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The Cubs are confident of making a clean sweep of the series with Johnny Kling's misfits, and they figure that the Giants will lie 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 made the Giants take tho count yesterday, to the tune of 4 to 0. In the last four outs against the McGraw clan, "Comedian Lew" has won thrice. Richie was master from the start yesterday, holding New York to seven widely 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 Sait r and Leach ad vanced a base. Leach came home on a passed ball. Another run was scored by Chi cago in the eighth w hen Saier sin gled. went to second on Evers' out, anti 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 MILVVAIKEE, \VIS Aug 22 That Jack Johnson has been <>ft< —d $50,0011 to go to Australia and tight Sam Lang ford and Sam McVey is t statement Los T S. Andrews, representative he e of Hugh Mclntosh Moreover. An drews says, in spite of statements to the contfcry by Johnson, tin offer is etill goo r "The fact is." says Andrew- 'John son signed a contra, t to meet the-e two men for $45,000 and $5,0u0 < xp- n>.- money and three tickets to Aus' a! . This is the same as $511,000 • r a. two bouts. Mclntosh wanted to twist s|o 000 in a Chicago bank Jack oi,|,, >..,1 He wanted Al Tearnev made stake holder and insisted that tin $5.0u0 . y. ' pense money be put up at ulte< "Mclntosh finally agreed to post th. I money with Tearney A|l .lack has t. I do is to sav the word and the cash w |be put up. All Mclntosh asks is < guarantee that Jack will come to Aus tralia and keep the engagement COMMISSION NOT DECIDED ABOUT BIG NEGRO FIGHT NEW YORK, Aug 22 The state . boxing commission after a lengthy aion yesterday afternoon announced I that no decision had been r»nc:i. I a- to whether Jack Johnson and Jo. J. ,m --nette would he permitted to fight ten-round no decision batt < I'm • committee will meet again today Io consider the matter further. Percy Whiting Weighs Changes Made for 1912 Gridiron Game By Perry 11. Whiting. SPEAKING (if 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 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. • • • 4 N even dozen ch an gon In th? ** playing rules have been made this year, though only a part of them are Important. Here they are: t’hange No. 1 The playing field, now 110 tn length, will be short ened to an even 160 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 pass made across the goal line into this zone is per mitted. Change No. 3 The number nf •downs" to gain ten yards is in creased from three to four Change No 4 The on side kick is eliminated Change No 5 Th? 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 sere 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 < 'lmngr No S On a kick-off the ball Instead of being put In play tn th? 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 Ir eliminated. Th? 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 ami the third and fourth periods Is re duced from two minutes to one minute • • • npHK establishment of the forward ■ pass zone ten yards beyond each goal line (change No. 2) is a conrparatively important and cer tainly a logical and reasonable change tn 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 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' field 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 ball In play after a touchback (change No. 7) is changed from the 2 5-ya rd lim to the L’b-yard line, and the point from which the kick off is made (change No. 8) will be the 40-yard limos the team kick ing off instead of the center of th? field This makes the distance to m gained aft< i the kickoff 60 yards •nst» ci of .’ as was the case under the old rules. • • • '■pill' iner* asing of the number of downs allowed from three to tout (cha ngi No • has a ready been discussed in The <»♦•<.rgi.in it <an mean but »ne thing < return to the oh. grinding game wit a weight and sinmcth the onl\ de sirable hi oi.rmtics .f i payer It m irks the <ml of the quick think • r and the quit a runner in foot ball. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND KEWS. THURSDAY. AUGUST 22. 1912 THE elimination of the on-slde kick (change No. 4) Is not par ticularly Important. It tends to weaken the offense a trifle. But the play has been little used of late jeers and was not over successful on Atlanta fields when it was used. Its removal from the code will not be keenly regretted. • • • THE rules committee hps 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). Rut 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 ns picturesque. » • • tHE death of the famous and A troublesome "20-yard zone" (change No. «) caused but slight mourning. At Us best the 20-yard zona 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. • * ♦ qpHE elimination of the field 1 Judge (change No. 9) will rob a lot of honest young gentlemen of free transportation and remunera tive jobs. Rut 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. • • • (-pHE 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 tn separate cages tn the grandstand and then we shall have the games played by the teams and not by the coaches, which will be altogether desirable. « 9 * THE elimination of goals scored 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 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 flukes of this character. • * ♦ ■pHE reduction of the time allowed * between the first and the sec ond and the third ami fourth quar ters from two minutes to one (change No. 12) was doubtless pre liminary to (titling out all test 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 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 he morel farcical than a one-minute intermission in a game that lasts all the afternoon NAPS SECURE CLANCY. I I.EX EI.A ND \UK 22. The < ’le> < tnd Xmeii.an '.ague < luh has at noun. I ll tile purchase of Second It.is. n in <’lan<> from New <>r|ean, r J The Big Race | Here’s how the "Big Five” of the American league are hitting the ball, the averages including yesterday's games: PLAYER— AB. H. P. C. COBB 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 Peaoh.” 