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/ THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, JULY 30 1907. SPORTING PAGE EDITED BY PERCY H. WHITING Johnny Dobbs, the Nashville manager, has an idea which should pull the league oilt of an awkward hole which it has legislated itself into. - He suggests that the league change its fourteen-man limit rule so that when any player is so sick or injured that he has to be out of th«. game for a considerable length of time—over a week, perhaps—he can be kept on the pay roll without having it count against his club on either the player or salary limit. Such a chango seems only human—and humane. It is manifestly wrong to force a team to cast adrift a player because he is injured. It is inhuman to do it and it has a bad moral effect on the team. You can’t expect players to take chances of being hurt if an injury is to cost them their job. On the other hand, it is practically out of tho question to ask a team to get along with one man laid up for repairs and only thirteen on the available list. - It is all very well to say that it is ns fair for one as it is for another. And it is, in the long run. But maybe it will take a thousand years to even up. And that’s too long to wait. Let the league have a rule that nn injured player can be carried by any club, without affecting tho salary or fourtccn- man limit. Then we will have our injured players taken care of without any deception' being necessary. And at the same time the patrons of baseball will not be asked to witness any exhibi tions put up by a lot of cripples. There has been some criticism of the Atlanta management for planning to sell four playars. But this is uncalled for. When a player is ready for the big leagues thero is only one sane couise—and that is to sell him. If you don’t he will prob ably be drafted. If he is not ho will hardly play his best when he feels that he might be in the big leagues drawing a “maj or’s” salary, provided ho got a fair deal. It is the only fair way to tho players, and it works out for the best in tho long run. The only man Manager Smith has objected to selling has been Sweeney. And that was because he felt that Ed would not be ready to begin his big league career without another year of seasoning. But even Ed will have to go, because it is better to sell him than to let him go by draft. ■ We note with considerable pleasure that Memphis lost on Monday. While the Crackers were resting up for the big double head, cr, the Bluffers were working themselves out in a hopeless ef fort to down Little Rock. > The Travelers playod a corking game and won by a Single run, made in the eleventh inning. Cristajl was in the game, and is evidently in good trim again. Eyler, however, pitched a much better gajpo than the ex-Polican. MUCH MUD; CAME OFF Persons, Formerly of Nash ville, Jumps League and Goes Home. ONE OF THE PELICANS. LISTER AND HARDY GO TO MAJORS "BOOZE HAS GREATEST OF KNOCKOUT PUNCHES” —SAY8 JOHN L. What la tha REAL knookout punch? John L. Sullivan, tho ones mighty galdlator of tho prlzo ring, for ton ysara champion of tho world and tho man who discovered tho knookout punoh with hlo gloved hand, la sparring with hla one-time opponent, Jake Kllraln, and ho declares that the REAL knook out punch isn't given with the fist. He has written an article on the real knockout punohee as he understands them, and he says they haven’t any thing to do with the ring. Hla talk la on knookout punohee that he aaya mean “taking the count" for life. Sulllvqn hae been a prominent figure in American life for years, or since he first became famous the world over. That was in 1B82, when he whipped Paddy Ryan, of Troy, N. Y., for the championship of America. Sines 1892, the year he relinquished the title, Sul livan has spent almost his entire time In travel. Naturally bright, he has been a student of human nature all hie life, hae read extensively and is in a position to eee things with unbiased, thoughtful eyes. Here la hie own story■ By JOHN L. SULLIVAN. I know a lot about . “knockout punohee." I discovered one. delivered a few, and have been punched a bunch of them myaelf. 