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IS the American league faster than the National league? That question has been asked a thousand times. Yesterday 1 re received a letter from a fan in Rock Hill asking me to decide a wager on the above. While there Is no real way of telling which organ! zution Is the stronger, ft Is my opin ion that the Johnson circuit is far and above superior to the Lynch league. True, there are ns many .300 bat tore in the National league as (her. are in the American Hut the American league has by far the bet ter pitchers. And It is the hurling material that makes the y'ounger organization the stronger. In my opinion. The National league stood pal 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 th. managers bld 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 tbit the Na- X* tlonal league teams wore standing pat the American league wa= developing players This Is especially so In the burling depart ment of the game. Surely no one can class the National league pitch ers as awl ole with the Ameri can league boxmen. Wh.-re can the National league dig up a loin h that compares with Wood Johnson, Plank. Coombs, Collins. Dubue, Hall, Bedient. Ford. Render. Gregg, Walsh, O'Brien and Mullin’ Marquard Richie. Mathewson. T. .-Hau. Alexander, Rucker. Lav ender. Reulbach and Camnltr are th. best the National league | as sesses Some of them are coming but the old reliables Mathewson. Camnitz and Reulbach--haven't got very many more seasons left In them. Rucker has never beep aide to show advantage because of being glued to the Brooklyn roster • • • IT is my opinion that the Ameri can league will again win the world's aeries this fall, Boston w 111 undoubtedix cop the gonfalon in the A. L.. whih the Giants, in mx opinion, will repeat in the N. 1. Rut the Cubs are every bit as good as the Giants, and if thex should nose out the New Yorkers, mx weekly insult xvill be placed on the Speed Boys just th. same Boston has the best pitching staff In the country. Wood, Collins. Hall. Bedient and O'Brien are al' mar vels Against them the Giants would have to use Mathewson anil Mar quard practically alont Tesreau right now appears to be going stronger than either of McGraw - veterans of last year's till.- series Still, he lacks the experience of go Ing through such a struggle, and experience Is the big ass. t in such a series. The Cubs would probably show better on the pitching end than the Giants against the Rod S \ It hi. (Lavender. Cheney and Reulbach might give a good account of them selves. Richie would probably be the mainstay National league batsmen claim "Comedian Lew" his got less stutt than anx pit. h-r in thi circuit Hut he has a fine, quick thinking brain and knows how to hold runners ome they get on the jutths Che ney and Lux.toet would probably blow up in a world's series, while Reulbach n< xer was noted foi his . gamenes* when In tight quaitere L> i the c it,, jj. ( „n , arly lead and ■■ A ut.bx a jbk, ip .xml, I ••••»••••••••••••••••••••• •WHY LEW RICHIE CAN I ■ :beat giants, whiIe •OTHER HURLERS FAIL: • • • "Comedian Lew” Richie has • • been crowned "The Giant Killer.” • j • 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 • I • get on the bases that Richie gets • • in his good work. The New York- • • ers ar o great base runners, Richie • I • has practically no windup. He • • keeps the Giants glued to the bags. • • They are never able to get any • j • 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. • ITaseitaiT Diamond Mews and Gossip Baseball players are panning EMdie < "Ilins about his baseball articles They sa.v they are bunk and worse. 4 • • Earl Shavv. who is third among the \ni< > ri<<in associaiion hitters, hails from Johnson City. Tenn . team lie was offered to the (.’nickers this spring for a song, but ih iiipliili said he had too manv left handed hitters alrcadx ♦ * * The Cincinnati team mail, a raid on •hr Akron team of the Centra) loflffup and grabl'c.l . uitichl. r Kyle. I'ilclier I >..ak and Infielder Knlscly. • • • 'fie. Big Dominick Mullanex got in a iti’i.s in .\eu I liven for punching a plH’d while serving as an umpire he was hi rested, along with two plavers. In cm i i the player oharKed b\ • Mull 1 with starting the trouble was lined $5 and costs The judge ruled that an umpire lias the right to protect himself and let I ‘omfnick off without a tine li.iriv Davis says he has everything that g<»es to make up a ball club Except . “t»ep In order to get that he plans t<» lire a 10l «»f <>l<| timers ami to get lively youngsters in their places. Another player offered to the Crackers this year and turned down who has since inaxh good is Bennie Kaufi’. lie is batting over 400 in thfr Connecticut league. ♦ *. • When you come to think of It there is no real k‘ek on what the New York A ner i' his « ;.