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/ 'Hi: ATLANTA <; fPAN AM) NKWS W KDN KS.DA ^ . APIUL 16. 1913. C3 iv& W>4>' 0) XV i ii It Seemeth Mutt Put His Ante Up Too Quickly By ‘Bud’ Fisfier E nts J. for ted as ted to ind sed ery ing md iich the ef- his i in aw ir- ! 4 in- not* * ait ca- RS. . s. lay ins: sis. in nd ice - a Percy H. Whiting. ’HE Crackers of 1913 haven't any sense at all. , winning a game a day and never losing any at all And the first thing they know they'll break up the league and all he out. of job. Never before did such a fool, hardy collection of athletes pla\ in a Southern League town. And never be fore did a team get such a start as Atlanta has made. Five in a row- and nothing in sight to indicate that they aren't going to make it five more! And all because Bill Smith has gathered unto Atlanta the gosh ding- dest ball club that ever wielded bat and hall in old Dixie Major The way the Crackers promise right now to walk away with the pennant will make the memory of that won derful Pelican team of Yellow fever year pale into mauve Insignificance. * * 4c <<TF my pitchers come through," re- 1 marked Col William Andrew Smith prior to the opening of the season, “you can say for me we have a ball club." Well, the pitchers are coming through—BIG. Look over the pitchers and the hits they have allowed this season: Against Chattanooga, April 10—9. Against Chattanooga. April 11—5. Against Chattanooga, April 12—2. Against Birmingham. Monday—4. Against Birmingham, yesterday—2. Think over these facts: The vaunted and vaunting Barons, I including that prince of sluggers, Bill McGilvray, have acquired six hits in two games. In five games Cracker pitchers have allowed an average of 4 2-5 hits a flame. In two games Gilbert Price has given up 7 hits, an average of 3 1-2 to a game. * * * "DILL SMITH’S pitchers have started coming through. Of course what they do in the opening days of the season, with weather conditions awful, is not ronedtisive. But bless 'em, they all look mighty good. If they continue coming Bill Smith will make a fright of the pennant race. Ordinarily all Bill Smith asks is a smart fielding team, pitchers and one man who can hit the ball. Well, he has the smart fielders and the use ful pitchers, AND ON TOP OF THAT SIX DANGEROUS HITTERS. Will he win the pennant? Maybe not, of course. But look what a start he will make! A lot of managers are superstitious about winning early games. Bill Bernhardt made a great start last year and kicked about It. He said it was bad luck. Bill Smith is about as superstitious as a Belgian block. "All the game wp win now go to our credit. If they come easy now so much the better. They may not be coming so easy in August. Go to it." And the club is going. O LD BILL FOXEN, who hadn't osi a game to Atlanta since he was fired by the Crackers, and charged with, being a "lay--down." took a de feat yesterday. He was* beaten in the first inning and murdered in the sixth. In the seventh he retired in favor, of Carl Thompson. And let it be said of Foxen, those beet informed have never believed the “lay-down" charge. He was hooked up with one of the worst teams of all civilized baseball. Mathewson, John son Marquard, Rucker and Rube Waddell, the be-t day he ever lived would have looked like lay-downs with the Crackers of 1911. But anyhow the fans have never forgiven Bill and they hooted with bad sportsmanship and high glee yes terday when Molesworth yanked his former star ami sent in Thompson. Then the Crackers, to show that thev weren't holding anything against Foxen, romped over Thompson as they had romped over the ex-Cub It- took an adding machine to get it all straightened out at the con- elusion of the festivities, at which time it was officially determined that the score was 11 to 0 in favor of At lanta. Price pitched a marvelous same. Two hits were made off his delivery, and they were clean ones. But that was all At no time did there-appear any particular likelihood ttiat a Baron was due to score. GEORGIA TO HAVE TRACK TEAM; PADDOCK CAPTAIN ATHENS, GA., April 16.