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Despite, the fact that owing to accidents, injuries and certain financial and legal cataclysms experienced by the club, it does not occupy a proud f>o sition in the first division, it is at least the second best team of the northern divish n of the Southein league, and is likewise the leader of something, said something being the second division. • • • • \IfEIRD as it may seem at first '* glance this contest today Is a crucial one! It i . indeed. Re ginning with today, unless Atlanta wins every game yet to he played and unless Chattanooga loses every one, the ('rackets are doomed to finish last. There’s nothing else to •it. Today begins the final and ulti mate show-down What the outlook is we leave to the imagination and the arithmetic of the reader • • • •pHE truth is. there aren’t likely 1 to be any more changes In the league race. Os course Montgom ery and Chattanooga may either of them noso out Nashville from its proud position in the lead of the second division. But the rest of it seems to be settled beyond all ques tion. Mobile made a grand fight and all honor goes to Mike Finn. Prom now on the Gulls will be busy stay ing ahead of the Pelicans—but they will do it because they are a bet ter ball club, which is an excellent reason, as anybody will admit. • • • AFTER fourteen innings of wild and savage playing, in which extra base lifts were as plentiful as pickles at a free lunch, the Crack ers and the Turtles divided a dou ble-header equally between them at Ponce DeLeon Wednesday after noon. The Atlantans took the first game. 7 to 5; the Memphians cop ped the second. 7 to 6 The crowd at the start was a« slim as a living skeleton, due chief ly' to the sac t that the double-head er was not well advertised, and as Umpires Hart and Pfenninger did not show up for the beginning of the first game and as Pitcher Mer ritt was sent in to umpire, the players made sort of a kidding bee out of it The Crackers took aw ful liberties with the best Parsons had to offer in the first two innings of the first game. Most of the dam age was done by three-baggers. In the first inning, with the bases full, Pitcher Price, who was subbing in right field, hit a screamer to cen ter that sent three runs home. In the next Inning, with the bases similarly loaded. McElveen put a three-bagger to his credit and three more runs sifted over The general complexion of things changed after these two innings Parsons took a reef in himself w hile Becker, believing he had the con test where he wanted it. eased up There was a trifle too much easing for complete Cracker comfort. In the third Bernhard's men sent one runner across. And In the sixth they piled up four tallies. It was evident from the preparations and demonstrations that the Tut ties had designs on a victory in the seventh and they went at it strong, but Becker summoned all he had and sawed the visitors off short. • • • IF one were Inclined to be < arping ly critical it might be pointed out that Baerwald lost this first game for Memphis. McElveen s al leged three-bagger should have been merely a fly-out to the Bear Cat. But he lost the ball in the sun—-a foolish thing for an expe rienced right fielder to do. even if that garden in Atlanta is the worst In the league—-and that misplay let three runners get across, enough to turn the tide from Memphis to Atlanta. This poor play, coupled with Baerwald's loafing on a hit Tuesday, made his work look mighty bad here. It might be worth mentioning that Merritt's umpiring was excel lent. The players kidded him strong but he ran the game with firmness and in a satisfactory manner. When Hart and Pfenninger turned up at 11:15—they had stipjroseii there was to be but one game, like most ev erybody else in Atlanta—there was big cheering from the crowd and the players. • « * npHE second garni hid as many * slant- and twists to its as a roll er coaster. Memphis got away with two runs fight off the reel, due to Absteln's horseshoe homer. This ball was a clean single, but it took a wretched hop just before it got to Bailey and sailed over his dome. Crandall, who had walked, went home ahead of Abstein. The < raeki rs did a little scoring on their own account in the third. There wasn’t anything fancy about it. The Atlantans just whaled into Doe Newton's delivery, as is their wont, and chased the runners across. The Turtles cut down this lead by one run in the sixth, when Halil- rFODDER FOR"FANS Frank Dessau couldn't make a go of it with Kansas City and has been sent to the Lincoln club On that team he will be associated with former Southern leaguers, including Paul Cobb. Berg hammer and Miles