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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) NEWS, 7 BRINGING UP FATHER By GEORGE M’MANUS Says He Can’t Be “Goody” and Play Ball, but That He Can Scrap and Hustle. is the second of a series of letters from the mem hers of the champion Crackers. It is ,m Rube Kissinger, the veteran huriei, who was signed by Manager Hilly Smith at the end of the vtvc srasoH. i.Rube writes very entertain- nigly as the following showss l Adrian, Mich., December 3, 1813. Mr W S. Farnsworth, Sporting: Editor The Georgian: Dear Sir—I found your letter of the :9th in*t. awaiting my arrival home Saturday evening. In reply I’ll say hat I'm not very much of a story writer and seek to avoid publicity as much aii possible during the off sea son. at least, but think I should at cast comply with your request. When I arrived home from Dixie 1 went to Sand Lake, Mich., for a fish ing trip, but that was cut short by a message from the farm to come and he p finish up my new barn and silo. 1 «pent 21 days doing carpenter and farm work and then returned home, expecting to have a hunting trip in ie woods of North Michigan for deer, but another message to come to work on the Lake Shore Railway cut that short, and I' went back to bridge building, and am now putting in my time at that work. To-night I 1 eave for Sandusky, Ohio, where we have some work to do, hut how long I’ll be there I do not know, for, unlike baseball, we have no fixed schedule, but go where we are sent, finish that work, then away we go where another bridge is troubling or another one is to he built. I’m never at home for any length of time, in fact, I’m more like a tramp than a human being, but hope some day to throw' out my anchor and have it hold. I'm glad the deal that brought me to Atlanta went through at last, for I believe it is better for a ball player io “circulate, as It were,” and not stay too long in one place, for familiarity breeds contempt. 1 am working hard every day, and weigh 190 pounds now, which is Just about my playing weight in summer, and I hope my arm and j health will permit me to have a good season for you. Now, don’t expect to have me come to Atlanta to play ball and be a saint, for that is utterly out of the question with me. T never could play ball and be a “goody.” but If hustling and scrapping will help you, count me in. With kindest regards to everybody, believe me, Sincerely yours. CHARLES S.’ KISSINGER. POLLY AND HER PALS Girls Are Funny Creatures, Aren't They OOM'T Bc>u.ys" AIM/ "APRts Greuze' | LOOK CJRAMD IcbU HER - nwmaddVe MEAKi, 4PRES (SPEUZE ■a mv HER HAT, iris The Latest PREACH MODEL IT IS! \ ~r FoMAy 0V4V THEY HAVE OF WEARlUdr ’EM AlMT JT! fy/f mADDVt I trviw’t'do / Amie Sikes Elected Captain of Vandy NASHVILLE, TEXN.. Dec. 6. - Amie Sikes, left halfback of this .'ear's team, was elected captain of the Commodores for 1914 at the an nua! football banquet here last night. Twenty-one “V’s” were awarded the football players, as follows: R. Brown, Morgan, T. Brown, Mur ray, Chester, Warren, Askew, Boensch, Sikes, McQueen, P. Turner, V Turner, Cohen. Curry. Huffman. White. Lowe, Warren, Putnam, Pres ton and Manager Whitnell. Coach McG-ugin was presented a handsome silver loving cup by the members of the team. Cleveland Arranges Exhibition Games 1 LEVELANP, Dec. 6.- All of Oleve- and's exhibition games to be played in March and April have practically been arranged, according to E. S. Barnard, vlf, o president of the club, who has just returned from Athens, Ga., the Naps’ ■raining ground. The schedule follows: March 30 and 31, April 1 and 2 at At lanta; April 3 and 4 at Chattanooga: x pril 5, open: April 6 and 7 at Cincin nati; April 8 and 9 at Indianapolis; April and 8, second squad at Dayton: April :n and 11 at Columbus; April 12, first ' “r.sus second squad at League Park, 1 Seveland. Clark Griffith Has Praise for Lynch ' ark Griffith, formerly a National League manager with Cincinnati, and r " w leader of the Washington Senators. j f,Vs that he believes President Tom ,‘Anch lias been absolutely fair in all > decisions. The Washington leader admits that Governor Tener would make an excellent President, but he is a '•’•iundi champion of Lynch and an ex ponent of the square deal. POX TO LEAD COLUMBUS AGAIN. .