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8 raraHAH ®ow «■» mwi EPITLD 4>r W' S FAHNSWOHTH Now Mutt Has a Little Time on His Hands :: :: :: :: :: By “Bud” Fisher (SoY > ' / 1 j f MIC- Het I M <•- INOOUD TOU CAINb HK -I (ASSIGN • k g? r Ot^ L 1 I ANSU/ e R. ( N fr -A -H<C - CLOtfc XM.'TNCOURm (N I JUST A CA.NUTE Q| VI L QUESTION » I Q __ I PftenA the ) ] 1 PLtASt \ > I 7 ‘ N€ivspappk / I Rcoca J N. .—-— ( Not, vjhat I I <• A Wt *x don>t , ik _ 'v''"' ' L* * s *’*• ■ ' V ou-Htc. I i z-ix’Z ®Sk A& WaSgs w Wfi» A $ HPC > IM’ x <%’ ><? iOk-W, ->, W*-< # . Xy so Twenty-Five Greatest Southern League Players *«•••»■ •»'••!• +•■s■ •J**4‘ •!••+ 4 , »t •«•••!• •!•••»• *!•••!• No. 5--Ehret’s Finish Proved Maxwell’s Start By Fuzzy Woodruff. DEBUTS are pleasant things to attend, be the function the "coming out" of a belle or the first pttblic bow of an athlete. Tt Is far from an arduous tusk to tell the proud mother that she doesn't look a day older than the blush ing daughter and to tell the daugh ter that you have never seen her more radiant although your inner soul tells you that her smile is forced and she Is sighing for her kid companions instead of the so ciety veterans who are' a necessary adjunct and evil of debuts. It is likewise a thing of joy to grasp the grimy paw of a sterling young athlete who has won his first league battle and inform him that it will n<y be many years be fore Mathewson’s name will be for gotten. Funerals are never joyful. There is small consolation in informing the bereaved that the departed is in appearance just as lifelike as if he was turning in for his morning toddy. The dust to dust, ashes to ashes part of the burial service is Invariably’ calculated to give you the creeps. If you are a pallbear er the white gloves will make you think of your own misdeeds. The undertaker always whispers to you In a friendly sort of away that suggests that you will be his next patron. Veteran Hates to Admit End. And the professional funeral of an old star of the diamond is as shrouded in gloom. Tt Is hard for a ball player to realize that his days of usefulness have passed. In his mind his arm always pos sesses the same strength, his brain the old cunning. Nothing but an absolute, a cruel, a crushing de feat can convince him. I saw a debut and a funeral combined once and the one was robbed of its glory by the solemnity of the other. The day on which this double affair occurred made Southern league history. It made baseball history. On that day Philip "Red" Ehret, famous for years as a pitcher of the old American association and the National league, ceased to be a ball player. Bert Maxwell be came one of the most promising hurlers the Southern ever produced. It was a desperate attempt on the part of Elfret to come back, but like al! others he failed and failed pitifully. The big Dutchman had been a real baseball star, For Louisville in the American asso ciation he had won three games from the famous Brooklyns of the National league in the Temple cup series and made the only tie on record in a world baseball contest. He had afterwards starred for St. Louis under Chris von der Ahe, for Pittaburg unfit t <’<mnie Mack, and for Cincinnati under various man agers. Malaria-Blood Poverty Malaria is a species of blood poverty kaowtt as -Auaomtei the circulation becomes so weak and. impure that: it; te unable t» supply the {system with sufficient nourishment and stivngtb to preserve ordinary health.. In the first stages of Malcriu the comptexten grtwrik pate aud aa.Uw> the appetite is affected, the system grows bilious, and there is agetie tai teoling-of weak-. ucas. As the chxulatteu become* more thoroughly saturated with the tna-. e tertel infection, the digestion is tteftUigvd. thi.lte and fever come aud go, aMI» balls, boles and ulcers broak out, and the entire health becomes impaired. Materia cart only be eutvd by ftmyviug the perms from the blood, 8-. 8, $, dvsiroya every particle of material Infection and builda Up the blued tu a rtroug tacmrtelUug toUditioUt Then, (he System icvcl-.es ita proper Am u uut of HUtriincnt, hallow <mmptexteua grow ruddy Ahd healthful, the llycf and digestion me righted And every oyiuglvm , <d -'teterte pasr.vs away, 8. 