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By W. W. Naughton.
S AN FRANCISCO. April 18.—In
the years to come Harlem Tom
my Murphy will remember the
week beginning Sunday, April 13, as
a momentous period in his existence.
Sunday was Tommy’s birthday and
on the same date a daughter was born
to him in faraway Brooklyn. This
means that in the future April 13
will see a double celebration in the
Murphy family.
The week opened auspiciously
enough, but how it wiil close
there is no telling. Tommy is
to face Ad Wolgast, the Michigan
wildcat, at Coffroth’s Eighth Street
Artifpa to-morrow afternoon, and with
th<F fierceness and evenness of the 1
former clash between these light
weights fresh in mind, the best judges
of sportdom hesitate about calling the
turn on the coming affair
Murphy was twenty-eight years old
Sunday. This will come ns a sur
prise to th.os'e who have heard so
much about “the veteran Tommy
Murphy” and who began to imagine
that Tommy was one of the survivors
of jthe Battle of the Wilderness, or,
maybe, th» Charge of the Light
Brigade.
Tiie truth is that Tommy is old-
matwiish in his ways only. And this
soberness of bearing merely attaches
tojnim in private life. When there is
training or fighting to be done Mur
phy is as young and vigorous as the
b^rt of them. He achieves more than
the, majority of his fellow fighters
boYfi in the ring and in the gymna
sium. being methodical, persistent and
not given to talking.
If you have anything to sell adver
tise in The Sunday American. Lar
gest circulation of any Sunday news
pj&er in the South.
BOY SCOUTS HOLD BIG
FIELD MEET TO-MORROW
The boy scouts of Atlanta and vi
cinity will hold a big field day at Pied
mont Park to-morrow at 2:30 o’clock.
.\« there Is nothing else on the boards
for mu uni;, y, a big rrowd is expected
<o enjoy the program.
Every troop will be represented, and
each event will be hotly contested for.
'There will be two track trophies. The
king 11:«• larg»-st scon will tak<
both trophies, one t<> remain the prop
erty of tne troop winning and the other
to be contested for annually.
Bayne Gibson has been chosen starter,
Philip Weltner, timekeeper; Asa W.
Candler, judge
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C APTAIN Fox Montague will
probably play first base for Tech
when Hoisman’s team clashes
with Auburn this afternoon on the
latter’s grounds. A mason,the scrub’s
first baseman, has not shown enough
ability to fill “Goat” Holliday’s place
at the initial sack.
Montague has been playing great
ball in left field and should make
good at first. His fighting spirit
should also be j great help to the
other infielders.
Pitts is scheduled to face Auburn
this afternoon. The youngster is con
fident he can trim Donahue's boys and
has asked for the chance to twirl
the opener. The two teams clash
again to-morrow afternoon. Eubanks
will probably face them in the final
combat.
The remainder of the team will re
main unchanged. All the boys are
in good condition and are out to cop
both battles from Auburn. The Jack
ets did not do much hitting ugaifist
Mercer, but think that they have now
found their lost batting eye. Heis-
man has been giving his playefK
some stiff batting drills, ns wtjfi
many hours of Hard work at
running and fielding.
Crackers Leave for Nashville
0 © O O Q O ©
Paul Musser Looks Real Wonder
By Percy H. Whiting.
as
base
Baseball Summaries.
SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
Games To-day.
Atlanta in Nashville.
New (irleans in Mobile.
Memphis in Montgomery.
Birmingham in Chattanooga.
Standing of the Clubs.
W.
M’phis. 3
N. or. 3
Wham. 3
Chatt. l
Yesterday's Results.
Atlanta 3. Birmingham 1.
Nashville 3, Chattanooga 2.
Montgomery 6, New Orleans o.
Mobile 5. Memphis 4.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Games To-day.
Cleveland at Chicago.
St. l-amis at Detroit.
Poston fit Philadelphia.
Washington at New York.
.423
.Hi 5
.333
.143
The old reliable
"Scotch” Woolen
Mills. Our imita-
tort will do tbeir beat
to confuto you. To
protoct yourself, rt
member thi§ name
and address
Phils
Wash.
Ch’go.
Claud.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. P C. W
3 0 1.000 St. DquIs 3
2 0 1.000 Detroit 2
5 2 .714 N. York l
3 3 .500 Boston 1
Yesterday'6 Results.
Chicago 2, Cleveland 1. ,
Philadelphia 6, Boston 5.
