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Rivers Now After Ritchie and
His Title; Mexican Wins Clean
Victory Over New Orleans Boy
By 11. M. Walker.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29.—Joe
Rivers. th< Mexican fighter
who scored a victory yester
day over Joe Mandot, the New Or
leans lightweight, wants to be th<
first man to meet Willi. Ritchie,
the new lightweight champion,
when the latter goes into the ring
to defend his crown, and Rivers'
manager today opened negotiations
with Billy Nolan, manager for
Ritchie.
Rivers, who has made a great
record on the coast and is popular
with the fans, is cag. r to me. t
Ritchie and wrest the title from
him.
"I’ll meet him anywhere, and th.
•ooner the better," was Rivers' an
nouncement today.
It was a clean-cut victory for'
the Mexican, who showed n re
markable reversal of form, exhibit
ing more speed and cleverness than
he had ever shown. It was nearly
■lark and the electric lights over th.
ring had been lighted when Referee
Eyton hoist Rivers' hand in token
of victory at the close of the twen
tieth round.
It was a Here, light throughout.
At times both threw cautionto 'he
winds in the efforts tor a knoek
oul The nearest thing to a knock
down was scored by Rivers In the
fifteenth round, when ho .almost
floored Mandot with a right and
left swing to the jaw. followed by
clinches in which he rammed both
BIG EASTERN ELEVENS
STUCK TO OLD FOOTBALL
NEW YORK, N..v, 29 With the MH2
football season closed, except for the
Army and Navy battle tomorrow in Phil
adelphla, exponents of the new style of
play today found a big disappointment in
reviewing the styles of attack used by
the Eastern elevens in their big games.
Despite the chances for long gains and
spectacular plays afforded b? tin now
open game, the majority of elevens
stuck to the old system <>!' making gains
through mass plunges and the forward
pass, predicted as the most popular In
novation in football in ten years, was
used only on rare occasions.
Harvard is the undisputed champion of
the East and her record of ten victories
and no deefuts is better than any of the
big Western colleges. Princeton is given
second ranking, Carlisle third, Dartmouth
fourth and Yale fifth.
Dopesters are non busy making their
all-American .selections. Ketcham, the
great Yale center, anti Brickley, the
Crimson halfback, whose wonderful toe
and great end runs scored 94 points
for the Harvard squad, together with
"Jim'' Thorpe, the Indian halfback, are
sure to be on all the selections, but there
is a big difference of opinion as to which
men will be stars In the other positions.
The middles and the cadets are in fine
condition for their clash tomorrow. Each
team has a star punter and drop kicker,
but both elevens are pretty evenly
matched as to weight.
LA GRANGE BASKET BALL
TEAM OUT AFTER GAMES
Managers of local basketball teams
who desire games for their clubs arb
’asked to eomnnmicate with the itev.
Henry D. I'idilips. LaGrange, Ga. Tie
lat Grange team is said to be a strong "tie.
Mr. Phillips, by the way. will be re
called as an till-Southern all-time football
fnard, and assistant coach of Sewanee
ootball teams. He Is having the same
success with basketball teams in eon
. nection with his church w ork among boys
that he'did with football teams at Se
. v .alter, which was very considerabb
JACK BRITTON KNOCKS
OUT SAYLOR IN SEVENTH
DAYTON. OHIO. Nov. 29. Jack Bril
ton. of Chicago, added another victory to
his long list by stopping Young Saylor, of
Indianapolis, in seven rounds last night.
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hands to the stomach with an oc
casional uppercut to the chin.
Mandot appeared to be almost
out, but rallied gamely and man
aged to obtain something like an
even break in the succeeding two
rounds by slug ting at close quar
ters with the Mexican, who had
cast aside all defensive efforts in
an attempt to put the Southerner
down for the count.
Mandot's judgment of distance,
however, seemed defective and he
was thrown off his balance time
after time by his wild swings. All
science wire discarded in the last
round. Standing close. they
slammed rights and lefts to the
head and fought fiercely head to
head, with honors about even for
Hie round.
The Rivers of yesterday a
wholly different boxer from the
man who was so hopelessly out
classed by tlie New Orleans light
weight on Labor day. He fought a
cool ami heady battle, and instead
of covering in the attacks of the
Southerner, he fought back hard.
Throughout the fight. Rivers
sought to work In close, shooting
hard rights and lefts to the body,
varied with an occasional upper
cut. a method of offensive fighting
i against which Mandot's science was
| of little avail. Several times the
referee was compelled to pry them
i apart and once Rivers hit the ref
» eri?< in breaking away. Neither of
tlje boys was badly marked at the
close of the fight
SOUTH CAROLINA WINS
STATE FOOTBALL TITLE
i'OLIMBIA. S. C., Nov. 29. Winning.
