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10 ttOWAH STOW ©fflD •> DBW EDITED fy yr S FARNffWORTH Gee, Jeff Is Lucky: He Hasn’t Any Money in the Bank :: :: ;; By “Bud” Fisher —,l 1 ..I. ... ■ ■ ..... ■— - . -■ ■ - . , < r AR.tr YOU CRN IMG ? / &Go Hoo' I "n VIMM" BOO’HOO! SUPPOSE I f I VJHAT IN THt WORLb I POYOUCARf? T«eY SHOW 6KN Wt M J A’N-TBu'T 9 AR \n oo <f< 7' NG OPENING Al7thc i I CO* TO DO* <>UR WL Y- HOV 4'| NO MON6Y I I . (QINA OI . ) P6>omt vaults to } \ MiTH YoUl could CX p tA)N / J ' J I \ SIN\PJ CMXH 1— t_J 1 V4M6R-S Wf GOY Y V < I 1 ---M/ so- X— -Pit c F Z ' “ cl\ A x 18k • >— - I mF jIT 111/1111 /MJ-niji .wJLjS’r /jgunxi ____________ _— —_z ENTRIES z AT MONTREAL. First- —About flv -olgm< < I r ■ yea ‘ob s ■' -i Night 100. Decorus 100, Turkey Trot 10 R; 112. SECOND I’nlo hid: Hilling -"Il Ing. 3 year olds and up. about five eighths of a mlb l.yni 10'*. Jim MU ton 1«3. Oakley 106. Ibrtmont 106 In cision 106. Waner 106, Doubb- F 100 THIRD -Four year olds and up. sell tag, about l! via I’ 11'- > nib '' em Belle 109, Calypte 109. Louis Des eogm i s lli. i 'oh tl i I .-'ii ! rnd 111. "I he Ha rm r 111 FOURTH Thn.' yet Is -.•Hing. 6 1-2 furlong- Helen <l.o 112, Expat riate 109. Judge Howell )oi'. Edna t'ul Un iii. r.ui is. ■ i ’i■ ii'\ iinn man 112. FlFTH—Selling. .'1 year olds and up. 6 furlongs Lad) Hugh''- 104. Booby 104. Judge Snooks 106. (abthumpian 106. i'oalshoot 109, *'a in ... tit' il M. Sabbath 114 Joe tliiten- 111 Joe ' Rose 117 SIXTH—-About 5 furlongs. 3 >. ir j olds and up Garden of lo:t. Ridgeland 106. Tee May lo'.i Susan 109. Carrlsma 109, John Maris ill •Apprentice allowance claimed. Weather tine, track fast AT TORONTO. FIRST Selling. 5 furlong- Helions 103. Gertrude Maloney lit.". M otie 103. Roland Pardee 105 Lady Aetna 109, Isaura A. 109 Radiation 110 Ruble 114, Fldece 114 ' SECOND Five furlong- Burnt Cau dle 106. Plillopena 107 Lade Robbins 107. Sandman Ito. Sf. belli 115 Fred Levy 118 THIRD Seiling 5 furlongs Mon key 98, *A H. Moon !•»;.. Mothei Iti.'l. St. Albrie 103 Stalmore It* , Porcupine 105. Jim L. lli. Court Town II 111 <'on Came 111, Senator Hulible 111 FOURTH—E'ive (m longs L"Hoita 98. Secrete 98, Chess 104. Saini Bowel 104. Mapleton lot.. Fan.mil Hail 106. Orach 109, Si Mlneem 1' FIFTH— Seiling . , of Bridgewater ini •t'hilton Squaw 104 Imp! ttdellt I <ll , . .11 I Me) 106. Curious "ii s I. I’i m i net 109 SIXTH Selling, 7 furlongs Little Et ne 98. ‘Mm iovi • s 'Hippe |O4. Rose O’Neil Hl.i. Jim <i Io.", Cutty- . hunk 107, Irish Kid 11' Ta. kb- Em I 112 SEVENTH S in v Nila 102. •Venetian 107 Isabel Casey 107. Glipian 109. i.L.gg 109. in .1. J. H. Bart 109 K >1 9 EIGHTH Seiling , furlong- Fa. ■• • • 100, Chilton Trance 103 Eva Psrvvlck io: Song «»r K icks 105, Do mihica 109 iVaierwel S Ho. Jack Nun nally 111. Capsize lit AT BUTTE. FIRST Selling, I-.' furlongs, four year olris and up Lew Hill tin. Gm-- soon 112. Glenwood 112. Lord Clinton 112. Jm Frank 112. Har.io k 112. Ban fils 112, Lady Adelaide 100. Kinfolks - li< ' IGenov .11 ini. Glenna Dian Iml. SECOND- Siding. 1-2 furlongs. Wings of the Morning 113. < tscuro 110. Stoneman Hu. .1 H Reed 108. Kid North 10-' Lee Hart Ison II 102. Port Mahone 102 Titus II 102. Clara W 100. THIRD —Purse 1-2 furlongs 2 year olds and up < Ulin Kripp 108 Al Bloch 108. Envy IF. \outrean 113 Couer d'Alene 110. ok <>ntt< 110, Our Last 107 FOURTH—Handicap, 5 1 -2 furlongs. 3 year olds and up Otenav 112, Three Links 106 Daddy Gyp 101 Lady Pan- Chita 10] Flying Footsteps 97 FlFTH—Selling 6 1-2 furlongs .3 year olds and up: Montgomery 114 Cttol 111, The Monk 111 \ vj'uai 111, Madeline Musgrnv. In? , 109. Hammer Away 106, star Rim 106. Belle Snicker 106. Ralronia 104 uiy Paxton 104 SIXTH—Six furlongs 3 year olds Eveline 107. Great Friar 107 Finnegan 104 Russell McGill 104, Sleepland 1' 4 Aunt Alice 102 JOE JEANNETTE FIGHTS JEFF MADDEN TONIGHT NEW yL*RK, Aug 19— Joe Jean nette, the colored heavyweight who has been signed up to meet Champion Juel. Johnson in a ten-round bout at Madi son Square Garden