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6 <®obm mb EDITED & W’ 9 FARNSWORTH k ■' ■ ' ... ■ ■ I ■ ...■1... ■ ■ '■■■ ■ «., , . . .. J , .J Oh, Well! What Does Jeff Care for One Black Eye More or Less? :: :: By “Bud” Fisher ' ( ““oe vol ■ - I steep - VJFH 1 I \ ON * Mining, ~ —<4x .. ! j YOU CfMM’V B't ~ * VOV C/Scm’Y GNAT'S THE U- lUHAT'i, NfcW ' M . - --- igtOCKIMC, TH c ~ STAND H6R.E * VHGY GONNA g SiYkjayiqm N , s ~x tararl " I shoot ■son'E' PF On, WELL, I Jft i ? I DY again ,T yJHS A I "I 7 I lets MUI =T'-n' —\ clever, (eetort ' ’ ' r l sael l CT- il f , L? THAT _J- JfflHStav a rHt afe**"'? ® B inA ] sTY; (wlßh) AIS £• J \ TWrfNj ' W&h -t-"\ fry.-- x. A—- hr „ r~n 1 \ ’WS WW I W 1 - fW X/f\ \ ~ ’MB- .; i rm® ml i i ~ . t A' - \ „, M - - - - - I. I—IS ■ ■ - "■ ' ————— «>SI - _ COF7-A 'C. «< r’9 "? a\- sTA -~0. SMITH WILL BUY JORDAN IF HE'S FDR SALE Montgomery, ala., Aug 20. —Billy Smith is greatly pleased because ho is going back to Atlanta to manage the Crackers. He declared today that ‘with Atlanta he has 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 Chattanooga whether ho went ba<k to Atlanta or not. Presi dent Andrews begged him to stay, but he frankly told him he wanted to make a change. He was con sidering a scout’s position with a major league team when the Atlan ta offer came. It is most probable that Otto Jordan will be seen in an Atlanta uniform next year. Smith says. “If Chattanooga will sell him and if Jordan wants to go bhck, I will buy him." ’ I 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 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 points 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 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. SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT For the s x months ending .June 3<\ 1911. of the condition of THE EMPLOYERS INDEMNITY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA. Organized un... th. r th. stat, of Pennsylvania. made to the governo of the stati of ,•}, . u , pursuance of the laws of said state. Frinci] ■< "Hi ■ • !■> ,; Trust Building. Broad and South Penn Square, Pin:.id. t > ■ . r., 1. CAPITAL STOCK. Whole amount of ■ stock $1(10,000 Amount paid up ft 100,000 $100,000.00 II ASSETS. Total assets of th. ■• -.tiy ~ , ish market value $791,279.01 111. LIABILITIES. Total liabilities $791 279 01 IV. INCOME DURING THE FIRSTSIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1912. Tota income act ua.. v ' c ' • tr st six mon’ aip ash .$325,301.46 V. EXPENDITURES DURING FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1912 Total ex pen litu:< n Ing the t x months of the year in cash 1367 '■ 8 i Greatest amount Jnsm. m 1M ot sk f., one pe'i-m luonnoo Greatest amount in*ur. ■ ■■ r.«k t . , - j.. nt 2o>i>o on Total amount of in a at • > on stun ■ '..tit •• : at nilted ex- cept as noted Immediat• lv .bov, A copy of the act of tn. pm at lon. du''. ■ . run. ! Is of 111, In the office O* the Insure r■ < ■ aim on, STATE OF I'l XNs Y I,V A.X I \ • .et v ot I'hi , • q p.isonnllv app.aiel l.etoi. t ■ Uli: -m. I' X !.,|tnv u ho. being duly sworn, d< j- s. - and says that ;.. th, as -tant t'easure of the Employers !tid< limit. > opaci of p|,j ■ pb (h . ~ f. . g .mg •tatmnent Is cori-et >nd I au, ot'l.E It GABHT Sworn to and aubtciibed In io m ■ ii- 9111 i\ of August, 191. ■ M 111< , IIT Kl<>l Ift X.ilh'i I'll bl I, .. 11 ' > ' xplrt January 15. 1913 1 .Name ul Slule Agent V. GOULD BARRETT -MfurT".. . BUNS ARE FAR TOD CLASSY FDD CRIMS Birmingham, ala., Aug. 20. The Crackers 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 11 to 3. Hut, from a local viewpoint, the tow of Alperman are In for ano her lacing, as on yesterday's performance, they don't figure In the same clans with the league leaders. The pitchers seemingly were hav ing an off day yesterday. Waldorf was wild and 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 rier's slants and scored eight more tallies. Reynolds allowed bases, to bo purloined at will, while two passed balls helped things along. Harbison, Agler. Alperman and Reynolds did poorly’ on the defense. The Barons played sensationally until the ninth, when Eoxen 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 Marian and Ellatn fielded deftly. Bill Eoxen hit the pill, to deep left center field with three men oy bases in the seventh, but was called out for failing to touch first. Thus lie did not get a hit for , driving in the three runs via the Merkle route. JEANNETTE, SAVAGE, AND W I Ll. ARD WI N OVER THE K.O. ROUTE NEW YORK, Aug. 20. -Friends of Joe Jeannette, who will meet Champion Jack Johnson September 2”. were jubi lant today over the showing made by Jeannette last night in his bout with Jeff Madden, of Boston, Madden, tvho i has been e died New England’s Best White Hope," was knocked out in the second round. This bout, as well as two others with i heavyweights, took place at Madison Square Garden In the others. Jim Savage, of Orange. , N J., stopped Tom Kennedy, former ! amateur heavy weight, in seven rounds, and .les<e Wil aid. of < •klahoma, beat Luther McCarthy, the highly touted Springfield, Mo., white hope, on points. If you sent a letter or telegram to the wrong address, you would hardly expect an answer, would you? The same fs true I tvhen you select the wrong medium to have all your wants f.'