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6 aoMM straw ow> * maw Silk Hat Harry's Divorce Suit Anything Against Chickens Is Against the judge Copyright. 191*. National News Assn. By Tad “ - THIS 15 SCME CouhTß-vA £>tate TM^r’ Mitch |E ( C THatSto ictej* ! \ >hu‘Sah'pTpe'tm £ '> fv«He>A!! MtTTzH \ F ~2< 4'mohE murnt P-oie ( that nimr j . ~ on</ovr. place and ' < OUT i GOOD / y rmlvour coaf heigh Bcil-S vajld - For the MFe of me nojH i < I I~MI INK IU- 5. K-t- J '"O- ' 'WONDfsP- 'WHAT j I CAnF SEE 'N H-A. V ' -z—, I r- t, - \ THATS A-OK. ? _J • I | I 7HATFEHGE tS FOR. ) i w I i' ! w? ~■ ■ AmBV ■ • w Mfr IWK pig|j|. - ~ 7 • •■ -■'■ '. -.r: ; • ■. 0 .. q®W,. .•< KE J— ' '* . J . ; ' ' ■■. ; r K. ■■■■■<•■..•> ■" -? ?Z; .'.. *'. V. <■ ■' ~~ aA® CRICK WILL FIGHT HIRD TD WIN LIST GAME MOBILE, July 16.—1 tis getaway day for the <’ra< kfrs here, and Manager Chari.y Hemphill announced this noon that his warriors were going to cop the final game of the series or bust in the attempt. Hemp has not fully decided just which pitcher he will use this aft ernoon. but Atkins is long overdue and will probably decorate the mound with his pre:-e nl e. Berger is slated to work for the (lulls Yesterday the ('rackets went down to defeat again to the tune of 3 to 2, losing 'mt in the last of the ninth. Hemp's men tallied first, in the third Inning. The run was forthcoming on Donahue's single, a walk to Waldorf, a wild pitch and Alperman's one-bag ger. Mobile tied up the count in the sev enth after two were out. Jacobsen sin. gled, moved up a notch when Paulet was slammed in the ribs with an In shoot and earned on O'Brien's timely bingh. In the eighth the Crackers again took the lead Agler was safe when Paulet fumblec his grass, r He went to third on Alperman's double and tallied on Mt Elveen's sacrifice hoist. But in the last spasm the home team won out. O'Dell singled and scored when M< Elv> en threw Long's grasser a mile over Aglet's head. Long got all the way to third on the peg and on a semi-passed ball and Waldorfs muff of Donah’i' s rm every he brought in the deciding run. J ■ A 4 jßEr* CHEW DRUMMOND Makes even I hard work seem easier I I DRUMMOND I 4 NATURAL LEAF K CHEWING TOBACCO » "If It’s at Hartman's, It’s Correct" MEN’S VACATION FURNISHINGS I Men, Hartman's is head quarter' for everything son’ll possibly need for either vacation or busi D'SS. Straw Hats $2 to $6 Wash Ties 25c and 50c Silk Ties .... 50c to $1 " Lion '' ('ollars 2 for 25c Negligee Shirts $1 to $2.50 I'nderwear . 50c to $1.50 Low Shoes $3.50 to $6 Note Our Window Display Six Peachtree Street Opp Peters Bldg.) "If Il's Correct, It’s at Hartman's" Crackers* Batting Averages, Including Yesterday's Game These averages include all games played to date: Players. G. AB. R. H. Av. Becker, p. . . . 3 8 1 3 .375 Harbison, ss. . . 26 85 'J 27 .318 ' Hemphill, cf, . 76 290 35 91 .314 Bailey, rs. . . . 80 283 51 82 .290 Alperman, 2b.. . 80 303 41 85 .281 Donahue, c. ... 31 96 9 24 .250 Callahan, If. . . 38 162 20 38 .235 Graham, c, . . . 29 86 9 20 .233 I McElveen, 3b.. 86 315 38 72 .230 Atkins, p* . . . 15 39 3 8 .'305 Coombs, utility .4 5 0 1.200 Brady, p 11 35 17 .200 Sitton, p 16 40 17 .175 Agler. lb 17 53 6 9 .170 Waldorf, p 2 5 0 0 .000 STREET CAR MEN TO HAVE BENEFIT GAME The Georgia Railway anad Electric I Company Employees association will be ! the hosts to local fans at a benefit ball game at Ponce DeLeon park Saturday ■ afternoon. This game is a yearly event, and the proceeds derived from same go to this asso: iatlon to help in its upkeep yearly. The Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Southern Railway Infrian Yards teams of the City league will be the contestants in the game, and a warm battle can be expected. T. J. DRISCOLL CAPTURES CHECKER CHAMPIONSHIP T. J. Driscoll, of Atlanta, is the Georgia checker champion, winning the title in the tournament which was held in Atlanta at No. 2 engine house last week, with a percentage of .822. J S Hull was second, R. M Nether land third, and I-’ A Risse fourth. Elf teen players entered the tournament. BUCK CROUSE KNOCKS OUT KURTZ IN EIGHT ROUNDS NEW YORK. July 16 Buck Crouse, who stopped Welterweight Dave Kurtz, of Newark. N. .1 in eight rounds at Madi son Square Garde.n last night, will try to get a bout with Champion Mike Gibbons RECRUIT IS HURT. DVBUQUE, IOWA, July 16.—PUcher Ray Benight, a recruit who arrived from Austin, Minn, yesterday, has been sent home by Manager Rowland. Benlght's knee, due to an old injury, gave way during practice and he will be laid up the balance of the season. SIGN NEW PITCHER. CINCINNATI. OHIO. July 16. Pitcher Taylor, who was obtained bv the Cincinnati baseball club from the I nited States league, was sold to tho Indianapolis club of the American as sociation. AL KAUFMAN IS SICK. SAN FRANCISCO, July 16. Al Kauf man. tlte local heavyweight who was . mati lied to fight Charlie Miller on Julv ■-’l. is seriously ill with pleurisy. The fight has been postponed. !==BS =—=’=“ NATIONAL SURGICAL INSTITUTE For the Treatment of ‘ .NX DEFORMITIES a J. ‘ ESTABLISHED 1874. 