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INUAY AMERICAN ATLANTA. <L\ LN'DAY. DECEMBER 28. I'D WELSH HOPES TO FORCE RITCHIE TO A TITLE BATTLE WHILE IN ATLANTA 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. * T-Vtimw. VVKI.SH th- Kngllnh lightweight champion, who in to t • .-meet Frank Whitney, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, here on January H. has wired The Sunday American Sporting Editor tlie .following from Now Or- h-ana, where Freddie is training for hie bout ftn New Year's Day with Johnny Dundee New Orleans, Dec. 26, 1913. W. S Famaworth, 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 am his matter. FREDDIE WELSH. Having no idea what said challenge tnll be, the , writer can not comment on it. However, TiOti f'Yistro, who is pro moting the Welsh-Whitney battle. Is figuring on a championship bout here next May. The Shriners w ill be In the city and the Count figures that he can offer KUfifci* mmd Welsh a tre mendous purse to twnk 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 27.—George Huff. Illinois' famous baseball coach, sabl last night tha! the tradition that Intricate systems of signals are used by good ball teams is a Joke Huff's remark was occasioned by the interview In which Dean Small, of Chicago, dec&red In favor of retiring baseball coaches to the grandstand that the players might play of their ..wn Initiative and not as puppets moved by a master hand on the bench. . .. ,. Tm willing to sit In the stand sabl Huff, 'hut I hate to see such Ideas pre vail They were foster.,! by the eclen- 'iflc writers on baseball in the ntaga- itines The good teams, big league or allege, don't have Intricate systems or signals We've been fairly successful invt the largest number of signals I ever had was three, and that was excap- tional. . , , 'There is nothing in the spirit or let- ,er of baseball rules forbidding bench caching Football is a different matter and 1 think they'd better retire the . ..aehea from the side lines first; De Oro Will Defend Three-Cushion Title NKW YORK, n«Ce 27.- Alfredo IV- Oro.the veteran Cuban cue wlelder. who recently relieved of his pool cham pionship. will defend his only remaining title in a three-cushion billiard match * ih ‘"buries Morin, of Chicago, early nett month The match will he played on January U ♦> and 7 in this city, probably at Doyle’s Academy. Thte match has been in prospect for gomt- time, but »*• the champion has k-ft; uiider the weather recently be put off to tTu* last his notification on the ’challenge by Morin Morin wanted the match played in Chicago, but DeOro ex orcised the champion’s privilege to ae- •er. the place for playing and chose New York Carpentier to Accept Gunboat's Challenge * LONDON. Dei 27.- Georges Carpen ter. the French pugilist, has advised hts manager to accept Gunboat Smith s challenge for a twenty-round bout ut hie National Snorting OHib here short ly. the slakes to he 110.000 a side. Eluted over -his one-round vieio * body; the second, an <> er Bombardier Wells Oarpentier illing to fight any man in the world. o\ y i Smith is in vSan h ration loo at the ♦resent time preparing for his twenty- round contes- with Xrthur IVlky on rCew Year n Day Only Five, Including Two Doubt ful, Remain in the American and National. H OW many more years before the playing managers will be en tirely cut of existence in the major leagues? N *xt season then* will be just two playing leaders in the American League, while there will be about three or four in the National. Not so many years ago thin was entirely changed. Most of the man agers for ball clubs took active part on the diamond, but at the present time most of them do their managing from the bench. When the 1914 campaign opens, there is a possibility that only Joe Birmingham, of tit. Naps, and Bill Carrigan, of the Red Sox, will be play ing managers. The other nix will act from the bench. Carrigan, being a catcher, and with good understudies, may not participate in a great num ber of games, while Blrmy also may be kept on the bench owing to a bad leg. If this is the case, there will be no playing leaders in the A. L. Frank Chance and Jimmy Callahan, not so j long ago, were playing managers, but retired in 1913. and there is hardly a j chance they will return in 1914. This is altogether different from the start of 1913. when Geoige Stovall, Jake Stahl, Joe Birmingham. Jimmy Callahan and Frank Chance were the playing leaders. But times change everything, and the national pastime is no exception to the rule. It will be a little different in the senior body There \v« r four playing leaders in the organization which will be presided over by Governor Tenor, of Pennsylvania, while in all proba bility there