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TTTTC ATLANTA (iEOI?(;iA X AND NEWS Huerta Wouldn't Need a luiropcnn Lof * n i 1 le ( )\\ nc( the 1 uarez I Setting 3 Ri no- BRINGING UP FATHER By GEORGE M’MANUS NOW - WMEI'IBes -> that: OH : bRlNq I Mg' r oOMIl POUUt'T' CONMfrhT 9 liUM 1 ATS - BUt^JAM DOXOU UrsCERSTAi'-iD' QUhJAHl ' MAM!'.! - ham :i j JAMBON - JAMSCIS- J AMBON - JAMBCH JAMBOrs WHAT - OH! I LL TAKE ’BUMJAM WHV THU BROOM, Great IDEA OWK Ju$Y HOLD Tut BROOM Still A MiMNlT t r ' OH, THCMS JuST MV BRE4RF/451 DlSHtS : Wcl'C 3EEH WHih'j lo BF Took A\UAY W All CMV ! rr s F£R Pit/ Same* /UHuR, V/OTS' j “TH£M ? r /(£ I 5EO /I FoKE- I/JwtT4k<m' - p 0 5,TlWELV NO! CHANCE'S f-ii po 'You Get ME, Mtvvirw Rival Lightweight Scheduled to Baitle Over 20-Round Route in Coffroth’s Arena. Bv W. wTxTiughtoii. S AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10.—There will be great doings at Cof froth’s Eighth street arena to- ttight. Before the evening is over Willie Ritchie will have defended his championship citadel successfully or will have been called upon to tyrn th* , Keys of the lightweight castle over t-> {Tommy Murphy, of Harlem. According to the betting late !a>t night, Ritchie’s backers did not dis- | hern a glimmer of a chance of any- 1 thing going amiss. They were offer- | ling lo to 4 and were somewhat dis gruntled because there was such a j *cant ehoVv of money on the short end. To stimulate investment tlie chain- | pion’s supporters offered even money i that 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 tlie reflection that : they neglected to make an additional ciean-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 j VVolgast about two years ago. Ritchie holds a victory over Joe Rivers, whom he stopped last July 4. and recently j battled Leach Gross a ten-round no- ; decision scrap in New York. In both ! lights Willie showed that he is made j of championship stuff, which has j paused fans to back him so heavily against Murphy. let hie E>EE’ l- oh: ^ev ham "jamSon . OAT-I'M TIRED OF Al-V/A.TE> ORDERIN' CHICKEN JUL.T BECAUSE POULET"lE> THE ONLT "WORD I KNOW. HOW D' VE sat mam in , ) FRENCH? \ POLLY AND HER PALS And Now Pa Is Scared for Fair I Ps»jt Cake if it iS MVTurm Tor Tb FEtD /H'HUR, I //NT OON-M4 Take no ChamCes KfeTCHiM' the; ,— GbiCKEU PoX? i ^UT 'Theses /isyLuih yp DAUOER AS Lot* AS 'You don't Touch /W'/THwcr That he TOOCHEITf 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/ “I is true that the Athletics did not sign the paper which contained the lie mauds the fraternity asks of the Na tional and American Leagues,said Thomas, “but that was. because we. were busy with the world’s series when the meeting was held, and the series was too important for us to bother about other things. Our play era are in sympathy with the fra-| ternity and we will go along with that body as we agreed to do.’’ Apple Used Jo Hypnotize Boxer VANDERBILT If Riverside Academy Smith Tells of Funny IncidentjSCHEDULE GAME Plans to Organize Eifle Shooting Team q GAINESVILLE. GA.. Deo. 10.—Now that the football season has 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 art of rifle shooting, and some are becoming very proficient. Riverside expects to enter a team at the next annual meeting of the school rifle teams of the country. Riverside wilj. probably b»* the only school in this section of the country entered, and interest of Georgia rifle men will center in their showing. Jack Burke Buys Flint Franchise JACKSON, .MICH.. Dw. 10—The Flint f, Ill • So Ithr-n Michljo.fl i,. . i lo the J.agup Iasi August ami operated the balance of the season by the league, has lust been disposed of to Jack Burke, of Sun \ntonlo, Texas, who will operate the club at Flint. There were sev eral applicants for the franchise Burke was manager of the elub at Battle Creek in 1M1, and in 1?12 pur chaser! a half interest with Pan Col lins in the Flint club, but sold out. ow ing to disagreement. Fifth Regiment Will Play Columbus Five The Fifth RegrWnt basket ball team will play the Columbus Young Men’s Christian Association five .i. Columbus Friday night. Following are the play* rs who will take the trip: Mauck. Pearson. Grif fin. Jarvis. Magee, Graves, Hubert and Coolidge. DONAHUE TO LEAD W. & L LEXINGTON, VA„ Dec. lo — Quarterback “Jiggs” Donahue w > * unanimously ■ t< • captain »I Washington and Lee’s football team for 1P14. During the pa c t campaign Donahue distinguished himself as a heady pluver and a marked leader. Sixteen monograms were awarded players. Announcement of a n . couch, to succeed Larry Dowd is ex pected soon, CAMBRIDGE RUGBY WINNER. LONDON Det University >esterria\ won its ‘t a Rugby f* • ••-» i : war* :i icn tTSford by 13 points to / r: .