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THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1917 st e gAT SPORTS QOVERID 4 EXPERTSS I : | Acquisition of Sheehan, Bressler and Ellis Shows Mogul Won't Be Caught Short on Pitchers. By Fuzzy Woodruff. AST season the greatest trouble I with the Crackers was lack of sustained pitching ability. At no time during the season were there more than two men on Frank's staff capable of pitching winning ball in anything like consistent fashion. At the start of the season only Ed Lafitte was effective and as a result he was so seriously overworked that during the middle of the campaign he broke down so completely that he had to finish the season in other climes. Soon after this, Scott Perry gained his true form and nothing in the league could stop him. About that same time Virgil Day, the eminent Arkansas educator, struck his stride and these two boxmen for weeks held the Crackers up in the first division. But Perry was worked so frequent ly that even his herculean frame and willing heart couldn’t stand up under the punishment. For a while he fell by the wayside and coincidentally Prof. Day cracked a finger in his pitching paw, which rendered him hors du box service. The Crackers descended so rapidly that many thought the Atlanta ball club was simply a burnt out sky rocket. Nothing else known to sci ence ever fell so fast. But at this juncture Ad Breanan came to life and pitched splendidly. . . L HAD there been one single month in the season in which the Crackers could have boasted four re liable pitchers, there is no doubt in the world but that Frank's followers would have won the pennant. But as it was with never more than two boxmen in anything like fit condition, they were lucky to finish outside the Buropean war zone. The big trouble was that Frank at various times tried to sail through the season with but four huriers on his staff. This made relief work prac tically impossible and undoubtedly cost the Crackers many and many a game. | Frank saw the error of his way too late. He made efforts to correct it, but the season had advanced beyondl the rallying point. But you can bet that when hel started assembling his hurlers for this season, the first thing that the big Dutchman thought of was pitch ers., - - - “’ HEREFORE we read the illumin ating announcement that the Cracker chief has acqiired the -~er. vices of Hurlers Sheehan and Bres sler, late ow the staff of the eminent Cornelius McGillicuddy. Beyond doubt these young men came to the Crackers in part pay ment for Frank Thrasher. Both werpl with the Athletics last season and many crities saw in Bressler a fork-‘ hander of rare promise. Of course he | made no tall record in the big show.| No pitcher could with the Athletics of 1916 working behind him. But! there is excellent opportunity for both of these atlletes to do well in the| Southern circuit, It also scems certain that Bill Ellis, of the Vols. will be with the Crack ers during the coming season. Nash ville advices tell us that Bill simply| tired of his surroundings In the Vol- | unteer city and inasmuch as he was, eager to come to Atlanta a trade was speedily fixed up with Manager l-’rnnk.' Ellis was a splendid pitcher last) season and he should be a better one| this vear. These recruits, with the aforementioned Prof. Virgil Duy.' should form the basis of a pretty fair pitching staff. But there'lk be morel coming Frank isn’t going to start the 1917 campalgn without plenty of stuff in his rifle pit I . Adee to Again Head 4 U. S. Tennis Body| NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—With the lnlu-l ing of the official call for the thirty sixth annual meeting of the Y'nnwll Ftates Nationa! Lawn Tennis Associa tion by Edwin Fuller Torrey, the secre- | tary, it hecame evident that there are to he several drastic departures from | other years in the handling of the 11-! soclatior The nominating committes, consisting | of Gregory Bryan, chairman; Edwin (’I Eheafe and Howard W. Lewis, has re nominated Il'ur" T. Adee for prrddent,. but Albert L foskins, vice president, has been dropped In favor of ;'ll.ht ¥ Davis, of Bt lnulfl donor of the Davis | cup and for many years famous on the | courts. The naming of Davis Is taken ag | an indication that the West will here after have A& more important volce lnl arpociation matters i . Wilson Is Operated On for Appendicitis NEW ORLEANE, Jan. 11.