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Six Golfers Have Look-in for
Championship of Local Course
By Percy H. Whiting.
THE result of the local invita
tion tournament, which end
ed Saturday in the victory
of H. G. Scott, of Atlanta, demon
strated that the A. A. C. cham
pionship tourney this year will be
a tabasco affair.
At least a half dozen players—
perhaps more—have a chance for
the ttlle.
In the early days there were
never more than one or two play
ers who had a look-in for the
championship of Atlanta. Rack in
the days of the old club at Pied
mont park the annual Trawick cup
event was virtually the club cham
pionship. This affair was always a
jrlft for F. G. Byrd or the late W. P.
Hill. Nobody else had a chance.
When the East Lake course was
opened Byrd’s game was at Its
height, and for a while he hold a
monopoly. This monopoly was
finally broken by W. R. Tichenor,
a famous athlete of baseball and
football fame, who developed a tre
mendous game of golf on very
short notice. Last year the club
championship changed hands again,
and H. G. Scott, comparatively a
new-comer in the, club, won the
title.
This year there will he a mad
scramble for the event. The tour
nament will not be held until Sep
tember 14. but a half dozen players
will begin right now getting in trim
for the event. The "big four" in
the club are H. G. Scott, F. G. Byrd.
W. R. Tichenor and G. W. Adair.
All of them have virtually an equal
chance for the title.
It is not certain that Byrd will
play this year, though It is more
than likely that he will. Certainly
the other three will be on hand to
battle for the title.
Some happenings at the recent
Invitation tournament demon
strated, however, that the "big
four” will not have things all to
themselves. The chief one was the
grand playing of T Atkisson and
Clarence Knowles. "Tommy" At
kisson went to the semi-finals in
fine style and played good golf,
"Moose" Knowles went him one
better and reached the finals, where
he lost after a hard match with
Scott. If Knowles had been able
to play even an average short game,
he would have won by a mile.
"If It's at Hartman’s, It’s Correct"
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Union Suits begin at $1
J and range on up. Two
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the garment. The mate
rials include nainsook,
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Six Peachtree Street
(Opp. Peters Bldg.)
"If it’s Correct, It’s at Hartman's"
It Is doubtful If the South has
ever s'een a player of Knowles’ class
In the matter of getting distance.
He is a whale for size, but, unlike
a lot of big men. he is also supple
and far from muscle bound. He
plays in excellent form and when
he hits a ball it “goes a mile." On
a long, hard course, like the one at
East Lake, the long player who can
keep moderately straight has a big
advantage. If Knowles can perfect
his short game a bit, he will be a
strong contender for the club
championship.
♦ * •
rpHE next tournament at the Ath
letlc club will he the presi
dent's cup. Play for this prize be
gins July 27. The first and second
rounds must be played by August
2. The third round must be played
August 3. The finals are set for
August 4. The players will qualify
according to their net scores and
will continue play from that point
on with their club handicaps.
The other tournaments of the
year are:
Perry Adair trophy, August 10-17,
scratch, match and medal play.
Davis <Sr Freeman trophy. Au
gust 24-September 1, handicap,
match and medal play.
Club championship, September
14-22, qualifying round and first
flight match rounds scratch, other
match rounds handicap.
Vice president's trophy, October
5-13, handicap, match and medal
play rounds.
• • •
r pH E time Is drawing near for the
two big golf events of the year
In America. The open champion
ship of the continent will be de
cided over the course of jhe Buf
falo Country club August 1 and 2.
The national amateur champion
ship, which is the top-notch event
of the whole year. Is slated for the
Chicago Golf club September 2
to 7.
The national amateur should be
a grand event this year. H. H.
Hilton, the British star, will be
back to defend his title and will
bring a couple of English cracks
with him. Hilton is not playing the
game this year that made it possi
ble for him to got away so handily
last year, and it is doubtful If he
can repeat. Among the American
golfers who will play, there seems
nobody who has any tremendous
advantage. Charles Evans, who has
Just won the Western title, should
be much at home playing on a
Chicago course, and he looks the
best of the lot at present.
Speaking of amateur champion
ships. the man who nearly won the
British title this year from the re
doubtable John Ball, Jr„ was a
young mechanic. His name was
Abe Mitchell and he forced Rail to
go 38 holes in the final to win the
event. Mitchell outdrove Ball, but
couldn’t put steadily enough to be
dangerous. Luck saved Ball’s title
for him A drive struck a specta
tor’s umbrella and the ball bounded
off and onto the green. Mitchell hit
a spectator’s umbrella on the cor
responding shot, but the hall
bounded into a bunker. At the home
hole Mitchell had a four-foot put
J for the title, but missed It.
