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Jake was always popular with his mates on the field and particularly so with the Red Sox, with whom he was employed before he got the delusion that it was time for him to retire The Bos tonians haven't been satisfied with their leadership for several years. They are tickled to death to have Jake in charge, for they believe he has good baseball sense and are fully convinced that he's a "good fellow " Have Good Chance to Win Flaq. The Sox may not win the pennant. In fact, although they are about seven games In front, nobody Is giving them an even chance with the Athletics, who have been good finishers of late But Boston has a better opportunity than stnee 1964, and the inhabitants of the bean and fish town ate therefore strong for Jake Stahl bed a great ball olub to start with. What It lacked In recent years I was s manager capable of getting the beet work out of the men If there Is a weak spot In the team it is seen at sec ond base, and Yerkes is now performing . acceptably there with Wagner on one aide of him and Stahl on the other, and with this good companionship he may hold up. Jake has used good Judgment in work ing his pitchers Other Boston managers thought Joe Wood was a delicate child who needed careful handling Stahl has used him In and out of turn and as re lief pitcher, an<l he is enjoying his best year. Tells McAleer to Keep Hall. Charley Hall was slated for the minors a year ag 1 Stall! advised McAleer Io hold on to him and Charley Is doing al most as well as Wood Buy Collins Is another Red Sox i>it< her who is keeping the club up tn the race, ami John I Taylor threatened several times last jeur to ask waivers on him Stahl's hitting is a big- asset He isn't up to Speaker's mark, but he is likely to break up a game at any stage and against any pitching Moreover, he can via' first base as It should be played and his brother infielders are - oust-quently going along with more confidence than they had at any time in 1911 FUNNIEST BASEBALL SCRIBE INTERVIEWED From Lardner's baseball ■'tuff tn The Chicago Examiner this is giabbed During our call on the Cubs we had Hie good fortune to be Introduced to Charles Dryden, a humorous baseball writer on the staff of The Chicago Examiner He consented to an interview as fol lows; Q —Do you travel around with the team A —Yes. sir y—Do you know the ball players per sonally A —Most of them <-• You must have i great time on the road \ Undoubted!} —Do you get very much excited at the game” A—Horribly Q —Do you wire your report In ever,' night ? A —No. I send It to >'hhag-> by a yoke of oxen Q—-Well. I must g" now A —Curses and maledictions FITCH BREAKS AUTO RECORD FOR 5 MILES PORTLAND. <<HE. July 10 Fitch driving a Cinco. at the motor ear races here yesterday, broke the world - word for five miles on a dirt track for ma chines with less than 300 Inch dlspl.u . ment. covering the distance in I minute? end 48 seconds The former record of 4 minutes 54 ?,.<•■ ends was held b; Hugh Hughes, Brighton Beach, made July 4, 1911. Ad Wolgast Tells His Story of Fight: Will Battle Mexican Again By AD WOLGAST. • LOS ANGELES, July 10.—T am ready to take on Joe Rivers at any time and at any place. I shall demand at least a $5,000 side bet, for I am tired of this squabbling and crabbing by the loser They have talked let them back their words with money, and we'll fight it out Labor day suits me. and so does the Vernon arena and Jim Jeffries as referee This claim of Referee Welch Is unjust. Any fair-minded fan will admit that 1 had the fight won and had It won decis ively when that thirteenth round came along Why, then, should Welch make his decision with the motives some peo ple are charging him with. Rivers was a bad loser—he was not In it. If Rivers was fouled he wasn't fouled as badly or hurt so much as I was. He hit me way low. yet even after that I kept fighting I waded In and landed two telling punches. The first was a left hand swing, the second was a right to the belt line that dropped him Declares Rivers Grabbed Him, As Rivers fell he grabbed hold of me. and I tumbled on top of him, for my shoes were slippery, as any one could see, and In falling his knee caught me in the groin Welch pulled me off he did not assist me to rise—but as I had little strength, 1 took advantage of his move by scrambling to my feet Welch did not support me. but held me back as he was counting Rivers out. This was plenty of time before the gong rang, for Welch had counted six when the buzz sounded If Rivers is game he would have tried to get up when he saw the ref eree was counting him out, for after the count of ten he