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rniTFn nv UP-TO-DATE NEWS OF SPORTING WORLD NEWS OF SPORTS PERCY H. WHITINCj* 7.2 • wr~ LOCAL MEN WILL WRESTLE FOR SIDE BET Dan York, the clever local light weight wrestler. trill meet Kid Hurna and Young Olover Thuraday at l;>9 P- in, at Armory Hall. D. York agrees to throw both men one fall In thirty minutes, catch-as-catch-can atyle. “"York needa no Introduction to sport - ins man In thla city, having already defeated aeveral good men In private K tlta. He la a aelentWr wreatler and ■ qulckneaa la remarkable. Kid Burnt la a llt-ponndsr, Juat returned from Birmingham, where he attracted ronelderable attention among the aporttng men of Hlagtown by win ning live out of aeven matchea and In almoat every Inatanre he had to go on with men heavier than he wu. Ho la vary clever aa well aa able to atay with the Mg onea a good while. Young Olover la a young lightweight of thla city, who given promlae of being a comer and when h. geta a little more age and weight, will no doubt make It fntereettng for acme one for the title At prevent he only welgha 11B pound* ' and la game to the core. Thla will make up for what he lack* In weight, and York will huve no cinch when ne goea up agalnat thla youngater. The bout will be free, and aa each man hae a good following, there will no doubt be a large crowd prevent. The bout will be for a elde bet. All the men challenge anyone at thelf weight and are willing to back up their opinion. FAVORITE FOR BIG HANDICAPS OF 1907 RUMBLINGS OF 1HE BASEBALL VOLCANO •Big Dan“ McCanns aucceaaor la likely to be John Mullen, a gent who haa had a checkered career with Man hattan Colloge, Philadelphia Atbletlca, Waehlngton and Baltimore. Mullen le a big booed and brawny young man from Avoca, Pa., the homo of Hughey Jennings. A few yoara ago he entered Manhattan foliage. He waa a big rough /allow then, but four yeare In college poltahed him ofT. anl he la now an adornment to the profea- elon which he haa choeen. Mullen waa a good Drat baaeman when he played with the Manhattan team. He haa a good reach and waa a fair batter agalnat college pitcher*. Hla flret big league trial waa not attended with success, for he had no chance to outshine either Harry Davie OOO0O00OOOOOO00OO0OOO00O0O O O -WILD BILL” EVANS O O GOES TO MONTGOMERY. 0 0 O O Special to The Georgian. Q Montgomery. Ala., Jun. 10.— O 0 Manager Malarky haa algned Wild O O Bill Evans, formerly of Shrove- O O port, and a man named Sweeney, O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOa The New -Recreation.” _ The flret numbera of the new Recre. ntlon haa reached the a porting deak. Thla magaelne haa been purchaaed )y Illustrated Outdoor Newa and the beat feature* of theae two great aportlng magazine* have been combined In new and greater publication. Paul Thompaon. who ao ably edited Uluatrated Outdoor Now*, will continue In charge of the new combination and It will retain all of Ita beat contribu tor*. : Of eapeclal Intereat to Southern k raadera la an article In the current number reviewing the Bouthern foot ball aeaaon and giving the llneat work on the queatlon of the All 8. t. A. eleven. Hunting cornea In for Ita uaual notice. Automoblltng la exten- —-— eively taken Up. the flahermen are not ovarlooked and there ta the uaual In- tereatlng article on golf by Arthur : Follow, publlaher of "Golf." The llluatrallona, a* alwaya, prova m at the moat attractive feature* ••M«**»**«*l ACCOUNTANT, DIAMOND JIM BRADY'S »40.000 RACER. HA8 BEEN ENTERED IN BOTH THE BROOKLYN AND BRIGHTON HANDICAPS AND WILL BE BACKED BY MR. BRADY lbI THOSE EVENT8 IN THE FUTURE BOOKS. BRADY IS HOPEFUL THAT THE GREAT RACER WILL COME THROUGH THE WINTER IN GOOD SHAPE AND PLANS A LONG CAMPAIGN FOR HIM. BRADY’S HORSE IS THE PROBABLE FAVORITE. liUilllUIIIMI New Orleans Baseball Writer Boosts Men Behind League After everythin* hae been said about the recent valuable legtalatlon which haa been brought about by the Bouth- •rn League for the furtherance of