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BY TO THE VICE A6S \ I --- f _ AN i jjufl pgOOLES 't —7 k#s“ 8 * w ‘J /• ll\t ' 1 V y \ : -A7 - M £>3 : x ' z oSI iQacKers, Undaunted, Play Barons Another Brace Human Shock Absorbers Bumped Twice Yesterday By Percy 11. Whiting. rT-Nili Crack r liav< been beaten j io often this year that they’re the human shock absorbers. Notting reall.i jolt them. They might get into a railiu tl wreck or a dynamite explosion that would agitate them a little; but the mere matter of losing both ends of -a doubleheader to the league leaders doesn’t matter at all. Despite such an occurrence yesterday, the Crack ers bob right up again this after noon readj’ for another doublehead er —right in the same spot, if neces sary. Joe Grim, the Human Punch ing Bag, never had anything on them. The Barons play their concluding game of the season here tomorrow. On Monday and Tuesday only the Montgomery team is scheduled to play, Wednesday is one of those Southern league rarities—a sched uled oft day. Thursday, Friday and Saturday the Gulls play in Atlanta. Then the Crackers make a quick jump for New Orleans, where they open their last stand in the Far South. • • • The Birmingham te ini has a tre mendously useful batting attack. Th> y bowled over the Crackers with it several times yesterday. Anj time when a couple of men like Almeida and McGllvray are bunched together on a batting or der. they tire likely to make trou ble any old time. It appears to me that Almeida is easily the best third baseman that the Southern league ever saw. If ■; he Iras a fault, he has never dis played it i n the Atlanta held. II” is quick as a tat, fields faultlessly, threw I!’,; ■ t ide shot, bats like a dcraon! if he has a failing, which isi t admitted, it is that be throws a e too hard to bases. He i dro.i tie ball into second yester day with speed enough to telescope an average baseman. But if this is a fault i; comes from over-wllllng ner.f a.id isn’t charged up against him in the bis books of the league. ♦ * Ct \ i’< il’i’l I’, ot n v Crackers made ? 1 their first appearance yester day. They were Lyons and Dug gleby Lyons is a chunky bit of a man. with a fine baseball build and plenty of spie l. !>> has a moder ate wing and a useful look at too plate. Doubtless he will do well. Bill Duggleby pitched a fair sort of a game against the Barons. His support wasn’t as good as Cracker plt< hers usually got. and he was up against the stoutest team of the league. • V • 'T'HE Crackei fans certainly pulled thernselvsid' ways trying to get Bill Fox-, n beaten. Their hatred for him i . tethlng pathetic. As r as he is in sight they whistle and hoot derisively and yell at him B Old siyle I black icbacco ■ never lasted p like || ! DRUMMOND I jfa|j CHEWING TOBACCO S remarks intended to remind him that, in local baseball literature, he is the "Lay Down Kid." They be lieve lie “quit” while with Atlant?, and they inf- nd to keep reminding him of I: Bill's sorrowful assortment of faded curves was at its feeble best yc-terday and, thanks to good sup port. he got away witli the game. But Bill is a sorry pitcher. His action is as tied up as a bundle of laundry, and how he gets any speed on the ball continues to be a marvel to the assembly. • • • 'J' HE frequent arguments that arise over balls hit under the row of signboards in right field aren't really necessary. It has been agreed that players are entitled to ‘‘what they can get" on balls hit there. That makes it necessary for the outfielders to do a lot of undig nified scratching and scrambling and pawing to get the ball out in an attempt to hold the runner at third. Crawling under fences after the pill isn’t a legitimate part of baseball. All this trouble could be obviated by boarding up below the signs. Then no ball could go un der. and every ball which went over would be a legitimate home run. ♦ ♦ ♦ HAT tiir- football season Isn’t 1 far away was indicated yester day by th< presence in the Atlanta press box i i J. W. Heisman, "Bo” Williams and Dean Hill. "Red" Hill, by the way, Is grand stand tick“t sel'i r at Ponce DeLeon, and yesterday he had a tale to tel|. It seems that a lady