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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. Paying $25,000 for a Ball Player Is Showing Beef Trust How to Boost Cost of Living BILL LINDSAY’S SILK HAT HARRY’S divorce suit Better To Be a Lobster Than a Wise Guy PEIS' INFIELD Former Coast League Star Should Prove Good Man at Third Base. N 'EW ORLEANS, r>*<\ 29.—The announcement from Portland, Ore*., that Pill Lindsay would he transferred to New Orleans next season is a strong Illustration of the Intention of Chaney Somers 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 McCredle, of Portland, con sidered Lindsay so valuable that he would not part with the inflelder. Somers changed his mind, though, realizing that Lindsay’s return to New Orleans would be a highly popu lar move. For i long time It was doubtful whether clubs in the Pacific Coast League would waive on Lindsay, as i he was oonsidered the star infielder of | hat 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 as the consent of the New Orleans ( Jub 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 he would control the desti nies of the Pelicans in 1914, thinking Jr 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. Tills is where the Pelicans have been re garded as somewhat weak, compared with the other teams In the league. Lindsay Is not only one of the best Infielders In the minori, 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. rH*r T> u£ OM^a. men.15 /v<y*,iA/- SoNifUllOM) iOtviG 8S0A0 oh o» va i — < ~s;- ' jssZ, E& , SHE GOT .ME J! \ / ru- julT </uMT , ( MCP-S? IN ILUMN'WS \ ? P-M/ PrTC E-0 o AA ) FOfc- TH€’ C(WLA_ ~ \ fl-i Hit NUMSeSy/ / S i ~ Nei — \ OH — *—\Er S THE GtW, ACROSS THTT vway. ~-y e. — 5 — WH-ArnMe ARE -~/OU OFF-- \AJ- H- - A - T • ’Famous Plays’—By Heisman +•+ +•+ 4-»+ +•+ + •+ 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. oefore 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 collegiate organization, to be known as the South western, embracing I»uisiana, Texas. Oklahoma and Arkansas, within the next few months, says The Pally States, u 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 U.. Texas A and M., Arkansas and Ok’a- homa The first seven named colleges are H I A. A. members at present, but are reported In a receptive mood to join the proposed body, whose purpose will be to Insure high-class football In this section. Ragan Considering Offer From Federals OMAHA, NEBR., Pec. 29— 1 “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. "They offered me a two years' con tract at a much better salary man the Brooklyn club has paid me." said Ra gan last night. "While 1 prefer to re main In organized baseball, sentiment is a small consideration, and. like every other ball player. 1 am prepared to take advantage of any proposition that car ries a satisfactory financial agreement." Ragan declined to say what financial inducements had been held out to him. No. 1—The Simple ’V’ Wedge By J. W. Heisman. V ERY frequently Indeed during the football season 1 am aBked 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, I 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 iftas 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 flying 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 to 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 the rule first Insisted that the kick had to be actual and bona fide—all teams got around the matter by simply picking up the ball and scraping It across the toe of the shoe, thus 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 up afler a flight of but an inch or two. * * * T HIS clever evasion of the kicking rule was first hit upon by Lehigh about 1885. It has sometimes been ascribed to Princeton, 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 sufficiently 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 adoptin'" the wedge with which to open the game was that In those days the defensive piny of all teams was lamentably weak as compared with their offense; hence they hated to sur render the ball to their opponents right ai tire outset by actually kicking It to them, whereas bv the use of the "V” they could legally kick it, yet retain possession of it. The diagram shows how the team with the hell set itself—some eight men forming a wedge, with a quarterback and both halves inclosed In the angle of the wedge. Whoa all was ready, the center rusn 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 bearing 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 (he sound of that shrill whistle which JLJL Whitney's Style of Fighting Should Prove Effective Against Briton PROMOTERS SHOWER WELSH WITH BIG OFFERS Weak, Nervous and Diseased Men Permanently Cured Dr. Hughe* is nn an experi enced Specialist, who successfully treats and per manently cures Blood Poison, Skin Diseases, Nervousneas. Var- 1-c-o-s-e Veins, Kidney and Blad der Troubles. Ob structions. Catarrhal Discharges and all nervous and chronic diseases of Men and Women. I am against high and extortionate fees charged by some physician* and specialist*. You will find my charges very reasonable and no more than you are able to pay for skillful treatment, t’onsult me in person or by letter and learn the truth about your condition, and perhaps save much time, suffer- i am n regular graduate and licensed, long establish ed. and reliable. 