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7** — — TUT. ATLANTA GFORfiTAX AND NEWS. FRIDAY. APRIL 18. 191:’.. IL-iU' IbrA LVi H=7jT- O GET HURLERS ,ASHVILLE. TENN, April 18.— The qualities ot loyalty and gameness are alien to the pop ped baseball b’.’ss who Infest the in Sulphur Dell. Throughout J. Southern League their proficiency 111, the hammer has become prover- J, and though in the past President lirsig haa refused to read the hand- Iri'ins on the wall, just now he has I ik. , up to the fact that Nashville I 'a o will not support a losing club. Harking bad: to* 1908 when the cl- snatched a pennant from Cholly 1 .ink's Pelicans m that famous 1 to game before 1,000 and more luna- 1 a record was set for the South- League teams to shoot at for tuny moons to come. \ of which has to do with the .Hiding of the major leagues with ...•grams begging for twirlers. fcuuugh coin is being spent on wires wreck a young mint, but Bill .hvvartz is determined to have a de- | ridable sting of hurlers. j.rilck Smith, the former Redleg. already on hand and will probably ■ft a chance to turn the rampant flackers back when they invade the I Cincinnati has also offered the fols a pitcher named McManus. w;. Brooklyn call do without a ilin- I r who signs the register as Dal- ■ren. Little Is known of cither of Tie two latter other than that they [re right handers and are offered long with a bunch of verbal bo- |uets. • * • IRSIG is dickering with the Cub people for Rudy Summers,- alt hough he has little hopes of getting: ip former Vol bac k since Kid Eiber- Id wants the little southpaw mighty ad and will probably offer more in than Nashville. “Bum” Barrett and Johnson, two omising kid boxmen from the lushes, have been tucked away in the t.v League for masoning. Both v a string tied to them, for th* air, especially Barrett, look too good m lose and the club management isn't forgotten that Orlie Weaver nd Grover Brandt got away from hem entirely and both brought fancy [.rices in the majors. Ttie release of these two cuts the tching staff down to the veterans ise and Fleharty. Miner Hendee, Ivilliams, Beck and Morrow. The itter who came to the Vols from rooklyn will be carried until May 0 when the squad will be cut down IS men. The acquisition of Smith, cManus and Dalgren will precipi- te a livelv scramble in the hurling t. One thing is certain. It will ing out the best stuff in every slab- nan which is the main point in ques- ion. Nobody at present is certain of a iob unless it be Lefty Williams for his portsider is in grand shape. He p.elds his position in great shape jeeps the runners hugging the sac ks find in the pinches ho Is magnificent. Mutt Must Have Forgotten the Crackers are in Nashville To-day • • By “Bud” Fisher Pv/fe got a Oob AS An insurance it 5 the So^ltAT thing in THE 'WORU) P5 SELL IN5URANC.E • JUST NAIL Your maa ano talk past. 1 VtAft-T TODAY THimc of it AS. * Business proportion Tbu CAN IN SURF YOolt WIPE N YOuR NAn\F ANO TM*n bTARue HR*. TOOCAYVl. Y1HAY DO YOU SAY ’ HUH ? OH WELL IF THE CRACICEES BEAT THE_ YOL% to day THEY WIL.C-- .. (illlMfl CO*r*/CArnri? l»y ST A* « Q BASEBALL Diamond Mews and Gossip The Turtles lost a good pitcher when they sold Ferguson to Vernon—a good pitcher who couldn't win. He was one of those lug leaguers who couldn't be satisfied to work in a (/lass A league—■ and who wasn't good enough. By the way. hds anybody heard any wailing lately because Ed Donnelly re fused to report to Atlanta'' If Edward has been missed we don't know whefe. The treatment he received at the hands of Atlanta must have surprised him. * * * Nashville’s verdict is that Dug Harbi- son learned a lot of baseball from Frank Chance down in Bermuda—and he al ways was a batter. ♦ * * Sam Crane springs it as a news item that New York City is big enough to support two major league ball clubs. Great guns! It ought to be. * * * Jack Warhop will not be worked much until hot weather sets in. .Jack is no “frost feller" anyhow, and he has a lame shoulder now. * * * Hans Wagner has a floating cartilage in his knee, and unless the blamed