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MACDtE IMAirWJ; / H Tvni sexhbh /J r>*e. rAnfi Poor ai_Ct-k- ooesmt lel/M0 V-< IT E^lAAiEL-p rHerR-E ails s o aa€_ uw 06> iTAajOETD (*-A J C A L4 AT 7W* JoT-rjM t> A /T - DEAfc- MOHO 00 VOU THlMIC. I MET last A)I<JHT t'' a'. VWE KAvlfe ra MVOPPMOIA Hr^TJ-e cowei rue Ttt/Ofrfc AJ OVA/ THE ATLANTA GEOTtOTAN' ANT) NEWS. Ehe Hi{jfli Cost of Living Does Not Apply to Revolvers—They Make Life Cheap © (5 D SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT You’ve Almost Got to Pity the Judge you - THPAKE /M Tvte GRatH A Chicago Speed Marvel Tells Why He Should Stick to His Profession. ( "CHICAGO, ILL., Dec 8 Packey McFarland isn’t going to rehru from the ring Chicago s gen tleman boxer, and without question ihe greatest ring man since the beat days of Young GrifYo, to-day made this (statement, following a question of whether he would quit the ring aft er Joining *he ranks of the benedicts. \ story that the stockyards battler would rot1r< on his wedding day prompted the question. Packey is to be married in April to Mins Margaret Dough ran, n Joliet heiress and society girl, but the ring will not l«»se him, save for the brief period of his honeymoon, which he oelieve® will stretch over four months. Aqd even In that time tho squared • ircle will have the pleasure of the Chicagoan, but only In the form of boxing exhibitions It is McFarland’S • Ian to tour the world with h 4, bride. Jimmy Moran, a lifelong friend, and Mrs. Moran. Not to Retire. “Why (should 1 retire?” With ad riie seriousness that human mind p,m- <*ssea, McFarland asked that ques tion “Fighting to me is a business iust like any other business is to our leading business men I don’t s»e any of our successful business men retiring when in their best years, so why should 1? I have made v deep study of the game, am one of the leaders in my profession and, 1 might add, a credit io the game; » why quit? True, I iave a small fortune, the harvest for mv years of ring toil, but Rockefeller and others hgve millions and they «re still at the grind. I’m young ind active, and so long as the boxing game brings me no regrets I’ll con tinue.” Packey still has Heveral years to go in the ring, judging from his present work, for there’s hardly a man of nls weight who can give him what is •ommonly termed “a run for his money.” The stockyards lad admitted that on several occasions he had de clared he would retire, but such state ments were forced, he says. In lis alk he made it clear that there Isn't a man in the ring to-day he fears. He believes no lightweight or welter weight alive can give him more thin good work-out bat he goes on the theory why battle the big men when you can get plenty of good men who an make from 13T» to 140 rounds Fights Against Being Marked. “When the fighting game becomes such that I must ink.* a beating tor he money it brings me. when I must be disfigured ’ike Battling Nelson, lohnny Thompson and some of the >ther men who have been marked for if> by the vlclousness in the squared ircle. then I will hoist up the flag ind say quits, but such a time seems •ar distant to me,” declared the Irish man. I studied the game not to in* a -bigger and mauler, but to be a box- r the manly art of self-defense. In ill these years I haven’t been marked why go in for the brutal stuff now ? Then, too, the bigger men meaning n matter of w eight the more grilli ng the battle, the more punishing. Some day I'll box at 14,*. or 150 pounds, • lit that time isn’t near. I’m a flght- 'r, as they say. but no one dreads more than ! do to see what Is termed < slaughter in the ring '1 have been studying law for a oost two vears now. Some day 1 »opc to be Admitted to the bar and »e one of Chicago’s big lawyers At nuoh a time, of course. I’ll retire” Class Follow* Packey. McFarland went on at length to veil f bis ring earnings, which reach al most $200,000 Included In this being ■he profits of his various investments buf he laughi at the story published recently ’hat he would quit the game. Packey has worked up a following among the ’overs of the manly art of elf-defense such as few men of *h« ring have, if ally. .. . 4k ■—r—— * Cycle Demons Off On Six-Day Grind NKVV Y'»RK, Dec. 8.