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TTTE ATLANTA GEOBOTAN AND NEWS. The Busher Who Is a Good Listener Always Has a Chance to Become a Good Hitter u) by I« GETS GXING LESSON FROM PICKET And Then Willie Hops Train for Los Angeles to Substitute for Champion Wolgast. 77iin is the eighth of the series of /hr life and battles of Lightweight champion Willie Ritchie, icritten ex clusively for The Georgian. By Willie Ritchie. S AX FRANCISCO, Dec. 18.— Packey McFarland landed in San Francisco right after I beat Jack Britton. He had heard something about me, and he sent for me to act as his sparring partner. He heard that I had been coming to the front, and I guess that he figured I would be a good boy to help him out in his training camp, for all fighters know that good sparring partners are generally scarce. I was just tickled to death to get this chance to go on with Packey, who, by the way, was then getting ready for Tommy Murphy. He was quartered down at Millett’s, and I re member the first day that I showed up there I put on the gloves with him ;<nd we stepped four speedy rounds. f will take my hat off to McFarland for being a wonderful boxer, and I sure did learn many a trick from him. He was nice to me and he would take me to one side and tell me a few things. But 1 knew that he never figured then that I would be the lightweight champion of the world some day. Two years make a lot of difference, especially in the fighting game. We used to put up some good fights, Packey and I. He would cut loose on me and I would tear.at him. I don’t know just how much he weighed Then, but I am sure that he had a few pounds on me. and l scaled around the 136-pound mark, for I had no match in sight and I was not try ing to reduce. T wanted to have something to work on all the time. Takes McFarland’s Wallops. I soon discovered that McFarland was a wonderful boxer and ring gen eral, but his punches did not carry ny sting to them. Now, I don’t want to intimate that Packey is not a hard puncher, because he might have been holding hack all the time. However, he never shook me up at all. and I got so that I was able to stand right P and slug with him without being set back. 1 never will forget that Wednesday ifternoon. the day before Thanks giving two years ago. Packey had finished up his work for Murphy on the following day. and there was nothing to do. The papers came out with an extra, announcing that Ad Wolgast was 111 with appendicitis and that he would not be able to fight Freddie Welsh in Los Angeles on the following day. I scratched my head for a moment, ooked at the paper again, and then began to do some very tall thinking. Then T declared myself. “I'm going down to Los Angeles and take a chance at getting on with Welsh,” I said to my brother and Packey. “They can’t stop me for trying, anyhow'.” “I th.ink you’re foolish. Willie.” cut in Packey. “They will only laugh at ou. They want a fighter with a rep- ! iation against Welsh, and. besides. ' -u have not got any time to get rofiy Take my advice and stay right here.” Bur 1 made up my mind to go after Britisher at any cost. The first ' ling I did was to shoot a wire to BRINGING UP FATHER By GEORGE M’MANUS AH' i TELL Y£ - I M c OMmemcin<, poute and - j ■y oh pardoh sir But could you tell me TejE vat t 0 the p er , siDENT of France's house 1 r~ VHT EFJ TO TELL TOu TH£r froth I DONT Know k AH’ TOU ARE FROM ZE AMERICA ' AM £e >YIN< OF spain'*} *XlVTER TOO ARE *bO IXIMD i WOULD LUXE IF TOO Ever COME 1 O iTAMN to MEET MT BROTHER • WHAT ME MEET The kim<. lady . YOUR VERT NINO q i, r WHX HuOIAT you look HAPP^ WHAT HAB HAPPENED' WELL I'VE El*ED >T TOU WILL <IT IE* WITH ROTAL T y - | ■ het the , OF l ^>PA\M'”b SISTER , AND \ A MR. - WHPRE’b yoUR WATCH and Chain? POLLY AND HER PALS Just One Quarantine After Another THE CpUARAWTlWE-'LLj gE. UP Tomorrow j PA. A SSUR'S LThiCKEM POK REvX/ ~THE Coop! | — —r o mm OH DtAR.' 1 Ciol EM AOlhi I OoT 'EM ( m Ji (Ool J \ji/fL4T If Ma\m% Viol’S DtUClA GoT. Voi iV i) \ Dhe Hump^ .' 