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i THE ATLANTA GEOT?f!TAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. APRIL 21. 1913. By Charles Dry den. C CHICAGO, April 21.— XI Bridwell is back with a thrilling story of ^ his adventures in the flood. Brid” does not think much of the • xploit. At least he is not setting himself up as a hero. Ail he did was to float forty miles in the dark on the swollen Ohio and wind up by rowing the skiff into the .«econd-story . indow of his brother’s house and mooring the ,boat to a brass bed stead. The trip from Ashland, Ky., to Portsmouth, Ohio, was made in fnu** hours and the distance is forty miles. Bridwell set out alone at 6 o’clock in the evening and reached the seo- und-story window a little after 10 o'clock. Hi** greatest difficulty was to avoid being crushed in the mass ,,f drifting wreckage in the main cur rent and at the same time prevent the- back current from carrying ttie boat among the inundated forests on the river bank. Portsmouth was in darkness when Bridwell neared his home and he was in danger of being swept on down the riser. ‘Luckily he recognized a huge coal tipple and started playing big league stuff on the oars wed above the town. It required pluck and «kill to manage the little boat, but A1 was well equipped. On escaping the swirling currents it was an easy matter to steer the skiff to the sec ond-story window-and sing out. ‘Ye ho. me fad, ye ho!’ just like a regu lar sailor Bridwell owns three houses at Portsmouth. In one of them the wa ter rose six feet, in another four and a half feet and the dwelling his fam ily occupied took in thirty-eight inches of untidy liquids. The loss to Bridwell is about $500. His home stands on a knoll and he feared the family would be surrounded before taking flight. That was what worried the athlete. He could neither receive nor send word and worry drove him to the risky boat trip. Meanwhile Mm Bridwell had fired up the auto mobile and made her escape from the threatened knoll to higher ground three days before the place was swamped. All of which goes to show •hat Mrs. Bridwell is a lady with a bean. FAMOUS HAWTHORNE TRACK PURCHASED BY THOMPSON CHICAGO. April 21.—John R. Thompson, a Republican politician and business man. lias obtained an option on the Hawthorne Race Track just outside of Chicago’s city limits. The property during the racing days was controlled by Ed Corrigan and Richard Fitzgerald, but a year ago it passed into the hands of Thomas Carey. The transaction is given added sig nificance from the fact that simul taneous with it a bill for a State Racing < Commission was introduced In the Legislature at Springfield. Mr. Thompson has shown in the past greater interest in harness horses than in the running end of the sport, but should the Springfield bill pass the chances are said to be In favor of running races at the his toric track. COACH STAGG IS ILL. CHICAGO. April 21.—Athletic Di rector Alonzo A. Stagg. of the Uni versity of Chicago, left yesterday for Colorado, where be will spend two or three months building up his health. He announced that he could not work with the university athletes again until the opening of the football prac tice season. 606 SALVARSAN 914 Neo Salvarsan The two celebrated German preparations that have cured per manently more cases of eyphillis or blood poison in the last two A tf years than has been •*9 cured In the history of j the world up to the time of this wonderful discovery. Come and let me demonstrate to you how 1 cure this dreadful disease in three to five treatments. I cure the following diseases or make no charge: Hydrocele. Varicocele. Kidney, Blad der and Prostatic Trouble. Lost Man hood, Stricture. Acute end Chronic Gonorrhea. atui all nervous and chronic diseases of men and women. Free consultation and examination. Hours; 8 a. m. to 7 p. m.; Sunday, DR. J. D. HUGHE S 16'/a North Broad St.. Atlanta, Ga. Opposite Third National Bank. BLUE G E $4.75 Best Jellico $4.50 PIEDMONT COAL CO. Both Phones 9L 3648 fPOETS’ SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT Then- Voice from Downstairs By Tad Southern League After Fast Men 0 O Q © © Q © Crackers—Barons Lead on Path J AMES E. SULLIVAN, secretary- treasurer of the Amateur Ath letic Union of the United States, who has had more experience at man aging world’s fair and exposition games than any man living, has ac cepted the athletic directorship of the Panama-Pacific