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While there is no real way of telling which organi zation is the stronger, it is my opin ion that the Johnson circuit Is far and above superior to the Lynch league. True, there are as many .300 hat ters in the National league us there are in the American. But the American league has by far the bet ter pitchers. And it Is the hurling material that makes the yourfger organization the stronger, in my opinion The National league stood pat too long. When the American league began to prosper the Na tional sewed up every player of value. But when these players be gan to enter the veteran class the managers did not look far enough ahead; they did not go out and un earth promising material. McGraw alone proved the exception. • • • a ND all this time that the Na ** tional league teams were standing pat the American league was developing players. This is especially so in the hurling depart ment of the game. Surely no one can class the National league pitch ers, aa a whole, with the Ameri can league boxmen. Where can the National league dig up a bunch that compares with Wood. Johnson. Plan Ji. Coombs, Collins. Dubuc, Hall. Bedient. Ford, Bender, Gregg. Walsh, O'Brien and Mullin - ’ Marquard. Richie. Mathewson. Tesreau, Alexander. Rucker, Lav ender, and Camnltz are the best the National league pos sesses. Some of them are coining, but the old reliables—Mathewson, z- Camnitz and Reulbach—haven't got very many more seasons left in them. Rucker has never been able to show advantage because of being glued to the Brooklyn roster • • • IT is my opinion that the Amert * can league will again win the world's series this fall. Boston will undoubtedly cop the gonfalon In the A. while the Giants, in my opinion will repeat in the N. L. But the Cubs are every bit as good as the Giants, and if they should nose out the New Yorkers, my weekly insult will be placed on the Speed Boys just the -line. Boston has th- best pitching staff in the country. Wood. Collins, Hall, Bedient and OBrl-n are air mar vels. Against them the Giants would have to use Mathewson rd Ma' quard practically alojw Tesreau right now appears to be going stronger than either of McGraw's veterans of last year's tit ■ i . - Still, he lacks the expert- r . of v. Ing through such a struggle or. experience is the big asset m -u h a series. The Cubs would probably how better on the pitching end t’ m Giants against tin Red S x li Lavender, Cheney and lisuiiu. 'i might give a good account of tm-m --eelveg. Richie would probab x , - the mainstay. National league batsmen claim "Comedian'Lew'' has got less ’ ir plan any pitchei in tin • 'intuit Bui ne has a tine, quick-t Ilin king bl.llli and knows how to hold runtuis once they get on th< patba <’h* ney and Lm« -n<l< r w ould probably blow up In a woild's series whl - ReUlbai h never was noted fol Ilia * gatneneaa when in tight ■ t i lad the Cubs get an ■ irlv |i .oj ulid ba la Uliocatabie, bunelti, •WHY LEW RICHIE CAN* :beat giants, while* • OTHER HLRLERS FAIL; • • • “Comedian Lew’’ Richie has • • been crowned “The Giant Killer.” • • He has given the New York team • • more trouble than any other hurl- • • er this season. The Giants have • • hit him and hit him good and hard • • at times, too. But it is after they • • get on the bases that Richie gets • • in his good work. The New York- » • ers are great base runners. Richie • • has practically no windup. He • • keeps the Giants glued to the bags. • • They are never able to get any • • lead on him. And with Archer • • catching him, Richie is the anti- • • dote for a Giant victory, for Jim- • • my nails ’em all going down. o •••••••••••••••••••••••••a BASEBALL Diamond Mews and Gossip players are panning Eddie < oinns about his bast-hall artivies. 'They ay they are hunk and worse • 9 • Earl Shaw, who is third among the American association hitters, hails from • lohnson City, team, lie was offered to the <’packers this spring for a song, but lieinphill said he had too man' - left handed hitters already. * •? « I in- Cincinnati team made a raid on the Akron team of the Central league and grabbed Outfielder Kyle, Pitcher l)oak and Infielder Knisely. After Big Dominick Mullane) got in a muss In New Haven for punching a player while serving as an umpire he was arrested, along with two players Ip court th.