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GDOKIAH CCWfiED * EDITLD fy W’. S FARNSWORTH Johnson’s Camp Like a Circus; Motley Crowds Watch Champion By Ed W. Smith. (Th* Georgian’* fight expert, who ha* been aelected to refer«e the J*hn»on-Flynn battle.) EAST LAS VEGAS, N. M , June 27.—1 t looked like the ar rival of a circus out around the Old Town training camp of Jack Johnson yesterday afternoon. There was a record mob around the little valley in which the big black fellow does his training. And it was just as good as a circus, too, to watch that crowd, for it is about as strange a looking gathering ns one could find In a week’s travel in any direction. The whites In the grand stand that borders on three sides of the little arena In which the actual work is done do not out number the Indians and the Mexi cans and the others of swarthy skins that delight In watching the antics of the star of pugilism. Picture this motley throng in gay array and you have a strange sight. The shawl Is one of the prominent parts of the Mexican feminine toilet and the gayest col ors imaginable are brought out on Sundays. Old Town Is quite wild about Johnson. There are plenty of dusky-skinned" followers of the champion In that section—men and women of Jack’s own race—but the Indians and Mexicans, the low liest of which have been saving their pennies for many a day now in order to purchase tickets for the battle, thoroughly believe in the. mighty Johnson. There Is no color line out that way, no race preju dice. no sentimental feeling that the white man, by all that’s right and true, ought to win this battle. Old Town Bet* on Johnton. The little bets of the motley Old Town will be plunked down on Johnson to a man. One has only to go out there any afternoon when the champion Is working and watch the positively idolatrous manner In which the crowds fol low his every move. Every clever step Is heartily applauded, every bit of comedy is sure to bring a laugh that would make a Hopper or a Goodwin jealous, and, best of all, there Isn’t an Inch of the journey that Johnson travels every after noon overlooked In any way. Flynn has no following like that here, although some of the Inhabi tants of the little Mexican ’dobe villages that dot the valleys be tween this'man’s town and Monte zuma, where his camp Is located, gather In herds after climbing the big hill and discuss his chances in awed wlhspers. There are lots of Mexicans around Flynn all of the time —men and women and chil dren—but they dn not gather In the same huge flocks that they do at Old Town. Flynn Takes Fight Seriously. You see, Flynn does not deport himself In the same seml-comlc manner that Johnson affects most of the time. This training busi ness 1s a mighty serious affair with the former fireman. It’s all busi ness with Flynn from the time that he emerges from his dressing room until he announces In his big voice that "that will be all for this after noon, and I thank you," which 1s Jim’s stereoptic manner in dis missing his audience. Jim kids a lot about different things when "the gang" Is there, the gang Including some of his friends from t’he city and the newspaper men, but the Mexican populace docs not understand Jim In these moods. They do not ap preciate his barbed sarcasms on Ryan and hog-fatness and the like, for ft Is a matter of great doubt whether that portion of this strange land ever sees a line that Is printed about Flynn or his troubles or his joys or his hopes and his ambi tions. They merely taJee him as seriously as he appear* to take himself and they let « go at that. Johnson's kidding may be done at some friend’s expense, but It is always broad enough to be com prehensive to the motley ones in rnlWlJlF The drink the doctor likes 'JWj» J \J> MOMBESH Red Rock Co., Atlanta ——— Rd Rock the throng. He punches his team mates severely at times, and they have ample signs to show Jack’s earnestness, but he always follows these spells with a bit of comedy that brings out a roar of laughter from the crowd, Johnson’* Followers Loyal. That’s one of the big reasons why this strange following of Johnson's is with him so thorough ly. They would not believe you if you ever hinted that Flynn has a chance. They can not see anything but a one-sided fight, such as their own dear old bull fights always are, but they are going to see the laughter just the same, animated apparently by much the same son as they have when they go to see the bull run through and killed. And If this comical coon they