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TITK ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
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Chicago Boy Hands Ex-Champion
Neat Lacing for Ten Rounds
at Milwaukee.
M ilwaukee, Dec. 20.-Charlie
Whit*, Chicago lightweight,
to-day if claiming the 133-
puond championship. This because
he licked Ad Wolgast In their ten-
round battle here last night. White
proved himself the master over the
former lightweight champion all
through the battle, and dished out a
lacing that Ad will remember for
some time.
Wolgast had all Ills argrosslvaness
and Oghting spirit, but the frail, sal
low Jewish battler had the stlffer wal
lop and the better of the bout prac
tically throughout.
From the Hist round on rharlle :
showed his skill as a boxer by land
ing nearly every blow started on the |
hard head or body of the Cadillac
Dutchman.
Wolgast never backed up. never i
watered, but continually bulled and j
forced his wav Into White’s territory,:
where he was the recipient of many
hooka, uppercuts anil swings. While I
showed last night that lie can tight :
when he is forced to F.ven in the
fierce mix-ups and vicious exchanges
he more than held Ills own and seldom
broke ground and backed up when he,
was against the ropes or forced to ;
protect himself.
As wise as Wolgast is in ring lac-
lb-s. Charlie showed hitn some "new I
stuff." for time and again he spun him |
headlong through the ropes and clev- !
rrly pushed his wild leads to one side 1
and at the same time sidestepped out
of danger
The first round war partly even, hut
1n the second and third White took a
big load. The fourth was equally ill- I
Tided, but the fifth was White's.
Adolph had all the better of the slxih
and bloodied White's nose and spilt
bis lips with several wild right and
left swings. Charlie went (o Ills cor
ner at the end of the round a tired
and weary lighter.
The seventh wits fairly even, with
both tired and willing to rest. The
eighth, ninth and tenth were Char
lies by a good margin, and his lea 1
at the finish was enough to entitle
him to the, verdict. It was one of the
best bouts ever staged here.
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INDOOR SPORTS
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FIXED HEIST
McCormick Won’t Stand for Any
Player Who Threatens to Not
Fall in Line.
Four Teams Start
In Cross-Country
Run This Afternoon
Tech students are waiting; for the
start of the annual cross-country run
this afternoon.
Four teams are entered In the run.
The men who stay in the Swann dormi
tory will constitute one team; those In
The Knowles another, and the men who
inhabit the Sharks, the third one The
fouriti team will he formed from the
Ktmlints who live In the city.
The race, a* usual, will be from the
school gymnasium out to the water
works and return The course will
lead over a number of hills and
through several swamps, making it very
difThult for the runners.
The race will begin at 3:30 sharp, so
that there will be plenty 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 Grunt Field, when
the sophomore* play the freshmen and
the seniors try conclusions with the ju
nior a. «
The soph-fresh battle will be 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
seniors and Juniors, whib the freshmen
downed the subs in their only game
pi*y«*s
Greek Battler Stops
Kirk in One Round
SPRINGFIELD. ILL, Dec JO.—OlUe
Kirk, rf St Liu!V who *» expected
to he the winner of a Kclieduliyl ten-
round hotit before the Hunlness Men’,
Ath, lftc Club here lust night, \va»
cleanly knocked out In the first round
bv Lntls Pappas, the Greek demon, of
Kansas City only one minute and thlr-
t\ six seconds had elapsed after the
first gong when Kirk took the final
count.
Campi and Williams
Remacthed for Bout
( CHATTANOOGA. TENN, Dec. 20.
^ Reports from Mobile arid At
lanta to the effect that stars
are balking at terms and are show
ing signs of refusing to come into the
fold are causing no apprehension lo
cally because of fear of contagion.
Andrews and McCormick anticipated
difficulty in securing the John ilun-
| cocks of the entire local roster as
1 early as last fall and the local mag
nates are now ho well protected that
no individual man or duo of men
could cause any serious harm.
To date the annual how l of malaria
in the Smith has not been heard from
prospective Lookouts, and but one se
rious threat of Jumping to the Fed
eral League had been received. This
came from Flick, but neither An
drews or McCormick is perturbed.
The acquisition of Pfyl placed the
local pilot in the position where he
had two or more men available for
every infield position and in the out
field he Is even as well protected with
Jacobson, Johnson and King, all
available for the two open berths. In
tin* battery departments there is ab
solutely no occasion for alarm, as four
catchers, including Street and Gra
ham, are available, while tin* Look
outs have pitchers galore, with the
prospect of securing as many more as
are needed.