International Expo- pit ion. With "Jim" Sullivan holding the reins the success of the great expo sition games is assured. Already he has proved his merit as an organ izer in more than one world’s fair Outside of world’s fair games he has shown his master hand as a builder with the wonderful organization known as the Amateur Athletic Un ion. This union is his work, his structure from foundation up, his hobby, and it has become world fa mous. Sullivan Is Prominent. In 1900 Director Sullivan was as sistant American director of the Olympia at Paris. In 1904 he was ap pointed head of the athletic games* of the SL Louis Exposition, which were also the Olympic games of that year In 1906 he was American commission er to the Athens Olympiad. In 1908 he was secretary of the American commissioners at the London Olym piad at Stockholm. He was athletic director of the Buffalo Exposition in 1901 and of the Jamestown Exposi tion in 1907. The "big chief” i“ enthusiastic’ over the prospects for the holding of a sc ries of great sports events in San Francisco and is of the opinion that the nations of the world at large will send their best athletes to compete in a series of international games. Sullivan announced upon his ap pointment that he was in favor of f*?heduling every form of athletics and would include everything on the pro gram from school children’s games to aeroplanes. Anything and everything between earth and sky will find a place on the sporting calendar of the 1915 exposition games. The modern pentathlon, for w hu h the Olvmpic games committee has do nated a special medal.’ Sullivan thinks will be the big drawing card for the international athletes. This is a med ley" affair, taking in horseback rid ing. revolver shooting, swimming and running, and appeals particularly to the armv athletes of Europe. 1 hough the majority of the United States army men are not exactly proficient, in tiie event, Sullivan expect^ to see a large entrv from our army, as there is plenty of time to prepare for it. Bv .Jack Law. N OW that the Southern League season has started, the question again arises as to which city has the fastest team. Every manager in the country, be it in the large r small organizations, is striving to collect players who are fast on the bases, and oftentimes a good hitter is sacrificed to put a man in bl3 place who can negotiate the bases. A fast team generally has all the advantage over their slower oppo nents and unless superior pitching and heavy hitting goes with a slow team, they cannot expect to cope with a club that possesses good baserun- ners». in the Southern League it is about a toss-up whether Atlanta or Birm ingham has the better baserunning club. One of the new recruits of the (’rackets stole more bases last year than any player now in the Southern League. Roy Keating, who is new covering shortstop for the Atlant i team, during last season purloinexl 57 bases in the Virginia League. Of course, the Virginia League, in which Keating performed, is not as fatft -s the Southern League, but teams in that organization had some very good catchers, and therefore his record is not a fluke one. McGilvray Is Fast on the Paths. At first base McGilvray is a better baserunner than is Agler, althougii Agler is above the average as a base- runner. At second base. Whitey Al- perman, of the Atlanta team, will steal over twice as many sacks as will Marian. Keating at shortstop last year stole 57 bases, while Ellam succeeded in beating the catcher's throw to the bag 27 times, ('arrol it third base for Birmingham and Smith for Atlanta can’t be compared, as they did not play in anywhere ne li the same number of games, although it would appear from general obser vation that Carrol was the better baserunner. In left field McBride, of the Birm ingham team, proved himself a better baserunner than did Bailey, as in the same number of games the Birming ham left fielder purloined 25 sacks, while the Cracker left fielder was stealing 19. in a compariqfm of Wel- chonce, of Atlanta, and Messenger, of the Barons, the Birmingham outfield er has the advantage, as in about f'f- same nulTiher of contests Messenger pulled off 21 thefts, while Welchonce could garner IS, A fair comparison could not be made between Long, of the Atlanta club, and Senno, of the Barons. How ever. Senno, who played last season In thje Central Association with Ot tumwa, committed successful larcen ies 43 times in 120 games. Long in 63 games