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BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip Metz, of San Antonio, leads the Texas league batters, with an average of .326. Cy Forsythe. the man the Crackers nearly bought, is right near the top with .309. The leading pitcher of the league is E. Moore, of Galveston, who has won 19 and 12?L l’' ns * s ’he leading run getter, • • • **i don't care how mans .300 hitters you have, it lakes pitchers to win,” says Con nie Mack. He’s probably known that a long time, but it’s being borne in on him mighty strong this season. <’hief Meyers swings the biggest bat used by a baseball player. It weighs 60 ounces. Hans Wagner wants a lot of wood in his bat. but doesn’t care especial ly w’hat it weighs. Harry Lord uses the smallest bat of any big league player. Frank Schulte uses a medium-sized bat. but the weight must all be in the hitting end. Eugene Packard, the great American association pitcher, can swat as well as hurl In one game the other day he made three singles and a home run. « * • N. A. Cullop. the new pitcher bought from the Bristol club of the Appalachian league by the Pelicans, will report to Charley Frank August 10 for a try-out. When the Yazoo City club expired by request of the Cotton States league there <’ere sighs of relief at New Orleans. The club didn’t prove a great money-maker. Mike Finn has sold Catcher Vance to Roanoke.- • * • Al Moultori. of the Memphis club, has a torn ligament in his kree that may keep him from playing much more base ball this season. More hard luck for the Turtles. • • » Mighty few bona tide sales of players by the Southern to big league clubs have been recorded this season. Demaree. Walsh and Moran are among the few men who were readily bought for delivery in the big ring ♦ ♦ * Weiser, the Charlotte player, bought b\ the Crackers, has just made his 100th hit. A club in Wilmington. Del., uses a leg less pitcher. His name is William Sailer. He lost both legs in a railroad accident and uses artificial ones. * * * King Cole has quit. He is now camping near Bay City. Mich., and he has admit ted to friends that he has only slight hope of ever regaining his old form. * * Lou Castro x has a new third baseman named Brothers. With the season near ing its end The Count is still strengthen ing. Charley Murphy says that if he can dig up just one more Lavender, he'll make the (Pants hustle yet for that pennant. Clyde Milan, the Tennessee player with the Senators, has stolen over a half again more bases than Cobb. \ youth took a maiden out io a recent White Sox game. It was early and a couple of dozen White Sox players were engaged in batting practice, whereupon, said the maiden. ‘Why. Fred. I thought a team l|ad only nine men.” * * ♦ The Cubs’ only chance in the National league race —if they have a chance is that their equipment of pitchers numbers Lavender. Richie. Liefield. Heulbach. ('hene\ and Brown: while the Giants have only Marquard. Mathewson and Tesreau The Giants will play a shade more than 50 more games this season if weather condi tions are normal • • • Thirty-five extra inning games have been played in the National league this season, twenty-six in the American. • ♦ • Here is exactly what Mike Finn got for Al Demaree: $7,000 in money. Gene Pau let. money bark on Gardella and first call on Jacobsen next year The Mobile club has surel> been lucky about sending up stars It has Zack Wheat. Bill Lelivelt. Frank Allen. Dee Walsh and Al Demaree to its credit ♦ * • Temperance pays in baseball. Yet there is said to be one major league man ager who often says to his men before a game. "Two kegs if we win. only one if we lose” and buys accordingly . No. his team isn't leading the league. » ♦ » Baseball players say that the major league infields are rolled so hard that a double-header Jars them like falling out of a tenth story window ♦ ♦ » There are no great third basemen in