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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. L IS HAVING GOOD TIME HUNTING ,)f You Don't Believe It, Read This Letter From the Crackers' Great Backstop. SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT Judge? JUDGE? Good Night, JUDGE1 THE IOBA OF fiSKi VO ME If lu_ HAUt AAV OV-SWO. J rEVM VA>lTM o* • tv+OUT-M u *4 ~ 7V4IS If rne f<-ACG 'AiMEP-G i lost aas hat— Tvvey vJOOUCDmT BEVIB/GMt VJMCVJ I TOLD THAT I \*/AS TV06E JLUMMAuSEP. I f JTAfT AMV TVII KJ <r i ll wr looSc rp Hlfi is the I letters fn Cracker*, % ■*L H/R is the fourth of a $eries of from member* of the the Southern League pennant winners. It i* from Harry Chapman, the great young backstop. Thomas, Okla., Deo 12, 1913. W. S. Kama worth. Sporting: Editor, The Atlanta Georgian Dear Bill: I guess you think f am a little slow in answering your letter, but I have just come home from a big hunt of 24 days on \vhlch I had a dandy time. You asked me to write a letter for your paper, telling what 1 have been doing since I left Atlanta,. Well, here goes. I left for Cincinnati from Knox ville and stayed two weeks with a boy friend In that city. We put in most of our time going to show's while in the city, and when not in the city we were at his camp on the Miami River Ashing boating, kodaking and eating large feeds that the cook would have Axed for us when we came in, and we sure did enjoy them at least. I did, and 1 am most sure my pal did. as he was not used to the out-of-doyr life as I W'as Sure was a great 'treat for me to have a place of that kind to go to after those 26 days of hard fought battles at old Ponce Del.eon. in which 1 gave the man ager and fans everything I had even if I did have two ribs caved n But there was too rnurh m stake to think of as small a. thing as two broken ribs. But at times they would make me think of them But I should worry, they are all right now- Speaking about giving every thing I had, 1 want t6 say tjiat every fan gave everything that had, if not a little more In fact, all the boys on the bench thought the world had or was coming to an end. the noise was so loud. There were times when we could not un derstand each other without talk ing in each other’s ear. So that Is what 1 call rooting, and I hope they keep the good work up next season, and I a*n sure they will. The Crackers are going to give them something to root for. So. get ready for that big day when the unips yell "Play Ball.” Landed home from Cincinnati O. K., and was glad to get back, as anyone would be after they are away for seven months. Was home only two days and went to Texas for a prairie chicken hunt. Was gone a week. Drove through in a car. Mad a dandy time and killed 38 chickens. It took us one day and part of the night to make the trip, as we were heavy loaded and • ould oot drive fast, and the roads are not the best. Came home from lhat hunt and took life easy for a while, about two weeks. I guess We had a little snowstorm from the north and that makes duck shoot ing good out here, so 1 hit out for a good lake 42 miles from here The storm did not last but a short lime so I did not stay long. W T e got there at 3 p. m. and at 10 a m rhe next morning we were getting on the train with 93 ducks, and that is more than any other two hunters have ever brought in So I guess we are champs Have iaken a number of small duck hunts since, but never had such good luck And by that time the quad season had opened, and three of us had been planning on a big hunt as soon as the season was <*pen for quail, which was Novem ber 15 On the 17th we loaded our wagon for the trip, so we could gei an early start on the morning of the 18th. on which we left in a covered wagon, and landed back home the 10th of December. Now- anyone that never took a trip of that kind does not know what fun and good times are unless they go and see for themselves No use of me to tell you what it is like, and now much you will eat and how good you will feel Of course. I mean if you like the out-of-door life and to hunt, camp out and sleep in a tent or in a sleeping hag. 1 will take a sleeping bag for mine. We had one big time, killed a world of quail, but very J ew ducks, as it was not duck weather while we were gone We salted a lot of quail down while we were out and they were Ane and dandy when we landed back home So we can have quail and not have to hunt them for some time Think I have enough hunting to do me for a while. So think I shall sit around the Are and rub off some of those foul tips 1 got at Poncy and try to gain a few more pounds I have gained fourteen pounds and that is about all I need, for no hod v loves a fat man—not at Poncy. anyway. R .manager .