8,8, Cured 1U CYCr-y 4-asc • ... it purjtlca tl'-c ’.iluui| t fj, |,i a Aafe nud pleasant wc, Uia „ u cu, U >k pH {tc blyvd Alld miy medical ftdviec flee. SV. J r CO.. ATMIA. He drifted into the Southern league in 1903 with Charley Frank’s outfit at Memphis and that remark able team of veterans won a pen nant. The next year he started badly ami sought a job as an um pire. Judge Kavanaugh granted his request. Liquor Cost Him Job. But the booze habit that had (driven Ehret from the major leagues drove him from an umpire's berth. In 1906 when Kavanaugh made up his staff of arbiters, Eh ret’s name was missing. The winter before he had win tered in Montgomery, because he didn't have railroad fare out when the season and his job as umpire ended. He got a job tending bar for his old friend, Zeke Wilson, but when spring came and bat met ball his heart went back to the dia mond. He determined to have an other try. Ike Durrett was manager of the Montgomery club. He consented to give Ehret a chance. The old pitcher went to work to train de mon rum out of his system and to win back the strength of his arm. He said he had come back. Early in the season Durrett de cided to start him against Atlanta. Ehret had made a thousand friends during his winter stay in the Ala bama capital. The night before he was scheduled to pitch a gang of enthusiasts went about the town with a marking pot and brush and proclaimed on the pavements, “Red Ehret will pitch today.” The next day the town read and knocked off work to go to the ball lot. Ehret Looked Immense. Ehret was a fine figure of a man when he faced Ginger Winters that afternoon. He had the build of a pitcher.. His proportions were gi gantic. He had the strength of a well plowed mule. His Roosevelt teeth grinned and his face and hair sent a scarlet reflection on the field, but if ever a green youngster had an attack of “nerves,” so the old war horse had that day. He weathered the first, second and third innings, though he’was constantly in a hole. The fans could see the outcome, but they cheered him lustily and bravely. The fourth inning came and there was a fusillade of base hits rarely seen on the diamond. Seven runs were amassed before Durrett could relieve Ehret. The old pitch er, helpless and forlorn, was taking his punishment gamely, but there was not a heart that did not bleed for him as he walked toward the bench, forcing a smile, and disap peared into the club house to take off a baseball uniform for the last time. Durrett had sent a spare, tall kid to the mound. "Maxwell,” the um pire had yelled when he toed the rubber, and the umpire had to ask the name. Most of the fans left the park with Ehret. A few re- THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 29. 1912. mained to see the youngster work. His speed was dazzling, his confi dence supreme, his curve and slow ball tantalizing. Atlanta scored no more runs. No more were needed. Maxwell Wore Out Arm. Maxwell became the star of the Southern league. He pitched mar vellous ball for Montgomery. He wore his arm out doing it, send when he was sold to Pittsburg to ward the close of the season he had nothing but a minor league reputa tion. Maxwell was again with Mont gomery the next year, but he had not recovered from the strain of overwork and it was late in the year before he struck his stride. Again he was the likeliest looking man in Dixie, and this time Connie Mack grabbed him up. But fate pursued Maxwell. He had not profited by his previous experience and again, at the request of a manager, had thrown away his chances of making a major league reputation. Mack kept him on the bench nearly a year, and then sold him to Atlanta. He had not recovered, .though, and gave the Crackers little service. He was sept by Billy Smith to New Orleans. Frank had always been a great admirer of Maxwell and allowed him to take his time rounding to. In 1911 he was again at top form and was as unhittable as a shadow. But Frank had a pfentitude of pitchers and little out field strength. Birmingham had lots of outfield and no pitchers. Max well was traded for Hyder Barr and $5,000. Then again he shone. Birming ham made a gallant bid for the pennant in spite of the fact that injury after injury held the team back, but the miraculous work of Maxwell kept the club close to the Pelicans. He was the only reliable hurler of the Barons and he work ed, worked, worked. Gradually Frank was