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Advance Guard of Golfers on
Hand for East Lake Tourney
golf cnurt' "f :he Atlanta
I Athletic club .it Ea-t Lake
is undergoing its final marti
curing. A big force is working two
shifts putting on the last finishing
touches. For on Thursday morn
ing the qualifying round of the
sei ond annua l Invitation tourna
ment of the Atlanta Athletic club
will be started And throughout
the week the course will be alive
with local and vi-ltlng golfers
Already the advance guard of
players has arrived. W. P. Stew
art. of N»w Orleans, Southern
champion, was' in Atlanta last
week He 'ill not !>■ here for th*,
championship. but he brought
word that a good delegation was
coming Birmingham is counted
on strong The Countix club there
sends more players to tournaments
than any other in the South and is
sure to send nearly a score to the
local tournament. A AV Gaines,
a former Southern champion, has
sent word that he will bo unable
to be present at the tournament,
but that Chattanooga will have a
delegation Nashville will un
doubtedly send several players,
while Macon Is counted on for a
at ro n g ’ea rn
The course should be in good
shape for the tournament. The
regular tecs hax< been eturfed
and a»'e being "rested up" for the
affair by the use of the “second
string" tees. It is likelv that the
new tee on fourteen will be put in
order for the tout nanient, provided
it doer not rain steadily front now
until Thursday morning The
gre.-ns and th" fair green are in
MAY RACE THIS SUMMER BILLY SMITH BACK IN
ON LONG BRANCH TRACK CENTER FIELD AGAIN
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NEW YORK .July 15.- Elk wood park.
Long Branch, may p'ovide racing two J
days a week forth" rest of the sum- <
rm r 1
At the track t'm report is on the tip t
of the tongue but nobody in authority ;
will confirm it 1
That the top has cone out. however. (
seemed certain, ina. much as several
prominent bookmakers came all the. .
way from Canada to look over tit"
ground.
The constitutional amendment I ,
ed in New Jersey in 189? clo-ing all ,
track.; expires this fall and many re.-i- t
dent 'f Long Branch say they intend ,
to make a strong effort to restore rac- ,
tng. The passing of Monmouth park, ,
they declare, was a blow from w liich ,
the famous re "t" ba neve recovered. ,
“If It's at Hartman's, It’s Correct"
More of That line
Neckwear |lj-
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strong feature of our
neckwear department ami i
with a hum'll of new ar ’
rivals the showim.' rijzht
now is broader than nor
Stylish. cool-looking wash
four-in-hands in white
and dainty coloring.
Pure Silk Ties in even
wanted coloring or com
lunation.
25c to SI.OO 111,
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stx Peachtree Street
Opp, Peters Bldqj
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reasonably good condition The
rains have kept the turf alive and
r igorous, but have washed away a
lot of top soil and left the ground
somewhat gullied
A very large local entry has al
ready been made and it is probable
that BO or 70 local players will be
readv to face the starter, along
with the pick of the Southern
players on Thursday.
It seems probabl" that th" At
lanta tournament is destined each
year to furnish fully a- good a line
on golfing ability in the South as
the Soul hern championship itself.
The local course is so well recog
nized as the greatest in the South
'hat It naturally attracts the really
top notch play ers. 'I he East Lake
outfit is the stiffest golf course in
th" South and one of the stiffest
in all America. It bristles with
bunkers, is punctuated with haz
ards of amazing size and attraction
and offet s trouble of high degree
to any golfer who can’t play a
good, long ball, straight down the
eou rse.
Naturally the Atlanta course is
not one which furnishes a big at
traction to duffers. Rut it does
attract good golfers and every
tournament ever held on the local
course has p’ ox • d a fine te ; t of real
golf.
