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TIT\TLANTA OEOROL'N AND NEWS.
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Rival Lightweight Scheduled to
Battle Over 20-Round Route
in Coffroth’s Arena,
By \\. W. Naughton.
S AX-FRA VC I SCO, Dec. 10. Thera
will be great doings at Cof-
froth’s Righth street arena to
night. Before the evening is over
illlr Ritchie will have defenoed his
■ hamplonahip 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 dls-
'•ern u glimmer of a chance of any-
thing going amiss. They were offer
ing in to 4 and were somewhat dis
gruntled because there was such h
want ahow of money on the short
end.
To stimulate Investment the rham-
pion a 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 a re not likely to be
cast down over the reflection that
They neglected to make an additional
clean-up on the betting t
The last word from the training
» amps was that both pugilists were in
t to- \ erv pink of condition and ready
to travel twenty rounds at a cracking
pace.
This will be Ritchies third bout
since he won the championship from
Wolgast about two years ago. Ritchie
holds a victory over Joe Rivers, whom
he stopped last July 4, and recently
battled Leach (Toss a ten-round no-
declaion scrap in New York. In both
fights Willie showed that he is made
of championship stuff, which has
caused fans to back him so heavily
against Murphy.
Athletics Have Not
Quit Fraternity,
Says Ira Thomas
PH ILA DELPHI A, Dec. 1ft -Ira
Thomas, catcher of the Athletics and
that dub’s delegate to the Baseball
Players’ Fraternity, to-day denied
that the world’s champions had de
serted the cause of th»* fraternity, "If
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 w«
were bus> with the world's series
when the meeting was held, and the
series was too important for ug to
bother about other things. Our play-
ert are in sympathy #ith tin ft
ternity and we will go along with
that body as we agreed to do.”
POLLY AND HER PALS
Don’t Worry; the Family’s Not Growing Polite
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Apple Used to
Riverside Academy Smith TclfS of
Plans to Organize
Rifle Shooting Team t a ■■'•■* * i< -
° If munched calmly l»y it n oppo
GAINESVILLE. GA.. He, 1ft Now
that the football season has come to
a e los» . the Riverside Military Aca-1-
em> boys have turned their attention
to rifle shooting.
Lieutenant Harry Hawley, appoint
ee to Riverside by the United States
Government, is teaching the boys *ha
art of title shooting, and some are
becoming very proficient.
Riverside expects to enter a team
at the next annual meeting of the
school rifle teutns of the country.
Riverside will probably be the only
school in this aection of the country
entered, and interest of Georgia rifle
men will center In their showing.
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Jack Burke Buys
Flint Franchise
\cKScN MIPIL. IVc 10 The Flint
fianct i-ir u the Southern Michigan
League, which was forfeited to the
league last August and operated the
balance <>f the season by the league, has
just been disposed of to Jack Burke, of
.'tan Antonio. Texas, who will operate
tin- flub at Flint. There were sev
eiHl applicants for the franchise
Burke was manager of the club at
Batth Creek in 1811. and in 1012 pur-
..'•o c/1 a I •.If interest with Dan Pol
Hns in ihe Flint club, but sold out. ow
ing t«» disagreement.
Fifth Regiment Will
Play Columbus Five
The Fifth Regiment basket bait
team will play the Columbus Young
Men’s Christian Association five
Columbus Friday night.
Following are the players who will
take th* trip. Mauck. Pearson. Grif
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and Coo
nent’a second, hypnotized
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 ntVairs It
came off in Denver when Steve
Ketchel, of Chicago, was battling
Stanley Yoakum, the hardy Mexican
from Iais Vegas. First. let it he
known that Yoakum is much Da*
same order of a fighter as <'a can.
the Italian is a wrestler Ferocity
is his middle name.
In this Denver scrap Larne> 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
Hypnotize Boxer
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Funny Incident
< bird and sometimes it worked beau
tlfully. 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 Mee that last act,
because they say it’s a corker. What
time did you say the show was over?
All right. I'll he through here in Just
a couple of minutes anti 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 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-
u’ar melody and hums it in such a
way that lie never fails to attract a
lot o! 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.
