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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
PITCHER WALKER,
IN JAIL, SIGNS A
NAP CONTRACT
/ NASHVILLE. TENN. Jan. Is
" Probably the most novel de

NASHVILLE. TENN. Jan. IS
" Probably the most novel de
livery Of a major league
contract in the history Of the game
was made this morning when the
mail was handed around at the Da
wilson country farm and Roy
Walker now serving a 90-day sen
tence for attempted voluntary man
slaughter, received A document
from the Cleveland American
league club calling for his services
next season.
The contract was received Sat
urday al the Office Of President
Hirsig, OF the Nashville club, with
the request that It be forwarded to
Roy. 1t was returned to the post
man with instructions to deliver AT
the farm where Walker IS now
prisoner.
He has been at the farm one
month and his sentence will expire
about March TO, which will give
him plenty of time In which TO re
port to the Maps at their spring
training camp.
It is a we'll known fact that the
former star of the appalachian
eague who was bought from Nash
vile by Cleveland. to prevent his
being drafted, is regarded az a
grand hurler in Napland and at the
request Of President Somers, for
mer Manager Harry Davis made a
trip to the Birmingham meeting OF
the Southern association and Sc
cured the promise OF President Hir-
zig to use his influence in obtain
ing Walkers release from Jail. The
Jury, however. returned a verdict
~ guilty and fixed the punishment
az ten years in the penitcntiary at
Nashville.
When the appeal from this de
cision came up for a hearing before
Criminal Judge Neil he reversed
rhe sentence, claiming il was eNces-
sive ana not supported by the evil
dence in the case and he hxed the
penalty at 90 days on the county
farm.
ON account Of his magnificent
physique. Walker was assigned to
the blacksmith shop. which, he
states, was the best thing that could
have been done for him. for the
hard work will put him in shape for
the long grind next season. He is
apparently little concerned over his
confinement and is sure he will oc-
cupy regular berth with the Maps.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
MURPHY BUYS ONE-HALF
OF PHILLY BALL PARK

CINCINNATI, Jan. 2S.-President
Charles w. Murphy, of the Chicago
National league club, announced here
today that he has purchased a half in
terest in the Philadelphia National
league baseball park, and that the park
only-not the club-now is Jointly own
ed by himself and C. P. Taft, of Gin
cinnati
At the recent sale of the Philade
phia club to William II. Locke and as
soCiates, an agreement was entered
into by which the Philadelphia CLUB
owners could purchase the PLAYING
held in 1920 for S400,0o0, Mr.. Murphy
said
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
By Damon Runyon.
X a BASEBALL player ought
~ to be at his best between 80

II a BASEBALL player ought
~ to be at his best between 80
and 35," said James r. Nc
Aleer, part owner of the Boston
Red Sox, worlds champions, in
Boston recently, and he ought to
save 100000 while in baseball"
The author Of the aforesaid ought
to be some authority on the sub
ject. because he was playing the
game about that age. Moreover,
being chief mogul of the cham
pions. his observations concerning
diamond athletics ought to carry
weight
If McAleer's remark Is actually
true, then baseball is unquestion-
ably the best of all outdoor sports,
so far as the players thereof are
concerned. In no other branch OF
athletics can a man, as a rule, stand
the strain after, say q or %, and
nearly all of them begin to go back
at about 80 And how many men
here saved 100000 at the age Of 35?
"Of course, man isn't so fast
after 80 as he was before" added
the Red Sox president. But he
has learned to think by that time,
and he should be more valuable to
his club after 30 than before-al-
ways provided he has taken care of
himself"
Here Are Some Past 80.
AS evidence McAleer might men
tion Jimmy Archer, the Cub pre-
mier catcher, who is regarded as
one of the best there is, and is 80
this summer; "Chier' Bender, who
will be 80 next May, and who IS still
some chief" notwithstanding he
hasn't taken such good care of
himself as an athlete should; Al
Bridwell who is so: Mordecai
Brown, 80 even: Jimmy Callahan,
80; Frank Chance. "a; Hal Chase,
so; Fred Clarke. Al, and who was
playing manager of the Pirates I'M
til after he was SO; "Clif' Cravath,
81; Sam Crawford. 3d. Birdie"
Cree, 81; Harry Davis. who has
just gone back to help put the Ath-
letics on their feet again at 40;
Red" Doom, 80; Pat Dougherty,
who was doing things at So; Kid"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
Baseball Players Best After
They Are 30 Years Old, Says
President McAleer of Red SoX
By "Bud'' Fisher

