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TIIK ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS
By GEORGE M’MANUS
TIIITIOIIL
Present Head of League Has Pre
pared Hot Speech for Mog-
nates at To-day's Meeting,
By Frank G. Menke.
N TCW YORK, Dec. S—Tom
•lunch's farewell to-day to the
National League cla.n, wl]Jch
he has served so well as president,
promised to be of the kind that the
ojansmen would not forget for a. eon-
•iderable period,
This was the annual meeting day jf
ihe 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
rhe 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 it
wouldn't do him any good to plead
his own cause. But Lynch also knew
ihat 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
rame 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 he tendered a four-year
contract, 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
as Governor will not expire until Jan
uary 1, 1916, and he will retain his
Gubernatorial position until then.
But Tener has announced thgt he
will give as much tithe 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-dav with magnates and managers
of the National League ball clubs.
Bach was eager to make some sale
or trade that would strengthen his
team.
Garry Herrmann, owner of ttie
Cincinnati Reds, and also owner of
Joe Tinker, was besieged by an army
of magnates and managers who
.-.anted Tinker, regarded as one of
the greatest shortstops that ever
played the game. Herrmann to-day
still stood pat on his demand of $„0,-
itoo cash for Tinker, but several own
ers fried to get him to change h;s
mind and let Tinker go for part cash
and part players,
Brooklyn After i inker.
The Brooklyn club 1s hot after
Tinker, although Tinker has an
nounced that he would not play ex-
in Chicago or Pittsburg. Herr-
, it is said, was offered Brook
lyn players of more than fair ability
... Tinker, but turned down the prop-
, 11ion It is possible that Tinker
in; . so to Brooklyn as the result of a
• hree-cornered deal involving Broos-
Ivn Cincinnati and Philadelphia.
John B. Foster, secretary of the
\'ew York club and proxy for Man
ager McGraw, was' much sought aft-
r by the moguls. Most of them want
ed Marquard, the Giants star pit..h-
who has grown unpopular In this
“potion The Giant management wl.l
trade the •Rube” If a reasonable
proposition is made. Jut du rf n S
morning Foster waved the "“thing
doing'” sign at those who wanted to
talk Marquard business to him. A
of them. It is said, wanted to give
Foster some money and a few ordlni-
rv nlavers in exchange, but Foster
was out after Rucker, of the Dodgers
Tvler. of the Braves, or a southpaw
of equal merit-
Managers and owners held prlva e
conferences during the forenoon and
It was whispered that many big-deals
were pending, but Just who was in
volved was not divulged at^the time.
McFarland Spurns
Match With Clabby
,„ P « C v' turaed ! ’down Ck an o«
a twenty-round battle on the coast with
JlmS? Flabby. ,h * Hammond. Ind.,
crack middleweight. CofTroth
The Offer came from James Commit,;
the San Francisco promoter CTabbJ
and Packet are very Dipolar o'" tves^
and "Sunny Jim" set January if aa th.
^According 10 CofTroth, Clahbv is anic
Urns to battle the local man. hut since
he very best the ^Hammond hoy can
do Is Hi pounds, McFarland passed
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This is the fourth installment of the life of Light-weight Champion
Willie Ritchie, as described by himself and 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 t>o
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 t 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 I 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 I wrote down
to the address that my friend gave
mr and in a few days I got a letter
saying that the position was open
to me.
Goe* to the Oil Fields.
I did not even hesitate. I jumped
on the first train for the oil fields,
determined to Ret out of the fighting
game for a while at lea-st and per
haps forever It was just into my
hands for T managed to Ret a lot of
fxpnrienre while l was working for
tha1 wholesale machinery house. I
frit ready to take a chanre anyhow,
no matter what did happen.
1 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 hours every day and
night I learned rapidly, and al
though T was doing two men’s work
half the time, still T liked it. for I
took a great interest in machinery
and l was given every opportunity to
learn.
They called upon me to do all sorts
of odd jobs, and I always did the
best 1 could. Some nights 1 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. T made many good friends
down in the oil country and thfey all
seemed to like me. and after a few
months J fell in for a pretty good
Job.
Forgets About the Game.
When the opening came 1 jumped
in as a driver.of machines and later
a demonstrator. 1 was getting $5 a
day for this. There was pfenty of
money in that section of the country
then, and f managed to get my share
of it I 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 Tn fact,
they put several good matches up
to me. But there was no chance. I
made up my mind to atlck with the
automobile business, and forgot that
thero was anything 1n the world like
a set of boxing gloves But later I
will show how T changed
T 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 me, and he offered me a good
raise when I told him I was about
to go back to San Francisco. This
did not do a bit of good, because I
had my mind made «ip to return to
my home town
Returns to HI# First Love.
My father and my brothers and
sisters were very glad 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 all. It was against their
will that I started to fight, and they
kept wishing and praying that T
would do something else for a living
Everything went along nicely for
a month or two, till 1 started going
out to the four-round fights on Fri
day nights again. I paw fellows per
forming whom I had licked in the
past T began to find myself slip
ping. The old feeling cafnc back on
me I tried to stall it off, hut It
was no use. I was fighting mad once
more, and the automobile business
seemed to lose all Its charm
The first thing I knew, I was out
in the gymnasium again after work,
putting on the gloves with the hoys,
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 « oncluded
that the fighting guile reall) wai t3t*
game for me. and I began In look
around for another match with the
four-rounders.
Boxing Notes
THE FREAK.
