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SOUTHEASTERN’S PRESIDENT DUITS ANNISTON, ALA., July 18.—Affairs In the Southeastern baseball league had another turn when the resignation of President Hugh W. Roberts Was made Known. Laical baseball men did not , are to prophesy on the effect this res ignation Kvould have on the league, fur ther than to say "it was mighty bad to swap horses while crossing a stream." The baseball situation was thor oughly discussed on the streets yester day by directors and fans. All were agreed that events made a four-club league for the balance of the season inevitable. The clubs will be Anniston, Gadsden, Rome and Selma. Bessemer •= already out, and Talladega has never been formally accepted as a member of the organization. The directors met in Birmingham and decided that each of the five clubs still going should put up S7O apiece to enable Bessemer to play the last three days of the last week, so that Cedar town might have a chance to come in. It is said Anniston’s representative was opposed to this plan, doubting that there was a chance of Cedartown com ing in. but he was outvoted. It is now up to President Bailey to steer the league successfully for the rest of this season, a period of a month and a half. Sentiment here seemed in favor of cutting down the league ex penses. which, it is said, have run something like S9OO a month. With a four-club league the salary of one um pire can be eliminated, and possibly other savings can be effected. ATLANTA TENNIS STARS IN WESTERN CHAMPIONSHIP CHICAGO, July 18.—Tennis stars from distant states have begun arriv ing in Chicago for the annual Western championship tournament, which will begin on Saturday at the Owentsia club. Lake Forest. The national doubles matches will be played on the same grounds July 30-31, the winning team to meet R. D. Li'tle and D. F. Touchard, the title holders, August 20. at Newport. Among the visiting players in the men’s singles will be Nat Thornton and (’ Y. Smith, of Atlanta; Elliott Mid dleton and Alfred Cornelius, of Mem phis; G. B. Monroe, of New Orleans, and C. M. Church and W. H. Mace, of P'inceton. KARL BEHR DEFEATS CLAY COURT CHAMPION BOSTON, July 18.—R. N. Williams, of Philadelphia, national clay court champion, was defeated by Karl H. Behr, of New York, at the Longwood 'picket club singles championship tournament yesterday in a brilliant five-set match. Another closely con tested five-set match was between G. F. Touchard, of New’ York, and Nat W. Niles, of Boston, the latter finally win ning. F. C. Inman, of New York, and E. P. Larned were put out of the Eastern doubles championships by N. P. Hallo well and J- Newell, of Boston. This was the only upset in the doubles. WANT DRISCOLL-KILBANE GO. NEW YORK, July 18.—The National Sporting club, of London, is trying to match Jem Driscoll, featherweight champion of Great Britain, with Johnny Kilbane. for the world’s title. Charles M. Mathison, representative of the London club in this country, received a cable message last night asking him to take up negotiations with Kilbane. It is understood the London club is pre pared to hang up a big purse. “Correct Dress for Men” Essig Bros.’ July Sale of Men’s and Young Men’s Fine Clothing 333 Per Cent Discount for Cash CAUR entire stock of Two and Three-Piece Suits in Cheviot, Worsteds, Cassimeres, Crash, Homespuns, Sumar Cloth and Mohairs. Every Suit must be sold, nothing reserved---all fancy patterns as well as Blue yfgjjyk and Black Unfinished Worsteds and Blue Serges. Rfw s ii?os±fc ! 