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PE-RCY H. WHITING WWNAUGHTObJ TAD (G’QTLIr'’ 7 CHARLES DRYDEN * ED W. SMITH * • ♦ Ll ISlNlNllx) RECORI] SHOWS RIVERS MS SPLENDID KICK • LOS ANGELES. .Tune 27.—A quiet visit to the “private cemeteries'' of the Queensberry "bad men,” Ad Wolgast and Joe Rivers, while these two fight ers. who will contend for the light weighti championship at Vernon on July 4, are in the midst of their train ing camp routine, might be of interest to the general public. Wolgast, who is now 24 years of age, started his career in 1906; has been fighting six years, and has yet to listen to the lullaby of \he referee. He has fought eight draws, fourteen no deci sion bouts, 24 wins and has 24 knock outs to his credit. The only defeat credited against him was at the begin ning of his career, when "Young Nel son" got a four-round decision over him. Wolgast’s record as it stands proves that he is on» of the best lightweights that ever lived. He has met fighters, boxers and combinations of both styles and beaten or held his own with all of them. Rivers Just Twenty. Rivers has just turned the twentieth milestone. He started fighting in 1908. when seventeen years of age; fought three battles and then laid off until 1910. He has boxed four draws, four wins, scored eleven knockouts and suf fered one defeat. In figuring Rivers’ record this losing fight must be thrown ou't. "Rivers’ fluke finish at. the hands of JoHnny Kilbane was probably one of the greatest ’accidents’ in the history of the game.” says Charley Eyton. who refereed on that occasion "To me this defeat amounts to absolutely- noth ing. as Rivers was so far ahead of Johnny when ’the string broke’ that the go had ceased to be a contest, which fact made Rivers grow careless.” To sum up, Wolgast has had 46 fights in six years and has won 50 per cent of them by the knockout route. Rivers has had nineteen fights in four years and has knocked out 60 per cent of his men. Rivers Is Confident. Rivers is confidence personified in regard to the clash of one week from today. He is sure that this is going to be Wolgast’s funeral and has ordered up a couple of extra tons of fuel for the Rivers crematory. Ad will be so well done, that he will never be brought near the fire again, says the laughing Mexican youth. What Wolgast says in reply to this taunt would not look well in print. «a ■11 ■ «■«■ i —mi ■•■ i ■«»»j» <>» —■■ , - - - ■ Be it “a one-horse store’'---or n a many-horse store—-as long as it’s a horse delivery store it’s extravagantly wasteful. The Ford equipped store multiplies its field of trade by four—-divides its delivery costs by two—-and adds a hundred per cent to its deliv ery efficiency. Ford delivery cars cost but S7OO f. o. b. Detroit—complete with all equipment. In G mechanical construction they are identical with all the seventy-five thousand new I Fords we are making and selling this sea- son—a proof of their unequaled worth. Get particulars—and booklet—from Ford Motor Company, 311 Peachtree St., At lanta, or direct from Detroit factory. | Toledo I 1 ])etroit THE NATURAL GATEWAYS T© THE PLAYGROUNDS OF MICHIGAN CANADA ANT GREAT LAKE f’RSOPTS 3 Excellent Train* Daiir From Cincinnati . . 8:10 1:00 5:46 eavft Morning Noon Night Freest Parkr. Diimj, Sleejnef nd J C—ch Eifuipneaf TUußtrated Summer Tour Books Furnished on Application F. a. P4ffM4LfE 'juf O t Trareiisg Passesjer Agent Sf Bfilj (ifijVjQ 'Mi Ms 4 N. Prior Street I ■ ATI ANTA. GA. 4 BWMmMßwmmMMlWßnwrarwjnmninß'mßßMrjF NEWS FROM RINGSIDE, Frankie Burns is scheduled to box Red Watson in San Francisco tomorrow night. • • • Al Kaufman tried hard but failed to come back in his four-round bout with Charlie Miller on the coast the othet night. Miller was given the referee's de cision. although many of the fans thought it should have been called a draw. • • • Governor McDonald, of New Mexico, says