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THE ATLANTA OIOTiniAN AND NEWS.
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Southern League Season Will
Open April 15—Schedule of |
154 Games May Be Adopted.
rpHK twelfth nnnutti meeiing of
I the Southern Association of
Baseball Clubs passed into his
tory last night in a quiet and order* *y
manner, and. as all the members firm
ly believe, ushered In a most success
ful season for 1914
The pennant for the Southern As-
eoclatlon championship of 1913 was
nwardod to Atlanta by Judge Kava-
naugh. Each club was represented
at the session, and the local club was
praised for the clean and sportsman
like manner in which it won the ftig
last year.
Following are the delegates and the
cities they represented.
Atlanta Frank K. Callaway. C. J*.
Xunnally, A. J. Ryan and W. A.
Smith.
Birmingham R. H Baugh and W.
1>. Smith ^
Chattanooga O. B Andrews
Montgomery -C. P. Wilcox and
Bobby (Silks.
Mobile—u. Z. Collson and Rris< ne
J ,ord.
New Orleans A. J Heinneman
Memphis—Frank P. Coleman.
Nashville W. fS. Hirsig.
Judge W. M. Kavana.ugh, who has
been with the league since its organ
ization. was unanimously re-elected
9'>resident - secretary - treasurer.
The moguls ail paid Judge Kava-
3\augh a high compliment in putting
Biis name in nomination.
Captain \V. IV Craw ford, of Shrtve-
port, was again unanimously elected
Vice president of the league.
The oosition of second vice presi
dent was created, and this was given
:•> Charlf> Frank I’resident Frank
K. Callaway, of the local club, made
the nomination, and in doing so stated
•that it was generally understood Mr.
Frank would not be connected with
the league next .«*ason. and that the.
league could not afford to be without
Jus advice and e\p<»rlencd.
This announcement puls to an end
■the New Orleans end of the league
Frank will represent the Cleveland
«dub in the South, as It was believed
a hat he would, and the New Orleans
capital will probably purchase Som
ers' Interest and name Heinneman
president ami Dobbs manager
The board of trustees elected w re
\ .1 Heinneman. of New Orleans
chairman: Frank F. Callaway, of At
lanta and C. P. W ilcox, of Montgom
ery.
Dixie League Represented.
Pomeroy and Hood, representing
the Dixie League, appeared before the
directors at the morning session m l
laid the plans of the Dixie League be-
fore them.
The Dixie League moguls want to
ts'ia.-e the use of the grounds of the
Southern r eague. hut do not want to
commence playing until the season ol
391
The matter was referred to a com
mittee consisting of President Kava-
naugh, Mr. Coleman of Memphis and
Mr Heinneman of New Orleans. This
committee was instructed to go into
the matter md report at the Mobile
meeting. The schedule commit
appointed to draft, the playing da
was the - me as appointed last sea
son, Charles Frank of New Orleans;
( /, Unlsaon of Mobile, and O R An
drews. of Chattanooga.
Holiday Dates Awarded,
The hnlida.Ns were awarded to At
lanta, Birmingham. Chattanooga ami
Memphis, the last-named team get
ting the place of Nashville, who had
the pitima land season.
These dates July 4 and Labor Day.
arc the onl\ cates during the season
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NASHVILLE, TENN., Dec. 16 —
Now that they have put aside
the moleskin ami pigskin at
Vanderbilt, basket ball has come into
its own. and the gymnasium Is al
ready alive with candidates for ilie
Commodore five. Still others ambi
tious to ••make 0 the quintet are ex
pected to turn out as soon as the
smallpox scare dies away at Nash
ville. It is this ailment that is keep
ing Tom Brown, who is certain to
land the center position, from en
gaging in the daily work-outs. Tom
Is a center of the Stein Stone type.
