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THK ATLANTA UKUKtilAN AND NEWS.
The Umpire Is, More Despised, but He Generally Lasts Longer Than the Manager
SPORTS' COVERED
SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT ... The Judge Smells a Rat and mil Not Nip it in the Bud
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Southern League Season Wil
Open April 15—Schedule of
154 Games May Be Adopted.
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>HE twelfth Annual meetin* o'
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Baseball C3\rt>* passed Into his |
tory last night In * quiet and order’> |
manner and. as an the members Arm
|y believe, ushered In a most miccesa
tful season for 1914.
The pennant for the Southern As
sociation championship of 1913 was |
swarded to Atlanta by Judge Knva
il a ugh Each club was represented
st the session, and the local club was
praised for the clean and sportsman
like manner in which It won the flag
Is at year
Following are the delegate.* and the
cities they represented
Atlanta Frank K. Callaway, O. J.
Rywn and W. A.
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Bobby Gilks.
Mobile <’. Z. f'ollton and Briacoa
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New Orleans A. .1 Rcinneman.
Memphis- Frank P. Coleman.
Nashville—W. G. Hirslg.
Officers Re-elected.
Judge W. M. Kavanaugh, who has
been with th# league since its organ
isation. was unanimously re-elected
president-secretary-treasurer.
The moguls all paid Judge Kav.t-
naugh a high compliment ; o putting
bis name in nomination.
Captain W. T. Crawford, of Shrevc
port, was again unanimously elected
vice president of the league
The position of second vice presi
dent Was created, and this was given
to Charley Frank. President Frank
K. Callaway, of the local club, mad?
the nomination, and in doing so 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 league.
Frank will represent the Cleveland
club in the South, as it was believed
that he would, and the New Orleans
capital will probably purchase Som-
INDOOR SPORTS
By Tad
SIGNS TO PLAY
Famous Comedian-Player to Act
as General Utility Man With
Lookout Team.
ers’ Interest and name Helnneman
preaidant and Dobbs manager
The hoard of trustees elected were
A J Helnneman. of New Orleans,
chairman. Frank F ('allsway, of At
lanta. and C P. Wilcox, of Montgom
ery.
Dixie League Represented
Pomeroy and Hood, representing
the Dixie league, appeared before the
directors at the morning session sn<1
In id the plans of the Dixie League be
fore them.
The Dixie League moguls want to
snare the use of the grounds of the
Southern League, but do not want to
commence playing until the season of
1915.
pi® matter was referred to a com
mittee consisting of President Kava
naugh. Mr Coleman of Memphis and
Mr Helnneman 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 playing dates
was the same as appointed last sea-
eon. Charley Frank of New Orleans.
C. Z Colson, of Mobile, and O R An
drews. of Chattanooga
Holiday Dates Awarded
The holidays 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.
the onL dates during the season
v en • receipts in pooled II f u
ruled and the motion made and car
ried that the home cities should be
given JIAO each on these days before
anv of the receipts were turned into
the common pot.
The league was redletricled at the
suggest ion of Mr. Colson, a member
of the committee, who suggested that
in so doing much mileage could be
caved by the non-Sunday and the
Sun lav-playing towns being paired
off.
(>n his motion. It was ruled that the
league be divided into north and
smith. Atlanta, Chattanooga. Mem
phis and Nashville comprising the
northern division, and W\\ Orleans,
Mobile. Birmingham and Montgom
erv the southern. Two schedules are
to be drafted, one calling for 140
games and the other 154 The season
will open on April 15
( ■^OIJNT LOTT CASTRO will return
to the Southern League ranks
next spring, wearing the span
gle* 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 infielder,
utility outfielder, pinch hitter (???)
and entertainer.
O. B. Andrews, president of the
Lookouts, ami (’astro came to terms
Lou 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 card® in the circuit.
He 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 Count back Into fast com-
pa n y
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
100 TO 0.
To be boss of the Red legs.
(Tin sc arc my cagey ricics.)
Is the softest job in baseball—
You've not a thing to lose.
