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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26
Mcmahon Proves Bush-Leaguer; Main Bout a Joke
PreliminarieS Take Curse Off Christmas Show

affairs from gong to gong-four-
teen rounds of consistent give and
take.
Layelle ana Smith proved the
surprises-especially Smith. for La
Yelle has been a preliminary card
here for months. and has always
made more than good.
No fighter coming to Atlanta has
improved as fast under the eyes of
local fans as Lavelle. He sur
prised even his most ardent admir-
ers last night with his cool. heady
milling and his lightning like
rights. He shaded Hanlon in every
round save the sixth, and in the
seventh and especially the eighth
he administered lacing that would
have caved a smaller man.
Tommy showed a marked faculty
for opening up his opponent with a
straight LETT and for catching him
coming in with a hard right that
went either to the body or the
head. He fought best at long range,
outpointing Hanlon consistently. In
the infighting Hanlon's weight told,
but he did not shade Lavelle save
in the sixth round. when he rocked
Tommy's head with right and left
hooks.
LaVelle announced chat he would
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26
Dixie Pitching Averages Are Stupidest in World
Sport Writers Association Needed to Effect Reforms

Gently proposed by New York mar
in Sporting News. as follows:
Taking up the subject OF sys
tenn of averages for pitchers that
will do the twirlers as near exact
Justice as is possible and give the
fans an idea Of their true worth,
Henry HarWich of New York, Of
fers suggestion and presents a
few figures to show how it works
out. IIarwichs idea is that the
percentage OF runs allowed by u
pitcher should be balanced with
a teams fielding average. the idea
being thus to reach a basis Of runs
for which the pitcher is really re-
sponsible.
one fault that may be found with
his system at the outset is that
llarwich uses the seasons field
ing average Of the team to reach
his basis of run for which a given
pitcher is responsible 1t must
occur to him on second thought
that the team has not Helded at
NhN 0dAilt lti cent ptuluu each
pitcher. Therefore. II his work is
TO be carried out TO an exact
science it would be necessary 10
take the fielding done behind each
pitcher in each game. or even
part OF a game in which a pitcher
worked
The HarWiCh letter:
Having read an article on pitch
ing averages, | thought over the
subject, and would like to sub
nit the following system of grad
ing pitchers. according to their
rum preventing efficiency, which
would represent their true value t.
the team This system would take
into account the fielding average
Of the team behind that particular
pitcher
Excluding errors. men get ON
first base 10y safe hits, hit by
pitcher, and bases GA balls. ana
certain percentage of them score
Now, this percentage win be-
greater or less. according to The
ability of the pitcher If he had
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26
Show
"Bud'' Fisher

fight the winner of the main bout
and if Little is put on with him
walters work is cut out for him
Al Smith Wins Again.
Al Smith, a 120-pounder from
Jacksonville, who made Myer Prizes
quit in the second round a wees
ago, took the measure Of little Spi.
der Britt in six rounds. 1t was in
the sixth round when Smith. Willing
at all times to swap punches, shock
ed Britt with a series of blows. The
Jacksonvillian took the fight In his
hands.
Britt's directors claimed after the
mill that Spider weighed in at los
pounds; but, while easily five Or
six pounds lighter than Smith. he
looked fully IFS pounds. He Tough
his usual hard hitting, wen-dir
ed fight, and gave Smith a ham,
mering that he won't forgeg
Smith is a fighter Of the Battling
Nelson type, without much but q
punch and an abnormal ability to
assimilate punishment and an over
weening confidence in himself He
bored in on Britt at all times. save
in the third round. when he held or
a minute to save himself for q
knockout
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26
COBB, JACKSON AND
BAKER RETAIN HONOR

