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i iuj AlLiAiXin vu'A/lvujAi'( U IN r\, V> O. 1XI l / UOJJAI, AC.KJ.Lj It, 1 J> 1A. TO TUT By Tv Cobb. (Champion batsman of the major leagues and outfielder of Detroit Tigers.) A UGUSTA, GA, April 17.—I heard to-day for the first time that Mr. Navin. president of the Detroit Club, had slated he would take no further inducements to get me to join the team, and I was con siderably surprised. I have dealt fairly with the Detroit Ball Club, and Mr. Navin has told me that I am worth what I have (asked for. Throughout the winter there has been no effort made by the Detroit Club to get me to sign a contract, and the only two letters that I have received from Mr. Navin did not deal with figures. The Detroit peo ple have not asked me to meet an official of the club in any city to talk the matter over regarding my case, and that is why I am sur prised that Mr. Navin says he will offer me no further inducements. I have informed the Detroit Club what my proposition ig. I have never received a proposi tion from the club. I am in doubt as to whether or not Mr. Navin wishes me to play with his club or whether he issued his statement for the purpose of trying to intimidate me. Club Inconsiderate. I consider that I have made all the proper efforts to .«ign and have received no consideration from the club, and hence my action in re maining in the South. My idea in organizing a little club to play exhibition games was solely to get into condition to answer an urgent call from the Detroit Club. My schedule w4s so arranged that I could terminate it at a moment’s notice. This is only an explanation of my reasons and of the consideration that I have had for the club. There are no petty desires* on my part, as I have been accused of having by a Mr. Navin. I am only asking for a sum of money for my services, and that is the one and only reason why I am in Augusta to-day. Of course, if Mr. Navin wants to t keep me out of baseball he can do so. I have only asked for what I believe I am worth, and it certainly does seem that a man should be ablf to do that without drawing a statement from the club as Mr. Navin is reported to have mad®. Denies Published Reports. 1 He certainly doesn’t own me, body and soul. None of the published re ports in which I have been quoted as criticising the Detroit Club came from me. On the contrary. I have been guarded In my talk art* been careful not to say anyi that would offend Mr. Navin or any one else. I have not boasted re garding what I would or could do If my demands are not complied with. I have very quietly gone about my own business and this spring have got into condition to play this summer. I am willing to do anything hon orable to bring about an adjust ment, but, of course, I can not be expected to go to Detroit and play for a sum much smaller tha*j even the president of the club says I am worth. _ _ I HAVE ABOUT CONCLUDED THAT IT WILL BE BEST FOR ALL CONCERNED THAT I BE TRADED TO SOME OTHER CLUB. My future course will be shaped largely by what Mr. Navin says and does. It is his move. If you have anything to sell adver tise in The Sunday American. Lar gest circulation of any Sunday news paper in the South. ROCHESTER PRESIDENT SUSPENDS FOUR PLAYERS ROCHESTER. N. Y.. April 17.— President Chapin, of the Rochestei Club of the International League, announces that the following four players have been suspended: Akers Barrows, Clarke and Coleman. Grant, 1 Henley, Jones and Rapp were given unconditional releases. ANDERSON TO GO EAST FOR BOUTS WITH STARS LOS ANGELES, April 17.—“Bud” LAnderson, the Pacific Coast light weight tc-day decided to go East to conclusions with top notrhers there following his knockout victory in the fifteen-round bout over “Knockout Brown, of New York. Anderson is anxious to get on with Freddie \\ elsh. Joe Rivers or Leach Cross. M’GOORTY DEFEATS HICKS IN TEN-ROUND FIGHT WINDSOR, ONT., April 17.—Fred die Hicks, of Detroit, was helpless be fore Eddie McGoorty. of Oshkosh, in an eight-round bout here last night. The Wisconsin fighter had the ad vantage in every round by a wide margin. O’KEEFE BEATS MANTELL. LONDON. April 17.