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Present Head of League Has Pre
pared Hot Speech for Mog-
nates at To-day’s Meeting.
By Frank G. Menke.
N EW YORK. Dec. 9.—Torn
Lynch’* farewell to-day to the
National League clan, which
he has served so well as president,
promised to be of the kind that the
clansmen would not forget for a con
siderable period.
This was the annual meeting day of
the National League crowd. The first
went on the program was the plac
ing of the skids under the said Thorn
es Lynch, giving Thomas a push in
the general direction of the subway,
and then the immediate elevation of
Governor John K. Tener. of Pennsyl
vania, Into Tom’s old job.
Lynch knew the National Leaguers
no longer wanted him. Also he knew
that If they cared for him no more ;t
wouldn’t do him any good to plead
his own cause. But Lynch also knew
that he had the right of free speech,
and that as a retiring officer of any
organization he had the right to utter
a few words of his own choosing. And
from those close to Lynch the word
ame that Lynch had prepared for de
livery before the National Leaguers
just about the hottest little denuncia
tion of men and i>olicies that has been
prepared since speechmaking becajne
an art.
Long Contract for Tener.
Tener will be tendered a four-year
< ontraet, calling for $25,000 each year,
immediately after his election. How
ever. he will not draw any salary for
his first year on the job. as his term
ms Governor will not expire until Jan
uary 1. 1915, and he will retain his
Gubernatorial position until then.
Rut Tener has announced that ie
will give as much time to baseball af
fairs during the next year as he would
even if he wasn't Governor.
The Waldorf-Astoria, where the
meeting will be held, was thronged
to-day with magnates and managers
of the National League ball clubs.
Each was eager to make some sale,
or trade that would strengthen his
team.
Garry Herrmann, owner of the
Cincinnati Reds, and also owner of
.roe Tinker, was besieged by an army
of magnates and managers who
wanted Tinker, regarded as one of
the greatest shortstops that ever
played the game. Herrmann to-day
still stood pat on his demand of $20,-
000 cash for T*inker. but several own
ers tried to get him to change Ilia
mind and let Tinker go for part cash
and part players,
Brooklyn After Tinker.
The Brooklyn club is hot after
Tinker, although Tinker has an
nounced that he would not play ex
cept in Chicago or Pittsburg. Herr
mann, it is said, was offered Brook
lyn players of more than fair ability
for Tinker, but turned down the prop
osition. It is possible that Tinker
may go to Brooklyn as the result of a
three-cornered deal involving Brook
lyn, Cincinnati and Philadelphia.
John B. Foster, secretary of t.ie
New York club and proxy for Man
ager McGraw, was much sought af..-
er by the moguls. Most of them warn
ed Marquard. the Giants' star pitcn-
er who has grown unpopular in this
section. The Giant management wi.I
trade the "Rube" if a reasonable
proposition is made, but during Ui
morning Foster waved the nothin*
doing” sign at those who "anted to
talk Marquard business to him. All
of them, it is* said, wanted to give
Foster some money and a few ordin i-
ry players in exchange, but Foster
was out after Rucker, of the Dodgers
Tyler, of the Braves, or a southpaw
of equal merit . . _
Managers and owners neld priva.e
conferences during the forenoon and
It was whispered that many big deals
were pending, but .iust who was in
volved was not divulged at^the time.
Dartmouth Awards
Football Letter to 15
HANOVER. N H.. Dec. 9.- Fifteen
men who played during the Dartmouth
football season have been awarded the
^The^fifteen men are J. H. Beer.
H.L Dunbar. ’14: .T. B. Hlrnaii. ’H: R.
v T-fncsett '14■ F. A. Llewellyn, ■4
P.’ \Y. Loudon, ’14; E. A. Curtis ’16; M.
P. Ghee, 'lot L P ; Tuek. U. JL. A.
Whitney, ’15: J. N. Colby. 16, I. B. Mc-
AtilllTe. ‘16. and C. A. PudHth, 16.
The track "D was given to f . it.
Marceau. '14. and . seven^ cross-country
••Ds” to the following men. L E. Ba
.•on ’14: F. R. Marceau, 14. S. W.
kali marsh '14: W. R. Granger. Jr.. IS.,
E R Merrill. '15; C. F. Durgis. '16. and
A. D. Lewis, '16.
McFarland Spurns
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This is Ihc fourth i out ailment of the life of Lightweight Champion
Willie Ritchie, as ilcsirihcil by himself anti written exclusively for The
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By Willie Ritchie.
S AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9—After
losing two battles in a row, one
to Charley Reilly and the- oth
er to Frankie Burns, i began to
scratch my head and figure a little.
True. I managed to put over seven
teen victories without a loss, but
those two defeats caused me more
worry than I am now willing to ad
mit. 1 was not knocked out or even
hurt in either of the battles, but at
the same time 1 was outpointed, and
this very thought was enough to
make me sad and gloomy.
The promoters did not look for mo
after Burns got that verdict. They
never do go after a fellow r who is
beaten once. They are looking for
the one who is right up in front and
who the fans are talking about all
the time. I knew that they were not
talking about me. for 1 had not been
a winner.
My brother and Baker and Ed
wards and a lot of my friends came
to me and urged me to go ahead and
take another chance. But their words
did not seem to give me much com
fort. T could not see any future in
the boxing game and I decided to try
my hand at something else.
I ran across a friend of mine who
advised me to get into the automo
bile business. He told me of a place
down in Coalinga where 1 probably
could get a job in a garage and work
myself up into something better.
This struck me right, so I wrote down
to the address that my friend gave
me and in a few days I got a letter
saying that the position was open
to me.
Goes to the Oil Fields.
T did not even hesitate. I jumped
on the first, train for the oil fields,
determined to get out of the fighting
game for a while at least and per
haps forever. It was just into my
hands, for I managed to get a lot of
experience while I was working for
that wholesale machinery house. I
felt ready to take a chance anyhow,
no matter w’hat did happen.
I started to work in the garage at
the oil fields for $2.50 a day, and. be
lieve me, it was pretty hard work at
that. I used to put in 12 and 14 and
sometimes 16 hours every day and
night. I learned rapidly, and al
though T was doing two men’s work
half the time, still 1 liked It, for I
took a great interest in machinery
and I was given every opportunity to
learn.
They c alled upon me to do all sorts
of odd jobs, and I always did the
best I could. Some nights I would go
to bed so tired that I would not even
take time to eat my supper. But I
was learning a good trade, so I never
kicked. I made many good friends
down in the oil country and they all
seemed to like me. and after a few
months I fell in for a pretty good
job.
Forgets About the Game.
When the opening came I jumped
in as a driver of machines and later
a demonstrator. I was getting $5 a
day for this. There was plenty of
money in that sec tion of the country
then, and I managed to get my share
of it. 1 worked steadily all the time,
and just kept my nose to the grind
stone.
Some of my new-made friends who
knew that 1 had been doing a lot of
boxing around San Francisco tried
to get me to go on again. In fact,
they put several good matches up
to me. But there was no chance. I
made up my mind to stick with the
automobile business, and forgot that
there was anything in the world like
a set of boxing gloves. But later I
will show how I changed.
1 began to get tired of Coalinga.
I had saved up a nice little sum of
money, and I was about ready to take
my departure. My boss was very
nice to ine. and lie offered me a good
raise when I told him I was about
to go back to San Francisco. Thw»
did not do a bit of good, because I
had my mind made <ip to jreturn to
my home town.
Returns to His First Love.
My father and my brothers and
sisters were very glad to see me, es
pecially when 1 told them that I was
in the automobile game to stay. They
believed tHat i intended to stay in
the ring, and this did not seem to
suit i hem at all. It was against'their
will that I started to fight, and they
kept wishing and praying that I
would do something else for a living.
Everything went along nicely for
a month or two, till I started going
out to the four-round fights on Fri
day nights again. I saw fellows per
forming whom I had licked in the
past l began to find myself slip
ping. The old feeling came back on
me. i tried to stall it off, but it
was no use. I was fighting mad once
more, and the automobile business
seemed to lose all its ciiarm.
The first thing I knew, I was out
in the gymnasium again after work,
putting on the gloves with the boys,
hitting the punching hags and doing
some road work every time I got a
chance. I felt better than I ever
felt in my life before, so I concluded
that the fighting game really was the
game for me. and I began to look
around for another match with the
four-rounders.