—Definite plans were made at a meeting: of prospective track men to put out a cinder path team at Georgia this spring Dave Paddock, quarterback on the’football team, was elected cap- 8 Coach Cunningham will have charge of the coaching and if plans materialize Georgia will be represent ed at the S. I. A. A. meet in New Orleans, for the first time in a num ber of years, and will also meet Clemson later. Vanderbilt will be offered a chance 1 o meet Georgia and it is very prob able that such an event will^be held in Atlanta the middle of May. the Sunday American goes every where all ever the South. If you have anythinn to sell The Sunday Amer ican is “The Market Place of the South.*’ The Sunday American is the best advertising medium. .-I. ' , lY . jC < *** A *'tr mw ^ MW. U4. o t'vie 6c Y To (JOSH ANTI %OLL JEFF. OUT OF HALF OF THAT. He WONT KNOW YHNx 1 •KNOW/ AISchjT so HE wont s us peer » it , h !V_ ( JEFF, WE'VE 96PN FA1.S SO I -ONt, that t THINK wfc OUGHT To bHAdC TNlHfc WC GET. X KNOW YOU HAveNfT Got XNY THING tftur take t*Y OLO Fanmky cloc k - HEWS F'Y LUEtTCH AND A Y MOL I.A* BILL ■FHanKs,, Mutt, thanks SAY, BY THE WAY.nvoty, I WROTE A T6LEGR.AhA AND LEFT IT ON THE FABLE so OOfc LANOLAOY will see it and think THAT u/e have NVONEY COMING SO that SHE’LL Nor RUSH US FOR. the RENT. 6000 IDEA, HUHJ C.W 'K///SA H6LUO, HELLO ? fb THIS the board of HEALTH ? COME get I ME QUICK! t'Af\ CRALZ.V / ✓ 7 Lotye.,±«T av vrkAfc* j MTWJirr 'COLUMN- F REDDIE WELSH, Binglish lightweight champion, aud Joe Thomas, the most promising young lightweight in this neck of the woods, will probably meet at the Auditorium-Armory on Monday night. May 12. Thomas has already accepted terms, but the Briton wants a trifle more than has been offered him. It’s a cinch, however, that both boys will have affixed their John Hancocks to articles within the next two or three days. This match will he by far the most classy one ever held on these shores. Thomas has beaten everybody that he has faced here, including Frank Whitney, Eddie O’Keefe and Yankee Schwartz. And he has made Joe Martdot “crawl." Mandot doesn't want any of Thomas' game, and absolutely refuses to meet him. Welsh has lost but one battle since he started fighting. That was when Matt Wells won the English lightweight title from him, February 27, 1911. But Freddie won the crown back from Wells last November. Right now Welsh is here seeking a battle with Willie Ritchie for the championship of the world. Ritchie has been dodging the match, but it's a cinch that the American and the Englishman will hook within the next few months in a twenty-round bout on the Pacific Coast. Welsh has fought McFarland to a standstill three times, and Packey can't be coaxed in the ring with him over a route. Freddie defeated Ritchie just before the champion defeated Wolgast. That's probably the reason that Ritchie is trying to dodge the issue right now. The English lad has also defeated the following: Grover Hayes, Jimmy Duffey, Matty Baldwin, Jem Driscoll. Pal Moore. Henry Piet, Young Josephs, Johnny Summers. Phil Brock, Jack Goodman, Johnny Frayne; knocked out Ray Bronson. Abe Attell. Young Erne, George Memsic, Young Donahue: stopped Harry Trendall, Johnny Murphy, Charley Neary, Maurice Sayers, Dave Deshler, M illie Fitzgerald, Tommy Feltz, Willie Moody and many others. This will he the first time Atlanta lias had of seeing a champion in action. But he is likely to find Joe Thomas the toughest young man he ever faced. * * * T HOUGH the men are making the middleweight limit for the contest. the French promoters are advertising the battle on April 29 between Frank Klaus, of Pittsburg, and Georges Carpentier, of France, as being for the middleweight championship of the world. The French evidently do not pay any particular attention to the matter of poundage. If the contestants in a battle are within reaching distance of a certain figure they are satisfied to believe that a contest can he made for the litle in that division. Soon after Billy Papke, of Kewanee, Ill., made Georges Carpentier stop after going seventeen rounds. Carpentier announced that the weight of 160 pounds defeated