—At Black Friars last night the American flght- ter Frank Mantell. of Pawtucket. R. I., was beaten on points by Pat O'Keefe, of London, in a twenty- round contest. BASEBALL == T0-DAV= What’s the Use of Starting Something You Can’t Finish? By ’‘Bud” Fisher VJWAT>i THtCiG? Vie WO<JLt)Mir HANG eoow\ to finish the Jok.6. THGYVe GOT T'fpe IN THIS N6KT HEN the Cubs were flood bound in Louisville, on the spring training trij and all wires were down Charles Dryden, the Georgian’s baseball humorist in Chicago, wroto for the Louisville Herald by request the following story on Dan Cahill, baseball "bug,” who is also some "bug on firemen. It sure is a funny yarn. Ty Cobb May Play With Yankees © © © © © 0 © News of Big Deal Leaking Out By W. S. Farnsworth. T V COBB is likely to be wearing New York American League spangles within the next few days. It leaked out to-day in New York that the American League magnates, realizing that Gay Gotham must be given a winner in their organization, have been quietly working out a plan whereby T. Ray mond, greatest of ai! performers, be shifted from his Detroit pasture to Frank Farrell's yard. * * * O N the face of matters, it doesn’t listen good, but about three months ago Ban Johnson, high muck-a-muck of the American League, dropped off in this burg for a couple of hours. B. B. J. came down to this neck of the woods to look over ail island off the Savannah coast. He and C. Comiskey, White Sox franchise possessor, wanted said isle to fish and hunt on. Yours truly paid Mr. Johnson a call at the Piedmont Hotel. The topic of interest in b. b. circles at the time was the report that Francois Chance was to affix his J. Hancock to a New York contract. I asked Ban about it. “Cinch the Yankees will get Chance. I fixed the thing all up myself." So spoketh B. Byron. And his chest swelled a couple of inches as he spoke the "I." “Farrell is going to have a winner, too,” added the $25,000 per president. “I believe he will have the greatest player in the world with him if a deal that is pending goes through.” I was inquisitive, but Ban would go no further. And trying to get a hit of news out of him when he doesn't care to give it is like trying to tear your teeth through an Athens steak. I never dreamed that he meant Cobb. But right now everything points Cobb’s way. * * * T HE American League simply has got to get a team in New York that can compete with the Giants. Gotham is the National League stronghold. Ban Johnson is a wise gazink. He never overlooks a bet. With Cobb and Chance both in New York, McGraw and his bunch would have to divide prestige with the American League team. Cobb has not signed his Detroit contract. He wants $15,000 a year. Detroit cannot afford to pay him that much money. New York can. Now isn’t it likely that there is a perfect understanding between the player, the Detroit owner, Frank Farrell and Bar. Johnson? Isn’t it likely Cobb is laying low so that the trade of him to New York can go through as quietly as possible? Navin can partly squaje himself with Detroit fandom by claiming that Cobb doesn't want to play in Detroit. And Tyrus really doesn't want to play there. In response to a telegram sent him yesterday, came the following answer this morning from Augusta: “PLAYERS ARE RARELY CONSULTED ON TRADES. REPORT OF MY BEING TRADED TO NEW YORK NEWS TO ME. SUCH WON DERFUL LUCK UNBELIEVABLE. I WOULD BE GLAD IF SUCH A TRADE WAS MADE.” That shows Cobb doesn't want to go back to Detroit and that he does want to go to New York. There is no doubt about it—Ty Cobh is slated now and has been slated for some three months to go to New York. The only chance of him not going to the metropolis is that the "under cover" deal is beginning to leak out and Detroit fans may make such a howl that even the daring Ban Johnson may for once quit on an undertaking. Birmingham vs. Atlanta Ponce DeLeon Park 3:15 Well, anyhow, yesterday’s game was the first of the year on local soil that lasted under two hours. * • • This seems to prove that the Crack ers lose faster than the Barons. To-day's game tells a story and an swers a'big. dark question: CAN THE CRACKERS STAND THE GAFF7 If they come back big to-day, all is well. * * * If they don't, all may still be moder ately well, though nothing to speak of. * * * Buck Becker drew a horrible assign ment when he succeeded Weaver. The game was all shot to shreds then. * * * Errors appear to be epidemic with the Crackers. When Keating and Agler broke out with them in the. first in ning the entire team was exposed and immediately went to pieces. # * * It was a moderately comfortable da* for a game, and the crowd was large. • • • If the schedule committee had given the Crackers a few Saturday after noons at home, right along now it would have been helpful. But instead most of the Saturdays at home were scheduled for August and early Sep tember. * * * At that, the association isn't losing a lot of money on the crowds that are turning out, even on bad days * * * Tommy Long continues to play amaz ing ball. He hit two two-baggers yes terday and did