the big leagues now men like Jimmy Collins and Rill Bradley Harry Lord is rated about the best of the lot Joe Jackson Is said to get but $3,000 a year. It is just barely possible that low salaries may explain the Naps’ continue*! low standing * * * Cincinnati papers say that Rube Ren ton could be as good a man as Rube Marquard if he would only wake up and get a little ambition. • * • John James, a Philadelphia amateur play er, was recently killed in a ball game. He was stealing second when a thrown ball hit him in the head He died at the hospital the night after the accident hap pened. Manager Jess Tannehill has released Shortstop Rierman and signed al Newn ham for the Chillocothe team. - • • If the Crackers finish in last place again next year we favor abolishing the South ern league. • • • Somers spent $48,000 for players for the Naps last year and worked four scouts. This year he will spend $50,000 and has worked five scouts. • * * The Washington team has maintained a scouting force of one and has spent SIO,OOO or so for players. And now look at them I he Big Race Here’s how the ’’Big Five” of the American league are hitting the ball, the averages including yesterday’s games: PLAYER— G. A. B. P. C. COBB 395 167 .423 SPEAKER .. . 411 164 .399 JACKSON 386 144 .373 COLLINS 368 121 .329 LAJOIE 248 77 .310 Cobb only secured one hit in four times up yesterday. Speaker gamed a bit by having a perfect average. He was up twice and made two hits. Jack son only got one safe swat in three at tempts. Collins had a good day, garner ing two hits in three trips to the plate. Lajoie failed to connect in two at tempts. CATCHER’WELLS BACK IN CRACKER UNIFORM Phil Wells, .*np Crackers’ second catcher last season, who was farmed to the Gadsden team in the Southeastern league this season, under an optional agreement, has been recalled by the local association, as the Southeastern league has busted up. While the Atlanta team is nnf in need of a catcher. Wells will be carried along until ho can h» placed with some team fnr the rest of the season, if no place is found for Phil, he win be carried along with Iho <’: ackers until the season closes, ami tin n be disposed of. Here’s How Crackers Are Hitting the Ball Right Up to Date These averages include all games played to date: Players. g. ab. r. h. av. Becker, p. . . . 8 20 1 6 .300 Harbison, as. . 44 144 18 42 .292 Alperman. 2b.. 99 375 54 100 .267 Bailey, If.. . 99 347 62 92 .265 Graham, c. . . 43 130 15 34 .261 Agler, lb. .. 36 112 18 27 .241 Callahan, If. . 57 226 24 56 .248 McElveen. 3b.105 379 45 88 .232 Lyons, rs. . . 7 IS 2 3 .167 Sitton, p. . .20 48 8 7 .146 Brady, p. . .16 49 2 7 .143 Reynolds, c. . 6 17 I 2 .118 Waldorf, p. . . 5 14 0 0 .000 Duggleby, p. . . 2 5 0 0 .000 Howard. I’til. 1 2 0 0 .000 KID HOWARD’S ARM BAD: IS GIVEN HIS RELEASE "Kid" Howard, the popular little col lege player, who was with the Atlanta team part of last season and also who was tried out part of this season, was given his unconditional release this morning. Howard has been given every chance to make good by the local association, but the Kid could not get his arm to come around. In fact, it seemed to get worse in place of bet ter, and for the last few days he has been unable to throw the ball across the infield. Unless bis arm gets bet ter. Howard may'never be able to play ball again. However, his arm should find itself after he has rested up for i several months. THE BASEBALL CARD. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games Toaay. Mobile hi Atlanta Ponce DeLeon park. Game called al 4 o'clock. Birmingham in Chattanooga. Standing of the Clud*. W L p C \V. L. PC B hatn. .65 39 .625 (’nooga. 47 50 185 . Mobile • 58 48 .547 N’ville. .47 54 465 N Or. 49 48 .505 Mont. . 45 57 441 M'mphis 49 4H .500 Atlanta .41 56 423 Yesterday s Results. Atlanta-Montgomery, off dav Memphis 2. Mobile 1. Nashville 2. New Orleans 0 (first game.) L New Orleans 3, Nashville 1 (second I game.) Chattanooga-Birmingham, rain. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Games Today. Savannah in Albany. Columbia in Columbus. Jacksonville in Macon Standing or tn® Ciubs W. L !*•’ W. L. P C Sav'nah 21 13 .618 Macon 18 19 .486 (’ bus. . 21 14 .600 Albanv ’. 15 22 405 J'ville. .22 11 .611 Col a. . 11 26 .297 Yesterday's Result*. , Albany’ll. Macon 3. Columbia 2. Jacksonville 1 • first game, i I Jacksonville 7. Columbia 2 (second Columbus-Savannah, rain. AMERICAN LEAGUC Games Today Philadelphia in (’hicago. i Washington in St. Louis. Boston in Detroit. New York in. Cleveland. Standing of the Clubs W I. PC W I. pc i Rf.ston . 71 33 ..683 Detroit 53 52 .505 Wash. 65 39 .625 (’ land. .46 57 447 Phila. . .60 42 .588 S Louis 32 67 .323 (’hicago .51 50 .505 N York 32 70 .314 Yesterday’s Results. Philadelphia 7. St. Louis 2. Detroit 7. New York 0. Washington 10. Chicago 1. Boston 4, Cleveland 4. NATIONAL LEAGUE Games Today. Cincinnati in Boston St. Louis in Brooklyn. Pittsburg in Nev York (’hicago in Philadelphia. Standing the Clubs V» i r W. I P•• iN. York 71 27 .725 (’ nati. . 47 51 .465 (’hicago 63 36 .636 S Louis 44 58 j:’,| P'burg. .58 38 .604 B'klyn. .37 6| .366 ’ Phila. .48 47 .505 Boston . 27 71 .276 v *Bterdav’s Results. Pittsburg 7. New York 2. , Philadelphia 4. Chicago 1. Brooklyn 8. St. Louis 7. Cincinnati 11, Boston 3. TIERNSHEIM pGA /Ulway.s J Good . Nqoke Correct Proverb Solutions Picture No. 11 Picture No. 12 n ] fC m our W" kW N 1 C ’-AXING PO«2 t A Al. I F ' I YOU abound I \ \ V <U)CK __ y J JMWk WITH A OX x .' ww-: I slumgshot / io. AB ' - «- W SSL z ' 'TAt fM \ Mn I Ml lr JI wO ' r: V! B hi \ K* 1 HMI jWJ Jf A * ■ ■ ■ Y jfiU ... Great bodies move slowlv Forewarned, forearmed THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THI RSDAY. AUGI’ST S. 19i j. GIANTS MUST HUSTLE,SAYS H. T. EXPERT Ry Sam Crane. NEW YORK, Aug. B.—This season with the Giants has been ex ceptional. for the reason that’ they have broken old records and made new ones with startling frequency, anij with such spectacular effects 'hat local fans have been kept in a state of ex pectancy from the very start of the championship race until the present in teresting situation. The race is not over, either, by ,any means, and is liable to bring forth other sensations before the last gam.— are played on Sunday, October 6 next. The Giants still have an 8 1-2-gatne lead on their nearest rivals—the Cubs —showing that the latter have not been able to gain hardly any on MoGraw's team since .lune 13, wnen the Cubs played their fast game 'at the. Polo grounds of their first visit here. Still, it must be taken into Consider ation that the Cubs have improved in their playing since that time, two months ago. when they first com menced to flash as possible contenders with the Giants. The latter have hard ly kept pace with the Cubs, either, al though the record of an 8 1-2-game lead appears to show it. On July 4 McGraw had his players fifteen games in the lead over his near est opponent, and it is since then that the Giants have fallen off more than the Cubs. Eour defeats by the Chance crew out of five games played in Chi cago on the Giants' last trip there, and three out of four at the Polo grounds more recently, gave the Cubs their'big gest lifts, and they are playing just the style of ball now that still keeps them in the Giants' danger zone. The latter can not afford to let up a particle in any series they play from now on'They can not even hold the tail-end Boston Braves too lightly, because the Cubs have the feeling imbued in their scrap py minds that they are going to beat the Giants out. and they, in conse quence, will tight fiom the drop of the hat in every game they go into. The-Giants do not want to get it into their noodles that their lead is “leau piped" until it Is absolutely cinched as enough to win beyond the shadow of a doubt. MARTIN MAY 191/2 PEACHTREE STREET UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES z SflLE y^ s/ BASEBALL F R I DAY Atlanta vs. Mobile PONCE DE LEON PARK GAME CALLED 4 O'CLOCK. CORSYTH 1 B Mlant» sßnsiestTi'.»aier j Tonight 8:39 Marshall P, Wilder ! Next Week ETHEL GREEN , A , T ., Me Waters & Tyson— ' 0 • B Gordon Eldrid & Co. — Wfijfin Three Yoscarys. Vzn Der ’ Koors-Armstrong <£. Ford f)fIKCERS Cross and o*Brien Go Ten Fast Rounds To Draw in New York NEW YORK, Aug. B.