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m J ill. AlLiAJN'iA (ikOKHIAJN AM) JNJiLWS. PPT By Percy H. Whiting. V'MINQ back on the cars from ihe cars from the ball park yes- •* tenlay afternoon there was Jus one question they all asked one another: What WOULD we have done to Birmingham if it had been a good day?” Even as It was — with the weather as bad as weather ever gets, if not con siderably worse —with snow, rain, sleet and chunks of ice falling, with a wind sweeping down from Po lar regions, with the field muddy, the bleachers wet and all conditions unfavorable Atlanta turned out 9,023 howling fa natics for the opening game: and the Trackers won the contest, 6 to 2. The attendance figures not only surpassed those made at Birming ham last Friday but broke the league's record for opening day at tendance and set a mark that will last —until Atlanta shoots at it again. * * * rtNE thing about Atlanta—whenevr- er the Gate City sets out to do anything It does it well—and it docs not let a few obstacles interfere. A month ago it looked a two-to-onc- bet that Atlanta would be worse than third in the race for the largest at- tsndunce. Gradually the interest grew Day before yesterday It ap peared that Atlanta had a chance— If the weather was good. But in stead of being good the weather yes terday was most unspeakably bad. And yet, having set out to win the cup for the largest attendance and to smear it on blatant, blustering Birm ingham. the Cracker fans disregard ed bad weather, cold and a dozen dis comforts and knocked the spots off Birmingham’s record. * * * WHILE the Atlanta fans were pinning it on Birmingham in th* matter of attendance the Atlansa baspball team was walloping the Barons and piling up its fourth con secutive victory. It was a game without a hero— or with nine heroes, as you prefer. Every man did his duty and ais durndest. James Brady took over the assignment of hurling a hard game. The ball was wet, the footi :g nas slick, the weather was beastly cold and it was not a day for a pitcher to shine. And yet Brady was touched for only four hits. Agler. Alperman and Smith were terrors with the willow and the whole team fielded well. * * * yHE Trackers displayed something yesterday they haven’t shown Sin ;' e Bill Smith was here before — an( * that is the winning spirit. Bill 5J ms t0 instill it into his tea ns. Tney no t only p | ay f or but Pey PLAY TO WIN. THp Trackers yesterday were un beatable. They made enough runs off Carl Thompson to win the game Una they went after Sloan, who suc ceeded him, hard enough to make enough to tie it up, even if the rnan’t previously won it off Thomp- lon. * * * T HE Birmingham team as it looked I*. >’ e5 terdav, was not impressive. 1 1 ne old “college club” spirit, that Have the Barons the pennant last I ear was absent. They played me- lyjanically and without enthusiasm. I a.*o the team has some tremendously peak spots. But don’t get the notion that be cause the Birmingham club does not I iook like a pennant winner now that I wii! not be in the fight. Considering the Barons as an in I! ii ! 0n th ®y consist of 50 per cert all club and 50 per cent Rick Wood- I ward. |,i^!A en Mr. Woodward sees that his I w* u . ,s n °t strong he goes out and I, - 8 m en who will strengthen it. Hast year at this time the Barons Ijj not look any stronger than they ?° to-day. Yet they won the pennant, ba they did it moderately easy. Iii u now H is a cinch that Moles- I ort “ Is casting around fdr a couple Ijore players, notably one outfielder. |And when he gels the team to suit lh J 0 !f an( * *° 8t *H Woodward It will I J dangerous and a contender. And r n ®>; will never quit strengthening [until they get it tuere. |t h lnc l^ en ta.lly it might be added that l t ne Baron club has a most compe- |; er V L and efficient club president in I °” Baugh, and a corkinflf good man- | h * e J ln Uarleton Afolesworth. It’s a | car u combination to beat. * * * ^BL SMITH is going after the ip.. Barons to-morrow with Gilbert h*,’ isnt re aHy Price’s turn but . , 'eft-hander is ready and right IBill Smith is an awful bug about iti >2 • a v, l nn lng streak. He might 1 . ., in one of two or three men and >aybe get by but he feels sure he , ® with Price and he is going to jL* h m * Price is more than willing -cause he wants to ride along on ^ winning tide too. •lolesworth does not care to talk L? ut his probable pitcher. He rather linrtu" t0 ^ any ata ge of the game L® “c says that right now he has L me >'oung pitchers he may stick T an\ old time. He planned to work L / oxen yesterday but the weather Lj , SlJ bad he decided to save liis celess antique and take a chance n younger men instead. FAMOUS HORSE DEAD. Lexington, ky„ April 15.