Elberfeld, who is 81; Johnny Evers,
80; Russell Ford, 80; Artie Hof-
man, 81; Hughie Jennings, 43;
Johnny King, 80; Tommy Leach,
Sc; Lefty" Leifield, 80; Larry La
joie, 80; Christy MatheWson, who
pitched the best game of his ca
reer last October when he was just
past 80; Mcbride, 80; Matty Nc
Intyre. 80; Mike Mitchell 90 Earl
Moore, "a: Mike Mowrey, 80;
George MulIin, 49, Eddie Plank, So;
Ed Reulbach, 81: Lew Richie. 80;
Frank Schultz, 81; Jimmie Sheck-
ard, credited with "a years, but
who. they say. is two years older;
"Gabby' Street, 80; Jake Stahl,
"a; Ira Thomas, 80; Joe Tinker,
80; Honus Wagner 80.
Has Started Something.
McAleer might mention these,
but he would Immediately get a
dispute if he did-a dispute as to
whether all, or the most Of these.
er. and whether. after 80, they
were not going back" In fact, It
is very likely that without men
tioning names, MCAleer HAS start
ed a winter dispute already. Let's
see what happens, now that he has
opened a little argument for the
fans"
rs a baseball player at his best
between 80 and 35?"
The Red Sox president made this
remark during a conversation in
which he was asked how much he
thought big league baseball play
er ought to save during his career
on the diamond. McAleer put the
figure ut some 100000. The aver
age life of a ball player. who takes
care of himself. in the big leagues.
is not much more than ten years.
Most of them enter about 20 and
few survive beyond 81 or there
abouts.
A good player ought to make
about $4,000 a year: an exception
ally good player more-up to from
$4,000 to $1,000 or $8,O0O-after he
becomes star. There are many
frugal ball players, and McAleer's
figures must be based upon the
ability of those fellows to save
two-thirds or three -fourths of their
baseball salaries, earning enough
in winter to make up the remainder
of the cost of living.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
College Athletic Stars of Past
In Dixie Are Succeeding Now
In the Strenuous Battle of | ife

back before the flying wedge, be
fore the tackles back" before the
lawn of gridiron civilization,
Brad Knapp was one of the fin
est Wo-fisted performers on one of
Nandcrbilt's famous rough and
tumble teams.
a marvellous player was Luc1us
Burch, OF Vanderbilt. Only a few
years ago he was picked as an all
Southern. all-time guard. His equal
has seldom been known in the
South. He was q big broth Of a
man. and aggressive. Today DR..
Lucius Burch is one Of Nashville's
most successful physicians-a man
who is making a broad, bright
mark in the world of medicine.
I F success consists merely in MAX
ing money, then this example isn't
an example at all. But if success
can be measured in other ways,
consider the case Of Henry Phil
lips This lad was pindling,
sickly Atlanta school boy a dozen
or fifteen years ago. He went to
Sewanee, built himself up physical
ly, and became one of the greatest
guards and tackles that the South
ern gridiron game has ever known.
This grand player is now the
Rev. Henry Phillips. Already he
has made a remarkable record in
the peculiar line Of work he has
taken up. OF course, he is now
only the pastor Of small church.
But his accomplishments have been
impressive. In time he will be
one Of the leading Episcopal min
isters Of the South.
IT HE best thing about college foot
ball and baseball is that IT
makes men. A coward can't sue
coed in these games, nor can
trickster or cheat. They bring
out the best that is in a man. And
the man who succeeds in them has
more than an even chance of sue
ceeding I'm later life.
More examples in support of
this contention will be given in a
later article.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
MOLESNORTHHAS
CONFIDENCE N
HIS BARONS

BIRMINGHAM, Jan. 2S.-With.
~ i'll another week Carleton
MoleswOrth, manager Of the
Birmingham club, will be in town,
and from that moment on the ball
fever will grow on the public. It
is announced that. with the ex-
ceptiOn of two or three players
Manager Wordsworth has in mind
his team for 1913 is complete, and
he is confident of being in the run
ming, if not right at the top
According to Robert H. Baugh.
president of the Birmingham Base
ball association, Manager Moes
worth will not do any pre- season
Boosting, so that he can not be
quoted as saying Birmingham again
will win the pennant. However,
Mr.. Baugh says that letters re-
ceived from Manager Wordsworth,
who has been at his home in Fred
ericksburg, Md. are all optimistic
and that Wordsworth believes he
has the, making of another winning
team.
Considerable painting and other
improvements have been done about
the ball park, and everything Will
he in readiness for the sport long
before the weather is ripe. An
nouncements made heretofore As
to practice games with teams from
the big leagues are still on the
books, and some playing will be
seen. AS before, Manager Moles-
worth contends that these games
will hardly show the possible
strength of the Southern teams, and
he is advising local fans not 10
arrange their dope on the play
ing done in the pre- season games.
President Baugh says that m
mediately after Manager MoIes-
worth gets here, February g. the
men who have been signed to play
and those who are to be given
tryout will begin dropping in one by
one. and In March the better num-
Der of them will have secured a
good boarding house in this city
preparatory to the playing 10 April
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28