2H io 2. in its annual game with the cita
del, the Fnlverslty <<f South Carolina cap
tured the lootball championship of South
Carolina, completing its string of victo
ries over all the colleges in the state that
play toutball. Carolina won by a great
display of straight footban.
i The Citadel resorted largely to forward
passes Howard, for Carolina, played a
magnificent game, making two toueh
; downs, ami tearing off niany long runs.
r "Ik**!*, for the Citadel, was the best man
the losers. Sllgh, al end for Caro
; Hna. put up n brilliant exhibition, and
especially on handling punts.
: COMMODORES WIN TITLE
BY DOWNING SEWANEE
* NASHVILLE. TENN.. Nov. 29. Van
derbilt defeated .Sewanee decisively be-
i fore a crowd of 10,000 persons, 16'to o.
: The touchdowns made by Vanderbilt
came in live last period. They were made
i by Quarterback Curlin and Fullback Tur
ner after the ball had been rushed con-
■ slstently front far down into Vanderbilt's
i own territory.
In the first period, with the ball on her
own -l-yard hue. Sewanee had to punt
from behind the line, Stoney's pass to
Gtllem went wide and before he could re
cover the ball and run it out he was
downed by Enoch Brown. This scored 2
; points, a safety.
MERCER AND FLORIDA
TEAMS PLAY TO A TIE
JACKS< ‘Wn.i.i:. n.\ . Nom 29 Mer
. err and Florida played an U to u game
1 on th»> local gridiron, the contest being
witnessed by a large crowd. Mercer
outweighed the Floridans several pounds
to the man, hut the Alligators put up a
’ stiff battle throughout.
Both teams attempted goals from the
field. Mercer once from the 25-yard line,
hut none of the attempts wore success
ful.
I ; A a L. WINS AGAIN
NOUFOLK, VA.. Nov. 29. On a field of
mud the team of Washington and Leo
college easily defeated the team from the
• Agricultural and Mechanical college of
Raleigh. N. Thnnasi*iving afternoon.
The score was 1H to
THE ATLANTA. GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1912. __
Sporting Dope Badly Upset Yesterday;
Bunch of Odds-On Favorites Defeated
Thanksgiving Day of 1912 goes down in sporting history as Form Reversal Day!
Any man who bet on yesterday's sporting events according to the dictates of the dope is
a bankrupt this morning.
All the dope on the Wolgast-Ritchie fight read: WOLGAST. Os course the San Francisco kill
jumped into fame a year ago by showing well on short notice against Freddie "Welch. H<
didn't do much against Mandot, and his four-round showing against Wolgast was regarded as a
flash-in-the-pan. This morning Willie is the champion. Wolgast a second rater.
The Rivers-Mandot overthrow of dope was worse. On Labor Day Mandot made Rivers
look like a cheap bum. Yesterday it was only the rare gameness and cleverness of the New
Orleans boy that enabled him to stand to the limit against Rivers.
In both fights the odds-on favorite in the betting was trimmed.
At Athens there was a football reversal of form that staggered the Southland. Note that
Vanderbilt beat Georgia Ito 0, and that Auburn tied Vanderbilt, 7 to 7. Therefore, when Au
burn faced Georgia it was good doping to predict a victory for Auburn by i touchdowns. .As u .
matter of fact Bob McWhorter and his clan rallied and trimmed Auburn 12 to 6:
There were mild form reversals in other games. Tech and Clemson looked even, but Fceli
won. 20 to 0. Carlisle and Brown looked moderately even, but Carlisle won, 32 to 9. largely
dm- to Jim Thorpe’s marvelous work. \ andy-Sewanee looked a toss-up. but \ andy won 16 to 0.
Even the local road race was an upset. Gilbert Cheeves looked the winner, but he dido t
even finish. ' Locke, of Wesley Memorial, copped.
Wolgast Cries That He Was Robbed of His Title
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Referee Claims Fight Even Until Foul Landed
I >y W. W. Naughton.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29.
Crying "robbery” and nursing
the bruised portions of his
body, Ad Wolgast, ex-champion
lightweight of the world until his
trimming by Willie Ritchie yester
day, today issued a statement.
Ritchie and Referee James Grif
fin also had their say when they
learned what Wolgast had said. The
statements follow:
By Ad Wolgast—Referee Griftin
stole the championship from me.
I did not hit Ritchie a foul blow, -
and if I had been allqwed to con
tinue I could have gone through
tlie round all right, 1 was rapidly
recovering f?>m the punch that
toppled me over. All I ask is that
Ritchie give me a chance to win
back tile title.
By Willie Ritchie —I landed a
Bob McWhorter Equalled Ted Coy's Great Game
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Bowden Also a Hero in Georgia-Auburn Battle
By \V. S. Farnsworth.
f pHEY have elected Bob Mc-
I Whortei captain of the
Georgia eleven for 1913.