Sporting Food
Sidelights on Sports
WITH QUAKERS
Larnev posm sod '-iniself of large tt 1 T> 1 \T l
n>,1 *C HcirVcU’U. ijl’clIKlS 1 £U6
calmly to slice off hits of it and chew
them vigorously as he stood in the
center of the ring listening to the
referee's instructions to the men.
Request as Childish
VOAKI'M'S eye all
■ riveted firmly 01
this time was I CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Dec. 10.—
i that apple I The Harvard Crimson editorially in-
Anri Harney meant that it should ho. j timates that Yale is acting childishly
"Must think this is going to be pretty i in seeking to have its football contest
soft for your man. eating an apple.' . next season held a week later than
scornfully remarked somebody in the has been the custom Coming from
•ppostte camp "Y.'P. Just like « .('mg ! the Princeton game battered and
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this apple,” remarked Larnev, smil
ingly. waving the apple In front of j
Yoakum's face
To further corral the Yoakum goat j
Ketchel stood in the center of the
ring Instead of returning to his cor- I . vv
ner after the instructions had been j Crimson, and for the best inton
tided he whs > of the game this is not to be
given and as the hell sour
•otild | sired,
nrp clip
Yoakum i
on top of the Mexican befoi
get out of his corner. A
on the jaw completely "got
and the remaining ten ro
completely at sea. Lari
his head close to the ropes munching j
that apple and Yoakum jus? couldn’t
keep his eye off of it. He w as beaten
handily.
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
tip future would turn football into a
near-winter sport, according to the
eats
game this is not to be de-
Mitchell Will Lead
Brown Next Year
DONAHUE TO LEAD W A L
X V I De JO
Quarterback "Jiggs” Donahue was
unanimously elected captain "f
Washington and Lees football team
for 1914. During t do past camp.Cgn
Donahue distinguished himself as a
heady player and a marked leader.
Sixteen monograms were awarded
players. Announcement of i new
coach to succeed Larry Dowd is pi
pe it'd soon,
CAMBRIDGE RUGBY WINNER.
1-ONDON Dec. 1<V - Cambridge
University yeste-dav won its an
nual Rugby football match again?*
Oxford by 13 points to 3 The mat 'd
V£i« played at Queens Club.
W
T HKRL have been other goat-get
ters in the ring, hut 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 fried his best to ton-
fuse Jack Johnson in the famous
Reno fiasco, but hts trickery utterly
failed. Between rounds Corbett went
half way across the ring and trSd to
hypnotize the black by glaring a: him
steadily Rut Johnson accepted all of
this laughingly and even Invited Cor
bett to come (‘loser and hear every
thing that was going on in his corner.
PROYIDENCK. R I. Dec 10.—The
Varsltj foot bi I] tMUn ha*
«';e< ted Seth Kimball Mitchell. ’15,
*'Upturn of next year’s eleven. Mitch
ell has played center on the Brown
! team 1- three yea's. He prepared
at Phillips-Exeter, where he was also
» member of the team for three years.
His home is at Exeter, N H.
BASEBALL DEPENDS ON FUND
j . K! NY \ N EE ILL. Dec 10.-At thg
r i d < . v of i! #• Kewanee Central
Ns.mm Litton club, after reports hud been
received stewing expenditures were
equal to receipts this season, it was
; voted to mirkc h ague ball here next year
r • • rgr: ? n o ? ng $4,000 in caah in
| Abe Attell used to use one that was the next two week?
McGugin’s Team Is After Battle
With Chicago and Either
Georgia or Tech.
XTASHV1LLE, TKNN l>.'r in.
Once more the Commodores
are contemplating an invasion
of the Eastern football world. This
time It ia to be Pennsylvania, against
which a aample of the McGugtn *ys-
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 masting 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 Commofor* 1 ?, after a
hitter fight, bowed to the Cambridge
team by a small margin Just enough
to Justify the belief that another
Eastern match would draw like flics.
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 «ntfflcieht 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-
Gngin 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 tn At
lanta. which is some football city
itself McGugtn 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 was
not considered. It is probably just
h? well for Vanderbilt that the Geor
gian a* were left off this year, consid
ering the Commodores' miserable
showing and the gallant work of th*
Athenians.
