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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
Paying $25,000 fora ]
Ball 1 ’layer Is Showing Beef Trust How to J
Boost Cost of ]
Living
BILL LINDSAY'S SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
Better To Be a Lobster Than a Wise Guy
PELS' INFIELD
Former Coast League Star Should
Prove Good Man at
Third Base.
N r K\V ORLEANS, Deo. 29.—The
announcement from Portland,
Ores:., that Bill Lindsay would
be transferred to New Orleans next
season Is a strong Illustration of the
intention of Chaney Homers to put
the very best minor league team at
his command in this city in 1914.
When it was reported some time
ago that Lindsay would come here,
denial was made both at Cleveland
and Portland, and it was said that
Manager McCredie, of Portland, con
sidered Lindsay so valuable that he
would not part with the infielder.
Somers changed his mind, though,
realizing that Lindsay’s return to
New Orleans would be a highly popu
lar move.
For a long time it was doubtful
whether clubs in the Pacific Coast
League would waive on Lindsay, as
he whs considered the star intielder of
that association last season Baseball
politics entered into it. however, and |
one thing that is said to have induced
the Coasters to let Lindsay get out
was the consent of the New Orleans
club to Artie Hofman, the once great
est utility player In the game, going
from Nashville to San Francisco.
Former Manager Frank held up
Hofman’s transfer as long as he
thought be would control the desti
nies of the Pelicans in 1914, thinking
ii a bad move to let Hofman get out
of the league, and desiring, if Hofman
made any change at all, to bring "Cir
cus Solly" to New Orleans.
Lindsay’s coming to New Orleans
Insures a first-class third baseman
for the local team next season. This
is where the Pelicans have been re
garded as somewhat weak, compared
with the other teams in the league.
Undsay is not only one of the best
infielders in the minors, but is one of
the best hitters. His record both last
year and the year before has secured
this rating for him.
The Pelicans now appear to be pro
vided with one of the strongest ar
rays of inflelders in the Southern
League.
Tulane and L. S. U.
May Quit S. I. A. A.
A big change may be made in the
make-up of the S. 1. A. A. oefqre the
next football season opens and a new
organization is likely to be formed.
Refusal of leading members of the
S I A A., which includes Auburn.
Vanderbilt. Georgia. Sewanee and Geor
gia Tech, to give Tulane or Louisiana
State games next season is the cause
of the whole affair. The new rollegiate
organization, to be known as the South
western, embracing Louisiana. Texas.
Oklahoma and Arkansas, within the
next few months, says The Daily Htates.
4 New Orleans publication.
The new organization, according to
information from an authoritative
source by The States, is looked upon
favorably by Tulane. L. S. U.. Missis
sippi A. and M . "Ole Miss.” Texas l\.
Texas A and M., Arkansas and Okla
homa. The first seven named colleges
are s l. A. A. members at present, but
are reported in a receptive mood to
loin the proposed body, whose purpose
will be to insure high-class football in
this section.
Ragan Considering
Offer From Federals
OMAHA. NKBIL, Dec. 29—'‘Pat” Ra
gan. pitcher of the Brooklyn National
league club, who lives In Omaha, is se
riously considering overtures made to
him by Federal League officials.
*Th< v offered mo a two years’ con
tract at a much better salary than the
Brooklyn club has paid me." said Ha
gan last night. '‘While I prefer to re
main in organized baseball, sentiment
is a small consideration, and. like every
other ball player, 1 am prepared to lake
advantage of any proposition that car
ries a satisfactory financial agreement. '
Ragan declined to say what financial
inducements had been held out to him.
‘Famous Plays’—By Heisman
No. 1—The Simple ‘V’ Wedge
By .). \V. Heisman.
V ERY frequently indeed during the football season I am asked to explain
or to describe this or that famous play of a day long gone by; but at
that time of the year there is scarcely room in the sporting pages
for all the live news, let alone the dead. Now, however, 1 have opportunity
to outline a few of the old-time great plays that may prove of interest to
the football fan.