In America It would be virtually
impossible for an ordinary mechan
ic ever to learn to play real golf,
because of a lack of time. In Eng
land and Scotland the thing is pos
sible, though, because of the long
twilights. It is a cinch there for
a man to finish a day's work, get
supper and then play a round of
golf before dark.
If we had those twilights in
America, a lot more golf would be
played—and we'd have all our ball
games after supper.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY JULY 22, 1912.
The Georgian Will Print Your Selection of Greatest Club
HOW WOULD YOU PICK AN ALL-STAR BALL TEAM?
By W. S. Farnsworth.
EVERY baseball fan has his
own ideas about an all-star
team Yours truly believes
that the one printed in the accom
panying box could beat any outfit
that ever wore a spiked lowcut.
But The Georgian would like to
hear from the fans on this subject
and will print the selections sent in.
Mail your line-up, keeping your
roster down to eleven players, an
extra catcher and an extra pitcher.
In my all-star team I selected
Mathewson and Rucker to do the
hurling Matty is undoubtedly the
greatest right-hander of all time.
Rucker, in my opinion, leads all
southpaws.
Two former Southern catchers.
Archer and Sweeney, draw the call
behind the bat.
At first base I consider Chase by
far the best player. If I had to
pick another man Fred Tenney
would be the selection. These two
are the only ones who ever cov
ered any amount of ground, t'o
miskey started science at the ini
tial cushion, but Chase and Tenney
have pulled everything that Old
Roman ever did and Improved on
his style a hundred per cent.
Lajoie, when he was the real La
joie, was king of second basemen.
At least that is what I think. Col
lins, Evers, Lowe, Ferris and others
may be your pick.
Hans Wagner gets the shortstop
berth with me by a mile. But
Long, Parent, Tinker and Wallace
were all bearcats.
At third Jimmy Collins led them
all, according to my way of think
ing. Nash, Lord. Baker. Steinfeldt
and Devlin were top-notchcrs, too.
Clarke, Cobh and Speaker seem
unbeatable to me in the outfield.
Cobb is the greatest of all players.
Clarke, in his day, was almost as
good. T give Speaker the call over
Jackson only because I dipped a
coin to see which 1 would pick. I
don’t consider either Joe or Tris,
great as they are. quite as good
as Ty and Fred, however.
But come on, you fans, let The
Georgian print your selections. The
young fan shouldn’t go back to the
days of Glasscock, Kelly. Spalding,
White, Sam Crane, Brouthers,
Clarkson, etc. Don't pick your
team on what you have heard about
old-timers. Select it from the play
ers you have seen or know about
personally.
But let the old-time fan select
his team from the players of long
ago if he so chooses. Whether the
players of today are the equal, su
perior or inferior of the old-timers
is a question that will never be de
cided,
(Address your selections to the
Sporting Editor, The Georgian.)
JESSE TANNEHILL TO
MANAGE CHILLICOTHE
SOUTH BEND, IND., July 22,—Jesse
Tannehill former star twlrier of the
Pittsburg National league club, and this
season with the South Bend team, will
manage the Chillicothe club in the Ohio
State league, and act as a scout for the
Cincinnati National league.
REIDPATH SPRINTING
HOME FOR BIG PRIZE
BUFFALO, N. Y., July 22.—Charles
Reldpath, member of the American
Olympic team, is speeding across the
Atlantic to this city, where Miss Sa
rah Pratt, a pretty kindergarten teach
er, is waiting to become his bride
Reldpath won eight points at the
Olympic games.
DALY LEADS LEON.
CHICAGO, July 22.—John Daly, ex
ehampion three-cushion billlardist.
and Horace Leon, of St. Louis, will re
sume their five nights match tonight.
The score now stands 100 to 67 ir.
Italy's favor.
The Georgian's All-Star Baseball Team
CLARKE, COBB, SPEAKER,
Left Field, Center Field. Right Field.
WAGNER, MATHEWSON, RUCKER, LAJOIE,
Shortstop. Pitchers. Second Base.
COLLINS, ARCHER. SWEENEY, CHASE,
Third Base. Catchers. First Base.
| FODDER FOR FANS~|
Silk O'Loughlin is getting to be a tre
mendous disciplinarian. The other day in
a game at Philadelphia he even banished
the Detroit bat boy.