<Finls Wilson, southpaw hurler of the At. lanta club, was operated on here to day for appendicitis Wilson has been In the city several weeks prepar atorv to undergoing the operation, throush which he hopes to improve his heaith and be ready to give his bent efforts when the BSouthern League season gets under way, ORVAL OVERALL A BANKER VISALIA, CAL., Jan. 11.« Orval Over all became & banker h-tn“-hon he .'l slected director of the et Nationa Bank here to succesd his father, who died two monthe aen Indoor Sports Copyright, 1916, International News Service—Registered United States Patent Office. 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N =1 ,!‘, i pul put —— ] GHHE /Al : T INDOOR. SPORT( . e ,rz ——*/I: i il T ke W Bl \‘l;{‘i“\ SHOW/NG T™™E DBove /A 1 e EEE SR flIII { g /:') / o e il |1 972 N ’ ME OFFCE JUIT WHAT— [ I::"'/ W T T ‘"‘“*7 T % T Ll U EHITI DL Pk iR THE DENTIST DID WITH %/ ] I;’;!I;;’I :'” ;I.‘IIIEIIIIIIII;II'II;IIIi,;:II I\ .13I:I|;I;II;| % , IL\I'III, ll‘,‘l_l NOUR TUSKE 7t biiasn, o T T gLo Ll S L./ :4 ’” ‘— A i Pl‘ A i\ i T ‘.;:, “ e A P i | B A P ATy & Y AR Ay ¥ )( (RS .Bg‘gs A ~ O K3GC A\ ) \- Py NEW YORK, Jan. 11.—Jack Brit ton, welterweight champion, out pointed Albert Badoud, of France, welterweight champion of Europe, in a ten-round bout here ‘'ast night. Britton earned the honors in every round, except the third, which was even. Britton weighed 143 pounds and Badoud 148. In the opening round, after landing several left jabs, Britton sent a right cross to the jaw for the only knockdown of the con 'tut NEW ORLEANS promoters are ' trying to close a twenty-round ‘bout between Johnny Dundee, the Eastern crack, and Jimmy Hanlon for the latter part of this month. 'Hanlon is the boy who recently stop- Iped Frankie Russell. ‘O‘CAR GARDNER, Cleveland | lightweight, is trying to get on with some of the good boys around the country. Gardner is 19 years old, and is pronounced by boxing critics in the Ohio city as having all the earmarks of a coming title-holder. HAMMOND. IND., Jan. 11.—Jimmy Clabby, middleweight pugilist, has glven up the ring to become manager of - Miss Fannie Durack, Australian swimming champion, according to word received from him. Clabby and Miss Durack will sail for the United States next week and it is reported they will be married. Miss Durack holds all the Australian swimming records for wom en, from 50 yards to a mile, and will meet all challengers in this country. I (CLEVELAND, Jan. 11.—Johnny Kil-' bane has signed articles to meet Ritchie Mitchell, of Milwaukee, here on January 30 in a ten-round match. The weight is 133 pounds at 4 o'clock. Miteh ell signed articles several days ago, NIW ORLEANS, Jan. 11.—Kid Wll-} llams, who Tuesday night lost hlo‘ bantamweight crown to Pete Hermnn,‘ will remain in New Orleans for some ! time In an effort to get a return match. | Although not kicking on what he be lHeves was an uhfair decision, Willlams declares that he was #o sure he had the decision won that he did not extend him self against Herman In the final rounds. He {8 hot on the trall of a re turn mateh, WILLIAM. has offered Herman $6.500 to meet him -finln, There is little Hkelthood of a battle any time in the near future, however. Herman has beonl carrying on a strenuous campalgn and declares he will rest for a while on his new laurels CNICAOO. Jan. 11.