The accompanying diagram illustrates the play that was used by all
teams a quarter of a century ago with which to open the game. It is a
simple wedge, or “V," as it was called. This must not be confounded with
the famous Hying wedge, which came into existence at Harvard some five
years later, and which I will describe in my next number.
While the rule that a game of football must start with a kickoff a! or
near the center seemed ui come into existence for the first time in 1894,
yet it is a fact that the rule always has been in the.game. But up to 1894—
the time when llie rule lirst insisted that the kick had to 1h> actual and
bona fide all teams got around the matter by simply picking tip the ball
and scraping it across the toe of the shoe, tints making a constructive kick
of it, or a kick so easy and short that it was caught again in the hands
of the player picking it tip after a flight of hut an inch or two.
* * *
T HIS clever evasion of the kicking rule was first hit upon by Lehigh
1 about 1885. It has sometimes been ascribed to kjtinceton, but this is
incorrect. After using it one year, Lehigh dropped the play on account of
the fact that they did not accompany the maneuver with a shfflciently clever
formation of the rush linemen to give aid to the runner. Here was where
Princeton improved the play , and the "V" was then at once adopted by all
teams.
The reason why every team '.n the land so quickly followed in the
lead of Lehigh and Princeton in adopting the wedge with which to open
the game was that In those days the defensive play of all teams was
lamentably weak as compared with their offense; lienee they hated to sur
render the hail to their opponents right at the outset by actually kicking
it to them, whereas by the use of the “V" they could legally kick it. yet
retain possession of it.
The diagram shows how the team with the ball set itself—some eight
men forming a wedge, willi a quarterback and both halves Inclosed in the
angle of the wedge. When all was ready, the center rush stooped, grasped
the ball, scraped it across the front of his right foot, snapped it back to
the quarter, who passed it to the first halfback, and instantly the whole
crew, as one man, were off either to the right or the left at top speed and
beating down on the defensive players like a battering ram.
Meanwhile the other chaps were spread out ten yards in front of the
ball, and stood tense and waiting for Hie soqnd of that shrill whistle which
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Whitney’s Style of Fighting Should Prove Effective Against Briton
PROMOTERS SHOWER WELSH WITH BIG OFFERS
By Left ITook.
D ESPITE the fact that Freddie
Welsh recently announced that
he would seek a boui with Wil
lie Ritchie immediately after his
match with Frank Whitney at the
Auditorium January 6, promoters all
over the country are showering of
fers at the British champion.
Harry Pollok, manager of Welsh,
writes that he has no less than ten
offers for Welsh, and all of them are
worthy of consideration. Milwaukee
wants Welsh to meet Charlie White,
the Chicago sensation: New York is
after Freddie to fight Jack Britton;
Salt Lake City, Utah, would use the
British champion against some good
boy; Denver wants him for Steve
Ketchel, while Tom McCarey would
like to match Welsh with the winner
of the Leach Cross-Bud Anderson
affair. These are only some of the
promoters after the foreign star.
All these offers are in Pollok’s
hands at the present time, and are
causing the little manager consider
able worry. Ever since Freddie forc
ed Ritchie to run out of a match with
him at Vancouver a few months ago,
promoters have been after his serv
ices. However, it is doubtful whether
Pollok will accept any of these
bouts. Welsh has asked Pollok to
getr Ritchie for him, and he will not
rest until he drags the American
champion into the ring with him.
* * *
LMiKDDIE claims that Ritchie is
* doing everything in his power to
dodge a fight with him. but says that
he will follow Willie all around the
country and force him into a fight.
Welsh expects his set-to with Whit
ney to be his last bout before fight
ing Willie, as it is his present plan
to start for the coast right after his
battle with the Cedar Rapids “Fight
ing Carpenter."
