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For three or four rounds it was an interesting mill, but after that Whitney, who had warmed up to his work, proved Miller's master and the boy from Philadelphia re sorted to all the uncouth methods possible. And he sure has a broad vocabulary on the rough staff. Miller wanted tojose the fight on a foul, and was willing to Ipse that way much sooner than the eighth spasm, too. He made a b{uff after the decision was rendered against him that it should have never been stopped, but his wild moves and heated tongue were only for effect. It was Whitney's battle all the wax . The Cedar Rapids lightweight was in tip-top condition and fought a masterly bout. He shot both hands to the head and body, whether at range or in close, with precision and power, and in return picked off Miller’s wild offerings with ease and dispatch CRACKERS OUT TO WIN TODAY IN BARON VILLE BIRMINGHAM. ALA.. May 15. It will boa blue Snd disheartened ball club that will pile into Atlanta uniforms this afternoon. The Crackers have dropped two in a row to the BarottS. one because of poor pitching and one on account of poor batting and they can't quite make it out. The Barons vfere surprised when Miller was worked yesterday, for they had expected Sitton. It is like ly t hat the former Clemson college man will pltcA today. The Crackers kicked yesterday's game out frail under Pitcher Wal ter Miller, score 2 to 1. The big lad with the sad eyes hurled a won derfully good contest, but his sup port got it! feet tied up with its hands In tie fifth inning and al lowed enotgh runs to leak across to decide the contest. Barring that one half inning, it was a grand game. Miller's work A Shoe as Comfortable as a Sock That is the kind of fit we endeavor to give \ j. — to all our customers, and if you trust to our a judgment, you will get it! . Ats Elegant 3-hutton or lace, in hx \ ) $1.50 $/| . 1 . •\J grey Canvas Oxfords. in Price $2.50 to $3.50 ) White and Grey Polish 25c Parks = Chambers = Hardwick 37-30 leachtree St, COMP AN A I Atlanta. Georgia The boys fought straight rules, hitting at all times. Hereafter this sort of milling should not be al lowed here. In all the big cities where the game is flourishing clean breaks rule. But at that Miller overdid, the style in effect last night. There are times- when the referee must intercede and de mand that the boys step back with out hitting. If not, there would be nothing but wrestling and hug ging. The referee finally was forced to break the boys clean. But Miller refused to abide by the command, and after being warned for two rounds and a half he still refused to pay any attention. It was then that Whitney was awarded a well earned decision. Whitney’s fight earned him a bout with topnotchers and it is now up to the Gate City club to get him a good man to battle. Owen Moran or Joe Magdot would about fill the bill with the "Fighting Carpenter." The semi-windup lasted less than a round. Billy Kerr, the local boy with the “Maud" kick, knocked out Frank Baker after two minutes of one-sided mixing. Spider Britt and Meyer Pries fought, a rattling six-round prelim inary. It was a case of give and take all the way. These boys should be put right hack on again. was excellent. There wasn’t a point where he flickered. A freak of the game was t)i p fact that of the 24 put-outs made by the Atlanta club, O'Dell, at first, made 16, Bailey, in left, made 6, O'Brien and Kerr made one each. Alper man, East, O’Brien and Miller made all of the 15 put-outs. Oh. yes, O’Brien made Atlanta's sole error. ‘•BEAR’ 7 REPORTS OUT: THOMPSONS ARE BARRED ATHENS, uPA., May 15.—Whether for the purpose of "bearing" the betting odds, or whether for other reasons isn't known, but the rumor is out here that Carl and Homer Thompson have been barred from playing any more baseball this year. If this sticks it will cripple Georgia sadly in the games with Tech this week. However, the older heads in cline to the hunch that both the Thomp sons will be put back in good standing in time to play against the Jackets. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: WEDNESDAY. MAY 15. 1912. Enormous Sum To Be Spent on July 4 Championship WILL COST $65,000 TO STAGE LAS VEGAS FIGHT By Ed. W. Smith. CHICAGO, May 15.