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JIN FLYNN HUS 3CDASTBOUTS: my CD ABROAD CHICAGO, Aug. 10.—Th? matching of Jim Flynn, recent victim of Jack Johnson, and Charlie Miller, of San Francisco, today brought to light two other battles in which the Pueblo fire man is to engage before 1912 turns into the following year. James Coffroth has signed the Westerner for the three con tests. The Miller match is set for La bor day, September 2. If Manager Jack Curley will permit his charge to go tnto the ring seven days later. Flynn will be sent against Kaufman on Armission day. On Thanksgiving day Coffroth proposes to use Flynn and Tommy Burns as his star card. Curley isn't too willing to take on Kaufman with seven days between, but will try to reach an agreement with Coffroth. Will Go West Soon. This is the information that Jack Curley, manager of Flynn, dropped to day, and he says his charge will clean up the bunch. Curley says Coffroth has practical!v closed the matches, there being but a slight hitch in the proceedings that will bring Tommy Burns back to the ring. Jack got in touch with Flynn yesterday and the pair will leave for San Francisco in a few days. Flynn is still in the West. Curley deciares Miller is a much tougher heavyweight than th? people in this section of the country give him credit for being, and that Flynn will have no easy time. Australian Trip Near. Unless something for the better breaks following these three matches, it is Cut ley's plan to quit San Fran cisco about the first of the year and take the long Jump to Australia with his fighter, returning byway of Eng land. Jack believes there are still good fields abroad to conquer. He says Flynn is in good shape and will need but two weeks work to be ready for ling work. HERE’S WHERE AMATEURS MINGLE THIS AFTERNOON H?re arc tip- amateur games carded today: City League. M0..50 v Inman Yards, at Hills park- Southern Bell v. Southern Shops, at Br'cMne; Red Seals v. Southern < lu b. Railroad League. Western Union V. Bean .<• McGill, at lite f< it; \.. B & A. v. R. R. 1. M. ’ ■ A., tu Piedmont: S •'. of P. v. Decatur, at Decatur. Fort McPherson v. Beavers. Commercial League. High v. K<ely; Smyrna v. Chamber lin: “Rich v. Joyner: Lakewood v. Davison. Saturday Afternoon League. Atlanta Top Company v. Continental Gin Company, at Exposition: ('enter Hill v. F.xpositioff, at plant; Fulton Bag v. Independents, at Fulton; Piedmont v. Whittier, at Whittier. Trolley League. Hires V. Black Caps, at Piedmont: Garment Workers v. Rice & Hutchins,t al Piedmont park, in (enter of race track. * B ys' (’lull v. Wesley, at lite fort. ' ' Sundry 'School League. Westminster v. Jefferson, at Grant park. l::ty to 3:3t> p. m.; Capitol View v Si. Philips, at Grant park. 4 p. m.: Wesley S. V. D. v. C. ('. ('.. at Piedmont. 4 p. m. Baraca League. Woodward v. B. X. <'.. at Oakland City; Agogas v. Grace, at Ponce De- Leon hollow; Westminster v. McDon ald. at Piedmont, No. 1. THE BASEBALL CARD. SOUTHERN LEAGUE Games Today. Mobile in Atlanta Ponce DeLeon park I Game called at 2:15 o'clock. Birmingham in Nashville Montgomery in Memphis. New Orleans in Chattanooga. Standing cf toe C’u’jw w I »■ w. t. p r B iiain 65 39 625 C’nooga. 48 50 490 Mobile 59 49 546 Nash 47 55 .46! N Or. . 50 49 .505 Mont. 45 57 .4 41 M'mphis 49 49 500 Atlanta .42 57 424 Yesterday s Reauita. Atlanta 3, Mobile 2. Chattanooga 5. New Orleans 4. Nashville-Birmingham, off day. Mont gomery- Memphis rain. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Games Tooav. Savannah in Albany. Columbia in Columbus. Jacksonville in Macon Stand’ng r.- tn© Clubs v i t• - w T. r Sav’nah. 22 15 .595 Macon . 20 18 526 I'vilje .21 15 .583 \lbany 16 23 410 C bus. . .20 15 .571 C’hia. 13 26 .333 V»st* r dayßesults. Columbus 5. Columbia o. Macon 4. Jacksonville 3. Savannah 7. Albany 2 (first game, i Albany 2. Savannah 1 (second game.) AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Tortay. Philadelphia in Chicago. Washington in St. Louis. Boston in Detroit. New York in Cleveland Standing of the Clubs. W. L PC ’V T. P f ' Boston . 