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Morris Rath, Jimmy Callahan's second baseman, appears to be doomed to go through his base ball career without recognition as a star, and this despite the fact that he is one of the steadiest ball players in the American league. RaSh is referred to by his mates as the brains of the White Sox in field. Thia title was given him by- Matty Mclntyre In a spirit of kid ding. and yet It Is anything but un deserved Morris is probably no smarter than either of the Sox third bssemeji. Ixjrd and Zeider. and he is usually so quiet that his bea(rt*ork goes unnoticed. He sel dom is guilty of a foolish play, and his "noodle" is so well thought of by the manager that he is often entrusted with the .job of signing for wiM*e pitches, and throws with runners on. Reaches First Oftsn. In she International league last season Rath hit well over 300 In fiset, Ms figrnre was closer to 400. Hls extra bsee clouts were few and far bevwvan and his record of stolen bases was nothing to boost of. At, present lie Is a few points below iftOO, hut be has the happy habit at reaching first base oftener than any one else on the team He is a hard man to pitch to, a man who seldom swings at bad balls. Rath is shy of bodily strength •nd ability'to steal his way around the paths Otherwise, he is a mighty good ball player and a man who own be depended on to liold up Ms rmt offensively and defen sively. I4ke certain other big leaguers NEWS FROM RINGSIDE Mike Fiwragher. who is managing J. Callaha-n. a lightweight boxer, has ap plied to the mayor of Youngstown, for a permit to let his fighter carry a revolver while doing road Work. Callahan was at tacked by three vicious dogs while out running several days ago and narrowly eeeaped serious Injury. • • • Paddy I.avin and K O Brennan are •cheduled to mingle in a ten-round fight at Buffalo next Monday night Both boys are training hard, as the winner of the content has been promised several bouts In Bison Cttj • • • Lee Kelly, the st liouis boxer, will fight some good lightweight In Memphis Mon day night He will likely meet I’an Cul len • • • Johnny Kilban*. featherweight champ, has joined the Hufrragette ranks The lit tle battler has volunteered to lead a party of suffragette* into the ore docks on Whisky island to help convert the labor er* there. • • • Battling Nelson, former lightweight, lias started training for his fifteen-round con test with Steve Ketchell at St Joseph, Mo , Ua> Nelson and Ketchell will meet at cat.hweights • • • Joe Dalton, the bantamweight, who outpointed Hurry Wadi a short time ago and later knocked ->ui Kid Hassell has been matched with Chick Hayes for a OLYMPIC MEN Wil l BE GUESTS OF NEW YORK; FUN BEGINS TONIGHT NEW YORK. Aug 23. The , .'.bra. tion In honor of the victorious \m< cl ean Olympic athletes will i>< gtr 1 . r. fonlght and last throughout tomorrow. A special performance of "Th. Rose Maid" will he given at the Globe th. ater for the athletes, and practically every man who wore the lnite.l States shield at Stockholm will be pr. sent A parade- and dinner will be given to. morrow. The parade will start at 10 a. m. Invitations were went to President Taft. Governor F»ix and Mayor Gaynor to attand the dinner tomorrow evening A corp* of bluejacktts from th. Brook lyn navy yard will march with tin .itll. Idea in th* procession. whom we have seen. Morris can go from the plate to first base much more speedily than from first to second, or second to third. It Is difficult to account for that fact, but it accounts for his slim total of thefts. He probably can beat Zeider to first by several steps, but he isn't in Rollle’s class in sprints between other bases. Ten Pounds Would Help. He would be delighted If lau pounds or more would consent to add themselves to his present weight. He figures that this would give him more clouting strength an<J make him almost 50 per cent more valuable. The other day In Washington, when the Sox figured that Walter Johnson was going to pitch, they were guying Morris about his com plaining of a gore ankle. He really was lame, but the others professed to believe that he wanted to lay off a day and thus avoid the unpleas ant Job of facing the holy terror. "There’s no chance for me to lay off," retorted Rath, "because there isn’t any one else who can play my position. 