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BUSINESS AT
Southern League Season Will
Open April 15—Schedule of
154 Games May Be Adopted.
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f\HE twelfth annual meeting of ■
the Southern Association of,
Baseball Clubs passed Into his- j
tory la«t night in a quiet and ordcr'y ;
manner, and, as all the members firm- i
1\ believe, ushered In a most success- I
ful season for 1914.
The pennant for the Southern A*- |
sociation championship Qf 1913 was I
awarded 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 flag
last year.
Following are the delegates and the
• ;ties they represented:
Atlanta—Frank F. Callaway, C. J.
Nunnally, A. J. Ryan and W. A. i
Smith.
Birmingham —R. H. Baugh and W.
D. Smith.
Chattanooga—O. B Andrews.
Montgomery—C, P. Wilcox and
Bobby Gilks
Mobile—C. Z. Collson and Briscoe
f >ord.
New’ Orleans—A. J. Heinneman.
Memphis—Frank P Coleman.
Nashville—W. G. Hlrslg.
Officers Re elected.
Judge W. M. Kavanaugh, who has
been with the league since Its organ
ization. was unanimously re-elected
president - secretary-treasurer.
The moguls all paid Judge Kava-
naugh a high compliment n putting
his name in nomination.
Captain W. T, Crawford, of Shre\ -
port, was again unanimously elected
vice president of the league.
The position of second vice pres ;
dent was created, and this was given
to Charley Frank. President Frank
K. Callaway, of the local' club, made
the nomination, and in doing ho stated
that it was generally understood Mr.
Frank would not be connected with
the league next season, and that the
league could not afford to be without
his advice and experience.
This announcement puts to an end
the New Orleans end of the leuguc.
Frank will represent the Cleveland
club In the South, as it wns believed
that he would, and the New Orleans
capital will probably purchase Som
ers’ Interest and name Heinneman
president and Dobbs manager.
The board of trustees elected wore
A. J. Heinneman. of New Orleans,
chairman: Frank K Callaway, of At-I
lantn, and C. P. Wilcox, of Montgom- |
cry.
Dixie League Represented.
Poinero and Hood, representing
the Dixie League, appeared before ill*
directors at the morning session and
laid the plans of the Dixie League be
fore them
The Dixie League moguls want to
share the use of the grounds of the
Southern League, but do not want to
commence plaving until the season of
1915.
The matter was referred to a com
mittee consisting of President Kuvn
nau.gh, Mr. Coleman of Memphis and
Mr Heinneman of New Orleans This
committee was instructed to go into
the matter and report at the Mobile
meeting The schedule committee
appointed to draft the plavtng dntoN
\va- the same as appointed last sea
son. Charley Frank, of New Orleans,
c Z. Colson, of Mobile, and O B An
drews, of Chattanooga
Holiday Dates Awarded
The holiday were awarded to At
lanta. Birmingham, Chattanooga and
Memphis, the last-named team get
ting the place of Nashville, who had
the plums last season
These dates July 4 and Labor Day,
.are the only dates during the season
where the receipts are pooled. It was
ruled and the motion made and car
ried that the home cities should be
given $100 each on these days before
any of the receipts were turned into
the common pot.
The league was redistricted at the
suggestion of Mr. Colson, a member
of the committee, who suggested that
bv so doing much mileage could be
saved by the non-Sunda> and the
Sunday-playing towns being paired
off.
on his motion, it w as ruled that the
league be divided into north and
south. Atlanta. Chattanooga. Mem
phis and Nashville comprising the
northern division. and NVw Orleans,
Mobile. Birmingham and Montgom
ery the southern. Two schedules are
to be drafted, one calling for 140
games and the other 154. The season
will open on April 15.
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Trades at Meeting
Tw«> trades were pulled off at the
southern Association baseball meeting
yeiterdav.
Briscoe Lord, manager of the Gulls,
traded lnflelder Charley Stan to New
t *rleans in exchange for Infielder Tepe
Starr should prove a big help to the
Pelicans next season, as the New Or
leans club is made up of a bunch of
youngsters and is in need of a veterat
The Gulls have been after Tepe for
s<>me time
The Gulls a so made a trade with the
Vols. President Hirsig. of the Na-h
vilVe team gave up Clayton Perr\ the
.second-sacKer, ami in return secured
Vtelnie “Berger, the Mg right hand twirier
RODGERS GETS DECISION
PITTSBURG. Dec 16 -Mickey Rodg
ers earned a deeisb - over Hooks Evan*.
lie the isouth $&e Club last night.