Washington 9.’New York M
Detroit 4, St. Louis 3.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Games To-day.
New York at Boston.
Philadelphia at Brooklyn.
Cincinnati at Pittsburg.
11 Chicago at St. Louis.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. F
L. P.C.
4 .429
4 .333
3 .250
4 .200
B'kly n. 2 1 .667
Ch’go. 3 2 .000
P'burg. 3 2 .000
St. Louis 2 2 .500
W. L
Boston 1 1
Phila. 1 1
N. York 1 2
C’nati. 1 3
P.C
.500
.500
.3
.250
Men mills,
Yesterday’s Results.
Chicago 7. St. Louis 1.
New York 3, Boston 2.
Pittsburg 3. Cincinnati 2
Brooklyn-Philadelphia, off day. •
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
107 PEACHTREE
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■ ' blanks.
Standing of the Clubs.
John
Ruskin
l'apolis.
l.'ville. -
OTbus. 1
Toledo 0
■ Yesterday's Results.
Louisville Minneapolis 0.
St. Paul 10, Toledo 4.
Milwaukee 5, Columbus 1.
Kansas City 6. Indianapolis 4.
SOUTH ATLANTIC.
W. L. P.C.
.400
.280
.200
.000
T HIS trip to Nashville is being taken by the Cracker team for the
express purpose of improving the club’s standing and for fatten
ing of averages.
If it comes out as it appears likely to, it will amount to nothing at
all—except maybe that it will net the Crackers three out, of four games.
The first series in Chattanooga demonstrated that the Crackers were
good in a short series on the road. And the Crackers won three in a
row.
The Birmingham series has shown what we all suspected—that the
Crackers can win on their home soil. And they took three out of four.
The series that begins April 30 at Birmingham and carries the club
all through the Southern section will show what the Crackers can do in
a long road jaunt.
* * *
L ET no fail underestimate the importance of yesterday’s game. Re
member that the Crackers had gone mad and won five in a row.
lu their sixth game, played Wednesday, they were ignominiously defeated.
Yesterday's game gave them a chance either to come back or to
stay away. And they came back, 3 to 1, in quite the prettiest game of
the season.
* * •
I F any demonstration were needed that Paul Musser has arrived for a
season's stay it was given yesterday. The Susquehanna University
lad allowed the Barons three lilts. Considering that his only other "out”
war a two-hit game against Chattanooga, it can be regarded as probable
that the blonde boy "has something”—and has it in great profusion.
Of course, Musser Was wild as the festive Hottentot. He walked
seven men and hit one. However, this does not seem to be chronic with
him. In Chattanooga he allowed only four bases on halls and shut out
the Lookouts.
Going back through the record hooks, it becomes evident that the
Pennsylvanian is not naturally a wtlfl man. On the coast last year he
averaged five bases on balls to a game. The year before. In the O. and P.
League, he passed around an average of almost exactly three bases on
balls to the game.
All (It which means that Musser looks like the best of pitching finds
of tile season and a man who, with good support, should win nearly
three-fourths of his games.
* * *
T HE Crackers played ball yesterday that raised them many notches in
the estimation of fandom. It was impossible to forget the game
of the previous day, and it. would not have been surprising if the Crack
ers had let it affect their playing. But they didn't.
The locals got away for the first run in the second, on Long’s double
and Smith’s single.
The game was tied up in the fourth when McBride hit a three-bagger
and tallied on Carroll’s sacrifice fly.
Then the Crackers pulled themselves up short and played hall. From
that time on Musser did not give up a hit, and only in the fifth, when
Marcan walked, took second on a sacrifice and third on Senno’s grounder
to Alperman, was a Baron even near home plate.
It will be observed, therefore, that after the score was tied Musser
became progressively better, while Hardgrove, the Baron twirler, weak
ened steadily.
In the fifth he retired the locals one, two, three,
in the sixth he hit a batter.
In the seventh he walked Long and allowed Dohard a lift.
in the eighth he got what was coming to him.
Musser, who has a habit of winning his own games, opened the
eighth by driving one that plowed through Hardgrove and got to Marcan
too late to do that worthy any good. Agler filed out,. But then came
the old Special Delivery Kid C. Alperman. And Whttey delivered with
a raking double to center field that sent Musser tearing across the plat
ter. YVelchonce grounded to Hardgrove then, and this worthy, in attempt
ing to head Alperman, threw wild toward Carroll, and Alperman scored.
in the first of the ninth Musser showed his worth by holding Carroll
to a gentle tly and by fanning Ellam (reputed a pinch hitter) and Mayer
tknown to he a good batter) with alt the ease in the world.