1 could have pneumonia and still would be obliged to work. Besides, Til bet that I'll hit John son Just as well as any of the rest of you." Gets Only Hit Off Johnson, Morris went them one better. Johnson allowed one hit and Rath got it So he had the laugh on his helpless pals. Rath has no weakness as a sec ond baseman His throwing is next to perfect, he covers plenty of ground and tags runners as well as the next one. But just those two things, Inability to hit for extra bases and inability to steal, pre vent hie being hailed as a star or even rated at his real value. ten-round scrap at Indianapolis l.abor Day • • • Tom Jones, Ad Wolgast’s manager, will leave for Chicago September I Jones said he and the champion would return to IjOS Angeles after Ad’s’fight with Mc- Farland In time to meet the winner of the Mandot-Rivers bout (kids on the Mandot-Rivers contest have been dropping lately and from present in- ( dirat lons the Mexican will onl> be a , choice of 10 to 8 or 10 to 9 when the two . lightweights enter the ring Labor Day. ‘ • ♦ ♦ Tony Canon!, middleweight, has been matched with Kid Clark for a ten-round engagement to be staged at Columbus Labor Day. Caponl fought here several times last winter and iiumlv a good im pression with Atlanta fans • • « Willie Ritchie lias accepted the terms offered by Promoter Jimmy Coffroth for a 20-round battle with Tommy Murphy at i San Francisco Labor Day The weight will be 133 pounds at 3 o’clock, about five hours before the tight, which should al low the pugs to enter the ring strong Luther McCarthy held Jesse Willard. , the big cowboy hope, to a ten-round draw i at the Garden A C . in New York. Mon day night ♦ • • > Tom Kennedy can no longer be consid- > sidered a “white hope " The big tighter . whs all but knocked out by Jim Savage i in New York a few days ago 'CUBS GAIN HALF GAME IN THURSDAY’S BATTLES i The ('ubs gained six points, or a half game, on the Giants as a result of yes terday s contests in the National league. It started off like a big day for the Chicago team, for the eirates trimmed ti e Giants in tb< opening game of a dou ble-header. while the Cubs whirled into tl > Bost.,r Braves tn such style that a 1 victory was certain from the jump In ti..- -. -n.l Gian Pirate game, how ■ . •■ McGraw - m- ’' with Marquard Intel ,nv reversed the earlier decision and " took lb. .--nt.,st from the Pirates \t th. .-mt of testeiduy s jousting the ('ubs were onh 3' l points behind the 0 t HOGAN FIGHTS RITCHIE r SAX Fit X N'CISC, >. \ug 23 Promoter James w (‘offroti, atmoune. tester.lay that I . signed t >ne Round' lack ■ I Hagan «* Withe Hit < - opp mnt tot a - * .t..i -■ • m San I rani • A.limssion Day (Sepicmbet ) TITE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 23. 1912. Jordan Doesn’t Want the Chattanooga Management—He Says So Himself SMITH WAS WISE NOT TO REPORT HERE SEPT. 2 By Percy 11. Whiting. rTrtHE Crackers are now plugging i along through their semi final road trip of the season. This afternoon they open in Mont gomery to play a postponed game with the Tribe of Dobb. Then they have regular contests there Sat urday and Sunday. After these games are out of the way they open In Nashville for a queer little two game series with the Vols. The trip ends wdth three games in Chat tanooga. The next home game comes the first Monday in September, the same being l.abor day. This starts a series of ten games, which will be played in ten days, with a dou ble-header on l.abor day and wdth one Sunday with no game. On September 13 the Crackers of 1912 set out on their last road Jaunt. It Is to Memphis, and there the Crackers will play n three game series and break up. A few of the local players will return to Atlanta to winter. Most of them will beat it to their own homes. • • • i■> ROM New- Orleans they are * quoting Otto Jordan as ex pressing small desire for the Chat tanooga management next year— and giving his reasons. This is what Otto says: "Once is enough. Never again for me," he answered when ques tioned. “What’s the matter don't you like managing?" queried a friend. “It's not that at all," answered the Chattanooga field captain. "I think 1 can do all O. K. with prop er support, but I'll never succeed Billy Smith again. He’s a good pal of mine, but 1 wouldn't take his Job." "Well, it would be all right if he went somewhere else and left the Chattanooga job open," insisted the friend. “That's what they said at Atlan ta.” answered Jordan. "It was all right with Bill, but not with the people. They wanted him and my taking that job cost me a good many friends, very good friends. And I certainly don't want that to happen again. If 1 get another chance at managing it will be to go to another team. I don’t want ever to be promoted from the ranks and succeed a manager In the same town as 1 did Smith at Atlanta." Wise old Otto. He knows his business. • • • q PEAKING of that, so does Rill Smith They wanted Bill to Come over to Atlanta and take hold September 2. Doubtless it could have been arranged, but it wasn't Bill was too wise. (if course Bill might have come to Atlanta, gingered up the shat tered remains of the Calamity of 1912 and managed to win some games before tile season ended. But the chances were all against him. The Hemphill-Alperman wreck is too far gone It has the losing habit. An opium eater in the last stages is no more wedded to the drug than are the locals to the idea of toss ing off one game a day regularly and two on double-header days. If Smith had come over in Sep tember he would have been given a tousing welcome but if the team had