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CO®» * HiWO SPITED S FAFNSWORTH _ ______ rhe SPORTING EDITOR? , COLUMN RUBE MARQUARD is probabi. the most interesting in baseball right non It's a einch that every young boy in this good old V. S is trying to pitch the game brand of slants that the Giants’ star southpaw turns loose. And. undoubtedly, every little item about Marqtlard's personal doings is of interest. So here goes a little that the writer knows about hitn First of all, let me say that Mar quard is the best booster Marquard has. He can talk of nothing but Marquard. He Is a -pendthrlft for Marquard He buys everything that he wants for Marquard Rut he wouldn't tear himself awa\ from a lead nickel to see the Statue of Liberty swim up New York harbor if Marquard wasn't going to get a heap of pleas ure out of it But he sure will open the wallet for Marquard. Last fall he put all his world series money into i big yellow touring car He ■ ouldn't have paid over half its price when he took it out of the ware rooms But he promised to settle the bal ance within a certain number of days He immediately bought Marquard a swell fur ovri">>( and a poodle dog and arm "■ •■ m 'hi ,-qi pa raded through I’r >ad >v and I’lfth avenue in the auto. There ■a< a chauffeur rigged out I in a dark green livery, well dec orated with gold braid and large, brass buttons A<o key grqjp hat covered the driver's think tank In the rear of the auto Marquard had a footman's seat err> ted. tnd on this seat, with arms folded. -it the attendant, dres-ed exactly the chauffeur. For about a month Marquard pa raded Gotham thoroughfares thus ly. But finally the sheriff gave his dream an awful black < y < . for he put his official crip on the machine and it went back to the owners when the Rube couldn't come across with his second installment. • • • TT begins to look as though t'har * ley Hemphill Isn't going to make the howling hit here that was predicted by many of the sporting writers, including yours truly Yet, somehow or other, f still believe that “Old Eagle Eye" Is going to pull the Crackers up to a present able position In the Southern league race. But he sure will have FODDER FOR FANS President Jones, of th* Montgomery ball club, is out with his 73d denial of the report that he would sell the Montgomery franchise Dobbs has let Pitcher Bonner go to Reading of the Tri-State There must be quite a cluster of ex - Southern leaguers up in that circuit Beumiller. ex-Cracker. is batting 271 with the Brewers • • • Manager Stallings of Buffalo. has ac cused Manage!' Ganzel. of Kovhester. of trying to Intimidate the umpires Fie charge? that before a recent game Ganzel went into the umpires’ room, locked the door and laid down th»* law Tex Jones has been sent by the Buffalo club to Des Moines in the Western league Frank Tanner the Delaware Indian playing now with Enid in the Oklahoma State league, has an income of *7OO a •week in addition his baseball -alatx. which probably isn't much over that for a season He owns rich oil land <nd plays ball for re- real rm National league players have been or dered by President lynch under no ir cumstances to speak t-' a spectator dur ing the course of a game Saginaw. a burg of t.n.noo inhabitants, is now without baseball The promoters there are trying tn v«< u up a Central league franchise • • • Gandil’s great improvement in hatting since he war with the White Snx is as crlbed to the fact that he ha stopped gripping his bat at the end and Is onok Ing ft • • * Can It be that Russell Ford >• to follow in the footsteps of lack Cheshro' He has been off this year, but maybe it was only because the Yanks were to the bad Russell likes support Indianapolis has sold Nlc Scblifr.er to BOYS \\S WOOL SUITS OR TTTF FIXFST rOMBI\\TIO\ OF Double-Breasted Jackets in fancy cashmere, worsted and H blue serge, / to tl years [ one pair k/iickerbock- wearability and desirability no fabric has crs)... $5 to sls ever equalled WOOL Our bov-’ woolens nr. just as Fancy chtviols and worsteds, sto 15 years, with extra ... e .. ,-| , . knickerbockers $5 to sl2 50 stx’lish v. careiulh’ tailored as our men s garments. v tilc -< ? > t < li ji ■ * tinrniK. Norfolk