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12 I ®CWAN SOBfOO * EMKTFI EDITLD S FARNSWORTH _____ Oh, Well! What Does Jeff Care for One Black Eye More or Less? :: By “Bud” Fisher ' on*.' —fJ Lceep A ~ s7 e i _ ' y «««'««“< U~-2__ Lo<X TH f ««• ARS H £- |t. H , , >L~-- GONNA Jg Z SiYuAHUN -3|| * ' <’ .■ - r- \ OH, w 6 117] L_ ) \ 1? 1 ' NOSM Body again ,t ymas A '■ ~’ j • I LETS HSf t>i| Yq——— * fe.GTOR.T ' J r i ss6! l i' Q i - j WK ' t* - i mMI wT rWTzfe W» *U&- oT tlft '-aWwI ' wwjEffiF ■■ - i ~-W ->M \ ~ «3W *■ <, —■—g/W i W fflL /> k <> ■ . S*7u— fy., _ -- -- » - —.A——■---- ■- ■' - »■■ ■ I■! ~,. -1 _ j torr* l '-*’’ '9,j «y g/)t*Cft SMITHKHI Nil JORDAN IF HE'S FOR IE -w w- *< N TG< ► M I.IIX ALA AUR \ z I •_•.> Bill;. Smith i greatly | i► I*■.!'*■. bei ins li< >s going back to Atlanta to manage tin Crackers IB declared today that with Atlanta he Ims had better luck than with others he has man aged. and that also he liked Atlan ta and Atlanta people. Billy had made up his mind to leave I'hattanooga whethi i he went back to Atlanta or not Presi dent Andrews begged him to stay, but he frankly told him lie wanted to make a change He was con sidering a scout's position with a major league team when the Atlan ta ofler came It is most probable that Otto Jordan will be seen in an .Atlanta uniform next year. Smith says, "If Chattanooga w ill sell him and if Jordan wants to go hack. I will buy him." The Big Race Here's how the "Big Five” of the American league are hitting the ball, the averages including yesterday's games: PLAYER. AB. H. P.C COBB 423 174 .411 SPEAKER . 444 177 .399 JACKSON 423 159 .376 COLLINS 397 136 .343 LAJOIE 286 90 .315 Ty Cobb fell off two points yesterday. He secured only one hit in four times up yesterday. To make matters worse for the “Georgia Peach,” Tris Speaker came across with three safe swats in four trips to the plate. Tris thereby gained four points. Today only twelve ooints separate the "champion" and the Boston demon The Detroit- Boston game was the only one played in the American league yesterday: therefore. Jackson. Collins and Lajoie "stood still.' Robert B. Blackburn has been a resident of this conn ty for over twenty-five years, is thoroughly identi fied with our people, and will ably care for the varied interests of this, the largest and richest county in the state. SEMI ANNUAL STATEMENT For the six month* mdins .turn' 3b. 1912. of the condition of THE EMPLOYERS INDEMNITY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA. Organized und< ■ tin iw> of , *t:tieof p nnsylvania. made to the governor of the stat' of Gemgia. -n pursuance of the laws of said stale. Principal offict West End Trust Building, Broad and South Penn Square. Philadelphia. I’.i 1. CAPITAL STOCK. Wholt unount of capital stock SIOO,OOO Amount paid up in rsh 100.000 $100,000.00 11. ASSETS. Total of the aompany. actual cash market va1ue5791,279.01 111. LIABILITIES. Total liabilities $791,279.01 IV. INCOME DURING THE FIRSTSIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1912. Total incoim actually n .ring' . ti *t six mom hs in cash . $325,301.46 V. EXPENDITURES DURING FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1912. Total expenditures during the tiist six months of tm year in . ish. $367,509.66 Greatest amount insured in am om risk for one person 1u.n00.00 Greatest amount insured in ant n« risk so om m idem 20.000.00 Total amount of insurance outstan ring Contracts unlimit'd ex- cept as noted Immediately abovi A copy of the act of ineo p ration, luix certified, is of tile in the offici of the insurance commissioner. STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA —County of Philadelphia Personally appeared before the undersigned, I’ N I.eßoy. who being duly sworn, deposes and says that lo is tin assistant treason of the Employers Indemnity Company of Philadelphia ami that the foregoing statement is correct and true. I* X LeßftY. Asst. Treas Sworn to and subscribed befori im this 9th dm of \ugust 191; WRIGHT KUGLER. Notary Publii (Commission expires January 13. 