‘ OLUMBUS, GA.. Dec. 6.—James •audius Kox, for the past five years manager of the Columbus baseball team, ”as been named manager again for 1914. ‘ ’ring the past five years he has won two pennants, finished second twice and ‘ ; rn once. LEWIS ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. ^ i’ARIS Dec. 6.—“Willie’’ Lewis, the merican middlewieght boxer, was acci dentally shot in the leg yesterday by ’■rank Moreau, the French heavyweight, * n,,H both were hunting. His wounds are not serious. O’BRIEN SHADES DUFFY. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 6—“Young Jack” O’Brien, of this city, again demonstrated his cleverness at the * v npareil A. C. when he earned the Yer<iict over Johnny Duffy. WAGNER DEFEATS MILLER. V ILKESBARRE. PA . Dec. f».~ Kid D ai ?ner, of Wilkesbarre. defeated *; e ' ^ Miller, of Philadelphia, in a ten- 0 -nd bout here last night. OALLANT IN DRAW BOUT. POSTON. Dec. g Bay Wood and r '®ft Gallant fought a twelve-round €raw at Lowell last night. Charley O'Reilly Easily Outpoints the Champion of To-day WILLIE RITCHIE TELLS ABOUT FIRST DEFEAT Bv Willie Ritchie. i S AX FRANCISCO, Dec. 6.—Al- though I won the lightweight championship of the w'orld right here in my native city, I must admit that I was extremely fortunate in other cities. 1 landed victories In my first two trips away from San Fran cisco, and, strangely, both of them were in Marysville. After getting my start in the four- round game, I became a bit Droud and ambitious. I wanted to travel a bit and T wanted to get some experience in other places. I kept looking around for a chance, and my brother, Frank, who was some boxer himself, helped be out. He heard of a lad named Tony Josephs up in Marysville, and he got busy and arranged a match over the ten-round route. He settled for $75 for my end. This was quite a boost over what I had been receiving for putting on the gloves with the lo cal boys. I managed to keep in pretty good condition, and learned a few stunts from my brother, who began to take quite an interest in me by this time. He taught me more about the straight left and also put me wise as to train ing rules. Edwards and my brother accompa nied me to Marysville to meet Jo sephs. I worked out for a couple of days and rounded into good shape. Jo sephs was looked upon as a wonder by the Marysville fans, who made him a strong favorite over me. They all ex pected to make a big clean-up on the battle. Knocks Tony Josephs Out. Well, Josephs might have been a wonder at one time, but he certainly did not show any of his great form the night he fought me. I had heard so much about him that I was veity cautious and took no chances in the first round. I noticed that he did not seem to have very much, but I was afraid that he might be stalling me, so I just laid low and waited. In the second I opened up a bit and he came at me. swinging wild ano leaving himself wide open. 1 simpl> could not resist the temptation anj longer. I hooked him a couple of times with h ud left jolts, and then brought my right over to the jaw. That was all. Tuny took the count and I was the winner of my first fight away from home. N They seemed to think very well of me in the up-country town, for after 1 got away with Josephs they offered me another chance, this time with Kid Finch, another boy who was very highly touted. Well. I did not meet with so much success against Finch, although I won all right. It was a ten-round go, and he kept me busy all the time. I tried hard to land the knock-out, for I was ambitious and wanted to make, a rec ord. He was very game and man aged to stick it out. After this battle my brother advised me to return home and look for some better matches I took his advice, so we started back. He got me a match with Charley Reilly over in Oakland. Loses First to Redly. Here comes the ?ad part of my story. I lost my first flghL It was a tough one to lose, but Reilly out pointed .me ail right and 1 never will T