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SSO Fourth- Valet service In club house. Fifth—Scale for fielding Pop files. $1; ordinary assists. $1 50; extra long, $1.75; catching thrown ball. $1 25, if It bounces; half hops. $2: long bounds, no bonus; double plays. $4 penalty for errors. 10 cents (first three excepted.) Sixth—Schedule of 100 games only. • • • George XVhttted. of the Jacksonville ; team, has been watched pretty closely by , big league scouts thia season Chick Gandll. first baseman of the I Montreal club has been secured by Wash- , ington club. Becker, Akers and Cunning ham go to Montreal In part payment for the most-sought-after minor league In- I fielder of the year I Gandll has "been up" before He played 1 BILLIKENS WILL GET BONNER FROM PELICANS MONTGOMERY, ALA.. May 29.—A deal ha* be»n closed practically by which the Montgomery team will get Pitcher Bonner from New Orleans. Bonner was secured by the latter club from the 'Philadelphia Athletics. In the event Bonner is signed It is Indi cated that Outfielder Cole will be re eased THEBASEBALL CARD SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Game* Today. Birmingham in Atlanta; Ponce DeLeon park, game called at 3 30 o'clock Mobile in Chattanooga Montgomery in Memphis. New Orleans In Nashville Standing of the Club*. W L P C W L. PC B'ham 26 17 605 Atlanta 19 20 .487 C’nooga 22 16 .579 Mont. 20 22 476 M'phls. 21 18 .538 N. OTs 15 22 450 Mobile 22 22 .500 N'vllle 14 22 .389 Yesterday's Result*. Birmingham 13. Atlanta 4 (first game Birmingham 3, Xtlanta 1 'second came l Chattanooga 2. Mobile 1 (firsi game > Memphis 9. Montgomery 6 (second game 1 Nashville-New Orleans; rain SOUTH ATLANTIC. Games Today. Jacksonville In Albany Macon in Columbia Columbus in Savannah. Standing of the Clubb. W L P C TV L PC J'ville 22 12 647 C l bus 13 19 406 Albanv 21 12 636 Macon 13 20 394 S’van'ah 19 13 594 C l'mbia 10 22 '313 Yesterday's Result*. Albany 3. Jacksonville 2 Macon 4 Columbia 2 Savannah 5. Columbus 3 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Today. Chicago in Cleveland Detroit in St Louis Washington in Boston Philadelphia in New York. Standing of the Club*. W L PC W L PC Chicago 29 9 750 Phila. . .15 16 484 Boston .22 12 .647 Cleve .14 18 438 Detroit 18 18 500 N York 12 20 375 W ton 17 18 486 s Louis in 24 294 Yesterday s Result*. Washington 8. New York 3 Boston 7, Philadelphia 3 Detroit 5. St Louis 0 (first game 1 Detroit 6, St Louis 2 (second game.) Chicago 7. Cleveland 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. St Louis in Pittsburg. Cincinnati In Chicago Boston in Brooklyn New York in Philadelphia Standing of the Club* W L P C W L PC N York 26 6 .813 S Louis 18 21 462 C nati- 23 14 622 Phila 14 17 453 P burg 16 16 500 Boston 13 23 361 Chicago 17 17 500 Brooklyn ■ 22 290 Yesterday's Result*. Chicago to Cincinnati 2 St Louis i Pittsburg 4 Philadelphia 10. Boston 8. —A New York a. Brooklyn ♦ \ a large part of 1910 with the White Sox, but couldn’t hit, • • • Southpaw Rixey, of the University of Virginia, will probably join the Washing ton club It is understood that Rixey has been offered SSOO a month and an agree ment that he shall not be farmed. • • • Washington may swap Utility Infielder Ray Morgan for Outfielder Murphy of Baltimore • • • .lark Knight, nf the Washington club, will make Washington his residence and will finish out his dental course at Georgetown university. • • • Rob Unglaub has been unconditionally released by Baltimore • » • Ten Million, almost a big leaguer, is playing with Sioux City now • • • Denver has released Pitcher Jeff Pfef fer. • • • George Foye, an umpire m the United States league, was arrested In Cincinnati the other day for throwing a niece of pa per in tire ntreets and for fighting a brace nf cops when they ordered him to pick up the paper. • • • Cleveland has signed Kenneth Nash, shortstop of the Brown university team. • • • The Oklahoma State league Is wabbling Oklahoma City has quit cold and the games scheduled for that burg have been transferred William Plum, backer of the Tulsa team, has jumped the game and Tulsa Is about ready to quit. • • • Two St. Paul players. Autrey’ and Hoff man. and a pair of umpires. Chill and Anderson, have filed claims against the Santa Fe for damages resulting from a railroad accident in which all the men were more or less smashed up The two players will doubtless recover damages, but there is some doubt about the um pires. • • • "Gal" Galvin, of Boston, last