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HEMPHILL DECLARES HE MADE NO MISTAKES IN THE PLAYERS HE TRADED OR SOLD “I have no kick to make over losing my job as manager of the Crackers. But Ido want to say to the fans of Atlanta that I made no mistake in any of the trades or sales I put across. I will stake my reputation that every player I let go will never make good. And all the young players I secured will prove good men in time. I have been knocked for signing Waldorf and Brady. Take it from me, both are top-notchers. And let me say that I will prove yet to Atlanta fans that I have the ability to manage a baseball team.”- CHARLEY HEMPHILL. NASHVILLE ON MARKET AGAIN NASHVILLE, TENN., July 24.—A puinrity of the directors of the Nash v , baseball club having agreed to j, the franchise of the locals has been oh the market, and Little Rock bid $25,000. The proposed sale is tinned by a debt of more than $30,- fmu nod a chain of bad luck that has i i-n been equaled in balldorn. season started out with a deluged b ;) j park; war next kepts from playing by an injunction when the Sunday litl name up,,and numerous wet days -in< e has so curbed the income of the c'ub that the majority of directors are path to carry the burden any further.. Ex-President W. G. Hirsig, a big holder <>f the s‘oek, is fighting to hold ; , franchise in Nashville, or at least secure a bigger price than Little Rock offers. He hopes to win out, but the direeOTs have authority to act. MONTGOMERY BUSINESS MEN RUSH TO RESCUE MO.XTGO.MERY. ALA., July 24.—At a big nueting of the Business Men’s league the directors of the organiza tion acre instructed to take the neces sary ration to furnish Richard Tillis SyMHi per year for three years for the support of the Montgomery baseball team. This action practically assures Southern league baseball here for the next three, years, and meets the ap proval of Tillis, who has received three flattering offers for the -Montgomery franchise. CUBS RELEASE MORONEY. i'HK'AGO, July 24.—Jim Moroney, the big southpaw, is off the Cubs' pay roll today. When he allowed the Dodg. ers to get him in a hole in the fifth in ning of yesterday's game, Manager 'hance chased him clear off the club. Moroney was given his unconditional release. Chance has been dissatisfied •vlth th. twirler’s work for some time. 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KIRSCH I Atlanta I tisShiJ America Coming Into Its Own; Athletics Is Only Salvation By Fred C. Thompson. THE term “recreation" is a very flexible one. It is a very fortunate thing that such is the case. Were it not flexible and remarkably resilient, it long ago would have been broken or lost. The burden of meanings that it has had to bear have been too many, the trends of thought that it has expressed have been too diverse, for it to have lived, then, had it not been of plastic texture and adaptable to each newly arising de mand on its meaning and content. Seventy-five years ago the term was so broad it specified nothing definitely. When “recreation” was mentioned the correlating faculty would summon up a kaleidoscopic • array of visions portraying every thing from a Keeley dure to face paint. Resuscitation was recreation. So was strapping a wooden leg onto a man. Anything under the sun that could be lugged in under the ranks of the “re"—and under the col umns of the “creation" —fitted. The word carried with it just about the whole creation all over again. But from the purely etymological meaning a sort of technical mean ing seemed to fix itself to the word. We find it. then, meaning a sort of aimless leaving off of the work that had grown uninteresting to spend the time in anything indefi nite and non-committal enough to throw the victim into renewed en thusiasm in the forsaken pursuits. Discriminated Generally. v Tlie idea seemed to be just a general discrimination of every thing until what energy there was left would dam itself up until it demanded release. And this pitiful little spurt was the product of rec reation. if you please. Do you wonder that most men preferred to die out quietly than to sputter out in this hectic way? Col orless, aimless and so. of course, useless, the more a man was bored the more he felt he was being re created. And all this that much abused word had to bear, and, what's worse, it fitted conditions. It's surely a