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THE ATLANTA C1E0RGTAX A XT) NEWS. THURSDAY. MAY 1. 1013 And the Cat Came Back By “Bud” Fisher By Percy IT. Whiting. I F tho Cracker Club can’t manage to get a little luck before the sea son ends it will be fortunate to fin ish twenty-seventh. Seldom before in baseball history has a team suc cessfully defied the jinx as long as the Cracker Club. Despite enough hard luck to sink a lighthouse the Atlanta team is right up around the top and putting up a'game fight. * * • yi* I look at the ill-luck that has j 1 befallen the Cracker*. First take the matter of injuries, hokl-outs and such. Here is the itemized list: March—Ed Donnelly refused to re port—and is still a hold-out. M "rch—Ram and tornadoes inter fered with practice. Early in April—A'| Nixon twisted a leg—and was useless thereafter. A so in Zar\y April—Tommy Long stopped a ball with his head and was' badly hurt. In mid-April—Agler tore off most of a finger. March 26—Bailey sprung a charley horse and a sprained arm. March 30—Joe Dunn and Hammond Reynolds smashed fingers. April 3—Bausewein sprained ankle —out of game until April 24. April S—Bruised hands kept Bailey and Agler out of practice. April—Charles Becker, instead of rounding into form, sprung an attack of genera! deb'lity and was finally put on ineligible list. April-—Seme of the players started joy-riding and went to pieces in con sequence. April 26—Harry Bailey sprained foot severely *nd will be out of game for two weeks or so. April 27—Wally Smith sprained back so severely that fielding i s diffi cult. * * * THERE isn’t time or space to con- 1 aider the ill-luck that has hap pened in the games themselves—the bad breaks that have made all but impossible for the Crackers to win. At least three games the locals lost to Nashville, two there and one here, were unlucky ones. One lucky break for the Vols gave them the game. * * • W r v talked it over with Bill Smith vv before he left. "If we can stay- up around the top with the luck breaking against us what do you suppose we’ll do when it turns?” he asked. We told him. "Sure we will,” rejoined Bill, ‘‘and we'll win it easy. But you better believe Mi at any club that wins a pennant in this league is going to need a lot of luck. There was never one won without it.” Billy Smith Shifts Batting Order © 0 © O © O ® Wally Smith May Go to Shortstop By Joe Agler. M anager smith will choose Bauswein or Weaver to hurl to-day’s game. Granam will catch. For the Barons I look for "Big Bill" Prough on the mound and Dilger behind the bat. We expect to have Bisland in the game to-day. Bill Smith will use him at short or third. He hasn’t decided which. There is a chance that he will shift Wally Smith over to short and use Bisland at third. It seems likely that Williams will be benched. Smith Makes Switch. BHI Smith has resorted to his old tactics and, as usual when the club is losing, he has changed the batting or der. He will lead off now with Tommy Long. I’ll hit second, Alperman third, Smith fourth and Welchonce fifth. The rest of the line-up will be unchanged until Bailey gets back in the game. We certainly miss Bailey. We need his hitting and we are all pulling for him to get back in the line-up. The team isn’t a bit discouraged. We all figure that luck will begin breaking for us instead of against us pretty soon. It is sure tough for the team to go I bad on hitting the same time the pitch ers take a slump. By and by the luck will break for us. Then watch us grow. Musser Has Bad Inning. Musser hurled a great game of ball yesterday, except in one inning. In the fourth be was hit hard, and this, com bined with his error, put us to the bad. Foxen twirled a great game against i us and we couldn’t begin to solve his ' delivery. Watch out for us to-day. We are go ing to try to get the jinx on the run. MATHEWWS BIG LEAGUT GOSSIP N EW YORK. Wednesday, May 1.