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raoMiAN wow <soweb * tokt Silk Hat Harry's Divorce Suit Everybody's Doin' It Copyright, 1912, National News Ass'n. By Tad > bi r aEB ’’ N* /s>* ®I Z-Z Al/ ( Stu’!’ wu?, F r F V ■wZwjPvT fPM V □dMfrv. wZ m *H®F" , B, - k agWC'“ w < -=* 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" Cool, Summery Ready Men, we’ve a splendid stock of summer under wear here ready and wait ing for you. (Jet fixed up TODAY for the balance of the seaon. Union Suits begin at $1 J and range on up. Two piece suits begin at 50c the garment. The mate rials include nainsook, soisette, silk, etc. 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