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Crackers* Batting Averages, Including Saturday's Game These averages include all games played to date: PLAYER— g. ab. r. h. P.C Becker, p. 7 IS 1 6 .333 Harbison, ss 13 141 17 41 .291 Alperman. 2b97 36S 54 98 .266 Graham, c 42 12S 14 34 .266 Bailey, if 97 341 61 90 .264 Agler, 1b34 107 16 27 .252 Callahan. 1f35 21S 23 52 .239 McElveen. 3b 103 371 44 85 .229 Sitton, p. 20 48 8 7 .146 Brady, p 16 4 9 2 7 .143 ‘Lyons, rs 5 14 1 2 .143 Reynolds, c. 4 9 11 .111 Waldorf, p 5 14 0 0 .000 Duggleby, p 1 2 0 0 .000 Howard, utility .... 1 2 0 0 .000 THE BASEBALL CARD. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Today Montomery in Atlanta. Ponce DeLeon .nark. Game called at 4 o'clock. Birmingham in Chattanooga. Mobile in Jilemphis. New < irleans in Nashville. Standing ot the Club*. W. 1.. I* C XV. 1,. P f! B'lian: . 64 38 .628 C’nooa. . 46 49 .484 Mobile . .37 46 .553 N’ville. .44 53 .454 N. Or. . 48 45 .522 Mont. . .44 56 .140 M’mphis 47 48 .495 Atlanta. 40 55 .421 Yesterday’s Results. New Orleans 8. Memphis 1 SOUTH ATLANTIC. Games Today. Albany in Macon. Columbia in Jacksonville Savanah in Columbus. Stand'ng or tne Club* XX . t.. P ■' I W. 1. pc Sav'nah. 21 11 .656 Macon .17 17 .500 J villc. . .20 13 .606 I Albanv. .13 21 .382 C’bus. 19 14 .576 I Col a. .10 24 .294 Yesterday s Results. No rimes scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Today Washington in Chicago. Philadelphia in St. Louis New York in Detroit. Boston on Cleveland Standing ot the Clubs w 1 !•.' W. L. PC Boston . 59 32 .683 Detroit . 50 52 .490 Wash. . 63 38 .624 G land . t.". 55 .150 Pl’ila. 58 41 .586 N. York 32 64 333 Chicago .50 48 .510 S. Louis 31 68 .313 Yesterday's Results. Ruston 8. Cleveland 6. Washington 3. Chicago 2. Philadelphia 8. St. Louis 3. Detroit 4. New York 1. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. Cincinnati in Boston. St. Louis in Brooklyn. Pittsburg in New York. Chicago in Philadelphia. Standing c» the Clubs. XV. 1.. P ■' W 1. PC N. York 71 24 .748 C'nati. . 45 53 .45? Chicago 61 31 .642 S. Louis 43 56 .434 P'hurg .55 38 .591 Br'klyn. .35 63 .357 Phila. . .46 45 .505 Boston . 26 69 .274 Yesterday’s Results. No antes scheduled. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Games Today. Milwaukee in Indianapolis. Kansas City in Toledo. Minneapolis in Louisville. St. Paul in Columbus. Standing of the Clubs w. l p.c w r. pc M'apolis 72 39 .649 S. Paul .51 65 .440 C’bus. . .71 42 .629 XI w kee. 48 63 .132 Toledo . .69 44 .61 1 I. Ville. .43 68 .189 K. City 55 56 .495 l apolis. 42 75 .359 Yesterday's Results. Indianapolis 6, Milwaukee 3. Columbus 13. St. Paul 4 (first ante.) Columbus 4, St. Paul 3 (second game.) Minneapolis 6, Louisville 4 (first game.) Louisville 2. Minneapolis 0 (second game.) Kansas City 10. Toledo 5 (first game.) Toledo 7. Kansas City 1 (second game.,l 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 Night. 8:00 a. m. ! 11:15 a. m. 9:00 p. m. MAKE RESERVATION NOW. BASEBALL THE SPA Y Montgomery v. Atlanta Ponce de Leon Park 4:00 CORSYTH I Todfi y’ 2: « 8 Mlanta’s Busiest Theater ) Tonight 8:30 Marshall P. Wilder Nexi Week ETHEL GREEN T n . MtWaters &. Tyson—j Gordon Eldrid &. Co.—! WORL D Three Yoscarys. Van Deri Koors-Armstrong &. Ford DANCERS OoK MARTIN MAY XT ' 19% PEACHTREE STREET UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES , FOR SALE X f • Wolgast Confesses He Needs to Build Up Before Mixing Again By \\ . W. Naughton. A LL things considered, ('hampion " olgast may consider him self a lucky fellow. He showed conclusively in his four rounds with William Ritchie in San Francisco that his stamina had been Impaired by his appendicitis operation, if he had listened to the advice of some of his best friends he would have postponed ns affair with Rivers, of Los Angeles. I ne fact that he refused to hearken to counsel given him suggests that Wol- Kast had Rivers sized up pretty well. The champion had seen Rivers in most of his fights, and had watched the Mex ican training many a time and oft. He felt probably that even if he was not as good as formerly he could ac count for Rivers, and the result proved that his diagnosis was correct. But at that he tan quite a risk. " olgast is free to confess now that he needs more building up and he may thank his stars that he Is not in the position of the man who -locked the stable door after the steed had be- n stolen. He has gone to his farm neat* Cadillac so lead the simple life for a few months, and just what the future holds for him in the fighting line is problematical. There is room for doubt as to whether he will ever be as sturdy as he was before he became a subject for the