will he a like total during 1914. Those who took active part on the diamond and also handled ball lucsb in the National during 1913 were Miller Huggins, of the Cardinals; Johnny Evers, Cubs. Joe Tinker. Reds, and I Charley Dooin, Phillies. At that, the iatter did not play so very regular, i letting BUI KUlifer. the former | Brownie, do most of the catching, j Unless the unforeseen happens, j Miller Huggins. Johnny Evers and Charley Dooin will again manage | from the field in 1914. while the Cin cinnati club has secured Herzog \o j take Tinker’s place. The managers for major league chibs ill 1913 and 1914: American League 1918. Team 1914. | S'ov»U, p St L*uU Rii-ktsr. b. j Stahl. p H *-nn CarttRim. p Muck.. I CliUmlolpbi* . . Muck. i I OriWih. t W.t-hliiK' (.’rtmtti. h >I» 1 «• Jennitig*. b iifbaui, i* . t'level*n<j nirmlngham. p. e. p . NVa York Chant-**, b iati, p. v'Mcato Callahan, b. XMAS RATES Reduced over N.. C. & St. L. Ry. and W. & A R. R. Apply any Agent, nuulna. Kv.tv v Clark.. b Tinker. p M.Uraw. I Stalling* | D ah ton. » ! Dooin p National League n>nan.i. p. K*.r« n Clark*, d. Hereof. p. MriJraw, b. Stalling*. b. Robins.-n. h. "THE OLD RELIABLE' PlANJ’ E 51’?ok Black C CAPSULE REMEDY.-3R MEN AT CHUGSI8T8.0R TRIAL BOX BY MAIL bO. FROM PLANTER 93 HENRY ST BROOKLYN NY. — BEWARE O F . M ITATIOffa — Motorboat Race to Bermuda on June 6 Very Few Present-Day Ringmer Display Any Gray Matter When Fighting. I>y Otto C. Floto. 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 w'e all possess, but the quick-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 frdm defeat. It is the latter kind of goods that are lacking in tile make-up of our fighters to-day. The same thought germ that prow led about in the noodles of McAuliffe, Dempsey, Kid McCoy, Peter Jackson, Tommy Ryan, Tim Corbett and others is not visible when we view a contest now adays. Thinkers Are on Top, It 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 But 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 give 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, sameness 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. The 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 loud or swing for the head or body. Just chance pure and simple, both in the offensive and defensive, consti tuted all the work 1 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 Queenaberry, then a graduating student from Oxford, framed a code that had the effect of removing bru tality from the fracas. Under this new set of rules science was promul gated and we graduated from the old school of Sayers and Mace to clever er men with the 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 What A merican League Needs in the 1914 Season UK needs of the American -4- League clubs 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. that Freddie shoots either to the jaw or The firs t is a left uppercut ^b '.HEBE photographs, posed especially for The Sunday American, show how Welsh delivers some of his best blows. - «, ---------- overhand right ( hop 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. CULT IS LEADING PHASE HEM Etowah Gathers $24,984.75 Dur ing Harness Racing Season. Ten Are Close Second. B AUK in midseason It looked as Iseas (2. ( PREPARING EDII I SID OLYMPIAD Lieutenant DeLaval Will Be Pen tathlon Representative — To House Athletes in Berlin, \T ,T * IN BigG Cures in 1 Vo 5 days uDOsturst <Jiaeharf«* OntfaAus do poison*, and may be fuU ■ trsDSth •bsoHi'stj bout fear Ousrsn- Pmmb •***• r < * 130Y CURE YOU* SSL FT why . _ At DTuggiRtB. .or by pare*-! p**' * bottle? $2.75 Pert rule- « or ntaM“d on request -tuf fcVAN6 CHEMICAL THfc tv* Cincinnati, Q. PHIUApKLLHlA. Dec 21. The an- jiual motorboat race to Bermuda, which it was thought for a time would be abandoned will be run as usual next year. June 6 L the date that has been announced for it RYAN, ANGRY. QUITS GOTHAM I NKVV YORK. l»ec 27 Paddy Ryan, 'champion weight thrower, who r«*s'g n ed from the Irish A U . may go to Chicago [and compete for some club there, his friends declare.! *o-da> Ryan and J. » 1 ft cl a! a to show proper fraternal spirit. COY MAY COACH NEXT YEAR | WASHINGTON. Di . Ted Coy. j famous fullback of the Yale eleven a COMPANY lern shoo fing boric irig tabriors next iy .Janies S. Mitckel, World’s Champion Weight Thrower. )T only have the athletic coun- ies of Europe been absorbing the advanced American ideas of sport, but a few have even shown inclinations to go the Yankee plan one better, especially in the line of making a timely start for big events. Sweden seems to be foremost in this respect, as can be demonstrated by the manner in which they regard the Olympiad at Berlin in 1916. The fixture is more than two