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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS
Two Can Live as Cheaply as One After Marriage—Because They HaveTo
By GEORGE M’MANUS
BIDS FAREWELL
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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.—Tom
Lyncli’s farewell to-day to the
National League clan, whjc'n
he has served so well as president,
promised to he of the kind that the
lansmen would not forget for a con
siderable period.
This was the annual meeting day of
i he 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
he general direction of the subway,
and then the immediate elevation ef
itovernor 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
ame that Lynch had prepared for de
livery before the National Leaguers
iust abQUt 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
ontract, calling for 125,000 each year,
immediately after his election. How
ever. he wilt not draw any salary for
tils first vear on the job, as his term
as Governor will not expire until Jan
uary 1. 1915, and he will retain his
Gubernatorial position until then.
But Teller has announced thgt he
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-dav with magnates and managers
of the National I/eague ball clubs.
Efich was eager to make some sale
trade that would strengthen his
team. .
Garry Herrmann, owner of tne
' incinnati Reds, and also owner >f
.Ine Tinker, was besieged by an army
of magnates and managers who
wanted Tinker, regarded as one of
ihe greatest shortstops that ever
played the game. Herrmann to-day
.-.til] stood pat on his demand of $20,-
i.oo cash for Tinker, but several own
ers tried to get him to change h.s
mind and let Tinker go'for part cash
and part players,
Brooklyn After Tinker.
The Brooklyn club is hot af:er
Tinker, although' Tinker has an
nounced that he would not play ex-
,-ept in Chicago or Pittsburg. Herr
mann. it is said, %vas offered BrooR-
Ivn 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
’hree-cornered deal involving 1Brook-
Ivn Cincinnati and Philadelphia.
■ John B. Foster, secretary of t.H.
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 pit-h-
er. who lias grown unpopular in this
section The Giant management wi.l
Trade the “Rube” if a reasonable
proposition is made, but du l' n K ^
morning Foster waved the nothin^
doing’’ Sign at those who wanted t
,alk Marquard business to him. All
of them, it is said, wanted to g
Foster some money and a few ordli a
rv flavors in exchange, but I os , .
fas, out after Rucker. of_the Dodgeic
tired
OF ALWAYS
ORDERIN’ CHICKEN
yuS>T BECAUSE
" poulet"ie> THE
ONLY 'WORD I
know how d’ye
Say man in
french?
let NE E>EE
OH’ Y6E>-
POLLY AND HER PALS
And Now Pa Is Scared for Fair
10owT^uee if it if
W Turn Tor lb TEED
. I aint 6onna
T/tKE bje ChAHCLS
KETCMiW 'TUB.
thlCKEH P0)Ci
(BUT 'TheREj? ABSckifrj i
HQ QAN61R AS LcN(t
AS Vbu domt
Touch ANVTHiaKt
^'THAT HE HA 6
-touched!
Tvlcr of the Braves, or a southpaw
Managers* and owners held private
c onferences during the rorenoon ,,nd
ii was whispered that many hig deals
were pending, b„l just who. was .n-
volved was not divulged at th« time.
McFarland Spurns
Match With Clabb.y
SHA-e hkst it
crack middleweight. . Hnffroth
thJ^SarT^rarlclsco^pronioter. Clabby
Ritchie Quit Ring for Autos
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*!* • *1*
But Only for a Short Time
This is the fourth installment of the life of Lightweight Champion
U illic Ritchie, as described by himself and written exclusively for The
Georgian.
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THE DUTCH MILL
is not a dull moment
the performance at the
dill, and you’ll really en-
Extravaganza put on
The chorus is made up
tiful girls who can sing
ce. and the costumes wi
/on, too, as they are all
ight and clean. There is
.ugh plot to make it in-
3, and the orchestra is
f you feel that the whole
s against you, ,Y ,S, L *„*
dill and you will change
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■ Cure* In 1 1(1 day ®
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to stricture Prmnta coni«*lon
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es 12.75. Particulars with each
or mailed on request.
EVANS CHEMICAL COMPANY
Cincinnati, O.
Bv Willie Ritchie.
AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9. -After
losing two battles in a row, one
to Charley Reilly and the oth
er to Frankie Bums, 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. I was not knocked out or even
hurt in either of the battles, but at
the same time I was outpointed, and
Lhis 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./
Mv brother and Baker and Re
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
mv hand at something else.
T ran across a friend of mine who
advised me to get into the automo
bile business. He told me of a P'y e
down in Coalinga where t 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 t 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 1 was working for
that wholesale machinery house. I
(ell 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 das^ and
night. I learned rapidly, and al
though I was doing two men’s work
half the time, still I liked It, for I
took a great Interest in machinery
and I was given every opportunity to
They railed upon me to do all sorts
nf odd jobs, and I always did the
best 1 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 1 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 1 fell in for a pretty good
job.
Forgets About the Game.
When the opening came I lumped
in as a driver of machines and later
a demonstrator. I was getting $f» a
day for this. There was plenty of
money in that section of the country
then, and 1 managed to gel 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 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 lik®
a set of boxing gloves. But later I
will show how 1 changed.
I began to get tired of Coalinga.
T 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 hr offered me a good
raise when 1 told him I was about
to go back to San Francisco. This
did not rin a bit of good, because I
had my mind made op to return 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 I told them that 1 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 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. T saw fellows per
forming whom T had licked in the
past r 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 charm.
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 rnc, and I began to look
around for another match with the
four-rounders.
Boxiif Notes ThreeUmpires Hear‘Can'Jingling
O 'I* • v r**r *r • v r*v
Judge Kavanaugh May Swing Ax
THE FREAK.
