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TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. * V t**\, Cincinnati Baseball Deals Are Like “Cincinnati Base Hits’—Harmless Little Jokes °y SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT Sometimes It's Not So Bad To Be Sick TWETFU VWETLG. Ju- ' iaj me G-amCt a-wo i poos-nr vS(AJ&i_e (tA.woaD- At-rer t£-/>JGr ictjoeicCO i was se/vns’/vCeo to e>e a mot — ot/jt- rvter^ | MORO THE' AMEH-‘CA^ gonooa : ETV Chicago Boy Hands Ex-Champion Neat Lacing for Ten Rounds at Milwaukee. \I ILW A l' KEE. Dee. 20. t hat White, Ghleago lightweight, to-day claiming the 131- jr-bond championship. This becau?” he licked Ad Wolgant in their ten- round battle here last night. WhJe proved himself the master over the, former lightweight champion all through the* battle, and dished out a lacing that Ad wilt remember for some tlm*. Wolgaat had all hia argressiveness and fighting spirit, but the frail, sal low Jewish battler had the atlffer wal- j lop and the better of the bout prac tically throughout. From the first round on Charlie showed his skill as a boxer by land - j ing nearly every blow started on the , or body backed f the t’adilbi. FIXED AGAINST hard head Dutchman. Wolgast never backed up, never i wavered, but continually bulled and | forced his way Into White’s territory, ■ where he was the recipient of many j hooka, uppercuts ami swings. White j allowed last night that he can fight when he is forced to. Even in the j fierce mix-up* and vicious exchanges he more than held hi* own and seldom broke ground and backed up when he * was against the ropes or forced to | protec t himself. A a wise as Wolgaat is in ring ta« ...... 0 . . X < har,ie showed him some new . IVIcOormiCk Won t otanCl TOT AflV stuff.' for time and again he spun him J Player Who Threatens to Not INDOOR SPORTS By Tad % headlong through the ropes and clev erly pushed his wild leads to one si lo and at the same time sideatepped out of danger. The first round war partly even, but in the second and third White took a big lead. 'Hie fourth was equally d! vided. but th*- fifth was White's Adolph had all the be tter of the aixih and bloodied White's nose and split his lips with several wild right ami left swings t’harlie went to his cor ner at the end of the round a tired and weary tighter. The seventh was fairh even, with both tired And willing to rest. Tim eighth, ninth and tenth were Hhar- Ue's by a good margin, and his lea l at the finish w as enough to entit !e him to the verdict. It was one of ;lo best bouts ever staged h» re Fall in Line. C Four Teams Start In Cross-Country Run This Afternoon Tech students are wailing for the aiart of the annual cross-country run this afternoon Four teams are entered in the run The men who stay in the Hwmn dorrnl tory will constitute one Learn, those in the Knowles another, and the men who inhabit the Shacks, the third one t he fourth leam will be formed from the s udents w r ho live In the city. The race, as usual, will he from the school gymnas nm out to the water works and return The course will lead over a number of hills and ’hrongh several swamps, making It very difTL ult for tiie runners. The race will begin at 3:30 sharp, ««> that there will be plent\ of time for the awarding of the prir.es after it is over Football Games at Grant Field To day The third round of games In the Tech class football league is scheduled for this afternoon on Brant Field, when the. sophomores play the freshmen and the seniors try conclusions with the ju niors The soph-fresh battle will he In the nature of a championship affair, as both teams will enter the game without having suffered a defeat this season The sophs have won games over the •»niora and mnlors. while the freshmen downed the subs In their only game pla> ed Greek Battler Stops Kirk in One Round SPTUNGF1EL.D, TDD. Dec. 30 (Mile Kirk, of St Ixmls. who was expec ted to be the winner of a scheduled ten round bout before the Business Men s Athcltlc Club here last night, was cleariv knocked out in the first round b\ Ixiuis Pappas, the Greek demon, of Kansas Cttv Only one minute and thlr- tv six seconds had elapsed after the first gong when Kirk took the final pount. Campi and Williams Remacthed for Bout DoS ANGELES. Dec 30 Eddie Campi. of Saji Francisco, and Kid Wil liams. the Baltimore bantamweight, wer* matched to-day to fight a twenty- round bout here on February 12 This will be the second meeting between the boys They met about one 'ear ng r . and Williams won the decision after twenty hard rounds of fighting FORTUNE FOP BOXING NEW YORK Dec 20 In filing the annual report with the new legislature a> Albany the Stale Athletic Commie ston will show that since the State box ing law went into effect August. 