By GEORGE E. PHAIR
SOME DISCOVERY.
11 Urn Chris Columbus landed here
lie (/aim'd a lot of fame.
Ami history since then has praised J
his good tJyetalian name.
When Peary landed tit the Pole for!
was it (lid Poe Cook*)
lie caused the world to pause awhile.
to listen ami to look.
But each of these discoveries was an
unimportant quest.
Beside I*rofessor Walter Camp's dis
covery of the West.
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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.
Dick Hoblit/.el comes to the front
as the most eccentric man on a base-
boll team. 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 not picked the manager of the
Reds iR 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.
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11 ILL CLUB
—
Man Who Piloted Chicago Sox to
Pennant Is Satisfied With
Present Status,
By A. H. C. MITCHELL
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 ‘docs not wish to again take the
responsibility.” A man who splits his
infinitives has no right to run a polo
team.
Reside* being the 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
ho not been indicted for assault with
a deadly weapon?
A vouth 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 tg retire is true. But he
says that he won't retire yet as tie
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-
nge a ball club. This was his positive
statement yesterday afternoon, during
a haphazard conversation at the St.
Francis Hotel. E&stern magnates
have made him tempting offers. He
believes that had he listened to the
blandishments of the baseball powers
that a reason or two back iie would
have profited more financially than
he hns by quitting the game and
growing apples. Rut 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. 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 for practice, the old fever-
gets into a fellow’s veins and the
longing to he hack in the game again
come? and comes till it hurts all the
way through.
"But when 1 quit the game I quit
for good 1 made tip my mind that I
was reaching the age whan 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 would
rather have it said that I quit the
game when I was a success than that
I 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 1
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, :»n I know 1 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
Donnie Mack and John McGraw
to uphold their contentions.
No club owner would change
managers if he hud such a mana
ger as .McGraw or Mack on his
pay roll. There may be other
managers just as good, but none
lias had the success of these two
celebrated leaders of big league
teams, except possibly Fred
(’lurk of Pittsburg.
Napoleon Bonaparte (not La-
joie) said he couldn't afford to
have unluckv generals no mat
ter how brilliant thev' were It
is the same way with club own
ers. They can not afford to have
losing managers on their staff
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R i:T in long run the good
managers will get the good
learn. 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 tiie team doesn’t win they will
not attend the games. The club
owner 1s constantly looking for
new material. He employs scouts
to scour the country and spends
largo sums of money for play
er.- He does all he can do, and
it is then up to the manager to
produce a winning combination.
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T HI ' : principal trouble that un
successful managers encoun-
fault
club.
the
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first
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l"!-. or rathrr thr chlrfost .
or the unsuccessful manager, is
t ic fart that he doesn't know
hou to organize a ball
Many of them have not i
r:r\ “ >,(hor "y tn organize a
bail club even if they knew how
to do so.
As an example of a great or-
eanizor, the writer would men
tion George Stallings, of
Host on Nationals. In the
I'l o e. Stallings has absolute au
thority to make all the deals and
swaps of players that he likes
If he decides to buy a player
lie simply notifies tile owner of
the club and the transaction
takes place. If he desires to
**w'up Smith, Brown and Jones of
us club for Green nnd Gray of
another club, he tellR the owner
i*f the club of the deal and the
proper papers tire passed Not
•■ 'ov m inagers have the author
ity that Stallings has. And if
they had it. many of them would
not know* how to use it.
A MANAGER ma y realize that
. ho needs an extra catcher,
and he tells th** owner of the
< lub 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
Stallings he knows the man he
wants, and, futhermorc, 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.
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QN the other hand, take the case
^ hi Ma rumor Evers of the
(’hicago Nationals. He probably
knows more about baseball than
Charlie Murphy, owner of the
club, can ever expect to 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 if* Murphy who
conducts the negotiations, not
Fivers. In the cases of McGraw
and Donnie 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
his own trades. There are only
a few’ of them left.
RONNIE MACK himself say?
N-* that no manager can do him
self Justice or the club otvner
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 be 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 nnd digging up ball play-
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