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6 GIOMAN W® <QOWK» * Effl 2J5* JEDI TED V/, S FARNSWORTH . [■TONIN 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. • •••••••••••••••••••»•••«•• NOTICE Wilton Jellico Coal $4.25 Give Us Your Order. Both Phones 3668 THE JELLICO COAL CO, 82 Peachtree 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 Zz / / Jr 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. •o>oo -a 'X' - ! 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 I I HERNSHEIM OGAPn I Allwayis C—As* ’ JBpTn I Rjcvq. c* I i 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. ■ 7 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 \ V C‘- W / / s/ w \ I // w\ i h \ w\ /Aaia I” ■ •••••••••••••••••«•••••••• • To the Readers of The • : Georgian Sport Pages: • o • In the past The Georgian sport- • • ing pages have printed accurate • • accounts of sporting events and • • will continue to do so. We will • • pay no attention to irresponsible • • press agents. There are no press • • agents in the employ of . The • • Georgian. • •••••••••••••••••••••♦•♦»> 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 PONCE DELEON PARK Game Called 4:00 MONEY TO LOAN ON DIAMONDS AND JEWELRY Strictly confidential Unredeemed pledges ta diamonds for sale, 30 per cent less than elsewhere, MARTIN MAY (Formerly of Schaul A May.) 1! 1-2 PEAJH REE ST. UPSTAIRS Absolutely Private. Opposite Fourth Nat. Bank Bldg Both Phones 1584. WE BUY OLD GOLD 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. • • ♦ 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 « Every big town is a small 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.