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I >W — x " WXifc- ~ I ’ i i ; Advance Guard of Golfers on Hand for East Lake Tourney THE yolf course of the Atlanta Athletic club at East Lake is undergoing its final mani curing A big force is working two shifts putting on the last finishing touches For on Thursday morn ing the qualifying round of the second annua' invitation tourna ment of the Atlanta Athletic club will .be started And throughout the week the course will be alive with local and visiting golfers Already the advance guard of players has arrived W. P. Stew art. of New Orleans, Southern champion, was in Atlanta last week Ho will not be here for the championship, but he brought word that a good delegation was coming Birmingham is counted on strong The Country club there sends more players to tournaments than any other dn the South and is sure to send nearly a score to the local tournament A W. Gaines, a former Southern champion, has sent word that he will be 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 strong team The course should be in good shape for the tournament The regular tees have been returfed and are being "rested up" for the affair b> the use of the "second string - ” tees It Is likely that the new tee on fourteen will be put in order for the tournament, provided ft does not rain steadily from now until Thursday morning The greens and the fair green are ip MAY RACE THIS SUMMER ON LONG BRANCH TRACK NEW YORK. July 15. - Elkwood park. Long Branch, may provide racing two days a week for the rest of the sum mer At the track this report Is on the tip of the tongue, but nobody in authority will confirm it That the top has gone out. however, seemed certain, inasmuch as several prominent bookmakers catne all the way from Canada to look over the ground. The constitutional amendment pass ed in New Jersey in 1892 closing all tracks expires this fall and many resi dents of Long Branch say they Intend to make a strong effort to restore rac ing, The passing of Monmouth park, they declare whs a blow from which the famous resort has never recovered "If It’s at Hartman's. It’s Correct" More of That Fine Neckwear II We have always made a strong feature of our neckwear department and with a bunch of new ar rivals the showing right now is broader than ever Stylish, cool-looking wash four-in-hands in white and dainty coloring. Pure Silk Ties in every wanted coloring or com binat ion. 25c to SI.OO II Six Peachtree Street Opp. Peters Bldg. I "If It’s Correct, It's at Hartman s” reasonably good condition The rains have kept the turf alive and vigorous, hut 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 6*9 or 70 local players will be ready to face the starter, along with the pick of the Southern players on Thursday. It seems probable that the At lanta tournament is destined each year to furnish fully as good a line on golfing ability tn the South as the Southern championship itself. The local cnttnu’ Is so well recog nized as the greatest In the South that It naturally attracts the really lop notch players. The East Lake outfit is the stiffest golf course in the Routh and one of the stiffest In all America It bristles with bunkers, is punctuated with haz ards of amazing size and attraction and offers trouble of high degree to any golfer who can’t play a good, long hall, straight down the course Naturally the Atlanta course is not one which furnishes a big at traction to duffers. But it does* attract good golfers and every tournament ever held nn the local course has proved a fine test of real golf. The comin- tournament should prove one of the big golfing events of the South this year and a field of unusual excellence will tee off Thursday The man who wins the first cup will be entitled to rank next to the Southern champion among Southern golfers BILLY SMITH BACK IN t CENTER FIELD AGAIN NEW ORLEANS, July 15. Rill J Smith, manager of the Chattanooga club, broke back In the Southern league as a player yesterday after an p 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 mo- I guled at Buffalo In the International league ' Manager Smith recently stated that he might get hack In the game, and a ‘ few days ago signed a player's contract which gave him the right to appear on ’ the coaching line Saturday Hyder II Barr was seriously Injured, and Billy donned the spangles and Jumped in the J- fray at ■ New Orleans yesterday He ’ recently stated that he believed he would hit .260 If he got back In the . game again. Hl* average yesterday was .500 ’ Billy retired from the Southern league as an active player on July 4. 1906. At that time .he was manager of 1 the Atlanta club and played center / field. Op the afternoon of the Fourth he derrlcked Doc Childs, a native son who was pitching for the Crackers, after the opponents had made a rally. The fans thought Smith’s playing in center field was more responsible for the rally than was Child’s pitching and when Bill came to the hat they hissed him for several minutes At the close of the game Smith said he would never play another game in the league He observed the threat until y .-sterday TY COBB NOW SIX POINTS TO THE GOOD ON SPEAKER Ty t’obb is now leading the Atneri '■an eague hatters He has passed Tris Speaker, of the Boston Red Sox Today Cobb is found clouting the pei et at a 402 clip, while the Hub's star outfielder'-, average is 596 Joe Jack son. of the Naps, is third with .392 Solutions to THE GEOR GIAN'S Proverb Contest Picture Puzzles should bear sufficient postage. Have packages weighed before ’ mailing THE ATLANTA GEOBGfAN AND NEWS. MONDAY, TTLY 15. 