year with Fayetteville, in the Eastern Carolina league, and Harry Watson, of Hartford, have been signed by Asheville. FRESHMEN WIN FLAG AT EMORY COLLEGE EMORY COLLEGE. OXFORD. GA. May 29 Emory’s baseball season has ended The freshmen hair won the pen nant and the standing of the teams is. Clubs P. W L. PC. Freshmen * 6 2 750 Seniors . S 5 3 .625 Juniors S 5 3 625 Sophomores S 2 6 250 Sub-freshmen 8 2 6 250 Sumar Service Sumar is the cloth for Summer and w ' < iA, or Bervice ‘ was w ° ven for us. an d for Vj f you. of something like wear-proof, hard- twisted worsted yarn woven loosely hut firmly---mak ng a fabric of feather-weight and great strength. />■ It has been made into suits for us — ffSfcaw -10 BllU and for you —smart suits reflecting the at- • wBO mosphere one seeks in summertime. The latest S umar Suits to E oßi *-s arrive are blue with hairline t"| ' J ■ stripe of lighter blue or of red — r ||l English models. jcJ'? 1 I Two others are beautiful iWy shades of tan and gray with line of white-—medium-fitting mod- Wl’ e 8 ’ Geo. Muse Clothing Co. TH F. ATT \X’T\ nmpCT.AN ANT) XTWP.- WEDNESDAY. MAY 29. 1912. MARTIN SHERIDAN WILL NOT GO TO OLYMPIAD NEW YORK. May 29.—Martin Sher idan, Olympic champion and all-round athlete of tlie Irish-American Athletic club, has informed the A. A. U. that he will not accompany the i’nited States team to Stockholm this year to com pete in the international games. Sheridan made his greatest hit as a discus thrower, and his place will probably bo taken by James Duncan, who hung up a new discus record Sun day. AMERICAN BIKE RIDERS PICKED FOR OLYMPIAD NEWARK, N J., May 29. The final selection of ten bicycle riders who will represent the United States in the Olym pic contests at Stockholm is as follows: Carl Shutte, Kansas City; W. C. Mar tin. St. Louis; Alvin Ixiftus, Providence; John Beck, New York; Jerome Steiner, New York: Joseph Kopsky. Boston. Erank Meissner. Grand Rapids; Jesse Pike. New’ York. George F Nrrgauer, Cleveland, and Walter Pohfal, Newark. CORN AND CANNING CLUBS REPRESENTATIVES MEET ATHENS. GA., May 29 —The repre sentatives from the Boys Corn clubs and the Girls Canning clubs of the state have just finished a meeting here, at which representatives from every congressional district of the state were present. These are the agents of the United States government, who are working In this state under the agri cultural department and the State Col lege of Agriculture, organizing and di recting the clubs among the boys and girls Addresses were given by Dr. An drew M. Soule, president of the Agri cultural college. Miss Mary E. Cres well, state agent in charge of the girls' work; O. B. Martin, special represen tative of the United States department of agriculture; Professor T. H. Mc- Hatton. Professor J. Phil Campbell and others. MORPHINE DISPENSERS FINED. DALTON. GA., May 29.—Recorder 'rtirver has bound over to superior court five alleged morphine dispensers, bond in each instance being sei at sino. They were also fined in recorder’s court under the new ordinance which makes it a misdemeanor for any one. to keep morphine for the purpose of illegally selling or giving it away. he Judge's Thoughts Run on a '‘One-Track Road" MOTHER SICK, GRIFFIN FORCED TO QUIT PELS NEW ORLEANS, May 29.—Pitcher Tex Griffin has gone to his home at Elmore. Texas, because of the illness of his mother, and the Pels will be without his services for a week at least. When Stanley signed, Dawson was benched, Callahan holding on in left. Local fans can not figure where the Franks will use George Rohe, left out by Mobile. Some think he will cover first, Dock Johnston being shifted to the outfield and Callahan sent to the bench. FIRST HALF OF SALLY RACE ENDS IN 1 MONTH One month from today—that is, on Saturday, June 29—the first half of the Sally league season will end. The following Monday the new season will begin. Right now it would be a hard matter to pick the Sally league winner. Jack sonville and Albany are nose and nose, and either one iff likely to do anything in the next few weeks. These two teams are so far ahead of the rest of the pack that the pennant for the first half seems to be between them. AMERICAN HORSE IN FRONT. LONDON, May 29. —The Victoria cup, a handicap of 1,250 sovereigns for three-year-olds up. distance seven fur longs, was won at the Hurst park meet ing by H. P. Whitney's Whisk Broom. Prince San was second and Eton Boy third. Fourteen ran. PENNANT IS HOISTED. WINSTON-SALEM, N. C„ May 29. The 1911 pennant won by the Winston- Salem team of the Carolina association was raised here with appropriate een - monies just before the opening of the game with Greensboro. FACULTY GAME JUNE 5. EMORY COLLEGE. OXFORD. GA. May 29. The faculty-senior baseball game will be played Wednesday after noon. June. 5 This game always creates a great deal of excitement, and brings strong "rooting" into play. ELBERTON CHAUTAUQUA OPENS. ELBERTON. GA., May 29.