A mi(jiiti/ tumult surge* 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. Hopper pulling 'Casey
•it That BatV 99
When to! a blaze of winkling lights
proclaimed the wondrous dope :
"The Only Nix-foot White Man Who
Jton't Clam To Be a White
Hope!"
• * *
We can offer the White Hope this
much consolation it isn’t ills fault.
His forefathers began living in cities
iwo thousand years loo soon. They are
hig 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 hog.
This is the penalty civilization exacts
from mankind. And dogs, too
* * *
For many, many generations we have
not been forced to depend on our sore
ness of eye for a meal once a week or
so; and our escape from a side-swipe of
the cave-tjger’s paw has not hinged on
our quickness of foot for several years
now Hence, we have lost these tilings.
The dog feels It, too. Fie 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 t- get her at one time?
* * *
Steve Ketchel. the Chicago light
weight who has a host of admirers in
the Windy City, will box Joe Mandot
ten rounds at Racine, Wls., on December
19. Ketchel writes that he is in hard
training for the bout and expects to
land the verdict.
Promter John Keating, of Kenosha,
has resuscitated his club, according to a
wire from the Badger village John
is to offer a championship attraction
early in January He says he has signed
Johnn.t K ilb;i no. featherweight cham
pion. for a scheduled ten rounds with
Joe Harang, of New' Orleans.
Fiddle. Hanlon, local welterweight,
started light work last night for his
fifteen-round bout with Jack Robinson,
at Jacksonville. Fla., 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 he in line
for some good bouts if he gets away
with Jack.
* • *
The Charlie White Ad Wolgaet bout
has finally been closed. Frank Mulkem,
Milwaukee promoter, has secured Wol-
gast.'s signature to a set of article* to
box White in the Brewer City on De
cember 19 The winner will probably
get Dundee on Christmas Day.
* * *
Matty McCue. who, a few months ago
was being touted a e the romnig feath
erweight champion of the world, is now
under Tom Jones' management. Mc
Cue battles i ommy Bresnahan in a ten
round go at Racine, Wls., to-night.
By (). B. Keeler.
R UMORS emanate from up Mem
phis way that Judge William
, Marmaduke Kavanaugh, presi-
• dent of the Southern Deague, is go-
ing to dust off the tyell-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 an good as
yours, and no better. And now that
the heat of battle has chilled off into
a Regular December, we aren't dls- j
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 UT as a plain matter of news and
dope, we have it that of the four
umpires Wright, FI field, Stockdale
and Kerin who debut ted last spring
in the Houthern Deague, only the last-
named made good. Our observation
w'as that Kerin did uniformly good
work, and appeared t*» have the nec
essary qua.liflcat.ion8 of an umpire.
The others did not do well, hut it
Isn't our job to figure out if they
j were hopeless or simply green.
* Judge Kavanaugh is the judge.
* * *
! ( \F the four veteran umpires Breit-
enstein, Hart, Rudderham and
Pfenninger- there was not so much
criticism last season, and a good hit
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 A A
league, at that.
* • *
S O It looks as 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
s 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 with um
pires that are manifestly incompe
tent.
• • •
\\f HEREFORD, if Mr. Kavanaugh
considers that Wright ami
Stockdale and Pifleld or any one 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 (J. O. (L looks so good to us
that we can’t get much worked up
even over an umpire.
McWhorter Placed on
All-American Team
I Fans Refuse to Bet
On Murphy Against
Champion Ritchie
] SAN FTtANCISCO, Dec. 9 -There is a
lull in the training camps of both Willie
Rltohie 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 2 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 he in evidence. The fans here
haw 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
I from Johnny “Kid" Mberts, the New
York lad. in an uninteresting six-round
bout at the Olympia Athletic Club last
I night
MARS BEATS CONLEY.
• CINCINNATI. Dec 9 Frankie Con-
, lei', ex-bantamweight champion of ICe-
! n<»sha. Wls . was bested here last night
j in a ten-round bout with Knockout
Mars, of th's 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-daj r .
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 di
vision of spoils taken from sleeping
spectators by the “dips" that always
appear at the garden during a slx-dav
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
or that has been pulled oif 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 slx-
round session.
Bob McWhorter, captain and half
back star of the University of Geor
gia football team, has ween honored
with n place on an all-American team
Parke TI Davis. Princeton's repre
sentative on the football rules commit
tee. gives Rob the position of halfback.
In speaking of McWhorter, Mr
Davis says, in part: “To Northern en
thusiasts McWhorter comes as a sfrang
er. but 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:
Ena* Mcrrilat < Army),
(Pittsburg)
Tackles Ballln (Princeton).
(Michigan).
Guards Talman (Rutgers),
(Navy).
Center Marting tYale).
Quarter Huntington (Colgate)
Haifa Guyon (Carlisle). McWhorter
(Georgia).
Full Brickley (Harvard).
AUTO RACER KILLED
BR1 S6EL6, BELGIUM. Der 9 Ca
mille .lenath.v. the Belgium automobile
racing pilot, was accidentally killed in
a forest near here yesterday He was
with the editor of a Brussels newtna
per. Both were members of a hunting
party.
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Tattarlna a trial. To my uttar surprise and
satisfaction It workad a speedy curs.
Use Tetterine
It curee ecsrraa. tet'er. erysipelas, t'rblni S
1 pfJes. around IU.-h and all skin maladiea.
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;i Michigan town with forty-
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making <Irtonville hustle for
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Five hundred dollar? i« the new price of ‘he
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the town car even fifty—f. o. b. Detroit,
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Peachtree St„ Atlanta, Ga.