n an end playing football over
at Auburn He was a rat
Ting player, fast, aggressive to the
verge Of unnecessary roughness and
aeQulck thinker.
When he left college his coach
said Il surmise that that young
man viii make good. The qualities
81 fearlessncss, leadership and
quick thinking that have made him
great on the football field will make
him a success anywhere"
They did
This man is now the president of
Clemson college. and beyond any
question tho most sought after COL
lege executive In Dixie His name
is W. n Riggs
A BOUT the time Professor Riggs
4 was starting his football ca
reer young chap at the Univer-
sity of North Carolina was ending a
famous career as q halfback. He
was really a corking man. He had
speed in amazing quantities an ex-
cellent head and an ability at ad-
vancing the ball that could hardly
be explained either by his weight
or speed
The good year 1913 finds this ia
nous halfback one OF the leading
chemists OF the world, the discov-
erer of chemical element (kun-
ute, If our memory serves and at
present head of the chemical de-
partment of the University of
North Carolina -Professor Basker-
vile. He was a success at foot
ball-and since.
THEY don't all turn out to be
teachers. For instance, Sc
vance boasted speedy chap
named Buchanan back In 1896 or
thereabouts He was q tolerably
good hslfbeck a hurdler Of renown
and point winner in the high
Jump. HIS football career was
brilliant. In every branch OF ath-
letics he tackled he did we'll
This same man has kept right on
doing well He is Thompson
Buchanan, who wrote "A woman's
Way" "Lula's Husbands and lot
OF dramatic successes and who is
making keg OF money with his
pen.
1T is an encouraging fact that
very creditable proportion of
the men who have made good on
college athletic battlefields in Dixie
have kept on making good since in
the great Battle of Life.
Says the Office Pessimist: ooh.
pshaw. the proportion is very small
Not one athlete in 50 makes good ."
Fortunately he Is wrong
1t is worth considering that only
small proportion OF cellege men
and vastly smaller proportion of
non-colIege men ever make good
The world is fun OF failures. and
only sparsely settled with sue
cesSes. But OF the comparatively
small number Of southern men who
have distInEuis themselves in
football and baseball, a marvel
ously large proportion have since
managed to keep their names be
fore the public by doing something
worth while 4 very brief excur-
sion into the field gave us material
to write a hundred articles though
we are not going to.
IT ECH men are not likely to for
get that General Leonard Wood
was corking football player And
surely his success has been pleas
ingly briliant-pleasing that is. to
those who did not stand in his way.
In the government service, also.
but working along less warlilte
lines. is Bradford Knapp. head Of
the Knapp School OF Country Life
and Demonstration Farm. Surely
there couldn't he anything more
placid than the head Of such "a
school
Yet back In the prehistoric suU
ploodthirSty days OF the game.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip

l.
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rann ne r nUuIS Browns once won I1 1
f,,ti w. tiIilIns: liiueeu, yes. Inc
team vas in me hmerican asssocia +in nc
This season save q society ro+o thu
aa We S1% Iii say q soGletS hoLe, ne
sueatsr ci,t on the has 'u "'ue NoiioiN
'"' vi INC "iNe
nositio1s " as Tortbyyastarr %pPiieo LOT
ppirns ioliS "S Northwestern league UNI
S GiYaIcS oCcaSiomaIIy pays IN very m
otbe tn Ih mus naVe peen
Siffara,t &c wtrh ~. ne PiaSGu a III very
sveTages manner 100 10 Judge by the
i and Na iI heo5 Team VIII report March
~ aiiu WI. negIh pracuCe "heh me
narit eil''i" i''e' Ie'ieS from Ihe oali
-rho ,.,,.,o,.,,,,,,,, ..,,.,.,.... 49,.
tr NSCoGn tIliHs IplsIL IN SO so9u mar
troii f WIZ III moo report III De-
NA''' i'' O0"p'o VI "sehS YET
t,o.noa. co,,. = a
snow at ROCK Island, Ill, tonight.
If Art Hoffman comes around This vaar
outfield-Caray, Hoffman and Wilson.
A. NJ Clifford an old-tin,e hall NAV
err will umpire the exhibition games az
Chattanooga this spring
Chicago fans are already planning a
Frank Chance Day." TO celehrata tho
arrival of the Peerless Leader in the
Windy City at the head of an American
league team
Chance couldn't come back Frank and
Jim Jeffries are great friends ErSnIt
must know how IL is to try|and fail ''N
,
be seman eitbeT t iS v ee uITu as t Th
adriff even If his nttfbint, 40 40 % .uLm ,e
yybic,t 49, o 70" Pi1oii'"b "~'e ate over
my "''
,..,,
carry their own staff of cooks on the
coming framing Trips
will be able to make something out Of
Bill Stumpf-though nobody else has.
AL Demaree saws that the first TINA
base at Mobile last spring the seismo,
graph at Washington showed a slight
fiutter
The hopeless hano,,et o;,,a, 1,,- +ho
Pittsburg baseball writer's in Biu I ,octie
| didn't turn ont any mild affair 0p@ If
tha mari cinants wae ha, Dne 0l
coming in Contact With glass Of f' water EG ''
ford conn wa lse receny Blown al aWaT
The attention of ali clubs is cslleS T" 10
ment no other club is allowed to use his
roof without purCha sing its release.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
DRlSC0LL SHOWS LITTLE
IN HIS FIGHT WITH MORAN

LONDON, Jan 2S.-There was talk to-
day Of another match between Jim Dris-
coll, British featherweig ht champion, and
owen Moran, who disappointed a large
CROWD last night by tame fight which
ended in a draw
The betting favored Drfscoll to 4. but
he missed chances TO put his man away
by his cautious work
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
DUNDEE DEFEATS HIRSCH:
LEAVES TODAY FOR COAST

NEW YORK, Jan. 2s.-Johnny Dundee,
who began preparsuo today for his de-
psrture for the Pacific coast, where he
VIII meet Johnny Kilhane in April. had
an easy time defeating Special Delivery
Hirsch in their ten-round bout here last
night
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
NEW Y0RKS MAKE OFFER
TO OLD HEINIE PETIT

NEW YORK, Jan 2S.-The New York
American league management TODAY
made an offer to Heine PETIT, the old
Pittsburg backstop, to coach the young
pitchers.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
JACK CLARK SUING TOM
0'R0URKE FOR $4,000

NEW YORK, Jan 2S-Tom O'Rourke.
prize hghter manager, was today defend
ant in $4,000 suit brought against him
e by Jack Clark. former bah player. for al
legged assault committed last summer
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28

SHEPPARD RUNS QUARTER IN ,4ea.s
NEW YORK, Jan. 2S.-Melvin Sheppard,
the veteran Splinter, made "A quarter mile
~ practice last night in AZ As seconds.
. mark within a fraction OF the record
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
PusABALL GAME THURSDAY.

ANTHEMS, GAl Jan IN.-The push
ball contest between the Freshman and
Sophomore classes that was first sched-
uled yesterday will come off Thursday
ON Sanford field at II a. m. and a gen
eral holiday will be granted the entire
student body. No practices are being
held for the game this year. and it will
amount To practically class RUS
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
IF BROWNS ARM is GONE
HE WILL STICK AS COACH

CTNCINNNTI. Jan. 2S-"Even il Miner
Brown does not regain the effectiveness
he showed when he helped 20 win sew
eral pennants. he will be retained by me
as coach said Joe Tinker, manager of
the Cincinnati Reds
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28

CHANCE GOES EAST FEB, 5.
Los ANGELES, Jan. 2S-Frank Chance
manager of the New York Americans, VII
leave his ranch here about February AM
start for New York to take charge OF u'
team.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
o'BRIEN AFTER cIeRoNe

PHILADELPHIA, Jan 2S-.'Y Young
a%nk - Brlen, brother OF the famous
Fmladelphia Jack O'Briem. wants a
ma ~ with Mike Gibbons Tor the weIter-
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
scoREeoARo FOR POLO cRouNns

NEW YORK, Jan. 2S-A scoreboard
that VIII indicate balls, strikes and outs
and viii show the lineup of both teams.
will be installed in the Polo grounds be,
fore the 1913 baseball season opens
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
DOOM REPORTS Ate

PHILADELPHIA Jan. 2S-NIike Doc
m, ShortStop. is TO be excused from early
spring practice so that he may finish .
course IN dentistry a. q college here
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
NOPE eLEAchERs EoR REn soy

BOSTON, Jan rs The Red Sox man
agemgnt needing the cry. More heacher
seats has ordered the immediate erec-
tiou OF 5000 more 20-cent seats
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-28
By Percy Fl. Whiting.

