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6 GlcaGM ®3® EDITED Zz S FARNSWORTH Laying All Jokes Aside, It Really Is Hot _ r ~—— V " i Y 1 f ’ — ~~ "~T T . A 1 * &HV Go x x *.i7jir~GoNN R ~ . IJO 3, l-UE Gov r o P<LC r IDO TODAY DPEAKinu F Cq . t apt ( It ,. tooMOT( Y SPA t e tVER.'y DAX r PGCPCe U&H ’ ) AttT ,NT ° *°°^ eUT IXI POR. A QUARTER. GE ETH Y 1 AND *T- S . hoy vje».tm€« .to work N h ßcu/m our on tar . I— Ce J ' Opr Jo ® • A ' L *- ’ z y ’ ' AOULO Ger A laog.h.\ 'Y Iwe gotta oo »s 'V"iTo e hot To oo_7 To stand NER.E M 1 pKvroMO«O W ■. k vlb WW X® tr w W - w nil II ® - I®L ~® _ -- ■ ■ "■ . ___sS» !■ ' '■—— “ - ■. ■ . - -.--J - f a A-rxz> IS>ll Zy c« —• Becker and Waldorf Will Hurl Today’s Double Bill With Vols N|- ASHVILLE. TENN. Aug 28. The (.'rackets me confident of at least seeming another even break today when they hook up with the Volunteers in the sec ond double-header of the series. Heike and Waldorf are slated to do the hurling for the Atlanta tail enders. while Bill Schwartz will probably assign Flehartv and West to the mound Job, The Crackers lost the first game of yesterday's brace to the tune of 4 to 3. They captured the closing performance, fi to 3 Case Beats Sitton. Case and Sitton were the oppos ing huiters in the first setto, and the honors easily went to the Vol unteer. whose work in the pinches prevented several scores, when, with men in position to come home, the Crackers were unable to touch him up for a bingle. Lindsay, the fleet little shortstop, was the man who threw the har poon into the Crackers While Case was holding them In cheek on the defensive, he was -lamming in the runs on the offensive it was his double, with the bases drunk, that drove in the three runs in the fourth stanza, and he tallied the winning tun In the ninth chap ter on .lames' bingle Thus he was responsible for all four of the Vol unteer counts. FODDER FOR FANS If Ty ix.bh gets «bc $15,000 a year that he demands he will receive almost as much for his season s work as is paid for an entire Southern league team • * w Connie Mack is kicking because he can't win his •fourth" game I get cm ah right with Bender, Coombs and Clank." Fays Connie, "but I can't seem to develop «*ne more man who can xtm " • 4 • speaking of that, wonder how manv mure years Connie will be able to depend *n Bendei ami Clank It i> ceriainlx up io that MetJillicuddy person to develop a couple of voting pitchers and to do it be fore next season begins • • • <‘wner Grayson, of I ouisvdle >s having a hus> August denying reports that he is going to sell his franchise * » « Jimmj Callahan isn't having an cspe rialh peaceful time of it. lb- has had frequent run-ins with Walsh ami Bodi* and one historic affrax with Benz ■ • • C\ Forsythe, turned down by the At lanta dub this spring. > batting .318 for Dallas. At that he isn’t worth carrying sot his arms work <iuick< r than his brain • » ■ Hugh Jennings Ims sent T«x I'ovington anil outfielder Del Drake from Provi dence i" Kansas City sort of a swapping of farm hands, as it were • • • "Chick Gandil learned to swing the stick as h member of the police force at Shreveport, La • • • < hiiago papers say that John T Brush is president of tfie National league, through ft.- spokesman. Lynch • * • A t-iple stea’ was pulled by I’eoria plax ers tn a recert game with the Decatur club • • • John McGraw is now worrying less about the Cubs thin he is about tl < heat. • • • Not a pinch hit( --r has dehv* red !■ r the Pirates since July 26. though scons of them have been sent in • * * The St Louis Browns will not tram again in St Louis. This » - paring stunt didn't even save im»n<*\ Ti« Browns will train in Texas next spring • • • Manager George Stovall keeps I - dope on batters in a book which !.♦ . inks out before each game Brown pin lo tsn» \< r suffer for lack of inf> rmation •. 