The eotnin tournament should
prove one of the big golfing event’
of the South this year and a fl-id
of unusual excellence will tee off
Thursday. 'Die man who win.- the
first' cup will be entitled to rank
next to the Southern champion
among Southern golfers
NEVA ORLEANS, July 15. Bill
Smith, manager of the t'hattanooga
club, broke back in the Southern
league as a player yesterday afte; an
absence of six years During this
period Billy has continually been a
bench manager in the circuit with the
exception of one year, when he me
goo'd at Buffalo in the International
league
M inager Smith recently stated that
he might get hack In the game, and a
few day . ago signed a player's contract
'■ hieh gate him the right tn appci on
the < o.i king line Saturday Hyde-
Ilnrr w riou«ty Injured, and Bi’ly
donned the .pangles and Jumped in the
fray it New Orleans vesterday Ho
recently stated that he believed he
would hit 260 if be got back In the
tame agon HI average yesterday
WIS SOH
Hiii\ retired fi't’in iln Southern
’•aph ,< 5 an active player on Juh 4
190', \r that time h- v » manager of
t ; ” .Xt'au'a c’uh an<] p’a\ e<| center
tr• '• On the afternoon <»f the Fourth
h» -b i ’’irked Per ('hilcis. a native son
was pitching f<» ?h»* 'barkers.
• f’«i »hr opponents had made a rally.
Th» f tn< though! Sm’thb playing In
< * nif-r b d h < mo r responsible for
lu l i”\ than wa * Child’s pitching
"’•i when Bill < <me tn the bat thc\
'i him ft’i- several minutes V
th’ of the game Smith - aid h*
•• onld r.’• play another game in th*
’‘ague H*- 1 observed the threat Hivi*
TY COBB NOV/ SIX POINTS
TO THE GOOD ON SPEAKER
1y i 'obb is now lending the Ameri
•<" league batt, - ||. has passed
Tris Speaker, of th- Boston Red Sox.
Today ''obb is found clouting the pel
let at a I"? i up, w hih the Hub's star
outfielder's avt ag. j. ;;o; ,|.„
son. of th, Naps. Is third with :D'_'
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Solutions to THE GEOR
GIAN'S Proverb Contest
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mailing.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND N’EH’S MONDAY, JULY 15. 1912.
Well, It's All Off Now—Cracker Team Is Absolutely LAST!
DEFEAT IN MOBILE SETTLED IT—-HOPE IS DONE
By Percy H. Whiting.
I AST Hope dies hard. But then
it dies, sometimes! Atlanta
fans are abnormally hopeful.
But even their buoyant spirits have
been somewhat depressed by re< ent
baseball happenings. What can a
tnan say about it? And what can
be done?
Verily. it is a puzzler!
That Atlanta has a baseball club
can be demonstrated to the entire
satisfaction of any reasonable hu
man being. It can be demonstrated
mathematically. The figures show
it prove it.
Yet today the ''racket' team
stands last and has Just hit the
road for a trip that is likely to be
unlucky. Hope is failing fast.
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epHE home stay that ended Satur-
• day was an in-and-out per
formance .for keeps. TU" Crackers
won 8 gaifies and Jost 8. They won
3 out of t from their hated Chat
tanooga rivals. That looked good.
Then came the Cheese team from
Mobile. Rht the Crackers couldn't
do anything with them and won
only 1 out of 3. Next arrived the
even eheesier Montgomery club,
the cast-off outfit of the league,
made up of odds and end-- dicard
ed from ot hrr chibs
The Crackers were painfully anx
ious to dow n the Billikens because
of the 1 >obbs-McElveen incident.
1 'mine-tmnablv the Cracker team is
the stronger of the two. Yet all the
Crackers could get from the Bil
lies vyas a measly and depressing
1 out of I.
Ry tbi time Hope was in a bad
BELMONT GIVES OPTION
ON $125,000 STALLION
N-EAA YORK, July 15. .August Belmont
today admitted that he has given Mr.
Halironn. head of a Erench syndicate, an
option on his stallion. Rock Sand, for
breeding purposes, in the interest of
Erench and American turfmen The price
to be paid was $50,000.
Mr Belmont will permit Rock Sand to
remain In France for tour ' ears. He his
al ins breeding farm there 30 mares and
the stallions Eihelbert and Rockflim.