4k A, L home Porl Child ! i yHEVfeC To'RFIKLL CoifTA&iOUS I BONDER WHERE Che kElEHED ' T EM ‘ ■K* 0 .x.y "V v - Pv mm CtlfE. SrtBBFfT- Tom McCs *yey. I waited f<i-r an an- su er. but got none: but still I was not ready to quit. Meets Kyne in Los Angeles. I grabbed a suitcase, threw a few things into it, bought two tickets— ">’ p for my brother and one for my- s *df—and by/ 5 o’clock that evening lvp were on the Lark bound for Los 'neeles. *The next afternoon I was :n Vernon ring, giving Welsh the fight f his lifetime: but there are a few things that I would like to say before I come to the actual battle. ■By brother and myself landed in Los Angeles strangers. We looked * 'round the station for a minute, and, our delight we'spotted Billy Kyne. 'be San Francisco promoter, who gave me several four-round matches. ^Vell. it sure looked good to find tip friend in a strange land. Kyne took hold of us right away and rushed ls up to McCarey’s office, but he was i nit. 'Ve stalled around for a while, look- fig for McCarey, but we could not , s< ‘ ! a line on him. Everybody was •Iking about Wolgast and his ill - n(,is . and they seemed to take it for granted that McCarey would not won put on a substitute. But we hcard that he was going through with liH preliminary bouts, so we decided 0 t: 'ke a run out to the Vernon arena. Byne introduced me to McCarey. dh! we sat in one of the back seats fa ir the bleachers and began to talk business, l told McCarey right off »eel that I wanted $1,000. I also him that I had a chance to win j ir, ‘ become a big card, and I prom- ^'1 him that 1 would reward him in !lf ' future if he put me on. for I felt iu,f ‘ that I would make a great show- 5 ng. it McCarey would not listen to r all. He was nearly staggered u ■ n I asked for $1,000. 1 don’t know jjj s: "hat he offered me, but I know . it was not much more than I in the habit of getting in the "ur-round game. XMAS RATES Beduced over N., C. & St. L &y. and W. & A. R. S. Apply any Agent. Mrs. King in Cue Match To-night: Fair Fans Invited Mrs. Bertha May 'King, woman champion pocket billiard player of the world, and her Ausband. William Watson King, will give an exhibition at the Atlanta Club to-night. They have been with us for ten days, giv ing exhibitions at the various clubs in the city. The management of the Atlanta Club invites the fair fans to witness the match to-night, as Mrs. King is anxious to show that women can play the game. To-morrotv night Mr. and Mrs. King will play at the M. & M. Club. The cue experts w'ill also give an ex hibition yf fancy shots. Jordan Will Manage Dallas Next Season Otto Jordan, former captain of the Crackers and more recently manager of the Valdosta team, of the Empire State League, has signed to manage the Pal las team, in the Texas League, during the coming campaign. Jordan and the Dallas club owners came to terms Monday afternoon. 1‘rlnce Otto savs that the prospects at Dallas for the coming season are pretty good. He has been left a pretty fair r’ucHus to work with and has start ed to work to fill in the gaps left by sales and drafts. 0’Hear Elected to Captain Cornell ITHACA N. F., Dec. 18.—Rumors that John E. O'Hear, Cornell’s star right end, who sustained an eye in jury in the Harvard game and was 'prevented from playing the rest of the season, would have to give up football forever were dispelled las’- night when he was chosen captain of the 1914 Cornell football team. Kling Increases Cue Lead Over Weston KANSAS CITY. Dec. 18.—Unless ■•Cowboy" Weston shows better form In his two remaining blocks with John Kling the former (■■ru-mnati cat.-her will win the 609-point billiard match by more than 150 points. In the second game of the match, last n’ght. Kling de bated Weston 150 86 same score as the first block, whl'-h Kling won. The count for the two r-ghts play Is Kling 300. Weston IS" High runs were W es- ion 27, Kilng 26. Garry Called Bluff and Lost V • *!* *!•#•$• v ® *1* *1* t v -r • *1* v • *1* He Should Make Good—Crane By Sain Crane. N EW 'YORK. Dec. 18.