walked up to the main gate and started to 'I FODDER FOR FANS — Aid now the Giants are cussing a tailor i the one who cut I’tnpire Bush's coat too 1 lull in the back. A batted ball hitting the < slack in Bush’s jacket cost the Giants a , game. • • • Frank Dessau allowed ten hits in his first game in the American association and lost a tight contest to Louisville, ' 2 to 1. • • • With so many minor leagues In distress it is refreshing to note that no loud yells have yet been emitted by the Sallv cir cuit. Tim Jordan is wanted by the Pittsburg • dub. Barney DrcyfusH figures that the old lad would be better than anybody. • • • The Jersey Chy club will not be trans for red—4 his season, at least Red Nelson, the reformed brakeman who beat the White Sox for the B’own every time he faced the Chicago team last year, but who couldn’t beat a drum thia year, has been released He may go back to "brakelng." • « » The Spartanburg club has signed "Chug ' Coo.nbs and Paul Stowers, both former Crackers—one for ten minutes, the other for ten days. Pitcher Harry Krause’s return to the big leagues wasn’t a success. The ex- Aihlctic has been turned back to Toledo by the Naps. • • • Peaceful Jack Coveney. onee a Cracker backstoppar, now with Spartanburg, mixed up In u flat fight with Gus Glefch man while a recent game was in prog rosy Glelchman hit Coveney behind the ear and the subsequent proceed’ngs didn’t materially Interest Jack. N • National league pitcher has yet ; anked off a no-hit game this season. • • • Hugh Duffy has signed his 1918 contract with Milwaukee. • • • The Pels are likely to send both John- I don and Hendryx to the Nape at the end of the season. The> say that anybody who wanted to | buy th< Yazoo City team “offen” A. J. Heineman. business manager of the Peli cans, could trade • e • Charles Murphy Is credited with having remarked, "The more I hear from the scouts, the better 1 like my present ; club." When the Jersey Pity club held its ben , edit game only a few over 2.000 paid to | see the contest. Detroit has "bought" Third Baseman 1 McDermott from Providence. 3'he Yankees are going to hung onto THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. brush right in without a ticket. The gate keeper stopped her and explained courteously that if she would go to the ticket window she could obtain a ticket from the gen tleman stationed there. So back went the lady to the window’ and announced to Mr. Hill. "The gate keeper sent me over and told me to tell you to give me. a ticket." Whereupon the unsuspecting "Red,” supposing that the lady was the gate keeper’s wife, or sister, or something of the sort, handed her a ticket. As soon as the rush stopped, he went over to the gate keeper to col lect 25 cents for the ticket he had advanced. The gate keeper proved an alibi. He had never seen the lady b< fore. And now "Red” swears he was robbed. For he had to pay the quarter out of his own pocket. Altogether it was Colonel Hill's off day. A gentleman approached the window, bought a ticket and ten dered a ten-dollar bill, in the rush a mistake was made in the amount of change and the fan received only $8.50 instead of the $9.50 to which he was entitled. He stepped In front of the window, counted the money and then came back, de manded his dollar, and, of course, got it. As he walked away, pushing the change down in the inside pocket of liis vest and damping it with a safety pin. lie was heard to mur mur sadly, "They're trying to trim me already—and it's my first day in Atlanta." He must have been from Macon. George McConnell if he costs them a mil lion games Wolverton says the South erner has the stuff and will win when he gets support. ■ • « Eb’octts is kept busy denying that he is going to give Dahlen the can at the end of this season, it scema likely, at that. The umpire plastered a fine of $25 on Placid Jack Coveney for his tight on the diamond the other day with Gus Gleich man. Also $25 for Gus. This has been a bad season for bat boys, even though a tolerably good one for “pop" boys. Kid Smith, the “Pop King," continues to star with the Barons; but Tony Carlo, former Cub bat boy, rec ommended to Danville by M. Brown, has been