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cavalry officers who could hardly ride: we had officers
of signal troops who, few months before, had been
telegraph operators country stations The Philippine
formed, and gave additional opportunities
The constabulary followed, with officers drawn by
the civil service from m-Wcstern colleges and from the
ranks of the regular regiments. The old stvle of pro
motion, by which man joined particular regiment as
Second Lieutenant and advanced in that same reg
ment only someone ahead of him went out was
changed, and officer who serving dav in the
First Infantry might be serving the next in the Twenty
fifth. The coast artillery was made an immense ser
vice, and by of its technical requirements drew
large numbers of the academy graduates who would
otherwise have filled the vacancies the mobile army
The signal troops were increased and gathered in the
best from the volunteer signal companies that had
been the nasty of that branch of the service during
the The administrative departments swelled to
care for the increase. And even the marine corps
which had formerly been oicered by graduates of the
Naval Academy, enlarged fvefold and took into
its list of officers hundreds of from civil life who
had not had enough of soldering during the war! It
huge lump of leaven, terrible dose for the army
to swallow, and, although it took time to digest it. it
finally did it. but the army returned to its former
ways.
These changes, however, profound they were in
their effect every regiment in the service passed
almost unnoticed except everyday facts. We old
and new, too busy to think Of any significance
The tropical life in those oriental islands and the un-
expected conditions with alien as new to
the oldest veteran they to the youngest Lieu
tenant from the civilized city of New York. and al
though new officers coming from every conceivable
source, principally occupied with driving the
googoos from the bush and did stop think of it.
TT not until fully five years after the calamity of
the Maine that the army had time to draw breath
and look around BY that time the volunteer regiments
had been paid off and sent hoc the tactical positions
in the Philippines definitely established the civil
government working, and the odtine posts in the
States were becoming realities. The various
regiments found themselves in strange situations The
ciques of officers and their wives the traditional army
families scattered all over the service the orgi-
nal leaders and autocrats had either completely disap-
pe;red had else gone up to undreamed Of heights
nrdtl their Ia hnn,, tn1-n
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ton of occupation and the studies of administration in
which the army was always pushing just ahead of the
statesman, ended all hope of that
Its immediate effect the enlargement of the army
to three times its former Officers who had given
up hope of being Majors before they retired be-
came Colonies and Brigadier Generals; the oldtme
Sergeants and regmental characters disappeared like
the snow, and in their places thousands of fresh
faced boys while among the junior officers came new
additions from every conceivable source What had
once been army of men with solemn, professional
faces became rank and register, almost startling g
gregation of youth Second Leutenants from the
volunteers; they from the ranks; they from
the colleges they came from commercial life. We had
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him. The commanding officer not in camp; but
the Adjutant ready for us, and after hearty wei
come with orders We were all assigned to
different battalions and to the last in the line 1t
was Just suppertne as we approached the four COM
panics at the end of the field and out of the officers
tents came pouring the oddest lot of mortas that
think had ever in my life; for the regiment had
been alone for months and expecting company.
First there was tall thin young with humorous
face, but dressed in al particulars like the ideal soldier
Next came fat man, halcss and with curly red hair,
wearing old blue shirt, Khaki riding breeches un-
laced at the bottom and without either shoes or leg
gngs; next old First Lieutenant with gray droop-
ing mustache like General Sheridan's and finally
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men, in baking The old militia reorganized
and brought together with the regular army for
maneuvers, that general officers could really work
with brigades and divisions Officers scattered
among the State regiments, and later stationed there
permanently with the result that the National Guard
became integral part of the army.
All this, however, required more and more officers,
and two years ago places for hundred additional
Second Leutenants created by act OF Congress
The army moreover, has become much more flexible
than it was before, and officers have come and
gone Some have died in the islands, others have found
that they had chosen wrongly and have resigned.
Changes in organization have created constantly
Corfrued on II
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and their places been taken
byyoung men whohad never
thought Of the army until
they were grown and estab-
lished in civil occupations.
We had West Point gradu-
ates, bankers, school teach
ers, college athletes, poll
ticians, sons of politicians,
and gentlemen of leisure
holding commissions side by
side; but over all was an
astonishing spirit Of genial
ity. 1t was a new army,
and it worked!
In the meantime and in
the years that followed every
inducement was offered for
individual talent. Field
service work, which had
formerly been largely a
dream, was now more impor-
tant than all other branches.
Young officers began flock
ing to the service schools of
Leavenworth in increasing
numbers and with increased
earnestness. They studied
the armies of Europe and
the wars Of history. They
became specialists in rifle
shooting, in security and
information" in the trans
portation and feeding of
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-20
Baseball Proves Good Investment
Giants Clear 100000 a Year

