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If it gets much better right away, it will be so good we can't comfort ably stand it. At sunset Friday night the difference between the leaders and the tail-enders had been cut down to 199 points. Or, to reduce it to terms of ‘‘games won and lost," if Birmingham should lose 12 games while Nash ville was winning 13 the now tail end Vols would pass by one point the now leading Barons. A lead of 12 1-2 games looks im pressive, but it isn’t when you con sider that the league has yet to play 632 (or 56 per cent) of its scheduled 1.120 games. With the teams bunched in a heap like this, anything Is liable to happen any old time. Just at present the Cracker team, which stands second in the second divi sion. is still slightly less than 9 full games behind the leaders. If the Crackers can put in a solid week of real winning, they will be up in the chase. • • • <tttATCH New Orleans! That's go- W i n g to be the cry in the Southern before long. It was only a few weeks back that the Pelicans were wallowing in the depths. Now the) are second, less than five full games behind the leaders. Slowly, but with awfyl certainty, that Dutchman has been strength ening his team. He has added a player here, peeled one off there and taught a third how to play ball until now he has a grand organi zation. of course, the Pelicans are no team of marvels. As a mat ter of fact, the Southern league clubs this year are not especially strong, any of them. But that’s what makes the race interesting. It is possible for any club in the bum n, With a little real strength ening, to get into the chase. • • • IMIAT Erskine Mayer will be "wel come to our city” Is too obvi ous to need comment. The famous "Sefssns” has never been accorded am too thorough a trial with the C-.tclur club. This y< ir and last h< looked like the best man who was turned loose. Mayer won 12 g nes and lost 2 this year, has p . ''.<•<> ~ i ,>-hit game and has gone •g’. at g'liis. If he ian lA»ep any thing like that stride in the South- • W’.. it will be all off with the oppo sition. The only weakn. ss of the Crack er club now se. ms to be in the p thing staff. If the box men can - || It’s the very last word I • m as regards really | aay bay it Good Ginger Ale j CflllCVVlK DI • t.. fl toarost 1 Iftl F| Ye., we make that good A * *■* *** LEMO-LIME you get at 1/ H ■ I jfc*’ the ball park and all stands perform as well as the rest of the team, the Crackers are going to the top. But somehow the box men don’t seem to be pitching well. Dessau wasn’t any too good yester day; Brady seems a very uncertain performer; Atkins is unlucky or something. Sitton is probably the steadiest of the lot. • • • COME local enthusiasts have a scheme for giving a cash prize to the Atlanta player who does the most for his team this season. It isn’t a bad scheme, either. Possi bly it runs foul of the salary limit, but,we think not. There would per haps be some hard feeling among the players as to which man was really entitled to the credit and the coin, but usually one man stands out on a team above all others and fs, therefore, entitled to the emolu ments. Here is the proposition as sub mitted : Gentlemen: Being fans of the “dyed-in-the-wool” variety and particularly so when it concerns the Atlanta baseball team, we be lieve we have decided on a plan that will make errors a novelty and home runs, two baggers, hair raising fielding stunts and the like commonplace and consequently give us a pennant contending team. We believe the fans of At lanta will give their hearty co operation to the raising of a bonus by popular subscription to be do nated to the player on the Atlanta team (excepting the manager) who. in the opinion of three judges to be selected, is the most useful man to the team. Our idea Is to select a commit tee of three baseball statisticians and experts, one from each of the local papers, to act as the above mentioned judges, who shall de cide, beginning with the next games at home and continuing through the remainder of the sea son. which player shall receive the bonus, said judges to take into consideration every phase and fea ture of such player's work and conduct on the field. Now, you gentlemen may know of a still better plan, or at least have some improvements to sug gest In this one, but we confidently believe that any plan similar to this will be popular with the local fans, and must Inevitably arouse a good bit of enthusiasm and ri valry among the members of the team. How does the proposition appeal to you? If you think well of it and care to give it the sup port of your column, we would like to make the following sub scriptions: W. H. H ", K OO T. B D 1.00 G, F. C..... 1.00 • • • THE Crackers are lucky in being ' able to land Agler. From what everybody says, this man is a hum- THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATL’KD AY, JUIN E Z 2, luiz. mer. He is at least a Class AA player and ought to shine in this company. If Harbison continues his great hitting and fielding and Agler lives up to his advance no tices, the Cracker team ought to be a wonder. The infield and the outfield, as they will stand when Agler joins, should equal the best in the league. [boxing - I Late News and Views L George Brown, the Chicago Greek, more commonly known as K. O. Brown, and Jack Dillon put up such a good fight in Winnipeg, Canada, the other night that Floyd Fitzsimmons, the Benton Harbor promoter, is trying to book them for July 4. « * • The winner of the Bob Moha-Eddie Mc- Goorty match, scheduled to take place July 4, will be matched with the winner of the Brown-Dillon fight should It be staged In this way the real contender for the middleweight title could be lo