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THK A TLAM'A HKUKU1AM AM) NEWS. \ The Umpire Is. More Despised, but He Generally Lcists Longer Than the Manager D) 'lit Dj SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT --- The Judge Smells a Rat and Will Not Nip it in the Bud 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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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 1»1&. 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 BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip _ vej mP5 little L | JUST VJR.OTE AAOTHer?- TELL I rj (y / HER ABovrr THOSE. SAJO'UOE'RLUL P| £S op -yoORI - I'LL mEMEP- POfcb&T THA.T AOiuDAV OHUAJEp- 1 HAO HEP-E - GEE. IF MW HO*vAE vuMmT 5 " D A. f opr NMLETS Amja-j I D TEAP ou-r TVitr P.16-HT AuuAW THAAES wOTHiWft- U<E THE OLO KOME O/NVEPtf- i suppoj£ i'll &^T mv Tb^i<ev T>+iS ct-rpi sttvah c at th-e um-£ oU> uwch couuTeit verAP- pAV P-OQAAl/u&- 1+OUiE - ITS ct ^p,p fnOU&H ®LT Av-iFL’L'-'V/ LON*EiOME - I OOWiiH THE"V O SELL ? / ES U AE VOC bA AKE tha-t wol-ld HexT -Some -> , It iY By Tad 133-Pounders to Ignore Ritchie ___v*v 'I* • “I* •!*•+ -l*e»i* Real Lightweights to Organize THER.fi i that PathD ueilOW OvT TMGftE I A&-A.K. TP-V/AJU ro I rtoBU iw 0 IU out IfUllllFM O'XI ^AOV>CJ-lc£P [ D.VN EILi Fko 1 O S OLEELO Vht M (8 mT 3t OUT OF TDJU V CHflliTVvAS 100 TO 0. To hr hoMH of ihe Kcdleyt (These are nui t'Oj/ey views. I is tin softest job in hast hall— 1 ini Ye not a thing to lose. • • * 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 * * * 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 • * • 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. • • * 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 • • * 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.'’ • * • 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 • • • 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 — 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. y -*p '-V-4''- 1/uPOOP- Jpop-Ti TSV/v Or TO HoR-bJ »v ObJ A CHPliTMAS O/AVEil?-’ 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 +•+ +•* Michigan Wizard Declines Offer 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. * * * 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. I '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. PlAnten’s cr b lAC k C c CAPSULES REMEDYfor MEN AT DRUG®[ST8.0RTRIAL BOX BY MAIL60, FROM PLANTER 93 HENRYST, BROOKLYN I4Y ^IF EV.'ARC OF I M STATIONS — Going up—the number of Foxds in world-wide sendee. 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