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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, MAY 8. 191! FEARING PITTS, FACEW.BRDWN Bringing Up Father • •• Copyright. 1918, International New* Hervle*. By George McManus A THENS. GA., May Georgia had its liveliest and most strenuous practice since the season opened yesterday afternoon, and with another one this afternoon everything will be in readiness for tht great series to begin Friday. Old grads and fans' of the Ked and Black arc already beginning to gather in the Classic City ami by Friday morn ing every chapter house and hotel iiere will be crowded with visitors who come to Athens annually to see Georgia and Tech fight for suprem acy. vl ore Georgia men than ever before will be on hand this lime and they cxneet to see their alma mater tri- umpn. To every section of the coun try fins gone ttie news of Georgia’s marvelous victories all season, and if there is one thing that a Georgian or Trchite longs for it is to see their op ponents swept from the field of battle and no game is ever too one-sided to .'be uninteresting. Musters in a Southpaw. Coach Cunningham mustered in a recruit left-hander for batting prac tice yesterday, in anticipation of Pitts. A r eb Brown, one of the great est pitchers Georgia ever had. an swered to the call of the Red and Black coach. But few southpaws have faced Georgia this season, and whether the bunch can keep up its terrific hitting against Pitts is prob lematical, although he was rather easy last year. Brown steamed ’em over like a reg ular yesterday and had the batters guessing, and if the Yellow Jacket port-sider can buffalo his Red and Black opponents as did the former Georgia captain, he will earn many a sheckei for his fellow collegians. Henderson was back at his old stand on first for a part of the work out and still retains his sure batting eye. He broke a couple of bats dur ing the afternoon and was one of the few who could connect safely. •Tiny's” long suit is putting left-hand pitchers to. sleep and unless, his mumps give him the “big head” again he will be scampering around the initial sack when Pitts occupies the mound. Bowden has been leading the team in batting since he broke into the game a couple of weeks ago, and it is worrying Cunningham not a little bit as to where to place him when Hen derson goes to first. It's a cinch, though, that his name will be in the line-up somewhere, and it is more than probable that Henderson will go to third, since there seems to be no hope for Covington to be reinstated. No Umpire Selected Yet. No umpire has been selected for the series yet, though both managers are keeping the wires warm trying to agree. Harris Cope, of Sewanee, was selected, but has declined to serve, and Turner, who has given such per fect satisfaction in past series, is out West. It is preferred that one man to handle the Indicator be agreed on and that the two-player system be not pressed into service, as it has never worked well with Tech and Georgia. BUCK BECKER MAY SIGN WITH LYNCHBURG CLUB LYNCHBURG, VA.. .May 8.—Buck Becker, the Washington lad. who bought his release from Atlanta sev eral days ago, is now considering a proposition from Manager MacKin non. of the Lynchburg Club in the United States League. It is stated that the salary offered him is larger than that which was paid him in Atlanta. It is believed here that Becker will decide to accept the proposition before the season opens May 10. The locals will be captained by Harry Steinfeldt, formerly of the < ’hicago Cubs, who has been round- ng into shape in Cincinnati for the last several weks. He is expected here to-day. Lynchburg is the only Virginia city in the outlaw League. HARRY MATTHEWS EXPECTED IN NEWPORT NEWS TO-DAY NEWPORT NEWS, VA., May 8.— Harry Matthews, formerly catcher of the New Orleans Club, who managed the Rome, Ga. team of the South Atlantic League last season, has been €igned to manage the Newport News Club in the Virginia League and is expected to report here to-day for duty. Matthews will succeed Matthew Broderick under whose management this team lias earned the title of Jbnah, having lost a total of fif teen games out of fifteen played since the season opened three weeks ago. ELBERFELD TO MAKE MORE CHANGES WITH LOOKOUTS CHATTANOOGA, TENN.. May $. —Elberfeld is to make two more Changes with the Lookouts before he settles on his regular line-up for the race. One change will take place in left and the other in the pitching department. Just at present the left garden is being covered by Elberfeld, Harbisor. or Gillespie, just as the notion strikes the first named. The Lookout pilot wants a sterling class A man in left so he can return to short permanent ly, leave' Gillespie regularly at third, and Harbison a regular utility man. Lines are .out in several directions MORGAN AND M’KETRICK TO ANSWER “FAKE” CHARGES PHILADELPHIA. -May 8—Dan Morgan and Dan McKetrick, mana gers of pugilists, are here to-day making an effort to have the ban in lack Britton and Pal Moore, their proteges, lifted. Both fighters are forbidden to reappear in the ring here. They were charged with put ting up a fake fight. M'ALEER SAYS RED SOX NEED STAHL IN LINE-UP BOSTON, May 8.