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TTEATIST’S ST’NDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1013.
WELSH HOPES TO FORCE RITCHIE TO A TITLE BATTLE WHILE IN ATLANTA
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FROM PLANTER 93 HENRY ST BROOKLYN
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Castro Figuring Ten-Round Bout.
Between Two Champs During
Shriners’ Week.
WOULD DRAW $20,000 GATE
Englishman to Come to Atlanta
for Whitney Scrap Day Af
ter Dundee Affair.
F LEDDIE WELSH, th« Kngllnh
lightweight champion, who Is to
meet Frank Whitney, of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, here on January 6, ha 5
wired The Sunday American Sporting
Editor the following from New Or
leans, where Freddie is training for
his bout on New Year’s Day with
Johnny Dundee.
New Orleans, Dec. 26, 1913.
W. S. Farnsworth,
Atlanta Georgian.
Will arrive in Atlanta day afte r
my fight with Dundee. Will finish
what training I need in your city.
While In Atlanta will issue a
challenge to Willie Ritchie that
the American champion will
either have to accept or admit
that I em his master.
FREDDIE WELSH.
Having no idea what said challenge
will be, the writer can not comment
on 1t
However, Dou Castro, who is pro
moting the Welsh-Whitney battle, la
figuring on a championship bout here
next May. The Shriners will be in the
city and the Count figures that he
.an offer Ritchie and Welsh a tre
mendous purse to hook up here.
"I figure that with the Shriners in
the city I could draw at least a $20,000
house with Ritchie and Welsh in a
ten-round bout," said the genial pro
moter yesterday. "At any^rate, I am
figuring on such a match."
Baseball Signals
Joke, Declares Huff
CHAMPAIGN, ILL.. Dec 37.—Gsorga
Huff, llllnole' limoui baseball coach,
•aid lant night that the tradition that
Intricate systems of signal* are used by
good ball teams Is a joke. Huff’s remark
was occasioned by the* interview in
which Dean Small, of Chicago, declared
In favor of retiring baseball coaches to
1 he grandstand that the players might
play of their own initiative and not as
puppets moved by a master hand on the
bench.
*Tm willing to sit in the stand, said
Huff, "but I hate to see such ideas pre-
vail They were fostered by the scien
tific writers on baseball In the rnaga
zincs. The good teams. Mg league or
college, don’t have intricate Bystems of
signals. We’ve been fairly successful
and the largest number of signals 1 ever
had was three, and that was excep
tional.
"There Is nothing in the spirit or let
ter of baseball rules forbidding bench
« oachlng. Football Is a different matter
and 1 think they’d better retire the
coaches from the side lines first.' 1
ME&E photograph^,, posed especially for The Sunday American, show how Welsh delivers some of his best blows. The first is a left uppercut that Freddie shoots either to the jaw or
body; the second, an overhand right chop to the face; the third, ready to shoot a right to the• wind; the fourth, a long, straight left to the jaw; the fifth, working his famous shift.
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Record Prices Paid
For Star Players
What A merican
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the 1914 Reason
De Oro Will Defend
Three-Cushion Title
NEW YORK. Dec. 27 Alfredo De-
Oro. the veteran Cuban cue wielder, who
was recently relieved of his pool cham
pionship, Will defend his only remaining
title in a three-cushion billiard match
with Charles Morin, of Chicago, early
next month
The match will be played on January
5 and 7 in this city, probably at
l »oyle’s Academy.
This match has been In prospect for
some time, but as the champion has
been under the weather recently he put
off to tfie laat his notification on the
challenge by Morin. Morin wanted the
match played in Chicago, but DeOro ex
ercised the champion’s privilege to se
lect the place for playing and chose
New York.
Carpentier to Accept
Gunboat's Challenge
1ATNDON. Dec. 27.—Georges Carpen
tier, the French pugilist, has advised
bis manager to accept Gunboat Smith’s
challenge for a twenty-round bout nt
the National Sporting Club here short
ly, the stakes to be $10,000 a side
Elated over his one-round victory
over Bombardier Wells, Carpentier is
willing to fight any man in the world.
Smith is in San FYancskso at the
present time preparing for his twenty-
round contest with Arthur Pelky on
,\>w Year's Day.