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Ifi’a V Broad Mtreet, Atlanta, Gs. should usher in pandemonium. .->ome 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 tiled to get the runner tnstde around the neck, while the ends stayed out and looked for a cutout on the part of the runner. Oh, it was a fine thrill you got while waiting for that infernal whistle, and that no matter which side you were plnying on. It gives me the “jim mies" yet to think of times when I have stood lu my place in the one side or the other of that wedge and waited for the mad Huns to leap into us ltke ao many panthers, or have crouched low, with the defensive team, and with dry tongue counted the second until that Carthaginian juggernaut of destruction should be set in motion aiid then sweep over us. • * • O LD BALLIKT, one of the greatest centers that ever lived, was one of the best men to head Ills wedge. In my day we had to go against him at Lehigh, but later he went to Princeton, aud there he was even a worse man to have to encounter. If the "V” 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 quarterback in front and the fullback behind, the remaining three backs would Jump to the right side of the "V" 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 Harry Williams (now coaching Minnesota 1 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 I remember several times seeing this opening play go all the way for touchdown. But the scene that dwells most vividly In my recollection with refer ence to this "V” play and Its execution Is the way the giant HeffleflngeT, of Yale, used to bust the blooming thing up. He stood about 6 feet 2 Inches In hts 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 I have ever seen. Playing left guard (H on diagram), he set himself Just like a sprinter on hts mark, and the Instant the ball went Into play he would shoot forward at the mass of his op- I>onent6 like a bull making for a red blanket. But Just before the collision, high in the atr arose his huge figure, and he threw his hip squurely upon the heads and shoulders of the opposing guard and tackle so that It was quite impossible for them to sustain the shock of hts ponderous weight and 1 momentum. Down they invariably went in a heap, while "Heff's" onward flight gen- I erallv carried hint right on to the runner himself, whom he would catch I under the chin and yank back out of the rear of the wedge like some | mighty hook snagging a tiny fish—and the whole thing generally ended right there it would have made a great subject for the "movies." By Left Hook. D ESPITE the fact that Freddie WelHh recently announced that he would seek a bout 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 I^each 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 wHl accept any of these bouts. Welsh has asked Pollok to get Ritchie for him, and he will not rest until he drags the American champion into the ring with him. • • • TL'REDDIE claims that Ritchie is A doing everything in his power to dodge a fight with him, hut 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. * * * pOUNT 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 wTiter is expecting to see Whitney’s style of fighting prove very effective against Welsh. Charlie White told us after fighting Whit ney tha 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 Carpe/iter” may be beaten, bu^t 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 he 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 take 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 * Regiment who are promoting the Welsh-Whitnev scrap have instrucieu Matchmaker Castro to get a good hlli of preliminaries, and the Count is busy lining up some top-notch matches. It’s Up to Ebbets To Secure Tinker, Declares Herrmann CINCINNATI, Dec. 29.—Garry Herr mann, president of the Cincinnati Na tional Leugue baseball club, to-day is sued a statement to the effect that he was through with the Joe Tinker case. "It is up 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, which says that Jack Johnson pulled off one of the rawest fakes in the 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 tied to Canada, on his w r ay to France. These persons insist that Johnson told them before he left Chicago that Rhodes would be his first opponent in a bout In France, for the reason that he wanted to avoid a real fight with Sam Lang ford as long as possible. They declare that Rhodes is a ringer for Battling Jim and could easily be mis taken for the latter when stripped for action. The story has been cabled to the French Federation of Boxing by Chi cago men who are hostile to the cham pion. and it is expected that there will be a thorough investigation If it turns out that LIT Arthur s antagonist was his brother-in-law. it is believed that he will be barred from further ring con tests In European countries. ENTRIES Giants Deny Owing Cardinals a Player NEW YORK. Dec. 29.