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TTTR 'ATLANTA GFOT’GIAN AND NEWS.
Paying $25,000 fora Ball Player Its Showing Beef Trust How to Boost Cost of Living
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SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT
Better To Be a Lobster Than a Wise Guy
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Former Coast League Star Should
Prove Good Man at
Third Base.
N ’ EW ORLEANS, I>c. 29.—The
announcement from Portland. I
Oreg., that Bill Llndaay would
l*e transferred to New Orleans next !
season is a strong Illustration of the
intention of Charley Somers to put
the very best minor league team at
his command in this city in 1914.
When it was reported some time
ngrt 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, j
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 i
be was considered the star infielder of [
that association last season. Baseball
politics entered into it, however, and |
one thing that is raid to have induced
the Coasters to let Lindsay get out
was the consent of the New Orleans
club to Artie llofmnn. the once great*
» M utility player In the game, going |
from N i - li ville ’<» Fan Francium
, Former Manager Frank held up
Hofman’s transfer ns long as he
thought he would control the desti
nies of the Pel ham in 1914, thinking
i: had move t«» let Hofmnn get out
fHofn.Mii
made any change at all, to bring "Cir
cus Soliv” to New Orleans
Lindsay’s coming to New Orleans
insures a first-class third baseman
fur the local team next season. This
is where the Pelicans have been re
yarded as somewhat weak, compared
with the other teams in the league.
Lindsay is not only one of the best
inflolders in the rninori. but is one of
the best hitters. His record both last
\ ear and the year before has secured
this rating for him.
The Pelicans now appear to be pro-
\ ided with one of the strongest ar
rays of infielders in the Southern
League.
‘Famous Plays’—By Heisman
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No. 1—The Simple ‘V’ Wedge
l>\ .1. \V. Heisman.
Tulane and L. S. U.
May Quit S. I. A, A,
v
JliRY frequently inrleed during the football season I am asked to explain
or to describe this or that famous play of a day long Rone 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 was used by all . at th „ Brltlllh rham p ion .
teams a quarter of a century ago with which to open the game. It is a y
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 t will describe In my next number.
"While the rule that a game of football must start with a kickoff at os-
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 lip to 1894—
the time when the rule first Insisted that the kick had to be actual and
Whitney's Style of Fighting Should Prove Effective Against Briton
PROMOTERS SHOWER WELSH WITH BIG OFFERS
B\' Left Hook.
D'
ESPITF the fact that Freddie
Welsh 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-
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
i « . .. . 4 , . , , _ , . , . iii British champion against some good
Dona tide all teams got around the matter by simply picking up the hall | )oy; Denver wants him for Steve
and scraping it across the toe of the shoe, thus making a constructive kick
of it, or n kick so easy and short that it was caught again in the hands
ol* the player picking it up after a flight of but an inch or two.
A big change may be made In the
make-up of the 8 1. A. A. nefore the
next foot ball season opens and a new
organization Is likely to he formed.
Refusal of leading members of the
s ! \ A., which includes Auburn.
Vanderbilt, Georgia. Sewanee and Geor
gia Tech, to give Tulane or lLouisiana
smjp games next season Is the cause
< f the whole affair 'The new collegiate
organization, to be known as the South
western. embracing l^ouisiana. Texas,
(ikahoma and Arkansas, within the
next few months, says The Pally States,
a New Orleans publication.
The new organization, Recording to
Information from an authoritative
source by The States. Is looked upon
favorably by Tulane. L. 8 IT.. Missis
sippi \ and M., “Ole Miss.” Texas l\.
Texas A and M , Arkansas and Okla
homa. The first seven named colleges '
ere S T. A. A. members at present, but
ar*» reported in a receptive mood to
join the proposed body, whose purpose
w il be to insure high-class football in
this section.
T ills 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, l^ehigh dropped the play on account of
liie 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
learns.
The reason why every team *13 the land so quickly followed in the
lead of Lehigh and Pri melon in ailonilivt th»* 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; hence they hated to sur
render the ball to their opponents ngnt at me outsc-i. by actually kicking
it to them, whereas by the use of the they could legally kick it, yet
retain possession of it.
The diagram shows bow the tea*'* vtth the boll sot itself—some eight,
men forming a wedge, with a quarterback and both halves Inclosed in the
angle of tin* wedge. When ail was i-Ntuy, me 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 fiist halfback, and instantly the whole
crow, 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 we re spread out ten yards in front of the
ball, and stood tense and waiting for the sound of that shrill whistle which
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 ther 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
get Ritchie for him, and he will not
rest until he drags the American
champion into the ring with him.
Ragan Considering
Offer From Federais i
OMAH A A’EBK., Dec. 29 “Pat” Ua |
can, pitcher of the Brooklyn National i
League club, who lives In Omaha, is se |
i iousiy considering overtures made to
him by Federal League officials.
■ They offered me a two years’ con-
t«at i at a much belter salary than the
Brooklyn club 4ias pa hi 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 »>f any proposition that car
ries a satisfactory financial agreement.
Hagan declined to sa-v what financial
Inducements had been held out to him.