.led Try the right wav The Georgian Want Ad wuv ATT.ANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. AUGUST 20. 191 Football Code for 1912 Is a Changed Document -’•••I- ❖•+ •£••4. 1 -he 4* Will Bring Back the Old Game of Ten Years Ago By Percy H. Whiting. FOOTBALL rules are like the fashions. They are never, by any chance, the same this year as they were last. But, like the fashions, they run in cycles. This year's fashions may be a re yival of those of 50 years ago (not knowing, we hesitate to say). But, anyhow, the football rules 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 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 w here. The best proof wo have of the virility of the game is. that it has withstood the yearly attacks of the rules committee. * * * cp HE 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 Jeahnette would be staged in this city advanced a step to day w lien the McMahon brothers-, pro prietors of the St. Nicholas Athletic club, posted with BUI 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 It was said here that Johnson was expected to post a $5,000 forfeit in Chi cago. There is great doubt that the state athietk commission, which regu lates boxing in New York state, will al low the negroes to meet here. ALABAMA PLAYS TECH HERE ON OCTOBER 12 TVSCALOOSA, ALA. Aug 20. Graduate Manager Friedman announe-s tlie following football schedule for Ala bama September 28, Marion on campus. October 5. Owenton on campus. October 12, Georgia Tech. Atlanta. October 18. Mississippi A. & M. Aberdeen. October 26, Georgia, Columbus. November 2, Tulane. New Orleans. November 9. Mississippi, campus November 18, Sewanee. Birmingham Thanksgiving. Tennessee, Birming ham. GROVER HAYES SAILS ON THURSDAY FOR AUSTRALIA MH.W yi'KFl'.. Hug 20 ■! ' Hayee. Chicago lightweight, and his» manager, Willard Stuart, have accepted | terms to go to \ustralia for a series of bouts in the lightweight tournament I for Hugh Mclntosh. They w ill leave i at ones BOSTON NATIONALS BUY TWO SPOKANE PLAYERS SRI >KANE._ WASH , Aug 2d. First] Roseman Ralph < Happy ' Myers mil | I'itchci Rex I'evogt of the Spokam Northwestern l< <«'!•■ team, were sold i y.sterdav to thi Boston Nationals. Myers Ims batted 3"9 this season and I has -toirn 77 haste m the 100 games h< I ie played. lo\.>«!'■■ lailtllig aveiagi I hi far this seat It 2i7, 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 oft with the cham pionship. "Yes," said the coaches; "it wins games, but it isn’t fooXball.” • ♦ • ’pHE 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 tori 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 who were willing to risk everything on a few brainstorm plays managed to w in a fair share of games. Here's How Crackers Are Hitting the Ball Right Up to Date Thes' averages include yesterday’s slaughter: PLAYER— g, ab. r. h. Ave. Harbison. s« 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, lb. 46 152 26 39 .257 Graham, c 51 156 17 40 .256 I’llhihan, cf ... 69 268 26 65 .242 McElveen. 3b. ...1 15 418 47 94 .225 Sitton, p. 24 57 11 10 .1 75 Rey nolds, c 11 36 4 6 .167 Johnson, p 4 6 0 1 .167 Wolfe, utility .... 6 16 0 1 .163 Brady . p 19 58 2 9 .155 L' ns. -f 19 56 3 3 ,054 Waldorf, p 7 is 0 0 .000 THREE MORE OLYMPIC ATHLETES RETURN HOME NEW YORK. Aug. 20.—More than a of th. < 'lymph athletes who are o be honored by a big demonstration her. on Thursday for their work In w inning premier track and field honors r America at the recent games In Stockholm a-rtived on the St. Paul. 1 hey itu luded Harry S. Babcock, who won th, pole vault. George L. Horine, ■t San Francisco, the record high i lumper, and Flank J. Cople, of Ehi ago. All the athletes -aid they in- I 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. It. .1 nnd answer the Want Ads In The I Georgian \ g0.,1 rule for every Inrllvld | mil w'l.. i. ids Make It your rule an.) wHI be mon prosperous stul more coeo.nted 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 seem® 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 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. • » • 'J' 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. 1., 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 front army’ and 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. Auspltzer, 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 each other in the hrst round. Little had no difficulty in winning. DODGERS SELL SUMMERS TO CHICAGO NATIONALS NASHVILLE, TENN.. Aug. 20.