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8 A TTEARST’R STINT) A V AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1913 WELSH HOPES TO FORCE RITCHIE TO A TITLE BATTLE WHILE IN ATLANTA Castro Figuring Ten-Round Bout Between Two Champs During ShrineiV Week. WOULD DRAW $20,000 GATE Englishman to Come to Atlanta for Whitney Scrap Day Af ter Dundee Affair. IEDD1E WKI.SH, thft Kmrllsh "N lightweight champion, who la to meet Frank Whitney, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, here on January ft, has wired The Sunday American Sporting Editor the following from New Or leans. where Freddie la training for his bout on New Year’s Day with Johnny Dundee New Orleans. Dee. 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 am his master. FREDDIE WELSH. Having no Idea what said challenge v» i i be, the writer can not comment on it, * However. Lou Castro, who is pro moting the Welsh,-Whitney battle, Is figuring on h championship bout here next May. The Shriners will be in the , itv and the Count figures that he - an offer Ritchie and Welsh a tre mendous puree to hook up here. ■ I figure that with the Shriners In the city I could drfew at least a $20,000 j house with Ritchie and Welsh in a ten-round bout," said the genial pro rooter yesterday. “At any rate, I am figuring on such a match.’* - ERE photograph*. poser/ especially for The Sunday American, show how Welsh delivers some of his best blows. The firs t is a left uppercut that Freddie shoots either to the jaw or bodu; 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. in-. moms Hugh Jennings Was Hot After Manager Berth in Brooklyn Record Prices Paid For Star Players What American League Needs in the 1914 Season ^fb i need* 7 about ax follows: the American Very Few Present-Day Ringmer Display Any Gray Matter When Fighting, Philadelphia—A right-handed bat ting outfielder to replace Walsh, who Only Five, Including Two Doubt ful, Remain in the American i and National. Baseball Signals H Joke. Declares Huff major leagues? N?xt 1 Ka Iiic* nla i ln, OW many more years before the playing managers will be en tirely cut of existence in the season there w‘ll be Just two playing leaders In the American League, while there will be about three or four in the National. CHAMPAIGN. ILL.. Dec 27.—George Huff. Illinois’ famous baaeball coach, aald last night that the tradition thatt Not so many years ago this wa» Intricate systems of signals are used by i entirely changed Most of the man- good ball teams la a joke. Huff * remark ! agers for ball clubs took active part was occasioned by the Interview in ! on the diamond, but at the present which Dean Small, of Chicago, declared • moat of them do their managing In favor of retiring baseball ooach©§ to the grandstand that the players might p . . . .. I.I mAt a II play-of their wtj initiative and not as Puppets moved by a master hand on the oench. . ,, ’•1 m willing to alt in the atand, said Huff "but I hate to aeo euch ideas ore- vail They were fontered by tlie tific writers on ba*»-ball in the maga rinr* Tho gcoA teams, hi* Issxus or . olls K e. don't havs lnii-tcat* systems of Sipnal? We've been fairly successful „nd the largest number of signals I ever l td was three, and that was excep- tlonal. ... , . 'There is nothing in the spirit or let- ter of baseball rules forbidding bench coaching Football Is a different matter end I think they'd better retire the roaches from the aide lines first De Oro Will Defend Three-Cushion Title NEW YORK. Per 27 -Alfredo Pe- Or«r the veteran Cuban cue wtekler, who was recently relieved of his pool cham pionship. will defend his only remaining title in a three-cuehlon billiard match with Charles Morin, of Chicago, early next month The match will be played on January fc. * and 7 in this city, probably at Joyle's Academy. 