lost 13 out of 15 games his popularity would have begun with ering. As It is Smith will wait until 1913 Then he will open up. not with what is left of tile Hemp hill misfits, but with a team of his own picking Bill lias finished tn the second division twice and seems set to do It again with Chatta nooga lb doesn't intend m in herit Hie stigma of finishing list fiom t'hirlej Hemphill Not |tm H> knows hie business, too. QHATTANOOGA papers are quot ing O. B. Andrews, president of the Chattanooga club, in sting ing interviews, denouncing Bill Smith for saying that he w’as go ing to buy Otto Jordan for use In Atlanta next year. Andrews claims that he wouldn’t sell Jordan under any circumstances. Os course this is a typical An drews interview’. As a matter of fact, Atlanta papers started the idea that Jordan would come back, and all Bill Smith ever said for publication on the subject was that if Jordan was for sale he would buy him. It can probably’ be taken for granted that Bill knows the base ball rules and customs fully as w’ell as Mr. Andrews. It Is also a corking guess that Otto Jordan will be back in Atlanta next season. He wants to come back so bad It hurts him, and w’hat Otto wants he usually gets—bar ring pennants. • • • C PEAKING of pennants—the Bir mlngham team continues to maintain a comfortably secure hold on the Southern league lead and should cop. It has been an odd thing about FODDER FOR FANS The Mansfield team of the Ohio State league has on its line-up Pitcher Black, Catcher Blue and Fielder Redman. And yet it is not a colored nine. * » • If there is a post-series game between the American league pennant winners and a picked team, which is likely, Clark Griffith w’ill lead the picked team. • • • The Louisville team is next to last, but Manager .lack Hayden has been signed for 1913. They are going to give him another chance. • ♦ • Owing to the illness of Umpire Bier halter. Bob Spade was summoned on short notice to take up a job as umpire in she American association. Evidently he did not last long at that managerial job he had. * The Indianapolis team has an amateur owner and a bush league manager. But it might get going, even with that com bination. Billy Smith was known as the "Bush League Manager" when he took over the Atlanta team. After he won two pennants they forgot that title. Somebody sent out from Atlanta the in formation that Bill Smith w>>n pennants for Atlanta tn 1908 and 1910. Os course he didn't win pennants either of those years The rags he grabbed were in 1907 and 1909. • • • Jim Delehanty has secured a place with the Minneapolis club. • • • McMillan was the leading base stealer and the third best run-getter of the In ternational league when he quit to go to the Highlanders His last day in the In ternational he hammered out two doubles and a triple • • • Eddie Murphy, the Baltimore outfielder, was the first man In the International league to score 100 runs He turned the trick in 113 games ♦ • ♦ “Kid" Wells, with Jersey City, has bal let! 357 this year, which is considerably above his Southern league clip. • • •> George Crable. ex-Cracker pitcher, has been fined $25 and indefinitely suspended by the owner of the San Antonio club. The old complaint! • . • Ten Million, who looked like read' money in the big league this spring, has dropped another peg this time from Sioux City. lowa, to Tacoma. Wash. • e • Challenge: The champion team of the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary league would like to play a series with the Cracker club w • a In a recent game at Savin Rock. Conn , between the New Haven and Bridgeport teams a giant umpire attacked a ball player named Bobby Stow and then mixed up with Jack Sprat and a half doxen ball players tn a general riot No body will be surprised to learn that the name of the said ' g'ant umpire" Is Mul laney The suspicion exists that hls first name is Dominick. • • • Fred Schupp. the southpaw for wh<nn McGraw gave Decatur $5,000. is the hign est priced pia'it who ever broke into a b'g le. gue *quau with less than a 'eat < professional experience Last year Schupp was am» t« semi pro President Taft s such hi ardent hall bug Ibat ! • has directed M,. >i T L ltho«ob— h s inihtur.' ad, t»» make an ex amination ”f ’Daredevil Dan Moeller > this 1912 baseball season in the South. The race in old Dixie Major this year has been extremely close. Any time any one of five teams made a rush it could have threat ened first place. And yet, barring Mobile, no team has made a real rush this season. The Barons took an early lead and have held it right along by a small margin. They have never had things all to them selves. Any team in the league that spurted could have passed the Barons. But no team spurted. This race has been one of the odd affairs when the teams ran bunched all the way, wdth only a little distance separating them but with few changes in relative posi tion. Even the Justly lamented Crack ers have been where