—The annual -iv-day bicycle race started at 12:01 /( lock this morning in * Madison Square Garden, Seventeen tennis an- -w.rcd t •* shot of the pistol and completed the first mile in 2:07 l-f*. Peter Drobach, of the Jersey Skeet- r« team of Drobach and Halstead, vas leading the bunched riders. This is the twenty-first race of its vind to be held in the big amphithea- er. lxst year Rutt and Fogler. the vlnning team, covered only 2.661 miles, live laps far behind the record f 2.737 miles, one lap. made by Mc- l \u and and M-o .m in-11*08 Follow- ng is the list of teams Jersey Skoeters Peter Drobach. Germaiiv: Alfred HaLsicad. Sacra mento, Cal. International Kdward F. Root. \>w York; Reggie McNamara, Aus tralia. Australian- Jackie Clarke. Austra- ia. Paddy O'Sullivan Hehlr. Austra lia. Mutt rui Jeff- John Bedell, Dong island; Frank Corry, Australia. Italian Francesco Verrl. Maurice Brooco, Italy. Australian Ameriuui Alfred Goul et Australia. J^e Fogler, N«*w Y-'rk. Newark Fred Hill, Newark N J . .Martin Ryan. Newark, N J. German Willy Appelhaus, Ger many , Heiman Packebuaeh, Ger- hany. Kren» Andre Perchlcot. France; Petit Breton. FTance. M(*tor Chasers—Elmer Collins. Lynn. Mass.; Bobby Walt hour, At- anta. Oh Ibinisr Norman Anderson. l>en- nark. Norman Hansen »'openhagen. lr*sh Melbourne—James Francis ’orai’ Che’sea Mao Alfred Oven \yj HAODS ETM G> M \ SNA ICE r>+e (rt-bSS ? VlHATS the MATTES- • vjowOeR— AAASPE I FORGOT 30MErTM/‘A/& - IhAPOO-TP, roT Lessee xaaas,K)0- 8/RTX0A'p~ no ■ AW^WERJARV- AJ ftvw RATS’ If MURPHY IT LIST TS GET FLING IT TITLE Eastern Lightweight Has Flour ished Contemporaneously With Four Champs of His Class. INDOOR SPORTS By Tad My W. YV. Naugliton. rtA\ I'TvANCI8CO, CAD.. l>ec S While watching Harlem Turnin' Murphy at work in his gymna sium ami noting the evident zest with which he tackles Ills exercises and the energy he infuses into the things lie does, it 1* hard to realize all the sturdy little New Yorker ha* been through in the boxing line. The fact remains that Murphy has flourished contemporaneously with four world’s champions In hi* divi sion that he has seen three of them puss Into defeat and out of the lime light, and Is now about to box the fourth after many years of waiting for a chance at the blue ribbon. To those who do not know Murphy' or ha\ e not seen him in action, a re cital of this kind might suggest the f It Is hardly fair to expect such a vet eran to cope successfully with a strong roung fellow like Willie Ritch ie. but that’s the wonderful thing about Murphy. V glance at Murphy's record is highly Interesting It contains the names of such performers as Kid Broad, Young Corbett, Benny Yanger, Terry McGovern and Frankie Neil, fighter* who have been out of the game these many years. W hep the Battling Nelson-Joe Gant f*‘u»l was a.r its height Tommy whs fighting such men as I /each Cross, Matty Baldwin and Packey M< Far land, and this Is ample proof that he would have been a fair enough cham pionship candidate at that time If ttu. chance hud come his way. Murphy was never seriously' con sidered as an opponent for Gan*, but Battling Nelson, it is claimed, reno- lutely refused to sign with the Har lem boy . giving as a reason that Mm phy tried to “put one over” on him " hile giving an exhibition with eight ounce gloves at the Polo Grounds in New York. Hanlon Gets Battle With Jack Robinson Kiidle Hanlon. looaJ welterwcjRht. will he (riven .1 true test of hts uhn ity when he stacks up against Jack Kobinson. the veteran rlnirman, lir a fifteen-round bout at Jacksonville. Kla . on December 16 Eddie will he fuiveil to save away several pounds in weight, as Kobinson will scale around the 155-pound figure while Eddie can easily make 142. KIU\ Lutz, manager of Hanlon, bus secured Frank Maker to work with Hanlon every evening in preparation for the scrap. Should Eddie defeat Kobinson lie will be In line for some good matches Prep Schools in Cross-Country Run rite annual cross-country run of the local prep schools will be held at 3.30 this afternoon The runners will start at Maker street, run along Spring street to Fourteenth street, ami return The distance for this course is 3.1* nines. I oe teams that have entered so far j are Hoys' High. Marist College, c, M I A. and Peacock-Fleet. Each team will be composed of ten men. Wells and Carpentier Will Clash To-night NKW l»fc 8. Horn hardier \N>lls English heavyweight champion «uci Georges Garpentler. the From., titleholder. are scheduled to nu-et in a twenty-round go to-night at the .