-mith can And play- ers to All the places of those he lost, and I think he can. even if it is hard to do. well be in the race aga.n Smiths long suit is to And players juat a little faster ! han the other managers have Then he tells them what to do, and they go and do it So fan* leave it to Bill, as they call him. and don i worry until we lose Six in a row I am all O. K up to date, and 1 am going to take life easy until lime for the ira.ning season and l will be one of the A rat to want to see what some of the new pitchers have and will bring all the pepper ihere Is in Oklahoma—and they !ta\e a lot of it out here So. good luck and good-b>e and a Merr' ‘‘hristmas and a Happy New Year to one and all Yours truly. 4UAB1 £. UU K.iiA.y Sporting Food INDOOR SPORTS — By GEORGE E PHAIR J. TINKER SINGS. My country f *ti* of thee, Sweet land of liberty. Fro nit her J strap. To Brooklyn I must roam, Afros* the, raging foam. And leave my happy home, The I S. A / love thy rock* and rill*. Thy wood* anti templed hill* And other scenes. J would prefer to be, Chicago, III., with thee. But Brooklyn offer me 10,000 bean*. Mr. Tinker, however, will not be compelled to spend the whole season in Brooklyn. The seven other cities on the National League circuit are in the United States- Yagotta hand it to Mr. Murphy for his gallant effort to land Joe Tinker. He was willing to spend anything but money. Mr. Murphy was runner-up in the Tinker deal, thereby getting half the publicity without investing jiny capi tal Jees Willard deserves great credit for his overwhelming victory over One-Round Davis. He outweighed his man by a b«re 50 pounds. Con»idsr what a scant margin is 50 pounds in a prize fight. Gunboat Smith does not outweigh Johnny Coulon by much more than that. In spite of his defeat, it must be admitted that One-Round Davis more than lived up to his name He lasted a round ami a half. Fortune is a finicky old dame. For instance. Art Butler was married on the same day he was sentenced to play with the Cardinals. FINANCIERS li her* are the champ* of yesteryear Who hang around buffets. And spent their pile for quart* of cheer. And turned their nights to day*? : The old time ehamps hare wandered Item *. And modern champ* prevail, j Who would not squander thirty *cut* I To save a friend from jail. There is no truth in the report that Georges Carpentier ha* earned $200.- 000. although he may have collected that amount for whipping English heavyweights. The'e must be a mistake in the re port that Willie Ritche is wearing an ice pack on his head. It must be a hot water bottle on his feet Reports from the Ju*rez traok indi cate that new records are almost as rrumerouj as new revolutions. Psrseverance always brings suc cess. After trying out approximately 14,000 dedication, Charlie Ebbets finally has corralled something worth while dedicating. A competitor in a six-day race ha* a distinct advantage over a specta tor. Being always on the move, it is difficult to pick his pockets. Besides, he has no pockets to pick. GEOGRAPHY. “AY here is Brooklyn?" spoke the teacher, To her class one winter day. ’Brooklyn." said a bright young creature, 'I* where Tinker soon will play.” Harvard Will Elect 1914 Captain To-day CAMBRIDGE. MASS. I** 17 — The Harvard football tearp will hold a meeting here to-da> to select a captain for the 1914 eleven It seems certain that Charles Brick- ley. the teams great halfback, will ge f the place, though Walter Trum bull. the big guard, has quite a few supporters. Eighteen men are eligi ble to vote for the captain BRITTON VS. DEWEV. NEW YORK Dec. IT -Jack Britton, who has been laid up with a heavy cold for a few data. is well again, and has been secured to meet Al Dewey, the Wllkesbarre. Ta welterweight, for ipn rounds at a show to be brought off a; Mumuu uiAbL t By Tad Baldwin Defeat Hurts Ritchie -i-F-S- •5-»+ +•+ 4-»4- •!