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Newspaper Page Text14 GKMAH KB COW® EXMEHJ LDITLD fy W. 9 FARNSWORTH - 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-indulgence in Thanksgiving eggnog. It was due to the fact that they were as beau tifully bunked as the agricultural •Xpert 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 rawest stage fall ever witnessed in an Atlanta ring, and there have been plenty of pretty ones here, and he did it in the presence of the biggest crowd that ever witnessed a glove engagement in this fair city. It is well that Mr. McFarland has histrionic nerve. He certainly pos sesses none, pugilistlcally 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 ami give lite fans a run for their money, he reclined there until Harry Mat thews, the referee, gave hint the eount. The blow before u hich he fell was a left-handed slap that touch ed him with about half the force a barber employs when he is giving a facial massage. The lay-down was plain, palpable and generally out rageous. McFarland's legs were shaking when he got his Instructions. When Morris rushed from his Corner, he did a dance, probably to tilde the delirium tremens tendency of his pins. When he got tired of turkey BIG EASTERN ELEVENS STUCK TO OLD FOOTBALL NEW YORK. Nov. 29. With the 1912 football season closed, except for the Army and Navy battle tomorrow in I’hil adelphla, exponents of th< 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 by the new open game, the majority of elevens stuck to the old system of 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 <>’-intpion of the East and her record of ten victories and no deefats is better than any of tin big Western colleges. ITim eion is given second ranking. Carlisle third. Dartmouth fourth and Yale fifth. Dopestors are now busy making tin it all-American selections. Ketcham, the great Yale center, ami Bricklcy. the Crimson halfback, whose wonderful toe and great end runs scored ?! points for the Harvard squad, together with "Jim” Thorpe, the Indian halfback, are sure to be on al! the selections, but there ts a big difference of opinion as io which met will be stars in the other positions. The middies and the cadets are in line condition for their clash tomorrow Each ream has a star punter and drop kicker, but both elevens are pretty evenly matched as to weight ALABAMA DOWNS TENNESSEE. BIRMINGHAM. ALA . Noy. 9 Although outplayed, the University of Alabama football team fought its way to victory over the University of Tennessee aggre gation on Ri> kwood field here yesterday afternoon by a score of 7 to 0 ii'i' I i.:: ;i.j ,1 i l .iim,, .hiillOffi l l ft ■l ll i 11 ■ & You get your money's worth and Shoe h more when you wear Ralstons. Etery Pals” pair we sell carries with it our personal guarantee of satisfaction. We sell Ralstons because we believe in them; we /<> believe in them because the latest models, fc- the most skilled workmanship and the . x best of leathers chum together in Zs Ralstons. ffSi. ' / R. 1). BARKSDALE CO. y I 11 Decatur SKi House I ■KA ' $4.00 ME'l to /' W'ai $6.00 / Mr I Thermo. I I! I Model | trotting he flopped. The main bout was a. startling counterpoint to the scraps that had preceded it. Better preliminaries have never been staged in the city. In the semi-windup, Spider Britt and Mayer Pries, the ancient ene mies of the bantam class, fought their hundred and first draw. It was a whirlwind affair throughout the eight rounds. To a spectator, it seemed that Britt had the better of the going. In addition to this, ft seemed that Pries twice fouled his opponent. Mike Saul, who of ficiated. called it a draw, though, and there have been worse deci sions. Both boys did all their real fighting with their right hands, Britt using a long swing and Pries an overhand chop. Lavelle and Baker Draw. Frank Lavelle and Frank Baker met in the second preliminary. La velle did all the forcing. Two or three times Baker was In trouble, but good ring generalship always saved him. He was fighting flashi ly 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 were novices, but wen willing to trade punches. They fought every step of their four rounds, and Kid Supe rior earned the decision. After the tinal battle, the crowd remained in the hall for somt- time, in order to hiss Mr. McFarland. Having done this 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 fans faked by McFarland. SOUTH CAROLINA WINS STATE FOOTBALL TITLE COLUMBIA, S. C.. Nov. 29. Winning. 