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TITE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
Good Ring Performers, Unlike Good Wines, Never Seem to Improve Wit h Age
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TEN-ROUND 60
Gotham Crowd Hisses and Hoots
as Rival Heavyweights Put
Up Tame Bout.
By Right Cross.
N KfVC YORK, Dec. 4.—Nearly r>00
pound* of weight, exhibited it
self in the ring at Madison
Square Garden last night for the edi
fication of a few thousand callous
and persevering students of the box-
fight, who still hope that they will
see a real heavyweight engagement
n New York—some time.
The BOO pounds were divided into
• wo ''dual sections, which were called,
'or the purpose of identification, Carl
Morris and Jess Willard. The latter
nad one pound the best of the weight,
and triumphed in the great struggle
bv about that much margin.
The weights were 234 1-2 against
;35 which should teach Morris never
to go out of his class again.
It was a wonderful layout in lard, a
great study in still life, a gathering
of hams such as a New York fight
crowd seldom has been permitted to
look upon. Yet that crowd was not
pleased. They hissed and booed and
missed thoughtfully throughout the
en rounds. Even when the peaceful
mountains detached themselves from
their moorings and lurched in the
general direction of each other, there
was nothing like real enthusiasm,
though the ring shook under the lum
bering runs and there was a slight
swaying of iron posts and a splinter-
ng of planks. And they puffed and
wheezed and panted and pushed
blows at each other after the fashion
f the late Ralph Rose breaking the
world’s record at putting the shot.
Even when they missed, as they did
; lie times out of ten, there was no
earnest applause.' the students at
•e ringside appreciating but little
the skill required to miss a 240-pound
man. Nor did they burst into wild
veils of joy when Morris assiduously
Kitted Mr. Willard in the face. They
sort of seemed to expert it. Morris
as been a goat so long that he was
hound to pick up some, of the habit3
of that interesting animal.
Crowd Hisses.
This was Morris’ best blow—a hard,
sol:d. skull-to-the-mouth. It was his
or ward pass, his last desperate play
to win, when the battle was going
against him. But he didn’t get any
•edit for it. The crowd hissed him
more than ever. Mr. Willard had a
good punch, too. It was a right-
band slam for the jaw, but it was too
g'jod for the league. He liked it so
much that he was loath to pass it out.
Whenever he did, it mostly landed,
but h« always seemed sorry he had
parted with it, and he was careful
never to let it go twice in the same
But for this reluctance to part with
bis treasures and the fact that he
■ 'Oks like the tenor in a “one-night-
s'anri” opera company,’ there is no
doubt that Mr. Willard would have
future as ‘a "white hope,” if such
An be said to have any future be-
vond "braking'' on the Chesapeake
nnd Ohio. As for Mr. Morris, his fu-
• are is written in his somewhat cor
rugated map. He is a born receiver.
It was somewhere along after 10
c ock w'hen they were posted into
Tien- under the electric lights with
manv plaudits. Mr. Willard appeared
first. He stood 6 feet 6 inches and
was onlv reasonably fat around the
waistline. Mr. Morris was several
inches shorter, but, being an experi
enced fight man. he made up for this
deficiency by packing in more weight
amidships.
Mr. Willard, who is of a chummy
«position, apparently, walked over
and slapped Mr. Morris on the shoui-
, der. offering his hand at the same
“ ime Mr. Morris turned and gazed
at him with the air of a man t'ho
finds a fat stranger "copping" his seat
n the Pullman, and instead of £t*iP'
ping the hand of fellowship he coldly
examined his bandages and turned
away. A quivering shudder swept
through the assemblage. It looked
• ike murder now.
Morris in Distress
A minute later they were facing
I "HCh other in battle array, with Bil y
■oh. the referee, bouncing around like
a button that has snapped off one or
■heir shoes. He would like to be ab-e
o record that a battle began at thij
point, but to a stern chronicler M
facts It is impossible. There was
. nothing that resembled hostilities In
h* first round, nor in the second, nor
• the third, nor the fourth, nor the—
. ves, there was. In the fifth Mr V
• *rd hit Morris the belt with that rignt
have mentioned, and Mr. Morris
began to wabble. Observing these
; signs of distress, Mr. Willard gener-
• ously refrained from battling any
more the nonce.
in the sixth round this perform-
htu » ^as repeated, with a few trun
kings in the Shape of uppercuts, and
•Mr Morris gave even greater ind> 1
tiers of discomfort. His seconds
Btust have warned Mr. Willard at tne
close of this round, for in the seventh
anded onlv one or two rights, arid
then*, were high on the cheekbone
where a fascinating promontory' of
*‘ n ual promontoriness began to * *
v «lop.