stole nine bases. About an Even Break. • Taken collectively the Atlanta and Birmingham teams size up rather evenly in the baserunning department of the game. It Is very unlikely that either Keating or Senno will be is successful in getting away with thefts in the Southern League as frequent ly as they did in the Virginia League or the Central Association. The Mobile club has quite a good baserunning team, and the old nu n from the team of last year ranked well up in baserunning iast season. Here are the baserunning figures cf the four regular men of last year s team: Paulette 22. Odell 31; Starr 29 and Jacobson 16. Milton Stock, of Mobile, secured from the Buffalo club of the Interna tional League by way of New York, showed that he was no snail on the bases by copping 27 bases in that fast organization. Clarke, who cov ers left field for Mobile, lias alwa> s been considered a superior baserun ner, and it is hardly probable that he has sloyed up to such an extent that he will be able to steal about 20 or more bases this season. Dave Robertson. In right field, is almost an unknown quantity as re gards bafeerunning, as he nev-r* played enough with MeGraw s club last season to get a line on his ca pabilities in this department. but while playing at college and lat--r with the outlaw Tidewater League he was recognized as the fastest man in th»* league. In Breen, Montgomen secured a man who can get around the bases as fast and successfully as any man in the league. Wares, the little sec ond baseman of the Montgome \ team, was the best baserunner in the Southern League last year, with the exception of Jimmy Johnston. Jant- zen. who covers left field for .Mont gomery, is exceedingly f^t , on Ilfs feet and should develop fmo a fine baserunner. If baserunning could decide a pen nant race the race this season in the Southern League would be between Atlanta. Birmingham and Mobile, with Montgomery right there should her young outfield show speed. Prep League News and Notes. Baseball Stunmaries. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games To-day. Atlanta at Nashville. Now Orleans a Mobile Memphis at Montgomery. Birmingham at (’hattanooga. Standing of the Clubs. Mi records for shortstops in Southern! colleges were smashed when Lamar Bovkin. of Alabama Presbyterian Col lege. accepted seventeen chances with out an error in n game with the A *- bama State Normal School the other dav. His father is president of the Georgia Alabama league Bovs High team will pla> G M A to morrow afternoon at College > ark. Thev had little trouble in disposing or the Cadets last Thursday and are not worrying about the result to-morrow Mar 1st will meet Peacock Wednesday Following is th** present standing of the Atlanta Prep League: Mon. Lost. PL. Boys High * ? '■«>« Tech High * J -i59 Peacock ^ 3 .000 * * • Sam Armistead, of Boys High, has hit his regular hatting stride. >n ihe game last week with G. M. A . Sam knocked a homar and two doubles. Armistead was the leading slugger in the Prep league last season. * + * The Atlanta Boy Scouts. Troop 3, have one of the best baseball teams this year that has ever been seen among amateur nines here. The Buy Scouts are anxious to get games with any team In the city composed of players under IB years of age • * * Coombs and Dozier, pitchers on the L G. I nine this year, are making it hot for the teams in the prep schools of the South. Neither of these men have given up more than five hits in any game played this season. The Locust Grove Institute baseball team has won six straight games this vear It is a pity this school is not entered in the G. I. A. A., as their ath letic teams could give a good account of themselves with any prep school in the Htatc. Atlanta Mobile N'ville Mont W. L. P C. 7 2 778 7 4 .636 5 3 625 6 4 600 W. M’mphis 4 B ham. 3 N. Or. 4 Chatt. 2 PC. .400 Yesterday s Results. Memphis 9. Montgomery } New Orleans 2. Mobile I AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games To-day. Detroit at Chicago. St. Louis at Cleveland. i'msJiu m Philadelphia Washington at New York. Standing of the Clubs. CHICAGO BALL FANS PLAN * BLOWOUT FOR JOE TINKER CHICAGO, April 21.