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Chicago, Aug. 22. —west side
fans are confident today that
the Cubs will win the Nation
al league pennant, it wasn’t yes
terday’s downfall of the Giants at
the hands of the local team that
forms the basis of their belief ns
much as the fact that for the next
four days the Ne# Yorkers will be
battling the fast-gaited Pirates in
Pittsburg, while Chance’s crew will
play four games here at liome with
the lowly Bostons.
The Cubs are confident of making
a clean sweep of the series with
Johnny Kling’s misfits, and they
figure that the Giants will bo lucky
if they secure an even break with
the Pirates. There are only four
■ and one-half games separating the
Giants and the Cubs today, and the
Chicago team is going at top speed
right now, while the Giants are fal
tering.
It was Lew Richie who again
mtede the Giants take the count
yesterday, to the tune of I to 0.
in the last four outs against the
, McGraw clan, "Comedian la'W” has
won thrice.
Richie was master from the start
yesterday, holding New York to
■even widely seat tvrod hits. lie re
ceived brilliant support. The only
time New York threatened to score
was in the fifth. With two out,
Fletcher and Tesreau drove singles,
but the side was retired when Zim
merman leajM'd in the air and with
one hand pulled down what looked
like a two-base hit from Snodgrass'
bat.
Chicago found Tesreau fnr four
hits in the sixth and scored three
runs. Tinker opened the inning
with a single and went to third on
Zimmerman’s double. Leach sent a
single to center, scoring Tinker and
Zimmerman. Saier grounded to
Herzog, who failed in an attempt to
catch Leach at second on a fielder's
choice. Evers beat out a bunt to
Tesreau and Saier and Leach ad
vanced a base. Leach came home
on a passed ball.
* Another run was scored by Chi
cago in the eighth when Saier sin
gled. went to second on Evers' out.
and home when Archer singled to
left
The game was witnessed by an
other capacity crowd The stands
and bleachers were packed and the
outfield was lined with thousands
unable to get seats Fully 25.000
people were within the enclosure.
BIG AUSTRALIA OFFER IS
STILL GOOD FOR JOHNSON
MILWAUKEE. WIS. Aug 22 That
Jack Johnson has be n offered $50,000
to go to Australia and tight Sam Lang
ford and Sam McVey :s th< statement
of T S. Andrews. repi. >. r,' c ve h’ere
L of Hugh Mclntosh. Moreover. An
drews says, in spite of statements to
the contrary by Johnson, tiie oft' r is
■Jill good
"Tlie fact is." says Andrew- "John
son signed a contract to meet these
two men for $45,000 and .xm ixpi nse
money and three tickets to Au-: alia.
This is the same as $50,"O0 for tlic two
bouts. Mclntosh wanted to lost $lO.-
000 in a Chicago bank Jack o|. > ted
He wanted Al Tearney moi. stake
holder and insisted that tin s.’, , x-
, pense money be put up at one.
’’Mclntosh finally agreed to p .st th<
money with Tearney. All .lack nas tu
do is to say the word and the c.is" w
be put up. All Mclntosh asks is i
guarantee that Jack will come to Aus
tralia and keep the engagement ’
COMMISSION NOT DECIDED
ABOUT BIG NEGRO FIGHT
NEW YORK, Aug 22 Th. state
<- boxing commission after h lengthy »<■«
■ ion yesterday afternoon announced
that no decision had be. n reach.- I as to
whether Jack Johnson ami Joe Jean
nette would be permitted to fiK l ', l , 1
ten-round no-decision buttle here The
committee will meet again todaj to
conaider the matter further
Percy Whiting Weighs Changes
Made for 1912 Gridiron Game
By Percy H. Whiting.
SPEAKING of football again, for
a change (and It’s a most
pleasant one to turn to after
a season of writing Cracker base
ball). it might be worth while giv
ing all the changes of the rules, for
1t is only by studying them that
it will be possible to get a line on
the sort of game that.will be played
in 1912.
