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Aug. 22.—West side fans are confident today that the <’ubs will w in 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 as much as the fact that for the next four days the New Yorkers will be battling the fast-gaited Pirates in Pittsburg, while Chance's crew will play four games here at home with the lowly Bostons. The Cubs are confident of making a clean sweep of the sei les w ith Johnny Kling's mistits, and they figure that the Giants will be 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 nt top speed right now, while the Giants are fal tering. It was Lew Richie who again made the Giants take the count yesterday, to the tune of 4 to 0. In the last four outs against the McGraw elan, "Comedian Lew” has won thrice. Richie was master from the start yesterday, holding New York to seven w idely scattered hits. He 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 leaped in the air and with one hand pulled down what looked like a two-base hit from Snodgrass' bat. Chicago found Tesreau for 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 w hen 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 V. IS. \ug. 22- That Jack Johnson has b, on offer. 4 SSO, to go to Australia and light S .n Lang ford and Sam M< \'\ > :'>• statement of T S. Andrews, ret . sentat ve h< e of Hugh Mintos" M eover An drew .- 8■ ' ■ - ' . ■ . b the contrary bv Joimson th. offer is still good "Th. fact is." «ays Andrews, "John son signed a < ontr i t in meet this, two men for $45,000 and $i ■ ■' ■ < xp.-ns. money and three tickets t Aust alia. This is the sarnt bouts. Mclntosh wanted to | -t $lO,- 000 in a < 'hi. a He wanted Al Tea nv.-v ma ■ stake holder and insisted ti t • $• ••> pense tnonej be nut up .e ■ "Mclntosh finally agreed t . , -• th money with Tearrx All J; k ■ t do is to say the word and th.- wl be put up. All Mclntosh tsks is a guarantee that Jack will com. to Aus tralia and keep th. engagement " COMMISSION NOT DECIDED ABOUT BIG NEGRO FIGHT NEW YORK. Aug 22 ih. Slate » boxing m I|s . ; | lSl hy , b slon >.'«.» i. ifternoon annoum ■ My*'heth. 1 ’ .hi. ... -nd .1... ,n- Wrwtt. mu:,! i„ permitted to fight . F e •• i iC-i In l • ><lu > lo eons. . tui.i.ei Percy Whiting Weighs Changes Made in the New Football Rules By Percy 11. 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 he worth while giv ing all the changes of the rules, for it 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. • • • a N even dozen changes In the *x playing rules have been made this year, though only a part of them aie important. Here they a re: Change No. 1. The playing field, now lit) In length, will be short ened to an even 100 yards. Change No 2. A zone of ten yards width bejoncl the goal lines is established. A purpose of this i- to provide ample space for ex ecution of the forward pass, and scoring <m a pass made across the goal line into this zone Is per mitted. 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, iti 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 N”. 7 After a touch back lhe ball will bo put In piny from the 20ward line instead of the 25-yard line. Change No. R on n kick-off the ball Instead of being put in play In tite center of the field will be put in plax from the 40-yard line, of the team kicking off. Change No. The field judge is eliminated. The head linesman hereafter will keep time and be judgi 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 n bounding ball can not score a legitimate goal. Change No 12 The interval be tween tin first anti second and the third an<l fourth periods Is re duced from two minutes to one minute. 'pllE establishment of the forward 1 pass zone ten yards beyond each goal line (change No. 2) is a comparatively important and cer tainly h logical and reasonable change in the code. It means that a forward paes of reasonable length can be made over the goal line, something that Kas 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 peach at the goal line This year a forward pass for a touchdown may be made. This establishment of a forward pass zone results in a number of minor changes. For one, the Held is shortened (change No. 1). 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 hall in play after a touchback (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-yanl line of the team kick ing off ,:i of the center of the fin!. This makes the distance to b< gained after the kickoff 60 yards tnstt a<:i of a.- w as the case under the ehl rules. 'Villi it; reasmg of the number of downs .Llowed from three t" i. langi No 3) nv- already ■ t. dis.