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SI worth of laundry, a box of stationery and a $1.50 shirt. • * • The big league teams that are making the loudest nois n this year are largely made up of youngsters. This doesn't necessarily prove, however, that all teams should be made up of youngsters. ♦ • • Dr. George E. Howard, professor of po litical science and sociology at the Uni versity of Nebraska, denounced organized “rooting" particularly during intercol legiate games. "Partisan cheering.'' he said, "is a singular example of mental perversion, an absurd and immoral custom. From every aspect it Is bad. It robs the athlete of his due meed of honest praise. Morally it Is on the level with the "jimmy" and the "toe hold," the stuffed ballot box or the campaign canard The Brooklyn club this year is wearing suits not dissimilar to those so popular at Sing Sing. New York's popular penal re sort. • * • Downey fs manager and captain of the Phillies when Dooin is absent. • • • Petersburg, of the Virginia league, has grabbed Morganroth and Abels from Newark. • * • The St. Louis Browns made an awful deal when the grabbed Stovall. He is batting .400! • 0 • "Red" Campbell. University of Michi gan graduate, is making good with Sioux City. • • • Since Connie Mack has announced that his present team will keep going at top speed for five years, much interest is being taken in the 1917 season. • * ♦ In one of the Washington-New York games Germany Schaefer bounded one off the bull sign, netting 50 hard, Iron men thereby • ♦ • Lush, Montreal's manager, suspended Gandil for smoking cigarettes after being ordered not to do so. * • • Frank Bowerman is managing the Lon don. Canada, team. Thump! It's the bot tom ! • • ■ With Bob Groom getting good in his old age and with Walter Job, son always good the Washington team will not be the Whichever way the election the Jy m|| ' Candidate says he that he is elected to chew ILJjp* ' -fl mild,Burley Drummond.l DRUMMOND NATURAL LEAF CHEWING TOBACCO I jt/c&ceo H ultimate cinch this year that it usually has. ♦ ♦ • The Cubs have a chromatic pitching combination—Brown, White and Laven der. • • • •Toe Gardner, of the Dallas club, has re vived old time Texas league days by as saulting an umps. MARTY PHELAN CANNED: MAY GO TO N. Y. LEAGUE Martin Phelan, first base candidate, has been given his unconditional release by Manager Hemphill. Phelan made the mistake of reporting too late to have any chance of beating Earl Sykes out of his job. More than that, he has shown no especial class. When the local club tried to get rid of him they found that nobody wanted him and rather than carry him longer they decided to let him out cold, which they have done. The ex-Macon first baseman is angling for a Job in the New York State league. WILL QUALIFY SATURDAY FOR A. L. DUNN TROPHY The golfers get away tomorrow on the Atlanta Athletic club course at East Lake for the Albert L. Dunn trophy. This Is to be played for from scatch and must be won twice to become the property of the winner. The qualifying round will be played tomorrow, the first and second rounds May 12 and the third round May 18. The finals will be played May 19. ‘•YOUNG” ERNE MATCHED for go with McFarland PHILADELPHIA. PA., May 3.—Packey McFarland, the Chicago lightweight pu gilist, has been matched to box "Young" Erne, of this city, on May 15. The bout will take place here and both men must weigh in at 138 pounds at 5 p. m. of that day. White City Park Now Open THE. ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: FRIDAY. MAY 3. 1912. You’re Not in Sporting Fashion if You Haven’t One HOPES, HOPES EVERYWHERE! ARE THEY ANY 0000? By Ed. W. Smith. IF you would be in sporting fashion you had better get yourself a “white hope" and start singing his praises. The fight fan who isn't boosting some big fellow seems mighty lonesome these days. Perhaps this is one of the re sults of the matching of Jim Flynn with Jack Johnson, or it may have been brought about by the arrival of spring, or there may be some other cause for it. but the fact re mains that not only the woods but the plains and the prairies seem to be fill’d with the big fellows who aspire to attain a place of prominence In the fistic world. About the best looking of the lot that we have seen is John Young, the powerful Western man who is being handled by Sig Hart, whose companion piece-in the stable was Luther McCarthy, matched to box Carl Morris in Springfield, Mo., to morrow. In Burlington, Wls., the other pTHE BASEBALL CARD SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Today. Atlanta in Chattanooga. New Orleans In Birmingham. Mobile in Montgomery. Memphis in Nashville. Standing of tha Clubs. W. L. P C W. L P C Mobile . .12 7 .632 Atlanta . 