Before taking on Whitney, Welsh
clashes with Johnny Dundee in New
Orleans on New Year’s afternoon, but
expects to win handily over the
Italian ringman. He does not think
Johnny ranks in the same class with
him, especially over the ten-round
route. In glancing over Freddie’s
record, it will be noticed that only
one boxer has ever defeated Welsh
in ten rounds, that gentleman being
Packey McFarland, who was given a
questionable decision over the Brit
ish champion in ten rounds at Mil
waukee way back in 1908. After that
fight Welsh held Packey to a 20 and
25-round draw, thereby proving that
he was as good as the Chicago mar
vel. When It is taken into considera
tion that Welsh has been fighting
since 1905, his record is all the more
wonderful. He has never dodged an
opponent, always being willing to
meet the best boys in the game.
* * *
C OUNT LOU CASTRO announced
yesterday that he expects Whit
ney to arrive here Wednesday.
Whitney will immediately open
training quarters and finish
working out for the fight. Frank’s
aggressive style of milling should
make a big hit against Welsh. True,
Freddie has a much better record
than Whitney, but it must be taken
into consideration that Frank has
always lacked a good manager. This
alone has kept many fighters from
reaching the top of the ladder.
Also the writer is expecting to see
Whitney’s style of fighting prove very
effective, against Welsh. Charlie
White told us after fighting Whit
ney that the latter is the hardest boy
in the lightweight division to hit.
Frank’s awkward style of fighting is
very hard for an opponent to solve.
Frank always keeps on top of his
rival, never giving him a chance to
draw back his hands to deliver a
solid blow. Whitney is also a glut
ton for punishment, and does not
know what the word quit means. The
"Fighting Carpenter" may be beaten,
but one thing the fighting public can
vouch for, and that is that Whitney
will give them the best he has.
• * *
T HE Cedar Rapids boy has fought
before an Atlanta following for
two years, and has yet to make one
unsatisfactory fight. And Frank has
met some of the toughest. He has
stacked up against Grover Hayes, Jake
Abel, Battling Nelson, Joe Thomas,
Eddie O’Keefe and Charlie White.
Local fans who saw Whitney in these
bouts know that he put up a
rattling scrap on every occasion.
Against Welsh. Whitney will be
forced to meet the best boy he has
ever been up against. Welsh is
a champion, and there are many ex
perts who think that he can t ke
Willie Ritchie to a lacing. He did
it once, and this will always be a
black mark on Willie's record, un
less he meets the Englishman and
erases it himself.
* * *
THE three companies of the Fifth
A Regiment who are promoting the
Welsh-Whitnev scrap have instructed
Matchmaker Castro to get a good bill
of preliminaries, and the Count is
busy lining up some top-notch
matches.
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hould rsli u iu pandemonium. Some of them ran forward as soon as the
whistle blew and threw themselves under the feet of the wedge, trying to
trip it up; others tried to catapult into it so hard that their force should
carry them clear through it; others dove deadlong over the top and tried
to get the runner inside around the neck, while the ends stayed out and
looked for a out-out on the part of the runner.
Oh. it was a line thrill you got while waiting for that infernal whistle,
ami that no matter which side you were playing on. It gives me the "jim
mies** yet to think of times when 1 have stood ic my place in the one
side or the other of that wedge and waited for the mad Huns to leap into
us like so many panthers, or have crouched low. with the defensive team,
and with dry tongue counted the second until that Carthaginian juggernaut
oi destruction should be set in motion and then sweep over us.
* * *
rvLl) BALLIET, one of the greatest centers that ever lived, was one of
j ^ the U»st men to head his wedge. In ui,\ day we had to go against him
ai Lehigh, but later he went to Princeton, and there he was even a worse
j man to have to encounter.
If the Y" shot off to the left it was manifestly easier for the defense
to cave in its right side than its left; but at this juncture the right half
with the ball would pass it back and out to the left half, and then, the
I quarterback in front and the fullback behind, the remaining three backs
would jump to the right side of the Y to take the places of the right
guard, right tackle and right end. who had gone down and out. Thus a
secondary "V" would shoot off from the primary and the ball keep on go
ing.