1011. $110,000 has been paid into the State Comptroller's office, this money being the amount of the 5 per cent tax on he gross receipts of a licensed club operating under the statute CHATTANOOGA TENN . Dec 20 Reports front Mobile and At lanta to the effect that stars | are balking at terms and are allow ing signs of refusing to come Into the fold are causing no apprehension lo- 1 '•ally because of fear of contagion Andrews and McOormtck anticipated! difficulty In securing the John Han cocks of the entire local roster as i early an last full and the local mag- | nates are now so well protected that j no individual man or duo of men I could cause any serious harm To dale the annual how l of malaria In the South has not been heard from prospective Lookouts, and but one se rious threat of jumping lo the Fed eral League had been received. This j came from Flick, but neither An draws or McCormick is perturbed. | 'Die acquisition of Pfyl placed tiie local pilot in tlie position where he had two or more men available fori every infield position and in the out field he is even as well protected with j Jacobson, Johnson and King, all j available for the two open berths. In I the battery departments there Is ab solutely no occasion for alarm, as four catchers. Including Street and Gra ham, are available, while the Look outs ha\e pitchers galore. with the prospect of securing as many more as are needed. Local athletes who become affected with "holdoutJs ate certain to Ineet a very disagreeable surprise, as Mc Cormick is surprising'^ firm wile re calcitrants. "Moose" Is fall almost to a fault, but he Is not a man that will allow his prerogatives to be en croached upon in the least. As an indication of his thought and consid eration he lias mailed to each member of the local squad a suitable Christ mas gift, these going io men he has never known personally*, but the re cipients will find • Moose" inexorable as the Fates If they attempt to take advantage of his kindness and lib erality. Ritchie Loses Decision to Welsh *!-ir +'• 4* * Champ Takes Go on Short Notice This irnthe ninth of.a scries of stories of thr life and battles of Light Weight Champion Willie Ritchie mitten exclusively for The Oerngirtn BASEBALL SPORTING COMMENT BOXING Diamond News and Gossip \— 1 By Ed W. Smith. VTOW glance over the list of realh good men. some of them News of the Ring Game. Dalilen Offered Job As Dodgers’ Scout NEW YORK. Deo. 20 Bad Bill" Pahlen, recently deposed a?* manager of the Dodgers In favor of Wilbert Robin son. was to-day offered a Job ax scout for the team There in a strong possibility that Dahlen wtil accept ihe Brooklyn offer and continue affiliations with the Na ttonal League, in which he starred for mam veara as a player until he took the 'job as bench manager of the Dodgers four >«ars ago. Ebbets od Way to . Close Tinker Deal NEW YORK Dei- 20 Charles H Ebbets. president of the Brooklyn Base ball Club, left this morning for Cincin nati to close his deal for Shortstop Joe Tinker Ebbets carried with him a check for $15,000, the purchase price, less the $10,000 bonus for Tinker LEACH CROSS FISHING. 1/OS ANGELES, Dec 20 Ijtach Gross, who Is matched to box Bud An derson at Vernon on New Year's Day. Is haring the time of his life at Catalina Island Word comes tc^iay that the •fighting dentist" is catching so man\ fish at Avalon that he doesn't know what lo do with them The boys will return to Ixw Angeles this after noon and Leach will begin training on Sunday. WILLAIMS REFUSED MONEV MILWAUKEE. Dec. 20 The State Boxing Commission to-dav ruled against Sam Harris, manager of ""Kid" Wil liams. who claimed In Chicago that the Rlverview Club was holding out $300 of Williams' money for the Dick Lode- man fight It was proved this money was a forfeit for a second fight which Harris refused to go through with "Baseball In our country.” says an Australian, “is conducted in the spirit of our cricket matches " Australia, would be h great place for the Cardi nal*. \\ WALDRON DIES. H1CAGO. Dec 20.—Thomas E. Wal- . ev «»■ »«*-<••»*. v .. .