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OLTMPIG TEAM SIILSJOTRIIN DNBDARDBOAT NEW YORK, June 14.—Bearing the most notable collection of American athletes ever assembled, the liner Fin land sailed for Stockholm today with the team which will represent the United States in the Olympic games. James E. Sullivan. United States com missioner at the games, said that the team was the finest he had ever seen anywhere, and that the members should annex 80 per cent of the points. Five times during the pa.«t sixteen years the United States has taken the lion's shore of honors in Olympic tour naments. and this year a team is going which ought easily to conquer the world, according to al) predictions based on form. The athletes will continue their train ing on board the ship, under direction of Head Trainer Mike Murphy. ’ and when they get to Sweden they should be in excellent condition. The ship was draped with United States flags, and all the big athletic clubs had representatives at the pier. Friends and relatives gave loud cheers after the final farewells were said, and a band played patriotic music. Will Bring Home the Bacon. ' Bring home the bacon." screamed some lusty -voiced man nn the pier as the ship was getting under way. "We will." came back the response. The athletes will have no difficulty about training facilities on the ship A running track has been laid out and a swimming tank built. Pits for the jumpers and weight men also were in stalled. With the exception of Thomas, all the men in the team are entered in more than one event. Thomas is en tered in the IflO-metet race only. While ail sections of the United States are represented, there is no spir it of rivalry among rhe men. Each feels he Is representing his country, and not a special section of it. In addressing the men. Colonel Rob ert M. Thompson, president of the American Olympic committee, said: Are Sportsmen, Not Sports. "Be champion gentlemen, as well as champion athletes. We ate going to Stockholm as sportsmen, not as sports. Let that spirit prevail." The athletes reported at Chelsea pier at 8:30 o'clock, and the ship left soon afterward. Each of the team was pre sented with a uniform, consisting of a blue blazer with an American shield over the left breast, white trousers, w hite shoes and a white cap. YANKS GET TIGER STAR. NEW YORK. June 14. After the Yale-princeton game it was announced that Sterrett, first baseman and catcher for the Princeton team, had signed to play with the New York American league club Sterrett Is accounted the -tar of the Orange and Black team and has a record a.“ a hard hitter. 331% Discount on Men’s Fine Clothing Our Annual Summer Clearance Sale of Men’s and Young Men’s Fine Clothing Is Now On Spring and Summer Suits in Cheviots, Cashmeres and Worsteds: in fancy patterns and all Blue and Black unfinished Worsted and Serges. (No wash suits or mohairs are included in this sale.) • $15.00 Suits Reduced to SIO.OO $27.50 Suits Reduced to $18.35 $ 18.50 Suits Reduced to $ 12.35 $30.00 Suits Reduced to $20.00 $20.00 Suits Reduced to $ 13.35 $32.50 Suits Reduced to $21.65 $22.50 Suits Reduced to $15.00 $35.00 Suits Reduced to $23.35 $25.00 Suits Reduced to $16.65 $40.00 Suits Reduced to $26.65 This is a wonderful sale of splendid merchan dise, all this season’s goods, not a suit carried from a previous season. These suits won’t last long. An early call is to your advantage. Cash only. . Essig Bros. Co. “Correct Dress for Men” 26 WHITEHALL STREET THE BASEBALL CARD SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Today. Memphis in Atlanta Ponce DeLeon Two games. First game called at 2:30 o'clock. Montgomery in Birmingham. Mobile in New Orleans. Nashville in Chattanooga. Standing of the Clutte. W. L. PC W L PC B’ham. .33 22 .600 M mphis 27 27 800 Mobile . .33 25 .569 Merit. . .25 29 .455 C’nooga .27 25 .519 Atlanta .21 28 .429 N. Or . .25 24 .510 N’ville .21 32 .396 Yesterday's Results. All games postponed; rain. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Games Today. Savannah in Albany. Jacksonville in Columbia Columbus in Macon. Standing of the Clubs. W- L PC. W L P C J'ville. . 26 16 .619 Cbus .20 25 .444 Albanv 28 18 609 Macon .18 26 .409 Sav. . .27 19 .587 Cole.. . .14 29 326 Yesterday's Results. Macon 4. Columbus 0 Columbia 4. Jacksonville I. Savannah 2, Albany 0 AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Today. Boston in Chicago. New York in St. Louis. Philadelphia In Detroit. Washington in Cleveland. Standing of the Club*. W. L P.C. W L PC Chicago .33 20 .623 Detroit. 25 28 472 Boston .31 19 620 C'land . .23 26 '469 Wash 31 21 .596 N. ork 16 30 .348 Phlla. . .30 23 .566 S. Louis 14 36 .280 Yesterday’s Results. Washington 6, Cleveland 3 Philadelphia 4. Detroit 3. St Louis-New York, rain Chicago 3, Boston 2. NATIONAL LEAGUE Games Today. Cincinnati in Boston St. Louis In Brooklyn Pittsburg in New York. Chicago in Philadelphia Standing of the Clubs. W L. P.C. I W L. P C N. York .37 8 822 I Phila 20 23 465 P burg. .25 20 556 IS. Louis 23 29 442 Chicago .25 21 .543 I Boston . 16 33 .327 C'natJ . .27 23 .540 I Brook 14 30 .318 Yesterday’s Result*. Boston 6. St. Louis 4. Pittsburg 5, Brooklyn 0 New York 3, Chicago 2 Philadelphia 11. Cincinnati 10. VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Games Today. Petersburg in Norfolk. Danville in Lynchburg Portsmouth in Richmond Newport News in Roanoke Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C W L. P C. R'anoke 29 17 .630 P’sm'th 19 17 528 P’sb’rg 28 17 622 N. N'ws 20 22 .476 Norfolk 24 17 .585 D'nville 12 26 .31.6 R’hm’d 23 30 535 L’hb'rg 11 33 250 Yesterday's Results. Danville 10. Lynchburg 2 Petersburg 5, Norfolk 3 Newport News 1. Roanoke n Richmond 14. Portsmouth 2. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. Buffalo in Montreal. Rochester in Toronto Baltimore in Jersey City. Providence in Newark. Standing of the Clubs W. L. PC W L. P C Koch. .30 16 .652 Toronto .21 24 .467 J. Citv . 27 32 .551 Newark .21 36 .447 Bpffalo. .22 20 524 M'treal .20 27 426 B'more .24 22 522 Prov. .18 27 400 Yesterday's Results. Baltimore 9, Jersey City 2. Montreal 8. Buffalo 4. Newark 14, Providence 2. other games not scheduled. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, .TV TEXAS LEAGUE. Games Today. Austin in Beaumont Waco in Galveston Fort Worth in Houston Dallas in San Antonio. Standing of the Club*. W. L. P.v W. L. P.C H'ust'n 40 19 .678 Dallas 27 30 474 S. An'io 34 28 .548 Austin 27 32 458 B’mont 30 26 .536 G’v'st n 26 31 .456 Waco 29 30 .492 F, W’th 22 37 .373 Yesterday’s Results. Houston 5. Fort Worth 0. San Antonio 3, Dallas 1. Waco 5. Galveston 1. Beaumont 10. Austin 4 i first game). Beaumont 15. Austin 4 isecond game). COTTON STATES LEAGUE Games Today. Meridian in Yazoo City. Vicksburg in Jackson. Greenwood in Columbus. Standing of the Clubs. W. L PC W L P V’ksb'g 34 21 .618 J'ckson 26 28 .481 Y City 34 22 607 C'mbus 23 33 418 M'Mlan 31 23 .574 G'wood 18 36 333 Yesterday’s Results. Yazoo City 10, Meridian 1. Vicksburg-Jackson; off day. Columbus-Greenwood; wet grounds. SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE. Games Today. Gadsden in Rome Selma tn Bessemer Anniston In Huntsville Standing of the Clubs W L. r.