they could get not only out of last place, but out of the second division if they could only have won a half dozen games In a row. But they have plugged right along, winning just enough to keep within hailing distance but not enough to pass any other teams. Yea, verily. It has been a blighted season. ’ shoulder and to operate on it if there is a chance to get it in shape. American association rumors have it that Harry Davis and “Topsv” Hartsei I will swap jobs, Davis going to Toledo and i Hartsei to Cleveland. Mike Bryette, formerly’ of the Sally league, has landed first call on a pav en . velope from the Madison team of the I Wisconsin-Illinois league. • • • Ducky Holmes has quit as manager of the Nebraska team of the Mink league and is trying to buy into the game at , Omaha. When Bill Schwartz sold Grover Brandt I to Beaumont he made a bust. Grover wouldn't work in Nashville, but lie set Texas afire and has been sold to the Red Sox. They said that Beals Becker had actual , ly learned to play baseball this year, but bis fielding doesn't show it. He couldn’t ‘ field for beans when he was with Little Rock and apparently hasn’t improved much. • * « The Indianapolis moguls claimed that J they had a detective traveling with the ’ Indianapolis team in order to get infor ; mation as to which players were breaking the training rules (which is polite base ball talk for "tanking up every night"). Now the Indianapolis players charge that i one of their own members. Shortstop Gagnier. was furnishing the information that cost them several hundred Iron Men . in fines and Gagnier couldn’t win anv . popularity’ contests right now. Clark Griffith Is kicking on the Ameri . can league umpires- -which is reallv an amazing thing. "Griff" is ordinarily a great umpire booster * ♦ • i Considering all the fuss and trouble Hub , Perdue has had with the Boston Braves this year it is somewhat surprising to learn that the Original Hubbard Squash has signed a three-year contract. * ♦ * Mathewson has confessed that the ball he pitched to Jimmy’ Archer which James whaled into for the hit that won the game S and the series between the Cubs and the I Giants was intended for a pitcli-out. American association papers are kick ing because they say that ('leveland has considered Toledo merely as a farm and , has manipulated its players to the detri , rnent of the Toledo club. The Cleveland club owners hold that they have spent a lot more on the Toledo club than they will get out of It. Everybody Is sick of the ‘ arrangement. Hence look out for a change 1 in farms this fall. WILSON OF KNOXVILLE PITCHES NO-HIT GAME KNOXVILLE TENN . \ur 23 Finis ’ Wilson, southpaw of the local Appalach ian league team, pitched a no-hlt no-run t game against Johnson City yesterdaj aft ernoon. and after a rest of fifteen min utes. shut the same team out again by j ’ the score of sto o In the first game, .which was won 2 to 0. Shortstop Morley. ( ;a college recruit, hit tw ■> home runs in . > succession Unknown to Wilson and M<»r --' !e' scouts watched their work DOVES BUY GERVAIS. SI'oKANE. W ASH \ug 23 Piu her lift' Gervax. of the Vancouver Hub - D Norths stem leaguer, has been sold to * the Boston Nationals Fascination of Golf Stronger Than That in Any Other Sport By H. N. H. Woodcock. IT Is only comparatively recently that golf has been boomed, as it were, yet It Is now played In every country of the civilized world. New links are being started every day. “Scratch" players no longer have the entre of exclusive circles in society without the qualifications to back up their prowess at the game, owing to the vast numbers that have achieved success at this most fascinating and attractive sport. The golfer only wants the slight est possible excuse to neglect busi ness and home ties to fly off to his favorite course and forget every thing except how he is to get his handicap reduced or improve his previous low score of the links, but the unfortunate individual who is not a golfer and has not played the game—perhaps only seen It once—can not see the attraction In it whatever; thinks it is an old man’s game, and would probably heartily agree with the Oxford tu tor w ho said it was a game of "put ting little balls into little holes with instruments ill adapted for the pur pose.” Golf Leads Them All. Ask any man who has achieved moderate proficiency at many games and has then taken up golf, which he enjoys playing the most of them all, and the answer is al ways the same—golf. What is the charm of the game? It is the never-ending variety for all classes of players, from bad to amateur champion. Providence is kind to beginners and often a man will play a bet ter game after 30 days experience than he can after a year’s, w’hich is fortunate, as many a fine golfer would have given up in disgust had he known of the bad times he had before him when he was off his game and nothing would go right for him. Fourteen Years All Too Short. In Scotland, they tell