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BRINGING UP FATHER
By GEORGE M’MANUS
TO NATIONAL
Present Head of League Has Pre
pared Hot Speech for Mog-
nates at To-day’s Meeting.
By Flunk G. Menke.
N EW YORK, Dec. 9.—Tom
Lynch's farewell to-day to the
National League clan, wljjch
h4 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
event on the program was the plac
ing of the skids under the said Thom
as Lynch, giving Thomas a push In
the general direction of the subwav.
and then the Immediate elevation c l
Governor John K. Tener. of Pennsyl
vania, into Tom's old job.
Lynch knew the National Leagu »rs
no longer wanted him. Also he knew
that if they cared for him no more .t
wouldn’t do him any good to plead
Ills own cause. Put Lynch also knew
tliat 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
» able that Lynch had prepared for de
livery before the National Leaguers
just about the hottest little denuncia
tion of men and 'policies that has been '
prepared since speechmaking became
an art.
Long Contract for Tener.
Tener will be tendered a four-year
contract, calling for $23,000 each year,
immediately after his election. How
ever. he will not draw any salary for
his first year on the Job, as his term
as Governor will not expire until Jan
uary 1, 1915, and he will retain bis
Gubernatorial position until then.
But Tener has announced that he
will give as much time to baseball af
fairs during the next year as he would
even if be 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. 1
Garry Herrmann, owner of the
Cincinnati Reds, and also owner of
Joe 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 Tinker, but several own
ers tried to get him to change his
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 Ghicago 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
mttv go to Brooklyn as the result of a |
three-cornered deal involving Brook- i
1 v n Cincinnati and Philadelphia.
‘ John B. Foster, secretary of t.ie
New York club and proxy for Man
ager McGraw, was much sought aft
er bv the moguls. Most of them want
ed Marquard. the Giants’ star pitch-
pr who has grown unpopular in this
section. The Olant management wi.l
trade the "Rube" If a reasonable
proposition is made, but during the
morning Foster waved the nothin;,
doing” sign at those who wanted to
talk Marquard business to him. All
,,f them, it is said, wanted to give
Foster some money and a few ordina*
rv players in exchange, but Foster
was out after Rucker, of the Dodgers;
Tyler, of the Braves, or a southpaw
of equal meri
Managers and owners held prtva.e
conferences during the forenoon and
it was whispered that many big deals
were pending, but just who was in
volved wa& not divulged at the time.
McFarland Spurns
Match With Clabby
GHICAGO, Dec. 9.—Packey McFar-
n.l to-day turned down an offer of
twenty round battle on the coast with
mmy clabby. the Hammond. Ind.,
ack middleweight.
The offer came from .Tames Coffroth,
c Ran Francisco promoter. Clabby
,d Packey are very popular out Meat,
d “Sunny Jim” set January 16 as the
According to Coffroth, Clabby Is anx-
J ,s to battle the local man but since!
V erv best the Hammond boy can j
i, us pounds. McFarland passed
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This is the fourth installment of the life of Lightweight Champion
Willie Ritchie, as described by himself and written exclusively for The
Georgian.
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Cincinnati, O.
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
thosd two defeats caused me more
worry than 1 am now willing to ad
mit. I was not knocked out or even
hurt in either of the battles, but at
the same time I was outpointed, and
this very thought was enough to
make me sad and gloomy.
The promoters did not look for me
after Burns got that verdict. They
never do go after a fellow’ 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. I 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 I probably
could get a job in a garage and work
myself up into something better.
This struck me right, so 1 wrote down
to the address that my friend gave
me and in a few days f got a letter
saying that the position was open
to me.
Goes to the Oil Fields.
I did not even hesitate. 1 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 1 was working for
that wholesale machinery house. I
felt ready to take a chance anyhow,
no matter what 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 I was doing two men’s work
half the time, .still I liked it. for 1
took a great interest in machinery
and 1 was given every opportunity to
learn.
They called upon me to do all sorts
of odd jobs, and 1 alwaYV did’ ihe
best J could. Some nights I would go
to bed so tired that 1 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. 1 was getting $5 a
day for this. There was plenty of
money in that section 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 I had been doing a lot of
boxing around San Francisco tried
to get me to go on again. In fact,
they put several good matched up
to me. Rut ther * 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 Jiow I changed.
I began to get tiled 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 me, and he offered me a good
raise when I told him 1 was about
to go back to San Francisco. This
did not do a bit of good, because I
hail my mind made «ip to return to
my home town.
Returns to His First Love.
My father and my brothers and
sisters were very gTad to see me. es
pecially when I 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 them at ail. 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 hail licked in the
past I lagan to find myself slip
ping. The old feeling came back on
me. I tried to stall it off, but it
was no use. 1 was righting mad once
more, and the automobile business
seamed to lose all its charm.
The first thing I knew, I wan out
in the gymnasium again after work,
putting on the gloves with the boys,
hitting the punching bags and doing
some road work every time I got a
chance. I felt better than I ever
felt in my life before, so 1 concluded
that the fighting game really was the
gjame for me, md I began to look
around for another match with the
four-rounders.
THE FREAK.
A mighty tumult surges about the
playhouse door.
The speculators gathered hale until
both firms were sore:
“Ah, this." / breathed, “is Bernhardt,
or some strong sketch like
that.