TTAVE you ever stopped to
think now few players lead
the batters in their respect
i've positions for two seasons? Only
three players who We're top notchers
in batting in their places in the
American league in 1911 again led
last season. They We're Tyrus Cobb,
who led the league in batting: Joe
Jackson, of the Maps, and Frank
Baker, the Athletics star third
sacker. These were the only ones
who topped their positions twice.
The uncertainty of baseball is
shown in these figures. Not that
the players who topped the batters
in their positions are the best in
the league. as there are several
players in the American league out
side Of these who are better than
the leading batters. But this was
the best batting team in the league
during the 1912 campaign. One
player who topped the swatters in
his position in 1911, was not even
in the league the last season.
SCOOPS" Borton the star first
sacker of the Whita Soy who is
picl,ed bv many. 70 he one oe rho
Icadine. first eacLArs IN fl,o nat7onaI
pastime next season, was the star
hitter amopa fine arst sa,l-,.rs IN
1912 He batted 971 IN tb. 1a4t.,.
MARI of the season Tacl, 1roInnig
Of tho Athletics fine smallest i,itiaI
statiou a,,,ardia7, II, bo.ohau la II
1917 with 321
Carl Casbiop t5a nitcber f,r tho
Senators u.bo,, ,l.,l. ,,,tai+t +ria9
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip

RUDE Robinson. sent up from the Tex
as league 20 Pittsburg, is spending the
winter IN Floyd, Ark, where he and Papa
Robinson run general store.
John Murphy, the Giants grounds keep
er, is putting in a few flower beds at
such an esthetfc lot they just demand
stun like this.
Jake Stencil, who batted 4O9 in the
National league in 1898, and not under
$50 for the next three years is keeping
bar now in Cincinnati.
a Cincinnati manager must win a pen
nant or quit-pleasant alternatives. in
deed. O'pay was rired for finishing fourth
and they didn't pin any medals on The
noble breast of Joe Kelley Tor finishing
third.
Lee Tannehill was handed $500 as a
present by Charley Comiskey in lieu Of
his Cub-SoX series money Yet CoUis-
key let Lee out two months before tho
series was played.
Aw. lets cut out all this yainmeriue
about what to do with the NiontgomeTT
franchise. chuck one other club ana cut
the southern leag que to six clubs VIII
some other club kindly volunteer to re-
sign, along with Montgomery?
The Louisville club has refused to a.-
ctpt Larry Mclean. The owners say
they are located too near the distiuery
district
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26

1000 per cent fielding behind him.
Taking Walter Johnson for an
example, We would compute his
efficiency thus, based on his rec
ord
Number of men reaching first
base while Johnson is in box:
Hits Z59. Fit batsmen Is. Bases
on balls IS. Total 951. reaching
first base through Johnson's
agency. Divide this by number Of
runs scored ON him, 80, and We
have 254, which would be the
percentage Of runs to men reach
ing first scored against johnson.
Now, let us assume that every
team fields Loco, then all pitchers
would be equal in the matter of
fielding support behind them. If
this were the case we would mere
ly subtract .254 from Loco, but
would have: 954 less .254, or 700,
which would represent Johnson's
run preventing efficiency and true
value to his team. According to
this basis We have this grading:
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26
FOOTBALL STARS
On VANDERBILT
QUINTET

TINE Atlanta Athletic CLUB will
play its third game of the
season Saturday night. and
their opponents will be the Wander
bilt boys, who come highly touted.
All there is to say about the game
is that it will be bearcat strug-
gle and some classy. speedy and
unheard Of stunts are sure TO be
pulled off by both squads
The Vanderbilt boys are out for
revenge, for the local lads put one
across on them in the game last
season. Atlanta won, but they viii
clearly remember that they had TO
go some to do it,
Nandy is made up Of a bunch of
celebrities. who have won for them
selves a name on the football grid
iron this season. Following are the
men to compose the team: Nelson,
captain; Enoch Brown. star end
and captain of 1918 team; Buddy
Morgan, the hetty center; STAFFORD,
the big guard. and Tom Brown. the
ALL southern tackle.
Vanderbilt has always been a
big drawing card in this neck Of
the woods, and a victory over the
locals would mean heap to them.
The A. A. c. team has a record
of three straight wins. and they
are going to work their blooming
necks off to annex the fourth one.
\ treat out of the ordinary will
be put on during the intermission.
Ii Will be a tumbling match be
tween House and Francis. both
members of the club The usual
dancing feature will end the nights
enjoyment
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26
By Sam Bell.