• 9 •
* N even dozen changes in the
* * playing rules have been made
this year, though only a part of
them are Important. Here they
are:
Change No. 1. The playing field,
now 110 in length, will be short
ened to an even 100 yards.
Change No. 2 A zone of ten
yards width beyond the goal lines
is established. A purpose of this
is to provide ample space for ex
ecution of the forward pass, and
scoring on a jiass made across the
goal line into this zone is per
mit ted.
Change No. 3. The number of
‘‘downs” to gain ten yards is in
creased from three to four
Change No. 4. The on-side kick
is eliminated.
Change No. 5. The value of a
touchdown is increased from five
to six points.
Change No 6. The 20 yards
zone, in which the present rules
now provide restrictions to inter
fere with the forward pass, is
eliminated so that the restrictions
will apply to any part of the field.
Change No. 7. After a touch
back the ball will be put In play
from the 20-yard line instead of
the 25-yard line.
Change No. X. On a kick-off the
ball instead of being put in play
in the center of the field will be
put in play from the 40-yard line
of the team kicking off
Change No. 9 The field Judge
is eliminated. The head linesman
hereafter will keep time and be
judge of off-side plays in the line
of scrimmage.
Change No. 10. The number of
men allowed on the side lines,
now three, will be reduced to one
for each team.
Change No. 11. Provisions will
be made that a bounding ball can
not score a legitimate goal.
Change No. 12. The interval be
tween the first and second and the
third and fourth periods is re
duced from two minutes to one
minute.
• • •
'pHE establishment of the forward
-* pass zone ten yards beyond
each goal line (change No. 2) is a
comparatively important and cer
tainly a logical and reasonable
change in the code. It means that
a forward pass of reasonable
length can be made over the goal
line, something that was not al
lowed in the past. The rule com
mittee’s silly fear of the forward
pass and the way they hedged It
around with restrictions that made
It a Joke and an impossible play
have always been pitiful. If the
forward pass is a good play in
mid-field, it is a poach at the goal
line. This year a forward pass for
a touchdown may be made.
This < stablishment of a forward
pass zone results in a number of
minor changes. For one. the field
is shortened (change No. 11. This
is done because on hundreds of
fields in the country it would be
impossible to tack ten yards on the
end of the field without moving
buildings, fences or maybe moun
tains. Also the point for putting
the ball in play after a touchbaek
(change No. 7) is changed from the
25-yard line to the 20-yard line,
and the point from which the kick
off is made (change No. 8) will be
the 40-yard line of the team kick
ing off instead of the center of the
field. This makes the distance to
be gained after the kickoff 60 yards
lost, ad of ..A, as was the ease under
the old rules
• • •
THE liicli a~'rg of tlic number of
downs allowed from three
to four (change No > has already
been discuss. <1 in Tit, Georgian It
tan me tn but one tiling a return
to the old grinding game, with
weight and strength tin only de
sirable charactermtfe s of a player
it marks the end of the quick think
er and tile quick runner in foot
ball.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 22. 1912.
yHE elimination of the on-side
kick (change No. 4) is not par
ticularly Important. It tends to
weaken the offense a trifle. Rut
the play has been little used of late
years and was not over successful
on Atlanta fields when It was used.
Its removal from the code will not
be keenly regretted.
• • •
rpHE rules committee has been
1 fiddling with the matter of the
number of points scored by touch
downs, kicks and such for as long
as anybody can remember. They
have added another change to their
fiddling symphony this year by
making the value of a touchdown 6
points Instead of 5 (change No. 5).
But the real change which they
should have made, the elimination
of the goal kicking after the touch
down, they did not touch. And that
most ridiculous feature of the game
will persist, despite the fact that
it is as indefensible as piracy and
not half as picturesque.
* * «
j>HE death of the famous and
troublesome "20-yard zone”
(change No. 6) caused but slight
mourning. At its best the 20-yard
zone was a mess and it made the
task of officiating so complicated
that brave men turned green at the
sight of a rule book. Just what
this change will mean from the
players’ viewpoint can't be told, off
hand; but from the spectators'
slant the death of the 20-yard zone
will be a blessed relief.