Johnny Reilly Not
To Play With Giants
Johnny Dundee Says
Kilbane Is Greatest
Boxer in the World
"What is my personal opinion of
Johnny Kilbane? f think this about
him: He is the greatest boxer In the
civilized world, not barring McFarland
or any other,” said Johny Dundee, in
Cleveland, recently. "What do I think
of his punching powers? This: Charley
White. Patsy Kline, Kid Julian all of
them have hit me and I never was hit
any harder by any one of this hard
hitting trio than I was by the cham
pion at Vernon last Washington’s
Birthday.
"My opinion of the outcome of an
other battle between us? In ten rounds
he very likely tvould beat me. Over the
long route 1 figure my strength would
beat him. I think that l uni stronger
than Johnny.
"Do I want to meet him again? Yes,
I do. But 1 couldn’t make 122, for I am
heavier than I was. If I can go In the
ring at a weight that w-ould not weak
en me. it's my one ambition to box him
a third time, but it looks as though we
can’t get together."
Kilbane Eager to
Knock Out Attell
CLEVELAND, Dec. 27.—When Feath
erweight Champion Johnny Kilbane
starts training for his 20-round bout
with Abe Attell, slated for San Frun-
clsco, February 22. he will use the
heavy bag more than ever before, for
he means to train for hard hitting, es
pecially with a view to winning a de
cisive victory over the ex-champlon.
He is determined to stop Abe within
| the limit.
I There is no question about Kilbane’s
all around improvement since his last
session with Attell. He Is stronger, ami
has much more confidence in himself.
He readies that he can hit hard when
the occasion demands it, and. being
familiar with Abe’s style and general
ability, ho knows that he has nothing
to fear in the coming contest.
This does not mean that Johnny will
sacrifice his speed for hitting pow’er,
nor will he take any foolish chances.
He knows A Hell is a crafty general,
dangerous nt every stage of battle. He
outboxed the former champion before
and can do It again, and he means to
send full steam into his blows in the
coming bout.
Tommy Murphy Is
Only Real Vet Left
When one recalls that Tommy Mur
phy has seen three champions in his
division come and go it begins to dawn
on you just how wonderful a fighter
the little Harlem lightweight has been.
Tommy was lighting when Joe Gan a
was champion, and he saw Bat Nelson
and Ad Wolgast win and lose the title,
and still he is in the game and many
believe fighting better than ever.
Murphj was in the ring when Young
Corbett. Jimmy Britt, Eddie Hanlon,
Benny Yanger and scores of other great
fighters w.r* in their prime, yet he
alont remains of the lot to-day. And
during all those years he never got the
opportunity to fight for the lightweight
title. True, Tommy was a feather
weight during the first half dozen years
of his ring career, but even at that
time he never had the chance to get to
the top.
NEW HAVEN, Dec 27.—Johnny Beil-
declared by many to bo the best I
’bird sacker in college circles, denies
that he will play that important posi
tion on the New York Giants team
next season
Reilly has been approached by the
leaders of many clubs, but thus far
has not put his John Hancock to any j
document offered by a big league or- j
ganization.
N oHarvard-Princeton
Boat Race Next Year
Britton Will Try to
Lift Canoe Trophy
OTTAWA. ONTARIO. Dec. 27 —Ralph
Brt«on, the Cananoque sailor, is again
seeking the international canoe trophy.
He chaUenged last year, but failed to
lift the cup and is now preparing for
another assault upon the defenders
He has given a contract for the con
struction of a craft that he hopes will
capture the trophy
COY MAY COACH NEXT YEAR.
WASHINGTON. Dec 27.—Ted Coy.
famous fullback of the Yale eleven a
few seasons ago. may land a job a«
coach for the Western High School team
here next fall. If Coy Is secured. West
ern should have a good chance for lead
ing honors next year.
CAMBRIDGE. MASS.. Dec. 27. Cap
tain Quentin Reynolds confirms the re
port at Princeton that there, is little
likelihood of the Crimson and Tigers
meeting on the water next spring
"It has been decided that Harvard
will ha\e but two big races on the
water." said Reynolds.
"That is the reason we declined
Princeton’* Invitation to row on Lake
Camegie. When Harvard rowed Prince
ton here last year, it was stipulated
that such a race would not obligate
Harvard to row a return race at Prince
ton the following season."
Captain Reynolds will issue his call
for candidates t«»r the crew February 9,
immediately following the mid year ex
amination period.
Motorboat Race to
Bermuda on June 6
Very Few Present-Day Ringmer
Display Any Gray Matter
When Fighting.
By Otto C. Kioto.