80 when anybody talks about punches I take an Interest In the conversation. When they begin to talk about knockout punches I join In the talk. We hear a lot nowadays about the man with the punch—tho fellow that puts it over everybody else—the busi ness man that has the wallop on his nelshbors—the fighter that carries sleep producers In both bands. You know all about that. But you don’t know, maybe, that: The REAL, knockout punch Isn’t carried In any fist, and never drops you so that you can rise up aft referee counts ten and collect your senses and your share of the gate re celpts. The real knockout punches In this life are the ones you never see—but only feel. For some fellows the punch la slipped to them In a glass of boose—and It baa the right to tho solar plexus beat a mile for effect. Knockout la Not Carried In Fist. Old Easy Life gets In under another lad’s guard and puts him down and out before he knows It’s coming. No right awing ever took away senses so sud denly ns a little touch of Easy Life, and you can get a lot to testify to that. Take It from me—the REAL knock out punches are the ones you want to And then you want to learn how to guard against them. When a fellow starts In to be a fight- er tha first thing he learns Is how to hold hla hands; not to deUver a blow, but to guard against a blow. R’s a great thing to have the punch. It’s Just as great and as necessary to know the knockout and recognise the knockout punch when you see It com ing aa It la to know you’ve got the punch In your own makeup. There's one knockout punch that you won't have any trouble recognising, al though It comes In a good many differ ent ways and tries to aneak In over your guard. It's boose—drink; strong drink of all kinds. It's no use to try to meet it. Ifs one NAT KAISER & CO. CONFIDENTIAL LOANS ON VALUABLES. 15 Decatur St. Kimball House. Baroalns In Unredeemed Diamonds. of the real knockout punches of life. Don’t let It land. The Curse of Liquor. A great many persons have said that I should be an authority on what Is commonly called the curse of liquor. I am. I make the etatement only, but I am ashamed to do so. But I am going to be straightforward, I hope, nnd In making this acknowledgment of n fit ful past 1 want to put myaelf on an equal footing with aome of the men who may heed my talk and certainly need something of tho kind. I fought the booae, but I wasn’t the man with the punch. No man carries a swing or a hook or a cross or an uppercut that can make an Impression on Old Red Eye. They used to say that I won most of my fights by senring my men Into a fit before getting Into the ring with them. Hut Old Red Eye never gave me a serious thought when I threw down the gauntlet to him. I was Juat aa easy as any of the rest of them. You have heard before, I gueaa, that no man can beat the boose game. U’s a fact, established as early as were the hills from which the booae la auppoacd to come. Nobody can beat It by fight ing? It. era’s where you see the man who can dodge tho punch getting In hla.sllck work. Ilere'a where he la a bigger fel low than the- man with the punch or the man who thinks he has It. When you start battling with Old Alcohol you are up against tho real punch. The only way to beat It ts to have will enough of your own to keep out of range of that punch. Let It go over your head, by your ear, or under your guard arm, anywhere but down your throat. Liquor Drinking a Disease. I am of the opinion that liquor drinking Is a disease with some men. Will power can cure It In some cases. But such coses ore mighty rare. That's why I say that the fellow who can dodge the boose punch Is the mnn with some class. Him for me, all the time. A lot of people have asked me why I didn’t quit the game before It nearly ruined me. To them I have answered that every man must learn hla lesson well. Some learn It quickly, others must take a lot of time. I was slow and needed time. But t saw my mistake before I made up my mind that the game was un beatable. Then I quit, and quit cold. It cost me a fortune, then another and then some more. That’s how I learned the lesson. You see, If I had been forced to keep on digging a ditch or something like that, most of my younger days I would have had a cheaper lesson. It cost me a lot simply because I hail the coin. Perhaps In my time, and I do not mean to say this boastfully, I have turned more young men into a straight, er path than any other man outside of those occupying temperance lecture platforms. You ask me how I do It. Simply by being forceful. I used the argument that Is a champion of the world and the man who really discovered the orig. Inal knockout punch couldn't negotiate a victory over King Kornjulce. what