THE FREAK
IA mighty tumult surge* about the |
playhouse door,
Thr *peculators gathered kale until
both arms mere star:
i “Ah, this." I breathed. ‘T* Bernhardt, j
or some strong sketch like |
that.
(Jr maybe Mr. Hoppei pulling ‘(’asey
at That Bat!' ”
When to! a Maze of winkling lights
proclaimed the wondrous dope :
“The (July Six-foot U hite Man Who
I Jon’I ('la ini To Be a White
Hope!"
We.• can offer the White Hope this
much consolation—it isn't his fault.
His forefathers began living in cities
two thousand years too soon. They are'
big enough and strong enough, but their
judgment of distance is on the blink
and their agility is like unto that of
a traction engine in advancing bog.
This is the penalty civilization exacts j
from mankind. And dogs, too
* + *
For many, many generations we have
not been fortaed to depend on our sure-
ness of eye for a meal once a week or
so; and our escape from a side-swipe of
the cave-tiger’s paw has not hinged on
our quickness of foot for several years
now . Hence, we hgve lost these things
The dog feels it, tom lie has had his
eats passed out to him in a pan so long
that he no longer classes with his broth
er. the wolf, as a fighting machine.
* * *
It is a paradoxical world. How would
you figure that any man who would pay
money to see a White Hope contest
could ever get $5 together at one time?
* * *
Steve Kelchel, the Chicago light
weight who has a host of admirers in
the Windy City, will box Joe Mandot
ten rounds at Racine, Wis.. on December
If*. Ketchel writes that he is in hard
training for the bout and expects to
land the verdict.
Frontier John Keating, of Kenosha,
has resuscitated his club, according to a
wire front the Badger village. John
is to offer a championship attraction
early in January. He says he has signed
Johnny Kilbane. featherweight cham
pion. for a scheduled ten rounds with
Joe Ha rang, of New Orleans.
* * *
Eddie Hanlon, local welterweight,
started light work last night for his
fifteen-round bout with Jack Robinson,
at .Jacksonville. FTa., on December 16.
Eddie boxed three fast rounds with
Frank Baker and pulled the pulleys for
fifteen minutes. Eddie Is anxious to
win this scrap, as he will be in line
for some good bouts If he gels away
with Jack.
* • *
The Charlie White-Ad Wolgasi bout
has finally been closed. I'Yank Mulkern.
Milwaukee promoter, has secured Wol-
gast's signature to a set of articles to
box White in the Brewer City on De
cember 19 .The winner wifi probably
g*»t Dundee on Christmas Day.
* * • *
Matty McCue. who. a few months ago
was being touted as the comnig feath
erweight champion of the world, is now
under Tom Jones' management. Mc
Cue battles Tomm;. Bresnahan in a. ten J
round go at Racine. Wt*. # to-night. I
ThreeUmpires Hear ‘Can’ Tingling
Judge Kavanaugh May SwingAx
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Keeler.
R UMORS emanate from up Mem
phis way that Judge William
• Marmaduke Kavanaugh, presi
dent of the Southern League, is go
ing to dust off the well-known rinky-
dink and apply the same to one or
more umpires before the robins nest
again.
One section of the rumor says one
umpire will be attached to the can.
Another says three.
Our guess would be as good as
yours, and tio better. And now that
the heat of battle has chilled off into
a Regular December, we aren't dis
posed to beat a drum, mount a dry-
goods box and shriek for anybody’s
head.
We reflect on the cold and lengthy
winter months, and the idea possess
es us that even umpires have to
live.
• • •
B IT as a plain matter of news and
dope, we have it that of the four
umpires Wright. Fifleld. Stockdale
and Kerin who debutted last spring
in the Southern League, only the last-
named made good. Our observation
was that Kerin did uniformly good
work, and appeared to have the nec
essary qualifications of an umpire.
The others did not do well, hut it
isn't our job to figure out if they
were hopeless or simply green
Judge Kavanaugh is the judge.
• * •
O F the four veteran umpires—Breit-
enstein, Hart, Rudderham and
Pfenninger- -there was not so much
criticism last season, and a good bit
of what there was might easily have
resulted from their being teamed
with an erratic youngster.
At the risk of getting in bad with
the fans by saying a good word for
an umpire, we will just say mildly
that, that quartet, looked pretty
blamed good after watching the work
in the American Association for
three years- which is a Class AA
league, at that.