Suits, /to 14 years, in blue serge and jancy which compete with tailored-to-order clothes at a patterns sstoslO third more cost. Here are some specials: Splendid ll ash Suits $1 to $5 Shoes, Underwear, Hals. Caps, Waists, etc. Parks = C liambersHard wick 37-39 Peachtree St. COMPANY Atlanta. Georgia I to get a hustle on. There is something the matter with th< team. Individually they look like a sure enough pennant winner Rut collectively they are performing like a prize bunch of dubs. They are hitting hard enough and their defensive work Is above par, but the old pepper is lacking, and 'he “breaks” are not with them. There is no doubt about Hemp hill's managerial ability. He knows baseball from soup to nuts H» proved that last summer when Hal Chase was sick. Hemp was put In as temporary manager of the New York Yankees, and with a misfit aggregation, made a corking show ing. • • « \WEEK ago last Saturday night I had a talk with Hemphill about his team Here is a part of the conversation: "Team look pretty good now." remarked the writer. "Looks good, nothing," replied Hemp. "Well, what's the matter." "Everything." That was as much as Hemp could be pumped. Rut he surely intimated very strongly that he is far from being satisfied with his material. tI.MMY LAVENDER is sure mak- J ing a howling hit up around Chicago. And what a lucky fel low is Chubby Charley Murphy, the president of the Cubs. Murphy tried his hardest to get rid of the t Georgia boy this spring, but failed io "do a> because the national com mission blocked one of his many unfafi deals. Vnd now the man that he tried to get 'id of Is the most valuable member of his costly roster. Well. Murphy was born tinder a horseshoe. Only a few years ago he was assistant club secretary sot the Giants When Jim Hart an nounced that he wanted to get out of baseball. Murphy saw a tine chance to advance in the world. He managed to ease his way Into the office of Charles Taft, brother of the president, and his smooth tongue soon found him a ready buyer in the Cincinnati newspaper man. Taft's money and Murphy’s luck gave Chit ago a w inner right off the reel, and today Murphy is a rich ma n. Kansas City He was formerly with the Philadelphia Americans. e • • It is noted that Eddie Cicotte merely < hanged the color «»f his hosiery In flop ping from the Ked Sox to the White Sox • « • Rube Marquard, who is not averse to picking up an honest pennx here and there, if the picking is good, hurled one inning for the Port (’heater team against the Bronx Independents the other day, took his pax and departed. The Inde pendents didn’t score any off the Rube. • • • Coach Willie Keeler, of the Superbas. who was detained In New York by the death of his father, has rejoined the team • • ■ George Stovall says that the Washing ton tram is quite likely to win the Ameri can league pennant tins year If he had voiced that sentiment two or three months <go they would have phoned the asylum. ♦ • • The Reds are yelling that the\ were sandbagged when (hex bought Pitcher Kirsch from Meridian He is in no shape to work and will not he for a long time The Cotton States club unloaded a •'rip ple. The national commission has just passed a rule to prevent such things • • • Roth the Reds ami Phillies are scram bling for Pitcher Nicholson of the defunct Huntington team of the Mountain States league Nicholson is a free agetit ami < in sign where he pleases • • ♦ Pitcher Tax lor. seem ed by the Reds from the United States league (deceased!, has been sent over to Indianapolis for a 30-dax- trial • ♦ • The Boston Nationals are suffering from a terrific attendance slump <>f course Kling's team 1s an awful shine compared with the Red Sox and is stung accordingly • • • Red Munson. ex-Southern leaguer, seems to have a sure pennant winner in the Bristol team THE ATT, ANT A GF.GT?GT\x WP VFWS. WEDXESDAV. JUtY 17. 