call Rastus ever fights anybody around here this Johnson following Is go ging to give him their heartiest support. For, be It known, the Johnson camp wouldn’t be half what it Is If It weren’t for this same comical Rastus. Johnson seldom falls to stage him at some portion of the afternoon's enter tainment, although at the present time Rastus, Is 111 and can not ap pear. The right name of Rastus is Calvin Respress and Johnson says he's always going to have him along Just to clown the act. Johnson, with all of his kidding, got down to the serious stuff yes terday afternoon. He went two rounds with George Debray, both or which were full of ginger. Then he took on Marty Cutler for the • remainder of the boxing work of the day. They went eight rounds in all and Marty was pretty well bruised up at the finish. Debray's feet are still a bit shaky, but dur ing the coming week he will stand the brunt of the boxing, giving Cutler a much needed rest. The crowd was so thick around the Johnson camp yesterday that the price of admission was tilted up sharply from the lowly fifteen cents to the mere prosperous look ing quarter of a dollar. Rut the gang paid the new tax cheerfully and without a single murmur and the man who built the grandstand —for it Is said Johnson gave him the whole taxing privilege at the camp—ls looking over automobile catalogues and dickering with steamship agents for a trip to Eu rope Immediately after this battle is over. In addition to the boxing John son went through the routine work with the medicine ball and the punching bag. He eschews the skipping rope entirely, as he be lieves Its effects are bad on the heart, and Jack has been said at different times to have one of the greatest hearts of any athlete in the business. Flynn had a corking good, useful day of It at Montezuma and looks ready If ever a fighter did. He opened up his boxing work with three pull-and-haul rounds with Ray Marshall, followed this up w'ith four slashing rounds with Al Williams and closed with a couple of lively bouts with Abdul the Turk, who is Just breaking Into the serious part of me training. Nine appears to be Jim’s favorite number of rounds for his boxing and he divided them as equally as l>ossible among his partners. PLAY FOR CUNNINGHAM CUP BEGINS SATURDAY The W. W. Cunningham golf trophy will be contested for by the golfers of the Atlanta Athletic club all next week, beginning with the qualifying round on Saturday. The players will qualify from scratch in this event, and the handicaps will apply in the match play rounds that follow. The first and second rounds of the tournament must he played by July 5. the third round by July 6 and the finals by July 7. Play in 'the first flight finals will be at 36 holes. • THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. Harbison Spearing A HARD LINE DRIVE // // UM // / / / w2aBF / / / / I WB w // 0 \ \ V A / \ I \ ) \\ .Mis ■ \\ { ’••7 /\. z J \\ Ji - '' -.- //X\ N Xel RvZ 1 / ZRMS* / / \ VSJi y,M\o / / /, *\ \ < 'X // Ji \\ 4 / <HE \\ * Xl'lk M a // . ’Mr** \ \ // / l if \ W / \\ \ JO 0 SECOND ROUND TODAY IN PIEDMONT D. C. TOURNEY The first round of the men's singles in the annual Piedmont Driving club tennis tournament was completed yes terday afternoon. The second round will be played this afternoon, beginning at 3:30 o’clock, and the first round in the men’s dou bles will be started. The following were the results Wed nesday: Foreman defeated Dußose bv de fault. Dr. Williams defeated Dr. Hurt by default. Draper defeated McCloskey, 6-0, 6-0. Fitzsimmons defeated Hail, 6-4, 4-6 6-1. C. Smith defeated Nunnally, 6-3, 2-6, 6-2. r , Clay defeated Dr. Roy by default. Hoyt defeated Colquitt. 6-0, 6-0. Moore defeated Floyd by default. r r CASH SLOAN, EX-JOCKEY, ; BEING SUED FOR DIVORCE LOUISVILLE. KY., June 27.—Mrs. Eu genia Hurst Sloan, of this city, filed suit I for divorce against Cash Sloan, brother of t Tod Sloan, noted jockey. The petition charges abandonment. Cash Sloan once rode with great suc > cess abroad, although he never was as renowned as his brother Tod in this • country. ; He and the woman who seeks perma nent sepaartton were married in New Or leans December 20. 