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HOW about getting Billy Smith to take over the Atlanta team before it return* home? The plan has been suggest ed to the directors of the Atlanta Baseball association Os course the directors don't admit yet that they have arranged things with Billy Smith, but they want him and he wants to come and there are no strings tied to him, so it ought to be tolerably easy. Also, don’t be surprised if he lakes over the teain on Septem ber 1. The local directors are utterly disgusted with the showing of the team since Alperman took It over. They admit that "Whitey" has tried hard pnd they like him as a man and as a ball player, but they don’t see any especial reason why the team under his management should lose 95 per cent of Its games Os course, now that the news is out that Smith Is to have the team next year, Alperman’s hold over the players will naturally lessen. Ro a new deal Is advisable * * • T T is believed by the local dlrec tors that President O. B. An drews will be delighted to let Billy Smith out any old time It is pre sumed that he Is going to put El berfeld in Smith’s place, anyhow, so there is everything to be gained and nothing to be lost by turning Smith loose It will save him some salary and it will enable the new manager to take hold of the team and to study out Its needs with a view of plugging the holes next season If Smith stays with the Lookouts it will be a mere matter of finishing out the season any old way If Smith can be secured to take hold of the team by September 1 there will be a lot of advantages He can study out the situation and make plans for next year He can look over the new material care fully And think of the crowd that would greet him if he should make his re-entry into Atlanta on Rep tember 2. which is Labor day . • • • T T NLESB the Chattanooga club makes < ttto Jordan the man ager for next year Billy Smith will almost inevitably have him back here playing second base in 1913. Smith knows what he owes to Jordan’s help in winning two pen nants for Atlanta Jordan was captain of the team both years And Smith pronounced him the best second baseman in the world The directors of the local club know (to their moderate sorrow) how popular Jordan is They want him for sure President Andrews of Chatta nooga. will surely be willing to let Jordan go. provided he does not keep him as manager Jordan and Elberfeld are both In effect candi dates for the management If El berfeld is given the jot) lie will naturally not want Jordan on thi team. From Jordan's standpoint to. change would be ide. ott*. h.>* said that he would rather .apt,.in the Atlanta team than n. i >g. th. Chattanooga team o that - report, anyway. This i* Jordan'* home and he wants to play with the Atlanta club. Os course nobody is going t. stand in Jordan’s way If he can get the job of manager in Chatta nooga It is the biggest thing that can fall to his lot. and Bill Smith will be the first one to congratu late him. as he did when Jordan succeeded him as manager in At lanta. But if be doesn’t land that job it is almost a ten to one bet that he will be back here at sec ond base next spring • • • » SI) what Os Alperman? Well, Zx it s a good bet he will stick, as suortstop or as third baseman. Vi. If Jordan does not return, he will be kept as second baseman. Probably he will be made field captain, too, In that event. Alperman has no designs on the Job of manager He didn't ask for it. But It was offered him—and the iob of manager, like the nomina tion for the presidency, has never been declined. So ‘'Whitey" will no doubt give up the position gracefully and will return to the ranks with a light heart. For, while nobody ever refused to try to be a manager, nobody ever had any fun managing a tail-end team. Alperman has played good ball for Atlanta. When John Ganzel gave him up he thought he was squeezed dry of baseball useful ness Ganzel is a wise old fox and Isn’t giving up any players while they are worth a hang But his judgment slipped on Alperman. The old boy came to Atlanta, liked the town, the climate, the team, the people and hr has played good ball He should make a useful member of next year's team. • • • 'pHE delight of Atlanta fans over the nc'Hs that Smith is coming back to manage the team is inspir ing. The Shold the little manager had on Atlanta fans was marvel* FOP DE R FO R FANS Pitcher ('ook, who recently hurled a one-hit gamp for Columbus against Min neapolis Is the same man who tried out with the Naps under the name of Win chell He was playing college ball then and covered up his real cog for that rea son. • ♦ ♦ ’Hugh McMurray, the ex-Atlanta Crack er, 1s playing shortstop for the Syracuse team now • • • Infielder Nattress. of the Syracuse team, recently reminded Umpire Arlie Latham’ while a game was in progress, that he (Latham > had been owing him (Nattressi the sum of sl2 for ten \ears Where upon Latham fined Nattress $lO That’s a fine way to collect