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STEWART WINS OVER M'CARTHT BT SLIM SHADE NEW YoRK. \ug. 6. “I n) not dis couraged and 1 know my friends are not enner, was the optimistic utterance to day of Luther McCarthy, the Springfield, Mo., white hope, who was beaten on points by Jim Stewart, of Brooklyn* at Madison Square Carden last night. •The contest was so close that many thought that a draw would have been a‘better popular decision. McCarthy showed that he has plenty of strength and gameness, but that he lacks ring skill and science. It was McCarthy’s first appearance here and he made many new friends by his : clean fighting. Twelve thousand persons saw the bat tle. the crowd being one of the biggest that ever saw a mill at the garden. Several other bouts were staged in con nection with the big tight. In these Fred die Hicks, of Detroit, beat Willie Lewis and George Kirkwood, of St. Louis, won from George Cheney, of Baltimore. TODAY IS MERCHANTS DAY AT PONCE DE LEON This will be Merchants ami Manufac turers day at Ponce DeLeon park. Spe cial arrangements have been made io en tertain visitors here for the big show at ! the Auditorium. ’Those holding coupon tickets are entitled to tree admission at the park, but they must exchange, their coupons at the box office. It should be noted by coupon holders that the game begins at 4 o’clock and net at 3 o clock as printed. MACON MADE 33 HITS. 26 RUNS: STOLE 15 BASES MAC<>N, GA.. Aug. 6. A remarkable game was played here M*»nda\ atternoop when Macon defeated Albany L 6 t" I. The Macon team made 33 hits off Pitchers Lillington and McKa.x . and stole 15 bases. in< -lading 3 thefts <*f home plate. Mangus stole second, third ami homo. | while the same player was at bat " ■ were only two innings in which ibe M - con team did not score, and then they} did not try. THE BASEBALL CARD. SOUTHERN LEAGIP Games Today Montomery in Atlanta. Pome DeLeon park. Game called at 4 o'clock. Birmingham in Chattanooga. Mobile in Memphis New < trloans in Nashville. Etr.oding o’ trie Cluh». L •' B’ham. .64 39 .622 <’ imoga. l< 19 Mobile .57 47 .548 Wille. 45 .4;>9 N. Or. .48 46 .511 Mont 45 56 .44b M’mphis 48 48 .500 Atlanta 40 56 417 1 Yesterday s Results. Montgomery 3, Atlanta 2. Chattanooga Birmingham 1. Memphis u, Mobile 1. Nashville 3. New Orleans 2. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Games Todav. Albany -Macon. , . o.okimhL> m Jacksonville Savannah in Columbus. Standing cr tne Ciubs w .. i I W L. P C Sav’nah 21 12 .636 .Macon .18 I. .;»14 J’viUr. ’. 2! 13 .618 Albany .1.3 22 371 Cbus .20 14 .588 r C hia. 10 25 .286 . ■: > : Yesterday s Results. Macon •'»». Albany t Jacksonville 14. Columbia 2. Columbus 1, Savannah 2. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games To nay. Washington in Chicago Philadelphia, in St. Louis. New York in Detroit. Boston in Cleveland. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P C W 1. P C Boston 69 33 676 Detroit .51 52 .495 Wash 64 38 .628 ‘ land. 16 55 .455 Phila 58 42 .580 \ York 32 65 .330 Chicago .50 49 505 S. Louis 32 68 .320 Yesterday’s Results. St. Louis 12, Philadelphia 4. Cleveland 3, Boston 1 Detroit 4, New York 2 Washington 8, Chicago 7. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. Cincinnati in Boston. St. Louis in Brooklyn Pittsburg in New York. Chicago in Philadelphia Standing of the Clubs. W. l. pi' W 1. P ’ N Yotk 71 25 .740 <”nati 45 54 455 Chicago .63 34 .650 S. Louis I 56 .4 10 T’burg, >6 38 596 Br’klyn 35 64 354 Phila .16 47 495 Boston 27 69 .281. v esterday’s Results. St. Louis 8. Brooklyn 4. Pittsburg 8. New York 4. Chicago 5, Philadelphia < fir st game.) Chicago 5. Philadelphia 3 <second game) Boston 10. Cinnati 2. Correct Proverb Solutions Picture No. 7 Picture No. 8 ■U2. . x <SOOO i ORK MAN 000 TOOLS! ' r ®rl y-n A Pitcher that goes oft io the well is broken at last. A new broom sweeps clean. Bills’ Farewell Performance Scheduled for Today at Ponce Bv W. J. Wcissinger. ■ <"TAII E Billikens’ last appea anee | at Poncey park this season will come this afternoon, when they play the last of the two game series that opened yesterday. Both teams will have an off day Wednesday. Not only will the Crackers fare the Billikens for the last time on home grounds today, but they will go against them with the knowl edge that feminine fans are watching in the gallery. This is ladies’ day and they promise to go in numbers to see Montgomery perform. Empire Stockdale, whose youth ful looks caused fans to allude to him Sis -The Gray Eox's nephew." is well established in the hearts of Atlantans today, as his firm judg ment allowed tile only two scores made by the Crackers yesterday. . Il was his fir.-t time here. Not; i even, as a player has he appeared before .Bitt when the game time camo lie gave a critical survey of the diaimind, settled his cap on his head, pushed flown his mask and defied even Manager Dobbs to make a protest. The first ball was pitched and -the fight was on. It ran smoothly until the close of the sixth. Then the Billiken leader fought hard to reverse a decision and leave the Crackers without a single score. Five minutes later he was seated on the players' bencn with a rep: imand from the new umpire in his memory. '[’he conflict came up. with Gra ham on third and McElveen on second. < 'aliaban pushed a bounc ing grounder do.wn the first-base line . that struck Danzig's glove. The ball glided off and went far down the right field line and Gra ham and, McElveen came home. The hit might easily have been called fair or foul, and the fans held their breath for the decision. His umps called it a fair ball and cheering arose. Manager Dobbs rushed from the ■ oacher's line, at first and came to the umps; His majesty pulled out i his watch and timed the dispute, giving little heed to tile clamor of the .Montgomery team. With a wave of his hand he s-nt Dobbs to 0-- 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. THE AT LA XT A GLUKIiLU AND NEWS. TUESDAY. AUGUST 6. 1912. the players' bench and ordered the game to continue, it did. A double play, unassisted, four two-base bits, a small crowd and a series of vital errors on the part of the Crackers constituted the im portant points of yesterday's af fair. The first of these came in the iast of the eighth, when John son caught Graham's fly to right field and rushed in to ti st. heating Alpei man's mad scamper to re cover the bag. The hits came at various periods of Hie game and most of the third component part came late. The eirors came in pinches and the advances gave the winning runs. CORDELE FANS TRYING TO ORGANIZE A LEAGUE I’URDELE. GA.. Aug. 6 A movement to organize Hie W iregrass Baseball league to embrace the towns of Cordele. Fitzger ald. Waycross, Brunswick. Tifton. Moul trie and \mericus is being agitated among local fans in connection with a movement on foot to get one of the big league teams to train at Cordele in Hie spring. Cordele holds the championship among the amateur loams of south Georgia<since four out of five games were won- from Americus last week, previous to which time Americus held the best record in the territory of the proposed league. Cor dele’s team has disbanded for the season, as it was unable to secure games for the present week P. ADAIR TROPHY EVENT WILL BEGIN SATURDAY The golfers of the Atlanta Athletic club will begin play for the Perry Adair tro phy August 10. This cup must be