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HERE IS A SERIES OF SNAP SHOTS, SHOWING JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER PLAYING GOLF
BENEFIT FOR M'GOVERN
By TAD.
Non- York, Jan. 14.—Jack Noon, sec
retary and trcaauror of the Casino at
Place Club, of Tonopah. tvas up to The
Evening Journal yesterday with a lit
tle talk about Nevada.
Jack thinks that the coming match
between Sena and Britt will startle tho
world, and that they will make enough
money out of It to build a statue of
gold for the winner and place It on tho
main street.
Joe Thomas and his manager. Harry
Foley, left ’Frisco last Monday for
Philadelphia. The Western middle
weight falling to get a match on In the
W** 1 - Is coming Bast, expecting to grab
Hugo Kelly or Twin Sullivan In limit
ed bouts and get nearer the middle
weight title. There Is no chance that
Thomas will meet "Honey" Melibdy.
Billy Delaney, who attll has At
Kaufman under his wing, has sent A1
to the springs out near Los Angeles
and Intends resting him up there for
the next six weeks. Billy explains
Al’s poor shoeing with Gardner, saying
that he has been training too hard.
THE8E PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW JOHN O. ROCKEFELLER, THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLO,
AT HIS FAVORITE PASTIME. MR. ROCKEFELLER 18 PLAYING THESE OAY8 AT AUGUSTA, AND
WHILE HIS SCORES ARE SOMEWHAT ABOVE BOGEY, HE IS GETTING AS MUCH HEALTHY EXERCISE
A8 ANY OF THE BETTER PLAVER8.
Kew York, Jan. H—Fire thousand men,
most or Whom had cheered the once great
little Sghter, Terry McOersrn, In many a
heut at Abe ringside, turned nut Inst night
to honor his memory at the great benefit
at Madison Square Garden. Terry, his
fatally In poverty, Is lying helpless and
alsdMsa, st a nans tori am. but the <10.000
clear naUaed last night will, with thd
other contributions, keep them la comfort
fee many years.
The crowd was spectsrular. One of the
mast Interesting parts of the performance
was the exhibition end sale of pictures of
the little gladiator, drawn by the various
hswspspsr cartoonists. They brought mors
than 10,000 when offered for salt at sue*
tloo. :
The program waa divided Into three peris,
the drat of which Included the names of
tho theatrical aura who were to perform.
Many of thoae on the Hat could not get u
turn because the management had to hus
tle through In order not to beep tho crowd
too long. Every net was applauded to the
echo.
BASEBALL,YANKED FROM THE EXCHANGES
Some Interesting Dope on
Longest Throws Ever Made
Slone the does of the football neaaon
1. the bicycle fiasco Bam Crane has
is very Interesting a to.
rise for the baseball readers of The
Evening Journal, says The Sporting
News. He coven an unusually large
hut as h rule ho alwayi deals
players, and there Is where
i hta good JudgmenL Recently
r the long-distance throw-
I today to theme of the past and
[ convinced hie readers that the
i far superior In that respect
l the present-day players. While
i have been many claims mada that
that or some other player had
beaten Hatfield’s wonderful throw, ho
evidence has ever been produced—other
than tha word of come boastful penon
I —4o authenticate their performance.
Hatfield's'ability as a long-distance
’ thrower waa .wall known as tar back
as IKS. During tha summer of IKS
a long-distance throwing match waa
bald on the Gapltollno Grounds In
: Brooklyn, N. Y. In which Charles J.
Smith and John C, Chapman, of the
| Atlantlce; .Frank 1*. Norton and Flan-
I dare, of the 8taro, end John V’. B. Hat
field, of the Gothams, of New York,
participated. Hatfield won, throwing
. (ha ball <4* fecL
One afternoon In July, 1IU, at Cin
cinnati, Ohio, Johnny Hatfield, who
-eras then a-member of the Cincinnati
Red 8lookings, - made alx successive
s throws of til, 1>*. IK. 1*7. 1*7 and u«
'yards. Tha. first threo throws were
made with a - slight breeae and as
some people said It helped him, Harry
Wright .told him to throw the boll In
the opposite direction, which he did
three times, with the above mentioned
result.
Record That Stands.