- player charged hy ‘ Alni!’ with starting, the trouble was fined |5 and costs. I’he judge ruled that an umpire has the right to protect himself and let Dominick off without a tine. • * • Harry Davis says he has everything that goes to make up a ball club except the “pep In order to get that he plans to tire a lot of old timers and to get liveh youngsters In their places. Another player offered to the Crackers this year and turned down who has since made good is Bonnie Kauff. He is batting over 400 in the Connecticut league * * • When you come to think of It there is no real kick on what the New York Amer icans did for the Crackers They offered Atlanta Zinn, Kauff, I’plan and three or four other players who subsequently made good. \Miat Atlanta lacked was not the chances to get good players, but a man ager who could pick the live ones. Eppa ntxey is so tall (hat he can not sleep in an ordinary berth and it is neces sary to engage two for him. take out the partition and let his feet extend over into the second berth • ♦ • Hank O’Day flocks by himself more consistently than any other manager 'That is, of course, a rein of his day s as an umpire • • • From a place on the Vniversity of Michigan basehall team to the manager ship of the Peoria team of the Three-I league, is the quick lump that has been made in less than three years by Bussell Fountain. . Frank Manush. of the Toledo team, who has be.-n unable to play ,»f late be cause of Injuries has been doing a bit of scouting through Michigan for the .Mud I lens. • • • Ownie Bush is <>ff in his fielding and Hugh denning- threatens to bench him and to give Bed Corridon, the Kansas <’ity recruit, his place • • • .Memphis went six games recently in which the Total number of runs scored was one The opponents of the Turtles scored 23 « • • Before the current season started Er vin. Mayer agreed to bet any part of jsloo that his brother Sam would be sold I »r drafted by a team <»f higher classifica tion than Savannah before the season ! pii' e.| Noyy Erskine has been sold to Pittsburg, but Sam sticks around at Sa ! vunnah. • • • The 'pit r tion, ’ Is Mathewson done'”’ ' an I mas lb. answ.ied th- by ><»ine ihing to the effort that sometimes he s and sometimes he isn't >i-ad. s of the lamented l-aih.-r t’ha I- i ’ Kus- l ...,| is lending ; e Highland piase’s WH! a hatting average of nearly I 300 li.,v< Laci. n has nn.ilh been tir<M out L,f Illi Sall- li'aKui- It that 1,,, t, ■ ■ Iv.-1 H...1,. V|.,o a month in saiavt |lt' •■ ai with b . tiring . flt tis, 'in It ha.* been figured that onr-tifth of all oa. I<t iii.-N ate \y • si lit (he ’’bn-ky ry * ■d 11 • "• h t 1 at iiudht m< u-n by Iman Mhl . , .j j| >v 1 liUi i«t* THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1912. Golfer Hilton Won’t Have a Cinch This Year •I - ®*!* •!•••!• Tech Eleven Will Suffer by Lack of Brawn By Percy IL Whiting. Harry h. hllton, present golf champion of America, hut" a resident of England and registering from the Royal Liv erpool Golf duh, has reached America and is ready to defend his title over the course of the Chicago Golf dub at Wheaton. 111., in the amateur championship, which will be played the week beginning with September 2—Labor day. With Hilton is Norman F. Hun ter, one of the top-notch golfers of Great Britain. It is also reported, though not known for certain, that John L. Low, who captained the. Oxford-Cambridge team which played in the United States in 1903, is in this country and that he will enter. It will be recalled also that Norman F. Hunter was a member of the same team. These English golfers are playing steadily and owing to their early arrival should be thoroughly accli mated and in first-class trim when the golfing begins at Wheaton. The Englishmen will find several American golfers in fine form to re ceive them It has always happen ed that when (he championship was played .it Wheaton Western golfers have been the whole show. But this may not happen this year. Jerome Travers is playing grand golf. He has been tuning up for weeks over the course of the Mahopac Golf dub. of Lake Mahopac, N. Y., and is said to be playing his best, which means championship golf. He re cently holed the first hole of the Mahopac course, 13d yards, in one stroke. It was the first time in his life he ever accomplished the feat of making any hole in one. and he considered it a good omen. Another Metropolitan golfer who is going very strong is Oswald Klrkby He won the New Jersey title, defeating ’Travers, and with luck should get close to the national finals. If Kirkby or Travers don't defeat the Britishers it will be up to some of the Westerners, and of the whole lot by far the strongest is Charley Evans He |s plating the best golf of his career and if he can settle down for a week at Wheaton he may send the Englishmen back empty handed. * * * Hilton, in ratht r poor taste it ap peals. in a recent article in The • 1/ondon Weekly Budget, poked fun at Americans because the Ameri can title is held by an Englishman (himself), because the one Ameri can who went to England for the British ehampionship, Fred Heres hotf. did not survive the first round, and because the American born professional. MeDermott. who went to England for thd British open, did not even qualify. The josh was started by the fact that Americans poked fun at the Britishers for their weak showing in the Olympic games. ♦ ♦ ♦ In Fnuiand and Scotland, at hig golf championship event.', they use policemen t<> keep the crowds back • • • Ibm Michael Seott. M. 1> and H E. Taylor, who had planned to visit America with Hilton and to plaj in the American championship, have been detained in England by business engagements You often hear of birds killed i>> drivin balls but now comes James Black .1 North I’. ‘l'Wlek profession al who claims h< killed a .