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When Ben Koehler dropped out of the team he left a hole that Smith hasn’t been able to plug and after staving off the inevitable for a while he uit. Lou Castro is still "calling' home runs. In a game at Norfolk the other day. with the score tied In the last of the ninth Lou stepped to the stands as Nixon went to bat and announced: “Ladies and gentle men. the game is over. You can go home.” Nixon then put the ball over the fence. • • « Canton. Akron and Wheeling are ail after Jesse Tannehill, who was recently released by South Bend. They say that they’ll take any man who can hit .300. even if he is a bit slow on his knobs. • • ■ Speaking of Eva Tanguay. Hugh Jen nings says he don’t care either. It s alto gether too distressing. Jimmy Callahan isn’t hitting as he did last year. It’s that way with managers. • • • If the’ Crackers stand between the rest of rhe clubs and the bottom of the pit they ought at least get a Carnegie medal all around for their bravery. • * * The LaGrande club of the Western Tri- State league has a woman for an official scorer. Which leads some of us former scorers to wonder who the players cuss at about the hits they don’t get. Joe Delehanty couldn't even stick with Wllkesbarre and has drawn his release. * • » Last fall a guy named Frank C. Davis got $1,600 from Miss Ellen Flynn to buy world series tickets, alleging that he was a friend of J. McGraw. Jawn is going to court now and then these days to testify that he doesn't know Davis. • • • Kraft, once a pitcher with Toledo, now an outfielder in the South Michigan league, recently made eight homd runs in nine days. Shortstop Foreman, of the Kankakee club, made an unassisted triple play the other day. They've just discovered that if the Giants weren't in the National league It would be a grand race. • • • As absorbers of punlshm'nt the New York Highlanders have Joe Grim’s best efforts looking like an overripe tomato. The Giants were pretty well shot to pieces In Chicago and five men were on the hospital list when McGraw retreated. • . ■ Charley Faust alleges that he has put a jinx on the Giants because they spumed his services as pitcher and mascot. Fine chance for the puzzle department to spring one really worth working on! How’s this for a puzzler: "What in the dickens is the matter with the Crackers, anyway?" ■ • • President Lynch, of the National league, has cautioned his umpires not to allow any "kicks to the grandstand." Says he, "If a man argues a bit with you over his shoulder about balls and strikes, it's usu ally all right. But if he draws a line on the ground to show where the ball went, fire him. He isn't kicking to you. then. He's trying to prove an alibi to the fans. • • a What would be the betting If the High landers faced the Braves? * • • They are taking up a contribution in Rochester to buy John Ganzel an automo bile. • * • With two pitchers badly crippled Man ager Schwartz still manages to keep the Nashville team ahead of the Crackers. « ■ • Ed Koney has missed only fourteen games in eight years. The Big Train wal lows in work. • • • Both John Henry and Eddie Ainsmith were injured in a recent game. Henry tore a ligament In his left knee and was seriously hurt. • « • The Boston fans think that if Joe Wood can keep on as he has been going that they will take the pennant sure and they wouldn’t mind wagering a kopek or two on the outcome of the world's series. • • • Once when Dale Gear was managing the Muskogee team a bug named Martin came to him and asked for a job. "What have you been drawing?” asked Gear. “Well, I’ve been in the habit of drawing S2OO a month.” said Martin. "It’s a bad habit and you’ll have to iZifi ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1912. break yourself of it." was Gear's retort— and he signed him for $l6O. Later Gear decided to fire this same Martin. But Martin refused to be fired. He pulled his contract and flashed these words on Geor—“for the season of 1910." “Also," added Martin. "I told my moth er I wasn't coming home till fall and I ain’t.” So Gear tore up his release and let him finish out the season. • « * The Giants are all to pieces. They have already lost two series this season. • • ■ Oh. yes. among the other places in the National league Jennings is going to after Detroit cans him is Brooklyn—which would be a blessing for Brooklyn, though tolerably hard on Hughie. • • • Kid Butler is batting .332 with St. Paul. • * • President Kavanaugh paid a recent visit to New Orleans—but not on baseball busi ness, of course. He gets his salary for sticking in Little Rock, which isn’t in the circuit. George Shears, the skinny left hander who trained in Atlanta with the Yanks, has been shipped to Albany, N. Y.. for more