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# Tl'l I*. A I liAM A (ihOrnilAM AM> NKVVS, WKDNK8UA Y. A I 'll. HO, 101H. JlfflD& EF PFJDT Yes, Indeed, Jeff Is Some Fond of Animals £( Bud" Fisher Bv Chick Evans. C HICAGO, April 30.—"Jeff" Adams, who has been for a long time one of the best known caddies at the Chicago Golf Club, has recently joined the professional ranks. His nev position is at Michigan City and se curing it ha° made Jeff one of the hap piest of boys'. Geoffrey Adams, to give him the high-sounding name, i discovered by accident, was born eighteen years ago at Warrenvllle, a tiny hamlet five miles west of Wheat on. Hr is the youngest of four broth ers, all of whom caddied at Chicago Golf. His brother Frank, who is ;; very good player, is now the profes sional at the Canton, Ill. Golf Club. Jeff has always lived at hip parents' home in Wheaton, which is about a mile from the Chicago Golf Club, and he has caddied all the year around cinee he was ten years old. Any time during the last eight years he could be seen, club in hand or under arm, walking along the. road leading to the golf grounds at 7 o’clock In the morning on week days ar c! at about 9 o’clock on Saturdays and Sundays. For be it known on week days cad dies were allowed to play over the Chicago golf course in the early morn ing. but not on Saturdays and Sun days, and Jeff missed no opportunity to play his own game or to caddy for others. He has* caddied for nearly all the well-known amateurs and pro fessionals who have played at Chica go Golf. Years ago Willie Smith, not ing his ambition, advised him to turn professional when he was old enough. Caddied for C. B. MacDonald. Jeff recalls with special delight a day that he was caddying for C. B. MacDonald, former national cham pion. He had earned one dollar, but Mr. MacDonald, probably recognizing his efficiency, gave him $10. This w an event in his needy, hard- w< rking life.' Jeff considered Ids caddying season proper from May to October. This was his moneymaking period, and ho once told me that he averaged about $150 in May and June and September a year. He used to make more and October than in the other months. These were school months and the order system was not In force. Jeff's own schooling had stopped at the seventh grade, and after that his cad dying was literally the year through On winter days when the weather was too severe for players to come out Jeff could be found in Dave Foul- ia' shop distening to gfolf stories or asking fifty and one questions upon the one subject in the world—golf. Jeff feels deepiy grateful to Dave Foulis for his great kindness to him during these years at Chicago Golf. It was Dave who gave him the first club he ever owned, and so it seemed quite the natural thing for Dave to come into Chicago with Jeff to help him buy the tools for Ills new shop. And it is very easy for the old friends of Jeff to picture him in the little workshop In the Indiana woods*, or to fancy we hear the sharp echo of his clean-cut shots among the trees. Jeff plays a very good game of golf in very good form and he has made a 77 at Chicago Golf, which is a splen did score for that difficult course. Sure To Be Famous “Pro.” Although Jeff has been a sort of special caddy for Walter Feron. 1 think there is eurely not a member at Chicago Golf who does not know him. There was something marked about his appearance. He was small and rather stooped and his hair was long and black and his right side and shoulder had been low'ered by the constant weight of heavy golf bags. Day in and day out be and I trudged the Wheaton links last summer and at all times he appeared to be a faith ful and patient student of the game. I have never heard him swear and 1 do not think he oven smoked. Ap parently ho cares for but little beside* golf and 1ms few ideas beyond it. Faithful, hardworking and scantily clad, undaunted by any weather, he was forever on the job. and if thes« characteristics prevail in his new sit uation the litle caddie from Chicago Golf will be a successful professional, and if his game continues to im prove a very famous one. Jeff’s new club is beautifully located on the old Pottawattomie Indian trail in a dense wood. The grounds are rolling with a stream of water run ning through. The holes are of good distance and hewed out of the for est. 1 spent a very enjoyable day there last fall and can testify to the charm of location and the agreeabUity of the membership. So the friends of little Jeff have every reason to congratulate him. YANKEES TO KEEP CHASE; SMALL CHANCE fOR TRADE NEW YOKE, April 30. After main- taiejng silence all mnrr.infT. Manager Ji’raT) 1 ,’ <’hancp, of tlie Yankees, this ■denied that he intended trad- ( WELL. IT 1 *, GON(s* 0E I TDUC.K ON YOG OLD ) CAT Bur rve Got to j SREAfc OET/r OF BRINGING e/Effr OLD STRAY CAT ' or.do& hf sees HONte. - 'f I'LL T'e A Blfe ENOUGH KOCt ON YOG THIS T(a\6 To HOLD YO,U DOWN —- — L I I h uft mill & NOW, I'LL GO HONNE AND WAIT FOR 06 