—Bin - 2, - worlds champion trotter. ,as t night at the Castleton Farm r here. He was valued at $50,000 Sunday American goes every- V' all over the South. If you have rtnmg to sell The Sunday Amei- n '* "The Market Place of the ' The Sunday American is the advertising medium. Jeff Evidently Took Mutt’s Disposition Into Consideration By “Bud” Fisher r, READei?., y ou I HAVEN'T TMF SdCiMYt ST Canpla,nc( see that ^^"LT IS (No ''Bout and t'll Give ^ 1V0R.D op honor. IDEA vx/MCTHe'R. H6 To my Right, left or. bkh«hd Me • 6CJT X XAN BVINbeot-D ''AYSeLfr 'NiYh this HANDtcetCHieF KNCU/ ivhl RG \ ' T,v0 MiNtcre s viNee y TRLuVoU HIV, U3C-AVION i SWEET TOGTII Bv W. W. Naughton. S AN FRANCISCO, April 15,— "Show me what you eat and I’ll tell you what you are,” said a modern savant not very many years ago. He did not mean tha: he could dis tinguish the nationality of the sub ject by the nature of his dinner order. It doesn't always require a savant to make correct deductions in a case of that kind. If you happen to be on a trans-Atlantic steamer and hear a young man order tea, toast and mar malade, for breakfast, it’s safe to bet he's an Englishman. If it's lunch time and another yells foi sauer- braten and potato pancake, together with a stein of tne stuff that set the name of Milwaukee ringing down the corridors, the chances arc he's Ger man. What the sayani meant, is that some idea of a man's temperament and intelligence can be gathered from the way he selects from the menu, and I guess that’s right. Ritchier Likes Ice Cream. All of which is preliminary to thj> announcement that a St. Paul writer has discovered that Willie Ritchie is an ice cream fiend and a chocolate sundae jagster. It lifts the veil in a way. The critics have been hard on Willie lately for refusing to talk of his ring plans, and it's just possible that the frozen confections he has become ad dicted to have chilled His* fighting spirit. In the interest of science, it might be as well to inaugurate tests to de termine whether, in the case of cham pions—ice cream is not as baleful as whisky. The latter is a provocation of too much talk and too much fight ing. Ice cream, it would seem, goes to the other extreme. Manager Billy Nolan, by the way. is beginning to prate of bouts in prospect, and it is a relief In bear fight talk of any character emanat ing from the Ritchie camp. Nolan says Rivers and Ritchie are likely to meet at the Polo Grounds, New York, and that the contest will draw $ I <>•>. - 000. Ice cream never had to do with a dream of that kind. Beer Better Than Coffee. Talking of "foodstuffs" and their effects one Robert Bogardus. who manages a hall team at Dunellen. N. J and who is in addition a total ab stainer and a leading light in Sunday school circles, declares that lager bee_r is a better beverage for ball players' than coffee. Here are his very words: “There is poison in coffee. It makes a person dopy, while beer has a ten dency to inject ginger and clear tne h£ While Bogardus does not say so. he of course counsels a moderate con sumption of heer. Otherwise his claim that it dears the head would provoke argument, although a few might fo'' found to Combat Ills asser tion that it injects ginger even when taken in larger quantities. If Bogardus’ contention goes un- answered the brewers will probably take advantage of It. It would be easy to picture huge signs overtop- nln- the scoreboard and reading. "Drink Muff Brau and get a home run.” sox RELEASE ROY KERNAN TO INDIANAPOLIS TEAM CHICAGO, ILL, April 15.