' 'ne reason given for Mr Belmont per
mitting Rock Sami to g<> io France is
because .my progency of the horse would
be eligible to all Erench races, whereas
those sired by him in America or England
would be eligible to on!' a ver' ' few
French races.
Rock Sand is now twelve years old.
and his progeny were stake winners tn
France. England and America. one of
his daughters recently won the French
Oaks- and his son. Tracery, ran third in
tnp I'erbj ind later defeated Sweeper II
in the James Palace stakes at Ascot.
A ’ w o-\p-i?■ old b> Kock Sand, bred by
‘ lareiicr Markax and as a yearling
In England last year, won the valuable
Julv stake ; ’ ist week \s a three-year
ol«l Kook Sami won for - his owner. Sir
James Mdhj. the three English classics—
the ’.non guineas, the Perbv and St
Leger ami after the death of his ov ner
had put the h<u -e on the market. Mr.
Belmont p<i,i <125.000 for him and located
him m Kentucky for breeding purpose'.
FAN CLAIMS HF. MADE
WALSH GREAT HURLER
i'HBAGO Jul' 15 Thsre a
time when Ed AYalsh w ,s not a great
pit l lie? in 19'U his speed was ter
rific. but his control was so bad that
he had literally no idea where the ball
was going He could seldom get catch,
ers to help him prietice and had to fall
ba< k on an enthusiasti, fan.
This fan. after handling his erratic
shoots, gave Ed some advice. He
doesn’t know if AA'alsh took it. but his
work imliia'es that he did something.
"After the season of 1905." said the
bug I walked to the slation with
AA'.ilsh. I asked him what he intended
tn do m :hi winter. H. -aid he was
going to do nothing.
"Then I told him he ''as about the
worse pitcher I had ever seen and de
scribed io him how Christy Matthew
son, before ho gained control, had rent
ed a barn, muntins a tarsei at one end
and pitched into the target all winter
unti' h, emerged in the spring with the
be” . ontrn! in the league
I don t know if AYalsh took the hint,
but b, ,r* ■n t' had the mnt rot w
b. m-i no ■ in. AA lute Sox to the
ve nnaut next j ear,'*
way, with temperature high, pulse
wabbly and the death rattle right
in among its teeth. At this awful
stage in the proceedings the. Crack
ers took 2 games out of 2 from the
league leaders and the fans breath
ed again. But once more Hope
suffered a relapse. For the tour
flushing Pelicans arrived next and
the only game the < ’racket's could
win from them was by forfeit.
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AFTER an exhibition like this on
home ground, what can be
hoped for the Crackers on the road?
Not much, of course, except that
the local team has run by contra
ries this season, and it may go Out
and rvin about umpsteen straight
on the road. Washington did: so
It isn't impossible. However, rve're
nol going to pawn the family Jewels
to bet on it
if anybody wants to know w here
the fault lies they needn't ask here.
It seems as though the baseball
association itself can prove an alibi.
It has bought players, great gobs of
'em. But whether Hemphill can't
make 'em play or whether nobody
could and it's the players' fault
rve’re blessed if we know'
AVhat makes it a hard matter to
diagnose is that the Crackers never
lose any trvo games for the same
reason If they kick off one today
with errors, they will lose tomor
row's with a batting slump, Wed
nesday's because the pitcher goes
wrong, Thursday's with dull base
ball and maybe they’ll win Friday.’
by playing baseball the Giants
couldn't beat.
if you study back bpx scores
O’DAY LEARNED INSIDE
BASEBALL BY UMPIRING
Hank ' t'Day. who is getting good
work out of the Cincinnati Reds,
pitched for the champion Giants in
1889 and 1890. His catcher was the
famous William Buckingham Ewing,
an.) it was some battery, too. O'Day
wasn't pa: tieularly careful. as to his
habits in those days and was proud of
the fact that he could drink more beer
than any other pitcher in the league.
AA'hen Hank s arm went back on him
he was forced to ask for an umpire’s
berth, and in order to make good he
cut off the amber fluid. At first the
players Heated him with disrespect,
but he soon made them understand
that he was not to be trifled with.