overhauled. The cru cial series came, but it found the Barons helpless. Maxwell's arm had broken down. He couldn't be used In the series that meant the pennant and the gloom this cast over the Baron camp permitted the Pelicans to romp in easy winners. Helped Toronto Win Pennant. Maxwell had been sold in> the meantime to the Giants for a fancy figure, but McGraw was not slow in turning him over to Toronto, where he helped Joe Kelley win a pennant. In another year he will probably be back in the majors, but it’is an even money be( that he won't stay. He will have worked himself into a frazzle. But to return to Hecuba. There was an aftermath to that funeral that has a part of this tale. When Ehret left the ball park that afternoon he went straight back to Wilson’s barroom and donned his apron and jacket. Fans poured in to sympathize. One loyal rooter, hoping to add some sweetness to the old hurler's bitter cup. said: “Well, Red, you brought a fine crowd out. anyway.” I Ehret couldn't be a gloom long. His teeth flashed their old smile and his eyes lit up. “Yes," he re plied, and then with a laugh that could be heard for blocks, he yelled. "And holy mackerel, didn't I send 'em back? What'll it be? Straight licker all round?" RIVERSIDE WINS AGAIN: DAHLONEGA THE VICTIM GAINESVILLE, GA., Oct. 29. Riv , rside defeated Dahlonega yesterday, I 30 to 3. Touchdowns for Riverside were scored by MeV ill, Sidbury and Town , send. Hickman dropped a field goal. ' t'aptain Stephens, of Dahlonega, scored | a drop kick In the first quarter. Sid j bury, Crowe McNeill starred for ; Itiver-ifi, , wfi r'aptnln Hyphens did tin best work for Dahivnt ga. i LID TO COML OFF BOXING GAME ■ WCHT \ FTER a period of suspended ani- A\ ination, superinduced by an over dose of competition. Harry Stat en’s dub, renamed the Olympic Ath letic club, will be reopened tonight with three boxing bouts and a battle royal. Hi re is Staten's card: Terry Mitchell vs. Barney Ford, 10 rounds. Eddie Hanlon vs. Clarence Collins, 6 rounds. Voting Gibbs vs. Black Diamond, 4 rounds. Battle royal. Staten believes the main bout boys will put up a nice scrap. They come, as he guarantees, "highly recommend ed.’’ Terry Mitchell paid The Georgian office a visit yesterday and from ap pearances Punishment is his middle name. He looked as though he had given and received a peck of it lately. Barney Eord hasn't "shown” yet but he is in town and Staten believes he is fit for the go. The local manager has rounded up a next lot of Senegambian battle royal artists and expects to put on something thrilling in that line CORK LEG SCORES AND BIG PROBLEM ARISES CANFIELD. CAL., Oct. 29.—When Albert Billings “kicked his cork leg across the home plate in the ninth in ning of a ball game here, the score being a 5 to 5 tie. the umpire called the runner safe. Then the last base ball game of the season broke up in a row. Umpire Jerry Carter, consulting the rule book, declared that there was no precedent and held to his decision. When the teams lined up for play it was found one team was shy a man. Billings of the coik leg volunteered and the first thing he did was to knock a two-bagger, in the ninth he stole third and start ed home when one of his teammates hit to the Shortstop. The shortstop tossed the ball to the catcher, ten feet ahead of the runner, the cork log flew off and crossed the plate, while the owner of the leg dropped to the ground. The catcher stepped out and tagged the prone figure, but the umpire was watching closely and ruled that the foot at the end of the cork touched the plate. The opposing team claimed that Hil lings was out because the catcher tagged him before he crossed the plate. NOBODY SURE WHO WON GRID GAME AT WAYCROSS WAYCROSS. GA.. Oct. 29.- Waycross hopes to have big football games every season because of the success of the Mer cer-Stetson game, on Bunn-Bell grounds here. Saturday. The score, officially de clared 6 to 0 in favor of Mercer, Is be lieved to have been a tie. as each team made a touchdown. The referee, on the question of the touchdown wade by Stet son. insisted that his position was cor rect. Find that it did not count. It Is claimed that the rule book shows some doubt of this. NEXT GLIDDEN TOUR MAY RUN NORTH. NOT SOUTH NEW ORLEANS, LA.. Oct. 29. More than fifty entries for the Glidden tour next June were promised to Charles W. 1 Hidden, who has just covered the route, by clubs and municipalities. All along the route there is a keen desire to retain tie Glidden tour as 'he national touring championship event. Mr. Glidden, however advocates re versing the route »•, that the tars will start from New Orleans and finish in Detroit, and on the buckshot and red clay roads he will suggest a speed schedule not faster than he was able to make safely in his Maxwell. FLYNN MEETS MCCARTHY: WINNER GETS AL PALZER LOB ANGELES, CAL., Oct. 29.