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BUSINESS AT
ANNUALMEET
Southern League Season Will-
' Open April 15—Schedule of
154 Games May Be Adopted.
rj^HF- twelfth annual meeting of i
I the Southern Association of
Baseball (Tubs passed into hi- i
tory last night in a qtriet and orderly |
manner, and, as aill the members firm
ly believe, ushered in a most success
ful aeason for 1914.
The pennant for the Southern As
sociation championship of 1913 was
awarded to Atlanta by Judge Kava-
naugh Each club was represented
st the session, and tlhe local club was
praised for the <*lean and sportsman
like manner in which it won the flag
last tear.
Follow'! ng arc the delegates and the
rifle* they represented
Atlanta Frank K. Callaway, <\ J. 1
J. Ryan and W. A.
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Birmingham
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New Orleans A .1. Hdnneman
Memphis—Frank P. I’oleman.
Nashville—W. G. Hirsin.
Officers Re-elected.
Judge W. M Kavanaugth, who has
been with th* league since Its organ
ization. was unanimously re-elected
president-secretary-treasurer.
The moguls all paid Judge Kava-
naugh a high compliment in putling
his name in nomination.
Captain W. T. Crawford, of Shreve
port, was again unanimously elected
vIce president of tile league.
The position of second vice presi
dent was created, und this was given
to Charity Crank. President Crank
K. Callaway, of Ihe local club, made
the nomination, and In doing so stated
that it was generally underwood Mr.
Crank would not he connected with
the league next season, and that the
league could not afforsl lo l.c withodt
his advice and experience.
This announcement puts to an end
the New Orleans end of the league
Crank will represent the Cleveland
club In the South, ns It was belief -d
ihnt he would, and the New Orleans
capital will probably purchase Som
ers' Interest nnd name lleinnemar,
president and Dobbs manager
The board of trustees elected w re
A .1 Helnnema n of New Orleans,
chairman Frank K, falls wav of At-I
lanta. and C. P Wilcox, of Montgom
ery.
Dixie League Represented
Pomeroy and Hood, representing
Ihe Dlxif l-eague appeared before lh*‘ I
directors at the morning session ind
laid the plans of the Dixie League be
fore i hem
The Dixie League moguls want to
share the use of the grounds of the
Southern 1 eague. hut do not want to
commence playing until the season ol
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The matter was referred to a com
mittee consisting of President Kava-
naugh. Mr Coleman of Memphis and
Mr Helnnoman of New iirleans This
committee was Instructed to go into
the matter and report at the Mobile
meeting The s. hertule committee
appointed to draft the playing dates
was the same as appointed Iasi sea
son. Charier Frank of New Orleans;
C X. Colson, of Mobile, and O R An
drews. of Chattanooga
Holiday Dates Awarded.
The holidavs were awarded to At
lanta Birmingham. Chattanooga and
Memphis, the last-named team get
ting the place of Nashville, who had
ihe plums Iasi season.
These dates. Jul\ 4 and l.abov Day
.ire the only dates during the season
where the receipts are pooled. It was
ruled and the motion made nnd ear
ned that the home cities should he
given $100 each on these days t.efors
any of the receipts wire turned into
ihe common pot.
The league was redistricted at Ihe
suggestion of Mr. Colson, s member
..f the committee, who suggested that
by so doing much mileage could he
saved by the non-Sunday and the
Son la\ playing towns being paired
.ff.
On his motion, it was ruled that the
league be divided into north and
south. Atlanta. Chattanooga. Mem
phis and Nashville comprising the
northern di\ision. and New Orleans,
Mobile Birmingham and Montgom
ery the southern. Two schedules are
lo he drafted, one calling for 140
games and the other 154 The season
will open on April la.
Lord Makes Only
Trades at Meeting
Two trade:- were pulled off at the
Southern Association baseball meeting
\ yesterday.
Briscoe !>nr*i manager of the nulls
ira«led lnfielder t'harle> Sin*-, to New
Orleans In exchange for Inf’eltler Tej»*»
Starr should prove a big heir 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 veteran
The Gull* have been after Tope for
some time.