II ERHAPs Walter Little. the
Chicago lightweight, who has
haunted local fight clubs for
nine months for an opportunity to
free himself from the odium of his
one-tine ftasco with Terry Nelson.
deserves another try. after his start
at the Dixie Athletic club last night.
And again perhaps he Doesn't.
But let it be SAID for Little, if he
displayed no especial brilliancy or
powerful punches he really didn't
have a chance. Frank Mcmahon,
his opponent. came to Atlanta with
a bunch of newspaper clippings and
some fighting toys. If he had any
thing else it was not in evidence
last night. However, he had q crop
OF long hair, carefully parted in the
middle, which he seemed to cherish
a great deal.
Mcmahon was a whipped man
when he stepped out of his corner
in the fist round. If he knew what
to do with his hands his heart
beats were too faint to awake re-
Spouse. Little sent him crashing to
the floor for the count of nine after
about two minutes Of the first ses-
sion had gone, with q left to the
head that would have made kid
like Spider Britt laugh. After that
Mcmahon hung on for dear life.
rarely taking a chance with Little's
rather wild but vicious haymakers.
Little Was No Marvel
The best that can be said of the
mill is that il was an exemplary
stalling match. The worst that
can be said for Little is that he
failed to show any real disposition
to stow the Kansas City pug away
until the sixth round. Even in the
sixth McMahon's tell-tale heart
helped Walter nightly with his
finishing touches, although Little
had sent in plenty of steam in the
fourth and fifth rounds, succeeding
in humping MCMahon's right eve
badly, with full-blue closing eff
feet.
McMahon's best tactic was the
good old hug. OF strategy he dis
played none. After the first round
he bIaeed a little and in the third
shovel his best. Ale dared here to
exchange body punches close In
and surprised himself with coming
out of the clinches with an edge.
Perhaps this fact heartened Nc
Mahon bit. for he took a fairly
large lacing in the fourth and fifth
and went down for the count after
voiley of right and left swings
which landed promiscuously in the
sixth. The blow he took his final
brodie on was a fight that Little
banged on his ear. If he wasn't out
physically he was mentally. so ne
was justified in staying down
II Little can forget a penchant
for fancy stuff, and acquire a keen
el' sense Of direction for his rights
he viii doubtless come back to the
heaNt OF Atlanta fans.
The semi vindup. q clean-cut
hard drought mill between Tommy
Lavelle and Eddie Haplou. in which
the decision went to LaVelle. and
the third preliminary. between Al
Smith and Spider Britt in which
Smith triumphed. were tin nights
real bouts. And they were slashing
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26
BIRMINGHAM THREATENED
WITH 2 GAMES SAME DAY

BGRMINGHAM. Dee 26.-Hero's q
pretty howdN-do
BirminGhams two biggest football
games are scheduled for the same day
Ina 1918
I'm the announcement of SeUauee's
football schedule for next fan appears d
game with tabaWs I'm Birmingham for
November Is.
short while ago announcement. was
made That Auburn and Vanderbilt had
agreed to play m Birmingham Nuvem~
Der IS
Isn't this enough to make any wild
eyed football fanatic sit down ON the
curb and scalp himself
1t means that the athletic associa r.
tjous of four institutions Auburn. Ala e.
hama. SeWanee and Nanderbilt-must
get together. for the two games on the
same day for Birmingham would hardly
be the thing. Ii means that one of
the games will have TO be moved up a
bit, and of course il should be PLAYED
iu Birmingham
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26
BRlCKLEY HEADS TEAM
IN INDOOR TRACK MEET

NEW YORK. Dec IS Charles Brick
ley, the Harvard baseball and football
star, will head the Crimson squad which
will compete in the indoor field and track
events To be held here January 4. i'm the
Twenty second regiment armory
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26
REDS CAN'T GET BROWN.

CHICAGO. Dec. 26.-The announce
ment Of President Murphy that the
Chicago club has a string on Mordecai
Brown, who was released to Louisville.
viii probably end the efforts of Man
ager Joe Tinker to secure him for the
Cincinnati club
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26

in the past two seasons. Eddie Coz
Inns, of the Athletics, had q great
year in 1911 and was first with
1865. while Napoleon Lajoie was
the king pin batter of the pivot
station guardian the last season.
with hefty notch of 1868 It's hare
work to pick the better of these
two, as they are both stars Of the
first magnitude.
The hardest hitting teams in rn"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26
By Percy II. Whiting.

