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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
The Field Goal Is Good for but Three Points; the Home Hun Often Nets Four
Naughton Asserts Gunboat Un
doubtedly Whipped Langford,
as Negro Fighter Is Slipping.
B\ W. W. Naughton.
S an FRANCISCO, Dec. 6.—So
Gunboat Smith earned—or at
any rate received—a decision
over Sam Langford.
While some of the spectators may
not have thought well of the award,
while Langford’s manager may
t ,vo pent broadcast telegrams de-
?•’.Mincing the verdict as a “Boston
r ng" and an outrage, a decision is
? ion after all and contributes
it* ^are toward building up a repu-
tation.
To those who saw roly-poly Sam
Langford In action with Jack Lester
a; Taft, the idea of Langford calling
„,n heaven to witness that he was
wronged in his match with Smith is
humorous.
Vs the writer pointed out after the
To ft affair, it would require months
,, . arnest effort to place Langford in
rondo on to participate in anything
• • line.
According to all accounts, Sam was
high in flesh at Boston as he was
w Taf\ and if he really tried his best
and was worsted, he worked an in-
jstice to himself.
Gunboat Has Fine Record.
He knows that Gunboat Smith Is
about the best man of any color at
present before the public, and he
should not have risked a hard-earned
reputation when he wasn’t fit to do
himself justice.
In any cose, no matter wiia.t was
behind the Boston bout, Gunboat
Smith is the gainer, and it must be
said that he has gone to the front in
wonderful manner during the past
year It may be urged that there are
ertain men he should meet and cer
tain men he is none too desirous of
meeting, but his record as it stands
is more impressive than that of any
other man in his class.
It is such, in fact, that if a ques
tion arose in any foreign country as
to who was the best heavyweight in
America, eight of every ten follow
ers of pugilism would name Gunboat
Smith.
He has victories to his credit over
' nn, Carl Morris, Bombardier
ss Willard, Charles Miller,
Boer Rodel, Sam Langford and Frank
Moran, and this practically means
iat the only man left for him to try
'inclusions with is Arthur Pelky. A
match between the pair will take
place under Jim Coffroth’s auspices
■•ining January and the winner
will come near to being a genuine
world’s champion.
Back East the opinion prevails that
Gunboat should do battle again with
• arl Morris. Smith himeelf must
■ now that' this feeling exists and if
* wins from Pelky he will no doubt
defer to public ideas on this mat
ter If he fails to do so he will re-
“ivp many an unpleasant reminder
of his remissness as he makes his
riumphal tour around the footlights
circuit.
Buckley Fooled Fans.
'> in boat Smith’s success is quite a
tribute to the powers of discernment
f cue Jim Buckley. The latter saw
•Smith perform a few times in San
Francisco and could not very well
: eyes to the fact that Gun
boat was anything but a popular
nngman hereabouts at that time.
Among other things Smith was ac-
' U9ed of showing the white feather
e going was rough, although
■] this connection the writer feels
bkp saying in fairness that he has
r ever seen anything in Smith's case
which could be called pronounced
cowardice.
True, the Gunner has backed away
a ’ times when the other fellow went
t him pell-mell, but I have seen
of the stoutest-hearted
Testers do that. The courage that
t qualified with a little caution is
morv- ,>f a hindrance than a help to
fighting man. And as George
i, v *nn. once said. “Very few box-
rs become champions through get-
n ? :n front of every blow aimed at
them”
Bm-kley heard all that was to be
1 i 'bout Gunboat’s “yellow streak’
then said. “I’ll take him East
I think he will get along
fight there and maybe you fel-
v won’t know’ him when he comes
back.”
inboat certainly has made good
f Buckley’s direction, and many
ss,°ng have arisen as to how it
' : _ th it Buckley saw such promise
’* 'mith, when the supposedly wise
’ ," f the West had pronounced him
Experience Develops Confidence.
; <s. no doubt, Gunboat’s ability
that impressed Buckley. It
’ t is to reason, of course, that the
•\ ;,t this end knew Smith for a
ir ' ( fitter, but they probably fig-
” * '<at Smith’s timid style of fight-
, u °'hd prevent him from devel-
k bis knockout blow into a relia
ble asset.
