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ENTRIES
AT MONTREAL.
First —About flve-eights <>f i ini'c. 2
year olds Oiienri <>f h t -f <>- <
Night too. Decorus 100, Turkey Trot
100. Ralph LI i
112.
SECOND < ’olts and g< Idlngs st II
Ing. 3 year olds and up. about five
eighths of a mil. Lyne 100. Jim Mil
ton 103. Oakley 106. Bertmont 106, In
rlsfnn 106. Waner 106, Double I 106
THIRD —Four rear olds and up. sell
ing. about five-eighths • - mill \\ • st.
ern Belle 109, Calypte 103. Louis Des
cognets 111. Doll Bo' 111 Sabo Blend
111 The Garner 111
FOURTH -Three year olds, selling.
6 1- 2 furlongs. Helen Gow 112. Expat
riate 109. Judge Howell 109, Edna t'ol
lin 112 Ruin Knig.it 112. Dody Bult
maa 112
FIFTH —Selling. 3 year olds and up,
6 furlongs Lady Hughe- I'l4, Booby
104. Judge Snooks 106. < alethum pi an
106 Coalshoot 109. •I’.issin. ij 114. fl.
M Sabbath 111 J... Galtens 114, Joe
Rose 117
SIXTH —About 5 furlongs 3 year
olds and up Garden of Roses 103,
Ridgeland 106. Tee May 109. Su-.in B>9.
Carrisnia 109. John Marrs 111
•Apprentice allowance claim• .1,
Weather fine; track fast
AT TORONTO.
FIRST Selling. 5 furlongs II nous
I'l3. Gertrude Maloney 103, Ma. ire |O3,
Roland Pardee 105. Lady Aetna 109.
Laura A. 109. Radiation 110 Ruble 114.
Fleece 114
SECOND— Five furlongs: Burnt Can
dle 106 Philopena in". Lady Robbins
107. Sandman 110, Spirella 115. Fred
Levy 118.
THlßD—Selling. 5 furlongs: Mon
key 98, *A H Moon 103, Mother 103,
St. Albrie 103. Staltnore 105, Porcupine
105. Jim L. 111, Court Town II 111, Con
Carne 111. Senator Hubble 111
FOURTH—Five furlongs Leilohn
98, Secrete 98, Chess 104. Satin Bower
104. Mapleton 106. I'.ineuil II ill 1"6.
Orach 109, Sii Min. erne o 111
Ell"i'H Selling, 6 1 -2 ■ u
of Bridgewater 101, *('bilton Squaw
104. lihprudt nt 104 itiMunai
Mel 106, <’urious 106 S' i let Pinij .
nel 109.
SIXTH Selling, . furlongs: Utile
Erne 9s. ’,\iad .. i. -|> p< r l"4.
Rose O'Neil I".\ Jim <i la., cuttv
hunk 107, Irish Kid 1 !Taekl.- 'Em
112
SEVENTH Seiling
Nila 102. •Venetian 107, Isabel Casey
107. Gllpian 109 Blagg It Hm io
J, H Barr lop K .
EIGHTH Selling .. t:p l,,ng l-'.nli
erola 100. ’Chilton Trane- 103. Eva
Parwick 105 Song of Rocks 10.7. Do
miniea 109 Wateiwel's 110. Jack Nun
nally ill. Capsize lit
AT BUTTE.
FIRST Selling, .7 1-2 furlong-, four
year old.- and up. Lew Hill l|u. (lues
soon ic Glenw -od 11; i,<>rd Clinton
112. Joe Frank 112. Haneovk 112. Bon
fils 112, Lady Adelaide 100, Kinfolks
100. rrieze 100 Genova inn. (Henna
Dean 100.
SECOND Selling, 5 1-2 furlongs
Wings of the Morning 113. Oseuro 110.
Stoneman 110. .1 H Reed bis. Kid
North 105, Lee Harrison 11 102, Port
' Mahnne 102. Titus II 102, Clara W. 100.