~ ACK in '93 and "a there was
~ an end playing football over
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-06-05
A Publishers Statement.
TBushnalI (Ill.) Record. |

Uncle Samuel is keeping fatherly
and watchful eye on the newspaper
boys. Just why the old gentleman has
any more right to poke his venerable
nose into the private affairs of man
who runs a newspaper than he has to
interfere with grocer, butcher, a
dry goods man or a manufacturer has
nor yet been explained. AS will be
noted by the statement published this
week, paternal Government has been
given some weighty and important in
formation about the Record, and it is
hoped the country has thereby been
saved.
While Uncle Sam is prying into pri-
vate affairs that are rome Of his bust
ness perhaps it might be in order to in
form him that the Record man is a
brunette and a Republican; has pretty
bad corn on his left foot and his hair
shows signs of falling out; he has
now only one good eye and walks
q little splay-footed; he has wife, a
daughter, a couple of grandchildren, an
alleged automobile. horse, Jersey
calf and a peg legged cat. He thought
he was running for the Legislature
last fall, but he found out he wasn't
even walking. He hopes to be able to
keep on making an honest living with
out having to stop every little while
and answer impertinent questions, as he
is neither a criminal nor dependent
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-06-05
Only A Printer.

"He is only printer" Such was
the sneering remark of a leader in
circle Of aristocracy the Goldfish quality
Who was the Earl of Stanhepe? He
was only printer. What was Prince
Edward William and Prince Napoleni
Proud to call themselves printers. The
present Gear of Russia and the Duke
Of Battenburg are printers, and the
Emperor of China worked in private
printing Office almost every day.
William Caxton, the father of Eng.
fish literature was a practical printer.
What were G. P. Morris, N. P. Willis,
James Gale, James Parker, Horace
Greedy. Charles Dickens, Jas. Buchan
an, Simon Cameron and Schuyler Col
fax? Printers all, and practical ones.
Also Bayard Taylor, the poet
Mark Twain, Amos Cummins, Bret
Harte, Oeie Reid were plain printers,
as were Artemus Warde. Petroleum
v. Nashby and SUIT Loyingwood. Sen
ator Plumb was printer, and SO il
James s. Hogg, of Texas, and tht
leader of science and philosophy, Ben
iamin Franklin, in his days made it hi
boast that he was q printer.
In fact, thousands of the most bril-
liant minds in the country are to b.
found toiling in the publishing house
of large cities and towns. It is no
every one that can be printer, brain
are absolutely necessary Exchange
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-06-05
Saw John Brown Hung.

OF the men yet living who witnessed
the hanging of old John Brown at
Charles Town on the tn day of Dec
ember, 1859, is C. W. Vandergrift, for
many years a prominent citizen of AID
erson, in the service Of the e. & o.
Ry. Co. At the time of Browns raid
on Harpers Ferry, Mr.. Vandergrift was
member of the Monticello Guards at
Charlottesville, Va. His company was
ordered to Harpers Ferry by Governor
Wise but when it reached Washington
they learned that Brown and his asso-
ciates had already been captured by the
soldiers and marines under command of
Col. Robert E. Lee. Mr.. Vandergrift' s
company under command Of Capt. W B
Mallory, now living at Memphis, Tenn,
was ordered to Charles Town when
Brown was executed, to assist, if neces.
sary. in suppressing any disturbance
that might, perchance, take place.
Thus he saw the old agitator when be
assembled the scaffold with steady
/ tread and hung suspended by the neck
until life was extinct. -Greenbri In.
dependent.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-06-05
Arabian Stations Sent To w. Va.

The National Horse Breeders Asso-
citation has shipped fifteen Arabian
Stations to West Virginia to be used
for breeding purposes, on co-opera-
tive plan somewhat similar to that Of
fered by the u. s. Government in con-
=nection with the Morgan and Saddle
stations sent to West Virginia.
These animals are being assembled
at Lewisburg, Greenbrier Co., and
from there will be distributed over the
bluegrass counties of the state. Ono
or more will no doubt be sent to the
Experiment Station Farm.
The Thoroughbred horse owes its
fineness of finish largely to the Arabian
blood and much the same results can
be obtained by crossing the Arabian
and some of the heavier breeds now
commonly found in this State. Many
of the finest saddle horses are the pro
duct of this kind of parentage.
Our former county man. Mr.. Won
Schrader, of Claymont Court is Presi
don't Of this Association.