\h t Iona I Sporting Club, London. Al though both have been knocked out. Wells by A1 Ioniser and Gunboat Smith and Camentier by F'ank Klaus and Rli, Papke, there :s much rivalr^ between them Wells claims l. ua- ill whei. Carper, re- stopy hltu early a \ear ago r. ’"dr rout.. « Th*>\ \\ i tight f n r •» > 1 S rt|i*i , ,i> Mathewson Again Best Hurler '!*•*;* V*Y Leads National League For 1913 C HRISTY MATHEW SON is affain the premier pitcher of the National I League, according to the official hurling averages announced to-day I by President Tom Lynch. The hurling averages are not calculated upon percentage of victories j this season, th esystem adopted being essentally the same as that used in! compiling the American League averages this year, based upon the average of runs earned per game. The list shows that 70 earned runs were scored off Mathewson, aal average of 2.0(i per game. Hat*' Adams, of Pittsburg, made the nearest approach to this record. He won 21 and lost 10 games, and the 7.7 runs earned off his delivery aver aged 2.15 to the game, Tesreau and Demaree. of New York, are close up. standing third , fourth, with averages of 2.17 and 2.31, repeetively. • The strikeout record of 168 is held by Seaton, of Philadelphia; Tesreau, of the (Hants, is a close second with 167. Seaton also gave the most bases and balls—136—ami Lavender, of Chicago, hit the most batsmen—13. Alexander, of Philadelphia, is the shut-out king, having whitewashed his opponents seven times. rd Sporting Food Wants Seats on ‘Red Mountain’ Bv r.FOROR F PMAIRwvsev i ****V *•*•+ Fan Objects to Use of ‘S.R.O.’Sign By GEORGE E. PMAiR UNCLE TOM. ,/of' l ink'* r stood upon the blot k that men muiht hid foi him. ind in his voice three teas a hope- j less f/utrr/ . ' In pleading tones Io raised his roie* j r to Herrmann, void and prim: "Don't send me to St. Louis doien Lhi river!” BOXING News of the Ring Game. in spite of the prevailing prices of ' meat, it is estimated that the 500 pounds i of beef extOblted In Madison Square i Garden yonder eve could not be sold for • 30 cents. The reported dedth of Yussif Wahmout is unfounded, but up to date we have not been able to learn who threw the Bui in Bulgaria. they irm team that flnishe* in la^t place will have a ready -made alibi. Leaches Cross complains that his pur suit of Joe Rivers Is a failure, but there is a suspicion that Leaches is oursuing on low speed. In \ lew cf the tact that t i.- against the rules to play two shortstops simul taneously in one game. It is hard to understand why Fred Clarke wants to buy Joe Tinker. Mr. Herrmann's highest ambition I would be fulfilled If he could only find I a capable manager who could tend bar | under the stand between innings. Publicity Is not always a blessing. As a result of the report that Packey McFarland is worth $200,000, he Is en tirely surrounded by politicians The most remarkable feature of that triple p'ay Zielinski to Plaseckl to Dem- ski. is that the official scorer recorded it without spraining his wrist. Tom Lynch, presiding at the next Na tional League meeting, will feel some what like a man attending his own fu neral INTENSIVE FAKING. Count that dap lost ichost Ion de- seetidinp sun 'Sets not a anther htiseball fake bepun. By 0. B. Keeler. C OMES now a leter from some body signing himself, frankly, “SOREHEAD.” NYe admire frankness, and there' no danger oi our pic.dnK out Mr. Sorehead to fuss with, although he does not appear, in our humble esti mation, to be slightly outside the reservation; as much a® one leu ovet the fence, anyway. Here's what it’s all about. * o » THE frank Kent comes to bat with 1 a roast of the Atlanta Baseball Association for not roofing over and seating the Red Mountain in righ* field at Ponce DeLeon, so that over flow crowds attending Crucial Series between Atlanta and Mobile won’t have to accumulate rheumatics and summer colds and intiuen/.a and other brands of Wheezes from con tact with Mother Earth. In fact, he objects to paying his two-bits, or mayhan his four-bits, for a perch on the Red Mountain. • • \\7~K lasp Kind® with affectionate sentiment on the proposition that a Red Mountain is nothing to sit on, especially if the weather be muggy and the clnv sticky. But as to adding several thousand to the seating capacity of the pres ent plant, just to provide for the overflow of a couple, or even as many as four eames in the season—that is something else again. • » • T F the present plant were destined 1 to remain in statu quo (1. e.. as i.