8 8 .500 C’nooga. . 9 7 .563 Mont. . .8 19 444 Memphis .9 7 .563 N OTans.7 11 .389 Bham.. .11 10 .524 N’ville. ..6 10 .375 Yesterday’s Results. Atlanta 6. Chattanooga 2. Montgomery 6. Mobile 2. Nashville 6, Memphis 3. Birmingham 6, New Orleans 4. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Games Today. Columbus in Albany, i Savannah In Columbia. I Macon in Jacksonville. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. PC 55’. L. PC i Albany 8 3 .727 Macon .. .6 6 .500 I S'vannah .8 3 .727 Columbia 3 9 .250 J’ville . ..8 4 .667 Columbus 210 .167 I Yesterday's Results. Jacksonville 1, Macon 0. Savannah 3. Columbia 2. Albany 6, Columbus 2. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Today. Cleveland in Chicago. St. Louis In Detroit. Boston In Washington. New York in Philadelphia. Standing of the Clubs. W. L P C W. L P C Chicago. 11 5 688 Phlla 7 8 467 Boston 10 5 667 Detroit. .7 10 412 C'land .8 6 571 St Louis .5 10 .333 Wash. .8 6 .371 N. York .4 10 .286 Yesterday's Results. New York 11. Philadelphia 6. Detroit 1, St. Louis 0. Chicago 3. Cleveland 1 Boston 6, Washington 5. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. Brooklyn in Boston. Philadelphia in New York. Chicago in Pittsburg Standing of the Clubs. W L. PC W. L. P C C'nati. .12 3 .800 P'burg. . 6 8 429 N York .10 3 .769 Brooklyn. 5 8 .385 Boston .. 77 .500 Phlla. .4 8 .33.3 Chicago . 6 8 .429 St. Louis .5 10 .333 Yesterday s Results. New York 6, Philadelphia 4. Boston 11. Brooklyn 7 Cincinnati 10. St. Louis 0. Pittsburg 6, Chicago 0. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Games Today. Columbus in Milwaukee Indianapolis in St Paul Louisville in Minneapolis. Standing of the Clubs. W L P C W L. P C C’lumb’s 16 4 800 L’vilie. . .7 9 438 M spoils 11 6 .647 K City . 811 421 Toledo . .11 7 .611 M'w ukee 512 .294 St Paul .10 9 .526 I spoils. . 414 .222 Yesterday's Results. St. Pau! 8 Indianapolis 4 Toledo 3. Kansas City 1 Louisville 3. Minneapolis 2, Columbus 5. Milwaukee 1. OTHER GAMES YESTERDAY Georgia 2. N C A and M. 0. North Carolina 8. V P I 2. Pennsylvania 5. Virginia 4. Tech 3, Auburn 2 Marist 4, Stone Mountain 3 evening they flashed one. His name is Ned Carpenter, and he is under the management of H. W. Lawton, of that place, who has been han dling him for some time. Carpen ter's first real battle was against Jumbo Wells, the light heavy-* weight from New York, who sub bed for Klondike, the Chicago col ored heavy. Carpenter tore into Wells with such excellent effect that Referee Lavine stopped the battle in the sixth round and gave him the verdict. Wells was hang ing on and fouling whenever he could and never had a chance with the strapping Badger boy. Carpenter stands over six feet in height and weighs 192 pounds. Cincy Man a Giant. John Sincoe, a well known ath letic trainer, is handling the for tunes of Joe Walls, a Cincinnati boy who comes from New Weston. Drake county, Ohio. Joe stands six feet nine inches and weighs 290 pounds. He is twenty-eight, years eld. Joe, it is claimed, can INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. Toronto In Baltimore Newark in Jersey City. Standlna of the Clubs W. L P C W. I. P.' J. Citv ..8 3 .727 Newark 4 6 .400 Buffalo . 7 3 .700 Rchester 4 6 .400 B’ltimore. 6 3 .667 Toronto ..4 7 .36' P’dence. ..5 5 .500 Montreal. 2 7 .222 Yesterday's Results. Baltimore 16, Toronto 3. Buffalo 5. Providence 2 Jersey City 6, Montreal 4. Rochester 7, Newark 4. SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. Games Today. Rome in Huntsville Bessemer in Selma Anniston In Gadsden Standing of the Clubs. W L F C W L. P.O B'semer .8 5 .615 H'tsvllle 6 6 .500 Selma . .8 5 .615 A niston 6 8 .385 Rome . .7 5 .583 Gadsden 3 8 .273 Yesterday’s Results. Selma 4. Bessemer 1. Huntsville 4. Rome 3. Gadsden 5. Anniston 4. COTTON STATES LEAGUE. Games Today. Greenwood in New Orleans. Jackson in Meridian Vicksburg in Hattiesburg. Standing of the Clubs. W L. P. W L P C M ridian 10 8 .556 N. O'l’ns 9 9 .500 II sburg 8 7 533 V'ksburg 8 '• 471 J ckson 9 8 .529 G’nwood 710 .412 Yesterday’s Results. Greenwood 2. New Orleans 1. Hattiesburg 1. Vicksburg 0. Meridian 6. Jackson 0. VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Games Today. Newport News in Norfolk. Danville in Lynchburg. Standing of the Clubs. W L. P C W..L. P C P'sm'uth 4 2 .667 Norfolk .4 4 500 N News 7 5 .583 L'bburg .4 5 444 F sburg .5 4 .556 D’nville .4 6 .490 R oanoke 6 5 545 R'hmond 4 7 .364 Yesterday’s Results. Lynchburg 7, Danwlle 5 Petersburg 5. Roanoke 4 Newport News 2. Norfolk 1. Portsmouth 13. Richmond 4 CAROLINA ASSOCIATION. Games Today. Greensboro in Spartanburg Charlo’te in Winston-Salem. Greenville in Anderson. Standing of the Clubs. W L. I W. L P C. Sp'burg .6 1 857 A'derson .3 4 I. ■ C'rlotte 4 3 .571 Gnvfiie .2 5 286 'W.