FT ♦AND GIV6 Him SOME CALL DOWN 1 T< rt»»tn.,KT«p gqxa re>y».rr* J Kilbaneand Dundee Fight to Draw © O © © © © O Slow Battle for Feather Title G eorge stallings win offer the Cracker club some pitchers either to-day or to-morrow. He is getting them waived out of the big leagues now. Wh< n the offer it* made it will be up to Bill Smith to decide whether or not he will want the men. Probably he will. Buck Becker has been plac ed on the ineligible list. His fate will hardly be decided under ten days. Bausewein’s fate hangs in the bal ance. Smith still believes he may be a winning pitcher. He will not let him go without one more trial. Weaver’s case is the one that has Smith scared bright pink. “I can’t afford to fire Weaver.” says Bill Smith. "He cost us* too much money. Besides, if he comes around he will bo our best pitcher. I am go ing to hang on to him as long as he shows me anything.” There is considerable reason for believing that Weaver is one of the men recently fined for breaking train ing. He is surely in very bad condi tion. But he will stick along a couple of weeks longer, anyway. Kernan’s* fate is in doubt. With Bailey out, Smith will have a tine chance to try out the Chicago lad. If he shows some hitting strength he will be carried through the season as util ity man. If he does not, he will doubtless be let out, and it is possible that the Crackers will race along this season without a utility man. espe cially as Graham can play any posi tion on the team save that of pitcher with considerable credit to himself and the club. thf try ah nn hr. nc hi. ruing ; Hal Chase. •There are a number "f ball clubs it want Chase ” said Chance, ‘‘and I'll de him, providing the other clubs give ;it half their players. What I need v:t of all Is a good first baseman. I rfa or** 111 Chase—the best In the busi es. Wouldn’t I be foolish to trade DILLON WALLOPS MOHA. LWAUKEK, April 29 -.Jack Dillon, adianapolis, won easily last night l« ten-round bout with Bob Molia, lis city. If Morris Delivers. Georgia Wins Title ATHENS, GA., April 30.—In an ef fort to cinch the Southern Intercol legiate Athletic Association cham pionship by making it two straight from Vanderbilt. Coach Cunningham will shoot Pitcher Morris against the Commodores this afternoon in the final game of the series. The Tennesseeans will use Sikes on the mound and will stake every thing on their famous football and baseball hero. Yesterday’s game wa*« hardly a canter for the* Georgians. Corley pitched three-hit ball and held the Tennesseeans runless, while McClure was located for ten hits, which netted nine runs. The Com modores had no earthly chance, and after the first inning it was a matter of how many runs- Cunningham's men would pile up. Yesterday’s crowd set the season’s record in Athens, but it was not a circumstance to what is expected to day. j-33 JR SALE t quality gas coke, red, 10‘cents per 1, for 50 bushels re. s than 50 bushels, its per bushel. hone 4945 la Gas Lip! Go. THOMASVILLE SCORES 35 RUNS FOR LEAGUE RECORD i I THOMASVILLE. GA.. April 30.— The Thomasville Empire League team broke the local record for runs yes terday afternoon in a game with the Boston team, thirty-five runs a Mi thirty-six hits being secured off Kid Hinton in six innings of play. Host >n got two hits in seven innings and no runs. 30YD AND LIMLINE DRAW RELEASE FROM BARONS BIRMINGHAM, April 30.—Pitcher Boyd, star of the 1912 Barons, and Pitcher Lam line, recruit, were re leased by Manager Molesworth to day. Boyd’s arm has gone dead and Lamline has not delivered. President Baugh, of the Barons, left to-day for Chicago to get an outfielder and an infielder. Messenger is at his home with his wife, who has been critically ill. DOUGLAS AGGIES DEFEAT NORMAN PARK FOR TITLE DOUGLAS, GA.. April 30.—Douglas Aggies defeated Norman Park yesterday, 1* to 0. This gives them the Prep School championship of South Georgia, r- a«'h Zellars' boys have played every .earn that would meet them, and have I won every game The feature of yes terday's game was the hitting of Gray, who secured three three-base nits out of five trips to the plate Brouch gave up One hit. By W. W. Naughton. L OS ANGELES, April 20.—Referee Eyton declared the 20-round bout between Johnny Kilbane and Johnny Dundee a draw. This, it is to be presumed, means one-half the featherweight championship will re main in Cleveland and the other half go to New York to keep company with the America’s cup. The bout between the two Johnnies was interesting in spots only. If they had used their hands half as much as they used their feet, it is just possi ble that a knockdown blow would have been in evidence at some time during the evening. Taking it all in all, the affair was an plegant argu ment in favor of those who hold that boxing is not brutal. Happening as it did at this particular time, it is a pity that the members of the Califor nia Legislature were not on hand to witness it. Kilbane is all that has been claimed for him in the line of