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12 T 5) A To) AD U P^PCY^ H WHITING VWNAUSHTON, TAD, J ~ A IfWBl r®»"■ BOXiw TENMW Carpentier Proves the Real Ring Sensation of All Europe Bv Dan M< Ketrick. F. ARIS, Ma? 23. The most * talked-of boxer in the world today comes from the home of la savante —a country where la boxe America inc was unknown three years ago when Sam McVea. Willie and Joe Jeannette showed It to the publlque sportive and it made a hie Now La Belle France is boxing and George Carpentier is the idol. Carpentier is but eighteen years old and that he is a marvel no one can doubt after a look at hie rec ord The FTrnch are proud of him. To them he is the Napoleon es the prixe ring, the beginning of a race of athletes such as will one day reign supreme. Goes Through All Claasea. This youngst-r has lean boxing bnt a few years He comas from the northern part of France and they tell of hie advent before the Parisians when he came unan nounced with his manager and trainer. Descamps, to compete for the flyweight championship This was four years ago and he won in gueh style that his family, who had apprenticed him out. Imme djgteiy withdrew its consent and he became a boxer. The following year he won the bantamweight and featherweight championship and a year later won the lightweight championship. Tt was here that he met his first defeat at the hands of Gloria. His manager threw up the sponge In the eighteenth round and Carpen tier fought him fiercely for so do ing. in fact, they had a te<l bat tle. This showed his spirit. Once more he met defeat, this time at the hands of an English lightweight known as Young Snowball. Not a wee bit discouraged Carpentier stuck to the game and again won the lightweight championship of France. English Fancy Him. It was only last season that the English fans took a fancy to him, for he had come out and won the ■welterweight championship of France and then crossed the chan nel to England and whipped Sid Bums This alarmed the English. Could it be that a Frenchman who had fought with his feet could whip a Britisher? Let's match him witn Young Josephs, our welterweight champion." skid the English press. They did. and Young Josephs w'ent the same ’way as did Burns, only more deolsively. for Carpentier Attell Writes Story of Ranch Life in Attempt to Come Back FAR from civilization, in th« wild* of Laks county, California. Abe At tell i» going through a courae of training which he believes will help him reaam his title —king of the feathe^veighta—which he lost to Johnnie Kilbane. Attell isn't boxing, skipping rope and going through the regular train ing camp routine. He is living close to nature Plenty of sleep, lots of hard work, plain ford and sleeping in the open—that’s the program. Abe Is on the ranch of Billy Nolan, the men who made Battling Mel son a world's champion. Billy is directing him. In the following story At tell tells of his "back to nature lifot" B y Ahe Attell. BEFORE leaving San Francisco Nolan told me that I would have no use for Jewelry, boiled shirrs, stiff collars, pointed toed or patent leather shoes We purchased two suits of clothes (overalls and iumperl. price 34.60. two pairs heavy shone with spikes, a couple of wide-brimmed hats and a few other necessaries, a pretty cheap layout compared with what I hate hern paying for my ward robe heretofore. We arrived at the ranch about .1 o’clock: changed my city clothes, put on my new regalia the over alls. spiked shoes and soft shirt and ha'. I felt queer for a time, but soon got used to it. Nolan mentioned that, as supper would not be ready until ft, we would have a few hours time and would take a walk Accompanied h\ two dogs, we started on our tramp. After taking in the level part of the ranch, where I was taught my firs- !e sson how to distinguish growing alfalfa from wheat, oats, etc we proi coiled to the hills, or pasture land, as they cab it. We were fully a mile and a half from the house. At a signal the dogs rounded tip a bunch of mules, horses and col’s, fully 4 n or 50. The