• ma: i l iip.'il < Queens C Bv Ed W. Smith. (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 of 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 arid more important affairs. It came off in Denver when Hteve 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 fighter as Cazeau, the Italian, is a wrestler. Ferocity is his middle name. In this Denver scrap Larnev Lich tenstein. who was handling Ketchel’s affairs, bethought himself of some thing to distract the attention of the opposition fighter. After the gloves hud 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. # * * ■yOAKUM'S eye ail this time was * riveted firmly on that apple. And Larney meant that it 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 Larney. smil- ! ingly, waving the apple in front of j Yoakum’s face. To further corral the Yoakum goat Ketchel stood in the center of the | ring instead of returning to his cor ner after the Instructions had been given and ns the bell rounded he was on top of the Mexican before l, e could get out of his corner. \ sharp clip on the jr w c ompletely “got” Yoakum and the remaining ten rounds he was j completely at sea. Larney sat with his head close to the ropes munching I that upple and Yoakum just couldn't keep his eye off of it. He was beaten ! handily. * * • THERE have been other gont-get- * ter.s in tlie ring, but none of them ever was more successful than this apple--eating trick. It was so com** ' rather inexperienced Yoalcum never got It’completely out of his mind. Jim Corbett tried his best to con* fuse Jack Johnson in the famous Reno fla-rb. but his* trickery utterly 'ailed. Between rounds Corbett went half way across the ring and tried to hypnotize the black by glaring at him a bird and sometimes it worked beau tjfully. During a hot mixup Attell would start a conversation with imaginary friend in the crowd. -~ speaking sorre thing like this: you bet 1 want to 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 tnen we’ll go over to the theater.” Of course, At tell wasn't talking to anybody but his opponent and naturally it was ex tremely disconcerting. Ray Bronson, now on his 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 tlie ring for in structions. Ray hums the latest pop ular melody and hums it in such a v.ay 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 tlie air over it. iWITH QUAKERS 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 u week later than has been the custom. Coming from the Princeton game battered and bruited is not a sufficient excuse for the later date sought, states the Crimson. The assignment of a later date for tiie Harvard-Yale game in the future would turn football into u near-winter sport, according to the Crimson, and for the best interests of the game this is not to be de sired. AJAshvii | ^ Once Mitchell Will Lead Brown Next Year PROVIDENCE, R. 1. Dee. 10.—T ie Brown Varsity football team has elected Seth Kimball Mitchell, ’15, captain of next year’s eleven. Mitch ell has played center on the Brown team fo' three years. He prepared at Phillips-Exeter, where he was also a member of the team for three yea s. HlS home is at Exeter. X. 1J. BASEBALL DEPENDS ON FUND. | jj»i UKiVANKK. ILL., rie- 10. At ii.« I , annual meeting of the Keware* Lentrai ! But Johnron accented a’l ol’ 1 Association 'dub. after reports had been j )V ... :r, t t - » i • received showing expenditures were i , 7 ‘ i eotial ro receipts this season, t \\a- ; ” *V 1 ,„„ P , 10 »r ami •imp <->ory- . vo , PfJ >, a i —y, „t\t •■..•.• I rn,! S t wax S ‘ :ntr on in :il.- -artier, i.... ur*»:n -ti- < -mg *1.0 n <<ts. in | •••' *11 t.i use one iii;iL m..- ih« !t\“ tughlngly 1LLE, TENX., Dec. lo.