won three times before it becomes the proper ty (»f any one player. This is the second year that the trophy has been contested for. The qualifying round will be contested Saturday, players qualifying from scratch The first and second rounds of maj< I*, play must be played by August 16. the semi-finals by August 17 and the tinals by August 18. DIXIE W TIP W EYE GLASSES Do you know that few Opti cians understand adjusting anti frame fitting? Do you know that a poor-fitting frame will do the eyes as much harm as poor lenses? You want your frames as well as your lenses'right; then cmue to us. as we understand every part of the Optical busi ness. Twenty -rears exportetiet' Ir. testing the eyes and filling Ocu lists’ prescriptions. HINES OPTICAL COMPANY 91 Peachtree St. Between Montgomery and Alcazar Theaters of thejnost obstinate cases guaranteed in from C z 3 to 6 days ; no other treatment required. \ 2 Sold by all druggist*. \ ... ,11 HIM I • IU. L»M«L Jllt>iiLl»m ,_J > CORSYTH 1 Today, 2:.31 I MlkntnsßusiestThralrr ) Toright 8:30 Marshall P. Wilder Next Week ETHELGREEN T fG McWaters & Tyson—: * G P V • " Gordon Eldrld &. Co. — WfjPl D Three Yoscarys. Van Der 9 »vnuw Koors-Armstrong & Ford DANCERS It s like getting money from nome. for it s money easily made by reading, using ami answering the Want Ads' in The Georgian I-’ew people realize the many opportunities offered them among the small ads It's a good sign that If the peo ple di<l not get results from the Want \ds of The Georgian that there would not b<’ so many of them. If. for nothing else, sit down and eheek off the ads that appeal to you 7on will be astonished how many of them mean money to you. The Want 7d pages are bargain counters in ever) line. Tile ads are so conveniently arranged that they can be picked out ver;, easy Crackers* Batting I Averages, Including Yesterday *s Game I These averages include yesterday's Game with Mmitgome. > PLAYER— g. ab. r. h. Ave. Becker, p. 7 is 1 K .333 ; Harbison, ss. .... 43 141 17 41 .2'31 I Alperntan. 2b 9S 372 .’>4 |uti I Bailey, If ;A 344 Hl -ill . hi? Graham, <• 4:: 13i> 1.7 34 .261 Agier. lb 37. lln Iti 27 .24a Callahan. <f. 76 222 23 ..’>3 23U McElveen, 3b. .104 .;7.7 47 S7 232 Sitton, p 20 4s S 7 .06 Brady, p 16 4.1 2 7 143 Lyons, rs 6 1.7 1 2 .133 Reynolds, c. .7 13 11 .077 Waldorf, p .7 14 0 0 ,000 Duggleby, p 2 .7 a n .000 Howard, utility .. 1 2 0 11 .Out) The Big Race II The "Big Five" <n the American league batting race did not do anything 'l notable in yesterday’s games. Here is the standing up to today: PLAYER— A.B. H. Ave. COBB 389 165 .424 SPEAKER 404 161 .399 JACKSON 373 141 .373 COLLINS 361 118 .327 LAJOIE 243 75 .309 Jackson and Speaker made two bin gles out of four times at bat yesterday. This eased the average of the Red Sox slugger up to .399. and brought his total hits up to 161, only four behind Cobb. Ty made one hit out of four times at bat, Collins made one Out of five times at bat. and Lajoie didn't make any at all out of three times up. If you spend money in advertising you will find that FACTS will help you. Its one of the tew good things you can get for nothing. * # Write on your business stationery to FACTS 225 sth Ave. New York, and the new Mid summer issue will he I sent to you without » cost. 1 . - - ■ r. . ■ I I . I •1 ' . ' , X !, - SCORES OF SATISFIED PURCHASERS Took this dainty Cream and Sugar Set home with them Monday, FREE ; -A<r* stW k # Islhb> si i L_ i 1 I i'- - There are a few sets left, to be given ABSOLUTELY FREE with every purchase at our Premium Room I Bring the Money Saving Coupon on page 2. It will save you at least one-half on china ware and household articles now offered at our Premium Counter. ; The