got up and walked to his corner.' Rivers was not game—that's all. "Mexican Yellow," Says Champ. I don't know how the fight would have come out if Rivers had not displayed the yellow streak, and not tried to get up. I wus in terrible pain from" the two foul blows In the groin, and would have bad a hard time of it. He was not ganie, and that lets him out. As to the cry ot foul, 1 was fouled worse than he, and was In greater physical pain With my left hand and arm In bad shape, 1 went into the fight with the set idea of letting it go fifteen rounds before I opened up, unless I found it necessary, and 1 never found it so. When I'm in good condition I can stop Rivers in ten rounds. Money talks, and I 'll put up any part of $50,01X1 that 1 cun lick him. TRAMPS TO PLAY BALL; STOCKADE FOR LOSERS WILKESBARRE, PA , July 10 The baseball diamond will take over the func tions of a court here in connection with the conviction of 30 tramps recently ar rested by the police of Plymouth borough When the tramps were arraigned be fore Burgess W. D. Morris, the burgess who is an enthusiastic baseball fan, or dered that the men be divided into two equal squads from which two teams are to be selected to piny a full nine-inning game on the town common. The winning squad is to go free, hut the losers will be compelled to pound stone for two days. "It will be a great game.'' declared the burgess "I am anxious to see how well men can pla> Hie national game when their liberty depends on the outcome " HERE IS ANOTHER CV YOUNG. I'HII'AGO, July 111 Wether t’y Young, known as "Uy the Third," who stands II feet ti inches and is said to be a proin ising pitcher, lias been signed b> Presi dent t'omiskey, of the Chicago Ameri cans Young was obtained front tin* Stevens Point, Wis . club, after he hud pitch,-J lus ninth consecutive shut-out HewsheiHCigai? ( jood k Sir|okr Crackers Have Come to Life, After Long Sleep, and Are Playing Ball WIN 2 FROM BARONS--OFF NOW ON MAD CAREER By Percy H. Whiting. THE value of conversation on the baseball diamond is well known. A gabby catcher is a great asset. A eoachor with a good line of talk can win many a game. A lot of conversation will liven up the dullest contest. The talk that wins games for a slumping team is sprung in the club house, and it’s so hot some times that it ought to cancel the insurance automatically. It is said by those who know that Charley Hemphill made a speech to his ball club Monday afternoon. Charles Is no great speechmaker. He never made an after-dinner speech in his life, and few before dinner. He may talk to himself, but he certainly doesn't waste much conversation with anybody else. Yet they say that Hemphill's speech Monday afternoon was equal to anything ever delivered. The report goes that It was a warm, tempestuous speech—that it pointed out the nearnes of the Crackers to last place, dwelt on the fact that the. Atlanta players were receiving good money and giving poor service, and suggested the addition of a little ginger and action to all ball games in the fu ture Oratorically it may not have been a great speech. But neither De mosthenes nor William Jennings Bryan ever had anything on it for results. For. after hearing the speech, the Crackers went out yesterday and won both ends of a double-header from the league leaders. And In doing so the Crackers lifted them selves a good ways from last place and pulled the Barons down so materially that the league teams are again bunched, virtually with in 200 points. • • • I" HE Crackers gave yesterday one of the most realistic im personations of a hall club ever seen on the local field. Even the experts couldn’t distinguish it from the real tiling. Everybody played ball all the time There was not only more pepper and ginger, but there was more artistic baseball. Hemphill must have done more i han go after the team, as a team. He must have picked out the in li' idual flaws. For Agler was "Hiking right into the ball. Harbi son wasn't breaking ills back over curve balls. Callahan wasn't run ning clear to the slab to meet the pill and a hundred other little minor flaws of technique had been eliminated. • • • j" t'CK has been breaking for the ' Crackers this year as it broke for Napoleon at Waterloo and for Roosevelt at Chicago. Rut the Crackers can safely thank their stars for one thing, and that is that nobody wanted Brady. A few weeks ago Brady looked like the falsest alarm that ever dis turbed the serenity of a Cracker nightmare. The local club was' as keen to get rid of him as if he had had the plague. But for one thing they couldn’t find anybody who wanted him, and for another they couldn’t get anybody to