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NEWS FROM RINGSIDE
Next Monday night in Madison Square
Garden, New York. Leach Cross and K.
O Brown will settle that long disputed
argument of which is the better fighter.
The boys are scheduled to box ten rounds.
They fought a fierce ten-round draw last
December.
\ •
Jack Johnson is suffering with gall
stones, but will not be operated on until
after bis engagement with Jim Flynn next
July. Johnson says he has been suffering
with pains for twenty years, but the only
time it affected him in the ring was in
his battle with Tommy Burns.
• • •
Kid Burns is scheduled to meet Johnny
Marto in a ten-round bout at the St.
Nicholas rink in New York tonight.
• » *
Al Delmont was scheduled tn meet the
winner of the Sanders-Robidou fight
which was pulled off in Memphis a few
nights ago, but as the boys fought a draw
for the fifth time, promoters are in doubt
as to which should meet Delmont.
• • •
Joe Coster and Eddie O’Keefe will box
ten rounds in New York June 4.
• • •
Floyd Fitzsimmons, a Benton Harbor
fight promoters, is arranging to stage a
bout between Howard Morrow and Eddie
McGoorty. He has already secured Mc-
Cracfcers* Batting
Averages, Including
Yesterday's Games
These are the Crackers' batting av
erages, including yesterday's double
header:
Players. G. AB. R. H. Ay.
Donahue, c. . . . 5 15 1 5 .333
Hemphill, cf.. . .41 159 22 53 .333
Sitton, p7 15 1 5 .333
Dessau, p 8 23 17 .304
Alperman, 3b.. .42 161 27 43 .267
Bailey, If 42 148 29 39 .264
O'Dell, lb3B 131 18 34 .260
Ganley. rf33 113 18 27 .239
Graham, e 15 39 4 9 .231
Sykes, lb 27 79 11 18 .228
East. 2b32 100 9 21 .210
O'Brien, ss36 132 14 27 .205
Paige, p 8 25 2 5 .200
Miller, pl 4 27 4 5 .185
Johns, plO 20 3 3 ,l;>0
Atkins, p 8 21 2 3 .143
HOFMAN. COLE. LEACH. AND
LEIFIELD ARE IN BIG DEAL
PITTSBURG. .May 31. -Pittsburg has
traded Tommy I.each and Pili her Bel
field to the Chicago Nationals for Ar
thur Hofman and Pitcher "King" Cole.
This is easily one of the biggest base
bal Ideals of recent years. All four men
were off form this spring and only
Cole was good last year. Pole was
third among National league pitchers
last year and fourth the year before.
Hofman was off in batting last year,
but the year before was second among
the regular batters of the National
league.
COLUMBIA CREWS COP
IN REGATTA ON HARLEM
NEW YORK. May 31. Columbia uni
versity carried off the chief honors at
the forty-sixth annual regatta of the
Harlem Regatta association, held on
the Harlem river yesterday. The local
university won three races in easy
fashion, its junior, intermediate and
senior eights proving victors Jay. good
margins.
BRIDWELL’S INJURY MAY
END HIS BASEBALL DAYS
NEW YORK. May 31. Manager John
Kling of the Boston Nationals says that
Arthur Bridwell, the shortstop, is sb
badlv injured that he will not be able
to play again this season; in fact, he
doesn't think the player will ever be
able to get into a uniform again.
RUSSELL MEETS JULIAN.
NEW ORLEANS, LA.. May 31.
Frankie Russell, of this city, has been
matched with Kid Julian, of Oswego.
N Y.. for a ten-round bout Monday
night.
THE BASEBALL CARD.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games Today.
Atlanta in Montgomery.
Chattanooga in Birmingham.
Mobile in Nashville.
New Orleans in Memphis.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L P C W. L. P C
B ham 27 17 614 Mont. 20 20 .500
■"nooga 22 18 550 Atlanta .19 21 .475
Mobile 24 22 .522 N. Olns. 19 22 .463
M'phis. .21 20 .512 Nash . . .14 26 .350
Yesterday's Results.
Birmingham 9. Atlanta 2 (first game 1
Birmingham 2. Atlanta 2 (second game.)
New Orleans 12. Nashville 6 (first game)
New Orleans 3. Nashville 2 (second
game >
Mobile 6, Chattanooga 3.
Montgomery 5. Memphis 0.