baaeball, aaya Will R. Hamilton In The New orleana Item. It muat be ad mitted that the aport In the South haa received Its biggest boost through the deeerved prominence which Its leaders have attained since they becamo con nected with the Southern League. An organisation of any character Is usual ly known mostly by the manner or character of men behind It. and In aport where the public la ao hard to please thla la especially the cnae. It ta not atretchlng the point too far to nay that a few of the South's best business men and most popular clUsenn are behind the Southern League. Its president could be governor of his own etate any time he said the word, de clare many Arkansans, and the direc torate and general body of the league ta composed of men equally prominent In their respective walks In business, •octal and polltlcu! life. New Orleans Is but one city ably represented by good business men In the league. Two years ago William M. Kavanaugh. president of the asso ciation, was boosted far and wide ns tho coming governor of Arkansas. He came very near making the race. The roaaon was that he Is the president and the director of so many big commercial enterprises In his state thut he could not afTord to be governor except at an Immense sacrifice. It was a case of the office seeking the man. but "BIH" wouldn't yield. There's too much fun for him In being a private clttsen— 'which he Is not except In the mildest sense of the term. Skipping over to Memphis, we find Messrs. Coleman and McCullough, These men not only look to sportdom for popularity. Their business connec tions and responsibilities make them .1 standing advertisement for the solidity of the game In which they have Invest ed so much time and money. It's the same way with Messrs. Craw fort! and Ehrlich, In Shreveport, the men who go down In their own pock ets every year for thousands of dollars Just to keep the sport alive In one of tho gamesL little towns on tincle Sam's chart. Nashville has been In a bad way for a long time bemuse the club has not been In the best of hands. Hut that undesirable element which Is not cal culated to do the game any good does not stny long In t^o Southern League. Nashville sportsmen have met the Issue bravely and It Is now said that hence forth the Interests of the sport In that city will be preserved as never before. Atlanta furnishes one of the best in dorsements of baseball. This city's mayor Is president of tho Atlanta club, and Mr. Lowry Arnold, one of the best townsmen. Is vice president. Mayor Joyner. Mr. Arnold. Mr. Ethridge and Mr. Smith arc an exceptionally brilliant quartet and after all the bad things we have said about them or may still say about them In the heat of passion. New* Orleans fans are bound to admit that the sport Is far better oft for these men. It Is Impossible for a man to look over this list of magnates ntul still wonder at the unbounded popularity of baseball. That Is. If he Is a believer at all In frail mankind. Manager Tench Q. Boozer Has Good Schedule For Newberry Newberry. S. C„ Jan. 30.—That New berry' College will this season put forth the best baseball team In the history of the institution Is now un acknowledged fai t. This means much. M Newberry for the past few seasons, when not the pennant winner of the ■tale, has been found in second place gt the finish. With the return of the MUENCH& BEIERSDORFER THE PEACHTREE JEWELERS Diamonds, Watch,Jtwtlry. Fin* Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repair- In#- M Feachtre* JBtreet Atlanta, Oa. Bell Phcij* tilt. Thajorltv of last year's crack team, strengthened by the arrival of excel lent material among the new students. Coach John C. Goggnns Is Jubilant over his prospects for landing the i*ennnnt again this season. ^ During the recent warm weather Coach Ooggttns had his "available*" out on the diamond for "try outs" sev eral afternoons. The men inude an excellent showing, and while the team can not I** selected after a few out ings. the Newberry fans were convinced of one fuel, via, thut there will be no scarcity of good mate rial. An excellent schedule with some of the strongest teams in the state and In the South has been arranged by Mana ger Tench Q. Hooter. This schedule Is us yet Incomplete, but will be made public wiibln the next few days. NOT NEWS, BUT VIEWS By PERCY H. WHITING. Hnckcnschmirit ami Gulch have signed for n wrestling mntch for the world’s championship. Here’s hoping that it’s all on the square, and nil that. Stony McGlynn will find it hard work to stick to his fitvnr- ite pastime.