him, and that henceforth he would not at t inept to make it. He isn't trying it for Klaus, either, yet the men are supposed to be milling for the middleweight title. It's a strange situation. * * * F ROM the latest reports from Paris, the news that Papke had been barred for six months for alleged foul work in the Klaus light must have originated in this country. It appears now that the French pro moters begged Billy Papke to remain there and make some more battles during the spring months. They asked him to box Carpentier in May and Klaus in June, but the condition of Papke's hand would not permit of his making these contests, and hence he returned to America to rest until next fall, or possibly make one or two battles around here. From this it is evident that, there never was any serious talk of suspending Billy for six months or any other length of time for what happened in the Klaus battle. » • • T OHNNY COULON only smiles at the way Sammy Harris, of New York, J is talking about taking his bantamweight title away from him unless he signs up to fight Kid Williams, of Baltimore, in thirty days. Johnny came out of his shell long enough the other day to smile some more and say a few things about the Eastern pair.. "Harris need not fear that his man isn't going to get a battle with me,” Johnny writes. "But I am going to proceed carefully, and intend to take on several minor engage ments before dabbling with Williams or Cantpi or any of the real good ones of the class. The floods set my plans back quite a little, as 1 had at least three matches in sight in that, section of the country. Of course, they are off now. But I am going to pick up some others, and after I am through with them. I'll talk to Mr. Harris.” • • * G UNBOAT SMITH didn't knock out George Rodel in the second meeting last week, but he gave the Boer a trouncing that he won't forget. We glean from some of the stories of the contest that though Smith knocked Rodel do,wn live times he meiely "shaded " him. For the love of Mike, whatever could Rodel have done to stand off those five Brodies that he did to the canvas? And what do New York fight critics expect a man to do to actually win by a safe margin instead of merely "shading" an opponent? * • • D AN M'KETRICK, now handling Frank Moran, the Pittsburg heavy weight, is campaigning wildly for a match for his man with G. Smith. The latter bested Moran in a twenty-round battle on the Coast when Moran, they claim, was ill and far from being at his lies! Dan is some dandy little booster for his man, and if he doesn't force Smith into a return match, he can at least credit himself with making a super lative effort. • » * J OE RIVERS seems to have just about met his match in this dentist person, Leach Cross, who has been so good in each of their scraps that the Mexican could not whip him. Rivers never before tailed to whip any opponent in two trials, so Cross must be exceptionally good. The result of their second battle in New York makes it necessary for them to fight a third time, and next time they meet it should be over the derby route to a referee's decision. On the two battles with Rivers and the one with Joe Mandot. the dentist is entitled to considerable attention as a contender for the lightweight championship. Undoubtedly he will regain all his old-time prestige with New York fans and probably will be matched up with Willie Ritchie over the no-danger route some time early in the summer. Cross has ranked for a long time as the best lightweight in the East, but he probably nevei showed as much class lu his life a3 he lias ev liibited in the last six months. He retired from the ring for a short time and then came back with a vengeance. Just now he is the king pin of the Eastern colony. ± IN FIFTEENTH y US ANGKLES, CAL.. April 16. ^ Once again little “Kayo” Bio.vn lay on the floor of the ring - here to night. blinking blindly at the arcs jarcs above him. when his finish came. Brown, the real ‘iron man" of *he boxing game, was* beaten by “Bud” Anderson in the fifteenth round, aftet taking a prolonged whipping, one sufficient to have tamed a whcfcle