Laurie Bliss and Uarr\ Williams mow coaching Minnesota) were very
clever in taking advantage of this superb interference and in passing the
ball to each other back in the corral, and Yale gained tremendously nearly
always on this opening play. And 1 remember several times, seeing this
opening play go all the way for touchdown.
But the seem* that dwells most vividly in my recollection with refer
ence to this V” play and its execution is the wav the giant Hefflefluger, of
Yale, used to bust the blooming thing up. He stood about 6 feet 2 inches in
his stocking feet, and weighed about 195 pounds stripped. With it all he
was able to make the hundred in about "ten and a half." and was, alto
gether, the best football player 1 have ever seen. Playing left guard (H ou
diagram». he set himself just like a sprinter on his mark, and the instant
the ball went into play lie would shoot forward at the mass of his op
ponents like a bull making for a red blanket. But just before the collision,
high in the air arose his huge figure, and he threw hi" hip squarely upon
the heads and shoulders of the opposing guard and tackle so that it was
quite imjtossible for them to sustain the shock of his ponderous weight and
momentum.
Down the> invariably went in a heap, while Neff's" onward flight gen
erally carried him right on Vo the runner himself, whom he would catch
under the chin ami yank back out of the rear of the wedge like some
might} hook snagging a tint fish and the whole thing generally ended
right there
it would hate made a great subject for the movies."
It's Up to Ebbets
To Secure Tinker,
Declares Herrmann
CINCINNATI, Dec. 29.—Garry Herr
mann, president of the Cincinnati Na
tional League baseball club, to-day Is
sued a statement to the effect that he
was through with the .toe Tinker case.
"It is iiu to Brooklyn to get Tinker
or get stung," said Herrmann. "Presi
dent Ebbets. of the Dodgers, has paid
the Cincinnati club $15,000 as the pur
chase price. Cincinnati has accepted the
money and will keep it."
Did Johnson Fight
His Brother-in-Law?
A story, which comes from Chicago,
is in ^circulation to-day, w hich says
that .lack Johnson pulled off one of the
rawest fakes in t,he history of pugi
lism In his recent fight in Paris.
It is said that Johnson's opponent
in this bout was his brother-in-law, Gus
Rhodes, a powerful built negro, who is
something of a fighter, and who accom
panied Johnson when he jumped bail
and fled to Canada, on bis way to
France.
These persons insist that Johnson told
them before he left Chicago that Rhodes
would he his first opponent in a bout
in France, for the reason that he wanted
to avoid a real fight with Sam latng-
ford as long as possible.
The> declare that Rhodes is a ringer
for Battling Jim and could easily he mis
taken for the latter when stripped for
action. The story has been cabled to
tin* French Federation of Boxing by Chi
cago men who are hostile to the chain
pion, and it is expected that there will
he a thorough investigation. If it turns
out that LIT Arthur’s antagonist was
his brother-in-law. it is believed that he
will h»' barred from further ring con
tests in European countries.
Giants Deny Owing
Cardinals a Player
NEW YORK. Dec. 29. —John B. Foster,
secretary of the Giants, to-day said that
us far ns he knew the club did not owe a
hall player to the St. !x*uts Cardinals.
At the time Pitcher Otis Crandall was
returned by the Cardinals to the Giants
it was said McGraw agreed to give the
Cardinals an outfielder at the end of the
season.
The Cardinals recently made a request
for the outfielder, and Foster to-du\ an
swered it by saying that as far as he
knew the Cardinals did not have one
coming.
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
TO THE RED DIRECTORS.
Here*s to you. merry gentlenten,
Keep on the job, tee pray;
Your every move and chirrup
Gives us a laugh til way.
* * *
Konetohy is quoted as being "dissat
isfied with conditions in St. Louis.” This
seems to make it unanimous.
* * *
It is now four days since Charley
Murphy has issued a statement on the
Tinker situation, thus breaking the
world's record for self-control.
* ♦ *
"If the pitchers come up to form and
expectations,” says Connie Mack, "the
Yankees may finish as high as fifth."
Thanks for the lobster.
