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For It was Whitney’s fight, not O’Keefe's—Whitney's by a shade so big as to tie pvrc-eptable to any Competent judge of fighting Whether this decision was due to Incompetence, spite, favoritism or some other cause is hard to deter mine. but so raw was it that when it was rendered by the Handy Andy of the Gate City club there were howls from the spectators. And this morning there was rough talk in sporting circles, especially among those who had wagered their money on Whitney and then seen It taken from them by an un fair decision. Whitney had the first round and the tenth by margins that were itn- CUNNINGHAM CUP PLAY NEARING SEMI-FINALS Play has nealx reached the semi finals stage tn the four flights of the golf tournament for the W. W. Cun ningham gold trophy, several match- • being played yesterday. Hi re thev are: FIRST FLIGHT. Second Round. R. P. Jon-- defeated C Knowles, 4 up and 2 to play R. E. Richards defeated G. W. Adair, gE ■ 3up and 2 to plav. SECOND FLIGHT. Second Round. T. A. Hammond defeated C. G. Lip- J>old. 6 up and 4 to play C. Angier defeated I). Brown, 2 up B.nd 1 to play Senn - Finals. H - C. Angier defeated T A. Hammond. IW 1 up. 19 holes. THIRD FLIGHT. Second Round. H. K Neer defeated A. 11 Lippold, 1 i up. 24 holes. W. W. Cunningham defeated W M M Markham. 2 up and 1 to play . D. R Henry defeated E D Duncan. 3 up and 1 to piav FOURTH FLIGHT. First Round. H. A. Rodgers defeated B. M Blount by default T. H. Latham defeated ,1. m. Beasley by default. Second Round. E. G. Ott’< v defeated R. P Jones, Jr, 7 up and *> to play Semi • Finals. E. G. Ottley defeated \\ L Hudson, 3 up and 2 to | ’ay . DICK GILBERT BEATS KREIDER IN 4 ROUNDS ; CHATTANOOGA TENN July ’• "Fighting I Hck Gilbert, of Jackson ville. was given th. decision ox et Rud. K Kreider, of Rome Ga.. in the fourth round of a schedul'd eight-round fight here. When Kreider went to the mat his seconds claimed a foul. It was not ». allowed. Kid Sylvester, of Kansa> city and Johnny Flynn, of Memphis negroes, fought eight rounds to a draw. MOBILE IN HUNTSVILLE HC.NTSVIf.iI. ALA.. lui; ", The Mo bile baseball lean, wifi play a game x\'h : the Huntsville team of thr Southeastern league on July 10 Manager Finn has K. telegraflhed acceptance of ar. her to bring the Gulls I ere, that date being {’l Open. The Selma team will be playing here at the time and arrangements will be made to have a double-header on ar- July 9 II Hernsheim.Cjgar I Tliiwaxs I ’ ■ er > nine, 4s, * o R ,c i presslve. He got as good as an even break in every other round. (t'Keefe used bull ring methods, making a big show of aggressive ness with bluff rushes that did about as much damage as a good stiff Jolt from a house fly. It wasn't a bad bout, except that there was too much wrestling and not enough punching. Whitney’-: cleverness gave him all the edge and his defensive work against the well-meant blows of O'Keefe saved him from any -erious damage There was nothing about the scrap at any stage that gave O'Keefe any edge. He did not land as many blows as his opponent. He did not land as hard. He had noth ing on points or in execution. Boxing is in a bad way in At lanta It is merely tolerated here now. The first crusade against it will put the everlasting kibosh on it. The only chance of keeping it . is to run it fairly and decently. Any other tactics will kill it. And it isn't feeling very well this morn ing. I NATIONAL COMMISSION ANNOUNCES NEW RULING CINCINNATI. July 5.—-The national baseball commission announced the fol lowing notice to all national agreement clubs: "To establish uniformity in action by clubs when a player, released by a major league club to a minor league club and by a minor league club to a major league club, refuses to report to and contract with the club to which he is transferred, the commission directs that club to protect both parties to the deal from responsibilly for his salary during his insubordination by promptly suspending him. "Payment, in part of in whole, of the consideration for the release of such player will not be enforced until he is reinstated and actually enters the serv ice of the purchasing club." CHAMPION KILBANE IS VICTOR OVER DIXON CLEVELAND, OHIO. July s.