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8 A TTCATIST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, OA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2R, 1913. WELSH HOPES TO FORCE RITCHIE TO A TITLE BATTLE WHILE IN ATLANTA OH IIISIT HERE 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 tEDDIR 1VF.1.8H, th*> English lightweight champion, who la to meot Frank Whitney, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, here on January 6, has wired The Sunday American Sporting Editor the following from New Or leans, where Freddie Is training for hla bout on New Year's Day with Johnny Dundee New Orleans, Deo. 26, 1913. W. S. Farnsworth, Atlanta Georgian. Will arrive in Atlanta day after my fight with Dundee. Will finish what training I nsed in your city. While In Atlanta will issue a challenge to Willie Ritohie that the American champion will either have to accept or admit that I am his master. FREDDIE WELSH. Having no idea what said challenge *ill be. the writer can not comment on it. However, Lou Caatro, who is pro moting the Welsh-Whitney battle, Is figuring on a championship bout here next May. The Shriners will be In the olty and the Fount figures that he can offer Ritchie and Welsh a tre mendous purse to hook up hero •I figure that with the Shriners in the city I could draw at least a $20,000 house with Ritchie and Welsh In n ten-round bout,” said the genial pro moter yesterday. “At any^rate, I am tfguring on such a match.'* Very Few Present-Day Ringmer, Display Any Gray Matter When Fighting. Only Five, Including Two Doubt ful, Remain in the American and National. Baseball Signals H l TT rp ureiy t.ui or Joke. Declares Hutt u«gue«?N'mi 7 be Just two playing fOW many more years before the playing managers will be en tirely cut of existence In the season there will vlng leaders In the I American League, while there will be Huff Illinois’ famous ha..ball coach. I * ho '" thr ’‘« or four In the National. ul4 ' ]ut night that the tradition that I Not so many years a*o this was tntricats systsms of st*nals ar* used hy ' entirely changed Most ot the man- good ball teams Is a Joke. Huff's remsrk agora for ball cVuba took active part was oocaslonod by the Interview In on diamond, but at the present which Dean Small, of Chicago, declared ,, ms most of (hem do their managing In favor of retiring baseball ooaohss to the grandstand that the player* might olav of their own Initiative and not an — * .. V.4. a ...a.tur Via ttA ATI t M ef puppets moved by a master hand on the **Tin willing to sit In the ®t*nd “ said HufT. “but I hate to see such Ideas pre vail. They were fostered by the scien tific writers on baseball in the mega sines. The good teams. big league or college, don't have intricate systems of signals. We’ve been fairly successful snd the largest number of signals l ever had was three, and that was a*cep- ll< ^There Is nothin* 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 side lines first De Oro Will Defend Three-Cushion Title NEW YORK, Dec. *1 Alfrerto De Oro, the veteran Cuban cue w'le'der, who was recently relieved of hla pool chant Dlonshlp. will defend hla only remaining title In a three cushion billiard match with Charles Morin, of Chicago, early neat month. The match will be played on January f, « and 7 In tills otty, probably at Doyle’s Academy. This match has been In prospect for some time, but as the champion ha* been under the weather recently he put off to the last 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 [.lace for playing and chose New York. Carpentier to Accept Gunboat's Challenge LONDON, Dec 27 -Georges Carpen tier. the French pugilist, has advised hla manager to accept Gunboat Smith * challenge for u twenty-round bout at the National Sporting Club here short ly, the stakes to be 110.000 a side. Elated over his one-round victory over Bombardier Wells. Carpentier Is willing to light any man In the world Smith Is In San Francslco at the present time preparing for his twenty- round contest with Arthur Pelky on New Year * Day. By Otto 0. Floto. D ENVER, Dec. 27.