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I UJj AUjAi> J.A VI I'.V.'X\VT1/V^\ AAU iMi W B, J XI UXtOJJA I , AVttlij 1 i, 1HJ.C By Tv Col)b. Champion batsman of the major leagues and outfielder of Detroit Tigers.) UGITSTA, GA., April 17.—I heard to-day for the first time that Mr. Navin. president of the Detroit Club, had seated he would pke no further inducements to get to join the team, and I was con- |iderably surprised. I have dealt fairly with the Detroit tall Club, and Mr. Navin has told ie that I am worth what I have Risked for. Throughout the winter there has 1 been no effort made by the Detroit iClub to get me to sign a contract, land the only two letters that I have ■received from Mr. Navin did not I eal with figures. The Detroit peo- le have not asked me to meet an ffleial of the club in any city to alk the matter over regarding my ase, and that is why I am sur- rised that Mr. Navin rays he will ffer me no further inducements. I have Informed the Detroit Club • hat my proposition is. I have never received a proposi- lon from the club. T am in doubt ks to whether or not Mr. Navin fishes me to play with his club or vhether he issued his statement for Ihe purpose of trying to intimidate |ne. Club Inconsiderate. I consider that I have made all |he proper efforts to Hgn and have |eceived no consideration from the llub. and hence my action in re paining in the South. My idea in organizing a little club Id play exhibition games was solely Id get into condition to answer an Irgent call from the Detroit Club, fcy schedule was so arranged that I lould terminate it at a moment’s lotiee. ! This is only an explanation of my Seasons and of the consideration fcat I have had for the club. There Ire no petty desire?* on my fcart, as Thave been accused of having by a Hr. Navin. I am only asking fcr a sum of money for my lervices, and that is the one and Inly reason why I am in Augusta Pvday. 1 Of course, if Mr. Navin wants to leep me out of baseball he can do In. 1 have only asked for what 1 felieve I am worth, and it certainly oes seem that a man should be Kbl* to do that without drawing a statement from the club as Mr. Navin is reported fp have made. Denies Published Reports. He certainly doesn’t own me, body Jnd soul. None of the published re ports in which 1 have been quoted criticising the Detroit Club came tom me. On the contrary, I have |een guarded in my talk and have een careful not to say anything Butt would offend Mr. Navin or any In? else. I have not boasted re- larding what I would or could do my demands are not complied iith. F have very quietly gone about Jiy own business and this spring lav** got into condition to play this pimmer. am willing to do anything hon- Irable to bring about an adjust ment. but, of course, 1 can not be Jxpected to go to Detroit and play or a sum much smaller than even »e president of the club says I am Torth. J I HAVE ABOUT CONCLUDED |HAT IT WILL BE BEST FOR ILL CONCERNED THAT I BE fRADED TO SOME OTHER JLUB. My future course will be Shaped largely bv what Mr. Xaviri lays and does. It is his move. What’s ike Use of Starting Something You Can’t Finish? By “Bud” Fisher E HtTHBS-. JEFF, I'V/fe Got a good Jok£ TO VRINg ToDAN I't-L A5K too VJHT '5 An (NCUise LIKE A '-AT.'f X>Ot AND Too SA X t DON'T KNOW THgN I'Ll. SVRing THG JOKt Th>6 yjill. BE ] TUNNT. WHY WON'T/ Voo do \T? f WWAT'i THtUbE? W£ WOOtDN'T HAIG GOon, td timish Tne JokG. THgrve got TVPE in this n&at V COLOIVSN comI&XT g'rjult, CBlT>A.K»f Ty Cobb May Play With Yankees Q © © O O Ilf you have anything to sell adver se in The Sunday American. Lar- 1st circulation of any Sunday news* ■ per in the South. [OCHESTER PRESIDENT SUSPENDS FOUR PLAYERS I ROCHESTER. N. Y.. April 17 — resident Chapin, of the Rochestei Bub, of the International League. Jinounces that the following four layers have been suspended: Akers Vrrows, Clarke and Coleman. Grant, i in ley, Jones and Rapp were givei. iconditional releases. ; JDERSON TO GO EAST FOR BOUTS WITH STARS 1 LOS ANGELES, April 17.—"Bud" iderson, the Pacific Coast• light- sdght tc-day decided to go East to nclusions with top notchers there ilowing his knockout victory in the teen-round bout over “Knockout’ Town, of New York. Anderson i? ixlous to get on with Freddie Welsh. I* 1 Rivers or Leach Cross. ’GOORTY DEFEATS HICKS IN TEN-ROUND FIGHT (WINDSOR, ONT., April 17.—Fred - Hicks, of Detroit, was helpless be- k*e Eddie McGoorty, of Oshkosh, in I eight-round bout here last night, ke Wisconsin fighter had the ad- Intage in every round by a wide Vrgin. O’KEEFE BEATS MANTELL. LONDON, April 17.—At Black pars last night the American flght- T Frank Mantell, of Pawtucket, R J was beaten on points by Pat ■Ceefe, of London, in a twenty- mind contest. BASEBALL =T0-DAY= Irmingham vs. Atlanta bnce DeLeon Park 3:15 News of Big Deal Leaking Out By W. S. Farnsworth. T Y 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 all performers, be shifted from his Detroit pasture to Prank 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 an 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 o{ 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 “1." “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 bit of news out of him when he doesn't care to give it is like trying to tear your teeth through an Athens steak. 