D ENVER, Dec. 27.—Probably no
branch of sport suffers to the
same extent as does boxing in
the matter of brains. We don’t mean
the ordinary amount of gray matter
that we al] possess, but the qultk-as-
lightnlng thoughts that often bring a
battle to an end at the psychological
moment, or the kind that work so fast
that an apparently defeated man saves
himself from defeat. It is the latter
kind of goods that are lacking in the
make-up of our fighters to-day. The
same thought germ that prowled about
in the noodles of McAuliffe, Dempsey,
Kid McCoy, Peter Jackson, Tommy
R.van. Jim Corbett and others is not
visible when we view a contest now
adays.
Thinkers Are or Top.
Tt is a sad commentary on our
fighting men’s mental caliber, to say
the least. And yet those who have
the intelligence are on top, viz: Wil
lie Ritchie, Johnnie Coulon, Packey
McFarland, Eddie McGoorty and a
few more of that type. None of them
is of the slugger variety, and yet
whenever they face one of these hay
maker products they make him ap
pear like a wooden man.
Hut in the period when the first-
named bunch thrived it was not only
a battle of strength, skill and hitting
powers—it was a fierce contest of Wit
vs. Wit, of brain pitted against brain
as Well. The fellow who could think
the fastest—providing the men were
equal in all other particulars—won.
No false moves crept into the fray,
and every mother’s son of them knew
why and the reason for every blow’
they aimed at the top-piece of the
adversary or could ifive a grand ex
planation why they sent home "Bet
sy" to the mid-section when they
learned that the weak part of the
ramparts was in that spot.
Science Should Rule.
There was no throwing away of
strength, gameness or stamina Just to
be busy and chance to fate that one
of the wild swings on rampage might
land in or on a vital spot and win the
contest, heaven knows how. I have
seen probably ten bouts in the last
month, and not in any single one of
them has intelligence been used. T)ie
same old slam-bang stuff, the same
old chances of landing, the same old
clinch and struggle for freedom, the
same old dragging about the ring, but
not once a move that suggested an
iota of science of the game or a clever
maneuver with a straight lead, or a
cross-counter, or a blocking of some
lead or swing for the head or body.
Just chance pure and simple, both in
the offensive and defensive, consti
tuted all the work I saw, by which
they hoped to bring about results.
When the hue and cry to abolish
the London prize ring was heard all
over England, the venerable Marquis
of Queensberry, then a graduating
student from Oxford, framed a code
that had the effect 6f removing bru
tality from the fracas. Under this
j new set of rules science was promul
gated and we graduated from the old
school of Sayers and Mace to clever
er men with tlie fists, and Jem Mace
himself became the craftiest of the
whole lot. Men improved in boxing
skill for years after, and it is only
recently that we present the new
school of wallop without science and
trust to luck to win or lose.
Red Sox and Red Legs
To Play Two Games
BOSTON, Dec. 27.—The Boston
Americans and the Cincinnati National
League will play two ante-season games
in Cincinnati April 11 and 12.
Only five of the thirty or more play
ers of the Red Sox reserve list have
signed for next season. These are
Wood. Wagner. Gardner, Carrigan and
Foster.
HE needs of the American
-4 League dubs seem to be
about as follows:
Philadelphia—A right-handed bat
ting outfielder to replace Walsh, who
goes to New York.
Washington—A hard-hitting out
fielder and another right-handed
pitcher.
Cleveland—a right-handed pitcher,
a catcher and a right-handed batting
outfielder; first base could be Im
proved by the acquisition of a better
batetr than Johnston.
Chicago—Outfielders of more all-
around ability than Bodle and Col
lins, and a better second baseman
than Berger. *
Boston—A second baseman, a reg
ular first baseman and an under
study for Shortstop Wagner.
Detroit—One outfielder, three in
fielders and three pitchers.
New York—First baseman, a pitch
er, a catcher and at least two out
fielders.
St Louis—A catcher, a right-
handed pitcher, a first baseman, a
second sacker, a shortstop and an
outfielder or two.
Uhlan Makes Last
Public Appearance
Uhlan. 1:68, holder of the world’s
record and the only trotter that has
beaten 2:01 without the aid of a wind
shield, has made his last public ap
pearance in harness, according to re
ports from Lexington, Ky., where he
trotted a mile with running mate in
1:64 Vi.
His owner, C. K. G. Billings, of New
York, has decided it is said, to retire
him from the trotting turf and here
after use him a*s a saddle horse.