—“There’s one club we’ll beat out anyway—the Cubs." So “Joe" Tinker declared himself before the season opened, when he assumed charge of the Cincinnati team. The intense* rivalry existing between Messrs. Evers and Tinker, now National League managers, is not altogether unknown to the public. When “Joe" jumped into the chair at Cincinnati recently, he had just one thing in mind, and that was to beat out Evers. So far in the race, the (Tibs have been the big surprise to both the players and the fans of the country. It was generally figured the Chicago club would l* 1 much weaker than it was last year, be- cause most observers did not believe Evers, with his excitable temperament, would hold up as a manager and because it was not thought he had any pitching staff. “Johnny" has done a lot to correct these impressions since the National league race opened. The Cubs THE fans might as well harden 1 themselves for a slump in the Crackers’ standing during the tough three weeks that lie ahead. Any time a team ventures southward for nine teen games it can count on losing a dojaen or fifteen of them. This year Mobile and Montgomery are calculated to furnish trouble for ahy ball club. New Orleans looks weak but it always took a miracle for one of Bill Smith’s teams to win in Pelieanville. The only real »pie appears to be Memphis. The Crackers are lucky in getting at Birmingham now instead ot later. Bob Baugh, President of the Baron Club, has gone to Chicago and when he comes back he is pretty likely to bring some ball players with him. Two weeks from now will find the Barons a vastly more dangerous club than they are now. At that the Crackers are likely to find Moles- worth’s men troublesome enough be fore the series ends. * * * THE Crackers’ sally southward * would be troublesome enough un der any circumstances but with Har ry Bailey out of it, and the pitching staff extremely uncertain and inetfl- ciert it looks particularly tough. The absence of a hitter like Bailey is likely to cost the club three* or four gam. s in the course of a ID-game trip. Then Smith must try out his wab bling hurlers—Weaver and Bause- wein, In order to arrive at a decision about them. Soon he must know whether he will keep them or fire them. And any time you try out a sore-armed pitcher you are taking a chance. * * * T'HE Crackers can lose 15 out of the 1 next 19 games without doing any irreparable damage. The se ason is young yet. Any team that has Ag ler. Alperman and Smith in the in- iield and Bailey. Welchonce and Long in ihe-outfield is going to make con- sitbrable fuss in the Southern League - . ecially if Bill Smith manages it. Empire State League Opens Season To-day Six Teams to Get lnto*Ac*"m—Great Interest Centers in Attend ance Trophy. The Empire State League, organ ized at Wnycross last November, opens : ts season this afternoon. Advance dope from the six cities reports great enthusiasm, and there will be record-breaking crowds in the three cities where games are sched uled. Clear, warm weather is prom ised for the opening. Great interest centers in the race for the attendance trophy of the league No effort will be spared by any of the cities to land the trophy for its team. The three visiting cities in D'-day's opening will be the home tov*>,| May f». The season will close Augf^-rt 1?. The schedule is so arranged that every city will have a game on the [fourth of July, the operation of some special trains making it possible lor the teams to play in one city in trio morning and another in the afternoon. The schedule for to-day : DIXIE CLEAN-UP MIEN MOSTLY OUTFIELDERS U PSETTING precedent and stand ing the alleged logic of the situation on its bally head the Southern League club’s of 1913 boast six lead-off men who are inflelders and only two who are outfielders. In the major leagues what is re garded as the normal situation ex ists. Thirteen out of sixteen lead-off men are outfielders. But not so with the Southern. It’s all infielders in the Dixie circuit. Three of the South ern lead-off men are second base- men, two are first basemen. The two exceptions to the rule in tho* Southern are Daley, of the Vois, and Bagby, of Montgomery. Here is the list in the Southern, (hub. Lead-off Man.