Bn- Kiev thought otherwise. He
hat experience is of infinitely
•’ 'e bonefit to a fighter than so-
'l r , courage, and he figured that If
L, r !(’° k ^roith hack East and kept
‘ b!m into the ring at every
" "unity he would get confidence,
ifter all, is courage in its
r £‘ ,ef ! 11 form -
Rmuu • y ’« judgment was good.
I.; «s not only Improved both In
i pledge of boxing, but in the
* - °f his punch, and whoever
h m now will be worthy of the
. , of r hampion.
cv A 'bilo i think of It, San Frnn-
V, . I s W li ting to apologize to Gun-
ru. When he dips into the
T ; l , T ° box Arthur Pelky he will
v, ‘ in ovation that will warm the
kif,s of his heart.
beats
I OBRIEN SHADES DUFFY.
; RI.PHIA, Dec. 6.—"To
' 4 fc rr’- r * en . th,s city, ai
l- ^ r Bed his cleverness at
l*.—u ! . "■ A. C. when he earned
Johnny Duff}*.
What’s a Million, Anyway?
By James Swinnerton
POLLY AND HER PALS
There 9 s Sometning the Matter With Ashur
Food for Sport Fans
DO YOU?
Somewhere on the broad Pacific
Baseball athletes sail,
Trembling at the v'ild, terrific
Beating of the gale.
They may be near Honolulu
Or near Timbuctoo,
Or beside the Isle of Salu—
7 don't care, do youf
It is estimated that 1,242 batsmen
faced Walter Johnson last year, none
of whom particularly enjoyed it.
“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 should anyone be worried about
losing any of the Browns?
Packey McFarland has several novel
training 9tunts, one of whioh is to fire
Emil Thiry and hire him back every
day.
They placed him on an all-star team,
And there was pride uvithin lhis
heart.
He eyed the rest with scornful gleam
And proudly held himself apart.
Such Bids are hard to reason with;
Their domes are unade lof Lsolid
bone, L
As one who Lsayss i.name i.is
Smith,'' L L
And thinks that name is his alone.
In these days of frenzied football
experts it has become an honor not to
be named on an all-star team.
Joe Tinker hit .317 during the play
ing season, but when he batted
against Garry Herrmann he hit Into
a double cross.
HE SHOULD BE ANNOYED.
Twelve days the sunhad never shone,
Twelve days the ('loads had drifted,
Twelve days the fog had lingered on
And never lifted. l
The magnate gay In tossed his head l
And watched the raindrops urry.
“There's ain't no game to play," he
said,
"So l should worry."
Branch Rickey says he will not
make any sales or trades this winter.
Being a conscientious young man, ho
does not believe in obtaining money
under false pretenses.
The Federal League's plan to shock
organized baseball may be sincere,
but how can you shock organized
baseball ?
The chief reason for the ousting of
McAleer and McRoy is that they
spilled the beans. In Boston this is
an unpardonable sin.
It is said that Chicago fight fans
are willing to back Charlie White to
the extent of $5,000, some of which is
regular money.
Indoor golf may be a great little
soort, but it sounds almost as appro
priate as indoor cross-country run
ning.
NO SUCH PERSON.
He couldn't field like Collins and he
couldn't hit like Cobb;
He scarcely had enough of stuff to
hold a big league job.
And yet he made the world sit up
and gained the Hall of Fa/me,L
And all the papers hailed him as the
wonder of the game. u
He was the only big league man in
all the blessed land
Wh*) was not picked as manager of
Garry Herrmann's band.
It may be true that many a player
has eaten himself out of the big
leagues, but none of them ever h.is
eaten himself out of the Winter
League.
Opening the morning paper one
learns that Emil Thiry is fired or
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.
Owning stock in the Boston Red
Sox is almost as steady a job at
managing a team in Cincinnati.
Just as the Mexican situation be
gins to untangle itself Ad Wolgast
butts in and offers to fight Joe Rivers.
President Gaffney still insists on
condemning Bill Sweeney to Cincin
nati, but it would be more humane
to fine him and let him stay where
he is.
After the rudeness displayed in the
Army-Navy game, President Wilson
is convinced that Huerta nasn’t even
a ghost of a show.