LpREDDIE claims that Ritchie i
* 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, WelsTi
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 Ihe same class with
him, especially over the ten-round
route. In glancing over Freddie’s
record, it will he 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 w’ay 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 whiling 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 te'd us after fighting Whit
ney that the latter is the hardest hoy
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 hack 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 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 instructed
Matchmaker Castro to get a good bili
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 League 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
I or get stung.” said Herrmann. “Presi
dent Ebbets. of the Dodgers, has paid
i the Cincinnati clul» *15,0<X) as the pur
chase price. Cincinnati has accepted the
money and will keep it."
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le of them ran forward as soou as the
" odor ilie feel of the wed ye. trying to
trip it op; others tried to catapult into it so hard that their force should
carry them clear through it; others dove deadlong over the top and fried
to get tlie runner inside around the neck, while the ends stayed out and
looked for a cut-out on the part of the runner
Oh. it was a fine thrill you goi while waiting for that infernal whistle,
and that no matter which side you were playing on. It gives me the “jim
mies" yet to think of times when I have stood it; nty place in the one
I side or the other of that wedge and waited for the mad Huns to leap into
I us like so many panthers, or have crouched low. with the defensive team,
and with dry tongue counted the second until tout Carthaginian juggernaut
of destruction should be set in motion and then sweep over us.
O l.D BALLIET. one of the greatest centers that ever lived, was one of
the l»est men to head his wedge. In my. day we had to go against him
at Lehigh, but later he went to Princeton, and there he was even a worse
man to have to encounter.
If tne "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 lo 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
I secondary "V" would shoot off from the primary and the hall 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
hall to each other hack in the corral, and Yale gained tremendously nearly
1 always on this opening play And 1 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-
! cnee to this “V" play and its execution is the way the giant Hefflefluger, of
i Yale, used to bust the blooming thing up. He stood about 6 feet 2 Inches in
1 his stocking feet, and weighed about 496 pounds stripped. With it all he
I 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 1 , be set himself just like a sprinter on bis mark, and the Instant
i the ball went into play he 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 his hip squarely upon
i Ihe heads and shoulders of the opposing guard and tackle so that it was
quite impossible for them to sustain the shock of his ponderous weight and
I momentum.
Dow n they invariably went in a heap, while 'Heft's" onward flight gen-
I e ally carried him right on to the runner himself, whom he would catch
under the chin and yank back out of the rear of the wedge like somq
mighty hook snagging a tiny fish—and the whole thing generally ended
| right there.
1 It would have made a great subject for the "movies."
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 bom was his brother-in-law, Gus
Rhodes, a powerful built negro, who is
something of a tighter, and who accom
panied Johnson when he jumped ball
and tied to Canada, on Ills way to
France.
These persons Insist that Johnson told
their, 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 Lang
ford as long as possible.
They declare that Rhodes is a ringer
for Rattling Jhn and could easily be mis
taken for the latter when stripped for
notion. 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
,ol4 1 h o f T i'l* \ e, li " wo ■» *1
AT CHARLESTON.
PTRST-ASelling; 2-year-olds; purse,
$300; 5Vi furlongs; The Gender 114, Ada
98, Banjo Jim 90. Single Ray 93, Orange
104, Jezail 106, Vilichen 103, Peacock 97.
SECOND—All ages; fillies and mares;
selling; purse $300; 6 furlongs: Mattie
L 103. Mama Johnson 110. Auto Maid
112, Ethelburg 11 103. Moisant 112, xxllel
en M 97, Henotlc 114. Ella Grane 107,
Veneta Strome 111, Miss Priimty 109,
Lajira 92, xx Right Easy ill, Buzz
Around 92.
xx—Bedwell entry.
THIRD—All ages; selling; handicap;
purse $400; 6 furlongs; Campeon 102.
Chartler 103. Mpnocacv 112, Lady l.ight-
j nlng lo7. Crackerbox 90 Yerena 95, De
duction 104. Supreme 93.
FOURTH—West End handicap: all
ages; purse $500; mile arid 70 yards: L.
i ll. Adair 100. Kalinka 104, Carlton G 107,
j John Furlong 110, Brynlin 95. FI Oro lo4.
Lochicl 103. Bob R 105, Prince liermis
112. Joe Die bo id 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 Sunguide
111, Ford Mai 106, Queed 111, Ralph
Lloyd 106.
SIXTH—Selling; purse $300; 2-year-
olds; f»Vi> furlongs; Roger Gordon 98.
Senereta 100, Runway 102. Buzz Around
95, No Manager 95, Ambition 114, Cliff
Maid 104. Bulgarian 103
Weather cloudy. Track slow
Big Game Saturday
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
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 rime 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 saving 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 JAUREZ.
FIRST—Selling 2-year-olds; 5U fur
longs: Summer Hill 95, xCarona 95, Ida
Cook 96, Goddess Stokes 100, Society
Bird 100, Thomas Hare 105, Leford 105.
Ooma 105, Panachapi 105. xAuntie Curl
105, Lambs Tail 108. Roundup 110, La
Estrada 110.
SECOND—Selling 3-vear-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. Tlldy Wolffarth 103, xMarshand 103,
Herpes 107, xRose of Jeddah 107, Nila
Canapa 108, Glmli 108.