—John B. Foster, secretary of the Giants, to-day said that as far as he knew the club did not owe a ball player to the St. Louis 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-day an swered It by saying that as far as he knew the Cardinals did not have one coming. GRIFFITHS MEETS TEMPLE. MILWAUKEE. Dec. 29.—Milwau keeans to-night will get a glimpse of a real ring star when Johnny Grif fiths, of Akron, Ohio, begins to shoot rights and ’lefts into Ray Temple, his opponent, in a ten-round scrap be fore the Riverview Athletic Club. AT CHARLESTON. FIRST—Selling; 2-year-olds; purse, $300; 5furlongs: The Gander 114, Ada 98, Banjo Jim 90, Single Ray 93, Orange 104, Jezail 106, Viltchen 10-3, Peacock 97. SECOND—All ages; fillies and mares; selling; purse $300; 6 furlongs: Mattie L 103. Mama Johnson 110, Auto Maid 112, Ethelburg II 103, Moisant 112, xxHel- en M 97 Henotic 114. Ella Grane 107, Veneta Strome 111, Mi6s Prilmty 109, l>aura 92, xxRlght Easy 111, Buzz Around 92. xx—Bedwell entry. THIRD—All ages; selling; handicap; purse $400; 6 furlongs: Campeon 102, Chartier 103. Monocacy 112, Lady Light ning 107, Crackerbox 90. Verena 95, De duction 104, Supreme 95. FOURTH—West End handicap; all ages; purse $500; mile and 70 yards; L. H. Adair 100, Kalinka 104, Carlton G 107, John Furlong 110, Brynlin 95, El Oro 104, Lochlel 103. Bob R 105, Prince Hermis 112. Joe Piebold 113. FIFTH—Selling; 3-year-olds; purse $300; 6 furlongs: Turkey in the Straw 102, Luria 111, Robert Bradley 114. Ba- touche 100, High Light 99, A Sungulde 111, Ford Mai 106, Queed 111, Ralph Lloyd 106. SIXTH—Selling; purse $300; 2-year- olds; 5Vfc furlongs: Roger Gordon 98. Senereta 100, Runway 102, Buzz Around 95. No Manager 96, Ambition 114, Cliff Maid 104. Bulgarian 103. Weather cloudy. Track slow. AT JAUREZ. FIRST—Selling 2-year-olds; 6V6 fur longs: Summer Hill 96, xCarona 95, Ida Cook 96, Goddess Stokes 100, Society Bird 100, Thomas Hare 105. Leford 105, Ooma 105, Panachapl 105, xAuntie Curl 106, Lambs Tall 108, Roundup 110, La Estralla 110. SECOND—Selling 3-year-olds and up. fillies and mares, five half furlongs: Madeline B 97, Swiftsure 97. Black Eyed Susan 97. Tyree 97, Little Jane 102, xLit- tle Birdie, 102, Ruth Esther 102. Chilla 102, Tildy Wolffarth 103, xMarshand 103. xHerpes 107, xRose of Jeddah 107, Nila 108, Cnnapa 108, Glmli 108. THIRD—Selling S-vear-olds and up, mile and slxteenes: xMimesis 96, Clin ton x 96, xDowleland 96, xMoonlight 100. xPefy 100, Brack Bonta 105. Joe Woods 105. xBen Uncas 105, Horicon 108, Wise Mason 110, Sleepland 110, Curlicue 110. FOURTH—All &ges. Bavorica handi cap. 6 furlongs: Sosius 98, Sir Fretful 100, J”«t Red 105, Irish Gentleman 105, Zlm 108 FIFTH—Selling 2-year-olds, 5Vfc fur longs: xDurin 103. xOld Gotch 105. xDusky Dave 108. xCeos 109. Fool o'Fortune 108, Silver Tone 110, Stevesta 110, Muy Buena 113 SIXTH—Selling 3-year-olds and up. mile: Belle of xBryn Mawr 91, xLo ween 100, xSwish 100, xAmon 100. xGurd 103, xMack B Eubanks 106. Butter Bail 105. xHuekv I,ad 105. Melts 110. x—Apprentice allowance claimed. Clear: fast. WOLQAST MAY FACE REDMOND. MILWAUKEE. Dec. 29.—Ad Wolgast and Jack Redmond may box ten rounds before the Queensberry A. C at the Auditorium here on the afternoon of New Year's Day. It was while fighting Redmond two years ago that Wo’gast broke a bone in his left hand, thereby srartirc a train of accidents to the then champion. 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 boys and also the hardest game of the season. The Columbus boys took the Atlanta team into camp In both games last sea son. the 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 boys mopped with Bessemer 46 to 14. Last 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 be counted on to give the champions a tough battle. The line-up of the two teams will be as follows: Atlanta. Position. Columbus. Forbes rf Kilcrease • If Peddy . .c Massey . -rg Newman • lg Dozier Smith. Du Bard Carter.. Weaver. 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. “I 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 hopes of getting more speed, but every thing fails. Slow* feet and all, I am ready for the big guns in the middle weight bunch.” HIT BY BASEBALL; SUES CITY. DENVER, COLO.. Dec. 29.—A base ball pitcher has involved the city and county in a damage suit for $3,000. Mrs. Hazel E. Lehew in a complaint file*! 