wonder that we may today drape about that lay figure (all words are but that) ideas that are vivid and vigorous. But we surely can do nothing else, for to day the term recreation denotes a positive, intense thing. Contemporaneous with the growth of this positive element in the word “recreation” has been the growtlt in the interest in athletics. Athletics started out as the child of “recreation.” She has surpassed the mother. In this way: Athletics first as a very tame and unheroic expression of recreative desires has grown into a field and size un dreamed of. And the field of ath letics as a recreative Influence does not stop with its work of revivify ing weary nerves and raising the tonicity of flabby muscles. It has grown until that is but a small part of its - work. It has worked wonders with the individual man. But its great work, or the major part of it. is in giving us a new concept of what a full rounded man may be. Despise Race Track Habitue. The race track habitue of yes terday is a despised creature, and rightly. The sport of but a very few years ago was a pasty-faced, well-kneed vampire. Sport sapped then. But the tout of good stand ing a few years ago would now be a shunned anachronism. He would be a freak—a creature on which to satisfy one's most morbid curiosity. And it is the clear-eyed, clean limbed product of the athletic field of today that has placed the one time sport at such a low figure. If •THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. JULY 24, 1912, •••••••••••••••••••••••••a • • J Fred C. Thomson an • J Athletic Authority • J Os the First Rank S • • "A /T R ' THOMSON is weil Qua’*- * J jyl fled to handle the subject • • here presented in such an • • intelligent manner, for he Is a • • master of all branches of athletics • • and has won the highest title in • • American sport, that of all-around • • amateur champion, for the past • • two years. • • Always in the front rank of ath- • • letes, Mr. Thomson has never fail- • • ed to make the most of his oppor- • • tunities for a close study of the • • real benefits and aims of athletic • • competition, and in this article has • • presented one of the clearest and • • best written expositions of the real • • benefit to be derived from our rec- • • reations. • • It was while at Occidental col- • • lege in Los Angeles that this won- • • derful athlete first attracted more • • than local attention by his high- • • class work in the Pacific coast • • championships and In the collegi- • • ate games. • • After finishing his course in Oc- • • cidental college Mr. Thomson went • • East and took the course at the • • Theological school at Princeton. • • While there he won the Amateur • • Athletic association title of all- • • around champion for 1910. and re- • • peated his tilumph in 1911. • • On the coast Mr. Thomson is • • regarded as the highest authority • • on athletics. • •••••••••••••••••••••••••a we owed athletics nothing else, our debt would be large. For to eval uate men fairly is an act of rare genius. The influence that enables men to judge their fellows accu rately and to eliminate some of them from the ranks of respected men readily is an influence of in calculable worth. But the influence of athletics on the American people reaches far deeper than that. If there is one thing in this world that paralyzes and sickens, it is, as the tale of a man's life is nearly told, to be brought face to face with the vision of "what he might have been." And when he places himself as he is beside the vision of "what he might have been" the reality looks stunted and forbidding. And a people often become crav en before the accusing specter of "what they might have been.” Then they begin to stutter and make false starts. Power fades into thin skinned bluff. Justice is warped into the nearest semblance of equi table dealing. Courage shrinks into the lowest of self-doubting cow ardice. Surely if anything could save a people from such an ignoble decadence. It must be a thing of worth and power. Athletics is promising, and, better, is doing just such service for this country. Athletics the Salvation. Athletics may be a positive, in tense thing. Athletics may prove the salvation of this country in keeping her from a late final glimpse of her glorious possibility and her shrunken reality. Athlet ics may serve to clear the eyes, quicken