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X11I\ A i. JLt AiN 1A 4t.Ej4J.KIj1 AIN A A U iNE-WS. The Umpire Is More Despised, but He Generally Lasts Longer Than the Manager A sr i BUSINESSAT SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT ... The Judge Smells a Rat and Will Not Nip it in the Bud Southern League Season Will Open April 15—Schedule of 154 Games May Be Adopted. T '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 THE *-l erHT |J BRE%KINbr - the AVUT+JU NUX ti -ft 3KETPiK our • VtAEi SROTVtEl*- ItUrtO Ar5 154 TVddL CO OLE?- V? At» (ilCouCYttT uy gEf=otte ehc ■suns* MAE TOLD HlhATWiJ* SHE tOJfjVD TV*& tVUSE ftHDTVt’AT'lTVtAS pll<-ED -JH6 JUDU-e tS A ®'T SoK-FA-ttETJ - ■QkMa TO H /5A TReM 154 C05AE.S (\AA£ N-4ITV4 H-AP-Py- ItukAwM Ll STEMS AMO HGARi TWIH at HE 6eS-«kJ to tximOI-G /Movj Ags -VOVJ -3DO«-€ I WAS CM»*GCO wnw SfBSOttJd- . •no'j fdwow CAV it STET2 MAC - Irtfif JAVi rvww YOU JAiO VOOO FTO r>tE rvwwty up o k VW5W WEi * The savj i HE (<K)OWJ 'JO'4 mjEV-L- JHE OUT TD A 5A1.V •JJlTH MOU JUWDAV ZPJD GEZ a VHIH-ROOMEMCCA. V> — 7TD O G-E, TOSfljhc'lM If j r wM INDOOR SPORTS By Tad MS TO PLAY 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. BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip -VE5 MRS little - I 3UST vjuROJE 5A.V mother. TEt-LieoCr HER. ABOJT THOSE \rJO ojDETR FUC PiES of -yootii - i't-i. mcmek foR.(,e:t TRA.T AUNJDAV DIMO/Ep- 1 HA0 HEKt SEE IF NW 5405AE wAXotT 5T "’ miles i d tea* <?»t- rnfc-rt Ri 6+ur Auu A-V - wfaes kiqtHi aj Cr U\KE THE OLO 4+0ME 0fNVEJ!/- i suppose i'll G-ST-mv nt*Kev rt+is c t+P-i st>a a ? at the umE OLD LUA4CH COO Lt TER. yE"A|L i-Avj p_ooAAfNG- t+oetja— ms c.f+g'At’ FNOU G-trl 6uT Av/uFL'L<- SOIUESOME - I DO wish 7REV0 JELL ?/Ei Line VOtJ MAKE — / THAT \M0dLD KeLP So ME 100 TO 0. To hr bos* of thr lietUegt. (Thtitc ore till/ i</;/c;/ t'/cicsj /« tht softest joh in httseholl— You’ve not a thing to lose. * * • 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. XMAS RATES Reduced over N., C. & St. L, Ry. and W. & A. R. E. Apply any Agent. Going up—the number of Fords in world-wide service. Going down—the cost of motor car transportation. 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