1912. Two Hurlers Who May Put Local Team in Race Again JIM RRADY * [(' . * A\ TPz UJi \ ’'W *7 ■ \ Mr ~ v n 1 a < A\ \ WIIM i -of Wnbbirf <1 i d not make much I Wj&S ■ of an impression •' / in his lirst start with the (‘rack- . /811 OW / ers. losino to the / /» a&ski// Billikens. But I wj|K /ML ■ ' since that per- \ ' form.nice he has \ surely h it rle <1 ILA swell ball. lie \\|MF W- seems to have |lg|!. •• The ( ’ 1,1,s t,irne<l Waldorf over to OcT the (■ r a e k er s, v*J and it is a einch that he will bp • recalled next spring. RUDOLPH WALDORF. BIG CROWD EXPECTED AT STREET CAR MEN’S GAME The benefit game, the proceeds of which go to the Georgia Railway and Electric Company's Employees Relief association, which will be played al Ponce DeLeon on Saturday, should draw a big crowd The Southern Hell Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Southern Railway Inman yards teem of the City league will be the contesting teams, anti as these teams are regarded as among the fastest In the city, there is sure to be some fine baseball on tap The street car men are deserving of a good benefit They are always atten tive to the demands of the public and give them good service day in and day out and tills is the onty chance every year that Atlantans have the oppor tunity of showing their appreciation CHARLEY FRANK IS RAVING. t’harley Frank s talk of a special meet Ing to consider his protest against I’m plje O'Toole’s decision for forfeiting a game to Atlanta Is a rich scream Flue chance to gel a decision overruled when it was a question of judgment and not of rules O'Toole ruled that the I'els were delaying the game That ended it The rest Is mereb to string along the Pelican sport writers FIVE JOCKEYS INJURED WHEN MOUNTS TUMBLE VALLEY FIELD. QUEBEC. July 17 Five jockeys were injured, three se riously. and a horse was hurt, when five of eight horses in the first ’ace of the meeting fell at the local track. The spill occurred at the first bend, when two horses collided and tumbled in the path of three animals closely following them. The dusty track and field were responsible. The injured jockeys are: Striven, suffering frpm brain concus sion: Williams, injured Internally, and Robins, leg broken, who were carried off on stretchers, and Knight and White, who. with assistance, limped from the track Elizabeth O. received a broken leg. NELSON AND AMES WIN FROM JORDAN AND FOY CHATTANOOGA. TENN . July 17 Terry Nelson, of Philadelphia, won an easy decision over Curley Jordan, of Springfield. Mo., here in eight fast rot’in ds. Red Arnes, of Chattanooga, defeated .1 it k Kin. of Atlanta, tn the first bout. Invitation Tournament Starts Tomorrow Over Finest Golf Course SOUTH’S BEST PLAYERS HERE FOR LOCAL EVENT By Percy H. Whiting. TOMORROW morning, at such time as the tournament com mittee shall appoint, the first pair of golfers will tee the first balls in the second annual tourna ment of the Atlanta Athletic club. Five minutes later another-pair will get away. Five minutes later an- Brady appears to lie the, most reliable Ditcher Hemphill has ' riaht. now. Away rjMßyu' * a to a slow start. he has been de e, livering of late. was SPC ’ irP( i A\ h’ om th p Boston National league lw|a}l team. Last year he was the best twirler in the W New York State league, and the * » Boston misfits A. bought him. HODRAY! CAN'T BE BEAT TODAY NEW ORLEANS. July 17.—1 t is an off day for the Crackers today, who pulled in here this morning from Mo bile. Tomorrow would be another day of rest, too, but for the fact that the Atlanta team and the locals have an extra game to plaj' off. The Atlanta players seem to be down cast over the three straight they dropped to the Gulls, and it looks as though Manager Hemphill has got an awful Job on his hands to pull them out of the rut. Yesterday’s game over in Mobile was lost by a score of 6 to 4. After having a three-run lead, young Coombs, who was on the mound, blew up in the fourth inning and before the session was finished five Gulls had dented the dish with runs. The orfly features of the game from a Cracker standpoint were two home runs in succession by Whitey Alper tnan. PLAYS TENNIS WITHOUT SHOES: LOSES HIS MATCH BOSTON. July 17. —An innovation in championship tennis was shown in the twenty-second annual Longwood Cricket club tournament in singles when Hugh Tailant, of New York, in nis match with G. F. Touchard. played without shoes. His feet were encased in heavy socks, but he apparently gained no advantage from the change, as Touchard won all three sets. Wright and Behr provided the star .plays in the first round of the Eastern doubles championship which opened yesterday. WOLGAST SAYS HE WILL NOT FIGHT FOR 6 MONTHS LOS ANGELES, July 17.