Many Candidates
For Tinker's Old Job
CINCINNATI. Dec. 6.—President
August Herrmann said yesterday that
no definite move has been made to
obtain a successor to Joe Tinker as
manager of the Cincinnati National
League team. Several names are be
ing considered, but no one has been
approached with an offer. Among the
possible candidates are F. Otto Knabe,
second baseman of the Philadelphia
Nationals; Fielder Jones, formerly of
the Chicago Americans; J. Garland
Stahl, who led the Boston Americans
to the world’s championship in 1912;
Mordecai Brown, and Richard Hob-
litz, first baseman and captain of the
Cincinnati team last season.
ACCEPTS PASTORATE.
JONESBORO. Dec 6.—The Rev.
Archer McLaughlin, formerly of Ca
milla. has accepted the pastorate of
the Presbyterian Churches at River-
dale and Philadelphia, and has moved
to River dale.
Charley O'Reilly Easily Outpoints the Champion of To-day
WILLIE RITCHIE TELLS ABOUT FIRST DEFEAT
Bv Willie Ritchie.
S AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6.—Al-
though I won the lightweight
championship of the world right
here in my native city, I must admit
that I was extremely fortunate in
other cities. I landed victories in my
first two trips away from San Fran
cisco, ajid, strangely, both of them
were In Marysville.
After getting my start In the four-
round game, I became a bit proud and
ambitious. I wanted to travel a bit
and I 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. fte 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
$76 for my end. This wag quite a
boost over what I had been receiving
for putting on the gloves w’Ith^th<aJo^
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 very
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 and
leaving himself w’lde open I slmpl}
could not resist the temptation any
longer. I hooked him a couple of times
with hard left Jolts, and then brought
my right over to the Jaw. That was
ali. Tony took the count and I was
the winner of my first fight away
from home.
They seemed to think very well of
me in the up-country town, for after I
got away with Josephs they offered
me another chance, this time with
Kid Finch, another boy who was very
highly touted.
r P HIS is the third story of a se-
ries by Willie Ritchie, cham
pion lightweight of the world, in
w’hich 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.
we started back. He got me a match
wdth Charley Reilly over In Oakland.
Loses First to Reilly.
Ffcre comes the sad part of my
story. I lost my first fight. It was a
tough one to lose, but Reilly out
pointed me all right and I never will
forget that heating as long as I live.
I almost cried over it.
That was four years ago, and I
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 erms 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 aII
the more bitter to swallow.
My brother and Edw’ards and Ba
ker were in my corner as usual. They
tried to send me In against Reilly and
l 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
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 Heavyweight, in New Haven
on December 29. Willard In order to
have plenty of time to prepare for this
mill has Induced the Queensberry Ath-
letlc Club of Buffalo 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 Pelky-Gunboat
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 Ix>s
tell the truth, I was very much dis
couraged.
Even though T was beaten, the de
feat taught me a good lesson. I
learned a few 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.
Burn* 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
tacked 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
I 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 I
did with Reilly, but 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 I will admit that he had It
on me all the time In those six
rounds
Worker Sues Road
For Loss of an Eye
Without asking stipulated damages.
T. A. Dupree has filed suit against the
Southern Railway Company for the
loss of an eye injured by a splinter
from a piece of steel upon which he
was working. Charlie Ridley, who
was Dupree’s helper, is named as a
defendant also.
The plaintiff says he was cutting n
piece, holding a chisel which Ridley
w-as striking with a. hammer. He al
leges he told Ridley to strike the
chisel lightly, but that he struck it
with much force.
Sullivan and Kilrain
Fight Promoter Dies
MOBILE, ALA., Dec. 6—Charles
W. Rich, ex-Mayor of Hattiesburg.
Miss., a wealthy retired lumberman
and the man who promoted the prize
fight between John L. Sullivan and
Jake Kilrain in 1892, at Richburg,
Miss., died last night, after a short
illness.
VY Cli, X UJU XIV/l iliccv •« I UI IHUWI
success against Finch, although I won
all right. It w-as 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
Angeles on January 7 to stand trial for
taking part In the scrap wdth Bull
Young, whose injuries proved fatal.
FOX TO LEAD COLUMBUS AGAIN.
COLUMBUS, GA., Dec. 6—James
Claudius Fox. for the past five years
manager of the Columbus baseball team,
has been named manager again for 1914.
During the past five years he has won
two pennants, finished second twice and
third once.
SPORTING COMMENT
By Ed W. Smith.