191.3.1 Name of State Agent V. GOULD BARRET! k MS ARE FAD 100 GLASS! FDR CRACKERS B IBM INGH AM, ALA.. Aug. 20. Tim (’rackets will try to get revenge today for the terrible trouncing handed them by the Bar ons yesterday, when they were downed on the local pasture to the tune of II to 3. But, from a local viewpoint, the crew of Alperman are in for another lacing, as on yesterday's performance, they don't figure in the same class with the league leaders. The pitchers seemingly were hav ing an off day yesterday. Waldorf was wild ind Alperman replaced him in the fourth with Sitton aft er poor support and a timely swat had scored three Barons. The Bar ons took a decided liking to Ved der’s slants and scored eight more tallies Reynolds allowed bases to be purloined at will, while two parsed balls helped things along. Harbison, Agler, Alperman and ll< ynolds did poorly on the defense. The Barons played sensationally until the ninth, when Foxen per mitted two clean hits and the aid society bobbled twice, giving way to two scores. Jimmy Johnston made a splen did running catch In center field, while Marean and Kllam fielded deftly. Bill Foxen hit the pill to deep left center field with three men on buses in the seventh, but was called out for failing to touch first. Thus he did not get a hit for driving In the three runs via the Merkle route. I JEANNETTE. SAVAGE, AND WILLARD WIN BOUTS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK Aug. 20. Erlends of Joe Jeannette, who will meet Champion lack Johnson September 27. were jubi lant today over the showing made by ( Jeannette last night in his bout with Jeff Madden, of Boston. Madden, who lias been c tiled "New England's Best 1 White Hope." was knocked out in the second round. This bout, as well as two others with heavyweights, took place at Madison i Square Garden In the others. Jim Savage, of Orange. N I stopped Tom Kennedy, former , amatem heavyweight, in seven rounds, and Jesse Willard of Oklahoma, beat Luther McCarthy, tile highly touted Springfield. Mo. white tmpC, on points BRUNSWICK ISSUES DEFI. ■I BRUNSWICK. GA. Aug. 20. -The ; management of the local baseball team has decided to keep Brunswick's team ! in the field until Labor day. and an noun, • s a challenge to any semi-pro fe-sion il team in the south of Georgia. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1912. Football Code for 1912 Is a Changed Document Will Bring Back the Old Game of Ten Years Ago By Percy 11. Wliiting. F FOOTBALL rules are like the fashions. They are never, hy any chance, the same this year as they were last. But, like the fashions, they run in cycles. Thifi year’s fashions may be a re vival of those of 50 years ago (not knowing, we hesitate to say). But. anyhow, the football titles for the coming season are dead ringers for those of 1902. The game has run vigorously in a circle, and brought up at the point it started from ten years ago. Os course, in the mean time it has gathered on a few ex tra furbelows and ruffles, like the forward pass, for instance. But, basically, it is the good, old foot ball—not of our daddies, perhaps, but, at any rate, of our elder broth ers. • • • tT’S sort of too bad that the rules * committee can't get the rules out of the dough state. The code hasn't been better than half-baked for the last 25 years. Each year they add a little more flour or stir it a bit or put in another cake of yeast. But they never get any where. The best proof we have of the virility of the game is that it has * w ithstood the yearly attacks of the rules committee. * ♦ • '■pHE Princeton team kicked a hole * in the 1912 code. After study ing it for a summer, they worked out a scheme to meet it. Their idea was to let the other side do all the* work Their entire scheme was de fensive. But they instructed their players to be on a lookout for the ball and if they happened to see it running loose to clamp onto it and CLUB POSTS $5,000 FOR HEAVYWEIGHT BATTLE NEW YORK. Aug. 20.—Assurance that the proposed bout between Jack Johnson and Joe Jeannette would be staged in this city advanced a step to day when the McMahon brothers, pro prietors of the St. Nicholas Athletic slub, posted with Bill Hicks, sporting editor of The New York Journal, a cer tified check for $5,000 as a forfeit bind ing them to stage the bout at the St. Nicholas Athletic club on September 25. It was said here that Johnson was expected to post a $5,000 forfeit in Chi cago. There is great doubt that the state athletic commission, which regu lates boxing in New York state. "11l al low the negroes to meet here. ALABAMA PLAYS TECH HERE ON OCTOBER 12 TCSCALOOSA. ALA, Aug 20. — Graduate Manager Friedman announces the following football schedule for Ala bama : September 28. Marion on campus October 5. Owenton on campus, October 12. Georgia Tech. Atlanta. October IS. Mississippi A A- M Aberdeen. October 