—Ac cording to popular verdict Johnny Kil bune defeated Tommy Dixon in a twelve-round contest here last night. The bout was fast and interesting. Dixon was strong for nine rounds, but iti the 'enth Kiltane carried the fight steadily to the Kansas City lad. and in the eleventh had him hanging on the ropes. The fight was delayed two hours by a great crowd oreaking down the turnstiles giving admittance to the arena. Until those who had not paid were weeded out the m tnagemen* I would not proceed with the bout. LOOKOUTS BUY PAIR OF CRACK INFIELDERS CHATTANOOGA TENN.. July 5 Chattanooga purchased Third Baseman Bunting from New Orleans and Infield er Miller from St. Louis. Rohe will play third for Now Orleans. Chatta nooga will releas- Runser otto Jor dan is threatened with typhoid fever and may be out for the rest of the sea. son. , BASEBALL FEUD OVER JACKSON. MISS July 5 An amica- I hie adjustment of the controversy be lt ween President A Lewis, of the Cotton : States league, and the Jackson and Taxon I <Tty clubs, was reached at a meeting of j the league directors yesterday, and the i baseball feud Is apparently at an end. | with no harm done save a few feelings I hurt. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN' AND NEWS. FRIDAY. JTTLY 5. 1912. Hemp Has a Real Ball Club Now, If It Is Losing 4"»+ •}••+ •{••+ +•+ +•+ Agler Is the Best First Baseman Dug Up in Ages By Percy H. Whiting. THERE'S a lot of fun watch ing the Crackers play these days, even If they do lose at least every other game. For Hemphill's bunch is a real ball club, made up of real ball players, and when its pitching strength Is increased until it is on a par with its playing and its batting strength it is going to sweep the league. And I don't care if they did lose to the debilitated Billikens yester day afternoon, score 5 to 3. The Cracker and Billiken teams showed about equal offensive and defensive strength yesterday af ternoon. outside the slab position. But Paige pinned it on the Crack ers. while Atkins was hit hard. Yes, true enough, Paige was, just the other day, a Cracker. And he couldn't have won regularly in that uniform against the tail-end team of the Federal Penitentiary League. Neither was Bert Max well any good as a.Qracker, nor Neal Ball, nor Al Demaree (though they didn't even bother to find out in Al’s case.) They were no good as Crackers. They become won ders elsewhere. We don't atempt an explanation. It's just "one of them things." The fact remains, though, that Paige, who couldn't win for the Crackers, managed to win from them yesterday with something almost bordering on case. And ho won because he out pitched Tommy Atkins and not through any failure on the part of his teammates. • * a A LL of which brings us back tn ** the original contention that Atlanta has a real ball club. And more than that, Atlanta has the best fielding first baseman that's been in the league since the days of Jake Dnubert. His name is Joe Agler, and he hasn’t been a. Crack er long. Any time you want to see a real baseball player in action, come out to the park and watch Joe go to It. Now. of course, when in any mi nor league it becomes necessary to talk of great performing on the first sack it is customary to lug in the name of Harold •Chase, erst while great player of the never very-wonderful Highlanders. Now Agler is no Hal Chase and he’s not even a Jake Daubert, or a Frank Chance. Rut his fielding certainly does remind one. In a mild way. of Chase’s work. He pulled some stuff yesterday after noon that would have been some what to the credit even of Chase. Agler is built more along the physical lines of Chase than he is of the conventional first baseman of the Jim Fox or the Absteln type. He is slight, flexible, agile, quick. And he'll do for the Cracker team. You expect pretty good ball for Agler. for he has been playing in the International league, and has had the benefit of the tutoring of the Cub staff of experts. Rut a man who is showing a lot. of whom so much is not reasonably to be expected, is Douglas Harbison. This y oungster, from the deep and dingy bushes came almost unher alded. but he came with a rush and' ho has been coming right along ever since. • • • tv HY. drat that Atlanta team, *’ it's a real ball club as it