After that Willard devoted himself
® enlarging his work of art on M
■'lorria' cheekbone, and by the end of
' ne enth round half of his fneman c
!*<••*■ was as much out of shape ns
oli be desired, all things cons;.-
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Johnny Dobbs to Manage Pels Whitmore Leads A11
Frank-EIberfeld-Castro Are Out
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All Players Should Be on Hand
for Big Game To-morrow
Morning.
Kilbane Asks $5,000
To Fight Dundee
TORK. Dec. 4 — Johnny Kil*
a the featherweight champion, ha?
• k '" lr ‘* to meet .Johnny Dundee n a
c . >nd bout before the Orleans Air
• . ' h of New Orleans »»n New
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:rr »Ued to |)ase up me champ:on
Members of Lewie Hardages All-
Stars, who battle with the Seven
teenth Infantry football team at
Ponce DeLeon Saturday afternoon,
will begin to arrive in the city to-day,
and by to-morrow morning every
man that will participate in the big
battle should be on hand.
The Seventeenth Infantry eleven is
now a formidable aggregation. They
showed a semblance of their real
form when they defeated the Elev
enth Cavalry. Saturday.
With Lieutenant Devore, star tac
kle on the Army last season and at
present an officer at the local post
and coach of the eleven, playing w ith
them, the local soldier boys should
be even stronger than ever before.
It has always been the wish of
football fans to see a really all-star
football team in action. This will be
their opportunity.
"I wonder how Newell, Morrison,
McWhorter and Hardage would play
in the same backfleld is a question
that one has often heard. Well, it
will be answered Saturday afternoon,
for this quartet, the greatest quartet
of backfleld stars that ever played in
ihe South, will he seen in action on
this eleven
In the line. Pitts, of Auburn, and
Dneh. of Tech, will divide the time at
enter At guards. Peacock, of Genr-
jrjo . Hass lock, of Vanderbilt and
Cheape, of Sewanee. will be seen. At
tackles. Lamb and Meadows. >>f Au-
h, irT) will hold forth. Tom Brown
was booked, but he has been taken
sick and will be unable to come. The
S am»- answers for Morgan, of Yandy,
at center
At the ends. Jenks Gillem. the great
Sewn nee end and kicker: Majors, his
equal and former Auburn star, and
Suck Brown, of Vanderbilt, and
Con- in. of Georgia, rated as the
grea’est defensive ends in the South,
will be seen. >
John Davis. o f Auburn: Homer
*' Tf .. and .Joe Smith, of Cor- |
'.il, assist in the buck field du
ties.
By M'. S. Farnsworth.
C > HARLEY FRANK Is ' dead" In
New Orleans, so is Kid Elber-
feld, and it looks very much
as though niy genial friend. Count
Louis Castro, will not be asked to
fulfill his contract as coach and press
agent for the Pelicans next season.
Johnny Dobbs, who piloted a bushy-
looking lot of warriors last season in
a masterly style, is going to manage
the New Orleans outfit in 1014.
This is no guess. I have learned
from "those who know" that Dobbs,
when he signed with Charley Som
ers, owners of Cleveland, Toledo and
New Orleans clubs, that the story
he would go to Toledo was all to the
bunk.
He signed to manage New Orleans.
But Somers hinted the Toledo angle
to throw off the wise ones until he
had found a loophole? to shove the
chunky Frank through.
He has finally found a job for Choi-
ly. Instead of managing the Pelicans
next season he will support the title
of Southern representative of Charles
Somers, vice president of the Amer
ican League.
Quite some title, eh? f
* * •
T HE following dispatch from New
Orleans has let the cat out of
the bag:
New Orleans, La.. Dec. 4.—
Charles Frank will quit ns man
ager of the New Orleans baseball
team on January 1. Instead of
piloting the Pelicans for another
season he will be Southern repre
sentative of Charles Somers, vice
president of the American League.
This information came from
Frank’s friends to-day. Frank
virtually admitted that his resig
nation will be tendered the board
of directors of the local club at a
meeting to be called as soon as
the Somers contract making him
Southern representative is in his
hands.
Frank several days ago inti
mated that his quarrel with Som
ers. beginning August 10. when
Johnny Dobbs signed a Somers
contract, would be thrashed out
in the courts.
The Pelican manager has hired
a lawyer here and will wait until
Somers contract reaches New
Orleans before he calls together
the directors of the local club.
I I, WILLIE KEELER, looking as
voung o« he <»vpr was. exoppt
that h s h.a.r is turning as a ,
badger’s, told a funn> st to a |
bunch of scribes, fans and players |
the other night In a Broadway hang
out. It was on himself.