surgeon's knife. If he decides to hold aloof from the activities of the ring for the balance of his days, the lightweight championship question will be in a bad tangle. There is not a thinking man who could say offhand which pugilist is best entitled to step into Wolgast's shoes. Os a certainty Rivers has no claim on the lightweight crown.. The only thing that justified the Wolgast-Rivers match was the suspicion that Wolgast had retrograded—through no fault of his own—and the fight, if it did noth ing else, proved that the suspicion was well founded. But even though Woi gast was far from being the Wolgast who trounced Battling Nelson, he was INTERNATIONAL league. Games Today. Baltimore in Toronto. Providence in Buffalo. Newark in Montreal. Standing of the Club* XV. L. 1 •_.)■■ XV I. P C Rocli 61 43 .587 Newark 51 52 .495 Toronto .57 45 .559 Buffalo. 47 53 .470 R more. .54 -J4 .551 M’treal. .44 61 419 J. City .54 »3 .505 P’dence. 42 59 416 Yesterday's Results. Rochester 2. Jersey City 0. Montreal 8. 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AUGUST 5. 1912. a match for Rivers: but this should stand as testimony that Rivers does not belong in the best lightweight com pany. This is not a one-man view of the matter by any means. The newspaper experts who reported that the Fourth of July fight in Los Angeles differed in many essentials, but there was one point on which there was striking una nimity of opinion. The majority of the scribes said that for many rounds be fore the finish Wolgast was outpunch ing Rivets and wearing him down. Away from Los Angeles there is dif ference of opinion as to w ho really di rects the fistic fortunes of the Mexi can. but whoever it is. Rivets is well advised. Willie Ritchie, probably San Francisco's premier lightweight - at present, has claimed many times dur ing the past few months that he is as well entitled to a bout with'Wolgast as the next man. When doubt arose in regard to Wolgast's readiness to con tinue boxing. Ritchie went to Los An geles with an exceedingly fair proposal. ( He asked for a match w ith Rivers with the understanding that the winner was to have the privilege of boxing the champion when the latter decided he had recuperated sufficiently to re-enter the ring. The Ritchie proposition was tutned down and Joe Mandot. of New Orleans, was signed up to be Rivers’ next oppo nent at Los Angeles on Labor day. It is a safer match for Rivers, probably, but so far as lightweight development is concerned it will not mean a great deal, as Ritchie, a short time ago, de feated Mandot signally in the latter's home tow n. The fact that Rivers has given him ! the cold shoulder will not mean so much of a bar to progress in Ritchie's . ease, as Rivers is by no means the pivot on which the lightweight question , hangs. It will be easy enough for the San Francisco sapling to make his way in th£ lightweight world if he has the necessary fighting qualifications' and 1 can do the weight. CAROLINA ASSOCIATION. Games Today. Charlotte in Greensboro. Winston-Salem in Greenville. Anderson in Spartanburg. Standing o’ the Club*. W. L. PC XV L PC A'ders'n 51 32 .614 Sp'b'rg 38 45 .458 ("rlotte 48 34 .585 G’sboro 37 45 .451 W.-S'm 47 40 .541 G'nville 30 5a .353 Yesterday s Results. No games scheduled. TRAIN KILLS TWO MEN. CEDARTOWN, GA.. Aug. 5. —T«o unknown men. poorly dressed, were killed by a west bound Seaboard Air Line passenger train three miles east of here. They were lying on the track on a curve in a cut. The Big Race Here is how the “Big Five” in the ‘ American league are hitting right up to date: PLAYER— AB. H. Ave. COBB 385 164 .426 SPEAKER 400 159 .398 JACKSON 376 139 .370 COLLINS 356 117 .329 LAJOIE 240 75 .313 Cobb slammed the pill yesterday for two safe swats in three trips to the plate. Jackson did even better, grab bing four clouts in five attempts. Speaker, like Ty. got two hits in three times up. Collins only secured one hit in five at-bats. Lajoie failed to count once in five times. DEMAREE WAS SOLD FOR RECORD PRICE—SIO,OOO MOBILE. Aug. 3.—Al Demaree was sold to the New York Giants for SIO,OOO and not SI,OOO and $2,500. as was vari ously reported at the time the deal was made. This is the largest price ever paid for a player In the Southern league, and is enough money to make it cer tain that the Gulls will show a big profit on the season The odd thing about Demaree is that two Southern league teams passed him up. The Atlanta club owned him but wouldn't offer him enough to make it worth while to report. He went to Chattanooga and the Lookouts traded him for Chappelle. McCarthy and stewart MIX IN GOTHAM TONIGHT NEW YORK. Aug. s.