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I 1 1 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. Huerta Wouldn’t Need a European Loan if He Owned the Juarez Betting Ring *TT /i °y 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 FRENCH? LET NE SEE ’ OH' N6S- „ 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.” i 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. 8n 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. A L 10 -i'T'HKRK have been oilier goat-get- AVashtngton and I-ees 91 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 gotiations and may or may not land one’of the two men. With A decidedly snappy collar without any tendency to freak. ishncsK. * The season’s most pleasing and poptilaf model. Ide Silver ?- Collars 25 ' are easy to put on and lake off—perfect ft- 11 ng—-com fort able—durable. ir a v-—exclu sively—Li nocord Unbreakable Buttonholes. CAKLTUd SHOE & CLOIHIKG CO. J