way they handled this drove of bucking and kicking animals was an eye-opener to me. running around and bark ing at them, always keeping them bunched. It seemed as though they knew more than a lot of men. One of ittese shepherds. Bum." was particularly smart. The way he ducked hind feet aimed at him made me believe that he was one r ' ;he be: l pupvs in the art of self-defense I have ever seen. "Bum" Was Wise. Some of the large brood mares would not move fa'' enough to suit "Bum " H» would slip up and snip them on the hind legs. Qus k as a flash, down Bum"’ would drop won with a knockout in eight rounds. This French lad. then only seven teen team old. was welterweight chajuplon of Europe He kept tak ing on weight and branched out as a middleweight, for which title he competed in France and w liich he won with ease. Now came Ihe time to try him against the terri ble Americans. Harry Lewis, who is as good a light middleweight as there is In the world, was selected. Harry claims the welterweight championship and gave Carpentier some weight. Once more Carpen tier won. gaining the decision over Harry I-ewls in twenty rounds. Beat Jim Sullivan. Tn be middleweight champion of Europe was now Carpentiers aim. He wanted to fight Jim Sullivan, middleweight champion of Eng land, who had lost to Papke in nine rounds, bnt this same Sulli van to all accounts had Papke beaten up to the knockout blow. They met at Monte Carlo berfore the elite of Europe. Carpentier re ceived a guarantee of SB.OOO. It was quickly and easily earned for the English champion went down to defeat in two rounds. George Gunther, a big middle weight. who had beaten Jack Blackburn and Jack O'Brien, was next eelected. Carpentier went in the ring with bad hands, but boxed rtne« around Gunther and was a winner by a large margin. Stick With Old Manager. Carpentier will not go to Amer ica v ’th any American. If he leaves here at all it will be under the sole management of hfs manager. Des carnpß, in fact, any negotiations for Carpentier s services must be made throngh him and then perhaps he will not go. for he can demand and receive more here than in Amer ica. An instance of this is that Car pentier has been signed io fight at Dieppe, during the Grank Prix au tomobile races. He is guaranteed $9,000 for his end and the con tract was made win or lose against Lewis. The men named to meet him arc Denning Gibbons. Klaus. MaGoorty and Dillon. One of these will lie selected, with MeGoorty having the best chance I will send you later a story mt the other French boys. They have some sla.rs In all classes Recent ly Digger Stanley was whipped by Posey, and Le Daux. who fought Stanley last week, is' another star Posey fights Jim Driscoll next. got my goat; t never realized a dog was gp smart While this show was going on, we heard a bell tolled loud, a sig nal that supper was ready We arrived at the house in time to wash. It was just ft o’clock. No lan and 1 seated ourselves along side of the workmen and I ate a very hearty meal of boiled meat, fresh vegetables, beans, etc,, fin ishing up with a couple of glasses of milk. This is my tenth day and T have not tasted any tea or coffee, or pastry in any form h’s kind of hard to get used to the coarse grub. You know what you do eat is fre*h. It's all raised on the farm, plenty of game, besides, and ant amount of fish right on No lan's 200-acre tract After supper I chatted with the men for an hour or so It was just about getting dark, when they made for the bunk house. Billy’s bed and mine were on the front porch out in the open air. Nolan started to undress I told him that I could not sleep sjs early as this. He replied ‘Suit your self We all get up at ft. only one table. S, 12 and 6.” Seating myself in the sitting room. I read until l(i o'clock Com ing outwde again I heard Nolan snoring like a buzz saw. so I re tired. My first night in the open air wa, great, never remember making a turn In the bed. It Wa» ■ Real Sleep. i' re-mad as though I hadn t naif enough sleep when it was a. m. Nolan called a couple of times. I was dead to the wortd. Waking up. I found myself chilled to the bone He pulled the ciothes off me and I dressed. •in. but 1 was sleepy and it was so cold’ Dressing out in the open is somr different from steam heat and ' siso rugs ;<> step on w hen you tun out m the morning Sint* ’f in I have net the farm regulation* ahxays the first one nt the table and bebexe me. I am in rhe hax as rally anx of them. I do a lot of tramping, horseback riding, hunt in? aLa ax - in the open, and eat like a mr*r I great ZT ’HF ATT.VT' ‘ ro- - - THURSDAY. MAY 23. 