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TWO WALLOPS
SETTLE M’COY
IN FRIENDLY BOUT WITH J. A.
FORD CHANCE BLOW*
LAY HIM LOW.
Hot Spring*, Ark.. Jon. 2*.—KM Mc
Coy, the former pugilist, took the count
fir g iocgp bnttr house yesterday after
noon. McCoy and J. A. Kurd, a huiky
Texan, boxed a friendly three rounds
and the decision went agalnet McCoy.
The Kid kept tiling the worda “Come
on" and Ford mixed It freely. Catch
ing McCoy allghtly off hie balance, and
In the act of allpplng. he ahot over a
left to the riba, following It up with a
right to the Jaw. McCoy went down
for the count.
DRIVER HURT
IN BAD SPILL
BIQ STEAM CAR OVERTURNS AND
MARRITT IB SERIOUSLY
INJURED.
r Otmond, Fla., Jim. 26.—Marriott,
SjWaf. of the atoam rare, waa aerloualy
Injured here yesterday while trying to
break the 1-nille record, ltta car wax
thrown Into the air when It hit an Ir
regularity In the beach, and after It
landed on the ground It awung to one
aide and overturned. The driver waa
aartoualy, though perhapa not fatally,
* n The^6-mlle handicap for amateure
waa woB by Laughlln In a 10-horae
power gaaoltne car, In 7 minute*. 161-1
aeconda actual running time.
Marriott failed In hla attempt to
lower the 1-mlle record. He covered
the distance In 261-6 aeconda, 2-6 aec
onda alowar than the beat prevluua
performance.
William R. Ray, of Brooklyn, eatab-
llahed a new mile record for two-cylln-
dor motor cycle*. Hla time waa 44 1-6
aeconda.
The epectal 12-mlle event between an
English and American touring rar.
atrlpped, waa won by Hutton. In the
Engllah car, In 12 minute*. 12 2-6 aec
onda.
PROFESSIONAL OOLF MATCH
IS BET FOR NEXT SATURDAY
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FRANK FUftTEB
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OPfEBi ADDITIONAL.
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MRS BUNK FAfKTblN HER.
ApAR-TMPHTS AT MEWS.
BOOKIE-HORSE OWNER
MUST PASS FROM TURF
^Fhe P ' uf Ailuwntg Duukmakers IQ Lay
Odds Against Their Own Horses
Wjll Soon End.
The propoeed match between Jam«a
Malden and Crla Croaby. two local golf
profesatoiutls, will probably be played
neat Saturday. It haa been twice pout,
poned on account of the lllneaa of Croa
by. but, barring the happening of the
unexpected. It will be pulled olt next
The event will t>e at eighteen holes,
match play, over the Kaat Lake course
Aa Malden will he on home grounds
and Croaby the visitor, the Y. M. t\ A.
golfer will be at aoinewhat of a disad
vantage, hut* he can he counted upon
to make a good ahonlng.
NO LICENSE FOR
JOCKEY ROMANELLI.
New York. Jan. 26.—Jockey Roma-
nelll. who waa aua|>ended laat summer
by the Saratoga officials, waa denied a
license by the atewarda of the Jockey
Club yesterday. New Mown Hay, the
mare which brought about Uoinanrlll'a
auapension, waa cited aa an Illustration
of the way luck ran with him. Vnder
hla guidance when not bncked by the
"rail people" ahe finished fourth. In
her next race, when heavily played, ahe
won.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
O ATHLETIC FIELD FOR 0
« FURMAN UNIVERSITY O
a Special to The Georgian 0
O Greenville, B. C., Jan. 26.—Plans O
a are on fool to arcure an athletic O
O Bald for Ifirman University that O
a WUI not have a euperlor In the O
O Booth. Heretofore the campua haa O
O been tiaed for gamca and It I* O
O unfenced. The new movement In- O
O elude* tlw accruing of an adequule O
ti lot prelected by a high board O
O f-ncc, and a large grand aland. O
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By PERCY H. WHITING.
If you arc intwated ill running races don’t overlook J. S. A.
Macdonald's article in another column.
It’s interesting, and likewise instructive.
The evil he complains of—that of allowing men to race horses
and make books on the races in which they run—is one which is
hurting the turf. r
Promoters Will Organize
Alabama-Tennessee League
R|m»cIo1 to The Georgian.
Anniston, Ato., Jan. 'X—It U more than
prohnlih* that Anniston will hnvc I'liselmll
next mumud ami tin* Him* of th«* leu mu* In
tin* |Hilut of question with tin* promoter*
nt tlit** time. The Anniston team will. In
nil probability, be loaded by W. A. Court
an msnsger, and the league will hare the
following plaeea to select team* from: Au
nlntou. Gadsden. Talladega. Home. Helmn,
Chattanooga and Knoxville, while other*
may apply later. At present It looks like
u slx-tentu league, with one of the aliove-
luimcd towns left out. Selma and Knoxville
Hookmakers are doubtless ns honest ns any professional
gamblers. Maybe they are more honest. Perhaps they are per
fectly honest—though “perfect honesty” is said to he a rare com
modity in these days of trusts and trouble.
