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1 * ( CHICAGO, April 21.—A1 Bridweli is back with a thrilling story of his adventures in the flood. Hrid” does not think much of the exploit. At least he is not setting .self up as a hero. All he did , a s to float forty miles in the dark ,n the swollen Ohio and wind up by -. w ing the skiff into the s«cond-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 fou- hours and the distance is forty miles Bridweli set out alone at 6 o'clock in the evening and reached the sec ond-story window a little after 10 o'clock. His* greatest difficulty was to avoid being crushed in the mass ■ f drifting wreckage in the main cur rent and at the same time prevent he back current from carrying the oat among the inundated forests on the river bank. Portsmouth was in darkness when Bridweli neared his home and he was in danger of being swept on down (he river. Luckily »he recognized a huge coal tipple and started playing big league stuff on the oars wed ibove 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 lad, ye ho!’ just like a regu lar sailor Bridweli 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 Bridweli 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 Mr-\ Bridweli had fired up the auto mobile and made her escape from the threatened kholl -to higher ground three days before the place was s-wamped. All of which goes to show that Mrs. Bridweli is a lady with a bean. FAMOUS HAWTHORNE TRACK PURCHASED BY THOMPSON CHICAGO, April 21. -John R Thompson, a Republican politician and business man. has 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 greate# 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 he 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 syphillis or blood poison in the last two years than has been cured in the history of the world up to the time of this wonderful discovery. Come and let me demonstrate to you how I cure this dreadful disease In three to five treatments. I cure the following diseases or make no charge: Hydrocele. Varicocele. Kidney. Blad der and Prostattc Trouble. Lost Man hood. Stricture. Acute end Chronic Gonorrhea. *no all nervous and chronic diseases of men and women. Free consultation and examination. Hours: 8 a. ni. to 7 p. m.; Sunday. DR. J. D. HUGHES !6»/ 9 North Broad St.. Atlanta, Ga. Opposite Third National Bank. GREATEST FI 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 Panar^a-Paciflc International Expo sition. 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 a« 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 l« 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 St. 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. Hp was athletic director of the Buffalo Exposition ! n 1901 and of the Jamestown Exposi tion in 1907. The “big chief’’ is* enthusiastic over the prospects for the holding of a se 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 scheduling 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 which j the Olympic games committee has do- I 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 army athletes of Europe. Though the majority of the United Slates army men are not exactly proficient in the event. Sullivan expects to see a large entry from our army, as there is plenty of time to prepart for it. Prep League News and Notes. Southern League After Fast Men © O O © © Q © Crackers—Barons Lead on Path Bv Jack Law. N OW that the Southern League season ha» 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 his 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 slaw- team. they cannot expect to cope with a club that possesses good baserun- ners. In the Southern League it is about a loss-up whether Atlanta or Birm ingham has the better baserunning club. One of the new recruits of the Crackers stole more bases last year than any player now in the Southern League. Roy Keating, who is now covering shortstop for the Atlanta team, during last season purloined 57 bases in the Virginia League. Of course, the Virginia League, in which Keating performed, is not as dst 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, although Agler is above the average as a baso- runner. At second base, Whitey Al- perrnan. of the Atlanta team, will steal over twice as many sacks as will Marcan. Keating at shortstop last year stole 57 bases, while Ellam succeeded in beating the catcher’s throw to the bag 27 times. Carrol at third base for Birmingham and Smith for Atlanta can’t be compared, as they did not play in anywhere near the same number of games, although it would appear from general obser vation that Carrol was the bett**r 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 comparison of Wel- chonce, of Atlanta, and Messenger, of the Barons, the Birmingham outfield er has the advantage, as in about the same number of contests Messenger pulled off 21 thefts, while Welchortce could garner 16. A fair comparison could not be made fetween Long, of the Atlanta club, and Senno, of the Barons. How ever. Senno, who played last season in the Central Association with Ot tumwa, committed successful larcen ies 43 times in 320 games. Long in 63 games stole nine bases About an Even Break. Taken collectively the Atlanta and Birmingham teams size up rathe* evenly in the baserunning department of the game. It isf very unlikely that either Keating or Senno will be i? 