the puglllsth world.
He U credited with having le«o\-
ered much of his old-tltne form.
Every thing |Hilnls, then, to a very
Interesting six-round contest.
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
By PEROT H. WHITING.
Tin 1 lipi'd fur iip-to-dntc liasflmll jiarks with first class <lin-
muiulx seems to have hit the Southern Longue moguls with a si-
multnui'oiis thud.
I hiring the early years of the existence of the present li'nune
any old kind of a diamond was fjooil enough and as loin; ns there
was a place for some uf the patrons to sit they were expected to
lie satisfied.
But times have clmntted in the Southern.
iiirsehnll has been put on a paying basis in most cities of the
league and is recognized as a good advertising proposition in the
others. So the men behind the Southern League clubs have gone
with 11 will at the tusk of making their parks first class in everv
detail.
Racing Game in Louisiana
In Very Precarious State
By J. S. A. MACDONALD.
New Orleans, I-a., Jan. 4.—-Like the
black cloud, which at first no bigger
than a man'* hand, later on grew Into
cyclonic proportion*, u pretty squab
ble among the magnates of the Cres
cent City, Jockey flub J* liable to
Increase* In fury and bitterness until the
very supports of the turf In Louisi
ana are swept away. The bickering
► tartoil this week, and when and where
the end will como I* the perplexing
uncertainty of the tiling. As usual,
where politicians stretch down a lin
ger Into the racing Me the turf suf
fer*. This 1* exactly the situation In
race track polities down here at this
very moment. The Interests of Louis
.A. Celia, the Ht. Louis, Mo., mtllton-
'•Ire, and those of the New Orleans
stockholders, fbaric* A. Huih, 1*. A.
Renaud nnd Hut Her I (at risen, nr*? in a
clash over the way the Fair Ground*
plant should In* conducted. (Vila hoW*
m majority of stock In tlw Orescent jru&’
Jockey flub and 1* asserting his pre
rogative*.
Ilia friend* say the St. l.oul* capital
ist wants the Fair Grounds run on a
strict business basis and iv fair return
to the 1*tin*kholders pro rata on their
bolding*. At any rate. President llu*U
and Louis fella* brother. IWkmnker
"Charley” (Vila, who really represents
his elder brother on the l*•« d ground,
are scarcely on speaking term* tight
now, whereas, two years ago. when
the Hush clientele found the tight
against the forrigan plant at (’Itv Park
and Its American Turf Association al
lies a hit too strong, an emergency
call was sent out to the fellas, and
the two fnctlun* could not have In « n
sweeter, one to the other. "Ye*. I :i
take up the fight against foVrlgan and
City Park, provided l am permitted t »
purchase ut a reasonable figure th«
controlling portion of the Fair Grounds
stock,", replied the (Vila • hbf when
confronted with the proposition. Then
followed the transfer ,.r ..\er f»0 per
cent of the stock to (Vila. Last win
ter, the St. Louis firm’s hooking en
terprises lost $«u,otm and L A. fella
contributed, nil told, $|i‘.;..ihio to the
light.
Now. the war being at an end. the
(Vilas want the prop.isiti.in strnlghtetr-
ed out on a hufelncs* basis. The first
move time with the appointment of
John llaekmeister as tin? (Vila repre
sentative In the auditor's department.
This change did not . r? ate friction, hut
since tlun the «v;i.» people have dls-
covered ungny slip-diod methods In the
uianagettient • r ti. plant which they do
not intend tr. toh-tute. For Instance,
the grafting pollti, tan* of New Orleans
draw down ot.r $4,000 11 month In
bounty from tL« »bib. w hile several
adjuncts t * tin track Itself, such as
the feed store, were being run Inde
pendent of 1 he »ace truck bv several
of the Indtvidu.i* directors. The money
unde from the t»*.»d store has been go
ing Into the p.kkets of two of the In
dividual director* rather than to the
conun.it treasury of the club. The
fellas insist on the latter course, while
thev are for absolutely ('tilting off the
gt kfters. A* a lesttll of the GlfT.renec.x
I're> blent Ru*li and young fella arc
not .ut good term*, a* aforementioned.
Tin polttctans are up in am..* and
| threaten to at «>nce institute ,t cant-
j patgn against racing Itt the stab The
j municipal g.»\( innn tit Inis b..11 draw
ing money for a detail of lifter ti M»e-
cUl policemen, whereas only five are
j t e*tl»lle*l lit policing the • out *e.
j To ,ap the climax, the old Hush ad-
i mliilstiiitiott has been insl-tlr
j I etelltl *»l of Rufus Rush It' ctl
and
Tin
obit
••Ron
Cellege Championships for 1906.
Sport.
Batoball
Track
Rowing
Football
Sockor football..
Bowling
Chets—Quad’lar
TriangV.
Crickot
Collogo.