some fancy fielding. * * * Once Long caught a liner from Mc Bride’s bat and doubled Messenger at first. And nobody blamed Messenger, for the thing looked like a sure hit. * * ♦ Caller King will open his baseball matinee to-morrow afternoon at •* ^ ia- duct place. This emporium of diamond information will be the fans’ stamping ground while the team Is on the road. * # * Welchonce and Keating continue to hit. With the former it is expected, with the latter unexpected. % * * It would be odd, but decidedly pleas ing, if Keating should prove a good hitter this year, t * * * This Keating lad pulled one grand stop yesterday He sneaked way over heldnd second for a hard-hit ball and gut his man at first. Not a half-dozen infielders In the league could have dupli cated that play. * * * Big Bill McGilvray made three hits out of four times up, walked once and scored twice. Dangerous citizen, this Bill He should not be allowed at large while the Barons are in Atlanta. There’s no telling when he may break up somebody's ball game. | Sporting Food j By GEORGE E. PHAIR ' RESPITE. Upon the sward the athletes hike about And smite the pill with many a lusty clout; The turnstiles click, the magnate cops the kale, And in the stand the peanut peddlers shout. A flock of hits athwart the grassy lea, A horsehide pellet flying far and free; It is a great and noble snort, and yet 'Tis not the game itself that gladdens me. 'Tis not the game itself that makes me thrill. Nor yet the shouts that waft from hill to hill; It is the thought that when the game is on The magnate’s type machine is cold and still. One is surprised to learn that Joe Cantlllon has signed Fred Hunter. Mr. Hunter is several years shy of fifty. There are worse things than acquiring chilblains in a ball yard. For instance, there is the Alaskan gent who is driving 412 miles behind a flock team of wolves in a blizzard. Speaking of the Alaskan Derby, there are always wolves to the found In the vi cinity of a race track. SPRING IDYL. Maud Muller on an April day Went out to see the athletes play She never yelled a single yell, But sat there till the evening fell Night fell upon the April scene, And still she sat there all serene. All night she lingered in the lot, For she was frozen to the spot. It is hard for a holdout to get his name Into print after the schedule has been burst open. Hence, Tyrus Cobb will re turn. Up to date those Red Sox have given an exhibition of how not to play world’s championship ball. $UN$HINE. A little sunshine now and then, And magnates gather lots of yen There are various examples of wasted energy In our midst, one of which is spring training for the Federal League. Indianapolis, 21; St. Paul. 13. Must be one of those pitchers’ battles we hear so much about. VOICE FROM THE BOX OFFICE. “Play on! Play on!” the magnate cried, “Ploy on although the heavens fall! ’Tis better to have played and lost than never to have played at all.” If you have anything to sell adver tise in The Sunday American. Lar gest circulation of any Sunday news paper in the South. TOMMIEM ’MILLAN SIGNS TO PLAY WITH ROCHESTER Tommie McMillan, the ljttle Atlan ta boy, and the Rochester club have come to terms and the former Yel low Jacket was in the opening line up yesterday. Luther McCarty Beats Jim Flynn © 0 © © © O 0> ‘Champion’ Puts Up Bad Fight By J. W. MeConaughy. P HILADELPHIA, PA., April IT.—Not since the day of Cox'h Army have so many tramps been gathered together undei one roof as appeared in this city Iasi night disguised as fighters at the Olympic Athletic Club. It was a regular lemon weight tournament, comprising ail the well- known wearisome white hopes now encumbering the Eastern States, and from Luther McCarty, who pummeled Jim Flynn for four rounds to Al Benedict, the venerable squash, who waddled to a mushy knockout at the hands of young Al Kaufman in four rounds, there was not a hope that a blind man could have tied to with any real enthusiasm. But the crowd demonstrated the superiority of the white race by booing and hissing at the only two fighting men of the long and awful evening, Joe Jeannette and George Cotton, both negroes. They failed to awaken a throb in the bosom of the four thousand students of the science until Jeannette expunged Cotton in the fourth round with a left hook, so quick and deadly that not one man In ten saw the punch. Jean nette was apparently the only man in Philadelphia last night who stacked up as an expunger of merit. To complete the card of the entertainment Frank Moran, a recent starter in the lemon weight division, hammered Sailor White to the point, of surfeit, but