—jumping, hast year,he was the “jumpingest” lit tle thing in the baseball business. He began the season with the Tri-State, home of the contract jumper, and he hurdled to a Maryland team early in the year. Then he skipped to a New York state team and then hopped hark to York, Pa., among the festive outlaws. He next hurdled to Steubenville, Ohio, but the call of the wild was too strong and he grasshoppered back to the outlaws. Then the 8t. Louis Nationals won him and they think that he will be with them For awhite, especially since the Tri-State has had respectability thrust upon it. And While dumpy McGlynn was doing all these ground and lofty stunts he belonged to the Shreveport team and before the St. Louis Nationals could get him Shreveport had to be slip ped a bunch of money. Captain Crawford, owner of the Shreveport team, says that he has that money framed—that it looked too good to him to put out of sight. The next “spell” of real warm weather is going to start something in a baseball way. The time for reporting is getting nearer with noticeable rapidity. Time was when we measured the space in months. Now the red hot fans have it figured out into days. In another two weeks it will he a matter of hours to the real simon-pure rooter. Tlte New York team reports here in 40 days. The Southern League season opens in ten weeks. Then "on with the dance.” The people who tried to popularise cricket in America have practically given it up. It doesn’t take. Pew English games have mad'* good in Ameriea. Crieket is ton tedious, soekor football is not aufileieutly streuuous, and the English water polo was made over and just n trace of bru- tulity added to suit it to American needs. The American youth wants excitement in his sport. The only "tame” game which has “taken” in this county is golf ami even the most enthusiastic devotees of that sport find it hard to explain its undoubted charm. All who are interested in sport are interested in sporting magazines and in consequence the news of the combination of two of the greatest and best of such publications—Illustrated Outdoor News and Recreation—is welcomed by the fraternity of sportamen. With the best features of the two publications retained in tho new Recreation it can not fail to take its place among the great sporting magazines of the world. Here’s luck to the new combination. j AS TO BATTING BEEsj Jack Hoey waa talking yesterday about some of the batting bee* at the Huntington avenue grounds Inst year, says The Boston Journal. “During one of them." said he. "the balls were a way that was scandalous. I had gone to the Boyle sign after them live times and I was all tn. A ball came sailing out between ma and Chick Stahl, and I thought It was nearer Chirk, so I waited for him to go after It. Chirk looked at me and yelled: 'Go It. my boy. I have been In the busi ness twelve years, and It's about time that you broke Into 11, too.' I went." 00000O0000000O000O0O0OOO00 0 0 0 CHARLES MARVIN DYING. 0 0 4 0 0 Lexington, Ky„ Jan. $9.—Charles 0 0 Marvin, the moat noted trainer O 0 ai^ driver of trotters In the world. 0 0 Is dying here. He has trained 0 0 for United Stataa senators and 0 YjjJr 0 congressmen and has won hnn- O 0 dreds of events. O 00000000000000000000000000 _ HALF OF BABB'S MEN SIGN; TEAM WILL BE A WINNER Special to The Georgian. Memphis, Tenn.. Jan. 30.