- isscfi in The Georgian. It c<n r,. m hut one thing a return io th> o'.! grinding gam> with weight and strength th» only de al.. .ba met < rls: b a of a plater It m irks i ■ nd <>f th' quick think • : lid till quick I until i in loot ball ftib A i LANTA GEORGIAN ANB NEWS. THURSDAY. AUGUST 22. 1912. 'T'HE elimination of the on-side kick (change No. 4) is not par ticularly importanl. It tends to weaken the offense a trifle. But 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 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 ancT not half as picturesque ♦ * * cpHE death of the famous and 1 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 tie told, off hand; but from the sp'datois' slant the <h ath of the 20-yard Zone will be a blessed relief. * * * <pHE elimination of the field ‘ judge (change No. 9) will rob a lot of honest young gentlemen of free transportation and remunera tive jobs. 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 offieia.s 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 nt all and absolute zero. Hence the elimination. ♦ ♦ ♦ •T'HE reduction of the number of 1 men allowed on the sidelines (change No. 10) is desirable. In another year or two they will go further and rub 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 wo shall have the games played by the teams and not by the coaches, which will he altogether desirable. • * * 'T'HE elimination of goals scored A by bounding balls (change No. 111 was made necessary by the fact that last year in several games balls kicked in an attempt at a field goal ran along the ground aways ami 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 flukes 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 tchange No. 12) was doubtless pre liminary to cutting out all lest 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 t" st does 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 intermission in a game that lasts all the afternoon. NAPS SECURE CLANCY. I LEVEI.AND \UL- 22 The Cleve i.ind American ’< ivm club has an nounced the purchnsi of S. mid 11a..... man Clancy from New Orleans 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 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 — X In a recent baseball game at Hankow, (. nine, opium pipes were used for bats. * * « Henry Severofd says it is ridiculous to ‘ ,l,in , '’ l the other National league Hum. an- making- monkeys out of the Keds. Fop, alleges Henry, monkeys are always climbing up. - • • Will l.'ppa Rixey share the fate of the other brilliant Philly pitching recruits? Look at McQuillen, Moren, Coveleskie and (’halmers. All of them flashed, 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, Mclhrmott. Peal and Onslow are popping into the line-ups these days. Charley Erank is using Dave Bunting as utility man 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 I • editorial, favors allowing a batter to re fuse a base «»n balls if he wants to. Fine idea. But for one thing no batter would bo fool enough to do it and for another the rules committee has better sense than to pass such a provision. * * 4 late pictures of Al Rridwell, once a Cracker shortstop, indicate that he now looks a bit like Pete tt'Brien At that he is still playing grand bail with a wretch ed team. * * • Now that they are playing basehall at half the state anti federal penitentiaries In th untrx there ought to he a post- s' ’son 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 Ejllman. of Joplin, Mo., has been re-engaged to manage the Houston team next season. ♦ * • 1! the Giants win the champinnship Rube Marquard will clean up 135,000 Ail but 'IO,OOO will come from vaudeville en gagements. • • ■ Soon after the baseball season ends the minority stockholders of the Memphis club will stage their court fight for con trol nf the Memphis franchise Thev are trying to have the affairs of the’ club placed in the hands of a receiver. • • w The attornev who is representing the minority stockholders of the Memphis • Hub in their tight against President Pole man is Caruthers F.wing. He is the man \\co won • ” Charley Frank the famous St X r;rr. flaw league fight- a wrangle tl .it cost ■ ' Southern league >40.000 - • i The Red Sox have bought Albin Carl- i s’rom of the Lawrence team. This is I about the "steenth” New England league man who has gone up this year. » • • Texas papers sa\ that the Giants. Ath* letie--. Ki -I. and Browns will train in Tex as next spring We doubt it—-especially as regards the Reds Little old (Jeorgia I looks tolerably good to Garry Herrmann and his crowd. • • a Jo’-.nnx' Dobbs has retired as a plaving manager and will hereafter perform only in ■ tizen’s clothes John is going the *'Bill> Smith route ” X • * Montromery has pH red Sykes on the ■ ne':’giblc list and is using Danzig exclus- I ively on first base. ■ • • Peri ' Wilib'i will probably he retained as m..ii.ix-ei- of the Jacksonville team for n xt season « • « The G nil’s played to 82.000 paid admis s ■? < In iour tames on the road recently • • • B l! Svee’M'v claims that hr swings a b« ' • bu f. an Chief Me\ers Both of rm are .swinging tolerably hard. too. McGraw Is Cornering Market Os Young Pitching Materia! 