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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
The Busher Who I« a Good Listener Always
How a Chance to Become a Good Hitter
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RITCHIE GETS
ROXING LESSON
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And Then Willie Hops Train for
Los Angeles to Substitute for
Champion Wolgast.
This is the eighth of the ferief of
f/if' ufe ami battles of Lightweight
Champion Willie Ritchie, written ex
clusively for The Georgian.
By Willie Ritchie.
S AN' 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.
T was just tickled to death to get
this chance to go on with Packey,
who, by the way, was then getting
roady for Tommy Murph*'. 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 few things. But I knew that he
never tigured then that I would be the
iehtweight champion of the world
nme 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. 1 don’t
know just how much he weighed
then, but T am sure that he had a
few pounds on me, and I scaled
around the 13fi-pound mark, for I had
np 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
whs a wonderful boxer and ring gen
eral, but his punches did not carry
any sting to them. Now. T 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 shook me up at all, and T
got so that I was able to stand right
up and slug with him without being
set back. -
F never will forget that Wednesday
afternoon, the day before Thanks
giving two years ago. < Packey had
finished up his work for Murphy on
•ho following day, and there was
nothing to do. The papers came out
with an extra, announcing that Ad
Wolgast was ill with appendicitis and
♦hat he would not be able to fight
Freddie Welsh in Bos Angeles on the
following day.
I scratched my head for a moment,
looked at the paper again, and th^n
h*gan to do some very tall thinking.
Then I declared myself.
‘I’m going down to Bos Angeles
and tako a chance at getting on with
Welsh.” 1 said to 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
fight here.”
But I made up mv mind to go after
♦ho Britisher at any cost. The first
thing I did was to shoot a wire to
Tom McCarey. I waited for an an
swer, but got none; but still I was
not ready to quit.
Meets Kyne in Los Angeles.
T grabbed a. suitcase, threw a few
things into it, bought two tickets—
fm* for mv brother and one for my-
**lf—and bv 5 o’clock that evening
we were on the Bark bound for Bos
Angeles. The next, afternoon I was
in 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.
Mv brother ancj myself landed in
Angeles strangers. We looked
•-found the station for a minute, and,
to our delight, we spotted Billy Kyne,
the Ran 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
h* up to McCarey’s office, but he was
out
We stalled around for"a while, look-
mg for McCarey, but we could not
Mt a line on him. Everybody was
talking about Wolgast and his ill J
ne*s, and they seemed to take it for
rranted that McCarey would not
put on a substitute. But we
heard that he was going through with
his preliminary bouts, so we decided
to take a run out to the Vernon arena.
Kyne introduced me to McCarey.
we sat In one of the back seats
Jear the bleachers and began to talk
business. I told McCarey right off
the reel that I wanted $1,000. I also
told him that I had a chance to win
And become a big card, and I prom-
Ised him that I would reward him in
th* future If he put me on, for I felt
f Ur ® that I would make a great show
ing. •
But McCarey would not listen to
at all. He was nearly staggered
v cn I asked for $1,000. I don’t know
|! Js t what he offered me, but 1 know
t [ nt it was not much more than I
T s in the habit of getting in the
tour-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 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 Btate
League, has signed to manage the Pal
las team. In the Texas League, during
the cortiing campaign.
Jordan and the Pallas club owners
came to terms Monday afternoon.
Prince- Otto says that the prospects
at Pallas 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 nil 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 end, who sustained an eye in
jury In the Harvard game and was
prevented from playing the rest o 1
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 One
Lead Over Weston
KANSAS CITY, Pec. 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
S of the match, last night. Kling de
feated Weston 150 to 86. same score
as the first block, which Kling won. The
count for th. two nights' play-Is 'Kling i
S00 Weston 18" High runs were \\es-|
ton 27. Kling 26.
Garry Called Bluff and Lost
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He Should Make Good—Crane
By Sam Crane.
N EW 'YORK. Dee. 18.—Cincin-
nati haa 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 Red land
—is an object of bitter recrimination,
being buffeted around like a cork in
an angry sea.