••+ Champ Later Wins Over Britton This is the seventh of the series of the life and battles of Lightireiglh Champion Willie Ritchie, written exclusively for The Georgian. Four Teams Enter in Cross-Country Run At Tech Saturday The cross-country race that will be held at Tech Saturday afternoon Is ere ating much interest among the stu dents. The race has been an annual affair, the students entering for themselves and running for individual prizes alone This year a new plan will be tried out by the school. At Tech there are three dormitories, namely, the Swann, Knowles and one that is known as the Shacks The stu dents that reside in Swann will compose one team, the students of Knowles an- other ami the men In the Shacks, to gether with the men lhat are taking the co-op course, will form another. For the day students, that is students that reside In the city, another team will be formed, making a total of four teams to enter the race Pfyl Reinstated; To Joiu Lookouts NEW YORK Dec. 17 Montgom ery Pfyl. a left-handed Arst base man. was reinstated by the New York National League club yesterday and released to Chattanooga, of the Southern Association. Pfyl received a try-out with the Giants four years ago and later Jumped to the Califor nia outlaws. He applied recently for reinstatement. ‘Bobby’ Baugh Declares War T*V Attendance Record Is Up Again ( Jack Johnson Fights Frank Moran Jan. 25 TORONTO, ONTARIO. Dec. 17.— In a letter to Tom Flanagan from Paris Jack Johnson says he has signed up for two fights. He meets Jim John son, a big negro who. a couple of years ago. masqueraded over Europ© a* Jack Johnson, at Paris. December 19 He fights Frank Moran in J’ar.s January 25 for twenty rounds. John son asks Flanagan to go over to han dle him forfthe Moran fight. No men tion is made of the purses hung up for the two fights NEW BOXING CLUB IN GOTHAM. NEW YORK. Dec. IT -Jess and Ed McMahon, the ’oval boxing promoters, plan to operate another big boxing club It is understood that they wll be rrant- r-1 a ITense to conduct bouts at the j New* Star Casino a’ One Hundred and J Seventh street anu Lexington a ven u*. By 0. B. Keeler. -A RIM -VIS AGED War is about to j wrinkle up his Lowering Front once more and embroil two moat excellent cronies and a couple of large and prosperous cities, to say nothing of a brace of ball clubs. Frank CaJ!awa\ and "Bobby” Baugh are at it again That means that Atlanta and Bir mingham are hooked up in a chal lenge match as to the attendance rec ord for 1914, as well as to which team will ehow the fattest percentage col umn at the end of the season. Following i© the manner of til© declaration of war. * • * AT the annua! dinner Monday night ** at the Hotel Ansley. Mr. Baugh made a speech. The mere fact in itself was not unusual Mr. Baugh has made speeches before Rut this speech was a highly incendiary af fair. first. Mr Baugh grudgingly coni plimented the Trackers and their president. He really said some very- nice things about them, and about the dinner, and about the town — you know’ how such things go. But the more Mr. Baugh talked, the higher his gorge rose He was thinking about that at tendance business And finally Mr Baugh unfolded, signed, sealed and delivered the f lowing tirade against Major Call-i- <* r pH.\T man Callaway," said Mr. ‘ Baugh, "doesn't know- how to take a joke Besides, ha's a Mean Guy. When 1 get through telling v >u about him you will begin to wonder how the well-known integrity of baseball is maintained as long as Frank Callaway is mixed up in it. Oh. I’m going to expose things. 1 am! "Tt was this way. ' Last year you may remember we had a little affair something of this order over in Birmingham. I was compelled by circumstances over which I had no control to say a few genial words to the assembled guests, this Callaway person being among them. "Tn the course of my* remarks it is quite possible I hinted that Bir mingham was going to win the pen- | nant again, and. furthermore, was going to beat Atlanta out in atten- | dance. I say. it is possible 1 may have let fall some such hint*. • • * “MOW. I contend that this man Callaway has no sense of hu mor. Justic or proportion, to say nothing of the eternal fitness of things. He can't lake a joke. "He took my mild hints Just as if I had meant them. And then what does he do? Why. gentlemen, he goes to work and enlists the Ad Men's Club, and the Chamber of Commerce, and some Royal Rooters or other, and all the Atlanta news papers, and I don't know what all besides And his blamed club not only wins the pennant by the grace of that stout party at. the right of the toastmaster (loud cheers for C. Frank), but his blamed town also ups and snows under Birmingham in attendance, and percentage. and everything else. "Now. I put it to you fair—has a man like that any business in a sportsmanlike game''" • • • AND then Mr. Baugh abandoned himself to threats. 