The Gulls als»> made a tra«l* with the
Vols President Hirsig of the Nash
ville team gave up Clayton Perr> the
second-sac ker, and in return secured
HeJnie Berger, the big right hand t wirier
RODGERS GETS DECISION
riTTSBPRn. Dec. 1* Micke> Rod*
rs ear nee a decision over Hook* Kvan*.
iotb of Pittsharp in a six-round bout
•efore the South bide Club last night.
INDOOR SPORTS
Famous Comedian-Player to Act
as General Utility Man With
Lookout Team.
C 'M >I’NT LOU CASTRO will return
to the Southern ’League ranks
next spring, wearing the span
gles of the Chattanooga chib. He la
going to have an eaay job not a
thing to do outside of being assistant
manager, head coach, utility inflelder,
utility outfielder, pinch hitter (???)
and entertainer.
(). B. Andrews, president of tHe
lookouts, and ('astro came to terms
L,ou held out and received a good
amount for-his services
With Lou out on tiie coaching lines
the Lookouts will he one of the
greatest drawing cards* in the circuit,
lie is popular with every fan in the
league, and his Arlie Latham style of
coaching has amused thousands.
Mr Andrews is to be congratulated
for the wise move lie made in bring
ing the Fount back into fast com*
pa n y
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Shortstop Maranville’e father sa>«
that the 1m»v should have stuck to his
trade as tinnei The temptation to hu\
something about going into tin when
he's panned Is well-nigh irresistible
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Where ' Matty Tells of Diamond Trag
edies we look m vain for a mention of
that lime Mi Baker knocked a base
ball down into Fentral Park anti ruined
a caiefull> constructed ball game (hat
Matt> hail been working on for nearly
nine innings
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It's getting si* that any one who men
tions mere hundreds of dollars around
a baseball meeting is met with the
dotted line look.
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The jo> of American league batsmen
o\rr the news tliat Jack Coombs may
never pitch again is tempered by the
fact that Walter Johnson is sttll hale
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Not that it will make any difference
to Gap \n»on, but the National League
failed to vote him that pension which
they hail 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 H*>s-
ton Red So\ is a hotel man it is highly
probable the Bostonians will be known
this season as the "Bellhops.'’
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V little indignation meeting lo'twrett
Tom Lynch. Hank O’Day. Bill Guillen
and Joe Tinker might be product i\e
of a few warm stories for the Hot
Stove League
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Tom Lynch now knowswhat it means
to a player to receive bis little uncon
ditional release
\bout 300 people attended the' ban
quet given Manager Robinson, of the
Superbas, In Brooklyn recently, nnd the
new leader of Charley Lbhets' club
found It Harder to make a speech than
to manage a ball club
Connie Mack doesn't think the Atb
letics have w cinch on the American
League dag next year The leader **f
the world’s champions says tTat if Grif
fith gets one real hltte? the Tigers (wo
more k*mm1 players, or Wo«k1 and Walsh
i ome back, the Athletics will have a
j real battle for the pennant
Smith and Wahoo
Pick Out Uniforms
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I Hilly Smith has selected his visiting
J uniforms for next season and they are
bearcats. Aided hv Charley Wahoo. of
A G Spalding A* Co., the local pilot
picked a gra' 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, will top off the re
galia. "Atlanta in blue letters will
decorate the front of the shirts.
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Athletic Club Boys
Out to Beat Augusta
Quintet Saturday
The Augusta Young Men’s Christian
Association basket ball team will play
the Atlanta Athletic Club quintet Sat
urday night in the third game of the
local basket hall season.
The Augusta five haa a strong team
this season ami .Toe Bean is wasting
no time in an effort to get his ijulntet
In the best of shape
The Athletic Club boys have won tin
only two games played on their sched
ule this season and hope to win Sat
urday's games also.