—Ru dolph Summers, the star southpaw 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, w as recalled today by Manager Frank of the local Southern league team Third Baseman Brewster, of the recently abandoned Y’icksburg 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 so,—Roland Bar rows. <n outfielder, who was "fanned” to Jersey City by the Chicago Anu-ri cans last spring, hns hern recalled. He will report In Cleveland August 3n. Harrows has been hitting 345 IL m.4y replace Manager Callahan in left field 135TRAIGHTWILL STANDFDRYRS. SWILL By Orval Overall. W? HILE 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 bieaking styTe, 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 eration 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 van 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 some 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 sty le 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 great record. Granted. Base ball luck is a part of the game and it is one of the factors in the success of the championship teams. But luck must be strongly backed up with class before it can become an effective reature in any performance upon the diamond. M .ten 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 luclv 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 play ers of tire 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 it is today. JUDGE GIVES PLAYER TEN HOURS TO LEAVE TOWN LOUISVILLE. KY. Aug 20. —"Tub-j by" Spencer, the former big |< ague catcher who started the season with Louisville, but who was released l> cause he could not ride on the water wagon, wus pre- pteil In p,, f- e.qiri for drunkenness It was not his first appearance "You j.in't bebaye in Louis, ill, . ' ,u Judge Boldrlek, so 1 am going to glv • you ten hours to have town" K SHELL GETS CHANCE TO WIN TITLE BACK By E<l. W. Smith. SEPTEMBER is tp 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 t'offroth can bring it about, ant Jim is some per suader. The proposition calls for a second I Johnny Kilb featherweight \,jampion, and Abe Attell, former ejampion of the 122 pounders. A f’offroth is try.ng to schedule the •- month, the date' being September 9, which is Admission day and one of the fighting days on the coast. Kilbane lt> Balky. Kllhane is the dim who Is mak- ■ ing the objections to the match. He Is trying to hav- it put off un til October or even later than that. Ooffroth, knowing th- value of the day he has in mind, is forcing mat ters, and it ha S g ,,t -| O wn to the stage nhw where a matter of mere ly SI,OOO for expense money that Kilbane demands abuu stands in . the way of the affair being con summated. ' h ion a man balked !>>' a trifle like that, ani the men are reasonably assured yof seeing the affair go through . s he has planned it. i t w ill bo inter-sting to rv<i, t.hat they will mike the weight if the flnaneia e nk of the thing is adjusted. ' ujly- -ocetttly there have bfen stm a b >ift hnyv ■'‘Hell took on so mm w. i-iq th a he now scales 135 pounds. Question in Last Match. Whether, this is weight that is susceptible of removal or hot is entirely another matter. Evi lent il it is, tor Attell knows that Kil-» bane wouldn’t meet him excepting at the real featherweight limit as i f‘c<nized in this country. I here was so much <pies:ion about the list 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, hut it was stated, afterward that Abey had paid more .attention to the. poker table than he had to his \ road and gymnasium, work duiing his preparation for 'the Contes*, hem e the question still as to which is the better man. They’Ve rut, cut' of good light weights out on the coast. Willie Ritchie, the young man who cre ated such a favorable impression all over th, country by his gnat work against Freddie Welsh and later agalns, the champion himself in a four-’round battle, is utterly unable i<i find a man fit to go against him out there. I’offroth would hav. liked tc stage him for September if. hut there wasn't a single man avail able for the match, a man who could draw well and be r> asonably certain of giving the coast star an interesting battle. In addition, it. appears that Willie has some mighty high falutln ideas of his own worth and wants smh a stiff prtc< for ■ ;services that th# promoter is hesitating even to dis cuss the thing serl< nsiy with him. THREE peugots entered. < Hl' AGO, Aug. 2i>. Three Peugo I racing ears hn ,< b. . n entered for tl ■ Elgin races. The machines hav, be. shipped from I ranee and will b, i I' 'or ag .on Sator- iy , r sun ly Boil i ot. Gmix and Kue< illerl, memb-rs th< Pi ugot texn djrring Hie recer I itand I'tix, w ii, pilot .the tniithint 1 here. >