1 ioh they do their fair share of suffering all right • • • Dutch lievelle. former Cracker now with Newport News, allowed onh 3_ hat ters t<» face him in a recent game wn Norfolk • « • Lou Castro has stirred up the usual whirlwind in the Virginia Hague The owner of the chib which he is managing accuses him of taxing d» wn and ther< s a beautiful row in progress • « • South Bend, Akron and Canton are among the teams that are keen to with draxx from ’ • e-club c< ntral h gu< ■ Tony Mullane, who umpired in the Southern 10-. go <>n<i and ppche. : ■ and doing well as a detective in Cim in- Ba ilex’s all-round work was the feature of the game, from an At lanta standpoint. He conti Ibuted the fielding feature of the game, when he raced to the left-field fence ami speared a vicious line drive from Elliott’s bat with one hand, and, turning quickly, doubled Lindsay at second. This after the double tha' Lindsay had made. Bailey made two doubles and scored two of the three runs by the Crackers, Harbison contributing the final punch with a single that sent Bailey home. Harbison scoed the other run himself. Brady and Bair in Second. Brady and Bair were the hurl era in the second stanza and the At lanta hurler had all the better of the argument. Bair was relieved by b'b-hirty in the ninth inning. After the second inning Brady was practically Invincible and his team mates gave him faultless sup port. Alperman and McElveen were the heavy hitters for Atlanta. while James and Lattimore were the wil low pounders for the Volunteers. But It w as Ha rbison's timely wal lop that sent home the winning runs in the ninth chapter, the At lanta shortstop being responsible tor half of Atlanta's runs in this game, making him directly respon sible for six tuns during the after noon. nati lb- pitched for the police team the othei <la\ against a team of actors and won handilx • • • <’> Young is planning to enter upon the manufacture of a sulvt designed to keep pitching arms limber He invented it hunselt. Anil look how long he lasted. ♦ • • <»us Schmeltz. the «»nl\ manager wh< wore a beard through Ids baseball career, I IS in business in Springfield. Ohio. and I doing well. • • »■ Punch Knolls Dayton team trounced the < im innati Reds in an exhibition gamp toe other day, 5 1 Two former Crack- '• ■ v ' ! ■ 1 DeHaven and Jack H<» wan, peiiorme.l for the Davton team. Knoll himself used to phix for Nashville, back m tli< days of Newt Fisher. • * * John Ganzel seems to have a ehance to' hook on soon where as a big league man ag. r ||<- failed at Cincinnati, but so does < vet y body else He has surely made good vy till Rochester • • • In thirteen years Mathewson has pitched 77 games against the Pirate leant He has won 42, lost 32 and tied three. * • * Arthur Irwin, the Yankee scout and vt »■ i’t !<lent, has a son who is showing baseball talent and will get a trial with fast < ompanj in duo time • * • Jun Vaughn has been sent to the Kan sas Gitx team in return for Ditcher Gallia James didn't last long with the Senators. FOOTBALL SEASON OPENS IN EAST SEPTEMBER 21ST NEW YORK. \ug 28 Three games will mark the opening of the 1912 East ern football season on September 21. when the Carlisle Indians will meet Albright, and two othei lesser games are scheduled. The season comes to a . lose on November :|it. when West I'oint and Annapolis piav their annual game a I Philadelphia, Tib first of the big games will be p’oy.d on November 2. when H.itatd and Princeton battle. Yale meets Brown on tin following Saturday, ami on November Pl Prim i ton in,l Yale i- Harvard faces Yale on Novem ber 23. and Pennsylvania and Cornell ley. their regular Thanksgiving day tussle four days late:. Yah Is the first of the Rig Hour' to open its season on Wednesday. Sep tember 25. but Corneil also plays on that ■ at* The last Saturday .n Sep tember finds all of the Eastern eh tens on the gridiron. Only a feyy nid w' •k a ' j ... „, , . this fai). ind '-os, that ’ pt g ;, are * hietiy between the smaller i olh gos. T’ennsy |\am,* j i\s Michigan on I'iankltn to •' on Novemla-t a. Cornell | Jiy> th* \\ 'i*rme.s a week later at I Ann Arbor. .Mich. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 2R. 1912. Aflanfa-Chaftanooga Series Will Be Packed Full of Red Hot Stuff LOOKOUT FANS CALLING FOR BILL SMITH'S SCALP By Perry 11. Whiting. a S 1 was walking down the AX street An old acquaintance 1 did meet. Sez he: "Old man, why don’t you boost our ball teams like you always youst I looked him squarely in the eye And unto him I sez, sez I: “The reason why I am no booster They don't play ball the way they youster." 