on September 25. will be in action here tonight when h • will box Jeff Madden, of Boston, at th. Garden. This will be Jeannette's first appearance here this year, and there is considerable Interest in the bout, as it will give a line on the aspirant's con dition Luther McCarthy, the Spring field (Mo.) white hope, will meet Arthur Pelker of Chicopee, Mass., tn a ten round bout On Wednesday night at St Nicholas rink. Leach Cross, the Bowery dentist, will meet Tommy O'Keefe., a Philadel phia lightweight. Dame Fortune Favors Murphy, But Gives Ward Cold Shoulder By. \V. J. Mcßeth. SO-t’ALLED “luck” of the game is doubtless responsible for the superstitions of the gen era I run of players. FVw, indeed, <«f nil tlie great army connected with the national past imp are those who mason after the fashion of the unemot lona I Connie Mack. ••There is no such tiling as luck,” <Connie, “or if there is, it cer t.i’n'v equalizes during a cam paign. No one team is favored by luck, I menu. You will win just as man' games through ’breaks* as \mi lose ami no more during a long The championship team uoiu<*ti ii ies looks luckier Ilian Its rivals That is because its players their lurk good just as a dls < .Hiiaged a ray always makes Its lin k laid.” 9 Connie Mauk Is a pretty wise general anti In all probability knows exactly what lie Is talking about. \nyhow, he can get away v. Ith It .-o far as we are concerned. There mav l»e no such fortune as good Im k from the plavlne ami managerial ends of the nation’s •aiimmer snort Yet. how about luck In Las* ball promotion? The fingers of the two hands wouldn’t hr enough to tell the lucky magnates of ilip National and \inr lean leagues. Unfortunately, fh»*r> Im always the exception that uroves the rule We will consider »‘o' a moment one of the “tough i»i k“ disciples of diamond dives, * hn Montgomei \ W’ard. Mr. Ward has hut recently sev- • his connection with lhe Bos- J <>n National league club. He was u»es«dcnt of the luckless National league tall-enders for less Ilian one vu.' 1 Wa’d sold nis holdings to ’ini Giffnev. majority stockholder, whom Ward had first Interested in he Huh proposition last Decrmlvr. He’ is through with baseball for good. If Ward had had absolute control of the Hubbites it is doubt ful if anything <ould have driven .him to cover. He would have hung on until ho built up a belter club and that would have meant the •_ ►ai«<t Imaginalile financial suc cess. Not another man In the United States merits more from baseball than John M. Ward, retired from he Boston club. Here is a man who has been a great credit to the game. One of the most formidable pitchers and infielders of lhe old days, he served his apprenticeship also as manager. Yet. he retired voluntarily al the height of his prime to study law He became a very tine lawyer and built up a wonderful practice in New York, where lawyers are said to find the toughest sledding in the whole country. John M Wa’d has worked hard at his practice He deserved a rest and some of the good things of baseball. That he is again on the outside, looking In. simply proves beyond question that there is luck and all kinds of it in base ball promotion. Takes Charles W Murphy, of the <’ubs, in direct opposition to Ward Murphx Is a millionaire to day He owns several theaters in Chicago ns well as rich real estate property. All this has been ac cumulated within the pa-t seven \ears without the outlay of a pen n\ Murphy was just lucky enough to get the tip that the Chicago club for sale Hu got the back- FORMER CRACKER PLAYER IS SECURED BY BROOKLYN BROOKLYN. N Y Aug 19.—The Brooklyn team Is etocking up again on Southern leaguers and ex-Southern leaguers it has grabbed Enos Kirk patrick. former Orm ke . and Pitcher Kent, formet ly of Hi'mlngham ; Som* rs and James, from Nashville, and Aitchi son mid Stlnx -of Montgomery Kirkpatrh k will report on August 26 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEn~s. MONDAY. AUGUST 19. 1912. Ing from Charles P. Taft and bought for .