4 , Thie match has been in prosnect for nome time, but as the champion has under the weather recently he put off to tbe last his notification on the challenge bv Morin Morin wanted the jnatoh played in Chicago, but PeOro ex ere lead the champion’s privilege to sc lent the place for playing and chose New Yorh from the bench. When the 1914 campaign opens, there is a possibility that only Joe Birmingham, of the Naps, and Bill Carrlgan, of the Red Sox. will be play ing managers. The other six will act from the bench Carrlgan, 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 tUie is the ease, there will be no playing lead n In th< \ L. Frank Chance and Jimmy Callahan, not so long ago, were playing managers, but retired in 1913. and there Is hardly a chnne© they will return in 1914. This is altogether different from the start of 1913. when George Stovall, Jake Stahl. Jde Birmingham, Jimmy Callahan and Frank Chance were the playing leaders But times change everything, and the national pastime is no exception to the rule. 1! will be a little different in the senior body There were four playing leaders in the organization which will be presided over by Governor Tenor, while in all proba- Carpentier to Accept Gunboat's Challenge f Pennsylvania Doyle's Academy. blllty there will be a like total durln This match has been in prospect jor Those who t<»ok active part on the diamond and also handled ball lucsb In the National during 1913 were Miller Huggins, of the Caidlnals; Johnny Evers, Cubs; Joe Tinker, Reds, and Charley Dooln, Phillies. At that, the latter did not play so very regular, letting Bill KUllfer. the former Brownie, do most of the catching. Unless the unforeseen happens. Miller Huggins, Johnny Evers and Charley Dooln will again manage from the field in 1914. while the Cin cinnati club has secured Herzog to LONDON. Dec 27 -Georges Carpen- la kf Tinker’s place t;er. the French pugilist, has advised ^he managers for major league clubs in 1913 and 1914: Bv Otto C. Floto. D ENVER, I>e<\ 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 all possess, but the quick-as- lightning 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 Ryan, Jim 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 leas;. 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. Rut in the period when the first- named bunch thrived it was not only a battle of strength, skill and hitting powers—-It whs a fierce contest of Wit vh Wit, <Sf bruin 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, gameness or stamina just to busy and chance to fate that one goes to New York. Washington—A hard-hfttlng 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 - i around ability than Bodle and Col- ( < |ins, and a better second baseman ( ( than Berger. Boston—A second baseman, a reg- i ular first baseman and an under- > study for Shortstop Wagner. J Detroit—One outfielder, three In- ( fielders and three pitchers. > New York—First baseman, a pltch- ) 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 outfietder or two. 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 what he had to say, and Jennings telephoned him from Manhattan that he 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 at 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 Bid MoKeever, who was also i Joe Tinker, Cincinnati, bought by the Brooklyn club, National S League, $25,000. Marty O’Toole, St. Paul, Amerl- i can Association, bought by the ; Pittsburg club, National League, j| j $22,500. Larry chappeii, Milwaukee, Runyon Declares West Can Never; American Association, bought by j j J Chicago club, American League, j $18,000. Lefty Russell, Baltimore, Inter national League, bought by the Philadelphia club, American League, $12,000. ' Fritz Malsel, Baltimore, Inter national League, bought by the New York club. American League, $12,000. Rube Marquard, Indianapolis, Protest Again—Michigan Is Suitable, present, and McKeever headed off Jen- American A«nriatinn hAimht nirgs. Ed proved a good scout, and American Association, bought by ’' the New York club, National League, $11,000. 