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GUBS CONFIDENT MOM. WILL 8E BICK CHICAGO, Aug. 17. —Whether the Cubs can reduce the Giants' lead in the National league pennant race to five games, or whether the Giants can in crease it to seven, was the one top ic that was discussed at every breakfast table in Chicago today. The city has gone baseball mad and no world's series contests ever awakened more discussion or more partisan feeling than the present series between the ancient enemies of the big league. That Johnny Evers will be back In the game today was a delight to the Chicago fans. They are count ing on the little second baseman to do wonders in the contest. That "Lurid Lew" Richie, who won the first game of the series for the Cubs, would be on the mound for Chance’s men with Christy Math ewson doing the heavy work for the Giants was the program of the leaders early in the morning. An other enormous crowd was expect ed at the contest. With Tesreau pitching in fine form. New York defeated Chicago, 7 to 4, yesterday and evened up the series. The big right-handed pitcher held Chicago to three hits until the ninth inning, while New York drove two pitchers out of the box early in the game. New York forced Jimmy Laven der, who started the game for Chi cago, to retire before he had pitched two innings. Then Reulbach was sent, in. but gave way to Cheney in the seventh after New York had made four hits off him. New York got a run off Cheney in the eighth and he was relieved by Toney in the ninth. Tesreau was given brilliant sup port. Murray made two sensation al catches, running back into the crowd and pulling down drives that otherwise would have gone for two base hits. New York ran wild on the bases, stealing six off Archer and one off Cotter. Do you want to change jobs? Perhaps the one you have doesn't suit your taste. Or surroundings are disagreeable Or salary isn't large enough. Or there's no chance for advancement. If so, your chance to change is offered today in The I Georgian's Classified Cages. THE 16TH B. M. C., G. U. O. O. F. OF AMERICA ATLANTA, SEPTEMBER 9-14, 1912. WHAT is the 16th BM. C.? It is the largest and most representative Negro Convention in the world. The subordinate branch being the unit, it’s composed of 8,000 representatives. It bears the same relation to the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of America, that Congress bears to the Nation. This great Congress will convene in our city September 9th, as the guest of Atlanta. Their entertainment promises to be one brilliant flash of July festivities. The citizens of the city have responded heroically and liberallv to the members of the Order in preparation of this great event. The G. U. O. O. F. is the greatest Negro organization in the world, andtheir entertainment will be worthily fitting the dignity of the institution and the usefulness of its members. I w wW ' f Jar B J. DAVIS, Chairman Committee. on Arrangements. inputs for the benefit of the delegates and visitors. Atlanta stands socially high, and will vie with her own record, entertaining thousands during the week. I’ues day night the lion. Harry S. Cummins, Baltimore, Attorney General of the Order, will deliver the Biennial Address; following which the famous Tuskegee Band of fifty pieces will render a number of their exclusive musical productions. Admis sion 25c and 35c. We expect to till the Coliseum from pit to dome. Wednesday night there will be a free entertainment given in the Auditorium by the Commit tee on Entertainment and Reception for the benefit ami amusement of our guests. I’lvsses the Great, will give several numbers of his inimitable tricks, supported bv a brilliant array of local talent. Music will be furnished by Tuskegee Band, Middleton's Band and the Odd Fellows Drum Corps. ATLANTA CLUB GETS KEATING AND NIXON FROM PORTSMOUTH Atlanta has bought Shortstop Keat ing and Outfielder Nixon from Lou Castro's Portsmouth team of the Vir ginia league. The Crackers gave in payment a re ceipt for the $1,500 that Portsmouth has owed the club from the first of the season for the batch of Cracker play ers turned over to Manager Castro. THE BASEBALL CARD. SOUTHERN. LEAGUE. Games Today. Atlanta in Mobile. Nashville in Birmingham. Memphis in Montgomery. Chattanooga in New Orleans. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. P.O | XX' L. PC. B ham . 66 ft .600 I C'nooga 50 52 490 Mobile . 61 51 .545 j Mont. . 