Hut anyway it is rather too much to expect a man who makes
his liviug by gambling to put his own horse in a race, make a book
on the event and—well—not lake "full advantage of the oppor
tunity,” to any it with all due innocuouancsn.
Scandal has followed scnntlnl as year has followed year
and the conditions are growing worse instead of better. The evil
can never really he done away with, because it would always be
an easy matter for a bookmaker to own his horses and keep
them covered under his trainer’s name. Hut at any rate, the turf
associations might forbid it mid thus put themselves on record ns
favoring a square deal. It may keep them out of hot water in
time to come.
The Tennessee sennte has passed the first of the pair of hills
intended to put an end to race track gambling in Tennessee. The
other will doubtless go through with Hying colors and the end of
the present session of the legislature will sec the state of Tennes
see with a new hunch of laws on her stutute book forbidding race
track gambling.
The end of the last session saw the same thing, but it happen
ed that through a technicality the race track owners were able to
get it declared unconstitutional. Whether they will fare equally
well with the new bills time will tell. If the bill goes through
and stands, the end of racing in Memphis and Nashville has come;
for. with public feeling in Tennessee ns it is, you call count on it
that the law will he enforced.
At last they have nearly broken a record and almost killed a
man at Ormond. That ’s a little more like old times.
Some sporting statistician has given it as his'dope that each
of the ltb major league hall clubs spends about iflO.iXK) on •spring
training trips. That totals nlmut JlfiO.OOO. for the whole bunch.
Hotel keepers get about $(>5,000 of this. The railroads get most
of the balance—some $90,000 or thereabouts.
And in return the railroads give them—well, our hesitancy to
use profanity forbids the truth at this point.
FAMOUS DUGGAN BROTHERS
HAT KAISER & CO.
CONFIDENTIAL LOANS
ON VALUABLES.
tjI O.cctur St. Kimball Heeae.
Bat sain* in Ur.rtdanead D'amorc*.
And so "Hugs" Raymond has signed.
Contrary to dope, via the Larry Hoffman route, and the best
information available, including the opinion of Hilly Smith—Ray
mond has done the John Hancock net.
It’s a pity that Raymond can’t be depended upon to come
to Atlanta, take care of himself and pitch the ball of which he is
capable. No pitcher in the South has anything on him. except
in the way of bruins, lint alas "Hugs” is an uncertainty and
will probably never again wear an Atlanta uniform.
Raymond and Hurnuui were the disappointments of the last
season and Smith is si t likely to take any more chances with men
of tl:> ir cluas.
JOHNNY DUGGAN ELMER.
Hare are tha Duggans, who will b* tha main reliancaa of tho pitch
ing tuff thi* yaar for tho Noohvillo toam. John it a righl-handar and El
mar a laft-handar. Elmar waa aignad bv Billy Smith and pitahad a faw
gamos far Naahvill*. but Mika Finn beat him to tho man.
By J. 8. A. MACDONALD.
New Orlrans, La., Jan. 26.—A prom
inent official of the Weatern Jockey
Club atataa that that organisation pur
poses doing away with the pernicious
“Bookmaker-Horse Owner," within the
present year.
Thla la an enlightened step In turf
development, for there la nothing ao
out of line In connection with modern
racing condltlona as the epectacle of a
bookmaker laying odds against his own
horse, In a race.
It Is Just as If he were say to the
crowd of patrons on the floor of the
betting bourse ell about him: "Bay,
you rum dums. I know Juat how much
ahe ie trying. Bet me that aha wins
and I'll take you.”
Thla Is an unfair “edge" for the lay
er to hold on the public race players,
and aa the fundamental principle of
Ideal racing is the observance of aU
that la equitable between the bettor
and bookmaker, It la something which
can not exist In the upward march of
progress.
This Evil Must End.
The day will come In tha near fu
ture when no bookmaker will be per
mitted to race horses. This does not
say the bookmakers who now own race
homes and lay ngnlnst them or bet up
on them are dishonest. Far from It.
The thing Is the public when It loses
can not think otherwise, and of course
scandal, the death-dealing microbe of
rating, breeds about.
. The "Bookmaker Hone Owner" In not
confined to the winter and the Western
turf, for he nourishes In the Bast In
luxuriant abundance. . In fact the spec
tacle of a wall-known Eastern layer
Jumping off his high stool In the bet
ting ring nt Saratoga to run out to the
paddock In order to Instruct the Jockey
on his own horse, upon which the gen
eral public had wagered fortunes of
money, was one of the side lights of
the 1606 season at the Bpa.