Stratton. This seems to indicate that the tears shed by At Inntans over Dessau’s departure were largely wasted. w • • Ty Cobh is batting more than 150 points better than his brother Paul. And Ty faces pitchers fully twice as good Which seems to prove that bat ting doesn’t always run in families • * • Divinity Student Perryman. of the Richmond team, the original Man of Sorrow, has found out how to win a game. fie does It by pitching shut-out ball Otherwise, nothing doing. The man who goes to the Giants this fall worked that stunt Libor day . and. thanks to the fact that his team mates piled up tb.e unprecedented number of I run be hind him, he copped. Pittsburg figures that if Babe Adams had not been Injured the Pirates would be up around the top today. As it, is. they have accepted third place as the best possible, and changed the subject. Catcher Ray Schalk. for whom the White Sox gave SIO,OOO. is the second catcher who cost that much The other i was Mike Kelly i niter plat ers who cost i that much or more were O'Toole Mar I quard, Russell and Clarkson. • • • Schalk was born at Harvel, lit . of Ger man parents He is 7. feet 10 inches tall and weighs 170 pounds He started last season with Hie Taylorville, ill team Milwaukee paid SI,OOO for him • • • The Phillies sat their bad showing was the result of trailing at Hot Springs. At I, But then, the Red Sox trained there, too Also, be it noted Hutt the Red«. who got the best training weather of all at I’ohiml ns. <fa . are finishing no where It isn't where ton train ihnt wins you pennants, but \\||AT too train and lli’W you train em • • • Barm i Drey fuss lias promised to so, the Pennsylvania railroad because it did not get his team from Clm Innati to Pittsburg in time for the Labor day Kames Barney bad sold 30.000 tickets for the games Robby Quinn, the business manager of 'he Columbus . lub, wants to form an Ohio league, with dubs at Cincinnati Cleveland. Columbus. Toledo and four lesser burgs If he Is interested to know how continuous bush league bail draws he is advise*! to consult Colonel Heinen an. lao president of the New Ur lean (Cotton S'ates league) club • » • Johnny McGraw in an interview tn Boston. say* that al! that beat the Giants out «f the world's serie.* last year was • igl: hick He expects to beat the Fb • S x this >ear with strong pitching and fast base-running. If ho cares at aP ’" ' 'hat opinion uit h loud - talking n'one> lucre is small doubt but that he will be accommodated. • • ■ • Managing < baseball team r. Cincin | t .'tti is ;i I ard ».»b For testimonials, ftp ply to Charley Comiskey, Bid McPhee, \ THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 5. IfM2. nan triplid, sending Bales home ahead of him. Then came the turgid seventh. Details are unnecessary, but, any how. Bernhard’s men batted home four tallies. With the Crackers three runs to the bad and with only a half in ning to go, Manager Bernhard slipped in Parsons for another try at the Crackers. And they pro ceeded to get to him. Bradi first up, strolled. Agler hit a fielder's i hoice but Bailey did something for his country with a homer that scored two men. That brought the Crackers to within one run of a tie. It looked gloomy for Memphis when Harbison singled, but the dope switched when Reynolds filed out. Again Atlanta hearts beat hopefully when McElveen singled, sending Harbison to third. When lite pinch came it was a battle of curves vs. the punch between Par sons and Callahan, and the Mem phis man got the verdict when he forced Callahan to pop to Bales, ending a tight game. Considering that the whole thing started out pretty much of a farce, it really developed into an excellent afternoon’s sport, and while it might be justly observed that the pitching wasn’t the best in the world, it could be offered, on the other hand, that the batting tvas most marvelously good. And what little the hits lacked in number they surely made up In length. Buck Ewing. Ned Hanlon. John Ganzel. Chirk Griffith and Hank O’Day. Next .’ Joe McC.innlty. the rusty Iron Man. has handed Rochester nine defeats this season. The old boy seems to have something on ’em. New York papers say Tommy McMil lan times his throws as yvell as Bill Dahlen ever did- and Bill was a regular chronometer at that. * t * It is given as experl, big league opin ion that on a dark day the only way to sec Joe Wood's speed is to attach . a lantern to it. • • • Tim lied Sox played the lowlv Yanks in New York on Labor day and 25.000 . fans turned out. despite a drizzling rain to .-.