Atlanta Georgian Premium Dept. 20 E. Alabama St. Open Evenings until 9 o’Clock 1 - —_ --Il | FODDER FOR FANS | Boh Spade, former Cracker pitcher, has landed a job as manager at last He will lead the Mount Sterling club, of the Blue Grass league for a while. The\ make an awful lot of juy juice right up in that Blue Grass country, though. « ♦ • A Kentck> lad, George Kircher, who IS playing with tlm Nori..lk club, will go up ibis tall probably 10 the Phillies ■ la. k Hose, who figures in the Rosen thal murder case, was ~n1 (. a baseball magnate. He owned the Danbmw iml later the Norwich franchises in the Con necticut league Then be quite baseball. turned honest and now look at him. • • • Cabrera, the CuUan shortstop plaxing m the Connecticut league, is said b. be 'lllite as I a performer as Almeida ami Marsans He is vet < black for a white man. but they sat he is the real thing, ami that he came originally from the t anary Islands. I lb 1 rumor is out that the big leaguers are going to pull a deal by which Ibe Jersey City team will be allowed i,, play in Brooklyn while tin- Superbas are on the road. It might happen but look at the dread .pi ssibilities ♦ * John McGrayy says he doesn't in the least mind seeing a man steal second with the bases full. However, be wall's it done on a signal so that all the rest of the bunch can run too, and so that the batter can take a healthy wallop al Hie ball. He says the pla.y has possibilities. * » Jimmy Maroney, released by the Cubs may be taken on by the White Sox * Ki * (’liarley Dryden says that Ed Reulbach has invented a fountain pen with a car bureter attachment that saves half the ink. • • • Franklin Warren, backer of the New ark. Ohio. Gam. has given Manager Bar r\ McCormick 4>crmission to fire the en tire team. He doesn't want a man sold or traded, but advises that every <»ne be indefinitely suspended. M Hl * Joe Berger lias been playing great ball on the roast this year, and the former Southern league infielder may make the White Sox a useful performer nex't sea son I Dr. E. G. Griffin's Dental Rooms I Over BROWN & ALLEN'S DRUG STORE. 24' 2 WHITEHALL ST. I $ 5 Sel o ' Tee,h I jr”'"' COMPLETED DAY ORDERED I II Gold Crowns, S 3 I Spec,ai Br,dße Work ’ 1 All Dental Work Lowest Prices. ■ — 8 to 7. Lady Attendant. SEABOARD NEIW YORK PHILADELPHIA BALTIMORE WASHINGTON RICHMOND NORFOLK Through Service. Convenient Schedules FRED GEISSLER, A. G. P. A. Atlanta. TICKET OFFICE 88 REACHTREE ST. A chap named Sloan has been sold to the Browns He came from Bristol. Tenn. Sjf * « Jack VVarhop. ateording to report, is not a real member of the Warhop family at all. His famii\ name is Flynn, but he changed it when he got a Job pitch ing for the Nebraska Indian team. After he made good us ■ Jack Warhop" he let the name sti<k. • * • If the Red Sox get in the world’s series this year and if the series goes as far as seven games. Jame* McAleer will make his purchase money back the first yeat • • • Joe I aaghlin. catcher of the Peters i»urg • 'l’.'b. pulled a stum recently. In '•ne inning three Richmond batters sin gled. All three tried to steal All three were thrown out at second b\ Joe 4? « » Boyd. Almeida and Smith will be sent higher b\ the Barons this sear. .And Al meida will stick. * * Rafael Xlnteida is acting as scout for Cin< nnatl leam in ihe Routhein league. \mong others he has recom mended li tinsel f <’harle\ <’otniskey says that the De troit dubs tremendous hatting is due largely to Ty Cobb •‘He sets the pace," says t’omiskey. “and makes the other players g<» a lot faster." NATIONAL SURGICAL INSTITUTE ..a For the Treatment ot NyL DEFORMITIES 4 Ff ESTABLISHED 1874. 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