72 33 .686 Detroit 53 54 .495 i Wash. . 65 40 619 ("land 18 56 .462 Phila 60 43 .583 S Louis 33 70 .320 Chicago .52 50 516 N York 32 69 .31. Yesterday’s Results. Cleveland 3. New York 1. Chicago 7. Philadelphia 6. Boston 6. Detroit 1 St Louis-Washington, rain. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. Chicago in Boston. Pittsburg in Brooklyn. St. Louis in New York Cincinnati in Philadelphia Standing of the Clubs. W 1.. I’ C W I. P<’ N York 72 28 720 C’nati. C 55 .461 Chicago 65 36 .044 S. Louis 46 .78 .142 P'burg .59 39 602 Br’klvn 37 66 .359 Phila 48 48 .500 Boston . 28 72 .280 Yesterday’s Results. St. Louis 7. New York 4. Chicago 9. Boston 7. Pittsburg 2. Brooklyn 1 Philadelphia- Cincinnati, rain THOMAS AND CONLEY SIGN UP. LOS ANGELES, <’AL Aug. in. Harry Thomas and F’rank Conley havn ; signori articles to box twenty votin' e it ; 122 pounds a’ \ nrnon on the after-! *nnn of Anrust 1? I Johnson’s Life History in Ring; From Coward to Bully in Night By IV. W. Naughton. r T''HIRTEEX years of pugilistic I activity have passed since Jack Johnson, who has Just announced his retirement from the ring, fought his first professional battle in the soped arena. For nearly four years Johnson has worn the crown of ihe title-holder. Jack Johnson not only admits he is lazy, but takes pride in his lazi ness. In his youth this man who has turned up as a champion pugi list. was a coward! And he ad mits that too. Plays “Hookey” From School. Jack Johnson was born in Gal veston. Texas, on March 31, 1878. He was the next to youngest of six children. When a pickaninny he eared little for school.. As a re sult. the education Jack can boast is a meager few years of learning. It can be said for Johnson that sheer desperation was the only thing that forced him to do any manual labor while he whs in his teens. He was too lazy to turn a hand, and he did not know the meaning of a living wage. He took only the soft Jobs thaf came along. The champion had hardly left school before the name of “cow ard was attached to him. Many a boy smaller than Jack gave him a lacing. He didn't care for them. He preferred to ramblF away by himself. When Jack was twelve years old he started to learn to ride a.bicy cle. hut even bike riding was too much work and he quit. Next he picked up the job of watching a milk wagon while the dealer deliv ered the milk. He was paid $1.25 a week. Six months of that kind of work was sufficient for him, and he quit. His parents found it impos sible to make him work. Has Record For Cowardice. Johnson was 22 years old before he realized the need of money. That was when he fell in with a crowd of fellows who worked and had money to spend. So he got a Job on the docks, helping to load steamers. His reputation for cowardice had preceded him. and he soon was the victim of taunts. It was then that he decided to pursue different tac tics. One night after a steamer had been loaded, the bully of the docks pilfered Johnson's coat and hat. " hen Jack tried to get them back, the bully landed a stinging punch on Jack's head. Then Johnson for got his laziness and gave the bully a terrible licking It was a case of coward to bully in one night, for Johnson was rec- r | |—-""^| < UATLANTA’S BUSIEST MATINEE AND NIGHT, DAILY, WEEK AUG. 12 Gertrude Vanderbilt g s eo is X?e WILLIE WESTON SYDNEY DREW 4 CO. Songs Sketch TOP 0’ TH’ WORLD DANCERS THREELYREES 4 RIANOS :: GALLANDO A RE AL VAU DEVI LLE SHOW Admission If CHILDREN n Ten Cents j i At Matinees P ?amVA R VAUDEVILLE PROSIT DUO, i CLINTON <t NOLAN. Comedy Acrobats. "In Clown Alley." "The African Dodger” SPENCER & WILLIAMS, DIXON & DIXON. Singing and Dancing. Musical Comedy Tramps. MOTION PICTURES CHANGED DAILY. Matinees Daily at 3 P. M.. Except Saturday. Matinees Saturday. 2:30 and 4. Night Shows. 7:30 and 9. Correct Proverb Solutions Picture No. 15 Picture No. 16 0/ Vw, !■ f l-’l U / l i , ii ® r Ji® < ( j I Lcl Hie cobbler slick lo his last. An idle person is Ihe devii’s playfellow. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN \XD XFWS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10. 1912. ognized as the boss bully of ’em all after that. There were quite a few minor battles after that, and Jack for gets a lot of them, but finally he took a trip North in 1899 and land ed in Chicago. He didn't find the people there inclined to look on laziness with favor, and he nearly starved The boxing game was open, and he got on a match with another negro najned "Klondike." Jack quit in the fifth round because he was so weak from hunger that he could hardly stand up. He had a couple of other fights before he re turned to Galveston. His friends there arranged a match with Joe Choynski. and Joe knocked Jack out in three rounds. Johnson says that Choynski hit him so hard he thought that he was dead? They were both jailed for fighting. Has Won Many Fights. It was that Choynski fight, how ever. that caused Johnson to stick to the ring. He figured that if he could take the awful punch that Choynski handed him and live he ought to be able to lick a lot of other fellows. He had a good punch then and could take punishment. So he started out to take pugilism se riously and mowed down Frank Childs, George Gardner, Joe Ken nedy. Jack Jeffries and many others. The tougher game, including Hank Griffin. Sam McVey, "Den ver Ed” Martin and Sandy Fergu son. came his way in time and he disposed of them. Johnson ran into an upset in 1905 when Marvin Hart was award ed a decision over him in twenty rounds. But he came back after that and beat such men as Joe Jeanette, Sam Langford, Bob Fitz simmons, Bill Land and knocked out Jim Flynn In eleven rounds. He chased Champion Tommy Burns to Sydney, Australia, in 1908. where he beat Burns in four teen rounds, thereby winning the title. 'Among his victims since that time have been Stanley Ketchel. middleweight champion, now dead, and Jim Jeffries, in that fiasco of two years ago at Reno, Nevada, of which plenty has been printed. That brings this story up to Johnson's last fight with Flynn, but before the finishing touch is put to this yarn it might be stated that if ever a pugilist was "good to the folks” that one is Jack John son. He has built a (ine home in Chi cago and given it to his mother Jack says he will see that she never Is in want. 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. A.B. H. P.C. COBB 402 168 .418 SPEAKER 419 167 .399 JACKSON ...... 393 149 .379 COLLINS 372 123 .331 LA JOIE 255 78 .306 By securing only one hit in four times up yesterday. Ty Cobb dropped off ©wo points in his clouting. But Speaker lost a point, too. as, like T. Raymond, he only managed to bang out one safe swat in four attempts. Jackson had a fine day. He walloped forth three hits in four attempts and jumped forward four points. Collins hit .500 yesterday, getting two hits in four trips to the plate. He gained two notches thereby. Lajoie failed to con nect in four chances and dropped off five points. TOMMY ATKINS SOLD TO CENTRAL LEAGUE TEAM Tommy Atkins, the Crackers' grand little southpaw, has been sold to the Wheeling (W. Va.) team, of the Cen tral league. Several teams were after the pitcher and he came near going to Hopkinsville to manage that team. However, one of the players, already on the team, was given the job. Tommy will leave for Wheeling to join his new team at once and should prove a valuable man when his arm mends. NELSON AND LITTLE TO CLASH IN NASHVILLE CHATTANOOGA. TENN., Aug. 10.- Artlcles were signed today by Jerry Nelson, of Philadelphia, to meet Wal ter Little, of Chicago, before the Nash ville Athletic club next Wednesday. The men wjll fight at catch weights. Yankee Schwartz will probably meet the winner. Nelson is also scheduled to meet Cur ley Jordan, of St. Joseph, Mo., at an early date in this city. 