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rx\ A O AFI 11 Whiting tad, (^©JLlr - — * DVAXW I m/A\ SAM CRANE. W J MSBtTH. P?X(( ))) A \ V((tT LEFT HOOK SOI PWX LLLBOLH/ 7110 THE BASEBALL CARD SOUTHERN LEAGUE. It Games Today. W. Birmingham in Atlanta at Ponce De gjp Leon Two games. First 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 XV L. P.C B’ham. 26 17 605 Atlanta 19 20 487 C nooga. 22 17 .564 Mont. . .21 32 488 M’phls 21 19 525 N OTs 17 22 436 Mobile . .33 22 .511 N'ville. .14 24 368 Yesterday's Results. Birmingham-Atlanta; rain New Orleans 4. Nashville 3. New Orleans 4. Nashville 3. Mobile 7, Chattanooga 3. Montgomery 5. Memphis 4. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Games Today. Columbia in Albany Jacksonville in Columbus. . Macon in Savannah. Standing of the Clubs. A—W. L P.C. W L. PC. J’ville .22 12 .647 C'l’bus. .13 20 394 Albany .21 12 .636 Macon . .13 20 .394 I B’v'nah. 20 13 .606 C’l’mbia 10 22 .313 Yesterday's Results. Macon-Columbia; rain. Savannah 1. Columbus 0. Jacksonville-Albany: rain. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Today, Chicago in Cleveland; two games Detroit in St. Louis; two games Washington in Boston: two games Philadelphia in New York; two games Standing of the Clubs. W. L. PC. W. L P C Chicago 27 11 .711 C'land.. .16 18 471 Boston . 24 12 .667 W’ton . 17 20 459 Detroit 19 IS .514 N. York 12 31 364 Phila. . .16 16 .500 S. Louis 10 25 .286 Yesterday's Results. Philadelphia 7. New York 4. Boston 21, Washington 8 i first game 1 Boston 12, Washington 11 (second gamel Cleveland 4. Chicago 2 (first game. 1 Cleveland 5, Chicago 0 (second game.) Detroit 7, St. Louis 4 NATIONAL LEAGUE Games Today. Boston in Brooklyn; two games New York in Philadelphia; two games. St. Louis tn Pittsburg; two games Cincinnati in Chicago; two games. Standing of the Clubs. 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 9 22 .290 Yesterday's Results. All games postponed; rain. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Games Today. Minneapolis in St. Paul, a, m. St. Paul in Minneapolis, p. m. Indianapolis in Toledo (two games.) Louisville in Columbus (two games.) Milwaukee in Kansas City (two games.) Standing of the Clubs. W L. P.C. W. L. P.C C’lmbus 27 16 .628 S. Paul. .20 24 455 Toledo . 25 15 .625 M’w’kee 15 24 385 M’apolis 25 16 .610 Tapolls. .16 26 .381 Yesterday's Results. Columbus-Indianapolis: rain. ” Minneapolis 7. St. I’aul 3. Toledo 6, Louisville 3. Kansas City 7. Milwaukee 8. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Games Today. Toronto in Rochester; 10:30 a. m. and 3:30 p. m.; threatening. Montreal in Buffalo: 10:30 a. m. and 8:30 p m.. threatening. Baltimore In Providence; 10:30 a m and 3 p. m.; cloudy. Newark in Jersey City; 10:30 a. m.y clear. Jersey City in Newark; 3pm.. cloud' Standing of the Clubs W. L. P.C. W. L. P.C. Roeh ■ 19 11 .633 M'treal. 14 16 .467 J Citv .20 12 .625 B’more. .13 17 .433 Buffalo .14 13 .519 Newark. 13 18 .419 Toronto .14 15 .483 P'dence. 12 17 .414 Yesterday's Results, Buffalo-Rochester: rain. Jersey City-Newark; rain. Baltimore 5. Providence 4. No other games scheduled. TEXAS LEAGUE. Games Today. Waco in Houston. Fort Worth in Beaumont. Dallas in Galveston. Austin in San Antonio. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C. W. L. P C JTusfn 27 17 .614 Waco 22 23 .489 B'mont 23 19 548 S. An’lo 22 25 .468 Austin 23 21 .523 G'vest’n 19 24 442 Dallas 22 21 .512 F. W'th 19-25 .432 | Yesterday’s Results. Dallas 8, Beaumont 8 (called ninth . darkness). Austin 3, Galveston 2. Houston 6. Fort Worth 6. San Antonio 6. Waco 3. VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Games Today. Norfolk in Portsmouth. Newport News in Lynchburg. Danville In Roanoke. Petersburg in Richmond. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C W L. PC. | P’sb'rg 20 12 625 P'tsm’th 13 12 .520 | .*Jtfe>r£olk 18 11 621 R'hm’d 13 16 448 Roanoke 18 13 581 Danville 10 18 .35' N. N'ws 17 14 543 L hb’rg 922 .290 ■ Yesterday's Results. Roanoke 4. Lynchburg 2. Petersburg 3. Norfolk 1. Newport News 6, Richmond 4. Portsmouth 11, Danville 1. BIG FUTURITY FOR 1915. SAN FRANCISCO, May 30—The Pa. I ciflc Coast Trotting Horse Breeders association has decided to offer a $25.