But—and with a great big R—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 bo 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 tho now-famous agreement
that disposed of Joe Tinker from the
Reds to the Superbaa:
*‘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 Kbbets
to show r his hand and to come out in
public and state whether his ofTer of
$25,000 was bona, fide or a bluff.
Tn 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 Kbbets was flustered at the
time, or appeared so, anyhow’, and
vvher. Garry got Ebbets to that stage
where he must make good or be
called a blufTer. the Reds’ president
sprung the remark: "Well, show me
the color of your money.”
Ebbets Had the Cash.
Kbbets 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 Dreyfuss will go up
with us.”
Herrmann, however, insisted on
completing the deal then and there
"in the open,” and Kbbets 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, whore 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. pjaver with the Reus 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, w*as virtually
forced to got rid of tho encumbrance,
and if anyone but a Cincinnati fan
does not think Herrmann got more
than full value r>>r Joe Tinker for
$15,000 net, then there are no such
things as baseball "bugs.”
Garry Herrmann *hould be sup
ported in the deal ho 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 i lie
eventual outcome after the smoke ha**
cleared away.
League Won’t Let C. Frank Go
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Why a New Office Was Created
By
$18,000 Purdue’s
Football Receipts
BA FAYETTE. IND., Doc. 18.—The
receipts from football games played
by the team of Purdue Cniverslty
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. Deo. 18.—Jimmy
Duffy, champion of the East, made a
chopping block of Willie Beecher, of
New York, here last night. Duffy made
a great finish in the last three rounds
and Beecher was all but out at the fin
ish.
Former Texas Leaguer Writes
That He Has Had Fine
Hunting Luck.
rrylllN is the fifth letter of a *e-
/ rifx from the memberx of the
champions of the Southern
League-—the Crackers. It is from
•Crank Browning, the right-handed
bowman that Biltg Smith drafted
from the San Antonin club of tho
Texas League.
San Antonio, Texas, Dec. ,1, 1913. „
W. S. Farnsworth,
Sporting Editor.
The Georgian:
Dear Sir—Received your letter a
few days ago in regard to the way
1 was spending the winter. I was
off on a hunting trip when the let
ter reached here, and only got it
last week. Ho this is the first op
portunity I have had to answer
* In reply will say that I havo 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 tho
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 I can make good and help
them win another pennant.
Yours very truly,
FRANK BROWNING.
0. B. Koeler.
ry*>HKRF, is a good deal of specu-
j latlon these days, especially
since the annual meeting of the
Southern t ^«:u e in Atlanta, as to
where C. Frank is "at.”
This in not by way of explanation
concerning Mr. Frank’s relations w ith
the New Orleans club. Frankly, W'e
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 Homers, of the
Cleveland club.
But we do know something about C.
Frank and his standing I>i the South
ern League. That was made mighty
plain at the last annual meeting.
• • •
IT was along toward the shank of
1 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
handsom** tribute to his services.
Then Major Callaway, president of
the Atlanta club, got up and an
nounced that he would like to see u
new office created.
* * •
“ I AM in favor of creating an office,” |
A Mr. Callaway said, "the office of!
second vice president. I am in favor J
of creating that office so that Charley i
Frank can be elected 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 w f ell fixed, so
far as his own situation goes. He I
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
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"Gentlemen, I say we need Charley
Frank, and I offer this plan to hold
him in the Southern League. 1 nomi
nate him for the office of second vice
president.”
* * *
THK rest of it was easy. The crea-
A tion 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.
* * •
LZ > 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.
! Baseball Tourists to
Be Welcomed Back by
Johnson and Party
CHICAGO, Dec. 1*.—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
cor/ling to plans announced to-day.
The party will leave here March ft,
arriving in New York next day in tim*
i<' 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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DETROIT, ripe. 18. Lpavln* the rlnn
without n murk to «howr that he hud
hppn in a battip, Billy Wagrior, of Chl-
oago. and brother to Charlie White, gave
!■ reddle Duffy, of Boaton, an awfnl lac
ing here last night. Duffv received
heavy punishment throughout, but man
aged to last the eight round*
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