—Twelve of the twenty-three men from whom Man- new recruit* to hla pitching ataff, Hay ing that h« would not divulge their name* until their data came In contact with contracts. Much speculation wa* the reault among the local fan* aa to who the new men whom Babb pro nounced to be "young wondere" were. The latest batch of contracts re- hla tram for the 190? aeaaon have now been sinned and other signatures are exported to ornament rontrnrt* within the next week or two. Those signed up ure: Burk Thiel, left fielder; IV. Burt Tnafe, outfielder; Cecil Neighbors, out- fielder; Frank Richards, third base- man; Charles Brotje, pitcher; Ed Wagner, pitcher; Ouy Bslnt, pitcher; Dakin E. Miller, center Holder: Henry Kchultz, pitcher; Joe Bills, hitcher; Sylvester Loucks, pitcher, and Eddlo Fla**. Inffelder and general utility mnn. A little mystery over whlrh Manager Itubh drew so dark a curtain ha* been revealed. When Babb announced a couple of weeks ago the material from which he would select this season's team he held back the names of two Saint and Henry Schultz. Guy Saint was a member of the Cltv League of Memphis last season and played winning bait for a semi-profes sional team of Forrest City, Ark., tak ing 21 games of 10 pitched. He Is a husky lad. yet In his teens, and stands ( feet 1 In his stockings. Henry Schulls Is * young Dutchman, hailing from Toledo, O. He played sensntlonal ball as a semi-professional last, season, and Babb says that with n little prepplng he ran deliver the goods In the Southern League. He Is also a giant In stature, towering an Inch above Saint, and la developed propor tionately to his height. WRESTLER8 SIGN. Ennuis Oty, Jon. 30.—Hinkfii. ohmldt'a manager ho.** .u*o*pt«*»l an of fer from tho Mlaaouii Athletic Club for a match with tlmch In Kanaa* ITty In May for a pur*** of lio.ooo for the world'* championship, winner to take 75 per cent. For tln» first time In the history of Intercollegiate competition* at Syracuse the university will receive u visit tills spring from a Princeton 'varsity team. The Tigers have a baseball date with the wearer* of th* orange, and a return game will be plgggd at Princeton. Pitchers of Highland Clan To Boil Out at Hot Springs Griffith will noi call the Americana together before March 10, write* Joe Vila In Sporting New*. He doea not believe In beginning work too *onn. But In a fetv weeks Klberfeld, KlelnOW', McUulre, Chesbro, Hogg. William*. Orth and several other member* of th* Yankee team will set together at Hot Spring* for a good boiling out. They will be In splendid shape no doubt when they show up at Atlanta .to join Grift and the other earning champion*. Grift I* *1111 on hi* Montana ranch, but b* will he here along about the first week In February. He haa practically' de cided to stand pnt it* to the make-up of the team, and unless he and Frank Farrell change their |>re*ent policy no deal* of Importance will be made. Grift will begin the season with this line-up: Pitcher*. Che*bro, Orth. Hogg. Doyle. Clarkson, Brockett and Hughe*, catch er-. Klelnow, Thomas nml McGuire: In- Holder*, Chase, William*. Klberfeld. iotlxirte, Morlarlty and Yeager; out- lleldera, Delehunty, Conroy. Hoffman and Keeler. DEVELOPED BY GRIFFITH. Just look the make-up of the Giant* over, n* I hnve written It above, nnd then compare It with the composition I of the Tankee*! No wonder the big city I* all American Dengue Just now! | There I* no dissension In the ranks of | the Yankees, either! They are ell sat. | l»fled with their lot, and when they put i the spangle* on .they will go after the pennant with A rush! Griffith hns proven the assertion that he Is one of the best mansgers In America. He has developed such great young players as Chase, Morlarlty, Iatpolle. Klelnow. Thomas. Hogg. Clarkson. Doyle anil Uelchsnty. which shows his real worth ss n handler of a major longue team. Ha* McGmw developed any remark able youngsters outside of Ames? You’ll llnd. gentlemen, that before many moons Orlfflth will put MrOraw far In the shade In the esIliuaUuq, of Metro- 1,ollian fans, who ure beginning t,o re call the