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Rival Lightweight Scheduled to
Battle Over 20-Round Route
in Coffrottrs Arena.
By W. W. Naughton.
S AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10.—There
will be great doings at Cof-
froth’s Eighth street arena to
night. Before the evening is oveT
Willie Ritchie w ill have defended his
championship citadel successfully or
will have been caller] upon to turn the
keys of the lightweight castle over to
Tommy Murphy, of Harlem.
According to the betting late last
night, Ritchie's hackers did not dis
cern 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
scant show of money on the short
end.
To stimulate investment the cham
pion’s supporters offered even money
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 the reflection that
they neglected to make an additional
clean-up on the betting. I
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 fropi
Wolgast about two years ago. Ritchie
holds a victory over Joe Rivers, whom
he stopped last July 4, and recently
battled Leach Cross a ten-round no-
deeision scrap in New York. In both
fights Willie showed that he is made
of championship stuff, which has
caused fans to hack him so heavily
against Murphy.
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Athletics Have Not
Quit Fraternity,
Says Ira Thomas
PHILADELPHIA, Deo. 10.—Ira I
Thomas, catcher of the Athletics and
that club’s delegate to the Baseball 1
Players’ Fraternity, to-day denied
that the world’s champions had de
serted the cause of the fraternity. “It
Js true that the Athletics did not sigh
the paper which contained the de
mands the fraternity asks of the Na
tional and American Leagues,” saiu
Thomas, “hut that was because we j
were busy with the world’s series j
when the meeting was held, and tho
series was too important for us to ;
bother about other things. Our play- i
ers are in sympathy with the fra
ternity and we will go along with I
that bod? as we agreed to do.”
Riverside Academy
Plans to Organize
Rifle Shooting Team
GAINESVILLE. GA.. Dec. 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
st the next annual meeting of the
school rifle reams of the country.
Riverside will probably be. the only
school in this section of the country
entered, and interest of Georgia rifle
men will center in their showing.
Apple Used to Hypnotize Boxer
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Smith Tells of Funny Incident
Jack Burke Buys
Flint Franchise
JACKSON, MICH.. Dec. 10—The Flint
franchise in the Southern Michigan
League, which was forfeited to the
league last August and operated the
balance of the season hy the league, has
lust been disposed of to Jack Burke, of
San Antonio, Texas, who will operate
the ciuh at Flint There were sev
eral applicants for the franchise.
Burke was manager of the club at
Rattle i'reek in IP1J. and in 1!)12 pur
chased a half interest with l'an Col
lins in the Flint club, but sold out, ow
ing to disagreement.
Fifth Regiment Will
Play Columbus Five
’Hie Fifth Regiment basket ball
team will play the -Columbus Young
Men's Christian Association five .u
Columbus Friday night.
Following are the players who will
take tho trip: Mauck. Pearson. Grif
fin. Jarvis. Magee, Graves, Hubert
and Cool id ge.
DONAHUE TO LEAD W. <t L.
LEXINGTON, VA„ Dec. 10.—
Quarterback “Jiggs” Donahue was
unanimously elected captain of (
Washington and Lee's football team j
1914. During the past campaign |
Donahue distinguished himself as a
head? player and a marked leader.
Sixteen monograms were awarded
players. Announcement of a new
coach to succeed Larry Dowd Is ex
pected soon.
'CAMBRIDGE RUGBY WINNER. :
LONDON. Dec. 10. Cambridge!
University yesterday won its an
nual Rugby football match against
Oxford by 13 points, to 'A The mat? l
was played at Queens Club.
By.Ed W. Smith.
(Famous Fight Referee.)
D 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 and more important affairs. It
came off in Denver when Steve
Ketchei, 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 Larney Lich
tenstein, who was handling Ketehel's
affairs, bethought himself of some
thing to distract the attention of the
opposition fighter. After the gloves
had been tied on the fighters’ hands
Ltrney possessed himself of a large
r^d 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.
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“VFOAKUM’S eye all this time was
1 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
Yoakum's lace.
