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r THE ATLANTA OIOTiniAN AND NEWS. The Umpire 1^. More Dewpiwetl, hut He Generally Uasstts Longer "Phan the Manager COVE-MD A ' °y BUSINESS HT SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT --- The Judge Smells a Rat and Will Not Nip it in the Bud 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 Twe u irrtr - t* BRGAMwfr - rve win is $ea*MF’<f J o -ft 3/e.erX* tsur • M BROMCV- cooi-cr- ns r*» aitQU&tn- N)V jEporte thc -wus-e. pAftE TTl<-t> KtAA THtiC sre iojgN*j rwa juti&e IRE JWfi-a ti A MT SoA*MieT>- f°° THes IS COIAE^ fvAAtS V-ilTS CMOW- Ct inLMS AMO WSMt TVOROr- B * k/ O' fte TO TVMSUi Ua*-> 4.6 6 -VOVJ I w«>l CH»*-4«0 'vWiTJ iPCSO'MO -VOU <»JOW eAV S I S TH~-P MAE . I»*e 5AV/S ryuvr wO J SAiO VOUO Fit- rvtE (4U|) O • fc | S A>0 ,1 rvwwc \*JMW -IBS fH6 S«fVJ i ME (OJONA/i ■ ^qu v/jgX-U- JHC j \jjM OOT YD A BALL ^ .JIlTM vlou 4UM0AV CANDIDATES Bill [indoor sports FDD PISCES ON By Tad Many of Last Year’s Players Wil Try for Old Positions on the 1914 Team. N 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 BASEBALL -yes mrs Little I 3UST VWP.OTE NVV MOTHER. TTEO-i^Ot- HER ABOUT THOSE. VJO roOEULuL Pi£S or -moors - ia-l menie:r fo«-<,e:T TKA.T SO^OAV Oia/ajEJI 1 M A0 MER-fc SEE IF MW wAiwT WILES A-aiA^ I D -TKAR OUT r*t-r*- RlS+Cr Avu AW rvrtJMTS AJOTHixJfr UKE THE Ot-D NOME OiNMEHE- | SUPPOSE I'L-U CrtpT AAV TH-O CtTRi ST>A H S' AT TH-E U TUX old wwch coowteie verf\ r. (S\v( ROOAA (Mir IHOUiSE.— I T'i CKETP»f EAlOUi GrH 8l/T ALfJF-Li UIIDEiOME ‘ I POWiJN 7WETNO SELL- VIES U KE VOO ^ AKE that v/jou-lx* help So me tes V Diamond News and Gossip opts are pooled. It was motion made and car- home cities should bn •h on these da> s before* ere turned into where the rci ruled and th< ried that thr 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 4 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 *r*®*i* Real Lightweights to Organize Athletic ciub Boys Tennessee After Yost as Coach Out to Beat Augusta Quintet Saturday *:*•*:* *:••*;* *•* 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 • • 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. '‘THE OLD RELIABLE" REMEDYfdrMEN AT DRU0 6I6T6.OR TRIAL BOX BY MAIL BO. FROM PLANTER 93 HENRY ST BROOKLYN.MY . -BEWARE OF IMITATIONB- Going up—the number of Fords in world-wide service. Going down—the cost of motor car transportation. More than three hundred fifty - five thousand Fords now in use are keeping trans portation cosft at a minimum the world over. Five hundred dollar? is the new price of 'he Ford runabout; the tourins car is five flftv; the town car .even fifty—f. o. b. Detroit, complete with equipment. Get catalog and particulars from Ford Motor Company. 3tl Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga. iL£L