taIl-end teams stick TO the game-get
a death grip on the stock of their
club and let go only when some or
gdnized faction in their own organ
ization forces them out?
Skidding off now in the general di-
rection of the ball player, one finds a
large number of instances to show
that numbered among the next gem
GRAFTON Of milionaires there will be
quite crowd of eX-ball players.
CHRISTY MATHEWSON,o Of the
- Giants. started in baseball thir-
teen years ago with a wise head, a
good arm and a pair of shoe strings.
To-day Matty is worth between $780,
600 and 100000 and the money is
coming in so fast that he needs a
Wheelbarrow to cart it off to the
bank.
Matty hasn't made his fortune sim
ply as a player. But the game gave
him the Start-aud it gave him the
fame that he is coming into dollars
now. Matty's income for the past
few years has been something be-
tween 100000 and $4,000 Some of
it has come from the eXchequer Of
the Giants. He has made a large pile
writing" articles for the newspapers.
He. has written a book that brings
him a nice royalty He is Co-author
Of play that brings him nice re-
turns But one of his biggest sources
Of income is from his investments.
Matty, during mis- years as the idol
Of New York fandom, has gained the
friendship Of many q New Yorli's
business men, and many of the Wan
Street brokers. Whenever these men
learn Of a good thing" by the way
Of investment they slip the tip" to
Matty, and Matty gets in"--and
usually he gets out with a nice big
profit.
Frank Chance. manager OF the Yam
KEGS is worth about 100000
Larry Laioic, Of the Maps, who was
q NoonsocEet hack driver about
eighteen years ago and mighty happy
when ne earned 81 a day. is worth in
tho neighborhood of 100000 to $780,
00o.
Mordecai Brown. once of the
Cubs and now Of the Feds, has about
$4,000 stored away in the cooler.
Eddie Collins, the Athletics second
sacker. is worth around $4,000 to-
day. according TO reports
PITY the poor bail player"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-20
Taft Asks S875,000
For Chicago Club

CHICAGO, March 2O.-Here's how the
price Of the Cubs has scared. When
Charles w. Murphy bought the Cubs
from James A. Hart it is said he paid
between 100000 and sos, 600 for con-
troll of the West Side organization.
With the deposing of Murphy followed
bids for the purchase of the organiza-
ton. until II was learned to-day that
$lO5, 900 separated Mr.. Taft's price from
what the local syndicates cared 10
offer.
The Connery syndicate in dckering
with the Cub owners for the stock in
the club offered S150,000. Finally he
raised it to $40 600 Even, at that fig
ure Taft refused. His price was and
still is $4,000 Because the syndi-
Gates bidding for the Chicago Nationals
wouldn't meet the price, Mr.. Taft Is
still in control, II was said about the
Cub headquarters to-day that the club
can still be purchased for SS75000,
Mr. Murphy cleaned the last OF his
belongings from the Cub office to-day
and plans long vacation In Florida.
He, Mr.. Taft, and President Thomas all
declared that Murphy is out.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-20
By Frank G. Menke.

NTEW YORK, March 20.-ls there
~ any money in baseball? oh
not much for the stockholders
of a winning club-that is. not more
than dividends ranging from 300 tC
1000 per cent each year. That's all
And as far as the ball player is
concerned-well, there isn't much in
it for him; not more than 5000 900 on
100000 that he can run up into a
million in few years by careful in
Vestment under the guidance of bust
ness men who know an opportunity
when they see it and who gladly sir
tips to star ball players
The National Exhibition Company
is the corporate name Of the New
York Giants. Its Incorporated under
the laws Of New Jersey. which laws
do not compel a corporation to pub
fish or even file a list showing earn
ings Therefore the exact profits
garnered each year by the Giants are
matter of speculation.
But those on the inside of baseball
declare that the Giants for the past
three years. including the world Sc
ries receipts, of course. have cleared
close to $1,000,000 year. The club is
capitalized at $4,000, which means
that the club has paid dividends each
year of $4,000 on every 800 invested
THE Chicago Cubs, next to the
= Giants, have been regarded as
the biggest money makers in the old
league. According TO Charles Webb
Murphy, denoted preXy of the outfit
he started i'm baseball i'm 1908 with
one cotton shoe string and emerged
with over million" That mean.
that Murphy alone cleaned up ar
average of close to $1J0000 "a year
which includes the marvellous I'M
crease in the price Of the stock which
he sold
Murphy got nearly $4,000 for every
500 share Of stock he had i'm the
Cubs-showing that his stock had i'm
creased 100 times in value in some
thing like seven years
The Boston Red SoX in l912-Wher
they won the worlds championship
are said to have cleared nearly 5000
600. The Cleveland Maps last year
although they finished third and Wer,
practically out of the pennant race
during the last six months, cleared
about $780, according TO reports
The Athletics in 1910, 1911 and 1871;
are said to have cleared over Sl,5OO,-
000--an average Of 100000 a season
and in 1912. when they failed to graz
the pennant, they earned something
over 100000.
livery time anyone intimates to- q
II baseball magnate that there's d
fortune In baseball the said magnaIC
released wall of anguish ana as
sures the populace that there ainl
no money to be made in baseball,
baseball is a losing proposition unless
you have a pennant winner cacf
year"
Isn't it odd, then. in face Of this
statement, that even the magnatcs OF
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-20
Mike Finn, Hit by
Ball, Now in Fear
Of Blood Poison

MEMPHIS, TENN. March 20-M J.
Finn, manager of the Memphis base
ball team. is in a serious condition to-
day as the result of blow he received
on the foot at the ball park Tuesday.
The foot is badly swollen and discol-
ored and blood poisoning is feared.
There is a possibility even though blood
poison fails to develop, that Finn will
be kept off the field for a month,
While sitting on the bench tuesday
Finn was struck on the foot by ball
from Dunckel's bat, and the foot badly
bruised. Finn limped around Wednes-
day and Thursday neglecting to give
the injured member attention. To-day
1t became worse and the manager was
confined to his bed. Captain Jim Null
len will look after the Turtles in Firms
absence.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-20

NYNEWS
GIAT q ~ q


Big George McQuillan, who came to
life last year after he had been rescued
from the minor league obscurity by Fred
Clarke, Is the star member of the pitch
ing squad OF the Pirates at dawson
Springs, and unless he goes bad, looks
due for very good year.
Billy Purtell, who played third base
for the Red Sox for short time rev
years back, has found his arm again and
the difficult corner for the Detroit IL
gers
According to an announcement from
Birmingham. the So Louis Browns have
released First Baseman Clarence Cow
ington to the Birmingham club
Jack Pfeister one OF the old time
Cubs. will handle an independent Team
in Cincinnati this season. one OF MS
players will be Jimmy Barton veteran
minor league inhelder,
1t may be reckoned that the jinX has
descended upon the Philles Tor Keeps.
Even the training camp at Wilmington
was found unsatisfactory both as 10
weather and ground conditions.
Pitcher r. c. Boyd, who was compelled
10 give AD ttf game WING WIN ~
mingham because Of lame arm, thinks
he can come back and has asked the
Nashville club to give him a trial
The Toronto club announces that II
has secured Pitcher Fred Herbert from
the Brooklyn team.
~ cobb picks Jack Barry, Billy Sulli-
van. Charley Wagner, Bobby Wallace
a hrainipgt hall NAV
ers he knows
Baseball has been taken up in France
with great enthusiasm and soon VIII be
a popular sport there. according to ~
II Burgess, president OF the Nesihei
(France) bali club, who has arrived IN
New York on the steamer La Lorraine
Clemson College. with an enrolment
of a trine over 500, turned out more
than 100 candidates for the baseball
team on the first call
Big Ed Konetchy is reported to have
a new lease Of life, since he has become
a Pirate, and is going like a three
vear-old at the Dawson Springs camp
Clarke saws the big Bohemian comes
pretty near meaning pennant for
Plttsburg.
Now is the time when aspiring ball
PLAYERS get their pictures and histories
INTO all tho papers in the big league
cities. And even II they don't make
good, they have the clippings to hand
down to posterity However, that Is
not much consolation to chap playing
some hundreds OF miles away from the
centers of civilization for about ten per,
IL the crowds are good.
Buck OBren Is still unwilling 10 go
TO the Federals, though he has plenty
figures that il he gets good start he
will eventually come back TO fast com
pany. Bucks confidence in himself Is
also his reason for not going 10 Oak
land, as he wants to be handy when the
opportunity arrives to make quick
jump.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-20
Jackets Will Open
Season Tomorrow
Against Riverside

