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FINE CHANGE TO
“GET" MURPHV
IS LET SLIP
By W. .1, Mcßeth.
NEV YORK. Dec. 16.—Baseball
conies into its own again! The
football season went out with a
clash and a bang a season of many
Burprises.
Now we return to baseball and its
many w into vicissitude Last week
marked the real preliminary gun of the
1613 campaign, for it ushered in the
annual meetings of the two major
leagues. There wasn't a great deal of
fuss or flurry’, either here or in Chicago.
The chief regret of the faithful who
visited these parts for the pow-wow of
the old major was that all the old com
rades were not on hand. It wag felt
that Ban Johnson was somewhat ex
clusive in calling the American league
conclave in Chicago. Truth to tell Ban
and his henchmen were not missed so
much, perhaps, as the customary ban
quet of the Red Sox in celebration of
the world's championship. The little
fry. which cluster the corridors of the
fashionable hotels where the big gath
erings are held, hold it a high mark of
distinction to rub elbows —or heels—
over or under the festive board. John
son's meeting in Chicago shut out from
the feast not only the National league
magnates, but also the minors who saw
better opportunities of barter at the
local gathering Jimmie McAleer will
have to stand Impeached or foster an
other "love feast" when the annual
schedule meetings of the two big
leagues are held here next spring.
The annual meeting of the National
league proved but a "squib” to the
special meeting called on November 16
for the suppression of Horace Vogel,
former president of the Phillies. Hor
ace was pretty well sque'ched, it will
he remembered, when the conference
passed into history. The passing of
Fogel caused no vain regrets In any
quarter. Charlie Murphy, even, desert
ed him in the tlna! dark hour, as well
as Charlie H. Ebbets —parts of the
usual trinity of disturbers. The disci
pline administered to Fogel doubtless
will prove a great good for National
league tiffaits in general, though the
house cleaning did not go far enough. '
in the estimation of most people in
terested tn organised baseball.
Good-bys. Good Riddance.
Organized baseball may have lost but
little in Fogel. Still he was not the
■worst offender. Charles Webb Murphy
was the real disturbing element He
prompted all of Horace’s outbreaks H«
inspired the damaging article which
appeared under Fogel’s signature in a ]
Chicago paper: doubtless he egged on
Vogel to write most of his incrimi
nating communications. He made Fo
gel the "gout” of his own dlstu-bances
•nd then dropped him. like n lite coal,
when he felt himself in jeopai’dy.
Murphy is a very lucky individual u>
ba among those piesent just now. He
gave utterances to more caustic criti-'
clam of the league and the conduct of
its affairs than did the unfortunate Fo
gel. Rut Murphy was wise enough ui
do nothing more damaging than to
peddle idle chatter. He put nothing in
black and white And when the big
trial came he calmly denied everything
and got away with It.
Had Goods on Murphy.
Had the National league possessed a
bit more backbone it might have made
things uncomfortable for Mr. Murphy.
It might even have stowed him away
on the shelf with his friend Horace. It
had the "goods" on him. Rut t vtdently
it figured one catch at a time was very
good Ashing
A sporting editor from Chicago came
to the meeting with proof of Murphy's
duplicity in the form of a letter. This
missive was a private communication —
a “confidential billet"—and he refused
to turn it over to the authorities on
that ground. The National league ad
a copy of the letter and might, v ith
some pressure oi diplomacy, hat - -- -
cured the original long enough to ad
mit It as evidence and thus implicate
the boss of the Cubs. But it stalled
too long and let the opportunity slip.
Thus eeeaped the real offender.
‘Canning’ of Mississippi by
S. I. A. A. Recalls Fact That
Others Have Been Under Ban
I’lxllE action of the Southern In-
I tercolleglatc Athletic asso
ciation Saturday in sentenc
ing the I’nlverslty of Mississippi
and Howard college to suspension
recalls the fact that perhaps a
dozen of the colleges of the asso
ciation have been under fire w ithin
the' last ten years.
The historical cases in the South
have been sadly numerous.
A slathei of Tennessee colleges
have been under the ban or under
suspicion at any rate. Cumberland
fell under official suspicion seven or
eight years ago—and hasn’t been
heard of athletically since, though
its athletic standing is officially
rated “A No. 1.” The saute was
true of the Fnfverslty of Nashville
even longer ago. and that school
dropped off tin- athletic map. The
I’nlversitj- of Tennessee has just
emerged from a period of suspen
sion and is once more back in the
good graces of the S. I. A A. S. P.
