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( MA V iu, i3io. inrj AJ LAIMa uEiimuiAi'i uuuno, ruiun i iv& SILK HAT HARRY’S DIVORCE SUIT What Happened lo Rummy? Copyright, 1012. Inft n ational News gerrlee. By Tad By Percy H. Whiting B ERMUDA may be a lot better place to train than Atlanta. Ar thur Irwin, whose specialty Ip being wrong on everything, says it is. He pointed to the fact with pride when he returned from the beautiful isle. “■Look at the Yanks this year," said Arthur. They looked good enough then, y But,now—well, they’re just about tie same old Yanks—neither better' r.t>r worse than those who trained ini Atlanta the previous year. \ The fact Is the Yanks are the Yank?'. You could train them at Nome or at Palm Reach, you could feed them ou humming bird tongues or prunes. It would never change ’em. * • • ‘PUL truth is. though, that the old t Alibi army is beginning to light on Bermuda hard. Caldwell. Ford *»nd McConnell all claim that the work in the heavy, moist air of Ber muda put their wings utterly on the blink. They say they felt all right while they were there but that they haven’t felt right since. It's two to one that if It were left to a vote of the Yank players who were in Atlanta in 1912 and in Ber muda this spring as to whether they would prefer Bermuda or Atlanta for 1914 the Gate City would get a solid vote. At that Atlanta does not want them back—or any big league ball club. The system of allowing the Crackers all the park and air the lime for their training worked out fine. Never in history have the Crackers made such a start ns they got this year. It was no fault of the training that they .afterwards hit a sickening slump. What did cause it we don’t pretend to ray. We arc quite sure, however, w< shall be glad when it’s all over. • * * CREAKING of training camp alibis Josh Devore worked a new one this ALECfcTWMJC>ER , .!! v ) f&6.E PAf'J’OlE l 1ME ' 1 um*TU. I DO? I (Jo OVT OF TV+E £*■<> vWIWPOW \\ sal GEE IF ' t-AMO, ( 0(JMVPfc£T I uKEAcAT r ''•jy*'" \ CM -/ HWWl- d. iA ^ ' N i he iTX -) V THE6 H< FA \Snm rn Htaup ’ r M m m-.i. m yjTVA DVOP H'M* I M THAT CPflVTV LOT TH'O - TJ t laTTEtJ P TP 1 Ht T 9 - \Wv yfW Knox- up fly spring. The Giants were at ville and Josh was messing balls in terrible shape. Finally osh name in and said. "It's an awful high sky to-day. I guess that's the reason I'm miesing 'em." The other players started an argu ment. alleging that the sky wasn't "high” at all. "Why, sure it Is," retorted Josh, sweeping his arm around to include the landscape, "it has to be high or they couldn’t get these mountains under it." '| f HE fact that there are different sorta of "s'kies” is lost on most fans. But you never see a ball player go on the field without glancing cas ually upward to get a line on the sky. Some days there Is a "high skv. ' The lid looks a million miles off and a high-hit bull goes soaring up until it looks like a mere fly speck on the scenery. .On other days the ball goes sky- . hooting to the same altitude perhaps 'but comes soaring down looking the size of a toy balloon. A high sky. for some reason, makes catching difficult. If you doubt it. sneak to the out field some day and watch some high flies alight. Especially go to the sunfleld and Judge the difficulties of playing lhat position. Go on several different days and get the effect of the high and low skies. After that you will be more lenient in Judging an outfielder who drops a fly ball. • * • WHILE Horace Fogel is in the "ex- - * posin" business strictly for the publicity he can get out of It, which is considerable, it is a fact that an investigation would do no harm. Ball players aren't “slaves" by a whole lot. At the same time they are victims of certain sorts of abuses. They are in about the same fix as the average man who works for some body . ho has a lot more money than he has. They have to siand for a lot of things that aren't altogether fair Unless there is some sort of an investigation the time will surely- come when the ball player*’ fraternity will be force to take a hand in things and there may come a big baseball strike. It \vi take something of that sort to wake up the magnates. JOCKEY BENSCHOTTEN DEA~dT BALTIMORE. May 16— JoCkey Jams :< Benschotten, injured during the running of the Linstead steeple chase at Pimlico Yesterday, died early to-d.ty. Eensohotten, who was rid ing Bit ("leges, was thrown at the tenth jump. As he attempted to rise he wa- struck on the head by the hoofs of another horse. j & By Left Hook IM FLYNN, who i3 going to trad- j wallops with Jim Savage at the Auditorium-Armory on