cleverness. But judging by last night's work, heavy punching is not his specialty. There is this much to be said, of course— in Dundee he met one of the shiftiest youngsters ever seen in the ring. Dun. dee may not be a good judge of dis tance, but he seems to know to a dot when anything dangerous is coming his way. By drawing back at the light moment he converted probably a half-hundred right crosses into misses, and half that number into glancing blows. Champion Wanted Knockout. KHbane's palpable object from first to last, in fact, was to end it all with a right snap. He feinted his oppo nent into leaving openings, and whenever the moment seemed oppor tune, John’s dexter glove shot across like a flash. But quick as it came the little New Yorker was equally quick in dodging, and although tried re peatedly the number of rights be landed could probably be counted on the fingers of one hand. Among them all there was only one solid enough and well timed enough to send Dundee back a pace, and that was delivered very late in the fight. Of the two men Dundee is probably the harder puncher. Kilbane has It on him In range and reach, and it was seldom that Dundee was able to connect with full force. His best ef fort is a left swing, and in order to score with this punch he had to con vert himself into a leaping tuna. It stands to reason that a man who has to hoist himself into the atmosphere to send home a blow can not add any particular force to it, and that was the trouble with Dundee. In th<* latter rounds when Kilbane was tired Dundee was there with his leap and swing time and again. If he could have remained on the ground and committed the same assault it would have punished Kilbane more than it did. At the start of the fight Kilbaiv* devoted much time to feinting, his object being of coursp to confuse his opponent. Dundee apparently knew just what to expect, for he feinted when Kilbane feinted and tried to counter whenever Kilbane led. Kilbane’s Left Was Truer. The only difference apparent be tween them at the outset was that Kilbane sped a truer left. He landed with this punch very often, but never in a way to ruffle the New Yorker, who kept leaping and swinging with the left. The first seven rounds wen- in a manner spiritless, but the eighth saw the first bit of earnest work. They became embroiled over against the ropes, and after fumbling at each oth er’s ribs with short right-handers they stood away as if by mutual con sent and began to lash out freely. Kilbane got home with punishing up percuts and took many hard body blows in return. It seemed to be part of Kilbane’s system to rest up after infusing a lit tle extra energy in his boxing. He took things so easy in the tenth round that some of the spectators began to revile him, reminding him that a champion was always expected to set the pace. The slur went unheeded, and Dundee redoubled his efforts to land a high left that would produce results. When the round was about half over Kilbane began to cut loose with the* right. From that point for ward Kilbane fought :n spots only, but when he did cut loose it was evident that he had a one-punch finish in mind. Thirteenth a Gocc Round. The thirl enth round was the nr st TRUSSES Abdominal Supports. Elastic Hosiery, etc Expert fitters; both !ad\ and me.i attendants, private fitting room* Jacobs’ Main Store 6-8 Marietta St. Prep League News and Notes. spirited of the series. They discarded feinting entirely in this particular spell and traded hooks and uppercuts. Dundee came out of a rally with his right eyebrow damaged, and there was blo^d on Kilbane’s lip. Kilbane. it seemed to the writer, gained the lead in the fourteenth round. There was another earnest mixup, and the champion stood to his guns better than his opponent Dundee took to covering and was not as eager to climb in the air and swat back. If the fight had ended there, the chances are Kilbane would have gained the decision, but, whether from choice or because he was tired, the champion slowed up perceptibly after the fourteenth round. He went back to the feinting tactics that he employed in the early rounds and al lowed Dundee to leap and lunge to his heart’s content. In the sixteenth round again Kil bane seemed to be saving his strength, and Dundee, by being dili gent, pulled level with his opponent. It may have dawned upon the cham pion in the minute’s resting spell that he was following the wrong course. Anyhow he shot, out of his corner when the starting bell sounded and went at Dundee determinedly. Dun dee stood his ground and fought back until the frequency of the champion’s uppercuts warned the New Yorker that it would be wise to cover up. It may be that Kilbane was slightly in the lead when the seventeenth ended, but persistent Dundee pulled level again in th ( > remaining rounds. Kilbane Tired in Last Round. In the last round of all Kilbane was palpably tired and Dundee’s climb ing tactics were very much in evi dence. Once or twice indeed it looked as