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This 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 basemen. Lord and Zelder, and he is usually so quiet that his headwork goes unnoticed He sel dom Is guilty of a foolish play, and hls "noodle" is so well thought of by the manager that he Is often antruated with the Job of signing for waste pitches, and throws with runners or, Reaches First Often. In the International league last •eaaan Rath Mt well over .300 In fact, Ms figure was closer to .400. His extra base clouts were few and fiar bAtwwen and his record of elrdan Jjases wae nothing to boast «f. AtMtrwent he is a few points beiow 800, but he has the happy habit of reacnlng first base oftener than any one eiae on the team He tc a hard man to pitch to, a man who seldom swings at bad balls. is ahy of bodily (Strength and ability to steal his way around the paths Otherwise, he is a mighty good b«U! player and a man who oam be depended on to hold up his end. offensively and defen «! vWy Ilk, certain other big leaguers NEWS FROM RINGSIDE Mike Farragber. whn is managing J Callahan, a lightweight boxer, him ap plied to the mayor of Youngstown, for a permit to let hie fighter carry a revolver while doing road Work. Callahan was at- 1 tacked by three vicious dogs while out running several days ago and narrowly eecapec serious injury • • • Paddy Lavin and K O Brennan are scheduled to mingle In a ten-round tight at Buffalo next Monday night Both boys are training hard, as the winner of the contest has been promised several bouts in Bison City Lee Kelly, rhe St Ixmlis boxer, will tight •ome good lightweight in Memphis Mon day night He. will likely meet Han Cul len Johnny Kilbane featherweight champ, has joined the suffragette ranks. The lit tle battler has volunteered to lead a party of suffragettes into the ore docks on Whisky Island to help convert the labor ers there • • • Battling Nelson, forme; lightweight, has started training for bis fifteen-round con test with Steve Ketchell at St Joseph. Mo., Day Nelson and Ketchell will meet at catchweights • • • Joe Dalton, the bantamweight, who outpointed Harry Wade a short tin e ag ■ and later knocked out Kid Russell. has been matched with Chick Hayes for a OLYMPIC MEN WILL BE GUESTS OF NEW YORK; FUN BEGINS TONIGHT NEW YORK. Aug 23. The < ■ ebra tion In honor of the victorious Ameri can Olympic athletes will begin here tonight and last throughout tomorrow A ■pedal performance of "The Ftosc Maid" will be given at the Globe th' ater for the athletes, and practically every man who wore the United States shield at Stockholm will be present A parade and dinner will he given to morrow. The parade will start at 10 a. m invitations were went to I resident Taft. Governor Dlx and Mayor Gaynor to attend the dinner tomorrow eteiiing A corp* of bluejacket* from th' Brook lyn navy yard will march with Ute ath letes in the procaaeivn. 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 Zelder to first by several steps, but he isn’t in Rollie’s class In sprints between other bases Ten Pounds Would Help. He would be delighted If Isa pounds or more would consent to add themselves to his present weight. He figures that this would give him more clouting strength and 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 sore 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. I could have pneumonia and still would be obliged to work. Resides, I’ll 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 bit 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. Rut Just those two bases and inability to steal, pre vent his being hailed as a star or even rated at his real value. ten-round scrap at Indianapolis lj»bor Day. • • • Tom Jones. Ad Wolgiuit's manager, will leave for Chicago September I Jones said he and the champion would return to I'Os Angeles after Ad’s tight with Mc- Farland in time to meet the winner of the Mandot - Rivers bout. Odds on the Mandot-Rivers contest have been dropping lately anti from present In dications the Mexican will only be a choice of 10 to 8 or 10 to 9 when the two lightweights enter the ring Labor Day • • ♦ Tony Caponl, 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 made a good im pression with Atlanta fans • • • WilMe Ritchie has accepted the terms offered by ITomoter Jlmmx Coffroth for a 20-round battle with Tommy Murphy at San Francisco Da> 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 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 was all but knocke<l out b\ Jim Savage in New York a few days ago 'CUBS GAIN HALF GAME IN THURSDAY’S BATTLES The Cubs gained six points, or a lialf I 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 rlrates trimmed the Giants in the opening game of a dou bt, loader, while the Cubs whirled into Hi' Boston Braves in such style that a vlctoi was certain from th< jump In the second Giant-Pirate game. how . ever McGraw's men. with Marquard pitching, reversed the earlier decision and took the