SOUTH ATLANTIC.
Games Today.
Columbia in Albany.
Jacksonville in Columbus.
■ Macon in Savannah.
Standing of the Club,
W. L P C W. L P C
J'ville. 23 12 .657 CT'bus. .13 21 .382
Albanv 22 12 .647 Macon . .13 21 .382
S'van'ah 21 13 .618 C'l'mbia 10 23 .303
Yesterday's Results.
Savannah 5. Macon 1.
Jacksonville 3. Columbus 1.
Albany 13. Columbia 3.
AMERICAN LEAGUE,
Games Today.
Detroit in St. Louis.
Only one game scheduled.
Standing of the Clubs.
W L. P C. W. L. P.O
Chicago 28 12 .700 C'land. .17 19 .472
Boston .25 13 658 Wash. .18 21 .462
Phila .11 16 51 a N. 1 ork 1--- .353
Detroit .20 19 513 S. Louis 11 26 .297
Yesterday's Results —Afternoon Games.
St Louis 3. Detroit 0 (first game i
P’etroit 10, St Louis 0 (second game.)
Cleveland 10. Chicago 3.
Washington 5. Boston 0.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Games Today.
Boston in Brooklyn.
St Louis jp New York.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P C W. L. PC
N York 28 6 824 S. Louis 19 22 .463
C’nati 23 1 B 590 Phila . .14 19 424
Chicago 19 17 528 Boston 13 24 .351
P’burg 17 u .500 Bro'klyn in 22 .313
Yesterday's Results—Afternoon Games.
Chicago 3. Cincinnati 2.
i’h'cago 8. Cincinnati 4
New York 6. Philadelphia 1.
Pittsburg 9. St. Louis 7.
Brooklyn-Boston game postponed.
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Goorty’s consent for the bout and is still
dickering with Morrow's manager.
* • *
Jack Johnson says all his training will
be done in the open.
• • •
Cal Delaney. Johnny Kilbane's sparring
partner, is creating quite a sensation in
New York. Since Kilbane brought him
East he has appeared in three-bouts and
was returned the winner in all three
fights.
• • *
Clarence Ferns and Paul Roman are
scheduled to hnx ten rounds at Tusia,
Okla., tonight.
* • •
The latest victim tn fall before Joe
Jeannette was George Rod el. the English
heavyweight, who was knocked ont in the
eleventh round of a scheduled twenty
round fight.
» • •
Jeannette’s next fight will probably be
with Fred Storbeck. the South African
heavyweight champion.
» » »
Jimmy Walsh, who fought a twelve
round draw with Johnny Kilbane a few
nights ago. has challenged the champion
to a 20-round fight for the title.
* * «
Memphis boxing promoters are still
trying to arrange a match between Ad
Wolgast and Ray Temple, next month.
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• PARABLES IN SLANG •
• OF BASEBALL DEFINED •
• Squeeze Play— The gathering of •
• players around the umpire to try •
• to force him to change his de- •
• cision. •
• Fielder's Choice — To risk break- •
• ing a leg trying to make a difli- •
• cult play, or to get the fans sore •
• in him. •
• Playing Safe— Roasting an um- •
• nire or player from behind the •
» big screen. •
• Pinch Hitter—A policeman us- •
• ing his baton in a riot. •
• Perfect Throw -One in which •
• the ball hits the umpire on the •
• shins. ®
• Wild Pitch—The star hitter’s •
• throw of the bat when the uni- •
• p'lre has called a ball the third •
• strike. •
« A Sacrifice — Letting supper •
» ">| in order to see the finish of •
• an extra inning game. •
• An Error The umpire—when a •
• decision is close—calling a run- •
o ner of the home team out or a *
• runner of the visiting team safe. •
• Earned Run— line that is ob- •
• tained by the rooting of the fans. •
• Dead Ball—One that hits the •
• umpire but doesn't hurt him. •
• •
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CRACKERS FIRE GANLEY
AND SIGN D. CALLAHAN
Taking a chance that Dave Calla
han. one of the great outfielders of last
year's Southern league aggregation, will
regain his old form. Manager Charles
Hemphill has signed the man and has
released Bob Ganley.
l.ast year Callahan tied with Al
O'Dell in the race for Southern league
batting honors, with .278. He made 138
hits and scored 7<l runs. He fielded
.966. He was fifth in the league in the
| number of runs scored and fifth in
1 Csiaing among the outfielders who
| took part -in 109 games or more.