chance had anybody else? Pretty strong take that, but absolutely right. And In some cases I use force to make a man learn his lesson. When I wss frisky and full of ginger I liked to chuck In a little corporal punish ment to my subjects, both In and out of the ring. It never did any harm out of the ring, and In most Instances I found that my subjects didn't transgress any more. Young man, quit the booze, and quit it for good. You older fellow, learn Chicago Nationals Get Har dy, But Lister Is Still on Market. * It wasn’t for lack of two baseball teams, plenty of sunshine and a sched uled game that a dismal quietness hov ered over Ponce DeLeon park Monday. The Ohly thing lacking was a dia mond. The one leased for regular use by the baseball association was so busy trying to soak up about half an Inch of water all over Its surface that It was not fit for anything else. For half an Inch of moisture over a surface like Ponce DeLeon Ik quite a bit and pro duces enough nice pink mud to lost a So there Is a double-header for Tues day; first game called at 2: SO. Elmer Duggan and Hub Perdue are announced as the Nashville pitchers, while Ford and Spade will work for Atlanta. The Nashville team Is much the same as when last In Atlanta. The only two new faces are those on the front of the heads of Messrs. Yerkes and Ntchola. Nichols Is an old National League player, who waa with Chicago, and St. Loula back In the “days that were earlier.” He came from Waterbury, In the Connecticut State League, and Is a catcher, outfielder, Inflelder—anything but nltcher, and he Isn't sure that he can't twirl a few In a pinch, Yerkes also camp from Waterbury, and he Is a stem-winder, full Jeweled and quite tho real thing. Four years ago he was with St. Louis and a win ning twlrler. The warmth of the Southern dia monds seems to have brought him around and Manager Dobbs believes that he Is In better trim right now than ever before In his life. Persons has Jumped. "' V Instead of reporting to Little Rock, ns ordered, he has returned to his home. In Wisconsin—or wherever It Is—not Little Rack, anyway. This has been a tough year for Per sons. In 1905 he was one of the best GASTON. Here Is one of Charley Frank’s star players. He came from Chat tanooga. and played In the Cotton States League last year. WWSMMMWIIWWHMSISWIISS4MMMMIIIH Standing of the Clubs, j PASKERT! $3^250! Record Price Paid for At lanta’s Speedy Out fielder. CINCINNATI GETS GENUINE WONDER Some Little Dope on Base ball .at Atlanta and Elsewhere. Southern. Little Hock 3, Memphis 2 (11 Innings), lllrdmhiglinm 4, Montgomery 2. Shreveport 2, New Orleans I. South Atlantic. Savannah 2, Columbia 0. Jacksonville 5, Augusta L Charleaton-Mncon—Rain. American. Boston 4, Cleveland 2. National. Philadelphia 2. Cincinnati 1. Now York 4, St. Loula 3. Chicago 2, Brooklyn 1. Boston 6, Pittsburg 3. Virginia State. Lynchburg 0. Portsmouth 2. llanylllo 4, ltonnoke 1. American Association. Milwaukee 12, St. Paul 4, Minneapolis 4, Kansas City 2. Indianapolis 1, Louisville 0. Columbus 8, Toledo 3. WHERE THEY PLAY TODAY. Nashville In Atlanta, l’onoo deLeon park, First game railed at 2:30 Montgomery In Birmingham. Shreveport In Now Orleans. Memphis In IJttlo Rock. CLUHS- mcn In the league. This year hla play. Memphis. . Ing fell off. Finally Nashville asked ATLANTA, waivers on him. Then followed' tho squabble between Montgomery and Lit tle Rock for his services. And now Persons has lilt tho trail for the far North and Little Rock Is shy a much-desired outfielder. Lister and Hardy are the Nashville player* who go to the big leagues. The latter goes to the Chicago Nationals. The deal Is not closed as yet, but It Is practically a certainty. Lister Is still oq the market, all re ports that he had been sold to the Giants for 14,500 to the contrary not withstanding. Dan Brouthers, who Is scouting for "Tough Mug” McGraw this year, will be In Nashville next week to have a look at the man. But Dobbs Is open to offers for Lister at present. There* Is some doubt as to whether or not Johnny Dobbs will manage the Naahvllle team next year. Dobbs owns a fine dairy In Chattanooga and It has lost money for him since he started playing ball—more. In fact, than he has made at playing the game. So next year he must choose between the dairy and the diamond. Manager Dobbs does not think that the Nashville club will have to pay the 9300 fine assessed against It by the league president when Umpire Rinn forfeited the game against Nashville In Montgomery. According fo Dobbs, this Is the way the trouble came about: "Montgomery tried to work the squeeze play, but It went wrong. The man who tried to score frpm third was caught way oft the bag. McEleveen went down on one knee after the ball and tho man slid Into him. 