—Roy Ker- nan who made the spring training frin'to California with tile White box and was highly touted as a com-r among the infieiders. was released bv president Comiskey here yester day to the Indianapolis team of tr.e American Association. Kernan was asked about hi. j erencew in ihe matter, and deemed that if he couldn't make a place lor himself in ihe big show that he would prefer lo play with tin A. \. If veu Have anything to sell adver- tis» in The Sunday American. Lar gest circulation of any Sunday news paper in the South. I t>0 NOT CLAISA THIS to ee puno Reading, iT's *>INPl\( CfoM\N\ON &6NSE . Nov» allow "fie oust one iwnute to Tbiny- BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip If something like 9,000 fans slosh through the rain, mud and sleet to sit three shivering hours through the open ing game, what will be the attendance July 4 and Labor Day? ■> * * The actual contest yesterday took two hours and seven minutes—which was too long. The umpires, competent enough in other ways, did nothing to keep things moving. * * * Judge Kavanaugh ought to order his umpires to keep the games going. There’s a lot of lost motion to every Southern League contest. * * * This lad Sloan was especially slow. He took longer to wind up than the village clock. * * * Carl Thompson, last year of the Uni versity of Georgia, New York American and Brockton teams, seemed to be the worst victim yesteiday of the wet ball. He could do nothing with it, and before Moleswerth found it out, five Crackers had tallied. * * * If yesterday’s work was a sample of what Brady is going to do this season, he will win three-fourths of his games. He worked with as little friction as money sliding out of your purse, and he was never in a tight place. * * * Senno had a great batting career— two strike-outs and a two-bagger. * * * This Senno lad is an Italian, and a famous performer with the pen. He isn’t a bad baseball player either. * ♦ * Senno hit one wallop that had Bailey guessing It was a clean two-bagger, but if Harry hadn’t fought It down it would have gone for a home run. * * * The “bull” sign at Poncey Park has been moved further over into right field and much closer to home plate. It ought to be hit many times this season. Yesterday McGilvray walloped one that missed it only a few inches. * * * W'elehonoe was another Atlantan who had a great fielding day. They hit a lot of bad ones to Harry, but he handled all of them well. * * * Agler and Welchonce worked the dou ble steal neatly. Agler scored on it. They tried the short throw, but Marcan did not get in far enough on it, and Agler had oceans of room. * # * Pitcher Bausewein was limping around the field in early practice, and his game leg is improving. Bill Smith says he will probably take him to Nashville Thursday, though he doubts if he will use him until he returns home again. * * * Graham caught a nice game. Never in all Pat's career has he looked any better than he deos right now. * * * The Crackers batted yesterday at a team clip of .333, which wins ball games. * * * “1'vc got youth, speed and brains.” says Clark Griffith—meaning his ball club. . * * * * For an all-freak-name line-up, how's this from the Grand* Rapids club: Borleski, Pfefler. p.; Schmick. lb.; Koeh ler, 2b.; Barkwell, 3b.; Moha. as.; Grimes, If.; Kroy, cf.: Tydeman, rf. * # * Larry McLean has reported io the Cincinnati team, with his arm mended and his thirst under control, though not utterly extinguished. « * * Hans Wagner batted .349 in 1904, .324 in 1912. At thar. rate of slumping, the old boy has something like eight years more to linger in the .300 division. * * * President Ban Johnson has served no tice on the players’ fraternity that his old rule of suspending a man first and Investigating afterward will continue. He figures that it is the only way to make discipline stick. STONE MOUNTAIN BEATS G, M, C. IN PITCHERS’ BATTLE MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.. April 15.— Stone Mountain shut out G. M. C. yes terday. 1 to 0. Bondurant, twirling for th" winners, fanned ten and allowed but three hits. Harrell, of G. M. C., struck out fifteen and allowed but two hits. David, G. M. C. fielder, made a beauti ful one-handed running catch. SHRUGRUE-LORE BOUT OFF. NEW ORLEANS, LA.. April 16.—The scheduled fight between Young Shrugrue and Johnny Lore, New York light weights. was called off last night at. the ringside. The reason announced was that the crowd was too small to justify a bout. TIGERS APPOINT COACHES. PRINCETON, N. J.. April 15. Walter G. Andrews and Arthur Bluthenthal. Both members of the senior class, were vesterda appointed field coaches of the Princeton football football team for next year by the board of athletic con trol. Bluthenthal ban played center on 1b TipAr eleven for the last three years. \ndrewT played end last fall. CHRISTY BIG LL MATHEWS BIG LEAGUE GOSSIP N EW YOKK, April 15.