—Luther Mc- Carthy, of Springfield, Mo., one of the foremost of the American while hopes, will make his first New York appear ance tonight when he will meet Jim Stewart, of Brooklyn, in a ten-round bout at Madison Square Garden. This contest is attracting more at tention than any other since the XVells- Palzer affair, and the Missourian is picked to win. McCarthy declares that he is in just as good condition now as when He put away Carl Morris, of Sa pulpa. Okla., and he is anxious to es tablish a New Yotk reputation. COTTON STATES. LEAGUE. Games Today. Meridian in Jackson. Vicksburg in Yazoo City. Columbus in Greenwood Standing of the Club*. XV. L. P.C W. L. PC t' mbus 23 14 .622 G'nwood 20 17 .541 M'idian 22 15 .595 J'cks'n 20 17 .541 V'ksb’g 21 16 .568 s'. City 532 .139 Yesterday's Results. Columbus 6. Vicksburg 0. Only one game scheduled. VIRGINIA LEAGUE. Games Today. Richmond in Norfolk. Portsmouth in Newport News. Roanoke in Petersburg. Standing of the Club*. W. L. P C I W. L. P.t'. P'sb'rg 60 37 .619 P’sm'th 42 43 .494 Norfolk 49 45 .521 R'hm nd 45 53 .459 R’anoke 43 43 .5001 N. N'ws 37 55 402 Yesterday’s Results. No games scheduled. NEWS FROM RINGSIDE Johnny Dundee was married a few months ago. Before he put on the shackles Johnny fought whenever he felt like it; that was about once a month. Now’ slant the difference. Dundee is matched to fight Patsy Kline in New York next Wednesday, and two days Later will travel to ('leveland and meet Matt Brock in a 12-round encounter. * ♦ ♦ Owen Moran, accompanied by his wife, sailed for England on the Cunard liner Caronia. Moran had planned to box in New York, but as he did not get a suit able offer from any of the Gotham pro moters he decided to hike for the other side. • • • < »ne Round Hogan was successful in his ‘ come btu k* ac on the coast the other night As soon as Hogan finds he is in as good a condition as he was last fall he will leave for the East to meet some of the best 133-pounders Gotham boasts'of ♦ * • Dave Holly whose death reported in Philadelphia the other day. was the only boxer to ever weigh in lower than Sam Langford and defeat the Tar Baby This happened in Cambridge in 1904 Holly get ting the decision after a tough fight. Hol ly was a colored boxer ami the first pug to use the somewhat illegal blow known as the ‘loop the loop” punch. • V ■ Charles Ledoux. the latest French box ing sensation, has been offered a bout with Jimmy Walsh by the Pilgrim Ath letic club in Boston. The club has also cable .lean Posey offer for an encounter with Matty Baldwin * • ♦ .lack Johnson, who .is a fast friend of Jimmy Barry's, may be se£n in the Chi cagoan's corner tomorrow night when he fights Dan Flynn in Boston. ♦ ♦ ♦ Wolgast and Tom Jones must have got their wires mixed tip. Reports from Wot- P ure . “The” drink For fans For players For men For women For kids T « it’s. . rjc delicious Correct Proverb Solutions Picture No. 5 y~~, * 'c.’« s ii &s FACH a Lxmce we \ W>MkjwuLAß Os X*^—~_- «*Of? HOCMueMnftYjWkf -z**V xflß r * Ar ‘' p s vl h w fc \lEf Wf. M Beggars must not be choosers ast at Milwaukee say he has accepted Billy Gibson’s offer to box Packev Mc- Farland in New York, while reports from Tom Jones in Los Angeles say he has re ceived a wire from Ad denying the rumor of a scrap. • ♦ ♦ ' Willie Ritchie is going to pay some kid io meet him in the ring even if only for a second Every time Ritchie’s name is mentioned by a promoter Willies rivals talk about (he weather and then fade away. • ♦ ♦ Toni Burns*is still claimng the heavy weight title and says he is ready to de fend It. As for Burns really taking the crown ant one who ever saw a boxing glove will not take him seriously for a moment. He has no claim on it any way an«l as for coming back he has about as llway.s uine, /porto Ricjux $ Picture No. 6 Z Yt T 5 ' | V&ST«DAY /z A **\ / y ■- w ise too J 1 m r®<«® -%z- ■■--. . ■ -I A burnt child dreads the tire much < name as the .Boston National* have of winning the worlds series this fall. • • ♦ Jack Johnson is quoted as saying Sam McVey. Sam Langford and Joe Jeannette are the only first-class heavyweight box ers In the game today. * * « Eddie MeGoorty s next scrap will be a twelve-round whirl with Buck Crouse in (’lev.land August 12 Mc.Goorty will then go to Philadelphia where he meets Jack McCamey in a six-round engagement on August or 16. Pete Krust and "Peanut" Schindel have been matched for a ten-round go at Quincy. 11l , August 12. They will weigh in at 155 pounds ringside. ,• • » Dan McKetrick. who is managing Joe Jeannette, says Johnny Coulon is not the .real holder of the bantamweight title Dan says the real holder is Charles Le doux. the French bantamweight. 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