the coming Flynn-Johnson fight will be the last match held in the state as long as he is governor. The governor will allow the coming bout to be staged and then close up that kind of sport in his state. • • • Frankie Moran is scheduled to box A. Generin in El Paso tonight. Moran ap peared here a short time ago. • • • The match between Sandy Ferguson and Joe Jeannete, scheduled for Boston this week was called off,because of a dis agreement between the club that planned to stage the bout and the negro pug. Packey McFarland will make his debut in Cincinnati July 3, when he is sched uled io box ten rounds with Eddie Ran dall, the boy who claims a win over Harry Brewer. ♦ * * Joe Simpson has unearthed a new hope in Omar Welsh. The hope weighs 190 pounds and stands over six feet in his stockings. Simpson says his boxer is ready for « July 4 go with McCarthy or any other heavyweight. Sailor Petroskey is scheduled to mingle with Freddie Berg in a ten-round bout at Oakland tonight. Petroskey has cleaned up many of the middleweights and light heavies and is now looked on as a comer. • « « By knocking out Young Britt in Balti- YEARLING AT LEXINGTON TROTS HALF IN 1:9 3-4 LEXINGTON, KY., June 27.—The most sensational performance of the year for a yearling trotter and the most sensational of the entire season at the Kentucky Trotting- Horse Breed ers association course was that of the brown filly Princess Ax worthy, in the hands of Trainer H. C. Moody, that trotted a half in 1.09 3-4 last quarter in 34 seconds. The filly went on her wonderful journey on the first scoie. The filly now holds the season workout record for both a half and quarter of a mile. Princess Axworthy is the property of John F. Howley, of Pittsburg. Pa., who bought her dam, Princess Kent. 2 22 1-2. when she was carrying this great filly, and the male is still his property. She is the daughter of Morgan Axworthy. the royally bred son of Axworthy. own ed by Mike Bowerman. Morgan Ax worthy's dam is Kinglyne, a full sister of Bingen, 2.06 1-4. Princess of Kent, the dame of the filly, was quite a fast mare and is a daughter of the double record stallion Heir-at-Law, 2.12, trot ting, and 2.05 3-4, pacing. THE ATT ANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, JUNE 27.1912. more the other night Patsy Kline has won the right to battle Johnny Kilbane for the featherweight championship. Kline scored many points the other night when he defeated Kid Julian, who was looked on as a coming champ. • » • Ad Wolgast and Joe Rivers box daily before crowds that tax the capacity of their training quarters. • ♦ • Wolgast now weighs 133 pounds, while the Mexican tips the scales at 136 pounds Wolgast says he will enter the ring weigh ing about 130 pounds. * * • Four clubs in easy riding distance of Chicago are seeking good bouts for the Fourth This assures the Windy City fans of a chance to see some good box ing. • • • Dock Message, who says he has the word to rip off the lid in Kenosha, is dickering for a July 4 match between Charley White and some good feather weight. • ♦ « Message says the Kenosha business men want boxing, but they want it under his supervision. Bombardier Wells and Al Palzer are both in good shape for their go in New York Friday night. Palzer has trained hard for this fight, as he knows a victory will mean a crack at Jack Johnson for him. while Wells will be able to grab a bunch of coin should he defeat the New- Yorker. • • * It now looks as though Willie Ritchie will be the lad to meet ithe winner of the Rivers-Wolgast scrap Ritchie recently fought the champ a four-round draw on the coast. He then went to New Orleans and all but knocked out Joe Mandot, who was hailed as the Southern lightweight champion. BALTIMORE IS CHARGED WITH SIGNAL STEALING BALTIMORE, June 27.