—They are off! But it is difficult for anybody to try to say now how the teams are going to string out to make the race for the season after only these few days of actual playing. Several cham pionship hopes are bound to be born and die within the next month or two. Remember how the Cincinnati Club jumped to the front in the National League race last spring and the shouts of joy from Cincinnati which were fol lowed only by sobs and knocks later along? Recall how the Chicago White Sox leaded away In the American League in the early part of the race only to retreat, nfter a short sprint, before the battling Red Sox, Athletics ana Senators*? Many a pennant is won in the spring that is never hoist. Therefore It is useless for me to risk any forecast on this meager sup ply of dope at hand. I expect some team that has not been reckoned as having much chance for the cham pionship will jump away in the lead for a time. That is usually the efte-e. It is hard to say what club will as sume the position of early pacemaker now because such a thing is generally due to the breaks in the luck and the condition of the team. Luck, of course, plays more or less of a part in baseball, and one team, as a rule, flips away in the lead because it is J getting the breaks. But in run class shows, and it which can hold up through one hun dred and flfty-four games, hold up through the strain of July and August, when the heat seeps into your system and your muscle? begin to drag, that finally wins. Then is the time you will find the early sea son starter lagging. While McGraw desires to get away in good shape this spring, he has no desire to go out in front and set the pace for a week or twm. He merely wants to stay there or thereabouts until the clubs acquire something like their normal positions in the stand ing. “The jump is the great thing,” Mac told some of the boys the other day, “and we want it again this year, but there is no need in getting right out in front much before May.” The club must hammer into its stride first. It was far advanced in condition when the season opened, too far advanced for the time of year, if anything McGraw declared, just a few days before the first game, that he must apply the brakes now. He hopes* to shoot out ahead by the first of May. however, and open up such a gap by July that he can afford to slump slightly. * * • T HE postal revenues last week must have been great, judging from tha number of correspondents who de sired to know what I thought of Wal ler Johnson as a pitcher after seeing him work against the Giants in Washington a week ago Monday. Walter Johnson is one of the best pitchers I have ever seen. I have not had a look at Walsh since he put on big league "spangles." John son was iitle short of wonderful for the spring. He stacked up against the Giants, a club which had thun dered through the South, smearing the pitching we had encountered on our trip all over the parks, a club highly rated for its batting strength, and he held the Giants to two hits in live innings. It is like looking at a wonderful picture or admiring some other work of art to watch him work —that is, if he is not ■working against you. The Washington players cross themselves every time they mention Johnson's name, and Griffith treats his great pitcher as a stepfather does a daughter who has Just inherited three or four millions. If Johnson was with either the Giants or the Pirates in the National League this season, the race would be over now. Besides being a great pitcher, he is a good fellow, modest and unassum ing. practically nut Clarke out of the race for the pennant. The Pittsburg chances for cham pionship lie in Wagner as I see them. Besides Wagner. Clarke possesses a great pitching staff, although 1 do not consider it an) stronger then the Giants'. Wagner holds the Pitts burg infield together, and he must last through this season if Clarke is to have even a look-in for the pennant. Even though the Pirates will give us a good battle with Wagner in the game, i don't want to see him fore ■ 1 to quit. Hr is too much of a credit to the pastime. Already McGraw'* advantage is showing over Clarke. The Giants have the substitutes to fill in for any the long I player who is injured. McGraw can is the flub 1 have a regular inflelder and an out- but now, after many years, he is, himself, traveling around with Wag ner, endeavoring to hold him in shape so he will have a ball club this sea son. * fOR the sake of alliteration. it w, E had quite a spicy time in Wash ington There was a dispute over a triple play the Washington club claimed in the game when Morgan, the National';: second baseman, in sisted that "Chief Meyers had cut first base Morgan and McGraw got personal, and the Giant boss Anally came through with this reply to a sally from Morgan: “I wouldn’t make so much noise if I were you when 'Griff' is carry* ing Laporte Just to hit for you.” • • • A LREADY big league stars have ^ been injured. Chance was slowed up in the exhibition games with the Brooklyn club before the season ever opened and Wagner is trying to have a weak knee repaired. When old veterans like Chance and Wagner ge: injured, it takes a long time for them to get Into shape again. It would tear the Pittsburg club apart if the Pirates should lose the serv ices of Wagner this year and would fielder out of the game, and cite strength of the club will not be ap preciably reduced. Clarke has Wag ner out, and his club is gone. Of course, it could not be expected ne would have another Wagner on tap, but he has not any very capable substitutes. B ARNEY DREYFUS made the journey of the great Dutchman to Youngstown to see Bonesett»r Reese in regard to Wagner’s injured knee a personally conducted trip. This story reached me the other day. While Dreyfus and Wagner were In Chicago, they went out to the bail park to see the Cubs play. A news paper man recognized them. "I see the Pittsburg club is in town," he remarked to Dreyfus, pointing to Wagner. "I didn’t know it was scheduled to play here yet.” "Yep," said Dreyfus. “Too had you fellows haven’t a ball club out liev”>. I've just been watching those fellows In Chicago uniforms." * * * IT IS not much like the first time * Dreyfus met Wagner, according : > the story of that event. Wagner was discovered in Paterson, lx*. J., by the late Harry Pulliam, formerly the president of the National League. Pulliam, anxious to ameliorate his star find and ease his journey back to Louisville, asked him whether he would like anything "Some bananas,” bluntly replied Wagner. Honus ate bananas all tho way to Louisville, where Mr. Dreyfus then owned the team. He was at the train to meet Mr. Pulliam, who was at that time the secretary of the Louisville club, to get a look at the find which the discoverer had boosted so high ly. "Where is the ball player?" in quired Mr. Dreyfus. "There he is,” replied Mr. Pulliam, pointing to Wagner. Dreyfus was extremely skeptical, rife about a trade, and the same ru mors have worried Joshua Devore, »? the Giants, worse than the triumph of a rival frets a youth in love and the senior year of high school at the same time. The rumor is that Jo»h will be slipped to Boston for a con sideration of some players. And Josh la much set against Boston. So far he lias escaped it., Joah says he wants to stay in ihe big league. This same bugaboo crops up every once in a while and disturbs the Devore peace of mind. Josh finally became so worried over the persistent repo"ts he asked McGraw about them. "I’ll tell you when you are going to be traded,” replied the New York boss. "Don't let them trade you In the newspapers.” This was small comfort for Devore. He does not know any more than he did before. I do not think McGraw would let DeVore go. but he might have it hinted with the idea of spic ing him up in his work. That is an old trick of managers. • * * Tt COBB, according to the newspa pers has had another debate with his firsts. You might call him tho "Battling Nelson of Baseball.” The Detroit club would call him that, too, I guess, from the way in which he has fought it all winter. pERHAPS it might and would interest not be amiss American League fans for me superficially to observe that the Washington ball club is a good one this season, and one which will bear close watching. It struck me as being a big improve ment over tile team we faced last year in the exhibition game on our spring trip. The players have lots of "pep” and are shot full of ambition. You cannot keep them beaten, which is a good sign in a team. They be lieve they have a chance for the world's championship, and everyone of them knows just how much that means in cold figures. It is my per sonal opinion, after playing against the club, it will have a grand little chance of copping the honors. It would have a much better chance, however, if the Athletics were not working in the same league. The Nationals looked better in the first game that they won from us than in the second, which they lost. (Copyright, 1913. by the McClure News paper Syndicate ) M'CAREY NOT AFTER CROSS-RIVERS FIGHT By Left Hook. N OT weighing his words slowly and carefully, not considering the feelings of the battlers, not even giving a passing thought to the families that might possibly get a Jug of milk out of the match, Thomas McCarey, of Los Angeles, Cal., U. H. A., stood on the brink of the Pacific Ocean yesterday and enunciated. "They ain’t no chance of me hiring Joe Rivers and Leach Cross to box twenty rounds in this sweet village. I made me mind up, and if it’s the last act of me innocent life—it can’t be did." Great was the confusion. The waves shrunk right out Into the mid dle of the big pond, scared deathless. Brave men wiped their brave bro.vs, and the kids all ran home to bear the doleful tidings. "Friends, visitors and Los Angele- sians," continued Thomas. In persua sive tones, "how can it be did? Those two fellows got $13,000 for battling ten rounds in Ihe turkey trotless town of New York. Twenty rounds is twice ten. Tweplty-six thousand dollars is twice $13,LOO. Now I'm not a very strong man, and if I were to give those boys $26,000 all I'd get out of it would be a silent ride In one of those things that has glass on all sides and plumes waving in the air.” Furnishing this exciting piece of nows to the world, we feel that our duty is done. Sic semper ausgespieldt. * * * \I70RD reaches us that Ad Wolgast is training hard for his coming battle with Tommy Murphy, which is scheduled for next Saturday in Sat Francisco. All we say is that Adolph will have to If he wants to beat Tom. * * * TOE JEANNETTE, the "culturf" J battler. Is one of the performers in the big clash of heavyweights in Philadelphia to-morrow evening. Among the bunch are Luther McCar ty, Jim Flynn, Jim Savage and oth ers. Would any of the peach blondes prefer lo meet Joseph instead of the.r regularly allotted opponent? Would anybody love to get hydrophobia'.’ Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell goods. Try it! BOXING News of the Ring Game A<1 Wolga*t, ex-light weight champion, is working like a troJan for his twenty- round fight with Tommy Murphy at Frisco Saturday night. Ad realises he must beat Murphy this time, or step down and out as a contender for Wil lie Ritchie's title. * * * Jess Willard, tallest of ail heavy weights, is helping Wolgast get Into shape. Coast fans are turning out strong to see the two work. Willard is a strong booster for Ad and looks for him to regain his lost title. ♦ * * Frankie Burns, who has not donned a glove since he lost to Tommy Murphy, will meet Joe Azevedo in & ten-round bout at Oakland, Cal., to-morrow night. * * * If Frankie Whitney succeeds in de feating Eddie Johnson at Denver, Col., FViday night he Is to get on with Jack Re<Jn;ond April 26. Whitney and John son are scheduled to go ten rounds * * * Joe Rivers, the Mexican speed marvel, will make his next fighi in New York against Young Shugrue. The date is April 2F * * * Pal Moore, the Eastern lightweight, and Johnny Griffiths are to don the gloves for a ten-round session April 22. They will weigh in at 130 pounds a 3 o'clock. * * * Digger Stanley, the bantam weight champion of England, still hold# Ills title. He was to meet. Eddie Morgan in London the other night, hut a few days before the contest Morgan found he could not make the weight, so the bout was called off. * * • Johnny Kilbane atill insieis that he wants to turn lightweight, and the first man he wants to meet is none other than his old rival, Joe Elvers. Kilbane lost to Rivers the first time the pair ever met. but later more than evened matters by stopping the Mexican in six teen rounds. * * • George “Knockout” Brown, of Chi cago, meets Jack McCarron to-morrow night at New York. Jack Britton and Matty Baldwin clash in the same ring * * * Spike Kelly proved too tough a propo sition for Billy Walters at Kenosha last week. Kelly was given the news paper verdict over the Sailor after ten rounds of furious fighting. Both bovs hold draws to their credit over “Wild cat” Ferns. * * • Mike Gibbons, I*each Cross or Freddie Welsh will be the next star at Kenosha, Wls., according to a letter received here from matchmaker Nate Lewis. Some good man will be secured to meet, which ever of the above mentioned the club secures. * * • Ueorge Chip is not the only fighter In the Chip family. Joe. his youngest brother, is now' seeking fame In the roped arena * * * Eddie McGoorty, the Osljkosh middle weight, is to be a busy boy for the next