— more the Oommodorep are contemplating an invasion of the Eastern footbdll world. This time it is to be Pennsylvania, against which a sample <*f the McGugin sys tem of football will be pulled off. That is, if the present negotiations of the Vanderbilt schedule committee pan out. with the Pennsylvanians. Should such a meeting be arranged it will mark the fourth time the Commodores 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 the belief that another Eastern match would craw like flies. The Commodores have been tiie only strictlv Southern eleven to carry the football standard into the Eastern country, and their remarkable show ing on their three previous visits haw given them sufficient advertisement to Insure a big crowd in Philadelphia. 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 thi* success of a meeting being arranged with the Conference champions. Mc Gugin and Coach Stagg are old-time friends and the Vanderbilt pilot iw 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, which is some football city itself. McGugin figure* thuL Tech will be fi.v better in l!i 14 than the Heisman team was ibis year, and by the bame token that the Athens crew will be weakened greatly through the loss of the wonderful McWhorter. The Commodores took Georgia on in 191? at Ponce l*el..«-un Park. but slaughtered the Black and Red eleven so horribly that a reiurn match, wa • not cor .“id e red. It is probably jus» .t» tyr-n for'Vanderbilt that r'.;e Geor- ere !e r : oft tliG.ye . , consid- l r i'm :unod-oreC miserable Sporting Food By GEORGE E. PHAIR SOME DISCOVERY. When Chrifi tColumbu* landed In , lie ijained a Ini of Janie, And history since then has praised j h is (fond 1'y eta lion name. When Peary landed at 1hr Pole (or teas it Old hoc <'uol?} He earned the irnrld lo pause awhile, to listen and to took, lint each of these discoveries was an unimportant quest. Ueside Professor Waller Camp's dis covery of the West. Walter Camp denies the rumor that Yale will meer Chicago, but it was a good story while it lasted. We are not surprised at Mr. Comp’s admission that Western football is strong on the offensive. Western foot ball has always been offensive to him. j Dick Hoblitzel comes to the front! a,s the most ec centric man on a base- j ball learn. He actually wants Joe Tinker’s old job! With Mike Dcolan in Japan, Red Dooin is attempting to trade him to Cincinnati. But he wouldn't dare to do it if Mike were only here to de fend himself. The report that Garry Herrmann has riot picked the manager of the Reds is a gross misstatement of fact ' He has decided on the manager, but j has not named the messenger boy. After listening to Joe Tinker’s storv we can readily understand why Hank O’Day deliberately resumed his job as i umpire. A study of baseball statistics re veals the fact that a team’s fielding average is almost as important as the l 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 tin* champion con versationalist, Tnm 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 hutted 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. T die Shafer says that tiie \arn iHt h** i-> lo retire !.« true. But he I ivs :mh! he won’t retire y<»t as h* I out!! Ills c<»ntrac w .i th- i Sidelights on Sports By A. H. C. MITCHELL I was* not. Man Who Piloted Chicago Sox to Pennant Is Satisfied With Present Status. S AX FRAXCISCO. Oe<\ 10. Field- er Jones, once pennant-winning manager of the Chicago White Sox, now president of the Northwest 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 tlie St. Francis Hotel. Eastern magnates have made him tempting offers. He believes that had In* listened to tin* blandishments of the baseball powers tLat be a season or two back he would have profited more financially than he has by quitting the game and growing apples. But he has quit the • the business world, and he is not to be persuaded. “You are not to be tempted?* gei^ted the interviewer. "Indeed, I have been tempted, the answer. “Don’t think I hav Don’t think that with hII my presen A prosperity I have been supremely liapp> or supremely satisfied. No man who has spent ;is in.my years in base ball as I spent is ever satisfied to 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 game again comes and comes till it hurts all the way through. “But when I quit the game I quit 1 • g. .i.ii I m,id a nt mi nd ll.at f was reaching the age when a man must do something t<» provide for the future. 