though the champion was badly jarred by the punches in question. The round closed amid scenes of great •xeitement. The Kilbane cohorts were bellowing and Dundee’s friends were shouting to the New Yorker to crowd his man and knock him out. They wen hammering each other when the official timekeeper smashed the gong and called a halt, and Ref eree Eyton did not hesitate a moment in declaring it a draw. When Owen Moran and A he Attell fought a draw when the latter was champion it was said that the Eng lishman claimed the possession of one-half the world's title in the feath erweight class. The rule, however, is that the champion must be defeated before being required to hand over his laurels, so that Kilbane, even though he broke even with his New York rival, is still the champion featherweight of the world. As matters stand. Dundee has the best right to consideration when Kil bane gets ready to defend his title again. The gat** receipts of the fight were given as $13,782. “Scotty” Monteith, manager of Dun-* dee, this morning offered Kilbane a winner-take-all proposition for a re turn match. GORDON BLANKS SEWANEE ON MACON DIAMOND, 6-0 MACON, GA., April 30.— Southpaw Gordon twirled air-tight ball here yes terday and as a result Sewanee de feated Mercer, 6 to 0, in a one-sided con test The victors scored one run in the second, one in the third and one in the sixth and tallied three in the eighth. Mercer had chances to score in the second and ninth, but Gordon tightened in the pinch and retired the losers with out a run. RUBE ZELLARS RELEASED BY MACON TO VALDOSTA MACON, GA., April 30.— Rube Zellars, the former Mercer twirler, has been release*! by the Macon club to the Val dosta team. Pat Moses, also n former Mercer slahman, will be retained by Ma con. DUFFY BEATS TEMPLE. BUTTE, MONT.. April 29. Jimmy Duffy, of Lockport, X. V.. gained tbe decision last night over Ray Temple, of Milwaukee, after twelve rounds of j whirlwind milling. The Riverside baseball team has made a remarkable record so far thi9 year. Out of sixteen games played they have won fifteen and tied one. This per formance beats anything made by a Southern prep school In many years Monday the Riverside boys defeated Stone Mountain 7 to 1. * * Locust Grove is the only p t p team in this section of the country that could give Riverside a good argument. Un fortunately L. G. I. is not in the G. I. A. A. this year, so there is no chance of a meeting between the two schools. * * * Boys High is trying to make arrange ments with Marist to play off their tie game Friday. This contest was to have taken place last week, but the Marist lads had to drill for the Memorial Day parade, and the game was postponed. The two teams played a ten-inning 3 to 3 tie game at the beginning of the season. Bill Bedell, of Tech High, is back in school again, and is training hard for the annual prep meet May 9. Bill over worked himself In the high school meet April 18. and was sick for a week. Donald Fraser School, of Decatur, is seriously considering a plan to enter some men in the annual prep meet. There are at least two athletes at the school who could give a good account of themselves against any of the stars In the Atlanta schools Jernigan and Phillips are both all-around athletes, and have made a number of good rec ords In competitive meets. Tbe senior class won the greatest number of points in the inter-class track meet held at Emory College Monday. Their points totaled 53. The sophomores were second with 35. The freshmen and the juniors lagged away behind, the former getting 5 points and the latter 1. t’arlton, of the senior class, was the sensation of tbe day in the class track m*et at Emory on Monday. He scored a total of 32 points, and with 4 more would have had enough to have beaten the “sophs” single-handed. Carlton was first In the 100-yard. 220- yard and 440-yard dashes, the shot put and the running broad jump, and third in the high jump. This is a remark able performance for any one man to make. . The. 100-yard dash will be a thriller In the prep meet this year. Allen, of Marist; Slfforcl, of G. M. A : Parks and Bedell, of Tech High, and Spurlock and Lockridge, of Boys High, have all en tered. Students at Peacock are greatly in terested in hand ball. Lenny and Wells are the stars at this game. They would like to meet any two Prep League players in the city. * * * Pitcher Fox. of Boys High, is working ] hard this week in preparation for the proposed game with Marist Friday Al though this game has not been arranged yet. Fox wants to he on the safe side. | Boys High is hot after the Prep League pennant this year, and if Fox is not at his best in the game to come, the school will have a hard job keeping in the first division. Howard Lanier has been pitching good ball for G. M. C. this season. Ho is also leading the all-prep pitchers at bat. In a game with Gordon Saturday lie smashed out a three-bagger with the bases full, which made possible the de foal of the Gordonites by a