fact that as a innnagt-t I* the American I-engue the lender of Ihe Giant* nos a colos*al failure. So Garry Herrmann will not stand for the methods of Murphy. I thought that the magnate* would soon be catl ing a halt <>n the Cubs’ owner, but I did not expect to see tie amiable Garry take the Initiative. Murphy tried to "do" Horrmnn In Ihe Fraser-Gess- ler trade and Herrmnnn would not sub mit. How long will Ihe Chicago news papers stand for the Murphy non sense? NEW PLAYERS FOR MONTREAL, Malachl Klttredge Is muklng prepa ration* to have a powerful ball team represent Montreal In the Kastern League. He hns a lot of new players, Including Brown, the ex-Newark ffrst baseman: Morgan, who played third for the Boston Americans; Doc Newton, the left-hander: Barger, a good pitch er from the Tri-8tate League, nnd oth. er capable men. Fred Ascher. n for mer well-known horseman, has become Interested In the Montreal club nnd will have charge of the business end of the gntne this year, having been elected secretary and treasurer only a few days ago. Ascher has gained cxperl- enee In numerous enterprises renult ing brains and hustling. He Is u royal good fellow and will mnkc friends rap- Idly In the Canadian city. He Is n close friend of Frank J. Farrell and Abe Nation, the popular secretary of the New York Americans. or Danny Murphy, both atari In thxlr position*. The Philadelphia club handed Mulleir over to Washington to. 199$, when Jake Stahl appealed to the league for an Inffelder. Mullen grad ually Improved In hi* batting, .but be did not please Stahl and wa* released to Baltimore. Under Jennlnga, hla fel low townsman. Mullen played good boll, occasionally taking a whirl at Arts base. So It he can outhlt McOaatt he may be appointed custodian of that bag for the Giants. Here I* one of Bozeman Bulger'ii yarns, from The New York Evening World: During one of the games, between lha Highlanders and the Senators at Wash ington. Sir Chentung Liang Cheng, the Chinese ambassador, and hla aulte ware Interested spectators. A delegate to a convention of the Daughters of Ihe American Revolution sat near by and continually eyed the ambassador. “I can't see what he likes about It,” she observed, “but I suppose he juat come* out aa a matter of form—” The daughter about that time got a jar that shook the whole generation. Sir Cheng calmly reached Into' hla blouse nnd pulled out a score’ book. Beginning |o mark with a gold-tipped pencil, lie. said: "There is some ques tion about that. It looked very much like a rotten error, but as Jimmy has been popping them up pretty bad of late, I guesa I'll give him a hit and 1 let him fatten up a bit." "Remarkable!'' gasped the astounded daughter. "And he seems to know something about the game, too." "Well, he ought to be pretty well up,” explained o man sitting near. “He waa educated In New England, and besldea being a cracking good pitcher, waa cap tain of an amateur team for four yeare." The annual meeting of the Virginia League wilt be held In Richmond on February 9. The* sacrifice game Is the method which brings home the bacon every time. The only requisite Is that a tetfm must have two or three fair batsmen, as a hit must come In occasionally. Th* Pelican team of 1904 was undoubtedly thebest - League That team played all, around the other clubs and would hare won the pennant- easily had they not given up too soon. Some of tha fellows were chicken- hearted and too afraid of Arlte La tham. Thla team made the beat rec ords. gave the moat satisfaction and played the best ball of the season by sacrtflctngOand stealing bases, and If Manager Frank could duplicate that team this summer he would win In a canter. It le a difficult matter for any player to admit that he Is no longer capable of deeds which he once accomplished with ease. They all dread the day when they are said to be "going back.” Frank fNoodlea) Hahn, th* old Nash ville player,-le an exception. He failed at Cincinnati, joined the Yankee* and failed again. For a time he