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16 Id) A(vAW AH V whiting w wnaughton. tad. A Wo LchOX Mtfc ww I Jacket Team Is in Athens Determined to Redeem Itself For Yesterday's Poor Effort Bv Percy 11. Whiting. • THEN.- GA. May 17 The AX streets of Athens toda> look X like a walking mass meeting of Tech f&natks About all that is movable in the way of Tech fan dom i.« here for the tame this aft ernoon —and the rest is coming to morrow sure The second Tech- Georgia game is undoubtedly the loud murmur In these diggings now. The town is buzzing with it. t'oj lege, colors, the red and black pre dominating of course, here in the very home of th. Georgia fans are seen on the people, on the automo biles. on the horse« in the store windows— everywhere For this is Georgia-Tech day in Athens, and ft s some festival. The Tech team and the Tech fanatics came over on the Seaboard train that leave.- Atlanta at 7a. tn. , an unearthly hoil" co leave any ahe’K. be it admitted. JudgrTT by the antics of the Tellowjaeket play ers. they might have been the vic tors instead of the vanquished in yesterdays game. They were as chipper as you please, and while they no doubt felt a lurking fear of the outcome, they'kept it out of sight, t'oaiit Heisman was imper turbable. as usual. He has been at It too long to be either unduly elated or cast down by any turn of baseball fate. He was a bit dis heartened that hfs team did not play its best in yesterday's game, but was not at all inclined to let it interfere with his appetite There was much skylarking and joking on the train This Is the last outing of the Tech team this year, and with examinations Im pending and the end of the colleg.. year looming big beyond them, the boys Were keen to enjoy them selves and the situation. • « • ANTE in Athens, the players cut out their foolishness and got busy. There was a quick hike to the hotel, where lunch was eaten, and the Jackets could barely hold tn until time to get in the uniforms and get started at practice. It was easy to see that the At amans Mere determined to redeem themselves for the rather unfortu nale shotting yesterday. They don't mind being beaten, but they rather object to losing «hen there White Brothers Sure Form Hot Team of Featherweights ]■ F 126 pounds «■>' th- feather weight in America, as it Is in England. two Chicago brothers, Chai lie anti Jack White, would be just now dividing the championship tn a family waj When one looks them ail over, from coast to coast, this pat: of clew t. experienced, mau'rts appear the classiest of the lot around that poundage. Joe Rh ers trimmed Jack and Joe Mandot beat Charlie, but the Mexican sen sation and the French baker boy ate lightweights now. too big for the White boys Charlie White, who has. Ilk, his brother, been boxing for some years, is at his best right now. Last w in ter he made 122 pounds for Johnny Kilbane in ,< twelve-round bout staged at Cleveland. He weighed ISO when he started to train and lopped over the required eight pounds in seven days. He 'educed a little too rapidly and told Man ager Mate Lewis when he entered the ring that lie thought his strength was cm lie got off to a bad start, but after a few rounds had the Cleveland colt running and backing away from ■tt hooks and right uppercuts Charlie unques tionably earned a draw- with John ny. it was a no-decision bout. and. I REM E DY for M E Ni BROU'S < iff t £ n j ittios -*p ii; ? * MO MT <1 K 1 t J nf themoct obMina'.e ctsee gnsnmteed in '■ ■'>’ ! > 3to 6 days; no other .reatmfni r'<r. > Sold bv »11 dr'f" -I- > OGAF^T 1 equiqe' , /J Porto Fu< wy ".jmm— ■«——■■■ iiiiii~'»Wii ""... Mas so much bone mixed up with I the playing as there was yesterday. With the Georgia play Ors there wa.< big rejoicing and a determina tion to close out the Tech nine to day. The Athenians returned home date last night and. after a per functory bluff at doing class room work. they began preparations for the game. Th. Geoigia pitching situation is so complicated now, with Wilder I and Carl Thompson out of the game, with Beddingfield out of ii a- a r.