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SEMI-FINALS
ST RICHMOND
RICHMOND. VA.. June 1 3.—On the
courts of the Country club this after
noon the semi-final round in the Old
Dominion tennis tournament will lie
played. Thornton, of Atlanta: James
and Page survived the early rounds
yesterday, and there remains to be
played the Rohh-Tyier match to deter
mine the fourth survivor.
In the men’s singles Thornton beat
Hall. 6-3, 3-6. 6-4. James boat Zinn.
6-3, 7-5, while Page won from Trigg,
6-4. 6-0.
In the men'- doubles Graves and
‘Page beat, t'ary and Plair, 6-0, 6-0;
Zinn and Mclntosh beat McCabe and
Rick.-, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 Adali- and Thorn
ton beat flennolds and Trigg. 6-0, 6-1.
Dunn and Buford beat Masteller and
Upseomb. 4-6. 6-1. 6-1: Davenport an<l
Brousseau beat Smith and Tyler. 6-1.
6-8. 6-2.
In the Indies' .-ingles Mrs. J. S. Tay
lor continued on her victorious wa\
by defeating -Miss <'aroline Preston in
love sets. Mis- Merritt beat Miss Joy
ner, 4-6, 6-2. 6-3: Mrs. Hardy beat Miss
Powers, 6-2, 6-2; Miss Colstatl beat
-Miss Sutton. 6-4. 0-6. 6-1.
In the ladie.-' doubles Miss Joyner
and Miss Powers beat Miss Robinson
and Mis- Lancaster. 6-4. 6-3; Mrs.
Hardy and Miss Meredith beat the
Misses Coistan. 6-3. 6-1; Miss Duhring
and Miss Disston beat. Miss Scarbor
ough and Miss Parrish. 6-0, 6-0.
“ABDUL THE TURK” JOINS
FLYNN'S TRAINING CAMP
EAST LAS VEGAS, N M.. June 13.-
Both Jack Johnson rind Jim l-’lynn
put In -rune hard training licks today
in preparation for their championship
fight less than three weeks off. Quiet
-confidence pervades both camps. and
the men ate slowly but surely getting
into shape
Johnson put in over an hour solid
Work tn the gymnasium, which included
some hard bouts with Cutler and Res
■pess. He expressed complete satisfac
tion with his condition and went, to /he
rubbing table smiling.
Flynn spent considerable time on the
road under the eye of Syracuse Tommy
Ryan. The Colorado aspirant to cham
pionship honors went through nine
rounds of actual work, Ryan. Ray Mar
shall, Al Williams and Howard Morrow
being his partners, and let out some
links, with the result that Williams was
almost knocked out.
Flynn’s camp received an addition in
■ the person of "Abdul the Turk.” one of
the best rubbers in the country, who
has assisted in training the husky fire
man before. \fter -ponding the day
'with Flynn. Abdul said that the chunky
challenger was a mm h changed man
from the fretting athlete In former
training camps, referring particularly
t<> his dlsposition.
’ Flynn was known as a "bear" whih
draining in the old days, but is a "lamb"
•now.
• And Now That Wild •
: Westerner Wants to :
: Find Colonel New •
• CHICAGO, June 13 "Jlin" •
• Burling, an anient Roosevelt «
• booste of Montatfa, is looking for •
• Colonel H irry New. chairman of •
• the committee arrangements in •
• charge - f tin convention, and if •
• h finds l.:m the colonel might as •
• well say his prayers •
• The Westerner met the colonel •
• in the lobby of the Congress and •
• confided t" him that he could get •
• tog. ther 75 of the noi-c-t cowboys •
• west of Butte and bling them on •
• to ,p tampedt- the convention •
• for Roosevelt if he cotlid get tick- •
• is for tie m. Now. C lone! New •
• Ims neve: admitted any Roose- •
• velt leanings, nd thought he was •
• being spoofed. •
• 'Sure you ..n h.iv th.- tickets," •
• ’ !.<w. a<i w a grin might •
• be ab!" to got you a hundred if »
• you can use them.” •
• Burling rush. ,i t the t- -graph •
• booth .nd wire, l th< "boys" to •
• •onie. th it it w - ■ •;.\ed. Then •
• lomeb- dy ' aim that Colonel •
• New was i trifle r. •
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Crackers Threaten to Hit Last Place Earlier Than in 1911
ANOTHER GAME LOST; VOLS BUT 2 fiAMES BEHIND
By Percy 11. Whiting.
