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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
Huerta Wouldn’t Need a European Loan if He Owned the Juarez Betting Ring
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BRINGING UP FATHER
By GEORGE M’MANUS
Rival Lightweight Scheduled to
Battle Over 20-Round Route
in Coffroth’s Arena,
SAY-Pfi tired
OF /NL-wA'ft,
orderin' chicken
^JUST BECAUSE
POULET"l=> THE
only Word I
KNOW HOw D'TE
Sat hani in
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NAN IS'JAMftON •'
Bv W. W. Naughtoii.
S AN FRANCISCO, Dee. 10.—There
will be great doings at Cof-
froth’s Eighth street arena to
night. Before the evening is over
Willie Ritchie will have defended his
hampionship citadel successfully or
will have been called upon to turn the
keys of the lightweight castle over to
Tommy Murphy, of Harlem.
According to the betting late last
night, Ritchie’s backers did not dis-
• rn a glimmer of a chance of any
thing going amiss. They were offer
ing 10 to 4 and were somewhat dis
gruntled because there was such a
^cant snow of money on the short
end.
To stimulate investment the cham
pion’s supporters offered even money
hat Murphy would not last eighteen
rounds.
The stake for which Murphy and
Manager Buckley are playing is such
a high one that if they capture the
lightweight title with all its enrich
ing qualities they are not likely to be
cast down over the reflection that
they neglected to make an additional
dean-up on the betting.
The last word from the training
camps was that both pugilists were in
the very pink of condition and ready
to travel twenty rounds at a cracking
pace.
This will be Ritchie’s third bout
since he won the championship from
Wolga.st about two years ago. Ritchie
holds a victory over Joe Rivers, whom
lie stopped last July 4. and recently
battled Leach Cross a ten-round no-
<h vision scrap in New York. In both
lights Willie showed that he is made
of championship stuff, which has
caused fans to back him so heavily
against Murphy.
POLLY AND HER PALS
And Now Pa Is Scared for Fair
Athletics Have Not
Quit Fraternity,
Says Ira Thomas
PHILADELPHIA. Dec 10.—Ira
Thomas, catcher of the Athletics and
that club’s delegate to the Baseball
Players’ Fraternity, to-day denied
that the world’s champions had de
serted the cause of the fraternity. T»
:s true that the Athletics did not sigr
the paper which contained the de
mands the fraternity asKs of the Na
tional and American Leagues," saiti
Thomas, "but that was because we j
were busy with the world’s
when the meeting was held
series was too important
bother about other things. Our pi
ers are in sympathy with the fra
ternity and we will go along with
that body as we agreed to do.”
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Riverside Academy
Plans to Organize
Rifle Shooting Team jj
Apple Used to
■?. Our play- j a A
Smith Tells of
Hypnotize Boxer VANDERBiLT if
Funny Incident
GAINESVILLE. GA.. Dec 10. Now
that the football season lias come to
a close, the Riverside Military Acad
emy boys have turned their attention
to rifle shooting.
Lieutenant Harry Hawley, appoint
ed to Riverside by the United States
Government, is teaching the boys the
•t of rifle shooting, and some are
■coming very proficient.
Riverside expects to enter a team
at the next annual meeting of tic
school rifle teams of the country.
Riverside will probably be the on.'
school in this section of the counti.v
■ ntere4, Interest of Georgia r n -
men will center in their showing.
bf
Jack Burke Buys
Flint Franchise
I ACK SON.
f ranch is
MICH.. Dec. 10 —The Flint
the Southern Michigan
League, which was forfeited to
league last August and operated the
balance of the season by the leapte, has _
ust been disp ted i to Jack Bi .-■ •; f | \
Antonio. Texas, who will operate
cluhat Flint. There were set
. .. applicants for the franchise
nitrite was manager of .the <htb
Hattie Creek in lull, and In 1*13 pur
‘•based a half interest with Dan 1
tins in tlte Flint club, hut sold out.
rig to disagreement
By Ed \V. SnijjKh.