-sult of yesterday's lumpy shoving, and with Brannen in none too good shape as a result of hav ing been used yesterday, there is no I telling who will be worked. Il seems most likely that Bran nen will lie sent right hack at Tech, j He had the Jackets where he want ed them yesterday and he believes he can repeat today. He will doubt less get a good work-out before the game and if he is in trim will be worked. Tiie Tech pitcher is a matter of grand uncertainty. Coach H. Isinan when tackled for a verdict, said. "Bless my soul. I’m sure I don't know. We have such a wealth of material, all mu,ch alike, that I can't for the life of me tell. It will depend on how the boy s warm tip.” j F th* weather continues good. * there will be record crowds for the games today and tomorrow. Athens and the surrounding coun try is absolutely wild on the sub ject. and everybody who is any body, and a lot who aren't, will be here for the celebrations. If Tech gets away with today's game, ft is likely that a larger crowd will come over from Atlanta for the de ciding game Saturday than ever be fore iny aded Athens for any base ball event. Even if Tech loses to day ami the third game does not count as anything but an exhibi tion. several hundred Tech men will make the journey. It's a cinch, for they have already bought their tickets. But let Tech cop today, and the S. aboard will wear out its engines hauling the folks here. Tech is going to make a most di-perate effort to win today. They, realize that they tossed off yester days game, and are going tq try to redeem themselves. « of course, the Cleveland papers gave the verdict to the home boy. But they spent paragraph after paiagraph paying tribute to the ng wizandrv of the Chicago lad Only a few weeks after that bout Kilbanr won the featherweight championship from Attell. Has Whipped Good Boys. Sim.- the Kilbane tight Charlie White has laced such rough ones as Boyo Driscoll, Battling Schultz, Steve Ketchel, Kid Julian and Johnny Dundee. As Harry Forbes says, ho is fighting like a champion th'-se days. Charlie is at his best around 126 pounds But with plenty of time in which to prepare he can scale 122 and tight like a tiger cat. He is living in the hope that some day Kflbane will consent to give him a crack at the championship over the twenty -round route on the coast Jack Hardest Hitter. Jack White stacks right up with Charlie. Jack Is a harder hitter anti perhaps a bit stronger, but lacks the uncanny cleverness of his kin. Jack took an awful lacing from Rivers, bn: they weighed 12< at 10 in the morning for an after noon tight, and the Mexican jump ed through the ropes a lightweight. Jack stayed on the coast after this defeat and begged for another chance H- got it last Saturday and made K ’".I by forcing Frankie Conley to surrender in twelve rounds Jack also can do 122 in a pinch he made 123 four hours before for • onley and almost do himself jus tice. He. too, wants a champion ship match with Kilbane. and It vvili tie interesting to see which of the two brothers win- the race for the big battle. THE ATLANTA GEORGfAN AXD XEWS: FRIDAY. MAY 17. 1912, | AN EXCITING PLAY IN TECH GAME f —*st - v / l • 4*. Mt a/ ” ***>*■> A wfL ■w , V j ;> ftw s Sg|£.- Ufawfr - * m I*. a J z MMWi - - —JJ This phuluoftiph. snapped by a staff' camera artist at the game betiveen lech and Georgia at the Flats yesterday, shows Tom Flanagan Again I Will Have Charge of Jack Johnson Camp By Ed. W. Smith. CHICAGO. May 17. Tom Flan agan, Toronto hotel keeper and one of the sharpest ath letic experts in tlie Dominion's bor ders, again will have charge of the Jack Johnson training camp when the big colored fellow gets into ac tion about June 1 in training for the Jim Flynn match. Jack extracted a promise from Tom on the train coming back from Reno nearly two years ago. The then new champion was bidding the young Irishman good-bye just be fore the train got into Chicago, be cause Flanagan was going right on to Toronto arid a mob was await ing Johnson to welcome him at the station. Hence there would be no time for farewells after Chicago was reached. "Tom, you've done wonders for me and I want you to promise me that you'll be with me the next time 1 fight, whether it is within the next three months or the next three years," Johnson said. Tom Makes a Promise. "If I have my health I'll be with you any time you call me." returned