stands today. Callahan has blos somed out to a point where he is even better than he was his best day last year, Bailey Is improv ing every minute. McElveen is putting up a game that is on a par with his best ever shown in the Southern. The catching staff con tinues to de well. And the two who have been erdng good every minute of every game all the sea son—Hemphill and Alperman continue In the same stride And ye - , blast the luck, the Cracker team continues to hover around the bottom of the ladder, with no real symptoms of going higher. You can't keep a squirrel club on the ground, though, and the. Cracker club is a squirrel club if we ever saw one. All that will keep the Crackers down now is the pitching staff. And if we're any judge of the bird, that "Bucko" Becker, the Pride of the Navy - Yard, is not going to hold the Crackers back any. This new left-hander pitched a mighty impressive game yesterday morn ing. He just breezed along and he had the Billikens calling for help for nine full innings. On the strength of his work yesterday he will make Atlanta a winning pitcher. If this other new’ man. Waldorf, proves to be anything worth talk ing about, the Crackers will be- FODDER FOR FANS A farmer lad named William Traynor was killed by being hit over the heart by a pitched ball in a game at Charley Bluff, Wis. He dropped when the ball hit him and was picked up dead. ♦ • * The Cards have won every game that Roger Bresnahan has worked as catcher this year. ♦ ♦ * Artie Hofrnan is charging in published interviews that Charley Murphy knew he was suffering a nervous breakdown when he traded him to Pittsburg. Dreyfuss is said to have stated that Murphy repre sented that Hofman was in excellent health. Nasty stench about this thing somewhere. * ♦ * Anyhow the St. Louis Browns are plan ning ahead They have placed Outfielder Robert Young in care of Charley Stis at Peoria for a season’s seasoning, they will get Bunny Brief from Travers City next month for a trial and they have purchased Pitcher N'apier, who recently pitched a one-hit no-pass no-run game tor the Sherman team of the Texas-Oklahoma league. ♦ * * The Browns have but one ambition this year, which is to win more games than Rube Marquard. • * « Somebody has characterized the Na tional league race as a three-months yawn. • a • Jimmy Adams, the youngster who pitched the Browns to victory against the Naps, hails from Albright college In Penn sylvania. At that >t took a rescue crew to get him through alive. Edgar Willett set a new long-distance hitting mark for Detroit when he made two home runs in two consecutive in nings. • • • Charley Ebbetts warns to open his new ball park on some historic date He se- DODGERS STOP GIANTS BY WINNING 2 GAMES NEW YORK, July s.—Brooklyn broke New York's winning streak yesterday by taking two games. The scores were. 10 to 4 and sto 2. In the first game Math ewson was knocked out of the box. Tes reau, who relieved him. was also knocked out. and Crandall finished the game, but was hamraerel hard- Yingling caved in under the excessive heat in the fourth and had to be assisted off the field. Ra gon finished strong for Brooklyn. Wiltse was hammered hard tn the early innings of the second game, while Stack was effective in eve’y inning but the fourth, when New York bunched three of their hits for two runs TOMMY DEVLIN WINNER OVER YANKEE SCHWARTZ NASHVILLE, TENN.. July s.—Tom my Devlin, of Philadelphia, complete ly outfought Yankee Schwartz, of Philadelphia, in an eight-round Fourth of July bout here Schwartz held his opponent in the first round, but aft»r that the battle was all Devlin's. The fight was an exciting one with plenty of good blows, and Schwartz fought steadily until the end. Both of the fighters showed classy footwork in the opening rounds GOTCH DOWNS SMEJKAL. CHICAGO, July s—Champion Frank Gotcn defeated Joe Smejka; in straight falls here. The first fall came in sev en minuter and twenty seconds on hammer-lock hold, and the second in four minutes and fifty-five seconds on a crotch hold. come the squirrel club for sure. ♦ ♦ ♦ r J'HE scouting days are here. Mike Kahoe, of the Washington team, watched the performance yesterday, and from now on the big league sleuths will be dropping in on Atlanta every few - days and looking over the talent. Unless Harbison can set the team ablaze, the Crackers are not likely to have anything this year which will get the scouts on the run. Bailey, who is dofhg bril liant work, belongs to the New York Americans, and will prob ably be called back for a trial with them next spring. The only Atlanta pitcher who is doing real ly first-class work is Vedder Sit ton. and he is hardly likely to be recalled into fast company— though you never can tell. Bob Spade was, and Otto Hess and a few others. T n ?.’ but the schedule committee "w... ? . However," says Charles. ' , ■ < s f u,! incidents and August i full of dates » • » In the recent Nap-Brown series Joe Jackson and Larry Lajoie produced 26 ■ runs * * « President Frank Nevin, of the Tigers, 1 has issued a denial of the report that he ! said he was dissatisfied with Jennings as 1 ? manager. He admits that he is dissat t Isfied wdth the team, but he has nothing on Jennings' in that. • • • ! th . e epigrams of Tom Sharkey: Kids don t care any more about boxing It's all baseball." • • « ■ ~H arr> ’ Mclntyre, former Chicago and . Memphis pitcher, is going to quit base l ball soon and open a booze place in Chi cago. . . . A sheriff has been chasing Rube Mar ! quard In an effort to collect a bill due a • theatrical paper for advertising his act last year. ♦ ♦ ♦ i Jimmy Dygert, ex-Pelican, has been : unconditionally released hx- Baltimore • • • Speaking of the fact that Rube Mar quard has got all of an even break in his > race for the consecutive winning record one of the Gtant players said th* other day. "The scorers should have given Mar- • quard credit for that game yesterday. Didn't he warm up In the ninth?" V • « The New York fans are after Hal Chase and he will be traded. What, with bad health, business troubles and familx- rows he Is playing punk ball. Therefore, there seems nothing to do but Jet him out. • • • Ed Sweeney was late tn reporting and late in rounding to. but thev say now that he is easily the best catcher in the American league. McGOORTY BEATS BROWN; SHERIFF STOPS BATTLE , BENTON HARBOR, MICH.. July 5. The Eddie McGoorty-Knockout Brown fight was stopped by the sheriff, who arrested the fighters and officials In the last ten seconds of the tenth and last round, charging them with violating the Michigan boxing laws. It was Mc- Goorty's fight all through. HERRICK BESTS M’KENNA. FORT WAYNE. IND, July s.—Nei ther Joe Herrick, a young puilist from Chicago, nor Patsy McKenna, who claims the welterweight championship of California, shows a disfiguring mark today as a result of a ten-round bout yesterday afternoon. There was no ring decision, but the popular opinion favored Herrick. The rounds were , slow and without feature Both fight ers were winder 150 pounds. Eddie San ley was referee. MORAN STOPS MILLS. EL PASO, TEXAS. July s.—Frank Moran, an English fighter, tvas given the decision in the Juarez bull ring yesterday over Dave Mills, an Oakland, Cal , negro, in the eighth round The negre broke hts thumb tn the second round, but stuck to the fight. Tommy Ryan refereed the battle PRINCETON STAR LET OUT. SACRAMENTO. CAL.. July s.—Herb Byram, former Princeton star, has been given his unconditional release by the Sacramento club. Eyram has pitched and lost eight games this season. SMITH JOLTS TALE NT BY DOWNING THORNTON THAT you never can tell how a. sporting event is going to come out until the coming is all over was never better demon strated than when Carleton Smith defeated Nat Thornton yesterday in the So’uthern championship tourna ment at East Lake in the third round of men’s singles. And worse than that, he did it in straight sets, 7-5, 6-2. After the singles drawing had been made for the present tourna ment, Thornton said: “Carleton Smith will probably beat me. These hard courts suit him. He plays a back line game. I play the net. You can't play a net game on this vitrified clay. That gives him the advantage.” And so it proved. When the man xvho has won the Old Dominion and the South At lantic championships this year met the man who won the Tennessee, title the latter won. And it was unquestionably the deciding match of the tournament. The outcome of this match might have been expected, though it wasn’t. For Carleton Smith has been playing improved tennis of late and his brilliant game is the sort that is calculated to take any body’s measure any old time. In the semi-finals Smith meets E. V. Carter, Jr., and he will give the conqueror of Thornton a big game. Whoever wins in the semi-finals in that frame will doubtless have to meet L. D. Scott. This veteran is playing a corking game and should HARRISON NEAR DEATH FROM WALLOP ON HEAD PEORIA, ILL.. July s.