thing runs aground he is due a had season. * * » Bobby Byrne isn’t even a shade plate- shv as a result of his bump on the bean by .Joe Wood. He is bitting as well as ever and crowding the plate like a ‘hur.gr>' tramp. pitch ’s se- be the hero of the iegu- bnd O far in every battle the foe has garnered more hits than the Vols Schwartz’s crew seem out to (emulate the famous hitless White Sox. They are coining tallies out of few bunched hits and arc taking Advantage of every weakness of the ■neray. Schwartz has succeeded in having h ^ players master the squeeze play fi'd the hit-and-run play something he Vols could never before learn. Daley, Goalby, Callahan and James lightning fast and their daring S' running has set the fans wild. Not for a minute should the Vols [1 classed as “hopeless” for they are P hiving a high grade of inside stuff. • pitching staff will be strengthen ed and if they continue to manufac- ; re runs without a flock of hits no body will have any kick to register. [MURPHY’S PARK ORDERED INSPECTED BY COUNCIL •'HICAGO, April 18.—The City '»uncll last night passed an ordinance |for the inspection of the stands -.f l 1 “ Chicago (National League) ba- - | h 'El park to find whether they com- \ ith the requirements of.the fire 'id i nance. B the same order the Bureau • ” :< Prevention and Public Safetv ls _ directed to investigate and report • 1 b to the Council whether the pro* sions of the ordinance requiring aisles he kept unobstructed was " ated in the game Sunday betwe-n* ne Chicago and Pittsburg teams. Width of aisles, number of seats in ""8 between aisles, width of seats rd space to be allotted each chair the boxes and the number and ' idth of exits are some of the provi- ior;s made in the fire ordinance. ■ If you have anything to sell adver- |*'Se in The Sunday American. Lar- I cst circulation of any Sunday new*- ■paper in the South. Babe Adams -eems a champion pitch er again. The hero of one world s se- ' ries promise; lar 1913 season. * • * The Indianapolis ball park is back in good trim, which is more than can be said of the ball club. * * * Rudy Hulswitt has been off the Louis- , ville line-up for several days He has a I bum finger. This adds murk to the al- ! ready gtoomy situation in the Ky. me- ! tiop. * * * I* With the Milwaukee team loading the 1 American Association race, less than I t;00 turned out to see a recent game. I That’s regular Montgomery enthusiasm. i Harry MoGUlicuddy. younger brother of Ilarl, ano son of Cornelius, Is star- | ring on Karl Mack's Raleigh club. Con nie will soon have the whole Mack fami- I ly in baseball. ♦ * 0 Hans Wagner always goes fishing every day it rains. for one thirg. savs Harr “1 can’t play ball then. For another, the fish bite better. • c • lack Dunn is trying to get Outfielder ! George Maisel from the Browns tor the ‘ Baltimore club. ^ ^ Denver has sold Ed Kinsella, former big leaguer, to Sacramento. ¥ * * v n office fixture manufacturer is suing Lhnrv Evers for the stuff he put into In wit's shoe store in Chicago-the one that blew up. Johnny replies that the f f i.p «hoe store was a ooipora- CoS snd that he is not personally re sponsible. . 4 . mun^narne. ^ear^ any common Strut^ The Cincinnati club a"strip ,|. e foot, ^ r dav. each calling of coupons the ot . Thpv W ere for a nickel on*-ime.' so each man had =S9 inehes^of >e au •Speaking of the IVhRe s ‘ 1 ' s Louis Arms. s gn age] Pni a nr, 1 N I Je c; At It I for NEILL TO PILOT OUTLAWS. IILADELPHIA. Ap.il 18.—The ng of Joseph P. O'Neill as men- " of the Philadelphia Club of the :ed States Baseball League, was ■>miced last night by the.owners. • ill was formerly manager of the {•sonville (Fla.) team of the South 'ntic League and he has pitched several minor league teams. he is a tfrea’ team. Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell | floods. Try it! BROU’ INJECTION—A PERMA NENT CURE ) ^ Ui* most nhtti./at* tn ri a» j tf 6 d«T». no other trrarmont ro- Sold toy oil drugtUtt TRUSSES Abdominal Supports, Elastic Hosiery, •’ Expert fitters; both lady and men B lenuants; private fitting rooms Jacobs’ Main Stors 6-8 Marietta St. Bui Charley lr UaW t.» say anything. # Pete Lister. ex-Crucker. is io play with Peoria this Reason. . cM.aso guv sa vs that when you are a, S at,end.n. p these cays your seat. ? # M r r* Bavs that while the Tigers are Cobblealb th^famous Peach Is job less. , , . ra^^are verfbu.rn:£^^-%.