Uhlan is a big. strong, handsome
fine fronted black gelding, with riding
shoulders, a strong back, plenty of ac
tion and a disposition which should (
make him almost a model horse for the j
saddle.
Uhlan is nine years old. and, begin
ning as a four-year-old. the gelding has
made marks that can not be appreciated
to the full extent at this time.
The more Important world’s 'records
credited to Uhlan are:
Etowah Gathers $24,984.75 Dur
ing Harness Racing Season.
Ten Are Close Second.
Record -Hitch.
Vi-mile—sulky
Vi-mile—wagon
One mile—sulky
one mile wagon
Mile (trot, mate) -wagon..
Mile (run. mate)—wagon...
Mile (Vs m. tr.)—sulky
4-year-old gelding—sulky..
6-year-old gelding—sulky..
Gelding in race—sulky
Two-heat by gelding—sulky
Age.) Time.
7
8
8
8
9
27
: 56 Vi
1:56
2:00
2:03*4
1 :54U
2:02%
2:07
2:02*4
2:03»*
<2:03 Vs
(2:04%
Archer Mistook Auto
Radiator for Rabbit
Jim Archer is the "goat’’ In the cham
pion hunting story of the season. The
i’ub catcher leads ail competitors in the
"Mistaken" league. His unerring aim
and erring judgment put him and his
fellow huntsmen In a line fix. Jim was
hunting recently in the vicinity of
Boone. Iowa. With some friends he
motored into the country and. coming
upon a likely looking spot, left the car
to pick up a few rabbits. After prowl-
ing around in the brush for a while
Archer thought he saw a cotton tail.
He gave, the object both barrels, then
saw his mistake.
For some unexplainable reason be
had mistaken the auto for a rabbit.
The shot pierced the radiator in a dozen
places. Long after darkness fell Archer
and his companions w r ere busy whittling
match-size pieces of wood to plug up
the sieve-like radiator, previous to mak
ing a start for hoYne. Archer deserves
a pcize for a perfect imagination.
Gotch Out, Jenkins
Claims Mat Title
RYAN. ANGRY, QUITS GOTHAM.
NEW YORK. Dec 27.—Faddy Ryan.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 27.—The an
nual motorboat race to Bermuda, which
it was thought for a time would be
abandoned, will be run as usual next
year. Jupe 6 is the date that has been
announced f.<r it.
weight thrower, who resigned
i from the Irish A. C., may go to Chicago
j and compete for some cltfb there, his
friends declared to-day. Ryan and J.
; J Cahill. Metropolitan champ, resigned,
ji is said, because of failure of club of-
| tidal* to show proper fraternal spirit.
Tom lenkins is again feeling the lure
of the wrestling game and paving the
way for a "comeback.” From West
Point comes this from the former cham
pion :
"The way I feel to-day I don’t think
there is a wrestler in the world that
can defeat me. With Gotch on the re
tired list. 1 am willing to come out to
claim the title and defend it against all
comer*. I was only beaten three times
—by Gotch. who is on the retired list;
by Mahmout. who was killed in the Bal
kan war. and by Zvhszko, who says he
won’t return to this country. With these
fellows out of the game, who is there to
defeat me? I never felt better in my
life."
B ACK in midseason it looked as
if Tenara (2:05 3-4), John E
Madden’s fleet, game and con
sistent laughter of Moko, would have I
a walkaway as the leading money
winner of the year among harness
race horses. But shortly afterward
she began to show signs of being the j
worst for wear, and long before the
campaign originally mapped out for |
her had been concluded she was forced
into retirement by lameness, her last
victory being in the classic Oak stake
for $10,000 at Hartford, Conn., which
she entered September 1.
The follow ing week, at Syracuse, in
the race for the $10,000 Empire State
stake, she virtually broke down and
had to be withdrawn and retired for
the season, at least, if not perma
nently.
Up to this time she had won $24,-
148, and there was only one possibility
of her losing her position at the head
of the list of money winners for the
season of 1913. That was involved in
the result of the campaign of Etawah,
the blind colt, confessedly the best
three-year-old trotter of the year.
Etawah Near Breakdown.
If the latter could win practically
all the rich futurities of the fall in
which he was engaged, he had a
chance to beat Tenara out, for pre-
vioqs to the time of Tenara’s going
wrong he had already won something
like $12,000.
As it fell out, a fit of sickness came
near cooking Etawah’s goose, and had
he not been a real trotting wonder,
he, like Tenara, would have fallen
by the wayside.