1894, and separated in May, 1910 If - iLy., ' AW fv > s II Z ’ <> * e - Na AW w & ■ I® - ’yrpMfe A- * Crackers Sure Look Like Regular Ball Club Now Callahan’s Hit and Brady’s Pitching Won Game By Percy H. Whiting. WITH a Joe-Aglerized-"Dug”- Harbisonlzed infield, a re suscitated pitching staff, a couple of rip-snorting catchers and an outfield that is all to the big league the Crackers are back home and playing ball that would make a dent in armor plate. How long the spasm will last nobody dares to predict. But if the Crackers put on a lot more of the stuff with whtlch they regaled the Lookouts yesterday, Atlanta will fly the pen nant. Judged exclusively by yesterday’s performances, the Cracker team Is going to be heard from like a fog horn In the rest of the pennant race. Judged by yesterday’s perform ance, plus all the Indications and preparations, plans and specifica tions. and all other data, the local team will soon be ready to take its proper place in the pennant canter. The Infield seems to have worked out at last to everybody’s satisfac tion. There is no reason on earth why Joe Agler shouldn’t rank with the best first basemen in the league. His record and his work yesterday all point in that direction. Whitey Alperman Is entirely at home at second and is good anywhere. Douglas Harbison, the new-comer from Spartanburg, put on a lot of good stuff yesterday. He Is no pol ished fielder, but he Is a good, live ly kid. ’’Humpty" McElveen at third Is playing as good ball as he ever played in hfs life, is covering ground and hitting. For the first time this season At lanta has an infield that Is as near- X - - S OFFICERS OF 17TH WIN; i ENLISTED MEN BEATEN * CHATTANOOGA, TENN., June 27. ’ Dotson’s single, Meyers' sacrifice and McLaughlin's single settled a brilliant pitchers’ duel in favor of the Eleventh cavalry over the Seventeenth infantry t yesterday. Honors were about even ’ between Zickapoos and Owen. The Seventeenth had one good chance to . score when hits by Zickapoos and t Schwartz and an error filled the bases t in the sixth, with none out. Succeed- t ing batsmen filed out without ad- I vance. McKissick went in as pinch v hitter in the eighth and'doubled. but I was left. t Seventeenth officers won an easy vic tory over Eleventh officers in a morn- > ing game, which was played in the rain, I the score being 9 to 5. The Seventeenth team won the game by a third-inning rally of six runs. LONG BOUTS IN LOUISIANA. f BATON ROUGE, LA., June 27.—A bill t allowing 25-round pugilistic exhibitions r was favorably reported by the house ju- . dietary committee. A minority report will also be made. Only ten-round bouts are a now legalized. u - ly hit-proof as they ever get to be in this league. When the Crack ers had its all-vetran infield In ac tion it was a clever fielding aggre gation, bone-proof and able to take care of any balls hit within reach. The trouble was that the infield was as full of holes as a colander. The players weren't fast enough to keep the hits from slipping through. Now the speed of the Infield has been increased 25 per cent or more and any hit that gets through the infield is entitled to the honor. The Cracker outfield has never given any trouble and now is at its best. If there is a better out field in the league, please trot It out. The Cracker catchers continue to be a little better than satisfactory. The one weakness of the team is its pitching staff. “And,” says Charley - , ers. I want one to fill the gap left by Russell's departure and I want others." This can't mean but one thing, and that is that Hemphill will keep right on after pitchers until he finds what he wanted. • » » rT has taken Jim Brady a long time to find himself. But it was worth waiting. For Brady pitched one of the most Illuminating con tests yesterday that ever rested sore eyes. Brady faced the most eager ag gregation of batters that will ever hammr- at his curves In this league. Te was pitching against the All Ex-Atlantas, and five out of nine men on the Lookout team had a grouch against the Crack ers. There Isn't a man in the lot who wouldn’t give a day’s pay to be able to hand a wallop to the Crack ers. Jordan, Moran and Sentell In particular despise everything with the Atlanta brand, and put on all steam in an effort to pile up some hits. On the one hand were the Look outs. eager beyond words to ham mer the Cracker pitcher to a pulp. On the other was Brady, who hasn't had enough luck this season to get a tin whistle in a prize package. The only reason Brady was sent in yesterday was because there wasn’t BOILLOT WINS GRAND PRIZE; BROWN THIRD DIEPPE, FRANCE, June 27.—80i110t, driving a French Peugeot machine, won the automobile grand prize, completing the distance of 1,540 kilometers (about 956 miles, 7 furlongs), in the elapsed time of 13 hours* 58 minutes. 