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i 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 PLAY FIRST IT Go To The Original $ 15 Tailors —the only store in town where you can get Real >25 Suits iMade to Order 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 , MAT I Write for free samples j *V#llvC an d self-measuring ■ ' 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 .000 G Cares in 1 to 5 day* j unnatural discharges. j Contains no poison and 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