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©OaSM WOW GOT® * EffiK© LPITLD W, S FARNSWORTH Slllc 1~1. Cft Thl? J U &9 e S a e 9 u^ar Solomon Copyright. IM2. National News AsWii. jffiy ' Cid - ~ Poo(t lena « geo t+oo -A j fT -7 — «-'T~ Qax /- -\ . U, g 1 good ILX -feka >k M'J O^v M ‘ GH I> * «M?»rF Way '^zii«* f twa c_..™„.. **■«« Jo s_f?fe» » 1 'Fill IO Z A W Ml % FTT w FfW ’ Tm V'isLJfcw n! ~^l^r — ——MVCi * L ll r F n vki Tw #\ MyWl ©/ > <Jj 1 <W UMi > I —_ _.j _„ Bat Nelson to Build Street Like Broadway on His Land Bv \V. S. Farnsworth. BA’I’I'LINC nelson may have been the greatest light weight that ever climbed through the ropes, but he IS the greatest young press agent—for himself that ever lived. There is no more chance for him regaining the lightweight crown than there is of the writer heating out Champ Clark for the Demo cratic nominal ion. He is "in” - very, very much "in”—as far as fighting goes. Rut financially he Is all to the mustard, despite reports that have been sent out that he is dead* broke. The writer is a personal friend of the Battler and only a few months ago Bat showed deeds for property he owns that must he worth over SIOO,OOO. T don’t believe I am far off when I say Bat is worth a quar ter of a million iron met). The following letter, received to day, well explains itself: Hegewlsch, Mich.. May 15. 1012 Friend Bill: .Just a few lines of rather live news from one B. Nelson. 1 am home here in Hegewisch on the farm, plowing and planting, and wait ing for my hands to get strong enough to box again. One of the biggest surprises of my life overtook me yesterday, when I was Informed that a steel mill, cost ing $11,000,000, will be built on the land immediately adjoining my llege wisoh farm. I have a railroad front age on two sides of the farm. On the other side the Interurban rail road has purchased three acres for a depot, and has been operating more than a year. The City railroad also has plans laid out for a city street car line which will parallel the rail road on one side of the farm. As soon as the actual work starts on the steel mill property, I will be- This Sumar Suit of Blue The Sumar supreme is the suit of blue. There’s something optimistic about a dashing blue suit tn summer time. If it’s Sumar there’s an extra dash of comfort, too. There’s a lot of ease in the wear of ’ it—-there’s an air of ease about the wearel ‘ . There are other things to con jK' 1 sider, too—-it conforms strikingly to smart shoes of tan, and the airiness WiOwßl of the straw hat. > Vi’ I list "<r Ahd even more—-the real hot brings out the white trousers— and there’s your blue Sumar coat I to complete your comfort and add a 11l wW to env * ronment y° u see k- Suits <>f Blue Sumar with a O C Tr'-il WL | white silk thread decoration Geo. Muse Clothing Co. gin to lay out my farm in building lots I will plot out two or four blocks ala tape, have the streets paved with asphalt, make them wide Just like Broadway. New York have sewers, city water. gas and electricity installed, cement sidewalks and combination curbing gutters on each side of the streets. 'Then I will build nice, modern collages on each lot and sell them on easy payments, so that every young married man will have a good chance td get up in this world - that is. providing he has a bit of energy in his system. You know I started from the bot tom and I realize the value of a dol lar. I am going to try and be of some good in this world for the growing generation, of course. 1 am not going to give away anything in this case, but it is a legitimate business prop osition. My motto will be "Uve and Let Live." My hands are feeling so good i will do light training every morning next week, and plow on my farm in the afternoon. If the bones can stand the strain of hitting, I will box some one on July 4. If not, I'll give my personal attention to the land devel opment. A week ago a real estate man wanted an option on my farm for HO days, offering me $2,000 an acre. Rut 1 refused to gram Hie option, although I offered to sell the farm at that price at the time. He must have had some inside information about Hie steel mill, and I’m glad now that I di<l not seil. If this thing materializes according to plans, the mill people take posses sion July’ 1. and start breaking ground immediately. Consequently, it looks as though my span of dabbling with the boxing gloves is short lived now. Anyway. I worked extremely hard for everything I have, and 1 have taken practically every’ dollar p-jssi ble out of my profession. Further more, 1 obtained my fortune honestly -one thing of which 1 am proud. If at any time anything happens which I think will be of interest to you. I will let you know. 1 want to keep in touch with you. anyway, just for old times sake, if for nothing more. Thine. NGS r I?IN DNULLJA H THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: FRIDAY, MAY 17. 