Hatfield made hie gnat naord throw
at a’tournament held on the old Union
Grounds. Brooklyn. October IS, 1K72, In
which Andy Leonard and George
Wright, of the Bostons; West Fisher
mndf A- 0. Anson, of the Athletics, and
jobsi V.- B. Uatneld and William lleyd.
of -the Mutuals, participated. Kach
player had three throws, nnd the re-
autt waa as follows: Hatfield, IK
yards, ona foot, seven nnd one.half
Inches; Leonard. HI yards, one foot,
It Inches; Wright. 117 yards, one foot,
oae Inch; Boyd. 115 yards, one foot,
•even Inches; Fisher. 112 yards, six
end Anson, no yardh. ale
Hatfield's record lias stood
since aa the only authenticated
ona
On September t, 1«S2, another long
distance throwing match waa held at
Chicago; 111., between Kd N. William-
aon, of the Chlcagns, and N. Fred Pfef.
ter, of the Troys, In which Williamson
threw a baseball IK yards, one foot.
PfMfr.r'a best throw out of three trials
wiia M3 yards, five inches night of
the Chicago team threw a distance of
100 yard* and upwards In u throw-log
match at the close of the same season.
NAT’KAISER A CO.
CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
ON VALUABLES.
IS Decatur 8L Kimball House
ts In Unredeemed Diamonds.
m
Williamson. tvlth 132 yard*, alx Inches,
taking a Ion* lead. -
Crans's Alltosd Throws.
On Sunday afternoon, October 12,
IBS4, at tha Union Athletic Park. Cin
cinnati, Ohio, Ed Crane, of the Boston
Unions, was credited with maktn* the
lon*est throw on record. It was said
be threw tho ball 135 yards, 7 Inches.
As the throw waa measured with a
string and It was thought might create
a doubt In some people's mind as to
Its accuracy. It was determined that It
should be measured by a regular sur
veyor's chain, which was accordingly
done on the following day, October 13.
The certificate Is herewith appended:
“Cincinnati. Oct 13. 1884.
'This Is to certify that we have this
day made an accurate measurement of
the distance between the. two points
said to be the distance thrown Mr.
Crane, of the Boston Union baseball
club, und find the distance to be 135
yards, one foot and one-half Inch (135
yards, l foot, 1-2 Inch).
."DORK ft BRASHER."
Afterwards James McHugh, assist
ant city civil engineer, surveyed the
ground with a regular Instrument and
took the distance by horlsontal meas-
ursment. Ills certificate Is iis follows:
T certify that I have measured dis
tance of ball thrown by Ed Crane and
find said distance to be 135 32 luo
yards <135 yards, ll 52-100 inches).
*"J. L. M'HUCJII."
Just why the measurements were not
made nt tho time the thrown were made
has never been satisfactorily explained.
Neither hue there ever been a guaran
tee given that the stakes were not
tampered with during the night. A
few days later It t\a* announced that
Crane had again beaten Hatfield's rec
ord In another great throw at Nt. Louis
for a wager, thereby making the latter
official. As to the latter throw The
Sporting News, of St. Louis, of Febru
ary 9, 1859. has this t<> say editorially;
- Fsilsd in 8t. Louis.
"It Is claimed by some that Crane,
of the New Yorks, while In St. Louis
In 1884. beat tho record of John Hat
field, who had thrown a ball 133 yards.
1 foot, 7 1-2 Inches, at the Union
Grounds. Brooklyn. October 15. 1*72.
"We know nothing of the record
made by Hatfield, hut In so far us
Crane's Ht. lamls record Is concerned
we can speak by the card, the writer
having on that occasion acted as Judge
of the throwing.
"Crane threw on a wager made be
tween President Lucas, of the Ht. Louis
Unions,"and R A Brown, n Tnc*t •«*
thuslust. Brown 1n-t Lucas $r»o that
Crane could not beat Hatfield's throw
nnd Lucas told ctane that he would
give hint the 150 If he want It
"Crane made five attempts, each
Unto throwing the hall from a point
Dear the bulletin board in Union Park
to a point near the home plate When
he had finished his longest throw was
measured by Captain HIM Richards,
then superintendent *»f Union Park,
and In the presence of witnesses, and
the measurement proved that Ct.me In
no 4*ne of his trials had he.iten Hat*
Held's record.