Wee Willie (Giant scout now. you
know, likes nothing better than to
chance in on a bunch of kids playing
a “lot game.” He did this not long
ago and witnessed a big row when the
long, skinny boy umpire handed out a
certain decision. The little captain of
the team fighting the ruling turned to
Willie Keeler as one seeking reftlge in
the Court of Maturity.
“Wasn’t that a strike, mister?” he
demanded.
“Sure it was,” declared one of the
greatest batters that ever happened.
"Aw,” said the other kid captain
fiercely, "what does that old boob
know about baseball anyway?”
Coach Wood Honored
By Boys’ High Team
Coach Wood, of the Boys’ High
School team this year, was presented a
handsome after-dinner coffee set by the
studpht body at the meeting last night.
Professor Dykes, In his presentation
speech, thanked Mr. Wood for his help
to the team this year and also expressed
to him the nigh feeling in which the
boys held him
The coach responded. and. after
thanking the students for the gift,
promised to return next year and do his
best with the men that turn out for the
team.
Harrison .Jones, an alumnus of the
Boys’ High .School, gave u great talk
on the Junior Chamber of Commerce,
and enlisted all the students In this
work.
Sweaters with the B. H S monogram
were then presented to the members ol
the team, and as they were distributed.
Professor Dykes thanked and praised
every man for his great playing this
3 ear.
In Pinehurst Tourney
PINEHURST, X. <’., Dec. 4.—Par
ker D. Whitmore, of the Brookline
Country Club, led yesterday’s field of
(>4 players with a card of HI in the
qualifying round of the tenth annual
autumnal Country Club golf tourna
ment here.
others who qualified for the first
flight were A. A. Stagg. Chicago: C.
L. Becker, Woodland; C. B. Hudson,
North Fork; H. V. Segernian, Engle
wood: T. J. Moran. Metacomet; E. T.
Manson, Framingham; G. F. Brown,
Huntington Valley; F. S. Husey, Ha
vana; the Rev'. T. A. Cheatham, Sal
isbury; S. A. Hennessee, Coopers-
town: B. L. Gallagher, Montclair;
Dr. J S. Brown, Montclair; H. S.
Spaulding, Braeburn; R. C. Sfeese,
Youngstown, and F. I> Wilkerson,
Youngstown. W. L. Milliken, Indian
apolis, was forced Into the second di
vision when beaten in playing off a
tie with P. L. Gallagher. Play will
be resumed to-day.
Clarke After Tinker
To Play Shortstop
CHICAGO, Dee. 4 F^red Clarke, man
ager of the Pittsburg Nationals, will
confer here Sunday with Joe Tinker, de
posed Cincinnati leader, with a view to
having Tinker Join the Pirates, accord
ing to a story published her yesterday.
Clarke already has arrungod with the
Cincinnati club for Tinker's release. It is
said. Whether Tinker is to succeed
Wagner at shortstop, Indicating the lat
ter h possible retirement or transfer to
Cincinnati, could not be learned.
Upon Ms arrival here last night Tin
ker admitted he had arranged to meet
Clarke next Sunday. l>ut said an In
formal discussion of Ms joining the
Pittsburg team was all he expected
would take place.
According to Tinker he would play
shortstop and Wagner would go to first
base, his addition giving the Pirates an
infield of four .300 hitters.
DODGERS ON WAY HOME.
NEW YORK, Dec. 4. According to
word received here from Juke Paubert,
the members of the Brooklyn National
league haaeball team, who have been
THREE CUBS SIGN.
CHICAGO, Dec, 4. Locked away in ;
the safe in Charles W Murphy's office
to-day are the signed 1014 '-oniracts of
three Cubs Frank Schulte was the
first to sign. Eddie Stack, veteran
hurler, and Elmer Koestner the big I
Coast League pitcher, were the others !
Each of the contracts calls for one year.
KAUFFMAN OUTPOINTS HAYES. !
DETROIT. Dec. L Art Kauffman, of
New York, outpointed Buck Hayes, of
Cleveland, in an eight-round bout at
Windsor last night.
READ BEATS SWEENEY.
WEBSTER. .MASS.. Dec. 4 Jack
Read of Chicago, wort the decision over
Knockout Sweeny, of New York, in a
fast ten round bout at Lakeside Athlet ■
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What the Appendix Was Made For.
Why We Should All Walk Like Farmers.
Odd New Facts About Sleep.
Why Dirty Cities Are Bad for the Eyes.
A Way to Make the Deaf Hear.
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Jimmy and His Father.
Montmorency and Happy
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