- ; 000 two-year-old futurity stake to be [ compe'ed for in 1915 during the Pana ma-Pacific Internationa! exposition. SIO—WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH—SIO Round trip. Good ten days. On sal- I Thursdays Seaboard = 105; «■ *.? ' °«c 5 2S<O “ ■Sf’ 1 3 ihs s - s COTTON STATES LEAGUE. Games Today. Greenwood tn Yazoo City. Hattiesburg in Vicksburg Jackson in Meridian. Standing of th* Clubs. W L P W. L P C Vksb’rg 26 16 .619 J'ckson 20 21 488 M'idlan 25 17 .595 H'sb rg 19 23 452 Y City 23 18 561 G'wood 13 30 .302 Yesterday’s Results Vicksburg 5. Hattiesburg 1 Meridian 6. Jackson 1, > Yazoo City 3. Greenwood 1. CAROLINA ASSOCIATION. Games Today Charlotte in Greensboro. Winston-Salem in Greenville Anderson in Spartanburg. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C , W LP C A'ders'n 20 9 .690 G'nvHlA 11 16 407 Sp'b'rg 15 14 .517 G'sboro 11 17 .393 Crlotte 17 20 .459 W.-S'lm 10 21 .323 Yesterday's Results. Spartanburg 2, Greenvll’e 1 Anderson 1, Charlotte 0. Wlns’ton-Salem 13. Greensboro 2. SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. Games Today. Huntsville in Rome Bessemer In Gadsden Selma in Anniston. Standing of the Clubs W L P C w. L. P C A’nist’n 21 10 677 Rome 15 17 .469 Selma 16 17 485 H'tsville 14 20 412 B'sem'r 16 18 471 G'dsden 13 20 .394 Yesterday's Results. Selma 3. Gadsden 2. Bessemer 11, Rome 5 Anniston 3, Huntsville 2 APPALACHIAN LEAGUE. Games Today. Morristown in Asheville (two games) Cleveland in Knoxville (two games) Johnson City in Bristol (two games,. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P C I W. L. P C J. City 7 4 .636 A’heville 7 5 583 C’vel’nd 7 5 .583 I M'town 7 5 583 Bristol 7 5 .583 I K'xville 6 3 400 Yesterday's Results. Johnson City 5. Bristol 2. Cleveland 3, Knoxville 2. Morristown-Asheville: rain. THREE HOMERS IN ROW MADE BY TULSA BATTERS TULSA, OKLA., May 30.—Five home runs were made in the baseball game between Tulsa and Oklahoma City, tn the Oklahoma State league, today. The Tulsa matters made four. Three of the homers came in the eighth Inning in succession, with two men out. Tulsa won. 6to 5. At The I Ball Game Insist On Then you get the most de licious drink. And one that is pure and wholesome. C a bottle at the Ball Game C z-r (Jv and all Stands and Stores Lzw Made by THE RED ROCK CO., Atlanta. Ga. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: THURSDAY. MAY 30. 1912. THREE U. OF VA. MEN TRY FOR OLYMPIC TEAM CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA.. May 30. —Richmond alumni of the University of Virginia have raised a fund sufficient to send three of Virginia’s track men to the Olympic try-outs in Boston June 8 The trio that will endeavor to make the team that will represent America at the Olympic games are Wylie R. Cooke, of Norfolk captain-elect of next year's track team: Robert K. Gooch, of Charlottesville, and Ernest Walter, of Denver Cooke will be entered in the quarter and half-mile event o , and Gooch and Walter in the broad jump. 460 MeTFnTERED FOR OLYMPICS RY AMERICA NEW YORK. May 30.—The Amer ican entry list of the athletic events at the Olympic games was shipped on the Lusitania this morning The list contains 460 names. The committee will ratify its final selection in each event by eable This action will be taken immediately after the selection committee has its session June 10. two days after the tryout at Cambridge The list sent today Includes the pick of the athletes of the East. West. North and South, and contains the names of nearly every man who looked to be a possibility. BURNS BESTS SOLZBERG; TACKLES COULON NEXT NEW YORK, May 30.—Frankie Burns, of Jersey City, had the better of a ten-round bout with Young Solz berg. of Brooklyn, here last night. Johnny Coulon, the bantam weight champion, announced at the ringside that he would meet the winner. SPANIARDS LIKE THE SMOKE. LAS VEGAS. N. M.. May 30.—The Spanish residents of Las Vegas have taken a deep interest in the coming Johnson - Flynn battle, and from present appearances will root for the colored ehampion when th» mill is on. John son is quartered in the house of a Span iard. Francisco Baca y Sandoval, and a Spanish defective guards the camp. Hernsheim PfICKEYBEATS RAY BRONSON INDIANAPOLIS. May 30.