couldn't upend him, though extremely wishful. Tim Lo gan and Jim Savage pawed the maul at each other for six rounds with the former having a shade the best of it. The scientists were also en tertained by a bout between two pathetic little nine-year-old children who swung wildly at each other for three one-minute ounds while their crippled father clawed with a maimed hand at the silver voins which were tossed into the ring. McCarty and Flynn were carded as the main bout of the evening. When they entered the ring it was observed that McCarty was several inches taller than Flynn and Flynn several feet bigger in circumference. His belt was strained with the effort of holding up his paunch which swayed and sagged in front when he walked. It was easy to cast his horoscope. When the bell rang he came hurling out of his corner as one who is about to deliver destruction and he bumped into a rigid left arm. Thereafter he clinched and hooked with his left for the face. When they squared off again he held both hands to his face In such a manner as to leave his mouth and nose well exposed and McCarty began sticking his left fist into the opening. He also occasionally sunk his right arm to the midwrist of the mass of padding about Flynn’s waist, he repeated this peformance about eighteen times as Flynn kept moving In without mov ing anything but his feet. Suddenly the terrible fireman slapped the lemon weight champion on the chin with a random right hook and McCarty folded him to his bosom with much earnestness. After they had been disentangled Flynn again arranged his hands so that all the punches directed toward his face would be guided Into his mouth or nose and the jabbing began again. When the bell rang he was bleeding slightly at the lips and one eye was bunged up to a noticeable extent. McCarty jabbed the fireman whenever he pleased and landed Ills right whenever he felt like it, hut he might have spared himself the trouble. He didn't have enough In either to beat a fat man. Occasionally he annoyed Flynn to the point that the man-eating fire-tender fought back with a peevish punch or two. This always had the effect of encouraging McCarty to clinch with great avidity. McCarty sticks to the idea that only one man should fight at a time. He wouldn’t have anything to do with it when Flynn felt called to battle a little. At that there are the makings of a champion in McCarty. If the rules can be amended so that nly one man is permitted to fight at one time he will be the greatest champion since Bert Keyes went back to driving trucks. But not if the other man fights when McCarty is trying to fight. The moment he gets a slam on the jaw he refuses to play any more for awhile. Bv Ed W. Smith. C HICAGO, April 17.—More than ever it begins to look ns if there was everything in the method of preparation for a ring battle. Es pecially is this true in the case of one Eddie McGoorty of Oshkosh, star middleweight fighter and one of the cleanest and best battlers in the ring to-day. For several weeks Eddie suf fered a severe slump—at least it looked very much as if there might be something seriously wrong with him. But there wasn’t anything off but the mental condition. Having rid himself of the strain of having a manager, Eddie seems to have shaken himself together with a jerk. Incidentally it may be mentioned that instead of the luxury of a man ager McGoorty has taken unto him self a first-class trainer and handler in the person of little Rudy Unholz, the Denver farmer-fighter. * * * 13 UDY shines as a handler of fight- ers, which doesn’t mean that he is by any means a shine of a handler. Well fitted temperamentally for jolly ing a companion and making him forget fancied troubles, Rudy Is about the best piece of fighting material we know to have around when a man like McGoorty Is preparing himself for ring encounters. As proof of this, note the strong Improvement Mc Goorty displayed in his contest the other night in Fond du Lap with Gus Christie. Only a short time back it was reported that Gus had held the Oshkosh man even in ten rounds. Yet when Eddie gingers up he all out knocks Gus out and gives him a heavy trouncing. * * * T NDIA NAPOLIS promoters are al- * ter a match there within a short time with Jack Dillon, the hardy Hoosler scrapper, who is going at a pretty stiff clip right now. Jack put it over on Buck Crouse in Pittsburg the other night and must have won by a safe margin to have the ne^vs come out over the country that way, because they like their own men in Pittsburg, the same as they do in every other city in the world where glove fighting prevails. Ben