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BOUT TC-NIGHT
Rival Lightweight Scheduled to
Battle Over 20-Rounc^ Route
in Coffroth’s Arena.
By W. W. Naughton.
S AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10.—There
will be gTeat doings at Cof
froth’s Eighth street arena to
night. Before the evening is over
Willie Ritchie will have defended his
championship citadel successfully or
will have been caller] upon to turn tbe
keys of the lightweight castle over* to
Tommy Murphy, of Harlem.
According to the betting late last
night. Ritchie’?, backers 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. i
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.
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 1
pace.
This will be Ritchie’s third bout I
since l\,e won the championship from j
Wolgast about two years ago. Ritchie j
holds a victory over Joe Rivers, whom j
he stopped last July 4. and recently ;
battled Leach Cross a ten-round no- j
decision scrap in New York. In both
fights Willie showed that he is made ;
of championship stuff, which has j
caused fans to back him so heavily I
against Murphy.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 10.—Ij:a
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. “It
is true that the Athletics did not sign
the paper which contained the de
mands 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
ers are in sympathy with the fra
ternity and we will go along with
that body as we agreed to do.”
Apple Used to Hypnotize Boxer
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Riverside Academy
Plans to Organize
Rifie 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 tbe 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 learns 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.
Smith Tells of Funny Incident
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Jack Burke Buys
Flint Franchise
JACKSON, MICH.. Deo. 10—The Flint
franchise in the Southern Michigan
League, which was forfeited to the
league last August and operated the
balance of the season by the league, has
iust been disposed of to Jack Burke, of
San Antonio, Texas, who will operate
the club at Flint. There were sev
eral applicants for the franchise.
Burke was manager of the < lub at
Battle Creek in 1911. and in 1P12 pur
chased a half interest with Dan Col
lins in the Flint club, hut sold out, ow
ing to disagreement.
Fifth Regiment Will
Play Columbus Five
The Fifth Regiment basket ball
leapi will play the Columbus Young
Men’s Christian Association five a..
Columbus Friday pight.
Following are the players who will
take the trip: Mauck. Pearson. Grif
fin. Jarvis. Magee, Graves. Hubert
and Foolidge.
DONAHUE TO LEAD W. & L.
LEXINGTON, VA., Dec. 10.—
Quarterback “Jiggs” Ddnahue was
unanimously elected captain of
Washington and Lee’s football team
for 1014. 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.
l/)NDON, Dec. 10. — Cambridge
University yesterday won its n n-
nuaJ Rugby football match against
Oxford by 13 points to 3 The mat j i
Wits played at Queens Club.
By 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 and more important affairs. It
came off in Denver when Steve
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 Larney Lich
tenstein, who was handling Ketchel’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
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.
* * *
OAKUM’S eye all 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
Yoakum’s face.
To further corral the Yoakutn goat
Ketchel 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 tbe Mexican before he could
get out of his corner. A sharp clip
on the jaw* completely “got” Yoakum
and the 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. lie 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,
i Ahe Attell used to use one that was
a bird and sometimes it worked beau
tifully. During a hot mixup 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. Whet
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
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 neives
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 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.
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 sfJort, 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.—The
Brown Varsity football team has
elected Seth Kimball Mitchell, ’15,
captain of next year’s eleven. Mitch
ell lias 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, X. H.
BASEBALL DEPENDS ON FUND.
j'v KEWANEE, ILL., Dec. 10.—At the
annual meeting of the Kewanee Central
Association club, after reports had been
received showing expenditures were
equal to receipts this season, it was
voted to make league hall here next year
■ tirgent upon raising $4,000 in cash in
the next two weeks.
McGugin’s Team Is After Battle
With Chicago and Either
Georgia or Tech.
N ashville, tenn„ 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, w*lth the Pennsylvanians.
Should such a meeting be arranged
It will mark the fourth time the
Commodores have tackled on Eastern
eleven, previously having met thja
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 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 Mc
Gugin is pulling all his wires for the
success of a meeting being arranged
with the Conference champions. Mc
Gugin and Coach Stagg are old-time
friends and the Vanderbilt pilot is
hankering for a crack at the powerful
Chicago machine.
There is talk of bringing cither
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 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 wap
not considered. Tt is probably ju6t
well for Vanderbilt that the Geor
gians were left off this year, consid
ering the Commodores’ miserable
v he wing and the gallant work of the
Athenians.
Sporting Food
. By GEORGE E. PHAIR
SOME DISCOVERY.
When Chris Columbus landed here
hr {joined a lot of fame.
And history since then has praised
his good Eyetalian name.
When Peary landed at the Pole (or
was it Old Doc Cookt)
He caused, the world to pause awhile,
to listen and to look.
Hut each of these discoveries was an
unimportant quest.
Beside Professor Walter 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 | V_
strong on the offensive. Western foot
ball has always been offensive to him.
Man Who Piloted Chicago Sox to
Pennant Is Satisfied With
Present Status,
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 tbe manager of 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
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 th© champion 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 weaoon?
A >outh named Ruben won a
wrestling match yonder eve, but as a
rule the rubens pay at the gate.
SHAFER TO RETIRE
Tiliie Shafer says that the yarn
that he is to retire is true. But he
says that he won’t retire yet as he
j will wait until his contract with the
• Giants expires.
S AX 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
blandishments of the baseball powers
tiuit be a reason or two back be w'ould
have profited more financially than
he has by quitting the game and
growing apples. But he has quit the
game for good; he is doing well in
the business world, and he is not to
be persuaded.
“You are not to be tempted?” sug
gested the interviewer.
“Indeed, 1 have been tempted.” was
the answer. “Don’t think I have not.
Don’t think that with all my present
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 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.
“Rut 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 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 wrnuld
rather have it said that l quit the
game when I was a success than that
[ 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
am out of touch now with the game.
A few years ago I knew nearly every
player in the country and all about
film. 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 lighting
for a pennant once again, believe
me,”
Sidelights
1 By A. H, C.
\ 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
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
Clark of Pittsburg.
Napoleon Bonaparte fnot l^a-
joie) said lie 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 ati’ord to have
losing managers on their staff.
* * *
TJIJT In (he long run the good
1 managers will get the good
team. It takes time and owners
ere sometimes impatient. The pub
lic is partly to blame. The fans of
every city want a winning team.
If the team doesn't win thev will
not attend the games. Tile club
owner is constantly looking for
new material, fie employs scouts
to scour the country and spends
large sums of money for play
ers He does all tie 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 chiefest fault
of the unsuccessful mnnager, is
tiie 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 so.
As 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 lie decides to buy a player,
lie simply notifies the owner of
the club and the transaction
takes place. If he desires to
<wap Smith, Brown and Jones of
his (dub for Green and Gray of
another club, he tells the owner
of the club of the deal and the
proper papers nre 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 men. With
on Sports
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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 is
completed an announcement of
the foe! 1 ■ mads to the public.
• • •
rjN Hie other hand, take the cars
of Manager Evers of the
Chicago Nationals. He probably
knows more about baseball than
Charlie Murphy, owner of the
• lub, can ever expect to know.
Yet Murphy will not give Evers
authority to make trade* for
players. Murphy has to be con
sulted even before negotiation*
ran begin, and it is Murphy who
< onduets 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
manuger clever enough to make
his own trades. There are only
a few of them left.
C ONNIE MAC-K himself 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.
I’hera isn't a club owner In the
big leagues—unles* it be Mur
phy, or Ebbets, or Mrs. Britton
—but would be tickled to
death to be able to find a man
ager to whom he could turn over
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