aeemed to hold hla ow n, but he accepted the in evitable end aeked Griffith for his re lease. feeling that he could no longer pose as a ffrst-claas pitcher. Recently It was staled lhai Hahn would get an other trial with Washington next spring. In denying this rumor Hahn said; "At present 1 am working for Ihe United Stater government In, Cin cinnati as-meat inspector. t»f rours*. all employees of Uncle Sam are sub ject to transfer, and It Is posslblo l may be sent to Washington, but I as sure you I have made no such arrange ments. As far as league ball Is con cerned, I am out of Ihe game forever. My arm Is gone." A well-known lull) player ha* made s . . . heavy A well-known lisll player ha* made s snf- gestlon rnlrnlstcd to produce more long dis tance bitting. In order to xtve tbs heavy circle to lie at nil points ») ysnl* from tho home pint,*, tinier such a plsu outflelders would piny Inside the nrc until after the IniII ha* I ,-en hit.—New* York Han. Till* I* n* enrertslnlus ns Inelil. Would It unt lie bettor to draw a line 17S feet m inches to sn suhsrmonle polul. Just noulbweal of second Imse. Then Iw drawing n hypothetical hyperbolical ef- ll|»*e. nccnrdlii( to the theorem of reciprocal dnt w-herc the axis! pencil* co-ordinal*, when stealing third Imse; nml from thin axis, liy twojset- lug rang,-*, raise Ihe theory of hyper-senm- etr.v to tho Nth power sud thus—and thus— Where ANOTHER JOSH FOR NAPOLEON RUCKER The habit of having fun at the ex tern** of Nap Rucker, long chronic In the South. h«n struck the Kant, now that Nap has signed a Brooklyn con tract. Here In the New York Olobe'a attempt: "Everything In lovely with the Brook lyn club. Charley Rbbatn has returned from a trip through the country towns and Home cltlen and haa algned up four more men and ha* fixed everything up In fine atyle for the team'a Southern trip. "Nowaday* mom every team In the two big league* generally pick up a Rube nnd, of course, tt In better than a gtx>d show to watch a Rube atart out with big company. The Brooklyn club hae elgned one by the name of Rucker. He ta better known among hte friend*. a* Napoleon Rucker, and la thought by them to be the real nun flower kid when It come* to burning them acmes the tain. He halt* from Marietta. Oa. (Hound* like alfalfa, don't It?) "This boy Rucker I* a born ball play er. He I* a south paw and only usea the spltter when the base* are crowded and It look* n* If nome one waa going to break- up the game with a blngle. He stalnd* 6 feet 2 tnche* tn hie stock ing feet and tip* the ucales at 180 pounds 4 o’clock on the day* he twirl*. "Ruck, old boy, an he will be called. Htarted to sting'them over the dlah when he mndc eeverul trlpa to Atlanta. Oa. Every team that he worked agalnat Juat grabbed their bata, walked up to the plate, turned right around and walked right back again. Otto Jordan thought that the Rube had Homethlng and algned him to play with the Atlanta team of which Jordan waa tnunager In 1805. After pitching sev eral game*, the Rube got the ten days* vacation and waa handed a little note with the word "released'* on It He wu* discouraged for aome time, but finally recovered nnd went with the Au- gu*ta club, where he never let up, and pitcher) great ball. i "Hla fir*t year with the Augusta club wax a good one. During la*t year Ruck played In I* game*, winning two-thlrdp, of them. He haa two no-hlt games'to hi* credit. He don't mind pitching two game* In one day—aort of an Iron man. "One of the beat thing* about Rucker I* that you can got take him up to the Judge*' Htnnd to mingle with the ,tem- •made nnd other liquor*. He knows nothing but baaeball, and la always In the game from belt to bell. He made n ntatement recently tn which he aatd; if 1 over throw that ball over the plate for those men In the big league I will throw my arm off In ordti 1 to make good.* ** NAT KAISER A CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. 15 Decatur SL Kimball Heuea. 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