<»♦» the Red Sox. That shows what , curiosity will do. Lour nut of ihe ten leading base steal ers in the National league are Giants. < >r.c out of tlie ten best in the American is «i Red Sox. This may spell something 1 in the coining world's series. But something that read very like this didn’t spell a thing in the last world’s series. By the way. didn’t the American league publicly announce it wasn't going to have ■ anything more to do with the National league, in world’s series or anything else? But then, that was last spring • • ♦ Topsy Hartsei will not manage Cleve land next year He has decided to sign again with Toledo. Wise decision. • * • Here is all The Birmingham News claims for Smokeville and its ball chib: "Birmingham Is absolutely leading the Southern association. 'Birmingham led in the opening dav attendance ' Birmingham led in the Fourth of July at:endance Birmingham led in the tabor dav at tendance Birmingham is leading the league in tot;.! attendance for the season. "Birmingham has the record fur series 1 I at t. udance "Birmingham Is leading In the race I for the pennant. Birmingham has the best baseball l plain iu ti e league Birmingham has a clean-cut baseball team .omiaised of gentlemanly nlavers ; who play the game for all it.is worth "Birmingham has 'he most enthusiastic and fairest-minded rooters around the f circuit." i —— —— VIRGINIA RACE IS CLOSE. PETERSBURG. VA . Sept. s.—Rich- I mond's defeat. S to 2. by Petersburg yesterday afternoon, ended Richmond’s chances for the Virginia league p. n i nant and Roanoke, now leading, will ’ begin here today a series of four - games. which will decide the race. It ; has been the olosest race ever in the r Virginia league, the three leading ’ teams having a chance at the flag un til three days before the season s close. Roanoke went into the lead Tues lay. inri is a half game ahead of Peters , burg. “Kid” McCoy Is Poet •?•►{• - ’•4’ ? Writes Verse in Jail ! NEW YORK. Sept. s.—The fol-! J lowing poena was composed by Kid) McCoy jn Brixton jail while he was J I waiting for extradition proceed- ! J Ings: < ! Kindness seeds are sown by deeds, ! Cultured by love’s affection. S Nature's arm protects from harm ! All those who need protection. Love's bright charm allays all alarms And strengthens the will of the! mind, ? So when in doubt turn things about ( And view them from behind. ! Let reason's bright light Guide desire and appetite. / Should happiness be your goal. ! S Don't scatter to the wind S The thoughts of the mind, < > They that come from your soul. < ! The poem was not made public! ’ until McCoy was safely outside the! ! jurisdiction of the British author-! ? ities. Fboxing - " Late News and Views Joseph B. Angello. better known as Joe Coster, signed articles for.life Sunday when he married Katherine Tuttle. The pugilist and his wife have booked passage for Jacksonville, and will spend their honeymoon traveling in the South. * * « “One Round" Hogan and Frankie Burns have been matched to tight twenty rounds at San Francisco September 9. Hogan and Willie Ritchie were matched to box in Frisco Labor day, but Ritchie hurt an arm while training and was un able to appear. ... Joe Mandot and Harry Coleman, his manager, wall remain in the West for a few weeks, as the Southern champ plans to do a fi\w weeks in vaudeville. Billy Bennett, lightweight champion of Ireland, made his debut in this country last Saturday, when he outboxed Jimmy Lore in seven rounds of a ten-round bout at New York. The Irish champ showed some fast footwork and sised both hands to advantage. • • * Jem Driscoll lias booked passage for the United States and should arrive here before many moons. The little fighter will seek matches with Ad XVolgast and Johnny Kilbane, after which he will like ly go to Australia to fight before Hugh Mclntosh s club. • • • Kay Bronson has signed articles of agreement to box a twelve-round bout with Hilliard Lang, at Winnipeg. Septem ber 9. Bronson fought Clarence Ferns at Indianapolis Labor day. and came near being knocked out in the first round. However, he came back strong and man aged to get an even break with the ••Wildcat.” • • • The fact that the Johnson-Flynn match at Las Vegas July 4 proved a financial failure evidently doesn't cause Promoter Jack Curley to give up hope in the pro motion of other contests. Curley is mak ing a strong effort to stage a fight be tween Joe Jeannette and Jack Johnson. Jack doesn't know where he will stage the tight, but he lias already secured Jeannette's consent fcr the scrap. - • • Although Joe Mandot defeated Mexican Joe Rivers at Los Angeles Labor day. he fought at a great disadvantage. The lit tle tighter had to breathe through his mouth during the fight, as he was af fected by the Western climate. • • • Freddie Welsh says he will return to England