• Ganley has been released outright.
"ALEX" GETS A FOB.
W A. Alexander, coach of the Tech
freshman football team, has been pre
sented with a watch fob by this year’s
freshman class in recognition of his work
in handling their football team.
The fob is a handsome one. with a gold
football mounted on a black leather fob
with a white “T" on it
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An owner who has just bought his fourth Maxwell
car told us that he had driven 37,000 miles and in six
years had never been stalled on the road, never been
seriously delayed even by tire trouble, never had a
M broken part except one which was his own fault, had
practically no repair expense and maximum service
at minimum cost.
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Experiences like this are common. They explain why
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who must have reliability at any cost, by 6,000 salesmen in
2,800 businesses who must have economical service; in short,
by everyone who wants maximum service at minimum price.
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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: FRIDAY. MAY 31. 1912.
Track and Field Sports, if Not Abused, Bound to Benefit All Men
THE VALUE OF CLEAN LIVING IN ATHLETICS
r T A HIS is the second of a seri
J Thomson, world’s champ
in Athletics.”
By Fred C. Thomson.
WORLD'S CHAMPION ATHLETE.
IN dealing with this subject I
must draw more from my ob
servation than from personal
experience, for as yet I do not
judge that I have come into the
after-life of an athlete.
I have heard athletics objected
to on the ground that it was a.
strain. Nothing could be more
narrow. A strain? Surely it's a
strain, and therein lies whatever
of good there may be in it. And
the word "strain” I am using as it
was used to me—that is. a tension
or stress. And those who claimed
it was a strain thought that their
point, in objection to athletics,
had been won when I readily
agreed that athletics was a strain.
But rather than winning their
point, by their own statement they
lost it, and that hopelessly. For
the very worthwhileness of athlet
ics lies in the fact that it furnlshee
a strain, a tension, a stress, a pro
bation, if you please. "But the
strain of athletics is a drain." they
cry; “it breaks men.” I'll admit
that it breaks men.
The Abuse of Athletics.
But that tells me nothing against
athletics.
Men drown in water. Does that
say that it would be mercy to re
fuse a parched, thirsty child a cool
glass of water? Men have been
burnt with fire. For that reason
would you refuse to hold your
numb hands to the welcome
warmth of some cheery blaze?
The objection Is not to athletics,
but to the abuse of athletics. And
I object just as vehetnently- pos
sibly more so—to those abuses, and
they are many. But in that num
ber the mere fact of a strain con
sequent upon athletic activity has
no place. Why, the possession of
free will entails a strain. Would
we, then, throw away free will?
When a child learns to walk it
is a tremendous strain on the un
tried, unhardened -muscles. For
that reason would you keep the
sons of men crawling on hands and
knees wherever they go? Does the
birth cry mark an easy, a simple
occurrence? Why. everything that
counts follows strain
Sacrifice Is Well Rewarded.
But strain may break! surely!
But that is not nearly as impor
tant a fact as that nothing but
strain can make.
But how does all this fit the top
ic I am writing of? Just this way:
To withstand the strain of ath
letics a man must take such and
such care of himself. He musi eat
such and such things. Certain oth
er things he dare not do nor eat.
To the man that finally makes good
the end in view, of athletic promi
nence or of personal satisfaction,
is big enough to make him willing
to sacrifice those little freedoms of
ways of living that are pleasant to
him, to which he is accustomed hut
which do not go with good fondl-
es of articles written exclusively fi
ion all-around athlete, on the subji
tion Now, it is just the way in
which a man regards and uses this
period nf denial that shows wheth
er he is to be finally made nr
broken by the strain of the tests
he is preparing for. To some men
training, with its enforced absti
nences. is a tedious, irksome thing.
They look forward'To the day they
can break training, when they can
cut loose and bo free again. They
never get beyond training merely
because they have to. Just such a
man I helped carry off a field not so
long ago. For three-quarters of an
hour 1 worked over him before I
dared trust his heart to follow one
beat after another as it should.
When he was w eakest he whimper
ingly pleaded for whisky—"just to
smell." I wet my handkerchief and
held it for him. He drew as deep
breaths as his stagnant-blooded
lungs would allow and whispered.
"My, but that's good, good. I'll be
mightily glad when this training
business is over.” If I had not
known him already that would
have told me enough.