—Jack Cor ley, whose dual duties as manager of Jim Flynn and promoter of the Johnson-Flynn championship battle at Las Vegas, N. M„ July 4, sit easily upon him, is about as light-hearted over this affair as a man who stands to win a fortune could well be. The fact that he stands to lose heavily is one of the least of Curley's trou bles. Here's one of the reasons for the big smile Curley Is flashing: There's an advance sale of over $14,000 already for the fight. Quick as the announcement was made that Las A'egas was the spot selected son the exchange of punches between the white and the black. Las Vegas business men to the number of 25 planked down 50 seeds each for the seats immedi ately around the ring. Dawson Sends in SIO,OOO. The Commercial club also kicked in with a cash offering of $2,500 for a block of the $25 ducats, mak ing the total of $4,000 in the box before the tickets were even print ed. Then Dawson, N. M., sent in a certified check for SIO,OOO, the price of 500 S2O tickets. Qf course, that isn't a great sale, but ft is tremendous, figures Cur ley, when it is remembered that the tickets were disposed of almost within 24 hours of the decision giv ing the battle to Las Vegas. The reservations now in the hands of the Las Vegas people who are handling the details of the af fair under the sharp eyes of Art Greiner, Curley's secretary, foot up close to $20,000 more already—'but it is not the cash in hand. “The battle will be a success financially. I am sure." Curley said just before leaving for the West with his fighter. "I figure that way because of the astonish ing spirit being shqwn by the peo ple of New Mexico in helping me push things along. That spirit is bound to succeed. Costs Fortune to Stage. "But just listen to what we have got to take in before we can fig ure on any sort of profit. First of all. there will be Johnson's end of s3l,ino io be’ paid to him before he enters the ring and is his ir respective of the outcome of the battle. "We've figured our best on the arena and find it can not he put up for a penny short of $12,500. Tt could he made cheaper, but we want a comfortable place ami one that fnay be used more than once. "The expense of properly hilling the battle, advertising it in posters, circulars, mailing and other office expenditures of that nature will make another leak of something close to SIO,OOO. “There are other items, like help, ticket sellers for a couple of months time, ticket takers and people of this class, railroad fares and other expenses of that class and another SIO,OOO is gone out. “All in all,; I figure that it will cost close to $65,000 to put the men FODDER FOR FANS Connie Mack has robbed another cradle —this time to kidnap Master O. M. Har rell, pitcher of the Baylor college team. ♦ * • John McGraw’s salary, as manager nf the New York Nationals, for the next five years will total reasonably close tn SIOO.- 000. That sounds pretty big. but the SIB,OOO that McGraw receives for his sal ary in 1917 will no doubt seem pitifully small in comparison with what some nf the moguls will get. The salaries of managers are g"lng to advance in the next few years. • * * The Newark team has sent representa tives tn Academy Corners, Pa., in an effort to get Pitcher'George Bell tn re consider his determination to retire from baseball. * * • Tom Hughes, the one who used to play with Atlanta, came near to a no-hit game for Rochester the other day. Two swats were recorded against him, but both were scratches. * » • In the same game Tom made three hits • • • Harry Sallee recently singled to right field and was thrown out at first. Am bitious runner, this Harry. • * » The t'ardinals are springing a new stunt. They always hit at the first ball pitched, if it’s near the plate. Gooj idea, for a change. * ♦ • The Cards had a nice run of ill luck recently. They lost 12 out of 13 games. « * « Cleveland would like to get Ray Chap man. the Toledo infielder, but Hartsei is going to keep him. ( • * • Billy Zimmerman, ex-Cracker. is the leading hatter nf the Newark club now, with .373 to las credit. It seems doubtful now if the United States league will be able to last until Julv 4. * * * . Pitcher Burleson. formerly of Mobile, has reported to the Roanoke club. * * ♦ The Sacramento board of health has issued a bulletin, advising people of the city to go to baseball games * * * Vincent M<»ha. brother of Bob. the j pugilist, thinks he can play baseball and may got a try-out with Milwaukee. • ♦ * Birmingham papers say that Birming ham gave up $2,250 for Almeida. • * * Jimmy Callahan expects Hd Walsh to last at least until 1912. • • • « O'Brien isn't the only infielder of note who has suffered with lumbago. That's Larry Lajoie - complaint. * • * Cincinnati papers are wailing over Hank O'Day's success as a manager. "Think into