'Mac' held him not less than three feet off the bag, but Rlnn called him safe. "McCormick and I ran up and pointed out to Rlnn that the base runner was still oft the bog and when McCormick said something not In any way of fensive to him, he was ordered ont of the game. "Wo only had eleven men then and Perdue had started In the game and had been taken out. So we had no body to use unlesq Perdue went back In. I asked Mallarkey If this was all right, and ho snM yes. I explained this to Rlnn and after he asked Mal larkey If he consented he said It was all right, too. ”8o I came In to second base and sent Perdue to the field. And while he was going out Rlnn said, T call the game.’ I asked him why. and he said, •1 forfeit the game.’ He notified President Knvanaugh that he forfeited the game because I put Perdue Into the game, but I can prove that I had Mallarkey'* and Rlnn's permission.” New Orleans . Nashville. . Little Rock , Birmingham , Hhrevoport . Montgomery . Southern. Played. Won. Lost P. C. ... 89 53 36 .596 ... 87 49 38 .683 The deni for George Paakert has been closed. The Cincinnati club pays the stag gering sum of 33,250 for the young Ohio boy. The signed agreement was received from Cincinnati Tuesday. This la an enormous price to 'pay for a Class /l outfielder. Memory falls to call to mind a fielder who has brought such a price In the Southern League. Cleveland gave more for Llebhardt last fall, but pitchers come high—high, er than outfielders, as a rule. That Cincinnati will get her money’s north la a cinch, however, and for once the Ohio club has not drawn a gold brick. That cleans up two of the deals that the local club has had pending for some time. Two more remain—that of New York for Zeller and Cleveland for Sweeney. Says the Birmingham Age-Herald: - The New Orleans Item charges that Manager Smith, instead of having hon estly disposed of four of his stars. Is hiding them away under the wings of the majors. We do not presume to know anything about Billy's tactics In this matter, but we do know, and herewith loudly aver, that It Is a feather In one's cap when he has three or four men to conceal whom It Is necessary, or worth while. Both Hamilton and Roberts, as well as everybody else, should know that since the waiver rule has gone Into ef fect, fake sales and "cover-ups" have gone out of style. What Is the use of "covering" a player when every club in both big leagues has a chance to get him before he can return to the club which originally owned him. Thus If any of the big league clubs want the man they can get him. If none of them want him, what’s the use of “cover- Ing?’’ NOTES OF THE GAMES Mike Finn's Travelers "Chesty" Charles Babb's Babblers Monday afternoon In Little Rock by the acore of 3 to 2. It was a great vic tory for the Flnnites and everybody In the Arkansas capital rejoiced over the fact that the Travelers had won the contest. "Pop" Eyler was the man to beat the Memphtl. Eyler pitched great game against the Babblers. 1 allowed only six hits In eleven Innings. Ho v.-as given magnificent support The Barons proved to be "mud horses" Monday afternoon and they defeated Montgomery with ease by the score of 4 to 2. Birmingham played a much superior game to that of Mont' gomery and the Climbers never had a look In. "Ginger" Clarke twirled fine ball for the Barons and he also re ceived good support. Walsh was bat ted rather hard by Birmingham. Jacksonville defeated Augusta Mon day afternoon by the score of 5 to 1. Nelson, the former Nashville twlrler. pitched for Augusta and was batted hard by the Jays. Sitton pitched a good game for Jacksonville. Savannah defeated Columbia Mon day afternoon. Neither side had scored until the ninth rolled around, and then on two errors by the Columbia team the Savannah delegation of ball toss- ers scored two runs and won the game, Vlabahan pitched a great game of ball for Columbia. He let the hard-hitting 8avannah team down with only two scratch hits. There wae only one game played In the American League Monday after noon on account of old J. P. butting in nnd spoiling every