a debt The Cubs are out after hurlerslf they can get a couple of good ones thex max win xet * • • A Boston amateur team has a pitcher named Asbeston. <»o on now and get funny • • • I he Cincincys may be Reds, but noth ing like a team made up of ’ Red" l>ooin, “Hed" Wingo. ”Red“ Ames. Marty < l Poole, “Red" Klllifer. ’■Red" Downs. •Red ’ Smith, “Red" Murray and “Red" Corriden. • • • Tris Speaker’s mother, who is visiting him now. says that her boy should have been a mechanic She wants him to quit baseball, and to go home and live on the farm This idea makes an intense hit i with Jimmy McAb»er. Nexv Orleans paid SI,OOO for Pitcher Cul l<»P Bristol must have thought pretty xvell of him. for thex signed five men to take his place • • • Major league drafting begins on \u gust 26 • • • President O B Andrews, of the Chat tanooga club. Is scouting through the big leagues, looking for castoffs • • • Rax Morrison. < apiain of the 1912 base ball team at Vanderbilt, and jierhaps the most brilliant football player the South ♦ \**i developed, was married Tuesdax to Miss Julia Clifton Goar, of Birmingham, i Ala Morrison win coach the baseball Mild football teams at the Branham and Hughes team of Spiing HUI. Tenn, through the coming school season • • • If, as has been published in 50 papers, ’••i itfllL s know h .fge of pitchers explains Washington’s success - what explains tits awful showing wilt. (Cincinnati and the New York Xmerii ans ’ ♦ • • A misdirected letter < aused the blow up of the Sharon team of the Ohio and Pennsylvania leagu* In the letter was a check for SSOO. in pavment for Outfielder >•5111 Mien, sold to Washington. It was misdirected to Sharon, Ohio, instead of Sharon. Pa. If it had come on schedule t would have tided the Sharon team over to the end of the season. It didn’t, hence the blow up. • • • Brooklyn has sent Cx Barger bark to New ark ♦ • • Whx. bless us. if the sedate (thio and Pennsylvania league hasn’t turned out low and invaded Pittsburg If memory serves this is the second attack on Pitts burg this xeata • • • A (Pain up in ,X. « BruiiMWi, k ha-> sold two player* to hig league elubs P J Duggan to the Wlotr Sox and David Brown, former Bates vollege plater to the THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY. AUGUST 16. ibiz. loub —and still Is. It was not only title to the fact that he grave the fans a pennant winner, but to the added fact that he played the los ing hand in an unpopular gatne for supreme baseball power in Atlanta. The famous Heisman-Smith con troversy is history now and should not he raked up. But the fans were on Smith's side, whatever the merits of the case were, and they will welcome Smith back with ex tra rejoicing on that account. • • • 'THERE is hardly a fan in At -1 hint a now who doesn't believe that Atlanta is set for a success ful season next year. The baseball association, hacked by the Georgia Railway and Power Company, is going to turn loose money as it has never turned It loose before. Smith will be given the word to "go the limit"—and Smith surely knows how to spend the coin to advantage. The early settling of the question of a manager for next year was a grand move by the baseball asso ciation. It has revived waning in terest and it has demonstrated that the baseball association is going to give Atlanta a ball club next year, led by the manager the Atlanta fans tvant tvell. yon know who gets all the college players. • • • Bob Bescher has bought an automobile • • • Pitcher Ad Brennan, of the Phillies, who had diphtheria, is out of the hospital, but he lost a lot of weight and will hardly be ablt» to work again this year. W it bin the week big league papers have printed three interviews which, boiled down, read as follows: • • • J. McGraw “The pennant a cinch.’’ F Chance "They’re helpless—the Cubs cop in a canter." B Dreyfus: “The Pirates will win the National league pennant “ Obviously somebody is either wrong or misquoted. • * • Portsmouth is dickering for a player named PaploskL • • • \sheville is trying to net the Anderson franchise of the Carolina association, and If it <loes will put on continuous baseball for the rest or the season, the Carolina association team playing there while the Appalachian tram Is on the road. « ♦ • Johnny Evers has become so pugnacious lately that it is suggested he must have been vaccinated with tiger’s blood. • • • The Reds are complaining that they are handicapped by paying on a man-sized grounds while other clubs are allowed to play on abbreviated tlelds. The Atlanta club has al wax s suffered with the same handicap. * * • Lefty James, of Toledo, has pitched 26 successive innings xvithout having a run , scored behind him That makes the going easy for Lefty. • • • They’ve moved Tommy McMillan’s re porting time un one dax He is now due to join Wolverton’s team on August 19 • j • , Clark Griffith saxs that he's afraid he w ould <lie if hr quit bas» ball He claims that, after 25 years of tension, it will