few weeks He is battling Freddie Hicks, the Detroit favorite. Wednesday night, and on May 2 will travel to Denver, Col., where he takes on Jimmy Clabby in a ten-round affair. * * * Rudy Unholz. who is now managing McGoorty, is apparently making good in the capacity as manager. Rudy al ways was an ambitious boxer For ref erence, see Battling Nelson * * * Reports from Chicago state that Johnny Coulon, bantamweight cham pion, haa already started training for his ten-round match with Francis Hen- nessy at St. Louis April 29 This will be Johnny’s first fight since he met Kid Williams at Baltimore nearly a year ago * * * George Dugdale, manager of Billy Waller*, has received word from St Joeeph, Mo., that the proposed match between Walters and Ferns scheduled to take place May 2 has been post poned Dugdale fears that the fight may be called off all together on ac count of Walters' defeat at the hands of Spike Kelly. • * • K. O. Brown and Bud Anderson are on edge for their twenty-round battle on the coast to-morrow night Fans on the coast are going wold over the fray, as they etui remember the wonderful draw the seme boys put up after twenty rounds of real fighting about one month ago. • • • George Mason, the Baltimore 129- pound boxer, who is here at the present time, is anxious to close a match with Benny Kaufman. FOREIGN GOLF i STARS TO PLAY ON THIS SIDE N EW YORK, April 15.—Harry Vardon and Edward Ray, two of the leading golfers in Eng land, will be sent to this country by Lord Northcliffe, of England, to com pete in the open golf championship in September, according to word re ceived here yesterday. Vardon has won the coveted title in England five times, and Ray Is now the champion. But there is a possibility of neither repeating; in fact, It may he considered probable, the reason being that practically the cream of American ard French pro fessionals also will be in competition this year. Then there is George Dun can, the Hanger Hill “pro,” who is regarded by many followers of the British game as about due to win the title. Duncan, however, is so busy with exhibitions, which will be, Increased by the absence of Vardon and Ray, that he has called off his prospective American trip in the fall. Expenses To Be Paid. It may be, nevertheless, that Dun can can be induced to further change his plans in view of. the fact that Vardon and Ray are, not only having their expenses paid by Lord North- cilffe, but are also to be well re warded for their services in quest of the American championship. It is said that when the generous peer first suggested to Vardon another American trip, the famous Briton ex pressed no particular enthusiasm and asked a price for his services whicn he considered prohibitive. However, the wealthy journalist promptly ac cepted the terms and Vardon set to work to have the American dates changed so as to be convenient. Duncsn May Make Trip. Under these conditions it was no difficult task to convince Ray of the desirability of the American trip. Moreover, Ray had never been in this country and was desirous of coming over, and it may be that under such terms Duncan could be induced to change his plans in the event of his becoming the champion. Vardon and Ray are coming here with the stipu lation that they use only clubs and balls of British manufacture, so that. If their efforts are attended by suc cess it will be an all-British triumph. There is also the requirement that the two famous golfers must play for three weeks in America prior to the open championship, which probably means that they will be seen in matches or tournaments before they appear ir. the open. Several clubs are raising purses for either matches with the best local “pros" or for open tournaments to which the cream of the talent will be attracted. PALZER RETURNS FROM PARIS; JOHNSON BOUT ON NEW YORK, April 15.—A1 Palzer, who used to be a very hopeful "white hope" until Luther McCarty walloped him lasd fall, returned from Paris yesterday on the liner George Wash ington. Falser said that his scheduled fight with Champion Jack Johnson at Paris in Uune was not ‘doff". However he admitted that the high feeling against Johnson In the French oapl- ltai at this time might necessitate a postponement of the battle until October. FOR SALE IMMEDIATE i Roofing Pitch, Coal Tar, Creosote, Road Binder, DELIVERY Metal Preservative Paints, Roofing Paint, Roofing Felt and Shingle Stain. Atlanta Gas LJght Co. phon « 4 945