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TITK ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. Cincinnati Baseball Deals Are Bike “Cincinnati Base 11 its" —Harmless Little Jokes Zy SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT Sometimes It’s Not So Bad To Be Sick II BOTTLING GO 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. •toopE.ro au- -rue Ceu- txxhft.a ropk.-y anO l^C aisOyouF At J A'kkAkS PKSSCWT —- J Gee i F-cEJ- ““■'-c „ (wwe rot>f»y INDOOR SPORTS By Tad 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 | ^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 • ^ 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 -I- • v +•4* 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. 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