"This being the only questImt at Issue
the writer, who also acted a- *aake-
bolder, handed over the stakes t«»
Brown. Crane getting nothing whatever
for his pains. Ills beet throw then
whs ill yards. I Hubs* ami the itvord
was a good one for the reuron that
Just by way of furnishing mid-win-
ter dope some of Ihe New York sport
Ing writers started a "rebellion" In the
ranks of the Giants, hanging the story
around the release of Billy Gilbert and
adorning tho tale with the recently
sprung Information that Gilbert and
Donlln wired the outlaws for their bent
offer at the time the Giants were train
ing In Mom phis Iasi spring.
The rebellion part of the story Is
denied by the "official" papers of the
New York Nationals. The outlaw In-,
eldcnt In the spring la admitted, how
ever. Mcdraw gave Mike Donlln
pretty hard call for getting tanked up
even more often than the etlouet of
Memphis demands and In consequence
Donlln decided to Jump, and to make
the blow harder he was going to take
Gilbert with him. However, the affair
was patched up and the Jump never
eventuated.
Manager Tenney, of the Boston Na
tionals, has announced that except for
the two probable dates fir March 31
and April 1 nt ThonUUivllle, Os., and
Montgomery. Ala., the Itinerary for the
march home has been made as follows:
April 2 and 3, Birmingham. Alu.; April
4 and 5, Nashville, Tenn.; April 6,
Central City, Ky.; April 7, Evansville:
April 8, probably Harrisburg or Johns
town, and April 9, Trenton.
Bob Vngtnub ts playing with fire., if
I he reports from Williamsport are true,
to the effect that he will not come back
to Boston as ho has been ordered to
by the national commission, hut will
throw In his lot with the new gung of
outlaws. If ho does this It Is safe to
say that Mr. Unglaub will never again
have the opportunity to play major
league ball.
It is hard to make two statements
given nut by ‘’Punch” Knoll In a re
cent IntsrvtOTv ahfiw the proper appre
ciation of team play. Punch, you
know, waa with New Orleans last year,
Washington tho year before, and Nash
ville the year before that and now la
last year. Breltensteln. of Montgom
ery, and Suggs, of Memphis, In the or
der named, only stole six and five bases
each. Fisher, of Shreveport, purloin
ed four. Of the remaining 1* pitchers
only alx am credited with throe stolen
bases. Thla applies to thoae partici
pating In seven or more games.—Sport
ing Newt.
Central League.
During a discussion of their pitching
Here are the two atatementu which
are hard to reconcile:
(No. 1)—I havfe aliened "Red” Bo
hannon. formerly of Naahvllle.
(No. 2)—-We win have a team of ao-
ber bail players.
It'ii singular what poor baae atealera
all of the pltchera of thla league were
ability In mid-season Clark, of Birm
ingham, wagered .Wilhelm, of the same
team, a US suit that he woUld rank
higher In percentage on games won
nnd lost at the close of the acoaon.
Theae are their records: Wilhelm, 36
games, won 22. lost 11. tied 1, percent
age, .128; Clark. 17 games, won 22, loat
14, tied 1, percentage .111. .
■ iiiiiiiii umf min „ m , r , .
NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS
Crane threw across the win which was
blowing briskly at tho time.
Threw Aeross the Wind.
"As nothing was said In the wager
about the wind he would have thrown
with It. but that would have necessi
tated his throwing south to north,
unethltig he could not do, ns the park
between those two points waa too nar
row to display his skill and as Lucas
Instated on the throw being made In
the grounds where nil the spectators
could see It. This rliould settle once
nd for all the record made In Ht. Louts
by Urane In so far as his beating Hat-
field's great throw is concerned."
During the summer of 1888 The Cin
cinnati Enquirer offered a diamond
locket and 1100 In money to the player
who made the longest throw In a long
distance throwing contest. Many play
ers <»f note competed at Intervals dur
ing the neason. und up to October 19.
when Kd Williamson, of the Chicago*,
made bis greatest throw. Mike Griffith,
of the Haltlmores, led with a throw of
124 yards, eight Inches. On October 19.
