Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

14 GtOIWAN SPOffS ©fflß i' n[EKTS > Silk Hat Harry's Divorce Suit And They All Went With Judge Copyright, 1912, National News AsFa. By Tad /you* WHOM MV CLIENT ' r - AM-e’\ I if X Z \ > HAS 06E-M PASHTO \7© MAN OErgJEV - ) ( \ ?AUDON ME VOUF- \ 1 WftLAQ<(ND«J CAjF ■ / 1 xNHATTMC ALP 5 Ate- \ J *NAJ TO Nls ?Arvi IW - ( TO J\N/7-Z.EI«-l-Ar«o / \ hcxnAiyhe Vest- I • *<7 ' Z' > R/T7XO A ( rTLE | \ - ■mrEET SNHAT PAEXXeVi AMF / f X>L£| \ I KNOWN PART / I / ) \ <" TO A cun CM counter/ /' '. ' I jvttp ' \OF ,T-AL'NA'/J7 ( ZRA£?) w/nooin APPEAL! ; 3VL6PX ) M4HAT TAmNAHU \ 'X- •> I TMC -g£ AMWAy r( <s\\l///z JIZ '< \ / MUCHuy TO ME ,> * > *3* l T ' •' ‘ ••*’(■] OVM- .fl, K .. , ' ./f (.;, HI! - ” ” >] JPK-altv 1 v ;^at fliAGMy *t*ng ./’x-cy / i j - .<—__ i■■* i(s T7i q( ' 11 tW & c [Sw JiHrz "fw® ~=?.> ■ Ik W■l Bo f i!i w4 p! ! l i'_ gMSO li' r 11 z 4 I 4 r 4 -44 j v 4 ■— < yL kF LL -■F,.- s z - No More Bouts Allowed Over Garages and Gasoline Tanks CHIEF CUMMINGS FINDS GATE CITY CLUB FIRE TRAP F' IRE CHIEF W B. CUMMINGS has just Issued orders that ' either the Gate City “Athletic club" or the two garages that oc cupy the same building must va cate before next Tuesday, when there is a boxing show carded. He finds that the building with ga rages on the ground floor and a fighi club above classifies under "fire trap.” \ Acting under orders of Chief Cummings. Fire Inspector Henry Oattis investigated the situation, and has reported that it is very much against the city ordinances to allow the fight club to hold forth with gallons of gasoline m the building. Os course the garages can move and then it may be O. K. for (he fight club to remain. But the own er of the building hardly figures ft out this way. Mr. Oattis said today that when the fight club started business there were no garages below What a r e now garages were simply'show rooms for automobiles. But since then the automobile people have installed a repair shop and deal in gasoline Fire Escape a Joke Whereby, from the fight club end, the building is nothing but .a tire trap. The “athletic club" has been doing business with but two nai row exits and a frame excuse of a fire escape Beneath it Is a tank with gallons and gallons of gasoline. One of the stairways practically encircles this tank. A spark from a cigar or cigarette, if it ever fell into this basin, would ignite the powerful and flammable fluid and it would take just about ten minutes for the building to be clean swept by fire. One of the stairways is straight, but the other has a right angle turn. It is this one that winds around the gasoline tank The steps of the stairway are less than three feet wide and therefore It would be impossible for over two persons to descend at a time. The fire escape is a joke if 25 persons ever tried to get down It at one time it would crumple up like so much sawdust This alleged file escape runs down to a platform, fully fifteen feet from the ground And, to cap the climax, a person leaping from this fire escape would haxe to jump into a hole, from Chew DRUMMOND ■F" Tasies good 6oes| ■ farther, naif the I ■ usual chew is plenty! I My ! It’s good I I DRUMMOND NATURAL LEAF I CHEWING TOBACCO I MONEY TO LOAN ON DIAMONDS AND JEWELRY St r Ictlj cenfidentlai. Unredeemed pledges t» diamonds tor sate. 30 per cent less than elsewhera. MARTIN MAY (Formerly of Schaul A 11 V 2 PEAGHIREE ST. UPSTAIRS Absolutely Private. Opposite Fourth Nat Bank Bldg Both I’hones I>S< WE BUY OLD GOLD which he could never get out unless be received aid. At present the platform at the end of the fire escape is covered with empty barrels. What a fine chance a man would have trying to save himself by this exit! Just about as much as though he fell from an airship 10,000 feet up. Also, the stairs, if they could possibly be wide enough to let a fire-stricken crowd out in time, bring right up at the gasoline tank. So to leave the club rooms above by the stairs would only bring the crowd right into the very heart and pit of the flames 'baseball Diamond News and Gossip President Comiskey now has a mechani cal device to spread canvas over his ball park and t > take it off again • • • Charley