—Phil Harri son. a Chicago lightweight, is hovering between life and death today in a hos pital here as a result of injuries in a ring battle with Harry Donohue, of Pekin, yesterday. The two men fought nine desperate rounds Up to the latter part of the eighth round Harrison had much the better of the fierce milling. Shortly after the opening of that round it is thought that Donahue caught Harrison a heavx blow behind the ear with his bare tore arm. Harrison immediately became help less. though he stood up under a ter rible shower of bloxvs. His seconds, seeing their man apparently helpless, threw a sponge Into the ring, stopping the cantest in the ninth round. Harrison was carried to a bath hous= near by. attended by only his seconds. He shortly began to sink. A physician was hastily called. He discovered a broken artery with his patient near death. He was hastened to a hospital, where desperate efforts are being made to save his life. '"lf It’s at Hartman’s, It’s Correct” MEN. WHY TRADE [ AT HARTMAN’S? Some good reasons: 1. Experience has taught men that this is a store of deeds, not words. 2. You can always depend on this store to sell the RIGHT things to wear at the RIGHT prices. 3. We never permit our stocks to grow stale. Everything new and fresh. Six Peachtree Street i Opp. Peters Bldgj “If It’s Correct, It’s at Hartman's” defeat Charest. The men’s doubles, unlike the singles, have come through to the final round without an upset. In the upper frame B. M. Grant and E. V. Carter, Jr., reached the finals xvithout a single hard match. In the lower frame Smith and Thorn ton did the same thing. When they conic together it will be a match for blood. Smith and Thornton should win, but they are erratic, while Car ter and Grant are steady. All four are brilliant players, and the match, w’hich will be played Saturday aft ernoon. should be a corker. The xvomen’s singles came through entirely according to schedule, and Mrs. Taylor, of Brooklyn, was the winner. In the entire tournament she lost only seven games. She will not find the going so good when she meets Miss Irving Murphy, of New Orleans, in the .challenge round. This, by the way, will be the only challenge round of the tournament, unless Conrad Doyle turns up unexpected ly, which isn't likely. A crowd of considerable size turned out yesterday afternoon to watch the matches, and with fair weather there should be galleries of large proportions both this aft ernoon and ' tomorrow. Referee Frank Reynolds will schedule some good stuff for both afternoons, and as this seems to be a big year for tennis in Atlanta, the. seating ca pacity of the East I.ake stands is likely to be xvell tested. THOMAS SHADES BEECHER IN SLUGGING BATTLE NEW ORLEANS, July s.—Joe Thomas, of this city, was awarded the decision over Willie Beecher, of New York, after a fast ten-round slugging match at the Orleans Athletic club. Two of the sport ing writers voted a draw and two others thought Thomas the winner. Both fight ers used their elbows and butted fre quently. JOE MANDOT DEFEATS TEMPLE IN HOT FIGHT MEMPHIS. TENN., July s.—After eight, rounds of fierce fighting. Joe Man dot, of New’ Orleans, was given the deci sion over Ray Temple, of Milwaukee, be fore a large crowd at the National Ath letic club here. FANS 24 BATTERS. CHARLOTTE. N C.. July s.—Pitch er Jaynes, a North Carolina college twirler. struck out 24 men, pitching for Morganton against a team of semi professionals of Lenoir. ? PER- ( J * MA X ENT €UB F | ) S of the most obstinate cases guaranteed in from C > 3 to 6 days ; no other treatment required. J ? Sold by all druegi’te. * ~^ ,fr XlWg- yJ«JW BEf Friday, July F Atlanta VS. Montgomery PONCE DE LEON PARK Game Called 4:00 C 3 *v 5 .j.i a'' . »es m u 9 c i• i ;■ “2 —i uj c t »8 *• o » i— c 5 z c S «x I- Cm ™ -£1 UU = CM «So