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FIGHT WITH O’KEEFE
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HEN Pooh-Bah Brownfield.
i matchrnaker-referee
promoter-manager - Janitor
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of the transplanted Gate City Ath
letic < lub. of the tire-trap fame,
gave Tommy O’Keefe, of Philadel
phia, a decision over f-’rank Whit
ney. of Cedar Rapids, after their
ten-round bou 1 he hit the boxing
game in Atlanta another foul blow.
For it was Whitney s fight. not
O’Keefe’s Whitney’s by a shade
so big as to be percept able lo 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 tha when
It was rendered by the Handy
Andv of the Gate City club there
were howls from tile 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 im
CUNNINGHAM CUP PLAY
NEARING SEMI-FINALS
Play has nearly reached the semi
finals stage in the four flights of the
golf tournament for the W. W. Cun
ningham gold trophy, several matches
belnc played yesterday Here thev are:
FIRST FLIGHT.
Second Round,
R P. Jones defeated C Knowles,
4 up and 2 Io play.
R E. Richards defeated G W. .Adair,
3 up and 2 to plat.
SECOND FLIGHT.
Second Round.
T A Hammond defeated C G Lip
poki. (i up and I to play
C. Angier defeated I> Brown. 2 up
and 1 to play
Semi ■ Final*.
C Angiei defeated T A Hammond,
1 up. 19 holes.
THIRD FLIGHT.
Second Round.
II K Neri defeated \ H l.ippold, 1
up. 24 holes.
VV. W. Cunningham defeated \V M
Ma kham. 2 up ami 1 to play
D. R. Henry defeated E. D Dunean,
3 up and 1 to play.
FOURTH FLIGHT.
First Round.
H \ Rodg.-iy defeated H M Blount
by default.
T. H. Latham defeated .1 M R.-aslev
by default
Second Round.
E. G Ottley defeated R P Jam «.
Jr.. 7 up an<l 5 to play
Semi ■ Finals.
E G. <>ttley defeated W I. Hu.lon,
3 up and 2 to play.
DICK GILBERT BEATS
KREIDER IN 4 ROUNDS
CHATTANOOGA. TENN July 5. -
•T'tghting Dick" Gilbert, of Jackson
ville. was given the decision over Rude
Kreider, of Rome Ga in the fourth
round of a scheduled eight-round fight
here When Kreider went to the mat
his seconds < laimed a foul It was not
allowed.
Kid Sylvester, of Kansas city. and
Johnny Flynn. of Memphis negroes,
fought eight rounds to a dray'
MOBILE IN HUNTSVILLE
HENTSVILLE. ALA . July a The M.>
bile baseball team will plaj a game with
the Huntsville team of the Southeastern
league on July 10 Manager Finn has
telegraphed acceptance of an offer tc
bring the Gulls here, that date being
open The Selina team will be playing
«ere at the time and arrangements will
ae made to have a double-headei ,m
’uly 9.
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’ HERNSHEIM CIGAH
vjood l jrqpke
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pressive. He got as good as an
even break in every other round.
<' Keefe used hull ring methods,
making a big show of aggressive
ness with bluff rushes that did
about us much damage as a good
stiff jolt from a Jmuse fly.
It wasn't a bad bout, except that
there was too much w'restllng and
not enough punching. Whitney’s
cleverness gave him all the edge
and his defensive work against the
well-meant blows of O'Keefe saved
him from any serious damage
There was nothing about the
scrap al any stage that gave
O’Keefe any edge. He did not land
as many blows as bis opponent. He
did not land as hard. He had noth
ing on points or in execution.
Boxing is tn 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.
NATIONAL COMMISSION
i ANNOUNCES NEW RULING
CINCINNATI, July 5. —The national
baseball commission announced the fol
lowing notice to all national agreement
5 clubs:
"To eStabliah 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
■ ami contract with the club to which he
is transferred, the 'commission directs
that club to protect both parties to the
ileal from responsibiliy for his salary
during ills 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 Kll
bane defeated Tommy Dixon in a
( twelxe-round contest here last night.
Tht bout was fast and interesting.
Dixon was strong for nine rounds,
but iit ti e 'enlh Kill ane carried the
fight steadily to the Kansas City lad.
and in the eleventh had him hanging
on the ropes.