-STm 4 3 .571 G'nsboro 2 5 .286 Yesterday's Results. Greensboro 8, Spartanburg 3. Anderson 17. Greenville 1. Winston-Salem 4, Charlotte 1. UNITED STATES LEAGUE. Games Today. Pittsburg in <‘le- eland. Chicago in Cincinnati Reading in New York Washington in Richmond. Standing of the Clubs. 55' L P C W L P C P'sburg .2 0 104<» C'nnati .11 .506 I R'mond .2 0 1.000 N York 0 1 .000 i R'ading 1 0 1.000 C eland .0 2 .000 Chicago 11 .500 W’ngton 0 2 .000 Yesterday's Results. Pittsburg 6. Cleveland 5. Cincinnati 6. Chicago 5 Reading 6, New York 2 Richmond 6, Washington 2. handle himself surprisingly well for a chap of such enormous size. Not only that, but he has three broth ers, Vent, Fred and John, all <>f whom are over six feet and aver age in weigh 220 pounds. Sincoe has Walls In active train ing now and expects to spring him soon. Carl Hagnestad, 9311 Lyons ave nue, Chicago, claims to have the real article in the way of a big fellow, but he doesn't, give us his name. He says he will match him with any of them. And along comes Joe Simpson, the East Chicago promoter, with a pair of them. They are members of the Crown A. A., Frank Ryan and tmiar Welsh. Ryan stands six feet two and scales 210. He Is to take on John Young at Fort Wayne before very long. Ryan has been training nicely, and the Crown boys say they will bet on him if Sig Hart will back his man. v.vv ■P 'Mr jaßfe jMfa 1 HO ■ I ullW MllwWw I T I - ——. '• ===== X7OU men should see Adler’s Collegian Clothes before =-'■ - V you decide on your new suit, or overcoat. They are just the sort of clothes you have long wished you == could find—smartly cut— exquisite fabrics —new weaves— =_ i === beautiful colors and best of all, perfect fitting. ===== - . , II I Let this announcement be your reminder to step into our store and satisfy yourself that these clothes really fulfill your every expectation. ' ~~ The moderate price range—sls to S3O will prove another thing - - - in their favor. DAVID ADLER & SONS CLOTHING CO. == MILWAUKEE CHICAGO u 1— - NEWS FROM RINGSIDE i Eddie Murphy will be seen in action near Chicago before very long, as pro moters are trying to arrange a match be tween Murphy and cither Matt Wells or Owen Moran. • • • Young Erne has signed to box .lack Redmond six rounds in Philadelphia May 13. » • • Billy Griffith has practically signed up to meet Ray Bronson in the near future. • • • Eastern fight fans arc clamoring for a McFarland-Wolgast bnut in New York, yet they say McFarland should be al lowed to make 135 pounds ringside They do not take Into consideration the fact that Wolgast won the championship at 133 pounds. • • • Jack Johnson Is doing light road work every day to condition himself for his July fight with Jim Flynn. • • • Johnny Coulon is training hard for his bout with Young Solsburg in Brooklyn May 8. • • • In Npw’ York tonight Frank Klaus meets Jack Dillon. It will be over the ten-round route. • • ♦ A bill will be introduced in the Massa chusetts legislature at the next meeting, which if passed will allow ton and twelve round boxing matches to be held in that state. • m Jimmy Murphy, the newsboy champion, is In receipt of an offer for a bout in Co lumbus. • • • Jim Flynn is anxious to annex some young blood to his training camp. He is trying to secure the services of Packey McFarland. While Packey is a light weight his clever boxing would be a big help to Flynn. FREE BASEBALL LESSON GIVEN WITH EACH GAME GUTHRIE. (IKT.A., May 3.—Believing that increased knowledge of baseball will result tn Increased attendance at the games, the Guthrie club of the Oklahoma Stale league has devised a unique scheme. Instructors In baseball will be present at all games to explain to any one the fine points of the game. The Instructors will include both men and women. MAXWELL. EX-CRACKER. SOLD TO TORONTO CLUB TORONTO, ONT.. May 3.—The Toronto Hub has closed with the New York Na tionals for the purchase of Pitcher Bert Maxwell, who will join the team here on Monday. It. was an outright purchase. 21