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Os course the directors don't admit yet that they have arranged things with Billy Syilth, but they want him ahd 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 takes over the team 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 and 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. So a new deal Is advisable. * • « IT Is believed by the local dlrec tors that President O. B. An drews w ill be delighted to lot 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 bold 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 more matter of finishing out the season any old way. If Smith can he secured to take hold < f the team by September 1 there will be a lot of advantages He caYi study out the situation and make plans for mxt yea 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 Sep tembei 2, which is Labor day • • * LT NLESS th‘- Chattanooga club J makes Otto Jordan the man ager for next year Billy Smith will almost inevitably have him back here playing second base in 191" Smith knows what he owes to Jotdan’s help in winning two pen nants for Atlanta. Jordan was captain of the team both years Afld Smith pronounced him the best second baseman in the world. The directors of the local club know Ho their moderate sorrow 1 how popular Jordan is. They want him for sure President Andrews of Chatta 'nooga, will surely be willing to let Jordan go P> ’■ -" not keep him ns manage: Jr. and Elberfeld arc both in effect candi dates for the management lf-El berfeid is given the job be will naturally not want Jordan on the team. p'rom Jordan's standpoint the change would be ideal Otto has said that he would ratio r aptain the Atlanta team than tv mag. h Chattanooga team o that’s :’e report, anyway. This is Jordans home and he wants to plav with the Atlanta club Os course nobody is going to stand in Jordan’s way If he can get the job of mana;.- r tn Chatta nooga it is the biggest thing that can fall to his lot. and Bid Smith will be the first one to congratu late him. as he did when Jordan succeeded him as manager in At lanta. But If he doesn't land that job it is almost*a ten to <.n< bet that he will be back here at »• - ond base next spring AND what of Alperman" Well, it’s a good bet he will stick, as estop or as third baseman. Or, If Jordan does not return, he will be kept as second baseman. Probably he will be made field captain, too, in that event. - Alpertnan has no designs on the Job of manager. He didn’t ask for it. Rut it was offered him—and the job 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 Ganze! gave him up he thought he was squeezed dry of baseball useful ness. Ganz.el is a wise old fox and isn’t giving up any players while they are worth a hang. But his judgment slipped on Alpeiman. The old boy came to Atlanta, liked the town, the climate, the team, the people—and he nas played good ball. He should make a useful member of next year’s team • • • TUR delight of Atlanta fans over the news that Smith is coming back to manage the team is inspir ing. The hold the little manager had on Atlanta fans was marvel- |~FODDER FOR FANS~~ Pitcher Cook, who recently hurled a one-hit game for Coltimbhs 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, Is playing shortstop for the Syracuse team now. *• • • Infielder Nattress. of the Syracuse team, recently reminded I’mpire \rlle Latham, while a game was in progress, that he (Latham) had been owing him (Nattress) the sum of sl2 for ten years Where upon Latham fined Nattress $lO. That's a fine way to collect a debt. • • • The Uuhs are out after hurlers. If they can get a couple of good ones thev maj win yet. • • a A Boston amateur team has a pitcher named t \sbeston. Go on now and get funny a a a The Cincincys may he Reds, but noth ing like a team made up of ‘‘Red" Dooln. “Red" Wingo. “Red' Ames. .Marty ‘•’Toole, "Red" Killifer, ‘“Red" I»owns. ’Red" Smith. “Red” Murray and "Red” Corriden. • a a Tris Speaker’s mother, who 1s visiting him now. sa\ s that her boy should have b< en a mechanic. She wants him to quit baseball ami to go home and live on the farm. This Idea makes an intense hit with Jimmy McAleer. • • • New Orleans paid SI,OOO for Pitcher Cul lop Bristol must have thought pretty well of him. for they signed five men to take his place • • a .Major league drafting begins on Au gust • a a President O. B Andrews, of the Chat tanooga club. Is scouting through the big i leagues, looking for castoffs. Ray Morrison, captain of the 1912 base ) hall team at \ anderbilt, and perhaps the ! most brilliant football player the South ever developed, was married Tuesdax to I Miss Julia Clifton Goar, of Birmingham, i Ala Morrison will ( oa< h the baseball | am! football teams at the Branham and i Hughes team of Spring HHI. Tenn., through the coming school season if. as has been published in 50 papers. I i ■'diffith s knowledge of pitchers explains ' W ai-liington's suv< ess" what explains his lawful showing will Cincinnati ami the i i N» w York Americans? ♦ ♦ • A misdirected letter caused the