86 to 2, in its annual game with the Cita del, the University of South Carolina cap tured the football championship of South Carolina, completing its string of victo ries over all the colleges in the state that play football. Carolina won by a great display of straight football. The Citadel resorted largely to forward fiasses. Howard, for Carolina, played a magnificent game, making two touch downs, and tearing off many long runs. Folger, for the Citadel, was the best man for the losers. Sligli at end for Caro lina. [ait up a brilliant exhibition, and especially on handling punts. LA GRANGE BASKET BALL TEAM OUT AFTER GAMES ALiiiag’ is >i' local basketball teams who desire games for their clubs are asked to < oininunicatc with *he Rev. Henry I>. Phillips. laiGran#. Ga. The biGraugu tram is said to be a strung oae. H Phillips. bj the way. will be re <•*«'»'l•'«! us at all-Southern all-time football Kiia-ti, and assistant coach < f Sewanee football teams. Ih- having the same success w: , basketball teams in con nection w!*’ Ids i hurvh work among boys that he did with football k.'ius at Se wanee, which was very considerable. VIRGINIA AN EASY WINNER. lUt’HAb 'NI». \ A.. Nov. 2!*. -The orange and blue of the University of Virginia trailed the white and blue of the I’ni versitj- of North Carolina in the snow made mud yesterday afternoon to the enormous score of to 0. •run: vrr axita ueohgiav AM) NKWB. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 29. 1912. Heisman’s All-Southern in The Georgian Tomorrow Is the Only Authoritative Pick J e 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 EACH YEAR. Dixie has only one football expert whose judgment ranks in the South where Walter Camp’s does in the East. This 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 play this year. The Tech coach KNOWS FOOTBALL FLAYERS. That is one of the reasons lor his great ness as a coach. He can look his material over and pick the best men for his own team. In similar fashion he looks the whole South over and picks his Ail-Southern team. The one real authoritative All-Southern will be published in The Atlanta Georgian Sfltuiday. Wolgast Cries That He Was Robbed of His Title Referee Claims Fight Even Until Foul Landed By W. \V. 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 tin also had their say when they learned w hat Wolgast had said. The statements follow: By Ad Wolgast—Referee Griffin stole the championship from me. I did not hit Ritchie a foul blow, and if I had been allowed to con tinue I could have gone through the round all right. I was rapidly recovering from the punch that toppled me over. All I ask is that Ritchie give me a chance to win back the title. By Willie Ritchie —I landed a Bob McWhorter Equalled Ted Coy’s Great Game Bowden Also a Hero in Georgia-Auburn Battle By W. S. Farnsworth. THEY have elected Bob Mc- Whorter captain of the Georgia eleven for 1913. They ought to make him mayor of Athens, chief of police and 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 q gridiron ankle deep with mud ahd water. Had the ground been hard and fast McWhorter would have probably won by twice the score that he piled up. I have seen every Harvard-Yale football game sinre 1901, excepting this year's battle, have witnessed nearly every- other big Eastern stiiiggb?.since the same year, but I have never seen one man hold the spotlight as long as did McWhortei yesterday. Tn 1907 Yale defeated Princeton K to 10. Vt the end of the first • half the score was 10 to 0 in Princeton's favor. But in the last half Tod Coy, greatest of all great players that Yale has had. all by his lonesome, tore through the Princeton lint 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 thing on the McWhorter of yesterday . * *■ * 'T'IME and again Georgia had yards and yards to gain on the last down. Did they resort to a punt? I should say not. Instead “LOUISIANA” GETS VERDICT OVER JOHNNY SINCLAIR SPRINGFIELD, OHIO. Nov. 29. "Louisiana.” the Philadelphia feather weight, was given the decision over John ny Sinclair, of Cleveland, here last night at the end of twenty rounds of fast mill ing. but the fans thought that Sinclair should at least have had a draw. He made a god showing. Hud White, of New York, knocked out Jack Tierney, of Louisville, in the first round of them preliminary. UNHOLZ HOLDS SHERMAN TO EIGHT-ROUND DRAW MEMPHIS, Nov. 29.