score of 9 to 4 •* « • Peacock and Tech High will play I to-day on the Peacock diamond at Piedmont Park. These two teams opened the Prep League season | on March 25. This will be their sec ond meeting. Peacock has been work ing hard lately to develop a goon pitcher and they think they have him in Sams. May Standardize Boxing Weights {^|[([ GIBBONS Q © © © Q © © IQ IFIT tJFFKIiyp Lord Lonsdale Asked to Help Out 10 m 10 ~ mm By Ed. V . Smith. S TRONG efforts are being made now by American boxing author ities to bring about at an early date some definite move for the in ternational standardization of boxing weights. There have been so many different attempts made along this line In the past, and all of them have been so half-hearted and so dismally weak in their fruition, that the box ing fans early began to lose interest. All of the students and well-wishers of the game saw at once the advan tage to be obtained in having a scale of weights that would fit and be rec ognized all over the globe, but Amer ica, England and Australia, which are the only real live centers of boxing, were so far apart on several of the limits for the classes that there seemed little hope of working a change. T HROUGH Freddie* Welsh. English lightweight champion. Lord Lons dale. perhaps the most influential man in England openly interested in the boxing game, has been asked to lend his assistance to the project, and there is a good chance that he will confer with Charles J. Harvey. Sec retary of the New York State Boxing Commission, soon relative to the mat ter. The commission is eager to draw Lonsdale into the discussion and to get his views on the matter. Then the members will have something definite to work on Lonsdale is the man who gives all of the champion ship belts to the English fighters to scrap for and generally is ranked as the foremost and most influential sportsman In Great Britain. * * * X\J ELSH is a gi«*at pet of Lonsdale, and the nobleman is in commu nication with him at all times when Freddie Ms away from dear old Eng land. Hence Harvey figured that the lightweight star would be the very' best man to get in order to interest tin* Englishman in the project in hand. Over in Australia, Reg. L. Baker, who is known as "Snowy?’ and who succeeded McIntosh as leading promoter in the land "down under,” has interested himself in the same project and has written several let ters here In the hope of interesting the leading American promoters in a scale of weights that would be uni form the world over. J UST glance over the figures show ing the limits that prevail now in the limits that prevail now in the the different classes in the three coun tries and you can get an idea how hard it would ever be, under such classification, to get a real world’s champion. Here are the scales; Bantamweight — America. 116 pounds; English. 118; Australia, 112. Featherweight — America, 122 pounds; England, 126; Australia, 126 ' Leightweight — America. 133 pounds; England. 135; Australia, 140. Welterweight — America. 142 pounds; England, 147: Australia, 149. Middleweight — America, 158 pounds; England, 158; Australia, 160. The biggest differences, of course, are found in th? bantam, light and welterweight classes. * » * A S has been pointed out more than once, it will be a mighty difficult thing to bring the fighter who holds a title in any class to a mind where he would consent to change, especial ly if there is a dangerous competitor just ahead of him who weighs a pound or two mere and who might give him a desperate argument if allowed to come in at his own figure. For instance, the Australian scale would let some tough lightweights in for battle, men who cannot now come within three or four pounds of mak ing the American limit established by Gans, and maintained by Nelson, Wolgast end Rit hie—the latter per haps. By Sol Pkx. C HICAGO, April 30.—Just by way of correcting the impression that he is willing to mingle among the welterweight boxers. Mika Gibbons, who is training hard again for a spring campaign in the ring, sends us word that he has no inten tion. of going out of his class and that 150 pounds at 3 o’clock is the very lowest figure he will make for any of them. Incidentally, Mike would much prefer 154 pounds at the pres ent time, or until he has had* three or four good battles' and gives nim- self a thorough test after his long idle spell. Mike hasn’t turned a wheel since his battle in New York last. >ear with Eddie McGoorty, content ing himself With resting up. He need ed a vacation, he says, because th** McGoorty battle was the culmination of a long series of battles that left him fagged out. • J OE MANDOT is* going to make another stab at that title thing The Southern lightweight star and his manager, Tommy Walsh, have gone to Los Angeles once more, this time to take on Buddy Anderson, the young slugger who recently disposed decisively of Kayo Brown, of New York, in a smashing encounter. 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