* * *
Manager Branch Rickey lias a pick of
thirt> -seven athletes from w hich to build
UP his 1914 combination. Thirteen of
them played with the Browns last sea
son. while twenty-four of them are new
comers.
Bill James, the former Cleveland hurl-
er, has been secured by the Browns from
the Pacific Coast League.
w • *
lnfleldtr Eddie Grant, who was lucky
enough to he in for a share of the
world’s series coin last October, is said
to he headed for Memphis. Grant is a
Harvard Law School man.
• * *
A close friend of Manager McGraw
says there isn’t a chance of any team
landing Fred Snodgrass from the Giants.
He says that McGraw thinks Snodgrass
is the best gardener in the business.
* * *
YIlly Doyle, scout for the Naps, has
leased parks at Portsmouth, lronton.
Chillicothe and Charleston, and will
start a school for baseball rookies about
April 1. Doyle, as principal, will divide
his work among four classes.
'Ruby Bob' Denounces
Boxing Commission
PLAINFIELD. X. J , Dec 29.—Bob
Fitzsimmons is denouncing the mem
bers of the New York Boxing Commis
sion for their refusal to allow him to
box
"It’s box or starve with me." said
the once great champion of the ring
here to-day in a lengthy statement, lie
renounced his American citizenship
caustically, compared treatment in this
country with that received by English
athletes, and expressed his regret for
ever leaving the latter country.
"Ruby Rob” declared he is better now
than when he fought Jeffries.
Athletic Club Five
Plays Columbus in
Big Game Saturday
The Atlanta Athletic Club basket ball
team journeys to Columbus next Satur
day afternoon to meet the champion Co
lumbus Y. M. C. A. quintet on that
night. This will be the first road trip
for the local hoys and also the hardest
game of the season.
The Columbus boys took the Atlanta
team into camp in both games last sea
son. th$ first on the Columbus court, 40
to 19, and on the local floor by the
count of 43 to 26. Joe Bean’s players
are expecting the tussle of their young
lives and the men will be put through
a week of stiff practice.
So far this season the teams have
won all their games, both'having played
four.
Columbus won from Bessemer, 59 to
13, and the following night the Atlanta
hoys mopped with Bessemer 46 to 14.
l*ast Friday night Columbus whipped
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical
104 to 15 and Saturday night Atlanta
won 66 to 29. Although dope slightly
favors Columbus, the Atlanta squad can
he counted on to give the champions
a tough battle.
The line-up of the two teams will be
as follows:
Position.
.. ..rf.. .
.. . .If. . .
Atlanta.
Forbes.. .
Smith.. .
Du Bard .
(‘arter. . .
Weaver..
•■rg..
• •Ig..
Columbus.
. .. Kilcrease
Peddy
. . . Massey
,. Newman
.. ..Dozier
Chip Doesn't Claim
Middleweight Title
PITTSBURG. Dec. 29.—George Chip
to-day disclaimed the middleweight
championship. The conqueror of Frank
Klaus chanced to encounter a 'party of
sports who hadn't witnessed the com
bat. Chip modestly assured these men
that he didn’t claim to be a cham
pion.
“But,” he added, "T have a good
punch, can take some hard wallops
without going over and box some. How
ever. I’ll be fair to you and say that my
legs are not speedy. Ever since I got
into the game that’s been my handi
cap. Hard work hasn’t helped much. I
have played baseball and run races in
hoped of getting more speed, hut every,
thing fails. Slow’ feet and all. 1 am
ready for the big guns in the middle
weight hunch.”
Ritchie Ignored by Ad Wolgast
Willie Is Told to Get a ‘Rep’
This is the twelfth of a series of stories of the life and battles of Light*
weight Champion Willie Ititchic, written exclusively for The Georgian,
Bv Willie Ritcliie.
GRIFFITHS MEETS TEMPLE.