1’osribly 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 at* long as he succeeds. I would rather have it said that i quit the game when J a ms u su« <■••** than that I quit when 1 was a failure and was no longer wanted. I have done well in the Northwest. Business associates have been good to rm* and the future looks good. I could never b M p»rsuaded to go back to baseball management. 1 know i am out of touch now with the game. A few years ago I knew nearly every player in tli»* country and all about Hm. Now I know comparatively few of them, vo I know I a n no longer hs well qualified But say. it would ]»< '..i opine---- 5o no out-tlyre Pcb: Ihl \ FEW baseball critics are r\ saying it doesn’t pay to change managers of base ball teams often. They point to the record of such leaders as Connie Mack and John McGraw to uphold their contentions. No club owner would change managers if he had such a mana ger as McGraw or Mack on his ’ i> roll. There may be other managers just as good, but none uas had the success of these two colehrated leaders of big league tennis, except possibly Fred Clark of Pittsburg. Napoleon Bonaparte (not La** jcie) said ho couldn’t afford to huv»* unlucky generals, no mai ler how brilliant they were. It i the same way with club own ers. They can not afford to have losing managers on their staff. * * * I JUT in the long run the good managers will get the good team. It takes time and owners c<re sometime* impatient. The pub- lb- is partly to blame. The fans of every city want a winning team. If the team doesn’t win they will not attend the games. The club owner is constantly looking for new material. He employs scouts to scour the country and spends large sums of money for play ers. He does all lie can do, and it is tl «-n up to the manager to produce a w lining combination, Thi: principal'trouble that un- -* successful managers encoun- •<:. or rather the chlefest fault of tip- unsuccessful manager, tiie fact that lie doesn’t how to organize a ball Manx of them have not proper authority to organize 1 ’■ • ]I club even if they knew how to do so. As an example of a great or- t-.inizer. the writer would men tion George Stallings, of the Boston Nationals. In the first ;•! u-c. Stallings has absolute au thority to make all the deals and swaps of players that he like*. If he decides to buy n player, ! ■ simply notifies the owner of th<* club and the transaction takes place, if he desires to swap Smith, Brown and Jones of iis club for Green and Gray of a not he? club, he tells the owner Of the club of the deal and the proper papers are passed. Not many managers have the author ity that Stallings has. And if they had it. many of them would not know how to use. it. A M A X \G Eft may realize that lie needs an extra catcher, and lie tells the owner of tlie club . bout orhaps euggest- r,a a player or two that might be a. T e owner ‘-tarts ne- .-otbilious and may or may no: land "in- of me two men. With is know club, the Stallings he knows the man lie wants, and, fqthermore. he knows whether he can get him or not. He does his own nego tiating, and when the deal is completed an announcement of the fact is made to the public. * * * CVV tlie other hand, take the case of Manager Evers of the. Chicago Nationals. He probably knows more about baseball that Charlie Murphy, owner of the club, can ever expect lo know Yet Murphy will not give Evers authority to make trades for players. Murphy has to be con sulted even before negotiations can begin, and it is Murphy w’hr. conducts the negotiations, not Evers. In the cases of McGraw and Connie Mack, they do their own business the same as Stall ings does. It is the only proper way. BUT first you must find a manager clever enough to make hla own trades. There are only a few of them left. ONNIE MACK himself say« that no manager can do him self justice or the club owner justice or the public justice un less he lias absolute authority and time. But first the manager must demonstrate that he is en titled to absolute authority. 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