Williamson made three throws, any
•»ne of which was better than any pre
vious throw made for the locket. The
first throw was 12, yards, 5 Inches; hi*
aeo.aul throw uv** 133 -yards, U iaehee,
and bis last throw ISO yards. 2 feet. 11
Inches. Williamson'* longest throw
i fully 8 Inches short of Hatfield’s
record.
COTTON STATES TEAM
WANTS "BUGS” RAYMOND.
Special to The rieorslnn.
Jackson. Mis*. Jan 24 —The Jack-
son Baseball Association through Pres-
blent Lewis has on a deal with the At
lanta Baseball Association for "Bugs'
Raymond, the pitcher. Raymond play
ed with Atlanta the first part of last
Reason, but was farmed out to Savan
nah. Ray mond Is a .very erratic Indi
vidual and has given more or less trou-
to every club with which he ha?
played, but he la popular *Uh tlu*
' ison fans and they hope that r»c*|.
dent 7 *w|s Will ftiWf
By PERCY H. WHITING.
After a debate which was on for a couple of months and
which was “all to the acrimonious*’ while it lasted. Harvard and
Yale have practically decided that in all probability they will
play football next fall.
Lovely spectacle, that of the athletic associations of the two
lending universities, lighting like a couple of alley-cats over the
question of a foot hall game.
The races this year nt Ormond have not been up to the stand
ard cither in tho slaughter of records or contestants.
John L. Sullivan’s brain may have been a little misplaced,
especially on the question of absorbing alcoholic products—from
cologne to straight boo*e—hut anyway Ilia heart waa always and
still is in the right place. When a benefit for Terry McGovern
was proposed John L. contributed a nice little one-hundred spot.
The projected hill-climb in Atlanta should have the support
of local automobilists. For a town with as many cars as Atlan
ta has there is very little doing here in the auto game and some
thing along the line of u well run hill-climb ought to stir up the
interest quite a bit.
Speaking of automobiles—we note with amusement that
Hugh Keough has recently decided that alcohol is not so danger
ous in the carbureter as in the chauffeur.
LATE DOINGS OF THE PUGS
TOLD BY CARTOONIST TAD
Judging from the dense silence now emanating from the va
rious Southern League camps most of the managers have their
teams picked out for next season or at least have come to the end
of their rope as far os signing any more men goes.
Wonder what the schedule committee of the Southern
League did at its meeting last Sunday. Nobody will know for
awhile. And beyond the question of whether Atlanta opens at
home os on the road and the" exact date of'the local opening
there is no special interest ou the part of the general public
over the schedule.
Judging by external evidences the new Ponce DeLeon hall
park will not be ready for occupancy before the middle of the
summer. Well, we put up with Piedmont all right last year and
guess we can do it again. If the Crackers will furnish the base
ball the fans will furnish the interest, regardless of where the
park may be. 1 •
Before there ean he peace in raving the American Turf Asso
ciation must apologize to the Western Jockey Club. So long,
peaee.—Says a St. Louis exchange.
Seems to us that it would he more to the jioitit if the pnir of
them would apologise to .the public.)
STEWART GOES
TO MERIDIAN
Specie! to The Georgies.
Meridian. Mies., Jen. 31.—President
John H. O'Kell. of the local bnsebal!
etna, today announced that Ace Stew
art, the lest season's manager of Jack-
son's team, had been secured In ex
change for Pitcher Jones, First Base-
man White and a cash consideration.
8tewart waa the beet batter in the
Cotton States League last year and his
addition to the Meridian Infield at
second base will make It one of the
strongest In the league.
NELSON’S ACT
DRAWS CROWD
London. Jan. 24.—Battling Nelson
opened at the Shoreditch theater last
night In a sparring exhibition preced
ing the picture! of the Nelaon-Oans
fight. Immense crowds besiege the
theater nightly. Nelson > Is getting n
thousand dollars a week. Next week
he shows at Paris.
DIAVALO IN CITY.
Jack Dlsvalo. the man who won
world-wide renown for hie stunts In
the loop-looplnc line, Is In Atlanta for
a vlalt and la at Ihe Kimball. Dlavalo
taking II easy this winter and Is
planting n tour of the Boulh. after
which he will return to Atlanta to fin
ish out the winter. He Is planning out
a new stunt for next season which he
claims will out-thrlll any of hla previ
ous thrillers. '
PRINCE WHITE8TONE WIN8.