Tall and rangy, he ha- that long reacn
which makes him a terror to oppos
ing centers.
other candidates from last years
five are Anmie Sikes. Nelson ami
Davidson, at forward, and WsP >r
Morgan, guard. These men will fight
hard for their old places. The n- w
men are Bud Ueyer, who is trying
for center, and Blair and Metz, can
didates for guard. Josh Cody is an
other cracking good basket ball plnv
er. vet in view of the fact that he has
been ruled Ineligible by the S. I A. A.
authorities on account of having i'
tended Bethel College before coming
to Vanderbilt, there is little chan.-e
of his winning a place on the Com
modore quintet
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Diamond News and Gossip
opts are pooled. It was
motion made and car-
home cities should bn
•h on these da> s before*
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given $100 ea
any of the receipt*
the common pot.
The league was redistricted at the
suggestion of Mr. Colson, a member
of the committee, who suggested that
T>v so doing much mileage could be
saved b> the non-Sundav ami the
Sun Jay* playing towns being paired
off.
On his motion, it watrf'uled that the
league be divided into north and
south. Vtlanta. uhattanooaa. Mem
phis and Nashville comprising the
northern division, end n<*w Orleans.
Mobile. Birmingham and Montgom
ery .the southern. Two schedules are
to he drafted, one calling for 140
games and tip* Other l.’»4. The season
will open on April IS
Louisville Has March
Dates With Atlanta
Lul ISYILLK. KY . Dec. 15 The re-
turu trip of the Louisville Baseball club
fr un its training camp ai Fort Myers
Fla., -has been arranged with the fol
lowing games: \talnta March 16 and
17: Birmingham. March IS and 19; Flint.
lanooga Mar.Ji ‘JO ami -U Nashville
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ami 25 On March 26 they -pen their
Pome spring series with the Chicago
Cubs
KELLY VS. WALTERS TO-NIGHT.
CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—The winner of
to-night's bout st St. Joseph. M<> be
tween Spike Kelly and Bill Walters wili.
Yjf matched by th«- club with Mike
Glover. Spike and Bill are down to g.»
tit teen rounds Ktlh la a slight favor-
]♦*- over Ualurs.
RODGERS GETS DECISION.
FITTS BURG. Dec. J<» Mickey Kodg-
ers earned a decision over Hooks Evans,
l*t>tb of Piitsburg, ih « six-round bout
l,-..,, tli< South Side Club last night
100 T9 0.
In hi boss of thr Hnilep*
(Thmr arc mil raycii inns.)
Is thc soflcs! job in bay ball
You're not a thing to lose.
Shortstop Maranvillee father says
that the boy should have stuck to his
nude as iPiner. The temptation to say
something ah« lit going Into tin when
he’s canned Is well-nigh irresistible.
* * *
Where Matty Tells of Diamond Trag
ernes' we look in vain for a mention of
that lime Mr. Baker knocked h base
ball down into Fentral Falk and ruined
u carefully constructed ball game that
Matty had been working on for nearly
nine innings
• * *
It's getting so that an> one who men
tions mere hundreds of dollars around
a baseball meeting Is met with the
dotted line look.
• • *
The joy of American League batsmen
oxer the news that Jack Toombs may
never pitch again is tempered by the
fact that Waller Johnson is still bah
Not that It will make any difference
to U'tp Anson, but the National League
failed to vote him that pension which
they had voted to vote him He knows
their hearts are in the right place, as
well as their kale
* • •
Inasmuch as the new boss of the Bos
ton Bed 8ox is a hotel man it is highly
probable the Bostonians will be known
this season as the "Bellhops
A little Indignation meeting between
Tom Lynch. Rank o'Day. Bill Dahl* n
Mud Joe Tinker might be productive
of a few warm stories for the Hot
Stove League
133-Pounders to Ignore Ritchie
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Real Lightweights to Organize
Athletic ciub Boys Tennessee After Yost as Coach
Out to Beat Augusta
Quintet Saturday
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The Augusta Young Men's Christian
Association basket halt team will play
the Atlanta Athletic Club quintet Sat j
unlay night in the third game of the
local basket ball season.
The Augusta five has a strong team I
this season and Toe Bean is wasting j
no tinu* m an effort to get his quintet
in tin- best of shane
The Athletic Club boys have won the!
only two games played on their sched
ule this season and hope to win Sat
urday's games also.
