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1 Aw.- TTTE ATLANTA OEOKOl AN ANT) NEWS. T1 lie Umpire Its More I)espisse< i, 1 but H [e Generally Lasts Longer Than the A/ [anager rFfT p)(f7U [ PO wt® rovi PI PI m ly 1 Fsn PI TB>1 LVLVsJIi vr~AiN LL i! 'w'W v J Lbd Jr J I J SILK HAT HARRY'S DIVORCE SUIT --- The Judge Smells a Rat and Will Not Nip it in the Bud BUSINESS AT Southern League Season Will Open April 15—Schedule of 154 Games May Be Adopted. r-pMJE 1 ,h 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. THE U <tH7- 15 BkE'Ak./aj tr “ TVE AaiF-oi- is \)£cnn* ft 3fetT^K: }UT- M<&Ei 'AlAri IM rv+t. CooLE?- SM Bfiiou&e'r SSEFO^-E the "SUDfre. 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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. * * * 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. * • « 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 • » • 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 r • *r r*r v**J* *{*#4* 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 v • %• *l*#4 v • *1* *!*•*!• v • *1* v • *!* 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. “THE OLD RELIABLE 8 * Plantens o C 8- *1 R b.lAC* CAPSULES R E M E DYfor M E N AT DRUGSIST6-0R TRIAL BOX BV MAIL50* FROM PLANTEN 93 HENRY ST BROOKLYN.MY. 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. 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