-o K dron. the oldest member of the Hyde | per O'Neill, the English Lightweight WOULD BACK ENGLISH BOXER. NEW YORK. Dec. 20 Bob Vernon, who is a good judge of a fighter, was so impressed with the showing of Sap Fark Athletic Club, died \e*terda> at •he Washington Earl Hospital of con- I sumption. Tie was c charter member '•f ttu* club, which was formed fifteen |go. 1 against Fred Halsb&nd. that Fie made the announcement immediatel' after the contest that he was willing to bet C'OO d:t o’Neill’s chances in a ten-round boutlwiUi Leach Cross* They are calling lawyers Into that Tinker deal now and now w»* know who will get the money * * * Sammy Strang, who some years Hgo was the star pinch hitter for the Giants, is at present singing In a grand opera house in Paris Strang, when in the National League, was a member of the Giants' quartet ♦ * • Baaing his figures on the Tinker deal, j Connie Mack save Collins is worth $100. 000. This is conservative One of his ■ limbs would have been worth that much | to the Giants on several occasions. • • * Ty Cobb's reputation is row’ complete The Peerless Matty has ha tied the Tiger star as the greatest hitter of them all. * • • John K Tener starts with a great reputation, at least, and his worst ene mies hope he will make good, for the benefit of the gatne if for no other rea son. • • • Charley Hersog will be missed at the Polo Grounds next season, but It is sus pected that McGr&w has arranged for a substitute acceptable to the patrons of the game Connie Mack's son. having broken into the game as a coach in North Car- j olina. may be in line to succeed his illustrious father • • • Frank Chance believes he has good reason to assert that his team will have Improved 500 ner cent before next sea son is well advanced • * • President Murphy has written a letter to Garry Herrmann concerning the Tin ker matter When It comes to bidding for star player* Pr—Ident Ifurpl man of letters • • • Did it fter occur to the dignified di rectors of 'be Cincinnati baseball club that something might be accomplished h' tying the glittering tinware to one Garry Herrmann' They have fired every one else without geting any re sults • * • Cy Kalkenberg sa>s bowling enabled him to ■‘come back However, his tory relates instances where too much bowling put certain pitchers out of the game. In other words, the pitcher that goes to the bar too often goes broke JH AT are we going to do with our lightweight box ers'.’ In the light of re cent developments, how are wo going to classify them? Rasing ail arguments of what should be a fact, i. e., that the real limit of the class Is 133 pounds, made within an hour or so of the time for starting a scrap, our leading lightweights are not lightweights at all—just something else, a sort of nondescript bunch without much classification. • • • 1 F a man is good enough to be * considered a strong card and is too heavy to get inside of the limit he can still maintain his po sition among the bona fide men of the vlass just because he Is a card The public demands him, the promoters can use him in their business, and even the fight er who gets a considerably better short end than he would with some other fighter ought to be satisfied. • • • E VEN the champion no long er. on his own admialson. able to get within speaking distance of the only limit made more or less honorable by such sterling battlers as Joe Gans. George La- vigne, Frank Erne, Battling Nel son and Ad Wolgast Still he in sists he Is a lightweight anfl is defending his honors next month against a real lightweight. It's a weird situation. • • • 1 ET’S classify the men from what we know of them, apolo gizing to those to whom we may appear to do an injustice, but not fearing much that there will be many come-backs and kicks about. Here are some of the cracking good fighters of the day who are posing as lightweights, and the best weights the\ will make, and that, too, mind you. at 3 o’clock in the afternoon for an evening battle: Willi# Ritchie. 13.' rack#y M'-Firland. 138 Freddie w>ish. I"" Jimmy Puffy. 13.' Hud Anderson. 138 Frank!# Burn* 135 Hughey Hchegan. 117 Winnipeg O Rrlen. 140. Tommy Coleman. 17 7 J'ddie Johnson. 14* K.JU k*usa» 137 *8 C. Barrtau. L'.j. of the very top class, who can make 133 pounds and at the ring side when necessary. Here they a re: Joe (iandnt Vach Crane Jack Britton Matty Baltlwlr Johnny tirlthUi Tommy Murphy Ad Wolgast Eddie Murphy. Bay Temple Joe Shugrue Stanley Yoakum Frankie Russell Charley White Steve Kitchel Sam Kobtdeau. Johnny Dundee Joe Rivera MNLY about seventeen of them, ^ at that, but every one of them a corking good boy, deserving, willing and able at all times to make good There are some oth ers who may be a little shy of the first or second class w’ho are posing as lightweights. but scarcely able to do within a cou ple of pounds of the limit. Here are some of them: Jo# Sherman Willi# Beecher Sammy Troll Vi>unf Parker Freddie Daniels. Mickey Sheridan Knockout Brown. Phil Brock. Harry Trendali. Bobby Waugh Leo Kelly. • * # r HAT about exhausts the list of good, indifferent and just fair men in the class—-and less than half of them sure at all times of being able to get inside of the limit or even down to it. The more one studies the more one can figure why it is that the wel terweight ( lass is not popular, es pecially with Mike Gibbons able to do 144 pounds! • * • ATHER classes may be '©eking ” of deception in much the same manner, but the discrepan cies have not been brought out so prominently in them because the* lightweight Is the ever-popular division. By Willie Ritchie. S AX FRANCISCO, PAL.. Dec. 20.