-nf= a to Tinker, to Evers ; UM nance Tirk v r; r ‘ r | i 1 v J but’chawle?wouWn'< ard from Murphy. , Ioe domn’t SSd'^rdSScVtlSh a. Cub head quarters. * * * , -hief Meyers claims to »^'e noticed l^.hVSinttopfihevwan, io eat. i „ '1™?r£ To our freSSSntL experience the same desire I,liile the train is movjng EVERS SUED FOR $300. CHICAGO, April lS.-Johnny Ever- manager of the Cubs was sued for 1300 bv a manufacturer of store an rfflee fixtures v.'Ik, alleged that fi x - Cen Installed In a shoe, store wh. h Pve-s and Charles Wfllmms. ••seer - ?,.f of the Chicago Nationals, tn-d unsm.cvs.'ully to run here, had nev . been paid for. HAVE heard learned discus sions full of high-sounding phraseology,’’ says Frank Houseman, the retired ball player, ‘and I must say that in my time T have encountered many men who could throw the English language around most delightfully, but I wish to say that there was once a time in my life when I realize the possibili ties of English, the glories of our native tongue and the flexibility of ♦ he unwritten dictionary. This oc casion was in Florida many years ago. I was wintering down there with a lot of other players, among them being Johnny McGraw, now manager of the New York aggregation. \Y were playing a game one afternoan and I was on third base. McGraw had reached second ami thought he saw a chance to get clean home when a safe dilve went whizzing out in the field. I saw he could do it. also that the umpire was looking after th? ball, and as Mac drew nigh I gave him the hiplock and double tackle. He whirled round and out and shot far away into the suburbs. Over and oyer he rolled, bringing up with ids face in a clump of weeds and h:^ mouth full of sauid. "McGraw scrambled back to ’he base before the ball could reach hi ti and 1 judged it best to move up tlie line a bit out of his each. And there he stuck with his foot on the big and delivered an-oration. And what a speech it was! ".Sometimes I Wake up in the night, and think I hear once more the words Johnny used. Eloquence, fire and forcefulness, complaint and de nunciation. classified references to my family tree, my personal hab ; ts and appearance. m.v destination after death—all these were features of McGraw’s oration. I listened spell bound. but l did not move. Not even when he added peruasiveness to his elocution and offered me at mo tive inducements to come within his reach did I change my position. "I have heard Botirke, Cochran; 1 have heard William Jennings Bryan—I have heard them all—but never in all my 1 if* . before or since, Lave I heard Anything to equal the speech McGraw delivered there upon the coral sands of Florida.” * * * B UT list to William Atherton Du Puy. not a writer but a journalist, if you please, who jumps on Father (’hadwick's favorite pastime as fol lows. to-wit, viz., etc.: "As a wrecker of careers and chloroformer of intellects the world has never known the equal of the so-called national game—baseball. In realty, it is the ‘national curse.’ breed ing indolence and fosteiing folly. 1 assert that there are as many boys who lose their jobs, business men who fail and professional men who fizzle out on account of baseball. :s from any of the drugging vices “The game is drugging the national intellect. Nine men out of ever} ten have but 20 minutes a day that they devote to reading, and they give it all to the sporting page. They know- nothing whatever of what is going on outside this sporting page, and they can talk intelligently on but one subject—batting averages. "Yet this Information is of no pos sible worth, and their careers depend on keeping abreast of the times. There you have it! Baseball is a curse, i violent and virulent disease. “Besides, only a dronp will hire someone ols*- to do his athletics for him, while he sits stupidly in the sun and looks on. Fans are not lovers of athletics, but fat loafers to whom the mounting of a street car step is almost an impossible exertion. 