Sticking to his temperance pledge.
O’Day umpired for nearly twenty
years, a record of which he is justly
proud He lea’ned the meaning of in
side baseball and the weak points of
every playei in the game. With this
knowledge, therefore, O'Day ha,s been
able to tell .he Cincinnati Reds many
things they never knew before.
1 thought 1 knew all about catch
ing." said long LaiTy McLean the
other day at the Polo grounds. "But
afteK a heart-to-heart talk w ith Mr.
O'Day 1 found that I didn't know a
thing. I’m catching, better ball now
than ever before, and Mr O'Day is
w hollv responsible for it."
RUBE MARQUARD LOSES
2 GAMES TO CARDINALS
ST LOUIS, Ju l '- 15 -Rube Ma -
quarci lost two games yesterday to the
loyviy St Louis Cardinals. About a
week ago Jimmy Lavender beat the
Giants' southpaw his first game, after
a string of nineteen victories, and veri
ly the Rube hasn't yet recovered from
the shock,
St. Louis won the first game yester
day. 3 to 2. w hen Marquard, who re
lieved AA'iltse in the eighth, was hit for
three singles and gave a base on balls.
Marquard went in to pitch the second
game, but relieved by Crandall in
the seventh inning when the locals
were leading 3 to 2. A single and a
wild throw by Myers in the next in
ning gave St. Iwmis another run.
ENGLISH TEAM COMING HERE.
FOLKSTONE ENG LAND. July 15.
The English ’earn defeated their
French rivals in the international ten
nis champ'onship match here todav
The Eng’i-h teipi will meet next :n
America and '.he winner of 'h.i* ma'.- >
•'ll’ challenge Australia for ths Dails
you'll think you are on the trail
of the elusive First Causes of de
feat w hen you note that ft takes an
average of four or five hits to score
a Cracker run. Not since the his
torical days when Tris Speaker and
Beals Becker w>ere both playing on
the Little Rock team has there been
an organization in the South which
made as many’ hits and as few runs
a“ the Crackers.
Qoing further into the complaint,
though, you find that the poor
scoring work seems to result part
ly from pom- base running and
partly from an entire absence of
pinch hitting.
The Crackers’ ill luck in devel
oping runs has ben uncanny. TJjry
always seem to play it the wrong
way. (f a man singles and the next
man sacrifices the next pair are al
yvays easy outs. If the scheme of
things is shifted and the hit-and
run play flashed, with a man on
first, the batter always lines out
and the runner who was on first is
doubled off. Then, if a reversion to
old-fashioned baseball is tried and
everybody takes a yvallop at the
ball the first man will single, the
next man will hit a short single,
sending the first runner to second,
and the third man will scratch one
to the infield, filling the bases. Then
the next three men in a row will
strike out! Goodness only knows
why. But they always do.
Lack of timeliness in the offen
sive displays, lack of consistency
in the defensive work—those are
the things that are kee-plng the
Crackers down at the bottom.
ENTRY BLANKS OUT SOON
FOR MILWAUKEE RACES
MILWAUKEE. July 15.—Entry
blanks for the A’anderbilt cup and grand
prize races to be run in Milwaukee
in September will be ready for distri
bution within a few days.
The A. A. A. has not yet granted
official sanction for the race, but will
put an O. K. on the program and the
dates as soon as the arrangements for
policing th" course have been com
pleted.
Drink Hires and Let
the Sun do its Worst
So good to know there is one drink that will
cool and invigorate you without ill effects.
So good to know a drink that is made from
Nature's recipe—that combines the tonic
virtues of herbs and roots and forest saps, to
giv you the most delectable of all summer
drinks.
Try it right now. See the nearest Fountain
Man. and just say “Hires.”
More cooling than other drinks and more B
healthful. Not a trace of drugs. Just helps .3
—never harms. No need to say “rootbeer.”
Just say’ “Hires.” -'1...