June 9. has sent a challenge to be read at the ringside of the Smith-Willard battle on the Pacific Coast next Tues day night. In the deft Fiynn offers to meet the winner and wager any where from $1,000 up to $10,000 that he can beat him. We learned this in a telegram from Jack Curley. Flynn's manager. Said telegram reads as follows: “Now York, May 15, 1913. “Sporting Editor, The Georgian. At lanta, Ga.: “Have sent a challenge to be read when Smith and Willard climb into the ring next Tuesday. Flynn is willing to meet the winner and bet anywhere from $1,000 to $10,000 on the side. JACK CURLEY.” * • * M ATTY BALDWIN wants to come to Atlanta to display his wares. His manager. John Igoe, writes* that he would like nothing better than to match Matthew’ with Leach Cross in this city. Cross and Baldwin would make a corking card. Cross shows at his best against a slugger, and “SLUG GER" is Baldwin’s middle name. Against a clever, two-handed boxer Crofs looks like a rank lemon, es pecially over a 10-round route. • * * VTATE LEWIS, of Chicago, who Is handling the reins over Charley White, can’t be a big league manager, or else he would have never signed his man up to meet Joe Thomas again. White stopped Thomas a few weeks ago In New Orleans. Lewis ought to be satisfied with that victory. Thomas Is a mighty shifty boxer and he w’ould have undoubtedly beat en White had not Charley nicked him on the paw. Next time Thomas will guard better, and according to my way of thinking Thomas* can outpoint and defeat any lightweight in the world unless his opponent Is lucky enough to land one good wallop. But Thomas verily has a glass Jaw and on this account must be counted out of the running for the 133-pound title. • • • A BOSTON paper quotes Battling Nelson as saying that the Audi torium-Armory here is the greatest place he ever saw for holding a box ing contest. “Mechanics Pavilion, In Frisco, was a bush league affair compared to the Armory in Atlanta,’’ says Bat. “And it is far ahead of Madison Square Garden in New York, too.’’ * * • I/'ID YOUNG, the local lad who has 1V been touted as a comer, will never be able to dispute Johnny Coulon’s right to the feather title The kid looks like a young heavyweight these day?. I doubt if he can get below 126 pounds now. If Young can build himself up Iq t'ne lightweight limit and learn some thing about boxing he would prove a mighty good card. Any lad who can nit like this* youngster Is sure to cut a big swath In the ring game. ALABAMA AGAIN DOWNS SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS TUSCALOOSA, ALA., May 16.—In the fastes" game of the season Ala bama again defeated Southwestern Texas. The feature of the game was the pitching of H. Vandegraaf for Alabama, who gave up but one hit. He also fanned thirteen Southwestern plays Texas next week for the championship of Texas. White City Park Now Open TRUSSES | John Ruskinl Abdominal Supports, Elastic Hosiery, stc. Expert fitters; both lady and men attendants, private fitting rooms. Jacobs’ Main Store 6-8 Marietta St. Two Si 3 es After dinner - Recess H jjj \A Cr&ar for ALL MEN| the victor" DRi WOOLLEY’S SANITARIUM Opium and Whisky end dru, all Inebriety and addictions scienti fically treated. Our 30 • Sporting Food ' By GEORGE E. PHAIR ' THE DOPE THAT FAILED. Where is the dope of winter daps That baseball writers writf Then spread their stuff before our pair And pot away with it. Thill placed tin Giants at the top. Likewise the Hose of Ked. They swore these teams were sure to cop— “It is a cinch,” they said. The and the Cleveland Brooklyn el u bs— They looked at them askance. Quoth they: "These teams arc naught but dsibs: They haven’t pot a chance!” Where is the dope of yesterday That baseball writers writf And yet these dopstrrs draw their pay And yet away with it. John fcvers has been suspended for several reasons, one of which is tnat the Giants need a few games. It is against the law to hold one's nose in the presence of A1 Orth, but even the eloquence of Tom Lynch fails to convince us that A1 is a sweet mag nolia. The case of Mr. Schaller reminds us that the best recommendation a ball player can get is to be fired by Hugh Jennings. Mr. Jennings is now in realize the feelings of a down an elevator shaft. a position to man falling Once in a while there passes a day on which some rude person does not render One Round Hogan hors du com bat. Philadelphia is one of the few cities in which a man ran win. lose and fight a draw at one and the same time. Messrs. Olson and Nunamaker have been found guilty of fighting, but it would be impossible to convict Willie