blow- | up of the Sharon team of the < thio’ and t Pennsylvania k\igue In the letter was a| - i ''k for SSOO in pa\’mnt for <mt fielder ; Bill Mien, sold i<> Washington It was misdirected to Sharon. Ohio, Instead of Sharon. Pa If it had come on schedule I it would have tided the Sharon team over to the end of the season It didn't, hence the blow up Brooklyn has sent Cy Barger hack to Newark • * • Why, bkss us. if tin- si late Ohio an<i Pennsylvania leaßiie hasn't turned out law and invaded Pittsburß If memory si rves tins is the second attack on Pltts ! burg this veara 1A team u|> tn New Brunswick lias sold two players to big league elttbs P .1. DuKKtin tn the White Sox and David I Brown, former Batea college player to the RHE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, ID I_. ions—and still is. It was not only due to the fact that he gave the fans a pennant winner, but to the added fact that he played the los ing hand in an unpopular game for supreme baseball power in Atlanta. The famous Heisman-Smith con troversy is hfstor.v noyv and should not be 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. • • • 'T'HERE is hardly a fan In At -1 lanta 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 he given the word to "go the limit"—and Smith surely knows how to spend the coin to advantage. Tile 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 want well, yon know who gets all the college players. • ♦ • Bob Bescher has bought an automobile. * • - Pitcher Ad Brennan, of the Phillies, who had diplrlheria, is out of the hospital, but hr lost a lot of weight and will hardly be able to work again this year. Within the week big league papers have printed three interviews which, boiled down, read as follows; • A • J. MrC.raw; “The pennant—a cinch." I* t’bance: "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 Paploski. Asheville is trying to get the Anderson franchise of the Carolina association, and if it does will put on continuous baseball for the rest of 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 b\ paying on a man-sized grounds while other clubs are allowed to pla> on abbreviated fields The Atlanta club has always suffered with the same handicap. • • • Lefty James, of Toledo, has pitched 26 successive innings without having a run scored behind him. That makes the going eas\ f<»r Lefty. • • • They've moved Tommj McMillan's re porting time up one day He is now due t<» join Wolverton's team on August 19. « • Clark Griffith says that he’s afraid he would <lie if be quit baseball. He claims that, after 25 xears of tension, it will he impossible for him ever again to let down, i Mrs. Rube Marquard. who once le<i a I | happy life as Madge Maguire, of New Or- ■ h ans, has secunai a divorce from Rube. | This is the third divorce episode in George 1 ; Edward's life. • * • It will bp noted by press agents that Murphx and Chenee both viciously attack the Giants and McGraw in print just be fore the Giants were due to open a series ! in Chicago. Poor publicitx man, that Murphy Pitcher Fred Beebe has been ordered to •.. k th $166 he overdrew from the Phillies Fred tried to prove that he lost the coin, v. hrn he went from Philadelphia tn Buffalo, hut the national commission wasn’t convinced « • • i’itche'- Griner, of the Clevelanil club, former Mooney school football and base bail player, has gone to join the Cardinals. THOMAS 10 TO 7 CHOICE. L< >S ANGELES, Aug 16 Finishing touches were applied to their training tasks today by Featherweights Harry Thomas and Frankie Conley and both will take things easy front now until i they enter the Vernon ring for tlieif . ■w • ntx-round contest on Saturdnv .if:- |ernoon. Thomas is favorite in the bel ting at odds of 1U to i. I MUND BOYS MSI STURT H BANTAM CLASS By Ed. W. Smith. FROM the looks of things right 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 116 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 ann> unced coming of Le doux. the French champion, threat ens to make the split in the ranks, which, at that, always have been more <»Y less torn over the weight question. It is said that Dan McKetrlck 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 for 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 tix. 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 Orleans is talking of giving a big winter tournament that will bring together all of the greatest of the little fellows, who art ex tremely popular down near the delta. / Whetlui this Is started or not. the same old weight argument is going to be rehearsed to the fullest. I p Baltimore way they have Kid Williams, a 116-pound lad. who is regarded as the real whale of the class. He is .. slammer for fair, and the predictions are frequent that he will down any of them, including Coulon, before the winter is over. Ht s a short block of a boy, only nineteen years old. but with a middleweight kick on eithei side. Ideal symposium, isn’t it? Johnson Wise in Fighting Jeannette 10-Round Go •!•••!• "?•••?' ❖••J* -J-*-!