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 basei.all game at Hankow, c hina, opium pipes were used for bats. • • * „i»J enr L S . eve f oM says 1s ridiculous to claim that the other National league teams are making monkeys out of the Reds. For, alleges Henry, monkeys are always climbing up. * • • Mill Eppa Rlxey share the fate of the other brilliant Philly pitching recruits? Look at McQuillen, Moren, Coveleskie and Chalmers. All of th etn flashed, tlz zled and popped. * ♦ • Kirkpatrick, the ex-Cracker infielder, has left the Newark club and reported to Brooklyn. • • ♦ Hughie Jennings is trying a slather of youngsters The names of Txniden, Vitt, McDermott, Deal and Onslow are popping into the line-ups these days. • ♦ • Charley Frank 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 published. Collier's, 1n 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. ♦ • w Late pictures of Al Bridwelt, once a < racke.r shortstop, indicate that he now looks a bit like Pete O'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 the 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 to manage the Houston team next season. « • • If the Giants win the championship Rube Marquard will clean up sss,Aon All but SIO,O(Hi 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 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 tight against President Cole man is Caruthers Ewing. He Is the man who won for Charley Frank the famous St \ rain-outlaw league tight a wrangle that cost the Southern league $40,000 The Red Sox have bought Albin Carl str.>lll ~f ttie 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 in Tex as next spring W e doubt it especlallv I as regards the Reds Little old Georgia | looks tolerably good to Garrt Herrmann I and his crowd • • • Johnny Dobbs has retired as a placing manager and will hereafter perform only in citizen's clothes John is going the Hilly "Smith route 1 • • • Montgomery has placed Sykes on the ineligible list and is using T»anzig exclus ive! \ on first base Pvre\ Wilder will probabh bp retained as manager of the Jacksonville team for next season • • • The Giants played tn 52.000 paid admis sions in four games .»n the road recently • • • Bill Swptov'v claims 'hat he mw ngs a heavier hat than Chief Meyers H*>th of em are tolerably hard, 100. / 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, Texa«, 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 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 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, Hayes gained much publicity by holding Freddie *' elsh, the English champion, to a draw on two occasions. * * ♦ Harry Thomas proved that a,ll Jimmy Johnson said about him was true by de feating Frankie Conley all the wav in a ten-round contest at lais Angeles Conley put up a good tight, 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 S2O 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 elghteen-vear-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. Hie pro moters. who liked the looks of the crowd, told him he was .yellow. Palmer finally deckled 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 b\ a passenger train near Seattle Wash . Sunday an<l suffered a broken rib Hart, who is down an.l out. had brakebeanted it West with other hoboes Only the quick use of the emergency brakes saved Hart from being run down and killed • • • Packet McFarland has signed articles io box Young McMahon, of New York, in Dubuque. lowa during the race meet to b. held there September 16 t . 20 Th s will he McFarlan.i s hist 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 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 be gradually’ recover ing from the injury’ yvhich 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 who 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 inlo 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 McMahon 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 Labor Day Zill Soreszlre Not Cancerous While all Old Sores are not cancerous in their nature, every slow healing ulcer shows a degenerated condition of the blood, \ irulent 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 dry, scabby places. Efforts to heal an old sore with external applica tions alwaj’S result in failure because such treatment does not reach the (jS) and permanent cure. The sore does not “come back" when S. S. S. has made a cure, because its source lias been des troyed. Book on sores and ulcers and medical advice free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA. GA. By “Bud” Fisher CROSS IS AN EASY WINNER IN HOUT WITH D'KEEFE NEW YORK, Aug 22.—Tommy O'Keefe, of Philadelphia, the boy' who fought so sensa tionally’ 1n Atlanta last spring, re turned to his 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 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 and Willie Ritchie have been matched by Jim Coffrath for a fight here on September 9, and this, with the promised battle between Jim Flynn, the Pueblo fireman, and Charlie Miller for Labor day, gives Western fight fans the promise of two good shows. Much interest was aroused by ths announcement of the cards and the preliminary work of Flynn and Miller, scheduled to begin at once, will be watched closely. The Pueblo scrapper recently fought Jack Johnson at Laa Vegas. MACON TO HAVE THREE-DAY MEET. Ihe following card has been arranged for a three-day meet at .Macon beein 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. *IOO Third Race—2:l6 pace. $l5O. Third Day. First Race Free for all trot. $l5O Second Race—2:3o trot. >IOO 1 bird Race Special: time and purse not 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. . It 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