(Famous Fight Referee.)
ID you ever hear how an apple,
munched calmly by an oppo
nent's second, hypnotized a
fighter into a defeat? It's a little
thing, this apple and the story ol it,
but it goes to show that small things
can turn the tide in a glove battle
just as it frequently does in weight
ier and more important affairs. It
came off in Denver whei. «teve
Ketchel, of Chicago, was battling
Stanley Yoakum, the hardy Mexican
from Las Vegas. First, let it be
known that Yoakum is much the
same order of a lighter as Cazeau,
the Italian, is a wrestler. Ferocity
is his middle name.
In this Denver scrap Larney Lich
tenstein, who w as handling Ketchel 9
affairs, bethought himself of some
thin to distract the attention of the
opposition fighter. After the gloves
had been tied on the fighters' hands
Larney possessed himself of a large
red apple and with a penknife began
calmly to slice off bits of it and chew
them vigorously as he stood in the
center of the ring listening to the
referee's instructions to the men.
.San
the
oral
Fif th Regiment Will
Play Columbus Five
team
M on’
Fifth Regiment basket bah
will play the Columbus Young
Ghristian Association five a*
’olumbus Friday night.
Following are the player* wlio wlll
ho the trip: Alauck. Pearson Gil?-
Jarvis, Magee, Grave,. Hubert
t 'oolidge.
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ami
OAKUM 'S eye all this time was
riveted firmly on that apple.
Mid Harriet meant that ii should be.
Must think this is going to be pretty
soft for your man. eating an apple,'
scornfully remarked somebody in the
opposite'camp. "Yep. just like eating
this apple,” remarked Harney, smil
ingly. waving the apple in front of
Yoakum's face.
To further .orrai the Yoakum goat
Ketchel stood in the center of the
ring instead of returning to his cor
ner after the instructions had been
a'\cn and as the hell sounded he was
on top of the Mexican before he could
KP , out of his eoiller. A sharp clip
Oil the jaw completely "got'' Yoakum
•md the remaining ten rounds he was
completely at sea. Larney sat with
hi* head dose to the ropes munching
tint apple and Yoakum just couldn’t
keep his eye off of it. He was beaten
handilv.
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10 -i'T'HKRK have been oilier goat-get-
AVashtngton and I-ees
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player and a marked leader,
monograms were awarded
An nouncement of a n-v
d Larry Dowd is ev-
DONAHUE TO LEAD W . - = —
I.KXl.VGTON 'A. Dec. ... j lers in tile ring, but none of them
quarterback "Jiggs" Donahue w “- . evpr was more successful than this
nianimously elected captai I apple-eating trick. It was so com-
lgton and Lee's football team Lldelv out of the ordinary that tire
i During the past campa t.n | , )p j. inexperienced Yoakum never
,ic distinguished himse.r is ■< ] romp i e ,ely out of his mind.
s " marked lean r. | s j. m (-- or i, e tt tried his best to cpn-
fuse Jack Johnson in the famous
Rpno fiasco, but his trickery utterly
fiilerl Between rounds Corbett went
half wav across the ring and tried to
hypnotize the black by glaring at him
«teadil v * But Johnson accepted all of
Mi is laughingly and even invited Cor-
in me closer and hear every
thing that v.as going on in his corner,
^.be Atteli used to use one that was
heady
■S ; xteen
players
coach lo sn
ported soon
CAMBRIDGE RUGBY WINNER.
Do, 1". -tamhridg
University veHerduv won ns
• .: r.iigh*. football ma.eh again
. -.ford by 1?. points :« h
was played at Queens Liuo.
h bird and sometimes it worked beau
tifully. During - a hot mixup Atteli
would start a conversation with an
imaginary friend in the crowd. Abe
speaking something like this: "Yes.
you bet I want lo see that last act.
because they say it's a corker. What
time did you say the show was over?