—Joe Tinker, leader of the Cincinnati Reds, and President Garry Herrmann will be feted by Chicago» friends of Tinker on the eve of April 29, when the Reds make their first invasion of Chicago. I Bad weather prevented the < hirago Tinker tooters f::*m making the trip to Cincinnati for the opener. T JE first nail and board will be laid to-day for the big new five- lap track on the old Circus Grounds. Jack Prime has been in the city for one week, very busy- gathering together the necessary ma terial. Prince nas built tracks in Chicago and other large cities H. says he nas several new ideas to put in use on tjje track being built here. This track will hold a speed of JO miles per )\our and on short rides like five and ten miles the riders should be able to go at the rate of 4o seconds to the mile. Motorcycle racing has proven to be a big suc cess in Chicago and the West for the last several years. The demand for these motordromes is growing and shortly after the At lanta track is finished Prince has calls from Washington, D C. De troit. Milwaukee, Wis., and several cities out in the Far West. In addition to having under con tract all of the fast motorcycle racing men. Prince al»o lias several of the best auto racers, such mRn as Barney Oldfield, Teddy Teslaff. Ralph De Palma and others If arrange ments can be made Prince will build one of iiis big Triple Radius tracks in Atlanta and give races here with all of the < rack automobile drivers in the world. But for the present he will confine himself to the motordrome and show Atlanta people some real speed and dose races. He expects to have the track "finished by May 10th, and to hold the opening meet around that date. These races will be run week ly until September. DE PALMA TO COMPETE IN * 500-MILE SWEEPSTAKES INDIANAPOLIS. IND.. April 21. That Ralph De Palma will compete in the third annual 500-mlle Interna tional Sweepstakes Rave at the In dia napo:is Motor Speedway. May 30. i.« now an assured fact. Formal en try of three Mercer cars, with De Palma heading the team, has been received by the Speedway manage ment. De Palma will have as team mates Caleb Bragg who last year divided the road-racing championship of the United States with De Palma, and Spencer Wishart All of the Mercer cars will be four cylinders Kilbane Wants to Battle Ritchie 0 © O © © 0 T) Feather Champ After Light Title THOMAS MEETS WHITE AT NEW ORLEANS TO-NIGHT By H. M. Walken. L OS ANGELES, CAL, April 21 "Get out of the way and let somebody fight that C'A N FIGHT." —Johnny Kilbane'* message to the lightweight champion of the ring This clever boxer, holder of the world’s featherweight title, is willing to go out of his class and battle for the lightweight championship. Meets Dundee Next Week. One week from to-morrow night Kilbane defends^the 122 pound hon ors against Johnnie Dundee, the New York feather, the boys jneeting be fore the Pacific Athletic Club at Ver non in a scheduled twenty-round con test. Should he win. Kilbane will on the following morning, go through the formality of issuing a challenge to the lightweight champion. Willie Ritchie, posting $2,500 with the writer as evidence of good faith. “It’s just like this." said the cham pion’s manager, Jimmy Dunn, in ex planation to-day. "After winning over Dundee, we will have ' leaned up the featherweight division. Our natural move is to go after the light weights. Ritch’e is a poor excuse for a champion. Johnny and I have talked the situation over for months past and we feel confident that he can whip Rftchie if the latter will make the lightweight limit. 133 pounds, ringside. Tom McCarey Favors Match. "Promoter Tom Mci’arey likes the idea and w e have assured him that our terms will be so eas\ to meet that he will fee! free to open negotia tions with Ritchie/’ In Los Angeles. Johnny probabiv would go to the post an even monej risk against Ritchie, as iliis is the one city in America that does not regard Ritchie as a real champion. "I assured myself that Kilbane was sincere before ! consented to have him go to the newspapers with his plane," said Promoter McCarey to day. "Billy Nolan, being a smart man. knows that such a match would pack the arena here and it would be just like him to ‘call* Kilbane’s hand." NEW ORLEANS. LA.. April 21.— Joe Thomas, ihe local lightweight and Charlie White, of Chicago, arc on edge for their scheduled 10-round bout here to-night. Both boys are coming t< the front rapidly and the fight should be one of the best stag ed here in some time. Thomas recently defeated Yankee Schwartz, Eddie O’Keefe and Franki. Whitney at Atlanta and is being boosted as the «oming lightw eight champion Charlie White has bevted such boys as Young Shugrue. Owen Moran. Johnny Dundee and Pa* Moore. Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell goods. Try it! SLEEP DISTURBING BftCKACHE-l Even Most Chronic Sufferers Find Relief After a Few Doses Are Taken. Backache, urinary disorders and rheumatism are caused from weak, inactive kidneys, which fail to filter out the impurities and keep the blood pure, and the only way on earth to permanently and positively cure such troubles is to remove the cause. The new discovery. Croxone. soon relieves such conditions because it reaches the very roots of the dis ease. It soaks tight into the stop ped up. inactive kidneys, through the walls and linings; cleans out the little filtering cells and glands; neutralizes and dissolves the poi sonous uric acid substances that lodge in the joints and muscles to scratch and irritate and cause rheumatism: heals the inflamed membranes * of the bladder. and BLADDER WEAKNESS QUICKLY VANISH deans out and strengthens the stopped up. lifeless kdneys so they filter and sift all the poisons fr*»m the blood, and drive it out of the system. So sure, so positive, so quick and lasting are the results obtained from the use of Croxone. that three doses a day for a few days are often all that is required to cure the worst backache, regulate the most annoying Madder disorders, and overcome the numerous other sim ilar condit ions. . It is the most wonderful prepa ration ever made for the purpose. It is so prepared that it is prac tically impossible to take it into the human system without results. An original package of Croxone costs but a trifle, and all druggists are authorized to return the pur chase price, if Croxone fails to give desired results, regardless of how- old you are. how long you have suffered, or what else has failed t AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Standing of the Clubs. W. I.. P C M w'kce 6 2 .750 K City 7 3 .700 M'apolis 5 4 .556 St Paul 5 4 .566 W. Lapohs. I L'ville. i CTbns. 3 Toledo 1 , .500 I . (00 | .375 Yesterday's Results. Toledo 8. Minneapolis 5 Milwaukee 9. Indianapolis 2. Louisville 13. St. Paul 8. Columbus 12. Kansas City !' Wash. Phila. C'land Chicago 7. L. PC. 1.000 .800 .667 .500 W. L. Detroit 1 5 S. Louis 4 6 Host on 2 5 X. York 1 6 PC. .444 400 .286 .167 T Yesterday’s Result*. Detroit 3. St. Louis 2. Cleveland 2. Chicago 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games To-day. New York at Boston Philadelphia at Brooklyn. Chicago at Cincinnati. Pittsburg at Chicago. Standing of the Clubs. OBflCCO HABIT Y ,«v?n n C-W pro*e your Ip-aith, prolong your Ilf: 'n mom stomach trouble, no foul breath. no heart weak ncR* Regain manly viflor. calm nerveo, clear ev«s ami superior mental strength. Whether you cli"\v or tinnko pipe, cigarettes, cigars, net mv interesting Tobacco llook. Worth Its a eight, in gold. Mailed free. E. J. WOODS. 534 Sixth Ave.. 748 M .. New York. N. Y. W. L. P C. Phila. 3 1 .750 Pburg. 5 2 .714 X. York 4 2 .667 Chicago 5 3 .625 W. S. Louis 3 Br’klyp. 2 Boston 1 C’nati. 1 L. P C. 4 .429 3 .400 4 .200 5 .167 Yesterday’s Results. Pittsburg 5. St. Louis 4. Chicago 3. Cincinnati 2. SOUTH ATLANTIC. Games To-day. Columbus at Albany. Savannah at Charleston Jacksonville at Macon. Standing of the Clubs. W. ju. P C. W. I j ville. 2 I .667 ('Thus 1 I Gbas’ton 2 1 -667 Albany Macon 2 1 .667 Savnah 1, Old Hats repaired at Bussey’s, 281-2 White hall street. I. 0. 0. F. SPECIAL SAVANNAH, GA., MAY 27TH. In order to properly take care of I O. O. F* delegates and their friends who will attend the Convention at Sa vannah. May 28th-29th. the Central of Georgia Railway will operate special train, to leave Atlanta 8:40 a m , May 27th, stopping only at Griffin and Macon, and scheduled to arrive in Savannah 6:00 p m This train will be '’omf>oj?e<] of first class coaches and parlor car. A passen ger representative will accompany this Train to render the delegates every nec essary attention In addition to this .special train, there are two other daily trains each w ay through without change, leaving Atlanta 8:00 a. m. and 9.35 p. m. Returning, .rains leave Savannah 6:45 a in and 8:00 p. m. Those leaving on night trains, and desiring sleeping car reservations, can make same now by ap plying to W H. FOGG. District Passenger Agent, Marietta and Peachtree Streets., At lanta. advt Established 1865 E1SEMAN BROS., Inc Incorporated 1912 The “Chipper” Checks! Every season develops its own particular "fabric fai or favorite. 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