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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 - Just One Quarantine After Another 1 -X ^ . 1 ' J UP To Moscow PA /ICHORS CbkTE&m has TLtvx/ “The Coop* T~ 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 +•+ 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. w SL 1 Opium Whisker ■“<* Drue Heblta heated Bet Home or at S*n!t«rl«in. Booh | FY*e. DR. B. M. WOOLLEY. M*H. View lA lanltarisa. Atlawte. Georal* ; . . 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