* * *
K EATING made a brave, useful play in the second. McBride had walk
ed, and McGtlvray hunted toward Smith. This drew Wally in and
left third uncovered, so McBride lit out for the bag. Keating dashed over
to cover—a bit hit*, it is true, but in time to jump high in the air and
catch Aglet’s timber-topping heave. He pinched the hall and fell in front
of the dashing McBride. The inpact spun the tiny Cracker shortstop a
couple of rods across the field, hut he hold the ball and completed a
double play. So badly jarred was he by the play that he retired a bit
luter and Dohard finished out the contest at short, performing ereditablv.
» * «
L IKE the other games of tlie home series, the contest dragged along
over two hours. This meant wasted time, late suppers—and was
unnecessary and irritating.
When, oh when, will President Kavauaugh issue orders to his um
pires to hustle the games along?
We ask, but expect no answer.
* * #
B ILL SMITH and Billy Sands get out a bully score card this season,
but they might wise up the proof reader who handles the line-up
and butting order a hit. For instance, in the Birmingham-Atlanta line-up
they had: ' ’McBrUlge” for McBride. “Corrale” for Carroll, "Bodis” for
Bodus and "Alger” for Agler.
T HE Riverside Military Academy
track team will probably take
part in two or three track meets
this spring and if they do not win
more than a fair chare of the prizes
Coach Frank Anderson will be one
highly surprised citizen.
Anderson^ present plan is to enter
a three-man team at the Washington
and Lee track meet April 26 and 27.
to enter a full team at the Ninth
District meet April 24 and 25 and pos
sibly to send a small team to the
Vanderbilt prep track meet.
That Anderson has one genuine star
Is evident from the marks made at
a recent school meet at Riverside. In
this event Jim Proas, the star ath
lete from Johnson City, Tenn., was
the big winner. This lad took the
100-yard dash In 10 3-4, the 220 in
25 flat, the 440 in 53 flat; threw tlip
discus 107 feet and the 12-pound shot
42 feet 10 inches.
The other ctnrs on the Riverside
meet were Ray and McNeill. Ray
took the pole vault, with a mark of
8 feet 6 Inches, the high jump with
a leap of 4 feet 10 inches and in the
broad jump lie cleared 18 feet 6 inches.
McNeill, who is to go to Auburn next
ypar, where he is sure to be a star,
won the mile in 4 minutes 51 second 0 .
These three men—Preas, McNeill
and Ray—could probably hold their
own with any three-man prep team
in Dixie.
PREP LEAGUE NOTES
From all appearances, the track meet
at Tech Flats this afternoon be
tween Tech High and Boys High will
eclipse all similar meets ever held in
this city. More than a thousand tickets
have already been sold. There will be
more athletes entered this year than
ever before, and no doubt some new
records will be hung up.
• * *
Following are the events in the order
in which they will be run at the Boys-
Tech High track meet at Tech Flats
this afternoon:
1— 100-yard dash.
2— High jump.
3— 220-yard low hurdles.
4— Pole vault.
5— Half-mile run.
6— Running broad jump.
7— Hammer throw (12-pound).
8— 440-yard dash.
9— Standing broad jump.
10— Shot put (12-pound).
11— Mile run.
* * *
A cup will be awarded to the school
making the highest number of points,
and a medal will be given to the indi
vidual point winner. To the athlete on
the Boys High team mailing the highest
number of points will be given a cup
to be kept for one year.
* * 9
Two teams, the Seniors and Sopho
mores, are tied for first place in the
inter-class baseball race at Emory Col
lege. These two leaders will meet to
morrow to play the deciding game.
Perryman, the elongated divinity stu
dent who joins the New York Giants
in June, will do the twirling for the
Seniors, and judging from his past rec
ord. he will make trouble for the Sophs.
Mercer and Emory will hold a track
meet at Macon on May 10. It has been
customary at Emory for years past to
hold no athletic matches with any other
schools, and this meet will break the
ol<2 rule, much to the satisfaction and
joy of the student body.
* * *
Riverside gave Gordon an awful trim
ming Wednesday at Barnesville when
Gordon went up in the air in the last
three innings and their opponents made
11 runs. The final score W’as Riverside
16, Gordon 4.