Training a Revelation.
But there are some men to whom
training with its sane laws and re
quirements is a revelation. They
not only get a habit of decent liv
ing. they learn the happiness of a
clean body and a clean life.
I saw more than one man, when
a great game was done, training
over, all that could be wished of a
season's work finished, sitting
around a magnificent banquet ta
ble, in such a banquet room as has
few equals in the world, leave un
touched every one of four glasses
that were by their places. The
long, long, thin glasses that spar
kled deep, the shallower ones that
were filled with richest hues, reds,
greens were untouched. Enticing?
Yes; hut to those men who had
really tasted the rich, satisfying
pleasure of a sound body and free,
pure, richly coursing blood in un-
Men of
| iasie like I
I the besi Burley I
1 natural leaf
Idruhmonol
NATURAL LEAF
[ CHEWING TOBACCO |
ir The Georgian by Fred C.
?ct “The Value of Clean Living
clogged veins, holding to that was
more enticing.
Let me make this whole thing
very definite. The man who is not
by nature prohibited and treats
himself fairly, before, during and
after, will never be hurt by and
will be greatly helped by what
ever he may do in athletics.
Real Athlete Must Live Clean.
To be as good as any man may
be in athletics he must live clean
ly. He must pay the price. Does
that sound like a hard statement?
It isn't.
To he as good as anay man may
be. in anything, he must live clean
ly. He must pay the price. More
than that, TO HOLD ONE'S
a MAN MUST
LIVE CLEANLY. MORE EVEN
THAN THAT. TO BE A CHRIS
TIAN A MAN MUST LIVE
CLEANLY. AND THIS LAST IS
THE FINAL DEED, THE ABOVE
ALL OTHERS ESSENTIAL
THING.
THAT'S WHAT REALLY’
COUNTS.
FINN RELEASES KNEAVES.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN.. May 31.
Infielder Kneaves has been released by
Manager Mlque Finn to the Hatties
burg club of the Cotton States league.
Proverb Contest Will Make
a Delightful Summer for
the Winners of the Rich
Prizes.
Don’t lay your plans for spring out
ings and summer vacations until you have
entered The Georgian's Great Proverb
Contest. This competition is going to
revolutionize many a person's summer,
and make it exceptionally delightful.
Somebody will get $2,000 in gold; others
will yet automobiles and other rich prizes
and every prize offered in this contest
is well worth the little time and trouble
spent in trying to solve the puzzles.
What a wealth of recreation—what
a store of pleasure, and how many people
will enjoy these rich prizes wrapped up
in this contest waiting for some witty
person to solve their meanings.
It makes no difference if you are en
tering later than the early birds. You
have just as good a chance of winning
the grand prize you are after as the ones
that started with the issue of the first
picture.
\o answer is to be sent in until after
the last pirture has appeared, and then
you have plenty of time. A period of
two weeks will be allowed for tha con
testants to review their back numbers
and see that they are as near correct as
possible.
These back numbers are on sale at
the contest department of The Georgian,
20 East Alabama street, and may be oh
t'lined at the regular rate of The Daily
Georgian—2c per copy. You would l»e.
i flu r uht line if vou would order your
back numbers, and start the work at
once. Tn this way you can solve the pic
tures as they are published daily, and
then devote a little time each day to one
of the hack numbers, and you will be
up with the beginners before you
realize it.
Some will enjoy the contest now
more than if they had started with the
first picture, for the awarding of the
prizes is now not so very far off. There
will be no long period of suspense for
those who enter now, and the prizes are
so promising and the puzzles so interest
ing that it will be a pleasure to sit down
and solve all the hack numbers.
To aid the contestants, the Contest
Department is still mailing out the Prov
erb Guides to all who are working for
one of the prizes. These books will be a
help to old contestants as well as the new
ones, and will keep you in line with all
the proverbs. While you are looking for
one, you may run across one that will be
in the paper later, and you will remem
ber seeing it in the book, and then* you
go again to look for it. If you did not
have this hook, you would have no sugges
tion as to what the picture represents,
and there you will be—“ Don’t know
where to look."
The following questions and answers
are for the benefit of those who read
these- columns each day:
Q. How many answers may he sent
in for each solution’
A. Three separate sets of solutions are
permissible for each puzzle.