U., of Clarksville. Tenn, isn't in
good oder even now.
Howard college is the only one
in Alabama whirhi has been in
trouble lately.
Tulane has been a chronic war
rior against the S. 1. A. A. authori
ties until just lately , and as for its
sistei institution of Louisiana, the
L. S. L’., it was a subject of consid
eration within the last few years,
for flagrant ringing. The Kentucky
colleges are in constant hot water.
And. coming nearer home, it will
be recalled that it was not so long
ago that Tech and Georgia were
both under fire the same year,
.though Tech was exonerated.
Here’s the "Sentence.”
The official decision In the Mis
sissippl case, promulgated Saturday
at the New Orleans meeting, was:
Resolved. That the University
of Mississippi is hereby suspended
from the S. I A. A.; (2) that Coach
DeTray is deburred from coaching
any team In the 8. I. A. A.; (3) that
VOLS' PITCHING STAFF
TOBE STRENGTHENED
NrASHVILLE. TENN., Dec. 16.
| Realizing that the rnlserabli
pitching corn- of last sva
son's Volunteers was responsible
for the club’s failure to land clos<
tn the top, Manager Schwartz has
been busy since the season closed
annexing Hu signature of all fling
e.-s who an anxious to work in
Sulphur Dell.
With "Big Eat l-"e!iartj,
"Chui-k" Case and Jimmy West as
a nucleus. Schwartz intends tv build
up a pitching tats that will bring
a rag to float once mote in the
Volunteers' park.
The sour taste produced in the
fans’ mouths Inst summer by tin
wield work of Teddy Bair and
Wingo tndoisoii is still there and
Schwartz will havt to exhibit a
classy bunch of ball tossers to
make the fans foiget. ’
Os the new men. Pitcher Mor
row. secured from Brooklyn, looks
to be the best bet. The former
Notre Dame college boy iterfortned
in great style for Columbus, Ga.,
and at the end of the season was
considered one of tin classiest
pitchers In the South Atlantic.
Then there Is Kid Williams, who
was picked up on the corner lots of
Springfield. Mo., be 'Doc" Sea
bough, and his work looked so good
to Manage: Hill last spring he
Shipped tin young man to the Ap
palachian leagn. so- seasoning.
Oves there be developed into a sen
sation and the Volg were compelled
to sell him to Brooklyn to keep
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1912.
the captain of the Mississippi foot
ball team is debarred from furthei
participation in intercollegiate
sports in the 8. 1. A. A.: (4) that
Manage: Si hauber is disqualified
from any connection with athletics
Os any institution of the S. J. A. A.:
tut that Player Fletcher is debarred
from participation in intercollegi
ate contests in the S. 1. A. A.”
1 his was the second drastic ac
tion taken against a member of the
S. I. A. A. tit the New Orleans ses
sion. Howard college, of Birming
ham, was suspended Friday- be
cause of violations of S. I. A. A.
rules governing eligibility require
ments.
Suspension of “Ole Miss" came as
the result of her refusal to play the
annual Thanksgiving game with
Mississippi A. & M. college. "Ole
Miss” drew out of this game be
cause Fletcher, star quarterback
and mainstay of the line-up, was
barred by the S. I. A. A. authori
ties.
When Mississippi A. & M. proved
Fletcher to be ineligible under S. I.
A. A. rules and demanded that he
be kept out of the prospective
game for the state championship,
Mississippi declined to play.
College Authorities at Fault.
An investigation by the executive
committee of the S. I. A. A. showed
that the "chancellor of the Univer
sity of Mississippi defended the ac
tions of the offefiding athletic au
thorities and threw the weight of
his influence against the effort to
purify athletics at the university.”
It also developed that "Professor
Bel), of the university faculty : J.
W. McCall and others signed notes
for S2BB in order to pay the fees of
certain beneficiaries of such alumni
scholarships with the express un
derstanding. as openly avowed to
the executive committee of the S. 1.
A. A. by Professor Bell, that the
amount was to be repaid from the
gate receipts of the Thanksgiving
football game.”
him from being drafted. It is more
than likely that Charlie Ebbetts
will turn Williams back t'oi the
same purpose that Nashville sent
him to the Appalachian for.