* * *
The Locust Grove team is not a mem
ber of the (i. I. A. A. this year. The
team has been playing great ball so
far, and would give the best of the
G. I. A. A. nines a stiff race. Wednes
day the team beat Hearn Academy 5
to 1.-4 The pitching of Dozier and the
heavy hitting of the whole team made
the victory possible.
* # *
The Twelfth District High. School
track meet held yesterday at Cochran
resulted in a victory for South Georgia
College. McRae, of S. G. C., won 24
points. The next highest number of
points went to the Dublin Hich School.
The work of McRae was sensational, to
say the least. He won the 220-yard
dash and both hurdle events, besides
being on the relay team.
* « *
The track meet this afternoon
at Tech Flats between the two high
schools will start at 1:30 in order to
have everything over with by 4 o’clock.
The admission will be 25 cents.
Boys High had no trouble beating
Peacock Wednesday afternoon on the
Marist diamond. Boys High tried out
two new pitchers, who did pretty well.
They lack experience, however, and
would not do to try out against the
'stronger nines in the Prep League
Robinson pitched four innings and
Smith four. Spurlock finished the game.
The final score was 17 to 4.
Here is the present .standing in the
Atlanta Prep League:
Won. Lost. P. C.
Boys High 2 0 l.OOfl
Tech High 3 1 .750
Marist 1 1 .500
G. M. A 1 2 .333
Peacock 0 3 .000
* * »
The athletes at Boys High do not ex
pect to have much trouble in winning
the meet to-morrow against Tech High.
They are sure of winning the high and
broad jumps and the mile run. and feel
pretty confident of getting first honors
in the pole vault and 100-yard dash.
They admit that the Tech High lads
have it on them in the weight events.
* * *
There will be no game on Saturday
for the Boys* High team. They have
been working hard this week, and on
Saturday wfil enjoy a much needed rest
The team plays G. M. A. again next
Tuesday.
* * *
Chris Holtzendorf, of Boys High,
wishes to announce that he will accept
the challenge of either Fowl* or Hu
bert, of Marist, for a wrestling match.
This match will be for the prep cham
pionship and will be decided best two
falls in three.
SOX RELEASE WOLFGANG.
CHICAGO, April 18.—Mel Wolf
gang. a righthanded pitcher who came
to the Chicago Americans by draft
last fall from the Lowell (Mass.)
team, of the New England League,
was released yesterday to the Denver
Club, of the Western League. The
terms were not announced.
The Sunday American goes every
where all over the South. If you have
anything to sell The Sunday Amer
ican is “The Market Place of the
South.” The Sunday American is the
best advertising medium
Games To-day.
Albany at Charleston.
Macon at Columbus.
Savannah at Jacksonville.
Standing of the Clubs.
W. L. V
J'vllle. 1 0 1.D00
CTbas. 1 0 l.OOO
C’leston, 1 0 LOCO'
W
Albany 0
Macon 0
Sava’nab 0
P.C.
.000
.000
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may be used full strength I
absolutely without fear. 1
CHtsrarteed not to stricture.
Yesterday's Results.
Charleston 5. Albany 4.
Columbia* 4. Macon 1.
Jacksonville 6. Karannah 3.
Virginia League.
Richmond 3 Petersburg 0.
Norfolk 6. Portsmouth 2.
Roanoke 7. Newport News 1.
International League.
Newark 3. Toronto 1.
Montreal 6. Providence 2.
Jersey City 3. Buffalo 1.
Rochester 8. Baltimore 2.
' Cotton States League.
Jackson 11. Columbus 4.
Selina 6. Meridian 2.
Pensacola-Clarksdale, not scheduled.
Texas League.
For* Worth S. Dallas 6.
Galveston 8. Houston 7.
Waco 2. Austin 0.
Beaumont 13, San Antonio 3.
College Games.
Harvard 4. Georgetown 4.
•’athol'c University 7. Villa Nova 4.
Tofts 2. Cornell o.
Yale 14, Ford ham 3.
JOE THOMAS TO MEET
CHARLIE WHIT-E MONDAY
NEW ORLEANS, LA., April 18.—
Joe Thomas, the local sensation,
signed articles yesterday to box
Charlie White, the Chicago whirl
wind. in a scheduled 10-round bout
here Monday night.
White is the boy who has fought
such stars as Johnny Kilbane. Pil
| Moore. Joe Man dot and Owen Moran.