$105,000 a club that at that time was worth fully half a million Murphy tumbled right into a pennant his first year. Frank Chance has made history with the club Seilee built up. Yet, Murphy was the lucky fellow to fall into such a capable manager for such l capable club. Murphy doesn't be gin to have the business intelli gence or bnsebali acumen of John M. Ward. Luck made Murphy a howling success; John M. Ward —to put It as mildly ar possible—a disappoint ment. Football Season Closing in Fast; Dixie Teams Will Be Out for Practice Soon VANDV AND GEORGIA TEAMS WILL BE LOUD NOISE By Percy 11. Whiting. JUST two weeks from today va rious broad-shouldered young gentlemen will assemble at cer tain of our institutions of learning, battered garments of blood, and mud-stained moleskin will be dealt out anil the football practice for the 1912 season will begin. Os course September 2, the same being Labor Day, Is not the formal reporting day for football players. Hut in the South, football activity usually gets its start the first week in September. This year the open ing day of that week will find the University of Georgia football play ers doing light work and the Tech, Vanderbilt, Auburn, Mercer, Clem son and Alabama candidates as sembling or making plans for the first formal gathering of the Can dida tes. • • • The greatest interest of the sea son in the South will center around the Vanderbilt and Georgia teams. Os all the elevens In the South, these two have the brightest pros pects and *the most ambitious schedules. The Vanderbilt team has bit off a tremendous schedule. After an easy opener on September 28 and another cinch on October 12. the Commodores take on Rose Poly technic for the third game. October 19 Now, Rose is some college, and ,ltas always had a team that gave V anderbilt trouble. The following Saturday the Commodores buck Alex Cunningham's University of Georgia eleven, the team which, next to Vanderbilt, ought to rank the strongest In the South. The next game Is with Mississippi— always a Tartar and always set to beat Vanderbilt. Then come a cou ple of Lulu games—University of Virginia at Nashville and Hatvard at Cambridge. The Virginia game offers a big problem VanderWlt has long been rated thi strongest team in the Southern intercollegi ate Athletic association But Vir ginia is not in this organization and has a lot more latitude than the Commodores in reeruting play ers. Os course the Harvard game Is counted a sure defeat for the Com modores but then you never can tell The Commodores handed Annapolis ami Yah a surprise apiece and they don't issue any guarantee that Harvard will not be treated likewise Then come on the Vandy sched ule Central of Kentucky, likely to be not verj troublesome; Auburn, always a contender, and Sewanee, the anti-climax gatm of the sea- VVith Ray Morrison. "Rig Un" Et eeland and "Prog' Metzger gone. Dan MeGugin will have an awful time building up a string team, but • he has a good captain in Lewie Haulage and a bunch of good ma terial. ' 1 " 1 The 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 419 173 .413 SPEAKER 440 174 .395 JACKSON 423 159 .376 COLLINS 397 136 .343 LAJOIE 286 90 .315 Ty Cobb fell off over seven points last week. Saturday was a bad day for his average, as he failed to connect once in four attempts. Speaker is now with in eighteen points of the “Georgia Peach.” The most remarkable hitting during the past two weeks has been done by Collins. Just about fifteen days ago his clouting average was a little over .300. Today he is hitting .343. No games were played in the Amer ican league yesterday as the Western clubs were all in the East. 1 zs EORGIA, of course, has no such T schedule as Vanderbilt, but it has considerable schedule for all that, and the fact that the Athens team plays Tech and Vanderbilt in Atlanta will make its doings of ex ceptional interest. Coach Cunning ’baseball Diamond News and Gossip The Pelicans will carry over some good material for next season—Hendryx, Clancy, Haigh, Cullop, Swindell and Mills. Clancy