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 j — tipped off about Jennings' negotiations, j and to have determined to put Wilbert VT 04-^ rn 1 Robinson in his berth Wherefore, says ^\| Q UuOCJK X £Ll£6Il 111 N": Hs manager to accept Gunboat Smith's challenge for a twenty-round bout at the National Sporting Club here short- tv. th** stake* to be $10,<V>0 a aide Elated over his one-round victory over Bombardier Wells, Garpentier is willing to fight any man in the world. Hmlth Is in San Francsico at the present time preparing for his twenty- round contest with Arthur Pelky on New Year s Day. ItlS. Btorsll. p p Mark. b ■ • Griffith, b Jennings, b Birmingham, p. Chance, p Callahan, r American League Team. Bt Louis Boat on . Philadelphia ... \V sold niton Petrolt . Cleveland nvm i ork . Chicago 1014. . ..Rickey, h. . .Carrtsan. n Mack, h. . . Griffith, h. . Janulnga. b Birmingham, p Chance. r> Callahan, b. XMAS RATES Reduced over N., C. & St. L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R. Apply any Agent. B tiffin* • P- Ever*, p Clarke, b. .. Tinker. V> . McGraar. b stallings, b Dahlen. b. Dooln.. National League . St Lou la .. Chicago .. Ptttaburs .. Cincinnati N ' I r* .. Roatou . . Brooklyn . Philadelphia 1’laytnf manager; b Bench manager .ITuggns. t*. . . Kver*. p ...Clarke, b. Heraog. p IffrOraw. I Stalling*, b. . Robinson. b. .Dooln. p. “THE OLD RELIABLE" Motorboat Race to Bermuda on June 6 o'R CAPSULE REM EDY.onfvlEN PHILADELPHIA, Dec 17.—The an nual motorboat race to Bermuda, which it wmi U o Ifl I for u tltns wool. 11 abandoned, will be run as usual next year June 6 it« the date that has been announced for It AT DRU60I8T8.OR TRIAL BOX BY MAIL 60a /ROM PLANTER 93 HENRY ST BROOKLYN NY. — ari mi -beware or i mutations- BigG ■ vrt* to 1 la S da; a unx.atura'. Aechai*-.*. ta do polMti* snd ^ b« m Ml hall • trangth abaolxiuiy ntthoat fear Guaran lead not to atjtctara. Praeeato a P*L , _ WHY NOT CURE YOURSELF? At Druggists, or by parcel post. $1 or f bottles 12 76 Partlculsrs with esch ztottls or mailed on raouest fTHE EVANS CHEMICAL COMPANY CinstnaaSi, 0» RYAN. ANGRY, QUITS GOTHAM. NEW YORK, Dec 27 -Paddy Ryan, champion weight thrower, who resigned from th© Irish A C.. may go to Chicago and oompete for some club there, his friends declared to-day Ryan and J J Cahill. Metropolitan champ, resigned It is said, because <'f failure of club of ficials to show proper fraternal spirit Ask Jacobs’ Pharmacies or other leaders about Thomason's famous Asthma Remedy, two- minute relief. >f the wild swings on rampage might land in or on h vital spot and win the ntest, heaven knows how. I have en probably ten bouts in the last month, and not in any single one of thorn has intelligence been used. The ame old slam-bang stuff, the same old chances of landing, the same (kid 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 1 saw, by which they hoped to bring about results When the hue and cry to abolish the London prize ring was heard al over England, the venerable Marquis of Queensberry, then a graduating student from Oxford, framed a code that had the effect of removing bru tality from tho 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. the story. McGraw and Robinson faked a quarrel and McGraw released Robin son. so he would 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 which put Robinson in charge of the Dodgers for next year. !W 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 al! exude one long, subdued tear for the team! We have been hearing a great deal of conversation about what some of Daring American Player Picked to Succeed Harry Payne Whit 's, ney in 1914 Clash, POfTfil. SaVR fl-rifF: these Western football teams would do to th0 Kaatern Dig8kln rol]ers Jf “Horace Fogel’s comments Uhlan Makes Last -rw -l I • a jmost recent outburst is to the effect ruDiic Appearance !that he has been commissioned by the ** Fleishman interests to have some one they could only get a chance to do it; „ on j9rr > in fact, we felt that wav about it our- Herrmann are entirely unfounded, and j 3eIves . We felt that j h( , Easterner can not be seriously taken for a min- were obstinately depriving the under- ute,” says Clark Griffith, rallying to the ; takers of a lot of work by not per- defense of his former employer. Fogel’s I mittirg the Western football teams Continued From Page 7. pretty much over all the United States on that little jaunt, and yet. when he walked Into The Georgian’s shop the other morning he remembered me so readily that I felt enormously flat tered. Possibly unduly flattered, I decided later, when I heard somebody saying he would bet Chick Evans knew bv face and name at least 5.000 people he had met casually in his travels. 