To further corral the Yoakum goat
Ketchei stood in the center of the
ring instead of returning to his cor
ner after the instructions had been
given and as the bell sounded he was
on top of the Mexican before he could
get out of his corner. A sharp flip
on the jaw completely “got” Yoakum
and tlie remaining ten rounds he*was
completely at sea. Larney sat with
his head close to the ropes munching
that apple and Yoakum just couldn’t
keep'his eye off of it. He was beaten
handily.
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T HERE have been other goat-get
ters in the ring, but none of them
ever was more successful than this
apple-eating trick. It was so com
pletely out of the ordinary that the
rather inexperienced Yoakum never
got it completely out of his mind.
Jim Corbett tried his best to con
fuse Jack Johnson in the famous
Reno fiasco, but his trickery utterly
failed. Between rounds Corbett went
half way across the ring and tried to
hypnotize the black by glaring at him
steadily. But Johnson accepted all of
this laughingly and even invited Cor
bett to come closer and hear every
thing that was going on in his corner.
Abe Attell used to use one that was
a bird and sometimes it worked beau
tifully. During a hot mlxup Attell
would start a conversation with an
imaginary friend in the crowd. Abe
speaking something like this: “Yes,
you bet I 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 men 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 the ring for in
structions, Ray hums the latest pop
ular melody and hums it in such a
way that hie 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 atr over it.
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
has been the custom. Coming 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, and for the best interests
of the game this is not to be de
sired.
Mitchell Will Lead
Brown Next Year
PROVIDENCE, R. I , Dec. 10.-—T ie
Brown Varsity football team has
elected Seth Kimball Mitchell, ’16,
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. H.
BASEBALL DEPENDS ON FUND
jr KKWANEE. ILL.. Dec 10 At the
annual meeting of the Kewanee Central
Association Hub, after reports had been
received showing expenditures were
equal to receipts this season, it was
voted to make league ball here next year
contingent upon raising $4,000 in cash In
the next two weeks.
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Sporting Food
By GEORGE E. PHAIR
WITH QUAKERS
McGugin’s Team Is After Battle
With Chicago and Either
Georgia or Tech.
N ashville, ten.v, 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 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 w’ere 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 draw like flies.
The Commodores have been the only
strictly Southern eleven to carry the
football standard into the Eastern
country, and their remarkable show
ing on their three previous visits has
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 Me- I
Gugin is pulling all his wires for the
success of a meeting being arranged j
with the Conference champions. Me- |
Gugin and Coach Stagg are old-time J
friends and the Vanderbilt pilot is
hankering for a crack at the powerful j
Chicago machine.
There Is talk of bringing either
Georgia Tech or Georgia up to Nash
ville for a. game Either that or tak- j
ing one of this pair on down in At- j
lanta, which is some football city ;
Itself. McGugin figures that Tech
will be far better in 1914 than the
Heisman team was this year, and by
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 wav-
not considered. It is probably just
as well for Vanderbilt that tiie Geor- j
glans were left off this year, consid
ering the Commodores’ miserable;
showing and the gallant work of th«
Athenians
SOME DISCOVERY.
When Chris Columbus landed here
hr (juined a lot of fume.
And history since then has praised
his good tJyetalian mime.
When Peary landed at the Pole (oi'
was it k)ld Poe Cook?)
lie caused the world, to pause awhile,
to listen and to look.
But each of these discoveries was an
unimportant quest.
Beside Professor II 'alter Camp's dis
covery of the West.
Walter Camp denies the rumor that
Yale will meet Chicago, but it was a
good story while it lasted.
We are not surprised at Mr. Camp’s
admission that Western football is
strong on the offensive. Western foot
ball has always been offensive to him.
WON’T MANAGE
ANY BALL CLIiB
Sidelights on Sports
By A. H. C. MITCHELL
Man Who Piloted Chicago Sox
Pennant Is Satisfied With
Present Status.
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Dick Hoblitzel comes to the front
as the most eccentric man on a base
ball team. He actually wants Joe
Tinker's old Job!
With Mike Doolan 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 not picked the manager of (he
Rede is a gross misstatement of fact
He has decided on the manager, but
has not named (he messenger boy.
After listening to Joe Tinker’s story
we can readily understand why Hank
O’Day deliberately resumed his job as
u m p i re.