All right,'' I'll be through here in just
a couple of minutes and then we’ll go
over to the theater." Of course, At
teli wasn’t talking to anybody but
his opponent and naturally it was ex-
t retnel y d 1 scon cert i n g.
Ray Bronson, now on Ins way to
Australia, uses one that is a peach
and seldom fails to get on the nerves
of an opponent, especially if that op
ponent is a bit inexperienced. Com
ing to The center of the ring for in
structions, Ray hums the latest pop
ular melody and bums it in such a
way that he never fails to attract a
lot of attention from his opponent.
It's a good trick and more than one
of his foes have gone straight up in
the air over it.
MTU QUAKERS
Sporting Food
By GEORGE E. PHAIR
McGugin’s Team Is After Battle
With Chicago and Either
Georgia or Tech.
Harvard Brands Yale
Request as Childish
CAMBRIDGE. MASS.. Dec. 10. -
The Harvard Crimson editorially in
timates that Yale is acting childishly
in seeking to have its football contest
next season held a week later than
lias been the custom. Doming from
the Princeton game battered and
bruised is not a sufficient excuse for
the later date sought. states the
Crimson. The assignment of a later
date for the Harvard-Yale game in
the future would turn football into a
near-winter sport, according to the
Crimson. Vtnd for the best interests
of the game this is not to be de
sired.
Mitchell Will Lead
Brown Next Year
JASHV1LLK. TKNN.. Dec. 10
Once more the Commodores
are contemplating an invasion
of the Eastern football world. This
time it is to be Pennsylvania, against
which a sample of the McGugin sys
tem of football w ii! be pulled off. That
is. if the present negotiations of the
Vanderbilt schedule committee pan
out, with the Pennsylvania ns.
Should such a meeting be arranged
it will mark the fourth time the
('ornmodo. s have tackled on Eastern
eleven, previously having met the
Navy, Yale and Harvard. The Mid
shipmen and the Blue were held to a
tie. while the Commodores, after a
bitter fight, bowed to the Cambridge
team by a small margin. Just enough
to justify tiie belief that another
Eastern match would draw like flies.
The Commodores have been the only
strictlv Southern eleven to carry the
football standard into the Eastern
country, and their remarkable show
ing on their three previoifs visits lias
given them sufficient advertisemen*
to insure a big crowd in Philadelphia
SOME DISCOVERY
When Chris Columbus lauded here I
hr {/uined a lot of funn .
And liisloru since lin n has praised j
his (food hi arid I inn nano.
When Cearp landed at the Col( lot
teas il Old Dor Cool,
ID caused the world to pause (itrhilr. I
to listen and lo look
Util each of these diseot'ericn tens an j
unimportant i/uesl.
liesjde J*rofessoi Wallet <'anip's dts j
eorern of the West.
Sidelights on Sports
By A H. C. MITCHELL
Walter Camp denies the rumor that
Yaltf will meet Chicago, but it was a j
good story while it lasted.
Man Who Piloted Chicago Sox to
Pennant Is Satisfied With
Present Status.
We are not surprised at Mr. Camp’s j
admission that Western football is |
strong on the offensive. Western foot
ball has always been offensive to him.
S
Dick Hoblitzel comes lo the front
as The most eccentric man on a base
ball team. He actually w a u' s Joe
Tinker’s old job!
With Mike Dcolan in Japan, Red j
Dooin is attempting to trade him to i
Cincinnati. But he wouldn't dare to i
do it if Mike were only here to de- J
fend himself.
The report that Garry Herrmann
has not picked the manager Af the
Reds is a gross misstatement of fact
He has decided on the manager, but
has not named the messenger boy.
After listening to Joe Tinker s story
we can readily understand why Hank
O’Day deliberately resumed his job as
umpire.