take his place. So they figured he was a thin shade better than no pitcher at all and held onto him. On the 26th day of June, about 4 o’clock in the afternoon, James Brady awoke. He rubbed his eyes, asked, "Where have I been at any how," and then pitched a two hit game against Chattanooga. He was out again three days later, and though he allowed Chattanooga eight hits and four runs he won. His next out was against Mobile on July 3. That day he allowed five hits and one run up to the eleventh Inning, after which he exploded. Yesterday he allowed the league leaders four hits, well scattered, and won his game 1 to 0. Exclud ing the fatal eleventh inning of the SUNDAY BASEBALL IN WASHINGTON LIKELY Sunday baseball in Washington is a probability In the near future. A con ference held by President Ban B. John son and Manager Griffith at the for mer's office in the Fisher building in Detroit recently resulted in the head of the league giving his approval of such a change in the schedule and inci dentally Immediately taking the mat ter up with the other officials of the Washington club. Griffith contends that a majority of the people In Washington want Sun day games. He says that it has been urged to him by those most interested in the project that Sunday baseball would be a blessing in disguise for those inhabitants of the nation's capi tal who can not afford to attend games during the week, and who have no place to spend their Sundays. President Johnson is an advocate of Sunday ball. He pointed out that it required years to have the barriers raised against the sport on the Sab bath in both Detroit and, Cleveland, but that since it has been tried there the clergy of these two cities sanction the playing of he games on that day, and that there is not the slightest objection from any source. He immediately wrote a letter to President Noyes regarding the subject, and if the club can see its way to play games at home on Sunday the sched ule will be so arranged at once as to make this possible during the Nation als' long stay at home. — A \ \ X" ? 1 _ rs» V- k / /4k 1 iSG£iffittf Don’t Overlook An ) Z''‘™i‘ l C'"™ r P \X£™X’<i Men’s d»o en x d»/» [ in our shoe stocks. ShoCS LvJ <pV Opportunity To , The models are all the newest in fashion I g »-r . za I and good appearance, and in qualify OOVS d* *1 E* (X ■ Q* *"J Look These Over / puaranleed under a genuiup Shoes *P * <O" tO JpO r<irksClianihersHard wick 57-?9 Peachtree St. COMP AN Y Atlanta, Georgia I— / July 3 game. Brady has allowed less than five hits, and a small frac tion over one run to a game for the last four games He has sprung curves and fast balls that are won ders, and he has developed a change of pace that would fool Ty Cobb. Also Jim kicked in with a sin gle in the eighth xvhen the Crack ers uncorked the batting rally that won the game. Graham and Agler also furnished hits in that inning and Alperman developed the sacri fice fly that sent the winning run across. • • • X t N the second game there was a * miracle. The Barons opened with three consecutive singles off Becker and with the aditional aid of two sacrifice flys scored three runs. The Crackers then came back with two hits for five runs in the second half of the first inning. After that Becker tightened, allowed two more hits and no runs and won the game in a romp. ANNAPOLIS WILL ASK OLD COACHES TO RETAIN JOBS ANNAPOLIS. MD., July 10.—Lieu tenant Douglass L. Howard, U. S. N., and Frank Wheaton, of Yale, will be asked to continue as head coach and field coach, respectively, of the Naval academy football team. The other coaches will probably be Lieutenant Weems and Shaw, of last, season’s squad. The candidates for the new Jonas H. Ingram and Captain Dalton; fourth class will begin work September 1, and the members of the regular squad will return for a week’s practice before the opening of the. academy, if it can be arranged. THREE GOLFERS SICK: MISS TITLE TOURNEY CHICAGO, July to.—Three Chicago golfers are patients in hospitals here with appendicitis, among them Dr. J. B. Ellis, who was believed to have a chance for honors in the Western championship at' Denver, and who will be unable to com pete. The others are Donald Edwards and Richard Bokum, of Midlothian. Dr. Ellis was stricken while playing in a match with Charles Evans. Jr., and Charles Furthman at Edgewater. He was summoned to attend the wife of one of the players who had become ill and after administering restoratives to her at the club house, returned to the links and fell in a faint. He is a member of the University of Chicago faculty. Palzer Now Biggest White Hope: Giant lowan Heavy Enough By SOL PLEX. A) Palzer