~Johnny Coulon, ex-bantam champion, is negotiat. ing with Jimmy Wilde, of England, with A view to fighting him for the flyweight | champlonship of the world. Nate l‘wlu.l his manager, who i& here, declares that as soon as Coulon meets Jack Sharkey in New York on February 3 they wml g 0 after wilde In earnest OF the many local boxing fans who tried to pick the winner of the Her. man-Willlams bout in this column, we've simply got to hand it to Messrs. Herman Cooper, the out-of-town newsle, and Tom Bookas, the local Greek sportsman Both picked Herman to win the de. cislon rn twenty rounds. George Gaelells and Jake Abel fell down on the job, both favoring the Durable Dane . . Fred Kaiser, Walking . Champ,Dies Suddenly NEW 'flRK, Jan, 11 Fred Kalser, 10-mile metropolitan champlon walker and the only athlets in the country who consistently pressed George Goulding for the premier walking honors, died hon] at 8t Luke's Hospital after a very brief iliness Kalser's claim to athletie fame wu‘ acquired under the colors of the New York Athletic Club, which organigation he had represented for the 1... eight years. Hesides winning the 10. mile me. tropolitan honors Kalser had to his ored 1t many creditable performances HI-I loss will be a severe blow to walking in this country - R R R R R RRN § ) . - | aa s lila-pilts SPORTING NOTES. 'TWAS A WISE GENT WHO said, “An amateur is a golfer who is too old to compete.” Coach Sanford, who coached the Rutgers footballers last season, received a salary of SOOOO. He has just signed up for next year at 20 per cent increase. If George Gibson Is going to catch for the Glants, why not get Mat Kilroy or Amos Rusie to pitch to him? Outdoor rowing is about to start at Columbia, but the number of volunteers is smaller than ever before. Which proves that the Rah Rahs are getting wiser all the time. Fred Fulton's family, if placed end to end, would measure fifty ~ feet, which is a lot of feet for one family. - *- * Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha! | HEAR THE KAISER has ordered 40,000,000 watermelons. What's the idea? To feed his soldiers on the Rhine. Oh, dear me! JOHN R. WALLACE, - - . HEY, TAD: WE WERE seated at the table in the Case de Infants when one of the bunch looks up from the paper and says: “I see where Haskin says that eggs as a food are being overestimated.” Then 1 rejoin to the innocent bystanders Just llke that: “It ain't what it's cracked up to be, hey?” Weakly yvours, IRVING EISLER, Bronx. - - . The Effect of Darcy’s Departure on Australian Boxing. CONTRARY TO THE GENERALLY expressed opinion, the de parture of Les Darcy from Australia to America has had a good effect on Australian boxing, and instead of his absence being felt adversely, it has been appreciated, particularly by the rising generation of boxers, who will now get the chance they have been waiting for. Darey to put the position candidly, “killed the game,” as no one else would draw any money, and, now that he has gone, the other boys, who were wait ing for someone to either come along and lick him or else for him to BO to America or retire, bacause there were no “other worlds” to con quer, will get a chance of developing championship form and evolving into “stardom” in the fistic firmament. In short, nothing but the good of the boxing game in Australia has happened as a result of his clan destine departure. - . - Taken By Surprise. NATE LEWIS WENT TO Aurora, 111.. one night with George (“Knockout™) Brown, and with him took a kid who had never fought before in his life. The kid wanted a battle, so Nate shooed him in on a prelim with another kid. It was a three-round session. Nate's boy did well until the second round, when the other battler, puiling one from his shoe tops, caught the kid on the chin. FLOP!!! He landed in his own corner, and it looked as though he wouldn get up for a month. Nate grabbed the bucket of cold water and just as the count got to six splashdd it all over his champ. The shock brought the kid to. He looked around, got up a bit groggy, and as the other guy came tearing in, let fly his right, and down went the opponent in exactly the same spot. The referee ran through all the count he knew, but there were no signs of life in the fallen gladiator. His seconds packed him to his t‘;ornker Just as Nate elimbed through the ropes to pat his boy on the ack. “Shake hands with me, Willie, [ want to congratulate you,” he said to his boy, “Git away.” piped the kid, “you're no friend of mine.” “What's the idea” asked Lewis with surprise. “What's the {dea? barked the kid. “When | went down you trew water all over me head-—soaked me When I knock the other guy down you don't even trow a drop on HIM.” Rose Bowling Team The Crystals dropped three games to the Roses last nlgfit At the Crystal Bowling Alleys. The Kames were won b_vr‘oos margine ollowing are the scores: ’l2 E 7 1 BRI oooooicccin.iß 100 158 bls Glardina ............222 22¢ 148 Bw4 TIME ccccossosveceselil 218 177 642 Meyer l“ 146 213 b Adolphus .....:. ~ ™ 182 204 Ll} Total cl"r' M 6 897 271 rystals, 1 2 8 ¥ Bal ..cocmicecenee. 