1., C. D. • * • \X7HEN the Atlanta team opens in Chattanooga on Thursday afternoon Ihok out for ructions. To all the complications which make lite i'l ackers and the Lookouts hate each othei like Charley Murphy hates McGraw lias been added a new one. The Chattanooga papers are eall ing for Smith's scalp—and calling loud. % They say that since lie lias ac cepted a place with Atlanta, he is unfit to hold the reins in Chatta nooga. For instance, here's this from The Chattanooga News: Something must be done to either stop the losing streak of the i hattanooga baseball team, or else to make them put up the good ar ticle of bull of which they are ca pable. The performances of the past tew days have brought this matter to a critical stage. Base ball fans are the most patient and hopeful of all the species of the human race, but there Is a limit even to their optimism They can stand fur the team to lose when they are playing good ball and losing to another team through Just a little better playing, but when there is plain evidence that they are not half trying, whether from one cause or another, then tt i“ time to take some radical steps io abate the team's slump. Various suggestions itave been made along this line, but the most persistent amp. and the one w here in a large majority of local pa trons agree Is that. Inasmuch as Manager Smith has announced that his future allegiance will be with Atlanta, he Is almost if not ■ Illite, Ineligible to lead the Chat - lanoogu team for the renminder of Ihe season This Is especially true because of the fact that, though Kid Elberfeld Is Given Chance to Disorganize Another Baseball Team 111 ATTANi 11 >GA. TENN. Aug 28.-- With the announeement today that Kid Elberfeld has been secured as man ager of the Lookouts for 1913. local fans are very much up in tile, air. They r*'.iiize that Elberfeld was once a great player, but has never shown the ear marks of Ining a manager. He disorganized the New York American it ague team, tunneled Clark Griffith out of liis ,iol> and made a bad me.-s out of everything he did. Still, President Andrew s» believes that Elber feld lias quieted down and that he will givi local fandom a winnWig organiza t ion. GERMAN GOVERNMENT TO SUBSIDIZE ATHLETES BERLIN. Aug 28. The G-i limn goy eminent will. In all probability, subsi dize the German Olympic team tor Hie nexi games to In* held in tliis city in mis. to tin amount of s2s.non annually chairman i’nbbielski. of tiie German Olympic euinmittie. will submit tile project to the kaiser It is stated, on tile best of authority, that his majestv is in strong sympathy with such a move, md that h< will bring all bis influence to the aid of tile athletic cause. Kat: Diem, president of the German Amateur Athletic union, will visit the t'nited States to make a study of the American training sy stem. He is of the opinion that Ito will lie ablq to pii k up so many valuable pointers that Gei - many is bound tn figuri vert promi nently in ' ’ ■ next ga tnes This country feels that in possession of the meet it has a golden opportunity tn wre~t the i Itantpionshii frnm th* i'nited States >f propel attention is paid to development t'! ;11 h I it' s the 11 •\ I f«ii i r \»n i c both teams are <»uf of the race for high honors this season, the Crackers and Lookouts always play harden against each ether than against any other team and the first series when the team re turns home is against Atlanta. This puts Smith in an embar rassing situation to say the least. In other words, the first home games after a long losing streak on the road will be played between two teams, one of which Smith manages now. the other of which he is already signed up to man age next season. In view of these facts it is sug gested that the best thing that <ould be done now is for Billy Smith to hand in his resignation to he effective at once. This would, they sax. clarify the situ ation entirely. Smith would then he a free agent until he takes up the reins at Atlanta, and in the meantime could be on the lookout fnr availably material for the Cracker team. As it stands the players on the Chattanooga team have, as they believe, little to gain by playing hard. They