—The recent squall about signal tipping made by Vice President George Solomon, of Newark, is liable to become a league matter before many days go by. Several letters have recently arrived from President Barrow in regard to signal tipping, and there is no dodging the fact that Manager Dunn is sore. While the letters have not directly accused the Baltimore club of stooping to such practices, according to Dunnie. their wording has been more or less pointed in that direction, and he proposes to make President Barrow either substantiate the charges or make the other fellow suffer Mr. Solomon went so far as to say that Scout Steinmann was on the Oriole payroll to get the signals and nothing more, and added that the reason for Dent's downfall here a week ago last Sat urday was because the signals had been stolen As a matter of fact, Steinmann was sitting in the press stand, where it is impossible to see any signals. Manager Dunn sent a letter to President Barrow yesterday, In which words were not minrerl. He stated that if the Bal timore club was one of those supposed to be stealing signals of -the opponents wanted the charge made and proved or to have the man making it punished. NORMANKENNEDYGOING TO RACE IN THE BUSHES LATONIA. KY.. June 27. —Norman Kennedy, for a number of years pre mier jockey on the Kentucky circuit,, but who has now grown too heavy to ride, is getting together a pretentious stable of racers which he Intends cam paigning on the Canadian half-mile tracks. In other words, Kennedy "is going to the.bushes." He amassed considerable of a fortune during his career as a race rider, which he now has invested in real estate in and around Cincinnati. Before his re tirement he was under contract to J. R Wainwright, the Pittsburg millionaire turfman, but rode a good deal for H. C. Hallenbeck last fall, and had the mount on Worth in the now famous match race with Sprite. GENTLE NOT A CRACKER. John Gentle, the Atlanta boy who was released to the Albany club, of the South Atlantic league, by the Atlanta team at the start of the season, has failed to make good with that club and is now here working out dally with the Hemphill's clan. He is a free agent It is not known whether he will try to land a berth with some other club or not. THE BASEBALL CARD SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Gamez Today. Chattanooga in Atlanta at Ponce De- Leon. Game called at 4 o’clock. Standing of the Club*. W L. P C W. L P C B’ham 43 25 .632 Mobile 36 36 500 N. Or. .33 29 .532 Mont. 31 36 .463 M'mphis 32 31 .503 Atlanta .27 34 443 O’nooga. 32 32 .500 N'vllle. .27 38 415 Yesterday s Result*. Atlanta 1. Chattanooga 0 Birmingham 7. Nashville 2 Others not scheduled. SOUTH ATLANTIC. . Games Today. Albany in Columbus. Jacksonville in Columbia. Macon in Savannah. * Standing or the Club*. W. L. P C W. L P C J'ville . 36 17 .679 Macon .26 28 MBl Albany .31 25 .554 C’bus. 25 30 .455 Sav . .31 28 .525 Cola. . . .17 38 .309 Result*, Columbia 7, Savannah 2. Macon 5. Columbus 1. Jacksonville 6, Albany 1 (first game.) Jacksonville 4. Albany 4 (second game.) Only three games scheduled AMERICAN LEAGUE, Games Today, Detroit In Cleveland Boston in Washington. New York in Philadelphia. Standing of the Clubs. W L PC | W Tj p C Boston 42 20 .677 C’iand. 28 31 475 Chicago 37 26 587 Detroit .30 34 469 Wash 37 27 578 1 N York 18 38 .321 Phila 34 25 .576 I 8 Louis 17 42 288 Yesterday’s Result*. I Chicago 7. St. Louis 0 I New York S. Phllaoelphia » (first game ■ Philadelphia 11. New York 1 <s»rond game.) Washington 3. Boston 2 (first game Borton 3. Washington 0 (second game > Detroit 4. Cleveland 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE- Games Today. Brooklyn In Boston Philadelphia in New York. Chicago In Cincinnati. Pittsburg in St. Louis Standing o’ the Club*. W. L. P C W L. P C N York 46 11 .807 Phila. .21 31 .404 P burg. .34 24 .586 Br'oklyn 26 38 .406 Chicago. 