♦ * *
rpHE elimination of the field
* Judge (change No. 9) will rob
a lot of honest young gentlemen of
free transportation and remunera
tive Jobe. But otherwise it will not
be missed. By making the head
linesman look after off-side plays
in the line of scrimmage and by re
quiring him ‘to keep time, all the
real duties of the field judge will
be absorbed, now that the 20-yard
zone is gone.
It was vitally essential that the
number of officials be cut down.
Either the head linesman or the
field Judge had to go. The former
had some real duties while the lat
ter was largely a cross between
nothing at all and absolute zero.
Hence the elimination.
♦ • *
qpHE reduction of the number of
* men allowed on the sidelines
(change No. 10) is desirable. In
another year or two they will go
further and rule that nobody shall
be allowed on the sidelines while
a game is in progress. After that
maybe they'll try that one of con
fining both coaches In separate
cages in the grandstand and then
we shall have the games played by
the teams and not by the coaches,
which will be altogether desirable.
• ♦ •
THE elimination of goals scored
by bounding balls (change No.
11) was made necessary by the fact
that last year in several games balls
kicked in a.n attempt at a field
goal ran along the ground aways
and then, taking a freakish hop,
cleared the crossbar for what, un
der the old code, had to go for a
field goal. The new rules will cut
out all Hukes of this character.
« ♦ ♦
THE reduction of the time allowed
* between the first and the sec
ond and the third and fourth quar
ters from two minutes to one
(change No. 12) was doubtless pre
liminary to cutting out all rest be
tween quarters. Somehow this di
vision into quarters hasn’t made
the hit that was expected. The play
ers claim that they become stiff and
that the rest docs them more harm
than good. If this is true, the game
ought to revert back to the old
idea of "halves.” Certainly noth
ing could be more farcical than a
one-minute Ini' rmission in a game
that lasts all th< afternoon.
NAPS SECURE CLANCY.
* 'LEVEL \NI», \ur The (’lev
i land Atne' leutt h iguv club has a
nouneed tile t-uiebis, of Sr, end Has
'man (Tam y Com New Orbans
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The Big Race
He-e'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 431 177 .411
SPEAKER Z 451 181 .401
JACKSON .433 165 .381
COLLINS 405 137 .338
LAJOIE 297 93 .313
Joe Jackson was the demon hitter of
yesterday. The Naps’ great outfielder
went to bat four times and banged out
a hit each time. This timely clouting
boosted his average six points. Ty
Cobb and Tris Speaker both went to
bat four times and both slammed forth
two safe swats. Speaker gained a full
point and so did the “Georgia Peach.”
There is still ten points separating
these great batters. Lajoie gained a
point also by securing two hits in five
trips to the plate. Collins “stood still,”
as the Athletics’ scheduled game with
the St. Louis Browns was called off on
account of unfavorable weather condi
tions.
BASEBALL
Diamond News and Gossip
In a recent baseball game at Hankow,
China, opium pipes were used for bats.
* • ♦
Henry Severoid says it Is ridiculous to
claim that the other National league
teams are making monkeys out of the
Reds. Bor, alleges Henry, monkeys are
always climbing up.
< » •
Will Eppa Rixey share the fate of the
other brilliant I’hilly pitching recruits?
Look at McQuiilen, Moren. Coveleskie
and Chalmers. All of them Hashed, fiz
zled and popped.
♦ ♦ »
Kirkpatrick, the ex-Cracker infielder,
has left the Newark club and reported to
Brooklyn.
* • •
llughie Jennings is trying a slather of
youngsters. The names of Louden, Vitt,
Mcl’ermott, Deal and Onslow are popping
into the line-ups these days.
• * »
Charley Frank is using Dave Bunting as
utility mini and is playing Abbott Mills at
third base.
• • •
If you are looking for rot about baseball
go to the magazines That is where it's
published. Collier in a recent puerile
editorial, favors allowing a batter to re
fuse a base on balls if he wants to. Fine
idea. But for one thing no batter would
be fool enough to do it and for another
the rules committee has better sense than
to pass such a provision.