108,
THIRD—Selling 3-vear-olds and up,
mile and sixteenes; xMitnesis 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 ages, Bavorica handi
cap, 6 furlongs: Sosius 98, Sir Fretful
100, Just Red 105, Irish Gentleman 105.
Zim 108.
FIFTH—Selling 2-year-olds, 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 105. Butter Bail
105. xHusky Lad 105. Melts 110.
x—Apprentice allowance claimed.
Clear: fast.
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 fa*- this season the learns have
won all their games, both having played
\ur.
Columbus won from Bessemer. 59 to
13. and the following night -the Atlanta
boys mopped with Bessemer 46 lo 14.
Last Friday night Columbus whipped
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical
104 to 15 and Saturday night Atlanta
won 66 to 29. Although dope slight! v
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.
Position.
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..If.. .
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rg . .
• -lg. ■
Atlanta.
Forbes.. .
Smith.. .
Du Bard .
Carter.. .
Weaver. .
Columbus.
. ..Kilcrease
.. .. Peddy
. .. Massey
.. Nowman
.. ..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. “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 erame 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 an<l all. 1 am
ready for the big guns in the middle
weight bunch.”
Ritchie Ignored by Ad Wolgast
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Willie Is Told to Get a ’Rep’
This is the twelfth of a series of stories of the life and battles of IAght-
iceight Champion Willie Ritchie, written exclusively for The Georgian.
Bv Willie Ritchie.
S AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29.—That
four-round bout ■with Champion
Wolgast convinced me of
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
1 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 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. I
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 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 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 I came to the conclu
sion that T mi^ht 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
V\ 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.
teo. 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 biinch of clippings from the
local papers and also secured a few
photographs showing Wolgast and
given a. chance. But the beat I r&n
was a laugh from Leach and all hit
friends. They would not even glv«
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 se*
what you can do against some of
those second and third raters. If you,
make good, come back, and perhaos
I will talk to you; but If you are bear,
en, go home to San Francisco.”
That was the way that Cro s talked
to me then. But it’s different no.v.
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 t«
form if he wants to talk busines
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 somfl
fighter worth while. But It seerrvd
that the fates were against me. The
summer was well on. and most of
the boxing clubs had closed up for f he
season. I felt down-hearted and dis
couraged, for there was nothing i:
sight for me, alt’ ough I was willing
to start against any of them.
Finally an offer came to me fr w
New Orleans, and this was a lif•(
saver. It meant a chance for me
fight Joe Mandot, who was then
his prime and looked upon a«- ;
lightweight champion of the South,
looked to be too good for truth, b
when my ticket arrived I just hopp
on the boat and set sail for the Sou
We did not have any trouble n
coming to terms. They offered me
very liberal percentage, but \ woui
have fought for almost anything .in
to get a crack at the Southern cham
He was the big show in his honi
town, and,* naturally, nobody pa:
much attention to me. T was look'
upon as a sort of fill-in fighter, wit.
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-
myself on the floor and Wolgast in j hmals of the Brooklyn club were
distress in several of the rounds. Planning
WOLGAST MAY FACE REDMOND.
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 29.—Ad Wolgast
and Jack Redmond may box ten rounds
before the Queensberry A. C. at the
Auditorium here en the afternoon of
New Year's Day It was while fighting
Redmond two years ago that Wolgast
broke a bone in his left hand, thereby
starting a train of accidents to the then
champion.
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 filed
in the District Court asserts that on
September 31. while she was passing the
i 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.
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 mv 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
Wojgast 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 S7.500 to meet me,
saying that lie 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 ;o
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,
find, besides, there was a chance for
him to make more money, and so nc>:
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 somebodv
else. Leach Cross was the big nois?
around New York, and I approached
him very humbly and asked to be
., 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 bei:<#e we can secure
such a decision if the matter is taken
Into the courts,” Mr. Krause asserte
New Cub Looks
Good to Murphy
CHICAGO. Dec. 29.—“I have been vis
iting with my new pitcher. Harve
Uterecht, the Cincinnati high ^ school
boy,” said President «’iiHries W. Mu
phy, of the Chicago Cubs, to-day. who
is back from a round of business en
gage mien ts in Cincinnati.
“He seems to be a fine youngster wltn
a good head and brilliant possibilities
Naturally the boy and his friends sr«
wondering if lie will get a fair show In
the spring or be railroaded to the minors
with hardly an opportunity to show t-
goods. They needn’t worry. The be-
proof of my anxiety to secure the youn
man is the amount of trouble and re
tape I had to go through in order t
land him. He seems to bo well " j
the trouble, and I will give him a thori
ough try-out.’
HANSON DEFEATS HERRICK.
EL PASO. TEXAS, Pec. 29. \
Hanson, the “Rocky Mountain J
was given the decision over Tack
rick, of Chicago, at the end of 20 roan-
of fighting here nt Juarez last
The battle was bified for the rnld'-^
weight championship of the Souths *-
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KETCHEL TO BOX M'CORMICK.
TERRE HAUTE, IXD . 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.
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»• ar at Sanitarium. Book on awble*
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