308 100 108 ban BOOE .ovvvvecacsense it 1T 174 L3s BASON ...c0000n0000..138 236 181 632 CONYers ..c.ieeeee.:.l7B 1717 178 131 Blind . 160 160 Hensabaugh .........188 134 .. 0y ARENED i csssenscse & 4 ‘ Total . .vviviinne . 850 982 089 3673 Howard Drew, the speedy colored sprinter now a student at Drake Uni. versity., Des Moines, may ‘fiu{ on the baskethall tenm of the institution. He will not be eligible to n‘-’r«cm the col hr on the track antil the spring of IO': bßicaune of the one-year residence ro § ‘THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. . Joe Bean Wires for . Weaver; McLarin Out The Injury to Meclarin in last Batur. day’'s game against the Asheville Y. M. C. A. quintet means that Mclarin will not play against the Nashville Ramblers Friday night. Mclarin was being Kroomed by Coach Joe Pean to take Captain Johnny Graves' place on the team untll Johnny's shoulder Kets back into shape, but the Injury to Mclarin forcas Joe to get busy, as the A. A. C. Youngster still suffers from the injury. It Is Bean's Intention to bring *'Ple” Weaver back from his road trip, #o that he will be able to get Into Friday's Eame against the strong Nashville Ram biers. “'Pie” showed In last Saturday's Kame that he still retains his old ability when It comes to ho'ding down his gool‘ tion. Bean wired Weaver last m tto leave for Atlanta at once, a the chances are “Pla” will get In town some time tomorrow, Following is the probable line-up of Friday night's contest: RAMBLERS. POSITION ‘' AAC, Pin50n......... L. F. Westmoreland BUFOR:.iscooce R P 0....... bonter BRAED: . ccsvvsnins G soseivs Dubird Emerson....... 1a G ........Carter Potway. ... RO .......Weaver g gg] ‘ . ;’o flw MIMPHIO fans are not worrying over the rerort that Charley Bchmidt Bays he will not play with the Chicks this year. The Bluff City fans are wild Over this little Ruel party and want him to be first-string catcher. PHISID!NT W. D. SMITH, of the Blrmlnxhnm team, says the Barons will not trade “Doc” Johnston, the for mer Pirate first baseman. Smith be lieves Johnston will star with the Bar ons this year, ONLY three members of the champlon Red Sox are now under contract. They are Babe Ruth, Ernle Shore and Catcher Agnew, However, President Frazee does not anticipate any trouble with his players. | — | ICONNII MACK and George Stallings, rival managers of the 1914 world series entries, have decided to bury the hatchet. They have agreed to play five exhibition games this spring. | p— I MANAOIR FRED MITCHELL, of the Cubs, requests that the Chicago fans give him two years In which to‘ ‘build up a winning team. UST ten Plrates who were with the | team on its training trip last nprln.l ave remained upon the roster ever since, and it is expected that one or two will recelve their releases soon. THI Barons got four men from Pitts burg In return for Grimes, and Charley Frank has secured a pair of {oun{ pitchers in return for Thrasher. “rank also expects to get one or two more men from Mack. HPINO" BODIE and Manager Mlck,l of the Athletics, have not come tol terms yet. Bodie wants more money than Mack Is willing to pay him. It is sald that Connle is not so sweet on the veteran, anyway. [l’ was rumored some time ago that Gavvy Cravath would m.nele Ver non, on the coast, this year, but it looks very much as If Ivy Olsen will handle the Vernon Tigers instead. MANAQ!N ROBINSON, of the Dod gers, is anxious to land Frank !n{der, of the Cards, and also Jack Miller. The Brooklyns claim hnydor.' who caught for Atlanta last year, also. They may have s pair of catchers by the same name this season. l F Cravath goes to the cosst this year, either Good or ('oorer will ‘srob.bty replace him in the Philly outfield, These two men played utllity roles for Moran last year, To Introduce Bill Against Sunday Ball NASHVILLE, Jan, 11.