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 ball. She asserts that the backstop behind the catcher was too low to stop a badly thrown ball. KETCHEL TO BOX M’CORMICK. TERRE HAUTE, IND., Dec. 29.—Ed die Ketchel, the Grand Rapids light weight. has been matched to box Art McCormick, of St. Louis, ten rounds on New Year's night here. Ritchie Ignored by Ad Wolgast *** -l-** w*-i- Willie Is Told to Get a ‘Rep’ Thit is the twelfth of a series of stories of the life and battles of Light weight Champion Willie Ritchie, written exclusively for The Georgian. By Willie Ritchie. 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 otherwise. “You’re pretty lucky, kid, that I did not knock you out,” said Ad after the battle. “I was just testing myself, and I 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. I know I can beat you.” "That's the funniest thing I ever heard in ail 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 I had to say, but he told me that I was not quite 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 rfc 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 I came to the conclu sion that I might just as well trail right after him, so I boarded the train the next morning and landed in Chi cago right at his heels. Wolgast got a good hand in the Windy 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 the local papers and also secured a few photographs showing Wolgast and myself o.. uie floor and Wolgast in distress in several of the 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 I 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 by putting Wolgast and myself on in 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, ana, besides, there was a chance for him to make more money, and so no body could blame him at the time. When I saw that I could not get the champion to go on with me, I began to hustle for a crack at somebody else. Leach Cross was the big noise around New York, and I approached him very humbly and asked to be given a chance. But the best I get was a laugh from Leach and all his friends. They would not even glv* me a look In. “Can’t afford to fight anybody with out a reputation," said Cross, as h« looked me over. "You go out and se« what you can do against some of those second and third raters. If you make good, come back, and perhaps I will talk to you; but If you are beat, en, go home to San Francisco.” That was the way that Cro -3 talked to me then. But it’s different no.e, 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 to form If he wants to talk business with me. He certainly gave me the 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 somi 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 th season. 1 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 Iron New Orleans, and this was a life- saver. It meant a chance tor me t< fight Joe Mandot, who was then it his prime and looked upon as th- lightweight champion of the South. 1 ! 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 would 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. I was looked upon as a sort of fill-in fighter, with out any class. Feds Ready to Back Players in Court INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 29.—"Ths 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 1§ 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 Uterecht. the Cincinnati high school boy,” said President Charles ^. Mur phy, of the Chicago Cubs, to-day, who is hack from a round of business en gagements in Cincinnati. “He seems to be a fine youngster wltn a good head and brilliant possibilitie c Naturally the boy and his friends ar« wondering if he will get a fair show in the spring or be railroaded to the minors with hardly an opportunity to show the goods. They needn’t worry. The best proof of my anxiety to secure the young man is the amount of trouble and re" tape I had to go through in order v land him. He seems to be well wor ! the trouble, and I will give him a thor ough try-out.” HANSON DEFEATS HERRICK EL PASO, TEXAS. Dec, 29,— ' Hanson, the “Rocky Mountain Tiger, was given the decision over Jack *• rick, of Chicago, at the end of 20 rour< ■ of fighting here at Juarez last ’ . The battle was hil’ed for the m'^ " t weight championship of the South* ' Opium Wklskay and Dru;' Habits •raatad at Homs or at Sanitarium. Book oa aublec* Frer. DR B. M. WOOLLEY, *|-N, Visas* Sanitarium, Atlanta. Gaeruta. DON’T SCRAT CH ; If ,nu only kn.« ho- Tetterine cures ecrema. e»cn where ^ else falls, you rrouldn’t Buffer ana Tetterine Cures Eczema , Reart what Mrs. Thomas Thomp»on. CUrt-M , «»».. Had th. hwt did me any ®ood until I *ot Tenerm 1 cured me. I am to * t, i an £J u ” . nt j other Ringworm, ground Itch. ItcM* 1 * plj* n Lodiy ^ / skin troubles yield as readily. 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