Tha sports used to laugh about It.
and then In n spirit of gravity they
would aver the thing waa not quits
proper.
Fred Cook “In Bad."
Last week the "Horae Owner-Book
maker" evil came Into the limelight
through an Incident at City Park. The
crack fitly, Minnie Adams, la owned
and campaigned by Fred Cook, one of
the biggest bookmakers now hare on
the ground. Previous to Tuesday, Jan
uary 16, ahe had run several bad races,
each time the Cook book taking In gobs
of money along with othar layers In
the line against the Ally winning. Bha
ran dog races, and on sevral succes
sive occasions tha Cook book, and tho
layers generally, profited exceedingly
at the expanse of the bettors.
Then on the above date Minnie Ad
ams went to the poet In a handicap at
a mile, well support ad by tnatda
sources. Bha waa a great bona here,
for she broke out In front under Jock
ey "Dave" Nlcnl and Juat romped In
front all the way. Incidentally estab
lishing a new track record tor tha dis
tance at 1:66 4-6.
A Nasty Scandal.
There waa no earthly warrant for
thla auddtn coming to life of Minnie
Adams, and of course the talk of tha
owner having booked to the race be
came general. Tha public lost bundle*
of money. After the ffnleh many ot
the disgruntled ones gathered about
Cook's booking stand where they plied
the "bookmaker owner" with many sig
nificant querlea. "Haw'd you do It,
Fred?” "How many pills did she get
today?" etc., came from the angered
crowd In the manner of to many Inter
rogatory bombs.
The Minnie Adams race became tha
talk of the town, and although Ownei
Cook waa aa much at a loss to explain
the vagary of hla filly aa anybody else,
still the prejudiced gambler could not
forget that he had booked on the rar*
with all the rare money-getting poer.l-
Millies such a thing afforded.
This divorcement of the horee owner
and the'bookmaker will be far-reach
ing. for almost at every meeting In tha
Middle West and the outlying circuits
the chief bookmakers and money fac
tors In the ring own the horses which
race.
Games at Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium
Saturday and Monday Nights
Throe cviuc* of Iwsket 1*11 will It piny
c«| nt the Voiiut; Men's Christian Ass'sdn-
tIon gymnasium Monthly night.
Tin* 6*\i*iiiii M'lto'lnliil nrt»:
lioottrl i Military nnutcuiy ngnlnst \oung
lens ('lirlstl in AhmmIuIIoii secmol tosiut.
Itoyn* High seluml ngnlnst Cnlverslty
School of Stone Mountain.
Atlanta Athletic null ngnlnst Young
Men u Chrlutlnn A»*octntlnu Unit tpaiu.
An It will take cousltleralile time to piny
moat likely to In* tu the league. n*
the promoter* In them* title* are already
nt
ork.
In Selma, oh! ••King*’ RnlW will man-
re |he team, while the Knoxville linnet
will tunc Moffet tin n -leader. Theiw> nrv
two of the l*est In the minor league* to-
il.ty. Mint will iln lunch toward lirluglug the
lc*gnr to a Sue standard.
‘oenrt. who will manage the Ann!*
ton team. I* n pitcher of repute, ami hn*
piny6*41 with tie* Jacksonville. Fin.. fe*m
»f the Mmth Atlantic longue, n* well a*
■wtlier fn*t tentu*. lie hn* hi* wvntln*r eye
skinned i»4»\\ for material l mtu which to
innke n goml team to represent the Model
City.
Ill tnke port:
nit AMoclatloi. .. .. . _
Hoy*’ High school. Young Men'* Thriftily.
A«*4iclnttoii first and M>cond team*. Tht
line-up* mid the ipieatlon of which teauc
l‘resilient T*ylnr of the Boston American!
hn* l**U4*4| n statement In which he anyi
Itr will pity lloliert I'ltglauh exactly tht
*.ime Mtnry a* "Hoh" received In the Trl
Ktnte Lrngue.
It la hard to ItIIcvc that Hilly Gilbert of
the New York Glnnt* I* all In. True, Bill;
didn't put up a star game last season, bn
tri* it pretty wife net that he has at !*«
three Nntlonal U*ngne second basemen skin
ued light now.
NELSON IS FIGHTING IN LONDON
AND MAKING MONEY BY THE PECK
By TAD.
N>iv Turk. Jan. 24.—Cal Morton, the Kanaaa City sporting rtfkn who
went over to I-ondon with Battling Xele- , returned yesterday looking
better than ever. *
'1 think Bat la making aa htg a hit In London aa any American fight
er that ever went acreas.” said Cal, speaking of the trip.
“They are rather shy on big purses over there and the only way a
tighter ran get a wad ta to tight live or stx man In a week. Nelson will
stick around London for a month more and then visit Parts. From there
he uil' moke no atops, going straight for Denmark."