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7 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 8ft. 1913. YOUTH RISES Yes, Indeed, Jeff Is Some Fond of Animals • • • • • • • • By “Bud” Fisher By Ohiek Evans. C HICAGO, April 30.—"Jeff" Adams, who ha* been for a long time one of the best known caddies al the Chloago Golf Club, has recently joined the professional ranks. His new position is at Michigan City and se curing it has 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 Warrenville, a tiny hamlet five miles west of Wheat on. He is the youngest of four broth els, all of whom caddied at Chicago Golf. His brother Frank, who is r. very good player, is now the profes sional at the Canton, Ill. Golf Club. Jeff has always lived at hie parents' home in Wheaton, whloh is about a spile from the Chicago Golf Club, anti he has caddied all the year around Since he was ten years old Any time during the last eight years he could be eeen, club in hand or under arm, Walking along the road leading to tjje golf grounds at 7 o'clock In the morning on week days and at about 8 o’clook on Saturdays and Sundays. Fpr 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 tp 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 was an event in his needy, hard working life. Jeff considered his caddying season proper from May to October. This was his moneymaking period, and he once told me that he averaged about $160 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 in' shop distening to golf stories or asking fifty and one questions upon the one subject in the world—'golf. Jeff feels deeply grateful to Dave Foulis for his great kindness to him during these years at Chicago Golf. It was Dave who gave hint 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 his new shop. And it Is very easy for the old friends of Jett to picture him In the little workshop }n the Indiana woods, or to fancy we hear the sharp echo of his clegn-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, whloh is a splen did score for that difficult course. 8urs To Bo Famous “Pro." Although Jeff has been a sort of special caddy for Walter Feron I think there is surely 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 lowered by the constant weight of heavy golf bags. Day in and day out he and I trudged the Wheaton links last summer and al all times he appeared to be a faith ful and patient student of the game 1 have never heard him swear and ] do not think he even smoked. Ap parently be cares for but little besides golf and’ has few Ideas beyond it. Faithful, hardworking and scantily clad, undaunted by any weather, he was forever on the job, and if these 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 Pottawattomte Indian trail ip a dense wood. The ground* are rolling with a stream of water run- 3 1ng through. The holes are of good Usance and hewed out of the for est. I spent a very enjoyable day there last fall and can testify to the charm of location and the agreeablllty of the membership. So the friends of little Jeff have every reason to congratulate him. YANKEES TO KEEP CHASE; SMALL CHANCE FOR TRADE Kilbaneand Dundee Fight to Draw 0 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. When the offer is* 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 placed 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 u« too much money. Besides, if he comes around he will be our best pitcher, r 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 1b 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 fine chance to try out the Chicago lad. Tf 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 r^e 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 olub. NEW YORK. April BO.—After main taining silence all morning, Manager Frank Chanoe, of the Yankees, this morning denied that he intended trad ing Hal Chase. "There are a number of ball clubs that want Chase,” said Chance, "and I ll trade him. providing the other clubs give about half their players. What I need most of all is a good first barman. I have one in Chase—the best In the busi ness Wouldn’t r be foolish to trade him ?” DILLON WALLOPS MOHA, .MILWAUKEE, April 29.—Jack Dillon, of Indianapolis, won easily last night in his ten-round bout with Boh Moha, of this city. COKE FOR SALE Best quality gas coke, delivered, 10 cents per bushel, for 50 bushels or more. Less than 50 bushels, 11 cents per bushel. Phone 4945 Atlanta Gas Light Go. 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 was hardly a canter for'the Georgians. Corley pitched three-hit ball and held the Tennesseeans runless, while McClure whs 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! TH0MASVILLE SCORES 35 RUNS FOR LEAGUE RECORD THOMASVILLE, GA.. April 30 — The Thomasville Empire Deague team broke the local record for runs yes terday afternoon In a game with the Boston team, thirty-five runs and thirty-six hits be,ing secured off Kid Blaton in six innings of play. Boston got two hits in seven innings and no runs. BOYD AND LIMLINE DRAW RELEASE FROM BARONS BIRMINGHAM, April 30.—Pitcher Boyd, star of the 1912 Barons, and Pitcher Damline, recruit, were re leased by Manager Molesworth to day. Boyd’s arm has gone dead and Damline 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 llEFEAT NORMAN PARK FOR TITLE DOITGDAS, GA . April 30.— Douglas 4gcie= defeated Norman Park yesterday. 8 to 0 'IV. is gives them the Prep School championship of South Georgia. Coach Cellars’ hoys have played every team that would meet them, and have won everv game The feature of yes- ite,-day’s game was the hitting of Gray. who secured three three-base hits out of jflvjjripjl io JJtf Plfktg. up By \V. W. Naughtou. 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 ofher half go to New York to keep company with the America's cup. The bout between the ttvo 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 elegant argu ment in favor of those who hold that boxing is not brutal. Hanpening a* it did at this particular time, it is a pity that the members of the Califor nia Legislature wer e not on hand to witness it. Ivilbane 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 right moment he converted probably a ha If-hundred right crosses into misses, and half that number into glancing blows. Champion Wanted Knockout. Kilbane’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 he 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 the Intter rounds when Kilbane was tired Dundee wag 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 KUbane devoted much time to feinting, his object being of course 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 were 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- tie 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. Wiifn