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A An H H WHITING Ww'naUGHTON. TAD. " Dl/A\\T I D)/A\ SAM CRANE, WJ MSBLTH. rN( ))).\ VATT LEFT HOOK. SOL PL-EX. ATHLETES IN BIG TRYOUTS TODAY CAMBRIDGE. MASS., June B. With ideal weather conditions prevailing, the pick of Amer ican college, club and school ath letes gathered here today to com pete at the Harvard stadium in the Eastern Olympian tryouts. It was expected to be the greatest meet ever held In this country, and over 20,000 persons were expected to witness the contests. The air was cool and crisp, but was tempered by bright sunlight. The athletes declared that they could not ask for better conditions. Th? men who make the best show ing will he selected to represent the United States at the Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden, this Summer. Almost every athlete of note in the East and middle West uas entered in the events, and rec ords were expected to be broken. The first event was scheduled to begin at 2 p. m. With three and four, and in some cases even more, headliners en tered in the different contests, in dications pointed toward many thrilling battles for supremacy in the field of track events. Very few of the men who have gained hon ors on the track and field in the past few years were missing. Judging from form, the winners in today's events stand a good chance of duplicating their victo ries at Stockholm, despite the fact that they will be pitted against the best in the world. SYKES DEAITn AIR: EARL MAY GO OR STAY The Earl Sykes deal is in the air. John Dobbs wants the man for the Montgomery team and he feels that he has what virtually amounts to a prom ise of Sykes. At the same time Manager Hemphill will not let him go until he is certain that he does not class up to Cracker standards. Dobbs is anxious to give Danzig his release. The big fellow is far from well and ought to be out of baseball. EARLY GAME TODAY, AS PELICANS MUST ‘BEAT IT’ Yesterday's game was the second in a row a hich was postponed on account of rain. The field was a lake and there wasn't a chance of anything in the way of a contest. Today's game will be called at 2:45 o’clock, because the. Pejicans have to leave for New Orleans, where they are scheduled, as Usual; to play a Sunday game. Monday the Crackers open with Nashville. 5 C W 5 C r |gg| Call The Boy With The Khaki Coat He Will Serve You Properly With Hl a ||i That Delicious Drink aww® j» <«»’»'** .mmrer \v\*' **’ w r 3rfbzz ’■'• ** **££ —~ "'■ - 1 jo# NEWS FROM RINGSIDE Patsey Haley, the referee whose li cense was revoked fnr giving a decision in a recent New York bout, has been re instated b\ the state boxing commission. • • » Charley White received $750 for his ten round fight with Young Shugro in New York the other night. • • • Dave Brown, a negro pug from Mem phis. was knocked out after 30 seconds of fighting with Johnny Tholmer in New Orleans Wednesday night and is still in the hospital as a result of the punch. • * * Eddie McGoorty and Jimmy Gardner are scheduled to box In Boston June 11. If McGoorty defeats Gardner he will be matched with Jack Dillon for a ten-round bout at Benton Harbor. Mich . the after noon of July 4. ♦ • • The winner of the Gardner-McGoorty fight will he serft up against Howard Morrow, Tommy Ryan's protege. • • • Lutber McCarthy has a live wire be hind him in Bill McCamey. • • • Mike Gibbons Is training hard for his ten-round fight with Tommy Connors in Brooklyn Monday night. * , , Many boxing fans believe that Joe Man dot will be substituted to fight Joe Rivers in Los Angeles July 4 if Wolgast fails to get in shape. * * * When Wolgast announced that his chal lengers would have to make 133 pounds ringside for him Packey McFarland s chance of meeting the champ grew small er than ever. • • • Young Brown gave himself a boost the other night when he. floored Matt Wells in the first round of a ten-round bout. This was more than McFarland did to the Englishman. • • • Howard Raker will hook up with Guy Buckles in Denver June 13. The bout will be staged over a ten-round route. • « • The Lovin bill .to permit a boxing con test of 25 rounds in Arizona was passed through the senate and is now In the house. According to the bill clubs stag ing bouts will be taxed $250 a year. • , • George Patterson, a California heavy, is the latest member to join the White Hope ranks. Bob Moha has returned to his home in Wisconsin, where he plans to rest up for a couple of months before boxing again. Eddie Reddy, who is managing Mike Gibbons, is in receipt of an offer from the Garden A. C.. New York, for a bout with George Carpentier, the French champion • « • The winner of the Thomas-Abel match in New Orleans Monday night will he matched with Joe Mandot. Rattling Nelson will box at Winnipeg some time next month. The Battler's hands are mending rapidly and he Is tn good shape physically: , , , A report from New Orleans says Joe Mandot and his manager. Harr' Coleman, ha'.e split and that Mandot will sign ur another manager in the immediate future • • • Jim Flynn s sparring partners have gone on a strike They claim to be un able to stand