real ize that the.' will not be under Smith next season and as they are the property of the local owners they all will expect a try-out next season under the new manager, whoever he may be. They also realize that it is an uphill fight to even get and remain in the first division If they can’t get as high as fourth place, they prob ably do not carp where they fin ish On the other hand, fans will say that Smith is more interested in next year’s work than in the showing of the team which he is now managing So that, all in all. it is believed by inany that'Smith's resignation woula not only subserve the best interests of the team and patrons, but of himself as well T 'l' doesn’t take much of this sort 1 hf stuff to get the fans stirred up. If the Chattanooga papers Repp after it a bit they will get the fans yelling. And if once they start hooting Bill Smith on the Chatta nooga field anything is likely to happen, for Bill doesn't enjoy be ing hooted. * * * C TILL. Bill Smih is pursuing the right course. He is not to blame for the fact that the situa tion is delicate. He was entirely within his rights in closing tenta tively for tlte Atlanta management next year. The fact would not have been known until the end of the season if they had left it to him. He isn't fool enough to take • j Fhe Big Race Here is the newest dope on how the ‘Big Five" batters of the American league are hitting: PLAYER— AB. H. P.C. COBB 451 186 .412 SPEAKER 472 191 .405 1 JACKSON 454 168 .370 j COLLINS 425 144 .339 LA JOIE 320 102 .319 Ty Cobb boosted his average 79-ICOths of one point yesterday by se curing two hits in four times at bat. Speaker lost that much by getting only two safe swats in seven trips to the plate. As a result, the Georgia Peach is now a fraction under seven points ahead of the Buston slugger. Jackson fell off three notches yes terday by failing to connect safely in three times at bat. Collins hit .500 for the day. He was up twice and garnered one hit. Lajoie faced the pitcher seven times and smashed out three hits. TOMMY MURPHY MEETS YOUNG BROWN TONIGHT NEW IttHK. Aug. 2> Fight fans ■ . t i fust battle tonight at the St. Nicho.ns Athletic < lub when Tommy Murphy, the local lightweight, meets 1 oung Brown, of the East Side, in a ten-round contest. Murphy is said to be boxing better than ever before and predicts he will drop Brown with a knockout before the sixth round, PATSY KLINE KNOCKS OUT LENNY IN FOUR ROUNDS NEWARK. N J.. Aug, 28.—Patsy K th< clevei Newark featherweight, knot kc«l out Har\ Lenny, of Baltimore, th- tourth 'ina ,h the Eleventh Ward Athletic club last night. over the Atlanta team just’ in time to finish last with it. He is going to finish worse, anyhow, than he ever did before in his life. It has Just turned out that through hard luck they have Bill in an unpleasant position. But Bill will see it through, for that's hi's way. ELL, Kid Elberfeld gets the vv managerial job in Chattanooga. And that means that Otto Jordan Isn't especially needed in Lookout ville. and that he will come to At lanta, provided, of course. President <». B. Andrews, of Chattanooga, doesn't demand some absolutely outrageous price for hirn. If we had had the choosing be tween Jordan and Elberfeld, it's a cinch that Jordan would have got the jflace. Somehow there doesn't seem a chance for Elberfeld to make a success as a manager. Have you ever noticed that the rowdies of baseball seldom succeed as managers? You might point at once to McGraw. True, he is a rowdy. But McGraw is a studious rowdy. He is a rough neck largely for publicity and intimidation pur poses. When he appears to be boil ing mad, the chances are he is laughing in his sleeve over the whole situation and studying it out in order to decide just how far it is safe and desirable to go with any piece of rowdyism he is pulling off. But Kid Elberfeld isn't that kind of a trouble-maker. He's perfectly sincere about it. When he appears to be mad. he IS mad. He loses all control over himself. And it's true as gospel that - no man who lacked control over him self ever had control over his men Still, the appointment of Elber feld makes for excitement and trou ble and assorted varieties of hot stuff. Tlte <'hattanooga - Atlanta games next season, with the determined Rill Smith managing Atlanta and the peppery Elberfeld leading Chat tanooga. should be exciting indeed. Here's How Crackers Are Hitting the Ball Right Up to Date I hose averages include all games I played to date: Player— g. ab. r. h. p.c. I Harbison, ss 63 219 26 62 .283 Bailey. Ifll7 408 75 112 .274 Alperman, 2bllß 444 60 121 .273 Agler lb. 53 177 32 48 .27 1 Callahan, of 76 293 29 74 .253 Graham, c 55 171 17 42 .246 Becker, p 13 30 2 7 .233 McElveen. 