5e — spcrhlirfg, A s vn’tr
home, carbonated, in bottlet. , r: '
Hemphill Will Use Waldorf on
Mound Today Against Finnites
Mobile, ala., July 15.—with
"Buck" Becker injured.
. with the team last and with
the players as gloomy as life-term
ers. the Crackers enter today on
the second game with Mike Finn's
Gulls.
The jump into last place jarred
the Crackers to the marrow of
their hones. They have been fight
ing against it and staving it off
for months past. Now they’re
there —absolutely last. And it was
a grumpy crowd of ball players
who moped around the hotel last
night and this morning, waiting for
a chance to get at the Gulls again.
Manager Hemphill will probably
decide to send Waldorf against the
Gulls. It is his turn and the
Cracker mogul figures that it does
not make much difference. For the
Gulls, it is Demaree’s turn, and as
Mike Finn usually sticks religious
ly to the regular order, he will un
doubtedly work.
Yesterday’s game, that dropped
the Crackers to the very bottom,
was a typical ''racket' game of the
vintage of 1912. The Atlanta play
ers excelled in everything but
scoring runs. They made more hits
and less errors than the Gulls,
EBBETS WORKED HIMSELF
UP FROM TICKET SELLER
NEM YORK. July 14.—Charles H.
Ebbets. of the Brooklyn club, is a self
made baseball magnate. M’hen the
Brooklyns, owned by Byrne. Doyle and
Abell, played at old Washington park
25 years ago Ebbets was a ticket seller
and a schedule maker. He made up
his mind even then to become the own
er of the club some day, and he never
stopped trying.
When the Brooklyn® were consoli
dated with the rival Players league
team at Eastern park. Ebbets was made
secretary, and when C. H. Byrne died
he was elected president. He held that
office after the Brooklyfi-Baltimore deal
was consummated, fourteen years ago,
and gradually he bought up the stock,
until today he controls 90 per oent of
the club.
Somebody asked Ebbets recently if
he. would sell the Brooklyn club and he
replied: "If I did. what would I do to
pass rhe time? Baseball is a life study
with me and I would be lost without it.”
fielded more brilliantly and showed
more baseball sense—at everythin?
except the scoring of runs. AVith
the Crackers, it was the old. s.rd
story. Nine runners died on h.- <=s.
It was a cinch to get Crackers’ on.
but impossible to put th° runs
across.
The Crackers looked like winners
up to the last of the seventh Then,
the Gulls fell on Sitton and scored
two runs—not many, it is true, i’
quite enough to win the game.
The Atlanta players had a hard
time with Jack O'Toole, the um
pire who presented them win-; a
game in the New Orleans series
Jack sent Donahue to the tall grass
for jawing, and made the -c.=t 'f
the Crackers "walk lurk "
throughout the remainder of a
spasm
From the viewpoint of 'he '•
lantans, the best feature of th*
game was the wopk of D. ogla’
Harbison. This clever littn "’.ing
ster pulled some really ■
nal fielding stuff and srrta' ■! otr
a brace of hits as we! !i looks
now as though, if this lad keep; h:s
present clip, he will get a cad fro.”:
the big leagues this fall and ’■ l re
tried out in faster comp'it' ■ ■ xr
spring.
WELLS AND KENNEDY TO
MEET IN GOTHAM FRIDAY
NEM' YORK, July 15 F'cani
’ this week’s boxing card is a ten- o
1 bout between Bombardier M’”: ! s
' heavyweight champion of Ena c ' a
, Tom Kennedy, former amateur 1
weight champion of America. =
son Square Garden, on Friday r'a
This will be Wells’ second appe 1
, In this countsy and his friend
> a better shoeing than h* m;v ■
I first appearance
1 Among the other contests on
' week's program are the f” °
Buck Crouse, of Pittsburg. *>
f Kurtz.-a Newark, N J . mid'
at the Madison Athletic ciub
* Britton, a Chicago light"'!-
’ Tommy Ginty. of Si-ranton, l’ l
. St. Nicholas Athletic club M ■
' night.