Late’ pictures of Al Bridwell, once a
Cracker shortstop, indicate that he now
looks a bit like Pete l >'Brien At that he
is still playing grand ball—with a wretch
ed team.
« • •
Now that they are playing baseball at
half the state and federal penitentiaries in
tlie country there ought to be a post
season series at some central point for
the striped championship of the world.
The Sally league season has less than
two weeks yet to run. The race is be
tween Savannah and Columbus.
• • •
John Henry Fillman. of Joplin, Mo., has
been re-engaged tg manage the Houston
team next season.
♦ * •
If the Giants win the championship
Rube Marquard will clean up $35,000. All
but SIO,OOO will come from vaudeville en
gagements.
• • •
Soon after the baseball season ends the
minority stockholders of the Memphis
club will stage their court tight for con
trol of the Memphis franchise They are
trying to have the affairs of the club
placed in the hands of a receiver.
• • •
The attorney who is representing the
minority stockholders of the Memphis
club in their fight against President Cole
man is Caruthers Ewing. He is the man
who won for Charley Frank the famous
St. Vrain-outlaw league fight—a wrangle
that cost the Southern league $40,000
• • •
The Red Sox have bought Albin Carl
strom of the Lawrence team. This is
about the "steenth" New England league
man who has gone up this year
* * •
Texas papers say that the Giants, Ath
letics Reds and Browns will train tn Tex
as next spring We doubt it—especially
as regards the Reds. Little old Georgia
looks tolerably good to Garry Herrmann
and his crowd
Johnny Dobbs has retired as a playing
managor and will hereafter perforin bnl)
in < itizen's clothes John is going the
"Billy Smith route. '
• • ,
Montgomery has placed Sykes on the
ineligible list and is using Danzig exchts
ivi Is on first base
• • •
|\‘!« > \\ ihler will probabh bp retained
as manager of the Jacksonville team for
next .season
The (iiaois played to 82.000 paid admis
sions in f’»nr games on the road recently
• • •
R.ll Sue»-n« \ i lam s that | f . suing* a
lirinid bai than Chief Meyers Both of
»in are swinging tolerably hard, too
McGraw Is Cornering Market
Os Young Pitching Material
By Damon Runyon.
NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—A new
wing will have to be con
structed to the justly cele
brated Arlington hotel at Marlin,
Texas, this coming winter to ac
commodate the wild horde of young
pitchers which will be turned loose
upon that peaceful community by
John J, McGraw in February, 1913.
Apparently the Giant chief is en
deavoring to corner the heavier
supply of the far sticks. Beating
north, west, south and east, and
apparently working on one exclu
sive order, his "ivory hunters” have
turned in nearly a dozen slab pros
pects to date, with the draft and the
recall yet to be heard from.
There is everj' prospect that Mc-
Graw will have from fifteen to
twenty pitchers in Marlin next
spring, not counting his veterans,
Mathewson, Marquard, Wiltse,
Ames, Crandall and Tesreau. He
has already spent a small fortune
in buying up kid heavers reported
favorably by his searchers. It is
very evident that McGraw sent his
scouts out with a curious single
ness of purpose. The order was
manifestly pitchers—and nothing
else—or, at least, nothing else has
been turned in so far.
It is unlikely that McGraw will
get much chance to look these boys
over this fall, either, unless his men
cinch the National league race
sooner than is expected, and he
will, therefore, probably follow- out
his scheme of last year, when he
took the youngsters to Marlin in
advance of the regulars.
In 1911 McGraw had only seven
or eight pitching recruits at Mar
lin, while this season he has al
ready gathered in ten.
Here’s List of New Pitchers.