released. Billy Hamilton is looking over Shortstop Corrldon, of the Kansas Citv team, for the Boston Pilgrims. The looking is cheap, but the buying comes high, in Porndon’s case Larne Kirby, the pitcher bought by the Giants from the Traverse City team, of the Michigan State league, has won 16 out of 18 games this season. McGraw has a liking for the M. s. league. Ho • lug Fred Merkle out of the depths. • • • Barney Drey fuss, by constant ballings out, has Marty O’Toole so badly in the air ho isn’t likely to got down this sea son. Martin has nerves and they are about raw now. • • * Sum Frock and Johnny Berkle, former Crackers. arc both playing In the New York State league this year. Frock's dismal showing since he left Atlanta goes .a long ways townrd killing the rather .Hilly story that he "laid down" on Jor dan The truth was he was pitching for ;n w retched team. Mutz Ens. the White Sox recruit, tried and turned down by Birmingham, has been batting .355 with Galesburg in the Central association, mid will be given an other trial by Callahan next spring. * * * When Cougalton Is In shape to plav for Toledo, he will go to left field and Harry Niles will go io second base. Congalton Is the man Charley Hemphill succeeded on the Cleveland club. • • • Kid Elberfeld is playing ball like the Tobaeoo Kid of old minus the tobasco. When Charley O'Day took over the In dianapolis team he began reorganising by asking waivers on seven of the 22 men on the squad. • • • Outfielder Lee Callahan, of the Elmira team, looks mighty good, but there’s been no trading yet. As things stand now the deal looks like this: Bid by St. Louis, 52,000; a-kad by Elmira, SII,OOO. |. , The Big Race Here is how the “Big Five” in the American league are hitting right up to date: PLAYER— A. B. H. Ave., COBB 375 158 .421 SPEAKER 389 154 .396 JACKSON 368 134 .364 COLLINS 346 114 .330 LAJOIE 232 74 .319 Cobb dropped off two points yester day by failing to get over one hit in four times at bat. Speaker jumped up one point, grabbing two safe swats in four trips to the plate. Jackson, Collins and Lajoie "stood still," as the Naps and Athletics again postponed their game on account of the Grand Circuit meet being held in Cleveland. Crackers* Batting Averages, Including Yesterday's Games These averages include yesterday’s dou ble-header wHh_the_Pellcans. “ Fla yens— | G. |AB,| R. | H. |Av. These averages include all games played to date: Players. g. ab. r. h. av. Becker, p. . . . 6 16 1 6 .375 Lyons, rs. . . . 1 3 0 1 .333 Harbison, ss. . .40 132 15 38 .28$ Alperman, 2b. .94 358 52 97 .271 Graham, c. . .40 122 13 33 .270 Bailey, cf. . . .94 333 59 89 .267 Callahan. If. . .52 208 23 50 .240 Donahue, c. . .58 120 11 28 .233 McElveen, 3b. 100 362 43 84 .232 Agler, lb.. . .31 100 14 23 .230 Brady, p. . . .15 46 2 7 .152 Sitton, p. . . .19 48 8 7 .146 Reynolds, c. . . 3 7 0 1 .143 Waldorf, p. . . 5 14 0 0 .000 Duggleby, p. . 1 2 0 0 000 PROGRESS CLUB TENNIS STARTS THIS AFTERNOON Beginning this afternoon, the Prog ress club will hold a tennis meet on the Lakewood courts. The schedule of matches for this afternoon are as fol lows: Men’s Singles. Morris Solomon vs. Joseph Schlesin ger. Herbert Dittler vs. Malvern Benja min. « S. P. Cronheim vs. Ed Simon. Guy Goldsmith vs. Dewaid Cohen. Laurence Kaufman vs. Milton Klein. Herbert Schiff vs. Eugene Stahl. Clyde Di wald vs. Joseph Schroder. Leon Rosenberger vs. Leo Strauss. Julian Loeb vs. Cerf Kahn. Lester Einstein vs. Ernest Asher. Bert Kaufman vs. Sinclair Jacobs. Morris Steinheimer vs. Morris Adler. Men’s Doubles. Milton Klein and S. P. Cronheim vs. Lester Ejnsteln and Leon Rosenberger. Joseph Schlesinger and Ernest Asher 1 vs. Joseph Schroder and Ed Simons. Eugene Stahl and Cerf Kahn vs. De waid Cohen and Morris Steinheimer. Morris Adler and Clyde Dewaid vs. Sinclair Jacobs and Guy Goldsmith. Herbert Dittler and Morris Solomons i vs. Herbert Schiff and Leo Strauss. Malvern Benjamin and Bert Kauf -1 man vs. Laurence Kaufman and Julian 1 Loeb. DANNY GREEN. ONCE A DIAMOND STAR, DYING CHICAGO, Aug. 2. —Friends and ad mirers of Danny Green, for years an , Idol at the West and South Side ball parks, will be grieved to learn