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I 4£ I Sed 4 foRt I /JlMT T4KIAJ' i p^TlVELV NO , CHAFiCtS .-A DO Vou 6lT ME, MtW/tW BHUTTO- 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. SAM-CM TIRED OF /SLWATfe orderin' chicken JUST BECAUSE ''POULET"l‘b THE ONLY VvORD I KNOW HCW DTE Sat vian in FRENCH? POLLY AND HER PALS And Now Pa Is Scared for Fair 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 ♦•v ;•••!* *1* • *1* 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. * * * “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. * • * 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. r- 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. to 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. * * * 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. 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