-Representa tive Fletcher, from Chattanoogs, a col league In the lower house of the Ten nessee Legisiature of Fred Shepherd president of the Chattanocoga Baseball club, will Introduce today an anti-Sun day baseball bill, u-rurvlm% o & state ment last night. The third member of the delegation from Chattanoogs is ex peteed to ald In the fl?hl for the pass- | age of the hill President shrnmhlro,| n? the local baseball club, Is speaker of the lower house, A few years ago the Supreme Court held the Bunday ball law in Tennessee unconstitutiona! ’ rvard Georgia, Harvard to Play Virginia Nine| CHARLOTTESVILLE W. VA, Jln.l 11, —~Georgia, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Cornell and Lehigh are on the University of Virginia baseball sched. ule given out here. The Georgia games will be at Atlanta April 12 and 13 and at Charlottesville April 27 and 28, NEW YORK, Jan, 10 - RBill Sandborg. Inst vear & catcher with the Alban rluc, has signad with the, Glants flnm{tmv. . Mqvwd contract Is & third to be re. celved at Glant b quarters Victory Over Charley Weinert Tomorrow Night Will Put Him in Line for Choice Match. By Ed Curley. EW YORK, Jan. ll.——Sojournlngl N in our midst is a battler who answers to the name of Billy Miske, and who hails from St. Paul, Minn. Willlam has been in and out of this town several times. Also he fought a few battles around here, and it must be said that Billy Miske made good with a loud huzzah. '"Twas only a few days ago he tack 'led George Knockout Brown, of Chi cago. Now, while George isn't a fan cy scrapper, he's about one of the toughtest rivals a man could select. This didn't worry Miske in the least. He walloped the sturdy Greek as he was never walloped before. Even the great Les Darcy admitted he was a corking fighter, What impressed the throng was that Brown fought the well-touted Les Darcy twice and lasted twenty rounds with the slugger from A'u\.- tralia. In the first scrap Darcy re ceived the referee's decision, though all the scribes sitting around the ringside thought differently. In the battle the other day it was apparent to all those present that Miske would | have ended the fray long before twen-‘ ty rounds transpired. . - . BEPORE the Brown affair Miske traveled ten rounds with Jack Dillon and at the flnish was a clean winner., While Dillon doesn't fight as well as many think, he's far from be ing a goldfish, for there are few around here that class with him. This: reputation didn't worry Miske, for he started right from the opening gong and lambasted Jawn to a fare-thee well, In his previous outing Miske took on Battling Levinsky. The result was the same. Miske won as far as one could heave a stone. His victory was 80 clean-cut that Levinsky admitted he was defeated. The acknowledg ment was expected, for Levinsky I never falls to give the other man all | he's entitled to These three victories prove conclu !sively that Miske Is all that the St. Paul fans claimed. And to strengthen the laudations it can be mentioned that in four other fights here he sent i his rivals—Jack Hubbard, Johnny I.Hownrd, Jim Barry and Tim Logan— 'to dreamland earlier than they ex pected. Miske places the most r‘redltl on the knock-out of logan, for only| two weeks previous Logan went the | full ten-round route with Jack Dillon. : g 58 MISKE’ is now gunning for higher game. In his mind he pictures Ia possibility of obtaining a match with Jess Willard Now, he isn't 'lnnxlouu to tackle Willard right now, | but wants to walt until he puts on a | few more pounds. ' Miske is matched to fight Charley '\Velnvrt ten rounds tomorrow night |at the Harlem Sporting Club. In case of a victory, Miske can have a match with Les Darcy, for in all probability the latter will accept the $30.000 offer of John Reisler to meet the winner of the Miske-Welnert affair | A clean-cut victory over Weinert Iplnm-n Miske in the position of being able to challenge Darcy or Fred Ful- Iton. Then If he's successful, there is nothing in his way of chasing aft er Willard. Of course, the champion would have tremendous advantages in helght and weight