—Clncin- nati has become the baseball focus of interest since the Na tional League held Its recent historic meeting in this city last week. There, as here. Garry Herrmann is in the center of the whirlwind of dis turbance. and, apparently—by all re ports sent out from roaring Redland —is an object of bitter recrimination, being buffeted around like a cork in an angry sea. But -'and with a great big B—while Garry likes to hear the pop-pop-pop- ing of the corks, he is not one him self. He will not he cast around loose and bob up and down with every lit tle breeze of disapproval that causes a ripple. It will be a wave, and a tidal one, too, that will cause Garry to al low any trade he has made go by the board. As he said when he affixed his sig nature to the now-famous agreement that disposed of Joe Tinker from the Reds to the Superbas: “My colleagues in the Cincinnati club may find fault with me for ac cepting cash for Tinker instead of players; still, if they do, I have signed the document and will carry it through. I bflieve I have made the best deal for the Cincinnati club that could possibly be made under the cir cumstances and conditions.” Herrmann’s Eyes Were Open. That statement shows that Presi dent Herrmann’s eyes were w ide open to the situation, and to my mind (and I was a witness of the entire transac tion) it appeared as if Herrma/nn was a most wbling participant in the suc cessful efforts to get Charley Ebbets to show his hand and to come out in public and state whether his offer of $26,000 was bona fide or a bluff. Ip fact, it looked to me as if Garry- worked his point deliberately to get Ebbets' “goat” and force the latter to make good the proposed deal. Surely Ebbets was flustered at the time, o rappeared so, anyhow, and when Garry got Ebbets to that stage where he must makf* good or be called a bluffer, the Reds' president sprung the remark: “Well, show me the color of your money.” Ebbets Had the Cash. Ebbets arose and said: “All right; 1*1] show it all right, but let us go up to a room and do our business in pri vate. Barney Drey’fuss will go up with us.” Herrmann, however, insisted on completing the deal then and there “in the open,” and Ebbets then sat down and the agreement was signed, with Drey fuss as witness. And by Dreyfuss putting his name down as a witness the stamp of ap proval of the deal being made on the lease, and with due appreciation of its momentous importance by the parties most interested, appears to be a decisive and convincing argu ment that it should stand. And to come right down to plain facts, where has the Cincinnati club got any the worst of the deal? Tin ker has without doubt lost his useful ness in Cincinnati as manager, as all managers do in that city if they do not win a pennant, and his worth as a player with the Reds was dimmed if not entirely extinguished, for the simple reason that he could not. or probably would not. have shown his ability by having to play second fid dle. Tinker Gave Full Value. Cincinnati, therefore, was virtually forced to get rid of the encumbrance, and if anyone but a Cincinnati fan does not think Herrmann got more than full value for Joe Tinker for $15,000 net, then there are no such things as baseball “bugs." Garry Herrmann <hould be sup ported in the deal he made. Yes, and complimented by the directors of tiie Cincinnati club instead of raising ob jections to the transaction. And be lieve me, I think that will be the eventual outcome after the smoke has cleared away. League Won’t Let C. Frank Go -J-tv +*v $18,000 Purdue’s Football Receipts LAFAYETTE, INli., Dec. 18.—The receipts from football games played by the team of Purdue 1’niversity during the season Just closed amount ed to $18,000. This is the largest amount cleared in the history of the university. Beecher Proves Easy For Jimmy Duffy BUFFALO, N. Y.. Dec. 18.—Jimmy Duffy, champion of tin- Fast, made a chopping block of Willie Beecher, of New York, here last night. Duffy made a great finish in ihe last three rounds and Beecher was all hut out at the fin ish. 10 BE CRACKER Former Texas Leaguer Writes That He Has Had Fine Hunting Luck. Why a New Office Was Created rj-fins / rich IIIS is the fifth letter of a sc- ics from the, members of the, champions of the Southern League—the, Crackers. It is from Frank lfrowning, the right-handed boxman that Billy Smith drafted from the San Antonio club of the Texas League. San Antonio, Texas, Dec. ,1, 1913. W. S. Farnsworth, Sporting Editor, The Georgian: Dear Sir—Received your letter a few r days ago in regard to the way I was spending the winter. I was off on a hunting trip when the let ter reached here, and only got it last week. So this is the first op portunity I have had to answer In reply will say that I have done nothing, so far. but hunt and fish since the close of the seasoh. Took a fishing trip in September up to the headwaters of the Guadalupe River .n the