INS 10 Pill
INDOOR SPORTS
Famous Comedian-Player to Act
as General Utility Man With
Lookout Team.
C "V>DNT LOtT CASTRO will return
t<> the Southern League ranks
next spring, wearing the span
glcM of the Chattanooga club. He is
going to have an easy job not a
thing to do outside of being assistant
manager, head coach, utility lnflelder,
utility outfielder, pinch hitter (???)
and entertainer.
<> B Andrews, president of the
Lookouts, and Castro came to terms.
I >oii held out and received a good
amount for his services.
With Lou out on the coaching lines
the Lookouts will be one. of the
greatest drawing cards in the circuit.
He is popular with every fan in the
league, and his A rile Latham style of
coaching has amused thousands.
Mr Andrews Is to be congratulated
for tin* wise move he made in bring
ing the Count back into fast com
pany
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
100 TO 0.
To he boss of the I\edlepn.
(Thtse are mil rape if t Heir*.)
In thi softent job in host bull—
You’ie not ri fhiiip to lone.
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Shortstop Maranville’e father says
that the bo> should have stuck to his
trade as tinner The temptation to say
something about going Into tin when
tie's canned is well-nigh irresistible.
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Where Many Tells of Diamond Trag
edies" we look in vain for a mention of
that time Mr Baker knocked a base
ball down Into Central Park and ruined
a can fully constructed ball game that
MattN had been working on for nearly
blue Innings
It's getting so that an.' one who men
tions mere hundreds of dollars around
a baseball meeting ts mot with the
dott*>*i line look
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The joy of \rnerican league batsmen
over the news that .lack ( ootnba may
never pitch again Is tempered by the
fact that Walter Johnson is still hale
* • •
Not that it will make an> difference
to Cap Anson, but the National league
failed to vote him that pension which
thev had voted to vote him He knows
their hearts are in the right place, ns
well as their kale.
* * *
Inasmuch as the now boss of the Bos
ton Red Sex is H hotel man it is highly
probable the Bostonians will be known
this reason as the Bellhops."
A Jlttle indignation meeting between
Tom Lynch. Hank O’Day. Bill Dahlen
and Joe 1 Tinker might be productive
of a few warm stories for the Hot
Stove League
• * •
Tom Lynch now known what it means
to a player to receive his little uncon
ditional release
* • •
About .100 people attended the ban
quet given Manager Robinson, of the
Superhas, in Brooklyn recently, and the
new leader of Charley Fhbets' club
found It harder to make a speech than
to manage a bull clnb.
• * *
Connie Mack doesn't think the Ath
letics have a cinch on the American
League flag next year The leader of
the world's champions says that if Grif
fith gets ope real hitter, the Tigers two
more good players, or Wood and Walsh
conic back, the Athletics will have a
real battle for the pennant.
Smith and Wahoo
Pick Out Uniforms
Billy Smith has selected his visiting
uniforms for neju season and they are
bearcats. \ided by Charley Wahoo. of
A. G Spalding A Co., the local pilot
picked a gray uniform decorated with
occasional stripes of red. blue and green.
The stockings used will be blue with
three narrow red stripes. A blue cap.
with a red visor, wil) top off the re
galia “Atlanta" in blue letters will
decorate the from of the shirit.
By Tad 133-Pounders to Ignore Ritchie
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Real Lightweights to Organize
Athletic Club Boys
Out to Boat Augusta
Quintet Saturday
The Augusta Young Men’s Christian
Association basket ball team will play
the Atlanta Athletic Club quintet Sal
unlay night in the thin! game of the
local basket hall season
The Augusta five has a strong team
this season and Toe Bean is wasting
no time In an effort to get his quintet
tn the best of shape.
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.
Tennessee After Yost as Coach
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Michigan Wizard Declines Offer
Ritchie-Murphy Go
Closed for Jan. 28
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec 16 The Willie
Ritchle-Harlem Tommy Murphy match
is on again. The pair were matched
last night to box 30 rounds for the
world’s title on the night of January 38.
The lightweights will box for James
Coffroth under the same terms as those
which governed the battle that was
called off because of Ritchie’s sore nose
Ritchie is to receive a $15,000 guarantee
with a privilege of 50 per cent of the
gross receipts, ami Murphy will split the
remaining amount with Coffroth
UMPIRE QUITS GAME.