The Tech Yellow Jackets win open
their baseball season tomorrow after
noon when they tackle the Riverside
Military Academy nine at Grant Field
The Tech squad has been practicing
daily and the players should be In fair
~ good shape
Heisman hopes to cut his squad ma
terially in the next few days and to-
morrow's struggle will give him a fine
chance to look over his material.
Neither team has announced its lineup.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-20

Robert Davis. matchmaker FOR Harry
Staten's club, was a busy party yester-
day trying to close the Terry Nelson
Jake Abel bout for his club on April
10. The Georgia Athletic Club is also
after the scrap and the rival promot-
ers are having merry battle trying to
land the match
Jack Sentell. who has fought many
battles around here, writes from Jack
sonVille that he would like to come to
Atlanta for a crack at Terry Nelson
Sentel and the Greek lightweight re-
Gently clashed In a twenty round bout.
and the pair should put up a good scrap
over the ten-round route.
Billy Jacobs, manager of X. O. Egg
gers drops us a few lines from Chat
tanooga stating that Itggers has al
with Jimmy Grant at the Orpheum
Theater ON March 81 As Eggers has
agreed to make ll6 pounds ringside for
Grant the Eastern bantam wants TO
get IN as much work as possible so that
he viii not have to weaken himself in
order TO make the weight
Grant is also down to hard work and
is going through his regular training
grind syery afternoon a the Business
noon Jimmy boxed three rounds with
Jimmy Perry, and appeared to be hit
unB WIN ms olu- uine power ans
gre h. alre go, La'k!ng ABOUT the coming
palic lHteh tuesg Ci"Ch pdH'dIlS
anu sunni H6hN ~ "H'blh ~
Stewart Donnelly. who battles Jimmy
Ferry AT me Georgia 3'hielc CUP
TUESDAY hlsll WIZ proudply remain
mere u ne gets as Sood as ora" with
me ~ 3ouIseI. a luedi promoter mas
promised DOnnclly a match with Eddie
w euei 81 Luuie llanloIii anu Sle"
Is considering accepting the bout
'BatulhE burke, nkely looking
scIdpper from NeW Drieans' arrived IN
AuanA from view orleans yesterday,
ready ana eager 10 take on any OF inc
lA4-Puuhd boys around mere burke mas
louGht some on llc ntsl 9.la III NE
country ana SAYS ne ls wing 10 give
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-20
Shugrue and Cross
In Battle Tonight

NEW YORK. March 2O.-"Young'
Joe Shugrue, the slashlng little boxer
from Jersey city. and Leach Cross, OF
the East Side. will meet in a ten-round
bout at the Empire Athletic Club to-
night
a little more than a year ago the
boys met at Madison Square Garden.
ana IN me opinion OF me majority Shu-
had a narrow escape from being knocked
out In one Of the early rounds. He has
wonderfully improved since then, how
ever and expects to go through the
match with flying colors.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-20
Feds Out After
Heine Zim; Make
Him a Big Offer

LOUISVILLE. KY, March, 20-Tha'
is no,,qht bv the Federal Leaguers be
came ne known here to-day through the he
Jispatehes Of a local sporting writer
i. frayeiing with the Louisville team IN the
SSouth 49,. ,,oo,o,e ,s,o,,oI,
yuanager Of the Kansas HtV Federals,
oftsre3 zimmerman q salary in excess
Of No GOO a wear. which he now draws
frornIthe cubs. Stovall is acting in acc-
cordance with the latest order OF Pres sl,
dent Giinore. Of the Federal. who told
him 10 disregard all contracts.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-20
FOOD FOR SPORT FANS
ay oEoRoa q. pHAIR.

game guy, We'd De afraid TO jump
if we had those bunons
You can't blame Joe Azevedo when
he protests against being called
Mexican. How would YOU like to be
called a Mexican?
SPRING FLOWERS.
What doth ii profit to ciOW in the
Spring,
TO hummer the bal to the feHceg
u gains not a 1chu if B0H trD for a
nit
And WhiG about ScrCn icecks hence.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-20
SULLIVAN SAYS
He ONCE HELD
WORLD TITLE
Old Heavyweight Declares He
Beat Michel in America and
Whipped All Comres.
BY Ned Brown.