1 wil’ take my chance** with a nice. ri;><: habitual drunkard, but spare me from the baseball fan!” Wow! • * * B ILL PHELON kicks in with ;h» following: yarn: Tlic biggest curve hall of recent years was thrown by Wingo Ander son. who was with the \ ol» a few seasons back. It actually described ihe siiape of a half moon as it curled into the plale. hut the youngster was so v. ild I hat he had to go Ask Ed Konetchy about that enormous cufv. one of ihem started so far outside til- plate that the Big Train stood and iaugneri—then ll darted round on the half-moon track and nearlv kil’-ri Konetchy, who was laid up for weeks He will swear, if you ask him. that no mortal man ever threw such a curve, j ind that no law of nature or physics JcouM account for that huif-mo m I call. ' rilrango curves, a io; of them—but MUTWJHT COLUMN* all you hear of now is "the slow one,’’ “the straight fast one.” and “ball w ith a hop.” As that hop appears’ < n route, so the different pitchers ire distinguished, and the critics talk about "the sharp break to the curves.” If ever a pitcher can throw with the outdoor ball the mysterious, giganti ' upward leap that can be thrown vvitii the big indoor ball, that pitcher will make Marquard’s record fade. It’s a cinch to do it, too—1 can take a Spalding, grip it as the indoor ball is gripped, and make it curve upward in the same identical fashion—BUT— there will be no force, no speed, and the blamed ball will not go 30 fe , t ere falling dead. But what a snap for a strong arm pitcher who will prac tice it some winter! * * * J UST to show how he loves the Cubs ami anything connected with them — from Murphy to the new bat boy— Farrium. in The Chicago Evening Post, prints this answer in rhyme to r quer> as to the identity of the new Cub team trainer. Casey, who suc ceeds Semmens. who resigned after hitting Johnny Evers in the jaw a couple of evvats: "Who is Harold Casey? is the prob lem of the age. Who Is Harold Casey?” try the scribes in helpless rage. Well, we've got the answer; we have landed one big scoop; And the bare announcement of it will stop traffic in the loop. Harold Casey is the spy who helped Frank Chance to get the can; He’s the guy who bid the well-known earth for Roger Bres-nahan; Harold Ua^ey is tl»e man w ho once shut both his eyes and wrote The well-remembered letter that got Horace Fogel’s goat; He’s the man who amputated all the stuff from Brown’s good wing; He’s the guy who bought the chest of gifts for Murphy’s Keystone King: He’s the kid who coined the famous phrase: “None of the public’s bizz,” He’s the man who writes Cobb’s stories: that’s who Harold Casey Is! * • * TRYING HIGGINBOTHAM, the lanky ‘ t wirier once connected with the Cubs, was with the Portland squad of the Pacific Coaet League last sea son. Los Angeles was playing on the Portland grounds one day. It was the eighth Inning and the score was tied. 3 to 3. The Angel centerfielder. Heif. mueller—who died last year—svalked to the plate and hollered out at Hig: "Hey. you! Put + hat ball anywhere near me and I’ll shoot it up against the right field fence." Higginbotham threw the hall down in the box and walked off the dia mond. “Not off me you won’t!” he ex claimed. The Portland manager couldn't get Hig back in the box so had to send Koestner to the mound And the firs ball he threw to He!fmueller was hit against the right field fence. * <* * uTS Clyde Milan a better ba>v rur.