They ought to' make him mayor of
Athens, chief of police ami head of
everything else in that village of
a double-barreled cannon fame.
By a score of 12 to 6 McWhorter
defeated Auburn yesterday on a
gridiron ankle deep .with mud and
water. Had the ground been hard
and fast McWhortt r would have
probably won bj- twice the score
that he piled up.
1 have seen every Harvard-Yale
football game since 1901, excepting
this year’s battle, have witnessed
nearly every other big Eastern
struggle since the same year, but T
have never seen one man hold the
spotlight as long as did McWhorter
yesterday.
In 1907 Yale defeated Princeton
12 to 10. At tire end of the first
half the score was 10 to 0 in
Princeton’s favor. But in the test
half Ted Coy. greatest of all great
players that Yale has had, all by
his lonesome, tore through the
Princeton line for two touchdowns
and kicked the two goals that won
for the Bulldog.
1 thought Coy was a bear then.
But he didn’t have a tiling on the
McWhorter of yesterday.
• » •
'T’IME and again Georgia had
y ards and yards to gain on the
last down. Did they resort to a
punt? 1 should say not. Instead
Heisman’s All-Southern in The Georgian
Tomorrow; the Only Authoritative Pick
J. W. HEISMAN’S All-Southern football team will appear in The Atlanta Georgian Saturday
afternoon.
This is the ONE BIG ALL-SOUTHERN TEAM PUBLISHED IN THE SOUTH FAOH
YEAR. .
Dixie ha« only one football expert whose judgment ranks in the South where Walter
( amp s does in the East. Phis man is J. W. Heisman.
Mr. Heisman has been coaching teams in the South for nearly a score of years He is the
South’s deepest student of football. He has seen most of the prominent S. I. A. A. teams nlav
this year. • 1
The T....1, KNOWS h’OOTBAI.I, PLAYERS. That i» one „f the reason, for his great.
u<~a wh. 11 ■ osn look his lUHlensl over uu4 pick the best men for his own team In
similar fashion lie looks the whole South over and picks his All-Southern team •
l iH’ one real authoritative All-Southern will be published in The Atlanta Georgian Saturdin.
blow on Wolgast's stomach in the
eighth round that convinced me I
was going to win the tight. Wol
gast was In pain and his blows did
not have the same effect after that.
I had Wolgast at my mercy when
be fouled me and would have fin
ished him before the round ended.
By Referee James Griffin —I had
nothing jo do but disqualify Wol
gast. The foul blow he landed was
a vicious-one and clearly incapi
tated Ritchie. I could not See that
either man had any advantage up
to the sixteenth round.
Willie Ritchie awoke today to
find that he had not only inherited
the title of lightweight champion
of the world, but about SIOO,OOO be
sides.
Vaudeville managers are making
high bids for Ritchie’s services, and
by accepting the offers he will add
they called upon McWhorter. And
McWhorter never failed to make It
first down. Three times he was
called upon to make anywhere from
twelve to eighteen yards, and, run
ning- low and fast with no inter
ference, he proved equal to the oc
casion.
I had heard that McWhorter was
a gieat offensive back, but that on
the defense he amounted to little.
It was loose talk that I had listened
to. for yesterday McWhorter time
and again got to tha Auburn man
with the ball and threw him for a
loss. His tackling was sure and
heavy. . And "heavy” is far from
being the proper word. Why, that
human steam roller dropped the
opposition hard enough to kill them
hadn’t they been well conditioned
athletes.
» * •
A ND hats off to Bowden, too. This
boy played a wonderful game
and would have been the big hero
hadn’t McWhorter been on the ho
rizon of fame. Bowden’s end runs;
his plunges outside of tackle aMd
the aid that lie gave to McWhorter
were sensational.
In the last quarter Bowden play
ed on his nerve alone. His natural
strength had been spent long be
fore the end of the third quarter.
But he was game—game from the
top of his head to the bottom of his
wet feet.- And he played that last
fifteen minutes on his nerve alone.
♦ « »
THE wind-up of the football sea
son finds the University of
Georgia team with approximately
about $40,000 to his bank roll. The
major portion of the purses In a
half dozen bouts with second raters
against whom his manager will pit
him for the next six months, as
well as the heavy end in the big
bouts that will follow, probably will
add another $60,000 to his fortune.
Ritchie’s rise has been meteoric.
A year ago, unknown, unheralded,
he came to this town and begged
for a chance against some of the
third and fourth raters. He got
them and made good—also enough
money to provide him with break
fast and occasional dinners.
When Wolgast found it impossi
ble to meet Freddy Welsh, the Eng
lish fighter, Ritchie was substi
tuted. What he did to Welsh is his
tory.
Then came Ritchie’s four-round
bout witli Wolgast, in which he
gained the popular decision.