.. Princeton,
.. Cornell.
.. Cornell.
(Yolo.
•* (Princeton.
.. Havorford.
. Columbia.
Columbia.
Pennsylvania.
(Pennsylvania.
.. (Havorford.
(Cornoll.
Sport.
Batkct ball
Crott country
Fencing
Golf .
Gyrrnait.ci
Hockey
Ltcrotto .
Shooting
Swimming ...
Tennis
Wrestling * ...
Water polo
College.
Pennsylvania.
. Cornell. *
, .West Point.
-Yale..
. N. Y. University
Harvard.
Johns Hopkins.
..Yale.
.. Pennsylvania.
..Yale.
.. Yale.
Pennsylvania.
Atlfttiln luts n now jiark, Memplus lias a now stand, Now Or-
Ii'hiis lias hoiiKht a new park, iiirimnuliam wants a new one, Mont-
tfumery is KoiiiK to move from a park way ticvoml the city limits
to tme nearer town: Shreveport in enlaruinu her ja , and atand.
Nashville is aetually thinking nhont. a new park and Little Rock
well, vott can lanjjh at Little Rook, but they have as pictur
esque a park ns you could nsk and a. grand stowl and bleachers
which meet the modest requirements of the Little Rock patronge.
The Nashville park is now the prize horror of the league. It is
located in a piece of bottom land which overflows every time there
is a heavy dew, nnd it is in the wiwng part of town. And the
grand stand—Help! Newt Fisher built most of it at odd times and
with odd material. ’ Newt’s penny pressing policy would not allow
him to hire anything done he could do himself, so when his stand
fell to pieces in one spot he would go out somewhere, pick up some
second-hand lumber and make some “repairs.” As it stands now
the Nashville plant is mostly repairs nnd it is ns much as a man’s
life is worth to keep in some spots from falling through.
Hut the Nashville club seems at last to.be iu tile hands of
some lively, np-to-yet people who may he willing to buy n piece of
ground in some nice part of Nashville nnd put up a deeeut stand.
In Birmingham they have a good enough piece of land, but it
is in a laid part of towu. They are offered the use of the fair
grounds, hut to make that available for baseball purposes they
would have to build new stands nnd hlenehers and some of these
would have to come down again while the fair was in progress.
The Birmingham eluh is hacked by real live men. though,
with plenty nf money, ami they will give Birmingham a hnscbnt!
park which will he a hummer.
Itnsehnll may not he on h'firnt footing in the Smith, but if it
i'll L then a lot of level headed business...men have been lauded
against the erookedest steer that ever came out of Texas.
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AFTER INVENTORY
It is with a feelins nf profound satisfaction that wc
contemplate the splendid achievement of this store,
noting its steady, healthy growth, a condition superin
duced by the close application of modern business moth-
odfb It has been said, and very kind Ivy too, that our ad
vertising copv possesses the merit, of “honest enthu
siasm." If this be true, then the enthusiasm reflected in
our ads must be inspired by an intimate knowledge of
the high character of Globe merchandise, and a keen ap
preciation of Globe values. Quality is the first requi-
_ site of our buyers, pri<-e.a secondary consideration; for if
lacking in quality, the price, however low, fails to at
tract. * _
Men’s and Young Men’s
SUITS AND OVERCOATS
Boys’ aiid Children’s
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EXCEPTIONAL INDUCEMENTS
IN THE WAY OF VALUE8 FOR
THOSE WHO BUY TOMORROW.
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Hi.? n.
NOTES OF SPORT.
nf fiMMlmll lutx,*
n«>t pan-
»M’«i nut so bn.Hr after all Wc ciutjnofc
Inn k imw nn cue of |h,» greatest football
senaana In history front tl
hoik pin j ora nml spectator*.
Why »la they want nn«>th?*r fir*t has*,
man In Detroit? Didn’t.Ham Frawfnrd
lead the American League Mist sack-
era last season?
Frank Farrell', owner of the New
York American*, mil Join the t«?l *ny
»>f h«'fsetnen at Shei>p*head Hay n*»\t
summer, lie Is now tmildltiR what will
be one ..f the finest houses In that sec
tion* of I. iik Island.
Two Central I.eaKue club*, beside*
Grand Kapld*. will prohahly start the
season with change* In ownership One
Is Whetling am) the other I* South
llend.
From present Indication,.* It looks, a*
though the American As> •elation will
ha\e more new player* next season
than any other baseball organisation
In the country.
George Hlackhuru. who |< to man-
to ihl*. bur they do lak. exception to
the plan of keeping up thh* handsome
sal.ii> all through the Mimtner. when
the raving I* -»t an end In the mean-
rthin. lb* • Vll.is are determined on run-
nlng the Fan Ground* plant on strlct-
j l> hu?*lneK^ Hue*. fre» ••( all giwYter*
iand p» n*l tier* The denouement will
I he w.itched with Interest. This Is the
•big topic «>f Christmas week dawn lure
on the racing'ground.
age the Vicksburg club the coming sea
son. won the Gotten Slates League
pennant In 1902 with the Natchez team.