Local athletes who become affecteif
with "holdoutU” are certain to meet
a very disagreeable surprise. Mc
Cormick is surprisingly firm with re
calcitrants. "Moose” is fair 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-
| elation he has mailed to each member
! ..f the local sftuad a suitable <’lu Ut
j mas gift, these going to 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.
Dahlen Offered Job
As Dodgers' Scoot
NEW YORK. Dec. 20 Bad Hill”
Dahlen, recently deposed as manager of
the Dodgers in favor of Wilbert Robin
son. was to-day offered a Job as scout
for the team.
There is a strong possibility that
Dahlen will accept the Brooklyn offer
and continue affiliations with the Na
tional League, in which he starred for
many years as a player until he took
the job as bench manager of the
Dodger* four years ago,
Ebbets on Way to
Close Tinker Deal
LOS ANGELES. Dec -NV -Eddie
Campi, of San Francisco, and Kid Wil
liams the Baltimore bantamweight,
were matched to-day to fight a twenty-
round hotit here on February 12. This
will he the second meeting between
the hoy* They met about one year
ego and Williams won the decision after
twenty hard rounds of fighting
FORTUNE FOR BOXING.
NEW YORK. Dec 20. In filing the
annual report with the t ew Legislature
at Mhan\ the Stab* Athletic Commli-
\ slop w Mi show • <• since the State hnx
law went into effect August. 1911.
$11A,000 has been paid into the State
Comptroller's office, this money being
the amount of the 5 per cent tax on
t < gross receipts of a licensed club
operating under the statute,
WALDRON DIES.
CHICAGO, Dee. jo.—Thomas E Wal-
rjrou. the oldest member of the Hyde
fc*ar)< Athletic Club, riled ye»T©rda> at
** Washington Pari Hospital of oon-
umptiou. lit was n charter member
o 'tub, which was formed fifteen
tan ago.
NEW YORK. Dec. 20 Charles 11
Ebbets, president of the Brooklyn Base
ball Club, left this morning for Cincin
nati to close his deul for Shortstop Joe
Tinker. Ebbets curried with him a
check for $15,000, the purchase price,
less the $10,000 bonus for Tinker
LEACH CROSS FISHING.
LOS ANGELES. Dec. 20 I^each
Cross, who Is matched to box Bud An
derson at Vernon on New Year's Day.
Is having the time of his life at Batalina
Island Word c nines to-day that the
"fighting dentist” is catching so many
fish at Avalon that he doesn't know
what to do with them The boys will
return to lx's Angeles this after
noon and Leach will begin training on
Sunday.
WILLAIMS RED SED MONSV
MILWAUKEE. Deo. 20. The State
Boxing Commission to da> ruled against
Sam Harris, manager of "Kid Wil
liams. who claimed in Chicago that the
Rivei view 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.
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-
i per O'Neill, the English lightweight.
^ against Fred Halsband. that he made
! the announcement immediately after
the contest that he was willing to bet
ancee in a ten-round
*'»t*0 «» Neill's t Manors
bout g ilh Leach Cross.
BASEBALI
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^Diamond News and Gossip
• "Baseball In our country,” says an ■
Australian, "is conducted in the spirit J
of our cricket matches.” Australia |
would he a great place for the Cardi
nal*.
They are calling lawyers into tliat ,
Tinker deal now and now we know j
who will get the money.
• • *
Sammy Strang, who some years ago
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.
* * •
Basing his figures on the Tinker deal, t
Connie Mack says Collins Is worth $100,
000. This is conservative. One of his
limbs would have been worth that much '
to the Giants on several occasions.
T> Cobh's reputation Is now complete
The Peerless Matty has hailed the Tiger
star as the greatest hitter of them all.
• • •
John K. Tener starts with a great
reputation, at least, ami his worst ene
mies hope he will make good, for the
benefit of the game if for no other rea
son.
Charley Herzog 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
tha game.
• * •
Connie Mack's son. having broken
it to the game as a coach in North Car
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 f»00 >er cent before next sea
son is well advanced.
• • •
President Murphy has written a letter
to Garr> Herrmann concerning the Tin
ker matter When It come* to bidding
for star players. President Murphy Is a
man of letters.