—Making the gam- i est kind of a battle against disheartening ! conditions Rudy Unholz. the Denver vet- i eran lightweight, held the youthful and vigorous Joe Sherman, of this city, to a draw after eight rounds of interesting milling here last night BATTLING NELSON BEATEN BY CROSS IN TEN ROUNDS NEW lORK. Nov. 29. Leach Cross outpointed Battling Nelson in a ten round bout here Nelson took a great deal of punishment, tint was forcing the fighting at the finish. TIE GAME AT WAYCROSS. WAYCROSS. GA, Nov. 29—Columbia university, of Lake City, Fla . and the Waycross Y. M. C. A. football teams played a scoreless game here Both teams made some spectacular plays, and each came within ten yards of making a touch, down \ big holiday crowd was out tv see th. game, which proved one of the neat ever played in Waycross 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 he fouled me and would have fin ished him before the round ended. By Referee James Griffin —I had nothing to do but disqualify Wol gast. The foul blow he landed was a vicious one and clearly’ incapi tuted Ritchie. T 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 5100,000 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 io 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 great 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 thk, Auburn man with tlie 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, « « • 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 and tlie aid that he gave to McWhorter were sensational. In the last quarter Bowden play ed on his nerve alone. His natural strength spent long be fore the end ’’*• the third quarter. But lie 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. • » o 'T'HE wind-up of the football sea son finds the Univeiyity of Georgia team with approximately KILBANE DODGES BOUT: BIG EVENT PENDING CLEVELAND, Nov. 29.—Johnny Kil banc. featherweight champion, has made known why he will not tight Eddie Mor gan. the English boxer, for the world’s championship al San Francisco on New ! Tear’s day. The champion expects the ’ 1 ork to visit ills home in February, and declares lie would not leave Mrs. Kil bane at tills time for the fattest stake ever offered. Kiibane was tendered a purse of $7,500 to meet Morgan. His manager says that he lias turned down offers of $3,000 and I : 7. r ,'T for oth.r lights on the coast be | .-aus! of the impending event. JACK BRITTON KNOCKS OUT SAYLOR IN SEVENTH PAYTON. OHIO, Nov. 29.—Jack Brit ton, of Chicago, added another victory to Ills Im g list by Stopping Young Saylor, of Indianapolis, in seven rounds last night. TOM KENNEDY DEFEATS WILLIAMS IN 6 ROUNDS 39 —Tom Ken nedy. white hope. returned to form J',??t pr day by soundly trouncing Barry " imams, Quakertown heavy, in their six round bout. BIKE RIDERS FROM 14 COUNTRIES IN BIG RACE NEW YORK. Nov 29.—Fourteen teams recruited from many countries of Europe well as different parts of America are expected to compete in the slx-<iay bike races, which start December 9, about 540,000 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 with Wolgast, in which he gained the popular decision. $6,200 of clear profit in Its athletic treasury’ and the showing yesterday’ in Athens, witli 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 Athens 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 from Atlanta. Dr. Ross, Tom Bragg and Mike Donahue of Au burn, Reynolds Tichenor of At lanta, an old Auburn star, and. other Auburnites 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, tLA.. Nov. 29.—Stetson won from Gordon institute yesterday by a score of 41 to 7. ? CORNELL HOLDS PENNSY TO MIGHTY LOW SCORE PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29.