Among the m w pitchers signei
only Carmichael can be classed as a
vete-an, and while Fat is just now
on the suspension 'lst as a esult
of continued infraction of Mr. Wi’-
!iam Smith's training rules, no trou
ble is anticipated in having this
raised. Schwartz, doesn’t think
Billy is exactly crazy ove- tin re
bellious Pat. but he ought to have
several more good games in his
system and they could surely be
used to splendid advantage by Hir
sig s team.
In Leslie Johnson, w ho takes his
meals in Union City, Tenn..
Schwartz has discovered a real
honest-to-goodness white hope,
who supports his 195 pounds of
avoirdupois on q structure measur
ing six feet two Inches from his
Stetson to his Walkovers. He has a
record of having won 42 games out
of 49 he hurled in the bushes close
to his home town.
George Beck, who came from the
Kitty league at the end of last sea
son. has all the ear marks of a
classy hurler. He has a nice
change of pace, a sweeping curve
and territii speed. Little Is known
of Hendee. who pitched last year
in the Mink league, but he will be
carried ove: to Hot Springs with
the others- in the spring ami given
a chance to prove just what be Is
w orth.
KEELER TD TEACH
DODGERS HOW
TD HIT DALL
Bv Damon Runyon.
NEW YORK, Dec. ' 14.—An
nouncement was made yes
terday that Willie Keeler
has been retained by Charlie Eb
bets to coach the young Brooklyn
players in the art of batting next
spring, while Wilbert Robinson has
already been engaged by McGraw
for 1913 to teach the Giant pitch
ing students how to shoot. In fact,
Robbie had his job for next year
cinched long before he retired to
Baltimore and his winter rumina
tions over that Snodgrassian muff.
"Kid" Gleason will be back with
Jimmy Callahan and the Chicago
White Sox, while Joe Sugden will
again be with Detroit, and Jim
Ryan with Clark Griffith at Wash
ington. Heine Peitz will probably
have his old job at Cincinnati, and
practically every big league club
that goes into a spring training
camp next spring will have a vet
eran player along to coach the kids.
McGraw was the first of the
modern-day managers to adopt the
veteran coach idea, and his exam
ple was soon followed by the other
managers. However, McGraw and
the other clubs specialized on the
, young pitchers, while Ebbets is
about the first to introduce a bat
ting instructor.
If Keeler can impart any of his
wonderful batting knowledge to the
Dodger "kids," he will be worth as
much to the dub as Robinson is
to the Giants, or Gleason to the
Sox. "\t ee M illie" had consider
able success In the role of teacher
last season, and he expects to do
even better this year.
Robinson produced Marquard
and Tesreau for McGraw last year,
and he expects to dig up at least
one nltching treasure from the
muss of raw recruits gathered by
the Giant scouts last season. It is
likely that McGraw will send the
veteran Instructor South with the
youngsters along about February
15. He tried the experiment of an
early start with the recruits last
year and It was a big success.
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JOE BEAN NAMED A. A. U.
COMMISSIONER FOR GA.
NEW ORLEANS. LA. Dec. 16.
Southern A. A. V. Secreta.y Benedetto
In < announces the appointment of Joe
\\ Bean, of the Atlanta Athletic club
and Martst college, as A. A. U. o -
mlssioner for the state of Georgia.
This matter has been hanging fire so:
some time and after due consideration
tin l-onora.-.- position was offered to
Mr. Bean.
The Atlanta man comes highly rec
ommended. and for the past few months
lias been handling registrations in At
lanta for the Southern A. A. F.
In future he will be official represen
tative of the Southern A. A. r. tn Geor
gia.
HEMERY, IN A DIETRICH.
SETS NEW AUTO RECORDS
LONDON, Dec. 16. -Eleven new auto
records have been hung up bv Victor
Hemery, driving a Dietrich ear at the
Brooklands track.
Starting out for a twelve-hour rec's
ord. Hemery was forced to stop because
of engine trouble, but up to the time he
quit he had made new marks for 100.
150. 200, 400 and 500 miles, as well as
covering record distances during the
six hours he rode. His greatest speed
was a trifle over 98 miles an hour. He
covered 518 miles In six hours.
SWIMMER AT PRINCETON
SETS NEW 50-YARD MARK
PRINCETON. N. J.. Dec. lt>.—Hor
ace O’Sullivan, u sophomore, made an
intercoll, glut- swimming record todaj
negotiating 50 yards in 214-.'. s. c.nil’s,
beating thu old record by 1-5 of as"- -
end.