—Both Young Jack O'Brien and Leach' Cross today! claimed victory as a result of their ten- i round boxing contest at St. Nicholas j rink last night. Eight fans who saw ! the contest were divided in their opin- ! ions. Some declared for Cross, others' for O'Brien, while still others thought] that the boys had fought to a draw O'Brien, who is not vet 19 years old.] showed himself a marvel of speed, and at times had the New York lightweight guessing by his fast work, in the fourth round Cross tried to put the Philadel phian away and went after him hard, but Jack stood up and saved himself. Johnny Dundee beat Patsy Kline, of Newark. N. J . in the semi - w indup. COBB MAY DEMAND $45,000 FOR NEXT THREE YEARS DETROIT, Aug. B.—This is Tv Cobb's last year under the $27,000 contract which he signed three years ago with the Detroit club. Before the great play er dons a uniform next spring he will have to be signed to a new agreement, and it is needless to say that this will call for decidedly more salary than he is at present drawing. Cobb is mum on the subject: only to say that if he plays next year he will be well paid. While there is nothing authentic about it. it is asserted that he proposes to demand a three-year contract which calls for $45,000. a fig ure by no means exorbitant when his ability as a player and his drawing pro clivities are taken into consideration. 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. 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The petition was thrown out In the counit clerk. • • • Freddie Welsh and Grover Hayes fought ”.’. lra ' v a few nights ago at Winnipeg I his is the second time they have met and both times a draw was the verdict. • » « Abraham Att< i is pro ba bl \ through as a. top-notcher. he little Hebrew trained his hardest fu* his fight with Tommy Murphy on the coast last Saturday, yet the best he could do was to get a draw. • ♦ « Jack White has arrived in New Orleans and started training for the two bouts hr has scheduled there. on August 12 W hite js mHtched to fight Frankie Rus sell. while <»n August 19 he will tackle Joe 1 homas. If fie defeats these tw<i he will lie matched with the winner or tnp Majulot - Rivers bout to bp staged on the coast Labor Da\. * * a The boxing game will be reopened at ■ t. Joseph. Mo.. August 15 when a fifteen- T?.r, n ' . engagement between Tomnn o Rourke and Freddie Daniels will la st aged. 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Mo., is making an offer to secure a match between Joe Rivers and Harry Trendall to be staged some time in Oc tober • • • Danny Goodman, the (’hicago light weight. who fights Prince Henry in Au rora tonight, will probably be the next —■— l,ll »ri»iri-w..ww rii i The Oldest Blood Disease The most ancient history furnishes evidence that mankind suffered with Contagious Blood Poison. The disease has come down through all the ages and is to-day, as it lias ever been, a scourge and blight upon hu manity. The symptoms of Contagious Blood Poison are the same as in its ' earliest history, but its cure has now become an accomplished fact, where as, it was once considered an incurable infection. S. S. S. is an antidote efor the virus of Contagious Blood Poison, and cures it in all its forms and stages. S. S. S. possessing both purifying and tonic properties routs out all the poison, and at the same time builds up the general health. 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