- ^ ner than Ty Cobb?” This was a question asked of George Moriarily. "No,” instantly replied George. "But Milan set a new record for base stealing last year.” persisted the questioner. “Admitting thst. but Milan is not as good or as dangerous a man ori the base paths' as Cobb.” returned the Tigers’ assistant manager "Milan is unquestionably one of the fastest men in the major league* and he earned all of the bases he s;o!e last season but Milan gets on first oftener and has more chances to steal second - the popular stealing point than Cobb. “Cobb stretches « To' of hits that to Milgn Would be singles*. Cobb therefore, is on second base and it is the general opinion that it i« hard er to steal third than it L* second, for the reason that the catcher has a shorter and a better throw. “The records will show that ("nbb {r<ats msnv more doubles than Milan and each ore of the«o double? cM*»fits agadhst hi« chare** of stealing Ttt.en. again, it isn’t a’wavs good nolicv to D-'rd. ' single will score a fast man like Cobb or Mila* and onr^ • a plavcr is or ps n nr'' ’* !c tempt ing fate to to s*eqi third “But yo to- fit h hoer runner is concerned. Cobb is vIIrp’k superior (b'ynjie the Washington star's mark of 14**1 year.' By Ed. W. Smith. I S Wisconsin producing another Ad Wolgast in this latest fighting sensation—Matty McCue of Ra cine? Everybody is wondering. Mat-, ty has all the earmarks of the real thing, and if he doesn’t live right up to the expectations of the Chicago fight fans there will be many who will revise their opinions of them selves and come to the conclusion that they do not know the real goods when said R. G. arc placed before them. No fighting machine of such a sensational character has been seen in this neighborhood in many a long day. McCue is nothing if not sensa tional. for he has the kick in either his port or his starboard mitt, daz ing and straightening an opponent up with a sizzling, left and leaving things nicely placed for the deadly right cross that he whips over in such con vincing style. When ir is considered that this lad is only eighteen years old one may judge that with careful handling and a little bit of luck he cannot help developing into something of a real wonder. .lust now he is in the hands of John McCue of Racine, a grizzled old veteran of the game, who has been in athletics off and on for these many years now. It is from* John that Matty takes his fighting mon iker. for his right name is Matthew Paulson He is a native of Racine, and is ««f Danish and German ex traction, a pretty fair blood combi nation when one considers the good Danish fighters and some of the top- notch Germans that infest the arenas of the present day. Only eighteen years old a couple of months ago! And during his brief career he has had forty-one battles and without a single defeat of anv kind to mar his record. His last seven fights have been the cleanest kind of knockouts. MoCue Has Wolgast’s Crouch. Don’t overlook the fact that this boy has got a good left hand a.s well as a smashing right. He steadies them with the left and then it is all over but the counting—and some times that is entirely superfluous. When w*> liken Matty to the Wol- gast we knew in the early Wolgast days we are mindful of the Wolgast crouch and shell into which Matty goes carefully when attacked only to come out of it. whaling and shim ming mightily, in just exactly the old Wolgast style. Yes, he's a great kid. a real wonder, and if they don’t rush him too fast right now—well, there's no telling. Smith Beat Rodel. Gunboat Smith didn’t knock out George Rodel in their second meeting la«t week, but gave the Boer a trouncing that he won’t forget. We glean from some of the stories of the contest that though Smith knock ed Rodel down fiv<- times, he merely "shaded” him. For the love of Mike whatever could Rode! 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 mar gin instead of merely “shading” an opponent 7 Dan McKetrick, 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 twen ty-round battle on the colit when Moran, they claim, was 111 and far, from being at his best. Dan is some oandy little booster for his man. and if he doesn't force Smith into a re turn match he < an at least credit himself with making a superlative ef fort. KLING TO JOIN REDS WITHIN A SHORT TIME CHICAGO. April 18.