NEW YORK March 2o.-"Was !
4 " ever heavyweight champion OF
the world ."
Old John l.. Sullivan repeated the
question. had explained to him that
so per cent of the latter-day pugiis-
tic experts maintain he was, while
the other 80 per cent are equally pos
tive that he was merely champion of
America.
We get barrel of queries every
month on this subject, and no matter
which way we answer, we get rise
out of somebody. So we've put it up
to you. What's the answer"
"Wel, now, listen to me, young fell
low" began the imperishable idol of
all fight fans as he grasped the back
of a chair and seated himself hobby
horse fashion IL licked Paddy Ryan
for the championship of America,
didn't l? And then after going
through all the rest of EN- | licked
Jake Klrain for the championship of
the world with bare knuckles, didn't
]? | refused to fight Peter Jackson
in public because he was a negro,
but | offered to fight him in private
for any amount of side bet and the
championship and he refused, DIDN'T
he ?'
A S the last two words rumbled out
- in crescendo roar | jumped
slightly and FASTENED to affirm that
he certainly did" although l num-
bted alphabetically that | wasn't there
at the time but
And then didn't l meet all corners
and fiatten 'em as fast as they came,
or rather as fast as Dick Fox could
import 'em from all over England
Ireland, Wales and every other place
that was then on the map?
Il did,"
And now, I ask you, what would
YOU call man that had done all
those things"
Gee whiz! I'd hate to call him
anything-except over the telephone y
] answered. but. then. Mr. Sullivan,
your decision is that you were the
champion of the world?"
ut sure is" roared John L., and
I'm still the champion of the world
under London prize ring rules" and
he looked about as if to challenge
anybody to deny it.
ga for that argument about me
never having beaten Charlie
Mitchell, | will say that l did get a
decision over Mitchell on May IA,
1888. when we fought for the gate re-
ceipts in this city.
Il feel Just as well to-day as ever
did in my life continued Sullivan,
and he certainly looks it. Despite his
55 years. his skin is clear as childs s.,
his eve keen and bright, his mind
alert and his voice as deep and gruff
as ever. s.,
EVERY man ought to feel good, if
he'll only take care of himself Yes,
know they all blame it on booze,
but booze never hurt me. 1t never
hurts anybody if he knows how TO
drink. but men hurt themselves by
abusing booze. Since he reformers
have gotten after the saloons they We
made room for worse evil. why,
ten wears ago dope fiend was a
raritV-now there's million of EN-.
You know, a mans stomach IS the
biggest part of him. II he'd only
take care of 1t he'd never feel out OF
sorts. but nowadays people are m
clined TO make-well, they put every
thing into their stomachs. I've always
maintained that any man can live TO
be a hundred years old if he'll take
care of his stomach.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-20
Battling Kelly and
York Box Saturday

The management Of the Columbia
Theater has landed a good bout for to-
morrow night Battling Kelly and Kid
York. two Of the best boys developed
In Atlanta for some time. will clash in
a scheduled teu-rOuud bout
The semi -Windup win bring Battling
sheppard and Young Nelson together
I'm siN-round affair
Kid Rudder and Battling Clark are
billed 20 meet i'm the four-round opener.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-20
Foul Fighting Forces
Referee to Stop Go

LA CROSSE, WIS, March 20.-For
the first time since the passage Of the
Wisconsin boxing law an exhibition was
called off by the referee because OF
fouls and the gate receipts held pending
action by the state Boxing Commits
sion Jack Redmond, who fought d
ten-round draw with Ad Wolgast went
six rounds with Pete Childs. OF Chicago.
From the start both men claimed re-
peated fouls and disregarded orders OF
Referee Duffy Twice Redmond went
to his corner and threatened to quit.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-20

CHIGAGO. March 20.-Nothing that
hoo an. ~ Inc earmarl,s Of boxing will
go I'm Chicago. Mayor Harrison an
nounCed to-Gay. lie refused to give
W,iiie Richie permit to box four
rounds with one Of his sparring part
rers at a West side theater, Where ne
is appearing in vaudeville.