be Impossible for him ever again to let down * * • Mrs Rube Marquard. who once led a , happy life as Madge Maguire, of New Or leans. has secured a divorce from Rube, i This is the third divorce episode in George I I'M ward's life It will be noted by press agents that Murph.x and Chance both viciously attack the Giants and McGraw in print just be -4 foie ihr Giants were due to open a series j in Chicago Poor publicitx man. that » Murph.x Pitcher Ered Heebe has been ordered to pax back the $166 he overdrew from the I Phillies. Ered tried to prove that he lost , the coin when he went from Philadelphia • to Buffalo, but the national commission 4 wasn't convinced f• • • »| Pitcher Griner, of the Cleveland club, r former Mooney school football and base > ball player, has gone to join the Cardinals. THOMAS 10 TO 7 CHOICE. LOS ANGELES. Aug 16 Finishing touches xx ere applied tn their training tasks today bx Featherweights Ha rx i Thomas and Frankie Conley and both x\ ill take things easx from now until thex entm the Vernon tins for their 1 twenty-round contest on Saturday as (1 ernonn Thomas is favorite in the bet € ting at odds of 10 to 7. 118-PDUND BOYS MY STJRT NEW BJNTffICUSS By Ed. W. Smith. I— >ROM the looks of things right H now in the bantamweight class the division will be split up during the coming fall and the men claiming membership) will sub divide into two bands. One of these will be headed by Johnny Coulon. who claims 11«' pounds as the real bantamweight limit. He won’t have a great deal of company. The other squad will be made up of men who insist, for reasons de cidedly palpable, that 118 pounds is the real international limit for the bantamweight class. There are some good men of international reputation In this bunch. The announced coming of Le doux, the French champion, threat ens to make the split in the ranks, which, at that, always have been more or less torn over the weight question. It is said that Dan McKetrlek will bring over the little Frencher for a shot at the best of them in this country. But. alas, Ledoux can not or will not do better than 118 pounds, which weight he made for Digger Stanley, the English star, in their recent international combat, won by the Parisian. Since the English authorities on pugilism have stipulated 118 pounds as the bantamweight limit, and their word goes in Europe, Ledoux claims to have excellent grounds for his position. Old Argument Up Again. Os course, when he lands here, if he comes, the fans will want to see him hook up at once with Coulon, but that old weight question is apt to prove the drawback to such an affair. Then it will be that boys like Jimmy Walsh, of Boston, an international scrapper of repute; Frankie Burns, the Jersey lad who is an established and acknowledged factor in the bantam class; Johnny Hughes, claimant of the English ti tle. to say nothing of a horde of Eastern lads, will band together and by agreeing to keep the ban tamweight limit at 118 pounds con trive to keep the fighting pretty much among themselves. Burns Can Do 116 Pounds. According to Tommy Walsh, his manager, Frankie Burns is willing to make a weight of 116 pounds at 6 o'clock tor Coulon for a ten-round battle, and would do 116 pounds at the ringside only for a long con test that might involve the title. But at the same time he would be delighted to meet the French star or any of the others at 118 pounds. Walsh is In the same fix. It appears that Ledoux's defeat of Digger Stanley, the English star, got him a great reputation In Eu rope. and he is regarded over there as the real wonder. But it must be remembered that Burns trimmed Stanley eighteen months before that happening, so he Is entitled to just as much credit as the Parisian is securing. N. O. Wants Big Tourney. New t trleans is talking of giving a big winter tournament that will bring together all of the greatest of the little fellows, who are ex tremely popular down near the delta. Whether this is started or not, th> same old weight argument is going to be rehearsed to the fullest. I'p Baltimore way they have Kid V\ illiams, a 116-pound lad, who is regarded as the real whale of the class. He is a slammer for fair, and the predictions are frequent that he will down any of them, including Coulon. before the winter is over H s a short block of a hoc. only nineteen years old. but I with a middleweight kick on eithet side. Ideal sjinposium. isn't it? Johnson Wise in Fighting Jeannette 10-Round Go Win Will Give Him Chance to Escape Finish Mill By W. S. Farnsworth. SEVEN times have Jack Johnson and Joe Jeannette battled. Four of these were no decision af fairs. Once the referee rendered a draw verdict aftejj ten rattling rounds. Once Johnson was declared the winner in fifteen rounds. Once Jeannette earned a decision on a foul in the second round. Jeannette has never been knock ed out. Outside of Johnson's one victory over him, Joe has lost to but two men—Sam Langford and Sandy Ferguson. After losing to