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14 TB> A To} AH II WHITING W w'nADGHTON . TAD, A Carl Thompson Expects To Be A Cracker Within Few Weeks M THENS, GA. May 20. Carl ~*~X Thompson, of :ln i’niversity X X of Georgia, g".-a«est pitcher in the Southern colli ge world today, may be a member of the Atlanta team within a few weeks. The fa mous battery man of the Red and Black has signed a New York American con tract and will report to the Yanks when they reach De troit on June 1. Os course, the Yanks will not keep him, as he lacks the experience to stick with the big league performers as .yet. The natural place for Manager Wolverton to send the man for ex pert training is to Atlanta, where Charley Hemphill, the ex-Yank, is manager. Says Thompson himself: "I have a hunch that 1 shall be sent to At lanta. There are many reasons for ft . Atlanta Is the Yank farm, for one thing. For another, it is near my home and in the South, where I used to playing For a third, '‘BIG ED” WALSH IS IN A CLASS BY HIMSELF Ry W. J. Mcßeth. NEW YORK. May 20.—A man. no matter In what walk of life, who can upset tradition al laws of nature Is worthy at least of more than passim? regard. Ona who can go on doing It, year after year, should be an object of universal wonder. As such let us introduce Ed Walsh, the mainstay of the Chicago American league club's pitching staff. Walsh Is one of the most won derful pitchers that the game has ever developed. Should he become permanently crippled tomorrow, so crippled that he could never again wield the little white sphere through which he gained his fame, this remarkable athlete would pass down through history as one of the great masters of his art. His name would l>e linked with those of Chris ty Mathewson and i‘y Young, men who cheated time and conserved their cunning through twice the span of an ordinary pastlmer's day of major league usefulness. In point of years of service, Ed Walsh has a long way to go to equal the unprecedented record of Boston's grand old man. Compared even with Mathewson, the White Sox marvel is still confronted with several years In which he must de liver his present puzzling brand. Yet the fellow seems equal to the task. He is every bit as good at this writing as at any time In his brilliant carter, and there are those who hailed him three seasons back as the most effective and ca pable tosser in the game. Worked in 9 of 18 Games. Just look what this veteran is doing for Canadian's White Sox Single-handed, he put Chicago's pennon out to the front from the "1 ./ suffered / from Catarrh V I oVer five years” "Gradually growing wo-sc, I tried sev eral so-called nabal treatments which gave me only temporary relief’’, writes Mr. Alexander Jones of Corinth. Miss. "A catarrh specialist treated me more than a year at an exorbitant figure. \i the end ot this time 1 was much worse My head, nose and throat were deeply af fected. I was almost totally deaf. 1 en tirely stave up hope of ever being cured. “/ decided to make mote effort. I bought one dozen bottles of your Folan■< Flood Fain: Shortly I began to feel bet ter. 1 continued to improve. When 1 had taken the dozen bottles I could feel no symptoms of < atarrh whatever. It is now 8 months since 1 stopped taking it an-i I haye no catarrh sine e "I am constrained by a sense of deep gratitude to write you of ti e wonderful cure that your remedy has performed". W hy waste money on worth less "treatment s"\\ hen />'. /?./>. will bring you sure relief? Your druggist will supply you with this wondcr-working remedy if ycu. insist on it. Ac cept tio pretended substitute. Hernskeim Ogar flllwayKS Good .... er t u ‘ r \?' . . Xz RWo ’ * though this may not make any dif ference, President Callaway Os the Atlanta Baseball association is an old I’niversity of Georgia ball play er and enthusiastic over college men. And, finally. I’ve had an in side tip 1 can't talk about.” If Thompson does as well in pro fessional ball as he did in college ball, he will be a wonder. His equal has not been seen in the South since the days of Ed Lafitte and Weldon Henley, If then. He Is a man of great strength, not tall, but broad and of fine physique. He pitches with great deliberation and Is especially cool under fire. His record with the I’niversity of Geor gia places him on a plane above any other twirler that that college ever boasted.' He Is a Tennesseean by birth and comes of a baseball family. His brother Homer is also a grand ball