th- round was about half over Kilbane began to cut loo«c with the right. From that point foi ward Kilbane fought ;n spots only, but when he did out loose it was evident that he had a one-punch finish in mind. Thirteenth a Good Round. JTh* thirteenth round k»b the -most 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 bio:>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 tlie 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 dUi- 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 bark until the frequency of the champion’s uppercuts warned tlie 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 the remaining rounds. Kilbane Tired in Last Round. Tn 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 tlie punches in question. The round closed amid scenes of great excitement. The Kilbane cohorts were bellowing and Dundee’s friends were shouting to the New Yorker to crowd his man and knock him out. They were 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 Abe Attell fought a draw when the latter was champion it was said that the Eng lishman claimed the possession of one-half tlie world’s title in the feath erweight ( lass. 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 Xew York rival, is still thp 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 gate receipts of the fight were given as $J 3,782. "Scotty” Montelth, 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 th© 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. Prep League News and Notes. The Riverside baseball team has made a remarkable record so far this 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 prep team in this section of the country that could give Riverside a good argument. Un fortunately L. G. I. is not in the G. J 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 lade had to drill for tiie 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 .'I eoh 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 13. and was sick for a week Donald Fra°er School, of Decatur. seriously considering a plan io 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. The senior class won Lhe 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 formr-r getting * points and the latter 1. Carlton, of the senior class, was the sensation of the day in the class track meet 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-vard dashes, the shot put and the running broaxi jump, and third in the high jump. This If 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: Sifford, 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 lerested in ha mi 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 be on the safe sole Boys High is hot after the Prep league pennant this year, and if Fox is not at his best in th© 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 O. tills season. He is also leading the all-prep pitchers at bat. In a game with Gordon Saturday he smashed out a three-bagger with the bases full, which made, possible the de feat of the Gordonites by a score of 9 to 4. Peacock and Tech High will play to-day on the Peacock diamond at Piedmont Park. These two teams opened the Prep league season on March -5. This will be their sec ond meeting Peacock has been work ing hard lately to develop a good pitcher and they think they have him in Bams RUBE ZELLARS RELEASED BY MACON TO VALDOSTA MACON, GA.. April 30.— Rube Zollars. the former Mercer twirier, has been released by the Macon club to the Val dosta team Pat Moses, also a former Mercer slabman. will tie retained by Ma Two Si3eo 'After dinner-recess DUFFY BEATS TEMPLE. BUTTE. MONT., April 3F— Jimmy Duffy, of Ixjokport. X. Y., gained the decision last night over Ray Temple, of Milwaukee, after twelve round* of whirlwind milling TRUSSES Abdominal kiprorta. F.Last> Hosiery, utc Expert fittwa; both lady and noe» attendant*, piivat* fitting rooms Jacobs’ Main Store ONEY LOANED TO SALARIED MEN AT LAWFUL RATES ON PROMISSORY NOTES Without Endorsement Without Collateral Security Without Heal Estate Security NATIONAL DISCOUNT 00. 1211-12 Fourth National Bank Bldg. May Standardize Boxing Weights Q © © © 0. © © Lord Lonsdale Asked to Help Out Bv Ed. W. 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 lie rec ognized all over the globe, but Amer ica. England and Australia, w hich are tiie 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 c hange. 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 tin* 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 i? ranked as the foremost and most influential sportsman in Great Britain. * * * \17ELSH is a great pet of Lonsdale. and the nobleman is in commu nication with him at all times when Freddie is away from dear old Eng land. Hence Harvey figured that the lightweight star would he the very best man to get in order to interest tin* Englishman in the project In hand. Over in Australia, Reg. L. Baker, w'bo is known as “Snowy,” and who succeeded McIntosh as leading promoter in the land “down under." lias 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 w'orld over. J UST glance over the figures show ing the limits that prevail now in the limits that prevail now in the the different ( lasses 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. Lightweight — America, 133 pounds; England. 135; Australia, 140. Welterweight — America. 142 pounds: England, 147; Australia. 149. Middleweight America, 168 pounds: England. 168; 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 w ill be a mighty difficult thing to bring tin 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 w'ould let some tough lightweights in for battle, men who cannot now come within three or four pounds of mak ing the American limit established bv Ga.tis. and maintained by Nelson, Wolgast end Rit hie—the latter per il a ps. By Sol Plex. C hicago, April 30.7-Just by wav of correcting the impression that he is willing to mingto among the welterweight boxers, MiRa Gibbons, who is training hard ogre tv for a spring campaign In the Hnpr. sends us word that he has no inten tion of going out of his elfcss and that 150 pounds at 3 o'clock 1s the very lowest figure he will make for any of them Incidentally, Mike would muc h prefer 154 pounds at the pres ent time, or until he has had three or four good battles and gives him self a thorough test after his long tdle spell. Mike hasn't turned a wheel since his battle in New York last year with p!ddie McGoorty, content ing himself with resting up. He need ed a vacation, he says, because the McGoorty battle was the culmination of a long series of battles that lrDt him fagged out. * * * J OE MAN DOT ie going to maifia another stab at that title thin* The Southern lightweight star and his manager. 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