Parties in Detroit are trying to ar
range a wrestling match between
Hackensohtnldt, the "Russian Lion,"
nnd Fred Hell, the Wisconsin wres
tler.
Unplaced only mice in 44 start* I*
the remarkable record of K. S. Gard
ner’s little gelding. Charlie Kastman,
now racing at New nrleant.
The continued cold weather through
out New Kngland bid* fair to make this
one of the greatest hockey seasons In
yearn. Harvard. Yale. Princeton. Co
lumbia and no end of smaller colleges
are hard hi work on the tee.
Like the champion White Fox. the
ball clul) of Columbus. Ohio, .won It*
l>ennant by star wyrk In the field and
not at the bat. The "Senators” rank
first In fielding and seventh In hat
ting.
Frank Slavtn. the old-time heavy
weight, was knwkfuLiUit in the secmil
round recently by Nick Hurley, at Vic
toria. R. (\
Sammy IftcCllntlc, manager forlDlck
Hyland, say* that on account of the
altitude a tighter can battle al five
pounds les* In Colorado than In Cali
fornia.
NAT KAISER d CO.
CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
ON VALUABLES.
15 Decatur IT Kimball Home.
Bargains in Unredeemed Diamond*.
When Highlanders Report in Atlanta March 1
Manager Griffith's Team Will Be Hummer
It has !>een evident far some time that
cinrk Griffith will bring n strong aggre
gation to Atlnntn with him In the spring.
Some Idea of how the bunch will stack up
ton lie gathered from the following article
by Joe Vila, which appeared* In The Skirt
ing News’
(’lark Griffith will he here In n few days
to get ready for buatneas. He will send
out his foidrncla and will order the Yen
keea to prepare for trslnlog at Atlanta on
March 1. Griff stands pat on the great
team that would have won the world’s
chnnipUnshlp If the pitching department
had Ikvii more formidable. With llal.
Chase, Jimmy Williams, KUI Klherfeld nod
Wld Conroy in the Infleid, and Danny Hoffo
mau, Frank Lal'ort* and Willie Kinder. In
the outfield, look out for the Ynukees from
the first crack of the pUtoJ, Klclnow,
Thomas nnd McGuire will do the catch
ing again, with the pitching corps made tip
of Orth, Chesbro, Clarkson, Iktyle, Hogg
sud « new mnii-u atur—Is yet to 1>e se
cured.
riniksou will have a great year! lie
developed rapidly last fall, and ma«!e g»*.*?l
with such fretpiciu'y that Griff regard* him
as a stake-winner In future. Hoyle, an
other fine Ihixuihb. will Improve, for the
reason that he wilt l>e as fresh aa a daisy
when hi> tietfln* the campaign In the spring.
When he came' here In Auguat, he was
clearly overworked nnd h*hmi got n lame
arm. .No pitcher ever broke luto the Mg
league* that showed more remarkable skill
thau this cool headed youngster when he
shut out the Clevelands the first day he put
u a Yankee uniform.
Hogg was nl*o a source of much encour
agement fow»M*t tlw? clone of the seuaoii, Ula
grand pitching ngnlnst the White Sox on
the last trip clinching the sup|»ort of an
a hnv of mot era who did not thluk much
of him before that achievement.
The Veterans. Orth ami Chesbro, will be
lit line again. I*ut they will not he used In
the bos too s*miii. Cheabn* may get back to
». and If be doe* .the Yankee* will l?e
J list *•» much better -*ff. Orth pitched
iniiKidtlcctit ball nil of hist season, and U
i leaf I tual to re(H?at.
Conroy May Play Third.
Griff may put Conroy on third hnae per-
inaneiitly anil try the heavy hitting UiI’orte
III the outfield. IIv kiicIi nn arrangeuietit
he would have the fn»te*t Infield In the
country, and at the same time would uot
b*se IwtPorte’* great stick work. Huniiy
Iloffiuaii I* sure of a regular phu-e i*u the
team, and he will do better work. ton. Ill *
trouble' with Connie Mink last season af
b*d hi* pin ting t«* a marked decree right
to thi? windup, but he will l*> n dlf-
i'iit man iillogvthcr after till*. Griff
made Ills ciiemlc* take to the w«*a|* lust
season so that he ••nine* Imck next week
master of tin situation. Frank Farrell
thldk* that Griff Is the l»e*t manager In the
Amerb'Hii Is'ugue. with all due res|Mt-t to
Fielder Julies and other able leader*, and
will l>a> k him up iu any mote the old fo\
iimy *«•«• tit to make.