« • •
In Philadelphia each year they cele
brate the anniversary of their 21-to-2 de
feat by Detroit. It happened four years
ago, but they haven't forgotten it yet.
• • *
Atlanta had a lot of close calls with
Hank Griffin. They nearly got. him from
Boston about 'steen times. Finally Frank
did land hfnf and he has been a jinx ever
since.
• • •
The Pelicans admit that Roy Moran can
score from third on a double steal, even
if they are “laying for him.”
• • •
In New Orleans they are about ready
to admit that they have no chance of
winning their protest against O'Toole’s
decision, forfeiting a game to Atlanta.
They had a fine chance anyway.
* « •
John McGraw complains that every
night he dreams that he Is sitting in the
top of a tall tree. And something climbs
up from below and begins fishing around
for him. And it’s a Cub.
* ♦ •
They say that Billy Smith lacks a lot of
having a throwing arm left and that,
when a ball is hit to him in the outfield,
he is lucky to be able to get it over to
first.
• • •
Even the 'aughty International league
has a club in distress. It is the Jersey
City team.
• • •
Some enterprising newspaper man is
syndicating a story that Marty O'Toole
is a very modest young man. At that,
he ought to be.
• • •
The way “Dingdong" Bell is going with
Newark gives a hint that he may be
back with the big show next year.
• • •
The fund for John Ganzel's automobile
now’ lacks only about SBO of the price of a
Brush runabout. And right now the
Hustlers are skidding
• • *
Jake Weimer? former Pelican, is now a
commissioner at the Chicago stock yards.
M * •
Manager Callahan has adopted the sys
tem of morning recitations made j. f
(meaning "justly famous”) by Connie
Mack
• • •
The national commission has decided
that it is "no contract" when a guardian
pledges the services of his ward on the
bottom of a contract blank This deci
sion cost the Phillies Player Douglas
Smith.
• • •
Ben Koehler will soon be manager of
the Grand Rapids team of the Central
league If rumor can be depended on,
which it sometimes can.
• • •
Prince Gaskill, former Shreveporter,
still manages to stick In the Interna
tional.
• • •
The reason Bobby Byrne went to the
hospital was because he collided with
Red Smith in a Brooklyn-Pirate game.
He wrecked a couple of kidneys and the
MONTGOMERY FANS WANT
FITZSIMMONS OUSTED
MONTGOMERY. ALA., July 22,-
Through a desire to prolong baseball in
Montgomery and to save angry crowds
from attempting to rush umpires, 2,000
business men of Montgomery, repre
sented by E. J. Meyer, president of the
Business Men's league. telegraphed
President Kavanaugh demanding that
Umpire Fitzsimmons be removed. The
telegram characterized Fitzsimmons’
work Saturday afternoon in the game
with Memphis as ‘‘a shameful exhibi
tion of incompetency."
RACE MEET OPENS IN DETROIT.
DETROIT. MICH.. July 22.—Arrange
ments are complete for the opening to
day of the annual blue ribbon trotting
meeting Five days of racing are i
scheduled and with the fastest horses i
and a good track and substantial i
purses a good meeting Is expected. In- :
terest, as usual, centers ir. the SIO,OOO i
merchants and manufacturers purse i
Wednesday. i
hospital folks kept him packed in ice for
several days.
• • •
Mogridge, of the White Sox. has been
passed back to Lincoln. "Lefty” had a
crick in his wing.
• • •
It has been noted that never before
have so many college players jumped to
the major leagues in mid-season. It may
be worth mentioning now that never be
fore have so many gone back.
» • •
The Yanks have just passed back Lid
dle and Otis. Liddle was a star at Bay
lor. If the Yanks couldn’t use him the
starring must be easy at Baylor.
• • •
Harry Niles has injured his leg and has
been sent home to recover.
« • •
Pittsburg and New York teams have
met 455 times since the National league
was organized. The Giants won 229
times, the Pirates 226 times. Thirteen of
the games have been ties. Pretty close,
that, for a long series.
• • •
They say there isn’t as much to Catcher
O’Neill of the Naps as there used to be of
old Chief Zimmer, but that he's just as
careless as the Chief ever was about
smashing Into grandstands or blocking off
players at the plate.
• • •
The handicap of a lame knee has
proved too much for Wallace Clemen, for
merly of the Philadelphia and Brooklyn
teams, and he has been let out by Troy.