HIS is the third story of a se nes'by Willie Ritchie, cham pion lightweight of the world, in which the title holder tells of his career. In to-day's article Willie describes two more early victo ries and his first and second de feats in the squared circle. forget that beating as long as I live. I almost cried over it. That was four years ago. and 1 must admit that Reilly was a very clever boy. He had the class and the speed and he just kept jabbing me all the time. I could not work my straight left nor my right cross on him. No, indeed. He knew too much and he would not give me a chance to get set. We fought at the West Oakland club and there was only a small crowd in attendance, which made it bad for us, as we were fighting on a per centage basis. This made the pill a!/ the more bitter to swallow. My brother and Edwards and Ba ker were in my corner as usual. They tried to send me in against Reilly and I tried my hardest to get in close, but Reilly was too clever and fast for me*. He just kept stabbing me with his left all the time and dancing away. My head kept bouncing back and forth just like a rubber ball. and. to tell the truth, I was very much dis couraged. Even though I was beaten, the de feat taught me a good lesson. I learned a fev? tricks from Reilly which I never forgot. They have come in very handy in many of my big battles. Reilly was one of the fastest and cleverest boys I ever met, and I really believe that he would be right out In the front ranks to-day had he attended to business and taken care of himself. Burns Beats Him Next. Although beaten by Reilly, I was far from disheartened. I wanted more action, and I got It pretty quick, too. Yes. and I was beaten again—just about ten days after losing my first battle. Frankie Burns was the lad who tac ked the other one on me, and this also happened in an Oakland ring. When I look back over my record. I always imagine that Oakland is my jinx town. Burns was regarded as one of the best of the short-distance light- weights then, and many of my friends pleaded with me to pass him up till I got a little more experience. But I would not listen to anything like this. 1 had made my mind up to go after Burns and nobody could stop me. I think that I put up a pretty good fight, even though I was beaten. The crowd cheered every time that I did any good. I had a lot of my own gang at the ringside and they all stood by me till the finish. I tried hard with Burns, just as 1 did with Reilly, l)ut he knew too much for me. He would get into that crouch of his and pick away at me with his stinging left hand. I might have beaten him over the longer route, but f will admit that he had it on me all the time in those six rounds. Food for Sport Fans — —j ly GEORGE E. PHAIR.^ Jess Willard Signs To Meet Rodel in Twenty-Round Bout NEW YORK. Dec. 6.—Jess Willard, who outpointed Carl Morris In a bur lesque bout in Madison Square Garden Wednesday night, has signed articles to box twenty rounds with George Rodel. the Boer neavyweighf, in New Haven on Decernoer 29. Willard in order to have plenty of time to prepare for this mill has induced the Queensberry Ath letic Club of Bubaio to stage his combat with “One Round’’ Davis After this event. Willard will go to California to get a bout with the win ner of the Arthur i‘elky-Gunbc>at Smith affair, to be decided In San Fran cisco on New Year’s Day. Willard beat Pelky here two years ago. and in turn was defeated on points by Smith in twenty rounds on the coast last winter. Willard must be in Los Angeles on January 7 to stand trial for taking part in the scrap with Bull Young, whose injuries proved fatal. Former Vandy and Sewanee Football Stars to Clash Jan. 1 DO YOU? Somewhere on the broad Pacific Baseball athletes sail. Trembling at the wild, terrific Beating of the gale. They may t>e near Honolulu Or near Timbuctoo. Or beside the Isle of Salu l don't care, do youf And proudly held himself apart. But h lads are hard to reason with ; Their domes are \.mad< lof Lsolid bone, l As one who l.saysH i.i 'My uiame Lis Smith," l L And thinks that name is his atone. In these days of frenzied football