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I nr; Jeff Puts One Over on Mutt Occasionally at That :: :: :: ;; By “Bud” Fisher —•-7- - j "'Tw oo you ~ ,—• • i ~” r- ™t n*r - j _ I l • WlTH *|2 .N.Y I < _Y _ -1- ' I ' —r — CT ) CT ? ct R,& " ! ' fIL OB! Jp* IHS . ® M ■■ *in SM ■ Si ■ Am ■ r J g-> I ' ■ --¥ T-■. —1 j _■ ■ JST L_ L ■ —■ —— ———— ——————XZZZZZIZZZT27T777Z72^TTZZTZ^TZZ~^ —'• • —•■• •<*-?.■" *o>e »y sv*e Crackers Must Win Every Game From Now On to Get Out of Last Place VOLUNTEERS ARE HERE FOR THREE-PAY STAY By Percy il. Whiting. ' i ADIES and genthuncn. we have ■ with us today th.; blighted remain; of a once gnat ball team, to wit: the jurtly celebrated Vqluntei r- of Nashville. Despite the fact that, owing to accidents, injuries and < ’ rtntn financial and h gal < lystn.- expo: ieneed by the < lub, it doe- not occupy a proud po sition in th' first division, it is at least the so und best team of the northern division of the Southern league, and is likewise the leader of something, -aid something being | the second division. • * • IITEIRD a- i' nr ’eeni at flr-t ’’ a crucial one! It Is. indeed. Be ginning with ’ou.i -. unless Atlanta win- *(<r vet IO lie played and unh -s Chattanooga loses every one. the Ur.tek'Ts are doomed to finish last. There's nothing o’ e to 11. Today begins tin final and ulti mate show-down. What the outlook is we leave to the imagination and the arithmetic of the reader. ♦ • • •pHE truth K there aren't likely ' to be anj Ttore changes In the league race. Os course Montgom ery and t’ha'tanoi ga may either of them nose out Nashville from its proud position in the lend of the second division Bitt the test of it -<Aiis to he settled beyond all ques tion. Mobile m id< a grand tight and all honor goes to Mike Finn. ,From now on the (lulls will be busy stay ing ahead of the Pelicans -but they will do il because they are a bet tei ball club, w 111 'i 'an excellent ji reason, .is anybody v ill admit. • • • I 1 AITEII i 'ini'' a innings of wild y .ilb ravage pl. i mg, in which I extra litre hit - Here as plentiful as pickles at a fre 'limb, the Crack er.s and •,!.• Turtles divided a don- , b e-h< adei 'pually between them at Ponce D Leon Wednesday after- ' noon. The Atlantans took' the llisu game, 7 to ,'i, the Memphians cop ped the second. 7 to 6 ; The crowd at the start was as > slim as a living skeli ton. due chief- [ ly to the fact that th- double-head- ’ er was nMt well advertised, and as I'mplres Hart and Pf< nninger did 1 not show up for tin beginning of the first game and as Pitcher Mer- , ritt was sent in to umpire, the i players made sort of a kidding bee ; out of it. The Crackers took awful liberties with the best Ik sons had to offer in the first two innings of the first game. -Most of the dam age was done by three-baggers in 1 the first iyning, with the bases full, ‘ Pitcher who was subbing In. right field, hit a screamer to cen- 1 ter that sent three tuns home In the next inning, with the bases similarly loaded. McElveen put a tin ee-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 wdiile Becker, believing lie had the con test where he wanted it. eased up. There was a trifle too mm it easing for complete ('racket- comfort. Tn 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 Turtles liad designs on a victory in the s< venth ' and they went at it strong, hut Bicker summoned all he had and sawed the visitors off short. • • • If one were inclined to In carping. I y <• i t . it . ited out that Baerwalii lost this first game for Memphis. McElveen’s al- ; leged three-bagger should have been merely a fly-out to the Bear f’« But he lost the bail tn the sun -a foolish thing sot an expe rienced right fielder do, even if * ! that garden in Allanta is the worst in the league—and that misplay let three runner- git across, enough to turn the tide from Memphis to Atlanta. This poor play, coupled with Baervaid’s loafing on a hit Tuesday, made his work look mighty bad here. It might be worth mentioning Hutt Merritt's umpiring was cxcel len The players kidded him strong but lie ran the game with firmness and in a satisfactory manner. When Hart and Pfenninger turned up at 3:15- they had supposed there was to be but one game, like most ev erybody else in Atlanta—there was big cheering from the crowd and the players. • • » rpHE second game had as many 1 slants and twists to its as a roll er coaster. Memphis got awaj with two runs right off the rec), tiue to Abstein’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 Crackers did a little scoring on their own account in the third. There wasn’t anything fancy about it. The Atlantans, just whaled into blloc 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 Haiti- j FODDER FOR FANS 1-1-1 L ' ~ ~ w '"" ' . -•»- Frank Hessau couldn’t make a go of it with Kansas city ami lias Item sent io the Lincoln club On that team lie •vill he associated wiih former Softthern leaguers. Including Paul Cobb. Berg nammer and Milos Stratton. This seems io indicate that the tears sited by At lantans over l>essau’s departure were largely wasted. • • • Ty Cobb is batting more than 150 nolnts better titan his brother Paul. And Ty faces pitchers fully twice as good. Which seems to prove that bat ing doesn’t always run in families • ♦ « Divinity Student Perryman, of the Richmond team, the Original Man of S' has found out how to win a game. He does It by pitching shut-out ball. Otherwise, nothing doing THe man who goes to the Giants this fall worked that stunt day, and. thanks to the fact that Ills team mates piled up the unprecedented number of t run be hind him, lie copped. * * • Pittsburg figures that if Babe Adams had not been injured the Pirates would be up around the toy today. As it Is, they have accepted third place as the best possible, and changed the subject. Catcher Ray Scltalk for whom the \\ bite Sox gave <IO.OOO. Is the second -atelier who cost that much. The other was Mike Kelly. other plaiors who cost that much or more were O'Toole, Mar Uttard, Russell and Clarkson. « « • Schalk was born at Harvel. HI., of Ger man parents. He Is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weigtis 170 pounds. He started last oason with the Tavlorville. Hl team Milwaukee raid SI,OOO for him. • • • The Phillies say their bad showing was the result of training at Ifot Springs Ark. But then, the Red Sox trained there, too Also, be it noted that the Reds who got the best training weather t all nt <’olunibus, Ga., are finishing no where It e-.n’t where vou train that wins you pennanis. but WHAT vou train and HOW you train ’em • • • Barm y has promised to sue the Pennsylvania railroad l»e.*ause it did not get his team from Cincinnati to Pittsburg in time for the Labor da\ games. Barney had sold 30.000 ticket's for the games • • • Bobby Quinn, the business manager of the Columbus club, wants to form an <»hio league, with clubs at Cincinnati. Cleveland. Columbus. Toledo ami four lesser burgs if he is interested to know how continuous bush league ball draws In is advised to consult Colonel Helneman. late president of the New <jr leaii (Cotton States league> club •i • » ' buy McGraw, it’ au inierview tri H'.-tutt, say.- that all tlat beat the Giants out of the world’s series last year was . luck He expects to beat the Red S..X I'l- with Strong pitching aim fast base-runt ; : g if |.,. cares at al’ ' bai-n tie .a with lord-talking money tl -re i- <: tall doubt but that he w ill tie :t< ''omtr.oi ated Managing a b.< , ball lean itt t'incin • ' '.a,., jot' For testinioninls, ap ply to Charley Cumiskey, Bid McPhee. THE'ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 5. 1512 nan tripled, 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 Hie 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. Brady, first up, .strolled. Agler hit a fielder’s choice, 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 the 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 was most marvelously good. Anti what little the hits lacked in number they surely made up in length. Buck Ewing. Ned Hanlon, John Ganzel l lurk Griffith and Hank O’Day Next? 1 Joe McGinnity. the rusty Iron Man, has handed Rochester nine defeats this season. The old boy seems io have something on 'em. New York papers say Tommy McMil lan times his throws as well as Bill i Dahlen ever did- and Bill was a regular chronometer at that • V » Il is given as expert, big league opin ion that on a dark day' the onlv wav to see Joe Wood’s speed is to attach . a lantern to it. * • • The Red Sox played the lowlv Yanks in Aev York on laibor day and 25,000 tans turned out. despite a drizzling rain— to see Hie Red Sox. That shows what curiosity will do. Four out of tlie ten leading base steal ers in the National league are Giants One out of the ten best in the American is a Red Sox This may spell something in the. coming world’s series But something that read very like this didn’t spell a thing in tlie last world's series • • • By the way. didn’t the American leaerue 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 yea: He has decided to sign again with Toledo. Wise decision • • « Here is all The Birmingham News claims for Smokevllle and its ball chib- "Birmingham ts absolutely leading the Southern association. "Birmingham led in the opening dav attendance. ■’Birmingham led in the Fourth of Julv attendance "Birmingham led in the Labor dav at tendance ’’Birmingham Is leading the league in total attendance for the season. "Birmingham has the record for series attendance "Birmingham is leading In the race for the pennant "Birmingham has the best baseball plant in the league. "Birmingham lias a clean-cut baseball team, composed of gentlemanly plavers Who plav the game for all it is worth. * Birndngharu has the most enthusiastic j and tairest-minded rooters around th n circuit. VIRGINIA RACE IS CLOSE. PETERSBI’RG, \ A . Sept. 5 —Rich mond s defeat. S to 2 by Petersburg yesterday afternoon, ended Richmond’s chances for the Virginia league pen nant and Roanoke, now leading, will begin here today a -e: , , f four I games, w hich will decide tiie race. It has been the closest race ever in ihe Virginia league, tlie three leading teams having t chance at the flag un til thr, .- t’ays before the season’s dose. Ro mol., w ent into the lead Tuesday, and Is a half game ahead of Peters burg “Kid” McCoy Is Poet ; Writes Verse in Jail J NEW YORK, Sept. s.—The fol J lowing poem was composed by Kid J s McCoy in Brixton jail while he was 4 ? waiting for extradition proceed-? < Ings: ( 5 Kindness seeds are sown by deeds, s < Cultured by love’s affection. j < Nature's arm protects from harm ( < All those who need protection. < < Love’s bright charm allays al! alarms < And strengthens the will of the i < mind, < ■ So when in doubt turn things about j I? And view them from behind. Let reason’s bright light ? Guide desire and appetite, Should happiness be your goal. < Don’t scatter to the wind < j The thoughts of the mind, I They that come from your soul. j The poem was not made public i until McCoy was safely outside the? jurisdiction of the British author-J ities. c Late News and Views k , 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. V « * “One Round" Hogan and Frankie Burns have been matched to fight twenty rounds at San Francisco September 9. Hogan and Willje Ritchie were matched to box in Frisco I.abor day, but Ritchie hurt an arm while training and was un able to appear. • • • Joe Mandot and Harry Coleman, his manager, will remain in the West for a few weeks, as the Southern champ plans to do a few 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 used both hands to advantage. • * « Jem Dyiscoll has booked passage for tl.e Cnited States and should arrive here before manj moons The little fighter will seek matches with Ad AVolgast and Johnny Kilbane, after which he will like ly go to Australia to fight before Hugh Mclntosh’s club • • • Ray Bronson has signed articles of agreement to box a twelve-round bout with Hilliard Lang, at Winnipeg, Septem ber 9. Bronson fought Clarence Ferns a. 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 a’ lais 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 fight, but he has already secured Jeannette’s consent for the scrap. - • • Although Joe Mandot defeated Mexican Joe Rivers at Los Angeles Labor day, he fought at a great disadvantage. The lit tle lighter had to breathe through his mouth during the fight, as lie was af fected by the Western climate. • • • Freddie Welsli says he will return to England shortly. Surely no one will mourn the loss. « • • Although Joe Sherman clearly outpoint ed Harry Trendall at Memphis Labor day, tl:e best be could got was a draw. Sher man is lookeil on by many of his South ern followers as a coining champion in tlie lightweight division. GRIFFIN TO REFEREE BURNS-HOGAN BOUT s.\N FRANCISCO, Sept. s.—Jim (1 iffin has been selected to referee the Burns-Hogan bout at Coffroth’s arena Monday afternoon The referee was I named at a conference between Cof froth and Managers Gorman and Boag. Jack Curley left for Portland yes terday without coming to terms with Cuff oth for a Flynn-Kaufman bout. There is lyquestion of finances between them and the bout is in the air. .Are \ou busy this evening’ Even if AOU are, take a few moments off ard reao the great list of barga ns ttt every im» on th» Want A<: Pages of this paper. You will be repaid many times. Hebrew Hot on Trail of Kilbane for Another Title Battle ATTELL CLEANS $35,(1M IN ONE POKER SITTIMi By Ed. TV. Smith. CHICAGO, Sept. s.—Abe At tell did beat tlie San Fran cisco poker games for 535,- 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. Altell passed through the city, being in town about five hours. He was accompanied by his wife and a young coast lightw-eight 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 devalop the real strength of the champions, and when the afternoon's play was over only the four men who will show in the 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 far escaped elimination, and Warren K. Wood. The four men played in 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. M. K. Wood vs. N. E. Hunter. AL DEMAREE ON WAY TO JOIN GIANTS IN PHILA. MOBILE, ALA.. Sept. s.—Al Dema ree. crack pitcher of the Imai club and sold to the New Yorx Giants f.v $7,000 and several pay er-. - . n his w ay today to report to the Giants in Phila delpl.a, where they are now playing Manager McGraw, wanted Dema tee to reuort earlier, but Man.tget Finn re- I' is-'d to let him go until, the Southern Ir igue race was settled, and with all chance to catch Birmingham lost and s-' ond place practically cinched. Mi - Grau s request was granted yesterday. to gather in the entire 535,000,” 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 w'hole thing was over I discovered I had coin and per fectly good paper to a total of 535,- 000. I negotiated this paper the following day and sent the entire amount to New 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 or 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 wiih, he just scratched out on a mighty bad decision, and the other fault The Big Race Hero is the up-to-the-minute dope on how the “Big Five” batters of the American league are hitting: PLAYER— A~B~H. GivG COBB 478 197 | .412 SPEAKER ; 496 196 i .395 JACKSON 475 ; 175 .363 . C ?bF.L NS 444 149 -333 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 La joie didn't get a chance to do anything as the Naps were idle. THOMPSON RECALLED FROM BROCKTON BY NEW YORK ATHENS, 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 tecord of strike-o’its 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. Ho 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 lost was a score of I to 0, the only bits he gave up being two bunched doubles, which let in the one run Thompson has just ben recalled bv Wolverton to the Yankee camp ami he is <1 lured ,<> be fit to pitch in any of the major leagues. Ke was volun tarily raised in salary from $250 to $2(5 a month and a cash offer of $3,0<)0 was refused for him from one of the International teams. Hessheim- 7 Rorlo that I find with him is that he is 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 h’s end to battle me in Sau Francisco on Thanksgiving day. The replv came back that Kilbane already had hooked up with Tom McCarev for that date. McCaray Cuts Price. Afterward I got a wire from McCarey offering me mighty stingy terms to fight Kilbane Thanksgiv ing day. I declined at once. Mc- Carey evidently thought that I was so wild to get a return match with 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 o 3 429 Harbison, ss 74 259 32 75 .I*o Bailey, If 128 445 85 127 .28? Alperman, 2b. ......123 463 61 120 .27" Agler, lb 64 215 36 58 .270 Callahan, cf 87 328 32 86 .26:! Graham, c 62 192 2 0 4 7 . 24? MoElveen, 3b133 481 52 115 .25! Reynolds, c. 24 76 12 15 .198 Becker, p 16 38 2 7 .181 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 skin diseases, I use the very latest meth ods. therefore getting desired results. I give 606, the celebrated German preparation. I for blood poison, with- ; out cutting or deten tion from business. I cure you or make n< charge. Everything X ■ confidential. Cw to me without de lay, and let me demonstrate how 1 give you results where «»th» physicians have failed. I cure Vari cocele, Stricture. Piles, Nervous ’>e bility, Kidney, Bladder and prostatic troubles. Acute discharges and in flammation and all contracted di*- ease'’. EREE consultation and exam ination. Hours, 8 a. m. to 7 p. rr. Sundays, 9 to 1. Dr. J. D. HUGHES, Specialist Opposite Third National Bank. 16- North Broad St., Atlanta, Ga.