in particular looks good. He is hitting .429 for the last 19 games. ♦ ♦ ♦ The gambling in New Orleans has be come open and flagrant, but the baseball association has promised to go after It strong and to wipe it out. For all the season they have tolerated a "Gamblers' Row." where anybody could get odds on anything. • • • Connie Mack blames the automobile mania for the poor showing of his team. He says that the speed bug put by Cy Morgan out of major league ball and has tendered Bender almost useless. • • • Bill Viebahn is pitching pretty fair ball for Jersey City. • • • Ban Johnson may sign Umpire Groe schow. He has but one arm. The other was “bit off*’ by a hand saw. • • • The Phillies have bought a pitcher named Horne, but he’s park shy. He has been sighted in New York. Pittsburg and but has never yet shown up at the ball park. ♦ ♦ • They’re still talking of the Davis-Sto vall trade. To outsiders it isn't apparent that either man has developed 8 teain that is fighting very hard for a pennant. • ♦ » George Paskert was quite seriouslv in jured when hit in the face by a batted ball the other day. He was left at home when the Phillies started west. • • • Pitcher Leonard Cole has been rein stated by the Pirates and has gone to work again. • • • Mobile has finally patched up the salary difference between Catcher Omar Vance and the Roanoke club and Vance has re port ed. • • • The South Central and the Texae t’klahoma league are talking of consoli dating (or their backers are aoywayt. And this with the Sherman anti-trust taw still In operation! • • • Ty Cobb hasn't scored from first re cently on a single But lie keeps right on trying and will land after a bit. The reason Ty Cobb didn't plav in a recent N’eyv Yqrk-Detroit game was that he was late In reporting and was not in uniform when the battle began. • • • HatT.'’ \\<>lveri»»n caught his suspension b. Ban Johnson for a run-in with Um pire Egan Chase took over the team when he was relieved. « « « I'.ddie llohnhorst has dislocated his shoulder again and is not with the Toledo team at present. • • • In a revent game at Hurlburt. Ind., be tween the Hurlburt and Boone Grove teams Rax McGinley, a ten-year-old lad. was struck on the forehead and killed bv a ball hit by his father, Robert McGinlev • • • l»<»de Criss, of pinch-hit fame, has been droppte b\ the Louisville club and taken on b\ Houston. Texas. Roger Bresnahan is sore as bruise II seer - that be arranged a trade b\ wh ch Huggins and Si'll is were to go to the Rt 1> ' ’ ♦ M• a Bi itton refused t< stand for it. Going! Going!! Gone!!! All Our White Hopes Now White Jokes By W. W. Naughton. NE by one they wander I I from us,” is the refrain of an old song that treats of the desertion of the old homestead by successive members of the fam ily. With a few simple changes the ditty would adapt Itself to the white hope situation. First, Carl Morris, and now Lu ther McCarthy, whom Billy McCar ney, with flashing eyes and swell ing breast, declared would one day grow so famous that his name would become a household word. The New York critics let Luther down easy. When Jim Stewart out- ham has a lot of fine men this year, with one real STAR—Bob McWhor ter. • • • TT ERE in Atlanta it Is about the same old tale—Tech hasn’t much material or much hope, but with Coach Heisman in charge there is sure to be a well-trained team which will make a creditable showing. That’s all Atlanta has any right to hope for. Technical schools don’t turn out great teams. They never have —and they never will until some method is discov ered by which football candidates can do laboratory and shop work in their sleep. The Tech team will play much its usual schedule, with Sewanee, Au burn and Clemson as the feature games, and with the big climax, the Georgia contest, coming as usual in mid-season instead of at the end, where it should be. The new rules aren’t going to make things any easier for Tech this year. Last year they rather favored ttic Yellowjackets. They made it possible for a team of light, fast