The tight was delayed two hours b>
a great crowd breaking down the
turnstiles giving admittance to the
arena. Until those who had not paid
were weeded out the management
i would not proceed with the bout,
LOOKOUTS BUY PAIR
OF CRACK INFIELDERS
1 CHATTANOOGA, TENN, July 5.
t Chattanooga Hurehased Third Baseman
< Bunting from New Orleans and Infield
t er Miller from St. Louis. Rohe will
play third for New Orleans. Chatta-
I nooga will release Runser. Otto Jor
dan is threatened with typhoid fever
and may be out for the rest of the sea
son
BASEBALL FEUD OVER.
It JACKSON. MISS Julx 5 An amica
n ble adjustment of the eontroversx he
s tween President A Lewis, of the Cotton
o . States league, and the Jackson ami Yazoo
g I City clubs, was reachexl at a meeting of
k I the league directors yesterday. an<i the
II ‘ baseball feud is apparently at an end,
n with no harm done save a tew feelings
I hurt
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
I Hemp Has a Real Ball Club Now, If It Is Losing
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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 Rilllkens 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.
Rut 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 Cracker, nor
Neal Ball, nor Al Oemaree (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
ease. And he won because he out
pitched Tommy Atkins and not
through any failure on the part of
his teammates.
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A LL of which brings us back to
* * 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 Ibaubert. 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 tht
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 Daubcrt or a
I Erank 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.
' Aglet Is built more along the
physical lines of Chase than he is
of the conventional first baseman
1 of the Jim Fox or the Abstein type.
I 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 Jias
had the benefit of the tutoring of
the Cub staff of experts. But a
man who Is showing a lot. of whom
so much is not reasonably to be
1 expected, is Douglas Harbison
' This youngster from the deep and
’ dingy hushes came almost unher
’ aided, but he came with a rush
and he has been coming right
. along ever since.
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U/lIV. drat that Atlanta team.
’ it’s a 'eal ball elub as
stands today. Callahan has blos
somed out tn a point where lie is
oven better than lie was his best
daj last year. Bailee is improv •
ing everv minute. McElveen in
putting up a game (hat Is on a par
with his best ever shown in the
Southern The catching staff con
tinues io de well And the two
who have been going good everv
minute of everv game all the sea
son Hemphill and Xlpernian
i continue in th" same snide.
And vet. blast the luck, tin
I Cracker team continues to hover
around the bottom of the ladder, come the, squirrel club for sure,
with no real symptoms of going * • •
higher. You can’t keep a squirrel T” R seol,tinß davs are here - Mtke
c. „ .i i. , Kahoe, of the Washington
club on the ground, though, and u .
team, watched the performance
the Cracker club is a squirrel club yesterday, and from now on the
if we ever saw one. big league sleuths will be dropping
All that will keep the Crackers in on Atlanta every’ few days and
down now Is the pitching stajf looking over the talent.
And If we’re any judge of the bird, , UnleS j S , Harb ' Son can Bet ,he
, , team ablaze, the Crackers arc not
that Bucko’ Becker, the Pride of likely to have anythlng this year
the Navy Yard, is not going to which will get the scouts on the
hold the Crackers back any. This run. Bailey, who is doing bril-
new left-hander pitched a mffchty llant work, belongs to the New
Impressive game yesterday morn- York Americans, and will prob
ing He just breezed along and he ably be called back for a trial
had the Rilllkens calling for help with them next spring. The. only
for nine full innings. On the Atlanta pitcher who Is doing real-
strength of Ms work yesterday he ly first-class work Is Vedder Slt-
will make Atlanta a winning ton. and he 1s hardly likely to be
pitcher. recalled Into fast company—
If this other new man, Waldorf, though you never can tell. Bob
proves to be anything worth talk- Spade was, and Otto Hess and a
ing about, the Crackers will be- few others.
| FODDER FOR FANS~~|
A farmer lad named William Traynor lected one. but the schedule committee
was killed by being hit over the heart by crabbed it. "However " says Charles
a pitched ball In a game at Charley Bluff, "History is full of incidents and Auzust
Wis. He dropped when the ball hit him full of dates ’’
and was picked up dead • • •
„.„..*** L , lr l the recent Nap-Brown series Joe
The Cards have won every game that Jackson and Larrv Lajole produced ’’6
Roger Bresnahan has worked as catcher runs.