Rlfchle on that charge. SADNESS. Of all Had words of longue or gen The saddest arc: “It rains again!" If Ritchie and Rivers meet in deadly combat on July 4. we fear that Mr. Ritchie will not enjoy a safe and sane Fourth. Some men will endure any hardship to see a good ball game. In fact, there ar$ New York fan6 who even go to Brooklyn. George Knockemout Brown complains that he got only $100 for fighting in New ork, but there are those who be lieve that he got approximately $99.70 too much. Speaking of cruel and inhuman pun ishment. a court in St. Louis has am putated a baseball magnate from $5,000 without the aid of an anesthetic. Fifteen hundred athletes took part in a Marathon race In New York. And yet they keep Harry Thaw In Matteawan. Ad Wolga^t’s recent operation may have affected his fighting, but reports from the coast indicate that it failed to remove his voice. Still, it will not be necessary to call out i he police to handle the crowd when the Federal League opens fn our fair city. Managing a team in Cleveland appears to be Just one Jinx after another The young man who broke the fifty- mile running record Is not in danger of establishing any records for horse sense. AS C. MIGHT MATHEWSON WRITE. Long years they shook their heads And told me I was fading. My youth had fled, my arm was dead, My work teas retrograding. And yet I work irhile others fade, The speed hoys and the clever. For men may come and nu n may go, But 1 go on forever. DEVOGHT REFUSES TO REPORT TO CRACKERS years’ experience showt | these diseases are curable. Patients also treated at their homes Consultation confidential. A book on the sub ject free. DR. B B WOOLLEY & »ON^ No. %-A Vtm* lor Sanitarium. Atlanta. Gc> MEMPHIS TENN., May 16.—Mana ger Smith announced before pulling stakes that Catcher Devoght, recent ly purchased from Boston, would not come South and that the deal has been called ofT. He states that Pitcher Dent is expected on every train. Graham was put out.of the game by Umpire Kerin for disputing a called ball on Love in the ninth inning. Gra ham kicked so strenuously that the umpires plastered a $5 fine on him. HARVEY TRIMS LIBBEY. NEW YORK. May 16—Johnny Harvey, of -New York, administered such a terrible beating to young I Libbev. of New York last night that the referee stopped the bout in CHRISTY MATHtWSON'S BIG LEAGUE GOSSIP N' >KVV YOKK, May 1<>. Yesterday I wrote a long story on what Joe Tinker, manager of the Cincinnati Reds, had to say about different National League teams. 1 think that some remarks on my own hook might fit in here. The Chicago Cubs are playing wonderful ball. They look better to me. now that I have seen them, than I thought they would, and Fivers hus them all working for him and traveling at a rapid clip. I Isdieve that they have a eljance for the pennant, with the Giants going badly, ns they are at present, and the Pirates away down in the raee. Cheney is the best pitcher Evers' has working for him now, but the great danger he faces is that he will over work Cheney. Tvitli a strong pitching staff, as I have said frequently l>efore, Evers would have the best chance of any manager in the league for the championship right this minute. I honestly lielieve. Toney, Richie and Laven der may come around strong enough to help Cheney take cure of the pitching. The great catcher* of the Cubs, Bresnahan and Archer, will benefit Immensely by their handling. Briilwell is another player who sur prised me. He looked as good In this scries as he did when he was with the Giants at his best. Fie is cover ing lots of ground, and banging the ball very hard. The whole Chicago team is hitting well. Evers has an excellent club there, and, in spite of all the remarks about the disruption of the old Cub machine, this one looks like a very good substitute. P hiladelphia, looked foolishly the team that easy liefore the season aliened because of the facility with which it was trimmed in the ante-season series by both the Wash ington club and the Athletics, is mak- ing the pace in the National League yet. The showing of the Phillies is largely due to the wonderful pitching GOLFERS MEET SATURDAY FOR A. L. DUNN TROPHY The golfers of the Atlanta Athletic Club will qualify Saturday on the East Lake course for play for the A. L. Dunn trophy. The players will qualify according to their gross scores. Match play in the first flight will be from scratch, handicaps applying In all the others. As many flights as fill will be played. A handsome booklet Is being print ed, liming the golf tournaments for the season, and will be issued by the golf committee of the club in a few 'lays. M’CUE STOPS O’CONNELL IN NINETY SECONDS RACINE. VV1S.. May 16.