I Smith Pleased With New Salary
Limits; Sore on Attempt to Cut
Down Season Under Five Months
By Percy H. Whiting.
4 4 r T'HEY'RE trying to make a
| bush league out of the
Southern.” says Bill
Smith. "They’re cutting the season
down so it's less than five months,
they’re keeping us from carrying
any extra men beyond the day the
season opens and they even tried to
pass a rule that players had to pay
railroad expenses when they joined
the club and to cut the season down
to 120 games, like tile Cotton
States and the rest of the Class D
leagues.”
So says Bill Smith, slightly
wroth.
’J'HE truth is, Bill Smith returned i
from the Southern league ses- j
sion in an insurgent state of mind. t
For one thing. Smith didn't relish
the idea of being thrown out of the
meeting, along with newspaper men
and the rest, when an executive
session was declared.
Smith is inclined to feel, along
with a lot of other folks, that the
Southern league, which once con
ducted all its business out in the
open, must have some under-the
table doings now, for it always goes
quickly into executive session, and
all that leaks out comes through
the cyacks or up the chimney.
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rpHE "sliding scale” came within
an ace of passing the meeting.
Five of- the clubs were for it. At
lanta held out against it and,
backed by Mobile and Birmingham,
managed to turn the fight against.
Charley Frank. It required a three
fourths majority to carry the thing
and one more vote would have put
it through. As it was, the salary
limit was made $3,600, and it was
provided that no player was to re
ceive more than S3OO. The player
limit was made 18. However, the
old rule which allowed managers to
carry extra players the first month
of the season was done away with.
"The salary limit as adopted
WORLD’S RICHEsTkid
HASPITCHING PROMISE
rr>HE "Marty" O’Tooles at $22,-
| 000 and “Rube" Marquards
at SII,OOO, come pretty high
in the baseball pitching arenas, but
on the diamond »horizon appears
just now a budding Mathen son of
the $1,000,000 o'. $1,000,000,000
brand.
Don't for a moment believe that
this possible "phenom" expects to
receive anywhere near that figure
for his services, however.
fie is stl’l in the hands ol' that
great National league flinge',
"Three-Fingered" Mordecai Brown,
late of the Chicago Cubs, and the
name of the wouid-be star is none
other than Fowler McCormick, son
of the Harvester trust magnate,
Harold F. McCormick, and grand
son of the great oil trust financier,
John D Rockefeller.
Wears Brown's Castoffs.
Just at present Kid McCormick
is wearing one of Brown's castoff
suits in a Chicago armory and is
being closely watched and schooled
by the veteran.
Brown was ordered by the boy's
millionaire father, who is a gradu
ate of Princeton college, to go as
far as he liked.
May Be Croesus Some Dey.
Young McCormick, who someday
may be the richest man in the
world. Is very modest in his man
ner. but aha'os hi- father's hope
fulness.
Os course. McCormiik will elite.
Princeton university after prepara
tory work which will soon begin
suits me well enough.” said Billy
Smith. “The S2OO limit on the
players is, fine. It lets us through
all right. Os course, 1 would like
it if they would allow us more
I men for the first month, while we
are trying our players out, but I
guess I can get along if the rest
can.”
cpHE question of how long to
make the season will be de
cided by the schedule committee.
It will start April 17 and will prob
ably end September 14. This will
make it the shortest season of
Southern league history.
The “cheese paring” members- of
i the league are making a fight for a
shorter schedule. They believe that
a shorter schedule will mean less
I expense and almost an equal
amount of receipts. The next any
body knows they will be splitting
the schedule.
On the schedule committee were
named Charley Frank, C. Z. Uollson
and O. B. Andrews, with President
Kavanaugh ex-officio.
Os course, the league re-elected
all the old officers, with President
Kavanaugh back in the old job of
president-secretary-treasurer The
only change was to provide that the
club presidents shall in future con
stitute the executive committee.
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A LOT of minor matters were dis
cussed. Both the New Orleans
and Chattanooga clubs were cen
sured for their illegal work In
transferring Player Dave Hunting.
The Elliott case was left up in
the air. Charley Frank refused to
agree to waive and there the mat
ter was allowed to stand.
The "cheese parers,” led by a cer
tain mogul of*middle Tennessee,
tried to pass a rule that transpor
tation should not be paid any ball
players. This was a joke and was,
of course, voted down. It was de
cided that moguls could pay rail
road and Pullman fare and for
meals en route.
at Groton, is completed.