looms up as a big white hope right now. Even though tile ex perts are not convinced that Flynn would have succumbed to Johnson in their sensational struggle at Las Vegas on the Fourth. Palzer. to our mind, because pounds Riggers than Flynn, looks more nearly like a coming cham pion than any white man we know of. Al weighs about 228 in condition and is over six feet tall. He's a regular giant and the kind of a man Johnson can not push and puli around and hold onto when he Is in distress. * Palzer is two Battling Nelsons roll ed into one. as Tommy Walsh says, and we predict that he will be booked for a world’s championship encounter in side of eighteen months. Do not be surprised, either, if he is the man that finally whales Jack Johnson and re deems the white race pugilistically. To our mind Johnson was a rather lucky champion on July 4 afternoon. Flynn Is no whirlwind and the fact that he gave Jack tit for tat every step of the nine rounds proves that he has gone back very, very much since the day he took Jim Jeffries to his first and only lacing. Johnson probably is in for a licking in any one of his next two fights. The only way he can save himself is to retire and give up the title. They all go the same route if they keep fight ing, and Johnson is about due. JOHNSON HAS BLOWN WAD IN FANCY BAR AND CAFE CHICAGO, July 10. "With auspicious inaugural function." Jack Johnson col ored champion, will today throw open the doors of his new case, bar and res taurant. Jack, glittering with diamonds to match the glitter of cut glass, silver and gold in his new establishment, made a final inspection yesterdav before he be comes a "restaurateur.” He was not sad dened by tiie fact that most heavyweight Champions forced to hang "ex"' before their titles have gone into the same busi ness. There is no hoodoo in it. Jack al leges. Instead, he pointed around the place with considerable pride. Four oil paint ings. $15,000; one bar. trimmed with sil ver and gold. $5,000: silver water service $3,000: sterling silver cuspidors, $67.50 each. These are some of the things the champion pointed out, not omitting the price tag. It was back in the olden times that they had to have a person go crying it oik if any- one had anything to sell or wanted to buy. or to notify the people that so and so hail lost this and that. The way was the only one available. It's different now Your wants can be told to an audience of over 50.000 in this section through a Want Ad in The Georgian No matter what your want is an ad in The Georgian wil] till it for you. Georgian Want Ads huv. sell, exchange, rent, secure help, find lost articles and countless other things CHOMS GDBO IS BEST OFILEPLM By CY YOUNG. Ty Cobb is the greatest of them all. In my baseball experience, covering almost a quarter of a century. I have never seen an all around player the equal of the Detroit star. There may be other players almost if not quite so fast as Cobb; Lajoie has it on the “Georgia Peach” for straight away hitting; other outfielders may throw- a trifle better, hut for work, day in and day out, Cobb hasn't an equal. At bat he hasn't a weakness. It has been my experience that you can fool him. possibly, one day. on a certain kind of ball, and the next time you face him he will whale the cover off the ball On the bases he is wonderful. He uses both his head and his feet, and I sometimes wonder if the former Isn't more responsible for his success than the latter. Cobb can size up a baseball situation like a flash, and the way he divine? plays is uncanny. On the paths he doesn t know the meaning of the word fear, and this lack of timidity help? him. In the field, too, he is a wonder He uses splendid judgment in playing for batters, and his marvelous speed cn ables him to retire batters on balls that others would play safe. Able to hit. to field, to throw, to run bases and to do each in phenomena! fashion, coupled with his nerve and confidence, Cobb is the greatest player that ever wore a spiked shoe. BEST HORSES IN LAND WILL TRY FOR $15,000 LOUISVILLE, KY„ July 10.—The approximate value of the Kentucky endurance stakes, which will be run on October 7, the opening day of the nit. day fall meeting at Churchill Down 5 , will be $15,000, more than double that of last year. The value makes this Un' richest prize by far on the Ann?'' ' turf. Secretary Lyman H. Davis of tne new Louisville Jockey club, will sen out entry blanks this week and expect? that the best long-distance horses in the country will be entered for th'? four-mile race. The race last fall won by Messenger Boy, owned by Et.- gene Lutz, and the same horse will trained again for the race.