- +•+ 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 after 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. * * * J 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 Palzer was the only first class "white hope”- in America. He prob ably thinks this as Palzer is the only real pug he met while in this country, and he got his a plenty in that battle. * • ♦ Frank Mantell is back in New York once nmre 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 t 0 the match, but Champion Kilnane nas 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 he has trained hard for this bout he shoqld w'in. Jack Britton looked like a human pin wheel when he was fighting Eddie Smith in New \ ork the other night. According to newspaper men who witnessed the • . Britton often gave Smith five or six blows without receiving one in re turn. •» * • I wo 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 Round—G. H. Atkissm 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. L. Dix defeated J. O. Burton. 5 up and 4 to play ; W J. I’ilson defeated W. O. Marshburn. 4 up and 3 to play. Third Flight. Second Rflund—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. First Round—J. J. Hartings deft .t --ed R. M Clarke. 5 up and 3 to play . Second Round—C. P. Howard defeat ed H A. Tigner, 4 up and 2 to play . H. L. 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 “Oh, I 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 furnish a fine young loophole for Champion John Arthur Johnson. He wrtl 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 want such a match. ♦ ♦ ♦ iqERE are some of the reasons 11 why Johnson doesn’t want to fight Jeannette over a route: 1. Jeannette can stand an unlim- i Milwaukee, and Steve Ketchell will meet i Young Erlinborn, of Denver, over the j same route. Boxing contests arc 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 heavv- • weight show at the Garden A. C.. in ■ New York, Monday night. Some of the I best white heavies in the East are on * Monday’s card. The main bout will l>e between Luther McCarthy and Jesse Wil lard, while another ten-rounder will be ; between Jim Savage and Tom Kennedy. I ♦ # « Fred Lucas, who has a newspaper de ; vision over Johnny Qundee, 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 tlie latest city to un earth a white hope. Frank Beverly, a member of the Dallas fire department,' is the hope’s name, and he is the largest to be sprung on the public yet. Beverly is 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 246 pounds. He is matched with Cass Tar ver for a bout to he 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. * ♦ 4 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. 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 the Madison Square Athletic club. Neyv York, on October 27. Wolgast's mana ger. Tom Jones, is in California and the champion took charge of bis ow n end of the negotiations. The terms provide that Wolgast’s share will be $15,000 with a controlling interest share of the pictures. Mc- Farland is to get 17 1-2 per eent 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 16 The Chattanooga Baseball dub has bought Pitener Grover from tin Mays ville. Ky.. team, in the Rim- Grass league. Pittsburg was after this young pitcher, and offered *I.OOO, but Chatta nooga got him fur $1,200. By “Bud” Fisher 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 w ill be impossible for Johnson to use an uppercut ex cept when in a clinch on Jeannette. ,-i. 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 fights with J Jeannette were before Joe beat Sam McVey in 49 rounds in Paris, April 17. 1909. But that fight in blance 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 eatlx rounds Mc\ey made a chop ping block of Jeannette, but from the 2.>th round on Joe came back strong and all but knocked Samuel out. He immediately challenged McVey to a finish tight. 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 tim no good, and when the bell rang for the start of the 50th round his seconds tossed in ihe sponge as a token of defeat. He couldn’t get off his stool. O' VR Y is 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 a wise champion. /Y A'D the longer Johnson puts off fighting Jeannette for the cham pionship over a route, the worse it is going to be for him; that is. if he ever fights him at all. And for the simple reason that Jeannette is a clean liver and n family man who has no had habits, while Johnson is exactly Jeannette's opposite. In ten rounds it’s Johnson in a walk, but in a finish battle Jean nette would carry our bunk roll and the family jewels. NEW SIX-CLUB LEAGUE about to organize: WAYCROSS. GA., Aug. 16.—Therm now seems to be no doubt that a first-: class league that will include Bruns wick. V\ ay cross. \ aldosta, Americus Cordele and Other Tifton or Fitzgerald will be formally organized at a meet ing that will be held in this city som« time in October. Every city named has been well rep resented this year by semi-professional teams or strong local teams, and th« demand for baseball is such as will jus tify « season of at least three months.