1912. BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip . ! Hub Northern, cx-Southern leaguer, now getting a iria’ with Brooklyn, is “up there" for the fourth time. His oilier attempts were with the St Louis Browns. Pittsburg and Cincinnati. ♦ * * Twice in the same week ’‘Swats" Swa cina made a phenomenal number of pin outs for Newark - once 18 and once 20 10 a game. • * • Catcher Higgins, former Chattanooga player, has been sent by Brooklyn io Toronto. • ♦ * Mike Finn has bought Stoney McGlinn and Lefty Laudermilk. a couple of an cients. McGlinn was offered to Atlanta last year, but President Heisman was afraid he was too old to warm up, even in Dixie. ♦ ♦ * -Jay Kirke. ex-Pelican, is showing 'em something about speed in the big leagues as well as about walloping. ♦ ♦ * They are beginning to dynamite play ers from the United States league teams. Donaldson, a southpaw, ami Wilson, a first baseman. have left the Pittsburg. I’. S. league team, to play with Connells ville in the < ». and I’. Walter Morris, manager of the Fort Worth club, is trying to buy Bugs Ray mond from John McGraw. Morris played with Raymond al Charleston under VVil son Mathews and believes he knows how to handle the insect. • * * Big league clubs are sending their scouts through the outlawed United States league now and are planning to grab every first-class player who ap pears. if they have to pay more than the player is really worth In this way they can make their superior financial backing count against the outlaw clubs. * * » Bill Bergen will finish up the season with Baltimore. ♦ ♦ * Seven home runs and three doubles were recently marie in a U. S league game. Sounds like poor pitching -v- a live ball. Larry Lajoie has managed to gel out of bed and to bobble around a bit, with the aid of crutches. It will be a week or two before he will even be able to walk without the crutches. ♦ * * Either byway of an alibi or a sensa tion. Pittsburg has sprung the. story that Hie Phillies not only rubbed oil on the ball while O’Toole was pitching to ruin his "spiiter," but also stole the rag he secured to' wipe the hall after the ruse was discovered. BILLIES GUESTS OFHEMP'SCREW Mingling with tin- pellet for the ne.v few weeks on their own back yard, the Crackers expect to boost themselves upward a hea) in the gonfalon chase. They eased themselves into the village late last night from Baronville. and this afternoon will do their utmost to kick in the slats of the Billikens. While hanging their chapeaux on foreign hooks, the well-meaning ath letes of C. Hemphill did well, fourteen separate and distinct times were they called upon to uphold their honor. Six times did they annex a scalp, seven times they spelled defeat, and once con descended to break even with their Jol ly ball-tossing opponents. In the fourteen conflicts the Crack ers pushed 53 runners across the plat ter, against 51 for the opposition. But the enemy cashed Id.! bingles against 98 safe and sound swats. The skiddoc number, which, according to Hoj ie. 1* 23. represented the times the crackers’ fingers were butter, while the opposition wabbled on only 20 occasions. The Billikens will decorate the gre?n grass of Poncey park with their pres ence today and 24 hours hence: then the warriors of both combinations hie themselves to .Montgomery on Sunday for a Sabbath combat. Thence back here for battles Monday and Tuesday. As some wise gink once penned. "There should be plenty of action fol the next few days " MARIST BOYS SERVE OUT DEFEAT TO GORDON NINE BAFtNESVILI.E. G.V. May 17. • Marist college administered to Gordon her first defeat of the season, ami it was a severe drubbing, score 7 to 1. Coach Bean’s boys played rings around the local team, running well on the bases and hitting timely in the pinches. Coaches Bean and Williams agreed be fore the game that the contest was in no nature a prep school championship af fair. as it could not so be considered with no prep school organization. Further more, as Marist had