-wallow wit i driver H< was taking aunie 4 I ilier the Idi.| -truck (gainst his ■ ulvii h> w.e finishing a brisk -t ok< Tin dilvir hit tile biid on Utv itvud uud killed It cold. r 1 Fhe Big Race Here is the newest dope on how the “Big Five" batters of the American league are hitting, including yesterday's games: "Player? |A.B.| H. !P.C. Cobb"T. ' | 4437183 1.413 Speaker 458 1186 1.406 Jackson | 442 166 |.376 Collins | 411 |l4O 1.341 Lajole | 303 I 94 1.310 Ty Cobb went to bat eight times In the double-header with the Senators and banged forth four safe swats. This .500 clouting boosted his average a point and a half and today he Is stinging the pill at a .413 clip. Tris Speaker was up four times and garnered two hits. He jumped a full point thereby. He is now exactly 7 points be hind the “Georgia Peach." Joe Jackson fell off 3 points yesterday by failing to get over one hit in five trips to the plate. Larry Lajoie hit an even .500 for the day, his trusty wagon tongue connecting once in two times at bat. The Athletics didn't play yesterday, so Eddie Collins “stood still.” WALOORFINBOX UMINST BILLS MONTGOMERY, ALA., Aug. 24. Manager Dobbs has announced that Elmer Brown, recently purchased from the St. Louis Browns, will pitch for the Billikens today and McAllister will catch. Waldorf and Graham will be the Atlanta battery. Montgomery is anx ious to keep its place in the first divi sion of the league race, while the At lanta club will try hard to dislodge it from fourth position. Manager Dobbs stated last night that there was no truth in the rumor from Atlanta that Harold Johns would be returned to the Crackers, but that tile hurlei would remain with the Mont gomery team this season and would be retained for next year. The Crackers lost yesterday’s game. 2 to 1. QUALIFY TODAY FOR DAVIS & FREEMAN CUP AT EAST LAKE The golfers of the Atlanta Athletic club w ill this afternoon qualify for play for the Davis A- Freeman golf trophy, a handsome silver cup that is given by the well known local jewelers. This is the fourth year that the cup has been played for, being a three-year trophy. In other words, it must be won three times before becoming the property of any one.' F. G. Byrd won the trophy in 1909 and 1910. and W R. Tichenor won it in 1911 As Mr. Byrd is not in the city, and w ill not contest in the tournament this year, no matter who wins the cup it will be contested for again in 1913. The players will qualify from scratch, the club handicaps applying in the match play rounds. The first and second rounds of match play must be played by August 30, the semi-finals by August 31 and the finals by September 1. MCLOUGHLIN PUSHED HARD BY QUAKER SCHOOL BOY NEWPORT. R 1. Aug. 24 Maurice E McLoughlin, of San Francisco, who. with T. <’ Bundy, won the national double- lawn tennis championship Tuesday, narrowly missed being elim inated from the tournament for the -ingles championship yesterday hy Philadelphia's schoolboy player. Rich ard N. Williams. Jr McLoughlin was for. e.i to extend himself to the limit In five haul sets. The scores were 6-4. 5- 7. 6- 3, 3- 6. 6-3 li was one of tlie four matches of the d. y n th, all-eomeis tournament As tin ' sulf of the day 's play M. Loiighlln will meet William J t’lothier. of l’h; a<l« Iphin mil Khl H Rlalr, of N. < > rk win pin. \\ a||,u. | John- ii Ilso of Philadelphia, tn the Svinl luiaLi By Percy 11. Whiting. CALLS will go out soon for the Tech football players. Coach J. W. Heisman has been making his annual trip to Ohio, but will soon be ready to take up his duties. And it is likely that, be cause of the scarcity of material and the generally poor prospects out at the P’lats, he will make an earlier and a more vigorous start than usual. The need for heavy men, which arises under the changed rules of 1913, will put the Jackets In a ter rible fix. They don’t get heavy men at Tech, somehow. Light, fast men and quick thinkers there are always plenty of. But Heisman has never had enough huskies, even under the rules that put" a premium on speed and made but few big men necessary on a team. * • « Cftpid has away of playing havoc with the University of Virginia football prospects. Last year, at a critical moment, Hedley McNeer Brown married and quit the game. This year John Forest Goodhue. of Beaumont, Texas, has married and has left on an extended trip