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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
The Bustier Who ]
[s a Good ]
Listener Always Has a Chance to Become a Good
l Hitter
UK GETS
FROM PflCKElf
And Then Willie Hops Train for
‘ Los Angeles to Substitute for
Champion Wolgast.
Thin if the eighth, of the serief of
ih. hfe flint battle! of Lightweight
nmmgion Willie Ritchie, written er-
11a a ely for The Georgian.
By Willie Ritchie.
S AX FRANCISCO, Dec. 18.—
Packey McFarland landed fn
San Francisco right after I
iif/n .Jack Britton. He had heard
something about me, and he sent for
me to act as his sparring partner. He
card that I had been coming to the
fr it, and I guess that he figured I
would he a good boy to help him out
:a is training camp, for all fighters
know that good spamng partners are
generally scarce.
I was just tickled to deatli 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
and we stepped four speedy rounds.
, I 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 feu things. But T knew’ that he
never figured then that I would be the
ghtweight champion of the world
some dav. Two years make a lot of
lifference, 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. f don’t
know just how much He weighed
then, but I am sure that he had a
few pounds on me. and 1 scaled
around the 136-pound mark, for I had
no match in sight and I was not try
ing to reduce. I wanted to have
something to work on all the time.
Takes McFarland’s Wallops.
I soon discovered that McFarland
vas a wonderful boxer and ring gen
eral, but his punches did not carry
any sting to them. Now, I don’t w r ant
to intimate that Packey is not a hard
puncher, because he might have been
holding back all the time. However,
he never shook me up at all, and I
got so that I was able to stand right
up and slug With him without being
set ba6k.
I never will forget that Wednesday
afternoon, 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 \«1
Wolgast was ill 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,
looked at the paper again, and then
began to do pome very tall thinking.
Then I declared myself.
Tm going down to Los Angeles
and take - a chance at getting on with 1
Welsh,” I said to mv brother and
Packey. "They can’t stop me for
trying, anyhow.”
1 think you’re foolish. Willie,” cut
n Packey. "They will only laugh at
you. They want, a fighter with a rep
utation against Welsh, and, besides,
you have not got any time to get
ready. Take m\* advice and stay
right heye.”
But I made up my mind to gd'after
'he Britisher at any cost. The first
’hing I did was to shoot a wire to
Tom McCarey. T waited for an an-
*wer, hut got none; but still I was
not ready to quit.
Meets Kyne in Los Ahgeles.
I grabbed a suitcase, threw’ a few
things into it, bought two tickets—
nnc for mv brother and one for my-
*eir—and by 5 o’clock that evening
w ’e were on the Lark bound for Los
Arefips. The next afternoon I Was
In Vernon ring, giving Welsh the fight
n f his lifetime: but there are a few
things that T would like to say before
i ome to th Q actual battle.
My brother and myself landed In
Lis Angeles strangers. We looked
tround the station for a minute, and,
our delight w r e spotted Billy Kyne,
the San Francisco promoter, who gave
np several four-round matches.
Well. It sure looked good to find
M1P friend in a strange, land. Kyne
took hold of us right away and rushed
ll? up to McCarev’s office, but he was
5Ut.
We stalled around for a while. look-
ng for McCarey, but tye could not
ine on him. Everybody Was
diking about Wolgast and his ill -
and they seemed to take it for
banted that McCarey would not
* Vf, n put a substitute. But we
:1P ard that he was going through with
h ' s "rellminary bouts, so w’e decided
n take a run out to the Vernon arena.
Kyne introduced me to McCarey,
!,, <1 we sat in one of the back seats
r "’ 1 f the bleachers and began to talk
hiis: ness. I told McCarey right off
"<■ >pp| that I w’anted $1,000. I also
,v him that I had a chance to win
v ' ! become a big card, and T prom-
him that I would reward him in
” future if he put me on, for I felt
?ur " t j iat i w0U ] d ma ke a great show-
'ng
But McCarey would not listen to
m t all. He was nearly staggered
' n I asked for $1,000. I don’t know
what he offered me, but I know
it was not much more than I
, ’ in the habit of getting in the
' ;r -round game.
POLLY AND H
ER PALS
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Just One Quarantine After Another
1 -X ^ . 1 ' J
UP To Moscow
PA /ICHORS
CbkTE&m has
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Mrs. King in Cue
Match To-night;
Fair Fans Invited
XMAS RATES
-duced over N., C. & St.
Ry. and W. & A. R. R.
^Ply any Agent.
Mrs. Bertha May King, woman
champion pocket billiard player of the
world, and her husband, 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-morrow night Mr. and Mrs.
King will play at the M. & M. Club.
The cue Experts will also give an ex
hibition of 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 I »a 1
las team, in tlie Texas League, during
the coming danopaign.
Jordan and the Fallas club owners
came to terms Monday afternoon.
Prince Otto says that the prospects
at Dallas for the coming season are
pretty good. He has been left a pretty
fair nucleus to work with and has start
ed to work to fill In the gaps left by
sales and drafts.
O’Hearn Elected to
Captain Cornell
ITHACA, N. y., Dec. 18.—Rumors
that. John E. O'Hearn, Cornell's star
right enJ, who sustained an eye in
jury' 'n the Harvard game and was
presented front playing the rest of
the season, would have to give up
football forever were dispelled las"
night when he was chosen captain of
the 1014 Cornell football team.