previously been de feated by Locust Grove institute and Gor don had twice defeated that team, Marist had no claim to the title clearly. Norman started for Gordon, hut was hammered unmercifully. l-'llllnglm, who succeeded him, held Marist safely at all times. MERCER DOWNS SEWANEE IN LAST GAME OF SERIES MACON. GA . May 17 Mercer defeat ed Sewanee here by the score of 7 to 4 and wound up the season. The game was a pretty pitchers’ duel between the two captains. Voss and Gilletn. Both pitchers were extremely wild and Gillem had the big epd of the wildness. Mercer was unable to hit Gillem at first, but after he got wild hit him for safeties many times. Mercer won two of the game series. WANT OLYMPIC DAY AT BALL PARKS FOR FUND NEW YORK.-May 17. The American Olympic lee has decided to ask the owners of the major league baseball clubs io sor asi<!<‘ a day at their parks to he known as "oivnipie Day." and turn over' their receipts to the fund that will be used to send the American athletes to Stockholm in July. 'The committee believes that al) the (bibs in the National and American leagues will (’(imply with the request. KILBANE AND K. 0. BROWN TO MIX IN N. Y. JUNE 11TH .NEW YORK, May 17. A ten-round match between Johnny Kdbane, the featherweight champion, and Knockout Brown, to be held here on June 11. was arranged today. Under the articles the boys are to weigh in at 128 pounds at 0 o’clock on the night of the fight. Tne St. Nicholas Athletic club has guaran teed a purse of $15,000, to be split evenly' between the fighters. ENGLISH CHAMPION IS HERE AFTER JOHNSON NEW Y'dib Ma' 17 Bein', ar-lmr Wells, the Brlti h lightweight, who is anxious to fight I'bampmo la< 1, loiu;s<>r ( , arri'ed here todav front l-.ngiaod, arconi panied by hi- manager, James Maloney. BOXING Late News and Views Howard Morrow is scheduled to box ten rounds with Sailor Petrosky in Oakland May 22. • • • (’barley White is in receipt of an offer from New York promoters to box Johnny Dundee in a return bout. White easily defeated Dundee a few weeks ago. * * * Jack Johnson is reducing weight at the rate of one pound a day. * • ♦ 'Tommy Ryan will not reach Jim Flynn’s Training camp until May 25. However, he has ordered Flynn to only do light train ing until he arrives to take charge of the ca mp. » • • Lackey McFarland has been offered a tight with Owen Moran, but he has not accepted yet. * • • Hay Bronson started training yesterday for his ten-round bout with Packej Mc- Farland May 29 at Indianapolis. ♦. • * 'The following are a few bouts s< hed uled for tonight: Billy Papke vs Harry Ramsey, at Philadelphia: Johnny Uoulon vs. Eddie Lennon, at Springtield, Mo.; Frank Loughrey vs. Young Kurtz, at New York;: Ad Wolgast vs. Freddie L’aniels, at St* Joseph, Mo. —as one of the boys out at the ball park said— “l’d always rather sell a guy a bottle of— lA'T --he’s sure to call for it again. He knows he’s gettin’ his money’s worth” Red Rock Co. Atlanta 17,150 SEATS WILL BE BUILT FOR BIG FIGHT East las vegas, n. m„ May r 17.—With the site for the arena picked and with the contract for the building of the arena placed, two of the-most im portant details of the. Jim Flynn- Jack Johnson forty-five-round con test in East Las Vegas, N. M., July 4, are out of the way. A Kansas City firm will construct the arena. Work will be started next week and the entire layout will be completed by June 25. The arena will have a seating capacity of 17.150, and every seat will be a reserved one. As treasurer, Mark Lewis, of Chicago, will begin selling seats within a fortnight's time, and a,s Promoters Jack Curley and Charles O’Malley have arranged with the Wells-Fargo Express Company to have seats on eale In every one of its thousand branch offices tn the country, it will be known early in the game just haw big a "house” Flynn and Johnson are going to at tract. Should the present seating ca pacity prove to be insufficient, rat~ tra seats will be added. All East Las Vegas was happy today when the morning papers came out giving General Frank Clancy’s opinion that as there is no law In the state of New Mexico prohibiting the contest between Flynn and Johnson he does not for the life of him see how it can be stopped. The good citizens who are to a man strong for the fight began to celebrate. There was general re joicing all around town, and to night dozens of bonfires were con structed In appreciation of East Las Vegas’ successful stand for in dependence.