A mighty tumult surges about the
playhouse door,
The speculators gathered kale, until
both arms were sore:
"Ah. this/ breathed, “is Bernhardt,
or some strong sketch like
that,
Or maybe Mr. Ilopprr pulling ‘Casey
at That Bat! 9 ’’
When 1o! a blaze of winkling lights
proclaimed the wondrous dope :
"The Only Sir-foot White Man Who
Don’t Claim To Be a White
Hope!"
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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 penally civilization exacts
from mankind. And dogs, too
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 has not hinged on
our quickness of foot for several years
row Hence we have lost these things
The dog feels it, too. He has had his
eats passed out to him in a. pan so long
that, he no longer classes with his broth
er. the w’olf, as a fighting machine
ft is a paradoxical wmrld 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?
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Sieve Ketchel, the Chicago light
weight who has a host of admirers In
the Windy City, will box Joe Mandot
ten rounds at Racine. WI*.. on December
19 Ketchel writes that he is in hard
training for the bout and expects to
land the verdict.
Promter John Keating, of Kenoeha.
has resuscitated his Huh, according to a
wire from the Badger village John
is to offer a championship attraction
early in January. He says be has signed
Johnny Kllbane, featherweight chan,
plon, for a scheduled ten rounds with
Joe Harang. of New Orleans.
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Faidle Hanlon, local welterweight,
started light work last night for his
fifteen-round bout with .lack Robinson,
at Jacksonville. Fla . on December lfl
Kddle boxed three fast rounds with
Frank Baker and pulled ihe pulleys for
fifteen minutes l>ldle is anxious to
win this scran *s he will be In line
for- some good bouts If be gets sway
with Jack.
* • *
The Charlie White Ad Wolgaat bout
lias finally been closed Frank Mulkem,
Milwaukee promoter, lias secured Wol-
gast’s signature to a set of article* t.o
box White in the Brewer City on De
cember 19 The winner will probably
get Dundee on Christmas Day.
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Mat i y McCue. who, a few months ago
was being touted as the oomnig feath
erweight champion of the world. is now
under Tom Jones’ management Mc
Cue hades Tommy Bresnahan in a ten
round go at Kacine, Wi* , to-night.
ThreeUmpires Hear ‘Can’ 1 ingling
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Judge Kavanaugh May Swing Ax
By O. 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 th© robins nest
again.
One section of the rumor says one
umpire will he attached to the can.
Another says three
Our guess would be a* good a.s
yours, and no better. And now that
the heat of battle has chilled off into
a Regular December, we aren’t dis
posed to boat 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 UT a~s a plain matter of news and
dope, we have it that of the four
umpires Wright. Flfleld. Stockdale
and Kerin- who debutted last spring
In the Southern League, only the laat-
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
* * *
O F the four veteran umpires- Breit-
enstein, Hart, Rudderham and
Pfenninger there was not so much
criticism last season, and a rood bit
of what there w'as 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
t hree years which is a Olaas A A
league, at that.
• • •
S O it looks aa if the four old ’uns
will stick, plus Kerin, the de
butante. As to the others well, the
judge lias 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 fane
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 with um
pires that are manifestly incompe
tent.
* # •
U/HEREFORE, if Mr Kavanaugh
considers that Wright and
Stockdal© and Flfleld or any one or
two of them are incompetent, Mr.
Kavanaugh probably will try out one.
two or three new boys in blue in
19 M
At this writing anything connected
with the G. O. O. 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-
; bark star of the University of Geor
gia football team, has T>een honoreo
with a place on sn all-American team
Parke H. Davis. Princeton's repre
sentative on the football rules commit
tee, gives Hot) the position of halfback.
In speaking of McWhorter. Mr
Davis says, In part: “To Northern en
thusiasts McWhorter comes as a strang
er. hut not so in the South, where he
Is known as the most phenomenal hack
field player the game has known in
years.
Here Is his selection
Ends- Merrilst (Army),
(Pittsburg.)
Tackles—Ballin 'Princeton)
(Michigan)
Guards -Talmsn (Rutgars)
(Navy)
Center -Marting 'Yale).
Quarter Huntington (Colgate)
Malfs— Guyon (Carlisle), McWhorter
(Georgia).
Full—Brlckley (Harvard*
Fans Refuse to Bet
On Murphy Against
Champion Ritchie
SAN FRANCISCO, Deo I.—There is a
lull in the training camps of both Willie
Ritchie and Tommy Murphy to-day.
Both lads have finished their training
and each is on edge for the 20-round
title mill at Coffroth's arena to-morrow
night Ritchie is a 'i to 1 favorite to
win in the 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 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 at the Olympia Athletic Clnb last
night
MARS BEATS CONLEY.
CINCINNATI. Dec 9 Frankie ('on-
ley. ex-bantamweight champion of Ke
nosha. Wis . was hosted here last night
in h ten-round bout with Knockout
Mars, of this city
Hoodlums Riot at
Bike Race; Fourteen
Teams Are Bunched
NEW YORK. Deo. 9.—While the six
teen teams left tn 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
fight is said to have started over the dl
vision of spoilH taken from sleeping
spectators by the "dip*'’ 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. Dee. 9.—Terry
Martin and Patsy De Luoca last, night
i fought the first six-round double-head
er that has been pulled off in this oity
since the six-round law went mto effect
several years ago. the referee declaring
it a draw at the end of the second six
round session 1
Wagner
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AUTO RACER KILLED
BRI'SREIiR. BELGIUM, Der ? Ca
mille Jenathy, the Belgium automobile
racing pilot, was arMdontally killed in
a forest naar here yesterday He wi*
with the editor of s Brussels nswspe
prr Both were members of a. hunting
party
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