| tor the c> ackers They offered Clanta Zinn. Kauff. Vplan ind three or 1 four other players w ho subsequently made g""" W iiat Atlanta lacked was not the (Chances to gel g pia \ erg, but a man* agvr who coukl pick the live ones. << • gx Eppa Kixov is so tall that he can not sleep m an ordinary berth and it is neces >:ir> tn engage two for him. take out the partition and let his feet extend over into the second berth. Hank D’Day flocks b\ himself more consistently than any other managi'r That is. of course, a telu- of his davs as an umpire. • « • From a place on the of Michigan baseball loam to the manager ship of the I’eorla team of the Three ! league is the .piick lump that has been made in less than three xears bx Russell Fountain Frank Manttsh. of tin Toledo team. Who has been nimble Io pla, of late be emiso of Injuries, has been doing a bit Os scouting through Michigan for the Mud Hens. • * • < »wnip Rush is off in bis fielding and Hugh Jennings threatens to bench him and to give Red Corridnn. the Kansas City recruit, his place • • • Memphis went six games recently in which the total number of runs scored j was one The opponents of the Turtles scored 23 Before the current season started Er- I skine Mayor agreed to bet any part of I SIOO that his brother Sam would be sold I t drafted b\ a team of highet < lassitiea j tion than Saxsnnah before the season ended Now Erskine has been sold to Pittsburg, but Sam sticks around at Sa vannah. • • « The question, "is Mathewson done " « an best be answered these days by some thing t<» the effect that sometimes he is I and sometimes he isn't Shades of the lamented E'ather Chad ■w k Ru<u l ord is leading the Highland k vers with a baiting average of nearly 300 Dav. ■ ci.q.in las filially been fired out lof the Salix league It seems that he re » eive-l more than s!’»'• a month in *>i<larx i las* tnt w hi. h s a ’ firing offense in the Salix • ♦ • I’ t .c been tig ue.i that one tiflh of all tail game- at« w.q m th.- "hickx s<»\- .-nth and ll.<t n t.- ’han thre. qnaiters of thos. xxoi, n th.i iniixiig are won h\ the bom.- 'em G. x.rg. M. Connell I .« . hm k< d his title lot H«< t d t.■ «-k < 1a u> !>'• >ii and - u innii ga ■ in> -n g• m n* xx a.’x uiij <>t the \ankev ' hut let a. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, AUGUST 24. Golfer Hilton Won’t Have a Cinch This Year Tech Eleven Will Suffer by Lack of Brawn By Percy H. Whiting. HARRY H, HILTON. present golf champion of America, but a resident of England and registering from the Royal Liv erpool Golf club, has reached Ami'i'lea and is ready to defend his title over the course of the Chicago Golf club 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. LoyV, 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 th it when the championship was played at Wheaton Western golfers have been the whole show. But this mat not happen this year. Jerome Travers is playing grand golf. Ho has been tuning up for weeks over the course of the Mahopac Golf club, of Lake Mahopac, N. Y., and is said to be playing Ills best, which means championship golf. He re cently holed the first hole of the Mahopac course, I'lo yards, in ope 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 I d by far the strongest is Charley Evans He is playing 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 rather poor taste it ap pears, in a recent article in The London 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 championship. Fred Hcres hoff. did not survive the first round, and because the American born professional, McDermott who vent to England for the British open, did not even qualify The josh was started by the fact that Americans poked fun at the BritisheNs for their weak showing in the Olympic games. 1 • • • in England and Scotland at big golf championship events, they use 1 policemen to keep the crowds back • • • Hon Michael Scott. M. P. and H E. Taylor, who had planned to visit America with Hilton and to play in the American championship, have been detained in England by , business engagements • • • You ofivn hear of birds kill* d b\ driven balls but now <nines James Black, i North Berwick profession al, wliii < Ittiins he killed a >\\all<»u with a drives lb was taking some practice swings along toward dusk . when th* bird struck against bls • tii\*i is h« was finishing a brisk . 1 >t t ««k* Th* dri\ < r hit th» bi id on tin head and killed it <<>ld she Big Race Hee is the newest dope on how the “Big Five" batters of the American league are hitting, including yesterday's games: P 1 a yer- |A.B.| H. |P.C. Cobb | 443~ri83"|7413 Speaker 458 186 406 Jackson 442 166 |.376 Collins ! 411 140 1.341 Lajole 303 94 310 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.” Ml IN BOX AGAINST 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 the hurler would remain with the Mont gomery team this season and would be retained for next year. The Crackers lost vesterdav’s game, 2 to 1. QUALIFY TODAY FOR DAVIS & FREEMAN CUP AT .EAST LAKE The golfers of the Atlanta Athletic club will this afternoon qualify for plajf for the Davis & 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 tn 1911 As Mr. Byrd is not in the city, and will 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 I. McLoughlin pushed hard BY QUAKER SCHOOL BOY NEWPORT. R I Aug. 24 Maurice E. McLoughlin, of San Francisco, who. with T. C. Bundy, won the national doubles lawn tennis championship Tuesday, narrowly missed being elim inated from the tournament for the singles championship yesterday by Philadelphia's schoolboy player. Rich .nd N. Williams. Jr McLoughlin was forced to extend himself to the limit in five hard .set.- The scores were 6-4. 