—Catcher Johnny Kling already has start wi practice and is getting ready to join the Cincinnati Reds, according to Al derman Lewis Stitts, a close friend of Kling. who returned from Kansu City yesterday. Kling told Stitts, a ording to the Alderman, that he will sign a con tract within a few days. Nearly everybody in Atlanta read# The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertitemrnt in the next issue will sell goods. Try it! A Few Funny Things in Baseball © o o © © o © Coach Heisman Tells About ’Em S OMETHING like a score of years ago I was a spectator at a game in which a very funny thing transpired. This game was between the first teams of the towns of War ren and Sharon. O. Neither team was in any league, but these are good sized towns and they turn out some pretty nice ball clubs to this day. It was about the eighth inning and Warren was one run behind; but they had a runner on thir base, albeit two men were down. There had been considerable money wagered on the outcome the game, and the feeling belween the two teams was far from being the most cordial ever. Luckily for the Sharon club the game was being palyed in their h< •me town, else it is doubtful whether any of them would ever have escaped with their lives after the stunt that their thik'd baseman pulled off at this juncture. The Sharon pitcher had thrown one to the hatter, and then he derided he had a chance to nail Warren’s ruh- ner on third, so he slammed the hall over to that corner next. The third baseman tagged at the runner after catching the throw, and then bluffed to toss it back to the catcher. in stead of letting it go justthen. how ever. he put it up under his left arm pit. a very common thing in those days, no matter how silly it would strike a modern hall player. An instant later he appeared to take the hall out from under his arm and throw it back to the pitch er; whereupon the runner once more stepped off the bag. No sooner had he done so. however, than the Charon third baseman once more reached up in the region of his left armpit, pulled out another ball and promptly touched the runner out before he had discovered what was happening. The umpire called him out. and forthwith the “declapendence of indignation” was on. The whole Warren team desired to know at one and the; same time how* the tiharon team could use two balls at* the same time and get away with it, w'hile even the Bharonians had their doubts about the legality of this king of strategy. But the umpire and the Charon pitcher showed them that it wasn’t a ball at all that the third baseman had tossed back, but a very round potato. As there was nothing in the rule- book entitling a funner to step off h base because the other team chose to throw' potatoes around. “I’mps" stated that he had no choice but to call the runner out w’hen the really, truly ball was put on hint while standing off a base. And then came the Ight. and the police force. I think they got out the Ire department before it was over. But the game was never finished; not that day at all events. p JEW of the younger generation -f f boll players ever- saw the gre it Tony Mullane in action, and plenty of them have doubtless never beard of him. Suffice it to say that Tony was one of the game's greatest twirlers 80 years ago when performing with ihe Cincinnati Reds, and the Reds of those days were "some” ball player*. Well, Tony was born and raised in Oil City, Pa., and it was up there that the game took place in which the in cident I am about to relate occurred. There was nothin* n the shape oi a backstop but a very high fence or bill board, as it were, erected behind ihe plate. The top of this w f as invaria bly lined with all who were early and agile enough to get up there. While the game was still young, I observed a man trying to scale the heights by wedging his fingers and toe* between the boards. He was very much the fattest man I have ever seen try o climb a backstop of this character, or, indeed, a high fence of any kind. But he hail heard so much of Mul- lane's wonderful curved ball (curves were quite a new thing at that time yet) that he was determined to get somewhere where lie could see them with his owne yes. He had reached a height of about 8 feet from the ground, and here he tteeined to be stuck, us he couldn't , seemingly wedge the toe of one shoe' in