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It 1s getaway dav for the Trackers here, and Manager Charlev Hemphill announced this noon that hte warriors were going to cop the fina l game of the series nr bust in the attempt Hemp has not fully decided Jus* which pitcher he wl’l use this aft ernoon. hut \tkins i« long overdue md will nrohablv decorate the mound with his presence Berger Is slated to work for the Gulls Yesterday the Crackers went down to defeat again to the tune of ,i to 2. losing opt in the la*» nt rhe ninth Hemp’s men 'allied first. in the third , Inning The run was forthcoming on Donahues Singh a walk t.. \\ ildo'f a wild pi' h and Alpr-rmans one-bag ger. Mobile tied up the count in the sev enth after two were nut .Jacobsen sin. gled. moved tin a notch when P.i'ilet was “lammed in the ribs with an In shoot and earned on rcßrien'a timely hingle In the eighth the Crackers again took the lead tgler was safe when Paulo* fumbled his grasser. He went to third on Alperman's double and tallied on McElveen's sacrifice hoist. But in the last spasm the honi< team won out. O'Dell singled and scored when McElveen threw Teng's g: ■.-ser a mile over Agler's head. Dong got all the way to third on the peg and on a serp! - passed ball and Waldorfs muff of Donahue's recovery he brought in the deciding run CHFW ffc Jig DPUMMDNO r Makes even ■ hard work seem easier || I DRUMMOND I g natural leaf ■ CHEWING TOBACCO H "If It’s at Hartman’s, It’s Correct" MEN’S VACATION FURNISHINGS II Men, Hartman - '' is head quarters fnr everything you'll possibly need for either vacation or busi ness. Straw Hats . . $2 to $6 Wash Ties 25c and 50c Silk Ties 50c to $1 “Lion” Collars 2 for 25c Negligee Shirts $1 to $2.50 Underwear . 50c to $1.50 Low Shoes $3.50 to $6 !| Note Our Window Display || Six Peachtree Street 'Opp. Peters Bldg.) "If It s Correct, It’s at Hartman’s" Crackers* Batting Averages, Including Yesterday’s Game These averages Include all games pl iyed to date: Players. G. AB. R. H. Av. Be< ker, p. . . . 3 8 1 3 375 Harbison, ss. . . 26 85 9 27 .318 Hemphill, (f, . . 76 290 35 91 314 Bailey, rs . . 80 283 51 82 290 Alperman. 2b.. . so 303 41 85 .281 Donahue, c. ... 31 96 9 24 .250 Callahan, If. . . 38 162 20 38 235 Graham, c, . , . 29 86 9 20 .233 McElveen. 3b.. . 86 315 38 72 .230 Atkins, p. . . .15 39 3 8 .205 Coombs, utilitj 4 5 0 1.200 Brady, p 11 35 17 .200 Sitton, p 16 40 17 175 Agler, lb 17 53 6 9 .170 \\ aldorf, p 2 5 0 0 .000 STREET CAR MEN TO HAVE BENEFIT GAME The G orgia Railway mad . Electric ' ompany Employeos a-sociation will be the hosts to local fans it a benefit ball game at Ponce Del,eon park Saturday afternoon This game is a yearly event, and th* proceeds derived from same go to this i?so iation to help in its upkeep yearly. The Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Southern Railway Inman Yards teams of the C'ity league will be the <ontestants in tin ya'o" and a warm battle ran be expected, T. I. DRISCOLL CAPTURES CHECKER CHAMPIONSHIP T .1 Driscoll, of Ml.mm Is 'h Geo 1 tti.i . In • k< r ch" midon w inning the title ■!■ tli.- tom tvi meet which wu h-ld in li'.itiln it No. 2 engine house last week, with .1 i'C!. ent.ige of ,522 .1 S Hull was seeond. R \l Nether land 'lilt'd, and E A. Rlsse fourth. Eif leen players entered the tournament. BUCK CROUSE KNOCKS OUT KURTZ IN EIGHT ROUNDS NF'.\\ Y'>RK. July IK Burk <’r«»usn. ho slopped Weltrrw* Pave Kintz, of Newark. X .1 . in eipbt i<nin<ls at Madi- ■ n Square tianlen last nigh’, will tr\ to at I a bout with Champion Mike Gibbons RECRUIT IS HURT. Dl’Bryl’l'!, IOWA. July 16. Pitcher Ray Benight, a recruit who arrived from Austin. Minn, yesteruay, has been sent hoim by M.magi Rowland fl. night's knee, due to an old injuiy. gave way during practice and hf will be laid up the balance of the season, SIGN NEW PITCHER. i '1 N< 'IN N A IT. < >Hl< i. July 16. Pitcher Taylor, who was obtained by the (Tneinnnti baseball club from the I'nitod States league, was sold to the Indianapolis club of the Ameriian .is soeia ti"n. AL KAUFMAN IS SICK. SAN T’RANTTSI'O. July 16. Al Kauf man. the local heavy-weight who was matched to fight Charlie Miller on July 21. o so iouvly ill with pleurisy. The tight lias lieen post polled. NATIONAL SURGICAL I INSTITUTE For the Treatment of MX. ■A- DEFORMITIES 4 Wf ESTABLISHED 1874. A M f 17 Owe the deformed / \' children a chance. T/i\v\ •-L* Sendustheir / |f \ I names, we can / ( * ■ help them. ’’ This Institue Treats Club Feet, Dis ease.