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Southern League Season Will
Open April 15—Schedule of
154 Games May Be Adopted.
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'HE twolfth annual moating of
the Rotith<*rn Association of
Haacball Cluba passed Into his
tory last night In a quiet and orderly
manner, and. as all the members firm
ly believe, ushored In a most success
ful season for 1914.
The pennant for the Southern As
sociation championship of 1919 was
awarded to Atlanta by Judge Knva-
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 llag
laot year
Following are the delegates and the
cities they represented:
Atlanta—Frank E. Callaway, C. J
Nunnally, A. J. Ryan and W. A.
Smith.
Birmingham—R. H. Baugh and W.
XT. Smith.
Chattanooga — O. B. Andrews.
Montgomery—C. P. Wilcox and
Bobby Gllks.
Mobile - C. i loll son and Rrlaeoe
f/ord,
New 1 Orleans A. .1 Iteinnemsn.
Memphis Frank I*. Coleman.
Nashville W. (I. Jllrslg.
Officers Re-elected.
Judge W. M Kavanaugh, who has
been with the league since Its organ
isation. was unanimously re-elected
president-secret ary-treasurer.
The moguls all paid Judge Kava-
naugh a high compliment in putting
Tils name in nomination.
Captain W. T. Crawford, of Shreve
port, was again unanimously elected
Vice president of the league.
The position of second vice presi
dent was created, and this was given
lo Charley Frank. President Frank
K. Callaway, of the local club, made
the nomination, and In doing so elated
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 or the league.
1-Yank will represent the Cleveland
elub in the South, as It was believed
that he would, and the New Orleans
capita! will probably purchase .Hom
ers' Interest and name llelnnemnri
president and Dobbs manager.
The board of trustees elected were
A J. Helnnrman, of New Orleans,
chairman: Frank K Callaway, of At
lanta. and C. P. Wilcox, of Montgom
ery.
Dixie League Represented,
Pomeroy and Hood, representing
the Dixie la-ague, appeared before the |
directors at the morning session lnd
laid the plane 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 playing until the season of
1819.
The matter was referred lo a com
mittee consisting of President Kava-
naugh, Mr. Coleman of Memphis and
Nfr Helnneman of New Orleans This
committee was instructed to go Into
the mailer and report at the Mobile
meeting. The schedule committee
appointed to draft the playing dat^s
was the -ame as appointed last sea
son. Charley Frank of New Orleans;
C Z Colw.n of Mobile, and O. B. An
drews, of Chattanooga.
Holiday Dates Awarded.
The holidays were awarded to At
lanta. Birmingham, Chattanooga and
Memphis, the last-named learn get
ting the place of Nashville, who had
the plums lapt season.
These date.'- July 4 and Labor Day,
are the only ates during the season
a here the receipts are pooled. It w as
ruled and the motion made and car
ried that the home cities should be
given J100 each on these days before
anv of the receipts were turned into
the common pot.
The league was redtstrloted at the
suggestion of Mr. Colson, a memheT
of the committee, who suggested that
hv so doing much mileage could la-
saved by the non-Sunday and the
Sun lay-playing towns being paired
off.
On his motion, It was ruled that the
league be divided into north and
south, Atlanta, Chattanooga, Mem
phis and Nashville comprising the
northern division, and v -w Orleans,
Mobile. Birmingham and Montgom
ery! the southern. Two schedules are
to' he drafted, one calling for 140
games and the other 154. The season
will open on April 15.
Lord Makes Only
Trades at Meeting
Two trades were pulled off at the
Southern Association baseball meeting
yesterday.
Briscoe Lord, manager of the Gulls
traded lnfielder Charley Starr to New
Orleans in exchange for lnfielder Tepe
Starr should prove a big help lo 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 Gulls have been after Tepe for
aome time.
The Gulls also made a trade with the
Vols. President Hirsig, of the Nash
ville team gave up Clayton Perry, the
s*o 'Md-sacker. and in return secured
He inn.* Berger the big right hand t wirier
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Famous Comedian-Player to Act
as General Utility Man With
Lookout Team.
C OUNT LOU CASTRO will return
to the Southern League ranks
next spring, wearing the span
gles of the Chattanooga club. He Is
going to have an easy job not a
thing lo do outside of being assistant
manager, head coach, utility lnficlder,
utility outfielder, pinch hitter (???)
and entertainer.
O. B. Andrews, president of the
Lookouts, and Castro came to terms.
Lou held out and received a good
amount for his services.
With Lou out on the coaching lines
the Lookouts will he one of the
greatest drawing cards In the circuit
He is popular with every fan In ihc
league, and his Arlie Latham style of
coaching has amused thousands.
Mr Andrews Is to be congratulated
for the wise move he made In bring
ing the Cotint back into fast com
pany.
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* * •
Shortstop Maranville'ft father aays
that the boy nhinild have stuck to his
trade a» tinner. The temptation to aay
Homethlng about going Into tin when
he'» canned is well-nigh Irresistible.
* • •
Where “Matty 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 carefully constructed 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.
• • • «
Not that it will makrt any difference
to Cap Anson, but the National League
failed to vote him that pension which
they had voted to vote him He knows
their hearts are in the right place, as
will us their kale.