THlßD—Purse, 5 1-2 furlongs 2 ye ir
olds and up: Orlin Kripp 108 Al Bloch
108. Envy 115. Aoutrean 113, Cotter
d'Alene 110, Okonite no. Our Last 107
FOURTH—Handicap. 7 1-2 furlongs
3 year olds and up: otenav 112, Three
Links 106. Daddy Gyp 101. Ltid'y Pun
chita 101. Flying Footsteps 97
FIFTH—-Selling 6 1-2 furlongs, 3
year olds and up: Montgomery 114
‘‘Cool 111, The Monk 111 ,\
111. Madeline Musg'oy- I •’
109. Hammer Away lor,. Star Blip 106.
Belle Snicker 106. Balronia 104 ujy
Paxton 104
SIXTH—Six furlongs. 3 yea: oid-
Eveline 107. Great Friar b'7 I'mm-gnn
104. Russell McGill 11'4, Slc.pl.md bu.
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JOE JEANNETTE FIGHTS
JEFF MADDEN TONIGHT
NEW YORK. Aug. 19—Joe Jean
nette, the colored heavyw eight w ho has
'been signed up to meet Champion ,lA<
.'Johnson in a ten-round bout at Midi
‘son Square Garden on September 25.
(will be in action here tonight when li>
will box Jeff Madden, of Boston, at the
[Garden. This will be Jeannette’s fi-st
here this year, and there
Ms considerable interest In the bout, as
fit will give a line on the aspirant's con
dition Luther McCarthy, the Sprlng
tfield (Mo.) white hope, will meet Arthur
’Felker, of Chicopee, Mass, in a ten
tround t>out
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. W. J. Mcßeth,
rail' 'ALLED ''luck'' of the game
is doubtless responsible for
the superstitions of the gen
eral run of players. Few, indeed,
of all the great army connected
with the national pastime are those
who reason after the fashion of the
unemotional Connie Mack.
"There Is no such thing as luck.”
says Connie, “or If there Is, it cer
tainly equalizes during a cam
paign. No one team is favored by
luck, I mean. You will win just as
many games through ‘breaks’ as
vou lose and no more during a long
‘chedule. The championship teanv
sometimes looks luckier than its
rivals. That Is because Its players
nu ke their hick good just as a dls
c*»u' ag<*'l array always makes its
Inek bad.”
Connie Mack is a pretty wise
ceneral and in nil probability
knows exactly what ho is talking
about. Anyhow, he can get away
with it so far .as we are concerned.
There may be no such fortune ns
good luck from the playing and
managerial ends of the nation’s
summer sport A ct. how eb'iut luck
in baseball promotion?
The fingers f the two hands
wouldn't bo enough, 'o tell the lucky
magnates of the National and
American leagues. Unfortunately,
there is always the exception that
proves the rule. We will consider
for a moment one of the "tough
: . k disciples of diamond dives,
I. h:: Montgomery Ward.
Mr Ward has but recently sov-
I bls connection will: the Bos-
■ •ii National I'iigue club. He was
v ■ sident of the luckless National
■ igue tall raiders tor s'ss than one
v. .i W.i d sold tils holdings to
Um (l.'.tl'nev. majority stockholder,
whom Ward had first interested in
'io Huh proposition last Deeenibir.
IL- is through with baseball for
go.id. If Ward had had absolute
ontrol of the Hubbites it is doubt
ful if anything could have driven
him to cover. He would have hung
•ai until he built up a better club
and i bat w ould have meant the
g ..it. si imaginable financial suc
cess.
Not mother man In the United
States merits more from busebnll
than John ,\I. Ward, retired from
the Boston club. Here is a man
who has been a great credit to the
game. One of the most formidable
pitchers and infielders of the old
days, he served Ills apprenticeship
also as manager. Yet. he retired
voluntarily at the height of his
prime to study law He became a
ver.i fine 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 Ward has wdrked
hard at his practice. He deserved
a rest anj some of the good things
of baseball. That he is again on
the outside. looking in, simply
proves beyond question that there
is link and all kinds of It in base
ball promotion.