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 nun from the team of last year ranked well up in baserunning last season. Here are the baserunning figures . f 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 Leagu6 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 always 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, m right field, is aimost an unknown quantity as re gards baserunning, as he never played enough with McGraw’s club last reason to get a line on his ca pabilities in this department, Lea while playing at college and later with the outlaw Tidewater League he was recognized as the fastest man in the league. In Breen. Montgomery secured a man who can get around the bases as fast and successfully as any man in the league. Wares, the little se- ond baseman of the Montgomery team, was the best baserunner in the Southern League last year, with tin- exception of Jimmy Johnston. .Tam- zen, who covers left field for Mont gomery, is exceedingly fast on his feet and should develop into a fin. 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. Baseball Summaries. SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Games To-day. Atlanta at Nashville. New Orleans at Mobile Memphis at Montgomery. Birmingham at Chattanooga. Standing of the Clubs BLUE GEM $4.75 Best Jellico $4.50 PIEDMONT COAL CO. Both Phones M. 3648 All records for shortstops In Southern colleges were smashed when Lamar Bovkln, of Alabama Preshyierian <.ol- lege. accepted seventeen chances with out an error in a game with the Ala bama State Normal School the other day. His father is president of the Georgia Alabama League. * * * Boys High team will play <1. M A tomorrow afternoon at (.ol.ege 1 arte They had little trouble in disposing of the 'Cadets last Thursday, and are not worrying about the result to-morrow. Marist will meet Peacock Wednesday. Following is the, present standing of the Atlanta Prep League: \Y on Boys High j* Tech High ... J Marist J G. M. A J Peacock u Lost. P C. 0 1.000 1 .750 .500 .250 .000 1 3 Sam Armistead, of Boys High, has hit his regular batting stride. In the game last week with G. M. -V. Sam knocked a homer and two doubles. I Armistead was the leading slugger in ihe Prep League last season. * * * The Atlanta Boy Scouts. Troop 3. have one of the best baseball teams ihis vear that has ever been seen among amateur nines here. The Boy Scouts are anxious to get games with any team in the city composed of players under 15 jears of age. * * * Coombs and Dozier, pitchers on the l, G I nine this year, are making it hot for the teams In ihe 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 State. W. L. P.C. Atlanta 7 2 .778 Mobile 7 4 .636 N'vllle. 5 3 .625 Mont. 6 4 600 W. L P C. M’mphis 4 6 .400 H’ham. 3 5 .375 N. Or. 4 7 .364 Chatt. 2 7 .222 Yesterday s Results. Memphis 9. Montgomery 4. New Orleans 2. Mobile 1. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games To-day. Detroit at Chicago. St. Louis at Cleveland. I'uston t 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 bo feted by Chicago friends of Tinker on the eve of April 29, when the Reds make their first invasion of Chicago. Bad weather prevented the Chicago TinkVr looters f: >m making the trip to Cincinnati for the opener. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. T IE first nail and board will be laid to-day for the big new five- lap track on the old Circus Grounds. .Jack Prince 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. He says he nas seveial new ideas to put In use on the track being built here. This track will hold a speed of 90 miles per l\our and on short rides like five and ten miles the riders should be able to go at the rate of 40 seconds to tho 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 also has several of the best auto racers, such men as Barney Oldfield, Teddy Teslaff. Ralph De Palma and others. If arrange ments can be made Prince will build lone of his big Triple Radius* tracks J in Atlanta and give races here with ill of the crack 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 hav'e the track finished by May 10th. and to hold the opening meet around that date. These rac-s will be run week ly until September. \ DE PALMA TO COMPETE IN 500-MILE SWEEPSTAKES INDIANAPOLIS. IND. f April 21.