—Jimmy McAleer, owner of the Red Sox. to-daj’ de- ,1ared that the chances of his team winning the pennant were quite im pose: »ie with Jake Stahl out of the hm - up. It will be two or three wee.ts before Stahl's foot will permit his return to the game. White City Park Now Open THli Do< A VFR\ j PINE LON<i INLAND I M °LiD • HE'S | fond of mv i H ^BAND- FOLLOWS I H " v ' Evsr-f whfre BY the wax - W HFRE IV youH hus3ane> Tons'*' VrtlT - He'S PHOOAOot Qy-T colf- ToooL.es, - cons hert OOC*> he 6VEFI take the Doq W>TH him *> w — By Mike Donahue. A UBURN, May 8.—With the playing of the Clemson series this week Auburn will wind up its baseball schedule for the year. A victory over Clemson would wind up a very satisfactory season. So far twelve S. I. A. A. games have been played and of these nine have been won and three lost. What makes Auburn’s record ap pear still better is the fact that nine of these games were played off the campus and seven won. These games included series against such strong team* as Mercer, Florida and Geor gia. The Georgians have had a de cided advantage over the other S. 1. A. A. teams on the small number of S. 1. A. A. games that they have piay- ed away from home. They have played only three, splitting even with Clemson and beating Tennessee. With Davis again rounding into shape the outlook for a victory over Clemson is rather favorable. Davis is a hard pitcher to beat and in spite of his crippled condition has lost but one game and has been so far the only pitcher to defeat the Georgia team in Athens. The heavy hitters on the team are Harris, Williams and Loche, all of whom are batting in the neighbor hood of .350. The timeliest batters are Moulton and Davenport. In fact the most remarkable feature of the team’s work has been its ability to send runners around once they got on the bases. And if no one got on then someone would come up and line out a home-run. It is the best scor ing team that Auburn bas had in some time. The pitching department has been somewhat uncertain. Davis was not in shape to go a double-header against Georgia at that time of the year and in such cold weather. Davis is an outfielder that is being devel oped into a pitcher and is very short on experience. Loche is in somewhat the same condition and has been bothered by lack of control. It will be Davis against Ezell Thursday. Two other series have been played and won and in one of them, Marion Institute, Auburn played a team that would compare favorably with any of the S. I. A. A. teams. RED SOX AND NAPS CLASH IN FREE-FOR-ALL FIGHT CLEVELAND, OHIO, May 8.—Hi- feeling that cropped out between the Red sox and Naps during the play here ended in a free-for-all fight un der the grandstand after yesterday’s contest was over. While no one was seriously hurt, there was quite a little blood spilled, and Tris Speaker was spiked three times during a rough- and-tumble mix-up. An attempt was made to hush the matter and none of the players would talk about it to-day, but the facts leaked out. The trouble began when Carrigaa blocked Graney off the plate and knocked him almost unconscious early in the game. This angered the Naps, who no longer are the meek and lowly players of yore, and they played like fiends after that. Frank Chance arises to vouchsafe that Walter Johnson is the fastest pitcher in baseball. Mr. Chance evidently has never seen R. Waddell at 3:45 a. m. HOUCK WALLOPS BROWN IN TEN-ROUND FIGHT NEW YORK, May 8.—Lyo Houck, of Lancaster, Pa., gave Georg. Knockout Brown, of Chicago, h wal loping for ten rounds at the St. Nich olas Athletic Club last nigjit. Houck weighed 162 pounds and Brown two pounds less. Brown’s rough tactics did not meet with the approvaj of the crowd. Houck was the cleaner punch er. YANKEES RELEASE CATCHER. NEW YORK, May 8.