seasoning. • • • At Cape May they are offering daily prizes of one pair of silk stockings to the lady who holds the ticket number which corresponds to the score of the home team multiplied by the score of the visitors. • • • Al Bridwell is still suffering from the effects of an attack of blood poisoning, but is improving. • • • Gabbj' Street is proving more and more of a failure with the A anks. and it is likely that Williams will be the second catcher in the future. ♦ * • Pat Maloney, purchased by the Yanks from Brockton, is an awful disappoint ment He can neither bat nor run bases. Just before the Yanks bought him the Braves turned him down. Wow! • * • Charley Sterrett is likely to be the reg ular Yank center fielder the rest of the year. He is going strong with the club and, while callow, is willing and husky. • • • Hugh Roberts, the sporting editor-pres ident of the Southeastern league, has re signed his job. He says he can’t give the league sufficient attention. • • ♦ Catcher Kelly figured as the small end of the big O'Toole deal, but he is prov ing one of the best catchers in fast com pany. X ♦ • ♦ A dozen pitchers are batting better than .250 in the National league—which is Heinie-Zimmering some for pitchers. • * • Tommy may not be responsible, but the Cubs have certainly played vastly im proved ball since T. Leach joined them. • • • Great as the Giants are they haven't but three pitchers who are worth a hang— the peerless Marquard. the fading Math ewson and the uncertain Tesreau. Wiltse, Ames and Crandall wouldn’t be an es pecial credit to the St. Louis Browns. • « • Jud Daly continues to be the big cut-up in the fielding way with the Superbas. His mental obfustication is no great handicap to him in that company. • * • Players close to Rube Marquard say that he nearly popped under the strain of keeping up his record string of victories. When the strain ended he went all to pieces. » » • Cliff Curtis, the human trading stamp, has a new berth. He’s with Brooklyn. Curtis started with Boston Then he went to Chicago on the Kling deal. Then he went to the Phillies for Kitty Bransfielff. Pretty soon he'll be going to the minors— for good. CREWS RACE AT STOCKHOLM. STOCKHOLM, July 18.—Half a doz en nations competed against each other in the rowing events of the Olympic regatta today. In the preliminary rounds of the outrigger fours Denmark beat Finland by a length. Thames Rowing club bested Norway by 1 1-2 lengths; the Christiana crew defeated Belgium, the Ludwigshaven. Germany, crew, had no opponents and had a walk-over. FAMOUS DRIVER DIES. KALAMAZOO, MICH., July 18.— James Flynn, 65 years of age, famous as the driver of Sweet Marie when she made her 2:02 record in California, is dead here today. Flynn, whose home is Bangor. Mich., was attending the races here and was stricken with heart failure. THE BASEBALL CARD. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Today. Atlanta in New Orleans Memphis in Montgomery. Nashville, in Birmingham Standing of the Club*. W L. P C W. L. P C B ham. .53 32 .621 C'nooga. 40 41 .494 Mobile . .47 42 .528 N’ville 37 43 .463 N. Or. . 39 38 506 Mont.. . 38 47 .447 M'mphis 40 40 .500 Atlanta .34 45 .430 Yesterday s Results. Nashville 4. Birmingham 1 New Orleans 4. Chattanooga 1. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Games Today. Albany in Jacksonville Columbia in Savannah. Macon in Columbus. Standing or tne Clubs. W. L P C W. L. J’.C. C’bus. . 11 6 .647 .1 ville. . 10 8 .556 Macon . .11 7 .611 Cola . . . 13 .316 Sav . . .10 7 .588 Albany ~6 13 .316 Yesterday s Results, Jacksonville 12. Savannah 0. Macon 1, Albany 0 (first game.) Albany 3. Macon 2 <second game. I Columbus 1, Columbia o (first game.) Columbus 7. Columbia I (second game.) AMERICAN LEAGUE, Games Today. Chicago in Boston. St. Louis in Washington. Detroit in Philadelphia. Cleveland in New York. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C. W. L. P C Boston . .58 27 .684 C'land. . .43 43 .500 Wash .52 34 (105 Detroit . 