— Promoter McCarey and I sat ar guing over terms w’hile thf first preliminary was being fought. He would not give me any satisfaction at all. He told me that I was a young ster, that I ought to be glad of a chance to fight Wells for nothing, and that he would get somebody else to take my places unless I came to his terms right away. There was no chance to budge him. But I determined to stand pat. I thought that I was worth $1,000, al though I realized that I was lucky to get on with one of the greatest light weights in the world. Still, I was just stubborn enough to hold out, and I made up my mind that 1 would fight just as hard as McCarey. And, in the meantime, the first preliminary was over and the fans were hollering for, the next one. : While we sat there arguing, we were joined by A1 (ireenwald. who is McCarey’u silent partner. He Just listened and got an earful. 1 saw that he was doing a lot of thinking, but I did not speak to him. Finally he took McCarey aside, and then he came back. “Will you fight Wells for $600?” he asked. “Yes,” I said, after a little pause. I “I will take a chance at that price.” “All right, then," said Greenwald. “Hurry up and get ready. The sec ond preliminary is on. and you will have to do some tall hustling.” Myself and my brother hurried to the dressing room and got busy. We were introduced to Welsh, who look ed me over and smiled a sarcastic 1 smile. Gets a Few Boxing Lessons. Of course, he figured that he was going to fight some kid who would not be able to make any sort of a showing. He may have heard of me- before and lie may not, but if he did Earn sure that he did not think much, of my ability as a fighter. I could tell this by the way he sized me up. It was just like finding a few' easy dollars for him At least, he thought so. Well, we finally got into the ring. My brother picked up a couple of boys who were hanging aroun<i%to Freddie Welsh, the British lightweight second me. I was introduced as champion, will probably have a hot pace “Willie Ritchie, the coming ‘light- cut out for him when he tackle* Jnhnnv weight of San Francisco." but I did not get much of a hand. Welsh was sent in as the “lightweight champion of England, and the crowd hollered and shouted. I felt pretty lonesome then, believe me. I admit that I had It on Welsh in the matter of weight. I think that I tipped the beam at about 139 pounds, but I did not weigh before I started. I don’t know' how much Welsh weigh ed. either, but I believe that he scaled in the neighborhood of 136. because lie eased up in his work and did not dry out when he learned that Wol gast was sick and could not fight. Welsh gave me a few boxing les sons in the early rounds. He kidded me along and kept telling me that he would not knock me out for a while, because he wanted to give the fans a run for their money. He kept jabbing me In the face all the time and shooting over a right to my bodv every now and then, and the crowd seemed to enjoy it Immensely. Knocks Welsh Through Ropes. I had met many a clever boy in the four-round game, but I must'confess out for him when he tackles Johnny Dundee jn a ten-round bout at New Orleans on New Year's Day. Dundee ranks high up in the lightweight divi sion and should make the Englishman step at his best, to win PADDY RYAN RESIGNS. NEW YORK. Dec 20 Pad yd Ryan, world's champion hammer thrower, has resigned from the Irish-American Ath letic Club of this city. He expects to move to Chicago Johnny Cahil. also an 1 \ A C. athlet# has handed in his resignation DONAHUE BESTS SHERIDAN. KANSAS CITY. Dec 20. Harry Don ahue. Hie Pekin, III., whirlwind, fought his way *o a clean-cut decision over Mlcke> Sheridan, the Chicago wildcat, tr 'on rounds of fast milling here last night. Young Ahearn, the American welter weight now fighting In Paris, lost an other fight a few nights ago He met Young Basham, a French welterweight, in a 15-round set-to and at the finish of the contest the referee gave the de cision to the latter on points • • • Packey