\ N FRANCISCO. Dec. I u. Field
er Jones, once pennant-winning
manager of the Chicago White
j Sox. now president of the Northwest-
j ern League and prosperous Oregon
apple grower, will never again man
age a ball club. This was his positive
statement yesterday afternoon, during
a haphazard conversation at the St.
Francis Hotel. Eastern magnate-
have made him tempting offers. He
believes that had he listened to tile
blandishments of the baseball powers
that be a reason or two back be would
have profited more financially than
he has by quitting the game and
growing apples. But he has quit the
game for good; lie is doing well, in
the business world, and be is not to
be persuaded.
"You are not to be templed ? sug
gested the interviews r.
"indeed. 1 have been tempted." was
the answer. "Don’t think I have not.
Don’t think that with all my present j
prosperity
PROVIDENCE, R. I . Dec. 1U.—-The
Brown Varsity football team naa
elected Seth Kimball Mitchell, ’15,
captain of next year’s eleven. Mitch
ell has played center on the Brown
team for three years. He prepared
at Phillips-Exeter. where he was also
a member of the team for three years.
His home is at Exeter, N. II.
BASEBALL DEPENDS ON FUND.
j*i KEWANKK. ILL., Dec 10 At the
mat
annual meeting <•{ the Kewanee Central
Association club, after reports had been
received showing expenditures were
equal to receipts this season, it was
voted to make league ball here next year
i ntinger.t upon taising 51,000 in cash in
the next two weeks.
The schedule committee is also
dickering with Chicago for a game
in the Windy City, and Coach Mc-
Gugin is pulling all his wires for the
success of a meeting being arranged
with the Conference champions. .Mc
Gugin and Coach Stags are old-time
friends and the Vanderbilt pilot is
hankering for a crack at the powerful
Chicago machine.
There is talk of bringing either
Georgia Tech or Georgia up to Nash
ville for a game. Either that or tak
ing one of this pair on down in At
lanta, w'hich is some football city
itself. McGugin figures that Tech
will be far better in 1914 than the
Heisman team Was this year, and o.\
the same token that the Athens crew
will be weakened greatly through the
loss of the wonderful McWhorter.
The Commodores took Georgia on in
1912 at. Ponce DeLeon Park. but
slaughtered the Black and Red eleven
so horribly that a return match wa«
not considered. It is probably just
as well for Vanderbilt that the Geor
gians were left off this year, consid
ering the Commodores' miserable
showing and the gallant work of thi
Athenians.
A study of baseball statistics re
veals the fact that a team’s fielding
average is almost as important as the
color of its uniforms.
Harry Payne Whitney, speaking of
the captaincy of the polo team, says
he “does not wish to again take the
responsibility.” A man who splits his
infinitives has no right to run a polo
team.
Besides being the < hampkni con
versationalist, Tom Jones is the most
intrepid manager in pugilism. He
has matched Jess Willard two more
fights in the East.
If it is true that Carl Morris butted
Willard in their alleged fight, why has
he not been indicted for assault with
a deadly weapon?
A youth named Ruben won a
wrestling match yonder eve, but as a
rule the rubens pay at the gate.
SHAFER TO RETIRE.
Tillie Shafer says that the yarn
that lie is to retire is true. But he
says that he won’t retire yet as he
; v% i 11 wait until his contract with the
* Giants expires.
\ FEW baseball critics are
.axing it doesn't pay to
change managers of base
ball teams often. They point to
tile record of such leaders as
' onnie .Mack and John MoGraw
t«» uphold their contentions.
N<* club owner would change
managers if he had such a mana
ger as MoGraw or Mack on his
bay roll. There may be other
managers just as good, but^ non*
bus bad the success of the?
celebrated leaders of big I
teams, except possibly
L'l.irk of Pittsburg.