<' W L. P.C. A nist'n 27 17 .614 G'dsden 20 26 .435 Selma 2'4 21 .5'33 Hsvllle 20 26 435 Rome 21 23 .477 B’s m t 31 37 .438 Yesterday's Results. All games postponed; rain. APPALACHIAN LEAGUE. Games Today. Bristol in Asheville. ■ Johnson City in Knoxville. Cleveland in Morristown Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C W L. PC. Bristol 17 9 .654 A eviHe IS 12 .520 K’xville 16 13 .552 J. Citv .IS 12 .520 C ve'lii 14 12 .538 M'toWl) 918 360 Yesterday's Results. Cleveland 3. Morristown o. Bristol 8. Asheville 1. Knoxville 2, Johnson City 1. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Games Today. Milwaukee 'n Columbus. Kansas City in Toledo Minneapolis in .Indianapolis St. Paul in Louisville. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C W. L. P C Toledo . 39 19 .673 S. Paul .25 37 .403 Cbus. . 40 21 .656 L'vllle. 32 35 .386 M'apolis 37 21 .638 I'apolls. 23 38 .377 K City 33 29 .532 M’w'kee 20 38 .345 Yesterday’s Results. Milwaukee 5. Columbus 3. Columbus 3. Milwaukee 1. Kansas City 3, Toledo'2 Indianapolis 3 Minneapolis J, St. Paul 5, Louisville 4 CAROLINA ASSOCIATION. Games Today. Charlotte in Anderson. Winston-Salem In Greensboro. Greenville in Spartanburg Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C W. L. PC A'ders’n 30 13 .698 W -Sm 19 25 432 Sp'b'rg 22 20 .514 G’sboro 16 24 385 C rlotte 22 28 .440 G nvllle •15 27 .357 Yesterday s Results. Greensboro 3, Winston-Salem ft Anderson 10, Charlotte 5 Spartanburg 9; Greenville 6 OTHER GAMES YESTERDAY. Vale 6. Princeton 1 Williams 8, Cornell 5. Kitty League. Henderson 8. Hopkinsville 5 Cairo-Clarksville; wet grounds. United States League. Richmond 3. Pittsburg 2. TYLER REPLACES ROBB IN RICHMOND TOURNEY RICHMOND. VA., June 14.—Through default of Robb, who sustained an in jury, Tyler will be the fourth member of the team In the semi-finals in the Old Dominion tennis tournament. The other three will be James, Thornton and Page. In the mixed doubles yesterday Miss Jones and Mr. Thornton beat Miss Desston and Mr. Buford. 6-3. 6-4; Mrs. Taylor and Mr. Buford beat Miss Boyd and Mr. Adair. 6-3 6-4; Miss Meredith and Dr. Dunn won from Miss Colstan and Mr. Masteller. 6-2. 6-3; Mrs. Hardy and Mr. James beat Miss Baker and Mi. Gore. 6-4, 9-7; Miss Duhring and Mr. Mclntosh beat Miss Randolph and Mr. Davenport, 6-4. 7-5. In the ladies' doubles. Miss Boyd and Miss Baker beat Miss Joy new and Miss Ppwers, 7-5. 4-6, 6-2: Mrs Hardy and Miss Meredith beat Miss Duhring and Miss Desstoiv 8-6. 6 1. VANDERBILT ANNOUNCES NAMES OF TEAM LEADERS NASHVILLE. TEN,N.. June 14. Captains and' managers of the base ball, traefc and basket ball teams of Vanderbilt for next year were an nounced by the Vanderbilt Athletic as sociation. along with the names of the men who .won tlfeir V’s this year In these branches of Vandy.'s athletics. The captains were elected by the teams which represented the university this while tne managers were ap pointed by the athletic association They are as follows: Baseball—Walter Morgan, captain; Paul Banham. manager: John Holman, assistant manager. Track —John Copeland cap’taln; C. H. Bateman, manager; George Armis tead, assistant manager. Basket ball—Oscar Nelson. • aptain: Russell Hughes. manager; Enoch Broun, assistant manager LYNCHBURG REFUSES TO GET OUT OF VA. LEAGUE LYNCHBURG, VA.. June 14. The Lynchburg Basehall association, which was ousted from the Virginia league owing to the withdrawal of Danville, has appealed to the national board, de ciding to fight for the retention of Hie franchise. Tn addition to this a mass meeting of the baseball lovers decided to raise 84.000 today for a new associa tion to take over the franchise and operate it In the future, MONTGOMERY BUSINESS MEN TO HELP OUT CLUB MONTGOMERY, ALA.. June 14. Re ports that the Montgomery baseball fran chise was In danger of being sold caused 25 business men to hold a meeting for the purpose of considering plans to keep first-class baseball in Montgomery. A committee, was appointed