—Jim Flynn ami Luther McCarthy were matched today to fight twenty rounds at the Vernon arena December 10 in the first of Promoter McCartey's "white hope" elimination contests in the heavyweight division. It was annbuner-d v inner would be offi red u ma.ti.ii ~ illi Al Balzer. Georgia Will Have to Go Some to Beat Sewanee •i-o-i - •{•••!• ❖••I* 4**4* •b*4* "t**? <♦•<• <<»4. Tennesseeans in Stride, But Athenians Are Not By Percy 11. Whiting. A FOOTBALL expert who saw A\ Georgia’s football struggle with Alabam said today: "Georgia will have to play a lot better ball next Saturday than they did last against Alabama to hold Sewanee." This may come as a surprise to Atlanta friends of the University of Georgia: in fact, it is known that Georgia men have been giving odds that Captain Emp. Peacock's eleven will mop up with the Co horts of Coach Cope, of Sewanee. These odd® are not justified by the facts of the case. The Georgia team was terribly thumped by Van derbilt and did not play to form last Saturday. But there isn’t, any certainty that it will strike its stride by next Saturday. The Sewanee team, on the other hand, has been improving steadily. It is now in its stride —and it's a grand st: ide, too. Georgia may win the game. Don’t take this as any torrid tip on Se wanee. But it’s no odds on bet for Georgia, never was and isn’t likely to be, unless several Sewanee men fall dead between now and the time of the game. ROCK SAND SYNDICATE WILL MAKE A MILLION NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—That Cherrn Halbbron and his associates in the Rock Sand syndicate, many of whom are American tuifmen, have accomplished a great stroke of business in purchas ing Rock Sand from Mr. Belmont for $150,000, is daily becoming apparent. The last issue of the English racing calendar announces that the horse’s book for mares is full for the next four yea-.s, but that a few subscriptions may be transferred for $2,500 each. Expert.’ place 45 mares as a reasonable number for a stallion to be matod with each season. Un this basis, Rock Sand’s stud value for four years will be $112,500 each year, or $150,000 in all. If be re tains his pi esent popularity and lives for nine years (he is only twelve years old now) he will earn more than a mil lion dollars. When Rock Sand leave.; this country on board the steamship Minnewaska on November 2 he will be under the cate of Charles F. Hill, who for some years was Clarence Matckay’s trainer and later had charge of Meddler and Mr. Mackay’s brood mares in Kentucky. Rock Sand will be entrained tit Lex ington on October 31, will reach New York on November 1. and will be put on board the vessel very eraly on the morning of November 2. HARRY JOHNS MARRIED TO MISS JANIE JAMES Harry Johns is married. Slipping one across on his Atlanta friends by performing this feat with out letting them know about it. the Atlanta pitcher was united tn the legal bonds yesterday afternoon by Justice of the Peace E. H. Orr. The lady in the case was Miss Janie James. Immediately after the ceremony the bride and bridegroom left for the bride groom’s home at Seven Miles, Ohio, where they will spend tiie winter. PLAYING TWO KINDS OF FOOTBALL, INDIANS WIN TORONTO, ONT.. Oct. 29. The Car lisle Indian football team yesterday de feated an eleven of Toronto varsity “old boys" by a score of 19 to 1. In the first period, played under Ameri can rules, the Americans scored 44 points, and in the second, tinder Cana dian rules. 5. "The old boys” got their single point in the second period. GEORGIA STATE LEAGUE TRIES TO COME TO LIFE WAYCROSS. GA., Oct 29. What chances if any the old Georgia State league has of getting new life will be determined at a met ting to be belli in Waycruss November 15. Quite a number o f cities of this part of Georgia have signified their willingness tn loin in such an organization, and it is possible a real league can be launched. ’-pHE first time Virginia and Van derbtlt met the game was played at Atlanta. Tt was in 1896. That, it will be observed, was six teen years ago. The score was Vir ginia 6, Vanderbilt 4. The next year the two teams played a score less tie. The following year Vir ginia trounced Vanderbilt 15 to 0. And now comes the revenge. A local newspaper man. who used to play football and baseball with Virginia years ago said recently: “Os course Vanderbilt will beat Virginia. The best thing Virginia has is a reputation. It has been trav eling on that for years. Folks sup pose that because Virginia is a great college, it has great teams. That does not always follow. It is generally strong at baseball, but it is not as strong as a lot of folks suppose at football. Vanderbilt has a grand team this year and will win.” It surely looks as though the Commodores will be revenged for that 15 to 0 wallop. They have waited a long time, but it is surely coming. * « « THE Wionsin team, which ex pects to win the conference championship is planning to chal lenge Harvard r’or a post-season BRITON WINS. FRENCHMAN LOSES IN GARDEN BOUTS NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—Eddie Mor gan, the English bantam, was too clev er for Eddie O’Keefe, of Philadelphia, in a ten-round bout at Madison Square Garden last night. The Englishman used a left jab to good effect, outpoint ing O'Keefe in almo. t every round. Tim Philadelphian was cautioned several times for holding. Young Shugrue, of Jersey City, forced the fight with Louis DePonthiu, the French lightweight, and easily won the ten-round contest. It was announced that Eddie McGoor. ty. of Oshkosh. Wis„ and Mike Gib bons. of St. Paul, were to meet in a ten-round bout at 158 pounds at the Garden December 3. SPARTANBURG PLANS RACES. SPARTANBURG. Oct. 26.—Over 100 horses have already ben entered for the races to be held at the Spartan burg County fair next week. The fair association is a member of t :, e vire’i-- ii-t'arollna-Georgia racing circuit and for this reason secures good horses. Quality is more important than quantity. But in Fatima Cigarettes the simple, inexpensive package enables us to give you both. 20 for 15 cents. "Distinctively Individual” 20 Or iS'VfXT/jfei/W game November 27, in case Har vard wins the Eastern champion ship. This will be a great game If it is played—which it will never be. In the first place Harvard has a lot to lose, including a reputation by playing—and little enough to gain. In the second place, all Eastern teams are opposed to post-season games. In the third Wisconsin would have Io get the permission of the conference authorities to play the game. So there's very little chance very little. * • J F Vanderbilt chances to make a good showing against Harvard this year it is likely to be through the use of the forward pass. It has happened that In every game Har vard has played against an East-, ern team it has shown better knowledge of the pass than any of its opponents; in fact, the Com modores have probably had better luck with the forward pas- in a pinch than any other top notch team in the country. Dan MeGugin’s men have worked steadily all the year on the play Dan has taught his men to hurl the ball accurately for distances up to 50 yards. He lias trained ah; f dozen men in the art of catching > He lias developed a forward pu-s especially designed to get the b across the goal line —which Is one of the new plays allowed sos the first time under the 1912 rubs It isn’t likely that the Commo dores will use the forward pass much against Virginia—unless they need to. Ami this need will hardly arise If that is true McGugin " be able to trot out all his forwa c passes, virtually for the ti st tir . against Harvard. Now. it may b” that the Harvard men have dev oped some defense for the lorwu pass that will render it usele s but we doubt it. It will surprio if the Commodores don't get ;iw with it once or twice. Are not discarded when the “newness” wears efl; f |,r hold their shape. Aoull l> c their looks, their their wear. Ralstons need no breaking in because j£Eg! , they’re made on ■’ f o o t - 1T \ moulded sJ'W" - ? 1 ! I lasts. •» , ■ i J jfcrfl ■ I !o R. D. BmHoomAUc. co | V Decatur St., Kimball H