Flank may get Bill Linjaay and George Stcn#* from Portland, ©reg., though what he wants with them If they are not good enough for Portland Is hard to de»ermin< . • * ♦ Folks are still poking fun at Hal Chase’s sacrifice killer The play Is supposed to be made as follows: With runners on first and second, the batter hunts. The first baseman plays way in, grabs the ball and snaps it to third It is said to be a tine play, except that nobody is ever put out on it. • • • Heinie Pietz gave up his coaching du ties with the Reds lojjg enough to scout a bit through the South o’Day is look ing for more pitchers from the South, preferably another Benton. < • • Bill f’helon is author of the statement that .Joe McGinnity is awfully good to his folks. “Most of his family work at the New ark ball yard,' says Bill. “One brother is assistant manager, another is secre tary, a nephew is on the main gate, sev eral first cousins are ushers and park po licemen. Joe’s second cousins help the ground-keeper, ami one lad, who claims to be a distant relative, has been given a job manicuring the street in front of The ball park.” • • • The Rocky Mountain league wil be lucky to last until July 4. In fact, it is wab bling so violently now that everybody is trying to get from under. Ralls batted outside the Brooklyn park will not he good for free admission, as has been the Hrne-hcw-d custom. President Hhbets says he will prosecute every boy and man who tries to make awa\ with one of his baseballs • • • We note in the United States league department of a Pittsburg paper the news that Ed Goes goes. So long. Ed. • • • * Umpire Spencer, in a recent Pekin- Kankakee game, waved a player “out’’ so vigorously that he dislocated his arm • * • Kid Elberfeld, who put up such a bluff about getting “S6OO a week or nothing’’ from Chattaanooga, has quit with Mil waukee He couldn’t get in shape and apparently his arm is dead His perve alone remah s intact Boh Harmon is ineffective this year and ihe theory of Bresnahan as to the cause is that Harmon doesn’t use his fast ball often enough. Too many curves have ruined his record. I'd Konev is putting up an awful yell because the fences at the Polo grourtds are painted yellow. He claims he can't see a thrown ball until it gets right to him. • • • The Cards have a new pitcher, Roland Howell, from Baton Rouge college. His shoulders are said to be broader than Harmon’s, which is uncanny broad • • • “George Stovall has tieen appointed manager of the Browns to succeed Bobby Wallace.” says L. C. Davis. “We con gratulate them both.’’ • • • Pittsburg alleges to hear a rumor that Tommy I.each may soon succeed Frank Chance as manager of the Cubs It Is quite likely that Chance is about ready to resign • • • Lelivelt leads the International league In batting, with 405. Bill Zimmerman. ex-Cracker with Newark, has slumped down to .275. • • • Baltimore has taken on Pixie Walker and is negotiating for Frank Smith, of Cincinnati. Bob Gantt. Southern college pitcher with Baltimore, who has been out of the game for awhile with a sore elbow has rejoined his club. • • • Brooklyn has decided to let out Cy Barger He will probably go to Cincin nati for Gaspar. • • • The Highlanders once paid J Callahan S2OO to go out and look over lairry Hoyle. Callahan went, looked and wired "Slow, can't field, can't bat." As a tip it was a great S2OO worth. Doyle couldn't be bought from the Giants now for a fortune. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. J L’NE 7, 1912. A few months ago Boston city fathers closed up the big boxing club in the Hub because they held bouts in the same building with a garage. The club had a bona fide membership, the elite and richest of Cape Cod's society being honorary officers, yet this place was closed simply because a garage was in the same building. Chief Cummings' mo«e is un doubtedly a wise one. The boxing game in the state, and probably all over the country, wpuld get a de cidedly black eye If fire ever broke out al the Gate City "Athletic club,” for the fans would have no chance of escaping. [boxing Late News and Views K O. Brown's manager is in receipt of an offer from Promoter Tom O’Day for h. I ‘‘!l’ ko ut- to