• • •
Did it ever occur to the dignified di- j
rectors of the Cincinnati baseball dub
that something might be accomplished
bv tying the glittering tinware to one
Garry Herrmann” The> have fired
every one else without geting any re
sults.
Cv Fa 1 ken berg says bowling enabled
him to ‘‘come back." However, his
tory relates Instances where too much
how’ing put certain pitchers out of the !
game In other words, the pitcher that j
goes to ffie bar too often goes broke.
By Ed \Y. Smith.
\ \ 7 HAT are we 9°' n 9 *°
\\ with our lightweight box
ers? In the light of re
cent developments, how are wo
going to classify them? Basing
all arguments of what should bo
a fact, I. e., that the real limit of
the class is 133 pounds, mad©
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.
• • •
] F a man is good enough to bo
* considered a strong card and is
too heavy to get inside of the
limit he can still maintain his po
sition among the bona tide men
of the class just because he is a
card. The public demands him.
tlie 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.
T^VEN the champion is no long*
er, on his own admisison, able
to get within speaking distance
of the only limit made more or
less honorable by such sterling
battlers as Joe (Lins. George La-
vigiie. Frank Erne, Battling Nel
son and Ad Wolgast Still he in
sists he Is a lightweight and 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 they will
make, and that, too. mind you, at
3 o'clock in the afternoon for an
evening battle:
W ’ 1? Kitf-M**. ' >* Packer McFarland. 138
Peddle W>!sI"‘ Jimmy Duff*. 1S*-
Hud Anderson. i:;\ Frankie Burns. 1 c-
Hughey Hchcgan. 1 Winnipeg O'Brien. HO.
Tcmnyv Colettutn. 1 7 V drtle Johnson. 14«
lv;d Kansas. lot. 1/ C. Barixau, L$.
VTOW glance
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of the very t
make 133 poun
side w hen net
a re:
Joe liandot.
I .each Cross.
.lack Bril ton
Matty Baldwin.
Johnny Griffith.
Tommy Murphy.
Ail Wolgast.
Eddie Murphy.
Bay Temple.
over the list of
men, some of them
>t> class, who can
ds and at the ring-
essary. Here they
Joe Shugrue.
Stanley Yoakum.
Frankie Russell.
Charley White.
Steve Kitchel.
Sam Kohtdeaii.
Johnny Dundee.
Joe Rivera.
/ }NLY 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 who are
posing as lightweights, but
scarcely able to do within a cou
ple of pounds of the limit. Here
are some of them:
Joe Sherman Willie Beecher.
Sammy Trott. Young Barker
Freddie Daniels. Mickey Sheridan.
Knockout Brown. Phil Brock.
Harry Trondali. Bobby Waugh.
la*o Kelly.
• * *
THAT 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 class is not popular, es
pecially with Mike Gibbons able
to do 144 pounds!
• * •
MTHER classes may be reeking
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.
BOXING
News of the Ring Game.
PADDY RYAN RESIGNS.
NEW YORK. Dec. 20.—Pad yd Ryan,
world’s champion hammer thrower, has
resigned from the lrish-American Ath
letic Club, of this city. He expects to
move to Chicago Johnny Cahil. also an
I \ A. C. athlete, has handed in his
resignation.
DONAHUE BESTS SHERIDAN.
K INSAS CITY, Dec. 20 Harry Hon
shu* . tiie Dekin, III., whirlwind, fought
hi** way to a clean-cut decision over
Mickev Sheridan, the Chicago wildcat,
it • n rounds of fast milling here last
Freddie Welsh, the British lightweight
champion, will probably have ;i hot pace
cut out for him when he tackles Johnny
Dundee in a ten-round bout at New
Orleans on New r Year's Day. Dundee
ranks high up in the lightweight divi
sion and should make the Englishman
step at his best to win
• * *
Young AheaYn, the American welter
weight now fighting In Paris, lost an
other fight a few nights ago. lie 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 his 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 Kiaus, the
Pittsburg middleweight. is to get a
chance at George Chip in a six-round go
at Pittsburg. It was this same Chip
party who stopped Frank in six rounds
several months ago, and the Pittsburger
will be out for revenge
• * *
Harry Lewis, recently dangerously
hurt in a bout in Philadelphia, but now
entirely out of danger, lias announced
that he has fought his final and that
nothing ever again will attract him
back to the padded mitts.