Ritcliie-Murphy Go
Closed for Jan. 23
Michigan Wizard Declines Offer
The Wild
Tom Lynch now knoi
to a player to receive
ditional release
w
hat it mean:
lit'.le uncon
About 300 people attended the ban
quet given Manager Robinson, of the
Suporbas. In Brooklyn recently, and the
new leader of Charley Kbbets’ dub
found it harder i.« make a speech than
to manage a ball club
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Connie Mack doesn't thinT the Ath
letics have a cinch on the American
L« .igm- dag next yeAr. The leader of
th« world's champions says that if Grif
fith gets one real hitter, the Tigers two
more good plavers. or Wood ami Walsh
..in, back the Athletics will liav. a
real battle for the pennant.
Kddie Foster, third baseman for thp
Senators, denies the rumor that h.e lias
been offered a contract b> the Federal
league. Ivddte ua\s lie will be » mein
ber of Griff's club ne\; season ami
will be the regular third-sacker.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16
lie R-.t i w Harlem Ton.v Uurphj match
is on again. The pair were matched
last night to box 20 rounds for the
world's title on the night of January 28.
The lightweights will box for James
t off rot h under the same terms as^hose
which governed the battle that was
. idled off because of Ritchie's sore nose
Rit< hie is to re. eive a $15,000 guarantee
with a privilege of f*0 per cent of the
gross i. eipts, ami Murphy will split the
remaining amount with Coffroth
UMPIRE QUITS GAME.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 16.—Edward
s liandiboe. for two years an um-
p re for the American Association.
1 is aimotim cd his retirement front
baseball. He has accepted a position
with a Washington business firm.
LOOKOUTS BUY PLAYER.
NEW' YORK Dec 16 Secretary
John B. Foster, of the Giants, an
nounced to-dn\ that he had sold tc
Manager Harrx McCormick, of Chit-
tanooga. the services of First Base-
man Monte Pfyl.
SOX LEAVE FEBRUARY 19.
CHICAGO Dec 16 Secretary
Harry Grabiner. **f the White Sox.
has announced that the advance guard
of the Sout Slders will leave Feb
ruary 19 for I\isv> Robles. Cal. the
spring training camp.
CftOSS AND ANDERSON SIGN.
LOS A \G l-ILKS De* 16.-Leach
Cr*»ss. of New York, and Bud Yrader
sot of Medf'«»r*i, Oreg . lightweights,
signed .«ru,■!*•.-* -u agreement to-day for
• twenty-round bout New Years Day
at N'ernon arena
N ashville, tenn., Dei i6. -
So It remains for the Univer
sity of Tennessee to pull the
prize surprise of the year by com
ing out with a bona fide offer for the
services, of Fielding H Yost, the
Michigan wizard, to pilot the East
Tennesseeans next year. Tile Ten
nessee Athletic Board was willing to
fix the "hurry-up” coach’s salary at
$5,000 per annum for as long a time
as Mr. Yost cared to inhabit the
mountainous aectton of the Volunteer
State.
Of course, the offer for Yost’s serv
ices received nothing more than a
brief note, declining “with thanks,
etc., from the Wolverine coach,
since he will have a bit of
quite a few years to come. They
work to perform at Ann Arbor for
might just as well plough up the
gridiron there and sell it off in build
ing lots as to have a football ma
chine minus the master hand and
mind of Yost, but “you gotta give
'em” credit up at Knoxville for being
ambitious to turn out a winning team.
• • •
T HIS season the East Tennessee
ans turned up with a rattling
good eleven, carrying some of the
finest material the Orange and White
ever possessed, and only by a halt’s
breadth did the Knoxville crew lose
to Vanderbilt. With most of the 1913
crop returning next year, the ath
letic board began to figure that with
a leader of the Yost caliber the East
Tennesseeans would clean up the
South and in a short time occupy
the proud championship position so
long monopolized by the Commo
dores. Then, too, Coach Clevenger
found his duties at Tennessee so
heavy that he was not able to give
the football eleven the proper atten
tion and was ready to hand In his
resignation, provided a suitable coach
could be landed. Enter the hope of
annexing Fielding Yost
Up at Knoxville they figured that
even though Ybst was netting him
self quite a few odd cents more than
$5,000 teaching the Swedes and Danes
at Ann Arbor how to commit man
slaughter in a genteel manner, it
would probably be worth the differ
ence t<* the wizard to be down here,
where he could keep in closer touch
with his water power interests over
In East Tennessee. It was a game
effort to land the most wonderful and
successful coach in the country. No
way to get around that, and Yost no
doubt would have accepted had it not
been for a previous arrangement with
M ichigan.