*. Position Atlanta Agler first base Nashville Daley left field Montgomery ....Bagby.. center flYd New Orleans ...Clancy., second base WHITE AND MURPHY MAY CLASH IN GOTHAM RING CHICAGO, May 1.—Charlie Whit'.-, the local whirlwind, who recently stopped Joe Thomas at New Orleans in eight rounds, will probably meet Harlem Tommy Murphy in a 10- round bout at New York. Bill Gibson, matchmaker of t le Garden Athletic Club, New York, yes terday wired Nate Lewis, manager of White, offering him the match and Lewie- lost no time in accepting. It is likely that the match will be closed to-morrow. Mobile Stock shortstop Memphis .. . .Shanley.. second base Birmingham ..Marean.. second base Chattanooga ...Coyle.... first base The clean-up men of the Southern include three infielders and five out fielders. Here is the list: Atlanta, Bailey; Nashville. Perry; Montgom ery, Elwert; New Orleans, Green; Mobile, Jacobson; Memphis. Schweit zer; Chattanooga, Elberfeld; Birm ingham, McBride. Here is the list of clean-up men in j the big leagues: Pittsburg, Wagner; . Cincinnati, ; Hoblitzell; Chicago, Zimmerman; St | Louis. Konetchy; Brooklyn, Wheat: New York, Doyle; Philadelphia, Lud- erus: Boston. Sweeney. American League. Cleveland, Jackson; Chicago, Collins; Boston, Lewis; Athletics, Baker; Washington, Gundil; New York, Chance or Cree; St. Loui£, Pratt; Detroit, Crawford. VANDY VS. MERCER. MACON, GA.. May 1.—Vanderbilt | and Mercer olaeh here to-day in the | first of a two-game series. The two i teams meet again to-morrow. This 1 is the first time the Vanderbilt team I has been seen here in several seasons. SMITH HANDS KERNAN UNCONDITIONAL RELEASE BIRMINGHAM. ALA., May 1.—With the arrival of Bisland, Jack Kernan. the Chicago youngster, was given his unconditional release by Bill Smith yes terday and sent back to Atlanta. This cuts the Atlanta Club down to fourteen men, Harry Bailey, who is injured, be ing left in Atlanta. WELLS AND CARPENTER SIGN FOR 20-ROUND BOUT PARIS, May 1.—Bombardier Wells, the English heavyweight, and George Carpentier, the French cham pion, yesterday signed articles for a 20-round contest In this city on June 28. The contest takes place m the eve of the Grand Prix races, a 170 is substituted for the A1 Palzer-Jaek Johnson match, which was called off a few weeks ago because Johnson failed to poet a forfeit. WaycrofY at Brunswick. Americus at Cordele. Tbomasvi at Valdosij. 3RIDGE. •fcV Mog- jay was sold to the Min- . WHITE _,*/ SELL CHICAGO, May 1 ridge yes. , . ne"rolls "‘ob of the American Ase dation by the White Sox. President Cc*m'ehc v announced the .sale Just rame time and Mogrtdge w ; U No Hit Games In The Major Leagues bef ive fo lr.< t .3.? jo rture of Mo* ridga NATIONAL LEAGUE. is:*;. July l.V Bradley; St. Louis vs. Hartford. 1880. July 12 * Richmond: Worcester vs. Cleveland. July 17 ‘Ward: Providence vs. Buffalo. Vugust 19 -Corcoran: Chicago vs. Buffalo. August 20 Galvin; Buffalo v*. Worcester. 18.82. September 2* ■■ Corcoran: Chicago vs. Worcester 1883. July 23 itaMhouriic: Providence vs. Cleveland. September 1- Dailey; Cleveland vs. Phila delphia. JSS4. June 27—Corcoran; C. u-ago vs. Providence. August 4—Galvin; Buffalo vs. Detroit. 1885. July 27—Clarkson: Chicago vs. Providence. Augusi 29—Ferguson; Philadelphia vs. Provi- 1891. June 22 Lovett; Brooklyn vs. New York. Juh LI Kusle: New York vs. Brooklyn. 1892. August r. Stlvetts; Boston vs. Brooklyn August 22 Sanders: Louisville vs. Baltimore. Kugusi 1' Jones; Cincinnati vs. Pittsburg. 1893. \ucusi in Hawke; Baltimore vs. Washing on. 1897. Scttember is Young: Cleveland vs. Cincinnati lsfrfb Apr*I 22 Iluglies: Baltimore vs. Boston. April 22 Br< itci f tein; Cincinnati vs. Pittsburg. July S- Donahue; Philadelphia va. Bnstc 1. Xujtu't 21 Thornton: Chicago vs. Brooklyn. 1 <d»9. Mi v .A PhiUlne; Loulsvid - New York. • WiB'.s; Bosnn vs. Wad hut or 1 fil'd. .a. - 12- Hahn; Cincinnati vs. PhBaddihik. - No man reached first base. 1901. July 15—Mat hew ton; New York va. .St. Louis. 1903. September 18 Frazer; Philadelphia vs. Chicago. 1908. May 1—Lush: Philadelphia vs. Brooklyn. July 20—Eason; Brooklyn vs. HI. Louis. May 8 Pfeifer; Boston vs. Chvinnatl. 