* * •
S O it looks a.s if the four old 'uns
will stick, plus Kerin, the de
butante. As to the others— well, the
judge has always been firm in up
holding his boys in blue, and that
undeniably is the proper attitude for
a league president. The Southern
League owes a good deal of its sta
bility and prestige to just that pol
icy, and it is a good thing for fans
to remember when they begin yell
ing for scalps.
But our idea <»f the worthy judge
is that his ideas of support do not
include long-term contracts with um
pires that are manifestly incompe
tent.
Y\7 HERE FORE, if Mr Kavanaugh
considers that Wright and
Stockdale and Fifield or any ope or
two of them are incompetent, Mr.
Kavanaugh probably will try out one,
two or three new bovs in blue in
1914.
At this writing, anything connected
with the G. O. G. looks so good to us
that we can’t get much worked up
even over an umpire.
Fans Refuse to Bet 'Hoodlums Riot at
On Murphy Against Bike Race; Fourteen
Champion Ritchie Teams Are Bunched
McWhorter Placed on
All-American Team
Bob McWhorter, captain and half
back star of the University of Geor
gia football team, has honoreu
with a place on an all-American team.
Parke H. Davis. Princeton’s repre
sentative on the football rules commit
tee. gives Bot> the position of halfback.
in speaking or McWhorter, Mr
Davis says, in par 1 “To Northern en-
j thusiaats McWhorter comes as a strang
er. but not SO in the South. Where be
Is known as the moat phenomenal back-
fleld player the game has known in
years.’’
Here is his selection:
Ends Merrilat (Army). Wagner
(Pittsburg).
Tackles Ballin < Princeton >. Pontius
(Michigan).
Guards—Talman (Rutgers*. Brown
(Navy).
(’enter Marting (Yale).
Quarter Huntington (Colgate)
Haifa Guy on (('artiste). McWhorter
(Georgia i.
Full Briekley (Harvard*
AUTO RACER KILLED.
BRUSSELS. BIO LG 11 M. Dec. .). Ca
mille Jena thy. the Belgium automobile
racing pilot, was accidentally killed in
a forest near here yesterday. He was
with the editor of a Brussels newspa
per Both were members of a hunting
party.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. !* There is a
lull ih the training camps of hojfii Willie
Ritchie and Tommy Murphy to-duy.
Both lads have finished their training
and each is on edge for the 20-round
title mill at Coffroth’h arena to-morrow-
night. Ritchie is a 2 to 1 favorite to
win in Die betting, but wagering is ab
sent. If he were a 4 to 1 choice it is
doubtful whether* any more money
would be in evidence. The fans here
have taken It as a foregone conclusion
that the champion will retain his hon
ors and Ritchie money goes begging
Some bets of freak nature are made, but
very few on (lie final result.
HOWELL BEATS ALBERTS.
PHILADELPHIA Dec. !). Tommy
Howell, the Italian welterweight, won
from Johnny "Kid’’ Albert*, the New
York lad. in an uninteresting six-round
bout at Di«r Olympia Athletic Club last
night
MARS BEATS CONLEY.
CINCINNATI. Dec. 9. *- Frankie Con
ley, ex-bantamweight champion of Ke
nosha. Wis.. was bested here last night
in a ten-round bout with Knockout
Mars, of this city.
NEW YORK, Dec. 9. —While the six
teen teams left in the six-day bike race
at Madison Square Garden went merrily
on their way smashing records. two
gangs of hoodlums fought a pitched bat
tle in the building early to-day.
The rioters were driven from the gar
den after one man. an “innocent by
stander,’’ as usual, had been hurt. The
tight is said to have started over the di
vision of spoils taken from sleeping
spectators by the “dips" ‘that always
appear at Die garden during a. six-day
race.
At the end of the thirty-second hour.
8 a. m.. fourteen of the teams were five
miles and two laps ahead of the record.
BOXERS IN DOUBLE-HEADER.
PORTLAND, MAINE, Dec. 9.—Tertv
Martin and Patsy De Lucca last night
fought the first six-round double-head
er that has been pulled off in this city
since the six-round law went into effect
several years ago. the referee declaring
it a draw at the end of the second six-
round session
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