2 3-5 seconds, at an average hourly speed of 110 kilometers (about 68 miles, IVi furlongs.) Louis Wagner secured second place with a Fiat in 14 hours 11 minutes 8 2-5 sec onds, and Regal, driving an English Sun beam machine, was third, in 14 hours, 38 minutes and 36 seconds. J)ePa!ma, who was driving a Fiat, was disqualified for replenishing fuel against the rule. Bruce-Brown completed the race un officially, so that Regal is officially third. Regal likewise won a cup offered by the newspaper Auto for small automobiles. Boillot’s spare wheel flew off during the race and broke the arm of a gendarme who was keeping the course. The race took place in a continuous rp.ln. There were 22 starters, ami for the first three laps there was a sensational struggle between David Bruce-Brown, of New York, the leader in the first half of the race, and Boillot. Then Bruce-Brown had motor trouble and lost his lead. SALLY LEAGUE SECOND HALF WILL OPEN TODAY JACKSONVILLE, FLA., June 27.—Al though Jacksonville was assured of the pennant for the first half of the South Atlantic league last Saturday, when they defeated Savannah in a double-header, they have defeated Albany twice since they gained the pennant, the thlr.l game, the second game of a double-header yes terday, being a tie after ten innings of play. The local club left last night for Colum bia. w'here they will commence the sec ond half of the South Atlantic league race today. BECKER MAY NOT COME; HEMP. AFTER PITCHERS Pitcher Buck Becker has joined In fielder Curtis Coleman among the num ber of the jumpers. Manager Clark Griffin has notified the Atlanta club that Becker has refused to report here, and Manager Hemphill has about given’ up hope of getting him. anybody else. It was a case of last resort. And what did Brady do? Oh, nothing except keep the Lookouts popping up little flies and striking out all the afternoon. When the session was over and the accounts cast, it was observed that the hated visitors had garnered a total of two hits for the afternoon. One was from the agile bat of Roy Moran. The other was kicked out by First Baseman Coyle. These two men got safely to first, but no farther. Hyder Barr, who lived on an brror, reached second on an infield out, but died trying to get to third. No other players got as far as first base. It was the greatest pitching that an Atlanta twirier has shown this year. • • • THE beauty of the system of meet- Ing trouble half way was clev erly illustrated yesterday afternoon by David Callahan, Cracker out fielder. Dave, like all the rest of the Crackers, had been having a . terrible time all the afternoon lo cating the curves of Bill Chappelle, who was going extra good. They were breaking over the plate with curves and angles that never got into the geometry books, and the Crackers weren't hitting often enough to keep their shoulder mus cles exercised. Finally Callahan de cided that he’d .try to get to one of Chappelle’s “ balls before it broke. So he waited until one was coming in about to suit him, ran in on it a few steps, met it before it ducked and lacerated it for a home run. For length, speed and timeliness It was one of the best home runs that ever graced the outfield at Ponce DeLeon park. Though fielded by Roy Moran, than whom there Is no better field ing performer in the Southern league, Callahan had time to canter around the bags at an easy clip and to beat the ball home under double raps and not even breathing hard. Yea, verily, it was some wallop. And it won the game. For no oth- J er runner scored during the after- " noon. BUYS TEAM OUTRIGHT ) FROM ANOTHER BAY CITY, MICH., June 27.—The Bay' i City Southern Michigan league club has ? purchased the entire Salem, Ohio, club in j the Ohio-Pennsylvania league, for a part > of the present Bay City players and cash s consideration. The Salem club is now leading the Ohio-Pennsylvania league. 1 The local officials announced that the ' Salem club, which is managed by Hugh j Shannon, of Buffalo, will be here by Sun day. Bay City at present is tied with Sagi . naw for last place in the Southern Mich igan standing, with a percentage of .326. 5 “If It’s at Hartman’s, It’s Correct" ■Smart Summer 1 ' I STRAWS Every Straw, every Shape, every Style—if there’s a single stylish ; Straw that we haven’t in j I. stock it’s a surprise to us. Come in today and try on ' a Hartman Straw and you won’t go out without it. Our prices range From $2 to $5 Six Peachtree Street (Opp. Peters Bldg.) “If It’s Correct, It’s at Hartman's’'