32 24 .571 S. Louis 21 35 .356 C'natf. . .34 28 .648 Boston .19 42 .311 Yesterday’* Result*. Chicago 2, Cincinnati 0. New York 3. Philadelphia 2. Pittsburg 4. St. Louis 3. Boston 8, Brooklyn 2. SAILOR SCRAMBLES OVER FAST-FLYING MONOPLANE NEW YORK, June 27.—Walter Bon ner’s performance while making a pas senger flight with Miss Harriet Quimby has the colony at Mineola still agasp It was one of the most thrilling things ever seen on the field in its history. Bonner is a student in the Moisant school. He used to be a sailor and served aboard the U. S. S. Washington On one of her passenger-carrying flights Miss Quimby asked him to go along as freight. Incidentally she asked him to sit on the duster she always carries along in the machine. When the speedy military Bleriot monoplane was rushing through the air 1,000 feet high at a speed of 70 miles an hour the duster Bonner was sitting on suddenly blew from under him. It fluttered against the side of the ma chine and then rested against the rud der. To the amazement of the crowd below Bonner gingerly climbed out of his seat, scrambled over the tail and gradually worked his way some eight feet along the slender body of the ma chine toward the duster. The ■ swaying of the craft did not seem to bother him in the least. Calmly folding up the duster, he crawled back toward the seat and safely dropped into his place. Until she reached the ground Miss Quimby did not Know what her companion had done. BILLINGS’ NAGS MAKE RUSSIAN DEBUT SOON" CHICAGO, June 27.—The American trotters now In Russia will make their first public appearance in Moscow tomor row. according to news that has just reached here oy letter. The horses arc the property of C. K. G. Billings, who will drive them himself in their foreign exhi bitions. He foots all .bills himself and accepts no return for the money his horses may bring in at the gale. Mr Billings is a horse enthusiast who wished to prove the value of the American trotter to the whole world The stable sailed from New York on April 16. The American trotters will probably re main in Moscow until about July 1. and it is then probable that they will be sent to Stockholm, Sweden, for the great in ternational Olympic games, in connection with which trotting races xgill be held July 9-12 Their presence has been speedily invited by the president of the Swedish Trotting association, Count Charles Bode. The stable consists of six trotters, which are: Chian. 1.58*4. the present world’s champion "in the open: ' The Harvester, 2:01, the world's champion trotting stal lion; Charley Mitchell, 2:04'4, the cham pion stake rate horse of the American turf last year: Lewis Forrest. 2:0614, the third largest money-winning trotter of America in 1911; Leu Billings. 2 08% at three years, the daughter of Lou Dillon. 1:5814, the queen of trotters, and the handsome stallion Wilmering, 2:12'4. in addition there being a running pacemaker to assist in their work and exhibitions On the first trip of the Billings stable to Russia and other European countries In 1909 it was made up of entirely differ rent horses, the star at that time being Lou Dillon herself Its advent created Intense interest among European lovers of the trotter, but that attending the present troupe is even more pronounced. Offers $40,000 for Johnson. LAS VEGAS, N. M„ June 27 —Hugh Mclntosh, the Australian promoter, has written Champion Jack Johnson and , offered him 340.000 for a bout to be 8 fought in Australia Within the next year. It is supposed Johnson's pros pective antagonist is Sam Langford, though the name of that negro fighter is not mentioned. Mclntosh offers to post at once a forfeit of SIO.OOO as a guarantee of good faith. Johnson has not yet decided whether he will ac cept. DIXON TO BOX KILBANE. KANSAS CITY, June 27.