1 AA 1 j-'w (live the deformed 1 Zflj children a chance. / I | \v\ L’ Send us their / \ 7\| names, we can / | I \ >- help them. ' - This Institue Treats Club Feet, Dis eases of the Spine, Hip Joints, I’araly sis, etc. Send for illustrated catalog. 72 South Pryor Street. Atlanta, Ga. JW £ y 1 s 1C 1 ION ApF R ■ J * MA\F\T CVR F. e i 1 of the most ohatino’e <a*eH guaranteed in fr-.n J ? 3 u> 6 days ; no other treatment required. \ Sold by all druggist*. \ ■ , , , I tin A >IuAM-lA < AN ANJJf NEWS. TUESDAY, JULY 16. 1912. Money Running Low Because of Bad Weather, Southern Lets Out Best Umpires BAD SEASON MAY CAUSE CHANCES IN CIRCUIT By Percy H. Whiting. WHEN President Kavanaugh began cutting the umpire staff of the Southern league by sending Billy Carpentier 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. whl< R the league reversed— as when 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 out. IT'S been a hard season financial -1 ty. 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 seared 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 play 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 series, 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. The league is run out of a fund created by' taking ten per cent out of the gross 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 Kavanaugh, who is nothing if not a good ier, began cutting ex penses. He couldn't cut the scorers without danger of their putting up a yell. He certainly didn't intend to cut into his own salary. So there was nobody left to economize on except the umpires Hence the cut in umpires * • • rnllE league's hope of pulling out * of the hole this season lies In the closeness of the race. For it's certainly tight. Atlanta, even though last, is still less than 200 points behind the league leaders. \mi Atlanta is no very bad last. A week of steady winning would put the < 'rackers in the first divi sion even now There are likely to be some tre mendous chgngvs in the Southern league race any old time. Bir mingham. of course, has a fairly impressive lead on the bunch. But Mobile's hold on second place is 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 H half game, and the claim of New Orleans on the leadership of the second division is not strong enough to be troublesome. Nash ville is sixth by grace of a whis ker-wide lead ovei Montgomery. Ami Atlanta, as you well know. is an extremely impressive last. • « * i F a couple of teams in the league ' begin to close 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 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 is 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 ends. BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip The 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. • « « Manager Edward Maguire, of the Brock ton team, has been suspended for failure to appear on time for a recent double header. At that few fans blame him. • • « The Highlanders are to be reconstructed around Birdie Cree. Ed Sweeney and Hal Chase That’s all that is left of the old Highlanders. • « • 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 * • a From a mere foot blister an injury to Charley Case has developed into a threat ened attack of blood poisoning He has been tn tolerably bad condition as a re sult of the Injury. • * • Charley Dryden says that just before the Giants left Chicago McGraw 'bought a hottie of Grubbin’s Foot Ease far Man and Beast • • • Ty Cobb is being greatly touted as Jen nings’ successor at Detroit. • • • Charley Faust, the Giants’ mascot, has gone to Cincinnati to appear before the national commission in person, to ask for a year's salary from the Giants. His chance of getting it is a fat one. * a * It is probably lucky for the Pelicans that ITesident 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 chib are discouraged. • • In the Texas league thry are talking of recruiting their teams from across the Mexican border. They say the Mexicans are better players than the Cubans. The only trouble is in overcoming 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 t»e started next week on the Yanks’ new grounds a • Harry Wolter has been suspended by Manager 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 he was working * • • Mrs. Coline Grlneau I.ajoie. mother of T.grrv I.ajoie. died FrUlay night. • * e Manager Dooin is trying to develop "Runt” Walsh into a. catcher. That’s the only position he doesn’t know how to play now. • * • Young pitchers on the Brown?' staff are catering thunder and blazes these days Stovall doesn't care a hang about winnlg games Rut he d.ew want to know what his recruit hurlers can do under fire .