Almost every afternoon tutor and
“millionaire kid" may be seen hard
at work, just as though pitching a
baseball was the most serious em
ployment in the world.
Met orniick, while only fifteen
years o! age. is big and well devel
oped and just naturally bubbling I
over with exuberance and spirits.
Boy Looks “Likely."
one can not tel: accurately
what a boy can do. but this young
man looks very likely to mo,” said
Brown.
"He takes to the study of pitch
ing .ike a duck to water.
"He bears promise of the Ideal
build for a pitcher. He lias that
rangey appearance and agility that
go to make a good ball player.
He has learned the very firs*
thing very well-that is how to
stand, and I might remark that a
lot of the major league pitchers
don’t know that.
"We are taking up the simple
overhand throw first. The throw
must not be too hard at first.
Headwork Strong Point.
"It Is Important, especially in the
case of a youngster, that the pitch
er does not get his arm sore in
training. After he is hardened to
the throw and acquires more .-peed
we will take up the curves.
"One great point in favor of
Master McCormick is his head
work. He readily g asps the idea.
I hat is al! important in pitching
and I take it in most othe. pursuit*
sud endeavors, a .lea- conception
of what is to b done is the first
requisite of
135-POUNDERSII
NEED DE SDK
FIGHTSSOON
By W. TV, Naughton.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. If,. si u ...
Thanksgiving San Francisco has
played host to all the young: tors
who have played shuttlecock and battle
dore with the world’s lightw-ight
championship during the last half y»:ir.
Willie Ritchie, Jt.e Rivers and Joe
Mandot were in the city at one time.
If \\ olgast had delayed his depart " ■ ■■
day or two, he could hav. fraternized
with his three distinguish,C rha -.
How these lads have mingled, to be
sure!
Wolgast has boxed Ritchie, Mandot
and Rivers.
Mandot has boxed Rivers, Wolgast
and Ritchie.
Rivers has boxed Mandot and Wol
gast.
Ritchie has boxed Wolgast and Man
dot.
And the end is not yet.
At present Wolgast is avaing to get
another crack at Ritchie, who I:.. 1 .,, ;he
championship.
Rivers, if he could luanag.,- ii. . ..;i.
like a trip over the championship --et
line. He would lik. to overlook Man
dot and Wolgast and sign up -vith
Ritchie.
Mandot, too, would prefer Hite • :•>
all others, but has sense enouga to .- v
ognize that the public expects liin> to
finish out the rubber with River- 1..-i\.iv
flying at higher game.
Ritchie, for the time being, i.- in , -•
with the prospect of becoming a foot
light favorite and raking in soiw 'f the
easy monej- that awaits all new ly made
champions.
As their performances will show, not
one of these 133-pounders towers over
his classmates to any extent. They av
erage In such a wav that no very great
wrong would be done any on. of them
if they wiped out past scores and start
ed all over again.
Wolgast secured a very shaky ver
dict over Rivers at Los Angeles an',
was shaded by Mandot at New Orleans.
Rivers was defeated by Mandot at New-
Orleans and Ritchie won the elmmpioi.-
I ship from Wolgast on a foul
And that “foul” is sticking in the
craw of fair play, old sport and con
| stant reader. They think Willie should
I shorten his theatrical season and dem
onstrate that he can triumph over Wol
gast without the assistance of a foul.
If Ritchie and Wolgast w<-re laps
ahead of the old championship < andi
dutes the tangle would be easier to un
ravel. We would wait patiently while
Ritchi. took his fling at the theatric:
business and feel assured that t ’ '
i was another Wolgast-Ritchle match
; Store.
I But Rlveis and Mandot are not vo-
■mg to be thrust aside, if thy ant
• gel Ritchie, they will content
I selves with Wolgast, and there s 1
| telling what ups and downs mat
marked the progress of events in !: ' : '
pound cireb s by the time ltlt<
-eady to don his war paint again
This much is certain, however. T *
coming year will be a memorable one
so far as lightweight activities are n11 ’
corned. Rivers, Mandot and IV'JP* 81
had better get together and ' ' i; '’
"who's who," for there is something in
the public attitude toward Ritchie
which pledges an early return tc the
ring on the champion s part.
WHITNEY LEADS POLO TEAM
NEW YORK. D<.-. 16.—Harry J’l-'-J
Whitney has been elected eaptai;
the American polo team, which w
cept the English challenge for the in
ternational trophy.
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