this year. • • •
* * * President Frank Nevin, of the Tigers
Artie Hofman is charging in published has issued a denial of the report that he
Interviews tliat Charley Murphy knew he said he was dissatisfied with Jennings as
was suffering a nervous breakdown when a manager. He admits that he Is dissat
he traded him to Pittsburg Dreyfuss is isfied with the team, but he has nothing
said to have stated that Murphy repre- on Jennings in that,
sented that Hofman was In excellent » • •
health. Nasty stench about this thing From the epigrams of Tom Sharkey:
somewhere, "Kids don’t care any' more about boxing
‘ It’s all baseball." '
Anyhow the St. Louis Browns are plan- • » »
ning ahead. They have placed Outfielder Hany Mclntyre, former Chicago and
Robert Young in care of Charley Stis at Memphis pitcher, is going to quit base-
Peoria for a season’s seasoning, they will ball soon and open a booze place in Chi
get Bunny Brief from Travers City next cago.
month for a trial and they have purchased » • «
Pitcher Napier, who recently pitched a A sheriff has been chasing Rube Mar
one-hit no-pass no-run game for the quard in an effort to collect a bill due a
Sherman team of the Texas-Oklahoma theatrical paper for advertising his act
league. . * last year.
The Browns have but one ambition this Jimmy Dygert. ex-Pelican, has been
year, which is to win more games than unconditionally released bv Baltimore
Rube Marquard. » » • '
Speaking of the fact that Rube Mar-
Somebody has characterized the Na- quard has got all of an even break in his
tlonal league race as a three-nionths race for the consecutive winning record,
yawm. one of the Giant players said the other
* ’ * day, "The scorers should have given Mar-
•limniy Adams, the youngster who quard credit for that game yesterday
pitched the Browns to victory against the Didn’t he warm up in the ninth 9 ”
Naps, hails from Albright college in Penn- • • •
sylvania At that it took a rescue crew The New York fans are after Hal Chase
to get him through alive. anf j L e w j]j b e traded. What, with bad
xirm ***.•• . , health, business troubles and family rows.
Edgar Willett set a new long-distance he is playing punk ball. Therefore, there
hitting mark for Detroit when he made seems nothing to do but let him out.
two home runs in two consecutive in- • • •
nInKS Ed Sweeney was late in reporting and
* * • late in rounding to, but they say now
Charley Ebbetts wants to open his new that he is easib the best catcher in the
ball park on some historic date. He se- American league.
DODGERS STOP GIANTS McGOORTY BEATS BROWN:
BY WINNING 2 GAMES SHERIFF STOPS BATTLE
NEW YORK. July s.—Brooklyn broke BENTON HARBOR. MICH. July 5
New York’s winning streak yesterday by T he Eddie McGoortv-Knockout Brown !
taking two games. The scores were 10 fight was stop ed b !be sheriff u . h(l
to 4 and a to 2. In the first game Math- .
ewson was knocked out of the box. Tes- fighters and officials m the
rcau. who relieved him. was also knocked <lsi lPn sec °nds of the tenth and last
out. and Crandall finished the game, but Found, charging them with violating
was i amrnered hard Yingling caved in the Michigan boxing laws It was Mc
under the excessive heat in the fourth Goorty’s fight all through,
and had to be assisted off the field. Ra-
gon finished strong for Brooklyn. .
Wiltse was hammered hard in the early HERRICK BESTS M'KENNA,
innings of the second game, while Stack FORT WAYNE, IND. July s—Nei
was effective In every inning but tlte , ~ . , • u 1
fourth, when X’ew York hunched three tiler Joe Herrick, a young puillst from
of their hits for two runs. Chicago, nor Patsy McKenna, who
claims the welterweight championship ;
TOMMY DEVLIN WINNER of CallfomlH, Shows a disfiguring mark
num v AMurr ecu I/ADT7 todav as a result of a ,en >‘’und bout
OVER YANKEE SCHWARTZ yesterday afternoon. There was no
ring decision, but the popular opinion
NASHVILLE. TENN . July 5. -Tom- favored Herrick, The rounds were
mt Devlin, of Philadelphia, complete- slow and without feature. Botli light
ly outfought Yankee Schwartz, of ers were under 150 pounds. Eddie San-
Philadelphia. in an l ight - round Fourth ley was referee.
of July bout here. Schwartz held his
opponent in the first round, but aft"r
tliat the battle was all Devlin’s. MORAN STOPS MILLS.
