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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 BUSINESS AT TMe U rrrtT" u BR6- Southern League Season Wil Open April 15—Schedule of 154 Games May Be Adopted. T >HE twelfth Annual meetin* o' the Southern Association of 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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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 T7W/AJ Cy TO HOfc V tbJ OKJ A 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 N* 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 +»4- r» + *•* +•+ 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. 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