anywhere else for a higher Of course, his back was turned to the diamond and he was puffing and per spiring like a hippopotamus. At this juncture the batter struck up a foui and promptly the catcher started aft. r-r it. High up ir soared and back ward toward where the fat man was! doing his Alpine act. Directly it b*- came apparent that the ball was cop ing down right over "Fatty's” head, md right under him romes the catch er, laving for the ball. It was a question w hether it would | top in front of t ie backstop ot oe- ■ynd it. Every bod> began to yell, bu;. of course, the climber couldn't ted what they were hollering about—he was having troubles of his own. Presently something took place. That blamed ball landed "kerplunk” on top of the fat man's head. It dazed him and knocked his hat off. In stinctively he let go his handhold and reached up either to catch his hat >r to rub his poor fat head, and that instant wrought his literal downfall. Down he comes, but. for a scant 3 feet only, for he lgnds right on top oi the catcher, who has come up under him after the foul. “This is too much,” gurgles the slight catcher us the man-mountain Hops over his head and shoulders like ; a mat less. He staggers and sits gracefully in a tub >f lemonade that some vender had made up and was keeping in the shade of the tall backstop. Talk about your Yellow stone geysers! I don’t be lieve one ever spouted that could sp’ash It up the way those two chaps baled out that tub. There were no more lemonade saLs that day. and for two reasons—first, there wasn’t any more left to sell, and, second—well, no one else was thirsty. BOXING News of the Ring Game CLEMS0N HAS HOPES OF WINNING CHAMPIONSHIP CLEMSON COLLEGE, April IS.— Coach Dobson Is highly elated over the tine dxhibttion of hall playin* shown by hla team against I'rskine lust Tuesday, when tliewTIgers played an errorless game ,e-jnlnst a g ird team. The work of Ezell was the finest seen in the pitcher's box here tn many a day; and his team mate» w ere right behind at every stage of the game. Hopes for the winning if the state championship are now run ning pretty high. Clemson has not lost a game in the State league so far. There will he two games on the ■ampua this week—one with the Pres byterian College of Clinton on this afternoon, and one with Wofford c tege to-morrow afternoon. Both of these are regarded as unusually ha 1 games, and they will probably decile Clemeon's chances for the Stac championship. Ezell will certainly pitch one of the games, and Anderson will prob ably pitch the other. The team work of the varsity has Improved sonstd- ersblv. Brown, who was selected is the regular catcher after his first try-out late In the season. Is con tinuing his good work behind the hat. Webb Is making a splendid first base- man. The buttirg of the team, though still weak, shows considerable im provement. SEA GULLS BEAT ALBANY IN OPENING GAME, 5 TO 4 CHARLESTON. S. April 18.— Nearly 2.500 fan« attended thf* game yesterday between Charleston and Al bany. opening the .South Atlantic League xeaaon here. Charleston beat Albany, r. to 4 The heavy hitting of the winners \\(i* a feature. The Sea Gull* secured fourteen hit* off Dug- gleby. Mayor Grate pitched the first ball, with President Corish. of the South Atlantic League, behind the bat. PELTY IS SUSPENDED; WADDELL SIGNS CONTRACT MINNEAPOLIS. April 18. Barney Pelty. pitcher for the Brown* until the middle of the 1912 season, when he wa* turned over to Washington, has been suspended by Manager Joe Cantfllon of the Minneapolis (Amer lean Association) Club. Pelty wgi s?