26. Georgia. Columbus. November 2. Tulane, New Orleans. November 9, Mississippi, campus. Novemb 18, Sewanee. Birmingham Thanksgiving. Tennessee, Birming ham. GROVER HAYES SAILS ON THURSDAY FOR AUSTRALIA MILWAI'KEE. Aug 20—Grover Hayes. Chicago lightweight, and his manager. Willard Stuart, have accepted terms to go to Australia for a series of bouts in the lightweight tournament tor Hugh Mclntosh They will sail on Thursday BOSTON NATIONALS BUY TWO SPOKANE PLAYERS SPOKANE, WASH . Aug 20 First Baseman Ralph (Happy) Myers and Catcher Rex Devogt, of the Spokane Northwest, rn league team, were sold yesterday to Ute Boston Nationals. Myers has batted .309 tills season and has stolen 77 bases in the 100 games he has played Hevogt s batting average so fat this year is .37", run like blazes. Especially, they trained* an agile young lad named Sammy White to pick up a ball on the run and to get just as close as possible to his opopnents' goal. This Princeton system of playing the game proved eminently suc cessful, and what between good luck and good guidance the Nassau Tiger romped off with the cham pionship. x "Yes.” said the coaches; "it wins games, but it isn't football." • ♦ • rpHE experts said that the defect * in the 1912 rules was that It strengthened the defense to the point where nobody could score. This defect wasn’t notably appar ent in the South, where good scores were run up In about the average number of games and where the best teams generally won. But it was in the East. Now. whether the fault was with the rules or with the coaches, we don't pretend to say. Somehow* we sort of half suspected the coaches. Os course, it is entirely possible for the rules committee so to strength en the defense as to make scoring impossible. They could provide that the side in possession of the ball could sit on it and as long as the defensive side sat on it the offen sive players could not come within ten feet of them, and, further, that the side that sat on the ball long est won the game. That would be the ideal defensive game. But it wouldn't be exciting. The rules weren't quite that bad last year, though, and coaches w*ho were willing to risk everything on a few brainstorm plays managed to win a fair share of games. Here's How Crackers Are Hitting the Ball Right Up to Date These averages include yesterday's slaughter: PLAYER — g. ab. r. h. Ave, Harbison, ss 56 192 23 55 .286 Alperman. 2blll 419 57 114 .272 Bailey. Iflll 387 70 104 .269 Becker, p 12 27 2 7 .259 Agler. >b. 46 152 26 39 .257 Graham, c 51 156 17 40 -.256 Callahan, cf 69 268 26 65 .242 McElveen, 3b. ...115 41S 47 94 .225 Sitton, p. 24 57 11 10 .175 Reynolds, c 11 36 4 6 .167 Johnson, p 4 6 0 1 .167 Wolfe, utility .. . 6 16 0 1 .163 Brady, p 19 .’>B 2 9 .155 Lyons, rs 19 56 3 3 .054 Waldorf, p 7 18 0 <0 .000 THREE MORE OLYMPIC ATHLETES RETURN HOME NEW YORK, Aug. 20. -More than a score of the Olympic athletes who are to be honored hy a big demonstration here on Thursday for their work in winning premier track and field honors for America at the recent games in Stockholm arrived on the St. Paul. They included Harry S. Babcock, who won the pole vault: George L. Horine, of San Francisco, the record high jumper, and Frank J. Uople, of Chi cago. All tlte athletes said they in tended remaining for the parade and banquet. Robert B. Blackburn has been a resident of this coun ty for over twenty-five years, is thoroughly identi fied with our people, and will ably care for the varied interests of this, the largest and richest county in the state'. NAPS BUY RACINE PITCHER. CLEVELAND. < >HI< >, Aug. 20 - Pitcher Brenner, of th< Racine team of the W isconsin - Illinois league, has been purchased by the Cleveland team i,»f the American league, to report at the end of his present leagm '- si asun, Srp- THE most important change of the year will be the fact that four downs, instead of three, will be allowed to make ten yards. This seems a simple sort of a change. But it makes all the dif ference in the world. It means that any team with the weight and strength can make the distance right through the line. Beyond any question, there will be a reversion to the old line-plunging, grinding game of ten years back—a game intensely inferior to the more open game we have had in more recent years. Os course, in many ways the game has been modified since 1902 and has been somewhat opened up. It should be a better game this fall than it was then. But It will lack a whole lot of being the ideal