Here is the list to date: Al De
maree, from the Mobile club of the
Southern league; Bader, from Dal
las, of the Texas league; Gouliat,
from Indianapolis of the American
association; Perryman, from Rich
mond of the Virginia league;
Schupp, from Decatur of the
Three-Eye league; Hanley, from
Newark of the Ohio State; Paddy
Greene, from Holyoke of the Con
necticut league; Shore and Robert-
NEWS FROM RINGSIDE
Grover Hayes, the Chicago lightweight,
who boxed in this city last winter will
leave for Australia tomorrow. Haves
gained much publicity by holding Freddie
Walsh, the English champion, to a draw
on two occasions.
• » »
Harry Thomas proved that all Jimmy
Johnson said about him was true by de
feating Frankie Conley all the wav’ in a
ten-round contest at Los Angeles Conley
put up a good fight, but the Britton was
too clever for him.
* * «
The McMahon brothers, promoters of
the Johnson-Jeannette fight to be staged
in New York next month, have decided
upon $lO, S2O and S3O as the prices of
seats for the championship mill As the
seating capacity of the St. Nicholas rink
is 4,000 the promoters figure on a $64,000
house.
• • •
Albert Palmer, an eighteen-year-old
boxer of Philadelphia, died in a hospital
at Philadelphia Sunday from injuries re
ceived during a six-round bout at a the
ater in that city. Palmer was scheduled
to box last Wednesday night, but com
plained of being sick. However, the pro
moters, who liked the looks of the crowd
told him he was yellow Palmer finally
decided to go on. although he was in ter
rible pain from acute lead poisoning A
warrant has been issued for the promot
ers of the encounter.
• * •
Cyclone Johnny Thompson and Jack
Dillon are booked for a ten-round Labor
Day engagement at Memphis Dillon
made a hit in the Tennessee city a few
weeks ago by knocking out Joe Gorman in
the sixth round of a scheduled ten-round
contest
• • •
Marvin Hart was hit bx a passenger
train near Seattle. Wash . Sundax and
suffered a broken rib Hart, who Is down
and out. had brakebeamed it West with
other hoboes. Only the quick use of the
emergency brakes saved Hart from being
run down and killed
• • •
Parkey .McFarland has signed articles
to box Young McMahon, of Xrw Y<uk in
Dubuque, loua. during the race meet to
b** held there September !♦> to 20 This
will t»e McFarland h last contest before he
son, Carolina collegians, and Kir
by, from Traverse City of the
Michigan State.
Demaree is a right hander who is
said to stand the Giant manage
ment $7,000 and Eugene Paulet, a
young outfielder, who was with the
club last season.. The price of Ba
der is unkitown, but he is accounted
as the best pitcher the Dallas club
owns, and probably oost at least
$1,500, if not more. Theodore Gou
liat is a southpaw, who was with
Springfield of the Central associa
tion this season, and who was re
cently turned back to Indianapolis
and sold to McGraw- by the latter
club. He Is called the "Strike-out
King.” because he whiffed an un
usually large bunch of batters in
his games.
Perryman Studying Ministry.
Perryman, the Virginian, is
studying for the ministry, and
baseball is more or less of a side
issue, but he is said to be a very
promising heaver. Paddy Greene,
whose right name is Grienier, or
something similar, has also been
claimed by the New York Ameri
cans, who allege they have an op
tion on any Holyoke player for
SI,OOO, but McGraw is said to have
paid SB,OOO, and expects to get this
young man.
The Giant leader may recall Louie
Drucke. the blond Texan, now with
Toronto of the International league,
who seems to be graduailj’ recover
ing from the injury which put him
out of business with the big
leaguers. Louie has won quite a
number of games, although in most
of them he has been hit very fee
bly. McGraw may also bring back
Pfiefer Fullenweider, the blocky
built Carolinan, who was with him
last spring, and w-ho is now with
Buffalo of the International.
Fullenweider has not had a great
deal of luck in the big minor, but
he has pitched good ball, and has
been very favorably commented
upon by the critics. McGraw rath
er liked Fullenweider from the first,
and kept him until he could place
him to the best advantage.
It is unlikely that any of the oth
er pitching recruits who were with
the Giants last spring will be re
called.
meets Ad Wolgast.