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 w ild 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 every 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 M> Draw 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 Welsh, the English champion, to a draw on two occasions. • • ♦ Harry Thomas proved that all Jimmy Joimson said about him was true bv de feating Frankie Conlej al! the way 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 am! 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 an eighteen-year-okt boxer of Philadelphia, died tn 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 hooked 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 by a passenger train near Seattle. Wash.. Sunday ami suffered a broken rib Hart, who is down and out, had brakebenmed it West with other hoboes Only the quick use of the emergency brakes saved Hart from being run down and kilieG. • • • Packet McFarland has signed articles to box Young McMahon of New York, tn I'ubuque. lowa, during the race meet r !’• held there September 16 to JO Th'.s w ill be McFarland's last contest before h- 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 unknown, but he is accounted as the best pitcher the Dallas club owns, and probably cost 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 he gradually 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 Fuller welder, the blocky built Carolinan, who was with him last spring, and who is now with Buffalo of the International. Fullenwelder has not had a great deal of luck in the big minor, but he has pitched good hall, and has been very favorably commented upon by the critics. McGraw rath er liked Fullenwelder 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. V « 4 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 McMahon brothers, promoters of the con test, deposited a check for >5,000 as a for feit that they would stage the bout a’ their club. Joe Mandot and Mexican .Foe Rivers have started hard training for their ten round bout on the coast Labor Dav. .A H SoresTlre Not Ciwerous While all Old Sores are not cancerous in their nature, every "slow healing ulcer shows a degenerated condition of lhe blood. Virulent impu rities in the circulation produce anprv, discharging ulcers while milder and more inert germs are usually manifested in the form of indolent son . or dry, scabby places. Efforts to heal an old Sore with external applica tions always result in failure because such treatment, does not reach the e 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. Lit goes to the fountain-head of the trouble and letrivvs out the genn-producing poisons and morbid f impurities which prevent the placb froto hes A o J 1 streatu ot r ' e h, nourishing blood, which S. S. S. creates, causes a perfect and natural knit ting together of all flesh fibres, making a thorough ~, , „,, „ , rtni pniuanent cute. The sore does not “come back whenS. S. S. ha made a cun Because il has I i n I tioyed. Book on sores ami uh is and ttudwal ;ul\ i f lt THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA, MSSIS AK ffl ■ER IN BOUT mirpFE NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—Tommy O'Keefe, of Philadelphia, the boy who fought so sensa tionally in Atlanta last spring, re turned to his h’ome 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 Philadelphfltn tore after the dentist, hut sbon 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 as 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 :::: l Willie Ritchie have been matched b\ Jim Coffroth for a fight here on September 9, and this, with the promised hattie between Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fl eman, and Chiriie Miller for Labor day. gives Western fight fans the promise of two goo I shows. Much interest was aroused by the announcement of the cards and the preliminary work of Flynn and Miller, scheduled to begin at once, will be watched closely. The Pueblo scrapper ocently fought Jack Johnson at Las Vegas. TO HAVE three-day meet. 1 lie following card has been arranged for a three-day meet at Macon, begin ning August 29: First Day. I-irst Race Free for all pace. $l5O. Sceond Race -.1:00 trot, >IOO Thud Race- 2:40 pace, SIOO. Second Day. First Race 2:20 trot. .$l5O. Second Race 3:00 pace SIOO Third Race—2:l6 pace. $l5O. Third Day. First Race—Free for ail trot, $l5O Second Race- 2:.'10 trot. SIOO. i bird Race- Special; time and purse net given. Entries close August 27.