The fight was an exciting one with EE PASO, TEXAS. Jul> 5 Frank
plenty of good blows, and Schwartz Moran, an English fighter, was given the
fought steadilt until the end. Both < TnkH'.J'T’ ’ l < ' !,,er,lay
of the lighters showed classy footwork in eighth round. The 'negro "broke
In the opening rounds b j s thumb in the second round, but stuck
to the tight. Tommy Ryan refereed the
battle.
GOTCH DOWNS SMEJKAL.
CHICAGO. July s.—Champion Frank
Goteh defeated Joe Sniejkal in straight PRINCETON STAR LET OUT.
falls he’e. The first fall came in sex- SACRA M EN’l’t t. CAI... July 5. Herb!
■n minutes and twentx seconds on Byram former Princeton star, has been
itiiinmet -ha k hold, and th< second in given his unconditional release bx th"
four minutes and fifty-five seconds on Sacramento club. Byram has pitched
a crotch hold. and lost eight games this season.
SM I TH JOLTS TALENT
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 xvhen Carleton Smith
defeated Nat Thornton yesterday in
the Southern 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 who 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 1s
playing a corking game and should
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
without a single hard match. In
the lower frame Smith and Thorn
ton did the same thing. When they
come 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,
which will be played Saturday aft
ernoon, should be a corker.
The tvomen'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 Next Orleans, in
the challenge round. This, by the
way, will be the only challenge
Ntnd 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
xveather there should he galleries
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Some good reasons:
1. Experience has taught
men that this is a store
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"If It's Correct, It’s at Hartman's"
of large proportions both this aft
ernoon and tomorrow. Refer-,
yrank Reynolds will schedule sows
good stuff for both afternoons, and
as this seems to he a big year for
tennis in Atlanta, the seating • -
parity of the East Lake stands is
likely to be well tested.
Only two matches were played up
to noon today, while a couple w< re
put over by default. The results
follow:
Mixed Doubles, Semi-finals—Mrs.
Seymour and Thornton defeated
Mrs. Taylor and Hochendale >y
default. Mrs. O'Brien and < '.<r
ton Smith defeated Miss Sturgeon
and Clark by default.
Men’s Singles Consolation, Semi
final Round —Orr defeated Bailey,
6-4, 6-1.
Women’s Consolation, Final
Round —Mrs. John Milan defeated
Miss O’Brien, 6-3, 8-6.
The Southern Lawn Tennis as
sociation announces that the fol
lowing prizes will be awarded:
Men's singles, silver vase; run
ner-up, silver pitcher. Men's dou
bles, two silver goblets; ladies’ sin
gles. silver hand mirror; runner-up.
stiver clothes brush. Mixed dou
bles, unbrellas; men's consolations,
belt with silver buckle; ladies' con
solation, silver loving cup.
WORLD'S FASTEST MOTOR
BOAT IN CHICAGO RACES
Mawdesley Brooke's hydroplane.
Baby VI, the fastest motor eraft ever
constructed in Great Britain, has been
launched and given her first trials. She
has proved a success in every way. ami
Brooke has cabled Commodore William
Hale Thompson, of the Associated
Yacht and Power Boat Clubs of Amer
ica, that the little flyer would he
shipped to America next week.
The boat will be shipped tight
through to Chicago, where she will he
turned up for the championship of
America, for which she will compete
during naval pageant week, August 10
to 17.
GEHRING THROWS BERRY
IN TWO STRAIGHT FALLS
CLEVELAND. OHIO. July 5. -H;'
ry Behring, of Cleveland, who elai'i.
the middleweight wrestling champmr
ship, Friday threw Bob Berry. H
English contender for the honor, tv
straight falls.
It required 21 minutes so tiehrli'-
to win the first with a crotch ar 1
half Nelson. The second fall he w" ( >
in 25 minutes with a toe hold.
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