But, while he never recovered his
early form, he struggled on so gamely
w r hen out of condition from his illness
and his "class" was so high that, de
spite the fact that he lost one of his
richest engagements, the Horse Re
view Futurity, at Columbus, he "came
back” in the Kentucky Futurity, the
biggest plum of the season, and drag
ged it off.
When his winnings had been finally
figured up, they reached the sum o!
$24,493.75, which enabled hfm to nose
out the Madden mare as the cham
pion money earner of the year by the
small margin of $158.75.
Leads by $158.75.
In doing this he started in eight
races, with the following result:
Place and T)ate. Time. Won.
Clreenallle, Ohio, .June 25 2:15* $ 150.00
North Randall. Ohio, July 8 ....2:00% 925.00
Kalamazoo. Midi.. Aug. 5 2:08* 7.700.00
Detroit. Midi.. Auk. 13 2:07* 500.00
Indianapolis, Ind., Sept 8 2:104* 8,138.75
Ooiumbua, Ohio. Sept. -4 2:05* 1.200.00
Columbus. Ohio, Oct. 8 2:08Vi
Lexington, Ky.. Oct. 7 2:08* 10^25.00
Total $24,498.75
In comparison, the campaign of Te
nara, which comprised precisely the
same number of starts, tabulates as
follows:
Place and Date. Time. Won.
North Randall, Ohio. July 10 ...2:07* $ 640 00
Pittsburg. Pa., July 10 2:09*
Port Erie. Ont.. July 23 2:09Vfc 5.000.00
Grand Rapids. Mich., Jul/ SO... .2:0544 6.000.00
Kalamazoo. Mich.. Aug. IS ....2:07% 6.000.00
Detroit. Mich . Aug 18 2:06*4 2.500 00
Hartford, Conn.. Sept. 1 2:07\ 6,000.00
Syracuse, N. Y.. Sept. 9 2:08 Vi
Total $24.140 00
Kaoh of the pair raced eight times.
Etawah won six races, was once third
and once unplaced. Tenara won four,
was once second, once fourth and
twice unplaced. Neither of them ap
proached the showing made by last
year’s leading money winner, Baden
(2:05 1-4).
This stout stallion piled up the rec
ord sum for one campaign by a trot
ter of S3»,700. In order to do this,
however, Baden had to race no less
than seventeen times, or more than as
many as did Etawah and Tenara com
bined. Of these seventeen races he
won twelve, was second, third and
fourth each oned, once fifth (there
being money awarded the fifth horse
on that occasion, hence he was placed,
although not in the first four horses),
and once unplaced.
Joe Tinker, Cincinnati, bought
by the Brooklyn club, National
League, $25,000.
Marty O’Toole, St. Paul, Ameri
can Association, bought by the
Pittsburg club, National League,
$22,500.
Larry Chappell, Milwaukee, f
American Association, bought by <
Chicago club, American League, j
' $18,000.
\ Lefty Russell, Baltimore, Inter- i
5 national League, bought by the \
j Philadelphia club, American <
League, $12,000.
Fritz Malsel, Baltimore, Inter- !
national League, bought by the
New York club, American League,
$12,200.
Rube Marquard, Indianapolis, \
American Association, bought by <
the New York club, National ■
League, $11,000.
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No Stock Taken in
Fogel, Says Griff
"Horace Fogel’s comments on Garry
Herrmann are entirely unfounded, and
can not be seriously taken for a min
ute,’’ says Clark Griffith, rallying to the
defense of his former employer. Fogel’s
most recent outburst is to the effect
that he has been commissioned by the
Fleishman interests to have some one
purchase their interest in the Cincin
nati club.
"Herrmann is one of the squarest men
in the game, has done much to put
baseball on Its feet and keep it there,
and has suffered much adverse criti-
jcism, which was entirely unwarranted,"
cays Griff.
The whole truth of the matter is that
Herrmann was forced to get rid of Tin
ker, and after having several bum
trades offered which were ridiculous in
Hie extreme, let Tinker go at what he
thought was the best price. Players, it
is understood, were not available, and
those that were offered were in every
way undesirable.
Runyon Declares West Can Never
Protest Again—Michigan Is
Suitable.
Cashion Must Show
Underhand Delivery
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—There is one
chance for Carl Cashion, the big right-
hander remaining with the Nationals.
If Cashion can develop an underhand
delivery he has a chance of sticking as
a (linger. If he falls, he probably will
be sent to the minors.