1 Well, It’s All Off Now---Cracker Team Is Absolutely LAST! DEFEAT IN MOBILE SETTLED IT—HOPE IS GONE By Percy H. Whiting. I AST Hope dies hard. But then j it dies, sometimes! Atlanta fang ate abnormally hopeful. Bttt even their buoyant spirits have been somewhat depressed by recent baseball happenings. What can a man say about it? And yvhat 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 Cracker team stands last and has just hit the road for a trip that is likely to be unlucky. Hope is failing fast. • « ♦ rpHE home stay that ended Satur ' day was an in-and-out per formance for keeps. The Crackers won 8 games and lost 8. They won 3 out of 4 from their hated Chat tanooga rivals. That looked good. Then came the Cheese team from Mobile. Rut the Crackers couldn't do anything with them and won only - 1 out of 3. Next arrived the even cheesier Montgomery club, the cast-off outfit of the league, made up of odds and ends dieard eil from other clubs The Crackers were painfully anx ious to down the Billikons because of the Dobbs-McElveen incident. Unquestionably the Cracker team is the stronger of the two Yet all the Crackers could get from the Bil lies was a measly and tiepressing 1 out of 4. Ry this time Hope was tn a bad BELMONT GIVES OPTION ON $125,000 STALLION NEW YORK. .Inly 15 August Belmont today admitted that he has given Mr. Hallronn. head of a French syndicate, an option on his stallion. Rock Sand, for breeding purposes, in the interest of French and American turfmen The price to bd paid was $50,000. Mr. Belmont will permit Rock Sand to remain in France for four vears. He has at his breeding farm there 30 mares and the stallions llthelbert anti Rockflint, one reason given for Mr. Belmont per mitting Rock Sand to go to France Is because any progency of the horse would be eligible to all French races, whereas those sired by him In America or England would he eligible to only avert few- French races. Rock Sand is now twelve tears old and his progeny were stake winners in France. England ami America. One of his daughters recently won the French Oaks and his son, Tracery, ran third in the Derby ami later defeated Sweeper II in the St. James Palace stakes at Ascot A two-year-old by Rock Sand, bred by < larence Mackay and sold as a yearlink In England last year, won the valuable July stakes las* week As a three-year old Rock Sand won for his owner Sir James Miller, the three English classics the 2.000 guineas, the Oerbv ami St Leger—and after the death of his owner had put the horse on the market Mr Belmont paid $125,000 for him and located him in Kentucky for breeding purposes. FAN CLAIMS HE MADE WALSH GREAT HURLER CHICAGO. July 15 There was a time when Ed Walsh was not a great pitcher. In 1904 his speed was ter- I rifle, hut his control was so bad that j he had literally no idea, where the ball I was going. He could seldom get catcb ers to helt* him practice and had to fall I back on an enthusiastic fan This fan. after handling his erratic shoots, gave Ed some advice. He doesn't know if Walsh took it, but his work indicates that he did something. After the season of 1905." said the "bug " 1 walked to the station with Walsh. I asked him what he intended to do in th- winter He said he was going to do nothing "Then I told hint he was about the worse pitcher I had ever seen and de scribed to him how Christy Matthew son. before he gained control, had rent ed a barn, painting a target at one end and pitched into the target all winter until he emerged tn the spring with the best control in the league. T don't know If Walsh took the hint, but he certainly had the control when he helped pitch the White Sox to the -pennant next year,’’ way. with temperature high, pulse wabbly and the death rattle right in among its teeth. At this atvful 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 Crackers could yvin from them was by - forfeit. • • • 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, anil it may - go out and yvin about umpsteen straight on the road. Washington djd. so It isn't impassible. However, we're not going to pawn the family jew els to bet on it. If anybody wants to know where 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 we're blessed if we know. What makes it a hard matter to diagnose is that the Crackers never lose any two games for the same reason. If they- kick off one today w - ith 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 box scores O'DAY LEARNED INSIDE BASEBALL BY UMPIRING Hank O'Day, who is getting good work out of the Cincinnati Reds, pitched for the champion Giants in ISB9 and 1890. His catcher was the famous William Buckingham Ewing, and it was some battery, too. O'Day wasn't particularly 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. When 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 treated him yvith disrespect, but he soon made them understand that he was not to be trifled yvith. Sticking to his temperance pledge. O'Day umpired for nearly twenty years, a record of which he is justly proud. He learned the meaning of in side baseball and the weak points of every player in the game. With this knowledge, therefore. O’Day has been able to tell the Cincinnati Reds many things they never knew before "I thought I knew all about catch ing." said long Larry McLean the other day at the Polo grounds. "But after a heart-to-heart talk with Mr. O’Day I found that I didn't know - a thing I'm catching better ball notv than ever before, and Mr. O’Day is wholly responsible for it." RUBE MARQUARD LOSES 2 GAMES TO CARDINALS ST LOUIS, July 15.