shortly Surely no one will mourn the loss. • • * \lthoi:gh Joe Sherman ofearb uutpoint ed Harry Trendal! at Memphis Labor day, die best he could get whs a draw. Sher man Is looked on oy many of his South ern followars as a < tuning champion in ; he light weight division. GRIFFIN TO REFEREE BURNS-HOGAN BOUT SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. s—Jim Gtiffin has been selected tn referee the Burns-Hogan bout at Coffroth's arena Monday afternoon. The referee was named at a conference between Cof froth and Managers Gorman and Boag Jack CTirlev left for Portland yes terday without coining to terms with Ross oth for a Flynn - Knufn n bout. There is a question of finances between them and the bout is in the air. \re you bus' this evening? Even' if vou are. take a few moments off and read i lie great list of bargains in ever? line on rhe Warn vi Pages of hjs paper. You will be repaid many times. Hebrew Hos on Trail of Kilbane for Another Title Battle ATTELL CLEANS $35,0N IN ONE POKER SITTING By Ed. W. Smith. CHICAGO, Sept. s.—Abe At tell did beat the San Fran cisco pokei games for $35,- 000, and better than that, he kept every penny of it. He has the money banked now in New York. Best of all, though, he has quit gambling altogether now that he has a nice little start toward a big bankroll. The height of Attell’s ambition right now is to show the public that he Is just as good a man as ever he was. The only way he can do that is to drag Johnny Kilbane into a ring again and beat the daylights out of him. He thinks this may be an almost impossible task in the light of what has happened recently. Has a New Champion. Attell passed through the city, being in town about five hours. He was accompanied by bis wife and a young coast lightweight named Herb Brock, whom Abe swears is destined to become a real cham pion within a very short time. While in Hearst’s American of fice Abe told us that the advance stories of his big winnings at the poker plays were true, although some of the details were not cor rect. "It took only one sitting for me Kilbane and Dundee Both Claim Victory In Ten-Round Bout NEW YORK, Sept. s.—Although friends of Johnny Dundee, the clever little New York featherweight, today claimed a draw for their idol in his ten-round bout with Featherweight Champion Johnny Kilbane at the St. Nicholas Athletic club last night, the title holder supporters were just as sure that a decision would have gone to Kilbane had decisions been allowed by law in this state. Kilbane did not train after his ar rival in New York, saying that he felt fit to tackle Dundee. But the little New Yorker proved a surprise. He showed unexpected strength and speed. There were times when Kilbane laughed with the crowd, when his own blows missed their mark. ONLY EIGHT REMAIN IN RACE FOR GOLF TITLE CHICAGO, Sept. 5. —With the strug gle in the national amateur golf cham pionships narowed down to four pairs of contestants, play in the third match round was started today. Today's play was expected to develop the real strength of the champions, and when the afternoon's play was over only the four men who will show in trie semi final match will be left. interest centered largely in Charles Evans. Jr., Jerome Travers —the two favorites —Norman E. Hunter, the English player who has so fa: escaped elimination, and Warren K. Wood. The four men played lu excellent form yes terday and it was predicted they would put up an exceptional struggle today Pairings for today: Mason Phelps vs. Jerome Travers, Paul Hunter vs. H. Kerr. Charles Evans. Jr., vs H. Schmidt. IV. K. -Wood vs. N. E. Hunter. AL DEMAREE ON WAY TO JOIN GIANTS IN PHILA. MOBILE, ALA.. Sept. 5. —A! Dema ree. crack pitcher of the local club ami sold to the New York Giants for .U 'HO and several play ■ r-. is on l.is way today t > report to the Glams in Phila delphia. where they are now pinyin;;. Manager McGraw wanted Demaree to report earlier, but Manager Finn re fused to let him go until the Southern league race was settled, and with al! chance to catch Birmingham lost and second place practically cinched, M- - Craw's request was granted yesterday. to gather in the entire $35,000," Abe said. "We had a mighty rich senator in the game and a couple of other men that own millions, and my luck never deserted me at all during the entire sitting of 22 hours. Decides to Quit Poker. "When the whole thing was over I discovered I had coin and per fectly good paper to a total of $35,- 000. 