player and will report with Carl to the New York team In June. season's getaway. Os the first eighteen games played, Walsh worked in nine. He didn’t pitch the full time in each, but those he didn’t start were the ones that really proved the hardeat tests. He was called upon to save the day when some stablemnte wavered. Therein lies Walsh's greet value Since 1905 Walsh had pitched practically a third of all the White Sox games. Fifty games In a sea son is nothing for him. He'll turn off that many on his own hook and finish half as many more for less fortunate mates He won a pennant and a world's champion ship for the White Sox in 1906. He won a city series from the Cubs last fall. .No matter what sort of a club may bo behind him, Walsh Is always up among the leading pitchers of the major leagues. When his team finishes at all close to the leaders, it is safe betting that Walsh is the leading pitcher of bls company, or mighty close to it. it takes a near approach to shut-out ball to stop this won derful tosser in his average game. Comiskey Big Walsh Booster. Is it any wonder, then, that Cliarle.s A. Comiskey regards Ed Walsh as the greatest asset in baseball? During the league meet ings in this city last December the Did Roman declared that he had Just one player that he could not be induced to part with at any coat. “Walsh." said Comiskey. “has done too much for my club to become the subject of a trade. Os course, 1 couldn't trade him if I wished. My city wouldn't stand it. I might as well lock the gates as to part with him. Rut, senti ment aside, there is not a player In the world for whom 1 would swap Walsh no. not even the wonderful Ty Cobb. I consider Walsh today as great as Cobb. He is a pitching staff in himself. I can not say that he is the great est player of history. I can and do say that b.e is the greatest pitch er nf history New York will dis agree with me on that score. I do not for a minute lose sight of Mathewson But great as Matty is, 1 believe Walsh greater." In many respects the cases of Mathewson and Walsh are quite similar. For years Matty upheld the pitching burdens of the Giants on his own broad shoulders. He not only did his share, his regular turn, but served as relief man in every important crisis. Just as Walsh has done and is still doing. But never In the heyday of his ca reer wa- the illustrious Mathewson such an "Iron man" as Ed Walsh. Every time Walsh wavers the l- ast little bit. fandom prepares for his funeral. "He's gone at last." is whispered. "He could not possibly stand up under such a strain of overwork But each time the mar vel comes back stronger than ever. Today he stands in a class all by himself. MILE CHAMPION CHANGES MIND: WILL ENTER MEET ITHACA. N Y, May 2b. John Paul Jom s. Cornell's star tnlh r. Tell S. Ber ra am! t'aptain Putnam, of the Cornell ; k team, have signed entry blanks fm the Olympic try-outs This action. - ■ i.tlmed. disposes of the report wtd'ly ci <ulate.l that Jones would not go to Stockholm if chosen THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: MONDAY. MAY 20. 1912. HE GOES UP HIGH FOR A DIFFICULT SMASH //fA = \\ w I / \ \ * v* I actIAAAx w \ X f f \ wfei \ \\ I / *■■**% \ , \\tj X Xtw**’ w ' " ,l >— X-i Pitcher Brady, From N, Y, State League, Signs With Crackers Pitcher Brady, last year with Albany in the New 4'ork State league and this spring with the Boston Nationals, has been bought by the Cracker club and will report at once. Last year Brady won 17 games and lost 7, and was the second pitcher in the league. The only man who topped him pitched nine less games and was most of the season witli the pennant winner. The Albany club, with which Brady played, finished fourth, and Brady’s winning per cent was 180 points better than that of the club he performed with. Brady's most notable feat last year was to pitch a one-hit game against Troy on September 4 at Albany. As a fielder Brady was a wonder, in 35 games, in which he had 66 chances, he did not make an error. Brady is some scout as a batter, too, for he put an average of .2ot> to his credit last year, which is amazing for a pitcher. DESSAU IS REINSTATED: MAY FACE BILLIES TODAY The moguls of the Southern leagud have granted unanimous consent to the Atlanta Baseball association to put Frank Dessau back on the eligible list of players, and he is once more a mem ber of the Cracker pitching staff. Dessau was put on the ineligible list when his arm went had a while ago. It looked then as