. . •
Tt appears now that the automobile !
accident in London last spring was i
more the cause of his collapse In the
Borreil scrap that anything else. Lewis
was struck by a taxicab and severely
hurt. He was awarded damages of
$3,700. but did not realize the extent of
his injuries until he started training.
• • * «
Jack White and Billy Wagner, both
brother* of Charlie White, won their!
bouts this week. Jack knocked out I
I Clev© Bridges, the Memphis boy, in I
seven rounds, while Wagner won a de- !
; vision over Freddie Duffy in ten rounds.
* • *
Michael Saul stopped the writer in
front of the Piedmont Hotel last 1
night and whispered these few words j
in our ears: "I wish to announce that j
the only Michael has again tossed his
green kelly in the boxing ring. and j
dares any pugilist around 135 pounds
to kick it out.” after which Mike hid I
us farewell and went on his way j
Franklin Percival Baker, take notice.
Frank Raker and “Kid” Young are du« |
to put their forfeits up today for their
private scran on January 15 The hoys'
are to mix matters for a $100 ski* beL
Ritchie Loses Decision to Welsh
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Champ Takes Go on Short Notice
This is the ninth of a series of stories of the life and battles of TAght-
Weight Champion Willie Ritchie written exclusively for The Georgian.
By Willie Ritchie!
S AN FRANCISCO, CAL., Dec. 20.—
Promoter McCarey and I sat ar
guing over terms while the 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 place unless I came to
his terms right away. There was no
chance to bpdge 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 w’orld. 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 Al Greenwald, who is
McOarey’s silent partner. He just
listened and got an earful. I 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.” T said, after a little pause.
"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
smile.
Gets a Few Boxing Lessons.
Of course, he figured that he was
going to fight some kid who would
not he able to make any sort of a
showing. He may have heard of me
before and he may not, but if he did
I am 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
boy» who were hanging around to
help second me. I was introduced as
"Willie Ritchie, the coming light
weight of San Francisco,” but 1 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 T did not weigh before T started.
I don’t know hew much Welsh weigh
ed, either, but I believe that he scaled
In the neighborhood of 136. because
he 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 monev. He kept
jabbing me In the face all the time
and shooting over a right to my body
every now and then, and the‘crowd
seemed to enjoy It immensely.
Knocks Welsh Through Ropes.
T had met many a clever boy in the
four-round game, but I must‘confess
that I never had been up against
anything like the Britisher. He 1s a
marvel with Ills hands. The air was
full of gloves all the time. T thought
that 1 knew a little about boring, but
after the first three or four rounds I
was ready to admit that I had to start
all over again to learn the game.
But I also discovered that "Welsh
did not seem to be able to hurt me.
He landed all kinds of punches on
my head and mv body, but I kept
tearing into him all the time. I no
ticed that he began to look a bit wor
ried along about the sixth and sev
enth rounds, and It w r as 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 w’hipped 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 away
from me with a laugh. And all the
time the crowd kept laughing at me.
I must have looked silly.
But there was a different story to
tell in the twelfth. After stalling
around a bit, Welsh came in and be
gan to mix things up with me. 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 I was full of excitement. I 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 l'ans, and I kept
jumping around while "Welsh was
climbing through the ropes, for my
punch nearly knocked him out of the
ring.
Welsh got up, but he w'as 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 cn, I kept tearing, and he
had my number so far as the boxing
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't
tired, and I w as working for a knock
out. I had him in pretty bad shape
a couple of times, but he knew too
much for me and lie stalled me off
Referee Charley Eyton called it
Welsh’s fight, and T guess that "Welsh
djd have a little shade, but at lea*:;
Half the fans thought that I should
have had a draw, anyhow. I gave
them a good run, and they seemed to
like my work.
John Considine. the Seattle *por
ing man, was there. It was the first
time that he ever saw me fight, but
my work made a hit with him and b*
came to me later and offered to back
me for $5,000 against Welsh But this
fell through, becau^pe Welsh dirt not
seem to be at all anxious to take an
other chance.
I beat It right home after fh1* fight,
and I felt pretty good. The news was
shot all over the country, and I mad*
up my mind that I would take a fiver
at the Eastern game, w’hlch I heard
so much about from Packey McFar
land.
COFFEY VS. KANSA9.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—A match he*
been clinched between Jimmy Coffey,
the fast local lightweight, and K:d
Kansas, of Buffalo, who ha* a g<™*i
record of victories In the squared cir
cle. They will meet for twelve rounds
at a boxing show to be brought off at
Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday night.
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