3b. ...122 441 47 98 .222' Sitton, p 26 60 11 in .167 Brady, p. 21 65 2 10 .154 Reynolds, c la 47 4 7 .149 Johnson, p 6 11 0 1 ,m Wolfe, utility .... 8 19 3 2 105 Lyons, rs 25 78 3 7 .090 Waldorf, p. 8 21 0 1 1147 SMALL ENTRY LIST FOR AMATEUR GOLF TITLE NEW A ORK, Aug. 28. The entry list and pairings for the amateur gulf cham pionship of the I’nlted Stales to be played hi \\ heaion. 111., September 2, were made public today There are 83 entries, and the pairs will t»e sent off five minutes apart, starting at 9 o’clock TEDDY TETZLAFF BREAKS RECORD ON ELGIN TRACK ELGIN. ILL. Aug 28 -All racing and I ■ practice records for the 84-mile Elgin I mad race course were smashed in prac- | tile when Tedd' Tetzlaff sent his Elat I amund the track in 6 minutes 55.23 sec- ' ••nd». official time an average of 74.2 ' miles an hour The previous record for 1 the course was 7 minutes 13 seconds. | Joe Mandot Is Frugal and Has $35,000 'Salted Away’ in Bank By Jay Davidson. IOS ANGELES. Aug. 28.—Joe Mandot probably has more ready cash than any fighter now in training, his bank roll rep resenting a total of 35,000 hand some. lovely iron men, all subject to draft whenever Joey gets ready to go out and paint the town red— which he says he never has done and never will do. Unlike most slitters who make big money, Man dot is not inclined to Invest his earnings, preferring to put it away in a bank vault for emergency call and where it will increase at the rate of about four per cent a year. Mandot has had 41 fights and has averaged more than SI,OOO for each, as proved by his possession of $35,000, the remnants of his to tal earnings. Probably his average earnings will exceed SI,OOO. But the most money he ever received for a single scrap was $2,500. When he keeps his engagement with Joe Rivers, although he may be a bit more scarred up phpsically than now, he will be a lot fatter in a financial way. He will get the big gest sum for that scrap that he ever pulled down for one session with his padded mitts. The youngster has not decided yet what he wants to do when he gets rgady to toss aside the gloves and forget about old man Queensberry. If he had made up his mind in this regard he probably would not have such a big bank roll lying idle. Some day, he says, when he quits the ring, he wants to have suffi cient capital to establish himself in business and then he will have the ready cash at his command to do business with. He has no bad hab its, does not dissipate, and says he will get married some day and set tle down. Memphis Sports Coming. Joe is a popular boy in New Or leans. his home town, and in Mem phis. where he has done most of his fighting. As indicating his pop ularity. the fact that 50 of his Mem phis friends are coming to Los Angeles in a special car to see the Labor day scrap might serve ns proof. Manager Harry Coleman says that the) have a ssu round trip fare and already have sold 35 of the required 50 tickets. When this Memphis crowd gels in town the betting on the fight is going to liven considerably, as ev ery man Jack of them will have a bet down on his lightweight idol. Not less than SIO,OOO will be wager ed on Mandot bj them, and when such a huge sum is dumped onto the market to back any scrapper the odds are bound to wabble a hit. New Orleans, too, is going to send a few dollars this way to be placed on the Frenchman to win. Thinks Him Best Ever. Manager Harry Coleman can not be convinced that Joe Rivers can whip his boy. He thinks that Man dot is the greatest lightweight in the world and can whip any of his rivals from Wolgast down to the pork-and-beans class. Here is his statement: "Joe Mandot is the greatest light weight in tiie world today and