Q. How do we send in our answers?
A. Hold all answers until the last
picture has been published, and then send
them in. together with the correct solu
tions.
Q. How will we know what the cor
rect answer is?
A. The correct solutions to each of
the pictures will be published in The
Georgian at the close of the contest. Hold
a duplicate to all answers you send in
and compare them with the ones m The
FODDER FOR FANS
Some speed-mad bug in Indianapolis
has figured out that Bob Burman in his
fastest automobile could circle the bases
twice and reach first base on the third
circuit while Ty Cobb was going down
to first base from the plate. At that, the
paths would have to be barked some.
• • •
Cincinnati sport writers are beginning
to yell. The team is slumping anti there's
no stopping it. Pitching weakness is the
alihl.
• ♦ •
Pitcher Bill Burns, who has played a
came or two with almost every club in
the big leagues, has been shipped back
t<> Minneapolis.
Orth Collins, former Southern leaguer,
has out as manager of the Green
wood team of the Cotton States league
and Martin Dudley has taken his place
Hard luck for Martin.
• • ♦
George McConnell. Tennesseean. hasn't
shown anything with the Yanks and will
go back to Rochester. He seems to be
one of those men who is good enough to
be a wonder in any minor league, but
who isn’t quite good enough to stick with
the fast boys.
• • •
Jersey City has sold Pitcher Justis to
Holyoke and Pitcher .llm Swift to Elmira
• ♦ *
Jud Daley is losing out with Brooklyn.
Jud lacks only one thing Maybe Bone
setter Reese might be able tn do some
thing with his head.
• » •
The Barons were lucky to get ana) with
yesterday's second game Their fielding
was more fortunate than skillful.
The bleachers pestered Bill Foxen. with
a peculiar whistle that they reserve for
his especial benefit, every time he showed
his head, both Tuesday and Thursday In
the first game yesterday he got his re
venge. He not only helped materially in
the unmerciful beating that the Crackers
got. but in the sixth Inning he raked a
foul through the bleachers that had 'em
all ducking. It looked as though he did
ft. on purpose.
Foxen looks as little like a pitcher as
anv man you ever saw Ho appears
shoulder-bound and there is nothing of
pase nr beauty to Ills pitching swing Yet
he is tremendously effective.
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Atlanta Georgian No. 20 East Alabama St.
My solution to Proverb Puzzle No. 47 is
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Hold all answers until you have the entire set. No
answers will be considered If sent In before the publica
tion of the last picture.
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5c extra. »
McGilvray is one of the -hardest men In
the league on opposing pitchers. He is
more troublesome for what he says than
for his hitting. In yesterday’s second
game after he got on third he so agitated
Tommy Atkins, by his running fire of talk
and his wild breaks toward home that
“Soldier Boy" walked Prough and filled
the bases Luckily Marcan lined out im
mediately afterwards and ended the in
ning.
• • •
East put Ellam down for the full count
in a little encounter yesterday. In the
fifth inning "f the second game the Baron
shortstop sacrificed East came over to
cover first and as Atkins had his troubles
fielding the ball there wasn’t a lot. of
time to execute the play at first The
second East got the ball he whirled like
a flash and stuck out both hands At
the same second Ellam ran into them.
'Fhe hands went hard into the pit of El
lam’s stomach and he spun off the line
and rolled over For a while he looked
like a 'dead bird.” but he came to life
and managed to finish out the contest.
■ • ■
Cliff Blankenship, a Columbus. Ga.,
basebail product and once a big leaguer,
is managing the Missoula team in the
Union association
The Highlanders have bought, for Sep
tember delivery. Pitcher Keating He has
won nine games in a row for the Law
rence. Mass., team and has pitched one
no-hit. no-run game this season.
• • •
Pitcher Vaughn, of the Highlanders,
has a new record for this season of hav
ing pitched twelve consecutive balls,
passing four successive batters, before he
steadied.
♦ • •
The Oklahoma State league is all
stewed up because Pitcher Stone of Ana
darko is said to be Pitcher Prett of the
Kansas City team and there is a good
chance that all games he pitched in will
be thrown out.
• • •
L C. Davis says that the patrons of
Robinson field in St. Louis can't com
plain of not having ample police protec
tion The patronage and the cooperage
are about equally divided, one copper to
one patrnn.
• ♦ •
And now up goes the cry, “There go the
Reds coming back.’’
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