WASHINGTON Dec. 16 -Edward
S. Handlboe, for two years an um
pire for the American Association,
has announced his retirement from
baseball. He has accepted a position
with a Washington business firm.
LOOKOUTS BUY PLAYER.
NEW YnRK Dec. 16 Secretary
John B. Foster, of the Giants, an
nounced to-day that he had sold to
Manager Harry McCormicL, of Chat
tanooga. the services of First Base-
man Monte Pfyl.
SOX LEAVE FEBRUARY 19.
j CHICAGO. Dec 16 Secretary
Harry Grabiner. of the White Sox,
has announced that the advance guard
of the South Si dors will leave Feb
ruary 19 for Paso Robles, Cal., the
spring training camp.
CROSS AND ANDERSON SIGN.
LOS ANGELES. Dec. 16. Leach
Cross, of New York, and Bud Ander
son. of Medford. Oreg . lightweights,
signed articles of agreement to-day for
s twenty-round bout New Year's Pay
ai Vernon arena.
N ashville, tenn.. Dec 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. The 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 section of the Volunteer
State.
Of course, the offer for Yost's serv-
I 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 perforin at Ann Arbor for
might just as well plough tip 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 hair's
breadth did the Knoxville crew lost*
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, Loach 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 Yost 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 to the \Vizard 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
Michigan.
* * *
T HE Yost offer has created no lit
tle 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 his 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. w’hich carries w’ith 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. (Ye thing is certain. No
one ran 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 MbGugln who put Vanderbilt or
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
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,
the N'e 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-
cUiun called the bout even.
Cincinnati Wants
Two Players and
$15,000 for Tinker
CINCINNATI. Dec. 16.—Tw’o play
ers, a pitcher and an outfielder, to
gether with $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.
PRETTY SOFT FOR CARPENTIER.
LONDON. Dec. 16.—A Central News j
dispatch says that the Palladium Mu
sh* Hall in London has offered
Georges Carpentier. the middleweight
champion of France, who recently dc
feated Bombardier Wells, a salary of J
$2,500 a week. Carpentier*s manager :
has been compelled to decline the of
fer. as Carpentier has already nr
ranged to appear at the Folies Ber-
erres in Paris.
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By Left Hook.
T HE Amalgamated 133-Pound
Lightweight Boxers’ Associa
tion, to which only ringmen
w ho can scale 133 pounds at the ring
side for a combat are eligible, is 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 startling announcement to
make before long. A constitution and
by-laws will be drawn up. annual
dues 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 where
it belongs, among the real 133-pound
lads of the ring.
The movement was started when it
became evident that Ritchie, who was
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. w’hich 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 w r as 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 ns often as he pleases,
but to leave LIGHTWEIGHTS alone.
Just look at the lis. of 133-pound
ers who arc corking cards about the
country right now’. Besides White
and Mandot. the boys mentioned
above, there are Ad Wolgast, now-
handled by Frank Mulkern: Johnny
Dundee, managed by Scotty Mon
tieth; Johnny Griffiths, the Ohio sen
sation, who permits his dad to do his
business; Tommy Murphy, teamed bv
Jim Buckley; Leach Gross, 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 through
with this plan. There is no reason
w hy they can’t either. Tf all of them
ignore Ritchie completely unless he
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 hit worried
about Buckley and Levy, who arc
angling for Ritchie matches for Mur
phv 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
(k>t.
They say a champion can dictate
He always has in the past. Perhaps
this will be the first time w’here 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 w’hen Joe was sta£
gerlng 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. Lebanon, III., has
been awarded the Rhodes scholarship at
Oxford College for Illinois. He was
chosen from among six who passed the
Oxford examinations.
XMAS RATES
Reduced over N., C. & St.
L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R.
Apply any Agent.
BOXING PAYS FOR WISCONSIN.
MADISON, W1S.. Dec. 16. -The
States share of boxing receipts for
three ami a half months, under the
Hedding 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
night.
KETCHEL TO BOX SHULTZ.
CHICAGO, Dec. 16. Larney Lichten
stein has matched Steve Ketchel with
Battling Shultz, at Toledo. Ohio, for
t**n rounds on New Year’s Day. Steve
meets Tommy Bresnahan in Pittsburg
Friday night in a six round bout.
Going tip—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 cost at a minimum
the world over.
Five hundred dollar? ts the new price of the
Ford runabout; the touring car is five fifty;
the town car even fifty—f. o. b. Detroit,
complete with equipment. Get catalog and
particulars from Ford Motor Company, 311
Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga.