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aOWAH S?OW CCWHtt nWKI EDITLD W. 9 FARNSWORTH Who Said It Didn’t Pay to Advertise? :: :: :: :: ;; By “Bud” Fisher w ■ } | ( ■- > “ 7?" «.««>•,« 7“ X T ±TV'" tOOK.MU-rr. *MVSYeiTBU-MvrTj 'j —-j. —' j I PUT ANAt),N —’—' ■/ fw ' UST Th,Nl<; people A,fcg T <t( I VHt PAP6K V»i | T~ —— . Boob'S / I . j c rJ - t>m GO<N' Down { I , l jffrlF J O Xw r o^and 566 f 7/ J I . J sitl , 7 bi iL ■•wMk «>iMB 7-y < 'J \ mw j #//// , KJB, x_ mb«- Kwt/ WH p*K I J > t'lWl #s/ i. -7®" > A W ill /B w ll .IQfe. ttr j '*'— ~ rL BU- -ri nlll J - «a V w FilllHllllllLl<;. > "7 y st- -• I I Lh m I '! 11 |i few - ■ - X ______ ' OJ’VKtOHT tt>l% if Flfi.lt co ‘^ Ut ' Jack Johnson Offered a King’s Ransom to Fight in Australia By W. W. Naughton. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18—It is rather a curious coincidence that within a comparatively few hours of the death of Jack Johnson's wife by her own hand a special representative of Hugh D. Mclntosh, of Australia, should ar rive in this country with a view of inducing the world's champion to engage in pugilistic contests in the land of the kangaroo. The gentleman in question is W. C. J. Kelly, w’ho acts as the agent of A. G. Spalding & Bros, tn Aus tralia He has power to treat with Johnson for matches with Sam Langford and Sam MaVea and he Is under Instructions to deal with so many other pugilists in regard to matches at the Antipodes that this country is In danger of experienc ing a fight famine If he Is half way successful. $30,000 For Johnson. The terms to be laid before John son are that he will receive thirty thousand dollars for engaging in a twenty-round bout with fiam Lang ford. For boxing Ham McVea the champion will be paid fifteen thou sand dollars and a similar amount for meeting Joe Jeannette. In ad dition to all this, Johnson will be given five thousand dollars for training expenses and three round trip tickets to Australia "The reason Johnson is being of fered more for the bout with Lang ford is that Langford is regarded as his most formidable rival," ex plained Kelly. "Out in Australia they ar* whiling to admit that John son Is the greatest boxer that had ever visited that country, and they reckon Sam Langford the next best. The question of superiority between Langford and McVea Is considered FODDER FOR FANS Jim O’Rourke caught the closing game of the season In the Connecticut league, thus going upon the records for his thirty fifth consecutive season. • • . O’Rourke is 55 years old. He caught an errorless game, but failed to make a hit. • • • Zttr s career with Buffalo and the New York National league teams and as man ager of Bridgeport for eighteen years are part of basenail history • • * New Haven copped the Connecticut league pennant this season. It is the third thne in 35 years that the home of Yale has been honored with a winner Kid Gleason Is said to be almost sure of landing th® managerial Job tn Cleve land next year • s - Says a Nashville scribe: “Elberfeld has had experience as a manager with the New York Americans and was anything but a success However, he should make the Lookouts a good leader." Fine dope Wild Bill Donovan yesterday bad Bill Dahlen’s Brooklyn job cinched. Today Mike Donlin has all but signed the papers. What a wonderful bunch of guesses are being made • • • Horace Fogel is on the warpath. Wants to tie a can to Knabe, Moore, Walsh and Magee • * • But Hora.ee knows a ball player when he Bees one When with tne Giants he wanted to play Mathewson on first “be cauße he's so tall he can reach the high ones ” President McLeannan. of the St. Paul club, denies that Barney Dreyfuas is try ing" to ship Marty O’Toole back on him and reclaim the famous >22.500 check • • • The Pirates have hung tip a new record this season by pounding out 112 triples uv to and including Monday s game. Thir ty-five of these are credited to Wilson • • • Witeon needs ten more to equal the in dividual record for three-base welts, as Lajole registered 45 during the 1908 sea ■on • • • First Baseman Rupps, of the Portland chib of the Pacific < league, made i. tnph play unHMMißted H hw dayw ago Oakland runners were on first and sec eno i,,. h The batsman hit aI. w liner first and the runners, thinking the n. l ,, r 0 no * ** nelfled. sprinted ahead >*P lite l*H with <me hand before It touched the ground He touched definitely settled tn Langford’s fa‘- vor, and, on account of the feeling that Johnson may not be as good as he was thought a few years ago, it is thought that Langford will prove a dangerous competitor for the champion." Kelly To See Many Fighters. Other boxers who will be ap proached by Kelly in Mclntosh’s be half are Joe Jeannette, Jim Flynn, Frank Klaus. Eddie McGoorty, Al Pulser, Abe Attell, Ad Wolgast, Packey McFarland, Harlem Tommy Murphy, Joe Mandot, Willie Ritchie and Johnny Kilbane. It can readily be seen that with this bunch expatriated, the promot ers of the various boxing centers in the United States would have to make overtures to Bob Fitzsim mons, Tom Sharkey, Peter Maher, Battling Nelson and a few others or else go out of business. Kelly says that men of the light weight division do not have to hold themselves down to 183 pounds in Australia, as the weight limit of the class named In that country' is 140 pounds. This is somewhat of an intimation that Htighie Mehe gan, the lightweight champion of Australia, is heavier than the Amer ican scale would permit. But what is lost in one direction is gained in another, for fellows like Packey’ McFarland would be able to till the Australian requirements with pounds to spate. It Is learned from Mclntosh’s envoy that the Australian promot er is also w’orking on a Tommy’ Burns-Sam Langford match. If the proper arrangements are made. Burns and Langford will meet in the Rushcutter's Bay Stadium. Sydney, on December 2S, which is known in Australia as Boxing day. first base before the runners could get back and then raced to second In time to get the third out • • • Ray Caldwell, the Yankees' young Hurl er, Is sure one hard luck kid. He has been pitching penant ball of late, but has been nosed out by luck in nearly all the games he has pitched the past five weeks. • ♦ * Mathewson believes Wood won't be at his best in the world's series. He thinks reaction of his winning streak will hurt the Boston speed marvel ♦ * • Hugh Jennings thinks he has unearthed a 'find" in Outfielder Veach, who is pas timing in Davy Jones' old garden ♦ » » The Southern league will have two graduates tn the world's series. Yerkes and Speaker. Yerkes was with Chatta nooga and Speaker with Little Rock • • • Scoops Carey, of the Pirates, is to en ter the Lutheran ministry During the winter months ha will attend the Con cordia seminary in St Louis • • • Oakland and Los Angeles are having a great race in the Pacific Coast league. Oakland came to the front with a bang lately and the two teams are <4*ll now. And Vernon is only 3 points away. too. V ■ • George Hilderbrand, star umpire in the Coast league, is said to be a candidate for an American league berth next season. • • • Jake Stahl verily pulled the bloomer jyb* n h* l*t Eddie Cicotte go to the 'Mute 8ox ; The spitball pitcher Is run ning Ed 55 alsh a hot pace for the honor of premier twirler of the club • • • Ira Thomas, the Athletics' backstop who stopped the Giants' mad career on the paths In last fall’s world's series, believes Hill Carrigan, of the Red Sox, will have no trouble holding them down Four members of the St Louis National league team. Hob Harmon. Harrv Sallee Rebel (lakes and Miller Huggins, pick the Red Sox to beat the Giants • • • Tlie Phillies and Athletics have clinched the Philadelphia post-season series It will be conducted by the national com mission and will start October 7 Best four out of seven with the games alter nating from one park to the other • • • Jeff Tesreau has signed with a news agency to cover the world's series Will probably get a coup'- of hundred iron men per game f,>r allowing bls name to go over some other man's story • • • Western scribes have put the <>. K stamp on Keating the young pitcher the Junkeen secured from the New Enrland league zx.ra A-rLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. Giants' Young Spifball Artist Has Won 17 Games and Lost Only 5 TESREAU NOW PREMIER PITCHER IN NATIONAL By Damon Runyon. NEW YORK, Sept. 18—Sep tember 14, 1912, was one of the most apprehensive days in the book, being marked by a general clean-up of certain lawless characters who have been at large so long they z were gradually being edged right off the front page of the papers. They were "Lefty Louie," "Gyp the Blood," Sidna Al len, Wesley Edwards and "Lurid Lou” Richie. The latter is famous for his remark when Officer Tes reau broke down the door. "Put up your gun," says Lurid Lou, "I ain’t got a thing.” Charles Massive Tesreau is most assuredly in the league. By tear ing off Lou Richie, the Ironton Av alanche pushed the comical Cub out of the pitching leadership of the National league, assuming that proud position himself with seven teen games won and five lost. Richie had that very same record up to Saturday, when Charles made” him. Jeff Is now running true to his fall time performances over in the International league last year. During the early part of the season he had little success but he closed with a series of ex clamation points. Charles has the ideal tempera ment for a gunner, which Is to say no particular temperament what ever. it is Charles' general notion that he was employed by McGraw to pitch the baseball, and he per mits no extraneous matters to dis turb him when engaged in that oc cupation. Under fire the big boy is Sonnets of the Series By William F. Kirk. 1 Can "bug " eat Iny breakfast —I’m a AndjCVery baseball "bug" is just like It s just the same with lunch. I let it be The same as. if it were some deadly drug. No dinner passes my seraphic mug. And I in not GOING to eat until I see that 1 get tickets for that baseball spree— Then, then, the cakes! A million I could lug! However, let us talk about the scrap; < an Mathewson keep Speaker off the bases? Can Marquard hand his rival one hard slap? Can Tesreau beat the foeman that he faces? 1 wish it all were over, anyhow, For Ini not eating—and I'm hungry now. red sox failtocTnch RAG: NAPS WIN TWICE CLES ELAND, Sept. 18.— Cleveland took two games from Boston yesterday, there by preventing the leaders from'clinching the 1912 pennant. Both games were close. Cleveland win ning each time in their final turn at bat. rhe first game, a pitchers’ battle between ( olhns and Gregg, went eleven innings It was finally lost by Boston on successive hits by Turner. Jackson and Uijoie. Ca risch featured this game by making three singles, a double and a triple in five times at oat In the second game, after Boston had taken the lead in the fourth Inning, t leveland came right back and won the game on a pass to Turner, outs by Jack son and Lajoie and hits by Hendryx and Graney. THIRTY CANDIDATES OUT FOR VANDY’S FIRST WORK NASHVILLE, TENN., Sept 18 Foot ball practice began yesterday afternoon at Vanderbilt university with thirty candi dates reporting to Coach McGugin for the opening dav \ anderbllt faces the hardest schedule Os her career this year, meeting Harvard and V irginia. and it will be necessary to till vacancies left by the departure from college of four of last season’s brightest stars, including Ray Morrison, ah-Amer lean choice of one New York paper I rosiiects for another championship team are bright. 2 WORKOUTS DAILY AT HARVARD. <'A .51 BRI I>< IE, M ASS Kept 18 Begin ning today, the Harvard football squad will report to Head Coach Houghton for both morning and afternoon practice un til further notice There are fittv four candidates for pla.es on the first team < 00l weather Is aiding the coaches in thair work. The Day of the Draft Mayb* my name’ll go in the hat, and maybe I'll go to Clarke: Maybe I’ll go to the Boston Sox, or light in the Cleveland park. Maybe I’ll fall to Callahan’s crew, or the Cubs with their ups and downs, And maybe I’ll land—be still, my heart!—with the Braves, or the St. Loo Browns! Alas! with the St. Loo Browns! the Mathewson of the spitbailers—- calm and unruffled. The size of the crowd never bothers him, be cause he is used to seeing Your Uncle Wilbert Robinson around. The Cubs were diligently hunting for Tesreau’s "goat” Saturday, but if they had ever seen the part of the country Jeff comes from they would have known that no live stock emanates from that region. • • • J F Umpire Bill Brennan could bor row Jeetns Johnstone's patent non-skid tires he would be the most completely armored gesticulator In all the leagues. Bill appeared in cased in a dust-proof chest pro tector and a mask equipped with wind shield and mud guards. Since Johnny Evers playfully poured sand down Bill’s neck, the big umps is taking no chances. Bill claims that there were some sand burrs and “jiggers” mixed up in the de bris showered upon him by the jocose John. Speaking of Jeems Johnstone, it would seem that as a matter of mere fairness the corpulent one is •••••••••••••••••••••••••a •BILLY SMITH WIRES • J THAT HE’S SIGNED : : SMITH OF ST. louis: • The following telegram was re- • • ceived this morning from Billy • • Smith, who is in Cincinnati at- • • tending the meeting of the na- • • tional commission! • • Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 18, 1912. • • Percy H. Whiting, Baseball Edi- • • tor, The Georgian, Atlanta, • • Ga.t • • Have purchased Smith from St. • • Louis Nationals. He plays third • • base and am confident he will • • make us a good man. I will be • • back in Atlanta on Friday. • • W. A. SMITH. • •••••••••••••••••••a****** HERE’S~‘HOPEDESTROYER” WHO REALLY LOOKS GOOD CHICAGO, Sept. 18.—Another "white hope destroyer” looms up on the pugilistic horizon. He Is Art Nelson, of Wyeville, Wls., a woodchopper in that section of the country. In stature he is almost a giant, standing 5 feet and 11 inches in his stock ing feet. He is built like a Frank Gotch, but weighs only 190 pounds. Charles La vine discovered the youngster, he being but 22 years of age, when Lavine took Jumbo Weils up to Bangor, Wls., as Art’s opponent. Wells looked like a pretty good hope at that time and was in grand con dition when the pair sparred off in the opening round. Almost from the tap of the gong It could be seen that Nelson was some hope, and after hammering Wells almost out of shape he crossed a right over in the sixth round that spelled knockout. He was matched to go against John Wille, but the sheriff halted the go. Nel son has had some ten fights in the Wis consin towns, Frank Ryan and Jack Par res being some of them men who felt the sting of hie punches. He put Ryan away in six rounds and beat him so badly that Frank changed his fighting name to Frank Kline. Nelson is all muscle and bone, but, unlike many of the hopes, his muscle is useful in that he is not muscle-hound. And he knows bow to use his mitts both in giving the wallop and warding ft off. He has a god foot action and for a big fellow steps around rather lively He is a straight puncher and doesn't waste many. Lavine is anxious to get Ned Carpenter, the Burlington hop*. In the ring and will secure a club for the pair If Corpenter will consent to a match. A few more lights and Lavine will send him against men of Palzer's closs. It is his manager's Intention to bring him here and get some of the middleweights to give him work outs DUNLAP AND WALLER ELIGIBLE. PRINCETON. N. J. Sept 18 There was general rejoicing here todav when It was learned that "Dutch” Dunlap and "Tubby Waller, two of the Tigei s grid iron stars last season, will b* eligible to play this year about due for a little job of ump ing in the world's series this fall, along with his pal, Mai Eason, al though there is a strong impres sion abroad in the land that Tom Lynch’s selection will Include "Brick" Owens, who has been in the league just a year. Jack Egan, of the American is another man entitled to a crack at the world’s series gravy, but it is doubtful if Ban Jbhnson will pick him. • • » THE melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year. The national commission is about to assume charge of the nation, with especial reference to New York and Boston. It Is announced that the commission will have full charge of the ticket sale in New York, and those who have been sending checks and money - orders for seats at the world's series to Joseph O’Brien, secretary of the Giants, are wasting energy. Joe has nothing to do with the ticket sale, and offers up thanks every time he thinks about it. The Big Race J Here is the up-to-the-minute dope on how the "Big Five” batters of the American league are hitting: PLAYERS, A.B. H. Av. COBB 511 212 .413 SPEAKER 531 2 08 .392 JACKSON 522 196 .375 LAJOIE 389 132 .339 COLLINS 477 16Q 335 Cobb and Collins did not play yes terday. Speaker got two hits out of six times up. Lajoie got two safeties out of seven attempts. Joe Jackson was the hitting star of the "Big Five” yesterday. Joe got four bingles out of six trips to th* plate. john l. sullTvanlF a RED HOT‘BULL MOOSER’ r CAMBRIDGE. MASS.. Sept. 18.—John iz. Sullivan, once champion heavvweight prize-fighter of the world, but now a £ en a' e , n J? n resid ‘hg here, is now D 1 fledged follower of Theodore Roose z . h v n ls , so enthusiastic in his sup- ; rt of ‘he colonel for president that he has notified Matthew Hale, leader of the Progressive movement in Massachusetts, that he desires to stump the state I am anxious to do what I can to further the success of former President Roosevelt and the Progressive partv ” said John la. today. “I have offered mv services on the platform in New England to advocate the election of Theodore Roosevelt, the man who dares. ’ Teddy will win hands down, for he J le i K w “h him and does not hand out a lot or buncombe and bluff.” TWENTY-TWO MEN REPORT TO YOST FOR PRACTICE ANN ARBOR. MICH., Sept. 18.—Twen ty-two candidates for the Michigan foot ball team reported at Ferry field yester day for the first work-out of the season The men got plenty of work in spite of a rainstorm In the afternoon Yost went hut of the city on a business trip, but » ta uS t til C^. SchU ' te kppt ™ a ‘ Thom’pson.lullhaVk; Barton, end, are here. Nothing has been heard from Boyle, the man upon whom is depending to fill "Shorty" Mc- Millan s place at quarter. DRAFT WORLD'S SERIES SCHEDULE ON SEPT. 25 ’ JNCINNATI, Sept. 18. Chairman Au gust Herrmann, of the national baseball commission, has announced that a meet ing of the commission will be held Sep tember 25. to decide upon the schedule and rules that will govern. the world’s championship series Th* place of the meeting has not been drclded, Other than it will be either in New York or Cincinnati. loe Mandot Is Only Card Left ! ForChampion Wolgast to Fight I By Sol Plex. CHICAGO, Sept. 18.—Ad Wol gast and Tom Jones are in a fine predicament. The cham pion is aging a bit as a fighter, and wants to make his money rap idly now. And there is just one boy who can weigh 133 pounds at the ringside, the weight the cham pion insists on, and draw the sort of coin Ad wants to fight for. Joe Mandot is the lightweight we mean, and there are those out in Los An geles who say that Mandot is in no great hurry to lock horns with the champion. They figure it that way because he asks a prohibitive price. Wolgast can get big money fight ing Packey McFarland, Jack Brit ton and Willie Ritchie, but, sad to relate, they are all three too big for him, and probably too good if he lets them in heavy, as the ring birds say. McFarland and Wol gast will draw a mint of money anywhere, but they can’t agree on the poundage. Britton and Ritchie are coming to the front with rapid strides, and will be great cards this winter. But Ad can’t risk a clash with one of them after that appendicitis operation, which un questionably has slowed him up some. Mandot spoiled the real financial plum for Wolgast when he laced Joe Rivers, the Mexican marvel, on Labor day. The Wolgast-Riv ers fight had such a peculiar end ing that half qf Los Angeles be lieves to this day that Rivers won, and the other half believed, until the Mandot fight, that Rivers would have stopped Ad had they fought again. • • ♦ pHARLES M’HUGH, Tom Me-. Carey’s right hand man, at present in this town, does not hes- NEWS FROM RINGSIDE Leach Cross, New York lightweight, has been suspended for sixty days by the state boxing commission for using foul tactics in a bout with Jimmy Duffv \ n Aork, recently. The “fighting dentist used the kidney punch, which is barred from use by the commission, bam Wallach, brother and manager of Cross, has asked for another hearing before the commission in an effort to have the ban lifted. ♦ ♦ ♦ Mississippi's sporting fraternity is rais ing Stands to erect a monument between the Twin Oaks, on the beach, near .Mis sissippi City, where John L. Sullivan and I addy Ryan had their famous fistic en counter in 1882. ♦ ♦ ♦ Ja ck Harrison middleweight champion of Great Britain, may leave America shortly. The English champ, who has been in this country some time, seeking a match with Eddie McGoorty, has re ceived a handsome offer to go to Paris and meet George Carpentier in a twenty round contest for the championship of France. Unless Harrison is matched with McGoorty shortly he will sail for Gay Paree and clinch the bout with Carpen tier. * * • Luther McCarthy, white hope, being BEAN & MAGILL CAPTURE CITY CHAMPIONSHIP By hard, uphill playing and Falvey’s superior pitching. Bean & Magill won the second game of the post-season series, and by doing so won the championship of the city, as they won the first game by the score of 3 to 0. J. Harrison’s error and Mathew’s three base hit gave the Fort their only run, while Dye’s error and hits by Roberts and Dinkins brought in Bean * Magill’s two runs. Allen, Holliday and Dinkins played great ball for Bean * Magill, while Tuck er and Schwartz were the bright stars for the soldiers Harrison’s long three base hit was also a feature, and' had it not been for buildings in left field would have gone for a home run. HARD DRILL FOR YALE TEAM NEW HAVEN. CONN . Sept IS '-A hard session of signal drill was ordered for the Yale football s (|Ua d this after noon. While there Is general interest In the manner In which the men shape U P teii most eagerness is directed toward the selection of a quarterback for the first team Cornish will probubh get the place itate to say that Ad and the Mex ican would have pulled some Ho. 000 into Uncle Tom’s historic Ver non arena had not Mandot’s good left hand jab spoiled the record of Herrera No. 2. McHugh has beea up in the Northwest with the Wol gast-Rivers pictures, but Unde Sam showed him the new law pre venting the transportation of fight pictures from state to state, and he has brought the films to' Chi cago, safely stowed away in his trunk. He threatens to give a pri vate exhibition for the scribes if he stays here long enough. McHugh was in Minnesota on Labor day, and he can't understand yet how Rivers happened to lose to Mandot. "That was the surprise of my life,” he told us last night. “Riv ers is a champion in my estima tion. I saw him fight with Wol gast, and am of the opinion that Rivers won it. Wolgast was all but out at the finish, and Jack Welch never did count Rivers out. Rivers must have had a bad day with Mandot. Mandot beat him with his left hand, and the South erner’s right is supposed to be his stump card. He could not get it over at all, according to the reports of the fight. I’ll bet some money Rivers laces Mandot if they meet again. “With Mandot the sole remain ing card for Wolgast, McCarey probably will get busy with the middleweights, feathers and ban tams this fall. He was depending on Jim Flynn and Tommy Burns for a choice date, but Burns lias retired. I want to get a look at Eddie McGoorty, Frankie Burns, the bantam; Charlie White and several others before I go back, so I can. advise McCarey on hie cards.” carefully developed by Bill MoCarney, 9 coming into his rights. Luther whaled Jim Barry last Saturday in Pittsburg in a very artistic manner. McCarthy's next battle be with Dan Daly. • « • Tickle Sander, featherweight boxer, of Memphis, who is picked as a oomlns champion, is ill with typhoid fever at Los Angeles, where he went to witness the Mandot-Rivers scrap Labor day. • • • Willie Ritchie will not be Joe Maniot’ opponent in New’ Orleans next montii Promoters had planned to let Ritchie ana Mandot fight in that city for the ngN to meet Ad sVolgast for the til*. t”J‘ Ritchie's demands were too large. It" likely K. O. Brown will be secured W meet the Southern champion. • • • Danny Morgan, manager of Ack ton, and Emil Thlery, who is Joking after the affairs of Packey McFarland, are fighting it out in the Chicago pap®*’: Morgan claims Thiery is afraid to w Packey fight Britton, while Emil c- 1 ® Jack is not a good enough drawing earn to fight the Chicago sVhirlwlnd “One Round” Hogan, who was defeats! by Frankie Burns on the coast recently will likely never fight again. RIVERSIDE PROSPECTS iT ARE NOT VERY BRIGHT GAINESVILLE, GA., Sept If- ™ prospects for a winning football tea at Riverside this year are none D" vorable. and it looks as if the great re. . Os only one game lost In two that to a college team, is to be 11 at last. . .. only two members of last jears ■ • slty have returned, while ’lie new "-j* , rial Is light and unpromising. H j Coach Machatt has gone to work will, and hopes to turn out a team \ •' while it may not win the prep pionship, will give any of its an Interesting argument. RITCHIE LIKELY TO BE ri/ . OUT FOR MANY WEEKS SAN FRANCISCO, Sep’ ' s Ritchie. light weight, who is after a with A<l Wolgast, may be out t ? , f : r ‘j nianj weeks with his wrist Injure'- * recent bout. The plaster <•»’’ "‘lvinJ moved yesterdav and the urM ♦ -xh- it Ritchie wanted to try light u" ’ •“ Tjj work, but the doctor forbid it. ' ir f - ;.4 It will be some weeks before ’’ ' ' can do any boxing or w ’k 11 punching bag