Miske enters the ring around 173 pounds and stands six feet high. What he lacks in weight and helght he more than makes up in skill. A good, fast fighter, he never stops go ing whether it's In the open or in clinches. For a defensive battler he's Ith' best man In his class Miske in 22 years old and has quite an advantage In that respect, for most of his possible opponents long ago passed that mark. He has only been fighting three years, which gives him An opportunity to improve. Coming from St. Paul, he naturally is & mem ber of the Gibbons cluss of fighters He has all the tricks the St Paul Phantom pulls - - - TH'H'(;H he uses a lot of Gibbons' tricks, Miske possesses a style lof hizx own. He pavs the closest at tention to every man he sees In ac tion, and If they show anvthing new it goes right down In the Miske bhook. Miske broke into the fighting game in a peculiar way. He worked In the | rallroad shops of St. Paul as a boller. | maker and during lunch hours boxed ’n'"h his companions Tom Gibbons was a 4 great friend of Miske, 8o when i'Tnm decided to follow his brother } Mike's footsteps Miske decided to fol. |luh\‘ Tom He boxed exhibition bouts for a year or so to learn all the fine points, and then branched out as " regular Aghter With his natural skill he made gond right from the start Around these parts he is considered a curly wolf Coming here a total stranger, he sud | denly developed into a great drawing card. And the future certainly holds 'uul greater hopes, | I Dobbs Re-elected » ' ‘ Pilot; Buys Hurler NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 11.-At a meet ing here of the directors of the New )+ lenns Haseball and Amusement Com pany, holders of the loeal Southern As sociation franchise, John Dobbs was re appointed manager of the Pelicans and A J Helinemann was re-slected prest dent He announced the f.»n:hnn from the Mason City, lows, eofub of Piteher Garrett formerly of the Cleveland Americane SPHAIR VIEW h 3 i 2 \ X PORT NEW S== [ & V 5. (3 5 Vs § &y GroereeE Puaue THE LINE ABOVE. I know the new year has arrived, The ancient year is nix. Will some kind, gentle-hearted guy : Elucidate and tell me why I write it ‘l9l6°'? It is predicted that 1917 will be a successful year in Eu rope for undertakers. “‘Discipline,’’ quotes Fred Mitchell, ‘is the father of hap piness.”” And yet, we never felt any too happy when our fath er was busy in the act of handing us discipline. Clarence Rowland avers that the Sox would have won the pennant last year if it had not been for injuries. Clarence also finds it hard to realize that this is anno Domini 1917. Champions are accommodating cusses. The lightweight champion, for instance, is willing to meet the featherweight champion if the said featherweight champ will agree to fight as a welterweight. A fight between Welsh and Kilbane will be worth going miles to see—if they will fight. Enter one Joseph F. Mikulee, who says he has walked 75,000 miles and is still going. And yet some persons com plain about the high cost of shoes. 3 Fred Mitchell, we understand, will not rule his athletes with a heavy hand. But it is rumored that several of them are about to feel a heavy foot. TED DIDD. Ted Cann was a healthy young man Who knew not the words ‘‘also ran.’’ When asked, ‘‘Can you win?"’ He uncovered a grin And calmly responded, ‘‘Ted Cann!’’ } Village eutups now are calling Wilbert Robinson “Grape fruit.”’ Literally he is not a grapefruit, but his figure is built along those lines. Not that we are a close student of the turf game, but we insist that Tantalizer is an appropriate name for a race horse, THE CONVULSIVE FIGHT FAN. A flood of tears rolled down his cheek, convulsions shook his frame, For he had read a sporting tale, ‘‘Jess Willard Quits the Game!"’ ‘‘Cheer up, old man,’’ I said to him, ‘‘and dry those bitter tears, ’ For champs have come and champs have gone through all the passing years.’’ "“Lay off,”’ he said, ‘‘lay off that stuff! Your kindness gives me pain. I thank you for your sympathey, but it is all in vain. ‘‘l'have a sense of humor that is keen and strong and deep, And when I read a jest like that I laugh until I weep."’ Some still consider Al MeCoy the world’s middleweight champion. Others don’t know the civil war is over. It is absolutely true that Chick Evans will attemps 40 teach the Cubs to bat. The story was confirmed by Mr. Evans himself in an interview the other night. ““Chick,”” we asked, ‘‘is it true that you have accepted an invitation to teach the Cubs to batl’’ ‘““No,”” he said. Williams’ M Will G itaams” Manager Will Get . Little Sympathy From Fans By Harry Lewis. | NEW champlon in the fistic A sport has arrived. Gentlemen, meet Mr. Pete Herman, South ern boy, and a local favorite! Pete won the title last Tuesday night in Dominick Tortorich’s arena in New Orleans over the twenty-round route, when he defeated Kid Willlams, the (?nner title holder, in a slashing bat tle. The change of the bantamweight crown is just what this division has needed to stimulate Interest among boys of the smaller class. Willlams has been champion since he took the title away from Johnny Coulon at Los Angeles on June 9, 1914, when he stopped the Chicagoan In three rounds. Ever since that occasion, with the exception of a doubtful de feat registered against him on a foul by Johnny Ertle at St. Paul in 1915, Willlams has defended his honors against all comers with much credit to himself, - L . DAVI WARTNICK, Willlams' man- Ager, is setting up an awful how! over the decision given against the Bailtimore “wolf boy,” but if the ver dict was really an Injustice to the Durable Dane Wartnick has only him. self to blame, In my opinion. Billy Rocap, who refereed the bout, was picked by Wartnick, Had it been left to Herman, the Philadelphian would never have been selected. Of this we are positive, as it was this same party whom Herman has always claimed robbed him of the champlonship In his bout against Willlams a coup& of ’ ‘ 5 09 HWAN was given the decision, and he will rightly be halled as the new champion. Few fans would shed any tears if Hilly Roche gave a decision sgainst Freddie Walsh, no matter how joud a claim Weish or his manager would set up after a bout. The same goes for Wartnick and his pllot, Kid Willlams, Just as long as champilons insist on naming their own referees, just so long will boxing fans and critics refuse to lis. ten to any claim that they may set up that they were “robbed” their own ring ofMcials. Ref for champlonship bouts should be -ATLANTA, GA. In some other way than by the title holders themselves. ' LE 4 l.\' A statement issued after the bout, | Referee Rocap stated that he gave Herman nine rounds and Willlams eight, while he considersd that three sesslons were even. This, with the fact that Herman scored the only two knock-downs of the bout, entitled Pete to the decision, according to Ro- Cap. As we were not present at the bout, It s Impossible for us to state at this distance whether the decision Was a just one or not, but it seems that Wartnick's loud howl is uncalled - o 0 & ITH the title In hia possession, w we hope that Herman will de fend it like a real champlon. We un derstand that Herman won the cham. plonship without even a manager to ald him, as he split with “Red” Walsh, his former pilot, some time back. It takes a Eame ringster battle under a handicap of this th: make no mistake, If there is any doubt as to whether Herman deserved the decision last Tuesday night, it also MAay not be out of the way for Pete to Kive Willlams a return match, a stand that would at once boost hirm Into the limelight as a true sportsman. This much Williams saw fit to give Herman after the Bal. Itlmore “wolf boy” was given a ques tionable draw verdict with the Lflo star, and Willlams now s asking this much from Pete. It's all up to Her. man, however, or his new manager, whoever he may be. ALBANY HIGH CHALLENGED ’ ALBANY, Jan, 11.<<The Cami'la Bchool basketball team has rnnll'% the team of the Albany High School A& game at any time convenlent to the llooals. A M. & will Accommodate them, | The loeal team hasn't lost a ?mo this I year, except the flrfl:-m' of the {to the loeal Y. M. © team. The H | Echool got even later by giving the Y. ‘M C. A & good beating e ———————————— | DR.J.T.GAULT | 12 Inman | Atlants %