MILWAUKEE. l>r Milivau-
keeans to-night w ill get a glimpse of I
a real ing star when Johnny Grit'- I
flths, of Akron. Ohio, begins it) shoot I
rights and lefts into Ra\ Temple, his I
opponent, in a ten-round scrap be
fore the Riverview Athletic Club.
WOLGAST MAY FACE REDMOND.
MllAY' \l K!GE Dec 29 Yd Wolgast
and Jack Redmond may box ten rounds
before the Queensberry \ <\ at the
Auditorium here on the afternoon of
Now Year's Day. It was while fighting
Redmond two years .tg.- that Wolgast
broke a bone in his left hand, thereby
starting a train of accidents to the then
champion.
HIT BV BASEBALL: SUES CITY.
DENY HR, COLO. Dec. 29. -A base
ball pitcher has involved the city and
countv in a damage suit for $3,000.
j Mrs. Hazel E. Lehew in a complaint filed
i in the District Court asserts tHat on
September 31. while she was passing the
baseball grounds maintained by the city
at Washington Park, her nose was
broken by a hall. She asserts that the
backstop behind the catcher was too low
to stop a badly thrown ball.
KETCHEL TO BOX^ M’CORMICK.
TERRE HAI TF. IND Dec. 29. Ed- i
die Ketchel. the Grand Rapids light
weight. has been matched to box Art
McCormick, of St. lx»uis, ten rounds on I
New Year's night here.
S AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29.—That
four-round bout with Champion
Wolgast convinced me of one
thing, and that was of my ability to
lick him. I did not claim then that I
could beat any lightweight in the
world, but I made up my mind that
I had Wolgast’s number, and nobody
could make me believe otherw ise.
’ You’re pretty lucky, kid, that I did
not knock you out," said Ad after the
battle. "I was just testing myself,
and 1 came near flattening you."
"Say, I’ve got your number,” I re
plied, "and any time you want to take
another chance, just say the word. 1
know I can beat you."
"That’s the funniest thing I ever
heard in all my life,’’ said Wolgast.
“You go back with the four-rounders,
where you figure.”
But I did not go back among the
four-rounders. I just went around
making speeches about, Wolgast. 1
called on Promoter Jim Coffroth and
asked him for a twenty-round match
with the champion. Coffroth treated
me very nicely and listened to what 1
had to say, but he told me that I was
not quit? a big enough card to send
in against a champion.
Some of my friends laughed when I
told them that I Intended to keep on
Wolgast s trail, and others agreed
with me. This little bit of encour
agement which I received helped me
along a whole lot, for I felt that I
had a few boosters left and that I
might possibly get on with the cham
pion by taking a long chance.
Camps on Wolgast’s Trail.
Three days after the battle Wolgast
departed for Chicago. When I heard
of his leaving T came to the conclu
sion that I might just as well trail
right after him, so J boarded the train
the next morning and landed in Chi
cago right at his heels.
Wolgast got a good hand in the
W indy City, and he told the sporting
writers there what a joke the battle
was and how he simply stalled around
with me. And he got away with it.
too. for the Chicago papers did not
take me seriously at this time. They
stated that the champion simply took
me on to pick up some expense money
and also to try himself out after his
operation for appendicitis.
But before I left San Francisco I
did a little press agent work. I gath
ered up a bunch of clippings from tjie
local papers and also secured a few
photographs showing Wolgast and
myself on the floor and Wolgast in
distress in several of t lie rounds.
There was great action to them. and.
as.everybody knows, the camera never
tells lies.
Well, there was a different story to
relate after I had peddled my stuff
around Chicago. They were willing
to admit then that there must have
been something to the San Francisco
reports. They gave me quite a send-
off, and said that J was at least enti
tled to a match with one of the light
weight contenders, even if Wolgast
did pass me up.
Turned Down by Champion.
Wolgast jumped to New York and
I jumped right after him. I saw that
the advertising I was getting helped
to boost me along, and that the best
thing I could do would be to set my
self in as strong as I could.