years off. yet the Swedish Olympic Committee has started to make arrangements to house its team at the German capital. They are first as far as a definite move toward preparation goes, for no other country has yet bothered .about how the teams will live or eat a couple of years from this data Already the Swedes have had the trial for the modern pentathlon, and the winner turned up in Lieuten ant DeLaval. This is a record in the way of preliminary trials. It is re ported from Stockholm that Lieuten ant DeLaval is to train steadily for the next two years, and is sure to be returned a winner. By the way, nobody feels certain that the modern pentathlon will be included on the German program. The Swedes are out to win the point championship from the United States at Berlin, and they are going to leave no stone unturned in the de velopment of point winners. The Swedes were confident of win ning the point championship for the track and field items at their own Olympiad, and were thunderstruck when the}' saw their champions smothered by the Americans. They couldn’t understand it. and only in the end did it dawn on them that running against a champion op ponent is a totally different game running records against an day clock. The Swedish runners broke ail sorts NEW YORK. lk7!c~ T! , Brooklyn I ? f r ? 00 , r J s n a f al, ? st watch-hold- t'lub. Of thr National Lea K ue. announce" In*, bu failed miserably when It came that negotiations have been completed to duplicating the times against the the young j Yankees. It looks now as if the Greeks would be left alone in the Athenian Festival next spring, except that here and there some patriotic athletes and big clubs might help them out in the way of stars. Several months ago the Greeks asked the International Olym pic Committee to help them out, but nothing has come of the request. The governing bodies of the different countries figure that the Grecian meet is too close on that at Berlin, and that big teams can not be mus tered every year, or at least so soon, on top of each other. Madden’s fleet, game and con sistent laughter of Moko, would have a walkaway as the leading money winner of the year among harness race horses. But shortIv afterward she began to show signs of being the 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 following 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 iist 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 fail in which he was engaged, he had a chance to beat Tenara out, for pre vious 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 when 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 ol $24,493.75, which enabled him 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: FldL'O an<l Dat* Time. Wm>. (ireenrille, Ohio, .lime 25 .. . 'iiliS 1 * $ lfiO.OO North Randall. Ohio. July 8 .2:093* 9ar..ft0 Kalamazoo. Mich., Aug. 5 '-ItOfPa ".TOO on Detroit. Mich.. Auk. 12 2:07^ fiOO.OO Indianapolis, Imt.. Seta. 8 ... 2:1044 Columlms, Ohio. Sept. 24 .... 2.0-'>\ Columbus, Ohio. Oct. 3 2:0f^i Lexington. K.v . Oct. 7 2:0844 Record Prices Paid For Star Players Joe Tinker, Cincinnati, bought S j by the Brooklyn club, National ' ; League. $25,000. Marty O’Toole, St. Paul, Ameri- j can Association, bought by the | Pittsburg club, National League, ^ , $22,500. Larry Chappell, Milwaukee, American Association, bought by Chicago club, American League, $18,000. Lefty Russell, Baltimore, Inter national League, bought by the ; Philadelphia club, American ) > League, $12,000. Fritz Maisel, Baltimore, Inter- - national League, bought by the J New York club, American League, : $12,000. Rube Marquard, Indianapolis, American Association, bought by the New York club, National League, $11,000. CRITICISED ERR Runyon Declares West Can Never Protest Again—Michigan is Suitable. No Stock Taken in Fogel, Says Griff “Horace Fogel’s comments on Garry Herrmann are entirely unfounded, and can not be seriously taken tor a min ute,” says Ciark Griffith, rallying to the defense of his former employer. Fogel’s most recent outburst is to the effect that he has been commissioned by the Fleishman interests to have some one purchase their interest in the Cincin nati club. “Herrmann is one of the squarest men in the game, has done much to put baseball on its feet and keep it there, and has suffered much adverse criti cism which was entirely unwarranted,’’ says Griff. The whole truth of the matter is that Herrmann was forced to get rid of Tin ker. and after having several bum trades offered which were ridiculous in the extreme, let Tinker go at what he thought was the best price. Players, it is understood, were not available, and those that were offered were in every way undesirable. Cashion Must Show Underhand Delivery WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—There is one chance for Carl Cashion. the big right hander remaining with the Nationals. If Cashion can develop an underhand delivery he has a chance of sticking as a flinger. If he fails, he probably will be sent to the minors Cashion is a big right-hander and showed lots of speed, but little control, when he was able to work last year and the season before. During the 1913 campaign he injured his shoulder and was of little use to Griffith. He played ' if* 7*. a few contests in the outfield, being a 1,200.00 [fairly good hitter 10,83$! 