fight twenty rounds with w tliie Richie on the coast June 29. • • • Manager Billy Gibson, of the Garden A. C., New York, plans to- hold a popular price boxing show every Monday, giving local boys, a chance in the hopes of de veloping a headliner'for the winter. Jake Abel Is training hard for his ten round fight with Joe Thomas in New Or leans next Monday night. Pittsburg boxing fans aje in an uproar because Ad Wolgast tailed to carrv out his scheduled six-round bout with' Phil Brock. • • a Johnnie Creely and Young Herman will box in Indianapolis June 14. Reports from Australia say Hugh Mc- Intosh. who has been promoting matches in Europe for some time, will come to America and build one of the largest and most up-to-date boxing stadiums in this country. ... Harry Donahue and Steve Ketchfel will box ten rounds in Peoria June 17. ♦ • • Soldier Elder and Charley Miller went ten rounds to a draw in San Francisco a few night sago. Elder is the moving pic ture man who expressed his desire for a match with Jack Johnson. ... It will be but a short time before Abe Attell will <iuit training and leave Billv Nolan's ranch for San Francisco, where he will probably try himself out bv box ing several third raters. • • • Phil Harrison will box an unknown at Janesville the last of this month. Harri son has been winning steadily and big things are expected of him Because he is built just a little too heavy for a lightweight it is probable that Packey McFarland will go thr&ugh his pugilistic career without ever being a champ. If Packey was as strong at 133 as he is at 138 pounds ringside he would be undisputed champ. • • • Walter Brooks is scheduled to meet Mike Malta tn New York tomorrow night Ad Wolgast will start training in one week for his July match with Mexican Joe Rivers. Adolph says he will engage in no more short bouts before he meets Rivers. • • • Jimmy Johnson. Owen Moran's man ager. should have been a press agent In stead of a manager. When listening to Johnson fepring some of Moran’s history one would think the Britain was undis puted champion of the world. YANKEE ATHLETES MAY PERFORM IN FRANCE PARIS, June 7.—Feeling certain that the American team of athletes will car ry off the honors at the coming Olympic games at Stockholm, a movement was set on foot here today to have them remain in Europt* for a short time to give exhibitions. Already Americans in France are ar ranging dates for a monster meeting in Paris, when the Americans will be given a chance to meet the best of the French athletes soon after the Olympic games. McFarland batters his MAN UP AND COPS STEP IN MUSKEGON, MICH.. June 7.—Pack ey MaeFarland practically knocked out Frank Brennan, who claims the welter weight championship of Canada, in the fourth round of a scheduled ten-round bout here. MaeFarland took matters easy in the first three rounds, but went after Bren nan in the fourth, knocking him down twice the second time for the count of nine. Before MaeFarland could get in the finishing blow the police stopped the fight. EPITLD ty W. S FARNSWORTH GREAT FIELD OF OLYMPIC CANDIDATESJN TRYOUTS BOSTON, June 7.—The greatest ag gregation oF athletes that ever met up on an athletic field will strip for action in the Harvard stadium tomorrow aft ernoon for the Eastern Olympic try outs. The individual entry list totals 188 of the foremost exponents of speed, endurance and strength of the East. These runners, jumpers and weight throwers will compete in> eighteen events, and although the games start promptly at 2 o'clock, it probably will take at least four hours to decide win ners in all of the events, although the try-out committee says the last compe tition will be over at 6 o’clock. All the races will be over courses measured by the metric system. The jumps and the weight events, however, will be measured in feet and inches, and all the timing will be by minutes, sec oAls and fifths. Sb many star athletes have entered for the 400. SOO and 1,550-meter runs that the committee has decided to have two sets of timers. One group will be stationed at the finish of the sched uled runs, while the second set will take the times at the regulat- American distance. LAJOIE WALLOPS FORD’S “WASTE