Flanagan, and with that they part ed. Johnson nudged Flanagan up about his promise a short time ago and Tom replied that he would be ready for the word any time after May 1. As at Reno. Flanagnn will have absolute control of the camp in every- particular, Johnson agreeing to bind himself to what Flanagan says In the matter of work. etc. As helpers, Johnson already has picked out Perkins as his masseur and • Marty Cutler, who was with him part of the time during the torrid times leading up to file Jeffries fight. Marty will have to stand the biggest part of the "rough work." although Johnson at present plans to use three or four others in the camp for the sparring Knows Boxing Too Wed. • "Nobody can tell me anything about boxing." Johnson said th-- other night in discussing his plans. '■•Therefore. I am not seeking great artists like Tommy Ryan and Jim Corbett to help me. All I want Is a capable staff of men who can box with me w hen 1 want to box, rough it when 1 choose that style of work and a good rubber or two. That'll fix m< fine for the camp "Here's one thing that I'm going to be careful about in training for this Flynn tight. I'm going to have nobody but young, smart, bright fellows around the camp this time. They said I was crazy to do this before, but 1 proved that my idea was the right one. "I'm going to tram for speed this time and won t pay so much atten tion to the strength end of it. I have enough of that naturally and am figuring that speed and skill with a good husky wallop now amt then will In the medicine that will put the damper on Mr. Flynn." Fnder the present arrangement of things, Johnson will not leave Chicago until some time In June, but expects to be safely established in th<- Las V<sg;ts quarters within two days after his departure from Chicago. Jack intends to lose no time aft er lie gets to New MeXiio. jumping 1 into the training grind at once. MOSEY TO LOAN ON 3IAMON3S AND JEWELRY 8 t r 1 c t ly confidentlaJ. Unredeemed plages 1b diamonds for sale, 30 per cent les- than elsewhere. MARTIN MAY (Formerly of Schau! A May ) H 1-2 PEACHTREE ST. UPSTAIRS Absolutely Private. Opposite Fourth Nat. Bank Hl<Jk Both I’hones 1584. WE BUY OLD GOLD I Georgian's Baseball Expert | Tells About Cobb's Fist Go Ty Cobb has been suspended by Ban ’ Johnson, president of the American • league, for whipping a spectator the other day on the New York grounds. The following humorous story of the affair is well told by Damon Runyon, one of The Georgian's baseball experts in New York: By Damon Runyon. X TEW YORK, May 17. -Tyrus Cobh, the famous Georgia Jabber, leaped lightly into the grandstand back of the Detroit bench the other afternoon, speared for himself A. Fan, and hastily scrambled the features of same. Rut wait'll you hear! Tyrus, the two-handed, did not know that a spectator to his fret fulness was Mr. Bancroft B. John son. president, and everything, of the American league. Mr. Johnson was sitting high up in the grand stand, as large as life, which is truly large, and after he had seen what he had seen, he was observed to breathe heavily, and to issue w ords of speech. Ty was engaged in his business us Cobbing for Hughey Jennings, of Detroit, and that accounts for his presence in Frank Farrell's ball yard. A. Fan went there to see a good game of baseball, so the de tectives have something to work on in the way of motive a- far as lie j s concerned. A. Fan sat right back of the vis iting ball players' bench, and T. Cobb and the other Detroit players claim that lie made offensive re marks to the Southern gem. A. Fan says and he is supported by oth ers that he merely jested with the Georgian about a fumble of Co’ob's in the second inning, and that Cobh replied with language that was scarcely tit to eat. A. Fan's version of tl/e trouble appears to be as well supported as t 'obb's. Ty Hops Over Barrier. \nyway, Tyrus suddenly .boiled over into the grandstand. In the fourth inning, when the Tigers were at bat, be hopped the low barrier between the scats and the | PAPKE CLAIMS BROKEN HAND: SUBSTITUTE MILL NEW YnRK, May 17 The attempt of former Middleweight Champion Bilb f’apke to come back has Been postponed indefinite)' Papke s scheduled ten-round hout with Eredd} Hicks, of Detroit. Mich . at the National Sporting club last night was called off because Papke claimed he had broken his hand in training. A bout between Harry Kutch and Bull \nder sen iwn local fighters, was substituted, Xnderson winning easilx THE BASEBALL CARD. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Standing of the Clubs. W L. P C. W. L. PC. I'nooga 16 11 .593 Atlanta .13 15 .464 B liaui . 20 14 .588 Mont. .14 17 453 M’mp’is 16 13 .552 N.Or'ns .12 17 .414 Mobile 18 15 .545 N'ville .10 18 357 SOUTH ATLANTIC. • i Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P C. W L .F.C. J Ville 17 7.70 S C'bus. . 914 .391 ! Vlbany 15 7 .682 Macon 815 .348 I S'vann'h 14 8 .636 C'bla. .5 17 227- I AMERICAN LEAGUE. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P C I W L P C Chicago .21 6 .778 Detroit .13 14 481 ; Boston 16 8 667 f-hlla 19 12 455 I '"land II H 500 N York 615 286 I Wash. 12 12 500 St. Louis 617 261 NATIONAL LEAGUE. Standing of the Clubs. W L P C W L F C > York 19 » Louis.il 1* »"7 I C nat! 20 5 800 Boston ’io I Chirag- 12 12 50n Fb > a '7 13 3=9> F burg 913 .409 Brook! -n 715 3’B Bowden stealing second. Sid Holland, the Tech second base man. is shown putting the ball on the pilferer, but too late. I field, and began shaking rights and lefts out of his system full upon the upturned face of A. Fan. Some confusion resulted. "Silk" o'Loughlin and Westervelt, the um pires, hastened to the scene, re marking to one another upon what a busy place the Hill yard has be come. All the ball players flocked to the spot in large quantities—the Detroit delegation being especially energetic in flocking. Those of the spectators who held ringside seats moved closer. Meantime. Mr. Bancroft B. John son. of the American league, sat up yonder, and took notes on Tv's de scription for future, reference. It was not a long mill, but a canvass of the audience gives the popular decision to Cobb by a plurality of 354. Ty managed to dra.w a little blond from A. Fan, but A. Fan was not injured. Wanted Cobb Arrested. Also, A. Fan, who was Claude Lueker. secretary to former Sheriff Thomas F. Foley, believed so strongly in the justice of his own cause, and the injustice of his as sault. he wanted to have Cobb ar rested. He left that particular por tion of the stand with Tom Davis, secretary of the Yankees, and Tom O’Neil, of the special detective service, while Ty left the game at the earnest behest of O'Loughlin and Westervelt, who love their peace. , And all this time Bancroft B. Johnson eyed Tyrus Cobb with a baleful glare, and made mental note of his name and address. Several spectators wont, to A. Fan after the dust of battle had settled on him -and offered to testify in court against Cobb, but the fiery Georgian finally left the field unmo lested, and was cheered by the < rowd. Manager Jennings and other Detroit players claim they heard the man who was assaulted using offensive language to Cobb— and there you are. "There's no justification for a ball play er going into the grandstand to fight a spectator." Mr. Johnson is quoted as saying. !COBB SUSPENDED FOR PUNCHING A SPECTATOR PHILADELPHIA. May 17. Manager Jennings has received notice from President Johnson of th'- indefinite sus pension of Ty Cobb, the star Detroit outfielder. Jennings would not com ment on the suspension, but Cobb said that he thought he had been unfairly dealt with. "I should at least have had an oppor tunity to state my case." said ''obit. "I feel that a great injustice has been don.'," Cobb exptessed regret that he hail struck '.i .-pe’etator at th-- American league grounds in New York. He said the spectator was the aggressor and that the same man had annoyed him on other occasions. "I tried to avoid tiie man. but when his language became too much for me to stand. 1 lost my head." said i'obb CUBS OUTBID CRACKERS AND LAND PITCHER TONEY CHI' AGO. May 17. —Louisville. ot the American association, outbid At lanta. of the Southern league, for tile services of Pitcher Fred Toney, of the ' übs. the play er being turned ny ■ r to ' : lie t olonf -by Manage: < "hanc* I'lanta wanted the pitchm- badly >od was willing to pay a good piic« so. bin bit' t7han.ee bad promised ! 'U’.s a hur>»r. and a- Toney .