tn confer with Richard Tillis, majority stockholder of the club While no positive statement was issued for publication, it is understood the com mittee will offer tn guarantee Mr. Tillis against loss for three years If he will keep Montgomery in the Southern league. FREDDIE WELSH LOSES BOUT TO GROVER HAYES COLUMBUS. OHIO. June 14. -Gro ver Hayes, of Philadelphia had a shade over Freddie Welsh, of England, in their ten-round battle here last night. Hayes finished stronger than the Eng lishman, and probably would have de feated him decisively in a longer fight NF 14, 1912. FODDER FOR FANS Muffled maledictions and ejaculated ex ecrations arose from the Atlanta bench when the game Thursday was called off on account of rain. The Crackers are still short of work—and still It rains. • • • Earl Sykes, who was supposed to be on his way to Montgomery, sat in the stands and watched the showers come down. “Nix, I haven't gone to ioin the Mont gomery team and I'm not in any hurry to do it either." said Sykes. Earl thinks At lanta the banner town of the league and is kicking like a bay steer at having to leave. • • • A surprisingly large crowd turned out yesterday, considering the threatening weather and tlie ball that lias been played lately. The Cracker fans haven’t lost all hope for their team yet. Toledo is having a hard time over third basemen. BronkTe is out of the game. Manush is just beginning to hobble around for the first time since the accident that broke his leg. and the Hens have been forced to grab Brad} from New ’ Haven and Mills, a Harvard law student, Jim Manes, the- Chattanooga lad who has been playing In the Texas league, has been turned loose on account of Ids weak hitting Last } ear he smacked 'em .350 in the Canadian league. • • • Bobb> Gilks, Nap scout, has turned up in New Orleans. He reports material scarce, as usual • • • New Orleans baseball writers say that, with the best pitching staff in the league and the most postponed games, it will be but a short time now before the l>li eans are up in the lead. The pitching staff they rave about consists of Weaver. Griffin, Swann. Wagner and Swindell./At that, it’s not a bad nne. Pitcher Martin, formerly of the Ath letics. has been taken over by Balti more. • « • t Bernhard believes he has a couple of wonders in Merritt and Paraons. his new pitchers. And if he has he will be dan gernus. The last time the Turtles were here they looked better than any team in the league, except Birmingham. Bill Bernhard hag six nr seven former Eastern leaguers on bis pay roll They are all pretty useful performers, too Most of them, too, nere with Newark and Jersey City once ♦ • • Bill Bernhard has long had a grudge against Bill}' Smith and there are those who believe he was trying tn even up when he let Farmer Allen go to the Look out club. • • • When Angel faced Mike Finn took « few games from the Barons the usual yell went up in Birmingham. They aren’t happy there unless the Barons are out in front by a hundred points Physicians have decided that Artie Hof man is suffering with nothing more se rious than a case of “nerves’ and be lieve he will soon he his old self The press agent of Frank Eddington, the pitcher purchased by the Pirates from Lexington, said of him that he was a “pitcher, fielder, slugger and side-line chatterer supreme.” which makes him well worth the price paid. ♦ • • Os course this never happened, but they sat that Larry McLean, the Reds’ giant catcher, recently bought a huge colonial clock and started to carry it home, a feat Impossible for any other human be ing except Larry. He was stopped hv a bibulous gentleman, who said: ”T beg par don. and I don’t want to intrude, bul would you mind telling me, old chap, why you don’t