the Chelsea Joke Jeannette stop ped him in eight rounds. And he and Langford have clashed so many times to an even break that the record books have been unable to keep an account of all of ’em. • • • | F the above dope doesn’t make Jeannette a worthy opponent for the champion, then listen to this: Time and again Johnson has admit ted that he fears Jeannette more than any other fighter, not except ing that demon slugger. Langford. Time and again Johnson has re fused to sign up with Jeannette in a battle over a route. Finally, when offered $25,000 and half the moving picture receipts, for a „ten-round |news from ringside Terry Nelson was in town looking for a match a few days ago, but when he found the game was dead here he announced his intentions of going to Jacksonville, where the game is flourishing at present. • * • _ Bombardier Wells in an interview a few days ago said Al Balzer was the only first class "white hope" in America He prob ably thinks this as Balzer is the only real pug he met while in this country, and he got his a plenty in that battle ♦ * ♦ Frank Mantel! Is back in New York once more after fighting seven 20-round bouts on the coast. Mantell will be matched with some of the best boxing talent In the East. * • • Jimmy Coffroth is negotiating with Abe Attell and, Johnny Kilbane for a 20-round battle at Frisco, September 9. Attell has agreed to the match, but Champion Kilbane has not come to terms. However. Coffroth thinks he will be able to stage the bout. ♦ • * Vic Hansen and Montana Dan Sullivan mix it for 20 rounds at Coalings. Cal., to morrow night. This will be Sullivan'S first match this year and as lie has trained hard for this bout he should win. • • • Jack Britton looked like a human pin wheel when he was fighting Eddie Smith in New York the other night. According to newspaper men who witnessed the tight. Britton often gave Smith five or six blows without receiving one in re turn. • • • Two bouts are scheduled for next Sun day at Stumpf's island, in the Mississippi near Dubuque. Clarence Forbes will go ten rounds with Freddie Andrews, of SEMI-FINALS REACHED FOR PERRY ADAIR TROPHY Match play continues on the five flights of the golf tournament for the Perry Adair trophy at East Lake. The matches played yesterday were as follows: First Flight. Second Bound G. 11. Atkisson de feated E. T. Winston. 4 up and 3 to play; G W. Adair defeated C P. King, 4 up and 3 to play. Second Flight. Second Round - H. 1,. Dix defeated J. O. Burton, 5 up and 4 to play ; W. J. Tilson defeated W. O. Marshburn. 4 up and 3 to play. Third Flight. Second Round—R. P. Jones. Jr., de feated J S. Raine. Jr., by default: J. C. Harris defeated R. P. Jones, by default. Fourth Flight. Second Round—H. G. Butler defeat ed S. Hard. 2 up and 1 to play. Fifth Flight. Fi st Round—J. J. Hastings defeat ed R. M. Clarke. 5 up and 3 to play . Second Round—('. P. How ard defeat oil H A. Tigner, 4 up and 2 to play . H 1.. Graves defeated W. C. Barnwell. 3 Up and 1 to play. mill, he assents. So. on or about September 25, whenever the New York promoters are ready, he and Jeannette are to struggle. The $25,000 and half the "movie” money, of course, are big induce ments. But. believe me, Johnson, a shrewd business man. has figured even further. He knows he can outbox Jeannette in ten rounds, and do it handily, too. He will probab ly pile up a big lead on the New- York negro. And later, when Jeannette will challenge for a fight over a championship distance, Johnson will be able to crawl out of such by claiming; "Oh, 1 gave Jeannette a good beating in New York. He and I wouldn’t draw anywhere now. No, I don’t consider him at all.” Therefore the coming ten-round fight in Gay Gotham is going to furni.At a fine young loophole for Champion John Arthur Johnson. He will then only have Langford as a real contender, and, as in the past, will keep on saying that Langford is too small and that the public doesn't \yant such a match. * * • ttERE an* some of the reasons II why Johnson doesn't want to tight Jeannette over a route: 1. Jeannette can stand an unlim- Milwaukee. and Steve Ketchell will meet Young Erlinborn, of Denver, over the same route. Boxing contests are held on the island every Sunday and have been attended by hundreds of fans from all nearby cities. ♦ ♦ ♦ Billy Bibson is going to stage a heavy weight show at the Garden A. C.. in New York. Monday night. Some of the best white heavies in the East are on Monday s card. The main bout will he between Luther McCarthy and Jesse Wil lard. while another ten-rounder will he between Jim Savage and Tom Kennedy. Fred .Lucas, who has a newspaper de cision over Johnny Dundee, is trying to get a match with Patsy Kline, the win ner to be given a chance at Johnny Kil bane for the featherweight title. ♦ ♦ • Dallas, Texas, is the latest city to un earth a white hope Frank Beverly, a member of the Dallas tire department, is the hope’s name, and he is th€ j largest to be sprung on the public yet. Beverly is 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 246 pounds. He is matched with ('’ass Tar ver for a bout io be staged at Clovis, N. M., August 29. * ♦ ♦ The fighting game was revived at Rich mond a few days ago when Jack Dillon knocked out Bill Donovan in the fourth round of a scheduled ten-round contest. Mike Gibbons will be seen in Gotham again before many moons. This time Mike will be accompanied by his kid brother. Tom. Young Gibbons is a mid dleweight. and is said to be almost as clever as his brother. The Gibbons brothers should have little trouble in se curing matches in the East as middle weight material is plentiful there. WOLGAST AND McFARLAND TO BATTLE OCTOBER 27TH CADILLAC, MICH. Aug. 16.