- yy avail able he was s°nt there. : CRACKERS LET GOOD : : CATCHER GO FOR A : : BROKEN-DOWN VET: • 4 • » Catcher John Kerr has been sold • • by the Crackers to the Trenton • • club of the Tri-State league, and • • Pat Donahue, a poor, crippled • o catcher, who in his palmy days • o was no "bearcat." secured to take • • the place of the clever, heady, good • • Kerr. • • • Crackers* Batting Averages, Including Yesterday's Games This is the Crackers' batting averages after yesterday's double-header; "'PLAYERS? Hemphill. Isl 28 112 1161 38 .339 Graham, c' 7 13 1 4 .308 Sitton, p 5 I 0 I’3 .300 t>l tell. Hi 25 89 11 25 I .281 Ganley, rs i2O 69 10 : 19 .275 Alperman. 3b 29 103 18 26 .254 Bailee. If 29 104 22 ;26 ; .250 Kerr, ci 26 85 9 \ 19 .224 Dessau, pI 5 1 1.4 0 3 i .215 Sykes, lb 23 75 11 16 .213 East. 2b 19 61 4I 13 .213 Miller, plO I 9 4 4 .211 Paige, p. 7 21 1 2 I 4 1 .190 <>'Brien, ss 23 86 9 16 .1.86 Atkins, p 5 12 I 1 .083 Johns, p S 14 1 I 0 .000 GIBBONS STARTS TRAINING. NEW YORK. May 17.--Welterweight Champion Mike Gibbons, of St. Paul, who defeated Paddy Lavin in Buffalo Tuesday night, today began active training for his ten-round contest with Sid Burns, wel terweight champion of England, which will take place at Madison Square Gar den next Tuesday night. When the Printer dete a piece of "Rush Copy mHB| a chew of Drummond helps him to £et C7 jb down to DRUMMOND | NATURAL LEAF 1 j CHEWING TOBACCO I TORRID BATTLE ■ By GEORGIA BUI I BONE PLAT rpo the unusual individual who 1 can go to a ball game with out caring particularly w,ho wins, a college struggle is a great form of pastime—and yesterday's contest in particular would have been stimulating and amusing. But tn the red-hot roosters, to whom victory meant everything desirable and defeat everything undesirable and more, the conflict was nerve racking and heart-wrenching—and eventually Georgia won. 6 to 4. The game had as many crises as a cheap melodrama. The first came when the runless monotony was broken in the fourth by the Jack ets, who worked across a tally, by dint of a base on balls, a wild pitch, a sacrifice and an out. Then Geor gia hammered out a brace in the sixth. Tech evened it in the last of the sixth. Georgia made two in the seventh. Tech dittoed. Enti ring the ninth, the score stood 4 io 4. Then Tech put on a capable, though not really brilliant, exhibition of the way baseball should not be played. Brannen, the first man up. stung a fly to cen ter field. It was pretty deep, but Sloan could have got it. But he didn't. Instead of scampering back, he scampered in, and the ball went ten feel over his head and netted Brannen two bags. Then came the mighty McWhorter, the Tech jinx. He had just made three successive: singles. It was an awful pinch for Hubert, but he met it like a man. tin three pitched balls he struck out McWhorter, who took a hack at each one of them. This was a. fine piece of work for Hubert and showed rare gameness. He piled another good play on top of It when lie flagged Hutchens' tough one and retired the Georgia first baseman at first. Then he pulled three plays In suc cession that cost the game. First, he made a wild pitch, on which Brannen went to third. Then he walked Bowden <>f course. Bow den lit out for second. Catcher Montague snapped the ball to Hu bert. Goodness knows what he was supposed to do with it. But what he did was to turn toward second and fiddle around long enough to allow the agile Brannen to get a. tremendous lead for home. Then he snapped the ball and Montague made a marvelous stop and tag. From the press box It looked an out, but Umpire Turner ruled that it was safe, which stuck. Twitty's single scored Bowden, but it was not necessary for Brannen, who -had taken up the hurling assignment when Beddingfield blew up, handled the Jackets without gloves in the last of the ninth, and they didn’t make any more runs, or even got a man to first. M'FARLAND TO MEET MORAN. <'lll< ’At.it>. May 17. Packer McFarland and Owen Moran, the English scrapper, are !• meet some time in June before Toni Carey's Vernon. Cal., club, accord ing to advices received today by friends of the Chicago lad. The weight agreed on is 135 pounds at 3 o’clock, a figure that gives Paekey no trouble.