1 negotiated this paper the following day and sent the entire amount to Nejj' York to be banked there to my credit. "After getting rested up and thinking over the whole thing. I decided then and there to quit gambling for all time. This bank roll gives me a dandy start and I decided that at my time of life it was about the proper caper to get something laid away. “No, they won't tempt me into the poker games again, because I'm through, with a great big T. Just naturally got enough of It. that’s all. No, sir. not even the so-called friendly game. Going After Kilbane. “I want that title back. It doesn't belong to Kilbane, for one or two very good reasons. To begin with, he just scratched out on a mighty bad decision, and the other fault The Big Race Here is the up-to-the-minute dope on how the “Big Five” batters of the American league are hitting: PLAYER— ~A.~B. H. Ayer. COBB .. 478 | 197 | .412, SPEAKERi 496 196 ( .395 JACKSON j 475 175 | .368 COLLINS | 444 , 149 .333 LAJOIE 342 111 j ,325 Ty Cobb gained a point and a half yesterday by securing three hits in five times up. And Tris Speaker lost a pair of points by grabbing only one safe swat in five trips to the plate. Eddie Collins "stood still.” He was up thrice and connected once. Jackson and Ca jole didn't get a chance to do anything as the Naps were idle. THOMPSON RECALLED FROM BROCKTON BY NEW YORK A PHENS, GA.. Sept. s.—Red and Black fans and the Georgia boys, par ticularly of recent years, will be glad to learn of the magnificent success which has attended the work of Carl Thomp son, star pitcher for Georgia’s baseball team for three years, who made the record of strike-outs in a regular col lege game last year, and who was im mediately afterward signed up for the New York Americans by Scout Arthur Irwin. He showed up fairly well in his two or three games pitched for the High landers and was then sent to Brock ton. Mass., for the season's seasoning. On the Brockton team in the past two months he pitched ten games, won eight, tied one and lost one. The game he Jost was a score of 1 to 0, the only hits he gave up being two bunched doubles which let In the one run. Thompson has just ben recalled by VV olverton to the Yankee eamp and he is declared to be fit to pitch in any of the major leagues. He was v'Olun tarily this week raised In salary from $250 to $275 a month and a cash offer of $3,000 was iefused for him from one of the International teams. HERbISHEIM Go AI? \9 that I find with him is that he !« not capable of holding it and de fending it in real championship style. Just look at the men he is fighting and who are holding him even. Why, even little Tommy Dixon knocked him down and blacked his eye. “Just the other day Jim Coffroth wired him an offer of SB,OOO for his end to battle me in San Francisco on Thanksgiving day. The reply came back that Kilbane already had hooked up with Tom McCarey for that date. McCarey Cuts Price. “Afterward I got a wire from McCarey offering me mighty stingy terms to fight Kilbane Thanksgiv ing day. I declined at once. Me- Carey evidently thought that 1 was so wild to get a return match w ith Kilbane that I would fight him for next to nothing. But I haven’t gone completely crazy just yet. “Coffroth then wired Kilbane that he would give him the New Year's day date with me, but never got a reply to this. From this I can see that Kilbane doesn’t want to fight me at all. The papers all over the country are scolding him for his poor showings, and I hope that some day he may become ashamed of himself.” Here’s How Crackers Are Hitting the Ball Right Up to Date These averages Include all games played to date by the Crackers. Players— G. AB. R. H. AV. Price, p 3 7 0 3 .429 Harbison, ss 74 259 32 75 .250 Bailey, Ifl2B 445 85 127 .285 Alperman, 2b123 463 61 129 .279 Agler, lb 64 215 36 58 270 Callahan, cf 87 328 32 86 .212! Graham, c 62 192 20 47 .215 McElveen, 3b133 481 52 115 2 < Reynolds, c 24 76 12 15 .T 8 Becker, p 16 38 2 7 .184 Brady, p 23 71 3 12 .168 Sitton, p 28 64 11 10 .156 Wolfe, utility 19 52 5 8 153 Johnson, p 8 18 0 1 .056 Waldorf, p 10 25 0 1 040 Men and Women I CURE YOU TO STAY CURED. . of all chronic, nervous, private. blood and I skin diseases. I use i the very latest meth- Y Ods, therefore getting \ desired results. I g v e W 606, the celebrated German preparation, > J for blood poison, with- jSV. 7\-4Rf out cutting or deten F Y \ tlon from busine; I cure you or make no charge. Everything confidential. Came to me without de lay. and let me demonstrate • " I give you results where other physicians have failed. 1 cure Vari cocele, Stricture, Piles, Nervous De bllity. Kidney, Bladder and prostate troubles. Acute discharges and >n tlarnmation and all contracted dis eases. FREE consultation and exam ination. Hours, Ba. m. to 7 p in Sundavs, 9 to 1. Dr. J. D. 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