the ring in fighting condition. “So we will have to have a pretty big 'gate' before we can begin to figure on any profit. But I'm not worrying at all. The ‘gate’ will be there.” The prices of tickets for the bat tle that will be sold to the general public—these being outside of the small block of SSO tickets disposed of to local business men will range in price from $lO to $25. of all the time he wasted,” the,y say, "as an umpire." • • • Some mathematician has figured out that while Mack wouldn’t swap McTnnes for a dozen Merkles, conversely McGraw wouldn't swap Merkle for a dozen Me- Innesses, and it's absolutely even. TRENDALL BESTS MANDOT BY VERY NARROW MARGIN ST. LOUIS, May 15. Harry Trenda 11. the local lightweight, had a slight advan tage over Joe Mandot. of Neu Orleans, in eight rounds here tonight. This a surprise to local bettors and a sad blow to the Southern boxer, who has aspirations to the lightweight cham pionship. However, at that, the edge that Trendall had was not conclusive and it is not at all certain that he could have, maintained it if the bout had gone a, bit further. VOLS’ CASE GOES UP TO COURT OF APPEALS KNOXVILLE. TENN May 15 The state court of civil appeals took under advisement the petition of the Nashville Baseball club, seeking a dissolution of the receivership and the injunction inhibiting Sunday baseball in Nashville. A decision will be anounced in a few days. The case came to the court on a writ of super sedeas. • , ; ... Budweiser The World's Favorite Bottled Beer What made it so? - QUALITY and PURITY 173,184,600 Bottles sold in 1911. Bottled with crowns or corks only at the .UIS, JF. Lynch Home Plant m St. Louis , . , r* i n distributor Anheuser-Busch Brewery Atlant.- Georef St. Louis. Mo. , ‘ Kiibane Has Easy Time With Burns; Champ Lacks Wallop By •!. \V. Met'onaughy. NEW YORK. May 15 Johnny Kilbane. king of the feather weights took the . overs off his stock at the St. Nicholas club and showed a great crowd of New Yorkers what lie had In the pugilis tic line. First, he demonstrated that he is the master of Frankie Burns, the Jersey City ex-bantam, by giving him a thorough trim ming. S < ond. lie proved that, though he beat Abe Attell, he is far from being .in Attell. Third, he let out the seer; t that lie is far from a hard puncher. Kilbane had it pretty easy with Burns. The Jersey City boy an swered the first bell with f, ar writ ten all over his face, and it took him some time to get rid of the Idea that he was going to be car ried out on a stretcher, perhaps never again to see that dear Jer sey City, After lie had taken a very thor ough drubbing from the chatnpio and had come out of some sharp slugging mutches without being killed by Kilbane's blood-letting wallops on the nose, lie seemed to feel that ho had a chance to five through the ten rounds -and live through them he did. getting bet ter as the battle progressed. He was. a very badly cut up young man at the end. but strong. At the start of the bout, the spec tators cast their eyes toward the exits, figuring on a qdiek getaway, for it certainly looked as though all that was needed to end the go was a wallop on Hie chin. When, how - ever. this wallop landed time after time, and still Burns kept on his feet and fought back, the spectators began to realize that the Kilbane wallop, the wallop that was thought to be a knocker-out whenever it landed, was not all that was claim ed for it. It was not a case of the punch never getting over to the right spot. It was sent over time after time with all the force the Cleve land man had in his body. Plump on the jaw Kilbane shot lefts and rights, straight punches, hooks, swings and-a few others, but out side of staggering Burns for a sec ond or two. the latter was never in danger. Kilbane landed about twenty blows to one landed by Burns. He tried bis best to win with a knock out in every round, so there can be no question that he did his best. Crackers' Batting Averages, Including Yesterday's Game Manager Hemphili still leads his team at flatting with an average of 343. PLAY ERS. < J .JA B.'l Rd H. | AV. Hemphill. cf. .. ;.l 26 105 15 136 I .343 Sitton, p t M I 1 I 3 I .323 Cauley. rflß 62 10 'l9 I .306 < I'Dell. 1b24 86 11 24 .279 Mperman. 3b 27 97 17 26 .268 Kerr. <• 25 82 8 19 .232 Sikes. lb 22 72 11 116 222 Bailey. If 27 !<6 21 '2l I .219 Dessau, p 5 14 a 3 .215 Miller, p 10 13 4 4 .211 Graham. c 6 10 o'2 200 East. 2b 17 53 4 10 .189 > >'Brien. ss. 21 80 B'ls' .187 Paige, p 6 19 113 .158 Atkins, p 4 11 I'l O'M ■ loh-,i s p , 8 14 1 I 0 I .006 7