—Pennsyl vania added another victory to her long str ng of successes over the Cornell foot ball team by winning the Thanksgiving gaine, on Franklin field by the score of 1 to, ... it had been snowing for almost ten hours before the game began, and th, held was soaked from the slush, causing both teams to frequently muff or fumble the slippery ball. This condition of the field was indirectly responsible for all the scoring. RIVERSIDE BOYS EASY WINNERS OVER G. M. C. sid A e’ r show B to G We Auburn-Gloria Xte }H St £V day ~ w 1 hi ? h -’'Tilled in Import ance the big affair insofar as prep honor’s are concerned The Riverside team locked norns Jth the aggregation representing the Georgia Military college, and were re turned victors by the score of 20 to 6 The result of tlie contest will tie Gordon institute and Riverside for the prep cham pionship of the state. CHATTANOOGA TEAM WINS CHATTANOOGA. TENN .Nov 29-The University of Chattanooga eleven defeated the Eleventh cavalry here by a score of 13 to 0. Ihe locals were superior In everv department of the game. Dexheimer and Bters Pt ° n ' < - hat,anoo £a. proved the GLOWNEY BEATS HOMELAND. MICH • Nov - 29. -Joe Home land. of C hicago, was outpointed in a ten round bout last night by Lou Glowney. a Detroit lightweight. Glowney was the ag gressor and although no decision wa rendered, it was apparent that the De troiter displayed greater skin Rivers Now After Ritchie and His Title; Mexican Wins Clean Victory Over New Orleans Boy ■ ■ ■ - ■ — —— By H. M. Walker. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 29.—Joe Rivers, the Mexican fighter who scored a victory yester day over Joe .Mandot. the New Or leans lightweight, wants to be the first man to meet Willie 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 lias made a great record on the coast and Is popular with the fans, is eager to meet Ritchie and wrest the title from him. "I'll meet him anywhere, and the. sooner the better," was Rivers’ an nouncement today. v It was a clean-cut victory for the Mexican, who showed a re markable reversal of form, exhibit ing more speed and cleverness than he had ever shown. It was nearly dark and the electric lights over the ring had been lighted when Referee Eyton hoisted Rivers' hand in token of victory at the close of the twen tieth round. It was a fierce fight throughout. At times both threw caution to the winds in the efforts for a knock out. The nearest thing to a knock down was scored by Rivers in the fifteenth round, when he almost floored Mandot with a right and left swing to the jaw, followed by clinches in which he rammed both 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 slugging 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 tinie by his wild swings. Al! science was discarded in the last round. Standing close, they HlinnjmmiuirnnnmiHnnuiinnHnninmm A '*” s * - HVyL ~ .... ...y n? Vi “ S/w|t § UGGETr..~”/Q‘fYERL K lll'i I|T|| hhiMMS Have You Seen the Coupon Now in ti 1 ICL fc- Liggett Myers Duke’s Mixture makes a great pipe smoke—and rolled into a cigarette IS nothing can beat it. It is the favorite smoke of thousands of men who want selected, pure, Virginia and » North Carolina bright-leaf tobacco. Bg If you have not smoked Duke’s Mixture, made by Liggett M"ers at Durham, N. C. —try it at once. ’»>«•«•• a,-. 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The Rivers of yesterday was a wholly different boxer from the man who was so hopelessly out classed by the New Orleans light weight on Labor day. He fought a cool and 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 against which Mandot's science was of little avail. Several times the referee was compelled to pry them apart and once Rivers hit the ref eree in breaking away. Neither of the boys was badly’ marked at the -close of the fight. COMMODORES WIN TITLE BY DOWNING SEWANEE NASHVILLE, TENN., Nov. 29.—Van derbilt. defeated Sewanee decisively be fore a crowd of 10,000 persons, 16 to 0. The touchdowns made by Vanderbilt came in the last period. They were made by Quarterback Curlln and Fullback Tur ner after the ball had been rushed con sistently from far down into Vanderbilt's own territory. In the first period, with the ball on her own 4-yard line, Sewanee had to punt from behind the line. Stoney's pass to Gillem went wide and before he could re cover the ball and run it out he was downed by llnoch Brown. This scored 2 points, a safety. MERCER AND FLORIDA TEAMS PLAY TO A TIE JACKSONVILLE. FLA., Nov. 29.—Mer cer and Florida played an 0 to 0 game on the local gridiron, the contest being witnessed by a large crowd. Mercer outweighed the Floridans several pounds to the man, but the Alligators put up a stiff battle throughout. Both teams attempted goals from the field, Mercer once from the 25-yard line, but none of the attempts were success ful. W. 4 L. WINS AGAIN. NORFOLK, VA„ Nov. 29.—-On a field of mud the team of Washington and Lee college easily defeated the team from the Agricultural and Mechanical college of Raleigh, N. C., Thanksgiving afternoon The score was 16 to 6.