Napoleon Bonaparte (not
joio said he couldn’t afford
have unlucky generals. n<
ter how brilliant they’ wc.
is tin- same way with club own
ers. They can not afford b
losing managers on their
Stallings he knows the man he
wants and. futhermore, he
knows whether he can get Mm
or not. lie does his own nego
tiating. and when the deal is
completed an announcement of
the fact is made to the public.
t wo
l gue
Fred
Iwi-
to
mat -
It
have
st a ff.
good
DUT in t lie long itVu
1 managers will get the good
toam. i lakes time and owners
are some) imps impatient. The pub-
lb* i s partly to blame. The fans of
<-'.ei\ city want a winning team.
If the team doesn’t win they
not attend the games. The
owner is constantly looking
new material. He employs scouts
to scour the country and spends
large sums of money for plav-
ors. lie does all he can do.
it is then up to the manager
produce a winning combine
/ V\ i he other hand, lake trie case
of Manager Evers of the
< "ii* ago Nationals. He probnbl.v
knows more about baseball than
‘diarlie Murphy, owner of the
■ liib, -an ever expect to know.
Yet Murphy will not give Evers
authority to make trades for
players. Murphy has to he con
sulted even before negotiations
ran begin, and it is Murphy who
conducts the negotiations, not
Evers in the cases of McGraw
and ('onnie Mack, they do tiieir
own business the same as Stali
ngs does 11 is the only proper
way. BUT first you must find a
manager e'ever enough to make
bis own trades. There are only
a few of them left.
will
club
for
and
to
; ion.
I have been supremely
happy or supremely satisfied. No man
who bus spent as many years in base
ball as 1 spent ever satisfied lo quit.
When the springtime comes and the
boys report for practice, the old fever-
gets into a fellow's veins and the
longing to be back in the gain** again
comes and coin' s till it hurts all the
way through.
"But when 1 quit the game I quit,
for good. I made up my mind that 1
was reaching the age when a man
must do something to provide for tin*
future. Possibly I might have con
tinued successfully as a bench man
ager. but that is hard to tell. The
bench manager holds his job in base
ball as long as he succeeds. I would
rather have it said that I quit the
game when i was a success than that
I quit when f was a failure and was
no longer wanted.
"I have done well in the Northwest.
Business associates have been good
to me and the future looks good. I
could never be persuaded to go back
to baseball management. I know l
am out of touch now with the game.
A few years ago I knew nearly every
player in the country and all about
him. Now I know comparatively few
of them. »o I know I am no longer
as well qualified. But say. it would
he happiness to be out there fighting
for a pennant once again, believe
me.”
THE principal tmuble that un
1 sii'T(» sful managers encoun
ter. or rather tin* chiefest fault ?
be unsue* es»ful manager, is j
fact that he doesn’t know
the
club.
the
how
men-
the
fir.*
bow to organize a ball
Many of them have not
proper authority to organize
ball club even if they knew
to do so.
A an example of a great or
ganizer. the writer would
tion George .Stallings, ol
Boston Nationals. In the „ 1P ,
place, Stallings has absolute au
thority to make all the deals and
swaps of players that he
If he decides to buy
he simply notifies the owner of
1 he club and the transaction
takes place. |f be desires to
swap Smith, Brown and Jones of
lb foi Greet Gray of
another club, he tells the owner
of the club of the deal and the
proper papers arc* passed
many managers have th<
it y* that Stallings has
they had it. many of them would
not know how to use it.
< > S N ! E M A» K hi nisei f says
that no manager can do him
self justice or the club owner
justice or the public justice un
less he has absolute authority—
and time But first the manager
must demonstrate that he is en
titled to absolute authority.
There isn't a club owner In the
big leagues-—unless it be Mur
phy, or EbbetP, or Mrs. Britton
but would be tickled to
death lo lie able to find a man
ager to whom he could turn over
all the turmoil and the bother
iml irksome detail of hiring and
firing and digging up ball play
ers.
likes.
Player,
Not
author-
And
A MANAGER may realize that
he needs an extra catcher,
and he tells the owner of the
club about It. perhaps suggest
ing n player or two that might
be had. The owner starts ne
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