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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. Pile Busher Who Is a Good Listener Always Has a Chance to Become a Good Hitter O Q) RITCHIE GETS boxing lesson FROM Pice And Then Willie Hops Train for Los Angeles to Substitute for Champion Wolgast, I his is the eighth of the series of tin life and battles of Lightweight Champion Willie Ritchie, written r.r- iisirelp for The Georgian. By Willie Ritchie. S AX FRANCISCO, Dec. 18.— Packey McFarland landed in San Francisco right after I Pa; lack Britton. He had heard something about me, and he sent, for me to net as his sparring partner. He heard that T had been coming to the front, and 1 guess that he figured I would be a good boy to help him out iii his training camp, for all fighters know that good sparring partners are generally scarce. I was .lust tickled to death to get this chance to go on with Packey, who, by the wav, 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 • Tnd 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 ne a few things. But I knew that he never figured then that I would be the ightweight champion of the world -ome dav. 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 f would tear at him. I don’t know Just how much he weighed Then, but I am sure that he had a f ew pounds on me. and I scaled around the 130-pound mark, for I had no match in sight and I was not try ing to reduce T wanted to have something to work on all the time. Takes McFarland’s Wallops. 1 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 olding back all the time. However, e 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 back. I never will forget that Wednesday • fternoon, 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 "i*h an extra, announcing that Ad 'Volgast was ill with appendicitis and ‘nt he would not be able to fight Preddie Welsh in Los Angeles on the following day. I scratched mv head for a moment. ■>oked at the paper again, and then began to do some very tall thinking. Then T declared myself. "I’m going down to Los Angeles id take a chance at getting on with 'Velsh.* : T said to my brother and Paekev. “They can’t stop me for Lriyhow. "T think you’re foolish. Willie,” cut : n Packey. “They will only laugh at nu 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.” But T made up my mind to go after ' 1 Britisher at any cost. Tbe first ’ ing I did was to shoot a wire to Tom McCarey. I waited for an an- “■vor. hut got none: but still I was ready to-quit. Meets Kyne in Los Angeles. 1 grabbed a suitcase, threw a few filings into it, bought two tickets— °ue for mv brother and one for my- ^if and by 5 o’clock that evening were on the Lark bound for Los Angeles. The next afternoon T was n Vernon ring, giving Welsh the fight °f his lifetime: but there are a few ^ings that T would like to say before I come to the actual battle. My brother and myself landed in Angeles strangers. We looked R round the station for a minute, and, ° our delight, we spotted Billy Kyne, ' 11 p San Francisco promoter, who gave ’nr several four-round matches. Weil, it sure looked good to find friend in a strange, land. Kyne '"T’k hold of us.right away and rushed us up to McCarey’s office, but lie was out. ^ '■ stalled around for a while, look- r| £ for McCarey, but we could not C’ a line on him. Everybody was 'iking about Wolgast and his ill - and they seemed to take It for -ranted that' McCarey would not n ’ Pn put on a substitute. But we | ‘rri that he was going through with ’■s preliminary bouts, so we decided o bVkp a run out to tbe Vernon arena. kyne introduced me to McCarey, R'i we sat in one of the back seats ' the bleachers and began to talk business. [ told McCarey right off ; hp feel that I wanted $1,000. 1 : bim that I had a chance to win t' ,! become a big card, and l prom- ,* 0(] him that I would reward him in fhiture if he put me on. for T felt ,Ure that I would make a great show- i tig- Bp McCarey would not listen to i ^ at all. He was nearly staggered I : ' lf *n I asked for $1,000. T don’t know ,^f what he offered me, but 1 know Rf if was not much more than I > ';** in the habit of getting In the • v-round game. BRINGING UP FATHER A H' l TELL TE - I M COMMersf T f ° L1 *E Ever-^ BqDV( P'OliTE and — r~ OH. 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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 State League, has signed to manage the Dal las team, in the Texas League, during the coming campaign. Jordan and the Dallas club owners came to terms Monday afternoon. Prince Otto says that the prospects at Dallas for the coming season are prettv good. He has been left a pretty fair nucleus to work with and has start etl to work to fill in the gaps left by sales and drafts. O’Hearn Elected to Captain Cornell ITHACA, N V., 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 of thp season, would have to give up football forever were dispelled las* night when he was chosen captain of the 1914 Cornell football team. Called Bluff and Lost •fa* He Should Make Good—Crane Kling Increases Cue Lead Over Weston KANSAS CITY, Dec 18—Unless “Cowboy" Weston shows better form in his two remaining blocks with John Kling the f.-rmer 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 8h. same score as the tirst block, which Kling won. The count for the two nights' play is Kling 300. Weston 189 High runs were \\ es- ton' 27, Kling 26. By Sam Crane. N EW YORK, Dec. 18.—Cincin nati has 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 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 be a wave, and a tidal one, too, that will cause Garry to al low any trade he has made to go by the hoard. 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 havf signed the document and will carry 14 through. I believe I have made the best deal for tlie 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 that stage where he must make good or he 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; 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 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 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 University during the season Just closed amount ed to $18,000. This is the largest amount cleared in the history of the university. Former Texas Leaguer Writes That He Has Had Fine Hunting Luck. rrylt/S y riet Beecher Proves Easy For Jimmy Duffy BUFFALO. X. Y . Dec. 18 -Jimmy Duffy, champion of the East, made a clumping block of Willie Beecher, of ' ' \v York, hero last right. Duffy made a great finish in the last three rounds i’b Beecher was all but out at the fin ish. HIS is the fifth letter of a se ries from the members of the champions of the Southern League—the Crackers. It is from Frank Browning, the right-handed boatman that Billy Smith drafted from the San Antonin club of the 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. 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 Mountain*. 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. Bv O. B. Keeler. rpHERE is a good deal of specu- I 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 wary 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. • * • “I AM in favor of creating an office,” * Mr. Callaway said, “the office of second vice president. lam In favor 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 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 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 I offer this plan to hold him in the Southern League. I nomi nate him for the office of second vice president." THE rest of It was easy. The crea- * tion of the office and the nomina tion of (’barley Frank was used as t jrretext 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 Ik where C. Frank stands to- * J flay, with reference to the South ern League. The league needs Charley Frank, and It will not give him up. WAGNER LACES DUFFY. DETROIT, Iter 18. Leaving the ring without a mark to show that he had been iri a liatf-l.-, Billy Wagner, of Chi cagn. sod brother to Charlie White, gave Freddie Duffy, of Boston, an awful lac- Ing here last night. Puffy received heavy punishment throughout, hut man aged to last the eight rounds Baseball Tourists to Be Welcomed Back by Johnson and Party CHICAGO, Dec. 18.—President Ban R Johnson, of the American League, and a party of Chicago baseball enthusiasts, will travel to Now York on a special train next March to welcome back to this country the world-touring Chicago White Hox 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 to meet the tourists upon their arrival. That night, on the eve of the Amer- lcan League meeting, the players will be tendered a banquet. Opium WhUk07 «od DniLT HsMt» at Horn* nr at Sanitarium. Book 00 aubje<* Free. DR B. M. WOOLLEY. Wimm Sanitarium. Atlanta. 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