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10 GtOBSM K® ffIffID’HUDOT Mutt’s Always Ready to Help Jeff Out :: :: :: :: :: ;; :: By “Bud” Fisher *' ' I « T 1 " —— - ■ ■ --« e , 1 e-xsov.eo A ' IGas w vous WASN'T I C“° re ‘ ! f i p«,T \ , T 4WVN . ru. s« ’ /r > ' BACK-ON WK / I CONGTSUCtX I > ~ ’ < '.Wkat Tne. BOOK sects I I ThC MUFFLEK. V ~ -. —• ——v*” . ABOUT it ~ V"" ex ' Y J START I • I > '/W' ir , WWiiO.GSgHiW Uj CUBS NOW SURE THEY WILL BEAT ■ 01ITMT5 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 , —1 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 1 t 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