BALLS” FOR HITS CLEVELAND, June 7. —That Larry Lajoie is still a dangerous hitter was never demonstrated more vividly than yesterday when he made a single and a double hitting 'waste balls.” The brainy JTuss Eord was working for the Yanks against the Naps and was being hit hard. In an effort to save himself he twice tried to walk Lajoie. The big Frenchman refused to take bases on balls, however. Twice he stepped across the plate and lammed into high ones for safe hits. ROWAN, FORMER CRACKER. GOES. TO DENVER CLUB Pitcher Jack Rowan, former Crack er. who has been up to the big leagues and back again abont as often as any living man, was turned over yesterday by Louisville to Denver and seems to be out of the big show for good. Rowan was turned over to Louisville by the Cubs, who got him from Cincin nati. He was once the property of De troit, and it was from the Tigers that the Atlanta club secured him. LEFTY RUSSELL HERE; COLEMAN IS MISSING "Lefty” Russell is'here. Twelve thousand dollars worth of good southpaw, attached to an elongat ed. young twirler, pulled in yesterday and reported at the ball park this morning Third Baseman Coleman is not with us yet. At baseball headquarters they insist that he is not lost—merely mis placed. as it were. They don’t know where he is and the New York cl.ib has lost track of him, but he isn’t lost. WOLGAST OFFERED $50,000 FOR FIVE GOTHAM FIGHTS NEW YORK. June 7.-- Fifty, thousand dollars has been offered to Lightweight Champion Ad Wolgast if he will con sent to meet five lightweights to be picked by Manager William Gibson of the Garden Athletic club at Madison Square Garden. Wolgast is now on his way to the Pacific coast to begin training for his bout with Joe Rivers on July 4. and has no definite answer. WOLGAST. NOT ATTELL. WILL MEET J. RIVERS LOS ANGELES, June 7.—“ Ad Wol gast will be In the ring July 4 to fight his own battle with Joe Rivers," said Manager Tom McCarey. of the Corona Athletic club, when asked as to the truthfulness of a report that Abe At tell was to be substituted for Wolgast. The rumor had It that Wolgast was in no condition to fight. JAPANESE GRAPPLER WINS 133-LB. WRESTLING TITLE TOLEDO. OHIO, June 7.—A Japa nese is now the lightweight wrestling champion of the world as a result of Matsuda’s victory over Johnny Bllllter here last night. The Japanese won two straight falls on toe holds. The first fall came in 61 minutes and the second in twelve minutes. LUMLEY ON TOBOGGAN BINGHAMTON. N. Y„ June 7.—Har ry Lumley, former manager of the Brooklyn National league team, today was unconditionally released as man ager of the Binghamton team in the New York State league. Lack of a Leisure Class Keeps Atlanta Back in Amateur Sports HOPE OF CITY IS IN KID ATHLETES OF TODAY By Percy 11. Whiting, Atlanta had a leisure class, it would lead the South at amateur sports. It is the fact that everybody in Atlanta is working for a living that accounts for the commercial su premacy and the athleti? subordi nacy (a fine word—l just found it) of the Gate City. Atlanta has never had but one golfer who could win a champion ship—F. G. Byrd. It now has three others—George W. Adair, W. R. Tiehenor and H. G, Scott—who can hold their own with the best. Compare this with New Orleans. That burg has won five out-of the last ten Southern golf champion ships. It’ has two men out of four 1n the semi-finals being played now at Chattanooga. Five years out of the iast eleven, New Orleans players have won the low score medal. Four out of the last seven team matches have been won by New Orleans golfers. Yet it is doubtful if New Or leans, for all its size, has‘half as many golfers as Atlanta, and al though it has a brace of courses, the two of them rolled together do not even faintly compare with the East Lake course of the Atlanta Athletic club. What New Orleans has. how ever. is a leisure class. Its play ers have more time for golf than do those of Atlanta. Nelsop Whit ney, twice champion and now in the semi-finals of the present tour nament. is a young man of immense means, who doesn’t have to do any thing but golf unless he wants to. Leigh Carroll, another champion from New Orleans, is a banker of large means, and