Ritchie-Murpliy Go
Closed for Jan. 28
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 16 The Willie
Ritchie-Harlem Tommy Murphy match
on again The pair w-ere matched
last night to box 30 rounds for the
world's title on the night of January 28
The lightweights will box for James
CofTroth under the same terms as those
which governed the battle that was
. ailed off because of Ritchie's sore nose
Ritchie is t*> receive a $15,000 guarantee
with a privilege of 50 per cent of the
gross receipts, and Murphy will split the
remaining amount with CofTroth.
UMPIRE QUITS GAME.
WASHINGTON. Dec 16.—Kdwird
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 Ann
LOOKOUTS BUY PLAYER.
NKW YORK. P* 16 -Secretary
John B Foster of the Giants, an
nonneed to-day that he had sold tc
Manager Harry McCormicL, of Chat
tanooga. the services of Fir. t Base
man Monte Pfvl
SOX LEAVE FEBRUARY 19.
CHICAGO. Dec 16 -Secretary
Harry Grabiner. of the White Sox.
has anj^in-Td that the adv inee guard
of the South Slders will leave Feb
ruary 19 for Paso Robles, Cal., the
spring training camp.
CROSS AND ANDERSON SIGN.
LOS ANGELKS. Dec. 16. l^each
Cross, of New York, and Bud Ander
son. of Medford, oreg., lightweights,
signed articles of agreement to-day for
« twenty-round bout New Year's Day
at Vernon arena.
Tennessee After Yost as Coach
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N -ASHVILLE, TENN.. Dei 16.—
So it remains for the Univer
sity of Tennessee to pull the
prjze 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
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 lew years to come. They
work to perform at Ann Arbor for
might just as well plough up the
gridiron there and sell it olT in build
ing lots as to have a football ma
chine minus the master hand and
mind of Yost, bui "you gotta give
’em” credit up at Knoxville for being
ambitious to turn out a w inning 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
breadtji did the Knoxville crew lose
to Vanderbilt. With most of the 1913
*-rop 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 prooer atten
tion aiul 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 quit© 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 wizard to be down here,
v here 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.
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THE Yost offer has created no lit -
* 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 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. 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. Hut
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 f or ten
rears 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.
Cincinnati Wants
Two Players and
$15,000 for Tinker
CINCINNATI. Dec. 16.—Two 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 >f
President Herrmann In making the
deal.
Bv Left Hook.
T HE Amalgamated 133-Pound
Lightweight Boxers’ Associa
tion, to which only ringmen
who can scale 133 pounds at thd ring
side for a combat are eligible, is in
process of organization. This is no
idle dream, accordmg 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 pr^ss 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 YVolgast. 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 he referred to by them as the
heavy lightweight champion and told
to mingle with Packey McFarland,
Freddie Welsh. Eddie Murphy and
lack Britton as 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 by
Jim Buckley; Leach Cross, looked
after by his brother, Sam Wallach.
and Joe Rivers, who listens to whar
^oe 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
why they can’t either. If all of them
Ignore Ritchie completely unless iic
consents to do 133 ringside for one -)f
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 r 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. Pan
ring sensation. He gave Joe Hir*t
of this city, a bad lacing in a six-
round bout at the Olympia A. A. last
night. The fight went the six round's
because of Gibbons’ stalling tactic?.
Any time after the second round Mik*
had opportunities to put the game lo
cal lad away, but when Joe was sta^
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. Lebanon. Ill., ha*
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.
Dundee Held to Draw
By Johnny Griffiths
PRETTY SOFT FOR CARPENTIER.
LONDON, Dec. 16.—A Central News
dispatch says that the Palladium Mu
sic Hall in London has offered
Georges Carpentier, the middleweight
champion of France, who recently de
feated Bombardier Wells, a salary of*
$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 Folios Ber-
c’eres in Paris.
BOXING PAYS FOR WISCONSIN.
MADISON. W1S . Dec. 16.—The
State’s share of boxing receipts for
three ar*l a half months, under the
Heddlng boxing law. reached $",Hi*4 to
day with the receipt of a check -f $752
from the State Athletic Commission.
M'AU LI FFE 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 I^arnev Lichten
stein has matched Steve Ketchel with
Battling 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.
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'THE OLD RELIABLE"
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 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-
ciiion cailui the bout even.
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