—Ad Wol gast will not fight Joe Rivers on Labor day The champion plans to go tr> Oregon for a long rest and will not put on the gloves before the first of next year. "I was not right in the last fight." said Ad, "and T have realized it more every day since the bout. The offer of $50,000 from Stockton might have tempted me to try Rivers again in Sep tember but that offer fell through As it is now I w ill not fight before New Year's." GIANTS WILL GIVE GROH AND DEVORE FOR TYLER 1 HICAGO. July 17—<ohn McGraw, of the Giants, Is making an effort to strengthen his pitching staff McGraw has offered Infielder Grob and Outfield et Devore for Southpaw Tyler, of Bo ton Kling received a telegram from Mc- Graw making the offer The deal may go through. PITCHER McGEHEE SOLD TO JENNINGS’ TIGERS JACKSON. MISS. July 17—Patrick McGehee, pitchei sot the Vicksburg i Miss i team of the Cotton States league, has been sold to the Detroit American league team for $750. ac cording: to announcement made here today He is to report at the end of the scri-on Mi G; hee has led the Vicks burg pitching staff this year. other. And all the morning, as regularly as a minute gun booms, players will get away from the first tee on the tong grind that is even tually to determine the ownership of a huge mass of assorted silver ware and incidentally to settle the question of golfing .supremacy among the corking good players .who will gather for a trial of skill oyer the South's one-championship course. Ail the preparatory work Is over now but the shduting. The course has been carefully prepared, the prizes have been bought, the plans made and by every train golfers are gathering for the final test of skill. It is a good deal of a treat for the average top-notch Southern players to get a chance at the At lanta course. For it is essentially a championship course, while the average Southern course is a "duf fer's course* - There ig no denying that the or dinary course is laid out to satisfy the golfing aspirations of the dub players. They are always so vast ly in majority that the greens committee panders to them and smooths out the t'“rubles. The usual course Is laid oui, not as a test of golf but as a round which can be played with the maximum of dtfb bersome enjoyment and the mini mum of score. In Atlanta they have had the courage of their convictions and have laid out a course that Is a course. They haven't considered what would probably amuse the poorer players of the club, but have made a course that most nearly approaches perfection. A large part of the credit for the especial excellence of the local course be longs to George W. Adair, who was president of the club during the first three'or four years of the course's history. The work Is now being carried out along the same broad lines by President W. H. Glenn, himself an excellent golfer and a believer in real golf courses. • • • MJ Southern course has had the 1N benefit of as much expert ad vice as the one at East Lake. It was laid out originally by Tom Bendlow-. of Chicago, who has planned more courses than any man in America —probably more than any man in the world. The first professional of the club was Alex Smith, then open champion of America, of the East, of the East ern Professionals association, of the Metropolitan Golf association, and goodness knows what all. The early trapping was done under his guiding eye. Since then the ideas of H. H. Barker, imported from England by the Garden City course because of his w onderful knowledge of golf course planning; Freddie McLeod, ex-open champion; the late Willie Anderson, ex-open, and J. J. McDermott, present open champion, have all been secured on the subject, as well as those of Walter J. Travis, former Amer ican and British amateur cham pion; H. Chandler Egan, ex-ama teur champion of American, and a slather of other players of note. The result has been that the local course has been trapped and bunk ered according to the ideas of America's greatest golfing experts. And it’s some golf course. Over this great