mountains. Remained there until a few' days before the hunting season opened, then re turned to San Antonio. Left town had pretty good luck on both trips, and just got back last week. We had pretty good luck of both trips. The small game in this section this year is plentiful. No trouble to kill your limit any day of quail or doves. The deer, though, are some what scarcer. There are so many hunters that the deer are so wild* you can hardly get a decent shot at one. We killed three, or rather our guide did. and considered our selves very lucky. I will certainly be giad when the spring practice comes. Everyone speaks well of Atlanta, and I am glad of the chance to play there. I hope that I can make good and help them win another pennant. Yours very truly, FRAXK BROWNING. By O. B. Keeler. I NHERE is a good deal of specu lation these days, especially since the annual meeting of the Southern League in Atlanta, as to where C. Frank is “at.” This js not by way of explanation concerning Mr. Frank’s relations with the New Orleans club. Frankly, wo don’t know' anything about that, ex cept what everybody else knows or seems to know*. Also w r e don’t know very much about the relations of Mr. Frank and President Somers, of the Cleveland club. But we do know something about C. Frank and his standing in the South ern League. That was made mighty plain at the last annual meeting. • IT was along toward the shank of A the meeting last Monday at the Hotel Ansley. The election of officers was going on. and Judge Kavanaugh had Just been made president, secre tary and treasurer, with the sincere compliments and evident esteem of the moguls. Captain Crawford had just been re elected vice president, with another handsome tribute to his services. Then Major Callaway, president of the Atlanta club, got up and an nounced that he would like to see a new office created. • * * ‘<1 AM in favor of creating an office,” * Mr. Callaway said, “the office of second vice president. I am in favor of creating that office so that Charley Frank can be elected to it.” Then Mr. Callaway explained fur ther. "Mr. President and gentlemen,” he said, "wo need Charley Frank in this league We know he's well fixed, so far as his own situation goes. He doesn’t need any help. But the league needs Charley Frank. We need him in these meetings. We need his wise head and his long experience and his good advice in our councils. We are not forgetting that lie is one of the founders of the Southern League, and that his stalwart service has earned him a place with Judge Kavanaugh here in the honor of upholding our league before the w'hole country as an example of honest and clean sports manship and successful baseball. “Gentlemen, 1 say we need Charley Frank, and I offer this plan to hold him in the Southern League. I nomi nate him for the office of second vice president.” * » * T HE rest of it was easy The crea tion of the office and the nomina tion of Charley Frank was used as g pretext to hang some extremely com plimentary speeches on—Mr. Frank not being present, by the way—and the election was unanimous to the ac clamation stage. * • • C j that is where C. Frank stands to- ^ day, w ith reference to the South ern League. The league needs < ’liVirley Frank, and it will not give him up. Baseball Tourists to Be Welcomed Back by Johnson and Party CHICAGO, Dec. 18.—President Ban B Johnson, of the American League, and a party of Chicago baseball enthusiasts, will travel to New York on a special train next March to welcome back to this country the world-touring Chicago White Sox and New York Gtants, ac cording to plans announced to-day. The party will l#»ave here March 5. arriving in New York next day in time to meet the tourists upon their arrival That night, on the eve of the Amer ican League meeting, the players will be tendered a banquet. WAGNER LACES DUFFY. DETROIT. Glee. 18. Leaving the ring without a mark to show that he had been in a battle. Billy Wagner, of Chi cagG and brother to Charlie White, gave Freddie Duffy, of Boston, an awful lac ing here last night. Duffy received heavy punishment throughout, but man aged to last the eight rounds. I Opium Whlakay ltd Drue Habits 1st Homs or »t Sanitarium. Rook os lublfo* iFt em. DK B M. WOOLLEY.Vtatt* • Ssauurisss. 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