CTHE Stupldest thing ia baSebali
is the pitching averages The
stupides1 pitching averages in
tu, world are those Of the Southern
league. Back in the dark ages,
some secretary TO President Kava-
naugh thought out way of de-
jelminlne how pitcher should get
credit for tho work he did in via
ming q game. And ever since this
method has stuck-not because it
vas a good one Cfor it isn'D; not
because It contains an iota OF hu-
man intelligence (for It Doesn't,
not for any reason In the world ex-
cept that nobody has bothered TO
change IT,
In the American league they have
mad for years unnumbered a bet
Ter way of figuring pitching aver
agey than the Southern's. but Ban
Johnson has gone that one better.
He has abolished entirely the old
scheme OF ranking pitchers by the
games they (and their supporting
teams) win and lose. Instead he
viii. before next season devise a
system which will show how many
bits or how many runs q pitcher
allowed per inning or per game.
This win afford a fair method of
measuring pitching efficiency.
THE idiocy Of the Southern
l. leagues system Of figuring
games won and lost by pitchers and
iho unwillingness of the league to
bother 10 make a chanse brings
out strongly the need in this league
Of a baseball writer's association.
There would have been an asso-
citation of this sort long ago eN-
cept for one fact, which is that the
baseball writer's never get together
in large enough numbers to justify
a meeting
II is possible. however. TO work
out a pretty efficient organization
"hich shouIC ho'o meetings ana
'r"''sd0. business on man. "oou'
seven -elsll'i'S "i '''e 'iile '"e
9outile'H league uoes 'S business
by Nl'e. lne'e Is ua'uN gay
curing 'he season "oen some mat
Ter OF "oINe'S' rules or some con
tlto'ional 'oI oe iol ISN'T ON me
wires. me southern league NouIo
meeting ofteuer than once in fifty
wears The honest truth is that the
southern would have been lot bet
Ter of ir it hadn't held lot of It's
meetings.
But. anyhow. II the Southern
league can be run by wire, why
can't Southern League Baseball
Writers association be- rum 10y mail?
The answer probably is. 1t can.
Anyhow. a test viii soon be made.
T HE point is. an organization of
this sort could put a deal of
pressure on the Southern league to
think over this matter Of pitching
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26
BRITTON WHIPS KEEFE:
GOES AFTER MCFARLAND

PHILADELPHIA. Dec 26-Iack Brit
ton, the chicago lightweight, who
knocked out Tommy Keefe in the second
round last night. renewed his efforts to-
Gay TO connect with Mcfarland in the
ring
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26
couLoN Musr REsr-

NEW YORK. Dec. 26-The pnysI-
clan of Johnny Coulon bantamweighr
champion. has ordered him to take a
complete rest for two months because OF
2 general breakdown in health.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26
TEN EXHIBITION GAMES
SCHEDULED FOR DALLAS

DALLAS. TEN. Dec. a6-Joe Gard
Ger owner of the Dallas Giants, has an
nOunced the preseason schedule in pal-
las with the big league teams next spring.
The games:
March !. New York Nationals
March 5. 16-Philadelphia Americans.
March %. 23-St Louis Americans
March 70. 30-New York Nationals
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-26

Now. we all know that Bender
and GIees pitched better last year
han This. This system empha-
sizes this strikinsly. Bender's av-
etage being 40 and Gregg's be-
ing 1u5. Johnson was .6S7.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-09

taniCo
wi
the Rocky Mountains
tundeuto
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-09
Story of a Fresh Water Clam

eter.
They are good to eat. The only diff
ficulty in this part of the country is
that they are scarce.
After a mussel has carried his
house around with him ever since
the early days when he was thrown
out into the water without home
and has polished it and decorated the
interior to suit his particular taste,
he has difficulty in keeping it. There
are several large pearl button fac
tories in the United States and just
when the mussel has become lat
home" some of the boats from one
of these factories may pick him up
and carry him away to furnish but
tons for woman's dress or a mans
shirt.
And the mussel, after he has been
rudely torn from his home, this time
just dies c. A. H.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-09
AN ALLY OF DUPERY.