52 58 .473 N. Or. . 56 50 .528 ■ Nash . 49 58 458 M'mp’s 53 54 .495 I Atlanta .54 63 .405 Yesterday's Results. Atlanta 7. Mobile 2. New Orleans 4. Chattanooga 2. Montgomery 4. Memphis 0 SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. , • Games Today. Albany in Jacksonville! Columbus in Columbia. Macon in Savannah. Standing of the Clubs. XV. L. P.C. | XV. L. P.C. Sav'nah 26 15 .634 Macon . 21 22 .188 C'bus. . 25 18 .581 I Albany . 17 26 .395 J'ville. . 24 20 .545 I Cola . . 16 28 .364 Yesterday’s Results. Columbia 7. Columbus 3. Jacksonville 6. Albany I. Only games played. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Today. Chicago in Philadelphia. St. Louis in New York. Detroit in Boston. Cleveland in Washington Standing of the Clubs. XV. 1.. P C ' XX'. L. P.C. Boston . 76 35 .685 j Detroit . 55 59 .482 Phila. . 67 43 .609 i C'land . 51 60 .459 Wash. . 68 44 .607 , N. York 37 73 .336 Chicago 54 56 .491 I S. Louis 35 73 .324 Yesterday’s Results. ' Philadelphia 3. Cleveland 1. New York 9. Detroit. 8. Washington 4. Chicago 0. St. Louts 3. Boston 2. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Today. Philadelphia in Pittsburg Brooklyn in Cincinnati. New York in Chicago. Boston in St. Louis. I Standing of the Clubs. XV L. P.C XV. L. P.C. N. York 74 30 .712 C’nati .51 58 468 Chicago 69 37 651 S. Louis 49 59 .454 P’burg .65 41 .613 Br’klyn. 39 70 .358 Phila. . 51 54 .486 Boston . 27 77 .267 Yesterday's Results. New York 7, Chicago 4. I Philadelphia 5, Pittsburg 3. I Cincinnati 4. Brooklyn 3. St. Louis 7, Boston 5. The great Congress will be called to order at the Auditorium-Armory Monday morning. September 9, at 10 a. m.. by Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson, Deputy Grand Master of America, who will preside as Master of Ceremonies through the public exercises. The Welcome Address in behalf of the state will be delivered by His Excellency. Governor Joseph M. Brown. Hon. E. 11. Morris. Grand Master, will re spond in behalf of the Order. The W elcome Address in behalf of the city will be delivered by His Honor, Courtland S. Winn. Mayor. Associate Justice Wil liam R. Morris, of Minneapolis, will respond. Promptly at 10 a. m.. Tuesday, September 10. Grand Master Morris will call the great Congress to order in the Auditorium and Grand Worthy Superior Mary Parker will call the Grand Household to or der in the First Congregational church. Grand Staff Council will be called to order in the Bethel A. M. E. church, and Past Grand Master Council at Wheat Street Baptist church. Daily sessionr-will be held at these places by the different departmeiW of tlje Or der. The nights will be spent in brilliant entertain- THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, SATURDAY. AUGUST 17. *1912. ATHLETES OF ENGLAND HAD RATHER “DOLL UP” THAN DO ANY TRAINING NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—“ The English athlete spends two weeks in making himself pleasing to the feminihe eye and one week in conditioning himself physically previous to a contest. In short, they look upon an athletic meet more in the sense of a gushing society event.” This statement was made today by Colonel Robert M. Thompson, of the American Olympic commission, return ing home from Stockholm, in answering the criticism of the English press of the victorous American team of ath letes. “If English athletes would give more serious thought to their training I have no hesitancy in saying they would reach a much higher degree of athletic excellence.” he added. “XX’e take ath letics seriously over here and our boys go out to win. thinking more of their muscles and training than of whether their cheeks are red, their uniforms cut to the trevailing fashion and their halt combed in an approved parlor style." Jackson, the great English runner who showed up well in the Olympic games, was an exception to his brother athletes from England, declared Colo nel Thompson. It- will be many years, said Colonel Thompson, before another team like, the recent American squad will be sent to an Olympic meet. "It was the greatest team of ath letes ever got together and It certainly did not smack of professionalism as the English critics averred," he de cfared. “Most of'the men were college men and young business men. Any way. we cleaned up the British lion in a manner that he will be years in for getting. If there has been any un sportsmanlike attitude shown by any one, as the British critics accuse the Americans, it is being shown by the British, who are howling themselves blue in the face over the worst beating they ever received." Colonel Thompson was high in his praise of the way that the Swedes con ducted the games and of the impar tiality shown all competing nations. YEARLING TROTS 2:19 FLAT. LOUISVILLE, KY„ Aug. 17.