• • •
McFarland, who has Just returned from
a month’s tour around Minnesota, will
start training at once to get into the best
of condition for his ten-round encounter
with the champion September 27.
« « •
Assurance that the proposed bout be
tween Jack Johnson and Joe Jeannette
would be staged in New York on the
scheduled date advanced a step when the
M< Mahon brothers, promoters of the con
test. deposited a check for $5,000 as a for
feit that they would stage the bout at
their club.
♦ ♦ *
Joe Mandot and Mexican Joe Rivers
have started hard training for their ten
round bout on the coast Day.
XII Sores>lre Not Cancerous
While all Old Sores are not cancerous in their nature, everjFslow
healing ulcer shows a degenerated condition of the blood. Virulent impu
rities in the circulation produce angry, discharging ulcers, while milder
and more inert germs are usually manifested in the form of indolent sores
or scabby places. Efforts to heal an old sore with external applica
tions always result in failure because such treatment does not reach the
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back” when S. S. S. has made a cure, because its source has been des
troyed. Book on sores and ulcers and medical advice free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA. GA.
GROSS IS AN EASY'
WINNERINBOUT
WITH O'KEEFE
NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—Tommy
O'Keefe, of Philadelphia, the
boy who fought so sensa
tionally in Atlanta last spring, re
turned to hfs home In the Quaker
village today, a sadder and wiser
lightweight as the result of his ef
fort to take Leach Cross’ number
in a ten-round bout at the St.
Nicholas rink last night. Cross
won in a walk.
During the two opening rounds
the Philadelphian tore after the
dentist, but soon tired himself out.
Cross let O'Keefe do all the heavy
work until he began to tire from
his own execution and then opened
up and pounded Tommy at will.
In the first round Cross slipped
to. his knees and claimed he had
been fouled. The referee and most
of the spectators thought Leach
was stalling and he was roundly
hissed.
From the fifth round on it looked
ns though Cross was going to win
any second by a knockout, but
O'Keefe used all his marvellous
cleverness and managed to stall
and clinch through the entire ten
spasms. If the bout had gone an
other round or two the New Yorker
would have surely won a decisive
victory.
James J. Coffey, who claims the
heavyweight championship of Ire
land, won a technical knockout
over Jack Rowan in the middle of
the fourth round when the referee
stopped the bout because of Row
an's battered condition.
HOGAN AND RITCHIE TO
FIGHT IN ’FRISCO SEPT. 9
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22.—One-
Round Hogan and Willie Ritchie hav<>
been matched by Jim Coffroth for a
fight here on September 9, and this,
with the promised battle between Jim
Flynn, the Pueblo fireman, and Charll*
Miller for Labor day, gives Western
fight fans the promise of two good
shows.
Much interest was arbused by the
announcement of the cards and the
preliminary work of Flynn and Miller,
scheduled to begin at once, will ba
watched closely. The Pueblo scrapper l
recently fought Jack Johnson at Laa
Vegas.
MACON TO HAVE THREE-DAY MEET.
-The following card has been arranged
for a three-day meet at Macon, begin
ning August 29:
__ First Day.
First Race—Free for all pace, $l5O.
Second Race—3:oo trot, SIOO.
Third Race—2:4o pace, SIOO.
Second Day.
First Race—2:2o trot, $l5O.
Second Race—3:oo pace, SIOO.
Third Race—2:l6 pace, $l5O.
Third Day.
First Race—Free for all trot, $l5O.
Second Race—2:3o trot, SIOO.
Third Race—Special; time and purse no*
given.
Entries close August 27.
blood, and the ulcer will continue to eat deeper into
the surrounding flesh as long as a polluted circula
tion discharges its impurities into it. S.S.S. heals
old sores of every nature by purifying the blood.
Jt goes to the fountain-head of the trouble and
drives out the germ-producing poisons and morbid
'impurities which prevent the place from healing.
Then a stream of rich, nourishing blood, which
S. S. S. creates, causes a perfect and natural knit
ting together of all flesh fibres, making a thorough
and permanent cure. The sore does not “come