contest scheduled to be played. Boston defeated Cleveland by the score of 4 to 2. The Naps play ed good ball, but lost tho contest on ac count of the errors made by O'Brien nnd Turner. Glen Lelbhardt pitched for tho Naps and Re allowed Boston only nine hits. The Chicago Cubs defeated the Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers Monday aft ernoon after nine hard Innings of play by thq score of 2 to 1. "Three-FInger- ed” Brown pitched for Chicago and let Brooklyn down with only two hits. Mc Intyre. the former Memphis twlrler, pitched a good game for Brooklyn, al though he lost the contest. Chicago made five hits off him and three of those were made In the ninth inning. Harry Lumley, of the Trolley Dodgers, scored Brooklyn’s only run by knock ing the ball over the fence In tho last round of play. The Now York Giants won an eleven- inning game from St. Louis afternoon by the score ot 4V j Louis tied the score In the ninth in«i. on MutthewiWs wild throw H Giants won out in the eleventh' ho. ever, on singles by Delvln and Bow man and Seymour’s triple. w "It I Were Manager” Is th„ „„ popular air in Birmingham right now Birmingham Age-Herald. * n *' When Clark Griffith left St. Lou Tuesday he made the following stat? “We may be pretty far down line and look out of It, but I’m «> hoPrtm that we will get up and 1-2-3. When we were home the time my pitchers were In bogus fo "On this trip they have dlsph good speed.. Chesbro, Orth. Doyle Hogg look O. K. to me. Then Ke ton has a new lease on life 'wati our smoke at home If the pitchers ke ue the good work. ’’I own as-good a batting team there Is in the A. L. It’s also a het outfit. The baae-running could not Improved on. I’m sincere when I that wo are still In the race. Keek will be back In right Wednesday.’’ Wouldn’t It surprlae you If the ons won two this afternoon. Two mol be landed, If the present series fal Into the right column. I Ye gods! Beaten on home grounl by Shreveport! We are degraded. \\| are humiliated! See, how our heJ hanga low!—Birmingham Age-Herall Shreveport and Naahvllle will be til tall-emlers. Memphis, Atlanta and .vJ Orleans kill lead. The Intermedul positions will fall to Little Rock, Bll mlngham and Montgomery.—Blrmlnl ham NewB. • ] Wonder where In the world such doj came from.—Nashvtllo American. 'If the state of Georgia Is to be rel resented among first division finlshe] In balldom again this year, It looks | though It Is up to Macon to turn 1 end of the trick. 'In the SoutheJ League Atlanta has a firm grip up second place and a chance to no Memphis out for first honors. AtlaiJ ta’s chance, however, can not be coj sldered as good as Macon's. On two othtr occasions since South Atlantic League was shoved I ward Into the map of baseball Ms has been called upon to fight for flrj honors for the state, and on both ocol slons the Central City has delivers This year another mighty effort will 1 made to stow away the cheese for the past relics of the fray are mere memories.—Exchange. CHAS. FRANK LECTURES 0N| SOUTHERN LEAGUE AFFAIR! / Charleston . Jacksonville. Macon . . . Augusta. . , Savnnnnh . . Columbia . . CLUBS’— Chicago . , Cleveland . CLUB8- Chlcago . . . Pittsburg . . New York . . Philadelphia i Brooklyn . . • Boston . . . . Cincinnati . . at. I.ouls . . , American. Flayed. Won. Loat P. C. ... 87 53 34 .009 National. Played. Won. Lost. P. C. ... 89 65 24 .730 Special to Tho Georgian. Montgomery, Ala., July 30.—Charley f Frank, while In Montgomery, made Evidently feelings were hurt down In aome Interesting remarks concerning Shreveport by The Georgian’* plea for loss kicking In baseball. A Shreveport exchange says: P^rcy is troubled eomewhat with near-sightedness. He can't see the "undesirable citizens” In the Cracker line-up. How about "Battle-Ax” Sid Smith, "Growling" Olto Jordan,. ‘‘Kicking’’ Billy Smith? They made more trouble for umpires here than any other players that have ever appeared on the Shreveport dia mond, and still there are others. The writer only named the flagrant examples which came to his mind. The ’’Smith Twins" and Otto Jordan have always behaved themselves In Atlanta And he Is surs that their conduct was exemplary the only time he saw Allan, ta play a series In Shreveport. Alex Smith* s Book Is Now on Market the same lesson. Remember the real punch Is contained in the fiery stuff. The fellow who beats It Is the fellow who can dodge the punch. Did you ever know