--of the Spine, Hip Joints, Paraly •■ te. Send for illustrated catalog. 12 South Pryor Street. Atlanta. Ga. BROU’S] i wWI fir i\Jtc ri<> x \ r> > k I t . J * MtsFXT eVIt F t 5 of the most obstinate cases guaranteed in from ! ? 3to 6 >-: rm "'her irofitment • ■■ • ir» L c Sold l»\ al- drttsr.r;-• - . [REM EDVforM EN . ATLANTA CRORGTAX AND NEWS. TUESDAY. .11 LY 16. Money Running Low Because of Bad Weather, Southern Lets Out Best Umpires BAI> SEASON MAY CAUSE CHANCES IN CIRCUIT By Pprry H. Whiting. T I THEN President Kavanaugh L'y began nutting the umpire staff of the Southern league by sending Billy Carpenter to the International and letting Bill Hart and Dan Fitzsimmons resign, he hit the game in the South a smashing blow. Nothing is. much less likely to promote a successful financial season for the league than a poor staff of umpires. And Kav anaugh certainly sent away some of his best ones. Bill Carpenter was easily the best of Southern league umpires of modern days. He made mistakes bad ones, some times, which the league reversed— as u hen last year he let a game in Atlanta run beyond the fixed time instead of forfeiting it against Atlanta, as he should have done. But in the main Billy Carpenter was the king-pin umpire of the Southern The departure of Carpenter and the cutting of expenses is one of the by products of a bad season Another is likely to be the chang ing of ownership of some Southern league franchises before the year is ou*. « • • IT'S been a hard season financial *■ ly. Never in the history of Southern baseball has there been so much rain during a baseball sea son. It has caused the postpone ment of innumerable games. It has scared half the normal attendance away from a lot of games that were actually played. Then there have been other trou bles. In Nashville they tried to plat Sunday ball, ran foul of a state law and were in an awful pickle for a time. Then Atlanta, a town where all the visiting teams expect to make money well in ex cess of the guarantee out of every scries, has had a tail-end team. And that, on top of a tail-ender last year, has kept the receipts below normal. Os course, smaller gate receipts cut into the league’s finances. I'he league is run out of a fund created by taking ten per cent out of the gios.-, receipts of every game. Nat urally when the receipts fall off the league's income falls off ac cordingly And when the slump hit the league this year President K iv.inaugh. who is nothing if not ■i good tim V began cutting ex penses. He couldn’t cut the scorers without danger of their putting up a yell. He certainly didn't intend lo cut into his own salary. *So there was nobody left to economize mi except the umpires. Hem e the cut in umpires. • ♦ ♦ -T'HE leagues hope of pulling out of the bob' this season lies In the closeness of the race. For It's certain 1 ' tight. Atlanta, even though last, is still less than 200 pointe behind th' league leaders. And Atlanta is no very bad last. \ week of steady winning would put the <'lackers in the first divi sion even now. Then nn likely to be some tre mendous changes in the Southern . .igue ran an' old time. Bir mingham. of course, has a fairly impressive lead on the bunch. But Mobile's hold on second place la ex tremely feeble, and Chattanooga has third place by the skin of its teeth only. As for Memphis, it is only in the first division by grace of [ a half game, and th. claim of New 'i Orleans on the leadership of the , -o, end dir ision is not strong enough i" bi troublesome. Nash villt is sixth by gra-e of a whis ker-wide lead ovei Montgomery. J \nd Atlanta, as you well know, is an extremely impressive last. • ♦ |F a tuple of t mis in the league I begin tn clos. in on Birming | ham. as might easily happen, and if Atlanta takes a brace--as it is more than probable it will—and if the weather braces up a bit. the Southern league may yet emerge from this season with prosperity and honor, despite the worst start it ever made. If these things do not happen, look out for changes in the South ern league. One thing that is like ly to happen ie that a franchise or two will change ownership, but, will stay in the same town. There are several clubs In the league that tot ter every year things break bad They are tottering worse than usual this year and may need some rescuing before the season goes much further. There is always an extra likeli hood of a change in circuit on an off year. The Mobile and Montgomery franchises are always tentatively on the market. The Little Rock Baseball association is always ac tively in the market for a franchise It will be immensely surprising If there aren't some franchise deals pulled before this season end*. 'baseball Diamond News and Gossip Tbe Senators have already won as many games from Cleveland as they grabbed all last season. • • • The Phillies admit that they put a dis infectant on the ball the other day when Marty O'Toole was pitching They claim that the spit ball is insanitary and that they have to protect themselves. The Pirates are asking that some of the Phil lies be fined for the offense. • • » Manage!' Edward .Maguire, of the Brock ton team, has been suspended for failure to appear on time for a recent double header. \t that few fans blame him. • • • The Highlanders are to he reconstructed around Birdie ("rep. Ed Sweeney and Hal Chase. That’s all that Is left of the old Highlanders • • 4 The announcement of bad business in the Southern league has led to the report that there will be changes in ownership of several cities and possibly a change in circuit. • • • Prom a mere foot Blister an injury to Charley Case has developed into a threat ened attack of blood poisoning He has been in tolerably bad condition as a re sult of the injury. ♦ ♦ t Charley Dryden says that just before the Giants left Chicago McGraw bought a bottle of Grubbin’s Foot Ease for Man and Beast. • • • T\ Cobb is being greatly touted as Jen nings' successor at Detroit. • « • Charley Faust, the Giants' mascot, has gone to Cincinnati to appeal' before the national commission in person to ask for a year's salary front the Giants. His chance of getting it is a fat one. • • • It is probably lucky for the Pelicans that President Kavanaugh decided to re tain Theodore Breitenstein as an umpire He would never have done as a pitcher. • • • Rock Island may get the Dubuque fran chise in the Three-1 league Attendance is off at Dubuque and the backers of the club are discouraged. • • In the Texas league they are talking of recruiting their teams from across the Mexican border. They say the Mexicans arc better players than the Cubans. Th* 1 only trouble is in oxercoming the Texan's natural antipathy for all "greasers. ’’ • • • Despite all the reports that the Yankees would use the Polo grounds in the future work will bp started next week on the Yanks' new grounds. ~ • • Harrx Wolter lias been suspended by Man.iger Wolverton This is done because the Yanks were threatened with going over the player limit of 25 He gets his salary just the same as though lie was working. • • • Mrs. Coline Grineau Lajoie. mother of Larrv Lajoie, died Friday night. • ♦ • Manager Dooin is trying to develop "Runt - Walsh mtn a catcher That's the only position he doesn t know how to play now • • • Young pitchers on the Browns' staff are <atching thunder ami blazes these days Stovall doesn't care a hang about winnig games But he does want to know what his recruit hurlers can do under fire And he's finding out Some team Is going to make a hundred hits in one game against the Browns while "Brother George’’ Is in vestigating some young hur!e r • • • The Internationa! league circuit ma' be ! changed soon by the substitution of Syra- I euse for Montreal. ttART and Fitzsimmons, the two umpires who have followed Billy Carpenter into the discard, were among the best in the league. Old Bill Hart was no wonder, but everybody was so entirely con vinced of his honesty of purpose that he got past with a lot Rf stuff that would have ruined other um pires. Rill was on the square. He was doing his best all the time. The players all liked him. He knew the game. His eyesight might not have been the best, but it was good enough. Dan Fitzsimmons has ranked next to Carpenter as the best umpire of ’em all. He has always been fair, impartial and efficient. And what does it leave