course for the next three days the South’s best golfers will battle, and it should prove "some contest.” « ♦ ♦ 'T'HEY have been playing some interesting professional tourna ments of late. The victory of Tom McNamara, the Boston “home bred” player in the open of the Metropolitan Golf association, was not surprising. Tom has ben play- AtfvZ It > or the man who uses 1H | i selecting his cigars. ison why you should Bl cigar, when you can Is 1 USKIN for 5c.? tM B1 Ih~l Full, ripe, matured, big mild cigar. The Havana 1| H| y Bl tobacco used is the choicest grown. After your first Brnih ■ smoke of a John Ruskin, you'll buy them by the BtHUI box. Each box contains a profit-sharing voucher. |!lh| Ask your dealer about the John Ruskin the next BtHtij Htfnß time you buy a cigar. ■fnHM ■ESI I. LEWIS CIGAR MEG. CO.. Newark, N. J. . ■lt" i' ■ Independent Giger Factor, tn the World OHM* nTj j;B Ejjl' E. L. ADAMS to CO. ) Atlanta |S| J. N. HIRSCH | Distributors JEwl li 'L HB 9 aT vUi * m 4b X £ m A KM b M S ml wa B A BOMrA-mB ing right around the top In all the big open tournaments for the last couple of years and was about due. He played a steadily improving game. His scores were 75. 74, 73. 71. and he took title by a four stroke margin over Gilbert Nich ols. Alex Smith, former local pro fessional, -was in the money, but ‘not impressively. Frank Peebles, the Stockbridge, Mass., profession al, set a new mark o£ 69 for the Apa warn! s course in the tourna ment. A few days after the Metropoli tan open the Wykagyl course gave a one-day open event, and in this affair Alex Smith came back to life. With scores of 71 and 70 he led the second man. again Gil Nichols, by five strokes. This score was a new 36-hole record for the New Rochelle course. • • • rxNE national golf tournament win be played in the South next season —the annual golfing celebra tion of the American Golf Asso ciation of Advertising Interests. This affair has been scheduled for the Hot Springs, Va.. course. This organization numbers some corking players and it always gives an Im pressively big tournament. It will not be many years before the South, -with Its rabidly Improv ing courses, will be making a bid for some of the real national championships. It -will probably be 50 years before it will ever be able to get the amateur event, but It might grab the open almost any old time. • * • vpFTE Memphis golf course used to A boast of an 82-year-old golfer, but the Bluff City and all the rest will have to take a back seat, for Plymouth, Mass., has a golfer 101 years old. His name Is Tilden Pierce. Unlike the average old-timer in golf. Mr. Pierce did not take up the game until he was 100 years old. After taking It up. however, he be came enthusiastic at once and now plays twice a week, • • • matter at what game an ath- L ’ lete starts golf usually gathers him in. Bill Lamed, for years America’s greatest tennis player, has practically forsaken the court game for the links. He has played but little tennis this year, though much golf, and is becoming a star at the Scotch pastime. Another famous athlete known locally for his golfing prowess f? Ted Coy, the greatest football player America ever knew. He fig ured both in the Montgomery invi tation tournament and the South ern championship at Chattanooga this year, and it will be surprising if he does not turn up for the local event. • JIMMY LAVENDER BEATS MUGGSY’S TEAM AGAIN CHICAGO. July 17.—Jimmy Laven der is being called the “Giant Killer” to day as a result of his victory yester day over the New York team. The Cubs won the game by a score of 3 to 1. it being the Georgia boy’s second win. over the Gothamites during the East erners’ second Western Invasion. The game was a pitchers’ battle be tween Lavender and Jeff Tesreau, and the Cub proved the better man. LEFTY MORAN BEATEN: RECEIVES RAD SUPPORT BOSTON, July 17.—Lefty Moran, th* Detroit Tigers’ pitcher, who was se cured from Washington and Lee. where he pitched corking good college ball, lost a hard game to the Red Sox yes terday. He hurled an excellent game, but his support was very ragged. Moran is sure to give a good ac count of himself in fast company At least that is the opinion of Hub ex perts.