that most of the lying In the world Is caused by drink? It Is. You don't know It, maybe, but ■top and think. Don't a drinking man say more awfully foolish and uncalled for things? And Isn't he sorry for tt when he thinks what an ass he has made of himself? Say. take It from old John L.. a champion once at ring and booze fight ing. It's the worst game ever discov ered. I see In my travels, and I am mighty glad to note It. too, that the age of suc cessful drinkers has gone by. Em ployers don't want even the “man who can handle It,” If there Is such a thing. Lots of men flatter themselves by saying they can handle the stuff. Rot. It wasn't made to be handled. TWO QUERIES ARE ANSWERED In answer to something less than one thousand queries:— THE FIRST GAME OF A DOU BLE-HEADER IS THE REGULAR GAME. All beta made on a game go on the first game, provided two are played. This Is only reasonable. In the nat ural course of events a team would Piny its regular game first. Then, If nothing Interfered, the second game would be played. It Is always under stood that the first game Is the regu- Inr scheduled game and the second Is the postponed game. To Sporting Editor of Georgian: Dear Sir—In a case when there are men on first and second and the bat ter hits a grounder to second, the sec ond baseman touches the bag and then throws to third to catch the man running from second; the third base- man catches the ball and touches the bag, but does not touch the runner. Is the man who runs from second to third out? No. There was no "force," and the third baseman should have touched the runner In order to retire him. oooooooooooooooijooooooociao 0 O O BROKE 274 STRAIGHT. Q 0 — o t- Guy Ward, the professional trap O O shooter, who had a long unbroken 0 O run Saturday overdue Lakewood O O traps of the Atlanta Gun Club, O O continued hts great work Monday O O nnd run 274 before he missed. In Cl O the last 650 targets shot at Ward O 0 has missed only an even dozen. O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FINISH BATTLE FOR M'FARLAND AND YANGER. Chicago. July 0.—Packey McFarland and Benney Yanger signed articles yesterday for a finish fight before the St. Joseph Athletic Club at Fort Wayne. The weight agreed upon la 110 pounds. Local golf players will be Interested to know that Alex Smith’s long-ex pected ’’Lessons in Oolf” has at last made Its appearance In book form. Tho fact that Smith spent last win ter In Atlanta and that many local players took lessons from him makes this now volume of especial Interest. The book Is beautifully printed, handsomely bound and superbly Illus trated. It contains over 80 Illustra tions, showing all possible strokes. The book contains a sketch of Smith's life an Introduction, seven les. sons, as follows: "First Principles," "Stance, Grip and Swing,” "Off the Tee and Through the Green,” ’’The Short Game,” "On the Green," "Getting Out of Difficulties,” "Advtcs to Incurables,” a "Picture Qal- lery,” and three chapters about the golf ball. The lessons In golf are the ones which appeared In Golf, the magazine, and are probably the beat and most practical ever written. The picture gallery Is a new addition, especially for the book. In this ’’gallery” are shown excellent photographs of the various strokes. With the assistance of these photographs a good Idea of correct form can be gained. Alex Smith Is doubtless the most successful professional player -In America today and no golfer who read* his book can fall to profit by It. BASKETBALL PLANS FOR MONTGOMERY. Special to The Georgian. Montgomery, Ala.. July 30.—Physical Director Van Lew Wilson, of the new Y. M. C. A., will leave today for Van couver, Wash., where he will become superintendent of a school for the blind. Wilson had planned a series of ath letic events for the coming winter and It Is supposed that his successor, F. J. Kuckelt, of Beaumont, Texas, who for merly did physical culture work In Brooklyn, will follow the same lines. Montgomery Is to see Its first real basket ball this winter and It la pro posed to play the fastest teams In this part of the country and an effort 1 nr *1-1(111 HKiccu u(iuu *— I will be made to^cttchynlvt^lly. weigh In at 12 noon on the day of the I the Intercollegiate champions, on thelr contest. August 20. MaUchl O. Ho- Southern tour during the Christmas gan will referee. I holidays. matters In which he is interested. For Instance, when shown a report that Atlanta was