1 never saw such a facultv for re membering people.” said this unwit ting informant. ‘’Chick ought to be a politician.” Nix on the Politician. 1 except to the politician. A poli tician is a good follow from policy— usually. Chick Evans is a good fel low because he can’t help It. He en joys living as much as anybody I ever saw', and lie doesn't care who knows how good a time he is having. Chick Evans enjoys playing golf, and he enjoys talking about golf. In the clubhouse after his match Sat urday he was promptly the center of a group of golf bugs, all (it seemed) off in their game, and wanting to know if Chick gripped t^h* club with his palms or his fingers if he broke his knees in Driving; If he thought there was anything to the open stance; if he kept his right elbow close In on his hftlf swings, and sixty- five other questions of similar tenor and import. Chick Told Them. And Chick Evans, smiling away, an swered them, evt.-v one. Answered them painstakingly and thoughtfully, and all the while fairly bubbling over with good nature and good fellowship and the old Joy of life that O. Khay yam sang al>out and could have given a new slant to if only he’d known Chick Evans. Honestly. I’m sorry for Omar. Chick Evans is something Uhlan. 1:58. 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- I pearance in harness, according to re ports from Lexington, Ky., where he trotted a mile with running mate in 1:54 V*. His owner. C. K. G. Billings, of New ays Griff York, has decided it is said, to retire % The whole truth of the matter Is that him from the trotting turf and here- Herrmann was forced to get rid of Tin- after use him as a saddle horse. , ker, and after having several bum Uhlan is a bia. strong, handsome trades offered which were ridiculous In fine fronted black gelding, with riding extreme, let Tinker go at what he shoulders, a strong back, plenty of ac- thought was the best price. Players, It .. '• ^ ' "" * *” should ,\ 9 understood, were not available 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,” tion and disposition which make him almost a model horse for the 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 tlje full extent at this time. The more important world's records credited to Uhlan are: Record—-Hitch. . ( 1 , -mile Milky i v^-mlle—wagon one mile—sulky ( me mile—wagon Mile (trot, mate)— wagon.. Mile (run. mate) wagon... Mile m. tr ) sulky 4-year-old gelding sulky.. 6-year-old gelding—sulky.. Gelding in race- sulky ! Two-heat by gelding -sulky 1 Age.: si Time. ; :56V4 ! 1:56 i 2:00 2:03V* , 1:54V* 2:02% 2:07 I 2:02% 2:03 V* (2:03>£ i 2 :04% and those that were offered were in every way undesirable. Cashion Must Show Underhand Delivery 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 bow wonderful a fighter the little Harlem lightweight has been. Tommy was fighting when Joe Gans was champion, and he saw Bat Nelson .. n 1 \ .-I ah..., * M.l'n .. (V. A ♦ I f 10 WASHINGTON. Dec. 27.—There is one r hance for Carl Cashion. the big right- han4er 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 a few contests in the outfield, being a fairly good hitter. 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 pining away for an opportunity to leap on the poor Easterners, but it soon developed that such was by no ingans the unan imous case. Some of ffce Chicagoans may have wanted to leap all right enough, 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, hut 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 championehip 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. N Brooklyn Secures Cuban Shortstop NEW VORK, Dec 2C.—The Brooklyn club, of the National league, announces that negotiations have been completed with Tommy Romanach. the young shortstop of the Almendares club in Cuba. Manager Robinson says that the player has accepted their terms When the Brooklyn team was in Cuba last month Captain Jake P&ubert was very much impressed with Romanach s play ing and tipped President Ebbets off to the player. Romar.ach Is only 18 vears old. HANDS IN RESIGNATION. SAN FRANCISCO. Deo 27 Billy Jor dan, veteran announcer of ring contests, handed in his resignation as a market inspector to-dav. He retires at the age of 82 and will spend the balance of his days in