menagerie. Referee fiyion stopped the one sided contest when it became, ap parent that "Dumb Dan" Morgan In tended seeing his boy "slabbed” hi preference to acknowledging an hon est defeat by tossing in the sponge. From beginning to end Brown was hut a punching bag for the clean- hitting Anderson. Anderson actually wore himself 10 a state bordering on exhaustion by his rapid-fire execution. At long range "Bud" kept tilting Broun off his balance. In the clinches he placed jabs and solid thumps to the head, the body and kidneys. The first knockdown came in the thirteenth. “Kayo" getting up without waiting for a count. Three times .n the fourteenth he was knocked clown for the full count. In the fifteenth he sprawled on the floor twice while. Eyton was counting ami watching for a signal of surrender from Brown’s corner. With the third knockdown Brown ha/I been beaten to a state? of helplessness and the referee, with a scornful look in the direction of “Kayo’s” heartless handlers, raised Anderson’s hand. j Sporting Food I L By GEORGE E. PHAIR IN ST. LOUIS. Let me die!” the young man muttered; "Let me die this blessed da> !" And, despite the words he uttered. He was smiling bright and gay. "l.et me have some nitric acid! l^et me have a gatling gun!"’ Vet his smile was calm and placid Asa rav of morning sun. "Lei ine die while free from sorrow While the Browns are at the top. Let me croak before the morrow, lire they' have a chance to flop.” We are not jerry to Alaska's sporting ethics, but whatthehei is a flock of wolves doing in a dog race'.' It' Alaska's methods become- general, we may expect to see a bloomin' giraffe, entered at Epsorti Downs. M\ word! As we understand ft. Frank Xavin is In favor of a downward revision of the lurtff of Cobb. In other words, Mr. Navin believes In the Bibical injunction; "If th\ right tleluer offend thee, pluck it out." Cobb can get along without Navin, and Navin can tiet along without Cobb, but they both lose. It is hard to find anything more ap* R ropriate than an aviation meet at 1onte Carlo. The only difference is that the aviators gamble with the un dertaker. The,report tiiai.Al Kaufman whipped .lack Lester merely shows that there still is a "heavyweight-that A1 can whip. Mike Gibbons offers to do buttle with Papke. McGoorty or Packey McFarland. What we cannot understand is that he overlooks Johnny Bouton and Luther M cCarty. In view of the fact that Gunboat Smith failed to sink George Rodel, why not build our battleships of solid ivory? OPTIMISM. What though the rain be tumbling down and sprinkling all the sward! 1 merely breathe a gentle prayer and thunk the blessed Lord In fact, I 1 ave a tendency to warble and enthuse. For when the rain comes tumbling down, the Turtles cannot lose. . FODDER FOR FANS Opportunity slipped within the grasp of Thomas Long yesterday and slipped out again. It was pitiful. * $ * It was In the seventh. Ellam, not usually a strong hitter, lambasted the ball to deep, deep right field. The ball landed within two feet of the row of sign*. The painters were working there and a ladder rested against the signs. Had Tommy climbed the ladder and speared the ball from there, his name would have resounded down the corri dors of time. # * • As it was, all Tommy did was to run back a quarter of a mile, jump fourteen feet in the air and perpetrate the best catch of the year and one of the best of Ponce DeLeon’s history. But think of the opportunity he missed. * * <* The game lasted two hours and 25 minutes, w hich was a crime. * «* * Ti is estimated that the Crackers used ;.5 minutes in retiring the Barons, and that the Barons, used the other two hours disposing of the Crackers—which was fair enough, with the score 11 to 0. • « « The weather yesterday was even a trifle colder and meaner than Die day before. In spite of it. however, a good crowd was out. • • * Keating's pi a 3 in retiring Kllam for the last put out of the game came after almost everybody had started to leave, but be it recorded, the stop was a wonder. This lad is finding himself. * * * Foxen struck out six men. but he walked eight * .1- * The Baron pitcher struck out Bailey. Long and Smith in succession. * * * Bailey owes his bit in the sixth to the fact tl at McGilvray fielded Die ball and Foxen didn't cover. They seem ed a bit annoyed at each other over the affair. * * * Tommy Long stole second ami third in the eighth inning. Smith and Keat ing also stole a base a niece. * * * McGilvray and Carroll scored steals Dunn’s expense, but in the main the ■Cull threw' well. ex There were some queer batting rec ords ; Agler go; on four times, but didn’t make a hit A1 permati was hit. walked and singled. Welcbonce hit a tlireerbaggei- and a single. Bailey hit Diree times, walked once. Keating got on five iime« once he bit. three timcH he walked, and once he was hit. College All the lad lacks is hall. fast Bob Wallace failed 10 play in a major league opener this year for the first time in seventeen years. The man who had his place was Dee YYalah. ex-Mobile, who continues to pla a great game. • *« * Connie Mack is carrying ien pitchers which Indicates that he leels some doubt about his old timers. ♦ * * The Cleveland team has a tough bull dog for a mascot, and before the games the Xaps circulate around, telling ihai it makes the dog mad for a visitor to score . * * • Outfielder Senno, of the Barons, is virtually on trial for his job in the Atlanta series. Notice has been served tl-at after the Atlanta series Moles- worth will decide whether or not to buy another outfielder. * ,6 * Louisville scouts passed up Lav Schulk and A1 Griper. They are now pietty well bruised up from kicking them selves. * * • Big story in Brooklyn paper, headed: "Strain of Winning world’s Series Has Ruined Red Sox.” Fine! But. as we understood it. it wa* the. Giants who strained themselves losing it * # * They are now terming baseball Jim Thorpe's "except fern.” ■* * m Kvary mayor In a minor league own has h sore arm Among them James Woodward. * <• * At that. Mayor Jim threw nearer a strike than any of opr recent Mayors. * *' * Dick Bayless. ex-Cracker, now with Venice, Dal., pickled the ball for a home run Die other day. The victim was a Sap. Francisco hurler named “Shuffling J*WU” Douglas, who hails from Rome. Cla. TY COBB INSISTS THAT HE SHOULD BE TRADED AUGUSTA. GA., April 16.—Ty < 'ohb, the hold-out Detroit American slugger, to-day reiterated his declar ation that President Navin ought to trade him. Cobb said that Navin has made no overtures in spite of Lie fac‘ that he IS perfectly willing to listen to any fair proposition Clark'Griffith is still hrugi r .g unto Bob, Austin, the southpaw from Wesleyan good*. Try>it! j Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad . vertisement in the next issue will set I N KVV YORK. April 16. "Matty" Baldwin. th« veteran Boston boxer who at one time was a match for any «>f the lightweight brigade, \\a # s a very easy mark for Jack" Britton, the clever Chicago fighter, last night at the St. Nicholas Rink. It was nothing mole than a vvann- inx up for the Chicago man and he left tht ring after the tenth round scarcely puffing. Baldwin's mouth was pretty well battered up from the hundred and one left jabs he stopped, but he wa? far from being seriously damaged. Baldwin weighed 135 pounds and Brit ton 133 3-4. The bout was 21 monotonous one to watch. There was no variety in it. In the first hound “Jack" jabbed “Mat ty" just about as often as he « al’ed ‘o and split ^s lip in the first half min ute. After this Baldwin's face was a study in different tints of red. He was no pretty sight to look at. but Britton could not make his smile come off. In the opening period Baldwin stopped about one left jab a second. Preceding this bout, "One Round" Hogan, carrying ten pounds superflu ous fat, was beaten by \\ IIlie Belcher in ten rounds. Hogan was the better boxer, but lie was not in good enough condition to make much of a showing. Belcher s stomach punches took the steam out of the Californian after Die first few rounds. •Billy” Grupp of St. Louis, fought a game battle with Georg* “K. <>." Brown, of Chicago, hut he^ was not rugged enough to beat the Greek. CUTTING TWIRLS PERFECT GAME AGAINST COLONELS CHK.’AGO. April 16.