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
ho “does not wish to again take the
responsibility.” A man who splits his
infinitives has no right to run a polo
team.
Resides being the champion con
versationalist. Tom Jones is the most
intrepid manager in pugilism. He
has matched Jess Willard two more
fights In the Eaat
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 he is lo retire is true. But lie
says that he won’t retire yet as he
will wait until his contract with the
Giants expires.
S AN FRANCISCO. Dec. 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 the St.
Francis Hotel. Eastern magnates
have made him tempting offers. He
believes that had he listened to the
bl.indishmcnts of the baseball powers
that 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 tho
game for good; he is doing well in
the business world, and he is not to
be persuaded.
“You are not to he tempted?” sug
gested the interviewer.
"Indeed, I have been tempted.” was
the answer. “Don’t think I have not.
Don’t think that with all my present j
prosperity I have been supremely
happy or supremely satisfied. No man
who has spent as many years In base
ball as I spent is ever satisfied to quit.
When the springtime comes and the
boys report lor practice, the old fever
gets into a fellow’s veins and the
longing to be back in the gamp again
comes and comes till It hurts all the
way through.
“But when I quit the game I quit
for good. I made up my mind that I
was reaching the age when a. man
must do something to provide for the
future. Possibly I might hhve 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 be succeeds. I would
rather have It said that I quit the
game when I was a success than that
l quit when I 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 I
lain out of touch now with the game,
j A few years ago I knew nearly every
! player in the country and all about
• dm. Now i know comparatively few
of them, so I know’ I am no longer
as well qualified. But say, it would
be happiness to be out there fighting
for a pennant once again, believe
me.”
\ FEW baseball critics are
.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 dub owner would change
managers if he had such a mana
ger as McGraw or Mack on his
pay roll. There may be other
managers just as good, but none
has had the success of these two
celebrated leaders of big league
teams, except. possibly Fred
Cl,irk of Pittsburg.
Napoleon Bonaparte (not 1 ca
jole) said he couldn’t, afford to
have unlucky generals, no mat
ter how brilliant they were. It
Is the same way with club own
ers. They can not afford to have
losing managers on their staff.
• • *
OUT in the long run the good
lJ managers will get the good
team It takes time and owners
are sometimes Impatient. The pub
lic 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. Ho does all he can do, and
It is then up to the manager to
produce a winning combination.
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THE principal trouble that un-
1 successful managers encoun
ter, or rather the chlefest fault
of the unsuccessful manager, is
the fact that he doesn't know
bow to organize a ball club.
Many of them have not the
proper authority to organize a
ball club even if they knew how
to do HO.
’ s an example of a great or
ganizer, the writer would men
tion George Stallings, of the
Boston Nationals. In the first
place. Stallings has absolute au
thority to make all the deals and
swaps of players that he likes.
If lv> decides to buy a player,
he simply notifies the owner of
the club and the transaction
takes place. If he desires to
vwap Smith, Brown and Jones of
nis club for Green and Gray of
another 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 MANAGER may realize that
he needs an extra catcher,
and he tells the owner of the
club about it, perhaps suggest
ing a player or two that might
be had. The owner starts ne
gotiations and may or may not
land one of the two meny With
Stallings he knows the man he
wants, and, futhermore, he
knows whether he can get him
or not. He does his own nego
tiating, and when the deal la
completed an announcement of
the fact Is made to the public.
• • •
/'‘AN the other hand, take the rase
^ of Manager Evers of the
Chicago Nationals. He probably
knows more about baseball than
Charlie Murphy, owner of the
club, can ever expect to know
Yet Murphy will not give Ever*
authority to make trades for
players. Murphy has to be con
sulted even before negotiations
can begin, and It Is Murphy who
conducts the negotiations, not
Evers In the cases of McGraw
and Connie Mark, 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
his own trades There are only
a few of them left.
/"* ONNTF3 MACK himself save
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 Ebbets, or Mrs. Britton
—but. would be tickled to
death to he able to find a man
ager to whom he could turn over
all the turmoil and the bother
and irksome detail of hiring and
firing and digging up ball play
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