'But we re going to get you yet." he assured Mr. Callaway at the top of a very robust pair of lungs. 'You can't take a joke, so we're not going to joke this time. Birmingham is going to wallop Atlanta In attendance, and the Barons are going to make the Crackers look just exactly the size of those little doll ball players down there on that diamond. And when you come down to Birming ham to the next annual meeting I'm going to laugh at you good and plenty." • • • CO there was the defiance, and it ^ was up to Mr Callaway to take it up. which he did promptly. "And when you come apologizing back to Atlanta to the next annual meeting." he finished, "I’ll have an other joke to tell you that'll top any thing you’ve heard yet. And it will be on Birmingham.” T HUS did crool war break out once more, and the campaign so gee- loriously wound up by the Crackers <«t September will have to start il! over again on April 15, 19L4. Boxing Commission Hands McFarland One Year Suspension MILWAUKEE, WIS.. Dec 17.— Packev McFarland was last night sus pended by the Wisconsin boxing com mission for one year for failure to give a "satisfactory performance" in the hour with Jack Britton in Milwaukee on December 6. Packey McFarland, when notified of his suspension, said he was little con cerned over the action of the Wiscon sin boxing commission in barring him from boxing in the State for a year. "Their ruling has no influence in other States.” he said, "and I don’t care if I never fight in Wisconsin again. If 1 failed to comply with the law, the commission was wrong in letling me box .lack Britton. They are the ones w r ho should be disciplined.” McGowan to Captain South Carolina Team COLUMBIA. S. 0 . Dec. 17.-W. B McGowan, tackle and quarterback, was last night elected captain of the Uni versity of South Carolina football team for the season of 1914 McGowan is from Laurens. S. C.. and has played three vears on the varsity eleven. CORDIER WINS TITLE. NEW YORK, Dec. 17 —A J. Cordier, former Yale captain, is the new na tional champion at squash tennis. The final match of the tournament played yesterday resolved itself into a Yale- Harvard' battle, Cordier’s opponent be ing Evelyn Dupont Irving, a Crimson player. Cordier won with a total tally of 55 aces to 37. By Willie Ritchie. S AN FRANCISCO, CAL.. Dec. 17.— The fans of San Francisco did not seem to think much of me after the Baldwin fight. Many of them accused me of having cold fe^t, and they went around town saying that I never could make good as u twenty-rounder. I don't, blame them now, for I realize that I s.iould have done better against the Boston boy. In fact, I really should have knocked him out. But my friends down Coalinga way still were boosters for me. Right aft er the Baldwin scrap they wired me to come bock to the oil fields and take a chance against Tommy Mc Farland in a twenty-round mix-up. McFarland was going good then. He had returned from the East a few months before with the honor of stay ing ten rounds with Champion Wol- gast. The Coalinga promoters made me a pretty good offer, and I decided to take it. I felt that I must show Something in the way of a knock out punch if I hoped to stay with the fighting game. I realized that Tom my was a tough nut. but 1 was in good shape after my battle with the Bostonian, and I figured that I had a chance to do something with my hay maker. I was the 'flavor!te with the fans down in Coalinga because they knew me. But many of the sports in San Francisco made McFarland a favor ite over me. I heard this later on. However, I was desperate. I made up my mind to take a chance for a knock-out, and I never worked s«* hard- in all my life as I did for that battle, because so much depended upon it. Knocks Tom McFarland Out. I stepped into that ring feeling like a 2-year-old. So did McFarland. In fact, we both looked good. He start ed right after me and rushed me hard. He landed a few stiff ones on my stomach in the opening round, and I will admit that he shook me up. As ail the local fans know. Tommy is a fine inflghter, and it is hard to get at him. It was nip and tuck in the sec ond, and again in the third He was strong and aggressive, and I had to keep stepping pretty lively, and he made me use everything in order to keep out of