1907. September 20 Maddox: Pittsburg vs. Brooklyn. 1908. July 4 (A. M.) Wlltsp; New York vs. Phila delphia (lo innings). Septeinlier 5—Itucker: Brooklyn va. Boston. 1912. September C—Teareeu; New York rs. Philadel phia. AMERICAN LEAGUE. 1902. September 20—-Callahan; Cldc ago vs. Detroit. 1904. M. —*Young: Boston v- Philadelphia. August 17—Tannehill: Boston vs. Chicago. i3f:V Ju’y 22 Henh y. Athletics vs. St. Louis. September fi IV Smith; Chicago va. Detroit. Sc; tember 27 Dinctn: Boat on vs. Chicago. June 30 Young; Boston v- Nc> York. Sept rotter 18 Rhoades; Cleveland v Poston. Sept in her 20 F. : mlLi; Chicago vs. Athletic*. October 2- *Joas; CievoU ..d vs. Chh ago. 1910. Aprl 20—-Jos*; Cleveland vs. Chicago. M* . 12 Bender; PhlUu’etj hla vs. Cleveland. 1911. Ji: -0-- Wood; Boston vs. Kl. Isiuis. August *27 Walsh; Chicago vs. Boston. l!*12. July 4 - Malle:’: Detroit vs. St. J.OU1-. August 30—Hamilton; Bt. Louis vs. Detroit. have been playing tough teams—the Pirates being one of tile liest clubs ■in the league—yet ‘Johnny” has crowded his team right up to the top in the standing. It is my opinion that the Cubs are going to lie strong contenders for the National League pennant this season, and, if Wagner fails to come around into form so that he is tit for action, the Chicago club will lie the one for the Giants to beat instead of Pitts burg. This prediction may be rather pre mature. because of the extreme youth of the season, but, from looking at the box scores, it is evident Evers is having better luck with his pitchers than was expected. Cheney lias been whirling along, and has dropped indications he will enjoy a good year. Lavender will not tie a top-uotcher. but be should win a whole lot of games for the club. Evers also seems to have a pretty good man in Humph ries, who set the Pirates down the other day, working against Canmitz, rated as one of the best among the Pittsburg pitchers. * • * O N the other hand, Tinker has failed to spurt as he Intended. On paper, his pitching staff looks to be stronger than Evers’, with two headliners like Kenton and Suggs, but they have failed to get away. Tinker does not nppear to have his team working smoothly, while Evers, who was supposed to encounter consider able irritation, has his club going along very nicely. , The secret of this Chicago success came to me from a player in the Na tional league the other day. All the Cubs honestly believe they can grab the world’s series money this year, and every man on the team is pulling hard and doing bis best. There is also a report that bonuses were plentifully attached to the con tracts on the Chicago club last win ter, because Charles W. Murphy real-, ized he was fighting for bis baseball life in Chicago after encountering all adverse criticism he met when he let Chance go. Bonus clauses are great inspirers. Kresnahnu is helping Evers in handling the twirlers. and It is to his coaching that many attribute the good showing of the pitching staff to date. The infield is naturally strong, with Brldwell plugging up comfortably the hole that it was thought Tinker would leave at short stop. Snier is a little better this season than lie was last. although he was a very good fielding first baseman then. His hitting has im proved. So far, the duties of managing have not hurt Evers’ individual play. He is booming along in grand style at second. Zimmerman is bound to be a hard-hitter, but the chances.are he will not. bat as freely this year as he did lust, because he went through an unusually good season Baseball Catches On In Paris © © O O Q © O Tod Sloan Is Coaching a Team and a lucky one, when his hitting is considered. * * • 'T' HE outfield has developed a 1 world of strength. Mitchell, who acted last year I11 Cincinnati as if he had begun to fade, seems to have improved with the change of atmosphere, as players frequently do, and is pounding the pill up with the best of them. Schulte has already established himself among National League pitchers as a hitter, and Olymer, who is no spring chicken s«> far