« - cured by the Millets from Baltimore, where he was sent by the Nationals. George Edward Waddell has signed his contract and will again hurl for Cantiljon’8 club this season. COTTON DEFEATS PRATER. King Cotton defeated Ed Prater at the Capital Citv Pool Parlor last night, 100 to 01. The two. will play *' ocond match to-night at 8 o’clock. Johnny Coulon, bantamweight cham pion of the world, ha* called off his bout with Francis Hennossy. which wus scheduled for April 29 before the Fu ture City A. C. at St. Louis. * * • Coulon made a very stiff demand on Maichmuker Sullivan in the way of a guarantee, and the latter was forced to call off the mill. Coulon may go over to Kansas City to meet Hennessy tl . re. * * M Another heavyweight, from the Y.'eai is in New York. He is Marty Farrell, of St. Paul, who was brought East by Tom Gibbons, a brother of Mike Gib bons. Farrell has been matched to box Antoine Pollet. the heavyweight of Canada, in a main bout before the I*olo A. C in New York to-night. * * * Jack Britton and Pal Moore c ?n- pleted training yesterday for their six- ound set-to before the Olympia A • I Philadelphia, Monday evening. 'The. two clashed in a twenty-round bout on the coast about • two years ago. • >n that occasion Britton was awarded the verdict after a fierce fight. • * * Louis Smith, who has been appolr ted matchmaker of the National Spor irig Club of Winnipeg, would like to 1 ear from all boxers who are anxious to box before his club. A letter can r* ach him care of the National Sporting C ub, Winnipeg. Man. * * * Imp lioldcn, manager of Joe Thorn a v writes that he haa his proteKe in g tat Shape for his fight with Charlie Write ir the Pelican City Monday night. .I.ie says the winner .will he matched v ith either Jue Rivers. Joe Mandot or Lt ich Cross. ... rp around Chicago the fight followers still .nsfst that Toni Caponl, the vete an middleweight. Is a fighter. Thev n.usf be badly In need of a real mid. Ir- w eight. ... loe Rivers may fill a short theatr a! engagement while in the East. He has had several offers. . «... Mike (ilbbons, who has not fought since he met Eddie McGoorty in a tame ten-round contest in New York sevi ral months agd. has signed articles to box Labe Safro at Eau Claire, Wle., \la- I ... Kid Williams, the Baltimore flash. < e- feated Erankle Bradley In a fast six round bout at Philadelphia last nig it. Both boys are bantamweights. . * * Dan McKetrick gays he is going to ask the New York Boxing Commlss on Just why they will not let Joe Jeanmrte box some white heavyweight. The an swer Is ready for him. • • • Billy Papke and Eddie McGoortv will probably meet tn a ten-round bout ut Kenosha or .Milwaukee, Wts. Frank Mill kern and Nate Lewis are bidding for the match. • * * Ad Wolgast and Tommy Murphv are on edge for their twenty-round fight at Frisco to-morrow night. Tom Joi »s says Ad Is tn great shape and will surdy beat the New York boy. • * V Rudy t'nholx wishes to announce that he Is still In the ring Rudolph woi M dearly love to come here and exchange wallops with Battling Nelson. Rudy is also managing Eddie McGoorty. • * • Local fans are still talking about lit tle Jimmy Grant, the boy who held KId Young to a draw at the Orpheum flair,. Tuesday. These boys put up the orb fighi of the night, and should be rr- matched. * • * Abe Attell apparently has enougrh of Henry Norton. Other people are of the same opinion as the former feather- weie-bt c’rmplon. CHICAGO GOLFERS PLAN INVASION OF THE COAST CHICAGO, April 18.—At a meeting of the executive committee of th ? Western Golf Association last nlfrh matters In connection with the ama teur and open championships were ar ranged. and plans for the trip of tl-• western team to the Pacific coa : were discussed. In spite of the early and urgent ap peal ae.nt out by the handicap corr- mittee. seventy-four clubs are deliy. - quent in reporting. For several yeai a the officials have been hampered b * the tardiness of some of the club < and the suggestion ha* been mad< . that the handicap list be dropped at least for this year. The Tenaka Golf Club of Dawso: . X. W , ami the Santa Cruz Golf an i Country club of Santa Cruz, Cal., hav- been admitted to membership in the Western Association. -THE VICTOR’ DR. WOOLLEY’S SANITARIUM and drui all Inebriety end addictions aclenU- g addictions aclenU- flcally trested. Our Opium and Whisky J „ £ years *xpert*nc« shows th*,s dls,a«»s «r« curable. Patients also treated at thalr home. Consultation ronfidentia). A book on tha auh- Ject f-ee DR B B WOOLLEY & BON., No. t-A Via tor Sanitarium. Atlanta. Sa