* * *
THE Yost offer has treated no llt-
* tie discussion among Vanderbilt
supporters as to the possible effect
the Yost affair is going to have on
Dan McGugin. whose contract with
Vanderbilt expires this year. While
McGugin has never been noted for his
loquacity and seldom gossips about
such matters as Ills salary, It Is pretty
well known that it costs the Vander
bilt Athletic Association in the neigh
borhood of $3,500 each season to Im
part the mysteries of football to the
Commodores. Then he has a chair of
law in that department of the uni
versity, which carries with it $1,500.
Granting that these figures are ap
proximately correct, the Commodore
coach’s connection with Vanderbilt is
worth around $5,000 annually But
now. that Tennessee made such a
handsome offer to Yost, it would not
be surprising to see McGugin sign a
Vanderbilt contract at considerably
more than he has In the past been
receiving. One thing is certain. No
one can deny that his services to
Vanderbilt are worth all that he might
take a notion to demand, since it has
been his great work there for ten
years which has made the Commo
dores a real giant on the gridiron. It
was McGugin who put Vanderbilt on
the football map. and the splendid
Commodore machines had a whole lot
to do with putting the university be
fore the public.
Dundee Held to Draw
By Johnny Griffiths
Cincinnati Wants
Two Players and
$15,000 for Tinker
CINCINNATI, Dec. 16.—Two play
ers. a pitcher and an outfielder, to
gether w ith $15,000 in cash, are asked
from the Brooklyn club by the Cin
cinnati club in exchange for the serv
ices of .Shortstop Joe Tinker instead
of the straight sale of the player to
the Brooklyn, club for $25,000, as had
been arranged by President Herr
mann and Ebbets last week.
This action was decided on after
the board of directors of the Cincin
nati club had overruled the action of
President Herrmann in making the
deal.
By Left Hook.
T HE Amalgamated 133-Pound
Lightweight Boxers’ Associa
tion. to which only ringmen
who can scale 133 pounds at the ring
side for a combat are eligible. in
process of organization. This is no
idle dream, according to information
received from Nate Lewis and Tom
my Walsh, managers respectively of
Charlie White and Joe Mandot, who
are acting as sort of advance men
and press agents for the association.
They are in communication with the
managers of the leading 133-pound
boys of the country and expect to
have a. startliiig announcement to
make before long. A constitution and
by-laws will be drawn up. annual
due.; fixed and officers elected. One
important feature will be a heavy
fine imposed on members who sign
articles to meet pugilists heavier
than 133 pounds.
The aim of the association is. of
course, to eliminate such fellows as
Willie Ritchie, present champion, and
to keep the lightweight title w’here
it belongs, among the real 333-pound
lads of the ring.
The movement was started when it
became evident that Ritchie, who wa«
handed the championship on a foul in
the sixteenth round of a stubborn
fight with Ad Wolgast, intended to
raise the weight limit from that at
•which he secured the title, namely,
133 pounds. This action on Ritchie’s
part makes it impossible for any of
the boys who have been battling at
the championship weight of 133
pounds, which Gans. Nelson and
Wolgast all allowed was the proper
poundage, to fight Ritchie on his own
weight terms and have a chance to
win.
Murphy Match an Example.
Ritchie’s match with Tommy Mur
phy. which was called off the other
night for some mysterious reason, is
an example. Ritchie had agreed to
scale 135 an hour before gong time
for Murphy, meaning about 137 at
the ringside. Murphy was forced to
accept the champion's terms. So lit
tle chance did the betting public
think Tom had at that high poundage
that Ritchie was a 10 to 4 favorite
several hours before the bout was
scheduled to have started
There are plenty of 133-pounders of
class In the game, and they seriously
Intend to get together and fight it
out for their championship. Ritchie
will be referred to by them as the
heavy lightweight champion and told
to mingle with Packey McFarland.