66 N r 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 was 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 conversation about what some of these Western football teams would do to the Eastern nigskin 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 w r ork 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 suggested 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 D. Rockefeller. We had gath ered the impression that the West erners were simply fining away for an opportunity to leap on the poor Easterners, but it soon developed that such was by no rneans the unan imous case. Some of t\ie Chicagoans may have wanted to leap all right enough, but they w’anted 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 acknow ledged foot ball champion of the Bast. 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 you know, and everybody knows, that it will be just about the biggest thing in the football line that will be staged next season. Daring American Player Picked to Succeed Harry Payne Whit ney in 1914 Clash, \ T OW that an intern.; < n > maten in 1914 is pra< . . \ sured, the American spor loving public may look forward vUtii keen anticipation to witnessing again this most thrilling and most wonder ful sport in the world. The American ”Bi.g Four” won over the English invaders last June, bu: only after olaying the grandest, mu” death-defying game ever staged • any field. Only after they were r to the end qf human endurance, for ing to the limit (heir 'powerful i nit.-, riding with the speed of a. w irlwind, unmindful of life or limb, were they able to triumph over th- wonder? i Britons. What are the Americans han*es of repeating the victory in ■ • ■. 1 This is the big question polo en thusiasts arc asking to-day, and it one that will be difficult to ■-w • The team that represent l the Brin- last year has been scattered to i •• four points of the compass; an en tirely new quartet of invaders w/ make their appearan< * The chances are that the old "Big Four” combination, which has brought so much glory to the Americans fr : the polo battlefields, never will together again. A new team will h, ‘ chosen, and Devercux Milburn, o garded as the greatest poloist th ever swung a mallet, will be the on y member left of the famous Four.” The new 7 American combine probably will be; 1, Rene La Mo (ague: 2. Devereux Milburn: i"’ E. Stoddard; back, Malcolm Steve?; son. The Polo Association, which t: nu the team, figures that v playing forward and Stevenson goal guardian, the Amei ' n w’ould be noticeably stronger. M. burn is a wonderful player < sition. w’hile Stevenson? 2 c value is in the backfield. BRAVES RELEASE DICKSON. BOSTON. Dec 27.—The Braves y released Walter R. Dickson t<> ’ ter, cutting the pitching ? aft down seventeen men. Brooklyn Secures Cuban Shortstop j -X- Romanach. with Tommy shortstop of the Almendares club ... Cuba. Manager Robinson says that the player has accepted their terms. When the Brooklyn team was in Cuba last month Captain Jake Daubert was very much impressed with Romanach’s plav*- ing and tipped President Ebbets off to the player Romanach is only IS vears old. HANDS IN RESIGNATION. > \N FRANCISCO. Dei 27 B1li> Ior dan. veteran announcer of ring contests, handed in his resignation as a market hi spec tor to-day. He retire* at the age of 82 and will spend the balance of his days in the Yountsville Soldiers' Home Total $24,488.75 In c omparison, the campaign of Te nara, which comprised precisely the | same number of starts, tabulates a$ follows; Place ami Da:*. North Kaudwll. Ohio. July 10 Pittsburg. Pa.. July 19 Port Krfe. Ont.. July 23 Ur*ml Rapid*. Mich.. July 30 Kalamazoo. Mich., Aug. 13 Detroit. Mich.. Aug. 13 .... Hartford. Conn.. Sept. 1 .... Syracuse, N. Y . Sept 9 Time. 2:07 4 .2-.0814 .2:094 ,2:05\ . . 2:07*« . ,2:0t$k . .2:07*1 . .2:08’4 Wo: $ 640.00 .'1.666.OO fl.oOO.OO 2.500.00 5.000.00 Total $24,140.00 Each 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 lor one campaign by a trot ter of $35,700. I11 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. 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