-—Rube Mar quard lost two games yesterday to the lowly 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. when Marquard. who re lieved Wiltse in the eighth, was hit.for three singles and gave a base on balls. Marquard went in to pitch the second game, but was 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. Louis another run. ENGLISH TEAM COMING HERE, FOLKSTONE. ENGLAND. July 15 The English team defeated their French rivals In the international ten nis championship match here today The English team will meet next in America and the winner of that match "'ll challenge Australia for the Davis cup. you’ll think you are on the trail of the elusive First Causes of de feat when you note that it takes an average of four or five score a Cracker run. Not since the his torical days when Tris Speaker and Beals Becker were both playing on the Little Rock team has there been an organization in the South which made as many hits and as few runs as the Crackers. Going further into the complaint, though, you find that the poof scoring work seems to result part ly from poor base running and partly from an entire absence of pinch hitting. The Crackers’ ill luck in devel oping runs has ben uncanny. They always seem to play it the wrong way. If a man singles and the next man sacrifices the next pair are al ways easy outs, if the scheme of things is shifted and the hit-and run play flashed, yvith a man on first, the batter always lines out a fid the runner who was on first is doubled off. Then if a reversion to old-fashioned baseball is tried and everybody takes a wallop 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 infiejd. 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 keeping the Crackers down at the bottom. ENTRY BLANKS OUT SOON FOR MILWAUKEE RACES MILWAUKEE. July 15. Entry blanks for the Vanderbilt cup and g 'nd prize races to be run tn Milwaukee in September will be ready - for distri bution within a few days. Tiie 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 the course have been com pleted. Drink Hires and Let the Sun do its Worst |M|r \ X Sn «°°d to ' !now there is one drink that will cool and invigorate you without ill effects. So good to know a drink that is made from ■Hi ZcjM Nature’s recipe—that combines the tonic virtues of herbs and roots and forest saps, to u you the most delectable of all summer drinks. • Try it right now. See the nearest Fountain Man, and just say “Hires." ' r vTBijV More cooling than other drinks and more Mr ", F ■-'j V ■ healthful. Not a trace of drugs. Just helps S- A"'J —never harms. No need to say "rootbeer.” J ust sa Y “Hires.” 5c —sparkling, delicious. At your home, carbonated, in bottles, i '• 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. ths Crackers enter today on the second game with Mike Finn’s Gulls. The jump into last place jarred the Crackers to the marrow of fheir bones. 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 Cracker 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 NEW YORK, July 14.—Charles H. Ebbets. of the Brooklyn club, is "a self made baseball magnate. When the Brooklyns, owned by Byrne, Doyle and Abell, played at old Washington park 25 years ago Ebbets was a ticket seller anl 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 Brooklyns 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 Brooklyn-Baltimore deal was consummated, fourteen years ago, and gradually he bought up the stock, until today he controls 9b per cent 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 the time? Baseball is a life study with me and I would be lost without it.” fielded more brilliantly and sho*'-d more baseball sense—at everything except the scoring of run-, w■ • the Crackers, it was the old, sad story. Nine runners died on bases. It was a cinch to get Crackers nn, but - impossible to put the 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, itjs true, but quite enough to win the game. The Atlanta players had a hard time with Jack O’Toole, the um pire who presented them with a game in the New Orleans serie*. Jack sent Donahue to the tall gras* for jawing, and made the rest of the Crackers "walk turkey" throughout the remainder of the spasm. From the viewpoint of the. At lantans, the best feature of the game was the work of Douglas Harbison. This clever little young ster pulled some really phen<>m»- nal fielding stuff and smacked nut a brace of hits as well. It looks now as though, if this lad keep- his present clip, he will get a tall from the big leagues this fall and wifi ba tried out in faster company next spring. WELLS AND KENNEDY TO MEET IN GOTHAM FRIDAY NEW YORK, July 15.—Featu this week’s boxing card is a ten-"" ! ind bout between Bombardier Wei's. the heavyweight champion of England, and Tom Kennedy, former amateur heavy weight champion of America. at Madi son Square Garden, on Friday night. This will be Wells' second appear:. •’.*•* in this country and his friends pv lift a better showing than he made - *n h:3 first appearance. Among the olher contests on this week's program are the following: Buck Crouse, of Pittsburg, vs Young Kurtz, a. Newark. N. J., middh■«eight, at the Madison Athletic c *ih To A Britton, a Chicago lightweight. va Tommy Ginty, of Scranton. Pa at the St. Nicholas Athletic club \Veclp - '' ,!; iV night.