A couple «»f Mg denis are under way
»mw and If they are auecessful. the Yankees
will make all of tile other AlUerleati League
tennis huiu li thems *1 tea to keep them from
golU4 to the trout tvlth n rush at the out-
of the campaign.
Would Htlp Highland*™,
lieu Farrell put Iu a ilnlm for In*.
Ilildrbraud, the former Prlucctuu plttherT
he wa* acting In dead earnest. Farrell
nml (irlff believe that lllhlMiraml would
be a powerful man on the Yankee team,
nml they are prepared to offer him a hand
some salary If he will consent to play
hare, t understand that Harney Hreyfus*
wants the ex collegian, hut Its llaus Wag
ner against a country bumpkin first base
man that Hlldchrnud will never wear i
Pittsburg uniform. Joe CantlMon, who,
they Hay. I* unusually wise In his own es
timation. had It frkmod up to hand HIM?*-
bra ml over to Harney for Rob Gan icy, hut
Farrell’s claim upset the little trick with
such,a suddenness that Cautlllon for tl-
jnomeut lost hla nerve.
Turf War in New Orleans
Is Passing Quietly Away
New Orleans, La., Jan. 4.—The last
kick In the war between the Western
Jockey Flub nml the American Turf
Association wax seen late this week
when the fight on a local newspaper
by tht City Park wm. called off at the
instigation and request of the race
tr.uk. President D. If. Ityrnes doe.*
not cure for public criticism, «nd the
same may be said of Ed Corrigan.
While It lasted It was the best news
paper tilt ever seen in the South. An
attack was made on the "dollar book"
conducted by the Fames administra
tion at city Park, where women wager
their dollars and half dollars. Just at
the right time “Sum" Heasllp, of the
CU.V Park Jockey Club, Intervened as
a mediator, with the result—thru the
newspaper In question lias ceased its
Hssaults. Ilv the same token the fact
that Mr. Heuslip is destined to play
an Important part In shaping the fu
ture of the Western turf Ih pretty well
understood locally. The time will come
when Kil Corrigan will retire along
with other outsiders from the N« w »>*•-
leans capital nnd New Orleans sport*,
men. Even the Fair Grounds may puss
out of existence. In such a contin
gency Heasllp Is the logical leader **l
a movement of New Orleans facing Cor
New Orleans people
I’ntll the sport comes under the
domination of local social and finun.-
olul countenance the turf In Louisiana
will never really stand secure. Further
up In the line In Tennessee. Kentucky
an*. Illinois there cannot be two gov
erning turf bodies. Either the West
ern Jockry Club or the American Turf
Association must go. Probably n fu
sion will result. In which case S. F..
Heasllp is the rlglu man for the i i?-t-
dency. a man of culture, wealth. ■
strong Southern mu ini connecti n-.
Mr. Heasllp might save the Wes Kin
turf. He calls for a Jot here in N<
omsm*. and 5IT through tho i
West, .lie’Is the one man who t- .'■•
solutely acceptable to Louis Celia ■■"••l
Edward Corrigan, the stalwarts of t!.?*
respective factions.
NEW8 OF 8P0RT.
Now that the Lincoln club, of «’!•’
sea, has dosed It looks ns though t«
lighting In New England la a thing
the past,
over .T.ono spectators saw the r? ■
bout at Indlunapolls between K-«
Itronson and Micky Ford, Itr* t‘
earning the decision at the end f 1
rounds.
A nourishing basket ball lengu?
b*<n organized In the Puget r 5
region. It takes In Tacoma,’ S* ■? ’ •
Everett, Helllngham and Victoria. H. *-
Injured Man Improving.
•g|H*clrtl tu The (leorglna.
Macon, Ga., Jan. 4.—-Henry Davin-
w ho, a couple of weeks ago. was stru
by a street ear, and from the Injui i
had hi* leg amputated half way
tween the ankle and knee. Is m>-
better and will recover.
B. NELSON WANTS ANOTHER
FIGHT WITH JOSEPH GANS
New York, Jan 4.—"Tad, Evening Journal, New York: Arrived saf? •
ly after a rough Journey. Match Gan* for tlo.ooo, 55 |icr cent ta the win
ner. I.? per cent loser, fight lr. August. Wish you a happy new y«-»*
(Signed 1 "RATTLING NELSON
The foregoing tnblegrum received by Tad Inte yesterday gives th*
first statement of the terms on which Rattling Nelson I* willing to m*?
Jw * n another battle for the lightweight championship of the world
Nelson’s message was evidently Inspired by the news of Guns d?
clslve victory over Herman at Topopah New Year’s day. He learned • ’
It up*m his landing at Liverpool.
(Jans has since stuck to It that *f he over met Nelson again It wm' ’
he after the articles of agreement hail been drawn up to his liking, an
n "t a - the dictation of the Dane and his hnrd-headeu manager.