I He handed both Moore and Moran an
lawful lacing and Chicago fans are
picking him to defeat Thomas.
However, Thomas is the best seen
around here in years. Local fans
claim lie is a better boy than Joe
j Mundot ever was and will be sur-
p vised if Joe doesn’t hand White a
ne&t 1*4-iua Monday.
JACK COOMBS SENT HOME;
PITCHER HAS BAD COLD
PHILADELPHIA. April IS.—
Jack Coombs, the “iron man” twirler
of the Athletics, was sent home from
Washington yesterday a very sick
man. He is suffering from an attain
of grippe and a severe cold, due, no
doubt, to the exposure he underwent
when he pitched two games in Bos
ton.
The weather conditions on those
days were enough to harm any on:*,
and Coombs, en route home from the
Hub. complained, but insisted on mak
ing the trip with his teammates.
KILBANE AND DUNDEE
SIGN FIGHT ARTICLES
LOS ANGELES, April 18.—Articles:
of agreement for the featherweight
championship battle between Kilbane
and Dundee, at Vernon, April 20.
were signed yesterday by the fight
ers’ managers. It was agreed the
men should weigh 122 pounds at 9:15
o’clock, the night of the contest, and
be in the ring fifteen minutes later.
The champion’s manager said a
fight with. Jem Driscoll, the feather
weight champion of England, was in
prospect if Kilbane won from Dundee
Puts Liver and Bowels in
Condition
Everybody Sayi They Are Fine;
Nothing so Gooo for Consti
pation Ever before Of
fered in Atlanta.
Young and Old, Male and Female,
All Sing the Praises of Hot
Springs Liver Buttons.
Make You Feel Fine
in a Day.
Don’t fool with Calomel or Saits
or harsh purgatives that act vio
lently, many times injuring the lin
ing of the bowel, and causing seri
ous illness.
HOT SPRINGS LIVER BUT
TONS are mild, gentle, yet abso
lutely certain.
They always act blissfully on
the bowels and never fail to un
clog the stubborn liver and compel
it to do its work properly.
Physicians in Hot Springs, ‘Ar
kansas, prescribe them because
they know that there is nothing
better they can prescribe. Take
HOT SPRINGS LIVER BUTTONS
as directed and get rid of consti
pation, dizziness, biliousness, sick
headache, sallow, pimply skin.
They are a fine tonic. All drug-
dists, 25 cents. Sample free from
; Hot Springs Chemical Co., Hot
Springs. Ark.
A BALL GAME AND
A MORAL
A trophy was offered to the city in the Southern League having
the largest attendance at its initial game.
Atlanta’s season opened last Monday. A few days before
Birmingham had set the high mark with a grand total of 8,800.
With pretty weather, folks said Atlanta had a bare chance to
beat it. We didn’t have pretty weather.
Birmingham fans read the weather conditions and said: “It’s a cinch.’’
They didn’t reckon on.the spirit that says and proves “Atlanta always
ahead.’’
Atlanta citizens looked on this contest as something a little bigger than
baseball. It was a test of civic loyalty, and here’s how Atlanta answered:
Hundreds of the biggest business houses in the city closed their doors
on Monday afternoon and told their employees, “Let’s show ’em what
a real crowd looks like.”
In a cold, chilly drizzle over nine thousand went through the gates at
Ponce de Leon and voted Atlanta “the most loyal city in the league.”
We get the cup.
Now, that’s the game,—Here’s the moral:
The most vital competition in manufacturing today is not between
individual firms, bu f between cities and sections.
Atlanta has entered the "league" of shoe-manufacturing cities.
What standing will she take?
That question must be answered in a large part by Atlanta citi
zens and their attitude towards Atlanta-made fehoes.
The growth of this industry will mean much to Atlanta. It has
made Lynchburg from a village to a prosperous city; it has given St.
Louis her place as one of the largest and richest cities of the middle
west.
Now, nobody would expect Atlanta folks to break their necks to
suppoit a bum ball team, nor would we expect them to give preference
to Atlanta-made shoes if they weren’t as good in every respect as
those made anywhere. You’ll find them so.
They are sold in many places. If your dealer hasn’t them you’ll
find all the new spring styles on display at the RED SEAL SHOE
SHOP, 93 Peachtree. Look them over; if you find just the style
you like, try them on; if they fit perfectly, try them out. That’s all.
J. K. ORR SHOE CO.
RED SEAL SHOE FACTORY
ATLANTA