— .According to specials from Alilwauki o. the rtrst "no-hit-no-run" game of the Ameri- i»n Association ocason of 191" v.as pitched yesterday against Louisville by Ralp'.' Cutting, of the Milwaukee team. The official scorer gave Cut ting credit for such a game, Umpires Johnston'- and < 'onnelly having agreed that a doubtful hit off Nicholson's bat should have been charged as an er ror. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OPENS SEASON TO-DAY NEW YORK. April 16.—With threatening weather all over the East, the outlook is not bright for good baseball conditions to greet the teams of the International League this aft ernoon, when the playing season of that organization begins. Otherwise, prospects of the league which in the East ranks next in importance to the majors are excellent. For the opening .Montreal Is sched uled to play In Providence, buffalo in jersey city, Toronto in Newark, and Rochester 111 Baltimore. EZELL PITCHES NO-HIT GAME AGAINST ERSKINE CLK.MSON COLLEGE. S c \pril 16. Clemson defeated Krsklne. . to 0. Ezell, for Clemson. pitched a no-hit, no-run game and knocked a home run. The Clemson team played the best game seen here for many a day. Not an error was made. Heirs brought In two runs with a two-base hit in the third inning. Hutto hit for two bases. The Erskine team lielded well. Simp son replaced Fleming In the box in the third inning. BOXING BILL PASSES HOUSE. < OLU.MBUS, OHIO, April 16.—The Low er House of the Ohio Legislature to-day passed a bill establishing a •State Athletic Commission to super vise boxing exhibitions, limiting them to twelve three-minute rounds and the use of eight-ounce gloves. Old Hats repaired at Bussey’s, 2812 White- 5 hall street. Chicdgo to Give Chance Big Tlm< Q © © O 0 © 0 May 17 Big Day In Windy Clh By Damon Runyon. C HICAGO—that gregarious com* murlty down by the gas houses and packing plants of < 'ook County, Illinois,'Is'already In a state of mind over the coming of Frank Chance and his Yankees, and has already c* tnmenced to emit red inked poster* and loud type with every stroke of the printing press. “Frank chance Day." they call it, ;*ml even though said day is not until May ITih, Chicago has announced all tin plana, and Charles Wahoo Mur phy has made arrangements to ab sent himself D > n the city on that <m . asion Cfiarh'S Wahoo sqetns to have lie’ll completely overlooked in the arrangement*, and so far as can be ascertained from a perusal of the long list, he is the only man In Cook County not a member of one or more committees. There are twenty judges on the committee of arrangements, Includ ing Die celebrated Judg* Kennesaw Mountain Landis, and so many "hon- orables ’ that ii - list l eads like a letter from the Japanese schoolboy. Mayor Curler Harrison is there com- mitteeing. and so is Fred A. Busse, and likewise Governor Kdward F. Dunne, to sav nothing of a s* ore of other prominent citizens. Quite a Historic Event. New York can hardly appreciate how big an eve it this reception to the Yank chief L going to be. It will undoubtedly be Dm most remarkable occasion in the history of the na tional game. It will be an extraor dinary tribute to '.lie popularity of an individual* There have been other demonstra tions in honor of other baseball men in other times, out if the plans for the reception to Chance go througlf as now mapped mt, it will undoubt-j edly establish a record for all tin to come. It shows that Chance is thsl Mg figure of the year In the ganyc-H baseball. Already he has been roy-j ally received by the people of Nev Voiiv. ami row ho will enter Chicajrd not so much as the head of a hostile clan, but as the idol of the basebal| public. The hi; featui* of the occasion wlli be an automobile parade under th«j direction of the Chicago .Motor Glut to the White Sox Baseball Park, and it is expected that thousands upon \ liousar ni'- of 111a<■ 11incs will 1 »♦* in linel The parade leaves Michigan Avenuf and Randolph Street, Grant Park, al 1 o’clock on the afternoon of Satur-j ay. May !7th. Tie re will be a motor cycle escort and i full