I AST year the Crackers hit
bottom on the 23d day of
June—never but once again
to rise as high as seventh place
through the remainder of an awful
season! Yesterday afternoon, by
dint of losing the sixth game in a
row and the ninth out of the last
ten played at Poncey, the Crack
ers jolted downward to a position
in such dangerous proximity to last
place that the loss of two more
games, while Nashville is winning
two. will put the Crackers "abso
lutely.” If Atlanta loses today and
tomorrow and Nashville wins, the
Crackers will achieve last place on
June 14, a good nine days before
v ’■™ rr
they accomplished that distinction
last year.
CAY what you want to about po
litical steam rollers —they
aren't anything compared with the
Nashville diamond variety. The
Rock City machine, piloted by Li
censed Engineer Schwartz, again
flattened the Crackers to postage
stamp thinness yesterday after
noon and won another game—this
time a somewhat better one than
usual -by a score of 5 to 2.
Such rough work by some brand
new, double-action, thirty-ton roll
er might not be surprising, but to
see it accomplished by a contrap
tion that has wabbled, squeaked
and all but blown up on several oc
casions this season was painful. A
while back the Vols were as abject
and broken-spirited (to change the
metaphor with abruptness) as life
termers in the Bastile. Now they
are a yipping, scrapping, zipping,
hard hitting aggregation with as
much confidence as the Barons.
It was pitiful about the Vols a
while back. They were absolutely
dejected. Their condition was due
more to mental than physical fall
ings. They couldn't win because
they knew they couldn't win. And
when that condition set in, the
slumpiness of their slump was aw
ful to behold.
Then Manager Schwartz, who
knows a lot of stuff that isn't in
the rule book at all, set to work to J
liven ’< in up. Before one game he
bought strychnine and made every
player take a dose. He practiced
mental suggestion. He encouraged
the players to do stunts to get their
minds off baseball.
The players caught the fever and
tried by every method known to
baseball to change their luck. Three
or four of them bought blllikens
and the other players "bought in."
Severn! wore little religious charms
around their necks. One or two
actually resorted to prayer.
Then finally the luck changed.
And now the Volunteers are fight
ing and scrapping upward. They
never were cut out for a tail-end
team, and they will impress the
fact on the league before they are
done with It.
• * •
'VUE pitcher who has jinxed At
lanta all this season, "Lefty"
Summers, was largely to he
blamed for Atlanta's downfall. He
looked for nine solid innings as
though he were about to explode,
hut he hasn't done it yet. Two sin
gles and an error let the first At
lantan across. Two singles and a
sacrifice tly let the other one home,
fttherwlse, the Crackers were help
less before his delivery. Yet so
near did he wander on the border
line of total wildness that through
out a good part of the game Earl
Fieharty was busily engaged in
warming up.
This is the third game Summers
has downed Atlanta in three
starts, though the one pf June 10
goes to him unit because of the
faultiness of the Southern league's
asinine rules for scoring games
won and lost. Fieharty was really
Hit man who saved it. Summers
also beat Atlanta April I's, in a 5-4
contest,
ATXNAGER HEMl‘nil.l. rather
* wanted to try Lefty" Russel!
again in this game, but after w arm
ing up the J 12.000 wonder changed
his mind and at the last minute
slipped Brady in. That It was
strictly an eleventh-hour switch is
evident from the fact that Hemp
hill fiaggged t’mplre Breitensti in
just as he was ready to announce
"the battery for the home club."
and substituted Brady's name for
Russells. They got to the ex-
Brave three times in nine Innings -
not hard, but firmly enough to win.
In the fifth Schwartzs single, Mc-
Donald's saciilic,. Glenn's three
bagger and Summers' single net
ted t pair of tallies, in the eighth
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1912.
Welehonce. Young and Perry sin
gled and these hits, coupled with
Hemphill’s error, did the damage.
The final run was scored by the
Vols in the ninth. Glenn and Sum
mers doubled.
Kid Glenn had a large day at bat.
After popping the first one, he
made a three-bagger on the second.
His next time up tjiere was a pinch
in prospect and Brady was ordered
to pass him. In the ninth Glenn
doubled. Pitcher Summers also
laced out a single and a two-bag
ger.
• • •
THE Crackers tried out the scheme
of shifting the line-up a bit.