the punching the Pueblo fireman dishes out to them. However. Trainer Tnmmr Ryan is confident he can patch things up and again have harmony in the camp a a « Jack Johnson is now charging an ad-, mission fee of fifteen cents for admirers to watch him in his dalb workouts. TtfE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, JUNE R. 1912. Jim Buckley, who Is managing Gunboat Smith, one of the new White Hopes, says if Bombardier Wells is really anxious for a match he will be glad to send Smith up against him on a winner-take-all basis. Harry Thomas will replace Owen Moran in the ring against Jack White at Los Angeles tonight. Moran hurt his hand while training and will be unable to box. As Thomas is almost as .good as Moran the fight, should be a good one. • « * ' Doc Kron?, who is managing Jumbo Wells’ affairs. Is trying to match his protege with Eddie McGoorty Wells laid down in the second round here awhile back while fighting Al Kubiak. “WATSON. THE NEEDLE:” CHI SCRIBES DREAMING CHICAGO. June B.—Big Ed Walsh and Rollie Zeidcr, of the White Sox. for Hal Chase and Russ Ford, of the. Highlanders—this is a deal which prob ably will be consummated in the. near future, according to local baseball ex perts, who declare that the premier pitcher of the South Side club is at outs with Manager Callahan, and that the latter is determined to be rid of him. Neither Walsh nor Zelder was in uni form yesterday. Attaches of the club said that the former had drawn five days suspension fr.om President John son for his run-in with Umpire O'Loughlin in Thursday's game and that Zeider was out with an Injured shoulder, the result of a collision with G-andil in the ninth inning of the same contest. According to those from whom the new s of the trade was secured. Walsh blames Callahan for his present poor showing. The big spit bailer has had bard sailing in games in which he ap peared during the last couple of weeks-, and he Is said to be of the opinion that Callahan Is deliberately working him too hard in an effort to keep the. Sox at the top. DEBT-BURDENED VOLS MAY QUIT THE FIGHT NASHVILLE. TENN.. Jun? 8. Find ing that the Nashville team Is tied up with a $30,000 debt. Dan McGugin. who took over the .franchise when the old association stepped from under to dodge the law. has announced that he will give up the franchise by Monday unless some money is hustled up. Hustling up money is known to be a matter if extreme slowness in Nash ville. So the chances seem bright that Little Rock may get the franchise after all. SMITH FIRES SPENCER: ATZ TO TAKE HIS PLACE CHATTANOOGA. TENN.. June 8.- Thlrd Baseman Collis Spencer was re leased last night by Manager Smith of the local club. He will be permanent ly replaced by Atz, but Runser, who was farmed to the Virginia league, will appear at the third-quarter sack this afternoon and until the ex-Pel arrives. THE BASEBALL CARD. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Today. New Orleans in Atlanta. Birmingham >n Nashville. Montgomery in Chattanooga. Mobile tn Memphis. Standing of the Clubs. \V I. P C W L. F.C B'hsm. 33 19 627 M mphle 23 24 .489 Mobile 29 24 .547 N, 'Or's 32 24 487 Chatta. 24 23 .511 'tian's .21 23 .477 Mont. . .25 36 .490 Nash. . .17 30 362 Yesterday's Results. Atlanta-New Orleans: rain. Mobile 1. Memphis 0. Chattanooga «. Montgomery 5. Nashville 4, Birmingham 3. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Games Todav. Albany In Macon Columbia in Jacksonville. Savannah in Columbus. Standing of the Clubs W. 1. PC W L pc Albany .26 1 4 .650 CTmbia 11 28 282 J vine .25 1.4 .641 '"bus. . 17 23 ’425 S v'n'ah 25 15 625 |lacon . .14 24 .368 Yesterday’s Results. Columbus 2. Savannah 0. Macon 1. Albany J. Columbia-Jacksonville, rain. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Today. Washington In Chicago. Philadelphia In St. Louis. Boston In Detroit. New York in Cleveland Standlna of the Clubs. W I. PC W L. P r Chicago .30 17 .638 Phila. .21 19 525 Boston 27 18 .600 ("land.. .21 19 .525 De'rolt .25 33 .532 N. York 14 27 341 Wash. . .25 21 .543 S Louis 13 32 289 Yesterday's Results. Detroit 4, Boston 3. Washington 4. Chicago 2. New York 7, Cleveland n . Philadelphia 9. St. Louis 4. NATIONAL LEAGUE- Games Today. Pittsburg In Boston. Chicago in Brooklyn. Cincinnati in New York. St. Louis In Philadelphia. Standing of the Clubs. ; W L. F.C. W.L. PC N. York 33 7 .825 S Louis 21 26 447 C'natl. . 26 19 .578 Phila . .1 731 .447 Chicago 23 18 .561 Br’klyn. 13 26 333 P’burg. .31 19 .525 Boston . 13 31 .295 Yesterday’s Resulta. New York 7, Cincinnati 6. Philadelphia 5. St. Louis 4 Chicago 7. Brooklyn 2. Pittsburg 4, Boston fl. m ■ M ■ # Here they go! The Georgian’s Atlas Campaign is a B IB Sw B > rousing success. 