men who knew football to cope with most anything. The rules committee, by performing a back fiip and allowing four downs instead of three, have automatically brought the big husky back into his old, proud position in football. This year quick thinking and quick run ning will give place to weight and brue strength. This will hurt Tech, for they don’t seem to send big men to the Georgia School of Technol ogy these days. • • • pOACH Stroud, of the Mercer team, will be back in Macon early in September. He has been summering In Exter. Cal., but will leave there in a couple of weeks. The candidates will assemble about mid-September, and will buckle right down to work, for they have a game September 28. Mercer has a pretty hard and a peculiarly badly balanced schedule. After opening with a prep school game—a thing that no self-respect ing college team is expected to do these days—the Baptists take on the tough Auburn team on Octo ber 5. Then comes an easy game, with Howard. Then the Tech team invades Macon for a game with Stroud’s men. This is set for Oc tobei 19, Then comes an easy game with Columbia college (of Florida), a doubtful contest with Tennes see. a hard game with Clemson and the usual anti-climax with Univer sity of Florida. Stroud will return most of last year’s men and ekpects for once to have a team at Mercer that will rank right with the best In the South —barring only Vanderbilt. Mercer has long been in the dol drums. athletically speaking, but gradually it is working its way out, and tills year It oujht to make the biuciv: noise of its career. fought the big novice at every stage of a ten-round bout they said Mc- Carthy held out promise of Im provement, Avaunt and avast with such in sincere twaddle! The white hope who has failed under trial, but who is “going to do better, when he has a fight or two under his belt,” Is In a class with a jaded champion who is “going to the mountains to recuperate.” He is a mighty un safe proposition. It goes to show that after all fighting is a, trade. The fighter who is born, and not made, is a scarce specimen of humanity. In the light of what is happen ing, the sayings of Philadelphia Jack O’Brien and Jack Johnson seem epigrammatic. “I can lick any man who has not had two years experience in the professional ring,” remarked Philadelphia John prior to his San Francisco go with Al Kaufman. “Palzer is not ripe yet,” said Champion Johnson, when asked at Las Vegas whether he regarded Palzer in the light of a possible op ponent. There was that in the tone which suggested that Johnson con sidered Palzer an easy mark, but felt that the big lowan would have to be coddled along a bit further to stimulate public Interest and in crease the prospects of a large at tendance. The trouble with white hopes is that they are exploited mainly on their dimensions, and before they have accomplished anything to speak of. Size and strength and the power to smite are merely funda mental qualities for a cub heavy weight. They are next to useless until he has acquired a ring edu cation, w’hich, during almost any generation of pugilists, is a hard thing to acquire. The woods are full of men who, while they lack real championship requirements, are plenty good enough to shatter the dreafns of the hopes. A dozen years ago Joe Choynski, Kid McCoy and a few others were the watch dogs and trial horses of the heavyweight di vision. Today we have Jim Flynn and Jim Stewart. They are hard fellows to get by. A beating by one of them has a double .effect inasmuch as it sets a novice back and at the same time discourages him. This is made ap parent in the case of Carl Morris. Before he tackled Jim Flynn there was no such word as fall tn the bright lexicon of the stalwart Oklahoman. Since then he has been a mark for every man he boxed. ARTHUR MADDOX TO HELP COACH GEORGIA ELEVEN ATHENS. GA., Aug. 19.