— That Ralph De Palma will compete In the third annual 500-mile Interna tional Sweepstakes Race at the In dianapolis Motor Speedway, May 80. is 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 hampionship of the United States with De Palma, and Spencer Wishart. All of the Mercer cars will be four cylinders. Kilbane Wants to Battle Ritchie © © O © © © O Feather Champ After Light Title I. 0. O. F. SPECIAL SAVANNAH, GA., MAY 27TH. By H. M. Walker. L OS ANGELES, CAL, April 21. “Get out of the way and let somebody fight that C* A N FIGHT.’*—Johnny Kilbanes 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 meeting be fore the Pacific'Athletic Club at Vei 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 cleaned up the featherweight division. Our natural move is to go after the light weights. Ritchie is a poor excuse for a champion. Johnny and I have talked the situation over for months past and we feel confident that he ran whip Ritchie if the latter will make the lightweight limit, 123 pounds, ringside. Tom McCarey Fav%,-s Match. “Promoter Tom McCarey likes the idea and w e have assured him that our terms will be so easy to meet that he will feel free to open negotia tions with Ritchie.” In Los Angeles, Johnny probably would go to the post an even money risk against Ritchie, as this is the one city in America that does not regard Ritchie as a real champion. I assured myself that Kilbane was sincere before I consented to have go to the newspaper the said Promoter with M c( 'urey his him plane.” day. "Billy Nolan, being a smart man. knows that such a match would pack the arena her-' and it would l»e just like him to 'call' Kllbane’s hand.’’ THOMAS MEETS WHITE AT NEW ORLEANS TO-NIGHT NEW ORLEANS. LA.. April 21. - Joe Thomas, the local 'lightweight, and Charlie White, of Chicago, are on edge for their scheduled 10-round bout here to-night. Both boys are coming l< the front rapidly and th* tight should be one of the best stag ed here in some time. Thomas recently defeated Yankee Schwartz. Eddie O'Keefe and Frarikh Whitney at Atlanta and is being boosted as the - oming lightweight champion. Charlie White has bested such boys as Young Shugiue, Qwef Moran. Johnny Dundee and Pal Moore. Nearly everybody in Atlanta reads The Sunday American. YOUR ad vertisement in the next issue will sell goods. Try it! SLEEP DISTURBING BLAODER WEAKNESS BACKACHE-RHEUMATISM, 0U1CKLV VANISH 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 right 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 cratch and irritate and cause rheumatism; heals the inflamed membranes of the bladder. and • Jeans out and strengthens the stopped up. lifeless kdneys so they filter and sift all the poisons from 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 bladder disorders, and { overcome the numerous other sim ilar conditions. 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 to on re. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. I M w kee 6 K. City 7 M’apolis f> St. Paul 5 C 50 3 .700 4 .556 4 .556 W. I’apohs. 4 L’ville. 4 ("Thus. 3 Toledo 1 L. P C 4 .500 6 .400 5 375 7 .123 Yesterday’s Results. Toledo 8. Minneapolis f>. Milwaukee 9. Indianapolis 2. Louisville 13, St. Paul 8. Columbus 12. Kansas City 9 Wash. Phlla C’iand Chicago W. L. P C. 4 0 1.000 6 3 ,80ft H 3 .66 7 5 5 .500 W. Detroit 4 S. Louis 4 Boston 2 N. York 1 PC. 444 .400 .286 .167 Yesterday’* Results. 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. Standlr*g of the Clubs. TOBACCO HABIT ¥ »t,. c ,V? I prove your health, prolong your Ilf; *'•> more * Mtomorh trouble, i.o foul breath, no heart weak nets Hejrutn manly viflor, calm nerve*, clear and superior mental strength. Whether you < , h'Nv or smoke pipe, cigarettes, cigars, get my Intcosfing Tobacco Hook. Wort’] its i/lit hi gold. Mail'd free E. J. WOODS. 534 Sixth Ave . 748 M . New York. M.Y. ! In order to properly take care of I. O. O F delegates bnd their friends who will attend the Convention at Sa- ; vannah. May 28th-29th, the Central of I Georgia Railway will operate special ] train, to leave Atlanta 8:40 a. nr. May 27th. stopping only at Griffin and Macon, i and scheduled to arrive in Savannah 6:00 j p. m. This train will be composed of first class coaches and parlor car. A paasen ger representative will accompany this I train to render the delegates every nec essary attention In addition to this i special train, there are two other daily j trains each way through without change, j leaving Atlanta 8:00 a m. and 9:36 p. ni Returning, trains leave Savannah 6:45 a m and 8:00 i> m. Those leaving on night trains, and desiring sleeping car r servations, can make same now by ap plying to W. H. FOGG. Distr.ct Passenger Agent. Marietta and Peachtree Streets., At- larftu. advt Old Hats repaired at Bussey’s, 281-2 White hall street. Phiki. P’burg. N. York Chicago V. L. P C. 3 1 .750 5 2 .714 4 2 .667 5 3 .625 W. S. Louis 3 Br’klyn. 2 Boston 1 C’nati. 1 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. jplum, WhlDkrr I>ru* Habit* treated t Home or at Sanitarium. Book on tubjo.-t E Free. DK_ B. M. WOOLLEY, 24-N. 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