—Probably no branch of sport suffers to the same extent as does boxing In the matter of brains. Wo 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 least. And yet those who have the Intelligence are on top, vl*: 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 If this Is the rose, there will be no | n battle of strength, skill and hitting from the bench. When the 1914 campaign opens, there Is a possibility that only Joe Birmingham, of the Naps, and Bill Carrigan, of the Red Sox, will be play ing managers. The other six 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 'TIE needs of the American League clubs seem to be about as follows: Philadelphia—A right-handed bat ting outfielder to replace Walsh, who goas to New York. Washington—A hard-hitting out fielder and another right-handed ■ pitcher. . Cleveland—a right-handed pitcher, ; a ditcher 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 flrat baieman and an under study for Shortstop Wagner. Detroit—One outfielder, three In- fielder* and three pitcher*. New York—First baseman, a pitch er. a catcher and at least two out fielders. 8t Louis—A catcher* a right- ! handed pitcher, a first baseman, a second sacker, a shortstop and an \ outfielder or two. NEW YORK, Deo. 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 Jot) 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 Ed McKeever, who was also ( / present, and McKeever headed off Jen ■’ Joe Tinker, Cincinnati, bought by the Brooklyn club, National League, $25,000. Marty O’Toole, 8t. Paul, Ameri 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* j national League, bought by the Runyon Declares West Can Never Protest Again—Michigan Is Suitable. Philadelphia club, American League, $12,000. Fritz Maisel, Baltimore, Irrter- ; national League, bought by the New York club, American League, < $12,000. Rube Marquard, Indianapolis, American Association, bought by N' playing lenders In the A L. Frank Chance and Jimmy Callahan, not so lonff uko, were playing; manager*, but retired In 1918, and there 1* hardly a chance they will return In 1914 This Is altogether different from the start of 1918. when George Stovall, Jake Stahl, Joe Birmingham, Jimmy Callahan and Frank Chance were the playing leaders But times change everything, and the national pastime 1* no exception to the rule. It will be a Utile different 1n the senior body. There were four playing leaders In the organisation 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 hall lucsb In the National during 1919 were Miller Huggins, of the Catdlnals; Johnny Elvers. Cubs; Joe Tinker. Beds, and Charley Dooln, Phillies, At that, the latter did not play so very regular, letting Bill Kllllfer, the former Brownie, do most of the catching Cnless the unforeseen happens. Miller Huggins, Johnny Evers and Charley Dooln will again manage from the Held In 1914. while the Cin cinnati club has secured Herxog to take Tinker’s place. The managers for major league clubs In 1913 nnd 1914: American League. Team. . Bt 1 .a tula .. Beaton .. rhlln.lalphla .. .. Washington .... .. Detroit . . Cleveland ..New York .. Chicago XMAS RATES Reduced over N., C. & St. L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R. Apply any Agent. — THE OLD RELIABLE" ms. gu-vall. *. . . Ptahl. p. Mark, b OriftUh. b b. . .. Blrmlnirham, p. Chance, p Callahan, p . 1914. b. ...Carrl/ran. p Mack. K Griffith, b , Jennlnjn, b. Birmingham, r . Chance, c. Callahan, b. Hufflna. p. F,»er«, p . . . Clarke, b. .. Tinker, p. . MeC.raw. b Bialltncs. b. Dahlen. b. Dooln. p. National League. .. St Lmtla .. Chicago .. Pllleburf . . Cincinnati .. New York .. Boston .. Brooklyn .. Philadelphia . . Hufffna. p. . ITrera. p . ...Clarke. l> H*rao«. y MeC.raw. b. . ,8t*lUn*». b. . Hublnaon. b. Dooln. p. p Placing inanagor; b Bench nmnagar. Motorboat Race to Bermuda on June 6 powers—it was a fierce contest of Wit vs. Wit, of brain pitted against brain as well. The follow who could think 4ie fastest—providing the men were equal in all other particular*-—won. No falso movoa crept into the fray, and every mother’s son of them knew why and the reason for every blow hey aimed at the top-piece of the id versa ry 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 bo busy and chance to fate that one f the wild swings on rampage might land in or on a vital spot and win the contest, heaven knows how. T have seen probably ten bouts in the last month, and not in any alngle one of them has intelligence been used. The me 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 ross-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 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 or 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. REME DY>' JH jjYi E AT DRUOei8T*.OH TRIAL BOX BY MAlL&Ou FBOH PLANTER 93 HENRYST BROOKLYN.NY. ?r 1 BigG 001*101 pwto* * • 4(1 1M M full »tr *o ftq lift Itaij tiitfao- wttfenn f»»r tMd Dot 1*> Etrtctur'L Pro Tents rotitajfl* WHY NOT CLRe