«G for six " eight years to come, the suggestion would not he withoit merit. But it is pretty certain that a new grandstand will be erected In less than half that time, and it's no good building new stands Just to make second-hand lumber from in a season »*r two. That's one way to look at it But it would be ,i rather quaint idea to plaster live thousand seats out I back of the Bull sign to be occupied twice, or maybe three tithes, in a sea son. It is a patriotic idea that Atlanta j is apt to turn out 20.000 fans to any important; game.. But it would be an ; expensive ides to construct a plant that would hold that many, and carry that overhead expense along day ‘ after day. with only two or three j thousand in the whole works. * c c 1T is quite possible the same funs 1 That object to the S. R. (>. sign j once or twice a year also* would be [ ready to suggest that some more ! money be expended on ball players, [ t*o us to get a. team that would finish high enough up to bring out the .S R. O. crowds. Wha t ? • ir irni then, brio , an ther dan has ANOTHER point dird * * It occurs to u® that the hard ship of roosting on the Red Moun tain occurred only twice while we were on the job—that after Juh IT. \nii Atlanta put on grand tin's' and drew a fine lj»;#v .*? attendance aP *ha< 'ime BV set th* stora hrattdle denied. And thus tlo baseball e.rpert's work' is don* : Itt mak* * tiro tforit x a on' a her* thf* teas non* Cross Gives Up His Quest for Rivers Go LOS ANGELES. Dec. s.—Ap parently giving up hope of enticinr Joe Rivers into another ring engage ment in the near future, Sam Wa 1 - lach, manager of Leach Gross, n»- day notified Promoter McCarey that Leach would accept the Pacific Ath letic Club’s offer of a New Veer's date to box the winner of the An derson -Barrie u light to-morrow night. Cross has a knockout over Anderson to his credit. Cross, of course, would prefer a re turn match with Rivers, but the Mexi can lightweight is hot after While Ritchie, and unless the chamolon re fuses to give him a battle. the»*e )® n- t much probability of Cross and Rivers hooking tip again. Ritchie has in formed Rivers he will give him a definite reply after 'nls bout with IIa: - lein Tommy Murphy. ( toss will not go to Pan Franci.se » 1* attend the Ritchie-Murph.. scrap Wednesday of next week, but will be at th** Vernon ringside to-morrow night to see his two prospective op ponents in action. According to re per * Lvn. n:* v :i..- -c camp, vper- c,,n ’.• j r . . ,. n _ diUcm Matty Baldwin, who has been engaa- j 111 fistic battles for nearly fifteen | (Kars, will meet Johnny Griffiths in a : , e ,'': ro '"' d in Akron, Ohio, to-night Although a real veteran at the game ; Matty is still capable „f giving th? best j them a tough argument j * * * McA . ni «ter, the Western light weight, makes his Gotham debut Wed- hp tackles Mike I V?i?°* van t bef T® BilIy Olson’s club. Me- ta‘ck’of torfafiltU. recovtr * <1 from an at- * * V ,,*‘ as been clinched between Hob M°ha, the crack light heavyweight V-hhi iW'- ee ' ami Jaok k'itzgeraITT. the I hilauelplna nngman. Thev will clash in a ten-round bout In New York on 1 hursday nlghl. * , • Kackey McFarland, it he has been ducted correctly, ha, a cairn and cheer ful t.ieory of boxing, fine for himself, nice tor his opponents, but rather se- I vere on the public. Packey is supposed I i i<> ha\ e said in (. hicago: “T never tri - ; to hurt ntj- men. I am perfectly willing i ro go along, box nice and pretty, and i do no. harm as long as they don't get I t fresh and try to hurt me." * " • Kay Temple has been matched to | meet Joe Sherman In a ten-r.mn.1 bout at Superior. Wi.