5-7, 6-3, 3-6 6-3 It wa« one of the four matches of the day in the all-comers tournitm nt As th< result of th<' day's play McLoughlin will im ei William .1 Clothier, of Philadelphia and Kail H Blair, of Neyy York. »y ill play \\ ull.l- • F John- I son i|so of Philadelphia, 111 tin si inl t Inals today. By Percy H. 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 Flats, 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, yvill 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. • * • Cupid lias a yvay 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 yvill 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 13. Head 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, A’an 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 yvill 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 entire Auburn campaign will be shaped up this year with tlie one object of trimming Van derbilt in the game at Birmingham November 23 • • • Waite Camp, .11 . halfback of the Yale team and son of America's greatest football authority, is in a ho-pitat suffering yy Ith neuritis and may not be able to play this year. • • • Stetson university, of DeLand. Fla , yvill take on a few Georgia teams this y.H' Games aie sehed iled a all Riverside. < h toiler 25. an.l Gordon. Novembei 26. and an attempt |» being made tn close with Jlrm tot Noviinbei 15. •••••••••••••••••••••••••• k JWHAT IS NEEDED TO; : PUT BOXING GAME ON : : A SOUND BASIS HERE: , • Reputable business man to di- • • rect 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 Tiaves 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 other men of his class. Although the little boxer has sent out many challenges and has a good record to back the chai longcs xxith, he has been unable to secure enough bouts to keep the wolf from his door. • • • « Jim Flynn is training hard for his fight tA'I? t^ arl ey n , MiHer in San Francisco Dabor Daj. This match means much to Flynn, as the winner will be sent against Jommy Burns, the former heavyweight champion. Flynn is confident and savs he wifi repeat the beating he gave (’arl Morns. • • • Willie Ritchie and "One Round” Hogan nave signed articles to fight 20 rounds at Jimmy Coffroth’s San Francisco club Ad mission pay, September 9. Coffroth tried to match Murphy with Ritchie, but the Easterner was tied up in Gotham and ran not get in action there on that date. * * * T ork \ Papers praised Tommy O Keefe for the gameness he showed in his ten-round fight with Leach Cross in ' ?. rk a few nights ago. Although the Irishman was outclassed by Leach he waded right in. He was groggy at the •nd from tlie 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 Johnnx Dohan a good argument for ten rounds, although the latter xvas declared the winner. • * • Phil Brock has two matches scheduled for < leveland next month. On Labor Dav he wtll meet either Pal Moore or K 6 Brown, while he is matched with Sammv Trott for September 27. • • • Johnnx 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 work 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 ('.. in Boston, a few nights ago. Baldwin landed often, but his blows 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 champion cares to travel to the Antipodes he can pick up quite a hit of change • • • Harry Forbes and Mattie McCue are scheduled to go ten rounds at Racine August 29 Forties' last two fighl.s have been draws, but the little scrapper hopes to gain a decision this time, as he is training hard. « « « When Frankie Russell sat at the ring side one x ear ago and watched .loe Coster and Frankie Conley fight a 20-round bout little dill be ttiink some dux he would meet Cost, ’ However, lhe New Orleans lad xvill fight ihis same .loe In the same city be watched him tight t'onlex next | Mondax night ind stands a g. IIH | chance of winning, according to Ivl.es from that eitx Frank Whitney, a local pride. will probably m«el .lark Redmond In a len ioiin.l bout al Milwaukee the lasi .it Sep lenih. r The match has not been cl.is. d but luuli tight, r» hav, agr. ..| t,, i),,. inatih and it is likely the articles will lie signed shortly. ■GOT HERE UNDER PROPER MANAGEMENT By Fuzzy Woodruff. COLD. dark, dank, dismal days of winter face Atlanta 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 is 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 xvasn t strong enough to last through. Fora 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 xvas 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 purses. With 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 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, purchased by the Crackers from the Char i ar ’°V, ha league team, some time J»ack for delivery at the end of the Caro lina league season, broke a finger during a game recently ami will be out of lhe game for the rest of the seas Weiser was to have reported to the Crackers September 2. but on account <»f the injury he xvill not report here until next spring. Weiser was leading the league in hitting when he xxas hurt ami should prove a valuable man to the At lanta eluh next year. DUGGLEBY APPOINTED MANAGER OF ALBANY ALBANY, GA Aug 24 Bill Dugglc by who xxus sold to Atlanta and then ix’calp’d by the local club, has named«p< i manent manager of Hi- I I H am to su, < Berni- M.t'ax. also a fotmer t'imk’i who has I'cen removed (rum the <>fli< • sot insubordination.