41 44 .482 T’hila. . .48 36 .571 S Louis 25 57 .305 Chicago .45 37 .549 N. York 22 56 ’ .282 ' Yesterday’s Results. Detroit 13. Philadelphia 1 (first game.i Philadelphia 5. Detroit 4 (second game. Cleveland 5, New York 1. Chicago 1, Boston 0 (first game.) Boston 7, Chicago 3 (second game.) Washington 1, St. Louis 0 (first game.) St. Louis 7, Washington 6 (second game.) NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. New York in Pittsburg. Boston in Cincinnati. Philadelphia in Chicago. Brooklyn in St. Louis. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.C. W. L. P.C N. York 59 20 .747 Phila .42 44 488 Chicago 48 29 .623 S. Louis 30 45 .400 P'burg. 46 32 .590 B'klyn. .29 48 .377 C’nati. . .41 39 .513 Boston. 21 59 .263 Yesterday’s Results. New York 10. Pittsburg 2. Brooklyn 7. St. Louis I. Cincinnati-Boston, rain Philadelphia 6, Chicago 5. Vacation Days are here. Plan now where to go and let us help you. The mountain and lake resorts in the North and West are attractive. The clear invigorating air will do much to upbuild you physically. We have on sale daily round trip tickets at low fares and with long return limits and will be glad to give you full infor mation. Following are the round trip fares from Atlanta to some of the principal resorts: CHAUTAUQUA LAKE PTSS34.3O NIAGARA FALLSS3S.BS DENVER- 47.30 PUT IN BAY -28.00 DETROIT- 30.00 PETOSKEY 36.55 DULUTH- 48.00 SALT LAKE CITY 60.30 MACKINAC ISLAND 38.65 TORONTO 38.20 MAMMOTH CAVE 17.40 WAUKESHA33.7O THE ATTRACTIVE WAY NORTH IfeMlS CITY TICKET office ff-i—wJffafcal 4 Peachtree Street PHONFS bh" M»i’ n 7 io«8 NEWS FROM RINGSIDE Buck Crouse s debut in New York box ing circles Monday night was a hot one. Buck beat up Young Kurtz so badly that the referee stopped the fight in the eighth round to save the Newark man from fur ther punishment. • * • Crouse, who fought a preliminary bout in Atlanta under an assumed name some time hack, outweighed his opponent some twelve or fifteen pounds. However, Kurtz was the more scientific of the two and this probably helped him to stay the eight rounds. • • • Joe Jeannette is scheduled to box Jim Johnson in Philadelphia tomorrow night. • * « Jeannette recently stopped two pugs in the same night at New Bedford. Mass. The negro got Mickey McDonough's num ber in the second round, while Jeff Mad den was able to last four numbers. Both contests were scheduled to go six rounds. • • • Promoter Tom McCarey is thinking? of having an electric time clock installed at his club that will toll off the seconds when a fighter is knocked to the boards as well as ring out the rounds. This would save unsatisfactory endings of bouts.' such as wound up the Wolgast - Rivers match on the Fourth. • « • McCarey is still holding the SBOO dia mond belt that was to have gone to the winner of the Wolgast - Rivers fight and will probably do so until the two fighters meet again. • • • Ray Temple has started training in New Orleans for his ten-round bout with Young Ahearn In that city Monday night • • • The winner of the Temple-Ahearn con test will be sent up against Joe Mandot, the New Orleans pride. • • » Packey McFarland has decided to post pone his trip abroad until after the hot weather. The Chicago whirlwind prob ably figures Paris a dead city during the summer months and this Influenced him to put off his trip abroad. ** • ! Tommy Ryan has practically matched Howard Morrow and Eddie McGoorty for a ten-round fight to be staged before the club offering the largest inducements. ♦ * * R. D. Masters, who was in the auto smash-up with K. O. Brown a few nights ago. has succumbed in a New York hos pital. where he was carried shortly after the accident. Brown is doing better than was expected at first and will be able to box again within ten weeks. ♦ * ♦ Bombardier Wells and Tom Kennedy are scheduled to settle the question of America against England in New York tonight. • • t On August 8. Tommy Burns is sched uled to meet Bill Rickard in a fifteen round go at Saskatoon. Sask The for mer heavyweight, champion will receive a guarantee of $5,000, win. lose or draw. ♦ ♦ • Jim Coffroth is arranging to stage a twenty-round contest between Tommy Burns and Jim Flynn in the West on A<l - day, September 9. • * * Owen Moran and Jack White are both in good condition for their twenty-round contest at Vernon