Ta a. < Charles W. Murphy, of
the Cubs. In direct opposition to
Ward. Murphy Is a millionaire to
da\ H< owns several tlieate'.s in
t'hb ago is well as rich real .state
property. All this has been ac
cumulated within ih. past seven
years without the outlay of a pen- *
ny. Murphy was just lucky enough
to get the tip that the Chicago
club was tor sale. He got the baek-
FORMER CRACKER PLAYER
IS SECURED BY BROOKLYN
BROOKLYN, N Y. Aug 19— The
Brook, vn t.-am is stocking up again on
Southern leaguers and ex-Soutbern
leaguers It has grabbed 1-lnus Kirk
patrick. former Crmki'. snd Ditcher
Kent, formeili of I’ iii.nghimi; Sum is
and Jamis, from N ■ ivi . and Ai'.-fii
son and Sting • of Montgomery
Kirkpatrick will re;, .rt on August 26
rTTE ATTcXXTA GEORGIAN AN"D NEWS. 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 lias made history with the
club Sellee built up. Yet, Murphy
was the lucky fellow to fall Into
such a capable manager for such a
capable club. > Murphy doesn’t be
gin to have the business intelli
gence or b.isebuli acumen of John
M. Ward.
Luck made Murphy a howling
success; John M. Ward—to put it
as mildly as possible—a disappoint
ment.
Football Season Closing in Fast; Dixief Teams Will Be Out for Practice Soon
VANDV ANO GEORGIA TEAMS WILL BE LOUD NOISE
By Percy IT. Whiting.
J' [’ST 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 and 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 flayers.
But 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
didates.
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Tlie greatest interest of the sea
son in the fcjouth will center around
the Vanderbilt and Georgia teams,
of 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. lite
Commodores take on Rose Poly
technic for the third game. October
19. Now. Rose is some college, and
has always had a team* that gave
Vanderbilt 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 Harvard
at Gtimbridge. The Virginia game
offers a big problem. Vanderbilt
has long been rated the' strongest
team in the Southern Intercollegi
ate Athletic association. Hut Vir
ginia is not in this organization
and has a lot more latitude than
the Commodores in m inting play
ers.
iif course, ibe Harvard game is
counted a sure defeat for the Com
modores but then you nevr can
tell. The Commodores handed
\nm.polis and Yale a surprise
apiece and they don't issue any
guarantee that Harvard will not be
treated likewise.
Thon come on the- Vandy sched
ule Central of Kentucky, likely to
be not very troublesome; Auburn,
always a contender, and Sewanee,
the anti-climax game of the sea
son.
With Ray Morrison. "Big Un"
Freeland and "Frog" Metzger gone.
Dun MeGugln will have an awful
time building up a strong team, but
lie has a . aptain in Lewie
Haulage and a bunc h of good ma
terial.
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.
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
I he Pelicans will carry over some good
material tor next season—Hendrvx
Clancy, Haigh, Cullop, Swindell and Mills
Clancy in particular looks good. He is
hitting .429 for the last 19 games.
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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 allowing of his team.
He says that tile speed bug put bv Cy
Morgan out of major league ball and has
rendered Bender almost useless.
Bill Viebahn is pitching pretty fair ball
for Jersey City.
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Ban Johnson may sign Umpire Groe
schow He has but one arm. The other
was "bit off" by a band saw.
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The Phillies have bought a pitcher
named Horne, but he’s park shy. He lias
been sighted in New York. Pittsburg and
I ‘hiladelphia, but has never yet shown
up at the ball park.
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They’re still talking of the Davis-Sto
vall trade I’o outsiders it isn’t apparent
that either man has developed a team
that is lighting very hard for a pennant.
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George Paskert was quite seriously in
jur»’d when hit In the face by a batted
ball the other day. He was left at home
when the Phillies started west.