East was benched, Sykes went to
fiist, O'Brien to second, Alperman
to short and O’Dell back to his old
stand at. third. It was a shift that
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McELVEEN WON’T BE
HERE TILL TOMORROW
Karl Sykes, the Crackers’ first bane
man. who has been traded to Montgom
ery. failed to leave for Billiken town last
night, so it Is possible that Humpty Mc-
IClveen, the shortstopper secured from
Johnnie Dobbs, will not arrive in time
for today's game Dobbs will not start
McElveen off until Sykes reports, as he
needs one or the other in his line-up.
However, the Billiken shortstop will ar
rive In time for tomorrow’s game.
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! RECRUIT FELL FOR TALEn
[THAT CY NEEDED FARE
By Elmer Bates.
W ITH amazing fidelity do ma
jor league recruits "fall"
into traps set by the vet
erans. As there is no evidence
that this is done in a spirit of pat
rontage, it must follow that the
youngsters look upon the players
"f ex[>ei lence as veritable sages,
whose advice is to be allowed im
plleity.
It is because this is so that the
pages of baseball history bristle
with some of the rare jokes. It re
mained for 1912 to produce the real
clas.-ic incident, however.
Not many days ago t'y Young,
of the Boston Nationals—the only
real G. (). M. of the game—real
ized that his big right arm was not
responding to training. So Uy, al
ways conscientious, decided to go
to his home in Peoli, Ohio, and to
stay there, unless his arm “came
back." The Boston team was in
Pittsburg at the time. from
Pittsburg to Pool! may be 150
miles in. The fare may be $3.
One of the veterans suggested to
one of the recruits that it would
be a gracious act by the youngsters
to raise a purse to pay "poor old
Uy’s" expenses home.
“Because," said the veteran, "Old
Cj may never earn another dollar
on the diamond."
The bait was swallowed. Also
tile hook and the sinker. A few
hours later Uy was called to a cor
ner ami handed a "purse” of
pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters,
halves- and small bills. With the
"purse" went the blessings and
good wishes of the "boys."
C> wanted to cry. but had to
laugh. His ticket home had been
ordered, but (,’y let the last train
go without him He iemained in
Pittsburg until every penny of the
844.7 s had been restored to the
givers.
The G o. M of baseball didn’t
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pleased the fans, but didn’t seem
to accomplish much in the way of
results.
The story has frequently been
published in Atlanta that the
Nashville franchise and club are
on the market. A fan has suggest
ed that the local baseball associa
tion buy the whole works, take over
the team, send the present Crack
ers to Little Rock and throw in
the Nashville franchise to make it
a good deal.
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tell the young men who so gladly
essayed to help him, that during
some seasons his salary had been
more than $44.78 a day. and that
he had 320 acres of rich land upon
which the Creator had smiled be
fore he set It down in Tuscarawas
county, Ohio. He said nothing
about his mansion of a house, his
dozen or more farm buildings, his
herds of cattle, his flocks of sheep.
Os course, he didn’t produce his
bank books showing his deposits.
He merely told them that they
were mighty kind, but that he did
not need their "pruse.”
Men who have watched Cy's
wealth increase since he entered
the major league ranks in 1890 say
Young is worth every cent of
SIOO,OOO.
Uy says the incident reminds
him of another. "I was in Cleve
land with the Boston Americans,”
says Uy, “when a newspaper friend
came to the hotel soliciting sub
scriptions to ,-ave somebody or
other from burial in the potters’
field. Everybody knew the news
paper man—who went around with
a long face—and he soon received
subscriptions for S2S.
"As he handed the subscription
blank to me to sign 1 read it over
to see if 1 had known the poor fel
low, tite newspaper intui was try
ing to save from an ignoble burial.
Who do you suppose it Was?"
"Who. Cy?"
"Marshall Field, the Chicago
millionaire!” The newspaper mau.
of course, v is joking—-as was the
old player in Pittsburg, but the in
cidents serve to show how quick is
the response of ball players to a
sympathetic appeal.
NOTED SPORTWRITER DEAD.
CHICAGO, June ' -Hugh E. Keough
("Hek”), 48 years old, died at his home j
here after a six weeks' illness. He had ■
been engaged in newspaper work for 31 :
years. Eor many years he acted as an
official at race tracks in the middle West.
Sitton Snapped as
He Curved One Over
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McGRAW TO TOUR MAP
WITH TWO BALL TEAMS
PHILADELPHIA, PA.. June 13.