• • •
Epicurlus Rixey, former Virginia hurler,
went fourteen innings in a row without
being scored on.
• • •
Pitcher Dubuc, of the Tigers, hasn't
anything worth noting but a change of
pace.
• • •
Boston employers are having a hard
time getting vacations out of the way.
Every fan is trying to save his until the
world’s series.
• * «
They say that Cady, of the Red Sox,
can whip his weight of wild cats or long
shoremen. His proudest boast is that he
could whip six Ty Cobbs. If he's that
good there's one Reno-Las Vegas job
waiting for him that will net him a hun
dred thousand his first year.
• • •
St. Louis, irritated by references in
Washington papers to the “lowly
Browns,” hints that it too late for
vertigo to set in. They say that weak
hearts aren't suited to high altitudes.
• • •
The scouts have settled down on the
American association as thick as flies.
Ray Schalk seems to be the man most
wanted.
• • •
Beals Becker has been a long time ar
riving He was farmed in Little Rock by
the Giants several years ago. Since then
he has been a Giant right along Yet It
wasn't until a week or so ago they dis
covered he was a real wonder.
• • •
Umpire Connolly has suspended the
Highland ball boy. It seems that he was
throwing out new balls when the Yan
kees were at bat, old ones when the visit
ors were up. This crooked work may
account for the exalted position of the
Yanks.
PHILLIES WANT MAYER;
OFFER ATLANTA SI,OOO
The Philadelphia National baseball
team has offered Atlanta SI,OOO for
Pitcher Erskine Mayer.
Scout Heller, of the Phillies. has
watched Mayer in a couple of his re
cent games in the Virginia league and
has advised the owners of the Philly
team that Mayer Is worth a trial. As
he belongs to the Atlanta club nego
tiations were opened with them.
Thus far nothing has been done. If
Mayer is going as strong as the renorts
from the Virginia league indicate he
will bring a good bit more than SI,OOO.
MILITIA TO GUARD COURSE.
MILWAUKEE, July 22.—The Van- '
derbllt cup race course will lx* effec
tively guarded during the race in Sep- I
tember. A dozen companies of state '
militia will be on hand, and possibly '
more. The soldiers will be stationed
every 50 feet, both inside and outside ,
the line. j
Six Major League Managers
Selected To Be Given Bounce
________________________________________________
By Monty.
THE baseball season of 1912 is
more than half gone. Seems
a little early still, maybe, to
speculate upon next year, but such
is hardly the fact. The situation
already has shaped Itself so that a
number of things can be foreseen,
and not the least apparent of these
is the shaking up of the managerial
personnel in the two big leagues.
No less than half a dozen pilots
seem due to pass from their pres
ent posts of authority by the get
away time in 1913. Three of them
are in the National league and
three in the American. With the
six berths vacated, six opportuni
ties will await the proper ones,
and a promising lot there seems to
be ready to jump in and handle the
helm.
f The probability of the unseating
of Frank Chance, of the Cubs, and
Hughey Jennings, of the Tigers, is
one of the noteworthy develop
ments of the season to date. Jen
nings’ Infidelity to the American
league during the last world’s se
ries, when he slipped tips on the
Athletics to McGraw, and his un
praisable part in the recent strike
of the Tigers over Cobb’s suspen
sion. will cause him to be ousted
from the American league, as now
Is generally accepted as a fact
among baseball followers.
Chance in Bad Health.
Chance’s physical condition will
compel him to give up the game,
even the managing end of it, by
the end of this season. Numerous
pelts on the bean by fast pitchers
while he was an active gladiator
of the diamond have engendered a
peculiar sort of trouble in the peer
less one’s brain, which causes him
to suffer severe attacks of vertigo
when under stress of excitement.
He has announced to friends that
he contemplates retiring altogether
at the end of the season.
The other men who seem sure to
go will be doomed simply because
of failure to come up to what was
expected of them. Without doubt
the most colossal failure of the year
is Harry’ Wolverton, of the Yan
kees. Everybody, even the rival
teams in the American league, had
expected the Yankees to stand
well up in the first division. But
here they are fighting for last place.
Wolverton is game. You have to
hand him that much. But there
is little else to be said in extenu-
[news from ringside
Tommy O’Keefe and Leach Cross will
fight ten rounds in New York Wednesday
night. A few nights ago O'Keefe held
Matty Baldwin to a twelve-round draw,
in Boston, and many spectators thought
he should have been given the verdict.