tk© Yountsvili© {Soldiers' Horae than a wonderful golfer—a good deal more. He is one of the most genial, happy, optimistic and altogether lov able chaps on the top side of terra flrma to-day. He has a marvelous genius for the greatest of all games— and for the game of life Chick Evans is equipped with a personality that will serve hi« turn even better than his miracles of the links aid him in the Royal and Ancient Game of Golf Leaves Atlanta To-night. Mr. Evans’ brief visit to Mr. Adair ends Sunday night, when he departs for his Chicago home, and his busi ness—for Chick is a business man. He will play morning and afternoon rounds at East Lake Sunday. and Ad Wolgast win and lose the title, and still he is in the game and many believe righting better than ever. Murphy was In the ring when Young Corbett. Jimmy Britt, Eddie Hajilon, Benny Yanger and scores of other great fighters were in their prime, yet he alone 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 ] more j of his ring career, but even at that BIRMY GETS GAS CART. CLEVELAND, Dec. 27 —President C W. Somers, of the Naps, to-day ad mitted that b© had presented his man ager. Joe Birmingham, with a new sev en- passenger automobile. "It was in appreciation of his great showing with the Naps th© past season.” said Somers. DE ORO TO PLAY MORAN. CHICAGO. Dec. 27.- Alfred PeOro. o New York, champion three-cushion bil Hard player, to-nay accepted the chal lenge of Charles Moran, of Chicago, for a match here January 5. 6 and time he never had the chance to get to th© top. GIANTS KEEP SNODGRASS. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—One who Is In Manager McGraw’a confidence says: “There Is no chance of Fred Snodgrass being released or used In a trade, as John J thinks he is one of the best gardeners and baserunners in th© busi ness.” GRIFFITH RECALLS SPENCER Manager Clark Griffith has recalled Spencer from the Los Angeles club In an effort to fortify his outfield. He has also signed up Muesel, an outfield er of the Los Angeles club. catarrh; wwv* OW that an international polo match in 1914 is practical \ mired, the American spor - loving public may look forward with keen anticipation to witnessing again thi* most thrilling and most wonder ful sport in tho world. The American “Big Four" won over the English invader* last June, but only after nlaying the grandest, mor death-defying game ever gt&ged or. any fleJd. Only after they were forced to the end of human endurance, fore ing to the limit their powerful ponies, riding with the speed of a whirlwind, unmindful of life or limb, were they able to triumph over the wonderful Britons. What are the American*' chance# of repeating the victory in 1914T This Is the big question poh> tm thualasts are asking, to-day, and it i* 'one that will be difflrnlt. to answer The team that represented the BritlJh last year has been scattered to th* four points of the compass; an sr tlrely new quartet of invaders win make their appearance. The chances are that the old *1*? Four” combination, which has bronftr so much glory to the Americans from the polo battlefields, never will piay together again. A*,new team will b« chosen, and Devcrenx Milbum, re garded as the greatest poloist ths* ever swung a mallet, will be the ©nit member left of the famous *BI« Four.’* * The new American e* until natt©" probably will be: 1, Rene Ia Mod tague; 2. Devereux Mllburn: 3, E. Stoddard; back, Malcolm Steven* son. The Pblo Association, udrlch name* the team, figures that with MTberr playing forward and Stevenson goal guardian, the American team would be noticeably stronger Mb* burn is a wonderful player at anv pc sltion, while Stevenson’s greats** valueMs In the backfleld. 50c package Thomason's fa mous Asthma Remedy. 1J This famous old whiskey is noted sis a smooth, rich, palatable drink of uniform quality. Of TMC BLADDER < Rilleni In 24- Hours J „ (midyU n*ra© KT \L_iS 4 J5©»or*r© qffiotmSmfrUs 4 . - . P a . Jefferson Club Rye Whiskey is the finest product of the distillery—It’s "excellent and a| superior —a favonte at the clubs—in the home, everywhere when the best is served. 4J Order it by name of any cafe or mail-order house. Straus, Gun£t & Co., Distillers and Distributors, Richmond, va %