abroad • • ♦ In addition to Goodhue, Virginia will lose Finlay, a Chattanooga boy who started his career at Sewanee. Except for Goodhue and Finlay, the entire Virginia team of last year will be returned. This sounds bad for Vanderbilt. • • ■ The Virginia team will probably do a couple of weeks of light, early training at Sweet Chalybeate Springs before taking up real ac tive training. ■ • • Money is being raised to take the Tulane football candidates to Bay St. Louis for ten days of limbering up before the real season begins. The candidates will leave September J 3. Held Coach Mason will take charge of' the squad as soon as it returns from this jaunt. ♦ ♦ • The University of Alabama team is counting on the return of only five of last year’s regulars. They are Adrian, Hargrove, Van de Graaff. Hicks and McDowell. Ala bama has a pretty stiff schedule and the task of meeting Tech, Mis sissippi A. & M.. Georgia, Tulane, Mississippi. Sewanee and Tennes see in a row would test any team to the limits. The game with Tech will be played in Atlanta Octo ber 12. • ♦ • The University of Texas football schedule has just been announced. This fall the Texans will neither make any long trips themselves nor bring any teams from great dis tances. with the exception of the University of Mississippi. • ♦ • It will be noted that the Auburn team has cut out its usual Texas trips. Last year the Auburnites put on more mileage than Presi dent Taft. This year they will stick around home. They play two games on their own campus, two in Birmingham, one in Atlanta, one in Columbus, Ga., one in Athens and one in Mobile. Coach Donahue's men open up with a stiff game, Mercer, and only catch a few easy ones all the sea son The entile Auburn campaign will be shaped up this year with the one object of trimming Van derbilt tn the game at Birmingham November 23 • * • Walter l amp, Jr., halfback of the Yale team and son of America's greatest football authority, is in a hospital suffering with neuritis and may not be able to play this year • • • Stetson university, of DeLand, Fla . will take on a few Georgia teams this yeai Games are sched uled with Ril l I side October 2J and Gordon. November JX. and an attempt is being made to close w ith lltli'r: sot November 15. •••••••••••••••••••••••••a X WHAT IS NEEDED TO • J PUT BOXING GAME ON J : A SOUND BASIS HERE: • Reputable business man to di- • • reot management. • • Matchmaker who knows boxers • • and their records. • • Well ventilated club with proper • • fire exits. • • Boxing commission to punish • • fakers. • • Evenly matched performers. • • Competent referee who can not • • be bought. • • Betting not allowed at ringside. • • Fighters to post substantial for- • • feit for appearance and condition. • • Reputable physician to examine • • boxers before they enter ring. • •••••••••••••••••••••••••« Boxing Late News and Views L__ Grover Hayes, lightweight, left Tuesday night on a world’s tour all his own. His manager, W. R. Stuart, has arranged a series of bouts for him in Australia, Paris and London. • • • Eddie McGoorty and Dave Smith have shoved their battle back to Labor Day in stead of next Monday evening. Smith is being trained by Johnny Hayes, the win ner of the London marathon. The only possible trouble is* that Hayes may get matters mixed up and train’Smith for a marathon instead of a fight. • • • Johnny Kling, a Chicago lightweight, doesn t know whether to call himself a hoodoo fighter or one who is feared by the ‘Xher men of his class. Although the little boxer has sent out many challenges and has a good record to back the chal lenges with, he has been unable to secure enough bouts to keep the wolf from his door. Jim Flynn is training hard for his fight with Charley Miller in San Francisco Labor Day. This match means much to Flynn, as the winner will be sent against Tommy Burns, the former heavyweight champion. Flynn is confident and says he will repeat the beating he gave Car) Morris. • • • M’illie Ritchie and "One Round" Hogan have signed articles f<> fight 20 rounds at Jimmy Cotfroth's San Francisco club Ad mission Day, September 9. Coffroth tried to match Murphy with Ritchie, but the Easterner was tied up in Gotham and can not get in action there on that date. * * » ew . York Papers praised Tommy O Keefe for the gameness he showed in his ten-round fight with Leach Cross in New York a few nights ago. Although the Irishman was outclassed by I,each lie waded right in. He was groggy at the end from the many body punches the fighting dentist put over. • • • Phil Cross was sick and unable to ap pear in the semi-final to his brother's match Joe Motto, of Cleveland, took Cross' place and gave Johnny Dohan a good argument for ten rounds, although the latter was declared the winner • * • Phil Brock has two matches scheduled for Cleveland next month. On