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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
The Busher Who Is a Good Listener Always Has a Chance to Become a Good Hitter
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By GEORGE M’MANUS
FHDWI PflCKEV
And Then Willie Hops Train for
Los Angeles to Substitute for
Champion Wolgast.
This is the eighth of the series of
the life and hattles of Lightweight
i hnmpion Willie Ritchie, written ex-
etvsirely 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 be^n coming to the
front, and I guess that he figured I
would be a good boy to hel£ him out
in 1:is 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 T 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 few things. But I knew that he
novor figured then that I would be the
' ghtweight 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 I scaled
sround 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
was a wonderful boxer and ring gen
eral, but his punches did not carry
any sting to them. Now. I don’t want
to intimate that Packey is not a hard
puncher, because he might have been
holding back all the time. However,
he never shobk me up at all, and I
got so that I was able to stand right
up and slug with him without being
set back.
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 Ad
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 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 fo my brother and
Packey. “They can’t stop me for
trying, anyhow.”
“I think you’re foolish. Willie,” cut
in 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 my advice and stay
right here.”
Bi. T made up my mind to go after
the Britisher at any cost. The first
thing I did was to shoot a wire to
Tom McCarey. T waited for an an
swer. 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—
or>p for mv brother and one for my
self—and bv 5 o’clock that evening
we were on the Lark bound for Los
Angeles. Thp next afternoon I was
in Vernon ring, giving Welsh the fight
of his lifetime; but there are a few
things that I would like to say before
l come to the actual battle.
My brother and myself landed in
Los Angeles strangers. We looked
around the station for a minute, and,
'o our delight we spotted Billy Kyne,
the Sap Francisco promoter, who gave
me several four-round matches.
Well, it sure looked good to find
one friend In a strange land. Kyne
took hold of us right away and rushed
llc up to McCarey’s office, but he was
out.
We stalled around for a while, look-
r ‘? for McCarey, but we could not
a line on him. Everybody was
diking about Wolgast and his ill -
nps \ and they seemed to take It for
granted that McCarey would not
“ven put on a substitute. But we
•Ofard that he was going through with
his preliminary bouts, so w'e decided
o take a run out to the Vernon arena.
Kyne introduced me to McCarey.
a nd we sat in one of the back seats
r the bleachers and began to talk
business. I told McCarey right off
the ieel that I wanted $ 1,000. I also
told him that I had a chance to win
3 -•! become a big card, and I prom-
is,,f l him that I would reward him in
the future if he put me on, for I felt
1 T“ that I would maRe a great show
ing.
1 t McCarey_would *not listen to
rr *' it all. He was nearly staggered
v 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
'“-round game.
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Mrs. King in Cue
Match To-night;
Fair Fans Invited
Mrs. Bertha May King, woman
champion pocket billiard player of the
world, and her Jiusband, 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.
Garry Called Bluff and Lost
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He Should Make Good—Crane
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 Fal
las team, in the Texas League, during
the coming campaign.
Jordan and the 1 >allas 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, X. Y., Dec. 18.—Rumors
that John E. O’Hearn, Cornell's star
right enJ, who sustained an eve 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 last-
night when he was ehosen captain of
the 1914 Cornell football team.
Kling Increases Cue
Lead Over Weston
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 18.—Unless
"Cowboy” Weston shows better form
jn his two remaining blocks with John
Kling the former Cincinnati catcher
will win the 600-point billiard match by
more than ISO points. In the second
game of the mutch. Inst night. K.ing tie-
feated Weston ISO to 86. same score
as the fir-t b'oek. which Kling won. The
count h r th* two nights' play is Kiing
300. Weston 183. High runs were Wes
ton 27. Kling 26.
Bv Sam Crane.
N EW 'YORK, Dec. 18.—Cincin-
natl has become the baseball
focus of interest since the Na
tional League held its recent historic
i 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
ping of the corks, 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 he 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. I believe 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 wide open
to the situation, and to my mind (and
I 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 Charley Ebbets
to show his hand and to come out in
public and state whether his offer of
$25,000 was bona fide or a bluff.
In 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, or appeared so, anyhow, and
when Garry got Ebbets to {hat stage
where he must make 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; j
I’ll show it all right, but let us go up |
to a room and do our business in pri- j
vate. Barney Dreyfuss will go up I
with us.”
Herrmann, however, insisted on I
completing the deal then and there I
“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 Re r, s 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 should be sup
ported in the deal he made. Yes, and
complimented by the directors of the
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
Why 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 Cniversity
during the season just closed amount
ed to $18,000. This is the largest
amount cleared in tLe history of the
university.
Beecher Proves Easy
For Jimmy Duffy
BUFFALO, N. Y.. Dee. 18. -.Jimmy
Duffy, champion »>f the Kant, made a
chopping block of Willie Beecher, of
New York, here last night. Duffy made
a g'-eat finish In tin last three rounds
and Beecher was all but out at the fin
ish.
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Former Texas Leaguer Writes
That He Has Had Fine
Hunting Luck.
rry/118 is the fifth letter of a *e-
/ ries from the members of the
champions of the Southern
League—the Crackers. It is fr<rm
Frank Browning, the right-handed
boxman that BWg Smith drafted
from the San Antonio club of the
Texas League.
San Antonio, Texas, Dec. ,1, 1913.
W. S. Fartisworth,
Sporting Editor,
The Georgian:
Dear Sir—Received your letter a
few days ago in regard to the way
I was spending the winter. I was
off on a hunting trip when the let
ter reached hare, 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 in 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
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 glad when the
spring practice comes. Everyone
speaks well of Atlanta, and I am
glad of the chance to play there. I
hope that 1 can make good and help
them win another pennant.
Yours very truly,
FRANK BROWNING.
By 0. B. Keeler.
T HERE 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 is not by way of explanation
concerning Mr. Frank's relations with
the New Orleans club. Frankly, we
don’t know anything about that, ex
cept what everybody else knows or
seems to know. Also we 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.
• * *
TT was along toward the shank of
* 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.
* * •
AM in favor of creating an office,”
A Mr. Callaway said, “the office of
second vice president. I am in favor I
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, “we/meed 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 FYank. We need him
in these meetings. We need his wise I
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
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, I say we need Charley
Frank, and 1 offer this plan to hold
him in the Southern League. I nomi
nate him for the office of second vice
president.”
* * *
r T’liE rest of it v.as easy. The crea-
* tlon of the office and the nomina
tion of Charley Frank was used as a
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 > that is where (\ 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 that he had
been in a hat lie, Billy Wagner, of Chi
cago, and brother to Chari. * White, gave
Freddie Duffy, of Boston an awful lar-
lng here last night. Duffy received
heavy punishment throughout, but man
aged to last the eight rounds
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 Giants, ac
cording to plans announced to-day.
The party will leave here March 5,
arriving in New York next day in time
ro meet the tourists upon their arrival.
That night, on the eve of the Amer
ican League meeting, the players will
be tendered a banquet.
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