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10 rsctoAi ?hhikw ■ i JEzDITLD & S FARNSWORTH L —' *— • —— ——l Gee, Jeff Is Lucky: He Hasn’t Any Money in the Bank :: ;• ;; ;; By “Bud” Fisher YOJ CRNINfc? < 800 HOO! X ( 800-HOO! f OUR I Y I vaihAy in thg. world distr.vt ido yoocarf? thgy should weunGoJ But O ABOUT? J OftN.S., Al, TH. SASG UOT TO OO «« WULV- HOW ' NOMONSV Wt> I (<4|MPI i DC >O MT VAULTS VO / \ MiThW) COkJ LD Vjf exp^)N ( ' . J H eSo SAC 'I \ j catch T — | we cov \ 1 < ■'■S’/ Aa'JM '■ ■ T .T&. T —/Mr , cw-Jr-- »•. vweFK wh* \ ■ c SBLV V’ "JL \ X X -■ x w X L sTa gyfcssEjl Jm f ill jX I f F; X g r lUL* ’ T F ‘ I —a g ... _ _ / Tc ,/ IJ T ■ ’■‘'^lllL' ' il J : ' • xT ' — ■ ■ Rjig. BY STAR- CO 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. Aunt Alice lo'J 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. • • « 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. ♦ ♦ ♦ 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. • • « Ban Johnson may sign Umpire Groe schow He has but one arm. The other was "bit off" by a band saw. • ■ • 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. * ♦ » 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. * » * 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. • • • 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. • • ♦ 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! ♦ • * 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. • • • 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 • « • 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. * « • 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* • • • 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. * • • /"’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