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TIT\TLANTA OEOROL'N AND NEWS. I ,v Huertci Wouldn’t Need a European Loan if He Owned the Juarez Retting Ring * HIM MET BRINGING UP FATHER By GEORGE M’MANUS TO-NIGHT MOM'l »VF fOuND am A Uf$*K.AN RESTAURANT ( WHV PT. HAVF A o 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 '»07<, ~7HE M4TTtR Of LlCI/I UAL. C4tJT Y'FlUD MO Cheer7 ComeCet oj THE S'ofvA WITH Vl K | UHCLE S4MMV! HERE F6o DIUCIA» 1,Akt Miwe ; OIUOA 1 ; HAVE Tn/S ONE. OEUCiA-j 6/3EXT (juNS! Ho*J Comes it ThEVRE 6o ALCFlRto PERLITE, ALL-OF j SL/ODEJJ * I DUWNQ (JWLE5S MEBBlf S'BEC4USE 1 VX//46 KIND To jjCOUSiU ASHUR | This afternoon 1 . WH4DPVE ME4N, KlMO To Cousin A^hr{ my i was So 6orrV per .mini gElW' AS HE£ L4l0| (Jp VSUITH THE J CHlLKEM Voy-J r TH4T I WENT lW AH' READ To HIM A oxiple of hours i Dice 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. m 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 ' k 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 v • v *!•••!- •!*•*!• 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 * 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. ' * 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. TI 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 •* * * 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. * * * T HI ' : principal trouble that un successful managers encoun- fault club. the the first e au- " *71 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. * * * 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- A decidedly snappy collar | without any tendency to j freakishness. 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