you it takes fourteen years to make a golfer, depressing news no one believes, each one thinking he or she is the “Teat exception until after playing about ten years, when serious doubts arise as Lo whether the time allowed was nearly’ long enough. But no matter how badly a man may play, somewhere during the round of eighteen holes he will make at least one shot that is a sufficient compensation for all his other misdeeds and which will fill him with enthusiasm and hope. A well played shot at any game always gives the player a feeling of satisfaction and comfort, but a perfectly executed shot at golf— say a drive which keeps rather low to begin with yet high enough to carry the bunker ahead, then gain ing impetus and height is seen silhouted against the sky for a mo ment and is afterwards found in the center of the course 300 yards from where it was driven—gives the player a most pleasurable sensa tion. Prouder Than a Star. In fact, it is doubtful if a more or less prosaic golfer who has brought off such a shot to his en tire satisfaction would exchange feelings with an operatic artist re ceiving the plaudits of a capacity house. Golf is the most sociable of games. A very garrulous player is a nui sance, but in between shots much can be said—to he distinguished from what is •mid immediately after an injudicious stroke —and delight ful friendships ran be made and renewed during the day's play Memory a Pleasure. y round that ha- vanquished a hettei player or low.j ml the re. ord fi>i the eoutse. can b< remembned stroke by’ stroke for years after ward. Therefore over a quiet smoke many’ exchanges of experiences take place in the club house after the day’s games are over. This is the time of the year to which golfers of all grades look forward with great longing, though perhaps the beginner gets the most fun of them all. Now is the time of the golfing holiday—golf every day’ and all day’. Perhaps the be ginner has only’ played w’eek-ends up to now. Having the daily golf he will improve so rapidly that on hls return to his own course he can reckon his averages by’ s’s in stead of 6’s. And Now He Plays It. His tee shots have become more or less mechanical. Instead of each one being a separate adventure to which the end was pure guesswork, giving a practical illustration of Faith. Hope and Charity; Faith during the swing of the club; Hope during the flight of the ball; Char woma S hl? m'° nff his opponent would help him search for hls mis placed effort. TWO CITIES GO AFTER FIGHT THAT NEW YORK REFUSED TO TOLERATE nette to take place in this citv on Sep tember 2n, Jesse and Edward McMahon proprietors of the St. Nicholas Athlete club, announced today that they would piobably try to stage the bout in Phila delphia or Baltimore. Johnson again announced his retire ment from the ring as soon as the de cis‘on of the boxing commission was VLrttlh t 0 k'T 1 ! by tele S''aph, but the Mt Mahons believe that they can per suade him to change his mind. The promoters announced that thev would make a trip to Chicago shortly to see Johnson. Jeannette has said' he he P refVrre J d O New n Y a o n r r' here ' alth ° Ugh MAYBE MACK MADE DEAL BUT HE SAYS HE DIDN’T BALTIMORE, Aug 23. Connie Mack manager of ih e Philadelphia Athletics Is said to have completed a deal with 'the Baltimore International league club ves? te.cday by which he gets Outfielders Jam.-; Malsh and Eddie Murphy, and gave up four players—Outfielder Lord Infiel.p.r Derrick and Pitchers Shawkev and I an m.v b b a "' J J 5 Walsh and Murphy have been batting over 330 all season' 5 EH IlaA DE2LPHIA, Auk. 23 •'’VTanairof* Mack, of the Philadelphia Arnerhs n league club, denied the report from Balt: WtY he a d?al win. the BMtlmoie International league .Jul, It is true, he said, "that Manaaer Dunn and myself hav« diet jssed a -teal have yet to reach any agree ,vlN!Wa*?'*r Mack denied the rumor rl„< nner • SWEDES WILL FIGHT HARD TO WIN NEXT OLYMPIAD NEW YORK, Aug 28 The latest re turning party of Olympic athlete, brought from Stockholm' the news tha? Ernie Hjertherg. th.- r, who had charge of Sweden's Olympic team has been re-engage,1 to train th.. Swedes for a period ol four years Ti e is regarded as Indicating that the Swedes have jegun to look seriously for <>l\m., ~ honors, and that they are planning o, turn out a formidable team so the gam - in Berlin in 1916 B Thin the desire for American trainers is sweeping all over Europe ns eviden. ed by the offer marie by |.’ ri ; nc( d to aw\ . Robertson, the Irish American ehuT ■ trainer, to take charge ..f the French ath etes and prepare them for the next ffor P » T ee, < ,:, >berts..n declined th.. pJesent berffi w " h hi ’ CRAZED EX-PLAYER’ injures his guards CLEVELAND. OHIO, Aug '•3-ia.- ■"-T ; ' uGG:.';. . "Ugt't desperately before he ng reeai here* ;‘.L.X X - 1 v;’"“f h'sXl ht„, „ It'ltie and civilian ■lldeT n ' “tllomohlle HCVCI.I t "r I "*,!' K 'i'-Hves ha<|. r.*,; ,p. . r ”* ,he fl « ht R> overpower