us—Dan Pfenninger. wey meaning but in competent and cursed with a back bone the consistency of mush; Rud derham. well meaning but slipping. O’Toole, who makes a good deci sion once in a while, but a lot of bad ones, too: Kellum, who is a passable man. but no wonder, and Breitenstein, who has never been as good as an umpire as he was as a twirler. [boxing ~l Late News and Views New Orleans boxing promoters are ar ranging to stage a fight between Willie Gibbs and Monte Attell in that city some time in the near future. Monte, who is a brother of Abe Attell, was at one time considered a near champ In the feather weight class. Jimmy Barry, the Chicago heavyweight is doing eight days in a Vancouver jail The big fighter, -who was returning from Australia recently, thought be owned the boat, and because the captain of the ship ; disagreed with him he proceeded to hand the officer a few uppercuts and left faba much to the latter’s disliking. When' the boat landed in Vancouver Barr-. was placed under arrest and the imprisonment followed. • • • When the officer nabbed Jimmv as he left the gangplank he denied beating up the superior officer, but one look al the latter’s face dispelled all doubt as to the lacing he administered. • • • Young Jack O’Brien has signed a con tract with Manager Billy Gibson, of the Garden A. C.. in New York, to appear in three bouts at Gibson’s club before Labor day. • * * No opponents have been announced as yet for the Philadelphia lightweight, but it Is known they will be selected from a list including Ad Wolgast. Joe Rivers, Willie Ritchie. Packer McFarland and possibly Jack Britton. In meeting any of the above pugs Young Jack would be forced to extend himself However. Big lawn places much confidence in his little brother's ability. • • • Tommy O'Keefe and Joe Mandot are scheduled to box eight rounds in Memphis the first week in August. If O'Keefe is defeated by Mattv Bald win In Boston tonight it is likelv Mattv will be given the Mandot date at Mem phis in place of the Philadelphia pug The bout between Harry Tjendatl and Jack Britton, scheduled for St. Louis. July 17. has been called off because Brit ton's left arm is affected with poison caused by a run-in with an ivv vine • • • Bombardier Wells will have to deliver the goods Friday night when he is billed to meet Tom Kennedy nr he will have to step back to make room for some other promising "White Hope. ' • « • There were but two blows struck in the Carl Morris-Con Comlskey fighi staged at Sapulpa recently . The ex-engineer struck both of these and they were enough to put Comiskey to sleep. The fighters were scheduled to go fifteen rounds • * • Petitions to restore horse racing and do away with boxing of any form in Califor nia are being circulated throughout the state for the signature of the voters Although Johnny Kilbane has chal lenged Ad Wolgast for the lightweight championship, he says he would prefer to meet Joe Rivers, as he thinks the Mexican would be a better drawing hard than the titleholder. • • • Johhny Kilbane. accompanied by his wife and manager. Jimmy Dunn has lefl his home in Cleveland for several weeks' vacation in Canada. • • » Harry Pollock has taken Johnny Dal' under his wing and has already chaf lenged Johnny Coulon tor the bantam weight title • • • Curley Jordan remains a favorite tn bi eight-round go with Terry Nelson at I Chattanooga tonight Red Ames and I Jack Foy u ill make up the second mam I card and should furnish a goc-i bout Athletic Qub Will Have Course Immense For Big Tournament T’ne Atlanta Athletic club is using thirteen men. a half dozen mule teams, two mule-drawn lawn mowers, one gasoline mower and a keg of money in getting its course ready for the invi tation tournament that will be started Thursday morning. Not since the last Southern champion ship was played in Atlanta have such preparations been made for an event. The tees have been re-turfed and "rest ed," the greens havn been carefully sanded and cut, the fair green has been manicured to the last gasp and all is ready for the tournament. Probably something like 60 Atlanta players will take part in the tourna ment. In addition there should be fully as many from other clubs. If there are it will be the largest and most successful Invitation event of Southern year-around-course history. HART AND FITZSIMMONS RESIGN UMPIRE BERTHS MEMPHIS, TENN., July 16.