plays just when ever he wants to, as his business is not allowed to Interfere. When Lawrence Eustis won his three low score medals in a row he was doing nothing but play goif. As soon as he went into bus- Ar Sumar Information Su ma r is an American ' weave. It is a Muse order--for / ac^ s,mi ‘ ar to the English tH Fresco—made in our own country wl at > ess cost - WB We found the weaver, who C<zA was at once enthusiastic about the j|tp 4 work of bringing it to perfection. SUMAR is made of pure WS , worsted yarn, which commends it for high-grade tailoring. It is |||k apparently closely woven—tho |pj||L very elastic to admit of the free ■ ’lw circulation of air. SB Sumar is the successful summer fabric for suits. Tan. gray, brown or blue COC with silk thread decoration 3 I Geo. Muse Clothing Co. iness he went out of golf. The same was true of Albert Schwartz. Just after he won the first champion ship he went into business for him self and didn't show up in a tour nament outside of New Orleans for ten years. As soon as he left the leisure class he dropped back as a golfer. The older men of Atlanta, who* are beginning to take it easy, haven't made enough progress in golf to be dangerous. The younger men are too busy to devote time to the game. The consequence is that the only Atlantan who has won a championship is a man in the sporting goods business, who can combine business and pleasure in playing golf. • • * /CONDITIONS exactly similar ob tain in tennis, with a slight va riation. Atlanta has had for many years two players who by sheer natural'ability were able to stay at the top of the Southern heap, even if they didn’t take time to play much. These two are Dr. Nat Thornton and Bryan M. Grant. These men have so much tennis in them that they can play a good game with little or no practice. If this hadn’t been true, Atlanta would not have been heard from in tennis championships, despite the fact that it has a few excellent players who can make it interest ing for the best in any tournament. There i s small doubt but that if Dr. Thornton gave as much atten tion to tennis as do some -of the country's great players,, he would have ranked with the first five or six. perhaps better. Atlanta’s tennis supremacy is soon to be swept away—unless something is done. The famous Grant-Thornton team is playing less -and less tennis; and (be it faintly whispered) is getting along in years. No new players have yet shown who compare With them. For another thing, the Southern championship, which has been held for years inxAtlanta, will go to New Orleans next July. Os course. It probably will come back to At lanta the following July. But At lanta's monopoly has been srtiash ed. Perhaps this will result in in creased interest. Perhaps it will serve to wake up Atlanta players. But anyhow, from now on Atlanta will have to hustle for its position in the Southern tennis world. • e • -pHE hope of Atlanta in golf and x tennis lies with the younger generation. For years the blame for the slow development of golf and tennis lay with the Atlanta Athletic club. It did not encour age junior players. Now, it is a sad fact that you can seldom make great tennis or golf players unless you “take ’em young.” Walter Travis, it is true, learned golf well after he had at tained his majority, and a few players have learned to perform with the racquet after they were grown, But a good 99 per cent of the star players -in the country learned as kids. Some youngsters who promise to be stars are coming along in At lanta now. The wonder of them all happens to be a girl. Miss Alt xa Stirling, the greatest golfer of her age, male or female, in all the South. But there are a lot of boys, just into their teens, who have been handling golf clubs and tennis racquets since they were tots. Five or ten years from now they will be battling to uphold thei honor and glory of Atlanta in sec tional and perhaps national events. In this younger generation will be many, perhaps, who will be in the leisure class—or, at least, in the semi-leisure class. For it will take several generations to work out of Atlantans that spirit of hustle that has made the city- great in business and weak in amateur athletics.