Promoter Billy Gibson, who always
has been a good friend of mine, saw
a chance to make up a big card bv
putting Wolgast and myself on <n
Madison Square Garden for a ten-
round mix-up. I accepted right off
the reel and agreed to fight for little
more than training expenses.
But Wolgast would not listen to
anything that Gibson said. He flatly
refused an offer of $7,500 to meet me,
saying that he would not waste his
time with any of the second-raters.
Cross Also Passes Him Up.
It was shortly after this that Tom
McCarey made Wolgast an offer to
fight Joe Rivers in Los Angeles on the
following Fourth of July. Now. I real
ly believe Wolgast took that offer in
order to get out of a match with me.
und. besides, there was a chance for
him to make more money, and-so no
body could blame him at the time.
When 1 saw that I could not get the
champion to go on with me. I began
to hustle for a crack at somebody
else. Le*fh Cross was the big nois •
around New York and T approached
him very humbly and asked to oe
given a chance. But the best I goc
was a laugh from Leach and all his
friends. They would not even give
me a look in.
"Can’t afford to fight anybody with
out a reputation," said Cross, as he
looked me over. "You go out and see
what you can do against some oi
those second and third raters. If you
make good, come hack, apd perhaps
I will talk to you; but if you are beat
en, go home to San Francisco."
That was the way that Cro*s talked
to me then. But it’s different now,
He was lucky to get on with me in
New York last month, and he has
been after me ever since. But I beat
him once, and I guess that It’s up
to him now to fight himself back »®
form if he wants to talk business
with me. He certainly gave me tha
once over when I was trying to strug
gle along; but I guess he looked at it
in a business way.
For five weeks I hung around New
York looking for a match with soma
fighter worth while. But it seemed
that the fates were against me. The
summer was well on. and most of
the boxing clubs had closed up for tht»
season. I felt down-hearted and dis
couraged, for there was nothing in
sight for me, although I was willing
to start against any of them.
Finally an offer came to me from
New Orleans, and this was a life-
saver. It meant a chance for me to
light Joe Mandot, who was then in
his prime and looked upon as the
lightweight champion of the South. It
looked to be too good for truth, but
when my ticket arrived I just hopped
on the boat and set sail for the South.
We did not have any trouble in
coming to terms. They offered me a
very liberal percentage, but I wouid
have fought for almost anything just
to get a crack at the Southern champ.
He was the big show’ in his home
town, and, naturally, nobody paid
much attention to me. T was looked
upon as a sort of fill-in fighter, with
out any class.
Feds Ready to Back
Players in Court
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 29—“The
Federal League will stand behind
every one of its players and in any
case where legal action is brought
against the men the league will fur
nish the defense." declared J. Edward
Krause, a director of the Federal
League, to-day when told that the of
ficials of the Brooklyn club were
planning to enjoin Joe Tinker from
playing with the Chicago team of the
new organization.
“We think that the reserve clause
in the contracts of the ball players is
invalid and believe we can secure
such a decision if the matter is taken
into the courts/’ Mr. Krause asserted.
New Cub Looks
Good to Murphy
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—"I have been vis
iting with my new’ pitcher. Harvey
1 terecht, the Cincinnati high school
boy,” said President Charles W. Mur
phy. of the Chicago Cubs, to-day, who
is back from a round of business en
gagements in Cincinnati.
"He seems to be a fine youngster n il It
a good head and brilliant possibilities.
Naturally the boy and his friends are
wondering if he will get a fair show iu
the spring or be railroaded to the minors
with hardly an opportunity to show the
/foods. They needn’t worry. The be>ti
proof of my anxiety to secure the young
man is the amount of trouble and red
tape 1 had to go through in order to
land him. He seems to be well worth
the trouble, and I will give him a thor
ough try-out.’’
HANSON DEFEATS HERRICK.
EL PASO. TEXAS. Dec. 29—Via
Hanson, the "Rocky Mountain Tiger *
was given the decision over Jack He
rick, of Chicago, at the end of 20 rounds
>f fighting here at .Juarez last nigh.
The battle .was billed for the middle
weight championship of the Southwest
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