1012. Diver Caught in the Air at Piedmont Park |«L. .4 Jf SF rSfc, Crackers* Batting Averages, Including Yesterday's Game These ar* the Cracker batting aver ages | including yesterday's game: _ Players. ‘ G. |AB.| ~R. ■ H. | A V Dessau, p. . .i 6 | .18 | 0 1 6 1 .333 Hemphill, es.. .j 34 [132 I IS i 43 ’ 326 Sitton, p ... o|lo . 7 | 3 .300 O'Dell, lb . 31 TOS !14| 30 I .278 Alperman. 3b. 35 125 i 34 1 34 . .272 Ballev. If. . . .1 35 1123 1 25 30 .244 Ganley. rs. . . .126 !88 13 21 .239 Sykes, Ih . . . 24 j 76 11 17 .224 East. 2b. ... ‘25 81 5 18 .222 Graham, c. . . . 12 i3O 4 6 .200 Paige p. • • 8I 25 2 5 .200 Miller, p .. 12 125 I 4 5 .300 O'Brien, ss. . . 29 1108 jll 20 .185 Johns, p. . . lo |2O | 3 3 .150 Atkins, p. . . . 6 15 1 1 I .06< Donahue. <■ . 1 2 ■ ft I 0 .000 IN TAME GO CARPENTIER DEFEATS WILLIE LEWIS PARIS. May 23. -George Cat pentier the middleweight champion of England and France, tonight defeated Willie Lewis, the American middleweight pugilist on points. The fight went twenty rounds and was not particularly exciting. Both men made a lot of wild lunges, hut couldn't seem to land anything that looked like a baymaker Lewis look ed a shad® more like a second rater than usual. YATESVILLE TEAM COPS 2 GAMES IN SUCCESSION YATESVILLE. GA.. May 23.—Yates ville won a very interesting game of ball from Thomaston Monday after noon on the local diamond by a score of s to 7 Thomaston came down with a very strong team, headed bv Grant King. ex-Sally leaguer. Yatesville also defeated The Rock team on Tuesday afternoon In a very one-sided game; score, 19 to 2 The feature of the game was the pitching and heavy hitting of Jones. TO DODGE COURTS. COBB WILL PASS UP NEW YORK NEW TURK May 23. Ty Cobb may not play ball in New York again this season His trouble with a spectator threatens to bring him into court, and he fears that civil actions may cost him dear Cobb pays but scant attention tn the report that several New York gangs” have sworn to smash him up. He has never been one tn fear personal vio lence, and will hardly begin now. FRANK BEATS ATLANTA TO PITCHER J. GRIFFIN CHATTANOOGA, May 23. Charley Frank is strengthening the Pelican team so fast it makes one's head swim. Pitcher Swan and Outfielder Joe Stan ley have joined the team. Pitcher Hank Griffin, former Cracker, and Outfielder Meloan have hern purchased and will join the team soon. MANAGER’S JOB OFFERED TO COBB BY OGDEN TEAM OGDEN. UTAH, May 2.V Thp Web er club, the commercial organization of this city. has sent Tyriiß <’nbb, of the Detroit Americans’, an offer nf SIO,OOO to manage the Ogden team in the T’nlon \wociption league during the present season The Weber club ha < just obtained the local fran<hif»o ( ’obh has not had time to decline the offer vet I ANDERSON QUITS ATHENS TO COACH R. M, A. TEAMS ATHENS, GA May 23.- Frank An derson. who Is to bar? the I’nlversit.v of Georgia this. season, will probabh return to Riverside Military Rcadenv to coach the football and baseball teams Jr is reported that AndeYsnn has been offered a handsome contract at Riverside YALE OFF FOR REGATTA. NEW HAVEN. t’ONN May 2.1 - The se t ' >nd Yale < vew. which represents th blue in the Henvx regatta at Philadel phia Saturday. »est this city this morn Inc for- the Quaker city |r HeßNSheim /Hlway-S ' ,/l Good .Snpkc’ ' enuing' \ A s \ \ » • «.--»» - - r-»i s « K .x, .