though he could not get in shape this year. By steadv w ork lie has brought his arm around again and believes that lie can win. He will prob ably pitch today against Montgomery. __ /V ’ ’e*wy Z' ( k I j A .X ■ *< f / * X. SI I y , ->—■» yr* * j... -A \ 11 . S >s <• I 1 ESTON MANSFIELD. The most improved tennis player of the Atlanta Athletic elnb is Eston Mansfield. He has been working steadily for the past two months, and is rapidly getting in trim. He was a win ner of*the Gulf States championship a couple of years ago. and is likely to take some big events this year. He tievotes more time to tennis than some of his local rivals, and is likely to run awav with them before the season is over. ' I MRS. BRITTON WINS SUIT FOR CONTROL OF HER CLUB ST LOUIS, May 20. -Mrs. Helen Hathaway Robison Britton was award, ed complete control of the St. Louts Cardinals by decisions rendered by Judges Grimm and Hitchcock today. Edward A. Steininger, president of the Cardinals and executor of the late Stanley Robison’s will, was completely vanquished, while the decision of the court places Mrs. Britton and her moth er in control, so far as the ownership of the team is concerned. Mrs Biitton and her mother. Mrs. Sarah Robison, recently asked that Steininger be enjoined from voting! their stock at the annual election of the (’ordinals, or the American Base ball and Athletic Exhibition t’ompany. as it is known, and asked that Steinin ger be compelled to restore the shares of stock in that company. The peti tions were tiled just before the election was to be held in April, and the caucus was postponed to await the decision of the courts. The litigation over the ownership is said to have bad a disastrous effect on the players and caused the recent de feats. HUDSON SUBSCRIBES A “V’ FOR STRIKING PLAYERS Thomas G. Hudson, candidate fori governor, through his publicity man ager. Erank Reynolds, has launched a movement to stall a fund to pay the salaries of the striking Detroit players so long as they are out of employment M- Hudson, who is a stout fan. pre lit ves that the people of Georgia would ive’. einr a chance to show Unit appre. c.t'.m for tpe tm n who ate backing up r, <>>bb. who was suspended for d- ■ ■kmc a -pe< tator. ami ha- started ••ft b- subscription for this putpos, with XB i \ \w ■ T 1 ■&&&* / / bJHV % > -lO" I\w .1 ■ ' \ jhHRL B '1 X \ • ■ > //Xis-v.’/ z / / * / ) / / x <•. / / GEORGIA'FOOTBALL TEAM WILL START WORK EARLY ATHENS, GA , Maq 20.—The Univer sity of Georgia football team may be called together earlier this fall than ever a Southern team was before. The athletic authorities are planning now to get the men together by lite middle of August, if not earlier. It is hoped that they can be assembled at the summer home of Bob McWhorter, star back of the team, for a month of combined out - ing and preliminary work before the real practice is taken up. If this is I done ('each W A. Cunningham will have a world of time for going over tne rules, the plays and the possibilities of 1912 football and will be able to get through with most of the detail work that usually clutters up the early part of the season. Georgia's footbml prospects have probably never been better. But thiee members of last year’s- great team will be graduated this spring. And as there were more good substitutes last fall than ever Georgia had before it is cer tain that Coach Cunningham will Irtvt little trouble in tilling the gaps. GEORGIA SEEKS COACH: ANDERSON WILL RESIGN i ATHENS. GA . May 20. -Etank Al derson will not coach the University of Georgia team next year. At least ti.it is the rumor here now. Despite his success this year, it is sail! that In has decided to leave the team and the- tin athletic association Is already looking around for his successor. At the first of tin season it appea-td ■ that Georgia had a championship club But its own good prospt ets hurt P It we a n-am of stars, tatlier lb tn a rt-.r team, and i tubs of that sort aie seldom tremendously dfiot-ui- Champion Says Flynn Has No Advantage Anywhere JOHNSON IMMUNE TO EFFECTS OF ATMOSPHERE By Ed W. Smith. Chicago, May 20.