$6,200 of clear profit in its athletic
treasury and the showing yesterday
in Athens, with some 4,500 persons
present, is one of the best argu
ments in favor of playing all Au
burn-Georgia games in Athens, or
at least the remaining four that are
called for in the present contract.
Six hundred supporters of both
teams went to on a special
train, and Harrison Jones, 'O7, told
the Auburn and Georgia men at a
smoker in Athens last night that in
clear weather hereafter he would
guarantee 1,200 to 1,500 persons
ftom Atlanta. Dr. Ross, Tom
Bragg and Mike Donahue of Au
burn, Reynolds Tichenor of At
lanta. an old Auburn star, and
other Auburnltes listened with
great interest to the Georgia prop
osition and announced that they
would go back home and think it
over. No action can be taken be
fore the Auburn student body is
consulted.
Each team cleared approximate
ly $1,750 yesterday, counting out
SI,OOO for expenses. Georgia clear
ed SI,BOO on the Vanderbilt game in
Atlanta, $2,400 on the Tech game
and lost SSO on the Alabama game
at Columbus, the only loss of the
season.
It was pointed out in Athens that
games played in Auburn are usual
ly at a loss and hope is held that
Auburn will accede to the wishes
of the university in transferring its
two games to Athens.
STETSON BESTS GORDON.
DE LAND, FLA., Nov. 29.—-Stetson won
from Gordon Institute yesterday bv a
score of 41 to 7.
McFarland Does a Wonderful
Flop to Morris; Britt Fights
Pries Eight Corking Rounds
By Left Hook.
Atlanta boxing fans woke up
with a headache today, and it
wasn't from over-indulgencei n
Thanksgiving eggnog. It was due
to the fact that they were as beau
tifully bunked as the agricultural
expert who bought the gold brick
in the muchly advertised, highly
touted meeting between Carl Mor
ris and Jack McFarland.
To Mr. McFarland our hats are
off. He had the nerve to pull the
rarest stage fall ever witnessed in
an Atlanta ring, and there have
been plenty of pretty ones here,
and lie did it in the presence of the
biggest crowd that ever witnessed
a glove engagement ill. this fair
city.
It is well that Mr. McFarland lias
histrionic nerve. He certainly pos
sesses none, pugilistically speaking.
He was scared stiff when he crawl
ed through the ropes, and he kept
getting worse. Just exactly a min
ute and a half after the huge Mor
ris had first rushed at him, “the
Twentieth Century Bob Fitzsim
mons” felt the end of a glove scrape
his chin. That was enough. He
flopped on the floor, even as a tired
man hits the hay. and, despite
Morris' urging him to get up and
give the fans a run for their money,
iie reclined there until Harry Mat
thews. the referee, gave him the
count.
The blow before which he fell
was a left-handed slap that touch
ed him with about half the force a
barber employs when lie is giving a
facial massage. The lay-down was
plain, palpable and generally out
rageous.
McF"arlanil’s legs were shaking
when he got his instructions. When
Morris rushed from his corner, he
did a dance, probably to hide the
delirium tremens tendency of bis
pins. When he got tired of turkey
trotting he flopped.
Britt G'ven Only a Draw.
The main bout was a startling
counterpoint to the scraps that had
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preceded it. Better preliminary,
have never been staged in the city
In the semi-windup. Spider Britt
and Mayer Pries, the ancient .-n...
rnies of the bantam class, fought
their hundred and first draw, p
was a whirlwind affair throughout
the eight rounds. To a spectatoi.
it seemed that Britt had tin- l>, tn
of the going. In addition to thb,
it seemed that Fries twice fouled
his opponent. Mike Saul, who of
ficiated, called it a draw, though,
and there have been worse deci
sions. Both boys did al] their real
fighting wilth their right hands.
Britt using a long swing and Pries
an overhand chop.
Lavelle and Baker Draw.
The second preliminary was an
other engagement between Tommy
Lavelle and Frank Baker. To the
surprise of the crowd, who Baker
impressed on his two previous ap
pearances here, Lavelle carried the
lighting to him and gave the Nash
ville boy no chance to utilize his
superior boxing. Two or three timi >
Baker was in trouble, but good
ring generalship always saved him.
He was fighting flashily at the end
of the sixth round. Saul called it a
draw.
The first preliminary was a slap
bang affair between Kid Superior
and Young< Attell. Both boys who
novices, but were willing to trade
punches. They fought every step of
their four rounds, and Kid Supe
rior earned the decision.
After the final battle, the viowi
remained in the hall for some tint .
in order to hiss Mr. McFarland.
Having done tills to their hearts'
content, they wended their way
homeward.
Whitney to Meet English.
The club management announced
that on the night of December 3
Clarence English will meet Frank
Whitney. Both boys are well known
locally. The management hopes
they will put up a mill that will
prove a balm for the injured feel
ings of the thousand or so fan.-
faked by McFarland.