Or maybe Mr. Hopper pulling 'Casey
at That Bat!* f *
When lo! a blaze of winkling lights
proclaimed the wondrous dope:
”The Only Six-foot White Man Who
hon*t Claim To Be a White
II ope /”
* * *
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
from mankind. And dogs. too.
* * *
For many, many generations we have
not been forced 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 lias not hinged on
our quickness of foot for several years
now. Hence, we have lost these things.
The dog feels it. too. He lias had his
eats passed out to him in a pan so long
that he no longer classes with bis broth
er. the wolf, as a fighting machine.
« * *
It Is a paradoxical world. How would
you figure that an> man who would pay
money to see a White Hope contest
could ever get $5 together at one time?
* * *
Stev*% Ketchel. the Ghicago light
weight who has a host of admirers in
the Windy Gity, will box Joe Mandat
ten rounds at Racine, Wis.. on December
19. Ketchel writes that he is in hard
training for the bout and expects to
land the verdict.
Proniter John Keating, of Kenosha,
has resuscitated bis club, according to a
wire from the Badger village John
is to offer a championship attraction
early in January, lb- says be lias signed
Johnny Kllbane. featherweight cham
pion. for a scheduled ten rounds with
Joe Ha rang, of New Orleans.
laldie Hanlon. local welterweight,
started light work last night for his
fifteen-round bout with Jack Robinson,
at Jacksonville. Fla., on Decern tier 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 he in line
for some good bouts if he gets away
with Jack.
* • •
The Gharlie White Ad Wolgast bout
has finally been closed. Frank Mulkem,
Milwaukee promoter, has secured Wol-
gast's signature to a set of articles to
box White in the Brewer Gity on De
cember- 1!* The winner will probably
get Dundee on Christmas Day
«. * *
Matty McGue. who, a few months ago
was being touted as the eomnig feath
erweight champion < f the world, is now
under Tom Jones' management M -
Cue battles Tommy Btesnahan in a i**m
round go at Karine, WU., Ui-night.
ThreeUmpires Hear ‘Can’Jingling
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Judge Kavanaugh May Swing Ax
By (). B. 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 gue.*?s would be as good as
yours, and no better. And now that
the heat of battle has chilled off into
a Regular December, we aren’t dis
posed to beat a drum, irlount 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 UT as a plain matter of news and
dope, we have it that of the four
umpires Wright, Fi field, Stoekdale
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, but it
isn’t our job to figure out if they
were hopeless or simply green.
Judge Kavanaugh is the Judge.
* • •
/~\F the four veteran umpires P.reit-
^ enstein, Hart, Rudderham and
Pfenninger there was not so much
criticism last season, and a good bit
of what, there w'a-s 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 A A
league, at that.
* • •
S O it looks as if the four old 'una
will stick, plus Kerin, the d«-
butante. As to the others well, the
judge has always been firm in up
holding bis 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 of the worthy Judge
is that his ideas of support do not
include long-term contracts w'ith um
pires that are manifestly Incompe
tent.
p * * •
\\J H rCRKlf* )RE\ if Mr Kavanaugh
v v considers that Wright and
Stockdale and Fi field or any one or
two of them are incompetent. Mr.
Kavanaugh probably will try out one,
two or three new boys 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.
McWhorter Placed on
All-American Team
Bob McWhorter, captain and half
back star of the University of Geor
gia football team, has T>**en tionoreo
with a place on an all-American team.
Parke If. Davis, Princeton’s repre
sentative on the football rules commit
tee, gives Boh the position of halfback.
In speaking of McWhorter, Mr.
Davis says. In part: “To Northern en
thusiasts McWhorter comes as a strang
er. but not so in the South, where he
is known as the most phenomenal back-
tield player the game has known In
years.”
Here is his selection
Ends Merrilat < Army ), Wagner
(Pittsburg)
Tackles Ballin (Princeton), Pontius
(M Ichlgan i
Guards— Talman (Rutgers), Brown
(Navy).
Genter Marting (Yale).
Quarter Huntington (Colgate*
Halfs Guyon (Carlisle), McWhorter
I (Georgia >.
I Full Brlckley (Harvard)
AUTO PACER KILLED.
BRUSSELS. BELGIUM. Dec. 9. Ga-
rr.llle Jeuathy. the Belgium automobile
racing pilot, was accidentally killed in
a forest near here .yesterday He was
with (he editor of a Brussels newspa
per. Both were members of a bunting
l»arty
Fans Refuse to Bet
j On Murphy Against
Champion Ritchie
I SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9 -There is a
lull In the training camps of both Willie
I Ritchie and Tommy Murphy to-du.v.
j Both lads have finished their training
and each in on edge for the 20-round
I title mill at Coffroth’s arena to-morrow
night. Ritchie is a 2 to 1 favorite to
! win in the betting, but wagering is ab
sent If he were a 4 to l 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, hut
very few on the final result.
HOWELL BEATS ALBERTS.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 9 Tommy
Howell, the Italian welterweight, won
from Johnny “Kid" Alberts, the New
York lad. in an uninteresting six-round
bout dt the 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.
Hoodlums Riot at
Bike Race; Fourteen
Teams Are Bunched
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 b»
stander.’’ as usual, had been hurt. The
fight is said to have started over the di
vision of spoils taken from sleeping
spectators by the “dips ’ that always
appear at the 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.—Terry
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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