experts it has become an honor not to be named on an all-star team. It is estimated that 1,242 batsmen J ° e Tinker hit .317 during the play faced Walter Johnson last year, none mg season, but when he batted x . . •*, ; against Garry Herrmann he hit into of whom particularly enjoyed it. ; a double cr0M< “There is no such thing as a bat ting eye,” says Ty Cobb, who always likes to kid the pitchers. Bob Hedges is said to be worried over the report that some of his ath letes have jumped to the Federals. but why snould anyone be worried about losing any of the Browns? It may be true that many a player has eaten himself out of the big leagues, but none of them ever has eater, himself out of the Winter League Packey McFarland has several novel training stunts, one of which is to fire Emil Tniry and hire him back every day. Opening the morning paper one learns that Emil Thiry Is fired »r hired again, or about to be fired or hired again. If Emil does not have a care he will bump into himself com ing back. They placed him on an all-star team. And there was pride i.within i.his heart. He eyed the rest with scornful gleam Owning stock in the Boston Red Sox is almost as steady a job as managing a team in Cincinnati. Just a« thp Mexican situation be gins to untangle itself Ad Wolgast butts in and offers to fight Joe Rivera. NASHVILLE, TENN., Dec. 2.—The 1 real climax to the 1913 football I season will be staged either in | Rick wood Park, at Birmingham, or on j Dudley Field, at Vanderbilt, when an aggregation of former Commodore mole skin stars will on New Year’s Day set tie a dispute of long standing with ce tain pigskin artists who in days gone by won fame at Sewanee. Wijlis Stewart, a former crack end at Vanderbilt, who last season piloted the Southern all-star invasion of Texas, is arranging the New Year’s Day battle j and has succeeded in collecting a for- j midable array <>f ialent for use against the Tigers. Whether Birmingham or I Nashville will land the battle will de pend a great deal on the inducements offered by the Alabama city Billy Smith Leaves For Gotham To-day Manager Billy Smith, of the Crack ers, will leave Atlanta this afternoon for New York to attend the annual meeting of the National League, which will be held there December !♦. Billy will stop off at Washington en route for a conference with hid friend, Clark Griffith. This confer ence may result in the transfer of some ni ne ball players to the Crack ers. Jnfielder* ar** the men that the local chieftain is after, and he expects to get a couple of players while in New York. SS5SBHB—1 1 y. ORPH1NJ SB I Opium. WWik«y tad Dru-- Habit* tavafaV Euat Home if at Sanitarium. Book «a aubjert I e r **•- DR B M. WOOLLEY Shiio> 1 San 1 tarimam. Atlanta. Gaorada TOBACCO HABiT * nrnca vnwr Kailfh nralnna wa. You ean conquer It j •••lly In 3 days, lir ppovo your health, prolong yeur life. No «or. a*«ru arh 1 rouble, no foul hrnqth. no heart wrqknew- Rn gap! manly vigor, calm narvaa, olear eyes .m i » > prrlor mental strength Whether you chew nr snick* Ptr* clgan, g**' my sotnesting Tobar* Kook Worth "eight In gold Mailed tree £ J . WOODS. 534 Sixth Am.. 748 M„ Mew Yerfc. N. Y. I But trie One 0AW6CME IT V'&tta Apnn it's tnic‘. 7 Can One Man Startle the Whole World by the Weirdness of His Suicide? That’s what Gabriele D’Annunzio, the noted Italian poet and dramatist, promises to do, now that he has grown weary of all human emotions, and Paris fears he will follow the example of the Greek philosopher who hurled himself into the boiling cra ter of Aetna. The complete story of this eeeentrie character’s most eccentric plot will be told in Next Sunday’s American With it will be a more cheerful page dealing with what the stars foretell for Two of the Most Interesting People in the Universe, Vincent Astor and His Bride And continuing on the whole scale of human emotions comes another installment of the most extraordinary human docu ment ever written, The Story of My Life by Evelyn Thaw News? Yes. all of it, from the most crowded metropolis to the very borders of civilization. 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