Manager Roger Bresnahan of the Car
dinals received an invitation from Man
ager McGraw of the Giants to accom
pany him (.McGraw) on a baseball tour
of the world next winter. McGraw is
planning the most, pretentious trip ever
undertaken by a ball club, and he wants
Bresnahan as his rival tactician on the
long junket.
In keeping with McGraw’s policy of
doing everything right, Muggsy this
winter intends to journey to every
country on the old continent and also
to Australia with two of the most rep
resentative teams in baseball today.
One of the teams will be the Giants.
The other will be a [licked aggregation.
Bresnahan will command the latter, as
Roger has all but decided to accept the
invitation. The picked team will prob
ably contain a few American leaguers,
but most of them will be National
league stars.
WHITE SOX SECURE GILL.
CRACK COLLEGE HURLER
BLOOMINGTON. IND., June 11.- Presi
dent Comlskey. of the White Sox, has
notifiefl Andy Gill, captain of the 1912 In
diana baseball team, to report in Chicago
tomorrow for a trial. It is said that Um
pire Mike Myers, of Chicago, who of
ficiated at 'all the conference games here
this season, and James H. Sheldon, foot
ball coach, recommended Gill.
Ball FRIDAY
Atlanta vs. Memphis
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Australian Plans to Promote
Fight Club in United States
IS Hugh D. Mclntosh, the Aus
tralian fight prornoterXvho s tag
ed the Johnson-Burns cham
pionship fight in Sydney, selling
something to his townsmen, or has
the American pugilistic world lost
confidence in the ability of its pro
moters? This is the question that
arises from a story printed in the
Sydney, N. S. W., Bulletin, one of
the leading sporting journals of
that country. Besides telling of the
wonderful plan on the part of Mc-
Intosh to turn the stadium into the
world’s greatest boxing arena, the
story imparts the information that
Hugh is to make his way to this
country to take hold of a club in
the states that is to surpass any
thing that we have seen thus far.
The story as printed in the Bul
letin does not say just who Mcln
tosh is dickering with nor where
the place is that this wonderful club
is tb be. The only reference as to
location is that the arena will be
in the United States. Some small
spot this United States? With such
promoters g.s Jimmy Cotfroth.
Jack Curley, Tom McCarey, Billy
Gibson and the many others it is
very doubtful whether Mclntosh
can break in under the Stars and
Stripes unless he is ready to fur
nish the bankroll.
To Build Great Arena.
The clipping as printed in the
Bulletin reads:
"Hugh D. Mclntosh has com
menced the work of roofing on the
SJ-dney Stadium, and that hall of
toush will be a line place when the
improvements have been carried
through. The size, of the great in
closure will be in no way reduced
and the unsightly boardings on its
walls will give way to an orna
mental front and elegant sides. The
entrances will -be of a new and
improved design, by which a crowd
will walk in about a dozen abreast,
and yet be capable of perfect check.
NEWS FROM RINGSIDE
1 atsy Kline and Young Britt are sched
uled to box in Baltimore June 24.
« « •
Jack Johnson has been training hard
for the past week and is now down to
222 pounds. Lil Arthur expects to train
down to 215 pounds before time to enter
the ring.
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The bill legalizing 25-round boxing
matches in Arizona went through the
house, and it is now up to the governor
to accept or reject it.
• • •
It now begins to look as though Joe
Jeannette was right when he said, “Get
a heavy forfeit out of Sam and don't
allow him any expense money, if you want
him to fight me.” Langford has backed
out of a scheduled match with Jeannette
claiming that legal proceedings will hold
him in Australia for three months. At
any rate it will be interesting to learn
the nature of the jjroceedings.
• • •
Willie Driscoll has accepted an offer to
box Patsv Brannigan in Cleveland Julv 4
• • •
Harry Thomas made such a good show
ing against Jack White when he was
substituted for Owen Moran at Los An
geles last Saturday that It is likely the
promoters will rematch them.
• • •
Harry had but six days' notice in which
to train for the tight and would probably
have made a better showing had he been
given more time in which to train.
* * •
Jack Herrick continued his good fight
ing a few days ago when he all but
knocked out Chappy Homer in a twenty
round bout in the bull ring at Juarez
• • «
Battling Nelson has signed articles to
box some one yet to be picked before
John McKee’s club in Winnipeg, Canada,
July 4.