that he ■ is -confined In the Cook county Infir mary at Oak Forest and that hope of his getting better has been given up. Tuberculosis Is Danny's complaint. Ho , has been ill for two years, but it was , not until a month ago that he gave up ■ and yielded to his friends' pleading that he go to a hospital. I Green first won a place In the hearts of Chicagoans by his work as an out . fielder on the West Side team when , Bill Lunge, Dahlen, Callahan and Grlf . fith wore members of the club. He was fast on his feet and a dangerous hitter. When the baseball war started Danny jumped from the West to the South Side and took n regular job In the White Sox outfield. Later he went to I Milwaukee and when his league days were over played on semi-pro teams here. » —. QUITMAN WINS FIRST GAME. QITTMAN, GA Aug. 2. —Quitman ( won the first game of a series with t Adel. 7 to 5. The features were the fielding of DuPree and the batting of Oglesbj. With the score tied in the 1 last half of the ninth. Dealer hit a clean ' two-bagger, Whipple was struck by a pitched ball and Oglesby hit to deep center, bringing in Dozier. Other Black Battlers Better Than Pale Skins Johnson’s Self-Effacement No Help to Whites By Ed. W. Smith. THE self-effacement of John Arthur Johnson is of no im mediate help to the white race. No matter what may be said on the subject and how the public may choose to figure out a techni cal and a tactical reason for put ting him out of the championship he remains the champion still and always will be so regarded. And another thing sticks out prominently when we are told to hope for the early return of su premacy of the white race. There are exactly three large, dark clouds on the horizon that must be tapped before such a situation can be brought about. No White Man Capable. These clouds are labeled Jean nette, Langford and McVey. If we could but find a white man capable of sloughing either one of them we might find cause for rejoicing, but alas and alack, there isn’t a white person in sight who stands the ghost of a chance with them. So what matters it if Johnson does retire, speaking now of white hopes? The title may revert to a white man in time and that man [NEWS FROM RINGSIDE! Al Palzer and Tom O’Rourke have patched up their trouble, according to re ports from Gotham. It is said O'Rourke will be seen in Palzer’s corner when the big ’hope" fights again. • • • Tommy Buck, who was knocked put by Frankie Fleming at the Garden Athletic club in New York Inly 22. is in a serious condition at a Philadelphia hospital. It is thought he has concussion of the brain. ♦ • * Willie Lewis, fresh -from his 20-round draw with George Carpentier, will hook up with Freddie Hicks in New York Mon day night. • * « Frank Klaus will remain in Europe for some time, according to reports from his manager. Klaus has just been engaged by a summer garden in Paris to do some exhibition boxing. • • » .Johnny Kling and Jack Britton have been practically matched for a bout in New York some time in the near future. ♦ ♦ * Luther McCarthy is the latest claimant f<r >he heavyweight title. • • • Owen Moran, a disgusted and downcast pugilist, will sail across the pond to his home within the next few days. He claims he was robbed of a decision in his recent fight with Jack White. * ♦ * Frankie Nelson and Eddie King, and 1 Dave Harrison and Benny Leonard are scheduled to box ten rounds in Newark tomorrow. • • • Tim Hurst, the veteran umpire and box ing referee, who has been in a critical condition for some time, is improving rapidly. • • • It is getting quite fashionable nowadays for fighters to get smashed up in auto mobile wrecks. Ray Bronson is the latest pug to meet with a mishap while riding in an auto. The Hoosier middleweight was injured near Napoleon, Ohio. • • • Tom McCarey, the Loa Angeles boxing promoter, has written President Taft a letter asking him not to sign the bill which will prohibit the shipping of fight films from one state to another. • « • Jim Flynn has been offered a match with Joe Jeannette by the Garden Ath letic club of New York. However, the big fireman refused, claiming that he had drawn the color line. • • • Dan Flynn, Boston's entry in the "white hope" race for boxing supremacy, will box Dr. E. G. Griffin’s dSr c £Tl Over BROWN 4 ALLEN’S DRUG STORE. 