However, he will have his work cut out
for him when he meets Ix>ach. as the little
Hebrew is one of the best lightweights
In the business when in condition.
• • •
Jack Cardiff, a welterweight, who was
converted in January and took up evan
gelistic work, has abandoned his newlv
chosen profession for the present and has
returned to the ring Cardiff says one has
to live and that he was not making a liv
ing as an evangelist.
• • •
Jim Barry has completed his jail sen
tence for creating a disturbance on a ship
near Vancouver about two weeks, and is
looking for a bout. Several clubs are try
ing to match the Chicago heavyweight
with Porky Flynn or Al Palzer.
• • •
After his battle with Joe Gorman, in
Memphis tonight, Jack Dillon will leave
for Indianapolis, where he is scheduled
to go ten rounds with George Chip Thurs
day night
• • •
Young Loughrey. who was scheduled to
box Young O'Neil, at Providence a few
days ago. was unable to go on, as he has
blood poison In his lip
• • •
Bombardier Wells, heavyweight cham
pion of England, will probably be
matched with Joe Jeannette before very
ation of his plea. There are plenty
of men in the world who are plucky
fighters, but know little about
baseball. Wolverton doea know
baseball, but he does not grasp ths
manager’s duties as hs should. He
has made a wreck of what looked
like a powerful machine three
months ago. He Is sure to peas out
of the big leagues forever when his
one-year contract runs its course.
Dahlen and Kling Have Failed.
Bill Dahlen, of Brooklyn, is an
other dismal disappointment, and
Is certain to get the gate. And
the same may be said of Johnny
Kling, catcher extraordinary of
other days and present driver of
the Boston Nationals. The sixth
man on the bounce list Is Harry
Davis, who has been trying to
manage the Clevelands, but has
not succeeded, Taking a real team
left him by the upbuilding of
George Stovall last year, he has let
It run down and It Is nothing but
the scintillating of a few stars —Joe
Jackson in particular—that has
kept the team in the fight with
Detroit for leadership of the second
division.
Joe Ganzel, who has his Roches
ter Bronchos galloping along at a
furious pace in the lead of the
International league race, seems
one of the most likely candidates.
His rival in the same league,
George Stallings, of Buffalo, who
once held the rein of the Yankees,
is another discussed one. He Is not
doing so well with Buffalo Just
now, but is suffering from lack of
material on hand, rather than
from lack of ability on his own
part.
Harteel Has Made Good.
The American Association ad
vances a formidable candidate in
little Topsy’ Hartsel, the former
star outfielder of the Athletics.
Topsy has been doing better with
Toledo than anybody has expect
ed and deserves greater things
Two men who loom up for lead
ers’ honors are now in the ranks
of the clubs that they’ may take
hold of next year. Mordecai Brown,
of the Cubs, and Willie Keeler, of
Brooklyn, are the men. Jennings
seems the most formidable candi
date for the Brooklyn job when he
Is turned loose by Detroit, but, if
Ebbets fails to land him, Keeler is
the next best to be found. Brown
should make a good manager if
he gets the honor with the Cubs.
He knows Chance's Ideas thorough
ly and without doubt would adhere
to the same tactics.
I long, according to reports. Billy Gibs.m.
• manager of the Garden A. C.. New j ork.
I promised Wells a bout with the big negro
, provided he defeated Tom Kennedy 1 ■ "
Englishman knocked Kennedy out n
eight rounds and has thereby won t .«
right for a scrap with Jeannette.
i Patsy Kline and Johnny Dundee ar"
scheduled to go ten rounds In New lor
Wednesday night.
* • •
Al Pfizer Is forced to deposit half
earnings in a bank until the courts
down a decision as to whether or i
O'Rourke shall have a claim on tin u
"White Hoik's" earnings. O'Rourke
a contract to manage Palzer, but was ■
posed by the big fighter, who clam.
O'Rourke wanted a large percentage
his earnings.
The case will he decided in court w " h
a short time, and if O'Rourke is g ven a
lien on Palzer's fight money he wi.
lect the money deposited in the bank
• • •
Phil Cross and Battling Hude' " !
make up the semi-final to the
O'Keefe scrap at St. Nicholas rink in s
York Wednesday night.
• • •
Willie Ritchie has posted a sl.oo’’ u
antee for a 20-round bout with A«i
gast on the coast at any time the
pion may name.
• • •
If they fight. Wolgast will receive
000 for his 20-round contest with Mcx ■
Joe Rivers on the coast next Labor obj