—Dan Fitzsimmons and Bill Hart umpired their last games in the Southern league yesterday, at least for the preeifnt sea son. Hart went to his home in Cincin nati and Fitzsimmons left for his home in Rochester. Hart stated he resigned on account of the illness of his wife. Fitzsimmons intimated that he resigned on account of the recent decision of Judge Kava naugh in cutting down the umpire staff. Fitzsimmons stated that he would not work single-handed as hot as the weather is in the Southern league. Fitz simmons also intimated that the rea son of Hart’s resignation was also on account of not being willing to work single-handed in such hot weather. MACK SELLS CY MORGAN TO KANSAS CITY CLUB PHILADELPHIA, July 16.—The first break in the quartet of great pitchers that helped to bring two American league pennants to this city came when Manager Mack announced that he had released Harry R. (Cy) Morgan to the Kansas City team of the American association. Morgan came to the Phil adelphia team in 1909 front the Boston Americans. JACK WHITE TRAINING. LOS ANGELES. July 16.—Jack White, the Chicago lightweight, has begun training for his scheduled twen ty-round fight with Owen Moran at Vernon July 20. The Chicago scrap per’s sojourn at Wheeler Springs has put him in tip-top condition. You can buy a ton of steel for twenty-eight dollars. But a ton of steel made into watch springs is worth twenty* eight thousand. The differ ence? A matter of refinement. Ford Vanadium is the most highly refined steel used in automo bile construction— lightest—strongest—-safest. More than 75,000 new Fords into service tins season—-proof that they must he right. Three passenger Roadster ss9o—five passenger touring car $690 —delivery car s7oo—f. o. h. Detroit, with all equipment. Catalogue from Ford Motor Company, 311 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, or direct from Detroit factory. < || ■ , ***" MMa i■ -mrrnn i, ,i i imi m "' T.. - FRISCO CLUB HR RIVERS AND WOLGASI SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., July 16. Lightweight Champion Ad Wolgast and Joe Rivers, of Los Angeles, may straighten out the tangle caused by ' the outcome of their bout on July 4 bv coming together in a return match in ■ this city on Admission day, September 9. The dispute connected with the end ing of the Los Angeles bout Is bound to force the. rival lightweights into an other meeting, and Jimmy Coffroth seeks to be the lucky promoter to grab the plum. Coffroth has already made T. making a flattering offer to Wolgast, and is confident that if he lands the champion Rivers will be only too glad of the opportunity to take another shot at the championship. Coffroth quite naturally would not divulge the terms he offered, but it ie known to run well up in the thousands. Attell to Get Winner. James was in Los Angeles when. Riv ers and Wolgast fought on the after noon of July’ 4 and he lost no time in getting to Manager Jones for Wolgast's services. Coffroth realized that the ending left lots of doubt in the minds of the fans and that battles of just such unsatisfactory finishes draw big ga’es Then, too, the local promoter says the boys are well matched and that even spectator would get a run for his money. It Is Jim’s plan to send the winner against Abe Attell. who now Is a fullfledged lightweight. Abe has boon in the care of Billy Nolan for months now and the former feather weight has packed on so much solid weight that he will never again fight in the class of which he was champion so long. Kaufman May Box Flynn. True, the supervisors of old Colma refused Attell and Murphy the right to fight, but Attell is not barred from bat tling hereabouts. And the fans here would welcome a meeting between the lightweight champion and Attell They are wondering whether the Hebre 1 D still as clever as a lightweight as he was as a featherweight With these fights in mind, Coffroth : = also laying plans for a match in whi'T Jim Flynn will figure. If he can secure a suitable heavyweight he would stage the go. Al Kaufman Is likely to be selected by Coffroth as Flynn's oppo nent. for there are a number here wh > still believe Al has a good figh' ft in him.