—The El-j berton Chautauqua opened yesterday afternoon w Ith a large crowd present both afternoon and evening. The cnau tauqua lasts until next Tuesday. Gov ernor Hanley and Congressman Hobson debate the armament question Satur day afternoon. Saturday is also "home coming” day. JOHNSON-FLYNN GATE INDICATIONS ARE BIG LAS VEGAS. N. M.. May 29.—Jack Johnson is a bit mournful as he hikes over the mountain roads about Las Vegas in preparation for his bout with Jim Flynn on Independence day. Jack is afraid he made a mistake in coming out here to fight for only $31,500. He was present when Treasurer Mark Lewis opened the general seat sale. Lewis had $25,000 in checks and money orders to cover orders for reservations. “It looks like another Reno house,” remarked the champion. Johnson is still confining his training to road work. McGOORTY SHADES MOHA IN A VERY TAME BATTLE NEW YORK. May 29.—The middle weight championship muddle is as far away from solution today as ever, fol lowing the ten-round bout last night between Eddie McGoorty, of Oshkosh. Wis.. and Bob Moha, of Milwaukee, two of the leading contenders for the belt. It turned out to be a tame affair. Mc- Goorty had a shade the better of his opponent on points, but the crowd was far from pleased with the exhibition. Both men had promised to fight their hardest, but when they got into the ring they seemed to become afflicted with stage fright. — ii i-——ll ill i i ihjiii in ...hi I I Wp ib mill b I The drink to | I drink at the | | ball game! I I At all parks and stores I S —"H: a Bottle H Made by The Red Rock Co.. Atlanta. Ga. Copyrlght, 1912. National News AsA=. NEWS FROM RINGSIDE Billy Papke is on his way to Paris, where he is scheduled to box twenty rounds with George Carpentier June 25. • • • Jack White is training hard for his fight with Owen Moran in Los Angeles June 8 Pete McVey and Kid Dalton will box ten rounds in the semi-windup to the Moran-White bout McVey is Ad Wol gast's protege. And Ad says h* is one of the best 133-pounders in the business. • • • Now that Harry Trendall has backed out of his match with Frank Whitney that was scheduled to be staged at St. Joseph, Mo., next month, Whitney’s man ager has secured Charley White to meet him It is not likely that White will squirm out of the mat, as he has been defeating all comers, including several top-notchers. Whitney and White will box some time about June 1. • • • If Charley White is returned the vic tor over Young Shugrove in their ten round fight June 8, he will be matched with Jim Driscoll, the English feather weight. • • • The first fight to be held on the beach at Atlantic City was pulled off last Sun day when Young Jack O’Brien and Jimmy Toland showed the board walkers what they knew’ about the art of self-defense. The bout was held in the open, but there was no interference from the police. • • • Young Togo, the little Japanese fighter, who weighs but 105 pounds, is under- By Tad going a treatment for his eyes. The lit tle boxer went blind while boxing with Roy Moore in San Francisco some time back. While Togo weighs but 105 pounds, he has fought boxers in all classes from the featherweights to the heavyweights. • * • R. J. Comiskey, of New York, and for mer trainer of Jack Johnson, is now suing the champ for $5,000. Comiskey claims he w r as thrown from Jack’s auto mobile. due to Johnson’s reckless driving and was severely injured. • « • Battling Larry Ryan, the boy who has appeared here several times, is doing good boxing in Newark, where he is sta tioned now. TIM HURST VERY SICK. NBW YORK. May 29—The condi tion of Tim Hurst, noted baseball um pire and boxing referee, who is criti cally ill with pleuro-pneumonia at his home at Bell Harbor, Long Island, was slightly improved early today, although Dr. D. G. Schenck, the attending phy sician, said that the chances were against Hurst’s recovery and that he might not live through the day. RUSSELL BEATS PICATO. NEW ORLEANS, LA., May 29. Frank Russell outpointed Babe Picato In a ten-round boxing bout here last night.