band of sixtj pieces. Mounted police will head thd procession. There will b twenty j five touring cars bearing Chance and tin members of tin* General Commit-J tee, whkk Is headed by Kdward Gfl| Heeman as i liaimiian. There will 1m| quartettes scattered throughout th-i parade singing as they march. . Moving Pictures of Parade. K;i' ii j ei>< n w ill be furnish ’d, .ml to expected m wear a badg* in-f scrilxd "Frank Chan**- Day." ami small American Mags will also lie *!is-f trlbuted. Moving pictures ar<* to bd taken of the parade on Avenue, and also aL the ball park. Thd songs Do be sung bv thp- quartetti have beep especially written f >r thi^ occasion. In the evening there will be a big banquet lend-red to Chance, at whir Govern*)' Dm; 1 )" and Mayor Harrisoil an 1 o • peak a nd prior to the ba 'f game there will be much ceremony! and pro .ably sc - ial presentations tq < 'fiance. Jack Britton, the clever Chicago boxer, has fought twomy-aeven battles in sev en months, and lias lost one of them— that.to Packey .McFarland. Britton is matched for four bouts as follows: April 20, Pal Moore, Olympic Club, Phila delphia: April 23, Johnny Dohan. Irving V C. Brooklyn; May 2, "One-Round" Hogan, New Haven, and May 7, Jimmy Duff>. Buffalo. Although .less Willard, the Western heavywei^h i. has severed his connec tions with Charley Cutler and has gone to Toni .Ionics, he has notified (hitler by letter Dial he Intends to make things right with him. * * • Willard apparently has not forgotten the kind tilings Cutler done for him when he. first started out. The prom ised action of Willard is rarely taken by a fighter when once he quits a man ager. * * • Dan McKetrick writes that he is still after a light for Frank Moran with Luther McCarly. "Guess Billy McCar- ney doesn’t .care to have his cowboy take a chance with Frank, eh?" is the way Danny puts it. * • Despite his many years of service in Die ring. Abe Attell carries but few marks from his many engagements. At tell Is the oldest man In ring service before Die public at the present time. * * «* Abe was swinging the gloves in the lime of Jeffries. Fitxqimrnons, Cans and the jest of the old guard. He was born February 22, 1833. V * • Sammy Trott has returned from the • 'oust, where lie fought Bud Anderson. Trott met Kddie Forest Die other night in a ten-round draw at Columbus. Trott was rated as a fairly tough boy until lie was stopped by Anderson in five rounds about six months ago. • * * New Orleans’ fans do not think much ;) bout either Johnny to>re or Young. Shugrue The two boys were scheduled to meet in tfte Pelican city Tuesday tobacco habit I pro?* your health. y*ur llfr. :'o mur* " stomach trouble, ho foul breath, no hoart weak ness. Regain manly vigor, oalm norv••. cloar an* superior nit ntal atrength. Whatber you chew or smoke pipe. cl*arottaa. cigars. g«t my hitaYMllng Tobacco Book.’Worth its weight hi gC l. Mailed free. E. J. WOODS. 534 Sixth Avc.. 74$ M . New York. N. Y. TRUSSES Abdominal Supports, Elastic Hosiery, . etc. Expert fitters; both lady and men J attendants; private fitting rooms- Jacobs' Main Store 6-8 Marietta St. night, but the bout was called off, ckn| to the poor attendance. * * * Some star boxers are to get into actio to-night. Luther McCarty and .fin Flynn clash in a six-round bout Philadelphia; George Rodel meets Young Al Kaufman at Philadelphia; Harr: Palmer takes on Kid Egan ai Pitts burg; Kddie McGoorty meets Freddie Hicks at Windsor. Canada, and Frank’* 5 ! Burns clashes with Joe Azevedo Oakland, Cal * * * Battling Nelson does not intend to lav| the padded mitts aside. Reports fron New Bedford. Mass., state that Bat has signed to meet Ray Wood in a twelve-] round fight April 19. If you have anything to sell advor-l tise in The Sunday American. Lar*j gest circulation of any Sunday newa-f paper in the South. catarrh! OF THE iBLADDI Reliivid 1r '24 Houi Each Cap- X" r aule beam the fMIIW name yj*"* Beware of eounterfeiST 1 COKE FOR SALE Best quality gas coke, delivered, 10 cents per bushel, for 50 bushels or more. Less than 50 bushels, 11 cents per bushel. Phone 4945 Atlanta Gas light Go.