—1 f Jim Flynn is counting on the thin atmosphere of New Mexico having its effect on Jack Johnson next Fourth of July, he is reckoning without his host. At least, this is what Johnson himself assures his next opponent in the ring. Johnson is sure that his wind hasn't thickened any dur ing his two years of idleness. Sto ries have been printed to the es- y, •> ■‘" s fP r '% * 1Z ■uw / t 1 / Vj / * U \ I i'' \ X L \ X I \\ J 1 ,' I \\ W - B-A- *\\ i \\ i. t B x.' /1 /LgaS”* \ yr *♦ ’ • i \ y J < I ** ' A I I ■ • 4 J'■ ? / I ■- / / ' / / X ■ 7 is, / / II N J OLYMPIC ATHLETES NOT TO BE GIVEN OXYGEN GAS The use of oxygen gas will be barred in the Olympic games. The Swedish Olympic committee has announced rul ing to that effect, the question having been raised by British and American new spa pets. Notwithstanding certain trials in which the stimulating gas was used witli apparently good effect, there Is a general feeling that use of the gas is a kind of drug habit, and the Swedish of ficials' ruling will occasion little regret in this country. In the last few years oxygen gas fre quently has been administered to ath letes and opinions have differed as to the benefits derived from its use. It has been tried on runners in middie I distance races in England and at that time a runner who took the gas was .-aid to have finished his trial in faster time than he usually ran and was less distressed after the effort. tine of the first instances of the use of the gas was in the 49-rounfl fight between Joe Jeannette and Sam McVey in Paris on April 17: 1909. The battle was one of the most gruelling ones ever fought and both men were liberally supplied with the gas when they began to show signs of distress Jeannette showed the better results from its use ami finally knocked out McVey Soon after this a Chicago athlete tried it in a 400-metei hurdle race and ran three seconds faster for the distance than lie had ever run before. THE BASEBALL CARD. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Standing of the Club» W 1,. PC | W. L. PC B ilim 21 15 .593 M'g'm y 16 IS 471 C'nooga. 17 13 .567 Atlanta .14 1.7 .453 Mobile 20 16 556 I N OTns. 14 18 .438 M'mphis 19 17 52'8 I N'vtlle . .11 19 .367 SOUTH ATLANTIC. Standing of the Clubs. W I, P C W L. P C J Ville. . 18 8 .692 Col'bus .11 14 .440 Albany . 16 8 .667 Macon . . 9 17 .346 Svan'h. II 10 583 Columbia 718 .280 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Standing of the Clubs , I >V.L. I' d W. b P C I'hicago 23 6 .793 Detroit. .14 15 .483 ; I'..St.m T. 10 I'.in P'.’lpbia 11 13 .458 ■ i criand. .1.2 12 .500 N. York 716 .304 | W ton . .13 13 .500 S. Louis. 718 .2SO NATIONAL LEAGUE. Standing of the Clubs. W b I’ C W b P C • "’■.-I TI 6 786 ! ',2 18 4"<o N York 1' 6 ;so Ph>ls ’ t> 11 -I' l ’. Cl.i.-ap. i'. ii |R| R.-ton to 17 370 i P burg 10 13 4,:.. Brooklyn 916 .360 feet that Flynn, being a moun taineer and thoroughly used to the thin air of Colorado, New Mexico and other Western states, will have a distinct advantage over the' ne gro July 4 when they meet in the attenuated ozone of Las Vegas. Las Vegas 6,000 Feet High. The battleground, it should be re membered, is over 6,000 feet above sea level, considerably higher than w as the arena at Reno, where John son gained a clear title to the championship nearly two years ago. This makes the air mighty thin and unless a man's lungs and heart are in excellent shape and thoroughly acclimated he is apt to have trouble in a long encounter. Johnson hasn't tried himself out here very severely, but thinks he has done enough to prove to him self that his wirjd will be all right. "I'm one of those things what is is they call them? Oh, yes: I'm im mune to the effects of high alti tudes," Johnson said last night when I asked him what he thought would be the effect on him of the New Mexico air that surrounds the Curley arena in such a thin layer. Has a Wonderful Heart. "Remember out at Reno when the doctors and the other learned sharps were trying to figure it out which of us would be most af fected by the mountain air? Well, I' came through flying’ and Jef fries' wind thickened up tn such an extent*that he couldn't do himself justice, we're told. "Well, be that as it may, it was discovered then that the air does not affect me at all. You know that, the physiologists that have had a crack at me have discovered that I have one of the strongest hearts ever shown by an athlete of high class. So it is with my lungs. 