1 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 Ban Johnson? Isn’t it likely Cobh is laying low so that the trade of him to New York can go through as quietly as possible? Navin can partly square 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 Cobh doesn't want to go hack to Detroit and that he does want to go to New York. There is no doubt about it—Ty Cobb 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. Well, anvhow, 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 THI'. CRACKERS STAND THE CAM '.’ If they come back big to-day, all is well. * * , If thev don't, all may still he 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 them. Errors appear to be epidemic witli 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 day 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 idt 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 looker] like a sure hit. * * * (Taller King will open his baseball matinee to-morrow afternoon at !( Via duct place. This emporium of diamond information will be the fans’ stamping ground while the team is on the road. * * * Welchon.ce 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. * * * This Keating lad pulled one grand stop yesterday He sneaked way over behind second for a hard-hit ball and got his man at first. Not a half-dozen infielders in the league could have dupli cated that play. * * * Big Btll 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. Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell goods. Try it! Sporting Food i 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 sport, 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 Cantillon 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 411! 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. “Play on although the heavens fall! ’Tis better to have played and lost than never to have played at all.” If you have anvthing to sell adver tise in The Sunday American. Lar gest circulation of any Sunday news paper in the South. TOMMIE M’MILLAN SIGNS TO PLAY WITH ROCHESTER Tommie McMillan, the little 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 Tim Flynn © O © © ■© O 0 ‘Champion’ Puts Up Bad Fight By J. W. McConaughy. P HILADELPHIA, PA., April 17.—Not since the day of Cox’s Army have so many tramps been gathered together nndei one roof iib appeared in this city last night disguised as fighters at the Olympic Athletic Clnb. It was a regular lemon weight tournament, comprising all the well- known wearisome white hopes now encumbering the Eastern States, and from Luther McCarty, who pummeled Jim Flynn for four rounds to A1 Benedict, the venerable squash, who waddled to a mushy knockout at the hands of young A1 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 lighting 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 otij.qr 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 his right whenever he felt like it, but 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. By Ed W. Smith. C HICAGO, April 17.—More than ever It begins to look as 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. * * * D 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 abDut 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 Lac 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 NDIANAPOLIS promoters are nl- 1 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 news 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 Indianapolis promoters, was in the city yesterday and talk vl fight with some of our leading mitt slingers. He said nothing wou’d please him better than to hook up McGoorty and Dillon for his town, but that things haven’t recovered from the ravages of the ffood just yet, so he is proceeding slowly . W HEN the Cubs were flood bound in Louisville, on the spring training trij and all wires wer© down Charles Dryden, the Georgian’s baseball humorist in Chicago, wrote 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. 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 “ 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 ail right, but at the last minute Alfred Henry Lewis, Robert \T. 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 bulk 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 bast- paths prior to the pastime. Most of the magazine material collected by Mr. Cahill has been forwarded to Chicago by freight. He is now' ut work on a detective story entitled, “The Fork in the Beans; 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. Aside from baseball, Mr. Cahill has but two hobbies—writing magazine stories and chasing fire engines. He knows 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 sent to Tiffany’s in New York, where the great jeweler sets diamonds in the heels of the said boots and ships them back to the firemen, all of which- is done at the expense of the famous magazine writer. Louisville firemen who wish to 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. JOHNNY SUMMERS STOPS GOODWIN IN NINE ROUNDS SYDNEY, April 17.—Johnny Sum mers. lightweight, of England, defeat ed Alf 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 w'hen 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 Made by THE RED ROCK COMPANY, Atlanta, Ga.