McFarland will have a lot of time to devote to hls law studies If the one year ban inflicted upon him in Wis consin for poor scrapping and refusal to weigh In is made general. • • • Next Tuesday night Frank Klaus, the Pittsburg middleweight, is to get a chance at George Chip in a six-round go at Pittsburg It w r as this same Chip party who stopped Frank in six'rounds several months ago, and the Pittsburger will be out for revenge * # # Harry l^ewis. recently dangerously hurt in a bout in Philadelphia, but now entirely out of danger, has announced that lie has fought his final and that nothing ever again will attract him back to the padded mitts. * • • It appears now that the automobile I accident in I^ondon last spring was more the cause of his collapse in the Borrell scrap that anything else I^ewis 1 ' was struck by a taxicab and severely | hurt. He was awarded damages of $3,700. but did not realize the extent of hls injuries until he started training • * * Jack White and Billy Wagner, both brothers of Charlie White, won their bouts this week. Jack knocked out Cleve Bridges, the Memphis boy. in seven rounds while Wagner won a de cision over Freddie Duffy in ten rounds. * • * Michael Saul stopped the writer in front of the Piedmont Hotel last night and whispered these f?w words ! in our ears: *'I wish to announce that the only Michael has again tossed his gTeen kelly in the boxing ring. and dares any pugilist around 136 pounds to kick it out." after which Mike bid ! us farewril and went on his way j Franklin Percival Baker, take notice. • * • Frank Baker and “Kid" Young are due to put their forfeits up to-day for their private scrap on January 1ft The boys are to mix matters for a $100 sFjft bei that I never had been up against, anything like the Britisher. He Is a marvel with his hands. The air whs full of gloves all the time. I thought that I knew a little about boxing, hut after the first three or four rounds f was ready to admit that I had to star? all over again to learn the game. But I also discovered that Welsh j did not seem to be able to hurt me He landed all kinds of punches on I my head and my body, but I kept tearing into him all the time. I no- 1 tlced that he began to look a bit wor ried along about the sixth and se' enth rounds, and it was then that I made up my mind to keep right after him and never stop, because I felt strong and confident. After the eighth I whipped in a few good lefts and also a couple of right crosses to the jaw. Welsh would cover up and hold me in the clinches He is a bear at clever Infighting. He would tie my hands up and work me around the ring and then step awa> from me with a laugh. And all the time i-he crowd kept laughing at me I must have looked silly. But there was a different g*or\ to tell in the twelfth. After stalling around a bit. Welsh came in and be gan to mix things up with rpe- I just measured his jaw and let loose with a right-hand cross Down he went like a log. He was wabbly and weak and J was full of excitement. 1 con fess that I lost my head, for the cheers of the crowd rattled me. Finds Friend in Considine. "Go on. kid; knock him out!" “You're all right. Ritchie; keep after him!” yelled the fans, and I kept Jumping around while Welsh wa? climbing through the ropes, for rm punch nearly knocked him out of the ring. Welsh got up, but he was more careful after that. He did not try any more mix-ups He Just stayed away from me and boxed me clever all the time. Instead of trying to draw him on, I kept tearing, and 1^ had my number so far as the boxinr end of it went, and he was outpoint ing me In the last three rounds I cut loos" faster than ever. I was not a b“ tired, and I was working for a knock out. 1 had him In pretty bad shat -5 a couple of times, but he knew ton much for me and he stalled me off Referee rharley Evton called t Welsh's fight, and T guess that Wela* did have a little shade, but at lea? half the fans thought that I should have had a draw, anyhow. T gav<* them a good run, and they seemed t»> like my work. John Considine. the Seattle *pnr’ Ing man, was there. Jt was the fir?; time that he ever saw me fight. my work made a hit wifh him and b* came to me later Rnd offered to ba r me for $5,000 against Weleh. But thb fell through, because Welsh did nor seem to be at all anxious to take an other chance. I beat it right home after and I felt pretty good. The news shot all over the country, and I mad* up my mind that I would take a fly*J at the Eastern game, which I heart so much about from Packey McFar land. ,j COFFEY VS. 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