Crouse, one of the Indianupolis promoters, was in the city yesterday and talk ? ] fight with some of our leading mat sllngers. He said nothing would* please him better than to hook up McGoorty and Dillon for his town, but that things haven’t recovered from the ravages of the ffopd just yet, so he is proceeding slowly. By Charles Dryden. I N their present tour of the spring training circuit the Cubs are at tended by a gentleman of distin guished mien and an author of in ternational renown. He is none other than Dan Cahill, the famous maga zine writer and philanthropist of Chicago. For years he has been an ardent Cub rooter and his contribu tions to baseball literature are well known and widely read in the loop district of his native city. Mr. Cahill is the author of those popular works, “Baseball Returns Received Inside” and “Business Men's Lunch To-Day From 11 A. M. Till 2 P. M.” How Mr. Cahill happened to be come a member of the Cub publicity staff is a sad story. Last winter President Murphy went to Tampa, Fla,, and hypnotized the population of that fair Southern city into pay ing the hotel bills of the Cubs for a month in return for the free adver tising Tampa would cop in the Chi cago newspapers. The free boosting stuff was to come from a horde of highbrow baseball scribes and mag azine writers accompanying the team. The war scribes were on the job all right; but at the last, minute Alfred Henry Lewis, Robert W. Chambers, Richard Harding Davis and others fell down. In this extremity Mr. Murphy wired Dan Cahill. He drop ped his literary labors in the loop and hit the high spots for Tampa, where he spent a month gathering local color, atmosphere and material for a series of magazine articles. Gets Material in Wheelbarrow. The hulk of this material Mr. Ca hill collected in a wheelbarrow with the aid of a pick and shovel. Dan and the wheelbarrow were constant companions while the diamond was in the course of reconstruction, and he sometimes wheeled the garden hose used for sprinkling the base paths prior to the pastime. Most of the magazine material collected by Mr. Cahill has been forwarded to Chicago by freight. He is now at work on a detective story entitled. “The Fork in the Beams; or, Who Queered the Free Lunch?" In the composition of this story, which Mr. Cahill considers his mas terpiece, the author is being assisted by Tom Needham, in the role of sec retary and amanuensis. For several years Mr. Needham was shorthand leporter In a livery stable, taking down hay for the horses, at Sarahs- ville, O.. and is eminently fitted for the work required of him. Asid^ from baseball, Mr. Cahill has but two hobbies—writing magazine stories and chasing fire engines. He kno\v^ the first names of 1,400 out of 2,000 firemen in the City of Chi cago, and they all address him as Dan, just like that. When in need of healthful exercise Mr. Cahill goes forth and gallops along under the rear axle of a hook and ladder truck, either on the way to or returning from a fire. He has inspected all the departments in the Southern cit ies visited by the Cubs, and speaks well of the apparatus. Likes Louisville Firemen. Mr. Cahill is particularly pleased with the Louisville department. When the fire laddies make a hit with Mr. Cahill he has th ir rubber boots sem to Tiffany’s in New York, where the great jeweler sets diamonds in the heels of the said boots and ships them hack to the firemen, all of which is done at the expense of the famous magazine writer. Louisville firemen who wish tb have diamonds set in the heels of their rubber boots should call on Mr. Cahill at the New Louisville Ho tel. If he is not in, ask for Secre tary T. Needham. The author may be out chasing hose carts. Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell goods. Try it! JOHNNY SUMMERS STOPS GOODWIN IN NINE ROUNDS SYDNEY, April 17.—Johnny Sum mers. lightweight, of England, defeat ed A If Goodwin here last night in the ninth round of a scheduled twen ty-round go. Goodwin was outclass ed from start to finish. The match was stopped because of the poor showing Goodwin made. MONTANA BOXING RULES. HELENA, MONT., April 17.—The Montana State Athletic Commission, appointed under the State boxing law. organized here yesterday and adopted rules for elimination of brutality, bet ting at the ringside and the sale of liquor. The referee is required to stop a bout when one boxer appar ently is outclassed. buy it because it’s healthy drink it because it’s good yes, it’s pure and wholesome At the Ball Game, Stands and Stores, FIVE CENTS In Bottles Keep It in YOUR HOME Made by THE RED ROCK COMPANY, Atlanta, Ga.