as age goes, is smashing tin* ball hard. The apparent weak department of the Cub team was the pitching staff, and that has developed unexpected strength. How long these twirlers will continue ill top form is proble matical, of course: but I look on the Cubs as a strong pennant possibility in the National League. If Evers can keep the team going along in pretty good shape, the play ers will stick together and the fans stick by it. if the club cracks wide open and the players will got fighting and bickering among themselves the team will Ik* gone as a champion ship contender. Raseball followers love a winner. | and, in spite of the feeling in Chicago , over the Chance incident, th«\v will , stick as long as Evers keeps winning. 1 And there is no reason why he should ; not make a good showing. (Copyright, P.*13, by tho McClure News- j paper Syndicate.) Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. P ARIS. FRANCE. May 1.—Paris has a half dozne baseball team.9 now playing the American na tional game and a league will be or ganized this summer. The game is spreading like wildfire through France. A couple of Americans, T. E. Roosevelt and W. H. Burgess really started the game, translating simple rules Into French and coaching the boys. Then other Americans volun teered their services as coaches. Tod Sloan, the famous jockey, organized a team at the Maison-Lafitte training stables, the members of his team be ing a mixture of French. English and American stable boys. Valentine Flood, formerly a Princeton Univer sity coach, has staked off a ball ground on the racing club’s grounds at Colombes and is giving his ser vices to teams playing there. The aristocratic Polo Club in the Bols has permitted another hall park to be laid out on the polo field, and it looks as if Paris is to have a “polo grounds" as well as New York. American ar tists are mixing in and the Latin Quarter Is wearing a deserted look these spring days. Cafe proprietor are beginning to be alarmed lest tho sport of sitting on their terraces and drinking queer drinks be forsaken for impromptu baseball parties. First Attempts Are Funny. It is amusing to watch the French boys throw from the outfield and pitch. They can bat astonishing’ v well, but they throw like girla. It requires the center fielder, shortstop, second baseman and pitcher to get :i long drive to center back home. And when a pitcher hits a batter, th3 game stops for a time while apolo gies are made. Then, too, a Frenchman does f*> hate and perfectly loathe to soil h « clothing or even to disarrange j|t._ Also, the average Frenchman, rheniW?^" famous for ills bravery when facing cannon or musketry fire, is—well, ho shrinks from taking a chance on barking his shin, scratching his hand or turning a charley horse, and it can be imagined how ludicrous would be a game of baseball in which thought of these minor matters was put ahead of thoughts of the long enu of a score. Such conditions do not make well for speed, and in several games played about Paris the ball had to be knocked a mile for a man to bMr - even the frenzied throw of the HSar- < isian inflelder or short field^^to the bag. Are Afraid to Sfide. And it is totally impossible to get it into their heads that sliding to bases is an important adjunct of the game. A few days ago when \ Tod Sloan was drilling his team. h***qM»** impressing on the Frenc hmen the im portance of getting to first and of stealing bases. Tod then went to bat, and with a final admonition to his pupils to learn speed in reaching bases by watching him closely he swatted the ball out and made for first. As luck .would have it, the bad was quickly fielded and Tod slid into first Instantly the > r ame broke up. every player abandoning his post, and running to the prostrate former jock ey to pick him up and excitedly asked how he came to fall, and if he was much Injured. GIANTS’ TOUR ROUND WORLDALL ARRANGED BASEBALL Diamond News and Gossip The Memphis papers are telling Presi dent Coleman to get a ball club or close the park. To date he has done neither. * * * Jacksonville recently