24'/ 2 WHITEHALL ST. $5 A Sei of Teeth $5 I COMPLETED DAY ORDERED I 22k Gold Crowns, S 3 | Myr*?SSß*SE»“Or'|jy Special Bridge Work, $4 | All Dental Work Lowest Prices. | may have consideration enough for his fellow pale kins to forever and ever do what Tommy Burns failed to do—bar the blacks. But just now those clouds are real clouds that look too high to be punctured by any of the white men aviating in that general direction. Means What He Says. Personally I believe what John son says about his retirement. 1 have reason to know that Jack is so infernally sick of the grind of training that it simply makes him sick to even give thought to it. And at his age and after his seven teen or eighteen years of activity in the ring, some of those years being mighty lean in a financial way, he can scarcely be blamed for feeling that way about it. During a discusison of lean times one day out at Las Vegas, Jack mentioned this, and seemed anx ious to impress his hearers with the sincerity of the thing. "Why, the first time I landed in Chicago it was the middle of the winter and I didn’t have an over coat. And, believe me, that year it • didn’t even start to get summer tirqe until along in August,” he said. Jimmy Barry, of Chicago, in New York August 6. • • * Jack LaMarche, former welter weight boxer, has been promised a bout before Tom McCarey’s Los Angeles club some time in the near future. GET OUT AN EXTRA! WHY? JUMBO WELLS WINS A GO CHICAGO, Aug. 2. —Jumbo Wells, former New York light-heavyweight fighter, made good in his fifteen-round battle last night with Billy Shanks, winning in every round. Only the cov ering up style of Shanks prevented Wells from scoring a knockout. The match was held in private near the outskirts of the city. COAST STARS FOR BROWNS. ST. LOUIS, MO., Aug. 2.- Frank Dillon, manager of the Los Angeles club, is in St. Louis for the purpose of arranging a few deals with the Browns. It is said that Hedges will get Pete Daley and a few other stars from the Angels. Annual Mountain Excursion SOUTHERN RAILWAY Saturday, August 17 $6.00 Asheville, N. C. $6.00 Lake Toxaway, N. C. $6.00 Hendersonville, N. C. $6.00 Hot Springs, N. C. $6.00 Tate Springs, N. C. $6.50 Bristol, Tenn. Final limit September 1. Three trains to Asheville. Morning Noon I Night. 8:00 a. m. 111:15 a. m. *9:00 p. m. MAKE RESERVATION NOW. "It’s different now, of course, but even in my present affluence I nev er look back to those old days with any great feeling of pleasure. They were hard days, and I never found a great many friends." Has Business Instincts. It doesn't seem possible that they will ever succeed in breaking-Jo’nn son, judging from the rare business acumen and strength he shows in his dealings in ring affairs. This trait shifted over to its purpose in the ordinary pursuits of life should make Johnson everlastingly and forever safe from the touch of want. One must know that Johnson is pretty sick of the fighting game when he will deliberately turn his back upon a pile of $20,000 that he could gather as easily as he gath ered his money in Las Vegas a month or so ago. It doesn’t appear to be possible to find the man who has so much money that he doesn’t care to garner just now a little bit more, but here’s one man to whom the lure of the coin amounts to nothing and is easily turned aside. Johnson was an unusual cham pion and it looks as if he would continue to be unusual until his dying day. (mARQUARD MUST PAY $25 FOR PITCHING ONE INNING CINCINNATI, Aug. 2.—Rube Mar quard, star pitcher of the New, York Nationals, was fined $25 by the national baseball commission for pitching one inning for the Port Chester, N. Y.. in dependent baseball team. In so doing, although not in uniform, the commission holds that he violated its ruling that no national agreement player can play with or against out side clubs during their contract period Marquard had telegraphed for per-' mission to attend the game, and consid ered the commission’s consent sufficient to pitch one inning. 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