What the Quaker said to his wife:
Everybody is queer except thee and
me, and just between us l think thee
is queer, toO," may account for the
strange, silly notions one so often
sees cropping out from others. There
are all sorts of superstitious notions
about fOretellirg future events per-
tanning to persons and things. That
these notions are not confined to the
so-called ignorant class may be
shown by taking as illustration the
subject of palmistry.
So popular is the notion of palm
istTy that a leading women's maga-
zine avails itself of this sort of tim
Der to entertain and enlighten its
readers. 1t is true that the journal
in question doesn't extract any coin
for it's valuable services. but just the
same it is encouraging the fellow
who does. Worse still, this journal
is encouraging the very thing that
for so many centuries blocked civil
iZatiOn-superstitiOn. One can see
what class of persons this journal is
aiding by reading the ads under
'persOnalS" etc, i'm certain Sunday
papers.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-09
VdgdrieS of a Fountain Pen

He picked it up in the Library -
by mistake. of course. 1t looked just
like the ordinary. everyday article.
and he thought We had simply got
hold of brand-new fountain pen in
place of his old one, which was al
ways leaking. anyway
He took it home and started to
write theme with it that night.
Well, that pen wiggled around a
little bit, and then started off like
this:
Les Nouvcaux Riches.
Their heads. once bare, now proudly
clad,
They lordly lift to Springs soft
breeze.
OF wintry shabbiness they speak
No word. those newly rich-the
trees.
He could understand most of what
the pen had written except the first
three words. But he felt discOur-
aged, for the lines would never do
as theme. So he pounded the pen
on the table. shook out three big
blots of ink on the hand-painted ash
tray that his girl had given him for
a Christmas present. took another
nice white sheet of paper and started
again:
And now the schOol-boy lover, fealty
sworn,
BY Valentine, to be forever true,
To snub-nOsed lady-lOye, is sadly
Tween wish to walk beside sun
bonnet blue
And longing for the Springs game,
ever new.
He chooses. Vain her smile or
cOaXing call
Deserted Fair. for horrid game base
Then that pen wrote:
Lines to My Landlady.
The times that you've served beans,
dear heart,
Would fill a book, or two, or
three;
| count them DER, each one apart,
The Beanery. The Beanery,
Then came:
1t Happens in Spring.
They fear not mOrrOw's quizZes,
Brave youths and lovely misses,
Who meath stars walk,
With murRured talk,
That's emphasized with
That most unusual pen after that
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-09
PICTURE "COWBOYS."

One often hears the expression
from the moving picture gOer,
Another cowboy picture!" Proba-
bly, no other class of films surpasses
i'm number those which treat of west
ern subjects.
But, like the older tales of frontier
lie, these pictures hold latent dan
ger. This was we'll illustrated by the
case of the two girls who ran away
from Pittsburg and were later found
in Guthrie. Ok, where they had gone
to see some of those "rich, handsome
cowboys who were looking for
wives"
The trouble was they failed to
find the cowboys. Instead of being
met by jolly bunch of chivalrOus
rangers they, penniless, were forced
to seek employment in textile mills
not so different from the ones they
had observed at home.
There are still cowboys in some
parts of the West, but the city boy
or girl who has become acquainted
with them through the medium of
the moving picture film is likely tO
haev a distorted view of their life
and habits.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-09
CRIME NEWS.

Newspapers of today are confront
ed with a problem which as yet has
not been satisfactorily sOlved-that
of printing crime news. There are
two alternatives open to every news
paper. to print it or not to print it.
Needless to say large majority
choose the former plan.
AS was brought out by w. NJ. Led
better CT the St. Louis Globe-DemO-
crat in a journalism Week addre IS,
there are different ways of handling
crime news when it is published. He
rightly contended that the English
form of printing only bulletinized ac-
counts is preferable to the practice
of the yellow newspapers.
The excess to which many ne wspa-
pers have played up" crime news is
undoubtedly a partial explanation of
the increase of criminal tendencies in
some localities. On the other hand,
harm may be done by refusing to
print certain facts connected with
criminal happenings by net keeping
the public alive to the suppression of
crime.
Mr.. Ledbetter suggested way out
of the difficulty when he advocated
gradual cutting down of criminal re-
ports. There is no doubt that some
newspapers are now printing more
crime news than is justifiable. The
public should have the facts concern
ing crimes. but with the exception of
extreme cases these facts should not
be elaborated into detail.
University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-05-09

machines cannot be slowed down to
a speed of five or six miles an hour
which is a maximum in business dis
tricts of some cities. The result is
that the ordinances are dead letters
Jay" driving, carelessness OF
pedestrians and unavoidable situa-
tions are responsible for many acci-
dents. The automobile drivers can
not be held accountable for all of
these. Greater care on the part of
the autOmObilist and of others who
use the streets. is the only effective
way to lower the mortality rate from
motor car accidents.