—The New York American League Hub an nounced to-day ‘hat Catcher Rob ert Williams has been released to the Rochester club of the International Leagu . TOODLES- CONE HERE! GRACIOUS- YOU Bette* <; et H1M BfFt»*E some bum ''HAT CHEAP saloon steals _ HIM’ ^"Vrrsr I T* \ & hello ma<;<,ie-did Aou SEND the AFTE* me: <r r~ WHAT! 7/ ft, ''•'/////. TTT~i inrnxww — "HtHttWVNV* Sporting Food —By GEORGE E. PHAIR TICKER DAY The dan is dark At the baseball park And the office is cold and plum. IIV stand and gape 11 the roll of tape As tee wait for the news to come. li e read the dope And we wait and hope As the tidings come rolling in. And our pulses bum As we stand and yearn That the Crackers will up and win. CHRISTY MATflM’S BIG LL LEAGUE GOSSIP has The report that Bat Nelson will ter minate his ring career on Labor Day is news to those who thought he had ter minated same when he entered into a conflict with one A. Wolgast. Messrs Nelson, and Waddell have de cided to quit their respective profes sions, but Tom Jones never wll quit his until some one wishes a Maxim silencer on him. It .Is proposed to Investigate the charge that convict labor was used dur ing the Cub sojourn in Tampa. Having seen said convicts in action, we are will ing to swear that they never were guilty of labor. N EW YORK, May K—The National League race at present is in ;i turbulent state. Tb Giants and Pirates, who were rated to l>e the two contenders liefore the season opened, are not doing very much contending just now. Two teams to which little attention was paid at the beginning of the race are making the pace, and will cause a lot of trouble before the pennant is won. These two are Chicago and Philadelphia, but I look to see them both crack. The (bibs lack the pitching staff, and the Phillies have the pitching staff, but not the latent strength. Philadelphia, to my mind, a better chance of holding up than Chicago. The Quakers look more formidable this year than they have for several seasons. Three star pitchers keep them stringing along In the race for most of the distance. The infield iH good, but not a brilliant The outfield has one great hitter. Sherwood Magee, and the other two men are just fair. But Alexander, We note by the public prints that Johnny Kling is off to join the Reds. A mail must be off. to join the Reds. We have it from Ban Johnson that the American League will not tolerate disorderly conduct. This is a laudable ambition, but will it hold good on fes tive occasions when American League magnates hold meetings? I P. S. S.—We have picked the Phillies ! to win, not by exercising our marvelous J b'rain, but by depositing two (2) dol- i lars and picking a name out of a hat. If said Phillies do not win it is not our fault. Jim Corbett thinks well of both Gun boat Smith and Jess Willard. Hence the one best bet Is that both will lose. Possibly Ty Cobb’s batting slump is due to the fact that he has not ceased laughing at the National Commission. THEM WERE THE GOOD OLD DAYS I remember, / remember, The place where over, l sat. / paid two bits and 1 could see What I was looking at. A quarter then could get a seat Where you could see them play. Two bits to-day will buy a seat ..About a mile away. THIS IS NOT TRUE. A fan enjoyed a baseball game Until a peddler's husky frame Hove into view and queered the same. The rooter said',8 ''Tray step aside!" "Oh. very well" the youth replied. The rooter laid him down and died. Aside from a chess tournament, It would be hard to find a more strenuous exhibition of athletics than a conflict be tween Messrs. McGoorty and Clabby. McGorty and Clabby fought with such abandoned ferocity that they threatened at times to muss each other's hair. Still, one is forced to admit that as a manager. Joe Tinker is a great little shortstop. There are various redeeming features about a wrestling match, one of which is that there is no law compelling a citizen to watch one. When the National Commission speaks of ethics, one takes it for granted that none of its members has a split lip. A glance at the standing of the teams | leads a person to wonder what has be- j come of the horseshoe that Jake Stahl I carried last season. Baseball may be a losing proposition, i but it would be hard to find a more deso- i late spot than a home for indigent base- ! ball magnates. IN CINCINNATI | "l'is false,” he said.. "II ran no I be. j M< thinks that thou art kidding me. Or i lxc thou hast a bun. I Hut it would make me blithe and gay I Aik/ / would stag the livelong day i Could I bclirpe you when you say , ./or Tinker's leant has won.” 1 Twenty-seven daredevil, death defy- , ;:K dernot s will start In the SOO-mile rt v, at Inhittnupf Us. Hut. not beinit I a • * itr. decline lo become en thusiastic. Seaton and Chalmers are fine pitch ers. There should be some changes In the present standing beginning this week, and the teams will straighten out Into something like the order I hat will mark the finish within a month. When the Western clubs battle with the Easerners that is always a test. Now that the dis astrous series with Philadelphia lb off the Giants' schedule, I hope the Quakers will maintain the form dis played by them against us until they meet the Cubs and Pirates. The East and West are better balanced lor strength this season than has been the case for years. If anything, the East has a slight edge in the National. It has