cated. • • • Monday is the date when George Car pentier and Frank Klaus are scheduled to go 20 rounds in Paris. Much interest is centered on this tight, as it will throw some light on the middleweight champion ship title left vacant by Stanley Ketchel at his death. • • * Ernie Zanders has graduated from the ranks of the welters ami hereafter will swap punches with the boys who make 158 pounds ringside. Zanders' first tight as a middleweight will probably be against Young Mahoney, the Racine battler. • • • Frankie Russell, the New Orleans pug. Is mighty well managed or mismanaged. In fact, the French market lad doesn't know who his manager is. One of Rus sell's so-called managers has signed up for him to fight Willie Gibbs in New Or leans June 28, while another has secured him a match with Joe Coster for July 4 The winner of the Luther McCarthy- Jim Stewart tight, scheduled for New York July 19. will be matched with the winner of the Al I’alzer-Bombardier Wells tight, which takes place in Gotham July 4. Jack Johnson is so confident he will win from Jim Flynn that he lias sent Tommy Walsh. JIO.OOO for him to place at odds of 1 to 3 on himself to defeat Flynn; also. Jack sent a bunch of coin to place at 7 to 10 that Ad Wolgast will de feat Joe Rivers in their July bout. ♦ * * 'Jimmie Johnson is trying to secure a match for Harry Thomas with Abe Attell, to be staged in Los Angeles, July 20. Thomas Is the lad who put up such a good tight against Jack White when he was substituted for Owen Moran. • • » Jack Goodman and Young Brown will be the main attraction at the Garden A. C., in Gotham, Monday night. * • « Al Palzer has started training at New Dorp, S. I . for his ten-round tight with Bombardier Wells • • • Whether Ab? Attell can travel with as much success in the lightweight division as he did for many years in the feather class will be decided when he faces Har ley Tommy Murphy on the Fourth. • • • If anv hitch occurs in the scheduled match between Attell and Murphy as to DOUBLE-HEADER TOM! WILL BL I VICIOUS BITTLE CHATTANOOGA, TENN., June 22 With the score in games still standing one and one for the series, thanks to a tie game yesterday, the Crackers and the Lookouts hook up in a contest to day that will rival in violence the Tro jan war or a Republican convention, particularly the latter.. The thing is a double-header, and as both managers, Smith and Hemphill, believe that the get soptething on each other by playing the full nine innings, the affair will last from lunch time to sundown. Vedder Sitton, the Cracker star at present, and Luckless Tommy Atkins are slated to hurl for the locals. For Rill Smith. More and Coveleskie will probably mount the hurling rostum, so to speak. Yesterday’s encoOnter at Lookout ville made the Taft-Roosevelt unpleas antness look like a peace pact. From early afternoon till black dark they argued, wrestled, struggled, "cussed and fit.” And when it was all over the score stood 7 to 7. And the whole aft ernoon was wasted, so far as the stand ing of the clubs was concerned. Neither team advanced any farther In the time they played than the Republican con vention, with the committee on creden tials out. There was excitement, though, and plenty of it. And the fans who turned out—and there were several of them — had the time of their cold, gray lives. It was nip and tuck, not to mention neck and neck, up to the ninth. The Crackers then had a lead of 6 to 4. At that point Dessau’s foot slipped, as it were, and some husky big-sticking brought home two Lookouts and tied it up. Nothing daunted, the Crackers made one in the ninth. And so did the Lookouts. The Crackers goose-egged in the eleventh, and so did the Look outs. Then the umpires took a hand and > Chairman O’Toole banged with his gavel and declared the doings off for the day. weight. Ray Temple will be substituted in i place of the Hebrew, as he says he will ■ tight the New Yorker at any weight. * ♦ * Jimmy Walsh is scheduled to box Kid 1 Andrews in Buffalo Mondaj' night. • • • Stanley Ketchel won at least JIOO.OOO during his last five years as a prlze < tighter. When he died his estate would i hardly more than pay his burial ex pensey, however. ? Three other bouts in Buffalo Monday > will be: Gus Wilson vs. Young Goldberg, r Jean Moriarity vs. Joe Stein, and Bobby I’ittsley vs. Harry Baker. • • • Kid Julian received a fractured arm in 1 his bout with Patsy Kline the other night j and will he out of the ring for some time. Johnson Refuses to Box Flynn in 17-Foot Ring Challenger Says He Would Fight in a. Barrel By Ed. W. Smith. ' (The Georgian's fight expert, who ' has been selected to referee the ( Johnson-Flynn battle.) i EAST LAS VEGAS, N. M., June < 22.—They'll have to rebuild ' their arena out on Eighth street before Jack Johnson will consent to do battle in it with Jim Flynn two weeks hence. The ring is altogether too small to suit the champion of the world. He looked over the measurements of the ring I submitted to him and then shook his head sadly. “I wouldn’t think of it at all,” he said, as he handed back the slip. "It looks to me as If they built that ' ring, or intended to have it to suit Flynn’s style of boxing, or fighting I or whatever you may call it. “From the looks of things you’re the only one that gave me a thought In the matter, for I wasn’t consulted at all." ( Taking a trip out to the new arena yesterday morning I ran a I tape line over the unfinlshed # rlng , and discovered that it was exactly ' nineteen feet from post to post in side. It looked horribly small to r me. I asked the foreman in charge , of the work what he figured would ' be the size of the fighting space when the ring was completed. "It will be seventeen feet six j inches from rope to