in need of a manager for 1907, and that Lave Cross had been suggested, the pilot of the Pelicans clenchel »hls fist and remarked that there was nothing in tho way of ball players in Atlanta who could get the former big league star from him, but that he might consider an exchange whereby ho woulc^ give up the third baseman for Piedmont Park. Although his team had not put as many games on the right side of the ledger as he had hoped, the chubby manager said: “Just keep your eye on the Pelicans. We are going to strike a gait when we hit home which will astound somebody, and It will make all managers and club owners which finish ahead of us sweat blood before the final game. No matter who Is In front when we again hit the road. It will be worth the price of admission to see allcomers try to keep the winning Pelicans down. “I am not trading or selling any of my men. New Orleans Is deserving of good ball, and there Is no reason why I should sell off my stars. I know that but one man can be drafted from me, and that next year I will have but one hole to fill. When I sell a man It will mean that I want to get rid of him, or else I think that he Is deserving of a reward for good work by going up to faster company. Sabrte and At* tb i are wanted by several clubs, but Is nothing definite as to any of men. “Talk about me running Ujis leai why there is not a man in the buslnei who Is doing more running than Prer ident Chambers, of the Montgomei club. He has scouts out all the br and when he gets through with Cotton States League I will be i fled to take what Is left. “Do you know that It is real amuili to hear the howl which has gone about my playing men from the port team. Why, Montgomery this man Holland last year and also man*by the name of Murch. Was tnei any cry against It? No; but w * Charley Frank does anything It n be wrong. Even when I was ui the Gulfport stars I did not exceed limit of the league. Right now I carrying thirteen men. 'As for this rot about Gretna ai Mobile taking the* places of Shrev port and Little Rock In the Souther there is nothing to It. Cotton Stati teams have proven recently that draw pretty well In New Orleans, have no objection to the teams p on the grounds of the Pelicans the team is on the road, but there no truth In the report that I am to come a Cotton States magnate run teams In both leagues. “Have you ever noticed that but rj youngsters are developed by me. « t is a fact. I give the boys but utt show. It Is too much for my nerve and life Is too short tor me to imr on the bench watching some young*' pitch himself to death or else blow at a critical moment.” ' I i playlrJ SOX HAVE LOST EVERY EXTRA-INNING GAMl The White Sox are leading the American League race, but are they strong a combination In.pinchea as they were last year? They have not won a single extra inning game this season. They have certainly been playing a great game nr they would not he at the top ot the league. A slouchy team couldn't stay there half minute. But In the strain that came In those over-inning games where a single tally means victory In most' ery Instance for the side that m»“* J the Sox have not responded to > necessity by landing that l° n ®. j across the plate In any Instance 1 the finish of the ninth Inning kRJ”' score a tie. It was a last year when the Sox hail their *" fight for the American Leag>« nant. Then they captured tne portion of their extra Inning < pen! prratj WINNING BY SINGLE RUN; CRACKERS FAVORITE STUNT The happy faculty of winning a game by a single run seems to beloM to Atlanta. This year no less than seventeen have been won by tn* score. Getting them by* a two-run margin seems to be tnore dlfilctilt. for only five have gone by that margin. And only three games this J'* have been won by three runs. By more than three runs sixteen have been won this ye ft r. . greatest majority Atlanta ever piled up was against Little Rock June* when the Crackers were the modest margin of thirteen runs to the The average number of runs by which Atlanta has won games u> year Is three and a third. And strange to say, the average number 01 ns by which her games have been lost Is exactly the same—three an third. . Six games this year have" been dropped by the Atlanta team J single tally three have gone bad by two runs and four by three Eleven of the games Atlanta has lost have been by more fhan three ru* ATLANTA vs. NASHVILLE July 29, 39, 3L Games Called at 4 p.