can whip all ills rivals, from Wolgast to the raw recruits, in a most deci sive manner in a twenty-round scrap. That explains why I think he surely will whip Rivers on La bor day. Mandot has proved to me that he is the best there is in his division, and I will bet that I am right. I regard Rivers as the only real riial that Mandot has now, with M olgast temporalii\’ on the shelf. Fact is. >ve would much prefer to fight Wolgast than to take on Riv ers. because we figure the Mexican i is a tougher opponent tn heat. Man dot has mopped up with al! rivals east of here and he should move Rivers out of the way long before | By “Bud” Fisher the scheduled limit of the Labor day fracas. Never Knocked Out. "Rivers is such a classy, brilliant scrapper that I do not blame Los Angeles fans for being so dazzled b\ him that they can see no other fighter in the ring with him. But they should not overlook my boy Mandot has had 41 fights and never was knocked out, and only kissed the mat for one knockdown in his entire career. He has whipped all the lightweights of any conse quence except Rivers and Wolgast and now is ready to finish them. "He is the most versatile fighter 1 ever saw. He can hit from any position, can adapt his tactics to those of his opponent with ease, whether boxing a clever opponent or mauling with a slugger. I’s Riv ers wants to box to a decision, Mandot will box with him. though not overlooking any chance to put over the sporific touch. If he wants to make it a slugging battle. Man dot will accommodate him. If Riv ers wants to go at a 75-mile-an hout gait. Mandot will carry him along at 80. , Highly Regards Rivers. "We do not underestimate Riv ers at all. e know he is a high class fighter and one who is dan gerous at all times until put away. Mandot will be perfectly trained and in tiptop condition when he enters the ring, and we shall refuse to be convinced that Rivers is the better man until it is proved to us-. Mandot is acclimated already, having recovered from the effects of the change in climate which affected him the first we were here. All other conditions are ideal and we shall have no ex- Clises if we lose. "Mandot will not weigh more than 130 pounds when he enters the ring. He is a natural 128- pounder and we would have made that weight for the Mexican had he insisted. His best fighting weight now is about 130 pounds, and the most he ever weighed was 132 pounds, which was too much for hint and left him soft and slow. If Rivers comes in at 130 pounds, as I understand he will do. they will be at even weights, and since they are so evenly matched other wise, 1 predict one of the greatest scraps Los Angeles fans ever saw.” BARONS AND GULLS CLASH TODAY IN SERIES FOR LEAD Birmingham and Mobile tie up to day in the first game of a series of five that will probably decide the pennant in the Southern league. Starting to day. four games w ill be played at Rick wood park, the home of the Barons and on Sunday a game is slated at Mo-' bile. I Only three games separate the teams now. The Barons have been slipping of late, Molesworth's pitchers having "J'-Jkcni'il. <>n the other hand, the Gulls have been forging to the front with rapid strides of late. JACK BRITTON STOPS MURPHY IN 11 ROUNDS BbSHi.X. MASS., Aug. 28-—Jack I. l ,';.'""','' l,il ' a Kfi. v.isily defeated ~f Kos ton. before the I ilgriiii Athletic association, the ref- stopping th,, tight in the eleventh '■•.’"fi'l; Erom the first bell Britton car ried the fight to Murphy, who was un able to guard effectively, and rallied only on< e. in the seventh, In the tenth round Murphy went down under a rain of blows to the face but was saved by the bell. The eleventh round had gone but a few seconds when [Murphy was again down, and on the i so< nnd fall the referee closed the bout, i which had but one more round in go. M-n * PIR * AND LYN OAAW. u. A i r'‘\ ' 1 J * • A,,ft - s Battling Spira ’anti Frankie Lyn battled six fast rounds ; T .? . a 'l’a" last nigh! The bout was suh , s.’toted f"i the Willie Schaeffer-AdiFe [ pearinkr tight at the Shamrock club The , ’"Ui was fought in an open arena n i 5"' ,Vs About fans attended. x, 1 i was given the decision over I Aiickex Graham in the preliminary.