Labor Day he will meet either Pal Moore or K O Brown, while he is matched with Sammv • Trott for September 27. • * • Johnny Callahan and Tommy Bresna han are in good condition for their ten round encounter at Youngstown Monday night. Callahan is the fighter who was attacked by several dogs while doing road wofk a few days ago and escaped injury only after he had killed two of the dogs with a large club, which he carries when on the road. • * • Tommy Ginty and Matty Baldwin fought a twelve-round draw before the Pilgrim A C., in Boston, a few nights ago. Baldwin landed often, but his blow’s lacked steam • • • Although the proposed bout between Jack Johnson and Joe Jeannette has been called off. the matches offered "Lil" Ar thur in Australia still stand and if the champkm cares to travel to the Antipodes he can pick up quite a bit of change • • • Harry Eorbes and Mattie McCue are scheduled to go ten rounds at Racine August 29. Forbes' last two fights have been draws, but the little scrapper hopes to gain a decision this time, as he is training hard. W lieu Frankie Russell sat at the ring side one vear ago and watched Jo t . Coster and Frankie Conley fight a 20-round bout little did he think some dai he would meet Coster However, the New Orleans lad will fight this same Joe In the same <lt> he watched him tight Conlev next Monilio night, and stand- a good eham e of winning, according to advices from that city • • • Frank Whune-, a local pride, will probably meet Jack Redmond ip a ten round bout it Milwaukee tile last ot Sep. tetnbei Die match lias nut been closed, bill I'otii tigliters lune agreed to tlie mutch, and It is llkel- the articles will lw 'igned ahortly. • 808 HIRE! UNDER PM ■[MENU I By Fuzzy Woodruff. COLD, dark, dank, dismal day# of winter face Atlamta sport lovers, even as the summer has been devilishly desolate. When the last crack of bat has been heard at Ponce DeLeon and the baseball season of 1912 has come to a wel comed close, the present outlook t# that Atlanta's only opportunity to indulge in things of a red-blooded nature will be to read the sporting sections, expectorate in the general direction of the fireplace and enjoy gory combat over the checker board. It is true that for two brief months the bearmored heroes of the gridiron will entertain once a week at Ponce DeLeon, and there are those who will pursue the elu sive golf ball all season though the thermometer do its doggondest to block their efforts, but hoi polloi was never strong for bearmored heroes, and a golf ball positively sickens it. Game Bad Last Season. Last winter boxing was revived in Atlanta, but the dose of digi talis that put new life in the game wasn’t strong enough to last through. For a few weeks the fistic sport prospered in Atlanta even as the green bay tree is supposed to do. Then the game went to the blooming bowwows. An effort was made to run two rival clubs. Both died lingering, painful deaths. Then there was the suggestion that on more than one occasion the public was beautifully and scientifically bunked. There is ample field for boxing in Atlanta. The game properly con ducted would do much to alleviate the ennui of winter and it might add some shekels to the pockets of a promoter. > Game May Be Revived. It may be that the game will again be given a shot of nitro glycerin and emerge from the state of coma in which it now rests. But if the game is to live this winter. Atlanta patrons must be shown that there are legitimate business men behind the movement, who will look after the rights of their patrons as well as their own privy purees. W ith capable matchmaking and a set of hidebound rules which must be abided by by both fighters and promoters, the sport should be developed to a high standard here this fall and winter. If this isn't done, any man who thinks there is money for him in the glove busi ness in Atlanta had better lock his funds in a safety deposit box and throw away the key. It will save him money. WEISER. CRACKERS’ NEW PLAYER. BREAKS FINGER Bud Weiser, the hard hitting fielder. i' U M^ ha r- e<l ,he > Crac kers from the Char, n. t', ' l o li na lea gue team, some time back tor delivery at the end of the Caro lina league season, broke a finger during a game recently and will be out of th? game for the rest of the season. \\ riser was to have reported to ths lackers .September 2, but on account of the injury he will not report here until next spring. Weiser was leading the league m hitting when he was hurt and l ß an O t U a ld elE r b °2e’- y-r i,bl ” tO the DUGGLEBY APPOINTED MANAGER OF ALBANY ALBAN Y GA Aug 24 Bill Dugglea l>> who was sold to Atlanta and therx ieealb.l bi the local c| u b_ has been named pei nuinent manugi . o( the lot a| fi ain to am i l ( >d Bei nl. Mct’ay. also » fol 111. r Cl a. k. I who hu Inert removed i Ini übordinotioa