—Tommy Dix on. featherweight champion boxer of the South, was matched today to meet Johnny Kilbane for the world's featherweight championship at Cleveland July 4 The bout will be of twelve rounds & 5c fl 5c 14; f sh mßw I|' : ‘gg[ Irllßi Wfik !RI JBF ■ f A llii Delicious—Refreshing IN ROTTLF.S-ICE COI .0 AT THE GAME “Call the Boy With the Khaki Coat” ■- ■ ...■■■ —— . ~,, , „„, ,„ ~ | FODDER FOR FANS — w offensively yesterday's ball game con sisted in one hit. the home run of Dave Callahan Defensively it was made up of more brilliant stuff than a world’s series. * • • Atlanta's new infielders. Agler and Har bison. had a chance to show some stuff before they had been playing on Atlanta grounds for two minutes. After Moran had singled at the beginning of the first inning Jordan stung a bunt down by first. It was one of those nasty push bunts for which Jordan is so justly famous and it was designed to sneak by Agler. But the new first baseman dashed in on it like a Hal Chase, picked up the ball cleverly, and without even looking hurled the pill for second, to head the speedy Moran, who often requires an awful lot of heading With Moran coming into the base spikes first and with the throw a trifle short it was a hard chance for Harbison, but he handled it cleverly. ♦ ♦ • There's no holding Harry Bailey down these days. He made two of the three hits that. Bill Chappeile gave up. • • • Both pitchers had the control of a Tam many chieftain. Chappeile walked just one man. Agler. Brady didn’t walk a sin gle man. • • • Newt Ethridge, former business man ager of the Atlanta club and now presi dent of the Macon club, was in Atlanta yesterday for the game and there was a reunion of the working force of other days at the Chattanooga bench, with For mer Business Manager Ethridge, a for mer club president. W R. Joyner, a for * mer manager, Bill Smith, and a former team captain. Otto Jordan, taking part, with some assistance from former players. Moran, Barr and Sentell. Newt Ethridge brings the news that “Mary" Calhoun, former Tech first base man, is going great guns for Macon. He Is batting over 300 and fielding like a fiend. • » • Os course Catcher Hannah, of the look out team, is nicknamed "Mark." Sentell is the same old sunny-natured Paul He even got up an argument and a jawing match yesterday with Bill Chap peile. than whom there is none better natured. A • • Only one umpire was on the job—Col Rudderham. But he proved a plenty. “Ruddy’’ fell fiat, as Kavanaugh's um pires all do, in failing to enforce the balk rule. After Agler had walked in the fifth Chappeile threw to first without stepping or even looking toward the bag and Agler was caught off flat-footed. It was as cold-blooded a balk as ever happened, but Rudderham didn’t allow it. • ♦ • If any umpire called a balk on a South ■ ern league pitcher these days he would fall dead from surprise. The Atlanta bats didn’t arrive until just as the game began. If they had never turned up it wouldn’t have made a lot of difference yesterday Io anybody but Bai ley and Callahan. George Stovall is leaving it to his < atrh . ers to decide when a pitcher is skidding so ’badly that iie should be retired. He ; figures they are likely to know more about ’ It than he does * • * Boh Groom is one ffitcher who isn't HeRN-SHEIM seared by a reputation. His most effect ’ ive work is done, against men like Cobb. I Crawford, Bodie. Collins and ths other “Hard Ikes” of the American league. • a a Montreal papers are charging that Chick ’ Gandlll didn’t do his best for the Inter- . l national league team. And, naturally, i Chick is sore. So good is the work of Sterrett, the ■ young Princeton catcher, is doing with the Yanks that “Gabby” Street is likely to be ■ released. • With the Washington club going strong 1 1 the Capital City association is making a 1 keg of money. 