game. • • • ■pHE change in the football code A has again wiped the small col lege off the football map. In recent years a small college, with a light, fast team, was as likely to be heard from as a large one. Now the col lege which can recruit the most beef and brawn —and that always means the big college—will have the advantage. If this change persist. Tech will always be a second rater, Georgia will always be dangerous and Van derbilt will always hold the S. I. A. A. supremacy. » • • 'T'HERE'S one grand thing about football —no amount of regu lating and no code, no matter how* bad, can materially hurt it, and nothing has ever happened yet to keep it from being the greatest of American college games. LITTLE EASILY BEATS TOUCHARD AT TENNIS NEWPORT, R. I„ Aug. 20.—Three score matches in the opening round of the national lawn tennis championship singles were run off with no unex pected results. Pacific coast players players showed up strongly. McLough lin dropped only' a single game against Lieutenant F. B. McNair. U. S. N. There were several other players from army' ami navy, but they were unable to cope with the civilians. Three German players are entered in the tournament and two of them were eliminated, R. A. Auspitzer, of Berlin, being the only one left. He will play his match today. The feature match of yesterday was between the two doubles champions. R. D. Little and G. F. Touchard, who had been drawn against other in the first round. Little had no difficulty in winning. DODGERS SELL SUMMERS TO CHICAGO NATIONALS NASHVILLE, TENN.. Aug. 20.—Ru dolph Summers, the star so»ithpaw of the Nashville team and the leading hurler of the Southern league, has been recalled by the Brooklyn team, to whom he belonged. The Dodgers promptly sold him to the Chicago Cubs, and he reports to Chance's men at the end of the present Southern league season. NEW ORLEANS RECALLS ’ BUNTING FROM LOOKOUTS NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 20.—Third Baseman Dave Bunting, loaned several weeks ago to the Chattanooga team, was recalled today by Manager Frank, of the local Southern league team. Third Baseman Brewster, of the recently abandoned Vicksburg team. Cotton States league, according to the an nouncement, also made today, has been purchased by' the local team. CHICAGO TEAM RECALLS BARROWS FROM SKEETS CHICAGO. Aug 20.—Roland Bar rows. an who was farmed” to Jersey City by the Chicago Ameri cans last spring, has been recalled. He will report in Cleveland August 30. Barrows has been hitting .345. He may replace Manager Callahan In left field. ISSTRAIGHTWILL STAND FDR AGE. SAFS OVERALL By Orval Overall. WHILE the baseball fans of the counrty will readily admit that the recent pitching feat of Rube Marquard, of the New York Giants, was a won derful performance, I am inclined to believe that the real merit of his feat is not so thoroughly under stood. In my opinion. Marquard has performed not only in record breaking style, but has set a record that will stand for many, many years to come. It is doubtful if his record will be duplicated in a gen ertation by any major league pitch er, where the rules are strictly en forced and where the task of win ning a game is made just as diffi cult as science and class can ac complish. May Never Be Beaten. There is a possibility that the feat may be equaled in some minor league, which I seriously doubt, but for any man to win nineteen straight games in a major league championship season, where the pitcher is opposed by the cream of the baseball world and where class meets class and the ablest generals of the diamond are plotting for your downfall, is an achievement that must go down in history as a record to be .shot at by the fu ture greats of the big brush heav ing department. Instances may be cited where in the early days of baseball pitchers have won more consecutive games than did Marquard, but the fact must not be overlooked that baseball then and baseball now are so widely differ ent in style of play, rules of play and pitching, and in the science of the game, that comparisons of rec ords made then and now would be ridiculous. Naturally, some will say that Marquard was lucky to hang up such a greatirecord. Granted. Base ball luck is a part of the game and it is one of the biggest factors in the success of the championship teams. But luck must be strongly backed up with class before it can become an eftective feature in any performance upon the diamond. When class enters