rope,” he re -1 plied. Knowing this might start an argument and figuring that it would be better to have all of the i row of this sort settled right now, e I submitted the measurements to t both men. t If the ring is to be enlarged it g must be enlarged now before fur t ther work on the seating arrange s ments is done. e In another three days the place d will be so far completed that aYiy changes will be out of the ques tion. d Flynn Wants Three-Foot Ring, s We saw Flynn first, as he works r earlier in the day than Johnson. "How big would you like to have the ring for this scrap?” Jim was n asked. "About three feet, if I had 11 my way," was the confident re- ply of the fireman. "As a matter d of fact It doesn’t matter a rap to me how big the ring is,” he con -10 tlnued. "I'd just as soon fight him ” in a barrel as not, or they can make it regulation twenty-four foot if they please. Any old thing j. for me.” Merely another Indica r. tion of the superlatively confident 5 spirit being displayed by the Pueblo man. " With Johnson it was a different ». story—vastly different. When he •••••••••••••••••••••••••• : JOHNSON INSPECTS RING;: : SAYS IT’S TOO SMALL; HE: : SEES PLOT TO “GET” HIM: • LAS VEGAS, N. M., June 22. • • The fight is °n again, off again • • and on again. Although no offi- • • cial promise has been made to the • • promoters, it is now generally • • believed that Governor McDonald • • will not interfere. Both fighters • • continue training. Johnson has • • protested because the ring is much • • smaller than is contemplated by • • Marquis of Queensberry. • • Johnson harbors the suspicion • • that some one in the Flynn camp • • is responsible for the small ring, • • which, he figures, would increase • • Flynn’s chances of winning. Flynn • • prefers rough, rushing tactics, and • • Johnson, after a wary inspection, • • rejected the first set of plans pro- • • duced for the ring. The matter • • will be settled today. • •••••••••••••••••••••••••• sized up the measurements of the ring he became positively mournful over them. "It won't do," he said. "They should have consulted me about it in the first place. Now, as a matter of fact, I’d just as soon fight Flynn or -any other man in the world on an electric wire as far as fighting is concerned. It matters little to my style of battling, whether the ring is big or little. If I can win in a big ring I can win in a small one or vice versa, but it hurts me to think that they may be trying to ‘put one over on me’ in this matter. Johnson Is Cautious. “No, sir, I must insist that the ring be at least twenty feet inside • of the inner ropes. Y'ou under stand what. I mean. I want twen ty feet of boxing space and a good ledge on the ring so that a man will not step out of the ring or over the edge of it and hurt him self.” The upshot of the whole thing was that Watson Burns, Johnson's chief trainer, will go out to the arena today with some of the news paper men and inspect the place thoroughly. His Judgment will be accepted as final by the champion, but from what Burns said last night It looks certain that they never will accept the ring In its present shape. Burns is something of a sticker for the regulation in all things. The rules, he says, call for a ring of twenty-four feet or as near that as it is possible to have it. He wants a twenty-foot ring, the same as the champion himself and in tends to carry his point, judging from the snap of his jaws while he was talking about it. It is supposed that a small ring would favor Flynn to a consider able extent. He is the rushing type of fighter, constantly crowding his opponent and trying his best to keep on top of him at all times. The smaller the space in which the fighting is done the better for him, for a small ring gives an opponent a slimmer chance of getting away from the bulldog-like rushes of the Pueblo man. Johnson, on the other hand, being a defensive fighter and cautious to a degree, is supposed to be favored " by the larger space in which he has to work with an opponent and by the same argument his chances 5, of making a good fight would be lessened by the smaller ring. At least that is the most logical f way of figuring it out. The articles of agreement, signed in Chicago, do not mention the size of the ring. They simply state that the contest is to be decided under Queensberry rules, which in turn state the regulation ring to be twenty-four feet “or as near that size as practicable.” The Johnson party naturally believes that, as there is nothing but space where the arena is built, the ring can be made regulation size just as well as not. Governor Still Silent. Governor McDonald again disap pointed the local business men who ar? interested in the big doings of July 4. He didn't appear at all, as expected, and no word was received as to when he will be here. But it is certain that he is to pay Las f Vegas a call within a week’s time. Instead of the governor came Fred Fornoff, chief of the mounted police of the new state of New Mexico and real Westerner, one would expect to see holding a posi tion of this kind. The chief is a man weighing 250 pounds and with an eye that looks right through one. The chief said he was here for a twelve-hour stay only, but found time during the afternoon to visit both camps. Flynn was the only one of the principals that he saw, however, as Johnson was not in when he called. The official was well pleased with Flynn’s appear ance and after watching him at his work for a full hour decided that he must be in the best of shape to stand the gruelling that he lays out for himself every afternoon. He saw Flynn in several of his scraps in Los Angeles and thought Jim looked better now than at any time he saw him on the coast. )