-And he's finding out. Some team Is going to make a hundred hilts in one game against the Browns while “Brother George'' Is in vestigating some young hurler • • • The International league circuit may he changed soon by the substitution of Syra cuse for Montreal. ttART and Fitzsimmons, the two 11 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 of stuff that would have ruined other um pires. Bill 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, well 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 twlrler. Fboxing 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, doing days in a Vancouver jail. The big fighter, who was returning from Australia recently, thought he owned the boat, and because the captain of the ship disagreed with him he proceeded to hand the officer a few uppercuts and left jabs much to the latter’s disliking. When' the boat landed in Vancouver Barry was placed under arrest and the imprisonment followed. • • • When the officer nabbed Jimmy as he left the gangplank he denied beating up the superior officer, but one look at 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 efilb 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, Backey McFarland and possibly Jack Britton. In meeting any of the above pugs Y oung Jack would be forced to extend himself. However. Big Jawn 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 likely Matty will be given the Mandot date at Mem phis in place of the Philadelphia pug. • • » Tile bout between Harry Trandall snd Jack Britton, scheduled for St ixiuis, July 17. has been called off because Brit ton's left arm is affected with poison caused by a run-in with an ivy vine. • • a Bombardier Wells will have to deliver the goods Fridas night when he is billed to meet Tom Kennedy or 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 Cumiskey light 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. at * v 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 Kilbanr has chal lenged Ad Wolgast for the lightweight championship, he says he would prefer to meet Joe Ttlvers, as he thinks the Mexican would be a better drawing card than the titleholder. • • V Johhny Kilbane, accompanied bv his wife and manager Jimmy Dunn has left his home In Cleveland for several weeks' vacation In Canada «. o •> Harry Pollock has taken Johnny Daly under his wing and has already chal lenged Johnny Coulon for the bantam weight title. • • • Curlev Jordan remains a favorite in his eight-round go with Terry Nelson at Chattanooga tonight. Red Ames and Jack Fo.v will make up the second main • erd sr-l should fi>rr>i-'h ■» - i Athletic Club Will Have Course Immense For Big Tournament The 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 'Test ed.” the greens have 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 present 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 camq 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 from 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. "WKfeflWF*' 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 automobile construction— lightest—strongest—safest. More than 75,000 new Fords into service this season—proof that they must he right. Three passenger Roadster *ss90 —five passenger touring ear $690 —delivery car S7O0 —f. o. b. Detroit, with all equipment. Catalogue from Ford Motor Company, 311 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, or direct from Detroit factory. LFRISCO CLUB AFTER RIVERS AND WOLGAST SAN FRANCISCO. (’AL, July t< - Lightweight Champion Ad Wolgast .mJ Joe Rivers, of Los Angelos, may straighten out the tangle caused by the outcome of their bout on July 1 by doming together in a return mat. ii in this city on Admission day. September 9. The dispute connected with tie- end ing of the Los Angeles bout i bound io force the rival lightweights into an other meeting. and Jimmy ('. ffroth seeks to be the lucky promote! to grab tlie plum. Coffroth has already made a move in 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 anothr-i shot at the championship. Coffroth quite naturally would not divulge the terms he offered, but it is known to run well up in the thousands. Attell to Get Winner. James was in Los Angeles when Riv ers and Wolgast fought on tin ifter noon of July 4 and he lost no time in getting to Manager Jones for Wolge.st's services. Coffroth realized that th, ending left lots of doubt in the minds of the fans and that battles of just sia-h unsatisfactory finishes draw big gate- Then, too, the local promoter say- th'- boys are well matched and that , vei' spectator would get a run for his money. It is Jim's plan to send th, winner against Abe Attell. who now is a fullfledged lightweight. Abe has been in the care of Billy Nolan : r months now and the former feather weight has packed on so much ■ ’ i weight that he will never again tight in the class of which Ire was champion so iong. Kaufman May B°x Flynn. True, the supervisors of old 1 ■■ mt < refused Attell and Murphy the right t fight, but Attell is not barred from hr tllng hereabouts. And the fans here would welcome a meeting between th-> lightweight champion and Attell. They are wondering whether tire Hebrew is still as clever as a lightweight as he was as a featherweight. Witlr these fights in mind, ('ofi'roth is also laying plans for :i match in whiib Jim Flynn will figure, if ire can seeur" a suitable heavy weight he would stag* 1 the go. Al Kaufman Is likely m he selected by Coffroth as Flynn's oppo nent. for there are a number her- " h' still believe Al has a. good figb' -I' in him.