YOUP8ELF7 At Druggists, or by parcel post H or , bottle* K 76 Particular* with each fcett’.e or maUeA on request YH5 EVANS CHEMICAL COMPANY PHILADELPHIA, Dec. *7—The an- nual motorboat race to Bermuda, which It w»u* thought for a time would be abandoned, will be run as u*«ual next yuar June 6 In the date that has been announced for it. RYAN, ANQRY, QUITS GOTHAM. NEW YOKK, Pec 27. Paddy Ryan. F hamplon weight thrower, who resigned rora the Irish A. C., may go to Chicago and oompete for 10m* club there, his friends declared to-day. Ryan and J J Cahill. Metropolitan champ, resigned, it Is said, because of 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. .... ( CHICK ns GOLFER. Hi 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, la said to have been tipped* off about Jennings’ negotiations, and to have determined to put Wilbert Robinson in his berth. Wherefore, says the story, MoGraw and Robinson faked a quarrel and McGraw released Robin- i son. so lie 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. the New York League, $11,000. club, National No Stock Taken in Fogel, Says Griff Uhlan Makes Last "D 11* A Aminunn most recent outburst Is to the effect i. 11011C Appeal allC6 that he has been commissioned by the — — Ulpichman i tl f t.raoJ □ 4a kaita eama Ana “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 Continued From Page 7. 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,” ays Griff. 1 The whole truth of the matter is that Brooklyn Secures Cuban Shortstop NEW YORK. Dec. 2C.—The Brooklyn club, of the National league, announces that negotiations have teen completed with Tommy Romanach, the young shortstop of the Almendares club In Cuba. Manager Robinson says that the player has accepted tbelr terms. When the Brooklyn team was In Cuba last month Captain Jake Daubert was very much impressed with RomanaoV. s play ing and tipped President Ebbets off to the player. Roir.anach Is only IS year? old. pretty much over all the United States on that little jaunt, and yet, when he walked Into The Goorgian a 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 ho would bet Chick Evans knew be face and name at least 5.000 people he had met casually in his travels. “I never saw such a facultv for re membering people,” said this unwit ting informant.* “Chick ought to be a politician.” Nix on the Politician. I except to the politician. A poli tician is a good fellow from policy-— usually. Chick Evans la a good fel low because he can t help it. He en joys living as much as anybody I ever saw, and he 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 the club with his palms or his fingers*, if he broke his knees in driving; If he thought there was anything to the open stunce; if he kept his right elbow close in on his half swings, and sixty- five other questions of similar tenor and import. Chick Told Them. And Chick Evans, smiling away, an swered them, every one. Answered them painstakingly and thoughtfully, and all the w'hlle fairly bubbling over with good nature and good fellowship and the old Joy of life that O. Khay yam sang about 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 more 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 firma 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 h1« 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 L-ake Sunday. 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 pearance in harness, according to re ports from Lexington, Ky.. where he trotted a mile with running mate in 1:54*4. His owner. C. K. G. Billir<g. J . of New York, has decided it Is said, to, retire him from the trotting turf and here- j Herrmann was forced to get rid of Tln- after use him as a saddle horse. an< ^ after having several bum Uhlan is a big. strong, handsome trades offered which were ridiculous In fine fronted b.ack gelding, i*ith riding extreme, let Tinker go at what he shoulders, a strong back, plenty of ac- thought was the best price. Players, It tlon and a disposition which s.iouid j s understood, were not available, and make him almost a model horse for the , those that w r ere offered were In every saddle. Uhlan is nine years old. and. begin ning as a four-yt*ar-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 arej Record—Hitch. \ ’■•mile sulky I u.-mile—wagon one mile--sulky one mile—wagon Mile (trot, mate)—wagon.. Mile (run. mate)—wagon... Mile C/4 m. tr.)—sulky 4- year-old gelding—sulky.. 5- year-old gelding—sulky.. Gelding in race—sulky Two-heat by gelding—sulky Aged Time. 27 ~ :56*4 1:56 2:00 2:03 Ut l:r>4U 8 way undesirable. Cashion Must Show Underhand Delivery WASHINGTON. Deo. 27.