—Pack ey McFarland has added an other ‘‘win" to his record, and Ray Bronson is a little farther from his championship aspirations to day as a result of last night’s ten round argument. Packer outpoint ed Bronson all the way In the last round Packey, fighting bril liantly, tried to put Bronson out, but the Indianapolis lad managed to weather the storm. With the exception of the third and ninth rounds, the fight was all McFarland’s Bronson was at his best In the third and ninth rpunds The first four rounds w ere fought in a drizzling rain, which made the canvas slippery and interfered with the footwork of the two fighters. In the first two rounds the fighters felt each other out, with Packey getting in a few jabs to the face and body. In the second. Referee Edward Smith, of Chicago, cau tioned McFarland for hitting low. Bronson brought a little blood to McFarland’s nose in the third round and broke even on an exchange of punches The Chicago fighter had a slight shade in the fourth and then went into the fifth and drove Bronson to the ropes with a rain of rights and lefts. Bronson missed several sw Ings In the sixth and was sent to the ropes again where the Chicagoan got in several hard blows at close range Not much damage was done in the seventh, but McFarland started In the eighth and jabbed Bronson at close quarters almost at will. The ninth was pretty much of a slug ging match In the center of the ring, with honors about even Bronson appeared to be getting stronger, but a rain of blows to the face and body staggered him in the tenth, and he was holding on when (he gong sounded. DR. KRAENZLEIN LEAVES MICHIGAN; HEALTH BAD ANN ARBOR. MICH., May 30— Dr. Alvin C. Kraenzlein has resigned as trainer and tra<'k coach at the Uni versity of Michigan. The board of regents was given Dr. Kraenzlein’s res ignation and acted upon it immedi ately. Kraenzlein’s successor has already been chosen, and is Stephen J. Farrell, of Ohio State university. No reason is given for Dr Kraenz leirr's leaving except that his health is poor and that he wilt go to Europe this summer for a year's stay. His succes sor, FarrelJ, -was one of the few men considered two 'ears ago. He is rec ommended by Fitzpatrick and Murphy. He has been at Ohio State two years, and before that time was at the Uni versity of Maine. JIM REILLY OF YALE WILL COACH W. ANO L. LEXINGTON. VA.. May 30 —James Reilly, of Yale, will be head coach of football at Washington and Lee this fall. Dr Pollard, coach of football here for the last two years and formerly at the University of Alabama, has decided to quit coaching and has accepted a position here as professor of physical education and adjunct professor of biology. Georgian’s Great Proverb Contest Unique In Its Fields-SIOOD.OO Prizes Are Still Open to All. Enter Now and Be With The Crowd. Back numbers obtained from the Con test department will place you right in line for one of the big prizes offered by the Contest department. Sit down and think this matter over—sl6,ooo.oo in prizes without the expenditure of one cent. Only a little time each day. Surely your time is not so valuable that you could not spend a few minutes each day on these prize pictures. They are not hard, and it only requires a little brain work. Think of the many people who are in line for one of these prizes and you will see your mistake by not entering. This great con test holds an absolutely unique position among puzzle picture competitions. In the first place, it offers the most at tractive list of prizes ever.put forth in a contest of this kind. In the second place it offers pleasure of a real and fascinat ing kind, for the proverb puzzles are in teresting and instructive. In the third place, it holds out its magnificent oppor tunities to all persons—young or old— men. women or children, ALL THE TIME. The opportunities of The Georgian 's great Proverb Contest did not have to he seized on the day the first picture was published. They remain open. They will be open until the last picture has ap peared. It is always a good plan to start as early as possible in a competition in which the contestants have to use their wits on every picture and in which such rich re wards are at stake. AH who enter the Contest will want tn do themselves justice and so they will want to give sufficient time to each puzzle to assure themselves that they have reach ed as nearly correct a solution as possible. Os course there is still more than enough time to get all the hack numbers of the Contest solved and to keep up with those that will he published from now un til the close of the Contest, but there is no reason that will keep you from enter ing today. Think of the magnificent rewards that are offered you absolutely free. Think how little work it is to solve the simple puzzle pictures that appear in The Geor gian daily. As a matter of fact, it isn’t w ork at all It is pleasure. Why not send for the back numbers today and start the battle of brains for