his way. The short-end bettors were boosting him along, and at the end of the second round be was holding me even, all right, and he may have had a lead. The third round found me slugging wfith him and taking all sorts of chances. We just stood to© to toe, and went at it. 1 had a shade because I guess that my condition had some thing to do with it. The finish name in the fourth. It was then that I decided to take a chance and end it, if possible. I feint ed Tommy with a couple of lefts and waited for a chance with my right. He finally left an opening, and I shot over adross to f he Jaw. That settled it. Tommy took the count. Naturally, I felt great after that battle. T showed a knock-out wal lop, and I was eager to get back to San Francisco, sign up for some moy fights, so that I might convince all the fans that I was able to punch hard. Johnny McCarthy a Jinx. I hurried right back home when 1 learned that I had a chance to get on w’ith Johnny McCarthy. After knocking McFarland out, I was boost ed around San Francisco again, and I began to feel pretty proud of m self. The first thing I did when I gat back to town was to sign with Mr Carthy for a. ten-round mill over in Oakland. I wa® full of confidence and I intended to go right in and try for a knock-out. I realized .that I would have to square myself with my old friends, and I was ambitious to mike good. But no such luck. I fought a mis erable fight against McCarthy. I could not box, nor punch, nor d > anything else. He hald me t<* a ten round draw, and I all but cried in my dressing room after It was over I realize now that Johnny must have been my Jinx. Try as I could. I never seemed to get right for him He must have had something on me, or else I must have been made to or der for him. Anyhow, I was not In a position to display a punch or to box him, and once more the knocker? started after me. I did not blame them this ^lme, either, for I should have done better. Jerry Murphy was fighting good then. He looked like one of the bes of the four-round boys. I begged for ;i chance against him, and they gave it to me. Although this was only a couple of weeks after I had made such a bad fight with McCarthy, I tore right afteT Murphy and won the decision easily. I had everything that •night, and I set myself right with the fans again. Britton an Easy Mark. Next came Jack Britton. He had just arrived, bringing with him that ?reat Eastern reputation. True, he had not done very well among the four-rounders, but the fans were claiming that he had not got used to our climate. All he wanted was * crack at me. He promised to wipe up the ring with me and send me back to work in Jlgtime. And I gave him the chance. We drew a big house, and, if I re member righ.t,- Britton was a strong favorite over me. But that was all I had his number in the first round, and I really believe that if I had cut loose in the third I would have laid Jack out and practically ended his ring career. If ever I had a mar where T wanted him, it was Britton Maybe he will admit it and mayb© h© will not. He outweighed me and he »acsu> posed to have science enough to make me look like a busbar. But I just stood up and took a chance. In the last two rounds I measured him right. They celled for me to go ’n and take a chance, but I preferred to play the game safe. T remember that I had him staggering around the ring in the last round, for he was helpless. This w’as a great boost for me. and T realized it. In fact, it started m* on a new career. I mad© up my mind then and there to keep on taking chances and quit playing © safe gam* I began to believe that I had a knock out w’allop, and I came to the conclu sion that the sooner I tried 1t out tti* faster I would go to the front If they gave me a chance AUGUSTA FIVE IS STRONG. The Augusta Young Men’s Christian Association basket ball team, scheduled to play the Atlanta Athletic Club Sat- urdav night, is expected to furnish the locals a mighty stiff fight. Augusta al- wavs has a splendid quintet and reports from that city indicate that this year s team is stronger than usual. • RUSSELL STILL SLIPPING. Lefty Rwssell, for whom Connie Mack paid $12,500 and who pitched a few games for the Atlanta ball club, is un able to stav in high class baseball. He has been sold by the Baltimore club to the New York State League Mickey Corcoran also goes to the New York State League. 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