—A spe cial from Lexington to The Herald this morning says: “At the Blue Grass fair today the brown colt, Peter Volo, owned, trained and driven by Ed Willis, colored su perintendent of Patchen Wilkes' farm, trotted to a world’s record for yearl ing trotters of 2:19 flat, displacing the time made by his relative. Miss Stokes, of 2 19 1-4 in September, 1909." DIXON AND WEST DRAW. SAPULPA, OKLA., Aug. 17.—Tommy Dixon, of Kansas City, and Emmet West, of Keifer, Okla., fought six fast rounds to a draw here last night. BHADY WILL TRY TO HOLD 001 GOLLS TOI •» irOBILE. ALA.. Aug. 17.—De ly/l termined to get square for the defeat .of yesterday, the Gulls will go after the Crackers with vengeance thisfafternoon. Just when the local team looked to be still In the race for the pennant. Whitey Alperman's Atlanta crew took a fine, young tumble out of 'em. Hence this afternoon plenty of warm doings at t"he local pas ture. Brady will probably do the hurl ing for the Crackers today. The big fellow is going good light now. and he may pull his team through to another victory. Mike Finn an nounced that Cavet would be on the mound for his jolly ball tossers. The Crackers made Campbell look like a selling plater yester day when he hooked up with Ved der Sitton in the first game of the series, which Atlanta won. 7 to 2. It did not take long to discover that Sitton had Mobile's goat, as was exemplified in the fact that the locals got only one,scratch and one clean single in the first six innings, while the Crackers had slammed Campbell safely seven times during that same space of time, two of the seven being doubles. The Crackers fook kindly to Campbell's assortment and ham mered the ball through the infield like rifle shots, and then over their heads to all parts of the pasture where the fielders were not; and the score would have been much larger had it not been for the phe nomenal fielding of Maloney, who captured at least two seeming triples running with the ball. Lyons’ left-handed stab of Pau let's drive to the right-field fence in the seventh was easily the fea ture, and beat Mobile out of a cou- I pie of runs, men being on second, and third at the time. Alperman's fielding and hitting was another feature. SANTAL-MIDY @ Relieves in 24 Hours (to) Catarrh of the Bladder All Druggists Betvarr oj Counterfeits SANTAL-MIDY Thursday the Grand Parade, the most brilliant and spectacular feature of the great Congress, will be pulled off. 10,000 Odd Fellows will line the streets from Capitol to Ponce DeLeon park. The line of march will be under command of Major General Buckner, of Illinois, and his staff. The line will be formed at. the capitol and advance down East Mitchell to Whitehall street, up Whitehall to Peaqhtree street, down Auburn avenue to Jackson street, up Jackson street to the Circle, down the Circle to the Park, where the Grand Prize Drill will beheld. The Committee on Reception expects to fill the park that day. The Committee ex pects every scat to be taken. Regulation prices will be charged. Thursday night the great Full Dress Ball will be pulled off in the Auditorium. Admission SI.OO. The Committee on Reception expects 10,000 people to attend the Ball. Atlanta expects to afford the most brilliant Ball in the history of the Order. Every dance will be clean and moral. All the latest steps, drills and marches are on the card. Chairman .Morton and his committee are leaving no stone unturned Io make it the most brilliant social affair ever pulled off in the South. Atlanta's fame is world wide; she is known as the Convention City, whose hospitality and sociability is without bound. Atlanta has the best looking and best dressed colored folk in the world, and on this occasion she will appear at her best advantage in honor of our guests. Our white neighbors are responding substantially, and we are grateful to them for financial assistance. The city will be wide open to our visitors, and our neighbors are contributing in every way for the success of the great MEET. The City Council has just appropriated $250.00 to help us entertain our guests, and in every way the entire city is co operating for the success of the great Congress. Here's How Crackers Are Hitting the Ball Right Up to Date » These averages include all games played by the Crackers this season; PLAYER— g. ab. r. h. Ave. Harbison, ss 53 180 21 50 .277 Alperman, 2b 108 407 57 112 .275 Bailey. If 108 375 68 101 .269 Graham, c 49 147 16 .38 .259 Agler, lb 43 139 24 35 .252 Becker, p 11 24 1 6 .250 Callahan, cf 66 256 25 62 .242 McElveen. 