N OW comes Johnny Kilbane,
featherweight champion, with
the statement t! at he is one
fighter who does not rely upon
and single punch to score Knock
outs on his opponents. True, the
Cleveland star admits freely that
he uses the left hand for the main
purpose to hi 1 attained—that of
whittling a man down—but when
it comes to the finishing tap
Johnny is entirely free with a
large variety of punches that
come from either side.
• * *
T HE idea prevails in many quar
ters that the champion Is
not possessed at all of a knock
out punch, but if you’ll study his
record for a little while you will
discover that It is dotted with
K. O.’s of all sorts. This sug
gestion is brought out by Kil-
bane’s recent slashing go with
Knockout Mars, the Cincinnati
star, who was tumbled to the can
vas in convincing style, but only
after a slugging affair that set
the crowd wild with delight.
• * •
T O show that the Mars inci
dent was no mere scratch,
but entirely on the level and
“true to form,” Kilbane took on
Eddie O’Keefe, a little Hebrew
boy of Philadelphia, and regarded
as one of the fastest and clever
est kids In tl.e business, and put
him down and out with a dazzling
knockout punch in the very first
round. It was no particular sur
prise to see him knock Mars out,
but when It comes to putting
away such speed merchants as
O’Keefe, and in the first round,
it looks entirely different.
TOE RIVERS, who beat Leach
J Cross In Los Angeles on
Thanksgiving Day, was another
of Kilbane’a vie..ms. Johnny
used a straight right flush to the
Jaw in disposing of the Mexican,
but in puttiro- away Jimmy Fox,
the clever California boy, and
Monte Attel, ar.other .product of
the Golden State, he used a sw'lft
left hook to the / 'hln.
• * •
TT waa a combination punch, first
* a straight right to the jaw,
followed almost Instantly by a
left clip on the point of the chin,
that proved O’Keefe’s undoing,
and he was out for several min
utes as a result of this dose, in
the case of Ollie Kirk, w’ho was
outed effectively, a heavy left
straight into the lower pa*t of the
midsection doubled up the St.
Louis boy, and as is head came
forward a smashing right upper
cut under the chin put him down
and out.
case,” he write*. “While I think
I could defeat a majority of them
over a distance of ground, I do
not wish to be co: sidered as go
ing out of my class right now
Though 1 seldom make weight, I
can still do 122 pounds as easily
as ever. But why should I? Un
less It is a real championship
fight, I don’t see why 1 should dis
tress myself in the least.” We
don’t either.
Arnie Sikes Elected
Captain of Vandy
NASHVILLE. TENN, Dec. 6.
Amie Sikes, left halfback of this
year’s team, whs elected captain of
the Commodores for 1914 at the an
nual football banquet, here last night.
Twenty-one “V r ’s’’ were awarded the
football players, as follows:
E. Brown, Morgan, T. Brown, Mur
ray, Cheater, Warren, Askew
Boensch, Sikes. McQueen, P Turner.
V Turner, Cohen. Curry, Huffman.
White. Lowe. Warren, Putnam, Pres
ton and Manager Whitnell. Coach
McGugln was presented a handsome
silver loving cup by the members o!
the team.
Cleveland Arranges
Exhibition Games
CLEVELAND, Dec. 6.—All of Cleve
land’s exhibition games to be played in
March and April have practically been
arranged, according to E. 8. Barnard,
vice president of the club, who has Just
returned from Athens, Ga., the Naps
training ground. The schedule follows:
March SO and 31, April 1 and 2 at At
lanta; April 3 and 4 at Chattanooga.
April 5, open; April 6 and 7 at Cincin
naii: April 8 and 9 at Indianapolis; April
7 and 8, second squad at Dayton; April
10 and 11 at Columbus, April 12, firsi
versus second squad at League Park.
Cleveland.
Clark Griffith Has
Praise for Lynch
Clark Griffith, formerly a National
League manager with Cincinnati a*id
ne w leader of the Washington Senators,
says that he believes President Tom
Lynch has been absolutely fair in all
his decisions. The Washington leader
admits that Governor Tener would make
an excellent President, but he is a
staunch champion of Lynch and an ex
ponent of the square deal.
T HESE illustrations should
serve to show’ that the Cleve
land man really Is one of the ver
satile men of the ring as well as
being anything but the “punch
less champion” that several sar
castic writers have tabbed him.
He can punch well enough, and
some of his victims have been
mighty good men, too
* * *
ILBANE seems to be sorry
that he got some advertising
about wishing to battle light
weights. "That Lj hardly the
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