these rich prizes? Such a resolve formed today may put you in position to win one of the handsome prizes that are offered in this contest. These back numbers are the'thing to put you in line They are on file from the first picture to date at the Contest department and may he obtained at the regular rate of the daily Georgian, 2c per copy. The Proverb book will be a great help to those that are entering, as well as those who started with the issue of the first picture With this little book, you can assure yourself that the correct answer will be found and you will be in line for the prize. They are on sale at 25c at this office, or 30c by mail. Send your order in today for the back numbers and the Proverb hook FODDER FOR FANS Manager Duffy, of the Minneapolis team, has an offer of SIO,OOO posted for three real players, with no bidding No wonder Southern league, clubs have trou ble getting good men. • • • Zinn and Simmons, recruits, and Bert Daniels, who was slated for the can a few weeks ago. are the only real hitters of the Yank team. Cree hasn't been heard from vet. • • • The lack of originality in nicknaming ball players these days it pitiful Every James is "Jesse,’' every Young is "Cy. every Bailey is "Bill" and so on through the bromldlc list. All of which reminds us that ''Jesse” James has reported to the Nashville club • • • LaPorte has been playing great ball at second since Derrill Pratt has been on the injured list. • • • The Zanesville club has deposed Man ager William Kelly and has named Third Baseman Pendry in his place * • • Frank Chance couldn’t stand it to watch the game in citizen’s clothes and he gets into the old regimentals every day He may play at any time, not regularly, but to All In. • ♦ • They say that the watch Philadelphia fans gave Kid Gleason Is an ornate af fair tha» can do everything but talk and build bridges. Frank Chance, after the Pirate defeat, switched his line up and now Victor Saier is on first and Artie Hofman in ren ter field. • • • Rube Marquard. some pitcher, is also This Is Picture No. 46 / s al \ ) WAX.rd /W / / // U / 1= I - J. .1 What Proverb Poes This Picture Represent? Proverb Contest Editor, Atlanta Georgian No. 20 East Alabama St. My solution to Proverb Puzzle No. 46 is • ..............•.•..•••.•a My Name is Street or R. F. D. No Town State Hold all answers until you have the entire get. No answer* will be conaldered If eent In before the oubllea..’ tlon of the last picture. — Here’s the List of 1,500 Prizes* 1«t prize, $2,P00 in Gold. j 2d prize, SI,BOO Auto. 3d prize, SI,OOO in Gold. 4th prize. Mitehail three-passenger roadster. sth prize, SSOO in Gold. 6th prize, S4OO Piano. 7th prize. S4OO Piano. Bth prize, S4OO Piano. 9th prize, S4OO Piano. 10th prize. S4OO Piano. 11th prize, Piano. 12th prize, S4OO Piano. 13th prize, S4OO Plano. r 14th prize, S4OO Piano. 15th prize. S4OO Piano. 16th prize. SIOO in Gold. 17th prize, SIOO in Gold. 18th prize. SIOO in Gold. 19th prize. SIOO in Gold. 20th prize. SIOO in Gold. 21st to 28th prize, $75.00 Typewriter. 29th to 78th prize. 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He is batting close to .800. • • • Pitcher Drucke, of the Giants, when he found that he had been lured to Pater son Sunday to play a negro team, re fused to go 1n the box unless his name was sent out as O'Brien So ' O'Brien'' it was in the dispatches. Drucke hails from the South • • • President Jones, of the Billikens. swears that the Rock of Gibraltar is no mere firmly anchored than the Bill club is at tached to the town of Montgomery. Now. don’t anybody offer him $20,000 and make one of “them things" out of him. « • • John McGraw has asked for first call on Al Demaree. • • • TVhen Virginia league papers began to earn a story that Suffolk would not con sider buying the Danville franchise the Danville directors held a meeting and is sued a denial that the Danville fran chise was for sale at any price. Galloway, of Vicksburg, has ' hit the bull” tw’fce this season, for 10(3 bucks * « a John Henry, the young Washington catcher, told the newspaper men that he was going down to Elizabeth. N J., for a day of golf and then beat it to Amherst. ■Mass., his home burg, to look over Pitch er Vernon, one of the big college Purlers of the year • • • A few years ago the National league had a big edge over the American In the mat ter 01 < atchers. Now conditions are prac tically even between them, thanks to the many good young catchers in the younger* circuit. 7