Cashion is a big right-hander and
showed lots of speed, but little control,
when he was able to W'ork last year
and the season before. During the 1913
campaign he injured his shoulder and
was of little use to Griffith. He played
a few contests In the outfield, being a
fairly good hitter.
N EW YORK, Dec, 27.—It appears
that John Harvard was just
bound and determined to bat
some Western college into a football
argument next fall. Never w r as such
a fussy old party loose in the land
with a schedule to fill. Being haught
ily repelled at Chicago, the Cambridge
institution began picking on Michi
gan, with the result that it will in
veigle the Wolverines into the Har
vard arena along about October.
Therefore, let us all exude one long,
subdued tear for the team!
We have been hearing a great deal
of teonversation about what some of
these Western football feams would
do to the Eastern pigskin rollers if
they could only get a chance to do it;
In fact, we felt that way about it our
selves. We felt that the Easterners
were obstinately depriving the under
takers of a lot of work by not per
mitting the Western football teams
to impinge upon the Eastern sched
ule. We felt that the Easterners were
a mighty nefarious lot for not allow
ing the West to horn in somewhere.
When Harvard recently saggested
a willingness to play Chicago we an
ticipated a mad rush from the insti
tution that stands for the all that is
Westerly, as well as for the name of
John I>. Rockefeller. We had gath
ered the impression that the West
erners were simply pining away for
an opportunity to leap on the poor
Easterners, but it soon developed
that such was by no means the unan
imous case. IVme the Chicagoans
may have wanted to leap all right
eifough, but they wanted to leap with
reservations.
Whereupon John Harvard set about
stalking the proteges of "Hurry-up”
Yost, which is a Western college all
right enough. Michigan was willing.
Michigan always seems willing, and
so we are to have a great intersec
tional clash.
Harvard is the acknowledged foot
ball champion of the East. Maybe
you disagree with that view, and
maybe we disagree with that view,
but that’s the way the Crimson is
rated by the football sharks. It will
open 1914 as champion, and any team
that licks Harvard licks the cham
pion.
That talk about the game not be
ing for the championship of anything
in particular is all very nice, but vou
knew', and everybody knows, that it
will be Just about the biggest thing
in the football line that will be staged
next season.
Hugh Jennings Was
Hot After Manager
Berth in Brooklyn
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—It leaked out
during the National League meeting in
New York that Hughey Jennings, man
ager of the Detroit team, of the Amer
ican League, came within an ace of
landing the Job as manager of the
Brooklyn team.
The story goes that Jennings got the
idea that if he were badly wanted in
the National League Detroit would let
him go. Hence he made certain under
ground overtures to Charles H. Ebbets.
The Brooklyn president was willing to
hear wbat he had to say, and Jennings
telephoned him from Manhattan that lo*
would visit Ebbets Field right away. He
hung up before he could be choked off
What made the situation embarrass
ing for Ebbets was that in the office ai
the time was Bill Dahlen, who had not
been officially informed that he was to
go, and who entertained hopes that he
would be reappointed. Ebbets slipped
the word to Ed McKeever, who was also
present, and McKeever headed off Jen
nings. Ed prove/d a good scout, and
held up Jennings, who was in an auto
mobile. They went to a restaurant and
talked business. That talk continued on
and off for ten days.
Meanwhile, Manager John J. McCraw,
of the Giants, is said to have been
tipped off about Jennings’ negotiations,
and to have determined to put Wilbert
Robinson in his berth. Wherefore, says
the story, McGraw and Robinson faked
a quarrel and McGraw released Robin
son, so he w'ouUi be at liberty to bor-
gain with any club that might need a
manager. Ebbets heard that Robbie
was a free agent and made a deal wnHii
put Robinson in charge of the Dodgers
for next year.
Brickley Will Toss
Shot in Junior Meet
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Dec. 27.-
“Charlie” Brickley. whose proficiency
with his toe brought victory to Har
vard during the recent football season,
will represent the Crimson in the im
pound shot-put event at the National
junior track and field championships in
Brooklyn, January 3.
Announcement to this effect wa*
made to-day by Manager Squibb, of the
Harvard track team. Captain Mot 1
of the football team, an.i Mar'wb
another member of the eleven, are ex
pected to compete in this event later
in the season.
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BY MAIL60c
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AWARD "E’S” at EVANSVILLE.
EVANSVILLE. 4ND.. Dec. 27.—Twelve
members of the champion Evansville
High School football team have been
awarded "E's" by the athletic board of
control.
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