-t, on December u Johnny ICIlbane and Abe Attel! will I clash .it a twenty-round set-to at San I I* rancisco on February 22. * * * Local boxers are having a contest as to who is the best tango dancer. Mike Saul and Frank Baker an* having a neck and neck race. Meyer Pries is out tor the “booby” prize. From bis re- j cent performance he has a good chance of landing It. ... k rankle Con’ey, ex-bantamweight champion of the world. Is still fooling . ; wiT.i the boxing gloves. Frankie bat tles “Knockout” Mars in a scheduled j ten-round bout at Cincinnati, Ohio, to- Mathewson, N. Y. Adams, Pittsburg Tesreau, N. Y Demaree, N. Y Pierce, Chicago Robinson, Pittsburg .... Brennan. Philadelphia. .. Marquard, New York.... Charles Smith, Chicago.. Cheney, Chicago ... Yingling, Brooklyn Seaton, Philadelphia Reulbach, Chic.-Brook.. . Humphries, Chicago .... Sallee, St. Louis Ames, N. Y.-Cincinnati.. James, Boston Alexander, Philadelphia. Tyler, Boston Allen, Brooklyn Hendrix, Pittsburg Rucker. Brooklyn M. Brown, Cincinnati.... Rudolph, Boston Packard, Cincinnati Johnson. Cincinnati Stack, Brooklyn-Chidago. Doak. St. Louis Mayer, Philadelphia Rixey. Philadelphia Dickson, Boston Curtis, Brooklyn Perdue, Boston O’Toole. Pittsburg McQuillan. Pittsburg . . . Renton, Cincinnati Lavender, Chicago Camnltz, Pittsburg-Phil. Ragan, Brooklyn . Hess, Boston Harmon. St. Louis ... Suggs, Cincinnati Frommc, Cinc.-N. York. Griner, St. Louis Perritt, St. Louis 1(5 19 3 3 6 ✓22 16 4 14 14 11 14 14 8 9 9 6 8 16 6 8 11 10 9 . 15 8 12 10 6 291 271 176 137 184 204 248 138 271 15S 262 118 169 257 220 134 288 245 144 216 236 171 258 208 251 135 79 172 148 118 145 201 148 144 140 206 252 284 231 291 167 279 205 21 49 119 38 59 41 46 99 34 98 10 136 55 24 60 78 108 81 89 67 44 59 64 86 47 39 46 56 45 39 55 35 60 98 107 64 70 99 o r. 50 66 64 93 144 167 76 50 94 151 47 136 40 16S 56 63 ' 106 110 159 143 82 138 111 41 109 1(*7 62 61 51 47 5 i 91 58 59 68 91 85 3 09 80 66 73 . 74 79 64 53 54 56 S3 100 111 93 119 89 76 127 102 Won’t Discuss Dates With Ban Johnson PITTSBURG, J^ec. 8.—President Barney Dreyfuss, of the Pittsburg Baseball Club, made it plain to-day that there can be no discussion of 1914 schedules between himself and Ban Johnson, president of the Amer ican League, at present. The local magnate received a let ter from Johnson, suggesting that the two get together before the Na tional League's annual meeting to consider the 3 914 schedule. “Mr. Johnson is evidently laboring under a wrong impression,” said Dreyfuss after reading the letter. "I have absolutely no authority to make a schedule for the National League. Our committee will not be appointed until the meeting to-morrow, and I may not be named on it at ail. ’ MILWAUKEE AFTER BLACKBURN MILWAUKEE. Dec. 8, The Milwaivl keo tf-Hin t'; (I a y began negotiu the purchase of Russel! Blackburn, tn« Charles Comlskey. of the Sox. I owners of the Milwaukee club ari' r ' elate the fact that Blackburn was t keynote of Clark’s championship on. Woman Champion to Give Cue Exhibitions Another bout of interest takes place to-night between Jim Flvnn and Bat tling Levinsky in New York. Levinskv Is Danny Morgan's rising heavyweight 5Tar. He should have a tough nut to crack in this Flynn party, who. although fading, knows enough to put up a good bout against the best of them around his w*eight. The probabilities are that Bantam weight Champion Johnny Coulofi and Kid Williams will clash fnr ten rounds P' Milwaukee February 22 (Washing- birthday*. W'. !e in the Brewer ! City last week Harris gave his consent,! -»:Vr l cow the Cub is after Conion. w1»u j s.i.io ■ « ■••-s sign no- Mrs. Bertha M. King, champion wom an pocket billiard player, and her hus band, W. W. King, an* to be seen in exhibition matches in (tie rooms of the M. & M. Club Tuesday and Thursday nights. In addition u» regular match play. Mra. King will give exhibitions of fancy shots. The two experts reached Atlanta Mon day morning and promptly went to the club rooms to practice. “I go early in th. morning, so as to dodge the crowds." Mrs. King sr.rd. “Of course, that T- ^r. i matter if you’re a man But well. 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