—There Is one chance for Carl Cashion. the big right hander remaining with the Nationals. If Cashion can develop an underhand I (2:03V I (2:04\ Tommy Murphy Is Only Real Vet Left 2 07 4 ^eUvery he ban a chance of sticking as 2:02 , 4i !* fllnger. If he fails, he probably will 2:03^ be sent to the minors. Cashion is a big right-hander and showed lots of speed, but little control, when he was abie 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. 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 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 W r estem 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. W'e had gath ered the impression that the West erners were simply fining away for ah opportunity to leap on the poor Easterners, but It soon developed that such was by no n^ans the unan imous case. Some of tVe 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 la a Western college all right enough. Michigan was willing. Michigan always seems willing, and so we are to have a great lnterseo- 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. v 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. N OW that an international polo match In 1914 Is practically »nred, th» American spor;- lovlng- public may look forward with keen anticipation to witnessing again thl* most thrilling and most wonder ful sport In the world. The American “Big Four— won orer the English Invaders last June, but only after nlaylng the grandest, moat death-defying game ever staged on any field. Only after they were forced to the end of human endurance, forc ing to the limit their powerful poale*, riding with the speed of a whirlwind, unmindful of life or limb, were they able to triumph over the wonderful Britons. tl'hat are the Americana’ chaoses of repeating the victory In 19141 This Is the big question pAlo en thusiasts are asking to-day, and It I* one that will be difficult to annrer The team that represented the British last year has been scattered to the four points of the compass; an en tirely new quartet of invaders will make their appearanoe. The chances are that the old “Bl® Four” combination, which ha» brought so much glory to the Americana from the polo battlefields, never will utay together again. A now team win be chosen, and Devereeuc Mtlbnrn, re garded as the greatest pololst that ever swung a mallet, will be tile only member left of the famous *TB1* Four." The new American oomhtaatJno probably will be: 1, Rene La Mon tague; 2. Deveretoc Mllburn; 8, Louts E. Stoddard; back, Malcolm Steven son. The Polo Association, which names the team, figures that with Mfibum playing forward and Stevenson as goal guardian, the American team would be noticeably stronger. MU- burn is a wonderful player at any po sition, while Stevenson’s greatest value Is In the backfield. BOc package Thomason *» fa mous Asthma Remedy. HANDS IN RESIGNATION. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 27 Billy Jor dan. veteran announcer of ring contests*, haiided In his resignation a* a market Inspector to-day. lie retires at the age of ?3 and will spend the Im*lance of his —„ . * ^ 4aye la 1A0 \'ouiii*vUi* Soldier*’ Home, * January 5. b auo c > bifmy gets gas cart. CLEVELAND, Deo. 27.—President C. W Somers, of the Nape, to-day ad mitted that he 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 the past season.” said Somers. When on© recalls that Tommy Mur phy has seen three champions in his division oome and go it begins to dawn on you Just how wonderful a fighter the little Harlem lightweight has been. Tommy was fighting when Joe Gans 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. Murphy was In the ring when Young Corbett, Jimmy Britt. Eddie Hanlon, 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 of his ring career, but even at that time he never had the chance to get to the top. GIANTS KEEP SNODGRASS. NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—One who is In Manager MoGraw's confidence says: I “There Is no chanco of Fred Snodgrass being released or used In a trade, as John J. thinks he is one of the best gardeners and baeerunners in the busi ness.” GRIFFITH RECALLS SPENCER. Manager Clark Griffith has recalled . •. Spencer from the Los Angeles club In I' an effort to fortify his outfield. He | 1 has also signed up Muesel, an outfield er of the Los Angeles club. DEORO TO PLAY MORAN. CHICAGO. Dec 27. 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