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. Jx” MARTIN MAY XT ' 19U PEACHTREE STREET UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL ' UNREDEEMED PLEDGES , FOR SALE A SANTAL-MIDY @ Relieves in 24 Hours (C) Catarrh of the Bladder All Drug/bt) Beware or Counterfeits SANTAL-MIDY rORSYTH > To dry. ■ MlantVßßaslestThratrr ) Tonight 8:30 Marshall P. Wilder Nex! Week ETHEL GREEN T McWaters 4 Tyson— P Gordon Eldrid 4 Co. —' W 0 RI D Three Yoscarys. Van Der Koors Armstrong 4 Ford DANCERS POLICE RAID PRIVATE FIGHTS IN WINDY CITY CHICAGO. Aug. 10. More than 100 men were arrested when police raided a deserted factory building in the Woodlawn district at midnight, and today face charges of attending and carrying on a prize fight in violation of the state laws. The factory building was the scene of a number of spirited bouts, one of which was under way when the police battered down the doot and forced their way in. A number of men who heard the on slaught on Hie doors broke through the windows and escaped. Most of them had waiting motor cars and fled. In side the building on a regulation plat form, fi round which rose tiers of seats, "Kid" Fri-neh an.! William Caldwell were hammering at each other. Sev eral other houta had been scheduled. Kid Huston, referee, was among those arrested. The police tip came from Sergeant Robert Wiseman. He was passing the building, hoard noises within, peeked through a back window and discovered the fight. ■ - ■ Tom Hughes, whose pitching has helped to keep the Washington team up in the race, has been in baseball fifteen years. A dozen years ago he was a star with the Boston Americans. Now he is one of the stumbling blocks in the wav of the Red Sox SAVE THE SIX COUPONS FROM THE DAILY GEORGIAN Commencing August 7th to 13th Inclusive, and Get This 45-Piece Set for a Fraction of Its Value THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN PREMIUM COUPON NO. 4 SATURDAY, AUGUST 10th This coupon, with the five others published daily in The Georgian August 7 to 13, inclusive, will entity the holder to a 45-Piece Decorated Underglazed Flow Blue, Old English Ware Dinner Set, (value $10.00) upon payment of $3.50. H. ■' V. v. T ii T T 4 TJ Mfeu.--.-4u--..■-afc,......zj jL. AA/WiM fl/ ‘ s * V v ’*■ ® a Ik"- fl *X * jk'-i ' z-as Bit *ll e WtH KU "--Mfr---- See Sample Set Displayed in Our Premium Parlor. Every Piece Warranted To Be Perfectly Shaped High Grade American Semi-Porcelain The thinness of the ware, the rich Royal Blue and Coin Gold Decora tion. delicately shaded into the pure white, make this set equal in appear ance and utility to the highest priced imported china. THE DECORATION CAN NOT WEAR OFF Il is applied h\ a new process I hat tires it into each piece underneath the glaze. Ihis insurt s a lasting beauty, heretofore rare among newspa per premium dishes. , Save the six coupons from The Daily Georgian. August 7 to 13, inclu sive, ami gel this beautiful 10-Piece Old English Ware Dinner Set (value $10.()()) for $3.50. Distribution commences Wednesday, August 14, at 9 a. m., and lasts until Saturday, August 17. This offer will positively be withdrawn Saturday, August 17. Atlanta Georgian Premium Department 20 EAST ALABAMA STREET OPEN EVENINGS UNTTL NJNE O'CLOCK Dishes w ill l»e sent to out-of-town customers, express charges collect. TRAVIS AND STUCKLEN MEET IN FINAL ROUND I MANCHESTER. VT., Aug. 10.—Wal ter .1 Trai ls, of Garden City, and H. W. Stuekien, of Braeburrt, will meet in the final round today for the first prize cup as a result of their victories on tile Eckwanok links yesterday. Travis dt seated B. \V. Corkran. of the Balti more Country club, in the semi-finals, while Stuekien won a hard match from T. M. Sherman, of Yahundasis, by 1 up. '/Hlways- JX Good ? snqoke I ' 'J er UJiqp. ' I o r QUALIFY TODAY FOR PERRYADAIR TROPHY The golfers of the Atlanta Athletic club ,will qualify today for play for the Perry Adair trophy, one of the handsomest of the trophies given for the golfers to play for each year. This is the second year that this cup has been contested for, and it muat be won three times to become the prop erty of the winner. The players will qualify from scratch, and as many flights as fill will be played. ■ _____ 11