Saturday. The English man's hand has fully recovered from the injury he sustained which necessitated the po tponement of the bout * • • Willie Beecher and Joe Mandot are scheduled to go ten rounds in New Or leans tonight. • • « Billy Papke, who has just returned home from France, will go back to Paris to fight George Carpentier October 22. Young Dyson and Young Haughton are scheduled to box in Liverpool, England, tonight. • • * Although Mike Gibbons was penniless a little over a year ago. he now boasts of a $30,000 bank roll. ATLANTA NATIONAL BANK TEAM WINS A_HOT GAME The Atlanta National and Fourth National bank teams met yesterday in one of the most thrilling and excit ing games of the season. Atlanta Na tional winning. 2 to 1. It was a pitch ers’ battle front start to finish, between Dewberry and Golightly. Aside from the pitching, two features stood out above all. They were two double plays and the timely hit of Gilbert, a single to tigh4, scoring two men and winning the game. The work of both teams was superb. BOSTON BUYS PITCHER. SPOKANE, WASH, July- IS.—The sale of Pitcher Wynn Noyes, of the Spokane club, to the Boston club of the National league, has been an nounced here. Noyes, who is the star right-hander of the local club, will not be delivered until the close of the Northwestern league season. Down the highway or up the by-way-—at a maximum cost of a cent or two a mile —as against thirty or forty for the heavy, “Dreadnaught” type of car—-the light, strong, Ford will carry you in perfect comfort-—and, if need be, in record time. More than 75,000 new Fords into service this season—proof that they must be right. Three passenger Roadster $590 —five L passenger touring car $690 —delivery car s7oo—f. o. b. Detroit, with all equipment. Catalogue from Ford Motor Company, 311 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, or direct from Detroit factory. O’KELLY COMES TO LIFE AS WILD IRISH HOPE Con O'Kelly, the giant Irishman who spent a year or more in this country, first as a wrestler and then as a fighter under the leadership of Tommy Ryan, Is going to don the gloves again and go after heavyweight honors. He is not coming to this country in any great hurry. He wants to engage in several battles in and about England, and if be succeeds in making good impres sions may again invade America. O'Kelly spent the early months of his short stay here wrestling, but he wasn't much of a success. His wonderful build and makeup impressed Tommy Ryan and the former middleweight champion took him to his home In Syracuse and hogan teaching him the finer points of the game, (’on took hold nicely and Ryan saw hopes of turning him into the real white hope. O’Kelly had several fights and made good, but a longing to be back home by his loved ones grew rapidly on him un. til he pulled away, promising to re turn. All trace of him, so far as ths sporting circles on this side of the Atlantic are concerned, was lost until in a recent issue of The Sporting Life. London's leading daily, an article ap peared regarding his return to the ring. Part of the story is reprinted below: "Having thoroughly recovered from the eye troubles which compelled Con O'Kelly, the aspirant to heavyweight championship honors, to seek a long rest, he contemplates returning to ths ring as a principal. Through his man ager. Mr. H. Turner, the ex-amateur and Olympic wrestling champion chal lenges Cyclone Warren (who is located in Belfast), Gunner Moir. Ben Taylor, Jewey Smith. Jimmy- Esson. P. O. Cur ran or any other heavyweight in Great Britain. "When under the management of Tommy Ryan, former middleweight champion of the world, O'Kelly won several important contests in America, and was acknowledged to he the most likely successor to the world’s title. In his last engagement the Hull champion sustained severe damage to one of his eyes. and. acting on medical advice, he gave up boxing, but has kept himself in condition by giving exhibitions of wres tling and weight /lifting in various parts of the country. His only contest with the gloves in the interim was when outpointing Gunner Moir at the Free Trade hall, Manchester,’ last March. 11