—Although it has not been officially announced, the news has leaked out here that Arthur Maddox, for fouT years a member of the University of Georgia football team, has been engaged as assistant coach for the coming year. This news will be heard with much pleasure by the. students and alumni of the institution, as the big tackle was one of the most popular men that evet played at Georgia, and during his course at the institution was most ac tive in phases of college life. Due to the large number of men that turn out for football and the amount of work needed to whip the new material into line, an assistant coach is an abso lute necessity, and in Maddox local supporters of athletics feel that the light man has been secured for the place. UMPIRE OWENS NEARLY LOSES HIS EYESIGHT CHICAGO. Aug. 19.—National League Umpire nearly lost an eye Saturday night in a shooting g i lery. While knocking over the little pirds the rifle became clogged and one cartridge burst in the breech of the sun, blowing the powder back into Owens' eye. ST* Bill GILBERT HEROOFRDME MOTOR RAGES ROME, GA., Aug. 19.—8i1l Gil bert, of Atlanta, riding an Excelsior twin, lowered the track motorcycle record here by two seconds. Also Gilbert made a clean sweep of the events in which he started. He captured two three mile match races and made a grand showing in another three-mile event. He was clocked in one of the miles in 35 seconds. The for mer record was 37 flat Gilbert was easily the hero of the biggest motorcycle meet ever held here. His daring spurts around the turns and in the stretches were - sensational, and at the end of each event he was cheered to the echo. The summaries: Three-Mile Match Race —H. M. Gilbert, Atlanta, Excelsior twin, first; John Veal, Rome, Ga., Mer kel twin, second; Ollie Roberts, At lanta, Excelsior twin, third. Three-Mile Match Race—V. Moss, Thor 5, first; Howard Lewis, Excelsior twin, second; Jack Bry ant, Merkel twin, third. Two-Mile Race—O. Roberts, At lanta, Excelsior twin, first; How ard Lewis, Rome, Excelsior twin, second; Jack Bryant, Rome, Mer kel twin, third. Three-Mile Race—H. M. Gilbert, Atlanta, Flanders 4, and V. Moss, Rome, Thor 5 (15 seconds handicap for Flanders 4), Thor won by 25 feet. Three-Mile Final Race —H. M. Gilbert, Atlanta, Excelsior twin, first; Ollie Roberts, Atlanta, Ex celsior twin, second; John Veal, Rome, Merkel twin, thirds Brady, Becker, Bailey And Waldorf Are Left With Atlanta lean. Four players belonging to Mg leagut clubs, but placed in Atlanta under op tional agreement, will not be recalled iomorrow when the final gathering in of farmed players is pulled off by the ring masters of the big show. The four players now owned by At lanta because of the refusal of big league teams to exercise their option to repurchase are Buck Becker, King Brady, Harry Bailey and Rudolph Wal dorf. Becker 1e the only one who wm nos left under the terms of the original contract. Griffith wired that if the At lanta club would come through with a little more money it could have Becken The young left-hander has looked so good this year that President Callaway at once wired an acceptance of th( offer. Brady, Bailey and Waldorf were lef in Atlanta on the strength of the re fusal of the major league clubs tn waive. The fact that Bailey was noi recalled was a big surprise. That char has batted well for the Crackers thii year. If the Cubs leave Agler In Atlanta Bill Smith's problem of building a tean for next year is vastly simplified. * HAL CHASE’S DIVORCE SUIT AGAIN REOPENED NEW YORK, Aug 19—The trouble! of Hal Chase, the baseball player, and his wife, Nellie H. Chase, are not over as it was announced they were som< weeks ago. when a motion for alimony and counsel fees made by Mrs. Chase was withdrawn, for today Justice Du gro signed an order allowing the at. torneys of plaintiff to file a complaint in the case in the county clerk's offici under a date of a week ago. The reason given by the attorney! for not filing the complaint at the proper time was that Chase wished to avoid lhe publicity which would attacb to the matter if the complaint was died tn app||, ation fur a t-f... |„ lh , '' ■' Liken undi t lotisideralim Il the justice.