• • •
Inasmuch as the new boss of the Bos
ton Ued Sox H a hotel man it is highly
probable the Bostonians will be known
this season as the “Bellhops "
* * •
A little indignation meeting between
Tom Lynch, Hank o Pay. Bill Puhlen
and J»*o 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 his little uncon
ditional release
a • •
About 300 people attended the ban
quet given Manager Robinson, of the
Superbus. in Rri>okJyn recently, anil the
new leader of Charley Kbbets' club
found it harder to make a speech than
to manage a ball club
♦ * *
Donnie Mack doesn't think the Ath*
j letics have a cinch on the American
League flag next year. The leader of
I the world’s champions says that If Grlf-
I fith gets one real hitter, the Tigers two
I more good players, or Wood and Walsh
j come back, the Athletics will have a
| real battle for the pennant.
Smith and Wahoo
Pick Out Uniforms
Athletic Club Boys
Out to Beat Augusta
Quiutet Saturday 5
The Augusta Young Men's Christian
Association basket ball team will play |
the Atlanta Athletic Clifb quintet Sat
urday night in the third game of the
local basket ball 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 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
*•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ 4-*+ +•+
Michigan Wizard Declines Offer
Billy Smith has selected his visiting
uniforms for next season and they are
bearcats. \ided by Charley Wahoo. of
A G. Spalding & 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 1 red stripes. A blue cap,
with a red visor, will i <p off the re
galia. “Atlanta" in blue letters will
decorate the front of the shirts.
Ritchie-Murphy Go
Closed for Jan, 28
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 16 The Willie
Ritchie-Harlem Tommy Murphy match
is on again The pair were matched
last night to box HO rounds for the
world's title on the night of January 28.
j The lightweights will box for James
Goffroth 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. Handiboe, for two years an um
pire for the Vmeriean Association,
has announced his retirement from
baseball. He has accepted a position
with a Washington business firm.
LOOKOUTS BUY PLAYER.
NKW YORK. Dec. 16.—Secretary
John B. Foster, of the Giants, an
nounced to-day that he had sold tc
Manager Harry McCormick, of Chat
tanooga. thi st rvices of First Base-
man Monte Pfyl.
SOX LEAVE FEBRUARY 19.
CHICAGO, Dec 16.-—Secretary
Harry Grablnor. of the White Sox,
has announced that the advance guard
of the South Siders will leave Feb
ruary 19 for Faso Robles, Cal., vhe
spring training camp.
CROSS AND ANDERSON SIGN.
LOS ANGFLFS. Dec. 16.—Leach
Cross, of New York, and Bud Ander
son. of Medford, Oreg . lightweights,
gigned articles of agreement to-day for
n twenty-round bout New Year's Day
at 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
tlx 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 Volunreer
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 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 have a football ma
chine minus the master hand and
mind of Yost, but “you gotta give
t in" 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 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 to give
the football eleven the proper atten
tion and was ready to hand in his
resignation, provided a suitable poach
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
$.*>.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 here he could keep in closer touch
with his water pow’er 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 w ith
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. 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 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 for ten
years which has made the Commo
dore* 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, Dee. 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 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 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
cision called the bout even.
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 Carpeptier has already ar
ranged to appear at the Folies Ber-
e-eres in Paris.
BOXING PAYS FOR WISCONSIN.
MADISON, WIS.. Dec. 16.—The
State's share of boxing receipts for
three and 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’AULI 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.
CHI''AGO. Dec. 16.--Larney 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.
R E M E DYfor M E N
AT DRUGSIST8.OR TRIAL BOX BY M AIL 50c
FftC M PLANTEN 93 HENRY ST. BROOK LYN. NY.
-BEWARE OF IMITATICN8-
133-Pounders to Ignore Ritchie
+•+ +•+ *!••+
Real Lightweights to Organize
By Left Hook.
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
havo a startling announcement to
make before long. A constitution and
by-law’s will be drawn up. annual
dues fixed and officers elected. One
Important feature will be a heavy
fine imposed on members w r 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 w’here
it belongs, among the real 133-pound
lads of the ring.
The movement u’ae 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. whjch 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 hour.s 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 as often as he pleases,
but to leave LIGHTWEIGHTS alone.
Just look at the 11s. 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- i
sation, who permits his dad to do his
business; Tommy Murphy, teamed by i
Jim Buckley; Leach Cross, 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 thev go through ;
with this plan. There Is no reason I
why they can’t either. If all of them
Ignore Ritchie completely unless
consents to do irt rlngsid'e for one -
them, where will Ritchie be? x„i
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 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 th.
reverse has been the case. Organ!- ,
zatlon 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 Hir^t.
of this city, a bad lacing in a six-
round bout at the Olympia A. A. last I
night. The fight went the six rounds j
because of Gibbons’ stalling tactic?.
Any time after the second round Mike |
had opportunities to put the game lo
cal lad away, but when Joe was stag
gering and in a bad fix Mike always
managed to let up In his work.
GENTRY HONORED.
CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—Cyrus S. Gentry I
graduate and director of athletics of |
McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill., ha?
been awarded the Rhodes scholarship at I
Oxford College for Illinois. He was
chosen from among six who passed the j
Oxford examinations.
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