into a competi tion. the element of luck is bound to crop out at some stages and probably turn the tide of battle one way or the other. Pitching suc cess depends almost as much upon the “luck of the game” as upon the ability of the pitcher, for no pitcher can win a game unaided. Had Good Support. Marquard was surrounded by players of the highest class and he was pitching to batters of the same ranking. He got high-class support to make his pitching effective, and in two or three of his winning games he was favored by the luck of the game that permitted him to win. although hit harder than his opponent on the mound. Yet there was nothing of the sensational fa voritism of fortune in his perform ance that would rob him of the highest praise for achieving what no other major league pitcher has been able to do since baseball be came the organized, scientific sport that rt is today. JUDGE GIVES PLAYER TEN HOURS TO LEAVE TOWN LOUISVILLE. KY.. Aug 2Q. —"Tub- by" Spencer, the former big league catcher who started the season with Louisville, but who was released be cause he could not ride on the water wagon, was presented In police court for drunkenness. It was not his first appearance. "You can't behave In Louisville,” said Judge Boldrick. "so I am going to give you ten hours to leave town ” ABE ATTELL GETS CHANGE TO WIN TITLE BACK By Ed. W. Smith. SEPTEMBER is to be the dandy little fighting month, from the looks of things this middle of August. And there’s one battle in sight that hasn't been mentioned at all in this part of the country that is apt to go through if the persua siveness of Jim Coffroth can bring it about, and Jim is some per suader. The proposition calls for a second meeting between Johnny Kilbane. featherweight champion, and Abe Attell, former champion of the 122 pounders. Coffroth is trying to schedule the affair for his chief attraction of the month, the date being September 9, which is Admission day and one of the fighting days on the coast. Kilbane Is Balky. Kilbane is the one who is mak ing the objections to the match. He is trying to have it put off un til October or even later than that. Coffroth, knowing the value of the day he has in mind, is forcing mat ters, and it has got down to the stage now where a matter of mere ly SI,OOO for expense money that Kilbane demands alone stands in the way of the affair being con summated. Coffroth isn’t a man to be balked by a trifle like that, and the men are reasonably assured of seeing the affair go through as he has planned it. It will be interesting to note what they will make the weight if the financial end of the thing is adjusted. Only recently there have been stories about how Attell took on so much weight that he now scales 135 pounds. Question in Last Match. VX hether this is weight that is susceptible of removal or not is entirely another matter. Evident ly it is. for Attell knows that Kil bane wouldn't meet him excepting at the real featherweight limit as recognized in this country. There was so much question about the last meeting between these stars that the fans ought to welcome a return meeting between them. There wasn't any question about which had won after they had gone the twenty rounds, but it was stated afterward that Abey had paid more attention to the poker table than he had to his road and gymnasium work during his preparation for the contest, hence the question still as to which is the better man. They've run cut of good light weights out on the coast. Willie Ritchie, the young man who cre ated such a favorable impression all over the country by his great work against Freddie Welsh and later ag.Jnsi the champion himself in a four-round battle, is utterly unable io find a man fit to go against him out there. Coffroth would have liked to stage him for 9, but there wasn’t a single man avail able for the match, a man who could draw well and be reasonably certain of giving the coast star an interesting battle. In addition, It appears that Willie has some mighty high falutin ideas of his own worth and wants such a stiff price for his services that the promoter is hesitating even to dis cuss the thing seriously with him. THREE PEUGOTS ENTERED. CHICAGO, Aug. 20.—Three Peugot racing cars have been entered for the Elgin races. The machines have been shipped from France and will be tn • 'hicag.i on Saturday or Sunday. Boll lot. Goux and Zuecalleri, members of the Peugot team durlmr ihe recent Grand Prix, will pilot the machines here.