3b 112 405 46 93 .230 Reynolds, c. ... . 10 32 4 6 .188 Brady, p 18 55 2 9 .164 Sitton, p 23 55 10 8 .145 Lyons, rs 16 45 3 3 .067 Wolfe, utility ... 5 16 0 1 .063 Waldorf, p 6 17 0 0 .000 Johnson, p 3 5 0 0 .000 PIRATESGET MAYER FOR $2,500: REPORTS SOON \ The Atlanta Baseball association has sold Pitcher Erskine Mayer to the Pittsburg club of the National league for $2,500. Pittsburg accepted terms on the ex- Tech player this morning, and he will doubtless report to the Pirates at the end of the present X’irginia league sea son, Mayer has been tried out three times by the Crackers, but has never been re tained for any length of time. He has been tremendously successful in the Virginia league this year. JOHN DOBBS SIGNS TO MANAGE BILLS AGAIN .MONTGOMERY, ALA., Aug. 17. John Dobbs has signed a contract to manage the Montgomery Southern league team next season. Agreements between the manager and the Mont gomery Baseball association were con cluded yesterday and the contract was immediately signed. NGLISH SPORTSMEN DIFFER. LONDON, Aug. 17—The British Olympic council met last night under the presidency of Lord Desborough to discuss future plans of the council. The long discussion developed marked dif ferences of opinion. No report of the deliberations was issued and it is un derstood that a definite plan is not likely to be decided upon for some time. ' 1914 PEACHTREE STREET UPSTAIRS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL UNREDEEMED PLEDGES , FOR SALE A BROWN KEENE RECALLED BY INDIANAPOLIS CLUB INDIANAPOLIS, Aug 17.—Buste" Keene has been brought back from the Springfield team. Manager O'Day de cided to .recall the young first sacker in order to make sure that he may escape the draft. O'Day brought Keene along with him from Springfield when he took the managerial job here and sent him back again after a trial of three or four days. He now believes that he was a little hasty. S&OFULCMS T&CWBEES No truth is more forcibly manifested in physical life than the old saying “like begets like;’’ for just as the offspring of healthy ancestry are blessed with pure, rich blood insuring good health, so the children of blood tainted parentage inherit a polluted circulation which fosters a chain of scrofulous troubles. The usual sign of a scrofulous inheritance are swollen glands about the neck, weak eyes, pale, waxy complexions, sores and ulcers and general poor health. These symptoms are most often manifested in early life, though sometimes maturity is reached before the trouble breaks out. Treatment should be commenced at the first indication of Scrofula sot \ it may get beyond control if allowed to run un \ checked. S. S. S. is the very best treatment for I Scrofula. It renovates the circulation and drives all scrofulous matter and deposits. S. S. S. & oes to bottom of the trouble and removes the VijGUmijP cause and cures the disease. Then it supplies the weak, blood with healthful properties. S. S. S. is made entirely of roots, herbs and barks, and .is an absolutely safe remedy for young or old. Book on the blood and medical advice free. THE SWIFT S p ECfFIC qq ATLANTAf Q A Simple Engine * Accessible * Economical 9 f ft witst ration * The 1 ’ ’ ’ CADI Ll_ AC STEINHAUER & WIGHT ' 228-230 Peachtree St. Ivy 2233 Touring Car .y louring Car*lwo sizes “60” Touring Car* six cylinder V* The T T 120-22 Marietta,St. DOBBS STARTS WORK TO BUILD UP THE BILLIKENS MONTGOMERY. ALA., Aug. 17. Manager John Dobbs is making prep arations now for next year’s baseball season. He is trimming up the Billiken squad, getting new material and letting go the men whom he can do without. This has been made evident by his re lease <>f Hallman, who played left field for Montgomery about two months Walker, the heavy swatting recruit from the Selma (Ala.) team, has taken Hallman's place. “Hallman is a splendid ball player and a good man,” said Manager Dobbs, "but I am fixing my team up for next year and had to let him go.” 'IB. WM. DRISKELL, Corresponding Secretary. 13