Grand Junction. Tenn.. Jan. 24.—
Prince Whlteatone. a aetter dug owned
by T. T. Pace, was yesterday declared
the champion-field trial dog of America
at the conclusion of the l’. 8. Field
Trial Club's annual championship. Lan-
nark Lad finished second.
The annual election of offlcera gnve
the presidency to H. B. Duryea, of New
York city, and the secretaryship, as
usual, to W. B. Stafford, of Trenton.
Tenn.
NEWS AND NOTES OF 8PORT.
The four big American bowling tour
naments for I<07 are:
March T-12—Western Bowling Con
gress at Denver.
March 14-11—American Bowling
Congress. 8t. Louis. *'
March 25-Aprll «—National Bowling
Association, Atlantic City, N. J.
April 22-27—Canadian Bowling As
sociation, Toronto.
The bookmakers of New Orleans re
cently lout a ball game to the turf
writers by a score of < to S. This la the
only time the Crescent City booklee
ever lost anything.
With the exception of Columbu* and
Indianapolis, ever)’ club In the Ameri
can Association will hare a new man
ager the coming season.
The veteran Bobby Carrot her*, of the
old ,8t. Louis Browns, haa been ap
pointed aq umpire In the Southern.
ANOTHER MAN
FOR MJ. FINN
LITTLE ROCK HAB PRACTICALLY
LANDED MORRISSEY, OF
GRAND RAPIDS;
Grant! Rapids. Mich.. Jen. 24.—An offer of
two for Jack Morrissey has been received
by tb« local management from the Little
dock club of the hbuth.ro Lessee,
will probably be accepted. Morrl
merly played with tbe Cincinnati I
la an experienced catcher. South 1
Canton both want men of this raUti
one of the three clubs will get him..
OOOlWOOOOOOWWOGOOeiKMWOOO
O SID SMITH SIGNS. , a
o ■ o
O Manager Billy Smith has re- O
O celved a signed contract freiL.
0 Sid 8mlth and the premier batter I
O of the Southern League wll be In I
O Atlanta on reporting day. o
OOOODOO^OGODOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
BASKET BALL-AT MERCER.
Special to The Georgian.
Macon. Oa., Jan. >4.—Class basket
ball waa on tap at Mercer yesterday
and two good games were played.
The'Juniors best the freshmen by n
score of 11 to IL and the sopha de
feated the seniors by n score of <7
to-It.
The line-ups of tbe teams follow:
Juniors. Freshmen.
thaw. Knight, g Dunaway. Smith.
’ Juniors—Wood, canter; Davis and
Cos. forwards; Shaw and Knight,
guards.
Freshmen—Paine and Dunaway, cen-
r; Matthews and Kates, forwards;
Dunaway, Smith and Paine, guards
Sopha—Bartlett, center; Scogln and
Watson, guards; Melton and Granade,
forwards
Seniors—Allen and 8parks, center:
Denver. Hrewton . and Hargrove,
gjiards- 8parks, Montgomery and Al
len, forwards.
he can put It over any of the 110-pound
boys In the country. <
Addle Joss, the pitcher of tbe Ameri
can League, who played with Cleveland
spori
Tlnu
Toledo Sunday
wnTK ‘
imes-Beo. Mr. Joaa will be In fuil
charge of thla department until March.
When he aspects to go South with the
Cleveland team.
Billy Gilbert, tho • recond baseman
who la not quite good enough for the
New York Nationals this year, will not
play with Newark, the club to which,
he waa sold. He haa bought an Ifiter-1
eat in a saloon and will hereafter con
duct n highball aatabllshmcnL
Charley Frank. Mike Finn and Ferd
Kuhn met In Little Rock last Sunday
and went over the schedule for the
Southern League. What waa done by
them has not been snnouncwl With
the western section of the league rep
resented by three members of the com
mittee and tha Eastern end by only ona
the east will probably get none tha
beat of the break. However, tho thing
Young Donohue, of Roxbury, has can all be thrashed out at the coming
a. following m Boston who think massing of the league In Atlanta.-
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