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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 q: COVERED 4 °y RITCHIE GETS ROXING LESSON fini woe 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. BRINGING UP FATHER By GEORGE M’MANUS XMAS RATES Reduced over N., C. & St. L - Ry. and W. & A. R. R. Apply any Agent. AH* i tell ve - |M Commencing L, KE PAR lt > E VE*Y boot polite AND — OH. 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CohtTAhlOUS I yaoMOER WHERE KrTCMED r '—s 'em * y 1 C $y c> ' r , c-Jlt- AiT mum v (ui>. /ttpqtTi- 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 v#»r y*t 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 +•+ + *-5" -!•••!* 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 —fc, . Cure* In 1 to r. <’ay» ■ jXm MSI 1 ,rm»nir«l dU'J.ar**-* ■c caiai* 82 ■jijm 1 ’on tains no p-l-mih sni BB msv um. 'I full st absolutely without fear Guaran teed not to stricture. Prevent* contsrlotv WHY NOT CURE YOURSELF? , At Druggisth. or Uy parrel post $1 or . 8 bottles $2.75 Particulars with each bottle or mailed on request. ' *r H F EVANS CHEMICAL COMPANY , that ills stalwart service has earned him a place with Judge Kavanaugh here in tlie 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 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. ih Opium Whist«y sod Dru ■ Hsblts hsstsd •< II.JH, srssSsp'lsrlnm. HpiSmir 1 '* DU. B. M WrtOLLItY. M-N. VMM ISsnUsHum. Atlaata. flpwih WAQNER LACES DUFFY. 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* DON’T SCRATCH if you only knew ^iow quicWy and eMlly TMtrrlnp <*ur«n w^ma. «*»n whert *v«*trUiin* tina full!*, you couldn't Buffer and nrrateh. Tetterine Cures Eczema nefld wt»»t Thomaa Thompaon. C’arkta- • Ul,. OR.. HB.TB I tufferad fifteen year* with termentlnf erramft Had the best doctor*, but nothin*) did me any oood until I got Tetterine. It cured mo. I am %o thankful, lllngworm. ground i' h. itching piles and other hkln troubles yield readily. Get It today— Tetterine. „ . . . „ 50c at druggists, or by mall. SHUPTRINE CO.. SAVANNAH. GA. 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