1 Walter Johnson is rapidly getting his health and strength back and should be able to go some before the week is out. Paddy Bauman, one of Detroit’s utility Infielders, has been turned over to Provi dence —not because Providence wanted him, but because Jennings wanted to be rid of him. » • • » Whenever the talk turns to “come backs” it brings up in time against the case of Jake Stahl. He is back —and back good and strong at that. Zeb Milan, of Linden. Tenn., is out for Ty Cobb’s laurels as a base-stealer He is chasing them hard and if the Wash ington club gives him any encouragement he may. pass the Georgia flyer. • • • There you go again, Adeline: Bone setter Reese has announced that there is nothing the matter with Cy Young’s arm and that he should be able to pitch again after a good rest. ♦ ♦ • Ty Cobb gets $6 every time he comes to bat and $6 every time he fields a ball. Os course they don’t actually hand it to him, but averaging up his salary with his times at bat and his fielding efforts that’s the way it works out. He gets about S6O a game, which is at the rate of nearly S3O an hour. ♦ ♦ ♦ Ralph Mattis, of Richmond, who was with Washington in the spring, is said to be the best outfielder in the Virginia league this season • • « Tom Smith was sure hatting some In Chicago the other day He. made 209 runs. Yes. cricket; not baseball! • • • The hit that put the Cubs in second place was a homer and James Archer : hit it. • • V The Havana Daily Post throws a weekly fit when the hatting averages of the Southern league come in. Those Cubans are certainly tickled over what Almeida is doing So, it might be added, is all Bir -1 mlngham. • • • Yes. it took a benefit game to get. the Richmond I’. S. league team out of the ’ burg. Somebody ought to start a series of "New Managers for Brooklyn." The last we heard of was Larry Doyle. The Dodg ers are to get him and Josh Devore for t Nap Rucker —yes, they are. t Open gambling in the stands is ruining the sport in New York, according to news paper stories Nobody seems to nave time t to stop it Crackers* Batting Averages, Including Yesterday's Game The averages include games played to date. ~~Players— | G. |AB.| R, | ri.' Dessau, p 13 38 8 18 .133 Harbison, ss 11 41 4 13 .317 Hemphill, cf 60 237 27 75 .316 Bailey. If 64 232 43 78 382 O'Dell, lb. ’ 59 205 32 54 .265 Alperman, 3b 64 246 34 60 .244 O’Brien, ss 52 172 19 43 .244 McElveen, 3b 70 254 33 59 .232 Graham, c 22 65 7 15 .231 Callahan, cf 22 97 11 23 .327 Atkins, p‘l2 32 i 3 7 .219 Donahue, c(2l 64 ’ 7 14 .217 Sitton, p 12 29 1 6 .207 Ready, p 7 n A 2 .095 Agler, lb, 1 2 o'B .008 STOVALL NEEDS ONLY 20 NEW MEN FOR 1913 TEAM ST LOUIS, June 27.— 1 f the scouts can bring in the talent this summer and this fall there will be little resem blance between the 1912 and 1913 Browns. This is looking far. far ahead, but Manner Stovall has adopted such a system, preparing for the. future. Os course, Stovall Is anxious to mak® a goofl record this season and if pos sible shove some other team down into last place, but at present he is laying* his foundation on the 1913 Browns. Stovall, naturally, is not satisfied with the team he owns and he doesn’t make this a secret, and if youngsters of fair major league knowledge arrive this fall the fans may see an entirely new set of athletes in the spring of 1913 A R G E N Tl NEPO LO~TEA M MAY PLAYJN AMERICA BOSTON, June 27.—Promise of raal international polo at Narragansett Pier this year is contained In the in vitation extended by the Point Judith Polo club to the Argentine team to take part in the open championships tourneys between July 29 and August 24. The Argentine team is made up of two Irishmen and two Englishmen, ail - of whom have business interests in the Argentine. Their South American ponies are branded and rough looking, but rare gallopers and very handy. Aided by the handicap odds, the Argen- tine team won the Whitney cup tour nament at Hurlingham, England. Baseball FRIDAY ATLANTA vs. GHAHANOO6A Pence DeLeon—Sime Called 4:50 * J 5 * 1 “i s i liisi hM sc s < ! j. £ gg s®nJ= ar & m “ SSi o 8 K * S 15