the brains, toughen the sinews and harden the muscles of this nation till the last glimpse will be of a glorious possibility, and ' shoulder to shoulder with it, as bright and worthy, the glorious reality. Oh. such a work is glorious! But her work is greater even than that. It is not only to lift and form us to the ideals we have. That's noble. But it is to give us greater and nobler ideas. That's the work of the divine. Old Tom Sharkey, a "has been" and an old bruiser, who now spends his time using a sud-lath, saw a couple of youngsters running past his place. "That's the thing that is knock ing the saloon business," said Tom. “A fellow can't be an athlete and drink at the same time. "I am for this school boy athletic business. going to make this nation the healthiest on earth." He's right. And if we're healthy we'll probably be sane—and if we are sane we’ll probably think, straight. And if we think straight we'll put first things first. And if we put first things first, we'll de mand that, above all things, ath lete or not, a man be a man. And being a man will mean but one thing—a sound body, a clear head and a pure heart. And if America be a nation of such men she will come into her own, which Is the place of the greatest, the truest and the noblest people the world has ever known. SMITH LOSES TWO LOVE SETS TO WALTER HAYES LAKE FOREST. ILL., July 24. First round matches and most of those in the second round were completed as the result of yesterday's play in the men's singles and doubles events of the West ern tennis tournament at Onwentsia. Chicago retained her foremost stars in the tourney, Waldner, Hayes and Ford all surviving their first round matches. Walter Hayes, of Chicago, proved too much for C. Y. Smith, of Atlanta, beat ing the Southern champion two love sets. Hayes played a steady game and, although Smith at times gave flashes of brilliance, he clearly was off form. H. H. Braly, of Los Angeles, contin ued his winning streak by defeating Roland Herr, of St. Louis. 6-3, 6-2. T. C. Bundy, of California, had no trouble in beating John C. Neely, Jr., of Chicago, 6-3, 6-1. The Big Race Here is how the “Big Five” in the American league are hitting right up to date: Player. A. B. H. Av. Cobb 339 142 .419 Speaker 354 133 .390 J’ckson 345 127 .368 Collins 319 108 .339 Lajoie ... 216 72 .333 Cobb “stood still" yesterday. He made two hits in five times at bat, leaving his swatting average the same as Monday, 419, Speaker fell off three points by failing to connect safely in three times up, Jackson dropped off two points by getting only one hit in four trips to the plate, Collins did the best hitting of the day, banging out three safe clouts in four attempts. He jumped six points. Lajoie is still out of the game. O’DAY IS MADE MANAGER OF INDIANAPOLIS CLUB INDIANAPOLIS, July 24.—An nouncement was made today thAt Charles O'Day, of the Springfield (Ohio) Central league club, has been appoint ed manager of the Indianapolis Amer ican association team, succeeding Charles O’Leary. The latter Will con tinue as a player on the team, while O'Day will manage from the bench and step in as a pinch hitter when needed. The Indianapolis Baseball association has purchased the Springfield Central league franchise and several of the players will be transferred to Indian apolis. The deal involves the complete and permanent retirement from baseball of William H. Watkins, the veteran owner and promoter. THE BASEBALLCARD, SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Game, Today. Atlanta in Montgomery. Chattanooga in Birmingham. Nashville in Mobile. Memphis in New Orleans. Standing of the ctuna. W. L. PC. W. L. P C B’ham. .56 35 .615 C'nooga. 41 45 .477 Mobile . .51 43 .543 N’ville. .39 46 .459 New Or. 42 39 .525 Mont. . .40 50 .444 M'mphis 43 43 .500 Atlanta .36 47 .434 Yesterday 1 ! Results. Montgomery 12, Atlanta 2 Birmingham 3, Chattanooga 2. New Orleans 4. Memphis 3. Mobile 2. Nashville 0. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Games Today. Savannah in Albany. Columbia in Jacksonville. Columbus in Macon. Standing or tne Clubs W. L P C W. L. P C Sav. . . .16 6 .727 Macon . .12 11 .522 .J'ville. . .14 9 .609 Albany . 8 16 .348 C'bus. . .13 9 .591 Cola. . . 6 18 .250 Yesterday’s Results. Savannah 5. Albany 3. Jacksonville 4. Columbia 3. Macon 3. Columbus 0. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Today. Chicago in New York. St. Louis in Philadelphia. Detroit in Washington. Cleveland in Boston. Standing of the Clubs. W. I p<! W. L. P.C. Boston .63 27 .700 Detroit. .44 47 .489 Wash. . .55 34 .618 C’land. . 43 48 .473 Phila . .52 39 .571 N. York. 26 57 .313 Chicago .46 41 .529 S, Louis 25 61 .291 Yesterday's Results. Detroit 12, Washington 7. Boston 6. Cleveland 3. Chicago 6. New York 4. Philadelphia 5. St. Louis 4. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. Boston in Pittsburg. New York in Cincinnati. Brooklyn in Chicago. Philadelphia in St. Louis. Standing o’ the Clubs. W. 1.. P C W. L. P C N. York 64 21 .753 Phila. . 47 46 505 Chicago .52 33 .612 S. Louis 34 47 .420 I’burg. .49 34 .590 B’klyn .30 54 .357 C’natf . 44 43 .512 Boston . .22 64 .256 Yesterday's Results. Pittsburg 1. Boston 0. New York 11. Cincinnati 1. Philadelphia 10. St. Louis 8. Brooklyn 6, Chicago 0. SDr. Hughes SPECIALIST Nerve, Blood and Skin Diseases I treat successfully all private diseases. 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For whether he deserved it or not, J. Garland Stahl is today about the biggest man in the worship of Hub fandom since Jimmy Collins of 1903 and 1904. Jake has made good: that's all that Boston or any other city demands. Stahl has made good where more experienced managers failed. That in itself is recommendation enough. Maybe Jake was lucky. > There are instances on record, you know, where clubs have made reputations for managers. Hughie Jennings stumbled into big league fame in 1907. When he took charge of the Tigers that great machine had al ready been moulded. Hugh simply had to keep it in harmonious work ing order to land three consecutive pennants. Frank Selee mobilized the wonderful Cub machine from which Frank Chance reaped the golden shekels and fame. Yet no one insinuates that either Jennings or Chance is not a good manager. What these men would ever have amounted to had they been forced to build up a tail-ender, however, is problematic. Same Club as Last Year. Stahl’s club is just as it was when Jake took hold of It, with the exception of Jake. There Is no de nying the fact that this big fel low has proved a wonderful asset to the Speed Boys. Neither Jimmy Callahan nor Mike Donlin has any thing on the “Born Manager" as a “come back.” Jake hasn’t set the league afire as a hitter, but he sure has peppered up the whole works and got every possible ounce of energy out of the array. All of which is most re markable in the light of ex isting conditions. It is quite true that the Red Sox form one of the fastest collections in the major leagues. But it is also true that Stahl, as manager, has to maintain harmony not , only in the ranks but in the bosoms of the stockholders as well. Never was man in more trying position than Jake. He is one of the mi nority stockholders. The club pres ident is Jimmy McAleer, an auto cratic sort of follow when his inter ests are at stake. McAleer was onp of the most dismal managerial fail ures imaginable with the St. Louis Browns and Washington Nationals, but you couldn't convince him of that fact. Naturally, he believes he was the abused child of circum stance. The fact that McAleer is content to sit hack quietly as an American league magnate is cer tainly a tribute to the diplomacy of Stahl. -In Jake, Boston has found the PRESENTED ten ATLAS WITH MAPS FOR \ AND THIS CHARTS ONLY fi HEADINGS CLIPPED FROM THE 8 FIRST PAGE LIKE THIS: Ay'o I Atlanta Georcl il A % I , Just to show part of heading with dam. g and the expense fee to defray the neces f-'i 1 ’llo oary items of the cost of handling. j t'-'VWScV-*.'-*-'- i* 1 packing, shipping, checking, account- .'•'.'.•J •.•'•'.•.y J'• in9,Btc - #1 £ SO •' * To get your Atlas, just present the six '.f-.'-janM: .X 53c BY MAIL, 15 CENTS EXIRA FOR POST AGE O True- e. i i An >!• £<: Ills Standard Atlas ;»■ •»: should he in every fam- Sin£■ ily where there are ehild r en y/.L of school aye. It is tiie one /r-’H hook that contains t iie es- :: : sential features of a dozen ■>? ■•yA hi oks, in such concise form '•?.'« that one may get the desired ££ £■ £ £ information at a glance. 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The local featherweight has disposed of all his rivals with the exception Os Champion Johnny Kilbane and is anxious.to get on with the latter. 11