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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 (Jmar Vance
and ti e Roanoke club and Vance has re
ported.
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The South Central and the Texas-
Oklahoma league are talking of consoli
dating (or their backers are anyway).
And this with the Sherman anti-trust
law still in operation!
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l'\ Cobb hasn't scored from first re
cently on a single But be keeps right on
it'ing and will land after a bit.
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The reason Ty Cobb didn't play in a
recent New York Detroit game was that
h. was late in reporting ami was not in
uniform when the buttle began
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llarrx Wolverton caught his suspension
by Ban Johnson for a run-in with Um
pire Egan. Chase took over the team
when he was relieved.
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lALiio Hohnhorst has dislocated his
shoulder again and fs not with the Toledo
team at present.
• • •
In a recent game at Hurlburt. Ind., be
tween the Hurlburt and Boone Grove
teams Rax McGinley, a ten-year-old lad.
was struck on the foreheml and killed bv
a bail hit by his father, Robert McGinlex*
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Doce Cri.-s, of pinch-bit fame, has been
droppvil by the Louisville chib and taken
on bx Houston, 'Texas
Roger Bresnahan is wre as bruise It
seems that he arranged a trade bj which
II iggins an<l Ellis w»ie Io g<. to tlie Reds
for AL i‘hell (iiul McDonald And then
Mrs Britton refused to stand for it.
Going! Going!! Gone!!! All Our
White Hopes Now White Jokes
By W. W. Naughton.
a/ANE 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 the Yellowjackets. They
made it possible for a team of
light, fast men who knew football
to cope with most anything. The
ruTbs committee, by’ performing a
back flip 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.
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/"’OACH 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 conies an easy game,
with Howard. Then the Tech team
Invades Macon for a game with
Stroud's men. This is set for Oc
tober 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 expects 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 this year it ought to make the
loudest 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
saff proposition.
It goes to show that after al!
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 Johnsen
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. which, 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 dreams of
the hopes. A dozen years ago Joe
Choynaki, Kid McCoy and a few
others were the watch dogs and
trial horses of the heavyweight di
vision. Today- we have Jlm 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 fail in the
bright lexicon of the stalwart
Oklahoman. Since then he has
been a mark for everyg 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 four 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 all 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
right man has been secured for the
place.
UMPIRE OWENS NEARLY
LOSES HIS EYESIGHT
CHICAGO. Aug. 19.—National League
Umpire Clarence Owens nearly lost an
eye Saturday night in a shooting gal
lery While knocking over the little
birds the rifle became clogged and on<
cartridge burst in the breech of the
gun. blowing the powder back Into
Owens' eye.
Bill GILBERT
HIM
MOTOR RACES
ROME. GA., Aug. IS.—Bill 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 tivin. 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, third.
Brady, Becker, Bailey
And Waldorf Are Left
With Atlanta Team
Four players belonging to big league '
clubs, but placed in Atlanta under op
tional agreement, will not be recalled
tomorrow when the final gathering in
of farmed players is pulled off by ths
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 is the only one who was not
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 Becker.
The young left-hander has looked so
good this year that President Callaway
at once wired an acceptance of the
offer.
Brady. Bailey and Waldorf were left
in Atlanta on the strength •bf the re
fusal of the major league clubs to
waive. The fact that Bailey was not
recalled was a big surprise. That chap
has batted well for the Crackers this
year.
If the Cubs leave Agler in Atlanta
Bill Smith's problem of building a team
for next year is vastly simplified.
HAL CHASE’S DIVORCE
SUIT AGAIN REOPENED
NEW YORK, Aug. 19.—The troubles
of Hal Chase, the baseball player, and
his wife, Nellie H. Chase, are not over,
as ft was announced they were some
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 office
under a date of a week ago.
The reason given by the attorneys
for not tiling the complaint at the
proper time was that Chase wished to
avoid the publiciti Which would attach
to the matter if the complaint was filed.
An application fur a reference In th»
matter was taken under consideration