—After months of negotiations Ad Wolgast l . champion lightweight pugilist, and Emil Thiry. of Chicago, representing Packey McFarland, last night signed articles for a ten-round no-decision fight be tween Wolgast and McFarland before i the Madison Square Athletic club, New Yotk, on October 27. Wolgast’s mana ger, Tom Jones, i- In California ami the champion took charge of his own end of the negotiations. The terms provide that Wolgast’s i share will be $15,000 with a controlling interest share of the pictures. Mc- Farland is to get 17 1-2 per cent of the receipts and ten pet cent of the picture money. Wolgast consented to allow McFar land to weigh in at 135 pounds at 3 . o’clock. GROVER FOR LOOKOUTS. CHATTANOOGA TENN. Aug Hi The Chattanooga Baseball club has bought Pitcner Grover from the Mays ville. Ky . team, in the Blue Glass league Pittsburg was tftet this young ■ pitch) t. and offered »i.)Min. mu Chatta nooga got him for sl.2'io. ited amount of punishment and can recover from a blow faster and better than any fighter in the game today. 2. Johnson knows that Jeannette does not fear him and therefore will fight at top speed. 3. Johnson’s best blow' is an up percut—-both right and left. Jean nette is not a rushing fighter and stands erect. It will be impossible for Johnson to use an uppercut ex cept when in a clinch on Jeannette. 4. Johnson’s best blows, including the uppercut, will be of little use to him. for Jeannette is a bear on the defense when in close. 5. Jeannette's best blow (and, for that matter, about his only' blow) is a left jab, which is lightning fast. And with it Jeannette can beat Johnson to the punch every time. ' » » * JOHNSON’S seven lights with J Jeannette were before Joe beat Sam McVey in 49 rounds in Paris, April 17, 1909. But that fight in France has caused Johnson to ap preciate what a wonderful scrap per the New York negro really is. On February 20. 1909, Jeannette and McVey fought a terrific 30- round draw in Paris. During the early rounds McVey made a chop ping block of Jeannette, but from the 25th round on Joe came back strong and all but knocked Samuel out. He immediately challenged McVey to a finish fight. McVey agreed, after being given about all the money there was in the house. So on April 17 they fought the greatest fight ever witnessed east of the Atlantic ocean. For forty rounds McVey made a punching bag out of Jeannette, knocking him down 29 separate ( and distinct times. But in the 41st round McVey began to tire—tire from punching Jeannette so hard and often. And right there the tide of battle changed. From then on through the 48th round Jeannette jabbed the totter ing McVey from rope to rope. When Sam went to his corner at the end of the 49th, he was prac tically out—out .from exhaustion. The minute’s rest did him no good, and tvhen the bell rang for the start of the 50th round his seconds tossed in the sponge as a token of defeat. He couldn't get off his stool. ]VT’ VEY ,s now and always was a harder puncher than Johnson. Jack knows this. And. believe me. this is going to keep him from ever fighting Jeannette in a finish fight He figures that if McVey, who landed his hardest and flush time and again, could not stop the New Yorker, then he realizes he can not. All of which proves that J Ar thur Johnson Is advise champion. ’ the longer Johnson puts off fighting Jeannette for the cham pionship oveY a route, the worse it is going to be for him; that is. if he ever fights him --it all. And for th)- simple reason that Jeannette is a clean liver an<l ft family man who has no bad habits, while Johnson is exactly Jeannette's opposite. 11l ten founds it’s Johnson in a walk, but i h a llllis(l hattle nette would carry our hank roll and the family jewels. NEW SIX-CLUB LEAGUE ABOUT TO ORGANIZE WAYCROSS. GA., Aug. Ik.-There now set ms to be no doubt t hat a first class league that will include Bruns wick. Waycross. Valdosta. Americus Cordele and Other Tifton or Fitzgerald will be formally organized at a meet >ng that will be held in this < ity some time in October. Even city named has bcm well rep ' • nted this .cur i»\ p^nfp.^sional oi strong lot al teams. and th demand for bas-ball i- ,-i-ch as w ii: .jus tify a season at least three months.