* - ' '•* X £•'“ ' w * > ' ... ■ . * t nv u- 4 . * - * Jj - This photograph hv Staff Artist Wilton shows Frank Pear son starting a dive. The earners snapped .just an instant beforo the swimmer “turtled,” ahd is one of the most freaky snapshots of its kind ever taken. There are many expert divers here in Atlanta .and it is likely that during the summer months a tourney will he held to decide the best man in this line of sport. HOOSIER MANAGER AND CAPTAIN RESIGN JOBS INDIANAPOLIS, IND.. May 23. The resignations of President William H Watkins and Manager Jimmy Burke of tiie Indianapolis American association baseball team were accepted this morn ing Sol Meyer, a heavy stockholder in the club, succeed?. Watkins as presi dent, and Charles O’Leary, recently ac quired from Detroit as an infielder, be comes manager of the team. The "decapitation'' of Watkins and Burke came as’the climax of long standing dissatisfaction over the fail ure of Indianapolis to procure a win ning team At a stockholders' meet ing last night it was decided to re quest the resignation of Manager Burke. To this Watkins strenuously objected. It was announced early today that the resignation of Watkins, which is said to have been in the hands of the directors since last fall, has been ac cepted together with that of Burke. HARVARD.CORNELL. AND TIGERS ON WATER TODAY CAMBRIDGE. MASS. May 23.- Clear, cold weather prevailed here to dat for the triangular rowing race be tween the varsity eight-dared crews of Cornell. Princeton and Harvard on Charles river basin over a course of one and seven-eighths miles. Cornell was the favorite. There were many who believed that the Harvard crew would give the Itha can? a severe battle for the day’s hon ors Rowing exports predicted that if the water was rough the Princeton men would be out of it from the crack of the gun. GULLS WILL JUMP HOME FOR ONE SUNDAY GAME MOBILE MA May 23 A gamp of ball n ill be played here on Sunday bc- the (Tulls and Chattanooga. The (lull? xxill come here from At lanta and the Chattanooga team from its h" ne dty. The two teams will leave Sundax night for t'hattanooEa to com plete the series. ASEBALL ATLANTA is, MfIRILE PONCE DELEON PARK GAME CALLED AT 3:30 l_ __ _ 5 C I 5 C Call The Boy With The Khaki Coat He Will Serve You Properly With ff VWVlfWtfjT 'll Jay That ffiUa Delicious Drink ' ■ MM OFF TDJDINYANKS; MUrCKHEOE * THENS. GA.. May 23.—Carl /A Thompson. Georgia's star twirler for the last three years, who was barred from the three recent Tech games by the faculty on account of absences, has left for New York to join Harry Wolverton’s team for a tryout ‘ His brother, Homer, the star catcher and infielder, has decided to stay here, and will be back next year. Carl is in fine shape, and should give a good account of himself, though he expects to he farmed out for this season, probably with At lanta. He has pitched wonderful ball ail three years here, and all Georgia fans hope he will make good. Should he stick in professional ball he will not be the first Geor gia man to inafce good. Claude Derrick is the only one in the big league, he having been utility man for the Philadelphia Athletics for several years, but others are in the minors. Shorty Brooks is playing first base for Albany and leading the team in batting. Glenn Cfolby. the old Red and Black catcher, is setting the woods on fire with Savannah this year, hitting in big league fashion. Another man in profes sional hall Is Stark Ginn, who is playing the outfield for Roanoke, in the Virginia league. O’BRIEN BESTS BROWN AT BOXING—THAT’S ALL PHILADELPHIA. May 23.—Young Jack O'Brien, of this city", had a. shade advantage over Knockout Brown, of New York, in a six-round bout before the American Athletic club last night. O'Brien gave a clever exhibition of boxing, landing three blows to Brown's one; but they lacked force. PRETTY SOFT FOR KILBANE. NEW YORK. May 23.—Feather weight Champion Johnny Kilbane will receive $4,000 for 30 minutes in the ring on June 18, when he will box Jonnny Dundee, of this city. The con test will take place at St. Nicholas ; Hnk. this being Kilbane's second ap pearance here since he won his title from Abe Attell. ■— *