'But at any rate, even if I wasn't NEWS FROM RINGSIDE Tommy Ryan's middleweight novice. Howard Morrow, is a youth of fair prom ise. hut the fellow who described him as a second Stanley Ketchel shot wide of the mark. He has much to learn He is game and he hits a stiff punch, but as a fighter he is in the formative stage. • • • Ketchel. on the other hand, was born a fighter. It is doubtful If Ketchel ever im proved a whit from the time he made his name by defeating Joe Thomas He looked better and he punched better at the outset of his career than he did at anv subsequent time. • • ♦ The difference between Ketchel and Morrow is the difference between a lad who is a fighter by instinct and natural aptitude and one who will have to be taught the tricks of the trade. • • ♦ Ray Temple and -Top Mandot will box eight rounds in Memphis tonight. • • • Willie Ritchie is nn his way to New York, where he has several bouts sched uled. • • • Jimmy dabby has returned from Aus tralia. where he has been boxing for some lime, and will meet Mike Gibbons in New York some time in ihe near future. • ♦ • ‘‘Soldier Willie’’ Elder is scheduled to meet Charley Miller, a San F'rancisco White Hope, in a ten-round bout Friday night in Dos Angeles. • • • Eildie MeGoorty has signed articles agreeing to meet any opponent selected for him at Gary. fnd. Ft Is likely that Cyclone Fohnny Thompson will get the match. • • • Jack Johnson is boxing daily in Chi cago with Marty Cutler and Montana Jack Sullivan. Lil Arthur boxes from three to eight rounds. ♦ • ♦ Eddie MeGoorty is in receipt nf an offer to box Bob Moha ten rounds in New York about the first of June. MeGoorty has not accepted the match yet. • ♦ * George Carpentier, the eighteen-year old French champion, is planning to in vade .America shortly in quest of honors. Mike Gibbons won al! the way in a bout with F'addy Flavin in Buffalo a few nights ago and the referee stopped the FREE TO CATAFRI SUFFERERS A Remedy Tested for Years —Cures Through the Blood—Stops Foul Breath, K'hawklng and Spitting.' Hawking and spitting. 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The hint that perhaps the Reno fight wasn't a. good test of Jack's lung and heart capacity, inasmuch as he scarcely breathed hard dur ing the entire fifteen rounds, brought out a hearty laugh from the big champion. If the present plans of Promoter Curley go through, this champion ship battle probably will he decided in the morning of the big national holiday. Curley has suggested such a scheme to the men of Las Vegas who are hacking the big battle, ad vancing several good reasons for it, and lhe chances are the idea will be adopted. For one reason, if the men are called into the ring at in o'clock the heat will not be so great or so Try ing on them as it would be in the middle of the afternoon, in addi tion. it would give the thousands of strangers that are expected to he in T.as Vegas on special trains a better chance to get out of town and on their way home before nightfall. Helps the Newspapers. Curley also has his eye out for the newspapers. He believes, a morning fight would give the pa pers all over the country a chance to get out their fight extras 'and thus leave the afternoon dear for the handling of the Pacific coast battles and the bail games. Curley says that the papers have been so kind to him that he is anxious to do all he can to further their game. bout in the eighth round to save Lavin from farther punishment. * • • Abe Attell is training hard on Bill Nolans California ranch and gradually getting into condition. Attell left San : tancisco with a , stiff lip ami a never again pennant Flying, and is said to be sticking by it. • • • Chicago boxing promoters are planning to test the boxing law’ now in effort there by staging a twenty-round contest be tween ’wo fighters of recognized ability. It is likely that the affair will end up tn court. * * * Al Delmont, the boy who refused to box here a while back, because the attend ant e was too small, is considered a near champiefn up in Memphis, where he has been boxing since the night be refused to appear at Harrv Staten’s club. Ask any business man and he will tell you The Georgian Want \<l columns reach more people ami bring better results that could not be obtained in any other medium in this section. The working j jan of the South k a migh-ybig factor in the wonderful growth of our section. On all things hi" opinion is worth considcrat on He has gi en the Gtrmp of approval -o our li re of “Work - iii -Comfort” fihoes. They’re Jj?3.50. This Shov i” all that the name imp Les ; Yuilt of strong bu sof* chrome tanned leatherwch flexible sole. Made in three colors and several diff r nt. styles. Ask your dealer for “ W o r k - in • Comfort ” Shoes made in Georgia. Jo] 1 71 J. K. 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