carries a watch?" • • • Wonder if the fact that Clark Griffith has bought into the Washington associa tion has anything to do wilth the marvel logs showing of the Senators? Certainly ft has been many years since he had had a team going as the Washington team Is going now. * BB Pure, whole- I !w some and invig- B || I I orating as well B I I S as delicious. B j Don’t just drink it at the ball game Keep it in the ice-box at home. Take it to the Picnic F» ■ Sold at all stands ive cents I and stores. Made for a big cold I by the Red Rock ° ■ people. bottle. I Suppose Nashville wins a double-header today and Atlanta loses two games. Ker plunk! The cellar! Jack Martin, the Highlanders’ kid short stop. is everlastingly getting stove up. Ills last Injury was a gashed toe. • • • They’ve already begun to tell Harry Lavis how to manage his team up in (.’leveland. He may not get much sym pathy in his present .job. but he’ll get a lot of advice. Mike Dunlin’s wife has been sick and Mike has lost both sleep and peace of mind, but it hasn’t seemed to dim his batting eye. . OTTO FLOTO WILL HOLD WATCH AT TITLE FIGHT EAST LAS VEGAS. N. M . June 14. Governor William <’ MacDonald, of New Mexico, was a visitor here today to sat isfy himself of prevailing conditions and of conditions likely to prevail during the tight for the world's cha tn pi on-ship be tween Jack Johnson and Jim Flynn on July 4. The visit was arranged at the request of the fight promoters, the gov ernor stopping nff cn route to the Demo cratic national convention in Baltimore Formal announcement was made that Otto Kioto, of Denver, is the selection as official timekeeper for the big battle, while Jack Curley, on behalf of Flynn, has asked Aiderman Tearney, of Chi cago. to act as timekeeper for the chal lenger. The Johnson camp has yet given no intimation of their choice In the mat ter. PHELPS AND GRIMA WIN IN GULF STATES TOURNEY NEW ORLEANS, June 14. Weather conditions were not altogether unfa vorable, but the courts were soggy from the rain and made satisfactory progress in the twelfth annua! Gulf States tournament out of the question. Two matches were played and another started. The complete matches were in the doubles division, Phelps and Grima de feating S. E. Worms and Foibleman. 6-2. 6-2, anfi Saal and Well defeating Morris and Many. 6-1. 2-6. 6-3. DE ORO WINS ANOTHER TITLE. TRENTON, N. J.. June 14 Alfred DeOro. challenger for the world's cham pionship at pocket billiards, defeated Edward I. Ralph, of Hlghstown. N. J.. In the final block of 20<l points In their match at Masonic temple, and thereby wans the match. The grand total for the three nights play was: DeOro 600; Ralph, 4<lß. fjERNSHEIM CjGAF Always ti /l Good HARBISON DEAL yP IN THE AIR The Spartanburg club has pulled a fine trick on the Crackers, A few days ago they agreed to turn over to the local club for a fixed sum Infiehlei Har bison. who was to be given a week's trial br Hemphill. If he made good he was to remain here, if he did not live up to expectations, he was td be returned to Spartanburg Today the Spartanburg club has raised the price on this player, and re fuses to let him come here on trial. It must he an outright sale. President Callaway called the Spartanburg club on the phone this morning, and asked them to live up to their agreement. They refused to do so. And theteuporr President Callaway immediately sent all the telegrams and data concerning the deal to John H. Farrell, yf the national association. It's a cinch that Mr. Farrell will insist that the Spartanburg club live up to its agreement. . "Humpty” McElveen arrived this morning and will play third base this afternoon. HERE’S Ae besi iobacco iajrU of all rORUMMONOI Ht NATURAL leaf Ji WBACCrtJ® Chew 7