Kling Increases Cue
Lead Over Weston
KANSAS CITY, Dee. 18.—Unless
“Cowboy'' Weston shows better form
in his two remaining blocks with John
Kling the former Cincinnati catcher
will win the 600-point billiard match by
more than 150 points. In the second
game of the match, last night. Kling de
feated Weston 150 to 86. same score
as the first block, which Kling won. The
count for the two nights' play is Kling
300, Weston' 183 High runs were Wes- |
ton' 27. Kling 26.
Garry Called Bluff and Lost
-I* • -I* v • v • *r •*!* *!* • d*
He Should Make Good—Crane
By Sum Crane.
N EW YORK. Dec. 18.—Cincin
nati has become the buseball
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 reerlmlhatlon,
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
ping of the eorks, he is not one him
self. He will not be 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 to 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. T b« lieve I have made the
bes; d*-ai for’the Cincinnati c lub 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 wide open
to the situation, and to my mind (and
T was a witness of the entire transac
tion) it appeared as if Herrmann was
a most willing participant in the suc
cessful efforts to get Charge Ebbets
to show bis hand and to come out in
public and state whether his offer of
$25,000 was bona fide or a bluff.
In fac t, 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, or appeared so. anyhow, and
w her Garry got Ebbets to that stage
where he must make good or be
called a bluffer, the Reds’ president
sprung the remark: "Well, show me
the color of vour money."
Ebbets Had the Cash.
Ebbets arose and said: "All right;
I'll show it all right, but let us go up
to a room and do our business in pri
vate. Barney Dreyfus* 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 Dreyfuss 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 bv having to play second fid
dle. i *
\ 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 should 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.
Won’t Let C. Frank MftSISEt,
Johnson and Party
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a NeW Office Was Created
$18,000 Purdue's
Football Receipts
LAFAYETTE, IND., Dec. 18. The
receipts from football games played
by the team of Purdue f'niverslty
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
BI’FFALO. N. Y.. Dec. IS.—Jimmy
Duffy, champion of the East, made a
chopping block of Willie Beecher, of
New York, here la*t night. Duffy made
a great finish lr the last three rounds
and Beecher was all hut out at the fin
ish.
Former Texas Leaguer Writes
That He Has Had Fine
Hunting Luck.
r ll/8 is the fifth tetter of a ae
ries from the members of the
eh (impious of the Southern
League—the Craclceis. It is from
Frank Browning, the right-handed
box man that Hillg Smith drafted
from the San Antonio elub of the
Texas League.
San Antonio, Texas, Dec. ,1, 1013.
W. S. Farnsworth,
Sporting Editor,
The Georgian:
Dear Sir—Received your letter a
few days ago in regard to the way
I was spending the winter. 1 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 season. 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. We had
pretty good luck on 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-
wh^it 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 glad when the
spring practice comes. Everyone
speaks well of Atlanta, and I am
glad <>t the chance to play there. I
hope that I can make good .and help
them win another pennant.
Yours very truly,
FRANK BROWNING.
By O. B. Keeler.
rip HERE Is a good deni of specu-
j latlon these days, especially
since the annua] meeting of the
Southern J <*«gue 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, we
‘that his stalwart service has earned
him a place with Judge Kavanaugh
here in the honor of upholding our
league before the whole country as an
example of honest and clean sports
manship and successful baseball.
"Gentlemen, 1 say we need Charley
Frank, and T offer this plan to hold
him in the Southern League. I noml-
don’t know anything about that,’ ax- nute him for the office of second vice
cept what everybody else knows or
seems to know. Also we don’t know-
very much about the relations of $fr.
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.
* * *
T T was along tow ard the shank of
* the meeting last Monday at the
Hotel Anslev. The election of officers
was going on, and Judge Kavanaugh
had just been made president, secre
tary ami 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.
♦ * *
AM in favor of creating an office," I
* Mr. Callaway said, "the office of
second ▼ice president. I am In favor
of creating that office so that Charley
Frank can be elec ted to it.”
Then Mr. Callaway explained fur
ther.
"Mr. President and gentlemen,” he
said, “we 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 he is one of the
founders of the Southern League, and
president.”
* • *
THE rest of it was easy. The crea-
* tlon of the office and the nomina
tion of Charley Frank was used as *
pretext to hang some extremely com
plimentary speeches on—Mr. Frank
not being present, by the way—and
(he election was unanimous to the ac
clamation stage
• • •
C > that is where C. Frank stands to-
day, with reference to the South
ern League.
The league needs Charley Frank,
and it will not give him up.
WAGNER LACES DUFFY.
DETROIT. Dec. 18, Leaving the ring
without a mark to show (hat he had
been In. a battle, Billv Wagner, of Ohl-
cago. and brother to Charlie White, gave
r reddle Duffy, of Boston an awful lac
ing here last night. DufPy received
heavy punishment throughout, but man
aged to last the eight rounds.
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 Giants, ac
cording to plans announced to-day
The party will leave here March 5.
arriving In New York next day In tlmo
ro meet the tourists upon their arrival
That night, on the eve of the Amer
lean League meeting, the players will
be tendered*a banquet.
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