Shortstop Maranvllle’e father says
that the boy should have stuck to his
trade as tinner The temptation to say
something about going into tin when
lie s canned is well-nigh irresistible
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CHRISTMAS Oz/VNE.^
Where "Matty Tells of Diamond Trag
edies" we look in vain for a mention of
that time Mr Baker knocked a base-
tliMt time Mr Maser itnoekpu a oa.se
ball down into Central Bark and ruined
a carefully .(instructed ball game that
Matty had been working on for nearly
nine Innings
It’s getting so that any 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
over the news that Jack Coombs may
never pitch again is tempered by the
fact that Walter Johnson is still hale
Athletic Club Boys
Out to Boat Augusta
Quintet Saturday
'The Augusta Young Men’s Christian
Association basket hall team will play
the Atlanta Athletic 'Vfiub quintet Sat
urday night In the third game of the
local basket bull season
'The Augusta five has a strong team
this season and .Toe Bean is wasting
no time in an effort to get his quintet
In the best of shape
the best or shape
The Athletic (’bin boys have won the
only two games played on their sched
ule this season and hope to win Sat
urday's games also.
Not that it will make any difference
to Cap Anson, hut the National League
failed to vote him tLat pension which
thev hail voted to vote him lie knows
their hearts are tn the right place, as
w ell a t heir kale.
Inasrmn h as the new boss « f the Bos
ton U-'d Sox iv a hotel man it is highly
probable the Bostonians will he known
this season as the ’ Bellhops"
Lord Makes Only
Trades at Meeting
Two trades were pulled off at the
Southern Association hsseball meeting
y csterday
Briscoe L»rd. manager of the Gulls
traded lnfielder Charley Starr to New
(>rleaziB in exchange for Inflelder Tepe.
Starr should prove a big help to the
Pelicans next season, as the New < >r-
leans dub is made up of a bunch of
> oungsters. and is in need of a veteran
The Gulls have been after Tepe for
some time.
The Gulls also made a trade w ith the
T. is President Hirsig. of the Nash
ville team gave up Clayton Perry, the
sr i old - sucker, ami in return secured
Heirde Berger, the big right hand twirler.
\ little indignation meeting between
Tom Lynch. I lank o’Day. Bill Dahlen
and Joe Tinker might be productive
of a few warm stories for the Hot
Stove League
Tom Lynch now knows what it means
to a player to receive ins little uncon
ditional release
About 300 |*eople attended the ban
quet given Manager Robinson, of the
Superbas. In Brooklyn recently, and the
new leader of Charley Fbbels’ club
found it harder to make a speech than
to manage a bail club
Ritcliie-Murphy Go
Closed for Jan. 28
Tennessee After Yost as Coach
Michigan Wizard Declines Offer
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SAN FRANCISCO. Dee 16 The Willie
Ritchie-Harlem Tommy Murphy match
Is on again. The pair were matched
last night to box *J0 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 h $15,000 guarantee
with a privilege of 50 per cent of the
gross receipts, and Murphy will split the
remaining amount with Coffroth.
y ASH VILLE, TENN.. Dec. 16 —
So it remains for the Univer
ity of Tennesaee 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
fi\ 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 ne 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 hA\e 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.
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.
Connie Mack doesn't think the Ath
letics have n cinch on the American
League f’.ig next year The leader of
the world's champions says that if Grif-
| flth gets om* real hitter, the Tigers two
i more good players, or Wood and Walsh
J come hack the Athletics will have a
real battle for the pennant
UMPIRE QUITS GAME.
WASHINGTON. Dec 16 -Edward
Handiboe, for two years an um*
I piro for the \mertcan Association,
has announced his retirement from
baseball. He has accepted a position
with a Washington business
Smith and Walioo
Pick Out Uniforms
LOOKOUTS BUY PLAYER.
NEW YORK. Dec 16. Secretary
John B. Foster, of the Giants, an
nounced to-day that he had sold \<o
Manager Harry Met’ormic!., of (’hat-
tanoog-a. 1 he services of Firm Base-
man Monte Pfyl.
RODGERS GETS DECISION
PITTS BURG. Dec. 16 Mickey Rodg-
«ameri a. decision over Hooks Evans,
hotl of Pittsburg, in a six-round bout
T ? i* the South Side Club last night
Billy Smith has selected Ins visiting
uniforms for next season and they ar«
bearcats Aided by Charley Wahoo. of
A G. Spalding C’o., the local pilot
picked h gray uniform decorated with
occasional stripes of red. blue and green
The stockings u»ed will be blue with
three narrow red stripes \ blue cap.
with a ren visor, will top <>ff the re
galia. "Atlanta" in blue letters will
decorate the front of the shirts.
SOX LEAVE FEBRUARY 19.
CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—Secretary
Harry Grabimt. of the White Box,
has announced that the advance guard
of the South Siders will leave Feb
ruary 19 for Paso Robles. Cal., *he
spring training camp.
CROSS AND ANDERSON SIGN.
LOS ANGELES. Pec lk. la»ach
Cross, of New York, and Bud Ander
son. of Medford. Oreg . lightweights,
signed articles of agreement to-day for
a twenty-rounc bout New Year s Day
at Vernon arena.
T il IB season the East Tennessee
ans turned up Nvith a rattling
good elexen. carrying some of the
finest material the Orange and White
ever possessed, and only by a hair’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
Tennesseean® 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 lo 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 mote 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
w nere he could keep in uJosor touch
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 McGugln, whose contract with
Vanderbilt expires this year. While
McGugln 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. But
now* that Tennessee made such a
handsome offer to Yost, it would not
be surprising to see McGugln 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 McGugln who put Vanderbilt or
the football map. and the splendid
Commodore machines had a whole lot
tq 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 pftcher and an out^elder, to
gether \yith $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 aft^r
the board of directors of the Cincin
nati club had overruled the action of
President Herrmann in making the
deal.
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 w York lightweight, to a draw
here last night, the boys wading through
twelve rounds of milling. It was a nu-
decision contest, but the newspaper de
cision called Ike bout sven.
PRETTY SOFT FOR CARPENTIER.
LONDON, Dec. 16.—A Central Xe vs
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 ar
ranged to appear at the Folies^Ber-
p-eres in Paris.
133-Pounders to Ignore Ritchie j
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Real Lightweights to Organize
By Ivoft ITook.
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. 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
manager® 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 w*ho 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 oit 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 boVs who have been battling at
the championship weight of 133
pounds, whiph Gans. Nelson and
Wolgast all allowed wag 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, moaning about 137 at
the ringside. Murphy was forced to
accept the champion’s terms. So lit
tle chance did the betting public
think Tor® 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
elasrs 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 tlie 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 Prank Mulkern; Johnny I
Dundee, managed by Roottv Mon-
tieth; Johnny Griffiths, the Ohio sen
sation, who permits his dad to do his
business: Tommy Murphy, teamed bv I
Jim Buckley; Leach Cross, looked I
sfter by his brother, Sam Wallach, |
and Joe Rivers, who listens to what I
Joe Levy tells him. About lour oil
them tiro claiming the tut. aireadj I
The Association Has Class. I
They form a dandy buncli of real I
lightweights, at that, and what a|
time they will have scrambling fori
the championship if thej go t irotig I
with this plan. There is no reasonl
why they can't either, if all of thrm|
ignore Ritchie completely unless it
consents to do 133 ringside for one
them, where will Ritchie be? No
in a choice spot, believe us. Half ofl
that gang can lace him at 133. I
The organizers are a bit worried I
about Buckley and Levy, who arel
angling for Ritchie matches for Mur-|
phy and Rivers. But they expect tol
show them the light before long, amil
to bring them into the fold. The!
other managers are with them to a|
dot.
They say a champion can diotate I
He always lias in the past. Perhaps!
this will be the first time where the|
reverse has been the case. Organi
zation accomplishes wonders. Go tr|
it, gentlemen.
Gibbons Hands Hirst
Lacing for Six Rounds!
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 16.—BoxinJ
is play for Mike Gibbons, Si. Paui|
ring sensation. Ho gave Joe Hir<
of this city, a bad lacing 1n a six-
round bout at the Olympia A \
night. The fight went the six roun'i»|
because of Gibbons' stal ing tacti |
Any time after tLsecond roun 1 Mil
had opportunities to put the game lo
cal lad away, but when Jo« was stag I
gering and In a bad fix Mike always]
managed to let up in his work.
GENTRY HONORED.
CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—Cyrus F Gentry!
graduate and director of athletics cl I
McKendree College, Lebanon Ill., hasr
been awarded the Rhodes scholarship ail
Oxford College for Illinois. He wan
chosen from among six who passed thej
Oxford examinations.
XMAS RATES
Reduced over N., C. ft Si I
L. Ry. and W. & A. R Rl
Apply any Agent.
BOXING PAYS FOR WISCONSIN.
MADISON. VYIS., 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.. Pec. 16.—
Young McAulifPe. of Bridgeport. w ? on
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, Pec. 16.—Larney Lichten
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.
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