a distinct one in the American League. A few years ago it was all the other way, * * * T HE two best National League teams in the West are the Pittsburg and Chicago clubs, as usual, even though the Pirates have been performing badly so far. St. Louis has jumped away to a good start, but it is my notion the team is going to encounter a hope-crusher when it digs into the East. Cin clnnati Is still a very' uncertain ball club, with “Joe” Tinker doing his best to put an edge on his team. Whether he will accomplish this or not is beyond me. The Reds have improved slightly the past week, winning a couple more games and being crowded by Boston for last place. Pittsburg has the natural robustness, and is bound to come through later in the season. Whether the club will brace on this impend ing Eastern trip or not is doubtful. The team did much better on the road last season for the most part than at home. Ciarke has an ex cellent pitching staff, which hus so far failed to get going. AH the Eastern teams in ihe Na tional League are stronger this year than last, judging from the showing to date. Philadelphia, as i have said, is an improved hall club. None knows it better than the Giants. Brooklyn has mounted to the first division, and will give the Western ers a good battle. Boston is about, the same, perhaps a trifle better. The Giants are not. going at a normal stride yet, the club being particular ly weak with the stick. The pitch ing staff is also faltering, Tesreau not finding the weather warm enough and "Rube” Marquard just recovering from an attack of tonsl- litis. * * * T HE Western clubs will be crowd ed down by their visits to the East, according to my notions. I expect to see the Cubs tumbled out of their high place, because they are going to run into better pitch ing than they have faced so far in the West, and the Chicago twirlers have not the finish to hold opposing teams to small scores that will be necessary to beat, the good twirling they will meet. In Philadelphia, par ticularly, this will be true. Right now Dooin is getting the best pitch ing in the league. The Giants' pitch ing staff should also be in better form when the Westerners arrive. Marquard is rounding, too, and his return to hts regular place in the pitching schedule is going to help things Pittsburg should profit by the trip. All that the club needs is work and polishing. Cincinnati and St. Louis will be victims of the East. I can not see the possibility in the Cardl- PREP LEAGUE NOTES Peacock students are holding a ten nis tournament at East I-ake this week. One match is still to be played. In the singles on Tuesday Roff Simms defeated Louis Sams in a very close match by the score of 6-4. 2-6, 9-7. His opponent in the finals wfil be the winner of a match between Beall and Black. • * * • In the doubles Sims and Black won a place in the finals by defeating Hun- nieutt and Knox. 6-1, 6-2. The pair who will meet these two are Hopkins and Orme. The tournament will be finished on Thursday. * * * It looks as if G. M. A has given up all hope of doing anything in the Prep League this year. On Tuesday they forfeited a game to Tech High, rather than go to the trouble of play ing it. * * * Following is the standing of the teams in the local Prep League: Boys High 4 0 1.000 Marist 3 1 .750 Tech High 4 2 .667 Peacock 1 4 .200 G. M. A 1 5 767 * * * Members of the Boys High track team officially announced Wednesday that they would not enter the Prep meet Friday. This decision robs the meet of much interest as Boys High was regarded as a probable winner. * * « Here is the list of the events which will be run In the meet at Marist Fri day : ‘00-yard dash: 200-yard low hurdles ‘ -card dash; 880-yard run; mile run; running broad Jump; running high Jump; pole vault; shot put (1- pound); hammer throw (12-pound). • * • Riverside is leading the other schools entered in the S. I. A. A. by a larg* majority. Following Is the present standing of these teams: Riverside 7 0 .1000 Stone Mountain 2 l 667 G. M. C 1 4 200 Gordon 1 6 .143 * * • Charlie Allen, of Marist, looks best In the hundred-yard dash Friday in the track meet at Marist. Jim Parks, of Tech High, should give him a good ar gument. nals. They are early-season spurt - era. but, as the race wears along, they will drop back like the Reds did last year. • ♦ * T HE Giants must profit by the Western Invasion. The jump we were to acquire in the first weeks of (lie race has not developed, but this is expiaine'i by the fact that the club has met better baseball fn the East than was being played In this section last season. Every East ern club is stronger, I believe, in cluding even Boston. The New York team is just 11s healthy tills year as it was last, if not slightly Improved, but the great thin? the Giants will be forced to