made 18 hits in one game, eight of them for extra bases, and yet lost. • • * In this famous contest. Melchoir. the Jacksonville first baseman, made six hits for seven bases and scored three runs. • • • Phil Wells succeeded Harry Kunkle as manager at Albany. * * * In answer to the Boston Globe's pertinent question. “Where does a noise go?” wo submit that Buck Weaver, who was a Very Loud Noise a month ago has gone on the blink—which accounts for one at least. * •» * Everybody is tailing over each ■ ther to deny that any money has been raised to finance a St. Louis club in the Federal League. They have a franchise and an option on n park. They are now await ing the organization of a league. * • * Kd Konev lias made one error out of 1X5 chances since the season started. That gives him an average of .993. * * * Koney’s mark is pretty good. But Harry Bussey in 1902 went a whole sea son us first baseman of the Nashville dub with a higher average- and only 1G errors for the season. • * • Jimmy Lavender is still suffering with a hard cold, and can’t seem to g?t right. * ♦ * Cincinnati folks say that next year the box scores Will be reading, “Um pires, O'Day and Tinker.’’ * * * If all ban clubs ar** losing money, as Locke says, why the dickens do they keep sticking at it? * * * Howard Shanks was nearly turned loE.se bv t He Senators in the spring Now l e is hitting like a lunatic. * * * Walter Johnson got through a recent hall game with 88 thrown balls. * * * The American League pitchers face 1 the worst two-gun combinations that I baseball ever saw: Jackson Lajoie, Cobb-Prawf >rd and Collins-Baker * * * If they only played boll Iv '(•» a week ir. the American League (’ark Grlf- j fiih and Waiter Johnson would win every pennant. Scotty Montietli, manager of Dundee, has already started after a return match f«.r his protege. Montieth says Dundee is sure to beat Kilbane if they ever meet again, as the added experi ence his boy gained by fighting the champion a draw is bound to help him in a return contest. • * * In the meantime, Montieth will heat it hack to New York to gather some of the easy dough for ten-round fights. * * * Leo Houck’s first battle under Jack MeOuigan’s management will be against I George “Knockout” Brown or Frank Klaus. Houck is confident he can heat I Engle’s champion or the Greek demon. * * * We have discovered the reason for j Knockout Brown's defeat at the bancs I of Bud Anderson on the coast. It was 1 due to the climate, and it must be, for I Dumb Dan, his manager, says so. * * * Eddie McGoorty and Jimmy Flabby I have completed training for their ten- ; round scrap at Denver to-morrow night. Denver promoters are billing the bout as a championship affair. Row about Frank Klaus and Jack Dilion? * * * Bus Christie, the Milwaukee middle weight, will take on Walter Monahan in a six-round bout at Pittsburg on Mav 8. Christie was to have met George Chip, but Monahan was substituted. The winner of this bout will meet Chip at some later date. * * * Martin Burns and Ted Carpenter will swing the padded mitts, in a scheduled ten-round fray at Burlington, Wis., to night. Both are burly white hopes. * * * Butte, Mont., is after Art Stewart, the tough Hammond, Ind., lightweight, to meet either Ray Temple or Jimmy Duffy. Larney Lichtenstein, manage? of Stewart, expects to close the match any day. * * * Jimmy Grant, Meyer Pries. Kid Young. ; Spider Britt and George Mason are ! simply crying for a chance to get into action. Grant is the Chicago boy. who recently plopped Britt and held Young to a draw He is one of the most promising bantams seen around here in s me time. George Gaeleiies is backing Gran t. * * * ' Several good bouts are billed for to- I r ght; Kid Williams vs. Charley Ledoux, ten rounds, New York: Arthur Pelky vs. Car! Morris, fifteen round*. Calgary, Alberta: Patsy DrouilJard vs Jack | White, fifteen rounds. CalgarV. Alberta Mike Gibbon 1 * vs. i ave Safro. ten rounds, Fau Claire, Wis. Matty McCue, the Racine sensation. is being called a second Terry McGov ern by Chicago fight critics. Ten straight knockouts