Freddie Welsh, Eddie Murphy and
Jack Britton as* often as he pleases,
but to leave LIGHTWEIGHTS alone.
Just look at the lis. of 133-pound
ers who are corking cards about the
country right now. Besides White
and Mandot. the boys mentioned
above, there are Ad Wolgast. nox^
handled by Frank Mulkern; Johnnv
Dundee, managed by Scotty Mon
tieth; Johnny Griffiths, the Ohio sen
sat ion, who permits his dad to do his
business: Tommy Murphy, teamed b\
Jim Buckley: Leach Cross, looked
after by his brother, Sam Wallach.
and Joe Rivers, who listens to what
Joe Levy tells him. About four of
them are claiming the title, already
The Association Has Class.
They form a dandy bunch of real
lightweights, at that, and what a
time they will have scrambling for
the championship if they go througn
with this plan. There is no reason
why they can’t either. If all of them
ignore Ritchie completely unless ne
consents to do 133 ringside for one of
them, where will Ritchie be? Not
in a choice spot, believe us. Half of
that gang can lace him at 133.
The organizers are a bit worried
about Buckley and Levy, who are
angling for Ritchie matches for Mur
phy and Rivers But they expect to
show them the light before long, and
to bring them into the fold. The
other managers are with them to a
dot.
They say a champion can dictate
He always has In the past. Perhaps
this will be the first time where the
reverse has been the case. Organi
zation accomplishes wonders. Go to
It, gentlemen.
Gibbons Hands Hirst
Lacing for Six Rounds
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 16.—Boxing
is play for Mike Gibbons. St. Paul
ring sensation. He gave Joe Hirst,
of this city, a bad lacing in a six-
round bout at the Olympia A. A. last
night. The fight went the six rounds
because of Gibbons' stalling tactics.
Any time after the second round Mike
had opportunities to put the game lo
cal lad away, but when Joe was stag
gering and in a bad fix Mike always
managed to let up in his work.
GENTRY HONORED.
CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—Cyrus S. Gentry,
graduate and director of athletics of
McKendree College. I^ebanon, Rl., ha*
been awarded the Rhodes scholarship ar
Oxford College for Illinois. He. was
chosen from among six who passed th«
Oxford examinations.
XMAS RATES
Reduced over N., C. & St.
L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R.
Apply any Agent.
PRETTY SOFT FOR CARPENTIER.
LONDON. Dec. 16.—A Central News
dispatch says that the Palladium Me
sic Hall in London has offer* .1
Georges Carpentier. the middleweight
champion of/ France, who recently do
feated Bombardier Wells, a salary’ of
$2,500 a week. Uarpentier's manager
has been compelled to decline the of
fer, as Carpentier has already ar
ranged to appear at the Folies Ber-
eeres in Paris.
BOXING PAYS FOR WISCONSIN.
MADISON. WIS . Dec. 16.—The
State's share of boxing receipts for
three and a half months, under the
Bedding boxing law. reached $3,994 to
day with the receipt of a check of $752
from the State Athletic Commission.
M'AULIFFE BEATS HOUCK.
BRIDGEPORT, CONN. Dec 16
Young McAuliffe, of Bridgeport, won
the decision over Tommy Houck, of
Philadelphia, in a ten-round bout be
fore the Liberty Athletic Club here last
nigh f.
KETCHEL TO BOX SHULTZ.
CHICAGO, Dee.^16.—Larney Lichter-
stein has matched Steve Ketchel with
Rattling Shultz, at Toledo. Ohio, for
ten rounds on New Year s Day. Steve
meets Tommy Bresnahan in Pittsburg
Friday night in a six-round bout.
CANTON. OHIO. Dec. 16.—In a bout
that was fast and full of action, but
savage from gong to gong, Johnny Grif
fiths. of Akron, held Tommy Dundee, i
the Ne wYork lightweight, to a draw
here last night, the boys wading through
twelve rounds of milling. It was a no
decision contest, but the newspaper de
rislon called the bout even.
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