contest from the Pirates At tlie end of jesurdux s (ousting the Cut's were unit points behind tin, Giants HOGAN FIGHTS RITCHIE SAN I KANCIHC. I, Vug 23 I'ronioier James t\ Ci'ffrmli announced vesierdax itiMt he had Signed One Hound' tick Hogan as Willie Hits hm a opponent fol a "n loiiiio fight in San hrancisio A<l<nl--bm Luu iHeptemlwt > ; THE 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. I By Percy H. Whiting. ryMIE 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 wUh the Vols. The trip ends with three games in Chat tanooga. The next home game comes the first Monday in September, the same being Labor day. This starts a series of ten games, which will be played In ten days, w»ith a dou ble-header on Labor day and with one Sunday with no game. On September 1.3 the Crackers of 1912 set out on their last road Jaunt. It Is to Memphis, and there the Crackers will play a three game series and break up. A few’ of the local players will return to Atlanta' to wintier. Most of them will beat it to their own homes. • • • F» 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: w "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 I 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. 1 don’t want ever to be promoted from the ranks and succeed a manager In the same town as I did Smith at Atlanta.” Wise old Otto. He knows his business. • • • q Peaking of that, so does Bin 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. Os 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 the season ended. Btit 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 t\yo on double-header days if Smith had come over in Sep tember he would have been given a rousing 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 the Hemp hill misfits, but with a team of his ow n picking Hill has finished in the second division twice aud seems sot to do it again with Chatta nooga He doesn't intend to in herit tin stigma of finishing la«t from I'iiirl’ x Hemphill Not Hill Hr know.' Ills business, too. papers are quot ing O. B. Andrews, president of the Chattanooga club, in sting ing interviews, denouncing Bill Smith for saying that he was 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 well as Mr. Andrews. It Is also a corking guess that Otto Jordan will be back tn AUanta next season. He wants to come back so bad it hurts him, and what 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 will lead the picked team The Ixrutsvllle team Is next to last, but Manager Jack Hayden has been signed for 1913. They are going to give him another chance. Owing to the illness of Umpire Bigr halter, Bob Spade was summoned 'on short notice to take up a job a* umpire In the 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 won pennants for Atlanta In 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 bat ted .357 this year, which is considerably above his Southern league clip. • • George Crable. ex-Cracker pitcher, has been fined $25 and indefinitely suspended b\ the owner of the San Antonio chib. T'he old complaint! • ♦ • Ten Million, who looked like ready money in the big league this spring, has I dropped another peg this time from | Sioux City. lowa, to Tacoma. Wash • • • Challenge. The champion team of the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary league would like to play a series with the Cracker club • • • In a recent game at bavin Kock. Conn , between the New Haven and Bridgeport teams a giant umpire attacked a ball player named Bobby Stow and then mixed up with .lack Sprat and a half < I oxen ball players in h general riot No body will be surprised to learn that the name of the said 'giant umpire” is Mul laney The suspicion exists that his first name is Dominick • • • Fred Schupp. the southpaw for whom McGraw gave Decatur 15.00 U, is the high est priced player who ever broke into a big league squad with leas than a rears professional experience Last yeai Schupp a mere semi pro President Taft is mu h an ardent base ball bug that he has directed Major T L Rhoads i Hilary nidi in ax amination of Daredevil Dan Moeller a 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 teaiji 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. with 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 w’ithin 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 will swap jobs. Davis going to Toledo and Hartsei to Cleveland » * ♦ Mike Bryette. formerly of the Sally league, has landed first call on a pay en velope from the Madison team of the M isconsln-lllinois 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 to Beaumont he made a bust. Grover wouldn't work in Nashville, but he set Texas afire and has been sold to the Red Sox. ♦ • • They said that Beals, Becker had actual ly learned to play baseball this vear, but his 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 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 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 any popularity contests right now • • • Clark Griffith is kicking on the Ameri can league umpires—which is really an amazing thing. "Griff" is ordinarily a great umpire booster. • • • 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 and the series between the Cubs and the Giants was intended for a pitch-out • • « American association papers are kick ing because they say that Cleveland has considered Toledo merely as a farm and has manipulated its players to the detri ment of the Toledo club. The Cleveland club owners hold that they have spent a lot more on the Toledo club than they will got out of it. Everybody Is sick of the arrangement. Hence look out for a change in farms this fall. WILSON OF KNOXVILLE PITCHES NO-HIT GAME 1 , KNOXVILLE. TENN Auk 23. Finis , Wilson, southpaw of the local Appalach ian league tram, pitched a no-hit no-run game against Johnson <’Hy yesterday aft ernoon. an«l after u rest of fifteen min utes. shut the same team out again hj the score of 5 to 0. In the first game, which whs won, 2 to 0. Shortstop Morley, a college recruit, hit two home runs in , sun rssioti Inknown to Wilson and Mor , les scouts watched their work DOVES BUY GERVAIS SPOKANE WASH. \ug 2.** Pitt her “Left* Gervais, of the Vancouver Hub (Northwestern league* 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 oft 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 who 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, which" 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 exeat exception until after playing about ten years, when serious doubts arise as to 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 be distinguished from what is said immediately after an injudicious stroke and delight ful friendships can be made and renewed during the day's play Memory a Pleasure. A round that has vanquished a better player, or lowered the ret ord for the course, ran bt rem- mix ie«j 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 week-ends up to now. Having the dally golf he will Improve so rapidly that on his 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 ity, as to how long his opponent would help him search for hls mis placed effort. TWO CITIES GO AFTER FIGHT THAT NEW YORK REFUSED TO TOLERATE NW YORK, Aug. 23.—Following the to f «?k!w of tk he .’ tate boxln F commission to allow the ten-round boxing contest between Jack Johnson and Joe Jean nette to take place in this city on Sep tember ..5, Jesse and Edward McMahon proprietors of the St. Nicholas Athletic club, announced today that they would probably try to stage the bout in Phila delphia or Baltimore. Johnson again announced his retire ment from the ring as soon as the de cision of the boxing commission was flashed to him by telegraph, but the McMahons believe that they can per suade him to change his mind. The promoters announced that thev would make a trip to Chicago shortlv to see Johnson. Jeannette has said he would box Johnson anywhere, although he preferred New York. MAYBE MACK MADE DEAL BUT HE SAYS HE DIDN'T t^nld/lpiflf said to have completed a deal with the Baltimore International league club ves terday by which he gets Outfielders James Malsh and Eddie Murphy, and gave ui» four players—Outfielder Lord. Infielder Derrick and Pitchers Shawkey and Dan forth and $5,000. Walsh and Murphy have been batting over .330 all season. PHILADELPHIA, Aug 23.—Manager Mack, of the Philadelphia American league club, denied the report from Balti more that he had completed a deal with the Baltimore International league club "It is true," he said, "that Manager Dunn and myself have discussed a deal, but we have yet to reach anv agree ment. Manager Mack denied the rumor that the trade would be the forerunner of a shake-up in the Athletics' club. SWEDES WIuTfIGHT HARD TO WIN JMEXT OLYMPIAD * NEW YORK, Aug. 23 —The latest re turning party of Olympic athletes brought from Stockholm the news that Ernie Hjertberg, the American trainer who had charge of Sweden's Olympic team, has been re-engaged to train the Swedes for a period of four years This is regarded as indicating that the Swedes have begun to look seriously for Olvmpfc honors, and that they are planning to turn out a formidable team for the games in Berlin in 1916. ’■ Bames That the desire for American trainers is sweeping all over Europe as evidenced by the offer made by France to Laws..,. Robertson. the Irish-American duffs trainer, to take charge of the French ath letes and prepare them for the next Olympic meet Robertson declined the offer, as he Is well satisfied with his present berth CRAZED EX-PLAYER~ INJURES HIS GUARDS CLEVELAND. OHIO. Aug 23—Jack C ooper a Painesville, Ohio, ball placer formerly with the Chicago White Sox ad judged insane at Painesville late Wed nesady. escaped from the officers and fought desperately before being recau hired ami landed in the state hospital here yesterday. Police and civilians chased him In an automobile sete'il miles Deputy Sheriff F. E Graves was badlv hurt during the fight tn overpoaer I