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Schaeffer spoke tn the stands Said he, “Ladles and gentlenjien. these are sad scenes we are gazing upon. It Is almost sad enough to bring tears to the eyes of a rocking horse to see our hoys hitting your pitcher so hard. T thank you." And he escaped with his life. * * * George Jacksons batting, the wonder of the National league the latter part of last season, has fallen off thia year. Baek to normal for George. • • • Johnny Kling says that Bridwell is not through as a plater and that even if he were the Braves would keep him as a scout. * • . * We knew- it. Somebody has said. "The New York Americans tried out a young pitcher named Shears, but hr didn't cut much figure." Not only funny, but true • « a Bennie Kauff. turned down cold by- Manager Hemphill, has fizzled with Rochester and slumps to Brockton. O'Day says that the Redware as good as th® Giants, except for slabmen It may be so. Alas yes. Rut that's a heck of a big exception • • a Bessemer has a battery. “Ery and Pierre. We don't know how you speak it. but both of 'em hail from Mobile. • * * Harrv Niles continues to go like a mad man. but of 45 games in which he has played this season he has failed to hit in only four. * ♦ a Rob Unglaub has been taken on by Minneapolis. Pitcher Frank Smith, turned down cold bv half the class AA and Class A clubs of the country, has landed with Mon treal. • • • Everybody thinks it's funny now to say that there is one good reason w-hy the Highlanders aren't last—St. Louis. When they ran out of money thr other dav at the headquarters of the Washing ton. I nlted States league, club. they paid George Browne off in uniforms. Keeping a learn going is a cinch if the subs are good. Look at the Giants. They haven't had their regular team in the field but a few times this year. Yet. they are doing fairly well. In the Giants pres ent string of Red Cross victims are wil- fron. Doyle. Groh. Meyers. Merkle and Drucke. Cleveland will send Old Oleson tn Toledo and take Ray Chapman in exchange. Il’s great tn be a fawn for the owner of the farm. Rowdy Elliott may go tn Newark in ex change fnr Tin her Frank Allen • « • Baltimore will let Jimmy Dvgert. for mer Pelican, and Dube Wickers nut. Manager Dunn has alsn decided that Dan forth. the groat “finisher" fnr the Ath letics. needs to drop bark still another peg before he will get "here he belongs Bob Riggs, than whom there has been nothing more marvelous in thesp parts since the days of ' Bonehead Bob” \Val lace, has been forced tn quit the Houston team and to beat it home to Etowah Bob’s leg is bad and he may not bp able tn play again (his year President Hedges, in explaining why he disposed of Rob Wallace for Georgn Sto 'all. makes it absolute!} lucid “(t is because." says Colonel Hedges, we must have a winning ball club." He doesn't say when he found that nut. • • • They saj that when Ira Selden was holding nut on Wichita thp secretary of the club learned that Ira's son was col lecting rigareltr coupons £n when a contract was sent three coupons were in closed. Ira signed. You can believe this nr not. as you please. Hem's another one you use your judg ment on: When Klawitter and Catcher Haigh "ere mming together in New ('Tirana early this season Klawitter waked up one morning tn find that Haigh was in hed with his cap on ‘Tve heard." said Klawitter to Haigh. “of players who wore their uniforms tn bed to keep from being released, but why the cap " Whereupon the truthful Haigh. "T wear It tn keep my hair from being mussed." • * • Somebody has discovered Almeida's batting weakness It is that be is bat ting so bard be will soon bat himself out of the league. Clark Griffith studies the details of games which other teams in the Ameri can league play, finds the weaknesses of tfie young plavers- and (hen roasts them when they are playing against Washing ton x WBILT TO TOUR 4 STATES NASHVILLE. TENN.. June Im mediately after school is out on June 19. the Vanderbilt university baseball team, undisputed Southern collage champions for 1912. will begin a barn storming trip through Tennessee. Ala bama, Georgia nad Mississippi, playing the best amateur teams they can find. Manager Jack Sevier Is arranging for the trip now. and has already booked a ood many dates. This will be the first trip of Its kind ever undertaken tty a Southern college team, and. if the team Is able to realize its expenses. It Will probably be repeated next summer. Every regular member of the cham pionship team, with hut two exceptions, will make the trip, anlong them being* Wilson Collins, the leading pitcher of tho team, who won six games and lost none during tho past se&soh. Collins is thought by many to be the best col lege pitcher in the South, and has been offered a contract by the Washington Americans. However, he has two more years at the university, and, being a football star as well as baseball, ex pects to keep his amateur standing un questioned until he leaves college During the past eeason Vanderbilt never* lost a series In baseball, -winning fiftoefi games and losing but three—one to Sewanee one to Georgia and one to Auburn The leading batter of the team was Freeland, of football fame, who hit .338 in eighteen games. Those who will take the trip this summer are Ray Morrison, captain: -Freeland, first base: LylO. second base; Lloyd shortstop; Turner, third b»se; Hardago, left field; Morgan, center field: Covington, right field; Kent Mor rison Wilson t'ollins, Bob Harris and Herbert Jones, pitchers. 9