overcome Is too much self-assurance. Tills quality is al ways dangerous in a ball club, and the fact the team has won the pen nant for the past two years makes the men feel overly confident. The addition of the new blood in the club should help to eliminate this. Burns and Shafer were substitutes last year. They have improved enough to push a couple of regulars out of their jobs this summer. They are both great ball players, and very fast and ambitious. Demaree has been added to the pitching staff. It Is therefore evident the club is stronger than It was last season, be cause none of the veterans hav- gone back. But still I think the whole fight will be harder, because several other teams have been bolstered up, notably Philadelphia and Chicago. If Evers had a couple of airtight pitchers, he would have a great chance for the championship. The Invasion of the Westerners will answer some questions that are still hanging in the air. One of these, and the most important, is: "Can the Cubs hold up?" 1 do not believe that, they can, hut if Evers rolls through his Eastern campaign and is in first, place, they are going to be dangerous boys. (Copyright, 1913, by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) You Can Make Pure Lager Papers of To-Day Spend Fortunes to Get Baseball News Alt authorities to the contrary, notwithstanding, baseball is a bur den to the newspapers according to the magazine Outlook. To-day every press association of importance is carrying over its leased wires full box scores of every game in the National and American leagues. And that’s not the end. In addition to the major league box scores there are the minor league end college games to be reoorted and handled. Thus, on a wire running from New York City to Albany, for instance, there are sent every playing night dur ing the season eight major league box scores, four boxes of the New York State League and the results of the International League and the American Association. South ern Circuits must carry Southern League box scores and those of the middle West [has the American Association and the ma jor league box scores; and so on. And baseball is “must” news, too. It must go promptly and go ahpad of everything except mar kets. Of course, in case of a na tional disaster it would be super seded, but it is sidetracked only for news happenings of world wide interest. S POl !° ZBYSZKO WINS MAT GO; THROWS TWO IN ONE HOUR MONTREAL, May 8.—Stantlaus Zbysako, champion wrestler of Poland, fulfilled conditions imposed upon him last night by throwing two oppon«-n:s within an hour. The Pole threw Vin cent in 24 minutes with a toe hold and Ca»eau In 26 minutes with .a body hold. POKANE, WASH.. May 8—“Be fore we leave Spokane this week I am confident I shall be able to announc e definitely Willie Ritchie’s July Fourth engagement,” said Billy Nolan, manager of the lightweight champion, shortly after his arrival in Spokane. “Promoters in New York and (Cal ifornia have been keeping tile wires pretty hot since vve left Denver, and we are really very near to an agree ment. There Is only one man In New York that I consider a good match for Ritchie. That i« Leach Cross. Britton is not to be consid ered, for he has been beaten by other fighters and particularly by Ritchie himself when the latter first broke into the professional game. “Cross is the biggest New York card and really the only one back there that deserves a chance. Mc Farland simply won’t make weight, and it Is unnecessary to go into the many reasons why we will simply take the stand on the weight ques tion that all other champions ahead of us have taken. “California fans want to see Ritchie in action against Rivers, and I ain of the opinion this la our best proposition, but that also hangs fire. Rivers is undoubtedly our greatest drawing card in California.” Bill Bedell, of Tech High, is a sure point winner and it will not surprise anyone if Bill coos the prize for high est uumber of points made by one man He looks good for a first In the hurdles and in the quarter. * * * Marist has developed a new sprinter. His name is Lewis and in practice he has been showing his heels to all the other sprinters. I/ewls may prove a dark horse in the hundred-yard dash Friday. TRUSSES Abdominal Supports, Elastic Hosiery,, •tc. Expert fitters; both lady and mao; attendants; private fitting rooms Jacobs’ Main Store 6-8 Marietta St. White City P&rk Now Open In Your Own Home—with Johann Hofmeister Genuine Lager Beer Extract You ran now brew your own l».*ei ever fasten -easily, cheaply, rljtlit In your own home. With Johann Ilofmelster Beer Kmart any one ran make the same high quality lager beer that liRft been made In Germany for ages in the Httir.e honest, old-fashioned wav. 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