* • «
The Durable Dane is at present on his
way Go Winnipeg, where he was select
ed to referee the K. O. Brown-Jack Dillon
match June 17.
• • •
Johnny Dundee has hired Jack Britton
the second Backey McFarland, to teach
him the good points of boxing. Dundee
will have several other trainers who will
slip him the rough stuff. If he can ab
sorb all the knowledge taught by this
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town—and- the far-away
friend is a near-by neighbor
—to him who owns a Ford.
Extend your range of action
—and your pleasures.’ The
Ford has solved the automo
bile problem for the man who
values his dollars. It’s slight,
right, economical.
Seventy-five thousand new Fords go into
service this season—proof of their une
qualed merit. The price is $590 for the
roadster, $690 for the five-passenger car,
and S7OO for the delivery car—complete
with all equipment, f. o. b. Detroit. Latest
catalogue from Ford Motor Company 311
Peachtree St., Atlanta, or direct from De
troit factory.
NW .
All the present office buildings are
coming down, and will be replaced
with ejegant structures.
Camps Near Structure.
"Training rooms and gymnasiums
will be erected close beside the
main structure so that jhe whole of
the training can be carried out
close to the scene of battle. A
Turkish bath will be installed for
the use of the athletes. In the sta
dium itself the Improvements will
be considerable. A nicely decorated
sounding board will be placed over
the ring, to save the strain on the
voice of announcer and make the
place available for publie speaking,
concerts, etc.
“A hugh array of exits will
make it possible to shoo the thou
sands of people into the street in
about two and one-half minutes.
Acting lights, capable of giving in
stantaneous photographs, will be
set up over and around the ring, so
that pictures can be taken night
and day. When all the improve
ments have been tarried out the
boxing season in Sydney will be
the winter, so that the best fighters
of the world will be engaged for the
round circuit of United States,
Paris and Sydney.
To Promote in States.
“For Mclntosh's appearance 1n
the United States seems to be an
assured thing now. Sometime ago
a fairly gilded syndicate wrote to
him. asking him for the use of his
name, a proposal which he turned
down witli emphasis. The offer
has now come in a different form,
and, the syndicate has offered him
the opportunity of coming in on
the ground floor as general high
priest of the show. So, while the
stadium is being rebuilt. Mcln
tosh will hie him away and go into
details of the matter, and, In all
human probability, emerge as the
world's boss tight promoter, and
have special prayer meetings held
on his behalf."
combination, then the Kilbane days are
drawing to a close.
* » *
It now begins to look as if Tom Mc-
Carey will have to appoint an official
referee for the Wolgast-RiverS mill. Wol
gast has refused to allow Charley Jilyton
tc officiate and Rivers will not allow
Welch, Ad's favorite, to be the third man
in the ring.
• • •
Ad Wo'gast will not return to his Los
Angeles quarters until June 26. He is
training at Wheeler Springs, his favorite
mountain resort.
• » •
Cleveland promoters are arranging tc
stage a twelve-round bout between
Johnny Kilbane and Johnnv Dundee If
the two Johnnys agree to the match it
will be staged the afternoon of Julv 4
* ik *
Jim Stewart and Charlie Kennedy are
scheduled to box in New York next Mon
day night.
• ♦ •
Manager Gibson, of the Garden A. C
New York club, has substituted Kid Wil
liams and John Daly to tight a ten-round
bout in place of I’al Moore and Young
Shurgrove. The bout will be staged Mon
day night.
• * •
Al \\ illianis has packed his grip and
hiked it to Frisco. Al’s reason for leav
ing Flynn's camp was that the Pueblo *
fireman's punches were more than he
cared to stand.
♦ • •
Although reports were sent out from
New Orleans that Joe Thomas defeated
Jake Abel in their ten-round bout a few
nights ago, The Daily States, a news
paper of that city, says the bout was a
good draw.
Grover Hayes is in go<xl shape for his
ten-round tight, with Freddie Welsh in
Columbus, Ohio, tonight. Hayes is popu
lar in Atlanta and local fans hope he will
be returned the winner.
■ • •
Howard Baker is scheduled to mix it
with Guy Buckles at Cripple Creek, Colo ,
tonight.
• • •
Mayer Pries certainly showed improve
ment in his eight-round semi-windup with
Spider Britt Tuesday night. If he keeps
fighting as he did Tuesday he will soon
be appearing in the main bouts.