look pretty good for the Racine *boy. • * • Phil Brock and Milburn Saylor arc down to hard work for their ten-round tussle at Cincinnati Monday. * * * Charlie White is a much sought aftef boxer these days. New York wants White to box Murphy; Milwaukee is after a McCue-White bout, while New Orleans wants Charlie to meet Freddie Welsh. • * * Tom Carey has simply eliminated Ad Wolgast from, a title match. McCarey is now looking forward to a Kltchie- RI vers go July 4. with a chance, of Leach Cross or Tommy Murphy slipping in at the Iasi minute. • * * Nothing lias been heaftl of lately from Packey McFarland. The Chicago boy is probably enjoying the big purses lie received for boxing Jack Britton. Matt Wells and Kddie Murphy. * • * Coast fans are now looking forward to the Mandot-Anderson tilt May 30. This will be Mandot’s last chance to prove whether ho is still there or has gone back. * * * Abe Attell is' still traveling over the country tricking up purses here and there. The former featherweight king won a decision at Baltimore Tuesday- night over a youngster named Cheney. AUSTRALIAN NET STARS LEAVE FOR NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO, May 2: -Horace Rice and A. B. Jones, members of the Australian Davis cup tennis team left for New York yesterday. Whateevr the outcome of the Da vis cup contests in New York. th3 men will go on to England to com pete in the British championship \ tourneys at Wimbledon. They will return home by way of the Suez (Pi nal. In practice play here the Austra lians have won the admiration of lo cal experts by their accurate placing. They have not taken kindly, however, to asphalt courts. By Allen Sangree. N EW YORK, May 1.— The big stuff to-day is as follows: McGraw will play at Athens. No, friend fan. It will not be Ath ens. Go., but Athens. Greece. And thi: Giant-Athens game transpires on Christmas Day, according to the pub licity frland, who is arranging the big round-the-world tour for the Giants and White Sox after this season is over. They're ail fanning about this round-the-world trip that has just been arranged between McGraw and Comipkoy. It is a grand thought. Doc Sargent, of Harvard, gays that baseball will die a sudden death, b; - cause it jabs the soul of us mortal folks, and after a thrilling game no body knows what they are doing. More of this round-the-world trip, anon. . If not, just fancy how the simple Hindoos and Greeks are going to be urpnse Y- s. they will be surprised^ Thcs*- guys were wise to baseball fbfSg before Toto, the champion monkey tosper in the Simian League, made tr* able with One Eye Connolly. Now, while McGraw is busy fix ing'up this orb circuit, let us get down to the facts directly ahead and see what Frank Chance can do this af ternoon by way of erecting a—and you want to pipe this term—chevuux de frlse. WALSH HAS THE GRIPPE; MAY BE OUT UNTIL JUNE CHICAGO, May 1.—Big Ed Walsh prize txvirler of the White Sox, whose condition thus far this season has been far from satisfactory to Mana ger Callahan, is ill of grippe. There is a possibility that the big fellow may be unable to get into the g|me before the first of June. MATHEWS GETS BIG OFFER FROM LYNCHBURG CLUB NEW ORLEANS. May 1—Harry Matthews, former Pelican backstop, sent to the Beaumont Texas League club .several weeks ago by Manager Frank, but turned back because of a hitch in tho optional agreement clause, has a splendid offer from th< Lynchburg Federal League club, anl In all probability will accept. The Lynchburg club offers “Matty" a larger salary than he could draw in any Class A A league in organized baseball. DON’T S CRAT C If you only , Tett#rlm! runs i else fail*, you 1 knew how quickly ami easily V «‘<T.«ma. eten where everything J ’oukln't suffer and wratrh. ,) I Opium, Whiekey «nd Drug Habits treated at Home or at Sanitarium. Book on I m*. Dll E M. WOOI.I KY. U N. Vkttt Saultariuiu. Attain*, Georgia. Tetterine Cures Eczema Hc*d what Mrs., Thomas Thompuou, Clarkes- rllle. t5a.. MV*; . I suffered fifteen *lth tormenting eezama. 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