—Matty MoCue, of this city, stopped Jeff O'Connell, of Chicago, in 90 second* last night with the mo*t vicious punch a featherweight ever carried in a five-ounce mitt. O’Connell dug h!» nose into the canvas five times in that time, propelled by the terrific powef of Matty’s right. NAPS SECURE TWIHLER CLEVELAND, OHIO. May 16—L. E. Hinton, the Cntveraity of Arkan sas southpaw, will come here Mon day for a tryout with the Naps. H*'» a six-footer and ha* pitched two no hit games this season. which they have received so far. It is the best twirling that has been shown in tin league, and this pitching pul the Giants Into a losing habit that appears to lie hard to shake off. If the Philadelphia pitchers blow, the whole club will go. because the observant one has probably noticed that most of the games have been Won. by small scores, with Phila delphia shutting out the other club or permitting only one or two runs, ll is a good fielding team, but the hitting is light. Magee is the host on the club, and none of the rest sticks out as a won der with the bat. • • * P HILADELPHIA will lie a conten der for the pennant, but 1 do not think the club has a good chance to win it. The pitchers on the other teams are going to improve within the next month. Not another staff besides that of the Quakers is in shape now. The Philadelphia pitch ers are at the top of their form at present, and are likely to slow off. When the other pitchers round to. and the Quaker twirlers start to fade, the Phillies are liable to do a little sink ing through thp percentage. * * * O NE cheerful as|>eet of the race at this writing is that no club has achieved any big jump on the field, and a little sustained winning streak will soon put any team up in the run ning again. -The Giants must get said winning streak I .-lore they start away on the arduous Western trip into the enemies' country. (Copyright. 1913. by the McClure News- paper Syndicate.) Prep League News and Notes. The victory of Boys High over Tech Ugh gives them a clean slate for the -cason with 6 won and no defeats. * * • Following is the standing of the teams n the local Prep League: Boys High 6 0 1 000 Marist 3 2 .600 Tech High 4 3 .571 Peacock 2 4 .«50 G. M. A. 1 6 .125 * * * It will be a difficult task to pick the pitchers on the all-Prep team this year. Fox appears to lead the field, but if n attempt is made to name any others Callahan, of Maris, and Weston, of Tech High, will cause many of the experts i - great deal of trouble. • * * Gordon College has secured a good mnn in Irvin Van Tassell to act as ath- etic coach for the coming year. Van Tassell is an old Ohio Wesleyan football •id baseball star and wa? with the York club of the Tri-State League for one season. He graduated from Michi an in 1910. * * • A three-game series to decide the local Grammar School championship will be played next week betw’een Form wait ;hool and Edgewood school. Formwalt the winner of the South Side Pub- 'c School championship, while Edge- wood holds the same position on the sorth Side. • • » The Locust Grove Institute team de- •VatPd the University of Goergia scrubs Wednesday afternoon 6 to 1. The#game was a good one. No errors wi re made ••nd neither sjde scored until the sev enth inning. Tombs, of Locust Grove, .lowed only three hits. * * • The last game of the local Prep base- v.:i) season will be played on May 27 between Peacock and Marist. Marist ind Tech High will battle for second lace next Wednesday. Boys High will lay Peacock Tuesday afternoon. * * * he tennis tournament between BoVs High and Peacock will probably be nlayed next week on the courts at East Lake. This tournament should be in teresting as both schools are well rep resented in this branch of sport. * * * The track season this year was not as oiecessful among local Prep teams as hat of last year. This year only one npW' record was hung up. Roberts, of Marist. made that in the pol*> vault. His nil of 9 feet 6 inches in the annual meet May 9, should stand for some time. * * * The West Point High School team is one of the strongest turned out at that ool in years. The season is nearly over and the nine has been defeated but twice. • * • Gene Turner, official Prep league um pire. has given entire satisfaction this J BASEBALL SUMMARIES , Games Friday. Games Thursday. Atlanta at New Orleans. Birmingham at Mobile. Chattanooga at Memphis. Nashville at Montgomery. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc. W. L. Mobile 26 9 .743 Mont. 15 17 M’phis 17 15 .531 Chatt. 14 18 N’ville 17 15 .531 B’ham 11 18 Atlanta 17 16 .515 N. Or. 11 20 Thursday’s Results. New Orleans 6. Chattanooga 0. Montgomery 4, Birmingham 1. Nashville 8. Mobile 2 Atlanta 6. Memphis 2. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Games Friday. New York at Chicago. Boston at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Cleveland. Washington at Detroit. Pc. .438 .378 .355 Standing W. L. Pc. 739 Phil A. 1 C'land 18 9 .667 W’gton 15 8 .652 Ch’go 17 12 .586 of the Clubs. W L. Boston 11 16 St. L. 12 18 Detroit 9 19 N. 18 Pc. .407 .400 .321 280 Thursday’s Results. Chicago 3, New York 2. Boston 15, St. Louis 4. Cleveland 2, Philadelphia 0. Washington-Detroit, rain. NATIONAL LEAGUE. Games Friday. Cincinnati at Boston St Louis at Brooklyn. Pittsburg at New York Chicago at Philadelphia. Phila B’klyn N. Y. St. L. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc. 15 7 .682 17 9 13 12 14 13 .654 .520 .619 W. L. Ch go 16 14 P’burg 13 16 Boston 10 14 C’nati 8 19 SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE. Games Friday. Macon at Charleston. Albany at Columbus. Jacksonville at Savannah. Standing of the Clubs. W L. Pc. Rav'h J’ville CT'bus 18 6 15 9 11 13 750 .625 .458 Macon Oh’ston Albany Thursday’s Results. Macon 6. Charleston 0. Albany 4. Columbus 0. Jacksonville 2, Savannah 1. GEORGIA-ALABAMA LEAGUE. Games Friday. Newnan at Talladega l^aGrange at Gadsden. Anniston at Opelika. Standing of the Clubs. W. L. Pc. I W Gadsden 7 3 .700 I Ann'ton 5 T’dega 6 4 .600 O’lika 4 Newnan 5 5 .500 I LaG’ge 3 L. Pc. 5 .500 6 .400 7 300 sday's I^aGrange 7. Gadsden 3. Anniston 4. Opelika 2 Talladega 15. Newnan 1. COLLEGE GAMES FRIDAY. Georgia v». Tech, at Atlanta. Mercer *'8. Florida, at Macon. Gordon vs. Stone Mountain, at Barnes- ville. Sewanee vs. S. P. U., at Rewanoe Vanderbilt vs. Mississippi A. and M.. at Nashville. Tennessee vs. Kentucky State. at Knoxville Appalachian League. Bristol 3. Middlesboro 2 HO innings). Johnson City 4. Cleveland 2. Knoxville-Rome. rain. Carolina League. Asheville 4, Charlotte l. Raleigh 4 Greensboro 1. Durham 7, Winston-Salem 2. Virginia League. Newport News 3. Petersburg 3 Richmond 8, Roanoke 3. Portsmouth 5, Norfolk 4. International League. Newark 2, Rochester 0. Buffalo 5. Providence 3. Baltimore-Toronto. wet grounds. Montreal-.Tersey City, not scheduled. Texas League. Galveston ■♦. Dallas 0. Austin 6, Beaumont 0. Waco 6. San Antonio 5 Fort Worth-lIou8ton, rain Thursday’s Results. Pittsburg 7. New' York 2. Philadelphia 6, Chicago 5. Cincinnati 11, Boston 5. Brooklyn 8. St. Louis 6. EMPIRE STATE LEAGUE. , Carnes Friday. Way cross at Cordele. Americus at Thomasville. Brunswick at Valdosta. W. T’ville 9 reason and an attempt will be made to ; ogage him for next year. Turner is a vdosta former minor league ball player and at J resent is secretary of the Tech Y M. j C. A. * VV. L. C’deie 7 6 R’wick 5 8 Am'cus 3 10 .638 .385 .231 sixth round. It looks as If Riverside Academy will j "*vsh the season wdth a clean slate. | This team has won 17 game?. The near - . •si that it came to defeat was a tie l *rame played early in the season . * * Ivocust Grove is probably the only i r ’rep nine in this section of the country < v >at could give the Riverside ^nd^’s a . ^cd argument, hut unfort una telv 1. G. I i? not entered in ‘he G I. A A this year ?<* no games will be played between the two. Thursday's Results. Thomasville 7. Americus 3. Valdosta 12. Brunswick 7. Cordele 13. Waycross 3. Cotton Ctates League. Clarksdale 12. Jackson 2. Meridian .'», Columbus •< Pensacola-Selma, not scheduled. American AsscciaUon. Louisville 10, Milwaukee 2. M” aukee 3, Louisville 2. Kansas City 4. Toledo 3 Other games postponed, wet grounds. “HOBE” FERRIS LET OUT. MINNEAPOLIS. MINX.. May 16.— “Hobe" Ferris, third baseman, and Glenn Liebhardt, pitcher, were uncon ditionally released to-day by Presi dent (’antlllon, of Minin*'ipolls. REDS SELL SEVEROID. BOSTON. May 16.—The sale of Catcher Severoid, of the Cincinnati Nationals, to the Louisville club of (he American Association was an nounced here vesterdaj Severoid will join Louisville Immediately. J.M.HlOfi COMBVNY. SALE Shirts Choice This is a disposal of 100 dozen men’s white, plain or plaited bosom shirts, men’s new, nobby colored shirts, every one a regu lar $1.00 quality; while they last 89c Men’s Department, Also Our Soda Fount, Open Till 9:39 Saturday Night Men’s 50c Silk Hose at 25c pair Just received over 1,000 pairs pure thread silk half hose in all colors, with linen sole, heel, toe and garter top, 50c values, 25c pair. 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